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Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

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Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Alumni Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

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Winter 2006Volume 9, Number 1

The UMass Lowell Alumni Magazine is published by: Publications OfficeUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell One University AvenueLowell, MA 01854Tel. (978) 934-3223e-mail: [email protected]

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Director of Publications and EditorMary Lou Hubbell

Staff WritersGeoffrey DouglasJack McDonough

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Resurrecting a Ghost, Reprising a Lost Time: the Rise, Fall and Renaissance of Allen House

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The Spinolas: Giving to Art, toScholarship, to Families Who Need a Hand

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Feature Stories

The Varnums of Dracut: LinkingFamilies, Building Global Ties

An Engineering Alum, 10 YearsLater: Without UML, ‘I’d Be Flipping Burgers Somewhere’

Field Hockey Team Makes History with National Championship

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Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends:

In some respects, nanotechnology is facing the same issues today that biotechnology facedtwenty years ago – that is, many acknowledge its great potential while, at the same time, expressconcerns about its effects.

Biotechnology made possible an array of new commercial products but it also gave rise to apublic debate about the consequences of genetic engineering. For example, despite the apparentbenefits of bio-engineered food, the debate surrounding genetic engineering stalled the use of theseproducts in many parts of the world.

Today, nanotechnology could improve existing products or create a multitude of new ones inareas as widely diverse as life sciences, microelectronics, computing and instrumentation. Nanopar-ticles – so small that 75,000 could fit across a human hair – are valued because they offer new prop-erties for all products. But the very presence of these new characteristics means we don’t yetunderstand fully their effects on the environment and public health.

It comes as no surprise, then, that there are those who caution that this innovation does notcome without uncertainties and risks.

The lesson is clear: as new technologies emerge, it is essential that we consider and address potential risks so as to winpublic confidence and acceptance. The stakes for this acceptance are especially high in Massachusetts. Our economy dependson innovation. We need to get this right, and fast, because the future of a significant part of our economy could be based onnano and bio research and manufacturing.

The National Nanotechnology Initiative estimates that the worldwide growth of nanotechnologies will reach a trilliondollars and create two million jobs by 2015. This year, the federal government will provide more than one billion dollars in sci-entific research grants to develop nanotechnologies. Massachusetts can’t afford to miss this economic development opportunity because of public fears of environmental or public health risks.

UMass Lowell is in the forefront in addressing both social concerns and the development of techniques to make the statea leader in nanotechnology commercial production.

The National Science Foundation now requires that some portion of its nanotechnology research grants be used toaddress social and environmental effects. Indeed, that is exactly what we are doing in our two new centers for nanomanufactur-ing – the state-funded Massachusetts Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence and the national Science Foundation-fundedCenter for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing, a partnership with Northeastern University and the University of New Hampshire.

We’re making substantial efforts to integrate into our research studies of workplace and environmental exposures tonanoparticles and we’re incorporating environmentally protective (so-called Green Chemistry) approaches in the productionprocesses.

At UMass Lowell, we’ve made a major commitment to incorporate green chemistry principles into the development ofnanotechnology manufacturing. Green chemistry seeks to redesign chemical syntheses and processes, replacing toxin-bearingelements with more “natural” and benign substances. The goal of green chemistry is to avoid health and environmental haz-ards while building the concepts of safety and ecological protection directly into the earliest phases of the design of new materials.

This is particularly important to Massachusetts because 40 percent of our exports – and we are an export economy – go to the European Union, which has stringent environmental and public health guidelines.

As for commercial production, the UMass Lowell campus has established a leadership position in areas critical to developing techniques for scaling up to commercial production levels. We have the wherewithal to take inventions from exot-ic laboratory creations to practical, large-scale production while providing environmental, worker and public safeguards.

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the country’s sizable federal commitment to funding research into nanotechnolo-gy. We’ve made great progress to date. But if our region is to gain a substantial economic advantage over time from thisprogress, we must develop new manufacturing processes that enable us to scale up to production quantities while, at the sametime, assuring the public that the nanomanufacturing of the future is as clean and safe as it is innovative and productive.

Sincerely,

William T. HoganChancellor


CampusNewsChristelle Davis of the University of Technology Sydney. Poet NancySchoenberger of the College ofWilliam and Mary also read.

John Sampas of Lowell, Kerouac’sbrother-in-law, executor of his estateand Kerouac Conference benefactor,was in attendance. In addition to Sampas, the conference was sponsoredby the Jack and Stella Kerouac Centerfor American Studies and the UMassLowell English Department.

Conference director Hilary Holladay, a professor of English, saidshe was pleased with attendance at the conference.

“We had a nice mix of students and community people—and we had someall the way from Australia,” she said.

UMass Lowell Prof Clears Customs with Some Unusual Credentials

Flying out of Logan Airport en routeto a Montreal workshop severalmonths ago, Prof. John Warner clearedsecurity without incident. “Just theusual photo ID, and they let me pass,”he says.

But, in Montreal, the woman incharge of Customs asked him for twoforms of photo identification, or for agovernment-issued ID. He could meetneither requirement. “I didn’t have mypassport with me, and I keep myUMass ID in my car,” he says. “So all Ihad was a driver’s license, and she toldme that wasn’t enough.”

There was a delay while Warner andthe customs-lady cast about for options.Did he have anything else with his picture on it? she asked. He opened hisbriefcase and among all the paperworkwas a month-old copy of the UMassLowell Magazine. Green chemistry wasthe cover story; his picture was on page12, with a caption identifying him.

“She was duly impressed,” he remem-

bers. “She started reading the story,then began asking me questions — what was green chemistry?”

So Warner, for the price of a five-minute airport seminar on his science,was allowed entry into Montreal.

And the UMass Lowell Magazine, at least for that one customs-lady onthat one morning in Montreal, took on the elevated status of a government document.

Freshman Reading Program Expands into Film, Theatre, Essays

The English Department’s new Com-mon Text Program, which requires thereading of the same non-fiction text inevery first-semester College Writingclass, has been expanded to embracetheatre, film, essay-writing, on-campusappearances by playwrights and off-campus coffee-house discussion groups.

The Common Text Program intro-duces the same book into every first-semester college writing class. The fall2005 text was Barbara Ehrenreich’s“Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Gettingby in America.”

“The common intellectual experi-ence of reading and analyzing this text

is intended toenhance students’academic experienceand solidify their commitment to aneducation at UMass Lowell,” explainsMelissa Pennell, chairof the English Department.

The Common Text Program is supported by an interdisciplinary grant from Provost John Wooding. Through the generosity of Dean Tom Taylor, every entering freshmanreceived a complimentary copy ofEhrenreich’s book.

And now, the original concept hasbeen expanded.

A series of weekly films was assem-bled that reflects the “Nickle andDimed” workaday theme. For example,the Oscar-winning “Norma Rae,” withSally Field as a gritty southern millworker, was among the early offerings.

Meanwhile, the faculty assignedessays on related topics: work, class,consumerism; and the Department alsosponsored an essay contest, open toanyone enrolled in College Writing for the fall semester.

During the spring semester, a Merrimack Repertory Theatre playdepicting the life of an early 20th-cen-tury black seamstress and her strugglefor self-respect will be read by all stu-dents of College Writing II. Some timeduring the semester, some or all of theplay’s participants—actors, set direc-tors, director, possibly even the play-wright—will visit the campus for aseries of “talk backs” with students.

And finally, says Prof. Paula Haines,“to embrace the fact that we’re anurban campus, that Lowell is a collegetown,” the Common Text Program willhost a series of after-theatre discussionsat venues in downtown Lowell.

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Work of UML’s Famed Photographer Exhibited at DeCordova Museum

Prof. Arno Minkkinen of the ArtDepartment has an international reputation as an innovative photogra-pher whose self-portraits have beenexhibited in prestigious galleriesaround the world.

Recently, some were exhibited in a prestigious gallery virtually around the corner.

The premier venue for “Saga: TheJourney of Arno Rafael Minkkinen,Photographs 1970-2005” was theDeCordova Museum and SculpturePark in Lincoln.

The 120-print exhibit was describedas a mid-life retrospective, whichMinkkinen finds optimistic.

“It’s optimistic in terms of my lifespan and the maturity of the work.And it assumes another 20 years ormore of work. I’d be happy to be takingphotographs into my 80s or 90s.”

A 168-page book, “Saga,” publishedas a companion piece to the exhibit,reproduces all of the photographs inthe exhibition and includes essays by

Alan Lightman, A.D. Coleman andArthur Danto, as well as technicalnotes and an annotated chronologyprepared by the artist.

“This is a gift I’ve been given,”Minkkinen says of the book. “It isdefinitive. It’s beautiful.”

He said he was pleased to have this exhibit close to Lowell because“students can view this exhibit of mywork and they will see that thesethings are possible if you believe inyourself and work hard.”

Kerouac Conference Turns 10

As keynote speaker at the Jack Ker-ouac Conference on Beat Literature,Sam Kashner told tales full of humorand pathos, recounting his life as ayoung man among aging beat poets inthe 1970s.

The conference expanded to two fulldays this October, the 10th anniversaryof the conference at UMass Lowell.

At age 19, Kashner became the firststudent to enroll in the Jack KerouacSchool of Disembodied Poetics at

Naropa University, armed with lengthyself-penned poems, a much-covetedwatch from his parents, and a Diner’sClub Card.

Kashner moved the O’Leary Libraryaudience with anecdotes involvingthose three possessions, Beat poetsWilliam Burroughs, Gregory Corso,Kerouac School founder Allen Ginsberg, and himself. The tales wereread from Kashner’s most recent book,“When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School.”

In addition to Kashner, two Kerouac-inspired authors read from their work:Lowell novelist David Daniel and

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A 120-print exhibit of Prof. Arno Minkki-nen’s photography, described as a mid-liferetrospective, was featured recently at theDeCordova Museum in Lincoln.

Conference Director Hilary Holladay, left,and English Department Chair Melissa Pennell join author and Kerouac Conferencekeynote speaker Sam Kashner.

