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M A G A Z I N E
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FEATURES
Reaching out:
Marist opens its doors
to
the
community.
10
"From
now
on,"
President Bush
said
in his
"Points of
Light
Initiative"
early
in his
Presidency,
"any
definition
of
a
successful
life
must include
serving 01hers."
For
Marist,
it has never b·een
otherwise.
23
COVER
STORY
To follow knowledge like a
sinking
star.
Lowell
Thomas,
Jr.
recalls
the historic journey to Tibet he made
with
his father in
1949
to
meet the Dalai Lama, recently awarded the
1989
Nobel Peace Prize. A
special section of
rare photographs
of
Tibet taken by
Lowell, Jr.
follows.
A conversation:
Education
today and tomorrow.
34
Marc A.
vanderHeyden,
Marist
vice
president
for academic
affairs, and Marist Brother James
Kearney.former
superintendent of
schools for the
New York Archdiocese,
and
now a distinguished professor
of
teacher
education
at
Marist,
speak
together about their
views of the future of education.
An Exposure of the
Heart.
38
When
fine art photographer
Rebecca Busselle
finished her
photographic
study of the clients and staff at
1he Wassaic Developmental
Center
near her home
in
Millerton,
N.Y., she
came
away
with
more than
a series of
moving
portraits; she also wrote
a
book on
her
experience,
An Exposure
of
the
Heart,
which
is
excerpted
here.
Life
in river villages of
Indonesia.
39
After
15
years
in the
pulsing,
perspiring
rush of
Jakarta, Sister
Marian Bohen
moved
across
the
Java
Sea
to
Kalimantan,
part
of
the
island
of
Borneo, and lived there
in
the river
villages for
almost
five years,
an
experience which she writes
about here.
43
New York's fashion
luminaries
come
to
Marist's Silver Needle Awards
presentation.
DEPARTMENTS
Currents
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Speakers Bureau
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Marist People 46
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Alumni Focus 54
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Sports
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Managing
Editor
James Kullander
Executive
Editor
Susan DeKrey
Art
Director
Richard Deon
Editorial
Assistant
and
Communications
Intern
Laurie Leavy
Contributors
Denise Becker
Sister
Marian Boben
Karen
Cicero
Valerie
Pe/rini Hall
Larry Hughes
Maureen Kilgour
Laurie Leavy
Steve Mardon
Robin Martini
Ka1hy Pappas
Deirdre Phayer
Bro1her Rene D. Roy, F.M.S.
Lowell
Thomas, Jr.
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friends,
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URRENTS
1mcrn
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New academic building
slated
for
completion
in
fall
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN
last
fall
on
what will be Marist's
premier academic building,
a
new
$7 million
center
and
public policy. The
building
also
will house Mari:st's
adult
and continuing education
programs.
for the
study of
man-
agement and the
so-
cial
and behavioral
sciences. Named
the
Dyson
Center
in
honor
of
business-
man
and
philanthro-
pist
Charles
H. Dyson
of
Millbrook,
N.Y.,
the
facility
will be a
three-story,
53,000
square-foot
building
including
21 class-
rooms
and
55
faculty
offices.
The building
will be equipped
for receiving
in•
formation
from
national
and
international
sources
via
satellite
communication.
The
clas:Srooms,
offices, and seminar
rooms
will
be linked
through
fiber-optic
cable
to Marist's pow-
erful mainframe com-
puter. The
building
also
will
be equipped
for
voice
and
data
transmission, and for
receiving information
from nation:al
and
internationa
I
sources
via satellite ,communi-
cation.
In
designing
the
Center, the
architects, Einhorn
Yaffee
Prescott, tapped into the
rich
19th century architecture of
the
Hudson
Valley.
Borrowing
from
existing campus struc-
tures
that date
back to the
Beck
Estate -
Greystone, St.
Peter's
and
the
Gatehouse
-
the architects
are using
grey-
stone and brick
10
create a
unified
campus
identity that is
in keeping with regional
archi-
Iecture
and the college's own
rich past.
Other
Einhorn Yaffee
Prescott clients
include Cornell
University,
Skidmore College,
IBM,
and
the
United
States
Military Academy
at West
Point.
The
finn
has
received
national
acclaim for their
recent
renovation
of Albany's
historic
Union Station for
Norstar Bancorp.
I
The Dyson family
is
a
ma-
jor sponsor of
the project
and
long-time
supporters of the
college.
Robert Dyson, the
son
of Charles and
Margaret
Dyson, is
a
member
of
the
Marist
College Board of
Trus-
tees
and
participated
with
his
parents
and other
members
of
the
family
in
ground-breaking
ceremonies on October 20.
Student residences
dedicated to Gartlands
Charles Dyson is
the
co-
founder and chairman emeritus
of
the
board of
the
investment
company
Dyson-Kissner-
Moran. He
also
is
a community
leader, having
served on the
boards of many organizations,
including
the
Westchester
Medical
Center Foundation,
the
I
Iospital
for Special Surgery
in
New
York
City,
the MeIropoli-
tan
Opera Association, and
Common Cause.
He was
commencement speaker at
Marist
in
1986,
when
the
col-
lege
awarded
him
an
honorary
Doctor
of
Laws
degree.
Located
adjacent
to the
Lowell Thomas Communica-
tions
Center,
the Dyson
Center
will
incorporate
some of the
most
advanced
technology
for
the
education of
undergradu-
ate and graduate students
in
business, social
and
behavioral
sciences,
public
administration,
Marist Trnsteejohnj. Gartland,Jr. and his wife,
Catherine,
at
the dedication cei,emony of
the
Gartland
Commons
IN
A
SPECIAL
ceremony
on May
20,
Marist dedicated
a
21-acre
tract
of river front
student
residences
and ath-
letic fields
toJohnJ,,Jr.
and
Catherine Gartland. The
Charles
If.
Dyson
Gartlands were honored
"for
their numerous contributions
to Marist College and for
im-
proving
the
quality of
life
in
the Mid-Hudson
region."
Officially
named
Gartland Commons,
the tract,
on the
north
end of
the
Marist campus, includes
garden apartments for
more
than 300
students
and a
series
of commons adjacent
to a walled promenade on a
hluff overlooking the
Hudson River. The dedica-
tion
to the Gartlands was
inscribed
in
bronze on a two-
and-a-half
ton
slate outcrop-
ping formed millions of years
ago when the region was
submerged by a
vast
inland
sea.
Gartland,
a
Marist
trustee
and former
chairman of
the
Marist
College
Board of Trus-
tees, has
served
as a close
adviser to
each
of the
college's
presidents, Brother
Paul Ambrose, Richard Linus
Foy, and the
current
president, Dennis]. Murray.
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URRENTS
campus and
to
the
Poughkeep-
sie community over
Poughkeepsie
Cablevision.
"The
more
we
learned
(about
the
landfill),
the
more
concerned we
became
not
only
with what
was
happening
in
our own
backyard, but
also
with
the situation
in the
world," Moore
said.
"We
be-
gan
to
think about
things
like
recycling
and
reuse."
The landfill
-
any
landfill-
is
a
symptom of a
larger
societal
disease, Moore
and Levine said. "The entire
thrust
of
waste
management is
misguided," said Levine.
"We
must
reduce
the flow
of
waste."
Brian Hill,
associate
professor
of
biology
(left);
Robert Levi'ne; Mary
Tyler Moore; and
Mary
Louise
Bopp,
assistant
professor
of communications
and host
ofWhat's Up?
Hill
agreed.
"The
only an-
swer
is
waste
reduction,"
he
said.
Hill has
established
an
en-
vironmental
toxicology
labora-
tory on
the
college campus on
the
Hudson
River.
One
of
the
first research projects the lab
will
undertake
is
an examina-
tion
of
the
effects of
incinerator
ash on
the
river.
The
work
of
this project will
coincide
with
the
operation of a
large
trash-
burning
incinerator
due
to
start
operating in
Poughkeepsie
along
the river
this year.
Mary Tyler Moore appears on
Whats Up?
"WE
HAVE
TO START
being
a
little less lazy,"
said
Mary Tyler Moore.
She
picked
up
a
plastic
water cup
that
had
been placed
by
her
side
during
the television
taping, and
suggested
that real
glasses be
used
-
ones
that
could
be
washed
and
used
again. Later,
she
picked up
a
paper
cocktail
napkin,
and said
that
people
can also
use those
kinds
of
products
more
than
once
before
throwing
them
out.
Moore
and
her husband,
Dr.
Robert
Levine, appeared on
the Marist
television
talk
show
What's
Up?during
the-
summer
as part of
their
battle against a
proposed landfill
nea:r
their
home in rural
Washingtor'l,
in
Dutchess County.
It
was part,
too,
of a
larger mission
of theirs
to
raise the public's conscious-
ness
about
environmental
deg-
radation.
Info-tainment or news?
Marist alum receives
award at news directors
conference
EDWARD
J.
LOWE,
JR.,
award-winning
Newsday
columnist
and
a
1967
gradu-
ate of
Marist
College, was
honored
at a Novemher
conference cosponsored
by
Marist
and the
Radio-
Television News
Directors
Association.
The conference,
which
addressed
"Info-tainment
and
the
ews: The
Impact
of
Tabloid Television,"
also
featured
New
York Post
editor
Jerry
Nachman as
the
keynote
speaker.
Lowe joined
Newsday
in
l
969 as a
reporter
and
has
been cited for writing
excel-
lence
by the American
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and on four occasions by
the
'ew
York State
Associated
Press Association.
He
also
is
a
recipient
of the
Mike Berger
Award from the Columbia
University
Graduate
School of
Education.
Conference
panelists
included a number of
noted
representatives
of print and
eleccronic media,
induding
John Tomlin, produ,:er
for
ABC's
Inside
Edilion;John
Corporon of
WPIX
News
in
New York City;
Kathy
Maloney, news director
of
WABC in
New York City;
and
Rob
Sunde,
ABC Information
Network.
Mock
job
interviews
also
were presented for communi-
cation
students who attended
the
conference, with a
number
of
industry representacives
Mary
Louise
Bopp, Marist
assistant professor of commu-
nications,
hosted the program.
Also
appearing as a guest on
the
program was
Brian
Hill,
associate professor of biology
at Marist.
The
television studio
was crowded
with
Marist
students,
staff,
special
guests,
and
high
school
students
from
the college's
summer
High
School of Excellence program.
The program was aired on
During
a question and
answer period with
the
studio
audience, one student asked
Moore
if
she was taken
seriously at
the
legislative
level
of decision-making. Said
Moore:
"I
was
born
with
the
right
and the obligation
to
speak
out."
I
Panelists
discuss
"hifo-taimnent
and
the
News"
at the Radio-
Television
News Directors Association conference. From
left, Rob
Sunde,
ofABCRadio;JohnCorporon, newsdirectorat WPIX-1V;
and Edward].
Lowe,
Jr.,
class
of
1967,
nationally
syndicated
columnist
at
Newsday.
participating,
including
Judy
Sullivan,
employment
admin-
istrator
for NBC-TV;
John
Mulvey,
vice president of
human
resources
for MTV-TV;
Michael
Dvorocisk, manager
for
information
activities for
the
IBM
Corporation in
Poughkeep-
sie;
and Assistant New
York
Fire
Commissioner
John Mulligan.
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Talking heads:
Debate team
among best
in country
lF
THE
MAfuST DEBATE
team record this year
is
anything
like
the past year's, they will not
only be busy, but No.
1.
They're well on their way.
At the end of the fall semester,
they were ranked second in the
country among the 400 colleges
and universities that participate
in the Cross-Examination
Debate Association
(CEDA).
As
of December, the team had par-
ticipated in
seven
tournaments
and won
seven championships,
defeating
such opponents
as
Michigan State and Cornell.
At the
end
of
the
1988/1989
season,
the team was ranked
7th nationally among CEDA
schools. The Marist team won
two of three CEDA national
championships,
and at the New
York
State Championships
took
not only first place, but
seven
of
10
top
speaker
awards.
"It
is a real accomplishment
that this
school
of 3,000 can
assert itself
as
a power
in
terms
of debate,"
said
Michael
Buckley, a
senior
and
team
co-
captain.
Another highlight of last
year was the World
Champion-
ships held at Princeton
in
early
January. As
a
team, Buckley and
1988
President's
Report
wins two
awards
THE
COLLEGE'S
1988
President's
Report
won two
awards during
the
year. The
unusual and striking cover
broke with tradition at
Marist, and with most
college annual reporL5.
The
Council for the
Advancement and Support
of Education ( CASE)
in
Washington, D.C. presented
a silver award to the college
for the report's cover.
Locally, the Hudson Valley
Marketing Association gave
Pictured here are members of the 1988189 team who took awards at
the New York State Championships. From left to right: Thomas
F.
Kavan, April Amonic,a, Vanessa Codorniu, Michael Buckley, Marist
President Denntsj. M,urray, Anthony Capozzolo, debate team
coach
James Springston, Julie Dumont, and Mark Liepis.
Anthony
Capozzolo
were
ranked
44th out of
116
schools,
with Buckley
individually
finishing
as the 26th top
speaker
in the world.
"I
was
delighted,"
said Springston.
"The
world
championships
used
a
kind
of
debate we had
never participated in before."
"It
was unbelievalble that
people from all over
1the
worlrl
came
together for the
same
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the college a silver
Eclat
award for general excel-
lence.
The cover was done by
graphic and fine artist
Richard
Deon, from Dover
Plains,
N.Y. The insidle was
designed by graphic :artist
and
illustrator
Wanda1 Yueh,
from
Red
Hook, N.Y.
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purpose,"
said
Buckley.
"People
from Poland, Australia,
and observers
from the Soviet
Union
were
there, as
well as
the Scottish,
who were walking
around
playing their bag-
pipes."
In
addition
to their
competitions,
the team has
been involved in
a
debate
workshop
for junior
high
and
high school
students and
in
making
an
instructional
video.
The workshop, done in
coordi-
nation with
the
Dutchess
County Board
of
Cooperative
Educational Services
(BOCES),
gave team members the
oppor-
tunity to teach debate
coaching
techniques to junior high
and
high
school
teachers,
and
about 80 students
from the
area.
Two actual tournaments
were held
in
February and
April.
"They
get
so
much
better in
the few weeks we work to-
gether, and
they
have
a
lot
of
fun,"
Capozzolo said.
"We
got
letters
from the kids
saying
'We
can't
wait
co
do it next
year."'
The
instructional
video was
made
to be sold
with
a
new
edition of
Prima Facie: A
Guide to
Value
Debate, written
by
Stephen
Wood. Wood,
im-
pressed with
the
Marist debate
team,
asked Buckley and
Capozzolo to
appear
in the
video,
with members of the
Suffolk (England) debate team.
An instructional debate involv-
ing the
two
teams was filmed
As the
end
of last seasons com-
petition
came
near, Springston
made a bet with the team:
If
they
won
a national championship,
the team
could
shave his head.
The team did win a national
place, and Springston spent the
late
spring
and early summer
with
a
very
short haircut.
at
the
University
of Rhode
Island
in
April.
Early
last
year,
a joint reso-
lution was passed by both the
New
York Senate and the As-
sembly
recognizing the
state
and
national
championships,
and
the team and individual
accomplishments.
In
addition,
the team is
now involved in
starting a
de-
bate
program in
coordination
with
Green
Haven Correctional
Facility,
with which Marist has
an academic
program.
"The
program
is
great because it
shows
we are not myopic,"
said
Buckley.
"We
care about
winning, but realize there are
more things
out
there. It makes
the team feel
good."
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NBC's John Chancellc>r
presented 1989
Marist College Lowelll Thomas Award
bronze bust of the
late
Lowell
TI1omas, who
lived
in Pawling,
N.Y., and was an honorary
alumnus of Marist. Thomas
died in
1981
and Marist College
created
the award in
1983
to
recognize
the
outstanding
achievements of broadcast
journalists.
JOHN
CHANCELLOR,
senior commentator at
NBC News, was the
1989
Marist College
Lowell Thomas A ward
recipient.
In presenting
the award, Marist
President Dennis
J.
Murray cited Chancellor
for his
"fearless
pursuit
of truth." Murray added:
"In
all his assignments,
John Chancellor
helped
establish
the
bench-
marks of accuracy,
fairness, and wisdom."
"This
award has a
special meaning for
me,"
said Chancellor,
reflecting
on the
influence
of Lowell
Thomas on his own life.
"His
life
was a model
for us all. We remember
him
as an example."
!
when of ordinary
~
journalism,"
Chancel-
,l
lor told
the
students.
"I
~
pull different lines of
5
news together
and
make some sense of
them."
Journalism,
he
said,
"is
a chronicle of
conflict and change.
These are the two
things
people need to
know about."
Later in his
talk
with students he
cautioned:
"I
like
to
say
that the press
is
an
element, like fire or
water. And once it
gets out of hand, it's
hard to control."
Previous
recipients
of the
award are Harry Reasoner
(1988),
David Brinkley
(1987),
Douglas Edwards
(1986),
Howard
K.
Smith
(1985),
Walter Cronkite
(1984),
and
Eric Sevareid
(1983).1
NBC
newsman
Garrick Utley, who
served as the master of
ceremonies and
John Chancellor with Marist College
President
Dennis}. Murray.
Marist alumnus
John Gilmartin,
'75,
was awarded the
college's Alumni In-
ternship Achievement
Award.
"It
is rare that
we
can
look back
and
credit what we
Alumnus John Gilmartin,
'75,
was awarded
the
college's
AlumnilnternshipAchievement
Award. Pictured with Gilmartin
is Robert Norman, associate
professor of
communications
at
Marist and director of the
college's
communications in-
ternship program.
introduced Chancellor to the
crowd
of some
200
guests at
the
luncheon, said of Lowell
Thomas:
"lie
was a master
storyteller, and that's what
lives at the root of journalism.·•
Earlier during the event,
held
each
spring in
Students
promote
responsible
use of
alcohol
IN
AN EFFORT
to increase
awareness of
the
damaging
effects of alcohol abuse,
several Marist students
have
started a swdent campaign
to
promote
responsible
drinking.
A
local
chapter of the
national
organization
BACCI
IUS
(Boost Alcohol
Consciousness Concerning
the
Health
of University
Students) was started on
campus last year.
"It's
not
a 'don't do'
-organization," said
John
Padovani, residence director
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Manhattan's Helmsley· Palace,
Chancellor, as have all Lowell
Thomas award recipients, met
with Marist journalism
students.
"Commentary
is
useful
because it goes beyond the
who, what, why, where, and
of Gartland Commoins apart-
ments and adviser of
the
group. "It's a program geared
to increase awarene.ss of
responsible
drinking."
Kellie
Kahrmann, a
junior
at Marist,
joined
Students
Against Drunk Driving
(SADD)
in high
school
after
a
good friend was
kill,ed in
a car
accident
by
a
dnink
driver.
"Learning
how
to control
the amount of alcohol one
drinks is a
more
intelligent
goal
than
saying 'don't drink',"
said
Kahnnann,
a
political
science major
from
North
Brunswick,
.J.,
and
member
of BACCHUS
BACCHUS provides
educational
infom1ation
on
topics
such as planning safe
parties,
recognizing drinking
problems, drinking :and
driving, and ensuring
the
safety of
intoxicated.
persons.
Last
year, BACCHUS
sponsored an alcohQl aware-
ness social
in
conjunction
learned in school to what we
are doing now,"
he
said.
Gilmartin is
currently
associate
director at NBC Sports, and
recently won two Emmy
Awards for the network.
The Marist College Lowell
Thomas Award is a miniature
Dan Gregson.John
Padovani,
and Sue Budney.
with Sigma Phi Epsilon, a
campus fraternity, and a talk
on Children of Alcoholics
given by Laurence Sullivan,
Marist
assistant professor of
Religious
Studies. BACCI
IUS
also sponsored a vignette on
drinking and driving given by
former New York Giants
team
member Tim Shem1an.
Showing students
that
~
college and drinking
do not
g
necessarily
go
hand in
hand
is
~
another goal for BACCHUS,
9
said member
Denise DeCicco,
a communcation arts major
from
Floral
Park,
N.Y.
DeCicco
has proposed
using the funds raised
by
the
organization·s social events
for a taxi service which
would
provide
an alternative
to
driving for students who had
been drinking.
BACCHUS, founded
in
1976
at the University of
Florida,
is now
based at the
University of Colorado and
has
315
chapters at colleges
and universities
in
48
states.
"I
think
it is important to
give alternatives on campus,"
said Sue
Budney,
a computer
information systems major
from
Cold Spring,
.Y.
"You
don't need
drinking
to have
fun.
BACCHUS
provides
alternatives."
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MARllNI
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6
John McGinty
(
right), director
of
the Marist Library,
works with
a
student
doing research
with
the help
ofa
computer.
Tbe library is
currently being computerized with
the IBM/DOBIS
system so
that its
card
catalogue,
hundreds
of
periodicals, and
even entire
books,
will
be stored
in computer
files
and
retrieved
via
computer terminals throughout
campus
and
off campus.
Getting power to the people
The college spreads its new
technology throughout campus
M.ARIST
and
the IBM
Corporation
have
worked
over
the
past
year
to
connect
the
campus
to the
college's
new
mainframe
computer to offer
students,
faculty, and
staff
opportunities to use the
advanced technology
in
their
teaching, learning, and
admin-
istrative
functions.
The Marist/IBM Joint
Study, a $10
million, five-year
project
aimed at developing
ways to make advanced
com-
puter technology
easier for
consumers
to use, was
initiated
in the
summer
of 1988.
It
pro-
vided Marist with
an
IBM
3090
series
mainframe
computer,
one
much
more common
in
large
corporations
than al
small
colleges.
Connecting,
or "network-
ing,"
offices, student
resi-
dences, and
other campus
facilities to the
computer,
has
been
a
priority
over the
past
year as Marist and IBM
staff
have
connected
a
major
portion
of
the campus to the
mainframe
computer
in
the
Computer Center
in Donnelly
Hall.
Using
fiber-optic
cable, a
backbone connection
has been
installed
between the
Com-
puter
Center
and the
Lowell
Thomas
Communications Cen-
ter and
between
the Computer
Center
and
Champagnat
Hall,
Marist's largest residence hall.
Design
work
has
been
com-
the
networking project has
been
the installation
of
17
computer
terminals in
the
study
lounges
of
Champagnal
Hall, making Marist
one of
the
few
liberal
arts colleges
to have
mainframe
accessibil-
pleted and
contracts
signed
t0
extend
that
backbone from Don-
nelly
t0
additional
residence halls, class-
rooms, administrative
buildings, and the
college
library.
Marist is one of
the few liberal
arts colleges
to
have mainframe
accessibility
so
ity
so conveniently
located
for students.
"Our students
will have
access
to
databases
and eventu-
ally
material
from
our
library right from
their
dorms. They
will be
able to do their re-
search, writing, and
editing
much more
Translating those
connections
into
computer
access for
Marist
students
and
staff,
the
joint
study
conveniently
located
for
students.
has provided all faculty
offices
in the Lowell Thomas Commu-
nications Center
with new per-
sonal computers
linked
to the
mainframe.
The new
connec-
tions also allowed
for
existing
computers
in
the Lowell Tho-
mas
computer
lab
to
operate
more efficiently and at
greater
speed.
A new desktop publish-
ing
system
for
students
has
been
established, and
new
per-
sonal computers
installed in
the
Advanced
Computer/Graphics
Laboratory.
An
outstanding
feature
of
efficiently and
quickly,"
said
Marist
Executive
Vice
President Mark
Sullivan.
The Marist Library
also
has
been
a focus of the
joint
study.
DOBIS,
a computerized
library
cataloging system,
has
been
installed
at
Marist,
and an ini-
tial
version of what
is
called
the DOBIS Library
On-Line
Public Access
Catalog
is
run-
ning with
approximately
10,000 book titles
and 3,000
periodical titles,
a representa-
tive
sample of
the library's
holdings. The
automated sys-
tem
currently
is being
evalu-
aced by a
human
factors com-
mittee
of
Marist and IBM
staff
to
learn
how
easily students
and faculty
can
use
it.
The
sys-
tem is
expected
to
be
available
for
general
use
in
early spring.
College personnel have
been intensively involved
in
transferring
Marist's administra-
tive functions
to
a
new
soft-
ware
applic.:ation system, one
that will allow for greater
effi-
ciency
in
student services
and
day-to-day
operations.
"A great
deal of credit has
to be given both
to
the
Com-
puter Center
staff,
who have
put in
an extraordinary
amount
of effort on
this and all aspects
of
the joint
study, and
to
a
number of administrative
staff
members, who have worked
untold hours on this project
over
and
above
their
already
full
schedules,"
Sullivan
said.
Progress
also has been
made in the human factors area
of
the joint
study.
This
research
end of
the
study
will
explore
the
ways
in
which people inter-
act (or
don't) with
the
machin-
ery.
Human factors include
such
things as the design of the
computers,
the
ease
with which
they
can
be used, their accessi-
bility,
how
comfortable
the
users
are
with technology,
and
the
entire
work
environment.
Several
benchmark
studies
were
conducted over
the
year
to
determine how tasks
are
currently
being clone,
to
what
extent computers
are
being
used,
and what
kinds
of
sup-
port
and service students,
fac-
ulty,
and staff
perceive as being
needed
for computer
usage.
A
human factors
curriculum com-
mittee, headed by Royce White,
Marist psychology professor,
also
has
been working on
ways
to
incorporate
human
fact◊rs
materials into
courses.
A hu-
man factors psychology
course
is
being offered
this
spring se-
mester, and there is
interest
in
developing
a course in com-
puter/human interaction.
Plans for the
coming
year
include completing
the fiber
optic
backbone and
internal
cabling of
the library, Donnelly
Hall, Fontaine, a faculty
office
building; and
the
new Dyson
Center (construction
to be
com-
pleted
in
August 1990). Faculty
and students
in
those buildings
will
then
be provided personal
computers
linked to
the
main-
frame.
Efforts will continue on
the
library
DOBIS
system,
with
the On-Line Public Access Cata-
log
available
for use
in
spring,
and
circulation, acquisition,
and
periodicals information
on
line in
summer
1990.
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"Challenging,
confusing,
and
intimidating."
Faculty
learn to use
computers
WHILE
STUDENTS
were
vacationing or
working
over
the
summer, 27
"students"
were
studying one of
the newest
courses at
Marist. The
"students"
were
faculty members,
and
the
subject
was not
English,
history,
or
math, but
computer
literacy.
Marist Vice President
for
Academic Affairs Marc
vander-
Heyden,
and Chairman of
the
Division
of Computer Science
and
Mathematics
Onkar Sharma,
jointly
sponsored
the
course to
teach the basics
of operating a
computer to faculty
members.
Starting
last
semester, computer
literacy became
a
requirement for
nearly
every
Marist
student.
"The
response
of
the faculty
to
the program has been
wonderful,
and I have
been very
impressed
with
their
enthusiasm and
hard
work,"
said Sharma.
The classes
met
forl0
days
for 4
hours
a
day.
During
one of
the
summer
classes,
vanderHeyden,
who was
one of the
"students,"
said,
"If
we
ask
it
(computer
literacy) from the
students,
then
for
it to
succeed,
faculty must
also
participate." He
added
that
computer literacy
is
an
obvious
prerequisite for the fac-
ulty to
be able to take
full
advan-
tage
of
the Marist/IBM Joint
Study,
a $10
million project initiated
in
the
summer of
1988.
Faculty members from many
URRENTS
•.·.
:::-\
..
.
..
..
Marc
vanderHeyd,m, vice
president for academic affairs,
gets
some
help
while
le.aming to use a personal
computer.
departments
took
part
in the
program,
including
those
from fashion design,
criminal
justice,
psychology, commu-
nications,
and
business.
Mary Louise Bopp,
assis-
tant professor
of communica-
tions,
said she
will use her
new-found knowledge in
a
copywriting class s;he
is
teaching this
seme:Ster.
"I'm
having
a
lot
of fun,." she said
during the
class. "Everybody
is
upbeat, and
this
class has
a
wide spectrum of
learners."
Mike Corbett,
1the
computer
instructo,r
for
the
faculty summer session,
found
the faculty
learning
from
each other,
learning
about what
the
computer
is,
and about specific
applica-
tions, such as word
proces-
sing
programs, data
base
tools, information proces-
sing
programs, and
spread
sheet
programs.
"It
really
shows commit-
ment,"
Corbett
said.
"They
are professionals
in
their
fields,
and
to take
40
hours
out for this says
a lot
about
their interest."
At
first,
there was
a
wide
range
of
reactions from
the
faculty, Corbett said during a
break
in
one of the
classes.
"For
some,
it is
the
first time
that
they are even close
to
a
computer, and there is initial
shock,
fear,
and discomfort,"
he
said.
"It's
a
natural learn-
ing
process."
John
MacDonald,
Jr.,
professor of computer science, receives a new
personal computer as
part
of
the Marist/lBM
Joint Study.
"It's
challenging, confus-
ing,
and
intimidating,"
said
Robert
Norman, associate
professor
of communica-
tions.
"I'm an old
reporter
with a pad and
pencil."
Norman, who is also Marist's
communication arts
intern-
ship coordinator,
will
be
using the
computer
to
replace the paperwork he
maintains
for
the intern-
ships, and also for
personal
use.I
-LAURIE
LEAVY
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MAGAZINE•
1989/90
Marist
selected for
teaching
awards
MA.RIST
HAS BEEN
selected
to
participate
in
the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation's
1989/90
Teaching Excel-
lence and Campus Leader-
ship Award
Program.
The awards to the
nation's
leading
private lib-
eral arts colleges and
uni-
versities
will
recognize
top
educators on
each
campus
for
their resourcefulness
and
leadership. Each faculty
member selected will re-
ceive
SJ
,000,
and
the
institu-
tion will
receive
a grant
ranging from S500 to $1,500
based on student
enrollment.
Marist College
will
receive
the full
institu-
tional
grant of $1,500.
The
institutional grants can be
used to
encourage
campus
leadership,
faculty enrich-
ment,
and improved
teaching.
"With
this
new
program," said Paula
A.
Banks, president of the
Sears-Roebuck
Foundation,
"we
are supporting
the
im-
portance of teacher compe-
tence
as a critical element
in
strengthening
undergradu-
ate
teaching
and learning."
Each year one distin-
guished faculty member will
be selected for
the
award at
each
institution. The faculty
member will be selected by
independent committees on
each
campus. The Marist
College committee
is
made
up of the
chairmen
of
the
college's
divisions,
includ-
ing Jeptha
H.
Lanning, divi-
sion
of arts and
letters;
Onkar Sharma, division of
computer
science and
mathematics; Richard At-
kins, division of
humanities;
John Kelly, division of man-
agement
studies;
George
Hooper, division of science,
and William Eidle, division
of social and
behavioral
sciences.
