The Honorable Arlin M. Adams

The Honorable Arlin M. Adams will deliver the inaugural lecture at the official March launch of The Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society at Susquehanna University.

Adams, a prominent jurist from Philadelphia whose distinguished national career includes 17 years on the bench of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and life-long involvement in professional, charitable and educational organizations, will lecture on religion and the law Monday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Degenstein Center Theater.

The center, established in June by the family of Sigfried and Janet Weis and the Degenstein Foundation of Sunbury, with support from The Annenberg Foundation, is intended to strengthen the intellectual dialogue at Susquehanna by raising issues that intersect academic disciplines and important societal questions.

The center complements the university's legal studies, pre-law, and interdisciplinary offerings and serves as a resource to the greater community. As its work becomes known, it is hoped that the Adams Center will grow to be recognized regionally and nationally as an authoritative resource.

In delivering the inaugural annual lecture, Adams will set the stage for an ongoing lectureship that will attract prominent leaders and scholars to speak at Susquehanna. His lecture's topic, drawn from a life-long interest in religion and the law, will open an exploration of future issues as diverse as ethics, technology, privacy issues, taxation, constitutional law, and death and dying.

Already, the Adams Center is making a mark on student development and community outreach in the form of funding for two fall- and spring-semester Susquehanna student interns at North Penn Legal Services in Sunbury. The interns work five hours a week and earn two semester-hour credits.

The Legal Services student interns "not only answer the phones, they greet everyone who comes in the door - from scheduled clients to other attorneys to prospective clients coming in off the street," says Pete Macky, the agency's supervising attorney. They gather preliminary information on law-related problems ranging from landlord and employment to child custody and domestic violence issues.

"Many, many people call us," says Macky. "These students really work the front lines. They really see how people are affected by the law. They're in the hot seat all the time."

Peter Macky, supervising attorney for North Penn Legal Services in Sunbury, Pa., works with Susquehanna interns including political science major Rachel Brown '02.

In addition, the Adams Center and Legal Services are slated to embark on a joint video-dubbing project that will translate a number of legal "how-to" videos from English to Spanish for the growing Latino population in the Central Susquehanna Valley.

Susquehanna Spanish-fluent students will create subtitled text for the videos and, eventually, record complete voice-overs in Spanish.

"The dubbing will be helpful in this area where Spanish seems to be growing," says Macky. Topics covered by the videos that will be used in the agency's 20-county service area of Northeastern Pennsylvania include domestic violence, mediation, landlord-tenant issues, custody, unemployment compensation, and district justice court.

Adams, who remains active in the law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, one of Philadelphia's largest, served as the secretary of public welfare for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. President Richard M. Nixon appointed him to the Court of Appeals in 1968, a position he held 17 years. He also served five years as an independent counsel for the investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Adams was a visiting Woodrow Wilson fellow at Susquehanna in 1981 and, in 1985, received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the university.

SU Establishes Cy Stretansky Chair In Choral Music

President Jay Lemons joins the Susquehanna University Choir for an impromptu meeting following a recording session for their 15th recording "The Promise of Living." The recording includes music performed at the inauguration of Lemons as SU's 14th president in September 2001.

Susquehanna University has announced the establishment of the Cyril M. Stretansky Distinguished Professorship in Choral Music, the first chair created to benefit the university's fine arts program.

The endowed chair, which will fund the director of choral activities position, was established through the combined generosity of Cyril Stretansky and his wife, Lee, and anonymous donors who wanted to honor his 30 years of service as professor of music and director of choral activities.

"This gift is an expression of our passion and love for the choral arts and the opportunities Susquehanna has given us," says Stretansky. "Without the contributions of others, this chair would not exist."

The Stretanskys hope that the chair will promote greater awareness and appreciation of the fine arts as studied, created, rehearsed, exhibited and performed at Susquehanna University.

Choir Tour 2002: Making Music Across Four States

Members of the Susquehanna University Choir will travel to locations in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania during their annual spring tour from March 1 until April 14. Music Director and Conductor Cyril Stretansky will lead the 50-member group, which has recently recorded "The Promise of Living," the 15th volume in its recording series.

This year's tour dates and locations are:

Friday, March 1, 8:00 p.m. Saint Joseph's Slovak Roman Catholic ChurchNanticoke, Pa.	Saturday, March 16, 8:00 p.m. Our Lady of the Mount Catholic Church Warren, N.J.
Saturday, March 2, 8:00 p.m. Grace United Methodist Church Wilmington, Del.	Sunday, March 17, 3:00 p.m. Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Sunday, March 3, 3:00 p.m. Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa Doylestown, Pa.	Sunday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Dallas, Pa.
Sunday, March 3, 8:00 p.m. Calvary Lutheran Church West Chester, Pa.	Friday, April 5, 8:00 p.m. Saint Peter's Catholic Church Coplay, Pa. (Allentown Area)
Monday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. First Lutheran Church Waterbury, Conn.	Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Southampton, Pa. (Philadelphia Area)
Tuesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Church Portland, Conn.	Sunday, April 7, 3:00 p.m. Highland United Presbyterian Church Newport, Pa.
Friday, March 15, 8:00 p.m. Jerusalem Lutheran Church Schuylkill Haven, Pa.	Sunday, April 7, 7:30 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church Camp Hill, Pa.
Sunday, April 14, 3:00 p.m. Annual Return From Tour Concert Weber Chapel Auditorium Selinsgrove, Pa.

