Society Wrap-Up
Science Journal -- Spring 1996 -- Vol 13, No. 2
Stanley Bushkoff, '53 B.S. PM, consultant in orthopaedic surgery; Dr. John H. Cardellina II, '68 B.S. Chem, head of the Natural Products Chemistry Section, Laboratory of Drug Discovery Research and Development at the National Institutes of Health; and I. Janet Kramer, '64 B.S. PM, director of adolescent medicine at the Medical Center of Delaware, have been elected to membership on the Board of Directors of the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society, effective April 1996. Reelected to serve an additional term are incumbents Dr. Arthur C. Aikin, Jr., '56 M.S. Phys, '60 Ph.D. Phys, senior scientist at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; Dr. David A. Diehl, '73 M.S. Chem, manager of radiation technology at PPG Industries, Inc.; Mr. George J. Marshalek, Jr., '75 B.S. Math and CmpSc, president of Healthcare Data Interchange Corporation; and Ms. Catherine Yandel, '79 B.S. CmpSc, vice president and director of Navy Programs for BTG, Inc.
Honored at the Fall 1995 meeting on October 15 were retiring directors David G. Jones, '61 B.S. PM, an ophthalmologist; Mr. Alfred A. Paradise, Jr., '73 B.S. CmpSc, lead scientist at MITRE Corporation; and Dr. James D. Vidra, '67 M.S. Biochem, '70 Ph.D. Biochem, research director for Dentsply International.
Officers elected for 1995-96 were President Dr. Thomas L. Reissmann, '42 B.S. Chem, '47 M.S. Chem, '49 Ph.D. Chem, a consultant; Vice-President Mr. Nicholas Pelick, '59 B.S. Biochem, '64 M.S. Biochem, a consultant and the retired president and chief executive officer of Supelco, Inc.; and Secretary/Treasurer Mr. Louis A. Martarano, '76 B.S. Sc, director at Merrill Lynch & Company.
Information about the Eberly
College of Science Alumni Society or membership on its Board of Directors
can be obtained from Suzanne Sinclair Grieb, Assistant Director of Alumni
Relations, 430 Classroom Building, University Park, PA 16802, by telephone
at (814) 863-4683, or by e-mail at sds6@psu.edu.
The Board of Directors of the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society has established the Outstanding Science Alumni Award. The award will recognize outstanding science alumni for their success as leaders in science and for the impact they have had and will continue to have on society and their professions. Awardees will be invited to return to campus for a visit to interact with alumni, faculty, and students. In particular, the awardees would provide outstanding role models for current students. The first honorees will be recognized during the Fall semester of 1996.
All alumni of the Eberly College of Science are considered eligible
for the award, with the exception of current college faculty or staff members
and previous recipients of the University's Alumni Fellow and Distinguished
Alumni Award. Nominations can be made in writing to Suzanne Sinclair Grieb,
Assistant Director of Alumni Relations, 430 Classroom Building, University
Park, PA 16802.
A new Alumni Society endowment was approved by the Board of Directors at the Fall 1995 board meeting. Titled "The Eberly College of Science Alumni Society Board Endowment," the fund will provide monies to the Eberly College of Science to support activities and programs that will enhance the educational and research missions of the college. These activities and programs may include undergraduate and graduate scholarships and awards; faculty awards; outreach, continuing education, and community programs and activities; travel funding for students or faculty; research-related expenses for students or faculty; or reference materials and resources to aid students or faculty.
The initial principal of the endowment, $10,000, is to be received from
members of the Eberly
College of Science Alumni Society Board of Directors. However, additional
contributions to the principal may be made by members of the Alumni Society
at large or by other interested persons or organizations. Contributions
can be mailed to the Office of Alumni Relations and Development, Eberly
College of Science, 430 Classroom Building, University Park, PA 16802.
For the second straight year, the Penn State Alumni Association is inviting all alumni and friends to participate in its National Service Week campaign. This special program presents individuals and alumni groups across the country with unique opportunities to perform service-oriented tasks that benefit their local communities in the name of Penn State.
Last spring, eighty-five alumni groups, including six college societies and eight campus societies, conducted service projects before, during, and after the designated week. Alumni groups and individuals joined forces with organizations such as the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Humane Society of the United States, Special Olympics, Leukemia Society of America, Habitat for Humanity, homeless shelters, food banks, and numerous other local community-service agencies to perform projects.
Across the nation, Penn State alumni organizations sponsored community-service projects that were extremely diverse. The projects included such activities as environmental cleanups, food and clothing drives, home-building projects, fund-raising campaigns, and social activities for the disadvantaged.
For more information on National Service Week or opportunities for involvement
in your area, please contact your local Penn State alumni organization
or the Alumni Association office at University Park at 814-865-6516.
Penn State's Lion JobLine, a computerized job-listing service that Penn State alumni and students can tap into with a touchtone phone, has received thousands of phone calls from job-hunters since the service went on-line in August 1995.
To use the service, call 814-863-JOBS and follow the computer-generated voice prompts to get the job information you want. You will need a password, which is changed every six months. The current password is GO-NITS (466487). To obtain future passwords, call the Penn State Career Development and Placement Office on the University Park Campus at 814-863-0226.
The Lion JobLine lets you use the touchtone buttons on your phone to:
The system's voice prompts guide job seekers through more than fifty
kinds of job categories in nine major areas, including:
"Twenty-four hours a day, Penn State alumni and students can reach
Lion JobLine from anywhere in the world," says Jack Rayman, director of
career development and placement services at Penn State. "On the system
at any given time are listings of 100 to 200 current jobs at local, regional,
national, and international corporations. We list about 100 new jobs every
week," Rayman says.
Lion JobLine is supported by a $25,000 grant from the Prudential
Foundation.
Being connected is what the Penn State Alumni Association is all about, according to a note on the association's World Wide Web site?one of the newest ways the association is helping alumni keep in touch. The site, known as "OnLion," has had more than 26,000 "hits," or visits from Penn Staters located all over the world.
"One of the coolest things about OnLion is the guestbook," says Gigi Marino, associate editor of alumni publications. Thousands of alumni have written notes in the guestbook about their careers, their families, their whereabouts, their feelings about Penn State sports, and other issues. They also reach out to other Penn Staters with notes like: "Anybody from 5th floor Porter between years 1984 and 1987 out there drop me a line" and "I would like to hear from Nittany Lions in the Tidewater, Virginia, area."
OnLion also includes Penn State sports schedules, Penn State press releases, The Football Letter, information on continuing and distance education, weather in Happy Valley, The Penn Stater, reunions and other alumni events, news features about discounted commercial services for Penn State alumni, and many other features. To reach OnLion, address your Web browser to:
For more information about OnLion, contact Thomas Moore, associate director
for information systems, Penn State Alumni Association, 105 Old Main, University
Park, PA 16802, phone: 814-863-2805, e-mail: tam1@psu.edu.