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FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF ROWAN UNIVERSITY SPRING 2019
Remembering to never forget 18 | Research reaching into real life 24
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We have more activities and services year-
round than we can fit on this page, so visit
alumni.rowan.edu/events Poses with Profs Golden Years Reunion
for updates and more info
Saturday, June 1 Due to renovations in the Eynon Ballroom,
to help you keep in touch with friends and the Golden Years Reunion will not take place
make new connections. Hope to see you soon! Join fellow Profs for a 60-minute vinyasa-
style yoga led by Alumni Board member in 2019 but will return in 2020. During the
—Alumni Board of Directors and spring of 2019, the Alumni Association will
Gina Lemanowicz Pusloski ’03.
Office of Alumni Engagement organize a committee of graduates to discuss
Registration is $5. Register online at
alumni.rowan.edu/yoga. ways to increase attendance, grow the pool
9:30 a.m., University Green, Bunce Hall of Lifetime Service Award candidates and
RowanGIVES Day keep the reunion new and exciting. Please
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Friday, July 12
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G.O.L.D Alumni Trivia Night Class of 2014
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points, bring a canned item for The SHOP, 10 Year Reunion
Rowan University’s campus food pantry Saturday, October 13
and resource center for students in need.
Registration is free for alumni. Register
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Class of 1969
7 p.m., Owl’s Nest, Chamberlain 50th Reunion
Student Center Saturday, October 13
Spring 2019 Vol. XXIII, No. 2
features departments
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COVER STORY 2 Mailbox
16 Remembering to never forget 4 Big Picture
ith each eyewitness account recorded and each story shared, the Center for
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Holocaust & Genocide Studies helps a new generation grasp the value of life,
6 Campus News
compassion and justice around the world.
by Barbara Baals
14 Initiatives
24 Research reaching into real life 30 Class Notes
hat do middle-aged women, people in earthquake-prone areas and pilots
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landing planes on icy runways have in common? Rowan research that’s 48 Afterwords
focused on solving their problems—and responding to many more challenges,
from microscopic threats to global dilemmas.
by Patricia Quigley ’78, M’03
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EMS kudos The last word And by the way, the
Ramones also played
on Tommy
W hat a great article
about the EMS Conwell
GSC—but on a separate
bill. In fact, I can’t
I
service at Rowan must have missed it in remember any of the
University. The present the previous issue, but artists we booked not
and past members I was just reading Rowan showing up—not even
deserve so much Magazine and saw the Southside Johnny, who
appreciation for their letters regarding Tommy was notorious for it.
dedication to serving Conwell, the Smithereens Anthony Matrisciano ’89
the university and and the Ramones.
communities. To mix I was on the Executive Ed. note: thanks to everyone
Please send your classes, social life and
submission to: Board of the Student who told a part of the
calls/training requires Activities Board and Tommy Conwell tale.
Editor extreme focus. helped book this show. It’s been great fun to
Rowan Magazine As a former EMT I was there all day (20+ jog GSC memories.
201 Mullica Hill Road and a current volunteer hours) for the set-up,
Glassboro, NJ 08028 firefighter, I understand show and load out.
or e-mail: the special person who
fills this role. Too many
I can tell you Tour Hollybush this spring
editor@rowan.edu unequivocally that
areas are in trouble for Come to the Glassboro campus for a
Tommy Conwell played
the lack of people willing free, guided one-hour tour of Rowan’s
the show with the historic mansion.
to make this commitment Smithereens.
of time. Visit the first-floor rooms to learn about
The Smithereens,
Thank them for helping • Whitney family history in Victorian art,
however, were late getting decor and artifacts
make Rowan University to campus, so we kept • the local glass industry with Whitney
a safer place. asking Tommy Conwell Glassworks products
Robert Aeschback ’68, M’70 to keep playing. The • the 1967 Johnson-Kosygin Summit
trouper that he was, he in photos and memorabilia
kept going back on stage.
Online time His band had to delve Saturday, March 16 at 3 p.m.
well-spent back into covers from Wednesday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m.
I just spent a half hour Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m.
their bar-band days.
reading the magazine Saturday, May 1 at 11 a.m.
Finally, the
Wednesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m.
online. Beautiful in all Smithereens showed
regards: writing, layout, up, apologized for being To register, please call 856-256-5400 or
artwork. late and went on. It was visit: alumni.rowan.edu/hollybushtours
Congratulations a great show!
for producing such a Once we got back to See video, audio and photos, please visit:
professional and inviting the SAB office in the rowan.edu/hollybush
publication. AGAIN! Student Center, we had
Thanks. several messages on our
Claudia Cuddy answering machine (this
was before cell phones,
Ed. note: find us at texts and email). The
magazine.rowan.edu in Smithereens had left
a PDF, along with back messages at every wrong
issues and a few extras, turn they had taken
including photos that we down the Turnpike,
couldn’t pack into the saying they were on the
print version. way, but kept getting lost.
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Unified pride
The smiles—and the banner—say it all.
In November, Special Olympics and ESPN named
Rowan Unified Sports a Champion School.
The honor places Rowan among the elite schools
nationwide in providing inclusive sports and
activities. The first program of its kind in the country,
Unified Sports pairs Special Olympics athletes who
have intellectual disabilities with Rowan student
partners in soccer and basketball. ESPN’s Michele
Steele joined the spirited celebration.
