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Heritage Honorees
Exhibit Solves History Mystery
Archives Go Online
September 2008 • Vol. 34, No. 5
Udderly Outrageous
New Provost, VP of Academic Affairs
For Lou Greenwald, standing out in a
crowd has become a moo-ving experience.
The Super Bowl. Boston Marathon.
Major concerts. Weddings and special events.
Whatever the venue, Greenwald is certain to
be conspicuous in his habitual cow costume.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time, and
it’s a lot of fun,” said the senior assistant
director of Undergraduate Admission. “I get
quite a reaction wherever I go.”
Greenwald has been a disc jockey for 17
years and is the proud owner of Cowman
Productions.
He began dressing up in a cow costume
at public events about 15 years ago. “A
bunch of us were going to an Aerosmith
New Year’s Eve concert, and a buddy of
mine dared me to wear the costume,” said
Greenwald. “It was in the trunk of my car,
because when I first worked as a DJ, I would
wear various costumes when I played.
Greenwald has worn his cow outfit to the
2002 and 2004 Super Bowls, cheering the
New England Patriots to victory each time.
He was in costume three of the 10 times he
ran the Boston Marathon.
This summer, Greenwald, in his cow
attire, attended the Pearl Jam concert at the
Comcast Center in Mansfield. The popular
rock ’n’ roll group asked him up on stage to
The University has made two key appointments to its leadership team. Longtime Law School Professor Barry Brown has
been named provost, and Janice C. Griffith, former dean of
Georgia State University College of Law, has been selected as
vice president for Academic Affairs.
“We are very excited that these two distinguished educators
will be contributing their unique talents to the University’s
academic environment during this time of programmatic
growth both here at our Boston campus and abroad,” said
President David J. Sargent.
Brown joined Suffolk University Law School in 1976 and
Barry Brown
has taught Property, Land Transfer and Finance, Professional
Responsibility, and Biomedical Law and Public Policy.
“Professor Brown has been a superb teacher and has created exceptional programming as director of the Law School’s
concentration in health and biomedical law,” said Sargent.
Brown began his legal career with Goulston and Storrs,
Boston, then served as first assistant bar counsel and
counsel to the Clients’ Security Board as prosecutor for the
Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers in a number of important cases, including the reinstatement of Alger Hiss.
He is widely published and wrote one of the first legal
works on condominium law in the nation and one of the first
Janice C. Griffith
articles concerning property interests in genetic engineering,
published by the Stanford Journal of Law and Public Policy. He also founded and is the
faculty adviser to Suffolk’s Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.
Brown holds an A.B from Harvard College, an Ed.M. from Harvard School of
Education and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
“I am proud to have the opportunity to work more closely with President Sargent
and my colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences, Sawyer Business School and
Law School. Together we will join the many currents of the University’s three academic
units for the benefit of our students,” said Brown. “We have the hope of creating true
educational and economic opportunities for our graduates and preparing them for an
increasingly complex and internationalized world.”
Griffith’s legal expertise is focused on state and local government law, regionalism and
metropolitan growth issues. She became interested in higher education administration
during a year as an American Council on Education fellow at Ohio State University.
“Dean Griffith, in emphasizing contributions to public policy as she led Georgia
State University College of Law, has shown an intrinsic understanding of the Suffolk
University spirit of service,” said Sargent.
As dean, she oversaw the development of partnerships with other institutions and the
creation of two interdisciplinary centers, one for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan
Growth and the other for Health Law community partnerships. She also established
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Lou Greenwald with Pearl Jam.
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Provost, VP
Faculty Publications
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three new joint degree programs focused on connecting legal
studies with Philosophy, Health Administration, and City and
Regional Planning.
Griffith holds a B.A. from Colby College and a J.D. from the
University of Chicago Law School.
“Suffolk’s mission of creating opportunities for students and
access to excellence resonates with me,” said Griffith. “I firmly
believe in the University’s focus on quality teaching and strong
faculty/student interactions. Nothing is more important than
teaching students the communication, analytical and interpersonal skills they will need to become effective leaders in our 21st
century global society.”
