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WINTER 2003
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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1
G A Z I N E

From Bedford to Broadway

If Theres Something You Really Want, Youll Find a Way to Make it Happen.
Bonnie Comley

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Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends:

It has never been more clear that the University of Massachusetts Lowell and
the entire University of Massachusetts system have an enormously important role
to play in helping to strengthen the economy and social vitality of the state.
Our immediate region, the Merrimack Valley, suffered some of the worse job losses
in the nation during the recent economic downturn. Particularly hard hit were
high-technology businesses. Through this difficult period, the Lowell campus has
pressed ahead with innovative research and assistance for new business ventures,
all in service of our mission to support sustainable regional development. Related
to this charge, we have organized a new regional development office to further
focus our efforts and to broaden and deepen our impact.
Drs. Edward March and Selma Botman, both of whom have extensive experi-
ence in the practice and study of regional development, are leading a faculty task
force whose objective is to work with the industries now driving or poised to drive
the regional and state economy, matching UMass Lowells resources with their
needs. This is an integrated approach, with our staff and faculty linking with state
economic development agencies, the City of Lowell planning department, and
legislative leaders.
As we redouble our efforts on campus and beyond, your support is vital. We are
most grateful for the generosity shown by our graduates, friends, and supporters in
the private and public sectors. Our objective is to foster a stable, high quality of
life for this generation and future generations in the Commonwealth. Again,
thank you for your continued support. Your gifts and volunteer efforts help assure
that our excellent programs are accessible to all and that we can contribute to
Massachusetts at the highest level.

Sincerely,

William T. Hogan
Chancellor
 Calendar of Events
Friday, February 27 April 15-16
FEBRUARY 2004 Hockey vs. Maine STARTS Program
Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. Charlottes Web
February 2-10
Durgin Concert Hall
Alumni Campus Abroad Cultural Season Saturday, February 28 UML South
Orvieto, Italy All Alumni Hockey Night
UML vs. Maine April 21 May 12
Wednesday, February 4
Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. BIG student show
Womens Basketball vs. Bentley College Dugan Gallery
Costello Gym 5:30p.m. UML south
Mens Basketball vs. Bentley College MARCH 2004 Reception & Awards: April 28, 24 p.m.
Costello Gym 7:30 p.m.
UML North March 3 April 7 Wednesday, April 21
Doug Bosch Rob Millard
Timothy Harney Getting Shot Out of the Cannon
Selections paintings and works on paper Installation
University Gallery University Gallery
Dugan Gallery UML South
UML South UML South
Reception: March 3, 2 4 p.m. Exhibit Reception 2-4 p.m.
Exhibit Reception 2-4 p.m.
Thursday, March 4 Tuesday, April 27
Saturday, February 7
Hockey vs. Merrimack College STARTS Program
Womens Basketball vs. Merrimack College Romeo and Juliet
Costello Gym 2 p.m. Tsongas Arena 7 p.m.
Durgin Concert Hall
Mens Basketball vs. Merrimack College Friday, March 5 UML South
Costello Gym 4 p.m. Alumni Golf Tournament and Luncheon Thursday, April 29
UML North Naples, Florida
STARTS Program
Sunday, February 8 Sunday, March 7 Freedom Train
Hockey vs. Providence Tomas Kubinek: Certified Lunatic & Master of Durgin Concert Hall
Tsongas Arena 2 p.m. the Impossible UML South
Family Discovery Series
Tuesday, February 10 Dugan Hall
STARTS Program UML South MAY 2004
First in Flight: Wright Brothers
Durgin Concert Hall March 10 April 7 Sunday, May 2
UML South 3D Sculpture, Paper, Ceramics Charlottes Web
Curated by Jim Coates Family Discover Series
February 11- March 18 Dugan Gallery Durgin Concert Hall
Alumni Holidays Escape Program UML South UML South
London, England Reception: March 10, 2-4 p.m.
Friday, May 7
February 4 February 25 Friday, March 12 STARTS Program
Art & Copy STARTS Program Tom Chapin and Friends: This Pretty Planet
Dugan Gallery Jim Wests Dinosaurs Durgin Concert Hall
UML South Durgin Concert Hall UML South
Curated by Profs. Karen Roehr and UML South
Arno Minkkinen May 15 June 12
Reception: Feb. 11, 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 BFA Candidates Spring 2004
STARTS Program University Gallery
Friday, February 13 Very Eric Carle UML South
Hockey vs. UNH Durgin Concert Hall Reception: May 15, 25 p.m.
Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. UML South University and Durgin galleries
Saturday, February 14 Friday, March 19
Womens Basketball vs. Assumption STARTS Program JUNE 2004
Costello Gym 2 p.m. Remembering the World of Anne Frank
Durgin Concert Hall Sunday, June 6
Mens Basketball vs. Assumption UML South
Commencement
Costello Gym 4 p.m.
Tsongas Arena
UML North
APRIL 2004
Wednesday, February 18
Womens Basketball vs. AIC Thursday, April 1
Costello Gym 5:30 p.m. STARTS Program For more information on alumni activities,
Mens Basketball vs. AIC New Kid please check our Alumni Web site
Costello Gym 7:30 p.m. Durgin Concert Hall calendar:www.uml.edu/Alumni or call
UML North UML South the Office of Alumni Relations, toll free
Saturday, February 21 Sunday, April 4 (877) UML-ALUM or (978) 934-3140.
Hockey vs. Boston College SCRAP Arts Music
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Durgin Concert hall
Tuesday, February 24 UML South www.GORIVERHAWKS .com or call
STARTS Program (978) 934-2310.
Monday, April 5
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UML South SCRAP Arts Music
Durgin Concert Hall the Family Discovery Series, please call the
Tuesday, February 24 UML South Center for the Arts at (978) 934-4444. For
Womens Basketball vs. SNH April 14 May 12 more information and reservations on the
Costello Gym 5:30 p.m. SMARTS Program, (978) 934-4452.
Rob Millard
Mens Basketball vs. SNH Interactive Sculpture
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UML North UML South UMLs student newspaper? Please call
Reception: April 21, 24 p.m.
(978) 934-5009 or e-mail your request to
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Colleges - Arts & Sciences
Girls Get WISE About
Career Choices
Walking through Olney Hall, the
classrooms and laboratories were full of
middle-school girls folding paper to cre-
ate satellites, practicing intubations and
CPR on a dummy, and measuring and
weighing compounds to make pharma-
ceuticals.
Four hundred middle-school girls
descended on campus for the eighth
annual Women in Science and Engi-
neering (WISE) day, sponsored by
Philips Medical Systems, Genzyme and
Lowell Sun Charities. With more than
two dozen workshops to choose from,
including What Does the Army Eat?,
Four hundred middle-school girls participated
in the eighth annual WISE day. Here, the girls
are calculating the percentage of various ingre-
dients needed, after weighing and measuring,
to make an elegant pharmaceutical compound
in a workshop offered by Vanguard Medical
Associates.
Weather Forecasting and the CSI Lab,
the girls were exposed to a wide variety
of fields and women professionals who
do the work.
Keynote speaker Alison Japikse, a
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vehicle crash safety engineer for Ford bleheads would go to the first 1,000 fans Montrie came up with the idea while There are many subjects and themes
Motor Company, told the girls how through the gate. watching his familys own home movies, that home movies allow historians to
crash dummies make us smarter. Almost immediately, the dolls over- thinking about how amazing it was to explore, Montrie says, from holiday rit-
Japikse, who is responsible for ensuring sized, wobbling head was gracing the see aspects of the history. uals to social activism to recreational
that the Ford Escape meets the govern- pages of The Boston Globe, the New events. These mini-documentaries may
It occurred to me that these sources
ments new safety guidelines, described York Times, then Sports Illustrated. Soon, provide insight into how American life
were fairly numerous and there was no
her job and talked about how she gravi- television personalities from CNN to is shaped by class, race, ethnicity, gen-
good explanation for why twentieth-
tated to engineering looking for more ESPN were blathering about the Beat der and modernity in general.
century historians havent been using
hands-on work after majoring in era tchotchke.
them, Montrie says. Ideally, I will Anyone interested in contributing
physics in college.
Kerouac was renowned for his trade- begin teaching a course on U.S. social old home movies, or who would
She encouraged the girls to get mark spontaneous prose. But hed history with home movies starting in like more information about the
involved with things that interest them never seen anything this spontaneous. the fall of 2004. project, may contact Montrie at
and stay involved as they begin to make
The Universitys Media Services Chad_Montrie@uml.edu or by
their career choices. We were getting letters and calls
Provost John Wooding, left, and John Sampas, agreed to store donated videotapes. phoning (978) 934-4275.
from everywhere, people begging to get
To continue to encourage the literary executor for the Kerouac Estate, display
a doll, pleading their case, says Holla- the coveted Kerouac bobblehead.
girls interest in science, engineering day. The Spinners office put up a
and technology, WISE awards 25 schol- world map where theyd stick a tack afternoon. By Saturday morning, they
arships for summer science and engi- every time they got a call. had 750 orders. SRT Has New
neering camps. Recording/Listening
Holladay and the Spinners were Through it all, Holladay has been
Studio
stunned. They ordered 250 more dolls asked time and again if the Beat icon
In the Land of Bobble,
and decided to sell them on the Spin- would approve of his likeness cast in Sound Recording Technology
Kerouac Is King
ners Web site for $20 each, with a bobble. (SRT) has a new classroom a
When it comes to unforgettable gim- portion of the proceeds benefiting Kerouac had a great sense of humor. Critical Listening and Recording
micks, the UMass Lowell English the Universitys Kerouac scholarship And like most writers, he wanted Studio that Prof. William Moylan
Department hit the Jack-pot. program. acclaim, she says. I think he wouldve says is perfect in its accuracy.
The Kerouac bobblehead doll became The dolls went on sale on a Friday gotten a real kick out of it. Moylan, chair of the Music
an international knick-knack Department, says the new studio
phenomenon. With its unique Home Movies Hold in Durgin Hall is being used for
blend of kitsch meets cool, the Reel History recording and critical listening.
plastic poets meteoric rise to In addition to supporting under-
There arent too many of us who
celebrity was downright graduate projects, Moylan says,
would accept a neighbors invitation to
mind-bobbling. the facility will be an asset to
come over for an evening of watching
We never expected any- graduate students in the proposed
old home movies. The phrases Heres
thing like this, explains SRT masters program he hopes
Wendells first steps or Lets put in
English professor and director to launch in the fall.
Kimmys first day of school dont nec-
of the Kerouac Conference on essarily stir viewing excitement in any- Bill Carman, associate director
Beat Literature Hilary Holla- of sound recording technology
one beyond the immediate family.
day. The dolls popularity is facilities, says, This room isnt
Yet, these personal documents can
astonishing. just providing cutting edge
offer a wealth of information for anyone Prof. William Moylan, left, chair of music and
Holladay and Lowell Spin- technology, its defining what
interested in understanding various sound recording coordinator, and Bill Carman,
cutting edge is.
(photo courtesy of ESPN.com)
ners Marketing Director John aspects of twentieth-century life. In associate director of sound recording technology
facilities, try out the new Critical Listening and
Goode cooked up the idea as a order to preserve this potential data, Recording Studio in Durgin Hall.
way to publicize the annual Prof. Chad Montrie, history, is collect-
The Kerouac bobblehead doll beats
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! ing home movies and videos to create
the throw, sliding safely into third
Festival. They declared August base at LeLacheur Park. an archive for researchers interested in
21 Kerouac Night at the ball- interpreting that past.
park and announced that bob-
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CampusNews
Prof. Karen Roehr of the Art Department displays
the designs she created for the Merrimack
Repertory Theatres 25th season. The work
includes brochures, playbills, show cards and
bookmarks.
Roehr Has Designs on the
Repertory Theatre
UMass Lowell Art Prof. Karen Roehr
is playing a major role in every produc-
tion of Lowell Merrimack Repertory
Theatres 25th season, yet she never
takes the stage.
Roehr was brought on board to serve
as MRTs Art Director/Designer, design-
ing every promotional piece for all the
2003-04 shows, from playbills to
brochures to posters. She even suggest-
ed and created a bookmark highlighting
the seasons seven plays to appeal to
avid readers who may be less familiar
with live theatre.
Roehr says the process of putting
together pieces for a whole season
required extensive knowledge of each
play to be produced in order to create
the look of a unified whole.
The season includes a varied selec-
tion of works, from Rounding Third,
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a rousing comedy about Little League Robots That Have Been rience a restenosis, or narrowing, of the
baseball by Richard Dresser, to Rebecca to War Visit Campus artery within some weeks of surgery.
Gilmans Boy Gets Girl, Roehrs Coating the stent with an anti-
favorite, about a young career womans A robot that worked well in the lab
proliferative drug helps prevent the
struggle against a stalker. might not work at all at the World
restenosis of the artery, explains Faust.
Trade Centers Ground Zero, where
Having only just recently become (Boston Scientific uses the drug pacli-
features were covered by masses of
familiar with the organization, Roehr taxel and in the clinical trial only 7.9
loose paper and camouflaging dust.
has become quite a fan of MRT. She percent of patients showed signs of sig-
encourages other faculty to bring classes A robot that works in the lab wont nificantly narrowed arteries after the
to a performance, noting the inexpen- work in Afghanistan unless it can be implant, compared with 26.6 percent in
sive group rates. carried up a mountain on a soldiers the control group.) But the drug must
back. have a polymer carrier for retention of
As it is, an individual can get a sea-
A robot that works in the lab, but Computer science students take a close look at the PackBot, a robot that has been used in war zones. the drug on the stent.
son ticket for as little as $18 a play,
requires a small truckload of guidance The front arms rotate for traction on steep surfaces.
says Roehr. Faust has worked with Boston Scien-
and control equipment, will not be from recent guest speakers at events Jette criticized research that pursues tific for three years, perfecting and
In the long run, Roehr, now in her useful in Iraq. organized by Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco for sexy features such as mind-controlled developing production techniques for
third year at the University, hopes that
Faculty and students in computer sci- undergraduate and graduate students in robots but neglects important function- the polymerspecifically, a copolymer,
her relationship with MRT will encour-
ence learned a lot more about the prac- computer science. al elements such as portability of the produced by the living cationic poly-
age them to look to UMass Lowell for
tical, real-world functioning of robots robot and light-weight controls. The merization process that Faust helped to
student interns. Mark Micire, president and CEO of
PackBot weighs 40 pounds with batter- pioneer.
American Standard Robotics, was a
graduate student at the University of ies and the controls fit onto a standard Boston Scientific teamed up with
South Florida when he participated in ammunition belt, with a helmet- Faust because he is recognized as one of
robot-assisted search and rescue at the mounted visual display eyepiece.
World Trade Center following the ter-
rorist attack. Faust Adds to Success
of New Stent
Robots have proved useful in search
and rescue situations, as they can ven- Sponsored research conducted by
ture into spaces too small or dangerous Chemistry Prof. Rudy Faust has con-
for people or dogs. But Micire said the tributed to the performance of a new
conditions at the Trade Center were drug-coated coronary stent developed
much more challenging than any previ- by Boston Scientific Corp. in Natick.
