Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

Text from Pages 1 - 240 of the 1977 volume:

1-;, : t S t Lance '77 Lance '77 Volume 26 Gannon College Erie, Pennsylvania 1 ■ Mi IBB P(S(Q)pi (£ 22 Faculty Administration 66 Organizations 108 Sports 136 Campus Life 164 Underclassmen 190 Graduates 14 46 74 142 150 158 188 218 fD oj Nash Walsh Showdown On 7th Street Would You Believe, Love? Wehrle Comes Alive It All Started . . . A Pipe Dream Come True No Boasting Allowed BACkT ilLICuMI i W %  II 1 II P II 1 10 11 12 13 YEARS OF CRISIS, YEARS OF CALM BY ELIZABETH BUCARELLI A chilly October rain fell upon Erie that Monday night in 1970. Msgr. Wilfrid Nash, president of Gannon College, was relaxing in his residence on West Sixth Street when he re- ceived a call from the director of student living. There were serious rumors a group of students wanted to take over Old Main. Could he get over there right away? It was going to be a long night. How does one prepare for such a confrontation? For the chanting and the anger and the threats, for those impossible demands — we want 24- hour open dorms drinking privi- ledges equal representation on all the standing committees and the board of trustees more electives less philosophy less theology more pass fail options an end to all re- pression in the Third World an end to the R.O.T.C. Program an end to the war in Vietnam and what are you going to do about it?— for the rumbling and shouting and pushing and shoving, the air tense, electric, ready . . . ready for that one rock to be thrown, ready for chaos, pandemonium, trouble . . . serious trouble. What if someone gets hurt? What if a building gets ripped apart? What to do to make them . . . go home. Well, you do what you have to. It turns out that the confrontation at Old Main wasn't nearly as dramatic as this. Msgr. Nash recalls it almost matter- of-factly: Well, what happened was, I got a call in the evening from the director of student living. The rumor was that a group of students were going to take over Old Main. So we all came down here and spent the night. But for a while there . . . who knew what to expect? Better round up the student per- sonnel officials. Get Dick Dunford over here. And Joe Pisoni, Bruce Payette. Call Mario Bagnoni. And alert the cops. Get a few over here. Barricade the building. Lock and chain the doors. Ready? Set? . . . Wait. This was around 11 or 12 o'clock. And when about 30 students marched up the front steps of Old Main at about 2 a.m., they quickly found that the administration build- ing was not for the taking. Standing on the other side of that door was Msgr. Nash, Security Chief Mario Bagnoni, and the student per- sonnel officials. Did they want to talk? Well, yeah, they guessed, no use getting this demonstration all to- gether and not doing something with it. So the students were let in out of the rain and they talked. By then the cops were all over the place, Msgr. Nash recalls. And they were angry because I called the cops. I finally said, 'Well, gentlemen, we've been at this long enough — either you leave now or I will expell all of you. They left peacefully. 14 15 On the way out, one walked over to Msgr. Nash and asked for a light for his cigarette. He got the light and turned to join his friends. End of crisis | f it makes any difference, these students were protesting a friend's being expelled for repeatedly dis- obeying the college rule against freshmen under 21 living outside the dormitories. This is what the account in the Gannon Knight says. Ask Msgr. Nash what it was all about and he'll tell you he can't even remember. Who can blame him? He faced so many of these confrontations, demonstrations, rallies, protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts, and the like that they have all sort of lumped together into one big murky stew. Certain incidents stand out, to be sure. Like the time a few hundred students jammed into his office (or at least tried to— most of them wound up pouring out into the secretary's anteroom and the lobby outside) to demonstrate their soli- darity on a few current com- plaints—listen to this— Pass fail (the Gannon Knight account does not specify what they wanted done on this point), raising the Student Acti- vities Fee for fulltime students to $5, and the Student Union problem (whatever that was). And an uglier, more serious inci- dent occurred in 1971 when a resi- dent adviser was attacked by five students. He was so badly injured that doctors feared he would lose his eyesight or worse, his life, as a result. (Luckily, he did not lose either.) But because the R.A. was white and his attackers black, serious racial tensions erupted on campus and spewed forth a whole week of threats, accusations, rallies, and demands. And Msgr. Nash, as president, stood at the center of all this: Calm down the whites. Reassure the blacks. Listen to the demands. Withstand the pressures from the faculty, trus- tees, parents, alumni. Answer to the angry local news media. Restore order. It was a very bad time for Gannon; Msgr. Nash calls it the worst. Or course, these turbulent years, from about 1969 to 1972, are going to stand out. But there were good years, too. And they all started back in 1933 with the founding of Cathedral College. Perhaps a measure of the success of such a young college — Gannon is only 33 years old — can be found in the sheer guts and determination of its humble beginnings. Gannon's founder and first presi- dent is the late Msgr. Joseph Wehrle. Back in 1933 the depression was still on, and Msgr. Wehrle, a much-loved teacher at Cathedral Preparatory School, was getting very frustrated. Here he had all these bright boys- talented students, diligent students — and he couldn't get them into the college. They had no money. Well, this just wouldn't do. So he said, Well, I'll start a college. And he did. The new school for these boys was Cathedral College, a two-year Erie extension of St. Vincent's College in Latrobe, Pa. This isn't even the half of it, though. Dr. Wehrle managed this planning and negotiating — all of the business that goes into Founding a College— while the bishop was off on a trip in Europe. PROTEST! March 3, 1971. The mood of the crowd was polite and friendly as they filed into the office and overflowed into the Old Main lobby. — The Gannon Knight, March 6, 1971. Meeting the students along with Msgr. Nash was Richard Dunford (left), now Vice-President for Student Personnel Services. 16 Welcome home, bishop. Oh, by the way, we started a college while you were away. Msgr. Nash didn't say whether the bishop hit the roof over this develop- ment, but it doesn't really matter now. Cathedral College continued very nicely until 1941, at which time it became the four-year Gannon School of Arts and Sciences (in conjunction with Villa Maria Col- lege), and then in 1944, Gannon College. M sgr. Nash was in that first class in 1933. He was once one of the boys for whom Cathedral College was founded and even now, in 1977, he maintains that the purpose of Gannon College has not changed. In that first class there must have been almost 50 of us, and boy, I can men- tion doctors . . . there are about 16 priests out of that class. They're really talented people who didn't have any money. And that's why — even right now, when I talk to the faculty about tui- tion— our tuition has to be what the ordinary family in Erie can pay, he said, referring to the recent Faculty Senate argument that Gannon tuition should be raised because the average family's income has increased. Even if our graduates now are coming from college-trained parents, that still is not the point. The point is, that any kid in Erie who wants to get a Christian, Catholic education should be able to come here. The more people that can't come here because of money, the more we're losing our purpose. The man should know. He has been president of Gannon College for 21 years, ever since 1956. Just how he became president is yet another incident in Gannon's rough- and-tumble history. The truth of it is, Msgr. Wehrle did not retire voluntarily. The teachers said that if they didn't get rid of the president they'd all quit, Msgr. Nash said. Msgr. Nash was Fr. Nash back then and was dean of the college. Im- mediately after his ordination in 1942, he was assigned to Gannon and began as a philosophy teacher. This quickly changed with the beginning of World War II. By February of 1943 all but 35 of Gannon's 250 students were drafted into the military service. So we had 35 students. We couldn't afford to have many teachers, so the ones of us that taught here taught everything, he said. Everything for Fr. Nash included philosophy, theology, psychology, ' I'm still convinced we give more priviledges in our dorms than we should give as a Catholic college. ' Shakespeare — an experience he looks back upon with horror — and German. When the enrollment went back up he was able to return to his specialty, psychology. In fact, he completed all of the credits for his doctorate in psychology and only needed a year of residence at Ford- ham University, but the diocese couldn't afford to let him go for that year. He stayed at Gannon. Of course, there were many thing? to be done here. One choice piece of information on his biography sheet is that he served as Director of Athletics. He laughs about the title. It was just a question of having a bunch of students interested in playing basket- ball. They needed somebody to work out the schedule and get the equip- ment and that's what I did. It was the only athletics we had here so you could say I was directing it, but not in the sense that Elwell is today. Be that as it may, how did he manage to schedule competition for a fledgling, unproven team? Well, he wrote in an old alumni magazine, the thing to do was to send a begging letter to every college within a hundred and fifty mile radius of Erie. It worked: Alliance, Allegheny, St. Bonaventure, Baldwin-Wallace, Canisius, Kent State, Ohio University, Niagara University, and St. Vincent all agreed to give Gannon a try. Some heavy schools there. And yes, Gan- non lost to Canisius, Baldwin-Wal- lace, and Ohio U. But the others were all victories for the team of 1944-45. Not a bad start. Then, too, Msgr. Nash was vice- president of the college, something he didn't even know about until he saw it in the catalog. He laughs about this title, too. They were meaning- less things— they didn't change your duties. It just looked better in the catalog to have a vice-president. His appointment as dean came sometime in the early fifties. Nine- teen fifty-six rolled along and he was dean, the priest with the most seniorty, and soon to be the second president of the college. It happened in April. As Msgr. Nash remembers it, I was out on a weekend — I was giving a retreat. And when I got back in town on a Sunday I had a call that the bishop wanted to see me — right away. So I went up and he said, 'Tomorrow morning when you go in the office, you take Dr. Wehrle's office and you're the president.' It was that quick — an overnight coup d'etat. It was that quick and it was nasty, he said. You know, when you came in on a situation like that, the arch- bishop— it almost killed him because Dr. Wehrle had given all those dedi- cated years of service. Then why force him to leave? As it turns out, Msgr. Wehrle proved to be an unpredictable administrator. A tremendous teacher, but as an ad- ministrator . . . Some of his actions as president, in retrospect, take on an almost impish quality. Take the case of the student who wanders in at nine o'clock on Tuesday night. Classes are to begin the next morning. This kid can't get any of the courses he needs, so to satisfy this one student Msgr. Wehrle changes the whole schedule, then hands it over to Msgr. Nash and the other administrators on Wednesday morning. This is true. What a stunt! It sounds great today — a funny anecdote, great dirt, whatever — but think if you were a teacher or administrator or student on that Wednesday morning. Pandemonium. And then we had to cover up, Msgr. Nash said, How did we cover up? Well, any of the kids that had conflicts — we'd put them in one room and solve the conflicts as quickly as possible so the students were all settled within a couple of days. Then problems with the faculty were building up. There were grumblings about salary, but What really riled up the teachers more than anything else— they'd be a professor 17 today and tomorrow he'd make them an associate professor. Well, that was it. The archbishop decided to accept the faculty's posi- tion and make the change. So Fr. Nash, then 41 years old, became the second president of Gannon College. T hat whole year was hell, he said, looking back on his first year as president. Well, I imagine if I over- threw the President of the United States — I would not be so proud of being President if I got it that way. Mingled with these feelings are Msgr. Nash's memories of Dr. Wehrle the teacher, Dr. Wehrle the person, and Dr. Wehrle the prime mover behind Cannon College. He's the reason Gannon is here. And he could never be played down for that. Msgr. Nash was one of Dr. Wehrle's students at Prep and Cathedral Col- lege. He didn't even have to use a book. He could go right down those pages word for word. He taught everything. What he liked best was to teach math. A favorite Dr. Wehrle math anec- dote runs thus: He works out a problem on the board, and when he gets to the end he doesn't get the answer that the book says. So he says, The book is wrong. The next day, his students ask him to do the same problem. He forgets that he just did it the day before, and this time he gets the same answer as the book. One of the students yell out, Hey, yesterday you didn't agree with that. Well, he says, the book is right today. A broad grin covers Msgr. Nash's face. You can see how the kids would grow to love a character like that. Or another time. Msgr. Nash and some fellow students are hanging around Dr. Wehrle's office at Cathe- dral College. One asks him, Hey, Doc, how about lending me a buck? So Dr. Wehrle pulls out his wallet and says, Well, there's only one buck in there — you may as well have it. This is the man Msgr. Nash wants remembered. Anyone who knew him on that basis— he could do no wrong. That first year was indeed diffi- cult. In addition to the upset caused by the changeover, the Middle States evaluation was coming up. The trustees were looking over my shoulder like I was a little boy with a pen. And that's what I mean by being tough. If we didn't pass Middle States, we'd have gone out of business. Well, Gannon made it through that crisis. And in the years that followed, Gannon positively prospered. Under Msgr. Nash's leadership, enrollment more than doubled; Beyer, Wehrle, Finegan, Zurn Science Center, and the Learning Resource Center were built; the graduate school was estab- lished; and 53 new programs on the graduate, under-graduate, and two- year level were added. T hen, around 1969, the tough years began again. The Vietnam War years — the years when protest against the war became felt at Gannon. Msgr. Nash looks back on these years with a curious mixture of bitterness and understanding. Students at that time lacked a future to loo k forward to, he said. College was a stopping point before Vietnam. And the col- lege was turned into a night club. The commitment to study wasn't there. College was a refuge. Add to this Gannon's great experi- ment in a Social Cause — an experi- ment that backfired miserably. The idea — recruit inner-city blacks and give them an education and an equal chance to succeed in life — was part of a national trend. It was conceived with the best of intentions. And it was also incredibly naive. During those years, there was a strong influx of black students from Philadelphia and New York City. They came in and we had no pro- fessional personnel to handle them. We were all ignorant. We didn't realize the depth of the problem, he said. We were demanding that they live according to our culture and they were demanding that we follow their culture, so it was a natural conflict. The black students felt out of place at Gannon — a Catholic, middle class working class college in conservative Erie, Pa. All these feelings of aliena- tion, division, and conflict were final- ly touched off— for both blacks and whites — by the incident in South Hall, when black students attacked a white. Msgr. Nash looks back on these extrememly trying days and finds the racial tensions loaded with many underlying problems. I think that in that period of time, whenever a black and a white met, it was a racial problem. Superficially. And everyone was satisfied to solve it superficially rather than going any deeper. That's why I'm saying rooted in this problem was the draft and everything con- nected with it. There certainly were other things connected with the student unrest of those years. Like the 24 credits of philosophy and theology demand- ed of every student. And a sizeable helping of paranoia — reports of Drug Suspicion Lists, R.A. spies and the like. Drinking rights and 24-hour visitation rights in the dorms — also big issues. The college never did allow 24- hour visitations or drinking rights. I'm still convinced we give more priviledges in our dorms than we should give as a Catholic college. I guess I'm old-fashioned enough that I think there should be a dormitory for the men and a dormitory for the women and if they want to meet they should meet in general areas — but not in their rooms. The theology philosophy require- ments were eventually reduced to 6 and 6 in 1974 with the introduction of the liberal studies curriculum. But other than that, Msgr. Nash said we would never budge on Gannon's Catholic commitment. I always told everybody, the day that we do not teach Catholic theology, and philosophy as a buttress for Catholic theology, I'm not going to be here. Because that's my purpose in life. If I can't achieve my purpose here, there's another place where I can. I'm not going to stick around here and be a secular institution. During those years, Msgr. Nash thinks that rebellion was the prime factor, not necessarily the specific complaints. They just did not want to be told. They wanted to develop their own thing, and do it in their own way, without any interference on anyone's part. How did he deal with the various protests, sit-ins, and demonstra- tions of solidarity — a clever phrase for mass intimidation — with the ca- joling and demanding and accusing? 18 Msgr. Nash addresses students at a Baccalaureate Mass as Arch- bishop John Mark Cannon looks on. An everyday photo, now valued because one of the long-since-vanished Old Main lions is shown. Tradition has it that the lions now sleep at the bottom of Lake Erie, though no one seems to know what happened for sure. Msgr. Nash announces the ap- pointment of Dr. Joseph Scotti- no as President of Gannon Col- lege— June 1, 1977. During that whole period of time, no matter what group it was, if you could get them separated into ones, or twos, you could have a good talk with them, he said. You put them together in a group and you may as well shut up. I'm no match for 20 stu- dents who all want to talk at once. October 1976. Msgr. Nash, now 61 years old, wants to retire. He doesn't have to retire until he is 65. But by then there may be new problems — decreasing enrollments, scrambling for federal aid, creating new, spe- cialized programs to help keep Gan- non afloat. These are problems enough without the added task of a lengthy and detailed presidential selection process. So, he tells the trustees, he wants to retire. Find a president to take over in July, 1977, he tells them. There are good years at Gannon, he says in his prepared statement. Years of sound budgeting, good enrollment, and positive campus at- titudes. This is an appropriate time to transfer the responsibilities of the presidency. In selecting a new president, he instructs them: I want every one of you to think of the good of the college. T he good of the college. The phrase was appropriate in October, and it is appropriate now, upon his retirement: For these words describe the entire career of Msgr. Nash. '77 19 Notable visitors . . . Richard Nixon, on the campaign trail — 1960. Julian Bond, Georgia legislator and civil rights activist — lecture, November 1971. George McGovern, on the campaign trail- October 1972. Jimmy Carter, on the campaign trail— Octo- ber 1976. Jane Fonda, anti-war activist — lecture, spring 1972. Humbert Humphrey, on the campaign trail— 1968. 