Clarion University APSCURF 2012-13 Memorial Scholarships

For the past fourteenth years the Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF, The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Retired Faculty, has awarded scholarships through Clarion University Foundation honoring their deceased colleagues.  At their Fall Dinner and Meeting on October 23rd the tradition continued for its fifteenth year.  The Memorial Resolution is as follows.

Whereas, The Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF approved on April 21, 2005, two annual memorial scholarships of $1,000 each;

Resolved, That the 2012-13 scholarships be designated memorials for our deceased colleagues

Frank Battista 01/03/12 Education

Dolph O. Cook 07/28/12 Biology

Alastair T. Crawford 04/02/12 History

Robert E. Crawford 07/14/12 Geography

Kenneth F. Emerick 11/24/11 Library

John W. Hach Jr 02/19/12 Mathematics

Nancy Shaw McKee 01/15/12

John Mellon 04/06/12 English

Lawrence L. Penny o3/23/12 Psychology

Donald Wilson 02/10/12 English

Robert M. Yoho Sr 12/06/11 Education

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Clarion University APSCURF 2011-12 Memorial Scholarships

For the past thirteen years the Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF, The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Retired Faculty, has awarded scholarships through Clarion University Foundation honoring their deceased colleagues.  At their Fall Dinner and Meeting on October 11th the tradition continued for its fourteenth year.  The Memorial Resolution is as follows.

Whereas, The Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF approved on April 21, 2005, two annual memorial scholarships of $1,000 each;

Resolved, That the 2011-12 scholarships be designated memorials for our deceased colleagues

Bernard L. Bienio 10/23/10 Business Administration

Bruce H. Dinsmore 12/09/10 Biology

Ronald E. Ditz 08/10/11 Administrative Science

Daniel Fecko 05/01/10 Mathematics

William J. Karl 12/11/10 English

Mohammad I. Khan 04/05/11 History

Robert G. McElhattan 04/20/11 Education

James Rex Mitchell 03/05/11 Music

Hugh Park 12/30/09 English

Joseph Richard Spence 09/12/11 Art

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Mary E. Shaner Scholarships For 2011

 

The Mary E. Shaner Scholarships for 2011 were recently awarded; and they went to Katie Kohlenberg who plans to attend Clarion University, Bryan Botts who plans to attend Clarion University, and James Gillen who plans to attend Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

In the photograph, from left to right, are Katie Kohlenberg, KHS Principal Vicky Walters, Bryan Botts, and James Gillen.

Mary E. Shaner was a life time resident of the Knox area.  Her career was spent first in local classrooms, and then as librarian at Keystone High School, Knox PA.  A bequest in her will established the scholarship fund at Keystone that bears her name, entrusted to the Clarion County Community Foundation, an affiliate of Bridge Builders Community Foundations.  Charles Marlin

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Knox Library Light Shines Bright

The best news since moveable type has come to the Knox Public Library.  With cuts in state aid a yearly event, there is not a public library in Clarion County that is not starved for good news.  This is better news than all delinquent borrowers returning their overdue books and paying their full fines.

An anonymous donor has through the services of Clarion University Foundation given $120,000 to the library to help them relocate to their own building.  The library board in response, negotiated with the Clarion Forest VNA and have an agreement to purchase the current office building of the Clarion Forest VNA for $65,000.

Clarion Forest VNA will move to be close to the Clarion Hospital in Monroe Township.  The Knox Public Library will move down Main Street to their first stand alone building.

This is a wonderful move for the library, but for it to succeed and also expand services, the Knox community has to step forward in mass and give as they have never given before.  The building needs upgrades, and as everyone knows, owning your own home does not come cheap.  There are new yearly expenses.  There are emergencies.  There are costs to looking loved and well cared for.

You have hopefully already responded to the library’s yearly letter asking for support.  Expect more appeals for support.  Please don’t think of them as a burden because they are first and foremost an opportunity to build your community.

If you decide you would like to make a bequest in your will to create an endowed fund for the Knox Public Library, then the Clarion County Community Foundation are the people for you to talk to.  We are a Commonwealth chartered nonprofit authorized to serve as trustee for community endowments.  We protect and grow those endowments in perpetuity.