Xian Yan Wang and Hee Joon Ahn, third and fifth from left, are the first Tripathy Fellows, pursuing
ously encountered. The company announced recently
research in the materials and polymer sciences. With them are members of the fellowship awards
committee, associated with the Center for Advanced Materials, that was founded by the late Sukant PackBota tough, portable robot that clinical trials of the TAXUS
Tripathy. They are, from left, Dr. Ashok Cholli, Prof. Daniel Sandman, Prof. Jayant Kumar, Assoc. Prof. stent for heart patients showed
that has been deployed in Afghanistan
James Whitten and Susan Thompson Tripathy.
and Iraqcame to campus and was extraordinary results. Boston Scientif-
Sponsored research by Chemistry Prof. Rudy Faust,
First Tripathy Fellows Chosen demonstrated by Army Col. Bruce ic was awaiting federal approval to sell left, has contributed to the performance of a new
Jette. the device in the United States. It is drug-coated coronary stent developed by Boston
Two graduate students Xian Yan Wang and Hee Joon Ahn have won the Scientific Corp. of Natick.
currently the market leader in Europe,
first Tripathy Endowed Memorial Summer Graduate Fellowships to complete Jette directs the Rapid Equipping
ahead of Johnson & Johnson, the only
their final year of research towards a Ph.D. The fellowship, awarded for out- Force, what he calls geeks at war, a the foremost experts in this technology.
other company with a drug-coated
standing research in the areas of materials science and polymer science, group that evaluates operational prob- Faust and his research group, in collab-
provides a summer stipend and additional travel funds to participate in stent. Projections put the worldwide
lems in the field and solves them. oration with polymer scientists at
national meetings during the following year. market at $4 billion by 2005.
The PackBot, made by iRobot in Boston Scientific, were responsible for
Wang is conducting research on electrospinning. She also was named the Stents are small wire-mesh cylinders; scaling up the polymer carrier, from the
Burlington, uses up to 12 cameras to
outstanding graduate student for the College of Arts and Sciences and for they are threaded through blocked few grams that can be processed in a
provide visual information to troops
UMass Lowell. Ahn is working on LED research. arteries in angioplasty procedures and test tube to the commercial scale
and can operate in rough areas such as
The fellowship is awarded in memory of the late Sukant Tripathy, University the wire mesh locks open to prop open production that Boston Scientific
Afghanistan, where the terrain has
Professor and a former provost. He was an internationally recognized leader in the arteries. Although bare metal stents would need for a product launch
two features: horizontal and vertical.
the materials sciences, a dynamic research collaborator, and founder and were a significant advance over bypass into worldwide markets.
It also can trip mines and trip-wires.
director of the Center for Advanced Materials. surgery, nearly a third of patients expe-
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Prof. Monica Galizzi of the Economics Depart-
ment will study workplace injuries in the United
States thanks to a $250,000 Research Scientist
Development Award shes received from the
Centers for Disease Control and Preventions
National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health.
Galizzi Receives Grant to
Study Worker Injuries
Prof. Monica Galizzi, economics, has
won a Research Scientist Develop-
ment Award worth nearly $250,000
from the Centers for Disease Control
and Preventions National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health. Over
the next three years, she will use the
money to conduct a study of work-
place injuries using a unique database
known as the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79).
In 1979, the Department of Labors
Bureau of Labor Statistics began track-
ing the employment experiences of
nearly 12,000 teens and young adults.
Every year or two, the bureau returns
to these randomly selected subjects to
learn more about their work lives,
including items such as salary levels,
on-the-job injuries and changes in
marital status.
The survey project has proven to be a
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treasure-trove for labor economists
because of its extraordinarily high
retention rate. More than 66 percent of
the original subject pool responded in
the latest survey round.
According to Galizzi, the data-rich
resource boasts more than 90,000
measured variables.
The data set is so huge, says Galizzi,
you have to spend a lot of time just
learning how to use it.
She will get the opportunity to learn
the NLSY79 as part of her study. She
expects to be tapping into assistance
offered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
to help learn how to translate questions
and interpret results, although shes
done a significant amount of work with
this type of data-set before.
The study will present econometric
research on the long-term economic
consequences of being hurt in the
workplace. Despite the intense research
that has been conducted on the
NLSY79, Galizzi says no one has yet
used it to look at worker injuries,
which became a regular part of the
survey in 1988.
Business History
Conference Brings
300 to Lowell
Prof. Michael Best, emeritus in
management, left, and Prof.
Bill Mass of the Regional Eco-
nomic and Social Development
Department, took part in the
joint meetings of the Business
History Conference and the
European Business History
Association in Lowell last
June. Mass, who hosted the
event, says it marked the first time the two organizations met together in the
United States. Nearly 300 scholars from around the world attended.
Colleges - Education
Graduate Education
Receives NCATE
Accreditation
The National Council for Accredita-
tion of Teacher Education (NCATE)
has accredited the Graduate School of
Education through 2007 for initial
teacher preparation and advanced
preparation levels.
Following their visit, the NCATE
Board of Examiners paid many compli-
ments to the school concerning
qualifications of the faculty; quality of
curricula; performance of graduates on
the states teacher tests; follow-up on
success of graduates in the field;
relationships with elementary and
secondary school in the region;
applications of technology; plans for
upgrading facilities; and organization of
the four-day visit by the nine-member
team.
Dean Donald Pierson said, The
accreditation approval is confirmation
of what we already know the Gradu-
ate School of Education has outstand-
ing students and alumni who serve the
students of Massachusetts well. It is also a
testament to our dedicated faculty and
support staff who consistently strive to
better their coursework, research and
partnerships.
Grad School of Ed Moves
to South Next Stop,
Lawrence Mills
Four pairs of scissors snapped the red,
white and blue ribbon that spanned the
entrance to the fifth floor of OLeary
Library, the new home of the Graduate
School of Education.
Dean Donald Pierson; Prof. Judith Boccia,
director of the Center for Field Services and
Studies (CFSS); Patricia Noreau, director of
the libraries; and Joseph Caufield, assistant
to the provost, welcomed students and col-
leagues to the renovated space.
The new location includes the GSE facul-
ty offices, CFSS, a faculty/ student lounge,
two multimedia classrooms, a computer
room and a new information kiosk. And the
school brought a piece of UML West to
OLeary a garden that was in Upham
Hall inspired by former Dean Virginia Biggy.
GSEs move to UML South is temporary
until construction is completed at the
Lawrence Mills site in 2005. The Demon-
stration School will remain on UML West
in modular units until the GSEs permanent
move to the Lawrence Mills complex.
Prof. Judith Boccia, Patricia Noreau, Dean Donald Pierson
and Provost John Wooding gather after the Graduate School
of Education ribbon cutting ceremony.
CampusNews
Tsongas Center Teaches Hands-on History
and Science to Teachers
This past summer, middle school teachers went
back to school at the Tsongas Industrial History
Center for an intensive, eight-day Department of
Education Content Institute on Individualism,
Industrialization and Impacts on the Environment.
The grant-funded institute was one of only 10
concentrating on science and technology curriculum
frameworks in the state.
Tsongas Center staff members Dr. Beverly Perna
and Dr. Timothy LaVallee directed the program that
included lectures, visits to explore the resources of
the Lowell National Historical Park and hands-on
experiences about the economics, innovations, and
environmental impacts of the Industrial Revolution.
Ben Prokuski, former vice
From UMass Lowell, Asst. Prof. Chad Montrie, president of the Waumbec
history, engaged the teachers in investigations of the Mills in Manchester, N.H., and
94-year-old volunteer for the
history of labor unions, Frederick Taylors ideas on
Lowell National Park, shows
scientific management, urban environmental the workings of a loom to
reform and industrial hygiene. Prof. Arnold OBrien, Wilmington middle school
teacher Timalie Fascione.
environmental, earth and atmospheric sciences, led
Prokuski was named volunteer
the group on a field trip of significant geologic sites of the year for the northeast
in the Merrimack Valley. region of the National Park
Service.
Teachers became familiar with Tsongas Center
curriculum materials and hands-on workshops for students that could be used
in their own classrooms and in planning field trips.
State Education Spending, Following Cuts,
Drops below Level of Prison Allocations
Following deep cuts in state spending for higher education, the most
recent of which saw the budget allocation of the UMass system
slashed 20 percent, the states education appropriation stood at $816
million$14 million less than the amount being spent for prisons
and jails.
The new budget figures, from a report by the Massachusetts Taxpay-
ers Association, set off a furor from legislators and consumer groups.
It says something very striking about the way that priorities have
crept up on us, said Cameron Huff of the Taxpayers Foundation. You
dont see the same cuts in corrections because theres nobody to shift
the costs onto. In higher education, its been the students and parents
who have borne the brunt of the cuts.
Jack Wilson, UMass interim president, restated the Universitys
case for taxpayer involvement. An investment in the University of
Massachusetts truly represents an investment in the Commonwealths
future, he said.
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Colleges - Engineering
Ting Assumes the Reins
of College of Engineering
When Prof. John Ting was asked,
during an interview for the engineer-
ing deans job, what his primary goal
would be for the college, his response
was modest: Survival.
Survival is good in this climate. If
you come out in a few years time with
your programs intact, with the quality
youre hoping for, thats a pretty good
goal all by itself, said Ting, who was
promoted last spring from chairman of
the Civil and Environmental Engi-
neering Department to engineering
dean. He replaced Krishna Vedula,
who stepped down after eight years to
become a program director for the
National Science Foundation.
However, by all accounts, Ting is
just the person to make sure the col-
lege thrives, as well as survives. Even
though engineering, and the Universi-
ty as a whole, is grappling with budget
cuts, faculty retirements and hiring
freezes, Ting believes the current cli-
mate offers vast opportunities as well.
I feel that we are faced with some
incredible challenges mainly fiscal
ones brought on by the state budget
crisis as well as issues in ensuring a
supply of well-trained, socially respon-
sible engineers to meet the needs and
demands of the regional and global
economy, he says.
But now there is a tremendous
opportunity to shape whats happen-
ing. You have to think carefully about
what is really important and how to
achieve your goals the right way, he
adds.
Acknowledging that Vedula leaves
incredibly big shoes to fill, Ting said
he was looking forward to building
upon established programs, with a con-
8 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004
tinued focus on K-12 outreach,
research and improvement of the
freshman experience. He said he also
hoped to spearhead some new initia-
tives, such as a civil engineering pro-
posal to work with developing
countries to help them create a sus-
tainable infrastructure.
Ting received a bachelors degree
from McGill University, a masters
from the California Institute of Tech-
nology and a doctorate from the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology
all in civil engineering. Prior to join-
ing the UMass Lowell faculty in 1990,
he was a post-doctoral research fellow
and lecturer at Cal Tech and a profes-
sor at the University of Toronto.
Vedula Leaves for Post
at National Science
Foundation
Krishna Vedula, who had served as
UMass Lowells dean of engineering
since 1995, has resigned that post to
become a program director at the
Krishna Vedula, left, who stepped down as dean of engineering, is presented with a UMass Lowell chair
from the chairs by Alfred Donatelli, chair of chemical and nuclear engineering, and John Ting, chair of
civil and environmental engineering. Ting was appointed the new dean of engineering.
National Science Foundation.
He accepted the offer of a joint
appointment between the Directorate
of Education and Directorate of Engi-
neering at NSF, and continues to hold
a faculty position at UMass Lowell.
John Ting, who has served as chair
of the Civil and Environmental Engi-
neering Department, is the new dean.
ble by truck or mule, teams of students
Vedula, well known in the business
and technology communities for his
commitment to education, will work
on undergraduate education in math,
science and engineering. He will also
oversee existing programs, such as the
Laboratory Improvements program,
and aims to develop new programs as
appropriate.
Vedulas tenure with the College of
Engineering included many innova-
tions, such as the Engineering in Mass
Collaborative, the summer Design
Camp, after-school Design Lab, and
the Introduction to Engineering course
for school teachers.
pump and distribution system for the
Peru Project Celebrates 50
UMass Lowells Peru Project passed a
milestone of sorts in 2003, having
installed 50 renewable energy systems
in 16 remote villages in the high
Andes mountains.
Using solar or water power to gener-
ate electricity in places barely accessi-
and faculty have installed emergency
radios and vaccine refrigerators in clin-
ics; placed laptop computers in schools
and light fixtures in churches, town
halls and village squares; and set up
pumps for water distribution systems.
Project areas have expanded, with
solar water heating, aquaculture pro-
jects and a sand filtration system for
water purification.
July 2003 marked the thirteenth
time that UMass Lowell teams have
traveled to Peru on an international
service project and, in the process,
have developed their own professional
and personal skills. Besides the techni-
cally skilled participants, nursing stu-
dents have also joined the teams.
Mechanical engineering Prof. John
Duffy, coordinator of the graduate pro-
gram in energy engineering, leads two
trips each year. He is struck by the
commitment that students bring to the
task of helping others.
Its impressive to see that the stu-
dents can make such a difference, he
says, supplying villagers with clean
water, helping them survive.
Providing clean water to the village
of Huayash was the project Stacy Blet-
sis, recent graduate in mechanical
engineering, worked on. For her cap-
stone design project, Bletsis, along
with partners Lara Thompson and
Matt Johnson, designed a solar water
village and a sand filtration system to
purify the water.
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As luck would have it, her husband
worked at Elliot Hospital in Manch-
ester with Shawn Price, a UMass Low-
ell senior in electrical engineering. She
said Shawn had a reputation for being
a very resourceful person and her hus-
band advised her to contact him.
I called Shawn to see if he could
help me with my project, Beaudoin
says. The timing was perfect. He
needed a project and I needed his
skills.
What Price designed for this Assis-
tive Technology capstone project was a
step-sensing feedback device that the
boy wore on a belt. The device
received input from pressure-sensitive
A local youngster tries the water with UMass
Lowell student Lara Thompson, who designed
the sand filtration and water distribution system
with Stacy Bletsis.
This was the second trip on which
Duffy included nursing students on the
teamRenee Michaud and Colleen
Sousa. They completed nutrition and
health surveys in hospitals in the larger
towns and clinics in remote villages.
Rotary Chelmsford and Rotary
International gave us $27,000 for the
summer trip and that was very signifi-
cant support, Duffy says. Of course,
every time we go, we come back
with more requests. Theres no end
to the need.
Youngster Hits His Stride
with Assistive Technology
Device
The 9-year-old New Hampshire boy
had a problem walking.
Instead of striding normally, with the
heel of each foot landing first, he
walked on the balls of his feet. For his senior capstone project, Shawn Price
developed an electronic device that has helped
The boys physical therapist, Liliane this youngster overcome a walking disorder.
Sensors on the boys feet trigger warning
Beaudoin, felt that what he needed
sounds that help reinforce training received in
was some type of feedback device physical therapy.
that would train him to break this
walking habit.
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resistive sensors placed under the balls
of his feet.
There was nothing wrong with him
neurologically, says Price. He would
just walk on his tiptoes. He had gotten
into a bad habit and he needed some-
thing to remind him to get his heels
down.
Prices supervisor on the project was
Jay Fu, an instructor in the Electrical
Engineering Department.
If the boy walked incorrectly, the
device would beep, Fu says. Its an
audible feedback. If he continued to
walk incorrectly, the volume of the
beep would increase.