Over the past 25 years,
the Sears-Roebuck Founda-
tion
has
provided more than
S30
million
in
annual unre-
stricted
grants to private
higher
education.
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8
URRENTS
Show
and
tell:
Chess
instructions
now on
video
IF
YOU'VE EVER WANTED
to
learn
to play
chess
but were
afraid to ask, two videotapes
produced by
Marist
communi-
cation arts
instructor
Douglas
Cole, along
with
several
communication arts students,
can show you how.
Play Chess
and
Play Chess
I/are
official guides
to
playing
chess,
sponsored by the
United
States Chess Federation
(USCF),
a
nonprofit
organiza-
tion.
Production and editing of
the
tapes were done exclu-
sively at the
Lowell
Thomas
Communications Center's
tele-
vision studios.
Project
coordinator
Al
Lawrence, of the USCF, found
many instructional
tapes
for
advanced players, but
no
good
beginner
tapes,
said
•Cole,
who
was a writer, editor
a.nd
pro-
ducer of the programs.
"I
went
into
the project with
the
ideal
background because
I
knew
enough
about
chess
to
know
what
I
was
talking
about, but
not
as an expert," Cole said.
"I
put
myself in the
mind of the
beginner."
Crews for both productions
included
Marist students
Joseph Podesta,
Jr.,
Holly
Krayem,
Anne Marie Gaynor,
Robert
Fennell, Paula
Heroux,
Katherine
Vetter, and Domin-
ique
Willems. Also involved
was technical assistant Vincent
Fairbrother of the Mmist Media
Center. Music for thee tape was
composed
and
performed
by
Scott E. Cole, son of professor
Cole.
The first tape, which shows
chess
rules,
regulations
and
tactics, was well
received
and
translated
into
German, Italian,
French, Spanish, and, recently,
Japanese.
Due
to
the
first
tape's
popularity,
Play Chess II,
which features
international
chess
master Vince
Desmond Mwray
(left), assistant
director
qf
HEOP at Marist,
with students
Peter Jones and
Ann-Marie
Weathers,
who se,ved
as peer-counselors/or the new
sludents
during HEOP's
summer
session.
HEOP celebrates 20th. year
CYNTHIA
McC01.uE-
L£w1s,
director
of
the Higher
Education
Opportunity
Pro-
gram (HEOP) at
Marist, has
one
point
to
make
above all
others about
her
program:
'·Our
students range the
spec-
trum
of
ability just like the
general college
population."
She
quickly
adds
a
second
point:
'·Students
in the HEOP
program
statewide
have
a
success rate compa:rable
to
the national
average.
And
you're
talking
about a
popula-
tion
of students
mainy
people
have said don't even
belong
in
college.''
IIEOP
was established
in
1969
by New York .State with a
mission
to
increase
access
to
higher
education for educa-
tionally and
financi:ally
disad-
vantaged students. This year
Douglas Cole,
visiting
instructor
of communications.
Mccambridge, was produced
in
the
spring semester
with the
same core crew.
At the
end
of
August
it
was ready for distri-
bution. The second tape
shows
basic
strategies
and tactics with
a
game recreated
in
the
studio,
and
an
actual
tournament
HEOP celebrates
its
20th year
and Marist celebrates 20 years
of
participation
as one of the
first schools
to become
involved
in
the program.
Currently Marist
has
60 stu-
dents enrolled
through HEOP.
"Our
students would
not
be eligible for
regular
admis-
sion
using the usual
academic
standards. They also
have to
meet financial need require-
ments,''
McCollie-Lewis
explained. ·'But once
they're
here, they
get
the
academic
and personal suppo1t services
they need
to
help them make
it through
and graduate,"' she
said
HEOP
students are
not,
however, in
separate or
special
classes. They
are part
of the
regular
courses offered
by
the
college.
'·By
and
large,
our
students
need information
and services. They often have
not had
the
kind
of guidance
in high
school to
find
out
about assistance
programs.
They
also
need
to
learn
to
believe
in themselves. Many
of
these
students are not just
flrst generation college
students
but
are one of only a
few in
their
whole community
to
go to college,"
she
said.
Essential parts of the pro-
gram are
tutoring
and
coun-
filmed
in
Somerset,
N.J.
The tapes are available
through
the
United
States
Chess Federation,
catalogs,
Chess Life Magazine,
and
are
included in
computer/elec-
tronic
chess
games ar many
toy
stores.
I
-LAURIE
LEAVY
seling services
that
are
pro-
vided
not
only by
HEOP
staff
but by
a number
of other of-
fices on campus.
In their
fresh-
man
year, students enrolled
through
HEOP must
see
their
staff counselor
weekly.
"We
have
a
lot
of contact with the
students.
We
get
to
know them
very well," she said.
"I've
tried
to
extend our office
through
the
services of other
parts
of
the
campus,
the mentors in the
residence
halls,
for
example."
HEOP
doesn't
want to be
coo
much of a good
thing,
however.
•·we
try not to
be
an
office
where
students come to
us
for everything,'' she said.
And HEOP
doesn't allow
excuses for not
meeting
academic
responsibilities.
"We
tell
our students:
'You
can
do
it; you're expected
to
do it; and
if
you
don't
do
it,
you're our
like
anyone else.'
If
they don't do
the
work, they
don't get
the
support from
HEOP, and
I think
other
offices at the college
have
respect
for us because of that.''
"We
tell them 'Yes, yq,u
came in as a weaker student
but we believe you can
do it,
can graduate
from
college.
And that's
the
only
reason
you're here,"' McCollie-Lewis
added.
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During
1989,
Marist
College
celebrated
the bicentennial
of
the birth
of
Father Marcellin
Champagnat,
founder
of
the
Marist Brothers. In a
conference
organized by Marist's Division
of
Humanities
Chairman
Richard Atkins, regional schol-
ars
convened
at the
Eleanor
Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill in
Hyde Park to discuss a number
of
issues in private higher
edu-
cation.
One session
was
titled
with the question:
"What
are the
most
effective ways
for higher
education,
but
especially
private
higher
education,
to restore to
our
students a
consciousness of
values, social
responsibility, and
public morality?"
Marist Brother
Cyprian
Rowe,
'57,
assistant professor
of
social work
at the
University of
Maryland at Baltimore, and
research associate and faculty
member at Johns Hopkins, re-
sponded
with a presentation
entitled, "Values
and the Man-
date
of
Private Higher Ecluca-
tion.
"Following
is an
excerpt of
his presentation.
THE ANANSE
TALE
is
one
of
the
characteristic folk arts of
West
Africa. Sharing
one here
will
situate
us, I hope, in
the
territory
I
woukl
like
to
explore, briefly,
today.
Nyame,
the
great
high
God, said
to the people
on
earth
that if they
could get
themselves up into heaven,
they
could
possess
all that God
possessed.
Ananse took
up
the
challenge
immediately
and be-
gan
running
all over gathering
building materials. At first,
it
seemed easy. Caught up in
the
promise
of
the
prize, he ran
back and forth between the
ground and the ever-higher
levels
of the tower, so ener-
gized
that
it never occurred
to
him that he
would
nm
out of
materials. However,
as
he
got
closer the task got
harder
and
the materials
scarcer.
Two bod-
ies'
length
from heaven,
he
became
exhausted.
He
couldn't cast about any
longer
looking
for materials.
Despite
the
warnings of
those
who
stood and watched and
began
to
wonder, Ananse
decided
that he
would
try
to
pull
some
of
the materials
away
from the
lower
levels, take
them
to
the
highest,
and give
himself
enough height to catch on to
the rim
of heaven for just one
second.
That
would
be
enough. He would
be in. But
predictably, his
structure col-
lapsed.
There
are
no
short cuts
to beatitude.
MARIST MAGAZINE
•
1989/90
URRENTS
Marist Brother Cypria!n Rowe,
'57
Marcelli11
Champagnat
and the l\t1arist
tradition
We
all
build towe:rs. De-
pending
on one's attitudes
to-
ward
education
in
a private
college, the tower might be
called Ivory or Babel, but tow-
ers nonetheless.
It
is the struc-
ture upon which we believe
that
students can
be raised up
to
some level of beati1tude
in
the society in which tlhey
find
themselves,
prepared to
take
their places
on societal assem-
bly lines
on which
are put
together the
latest
models
of
social structure,
home, family,
religion,
art, and so forth,
propelled
by engines of
geopolitics and economics,
and shaped
by the moral
notions of
meaning,
signifi-
cance, and
priorities
that
we
label values.
Without
ethics,
towers
of education collapse.
That we talk about values,
indeed
specific sorts of
values,
at
this
symposium
is
a,
given.
We
are
dealing with a.
sainted
man who
was
a child of
the
Revolution that made
liberte,
egalile, and
fraternite- its
generative
triad.
Even,
though
Alexander Bickel,
the
late
Sterling
Professor
of
Law at
Yale
University calls
this Revo-
lution
"the
first
of
the totalitar-
ian movements to dre:nch
the
Western
world in blood," we
believe
that for
those whose
acts
toward
liberte,
egalite,
and
fratemite
are
in a process
of
continuous formation
tied
to
the
radical equality of
Judeo-
Christian
transformation
are
unlikely to go around
slitting
throats.
I
believe
that
Joseph
Benedict
Marcellin
Champag-
nat
was one of
these.
On Thursday,
January
2,
1817,
Marcellin
Champagnat
brought history to heel.
Ile
believed
that
values could
change
lives.
Evangelical blood
is power and
his has flowed
through
almost
two centuries
of men and
movements
which
take
as (their)
ideal
vision that
real
education
brings
transfor-
mation. For them, reading,
writing,
and arithmetic are
tools
for
building the kind
of
new
earth
that Margaret
Walker
and
Teilhard de
Chardin
wrote about.
The
private
college
that
comes out
of
this tradition lives
in
the
real
world in the way that Marcellin
lived
in
the real
world. To
live
in a
fantasy world in which all
things
are to
fit
into a
tight
theory
of order or, conversely,
that all is preordained
to bear
out conflict
theory is really
spiritual suicide for any
institu-
tion.
In the manner
of Frantz
Fanon, the private
college
enters
into
a
dialectic with this
world,
intuiting as
did
Fanon
that
"each
generation
must...discover
its
mission,
fulfill
it, or
betray it.'' The role
of
private
education
in
a soci-
ety
is
jealously
to
seize a
free-
dom to make persons new de-
spite academic
fashions
and
political frenzy.
The private
college bears
the burden
of these survival
imperatives and
it
must
carry
this
burden by
providing
every
means possible for
their stu-
dents and graduates to
chal-
lenge the world with those life
values that
come
out of
studies
and reflections that
are shaped
by
an
awareness of the varieties
of life.
I am
suspicious
of
any
term
that
addresses
itself
to
a univer-
sality
that
does
not
exist.
To
use the term classic,
as
if
it con-
jured up
for everyone
the
same
general
canon of works,
has to
be
rejected. For
one
people's
classics are
another
people's
cage
until
such
time as
the
clas-
sics of
all people
are
treated
with
the
same
level of respect.
The
same
boys who
stood
in
the
chapel
at Eton
and
were
washed daily
in
the
verbal
wa-
ters
of
the Testament went on
to Cambridge
and
Oxford and
became
the
men who lifted up
the thuggery
of
colonialism
as
Christian visitations.
It is within
such attitudinal
places that
a
private institution
fulfills
its function as
nutrition
in a
society
that all too
often is
overfed and
undernourished by
what
(Dr.
Kenneth) Clark
calls
"an
amoral
human intelligence
in the
service of...irrational,
primitive,
egocentric, animalis-
tic
impulses harnessed
to his
blind quest for
power
and
status."
The private
college
that
resists
this
reality, by refusing
to
face a world
that
rejects a
Euro-Americanism
which
main-
tains that it
alone
defines
all
things,
is a
private
college that
is
in
violation
not
only of
an
educational
imperative but
also
an
ethical one.
I believe that Marcellin
Champagnat with his identifica-
tion
with the
poor; his belief in
the dignity
of
the human per-
son;
his desire
to
equip
the
poor
with life skills and
the
Judeo-Christian
values
to make
life
rich, would feel
completely
energized
by the
challenges of
the
world
today.
He would
disdain the myriad
seductions
of
privilege today,
just as
he
scorned
the
clerical affectations
of
his day. The man
who
adjured
his Brothers
"to
take
every
possible
care of
the poor-
est,
the most ignorant,
and
the
dullest
children; show them
every
kindness,"
would
hardly
put
his
hand
on
the Book
of
the
SATs and
declare:
I IERE
I
STAND.
It
is
hard to
imagine
such a
man defining the
excel-
lence of
his
schools
by way
of
instruments of exclusion rather
than a passion
to make
all
things
new
in
the Baptism
of
education, a Baptism of ethical
values.I
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10
llt
Marist opens its doors to the community
D
uRING
IBE
w
AR,
the
Marist Brothers at the fledgling college in
Poughkeep-
sie,
spent
a good amount of their time farming, raising
cows,
pigs,
and
chickens. They had pasture lands, gardens, and
vineyards.
They donated
much of the produce to the patients
at
St. Francis Hospital less than a mile from
Since
the
early
days
of
the
college,
those in the Marlst
community
have
been encouraged
to
combine study
and
reflection
with
helping
others.
the college
campus.
President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt,
who was born in nearby Hyde Park
and
maintained a resi-
dence there,
offered
his
land
for
grazing
pasture for the
Brothers'
steer.
One day, the Brothers
got a telephone
call: The
hundred
steer
had broken loose. Classes
were
canceled,
and all able
Brothers joined the
New
York State
police,
Presidential
security
guards,
and
the local police
in
the
last roundup
ever
held
on
Route
9.
This
moment
of
community
interaction was not
ex-
actly what the Brothers
had
in mind, but it does paint
a
vivid
picture
of
the
college
as an institution
that
has not
isolated itself from its
community,
one that has worked to
help meet the
community's ever-chang1ng
needs.
"From
now on," President
Bush said when
presenting his
"Points
of
Light Initiative"
early
in his Presidency,
"any
definition
of
a
successful
life
must include
serving others."
For Marist, it
has
never been
otherwise.
The
Marist Brothers, the
college's
founders, is a
religious
order
dedicated
to
community service,
particularly
education.
But the
college
never limited
itself
to
that.
In
years.
past, when St.
Francis
Hospital
was short of
blood,
Marist
faculty and
students
became
a "living
blood bank."
Today,
this
tradition of
service
is
an
inspiration
for
the many ways
in
which Marist College students,
faculty,
staff, and alumni
volunteer
their
time to
help
people in
the commu-
nity,
and
the
ways
irn which the
college opens
its
doors for people
in the
com-
munity to use its facilities,
services, and
resources.
The following
12
pages illustrate
some of
Marist's people involved in
vol-
unteer work in Poughkeepsie
and elsewhere in
the
country, and some of the
programs that bring the
community to campus.
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SERVICE
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•
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Marist
student Gin
Kang
with students
from the Beacon
Community Center,
a
United
Way agency also funded~
the
Dutchess County
Youth Bureau. 1be
Beacon students visited
the
campus
as a
"Day
at
College" experience organized
by
Marist student
Martin
Comacho.
The Marist Community Service Program
Marist students
volunteer to help others
BY KAREN CICERO
W
HEN
MARIST
unior
Martin
Camacho spoke at
a local church this
fall,
he didn't realize that he
was
giving an 8-year-old
the
gift of an education.
The
day
after Camacho, a
volunteer for
the Beacon
Community Center,
delivered
that
speech,
he received
a
phone
call
from
a
Hispanic
man
who asked
him to
set
up
schooling for
his daughter,
who had just arrived
in the
United States.
The man, in
tears,
told
Camacho
that he
was afraid
to
contact school
officials
because he
only spoke
Spanish.
Camacho,
who
is bilingual,
quickly remedied the
situation.
After a
few phone
calls,
the
young girl
is
now hitting the
books
and working on the
ABCs of
English.
"I
love to
see
the
smiles
after solving a
problem. That's
something community service
is
all
about,"
he
said.
Camacho's
not the
only
one
who believes that.
Some
44 students are currently in
placementS
tailored to their
interests
in Marist's
Commu-
nity
Service Program, a
project
implemented
in early ll988.
Each semester, students earn a
minimum $500 tuition credit
for doing
community
s;ervice
10
hours
a week or more.
But for
many
students, the
money
is
just
an extra bonus
to the
joy
they feel
when
working with children,
the
elderly
and
the homeless
at
more
than 20
local
age:ncies.
"When
I help
someone,
that's the best thing
that
can
happen to
me," said Camacho,
a
native
of San Salvador, El
Salvador, who came
to the
United States eight
years
ago.
"You
can't top that with any
dollar."
Phil
Koshkin, Marist's
Community
Service
Program
coordinator, said
when volun-
teers
were
asked
to fill
out
evaluations
last
year, only one
person
cited the tuition credit
as an
incentive.
Jason Lerner recently
began
working at
Warring Academy,
an elementary school
in the
inner
city section of
Poughkeepsie. Lerner, a busi-
ness/marketing major,
is
now
helping
out
in the
school's
new
IBM
computer
lab.
But
during one of his first
days
there when he
was
wait-
ing
for the lab
to be finished,
he
tossed a football around
with
some of
the
studentS.
During
those few
hours, he
scored
more than
a touchdown
with these kids; he also
captured
their
hearts.
"I
couldn't
believe that
they
attached
to me
so quickly,"
he
said.
"I
enjoy working
with
them
so much.
They
make
me
happy."
The feeling's mutual.
School officials and agency ex-
ecutives said the students
have
greatly contributed to
the
or-
For Camacho, a
political
science
major, it has
been a
rewarding
experience.
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
MARIST MAGAZINE
•
1989/90
ganizations
and to the lives of
the children.
"Marist
has given
me the
nicest
young
people,"
said
Linda
Mann, principal
for
Warring Academy's 380
students.
"Little
kids know
genuineness;
they know when
the
students care."
Apparently, junior Michele
Mottola
cares a lot.
The youngsters
have be-
come so attached
to Mottola,
an accounting
major, they have
jokingly
asked
for her hand in
marriage.
But Mottola,
who
has been
working
with
the Warring
School's
Writing to Read
Program
since
February of
1988, said
the
attention she
getS
is not what makes her feel
special.
Rather,
she said,
it's
the
improvements she
helps
the
studentS
make in their
reading
and
writing
skills.
"Children
need positive
role
models, and
Marist
stu-
dentS
reinforce them," Mann
said.
George,
a 9-year-old
special education student,
wantS to
go
to
college
because
of
the
example set
by
Maryanne Leary.
Leary, a political
science
major, first
met George last
spring in
the
special ed
class-
room
at
Kreiger
Elementary
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12
"'Their
perceptions
are deeper."
For sophomore Ann
Salasny, her placement at
the
Dutchess Interfaith
Council
meant gaining some
insight
into the ways and needs of
the
elderly.
Salasny, an accounting
major in
her
second semester
with
the
service
program,
spends
her volunteer time
speaking
with
four elderly
women, ranging in
age
from
78
to
94. She says
they never
cease
to
amaze
her.
In her year-end
evaluation
of the
program,
Salasny
wrote
the following after
her first
se-
mester
with the Community
Service
Program:
Jason Lerner helps a
youngster in a
new IBM
computer
lab
in
Poughkeepsie's Warring
Academy.
"When
I
started with the
program,
I
didn't
have an
appreciation for the elderly.
But now I've
come
to highly
admire them.
They have
so
much
to offer
people -
espe-
cially youths.
But
most of
that
time is
wasted
because
nobody
wants
to take the time talking
to
them.
I've
taken the time
and
I've
grown
to
love
them.
I'll
miss
my
ladies."
I
School.
During
one of their ses-
sions,
when the two
of
them
would
practice how
to say the
word
"the,"
Leary
told
George
all about college.
Leary
said George works
harder
now,
and the
incentive
of college
-
even
though it's
10
years away
-
is nudging
him
along.
One
day,
George's teacher
asked
him to
show Leary
hi~
math
test. "I'm going
to
college
someday,"
he
said,
pointing to
the word "excellent" that
the
teacher
had marked
on
top
of
the
paper. And Leary
said she
has no doubt that he'll make it.
But how much further
will
the Marist
Community Service
Program
go'
Last
May, when a
two-year,
nonrenewable
grant
from the
U.S.
Department
of Education
was about
to run
out,
Marist
was forced to
make
a
decision.
The college could either cancel
the
program or allocate the
money from
its
own budget
to
keep
it
alive. After a successful
appeal made by college
officials,
the program received
a
Sl0,000
grant
from
the
Gannett Foundation, and,
recently, a
$10,000
grant from
the Hearst
Foundation. The
college's board of
trustees
voted
to
allocate
the
additional
$56,000
needed
for the
program.
Marist's decision seems
to
reflect
the times. Recently,
Massachusetts Senator Edward
Kennedy and other
national
and state
legislators have
proposed
legislation
linking
college financial aid to commu-
nity service.
Kennedy
said
the
federal government should
spend
$500
million
over the
next five
years on a
national
community service
program.
The
program,
he
said, woulld
enable college students
to
broaden their
horizons
as well
as fulfill a
need
for community
volunteers.
"In
the program, students
are seeing
more
than
they
ever
saw before,"
Koshkin
said.
-Karen
Cicero,
'91,
is this
year's managing editor of
Marist
's student weekly
newspaper,
The
Circle.
TKE contributes to
Special Olympics
M
ore than 70 Marist students volunteered during
the fall's New York State Special Olympics
competition
in Saugerties,
N.
Y. Members from the
Marlst fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon
(TKE),
who
organized
Marist 's activit,fes al the Special Olympics as well as
several other community
service and fund raising projects
throughout the
year,
made up aboUI half of the volunteer
students. Some500athletes, age eight andover,from throughout
New
York
State competed ,in
the games.
"We
would be nothing
today
without
the
volunteers
from Maris/," said Bernie Carle,
host site director
of
the S,'pecial Olympics. Pictured here are
several Marist
students enfoying
some time
out
with a few
of
the
participating a1h/etes.
I
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Johnson Kuo
Memorial
Service for
Chinese
A
ITER TIIE
Chinese
government shot
down hundreds
of pro-democracy
demonstrators in Beijing
last June, many of
the
Chinese
community
in the
United States went into
mourning. Marist opened
its doors for a memorial
service
organized by the
Mid-Hudson Chinese-
American Ad Hoc
Committee in Support
of
the Chinese Democratic
Movement.
Some
300
Chinese
immigrants from the
People's Republic of China
and Taiwan, and many
American-born
Chinese,
filled the
college's Campus
Theatre to try to under-
stand the brutal killings,
and to
express
their
optimism that the lives of
the victims were not lost in
vain.
Johnson Kuo,
commit-
tee
chairman,
spoke
at the memorial
service
in
both English and Mandarin
Chinese. The
committee
held an auction of Chinese
art which raised more than
$5,000
to aid the democ-
racy movement through
the purchase of fax
machines. Fax machines
were used
extensively
during, and
shortly
after,
the demonstrations to
send
press clips from Western
sources
because
of
the
sanitized
version of
Chinese
news reporting on
the
movement.
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D.A.R.E. video crew (from
left) Anne
Gaynor,
Holly
Krayem,
Kathy Vetter,
Jenn(fer
Becker, and Madeline McEneney.
Students produce video
for IlA.R.E.
F
ATHER
TERRY
ATTRIDGE
of the
Archdiocese
of New
York was looking for
a video program
that
would
bring attention
to
drug abuse
and what
his
drug
rehabilita-
tion
program, D.A.R.E. (Drug,
Alcohol,
Rehabilitation,
Education) does
to
combat
the problem.
Thanks to a group of
Marist students, Father
Attridge got
just
what he
wanted.
Attridge called Douglas
Cole, visiting instructor of
communication ans last year,
Singing
for
freedom
0
NE
DAY when Bob
Higgins,
a
Marist
College
senior,
was
12
years old,
he was
emptying
the dishwasher in his
Long Island home
and
discovered the magical
sound
of silverware
clanging
against
an aluminum lasagna pan.
Soon,
the
sixth-grader
moved
on
to more
sophisti-
cated tools -
a butter
cookie
tin and
chopsticks.
But that didn't
last
long. To
continue encouraging
her
son's
musical interests
(Higgins
played
the
piano) and perhaps
to
regain
her kitchen, Higgins'
mother bought him a
5125
drum
set for Christmas.
Today, Higgins, a
commu-
nication
arts
and psychology
MARJST MAGAZINE
•
1989/90
and asked for his he! p in
creating the video. Cole
suggested
that
the
program
be turned over
to
advanced
communication students.
Then Marist senior Holly
Krayem was appoint,ed
to
serve as producer/di1rector for
the
creation of the video.
Four other students assisted
her
in
the semester-long
project.
Video production is noth-
ing
new
for
Krayem.
After
graduating from Ulster Com-
munity College
in
December
of
1985,
she worked for
WfZA-TV
in
Kingston,
N.Y.
major,
still empties
the·
dishwasher, but his talent has
moved beyond the family's
pots and pans.
When he and three friends
-
two who
are
1987
Marist
graduates -formed
the band
Second
Look three years ago,
they never
expected
it to last.
But
through a chain of
musical
events
-
with some good
times
and
bad-
they're
beating the
odds and
helping
people in the process.
Second
Look's
cho,sen
path
has involved them wit!h
Amnesty
International, a 28-
year-old organization
dedi-
cated
to the protection,
of
human rights worldwide.
With Higgins
at
the drums,
Second Look has released
"Breaking
Away,"
a
fo1ur-
minute
soft
rock tune that
speaks
to
Amnesty's commit-
COMMUNITY
She was on a leave of absence
from Major League Baseball
Productions while she worked
t◊ward
graduation from Marist
last
spring.
The five-woman team of
Krayem
and Anne Gaynor,
senior Kathy Vetter and jun-
iors Jennifer
Becker and
Madeline McEneney
handled
the actual production and
the
research,
writing,
interview-
ing,
and on-location shooting.
The end result was an
hour-long
video illustrating
the primary aim of D.A.R.E.,
which
is
tO
help combat
the
problem of substance abuse
through preventive
education
projects.
The program includes a
dozen educational projects in
and around New York City,
even as far as the suburbs of
Westchester,
Orange, and
Ulster Counties.
Krayem
and
her
crew
traveled throughout New
York, interviewing
police offi-
cials, O.A.R.E. volunteers, and
recovering
addicts, making
40
hours of video that
had
LO
be
logged
and
edited.
Using
equipment from the Lowell
Thomas Communications
Center, Krayem and crew
sh◊t
video
in
Manhattan's Alphabet
City (a low-income
housing
area), Brooklyn, Dobbs Ferry,
and Long Island. Krayem's
connections at
WfZA-TV
also
helped
her in obtaining
news
footage of actual drug busts.
Bob Higgins
ment
to everyone
who has
their freedom
restricted,
especially
prisoners of war.
Some
700
of
the
1,000
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The crew agreed
that
working on the project was an
eye-opening experience
about the drug
problem
in
America.
"All
of the shoots
really
af-
fected us because the
inter-
views were so
intense,
but I
think
being in Alphabet
City
affected
me the most,"
said
Krayem.
"Even
though you
know there
is
poverty and a
drug problem,
it really
doesn't
hit you until you are forced to
walk through it."
The
complete
video has
been distributed to D.A.R.E.
members and will be
used
as
an
educational
tool, an orien-
tation film for
new
O.A.R.E.
volunteers, and as a commu-
nity outreach program.
It has
been used at a video telecon-
ference and is planned to be
aired on cable. A copy of the
tape has been sent to CBS,
and, according
to Attridge,
a
producer of
60
Minutes
"thought
it
was excellent."
"I have no doubt that
cable outlets will pick
it up,"
said Cole.
Though
Cole over-
saw the making of this video
as project coordinator,
he
said
that the video was
really
Krayem's project.
"You
get a
project presented
to
you, and
you get excited," said Krayem,
who currently works at Phoe-
nix
Communications in New
York City.
"It's
hard work, so
you burn out. But eventually
you get excited all over
again."
I
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PAPPAS.
copies
produced last January
were sold,
Higgins
said,
with
all proceeds
going
to
Amnesty.
The Ocean County,
N.
J.
branch of
Amnesty Interna-
tional
covered
the record's
production
costs,
but the band
contributed
the
$2,000
needed
for
the
recording.
"We
actually lost money on
this,"
said
Higgins, also
an
editorial cartoonist
for
the
Marist
College student
newspaper,
1be
Circle.
Second
Look formed in fall
1986
when Higgins, then a
freshman, met John Macom
and
Matt
Browne
while
rehearsing
Godspell
in
the
Marist
College
Theater.
"It's
hard to
find
time to
study," said
Higgins.
Still,
the
group
manages
well. Macom is working
on
material with
an anti-drug
theme to
submit
to
singer
LaToyaJackson.
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14
Bob Lynch and his
groupies.
Bob Lynch: The kid who ,Nent away to
camp, and never really came back
Bv
LAMY Ht.:GHES
B
OB
LYNCH
went away
to
summer camp 18
years ago and part of
him never
left.
Lynch,
36,
is director
of
the
Little People's
Summer
Workshop that
is
held
each
summer at
Marist
College.
The
program has
been a
fixture
since
its
1971
inception.
The Long Island
native was
a
Marist freshman when he first
worked
in
the summer
pro-
gram as a counselor.
Lynch
has
remained actively
involved
because children and educa-
tion are
important
elements in
his life.
The
summer workshop
stresses
imagination
and
creativity
in the fields
of
theater,
arts and crafts,
athletics,
reading,
dancing
and
singing.
Kids meet
at a variety
of
indoor
and outdoor facilities
on
the Marist
campus. Hot
lunch
and snacks are served
daily.
It's painted
faces, playing
pretend, little hands
creating
make-believe
reality,
and
laughter -
lots
of laughter.
Lynch
looked all
the
wearier
the
first
day
of
the
last
of
this
year's four
two-week
sessions. As
we
sat in a
quiet
alcove off
the main path to the
college
Campus Center,
a few
fast-moving herds
of small
people
swept
past us
en
route
from one activity
to
another.
"Hi,
Bob!"
several
little
voices called out.
You can
read
the descrip-
tive
brochures and peruse
the
state of New York mandates
governing
the
operation of
summer camps
to
find out
htow
one operates.
But
to
my
mind
the
way to
determine
success-
ful operation is
to
look for
happy
little
faces.
And
it's
a good sign
when
kids
involved in
a
program
yell
"Mi!"
to the adult in
charge.
Lynch
heads
a staff of paid
graduate and
undergraduate
Youths with
the
summer workshop
are made
up
for
a pe,formance.