Ways and Means Chairman DeLeo Hears About Nano- and BiomanufacturingFrom left, Rep. Robert A. DeLeo, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, joined Lowell Reps. Kevin Murphy and David Nangle, Chancellor William T. Hogan, and Rep. Thomas Golden, also of Lowell, recently outside the Trustees Room. The Representatives heard about the University’s premier programs in nano- andbiomanufacturing from the researchers leading those efforts.

The English Department’s Common TextCommittee includes, from left, Paula Haines,Jeannie Judge, Marlowe Miller and Department Chair Melissa Pennell.

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CampusNewsWhere’s the Train When You Need One?

“We have an extraordinary resourcein this nation: a rail network that isunderutilized and underfunded,”Michael Dukakis told a recent seminar.

“We should invest in a first-classnational passenger rail system and itwould require only modest investment,”about seven percent of the amountspent on highways and airports. The Northeast is a stronguser of rail transport, but the second most successful passen-ger train in America is in California.

Dukakis, a professor of political science at NortheasternUniversity and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at UCLA, is well known for his advocacy of publictransportation. His presentation was part of the fall seminarseries organized by Assoc. Prof. William Mass of the Depart-ment of Regional Economic and Social Development anddirector of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness.

Olsen Lobby Gets a New Look

Faculty, staff, students and members of the Board of Advisors of the Division of Science gathered recently at aribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of theOlsen Hall lobby renovation.

In addition to fresh paint and new chairs, one wall of thelobby is adorned with a huge aluminum grid, components ofwhich sweep across the ceiling toward the elevators.

“We wanted to freshen up the lobby, make it more invitingand more usable for our students,” says Bob Tamarin, dean ofthe Division of Sciences. “The sculpture is intended to drawpeople into the building.”

The ceremonial ribbon was cut by Board member CaroleWard, ’62; outgoing Chair of the Board Michael J. Morin, ’76and Tamarin, who credited Ward for her dedication to theproject.

Other project donors included Mary Richardson Bedell,’81; Russell Bedell, ’81; Sean L. Gaffney ’98; Nancy Kleniewski, former dean of the Division of Fine Arts,Humanities and Social Sciences; L. Donald LaTorre ’59; Diane Lamprey O’Connor, ’82, and Thomas C. O’Connor,’77 and ’80. Corporate contributors to the project includedDuke Energy Foundation, Mobile Solutions International,Inc. and Raytheon Corporation.

UML and Analog Devices Hold Design Contest

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) joined with the Electrical andComputer Engineering Department at the Lowell campus tohold the first annual ADI-UML Real Time Digital SignalProcessing Design Contest. College student teams fromacross North America competed to design and produce anassisted-listening device, which they demonstrated at theevent last spring.

ADI provided each registered team with an advanced software and hardware development package, valued at morethan $10,000, to use in solving the problem. Team designswere judged on their hardware and software efficiency forspeed and code density. Judges also listened for signal claritywith reduced background noise.

Participating teams came from the University of Calgary,the Florida Institute of Technology, Syracuse University and


With Green Chemistry, Green Tea Makes a Potent Brew

Green tea gets a mixed reputation in scientific circles.

While green tea has reportedly been effective in thetreatment/prevention of several cancers, including breastcancer, the findings have been inconsistent and controversialdue to lack of quality control and consistency in the com-mercially available preparations.

Now an interdisciplinary team is making rapid progress inmodifying an active component of green tea—a catechin—using benign green chemistry techniques, which make itremarkably effective against breast cancer cells while it doesn’t harm normal cells. The key breakthrough is the useof naturally occurring enzymes to “stitch together” green teacatechins—yielding polycatechins that are effective selec-tively against breast cancer.

Prof. Susan Braunhut of biological sciences, whose lab hasbeen a source of research related to breast cancer for morethan a decade, is excited about the collaboration withPhysics Prof. Jayant Kumar, director of the Center forAdvanced Materials (CAM).

“We’ve made rapid progress by working together,” saysBraunhut. “Jayant takes the small molecules, the active com-ponent of green tea, and links them together in long strings.This binds them in a much more stable form than is foundnaturally. The compound is much more potent against cancercells when compared to the naturally occurring catechins,besides being more stable.”

“Another great aspect of our compound is that it isingestible,” says Braunhut. “In animal model testing, themice will be treated with polycatechins in their drinkingwater.

“We believe these new compounds may prove to be a newfamily of anticancer drugs from green chemistry that willcause a paradigm shift in the development of drugs for breastcancer treatment.”

Nanotechnology Penetrates the Cosmetics Industry

Cosmetics are big business. In fact, one of the fastest growing sectors in the chemical industry worldwide is personal care products. Now nanotechnology is transformingcosmetics with new formulations and techniques.

Vitamin E, an antioxidant, is known for its ability to pro-tect skin and hair from damage. But Vitamin E is not easilyabsorbed through the skin’s layers.

Arthur Watterson, director of the Institute for Nano Sci-ence and Engineering Technology (INSET), has led a teamof researchers to a potential solution: encapsulation.

“We have chemically attached and encapsulated VitaminE in our nanospheres for both long- and short-term release tocreate dual polymeric nano carriers,” says Watterson. “Thepolymeric antioxidants are more effective than the antioxi-dants themselves. Essentially, we’re turning Vitamin E, a lipidor oil, into a water-soluble substance that can penetrate deepinto the skin.” Applications would include sunscreens andsunburn treatments, as well as encapsulations of cosmeceuti-cals such as retinol. Drugs may also be incorporated in thisdual carrier method.

Prof. Susan Braunhut, standing left, with Donna McIntosh standing second from left, senior scientist, and students standing,Rachel Mendes and Soumya Vemuri. Doanh Mai, front left, and Matt Belmonte are seated.

Michael Dukakis

Ceremonial ribbon cutters at the dedication of the Olsen Hall lobbyrenovation were, from left, Board of Advisors member Carole Ward,’62; Dean of the Division of Sciences Bob Tamarin, and outgoingBoard of Advisors Chair Michael J. Morin, ’76.

Colleges - Engineering

The ADI-UML Real Time Digital Signal Processing Design Contestorganizers included, from left, Engineering Dean John Ting; PaulDecker, manager of emulation software, ADI in Norwood; and Asst.Prof. Mufeed Mah’d, contest chair, Asst. Prof. Adam Elbirt and Prof.George Cheney, all of the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment.

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Redesign Gives UMassLowell Websites New, Fresh Appearance

Exciting changes are occurring onthe UMass Lowell website, including anew universal look for all colleges anddepartments, easier navigation, and aneNews site that updates the Universitycommunity on the latest campus happenings.

These changes are being implement-ed by the Web Office, which is nowunder Information Technology, and theCommunications Office.

Altogether the University has morethan 150 sites totaling nearly 250,000pages.

Jeff Thompson, vice chancellor forInformation Technology, says, “TheUML web has grown immensely sinceits inception. It has become a strategiccommunications tool for the faculty,staff, students and alumni. Our goalover the next two years will be to usethis strategic tool to bring the Univer-sity even greater public visibility andhelp make this the campus of choicefor prospective students.”

All websites are now being createdwith a new content management sys-tem (CMS) called Serena Collage,which separates content from design.The new software will make it possiblefor the entire site to be updated moreefficiently.

A campus-wide Web Steering Committee, chaired by Thompson andProvost John Wooding, is overseeingthe implementation of the project, taking into consideration the concernsand requirements of all segments of theUniversity community.

The eNews page, launched in the fallsimultaneously with CMS, carries newsof all campus events, including activi-

ties of faculty, staff, students andresearchers. It also contains all Univer-sity news releases, stories about theUniversity that have appeared in themedia, and a calendar of events.

The print Shuttle has been reducedto four pages, with the content consist-ing mainly of feature articles and pho-tos. It is being distributed, as usual, to faculty and staff, as well as to a significant off-campus distribution list.

The eNews site is available atwww.uml.edu/enews — or by clickingon “News” at the top of the main UML page.

Expanded First Year Program Greets Freshmen

The freshmen who started learningin classes in September were also starting LEARN, the University’sexpanded First Year Program designedto help students make a successful transition to college.

“For most students, starting college isa huge step toward autonomy,” saysDean of Students Larry Seigel. “Thekey to being successful in that autono-

my is to develop skills of self-reliance.”Skill-building is, in part, what LEARNis designed to do.

Other components of LEARN areFirst Year Resource Educators, upper-class students who assist in planningand implementing programs through-out the year, learning environmentsthat locate classes, computer labs andtutoring sessions in residence halls, anew UML Parent Council and a lead-ership program.

The expanded first year program alsoincludes a Commuter Mentor Programthat addresses the needs of students notliving in residence halls.

LEARN is modeled on a programconducted in residence halls over thelast few years. Statistics have shownthat participants earn more credits andhigher grade-point averages than eithernon-participating residential studentsor commuters. The program also hasimproved student retention.


CampusNewsUMass Lowell. The Lowell team placed third in the all-day event involving design presentation and demonstration of the prototype.

$1 Million NSF Grant Will Help Transform Engineering Education

The Francis College of Engineering has won a grantfor $1 million from the National Science Foundation(NSF), one of only six awarded nationwide out of 57 applicants to the NSF’s program for EngineeringEducation.

The three-year funding will help the Collegeimplement its project SLICE: Service Learning Integrated throughout a College of Engineering. The project’s ambitious goal is to revitalize an entirecollege of engineering through the energizing application of service learning.

Service learning integrates academic subject matterwith service to the community in credit-bearing courses. Research shows that service learning increasescritical thinking and tolerance for diversity. It also leadsto better knowledge of the subject, higher studentretention and more effective recruitment of women andminorities to engineering.

“We will integrate projects into a broad array ofcourses so that students will be exposed to service learning in every semester in the core curriculum ineach of the five engineering departments,” says Prof.John Duffy, lead author of the proposal and one of itsprincipal investigators. “Under the initial planninggrant, 36 faculty members already are working on integrating service learningin 40 courses. And, morethan 500 engineering stu-dents participated in suchprojects in required courses.”