For information on the choir's tour, contact Student Choir Manager Francis Anonia '01 at 570-372-4295.

Two Named To SU Board of Directors

Michael E. Collins '73, an executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and the Rev. Ruth Ballard, a Lutheran pastor from Millersburg, Pa., were recently elected to the University's board of directors for three-year terms.

Collins, who is senior vice president in charge of the Department of Supervision, Regulation and Credit of the Federal Reserve Bank, serves as an alumni representative. He earned a B.S. in economics and marketing. Collins began his career with the Federal Reserve in 1974 as an assistant examiner, and moved through the ranks, attaining his current position in 1994. He chairs the Federal Reserve System Committee on Staff Development/Utilization and System Performance, and is a member of the Business Advisory Council of both Villanova University and Susquehanna's Sigmund Weis School of Business.

The Rev. Ballard has served as pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Millersburg since 1991. She has been active in the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and joins the board as a synod representative. She has served on the synod's Executive Committee, Synod Council, Leadership Support Committee and the Reference and Counsel Committee. She has also served on the board of Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. Ballard has teaching experience, having taught English at St. Andrew's Jr. High School and religion at Cardinal Newman High School, both of which are in Columbia, South Carolina.

Yahoo! We're Wired!

Yahoo! Internet Life's online magazine has again ranked Susquehanna University as one of the nation's "most wired colleges."

Susquehanna appears as 45 on a list of the nation's top 50 small colleges with an overall score of 81.80 in a survey conducted with Peterson's educational services.

The 2001 rankings, posted on Yahoo! Internet Life's Web site in late December, can be found at www.wiredcolleges.com.

The survey measures six weighted categories - infrastructure, student resources, web portal, teaching and e-learning, technical support, and wireless capability - each consisting of four to 18 factors.

About 1,300 two- and four-year institutions participated in the 2001 survey which ranked the top 200 wired colleges, the top 20 two-year institutions, and the top 50 small colleges.

Susquehanna has been a leader among small colleges and universities in providing access to information technology. Its campus-wide local area network, completed in 1994, connects all residence halls with faculty and staff offices, classrooms, laboratories, the library and other teaching and learning spaces, in addition to the Internet.

Susquehanna University's web address is www.susqu.edu.

New Mountain Laurel Center Will Tap SU Student Interns

The recently announced $35 million Mountain Laurel Center for Performing Arts will tap Susquehanna University's Sigmund Weis School of Business for student marketing and management interns.

The center, scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend 2003 in Bushkill Falls, Pa., will be a world-renowned performing arts center and a cultural destination maintaining the highest standard of artistic performance.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be in-residence for the center's opening season. In addition, letters of intent have been received from other distinguished groups in the country, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Ballet Theatre, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic.

Expected to be a catalyst for expanding the economic growth of the Pocono Mountains by increasing visits, creating jobs and generating new business, the center will make educational opportunity internships available to two universities, Susquehanna and East Stroudsburg University's Hotel School Program.

In Susquehanna's case, "Interns from the Sigmund Weis School of Business will participate in summer-long marketing and/or management internships providing the center with additional staff during peak periods while gaining invaluable hands-on experience," the center said.

Marsha Lehman, Executive in Residence

Business consultant Marsha Lehman '74 has been named the Executive in Residence at Susquehanna University's Sigmund Weis School of Business the week beginning Oct. 29.

A 1974 graduate of Susquehanna and member of the university's board of directors, Lehman will be the guest of honor and keynote speaker at the annual invitation-only Weis Partners Dinner on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

As an executive in residence, Lehman will address business and marketing classes to share her wealth of insightful management experience.

Lehman, currently a business consultant who provides services as an interim executive, served as vice president of operations of Internet Pictures Corp., (iPIX) where she oversaw the complete processing cycle - from order entry and image processing to multimedia enhancement and hosting of the 360-degree iPIX images.

Prior to joining iPIX in 1999, Lehman served 24 years in various positions at Eastman Kodak Co., at which her last position was vice president of digital and applied imaging division where she was general manager for the worldwide CD media and hardware business.

After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Susquehanna in 1974, she completed work toward a master's degree from the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. She has previously maintained active involvement on the boards of the University of Rochester Medical Center, American Dental Trade association, Eastman Dental Center, and Mary M. Gooley Hemophilia Center. Lehman joined the Susquehanna board in 1997.

She is a volunteer teacher at the Knoxville, Tenn., Habitat for Humanity.

SU Students To Make Presentation At Atlanta Meeting

Susquehanna University is one of a handful of schools to be awarded the opportunity to make a presentation at the national conference of the Public Relations Student Society of America in Atlanta.

Fourteen Susquehanna public relations students will be paired with students from the University of Memphis to present a session titled, We Treat You Right: Motivating Your Members to Keep Coming Back for More.