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college students who
work as
counselors for groups of
nine
to
18
youngsters. Group sizes
are
determined by
age and
activity.
The
senior counselors
are
joined
by
junior
counsel-
ors, ages
16 to
17, who
are
rec-
ommended by
local
high
schools.
They
are
assisted
by
junior
counselors-in-training
(JITs). These ]4
and
15-year-
olds
are
recommended
by
local
school
districts.
About
300
boys
and girls
between the ages of
four
and
12 have participated
as
day
campers
this
year. Some
kids
spent two weeks
while
others
attended all four
two-week
sessions, at a basic
rate
of S215
per rwo-week
session.
Lynch,
who
lives
in Poughkeepsie,
is
a
1975
Marisr
graduate
with
a
degree in
science.
A
variety of other summer
programs keeps
the
campus
busy during
the summer
months. Lynch
says
the
college
is happy if the Little
People's
Summer
Workshop
breaks
even
financially.
Following
graduation,
Lynch taught
for eight years at
St.
Mary's
School.
He is now
assistant
director
of
Marist's
College
Activities
office.
"We
were more
socially-
minded
at that
time,"
he
says of
the
early
1970s,
when he
began
working with kids. ·•11
was
just nice to
do
things for
kids."
Lynch
experienced
the joy
of working
with
children
at
the
summer
workshop.
And
he
ex-
perienced
the
opposite
working
with
troubled
youths
5
across
the
river in
West Park at
~
the
Mother Cabrini
Home.
~
In
the
process,
he
gained
a
new
appreciation
for
the
way
he
had been brought
up,
and
he
came
to
realize
how
one
person
having a positive
impact
on
the
life
of
a
child
can
help
develop
a
productive
adult.
Between
60
and 70
kids
now participate in
each two-
week
summer
workshop
session.
Lynch
says
he
prefers
a
ratio of
one college coun-
selor
to
six
kids, depending
on
the
activity. The state
mandates
standards,
including
staffing
ratios,
for all such camps.
Families expressing
interest
in the
summer workshop are
mailed
one
brochure
describ-
ing
the program
and
another,
"Children's
Camps
in
New
York
State,"
issued
by
the
state
and covering such areas as
staff credentials,
health,
and
safety.
There
are
12
senior coun-
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A variety of other
summer programs keeps the campus busy during the summer months. Pictured above
is
a
group
from the Ken Babineau/Maris/ College basketball camp for
young women.
and willing
to work with kids;
people
who
are
very
approachable and
who want
the kids to
feel confident
and
comfortable around
them," he
said.
selors
from
Marisc and such
other
colleges
as Syracuse and
the
University
of Pennsylvania.
Working with Lynch,
they
are
allowed
co
develop their own
programs
in
such areas as arts
and crafts. Before the
It's painted
faces, playing
pretend, little
hands
creating
make-believe
first workshop, Lynch
and
his
staff spend a
week in
training.
"We
go over
health
and safety and give
the
counselors a direction,"
he says.
Each grouip of
campers is
diversified,
representing different
economic
groups,
Lynch
said.
"Some
of
the kids
are
from
typical
families and, others,
from not
so typical
families,"
he
says. "We
have
some sp,ecial
kids
who are
in need
of a
This
is
often career
preparation as well as a
summer job for
the
counselors, which is
reality, and
laughter-lots
of laughter.
why
they
are allowed some
programming
freedom. Many
are working
toward
careers in
education. One counselor
is
interested
in
family
law.
structured summer
program.
They
are recommended
co us
by foster
parents
and social
services.
We also
encounter
parents experiencing marital
trouble whose
kids
are
in
need
of a
quality program."
The
workshop
is
a
lot
of
things, but it
is not
school.
"It's
different than
what
they experience at school,"
says
Lynch.
"Our
days are
structured,
but we
give them a
dose of all
the programs
we
offer:
reading,
singing,
athletics, etc.
We have
group
dancing
once a week on stage
with flashing lights and
music
like a
real
disco.
It's
quite
interesting. You
see
the
latest
dance
seeps and some
that
have never
been seen
before
and
may never be
seen again.
I would prefer the Beach Boys
but they bring
in their
own
tapes."
•·we
want well-rounded
individuals who are patient
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The critics rave ...
*****
"I liked lunch, read-
ing
and swimming
the best, and it's only
my first week here!"
-Larissa
Pitcher, 13
"I liked s'fAlimming,
arts
and crafts and
the counselors
because they are nice
and caring."
-Shanthi
Moturu, 10
"Bob (Lynch) is nice,
and most of
all
he's
funny!"
- Katina Marino,
6
"Bob is a nice guy-
he does mostly
everything ... We can
play any game and
eat any food. .. I like
this
day camp best of
all
the others I went
to ... There's nothing
to do but play games
at the other places.
We have plays, arts
and crafts, snacks
and lunch,
s'\Vimming, theater,
athletics and music."
-Tara
Englehardt, 8
In daily theater workshops
the kids
engage
in improvisa-
tion, theater
games, and actual
acting craft
in
a
theater produc-
tion.
Each child
has the
opportunity
to participate fully
in the
preparation and perform-
ance of a
play to which their
parents
are
invited. Arts and
crafts are on
display at chat time.
"That's
a time for
esteem
building, when the parents
see
their work and watch their play
and compliment
their
children
for
doing a good job,"
says
Lynch.
Childhood
is a wonderful
time.
And it's the only time you
get away
with painting your
face
funny
and
yelling
"Hi!"
to
the
guy
in
charge.
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Photo
Essay
A Day at the Little People's
Workshop
PIIOTOGRAPIIY
BY
WJLL
FALLER
W
ILL
FALLER
lives
and works as a
photographer in
the Hudson
Valley. He
took
these
photo-
graphs
during
two
days
last
summer that he spent with
Marist's
Little
People's
Work-
shop (see story on
page 14).
aesthetics of
photography. He
is an adjunct
professor at The
School of Visual Arts
in
ew
York
City.
Exhibitions of
his
work
have been seen at
P.S.
No.
1
and Twenry/Twenry
in
New
York City,
Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology
in
Cambridge, and
locally
at
the
Kingston Public
Library
and
The Center for Photography
in
Woodscock.
Faller's
photographs
are in numerous
public
and private
collections.
In
1989,
he
was awarded a
Former editor of
Photo-
graph Magazine,
a critical
journal on creative
photogra-
phy, Faller
has
curated
photographic exhibitions,
taught workshops, and
lectured
extensively on the
history
and
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Photographer's
Fund
Fellowship Grant
from the
ew
York
State Council on the
Arts.
Recent publica-
tions
include
the
books
Dude
Ranches
of
the
,a_
__
.....
American
West
(Viking Penguin) and
West
Coast
Bed
&
Breakfast Guide
(Simon
&
Schuster).
His
photographs have been
pub-
lished
in
Life,
Newsweek,
Money,
and
Glamour.
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Working for Habitat for Humanity. Front Row: Mary Kay Tuohy,
Alicia Walker, Cathy Casey, and Aimee Bryndle Second Row:
Marianne Policastro, Deirdre Phayer Sue Budney, and the new
home owner Back Row: Ginny Kenny and Sister Eileen Halloran.
To teach and to learn,
not to judge
A
student
volunteer writes about her experiiences
working with migrant farmers in Georgia
BY DEIRDRE PHAYER
FOR THE PAST
FIVE
YEARS,
a
group of Marist students of all
ages and
majors
has spent two
weeks of their summer vacation
working with migrant /armers
and their children in Americus,
Ga. Working with the Diocese of
Savannah and a local church
in Georgia, St. Mary's Parish,
Marist's Director of Campus
Ministry, Sister Eileen Halloran,
brings Marist students to work
with the children in the migrant
camp and on projects/or Habi-
tat for Humanity. Last summer
eight students made the trip,
two of them for their fourth time.
Among
them was Deirdre
Phayer, an English major, who
wrote the following account for
Marist Magazine.
W
E WERE WELCOMED
into the migrant
camp in Americus,
Ga. by children
with big smiles and twinkling
eyes. It had been a long bus
ride
for us, and we were as
happy to see
them
as they
were to see us.
during the summer
The day after we arrived
we started work. We had
several goals there. The first
was to
introduce
basic
Christian concepts
to
the
migrant children. During our
time
there, we discussed the
ideas of
Jesus
as a friend, of
trust
in God, and of
the
uniqueness of each individual.
Our second goal was to
strengthen the children's
mathematical and co,gnitive
skills. The children i.n this
migrant camp do no1t have
much time for school. Some
children are required to spend
their days working in the fields
to help their families earn
money They often nniss many
days of classes. In some cases,
they are not in one place long
enough to register
in,
the local
schools. Due to
the
generous
donation of material:s from
local
schools, however we had
plenty of books for the many
different ages of the youngsters
we worked with at the camp.
During lunch we all ate
together This was a very
special time of day for the
children; our sharing of food
and socializing together helped
them understand
the:
ideas of
unity and equality which we
always hoped to pass on
to
them before we
left.
Before we arrived, we were
aware that migrant parents are
often too proud to accept
assistance from outsiders.
However because
the
children
were the center of our
concern, we faced little
resistance
from the parents.
They saw how much we cared
for them, and they accepted
our
help.
They were extremely
grateful for the time and
energy we devoted to their
children because they
them-
selves must spend most of their
days working.
Parents and children as
young as 10 years old pick
peaches, squash, peppers, and
cucumbers. For their hard
work and long hours in the
sun, they
receive
a mere 35
cents for each basket they fill.
Sometimes there was no
picking available. For
these
migrants, low wages and poor
living conditions are daily
problems. They have little
means of fighting for better
conditions; the farmer owners
can always find another
migrant picker co replace one
who doesn't like the work and
leaves.
Despite all their hardships,
we found that
the
people
worked as a community
looking
out for
themselves
as
well for the others who live
in
the camp. When clothes were
distributed, mothers in the
camp picked out clothes not
only for themselves, but for the
women who were at work in
the fields. They are not greedy
people. They take what they
need and give the rest to a
neighbor Our often self-
indulgent culture could learn a
lot from their compassion.
Each afternoon we also
gave
lessons in
arts and crafts.
Deirdre Phayer and Christina.
We had gone as part of a
two-week volunteer mission
sponsored annually by the
Campus Ministry program at
Marist College. There were
eight students in all who
participated in the program
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This enabled the innovative
ideas of each child to come
alive. The children made
baskets, boxes, and picture
frames. This gave
them
an
opportunity
to
create some-
thing
that
they could be proud
of Often,
these
crafts were
saved and given as presents.
We finished each day
trying to foster an atmosphere
in
which the children could
practice cooperation and
further develop coordination
skills. And, of course,
to
have
fun. We all played jump rope
and kick ball, we tossed a
Frisbee back and forth, and
blew bubbles.
In
addition to our work
with the migrant workers in the
camps, we spent several nights
working
in the
local
commu-
nity at St. Martin's Preschool
and at Habitat for Humanity a
housing organization headed
by former President Jimmy
Carter We put up Sheetrock
walls and
laid
tile on floors. In
addition, we worked at a local
food pantry and did various
tasks for the Sisters of St.
Mary's Church.
We also took some time
out to enjoy the local heritage.
One day we went to the small
town of Plains, home of
Jimmy
Carter On another day we
visited Andersonville, where
there is a prisoner of war camp
from the Civil War
During the time we were
there it was imperative for us
to assimilate the migrant
culture; we were not there to
impose our social and moral
ideas
and values on the
migrant families. This was not
always easy for us. Their
customs of marriage and
education, for example, differ
from ours. They do not hold
the same value of education as
we do, and it
is
their custom to
marry very young. Sometimes
we had an urge to tell them
what we thought was best for
them, but we didn't. Our
purpose was to
teach
and to
learn,
not to judge.
For some of us, the
experience opened a window
of cultural awareness and
made us see the
importance
of
learning
about, and acting on,
the needs of others. For
others, it strengthened an
awareness that there is more to
life than material success.
Morning prayer and evening
reflections renewed our faith.
For all of us,
it
was part of a
journey that enabled us to take
part in a community that
encouraged kindness and
concern for our fellow man.
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A harsh
land reveals
human
strength and
beauty
A Marist
Brother writes
about his time with
Lakota Sioux
in
South
Dakota
Bv BROTHER
RENE
D.
Rov,
F.M.S.
IN
1973,
the Marist Brothers
began working on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in Oglala,
SD. It
is
one of the poorest re-
gions in the country and faces
many poverty-related problems,
such as alcoholism and family
violence. Brother Rene
D.
Roy,
F.M.S., is a
1964
graduate of
Marist College and has been a
Marist Brother for
29
years. He
began working on the Pine Ridge
Reservation in
1976
and con-
tinues to work with the people
there today
as
the acting pastor
ofOurla.dyoftheSiouxChurch.
He
has
offered the following on
the "strength and beauty" of the
Lakota Sioux, who have given
him the name Wanbli Waste,
which means Good Eagle.
I
t's funny how a piece of
paper can change your
life. One day in 1973, in
Wheeling, W.Va., I saw a
brochure about Red Cloud
In-
dian School on the Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota.
After reading about the poverty
and feeling a deep sense of
devoting a part of my life
to
rectify
and expiate
the
sins
of our forefathers, who took
the
land
from our Native
Americans -
as well as
those of our present govern-
ment, which is doing its best
to slowly wipe out today's
Native
Americans and their
culture -
I decided I would
someday join Brother Eric
Anderberg and Brother Julian
Roy, who had that year begun
to work on the reservation.
My first impression of the
reservation came the Wednes-
day night before Thanksgiving
in
1976
when I flew to South
Dakota to look at life there be-
fore making the actual move. I
remember driving endlessly
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Olympic Gold Medali:,t Billy Mills (left), chairman of Running
Strong/or American Indian Youth, offers encouragement to Reuben
Picotte, a member of Brother Rene
Roy's
parish.
through the dark, ama;~ed at
how
the Brothers who had
come
to pick
me up at
the
air-
port
knew
where to tuirn right
or left
in
the middle of no-
where, and
my
asking such
outlandish questions a,s,
"Do
they still live
in
tepees?"
During a midnight discus-
sion after our arrival a~ the
Brothers' trailer
(I
soon found
out that's what most p
~ople
lived in), I felt that I was left
with
little
choice: either
I
joined the Brothers cu1-rently in
the community, which now
consisted of Brother Elie,
Brother
Joe
Di8enedetto, and
Brother
Brice Byczynslki, or
they would have to abandon
the
whole project. Pre:fsures
from within and outsidle the
community were too great,
they said. They
neede<~
a
fourth person
to
work with
them.
As
I look
back now, that
weekend presented, in encap-
sulated form,
what :my next
13
years there
would bring. I
knew
then
that
for a white
man from the
East, life would
be hard: bitter
cold winters,
endless inter-
ruptions, torn
Brother Rene
D.
reins ,of broken
Roy, F.M.S.
plans and
appoi ntmenrs,
disappointments, v10la1tions
of
the sacred, exploitatio:ns, lows
and highs, anxieties, stresses,
all
interspersed
with Lakota
hospitality in various forms.
Yet, now
I
think: What are
these hardships compared to
what the people there have
been put
through?
Nothing.
"Rubbish," as St. Paul would
say. For the Native American
has been through,
is
going
through, and will go through,
much worse.
The
ideals
of Native Ameri-
can existence have been all but
guned. They can no longer
follow the roaming herds of
buffalo that have been at the
center of their subsistence for
generations because another
power has killed them off as a
nuisance to progress. Their
language and
their
religion are
taken away, and
they
are told
that
they will be cared for and
protected by their conquerors.
A self-sufficient, spiritual
people
is
reduced to a depend-
ent, depressed, passive, almost
broken nation, not outrightly
annihilated but perhaps worse.
What
this
generates
is
a
constant diet of death, failure,
low
self-esteem, and pessi-
mism. "There's nothing here,"
people tell me. But what has
persisted, and what counter-
balances these negatives, is a
life-giving hope that springs
from a deep faith and natural
spirituality. As time here with
the land begins to reveal its
unique beauty, so too does
time with
the
people reveal
their beauty and strength.
My work as a pastoral min-
ister in
a parish, rather than as
a traditional teacher in a class-
room
(as I once was as a
young Marist Brother), enables
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
me to reach people of all ages,
from new babies
to
the
"elder-
lies," as we call
them here.
I
am there at their baptism and
at their
burial
and everywhere
in between.
I especially see
in the
youth a desire
to make
a break
with the alcoholism and wel-
fare system
that have
crippled
the generations before them.
The obstacles in the
path
of
such a desire are greater here
than
perhaps anywhere else in
the
country. Here the struggle
between good and evil
is
stark,
an open battle with
no
subtle
sophisticated grays
to
cover up
what is really going on. Life is
brutal here. Not only do the
youth face
the
choices pre-
sented by a popular but mis-
guided "rock generation,"
whose music, movies and he-
roes
present glittering but
empty values, but they live
with inferior
housing,
food,
clothing, education, services,
and
transportation
-
things
that put them 20 to 40 years
behind the rest of
the
country.
They are influenced by these;
some succumb and follow the
way of drugs, alcohol, sex, and
even suicide as a way of escap-
ing from them. Some
don't
give
up; they struggle and win.
B
illy Mills was one of
them. In one of the
most notable examples
of contemporary
Native
American
achievement,
Billy won the 1964, 10,000
meter Olympic Gold Medal.
Not only was his race
that
October a personal victory for
him, but it symbolized
then,
and still symbolizes today, the
possibility that all Lakota
people have of becoming who
they truly are, and not
letting
that self get buried.
Meeting
Billy this past summer, 25
years after his victory, I was
amazed at his optimism, en-
ergy, and desire
to
help others
reach
their
goals. He gives
motivational talks in schools
and in large companies, taking
advantage of his position
to
make people aware of the
broken promises, and of the
failure of the government to
honor the
rights retained
and
the
rights
given.
At present, he
is
chairman
of a program called
Running
Strong for American
Indian
Youth, part of a
larger
organi-
zation called Christian
Relief
Services, which raises money
for the betterment of people,
particularly
those
on reserva-
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tions around the
country.
Recently, they have funded
well drilling and
a
truck
garden
enterprise
at Pine
Ridge, which is attempting to
provide work that will help
people get
off
welfare
and
earn their livelihood. Their
latest project is to build
16
log
cabin homes for some of the
elderly.
Running Strong has
helped
several
promising ath-
letes to improve their skills or
participate in national events.
One young man named
Reuben
J.
Picotte from our
parish took part
in
the All-
American National Teams
Triathlon
Competition
in
Maui, Hawaii, this past July.
.they
are told that
conquerors.
A
self
dependent,
de
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I•
He had long been
Jr
admirer
of Billy Mills, havinl~ watched
many times his
story
in the
film
Running BravJ•, particu-
larly before an imp~ rtant
race. Not only did unning
Strong help him firn ncially,
but Billy Mills tOOkJiWO
days
to spend time with
~~euben,
describing what it
takes
to be-
come
an Olympic
champion.
Reuben is
an especially
gifted
young
man who ha1s
suffered
his
share,
as other y'Oung res-
Brian Hill (right)
and
student on
the
Hudson
River
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ervation
people have, but his
deep prayerfulness and spiritu-
ality have so far helped him
over the humps of injuries and
hard choices.
It
is
this deeply intimate
daily contact with a
strong,
spiritual
people that energizes
me and remolded me and my
approach to brotherhood. I
came here to give of myself to
help rectify and reconcile, but
I have received instead a
clearer understanding of my
Marist vocation: that I am
Brother not by title or mem-
bership
in
a Congregation of
Brothers, but a real
Brother
to
youngsters
whose brothers
and fathers are absent. I am a
brother to adults who
struggle with
sobriety,
family
problems, depression, to all
who search for the meaning
in
life, who
seek
to
be
more
kind and compassionate
toward themselves and oth-
ers, who thirst for a deeper
relationship with God.
The land and the people
are one: open, infinite, harsh
at times, desperate, but over-
whelmingly beautiful, and
already so close to God. I am
glad to be here.
I
E
and polychlorinated biphenyls
~
(PCBs) on microorganisms
i'.
and other
river
life.
PCBs
are a
~
major contaminant
in
the
a;
Hudson
River
"As
a training program for
students,
it
(the new course)
will put them on the cutting
edge of environmental toxicol-
ogy " said Hill.
Currently
the
Environ-
mental
Science Program has
approximately 24
declared
major students enrolled. The
program started in 1970.
"I am
hoping
that enrollment
will grow " said Hill. "Between
80
and
100
majors
would be
ideal."
"The college as a whole is
redefining
their goals, and re-
search
is
important,"
Hill
said.
"It
is an effective
teaching tool
and it brings a
new perspec-
tive, more enthusiasm."
Other faculty
members
involved
with the program
include
Mulugeta
Assefa,
assistant professor of biology
and
Andrew
Molloy professor
of chemistry
Hudson River to be studied for toxins
In addition to the
new
course, Hill
is
also working on
approval of a joint-study pro-
gram with
Bard
College, a pri-
vate
liberal
arts college
located
a few miles north of
Poughkeepsie
and also on the
Program aimed at improving river quality
M
ARIST
is
doing its
part to
improve
the
environmental
quality of
the
Hudson
River
Brian Hill, associate profes-
sor of biology and director of
Marist's Environmental Science
Program,
has initiated
a course
that will study the effects of
toxic substances on life in the
Hudson
River
Hill.
"The
Hudson is a
commercial, economic, and
ecologically dominant feature
in
this area."
The course
is
de:signed to
include both research and
classroom work, and will be
offered once a year
It
will be
offered for the first time
in
the
fall of
1990.
"Marist is committed to
re-
building the natural sciences in
its curriculum," said Linda Cool,
Marist's assistant academic
affairs vice president.
"In
our
location,
it's an obvious choice
to go with environmental and
river
studies."
An
artificial stream is being
constructed on campus along
the river so students can study
the effects of fuel, pesticides,
"Being
on the river is ideal
(for this kind of course)," said
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Hudson River This program
would allow environmental
science majors from both col-
leges to begin work on a
master's degree
in the
summer
of their
junior
year and com-
plete
it in
the summer after
their senior year
Hill is also
involved
in
seven other
research
projects,
including
ones in
Texas,
Minnesota, and a study with
Bard College students on acid
rain.I
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Larry
Plover(/ejt),
a
1965
Marist
graduate
and
chairman of
Hudson Harvest,
with
Tammy Diehl
of
the
Lunch Box, a food distribution
center
for the needy in Poughkeepsie, and Dan Hickey,
'66,
owner of
J.B. Danigans restaurant in Poughkeepsie, which is dona,tingfood to Hudson Harvest. The Lunch Box
will be receiving
some of
the donated food.
Alumnus leads drive to feed the homeless
W
HILE WAITING
for
his wife to
come
out of work at
Bellevue Hospital
in
New
York
City
Larry Plover
saw
workmen by an
old,
rusty
truck unloading
"food
that
looked like it was
out of
the
Marriott Hotel" into
a crumb-
ling, timeworn
building.
Curious,
he asked what
they were doing.
The driver
explained
that
they were from
City
Harvest,
a
nonprofit
organization
that
channels surplus
restaurant
food
to needy
New
York
City
residents.
"It
was then I thought
if
I
was
ever
back
in
Dutchess
County,
I
would
start a
pro-
gram
like that," Plover
said.
He did move
back, and
after
nine months
of
planning,
a
new
organization called
Hudson Harvest is
scheduled
to be delivering food to the
area's
needy by this
spring.
ously
unused
source:
people in
the
food
service
profession
who discard food
simply
because it
is
not
suitable
for
serving
the following day
"The
logic
of
it
appealed
to
me," Plover
said. "Food
could
be thrown
out
tonight
at
the
Radisson Hotel
(Pough-
keepsie),
and
I
could
probably
throw
a
baseball
from
there
to
a
house where a little boy is
having Cheerios for dinner"
An initial meeting
for
the
project was held
at
Ma rist in
November
1988, with
volun-
teers including Maureen Smith,
president of the Dutchess
Restaurant Association,
Art
Weinberg, former May-or
of
the
City of
Poughkeepsie, Anna
Buchholz,
former
Town
of
Poughkeepsie
supervii;or and
Gary
L.
Smith,
Jr Mari:st's
coordinator
of the Annual
Fund.
Another
Marist
graduate
who
is
involved is Dan Hickey
'66,
who
is
an owner of
J.B.
Danigans in the
South
Hills
Mall
in
Poughkeepsie,
which says
donors
of charitable
contributions of food
given in
good faith are protected from
civil and criminal
liability An
additional
protection is
that
all
drivers
are
required to take the
state
Health Department's
food
handlers
course.
Currently, the organization
is in the fund raising
stage,
hoping to raise money to
cover operations for three
months. The Dutchess County
Community Action Agency in
Millbrook donated office
space
for Hudson Harvest after
hearing of
its
efforts,
and
IBM
has announced they will
donate several thousand
dollars, Plover said.
"There
is no glitzy
administration
getting in the
way, no
conferences,
no
lunches,"
said
Plover
"We
don't want to move money
from one cause to another We
are drawing from the private
sector"
Participating restaurants
in
the Poughkeepsie area
already
committed to
the
project
include the Beekman Arms in
Rhinebeck;J.O.'s Backyard
in
Poughkeepsie;
the
Culinary
Institute
of
America
in
Hyde
Park;
Caesar's
Ristorante
in
Poughkeepsie, and the
Ship
Lantern Inn
of
Milton. These
restaurants not
only see
their
food put to use, but
they
also
can
claim
charitable
tax
deductions.
"To
me, going through my
school years
at Marist,
I
saw a
potential,"
said
Plover
"The
(Marist) environment gave
me
a 'we can
do
this'
attitude."
Future
plans for the
organization
include the
spread of
the
"harvest"
to
adja-
cent
Orange
and Ulster
Coun-
ties, Plover
said.
I
-LAURJE
LEAVY
Plover a 1965 Marist
graduate,
is
chairman of
this
nonprofit network that will
take donated
food
from
area
retailers, wholesalers, restau-
rants, and other
sources
and
deliver it directly to
area
shelters, soup
kitchens,
churches,
and
synagogues.
The group also
consulted
with
legal
counsel because of a
fear of lawsuits.
They
found
that New York
had passed
a
Good-Samaritan
law irn
1981
Robert Lane
(left)
and Gerald
W
O'Brien
of
the
Culinary
Institute
of
America
in
Hyde Park,
NY., are
helping advise Hudson Harvest
on
food-handling
The institute
is
donatingfood and assisting in
The
aim of
the program,
Plover
said, is
to
tap a
previ-
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22
The program, which
took
students behind-the-camera,
and in front of it, for the
filming of
their
own
1V
news
program,
emphasized
three
main components: news
writing, stage presence, and
the technical
side
of television
production.
"We
tried to give them a
course
in
1V
journalism, not
just
1V
production,·• said
Douglas Cole, technical
director of the camp and a
visiting instructor of commu-
nications at Marist.
Local high school students making the news in thelir summer
workshop.
"The goal of the program
is
for the students to produce
a final television broadcast,"
said
Nugent.
Broadcast News
To gain experience in
news
writing and editing,
students were
taught
how to
write
leads,
proofread, and
properly attribute sources.
Julie
Cretella,
14,
from New
Paltz, now appreciates the
im-
portance of
knowing
how to
accurately
research
and write
a story for a newscast. "It's
the
core of everything,·• she said.
High school students learn about
televisi◄
rJn
news
at Marist summer
"camp"
I
F YOU HA VE EVER
wondered what it is like
to sit in front of a real
television
camera
and
give a
news
report or direct a
news program, just
ask any
one of the
26
students who
experienced firsthand
the
world of broadcast journalism
last
summer at
"camp."
The
Marist College School
of Adult Education sponsored
a newly-created
1V
/Video
Production camp during a
single two-week ses:sion in
July. Designed for 12- to 17-
year-old students, the camp
was held
in
the
1V
studios
of
the Lowell
Thomas •Communi-
cations Center on c~tmpus.
According
to Vincent
Nugent, director of the
camp
and a 1978 alumnus of Marist,
"The
purpose of the program
is
for students to receive a
comprehensive overview of
all aspects of broadcast jour-
nalism."
Each day, students pored
over
The New York Times, the
Poughkeepsie Journal, and
USA Today, gathering news
stories to report on.
"The students
had a
lesson in
current events, as
well," said Nugent, who is
also an English teacher at
"Summer
scholars"recc,rd
local history
F
OR 1WO
WEEKS in
July
40
gifted high
school students
from
throughout Dutchess
County had the
opportunity
to
be
documentary video produc-
ers
and to learn firsthand
about
the history
of
the Hudson Valley
in the process.
The program
at
Marist,
entitled "Filmmaking as
Social
History
"
involved three teams
of students, each
team produc-
ing a documentary
on a
unique
aspect
of
local
history The
documentary
subjects
included
the
environmencal organization
and
sloop
Clearwater· the
Bardavon
1869
Opera House in
Poughkeepsie, and the
Ebeneezer Baptist
Church, one
of the oldest
churches
in
Poughkeepsie.
The
Summer Scholars
program
at
Marist
is
part
of the
Regional High
School of Excel-
lence
Summer Scholars
Program
sponsored
by the
Dutchess
County Board of Cooperative
"You
can't
talk about the history
of
the
United States without
talking about the history
of
the Hudson River"
singer
and
songwriter Pete
Seeger (left)
told a
group of
high
school students
with
Marist
's
High
School of F.:xcellence
Program. Seeger is
active
in
Clearwater,
an
environmental organization
that runs the
Clearwater sloop
t'o promote
sound environmental
policies
concerning
the Hudson River Because
of Clearwater's work
in
reducing the amount
of pollutants going
into the
river Seeger
looking across the
water said,
"It's
safe
to
swim out
there now
"
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Rhinebeck
Central High
School.
Travis Webster,
14,
of
Poughkeepsie, agreed that, in
general, you have
to
know
what's going on, or you seem
illiterate.
In
addition, students were
required to watch actual local
and national
news
broadcasts.
"The
students will never
watch newscasts
the
same,"
said Cole.
"They
realized that
the johs of real-life newscast-
ers entail much hard work
and practice, and that there is
very little glamour on
the
job."
''I have a lot of
respect
for
newscasters," added Webster.
TI1e second part of
the
program included public
speaking, pronunciation, and
overall stage
presentation.
"The
students arc
expected
co
perform at a professional
level," said Cole. ''This is not
just playtime."
The students spent six
hours a day, five days a week
in the studio. In two weeks,
they received the same
training that a college course
would
cover
in one year.
"The
program was challeng-
ing,
but fun," said Sara
McLaughlin, 15, of
Hyde
Park.
"When
the newscasts arc
done, you
see the
work
you've accomplished and
it's
satisfying.''