Spring 2019 | 5
Climate Scientist Trusel
publishes dire warning in Nature
SCHOOL OF EARTH
& ENVIRONMENT
C limate change is causing the polar ice sheet
in Greenland to melt at an historic rate, a
situation that could have dire consequences as
“It’s not just increasing, it’s
accelerating, and that’s a key
concern for the future,” Trusel
PROFESSOR’S sea levels rise and the potential for flooding said.
worsens, according to a recent study led by Based on a study of ice cores
CLIMATE CHANGE Rowan’s Dr. Luke Trusel. drilled in the GrIS, the analysis
RESARCH EARNS Titled “Non-linear rise in Greenland runoff in found that melting there is faster
response to post-industrial Arctic warming,” the now than it’s been in hundreds,
ROWAN’S FIRST article was published Dec. 6 in the journal Nature, if not thousands, of years, and
RUN IN RESPECTED the first Rowan research project to appear in the that the resulting runoff is
journal. Upon publication, the news was reported contributing to rising sea levels in a way that
INTERNATIONAL globally—on CNN, in the Boston Globe, USA could become disastrous for coastal communities
JOURNAL Today, National Geographic, on the BBC and in around the world.
dozens of other outlets around the world. The article in Nature explaining the study’s
Trusel, an assistant professor in the department results described the massive amount of water
of geology, and colleagues from six colleges and flowing from the thawing ice:
universities concluded that the Greenland Ice “(The) study shows that Greenland’s runoff
Sheet (GrIS), which is roughly one mile deep and hit a 350-year high in 2012, when the ice sheet
more than twice the size of Texas, is melting at an released about 600 gigatonnes of water into the
unnaturally fast pace that began at the dawn of ocean—enough to fill 240 million Olympic
the Industrial Revolution. The study found that swimming pools.”
melt from the GrIS quickened measurably in the The study determined that increases in
late 20th century and that the rate of melt is Greenland melting coincided with an onset of
increasing still. warming of the Arctic that is associated with
6 | Rowan Magazine
Alum’s gift honors beloved
Swimming Coach Tony Lisa
It never mattered that Tony Lisa wasn’t a positive student experience to Lisa’s ability
LEFT: With a colleague swimmer. When he stood at the edge of the to instill confidence in him, a quality that
at the scientific pool and coached Glassboro State College helped him to lead a fulfilling life.
outpost, glaciologist
and Rowan student-athletes, he had done “Tony believed in me no matter what and that
Luke Trusel held an
ice core recovered his homework: he studied swimming form really helped me believe in myself,” he said.
from an ice cap on and technique. He learned how to prepare Lisa earned bachelor’s and master’s de-
Nuussuaq Peninsula, athletes for competition. He gave every- grees at GSC. He led Rowan women’s teams
west Greenland. thing in him—gently, sometimes, and also to nine consecutive New Jersey Athletic
BELOW: Meltwater with his trademark intensity—to encourage, Conference titles and was named the NJAC
Canyon, where mentor and guide. Women’s Coach of the Year three times. He
the mile-thick When Lisa passed away in June, he had coached three swimmers to NCAA Division
Greenland Ice Sheet
built a career that spanned more than 35 III Championships.
reveals evidence of
climate change. years at his alma mater. By the time he The College Swimming & Diving Coaches
retired in 2014, he had become a legend Association of America presented Lisa
PHOTOS COURTESY
with 469 wins, a .752 winning percentage with the Richard E. Steadman Award “for
SARAH DAS / WOODS
HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC and generations of student-athletes who spreading joy and happiness in swimming
INSTITUTION
loved and respected him. and diving.”
That sense of devotion and appreciation Lisa’s supportive and inspiring coaching
for excellence drew more than 500 alumni, style impacted Hafner and many others. He
colleagues, friends and swimmers from is a member of the Gloucester County and
the region to Esbjornson Gym in January Salem County Sports halls of fame.
to rename the pool facility and dedicate it Connie Lisa ’70, his widow, called the
as the Tony Lisa Natatorium, thanks to the swimming community his “second family.”
generosity of Rowan University Foundation “A good coach isn’t just a coach,” she said.
Chair Jack Hafner ’93. “A good coach shares in their athletes’ lives.”
A butterfly stroke standout under Athletic Director Dan Gilmore said Hafner’s
Coach Lisa, Hafner donated $100,000 to tribute will benefit generations of athletes.
establish the Tony Lisa Endowment for the “Jack’s gift is a tremendous honor to a coach
swimming and diving program. who meant so much to so many.”
Hafner, a J.P. Morgan wealth
management advisor and professional SEE A VIDEO TRIBUTE
BY ALUMNI AND COLLEAGUES:
investor, has been a Foundation Board
go.rowan/edu/tonylisatribute
member since 2012. He credits much of his
human activities that began during the
Industrial Revolution.
The Nature article was Trusel’s third
published paper in as many weeks. On
Nov. 12 and 19 he published the articles,
“The Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets under 1.5 °C global warming,”
and “Antarctic surface hydrology and
impacts on ice-sheet mass balance,” in
the journal Nature Climate Change, a At the dedication
subsidiary of Nature. program with the
memorial plaque,
Jack Hafner,
VIDEO EXTRA Connie Lisa
go.rowan.edu/greenlandice and President Ali
Houshmand
Spring 2019 | 7
campus news
HOT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE JAR
Houshmand’s Hazardous is hot in more ways than
one. The branding and PR project for the President’s
scholarship fundraiser earned Gold from the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education in its
largest district’s annual competition. Rowan’s
entry bested entrants that included University
of Pennsylvania and SUNY.