“UMass Lowell is the onlyengineering program withNSF funding that is workingon implementation throughthe entire college, not just ina department or a specialprogram,” says EngineeringDean John Ting. “In thatrespect, we are recognized asleading the nation.”

Prof. John Duffy

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Continuing Studies and Corporate Education Dean Jacqueline Moloney,front left, is joined by the faculty and staff who helped UMass Lowellreceive a Sloan-C institution-wide award for excellence. CatherineKendrick, CSCE director of Corporate and Distance Marketing, is toMoloney’s left. Continuing by row from left are: Sciences Dean RobertTamarin, Education Dean Donald Pierson, former continuing studiesstaffer and new faculty member Steven Tello, Math Prof. Ann Marie Hurley,continuing studies staff members Johanna Bohan-Riley and Amy Yacus,and St. Anselm College’s Paul Damour of Chemistry. In the top row, fromleft, are: Math Prof. Alan Doerr, Psychology Prof. Richard Siegel, CSCEmanager Patrick Driscoll, Engineering Technology Coordinator NiharMohanty, CSCE Director Pauline Carroll, and Engineering Technology Prof. Robert Tuholski.

Continuing Studies Online Program ReceivesThree National Awards

The Division of Continuing Studies has received three nationalawards for excellence in its online education programs from theSloan Consortium—an association of more than 1,000 institu-tions and organizations of higher education engaged in onlinelearning.

“This recognition is one of the highest honors we couldreceive,” says Jacqueline Moloney, dean of Continuing Studiesand Corporate Education, who launched UMass Lowell’s onlineprogram 10 years ago. “It’s tremendously rewarding to have ourfaculty, staff and administration be nationally recognized as lead-ers in this field.”

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) has recognized the Divisionfor: “Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching and Learn-ing Programming,” “Excellence in Faculty Development forOnline Teaching,” and “Excellence in Online Teaching,” whichwas awarded to Assoc. Prof. Joan Cannon of Psychology.

“The Institution-Wide award speaks to the high quality of theonline programs at UMass Lowell,” says Chancellor William T.Hogan. “We’re very proud of the accomplishments of all of theadministrators and faculty involved.”

Freshman Welcome Week activities included a Freshman Breakfast, where, from left, KarenHumphrey-Johnson, director of Orientation and Freshman Programs, and Annie Ciaraldi,director of Residence Life, served food to freshmen Jared Quill of Townsend and AshtonDePasquale of Leominster.


CampusNewsIn the first phase of the Transforma-

tion Project, two special task forcesexamined issues related to research and community-University partnerships.The Research report is available athttp://faculty.uml.edu/sbraunhut/rtfre-port.pdf, while the Community-University Task Force report can be found on the Web at http://fac-ulty.uml.edu/lsilka. Details on theCampus Transformation Project can be

found on the campus intranet atintranet.uml.edu/transformation.

University Energy CostsIncreased by a Half MillionDollars This Year

The University is not immune fromthe soaring prices of heating oil, natu-ral gas, gasoline and electricity that res-idents throughout the state are facing.

It’s estimated that energy expenses forthe University this year will be half amillion dollars more than last year —$4.5 million as opposed to $4 million.

Energy and Utilities Manager MarkLukitsch says the cost of fuel oil, themain energy source during the winter,has increased by 50 percent and naturalgas costs have nearly doubled. Electric-ity represents the greatest portion ofthe energy bill but, fortunately, DavidKiser, director of Physical Plant, nego-tiated an electricity contract two yearsago that is saving the University $1.5million this year alone.

As part of the strategy to controlcosts, Diana Prideaux-Brune, vicechancellor of Facilities, says, somemaintenance projects that aren’t abso-lutely necessary, such as the re-pavingof parking lots, may be delayed. Inaddition, other projects may be reshuf-fled, giving priority to the implementa-tion of energy-saving initiatives, suchas computer-controlled ventilation systems or window replacement.

“Major projects, such as the new dining area in Southwick Hall and theparking garage on UML East will goahead as planned,” she says.

The goal is to reduce energy usage by20 percent by 2009, based on the fiscal2004 consumption.

Chancellor: EconomyNeeds Building That Will Go Beyond the Classroom

At recent faculty-staff gatherings onUML North and South, ChancellorWilliam T. Hogan offered an upbeatassessment of where things are today atUMass Lowell, commended legislatorsfor pursuing state funding for “an inte-grated research facility” that will drivethe area’s innovation economy, andlauded the faculty for the talent theywill bring to that facility.


CampusNewsRecycling ProgramExpands to Include AllFibrous Material

The University’s paper recycling pro-gram has been expanded to include allfibrous material, an enhancement thatis expected to save at least $10,000 ayear and further advance the Universi-ty’s effort to become a green campus.

In addition to white paper, the Uni-versity—in partnership with CasellaWaste Services—now can recycle anytype of paper waste, including coloredpaper, newspaper, books, magazines and cardboard.

In previous years, the University hasrecycled about 50 tons of paper annual-ly. This total should increase under thenew system.

Tom Miliano, director of FacilityServices, says, “We hope to saveupwards of $10,000 a year. And that’s apretty conservative estimate. I hope itwill be more. But, besides saving usmoney, this program also will reducethe amount of waste that goes intolandfills and incinerators.”

Casella charges the University each time it picks up a trash dumpster. By increasing the volume of recyclingmaterial and reducing the amount of trash it produces, the Universitywill, therefore, generate the anticipated savings.

Chancellor Hogan ReceivesVery Positive Evaluation

The UMass Board of Trustees hasgiven Chancellor William T. Hogan a“very positive” evaluation after receiv-ing overwhelming University and community support for his continuedleadership of the Lowell campus.

“The condition of UMass Lowell isremarkably solid and a considerabletestimonial to the steady leadership ofChancellor Hogan. He has managedthe campus with strength, determina-

tion and purpose,” said UMass Presi-dent Jack M. Wilson in a letter to thecampus community.

Wilson also pointed to Dr. Hogan’s“significant strides” in research, citingthe proposed new center for nanoman-ufacturing and biomanufacturing as atangible example.

“The chancellor has articulated aclear, achievable vision of advancingresearch through the creation and support of interdisciplinary centers,” he stated.

The evaluation process included anextensive review by a team led byTrustee William T. O’Shea andinvolved several meetings and publichearings. There was an outpouring ofsupport for the chancellor from theUniversity, community, business andpolitical leaders.

“In particular, civic leaders in theCity of Lowell credit ChancellorHogan’s leadership with being a majorfactor in the unprecedented renais-sance of the city,” Wilson said.

Campus TransformationProject Enters New Phase

The second phase of the CampusTransformation Project began in thefall with a kick-off event in Novemberand the formation of 10 planningteams that addressed a range of topics,from Advising to Work Place Quality.

Provost John Wooding said, “TheTransformation Project is already yield-ing results. Among other steps, we’removing ahead with interdisciplinaryinitiatives, we’ve established a clearing-house for partnership activities, and acommittee’s been formed to explorehow we might create a Media, Informa-tion, and Technology program.”

The goals of the Transformation Project are to: (1) promote the sustain-ability of the physical, economic andsocial lives of the community in allareas of University activity; (2) supportall teaching activities and expandinterdisciplinary teaching; (3) promoteresearch within and across disciplinesand increase research output in all dis-ciplines; (4) extend and deepen ourcommitment to local communities andcultures; and (5) maintain a clean, safe,and inviting work environment for allmembers of the University community.

With Chancellor Hogan as the overall sponsor, the project is led bythe Steering Team, consisting of DeansCarroll, Hojnacki, Moloney, Pierson,Tamarin, Ting, Verrault and Wegman,and University Library Director PatNoreau, along with Provost JohnWooding and Associate Provost KristinEsterberg, and the ImplementationTeam, composed of the provost, associate provost, Associate ViceChancellor Joyce Gibson, ExecutiveVice Chancellor Frederick Sperounis,and Vice Chancellors Louise Griffin,Diana Prideaux-Brune, and JeffThompson, each of whom is a sponsor of one or more of the 10 planning teams.

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The No Regrets project is being directed by, from left, Ann Marie Ciaraldi, Nicole Champagne, Nancy Quattrocchi and project coordinator Susan Pulido.

Student Affairs Task Force Launches Alcohol Education Project

The Student Affairs Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Task Force has beenawarded a $5,000 grant from the Governor’s Highway Safety Board for a one-semester alcohol awareness program called No Regrets. The Dean of StudentAffairs Office is providing matching funds.

The project is being directed by Ann Marie Ciaraldi, director of StudentDevelopment and Campus Conduct; Nicole Champagne, assistant professor of Community Health Education, and Nancy Quattrocchi, director of HealthServices. Ciaraldi and Quattrocchi are co-directors of the AOD Task Force.

The half-time project coordinator is Susan Pulido, a recent graduate of theSchool of Health and Environment.

The No Regrets program targets first-year students—the most likely to develop problems with alcohol and other drugs—living in campus housing. It is intended to head off alcohol-related problems before they begin.

With that in mind, the project team began its outreach efforts at orientationprograms last June, when it introduced parents to the University’s student codeand explained drug and alcohol policies.


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“All things considered, we’re prettyfortunate. We lost a lot, but we’realive,” she says.

CITA Sustainability Conference Considers the Workplace

National voices in labor opened and closed the annual Conference on Sustainability, sponsored by the Committee on Industrial Theory andAssessment (CITA). The UMass Lowell Labor Extension Programjoined in sponsoring and organizingthis year’s conference, SustainableJobs/Sustainable Workplaces.

Larry Cohen, newly elected nationalpresident of the CommunicationsWorkers of America (CWA) and afounder of Jobs With Justice, deliveredthe opening keynote address.

“We can’t have democracy in societyif there is no democracy in the work-place,” said Cohen. “It’s not about ournext contract; it’s about how we uniteourselves, about what kind of collectivevoice we are building.” He advocated a“broad tent” of inclusion for the labormovement and pointed to the exten-sive powers held by corporate leaders,who have unlimited access to legal ser-vices, enjoy salaries hundreds of timesgreater than workers, and can use corporate structures to avoid regulationand constraint.