I
-VALERIE
HALL
Educational
Services (BOCES)
and
the participating
colleges.
Marist, Vassar
College, and
Bard
College
participated
in
the
1989
program,
involving
a
total
of
120
academically
advanced
stu-
dents. The
students,
high
school sophomores
and juniors,
lived
on campus
for the two-
week
session.
Marist
communication arts
instructor
Douglas Cole,
a
fac-
ulty member for the
Summer
Scholars
program, said that the
most
frequently heard
comment
from
students about
the two
weeks
was that
they discovered
how difficult
it
really is to
research,
write, shoot and edit
a
documentary
Another hig point
the
students
made,
Cole
said,
was
that
they
had to
learn
to
work together
as a
team
or
their
project wouldn't
get
done.
Cole, an experienced
producer/director
as well as a
teacher also
recorded
some
unique
history
during
the
Summer Scholars
program.
"I
made my
own documentary
about
the
students making
theirs," he
said.
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COVER
STORY
-
To follow knowledge
like a sinking star
Lowell Thomas, Jr. recalls a historic journey to Tibet
with his father 40 years ago.
H
O\Y/ DID
IT
HAPPEN?
My
father
had
traveled throughout
Arabia, India,
Afghanistan
and
parts
of
Asia
shortly after
World War I,
writing
books
about
his
experi-
ences.
He had
sought permis-
sion ever since
to visit
that El
Dorado
of all
travelers, that land
of
mystery
and lost
horizons be-
yond the Himalayas. But, until
this moment, he had
always
been turned down,
as
had
all
other
Westerners. At the time,
only six
Americans had
ever
been
allowed into
Tibet. Why
us? We wouldn't find that
out
until reaching Lhasa
at
the
end
of a
month-long
trek
from India.
With the utmost haste, I
wrapped up my fllm
assign-
ment in Iran,
boarded
a Pan
Am DC-4 to
Calcutta, and
began
rounding up the food
supplies and camping gear
we
would
later need
for the
next
two months. Dad
flew
in
sev-
eral
days
later
by way
of
the
Pacific, having
entrusted his
nightly national newscast to
CBS
Allen Jackson and
others.
Our
purpose
in going to Tibet
was,
I
guess,
like Tennyson's
Ulysses, "to
follow knowledge
like a
sinking star" or
to
ex-
plore
a
long-forbidden
land
and
its
culture. Our
practical
objective was
to report in
words and
pictures what we
would
find. This we did
in
a
series of tape recordings,
using
the first two such
recorders
ever
made,
and
had
the
tapes
periodically
carried
down to
India by Tibetan mail runners,
then flown
to New
York
for
use
on
my father's news
broad-
cast.
We
also
made
a
16mm
fllm
for
the
lecture
platform
and U.S. television, and
many
still
photographs to illustrate
a
series of
magazine
articles and
my book,
Out of
This
World.
(I
wish I had
had the benefit of
a
Marist
College course
in
communications
beforehand!)
MARIST MAGAZINE
•
1989/90
BY
LOWELL
THOMAS,
JR.
~\\
~\
Lowell Thome.is and Lowell
Thomas,Jr.
tn 1949.
Our practical objective was to
report in ii,pords
and pictures what
...-. .....
we would find
Lowell
Thomas, Jr.,
66,
is an
air taxi pilot based in
Anchorage, Alaska/. He has
worked in film, rc.idio, and
televiSion production, record-
ing his journeys to South
America,
Turkey,
Iran,
Africa, and many parts of
Asia. He was Lieutenant
Govemorof Alaskafrom 1974
to 1979.
He has written
several books about his
adventures, includingOutof
This World
about his and his
father's trek to Tibet. Marist
College's Lowell Thomas
Communications Center is
named for Lowell Thomas,
who lived in nearby Pawling
and died in 1981. Lowell, Jr
is pictured hereat the dedica-
tion ofMarist 's
Lowell
Thomas
Communications
Center
Lowell, Jr wrote this article
for Marist Magazine to
com-
memorate the 40th anni-
versaryofhisjourneyto
Tibet.
OUR
EXPEDITION
got
underway in Gangtok,
Sikkim
in early
August.
Our caravan
included
nine pack mules, half
a
dozen
porters,
a Sikkimese
interpreter a cook and
the
Sirdar (man in charge of
the
animals and
porters).
For sev-
eral
days, the narrow trail
led
upwards through
a
misty rain
forest of
bamboo,
eventually
climbing
into a
region
of
wild
orchids and giant
rhododen-
dron
30
feet tall.
It
was the
monsoon
season,
raining
almost constantly
until we
crossed
the
border
at 14,000
foot-high Nathula
Pass. Was it
ever slow
going! Some days
we
only covered
twelve miles,
for our sure-footed mules
had
their
own
ideas
of speed.
Other
days,
once out of
the
mountains
and on
Tibet's
windswept plateaus
as
high
as
15,000 feet, we managed to
more
than
double that
distance,
alternately
riding and
walking.
Now
and
then we met
a caravan of
donkeys going the
other
way with
loads
of wool,
and musk and yak
tails for the
markets of
India,
as
has
been
the
custom for countless centu-
ries.
We were
on
Tibet's
main
highway but
we never
saw a
wheel (other
than the prayer
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wheel); not
even an ox cart!
When
we asked about this,
we
were
told that Tibet wanted
nothing to do with the
outside
modern world, that if the
wheel were
introduced for
transportation, footpaths
and
trails
would
have to be wid-
ened
into roads which would
make it
easier
for
foreigners,
especially armies, to penetrate.
This policy
of
isolation had
served
them well for
a century
or more, but
soon
would
fail
when
Communist China
began
its invasion
a
year later
building
a
road
as
its
army
advanced.
adventure,
comparing
observa-
tions
and supporting each
other
in
every way
When Dad
was
thrown from
a
horse near
a
17,000-foot
pass
on
the
return to India,
breaking
his
hip in
eight
places,
it
was up to
me
to
take
care of
him and
to
organize
teams
of
porters to
carry
him
out
in
a sedan chair
Looking back
40 years, that
expedition seems
to have
hap-
pened in
another
lifetime.
Not
only
was it
a
thrilling
adven-
ture, it was the best time
I
ever
had with
my father
Instead
of
a day
or
two
of skiing with
him,
or
an afternoon
at a
ball
game, now he
and
I,
alone
were
sharing an
incredible
Lowell
7bomas
is sbown
here leading the
caravan
through the
jungle
and mountains
of Sikkim on
the
climb
to
Nathula
(la
is
the
Tibetan
word/or
pass), 14,800 feet above sea level,
on
the Tibetan
frontier
The
caravan set out on
the
300-mile
trek
on August 5,
1949, along this mountain trade route,
one of
the
oldest on earth
and,
at the time, Tibet's main trade link
with
the
outside world.
Although most
of our
time
was
spent just getting
to the
Tibetan
capital of
Lhasa
and
back,
my most
vivid
memories
are of our
days in that
ancient
city beginning with our
first
view of
it. My notes
at
the time
convey our feelings:
"Late
that
evening, as we splashed along,
we suddenly caught a glimpse
of our goal
-Lhasa
-far off,
under
a
range
of
dark moun-
tains,
sparkling in the sunset;
and the
huge Potala Palace
standing out above
the
city
its
golden roofs beckoning
like
a
far-off beacon."
Next morning
continued on
page
33
24
Rare Tibet photos on display at Marist
MARIST Coll.EGE
and Tibet I louse
New York are
cosponsoring
an exhibit
of rare photographs taken by Lowell
Thomas,Jr. during the 1949 journey he
and his father made to Tibet. The photos
included
in this special section, plus 23
more, have been enlarged and put on
display in the
Lowell
Thomas Communi-
cations
Center Gallery until March 10.
The exhibit
is
entitled
"Out
of this World
Revisited: Rare Photographs of Lowell
Thomas· 1949 Epic Journey to Tibet."'
The title is borrowed from Lowell, Jr.'s
1950 book,
Out of 7bis World.
The very
existence
of Tibetans and
their culture faces extinction. Since the
Chinese invasion in 1950, Tibet and
its
people have suffered at the hands of the
Chinese widespread destruction and
bloodletting that continues today. The
photographs in this exhibit, taken by
Lowell, Jr. during their journey,
capture
Tibet poised on the eve of that invasion;
in them are people who may well have
been murdered, and a culture that
is
all
but drawing its last breath.
The college has
chosen
this time to
show these photographs to
shed
some
light on the plight of Tibet in honor of
the presentation of the 1989
Nobel
Peace
Prize
to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled
spiritual and political leader.
Since
the
Thomases' visit, the Chinese, according
to human rights officials, have
commit-
ted genocide in Tibet. Perhaps the great-
est atrocities occurred in two
separate
waves of destruction, one in 1959, which
forced the Dalai Lama to flee, and the
second, which began in 1966
at
the
beginning of China's Cultural Revolu-
tion. John Avedon, in his book
In Exile
from the Land of Snows, writes that
during
~l
failed uprising of Tibetans in
1959 thi.
"obliteration
of entire villages
was
connpounded
by hundreds of pub-
lic exec1utions.
carried out to
intimidate
the surv·iving population." The Chinese
used "c1ucifixion, dismemberment,
vivisecti.on, beheading, burying, burn-
ing and scalding alive, dragging victims
to death behind galloping horses and
pushing: them from airplanes; children
were fo:rced to shoot their parents,
disciples their religious teachers." Seven
years Ja1ter in
1966,
Avedon writes that,
Tlie
Nobel
Peace Prize
1989 Recipient
7be
Dalai
Lama
Oif the
six obel
Prizes
given an-
nually the
Nobel
Peace Prize is
gener-
ally
recognized as the
highest
honor
which
can be
bestowed upon
an
indi-
vidual[
or organization for furthering
fraternity
among
nations
and
all
humanity
reduction of standing
ar-
mies,
and
promotion
of peace confer-
ences.
Although
other
Nobel
Prizes
are awarded on the
decision
of Swed-
ish
juries
at ceremonies in Sweden,
the Nobel Peace
Prize
is administered
and presented by
the
Nobel
Prize
Select.ion Committee comprised of
the
Norwegian
Parliament
and the
Nor-
wegiain
Nobel
Institute The
award
is
presen.ted concurrently
with
ceremo~
nies
in
Stockholm on
December 1
O;
they take
place in the presence
of
His
Majesty
the King of Norway
in
the
Great
Hall
of
Oslo
University
"
... Tibetans were routinely mutilated,
their ears, tongues, noses, fingers and
arms
cut off, genitals and eyes
burned
...
Crucifixion was also employed;
on June 9, 1968, the bodies of cwo men
were dumped in the street in front of
Ngyentseshar-the
old Lhasan Jail-
riddled with nail marks, not just through
the hands, but hammered into the head
and
the
major
joints
of the torso."
At present, the
cruelties continue.
Just since last March, the 30th anniver-
sary of the
1959
failed uprising, Chinese
soldiers
have shot
and
killed as many as
800 Tibetans and have imposed martial
law in Tibet
to
crush pro-independence
movements. The Chinese government is
swamping
Tibet with large numbers of
Chinese
in
an
effort
to finally
liquidate
Tibetan culture. Despite the years of
atrocities
carried
out against his country-
men, the Dalai Lama, now living in exile
in India, has
continued
to
call
for a
peaceful
settlement.
Realizing that total
independence is out of reach, he has
sought
a compromise in which Tibet
would
be
granted
cultural
and religious
autonomy, the freedom of
self-govern-
ment on all matters but foreign affairs
and defense. Yet, China is
showing
no
signs
that it is willing
to
negotiate.
Responding to the Nobel Committee's
selection
of the Dalai Lama, China
voiced
"extreme
regret and indignation."
The phocographs in this
exhibit,
sad as it
is to
say,
are
significant-even
poignant
-in
light
of the fact that Tibetan
language,
art, and the traditional way of
dress may be driven from
their
home-
land, and even
into
extinction.
-
]AMES Kull.ANDER
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Waring
the gold-peaked cap tbat is his crown, the fourteenth and current Dalai
Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, smiled down from his throne in Norbu Linga, the summer
palace, where he received and blessed pilgrims
"Ibis
was almost too good to be true,
"
Lowell, Jr, recalled in his book,
Out of This World,
when granted permission to
photograph the Dalai Lama
'~4lthough
the throne room was very dark for
Kodachrome, we did manage to get His Holiness to stand in a shaft of sunlight by one
of the tapestried pillars, where we filmed him talking to his staff; and I took several
flash-bulb shots of him perched on his throne
"In
this photograph, the Dalai Lama is
14 years old Standing to the right is the Lord Chamberlain, a position that headed all
of the priest officials in the country
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<...A"corporal
in the Tibetan Army)
Chogpon !Vima Gyabu) served as the
Thomases' military escort throughout
their journey He is wearing an earring
under his canipaign hat Near the end of
each day's march, he would gallop ahead
to anrange the Thomases'
accomniodations for the night
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Some
of tbe nearly 8,000 monks who
inhabited the Sera Monastery, once one
of the "three pillars of the state, " along
with Drepung and Ganden monasteries
holding as 1vnany as 22, 000 monks in
the 1940s
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<.A"
Tibetan mail carrier sticks out
his tongue while sucking in his breath in
the customary greeting, a mark of Tibetan
politeness The practice was prohibited by
the Chinese during the Cultural
Revolution
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CJ':e
stone staircase leading to what was then the main temple of the Potala Palace
Thomas is pictured here, second froni the right in the
group
of four men He is talking
with Heinrich Harrer, on Thomas' right, who was one of four Europeans in Tibet at the
time An Austrian, he was put into prison in India at the outbreak of WW71, only to
escape with another man into Tibet where he lived for seven years and became the
Dalai Lama's English teacher He escaped into India in November 1950, a month after
the Chinese had entered Tibet, and in 1953 published a book about his experiences,
Seven Years in Tibet,
whose last lines read.
''.My
heartfelt wish is that this book may
create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has
won so little sympathy from an indifferent world
"
I
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<...A"
Tibetan peasant holds up two shaggy Lhasa
apsos Dogs, most of them wild and vicious in Tibet,
were the scavengers with vultures and ravens Tbe
apsos shown here were pets During the Cultural
Revolution, pets were exterminated by Chinese Red
Guards ( or Tibetans themselves were forced to kill
them) to counter the Tibetan abhorrence of taking life
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~eneral
of the small Tibetan
Army, which, with old Matchlock and
Springfield
·rifles,
was no match for the
invading Chinese People's Liberation
Army the following year
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<.A"
womian on Iron Hill looking over
Lhasa It was a popular place for making
offerings ofprayer flags and incense to
the gods A raven perches nearby as
if
he
knows he has nothing to fear; at the time,
birds were not harmed in Tibet
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Continued from page
24
at
the
city outskirts, we were
greeted
by
two
Tibetan
officials, one of
whom, Rimshi
Kyipup,
spoke good
English
having years
earlier
gone to
school
in
England. Rimshi
and
Dorje Changwaba presented us
with
katas,
ceremonial
white
silk scarves.
Both were
dressed in
full-length
robes
of
red
silk and yellow hats.
They
explained
that they
would be
our
hosts in the Holy City
Luckily
our arrival coin-
cided
with the
annual summer
festival
and
we
soon found
ourselves
among a
stream of
Tibetans heading to the Dalai
Lama's
summer
palace to wit-
ness
this centuries-old
pageant.
We rode
leisurely
past the tow-
ering
Potala
(winter
palace
of
the Dalai Lama) dismounting
every
few minutes to film
the
colorful crowd
in
their bright,
other-worldly costumes.
Never
had we
seen
more photogenic
people. Tibetan
officials and
their wives were riding
gaily
ornamented
horses and mules.
The men were dressed in flow-
ing rohes, with
yellow
hats
shaped
like inverted
saucers.
The
colors of
their
silk rohes
varied according
to rank
and
office, some gold
and
blue,
others orange and
red. The
wives,
who
brought up the
rear, wore long
silk
dresses
of
bright
blue,
and
their
green
and blue
hats had
twelve-inch
visors
to protect their
fair com-
plexions from
the
intense high
altitude rays of
the
sun.
A few
women wore wooden
frames
studded with
turquoise
and
coral. Over
these frames,
which looked
like
antlers, they
draped
their
long
straight
hair
The ordinary
townspeople,
proceeding
on
foot,
were
no
less
colorful, although
not
dressed
so elegantly Some of
the men wore large fur
caps
that
for centuries
have been
a
characteristic feature of the
Mongol
costume, and
many
had
on
the
curious Tibetan
cloth boots
with flat
soles of
yak
hide.
Inside the palace
grounds
we
joined
the
audience sitting
around an open-air
platform
shaded by a
roof-like
awning,
watching
a
drama
almost as
old as
Tibet it~elf
being
enacted
to the
accompaniment
of
drums and
cymbals. The
costumed
actors were
singing
and
dancing as they acted out
an ancient
tale
of good and
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§
ies
ever of
a
Tibetan
God King.
~
Beneath the Dalai Lama
~
stands the
Kasha!!,,
a
powerful
9
cabinet
of
three
lay
ministers
~
and
one
monk, the Kalon
~
Lama. It is
endowed
with
all
the powers
of
government
legislative,
executive, and judi-
cial. From these
officials,
we
learned
at last
why we had
been
allowed to enter Tibet,
and why
such
great hospitality
was being
extended
to us:
their fear
of
Communism and
China.
By the lucky timing
of
my
father's
request,
we
had been
chosen
to
tell our countrymen
about
the Communist Chinese
threat
w
Tibet's
independence
and
deeply
religious way
of
life, in hopes that America
and
the free world would
come to
Lowell Tbomas was thrown from a horse near a 17, 000-f oot pass on
the return to India, l:meaktng his htp tn etght places, and tt was up
to Lowell, Jr to take care of him and to organize teams of porters to
carry him out in a sed,in chair
"O
Lord Buddha, lighten our load!"
chanted the bearers
c.f
Thomas chair as they made the Journey
down. Tbetr prayers were answered, too, for on that difficult descent
from the mountain heights he lost 20 pounds.
their rescue
through diplomatic
and,
if necessary
military
measures.
The
Kalon Lama
asked
us if
Communism
had
come
to
stay
in China
and
would
it
keep
spreading across
Asia. I'll always remember my
father's
rather prophetic an-
swer· "Communism
may not
have
a
lasting
effect on
China's
evil,
while a narrator in white
gown and
mask
chanted the
story
It was like
something
right out of
the Middle Ages.
Visiting
Lhasa's Drepung
monastery, home
of 10,000
monks and
lamas, wa.s another
out-of-this-world experience.
Drepung, founded
in the
early
15th
century,
means
"rice
heap,"
and
that was what it
looked
like
from a
distance.
Tier upon
tier of
whitewashed
stone
buildings rising up
a
hill-
side, topped
with
gold-en-
crusted
turrets. There we had
yak butter tea with
Drepung's
red-robed,
bald-pated
abbots,
their faces wrinkled
with age,
eyes set in a
rermanent
squint
from
years o
reading Buddhist
scriptures.
Through irnterpreter
Kyipup,
we talked
with
them
about
many things,
including
prospects
for
peace. They told
us peace
will descend! upon
the
world
only when men
understand their inne1r
minds,
when
they come
to know
themselves and, with
the death
of greed, begin
to
cornsider and
help
others.
And from them
we
learned that
one
in
every four
boys enters a
monastery
dedi-
cated
to
a
lifetime
of study
prayer,
and celibacy
The
goal
of
life
for
them
was attainment
of Nirvana,
the Buddhist
heaven. But religion
vvas
not
confined
to the monasteries.
It
was
evident everywhere,
in
prayer
flags fluttering from
rooftops,
stone shrines along
the trails,
prayer
wheels, and
strings of beads in
the hands
of
the lay people; and
pilgrims
chanting
"Om
Mani
Padme
Um" ("Hail, jewel in
the lotus")
while prostrating themselves
before
monasteries
and
shrines.
The
highlight
of our visit
was
an audience with
His Holi-
ness,
the
14th Dalai
Lama.
The
Living God
of
Mercy
was only
14 years old at the
time,
still
in
training under
the guidance of
a
regent. After
a short wait
in
the
courtyard at the summer
palace, we
were
led into the
dimly lit
throne
room.
From
the roof
above came
thunder-
ing notes from
12-foot
long
horns
blown by monks.
Through a
haze
of incense
smoke we could see the young
Dalai
Lama
sitting bareheaded
on
his high-cushioned
throne.
Bright-eyed and smiling, he
was dressed
in
a red
lama
robe.
When we reached his
throne,
we presented symbolic
gifts to
the
Lord Chamberlain,
then bowed
before His
Holi-
ness
who
touched
our
heads
with
his fingers, thus
bestow-
ing
his blessing.
We were un-
able
to
converse with
the Dalai
Lama,
but
could sense
his
curi-
osity in two foreigners
who
had traveled so far
to
see
him.
Later we were given a
rare
opportunity to film
him in
a
palace
garden-the
first mov-
age-old culture
and
civilization.
Chinese
life
up to now has
al-
ways centered on
the family
and on
religion and
both
are
institutions
which Red doc-
trines
oppose. Even
if
Commu-
nism is not
entirely cast off,
China
may modify
it
to
such an
extent
that
it
is no longer a part
of a
Moscow-directed
scheme
for
world
conquest."
As
we know
China
did
invade Tibet in 1950.
The
free
world
did nothing beyond
con-
demnation through the
United
Nations.
The
Chinese Commu-
nists
destroyed monasteries,
scattered
the monks and lamas,
pressed
Tibetans into
slave
labor on
roads
and facilities for
their soldiers, and forced
countless
thousands, including
the Dalai
Lama,
to take up ref-
uge
in
northern India.
But
in
spite of all, the
Tibetan
spirit
has not
been crushed.
From
what
I
hear both
those within
and
without Tibet
await
the
day the 14th Dalai
Lama can
return
to his
throne in Lhasa
as
their
spiritual and
temporal
ruler
The
recent
winds of
change blowing across China
and elsewhere on
the
Asian
continent give
real hope that
Tibet
will regain
control of its
own
internal
affairs,
perhaps
as
an
autonomous
Chinese
province,
surrendering only
foreign and military affairs.
I
fervently
hope this
day
is
not
far off.
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As
the United
States,
and indeed
the world, continue
t~1
change,
so must
education
change.
Marc vanderHeyden,
Marist's
academic
vice
president,
and Brother
James
Kearney,
former
superintendent
of schools
for the New
Yort Archdiocese,
and now
a distinguished
professor
of teacher
education
at Marist, spoke
together
abiout
their views on the future of education
and the future role of the teacher.
A
CONVERSATION
Educati<Jn
today and
tornorrow
M
arc vander-
Heyden:
In re-
flecting
on
ways
in which higher
education
has
changed,
there
are
three
areas that
concern
me
very much.
I'm
worried about
the underprepared
student
who
comes
to
college
and is lost in
the
context of skills
and motiva-
tion. The
second
problem is
that I believe
our society
is
re-
ally not
serious
about the pros-
pect that we will be much more
of
a multicultural
society
by the
year 2000.
If
you look at the
sta-
tistics about the minority popu-
lations that will form about half
of
the
eligible
pool
of students
by the year 2000, we
are
not
preparing our universities for
that.
And, third, I think we
will
have
a serious
problem of
maintaining private
education
over the next decade in the
United States.
I
am convinced
that
sooner
or later we will do
like the rest of Western democ-
racies,
and
that
is
make
college
and
university education
free.
We
are
the
only
Western de-
mocracy left where that is not
the
case.
And if
you
think
about
the fact that
in the
year
1992,
there will be
a
united
Europe
where university degrees
and
manufacturing products
and
real
estate
will be
exchanged on
a
European
scale,
we are
going
to be in hard
times
to
compete
with that kind
of
thing.
Brother James Kearney:
I
can
identify with all
of
those, and I
would like to
add even a fourth
concern.
I think that
college
education,
university
education
today
is confronted with a
rank
materialism
and secularism that
society
is
experiencing.
And
of
course when you
think
of
young
people, they're in
the
midst
of
that. They
are bom-
barded by
it, clay in and clay
out.
And
so
they
begin
to
see
their
college education as
more
of an
investment rather
than an
experience
which will help
Maris/ Brother James Kearney, former superintendent
of
schools
for the Archdiocese of New York, and now a distinguished
professor
of
teacher
education
at Marist.
them grow as full human
beings. That is another
chal-
lenge that the
small
liberal
arts
college
in particular
and
liberal
arts
education
in general, are
confronted
with. I thiink that the
partial
solution
to tha1t is what
the
core curriculum (class
requirements
for
all
students
consisting of
natural
and social
sciences,
history
literature,
math,
and
fine
arts) tries
to do,
and
I think that Maristt is not
just
hopping on the
bandwagon
right
now The
core
here has
been
around for a good while
and
there
seems
to b~:
a
firm
commitment to
it.
vanderHeyden:
I think
one of
the
advantages
we have
at
Marist is
that
the
core
in many
ways
has been
more than
the
acquisition of skills.
The
core at
Marist
always
has had!
a
very
strong,
if not dominant, posi-
tion reserved for the humani-
ties. And in many ways I
subscribe
to
Father Hesburgh's
(Theodore
I
lesburgh,
presi-
dent
emeritus of
the
University
of Notre
Dame) definition that
universities
are
as
good as their
humanities. And in many ways
that is what we
are
really
all
about,
with
our
particular
back-
ground and
tradition. We
are
here to help the
students
find
values,
rediscover
values,
in-
quire
about them, and become
more
eloquent in
defense
of
their values,
while
respecting
that other sets of values
may be
preeminent in
other cultures,
for
other
persons. The
core
is
doing that.
I think
we can
do
better
on
the multicultural
dimension.
And someone
like
yourself
who
comes out of
the
polyglot
environment of ew
York
City must feel that we are
somewhat
isolated on these
beautiful banks of the Hudson.
Kearney:
Again,
it
seems to me
that the
core
will be successful
only
10
the extent that
it
is
seen
in
the context of the develop-
ment
of
the whole person.
I
believe
it's
operative at Marist in
that we have teachers who will
sit down and cooperatively
agree on a program. Teachers
are talking together
to
say that
this is the
kind
of
person we
would like to develop through
the core. And once that
base
has been achieved,
then
we can
build on that in
specialization
in
the
third
and fourth year That
exposure
to higher values be-
comes
apparent to a
student
coming
to a
small
liberal arts
college, that the sense of
com-
munity is there I think that
there is something that students
pick up on when that kind of
teaching and that
spirit
of
com-
munity take place. By
the
very
fact that
students see
this opera-
tive,
they have role models. So
what we begin to
see
is an adult
world
meshing with
the
world
of
the 18,
19
and 20 year-old.
And humanities become alive in
that
community
And
it
is not
just isolated fact. It's not just
cognitive
input. It's
not just
knowing history or great parts
of
literature, but
it's
being
able
to internalize them,
and
to live
them. Again,
in terms
of what
the internal mechanisms of an
institution
can
do to help bring
that
about,
I
like
very much
what I
see
happening here,
and
I think it is being duplicated in
other undergraduate situations
around
the
country·
Teaching is
becoming
the key factor in de-
termining
one's
promotion, that
is,
good classroom
teaching,
where
the teacher relates with
students, students
with teacher
where
the
content becomes
alive,
where
students are chal-
lenged,
and
don't just
sit and
be
blotters.
In
a very
real
sense,
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good teaching says much about
the philosophy
of a college.
vanderHeyden:
I agree.
It
is
not that
we are without a de-
bate on that score, but Marist
has maintained
as
the
first crite-
rion
for
promotion
and
tenure
excellence in teaching
-not
satisfactory
but
excellent
teach-
ing
-
and it
is
clear that the
entire faculty
is
very much be-
hind
that particular position.
At
the
same
time,
it
is
also
true in
the
environment of a modern
university
and college that
greater emphasis has been
placed on scholarly teaching,
not
that the
scholar
needs
to be
made visible by virtue of
mul-
tiple publications,
but scholarly
demeanor demands
that
the
person
will remain current
in
the field,
and
remain
very
much
in touch
with
scholarship that
his field
engenders.
And in that
sense we
find
at
times
some
conAicts,
because
some choices
have
to be
made
and
that is
probably
a
perennial
question
for
most
institutions.
And we
are struggling with
it
a
little
bit
because for a while
there
may
have
been some good
reasons
to believe
that good teaching
could
have
been at the exclu-
sion of good
research.
More
and
more people
are coming
to
the
conclusion that both
have
to
be
enhanced,
that
each
has
to
support the other So at Marist
we
have
to come to a
balance
without ever forgetting that
while all of
it
may be important,
teaching
comes first.
In
addition
to
teaching and
research, the
third criterion for tenure that we
use
is community service,
which is very very explicit on
our campus. Community ser-
vice can be in multiple
direc-
tions,
can be geared for on
campus activities and can also
involve the community on a
larger
scale. I think
that
is very
critical
to
include because
if
we
have to function as
role
models,
we
have
to make
sure that our
students
will
be contributing
citizens, and
that
can be within
their
profession, or that can be
within
their
church or their
synagogue
But
they
have
to
contribute as citizens.
Kearney:
What
we are
really
saying
is
that
what the adult
role
models,
the faculty are
supposed
to be is further repre-
sented
not
only
in
the
class-
room,
but
in what that person
does outside
the
classroom.
This concern for others speaks
messages,
speaks volumes
galore, to the student.
Again
you
have
example and you also
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have cognitive content which
the
student can
internalize, let
percolate
if
you will, and that is
one
way
of addressing the fu-
ture, multicultural population
that we will have. The very fact
that you
have
faculty whooper-
ate in
the rest
of
the
community
whether they be a difforent
reli-
gion, a different
race,
;a
different
culture,
is
important.
Then,
r
think you
have
in a very
real
sense
begun
to form the basis of
what multicultural education
should be about, in
kiindling the
greatest
respect
for all
human
beings regardless of
thteir
differ-
with people of all societies, all
classes
of society and
they
had
bener well
learn
to work coop-
eratively with them. So
in
a very
pragmatic sense this kind of
thing
is
important.
Though one
doesn't
like to
hook that
on co
the
sort of heady, perhaps
idealistic
rationales that we
have been discussing, it
is
there
and one has to contend with
it.
vanderHeyden:
I
think
that
we
can contend with it
in
the con-
text of our pedagogy
I
think we
could
make many more
efforts,
for
instance, in
our classes, par-
Steven
Muller
president of
Johns
Hopkins, and
he
said
very
frankly
as
he looks
at col-
leges and universities these
days, and he
is including
his
own university
in
this, that they
are prone co forget the value
orientation. They're
relying
so
much
on cognitive input. He
said values are being
neglected
and
that many universities
and
colleges
in
our
land
today are
turning out, and this is
his
own
terminology
"cultivated
bar-
barians."
