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Suffolk University News
Walter Johnson Named Massachusetts Professor of the Year
When Walter H. Johnson, Ph.D., Chairman
of the Physics Department at Suffolk
University, learned of his selection as the
2005 Massachusetts Professor of the Year, he
was more excited for his school than for himself.
“I’m surprised that I was chosen, but I’m not
surprised that Suffolk was chosen,” said
Johnson, who received his prestigious award
from The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE). “Suffolk has so many good teachers
that several people here could have won this
honor. I’m just pleased to receive this award
as a representative of the College of Arts and
Sciences and Suffolk University, which
prides itself in teaching.”
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching was founded in
1905 by Andrew Carnegie “to do all things
necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify
the profession of teaching.” The Foundation
was chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress,
and is the only advanced-study center for
teachers in the world and the third oldest
foundation in the nation.
ment for one of the most intelligent, dedicated and respected individuals to ever teach at
Suffolk.
“Walter Johnson is a brilliant and spectacular
professor,” stated Dean of the College of Arts
and Science Kenneth S. Greenberg. “He is a
model citizen, teacher and administrator
who is very caring and enthusiastic when it
comes to his students and our University.”
Johnson’s devotion to Suffolk can be traced
back almost 35 years. He is one of the
University’s most loyal members, completely
willing to do whatever it takes to make this
special institution a better place. From the
time he taught his first class in 1971 until
today, his passion to teach others is what
gives him his most satisfaction, his greatest
joy, his ultimate reward.
“What I’ve always enjoyed above everything
else is interacting with the students,” said
Johnson, in his easy-going manner. “I try to
teach each student on an individual basis as
much I can. I explain things using language
that is appropriate for that student at that
time. I encourage them to ask questions and
for a dialogue to begin. Once that happens,
I’ve got them.”
Born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
Johnson grew up in various places in the
southern part of the country. He graduated
from Camden High School in Camden,
Arkansas, in 1961 as the valedictorian of his
class. He still has fond memories of that
stage in his life, particularly of Mr. Condrey,
his high school mathematics and physics
teacher.
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Annual Dean’s Reception
CASE is the largest international association
of educational institutions, with more than
3,200 colleges, universities, and independent
elementary and secondary schools in nearly
50 countries, including the United States,
Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
In 1981, CASE established the Professors of
the Year program, and The Carnegie
Foundation became the co-sponsor a year
later.
This year, there were winners in 40 states,
Guam, and the District of Columbia.
Johnson, who lives in Carlisle, was selected
from among nearly 400 top professors in the
United States, an impressive accomplish-
Enjoying this year’s Dean’s Reception, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, are: Associate Professor of Government
Judy Dushku, Law Professor Catherine Judge (50 years), Professor, Counseling Center, Paul Korn (30 years) and
his wife, Susan Bumagin. (Look for a profile on Professor Judge in an upcoming issue of the SUN) See full story on
pages 8-12. Photo by John Gillooly)
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A Message to Readers
Centennial Celebration Finds Home on the Web
Suffolk has begun building a Centennial Web site to keep
members of the University’s extended family up to date on
next year’s Centennial Celebration, the ongoing planning
process and why the Centennial means so much to so many
people.
A highlight of the site will be a computer-generated timeline
of important dates for the University. George Comeau of
University Media Services, working with the University
Archive and Web Services, has collected 65 important photographs and close to 80 facts for this fascinating study of
Suffolk’s history. A historical photo album also will be added
over the next few months, according to University Archivist
Beth Bower.
For a look at the Centennial Web site, click on the Suffolk
Home page link, or go to: http://www.suffolk.edu/centennial.
While the Centennial Celebration officially begins next
September, 2006 is only weeks away, so watch for a special,
festive event that will help usher in this milestone year for
the University. •
Fond Memories
Joanne Ronayne, admires a bronze
bust of her late husband, Dean
Emeritus Michael R. Ronayne, Jr.,
which was unveiled Oct. 27 in the
lobby of the Donahue Building.
The bust was created by Audrey
Goldstein, associate professor and
program director of Fine Arts at the
New England School of Arts and
Design at Suffolk University. The
unveiling followed a memorial service celebrating Dean Ronayne’s life.
(Photo by John Gillooly) •
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Executive Editor
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Staff Writers
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From the Archivist
Suffolk’s History Captured in Thousands of Photographs
Think about 100 years of photographs. How
many would there be? What people, places,
activities and events would be captured in
black & white and color?
The University Archives’ staff, students and
volunteers are sifting through thousands of
photographs, glass-plate negatives and slides
that capture Suffolk’s history from 1906 to
the present. In the final phase of the project,
the photographs will be categorized,
described and added to a searchable database available to the Suffolk Community.
The first order of business is to protect them
from harm. Workers place each photographic print and negative in an acid-free sleeve
that shields it from dust and fingerprints.
Next they are grouped by categories: academic life, buildings and places, events, people and university life. Some photographs
have dates and information on who is in the
picture or the event shown. Some have an
attached press release or news story to help
us to date them and identify the people. But
the majority of the photographs have
little identifying information.
Would you recognize photographs of
each of our presidents? Deans?
Buildings, old and new?
Suffolk is lucky to have such a rich
photographic documentary record of
its history. We have photographs from
every decade, each school and college
and most buildings. We have candid
photographs of students, pictures of
many commencements, cheerleaders,
fraternities and sororities, faculty mug The University’s original mascot, Hiram the Ram. (Suffolk
shots, alumni events and theater pro- University Archives photo by Herbert Goodman)
ductions. The photographs tell the
story of Suffolk and its relationship
If you would like to volunteer to identify
with its neighborhood, the city of Boston photographs in the Suffolk Archives, please
and the larger world. There are prints of contact Associate University Archivist Julia
demonstrations, international programs, Collins at ext. 6293.
moot court competitions and politicians
from Calvin Coolidge to Shirley Chisholm Beth Bower
to Ralph Nader. There are a wealth of photo- University Archivist and
Moakley Institute Director
graphs of athletic teams and games.
ext. 6255, bbower@suffolk.edu
Bringing Back Memories
The SUN has run a series of photos from the Suffolk University
Archives over the past year and recently received feedback that will
help the archivists as they work with historical photos.
When Dick McDowell, dean of the School of Management from
1974 to 1991, received some past issues of the SUN, he got in touch
to share some information.
Of an Archives photo that ran in March 2005 he wrote: “The Right
of Way Institute was a state-government-sponsored program hosted
by the business school when I arrived in 1973. It ran for two or three
more years and served to train state employees about right-of-way
issues in the planning process. The instructors and participants had
no other contact with Suffolk in most cases, but received a certificate for successfully participating in the program. The University
served as a host and landlord for the Institute.”
McDowell said the program was offered through lifelong learning
circa 1974 or ’75. For a closer look at the photo, go to
http://www.suffolk.edu/SUN/aug05/centennial.html.
He described an Archives photo that ran in August 2005:
http://www.suffolk.edu/ SUN/aug05/centennial.html.
“This is an induction ceremony for Delta Mu Delta, the business
school honorary. I suspect that those standing are the student officers. Seated are Roger Shawcross, Associate Professor of Finance,
the speaker, and Dean Richard McDowell. The speaker looks like
Coleman Mockler, but I don’t remember him speaking.
“Roger was adviser to Delta Mu Delta, the Sawyer School’s first
honor society. He was very successful in getting the group started and
keeping it moving ahead. From humble beginnings, it had a ballroom full of students and their families at the Marriott in Cambridge
for a similar ceremony when I left in 1991.”
Professor Victoria Dodd of the Law School also got in touch to identify McDowell and Shawcross in the August 2005 photo.
A number of Suffolk folks were identified in the Deans’ Reception
photo that ran in the September issue:
David Sargent
Joel Corman
Tom McMahon
Glen Lewandowski
Bill Homer
Dick Bray
Ed Hartmann
Bob Webb
Ken Garni
Ken Greenberg
Jim Peterson
Mary Fraser
Chris Perry
Dick Preiss
Annette Fulham
Mal Barach
Judith Holleman
Paul Ryan
Ray Parks
Betty Williams
Mariann Mulcahy
Margaret Lloyd
Ed Bander
Bill Amidon
Harold Stone
For a closer look at the photo, go to http://www.suffolk.edu/
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Potpourri
Information Systems & Operations
Management (ISOM) employees Hasan
Arslan and Ken Hung presented their
research on new product development,
“Motivations towards Part Commonality,” at
the 36th annual meeting of the Decision
Science Institute in San Francisco in
November. They also presented, along with
Neil Hunt of ISOM, “Gone With the
Wind,” a business case study dealing with
the operational decisions a Home Depot
manager at a southwest Florida location
would face during a hurricane season (time
period 2004), at the North American Case
Research Association annual conference in
Falmouth on Oct. 27. … Sandra
Barriales-Bouche, Humanities and
Modern Languages, presented “La voz autobiográfica de Federica Montseny en el exilio
y en el post-exilio” (“The Autobiographical
Voice of Federica Montseny in Exile and
Post-Exile”) at the International Conference
Ernestina de Champourcin. Mujer y exilio
en el siglo XX (Ernestina de Champourcin.
Women and Exile in the 20th Century), held
in Vitoria (Basque Country, Spain) on Oct.
26-27. … John Berg, Government, has
received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant
to visit Jeju National University in Korea to
lecture on peace and human rights, March 316, 2006. He also spoke at the “The State of
the Parties: 2004 and Beyond” conference,
organized by the Ray Bliss Center for
Applied Politics at the University of Akron in
October. … The Counseling Center was
selected as a charter member of the Center
for the Study of College Mental Health at
Penn State University. The Center’s charge is
“…to provide the university and college
counseling field with the ability to accurately
and routinely describe the state of counseling
center affairs, on a national level, as measured by raw, standardized data pooled from
counseling centers nationwide.” …
Michael Duggan, Enrollment Research &
Planning, was appointed chair of the
Institutional Research Committee of the
American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers
(AACRAO). He conducted two half-day
workshops on using IPEDS data for the
Northeast Association for Institutional
Research (NEAIR) in New York and for the
New England Association of Collegiate
Weekly Peace Walk
Suffolk University faculty, staff and students walk through campus to commemorate the victims of the violence in
Iraq and Afghanistan and to promote peaceful resolution to conflicts in these two countries. Walks are held every
Wednesday that classes are in session, and all members of the Suffolk community are invited to participate. The
Peace Walk begins Wednesdays at noon in front of the Donahue Building. The Suffolk peace walk is coordinated
with those at several other Boston-area colleges and universities through the Inter-University Coalition for a Humane
Foreign Policy. (Photo by John Gillooly)
Registrars and Admissions Officers
(NEACRAO) in Newport, R.I. …
Congratulations and best wishes to Vicki
Ford of Biology, who married Charles L.