20 Notable occasions . . . Msgr. Nash offers Mass— Kent State Moratorium Day, May 6, 1970. Behind him are Rev. Robert Susa (left) and Rev. Richard Sullivan. And one very memorable . . Msgr. Nash receives Honorary Doctor of Letters degree— Fordham University, 1957. At right is Francis Cardinal Spellman. imposter In Texas, he was the deputy warden at Huntsville State Peni- tentiary. Off the coast of Korea, he performed several operations as a naval surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy. At Gannon College, he was Dr. Robert Litton French, prof- fessor of psychology and dean of the school of philosophy. Despite his fantastic record, he was wanted throughout North America for desertion from all branches of the military service, fraud, forgery, theft, embezzling, resisting arrest, vagrancy, and public drunkenness. His real name was Ferdinand Waldo Demara, otherwise known as The Great Imposter. As Dr. French, Demara taught at Gannon in the fall of 1945. Gannon, fledgling in its second year, was an obscure place for a man with his credentials. And Msgr. Joseph Wehrle, then presi- dent of the- college, wondered about them. I want to be frank with you, Father, was Demara's answer. I want to become a good Catholic convert but I also want to be able to grow with the school and leave my mark on it forever. Demara evidently was sincere in his desire to see Gannon grow. Soon after his initial meeting with Dr. Wehrle, Demara ordered several hundred calling cards and stationery engraved: Dr. Robert Litton French B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Psychology Dean of the School of Philosophy Gannon University He didn't last long at Gannon, however, Msgr. Wilfrid Nash, who was teaching psychology, found him to be an extremely likeable person but soon became suspicious of Dr. French's credibility as a teacher. He was refuting the very fundamentals of psychology, Msgr. Nash said. It was soon decided that he would be dismissed at the end of the fall semester. But Demara, also a hard drinker, got himself caught before that. While hoisting a few with his cronies at the old Fisher Hotel — which stood where Beyer Hall now is— he became a bit rowdy. After smashing the mirror behind the bar, Demara was hauled off to jail, all the while protesting: Call Archbishop Gannon! Call Dr. Wehrle! After being booked and having a nationwide wire put out on him, French was discovered by the Erie police to be a phony. Thus ended Dr. French's brief career at Gannon University. —Compiled from the Gannon Knight, September 21, 1973. Msgr. Nash and family at the reception celebrating his elevation to Domestic Prelate (Monsignor) by Pope John XXIII — December 1960. At the formal signing of the Gannon-Hahnemann Cooperative Family Practice Program: Msgr. Nash and Dr. Martin Shober, President of Hahnemann Hospital and Medical College of Philadelphia — December 1974. 21 ? 3 I L Faculty 81 Administration Bishop Alfred M. Watson— Chairman, Board of Trustees JL u.i Msgr. Wilfrid J. Nash— College President Dr. Martin Larrey — Dean of Humanities Ronald Volpe — Dean of Business Administration 24 Dr. Joseph Scottino— Vice-President for Academic Affairs J. Kevin Quinn — Vice-President for Business Affairs Rev. Lawrence Speice— Vice-President for External Affairs Richard Dunford — Vice-President for Stu dent Personnel Dr. Halit Kosar— Dean of Science Engineering 25 Philip Kelly— Director, Open University Program Fred Marino — Public Relations Director Richard Sukitsch— Admissions Director Rev. Dr. Robert Levis— Director, Pontifical Center Raymond Cicero— Director, Evening Summer Sessions 26 Rev. Dr. Charles Draxler — Liberal Studies Director Dr. Rjchard Herbstritt— Director, Special Academic Programs ). Dr. David Frew — Direct or, MBA Program Dr. John Rouch — Director, Graduate Programs 27 Mary Pat Carney— Assistant Director of Financial Aid Lou Agnese — Director of Student Living Rev. Richard Sullivan— Director, Campus Ministry Rev. George Strohmeyer— Director, Freshman Services James Treiber — Financial Aid Director 28 Dennis Steele— Controller 1 l-T Marianne Bock — Ass't. Director of Student Living Sr. Cynthia DeWaelsche— Ass't. Director of Campus Ministry Joseph McLaughin — Director, Guidance Placement Ward McCracken — Registrar 29 Rev. Casimir Lubiak— Director, Library Learning Resource Center Rita Ann Nies — Assistant Librarian I Anna Finegan — Assistant Librarian Bernard Schroeck — Assistant Librarian 30 f Frederick Thompson— Director, Educational Opportunity Program 1 Ikr T Sr. Christian Koontz — Director, Tutorial Services Bonita Booker— Assistant Director, EOP Grace Da vies— Assistant Librarian 31 Mary Hilbert, R.N.— College Nurse Ivan George— Baseball Coach Howard Bud Elwell— Athletics Director Robert Timmons, M.D.— College Physician Richard Wrobel — Intramural Director Kathryn Smith— Bookstore Manager n Karen Morris— Coordinator Coach of Women's Athletics Shirley Kiehlmeier, R.N. —Assistant Nurse Edward Sparling — Head Basketball Coach Thomas Flatley — Mailroom Director 33 Robert Hammer — Director of Operations I Rosalie McBride — Affirmative Action Coordinator Ernest Ellis— Physical Plant Director Mario Bagnoni— Security Chief Joseph Bressan { 0 ©tta nir © John Alberstadt Accounting :'j 4 gj : William Latimer — Chairman 35 Economics Dr. John Susko Dr. Paul Tatsch Charles Bennett Rev. Robert Susa— Chairman Ernest Wright J Dr. Abdelrahman Aburachis Frank ScaUse— Part-time Management Q Lou Close David Eichelsdorfer— Chairman Atty. James Hanes— Part-time 37 Management Atty. Lee Fuller— Part-time Brian Napoli Marketing Atty. Lawrence Bolla — Part-time James Maskulka Timothy Oros— Part-time TUT Jni O A O fc Annmarie George Art Music Rev. Dr. Howard Niebling — Director Robert Wehrer— Chairman Paul Adams Education 39 English Rev. Dr. Paul DeSante— Chairman Dr. Cherie Ann Haeger Richard Zinober James Gates— Graduate Assistant Dr. Robert Guerrein — Part-time 40 i Dr Dennis Renner Dr. Dolores Sarafinski, O.S.B. Larry Moore— Graduate Assistant W J Edward Babowicz Mary Weckesser— Graduate Assistant 41 Marlene Chrisman— Part-time Dr. Charles Smith Margaret Tenpas— Part-time 42 Valerie Pizzat— Graduate Assistant Regis Sabol— Part-time 3 ft i David DeSante— Part-time English Sally LeVan— Graduate Assistant Pamela DiNicola — Part-time Dr. Robert Vales 43 Foreign Languages Cultures Dr. Miguel Sague — Spanish Rev. Dr. Robert Fin— Russian Dr. Paul Peterson — Latin (Chairman) William Carney — French Dr. Thomas Szendrey ■ History Dr. Frank Angotti— Chairman Dr. Robert Allshouse Dr. Matti Moosa Lydle Brinkle — Director Geography 45 Oh my! It's the Instructor By Elizabeth Bucarelli |t was the first day of class. Like most students, I was checking out this teacher to see how he would be with the course. (I have a fairly nasty habit of bolting when it seems the teacher — or the course — is going to be a bore. Needless to say, after five years of this game, my face is not all that welcome at the registrar's office.) Anyhow, I'm checking him out. If outward appearance is any indica- tion, he is going to be all right. Pleasant face. Bow tie. (For some reason, I like the bow tie. It fits his personality.) A smoker. (Good, he's not going to bug us nicotine fiends.) A smiler. (That is always good news.) After he plops a stack of faded blue-books on the table — his notes, we later find out — he is ready to begin. He gives the usual opening-day lecture. What he expects of us, what we can expect from him. First on everybody's mind is his grading system, so he talks about that. But something curious is happening. Something about the way he refers to himself. He doesn't say: For Friday, I want you to read the first two chapters . . . etcetera. He says: Your instructor wishes you to read the first two chapters . . . etcetera . . . . Your instructor ? Isn't he our instructor? Who is this man and who is he talking about? I have to find out more. So I ask him a question, I can't remember what it was. But when he calls on me, he asks me my name. Bucarelli. First name, please. It is a friendly, insistent tone. This is to become a catchphrase for the next few weeks. Nobody gets his question answered until the Instructor can get the name and the face soldered together in his mind. First name, please. Elizabeth. O.K. Liz. Liz! Nobody calls me Liz. Oh, well, if you want my nickname, it's 'Bucci.' O.K., Liz. This getsa big laugh, me included. And it was right after this exchange that I decided I really liked this Instructor guy — whoever he was. He was going to be some character. (I like characters. ) His lectures would probably be pretty good, and as I soon found out, they were: Inter- esting, detailed, funny tangents, here and there. (A lot of funny tangents, come to think of it.) The Instructor's real name? Gerard Patrick Walsh. (Oh, my.) A ttending a typical Walsh lecture is a lot like going to church in a revival tent. The subject isn't the same, but the style . . . the style is pure hellfire-whip-up-the-crowd- make - them - stand - up - and - shout - Amen! Give them the Vision! Show them the Way! Brother Gerard the Preacher-Man is going to lay down some heavy history to you, brothers and sisters. Brother Gerard is going to tell it, and you're going to hear it, brothers and sisters, you're going to hear it and understand] And that he does. Just like most revival-style preachers, Walsh is an excellent speaker and rhetorician. He conveys none of the frenzied urgency you find at revival meetings, but the electric atmosphere is still there. From the rolling cadence of his delivery, to the repetition of key phrases, to the rhetorical questions inserted strategically yet so casually into the narrative, to the direct, specific address to members of the class — the typical Walsh lecture is compelling. The way he talks, you almost have to listen. This is not to say all the students listen all the time. I can remember slipping in a few tic-tac-toe games with a friend during a not-so-com- pelling lecture. And other times you can see a student doodling, yawning, staring out the window . . . But this — here we are! — This is exactly the kind of situation the In- structor is geared for. If he sees a particular student slipping off, he 46 -Ji will call on him. Not necessarily to quiz him or ask him a question, but just to casually remind him he is in class. And so . . . T.R. was not a great but a near-great — Correct, Mr. Al- berstadt? — a near-great president. And the student will look up and confusedly nod his assent, and will usually pay attention for the re- mainder of the lecture, if for no other reason than to ensure comfortable anonymity. And woe unto the class that slips into mass boredom. The Instructor has a bag full of outrageous stunts, gestures, and anecdotes tailored just for the occasion. The most outrageous of these, as I recall, is the famous umbrella of God. Scene: Walsh sees the class isn't listening. Resolution: Walsh picks up his umbrella, opens it, leans back, this huge old black umbrella resting on his shoulder as though it were a delicate parsol shielding a Southern maiden from the ravages of the sun. All the while, he keeps on talking as if nothing out of the ordi- nary is happening. Then you hear it. A few muffled giggles. One student pokes his neigh- bor and points to the Instructor. This goes on down the row. Soon the whole class is roaring. Soon the whole class is . . . paying attention. But of course. And then it's back to the business of learning American history. Gets 'em back in the ball game, he says. The Umbrella of God, by the way, is the title he gave to this par- ticular stunt when I asked him about it. A curious title, to be sure, but for Gerard Patrick Walsh, it fits. He loves to coin his own special phrases and terms. Some of these are Walsh trademarks, insider phrases his students enjoy mimick- ing and trading among themselves. The Instructor is one. Oh, my! — one of his favorite and most frequent interjections — is another. Then the true fan will delight in recounting other curious Walsh terms. Does a certain historical personage always say the wrong thing at the wrong time? Walsh will say he is afflicted with a severe case of foot-in-mouth-ism. Is he a treacherous character? A true snake in the grass. A dimwit? Most as- surdly a mental midget. The villains and dimwits of history are aptly remembered in the lectures of Gerard Patrick Walsh. But then again, so are the good guys. Sometimes, in fact, he gets a bit too eloquent in their praise. More on that later. The total effect is what is important now. His lectures are so full of memorable buzzwords, alliterative phrases, and dramatic gestures that like the revival tent preacher, he almost always manages to keep his audience spellbound. Even an interview with the In- structor runs like a scenario out of one of these things, and he has a whole lecture prepared for me, notes and all. Let's start with philosophy of teaching, he says. O.K. First of all, a prof, if he is to have any effectiveness in class, must enjoy the good will — correct? — the good will of the class. Number two. A prof must have what? Real feeling for his subject matter. He becomes so involved in it that he forgets himself. He can't even hear himself talking. But when he hears himself talking, it's fright- ening, correct? Then he knows he's doing a bad job. I ask him if he has ever heard himself talking. There is a short pause, and then he says: 47 Yes. And fellows have come up to me after class and said: 'There's something wrong.' Sincerity is high on Walsh's teach- ing priorities. He doesn't put much stock in teaching theories, pedagogy, methodology. The instructor does not believe in it, he says. Does not believe in it. Thorough knowledge of the sub- ject is assumed; how the teacher communicates this knowledge to his students is what is important, he says. Knowledge that is not made meaningful to the student is knowl- edge lost. Hence the Walsh lecture. Re- hearsed dramatics have no place in the classroom, he says, but a good teacher has to be a ham actor to a degree. He has to show some emo- tion. You have to choke up a little bit with some of your own observa- tions . . . get goose-pimples, correct? Because if you don't, they won't. On this point, many of his students give Walsh an A plus. A random sampling of students yielded one common opinion: He gets students involved in history; he makes it real to them. Picture Mr. Walsh as putting you right in the situation, says Jim Gurino. He talks as if he were actually there, adds Dwayne Lynch. It's just like children listening to a story, says Matthew M.M. O.K., he's good, but the man isn't a saint. What are his flaws. No one comes forward with any. I like the guy, Gurino insists. I just plain like the guy. A bit of criticism creeps in from Linda Murawski, a junior history major. First, she says, He's stimu- lating enough even for a major — on the wealth of detail, the tangents. But, she adds, he might have a touch too much respect for the heroes and great men of history. She points to the time Walsh was extolling Benjamin Franklin's virtue, how he was faithful and true to his wife, and she challenged him on that point. It's a known fact that Franklin slept around, she says. Finally, she recalls, Walsh said: Oops — you forced me to say it — I didn't want to have to do it — Oh, my Franklin was not true to his wife. Later, when I ask him about this incident, he says: Sometimes things are better left unsaid. Not that I'm a myth-maker. Sure, he had amoral tendencies. But, he says, he didn't think it was that important. If it were directly relevant to the events of history, I would bring it out but I wouldn't emphasize it. Why not? I like the stronger points in people rather than the weaker ones, he says. Maybe he got stung, but Walsh probably also got his best compli- ment from Murawski. He manages to take a group of people and by the end of the semester they enjoy it, she says. He does much to improve the impression people have of history. '77 48 Msg. Michael Sedgwick Maj. Michael Konopka Military Science Maj. Rapheal Sayles Maj. Warren Huckabay Maj. James Kiley i V iiiif rfchjrA ■■ i Philosophy Rev. Dr. Edward Franz — Part-time Rev. Dr. Gilio Dipre Rev. Dr. John Prah Rev. Dr. Alphonse Crispo Michael Acri 50 Political Science Thomas Ostrowski Dr. Cregor Reinhard— Chairman Dr. Paul Kim Dr. Joseph LaFaro Rev. Dr. Stephen M ink e — Chairman 51 Mental Health Counseling Psychology 4 v Dr. Janet Klempay — Director Dr. Robert Nehen— Director, Guidance Counseling Dr. Kenneth Gamble Dr. John Fleming— Chairman Dr. John Duda 52 William Murphy— Director, Sociology Sociology Criminal Justice Social Work Judge William Phadt— Part-time IB M I 1 IV S •jyj| Al Ann Moffatt — Part-time Charles Murphy — Director, Social Work M. Jude Kirkpatrick— Director, Anthropology 53 Edward Brennan — Part-time Robert McCarthy — Part-time Sociology Criminal Justice Social Work Thomas Seiverling — Director, Criminal justice James Holbach Speech Theatre Communication Arts Anthony Miceli Rev. Thomas McSweeney— Chairman R. Michael Morris — Theatre Director , f ► 1 r a E Robert Falkewitz Philip Louis Rodzen — Part-time 55 Theology Rev. Gerald Orbanek— Chairman ■ Canon Warren Starrett— Part-time Barry Mitchell 56 Biology Rev. Dr. Joseph Gregorek— Director, Pre-Medical Pre-Dental Programs George Grignol Dr. Kenneth Andersen Dr. James McGivern 57 Biology Dr. Elmer Kohlmiller Rev. Dr. Austin O'Toole— Chairman Stanley Zagorski Dr. Richard Gammon 58 , Dr. Carl Hultman Dr. David Spaulding— Part-time Rev. Addison Yehl— Chairman Chemistry Dr. George Hesch 59 Chemistry Dr. Francis Pelczar Dr. Michael Bucholtz Dr. Warren Kennedy ■K s 1 1 f 1 ' 1 J I 11 Dr. Rama Corla — Director, Mechanical Eng. 60 Dr. William Hornfeck Frank Croskiewicz Nick DeLaura Arthur Cook Engineering Earth Science John Gilewicz— Director Engineering l? ■A rnw Dr. Hsaio Chi Loh Peter Barnhart — Part-time Dr. Tadeusz Czyzewski Jerry Selvaggi Thomas Miller 62 Edward Rogers Rev. James McCullough Mathematics Joann Maxwell — Part-time 63 Mathematics - 4= Thomas Freeman — Part-time Dr. Gerald Kraus Paul Weidle Rev. Richard Powers Sr. Christine Czapleski — Part-time 64 Physics Dr. Richard Sitter % s Dr. Joseph Leu Dr. Paul Griesacker— Chairman 65 Organizations Alpha Gamma Delta FRONT ROW: Nancy Murray, Paula Adams, Beth Paczolt. SECOND ROW: Carolyn Travers, Patty Koza, Roselle Randazzo.THIRD ROW: Bridget Davis, Mary Ann Thompson, Donna Morgan, Gina Minzak, Debby Herbol, Valerie Weber, Michele Genck, Monica Rodacy. 68 Alpha Phi Delta 1. FRONT ROW: Joe Triggiani, Dave Corello, Bob Kun, Dan Sharkey. SECOND ROW: Dave Jurenovich, Jim Larkin, Mike Sabol, Frank Porfido. THIRD ROW: Chip Navarro, Mark Foyil, Bill Colt. 2. Kevin Bentz, Pete Babnis, Frank Rossi, Dave Corello. 69 Tau Kappa Epsilon 1. FRONT ROW: Denny Nevidsky, Mark Pietrusinski, Bill Russell. SECOND ROW: Larry Desiderio, Bob Klinger. THIRD ROW: Brad Joll. FOURTH ROW: Jerry Cotter, Dan Durishan, Dan Latcovich, George Kip Koerner, Jim Lindquist, Dave Thompson, Lucian Drost. FIFTH ROW: George Strausbaugh, Joe Sunseri, Joe Francis, Mike Glaze. 