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ecoming the College’s first-

ever individual $1 million

donor this summer was a

labor of love for Lynne Parks

Hoffman ’68.

Her generous offer, which will support

the College’s alumni house, allowed Lynne

the opportunity to celebrate some of the

most cherished people in her life — her

Nu Sigma Chi sorority sisters and her late

husband Jack Hoffman — while paying

tribute to her alma mater.

“I am what I am today because of

Cortland and Nu Sigma Chi,” said Lynne,

who returned to campus from her residence

in Portland, Ore., for Alumni Reunion

Weekend in July. “It’s because of the values

I learned at the College and the opportunity

to get a good job after college.”

She joined nearly 70 Nu Sigma Chi sisters

at the newly named Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY

Cortland Alumni House for the sorority’s

80th anniversary during reunion weekend.

The College’s oldest sorority, Nu Sigma

Chi had been the catalyst behind Lynne

reconnecting with SUNY Cortland 15 years

earlier.

“I had not been back to the College

since I graduated in 1968,” explained Lynne.

“The year before my 25th reunion in 1993,

Diane McKinnon ’68, my college roommate

all four years, and I decided we wanted to

attend the reunion and to see our sorority

sisters.”

So, Lynne contacted the Alumni Affairs

Office seeking the names and addresses of

her Class of 1968 sorority sisters. She and

Diane wrote personal letters and sent infor-

mation packets to each of them.

“We had 17 or 18 sisters come back,”

said Lynne. “The next step was keeping in

touch. We decided after 10 years that we

would meet again for our 35th reunion.”

In October 2003, Nu Sigma Chi alumnae

met in Hyde Park, N.Y., where they dined in

a private room at the Culinary Institute of

America and toured the Franklin D. Roosevelt

homestead mansion and grounds.

“We had a great time and a fabulous

turnout,” recalled Lynne. “That was the

same year I learned about the new Alumni

House in Columns. I’d never seen the house,

One in a Million

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Au Rpr 2007-2008

Published four times a year by the SUNY Cortland Alumni Association, Inc.,

SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland, NY 13045-0900.

Phone: (607) 753-2516

Fax: (607) 753-5789

E-mail address: [email protected]

Raymond D. Franco ’72

Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Douglas DeRancy ’75

Executive Director of Alumni Affairs

Gordon Valentine ’68

Alumni Association President

Peter D. Koryzno

Editor

Jennifer Wilson

Associate Editor

Tracy Rammacher

Ingrid Jordak M ’93

Contributing Editors

Jean Palmer

Staff Writer

Kiefer Creative

Design and Layout

FOUNDATION STAFF

Michael Katz

Manager of Leadership Gifts

Peter Vanderwoude

Manager of Planned Gifts

Jennifer Janes

Director of The Cortland Fund

Linda Battin

Manager of Financial Operations

Tina Aversano ’96

Leadership Gifts Officer

Jonni Campbell

Associate Director of The Cortland Fund

Kathleen L. Jensen

Database/Prospect Research Administrator

Sheila Morse

Financial Operations Specialist

Dorothy Barrett Smith

Records, Gift Processing and Stewardship Clerk II

Reneé Kot

Records, Gift Processing and Stewardship Clerk I

Staci Kirkland

Database Specialist

Julie Taibi

Keyboard Specialist

Inside This Issue

SECTION ONE

2007-2008 Annual Report of the Cortland College Foundation

9 Auxiliary Services Corporation

Wind Beneath Scholars’ Wings

11 Alumni House Trustees

Selfless Class of 1958 Donors Lead Way

14 Lambda Phi Delta

Brothers Encourage Student Community Service

17 Cortland Calling

Students Ringing Alumni, Forging Ties

18 Wendy Foldes

Friend of College Cherishes Education

20 Student Government

Association Endows Future Leader Training

24 Campus Programs

The Cortland Fund Underwrites Activities

SECTION TWO

SUNY Cortland 2007-2008 Year in Review

9 11 21

By Victor M. Rumore II ’84

Chairman, Cortland College Foundation

ince 1999, I have had the privilege of serving

as the Cortland College Foundation Board of

Directors chairman. Now, as I complete my

final term, I reflect on my tenure with a great

deal of pride and a real sense of accomplishment.

As an alumnus of the College, I truly feel honored

to have been able to give back to my alma mater in

such a meaningful and fulfilling manner. My responsi-

bilities have allowed me to meet many SUNY Cortland

alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students of the

College. At the same time, I have thoroughly enjoyed

seeing the College grow and prosper.

The physical transformation of the campus over

the past decade has been one of the most significant in

the College’s history. SUNY Cortland has constructed

its magnificent Stadium Complex and its environmen-

tally award-winning Glass Tower residence hall. By the

start of next year, the College will have a new educa-

tion building and state-of-the-art day-care center. The

Sperry Center and Brockway Hall were completely

renovated. The Moffett Center pool is being artfully

transformed into much-needed office space. The

majority of our residence halls have been remodeled

and are more attractive than ever to our students. The

revamped parking lot behind Cornish-Van Hoesen

is extremely pleasing and functional, as is the new

parking lot on Prospect Terrace.

SUNY Cortland’s meticulous efforts at respecting

the past while preparing for the future are no better

evidenced than at our Outdoor Education Center.

A few years ago, our

Raquette Lake facility

became the first and,

to date, only National

Historic Landmark in

the State University of

New York.

The dramatic changes

will continue on campus

in the next few years with

major improvements to

Bowers Hall and Studio

West, as well as with the

addition of a $51 million Student Life Center.

Not only has SUNY Cortland experienced a renais-

sance of its physical infrastructure, I am proud of the

important role that the Cortland College Foundation

has played in solidifying the College’s financial footing

over that same span of time.

When I became chair in 1999, the foundation’s

endowment totaled $5.7 million. As you can see in

this year’s annual report, the endowment has grown

117 percent to $12.4 million as of June 2008. Because

of such philanthropy and wise money management, the

Foundation has enabled the College to offer scholar-

ships to hundreds of deserving students and to provide

funds that have enriched the collegiate experience for

all members of our campus community.

The 2007-08 fiscal year was an unprecedented one

for the foundation and the College. For the first time

in its history, the foundation topped the $3 million mark

in annual gifts received. Another milestone came with

the College’s first million-dollar gift from an individual,

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68. The Alumni Association

Board of Directors honored Lynne’s extraordinary

generosity by naming its elegant and historic mansion

in her name.

This past year, reunion giving hit another all-time

high with $539,000, while the bold goal of the Class of

1962 to raise $1 million dollars before its 50th reunion

in 2012 is well on its way. Overall, nearly 6,000 of you

contributed to the overall success of the foundation’s

fundraising efforts this year that supported 17 new

endowments, while increasing support for everything

from athletics and the arts to faculty development and

undergraduate research.

Thank you to the SUNY Cortland faculty, staff

and students who continue to make me proud of

my alma mater. Thank you to my fellow foundation

board members who volunteer their time and talent to

help the College in innumerable ways. They are true

philanthropists in every sense of that word. Finally,

thank you to all of you for your support of the foun-

dation and SUNY Cortland. In the uncertain financial

times ahead, I sincerely hope that you will continue

to support the foundation as it works to keep a SUNY

Cortland education both affordable and outstanding.

