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15 INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL
HONORARY ALPHA CHI
For immediate release February 27, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Fifteen Thiel College students were recently
inducted into the Theta chapter of Alpha Chi, a national honorary society that recognizes students who have achieved
high academic standing.
Alpha Chi is the highest ranking academic honor one can earn
at Thiel College.
Invitations are given to full-time junior and senior students.
Seniors must have achieved a grade point average of 3.6 and rank in the top 10 percent of their class. Junior students
must have attained a grade point average of 3.7 and rank in the top five percent of their class. Initiates must
also demonstrate a wide variety of course selection as undergraduates.
This spring's inductees are:
 Jamie Andrews,
a junior from Sligo, Pa.
Melissa Fleeger,
a junior from West Sunbury, Pa.
Theresa Galluzzo,
a junior from Masontown, Pa.
Tiffany Goble,
a junior from Mentor, Ohio
Lisa Goodell,
a junior from Mantua, Ohio
Tamara Gruskiewicz,
senior from Andover, Ohio
Traci Marriott,
a senior from Altoona, Pa.
Michelle Morocco,
a junior from Transfer, Pa.
Patricia Piotrowski,
a junior from North East, Pa.
Lisa Rhoades,
a senior from Greenville, Pa.
Kelly Rhodes,
a junior from Conneaut Lake, Pa.
Jean Sernik,
a senior from Greenville, Pa.
Kathleen Thompson,
a junior from Greenville, Pa.
Ruth Anne Warrington,
a junior from Cochranton, Pa.
Amanda Wolbert,
a junior from Sligo, Pa.
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THIEL COLLEGE CHOIR
LEAVES FOR SPRING BREAK TOUR
For immediate release February 26, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - The Thiel College Choir will begin its annual spring break tour with a Friday, March 2 performance
in Marietta, Ohio.
The choir, which consists of 43 students, will perform at nine churches in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina
before returning to Pennsylvania for its March 16 concert at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenville and its
March 25 performance at the First Presbyterian Church in Sharon.
Directed by Dr. Michael Bray and accompanied by Kathryn Gray, the choir will perform works by Bach, Pachelbel and
Mendelssohn, as well as a collection of hymns, spirituals and folk songs.
Thiel Choir members include E'milie Bash, Matthew Beacher, Angela Bentzel, Carla Bojarski, Jesse Brogan, Joshua
Cagno, April Clayton, Erik Cornelius, Rob Dillon, Joseph Dunn, John Erickson, Brian Evans, Melissa Fleeger, Kylene
Fosmer, John Frey, John Galbraith, Kristin Gillespie, Ryan Gloyer, Michael Harpst, Emily Hartman, Stephen Isler,
Erika Jones, Jinju Kwon, Nathan Leard, Nicholas Lias, Yoshiko Makita, Amanda McKeehan, Jennifer Myers, Garyn Orr,
Clare O'Toole, Jenica Repik, Jill Schultheis, Anna Schultz, David Shaddinger, Hwajin Song, Michael Sourwine, Meghan
Speer, Amber Trozzi, Nathan Vanderella, Allen Varner, Jeffrey Williams and Kate Zgonc.
The Thiel Choir, founded in 1953 by Dr. Marlowe Johnson, has gained recognition through its annual concert tours
in the eastern United States and abroad. Bray, the fifth conductor in the history of the choir, joined Thiel in
1996.
The March 16 Greenville performance will be held at 8 p.m., and the March 25 Sharon performance will be at 7:30
p.m.
For more information on any of the performances, please contact Bray at (724) 589-2149.
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INTERNATIONAL
FOOD FAIR IS MARCH 18
For immediate release February 23, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Thiel College's International Student Organization (ISO) will hold its 7th annual International
Food Fair from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, in the dining hall of the Howard Miller Student Center.
The college's international students will prepare foods from their homelands, which include Japan, Ghana, Korea,
Russia and Madagascar.
Admission is $4.50 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. For more information, please contact Susan Breckenridge
at (724) 589-2813 or Brad Skippon at (724) 589-2036.
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NOMINATIONS
SOUGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AWARD
For immediate release February 23, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - When the nearest ocean is 500 miles
away and the closest forest about two hours north, teaching environmental awareness and biodiversity to children
in western Pennsylvania requires a certain amount of passion and commitment to the cause.
What teacher in Mercer County fits the bill?