2. FRONT ROW: Mark Pietrusinski, Scott Chadwick, Phil Carstensen, Russ Hannibal, Joe Francis. SECOND ROW: Tom Guckert, Bill Macecevic, Larry Durishan, Bob Klinger, Dan Latcovich, Mark Wetzel. FOURTH ROW: Larry Weis, Dave Thompson, Joe Sunseri (TOP), Lou Drost (BOTTOM), Kip Koerner. (ROOF) FRONT ROW: Don Kaminski, Mike Glaze, Jeff MacDonald, Jim Lindquist, Pat Conlon. SECOND ROW: Tom Liscinski, Dave France, George Strausbaugh, Tom McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Deeter. 70 1. Jean Cucuzza, Paul McCarthy, Jim Lindquist, Bob Klinger, Carolyn Er- rigo. 2. Scott Chadwick, Lou Drost. 3. John Fonzo, Bill McGivern, John Pistner, Dave Thompson, George Kip Koerner, Scott Chadwick, Thumper. 4. Joe Mahoney, Bruce Deeter, Jeff Lake, Dave Thompson, Tom Liscinski, Earl Englehart, Lou Drost, Chris Buckel, Pat Conlon. 5. Phil Carstensen. 71 Delta Chi 1. FRONT ROW: Gary Miller, Steve Szymanski. BACK ROW: Drew Kramer, Terry Kerr, Pat Mc- Donald. 2. FRONT ROW: Randy Heemer, Harry Yale, Robert Barnhart, Tim Heberle. SECOND ROW: Gary Brozek, Jerry Rocchi, Mike Car- ducci, Herman Salcedo. THIRD ROW: Paul Freeman. ABSENT: Tom Piskor, Jon Miles, Joe Mazurkiewicz, Carl Stock, Kevin Shaffer, Tom Shetter, Kevin Dieterle, Jack Simon. 72 Pi Kappa Alpha 1. FRONT ROW: Paul Carneval, Mike Podobnik, Brian Reffner, Dave Stancheck, Matt Hauser. SEC- OND ROW: Brian McAndrew, Bill Weyand, Pat Ochalek THIRD ROW: Ray Reichert, Marty Huegel, Paul Bressan, Kevin Hartley, Bob Murray, Todd Main. 2. FRONT ROW: Keith Kallenbach, Mark Rakovan, John Crandall, Paul Bressan. SECOND ROW: Mark Ochalek, Kevin Dickson, Al Jezewski, Jim Machek. THIRD ROW: Mark Amadio, Scott Yochim, Chris Makowka. FOURTH ROW: Les Phillips, Rick Hofmann, Bill Kloecker, Rich McCarty, Marty Hue- gel, Glenn Hunsperger. ABSENT: Bob Cheatle, John Knouse, Joe Coogan, Rick Jansen, John Wiegmann, Scott Brown, Bill Miller. 73 Showdown on Seventh Street The Delta Sigs discover that $45,000 can buy a lot more than a new home. BY PATRICIA MALIK T he Delta Sigma Phi fraternity bought a new house in December and quickly discovered they also bought some very angry neighbors. The Sigs spent $45,000 for the house at 510 West 7th Street. It wasn't until after the sale that they learned the property could not be used as a fraternity without a vari- ance in the city zoning ordinance. And the Sigs' new neighbors were determined to oppose any variance. By the end of the spring semester, the dispute was headed for Erie County Court, far from settled. The neighborhood in that area of West 7th Street already has one fraternity house (the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter), a rehabilitation center for alcoholics, an engineering consult- ing firm, and a group home for juvenile delinquents. Most of the other buildings are used solely as private residences. One notable ex- ception is a private home which houses both a photography studio business and one of the most out- spoken opponents of the fraternity. Zoning for the neighborhood per- mits only one or two-family dwellings or dwellings housing no more than five non-related persons. The Pi Kappa Alpha house, the group home, the engineers, and the alcoholic re- hab center are there as variances from the code. And that was how the Delta Sigma Phi brothers hoped they too could stay in their new neighborhood. T o obtain a zoning variance in the City of Erie, a property owner must have approval of the zoning board. In most cases, requests for variances are taken to city council where all those affected by the change can voice opinions about it. Council then votes on the request and sends its decision, in the form of a recom- mendation, to the zoning hearing board. If council's decision is with- in the zoning law, the board accepts it and the matter is settled. The Sigs began the process by petitioning city council for a hearing on their request for a variance. Such requests are advertised and soon the fraternity's new neighbors heard about it. One of them, Robert Coffey of 549 West 7th, organized the West Seventh Street Association and circu- lated a petition opposing the vari- ance. He claimed a minimum of 30 signatures and said no property owner who was asked refused to sign. Most residents, Coffey said, expressed fears of lower property values and loud fraternity parties if the Sigs were allowed to move in. Members of the association were clearly preparing to take their case to city council, but it never reached that stage. 74 FOR SAL The Sigs heard of the neighbor- hood opposition to their variance and, fearing they might not get a fair hearing before council because of it, withdrew their request. In- stead of the usual route, the fraternity took its request straight to the zoning hearing board where the variance was granted in early February. As the brothers celebrated and made new plans to move into their new quarters, some of their neigh- bors were making different plans— to appeal the board's decision in county court. Coffey charged that the college had used undue influence to bypass the council hearing. Councilman Mario Bagnoni, security officer at Gannon, was supposed to have bull- dozed the request through. Naturally this would be hard to prove, Coffey said, but we all know this is what happened. Bagnoni defended himself noting that the zoning hearing board came up with legitimate, recorded reasons for granting the variance and I had no control over the proceedings which led to it being granted. The zoning hearing board ap- proved the variance because of the presence of other nearby properties which did not conform to the general zoning of the neighborhood, and be- cause, in the board's official minutes, the proposed use (the Sigs' house) is in harmony with the adjacent properties. It might have been officially de- creed by the zoning board, but har- mony was still in short supply on West 7th Street. The West Seventh Street Association appealed the board's decision to the court of common pleas, where a judge was to hear the arguments at about the same time the Lance was to be printed. Although they did not buy their home through a realtor, Sig brothers Brad Farrah, Bill McGivern, and Jeff Boswell agreed to pose for this photo as a way of dramatizing their story. At this writing, they still do not know whether they will be able to keep the home they paid $45,000 for and contributed an additional $2,000 to in remodeling. Whatever the decision in court, the real controversy remains in the streets and yards of the 500-block of West 7th Street. Both sides tell dis- turbing stories about the treatment they receive. The permanent resi- dents describe all-night parties in which students get drunk and be- come obscene and disruptive. Fraternity brothers tell of neighbors throwing a baseball bat through their window during a Pikes party and slamming doors in their faces when the brothers tried to approach them as friends. There is some limited under- standing between the two sides. The Sigs recognize that their neighbors don't want to listen to the sounds of college students partying. The per- manent residents know that college students can be expected to be a little rowdy sometimes and that they must have some social life. But the understanding did not seem to help 75 ABOVE: Delta Sigs at their April dedication ceremony. FRONT ROW: Dan Cathcart, Kevin McAlee, Steve Santoro. SECOND ROW: Mike Griffin, Jeff Boswell, Brad Farrah, John Mottillo, Lenny Poser, Jon Allegretti, Rev. Casimir Wozniak (chaplain), Art Cow, Ed Rusner (district governor). THIRD ROW: John Mahoney, Bill Doran, Bill Bernardo. BELOW: Sig Brothers and guests enjoy a friendly round of poker at their Casino Night. 76 , r P Seventh Street Association members complain the fraternities disrupt their quiet life and contribute to property devaluation in the area. either side live more comfortably with the other. The Sigs' troubles seem to have started not last semester when they tried to move into their new home, but years before when the neighbor- hood first began its long co-existence with fraternities. Neighbors recall loud parties and drunken stragglers on their lawns from Pikes parties as far back as 1970. These memories, coupled with the prospect of a new source of the same kind of parties and drunken kids, caused the neighbors to take action against the Sigs. College President Msgr. Wilfrid Nash, when asked about the problem, tried to explain the college's atti- tude concerning fraternities and their neighbors. The college likes to think of the surrounding neighborhood as sort of surrogate parents to the fraternities, he said. The neighbors, in a sense, give the brothers the same sort of guid- ance they might receive from their own parents— not constant supervi- sion, but a gentle reminder of the norms of society. Nash added that students must get the experience of living with people outside college. In the case of the Sigs and the West Seventh Street Assoication, the con- cept of surrogate parents failed. The two groups could not even com- municate—all negotiation had to be left to lawyers in a courtroom. As for acquiring experience in the world outside college, it is sometimes possible to get too much too fast. p or the Delta Sigma Phi brothers, it was a tense and difficult spring semester. This has been a really tough situation to work with, Sig President Jeff Boswell said. Since I walked into the presidency and the case this last semester, I haven't known what to think or what to do. One thing the Sigs managed to do last semester was a little ironic, and a little optimistic. On a Saturday in April, while lawyers for the two sides were working on the appeal in county court, the brothers held a formal dedication ceremony for their new, and embattled, home. They might never live in it, but it was officially dedicated. What would the fraternity do if the case is lost in common pleas court? We would try to get as much as we could for the house, Boswell said, and then start looking for another one. The hard question is what happens if they win. Learning to live with their neighbors cOuld be even tougher on the brothers of Delta Sigma Phi than the long hard spring of 1977. '77 77 Shieks FRONT ROW: Ken Heidkamp, Terry Marynchek, Greg Starr, Bill Donnelly, John Ciminella, Paul Mora- bito, Keith Larkin, Pat Dugan. SECOND ROW: Tim McGrane, Terry Haggerty, Rick Wallace, Bruce Patterson, Ed Carnegie, Dap Pernice. THIRD ROW: Jim Torok, Chris Knoll, Greg Santora, Doug Pont- zer, Jeff Devinney, Jamie Hodinko. 78 Inter- Dormitory Council 1. FRONT ROW: Janie Hejmowski, Marcy Simon, Mari Jo Virgili, Hugh Davis. BACK ROW: Marianne Bock (adviser), Jim Rose, Kathy Lynch, Mark Suprock. 2. Jack Simon (Delta Chi), Monica Rodacy (Alpha Gamma Delta), Jim Larkin (Alpha Phi Delta), Chip Navarro (Alpha Phi Delta), Debby Herbol (Alpha Gamma Delta), Bob Barnhart (Delta Chi), Pat McDonald (Delta Chi). REPRESENTATIVES ABSENT: Delta Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Interfraternity Council 79 FB's 1. FRONT ROW: John Lews- neski, Alex Miraldi, Joe Issue, John Wozniak BACK ROW: Fran Thompson, Rich Kirkner, Brad Heasley, Ron Swiner, Ed Warner, Ro d Morris. 2. John Lewsneski, Ron Swiner, Brad Heasley, Joe Issue, Jim Cooney. 3. Jeff Cheeks Zeigler, Paul Huber. 4. Fran Thompson, Rich Kirkner, Dave Ohman, Brad Heasley. 80 Bullsheeters FRONT ROW: Jack Simon, Marianne Bock (adviser), Joe Smith, Gary Zuzo. SECOND ROW: Annie Meyers, Ed Seeley, Terry Maher, Eddie Cuthman, Mike Nasca. THIRD ROW: Glenn Walker, Keith Ziberna, Joe DiGregorio, Tim Whitcomb, Jan Pisarski, Dave Merison. FOURTH ROW: Doug Zimmer, John L. Johnson, Jack Yakish, Rick Kocan, Jim Bumbaugh, Brent Walker, Craig Parker. 81 St. Mark Seminary 1. FRONT ROW: Jeff Lucas, Chris Hanlett, Dennis Rausch, Chuck Gelsinger, Pat Kirsch, Gary Espy. SECOND ROW: Mike Seidler, Jay Schultz, Tom Welsh, John Williams, James McCormick. THIRD ROW: Matt Lukasiak, Mark Bartchak, Greg Kirsch, Bruce Hunt, Joe Gebhardt. 2. FRONT ROW: Greg Olsafsky, Mark Morrison, Merle Mullens, Greg Passauer, Ted Marconi, Joe Chiocca. SECOND ROW: John Shore, Paul Hajdukiewicz, Don Maus, Pat McNamee, Paul Rolan, Pat Leonard, John Shore, Kevin Feyas, Bill Miller, Don Spencer. THIRD ROW: Mike Scott, Jerry Roevan, Mike Tabin, Pat Mal- loy, Greg Kokasko, Kevin Kraus, Paul Sorg, Jim Godel. FOURTH ROW: Bill Sutherland, Alan Kline, Gary M ocarski, Tim Schreck. 82 Resident Advisers 1. FRONT ROW: Gtenn Walker, Suzi Murray, Mary Jane Hejmovv- ski, Marge Robinault. BACK ROW: Karen Pennington, Carolyn Ken- nedy, Mary Ann Burich, Annie Laurie Meyers. ABSENT: Gretchen Hahn. 2. FRONT ROW: Gary Ryan, Mike Simone, Tim Fox. BACK ROW: John Quinlan, Jimmy De- mino, Dave Tobin, Mark Brown- hill. ABSENT: Mark Eberly. 83 Scabbard and Blade Raiders 1. Tim Fox, Paul Wojciechowski, Henry Stolz, Paul Stadler ABSENT: Mark Sullivan. 2. FRONT ROW: Jeff Frey, Chris Yeakle. SECOND ROW: Craig Buss, Matthew Malinowski. THIRD ROW: Tim Uzarski, Maj. Warren Huckabay (adviser), Tim Fox, Msg. Michael Sedgwick, Ben Depiro. 84 Pershing Rifles 1. FRONT ROW: Fred Mattern, John Sharer. BACK ROW: Bob Novak, Henry Stolz, Rob Pauley, Paul Stad- ler, Tom Schreier. 2. FRONT ROW: David Bates, Bob Spangler. BACK ROW: Brad Perrine, Ray Dunn, Tim Meehan, Mike Sabo, Tim Uzarski, Rick Liebenstein. 85 Ron Seroka — Editorial Board Molly Kohlmiller . KHim Herb Schultz— Editorial Board VP fee gsgs f M 1 ■ 1 4 B H ; 1 ■ ■ h H| Ken Pieri— Editorial Board Fran Thompson — Sports Editor 87 The Lance Fran Millis Valerie Wein— Layout Editor J. Martin Seroka Mark Zamierowski Theresa DeMark 88 Ken Lewis Patti Malik — Copy Editor Becky Briggs— Sports Editor 89 A.). Uhrmacher Matt Rouch, Mark Shaughnessy, Lowman Henry — General Manager, Mike Riley, Cathy Thorn Mary Rotunda 90 Mike Robinson, Steve Bohen FRONT ROW: Cathy Thorn, Molly Kohlmiller. SECOND ROW: A.J. Uhrmacher, Sharon Plumb, Cindy Mack, Matt Rouch, Mark Shaugh- nessy. THIRD ROW: Lowman Henry, Gary Loncki, Joe Mieczkowski, Dan Walker, Mike Robinson, Jim Griffey, Mike Riley, John Stehr, Bob Beyea. 91 92 Student Government Association 1. REPRESENTATIVES: Gary Smith, Don Jenkins, Les Phil- lips, Joyce Brzuz, Marcia Wro- blewski, Rich Serafin, Amy Daugherty, Dave Hardick, Sue Daugherty, Tom Shetter, Andrea Bordash, Steve Szy- manski, Monica Rodacy, Bob Magverigle. 2. EXECUTIVE BOARD: Doug Bucher, Therese Niedenberger, Jim Craeca, Jullia Sheridan. 'V Student Social Board 1. EXECUTIVE BOARD: Dave Jurenovich, Tom Piskor, Candy McCloy. ABSENT: Jim Lindquist. 2. REPRESENTATIVES (FRONT ROW): Joe Meko, Mark Suprock, Patti Malik, Betsy Kennedy, Tina Marut, Mary Jo Virgili, Paula Johnson, Arlene Piskor. BACK ROW: Greg Will, Kathy Spang- ler, Pat McDonald, Bill Colt, Drew Kramer, Geri Cicchetti. 93 --. Talisman Players Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Honorary Society 1. FRONT ROW: John Wilt- berger, Chuck Smith, Amy Krenzer, Kevin Chapman, Tracy Parks, Ann Owens. SECOND ROW: Ann Marie Leyden, Jo- anne Hodge, Tim Clancey, Karen Vasil. THIRD ROW: Gerald Halter, Mary Ann Kania, Rev. Thomas McSweeney, Bob Pontis, Mike Riley, John Popo- vich, Michael Alberstadt, Bill Robbins, Linda Gamble. 2. FRONT ROW: Mary Ann Kania, Gerald Halter, Molly Kohl- miller, John Wiltberger, Linda Gamble, Ann Owens. BACK ROW: Ann Marie Leyden, Timothy Clancey, Kevin Chap- man, John Popovich. 94 r M ' - f (§ Alpha Epsilon Rho National Honorary Broadcast So ciety 1. FRONT- ROW: Joe Mieczkowski, Bill Kloecker, Jim Griffey, Jim Cook, Mark Shaughnessy. SECOND ROW: Cindy Mack, Cathy Thorn, Ann Marie Leyden. THIRD ROW: Harry Hair- ston, Steve Bohen, Tony Bonvini, Jim Gandolfo, Bob Beyea, Russ Ter- beek, Mike Alberstadt, A.J. Miceli (adviser), Mike Robinson, Gary Loncki, Ken Monroe. 2. FRONT ROW: Chris Potalivo, Wayne Robinson, Herce Alcocer. BACK ROW: Leo Szczesny, Vince Trejchel, William Trabold, Kevin Cooney, Andy Warholak, Eric Gunther, Bill Weaver, Dr. John Duda (advisor), Dan Walker. Amateur Radio Club 95 Student Investment Trust Society Of Physics Students 1. Matt Malinowski, Dave Ohman, Jim Graeca, Chris Vogt. 2. FRONT ROW: David Jordan, Jo Ellen Habas, Susan Haywood. BACK ROW: Jerry Ondrey, John L. Johnson, Debbie Shenk, Charles Niederriter, John Jacquel. 3. FRONT ROW: J.C. Robinson, Kathy Seman, Andrea Bordash, Kris Holtz, Lorraine Komo- rek. BACK ROW: Joseph Fromknecht, Mark Malone, David Eichelsdorfer (adviser), Jeff Liebel. 4. FRONT ROW: Mark Wichrowski, Bernadette Laskowski, John Wiegmann, Andrea Bordash, Fran Millis, Lois Ochs, Mark Sullivan. BACK ROW: Brad Farrah, Sam Lewis, Tom Antolik, Jim Demino, Joe Krall, Gary Ryan, George Adamson, Dan Madlehner, Scott Brown, Don Wilkens, Ernest Wright (adviser). % Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Society Omicron Delta Epsilon 97 Beta Beta Beta Honorary Biology Society 98 1. FRONT ROW: Doug Zimmer. SECOND ROW: Cindy Gula, Steve Ropski, Mark T. Bloomstine, Dave France, Lenny Nasca. THIRD ROW: Mike Gregorek, Paul Newell, Pam Hornamann, Mike Hagerty, Marci Pokriva, Michelle Mikolujczak, Mary Ann Lucas. FOURTH ROW: Linda Kraus, Helen Schilling, Pat Buszek, Marleen Bandur. 2. FRONT ROW: Lynn Simon, Mary Kay Ondich, Lisa Cookson, Rose Mary Corke, Carol Zimmer. BACK ROW: Jeff Huth, Brent Walker, Betsy Balko, Helen Schil- ling, Mark Toncini, Debbie Crieb, Linda Bentz. 3. College President Msgr. Wilfrid Nash presents Tri-Beta President Doug Zimmer with the Bertholf Award, given annually to the most active Tri-Beta chapter in the United States. 4. Pat Buszek, Helen Schilling. 5. Jo Ellen Habas, Doug Zimmer, Darlene Snider, Steve Ropski. 99 Anthropology Club FRONT ROW: Joe Sarte, Jude Carino, Richard Laurie, Lynn Slurkanich. SECOND ROW: Dave Alessa, Peggy Rutkowski, Sama Soffa, Jody Cook, Mary Adams. THIRD ROW: Jim Lee, Tom Kirclick, Chris Knoll, Peter Stolz. Who's Who Among Students In American Universities And Colleges 100 Lambda Alpha Honor Society For Anthropologists FRONT ROW: Jude Carino, Jim Lee. BACK ROW: David Alessa, Sama Soffa, Tom Kirclick. 1. FRONT ROW: Ken Pieri, Joe Wie- hagen. SECOND ROW: Debbie Grieb, Patty Cooney, Ann Owens. THIRD ROW: Rich Kirkner, Matt Hauser. 2. FRONT ROW: Therese Nieden- berger, Jo Ellen Habas, Mark Wich- rowski, Jeff DelFuoco. BACK ROW: John L. Johnson, Mary Anne Burich, Jullia Sheridan, Carolyn Kennedy, Jim Demino. 101 German Club E ducation Club 1. FRONT ROW: Lucy Kibbey, Cathy Shea, Patricia Cooney, Fran Snyder, Monica Mueller, Lisa Vickey, Linda Becker. BACK ROW: Mark Zamierowski, Dr. Bertl Weber (adviser), Steve Pede, Lance Strasser, Laura Hagen. 2. Dr. Robert Wehrer (adviser), Sherry Bell, Peggy Wickett, Christie Starr, Gerry Uhl, Duncan Gildersleeve, Tom Ferri. 102 Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honor Society Spanish Club 1. FRONT ROW: Laura Hagen, Lucinda Kibbey , Gretchen Schlabach . BACK ROW: Daniel Davis , Paul Williams , Frank Abal , Dr. Gordon Hensley (sponsor of Edinboro State College's chapter), Dr. Martin Larrey (dean of humanities), Dr. Miguel Sague (sponsor of Gannon's Mu Eta chapter). 'Members installed. 2. FRONT ROW: Susan Withrow, Lynette Lara, John Ciminella, Donna Grimes, Claire Liebenstein, Laura Hagen. BACK ROW: Mildred Ferguson, Lucinda Kibbey, Dr. Miguel Sague (ad- viser), Raguel Contreras, Valerie Kokor. 103 Historical Society Political Science and Pre-Law Club 1. FRONT ROW: DrT Robert Allshouse (adviser), David Earls, Linda Murawski, Dr. Frank Angotti, Dr. Thomas Szendrey. BACK ROW: Patrick Dunlap, David Bernatowicz, Edward Bolla. ABSENT: Mark Becer, Debra Nessel- hauf, Mark Steg. 2. FRONT ROW: Greg Ellis, Bev Walker, Therese Niedenberger, Jullia Sheridan, Marty Clark. BACK ROW: Pat Hogan, Thomas Ostrowski, Dr. Gregor Reinhard (adviser), Dr. Paul Kim, Bob Parlock. 