Beaudoin says, The final product
had an immediate, positive effect on
my patient. Im quite optimistic regard-
ing the permanent correction of the
boys condition.
Indeed, Price says the boy no longer
uses the device because his walking is
greatly improved.
Of course, he adds, its not just the
device alone. He has been working
with the physical therapist for a long
time. Giving him a tool to use when he
wasnt in the therapists office was the
key.
Campus Outlook
Legislature Backs Toxics
Use Reduction Institute
It was a drama worthy of J.K. Rowl-
ing, but the Toxics Use Reduction
Institute (TURI) had no magic wand to
save the dayjust cold, hard facts
showing that Massachusetts is a cleaner
state because of the Institutes years
of effort.
So when the Institutes budget was
vetoed June 30, those facts were shared
with area legislators who, in turn, con-
vinced their colleagues to save it.
With the start of the fiscal year on
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July 1, the Institutes budget was
reduced. Institute Director Ken Geiser
and a few other staffers kept vigil on
Beacon Hill as the House spent a full
week on votes overriding the governors
vetoed items. The TURI item came
upand passed overwhelminglyas
the second week of voting began.
Geiser said, It is a vote of confidence
in the 12 years of work with the busi-
nesses and citizens of Massachusetts
to create a safer and cleaner environ-
ment.
Rep. Thomas Golden of Lowell, who
spearheaded the override effort in the
House, said, The Institute gives people
throughout the Commonwealth the
basic, fundamental opportunity to
breathe clean air and drink clean water.
The people at the Institute do wonder-
ful work. They help businesses help
themselves.
His colleagues on both sides of the
partisan divide agreed, with a vote of
129 to 18, to reinstate funds for TURI.
The Senate similarly voted to restore
funding, with Sens. Steven C. Panagio-
takos of Lowell and Pamela Resor of
Acton leading the effort in that branch.
UMass Lowell Joins Internet
Research Network
The UMass system has joined 200
leading research universities, the feder-
al government and industry on the
powerful Internet2 network that
enables researchers to share massive
amounts of data with their peers
around the world.
Using this network, scientists at
UMass Lowell are collaborating with
colleagues at Northeastern University
and the University of New Hampshire
on a $17 million National Science
Foundation grant proposal to create a
Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Center. The grant would advance
research in nanotechnology manufac-
turing and attract nanotechnology
firms to the region.
The five campuses of the UMass sys-
tem are connected to the global net-
work through the UMass-managed
Massachusetts Information Turnpike
Initiative, a high-speed network that
links public higher education institu-
tions, libraries and other public agen-
cies to the Internet.
WJUL Gets A New Voice, A
New Show and A New Name
For 20 years, on the University radio
station, he has been the voice of UMass
Lowell River Hawk hockey. For the
past six years, you have heard him on
WCCM and WLLH doing play-by-play
for the Lowell Spinners. He has been a
sports anchor, a news anchor, a debate
moderator, and a regular on-air inter-
view host. His
name is
Bob Ellis. And
whether the
name is familiar
or not, if youve
lived for any time
at all in the
Greater Lowell
region, youve
almost certainly Bob Ellis
heard his voice.
And now he is the voice of a new
morning show on UMass Lowells stu-
dent radio station.
Called Lowell Sunrise the show
is a roughly equal mix of local news,
sports, traffic, weather and features.
And, for the first time since the sta-
tions inception more than 50 years ago,
a major block of time 25 hours a
week will be the province of a local
news organization, Lowell Community
Broadcasting.
But thats not the only change.
While still at 91.5 on the FM dial,
the station has changed its call letters
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from WJUL to WUML to better opportunity. A chance to build on Tsongas Center; and awesome
reflect its status as a part of the UMass what I know. And maybe, if theyll let history in Lowell.
system. Other campuses in the system me, a chance to share with the stu- The U.S. Department of Educa-
include WUMB at UMass Boston and dents. To make a better station for tion awarded the $1 million grant to
WUMA at UMass Amherst. everyone involved. the Lowell Public Schools, which will
The new program, produced by the partner with the Tsongas Industrial
Campus - Outreach
Lowell Sun and Lowell Community History Center, UMass Lowells Grad-
Broadcasting in partnership with the uate School of Education, Center for
Tsongas Center Event Kicks
University, airs from 5 to 10 a.m., Field Services and Studies and History
Off $1 Million DOE Grant
Monday through Friday. Department, and the Lowell National
Chancellor William T. Hogan calls Lowell Superintendent of Schools Historic Park for a professional devel-
Karla Brooks Baehr, a former history opment program for Lowells fifth- and
it an opportunity to serve the region
teacher, had enthusiastic and encour- eighth-grade history teachers. This is
in a new way.
aging words for the nearly 60 teachers the first part of a six-pronged approach
For Ellis, his move to the University to improve history education in
in attendance at the kick-off event for
staff seems a natural step. Ive been the city.
a federally funded Bringing History to
around the area a long time, he says.
Life grant. Baehr encouraged the teachers to
And its not like I havent been
involved with the station Ive been If we cannot make history come use the grant to improve ideas already
doing sports on JUL for over 20 years. alive in Lowell, no one can do it. Low- being implemented in the classroom
Its just that now Ive been offered a ell has all the ingredients to make his- and to use this program as an opportu-
chance to take a slightly new direction tory come alive for our kids, she said, nity to explore new ideas that need
to help develop public radio within citing exceptional teachers and library resources. The grant is looking beyond
the greater Lowell community, to be a media specialists; a history of extraor- textbooks to other resources that will
dinary partnership with UMass Lowell; give a richer and fuller picture of
valuable resource for the region. And
the National Park; a facility like the the past.
maybe, in the process, to create the
potential for the station to have a
wider reach.
Ellis has made a career of reporting
on the news and sports of small-town
America. It began 28 years ago at a
small station in a little town called
Sayre, Penn. his first job after grad-
uating from Emerson in Boston in
1975 where he worked for less than
a year. After that it was WEMJ in
Laconia, N.H., then WSLE in Peter-
borough, then seven years at WKBK in
Keene. At some point in the early 80s,
he was approached by a college in
Minnesota to do a one-shot assign-
ment: the play-by-play of a hockey
game against the University of
Lowell. Holding gears representing each Bringing History to Life grant partner, the logo of the project, are
Prof. Karen Cosse Bell, history; Interim Dean Charles Carroll, Division of Fine Arts, Humanities and
The call from ULowell wasnt long
Social Sciences; James Corless, chief of interpretation and education, Lowell National Historical
in coming and before long, Bob Park; Lowell Superintendent Karla Brooks Baehr; Prof. Judith Boccia, Center for Field Services and
Studies; Prof. Patricia Fontaine, Graduate School of Education; and Dr. Peter OConnell, Tsongas
Ellis was the voice of the River Hawks.
Industrial History Center.
And then of the Spinners.
And now this, he says. Another
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Backpacks Become
Welcome Gifts for Children
Entering Foster Care
For children entering foster care, the
transition can be swift and dramatic.
Often they move into the system so
quickly that they dont have the oppor-
tunity to bring with them daily necessi-
Psychology major Maria Shay, right, presents
supervisor Nancy Assenza, left, and area program
manager Carole Mathews with some of the back-
packs being donated to the Department of Social
Services. Shay and other members of the Psy-
chology Club collected the Welcome Packs to
benefit children entering foster care.
ties others take for granted. Helping
make this transition easier has been the
motivation behind the Psychology
Clubs Welcome Pack drive held over
the past two years.
In its first year, the Welcome Pack
drive collected more than 50 back-
packs filled with personal items to be
presented to children entering foster
care. Last year, organizers presented
more than 100 backpacks, containing
items ranging from underwear and
socks to age-appropriate toys and
books, to representatives from the
Department of Social Services (DSS).
The first year was incredibly suc-
cessful, says psychology Prof. Doreen
Arcus, co-advisor of the club. Last year,
she says, We did very much the same
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Chomsky Speaks to Overflow Crowd
Noam Chmosky, second from left, appeared on campus in the fall to discuss
Democracy and the Politics of War. One sponsor of his talk was the Peace
and Conflict Studies Institute, whose members include, from left, Prof. John
MacDougall, Protestant Minister Imogene Stulken, Prof. Robert Gamache,
and Asst. Prof. Daniel Egan.
things this year, but reached out a
little more into the community for
involvement.
Those efforts yielded a broader base
of community sponsors. More than
$3,000 was contributed by Stoneham-
Bank, BankNorth and pet food manu-
facturer Old Mother Hubbard. The
money was used to purchase good
quality backpacks and other items not
directly donated.
The idea for the drive was the brain-
child of psychology major and club
member Maria Shay, who was a social
worker for 22 years.
UMass Lowell Folks
Join in Lowell Festival
UMass Lowell once again was a
major partner of the Lowell Folk Festi-
val. This largest free event of its kind
in the country annually attracts
200,000 visitors to the city.
The University provided volunteers,
equipment and other resources to the
July weekend of traditional music, craft
demonstrations, street parades, dance
parties and ethnic foods on six outdoor
stages. As part of its commitment,
UMass Lowell hosted a booth at Board-
ing House Park, at which brochures,
flyers and other materials were dis-
tributed to passersby.
training contract to the UMass Lowell
Clare Dube, left, and Pauline Robidoux, center,
both of continuing studies, and Sandra Seitz
from communications and marketing greet
visitors to the UMass Lowell booth.
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Wormcycler Greenhouse
Should Have Positive Effect
The Center for Family, Work and
Community (CFWC), along with
dozens of project supporters, celebrated
the grand opening of the Wormcy-
cler greenhouse in October. The
greenhouse is a major addition to the
Universitys Compost Education and
Demonstration Site in the corner of
the Riverview parking lot on UML
South
Administrators from Brooks Automation and UMass Lowell, who designed the C++ customized training
The 17-by-44-foot greenhouse will
program for 15 employees, gathered at the graduation ceremony. They include, back row from left, Prof. house the now-famous Red Wiggler
William Moloney, computer science; Prof. Thomas Costello, chair of computer science; Steven Wentzell, worms the core of CFWCs vermi-
senior vice-president of human resources, Brooks; Dean Jacqueline Moloney, CS/CE; and Tom Kristoff,
composting project, which is recycling
director of development and training, Brooks. Front row, Joanne Talty and Catherine Kendrick both
of CS/CE. university food and yard waste into
rich, usable compost.
Brooks Automation Selects enced software engineers, Brooks may
Lowell for Switch to C++ save money over the long-term.
Brooks Automation, Inc. is one step Tsongas Center Awarded
closer to switching to C++ program- $99,590 for River
ming after 15 employees graduated Education
from a customized C++ certificate pro-
vided onsite in Chelmsford by UMass More than 2,500 middle school chil-
Lowell. Currently, the company uses C dren from Lowell and surrounding
programming, a procedural language, towns will now have access to more
in developing their embedded software information about the Merrimack Riv-
and would like to shift to C++ pro- er, thanks to a $99,590 grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Ser-
gramming, an object-oriented lan- Massachusetts State Sen. Steven Panagiotakos
vices (IMLS) to the Tsongas Industrial
guage. Brooks, which delivers joins Julie Villareal of the Center for Family,
History Center for the expansion of its Work and Community at the grand opening of
manufacturing automation solutions
educational services. the Wormcycler, a greenhouse that will be
for semiconductor, precision electron-
the centerpiece of the Universitys Compost
ics and other industries awarded the The grant, combined with a $45,000 Education and Demonstration Site.
matching grant provided by the Jesse
Division of Continuing Studies, and B. Cox Trust, will expand teacher The vermicomposting program,
Corporate Education (CS/CE). workshops and other outreach activi- coordinated by the CFWCs Julie Vil-
ties for the Merrimack Watershed lareal and project manager David Tur-
The personalized student support
hands-on program to middle schools in cotte, began as a small demonstration
services provided to Brooks employees
Chelmsford, Dracut, Lowell, Westford project housed in a utility room in
by our corporate on-site training team
and other watershed communities. Olney Hall. There, small amounts of
is just another example of how we
Additionally, the Center will organize food waste from local restaurants were
work with each company to fit the
a Greater Lowell Environmental broken down by a few thousand worms
program to their needs, says Dean
Alliance and provide staff support to over a few days.
Jacqueline Moloney, CS/CE.
member organizations. Since the composting potential of
Switching to C++ will reduce
the earthworms is so great and the
Brooks software development cycle
worms have multiplied so rapidly, the
times, increase code re-use and soft-
project needed more space. The worms
ware quality. And by retraining experi-
are capable of reducing the waste to a
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tenth its size by volume.
Over the past year, the Riverview
site has been under ongoing develop-
ment for this purpose, culminating in
the completion of the Wormcycler.
According to the project consultant
and worm tamer Bruce Fulford, own-
er of City Soil and Greenhouse Com-
pany of Roslindale, the hoop-house
structure will be able to handle several
tons of recyclable waste, most of which
will be provided by Aramark Food
Services and the Universitys Physical
Plant Department.
As it is, we should have about five
tons of finished compost by spring-
time, says Fulford. Ultimately, if we
could expand even more on site, we
could probably handle all of the Uni-
versitys annual yard and food waste.
Presently, the University spends
about $20,000 annually to have this
waste hauled to a landfill about 10
miles away, says Turcotte. He is hope-
ful that the money could be redirected
into the management of the site.
We plan to make the site financial-
ly self-sustaining, he says.
Campus - People
Postdoctoral Fellow Scales
Mt. McKinley
Kate Vorotnikova and her friends
intended to go directly to the West
Rib and climb that route to the top
of 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley.
But the ranger advised against it
because the weather was bad. So they
made an ascent to the top along the
easier West Buttress route instead,
where the wind was blowing 40 to 50
miles an hour and the temperature was
25 degrees below zero.
Vorotnikova is a postdoctoral fellow
in cell biology in the Biological Sci-
ences Department. A graduate of
Moscow University, she and her hus-
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smile with Calvin Atwood, second from right, a student in the class, at the recent and UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the experience this magnifique region of
unveiling of a prototype prepared by students in the UMass Lowell assistive dazzling light in southern France.
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After making the ascent on the
West Buttress route, the weather
improved and Vorotnikova and three
others in her group were able to tackle
the much more difficult West Rib.
This route is known as a technical
climb because it involves very steep
ascents over rock, ice and snow, and
requires the use of ice screws, pitons,
rope and other specialized
equipment.
Kate Vorotnikova, a postdoctoral fellow in the
Vorotnikova and her friends made it Universitys Biological Sciences Department,
to the top in six days, two of which she climbed Mt. McKinley last summer over the
difficult West Rib route.
says were sunny and warm. On the
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Doug Prime, Prime Mover in
A
part of Doug Primes genius as a
teacher is that hes never com-
pletely left fourth grade behind.
Thats when Mr. Watson, elementary
science teacher for Hubbarston elemen-
tary schools, taught the wonders of
homemade tin can telegraphs and
pickle jar light bulbs.
Of course, Doug Prime, My goal
a UMass Lowell 1988
is to give kids DesignCamp, an assort-
mechanical engineering
hands-on
alumnus who also holds an
experience so shops in science and
M.Ed. in curriculum and
they are more engineering, offered as day
instruction, can say things
like, Most learning at the turned on to
secondary level is abstract science.
and book driven; its decon-
Doug Prime summer of 2000.
textualized.