Croce III on Sept. 11 at the Billerica
Country Club. They honeymooned in
Daytona Beach and Orlando, Fla. A special
treat at their reception was a chocolate fountain, a wedding gift from Biology Chair Bea
Snow and prepared by Pam West, the
widow of Dr. Arthur West, biology professor
emeritus. … Jonathan Haughton,
Economics and the Beacon Hill Institute,
presented his research, “Tax and Benefit
Incidence in Peru,” at a workshop in Lima at
the headquarters of the Comjnidad Andina.
He was the research director of a project that
also included comparable studies of
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
He also taught two modules, one on the
measurement of poverty, the other on the
incidence of government spending, at a
workshop for employees of the African
Development Bank, held in Hammamet,
Tunisia. While in Tunisia, Haughton visited
the ruins of Carthage and Matmata, where
he saw sets that were used to portray the
desert planet Tatooine in some of the Star
Wars movies. … Peter Jeffreys, English,
was interviewed about Byzantine art for a
documentary special, “Toronto’s Houses of
Worship,” (WNED/PBS Buffalo, New
York). The program was shown on WNED
and Rogers Television, Canada in November.
… Charles Kindregan, Law School, was the
lead presenter at the annual meeting of the
Rhode Island Family Law Inn of Court discussions on relocation following divorce and
the impact of assisted reproduction on alternative families held in Westerly, R.I. on Nov.
1. … William Mee, Information Systems
and Operations Management, and the team
that he manages, the Massachusetts
Rehabilitation Consumer Information
System
(MRCIS),
received
the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Citation
for Outstanding Employee Performance. …
Quentin Miller, English, chaired the
panel, “Kerouac in Context,” at the 2005
Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature
held in Lowell. … Roberta Miller, Second
Language Services, was elected to the 20062007 edition of Who’s Who in American
Education and is included in Who’s Who of
American Women 2006-2007. … Suzyn
Ornstein, Management, was appointed a
senior research fellow with Suffolk’s Institute
for Executive Education and Life-Long
Learning. … Sebastián
Royo,
Government and director of the Madrid
campus, participated in the U.S.
Department of State Seminar on Portugal in
Washington D.C. on Oct. 2. He also presented “Varieties of Capitalism in Spain:
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32 Faculty Members Join University
The University welcomed 32 new members to its distinguished faculty for the 2005 – 2006 academic year. They are:
College of Arts and Sciences
Angela Buffone, Lab Instructor, Chemistry Department
Richard Chambers, Assistant Professor, Theatre Department
Evgenia Cherkasova, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
Rachael Cobb, Visiting Assistant Professor, Government
Department
Kenneth Cosgrove, Assistant Professor, Government Department
Lisa Coyne, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Rita Daly, Assistant Professor, New England School of Art and
Design (NESADSU)
Roberto Dominguez, Assistant Professor, Government Department
Erika Gebo, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department
Harold Gimenez, Lab Instructor, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Micky Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication and
Journalism
Christina Neilson, Lab Instructor, Humanities and Modern
Languages
Timothy Poynton, Assistant Professor, Education and Human
Services
Christopher Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, History Department
Serge Shikher, Assistant Professor, Economics Department
Michael Siegel, Assistant Professor, Education and Human Services
Yuliya Strizhakova, Assistant Professor, Communication and
Journalism
Sean Solley, Visiting Assistant Professor, New England School of
Art and Design (NESADSU)
Christine Westphal, Assistant Professor, Education and Human
Services
Denyce Wicht, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
Law School
Leo Romero, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
Patrick Shin, Assistant Professor of Law
School of Management
Diana M. Bawn, Assistant Director and Instructor, Accounting
Anders Bengtsson, Assistant Professor, Marketing
Dania A. Dialdin, Assistant Professor, Management
Jack J. Holder Jr., Visiting Associate Professor, Management
J. Denise John, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing
Michael Kraten, Assistant Professor, Accounting
Benjamin Ngugi, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and
Operations Management
Mary-Joan Pelletier, Assistant Director and Instructor, Accounting
Karen Simonyan, Assistant Professor, Finance
Alex C. Yen, Assistant Professor, Accounting
New Employees
A warm welcome to our newest employees!
Kurt Matthew Albrand, Sawyer Library
Diana M. Bawn, Accounting
Ranjan Budhathoki, University Police
Souheir B. Carty, USA-Senegal SSOM
Joshua Cheney, Residence Life - Somerset
Angely Leonardo Deliza, University Police
Michael P. Dickinson, Ballotti Learning Center
Norman Eng, CAS Dean’s Office
Avith Ernest, University Police
Matthew K. Eynon, Advancement
Sarah Ann Frank, USA-Senegal SSOM
Jacqueline M. Govoni, Economics
Khagendra Gurung, University Police
James M. Hawco, University Police
Michael L. Kraten, Accounting
Jessica Beth Lillie, Psychology
Victoria R. Lothrop, Health Services
Kevin J. Lundy, University Police
Laura M. Marchant, Career Services/Coop Education
Charlotte O. McAleer, Second Language Services
Steven C. McIntosh, Theatre Arts
Christina T. Mullin, Advancement
Kathleen E. Peets, UMS
Mary Joan Pelletier, Accounting
Jill E. Pierce, Undergraduate Admission
Mary Ellen Potter, Dean Of Students Office
Merideth J. Power, Government
Timothy A. Poynton, Education & Human Services
Aileen L. Reeder, Law Dean’s Office
Christine M. Rhoder, Law Dean’s Office
Alana T. Ryan, Advanced Legal Studies
Isaac J. Stahl, Center for International Education
Tova Lanita Upshaw, Financial Aid-Colleges
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Faculty Publications
Edward Bander, librarian
emeritus, Law School, had an
article, “What Every Lawyer
Should Know About Charles
Dickens and the Law, “ in the
October 24 issue of Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly (p.63).
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos de la Fuente Marcos,
Madrid campus, have published a paper, “A nearby cool white dwarf
candidate in Gemini,” in New Astronomy, Vol. 11, No. 1, October
2005, pp. 59-67.
Lydia Martin, NESADSU, had
two paintings, Umbrella Pine and
Umbrella Pines, in the “American
Artists Abroad” national juried
exhibition at Bennington Center
for the Arts in Vermont.
Sandra Barriales-Bouche,
Humanities
and
Modern
Languages, edited España: ¿laberinto de exilios? (Spain: Labyrinth
of Exiles?), a collection of essays
on Spanish exiles throughout the
centuries. (Juan de la CuestaHispanic Monographsy, 2005).
Michael
Basseches,
Psychology, has published “The The cover of Sandra Barriales-Bouche’s
Development of Dialectical recent book.
Thinking As An Approach to
Integration” in Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural
Journal For New Thought, Research and Praxis. (Issue 1, 2005).
Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Law School, has published two
articles, “A New Ethical Risk,” in the Massachusetts Bar Association
Section Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2005) and “Ethical Risks From the Use
of Technology,” in 31 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal l
(2004).
Anders Bengtsson, Marketing, has published “When Hershey
met Betty: Love, Lust and Co-branding,” (with Søren Askegaard) in
the Journal of Product and Brand Management, 14 (5), 322-329,
2005; “Co-branding on industrial markets,” (with Per Servais) in
Industrial Marketing Management, 34, 706-713, 2005; and a paper
and DVD movie, “Prisoners in Paradise: Subcultural Resistance to
the Marketization of Tattooing,” (with Jacob Östberg and Dannie
Kjeldgaard), Consumption, Markets and Culture, 8(3), 261-274,
2005.
Roberto Dominguez, Government, has published a working
paper, “The Impact of Enlargement on the External Relations of the
European Union,” for Miami European Union Center, University of
Miami, Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series, vol 5, no. 32,
October 2005.
Quentin Miller, English, edited a
collection of essays, Prose and Cons:
Essays on Prison Literature in the
United States (McFarland, 2005).
He wrote the introduction and the
first essay in the collection, “´On
the Outside Looking In`: White
Readers of Non-White Prison
Narratives.” Miller also published
three entries in the Encyclopedia of
African-American
Literature Lydia Martin’s Umbrella Pines.
(Greenwood,
2005):
James
Baldwin (Vol. 1, 69-74; Ralph
Ellison (Vol.2, 492-497); and Toni
Morrison (Vol. 3, 1121-1127).
Michael Rustad, Law School, published
an article, “The Closing of Punitive
Damages’ Iron Cage,“ in 38 Loyola of Los
Angeles Law Review 1297 (2005).
Lisa Shatz, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, had an article, “Slender Body
Method for Slender Prolate Spheroids and
Hemispheroids on Planes in Linearized
Oscillatory Flow,” published in Physics of
Fluids A, Vol. 17 (11), November 2005.
Khuong Vu, Finance, co-authored an article, “?Information Technology and the World Economy?” with Dale
W. Jorgenson of Harvard University’s Economics Department. It
appeared in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 107 (4),
2005. •
Martin’s Work on Display
“Colors on Sand … Images of Senegal,” an exhibit of photographs and paintings by Kenneth Martin of Communication
and Journalism and NESADSU and his wife, watercolorist
Verjik Abramian-Martin, was shown at the Worcester African
Cultural Center. Photos were shot and impressions made in
Senegal, where Martin has taught several photojournalism
classes at Suffolk’s Dakar Campus. To view some of the work
visit: http://www.amstockphoto.com/ senegal.htm. (Photos
and watercolor paintings by Kenneth Martin and Verjik
Abramian-Martin)
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The cover of Quentin
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Suffolk In The News
The University’s Faculty and Administrators are quoted regularly in
local and national media. The following offers a sampling of recent
media mentions. To read complete articles, go to www.suffolk.edu
and click on In the News.