Victor M. Rumore II ’84

Chair, Board of Directors

Cortland College Foundation, Inc.

Maintaining the Cortland Pride

Victor M. Rumore II ’84

James Harmon Hoose Society

RECOGNIZING LIFETIME PHILANTHROPY

OF MORE THAN $1,000,000

The first principal (president) of the

Cortland Normal School who served

from 1869 to 1881 and 1882 to

1891, Hoose is remembered for his

“honesty of purpose, his enthusiasm

in all he undertook, and his unwav-

ering commitment to make the

world better.”

Auxiliary Services Corporation

Francis J. Cheney Society

RECOGNIZING LIFETIME PHILANTHROPY

OF MORE THAN $500,000

The second principal of the

Cortland Normal School who served

from 1891 to 1912, Cheney was a

first-rate administrator who was

committed to community service.

Anonymous

Elsie C. Brauer

John M. Fantauzzi ’58

Charles A. Gibson

Park Foundation

SUNY Cortland Student Government

Association

Harry DeWitt DeGroat Society

RECOGNIZING LIFETIME PHILANTHROPY

OF MORE THAN $100,000

The third principal of the Cortland

Normal School who served from

1912 to 1943, DeGroat commis-

sioned the Alma Mater and estab-

lished student Moving Up Day

traditions such as the sophomore

key, junior rock and the senior

ring ceremonies. DeGroat is also

admired for teaching students the

importance of philanthropy.

Anonymous

Alpha Kappa Phi

Rozanne M. Brooks

Harvey B. Brownstein ’52 and Fred Nicaise

Campus Artist and Lecture Series

Wah Chip Chin and Yuki Chin

Louise M. Conley

Dorris Torrey Davis ’28

Jean M. Dunlavey ’64

Peter F. Eisenhardt ’67 and Susan Fish

Peter Fine and Elizabeth Fine

Margaret I. Gibson

Martha Gutchess and Homer C. Gutchess

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68

Eileen Barker Hutchinson ’31

Arthur R. Kozlik ’36 and Helene L. Kozlik

Adam Kradyna

Frederick Lawrence ’54 and Anne Sullivan Lawrence ’51

Donald K. Mathews ’46

Natalie E. North ’44

Victor M. Rumore II ’84

Ben A. Sueltz and Blanche Bates Sueltz

U.S. Department of Education

Willi A. Uschald

Neil W. Wortmann ’57 and Rosemary Pierro Wortmann ’56

Victor M. Rumore II ’84, chair

Bernard E. Thoma ’78, vice chair

Robert C. Howe, secretary

Charles H. Spaulding, treasurer

Patricia Ignagni Allen ’78

Donald C. Armstrong

William C. Baerthlein ’76

Genevieve Burhans Barden ’60

Paul W. Blanchard

M. Barry Bocklet ’83

James A. Bonaventura ’79

Jean K. Cadwallader

Marilyn Muller Clark ’51

Patricia A. Clark

Katherine Emerich Compagni ’68

Louise M. Conley

Richard B. deFrances ’54

William M. Dickerson ’69

Fritz Favorule ’76

David P. Hempson ’76

Joseph C. Iorizzo ’89

Kevin N. Keegan ’76

LaRetha Leyman

Vincent J. Mascia ’53

Brian G. Murphy ’83

Veronica M. Plucinski ’74

Kevin A. Rowell ’83

Victor Siegle

Breta C. Sisson ’68

Antoinette Tiburzi

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

Erik J. Bitterbaum, ex officio

Raymond D. Franco ’72, ex officio

William E. Shaut, ex officio

Cortland College Foundation

Board of Directors

James Harmon Hoose

Francis J. Cheney

Harry DeWitt DeGroat

Lifetime

Giving

Recognition

Societies

his section honors donors

whose lifetime giving to the

Cortland College Foundation

exceeds $100,000. The substantial

contributions these leadership donors

have made to the College’s educa tional

mission is gratefully acknowledged.

Photos reproduced from

Cortland College: An Illustrated History,

by Leonard F. Ralston, 1991

Names in italic indicate deceased

College Explores Moving to

Online Donor Report in 2009

s a signatory of the President’s Climate

Neutrality Commitment, SUNY Cort-

land continues to look at ways to

reduce its carbon footprint and to protect

and preserve the environment. One possible

measure would be to no longer print its

annual report of donors.

“We, as a campus, are serious about

re-evaluating the manner in which we

have done things in the past and to gradu-

ally replace those old habits that harm our

environment with new approaches that

still accomplish our informational goals,”

said Raymond D. Franco, vice president for

institutional advancement.

“If we were to remove the list of donors

from our current 32-page Annual Report of

the College Foundation and to only make

them accessible electronically, we could

save a small forest. Other colleges and

universities have already made the transi-

tion successfully.”

The Division of Institutional Advance-

ment staff members will continue to consider

all factors associated with an online report

and will be making a decision by spring,

added Franco. “One of the major concerns

we have will be to collect up-to-date e-mail

addresses for all our donors,” he noted. “We

want to ensure that we stay connected to

our entire alumni base as we move ahead

with electronic communications.”

Dragon Dialers

The Cortland Fund student callers, often referred to as The Dragon Dialers, for the 2007-08 academic

year were honored on May 9 at a dinner at the Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland Alumni House. The

group gathered on the house’s front steps for a photo. Pictured are, first row, from the left, Janet Boyle,

Lauren Turner, Danielle Tomaselli, Jessica Mahoney, Jennifer Checco and Haley Gottlieb; second row,

Katrina Kranz, Patricia Sweeney (Call Center supervisor), Melissa Bithorn, Allison Ammirati, Anne

Cegla, Jennifer Bakala, Dana Finsmith and Jessica Sutch; third row, Alton Waldon, Jonni Campbell

(assistant director of The Cortland Fund), Diana Williams, Kenneth Garger, Gregory Leder, Brittany

Pierce, President Erik J. Bitterbaum, Amanda Sagendorf and Brittany Hays. Not pictured were:

Margaret Winter, Sarah Fetcho, Rachel Derry, Rosemarie Ott, Andrew DeBardelben, Megan Gitli,

Kimberly Caulfield, Rosanne Moran and Laura St. Cyr, Lindsey Hendricks and Kendra Jenkins.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 3

To Our Donors

ifts reported hereafter were received between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. Gifts received after

July 1, 2008, will be credited to next year’s annual report. Extensive effort has been made to ensure

the accuracy of recording information on all donors. Never theless, errors and omissions may occur.

If your name has been misspelled, omitted or listed incorrectly, please bring it to our attention, and accept our

most sincere apologies. We may be contacted at Cortland College Foundation at SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000,

Cortland, NY 13045 or (607) 753-5744.