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Continued from page 1
perform with them—the third time they’ve issued him that
invitation.
“At concerts, wearing the costume definitely helps me get
better seats,” said Greenwald, whose New Hampshire home is
filled with ceramic and cast-iron cow statuettes. “I also get to go
backstage, meet and greet people, and get music memorabilia.”
Suffolk Athletic Director Jim Nelson remembers when
Greenwald, now an assistant cross-country coach for the Rams,
competed during his undergraduate days—wearing the cow
costume. “Lou is a unique individual who was legendary as a student athlete,” says Nelson. “He was like a cult figure. Opposing
coaches would ask the Suffolk coach before every meet, ‘Is the
cow coming?’”
Asked how long he plans to slip out of his shirt and tie and
into his cow costume, Greenwald responded quickly: “As long as
I’m having fun.”
Relay Race Winners
The Suffolk team of Dan
Hassan, student athlete; Kyle
Linn MacQueen, Marketing
department; Will Feldman,
Undergraduate Admissions and
assistant cross-country coach;
Nicholas Cifuentes, cross-country
alumnus; Matt Stass, student athlete; and Isaac Stahl, alumni liaison to
Athletics and tennis coach, took first place in the “24-Hour Around-theLake Relay” at Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield. Feldman organized the
relay as a fundraiser for the University’s Cross-Country program. The
group ran 175 miles in 24 hours and raised $1,300.
Micky Lee, Communication and Journalism, had the article “A
feminist political economic understanding of the relations between
state, market and civil society from Beijing and Tunis” published in
the July issue of Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos de la Fuente Marcos,
Madrid Campus. Their article, “Confined chaotic motion in threebody resonances: trapping of trans-Neptunian material induced by
gas-drag,” was published in the British journal, Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 388, No. 1, July 8, 2008, pp.
293–306.
Ruth Ann McEwen, associate dean of accreditation and administration, Sawyer Business School, and professor of accounting, has
co-authored Asset Retirement Obligations, the portfolio guidance
issued from the Accounting Policy & Practice Series of BNA (Bureau
of National Affairs, Inc.).
Jennifer O’Connor-Duffy, Education and Human Services,
has published a book Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College,
1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical
Context.
Anthony Polito, Law School, published the article “Trade or
Business within the United States as an Interpretive Problem under
the Internal Revenue Code: Five Propositions” in Hastings Business
Law Journal, Vol. 4, 251, spring 2008.
Human Resources News
New Faces
Please welcome our newest employees:
Meaghan Agnew, Law School Dean’s office
Carrie Baldassari, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office
Eric Belson, NESAD
Kathleen Blanchard, Law Registrar’s Office
Christine Butler, Law Clinical Programs
Jonathan Darden, Undergraduate Admission
Richard DeCapua, Student Affairs Office
Jamie Depelteau, Residence Life, 10 Somerset Street
Annette Donahue, Law School
Kyle Dooley, Student Activities & Service Learning
Stephanie Fougy, Math & Computer Science
Brian Gowdy, Vice President–Treasurer’s Office
Karina Holmes, Budget Office
Geert Kinthaert, Information Technology Services
Martha Leibs-Heckly, Advancement
Carol Levine, Residence Life, 10 West Street
Li Li, Accounts Payable Services
Brittany Lonero, Center for International Education
and Madrid campus
Jeremiah Mankin, Academic Computing,
T h e S UN is publ ished by:
Office of Public Affairs
73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-573-8447
sun@suffolk.edu
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Executive Editor
Greg Gatlin
Managing Editor
Nancy Kelleher
College of Arts and Sciences
Staff Writers
Karen DeCilio
Tony Ferullo
Design
Heather Clark
Erin McLaughlin, Public Management
Monique Mitchell, Residence Life, 10 Somerset Street
Seana Quental, Law Grad Program (LLM)
Megan Sutherland, Information Technology Services
Antonio Viola, Facilities Management
Potpourri
John Berg, Government, was appointed to
the editorial board of Marxist Interventions,
a new online refereed journal in Canberra,
Australia. In October, he will present a
paper “Only in Massachusetts? The Struggle
over Same-Sex Marriage in the Bay State”
at the Fellows Seminar of the Rothermere
American Institute, University of Oxford.