Hes also the Principal Investigator
of a National Science Foundation
ASCEND (After School Centers for
Exploration and Discovery) grant of
$325,000.
Whos calling? Tyngsboro High School student
Mark Douglas, flanked by teammates Kiersten
Lemoine and matt McOsker, demonstrates an
easy-to-use telephone holder attached to a
wheelchair. The students designed the adaptation
for a client who had recently suffered a stroke and
could use only her left hand.
But hang around with Prime for more
than five minutes, and youll find your-
self entranced by stuff you never even
thought was interesting: circuits and
solenoids, processors and animatronics,
drill presses and electromagnetic motors.
Prime just cant help being excited,
and that enthusiasm is infectious.
My goal is to give kids hands-on
experience so they are more turned on to
16 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E WINTER 2004
science, he says. Kids dont have much
opportunity to do hard thinking, open-
ended problem solving and hands-on
construction. They find that turning an
idea into reality is incredibly empower-
ing, working through all the
testing and refining to make
it work.
The centerpiece
of Primes vision is
ment of weeklong work-
camp during four weeks in
July. He started the camp
at UMass Lowell in the
Using activities he had Sarah Bonomo of Tewksbury, left, and Suelen DeMendoca of
Lowell work on design of their secret candy safes for the Electrical
developed as a middle school and Mechanical Gizmos workshop. The girls are working in Doug
science and technology Primes Pasteur Hall lab, dubbed the Future Engineers Center.
teacher, he initiated an Elec-
trical and Mechanical Gizmos workshop
and led all three sessions by himself.
Fifty-five students participated that
first year. About 370 attended Design
Camp 2003, and nearly half were
returnees from the previous summer.
Prime is particularly pleased that girls
now make up nearly a third of all
campers.
While he no longer teaches by him-
self, he does lead a couple of sessions
of the same workshop. A dozen more
science and technology teachers have
created their own workshop offerings,
ranging from Shipwreck Electronics
(Youre on a deserted islandcould you
use everyday materials to reinvent
electricity?) to Flight School (Come
learn the science involved in designing
flying objects.) to Electronics & Music
(Wouldnt it be awesome to build and
test your own audio speakers and an
electric piano or electric guitar?).
Most of the teachers have taken
Primes Intro to Engineering
course, funded by the Raytheon
Corporation/University of
Massachusetts K-12 Educational
Collaboration.
Walk down the halls in July, and an
excited buzz fills the air.
Labs and classrooms are filled with
kidssoldering, snipping, drilling,
drawing, testing and talking. Observers
are struck by how very engaged the
youngsters are in what they are learning
and doing.
Prime emphasizes that, although the
program is a success, he does not want it
to be an isolated accomplishment, and
wont be satisfied until it ripples out, and
ripples out again, reaching into every
classroom in the state.
Summer DesignCamps have been
established at both Boston University
and UMass Dartmouth, with Prime
serving as cheerleader and coach.
He also has started an after-school pro-
gram, called DesignLab, funded by a
three-year National Science Foundation
ASCEND grant. DesignLab reached 120
middle school students in the 2002-03
school year, each group coming for 10
once-a-week workshops on mechanical
and electrical inventions.
In this 2003-04 school year, Prime has
leveraged a 21st Century Community
Learning Centers grant from Lowell pub-
CampusNews
K-12 Engineering Education
lic schools to expand his course for neering) program provided
teachers into a DesignLab After School scholarships for 24 girls.
Training Course. Eleven math and sci- Jan Binda, Massachusetts
ence teachers from five middle schools Public Affairs Manager for
meet with Prime weekly and, within Sun Microsystems, says, UMass
days, teach the activities in their Lowells DesignCamp was one
own schools. So, DesignLab will reach of four $10,000 Sun Microsys-
an additional 200 or more tems Summer Enricment
students this year. M y dream Grant Recipients in the Corey Warren, also from the Wang School, uses a drill press
Raytheon has provided is to establish a Boston area (including to advance his project in DesignLab, which is funded by the
National Science Foundation to encourage student interest in
$20,000 a year for the last magnet school Design Camp at BU).
five years to fund teacher science and engineering.
of science and I visited the camp one
training and curriculum morning and was very impressed, middle and high school, says Prime.
development in engineering
engineering not only with the quality of the And it would be more than a schoolit
and technology. for middle and science and engineering projects would be a center of learning to hang all
high school. being done, but also with the our activities on. It would be a profes-
And Prime intends to
expand opportunities for high Doug Prime enthusiasm and focus of the young sional development center for teachers,
people engaged in the work. a place they could spend an in-service
school students. He is collab-
orating with UMass Lowells Assistive As a funder, Sun was especially year and see best practices in action. It
Technology Program to create a unique pleased to learn that these hands-on
design competition for high school stu- learning opportunities will continue in
dents. In 2003, the first High School the after-school DesignLab program for
Assistive Technology Design Fair fea- Lowell middle school students and that
tured four teams of students from Tyngs- more teachers will be trained in how to
boro and Westford who teach design projects and
had tackled the sort of run workshops.
project normally com- Ray Waterman, senior prin-
pleted by University cipal engineer in the Radar
seniors in electrical and Design Center of Raytheon
computer engineering. Company, agrees: The enthu-
The students had to siasm that has been generated
find a client with a is very impressive. When I
handicap, identify a visited the classrooms, these
problem in daily living young kids were seriously
for that client and working. They enjoyed show-
resolve it, using whatev- ing us what they were doing
er knowledge and skills and enjoyed talking about
they could apply. problems they had overcome. Doug Prime, left, director of K-12 educational
Robo Puppyhis eyes move, outreach for the college, presents Vedula with
Faced with this array of and his nose wiggles, as he As corporate engineers, says his own secret candy safe, sealed with an
outreach options, corpo- rolls along. Sarah Guo, Waterman, Weve recognized electromagnetic lock. The candy safe is a
Windham, N.H., created him hallmark project for students in Design Camp,
rations and other funders in Animatronics, a new that if students reach college developed and directed by Prime.
are sitting up and taking Design Camp workshop about level and dont have the sort of
notice. Sun Microsystems making automated machines. experience that Design Camp would not be vocational education, but
and Raytheon Corpora- provides, they dont choose a regular college preparatory program
tion have each contributed $10,000 in technology and engineering careers and where project work is not unusual, its
scholarships and operating expenses to this is a detriment to our economy. just run of the mill.
DesignCamp. EMC Corporation and the Whats next for Doug Prime? I can hardly wait.
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
My dream is to establish a magnet
each gave $5,000 and UMass Lowells
school of science and engineering for
WISE (Women in Science and Engi-
UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 17
CoverStory
From Bedford to Broadway
If Theres Something You Really Want,
18 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E
Youll Find a Way to Make it Happen
I t was June 1981, midway through
the first year of a three-year reces-
sion the worst in two decades
when Bonnie Comley, who had
majored in business while supporting
herself as a lifeguard at the Woburn Y,
got her Bachelors degree from ULowell.
There were no jobs, she
remembers today. None, I t was my best chance
zero. All my friends who had for an education, it was
majored in the sciences where I could afford.
plastics engineering, chemi- Bonnie Comley
cal engineering they were
being grabbed up right and left. But for a business
major? In 1981? It was a tough, tough time to be
looking for a job.
She had grown up in Bedford, the second of four
children of an elevator mechanic and his wife, the
first in her family to finish college which she
managed only by dividing her off-time between
the lifeguard job in Woburn and a job teaching
swimming at a club in Tewksbury. Her choice
of ULowell had been an easy one: It was my best
chance for an education, it was where I could
afford. Her parents, she says, were of that
generation who believed that with a college
degree you can write your own
ticket in life. They
had trouble under-
standing why I was
having such a tough
time landing a job.
WINTER 2004
CoverStory
She landed one finally, as a bank
teller (she cant recall for what bank).
That lasted six months (It was so
awful I wanted to jump out the win-
dow), and was followed by a second
job, this one with an investment com-
pany, making cold calls trying to sell
mutual fundsin the dead of a reces-
sion, in the days before some people
knew what a mutual fund was.
Nobody was buying. Nobody. Some days
Id be almost in tears. Here I was, the first
in my family ever to go to college, and what
was I doing? Working as a bank teller? Mak-
ing cold calls to strangers trying to sell
mutual funds when nobody has any money to
spend? I started asking myself: Is
this what I earned a degree for?
Is this what I worked four years
to do?
She decided it wasnt. She
decided to go back to school.
I didnt know what else to do.
I was living at home, Id had two
jobs Id hated, I wasnt making
any money, and my parents were Bonnie, center, on a trip to
Washington, D.C. during the
asking me everyday So what winter of her senior year at
are you going to do? And I ULowell. With her are fellow
classmates and student-council
thought about it. And what I fig- members Georgina Betses,
ured out was, Id always been left, and Lynne Travers.
attracted to show business
to movies, to TV. So why not learn something
about it? Why not give that a try?
UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 19
CoverStory
In the fall of 1982, she enrolled in a Masters pro-
gram at Emerson College in Boston, where she
learned the basics of broadcast journalism and got
some hands-on experience with the production end
of TV. There was a lot of it she didnt care for (I
knew I didnt want to direct or edit, and I wasnt
sure that writing was going to
be my thing), but the process I
knew I loved
in general was exciting, and the show business. I
on-camera end of things was knew I wanted to
appealing from the start. be a part of it,
and that I was And when youre not look-
Then, in the summer of 1983, willing to work to ing, she says, youre doing
a year after her ULowell gradua- see it through. what you have to do to pay
tion and midway through her Bonnie Comley
two-year Emerson stint, the real
world came knocking on her door.
I got offered a job, with this little cable station in
New Jersey. It wasnt ideal. The first few months,
they mostly just wanted me to do the Vanna White
thing. You know, stand around in front of the the-
atre and look pretty. But then things got better it
wasnt long before they had me interviewing celebri-
ties and theatre people, doing some pretty active
stuff. I enjoyed that part a lot.
Bonnie with her family: daughter Leah, now five, and husband, Broadway
producer-director Stewart Lane.
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CoverStory
But it didnt last. Around It lasted five years, til 1990. Then the
the end of her second year, Travel Channel changed format, the
the producer sold the show to Nightlife show got dumped, and Bonnie was
another network, which back on the street. There was the usual
promptly cancelled it. And spate of commercials and modeling, some
she was out of a job it voiceovers, and in the middle of it all a
wouldnt be the last time. In stint at Queens College, where she produced a
this business, says Bonnie, childrens video to complete her masters
every five minutes youre degree. And all the while, as she remembers it:
looking for a job. I was having lunches with people and sending out demo tapes, trying
to line up the next job. I was a little selective, I guess, but not very.
You cant afford to be selective, not if the rents going to get paid.
You just adopt the attitude, Okay, so that ones over so its on to
the next thing.
the rent: Not everyone can
be Meryl Streep. But you The next thing, as it turned out, would be the last. Or at least the
scramble, you put in the last of its kind. In 93 or 94, she took a job reading scripts for a New
hours, and, most of the time York producer. A year or so later, through one of those scripts, she met Bonnie, right, with other cast members of the off-Broad-
way production, If It Was EasyKevin Dobson (seated),
at least, youre going to get another producer: a two-time Tony-winner (La Cage Aux Folles, The
William Miller and Lynsey Ray.
where you want to go... Will Rogers Follies) by the name of Stewart Lane. And from then on, to
hear her tell it, life pretty much took care of itself.
And scramble she did. Only A sketch of Bonnie by the celebrity
artist Al Hirschfeld (copyright 2001
this time there were no drudge Al Hirschfeld). It was just one of those things that happen. He had a script that
jobs, no making change needed reading; I read it, we got to talking... He was trying to make a
behind tellers windows or cold-calling annoyed career change at the timehed been a producer for years, he wanted to
homeowners who were trying to feed supper to their branch out more, to do more writing and directing. So we got talking
kids. And as hard as it was to hold a job behind the about that, about how he could manage it, about some projects he had
camera, she had learned at least that, one way or in mind. And things just went from there.
another, the camera would be her milieu.
They were married in 97. A year later their daughter, Leah, was born. Bonnie and her mother, Virginia Comley, right, on opening
night of last years revival of Gypsy. Lead actress
What did I do? Oh lord, what didnt I do? I made And since then, the landmarks and achievementsacting and Bernadette Peters is at left.
some commercials, I did some modeling, I acted in producing, writing and directing, individually and together, Broadway,
an improv group. I was basically always hustling. But off-Broadway and summer stock have been unfurling in a blur.
it was all performance stuff.
She earned her first producing creditfor JFK: the
Her next gig was a big step up: her own show on a Musical, in Dublinas assistant to the producer (her
cable channel, her first job as segment producer and husband), the year before they married. Then came
host. It was called Nightlife TV, and it was on the Wait Until Dark at New Yorks Brooks Atkinson Theatre,
Travel Channel a roving host and reporter, high- Minelli on Minelli, Thoroughly Modern Millie (another
lighting the hotspots of New York. We did a lot of Tony winner for Stewart Lane) and Lobby Hero a solo
restaurants, comedy clubs, that sort of thing. I had a Bonnie Comley production, in London last year. Most
Bonnie with actress Harriet Harris
lot of fun, met a lot of people. It was something dif- recently its been Ragtimealso solo, also in London of Thoroughly Modern Millie,
ferent every night. For me at the time, it was pretty and a revival of Gypsy, both in 2003. With Sam Mendes, director of Gypsy,
which earned a Tony for Bonnies
husband, producer Stewart Lane.
much a dream job. on the plays opening night last year.
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CoverStory
During a pre-theatre supper at Legal Seafoods in Boston just prior to the
Boston opening of Thoroughly Modern Millie. From left: Jenna Powell,
Hank Powell, 55, Molly McCarthy, Mary Jo Leahey, 37; Nancy and
Richard Donahue, and producers Bonnie Comley, 81 and her husband
Stewart Lane.
And all the while, somehow, even as new wife
and mother, she managed to continue to act:
lead roles in If It Was Easy, The Golden Age and
Frankenstein, all off-Broadway and regional produc-
tions, directed by her husbandwho, meanwhile,
had amassed another half-dozen Tonys and been
nominated for the National Critics Playwright
Award.
Her most recent project, in tandem with her
husband and two other colleagues, has been
the start-up of a new production company,
Waxman/Williams/Lane/Comleybetter known as
WWLC. Its first project has been the Gypsy revival,
Following supper and a chat with the producers, UMass Lowell alumni gathered at the Wang Center in Boston for the opening
night of Thoroughly Modern Millie. From left: Rick Pierro, 83, Eileen Pierro, Jim Dandeneau, 80 and Debbie Dandeneau;
John Davis of the UMass Lowell Advancement Office, Emily Moloney and Jacqueline Moloney, dean of Corporate Education
and Continuing Studies.
22 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E WINTER 2004
directed by Sam Mendes, with Bernadette Peters in
the starring role, which has been at the Schubert
Theatre on Broadway since last spring.
Its been a pretty wonderful six years, says
Bonnie. Ive got a fairy-tale life: a great job, a pent-
house apartment, a wonderful husband, two terrific
stepkids, a beautiful new daughter. I really couldnt
be much happier...