104 Psychology Club 1. FRONT ROW: Lynn Michaelism, Lisa Cook- son, Kathy Seman, Paula Wieszczyk, Kathy Yambor. SECOND ROW: Mark Roman, John Konkol, Sharon Plumb, Jaime Diaz, Mary Jean Dombroski. THIRD ROW: John Wiegmann, Christal Starr, Viv Caspar, Patti Malik, Peggy Scottino. FOURTH ROW: Cindy Bartholomew, Mary Luber, Dave Karotko, Tom McKinley, Greg Starr. FIFTH ROW: Rick Danch, Marty Wislinski, Doug Starr, Carl Williams, Mark Sitarik. SIXTH ROW: Gary Abrahm, Mary Jo Fleming, Kathy Jerioski, Tom Reese. 2. FRONT ROW: Mary Beth Wade, Marilyn Cairns. BACK ROW: David Dorich, Joseph DiFuccia, Richard Lauer, Dr. John Duda (adviser). 105 Commuter Organization 1. Greg Will — President. 2. FRONT ROW: Kathy Yambor, Joe Meko, Nancy Murray. BACK ROW: Chris Buckel, Viv Caspar, Sharon Plumb, Cindy Mack, Paula Wies- zczyk, Mary Ann Thomp- son. ABSENT: Carolyn Travers. Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers 106 Society Of Mechanical Engineers 1. FRONT ROW: Kathleen Smith, Mark Silenas, Bob Flowers, Jaime Diaz, Tim Yurchak, Joseph Smith, Dan Pur- zycki. BACK ROW: Thomas Miller (adviser), Tony Mac iulewk , Int Zelina, Ted Rudolf, Dan Melchior, Ron Wiefling, Ron Paluso, Steve Szymanski. 2. FRONT ROW: George Guzak, Marty Wislinski, Dr. Halit Kosar (adviser), Greg Confer. SECOND ROW: Henry Town, Jim Luddy, Mark Kamenii , Dennis Burek, Tony Maciulewicz. THIRD ROW: Andy Warholak, Tim Yurrhak, Greg Starr, Barb Mioduszewski, Joe Hawn. 3. ASME members submitted this photo, taken at the ASME basketball competition in March at the University of West Virginia. Dr. Kosar reports they lost the competition, but from the looks of this photo they didn't let that get in the way of a good time. FRONT ROW: Dennis Burek, Marty Wislinski, Dr. Halit Kosar, Tony Maciulewicz, Hitesh Kapadia, Tim Johnson, George Guzak. BACK ROW: Tim Yurchak, Greg Confer, Andy Warholak, Greg Starr, Dan Kalivoda, Mark Kamenic, Jim Luddy. 107 s •1% rts 1. Vernon Robinson. 2. Aysar Susan. 3. FRONT ROW: Mike Federici, Jim Deming. SECOND ROW: Joe Hahn, Aysar Susan, Ken Pugar, Ross Toussaint, Brian Booth, Gerry Knight. THIRD ROW: Vernon Robinson, Diboun Lahcen, Gary Zuzo, Pasquale Fioretti, Jim Clark, John Stehr, David Gittelman, Seroj Zadoorian, Mark Catanzoro, Matt Coppola, Jim Niese. ABSENT: Michael Griffin. 4. Joe Hahn. 5. Mike Federici. 110 Soccer in 1. Ross Toussaint. 2. Mark Catanzaro, Ken Pugar. 3. John Stehr. 112 Season Rec ord W— 5 L— 8 Opponent Score Opponent Score Niagara University 1-4 Wheeling 2-1 Fredonia State 0-2 Buffalo State 0-5 Mercyhurst 5-0 Alliance 2-1 St. Vincent 8-0 Indiana State 2-4 Behrend 0-2 Edinboro 2-1 Grove City 1-2 Slippery Rock 1-4 Univ. of Pittsburgh 2-3 113 J Golf 1. Mark Musone. 2. Dan Stephenson. 3. FRONT ROW: Bill Lupone, Dan Stephenson, Bob Wagner, Mark Musone, Terry Obringer. BACK ROW: Coach Bud Elwell, Chris Drongosky, Jim Braun, Gary Stewart, Lou Natalie. ABSENT: Greg Colosi. 4. Mark Musone. 114 Season Record W-25 L-8 T-1 Opponent Score Canisius 400-418 Univ. of Buffalo 374-385 Canisius 395-416 Buffalo State 395-429 Niagara CC 395-432 Niagara University 380-418 St. Bonaventure 373-425 St. Bonaventure 384-398 Edinboro 469-458 Clarion 469-492 Clarion 370-378 California State 370-370 Alliance 370-434 Robert Morris 370-402 Geneva 6-1 Allegheny 383-380 Alliance 383-445 Edinboro 383-368 Behrend 401-422 Mercyhurst 454-430 Edinboro 454-434 Behrend 375-411 Alliance 368-421 Youngstown 368-371 Youngstown 395-384 Akron 395-393 Univ. of Pittsburgh 395-419 West Liberty 395-422 Alliance 395-436 Mercyhurst 389-390 Rochester 389-412 Rochester Ins. Tech. 389-409 Youngstown 389-398 Grove City 396-403 Tournament Record Youngstown St. Inv. 3rd of 12 Tri-State College. 3rd of 16 Brooklea Inv. 1st of 21 Edinboro St. Inv. 5th of 11 L.C. Boles Inv. 3rd of 12 Allegheny Inv. 3rd of 12 ECAC Upstate NY Reg.3rd of 21 ECAC Championship 8th of 12 Dale Beckler Inv. 5th of 21 Indiana Inv. 5th of 6 Penn State Inv. 10th of 16 115 Basketball 116 1. Fate Harris. 2. Joe Blanks. 3. Joe Blanks. 4. Joe Blanks, Tim Whitcomb. 5. Neal Stoczynski. 117 118 1. Neal Stoczynski. 2. Stan Sligh. 3. Fate Harris, Neal Stoczynski. 4. Tony Jones. 119 Season Record W-2C I L-8 Opponent Score Opponent Score Steubenville 95-78 LeMoyne 76-74 Geneva 86-59 Youngstown 85-68 Allegheny 88-70 Indiana-Purdue 84-71 Buffalo State 89-60 Alliance 80-66 Alliance 116-77 Mercyhurst 81-77 Wheeling 80-72 St. Bonaventure 65-91 Tennessee Tech 64-74 St. John Fisher 95-72 Denver 79-76 Youngstown 78-82 King's 89-77 Akron 79-91 Armstrong 73-65 Slippery Rock 72-67 St. Francis 89-72 Edinboro 75-73 Cheyney 73-76 Phila. Textile 65-79 Duquesne 90-92 Hartwick 66-68 Fredonia 77-72 Phila. Textile 85-67 Porreco Cup NCAA East Regional 1. Coach Ed Sparling. 2. Dan Adamson. 3. Pete Buckowski. 4. Tony Jones, Joe Blanks. 5. FRONT ROW: Van Lamb, Stan Sligh, Pete Buckowski, Bill Butler, Fate Harris. SECOND ROW: Rod Morris, Tim Whitcomb, Neal Stoczynski, Dan Adamson. THIRD ROW: James Hobbie, Mike Hooks, Tony Jones. FOURTH ROW: Ed Warner, Joe Blanks. FIFTH ROW: Frank Miller. 120 fiM ■Jif 121 n ■Mi1 MM J F 3 1 kv. 122 Women's Basketball 1. Wynette Domon. 2. Sue Johnson, Margot Presto. 3. FRONT ROW: Tess Crotty, Joan Wasylosky, Felicia Johnson, Wynette Domon. BACK ROW: Coach Karen Morris, Margot Presto, Kate Brickley, Yvonne Yelensky, Sue Johnson, SuAnn Sekula, Joyce Bogusky. ABSENT: Kathy Kyle. 4. Kate Brickley. 5. Margot Presto. Season Record W-2 L-13 Opponent Score Opponent Score Jamestown CC 22-82 Westminster 32-52 Edinboro 22-120 Mercyhurst 38-50 Behrend 39-53 Clarion 22-78 Villa Maria 2-0 Thiel 31-54 (Forfeit) Allegheny 15-61 Behrend 45-86 Villa Maria 2-0 Allegheny 42-79 (Forfeit) Grove City 44-56 Clarion 26-62 Mercyhurst 35-72 123 Hockey 1. Cliff Ziegler, Mike Sandberg. 2. Dave Jerge. 3. John Chisholm. 4. Doug Skelly. 5. Tim Wynne, John Chisholm, Dan Dranch. Season Record W-14 L-8 T-3 Opponent Score Pittsburgh Junior A's 4-2 Carnegie-Mellon 13-2 St. Bonaventure 8-1 St. John Fisher 2-5 Niagara University 15-3 Erie CC 3-5 Niagara University 9-4 Geneseo 4-7 Pittsburgh Junior A's 5-3 Canisius 2-5 Duquesne 7-1 Niagara University 6-6 Erie CC 4-3 Canisius 6-4 St. John Fisher 2-3 Canisius 5-5 St. John Fisher 5-5 Geneseo 5-2 Geneseo 3-4 Univ. of Pittsburgh 3-10 St. John Fisher 8-2 Niagara University 15-2 Erie CC 9-3 Finger Lakes Collegiate League Championship Playoffs Erie CC 4-5 Canisius 4-2 125 Season Record W-1 L-14 Opponent Score Opponent Scores Thiel 0-2 Mercyhurst 0-2 Behrend 0-2 Allegheny 0-2 Mercyhurst 0-2 Grove City 0-2 Clarion 0-3 Grove City 0-2 Clarion 0-2 Behrend 0-2 Allegheny 0-2 Villa Maria 1-2 Villa Maria 2-0 Thiel 0-2 Westminster 0-2 1. Chris Smith, Patty Curtin, Barbie Lanzel. 2. Chris Smith, Mary Ann Ferraino. 3. Barbie Lanzel. 4. Becky Briggs, Chris Smith. 5. FRONT ROW: Mary Ann Ferraino, Chris Smith, Cindy Hido, Patty Curtin. BACK ROW: Coach Karen Morris, Barbie Lanzel, Eliane Pugnalin, Becky Briggs, Nancy Combs, Renee Krizan, Sue Matthews, Wynette Domon. 126 127 Women's Tennis 3 r ■ 4 ■- J. ■ If • f ' V - -J ♦ • svv ' m ¥' K 1 i Lit- 4 . n 1 i «6 M ■ 0 B i wV ■ •   ► '51 j - J n ► «i ■ ir ff ' l _ .  H ! . 4 J - • ■ SSI __ I- 128 Season Record W-4 L-6 Opponent Score Opponent Score Villa Maria 5-2 Mercyhurst 3-4 Behrend 5-2 Villa Maria 6-1 Grove City 4-3 Westminster 1-6 Allegheny 2-5 Mercyhurst 3-4 Edinboro 1-6 Edinboro 1-6 1. Joyce Bogusky. 2. Vivian Caspar. 3. Mary Jo Virgilli. 4. Mary Ellen Watson. 5. Joyce Bogusky. 6. Lisa Cookson. 129 Softball Season Record W-2 L- -7 Opponent Score Behrend 3-11 E'dinboro 0-22 Edinboro 0-16 Villa Maria 19-14 Mercyhurst 1-3 Behrend 2-18 Villa Maria 20-5 Allegheny 8-12 Mercyhurst 13-30 130 Men's Tennis Season Record W-11 L -5 Opponent Score Opponent Score Canisius 7-2 Grove City 5-4 Niagara 5-1 Slippery Rock 3-6 Univ. of BuffaN D 8-1 Edinboro 0-9 Edinboro 2-7 Behrend 5-4 Buffalo State 9-0 Mercyhurst 0-9 St. Bonaventure 8-1 Cleveland State 7-2 Fredonia 7-2 Geneva 8-1 Akron 5-4 Youngstown 0-9 Cheerleaders 1. Debbie Crieb. 2. Barbie Lanzel, Sue Withrow. 3. FRONT ROW: Rich Dopierala, Tom Hammar, Howie Levin. BACK ROW: Coach Dave Smith, Tom Williamson, Dennis Borczon, Rich Prokopchak. 4. FRONT ROW: Barbara Estock. SECOND ROW: Barbara Miodus, Mary Ellen Depree, Karen Clark. THIRD ROW: Nancy Murray, Priscilla Janocha, Kathy Schultz. :! 131 132 Baseball 1. Rick Perretta. 2. Rick Perretta. 3. Mark Ganska. 4. Coach Ivan George. 5. FRONT ROW: Brian Orlowski, Rudy Pas- sauer, Kevin Best, Mark Shychuk, Brad Heasley, Tim Armanini. BACK ROW: Mark Ganska, Rick Perretta, Dave Morosky, Rick Hofer, Mark Fazio, Mark Reinstadtler, Coach Ivan George. Season Record W-9 L- -24 Opponent Scores St. Bonaventure 6-0 Buffalo State 1-2 2-7 Mercyhurst 2-1 1-9 Houghton College 15-0 7-1 Geneva 5-7 14-8 Youngstown 2-8 0-3 Clarion 6-5 6-11 Canisius 2-3 2-5 Slippery Rock 7-20 2-7 Behrend 3-2 2-8 Alliance 3-7 5-6 Mercyhurst 4-5 2-6 Point Park 1-8 2-12 Niagara 3-2 2-3 Akron 3-5 0-6 Edinboro 2-8 4-8 Grove City 1-0 4-6 133 134 135 4 ij ■ I • . 'Mb i yr Jt ' , , s- • n  (tf fi k -• ,Aia 3oa ja  iJdtft T, : 1.7 ( • 1 v. ■ II . Uv - K Campus Life Freshman Orientation 138 Telethon 4 1. Chris Zaremba, Pat Conlon, Paul Thomann. 2. Joyce Cooper, Pat Conlon, Kathy Miller. 3. Don Noerino '68, Tom Doolin '61. 4. Lori Griffith, Lynn Simon. 139 140 24th Annual Model United Nations 1. FRONT ROW: Cathy George, Linda Murawski (Public Relations Director), Rick Hockensmith (Secretary-General) , Julie Sajewski (Treasurer), Dr. Gregor Reinhard (General Moderator) , Jeffrey Rouch. SECOND ROW: Patrick Dunlap, Ed Bolla, Dave Bernatowicz (President, Security Council), Therese Niedenberger (Floor Manager), Jullia Sheridan (Floor Manager), Bill Sutherland, Kathryn Greenholt, Diane Adkins, Dave Herbert, Les Phillips, Jim Vergotz, John Wells, Barb Visnosky, Martha Clark. THIRD ROW: Steve Krivonaic, Kathy Comper- nolle (Transportation) , Kay Beill. ABSENT: Ann Marie Kerber, Sandy Manno, Mark Haibach. 2. Rick Hockensmith (Secretary-General) . 141 Would you believe, love? Meet Janet Harry, pinochle freaks, cornball comics, and other familiar characters in this semi-fictional account of what really goes on down there in the commuter lounge. BY MARK ZAMIEROWSKI N othing happens until something is sold. . . . and when that first sleep- awkward hand drops a dime into the jukebox by the cigarette ma- chine, five people at five separate tables re-experience birth, someone spills coffee, they wake up to dif- ferent lines constricting across the pages of different textbooks: — Wait for a familiar face, they think. Rub eyes. Clear throat. A cigarette? yes, I've been up long enough. Four matches and a sluggish Zippo grow into blue to grey to yellow flames, and die in flashy hand gestures. Elva steps into the doorway. The lurker at the threshold, yes, and two- dimensional against the kitchen's blue-aluminum glare, she yells: — BREAKFAST! ... and that's another total bodyshock . . . and someone else spills coffee . . . and Bruce Springsteen sings: Together we could break this trap — We'll run till we drop, Baby we'll never go ba-a-ck. Whoa- ao-oo-o' Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen. 1975 Laurel Canyon Music Ltd. (ASCAP). B oy, do you look foul. No kidding, are you taking something. People weren't meant to look like that . . . naturally. — I need coffee. Black, greasy, one large . . . coffee. —You need something, man. Really, like . . . — Shut up. — You look like a Penney's throw rug, man. I mean, really. — Hey, you like glazed doughnuts? —Yeah, I like glazed doughnuts. — Yeah? In your right ear? Hunh? Hunh? You like 'em crammed in your right ear? — Oh, wow! Well just par-don me fer liv-in. Really. E ight o'clock classes let out. Now comes another day's uncontrolled flow of bodies. Here begins the formation of coffee-cliques, the staking out of territories. There some card-carriers play pinochle, in touch with chance and the reality of open possibilities. And there is mole-life in the dimmer corners here; or there, safe with backs against cold concrete block . . . with eyes that take in everything in greedy swallows, but ricochet off eye-contact like pinballs trapped be- tween fast-action bumpers . . . with faces scowling into books in posed attitudes of genius-ship . . . with hands that don't know what to do. And everywhere, people . . . talk: — Hey, have you seen Anne around? I'm really worried about her. Last time I saw her was in Sociology and she looked like she wanted to cry or something. May- be I was just imagining it, I don't know. But I do know that she didn't look like herself, and, you know, it worried me. — Hmm. I hope nothing's wrong with her. She's got my Biology notes. Oh yeah, by the way: What the hell do we have Perkinje fibers for? — I suppose I should call her or something. She's been gone a week and a half now . . . Perkinje fibers? r rom ten o'clock to some indefi- nite minute after one, time has very little effect on anyone. People come and go like after-images on a tele- vision screen: Your basic Andy Grif- fith fades, gives way to a pasty-faced Don Knotts that shakes and spills a lot of coffee. Conversations build. There's a rampant droning out of voices now, that mingles with the bass lines of the jukebox which is singing: 142 143 The Lives o' the Party break into schtick . . . elbows snap off table edges, straws go up a couple noses . . . some try Johnny Carson monologues . . . very little fresh material . . . 144 Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time. Maybe I'm amazed at the way I need you. Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song, right me when I'm wrong, Or maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you. And there are people laughing lunatic-loud. The Lives o' the Party break into schtick: some tired slap- stick (elbows snap off table edges, straws go up a couple noses), some tired Johnny Carson monologues . . . very little fresh material . . . — I t's facile, Harry, facile. Lame, very lame. —Well, I never said it was profound, Janet. —Profound?— snort— Try warmed- over, Harry. You're talking warmed-over. And I know where you get it from, Harry. I know you think I think I know, but I know I know. It's the same with all you English majors: You real all this trash that ends with love mak- ing the world go 'round, and you . . . Oh, you just love that, don't Maybe I'm Amazed by Paul McCartney Wings. Music and lyrics by Paul McCartney. Warner Bros Pub (ASCAP) . you, Harry? Before you know it, you start to believe it! It comes from denying the scientific ap- proach to life. You divorce your- self from reality and then you blame reality for not living up to par. -It's a nice sentiment at any rate. -Sentiment's right. But nothing more. Love simply will not solve the problems of the world, Harry. Love will not give you oil. It will not give you natural gas. -Wanna bet? -Don't be cute, Harry. Cute I don't need. You're very ugly when you're cute or try to be. -Well, anyway, I don't think anyone ever said love would solve the problems of the world, Janet. That's an overexaggeration at best. -Then what, pray, are they driving at? -Well, it's like . . . It's like the uni- verse, you know. -Oh, for cryin' out loud . . . -No. Like you have to start with some dynamic center, right? some center of gravity to give you a little certainty. Once you have that, then you can start progressing . . . get into problem-solving and such. -Was that a Word from Unity? — Ah, yes. Exactly. I am Rosemary Ray. — Uhn-hunh . . . And, uh, what, pray tell, is this dynamic center of gravity supposed to be, anyhoo? — Love and levity. — HARUMPH! And she jettisons a mist of coffee spray — PFFVERT — across the table. Coffee trickles down Harry's face, frozen in a smile, as — ZOB. GAK. VUP. — Janet chokes and laughs simultaneously, her forehead flush against the table that she slaps hard with every painful inhale. A nd there are people throwing trump cards down . . . — BREAKFAST! And someone is spilling coffee: —Why is that woman yelling break- fast, for Gods' sake. It's after one o'clock. Look at this, she made me spill my coffee. And I just got this skirt. —Aw, forget it, it's your play. That's Carol's ace. — Forget it. Forget it, he says. One woman yelling breakfast whenever she feels like it, there's another one behind me laughing like a fool, and he says forget it . . . Just listen to this. —What? What listen? Just throw down a card. Spades are nice, 145 spades are good. — Damn near fifty different conver- sations going on at once. All these people talking and saying nothing worthwhile. You'd be lucky to find even four people actually listening. — Mm-hmmm. Hearts is trump. That's Carol's ace. — I wonder what'd happen if some- one got 'em all together in one tremendous conversation? All this great potential consolidated, just once. I'd love to see that. I wonder what'd happen? —Silence, probably. partner. —Yeah, maybe . . . game of pinochle nine dec ks . astronomica You're Carol's Or one terrific . . . Yes. forty- thirteen dealers . . . point values ... a two-story scoreboard ... I think I'm getting flushed. —BREAKFAST! — LUNCH! Afternoon. The kitchen help has dwindled down to one lone stal- wart. A loud bunch is still gathered around a table that a sorority has managed to reserve somehow — putting up camp around a vased carnation and distinctive paper clut- ter. The frat tables are empty and scraps of loose leaf scotch-taped to the table tops carry quaint threats for interlopers: This table for Sheiks. And if this table talked, boy would you hear a thing or two. A girl with big round glasses studies for a Trig test. A paranoiac scratching verses on a legal pad who's been practicing molemanship all day with back close to the wall looks at her once and she looks up and he looks down, and hearing someone laughing thinks himself the butt of another joke. Two to six is a boring process. The slices of florescent light sus- pended from the ceiling are more noticeable now and cast everyone in a highlighter-yellow tint. Time is a gradual decay, a whispering out of sounds made louder earlier in the day . . . The night help smokes a cigarette and makes a couple of sandwiches and waits for someone to saunter in and ask for coffee and say something casual about the weather or how the day has been just another disappoint- ment in a string of disappointments that were all anticipated anyway and then say something witty before leaving. Eventaully grad and other night- time students stumble in and James Taylor is singing about Mexico and people are spilling coffee again, but things are at a lower energy level and there are no more card games . . . And eight o'clock comes soon enough . . . Refuse bagged . . . Tables rearranged into an asymetrical configuration that only God and the re-arranger know the true im- portance of . . . And before the lights go down, all is reduced to a poem scribbled onto loose leaf crumpled tight into a ball , . . a vased carnation dying on a paper- cluttered table . . . and coffee stains. '77 146 THE YEAR IN THEATRE A View From The Bridge A Flea In Her Ear 1. Tim Clancey (Rudolfo), Ann Dieteman (Kathe- rine), Mike Smith (Marco), Gerald Halter (Eddie), Cathy Sorger (Beatrice). 2. Gerald Halter (Eddie Carbone) . 3. Cathy Sorger (Lucienne), Sue Neubert (Raymonde) . 147 There Is No Tragedy In Thebes 1. Carl J. Stock (Entellius), Cathy Sorger (Ismene) . 2. Chorus of Theban women: Tracy Parks, Mary Jo Philips, Jeana Pizzigoni, Kim DiCicco, Ann Diete- man, Anne Owens. 3. Virgil Norman (Guard), J. Barry Turner (Creon), Cathy Sorger (Ismene). 148 Romeo and Juliet 1. Karen Vasil (Juliet). 2. Bill Robbins (Montague), Henry Gayek (Capulet), Mina Eisenberg (LadyCapulet). 3. Robert Pontis (Romeo). 