For the third year in a row, Thiel College will honor one local teacher with the Leadership in Environmental Awareness
Award during the opening session of the college's Earth Week celebration on Tuesday, April 17.
Nominations are now being accepted for the local educator who has demonstrated a commitment to environmental education,
conservation and/or biodiversity.
Nominees must be teachers - elementary or secondary - from school systems within Mercer County. Nominations can
be placed by colleagues, current or past students, or parents. All nominations must be accompanied by a written
summary of the candidate's commitment to environmental awareness, citing specific examples of programs initiated
by the candidate and/or accounts of the candidate's community service.
The deadline to submit nominations is April 1.
Julie Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at Jamestown Elementary School, was the recipient of last year's award. Harris
had been instrumental in revitalizing the school's elementary science program with hands-on science labs, the creation
of an outdoor community Land Lab, and the development of the school's Discovery Room.
The first Leadership in Environmental Awareness Award was presented to Cecelia Garton, a Sharon High School science
teacher. Garton helped students organize and fund a whale-watching expedition to Massachusetts, as well as initiate
a school recycling program. She and her students also organized a partnership with the Sharon Housing Authority
on neighborhood beautification projects, joined with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a walking trail
along Shenango Lake and assisted area conservation groups with the planting of several thousand trees.
For more information about the award or to obtain a nomination form, please contact Marianne Calenda, assistant
dean for leadership programs at Thiel College, at (724) 589-2028. Click here to open the nomination form Nomination form then print it
and mail it to:
Marianne Calenda
Assistant Dean for Leadership Programs - Thiel College
75 College Avenue
Greenville, PA 16125
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THIEL'S THOMAS-QUINNEY
TO PORTRAY AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADER
For immediate release February 19, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Daisybelle Thomas-Quinney, Thiel College's coordinator for multicultural affairs, will portray
the life of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, in the Sawhill-Georgian Room of the college's Howard
Miller Student Center.
Bethune, a 19th century educator, was founder of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1904 and the
founder of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. She also served as advisor on African American affairs
to four presidents. She was appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making her the first African American woman to hold so high an office in the
federal government. She also served as the vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).
A monument of Bethune stands in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park; she is the first black woman to be honored in
this manner.
The program, sponsored by the performing arts department, is part of the college's celebration of Black History
Month. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Thomas-Quinney at (724) 589-2220.
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THIEL OBC GROUP
HOLDS ANNUAL PROGRAM & SOUL FOOD FEAST
For immediate release February 19, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - The Thiel College Organization of Black Collegiates (OBC) will host its annual Soul Food Feast
and black history program on Saturday, Feb. 24.
The black history program - Black History is American History - will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Sawhill-Georgian
Room of the college's Howard Miller Student Center (HMSC). The annual Soul Food Feast will follow at 8:30 p.m.
in the HMSC dining room.
Both events are open to the public and part of the OBC celebration of Black History Month. A small donation is
requested at the Soul Food Feast. For more information, please contact Daisybelle Thomas-Quinney, coordinator of
multicultural affairs, at (724) 589-2220.
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MATHEMATICIAN
TO VISIT THIEL COLLEGE
For immediate release February 16, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Mathematician and researcher Dr. Jonathan
Caulkins will discuss "An Ounce of Prevention, A Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness of School-Based
Drug Prevention Programs" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1 in room 4 of the college's Academic Center.
Caulkins, currently on leave from the Heinz School of Carnegie Mellon University, is the director of the Pittsburgh
office of the research organization RAND. His visit is sponsored by Thiel College and the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics.
His present research focuses on modeling issues pertaining to illicit drugs, crime and violence. He is also involved
in various projects including modeling sulfur dioxide emission, trading allowance markets, developing methods for
adjusting grade point averages to reflect course difficulty, and rating the on-time performance of airlines.
Caulkins earned his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He went on to receive a master's
in electrical engineering and computer science and a doctorate in operations research from MIT.
His presentation will take place in Room 04 of the college's Academic Center. The event is free and open to the
public.
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THIEL TO HOST
CHRISTIAN UNITY FORUM MAY 12 WITH HIS EMINENCE EDWARD CARDINAL CASSIDY
For immediate release February 15, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Thiel College will host a day of Christian unity on Saturday, May 12, when His Eminence Edward
Cardinal Cassidy visits the campus to participate in the Thiel Forum on Christian Unity.