Rachael Cobb, Government. Her comments on the presidential race appeared in
the Philadelphia Bulletin on June 12 and the
Birth
Announcements
Congratulations to
these Suffolk families
on the new additions to
their families:
Ayla Dillaby
Edwin Dillaby of
Human Resources and
wife Kim, a daughter,
Ayla Filomena, on June
13, 8 pounds, 1 ounce.
Katie Fanara of
Advancement and husMatthew
Fanara
band Matthew, a son,
Matthew Anthony, on
March 16, 7 pounds.
Karen Kruppa
of Risk Management
and husband Steve,
a son, Joshua Martin,
on April 20, 8 pounds,
Joshua Kruppa
11 ounces.
Washington Examiner on June 6. Cobb also
was interviewed about the election June 4
on New England Cable News’s “Road to the
White House.”
George Comeau, Media Services, was
elected chairman of the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners for 2009.
He has served on the commission for five
years.
Erin Evans, Law School, organized
and participated in a workshop, “Critical
Topics Facing Residence Life, Housing, and
Disability Services Professionals,” sponsored
by the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and
the Northeast Association of College and
University Housing Officers (NEACHU)
at Rhode Island College in June. She was
joined by presenters from the Association on
Higher Education Disability (AHEAD), the
University of Connecticut, Lesley University
and Brown University.
Teri Fair, Rachael Cobb and John
Berg, Government, and Nina Huntemann,
Communication and Journalism, met
in July with colleagues from Roxbury
Community College and UMass-Boston
and with members of MassVOTE and the
Boston Election Department to discuss how
to recruit students to serve as poll workers
on Election Day.
Micky Lee,
Communication and
Journalism, and Gary
Bartos were married on
July 8 in Cambridge. Barbecue, a Welsh
Pembroke Corgi, has joined their family.
Sawyer Business School News:
C. Gopinath has been appointed chair
and associate professor of the Strategy and
International Business department.
George Moker was appointed director
of Entrepreneurship programs.
Sheila Simsarian Webber was
named chair and associate professor
of the Organizational Behavior and
Entrepreneurship department.
Kate Schuit, Student Activities, married
Andy Bauer on July 20 in Maryland.
David Yamada, Law School. In May,
he participated in a week-long tornado
storm chase sponsored by Tempest Tours.
The group covered
approximately
3,000 miles
through parts of
Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma and
Tornado in northern
Texas and saw 11
Oklahoma (Photo by
tornadoes. Yamada
David Yamada)
presented a paper
“Multidisciplinary Responses to Workplace
Bullying: Systems, Synergy, and Sweat”
at the Sixth International Conference
on Workplace Bullying, hosted by the
University of Quebec at Montreal in June.
His reflective essay on the conference and
10 years of involvement in the anti-bullying
movement, “Immersion in the Twisted
World of Abuse at Work,” is found at
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/mtlbullyingmain.htm.
Dmitry Zinoviev, Mathematics and
Computer Science, presented the paper
“Topology and Geometry of Online Social
Networks” at the 12th World MultiConference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics.
4 to Receive Heritage Medallions
Deans’ Reception
This year’s Heritage Medallion ceremony will recognize the commitment of four
significant members of the University community. The event will take place on Wednesday,
Sept. 17, in the McLaughlin Moot Court Room.
The recipients are:
• Robert Munce, president, 1954–1960 (posthumous)
• William Coughlin, counselor, Undergraduate Admissions; retired director of admissions
• Herbert Lemelman, professor of law; associate dean, 1975–1991
• Alexandra Todd, professor and former chair of sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
The Deans’ Reception, a traditional and
festive event that brings people throughout the University community together,
will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 25, 2008, at the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston. The University’s Service
Award Program will recognize numerous
colleagues on their tenth, twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of dedication to Suffolk University.
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Exhibit Answers Historical
Group’s Question
When Justina Chu dropped into
the Adams Gallery on the way
to her office in the Law School,
she never expected to find the
final chapter to a story that had
intrigued her as a board member
of the Chinese Historical Society
of New England.