149 Amy 150 A quiet evening. Nothing much happening until that party of shaving cream marauders arrives from Finegan and Wehrle comes alive BY JOHN RYAN I t's two in the morning. I'm trying to study for a test tomorrow — correction, today. My roommate is sleeping, the room is dark except for my desk lamp, and somewhere upstairs somebody is blasting a stereo through the roof. ... I want you-oo-oo ... to show me the way . . . Peter Frampton sings. I'm ready to drop into the sack as it is, and who can concentrate with Frampton Comes Alive providing the competition. I slam the notebook shut and swear. My roomate sits up and mumbles, What? What's the matter? Forget it, I mutter, crawling into bed. My concentration and patience is no match for quadrophonic sound. L iving in a dormitory has its drawbacks. The noise is only one. Music comes from every room in the place. Radios, stereos, tape decks, even drums, guitars, and trumpets Show Me the Way by Peter Frampton. Music and lyrics by Peter Frampton. 7976 A M Records can be heard. And few are content with volume that can be heard in the room alone. Turn that damn thing down! often punctuates song lyrics as Fleetwood Mac or Led Zepplin blare through walls and ceilings into ad- joining rooms. Your best bet is to get neighbors with similar musical tastes or at least ears as sensitive as your own. But no way can you lose that beat. It goes on and on and on . . . W inter in Erie, as everyone knows, brings rain, cold, snow, and the flu. The average student usually gets at least one good and miserable attack of the latter, and the dorm brings out the worst in it. The guy down the hall has the bug, and you can be sure more will follow. The halls get quiet, every- one has that burnt-out glassy stare, the cough, the pale face and general misery that the virus brings. What can you do but keep the aspirin handy, the NyQuil at your bedside, and wear your scarf and cap like Mom would tell you if she were here. And try to make it to class. Tough when in the best of health, near im- possible now . . . Hey, got some Vicks or something — I really feel wasted ... r ive o'clock, back from supper at the cafeteria, and time for Star Trek in the TV lounge. The first ones get the best seats, the late- comers sprawl out on the floor. Which one is this? someone whispers, but any attempt to answer is drowned out by a chorus of Shut up and watch, willya? No matter. We've seen them all anyway. But we keep right on watching. Wonder why they ever took this off the air in the first place? So the five o'clock Trekkies survive on the re- runs . . . Shut up and watch! A quiet evening. Getting ready to hit the sack. I walk to the window, and am somewhat surprised to see about a dozen laughing young ladies standing outside armed with shaving cream cans and buckets of water. Dorm raid. 151 152 Here it comes, as I slam the window shut against the onslaught of aerosol cans. Somehow the mob gets in the dorm, and the wise stay in their rooms. The more daring — or foolhardy — counterattack. Mass confusion ensues. We always win. Of course a reprisal party is formed and Finegan gets its own bombard- ment of shaving cream. Boy, we really worked them chicks over, didn't we. For now we wipe off our doors and faces and walls. Wehrle as yet stands unbeaten. Wait till next time, girls . . . I n the forties I guess it was Crable. In the fifties they tell me it was Monroe. But today the indisputable queen of the cheesecake poster is Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Upon walk- ing into almost any dorm room her pearly smile beams down at you. Come hither . . . That tawny mane of blond hair, those clear blue eyes . . . Man, what I'd give to be Lee Majors— for just two minutes. But alas. It cannot be. We are left with our posters, and every Wednesday night at ten o'clock, Charlie's Angels. The plot stimulates no one. Purely visual appeal . . . The Owl's Nest. Home for the pinball wizards, pool hustlers, and juke box jockeys. Also those who don't feel like doing any studying. Music blaring, pinball lights flash- ing. C'mon, you S.O.B. . . . awww ... The wizard disgustedly slams a fist on the uncooperative machine and walks away. But nobody lets a machine get the better of him. All it takes is to win one more . . . Yeah, here we go, move that ball ... And on into the night . . . A nother late night. Again it's two a.m. Again I try to cram some knowledge into my head. This time it's quieter, though. Finals week always is— these tests are for all the marbles. Somewhere I hear a radio playing faintly. My roommate is asleep and I am sick and tired of studying and really don't much give a damn what I get on this test anyway. I shut off the light and crawl into bed. The dorm is quiet as I lie awake and listen. Amazing . . . Then I hear a shout and a scuffle and someone curses the phantoms who sprayed shaving cream under his door. Time to sleep . . . last night in the dorm. Two years here. Can't help but remember the place, I guess. Enough. My roommate mumbles something in his sleep . . . Enough of this . . . '77 ' Man, what I'd give to be Lee Majors — for just two minutes.' But alas. It cannot be. We are left with our posters, and every Wednesday night at ten o'clock, Charlie's Angels. 153 ! I i i fc M _ f% Am !m f % i Ms V Ik BSm ' WA ■ •JJ JK ft ]+! 154 8-Ball 1. Gil Reiser and date. 2. Joanne Simmons, Home- coming Queen Arlene Piskor. 3. Dave Ohman, Rev. Robert Susa, Mary Conti. 4. Jim Craeca, Nancy Szczutkowski, Dave Ohman. 155 JW.il Military Ball 1. Eva Wilson. 2. Connie Buckel, Henry Stolz. 3. Carol Uhleman (Edinboro State College), Sue Johnson (Gannon — Military Ball Queen), Sue Brojek (Mercyhurst). 4. Greg Stiffler and date. 5. Mark Kapsar, Kathy Compernalle. 6. Kathy O'Dell, Madjid Iran-Manesh. 156 Spring Fever Winter Carnival H 0 L I A ix nl 157 158 'It all started back in the Garden of Eden ... BY ARLENE PISKOR N ill I like my roommate? I wonder who she'll be. Will I ever remember all these names? I wish I could go back home . . . Another freshman, I see. Bugeyed, open-mouthed, suitcases dragging, a Hall Oafes poster and stuffed teddy bear sticking out of her shoulder bag. Yep. How do I get to 405 West? Where will I wash my clothes? I hope I didn't forget my blow dryer. I know I left that blue top at home. All these buildings — how am I ever going to find all my classes? Where is 405 West? She looks pretty nervous. I felt scared when I first came here last September, too. I'd better go help her. Listen, you don't have to worry about a thing. Take it from me — us sophomores have been around — after a couple weeks this place will be just like home. You'll get used to it, you'll see. That ought to calm her down. No need: Here comes Mama Karen to the rescue. Hi. I'm the head resident ad- viser here. You ever need anything, you just call for me. Can I help you find your room? Four-o-five West. Can you show me to 405 West? Right down this hall— the stairs are to the left. Now she'll be all right. I'd better go find Joanie. I think I forgot my toothbrush . . . Around 7:30 p.m. Time for a break from all this studying. I think I'll drop over to Becky's to see what's happening. Her room is like the cafeteria at high noon. As usual. People all over. Stereo blaring Streisand's A Star Is Born ... a few sharks dealing up another round of pinochle . . . the others in an earnest discussion of the latest round of gossip. Becky, perched atop her room- mate's bunk, holds court: Did you see Ron and Katie in the lobby last night? No! I saw them together at lunch, too. And heard— listen to this — that he wants to ask her to the 8-Ball but he's afraid she won't go. I'm sure. You're sure what? That he wants to ask her? That he's afraid she won't go? That she wouldn't go? No girl should be that stupid. Oh, don't be so legalistic. What I meant, obviously, was that- 159 Have them bring buckets and pitchers and shaving cream and aerosol deodorant and hair spray and Noxzema and baby powder and anything else . . . gunky.' Will ya watch that cigarette, Chris! I already have about twenty million burns on my bedspread as it is. So what's another one gonna count? What I meant, as any moron with a high school education could tell, was that he's not afraid that she won't go, but that if she did turn him down his pride would be hurt and it would get all around and he wouldn't seem like the super-stud he thinks he is. Mark my words. Welllll ... he is cute, you know. And he knows it. That isn't the point at all! Do I have to explain everything to you guys? It all started back in the Garden of Eden, which, by the way, is a myth meant to illustrate ... Eight o'clock. And it's Crazy Sally reeling around the bend, tow- ing a bucket of water slopping over the rim and gripping a can of Gilette, ready to attack. I'd better duck into Lisa's room. Lisa, quick — let me in! What's up? It's Sally again. Great! I'll be right out! No! IN. I want in! Hold your horses. I just have one more curler. Forget the curler, already! I just bought these jeans. Too late. Sally has just crowned me with a wreath of shaving cream. My jeans have just been washed for the first time, too. It's all in the technique, really. Sally seems to be barreling down the hall, ready to lay waste to every- thing in her path, when actually she is the master of dormitory guerilla warfare. I swear, I didn't know she was so near until I heard that splut- tering from the aerosol can. My special talent, however, is organization. Lisa! Come out here this instant! Wha — HA — looks like you've been ambushed. Find Kitty. She's somewhere downstairs. And Debbie. Have Pat call her over at Dave and Joe's. I'm going to go find Joanie. Anything else, sir? Yeah. Have them bring buckets and pitchers and shaving cream and aerosol deodorant and hairspray and Noxzema and baby powder and anything else . . . gunky. Sir! What, Lisa. Where do we meet with all this stuff? Don't be thick. Right here, of course. And hurry! Sally probably has the whole fourth floor organized by now. Sir? Last question! How the hell do you expect me to go down to the lobby with these curlers on? The snarling buzzer phone rings again on Second East. Is Sue there? Would you tell her Charlie's downstairs? O.K. I think she's almost ready. Saves him a trip up to this madhouse anyway. While the buzzer phone rings constantly, girls in pink or white or steel-grey curlers are running up and down the halls in long dresses. Some are looking for white shoes or jewelry to borrow. Some are looking for reassurances. Some are there to witness the circus. Tonight is the last formal of the year — the Spring Fever. Bits of hurried conversation run through the hallway. Do I look O.K.? My hair is falling already! Oh, Patty, you look gorgeous! Mary! Check out Patty's dress. I told you it would be just right for her. Who scorched my slip? Hey Kathy, let me borrow your gold bracelet. Sorry, I'm wearing it tonight. Not that one — The one Tom gave you that you hate now. It'll go per- fect with my necklace. O.K. Kate knows where it is. Julie, standing at her door, grabs a handful of limp, frizzy hair and holds it up to passersby. She shakes the miserable locks and recites her story to the group that has gathered, a few sympathetic clucks punctuating each installment like a revival-tent litany of sorrows. Why tonight. Don't we know it, sister. Every day it looks just fine. That's the truth. Go to class, go to chemistry lab, wash clothes— it's just right. But tonight— Oh, no, not tonight ... Ain't that the way, though. Does anyone have some peach mocha lipstick? Yeowwwww. I just got a runner! So who's gonna see it? That's not what matters. Now I don't feel . . . together. I'm going to change it— it's only one of those knee-highs. Anyone have a spare French beige knee-high? I wouldn't change if I were you. Charlie just called from downstairs. You just don't understand ... . . . So I said to myself, Why tonight? '77 160 161 SENIOR WEEK Wine Cheese Party 162 Koehler Beer Night J U nder classmen -. ■■■■ . ■ . i s Diane Adkins Michael Alberstadt Timothy Armanin Lorraine Ball Alfonso Barbati Darla Baumgardner William Bell Kathleen Berkl Dennis Borczon Melanie Bricker Gary Brozek Noreen Bundschuh 166 Mark Carlsson Michael Caruso Charles Dundon Dan Chiappazzi Vicki Chupick Ceri Cicchetti Rosalia Ciminella Anne Coddington Cathleen Cooney Robin Coret Richard D'Andrea Theresa DeMark Christine Demchak Katharine Denues Lachen Diboun George Dowd Beth Estes Darlene Everhart Mary Jo Fleming Royce Freebourn Jeffrey Frey Leila Gill Brian Glowicki Jim Gray James Griffin y James Heberle BHi Jrh ,ohn Heidelbers Donna Grimes George Guzak Christopher Harkless 167 Ronald Helminski Nancy Lou Herold Kristen Holtz Maria lacobucci Jory Jackson Jeanette Jakubowski Donald Jenkens II Jeffrey Jenkins Paula Jordan Chris Kalkhof Jeffrey Knoll Michael Kohlmiller Kenneth Kruise Stephen Lagner James Lallman Kenneth Lewis Mark Lipski Brian Loesch Jeffrey Lorei Karen Luba Mary Luber Sharon Lucanik Stephen Lupo Joseph Macaluso William Mackrell AM Antonio Maldonado Matthew Malinowski Theodore Marconi Cynthia McNelis Lance Menuto 168 Joseph Mieczkowski Frank Mozdy Monica Mueller Patrick Ochalek Joseph Ogrodowczyk Julis Patalita Leslie Phillips Mary Pizzo Theresa Power Lisa Przepierski Donald Purcell Mary Rotunda Joseph Sarti Patricia Siegel Marie Snyderwine Marcie Steinhauser Laura Totleben Linda Totleben Valerie Wein Bonnie White 169 George Abernathy Carl Alberico David Ashbaugh Keith Baker Betsy Balko Cynthia Bartholomew Brian Barto Nicholas Bassi Jane Body Mary Bondanella Keith Breter Rebecca Briggs David Brown Joyce Brzuz Thomas Carlotti Eugene Carson Philippe Carstensen Margaree Coleman Nancy Combs Kathleen Compernolle John Crandall Karen Curtis Donald Daurora Bridget Davis Cynthia Davis James Defazio Natalie Farak John Fetzner Jeffrey Fishbein Joseph Fromknecht 170 Duncan Gildersleeve Thomas Guckert Anthony Guyda Kenneth Hart Debra Hedrick Christina Ivan Pearl Jefferies Henry Johnson Suzanne Jones Patricia Kingman Lori Kitchen George Klapthor Jean Klein Douglas Klick Ed Korytowski 171 Barry Kruise John Kuebler Frank Kwitowski Ruth Lawton Louis Leone Paul Lubowicki James Machek Cynthia Mack Patricia Malik Sandra Manno Frank Marchal Jeffrey Maries George Mendel Tomothy Monahan Nancy Murray Donald Myers Jerome Peterson Arlene Piskor Christopher Potalivo John Pratt Michael Riley Mary Ropelewski Mary Beth Rutkowski Ronald Sala Ann Schneider f Deliora Senk Christine Smith Albert Suhari Kathleen Treahy 172 (famoir7; Joseph Berdis William Biroscak Lawrence Brown Denis Burek Patricia Buszek Mark Deitrick Brent Deuink Daryl Dombrowski Michael Dzurik Michael Gallagher Laurel Griffith Jerry Haas David Hardic Thomas Heise Jeffrey Hill Kimberly Kingston Kevin Kraus Linda Kraus Bernadette Laskowski Henry Leone Arthur Lewis 173 Jeffrey Liebel Richard Liebenstein Terrance Maher Lawrence Martone Marilyn McLaughlin Lawrence Mialki Leonard Mialki Francis Millis Anne Owens Robert Pauley Douglas Pelkowski Beverly Plaza Richard Prokopchak Steven Ropski William Seeley Tina Trucilla 174 Additional Freshmen Frank Abate Gary Abram Robert Abramczyk Jayne Aburachis Michael Acri Danny Adamson Rhonda Ager Mary Anne Albaugh Donald Alberstadt Robert Allen Ted Amendola John Anderson Margaret Anderson Mark Anderson Terre Anderson Deena Anundson Brenda Ashenden Charles Atterbury Khodayar Azari John Bailey Jessica Barbaro Steven Barnes Barbara Barnett Suzanne Barone Nancy Barr William Barrett Shelly Barzano David Bates Donald Bates Lawrence Bayle Cinda Beckwith Laurie Bednar David Berdis William Bernardo Michele Bernhardt Mark Beveridge Howard Bibbs Carl Bibeau Douglas Billow John Biroscak James Bishoff Dennis Black Mark Blackburn Susan Blake Willie Blanks Andy Bliley Werner Bloos Cynthia Blue John Boeckman Joyce Bogusky Duane Bolkey Carol Bostad Thomas Bonanti Karen Borgia Nicholas Borgia Susan Bork Christopher Bosner Deborah Bosner Leroy Bossetti Donald Bostaph Donald Bowen Bruce Bower Robert Bowser Lloyd Boyer Sherri Boyer John Bradac Peter Bradshaw Michael Brady Rosemary Braeger James Braun Thomas Braun Susan Brendza Joseph Bressan Thomas Brickley Ronald Briglia Rebecca Browdie Brenda Brown David Brown JoAnn Brown Barbara Bruno Elizabeth Bruno Cynthia Bryant Joseph Brzezicki John Buchman Constance Buckel Antoinette Buffa James Bumbaugh Christopher Burke Patricia Burke Richard Burke Craig Buss William Butler Richard Buzard Taylor Byerly Bonnie Cain Marilyn Cairns Jeffrey Caldwell Carey Calistri Larry Canton Guy Carducci Richard Carlotti Georgia Carlson Larry Carlson Mary Carlucci Paul Carlucci Candice Carney Bertha Carr Billie Carroll Helen Carroll Marc Carson Victoria Carter Robin Caruana Marianne Cascino Karen Caseman Diane Casper Dean Cass Jon Catanzaro Mark Catellier Robert Cathcart Brian Ceccarelli Francesca Cecchetti Mary Cermak Bernard Cerroni Christy Chamets Kevin Chapman Christine Chernek Mark Chernek Michael Chestnut Michael Chieppor Joseph Chiocca John Chisholm Glenn Chojnacki Thomas Ciesielski Annette Ciotti James Clark Karen Clark Martha Clark Kathleen Claunch Karen Clauser John Clouser David Coffey Judith Coghill Marian Colley Gary Colvin Mark Comi Patrick Conlon Raquel Contreras Joyce Conway Kevin Conway Linda Conway Jody Cook Kevin Cooney Joyce Cooper Amy Copella Matthew Coppola Jerome Cotter Raymond Counasse Lynette Crane Shelley Crockett Kathleen Cronauer Annie Crosby Michael Cushman Milton Dalbow Richard Danch Ghebre Daniel Joseph Daniels Susan Darragh Amy Daugherty Susan Daugherty Angela Davis Dorothy Davis Hugh Davis Leslie Davis Margaret Davis Paul Day Ricky DeCarolis Richard Decker James DeDad Raymond DeDionisio Mary DeDomenico Victor Deeter Dennis Delaney David DeMarco Susan Denevic Benjamin DePiro Mary Depree Lawrence Desiderio Arthur Detisch Jeffrey Devinney Jacquelyn Devolder Robert Diehl Ann Dieteman Joseph DiGregorio Christopher DiLoreto Albert DiLuzio Robert DiMeolo William DePeito Kevin Dixon Sharon Dodson Gregory Dolecki Mark Dombrowski Wynette Domon Mary Domowicz Cindy Dominik Mary Domitrovich Michael Donikowski Elaine Donovan Donna Dorer Nancy Dorris Edward Downey Denise Dugan Daniel Durishan Sarah Dusenberry Bette Eakin David Earick Douglas Eisert Thomas Eisert John Elliott Anthony Engro Paul Esachina Mark Esser Sedigheh Estahbanati Mary Evans Nasser Fahimi Heidi Faller John Faluszczak Michael Falvo Pamela Falvo Cheryl Farabaugh Paul Faria Melinda Farrell James Fava Patricia Fazen Rocco Feda Mary Feeney Mildred Ferguson Mark Ferra Mary Ann Ferraino Kevin Feyas Kathleen Fiedler Mark Figurski Maria Fioretti Steven Fisher Stephen Flaherty i i CHIL v VHFj 175 A common bond You may not think so at first glance, but that girl in the middle is a teacher here. Valerie Pizatt, a 1975 graduate now studying for her master's degree in English, finds that her youth is a help to her in the classroom. In addition to attending evening classes for her master's, she teaches two sections of L.S. 11 in the fall and two L.S. 12's in the spring. As far as communication goes, I think kids relate to younger girls more easily, she said, indicating that women seem more approachable to students. She also said that being young — Pizzat is 22 — provides more of a common bond between teacher and student. They speak the same language and share many of the same experiences. As far as giving examples in class, being young makes it easier — you can make it clear to them in terms of their own experience. Being almost the same age as her students does provide a slight drawback, though. At the begin- ning, they might not carry as much respect for you as they would an older teacher, she said. As a result, Pizzat found she had to make them accept me through my subject. When students saw she could assume leadership as the teacher and that she knew her material well, they could trust— and respect — her more. This kind of process puts much more em- phasis on the content, she said. It's a flexible atmosphere— there's a lot of give and take. It got to the point where class became really . . . not fun — I don't