Real funds for BUY A JAR, HELP A STUDENT!
rowan.edu/hotsauce
artificial intelligence
The Henry M. Rowan College of amounts of data available from social
Engineering is furthering educational media, health care and government
opportunities in artificial intelligence entities to build computerized systems QUICK THINKING, BIG WIN
and related areas thanks to a $1.5 that perform tasks that previously
million U.S. Department of Education could only be accomplished with
Graduate Assistance in Areas of human intelligence,” said fellowship
National Need (GAANN) grant, program leader Dr. Nidhal C.
which supports a multidisciplinary Bouaynaya, electrical and computer
Ph.D. fellowship program in big data Engineering professor and associate
analytics, machine learning and dean for research and graduate
artificial intelligence. studies. “GAANN graduates will
Rowan’s Prepare AI Fellowship meet the growing workforce needs
Program will fund 11 GAANN fellows of AI-based industries, which can
for three years and provide training boost economic productivity, improve
for other Ph.D. associate fellows healthcare, transform political and
Mark Tallaksen, Mac Hennaut, John Dunn, Zeaenna
supported by other sources. social landscapes, thwart terrorist Brackett, Chase Finnigan and Matthew Jenkins
Focused on data science and activity and save lives.” Graduates won the TechStars StartupWeekend Philly
machine learning, entrepreneurial may work in academia, government entrepreneurship competition.
skills, multiaudience communication and/or industry.
A group of Rowan students from different majors
and professional conduct, the program She noted that graduates will have took top honors for their quick oil change idea
also will initiate discipline-specific the skills, experience and aptitude to during a 54-hour community startup competition
and data-driven research projects be leaders in the scientific community in the fall.
that may address advanced energy, and—importantly—will be able to The team’s idea—Quick Change, a product
intelligent transportation systems, improve society by addressing the that makes oil changes fast and mess-free—won
data analytics in digital immersive challenges and opportunities arising Techstars StartupWeekend Philly in November.
environments and aviation safety from the growth in use of artificial The group spent the weekend designing and
research, and it will offer hands-on intelligence. The program, which prototyping a coupling system for oil changes that
experience through internships. begins this spring, is open to U.S. doesn’t result in stains to clothes, hands or the floor.
“Graduates of our program will citizens/permanent residents with The product was the idea of junior nutrition and
be able to leverage the massive bachelor’s or master’s degrees in exercise science major Mark Tallaksen, who cut and
engineering or related disciplines. burned his hand while changing the oil of a car the
“These awards are among the most evening before the competition. The experience led
competitive and prestigious awards Tallaksen to propose a better oil-change system to
made by the Department of his teammates.
Education. This is significant The team moves on to compete in the
Techstars 2018 Global Startup Battle this spring.
recognition of our research
Eric Liguori, executive director of the Rowan
program’s quality and our
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the
faculty’s expertise,” said Dean
William G. Rohrer College of Business, arranged for
Anthony Lowman. “This sup-
Rowan’s participation in the competition. Rowan
port of Rowan Engineering’s
entrepreneurship advisory council members
doctoral students addresses
Dan Ruotolo and Greg Payton ’14 coached teams
an important need in grow- during the competition.
ing fields that will impact the Altogether, 68 individuals from New Jersey,
future of engineering, business, Pennsylvania, New York and California competed
health care and more.” in TechStars StartUpWeekend Philly.
8 | Rowan MagazineStrengthenend by differences, from Pre-K to college
In preparing and partnering with P-12
education professionals, as well as
cultivating its own higher education
community, Rowan is dedicated to
developing individuals and systems made
stronger and more effective because of
their differences, not in spite of them.
Two recent initiatives show Rowan’s
commitment in action. Representing schools from South Carolina to Massachussetts, Chanda Jefferson, Ashley Toussaint,
Jenny Patel and MacArthur Cheek accepted Rowan’s invitation to meet and develop a plan to bring
Diversifying the teacher workforce more diversity to teaching.
More than 150 educators across the nation—
many of them giants in the field—met at “The convening was not about discussing about the development of a Division of
Rowan in the fall to address a persistent the problem. It was about finding the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. The new
problem in education: the lack of diversity solutions,” said College of Education Dean entity will be tasked with making Rowan
in the teaching ranks of the nation’s schools. Monika Shealey. “New Jersey is ready to “a model institution where diversity is
Hosted by the College of Education and take this work on.” valued and equity and inclusion are
the New Jersey Department of Education, With an action plan submitted to the state routine,” said the announcement from
the inaugural New Jersey Convening the immediate result of the convening, plans President Ali Houshmand. Dean Shealey
on Diversifying the Teacher Workforce are already underway for next year’s event. will become senior vice president of the
brought together prominent scholars, new division with bold advocacy goals for
educational leaders and classroom teachers New division, new advocates all members of the community.
from across the country to focus on Rowan continues its commitment to
increasing diversity in education. diversity with its January announcement
STEM ED AND INNOVATION: KUDOS FOR DR. HOUSHMAND 6th FASTEST
For his contributions to science and technology School of Osteopathic Medicine; the partnership GROWING
education and for public-private partnerships with Rutgers-Camden to develop a life sciences
that drive innovation and STEM instruction, the research hub; the University’s $50 million
RESEARCH
Research & Development Council of New Jersey commitment to support research in Camden; and UNIVERSITY
named President Houshmand the partnership with Lockheed The Chronicle of Higher
“Educator of the Year” last fall Martin to develop a workforce Education’s Almanac of
at the 39th Edison Patent credentialing program. Higher Education 2018-19
Awards Ceremony. One who knows the state’s named Rowan the sixth
Houshmand’s continuing greatest challenges and can fastest-growing university
statewide recognition speak to its progress, New in America among public
has developed from the Jersey Senate President Stephen doctoral institutions based
transformation begun with Sweeney said about Rowan’s on enrollment—and the
his vision to serve South dynamic seventh president, “He fastest-growing in New Jersey
Jersey’s higher education was willing to step up and see (jumping 81.4 percent in 10
needs. Rowan College at what wasn’t there and what could years, from 9,578 students in
2006 to 17,372 in 2016).