4 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

THE ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

Auxiliary Services Corporation u

Estate of Elsie C. Brauer

Estate of Harvey B. Brownstein ’52

and Fred Nicaise

Marilyn Muller Clark ’51

John M. Fantauzzi ’58 u

Estate of Charles A. Gibson

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68

George L. McDermott and

Marcia Spaeth McDermott

Louise DaMassa Sessa ’58

SUNY Cortland Student Government

Association

Gerald P. Theisen ’53 and

Ethel Mahan Theisen ’55

Willi A. Uschald

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Carol Bailey Baird ’62

Campus Artist and Lecture Series

Estate of Jean M. Dunlavey ’64

Peter F. Eisenhardt ’67 and

Susan Fish

Estate of Martha Dam Gallup ’44

William L. Haines ’63

Victor M. Rumore II ’84

Norma Smoczynski Schlager ’62 u

Theta Phi Sorority u

Paul Volk ’50 and Amy Volk u

Jo Ann G. Wickman ’74 and

Kenneth P. Wickman

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Louise M. Conley u

Stephen G. Corey

Whitney T. Corey ’43

Gloria Spina Friedgen ’71 and

Ralph Friedgen

James D. Gallagher ’59 and

Margaret Sevka Gallagher ’61

Matthew M. Gallagher

Thomas L. Goodale ’61

Mary Alice Catlin Haase ’50

John C. Hubbard ’71

James McKee Jr. and Doris N. McKee

Family Charitable Foundation

Michael E. Morandi ’76

B. Gail Reed Knox ’67

Adam Kradyna

David J. Kronman ’80 and

Sandra K. Kronman

M & T Charitable Foundation

Doris Nafis McKee ’41

Maureen O’Rourke Murphy ’62

Theresa Vant Snavely ’47 and

Christian Snavely

Betsy Corey Spada ’71 u

Rosemary Walters ’58

George H. Weissman ’76

Neil W. Wortmann ’57 u

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Richard M. Ball ’56 and

Grace Sparkes Ball ’57

Paul W. Blanchard and

Suzy D. Blanchard

Joan Steiner Blank ’73 and

Charles Blank

Jean K. Cadwallader and

William P. Cadwallader

Dominick DeFilippo ’49 u

Fritz Favorule ’76 u

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund u

George E. Kronman ’76 and

Mindy Spector Kronman ’78

Michael T. Leeolou ’81 and

Catherine Suarez Leeolou ’81

LaRetha Leyman u

Ernest A. Logan ’73

Brian G. Murphy ’83

Angela Pace u

Linda L. Pons ’62 u

Breta C. Sisson ’68 u

Judson W. Smith ’76 and

Kathleen Wilmott Smith ’76

Russell Steenberg and

Patricia M. Colbert

Anthony P. Tesori ’39 u

Barry J. Thornton II ’93 u

June Isgate Willson ’53 and

John E. Willson

1868 SOCIETY

Terry J. Allen ’78 and

Patricia Ignagni Allen ’78

William C. Baerthlein ’76

Shirley E. Bowen ’64

Christine Cimino Calabro ’97 and

Chris Calabro

Calabro Properties, Inc.

Central New York Community

Foundation

James M. Clark and

Patricia A. Clark

James C. Codispoti ’63 and

Lois Kornrumpf Codispoti ’64

Katherine Emerich Compagni ’68 u

Elizabeth Davis-Russell u

Roberta Gere Doering ’46 u

Karen V. Erani ’75

John L. Fauth and

Barbara A. Fauth

Pamela Fenstemacher-Berkowitz ’82

and Alan R. Berkowitz

Elizabeth Anderson Fontana ’79

Dorothea Kreig Fowler ’52 u

Lucy C. Gettman ’78 u

Margaret I. Gibson

Ann E. Graziadei ’71

Christine Moran Guba ’75

John P. Jelinek ’77 and

Laurie Jelinek

J. Robert Johnson ’58 and

Maureen Johnson

Leanne M. Leonard ’79 u

Gail F. Maloney ’72 u

Anthony R. Moon Jr. ’86 u

Christopher Morris

James P. Murphy ’78

O’Heron Newman Foundation

Stanley J. Okula ’82

Veronica M. Plucinski ’74 u

Susan Cooper Scales ’57

Bonnie Miller Sciera ’73

Ira J. Sheier ’62 u

Ronnie Sternin Silver ’67 u

Robert R. Snyder ’56 and

Anne Plaumann Snyder ’58

James S. Sorbella ’81 and

Nancy Niskin Sorbella ’82

Charles H. Spaulding and

Elizabeth S. Spaulding

Sport Management Club u

Bernard E. Thoma ’78 and

Paula E. Thoma ’76

Antoinette Tiburzi u

Donald L. Traver ’59 and

Donna Bell Traver ’59

A. Henry Von Mechow ’49 and

Sallie Von Mechow

Joseph A. Warren ’73

Marsha Goodfliesh Wilkins ’67

Helen B. Wils ’65 and

Leonard A. Goldstein

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous (4)

4Charity Foundation, Inc.

Linda May Armstrong ’76 and

Donald C. Armstrong

Marian Natoli Atkinson ’54 u

Thomas C. Babcock ’94 u

Genevieve Burhans Barden ’60 u

Harry Bellardini ’56 and

Mary Alice Bellardini ’58

Bettyann Biermann ’60

Grace Kleinsang Bills ’48

Edward Birch ’60 and

Suzanne Pratt Birch ’59

Erik J. Bitterbaum and

Ellen Howard Burton

David H. Bleau ’64 u

M. Barry Bocklet Sr. ’83 and

Terry Logan Bocklet ’84

James A. Bonaventura ’79 and

Lindsay Culbertson

Martin H. Borell ’74 u

Eric G. Bradshaw ’70 u

Jonathan D. Brown ’77 u

Norma Hall Burns ’48

Shirley Reome Cahill ’66

Michael J. Cappeto ’71 u

Clem J. Caprara III ’77

Marcia K. Carlson

Thomas M. Carroll ’82

Virginia Meyer Carter ’74

Kerri-Ann Catlaw-Berleth ’92

Sandra Laghi Cerulli ’68

Robert A. Cohen ’74

Mary Lynn Collins ’57

Lewis J. Cowan ’73

Debra Kiederer Cucullo ’83

Candace Pople Curran ’72

Margaret A. Curry ’52

Dixie Davis Curtice ’62 and

Walter S. Curtice

Rhoda Chase Curtiss ’55 and

Peter Curtiss

T. Peter Dady ’74 u

Carol A. Davis ’66 u

Richard B. deFrances ’54 and

Sonia deFrances

Douglas DeRancy ’75 and

Deborah DeRancy

Mary Turi Desiderio ’48 u

William M. Dickerson ’69 and

Maura Feeney Dickerson ’71

Robert B. Ditton ’64 and

Penelope Ditton

DLH Properties, Inc.

Janet M. Duncan

F & T Distributing Co. Inc.

Donald W. Farley Jr.