MetroWest Daily News ,
November 8, 2005
Courtroom drama on the Web George Comeau, Media Services,
comments on Webcasting for the SJC
Boston Globe ,
November 6, 2005
A recent Suffolk University poll gives Menino a 30-point lead heading into Election Day
Also appeared in:
MetroWest Daily News , November 5, 2005
Boston Herald , November 5, 2005
Cape Cod Times , November 6, 2005
Gloria Boone, Professor of Communication and Journalism, weighs
in on the growing popularity of Internet blogs
Boston Herald , November 5, 2005
Lisa Thurau-Gray, Director of the Juvenile Justice Center, comments on gun licensing
Cape Cod Times , November 1, 2005
Bob Rosenthal, Communication & Journalism, comments on
event-based promotions
Cape Cod Times , November 1, 2005
Victoria Dodd, Law School, weighs in on legislation from the bench
Boston.Com , October 26, 2005
Boston Herald ,
October 4, 2005
Michael Avery, Law School, comments on the Supreme Court
Justice nominee
St. Petersburg Times ,
October 4, 2005
Erika Gebo, Sociology, comments on sibling homicides
Asbur y Park Press , NJ, October 3, 2005
David Yamada, Law School, talks about workplace bullying
Also appeared in the following publications:
News-Leader.com, MO, October 3, 2005
DesMoinesRegister.com, September 26, 2005
Boston Globe , September 25, 2005
Richard Torrisi, dean of graduate programs at Suffolk Business
School, comments on tuition assistance programs
Water ford News & Star , September 23, 2005
William J. O’Neill, dean of the Sawyer School of Management, is
quoted at Higher Education Conference held at Kilkenny Castle,
Ireland
Georgetown Record , September 22, 2005
A new partnership between Georgetown public schools and Suffolk
University’s Sawyer School of Management will give Georgetown
High School students unique opportunity
Water ford News & Star , September 16, 2005
William J. O’Neill, dean of the Sawyer School of Management,
speaks at Kilkenny conference
The Patriot Ledger , September 14, 2005
Renee Landers, Law School, weighs in on criticism of Harriet Miers
Suffolk University student Jill O’Bryan urges legislators to pass
Melanie’s Bill
CapeTimes
Boston.com , September 8, 2005
(South Africa), October 21, 2005
C. Gopinath, Marketing, discusses his research on ethical behavior
Boston Globe , October 20, 2005
Suffolk student Alex Pollack to receive the Grace Le Vine Theater
Award and a $10,000 theater scholarship from the Princess Grace
Foundation USA
Also appeared in:
PR Newswire, September 28, 2005
Boston Globe , October 16, 2005
Michael Avery, Law School, is quoted in Boston Globe article on
gay marriage
ABCnews.com , September 4, 2005
Angela Buffone, a visiting professor of organic chemistry, meets
weekly with Pino Maffeo of Maffeo’s culinary experiment
Rolling Stones.com , August 22, 2005
Jon Marko, Communication and Journalism and English, gives
Rolling Stones a Rockin’ Review
Susan Sered, a researcher at the Center for Women’s Health and
Human Rights, comments on health care
Also appeared in the following publications:
Insurance News Net, October 20, 2005
Kaiser Network, October 19, 2005
Washington Post , August 20, 2005
The Dallas Morning News , October 9, 2005
Marc Greenbaum, Law School, is quoted in “Boston Works”
David Yamada, Law School, weighs in on ethnic and racial diversity
DailyPress.Com , October 5, 2005
Marc Greenbaum, Law School, comments on employment law
Joseph Franco, Law School, comments on Redskins owner Daniel
Snyder’s bid to gain control of Six Flags, Inc.
Boston Globe , August 14, 2005
The Californ i a n , August 10, 2005
Vice President Marguerite J. Dennis, is quoted on Suffolk
University’s agreeing to admit those who have a 2.5 GPA from
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Unsung Heroes Behind 73 Tremont Street Move
The revolving door entering Suffolk’s
newest home, 73 Tremont Street, is getting
plenty of use as employees from various
departments continue to move into the
stately 13-story building. And other
departments across campus have moved —
sometimes multiple times — to fill offices
left empty by 73 Tremont’s new tenants.
“There are many people who have stepped
up and performed exceptionally well to
make this all happen,” said Assistant
Director of Facilities Planning Paul
Delaney.
These “unsung heroes” have gone above
and beyond the call of duty to ensure that
their Suffolk colleagues make their transitions without missing a beat.
As they arrive at new offices across campus,
employees have had immediate access to
phones and fax machines, thanks to the
timely and efficient transition provided by
Voice Communications Manager Jane
Scherban and her staff. “It’s all about decision-making and having enough lead
time,” said Scherban. “People have been
very cooperative, and the more times we
do this, the better we get.”
Scherban said much of her work centered
on transferring employees from the old
Centrex phone system to the new NEC
system, which offers more communications features. “Only people from the
Business School had NEC before, so we
had to change systems for everyone else,”
said Scherban, who praises Voice
Communications Coordinator Andrea
Bishop — “the computer whiz” — for
ensuring that every phone was connected
to the right person’s office.
Network Services also worked hard to give
employees full access to their computers
and printers as soon as they arrived in their
new offices. Fuad Yatim, director of
Network Services and Desktop Support
Group, and his staff began working on this
project three months before the first
Suffolk employees began moving into 73
Tremont Street in September 2004.
Yatim, along with network specialists Bill
Mahoney, Reynold McGuire and Anupam
Singh, designed, configured and installed
the network, while the dynamic duo of
Dan Gomes and Andy Wark installed the
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work. “We needed the coordination and
input from everyone to make this a good
experience,” said Yatim. “Communication
and coordination was key; that’s why this
move has been so successful.”
Mail also has been delivered uninterrupted, due to Suffolk’s Mail Services Manager
Anthony Voto and his staff of six other
employees and about 60 work-study students. “Over the past four or five years,
we’ve become more technically advanced,”
said Voto. “That’s why this has been a pretty smooth transition. From day one, we’ve
been able to offer our same services and
follow our regular schedule.”
Some moves have been in stages. The
Office of Undergraduate Admission and
the Office of Enrollment & Retention
Management moved from 20 Beacon
Street to the third floor of 73 Tremont in
September 2004. They packed up and
moved again, to the fifth and seventh
floors, a year later. Come spring, the two
offices will move again, to the sixth floor.
Associate Director of Admission Jim
Schulze, after learning about the third
move, offered his colleagues some worthwhile advice. “I told them don’t worry if
the pictures on their office walls are
straight or not because they’ll be taking
them down soon,” laughed Schulze.
Then he added: “Making these moves is a
small sacrifice we have to make for a better
reward. We’re all part of a plan to make this
University bigger and better.” •
Gallery Roundup
Boston Herald’s Lens on the World
Fireworks explode over Old Ironsides in this
image from an exhibit of Boston Herald
photographs at the Adams Gallery. The
exhibit includes outstanding images of
Boston and the region, captured in recent
years, along with a collection of the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photos. The
exhibit runs through February. (Photo courtesy of Boston Herald) •
Sawyer Library to Remain
Open Through Transition to
New Home
The new Sawyer Library is on target to
open at 73 Tremont St. on May 15,
2006, with a seamless transition from the
old space to the new.
“The library will maintain its standard
hours and services during the transition
from 8 Ashburton to 73 Tremont,” said
Bob Dugan, director of the Sawyer
Library.
Watch for a detailed report on the new
library in a future issue of the SUN.
Global Harmony
The Music Students’ Chamber Choir from
Aalborg University in Denmark delivered a
rousing performance at the C. Walsh
Theatre. The concert was arranged by Jay J.
Rosellini, chair of Humanities and Modern
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New Hoop Coach Has Local Ties
Adam Nelson feels on top
of the world, like he just
hit a three-pointer at the
buzzer to win the big
game.
Suffolk’s new Assistant Athletic Director Adam
Nelson.
“I’m thrilled to get this
opportunity and I can’t
wait to get started,”
exclaimed Nelson, 31, the
new assistant athletic
director and head men’s
basketball coach at Suffolk
University. “I’m a local
Boston guy and this is
where I want to be.”
Nelson, who succeeds Dennis McHugh, who coached the Rams for
10 seasons, comes to Suffolk as a full time mentor with five years’
experience as a head men’s basketball coach, at Newbury College and
Becker colleges. He also was an assistant coach at Northeastern
University, the College of the Holy Cross and Curry College.
“Adam’s previous stops throughout the coaching profession have prepared him well for the challenges ahead,” said Suffolk’s Director of
Athletics Jim Nelson, (no relation). “His credentials as an energetic,
highly motivated professional augers well for those student athletes
who will come under his tutelage in the years to come.”
While he may be new to the Regan Gymnasium, Adam Nelson certainly is no stranger to the Suffolk campus. His mother, Susan, a
Suffolk University and Suffolk University Law School graduate, took
him and his younger brother, Ryan, to some evening classes. “She
was a single mom at the time and she had no one to watch us, so she
brought us with her,” recalled Nelson. “I’ll never forget those times,
especially French class with Professor (Arthur) Chaisson. He was
very good to us.”
With this month signaling the start of the 2005–06 college basketball season, Nelson has been busy getting to know Suffolk’s returning
players and new recruits. He feels confident that the Rams have the
nucleus to produce a successful campaign in his first year at the helm.
“Our goal is to win the Great Northeast Athletic Conference and get
that automatic bid to the NCAA tournament,” he said.
Win or lose, Nelson expects his team to play hard, work together and
never quit from the opening tip to the final buzzer of every game.
“We’re looking for good kids who represent themselves and the
school well,” said the personable hoop coach, who lives in Quincy
with his wife, Deb, and their three children, AJ, 4; Jack, 2; and
Mollie, two months. “At this level, it’s important to win games, but
it’s more important to make it a positive experience for our studentathletes, create a solid image and do things the right way.” •
Tech Talk: Wanna go Phishing?
To keep our readers informed about current technology issues, the SUN
will feature a regular Tech Talk column from Bill Mahoney, director of
security and IT architecture for Management Information Services.
A number of e-mail users here at Suffolk have reported that e-mails
from what are perceived as legitimate sources have been filling up
their inboxes. E-mails asking for personal information are not safe
to reply to, follow links from or forward to other users. In most
cases a simple phone call to the company represented in the e-mail
can thwart these bad efforts. But, on the other hand, we are all busy
and sometimes can scan an e-mail quickly while attending to other
tasks and miss the fact that it could be dangerous. The best defense
is information. So, what is Phishing, you ask?
eBay, PayPal, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy and America Online, in an
effort to phish out personal and financial information from the hapless user. Phishers use any number of different social engineering
and e-mail spoofing ploys to trick their victims.
Recently, a number of e-mail users here at Suffolk have received
emails from UCU and CUNA. (University Credit Union) and
(Credit Union National Association). It’s important to know that no
financial institution will ever send you an e-mail asking you to enter
such information.
Phishing is a term used to describe the action of assuming the identity of a legitimate organization or Web site, using e-mail or Web
pages, with a view to convincing consumers to share their user
names, passwords and personal financial information for the purpose of using it to commit fraud.
There a number of links both inside the university and outside to
help our users:
http://www.suffolk.edu/nsg — features a list of updated virus threats
andother helpful information.