Held in conjunction with the Public Relations Society of America conference and taking place Oct. 26 to 30 in Atlanta at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, it is the largest national gathering of public relations professionals and students.

The Susquehanna students will share the stage with several luminaries who are scheduled to speak during the conference, including Andrew Young, former U.N. ambassador, Lester Thurow, the international economics guru, and human rights activist Coretta Scott King.

The three-part Susquehanna presentation will conclude with a nod to TV's Survivor. Audience members will be selected and given public relations scenarios that require a creative response. The audience will then judge the responses, voting participants off PRSSA Survivor Island until one survivor, the winner, remains.

SU Recieves $130,000 National Biology Grant

The National Science Foundation has awarded Thomas Peeler, associate professor of biology at Susquehanna University, a $130,000 grant to support student and faculty collaborative research in cell and molecular biology.

The three-year grant from the foundation's division of biological infrastructure will be used to purchase a confocal microscope system, an advanced laser-scanning instrument that offers enhanced resolution in immunofluorescent applications and the ability to reconstruct three-dimensional images from ultra-thin optical sections.

Peeler will be among three Susquehanna faculty users of the instrument.

His work examines the interaction of external signals in cardiac cells and the new microscope will allow Peeler to visualize the cytoskeletal network in heart cells. Disruption of this network stimulated by external signals may play a role in the development of the cardiac hypertrophy associated with hypertension.

David Richard, associate professor of biology, hopes to use the new device to better understand the role of certain key proteins during egg development, which may be key to novel methods of insect population control.

Research by Margaret Peeler, associate professor of biology, focuses on the role of signal transduction pathways in cell fate determination during the early development of the sea urchin embryo. The new microscope will be used in experiments to follow the expression of regulatory proteins believed to be responsible for directing cell fate in embryonic development.

The acquisition of the confocal microscope will have significant impact on the research training of undergraduate students. About 15 to 20 students will use the instrument each year as part of their capstone senior research experience. It also will enhance and expand the scope of research projects and provide significant training opportunities for students who intend to pursue careers in biomedical research.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of about $4.5 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states, through grants to about 1,800 universities and institutions nationwide. Each year, NSF receives about 30,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes about 10,000 new funding awards.

SU Teams Tackle Costa Rica, Nicaragua Work Projects

Ten SU students, three faculty/staff, and one spouse traveled to Costa Rica and Nicaragua for 14 days in December and January as the University's Central America Service Learning/Mission Team 2002. Coordinated through the Office of the Chaplain, 68 members of the University community have served and studied for two weeks in Central America since the program began in 1999. They have delivered a combined total of more than $100,000 in materials and contributed at least 3,500 hours of volunteer labor.

It won't be a typical road trip for 20 members of the Susquehanna University community this December.

Over Christmas break, starting Dec. 29, they'll spend two weeks learning and serving in Costa Rica and Nicaragua in teams tackling a host of work projects.

A construction team will help to build a small church and childcare center in a poor community near Costa Rica's capital city, while a medical team visits clinics in urban and remote areas. An education team will lead Vacation Bible Schools for children at a Nicaragua orphanage on a volcanic island and a poor Costa Rican barrio.

"Through homestays, working and worshipping with our Costa Rican and Nicaraguan friends, students are immersed in another culture up close and personal," says Mark Radecke, university chaplain. "They begin to see themselves and the world from a new perspective. They go not to merely study a problem, but to be part of a lasting solution."

The teams will also carry with them several hundred pounds of donated medicines, vitamins and clothing.

It is the fifth year the university's Chaplain Office has sponsored an international service-learning trip over the winter break. This will be the university's fourth visit to Central America.

"Over the past several years, we have built genuine friendships with churches and individuals in both countries," says Radecke. "When they learned of the Sept. 11 attack, three churches immediately held a prayer vigil for Americans generally and the Susquehanna community specifically."

Student participants earn two semester-hour credits for the trip. Pre-trip academic work will include hearing presentations by refugees, theologians, pastors and missionaries.

The trip will allow time for sightseeing around San Jose, hiking, visiting a volcano, and a much-deserved day at the beach at the end of the trip.

For additional information, contact Mark Radecke, university chaplain, at (570) 372-4220 or radecke@susqu.edu.

Ice Cream Guru Will Dish Up Weis Lecture

Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder behind one of the most-talked about and least conventional success stories in American business, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., will give the annual Weis Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Weber Chapel Auditorium.

The lecture, titled "An Evening of Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility and Radical Business Philosophy," is open to the entire Susquehanna community.

Brooklyn-born Greenfield, and business partner Ben Cohen, took a store-front parlor based on a $5 Penn State mail correspondence course and built a multi-million, publicly-held ice cream empire by making social responsibility and creative management strengths instead of weaknesses.

He, along with Cohen, is the author of the best-selling Ben & Jerry's Double Dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money, Too.

The co-founder of the company that has given the world such ice-cream flavors as Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, Phish Food, Chubby Hubby, and Concession Obsession, is a tribute to the American entrepreneurial spirit and full of hilarious anecdotes and radical business philosophy.

The evening will end with a Ben & Jerry's tradition - ice cream.