Exhibit designer Joe Viamonte
was in the gallery, installing the
newest exhibit, Stories in Stone:
The Historic Burying Grounds of
Boston.
“I saw the title, and it caught
This gravestone sums up the life
my interest,” said Chu, assistant
and death of “Chow Manderien,
”
budget director in the Law
probably not the young sailor’s real
School Budget Office, who asked
name, according to Justina Chu.
Viamonte about the research that
(Photo by Joseph Viamonte)
had been done for the exhibit.
“I asked if he had information about a headstone for a Chinese
man who had come to Boston on a merchant ship in the 1700s,”
she said.
“He said: ‘Come over here.’ ”
Viamonte then led Chu to a wall panel showing a photo
of a headstone inscribed with the story of 19-year-old “Chow
Manderien,” who had fallen to his death from a mast in 1798.
The stone is in Central Burying Ground, at the edge of the Boston
Common near Boylston Street.
The moment of recognition was an exciting one for Chu. “I
felt like a history detective arriving at a revelation after an elusive
search.”
The Chinese Historical Society had long had a photograph of
the old gravestone, but only part of the inscription was legible in
the photo.
“We were hoping to find the stone and went several times
looking for it in vain,” she said. “The story was incomplete until
Kelly Thomas from the Parks Department showed Joe Viamonte
the stone and they cleaned it. The entire inscription finally came to
light.
“We always knew the stone was in Central Burying Ground,
but we never were able to find it,” said Chu. “In those days, if you
weren’t wealthy, you didn’t get a tombstone at your burial site. The
master must have had high regard for Chow.”
Chu said that Chinese visitors and immigrants of the period
came to New England as students, workers on merchant ships or as
laborers.
The immigrant story is but one of those told through the
exhibit. Boston’s early graveyards hold preachers, patriots, pirates
and slaves, and their lives provide inspiration for Stories in Stone:
The Historic Burying Grounds of Boston.
The exhibit draws on artwork, archival records and photography
to paint a picture of life and culture in Boston dating from the
colony’s first settlement to today. It is at the Adams Gallery through
Oct. 20, 2008.
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Online Archives
to Be Launched this Fall
The University will launch its online archives this fall, offering
access to both the Suffolk and Moakley collections through the
Suffolk/Moakley Archives Research Tool, or SMART, catalog.
The University Archives were established in the 1950s by
Hiram Archer, brother of founder Gleason Archer. They contain
University records dating to 1906 as well as donated collections
of manuscripts, films and books. These collections include the
papers bequeathed by Law School alumnus John Joseph “Joe”
Moakley and the papers of Suffolk University’s founder, Gleason
Archer.
The archives holdings include thousands of files, photographs,
objects and recordings, so an online catalog will make it easy for
faculty, staff and students to search across all the archival holdings
of Suffolk University. The SMART catalog will be available
through the archives Web site at www.suffolk.edu/archive.
“Materials in the University Archives run the gamut from
trustee records to oral histories to photographs to transcripts of
Gleason Archer’s radio programs,” said University Archivist Julia
Collins. “If someone is researching a subject, they can get a grasp
of what’s available in all collections by using the SMART catalog.
It allows them to do initial research at their leisure while sitting at
their desks.”
Researchers will need to contact the archives to see original
documents and to get copies of digital images.
A simple search, such as “Archer and University charter,”
will bring up citations to photographs, oral history interviews,
correspondence and other documents.
Other ways SMART can be used by faculty, staff and students
include:
• Researching the history of a department by browsing through
listings of departmental files, photographs, press releases and
other records.
• Finding information about the history of Suffolk’s buildings
by browsing through building records and plans, photographs, event information and dates
• Learning about the founding of the University through the
University charter, scrapbooks from the early years, news
clippings and other primary sources
• Introducing students to primary source research
• Checking to see if the archives has copies of specific yearbooks and other University publications.
The archives staff is available to help users with their searches.
“We encourage the Suffolk community to use the archives,
whether for classroom materials, background information for
publications, personal research or other projects,” said Collins.