Walter Farnholtz and

Cheryl Ann Farnholtz

Gene Farry ’59

Paul E. Fernandes ’67 and

Kathy Lopez Fernandes ’67

First Baptist Church Toronto

Richard A. Fitch ’60

Michael L. Flaster ’78

Patricia L. Francis and

Brenda S. Nobles ’84

Raymond D. Franco ’72 and

Donna Still Franco ’73

Janet Smith Gleason ’49 and

Burdette Gleason

William T. Goff ’75 u

Karen Jackson Goodell ’82 u

Mark S. Goracy ’77 u

Christopher J. Grady ’79 and

Terry Bedell Grady ’80

Stephen Gumaer ’67 and

Darlene Nider Gumaer ’69

Joseph W. Halper ’52 and

Arline Rimmer Halper ’57

Lynn D. Hemink ’62 and

Ellen B. Hemink

David P. Hempson ’76 and

Karen Hempson ’78

Joy L. Hendrick u

Judith T. Hoffmann ’82 and

Dana Hoffmann

Frederick G. Holcomb Jr. ’76

Robert C. Howe u

Ronald G. Huether

Bernard W. Hungerford ’52

Joseph C. Iorizzo ’89 and

Kristen Ruyack Iorizzo ’92

John F. Jackson ’68

Peter T. Kachris ’56

Barbara Berk Katz ’68

Thomas M. Kiec ’70

Rose Marie Luppino

Kleinspehn ’49

Barry H. Kornblum ’79 and

Joan Hoyt Kornblum ’82

Joseph Lawless ’87

Edward S. Leone ’78

Julia Wright Levine ’65 and

Max Levine

C. Michael Malet ’70 and

Cynthia Rowley Malet ’69

Judith Knoetgen Manzo ’68

Lance J. McAllister ’70

Phyllis Blake McCabe ’49

Michael W. Millington ’81

Sandra G. Morley ’77

Patricia B. Mounser u

Yvonne M. Murnane and

Michael Murnane

Julianne Nash ’63 u

Douglas B. Nessle ’58 and

Jean Cross Nessle ’56

Joseph O’Connor ’70 and

Beverly Dams O’Connor ’70

Edward J. Olivari ’76 u

Steven R. Paxhia ’69 and

Christine Paxhia

Alexander N. “Norm” Peck ’57 u

Irene Weglinski Phelan ’42 u

Richard J. Pollack ’77

Mark J. Prus

Gloria Quadrini ’59 u

Rosa La Sorte Rich ’55 and

George M. Rich

Curtis Richardson ’66 u

Rochester Area Community

Foundation

Lisa Marsh Ryerson ’91 u

Matthew G. Saltarelli ’82

James R. Schafer

Joel L. Shatzky

William E. Shaut and

Barbara J. Harvey

Jack C. Sheltmire ’73 and

Patti Sheltmire

Siegle Foundation, Inc. u

Victor G. Siegle and Ann Siegle u

Margaret Amato Sims ’73 u

Joan C. Sitterly and Gary Miller u

Kevin J. Smith ’79 u

Mary E. King Smith

Todd H. Smith ’83

John F. Snow ’78 and

Terri Crandall Snow ’78

George Snyder ’66 and

Carol Varone Snyder ’66

George Snyder ’66 u

Matthew A. Steenberg and

Lynn B. Steenberg

Eleanor King Strode ’59 u

Marilyn L. Tannenhaus ’48 and

Joseph Tannenhaus

Angelo Taranto ’60 u

William A. Thompson ’71 and

Linda Weltner Thompson ’72

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

Michael A. Vela ’88 and

Pamela Longin Vela ’90

Robert W. Vinal ’71

Joseph R. Vorbach ’53

Estate of Alice A Walker

Robert H. Wallace ’53 and

Sally Yaeger Wallace ’53

Dana C. Wavle and Sharon Wavle u

Lynn Wecker ’69 u

Mary Beth Williams ’63 u

Susan M. Wilson u

Richard D. Winkler ’78 u

Marjrie Coolidge Wirth and

Col. William R. Wirth

Mitchell Wolf ’72

Judy M. Wolfe ’84

Jane Fowler Wood ’77

Bettie Lee Yerka u

Edward J. Zambraski ’71 and

Nancy Zambraski

n 2003, SUNY Cortland established its leadership gift recognition program called Partners

in Leadership. Its mission is to encourage the highest level of philanthropy to the College

while honoring those individuals, businesses and organizations who are SUNY Cortland’s

most generous annual donors. The Partners’ name reflects the substantial collaboration

between those donors and SUNY Cortland. Their gifts impact the scope and quality of the educa-

tional experience available to current Cortland students.

This year, the Associate Partners in Leadership gift recognition society was created

to acknowledge young alumni who make a $100 gift their first year out of college and

increase the gift by at least $100 every consecutive year.

The following gift recognition societies reflect the level of giving by their members

between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008.

The Illumination Society

$50,000 and higher

Tioughnioga Society

$25,000 to $49,999

President’s Leadership Circle

$10,000 to $24,999

Lyceum Society

$5,000 to $9,999

1868 Society

$1,868 to $4,999

Committee of One Thousand

$1,000 to $1,867

Partners in Leadership

ASSOCIATE PARTNERS

IN LEADERSHIP

John R. Higgitt ’98

Maureen A. McCrystal ’00

Karen Reamer ’07

The Red Dragon Society, as indicated by a diamond (

) recognizes loyal benefactors who have provided financial support to the College, at any giving level, for the

previous three or more consecutive years. This is a special group of alumni, parents and friends who regularly support, sustain and enhance the Cortland experience.

Memorial Gifts

uring the 2007-08

fiscal year, gifts to

the Cortland College

Foundation were made

in memory of the

following individuals:

