Robert Mowry Retires After 41 Years
New Faces: Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Mike Coyne
New Faces: Dean of Student Life Tracy Tyree
Assistant Professor of Geological and Environmental Science Katherine Straub presented a seminar, "Observations of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden-Julian Oscillation," at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on March 28, 2003. She plans to collaborate with NASA scientists to investigate tropical rainfall using a new high-resolution satellite dataset.
Assistant Professor of Music David Steinau delivered his paper "The Artist in Exile: Hanns Eisler's Hollywood Elegies" recently at the University of Hawaii's International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies Laurence Roth has been appointed editor of Modern Language Studies, the nationally distributed scholarly journal affiliated with the Northeast Modern Language Association, which is currently in the process of relocating to Susquehanna University. Faculty from the departments of English, modern languages, and art will be editing and redesigning the journal as a joint interdepartmental project.
Assistant Professor of Economics Katarina Keller presented her paper "Investment in Levels of Education and the Effects on Growth" at the Western Economics Association International Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, in January and the National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., in March.
Susquehanna was well represented at the 2003 Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association conference held at Community College of Philadelphia on February 22, 2003. Simona Hill, assistant professor of sociology, presented a session about teaching feminist activism and the new anthology by the same name. Sophomore Debra Rozelle '05 led a roundtable discussion and presented her paper entitled "My Identity as a Nonentity: A Working Mother Returns to Traditional College Full Time." Emily K. Anderson '02, an assistant to the university's Diversity Initiative Project, conducted a workshop with Hill on "Channeling the Crest of the Third Wave: Making Feminist Pedagogies Accessible to a New Generation."
Associate Professor of English Tom Bailey has had both his short story collection, Talking Like An American, and his most recently completed novel, The Grace That Keeps This World, contracted for publication by Etruscan Press. The collection contains stories that have won a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation, "The Distinguished Dissertation Award for the Humanities" from Binghamton University, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Fiction.
The Eastern Frontier Society jurists have chosen Bailey for a residency program this summer on Norton Island, a summer haven to writers, painters, and sculptors located one mile offshore deep in down east Maine. Accommodations are log cabins, much of the materials milled on the island itself. The only rule is that no one interrupts or distracts someone working. The length of Tom's residency will extend from July 20th to August 10th. Award-winning poet Stephen Dunn is the acting chairman of this three-year-old residency.
Chaplain to the University Mark Wm. Radecke recently had three prayers included in a published book, entitled We Ask Your Blessing: 100 Prayers for Campus Occasions. Donald G. Shockley is the editor; Writers Club Press is the publisher.
Assistant Professor of Theatre Doug Powers presented his paper "'A Bright Golden Haze': Lynn Riggs and the Myth of Oklahoma!/Oklahomo" at a conference on the Broadway Musical 1920-2020 at Hofstra University on March 28, 2003. His book, An Eliadean Interpretation of a Cherokee Ritual, will be published by The Edwin Mellen Press this fall. His entry on Tennessee Williams's play Clothes for a Summer Hotel will be printed in the forthcoming Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press and edited by noted Williams scholar Philip C. Kolin.
Andrea Lopez, assistant professor of political science, was interviewed on York's Morning News on WSBA News-Talk radio in York, Pa. on March 19th. The interview dealt with diplomatic ramifications of the war in Iraq.
Associate Professor of Economics Antonin Rusek presented the paper "Exchange Rates, Economic Growth and External Stability in EU Candidate Countries" at the 55th International Atlantic Economic Conference in Vienna, Austria, March 12-16, 2003. Rusek also attended the XIV Annual Strategy Conference organized by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.
Lynn Palermo, assistant professor of French, will join Scott Manning, associate professor of French, in presenting a one-hour workshop on "Marketing French to Undergraduates: The Use of Advertising Posters in French Language Instruction" at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French to be held in Martinique in July. Following a busy year with conference presentations in the Dominican Republic and Houston, Texas, Assistant Professor of Spanish Donetta Hines, will head for Portugal in June to present a paper at the Primer Congreso Internacional on "Mulheres Más. Percepções da Mulher transgressora no Mundo Luso-Hispânico." Morelia, Mexico will be the site of Associate Professor Leona Martin's paper, "La odisea de James Orton, autor de 'The Andes and the Amazon'," at the Second International Alexander von Humboldt Conference in August. Susan Schurer, professor of German, will be busy developing her research on Germany and Islam and the German-American Chamber of Commerce. Wanda Cordero Ponce , associate professor of Spanish, plans to refine her research agenda for her spring 2004 sabbatical leave in France, with its focus on Maghrebian writers in France.
Assistant Professor of History David Imhoof was invited to present a paper entitled "Beyond Berlin: Political Change and Cultural Continuity in Germany During the Weimar Republic and Third Reich" on April 2 at Bowling Green State University. He also spoke to a German Studies course there.