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identitytheft/gonephishing.htm
http://www.scu.edu/sts/communityofscholars/TingPaper.cfm
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internet/phishing/protect.shtml
On the Internet, phishing, also called carding or brand spoofing, is a
scam where the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails
appearing to comefrom some of the Web’s biggest sites, including
Bill Mahoney
Director of security and IT architecture
for Management Information Services
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Walter Johnson
Continued from page 1
“I didn’t even know his first name; I always called him Mr. Condrey,”
said Johnson with a chuckle. “He was the best teacher I ever had, and
he was a huge influence on me.”
Ignited by his mentor’s wisdom and encouragement, Johnson followed a higher education path that began at Rice University in
Houston, Texas (B.A. in Physics in 1965) and ended at Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (MS in Physics in 1967 and
Ph.D. in Physics in 1972).
Since arriving at Suffolk, Johnson has
seen the University blossom from a
three-building campus into a global
institution. In more than three
decades, he has also witnessed firsthand a dramatic change in the diversity of the student body. “Years ago,
you’d be surprised to hear students
talking Russian in the elevator,” he
points out. “It’s not like that now. We
have students, as well as faculty, from
all around the world.”
Johnson has developed a reputation as
an innovative soul, always willing to
try new technology — for more
advanced ways to teach his students.
For example, in order to provide
greater detail in his introductory calculus-based physics class, where a student’s background in physics ranges
from zero to one or two years in high
school, Johnson breaks each topic
Walter Johnson
into small parts through streamingvideo mini-lectures and places them
on the web. Each mini-lecture is only 10-15 minutes long. This is in
addition to the usual in-class lectures.
Explains Johnson, “The students can see and hear me talking in the
upper left corner of the screen, while the remainder of the screen is a
white board where they see the equations being written just as if they
were in class.”
At the Suffolk University-owned marine biological research center on
Cobscook Bay in Maine, approximately 350 miles from its Boston
campus, Johnson formed an interdisciplinary team of students to
build a 14-foot diameter geodesic dome with a heat exchanger inside
to produce hot water for the kitchen. “This year we are using radio
frequency ‘motes’ (tiny smart sensors) to measure the temperature
inside the dome and inside the solar tank to control the pump which
circulates the water,” he says.
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To properly teach math and science to students at Suffolk’s Dakar,
Senegal, campus, via distance education, Johnson, as chairman of the
CAS Educational Technology Committee, arranged for Suffolk to
purchase and send to Dakar electronic writing tablets. This unique
teaching method allows a student to write equations and diagrams
using an electronic pen, save their image files and then post them
into the “Digital Drop Box” of BlackBoard (web-based course software).
“I too have an electronic tablet, so when I
see the homework in my digital mailbox, I
grade it and write corrections with equations on their original papers, just as I
would for my on-campus classes,” said
Johnson. “Then I post it to their mailbox
and they can see immediately how they
did.”
Beatrice Snow, Chair of the Biology
Department at Suffolk, has always been
impressed with Johnson’s teaching style.
“He adapts every piece of technology and
applies it to his classroom,” said Snow,
who is in her 41st year at the University.
“He makes learning exciting and the students love him. He is the consummate
teacher.”
On November 17, Johnson was honored
as Massachusetts Professor of the Year at
an awards luncheon at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel in Washington, D.C., followed by
an evening Congressional Reception at the
Library of Congress, a celebratory occasion he attended with his wife of 28 years,
Lea, Director of the Bouve Institute for Healthcare Leadership and
´
Professional Development at Northeastern University. The Johnson’s,
who have two children (Erin, 23, a grad student at Villanova
University, and Adam, 16, a sophomore at Concord-Carlisle High
School), enjoy family barbeques, golf and attending holiday concerts
when away from the academic environment.
Coming to work early, leaving late, showing up on Sundays to work
on research projects with his students, Walter Johnson considers
himself a lucky man. There is nothing he has ever wanted to do other
than teach, impacting the lives of others in his own precise and
charismatic style.
“I can’t imagine doing anything else,” smiled Professor Walter
Johnson. “It always seemed embarrassing to get paid for something I
would do for nothing.” •
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Potpourri
Continued from page 4
Business and the Politics of Coordination,” and Operations Management; SSOM
at the 101st annual meeting of the Associate Dean Richard Torrisi; and
American Political Science Association Chris Perry, Financial Aid, was a rousing
held in Washington D.C. in September. … success, with 26 new faculty members in
Michael Rustad, Law School, spoke at a attendance. … Second Language Services
Conflicts of Law seminar at American reminds faculty for whom English is a secUniversity Law School on Sept. 15 and a ond language that tutoring is available in a
faculty workshop at Penn State/Dickinson private setting to help with English comLaw School on Sept. 16. He also made pre- munication, including pronunciation, synsentations at Santa Clara Law School and tax, vocabulary, idiomatic usage, writing
Michigan State Law School during the fall and understanding of spoken English. For
semester. … Ann McGonigle Santos, more information, contact Janet Oliver at
Law School, was named chair of the joliver@suffolk.edu, Bonnie Besdin at
Steering Committee for the New England bbesdin@ Suffolk.edu or call Ext. 8677. ...
Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers. … On Sept. 7, more than 200 Chinese,
Congratulations and best wishAmerican
and
es to Douglas R. Seidler,
international deleNESADSU, who married
gates
met
in
Patricia Cerqueira on July 16 in
Chongqing
to
St. Pete Beach, Fla. They spent
commemorate the
a month in Brazil, Patricia’s
60th anniversary of
native
country,
visiting
the end of World
Salvador, Morro de Sao Paulo
War II in China.
and Rio de Janeiro. …
During the opening ceremony, the
Kathleen Elliott Vinson,
mayor
of
Law School, has been invited to
present a program, “Taking Doug Seidler and his new wife Patricia. C h o n g q i n g
Municipal People’s
Our Expertise into the
Government and
Trenches: Consulting on
Writing in Law Practice, “at the 2006 the Consul General both acknowledged
Biennial National Legal Writing Institute Suffolk University’s accomplishments over
Conference to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in the years to the Stilwell Museum and the
June. … Camille Weiss, Humanities Stilwell School of International Studies,
and Modern Languages, presented a paper, named in honor of General Joseph Stilwell,
“Freedom of Folly: Court Jesters and their the commander in charge of American and
Writings at the Court of Henri IV,” at the Chinese military forces during WWII. …
Sixteenth Century Conference in Atlanta,
Ga., on Oct. 23. … The Third Annual I N M E M O R I A M
New Faculty Lunch, organized by James G. Woods, retired director of
Warren Briggs, Information Systems Career Services •
$20,000 in Grants for Juvenile Justice Center
The Juvenile Justice Center received two grants totaling $20,000 from the John A. Alden
Trust and the John H. and H. Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation to fund its Measuring Up
Advocacy Project, an initiative that provides free legal representation and workshops on
school expulsion and delinquency matters for at-risk youth and their parents who are living in Boston’s Bromley Heath Housing Development. •
Residence Hall Named
for Nathan Miller
Nathan R. Miller stands before the residence hall at 10 Somerset St., recently
named in his honor. Miller, who has built
a reputation as one of Boston’s most successful commercial property investors and
managers, has donated $2 million to
Suffolk University, the largest outright gift
in the University’s history. His gift is
endowing the City of Boston Scholars
Program. (John Gillooly photo) •
Electrical Engineering
Receives ABET Accreditation
The Electrical Engineering program in the
College has been granted accreditation by the
Engineering Accreditation Commission of the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET).
“ABET accreditation, viewed internationally
as an assurance of program quality, is granted
to select programs after a process of rigorous
review. It signifies to employers, graduate
schools, and licensing boards that our
Electrical Engineering students receive a stateof-the-art education from a high-quality program,” said CAS Dean Kenneth S. Greenberg.
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Garni Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Kenneth F. Garni, Director of the University’s Counseling Center, has received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for University and College Counseling
Center Directors in recognition of his leadership in the organization as well as his numerous
contributions to the field of campus psychology.
“It was a very pleasant surprise to be recognized by the organization that has been my primary
professional home for more than thirty years, as well as by colleagues who have been integral
to my career since I started at Suffolk,” said Garni. “It was especially poignant in that the
other person recognized was my first mentor as a director and has become a long-standing
friend and trusted colleague.” The other honoree at the Association’s annual meeting in
Minneapolis, Minn., was Dr. Doug Lamb, director emeritus of the counseling center at
Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
Garni played a key role as the Association for University and College Counseling Center
Directors evolved over a period of more than 25 years. He has served as president of the
Association, co-hosted two of its national conferences and has served as a mentor to many of
its members. He also has served as chair of the board of accreditation and president of the
International Association of Counseling Services.
His regard for high standards, support for fellow counseling center directors and self-effacing
modesty were cited by the many colleagues from across the nation who supported his nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Garni joined Suffolk University in 1969 as an assistant professor of Psychological Services
and became the director of the Suffolk University Counseling Center and chair/professor of
the Department of Psychological Services in 1973.
Ken Garni
“I am gratified to be recognized for the things I have accomplished over the years, but I am
very aware that the acknowledgement should be shared with many, including my family, colleagues in the Counseling Center, and with the administration of the University, which
always has been very supportive of our efforts to provide quality counseling services to members of the Suffolk community,” said Garni. •
Suffolk Signs Joint
Admission Agreement with
California College
Suffolk University and Hartnell College, a
community college in Salinas, California,
have signed a joint admission agreement that
will guarantee enrollment to Hartnell students who meet the academic requirements
for transferring to Suffolk University.
This agreement marks the first time the
University has collaborated with a California
institution and is the first East Coast partnership for Hartnell College.
Hartnell College, with an enrollment of
nearly 10,000 students, is a comprehensive
community college and one of California’s
oldest educational institutions, serving the
Salinas Valley in Monterey County. •
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Used Eyeglasses & Cell Phones Can Help Those in
Need
The Office of Technology Management has volunteered to serve as a collection site for
used eyeglasses and wireless phones in a social service recycling effort.
Working with Verizon, the office will collect used wireless phones and equipment in any
condition. The equipment will be refurbished or recycled, and funds raised will be used to
support victims of domestic violence. An added benefit: The Verizon recycling program
has kept more than 200 tons of electronics waster out of landfills.
The used eyeglasses will be collected in partnership with the International Lion’s Club
“Recycle for Sight” program. The eyeglasses are delivered to needy people in developing
countries, many of whom would never otherwise have access to corrective lenses.
Used cell phones and eyeglasses may be left in the drop box marked “Recycle for Others”
outside the door of the Office of Technology Management, Sawyer 525. The collection
will be ongoing. •
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Suffolk University News
Walter Johnson Named Massachusetts Professor of the Year
When Walter H. Johnson, Ph.D., Chairman
of the Physics Department at Suffolk
University, learned of his selection as the
2005 Massachusetts Professor of the Year, he
was more excited for his school than for himself.