Keith D. Agate ’71

Carol Whitney Agate ’72

Patricia Allen

Barbara A. DiPalma ’62

Dorothy Arnsdorff

Beverly Beebe ’64

Carol A. Davis ’66

Barbara A. DiPalma ’62

Marie I. Riley ’48

Charles Babcock and

Florence Babcock

Thomas C. Babcock ’94

Baby Ariel

Betty Jean Kinney

Simmons ’57

Rose Bellucci

Janet Selby

Harriett Bentley

Roger G. Burns ’57 and

Louise Haack Burns ’57

Shirley Smalls Hornbeck ’58

Gertrude Briggs Hovey ’56

Sharon Geary Rumsey ’58

Joan Patterson Sheil ’58

Eileen Adsit Tremper ’55

Nancy Harte VanVooren ’56

Joseph R. Bochicchio ’68

Christine Riley ’72

Ralph A. Brown

John J. Lennon ’76

Eleanor Pring Burke ’56

Gertrude Briggs Hovey ’56

Peter J. Cahill ’66

Shirley Reome Cahill ’66

John J. Lennon ’76

Barbara Camardella

Gail Berkowitz Sherman ’63

and Richard Sherman

William Carle

Robert B. Carle ’74

John W. Clark ’59

Donald L. Traver ’59 and

Donna Bell Traver ’59

Edward Coates ’42

Norma Coates

Dorothy Colby

Edith C. Madden-Bosch ’69

John Colella

Elsie Lee Colella ’58

Barbara Gardiner Collins ’61

Joanne Bush Haefele ’61

Judy Wilson Nessel

Fay Corey

Lorraine A. Nagle ’60

Lillian Birdsall Corey ’43

Stephen G. Corey

Whitney T. “Pete” Corey ’43

Betsy Corey Spada ’71

Whitney T. “Pete” Corey ’43

Marjorie R. Beard

Nancy Beninati and

Angelo Beninati

David H. Bleau ’64

Van A. Burd

William H. Carey ’50 and

Barbara Bennett Carey ’50

Marcia K. Carlson

James Cassidy and

Linda B. Cassidy

Robert L. Cleveland Jr. ’65

James C. Codispoti ’63 and

Lois Kornrumpf

Codispoti ’64

Jason G. Corey

Stephen G. Corey

John Coulter and Pris Coulter

Michael J. Daley and

Ann C. Daley

Douglas DeRancy ’75 and

Deborah DeRancy

Paul S. Fardy ’63

Salvatore Ferro and

Joan Ferro

Robert Francisco and

Marilyn Francisco

Raymond D. Franco ’72 and

Donna Still Franco ’73

Lynn D. Hemink ’62 and

Ellen B. Hemink

Simon Kaufman ’53

Lorraine M. Khouri

Lillie M. Manson ’70

George J. McCabe ’55 and

Barbara Grubbs

McCabe ’55

Lynn Meldrim ’70 and

Thomas Meldrim

Joseph Meyers ’51

Bobbie Duncan Monroe ’60

Walter S. Moore ’49 and

Gertrude Bayer Moore ’49

Jeanne Francisco Morin ’49

Judy G. Morris ’72

Barbara Francisco Murphy ’55

Nicholas Pauldine ’54 and

Barbara Pauldine

Robert F. Riedel ’52

Karen Rogers

Dale Saddlemire and

Rae Marie Saddlemire

James Sarvay and

Dorothy Sarvay

Betsy Corey Spada ’71

Antoinette Tiburzi

Melinda VanEtten

Sheila O’Leary Vormwald ’69

Melony A. Warwick and

John G. Warwick Jr.

Vivian Jacobsen

Cornacchia ’58

Andree Wetterau Cowan ’58

Robert R. Snyder ’56 and

Anne Plaumann

Snyder ’58

C. Robert Cutia ’58

Carolyn Freytag Shaffer ’57

Harry Dahlheimer

Mountianview Squares

Joseph and Mary Daniels

Katherine Daniels Pfiester ’60

Carl A. Davis

Timothy J. Caracciolo ’89

Robert L. Carroll ’56

Margery Schuster Davis ’60

Enid Davis Fleisher ’60

Sandra Bernstein

Guttentag ’60

Marcia Sussman Korotkin ’60

Renee A. Lamkay ’60

Marion Sternberg Pollack ’60

Rochelle Smuckler Riven ’60

Joan Rothblatt Sadoff ’60

Richard Davis

Cleone Barnes Davis ’48

June Savage DeFilippo ’51

Dominick DeFilippo ’49

Susan Smith DeMichele ’68

Katherine Emerich

Compagni ’68

Chad Denison

Joshua C. Bailey ’00 and

Juliann Donnelly-Bailey ’98

Elizabeth Karl Conrad ’00

Philip G. Diffley ’83

Timothy C. Pratt ’83

Grace Discenza

Cortland Old Timers Band

Doris Burnap Doebrich ’38

Marion Bartlett Boyd ’38

Lois Dudley Cottrell ’38

Lois Lantz Lloyd ’38

Jessie Arthur Peek ’38

Jean M. Dunlavey ’64

Margaret I. Gibson

Michelle D’Urso ’78

Deborah A. Quigley ’79

Muriel Duschenchuk

Donna Dwyer

James Eagers Sr.

Jean Eagers Czerniawski ’96

Gail A. Erwin ’60

Natalie Fain Sellers ’60

Sandra Russo Farry ’62

Gene Farry ’59

BettyLou Greaves

Ferreira ’65

Suzanne A. Olmsted ’65

Joseph Galli ’58

Franklin J. Borst ’61

Scott T. Gates ’91

Michele Stagliano Kelley ’90

Shane J. Geisler ’99

Melissa Greco Natale ’92

Charles A. Gibson

Margaret I. Gibson

Vince Gonino

Arthur E. Rider ’71

Barbara Arthur Gordon ’52

Ann Maslin VanBork ’52

Jon Bern Grace

Judy Wilson Nessel

William L. Griffen ’50

Randi Beckmann ’82

Wendy R. Kohli ’71 and

Philip Bennett

Robert J. Haase Jr. ’75

Robert G. Ernst ’77

Maurice P. Hamilton ’36

Irene Weber Hamilton ’35

Walter Hanchett

Lawrence J. Briggs ’80

Paul Henggeler ’77

Lori Lampert ’78

Alice Thorpe Hoppey ’56

Ellen Hoppey Cabana ’85

Michael D. Twohig ’54

Anita M. Hudy

David P. Hudy ’73

Kathryn H. Hudy

Bobette Rindell Hurd ’64

Allen Hurd

Catherine Kawecki ’71

Ann E. Graziadei ’71

Edward Kienle ’48

Mary Kienle Spina ’72

Jeffrey Klein

Charlotte Klein ’65

James Kradyna

Adam Kradyna

Gene Laghi and Vera Laghi

Sandra Laghi Cerulli ’68

Garland “Red” Lam

Jean M. Lam ’81

Matthew T. Lamond ’95

Jim Lamond and

Mary Beth Lamond

Milt Latimer

Dennis Vinton ’61

Judith Leibner

Stanley Leibner ’57

Norman Lobsenz

Erica Lobsenz Feldman ’71

Salvatore and Tillie

Lombardi

Donald J. Lombardi

Joan Lombardi Peck ’56

George F. Matthias ’57

Mary Jo Avery Matthias ’56

William McCabe

Phyllis Blake McCabe ’49

Lawrence McFee ’47

Henrietta Turnbull McFee ’47

Joseph Mendoza ’86

Carol Mazzola Pacileo ’86

Harlan Metcalf

James L. Dutton ’53

Susan Cohen Ullman ’64

Margaret R. Nacci

R. Eugene Nacci

Tone Nopchinda

Jeanette Carlini Lamb ’63

Louise Sawner O’Rourke ’36

Raymond Bernick

Elaine Bloom and

Larry Bloom

Thomas R. Branca and

Geraldine S. Branca

Mary Buckley and

Daniel P. Buckley

Joan Cullin

Kaye DeLano

Kathleen M. Devine

James Donnelly and

Joan M. Donnelly

Rosebud Sophia Elijah

Donald W. Farley Jr.