In
other words,
they
know the
facts, but
lack
moral
standards.
5
vanderHeyden:
Well I
~
wouldn't
be
surprised by that.
I
6
mean
there
is
the claim
that
~
Attila the Hun knew Greek too.
Q
I don't know if that is histori-
cally correct or not,
but
it is an
interesting observation. The dis-
tinction that the gentleman
from
Johns
Hopkins was mak-
ing was going to the heart of
the
matter
Marc vanderHeyden, Maris/ vice president for academic affairs.
Kearney:
He also said that
if
these
people are indeed not
getting this value orientation,
that
not too long after gradu-
ation,
because
they are bright
people,
they
will begin
to
have
a void in
their lives
and an
emptiness
that
their profession
will not satisfy And
they
will
become very disenchanted with
their
undergraduate and gradu-
ate education. He feels
that
some will come back
to the
uni-
versity and say give us
back
now later
in
life,
some of these
things that you didn't give us
previously And he may have a
point.
I
don't know if that is
happening, but when you see
what is happening in the busi-
ness world,
the
way corners are
cut and
the
unethical behavior
of some of the most prestigious
names in business and politics,
you might give credence to
what he
is
saying.
ences from you.
vanderHeyden:
As academics
we can very quickly come to
some sort of intellectu:al toler-
ance for
that
multicultural envi-
ronment.
It
is something else
now
to invite it
into
your life,
into
your spirit, into your mind.
And
I
think we have to do that
and
it becomes
a
little
harder co
do, on a small campus
like
ours
when compared
co
New
York
City
in
which
the request
to
be
so
inviting
is
daily put upon
you.
And
we
have
co
nnake
ef-
forts for that and
I
think
that as
an
institution
we
have
..
But we
certainly can do
more,
as all of
us will be willing to adlmit.
Kearney:
There's
another very
pragmatic rationale for
it too.
Graduates of a small
liberal
artS
college are going to be working
in the
professions
in
the
future.
They are going to be mixing
up
ticularly at
the
senior
level, to
teach
and
help
students get ac-
quainted with team approaches
to
learning,
to problem solving.
There are very few professions
where things are done by
lonely
characters.
Kearney:
You are quite right
about
this
value
integration.
It
is
one thing to say that it should
be part and parcel of the core
during one's first two years, but
if
a student doesn't see this inte-
gration of values
into their
spe-
cialty
later
on,
they
are going
to
say well what is
really impor-
tant
here.
So the value
integra-
tion factor has to play out the
entire four years. The faculty
have
to constantly internalize
their
thinking
about
it
and
make
sure
it
is being
incorporated
into
their
lessons.
Interestingly
I pulled out an
old
US
News and World
Report
article
last
night,
and
it
quoted
vanderHeyden:
While we
project for our students when
they exit from college,
this new
real
world, the four years in
college are equally
real.
And it
is equally hard, equally full of
pressures, whether they be
called peer pressures, or exam
pressures, or parental pres-
sures. Our young people
really
don't
have
it that easy There
is
nothing
on the surface, at
least,
very
relaxed
about the way they
have to go
through
this incred-
ible four years dedicated to
study Many of them have jobs,
many of them
have
problems at
home, many of them are crying
to
meet goals that are unrelated
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36
to an academic career Many of
them have
personal frustrations,
they are
trying
to
become
adult
and resisting becoming adult.
You wish that you could
protect
them and shelter them and at
the same
time
you
know
that
that would
be unreal. I
mean
I
may be
getting a
little nostalgic
here,
but at
least
I remember
my
university
days
as times of
great pleasure and
having
the
time
to
read, the
urge to
read,
and sit
down
with professors
and
listen
and move from
sciences
to
poetry and all that
kind
of flirtation with knowl-
edge. And
I
don't find it with
our students,
not
that they are
not
competent, they are; and
not that
they would not want to
do
it,
but
they seem to be con-
stantly
pressured.
I think it ties
in
somehow with
what
you said
earlier It ties in with the very
materialistic environment in
which goals and expectations
have already found definite
shapes and configurations.
I
mean many of
these
young
people,
when you talk to them
their freshman year
know
that
they want
to
have a good job
and a salary of a
proportion
our
faculty probably will
never
find.
So in that context,
I
think that
there
are certain goals set that
I
don't
recall
were set by the stu-
dents at the
university in
my
age.
Kearney:
The influences that
the
young
person
had 20 years
ago are
not there
as much, for
example,
the
influences of two
people called
parents
who gave
them a
lot
of time, who were
with
them
tl1ose often aren't
there
They're bombarded
by
visual
images.
Look at
TV
look
at the vapidness of
TV
those
are
the things
that
these
young-
sters are confronted with. That
is why all the more, we need
the faculty and
teachers
who
will replace
in
a sense what
young people should
have,
but
don't. It is a tricky
proposition,
but perhaps
it
is one of the
rea-
sons why
private
education can
be
healthy
competition for the
public school system.
If
parents
are electing to
find in
the pri-
vate school sector some of this,
I
think that the
public schools in
losing
population at
times
will
say
"What
are we doing'
What
can we do to
be
more
like
the
schools that the parents are put-
ting their
children
in?"
And
it
seems what parents
look
for
in
schools
is
a sense of discipline,
a sense of order a sense of mis-
sion which they reinforce.
This
precision of mission, which
is
more
tangible and can be
quickly
implemented
in the
pri-
vate sector is somethirng that
I
think
is
beginning to become
more
visible.
It's
coming up
in
very scientific studies as
that
which
makes
a school work.
vanderHeyden:
The rnext step
of
this discussion
mighrt be
to
focus on a more precis,e
picture
of the
next
high school
teacher
or elementary school teacher
and
how
he or she ought to be
prepared in college. Wlhat kind
of student would you want
to
see enter that profession? Do
you have a composite picture?
Kearney:
I have
certaiin charac-
teristics in
mind that
I
tlhink
would be very
fitting
for the
teacher
of the future, whether
it's a public or private school
Steven
Muller, presi ent of
Johns
Hopkins,
said very
frankly, as he look at
colleges
and univer ities
these days, that valu s are
being neglected
an that
many
universities nd
colleges
are turnin out
"cultivated
barbari ns."
teacher
Good
teachers
are
people who
love
other people,
who
really
like people. So
compassion,
regard
for other
people, the ability to gt:t out of
yourself, to be unselfish, all of
these
are essential. Good future
teachers
are young people who
have
been
in
communi1ty serv-
ice
along the way in their high
school days, in their college
days, people who have a cer-
tain
altruism and peopl,e who
are, in a sense, out of the ordi-
nary because
I
think
it
is part
and parcel of early adollescence
and
mid-adolescence
to be
somewhat self-centered. I
think
they
are going
to
have t:o be
this
kind of person because the
rewards of teaching are not
always tangible. You are not
going to make big doll~1rs, al-
though
it is good
to
hear that
starting salaries for teachers are
getting better and better every
day
that
more and more ener-
gies,
national
energies, state
and local energies, are !being
put
to making
teaching a pro-
fession
of
high regard.
vanderHeyden:
Ultimately
I
would
like
to see in a teacher a
lot
more of the characteristics
that I
like
to see
in
a friend.
And when you
think
about
what it is you like in a friend, it
is rare that you
list
among the
top
10, or among
the top three,
that he
or she be
the
smartest
person on earth.
But
what you
like
to
see
is that
they have a
sense of
humor
that they have
compassion,
they care,
they're
curious,
they
are eloquent
when
they
are advocates for
their
values.
I
like my
friends to
have some polish.
I
like
them
to
be sufficiently
detached from
their own ambitions. You
like
them to be somewhat self-dep-
recating, you like them to extol
the virtues of others.
Kearney:
When
I
am talking to
some young
teachers
I
ask them
sometimes
to think
of who
the
best teachers
in their lives
were.
And very often some of them
can't
remember
altogether what
content they were taught,
but
they
remember how
the person
taught them.
My
best
teacher
gave
me
a
lot
of time after
class
when
I
wasn't
understanding
something.
And
I'll
always ap-
preciate the fact
that
she didn't
give
up
on
me.
High expecta-
tions can be expressed
in many
ways, very forcefully or some-
what tentatively A good
teacher has
to have a good rep-
ertoire of doing
that.
Give me
someone who is well-educated,
broadly educated, give me a
good
liberal
arts graduate, who
has an awareness and sensitiv-
ity to literature and
the
humani-
ties,
an appreciation of science
and math, has insights into the
Judeo-Christian
ethic of our
country and of his or her own
unique
religion.
Give me some-
one who has some values,
who
can clearly state
that
I
believe
in
this, and
I
believe in this be-
cause of
this.
I
have
thought
this through and this is where I
stand.
vanderHeyden:
Should people
in college, when
they
prepare
for
teaching,
have the experi-
ence prior to going into the
field
internships, observa-
tion, practice
teaching?
Kearney:
I think it
is preferred,
if
it's done
in
such a way that
the student
is
looking at
many
alternatives, is
looking
at other
ways of doing
things, looking
at
some situations which are dis-
tinct success stories. The
more
of that the better
vanderHeyden:
How about
the
person who
is
approaching
teaching
as a second career?
Twenty
years in a field and
now
wants to go into
teaching?
Kearney:
They have probably
learned
a good
deal
of
life
already about
interaction
with
people by
the
very fact that they
have been successful
in
another
career and are
now
leaving
it.
I
would say
that
they could well
take the
big step into
the
profes-
sion. They
may
do some pre-
service of a few
months
before,
or
the
summer before. They will
probably be
hired
by a school
system that
is
very appreciative
of
their life
experience and who
will
in
a very
real
sense give
them
the pre-service that
they
may need
to start
up,
but
then
once
they
get
into
the swim so
to speak,
they
will
have
some-
one there to
help them,
a
de-
partment
head,
another faculty
member
Very often that is one
of your best ways of
learning
the profession. Pragmatically a
lot
of these people just can't
take a year off to go and do
18
credits and so forth.
vanderHeyden:
Society should
be working on something
like
that.
Kearney:
That's right.
The
shortage, certainly in the urban
areas, is such
that
you know
individuals could get
right in
there and fill the void and learn
on
the job.
That's not such a bad
way of
learning,
for the more
mature person. We are finding
more and more
people
moving
from
the
business world, which
is at
times
cold, and somewhat
calculating,
wanting to
do more
than
just that. They want to deal
with
people.
Just one more
idea,
looking
at
teachers
for the
future. Again, we are
finding
that the successful school
has
a
faculty that works very closely
with one another There
is less
compartmentalization
where
everyone
looks upon
his or her
turf and tries
to
protect
it.
There
is
a
lot
of sharing and
integra-
tion going on
in
the disciplines.
They are finding out
that
with a
strong principal who will en-
courage this, you
have
a vibrant
teaching staff. To get
ready
for
that, we've got to
make
part of
our training of teachers
this
col-
laborative effort, to
help them
not
just sit and absorb via the
lecture system, but teach one
another to work as a commu-
nity in
a classroom. This is get
ting
ready for the profession
more aptly
than just
acquiring
knowledge and not being able
to
use it or
transmit it.
Some-
times
you
can
learn more from
your equals.
It is that kind
of
teacher
that is going
to be
the
teacher
of tomorrow
vanderHeyden:
Are
you opti-
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mistic
about
the profession?
Kearney:
I have to
say that
it
has gone down in terms
of
its
prestige, and
society is begin-
ning to see the implications
of
this. One hopeful
sign is
that
across the country, there
are
more
young
people thinking
about teaching. The down
side
of
that is that
some
national
statistics show that
no more
than 5 to
7
percent
of
these
young people who now are
thinking
about
teaching have
any inclination, desire
or
intent
of ever going to
an
urban
school,
a
city school.
And
urban
education across
this
country has a lot
of
remediation
to bring about. So I
would like
to
see
more of these people
start
thinking of their life
as a
teacher as a
calling,
not
only
as
a
profession
or a
job, but
al-
most as
a
mission. Look at the
number
of the
young Peace
Corps people who go to other
countries.
There
are
three thou-
sand of them every
year
com-
ing back to this
country Some
of
those people would
be
great
teachers
because
I
think
they
would
be
willing to
come back
into the inner
cities. So
I
am
more hopeful than not.
I
see
it
coming back,
but
I
think there
is a
long
way to
go
and there
are huge problems
ahead of
us.
I think that we would do well
sometimes
to look
at some of
the
studies
that
are coming out.
One is James
Coleman's study
of private
schools.
He reportS
that
the
private
schools -
the
parochial high
schools, and
the
non-sectarian high
schools -
are
getting
something
done that
is not
being
done in
the
public
schools.
And he
attributes
this
to
many
many things.
But one
of
them
is a
preciseness
of
mis-
sion
that is bought into by
ev-
ery
faculty member Not
per-
fectly
but they
all agree
that
this is what they
are
about
and
so everything
that the
school
does
is
a
reinforcement
of the
mission. Then there
are other
reinforcing
circles
that
Coleman
says exist.
One
is a
parental
component
where
the
parents
of the
school
tend more than in
a
public
school
to
reinforce
what
is happening. Not
only
re-
inforce what is happening, but
to
say
this is
what
I
want
for
you and I will put up big dol-
lars to get it. All of these
cycles
of
reinforcement are
something
that Coleman defines
as social
capital.
So I am wondering if
more
of
the
other school sys-
tems
can't
look
at
what is hap-
pening in the
successful
schools
to
see
what
can be
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brought to bear in theiir opera-
tion. And
some
of that has been
done.
More
academics
are
being
required
for graduation, more
time
is
being demanded that
students
put on task, a
consis-
tent code
of discipline and
so
forth. All of those things
are
happening. Involvem~:nt of
parents, as demanding
as
that is,
is
sometimes
impossible given
today's
society
but it
is
being
sought after
A reinfor,:ement
from the business world, getting
the business world to
,come
in
and help motivate these
young-
sters,
to motivate facul.ty to up-
date faculty -
all
of that is a
possibility There are more re-
cent studies
going on iright now
The Rand Corporation is doing
one, and I am on their advisory
board. What the resea:rchers
have done over the last
year
is
to
come
into
New
York City,
into tl1e Catholic high
schools
and what are
called
the
alterna-
tive public schools. These
are
small
public schools, two
and
three hundred
students,
which
Keeping studeirits:
have unique
students
in them.
They are not
specialized
high
schools
like
the
Bronx High
School of Science,
but they are
schools
for youngsters who
have
certain characteristics.
Maybe
they
are just plain trou-
blemakers
in
other schools
who
have to
go over
to
this school.
But they are looking at the
heartbeat
of
those
schools,
and
the Catholic
schools,
and they
are
pulling
out of
those,
com-
mon elements
that have made
them
successful.
And they take
a look
at each of
those and try
to find
out
which
of
them we
can replicate in the
comprehen-
sive
public high
school.
And of
course
it
is
somewhat
arrogant
to
say
that
it's
only
the public
school
that's
learning.
I think
some of
the private
schools
also, Catholic
as well
as
non-
sectarian,
would do well to look
at successful
public
school
practices
ro see
if they
can
learn
something
there. And I think
that that is happening. Another
thing has
come
out
of
the Cole-
man
studies
and many others
recently The
University
of
Chicago analyzed
national
assessment
of
educational
progress test results. Their
analysis has
shown
that the
Catholic
schools
at the
elemen-
tary
and
the high school levels
are
significantly
better
in your
standard subjects,
your basic
academic
subjects, especially
math, reading, and the
verbal
areas. And
what
they have
found is that the
success
rate is
even more profound for the
minority
students
in those
schools. So somewhere
along
the line,
your Catholic school
system
has prevailed
and
is
duplicating
its success
with
poor
children
in previous
years, and
has
brought
it into
today's world where
your
black
and Hispanic
and Asiatic stu-
dents are performing in a more
significant and superior
fash-
ion. All these things
are
worth
looking
at, and are bright signs
for the future that our
educa-
tional
system can
work.
I
Making\ the freshman year successful
EARL
y
LAST
YE~R,
John
N. Gardner, internationally
noted educator anl~ expert
on making
the
freshman year
experience succesi,ful for
college students, was the
keynote speaker
for
a two-
day workshop for
J~arist
fac-
ulty. The workshoj) focused
on ways in which
he
faculty,
student services ~:rsonnel,
and other college
s:taff
can
enhance the educa,tional
experience for fresrmen.
Gardner, who
is
vice
chancellor of univ~~rsity
cam-
puses and continuing educa-
tion at the Universi,ty of
South Carolina, Columbia,
S.C., is the directo of that
university's pioneering
"University
101"
pmgram, an
award-winning approach to
freshman orientati<:>n.
"Uni-
versity l
01"
is a one-semes-
ter course designed to teach
freshmen basic college
"sur-
vival skills," such as study
techniques and how to use
the university's
res,ources.
Gardner is perhaps best
known in higher education
as the founder and director
of the University olf South
Carolina's series of Confer-
ences on the Freshman Year
Experience. Since lhe began
this venture
in
198.2,
several
(~:
Q
,J
,
I
~
ff
f
thousand educators have par-
ticipated in these conferences
on freshman adjustment.
While at the Marist work-
shop, Gardner reflected on the
transition
to
the freshman year:
"Freshmen,
particularly
freshmen on a residential cam-
pus, have got to approach this
transition like any other major
transition in life, and in effect,
learn how to make others
based on this one. And they
need to do so holistically. So
my philosophy is that you
work with the students in
terms of their
intellectual
de-
velopment, moral develop-
ment, their character devel-
opment, spiritual, and
physical development. The
private, particularly sectar-
ian, institutions have an
enormous advantage ... in
taking this
kind of holistic
approach because you can,
by (the) nature of your
mission, address the
interre-
lationships among the
intellect, character, values,
and spiritual qualities of a
developing person.
"So
from the perspective
of a faculty member, you're
not just dealing with a
student's mind or ability to
learn, you're dealing with a
student with a whole set of
emotions, customs, values,
a belief system, a body type
with good health or not so
good health. There are so
many things that you have
to address simultaneously.
And I think there are certain
deliberate skills that a stu-
dent can be taught that are
very concrete; but there are
also attitudes and values.
Part of what I want to do
with freshmen
is
teach them
a way of viewing them-
selves, a way of viewing the
college
experience,
to help
them develop a set of val-
ues to base behaviors on."
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In 1983, Rebecca Busselle, a well-
known photographer spent a
year
photographing the resi-
dents and
staff
at Wassaic
Developmental Center a large
institution for the develop-
mentally disabled near her home
inMillerton, NY When her time
there was
over, she
came away
with more than a collection
of
moving portraits;
she
also wrote
a book reflecting
on
her
experience,
An
Exposure of
the
Heart
(W
W Norton&Company,
Inc.),
which
The
New
York
Times Book Review
said is
"as
impossible to put down as
ii
is to
read without intense distress."
Busse/le will be exhibiting her
Wassaic photographs for the first
time at Marist
College
this spring
in
conjunction
with a program
of lectures and
seminars
Following is an
excerpt
from
Busselle's
book.
''I
WENT
to
high
school,"
a
client named
Emma
told
me in a
small,
stuttery voice. "I can read and
I
38
can spell.
I didn't do too
good
in school,
but I
went.
I
have all
these arithmetic books,
see?"
Grade-school notebooks
and
workbooks
bulged
from
a
frayed
shopping bag on
the
footrest of
her
electric wheel-
chair
With the
back of
her
bent, palsied hand,
she pushed
the joy
stick
that drove the
chair
maneuvering herself
face
to face with Gertrude Healy I
took
my
camera
and
a
film
holder
out of
my white bag.
Gertrude
wore
a
house-
dress
covered
with
forget-me-
nots. Over her
lap,
a gray
blanket outlined tiny
legs that
dangled in the wheelchair Her
hands were
serene
in her
lap.
Because of
her
stunted
legs her
body
and
head looked
dispro-
portionately
large;
with her
close-cropped gray
hair
she
resembled
Gertrude Stein.
The two
old
women
talked
to
each other
while waiting
for
their lunch
shift
in
Evergreen
Transitional. I photogrnphed
them
side
by
side;
being in
front
of the
old press
camera
seemed
to please them,
as
though
it
were
something
re-
membered from their past.
When I finished they looked
at
me
expecting
conversation, but
I
could
think
of
nothing to
say
The questions I really
wanted
to
ask about
their lives
seemed
too intrusive
As
though
she knew
what
my
questions
might be,
Gertrude Healy
began to speak
in a voice
that
sounded
more
An
]Exposure
oftheHeart
like recitation than
spontane-
ous speech. "I
was
born on St.
Patrick's Day
1900."
She
smiled
and looked
satisfied,
paused
a
minute,
then
leaned
forward
to tell me more.
"I was
six
when my
parents
put
me
away on
Randall's Islland. I
can
remember the horse--and-
buggy ride to the landing
and
the ferry
over
That's the
only
way
you could get
there in
those days."
At
the tum
of
the
century
Randall's Island
and
Ward's
Island, in
New
York's
East
River
were grim
honnes
for the
unwanted. During the
eighteenth and nineteenth
century both
islands
were
used
for potter's fields, ga:rbage
dumps,
and almsho~1ses.
In
1906,
when
Gertrude
went
there,
Randall's
Island
was
dominated
by the sprawling
"House
of
Refuge,"
a. punitive
detention
home for
juvenile
delinquents,
and the New York
City Children's Hospital,
an-
other dumping ground for
abandoned and
"def.ective"
children.
"I
spent all my
time
on
Randall's Island
except for
two
months
when I
went
to Ward's
Island. I
cried the whole time
there,
because I
wou1ld wake
up
and
I
wouldn't be at my
home. That's
what
I thought
of
Randall's Island,
it was
my
home.
"I
couldn't walk,
I
never
could,"
Gertrude
continued.
"But
I
could crawl on
my
hands and
knees. At Randall's
Island
I
got
knee pads
and that
made it
easier "
I
glanced again at the
blan-
ket that
covered
her
lap. Under
it were knees that
had scraped
along
the
cold and splintery
floor
of a
tenement
house and
only
felt relief
when she had
been
put
away,
that
chilling
phrase.
And in her head was
a
brain that
could
recall
events
and
dates three
quarters of
a
century ago.
"How
did
you
feel.
"
I
began and stopped.
I
could
not
shake
the phrase
put away
from
my mind. I leaned to-
wards
her
wanting to
ask, but
wanting
to
ask
in
a
low voice
so
we would not
be overheard.
"How did you
feel when
your
parents put
you away? Were
you angry at them?"
"Oh,
no 1
"
Gertrude
looked
shocked.
"I
loved
my
parents
very
much.
They lived on the
West
Side and
they
always
came
to
see
me,
every
three
weeks.
They never
forgot
about
me."
The resiliency
of
the human
heart.
She
told me more
about
Randall's Island,
entertaining
me
as
though I had
come for
tea.
She
described the
circus
they went to on the first
Tuesday of
every April,
she said
how lovely it was to
sit on
the
wooden porches
of
the build-
ings
in
summertime. "Then
I
came
to Wassaic in
1934.
They
tore down our place
on
Randall's
Island
to build the Tri-
borough bridge, you know
"
Wassaic had
been
built to
relieve overcrowding at
existing
upstate institutions and
lO
ac-
commodate
people displaced
when the Randall's Island and
Ward's Island
buildings
were
demolished.
Nearly
950
inmates
were
transferred from the met-
ropolitan
setting
to the hurriedly
built,
isolated,
country one.
Gertrude was
among
them.
The
population of the four-year-old
school
-
still
under
construc-
tion
and struggling
to
organize
-
was already
2,900.
The
Annual Report
of
the Wassaic
State School, 1934,
admits, ''It
became evident that a certain
amount
of overcrowding
was
unavoidable,
and extra
beds
were placed
in every
ward."
"All
the girls wore the
same
dresses,
blue,
the
color
you
have
on,"
Gertrude
said
point-
ing
to
my faded jeans.
"The
men
all wore these
striped suits.
Monkey
suits,
we
called them.
Each building
had its
own
dining room
and
we'd all walk
over Except for
the
cripples.
And that's what I liked best
about the new place. I got my
first wheelchair here in
1935."
After twenty-nine years as
a
ward of
the
state, Gertrude
finally
got off
her hands and
knees.
Emma
broke in, her jaw
moving
for severnl seconds
before
words
came out.
I
strained
to hear her
soft, stutter-
ing
voice.
"I came
here from
upstate. My mother put me
away
when
I
was
seventeen
because
she couldn't
lift me no
more. I had polio.
I loved
my
mother
so
much. When
she
told
me
she
was
going
to put me
away
I
cried
my
eyes out."
''I wish
I had
one
like
Emma's," Gertrude said
nodding
at
the wheelchair
"then
I
could get around
more.
It's
too hard
to wheel myself in
this
one."
Emma
looked
at Gertrude
and shook
her head.
"It
ain't
nothing,"
she said.
"It
don't get
you out of
here
and
that's what
counts."I
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Sister Marian Boben lived in
Indonesia
for 24 years,
teaching
in several higher education
establishments and working in
pastoral care The following
article
decribes her
work on the
island of Kalimantan, where she
livedforalmostfiveyears.
Boben,
a
member
of the Ursuline Sisters,
taughtreligiousstudiesatMarist
College last year after she
returned to the United States.
She is now teaching at the
Marykno/1 School of Theology in
Ossining, and at the Sing Sing
Correctional Facility, also in
Ossining
A
FTER FIFTEEN YEARS
in the pulsing,
perspiring rush of
Jakarta, I moved
across the Java Sea to Kaliman-
tan (formerly Borneo), a large
island of uncluttered rivers and
lush vastnesses of jungle. My
base was in the city of Banjar-
masin, a city more than 450
years old and, as its name
im-
plies,
the
place of salt water
built in an area below sea
level. Often referred to as the
Venice of Asia, Banjarmasin is
a city woven within a network
of
rivers
and canals, and can
best be seen
in
all its beauty
from a
klotok, a small,
low-
roofed boat.
Dominating the city is the
impressive
mosque, Sabilai
Muhtadin, or "The
Road unto
God's Blessings."
Its
copper
dome, which can be seen from
many parts of the city changes
color as
the
sky changes. The
Banjarese, one of the most de-
vout of all
Indonesian
Muslim
groups, are justly proud of this
mosque and of the number of
those among them who have
made
the
pilgrimage
to
Mecca.
It is thought that the Banjarese,
a Malay people, originally
came to these coastal areas
from Palembang
in
South
1be map shows the entire island
of Borneo, the northern part of
which belongs to Malaysia and
Brunei. Kalimantan, the south-
ern part, is in Indonesia.
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•
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Sister Marian Boben in Buntok on the diocesan boat with colleagues.
Life in river villages
in
InldonesiaBvS.,,,M,."Bou"
Sumatra, and even today there
are marked similarities. The
Banjarese are good meirchants,
value education, and work at
improving their lot in
life. They
are open, straightforward, and
love
to
learn about other
people. And yet they strive to
keep their own values,, particu-
larly Islamic values. Muham-
med Mugeni, a studen1t at the
University of Lambung;
Mangkurat, would ofte:n come
to my office to meet the Dayak
students working there, and to
hear about Java and the United
States, even to correspond. In
one letter he described his
efforts to find the right wife for
himself His first prerequisite: a
woman of deep Islamic faith,
"because
life is difficult and we
have to be able to face it from
the same pivotal point."
It was chiefly to work
among the Dayak peojple of
central Kalimantan, however
that I had come
to
the island.
Our Banjarmasin office, on the
grounds of the cathedrnl and
diocesan center was a kind of
meeting place for people from
the
interior
and a plarnning
center for leadership training
courses for community leaders
among the Dayak villagers,
who were Christian. As the
Banjarese are by cultural defi-
nition Islam, the Oayaks, who
no longer follow their indige-
nous belief, Kaharingan, are by
cultural definition Christian.
One very practical reason for
this is that the indigenous
Oayak culture includes the
presence of pork and strong
drink
at festivals, elements
acceptable in Christianity but
unacceptable in
Islam.
During my first year in Kali-
mantan, I spent six weeks in
the small town of Pendang on
the Barito River as an orienta-
tion period to life on the
is-
land. I stayed at the parish cen-
ter and tried to follow as much
as possible the rhythm of life
in
the area. I rose at about
6
a.m.
went to the outhouse, then
helped Ibu Remi start the
wood fire for morning coffee
and set out the dried biscuits
for breakfast. Then for an hour
or two I worked in the garden
weeding, hacking at roots,
and hoeing
-
until the sun got
too hot. Around 10 a.m.
women and children headed
down to the river to bathe and
do the family wash. This was a
welcome ritual because
it
in-
cluded catching up on the local
and regional news,
joking,
and
storytelling. It could last for
more than an hour By then
it
was time to prepare
the
noon
meal, eat, then collapse for the
siesta -
the only activity pos-
sible in the full heat of the day
In the afternoon, the women
sat
with their youngest chil-
dren, preparing supper sewing
and chatting; but after a few
days of this, I spent the time
reading
and preparing for the
coming months. Very often,
toward the end of the after-
noon
when it was cooler there
was another stint in the garden,
and the final bath of
the
day
toward sundown (in the trop-
ics
sundown is at the same
time year-round, between 5:30
and 6:00 p.m.). This bath was
less
leisurely, but necessary to
wash away the afternoon's dirt
and perspiration. When
it
was
completely dark -
minutes
after sundown -
families gath-
ered for the evening meal, and
for the usual pastime of talk,
laughter antj_music. The oral
traditions of the people there
are
in
no danger of being lost
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39















40
because they are still so much a
part of their daily lives.
The men spent most of their
time
working in the fields and
could be away for days if their
ladang
(field) was far from
town. Some had to travel a day
or more to reach their
ladang.
Others did not come home un-
til near sundown. For the
Dayak people
I
met, the
ladang
is
not just a place of work, but a
place where they enjoyed the
labor
of creating a clearing in
the
jungle,
of caring for the
crop while fending off
its
worst
enemies, the monkeys, and
later harvesting the nourishing
rice. To have a
ladang
is a
point of pride and self-respect,
and very often children
in
the
family will have their own
plots, earning money for their
schooling. It was not unusual to
see teachers and government
officials proudly walking or
canoeing out to their fields after
hours, and on weekends, to
care for their
land.
Students in
the larger cities would look
forward
to
the summer vaca-
tion, when they could return
to
their villages and help cultivate
the
land.
To have come from a
farming family from a remote
village,
is
a point of pride, cer-
tainly nothing that was hidden
nor
considered embarrassing.