Gloucester County President be, and really has transformed
Fred Keating reflected Rowan University and Glassboro
on his fellow president’s in an amazing way.”
commitment to develop new programs and Also in November, Houshmand was named
expand access through institutional partnerships. for the third year running to the Philadelphia
“We never once talked about education as it was, Business Journal Power 100 list of the region’s
but as it should be,” Keating said. most influential people.
The R&D council recognized Houshmand
VIDEO EXTRA
for overseeing the opening of Cooper Medical
go.rowan.edu/educatoraward
School of Rowan University; the integration of the
Spring 2019 | 9campus news
“Biobank” and medical
education focus on opioid crisis
Age, race, gender, socioeconomic Dr. Thomas Ferraro are
background—opioids can impact anyone, assisting in the creation of
including people who had their first such a one-of-a-kind biobank of
drug prescribed for pain relief for even biological samples collected
simple procedures. from individuals who died
In fact, according to the National from overdoses. These samples
Institute on Drug Abuse website, 2.14 will be made available to qualified
million people ages 12 and older had an researchers studying opioid use
opioid use disorder in 2016. disorder and conducting studies to
Researchers at Rowan University are investigate the genetic and nongenetic
working to change that in several ways factors that underlie opioid use disorder.
through a variety of projects. In addition, CMSRU faculty member
Cooper Medical School of Rowan Dr. Kaitlan Baston, director of addiction grant to develop a multidisciplinary
University (CMSRU) is partnering with medicine at Cooper, is working with Dr. opioid use disorder curriculum for
The Coriell Institute for Medical Research Annette Reboli, dean, and other colleagues practicing physicians.
and Cooper University Health Care to on several opioid education projects. “The opioid crisis is a major public
launch the Camden Opioid Research As part of a $1.9 million primary care health emergency,” Reboli said. “We are
Initiative (CORI), funded through a three- training and enhancement grant led by grateful that federal and state agencies
year state of New Jersey grant. This unique Reboli, CMSRU received supplemental are funding these important research and
undertaking is investigating the genetic funding to create an opioid curriculum for educational programs.”
and biological factors contributing to the students, faculty and physician assistants.
development of opioid use disorder. In addition, Baston received a three-
As part of CORI, renowned CMSRU year, $432,000 Substance Abuse and
neuroscientists Dr. Russell Buono and Mental Health Services Administration
NBC’S KORNACKI LOOKS
BACKWARD AND FORWARD
AT ELECTIONS
Donald Trump likely will be the Republican
nominee seeking his second term and
suburban voters nationally could have
an impact on the results of the 2020
presidential election.
Those were two messages from MSNBC
and NBC national political correspondent
Steve Kornacki, who came to campus
National political correspondent Steve Kornacki (front, center)
found an eager audience at Rowan for his talk about the midterm
in December to discuss the future of the
elections. After, he signed books and visited with students and nation’s politics after the crucial midterm
Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship Director Ben Dworkin. elections. Kornacki’s presentation,
10 | Rowan MagazineSen. Cory Booker and Rep. Donald Norcross spent more than an hour with Rowan active
duty students and veterans last semester. The legislators listened to the students’ concerns
just before the kickoff of Rowan’s November focus on military-affiliated students.
Student Vets and
active duty find support
Rowan, which has a long history For the sixth consecutive year,
of supporting student veterans of Rowan honored veterans and active
America’s fighting forces, expanded duty military personnel during
that commitment during the fall 2018 Military Appreciation Week,
semester with a variety of events and Nov. 9-16, with activities before
programs. and during the last regular season
Rowan hosted a meeting with Sen. Profs football game of 2018 in Coach
Cory Booker, Rep. Donald Norcross Richard Wackar Stadium.
and about a dozen student veterans As the semester concluded,
on Oct. 30 for a frank discussion Rowan hosted a commissioning ART PROFESSOR OHANIAN EARNS
about concerns of veterans and active ceremony during which two seniors, PRESTIGIOUS BERRYMAN AWARD
duty personnel. civil engineering major Matthew
The meeting, which included Grosmick and computer informatics The National Press Foundation (NPF) named
President Ali Houshmand, was an systems major Jack Minishak, both of Professor of Art Nancy Ohanian, whose syndicated
opportunity for the students to give whom were active in ROTC, became political illustrations run in some 250 newspapers
direct input to the legislators on such Army second lieutenants. weekly, the recipient of the Clifford K. and James T.
issues as the application of military Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons.
experience to careers, access to health Ohanian is the first full-time educator to win
VIDEO EXTRA the prestigious Berryman since the NPF awards
care and health problems related to go.rowan.edu/vets2018
their service. program began nearly 30 years ago.
“So What Happened?: An Evening with turning against Trump and supporting He expects Trump to again lead the
Steve Kornacki,” was presented by the Democrats, according to Kornacki. GOP. “I suspect, barring something we
Rowan Institute for Public Policy & That sets the stage for an intriguing, haven’t seen yet, that he’ll be the nominee,”
Citizenship (RIPPAC). though unpredictable, 2020 presidential said Kornacki.