Friends of Maureen

O’Rourke Murphy ’62

Elaine Sawner Gleason ’52

Elizabeth W. Golden

Jane M. Goldman

Arlene Granet

Irish Cultural Society

of the Greater Garden

City Area Inc.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Sandra S. Johnson

Sofia Kakoulidis

Michael Katz and

Ellen Cohen-Rosenthal

Rhona and Michael

Kenneally

Janice Koch

Emmet Larkin and

Dianne W. Larkin

Mary Levine

Andrea Libresco and

Michael D’Innocenzo

Patricia Lustgarten

James Mac Killop and

Patricia Mac Killop

Lawrence McCaffrey and

Joan McCaffrey

Patricia McGivern

Natalie A. Naylor

Cormac O’Braonáin

Robert E. Rhodes ’53 and

Norma Young Rhodes ’53

Ann Saddlemyer

Liora Schmelkin and

Alan Schmelkin

Lorraine Schottenfeld and

Herbert T. Schottenfeld

Eileen Simons

Nancy Belloff Smith ’62 and

Bradley Smith

Karin J. Spencer and

Marisa L. Hoheb

Carl Strock and Doris Strock

David Thuente and

Mary Helen Thuente

Gianni Villella and

Debbie Villella

John Walsh and Joan T. Walsh

Mauareen Waters

Andrew A. Weickert and

Ann M. Weickert

Brenda E. Wydler

Joan Zaleskie

Carlton D. Petrie ’41

Betty K. Petrie

Carol Porter-Zanetti ’58

Robert R. Snyder ’56 and

Anne Plaumann

Snyder ’58

Clarence Powell

George Jones ’56

Jamie G. Powers

Robert Ruvio and

Victoria Ruvio

Susan Cinnater Quinn ’55

Sam Cario ’55 and

Louisa Stahl Cario ’55

Charles Poskanzer and

Joan M. Poskanzer

Rosa La Sorte Rich ’55 and

George M. Rich

Edward J. Quirk ’82

Carolynn Finnen Cageao ’82

Mildred Rathbun

Anita M. Rathbun ’57

Mabel Buck Reese ’34

Mary D. Buck ’85

Roger I. Robinson

Harris Silver ’67

Lois Collier Ross ’40

Douglas A. Ross ’76

Janet Mann Rubin ’74

Janice B. Eulau ’74

Mallary S. Field

Harriet Mann Fogarty ’74

Patricia Hallinan-Canini ’75

Susan Foley McGowan ’74

Sandra Licitra Ratner ’74

Gail L. Schleichkorn

Leonard Schleichkorn ’52

John L. Sciera

Ronald K. Buggs ’79 and

Cheryl Gress Buggs ’77

Grover F. Shoemaker ’36

Pamela Shoemaker

Mildred Wolcott

Shoemaker ’31

Pamela Shoemaker

Scott Siegel

Cathy Siegel Rosso ’77

Lewis C. Smith

Mary E. King Smith

Carol Varone Snyder

George Snyder ’66 and

Carol Varone Snyder ’66

Beverly Costello Squires ’54

Donald Squires ’56

Joan Sullivan Stacy ’48

Theodore S. Stacy Jr.

Edith Stell

Carol Kissel Perta ’52

Donald H. Stewart

Father Stephen A.

Baumann ’72

James and Helen Stewart

Barbara Stewart Glanz ’71

Frank L. Tracy Jr.

Debora M. Tracy-Hirsch ’90

Linda Jordan Trzepacz ’71

Kenneth M. Bernstein ’71 and

Jane Mc Manus

Bernstein ’71

Janet Miller Turley ’55

Alma Santana Galati ’55

Rose Verricho

Gary W. Ceponis ’72

James W. Kenney ’72

Roy R. Placet ’73

Keith N. Richards ’73

Sheila Whalen

Joanne Napier Carey ’80

Thomas A. Glenn ’86 and

Mary Whalen Glenn ’85

Debra Wiker ’76

Kathleen Larrick Pullan ’77

Jacqueline Brasure Wiley ’50

Irene Weglinski Phelan ’42

Rosemary Pierro

Wortmann ’56

Howard Pivnick ’54

Honorary Gifts

uring the 2007-08

fiscal year, gifts to

the Cortland College

Foundation were made

in honor of the following

individuals noted in bold:

Elaina Alberga

Leslie A. Cole ’08

Arethusa Sorority

Janet Portzline Lang ’73

Andrew Banse

Helen J. Bunt ’64

Willam Barrows and

Kathleen Barrows

Michelle Barrows Episale ’95

Gordon Beadle

John J. Lennon ’76

Beta Phi Epsilon

Christopher J. Grady ’79 and

Terry Bedell Grady ’80

The Bitterbaum Family

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Morris R. Bogard

Ruthellen Bien Rankin ’66

Van A. Burd

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Marcia K. Carlson

Suzanne Fortin ’81

Sheila Morse and

John P. Morse

Donald T. Rohel ’72

Barbara Elwood Schlatter ’83

Class of 1958

Carole Bowser Dowdy ’58

Class of 1962

Marilyn Scholefield

Villante ’62

Class of 1963

Elaine Lepkoske Collora ’63

Class of 1978

Amy Jo Koslow Willig ’78

Mark Connell

Andrew D. Ferraro ’05

David Costill

Gary L. Wilson ’68

Richard B. deFrances ’54 and

Sonia deFrances

John deFrances

Valerie Canino Fisher ’90

Debora M. Tracy-Hirsch ’90

Donna Still Franco ’73

Raymond D. Franco ’72

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68

John W. Parks and

Diane M. Parks

Robert L. Parks

William Parks and

Margaret Parks

William M. Hopkins and

Dorothy Hanson

Hopkins ’73

Bertram C. Edelstein ’74

Robert C. Howe

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Peter Jeffers and

Janet Jeffers ’79

John W. Tillotson ’91 and

Rebecca Sheldon Tillotson

Robert Kirshner and

Kathleen Kirshner

Robert P. Kirshner ’08

LaRetha Leyman

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Vincent J. Mascia ’53 and

Roberta Miller Mascia ’53

Richard A. Chalmers and

Susan M. Chalmers

Eric and Zelda Morley

Sandra G. Morley ’77

Jeffrey T. Morris ’97

Judy Kieffer

Nu Sigma Chi, Inc

Amy Jo Koslow Willig ’78

Louise Sawner O’Rourke ’36

Thomas R. Branca and

Geraldine S. Branca

Joan Lombardi Peck ’56

Norman A. Peck ’57

Carole Wilsey Phillips ’48

Gregory J. Papa ’65 and

Cheryl Blythe Papa ’65

Robert E. Rhodes ’53 and

Norma Young Rhodes ’53

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Sandra M. Romano

Nancy Filetto Romano ’74

Jack C. Sheltmire ’73

Ann E. Graziadei ’71

Katharine Pawelko ’74

Judson H. Taylor and Elise

M. Taylor

Ronnie M. Genee ’03

Laura L. Toy ’78

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Gordon C. Valentine ’68

Judith Knoetgen Manzo ’68

Eugene Waldbauer and

Florence Waldbauer ’60

Susan Dunn Caruso ’73

Catherine Lamphier

Young ’84

Anne M. Geary ’02

The Youngkrans Children

Leanne Thomas

Youngkrans ’84

Alumni

Anonymous (2)