The Oayaks are an inde-
pendent people, and often
during our courses
in
the
villages, when asked
to
reflect
on their deepest cultural values,
they would most often say
"freedom"
-
freedom to roam
and
travel
on their island, free-
dom to be themselves, to
follow their own customs and
their own ways of thinking and
being. At one course we organ-
ized
for community leaders
in
Palangka
Raya,
the capital of
the Province of Central
Kalimantan, a government offi-
cial was delivering his presenta-
tion on the principles
Tatoos have been used to
represent the tribe, family,
and
station in life of a Dayak.
A
nother facet of Dayak
life
that
I
obs:erved
during my period of
orientation, an ele-
ment which I continued to
observe, was how men and
women had much of the same
roles
and responsibilitiies. No-
where else have I experienced
such a degree of equal.ity and
democracy as I did among the
Dayaks. They sit in separated
groups on formal occasions,
but this did not express the
idea
that
one was better than
the other In their traditional
religion, Kaharingan, the be-
lian, or
leader,
is as often a
woman as a man. They work
together in the field ari,d in the
house and in the kitchen. If
there is division of
labor
when
there are small children
in
the
home, this is due only to the
biological fact that
it
is only
the
mother who can nurse the
child. Among the Manya'an
Dayaks,
if
a child
is
conceived
out of wedlock, the parents are
usually married, at least until
after the birth of the
of
the
national phi-
losophy
(always a
requirement in gov-
ernment-funded
courses, as this was),
and he spoke conde-
scendingly to these
farmers, considered
backward and rather
primitive by many
people of other ethnic
groups. Finally one
man had had enough,
Nowhere
else
have I experi-
enced
such a
child, to ensure that
the
baby will have a
full
name.
The parents
are then free to decide
whether to
remain
married or to :separate,
but the child would be
ensured a place as a
member of th,e family
degree
of
equality
and
democracy
as
I did among
the Dayaks.
Also
in
this period
of orientation, I went
with the parish priest
and stood up and said, "We are
not children, and do not want
to be
treated
like children.
Maybe you can do that in
Java,
but not with us."
The presentation ended
soon after
that.
on what is called a
tume,
a pastoral visit to
outlying villages. The
1number
of villages covered in one
tume
depended on the
distance between them and the
seasonal conditions of the
rivers and streams.
From Pendang we
left
with
Ubur Remi's husband, who
was a pastoral assistant as well
as a farmer We loaded every-
thing
into the
open longboat,
which
is
propelled by a small
outboard motor then crossed
the Barito and went into the
narrow, winding river called
Ayu, which roughly translated
means lovely and graceful, as
this tree-shaded river is. After
only an hour we reached the
village of Manjunre, just in time
for the evening bath. So down
I went
to the
river followed by
a group of children curious
to
see how the newcomer would
manage in their river As it
turned out, I supplied the
afternoon's entertainment, as
well as an anecdote for the
evening session. I took one
step
into
what I thought would
be shallow water near
the
shore and went in with a
splash, grabbing for
the
soap
and my sarong at the same
time. The soap floated away
but at
least
I emerged decently
garbed.
I
learned
from this -
and from other incidents
not
to mind the laughter·
I
knew
they were not laughing at me,
but were ready to laugh at any-
thing unusual in their lives of
constant, unchanging work.
I
often marveled at the ability of
these people,
as
of people
in
Java
and Irian, to smile, to
laugh, and to be gracious and
welcoming when, to an
outsider's eyes, there seemed
to
be little to smile about.
We were engaged on this
tume
in a Holy
Week
and
Easter celebration, and so it
was that in each village the
three moments of Paschal fe~
tivities, which normally take
three days, would be com-
pacted into a single two- or
three-hour service. The Dayaks
are noisy and relaxed in their
daily lives, and so when they
gather for a religious celebra-
tion in the church, or in a
home
large enough to fit most
of the people, they sit on the
floor chatting and
laughing,
the
ever-present cigarettes provid-
ing
smoke which rose like
mundane incense. When
it
was
time to begin the service,
Father Stefan asked them
to
put out their cigarettes and to
pay attention to what was
going on, which they gladly
did. The atmosphere of the
celebration was relaxed, yet
the people were clearly atten-
tive
and
involved.
A young
mother
stood up
to do the first
reading
and
placed her baby in the arms of
an older child. The child
started
to
cry When, after two
sentences into the reading,
it
became clear that the baby's
crying would not stop,
the
mother
left the
lecturn
and
picked up her baby The baby
immediately
stopped crying,
and the woman returned to
continue the reading, babe in
arms. I found throughout my
time in Kalimantan and
elsewhere that
the
best
ministers and community
leaders were
those
who
accepted, encouraged, and
integrated the people's
spontaneity into religious
services, rather than forcing on
them
the more serious, stilted
forms of Western worship.
Another particular aspect
of this
tume
that impressed me
was Father Stefan's policy of
depending on the people of
the villages for our food and
board. We ate with the people,
ate whatever
they
ate, and
spent the
night in
whatever
place
they
provided for
us
with
traditional Dayak
hospitality
We didn't always get enough
to eat, however One day we
fasted from the
time
of our pre-
dawn biscuits and coffee until
dinner at
11
p.m., after the
service. But on another day
when we visited three villages
in
one 24-hour period, we had
three full meals, Even
with
little
food, we survived and
learned
to do without much
which had formerly seemed
necessary
In another village, Baru-
ang, we were met by the com-
munity leader, Awin. He
looked like a
teenager
but was
the father of two with another
on the way Awin had excep-
tional
leadership
abilities. This
was evident in the vitality and
participation which character-
ized the Baruang community
The fact that they would have
chosen this young man as their
leader illustrates another trait
of the Dayak groups with
which
I
came
in
contact: the
democratic acceptance of ev-
eryone,
regardless
of age, gen-
der status. Awin's youth was
no obstacle to his being cho-
sen; he had the ability to be a
leader and the willingness to
serve, and that was what deter-
mined the outcome of the elec-
tion.
This trait was
later
evident
in
another area, among the
Dayaks of Muara Teweh, dur-
ing
a course for community
leaders
from the outlying vil-
lages.
During several sessions,
a participant from each group
was chosen by the group to
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was
Doni,
a 16-year-old high
school student. Many who lis-
tened to
him were gray-haired
elders. Most were
mothers
and
fathers. Yet, when
Doni
stood
up, they
listened, and once
they
realized he
had
something
to
say they took
him
very seri-
ously, and
later
asked
him
questions. Some even asked
if
he
had
learned
anything
in
school that could help them.
The people we came
to
know
in
these courses impressed me
with
their
own idea of self-
worth,
their
readiness
to learn,
and
their
spontaneous ques-
tioning and critical attitude to-
ward
life.
I learned that
formal
education
is
only one means of
human formation, and
perhaps
not
always the most significant.
Another
example of this
Dayak
acceptance of others on
the
basis of
merit
not
status
was
Ibu
Tariana, wife and
mother
of
five
children, and
junior
high
school graduate.
Tariana is one of
the
commu-
nity leaders in Buntok,
a town
of considerable
importance
on
the
Barito
River When
we be-
gan our courses there,
it
soon
became clear that Tariana was
unusually intelligent
and
had
considerable gifts
in
communi-
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cation, so we asked her
to join
our
team
for
in-service
training
in the villages
near
Buntok.
Her husband, a govemment
employee, was
willing
to
let
her
go for
a
week, with their
youngest child, while
the
old-
est daughter
took
care of the
other children at
home. In
ev-
ery village, as Tariana began to
speak,
I
could see the
"show-
me" attitudes gradually fall
away as she spoke.
Then,
as
now,
I
often reflect on
how
much human
potential
is
hid-
den
in
obscure places.
0
ne
of
the typical
Kalimantan
experi-
ences is the
journey
by
river
taxi. Be-
cause the rivers are
the
thru-
ways
in Kalimantan, thtere
are
a
variety of
boats that
traivel
up
and
down the river Titere are
the canoes, longboats, and
speedboats. Each
kind
of
boat
in
Kalimantan
is
a sign of
pres-
tige and material
weal1h much
like
automobiles are
h,ere. Ca-
noes are
the
Fords,
th~:
long-
boats are the Chevies,
and the
speedboats are the
Cadillacs.
The watery
highways, how-
ever are
mostly
crowded
with
taxis and
klotoks,
or small taxis.
They
are the
most numerous,
most
common, and
least
ex-
pensive
means
of transporta-
tion.
River
buses are
the
Metro-
liners:
sturdy, European-built
ships of steel, which might
carry passengers along the
great
rivers
of Europe. These
have
rooms
for passengers,
two fairly
large
bathrooms with
running water, and a deck with
chairs and tables. There
is
also
an economy class deck for
pas-
sengers who are willing to sit
and sleep on
the floor
as
in
a
river
taxi. One distinct advan-
tage of the large
river
bus
is its
powerful
engine, which cuts
travel time. The fastest, most
expensive way
to
travel
is
by
speedboat. The speedboats
used for commercial transpor-
tation can
hold up to
14 pas-
sengers squeezed together
in
typical
Indonesian
fashion.
I
once joined
others on a
"speed," as such a trip
is
called,
when
I
had to
move
quickly
from Buntok to
Banjarmasin,
and
enjoyed the fact that
it
took
eight hours, as compared
to
12 on a bus or eighteen in a
ta.xi. Less
enjoyable was the
prolonged
bouncing and bang-
ing over the waves;
it
was a
good
test
of
how much
back-
bone
I had.
The river taxi was
my
most
frequent means
of travel, and I
like
to
recall
the memories of
some of those trips.
My
first
trip
seemed
more like
an or-
deal than
a
journey
though
it
was a
relatively
short one,
last-
ing around
16 hours. It
was
during a busy
traveling
season
and
I
was barely able to
squeeze
into
the crowded taxi.
Finally
I
found a space to
stretch out and sometime dur-
ing.the
night
I
woke
up
with a
start,
having
felt
my head
being
scratched.
I
sat
up,
turned
around, only to see the woman
behind
me
also sitting
up:
she
had scratched, and
felt noth-
ing; I had not
scratched, and
felt something. So, with sleepy
"ma
afs'
(excuse
me),
we
settled
down
again.
That first trip
seemed inter-
minably long, and when we
reached Banjarmasin
at
3
a.m.
I
hurried
out of
the
crowded
boat.
I
joined the few people
leaving
at
the time
most
waited inside for a safer
5:30
a.m. exit
-
and someone
hailed an ojek for
me.
The ojek
is the cheapest, speediest
means of land transportation. It
is a motor bike with a seat for
the
passenger behind
the
driver
So,
this
early
morning
I
started out from the
docks to
the hospital
complex
where I
lived,
and only
midway
did
I
realize how crazy
it
was to be
cruising at
3
a.m. through the
dark city, my small bag on my
knees.
I soon became
more
ad-
justed
to
the river
taxi,
and
to
the
way people lived on
it. Life
on a river
taxi
was
like living
on an
island,
a crowded,
noisy
island, but an island where
people formed a
kind
of com-
munity especially on
the
longer
trips,
such as the two-
and-a-half to three-day trip
from Banjarmasin
to Muara
Teweh. In my first years in
Kalimantan, the taxis were
fairly simple: one large
room
under
the roof, with a
lino-
leum-covered floor When
we
boarded we staked out our
territory on
the floor
there with
a pillow and possibly a
tikar
(woven mat)
that
could be
rolled
up
during the day Bags
sometimes were
put into
over-
head
racks, otherwise
they
helped to form a backrest.
The
larger
taxis
had
a similar room
on a second story covered
with a roof
At
the bow was the
pilot's cabin and a small space
of open deck.
I
loved to
sit out
on this deck during the day
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enjoying
the vast
expanse of
river and
jungle,
dotted with
occasional villages, especially
after having spent
15
years in
space-hungry
Jakarta. Life
out
on
the
deck was filled with
small talk, with
periods
of
quiet, and with serious conver-
sation. Many of the passengers
were Dayaks and others were
Banjarese merchants traveling
with their wares to villages in
the
interior
I
remember one
conversation with a young
Banjarese man who
began
talking
about his family and
when
I
asked the names of the
children,
he replied,
"Well,
the
first
is
called
Francisco"
42
I
was surprised, and said
so, that a devout Banjarese
Muslim would
give a Christian
name to his
child.
"My wife and
I
like Amer-
ica,"
he
said,
"so
we
named
our children after places in the
U.S.A. -
Francisco, Sallypur-
nia
(California) and
Angeles."
At
the stern of the river taxi
were two bathrooms contain-
ing the usual
squat latrine and
a
plastic
bucket with a rope
tied securely around its handle.
It
was
like
a balancing act to
get
the
bucket
through the
window and down into the
river
for clean water,
then
to
bathe without
losing
your
bal-
ance, or to
wash
your change
of clothes
hanging
on
the hook
just
inches
away from
this
in-
genious manual shower
At
first this
routine
was
inconven-
ient,
but
later
a joy I
liked to
feel the cool water wash away
the heat of the trip. After my
first trip,
I
discovered
the trick
of getting a
leisurely
bath in
the
morning. I
got
up
at 4 a.m.,
picked
my
way over the
sprawled, sleeping bodies with
my
bathing
kit
-
which in-
cluded a flashlight
-
then took
my
time with a refreshing bath.
I
was out before the
line-up
began at 5 a.m. and on my
way
to
the ship's
restaurant
for
a cup of
freshly-brewed
coffee.
This
restaurant never
ceased to amaze me. It was at
the back of the boat, just
to the
side of the bathing area.
In
a
small space on the deck, open
except for the
roof
were a
table,
a bench on one side, the
woman who served as
the
cook and waitress on
the
other, and
in
a
niche -
pro-
tected on three sides
-
the
cooking area with a good
wood
fire
and place for two
large
pots and one small pot. I
have
rarely tasted such deli-
cious meals as those served on
the
river
taxis. The meals were
usually rice,
fried fish, and a
spicy sauce. Of cour:se,
if
you
took a
long
trip the s;ame menu
could get
monotonous,
so
many
people brought their
meals from
home, or they
bought food from the
many
vendors who came out in ca-
noes
to sell their wares along-
side the boat
when
we stopped
at towns along the way
I
en-
joyed
the inexpensive food,
the
wallop-packing home-
grown
kopi
tubruk (:a strong
coffee
made
by
pouJ:ing
boil-
ing water over coffee grounds
and
letting the
grounds sink to
the bottom), and the· talking
that went on at the table as
we
ate.
On board we spent
much
of
the time
talking
the
na-
tional pastime.
And][, for one,
learned a
lot during these
con-
versations.
Many
of
1lhe men
played card games or
games of
dominoes. Because
most were
serious
Muslims
and
were
prohibited from
betting,
they
devised an
ingenious way of
penalizing the losers. Dead bat-
teries,
usually
the
large
sizes
of
C or D, were tied
up, in rubber
bands and
looped
over
the ear
of the
loser
until
he won a
game.
It was
not
unusual to
see someone with three
or four
batteries
hanging from his ear,
then,
after
he
won a
game,
sighing with
relief
as
he passed
on
the burden
to another
Oth-
ers did crossword
puzzles, usu-
ally in groups.
If
there
were
foreign words,
I
would
be
called upon for an answer
Once,
when some
people
were
puzzling
over an
Indonesian
word and
I
voluntee:red a
pos-
sibility which worke:d,
they just
stared at me.
I
was
not
sup-
posed
to know that
much In-
donesian.
People spent part of
the time napping,
especially as
the day
grew
hotter
Come
evening,
the
socializing would
begin again, almost always in a
cloud of smoke from
the
crack-
ling
kretek (clove) cigarettes.
On the
river
as
in
the villages,
cigarettes were the wine and
cheese of their social
life.
Some,
however
preferred
the
pleasure of chewing beetlenut.
Every
woman, as well as some
men, carried a small kit of bee-
tlenuts,
lime,
siri
leaves,
and a
paring
knife.
There
was an art
to preparing the chew sharing
ingredients
around with
those
who
had
none. Some
passen-
gers
read
to pass the time of
day
as
I
did (night
reading
was
impossible in
the poor
light).
Someone would eventually ap-
proach
you
to
find out what
you
were
reading.
If it was
in
Indonesian, they
would ask
to
borrow
it
later;
if
in
English,
they would
ask for a summary
of the story After my first few
trips,
I
would buy several
magazines in Banjarmasin be-
fore getting
on
the
taxi, then
share them with my compan-
ions
of the
journey
I
learned to
enjoy
the
trips, even
to look
forward to them
as adventures,
as
opportunities to
delve more
deeply into the
life of
the
people
of this vast island.
As
with the river
taxi,
so
it
was with the
ojek, the
land taxi
of Banjarmasin. I
was
told
to
be
wary
of the ojekdrivers,
as
if they were
dangerous people.
But because the
ojekwas
the
fastest
and cheapest way to get
around, I
tried it and was
never
disappointed. The
drivers were
invariably
men. Some were
students earning tuition
money, others were retired
civil servants trying to supple-
ment
a
meager
pension, while
others were
office workers
moonlighting to
help put a
younger brother or sister
through school. Some also did
this as their
full-time job.
Gradually as I became accus-
tomed
to the perch
on the back
of the bike,
I
was able to main-
tain
my
sidesaddle balance
while clutching
the
seat with
one
hand
and whatever
load I
had
with
the
other The ojek,
like
its more
sedate cousin, the
bajaj,
provided
yet another op-
portunity
to
engage
in the na-
tional pastime
socializing.
Even haggling over the price of
the ride, which I hated at
first,
became a pleasurable art. And
it
is
an art, though it
took me
some
time to realize
this, and
to enter
into it
as the form of
communication that it is. This
was
no
cold, flat business
arrangement, but an
acknowledgment
that
the ojek
driver
was someone who was
trying to
make
ends meet,
someone who had a say
in the
price
he
would accept and
the
people
he
would take on as
passengers. Some of them
would brusquely ride off after
our
initial
bargaining, and after
the
first experience and its ac-
companying pique, I often
thought
how good
it
was that
they
had this
kind
of self-re-
spect and sense of independ-
ence.
They, too, had their
stan-
dards and
their
preferences,
and
they
though materially
poor
or just about getting
along
enjoyed the freedom
and sense of their own dignity
T
hese random
reflec-
tions on one period
in
my
Indonesian
years
may in
some
way illustrate
what I
conceived
as my
"mission"
during
those
years:
to
help
others to be
proud
of who
they
are,
to
stimulate them
to
dig
into the
roots of
their
cultural
heritage,
hoping
they
would be able
to
hang onto and
nourish the
es-
sentials, while adapting to
the
demands
of a changing soci-
ety- to challenge them
to find
their
own ways into the future,
rather than accepting ways
im-
posed
on them by others. I
learned
far
more than I taught.
I
learned that
many
values
I
had seen as absolutes were
actually relative, and
that
some
very deep values can
indeed
be called universally
human,
even
though they happen to
be clothed
in
a variety of cul-
tural
garb. It also became clear
to
me
that
the word
"primitive"
has
long
been used to control
and belittle people.
There
are
"primitive"
means of agricul-
ture, which means
that
the
tools and techniques are
simple. But they are
used
by
cultures marked by a
highly-
developed philosophical and
mythological system. There are
highly
complex
technological
societies wherein
"primitive"
value systems, which
result in
crude behavior form a
kind
of
public philosophy
I
learned
that people often
have
a sub-
conscious sense of superiority
over those who are different.
Above all,
I
learned that being
human
acting
humanely -
is a constant urge across
many
cultures.
It
is
expressed in dif-
ferent ways, yet the same deep
desire
to
be oneself to
treat
others well, and to search for
some meaning
underlies the
sweat and soreness, the rou-
tine sameness of daily
life.
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Fashion luminaries
attend Marist's Silver
Needle show
THE COVER
of
the
November
Hudson
Valley
magazine asks a good ques-
tion. What
were
Bob
Mackie,
Michael Kors, Carolina Herrera,
and Marc Jacobs doing in
Poughkeepsie? On
the
maga-
zine cover they were straight-
ening
the
tie and spnicing
up·
the
tux
of Marist's fashion
program
director
Carmine
Porcelli.
But they
were
really
in
Poughkeepsie
for
Marist's
second annual Silver Needle
fashion show and awards
presentation
held at the
Radisson Hotel in April.
All
four of
these
noted
designers
served as critics for
Marist's fashion students
during
the
1988/89
academic
year They gave generously of
their
time, meeting with stu-
dents
on an
individual
basis
at
their
studios
in New
York
as
the
aspiring designers
worked
on all aspectS of
the
design
and
constniction of garmentS for
resort,
spring,
summer
and
fall
collections.
Joining
Mackie
and
Jacobs
as designer-critics for
the
current academic year are
Isaac Mizrahi
and
Louis
Dell'Olio of
Anne Klein.
The
Silver
Needle
show is
the culmination of the students'
efforts, their chance to
present
the final productS of their
year's
labors.
At April's event,
approximately 60 designs were
modeled
for a standing room
only crowd of more
than
500
people.
The
highlight
of the
evening was the
presentation
of Silver Needle awards
by the
four designer-critics
to the
student each designer felt
had
done
the
best work.
The
1989
Silver Needle
recipients were Alisa Esposito,
Pleasant Valley N Y Christine
Garvin, Cincinnati, Oh.
Josephine
Miluso, Locust
Valley NY and Chris
Ann
Pappas, Douglaston, NY
The audience for the Silver
eedle show
included
a
num-
ber of well-known
individuals
in the fashion
industry
many
of whom serve on Marist's
fashion program advisory
board. Etta Froio, vice
president and fashion editor of
Women's Wear Daily; Alan
Grosman, vice
president
and
merchandising manager of
Saks Fifth
Avenue;
Allen
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McNeary
president
of
Liz
Claiborne,
Inc.,
Nonnie Moore,
fashion
director
of
Gentlemen's
Quarterly, and Gerald Shaw
president of Oscar
de
la
Renta.
Marian McEvoy
editorial direc-
tor of
Elle
magazine, necently
joined the advisory
bo,ard.
The Marist fashion
program
also found
itself in
good com-
pany
on the pages of
Women
'.s
Wear
Daily, which cal.led
Marist
a good place
to
look for
talented young designers.
Lisa Lockwood of
Women's
Wear
wrote
the
following after
the Silver Needle show·
"Anyone
looking
for some
hot
new design
talent
should
check out the
recent
graduates
of
Marist
College's fashion
program under
the
direction
of
Seventh
Avenue alumJnus
Carmine
Porcelli.
The
quality
and
sophistication of their
work
was good enough
to
impress
Carolina Hemera, Bob
Mackie,
Michael Kors and Marc
Jacobs,
who made a t11Vo-hour
trek
to Poughkeepsie, N
Y
last
week
to
see
the
students' fash-
ion
show and present Silver
Needle
awards to four of the
graduates.
During
the
show
Kors
entertained his front-row
GREAT THANKSGIVING DINING
y_(l~on
Valley
companions with witty
repartee
.. When one student
got a
rousing
cheer every time
her
designs came down the
runway he said,
"I'd
like to
have that
cheering
section at
my
show"
With
a
recent
move into
modem
new classrooms and
offices
in
renovated Donnelly
Hall, the fashion program at
Marist is on its way to the
third
annual Silver Needle show
April
26
at
the Radisson
Hotel.
You'll want to get your
tickets
early·
it's
hard to tell just who
might be in Poughkeepsie that
night.I
~
Behind
~
~
every great
show ...
While
the excitement
may
be
great out
in
front
of
the
curtain,
backstage
at the
Silver Needle fashion show
is
a whirlwind world all
its
own.
A
half
dozen
models,
plus
several students and
faculty, a
hairdresser,
and a
makeup artist, all are
working frantically
to make
sure
that
the right clothes
and the right accessories
come out on the right
model
in the right order. No small
task
when 60
designs
are
modeled during
the hour-
long fashion show. Here
some of
the
essential behind-
the-scenes
staffers take a
peak at how things are going
out front.
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Isaac Asimov, the acclaimed
author of almost 400 books
ranging
from science fiction to
history, spoke at
Marist last
fall
beforeafullhouseintheCampus
Theater During
his
45-minute
talk, he
spoke about
the
process
of
learning and the role
of
computers in education. Follow-
ing is
an
excerpt
IN
THE
OLD DAYS,
educa-
tion was not
a mass phenome-
non.
Mostly parents
taught
their
children the
trade they
labored
in.
The goldsmith
taught his
children, if any how
to
be a goldsmith.
A
farmer
taught his
children how to be a
farmer
And
so on. You
learned
to do what your father
did.
These
are
all mechanical
arts.
This is the
sort of
thing
you
have
to
know to make
a
living.
There
were
people who
didn't have to
work
to make
a
living, who inherited land,
who
were
nobles,
who had
servants
and slaves and
peasants
and
surfs, and all
that. And in what
did
they educate
their
children?
They
educated
their children
in
the kind
of
knowledge
that
was suitable for
free
men, for
men
who were
not
forced
to
work for a
living.
They could
study the great classics of the
past, the
great works of the
Greeks and
Romans.
They
could study geography They
could study foreign
languages.
They
could study
I
don't
44
know
how to play
a
musical
instrument. Not
to make
a
liv-
ing,
but
just to
enjoy
their
lives
more. So these
were
called arts
for free
men.
Or
in
Latin,
if
you'll
excuse
the
dirty word,
liberal
arts.
Who studied the
liberal
arts?
Just
a
relative
few, and
they
usually studied
it
by
tu-
tors.
Or they
eventually
went
to
colleges.
It
was a
minority
type of education. But when
the
industrial
revolution
came
in,
it
became important
to
edu-
cate
many people. It
was all
right
on
the
fanns of
the kind
we had in a
nation
of
medieval
times not
to be
literate
people,
not
to
know
anything but farm-
ing. Knowing fanning was
enough. But once you got
into
the mills,
once you got
into the
factories, you were dealing
with complicated
machinery
which could be broken, and
would
be
very expensive
to
have it
broken, or
to have
ca-
tastrophes take
place.
So,
it
was important to be
able to
read instructions. In
short,
it
became
necessary to have
everyone
read.
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Isaac Asimov at Marist
Now that was
an enor-
mous
advance, because
I
am
sure
that in
ancient
terms
liter-
acy seemed to be
the province
of
the
very few
I mean,
clerics
could
read. Merchants
could
read. People in
trade could
read.
But,
by and
large, peas-
ants,
who made up perhaps
95
percent of the population,
couldn't
read.
And the aristoc-
racy often couldn't
nead,
either
They hired
someone:
to read
for them. But then
when
it
turned out everyone
had
to be
able
to read,
or at
least
many
people
did, they began
to have
mass
schooling. Free
public
schools
were establi:Shed in
industrial
nations,
not out of
the
goodness of their
hearts,
but
because
it
was
necessary
And
when that happ,ened, it
turned
out that
those people
could be taught
to read.
The
only trouble· was
that
in those
cases, you generally
had one
teacher
for many stu-
dents.
You
couldn't
have
indi-
vidual
tutoring. There just
weren't enough teachers. Cer-
tainly there weren't enough
good
teachers. How
are you
going to
handle mass
educa-
tion'
You
had to
fix up
a
cur-
riculum.
You
had to tell
the
people what to teach, when to
teach,
how to
teach, and so on.
The whole thing became stan-
dardized. And, unfo:rtunately
kids aren't standardized. Some
kids are brighter than others in
one particular way or another
Some
kids
are
more
interested
in one thing, other
kids
in
an-
other
thing.
So
that the
end
result
is that
in
the
s,chools
some
people find that the
process
is
going
too
slowly and
they are
bored,
and for some it
is going
too
quickly and
they
are confused. For some,
it
is
going
in the
wrong
direction
and they are
just
mad.
So it
doesn't
work
out very well, but
obviously
there
was
nothing to
put into
its place.
Until
now
In addition
to
schools, we
can
have
the
kids making use
of their computer outlets, and
learning
the
things they want
to
learn
on their own. They
must be curious about some-
thing
themselves,
whatever
it
is, and
they
can
find it
out
themselves.
They've
got all
the
books in the
world
in
that
par-
ticular
subject at their disposal.
It may be something
that
you
think is thoroughly useless,
but
what
do
you care. He's
inter-
ested. She's
interested.
Let each
person be
interested
in
what
they are. It's going to
make
a
complete difference in
the
ap-
proach to
learning.
Too
often
now
we
think
of
learning
as something which is
a
deed
to be completed.
In
other
words,
you go
to
school,
and you have an education,
and you complete your educa-
tion, and you
leave
school.
Well
then,
it means that educa-
tion is
something for children.
Grown-ups don't
have
to be
educated anymore.
It
means
that
once you get out, anything
in
the
way of education
that
someone tries to push on you
is a return
to kid
stuff,
and you
resent it. You got out as fast as
you can, you don't
necessarily
remember
what you learned.
There are a great
many people
who went
through
a
public
school, and
high
school,
and,
dare
we say college, too, who
remember
very
little
of what
they
learned,
who will
have
the
various
diplomas that
show
that
they
finished.
You
can't
really expect
people to
enjoy
learning
under
those
circumstances.
And,
therefore,
we assume that
learning
is not a pleasure. That
it
is
something forced on you
and you
hate
ic. And that goes
against everything that
makes
sense.
If
we look
at any animal
that is
sufficiently
complicated
to
be able
to
act
in
such a way
that we imagine
emotions for
them,
we see
that
they enjoy
what
they
are
best
adapted to
doing. When a bird soars
through
the
air when a swal-
low
swoops
down,
when an
otter goes sliding
into the
wa-
ter
when a seal swims about,
it's hard
not to
see they are
enjoying themselves.
It's
a
pleasure. Why not? They
do
it
so well,
it
comes so
natural.
Why not?
If
they
didn't enjoy
it,
they
wouldn't
do
it.
What is it that
human
beings are adapted to do'
What
is it that
human beings
enjoy
most that
other animals
wouldn't? We've got
three
times
the
brains and only
150
pounds
of body
Two
percent
of our body
is
brains. The
only
animals
that
have bigger
brains
'
than us
are elephants and
whales, and
they have much
bigger bodies. What are we
going
to do
with our
brains'
What is it there
for' TI1e answer
is
to
learn.
We learn
faster and
better
than
any other creature
on earth. So why
don't
we en-
joy
learning?
The answer
is
we
do enjoy
learning.
We
are
learning what
we want
to learn
according
to
a curriculum.
If
we
have
to,
we
have to.
But
isn't there some reason that we
can also learn by ourselves'
Isn't there
some way we can
use our computer outlet as sort
of
spare
time
pleasure?
Learn
what we want
to learn in
our
own time?
In
our own speed?
Go from
place to
place? Get
the
ideas
to do something else?
Then
learning becomes pleas-
ant and
not
just for children.
You can
do
it all your
lives.
Everything you enjoy you keep
on doing.
Anyone who loves
to play tennis doesn't
stop just
because he turns
40.
He keeps
on playing
as long
as he can
find
someone
to
carry him out
to the
court.