think anyone thinks English is 'fun' . . . but really interesting and worthwhile. Timothy Fogarty Barbara Foley Alice Ford Denise Foresman Michael Formica Thomas Foster Yovonne Fowler Mark Foyil Joseph Francis Pamela Francis Mark Franz James Fredericks Thomas Freeman Jeffrey Friedlander Christine Frisina Therese Fritz Lea Frontino Robert Furey Mary Galiardi Patricia Gallagher Helen Gamble James Gandolfo Kathleen Gariepy John Gebhardt Lisa Geiger Amy Gensheimer Catherine George Jesse George Julie Giancola Raymond Gibson Mary Gies Theodore Gill Charlene Gillan Sue Ginand David Gittleman Michael Glaze Mary Gloekler James Godel John Goleniewski Laura Gostomski Arthur Gow Tamara Graffius Charles Gray Mohssen Grayeli Donna Graziano Judith Green Violet Greene Kathryn Greenholt Theodore Gregorek David Grise Lynn Groff Jessie Grosser James Guarino Therese Guerrein James Guerrein Alisa Gumino Erich Gunther Thomas Hain Paul Hajdukiewicz Estella Hales Patricia Haley Jeffrey Hamilton Linda Hamrick Joel Haney John Hanke Russell Hannibal Marcia Happ John Harkins Thomas Hartley Kevin Hartley Linda Havern Charles Hayes Mary Hayes George Hazimanolis William Heard Patricia Heberle Michael Heberle David Heck Kenneth Heidkamp Mark Helmer Cheryl Hemmings Willis Hendricks Elaine Henneise Margaret Henrick David Herbert Rose Herbstritt Mary Hernquist Mark Herzing Daniel Hesch Kimberly Hessong Gerald Hickin Patricia Hicks John Hirsch James Hirsch Joanne Hodge James Hodinko Patricia Hofrichter Ray Holmes Michael Hooks Todd Hooven Joyce Hopkins Mary Hopkins James Horstman Priscilla Horton Cynthia Houser James Hoyt Nancy Huber Glenn Hunsberger Linda Hunter Kevin Hurst John Ingram Denise Jackman Nahid Jadali Jeff Jageman Priscilla Janocha Deborah Jarmul 176 A trade turned hobby Rev. John Prah has operated his own carpentry shop in the Walker Building basement for all of the eight years he has been at Cannon. The philosophy teacher learned the trade from Brother Joseph Schmidt of the Bavarian Lay Brothers while studying at their Wisconsin monastery. Back then, he says, most of the work was done by hand- sawing, planing, sandpapering. And they didn't use nails, either. Furniture was held together by glue, dovetail joints, and wooden pins. It may have been more difficult that way but It was the old monastic way of making furniture, he said. Since then, he has been involved in many projects. Besides doing minor repair work for many of his colleagues at Gannon, Prah has remodeled game rooms and kitchens for his brothers and sisters, which included the laborious and detailed task of cabinet-making. And in 1953 he supervised the remodeling of an old mansion into a seminary. He now spends ten to twelve hours a week in his carpentry shop. This is more of a hobby shop. I repair things rather than make things, he said, adding that he also enjoys working with electric motors and machines. Although he has been at the trade for forty years now, Prah does not like to sell any of his work or charge for repairs. Once you make it a financial enterprise, it ceases to be a hobby, he said. Eileen Jefferys Melanie Jewell Daniel Johnson Felicia Johnson Karen Johnson Linda Johnson Gloria Johnson Paula Johnson Roseann Johnson Sue Johnson Delores Johnston Bradley Joll Clark Jones Donna Jones Jack Jones Kenneth Jones Larry Jones Milford Jones Terry Jones Alan Jordano Chappie Jordan Bryan Joseph M.arko Jovanovkh Donald Kaminski Kenneth Karg Philip Kaufmann Rosem.iric K.i imierowski Starr Kearney Sandra Kearney Joyce Keating Vicki Keller Martin Kelly Cynthia Kennedy Gerard Kennedy Michael Kennedy Daniel Keopka Dennis Keverline Lori Kilmer Elaine Kinem Thomas Kirkpatrick Darlene Kisko Karen Kitchen Timothy Klassen Beverly Klein Douglas Klick Robert Klingler Robert Knapp John Knause Emma Knight William Knight Christopher Knoll Laurie Kocher Jeanne Koehler Valerie Kokor Janine Konigsberger Daniel Konopka John Kosh Donald Kosobucki Joseph Kowalski Timothy Kovka Mary Kownacki Marianne Kraft Glenn Kramer Robert Kramer Robert Kraus Elaine Krauza Kimberly Kremp William Krimmel Renee Krizan David Kubeja Sheryl Kuhn Patricia Kuhns Bob Kun Karen Kunsa James Kuvik Karen Kwiatek Kathy Kyle Feraidoon Lahooti Jeffrey Lake Sheryl Lang Barbara Langan Carolyn Laniewicz Barbara Lanzel Lynette Lara Terry Lardin Keith Larkin Daniel Laskowski Daniel Latcovich Bruce Lata Brian Laughlin Sherri Lawson John Leech Debbie Legenzoff Patrick Leonard Genevieve Lewandowski Claire Liebenstein Judy Lijewski Harold Lilly Margaret Lind Lynne Linhart Rodney Littler Larry Locke Jeffrey Logan Colleen Lopez Cindi Lorelli Paul Lorigan Clinton Lowery Gary Lozowski Helen Ludwig Anita Lund Judith Lunney William Lupone Mark Luschini Stephen Luteran David Lutsch Kurt Maas 177 Raymond Machak David Mack Patricia Mack James Mackey Susan Mackey Debra MacKinnon Diane MacKrell George Madzy Lawrence Majersky Elizabeth Makar Christopher Makowka Fardad Malek Michael Mallon Michael Malory Dennis Mancini Michael Mancuso Mark Manges Angela Mannarelli Richard Manno Kent Mara Mary Markey Charles Martin III Mary Martin James Martin Mario Marucci Tina Marut Terry Marynchak Kevin Marz Leslie Marzula Robert Masi Michael Masna Barry Mathewson Joseph Mazurkiewicz Claudette McAdory Kevin McAlee Joseph McCabe Phyllis McCallum Paul McCarthy Patricia McCarthy Timothy McCarthy Candace McCloy James McConnell Jo Helen McConnell John McCormick Kathleen McCouch Ann McCoy Phyllis McCrea Denice McCreary Richard McCullough Robert McDaniel Jeffrey McDonson Lee Ann McEnery Lillian McEvoy Kimberly McGill Catheryn McGinnis Margaret McCrath Thomas McKinley Donald McKinney Alan McLaughlin Joanne McLaughlin Sean McLaughlin Maureen McLaughlin Paul McMahon Kevin McManus Bryan McNeill Kathleen McNulty James McShane Tim Meehan Frank Melocchi Cynthia Messenger Marc Metcalfe Edward Metzgar Alan Mialki Edward Michalski Albert Middleton Michael Mikolajczak John Mikotowicz Kathy Miller Lynn Miller Stephen Millis Mary Mink Mark Minnaugh Christine Minor Barbara Mioduszewski Nooshin Miri Cynthia Mistretta James Monahan Joseph Monocello Charles Monola Kenneth Monroe Thomas Moore Margaret Moosman Nancy Mordan Jeffery Morey Deborah Moser Gregory Moser Brian Moyer Joseph Mozdy Frank Mullen Merle Mullins Valerie Muma Timothy Muroski Neal Murray Thomas Musso Constance Natalie Lamar Neal David Nebraski Susan Nedza Mary Nelson James Nester ick Judith Nice Janet Nicotra Carole Niedzielski Timothy Niemic Jacquelyn Nixon Rickey Noll Joseph Norris Barbara Nossokoff Valerie Novacco Robert Novak Martina Novak Thomas Novicki Richard Nowak Jeffrey Nowosielski Patrick Nutter Joesph Oakes Edward O'Brien Philip Obringer Rex Ochs Gerald Oliver Patrick Oliver Greg Olsafsky Debra Olson Donald Olszewski Frank Olszewski Mary Oslzewski James Orloff Brian Orlowski Tracy Orr Dennis Osterberg Deborah Oswalt Ernie Page Diana Pagliari Susan Painter Alan Paprocki Gregory Paprocki Joseph Parker Marie Parks Charles Parmarter Cathy Parson Nikolaos Pashos Rebecca Paskie Gregory Passauer Lisa Pater Charles Patterson Kevin Paul Andrea Pavlan Edward Pavilonis Elizabeth Peck Sheila Peden Gregory Peelman Susan Pekilnicky Diane Pelkowski Eugene Pendolino 178 Kimberly Peterson Jean Petrarca William Petrucci Cam Phan Leslie Phillips Robert Phillips Mark Pietrusinski Krista Piotrowski John Piscor Bruno Pisano Jeana Pizzigoni Donna Placke Michael Podobnik Maria Podraza Jeffrey Pongratz Robert Pontis Pasquale Pontoriero John Popovich Ronald Porath Frank Porfido John Portera Carol Potocki Richard Pottorf Leonard Power Joseph Presto John Presutti Kimberly Prindle Gregory Prylinski Jerome Puckly Kenneth Pugar Constance Pulliam Larry Pustelak Margaret Quinn Gerald Ramsdell Keith Ramsey Judith Randolph Edward Rapp Janis Ray Frank Rea Kathleen Reagan Floretta Reese Thomas Reese Brian Reffner Rene Reitz Juanita Reichel Robert Reinke Joseph Reno Carol Restuccia Patricia Rettger Alan Reynolds Jaye Rhoads Brian Rice Nancy Rich John Richardson David Ritchie James Ritenour Ralph Ritter Patricia Rizzo Robert Roache Dennis Roberts William Roberts Jo Carrie Robinson Lawrence Robison Wayne Robinson Michael Roderick Andrew Roe Paul Rolen Mark Rosenthal Karen Roseto Arthur Ross Nicholas Ross Jeffrey Rostas Carl Roth Jeffrey Rouch Jerome Rowan Duncan Rowe Donna Rupp William Russell Mary Russo Peggy Rutkowski Kathleen Rutkowski Edward Rutkowski Karen Ryan Michael Ryba Mark Ryczko Anne Rydesky Stanley Rysz Michael Sabo William Sachse Victoria Sadowski Renee Saggio Suzanne Sajewski Herman Salcedo Mark Salen Ivan Samoilo Chris Samulewski Mary Sandy Doris Sansom Gregory Santora Lisa Savelli James Say Anne Sayers Albert Scalera Jeffrey Scales Elizabeth Scalzitti Rita Scarnati Ronald Schaaf Annette Schaal Mary Jo Scheffner Thomas Schlecht Ann Schneider Dale Schreckengost Howard Schultz Kathryn Schultz Darcy Schumacher Brandy Schuyler Mary Anne Scottino Rita Scrimenti Richard Scutella Linda Sedler Mary Ann See Su Ann Sekula Richard Serafin Lawrance Serena Robert Shaffer Debbie Shallenberger Dennis Shannon Bijan Shayesteh This eight o'clock Latin class is a scene many seminarians are not likely to forget. Currently, seminarians are required to take two years of Latin in their freshman and sophomore years, according to the Very Rev. Salvatore Luzzi, rector of St. Mark's Seminary. He explained that even though the Mass and liturgy are no longer celebrated in Latin, the seminarians will need a basic knowledge of the language in order to do their graduate research in theology. And there is no room for resistance. It's just a requirement for a theologate, he said. After completing their bachelor's degree — where they can major in whatever interests them — seminarians have four more years of study to look forward to at a theologate, or graduate school of theology. Nonetheless, you can find many a seminarian grumbling, however softly, at the thought of encountering Catullus and Vergil at eight in the morning, ft tu, Doc Peterson? 179 Charles Shearei Austin Shealey Jacqueline Shearer Shu Icy Shields Mi( hael Shim John Shore Owen Short Patricia Shufesky Susan Shugart Devorah Siegel Denise Siekmann Paul Sihto Louis Silverman Jean Simmons Joanne Simmons John Simon Jeffrey Simone Michael Simons Deborah Singer Jane Siple Mark Sitarik Nicholas Sivillo Douglas Skelly Kimberly Skinner Stanley Sligh Philip Slomski Barbara Smith Beverly Smith Charles Smith David Smith Janice Smith Karen Smith Lori Smith Mark Smith Philip Smith Ronald Smith Yvonne Smith Francis Snyder Judy Solymosi Sheila Sonnet Gail Sovyak Kathleen Spangler Robert Spangler Paula Speice Donald Spencer Mark Squeglia Raymond Stanton John Stapf Christine Starr Douglas Starr Stephen Stec Marlene Stefanowicz Tami Stefick John Stehr Kim Steiner Mary Steiner Karen Stephens Garrett Stewart Heather Stewart Daniel Stickell Ronald Stiftinger Thelma Stokes Peter Stolz B rian Stone Tommie Stovall George Strasbaugh Bonnie Strenio Thomas Strenio Timothy Sullivan Diane Suit Joseph Sunseri Dan Susi Richard Swaney Robert Swanter Tad Swift Mary Ann Szabo Nancy Szczutkowski Leo Szczesny Jean Szmyd Steve Szymkiewicz David Taccone Charles Tahara Mark Tanenbaum Michael Tann Randy Tapper Sandra Tate Tamara Taylor Nikoo Tehrani Anna Terpko Argola Thompson Dennis Thompson James Thompson James Thorwart Linda Thunberg Mark Tillman George Tirak Cynthia Tomson John Torok William Trabold Ronald Trapp James Travers Timothy Trawinski Matthew Reese Vincent Trejchel Grace Trocki Kenneth Tromans Michael Tronetti Lynn Troyer David Trusel Cindy Tuberson Patricia Tullio Robert Tupek Pamela Twillie Cynthia Ul Andrew Urbaniak Jacqueline Valentic Kathleen Valentovish Mary Ellen Valimont Paul Vandusen Michael Vanriper Joanne Veit Thomas Vereb Mary Vickey Joseph Villella Michael Vitale Susan Volpone Janice Vorsheck Richard Wagner Robert Wagner Merna Waisley Daniel Walker Mark Walko Judith Walsh Ross Walter Sherryl Walter Nancy Ward Lu Ann Washkow William Watson Andrea Wawrzyniak Margaret Webb Kimberly Webster Barbara Weckesser Douglas Weis Larry Weis Sally Weldon John Wells Douglas Wert Yvonne Wesley Mark Wetzel Pamela Whartenby Cheryl White Claudia White Tracy Whitted Joseph Wiczlinski Stephen Wieczorek William Wiegmann Lisa Wien Sue Wiggins Joyce Wiley Pamela Wiley Clara Williams Karl Williams Kenneth Williams Lee Ann Williams Lynn Williams Paulette Williams Roger Williams Sloan Williams Kyle Williamson Carole Willman David Wilson Douglas Wilson Robert Wiltfeuer James Wilwohl Edward Wingard Carrie Wink Joseph Wirag James Witko Susan Withrow Janet Wolfe Anthony Woodmancy Carl Woods Judith Woodson Camille Wozniak Juanita Wright Thomas Wright Marcella Wroblewski Mark Wyman Timothy Wynne Donna Yambor William Yanicko Christopher Yeakle Ann Yezzi Patricia Yoculan Kevin Yurkovic Susan Yuskovic Jo Anne Zasada John Zatkiewicz Jane Zeiner Kenneth Zebracki William Zeiner Clifford Ziegler William Zimmerman Jane Zuber Patricia Zuccaro Gary Zuzo 180 Take a walk on the married side So, you measly 20-year-olds with five term papers due tomorrow, three parties to go to tonight, and about fifty chapters of your ethics text to catch up on, you think you got problems? Try being married with three kids to care for on top of it all. Josephine Nelson, now a junior, has accepted a steady routine of work, study, cooking, class, kids, husband, and housework, all the while inching closer and closer to that B.A. in criminal justice. She works during the day, studies during breaks and at lunchtime, comes home to cook, attends classes at night — 12 credits worth — and then returns home to catch up on any leftover housework. What to do with the kids? Her sister-in-law watches them during the day, and Grandma gets them on weekends. My husband helps with the housework and then watches the kids at night when I'm at school, she said. There are times, however, when no babysitter is available, and Nelson finds she must bring three healthy, active kids to class with her. Her teachers have been very cooperative, she said. One teacher bought them pop and let them run around the room — it was still very distracting, she said. Because she is able to see her children so seldom —on the average of three hours a day and on weekends — she says she has quite a time keeping them in line. The discipline problem is one of the biggest ones connected with this busy life, she said. Hectic routine or not, Nelson says she wouldn't have it any other way. I wouldn't trade any one of them. And I want to finish — I only have another year to go. (The children are Stacy, 2; Richard, 5; and (he devilish one who likes to break away, David, 3.) Sophomores John Abate Robert Achille Michael Adams Paula Adams Michael Adiutori Navid Ahmadi Edward Akers Carl Alberico Tino Alberico Willian Albers Richard Albertson Matthew Alexa Daniel Aike'n Catherine Allen Cheryl Allen Kevin Allen Michael Allen Beth Allshouse Robert Amendola Mary Andolsek Kathi Androla Lee Anthony Kimberly A-ntonelli Kevin Attenberger Susan Avril Carol Aymin Robert Babb David Babo John Baker Neal Baker Mark Baker Ceraldine Baney Carl Baniszewski Thomas Barney John Barth Steven Bastuk Mark Beccr Andrew Becker Linda Becker Carol Beddick Kathryn Beill Sherrylee Bell Frank Bebes Jean Bernardini Robert Bertoli Kevin Best Patricia Betz John Bliley Sharon Bogart Stephen Bohen Edward Bolla John Brabender Patricia Brady Thomas Brennan Paul Bressan James Breter Holly Brown Kimberly Brown Ronald Brumagin Andy Bucho Christianne Buckel James Budney Richard Burchick Joet Burroughs Kimberly Buszek Robert Butters Beth Byrer John Calabrese Karen Campbell Pual Carneval Pamela Carney Lesley Carr Mary Lou Carroll Mark Caruso Rick Casane Vivian Caspar Pauline Cassady Michele Cavalier Scott Chadwirk Margaret Chamberlain Paul Cherry Martha Choppa Virginia Ciano Yvonne Ciarlo Carolyn Cicero Timothy Clancey Gary Clarke Kevin Clement Lisa Clever Michael Coceano James Cole Donald Colicchio Mark Colonna William Colt Ann Connelly Cindy Cook James Cook Mary Cook Lisa Cookson Cheryl Coonfer Keith Cornetti David Corrello Barbara Costa Mary Courtney James Coyne Willie Crawford Paul Crowe Joseph Cullen Joseph Curnc Diane Cutri Christine Dabkowski Jane Dailey Karen Daugherty John Davies Constance Davis John Davis Todd Davis Susan Dawdy Frank DeFazio Diane Dehnert Paul Dentler Anne DePanfilis Mary DiBiagio Dennis DiCarlo Kevin Dieterle Gary Dietrich Joseph DiFuccia David DiLoretto Mark DiPlacido Mario DiPlacido Monica Dixon William Doran Francis Dowling Gregory Dowling Therese Dowling Charles Downing Stephen Drexler Christine Drgon Daniel Dubowski Suzanne Ducko Robert Dugan John Dunlap John Dunlavey George Dunn Susan Earley Elizabeth Edwards Kathryn Edwards Rebecca Edwards Michael Ellis Kathleen Elwell Douglas Emerick Earl Englehart Barbara Estock Jack Evans Valerie Everett Therese Falkenstern Michael Farmer Marc Fazio John Ferguson Joseph Ferris Kimberly Ficco Patricia Figueroa 181 182 Drew Fillak Cyndie Filutze Pasquale Fioretti Richard Fisher Kathleen Flinchbaugh Mary Jo Flowers Leo Frawley Paul Freeman Robert Freeman Christine Frey Kevin Friedrich Douglas Fugare Linda Gallagher Mark Canska Gary Ganzer Redward Gavin Ann Genck Ruth Giegucz John Giewont Ronald Gilmore Bernard Giordano Mark Glynn Nadine Godfrey Keith Gourley Scott Grack Lou Graham Michael Griffin John Groholski Christine Grychowski Mary Jo Guarino Edward Guthman Nilakshi Gupta Michael Haar David Hall Robert Hanson Karen Hapanowicz Deborah Hapeman James Haraseviat Nancy Harris Francia Heasley Michael Heberle Randall Heemer Robert Heintzel Debra Herbol Charles Herbst Cynthia Hido Daniel Hirsch Robert Hirsch James Hobbie David Hoderny Richard Hofer Richard Hofmann Darryl Holts Pamela Hornaman Claire Hresko Jerome Hric Martin Huegel Mary Hughson Rodney Hunt John Hurley Joyce Hyche Manesh Iran John Jacquel David Jahany David Jakubowski Edward Janis Cynthia Jares Kathleen Jarmolowicz Christine Jarmul Dale Jennings David Jerge Kathleen Jerioski Aloysius Jezewski David Johnson James Johnson Jeanne Johnson Sue Johnson Wayne Johnson Tony Jones Susan Jordan Richard Kadlup James Kalivoda Keith KallenbacF Sarafraz Kargar Brian Kazin Russell Keener Diane Keep Elizabeth Kennedy Melissa Kennedy Audrey Kenyon Terry Kerr Krista Kieffer Blair King Douglas King Donald Kiser John Kleiner William Kloecker John Knouse Richard Kocan Donald Kohart Gregory Kokosko John Konkol Myron Korytko Patricia Koza Regina Kozlowski Harry Kraeling Carol Kramer Drew Kramer James Kraus Amy Krenzer Gregory Krepps Carolyn Krkoska Suzanne Kruse Margaret Kruszewski Steven Kugler Karen Kuhar John Kuhn Lawrence Lahnan Judith Langan Patrick Langcr James Larkin Anne Lashinger Douglas Lauer Richard Laurie Christine Lebovich Debra Lechefsky Arthur Leopold Arthur Lewis Sidney Lewis Anne Leyden James Lindquist James Luddy Duane Lynch Kathleen Lynch Joseph Maas William Macecevic Robert Macko John Mahoney Joseph Mahoney Todd Main Vickie Manzi Larry Maola Loretta Maras Ricky Marino Barbara Mattei Frederic Mattern Mary Matthews Donald Maus William Mazur Catherine Mazza Edward Mazzeo Richard Mazza Kathleen Mazzucca Thomas McCarthy Peirre McCormick Charles McCracken Mark McDonald Patrick McDonald Leo McElroy Timothy McGrane Cecelia McKevitt Paulette McKinney Patrick McNamee Donald Mehal Robert Meinert Paul Meleason William Mentch Esmeralda Menzel Vincent Mercuri Marilyn Michalism Michael Michalski Marion Middleton Michele Mikolajczak Daniel Miller Frank Miller Gary Miller James Miller Joseph Miller William Miller Patrick Milloy John Mink Regina Minzak Gregory Mitchell Gary Mocarski Richard Moran Donna Morgan Mark Morrison Gerald Morse John Mottillo Stephen Mudery Linda Murawski Terry Murphy Robert Murray Suzanne Murray Mariann Musso Charles Myers John Nally Michael Nasca Rowland Navarro Stephen Nelson Timothy Nelson Debra Nesselhauf Meredith Nicholson Marie Niebauer Barbara Niedzielski David Niedzielski