Heritage Honorees
Exhibit Solves History Mystery
Archives Go Online
September 2008 • Vol. 34, No. 5
Udderly Outrageous
New Provost, VP of Academic Affairs
For Lou Greenwald, standing out in a
crowd has become a moo-ving experience.
The Super Bowl. Boston Marathon.
Major concerts. Weddings and special events.
Whatever the venue, Greenwald is certain to
be conspicuous in his habitual cow costume.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time, and
it’s a lot of fun,” said the senior assistant
director of Undergraduate Admission. “I get
quite a reaction wherever I go.”
Greenwald has been a disc jockey for 17
years and is the proud owner of Cowman
Productions.
He began dressing up in a cow costume
at public events about 15 years ago. “A
bunch of us were going to an Aerosmith
New Year’s Eve concert, and a buddy of
mine dared me to wear the costume,” said
Greenwald. “It was in the trunk of my car,
because when I first worked as a DJ, I would
wear various costumes when I played.
Greenwald has worn his cow outfit to the
2002 and 2004 Super Bowls, cheering the
New England Patriots to victory each time.
He was in costume three of the 10 times he
ran the Boston Marathon.
This summer, Greenwald, in his cow
attire, attended the Pearl Jam concert at the
Comcast Center in Mansfield. The popular
rock ’n’ roll group asked him up on stage to
The University has made two key appointments to its leadership team. Longtime Law School Professor Barry Brown has
been named provost, and Janice C. Griffith, former dean of
Georgia State University College of Law, has been selected as
vice president for Academic Affairs.
“We are very excited that these two distinguished educators
will be contributing their unique talents to the University’s
academic environment during this time of programmatic
growth both here at our Boston campus and abroad,” said
President David J. Sargent.
Brown joined Suffolk University Law School in 1976 and
Barry Brown
has taught Property, Land Transfer and Finance, Professional
Responsibility, and Biomedical Law and Public Policy.
“Professor Brown has been a superb teacher and has created exceptional programming as director of the Law School’s
concentration in health and biomedical law,” said Sargent.
Brown began his legal career with Goulston and Storrs,
Boston, then served as first assistant bar counsel and
counsel to the Clients’ Security Board as prosecutor for the
Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers in a number of important cases, including the reinstatement of Alger Hiss.
He is widely published and wrote one of the first legal
works on condominium law in the nation and one of the first
Janice C. Griffith
articles concerning property interests in genetic engineering,
published by the Stanford Journal of Law and Public Policy. He also founded and is the
faculty adviser to Suffolk’s Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.
Brown holds an A.B from Harvard College, an Ed.M. from Harvard School of
Education and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
“I am proud to have the opportunity to work more closely with President Sargent
and my colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences, Sawyer Business School and
Law School. Together we will join the many currents of the University’s three academic
units for the benefit of our students,” said Brown. “We have the hope of creating true
educational and economic opportunities for our graduates and preparing them for an
increasingly complex and internationalized world.”
Griffith’s legal expertise is focused on state and local government law, regionalism and
metropolitan growth issues. She became interested in higher education administration
during a year as an American Council on Education fellow at Ohio State University.
“Dean Griffith, in emphasizing contributions to public policy as she led Georgia
State University College of Law, has shown an intrinsic understanding of the Suffolk
University spirit of service,” said Sargent.
As dean, she oversaw the development of partnerships with other institutions and the
creation of two interdisciplinary centers, one for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan
Growth and the other for Health Law community partnerships. She also established
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Lou Greenwald with Pearl Jam.
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Provost, VP
Faculty Publications
Continued from page 1
three new joint degree programs focused on connecting legal
studies with Philosophy, Health Administration, and City and
Regional Planning.
Griffith holds a B.A. from Colby College and a J.D. from the
University of Chicago Law School.
“Suffolk’s mission of creating opportunities for students and
access to excellence resonates with me,” said Griffith. “I firmly
believe in the University’s focus on quality teaching and strong
faculty/student interactions. Nothing is more important than
teaching students the communication, analytical and interpersonal skills they will need to become effective leaders in our 21st
century global society.”