“I’m surprised that I was chosen, but I’m not
surprised that Suffolk was chosen,” said
Johnson, who received his prestigious award
from The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE). “Suffolk has so many good teachers
that several people here could have won this
honor. I’m just pleased to receive this award
as a representative of the College of Arts and
Sciences and Suffolk University, which
prides itself in teaching.”
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching was founded in
1905 by Andrew Carnegie “to do all things
necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify
the profession of teaching.” The Foundation
was chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress,
and is the only advanced-study center for
teachers in the world and the third oldest
foundation in the nation.
ment for one of the most intelligent, dedicated and respected individuals to ever teach at
Suffolk.
“Walter Johnson is a brilliant and spectacular
professor,” stated Dean of the College of Arts
and Science Kenneth S. Greenberg. “He is a
model citizen, teacher and administrator
who is very caring and enthusiastic when it
comes to his students and our University.”
Johnson’s devotion to Suffolk can be traced
back almost 35 years. He is one of the
University’s most loyal members, completely
willing to do whatever it takes to make this
special institution a better place. From the
time he taught his first class in 1971 until
today, his passion to teach others is what
gives him his most satisfaction, his greatest
joy, his ultimate reward.
“What I’ve always enjoyed above everything
else is interacting with the students,” said
Johnson, in his easy-going manner. “I try to
teach each student on an individual basis as
much I can. I explain things using language
that is appropriate for that student at that
time. I encourage them to ask questions and
for a dialogue to begin. Once that happens,
I’ve got them.”
Born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
Johnson grew up in various places in the
southern part of the country. He graduated
from Camden High School in Camden,
Arkansas, in 1961 as the valedictorian of his
class. He still has fond memories of that
stage in his life, particularly of Mr. Condrey,
his high school mathematics and physics
teacher.
Continued on page 14
Annual Dean’s Reception
CASE is the largest international association
of educational institutions, with more than
3,200 colleges, universities, and independent
elementary and secondary schools in nearly
50 countries, including the United States,
Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
In 1981, CASE established the Professors of
the Year program, and The Carnegie
Foundation became the co-sponsor a year
later.
This year, there were winners in 40 states,
Guam, and the District of Columbia.
Johnson, who lives in Carlisle, was selected
from among nearly 400 top professors in the
United States, an impressive accomplish-
Enjoying this year’s Dean’s Reception, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, are: Associate Professor of Government
Judy Dushku, Law Professor Catherine Judge (50 years), Professor, Counseling Center, Paul Korn (30 years) and
his wife, Susan Bumagin. (Look for a profile on Professor Judge in an upcoming issue of the SUN) See full story on
pages 8-12. Photo by John Gillooly)
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A Message to Readers
Centennial Celebration Finds Home on the Web
Suffolk has begun building a Centennial Web site to keep
members of the University’s extended family up to date on
next year’s Centennial Celebration, the ongoing planning
process and why the Centennial means so much to so many
people.
A highlight of the site will be a computer-generated timeline
of important dates for the University. George Comeau of
University Media Services, working with the University
Archive and Web Services, has collected 65 important photographs and close to 80 facts for this fascinating study of
Suffolk’s history. A historical photo album also will be added
over the next few months, according to University Archivist
Beth Bower.
For a look at the Centennial Web site, click on the Suffolk
Home page link, or go to: http://www.suffolk.edu/centennial.
While the Centennial Celebration officially begins next
September, 2006 is only weeks away, so watch for a special,
festive event that will help usher in this milestone year for
the University. •
Fond Memories
Joanne Ronayne, admires a bronze
bust of her late husband, Dean
Emeritus Michael R. Ronayne, Jr.,
which was unveiled Oct. 27 in the
lobby of the Donahue Building.
The bust was created by Audrey
Goldstein, associate professor and
program director of Fine Arts at the
New England School of Arts and
Design at Suffolk University. The
unveiling followed a memorial service celebrating Dean Ronayne’s life.
(Photo by John Gillooly) •
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Executive Editor
Rosemarie E. Sansone
Managing Editor
Nancy Kelleher
Staff Writers
Karen DeCilio
Tony Ferullo
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Heather E. Clark
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From the Archivist
Suffolk’s History Captured in Thousands of Photographs
Think about 100 years of photographs. How
many would there be? What people, places,
activities and events would be captured in
black & white and color?
The University Archives’ staff, students and
volunteers are sifting through thousands of
photographs, glass-plate negatives and slides
that capture Suffolk’s history from 1906 to
the present. In the final phase of the project,
the photographs will be categorized,
described and added to a searchable database available to the Suffolk Community.
The first order of business is to protect them
from harm. Workers place each photographic print and negative in an acid-free sleeve
that shields it from dust and fingerprints.
Next they are grouped by categories: academic life, buildings and places, events, people and university life. Some photographs
have dates and information on who is in the
picture or the event shown. Some have an
attached press release or news story to help
us to date them and identify the people. But
the majority of the photographs have
little identifying information.
Would you recognize photographs of
each of our presidents? Deans?
Buildings, old and new?
Suffolk is lucky to have such a rich
photographic documentary record of
its history. We have photographs from
every decade, each school and college
and most buildings. We have candid
photographs of students, pictures of
many commencements, cheerleaders,
fraternities and sororities, faculty mug The University’s original mascot, Hiram the Ram. (Suffolk
shots, alumni events and theater pro- University Archives photo by Herbert Goodman)
ductions. The photographs tell the
story of Suffolk and its relationship
If you would like to volunteer to identify
with its neighborhood, the city of Boston photographs in the Suffolk Archives, please
and the larger world. There are prints of contact Associate University Archivist Julia
demonstrations, international programs, Collins at ext. 6293.
moot court competitions and politicians
from Calvin Coolidge to Shirley Chisholm Beth Bower
to Ralph Nader. There are a wealth of photo- University Archivist and
Moakley Institute Director
graphs of athletic teams and games.
ext. 6255, bbower@suffolk.edu
Bringing Back Memories
The SUN has run a series of photos from the Suffolk University
Archives over the past year and recently received feedback that will
help the archivists as they work with historical photos.
When Dick McDowell, dean of the School of Management from
1974 to 1991, received some past issues of the SUN, he got in touch
to share some information.
Of an Archives photo that ran in March 2005 he wrote: “The Right
of Way Institute was a state-government-sponsored program hosted
by the business school when I arrived in 1973. It ran for two or three
more years and served to train state employees about right-of-way
issues in the planning process. The instructors and participants had
no other contact with Suffolk in most cases, but received a certificate for successfully participating in the program. The University
served as a host and landlord for the Institute.”
McDowell said the program was offered through lifelong learning
circa 1974 or ’75. For a closer look at the photo, go to
http://www.suffolk.edu/SUN/aug05/centennial.html.
He described an Archives photo that ran in August 2005:
http://www.suffolk.edu/ SUN/aug05/centennial.html.
“This is an induction ceremony for Delta Mu Delta, the business
school honorary. I suspect that those standing are the student officers. Seated are Roger Shawcross, Associate Professor of Finance,
the speaker, and Dean Richard McDowell. The speaker looks like
Coleman Mockler, but I don’t remember him speaking.
“Roger was adviser to Delta Mu Delta, the Sawyer School’s first
honor society. He was very successful in getting the group started and
keeping it moving ahead. From humble beginnings, it had a ballroom full of students and their families at the Marriott in Cambridge
for a similar ceremony when I left in 1991.”
Professor Victoria Dodd of the Law School also got in touch to identify McDowell and Shawcross in the August 2005 photo.
A number of Suffolk folks were identified in the Deans’ Reception
photo that ran in the September issue:
David Sargent
Joel Corman
Tom McMahon
Glen Lewandowski
Bill Homer
Dick Bray
Ed Hartmann
Bob Webb
Ken Garni
Ken Greenberg
Jim Peterson
Mary Fraser
Chris Perry
Dick Preiss
Annette Fulham
Mal Barach
Judith Holleman
Paul Ryan
Ray Parks
Betty Williams
Mariann Mulcahy
Margaret Lloyd
Ed Bander
Bill Amidon
Harold Stone
For a closer look at the photo, go to http://www.suffolk.edu/
SUN/sept05/happening.html. •
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Potpourri
Information Systems & Operations
Management (ISOM) employees Hasan
Arslan and Ken Hung presented their
research on new product development,
“Motivations towards Part Commonality,” at
the 36th annual meeting of the Decision
Science Institute in San Francisco in
November. They also presented, along with
Neil Hunt of ISOM, “Gone With the
Wind,” a business case study dealing with
the operational decisions a Home Depot
manager at a southwest Florida location
would face during a hurricane season (time
period 2004), at the North American Case
Research Association annual conference in
Falmouth on Oct. 27. … Sandra
Barriales-Bouche, Humanities and
Modern Languages, presented “La voz autobiográfica de Federica Montseny en el exilio
y en el post-exilio” (“The Autobiographical
Voice of Federica Montseny in Exile and
Post-Exile”) at the International Conference
Ernestina de Champourcin. Mujer y exilio
en el siglo XX (Ernestina de Champourcin.
Women and Exile in the 20th Century), held
in Vitoria (Basque Country, Spain) on Oct.
26-27. … John Berg, Government, has
received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant
to visit Jeju National University in Korea to
lecture on peace and human rights, March 316, 2006. He also spoke at the “The State of
the Parties: 2004 and Beyond” conference,
organized by the Ray Bliss Center for
Applied Politics at the University of Akron in
October. … The Counseling Center was
selected as a charter member of the Center
for the Study of College Mental Health at
Penn State University. The Center’s charge is
“…to provide the university and college
counseling field with the ability to accurately
and routinely describe the state of counseling
center affairs, on a national level, as measured by raw, standardized data pooled from
counseling centers nationwide.” …
Michael Duggan, Enrollment Research &
Planning, was appointed chair of the
Institutional Research Committee of the
American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers
(AACRAO). He conducted two half-day
workshops on using IPEDS data for the
Northeast Association for Institutional
Research (NEAIR) in New York and for the
New England Association of Collegiate
Weekly Peace Walk
Suffolk University faculty, staff and students walk through campus to commemorate the victims of the violence in
Iraq and Afghanistan and to promote peaceful resolution to conflicts in these two countries. Walks are held every
Wednesday that classes are in session, and all members of the Suffolk community are invited to participate. The
Peace Walk begins Wednesdays at noon in front of the Donahue Building. The Suffolk peace walk is coordinated
with those at several other Boston-area colleges and universities through the Inter-University Coalition for a Humane
Foreign Policy. (Photo by John Gillooly)
Registrars and Admissions Officers
(NEACRAO) in Newport, R.I. …
Congratulations and best wishes to Vicki
Ford of Biology, who married Charles L.