During the body of the conference,worker activists and community leadersopened each topic with their perspec-tives. Faculty members responded withtheir research insights, followed bysmall group or general discussion.

The conference closed with a presen-tation by Jane Slaughter, editor of “The

Troublemakers’ Handbook” and long-time contributor to Labor Notes. Sheoffered practical suggestions for takingaction to improve conditions on theshop floor.


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body is improving. With a jump in thenumber of applicants, the admissionrate has gone from 66 percent to 61percent of those applying. This means alarger percentage of incoming freshmanhave GPAs above 3.0. He said the cam-pus is undertaking an effort to keepthose talented freshman in five- andsix-year programs, in order to address ademographic shortfall in the number ofgraduate students applying.

On state support for UMass Lowell,Hogan said, “I cannot say enough goodthings about the local delegation.” Hesaid Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos andLowell Reps. David Nangle, KevinMurphy and Thomas Golden wereworking hard to pass a number of itemsthat would help the institution, includ-ing a new building.

“Why a building?” he asked. “As apublic institution, we have a commit-ment to go out beyond the classroomand laboratories.” He said an $80 million “integrated research facility”—$35 million from the state, $35 millionborrowed, and $10 million from thefederal government —would serve“probably the only viable strategy inNew England—to continually innovateand to generate new products and new services.”

He said the faculty “has gone waydown that path.” He mentioned medical imaging, drug delivery, nanotechnology and biotechnologymanufacturing and green chemistry.

Hogan pointed out that the numberof faculty has climbed back to near2002 levels, after losing a large percent-age to early retirements, and that thefaculty is talented. “We need to takethat talent and turn it into full-scaleproductive activity,” he said.

University Went All Out for Katrina Victims

Even before the waters had begunreceding in New Orleans, activitieswere launched on the UML campus tohelp the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

“We’re doing what we can,” thenDean of Student Life Larry Siegel saidat the time. “It’s kind of a learn-as-you-go business—this sort of thing doesn’thappen every day. But where we canfind a way to get the students involvedto help those folks down there, we’vetried our best to make it happen.”

And, happen it did.

Tables, staffed by students, were setup all over campus with containers forRed Cross donations. From just twolocations – the front of Cumnock Halland the Dean of Students office – more than $1,100 was raised in the first week.

In the weeks that followed, membersof the University community raisedmore money through a variety ofevents, including a silent auction, asemi-formal dance and an apple piesale. There also was a drive to collecttoiletries for those displaced by thehurricane.

The University also enrolled andwaived fall semester tuition for two students, one from Tulane Universityand the other from Loyola University,whose education was interrupted bythe hurricane.

The storm also had a personal effecton a UML faculty member – HistoryProf. Caryn Cossé Bell – who grew up in New Orleans. Her mother and two siblings had to evacuate the familyhome in St. Bernard’s Parish.

“The house was just lifted off itsfoundation and dashed out on thestreet,” Bell says. Also destroyed onLake Pontchartrain was the 39-footboat that Bell and her husband had

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The Dean of Students Office set up information tables across campus to help orient freshmen.The tables included a Red Cross donation jar for Katrina victims. From left, freshmen Bill Shipley of Tyngsboro, Linda Chau of Lowell and, far right, Andrew Clauson of Chelmsford, chat with Rob Sampson, a graduate student in criminal justice enlisted to help.

TNEC Trains Workers with $1.1 Million from NIEHS

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) recent-ly awarded more than $37 million to workers involved in emergency responseand hazardous clean-up. The grants will provide training to protect workersand their communities from exposure to toxic materials encountered duringhazardous waste operations and chemical emergency response.

UML and The New England Consortium (TNEC) received a $1.1 milliongrant award for their worker training program. Asst. Prof. Craig Slatin ofhealth and clinical sciences serves as principal investigator for the project,joined by Project Director Paul Morse and Assistant Project Director Wayne Sanborn.

“These awards will provide workers with the skills and knowledge theyneed to protect themselves, their communities, and our environment from exposure to hazardous materials,” says NIEHS director David A.Schwartz, M.D.

Over the next five years, TNEC proposes to provide hazardous waste andemergency responder training for 800 to 1,000 workers per year in all NewEngland states except Maine. Workers will participate in numerous trainingsessions, including Hazard Disaster Preparedness, which TNEC hopes willprevent occupational illnesses, injuries and fatalities.

Asst. Prof. Craig Slatin, left, of health and clinical sciences will serve as principal investigator for the $1.1 million UML and TNEC worker training program; joined by Project Director Paul Morse and Assistant Project Director Wayne Sanborn.

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director of the Center for Health andDisease Research, directed the animalstudies for drug delivery.

Diabetes is one of the most commonand widespread diseases, affecting near-ly six percent of the world’s population.Most patients require three to fourinjections of insulin a day, leading topatient compliance problems and possi-ble side effects. Taking insulin orallywould be preferable, but developing asuccessful method is tremendouslychallenging because of conditions inthe digestive tract. The ideal methodwould be transdermal insulin delivery.

McCarthy’s presentation at the Med-ical Plastics Division of the Society ofPlastics Engineers’ annual technicalconference won the Best Paper Award.

“The nanospheres passed throughthe skin simply by rubbing on thepreparation,” says McCarthy. “In theoral version, the nanospheres com-posed of a carbohydrate shell wereapparently able to protect the encapsu-lated insulin (which is a protein) from acids and enzymes without anyadditional coating. We think the drugis particularly stable when encapsulat-ed; we actually freeze-dried the

nanospheres with insulin and rehydrat-ed them after a month, and the formu-lation was equally effective.”

Nanomanufacturing EntersCollaboration with MFIC

UMass Lowell has signed a researchand collaboration agreement withMFIC Corporation, headquartered inNewton, to develop new applications,processes and products in the area ofnanomaterials using MFIC’s materialsprocessing and chemical reactor equipment.

Microfluidics, the operating subsidiary of MFIC, is providing aMicrofluidizer® Processor and the new-generation Microfluidizer®

Multiple Stream Mixer/Reactor(MMR) lab system. The MMR is oneof only two advanced, fully equippedsystems in existence, with a currentvalue of $350,000. With the processorvalued at $100,000, plus the provisionof technical and financial support toprojects, the MFIC contribution is valued at more than $545,000.

Research will proceed under thedirection of the NanomanufacturingCenter of Excellence (NCOE) atUML.

“We expect the Microfluidics equip-ment will become key manufacturingplatforms for high throughputnanomanufacturing,” says Prof. JulieChen, director of the NCOE.“Researchers on campus and acrossindustry sectors are interested inexploring nanoparticle production thatis scalable from experimental quantitiesto production amounts, with consisten-cy and stability.”

Irwin Gruverman, CEO and Chair-man of MFIC, said, “We welcome thisopportunity to collaborate with thesubstantial formulation and engineer-ing strengths at UML” He said theMicrofluidizer® Processor equipment

and the MMR chemical reactors are“innovative systems that can enablemany UML projects to produce nanomaterials for, among others, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical formulations.”

MFIC and UMass Lowell have ongo-ing research collaborations. Facultyresearchers have been using theMicrofluidizer materials processingequipment for significant recentresearch. Prof. Robert Nicolosi, director of the Center for Health and Disease Research, is developingcompounds for medical application; Prof. Carl Lawton, director of the Massachusetts Bioprocess DevelopmentCenter, assists biotechnology compa-nies in their process development.

Senate Stimulus Bill Provides $35 Million for Integrated ResearchBuilding

The Massachusetts Senate has passedan economic stimulus bill providing$35 million—and the authority to borrow another $35 million—for anadvanced manufacturing researchbuilding on campus.

“Research at the University of Mas-sachusetts is a key driver of economicdevelopment in the state,” said Sen.Steven C. Panagiotakos of Lowell at aState House unveiling of the legisla-tion. The bill provides close to $500million statewide to jump-start theeconomy, a significant percentage of


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UML Team Checks theHealth of the Ozone Layer,Wins NASA Award

High above earth, a NASA satellitehas been mapping the concentration ofmolecules that affect the ozone level,which is critical to the health of Earth’s atmosphere.

The NASA Earth Observing SystemAura satellite carries a unique instru-ment, the 2.5 terahertz Laser LocalOscillator, for making specific atmo-spheric measurements. It’s the first such laser to be qualified for space andthe first gas laser designed for a long-duration space flight.

Physics Prof. Bill Goodhue of thePhotonics Center and Dr. AndrewGatesman of the Submillimeter-WaveTechnology Laboratory were part of theteam that developed the laser’s optics.NASA has awarded them the PublicService Group Achievement Award,“given to a group of nongovernmentemployees in recognition of an outstanding accomplishment that has contributed substantially to theNASA mission.”

Nagarajan Wins EPA Student Grant for Green Tea Research

Rarely does a student member of aresearch team acquire the very firstexternal funding for a major project.But that’s just what Subhalakshmi(known as Subha) Nagarajan accomplished.

The Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) sponsors an annualnational student design competition—the P3 Award for Sustainability Focus-ing on People, Prosperity and thePlanet. Nagarajan won the competi-tion and a $10,000 grant that willenable her to develop preliminaryresearch results and make a presenta-tion to the EPA this May, in competi-tion for a $75,000 full developmentand implementation grant.

“The purpose of the EPA grant is toencourage environmentally friendlymethods to make materials of commer-cial and human benefit,” says Nagara-jan. “Most drugs used to treat cancerare made using toxic chemicals thatgenerate harmful by-products. Mean-while, naturally occurring compoundslike green tea catechins, which arepromising in anti-cancer studies, arenot very stable or soluble.”

Nagarajan, a doctoral candidate, is supervised by Prof. Jayant Kumar,director of the Center for AdvancedMaterials.

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Brian Pray Named Chief of UMass Lowell Police Department

Brian Pray, the Chief of Police anddirector of Public Safety at SalemState College since 1986, wasnamed chief of the UMass LowellPolice Department in September.