Michael J. Andrus ’80

Joseph C. Baldwin ’60

Genevieve Burhans

Barden ’60

Shirley E. Bowen ’64

Kathie J. Burnside ’73

Barbara Bennett Carey ’50 and

William H. Carey ’50

Pauline Cooney Carlyon ’56

Marjorie Dey Carter ’50

Joyce T. Cavanagh ’53

Mildred Cefaratti ’50

Glenn D. Cook ’53 and

Anne Apgar Cook ’53

Carolyn A. Cooke ’66

Rhoda Chase Curtiss ’55

George O. Davenport ’62

Dominick DeFilippo ’49

William M. Dickerson ’69 and

Maura Feeney

Dickerson ’71

Mary Chmura Donohue ’54

Jean M. Dunlavey ’64

John M. Fantauzzi ’58

Judith G. Forrest ’62

Raymond D. Franco ’72 and

Donna Still Franco ’73

Allen L. Freedman ’72

Martha Dam Gallup ’44

Mark W. Glickman ’75

Jeffrey W. Harr ’81

Janet Reust Harris ’57

Mary Alice Catlin Haase ’50

Barbara G. Hemink ’72

Arlene Cathers Henderson ’44

Robert Hildreth ’67

Todd D. Hopkins ’91

Robert Hoppey ’55

Mary Morgan Hosking ’53

John C. Hubbard ’71

Marthena Marrin King ’55

Rose Marie Luppino

Kleinspehn ’49

Louise Lawrence ’62

Patricia Durso Lunsford ’75

Darlene Swift Mack ’72

Anne Cascio Malone ’27

Dolores Rogers Martin ’51

Roberta Miller Mascia ’53 and

Vincent J. Mascia ’53

Donald K. Mathews ’46

Marta Watts McIvor ’64

Ramona Dubick Mirabito ’51

Theodore P. Nagengast Jr. ’91

and Jennie Locherer

Nagengast ’92

Anne Whitehouse Noll ’55

Michael J. O’Reilly ’58

Diane Waugh Oliver ’83

Jorene Post Page ’59

June E. Palmer ’53

Carole Wilsey Phillips ’48

Linda L. Pons ’62

Carol M. Pothier ’69

Patricia Reardon ’50

Arnold T. Rist ’47

H. Linnea Peterson

Robinson ’36

Donald T. Rohel ’72

Andrea Seger ’71

Ira J. Sheier ’62

Theresa Vant Snavely ’47

Suzanne A. Snyder ’73

Donald L. Traver ’59 and

Donna Bell Traver ’59

Neil W. Wortmann ’57 and

Rosemary Pierro

Wortmann ’56

Gloria Stootman Wristen ’74

Emeriti, Faculty

and Staff

Anonymous

Donna K. Anderson

Bonnie B. Barr-Larkin

James E. Bugh

Van A. Burd

Frank A. Burdick

Marcia K. Carlson

James M. Clark

Amy L. Henderson-Harr ’83

Peter D. Koryzno

Richard Kroot

George L. McDermott and

Marcia Spaeth McDermott

Nasrin Parvizi

Judson H. Taylor

Willi A. Uschald

Peter W. VanderWoude

and Kimberlea Race

VanderWoude

Alice A. Walker

Robert H. Wallace ’53

Sally Yaeger Wallace ’53

Friends

Anonymous

Theresa Bugh

Jean K. Cadwallader and

William P. Cadwallader

Patricia A. Clark

Louise M. Conley

Peter Curtiss

Paul Demane

Wendy K. Foldes

Charles A. Gibson

Margaret I. Gibson

Robert C. Howe

Nancy Kroot

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Rodger J. Page

Christian Snavely

Elise M. Taylor

Donald M. Wilcox

Bettie Lee Yerka

he Lofty Elm Society, which takes its name

from the first verse of the Alma Mater,

was established in 2003 to recognize alumni,

emeriti and friends who record estate commit-

ments, establish life income gifts, or make other

planned gifts for the benefit of SUNY Cortland

through the Cortland College Foundation. The

individuals listed here have confirmed such gift

plans and were recognized as members of the

Lofty Elm Society as of June 30, 2008.

Names in italics indicate deceased.

Visit us on the Web at: www.cortland.edu/giftplanning

or call Peter VanderWoude, Manager of Planned Gifts, at (607) 758-5309.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 5

6 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

1 9 2 8

Participation: 14 percent

Total Raised: $25

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Helen Coye Gilchrist

1 9 3 0

Participation: 5 percent

Total Raised: $50

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Charlotte Buckingham Stahl u

1 9 3 2

Participation: 13 percent

Total Raised: $55

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Elizabeth Jackson Dominy

Pauline Dickinson Lord

1 9 3 3

Participation: 19 percent

Total Raised: $55

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Reuben C. Mick

Hildred Roe Stoughton

Fern Jones Ward u

1 9 3 4

Participation: 23 percent

Total Raised: $85

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Dorothy Whitbeck Blair

Anne Powers Riley

M. Josephine Butler Zaharis u

1 9 3 5

Participation: 3 percent

Total Raised: $20

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Irene Weber Hamilton

1 9 3 6

Participation: 14 percent

Total Raised: $5,395

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Angela Pace u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Marian Maxim Kimsey

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Helen Lonergan Donovan

Doris Moore Folejewski

Mary Carley Schmidt

Dana L. West

1 9 3 7

Participation: 10 percent

Total Raised: $100

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Laura Frances Crain French u

Alice Reese Gafner u

Elizabeth H. Winn

1 9 3 8

Participation: 31 percent

Total Raised: $460

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Frances Krepline Banker

Marion Bartlett Boyd

Lois Dudley Cottrell

Martha L. Heintz

Syrilda Carrabine Helgren

Adell Bauer Hotaling

Malvina Cook Hunt

Lois Lantz Lloyd

Helen Lamphere Longendyke

Beatrice Kaplan Nasaw

Marian Dickow Newell

Jessie Arthur Peek

Alice Harmon Welch

1 9 3 9

Participation: 16 percent

Total Raised: $5,335

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Anthony P. Tesori u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Marion K. Johnson u

Caroline Marvin Keith

Ruth Snyder Kumasaka

Sallie G. Wehn u

Alberta Whelden Whitney u

Alberta Scholtz Young

1 9 4 0

Participation: 21 percent

Total Raised: $1,760

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marie Battermann Whitehill-

Mairhuber

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Florence Lomery Rice

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Anonymous

Mary Louise Weller Chapman u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Phyllis Harmon Baldwin

Mary Marquart Davis

Kathleen Miller Doran

Margaret lles Lockwood

Margaret Belknap Meddaugh

Helen Gould Meyer

Jean Smith Pietras-Burdick

Doris Conrad Woodworth

1 9 4 1

Participation: 20 percent

Total Raised: $10,028

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Doris Nafis McKee u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Marion Yates Buchner

1 9 4 2

Participation: 24 percent

Total Raised: $2,640

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Irene Weglinski Phelan u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Shirley Bailey Bright