When a fund contract is signed by CCCF and you, your family, or your executor, you know with certainty your wishes will be followed as to purpose and administration of your endowment.

You may contact the CCCF President Dr. Jerry Belloit, home (814) 227-2673, or cell (814) 221-5537; or our Interim Executive Director Dr. Bill Kaufman, home (814) 226-8216, CELL (814) 229-8622; or call me at (814) 797-2233.  Charles Marlin

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Clarion University APSCURF 2010-11 Memorial Scholarships

For the past twelve years the Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF, The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Retired Faculty, has awarded scholarships through the Clarion University Foundation honoring their deceased colleagues.  At their Fall Dinner and Meeting on October 13th the tradition was continued for its thirteenth year.  The Memorial Resolution is as follows.

       Whereas, The Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF approved on April 21, 2005, two annual memorial scholarships of $1,000 each;

       Resolved, That the 2010-2011 scholarships be designated memorials for our deceased colleagues

Douglas M. Best 12/02/09 Mathematics

Margaret Jane Van Ess Buckwalter 08/25/10 Library

Frank M. Clark 05/23/10 Speech Communication and Theatre

James H. Cole 06/28/10 Communication

Bob H. Copeland 01/17/10 Speech Communication and Theatre

Richard A. Couch 06/20/09 Education, Athletics

Vincent J. Current 08/05/09 Health and Physical Education, Athletics

Helen Knuth 09/29/10 History

Gustav A. Konitzky 02/03/10 Anthropology

John M. McLean 10/07/09 Music

Robert L. Northy 09/16/10 Mathematics

Richard K. Redfern 08/03/10 English

John R. Reish, Jr. 10/17/09 Athletics

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Clarion University APSCURF Memorial Scholarships

For the past eleven years the Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF, The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Retired Faculty, has awarded scholarships through the Clarion University Foundation honoring their deceased colleagues.  At their Fall Dinner and Meeting on October 15th the tradition was continued for its twelfth year.  The Memorial Resolution is as follows.

       Whereas, The Clarion University Chapter of APSCURF approved on April 21, 2005, two annual memorial scholarships of $1,000 each;

       Resolved, That the 2009-2010 scholarships be designated memorials for our deceased colleagues

Paul E. Beck  01/12/09  Chemistry

John B. Cliff, Jr.  11/25/08  Mathematics

Vincent J. Curran  08/05/09  Health and Physical Education, Athletics

Robert Dean Hobbs  06/19/09  Art

Kristin Linda Marshall  07/26/09  Mass Media Arts, Journalism, and Communication Studies

John M. McLean  10/07/09  Music

Suzanne Louis P-Jobb  05/23/09  Modern Languages and Cultures

Roy H. Schreffler  05/22/09  Special Education

Dana S. Still  07/23/09  English

Norman Tannehill  01/05/09  Computer Information Science

Silas Townsend  02/05/09  Library

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Sister Kathryn Disbrow’s Jubilee

The Derrick for June 11th carrried a story about new jubilee Benedictine Sisters of Erie, one of whom has ties to Clarion County, Sister Kathryn Disbrow.  Declining to comment on how much I enjoy retirement, I thought it proper to congratulate her and say continue the good work.

Here is what The Derrick had to say, “Disbrow graduated in 1957  from Saint Benedict Academy, and she made her final profession of vows on Aug. 16, 1962.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Mercyhurst College and a master’s degree in elementary mathematics from Clarion State University.  She also holds a master’s degree in administration from the University of Dayton and is certified in early childhood development.

Her local assignments included serving as an elementary teacher at Immaculate Conception school in Clarion and as both a teacher and principal at St. Joseph and St. Stephen schools in Oil City.  She also taught in CCD programs at Clarion.

Disbrow returned to Erie in 1981, first to administer the newly established East Coast Migrant Head Start program and then to assist in the Benedictine community’s business office.  She was later the community treasurer.

She is now the lead teacher in the infants’ room at St. Benedict Child Development Center; in that role she is serving as the children’s first teacher.”