The Westford native has a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts fromBoston College and a master’s inadministration of justice from theUniversity of Massachusetts. He also holds a certificate of academic achievement in manage-ment and administration in a University of Virginia post-graduatelevel program conducted in affilia-tion with the FBI.

UML researchers Bill Goodhue, left, andAndy Gatesman received a NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award.

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Nanospheres Deliver Insulin Through the Skin

Insulin has been administered trans-dermally for the first time in lab condi-tions, using hollow and biodegradablenanospheres developed at UMass Lowell—an advance that could lead toimproved treatment of diabetes. Thenanospheres were also successful indelivering insulin orally. Both reducedblood glucose levels in animal studies.

Prof. Stephen McCarthy, director ofthe Biodegradable Polymer ResearchCenter, developed the new technologywith research scientist Dr. BalintKoroskenyi. Prof. Robert Nicolosi,

Prof. Stephen McCarthy with the Best PaperAward from the Society of Plastics Engi-neers, Medical Plastics Division

Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos

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They finally had a boy.

The Varnum family of Dracut had three girls, Melissa,Marina (Dara) and Meghan, all born within four years ofeach other. Then, when the oldest went off to college—atUMass Lowell, several yearsago—they decided to haveanother, Catherine Hanni, anexchange student from Switzer-land, who came to their homeand spent a year. Three years later they had another, JanaCzuckowicz, a German, whoalso came and spent a year.

Then, finally, in August of2004, they had a boy. He wasBjorn Grozinger, also an exchange student, also of Germany,who—like the others—stayed a year, attended high school inDracut and left for home at the end of finals in June.

Bjorn, who kept in touch with his family in Germanythrough phone calls and e-mail, conceded that he still missedthem sometimes—“maybe a little more around Christmas,”he told a Lowell Sun reporterlast year. “But my wonderful family here has always kept meoccupied. It didn’t take long tofeel like I was home.”

Bjorn, who said he would miss American fast food once hereturned to Germany (“Wendy’sand Taco Bell—I don’t under-stand why we don’t have themthere”) evened the imbalancejust a little in the Varnum house-hold last year until it was timefor his return—after which KentVarnum, the girls’ father, revert-ed to his perennial role as a minority of one. It was nice for a while, having an ally, he told The Sun last summer, but he’s no doubt grown re-accustomed by now to his old role ofbeing outnumbered.

The Varnums, who had all three European visitors as partof Youth for Understanding, a non-profit program thatenables young people from around the world to spend a summer, a semester or a full year with a host family in a different culture, are plainly delighted with the way the

arrangement has evolved. “It’s been a real success,” says KentVarnum. “The town enjoyed it, the school enjoyed it, ourkids got a lot out of it—it was just a real hit all around.”

All three visitors, he explains, arrived at the start of theirjunior year in high school, attended school that year in Dracut with at least one of the Varnum daughters who wasalso in school at the time, then returned home. “It was agood arrangement for our girls,” he says, as well as for the visitors. “It gave them someone to go to and from schoolwith, someone to bond with; it created friends on all sides.”

Since the Varnum girls have left home for college—Melissa is a senior and Dara a sophomore at UMass Lowell,

Meghan a freshman at UMass Amherst—the family has keptin touch with their new friends by e-mail, letters and gifts;once several years ago, they went to Paris to meet withCatherine Hanni, then stayed with her family in Switzerlandfor a time. They are now planning a trip to Germany.

And the influx may not be over yet. “With the girls nowoff at college,” says Barbara, Kent’s wife “we’re having sometrouble with the ‘empty nest’ syndrome. We’re thinkingabout hosting two students next year. We’ve already startinglooking at photographs. Maybe we’ll get a girl and a boy!”

Kent is a radar designer and engineer at Raytheon in Sud-bury. The company matched a recent $2,000 gift the familymade to the Lowell Fund. Barbara, Kent’s wife, is a technicalwriter at Brooks Automotive. The family moved from Texasto Dracut a little more than 10 years ago.


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which is directed to the UMass system.Panagiotakos was a lead author of the bill.

If passed, the legislation would provide the Lowell campus with animmediate infusion of $21 million fordesign and construction of new facili-ties to promote nanomanufacturingand biomanufacturing and relatedareas, equipment and operating costs.The bill also authorizes the Common-wealth to borrow an additional $14

million for the same purposes and per-mits UMass Lowell to borrow another$35 million. University plans call foran $80 million facility, which wouldentail raising an additional $10 millionfrom other sources.

In nanomanufacturing, the funds willbe used to expand the research centerscurrently in operation—the federally-funded Center for High-RateNanomanufacturing and the state supported Center of Excellence in

Nanomanufacturing—overseen byProfs. Carol Barry, Julie Chen and Joey Mead. In biomanufacturing, thebuilding would make possible theexpansion of the Massachusetts Bioprocessing Center, run by Assoc.Prof. Carl Lawton.

The two facilities would work together to serve the biotechnologyindustry’s need for assistance in producing drugs needed for FDA trials.

The Varnums of Dracut: Linking Families, Building Global Ties

“It’s been a real success, the town enjoyed it, the school enjoyed it, our kids got a lot out of it—it was just a real hit all around.” — Kent Varnum

The Varnum and Grozinger families, receiving a citation last year at the State House in Boston. Fromleft, Reinhold, Nicole and Renate Grosinger; State Sen. Susan Tucker; Bjorn Grosinger, who stayed withthe Varnums as an exchange student; Dracut Rep. Colleen Garry; and Barbara and Kent Varnum

Melissa and Marina Varnum, inrear from left, both are studentsat UMass Lowell. Meghan is afreshman at UMass AmherstGertrude Duffy 1927

Margery Webb 1928Anna Donahue 1936Mildred Bates 1937Alice Augusta 1938James Kiernan 1940Veronica Tannert 1942Dorothy Sullivan 1943Barbara Eason 1944Anna Flathers 1947Mildred Haines 1947Edwin Gottlieb 1947Edward Mendrala 1948Robert Creegan Sr 1951Edwin Sherburne 1951Wilmer Pofcher 1951Miriam Gallagher 1954Alice Melkonian 1954Stuart Krouss 1955Claire Baleyko 1955Roger Snyder 1956John O'Keefe 1957Herbert Maynard 1959Richard Cavallaro 1961Ernest Denapoli 1961Vincent Testa 1963Ronald Reinhold 1965Nancy Thurmond 1965Janet Daggett 1965

Donald Murphy Sr 1966MauraMcKinley 1966Lauraine Riel 1969Joanne Cormier 1969Karen Sinkevich 1970Leo Raine 1971Robert Diette 1973John Strom 1973Thomas Doran 1975Robert Cloutier 1975Robert Dionne 1976Richard Skaff 1976George Paras 1978Una O'Connell 1978John Murphy 1978Michael Gianotis 1978Karen Krisko 1979Kevin Ord 1979John Wholey 1979Patricia Mahoney 1979Carol Loffredo 1980Joan Franz 1980John Akin 1981Neil Donga 1984Robert Biagiotti 1985Michael Cuneo 1986Robert Dupont 1990Kimberly O'Hara 1991Craig Ryder 1992

Karen Baker 1993Chip Taing 1999Joseph Arnone 2002Denise Shipley 2002Thomas Stewart 2002

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But almost certainly, this is rare. For most of those students who walk past thissad-looking, red brick building on South Campus, it is all but invisible—just adeserted building that offers a driveway that can be walked across on the way toor from class.

It used to be much more than that. And it is about to be again.

When the house was built in 1854, on a hilltop overlooking the Merrimack—with one of the most commanding views of the river to be had from anywherearound—its owner, Abiel Rolfe, an agent for the Lowell to Nashua Railroad,christened it “The Terraces.” Designed in Italianate style, with brick pillars, vault-ed ceilings, a slate roof, quatrefoil (cloverleaf) windows on the gables, and a fire-place in every room—even a tower, which at some point mysteriouslyvanished—it was hailed by locals as a triumph of period design.

Rolfe sold The Terraces 10 years after he built it. The new owner, a man namedRollin White about whom little has been written, doubled the size of the house a year later—with a perpendicular addition on the side that faces what is todayConcordia Hall—then sold it himself in 1890 to a Republican congressman namedCharles H. Allen, who ran for, and lost, the Massachusetts governorship the same year.

Allen was a local titan. A former member of the Lowell school committee, bythen a U.S. Representative, he would be appointed by President McKinley asassistant secretary of the Navy, then, in 1900, as the first civilian governor—lat-er ambassador—of Puerto Rico. For nearly 20 years after that, he would serve asvice president and director of the Morgon Trust Fund, or J.P Morgan, as it wouldsoon come to be known.

He was also an accomplished cello player, as well as anart collector. As an outlet for these interests, he added amusic studio and art gallery to his already-sprawlinghome—which, sometime around that time, came to beknown as Allen House. He died there quietly, an old manby that time, in the spring of 1934.

A daughter inherited the home, but left the city andcouldn’t keep it. It was sold in the mid-1940s to a Fran-co-Catholic order known as the Grey Nuns of the Crossof Ottawa, who housed their novices in an adjacentwooden garage, then converted much of the house’supstairs into a religious meeting room, ringed by decora-tive woodwork that can still be seen today.

The nuns wanted to build a home for Lowell’s elderlyFranco-Americans. When they determined that AllenHouse would be too small for their purposes, they put iton the market to raise funds; the buyer was Lowell StateTeachers College—the then-proprietor of today’s UMassLowell South Campus—whose president, DanielO’Leary, bought the nuns’ home and garage togetherwith an adjacent property, the Battles Home for elderly

men of the Masonic Order (on the site of today’s Concordia Hall), for $160,000in August of 1957. The nuns got their nursing home, D’Youville Manor, whichthey located in Dracut, while the Battles trustees used the funds to buy a red brick


They walk past it hundreds of times a day, scores of them, sometimesalone, other times in groups, carrying their books and backpacks andcups of coffee, talking on their cell phones or to each other, on theirways back and forth between Dugan and Concordia Halls. They pass

across its entrance, within three or four paces of its high French windows anddoors; surely sometimes, in warm weather, one or two of them must stop to sitawhile, even to read or talk, on the high stone steps that lead up to its two frontentrances. Maybe even a few of them, on some occasion or other, have takenthe time to climb the little grass incline that separates it from the footpath andto walk around to its back—and there to linger for a moment on the broad,columned balcony that looks down on the river below.

