Fun Facts

Favorites:

Food: Salmon
Ice cream flavor: chocolate butter fudge from Ritchey's Dairy in Martinsburg, PA
Movies: Casablanca, The Graduate, The Wizard of Oz, Schindler's List and The Christmas Story
Song: "Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zepplin
Books and authors: Slaughter House Five (Kurt Vonnegut); Possession (A.S. Byatt); Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand); Little Women (Louisa May Alcott); Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens); Walden Pond (Thoreau); Frankenstein (Shelley); Huck Finn (Twain); Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabrial Garcia Marques); Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis); Treasure Island (R.L. Stevenson) … I love to read.
City: New Orleans

Subaru station wagon

Mowing grass

Telling a faculty member who I had recruited and hired that she earned tenure and promotion
Our college's first commencement ceremony and watching our first graduates receive their degrees
Kjell Meling's retirement party
Presenting Dr. Athleen Stere with a $50,000 check that fully endowed the Trustee Matching Scholarship in her name.

Watching a student who is struggling to understand a concept or an assignment "get it" and do well
Having a student get accepted into graduate school
Hearing from students years after they've taken a class with me tell me that I changed their lives

first female professor at Penn State Altoona

raising three terrific, fun-loving, intelligent, caring and mannerly children

my mother and Mother Teresa