Through the generosity of the Immaculate Conception Parish and Father Monty Sayers, the Clarion County Community Foundation holds Board meetings in the IC Parish Meeting Room, a place the good sister knows well.  Charles Marlin

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Do You Want To Play House?

When I read the announcement for a poverty simulation at Clarion University it seemed a quarter turn off or maybe just hairbrained.  Of what use is a faux empathy roll playing exercise?   A professional poverty chaser has a set idea of what poverty is all about.  Their paycheck depends on their knowing.  The non-professional willing to go to a daytime workshop is surely not clueless.  As for what it is to be poor, no workshop can begin to demonstrate better than past experiences.  When a kid weighing 90 pounds picks 300 pounds of cotton in a day, he knows poor.

So what follows is the full announcement plus three short postings I googled on the definition of poverty stricken and being poor.

Community Action, Inc. (Serving Clarion and Jefferson Counties) & The Clarion County Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) Team cordially invite you to attend a POVERTY SIMULATION Thursday, May 21, 2009, 1:00pm to 3:00pm at Clarion University Gemmell Student Center, Multi-Purpose Room.  To RSVP contact: Robert Hanley at (814) 226-4785, extension 208 by Monday, May 11, 2009.  Pre-registration is required.  The Poverty Simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month.  Please join us in gaining an understanding of the realities faced by low-income people in your community.

I thought these three postings were the better of the lot available and you can read them in minutes.  You’ll know the difference between living in poverty and being poor before you get to Clarion University even if you still don’t know why poverty is so infectious and intractable.  If they call for questions, ask that one.

Asymmetrical Information: The poor really are different by Jane Galt is yours at www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005450   Lana Evans has posted The difference between being poor and being Poverty Stricken at www.helium.com/items/619071   Dr. Davis, poor thing grew up without a first name, has a second posting Poor versus Poverty: Two Different Cultures at www.teachingcollegeenglish.com/2009/02/23   Charles Marlin

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Names Hidden At Clarion University

I can not claim to have found this tidbit on my own as another university retiree pointed out to me that Wikipedia gives and perhaps withholds unique information about the university.  Under Notable alumni, there are seven graduates associated with athletics, one deceased legislator, and one talk radio personality, but there is no one from science, business, academia, armed services, literature, philanthropy, or the arts.  Doesn’t that make for a rather strange picture?

Nothing is said of any past or present faculty who have distinguished national accomplishments.  Perhaps Wikipedia does not allow such listing or perhaps someone thought we had none to list.  Who knows?

No one has ever found Joe Grunenwald, our CU president, short on an answer to any question within a hundred mile radius of the university, so where are the answers Joe?  We’ve been around since 1867.  Ain’t we got’em?  Charles Marlin

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A Clarion County Collection: Post Cards & Photographs

Kevin D. Beichner has self-published a runaway best seller for the holiday season in Clarion County. His A Clarion County Collection: Post Cards & Photographs sells for $20 at locations scattered through out the county. By soliciting help from many residents he has images of every town and township. There are great shots of buildings and bridges, rivers, streets and stores, and Clarion University through its early years.

On page 167 he claims to have an early photograph of the Wayside Inn but if you use a magnifying glass the third man from the left looks like Chris Kurtzhal. Judge for yourself.

On page 75 he has a great early photograph of Seminary Hall, perhaps earlier than the post card reproduced here. When I came to the campus Seminary Hall was still in use. I didn’t teach in the building but I did administer final exams there. When the dunderheaded administration decided it was in the way, appeals did no good as administrators know best because they are administrators. Al Pfaff made a great photographic record of their effort over several unscheduled days to bring down the “unsafe” building. What they put on the site was and remains ugly.

A later administration erected a faux bell tower near the site but even students’ whose parents were not born when Old Seminary came down can sense that the faux tower neither stands nor rings in a league with what was lost. The faux tower will serve a purpose if it reminds the present and future administrations that heritage is not a commodity and that savaging heritage is antithetical to the being of a university. Charles Marlin

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