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by the end of next year (2006).” The first phase, he says, willbe the completion of the building’s mechanical systems—airconditioning, electrical, sprinklers—plus a renovation of thefirst floor. This will be followed, probably beginning in early’06, by the construction of an elevator and all second-floor renovations.

Allen House today, at least to judge by a cursory tour, has thelook of a grand lady long neglected. Its columns, roof andmasonry, for a building as old as she is, still seem solid andmostly intact; but there is chipped brick around the corners,the granite steps are sagging, the floors are uneven in places,and the roof is said to let in rain. Inside, there are missingbalustrades on the stairways, the ornamentation is chipped orfaded, the vaulted ceilings need new beams.

“It will all be done,” says Valdes, who adds that much of it,at least on the first floor, is going to look very close to the way

it looked a century ago. Or at least that’s the intent.

“The fireplaces, the outside balcony, the woodwork, the win-dow moldings, the ceilings— we’re going to keep as much ofit as we can. To replicate the detail, the beauty of that work—those are the kinds of challenges a good craftsman really loves.”

Sometimes, he says, he enjoys imagining the final fruit of allthis planning and effort—the day of the new Allen House’sfirst public gala, a year or two from now:

“It’ll be a warm, sunny spring day. The work will all be done,the gallery will be open, with an art exhibit on its walls. Andthey’ll throw open the doors to the outside to let the air in, andyou’ll be able to see the river in the distance and feel the breezeon your face…”


mansion, the “Major Lilly Castle,” at the top of a hill in theBelvidere neighborhood, from where the elderly Masonicbrothers enjoyed a splendid view of the city below.

But for Allen House, it was the start of a sad time. For a yearor two shortly after the purchase, the home was made over intoan interim dormitory for 30 female music majors, who livedthere while ConcordiaHall was under construc-tion next door. Then, for atime, it was made over intoclassrooms and offices forthe faculty of the MusicDepartment. In 1976, with the completion of Durgin Hall, itwas abandoned and locked down. Except for some occasionalfunctions—a few dances and meetings in the years that imme-diately followed, and the 1981 ceremony to mark its induc-tion, ironically, into the National Registry of HistoricPlaces—and a brief time in the early nineties as a field officefor the UMass Lowell campus police (a single central roomequipped with only a desk, a chair and a phone, as reported byThe Connector), it has been vacant ever since.

The resurrection will come soon. Just how soon is hard to sayexactly, but, sometime not long after the winter of 2006, AllenHouse will reopen—in a new incarnation which, at least in

spirit, will not be so awfully far from the old.

The showpiece, much as in Charles Allen’s day, will be anart gallery. An exhibition space for shows by student and fac-ulty, it will be the gift of two alumni, Frank and Mary Jo Spino-la (see accompanying story), and will share the first floor witha conference room, administrative space and the office of the

dean of Arts and Sciences. The second floor will be given overto a faculty lounge, a presentation hall for University func-tions, and additional office and administrative space.

The cost of the project, which will be completed in twophases over the next 12 to 18 months, is expected to be around$1.5 million, says Project Manager Hector Valdes of the UMassLowell Office of Facilities. Of this, $125,000 will be donatedby the Spinolas; the remainder will be paid out of the Chan-cellor’s Operating Fund.

“I don’t want to make any specific promises about times anddates,” says Valdes, “because a lot of things can happen alongthe way. But the bulk of work, certainly, should be completed

“The fireplaces, the outside balcony, the woodwork, the window moldings,the ceilings— we’re going to keep as much of it as we can. To replicatethe detail, the beauty of that work—those are the kinds of challenges agood craftsman really loves.” — Hector Valdes

“It’ll be a warm, sunny spring day. The work will all be done, the gallery will be open, with anart exhibit on its walls. And they’ll throw open the doors to the outside to let the air in, and you’ll be able to see the river in the distance and feel the breeze on your face…”

— Hector Valdes

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The ornate brickwork,pitched roof and large,inviting balcony arereflections of the workmanship that was typical of the Allen House era. The door, above, is the outside entrance to what will be theSpinola Gallery.

The quatrefoil windows underthe roofline, together with the arched windows on both floors below, complemented by the pillars on the porch, give the house a kind of understated vertical majesty.


FaceofPhilanthropyunderlying it. All in all, it was the bestof both worlds—just a really great, real-ly solid education.”

By the time he graduated in 1966,with a degree and a wife-to-be—he andMary Jo would marry a year later inLowell—he also had a job offer: fromKoppers Company back in his home-town of Pittsburgh, where he began as aplant engineer in a coal tar refinery. He

stayed with the company 22 years,through several positions in severalparts of the country, before Koppers wasacquired in 1988 when he was servingas a vice president and general managerof its specialty chemical division. Hethen assembled a team and led a lever-aged buy-out of the division, which waschristened INDSPEC Chemical Corp.He stayed with INDSPEC, as CEO andpresident, for another 11years, before it was sold toOccidental Petroleum.Stockholder value, overthose 11 years, hadincreased 4,000 percent.

Frank has since retiredfrom INDSPEC. He workstoday occasionally as aconsultant for investmentfirms making acquisitionsin the chemical industry.He has also served on theboards of several firms inthe Pittsburgh area, wherehe has now lived much ofhis life—though he and Mary Jo are today residents of Florida, wherethey spend about sixmonths of the year.

Outside of his professional life, hehas become deeply involved with theBig Brother and Big Sisters organiza-tion, where he served as a volunteer formore than 10 years. It began for him,he says, when his two children, Alexand Andrea, both now grown, firstmoved out of the house:

“It was an empty-nest sort of thing, I guess you’d say. The kids were gone,

and I missed them. I missed the soccergames, the school plays—I missed beinga part of all that. So I got involved withBig Brothers. And it just grew fromthere.”

It has grown indeed. Frank servestoday on the boards of Big Brothers andBig Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh, and ofFamily Resources of Allegheny County,a group that works to prevent child

abuse and to counsel its victims. He isalso on the council of the McGowanInstitute, a research organization devot-ed to regenerative medicines and artifi-cial organs. And a second gift to UMassLowell from the Spinolas—in additionto the $125,000 they will give to createthe art gallery—has its roots burieddeep in the Big Brothers program.

That gift, also of $125,000, will cre-ate the Francis M. and Mary Jo SpinolaEndowed Scholarship Fund, which willprovide scholarships to undergraduates,with preference given to two groups:students who have been raised in single-parent households and thosewho have been involved with the BigBrothers/Big Sisters program, either asmentor or beneficiary.

“It’s just a cause we believe in,” saysFrank Spinola. “It’s done a lot of good, I think, for a lot of kids who would otherwise have nowhere else to turn.”


FaceofPhilanthropy

The art gallery that will be the show-piece of the new Allen House, which inturn will be a jewel of the UMass Low-ell South Campus, is the gift of a couplewhose reasons for giving it have less todo with art than simple civic pride.

“Mary Jo is from Lowell,” FrankSpinola says of his wife of nearly 40years. “She grew up there, and still feelssome attachment to it. It just seemedthat an art gallery would be an idealway to make a real difference in thequality of life in town.”

Also, he says, it seemed like a goodway to show some recognition to thefaculty—who, he feels, “will get at leastas much use from it, and as muchenjoyment, as the students.”

Frank, unlike Mary Jo, wasn’t a localwhen he arrived at Lowell Tech in1962. He had grown up in Pittsburgh,and had come here for two reasonsonly: “The tuition was $150 a semester,

which was what I could afford at thetime. And it had a great engineeringprogram. But I didn’t know a soul.”

Frank and Mary Jo both graduated in1966, he from Lowell Tech with adegree in chemical engineering, shefrom Lowell State Teachers Collegewith a degree in elementary education.They had met earlier the same year,when Frank rented an apartment onWilder Street that was owned by thefriend of a professor he had. The friendhad a daughter, Mary Jo Roberto,

whom Frank began seeing on a regularbasis—“and pretty soon,” as he recallsit, “my landlord was also my father-in-law.”

Over the years, he says, what he hascome to value most about the four years

he spent here is what he likes to callLowell Tech’s “of the people” style ofeducation—which, from what he cantell, remains the style today:

“Unlike at a lot of big universities,the faculty at Lowell came pretty muchright out of industry. They brought real,practical hands-on experience withthem to the classroom. It was the sameway with the equipment we workedwith—it was used, cast-off stuff, reallybasic, but always workable…

“I think of it as the differencebetween a practical, hands-on educa-tion and the more theoretical, academ-ic education you might get somewhereelse. Sort of like being at a trade school,but with a solid academic program

The Spinolas: Giving to Art, to Scholarship,to Families Who Need a Hand

“Unlike at a lot of big universities, the faculty at Lowell camepretty much right out of industry. They brought real, practicalhands-on experience with them to the classroom.”

— Frank Spinola

“The tuition was $150 a semester, which was what I couldafford at the time. And it had a great engineering program. But I didn’t know a soul.” — Frank Spinola

The Spinola family, all three generations, at a recent family gathering.

Frank and Mary Jo Spinola

by Geoffrey Douglas


AlumniEvents


AlumniEvents

Taking part in UMass Lowell night at a Lowell Spinners baseball game(Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) are from left, Steve Rogers, University advancement; Jeff Penfield, Janine and Bob Penfield ’80, KrisBeaudette ’74, Lou Beaudette ’74, John F. Kennedy ’70 and Jim Nolan ’71.

Baltimore area alumni gathered for a picnic and a Boston RedSox game at Camden Yards are from left, Allen Vieira ’74,Priscilla Butler ’74, Greg Vieira and Scotty Vieira.