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perform with them—the third time they’ve issued him that
invitation.
“At concerts, wearing the costume definitely helps me get
better seats,” said Greenwald, whose New Hampshire home is
filled with ceramic and cast-iron cow statuettes. “I also get to go
backstage, meet and greet people, and get music memorabilia.”
Suffolk Athletic Director Jim Nelson remembers when
Greenwald, now an assistant cross-country coach for the Rams,
competed during his undergraduate days—wearing the cow
costume. “Lou is a unique individual who was legendary as a student athlete,” says Nelson. “He was like a cult figure. Opposing
coaches would ask the Suffolk coach before every meet, ‘Is the
cow coming?’”
Asked how long he plans to slip out of his shirt and tie and
into his cow costume, Greenwald responded quickly: “As long as
I’m having fun.”
Relay Race Winners
The Suffolk team of Dan
Hassan, student athlete; Kyle
Linn MacQueen, Marketing
department; Will Feldman,
Undergraduate Admissions and
assistant cross-country coach;
Nicholas Cifuentes, cross-country
alumnus; Matt Stass, student athlete; and Isaac Stahl, alumni liaison to
Athletics and tennis coach, took first place in the “24-Hour Around-theLake Relay” at Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield. Feldman organized the
relay as a fundraiser for the University’s Cross-Country program. The
group ran 175 miles in 24 hours and raised $1,300.
Micky Lee, Communication and Journalism, had the article “A
feminist political economic understanding of the relations between
state, market and civil society from Beijing and Tunis” published in
the July issue of Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos de la Fuente Marcos,
Madrid Campus. Their article, “Confined chaotic motion in threebody resonances: trapping of trans-Neptunian material induced by
gas-drag,” was published in the British journal, Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 388, No. 1, July 8, 2008, pp.
293–306.
Ruth Ann McEwen, associate dean of accreditation and administration, Sawyer Business School, and professor of accounting, has
co-authored Asset Retirement Obligations, the portfolio guidance
issued from the Accounting Policy & Practice Series of BNA (Bureau
of National Affairs, Inc.).
Jennifer O’Connor-Duffy, Education and Human Services,
has published a book Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College,
1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical
Context.
Anthony Polito, Law School, published the article “Trade or
Business within the United States as an Interpretive Problem under
the Internal Revenue Code: Five Propositions” in Hastings Business
Law Journal, Vol. 4, 251, spring 2008.
Human Resources News
New Faces
Please welcome our newest employees:
Meaghan Agnew, Law School Dean’s office
Carrie Baldassari, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office
Eric Belson, NESAD
Kathleen Blanchard, Law Registrar’s Office
Christine Butler, Law Clinical Programs
Jonathan Darden, Undergraduate Admission
Richard DeCapua, Student Affairs Office
Jamie Depelteau, Residence Life, 10 Somerset Street
Annette Donahue, Law School
Kyle Dooley, Student Activities & Service Learning
Stephanie Fougy, Math & Computer Science
Brian Gowdy, Vice President–Treasurer’s Office
Karina Holmes, Budget Office
Geert Kinthaert, Information Technology Services
Martha Leibs-Heckly, Advancement
Carol Levine, Residence Life, 10 West Street
Li Li, Accounts Payable Services
Brittany Lonero, Center for International Education
and Madrid campus
Jeremiah Mankin, Academic Computing,
T h e S UN is publ ished by:
Office of Public Affairs
73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-573-8447
sun@suffolk.edu
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Executive Editor
Greg Gatlin
Managing Editor
Nancy Kelleher
College of Arts and Sciences
Staff Writers
Karen DeCilio
Tony Ferullo
Design
Heather Clark
Erin McLaughlin, Public Management
Monique Mitchell, Residence Life, 10 Somerset Street
Seana Quental, Law Grad Program (LLM)
Megan Sutherland, Information Technology Services
Antonio Viola, Facilities Management
Potpourri
John Berg, Government, was appointed to
the editorial board of Marxist Interventions,
a new online refereed journal in Canberra,
Australia. In October, he will present a
paper “Only in Massachusetts? The Struggle
over Same-Sex Marriage in the Bay State”
at the Fellows Seminar of the Rothermere
American Institute, University of Oxford.