During his talk, Kornacki told a election, Kornacki said, when ex-urban Founded last January, RIPPAC had an
rapt audience of 250 that he’s unsure and rural voters are expected to be the active—and engaging—inaugural year.
how the midterm results—in which core of the Trump base. Among many other guests, two former
Democrats gained 40 seats in the House of “The divide has been growing a long New Jersey governors, Jim Florio and
Representatives—will play out in 2020. time in American politics, but it has Chris Christie, spoke at Rowan. Christie’s
Suburban voters have helped the Demo- accelerated in the Trump era,” Kornacki appearance was his first public address
crats’ resurgence nationally, Kornacki said. said. “Demographically similar voters since leaving the governor’s office. At press
Across the board, the areas that tradition- in [different] areas of the country are time, New Jersey Senate President Steve
ally voted Republican are increasingly behaving in very similar ways.” Sweeney was scheduled for a February talk.
Spring 2019 | 11campus news
Wilson Hall plaza debut Greener by the numbers
In addition to managing stormwater through the
reshaped terrain and plantings, runoff will filter
The new courtyard on the east side of Wilson Hall is almost ready to come to life through 1,075 sq. ft. of concrete salvaged from
as the weather warms, featuring outdoor spaces for education and performances, the old pavement and “upcycled” for reuse in the
plaza by the Chestnut Branch Creek bioswale.
casual seating, native plants and sustainable materials. The renovation offers a
small “outdoor black box theatre” and a larger venue for scheduled and pop-up More green features planted to shade audiences
shows, plus plenty of open area for just hanging out. and attract pollinators and other wildlife:
Part of the University’s Greenway Master Plan, the project reduces • 80 canopy and understory trees
impervious surfaces (remember the endless concrete around the building?) 78 are native species
and uses natural and recycled materials and landscaping to improve drainage. • 8 4 flowering deciduous shrubs
At press time, the College of Performing Arts was planning spring and 100-percent native
summer performances in the new spaces for campus and community. • 85-percent native mix of perennial
forbs and grasses
For events indoors and outdoors, visit rowan.tix.com
KEEPER OF “DREAM” SPEECH HELPS LAUNCH ROWAN SPORTS COMM PROGRAM
Sometimes, you just have to ask. in Washington, D.C. He came to Sports Communication & Social audience to cherish things that
That was one of many lessons own the sole copy of the now- Impact, which hosted Raveling as matter to them and to safeguard
that George Raveling, keeper legendary speech by simply its inaugural speaker. meaningful relationships.
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s asking the civil rights leader for Easygoing and avuncular, “Don’t keep score,” he said.
“I Have a Dream” speech, it, and King gave it to him. Raveling advised the packed “Just give, give, give.”
imparted during an appearance Also a former head of bas-
in Tohill Theater last fall. ketball for Nike, Raveling visited
Raveling, who later became Rowan at the behest of Dr. John
a world-renowned college and Giannini, a celebrated coach in
U.S. Olympic basketball coach, his own right who led the Profs
as a recent college graduate to the 1996 NCAA Division
provided security for King III basketball championship.
on Aug. 28, 1963, when he Giannini returned to Rowan this
delivered the “Dream Speech” year to lead the new Center for
Onstage with Dr. John Giannini, basketball coaching legend
George Raveling told about his courtside career and his stint
on Martin Luther King’s security detail.
12 | Rowan MagazineThe Profs excelled on and off the field
in the fall. Field hockey (above) and
women’s soccer teams advanced
to the NCAA postseason and
Fall athletes and teams finish strong
numerous student-athletes earned
athletic and academic honors.
FIELD HOCKEY Darah Wagner and Money were members of MEN’S SOCCER
The field hockey team won the New Jersey the South Atlantic All-Region first team. Back The men’s soccer team advanced to the
Athletic Conference (NJAC) Champion- Ali Hicks and Daria Jones were All-Region semifinals of the NJAC Championship
ship and advanced to the semifinals of the second team selections. Jones was chosen Tournament and finished with a 12-7
NCAA Division III Championship Tourna- the NJAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year record. Back Modou Sowe was chosen the
ment. The Profs broke the school record and Wagner was the Midfielder of the Year. NJAC Defensive Player of the Year for the
for wins in a season with a 22-1 record. Money was tabbed the NJAC Goalkeeper of second straight season. He was joined on
Forward Rachel Galante was selected the the Year. The All-Conference first team con- the All-Conference first team by forward
Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches sisted of Hicks, Jones, Wagner and Money. Ryan Campbell. Sowe earned United
Association (NFHCA) South Atlantic Hicks and Money earned Google Cloud/ Soccer Coaches South Atlantic All-Region
Region Player of the Year. She was joined CoSIDA Academic All-District II and United first team honors and Campbell was on
on the Longstreth/NFHCA All-America Soccer Coaches Scholar All-East Region hon- the All-Region third team. Back Ryan
first team by back Julie Johnson. Galante ors. Money was chosen to the United Soccer Logar was named to the Google Cloud/
was named the NJAC Offensive Player of Coaches Scholar All-America second team CoSIDA Academic All-District II Team.
the Year and Johnson was the Defensive and Hicks was selected to the Google Cloud/
CoSIDA Academic All-America second team. FOOTBALL
Player of the Year. Michelle Andre was
The football team ended the season with a
chosen the NJAC Coach of the Year.