Her next project, she says, will be to finish some
TV video projects shes been producing. And after
that, theres just no way to know for sure:
I want to keep on doing all the things Ive been
doingvideo, TV, acting, producing, all of it.
Theres no end to the things Id like to do...
Its been a long, unlikely path from her girlhood in
Bedford, her days as a ULowell undergraduate, and
those endless afternoons in the pool at the Woburn
Y. And while she concedes she could never have
imagined in my wildest dreams it all turning out as
it has, shell tell you in the same breath that shes
not all that surprised:
I knew I loved show business. I knew I wanted to
be a part of it, and that I was willing to work to see
it through. And most of the time, I think, if theres
something you really want and youre willing to
sacrifice, youll find a way to make it happen...
I couldnt help but believe that. Its been the story
of my life.
FeatureStory
Alums Business Venture Grew Out
of Connector Experience By Jack McDonough
W
hen their advertising firm was in its infancy, They went into the business full-time in March
Brad Duquette 00 and Chris Lefebvre 99 of 2002.
were afraid that Sally and Furby might cause
The break-through came in November of that year
them problems.
when the Commercial Venture Development arm of the
It could be embarrassing, for example, if Sally, a Research Foundation invested in Vaward and gave them
combination black Lab/collie, or Furby the cat started working space in Wannalancit.
woofing or meowing while one of the
That investment helped us out tremen-
partners was on the phone with a client. T hat investment dously, says LeFebvre, and we moved into
They had no choice in the matter, helped us out this facility, which is great. We get advice from
however, because they launched their tremendously. professionals and access to resources like
business venture in the basement of phones, copiers and a receptionist.
Chriss mother-in-laws home in Chris LeFebvre
As part of the arrangement, Vaward hires
Methuen and Sally and Furby came
UMass Lowell students.
with the territory.
Since moving to the new quarters, Vaward has expand-
But their company, Vaward Advertising, has since
ed its student newspaper clients from about 80 in the
grown and moved to pleasant and animal-free
region to around 1,000 throughout the country. And the
quarters on the fourth floor of the Universitys
list of companies that buy the advertising includes
Wannalancit Mill building.
names such as Macys, Office Max and Planned
Working on a commission basis, Vaward (one defini- Parenthood.
tion of that word is forefront) brings together college
Duquette and LeFebvre said they expected that their
student newspapers and businesses that want to reach
billing for 2003 would be somewhere near half a
the college audience.
million dollars.
The advantage for the students is that they have a
full-time sales representative that brings in revenue and
maintains a relationship with advertisers. The advertis-
Brad Duquette, left, and Chris Lefebvre used their
ers benefit by having an agency that handles the myriad experience as Connector staffers to launch their
details associated with placing ads in dozens of papers own business, Vaward Advertising.
with varying requirements.
Duquette, an English major, and LeFebvre, a plastics
engineering major, worked on the Connector during their
undergraduate years. Thats when they discovered that
there was a substantial difference between the Connec-
tors ad rates and the price their agency was charging
advertisers. There was, they determined, an opportunity
for competition in that business.
LeFebvre had worked for Motorola and Duquette
had been in sales and marketing for a start-up
company before the two started their agency in the
Methuen basement on a part-time basis in 2001.
We targeted regional chains and mom and pop
stores to begin with, says Duquette, and
represented 30 or 40 New England Colleges.
UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 23
The Face of Philanthropy
By Geoffrey Douglas
Touching 800 Lives, one Life at a Time
H
e doesnt know the exact
number, and he doesnt
want to name any names.
But there have been a lot at least
800, he guesses, maybe as many as
1,000 and some of them came with
some pretty remarkable tales.
There was the former drug dealer
and addict who had done jail time.
He applied to be a Hoff scholar at
38 years old was approved, graduat-
ed UMass with a 3.8 GPA, then got a
job with a Big Eight accounting firm.
Another one, also in his thirties, had
been in jail for manslaughter hed
been driving drunk, and killed a cop
in an accident. He came out of jail,
applied and was approved for a
Hoff scholarship, and went on to
excel at UMass.
These are people who turned their
lives around, says Charlie Hoff today.
Weve had all kinds, all ages
weve had grandmothers every
kind of story youd want to hear.
Charlie Hoff (B.S., Lowell Tech
1966), at least officially, has been
retired for the past five years. But you
wouldnt want to take that too literal-
ly. (Retirement, as Hoff likes to say,
is mostly a state of mind.). After
nearly 20 years in management with
some of the largest firms in the north-
east including Wang, Polaroid and
Gillette and another decade-plus
as a major player in the venture-capi-
tal world, Hoff today is in the business
(among others) of giving away UMass
educations 150 a year, more or less.
And not only on the Lowell campus:
there are dozens of Hoff scholars, each
attending school tuition-free, at each
24 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E WINTER 2004
Charlie Hoffs family, shown at a recent gathering, are at the core of the Hoff Foundation, the financial source of
the Hoff Scholarship funds. Shown here with their children Charlie Hoffs grandchildren they are, from left,
son-in-law Tom Casey, daughter Deborah Casey; Charlie Hoff and his wife Josephine; and son-in-law Jonathan
Diorio and his wife Denise.
of the five UMass campuses at any
point in time.
Their majors run the gamut from
management to nursing; their ages
range from 19 to 60; and ethnically,
they are as diverse as the world. All
that joins them is their desire for an
education, their financial need, their
academic merit (as reflected in their
GPAs, which must be at least 3.0 at
the close of their freshman years), and
the more subjective requirement that
they be as Charlie Hoff expresses
it the sort of people wholl make
a difference in their communities
the sort of people who, if I were still
hiring, Id want to hire.
There was a time, not long ago,
when he did hire some of them. That
was back in his venture-capital days
the early 90swhen he bought into
two companies, an optical-equipment
outfit and a maker of circuitboards,
and turned them both around. Proba-
bly more times than he can count, he
footed the bill for a students UMass
education, then became that students
first employer in a job that often grew
to a career.
I believe strongly in the value of an
education, says Charlie Hoff today.
Its what makes the difference. Its
the key to what determines a persons
mobility, and ultimately that persons
quality of life.
The Face of Philanthropy
The Charles J. Hoff Scholarship Program
Hoff Scholarship award winners are eligible to receive their awards, equivalent to the cost of a full years
tuition (excluding fees), beginning with the first semester of their sophomore year. To qualify, they must have
been enrolled at UMass for at least two semesters, during which time they must have maintained a GPA of
3.0 or higher.
Assuming they maintain this 3.0 GPA, their awards are renewable for up to six semesters.
To date, the Hoff Scholarship Program, in place since 1991, has generated funds to more than 800 students
at all five UMass campuses, totaling more than $1.6 million. Of this amount, the large majoritymore than
$700,000has been awarded to students at UMass Lowell.
The Hoff Foundation, the financial source of these funds, is headed by Chairman Charlie Hoff. Other officers
and directors of the Foundation include Hoffs wife, Josephine; their two daughters, Denise Hoff Diorio and
Deborah Hoff Casey; their sons-in-law, Jonathan Diorio and Thomas Casey; and Charlie Hoffs brother, David.
It all began, as such things often lion pledge to the University. Since been able to make a difference in a
do, with a problem that needed solv- then, what has become known as the lot of lives
ing. In the mid-80s, as a senior vice Hoff Scholars Program has awarded Its a great feeling to know that.
president at Bausch & Lomb, Hoff scholarship funds totaling more than Sometimes I think I get more out of
was put in charge of Applied $1.6 million to students at all five all this than some of the students do.
Research Laboratories (ARL), a com- campuses. (Northeastern University,
pany division that was hemorrhaging at which he earned a masters in
money $12 million in losses on engineering management, has Making a Gift to UMass Lowell
$100 million in sales. A year later, likewise been a recipient of his gen- When you give to the University of
under his direction, the division erosity. Three years ago, he made a Massachusetts Lowell, you help us in many
showed a profit. A year after that, he $1 million pledge there as well.) ways. Whether your support is for current
operations, or designated for a particular
bought it with a partner, in a $32 Right from the start, the giving has program or scholarship, your gift helps the
million leveraged buyout and two been a family affair. Every year, as University fulfill its mission to provide a
years later sold it, for more than twice high-quality education at an affordable price.
nearly as he can guess, somewhere
what hed paid. With the profits, he around 350 students apply for Hoff You Can Make a Gift Today!
founded another company Uni-
Scholarships. Of these, roughly 225 Mail: Enclose your gift in the envelope
versal/Univis, in North Attleboro will be interviewed if not by Char- attached to this magazine and mail to UMass
which, five years later, was, with $20 Lowell, Office of Advancement, 600 Suffolk
lie Hoff himself, then by his brother, Street, Lowell MA 01854.
million in annual sales, the largest his mother, one of two daughters,
manufacturer of design eyewear in
Phone: Call (978)-934-2223 (the University
sometimes other family members as Advancement office) and give by phone, or
the United States. well. The University, will then make speak with a gift officer about establishing
a fund or scholarship.
It was at that point that the giving the final decisions. In a typical year,
E-mail: To contact a gift officer, send a
began in earnest. Although he has says Hoff, roughly 40 percent of the
message to University Advancement at:
served as a UMass trustee for 10 original 350 will be approved for Give_to_Lowell@uml.edu
years, and was a major donor well scholarships by the University.
before that he set up the family- There are all kinds of folks were
run Hoff Foundation as early as 1986 helping who, for one reason or
as a source for scholarships six another, just arent able to do this for
years ago Charlie Hoff made a $1 mil- themselves. My family and I weve
UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 25
FeatureStory
From the Killing Fields to the
Classroom: A Remarkable Odyssey.
She was only 3 years old when the horror began.
For the next five years she lived through the madness of
the Killing Fields, the genocidal massacre inflicted on the
Cambodian people by Pol Pot and his infamous Khmer Rouge
regime.
When finally it was over and her family found its way to
freedom in America, the fourth-grade classmates in her new
school made fun of her because she looked different and
didnt speak English.
I didnt understand my peers or the teacher, she says.
I just watched and listened.
Today, Phala Chea is coordinator of the Parent Information
Center in the Lowell Public School system. In June of 2003,
she became the first Cambodian immigrant and, at 31,
probably the youngest person to receive a doctorate in
education from UMass Lowell.
While working toward that degree, she taught English in
Lowell schools.
Phala was born in Phnom Penh in 1972. Her father, Tem,
was a schoolteacher, and her mother, Eng Men, had her own
retail business. Phala had one older sister, Ratha.
In 1975, Pol Pot overthrew the government of Norodom
Sihanouk and carried out his plan to turn Cambodia into a
Utopian agrarian society. The Khmer Rouge evacuated cities,
forced the inhabitants into farming cooperatives in the coun-
tryside and, in the process, caused the deaths of an estimat-
ed 1.7 million people through torture, overwork, starvation
and execution.
Phala refers to that era as the war.
Sitting in her sunlit office on Kirk Street near Lowell High
School, she says, I remember the war. I lived through it. We
were forced to go into the countryside and leave everything
behind.
We had to work manually and we couldnt use technology.
Schools were banned. Medicine. Entertainment. Currency.
Everything was banned.
I remember all these things. I remember staying home
and not having to work because I was young, but my parents
had to go to work.
During that time, people who were educated or worked for
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By Jack McDonough
the government or were wealthy were executed. But
they let my father survive because he was able to con-
tribute to the village by cooking and farming.
We all had to wear black, dress the same and have
the same haircut. If you didnt work you werent fed. If
you worked, you were given a small portion of food dai-
ly. Anything more, you had to steal or do whatever you
had to do to keep yourself alive.
My sister, who was 7 or so, had to work collecting
fertilizer but she also had to take care of me at home
because the rest of the family was
working. There was
The sister, Ratha, died of starva- no way for us
tion by the time she was 11. to go back,
When, in 1979, the Vietnamese so we had to
invaded Cambodia and overthrew
adapt quickly
Pol Pots regime, Phala and her
parents were able to return to
to survive.
Phnom Penh. Phala Chea
We looked for our relatives to
see who survived and who didnt, she says. They
found her mothers family, but learned that one brother,
Phalas uncle, had been worked to death in a prison
camp.
Fearing that the Khmer Rouge would return, the family
I remember the war. I lived
through it. We were forced to go
into the countryside and leave
everything behind.
Phala Chea
FeatureStory
Phala Called A Humble Woman
Who Epitomizes Excellence
Margaret McDevitt was an assistant professor and chair of the
College of Educations acceptance committee when Phala Chea went
to see her in 1994 to discuss teaching as a possible career path.
It was obvious that she came to me only out of respect for George
Tsapatsaris, McDevitt says. And, as she spoke, it became clear why
he had sent her to meet me. She had a quiet intelligence and a beauti-
ful, kind nature. But, because she was also a humble young woman,
she seemed to doubt that it was appropriate for her to be there.
Nevertheless, I encouraged her to apply for the masters program.
But thats all I did. The rest was all Phala. As her application package
moved through the committee, her appropriateness became obvious
to everyone.
When I first met her, I remember how insecure she was about her
language skills, although that worry was totally unnecessary. Her
verbal skills were excellent and her writing skills were outstanding.
It was a delight to have her in class that year. It was a lively group
and we all enjoyed Phalas more thoughtful and serious approach.
She was just a joy one of those students a teacher never for-
gets. Im very happy to have been even a small part of her life, her
very remarkable life.
Rosemary LeBlanc Considine, now the superintendent of schools in
Melrose, was a member of Phala Cheas dissertation committee. But
the connection is stronger than that.
Her father worked for me at the Parent Information Center in
1987, she says, and I have known Phala since she was a child.
I think hers is a wonderful accomplishment. To think that she came
to this country speaking Khmer and made the leap from that to
English, and completed a doctorate in the process is just amazing.
And her dissertation was terrific. I was pleased to be part of her
committee.
Like Considine, Assoc. Prof. John Catallozzi was a member of Phala
Cheas dissertation committee.
Working with Phala was very gratifying, Catallozzi says. She has
had a unique journey culminating in the attainment of the highest
levels of academic and personal success.
She epitomizes excellence in professional education in terms of
both preparation and performance. And she will serve as an ongoing
inspiration and model for all who follow in her path.
Dean Donald Pierson of the Graduate School of Education says,
Phala was an excellent student all the way along. Very conscien-
tious. And now shes an outstanding educator.
Im confident she will continue to progress to even greater
leadership positions than the one she already holds.
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FeatureStory FeatureStory
left Phnom Penh and walked for a month ell School Superinten- or concerns, and to her dissertation committee As for her own future, shes not certain.
through jungles to a refugee camp in Thai- dent George Tsapat- Profs. Rodriguez, John Catallozzi and Rosemary
Im not sure what I want to do now. Im very
land. saris, whom he had LeBlanc who motivated and pushed me and
young in my field and Id like to expand my
known through his advised and guided me in completing the writing
It was a long walk and we had to be experience.
own job as parent liai- stage of my work.
very careful of mines along the way. We
son at the Parent As for the past, she says, The tragedies and the
also were afraid because the Khmer Rouge Phala did her dissertation on the acculturation
Information Center. nightmare, you dont forget.
had hidden themselves in the mountains process of Cambodian students, a study she hoped
Tsapatsaris suggested to Phala that she try educa-
and jungles. would contribute something to society.
tion, and he put her in touch with Asst. Prof. Mar-
After 18 months in the camp, a cousin in garet McDevitt at the then College of Education. I know that living in this society is very diffi-
the United States sponsored the family cult, coming from the horror that we experi-
With McDevitts encouragement, Phala enrolled in
and they traveled to Portland, Oregon. By enced, she says. I know
the masters program, received her M. Ed. degree
this time, Phala had a younger sister, born
in Phnom Penh, and a brother, born in
in 1995, and began her teaching career.
what living here in a new
environment will do to us.