Croce III on Sept. 11 at the Billerica
Country Club. They honeymooned in
Daytona Beach and Orlando, Fla. A special
treat at their reception was a chocolate fountain, a wedding gift from Biology Chair Bea
Snow and prepared by Pam West, the
widow of Dr. Arthur West, biology professor
emeritus. … Jonathan Haughton,
Economics and the Beacon Hill Institute,
presented his research, “Tax and Benefit
Incidence in Peru,” at a workshop in Lima at
the headquarters of the Comjnidad Andina.
He was the research director of a project that
also included comparable studies of
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
He also taught two modules, one on the
measurement of poverty, the other on the
incidence of government spending, at a
workshop for employees of the African
Development Bank, held in Hammamet,
Tunisia. While in Tunisia, Haughton visited
the ruins of Carthage and Matmata, where
he saw sets that were used to portray the
desert planet Tatooine in some of the Star
Wars movies. … Peter Jeffreys, English,
was interviewed about Byzantine art for a
documentary special, “Toronto’s Houses of
Worship,” (WNED/PBS Buffalo, New
York). The program was shown on WNED
and Rogers Television, Canada in November.
… Charles Kindregan, Law School, was the
lead presenter at the annual meeting of the
Rhode Island Family Law Inn of Court discussions on relocation following divorce and
the impact of assisted reproduction on alternative families held in Westerly, R.I. on Nov.
1. … William Mee, Information Systems
and Operations Management, and the team
that he manages, the Massachusetts
Rehabilitation Consumer Information
System
(MRCIS),
received
the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Citation
for Outstanding Employee Performance. …
Quentin Miller, English, chaired the
panel, “Kerouac in Context,” at the 2005
Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature
held in Lowell. … Roberta Miller, Second
Language Services, was elected to the 20062007 edition of Who’s Who in American
Education and is included in Who’s Who of
American Women 2006-2007. … Suzyn
Ornstein, Management, was appointed a
senior research fellow with Suffolk’s Institute
for Executive Education and Life-Long
Learning. … Sebastián
Royo,
Government and director of the Madrid
campus, participated in the U.S.
Department of State Seminar on Portugal in
Washington D.C. on Oct. 2. He also presented “Varieties of Capitalism in Spain:
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32 Faculty Members Join University
The University welcomed 32 new members to its distinguished faculty for the 2005 – 2006 academic year. They are:
College of Arts and Sciences
Angela Buffone, Lab Instructor, Chemistry Department
Richard Chambers, Assistant Professor, Theatre Department
Evgenia Cherkasova, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
Rachael Cobb, Visiting Assistant Professor, Government
Department
Kenneth Cosgrove, Assistant Professor, Government Department
Lisa Coyne, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Rita Daly, Assistant Professor, New England School of Art and
Design (NESADSU)
Roberto Dominguez, Assistant Professor, Government Department
Erika Gebo, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department
Harold Gimenez, Lab Instructor, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Micky Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication and
Journalism
Christina Neilson, Lab Instructor, Humanities and Modern
Languages
Timothy Poynton, Assistant Professor, Education and Human
Services
Christopher Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, History Department
Serge Shikher, Assistant Professor, Economics Department
Michael Siegel, Assistant Professor, Education and Human Services
Yuliya Strizhakova, Assistant Professor, Communication and
Journalism
Sean Solley, Visiting Assistant Professor, New England School of
Art and Design (NESADSU)
Christine Westphal, Assistant Professor, Education and Human
Services
Denyce Wicht, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
Law School
Leo Romero, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
Patrick Shin, Assistant Professor of Law
School of Management
Diana M. Bawn, Assistant Director and Instructor, Accounting
Anders Bengtsson, Assistant Professor, Marketing
Dania A. Dialdin, Assistant Professor, Management
Jack J. Holder Jr., Visiting Associate Professor, Management
J. Denise John, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing
Michael Kraten, Assistant Professor, Accounting
Benjamin Ngugi, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and
Operations Management
Mary-Joan Pelletier, Assistant Director and Instructor, Accounting
Karen Simonyan, Assistant Professor, Finance
Alex C. Yen, Assistant Professor, Accounting
New Employees
A warm welcome to our newest employees!
Kurt Matthew Albrand, Sawyer Library
Diana M. Bawn, Accounting
Ranjan Budhathoki, University Police
Souheir B. Carty, USA-Senegal SSOM
Joshua Cheney, Residence Life - Somerset
Angely Leonardo Deliza, University Police
Michael P. Dickinson, Ballotti Learning Center
Norman Eng, CAS Dean’s Office
Avith Ernest, University Police
Matthew K. Eynon, Advancement
Sarah Ann Frank, USA-Senegal SSOM
Jacqueline M. Govoni, Economics
Khagendra Gurung, University Police
James M. Hawco, University Police
Michael L. Kraten, Accounting
Jessica Beth Lillie, Psychology
Victoria R. Lothrop, Health Services
Kevin J. Lundy, University Police
Laura M. Marchant, Career Services/Coop Education
Charlotte O. McAleer, Second Language Services
Steven C. McIntosh, Theatre Arts
Christina T. Mullin, Advancement
Kathleen E. Peets, UMS
Mary Joan Pelletier, Accounting
Jill E. Pierce, Undergraduate Admission
Mary Ellen Potter, Dean Of Students Office
Merideth J. Power, Government
Timothy A. Poynton, Education & Human Services
Aileen L. Reeder, Law Dean’s Office
Christine M. Rhoder, Law Dean’s Office
Alana T. Ryan, Advanced Legal Studies
Isaac J. Stahl, Center for International Education
Tova Lanita Upshaw, Financial Aid-Colleges
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Faculty Publications
Edward Bander, librarian
emeritus, Law School, had an
article, “What Every Lawyer
Should Know About Charles
Dickens and the Law, “ in the
October 24 issue of Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly (p.63).
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos de la Fuente Marcos,
Madrid campus, have published a paper, “A nearby cool white dwarf
candidate in Gemini,” in New Astronomy, Vol. 11, No. 1, October
2005, pp. 59-67.
Lydia Martin, NESADSU, had
two paintings, Umbrella Pine and
Umbrella Pines, in the “American
Artists Abroad” national juried
exhibition at Bennington Center
for the Arts in Vermont.
Sandra Barriales-Bouche,
Humanities
and
Modern
Languages, edited España: ¿laberinto de exilios? (Spain: Labyrinth
of Exiles?), a collection of essays
on Spanish exiles throughout the
centuries. (Juan de la CuestaHispanic Monographsy, 2005).
Michael
Basseches,
Psychology, has published “The The cover of Sandra Barriales-Bouche’s
Development of Dialectical recent book.
Thinking As An Approach to
Integration” in Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural
Journal For New Thought, Research and Praxis. (Issue 1, 2005).
Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Law School, has published two
articles, “A New Ethical Risk,” in the Massachusetts Bar Association
Section Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2005) and “Ethical Risks From the Use
of Technology,” in 31 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal l
(2004).
Anders Bengtsson, Marketing, has published “When Hershey
met Betty: Love, Lust and Co-branding,” (with Søren Askegaard) in
the Journal of Product and Brand Management, 14 (5), 322-329,
2005; “Co-branding on industrial markets,” (with Per Servais) in
Industrial Marketing Management, 34, 706-713, 2005; and a paper
and DVD movie, “Prisoners in Paradise: Subcultural Resistance to
the Marketization of Tattooing,” (with Jacob Östberg and Dannie
Kjeldgaard), Consumption, Markets and Culture, 8(3), 261-274,
2005.
Roberto Dominguez, Government, has published a working
paper, “The Impact of Enlargement on the External Relations of the
European Union,” for Miami European Union Center, University of
Miami, Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series, vol 5, no. 32,
October 2005.
Quentin Miller, English, edited a
collection of essays, Prose and Cons:
Essays on Prison Literature in the
United States (McFarland, 2005).
He wrote the introduction and the
first essay in the collection, “´On
the Outside Looking In`: White
Readers of Non-White Prison
Narratives.” Miller also published
three entries in the Encyclopedia of
African-American
Literature Lydia Martin’s Umbrella Pines.
(Greenwood,
2005):
James
Baldwin (Vol. 1, 69-74; Ralph
Ellison (Vol.2, 492-497); and Toni
Morrison (Vol. 3, 1121-1127).
Michael Rustad, Law School, published
an article, “The Closing of Punitive
Damages’ Iron Cage,“ in 38 Loyola of Los
Angeles Law Review 1297 (2005).
Lisa Shatz, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, had an article, “Slender Body
Method for Slender Prolate Spheroids and
Hemispheroids on Planes in Linearized
Oscillatory Flow,” published in Physics of
Fluids A, Vol. 17 (11), November 2005.
Khuong Vu, Finance, co-authored an article, “?Information Technology and the World Economy?” with Dale
W. Jorgenson of Harvard University’s Economics Department. It
appeared in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 107 (4),
2005. •
Martin’s Work on Display
“Colors on Sand … Images of Senegal,” an exhibit of photographs and paintings by Kenneth Martin of Communication
and Journalism and NESADSU and his wife, watercolorist
Verjik Abramian-Martin, was shown at the Worcester African
Cultural Center. Photos were shot and impressions made in
Senegal, where Martin has taught several photojournalism
classes at Suffolk’s Dakar Campus. To view some of the work
visit: http://www.amstockphoto.com/ senegal.htm. (Photos
and watercolor paintings by Kenneth Martin and Verjik
Abramian-Martin)
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The cover of Quentin
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Suffolk In The News
The University’s Faculty and Administrators are quoted regularly in
local and national media. The following offers a sampling of recent
media mentions. To read complete articles, go to www.suffolk.edu
and click on In the News.