CROSS COUNTRY 6-4 record and nine players earned NJAC
At the national championship, back Casey
The men’s and women’s cross country All-Conference honors. Return specialist
Wagner received the Elite 90 Award from
teams finished second at the NJAC Cham- Elijah Rehm and end David Gajderowicz
the NCAA. Wagner is a chemical engineer-
pionships. Daniel Henry won the individual were selected to the All-Conference
ing major with a 4.0 grade point average
conference title and earned NJAC Runner first team. Rehm was a D3football.com
(GPA). The Elite 90 is presented to the
of the Year. Cyril Harvey finished in second All-East first team selection on special
student-athlete with the highest cumula-
place and was the conference’s Rookie of teams and he was chosen to the All-
tive GPA participating at the finals site for
the Year. Madison Edwards was the first America second team. Gajderowicz was
each of the NCAA Championships.
runner to score for the women’s team. a member of the All-East second team.
WOMENS SOCCER She came in seventh overall and was
The women’s soccer team chosen the NJAC Rookie of the Year. VOLLEYBALL
made its 14th appearance and Matt Russo took 17th place at The women’s volleyball team earned the
fourth straight in the national the NCAA Cross Country Atlantic second seed in the NJAC Championship
tournament. Rowan Region Championships and was Tournament. Outside hitter Erin Keegan
finished the season with an at-large selection for the was named the NJAC Defensive Player of
a 13-4-2 record. NCAA Championships. It the Year and Deana Jespersen was the
Goalkeeper Shelby was the second straight conference’s Coach of the Year. Opposite
Money was named year he competed at the Kailey Gallagher was selected to the
to the United Soccer national championships. All-Conference first team while outside
Coaches All-America hitter Megan Jacobi and middle hitter Jamie
NCAA Elite 90 winner Shirtz were members of the second team.
third team. Midfielder
Casey Wagner
Spring 2019 | 13initiatives
On a Quest: helping students
return to graduate
by Steve Levine ’87, M’07
In 2011, Rowan launched an ambitious program to
encourage students who left school prior to
graduating—sometimes just a few credits shy—
to return to complete their degree.
The initiative began in the Rohrer College of
Business and evolved into Project Graduation Quest,
a program orchestrated by Rowan’s Student Success
Team within the Division of Student Affairs. The
undertaking involves not only locating hundreds
of students who left school for a variety of reasons
but, also once contacted, offering them assistance,
advisement and encouragement to come back
and graduate.
Since 2015, when Student Success members
began contacting more than 400 students who left
school without graduating, dozens have returned
and completed their undergraduate degree.
For Carlos Maldonado, who graduated
magna cum laude last spring with a
bachelor’s degree in psychology, the
contact from Rowan was the push he
needed.
Maldonado, who had transferred to
the University from Burlington County
College (now Rowan College at
Burlington County), said he left for
financial reasons after the first
semester of his junior year but
always hoped to finish his degree.
14 | Rowan MagazineDo you know someone interested in
returning to complete a Rowan degree?
Please contact:
Tiffany Fortunato, senior academic
advisor/degree completion specialist,
Office of Academic Transition
& Support Programs, James Hall,
Room 3069, 856-256-4937 or
fortunato@rowan.edu.
“I wanted to complete it eventually but I least at one moment in time,
didn’t know when that would be,” he said. isn’t right for them,” McElwee
About 45 credits short of graduating, Students who return to said. “Our goal is to ease the
he’d served an internship with the transition back and to support
Philadelphia distribution center for complete a degree have students who return because we
TJX, the international parent of know, statistically, that college
retailers TJ Maxx, HomeGoods and graduates have the potential to
the potential to earn more
Marshalls, but could not qualify for a earn more and to enjoy a higher
full-time job with the company without standard of living.”
his undergraduate degree. and enjoy a higher She said Rowan support for
Nudged and supported through returning students can come in a
Project Graduation Quest, he went standard of living. variety of forms including
back to school and got it. financial assistance, rigorous
“Once I graduated they We want our former students academic advising and, when
offered me a job full time,” appropriate, the option of a
said Maldonado, who today bachelor’s of general studies.
serves as his company’s Leave to return—and graduate. McElwee said from 2006 to 2012
of Absence/Family and more than 2,600 students left the
Medical Leave Act administrator. University after completing 60 credits
Student Success administrator or more. Of them, 550 had earned 120 credits
Dr. Rory McElwee, vice president or more. Roughly 120 credits, earned in the proper
for Enrollment and Student Success, courses, are required for most bachelor’s degrees.
said Maldonado’s journey back to “More than one million former students in New
complete his undergraduate degree is similar Jersey face the same situation and more than 31
to stories she and her staff hear often. million other Americans do as well,” McElwee said.
“We don’t always know why people leave without “Not only are these students often carrying debt, they
graduating. Sometimes it’s for financial reasons, are doing so without the benefit of their college degree.
sometimes there are family issues that call them away We want as many of our former students as possible
and sometimes they find that finishing their degree, at to return—and graduate.” ■
Spring 2019 | 15irst, Natalie Morris held the escape Germany,
yellow star, a tangible symbol of Kraus, then
discrimination and hatred only four, also
toward Jews during the could very well
Holocaust. Then, she looked into have perished.
S
RI
OR
the soft eyes of Alice Kraus. “I am, of course, one of
M
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“She was very at peace,” Morris, the incredibly lucky ones,”
TA
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a junior history major, said. “She Kraus, 84, said. “I can’t tell
had no hate. She didn’t exhibit any you how grateful I am.”
victimization.” In November, Kraus ’79 brought
It wasn’t always that way. that message—and her family’s
“At first, I hated it. I jammed it in story—to Rowan as part of a
a drawer. I wanted to spit on it,” said commemoration marking the 80th
Kraus, whose paternal grandmother, anniversary of Kristallnacht.
a generous woman whom she Presented by the student
adored, wore the yellow star. Her organization of the Rowan Center
grandmother died in a concentration for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
camp, a victim of Nazi experiments. (RCHGS), Rowan Hillel and Chabad
Kraus lost three grandparents and at Rowan, Kraus’s talk helped the
four uncles to the Holocaust. Rowan community learn about the
She almost lost her father, who atrocities of the Holocaust, when
was imprisoned at Buchenwald approximately 13 million people—
concentration camp. Had it not been 6 million of them Jews—were
for her uncle’s pleas to her parents to slaughtered by the Nazi regime.