T he
Thailand. She taught English, ESL and other subjects to I wanted to study the prob- tragedies
Phala was enrolled During the second graders at the Cardinal OConnell School, lems that occur in the lives and the
and applied for admission to the Universitys doctor- of young Cambodians in nightmare,
in the fourth grade in the summer, I America and the way in
al program in education. She was not accepted.
Richmond Elementary School. watched other which that affects their you dont
They suggested that I gain more work experience
There was no way for us to children playing academic performance and forget.
and try again, she says.
go back, so we had to adapt and speaking their social life.
Phala Chea
quickly to survive, Phala and I tried out She then taught a year of seventh grade English
I know what its like to
says. I was tutored one hour at the Daley School, during which she applied for
a day in an ESL class, learn- my English the doctoral program once again, and once again
live here and not know a word of English, to
have to live in a foreign society. The children
ing basic words like book with them. was told she lacked experience. Nevertheless, she
need family support and must learn new skills
and pencil. But I was afraid Phala Chea was allowed to take two courses to prove myself.
and a new way of life.
to speak because I thought She supplied the proof earning As in both cours-
others would make fun of me because I wouldnt be es and, with support from Prof. Juan Rodriguez, They want to be Americans but their families
able to pronounce the words correctly. was accepted into the program. want them to embrace the old culture. These are
two totally different things and its hard to do. It
During the summer, I watched other children Meanwhile, her teaching career took her to a four-
causes pressure and tension for adolescents
playing and speaking and I tried out my English with year assignment at the Bartlett School (more sev-
and affects learning.
them. I learned quite a bit and was able to commu- enth grade English) and then an appointment as a
nicate with other kids in my neighborhood. By the facilitator for Chapter 636, a federal program to She knows these problems
fifth grade, I could do some class work and under- ensure equity in education among seven Lowell ele- first-hand.
stand English a little bit. mentary and middle schools.
Other students here and in
After her freshman year in high school, the family I loved teaching. I loved the children. But I left it Oregon made fun of me
moved to Lowell, in part to start a business here because I wanted to get into administration. My because of the way I looked
where there is a large Cambodian population. doctorate is in lead- and acted. I was made fun of
ership in schooling, all the time.
Phala graduated from Greater Lowell Technical
she explains.
High School in 1990 and enrolled at ULowell where Part of the solution to these
she studied biology because her parents wanted The move to the acculturation problems, she
her to become a doctor. Parent Information says, is understanding.
Center came in
I did it for a year and a half but I couldnt handle Educators must under-
March of 2002.
math and science, and I didnt like it, she remem- stand Cambodian students.
bers, so she switched to political science and soci- Phala gives a lot Schools need to learn their
ology, and graduated in 1994. of credit for her suc- background and accept their
cess to Dean Donald culture.
At that point, she was uncertain of a career path
Pierson who was
(I thought about law but didnt think Id be a good
there for any issues
lawyer.), so her father suggested she talk with Low-

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FeatureStory
The Job Ladder: It Still Exists But It May Not Be in the Same Place.
Ladder has long been a common term in the business world.
Employees have sought to move up the ladder.
They got a foot on the first rung. Sometimes it was a tough climb.
By Jack McDonough
30 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E WINTER 2004
American businesses traditionally have had strong
job ladders or Internal Labor Markets (ILM) as they
are known in social science circles. These ladders have
been the means by which someone was hired by a
company at entry level, got on-the-job training,
perhaps took some business courses, and over a number
of years moved up into better positions.
But there has been a lot of discussion about how the
job ladder was disappearing over the past two decades
because companies were
finding ways to break up the
process. Two of the principal
ways they were doing this
were by outsourcing
having operations once done
within a company being done
by some other company; and
by the creation of remote call
centers like the ones you
call to buy a shirt or a frying
pan. Chris Tilly
In 1999, three UMass Lowell researchers received a
$300,000 grant from the Rockefeller and Russell Sage
foundations to look into the job ladder situation in a
number of industries.
The three were Profs. Phil Moss and Chris Tilly
of the Regional Economic and Social Development
Department (RESD) and Hal Salzman, a senior
research scientist in the Center for Industrial
Competitiveness.
They chose to study four industries: financial
services (banks, insurance companies, etc.), food
services (restaurants and cafeterias), electronics
manufacturers and retail businesses.
Over time, they discovered some surprising things.
One was that the ladders werent disappearing
altogether but they were moving. Another was that
when you order the prime ribs and the peach melba in
your local restaurant, the food probably isnt actually
cooked there.
FeatureStory
The three have produced a number of reports on job
ladders, and Chris Tilly, sitting in his fifth floor office
in the OLeary Library building one recent morning,
explained what he, Moss and Salzman had discovered.
The interesting thing they found, he says, is that the
job ladder phenomenon is, in some ways, as strong as it
ever was. To illustrate this, he points to their research
into electronics.
We talked to a large electronics manufacturer and
found that they did a massive amount of outsourcing.
(They call this company Monarch. They dont use
actual names in the reports.) Initially, they outsourced
each part separately but then they realized that it was
worse trying to manage the purchase of 1,000 parts
than it was to make the parts themselves.
So they started telling suppliers to give them
components already assembled. Instead of buying 1,000
parts, Monarch ended up buying about six components
that they would assemble, test and send out.
Whats interesting is that in that process they
started going to larger and larger suppliers to the point
where some of their suppliers were even larger than
them. So there are the job ladders again only
theyre not in Monarch anymore. Theyre in this other
company, says Tilly.
Thats not to say the jobs are just as good
Monarch tends to be unionized and the supplier tends
not to be unionized. There are other differences, too.
Also, its harder on the workforce because when you
move to a new company you may lose some of the priv-
ileges and advantages you have built up over the years.
But in terms of job ladders, theyve popped up
again.
Then the discussion turned to the food industry.
A restaurant is, by definition, a small company,
Tilly says. Only so many people can work in a restau-
rant. But theyre sourcing from food distributors that
are huge. And these distributors are, in turn, sourcing
from manufacturers.
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FeatureStory
When you go to a restaurant and get pasta or a
cut of meat, you tend to think its prepared in that
restaurant. But, more and more that food is actually
coming through a distributor from a manufacturer
whos preparing those dishes up to the final point,
and the restaurant is doing only the last minute
preparation.
One manager told us, Theres more and more
food being done by the manufacturer than there is
on-site. The reason is quality. There are things that
you could buy that it would make no sense whatso-
ever for you to make. There are even some desserts
out there that the finest pastry chefs in the city
At the risk of oversimplifying, banking and
retail have become much more woman and
family friendly industries. The cases weve looked
at provide much more flexible career paths.
Chris Tilly
couldnt make as good. You can pretty much buy
anything prefab now.
A cook in one upscale restaurant said that all
meat comes into the restaurant precut, and
salad greens are pre-packaged. The pastry chef said
technological improvements such as flash
freezing, automated cake design and faster trans-
Hal Salzman
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FeatureStory
portation had increased responsibility. They had to be able to make decisions So, in that situation, the kind of stability that
the purchasing of cakes and to answer the service reps questions while cus- you think of with job ladders is again broken up.
and pastry by all but some tomers were waiting on the line. The problem with a case study like this is that the
of the high-end restau- So, again, this became a situation where the job story never ends. At some point we have to stop
rants. ladder was squeezed down but grew back up, he says. studying it but the kind of evolution weve seen
doesnt necessarily end at the point where we stopped
Restaurants also report The researchers also looked at the work life and
looking at it.
an interesting side benefit family life implications of this job ladder situation.
to using prepared foods: I think we can conclude that there really are good
We found some interesting things, Tilly says. At reasons that job ladders have been a pretty persistent
worker compensation
the risk of oversimplifying, banking and retail have phenomenon.
costs are lower because
Phil Moss become much more woman and family friendly
fewer workers are wielding
industries. The cases weve looked at provide much
large knives.
more flexible career paths.
The food industry, Tilly says, is another case of
Whereas, if youre trying to manage in electronics
where the outsourcing process is shifting things to
or food services, theyre still very male environments
bigger companies in fact, national companies
that expect you to go where the company sends you.
where employees can move up. In restaurants, there
If need be, you jump from job to job and place to
is only so far that you can move up. But if youre in
place to move up.
the world of food distribution or manufacturing,
you can move up to be a regional or national But in banking, we found managers who basically
manager levels you could never attain in a stayed in one region, where theyd moved to a dozen
restaurant. branches and moved up each time but still stayed in
the one region so they had a reasonable commute
A similar story unfolded with call centers.
and could be home with their family at night.
In a retail department store, employees are
Same thing with department retail. Careers in
selling directly to the customer and there is a divi-
department stores move from store to store but man-
sion of labor. But as stores began moving to
age to stay with a commuting distance, he says.
catalog call centers, job opportunities increasingly
moved to those remote centers. Although he points out a number of cases in which
job ladders have diminished in one area only to reap-
At first, the hierarchy in the centers was very flat.
pear in another, Tilly says, I dont want to imply
There were lots of customer service representatives
that theres anything inevitable about this but I do
but not many supervisors. Not much chance for
think there are reasons why it keeps happening.
advancement.
For example, in the case of Monarch we had this
But, says Tilly, we saw in the 1980s and 1990s,
happy story of them sourcing to these companies that
they were adding more layers of supervision. There
are now around the same size as Monarch. But just as
were two reasons for this. First, the companies real-
we were finishing the case study, Monarch made the
ized that call center work was not as easy as they
decision that they were going to start sourcing from
thought. They had to recruit good people, motivate
abroad.
them and retain them, and to do that they had to
offer them advancement. Its cheaper in China. Its cheaper in Mexico. So,
they say, Enough of these suppliers here. Were going
The second reason was that supervision was a
to start shipping to suppliers down there.
bigger job than they thought. Instead of simply
having supervisors walking up and down the aisle
keeping track of things, they discovered they really
needed people with knowledge and management
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CampusAthletics
River Hawk Pitching Staff Soars to New Heights
By Chris ODonnell
It was scary enough for opposing
players to bat against 6-foot-10,
235-pound Steve Palazzolo, but come
spring they will face another towering
righthander, 6-foot-10, 230-pound
Aaron Easton, the latest addition to
the River Hawk pitching staff.
The two are the tallest pitching duo
in Division II and likely the entire
country and help form a potentially
awesome UMass Lowell staff.
There is definitely an advantage
when a pitcher is that tall, says
first-year Head Coach Ken Connerty.
That kind of size is intimidating to a
batter. It enables a pitcher to release
the ball a little closer to the plate.
When youre that tall, youre throwing
downhill.
I think Aaron can hit 88 to 90
miles per hour, and Steve is the
same way.
UMass Lowell is coming off another
splendid season in which it finished
32-12 and won the Northeast-10 Con-
ference regular season and tournament
championships. The River Hawks also
earned their seventh straight and 14th
overall trip to the NCAA Tourna-
ment, where they advanced to
the regional final before losing to
Franklin Pierce.
The UML staff is already well-
stocked with the likes of Palazzolo,
senior Billy Lynch (9-1, 2.02 ERA)
and junior Brad Laurin (6-3, 2.03
ERA).
Palazzolo has established himself
among the best in the region, going 8-
1 in nine starts last spring with a 2.25
ERA. He also struck out 62 batters and
walked 27 over 64 innings.
34 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E WINTER 2004
There is no question that my
height is an advantage, he says.
An 88-mile-per-hour fastball
from a 6-10 pitcher seems a lot
quicker to batters 6 feet tall. Im
always trying to get the most out
of my height.
Eastons road to Lowell has
had a few detours. The Water-
ford, Maine, native played club
baseball at the University of
New Hampshire for two years
but, eager to test his skills at a
higher level, he enrolled at
Flagler University in St. Augus-
tine, Fla.
In addition to chalking up
impressive statistics on the
mound, he graduated magna
cum laude with a business
degree and still had a years eligi-
bility left. Because NCAA rules
prohibited him from transferring
to Division I or III schools, he
wanted to find the best Division
II baseball program close to
home where he also could earn
a masters degree.
I talked with a scout from the
Cincinnati Reds and he told me
that UMass Lowell was the best
Division II school in New Eng-
land, Easton says. I thought it
would be great to come back and
play. My family hasnt seen me
pitch in two years.
Easton is currently pursuing
his masters degree in regional
economic and social develop-
ment.
It was nice that Aaron was
looking for us, when usually its the
other way around, Connerty says.
Fall Sports A Review
For colleges and universities, the fall
sports schedule comes to an end in
late October/early November. The
goal is to extend the season, push it
until there are few other schools still
competing. At UMass Lowell, autumn
sports in 2003 were extended far
beyond the scheduled close.
For many teams, a visit to the
NCAA tournament is a dream, often
an impossible dream, but at UMass
Lowell it has become almost
commonplace. This year, five of the
Universitys six fall teams reached the
NCAA promised land. One even
hosted the NCAA Division II
National Championship game.
Three mens soccer, womens
cross-country and field hockey
made first time visits to the NCAA
tournament, scaling, in the process,
heights unimaginable just a couple of
years ago.
Womens Field Hockey
The River Hawks field hockey team
shocked the Northeast-10 conference,
rocked the field hockey establishment
and nearly won a national champi-
onship. It was the teams first ever vis-
it to the NCAA Division II
tournament.
The team earned its way into the
NCAA tournament by defeating long-
time field hockey powers Bentley and
Bryant to win the Northeast-10 tour-
These two River Hawks 6-foot-10, 230-pound Aaron
Easton, left, and 6-foot-10, 235-pound Steve Palazzolo
nament championship.
are the tallest pitching duo in Division II baseball.
Before losing the national champi-
onship game to Bloomsburg Universi-
ty 4-1. The River hawks then defeated
Bryant College in the national semi-
final. UMass Lowell hosted the
national final four at Cushing Field a
CampusAthletics
By Bob Ellis
National Quarterfinals. They looked
this challenge dead in the eye and
gave it their best effort, said Head
Coach Ted Priestly. He was talking
about the final game; he might as well
have been talking about the season.
The team finished 15-5-2 and set
records for goals, points, shutouts and
wins. Jason Paige won the NE-10
Scoring title; Jonathan Curran was
named the conferences top defensive
testament to how far the program and
player; and Christian Figueroa was
facilities have come in recent years.
named the top freshman.
Second year Head Coach Shannon
Hlebichuk says she urges her team Womens Soccer
only to love this game. She believes
The womens soccer team was the
that love breeds success. I have 20
one program that struggled during the
kids who love this game. Regardless
autumn of 2003. Finishing with a 4-
of the outcome, at the end of the day,
10-1 record.
we love this game.
Although they were underdogs all But, the River Hawks wrapped up
season long; they finished with a the year with a 2-0 victory over
record of 15-7. American International College.