 Cassidy, president
of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity since his appointment by Pope John Paul II in 1989, will
serve as the forum's main presenter and will reflect upon the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification"
made by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church in 1999. This historic accord represents a
significant resolution of one of the key articles of reformation promoted by then Catholic priest and professor
Martin Luther more than 400 years ago.
The Cardinal also plans to offer insight on the ecumenical implications of "Dominus Iesus," a doctrinal
statement issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, headed by the conservative Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger of Germany. Cassidy has openly criticized Ratzinger, questioning the statement, which asserts the primacy
of the Catholic faith in spiritual salvation.
The 76-year-old Cassidy, a native of Australia, was also appointed Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata by
the Pope in June 1991. He will also serve as the keynote speaker at Thiel's 127th commencement ceremony the following
day, May 13, as well as being awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
Responding to Cassidy's address at the forum will be Dr. Michael Root, professor of systematic theology at Trinity
Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and the Rev. Dr. Peter Drilling of Christ the King Roman Catholic Seminary
in East Aurora, N.Y. The forum will feature two sessions - the first from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and the second from
2 to 4:30 p.m. Those attending the forum will have the opportunity to present questions to the panel for discussion.
The forum's planning committee consists of clergy and other representatives from the Lutheran and Catholic faiths,
including:
From Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenville:
The Rev. Martin M. Roth,
senior pastor
From St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Greenville:
The Rev. Msgr. Andrew H.
Karg
Sister Gertrude McElhinny
Dr. Susan Calderbank of
Greenville
· Mr. Frank Luciani
of Greenville
From Thiel College:
The Rev. Julia Fraser, interim
campus pastor and associate pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
The Rev. Dr. Curtis L. Thompson,
chair of the Thiel's religion department
The Rev. Robert D. Stover,
director of church relations at Thiel
Dr. Lance A. Masters, Thiel
president and CEO
Professor John K. Wise,
religion department lecturer
From Pittsburgh area:
The Rev. Fr. Roger Statnick,
vicar general, Greensburg Diocese
The Rev. Donald B. Green,
assistant to the bishop, Southwest Pennsylvania Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
The Rev. Dr. Jonathon W.
Linman, ecumenical affairs chair, Southwest Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
The Rev. Gerald L. Myers,
Allegheny Synod, ELCA
The Rev. Fr. Harold N. Biller,
ecumenical officer, Altoona-Johnstown Diocese
The Rev. Fr. Ron Lengwin,
Pittsburgh Diocese
From the Erie area:
The Rev. Paull E. Spring,
D.D., bishop, Northwest Pennsylvania Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
The Rev. John W. Tickner,
assistant to the bishop, Northwest Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
The Rev. Msgr. William E.
Biebel, Erie Diocese
From Ohio state:
The Rev. Msgr. Robert J.
Siffrin, vicar general, Youngstown Diocese
The Rev. Joseph Rinderknecht,
Northeast Ohio Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
The Rev. Fr. Joseph T. Hilinski,
Cleveland Diocese
From New York state:
The Rev. John A. Buerk,
Upstate New York Synod
The Rev. Francis X. Mazur,
Buffalo Diocese
Both sessions of the forum, which is open to the public on a ticketed basis, will be held in the college's Lutheran
Heritage Room in the Howard Miller Student Center.
For more information about or tickets for the forum, please contact Marianne Calenda, director of special events
at Thiel College, at (724) 589-2028 or the Rev. Robert Stover, director of church relations, at (724) 589-2189.
Click here for biography information
on Cardinal Cassidy.
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18 THIEL STUDENTS
NAMED TO PAC FALL ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL
For immediate release February 16, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Eighteen Thiel College students
have been named to the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Fall 2000 Academic Honor Roll.
The honor roll, which recognizes fall sport athletes who have achieved a 3.60 grade point average or higher in
the fall semester, includes students from Thiel, Grove City, Westminster, Waynesburg and Washington & Jefferson
colleges.
The list includes 53 soccer players, 36 football players, 35 cross country runners, 21 volleyball players and 19
tennis players.