I've
got to write about
what's going on. So
I've
got
to
keep
learning
all
the time.
And
I'm getting on
in
years. But just
because I've been
doing this
all
my life,
I
haven't gotten stiff at
it.
I
can
still
learn
as easily as I
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could when
I was
19
because
I've
been exercising
it
all
the
time.
Use
it
or
lose it. And
I've
been
using it,
so
I haven't lost
it. And if I
can do
it,
everyone
can
do
it.
There's nothing
special
about me. It's
just that
I
found out a
way
of spending
my life that makes learning
fun.
And
anyone else can
do it,
too, if they
are
helped by
means
of the
new develop-
ment
of computers.
That
is what I
think
is most
important
about computers.
They are going
to introduce
a
new
and
totally different
form
of
learning,
of education.
We're
going
to let
computers
(and
remember robots
are just
mobile
computers)
take
care of
the
"three D's" eventually·
the
dull
work, the
dirty
work
and
the dangerous
work.
And
human
beings are going
to
indulge in creative work,
the
truly
human
work. And,
amaz-
ingly we are going to
find
that
most human beings
are crea-
tive. Maybe
almost all
human
beings
are creative one way or
another
if
they are only given
a chance.
Just
as
it turned
out that
most people can
be taught to
read,
if they are properly edu-
cated, so it will tum out
that
people
can be made creative,
if
they
are properly educated.
PEAKERS
BUREAU
And, we
will
have
a world of
creativity
Anyone
who sits
down to
do a
job that is dull
and
repeti-
tious
and
does
it over and over
and over again, year after year
eventually
is incapable
of
doing
anything else.
If you
are
tied
to
your chair and made
to
sit
there
for years, when they uliltied
you
you
would
be
unable to
stand
up.
1he
standing-up
muscles
would have withered
somehow change, somehow
keep
this
beautiful
world and
not
destroy
it,
there's a great
future ahead
of
us.
Some
people worry
about
it. They
say "Well,
my
goodness what
if
computers become so
capable
that
they can do eve-
rything human beings
can do,
and in
this
way
make us
obso-
lete in
general?"
It
all depends.
When
I'm
feeling
cynical,
I
say
and atrophied.
And the
same
way the
creative
portions
of
the mind
would
wither and
atrophy So
it
is no
use
saying,
"But
look
at
people.
They are
just
"People
and
computers
will
not compete,
but
cooperate"
it
can't
happen
soon
enough.
I mean,
look
what the human
race
has done
to
the
world.
There should
be
a
replacement. Maybe
computers
would
do
better But
that's
only
not
creative."
We have kept
them
from
being creative.
Alter the
educational sys-
tem. Put in
computers
to
do
the
work human
beings should by
no means
ever
have to do,
and
we
will have
a creative world.
We
can destroy the
world
be-
fore
we make it
creative. For
that we need to be
wise.
We
need to
be sensible.
I
can't
guarantee all of
the human race
to be
wise. All
of
histo1ry
shows
that
humanity doesn't
tend to
be
wise, that it tends to do
fool-
ish
things based on all sorts of
false emotions and
hatreds,
sus-
picion,
and so on.
But if
we can
when I'm
cynical.
When I
am
more rational,
I
realize
that
what
they
call artificial
intelli-
gence
may
be altogether
different
from that
form of
intelligence.
The
computers are very
good at
punching numbers
and
doing
other things
that
human beings
couldn't
really
do
unless
they wanted to
spend a couple of thousand
years and
not really mind
making
mistakes.
On the other
hand,
there are
things we do
that perhaps computers can't.
For instance,
I
told you I've
done
396
books. Now
how
Cadden lecture series
Two
INTERNATIONALLY
noted mathematicians and
computer
scientists were
guest lecturers during the
fall
semester
as part
of the 1989/90
Dr. William
Cadden Distin-
guished
Com-
puter Scientist
Lecture Series.
The series is
sponsored by the
Marist
College
Division of Com-
puter Science and
Mathematics. It
was funded
initially by the late
Dr.
Cadden,
a
professor of
computer
science
at Marist. The
fund is now sup-
ported by his wife, Valerie,
and the IBM Corporation.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot,
best known as the author of
the hooks
Les
Objets Frac-
tals
and
7be Fractal Geome-
try
of
Nature,
spoke to a
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group of more than
2
)0
students,
faculty members
and participants from
the
community.
Mandelbrot is an IBM
Fellow at the IBM
Thomas
J.
W'atson
Research Center
and the firi,t Abra-
ham Rob~nson
•
Adjunct !Profes-
sor of Mathe-
matical so·ences
at Yale.
David Gries, a
faculty member in
the departll)ent
of
computer s,cience
at Cornell
Univer-
sity and chair of
that depart1 enc
from 1982 to 1987,
spoke on
"Under-
standing Pr,ograms
and Programming." Gries is
chair
of the Computirng
Research Board, the
organization working to rep-
resent the interests of
com-
puting research in North
America.I
Ernest
Boyer
Boyer lauds
Marist
DuRJNC
A LECTURE
last
fall on the Marist
campus,
Ernest Boyer, president of
the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teach-
ing, and former
U.S. commis-
sioner
of
education
and
chancellor
of New York's
university
system,
said that
did I do that?
It's
very
simple.
I
write very fast, and
I
don't
revise
a
lot.
So
how
come
I get
it
right
the first time if
I'm
writ-
ing so fast?
And I
can give
you
the answer to that:
I
don't
know
It
just
works. I
can
do it,
but I
can't
describe it. I
cannot
possibly describe it.
So
if I
want the computer
to do my
work for me while
I
sit
back, I
can't.
I
can't program
it.
I
haven't
the faintest
idea
what
it
is
I do. And
this
is
true of
human
beings generally
We
all
c,m
do things
and
we
can't
describe
how
we
do them
so
well.
Watch
a baseball game.
There's
a crack at
the bat,
a
guy
runs
out
to
the outfield,
lifts up his head
and gets
the
ball.
How do
you
know where
to
go? Ask
him. He'll
say
"Well, that's where the
ball is
going."
He
can do
it.
I
can't.
You can't.
And
that's
the
way it is.
So,
the
future belongs
to us
and
to the
computer
We
are
going to
do
two
different
things. We
are
two
entirely
different intelligences. It's not
a
matter
of competition,
it's
a
matter of cooperation.
Together we will accomplish
much more than
either of
us
could separately
provided
we
don't destroy the
earth
before
that.I
"there
have been more signifi-
cant
and consequential
changes at Marist than at any
other independent, higher
education institution that
I
know."
Speaking on
"College,
the
Undergraduate Experience in
America," Boyer added that
Marist is "an institution that
confronts
the odds and
demonstrates the unbeatable
combination of vision of lead-
ership and dedicated faculty."
Boyer is regarded as one
of the nation's leading educa-
tors and authorities on educa-
tion. His landmark study
published as
College, the
Un-
dergraduate Experience
in
America
evaluates
the capac-
ity of the nation's colleges to
serve its students
effectively.
"I think that Marist con-
tinues to demonstrate the
su-
perb blend of, on the one
hand, the utility of knowl-
edge, and on the other hand,
responding to the deepest
yearnings of the human
spirit," Boyer said. "And that
is precisely, in my opinion,
what the academy urgently
needs today."
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ARI ST
PEOPLE
Trustee recalls Apollo
11
.
.
moon m1ss1on
For the 20th anniversary
of
the Apollo 11 mission, the
Poughkeepsie
Journal interviewed James
Bitonti,
a Marist trustee, about his role in
the project.
BY STEVE
MARooN
To dream about the moon
is
within
the
sleep of
all men.
To dream about the moon
and,
on waking,
to
see
it
close
at hand
will
beg
iven to few.
It
is
a rare privilege to
be
living
when the first men do so.
So
READS
the inscription
on a picture frame
of NASA
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The two
lives of
Leslie
Gabriel
BY
DAY,
Leslie Gabriel is
a systems programmer at
Marist; but at night she is
sometimes a Chinese
princess.
As an actress of Beijing
opera, the Taiwan native
(her
maiden name is Lu), Gabriel
plays the leading role in a
play called The Chao
Orphan.
She played the part
in a recent performance at
Marist with the Yeh Yu
Chinese Opera Association of
New York City, of which
she
has been a member for the
past five years. She is one of
only two members in the
Hudson Valley.
"I've
been interested in
Chinese opera since I was a
child,"
said
Gabriel, who is
patches Jim Bitonti keeps
inside his house in the
City
of
Poughkeepsie.
Bitonti never woke
up on
the moon,
but he did play
a
role
in Apollo
ll's historic
flight,
which
landed
on
the
moon
20
years ago.
He
was
one of
thousands of faces
behind
Neil
Armstronig's
"giant
step for
mankind."
While working
for IBM,
Leslie Gabriel the Chinese
princess ...
27 years old. In Taiwan,
she
said she watched perform-
ances on television and
perfonned with a club in
high school. She ca.me to the
U.S. in 1979 to study, and
shortly
after she joined IBM
in Poughkeepsie, she got
involved in Chinese~ opera
here.
Beijing opera, or Peking
~
Bitonti was
instrumental
in
,s
developing the
computer
~
system
which
controlled
the
!il
craft's
trajectory
"To
be
part
of
~
something
as momentous as
that was just incredible," he
said. "You
had to
feel
a great
pride in
your country
a
great
feeling of patriotism. Being a
part of it
was
very
emotional.
Beginning
in
1967 Bitonti,
who is now
58,
worked with
about
3,000
other IBMers on
space-related
proj-
ects.
The federal
gov-
ernment contracted
IBM to develop
and
build much of the
computer
technology
used
on
the
space
missions.
Besides Apollo
Owego,
Tioga County
(NY.).
"I
don't believe I'll
ever
for-
get
the feeling
I
had watching
that
on
television," he
said. "To
think, here it is, happening
live.
It was a fantastic happening.
It's
hard to
convey
the actual
emotion."
Over the
years,
he met most
of
the
astronauts on
the flight
at
NASA
receptions.
"You'd expect tall, brute,
powerful people, but they were
all
very much like
common
people," he
said.
"They
had
slight
builds. That's the
thing I remember
most
of
all. They were
no different than eve-
ryday people."
Bitonti laughed
as
he recalled reading
science
fiction
stories
as a
boy
growing up
in Brooklyn.
11
Bitonti worked
on
computers
used
on
the other
Apollo
missions,
Skylab,
the
Apollo-Soyuz flight
with
the
SovietS and
the space shuttles.
He
Jim Bitonti
"I
liked Buck
Rogers and that kind
of
thing," he
said.
retired
from
IBM in 1987
and
is now involved in trade with
the Far
East.
Newspaper
and
television
reports about the
anniversary
of Apollo
11
have
stirred
up
pleasant memories
of
the
1969
launch,
he
said.
Bitonti
watched the
2
a.m.
broadcast
of astronauts
walking
on
the
moon
from his home in
and Leslie Gabriel the systems
programmer.
opera according to the
former spelling of China's
capital city, is one kind of
opera named after a city or
area of China, and is the most
widely known. It is a
combination of music, dance,
and acrobatics used to tell
stories from ancient times.
This form of theater has a
long history in China
and
"But
it was
all
fantasy
with ray guns
and space ships.
I
never thought
it
was possible."
"As a young boy
the
thought
of sending
an
object
to
the moon and back was incon-
ceivable.
To find that
as
an
adult, I participated in that, was
incredible.
I
hold it as a high-
light
of
my
life.
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thus carries with it ancient
Chinese tradition and
thought, which is what makes
it so appealing to Gabriel, she
said.
The Chao Orphan
is
about a princess who seeks
to avenge her family's honor.
Personal and familial defama-
tion, or
"losing
face," as the
Chinese say, is a desecration;
maintaining one's dignity is
paramount in life, and
involves
itS
players in all
kinds of intrigue.
The costumes and
makeup of the characters for
Beijing opera performances
are colorful and complicated;
for Gabriel to be made-up
and dressed for her role takes
roughly two hours, she said.
The Yeh Yu group (Yeh
Yu is Chinese for amateur) is
a
nonprofit organization
founded
in
1958
by a small
group of Beijing opera artistS
in New York. It now has
about 100 members and a
repertoire of more than 120
authentic traditional Beijing
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A
RIST
PEOPLE
Thll Fasllloa
hog,.,,
at Marlst College
Sllnr llffdle Awards
The man
behind those posters
Noted
fashion illustrator at Marist
As
ONE
of the
leading
fashion
illustrators
in
the
country,
Michael Van
Horn has
pleased a
lot
of
people
with
his
work.
But Mae
West
wasn't
one of them.
As a young sketch artist
working
in the
Los Angeles
bureau of Women's
Wear
Daily
in the
late
1960s, Van
Hom was often called on to
draw famous people as an
alternative to photography
"Those kinds of drawings were
used
a lot in Women's Wear at
that
time,"
Van Hom said.
"There were many people, es-
pecially people
in
Hollywood,
who didn't want to
be
photo-
graphed. Mae West would only
allow herself
to be
photo-
graphed in a studio where she
could be all done up with her
hair and the dress and the
makeup," Van Hom said. At
her home, where the Women's
Wear
interview was being
Michael Van Horn
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done, she would allow no
photographs. So Van Hom
went along
to
sketch her
"I drew
her
as she was
-
an 85 year-old little old
lady
sitting on the couch in a
muu-
muu
with a wig on,"
he
said.
Her
reaction
to the drawing?
"She
hated it.
She wanited
to
be
depicted as she was
in
the
movies.
Her idea of Mae West
was the
hourglass figuire,
the
caricature,
really
So she asked
me to trace
a drawing of
her
that one of
her
fans
ha1d
sent.
When
I
told her
I didn't have
anything to trace with, she
opened a big
heart-sh:aped
box
of candy that was on
the table
and gave me the waxed
paper
from that box," Van Horn said.
"I think she was right
Ito
do
that, to want the other
drawing,"
he
added.
"That
was
Mae
West."
Van Hom sketched a
number of other famous
people during the thr~~e
years
he was at Women's Wear
Daily,
including Katharine
Hepburn. "It was durim.g the
time
that she was doing the
play Coco(about Coco
Chanel), and she decided
to
give an interview for the first
time
in many years and chose
Women
'.s
Wear
I
remt~mber
we had to
drive down
a
long
road to get to her and
there
she
was all by herself out ,on this
reservoir sitting on a
blanket
practicing her lines." Van Hom
was only "21 or 22" wlhen
he
did these sketches.
Getting hired at Women's
Wearwas
a plum for a young
continued on next page
Van Horn's artwork included the two posters (lop
le.ft)
for
Marist's
Silver Needle fashion shows. Above are examples of his advertising
illustrations.
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artist just getting
started. Looking
back
on his early work, Van
Horn said, "Certainly in
the
beginning it was
horrible. I don't
know
how
I
ever got
hired.
I
imitated
everybody
But
I
learned
more
in
those three
years than
at any other time and I
learned fast."
Van
Horn had
come prepared for
the
job. After earning a
B.A. in
art
from
Florida
State University
he
studied commercial art
and
illustration
at the
Art Center
College of
Design
in
Pasadena,
Calif It
was at the
Art
Center where he
had
his first
exposure
to
fashion
illustration. It
was
also
during this
time that
Van Horn
had
what he
calls "the most
artistically
productive"
period
of
his
career
Part
of a group of
young artists
including
noted
British artist David Hockney
who had just
come
to
Califor-
nia, Paul Warner
and
Don
Bachardy Van Horn said, "We
would
use
a
model
and sit
around
in my living room
for
five
or six
hours
at a
time
and
just draw
.It was
straight
draw-
ing,
nothing
to do
with
fash-
ion."
It was,
of course, great
training
for the
kind
of work
he would later pursue, de-
manding work
that,
ironically
would require him to
give
up
doing "the beautiful
little draw-
ings" from his
early days.
After his
three years at
Womens
Wear
Van
Horn be-
came art director at a
fledgling
publication
called
California
Apparel
News.
The
fashion edi-
tor
there
was Marian McEvoy
now
editorial
director
of Elle
magazine.
"We
became great
friends,
and when she went to
New
York
as an editor at
Womens Wear
she encour-
aged
me co try
New York City"
Van Horn is
quick
to point
out
that there were two trips to
New
York.
"The
first
time I
went and was
looking
for
work,
I
got a
rejection from the
first
place. That was
it. I went
running
back
home to
Califor-
nia to
get
my portfolio
to-
gether"
That
was
in the mid
70s,
and with
help from McEvoy
when
he
returned to New York
Van Hom
started working for
the
department store
Bendel's.
It
was, he said,
"the
top
of the
heap, just fantastic, a stunning-
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"Instead
of
stylized
pictures
on
a
page
depicting
clothing,
they
create
total en-
vironments,
complete
with
stage
props
and,
at
times,
a
cast of
characters
...
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looking store." There Van
Hom
added artistic
touche.s through-
out
the
store, everything from
big
wall paintings for· various
departments, to
hand-painted
ceramic pots and lampshades.
Through the
art dlirector at
Bendel's,
Van Horn met
the
person responsible for window
design and
display
at Charles
Jourdan on Fifth
Avenue.
For
their windows
he
did
large
stylized
figures in front
of
painted
backgrounds -
and
for
free.
The
project
did
have
a
payoff however leading
to a
job for Revlon
promoting
Polished Ambers,
a
line
of cos-
metics for black women.
"For
the opening
promoti,on, Revlon
rented
a
huge hall
on
the
Up-
per
East Side.
It was
llike a gal-
lery
opening, and
I
did
these
very
large paintings
six
and
eight feet
long."
With
a growing
r,eputation,
Van Horn became part of a
small, elite group of :artists who
were using
innovative ap-
proaches
to fashion
illustration.
They
were
moving
away
from
straight
figure
drawing
to
the
creation of stories and
moods
as the
most
important part of
their illustrations. Th
rough
these kinds of drawings, the
illustrators
created a whole
new look
for stores.
The
noted
graphiic
design
publication,
Step-By-Step
Graphics,
recently
said of
this
group of artists:
"A
select group of
illustra-
tors
artists
like
the
late
Antonio Lopez, George
Stavrinos,
Michael
Van
Horn
and others -
rose to
promi-
nence quickly
not
only for
their
sense of style and ability
with the
human figure,
but for
their power
to
create a mood
or setting within the ads they
create
.
.Instead
of
stylized
pictures
on a page
depicting
clothing, they
create
total
envi-
ronments, complete with stage
props
and, at
times, a
cast of
characters
..
Department stores
like Bloomingdale's,
Bergdorf
Goodman, Filene's, and
Neiman-Marcus have used
the
work of these
illustrators
in
tremendously successful adver-
tising campaigns."
McEvoy
agrees.
"He's
given
a sense of drama and a sense
of fantasy to fashion
illustra-
tion. Michael
takes fashion out
of
the
real world of the every-
day
and elevates
it to
the
level
of
the
exotic.
His
work is
much
more about atmosphere than
about
the clothes themselves.
This thing
of ambiance, of
decor is very important to
Michael," she said.
McEvoy also described
some of
their
early days.
"I
used
to put on a lot of things
he was drawing. Sometimes
the clothes were pretty ratty-
looking
or
dowdy
but
he
would keep working and
changing the look until
he
got
what he wanted. He'd start
with
the
figure
drawing
and
then, of course, embellish
it
later
with
the background.
Michael
is a person who
loves
to
laugh,
but
he's
an
incredible
nit-picker with
himself
He's always working to
top
himself"
Van
Horn
has been cred-
ited with creating
the
"look" of
a number of department stores
over
the
years, including
Bloomingdale's, Filene's, and
Neiman-Marcus.
The
first was
Bloomingdale's,
where,
in
1979
he
was
hired to
do
the
store's
newspaper
advertising
campaign
in
7be New York
Times.
In
1982, Van
Horn
embarked on what would be
one of
his most impressive
campaigns
more than 40
illustrations over two years for
the
prestigious
Boston-based
department store, Filene's. The
full-page
ads,
which
appeared
on page three of the Sunday
edition of
7be
Boston
Globe,
featured
designer clothing, but
more importantly
were
used
to create a
new image
for
the
store
itself
Since
1987
Van Horn has
worked full-time exclusively
for
the department
store
Neiman-Marcus, producing at
least one-hundred
illustrations
a year for their
newspaper
ads,
their
catalogs,
in-store
art,
including
posters
and shop-
ping bags
again creating a
total image
for the store.
I tis
ads have
featured
clothing
designed by
the top names in
European and
American
designs.
Van Hom recently sold
his
studio
in
SoHo and works from
his home
in
rural
Red I look,
N Y In addition to
his full-time
work as an illustrator
Van
Horn
has been
a
member
of
the
Marist fashion
department
faculty for the past
three
years.
Currently he's
teaching
two
courses in fashion
illustration.
"I
don't
consider
myself
an
'instructor'
I
can show stu-
dents through my
own work
how
to
interpret
their
designs
on
paper
using color and
detail," he said.
For their part,
his
students
consider him an artistic
resource.
"In
New York City
you can
hop
on a subway and
go
to
museums to see
lots
of
work, but here
in
Poughkeep-
sie
there
are
few
opportunities
for
us
to see fashion artwork,
so he's a great
inspiration,"
said fashion
program
senior
Sonya Bertolozzi. "He gives us
a clean eye
to
see and improve
our own
work.
"He
also gives us encour-
agement. When we say we
can't
do
something,
he
says
'Yes you can; with practice you
can do anything.·"
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Working
with NBC's
Gabe
Pressman
WHEN
Kourtney Klosen
started an
internship in the
fall,
little
did she know she would
be "rubbing elbows" with
television personalities and
the
political
elite.
PEOPLE
"I'm
running into
people
you see on TV every
night,"
said
Klosen.
"I
meet the
press
agents, campaign managers,
and
I
shook Giuliani's
hand."
(Rudolph Giuliani
lost to
David
Dinkins
in the
New
York City
Mayoral race in
November.)
Klosen,
a
junior from
Bald-
winsville,
NY.,
is
working
Kourtney
Klosen,
a
junior
communication arts
major
with Gabe
Pressman
in his ojjke.
with Gabe
Pressman
of NBC
News. She
works five
days a
week,
10
hours
a
day
and
commutes two
hours
each way
from
Poughkeepsie
to Manhat-
tan and back by trairn. Her
duties
include handli.ng
office
and managerial work, and
going
to
press conferences
From Pentateuch to f,olo
Humanities professor publishes discount outlet
guide for Connecticut
THE
COUCH
in her office
is valued at
$800,
but
she
bought it for $199. The
car-
pet on the floor is valued at
about $50, but
she
bought it
for 527.
Just who is this bargain
hunter?
Marla Selvidge,
a
hu-
manities professor at Marist,
began a hunt for
savings
throughout Connecticut, and
finished with
a
published
booklet,
Outlet Guide of
Connecticut,
that lists 360
stores
that
would make
any
thrift-seeker smile.
What would make
a
religion scholar -
someone
with a doctorate in Biblical
languages and literature,
a
widely published author of
theological books and
articles,
and one who is
competent
in two Romance
languages,
Greek, Hebrew,
and a student of Egyptian hi-
eroglyphics,
Sumerian, and
Hittite Cuneiform
-
put to-
gether
a shopping outlet
guide?
"When
I moved to
Connecticut after living
in
the Midwest,
I
was paying
two and three times more
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than I ever paid
before,"
Selvidge
said. "Shopping
isn't
an escape for me; it's warfare."
The booklet, which
became available lam June,
contains the names
:and
phone
numbers of the
stores,
direc-
tions to them, and approxi-
mate discounts. Orders for the
book came
in
from not only
Connecticut, but
New
York,
New
Jersey, Rhode Island,
Michigan, Florida, a1nd
California.
"It
grew from
100
orders a day to
500
orders a
day," she
said.
In addition to
calls
for
or-
ders, Selvidge is now
seen
as
an
expert
in the
"outlet"
field.
She has received cal.ls from
a
real estate developer
asking
if
it might
be
profitable to
develop an outlet in her town,
a magazine
editor
asking her
to write a column,
and
other
outlets asking her to be in-
cluded
in
her next booklet.
Recently,
she
gave
ai
talk at the
local YMCA about outlets.
"Everything I wore
(for
that
presentation) was from an out-
let,"
she
said
Next year, with
:a
national
marketing
companY', she
will
comprise a
booklet
of outlet
with
Pressman,
especially
those that
were concerned
with the
Mayoral
campaign.
"The
job was overwhelm-
ing
at first," said Klosen.
Marla Selvidge
advertisements, which will
then be
available
in book-
stores.
The current booklet is
available
through direct mail,
libraries,
some
outlets, and
every
state visitors·
center in
Connecticut.
"Being
from
Syracuse,
I knew
nothing
of New York (City)
politics,
and only a
little
about
Gabe.
"He
(Pressman)
is
a fabulous
teacher
"
Klosen said. "I
Ie's
interested in what
I have
to say
and
it's
an
honor
that someone
of
his prestige
asks
my
opinion."
Lee Miringoff,
director of the
Marisl Institute
for Public
Opinion (MIPO),
recommended
Klosen co
Pressman at the
beginning of the school year
Miringoff
often works closely
with
Pressman
when the veteran
broadcaster reports
on
MIPO's
survey
results.
Klosen
had
worked as an
intern
at MIPO
last
year
Klosen
said she finds
it inter-
esting
to
see
how the
media
shapes
and reshapes
the
public image
of a candidate. "I
study
it from
a
different
perspec-
tive, because
most
of what
I
see
doesn't go on
1V"
she said
As for
her brushes with
fame,
Klosen
says, "I just
bumped into Al Roker
the other
day!"I
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What is the best deal
she's
ever come
away with? "My best
bargain was
a
boot-length
leather
coat
which sells for
$339,"
she
said with a big,
satis-
fied
smile. "I
got it for 5139."
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Newman is
elected
chairman of
Marist
trustees
Jack Newman
]ACK
NEWMAN
is the
new
chairman of the
Marist
College
Board of Trustees, succeeding
Donald P
Love
who remains a
member of the board. Newman
has served as vice chairman for
the previous
term.
At
the
board's annual
meeting
last
November
James
A. Cannavino, fom1er secretary
of the board, was elected vice
chairman;
Robert
Dyson was
elected secretary· andlJonah
Sherman was
reelected
treasurer
Newman is presidlent of
Drive
&
Park, Inc.
(ani
Avis
licensee)
and owner of The
Derby
Restaurant
in
P'ough-
keepsie. A
Poughkeepsie
~
resident
since
1948,
he
joined
i=
the Marist College Board of
"'
Trustees in
1985
and served as
5
b
d
-
oar secretary prior to serving
as vice chairman. Newman's
support of the college spans a
decade He
was a
198:0
charter
board member
of the
Marist
Red
Fox Club.
"Jack
Newman has been a
dedicated supporter of Marist
College and has put uintold
hours of work
into
making
the
institution what it is
today
and
what
it
will
be
in the future,"
said Marist President ]Dennis J
Murray
"I
am very pleased
to
have him in the leadership
role
for the board of trustees."
Cannavino, an IBM vice
president, general manager of
personal systems and president
of
the
entry systems dlivision of
the IBM Corporation,
is
a
resident
of Hyde Park, NY
Dyson, a
resident
of
Pleasant Valley NY
is
presi-
dent of
the
Chrismol Group,
based
in Poughkeepsie.
Sherman
is
president of
Sherman's Furniture Corpora-
tion
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Psychology professor
edits series of
counseling books
William VanOrnum
Linda Dunlap
On the
record
Psychology professor
is quoted in The New
York Times, and
then
some.
WHEN
LINDA
DUNLAP'S
husband
asked
her who
she
was
talking
to
on
the phone
one
day, she wrote
on
a
slip
of
paper,
··
7be
New
York
Times."
"Sure you are,"
he
exclaimed.
Little did they
both
know then where that unex-
pected phone
call would
lead;
she would be
quoted
in the next few months in
two
articles
in 7be
New
York
WILLIAM
V
AN0RNUM,
assistant
professor
of psychol-
ogy at
Marist, has
been serving
as general editor of a 30-book
series entitled
the
Conlin1111m
Counseling Series
for
both
pro-
fessionals
and general
readers.
The
series has been
published
by the
Continuum
Publishing Company
and
is
being distributed nationally.
VanOrnum
works
closely with
the
authors,
who are profes-
sionals
from around the
country.
"We
try
to
make the
books
interesting
and
readable
for
a
general
audience,"
he
said. "I
look for authenticity."
Titles of
the
books pub-
lished
to dare include
On
Becoming
a Counselor; Sexual
Counseling, CriSis Counseling,
Crisis Counseling with Chil-
dren
and
Adolescents,
Suicide,
Alzheimer's
Disease,
Women
and
Aids,
and Couples Coun-
seling.
Future
books
will
Times
by Larry Kutner,
and
later, in Newsweek, 7be
Boston
Globe,
and
even
7be
National Enquirer.
Dunlap, Marist assistant
professor
of
psychology, was
quoted first in a New York
Times
article on the topic
of
parents apologizing to
children,
and in the
second,
about research
she and
Marist
colleague
Joseph
Canale
did
on career aspirations
of
Marist
students. Canale
is
an
assistant professor
of
psychology.
"The articles
have piggy-
backed into
other
things,"
said
Dunlap.
"Other journal-
ists read
them,
take the
topical ideas,
and write other
stories."
Dunlap has
also
been
quoted in
American
Baby
and Children's
Magazine.
"The
most
exciting
part
of
all
this was
when a student
called
to
say
her mother
saw
the
article
and
asked
if
she
knew me:·
said
Dunlap.
"That
in itself made it
all
worthwhile."
An
article
in Newsweek
about the prosecution
of
par-
ents
for their
children's
crimes, called
on Dunlap's
developmental psychology
knowledge. In addition to
her teaching duties at Marist,
Dunlap has
taught
in
state
prisons for nine years.
I
-LAt:RJE LEAVY
include Bereavement, Religious
7bemes and Counseling,
and
Autism.
In
addition
to
editing
the
series, VanOrnum
has
authored
Talking to
Children
about
Nuclear
Warand
co-
authored Counseling with
Children
and Adolescents.
In the future,
VanOrnum
will
be
helping
comprise a
collection of
psychology
articles on
approximately
700
topics written
by
150
specialists.
In
addition
to his teaching
and writing,
VanOrnum is
a
psychologist
at
the Astor Home
for Children located
in
Rhinebeck,
N.Y.
Each
of
his
ac-
tivities
helps the
others,
he
said.
"I'm learning from
the
authors,
reading up
and
asking
questions,"
he
said. "I'm also
out there working
in the
psychology
field and seeing the
new practices,
which
helps me
as an editor
.
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ARI ST
PEOPLE
5
~
projects involving video pro-
~
duction and distant learning via
~-
satellite education.