The shutout was a team record 5th
Mens Soccer during the season.
Mens soccer rewrote its record book
and altered the balance of power
in Division II in New England.
They did it in dramatic fashion.
UMass Lowell won the Northeast-
10 tournament championship with a
3-2 victory over perennial power
Southern Connecticut State Universi-
ty. Depite trailing by 2-0, 10:18 into
the game. The come-from-behind
win put the River Hawks in the
NCAA tournament.
They went on to win the New Eng-
land Regional with victories over Volleyball
Franklin Pierce College, 3-0, and Trips to the NCAA Division II tour-
Southern Connecticut, 1-0. nament are not a shock to the UMass-
Lowell volleyball team. They made
The season ended with a loss to
their fourth visit in the last six years.
Dowling, 2-0, in Oakdale, N.Y., in the
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CampusAthletics
It was unfortunately, a short trip.
The team had finished the regular
season with a 20-8 record, but made an
early exit from the Northeast-10 tour-
nament, losing to Merrimack College,
3-2.
They lost to Bryant College, 3-0,
in the opening round.
Cross Country
The UMass Lowell mens cross-
country team has long been a domi-
nant force in New England running.
That did not change in the fall of 2003.
The womens team joined the men
in earning powerhouse status.
That was new.
The women finished 2nd in the
Northeast-10 conference champi-
onships and in the NCAA New Eng-
land Regional championships. The
performance earned the team its first
ever invitation to the NCAA Division
II National Meet. They finished 22nd
in the country.
Nicole Plante was honored as the
Northeast-10 conference Freshman
of the Year.
The mens team won its second
straight NE-10 Championship, the
third in four years. They won their
fourth straight NCAA Division II
Regional Championship. And
finished 10th in the nation at the
national meet.
Along the way there were individual
honors. Head Coach Gary Gardner
was named the NCAA Regional and
the NE-10 Coach of the Year. Patrick
Morasse was named the NE-10 Runner
of the Year. Jay Beausoleil was named
the Conferences top freshman and
Nate Jenkins finished 1st in the
NCAA regional meet.
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CampusAthletics
Womens Basketball Team Whoops It Up
Stone and Hlebichuk Named to After a Whale Watch
Athletic Hall of Fame Members of the womens basketball team went whale watching
out of Gloucester recently but the sighting that thrilled them the
Jim Stone, head coach of the baseball Jim Stone
most occurred after their boat had returned to land.
team for 37 years, and Shannon Joan Lehoullier, senior associate athletic director, says that when
the team disembarked, the person working in the ticket booth
(LeBlanc) Hlebichuk, coach of the field
pointed to a woman sitting on a nearby bench and said she was
hockey team for which she once starred,
someone famous.
have been inducted into the UMass
Lowell Athletic Hall of Fame. The team discovered that the famous person was actress Whoopi
Goldberg, who was in town to visit a friend who owns a restaurant
Stone, whose reign lasted from 1966 there. Goldberg readily agreed when the players asked if they could
until May of 2003, posted a career record have their picture taken with her.
Pat Riley
of 801-393-7 (.667). During that time, he She was very nice and very friendly, says Lehoullier.
was named New England Division II coach After the photo was taken, one of the players presented Goldberg
of the Year nine times and Northeast Stan Van Gundy with a UMass Lowell t-shirt, and the actress said she would try to
Region Coach of the Year wear it some time on her new television show.
five times. As for the whales, Lehoullier says they finally did see some after
Former UML Coach Van Gundy spending a long time searching through the morning fog.
His 2001 and 2002
Takes Over Miami Heat
teams advanced to the But I think a lot of the players were more excited about seeing
Whoopi than they were about seeing whales, she says.
Division II College S tan Van Gundy,
World Series. one-time mens
A 1960 graduate of basketball coach at
UMass Lowell, is now
Springfield College
head coach of the Mia-
where he captained
mi Heat of the National
the baseball team his
Basketball Association.
senior year, Stone coached Shannon (LeBlanc)
Hlebichuk Van Gundy replaced
at Tilton-Northfield High
Pat Riley who relin-
School and Mascoma Regional in Stan Van Gundy
quished the coaching job
New Hampshire before coming to
before the start of the 2003-04 season
Lowell. but remained president of the club.
Hlebichuk scored 33 goals and had a Van Gundy became the head coach
record 29 assists during her undergradu- at Lowell in 1988, succeeding Don
ate career and was instrumental in helping Doucette the year after the then Chiefs
the field hockey team to its best-ever captured the NCAA Division II champi-
record of 15-4 in 1997. onship. Over the next four seasons, his
teams had a cumulative record of 54-60.
A two-year captain, she was twice named
to the National Field Hockey Coaches He left the University in 1992 to join the
Members of the womens basketball team went on a whale watch out of Gloucester
Association Division II All-America team staff at Wisconsin and three years recently but their biggest sighting wasnt a whale. It was Whoopi Goldberg, who was in
and was named the 1997-98 NCAA Woman of the Year for the state later became Rileys assistant. town to visit a friend. Goldberg agreed to have her photo taken with the team, whose
members also presented her with a UMass Lowell t-shirt.
of Massachusetts. He is the older brother of Jeff Van
Gundy, coach of the Houston Rockets and
Before being named coach of the River Hawk field hockey squad,
former coach of the New York Knicks.
she earned a masters degree in higher education at Arizona
State University.
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1 2
3 4
Photo 1
Classmates from the State Teachers College
Class of 1938 returning to campus for their
65th reunion included Carolyn Allen Fowler,
left, and Helen Knight.
Photo 2
Members of the State Teachers College
Class of 1943 celebrated 60 years at the
Golden Alumni Luncheon. Seated, from left,
are Ann McEnaney, Marie Pouliot Dumont,
Catherine Hill Goodwin and Marjorie Waring
Langdon. Standing, from left, are Gertrude
Belanger, Muriel Landers, Louise Cavalieri
Goni, Ruth Richie Kirby, Natalie Johnson
Gutridge and Lucille Charron.
Photo 3
The Lowell Textile Institute Class of 1943
returned to campus for its 60th reunion at
the Golden Alumni Luncheon. The luncheon
was the kickoff to reunion weekend. Seated,
from left, are Herbert Goldberg, Tom Gillick
and William Haggerty. Standing, from left,
are Richard Petersen, Ralph Bullock and
John Colburn.
Photo 4
Textile graduates from the Class of 1948,
and spouses, returned to Lowell for their
60th college reunion.
Photo 5
The State Teachers College Class of 1953
together again at the Golden Alumni
Luncheon.
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AlumniEvents
6 7
5
Photo 6
Members of the Lowell Textile Class of 1953 gather at the Whistler
8 House art gallery reception and exhibit of Ed Adlers work.
From left, are Len Grubman, James Velantzas and Adler.
Photo 7
10 Reunion committee members and volunteers presented the
University with a check for $165,567 raised by all the reunion
classes to benefit the alumni scholarship fund.
Photo 8
Reunion alumni who returned to campus for Homecoming visited
the new campus recreation center. After lunch, they had an
opportunity to tour the facility and flex their muscles.
Photo 9
Seen at the Homecoming luncheon on Saturday of Reunion Week-
end are these members of the Class of 1953. Seated, from left, are
Electra Kominis Parigian, Arpy Kludjian and Connie Panagiotopoulos
Muldrow. And, standing from left, Rita Zoukee Mehos, Rosemary
OConnor Hogarty, and Elsa Martinson Noy and spouse Bob Noy.
Photo 10
Lowell Textile reunion alumni gathered at the American Textile
History Museum to celebrate with the Class of 1953, the last gradu-
ating class of Lowell Textile. They are, from left, Tom Gillick 43, Reva
and Morton Schlesinger 43 and John Roughan 48.
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AlumniEvents AlumniEvents
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11

Photo 14
The Massachusetts State College at
Lowell Class of 1963 celebrated its
40th reunion at a dinner at the
Radisson Hotel and Suites in
12 Chelmsford.

Photo 11
Celebrating their 50th reunion, members
of the Lowell Textile Class of 1953 enjoy
dinner with their professor, John Goodwin
39,52, center, first row. Photo 16 & 17
Photo 12
Classmates and guests gathered to cele-
brate the 50th Lowell Textile reunion, are,
from left, Margaret and Joe Flannery 53,
Robert Adell 53, Stanley Berger 53,
Harvey Fishman 53, and James
Velantzas 53.
Photo 15
The Lowell Technological Institute
Class of 1963 gathered for its 40th
reunion dinner on Saturday evening
of Reunion Weekend.
The University of Lowell Class of
1978 convenes for its 25th reunion
dinner at the Doubletree Hotel in
Lowell.
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16

Photo 13
Members and guests of the State 13
Teachers Class of 1953 had a grand
time reminiscing at their reunion dinner.
From left, standing, are Jean Curtis
MacCannell 53, Pauline Desrochers
Durant 53, Anne Deurell 53 and
Margaret Connors Russell 53. Seated,
from left, are Bill MacCannell, Ellen
Finnegan Leighton 53, Scott Leighton
and Earl Russell.
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1954
Robert E. Bachelder retired
as associate superintendent of
Melrose public schools in
1988. He is currently a
part-time professor at Salem
State College and leads
Bob Bachelders Totem Pole
Orchestra, which plays at
college events, public concerts
and dances.
1956
Gil V. Diloreto had a book
published under his pen
name, Gil Loring, in 2002.
The book, Second Fiddle,
is available through
Amazon.com
1957
Ernie Glantz 58, left, his
wife, Judy, and Howard Zins
57 met for dinner at the Eiffel
Tower restaurant in the Paris
Hotel during the Clean 2003
Show in Las Vegas. Ernie is
with Radici fabrics USA and
Howard is a consultant to the
institutional textile field.
1965
Paul T. Sullivan has retired
as director of Safe & Drug
Free program after 36 years
with the Lowell school system.
42 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E
Paul began the program in the
1960s. He still works part time
as a police officer in Hamp-
ton, N.H., and recently
became an adjunct professor
of criminal justice at New
Hampshire Technical Insti-
tute. He lives in Hampton
with his wife, Dotty. He still
travels, skis and boats at their
second home in Maine.
1967
DonnaLane Nelson writes
from Switzerland that her
novel Chickpea Lover has gone
into a second printing. Her
publisher has offered her both
a paperback and largeprint
contract.
1969
David B. Tuttle has been
named vice president for FAA
Programs for BAE Systems, a
major defense and govern-
ment contractor.
1973
In April 2001, Richard S.
Goldman founded Goldman
Consulting Associates, a man-
agement consulting practice
headquartered in Johnstown,
Penn., which helps business
leaders develop and imple-
ment strategies for profitable
growth. His organization offers
a broad range of services
nationwide in business plan-
ning, government business
development, operations man-
agement, and organizational
development.
1974
Vincent F. Bonzagni was
admitted to the U.S. Supreme
Court Bar in June 2002. He
retired in June 2003 from a
career with the Social Securi-
ty Administration and has
now formed the Bonzagni Law
Firm, P.C. in Front Royal, Va.,
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where he con-
centrates in the
areas of Social
Security, estate
planning and
administration,
and elder law.
Vincent and his wife, Donna,
have five grandchildren and a
mountaintop home overlook-
ing the Shenandoah.
Robert G. Cameron has pub-
lished a collection of his own
compositions for bagpipes.
From Other Shores includes
more than 100 tunes suitable
for bagpipes and other tradi-
tional instruments.
John D. Murphy is pleased
to announce that son Brian, a
junior at Auburn University,
has been accepted into the
universitys prestigious Build-
ing Science Program. The
program has been nationally
recognized as one of the
leading architectural and
construction management
majors in the country.
1978
Frank Cavaleri joined
Woodard & Curran, an envi-
ronmental consulting firm, as
vice president in the Opera-
tions and Management group.
Frank has more
than 20 years of
experience in
the contract
operations busi-
ness, including
management,
operations, and maintenance
of municipal wastewater and
groundwater remediation pro-
jects throughout the North-
east. He will oversee several
contract operations projects in
southern New England.
1979
Sarah E. Hopkins decided to
pursue a career in occupation-
al therapy after Proposition 2.
She moved to Richmond, Va.,
and completed a masters
degree. She works in a won-
derful private nursing home,
and is happily married, with
stepchildren and grandchil-
dren. Sarah also arranges
music for and sings with a trio
called Litesing and looks
forward to recording a CD.
In the meantime, she would
love to hear from anyone from
the wayback 70s. Dr. Kathleen (McGuire)
Steve Stillman recently self-
published the book Effects and
Their Uses, which includes
447 scientific effects. In his
23 years as a lead engineer, he
designed many types of parts
in disc drives. Steve resides
with his wife on a large farm
in Shrewsbury.
1982
Mary Ellen Rowe is an
expedition coordinator at
Earthwatch, where they
recruit volunteers to partici-
pate in one-to-three weeks of
research and conservation
projects all over the world.
1984
On Sept. 14, Joseph J.
Albanese, CEO of Com-
modore Builders, was named
commanding officer of Naval
Mobile Construction Battal-
ion (NMCB) 21
in the Naval
Reserve. Joseph
is a commander
in the Civil
Engineer Corps,
U. S. Naval
Reserve. Over
the past 24
months, as operations officer
for the 7th Naval Construc-
tion Regiment, he was inte-
grally involved with the
mobilization and deployment
of more than 1,200 Seabees in
support of Operation Enduring
Freedom in Afghanistan and,
most recently, Operation Iraqi
Freedom. He will lead the
charge to train his Seabees to
improve their readiness posi-
tion for mobilization while
providing support to the Fleet
and the Marine Corps in the
emerging initiatives in the
United States and overseas.
Joseph lives in Newton.
1986
Kaplan, a professor at Howard
University, recently published
a new book in her series, Fer-
tility Gods Way, Overcoming
Infertility with Respect to the
Bible, which is available from
most online bookstores.
Dr. Kaplans Web site is
http://www.imappl.org/~
kaplan and she would like
to hear from old friends.
John Spead has been
appointed director of Global
Environment, and Health &
Safety at Serologicals Corpo-
ration in Atlanta. Serologicals
is a global provider of biologi-
cal products and enabling
technologies, essential for the
research, development and
manufacturing of biologically
based life science products.
1988
Anita Moeller, executive
director of Acre Family Day
Care in Lowell, has been
named the 2003 Mas-
sachusetts HomeBased Busi-
ness Advocate by the U.S.
Small Business Administra-
tion (SBA). The Home-Based
Advocate Award is presented
annually to an individual who
has experienced the rewards
and difficulties of home-based
businesses and has worked to
improve the climate for these
businesses. Anita founded
Acre Family Day Care in 1988
in response to research show-
ing two related community
needs: child care and jobs.
Acre Family Day Care trains
women to run family child
care businesses in their own
homes, and provides ongoing
administrative support, con-
tinuing small business and
child development education,
and child care referrals.
Tom Delorey is celebrating
10 years with Lockheed Mar-
tins Knolls Atomic Power Lab
as a nuclear physicist leading a
development team. His wife
Karen (LeBlanc) Delorey is
a registered nurse for the
Schenectady (N.Y.) Commu-
nity Hospice. They live in
Schenectady with their 2-
year-old daughter, Hailey.