MetroWest Daily News ,
November 8, 2005
Courtroom drama on the Web George Comeau, Media Services,
comments on Webcasting for the SJC
Boston Globe ,
November 6, 2005
A recent Suffolk University poll gives Menino a 30-point lead heading into Election Day
Also appeared in:
MetroWest Daily News , November 5, 2005
Boston Herald , November 5, 2005
Cape Cod Times , November 6, 2005
Gloria Boone, Professor of Communication and Journalism, weighs
in on the growing popularity of Internet blogs
Boston Herald , November 5, 2005
Lisa Thurau-Gray, Director of the Juvenile Justice Center, comments on gun licensing
Cape Cod Times , November 1, 2005
Bob Rosenthal, Communication & Journalism, comments on
event-based promotions
Cape Cod Times , November 1, 2005
Victoria Dodd, Law School, weighs in on legislation from the bench
Boston.Com , October 26, 2005
Boston Herald ,
October 4, 2005
Michael Avery, Law School, comments on the Supreme Court
Justice nominee
St. Petersburg Times ,
October 4, 2005
Erika Gebo, Sociology, comments on sibling homicides
Asbur y Park Press , NJ, October 3, 2005
David Yamada, Law School, talks about workplace bullying
Also appeared in the following publications:
News-Leader.com, MO, October 3, 2005
DesMoinesRegister.com, September 26, 2005
Boston Globe , September 25, 2005
Richard Torrisi, dean of graduate programs at Suffolk Business
School, comments on tuition assistance programs
Water ford News & Star , September 23, 2005
William J. O’Neill, dean of the Sawyer School of Management, is
quoted at Higher Education Conference held at Kilkenny Castle,
Ireland
Georgetown Record , September 22, 2005
A new partnership between Georgetown public schools and Suffolk
University’s Sawyer School of Management will give Georgetown
High School students unique opportunity
Water ford News & Star , September 16, 2005
William J. O’Neill, dean of the Sawyer School of Management,
speaks at Kilkenny conference
The Patriot Ledger , September 14, 2005
Renee Landers, Law School, weighs in on criticism of Harriet Miers
Suffolk University student Jill O’Bryan urges legislators to pass
Melanie’s Bill
CapeTimes
Boston.com , September 8, 2005
(South Africa), October 21, 2005
C. Gopinath, Marketing, discusses his research on ethical behavior
Boston Globe , October 20, 2005
Suffolk student Alex Pollack to receive the Grace Le Vine Theater
Award and a $10,000 theater scholarship from the Princess Grace
Foundation USA
Also appeared in:
PR Newswire, September 28, 2005
Boston Globe , October 16, 2005
Michael Avery, Law School, is quoted in Boston Globe article on
gay marriage
ABCnews.com , September 4, 2005
Angela Buffone, a visiting professor of organic chemistry, meets
weekly with Pino Maffeo of Maffeo’s culinary experiment
Rolling Stones.com , August 22, 2005
Jon Marko, Communication and Journalism and English, gives
Rolling Stones a Rockin’ Review
Susan Sered, a researcher at the Center for Women’s Health and
Human Rights, comments on health care
Also appeared in the following publications:
Insurance News Net, October 20, 2005
Kaiser Network, October 19, 2005
Washington Post , August 20, 2005
The Dallas Morning News , October 9, 2005
Marc Greenbaum, Law School, is quoted in “Boston Works”
David Yamada, Law School, weighs in on ethnic and racial diversity
DailyPress.Com , October 5, 2005
Marc Greenbaum, Law School, comments on employment law
Joseph Franco, Law School, comments on Redskins owner Daniel
Snyder’s bid to gain control of Six Flags, Inc.
Boston Globe , August 14, 2005
The Californ i a n , August 10, 2005
Vice President Marguerite J. Dennis, is quoted on Suffolk
University’s agreeing to admit those who have a 2.5 GPA from
Hartnell College in Salinas, CA •
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Unsung Heroes Behind 73 Tremont Street Move
The revolving door entering Suffolk’s
newest home, 73 Tremont Street, is getting
plenty of use as employees from various
departments continue to move into the
stately 13-story building. And other
departments across campus have moved —
sometimes multiple times — to fill offices
left empty by 73 Tremont’s new tenants.
“There are many people who have stepped
up and performed exceptionally well to
make this all happen,” said Assistant
Director of Facilities Planning Paul
Delaney.
These “unsung heroes” have gone above
and beyond the call of duty to ensure that
their Suffolk colleagues make their transitions without missing a beat.
As they arrive at new offices across campus,
employees have had immediate access to
phones and fax machines, thanks to the
timely and efficient transition provided by
Voice Communications Manager Jane
Scherban and her staff. “It’s all about decision-making and having enough lead
time,” said Scherban. “People have been
very cooperative, and the more times we
do this, the better we get.”
Scherban said much of her work centered
on transferring employees from the old
Centrex phone system to the new NEC
system, which offers more communications features. “Only people from the
Business School had NEC before, so we
had to change systems for everyone else,”
said Scherban, who praises Voice
Communications Coordinator Andrea
Bishop — “the computer whiz” — for
ensuring that every phone was connected
to the right person’s office.
Network Services also worked hard to give
employees full access to their computers
and printers as soon as they arrived in their
new offices. Fuad Yatim, director of
Network Services and Desktop Support
Group, and his staff began working on this
project three months before the first
Suffolk employees began moving into 73
Tremont Street in September 2004.
Yatim, along with network specialists Bill
Mahoney, Reynold McGuire and Anupam
Singh, designed, configured and installed
the network, while the dynamic duo of
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work. “We needed the coordination and
input from everyone to make this a good
experience,” said Yatim. “Communication
and coordination was key; that’s why this
move has been so successful.”
Mail also has been delivered uninterrupted, due to Suffolk’s Mail Services Manager
Anthony Voto and his staff of six other
employees and about 60 work-study students. “Over the past four or five years,
we’ve become more technically advanced,”
said Voto. “That’s why this has been a pretty smooth transition. From day one, we’ve
been able to offer our same services and
follow our regular schedule.”
Some moves have been in stages. The
Office of Undergraduate Admission and
the Office of Enrollment & Retention
Management moved from 20 Beacon
Street to the third floor of 73 Tremont in
September 2004. They packed up and
moved again, to the fifth and seventh
floors, a year later. Come spring, the two
offices will move again, to the sixth floor.
Associate Director of Admission Jim
Schulze, after learning about the third
move, offered his colleagues some worthwhile advice. “I told them don’t worry if
the pictures on their office walls are
straight or not because they’ll be taking
them down soon,” laughed Schulze.
Then he added: “Making these moves is a
small sacrifice we have to make for a better
reward. We’re all part of a plan to make this
University bigger and better.” •
Gallery Roundup
Boston Herald’s Lens on the World
Fireworks explode over Old Ironsides in this
image from an exhibit of Boston Herald
photographs at the Adams Gallery. The
exhibit includes outstanding images of
Boston and the region, captured in recent
years, along with a collection of the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photos. The
exhibit runs through February. (Photo courtesy of Boston Herald) •
Sawyer Library to Remain
Open Through Transition to
New Home
The new Sawyer Library is on target to
open at 73 Tremont St. on May 15,
2006, with a seamless transition from the
old space to the new.
“The library will maintain its standard
hours and services during the transition
from 8 Ashburton to 73 Tremont,” said
Bob Dugan, director of the Sawyer
Library.
Watch for a detailed report on the new
library in a future issue of the SUN.
Global Harmony
The Music Students’ Chamber Choir from
Aalborg University in Denmark delivered a
rousing performance at the C. Walsh
Theatre. The concert was arranged by Jay J.
Rosellini, chair of Humanities and Modern
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New Hoop Coach Has Local Ties
Adam Nelson feels on top
of the world, like he just
hit a three-pointer at the
buzzer to win the big
game.
Suffolk’s new Assistant Athletic Director Adam
Nelson.
“I’m thrilled to get this
opportunity and I can’t
wait to get started,”
exclaimed Nelson, 31, the
new assistant athletic
director and head men’s
basketball coach at Suffolk
University. “I’m a local
Boston guy and this is
where I want to be.”
Nelson, who succeeds Dennis McHugh, who coached the Rams for
10 seasons, comes to Suffolk as a full time mentor with five years’
experience as a head men’s basketball coach, at Newbury College and
Becker colleges. He also was an assistant coach at Northeastern
University, the College of the Holy Cross and Curry College.
“Adam’s previous stops throughout the coaching profession have prepared him well for the challenges ahead,” said Suffolk’s Director of
Athletics Jim Nelson, (no relation). “His credentials as an energetic,
highly motivated professional augers well for those student athletes
who will come under his tutelage in the years to come.”
While he may be new to the Regan Gymnasium, Adam Nelson certainly is no stranger to the Suffolk campus. His mother, Susan, a
Suffolk University and Suffolk University Law School graduate, took
him and his younger brother, Ryan, to some evening classes. “She
was a single mom at the time and she had no one to watch us, so she
brought us with her,” recalled Nelson. “I’ll never forget those times,
especially French class with Professor (Arthur) Chaisson. He was
very good to us.”
With this month signaling the start of the 2005–06 college basketball season, Nelson has been busy getting to know Suffolk’s returning
players and new recruits. He feels confident that the Rams have the
nucleus to produce a successful campaign in his first year at the helm.
“Our goal is to win the Great Northeast Athletic Conference and get
that automatic bid to the NCAA tournament,” he said.
Win or lose, Nelson expects his team to play hard, work together and
never quit from the opening tip to the final buzzer of every game.
“We’re looking for good kids who represent themselves and the
school well,” said the personable hoop coach, who lives in Quincy
with his wife, Deb, and their three children, AJ, 4; Jack, 2; and
Mollie, two months. “At this level, it’s important to win games, but
it’s more important to make it a positive experience for our studentathletes, create a solid image and do things the right way.” •
Tech Talk: Wanna go Phishing?
To keep our readers informed about current technology issues, the SUN
will feature a regular Tech Talk column from Bill Mahoney, director of
security and IT architecture for Management Information Services.
A number of e-mail users here at Suffolk have reported that e-mails
from what are perceived as legitimate sources have been filling up
their inboxes. E-mails asking for personal information are not safe
to reply to, follow links from or forward to other users. In most
cases a simple phone call to the company represented in the e-mail
can thwart these bad efforts. But, on the other hand, we are all busy
and sometimes can scan an e-mail quickly while attending to other
tasks and miss the fact that it could be dangerous. The best defense
is information. So, what is Phishing, you ask?
eBay, PayPal, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy and America Online, in an
effort to phish out personal and financial information from the hapless user. Phishers use any number of different social engineering
and e-mail spoofing ploys to trick their victims.
Recently, a number of e-mail users here at Suffolk have received
emails from UCU and CUNA. (University Credit Union) and
(Credit Union National Association). It’s important to know that no
financial institution will ever send you an e-mail asking you to enter
such information.
Phishing is a term used to describe the action of assuming the identity of a legitimate organization or Web site, using e-mail or Web
pages, with a view to convincing consumers to share their user
names, passwords and personal financial information for the purpose of using it to commit fraud.
There a number of links both inside the university and outside to
help our users:
http://www.suffolk.edu/nsg — features a list of updated virus threats
andother helpful information.