Associate Professor of English Susan R. Bowers and Assistant Professor of English Amy Winans presented "Anywhere But Backwards: Diversity at a Small Liberal Arts College," a history and analysis of diversity programs at Susquehanna, at the International Conference on Diversity at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu February 13-16.
News Services Manager Victoria Kidd took first place in the Spot News category for Division IV of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's 2003 Keystone Press Awards. Her winning entry was on the homeless man living under the Route 11-15 overpass in Hummels Wharf last winter.
On Saturday, April 12, 2003, Associate Professor of English Susan Bowers, Visiting Assistant Professor of French Lynn Palermo, and Assistant Professor of Sociology Simona Hill presented a panel entitled "Diversity Connections within Education Institutions: Two Case Studies: Berwick Area High School and Susquehanna University." The SU component was called rather succinctly, "The Pain of Change." Our presentation was part of the Bloomsburg University Community Task Force on Racial Equality and the Community Alliance for Respect and Equality (CARE) conference, "Diversity in a Changing World: Local Options." Many thanks go to Lynn Palermo, especially, who served as a last minute substitute for Amy Winans.
Robert Mowry Retires After 41 Years
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With interests ranging from metaphysics to illustrating to modern languages to music to European history, you could say Associate Professor of Spanish Robert Mowry embodies the liberal arts ideal.
Mowry, who received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and earned both a master's and doctorate from Middlebury College, retired from the university after 41 years of service at the conclusion of the 2002-2003 academic year.
He originally received and subsequently turned down a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art in order to attend Oberlin College, where he planned to major in philosophy. "I chose Oberlin because they had a course in metaphysics which was what I wanted to do at the time. At Oberlin, I neither majored in philosophy nor did I take the course! I ended up majoring in European History."
The experience was "an interesting object lesson in trying to keep an open mind with what one wants to do with one's life," says Mowry. "My original goal was to be a cartoonist at Disney and I ended up teaching Spanish!"
In 2001 Susquehanna awarded Mowry the John C. Horn Distinguished Service Lectureship at commencement in recognition of his outstanding scholarship and conscientious service.
In addition to his work in the modern languages department for the last four decades, Mowry has also been involved with the Honors Program since its inception 21 years ago, serving as associate director for the past 10 years. He remembers being "especially glad to have been involved in the Honors Program because of its very distinctive group of students."
Mowry's post retirement plans include dedicating more of his time to both creating and appreciating art. "Originally, I did not choose art as my path because I felt that I had nothing to say through my art. Since that time I have become most comfortable in illustrating literary texts."
Sixteen of his brush-and-ink drawings are currently on display in the lounge of the Blough Weis Library. He created the illustrations to accompany his recently published translation of Destruction or Love, a major work by Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Susquehanna University Press published Mowry's translation in 2001.
He is also looking forward to spending more time with his family and especially his grandchildren. He and his wife will be moving to Greensboro, N.C., and he is sure there will be some traveling in their future as well.
Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Mike Coyne
Michael Coyne is the new vice president for finance and treasurer at Susquehanna University. Previously, Coyne served as the assistant treasurer and controller at Elizabethtown College (Pa.) for eight years. From 1985 to 1994, he served as manager, senior auditor and auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Baltimore, Md.
The vice president for finance and treasurer at Susquehanna University serves as a key member of the senior administrative team. The vice president is responsible for providing leadership, vision and oversight for all finance functions, including the controllership of the university's financial resources, investment of endowment funds and capital and construction financing, as well as the development of the annual operating budget.
Coyne also participates with the president, executive vice president, trustees and other senior administrators in institutional strategic planning and policy development.
Coyne earned his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and his bachelor's degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1985. He is a certified public accountant.
He replaces Donald Aungst who resigned his position in May to become the vice president of resource management at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Dean of Student Life Tracy Tyree
A college administrator from Georgia has stepped into the shoes of Dorothy Anderson '67, the long-time dean of student life at Susquehanna University who retired at the end of the last academic year.
Tracy Tyree comes to Susquehanna from Mercer University in Macon, Ga., where she served four years as the director of the First Year Experience and Academic Advising Center.
Before that, Tyree was the director of student activities and leadership programs at Lynchburg College in Virginia and assistant coordinator for residence life at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Tyree earned a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Maryland in college student personnel administration, a master of arts in education from Indiana University and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Florida at Gainesville.
As Susquehanna's dean of student life, Tyree has responsibility for administering the student life programs of the university, with particular emphasis on fostering a vibrant environment for student development and learning, and creating a caring community in which students achieve responsible independence and concern for others. Tyree is engaged with staff and faculty from across the university in coordinating and implementing student retention efforts and sustaining a campus environment conducive to student maturation, leadership development, and academic achievement.