Rachael Cobb, Government. Her comments on the presidential race appeared in
the Philadelphia Bulletin on June 12 and the
Birth
Announcements
Congratulations to
these Suffolk families
on the new additions to
their families:
Ayla Dillaby
Edwin Dillaby of
Human Resources and
wife Kim, a daughter,
Ayla Filomena, on June
13, 8 pounds, 1 ounce.
Katie Fanara of
Advancement and husMatthew
Fanara
band Matthew, a son,
Matthew Anthony, on
March 16, 7 pounds.
Karen Kruppa
of Risk Management
and husband Steve,
a son, Joshua Martin,
on April 20, 8 pounds,
Joshua Kruppa
11 ounces.
Washington Examiner on June 6. Cobb also
was interviewed about the election June 4
on New England Cable News’s “Road to the
White House.”
George Comeau, Media Services, was
elected chairman of the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners for 2009.
He has served on the commission for five
years.
Erin Evans, Law School, organized
and participated in a workshop, “Critical
Topics Facing Residence Life, Housing, and
Disability Services Professionals,” sponsored
by the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and
the Northeast Association of College and
University Housing Officers (NEACHU)
at Rhode Island College in June. She was
joined by presenters from the Association on
Higher Education Disability (AHEAD), the
University of Connecticut, Lesley University
and Brown University.
Teri Fair, Rachael Cobb and John
Berg, Government, and Nina Huntemann,
Communication and Journalism, met
in July with colleagues from Roxbury
Community College and UMass-Boston
and with members of MassVOTE and the
Boston Election Department to discuss how
to recruit students to serve as poll workers
on Election Day.
Micky Lee,
Communication and
Journalism, and Gary
Bartos were married on
July 8 in Cambridge. Barbecue, a Welsh
Pembroke Corgi, has joined their family.
Sawyer Business School News:
C. Gopinath has been appointed chair
and associate professor of the Strategy and
International Business department.
George Moker was appointed director
of Entrepreneurship programs.
Sheila Simsarian Webber was
named chair and associate professor
of the Organizational Behavior and
Entrepreneurship department.
Kate Schuit, Student Activities, married
Andy Bauer on July 20 in Maryland.
David Yamada, Law School. In May,
he participated in a week-long tornado
storm chase sponsored by Tempest Tours.
The group covered
approximately
3,000 miles
through parts of
Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma and
Tornado in northern
Texas and saw 11
Oklahoma (Photo by
tornadoes. Yamada
David Yamada)
presented a paper
“Multidisciplinary Responses to Workplace
Bullying: Systems, Synergy, and Sweat”
at the Sixth International Conference
on Workplace Bullying, hosted by the
University of Quebec at Montreal in June.
His reflective essay on the conference and
10 years of involvement in the anti-bullying
movement, “Immersion in the Twisted
World of Abuse at Work,” is found at
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/mtlbullyingmain.htm.
Dmitry Zinoviev, Mathematics and
Computer Science, presented the paper
“Topology and Geometry of Online Social
Networks” at the 12th World MultiConference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics.
4 to Receive Heritage Medallions
Deans’ Reception
This year’s Heritage Medallion ceremony will recognize the commitment of four
significant members of the University community. The event will take place on Wednesday,
Sept. 17, in the McLaughlin Moot Court Room.
The recipients are:
• Robert Munce, president, 1954–1960 (posthumous)
• William Coughlin, counselor, Undergraduate Admissions; retired director of admissions
• Herbert Lemelman, professor of law; associate dean, 1975–1991
• Alexandra Todd, professor and former chair of sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
The Deans’ Reception, a traditional and
festive event that brings people throughout the University community together,
will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 25, 2008, at the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston. The University’s Service
Award Program will recognize numerous
colleagues on their tenth, twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of dedication to Suffolk University.
September 20 08
3
Exhibit Answers Historical
Group’s Question
When Justina Chu dropped into
the Adams Gallery on the way
to her office in the Law School,
she never expected to find the
final chapter to a story that had
intrigued her as a board member
of the Chinese Historical Society
of New England.