Worcester area alumni gathered at SPQR Italian Café to hear fromcampus representatives on some exciting initiatives, including a neweffort to launch a local chapter to help with admissions recruiting andnetworking. Prof. John Warner, far left, director of the Center for GreenChemistry, spoke about his work and that of his graduate students inthis exciting field.

New York area alumni who enjoyed an evening of dinner and theatre are front row from left, L. Donald LaTorre ’60, Leah Lane, Gloria LaTorre and Kathy Laska. Back row from left, Carol Salter, University Advancement; Stewart Lane, Bonnie Comley ’81 and Ehud Laska ’75.

Attendees at the New York evening of theater included, front row from left, David Pernick ’41, Frances Pernick, Beverly Siegel and Melvin Siegel ’48. Back row, fromleft, Susan Posner ’04, Brian Andriolo ’95 ’97, University Advancement; JessicaHaynes ’04.

State Teachers classmates from 1940 celebrated their60th reunion at this year’s Golden Alumni luncheonheld on campus as part of Fall Festival Weekend. Fromleft are, Mary Laganas, Carmille Marquis Lacey andRuth Caddell Johnston.

Class of 1955 State Teachers College at Lowell Class of 1955 Lowell Technological Institute

Class of 1965 Mass State College at Lowell

Class of 1965 Lowell Technological Institute

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Class of 1965 Lowell Tech at the Homecoming Luncheon

Class of 1980 University of Lowell

Class of 1955 State Teachers at the Golden Alumni Luncheon

More than 1,100 alumni and their families attended theLowell Fund Hockey Appreciation Night at the TsongasArena. Members of the University community, along withstate and local officials were also on hand to cheer onUML’s River Hawks to a 7-4 victory over rival Boston Uni-versity. Pictured from left, Congressman Marty Meehan’78 his wife Ellen and sons Daniel and Bobby, Dean KathyVerreault-Carter ’78, Mary Bedell ’81, Brian Andriolo ’95’97, university advancement, and UMass President Jack Wilson.

Ten years ago, as a senior majoring inelectrical engineering, Panos Tokadjianlearned a lesson in Prof. Donn Clark’ssenior-thesis class that he credits withmuch of the success he’s enjoyed in lifesince then.

“He taught us to keep notes of every-thing—everything,” Tokadjian remem-bers. “It was a priceless lesson. I’venever forgotten it; I’ve never stoppedliving by that advice. I can’t expresshow important it’s been for me.”

Tokadjian, who graduated in 1995and is today the chief engineer at theHingham Municipal Lighting Plant,also recalls the influence of Prof. ZiyadSalameh, who, he says, “took a realinterest in what I was doing” at thetime as a student intern at the ConcordMunicipal Light Plant. The teachers ingeneral, he says, were “amazingly helpful, though at the time I don’tthink I had much appreciation of that.”

Tokadjian, an Armenian who wasraised in Lebanon and came to thiscountry with his family at 16—hisfather, now retired, was a lab techni-cian at Textron—has contributed morethan $4,000 to the University since hisgraduation 10 years ago.

“Without the education I got at Low-ell,” he says, “I can’t even imagine whatI’d be doing today—certainly not whatI’m doing. Ever since I got out in thereal world and saw the value of what I learned there—well, let’s just say thatwhenever I get a call from the school, I give whatever I can.”

After working part-time as an internfor the Concord utility through most ofhis University career, he accepted a jobwith the same company the year afterhis graduation and remained therenearly four years. Then, in the spring of 2000, he went to work for the Hing-

ham utility, where he has been eversince. If it’s up to him, he says, it’ll be a long while before he works for anyone else.

“This is a dream job, an excitingjob—mostly because it’s so many jobsin one. I work in the office, as a projectdesigner, an engineer, a field supervisorof construction, I do some purchasingwork. There’s just nowhere else I knowof where I could duplicate this. It’s theperfect job. A lot of times in this kindof work, you end up doing paperworkmost of the time. And that’s just notfor me.”

It’s no surprise that the chief engi-neer’s job is as challenging and variedas it is. The activities of the Hingham

engineering division, as describedbriefly on the company’s website,include “design, construction, adminis-trative and technical services…construction and maintenance of theelectrical transmission and distributionsystem,” the expansion and improve-ment of “all existing electrical-utilityfacilities, the updating of accurate mapsand database information…” and thecoordination of new services.

“It’s a complicated job,” says Tokadjian. “But it’s the only job I’dwant to be doing right now.”

The utility, which began 110 yearsago with 58 customers and 300 streetlamps, is responsible today for themaintenance and working technologyof roughly 10,000 electrical meters, in a town with a population of around25,000. But the growth is dramatic, hesays: “That’s another reason to love thisjob—the town is growing really fast.”

Tokadjian, who is 35 and still single,lives in Arlington near his parents,who are retired there. Every morning,he makes the 45-minute trip south toHingham on I-93. “It’s a fair distance,”he says, “but not a bad commute. I’m

going south while everybody else isgoing north. That makes for a prettynice drive.”

Life in general, it seems, has beena pretty nice drive so far for PanosTokadjian—who seems to have noth-ing but good words to say about thepath he’s chosen, beginning with hischoice of schools.

“I don’t even like to think of whereI’d be without the University,” he says.“Probably flipping burgers somewhere.”

An Engineering Alum, 10 Years Later: Without UML, ‘I’d Be Flipping Burgers Somewhere’

Panos Tokadjian

“Without the education I got at Lowell,” I can’t even imaginewhat I’d be doing today — Panos Tokadjian

by Geoffrey Douglas

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ClassNotesgraduating in 1986 and is anavid amateur astronomer.

1991

Paul Roux, in Iraq with theArmy National Guard, is incharge of water purification forfour separate towns. He willretire in March after serving inthe Guard for 20 years. Paul isan area manager at Woodard & Curran, contracting operations in charge of water,wastewater and collection projects throughout New England. Paul and his wife,Gwen, have three children,Monica, Michael and Brandon.

1992

Rayanne Drouin has a newposition as senior associatedirector of Admissions atUMass Boston.

1994

James Marques is serving inIraq as a captain with theNational Guard. In civilian life,he is an SQA engineer at 3MTouch Systems in Methuen.

1996

Shelly Leighton Clark gradu-ated from New England Schoolof Law with a J.D. in 2004 andwas honored with the “CALIExcellence for the FutureAward,” was listed in “Who’sWho Among American LawStudents” and was a StudentBar Association representative.She also studied for four yearsat the New Eng-land Conservatoryof Music, wasinvolved in theNEC Gospel Choirand received ascholarship to per-form in the NECSummer Opera Workshop.

Recently, she became the newUnit Manager for WGBH-TV,Channel 2, where she handlestalent contracts and financialand human resources manage-

ment for productions such as“Greater Boston,” “Basic Black”and “La Plaza.” She is anadjunct professor of BusinessLaw at the New England Col-lege of Finance in Boston and isa former vocal coach atAtlantic Union College inLancaster. She is also a profes-sional soloist in gospel and classical music and a churchsoloist. Formerly involved inmusical theatre and dance, sheis in the process of forming agospel choir.

1997

Monica Walker is owner/presi-dent of Monica InsuranceAgency in Lowell, which spe-cializes in auto, home, business,WC and more. She and herhusband, Paul Swaida, havetwo children, Josh and Olivia.

1999

Kristin (Lamond) Costa andher husband, Derek ’01, arepleased to announce the birth of their first child, TylerAnthony, born on April 22,2005. Derek recently was promoted to associate director of Residence Life at UMassLowell.

Erik Faust Dietz received hisPh.D. in criminology from theUniversity of Delaware in May2005, completing his disserta-tion on “Defining ‘Too Closefor Comfort’: Environmentaland Individual Determinants ofPerceived Crowding Among aSample of Federal Offenders.”

Heidi Elsinger recentlybecame an independent consul-tant with PartyLites, a directselling candle company.

Bridget Sheehy is pursuing herM.A. in holistic health educa-tion at the John F. KennedyUniversity.

2000

Diana Melnyk recently accept-ed an associate position withKPMG’s International Corpo-

rate Tax Services group in theirSan Diego office.

2001

Derek Costa and his wifeKristin (Lamond) ’99 arepleased to announce the birthof their first child, TylerAnthony, born on April 22,2005. Derek recently was pro-moted to associate director

of Residence Life at UMassLowell.

Frances Eagle, D.Eng., hasaccepted an operations manag-er position in the technologyand manufacturing group atIntel Corporation in Hudson.Intel is the world’s largest semi-conductor chip maker, whoseproducts include the buildingblocks integral to computers,


ClassNotes

1950

Norman D. Gale writes thatafter graduating from LowellTextile he returned to militaryservice in the Korean War.Although now semi-retired, he has been in the garmentindustry since 1952 and is stillselling apparel. Norman hasthree children, five grandchil-dren and has been married for58 years to his wife, Peggy.

1972

Ellen (O’Donnell) O’Dono-hue works in health services at World Bank headquarters,coordinating internationalmedical evacuations and pro-viding health briefings to officials on resident assign-ments overseas. She has visitedhealth facilities in Malawi,Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nepal,Cameroun and Chad and isalso studying art and Spanish inher spare time. Her husband,Peter, is actively involved withthe State Department’s Officeof Environment and Science,working on internationalforestry projects in Liberia andSierra Leone. They have threechildren, Ian, Kate, and Peter.

1974

Alan Mosier recently co-authored an inspirational anti-bullying story/curriculum toolcalled, “Jeff ’s Journey,” that isbeing distributed throughDidax, Inc. It is available toelementary/middle schools andviolence prevention programsacross the country. Alan is aveteran teacher in the ReadingPublic schools.