Stephen Peterson and his
wife, Danielle, have welcomed
their first child, Oliver
Richard Peterson. Steve is
a performance engineer for
Concord Communications,
and coaches track at
Westford Academy.
1989
Eric W. Abelquist, director
of Oak Ridge Institute for Sci-
ence and Educations Radio-
logical Safety, Assessments,
and Training Program, is the
2003 recipient of the Elda E.
Anderson Award from the
Health Physics Society for his
knowledge and devotion to
health physics. The award is
presented each year to an out-
standing young member of the
Society for excellence in
research or development, dis-
covery, invention, or other
significant contributions to
the profession of health
physics. Eric and his wife,
Sandy, live in Oak Ridge with
their children Alyssa, Eliza-
beth and Gunnar.
1990
Kathylyn (Tibbetts) Barnhill
started Kids in Motion Thera-
py Services and is also regis-
ClassNotes
tered in Hippotherapy, where
a horse is used as a therapeutic
tool to achieve P.T. goals and
improve functional mobility.
She has been married for 14
years to Bruce Barnhill and
has two boys, Austin, 9, and
Daniel, 6.
After graduation, Natasha
(Parekh) Ramsingh attended
St. Thomas University School
of Law, where she received a
J.D. in 1999. Natasha passed
the bar in Florida and became
licensed to practice in that
state. In 2000, she graduated
from the University of Miami
School of Law with an LL.M.
in Real Property Develop-
ment, and opened Integrated
Property & Title Services,
Inc., a full-service title compa-
ny. Natasha was married in
May 2003 to Ronald Rams-
ingh, a Miami Dade County
assistant state attorney.
1991
Brenda (Coughlin) Monahan
and husband Jason announce
the birth of their second child,
Brigid Grace, born on Feb. 13,
2003. Brigid joins her big
brother, Zachary.
1992
Steve Damon, an active
author and clinician in the
field of music education, has
been included in Marquis
Whos Who in America 2003.
Steve teaches music at North-
field Mount Hermon School.
Susan (Sullivan) Grinblatas
and husband David welcomed
their third daughter, Elena
Nicole, on July 2, 2003. She
joins her big sisters Hannah
and Leah. Sue left her posi-
tion as a trial attorney with
Goodwin Procter LLP in
Boston two years ago to be a
full-time mother. David is vice
president /director of opera-
tions for loss control at the
UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE
Hartford Co. in Hartford,
Conn. They live in
Southborough.
Jeffrey Wilkins recently
started a manufacturers repre-
sentative firm promoting
heaters, sensors and instru-
mentation to the plastics and
convection industries. The
company represents manufac-
turers from all across North
America.
1993
Jana (Marino) DiNatale and
husband Dave welcomed the
arrival of their daughter,
Amanda Pennell DiNatale,
on Aug. 19, 2003. Jana is
assistant district attorney at
the Eastern District Attorneys
Office in Salem.
Darrell H. Thompson
married Jennifer Chadwick,
a wastewater engineer from
Santa Maria, Calif., on Aug.
23, 2003 in Pismo Beach,
Calif.
1994
Roberta (Grimes) Peladeau,
married in 1996, has three
children, ages 8, 7 and 6, and
one on the way. Roberta is a
school nurse at her childrens
elementary school in New
Ipswich, N.H.
1995
Dr. Love P. Maya is a full-
time English professor at
North Shore Community
College in Lynn. From 1991
to 1994 she was an English
instructor at Roxbury Com-
munity College. She pub-
lished her first book, Off the
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ClassNotes
Village Mat, in 1999 and is
now working on two books of
short stories.
1997
Joshua Stockwell recently
passed the Patent Bar exam
during his third year at Ralph
R. Papitto School of Law at
Roger Williams University.
Joshua is a submissions editor
for the Law Review and a
member of the Law Student
Division of the American Bar
Association, the Student
Association, and President of
the Armed Forces Law Stu-
dent Association.
1998
Chojaa J. Ghosn, Ed.D. has
been appointed administrative
director of Marketing & Plan-
ning, which includes physi-
cian relations, marketing,
planning and research for the
seven-campus Florida Hospital
system. He lives in the greater
Orlando area with his wife,
Fiona, and their son, Josef.
Sarah E. White received her
M.B.A. from Suffolk Universi-
ty in 2003. Sarahs husband,
Michael Fligg 97, graduated
from New Hampshire Techni-
cal Institute in 2003 with a
paramedic degree.
1999
Jennie A. Black is engaged
to be married to Richard Fitz-
patrick 96 on May 30. They
recently moved into their new
home in Londonderry, N.H.
2000
Karen Goncalves has
become engaged to Patrick
Dolan. The couple will be
married on Aug. 22 in Mar-
blehead.
44 U M A S S L O W E L L M A G A Z I N E
Diana A. Melnyk graduated
from Michigan State Law
School in May. She took the
Massachusetts bar exam in
July and is now pursuing her
LL.M. in taxation at Boston
University.
2001
Rena M. DiLando is a third-
year student at Northeastern
University School of Law. She
interned with a Massachusetts
district judge and in the Major
Crimes Division of the U.S.
Attorneys Office in Boston.
She is now interning at a New
Hampshire law firm. Rena
recently purchased a home
with her fianc, Peter, in
Rochester, N. H. She plans to
graduate with a J.D. in May.
Phyllis Gimbel Schnitmans
(Ed. D.) book, Solutions for
Promoting Principal-Teacher
Trust, was published in
September 2003 by Scarecrow
Education. Phyllis serves as
coordinator of Project Open, a
university-public school col-
laboration with Boston Col-
lege, Boston University,
Brandeis University, Lesley
University and the Water-
town public schools.
Vesela R. Veleva has been
appointed a social research
analyst at the Citizens Advis-
ers, Inc., one of the nations
oldest and largest socially
responsible investment man-
agement firms. Vesela has
more than 12 years experience
in the environmental and sus-
tainability field, particularly in
sustainability indicators, cor-
porate governance, pollution,
and environmental and work-
er health and safety. She joins
Citizens from Greiner Envi-
ronmental, Inc., where she
researched environmental
health and safety impacts of
the coated wire and cable
industry in relation to the new
EU and other regulations on
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materials restrictions. She also
researched environmental and
social benefits of organic agri-
culture and developed a pro-
ject for cleaner technology
transfer in the spray-painting
sector from the U.S. to
Bulgaria.
2002
Thomas M. Sullivan joined
the newly established intellec-
tual property law firm Lowrie
Lando & Anastasi, LLP as a
partner. Tom joins LL&A
from Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris
Glovsky and
Popeo P.C. of
Boston, where
he was a mem-
ber (partner)
and one of the
founders of its
Intellectual
Property Section. Prior to
entering the field of law, Tom
had a successful 10-year career
as a senior electrical design
engineer at Raytheon Corpo-
ration.
Daniel J. McOsker was
mobilized with the U.S. Naval
Reserve in support of Opera-
tion Iraqi Freedom. Daniel is
an admissions representative
at the Spaulding Rehabilita-
tion Hospital in Boston.
Heather (McWatt)
Pellegrino, CPHT and
Michael A. Pellegrino were
married in April of 2003.
They honeymooned in Aruba
and live in Lowell. Michael is
a financial management asso-
ciate with Ernst & Young, and
Heather is a lead technician
at CVS Pharmacy.
2003
Danielle Sandra Carey is a
graduate student at Rivier
College working on an M.Ed.
Danielle is an
on-call substi-
tute teacher
and social-sci-
ence research
interviewer and
is currently liv-
ing in Dracut.
She would like
to thank all of
her professors in the Criminal
Patricia Sullivan Talty
Justice Department who made
a difference in my life.
Rob Velella and Rosalind
Wyman were engaged on June
ing with Scrap Arts Music on Tuesday,
28 at the Brewery during the
UML orientation leaders
banquet.
STOMP, is an all-percussion ensemble
Faculty
Assoc. Prof. Martin Moser
of the Universitys Manage-
ment Group conducted a
workshop in September as
part of the Women in Busi-
ness seminar series sponsored
by Enterprise Bank. In the
interactive workshop, titled
Everything you need to know
about preparing a presenta-
tion, Moser described how to
organize and articulate ideas.
His articles and case studies
Edith T. (Miles) Handy
have appeared in The Journal
of Business Ethics, Managerial
Planning, Supervisory Manage-
ment, the Boston Business
Journal and more than 40
1924
management textbooks.
Paula Robbins, former assis-
tant dean of the Graduate
School, has published her
fourth book, The Royal Family
of Concord: Samuel, Elizabeth,
and Rockwood Hoar and their
Friendship with Ralph Waldo
Emerson. It chronicles the
lives of three of the members
of the most important family
in 19th century Concord.
They were neighbors and
ClassNotes
close friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and other members of the transcendental
Asian Persuasion: Liou Helps Terminator
circle. Paula is in her fifth year, as a Capture Governorship
freelance medical editor. Sean Liou and Arnold Schwarzenegger are a lot alike. Sure, one is a brawny,
Dr. Francis T. Talty 77, adjunct profes- Hollywood mega-star, while the other is a humble, computer software whiz.
But appearances aside, these two have much in common.
sor in the Political Science Department,
presented a paper and served on a panel To start with, both are paradigms of immigrant success. Almost everyone
at the annual meeting of the Law and knows the Schwarzenegger story: Austrian bodybuilder storms America, wins
Society Association last June in Pitts- seven Mr. Olympia titles, marries a Kennedy, becomes the most bankable
burgh. Taltys paper was action star on the planet.
Public Perceptions of But Lious tale is equally remarkable: Taiwanese student scrapes together
Sean Liou
Massachusetts Courts: An money to study math and computers at UMass Lowell; launches two high-tech
Examination of Support firms in Silicon Valley; earns nomination to President Bushs Advisory Commission on Asian Americans
and its Effect on Use of and Pacific Islanders (has even lunched with the President at the White House half a dozen times); and
Courts. Frank and wife when the tech bubble bursts, reinvents himself as a travel magnate, starting Always Best Tours and
Travel.
78 reside in Lowell.
And there are even more parallels. Both are West Coast Conservatives, both were key figures in
the recent California recall vote and both are beloved by the Asian American community.
Simon Thomsen 02 will be appear-
Thats right, Asians love Arnold.
And much of that adoration can be credited to Sean Liou.
April 6, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Durgin
Hall. Scrap Arts, in the tradition of Liou was the state chairman of Asians for Arnold, a grassroots campaign he launched to rally
support for the Terminator turned Governator.
that presents a highly entertaining,
It wasnt hard getting the Asian community to back Arnold. His vision matches our ideals,
visually rich performance on fantastic,
explains Liou. We identify with him, having traveled the same hard road to become U.S. citizens.
mobile instruments skillfully fashioned
With Lious help, Schwarzenegger captured 47 percent of the Asian vote.
from salvaged and recycled junk. It is
based in Vancouver, British Columbia When Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger was preparing to take office, he appointed Liou to his transition
and has toured extensively in the U.S. team.
& Canada. Simon hopes many alumni
Arnold chose me because Im a successful Asian-American businessman, who will recruit other
will be there to support him. Please call
talented Asian-Americans, Liou says.
the Center for the Arts box office at
And theres one final tie that binds these two, a commonality Liou calls the most poignant.
978-934-4444 for further details.
Arnold and I share something very special, says Liou. Were living the American dream.
In Memoriam
1921 Regina M. (Luongo) Karnilla 1951 1962 1973 1986
M.Elizabeth (Shannon) Navin Edward F. Kelley, Jr. Robert F. Yeutter Nancy A. Beaman Peter G. Parent
Rita M. Sullivan
1952 1963
Richard P. Kelly Roland J. Savoie, Jr.
1922 Mark L. Tocco
Raymond H. Bennett 1937 Alfred V. Gellene Mary E. (Harrington) Mitchell 1974
Mary J. (Chesworth) Huntley
1953
Barbara C. (Moore) Nannery Wilfred N. Dionne 1987
1923 Frank J. Cammarata
Mary I. (Garrity) Sullivan 1939 Robert F. Albani 1964 1975
Rita H. (Edwards) Miller Abner M. Beder Diana C. (Moshos) Panousis Thomas E. Duval 1988
James P. Boutiette Donna Marie Grenier
Rose H. (Harrington) Geary 1940 Mary J. (Manning) Boyle 1966 1976
Doris I. (Ikalainen) Bourque Dorothy J. Zing Parker J. Crossley Alan J. Bielevich 1989
1926 Ann W. (Jablonski) Lake James A. McConnell Kathryn S. Crawford
Monica E. Cuddy Mary A. Whitten 1954 1967
Fay Datz Rita P. Noonan Robert W. Kulp, Jr. 1977 1991
1941 Dean R. Jackson Shawn J. Murphy
1927 Matthew Gass 1957 1968 Donald P. Nowak
Catherine B. McGarry Elinor B. (Ahern) Smith Sylvia J. Ostman Antti Juhani Arjanen 1997
Alice L. (Whittemore) OHearn William Spielman William A. Bagshaw 1979 Brian R. Boule
1943 Leon E. Gariepy Michael J. McCabe
1929 Marion E. (Brenton) Brown 1958 Charles E. Murphy Faculty, Staff and Friends
Borden D. Billings Muriel S. (Burke) Cornwall Mary E. (Purtell) Hogan Paul P. Sbrogna 1980
June A. Bosworth Christos J. Bentas
1931 1944 1959 1969 Michael P. OLeary James L. Davies
Agnes L. (Single) Doyle George F. Richardson Irene B. (Walsh) Glennon Michael J. Ficarra, Jr. Mike Demoulas
1984 Alexander Dirko
1932 1945 1960 1970 Marc R. Beauregard Zolton Fried
Marie G. (Barry) Bresnahan Dolores E. (Allard) Buckley George F. Revelas Christine J. (Jacques) Gale Ronald G. Danisewicz Rhodes G. Lockwood
Jean A. (Doynes)
1936 1946 Schmottlach 1971 1985
Milton A. Fine Charles J. Eadie Cosmo J. Fedele, P.E. Stephen P. Gervais
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Call the bookstore $14.99 and under $3.95
for ordering Square 4 X 4 Alumni car decal. Fax: (978) 934-6914
$15.00 - $39.99 $4.95
information, or visit Available with ULowell logo or
$40.00 - $74.99 $5.95 For questions on merchandise,
www.artcarved.com Gear Short-Sleeve Basic Tee University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Hanes Heavy Weight Tees. Alumni Hats. over $75.00 $6.95 please call toll-free (877)
on the internet. Item #14 $1.49
100% cotton t-shirt Gray heavy weight tees available in Lowell UML-ALUM or (978) 934-2623
Available in limited quantities for Lowell University chairs $25.00
Sizes: S/M/L/XL/XXL Colors: Tech and ULowell imprint. $16.98. S-XXL You may also order merchandise
Charcoal, Maroon, Navy $14.98 Tech, Lowell State, ULowell, and UMass
Similar graphic is available on a gray MV sport Lowell. Adjustable straps. Available in directly on our alumni Web site:

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Item #7 tee for Lowell State at a clearance Cut along dotted line and
navy. Plastic Strap $14.98. http://www.umlowell.bkstore.com
price of $8.39. Item #8 Paid Advertisement return to above address.
Cloth Strap $19.98. Item #9
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