Christopher O'Brien Mark Ochalek Timothy O'Connor Kathleen Odell Janet O'Donnell David Ohman Vincent Olewnik Alberta Onachila Mary Ondich Rosanna O'Neil Charles Onuoha Mary Opalenik Jeffrey Orlando Douglas Ostrowski Valerie O'Toole Otto George Elizabeth Paczolt Robert Page Daniel Palermo Diane Palmer Anne Park Ronald Paussaurer Lynne Pastor Timothy Pastore Kimberly Paterniti Thomas Patmore Francis Peditto Bradley Perine Richard Peterson Toni Petulla Robert Pfister Vincent Pierzhalshi Sharla Piett Susan Piotrowski Robert Piroli Terrence Pipoly Thomas Piskor Mary Lou Pitonyak James Platteter James Plavecsky Sharon Plumb Marcia Pokriva Ronald Pollock Daniel Polaskey James Pomozzi Douglas Pontzer Patricia Port Carmen Priola Joanne Pytlak Joseph Radziszewski Debbie Ragen Mark Rakovan Patrick Randall Roselle Randazzo Timothy Ratkowski Mary Reagan Beverly Reid Cecil Reid Teresann Reidel Kenneth Ricci 183 The editor's favorite day This is Rich Kirkner. It is any Friday around 10 a.m. His ritual: Distribute newspapers. Go to Beyer lounge. Smoke. Drink coffee. Talk. Relax, but look commanding. Kirkner was this year's editor of the Cannon Knight. Before assum- ing the duites of editor, Kirkner wrote for the Knight for three years as a reporter, editorial board member, and sports editor. He also won an honorable mention for a sports column in the 1976 Penn- sylvania Collegiate Press Association competition. Toward the end of this spring, his experience landed him a temporary job at the sports desk of the Erie Morning News. Pictured in the lounge, from left, are )im Cooney, jullia Sheridan, Kirkner, and Therese Niedenberger. Francine Rice lames Rickloff Michael Roache Michael Robinson Jerome Rocchi David Rodrigues Maria Rodriguez Thomas Rogowski Nancy Ronan James Rose Kevin Rosenburg Jeannie Russell Danial Ryan John Ryan Timothy Stable Michael Sabol Robert Sabo Julie Sajewski Sharon Saltsman Patricia Saluk Phillip Sammons David Sandeen Steven Santoro Barbara Sapper Karen Sawicki Eugene Sayers Eraldo Scacchitti Carolyn Scantlebury Gretchen Schlabach Wendy Schlecht Fritz Schneider Timothy Schrech Richard Schroeder Michael Scott Richard Seager Kathleen Seman Timothy Sergi Kevin Shaffer John Sharer Patricia Sharp Mark Shaughnessy Debora Shenk Thomas Shetter James Siemieniak Nancy Simmons Marcy Simon Lynn Simon Janet Sims Ravi Singh Madeline Sivak John Slocum Barbara Slomski Daniel Smigel Edward Smith Kathleen Smith Matthew Smith Michael Smith Nettie Smith Lori Snell Mary Beth Snyder Diane Sobkowicz Helena Sobkowicz Steven Sonnenberg Mary Sorg Paul Sorg Anna Spadacene Barbara Spadacene Ruth Spinks David Stanchick Winifred Stancliff Deborah Stanovich Cynthia Stebnisky Karen Steinker Norman Stewart Gary Straub Etta Straub Mark Suprock William Sutherland John Swanson Kathleen Sweeney Robert Szymanoski Daniel Tacone Sam Talarico Winifred Talon Teresa Tassotti Lynn Tate Karen Teubert Jeffrey Thomas Mark Thompson Maryanne Thompson Bryan Tippett KevinToale Heidi Tofel Carolyn Trapp Carolyn Travers Joseph Triggiani Geralyn Uhl Ann Jean Uhrmacher Gregory Undercoffer Dale Uplinger Tim Uzarski Emily Van Volkinburg Judy Veon Mari Jo Virgili John Vincent Joseph Voelker Ronald Voelker Bruce Vuksta Mary Beth Wade Beverly Walder Brent Walker Glenn Walker Thomas Walsh Sandra Warda Thomas Warnock John Warus Robert Waruszewski Elizabeth Wawrzyniak Susan Weber Joseph Weithman Susan Welch Linwood Wentworth David Westfall William Weyand Mark Wheeler Paul Wheeler Ann Wickett William Wienckowski Paula Wieszczyk Thoma Wiest Kenneth Wiler Douglas Willey John Williams Perry Willians Susan Willis Mary Jo Wilson John Wiltberger Kathy Wink Daniel Wisinski Linda Wilwicki George Wnukoski Judith Wood Chester Wrotniak Jack Yakish Harold Yale Kathleen Yambor Eileen Yearn Yvonne Yelensky Scott Yochim Nancy Zameroski Christopher Zaremba Ramin Zarnegar Diane Zboch Sharon Zeiber Michael Zielewski John Ziemba Brian Zimmer Carol Zimmer Marian Zingaro David Zomcik Juniors Richard Adams Jon Allegretti Timothy Amann Charles Ames Karen Banaszek Vincent Barlow Mark Barrett James Belcastro Robert Bennett Linda Bentz Cynthia Berdis David Bernatowicz Russell Betz Robert Beyea David Billig Richard Biondi Joseph Blanks Anthony Bonvini Bryan Booth Andrea Bordash James Bosco Jeffrey Boswell Kathleen Brickley Craig Bridge Ralph Brougham Donald Brown Eugene Brown Lynn Bucklin Peter Buckoski Robert Burek Noreen Burger Arthur Buterbaugh Kenneth Cancilla Jude Carino Edward Carley Laurene Casella William Chadwick Eugene Cinti Mary Cioccio Peter Ciotti Kevin Clark Robert Clark Joseph Coogan Mark Cooney Timothy Coughlin James Chrishock Tess Crotty Edmund Czemerych Carolyn Dahlkemper Michael Damico James Deming Camille DiCicco 184 ' 185 Lawrence DiSanza Patrick Donnelly Dennis Dorman Deborah Drozdowski Mark Eberly Ronald Eichenlaub Karen Erstfeld Joseph Fshleman Gary Espey Dominick Espinosa Janine Ewing Valerie Farragher Bradford Farrah Deborah Ferrelti Thomas Ferri Joseph Figurski Maria Finegan John Fiorenzo Santo Fioretti Patricia Fisher Michael Fitzpatrick Wilson Fletcher Robert Flowers Charles Forquer David France Michale French Mary Glass Frank Gredler Michael Gresh David Hackenberg Michael Hagerty Gretchen Hahn Joseph Hahn Mark Haibach Harry Hairston Ronald Hall Chris Hamlett Thomas Hammar John Hardic Fate Harris Jeffrey Harton William Harvey William Hawkins Timothy Heberle Peter Heid Margaret Heintz Lowman Henry Gordon Herbst Lionel Hewitt Ronald Higgins Margaret Hines Hiznay Joseph Patrick Hogan Thomas Hollern Daniel Holquist Gloria Howard Hultman Young Jeffrey Huth Samuel llyankoff Kevin Irvin Gary Ison Michael Jacobson Darryl Jamison Hitesh Kapadia Henry Karpinski Linda Keeney David Kell Carolyn Kennedy Fredye Keys Stephen Keyvinski Gregory Kirsch Alexa Kitcey Jean Klein Alan Kline Denise Klier Thomas Klobchar Gilbert Knepper Thomas Kochansky Charles Kocur Lorraine Komorek Kaya Kosar Thomas Kownacki Edmund Krainski William Kurtzhals Karen Lane Timothy Laskowski James Lawrence l lerman Lee William Lee Alan Leggetl Kenneth Lemock Howard Levin Nancy Lewis Patricia Lewis Samuel Lewis Thomas Liscinski Katherine Lopes Mathew Lukasiak Alexander Makarowsky John Maleski Timothy Marchini William Masiroff Thomas Masters Matthew M.M. Thomas Matson Carol Mayhew Richard McCarty Augustus McCay James McCormick Joseph McDonald Robert McGarrigle Thomas Meara Zadeh Mehdi David Merison Jon Miles Douglas Miller Gary Miller William Miller Homayoon Momayez Mark Monocello Deborah Moon David Moore Paul Morabito John Moran David Morosky Rodwick Morris Hayes Moses Mark Musone Olga Myskiw Homa Nadjafi Leonardo Nasca Louis Natalie Larry Nazarian Charles Newcomb Therese Niedenberger Charles Niederriter Marian Noble William Norfolk Virgil Normal Denise Northrup Luciano Novacco David Nowak Lois Ochs Stephen Ondick Gerald Ondrey Lester Osborne Thomas Paavola Richard Page Adrian Pamula Robert Parham Robert Parlock Willard Passauer Donald Pastore Riccie Perretta Ronald Piluso Jan Pisarski Dale Platteter Patricia Porreca Marg ot Presto Daniel Purzycki John Quinlan Ronald Quiros Dennis Rausch Barbara Reagan Sherman Reeder Craig Reichert Mark Reinstadtler Thomas Reisenweber Marilyn Renkes James Rhodes Michael Richrick James Roach Monica Rodacy Frank Rossi Matthew Rouch Gail Rowe Bruce Sawtelle Donald Schieder Tom Schreier Herbert Schultz John Schultz Stephen Scrimenti Frank Scutella Ronald Seroka Daniel Sharkey Jullia Sheridan Agnes Shigo Paul Shupenko Gerald Simmons Michelle Singleton Rocco Sivillo Joseph Smith Darlene Snider Raymond Sobina Sami Soffa Barbara Spinks William Spring Gregory Starr George Stewart Lance Strasser Walter Straub George Strenio Mark Sullivan Martin Swabb Russell Swienski Stephen Szymanski Victor Szydlowski Russell Terbeek Mary Tharp Gary Thomas David Thompson Catherine Thorn James Torok Ross Toussaint Henry Town Barry Turner Philip Tylkowski Edward Tynecki Sandra Vactor Christopher Vogt Barbara Voyten Willie Wade Patrick Walker Richard Wallace Andrew Warholak Edward Warner Chester Waruszewski Thomas Welsh John Wenzel Donald Werle Michael Wernicki Robert Wernicki Timothy Whitcomb Don Wilkins Thomas Williamson Tamerat Worku Mona Wright Robert Wright Daniel Wroblewski Timothy Yurchak William Yuskovic Seroj Zadorrian Mark Zamierowski Fredrick Zendron Anthony Zeus Anthony Ziberna Herman Zilch Darrell Ziroli 186 ■ Living International Students relax at the Interna- tional House. FRONT ROW: Mu- thusamy Ramdoss, an M.B.A. student from India; Mahmoud Sarafraz, a pre-med major from Iran; and Bijan Shaiestea, a me- chanical engineering major from Iran. BACK ROW: Nasser Fahimi, a mechanical engineering major from Iran; resident adviser Majid L.M. Zadeh, an economics major from Iran; and visitors Nooshin Meeri, an engineering major from Iran; and Shahian (last name not available), a student from Iran who wants to major in computer tech- nology and has since withdrawn from Cannon. FAR LEFT: Chung Vu, a pre-med major from Vietnam. Y Math Earth Scienc fir HI 187 1. Joe makes ready to present the theatre organ to College President Msgr. Wilfrid Nash. 2. Rev. William Biebel, assistant headmaster of Cathedral Prep, performed several solo selections on the recon- structed organ. 3. A standing-room-only crowd jammed the Commons October 16 to witness the formal dedication of the organ and to hear the first concert on it in 40 years. 188 A pipe dream come true 1. Joe prepares the theatre pipe organ for the formal dedication. The program of October 16 included an audience sing-along, organ accompaniment to a Laurel and Hardy silent film, and vocal selections by Mary Ann Kania of the communication arts department. 2. In an early photo, Joe directs his helper, John Mitchell, in reconstructing this intricate instrument. Last October 16, Joe Luckey, Gannon maintenance man, fulfilled a dream that started eight years ago. He presented to the college a theatre pipe organ. The story really began about 1920. Shea's Theatre in down- town Erie was called the Perry Theatre then, and its owners wanted to install an organ. They approached the Tellers Organ Co. of Erie and arranged for the purchase. Tellers was a church organ firm and installed an ordinary church pipe organ. But it didn't seem to matter. The Perry Theatre used the instrument for about ten years before deciding in 1930 to add a percus- sion section. That's when the instrument became a real theatre organ. In 1931, the Perry was purchased by N.A. Shea and renamed Shea's Theatre. Although Shea's continued to produce the only legitimate theatre in Erie until the 1950's, the organ was used only until the mid-1930's. Then it was forgotten and left to gather dust for nearly 35 years. At about the same time, on the west side of Erie, a boy named Joe Luckey was growing up in St. Joseph's Orphanage. One of his favorite times in those days was listening to the presiding nun play a small, three-rank pipe organ for special ceremonies. Joe loved the sound of the music and promised himself that one day he would own and play his own pipe organ. In 1968, Shea's Theatre was marked for demolition. It had to go to make way for today's Hilton Hotel. The tellers organ was still in place, but unnoticed by almost everyone. Except Joe Luckey. Joe was working in the maintenance department at Gannon then. He remembered the Tellers and he remem- bered his dream. Two weeks before demolition was to begin, an auction was held. Joe was there and bought the Tellers for $300. With the help of a small army of Gannon students, he dismantled the organ and moved the pieces to four separate locations on campus. Looking at the dusty piles of parts, Joe decided then to rebuild the organ and give it to Gannon. I n 1969 the cleaning, overhauling, and refinishing began, with Joe doing most of the cleaning in his own bathtub. He knew nothing about the workings of the organ or the intricate network of wiring involved in the sound system. I just used my common sense and put everything back together as it was found, he said. John Mitchell, a Gannon alumnus, heard of Joe's project and gave him a great deal of help with it. For several months the organ parts were cleaned, repaired, and rebuilt in the four locations. Then the college offered Joe a room in the R.O.T.C. building for the reconstruction. For the next three and one-half years the work went on. After thousands of hours and thousands of dollars of his own money, Joe had the Tellers ready to perform. Tickets were printed, announcements prepared, decorations ordered. Then, one week before- the concert, the organ's blower shaft — the part that produces air for the organ — began to slip and the event had to be cancelled. J oe fought the disappointment and went on to completely rebuild the organ. In 1974 the college agreed to have it in- stalled permanently in the Commons, where it is today. Joe re- placed the original church console from Shea's with a theatre console he bought in Wyandotte, Mich., making the instrument a complete, genuine theatre organ. Joe fulfilled his childhood dream. He owned and played not just a pipe organ but the only theatre pipe organ publicly displayed within 100 miles. He also preserved a bit of Erie's theatrical history for the future. And by presenting the organ to Gannon, Joe made it possible for future generations of students to listen as he did at St. Joseph's, to learn to love the music, and most important, to dream. — Reprinted from the Cannon Record, December 1976. Also included are excerpts from the Cannon Knight article of October 1, 7976. 189 _L . 192 Parting Shots 193 £ '? I 194 ' ■ 195 Senior Award Winners 1. FRONT ROW: Deborah Grieb — The Richard Doc Beyer Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Intercollegiate Athletic Participation; Richard Hockensmith — The Professor Joseph J. Ban Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Annual United Nations Model Assembly; Nicholas E. Miller — The Msgr. G. Gerald Dugan Memorial Award for Excellence in Social Sciences; Steven Pede — The Msgr. James F. Murphy Memorial Award for Excellence in Philosophy. BACK ROW: Atif Ahmad Ammar — The Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Engineering; Kathryn Dobry— The Msgr. Joseph J. Cebelinski Memorial Award for Excellence in Business Administration; Philip Nicoletti — The Msgr. Joseph J. Wehrle Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics; James M. Zimmer— The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Award for Excellence in Accounting; Vincent R. Barlow — The Joe Luckey Service Award for Outstanding Dedication and Service to Gannon College and The Msgr. Wilfrid J. Nash Christian Service Award for Service Motivated by the Gospels. 2. Mary Ruth Kohlmiller — The Msgr. Paul E. Gooder Award for Excellence in the Humanities and The Gannon College Medal of Honor for Character, Leadership, and Scholarship; John L. Johnson — The Alumni Award for Excellence in Natural Sciences and The Archbishop John Mark Gannon Award for General Scholastic Excellence. ABSENT: Paul Wojciechowski- The Department of the Army Superior Cadet Award; Pamela Pickens— The Educational Opportunity Programs Council Award for Academic Excellence; William Cloekler — The Msgr. Ennis A. 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Additionally, Halter was nominated several times for Erie theatre's Bravo Awards and picked up a few other awards from Gannon in other categories. The Theatre Awards were started in 1963 by Dr. Richard Weiland, according to Rev. Thomas Mc- Sweeney, chairman of the theatre-comarts department. Gerry's done a fine job, he said. He's really worked hard these past few years. Pictured with Halter are fellow theatre majors Timothy Clancey, Amy Krenzer, and Anne Dieteman. 217 NO BOASTING ALLOWED He might be the smartest kid in the class, but he has no time for those who go around stomping on other people's accomplishments. BY ELIZABETH BUCARELLI Hey, here's the boy wonder now! John! C'mon over here I have these friends I want you to meet I was just teliing them all about you what a brain you are. Hey! John! All eyes shift to the tall slender figure in the doorway. He has sandy brown hair, curly and close-cropped. Wait till you meet this guy. All A's. Every semester, for godssake. His eyes, normally calm and direct, quickly scan the room. No one else there he knows. Damn. John! Hey, man, ya deaf or something? For an instant, his features are jumbled in a sort of frown-half-grinned smirk-self- conscious blush-wish he was anywhere but here. Finally, an embarrassed, resigned look clouds his face as he walks over to his well- meaning but slightly obnoxious friend. I'll have him name all the bones in the body for you. He's a brain he can do it just you wait till you hear this ... John L. Johnson surely is a brain, though chances are he cannot recite the bones of the body just-like-that. At any rate, you'd be well advised not to ask him to, be- cause, as he firmly insists, that is not what he is all about. Johnson, a biology pre-med major from Sugar Grove, Pa., was the only student to graduate this year with a 4.0 average. Per- haps only more remarkable is that he accom- plished this scholarly coup in three years. Now your average slob— the student who might really want to learn but just can't seem to get settled down, who finds that unflappable pinball machine down in the activities center more challenging than an algebra problem (and spends his time accord- ingly), who finds himself forced (in a bind, of course) into an occasional peek at a Monarch Notes plot summary or a friend's lab report, who spends four years trying to figure out why this college bit has to be such a . . . heavy trip — Your average slob, as I say, would probably feel justified in thinking Johnson's achievement is mostly the work of sheer natural ability, of genius, of . . . luck. Not necessarily. This country boy, born of hard-working parents of hard-working Swedish ancestry, maintains time and again that he is basically — you guessed it— a hard worker. I don't know how much innate intelli- gence has to do with the game, he says. We are already well into the interview. It is an af- ternoon in late May, and the birds outside are chirping and tweeting like there's no tomor- row, which can really get to be a pain, because John is a bit soft-spoken and the last thing I need here is a happy, shrieking-and-tweeting sparrow convention. Luckily for me, though, he is not all that soft-spoken. It's just that he seems to take so long to answer a question. I ask him some- thing, he looks at me, he stares at the table for a while — brain circuits clicking softly, I imagine — and then — out with it. It isn't always readily coherent. John's speaking style is punctuated throughout with the dashes and pauses and ellipses of a person who chooses his words very carefully. He'll start off, then pause, then relate what he is saying to something he said before, then jump ahead with a new thought, then pause again, vocie trailing off ... . And then pick up right where he started, tieing it all together, not missing a cue, not saying once (thank God): Now where was I? And so he picks up here. Natural ability gets you a long way, but hard work ... Here he trails off, voice getting softer, then: Gan- non's a good school for the hard worker. I've known very few courses, very few professors here, very few places at Gannon than you can't get if you're a hard worker. Ability comes in secondarily under that in terms of how to get there. I consider myself primarily a hard worker. And I consider him a hard interview. A good and stubborn subject who makes no bones about his wariness with this whole deal, with this Let's Do a Feature on the Smartest Kid in the Class. He gets especially cagey when I ask him about his grades and study habits and awards. As he puts it later on, after he had eased up a bit — I'm