1976

Janet (Doneski) Audunsonrecently joined the Syracuseoffice of Hiscock & BarclayLLP as an associate attorney.She brings 25 years of compre-hensive engineering and man-agement experience in thepower generation field with aconcentration in hydroelectricand fossil-fueled generation toher regulated entities practice.Audunson,whose admis-sion to the NewYork State Baris pending,graduated fromthe SyracuseUniversity Col-lege of Law (J.D., 2005) Sheserved as the general managerfor Orion Power New York and

also as the director of HydroGeneration and EngineeringServices for Niagara Mohawk.She is a licensed professionalengineer in New York and amember of the New York StateBar Association and the Wom-en’s Bar Association of theState of New York. Hiscock &Barclay is a full-service law firmwith 160 attorneys, providing awide range of legal expertise toclients from offices located inBuffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,Albany and New York.

1977

Sandra Lumb is newlyemployed at St. Monica’s inMethuen after teaching for 25 years at Our Lady of Mt.Carmel School, which wasrecently closed by the Archdio-cese of Boston. Sandra writes,“All is going well!”

1980

After graduating from UML,Clive James Thomson O.D.,right, was a mechanical engi-neer for Boeing in Seattle and

then for General Dynamics inFort Worth. He received hisB.S. from the PhiladelphiaSchool of Optometry and hisDoctor of Optometry degreefrom the Inter America University in San Juan, PR.He now works at the Eye Masters in Nashville, Tenn., as an optometrist.

1983

Stevi Ann Shapiro was pro-moted to the rank of Colonelin the Air Force and wasrecently reassigned to the Pen-tagon where she is the Chief,Integrated Marketing Division,Office of the Secretary of theAir Force Public Affairs. She isresponsible fordeveloping inte-grated nationalmarketingobjectives forthe Total Forceand planningand executing a$30 million national advertis-ing campaign. Col. Shapiro isthe daughter of Prof. Bernardand Diana “Yana” Shapiro.She received her commissionthrough the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at theUniversity in 1983.

1986

M. Mia (Sheehan) Primeauxreturned to receive her B.S.N.in 1991 and, in 1994, marriedChristopher Primeaux. Theylive in Derry, N.H., with theirfour children: Victoria, Noelle,Jillian and Aidan. She hasworked for the Derry/SalemHome Health/Hospice for thepast four years.

Susan (Chaisson) Schueller isworking in the Governmentand Military Robotics divisionof iRobot Corporation as theirSenior Software ConfigurationManagement Engineer. Susanand husband Richard ’86recently celebrated their 15th

wedding anniversary in Hawaii.Susan is very active in her localmusic community where sheplays a variety of flutes in theChelmsford Community Band,the Merrimack Valley FluteChoir and the New EnglandConservatory. She is also a featured solo flutist for localsinging groups. Richard hasbeen a physicist at AmericanScience and Engineering since

1950

Taking part in a “Golden Oldies” reunion of LTI graduates atStonebridge Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., recently were,front row from left, Harvey Fishman ’53, Donald Finegold ’53,Sherman Lein ’52, Irwin “Sonny” Needle ’51 and StanleyRosenkranz ’50, and, standing from left, Arnold Brody ’53, Milton Gladstone ’52, Charley “Chuck” Weiner ’50, ArthurLevinson’50, Joel “Smiley” Berger ’53, and Irwin Ames ’52.

2002

The Bike Designer: ‘Being Paid to Live Out a Dream’

Brad Paquin was always into bikes.

“Dirt bikes, mountain bikes, any kind of bikes—he rode themevery day. He just lived and breathed bikes,” says Brad’s motherCecile, an assistant in the office of UMass Lowell Vice ChancellorDiana Prideaux-Brune.

“I grew up riding BMX bikes,”Paquin writes in an e-mail from Connecticut, where his work has taken him, “then started ridingmountain bikes. I [got into] downhillmountain bike racing around 2000.Since then, I’ve taken up some roadriding as well.”

Paquin, an ’02 UMass Lowell graduate with a degree in mechan-ical engineering, used to spend part of his college summers, hismother remembers, at Sunday River in Maine: “He’d take his bike up the gondola to the top of the mountain, then race down in these competitions they had. He broke his collarbone once,another time he cut his knee pretty badly. I used to worry a lot.”

Paquin, who went to school thinking he wanted to work in theautomotive industry—“until I realized,” he says, “that I didn’twant to move to Detroit”—worked part-time during his UMasscareer at a Woburn government contractor, Kazak Composites,which hired him full-time when he graduated three years ago. He stayed there three more years, but began to grow restless, hesays. “I just knew I wanted to work on products I care about.”

Then, last year, he applied for a job at a bike manufacturer inBethel, Conn.— the Cannondale Bicycle Corporation—and was hired not long after. His job today, as he describes it, is splitbetween advanced concepts—projects that won’t be released fortwo years or so—and frame designs that come to market sooner. At the moment, he says, “my job has focused on composite bikesthat can be manufactured in the U.S., which is a unique task.”(Most bicycle companies, he explains, have their products manu-factured in the Far East to minimize labor costs.) The first bikeframe made from his design, he says, was scheduled for release in February.

“It’s just the perfect job for him,” says his mother. “Ever sincehe’s had it, I think he feels like he’s getting paid to live his dream.”


CampusAthletics

Only one team finishes a season with a win, a nationalchampion. For the first time in its historythe UMass Lowell field hockey team is that team.

The River Hawkswon the Division II2005 National Championship with a double overtime, 2-1 victory, overthree-time defending championBloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

The NCAA National Championshipis the sixth in the university’s history,but the first ever for a women’s athleticprogram and the first women’s title inthe University system in 19 years.

“This is unbelievable,” head coachShannon Hlebichuk said. “At thebeginning of August, I didn’t think inmy wildest dreams we’d be here. Butafter seeing the leadership the seniorsprovided we knew it was a possibility.”

Possibility became a reality 92 minutes and one second after the finalbattle began. At that moment seniorJoanna DaLuze’s shot rifled from the circle, eluded the Bloomsburg goalkeep-er and settled into the right side of thenet and the celebration began.

“I wasn’t concentrating on scoring,”DaLuze said. “I was looking at getting a corner, or shooting for the pads andgetting a deflection.”

The DaLuze goal was unassisted. The senior midfielder stole the ballfrom a Bloomsburg player 30 yards from the goal, maneuvered past twoopponents to the circle before releasingthe game-ending shot.

The River Hawk heroes were many.

Junior Goalie Nicole Staiti made 14 saves in the game including a diving stop on a breakaway in the second overtime period.

Junior Forward Sara Hohenbergergave UMass Lowell a lead eight minutesinto the contest with her team-leading25th goal of the season after receiving apass from Courtney Hill. Hohenbergerset the school record for goals andpoints (63) in a single season.

The National Championship put an exclamation point on a spectacularseason. The River Hawks finished theyear 20-3. The 2005 team set a schoolrecord by winning 16 consecutive gamesat one point, and finished the year winning 18 of their last 19.

En route to the title, UML knockedoff semifinal opponent Stonehill College, 2-1, to avenge a controversialloss to the Skyhawks in the Northeast-10 Tournament Championship gameand end their opponents’ 15-game winning streak.

Five members of the field hockeyteam were named to the Field HockeyCoaches Association Division II All America team. DaLuze, Hill,Hohenberger and Josselyn Mroz werenamed to the first. Kim Villare earned a spot on the second team.

This was the third consecutive trip tothe NCAA National Tournament forthe UMass Lowell field hockey team,and the second time the team reachedthe championship game, but the firsttime a season ended with a win.


ClassNotesservers and networking prod-ucts. Eagle earned an M.S. inplastics engineering from theUniversity in 1990.

2003

Since graduation, Sean Con-way has been teaching in May-nard. After receiving his M.Ed.in 2004, he began an M.F.A.program in creative writing,spending the summer of 2005studying in the south of France.He will continue his studies inMadrid, Spain, in the summerof 2006.

Dale T. Lafayette, Jr. and hiswife, Faith, just had their thirdchild, Nolan Gage. Nolan

joined Nicholas and Molly this past September.

Rob Velella is completing his first semester as assistantdirector of Student Activitiesat Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Penn.He now works with campusprogramming and is undertak-ing a program to train officersfor student organizations.Among other duties, he has an advisory role with the year-book, radio station and studentnewspaper, using some of theskills he acquired as senior classpresident at UMass Lowell.

2004

The Tewksbury Advocate’sTeacher of the Week, BarbaraJagla, received her M.Ed. fromUML and has been teachingfifth grade at the John F. RyanElementary School in Tewks-bury since 1999. Barbara workswith her fifth graders on usingtechnology in their subjectareas, along with supervisingstudents on the Internet. In addition to being a technol-ogy whiz, Barbara is also theschool’s weather station coordi-nator, assisting the students in collecting weather data from outdoors and around the country.

Peter Demoulias is a personalwealth manager at MorganStanley in the Danvers office.He educates clients andimproves their financial situations to enable them tomeet their monetary goals andobjectives. He still worksclosely with some of the busi-ness professors at the Universi-ty and enjoys the tutelage theycontinue to offer. He enjoysworking out and following ourfavorite sports teams like theRed Sox and Patriots. In addi-tion, he enjoys continuouslybuilding his knowledge of the investment industry andfinding new avenues to helpbuild financial success.

Donors Sought for Costello Gym Renovation

The Athletics Department is half way toward its goal of raising$750,000 to renovate the interior ofthe Costello Gym. The fundraisinginitiative, called “HomecourtAdvantage,” will help fund theinstallation of a new floor, bleach-ers, scoreboard and sound system for the gym, which was built in the 1960s.

“With all the new construction ofathletics facilities in the last sevenyears, the Costello Gym has missedout on its proper upkeep,” says Athletic Director Dana Skinner.

“It’s time.”

The renovation will start inMarch when the floor will bereplaced, with the rest of the workprogressing as funds are available.Skinner says he hopes the entireproject will be finished by September 2006.

A fundraising brochure andappeal will be sent out soon to theuniversity community asking fordonations. The campaign willinclude a brick sale, where donorscan give $100 or $200 for a brick,with an inscription chosen by thedonor, that will be installed in thelobby of the gym. A similar cam-paign successfully raised funds forthe Campus Recreation Center.

For more information, or to send a donation, contact Peter Casey, (978) 934-2337.

Field Hockey Team Makes History with National Championship

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