16 | Rowan MagazineCRAIG TERRY
WILL MENDEZ '15
Committed to remembering loss and encouraging
hope, Rowan students and staff gathered for Holocaust
Remembrance Day in January (top) and after the
massacre in Pittsburgh last fall (above).
Opposite: Alice Kraus’s grandmother wore this
yellow star before she died in the Holocaust.
Spring 2019 | 17Meanwhile, Kraus, an only child, knows that people of her generation
escaped with her mother in 1940. need to educate their peers about the
Implored by her Uncle Herbert, her genocide atrocities.
In 1938 during Kristallnacht, known as father’s brother, to leave Germany—
the Night of Broken Glass, the Third “If it hadn’t been for him, I would
Reich destroyed more than 7,500 Jewish have died,” Kraus said. “He was
businesses and hundreds of synagogues adamant that we must leave.”—the
in Germany and annexed areas. pair escaped by way of Moscow, A 2018 study by the Conference
A successful clothing store owner, Siberia, China, Japan, and Hawaii on Jewish Material Claims Against
Kraus’s father was one of approximately en route to California. Eventually, Germany reported that 22 percent
30,000 Jewish men removed from the family was reunited in America. of millennials say they’ve never
their homes and businesses, arrested “I have such a love for this country,” heard of the Holocaust.
and sent to concentration camps Kraus said. “It saved my life.” “Mrs. Kraus asked me if I have any
during that single night of terror As Morris listened to Kraus, she was connection or ties to the Holocaust,”
and violence. Remarkably, her father moved by her kindness, her grace, Morris said. “I said I didn’t. She said,
ultimately escaped Buchenwald by her resilience. ‘You are the inspiration because this
hiding in a ditch during a work detail. “I’m impressed at how survivors are was generations ago and, yet, you
The others in his group, who tried able to be so forgiving. It shows me want to teach it… to educate others.’”
to run into a forest to escape, were that we need to move forward. We Morris does. And so do dozens
gunned down by the Nazis. can’t hold hate in our hearts forever.” of Rowan students, who, because
Wearing a cap to mask his shaved Morris, who helped Kraus digitize of the interdisciplinary work of the
head, her father found his way home some of her records and artifacts, RCHGS, have been inspired—and
on foot. Boarding a ship bound for plans to pursue a doctorate in emboldened—to educate themselves,
Cuba, he stayed there nine months European history with a focus on their peers and others about historical
before emigrating to America. Holocaust and genocide studies. She and modern-day genocides.
Founded just three years ago, the
RCHGS is a collaboration between
As she portrayed the College of Humanities & Social
Sciences, the College of Education
DAVID CIMETTA '99
Auschwitz survivor
Manya Perel, and the New Jersey Commission
theatre major Darby on Holocaust Education. The center
Pumphrey shared serves as the focal point for students,
the stage with faculty, teachers and community
treasured photos members to learn the history and
of Perel’s family. lessons of the Holocaust and
Perel survived eight other genocides, such as those in
concentration camps Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia,
before she escaped Bosnia and Darfur.
a death march from Students, including Morris, intern
Auschwitz, but lost with RCHGS, working with Stephen
nearly all her loved Hague, center director; Jody Russell
ones. Manning, program director; and
Jenny Rich, research and education
director. All three—Hague and
Manning hail from history, while
Rich teaches in interdisciplinary and
18 | Rowan Magazineinclusive education—share
an abiding passion for the work.
Hague drafted the initial white
paper that led to the creation of
RCHGS. He’s a former museum
curator who worked and conducted
research for more than a decade
in the U.K.
The center thrives for a variety of
reasons, Hague said. Chief among
them is the intellectual engagement—
“We do some really, really interesting
things,” he said—and, of course, Rowan students examine atrocities around the world, past and
the cause. present. This map shows just some of those studied recently.
1. Armenian Genocide 6. Democratic Republic 11. Myanmar
“Inherently, is there anything more (Ottoman Empire/Turkey) of the Congo 12. Native American
important than thinking about what 2. Bosnia 7. Darfur, Sudan 13. North Korea
3. Cambodia 8. Holocaust, Roma/Sinti 14. Rwanda
human beings can do to one another 4. Chile 9. Holodomor (Ukraine) 15. Syria
and facilitating what we can do to be 5. Rape of Nanking (China) 10. Indonesia 16. Venezuela
better to each other?” he said.