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identitytheft/gonephishing.htm
http://www.scu.edu/sts/communityofscholars/TingPaper.cfm
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internet/phishing/protect.shtml
On the Internet, phishing, also called carding or brand spoofing, is a
scam where the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails
appearing to comefrom some of the Web’s biggest sites, including
Bill Mahoney
Director of security and IT architecture
for Management Information Services
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Walter Johnson
Continued from page 1
“I didn’t even know his first name; I always called him Mr. Condrey,”
said Johnson with a chuckle. “He was the best teacher I ever had, and
he was a huge influence on me.”
Ignited by his mentor’s wisdom and encouragement, Johnson followed a higher education path that began at Rice University in
Houston, Texas (B.A. in Physics in 1965) and ended at Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (MS in Physics in 1967 and
Ph.D. in Physics in 1972).
Since arriving at Suffolk, Johnson has
seen the University blossom from a
three-building campus into a global
institution. In more than three
decades, he has also witnessed firsthand a dramatic change in the diversity of the student body. “Years ago,
you’d be surprised to hear students
talking Russian in the elevator,” he
points out. “It’s not like that now. We
have students, as well as faculty, from
all around the world.”
Johnson has developed a reputation as
an innovative soul, always willing to
try new technology — for more
advanced ways to teach his students.
For example, in order to provide
greater detail in his introductory calculus-based physics class, where a student’s background in physics ranges
from zero to one or two years in high
school, Johnson breaks each topic
Walter Johnson
into small parts through streamingvideo mini-lectures and places them
on the web. Each mini-lecture is only 10-15 minutes long. This is in
addition to the usual in-class lectures.
Explains Johnson, “The students can see and hear me talking in the
upper left corner of the screen, while the remainder of the screen is a
white board where they see the equations being written just as if they
were in class.”
At the Suffolk University-owned marine biological research center on
Cobscook Bay in Maine, approximately 350 miles from its Boston
campus, Johnson formed an interdisciplinary team of students to
build a 14-foot diameter geodesic dome with a heat exchanger inside
to produce hot water for the kitchen. “This year we are using radio
frequency ‘motes’ (tiny smart sensors) to measure the temperature
inside the dome and inside the solar tank to control the pump which
circulates the water,” he says.
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To properly teach math and science to students at Suffolk’s Dakar,
Senegal, campus, via distance education, Johnson, as chairman of the
CAS Educational Technology Committee, arranged for Suffolk to
purchase and send to Dakar electronic writing tablets. This unique
teaching method allows a student to write equations and diagrams
using an electronic pen, save their image files and then post them
into the “Digital Drop Box” of BlackBoard (web-based course software).
“I too have an electronic tablet, so when I
see the homework in my digital mailbox, I
grade it and write corrections with equations on their original papers, just as I
would for my on-campus classes,” said
Johnson. “Then I post it to their mailbox
and they can see immediately how they
did.”
Beatrice Snow, Chair of the Biology
Department at Suffolk, has always been
impressed with Johnson’s teaching style.
“He adapts every piece of technology and
applies it to his classroom,” said Snow,
who is in her 41st year at the University.
“He makes learning exciting and the students love him. He is the consummate
teacher.”
On November 17, Johnson was honored
as Massachusetts Professor of the Year at
an awards luncheon at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel in Washington, D.C., followed by
an evening Congressional Reception at the
Library of Congress, a celebratory occasion he attended with his wife of 28 years,
Lea, Director of the Bouve Institute for Healthcare Leadership and
´
Professional Development at Northeastern University. The Johnson’s,
who have two children (Erin, 23, a grad student at Villanova
University, and Adam, 16, a sophomore at Concord-Carlisle High
School), enjoy family barbeques, golf and attending holiday concerts
when away from the academic environment.
Coming to work early, leaving late, showing up on Sundays to work
on research projects with his students, Walter Johnson considers
himself a lucky man. There is nothing he has ever wanted to do other
than teach, impacting the lives of others in his own precise and
charismatic style.
“I can’t imagine doing anything else,” smiled Professor Walter
Johnson. “It always seemed embarrassing to get paid for something I
would do for nothing.” •
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Potpourri
Continued from page 4
Business and the Politics of Coordination,” and Operations Management; SSOM
at the 101st annual meeting of the Associate Dean Richard Torrisi; and
American Political Science Association Chris Perry, Financial Aid, was a rousing
held in Washington D.C. in September. … success, with 26 new faculty members in
Michael Rustad, Law School, spoke at a attendance. … Second Language Services
Conflicts of Law seminar at American reminds faculty for whom English is a secUniversity Law School on Sept. 15 and a ond language that tutoring is available in a
faculty workshop at Penn State/Dickinson private setting to help with English comLaw School on Sept. 16. He also made pre- munication, including pronunciation, synsentations at Santa Clara Law School and tax, vocabulary, idiomatic usage, writing
Michigan State Law School during the fall and understanding of spoken English. For
semester. … Ann McGonigle Santos, more information, contact Janet Oliver at
Law School, was named chair of the joliver@suffolk.edu, Bonnie Besdin at
Steering Committee for the New England bbesdin@ Suffolk.edu or call Ext. 8677. ...
Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers. … On Sept. 7, more than 200 Chinese,
Congratulations and best wishAmerican
and
es to Douglas R. Seidler,
international deleNESADSU, who married
gates
met
in
Patricia Cerqueira on July 16 in
Chongqing
to
St. Pete Beach, Fla. They spent
commemorate the
a month in Brazil, Patricia’s
60th anniversary of
native
country,
visiting
the end of World
Salvador, Morro de Sao Paulo
War II in China.
and Rio de Janeiro. …
During the opening ceremony, the
Kathleen Elliott Vinson,
mayor
of
Law School, has been invited to
present a program, “Taking Doug Seidler and his new wife Patricia. C h o n g q i n g
Municipal People’s
Our Expertise into the
Government and
Trenches: Consulting on
Writing in Law Practice, “at the 2006 the Consul General both acknowledged
Biennial National Legal Writing Institute Suffolk University’s accomplishments over
Conference to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in the years to the Stilwell Museum and the
June. … Camille Weiss, Humanities Stilwell School of International Studies,
and Modern Languages, presented a paper, named in honor of General Joseph Stilwell,
“Freedom of Folly: Court Jesters and their the commander in charge of American and
Writings at the Court of Henri IV,” at the Chinese military forces during WWII. …
Sixteenth Century Conference in Atlanta,
Ga., on Oct. 23. … The Third Annual I N M E M O R I A M
New Faculty Lunch, organized by James G. Woods, retired director of
Warren Briggs, Information Systems Career Services •
$20,000 in Grants for Juvenile Justice Center
The Juvenile Justice Center received two grants totaling $20,000 from the John A. Alden
Trust and the John H. and H. Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation to fund its Measuring Up
Advocacy Project, an initiative that provides free legal representation and workshops on
school expulsion and delinquency matters for at-risk youth and their parents who are living in Boston’s Bromley Heath Housing Development. •
Residence Hall Named
for Nathan Miller
Nathan R. Miller stands before the residence hall at 10 Somerset St., recently
named in his honor. Miller, who has built
a reputation as one of Boston’s most successful commercial property investors and
managers, has donated $2 million to
Suffolk University, the largest outright gift
in the University’s history. His gift is
endowing the City of Boston Scholars
Program. (John Gillooly photo) •
Electrical Engineering
Receives ABET Accreditation
The Electrical Engineering program in the
College has been granted accreditation by the
Engineering Accreditation Commission of the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET).
“ABET accreditation, viewed internationally
as an assurance of program quality, is granted
to select programs after a process of rigorous
review. It signifies to employers, graduate
schools, and licensing boards that our
Electrical Engineering students receive a stateof-the-art education from a high-quality program,” said CAS Dean Kenneth S. Greenberg.
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Garni Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Kenneth F. Garni, Director of the University’s Counseling Center, has received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for University and College Counseling
Center Directors in recognition of his leadership in the organization as well as his numerous
contributions to the field of campus psychology.
“It was a very pleasant surprise to be recognized by the organization that has been my primary
professional home for more than thirty years, as well as by colleagues who have been integral
to my career since I started at Suffolk,” said Garni. “It was especially poignant in that the
other person recognized was my first mentor as a director and has become a long-standing
friend and trusted colleague.” The other honoree at the Association’s annual meeting in
Minneapolis, Minn., was Dr. Doug Lamb, director emeritus of the counseling center at
Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
Garni played a key role as the Association for University and College Counseling Center
Directors evolved over a period of more than 25 years. He has served as president of the
Association, co-hosted two of its national conferences and has served as a mentor to many of
its members. He also has served as chair of the board of accreditation and president of the
International Association of Counseling Services.
His regard for high standards, support for fellow counseling center directors and self-effacing
modesty were cited by the many colleagues from across the nation who supported his nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Garni joined Suffolk University in 1969 as an assistant professor of Psychological Services
and became the director of the Suffolk University Counseling Center and chair/professor of
the Department of Psychological Services in 1973.
Ken Garni
“I am gratified to be recognized for the things I have accomplished over the years, but I am
very aware that the acknowledgement should be shared with many, including my family, colleagues in the Counseling Center, and with the administration of the University, which
always has been very supportive of our efforts to provide quality counseling services to members of the Suffolk community,” said Garni. •
Suffolk Signs Joint
Admission Agreement with
California College
Suffolk University and Hartnell College, a
community college in Salinas, California,
have signed a joint admission agreement that
will guarantee enrollment to Hartnell students who meet the academic requirements
for transferring to Suffolk University.
This agreement marks the first time the
University has collaborated with a California
institution and is the first East Coast partnership for Hartnell College.
Hartnell College, with an enrollment of
nearly 10,000 students, is a comprehensive
community college and one of California’s
oldest educational institutions, serving the
Salinas Valley in Monterey County. •
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Used Eyeglasses & Cell Phones Can Help Those in
Need
The Office of Technology Management has volunteered to serve as a collection site for
used eyeglasses and wireless phones in a social service recycling effort.
Working with Verizon, the office will collect used wireless phones and equipment in any
condition. The equipment will be refurbished or recycled, and funds raised will be used to
support victims of domestic violence. An added benefit: The Verizon recycling program
has kept more than 200 tons of electronics waster out of landfills.
The used eyeglasses will be collected in partnership with the International Lion’s Club
“Recycle for Sight” program. The eyeglasses are delivered to needy people in developing
countries, many of whom would never otherwise have access to corrective lenses.
Used cell phones and eyeglasses may be left in the drop box marked “Recycle for Others”
outside the door of the Office of Technology Management, Sawyer 525. The collection
will be ongoing. •