He
also was
faculty adviser for broa1dcast
radio station WRPI at
Rensselaer
William
J
Ryan
Media expert
joins Marist
WILLIAM
J
RYAN
formerly
director of
instructional media,
television
producer/director
and coordinator of audio-visual
services at Rensselaer Polytech-
nic Institute,
Troy
NY,
is
Marist's
director
of media and
instructional
technology
Responsible
for coordinat-
ing audio-visual,
television,
graphics,
and
photographic
services at
Rensselaer Ryan
also was
in
charge of
special
Deidre Anne
Sepp
New career
development
director
MARIST COLLEGE has
appointed
Deidre Anne
Sepp,
former director
of
career
development
at
Susquehanna University, as
the
college's
new director
of
MARJST
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•
1989/90
Ryan
earned
his Pht.O.
de-
gree from Rensselaer
in
1987
His doctoral thesis was: entitled,
"Public
Access: A Component of
Cable Television."
He holds
a
master's
degree
from Syracuse
University and a bachefor's
degree from
the
State
University
of New York at Buffalo.
As director of Mari:,t's
media
and instructional techniology
Ryan
will be responsible for all
campus media produc1tion,
audio-visual class instruction,
and expansion of
the
use of
new technology
on campus.
Ryan's
plans for Media Cen-
ter
activities include
the
integra-
tion
of satellite
technollogy
at
Marist.
He
has
also
bet:n in-
volved
in
plans for
providing
the campus with access
to
cable
television. Plans
call
for the
new
classroom building on campus
to
have
cable connections, and
Ryan has
been part of
the
team
working on
the
facilities plan-
ning
for that building.
Cable
television is an impor-
tant
educational
tool,
Ryan said.
"For
instance,"
he
:.aid, "if
there is
a program on CNN
about
the
space program, we
should
be able to provide that
career
development and field
experience.
As director
at
Marit,t,
Sepp
is responsible for
expa.nding
the
college's
internship and
cooperative
placemenlt pro-
grams, and for increasiing the
college's
role in helpinig
stu-
dents
prepare for
their
careers
while they
are
in
college.
"We
are
very
pleased to
have
someone
with M:;.
Sepp's experience
and
suc-
cess in working
with the
business
sector," said
Marist's
Assistant Vice President
for
Academic Affairs Linda
Cool.
"We
are even more
pleased
with her
experience a:;
an
educator who views career
counseling
as
an essential
part
of
a
student's four yeairs of
undergraduate
study."
While
at Susquehanna,
Sepp
increased the number of
employers conducting
inter-
views
on campus by
22
per-
cent. She
also
established
a
resume referral
system. She
had
been at Susqueha:nna,
located in
Selinsgrove,.
Penn.,
for
two years.
I
program to our science
classes."
His plans also call for
video and audio connections
between campus buildings
us-
ing
fiber-optic cable.
"Bill
is
a person with a
great vision for media and
technology
but
a
realist
with
his feet on the ground," said
Linda
Cool, assistant vice
presi-
dent
for academic affairs. "He's
putting
together the classroom
of the future."
In
addition to
his
tasks as
media director,
Ryan, who
had
been a
high
school teacher for
10
years
before his work
at
Rensselaer
also teaches a
broadcasting
class
in the Marist
communication arts
department.
"I
held
an administrative
position at
Rensselaer
and
what
really
attracted
me
to
Marist was an opportunity
to
get back
into teaching,"
he
said.I
New director of
academic computing
Mary
E.
Commisso
MARY
E.
COMMISSO,
former
assistant
vice presi-
dent
and
director
of
academic
computing at Pace
University,
is Marist's new
director of academic
computing.
In the newly-created
position
at
Marist,
Commisso
provides
support
and
resources
for faculty
who want to
use
instructional
computing
in
the classroom
and
in related
learning activities, and
for
faculty
interested
in
using
computers
in their
own
research
projects.
At Pace
University,
Commisso, who held her
former position from 1982,
was
responsible
for all
aspects of
the university's
Academic Computing
Center,
which served
nine
schools
and
colleges on
five
campuses. She
has
extensive
experience working
with
faculty
to
develop
course
curricula which incorporate
computers. At Pace, she
also
served
as the primary re-
source
for evaluating and
recommending new hard-
ware and
software
to faculty
and staff.
Commisso's own
back-
ground
combines
the
liberal
arts and computers;
she
graduated cum /aude with a
degree in
English
from Pace
where
she
also received
a
Master of Science degree
with honors in
computer
science.
"The combination
of
technology and the liberal
arts gives Ms.
Commisso
an
edge
in working with our
faculty," said Marc vander-
Heyden, Marist vice presi-
dent
for
academic affairs.
"Given
the advanced tech-
nology
available
through the
Marist/IBM Joint
Study,
fac-
ulty here have
opportunities
to use computers in
innova-
tive ways for teaching and
research. Ms. Commisso is
their resource for putting the
technology
together
with
their
creative
ideas."
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52
Pamela Uschuk
Uschuk
wins poetry
awards
IT'S
l3EEN A
GOOD
YEAR
for
Pamela Uschuk,
poet
and
advanced poetry teacher with
Marist's Special Academic
Programs at the Green Haven
Correctional Facility She won
three
prestigious awards: the
Ascent Poetry
Prize from
the
University of
Illinois,
the
National
Poetry Award
from the
Chester
H.
Jones Foundation,
and the
White Rabbit Poetry
Award from the
University
of
Alabama.
Ascent
magazine,
which
sponsors the annual Ascent
award,
is the
oldest continu-
ously-published
literary
magazine in
the country and
its
award is Uschuk's
first
major
prize for her work. The award
was for a poem entitled
"Calendar
of Thirst," which
describes the languishing of
life
during a dry spell
in
and around
Tucson, Ariz., where
Uschuk
spends her summers.
The National Poetry A ward
is for
Uschuk's
poem titled
"Good
Friday and the Snow-
storm Keep Land Developers
from Clearing the Woods." Her
poem,
"Snorkeling
in the Sea of
Cortez Just Off El Coyote Beach"
is
the
winner of the White
Rabbit
prize.
Uschuk has been published
in more than 80 magazines in
the
United States, Canada,
England, France, and Scotland,
and
has
been
recognized
for her
work in the
Amnesty Interna-
tional
Poetry Competition, the
Stone
Ridge
Poetry Contest, and
.ARI ST
the Pushcart Prize Anthology
in
1986.
In
addition to
her
work at
Green Haven,
Uschuk
is a
full-
time Poet in Public :Service
in
New York City an t:ducational
program
to cultivaw an
appreciation of poetry
in
city
schools. This spring., she will
serve as writer-in-residence at
Pacific
University
in
Tacoma,
Wash.
She described her work at
Green Haven as extremely
interesting and
rewarding. Her
students are very deidicated and
talented,
she said.
"They
begin
writing about
prison
life,"
Uschuk said.
"That's
their
environment.
We
all write from our environment.
Then
they
branch out into other
areas."
Uschuk is in her
third
year
with
the
Green Haven program.
She and her husband, poet
William
Pit
Root,
director of the
creative writing program at
Hunter College,
live
in Ulster
County
I
Patrice M.
Connolly
PEOPLE
Civic leaders honored
Each fall Marist College President Dennis]. Murray presents
local
civic
leaders a President's Award. 7be awards are given
to recognize their outstanding contributions to improving the
quality of life in the Mid-Hudson area. This/all, the awards
were
given
to Michael G. Gartland (left), a partner in the law
Jirm of
Corbally,
Gartland
&
Rappleyea, Esqs.; Assemblyman
Stephen
M. Saland,
who
has served in New York's Legislature
since
1980, and CarolineMorse,
executivedirectoro/Dutchess
Outreach.
Brendan T Burke
included positions as Book
Rights Manager for Better
Homes
&
Gardens Book
Clubs and Managing Editor of
Doubleday Book Clubs.
Since
1987,
she
has been the princi-
pal in Connolly
&
Associates,
which provides
consulting
services to foreign and
domestic publishers,
cable
stations,
direct mail opera-
tions, media research firms,
and authors.
1990 ivtarist Fund has
two new chairpersons
Serving as
chairs
in other
divisions are John F. Hanifin,
a former trustee, Friends
Division; William V.
McMahon,
senior vice
presi-
dent for Key Bank of South-
eastern New
York, Business/
Corporate
Division; Kevin E.
Molloy, director of financial
aid
at Marist, Employee Divi-
sion;
Sharon
M. Garde, Adult
Student
Division; and Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Kratochvil,
parents
of
Stephen,
'87,
and
Paul, '90, Parents Division.
MAluST
TRUSTEE
Brendan
T.
Burke is
leading the
1990
Marist Fund
effo,t
to
achieve
record annual giving of
$682,000. As
national
chairper-
son,
Burke
oversees seven
contributor divisiions and
is
responsible
for major gift and
trustee
giving.
A 1968
graduate of Marist,
Burke
is
director
of
personnel
for Capital Cities/ ABC,
where
he is responsible for human
resources
suppo,rt operations
in
l\"ew York,
Washington,
D.C.,
and Chicago.
A long-
time member
of
the Alumni
Association Executive Board,
he
served as
president
of
the
Alumni Association from
1982 to 1986, and has been
active
with Marist's
Commu-
nication Arts Advisory
Council for
more than
a
dozen
years.
I le joined the
board
of
trustees in 1988.
Burke
appointed
Patrice
M. Connolly,
'76,
to
serve as
chairperson of
the Alumni
Division,
which
has a
goal of
S378,000. Connolly's career
in
New York
publishing has
Gifts
to the Marist Fund
support
important educational
programs and activities
underwritten
by
the
college's
annual operating
budget,
including academic develop-
ment, financial aid and
scholarships,
farnlty
salaries,
library acquisitions, computer
equipment, and
physical plant
improvements.
The
campaign
concludes
June
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MARI
ST
PEOPLE
Juorm
AND
DouGLAS
Brush
still
make house
calls,
but
no, they're not
a husband
and wife team of
itinerant
doctors.
Not exactly
They
are
husband
and
wife
and they
do
help people
get
better
but
better
at communicating.
Their client list reads like
a
corporate
Who's
Who:
Allstate
Insurance, American
Express,
AT&T Boise
Cascade, Chrysler
Corporation, General Electric,
J.C. Penney
Company JP
Morgan
& Co., MONY
Financial Services, United
Airlines,
and Westinghouse
Electric,
to
name a few
Judith
and Douglas Bmsh
The Brushes, who are
recent
additions
to
the
Marist
communication arts depart-
ment,
are
management
consultants and market
researchers
who specialize in
corporate communications and
electronic
infom1ation
systems.
Communlication doctors
Their joh is
to help corpo-
rations
figure out what
they're
doing
right and wrong
in
communicating within their
organizations and with the
public.
They also
help
corpora-
tions
implement systems and
he
improved
through the use
of corporate
television.
The
Brushes have gained an
inter-
national reputation
as
authorities on what
they
have
dubbed
"private
televi:sion,"
or
corporate video. In a publica-
equipment to
improve
those
communications.
They have
advised
many
top
managers,
including
Chrysler
Corporation's Lee
Iacocca,
of ways to
improve
what they call
the
"communications
climate" of a corpora-
tion known
as
the
Brush Reports,
their
studies have tr:acked
the growth and devel-
opment of
the
private
television indu.stry
since 1974.
"We are
teaching
our
students
to
think through
communications
problems"
Their
latest
study
reports that
video is
being
used
for commu-
nications,
marketing, aind
training
by nearly
10,000
organizations
in the
Uinited
tion.
"Corporate culture can be
very
closed, and there
may
be
poor
communication within an
organization because of it,"
Judith
explained. "While top
management may
think
they
are communicating, employees
often feel
that
they're
not
being
told
anything."
In
other cases,
middle
management
may
he the
problem.
"Top
management
may
be communicating with
their
workers, but
middle
management is
getting
in
the
way of
that
communication,"
said Douglas.
Enter the
Brushes
and their
house-call approach. "We
spend a
lot
of time with our
clients at
their locations,
getting to know as
much
as we
can about what kinds of
communication are currently
taking place,"
Judith said. This
is
also the focus of their course
at
Marist.
"We
are teaching our
students
to think
through
communications
problems
and
arrive at
practical
solutions,"
she said.
In
many cases communica-
tion
within an organization can
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•
1989/90
Kopec
becomes
director of
developtnent
WHEN
Shaileen
Kopec
became director
of
develop-
ment, it was
a bit of a
homecoming
for
he:r.
Seven-
teen
years before, she
had
hegun her
career at
Marist in
the Office
of
Colleg:e
Advancement
as
th•~
college's
first full-time alumnd director.
Then two
years
late:r,
she
hecame the college's first
full-time
director
of
public
relations.
Soon after
her
c:hildren
were born, Kopec
~.hifted
her
professional
activities and
States, and that corporate video
is now a $6 billion industry
which
is
continuing to expand
at a
race
of more than 17
percent each year
Why
is the use of video
in
corporations growing at such a
pace?
A
major factor is what
the Brushes call the
"comfort
factor" of television.
"Most
people
today are comfortable
with video," said Douglas.
"Seven
out of ten households
have
VCRs and over 6
million
camcorders are in the hands of
consumers.
Being
on
1V
today
is
no
big
deal."
Also,
video can
improve
the
accuracy and clarity of
communications. "Everyone
in
Shaileen Kopec
formed her
own
advertising
and
public
relations
business,
Shaileen
Kopec
Communica-
tions. Throughout those years,
though,
she continued
to
work
part-time for Marist as
a
a corporation can get
the
same
written
memo,
but
that
doesn't
mean that
everyone
is
getting
the
same message,"
Judith
said.
"Video eliminates the barriers
between the sender and
the
receiver
Video
is
able to
deliver
the look
in
the
eye, often
from
the chief executive officer
"
Federal Express
uses
video
to communicate
regularly
with
its
employees throughout
the
world by taping a daily program
from
its Memphis
headquarters
and sending it via satellite
to
field
locations.
For many years, the
Brushes
have
been forecasting the
merger
of all communications
technologies within corpora-
tions.
In 1989
they began
the
first
nationwide
study of
the
newly emerging
field
of
"desktop
video" (DlV), which
combines personal computers
and video. This technology
enables individuals with
little
or
no technical training
to produce
video programs at a desktop PC
or work station as easily as they
produce printed documents on
desktop publishing systems.
"Essentially
what we are
experiencing is a turning point
in communications technology
where, for
the
first
time,
the end
user
is
able
to
take control of
the process," Douglas
said.
"Desktop
video
is
a
user-driven,
computer-based
technology
which will
have
a
major impact
on
how
organizations will
communicate
in the
coming
decade."
Marist is
one of the
participating
sponsors of
the
Brushes' DlV study
I
fund raising consultant and
writer, and had responsibili-
ties for
special
events
activities.
She joined the
admissions
staff
in 1986
as
Marist's first director of
enrollment communications.
A graduate of
Emmanuel
College
with
a
B.A.
in English,
Kopec holds an
M.A.
degree
from the Fairfield University
Graduate School of Educa-
tion. A long-time volunteer
for the American Cancer
Society, she served as presi-
dent and
crusade chairperson
for the Dutchess County
Unit
of
the American Cancer
Society,
and has received
sev-
eral
state and national
awards
for public information and
fund raising programs.
She and her husband,
Tony
(MBA '77),
have two
daughters,
Christina
and
Elizabeth.
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54
Noonan,
'69, can
really make
'em smile
"You can't imagine how
good you feel," said Dr John
Noonan, '69 "It's physically
devastating, but emotionally
it's
a real roller coaster
"
Noonan was speaking of
his
experience performing
plastic
surgery on impover-
ished children in Colombia,
South America. "It's so reward-
ing
to hear
a child speak for
the
first
time," he
continued.
"It
gives you a chill."
Noonan, 42, currently
in
private
practice
in
Albany
N Y ,
is
one of the founding
participants
of Operation
Smile, a
nonprofit
medical
treatment
organization which
dispatches
medical
teams,
headed by plastic surgeons,
to
inner cities, poor
rural
areas of
the
United States, and abroad.
The
teams
treat
patients -
especially children
who
have severe burns and con-
genital facial deformities, such
as
hare-lips
and cleft palates,
both of which often
render
a
person unable to
speak.
For his work with Opera-
tion
Smile
-
going on a mis-
sion to Colombia and helping
recruit
and
train
other doctors
being sent to poor
regions
worldwide
-
and for
his
work
with
numerous
other medical
organizations, Noonan was
given the 1989 Marist Alumni
President's
Award during
October's college Homecom-
ing
Weekend, which was
Noonan's 20th
reunion.
When Noonan began
his
medical training
at
Downstate
Medical
Center in Brooklyn,
N Y he was
not
certain about
what area of medicine
he
wanted to specialize
in;
at first
he thought he might
want to
be
a pediatrician. Then
during
his medical
training
he
spent
time in traumatic
services, and
he
found
his
calling as he per-
formed
his first
operation.
"As soon as
I
did that,
I
knew
I
wanted surgery
"
Noonan said. "Surgery
is
so
immediate," he
said.
"You
do
what
you can do, and you
hope
you do
it
right."
He then
became interested
in
plastic
surgery because of itS
healing
and
restorative
potential.
During
the
1970s,
plastic
FOCUS
Dr
John
Noonan,
'69,
receives the
1989 Marist Alumni President's
Award from Marist President Dennis] Murray
surgery had entered a growing
period of experimentation.
"Anything
you could
think
of
was
not
out of
the
realm of
possibility " said Noonan.
In 1978, Noonan furthered
his
training
with the
Canniesburn Plastic Surgery
Unit at
the
Glasgow Royal
Infirmary in
Scotland, which
Noonan
described
as
"the
seat
of plastic surgery
in
!Europe
where
all the masters came
from during
the
war
"
While in
Scotland, Noonan became
interested
in facial and head
reconstruction.
This
area now
he
said, "is like
the
last frontier"
in
plastic surgery
Noonan got
involved in
Operation Smile while working
at Eastern Virginia Medical Cen-
ter in Norfolk, Va. A colleague
of
his there,
Dr William Magee
and Magee's wife, a nurse,
"had
a vision of getting people
in-
volved in missionary work,"
Noonan said. The organization
was officially founded
in
1982
with its national headquarters in
Norfolk, Va.
Today
the
organization's
medical teams have been
compared to civilian M.A.S.H.
units, operating in some of the
world's most remote regions
and under extreme conditions.
Its
services were recently
featured on National Public
Radio's
All Things Considered.
Noonan's first mission
took
him to Colombia.
Together
with
about 30 other doctors,
techni-
cians, and nurses,
they
flew to a
village high in the Andes Moun-
tains.
Like
other Operation
Smile missions,
the team
flew
in
all
the
equipment and supplies
it needed
to
operate,
including
electricity generators.
In
the one
bag of
luggage
each person is
allowed to take on a mission,
Noonan
said he packed mostly
scrub suits.
Noonan was in Colombia
for
15
days.
"We
worked
from
daybreak to midnight," he said.
"We
were too
tired
to eat.'" Op-
eration Smile makes
return
mis-
sions to
places
where there are
still more patients awaiting
treatment
and
native
doctors
needing
training.
"Our
commit-
ment is to
go
to
a location until
we're
not needed
anymore,"
Noonan said.
Plastic
and
reconstructive
surgery
is a challenge because
each person who comes to him
has a different
problem,
Noonan said. And the technique
involved
is
part science and part
art. To make an ear for ex-
ample, one can take cartilage
from a
rib,
and then fashion
skin over
it.
"You
are never going to get
it the
same way as the Maker"
Noonan
reflected.
•·we
get
close, but
not
perfection."
I
Smits,
~'88,
helps rebuild home court
A new floor was installed during the summer
on
the basketball court in the
college's
James}.
Mccann Recreation Center. Funds/or the jloorwere donated by alumnus and basketball star Rik
Smits,
and the Red Fox Club. Smits, whose stellar
career
al Marist was
capped off when
he
was
drafted in 1988
by
the Indiana Pacers,
contributed $40,000
toward the new floor.
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Coach
Bob Mattice
works with
team members during practice.
Hockey team marks
a new beginning
TAKING
IT
from
the
blue
line,
he
skates
down the ice,
sets
up his
shot. .and
he
scores!
It's not
a game;
it's prac-
tice, and the
skater
is
the
new-
est
member
of
the Marist team,
coach
Bob Mattice.
The hockey team, which
began
at Marist in 1981, started
its
season
this year under the
expertise
of Mattice, who was
named new head coach over
the
summer
"I
saw
games last year, and I
was under the
impression
that
a
lot
of raw
talent
was being
underutilized,"
said
Mattice,
37
"My
objective is to take the
talent and
maximize it."
Mattice has
been coaching
hockey
for the
last three
years
at
Our Lady
of Lourdes
High
School
in Poughkeepsie. In
one of
those years
the
team
had
a
record
of 24-0.
The
season for
the
Marist
team
began
November
4 and
continues through
March 4.
Last
year
the team had
a 12-5-2
record.
Games
are
played
at
the Mid-Hudson
Civic Center
on Saturday
evenings.
Mattice,
who grew
up in
Troy,
NY.,
played hockey
as
a
student
at
Rensselaer
Polytech-
nic Institute
(RPI).
He
also
played in
an
international
league that traveled
throughout
the
Midwest.
At present, he
works at
IBM
as a
manager in
charge of
new
products plan-
ning.
"This coach
is
stricter
and
has more
control of
the
team,"
said Steve Waryas,
a
junior from
Foxborro, Mass.
"He
knows
his
stuff.
He
played
at
RPI
and he has
refereed
up
to
the
college
level."
Not only
does the team have
a
new
coach, but
they also have
a
new
division.
The team has
moved up
a division
in
the
Met-
ropolitan
Collegiate
Hockey
Conference.
Team
captain
Steven
Murray
a senior commu-
nications major
said
it
will be a
challenge. ''Our
team is ready
talent-wise," said
Murray
"We
can fare
well
against any team
in
the division."
Tough competition
will
come
from
University
of
Southern Connecticut, which
is
a division above
Marist,
and
William Patterson
College,
which moved
up
a division with
Marist, according to Waryas.
"My
job
(as captain)
is
to
keep
the team together,
moti-
vate
them," Murray
said.
"(I
want
co)
get them
in the right
direction and have
them
stay
that way"
"I
align
spirit
with
motiva-
tion,"
said
Mattice.
"You
can't
motivate
someone.
They
have
to motivate themselves.
If
the
spirit
is not there, I
can't
give
it."
Ile added:
"If
you have fun,
you're going
to
win, and if you
win, you have fun."
I
-LAURIE LEA
VY
Racquetball champion is rising to the top
IF MOST PEOPLE
saw
a
small,
round object propelling
toward them at 180 miles per
hour, they would cower.
But
senior
Sean Graham
meets
it
with confidence.
The
object -
and the
sport-
is
racquetball, and his
rankings prove that
confi-
dence.
Graham,
a 21-year-old
senior majoring
in
communica-
tion arts, has been playing
racquetball
since
he was
14
years-old.
"My
motivation is
that
I
love the game, and want
to he great at
it,"
he
said.
Graham
has been a mem-
ber of the Men's Professional
Racquetball Tour for three
years. In the 19-year-old and
over
division
of
the tour,
Graham
is
ranked first in the
state of
Connecticut,
fifth in the
New
England region, and
fourth
nationally.
During the
10-month
sea-
son, Graham
travels
across
the
country.
I
le
has traveled to
Nevada, California,
Michigan,
and
Oregon.
He is
sponsored
by Ekleton, a racquetball
manufacturer.
"It's
great
to
see
the
coun-
try and meet
other
players,"
MARIST MAGAZINE
•
1989/90
Sean
Graham
said Graham.
"We
talk and
realize that we play so much
we almost forget how fun
it
is."
Currently,
while he
is
establishing
his
credibility on
tour,
Graham
is
finishing an
instructional manual he is
writing. He is also beginning to
give racquetball clinics at
several
health clubs. Due to the
growing popularity of the
sport,
Marist
students
began a
racquetball club on campus
last
year, with Marist President
Dennis Murray acting as
adviser.
·'The actual
playing is
good, but the training, running
and
lifting are the best thing for
you, physically and mentally,"
Graham
said. "It's
a good
release of
energy."
Racquetball has been an
organized worldclass competi-
tion for about 20 years, with
tournaments included in the
Pan American Games and
World Games. Forthe first
time,
it
will be
an exhibition
sport
in the 1992 Olympic
Games in Barcelona, Spain,
and
may be introduced as a
medal
competition
sport in the
1996 Olympics.I
-LAURIE
LEAVY
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Sp
ORTS
Rowing on the river
Women's
crew
brings home the
gold
1be
women
'.s
varsity crew
after the 1989 Frostbite Regatta standing
on
the banks of the Schuyktll Rtver
in
Philadelphia, Penl"l. Pictured
are crew
members
Kathy Schtller (front and
center)
and (from left
to right)
Sarah
Brown,
co-captain,
Katie
Morrison,
Kanm Groves;
Jennifer Terractno; Jennifer Johannessen;
Debra
Widmer· Jessica
Valente; and Cathy Fazzino,
co-captain.
56
THE
FOG IS ROLLING
off
the
Hudson
River and the
brightly colored autumnal
leaves
are
reflecting
on the
glass-like
water
The air is crisp
and cold.
Gone
Fishin'
Biology professor
hooked on fly
fishing
"IT'S
HARD
TO
OESCR113E
what makes a person
so
ad-
dicted,"
said
George Hooper,
chairman of the Division
of
Science at Marist.
You might think Hooper
was talking
about
his keen
interest in biology, but he
was referring to his love of fly
fishing.
"Fly
fishing is like
a
frater-
nity in the
sense
that no mat-
ter what background
a
per-
son
may have, there is
a com-
mon language for all,"
said
Hooper.
"Bona
fide fly fisher-
men approach fishing from a
certain
perspective."
Hooper, who came to
Marist in 1960, has been
an
avid
fly fisherman for the past
15
years.
At the end
of
this
academic
year, Hooper,
65,
said
he may step down as
chairman,
enabling him
to
teach part-time and to
spend
more time fishing.
Eight women are in the
midst
of
it
all. They
rnay
be
enjoying
the
scenery but they
are also enjoying
the
power of
their muscles as they
row
on
the
Hudson River
Hooper believes that fish-
ing means doing a~, much by
oneself
as possible;, he even
makes his own fishing rods
and ties his own
fli,~s. Ever
the teacher, Hooper also
gives
courses
in fly tying and
rod making. He finids it a
challenge
to
tie
different
types of flies, mak~ g use of a
variety of materialst
such
as
bird feathers,
animal fur,
wool, and deer haiir Tying a
simple
fly takes five~ minutes
or less, he
said,
w~ereas tying
more difficult flies
can
take
hours.
The
type of fly fishing
Hooper likes consi!sts of using
a
floating line, in which only
the tip
sinks, and
dry flies,
which
-
to a fish's eye -
look
like an
adult
i1nsect float-
ing on mp
of
the water. This
approach to fly fishing begins
with making a fly that
seems
to
come
to life in the water.
And, unlike many
fishermen,
Hooper doesn't ha•ve to
catch
fish to enjoy fishing.
For
him,
the big thrill is the
:strike,
be-
cause
then he knows that he
has
successfully
fooled the
fish. Besides, Hooper added
that he has philosophical
trouble killing a
fislh
because
The Marist
women's crew
begins·
practice every morning
at 6 a.m.,
and
for
the
women's
eight-member
varsity
team,
rowing
on
the river
before
most
of
us
are out of bed
is
well worth the
effort. "I
like
the
feeling
of
the boat moving,"
said Sarah
Brown,
a senior
from
Simsbury Conn., who
has
rowed
for eight years. "You
feel the power
you
have."
During the season,
the
team
not
only
practices
two
hours in the morning,
but runs
four miles
a day
They
also
lift
weights, do aerobic exercise,
and "ergs." "Ergs" is a
tenn
referring to working on an
ergometer or
rowing
machine,
that
builds strength.
This year
there
are 17
varsity and
22
novice
women
on
the team,
which
is
coached
by Larry
Davis. Davis
is
in
his
ninth year at
Marist
coaching
crew
Previously Davis
coached at
the
University of
Alabama at
Huntsville.
Women's crew at Marist
began
in
1975.
"Ideally
I try
and get
everyone at a consistent
level
of performance," said
Davis.
"It's
like
time-sharing,
trying
to
George
Hooper
its color, shape,
and
form
make it
such a
beautiful
organism.
He considers himself to
be
a stream
fisherman. Stream
fishing, he explained, offers
challenges
lake fishing does
not. One of the biggest
chal-
lenges, he
said,
is maneuver-
ing the fly in the air
and
trying
to put it in
a specific spot;
the
light weight of the line, the
wind, rocks, and trees
contribute
to making this a
difficult task. When fishing,
Hooper wades in the
stream
give equal attention (to
them
all)."
"Motivation for
rowing
comes
from the individual,"
he
said. "It comes
from
excelling
and
improving the
self"
Coxswain of
the women's
eight-rower
team, junior Kathy
Schiller concentrates on
keep-
ing the team together
"Motiva-
tion
is the
most important part,
keeping
them concentrated
and focused," she said.
The team participated in
five regattas in their
fall season.
At
the Head-of-the Hudson
competition,
the women's
eight-member
boat
brought
home
two gold
medals.
The
women's four-member boat
placed
sixth out of
22
at
the
Head-of-the-Connecticut
regatta.
During
spring break
in
March,
the team travels
to
Florida to train
for the
spring
season. "It's very concen-
trated,"
said Brown. "You're
stuck together and you
have
to
work
and get along."
The spring season begins
in
March, with their first
regatta
on
March
31
Their
only
regatta
at Marist is the President's Cup,
which takes
place
on
April
21.I
-1.AURJE
LEAVY
with a wading
staff
to protect
himself from falling in, and
he prefers to fish upstream,
allowing the fly to float freely
downstream. He likes to fish
during the day instead of
early morning, and
spends
about four hours on a typical
fishing excursion.
I looper said he learned to
fly fish on his own by read-
ing, watching others, and ex-
perimenting. His years of
ex-
perience since those
early
days paid off in a big way
once in the summer of 1988
when
I
looper caught his larg-
est
trout, a 19-inch
cutthroat,
during a two-week fishing
trip in Yellowstone
National
Park.
During the winter
months, Hooper's hobby
takes on a hit of
a
different
form: He makes
small
display
cases
of wooden frames and
Plexiglas to display his flies.
"I
like to show what I tie
because I take pride in them,"
said
Hooper.
"To
me, it's a
work of art that allows me to
express
myself."
"It's a
hobby that has
captured
me
completely,"
said
Hooper.
I
-Dti\lSE
BECKER
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•
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