The center is the academic home
for Holocaust and genocide studies
writer.’ That meant to me to live a
in Gloucester County. Its robust
legacy of some sort.”
academic year calendar boasts
On a spring day in 2008, Rich sat Through her work with RCHGS
upwards of eight events monthly,
down with her grandmother and and her research—she’s writing a
including book club discussions,
told her she was not leaving until book on how surviving the Holocaust
remembrance nights, guest talks by
her grandmother shared her own has affected generations of survivors—
genocide survivors, research talks
story of survival. Both of Rich’s Rich is honoring that directive.
by scholars from Rowan and other
maternal grandparents were Holocaust “We need to change society in
universities, films, presentations
survivors. Her grandfather, who died positive ways,” said Rich, whose op-
and performances. Most are open
when she was five, was a member of eds on social topics and education
to the public.
the Jewish partisans, a group that lived have appeared in national publications,
Each year, a noted scholar delivers
in the woods and fought the Nazis. including The Hechinger Report, where
the Dr. Paul B. Winkler Annual CHSS
Her grandmother, who lived in the she’s a regular contributor. “I want
Lecture, named for Winkler, the late
Ukraine, survived with her father when to help the center think about what
executive director of the New Jersey
the rest of their family was killed and it means to be involved in social
Commission on Holocaust Education
buried in a mass grave. She and her activism. We need to keep being
and a titan in the field. On March 7,
father lived beneath the floorboards conscious and thoughtful about how
Taner Akçam of Clark University,
of a barn, surviving on a potato or a we create social change.
the preeminent scholar on the
piece of bread daily for years. “Our students learn about the
Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the
Before their talk, her grandmother, past in order to make change to
Armenians during World War I, will
who died seven years ago and to the present. We can’t change what
deliver the lecture.
whom she was very close, wouldn’t happened. But understanding what
Each spring, the center presents
discuss her experiences. happened, you can use history to
workshops for area teachers to help
“I called her and said, ‘I’m coming to make positive social change.”
them better teach about the Holocaust
you and I’m bringing a tape recorder.’ I
and genocide.
said, ‘This is for me. This is for my son.
It’s important for your story to live on.’
“It was the first time she had ever
told her story,” Rich continued. “It Activism, she maintained, can begin
was important to her, I think, that my in the classroom.
son, Ethan, and my cousin’s children “Teaching is inherently political…
know her story. She told me, ‘Be the not in a way in which you push your
Spring 2019 | 19politics,” Rich said. “But, as a teacher, director’s door and, through a translator, course at Rowan. Every course focuses
you do have to take a stand. With told her he wanted to work there. on genocide, both past and present.
every book you choose to read—or The director told him the museum Hague, Rich and Manning emphasize
choose to omit—you are making an was state-run and they only hired that genocide continues today. The
inherently political decision. With Poles. Manning wouldn’t leave, RCHGS programming reflects that.
every choice you make, it’s very volunteering to work for free. He “Myanmar is happening now. We
obvious to kids who’s ‘in’ and who’s returned for eight straight summers, are literally living through a UN-
‘out’ in a classroom. It’s about very sometimes living on site in quarters recognized genocide right now,”
small choices.” formerly inhabited by the SS, Hitler's Manning said, referring to the
Every day, Manning teaches brutal paramilitary enforcement squad. genocide of the Rohingya people by
the hard history of genocide. The the Burmese military. “The dialogue
first American to intern at the on genocide continues to shape and
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, He lived several summers in shift. And it’s so important.
he first learned about the Holocaust Oświęcim, the town around the “This is about humanity and how we
when, while a middle schooler in 470-acre concentration camp. can do this to each other. How does it
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, he saw “It’s overwhelmingly enormous,” come to this? How did we get there?
a documentary film. Manning said of Auschwitz-Birkenau The work we’re doing in the center…
“It changed my life. It was something “You can’t believe how big it is.” the debates… the discussion… I have
I’d never seen. Every paper I did In 2010-11, Manning, who by to do this work.”
after that was on Nazi Germany and then was pursuing his doctorate in
the Holocaust. I went to memorials, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at
looking into how it happened, why it Clark University, earned a Fulbright Julia Gibbins feels that way, too. A
happened,” Manning said. fellowship to study in Poland. sophomore history and law and
In 2002, while in his 20s, he visited He spent 18 months conducting justice studies major pursuing the
the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and dissertation research on Oświęcim, Thomas N. Bantivoglio Honors
Museum in Poland, where more than exploring how living in the town Concentration in the Honors
1.1 million people—1 million of them affected generations of residents. College, Gibbins is vice president of
Jews—perished. He knocked on the “Visitors would ask, ‘How can you the RCHGS student association. As
live in Auschwitz?’ There are so a freshman, she earned a coveted
many layers to the history. It’s not Warren Fellowship for Future
monolithic,’” Manning said. “Nobody Teachers at the Houston Holocaust
understood or knew that the residents Museum, where she studied with
were victims as well. Nobody has ever prominent Holocaust and genocide
talked about how those living near scholars—and alongside mostly
the site of genocide are affected.” doctoral students.
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON
Manning tells the story of walking Her interest in the work is fueled
to a meeting at the Auschwitz by her own thirst for knowledge and
museum. The sun was shining. her interest in political activism.
Birds were singing. “It’s difficult to not be politically
“They were sitting on the barbed active in our current climate,” said
wire. I started whistling,” Manning Gibbins, whose goal is to become a
Julia Gibbins and Rwandan recalled. “I realized, right where judge. As an RCHGS research assistant,
genocide survivor Claude I was standing, people had died.
she examined how the Christian faith
The barbed wire and the birds hit
Kataire conferred during Julia’s of citizens of Rwanda was affected by
something deep inside of me. I was
internship at the summer 2018 genocide in that country.
literally standing where 1 million
Warren Fellowship Program “I found that people got deeper
people died… and I was whistling.
at the Holocaust Museum in in their faith,” Gibbins said. “I thought
That never leaves you.”
Houston. Also a historian, I’d find the opposite to be true.”
Kataire is scheduled to speak Her involvement in RCHGS has
at Rowan April 8 about the changed her, Gibbins said, particularly
25th anniversary of the Each semester, Manning teaches when it comes to hearing survivors’
Rwandan tragedy. an introductory historical methods stories.
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