Exhibit designer Joe Viamonte
was in the gallery, installing the
newest exhibit, Stories in Stone:
The Historic Burying Grounds of
Boston.
“I saw the title, and it caught
This gravestone sums up the life
my interest,” said Chu, assistant
and death of “Chow Manderien,
”
budget director in the Law
probably not the young sailor’s real
School Budget Office, who asked
name, according to Justina Chu.
Viamonte about the research that
(Photo by Joseph Viamonte)
had been done for the exhibit.
“I asked if he had information about a headstone for a Chinese
man who had come to Boston on a merchant ship in the 1700s,”
she said.
“He said: ‘Come over here.’ ”
Viamonte then led Chu to a wall panel showing a photo
of a headstone inscribed with the story of 19-year-old “Chow
Manderien,” who had fallen to his death from a mast in 1798.
The stone is in Central Burying Ground, at the edge of the Boston
Common near Boylston Street.
The moment of recognition was an exciting one for Chu. “I
felt like a history detective arriving at a revelation after an elusive
search.”
The Chinese Historical Society had long had a photograph of
the old gravestone, but only part of the inscription was legible in
the photo.
“We were hoping to find the stone and went several times
looking for it in vain,” she said. “The story was incomplete until
Kelly Thomas from the Parks Department showed Joe Viamonte
the stone and they cleaned it. The entire inscription finally came to
light.
“We always knew the stone was in Central Burying Ground,
but we never were able to find it,” said Chu. “In those days, if you
weren’t wealthy, you didn’t get a tombstone at your burial site. The
master must have had high regard for Chow.”
Chu said that Chinese visitors and immigrants of the period
came to New England as students, workers on merchant ships or as
laborers.
The immigrant story is but one of those told through the
exhibit. Boston’s early graveyards hold preachers, patriots, pirates
and slaves, and their lives provide inspiration for Stories in Stone:
The Historic Burying Grounds of Boston.
The exhibit draws on artwork, archival records and photography
to paint a picture of life and culture in Boston dating from the
colony’s first settlement to today. It is at the Adams Gallery through
Oct. 20, 2008.
4
SUN
Online Archives
to Be Launched this Fall
The University will launch its online archives this fall, offering
access to both the Suffolk and Moakley collections through the
Suffolk/Moakley Archives Research Tool, or SMART, catalog.
The University Archives were established in the 1950s by
Hiram Archer, brother of founder Gleason Archer. They contain
University records dating to 1906 as well as donated collections
of manuscripts, films and books. These collections include the
papers bequeathed by Law School alumnus John Joseph “Joe”
Moakley and the papers of Suffolk University’s founder, Gleason
Archer.
The archives holdings include thousands of files, photographs,
objects and recordings, so an online catalog will make it easy for
faculty, staff and students to search across all the archival holdings
of Suffolk University. The SMART catalog will be available
through the archives Web site at www.suffolk.edu/archive.
“Materials in the University Archives run the gamut from
trustee records to oral histories to photographs to transcripts of
Gleason Archer’s radio programs,” said University Archivist Julia
Collins. “If someone is researching a subject, they can get a grasp
of what’s available in all collections by using the SMART catalog.
It allows them to do initial research at their leisure while sitting at
their desks.”
Researchers will need to contact the archives to see original
documents and to get copies of digital images.
A simple search, such as “Archer and University charter,”
will bring up citations to photographs, oral history interviews,
correspondence and other documents.
Other ways SMART can be used by faculty, staff and students
include:
• Researching the history of a department by browsing through
listings of departmental files, photographs, press releases and
other records.
• Finding information about the history of Suffolk’s buildings
by browsing through building records and plans, photographs, event information and dates
• Learning about the founding of the University through the
University charter, scrapbooks from the early years, news
clippings and other primary sources
• Introducing students to primary source research
• Checking to see if the archives has copies of specific yearbooks and other University publications.
The archives staff is available to help users with their searches.
“We encourage the Suffolk community to use the archives,
whether for classroom materials, background information for
publications, personal research or other projects,” said Collins.