Students named to the list from Thiel College are:
Matthew Ambrose
(Boyertown/Boyertown), soccer
Mishelle Beercheck
(Punxsutawney/Punxsutawney), tennis
Andrew Brown
(New Brighton/New Brighton), football
Sarah Budd (West
Middlesex/West Middlesex), cross country
Dave Cacciatore
(Orlando, Fla./Winter Park), football
Margaret Caesar
(New Kensington/Valley), tennis
Monica Copley
(Pleasantville/Titusville), cross country
Lisa Goodell
(Mantua, Ohio/Crestwood), tennis
Derrik Helfer
(New Windsor, Md./North Carroll), football
Anatoli Pilchtchikov
(Russia/Meadville), soccer
Patricia Piotrowski
(North East/North East), soccer
Kerry Schaefer
(Fairview/Villa Maria), soccer
Anna Schultz
(Amery, Wis./Amery), tennis
James Smetana
(Cleveland/Trinity), football
William Smith (Petrolia/Moniteau),
cross country
Floyd Snyder
(Stahlstown/Mount Pleasant), soccer
Sara Snyder (Toronto,
Ohio/Edison South), cross country
Shannon Strang
(Munhall/Steel Valley), volleyball
Individuals participating in winter and spring sports are eligible for the PAC honor roll at the conclusion of
the spring term.
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TWO JOIN THIEL COACHING
STAFF
For immediate release February 15, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Two individuals have been hired
to round out Thiel College's new football coaching staff, Thiel Head Football Coach John "Jack" Leipheimer
announced Thursday.
Bill Brest of Meadville, who served under former head coach David Armstrong since 1998, will join the staff as
the wide receivers' coach.
Brest, a 1989 graduate of Slippery Rock University, coached from 1989 to 1997 at Hickory High School. An elementary
teacher in the Hermitage School District, he earned his master's degree in elementary education from Slippery Rock
University in 1996.
Brest and his family reside in Hermitage.
Ken Achenbach, a 1978 graduate of Thiel College, has been hired as the team's defensive line coach. A two-time
all-PAC defensive end while in college, Achenbach is a 1974 graduate of Sharon High School.
A teacher at Meadville High School, he has also coached football for the school for the past 20 years - 16 of which
as head coach. He spent the 2000 football season as an assistant coach at Allegheny College in Meadville.
He and his wife, Tina, have two children. They reside in Meadville.
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THIEL COLLEGE
TO HOST WOMEN'S HEALTH FORUM
For immediate release February 2, 2001
GREENVILLE, Pa. - Thiel College will host a series of events during a Women's Health Forum from Monday, Feb. 5
to Thursday, Feb. 8.
Sponsored by the college's Center for Women's Leadership (CWL) in partnership with the UPMC Womancare Center, the
week will feature several events related to prevention, early identification and advice on everyday healthy living.
"One of the goals of the Center for Women's Leadership is to encourage service to others - especially women
and children," said Marianne Calenda, assistant dean for leadership programs at Thiel.
The week's events include:
"Women and Alcohol,"
a program presented by Dr. Ronald D. McFadden at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, in the college's Lutheran Heritage Room
of the Howard Miller Student Center (HMSC). McFadden, a psychiatrist and internal medicine physician with UPMC
Horizon, will discuss mental health and self-esteem issues associated with alcohol use among women. This program
is free and open to the public.
"Nutrition and Your
Health: A Guide to Making Food Choices," a student program presented by UPMC Horizon Wellness Center Nutritionist
Carol Koehler from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, in Bashing Dining Room of the HMSC. Using a typical Thiel food
court menu, Koehler will provide students with advice on making healthy dining selections.
"Breast Health Awareness,"
a program presented by Kimberly Lombardi, clinical director of the new UPMC Womancare Center, at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Feb. 6, in the Lutheran Heritage Room of the HMSC. Lombardi will discuss new methods for conducting self breast
examinations and describe the services of the new UPMC Womancare Center. This event is free and open to the public.
A collaborative effort between Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Horizon, a new $4.5 million Womancare Center will
open in Hermitage Medical Park in Hermitage. The center, a 25,000-square foot facility, will provide women of all
ages with the convenience of having high-quality, comprehensive health care services at one location.
"Total Body Workout,"
a student program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8. Megan Stockner, a health fitness specialist at UPMC Horizon Wellness
Center, will take students through a basic workout using equipment in the college's fitness center.
Although the events are geared toward college students, women from the community are also encouraged to attend,
said Calenda.
"The forum is intended to improve awareness of current women's health issues from depression to breast health
and provide students and women from off-campus communities with an opportunity to gather information, ask questions
and seek advice in a relaxed, supportive environment," she said.
For more information on the forum, please contact Calenda at (724) 589-2028 or
E-Mail: MCalenda@thiel.edu
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