a great subject-switcher when people start to men- tion things that I've done like that. In other words, he isn't going to volunteer much of this awards stuff. Most of it is public knowledge anyhow. So: At this spring's commencement John won both the Alumni Award for Excellence in Natural Sciences and the Archbishop John Mark Gannon Award for General Scholastic Excellence. He is also listed in this year's Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. And he was nominated for the Tri Beta service award this year, the Schubert Award. A good friend of his, Jo Ellen Habas, won that. You should be doing an interview with her, he says. She's a nice, nice person. Any other awards? Well, I won some R.O.T.C. awards a long time ago. Which ones? I don't remember the names. How many? One . . . two .... Just put several. How many is several, John? Awwwwwwwwwww ... He is genuinely embarrassed. Hey, he says. I don't like to talk about myself like that. I like to talk to people, I tell them my opinions on things, but no talk about what I've done— No, it's not that much to talk about. The R.O.T.C. department was a bit more cooperative on this point. In May 1975 John won the President's Award (for academic achievement); the Department of Army Superior Cadet Award; the Daughters, Founders, and Patriots of America Award; the Academic Merit Award; and the Academic Acheivement Award. I ask him if he finds it hard to be modest about all this. Sometimes it is hard if people want to start talking about me, and I get embarrassed . . . It's always been hard for me— What can you say, you know? I appreci- ate their concern. I find it difficult to cope with, but I don't find it that hard to be modest. I've always worked. I mean, people back home— the Warren Foundation that I have a scholar- ship from, and my parents— I've worked very hard to make them proud of me. Yeah, I'm proud of where I am, but I don't think it comes to the point where I can't be modest about it. I like to think that I can be self- confident about it. This means no boasting allowed. And, he adds, he's seen plenty of students whose interest and ability in a certain class make them stand out — like a shining candle. I have very little time for people who have to spend time blowing out everybody else's. He gives me a significant look. You under- stand what I'm saying, right? Right. Back off, he's saying. Enough about this awards stuff. Well, you really can't blame him for that, but what I want to know is, why must he keep tapping on my tape recorder? Vhirrrrrrrr. Silence on tape. John is thinking about something. Tap, tap. Tap. (Which translates as Clunk, Ka-blunk. Clunk, on the finished tape, I might add to all you aspiring reporters who think it's easier to tape an interview than to take notes.) Anticipating this horrid clunking, I want to tell him to cut it out, but then I might barge in on his thinking and ruin his train of thought and never get an answer to the question. This is a delicate art. I'm getting nervous. Oh, that would be hard to estimate. A partial answer. I had asked him how many hours a week he spends studying. The time that I spend writing labs, the time that I . . . . You'll have to let me think about that and ask a little later I did ask a little later. Two more times, in fact. He never gave an answer in terms of hours, but something he had said before might explain why: I'd sav I do study pretty hard, and I do spend a lot of time because — I mean, that's why I'm here. My primary objective is an education. But there are a lot of things that contri- bute to my education, even in biology, that aren't really studying. The time I spend talk- ing to my friends about biology, about what we read in the journals, is time well spent. The time I spend working with other students in lab and in the labs I assist in to teach — that's part of my education as much as any- thing else. It goes beyond 'study' — hear the lecture, take the test, get the grade. This also goes to explain how the smartest kid in the class got to be that way, smartest kid in the class being a label you can bet he will read with that particular blend of anguish and hate more commonly experi- enced by staring at the blank pages of an overdue term paper. And it's not that he's excessively shy about his accomplishment, either. John, I find out quickly enough, is a logical, practical, open- minded thinker. For real. So it follows that just because he graduated with as 4.0 doesn't necessarily mean he was the most intelligent student in the class. When I ask him if he thinks grades reflect natural ability or diligence there is another one of those long pauses I have since grown used to. All right. This is going to be heavy stuff. What he winds up saying is that his theory about what grades reflect is one big can of worms he doesn't have time to get into in our already lengthy interview. I think I'll just say that at Cannon I think that a grade many times can be more re- flective of hard work than natural ability. My criticism of this is that sometimes with grade inflation you get to a point where a grade becomes really not a true reflection of either of those things and I think that that has very little place in an educational institution. Ideally, I'd say it should be a reflection of both. And if it's a reflection of either one of those things, then the person has earned a right to that — in most cases, a person has every much as right to be rewarded for diligence and hard work as someone to whom it comes easily. But this whole thing with grades and study and who-deserves-what is starting to take its toll. So we get off on a few tangents, chat about this and that, and finally he blurts out: I'll give you some decent stuff to put in there. I thought you were going to sit here and just ask me about grades and stuff like that . . . oh, no. I don't want to sit here and polish that. I wish people would put that in its perspective. It's something that's nice to achieve. But different people achieve in different ways. My older brother went to Penn State — he's an agricultural engineering major. My younger brother — he's home working the farm . . . and— we need good farmers. He's a lot better mechanic, working with his hands, than I'll ever be. People should recognize that that's acheivement — that's a skill — we need it. Seeing as he is a bit more relaxed, I decide it's time to ask him this next question and get it over with. Namely, does he have to study? Or does learning come to him naturally? I should have seen it coming. I looked through there, he begins referring to the list of questions I had shown him before the interview. That third question you were going to ask me . . . I'm asking it already. ' Do you have to study' boy . . . Do you have to study or do you just sit there and it comes to you . . . He is shaking his head back and forth like he is really disgusted and this the absolute dumbest question he has ever heard. He lets out a soft laugh that sounds more like a snort. Time to jump in. Well, John, I say, that isn't totally what I think because I know a lot of people look at exceptionally bright people and think that — well, it just comes, you just sit there and whammo! I know some people like that, he says, calm as can be. There are people like that. But ... I look at it — you get out of it what you put into it. And if you get a course that you like, and you go at it, and you learn a hundred twenty or hundred fifty percent of what you have to to get a grade in the course, you're better off with that. C nough about school. Even a brain has to take time out for some general merriment and hell-raising, and John is no exception. It hasn't been easy. It never seems like I had a lot of spare time so I ... I made time. If I didn't I'd very seriously wonder what I'm doing here. He says he never did much hanging around Sullivan's or Friendly's or Antlers. Just hang around campus, around the labs, and the dorm . . . talk to friends, talk to people. I've done a lot of tutoring, and I'm pretty good in English, and I've proofread — hundreds of papers— I've read a lot of papers in my day at the dorm. Thats something I never really minded that much. He was also in the R.O.T.C. for one year but left the program when he found he could finish college in three years. But we're getting back to schoolwork with all this R.O.T.C. and tutoring and reading papers. How about the fun stuff? Well I've always been active in intramural sports, he offers. Wrestling, ping pong, pinball — Aha! Pinball! Is he a Wizard? Yeah. You can put that down. Put that down. I've played a lot of pinball ... it keeps me sane. He also likes to read things outside of biology, and enjoys Russian and eastern European literature and . . . philosophy. Yes. And he prefers the ancient philosophers, I guess because I admire their argumentation, their ability to reason towards things. He doesn't really follow any one philosophy, though. I guess I 'm a composite of people I've been impressed with, things that I've learned, things that I've liked and reasoned and thought were good. This is all getting too heady. Doesn't he watch T.V. or something? No. I don't watch too much T.V. They write a lot of trash today. It's not a challenge to anyone — it's just escapist. He does en- joy some of the comedy shows, though, and mentions M A S H as one of his favorites. It's good entertainment, he says. There's a lot of humor there. John grew up in a family of readers. Maybe that's why he's not too crazy about the telly. My parents are both only high school gradu- ates but I consider them very educated people. People in my house — they read. We grew up reading at the table. You know, anybody who wants to get a jump on education — some people are born bright, I guess— but a lot of people become moti- vated to improve in their early years if they have parents who like to read. Living on a farm can produce the sort of no-nonsense practicality and independence John has been demonstrating throughout this whole interview. He says his father is one of the few people he knows wh o would know how to build a house or a barn. Most of the repair work on their machines they do themselves. It's good to read articles on farming, he says, 'but the real test is when your come out and try and apply it to im- proving your own farming situation. You get that kind of a practical outlook on things. I he interview is almost over. After he finishes his medical studies at the University of Pittsburgh, he says he will probably want to get into clinical medicine. Clinical? What's that? I ask. He turns to look at me squarely. His eye- brows are arched and he looks kind of surprised Oh-oh. Another dumb question. Practicing, he says. Clinical means practicing as opposed to academic (research- oriented) medicine. I want to go out and do some things for people. Maybe after a while I'll get back to academics. His future, he says is open. I like children. I think maybe I could work in pediatrics. A nd that's pretty much it, in terms of the actual interview. But it seems John can't resist one last swipe at my tape recorder, that silent monster whose only sin is that it makes people nervous. See, this tape recorder won't stand there and rebut me like my friends. There's an old Russian proverb that goes: Your enemy will agree with you, but the wise man knows his friends— they argue with him. I can't argue with that. (5 :q Oy D :q 0: Mr. Mrs. Edwin L. Adkins Mr. Mrs. Francis T. Albaugh Dr. Mrs. Norbert Alberstadt Mr. Mrs. John Allegretti Mr. Mrs. Kenneth Anderson Mr. Mrs. Quido Antonelli Mr. Mrs. Charles F. 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McMay Mr. Mrs. John McCreary Mr. Mrs. Ron McDonson Mr. Mrs. William McEvoy Jr. Mrs. Paul McGinnis Mr. Mrs. Joseph McGraw Mr. Mrs. Francs C. McKevitt Mr. Mrs. John McKinley Mr. Mrs. James C. McManus Mr. Mrs. Joseph B. Meegan Mr. Mrs. Quirino Melocchi Mr. Mrs. Joseph Mendel Mrs. Viola Merison Mr. Mrs. Harold W. Meyer Mr. Mrs. Joseph Meyers Mr. Mrs. Edward Milloy Mr. Mrs. Jack Mordan Mr. Mrs. James C. Mullen Mr. Mrs. James R. Muroski Mr. Mrs. Neal W. Murray Mr. Mrs. Donald E. Myers Mr. Mrs. Ray Nason Mr. Mrs. J.C. Nelson Jr. Mr. Mrs. H.F. Neumeyer Anthony Tressa Nicoletti Mr. Mrs. Joseph A. Niedenberger Mr. Mrs. William Norris Mr. Mrs. Thomas W. Novicki Mr. Mrs. Anthony Occhiuzzi Mr. Mrs. Paul Ondich Mr. Mrs. Edmund V. Owens Mr. Mrs. George R. Paczolt Mr. Mrs. Paul A. Pastore Mr. Mrs. Ralph Pater Mr. Mrs. Anthony J. Peditto Mr. Mrs. Frank Perine Mr. Mrs. Thomas Peterson Mr. Mrs. Frank Petrarca Mrs. Helen Petrucci Mr. Mrs. Frank Pietrusinski Mr. Mrs. Joseph Piotrowski Mr. Mrs. Jan Pisarski Sr. Mrs. Eva Piskor Mr. Mrs. Adam Podraza Robert Joan Potalivo Mr. Mrs. Martin R. Rakovan Mr. Mrs. Edward G. Reese Mr. Mrs. Connol Reid Lillian Felix Restuccia Mr. Mrs. Anthony G. Ricci Mr. Mrs. Francis J. Rice Mrs. Julian M. Rieser Mr. Mrs. Grey Riley Mr. Mrs. Paul Rizzo Mr. Mrs. Herman R. Rocchi Cdr. Mrs. L.F. Rolen Mr. Mrs. George Rostas Mr. Mrs. Carl Roth Mr. Mrs. Angelo Russo Mr. Mrs. Robert E. Ryan Mr. Mrs. William F. Ryan Max Dorothy Ryczko Mr. Mrs. Norbert A. Rydzewski Dr. Mrs. German Salcedo Mr. Mrs. Benjamin S. Saluk Mr. Mrs. Frank Santoro Paul Mary Saunders Mr. Mrs. Pat Savelli Mr. Mrs. Earl Sayers Mr. Mrs. Gustavo Scacchitti Dr. Mrs. Oscar Schmitt Mr. Mrs. Schneider Mrs. Mary Schultz Santo Marie Scrimenti Mr. Mrs. William S. Sharkey Mr. Mrs. Benjamin Shim Mr. Mrs. Victor Silenas Mr. Mrs. Joseph Silverman Mrs. Amelia Simone Mr. Mrs. William A. Simons Dr. Mrs. Kripa S. Singh Mr. Mrs. William G. Siple Mr. Mrs. Michael Sitarik Mr. Mrs. Maurice Smith Mr. Mrs. Joseph F. Sobina Mr. Mrs. Tibor Solymosi Mr. Mrs. Henry J. Sonnet Mr. Mrs. William E. Spring Mr. Mrs. M.C. Steber Mr. Mrs. George Stefick Mr. Mrs. John Stephens Mr. Mrs. Norman R. Stewart Mr. Mrs. Robert L. Stewart Mrs. Josephine Stoczynski Mr. Mrs. George B. Strasbaugh Mr. Mrs. Glenn Suit Mr. Mrs. Leo Swigonski Mr. Mrs. Sandor Szabo Mr. Mrs. Stephen M. Szymanski Mr. Mrs. Bernard M. Thomann Mr. Mrs. Charles W. Trabold Mr. Mrs. Gene Valentovish Rose Jack Vergili Mr. Mrs. Robert S. Vogt Mr. Mrs. Thomas Volpone Mr. Mrs. William Voyten Mr. Mrs. Richard H. Walker Mr. Mrs. Richard D. Wallace Sr. Mr. Mrs. William T. Walsh Mr. Mrs. W.D. Weissenberg Mr. Mrs. Francis Weithman Mr. Mrs. Raymond J. Wiehagen Mr. Mrs. Robert H. Wiltfeuer Mr. Mrs. Raymond Wieszczyk Mr. Mrs. Joseph Wirag Sr. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Witko Mr. Mrs. George W. Wnukoski Mr. Mrs. A.J. Wolanin Mrs. Helen M. Wroblewski Mr. Mrs. Daniel Yale Mr. Mrs. Daniel Yanicko Leo Theresa Zamenoski Mr. Mrs. Henry Zamenba 221 EDITOR Elizabeth Bucarelli COPY EDITOR Patrica Malik LAYOUT EDITOR Valerie Wein SPORTS EDITOR Becky Briggs PHOTOGRAPHERS Elizabeth Bucarelli Francis Millis j. Martin Seroka COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY PRINTING Ted Gocal Francis Millis J. Martin Seroka A few words about the production of this book: It's not been fun, but it has had its challenging moments. Honest. Also, a few words of thanks to those who helped out with the book but are not listed with the staff. Many thanks to: — Dr. Dennis Renner and members of his Editing for the Print Media class — Francis Thompson, Ruth Lawton, Teresa Tassotti, and Tamerat Worku— for their feature and photo suggestions. — my sister Pattie, her friend Terry Carideo, and my cousin Stacie Russell, for typing up sheet after sheet of student roster computer print-outs. —and especially to Stephen Drexler, sports editor of the 1975 Lance, for taking the time to lay out the entire sports section. Elizabeth Bucarelli August 1977 CONTRIBUTORS Becky Briggs Stephen Drexler Fred Marino Kenneth Pieri STAFF Theresa DeMark Anthony Guyda Arlene Piskor John Ryan Mark Zamierowski BUSINESS MANAGER Kenneth Lewis ADVISER Fred Marino COVER: Low-angle view of Old Main, converted into high-contrast line art, by J. Martin Seroka. PORTRAITS by Arfax Studios, 249 East 10th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Boston Store Portrait Studio, 718 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania. PRINTED by Josten's American Yearbook Company, State College, Pennsylvania. 222 o ©MSfliRl® BUCYRUS-ERIE 1521 Raspberry Street Erie, Pa. 16502 459-8000 THE DOWNTOWNER MOTOR HOTEL MARTUCCI'S TAVERN ROBINSON-CONNER, INC. EASTLAND BOWL 3729 McClelland Avenue Erie, Pa. 16510 825-5990 HEYL PHYSICIANS SUPPLY 419 State Street Erie, Pa. 16507 452-6785 ERIE DAILY TIMES Morning News 205 West 12th Street Erie, Pa. 16501 814-456-8531 Congratulations HAMMERMILL PAPER COMPANY Erie, Pennsylvania 16533 223 IN MEMORIAM Kathleen Ditrich May 24, 1942— October 28, 1976 Shortly after College President Msgr. Wilfrid Nash told the Board of Trustees that he wanted to resign, he had to make another announcement to them — he had to tell them that a long-time Gan- non employee and friend of many at the college had died minutes before. Kathleen Ditrich, Gannon's switchboard operator for the last 15 years, died Thursday, October 28, after leaving her day's work at the college. Kathy, like Msgr. Nash, was an important part of the Gannon community. She touched the lives of many people, and she did it without leaving the small glass office in the lobby of Old Main that houses the operator's equipment. It was never more evident the number or wide variety of people that she reached than by seeing those who came to pay their last respects to Kathy at the Brugger Funeral Home. There were, of course, members of the Gannon community pre- sent, including students, teachers, and administra- tors. There were also members of the local Demo- cratic party, whom Kathy worked for; kids and staff members from Camp Notre Dame, where she was on the Board of Directors; fans and workers from the race track, where Kathy's family ran a number of horses in competition; and local bingo fanatics, as Kathy was an avid bingo fan herself. Kathy gave of her time and energies to all these groups, and this is what she did for the Gannon community. She was instrumental in getting the Alumni Telethon off the ground a few years back. She was also an enthusiastic supporter of Gannon theatre productions, religiously attending nearly every performance of each show. Kathy also helped people in small ways. From the switchboard she directed visitors— and even stu- dents—to various offices to help them solve their problems and answer their questions. She is the one person to know at Gannon, a teacher here once remarked. If she doesn't know the answer to your question, she'll know where to send you to get an answer. Msgr. Nash said much about Kathy at the funeral Mass when he commented that there was rarely a time when he passed the switchboard and didn't see someone sitting and talking with Kathy. Whether it was a joke, an amusing incident that happened to her on the job, or her opinion on an issue, Kathy had something to say that would provoke a response. When she would have visitors at the switch- board, Kathy would always amaze them with her ability to carry on three or four conversations at one time. There were hundreds, possibly thousands, who knew Kathy only by her voice, and some of these people got to know her well enough to hold a deep friendship with her over the phone and through the mail. There was a time when Kathy knew all the students at Gannon, but unfortunately, Gannon grew too big. Those who did know her will miss her. Kathy was a rare person who knew many people and loved many people. Gannon benefitted by her presence in the community for the last 15 years. Probably the only reassuring thought in a sad time for Gannon came from a friend of Kathy's on the faculty. I know that other people with equal love and dedication will emerge at Gannon to fill the holes left by Kathy's death, he said. — Reprinted from the Gannon Knight, November 5, 7976. 224