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Laurens E. Dietz u

Eleanor J. Jenkins

Hanna Vogt Kane

Theresa Mazzotti Pauletich

Frances Kaplan Rosen

Robert C. Shumard

Frances Fish Steadwell

Edward J. Walsh

1 9 4 3

Participation: 21 percent

Total Raised: $796

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Whitney T. “Pete” Corey u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Esther Briccetti Candreva

Rita Sheets Cooper

Clara Mc Kinney Edwards u

Margret Harter Kennedy

M. Genevieve Closs Smart

Marjorie Bremiller Wheeler

Victoria Frontera Yazak

1 9 4 4

Participation: 37 percent

Total Raised: $830

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Martha Dam Gallup ’44

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Elizabeth Griffiths Fortran

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Antoinette Lalla Harvey u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Bette Lindsey Archard u

Alice Thies Bachmann

Gertrude Ryan Horning

Helen Kurilecz

Carolyn Colway Learnan

Ruth Schwobel Morse

Irma Galgocy Pirich

Joan Bean Smith

Vinnette Simmons Young

Walz

1 9 4 5

Participation: 26 percent

Total Raised: $538

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Edith Lux Cornelius u

Lillian Stafford Craig-Dellow

Matilda Burke Danehy

Mary Frazee Found

Helky Ylinen Frangella u

Anne L. Gardiner

Elynor Thompson Hagen

Roberta Baker Harris

Marjorie Kinsman

Marilynn Turnbull Wochinger

1 9 4 6

Participation: 41 percent

Total Raised: $2,875

1868 SOCIETY

Roberta Gere Doering u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Dorothy Kaulfuss Andrist

Merrill H. Archard

Alma Houghton Beardsley u

Elizabeth Lukens Behler u

Eleanor Witteman Button u

Joan Robinson Cheesman-

Smith

Thelma M. Childs

Dorothy Wait Clarey

Wilmah Lobaugh Dando

Barbara Eldridge Ebeling

Ruth Hallas Esrich

Barbara Minnis Haskell

Esther Gardner Kisner

Catherine Montgomery

Mulcahy

Barbara Pratt

Shirley Young Reif

Violet Reilly Sauer u

Charlotte Smith Sheldon

Barbara Tarbell Stevens

Ellen O’Grady Sullivan

Edith Lang Willoughby

1 9 4 7

Participation: 36 percent

Total Raised: $15,809

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Theresa Vant Snavely u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Norma Wargo Thompson u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

John P. Ball

Joyce Norton Burney

Dorothy Morley Charleton

Jeanne Mills Creamer

Gail F. Farwell

Doris Carl Head

Winifred Kenneda Hoffman

Betty Fowler Hudson

Betty Johnson Jay u

Henrietta Turnbull McFee u

Fritz P. Mueller u

Thelma Downing Pangburn u

Amy Birmingham Ross

Charles F. Schwartz u

Nyla Wallace Spitzer u

Estella Eckler Vangeli u

Robert B. Wagoner

Nancy Stevens Wesley

Dean D. Yazak

1 9 4 8

Participation: 33 percent

Total Raised: $7,733

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Grace Kleinsang Bills

Norma Hall Burns

Mary Turi Desiderio

Marilyn Kellam Tannenhaus u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Nancy A. Johnson

Carole Wilsey Phillips

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Cleone Barnes Davis u

Mary Darling McCann

Marie I. Riley

Mildred Sudman Stewart u

Arthur F. Thompson u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Margaret Jones Beckman

Patricia Drake Bradigan

Viola Bottle Bramkamp

Shirley Wrathall Brownell

Charles T. Button u

Jean Chapin Dolat u

Alice Jones Dorn u

Henry B. Farley

Donald E. Hall

Marian Kudzy Hall

John F. Hannon

Esther Palumbo Innes u

Mary McMahon Jacobi

Holly Grinter Johanson

John A. Kobuskie

Sylvia Anfinsen Kohler

Mary Lou Costello Maynard

Phyllis Seidler McIntyre u

Betty Rocker Mueller u

Barbara Mosher Nurnberger u

Mary Lou Swanson Pierce

Norma Turnbull Riley

Lucille Phillips Sanford

Lola Vollmer Shepherd

Viola McCormick Stoick

Joan S. Tillotson

Jane Sackett Uhle

Martha Scholz Vanderwall

1 9 4 9

Participation: 31 percent

Total Raised: $13,633

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Dominick DeFilippo u

1868 SOCIETY

A. Henry Von Mechow u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Janet Smith Gleason u

Rose Marie Luppino

Kleinspehn

Phyllis Blake McCabe

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Herbert M. Booth u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Rose Behr Naetzker

Claire Bessette Whitney

Ralph A. Whitney

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Carolyn Stevens Carter u

Dutch Craumer u

Mary Rypokis Tomik u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Nan Monroe Demuth

Katherine Smyth Duffy

Margaret Eberbach-Poletti

Rita A. Eichenger

Clyde O. Eidens

Kenneth J. Erickson

Marjorie Dehler Farrell

Del Filardi

George C. Fuge

Carol Steinaker Garben

Mildred A. Hammond

M. Elizabeth Hewel u

Anne Burns Kimball u

Evelyn Benjamin Koehler

Mary Lou Burgess Koester

Jill Priester LaRocca

William Mahon

Esther Schmitt Manz

Marcus J. Martone

Conchita Maymi-Marti

Albert S. Molnar

Richard Monroe

Gertrude Bayer Moore

Walter S. Moore u

Jeanne Francisco Morin u

Ernest J. Neydl

Colleen Keefe North

College Council

Kaitlyn M. Boyes

John F. Edwards ’86

Walter Farnholtz

Dorothea Kreig Fowler ’52

Kimberly Potter Ireland ’97

Robert S. Isaf ’65

Renee L. James ’82

Patrick J. McHugh ’77

Aaron K. Marsh

Marie Rumsey

Barbara W. Thuesen

Cortland College

Foundation Board

Of Directors

Patricia Ignagni Allen ’78

Donald C. Armstrong

William C. Baerthlein ’76

Genevieve Burhans Barden ’60

Erik J. Bitterbaum, ex officio

Paul W. Blanchard

M. Barry Bocklet Sr. ’83

James A. Bonaventura ’79

Jean K. Cadwallader

Marilyn Muller Clark ’51

Patricia A. Clark

Katherine Emerich

Compagni ’68

Louise M. Conley

Richard B. deFrances ’54

William M. Dickerson ’69

Fritz Favorule ’76

Raymond D. Franco ’72,

ex officio

David P. Hempson ’76

Robert C. Howe

Joseph C. Iorizzo ’89

Kevin N. Keegan ’76

LaRetha Leyman

Vincent J. Mascia ’53

Brian G. Murphy ’83

Veronica M. Plucinski ’74

Kevin A. Rowell ’83

Victor M. Rumore II ’84

William E. Shaut, ex officio

Victor Siegle

Breta C. Sisson ’68

Charles H. Spaulding

Bernard E. Thoma ’78

Antoinette Tiburzi

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

2007-08 C-Club Board

Of Directors

Shirley Bowen ’64

Jim Codispoti ’63

Fran Elia

Karen Funk ’72

Jeanne Galvin ’60

Tim Hale ’68

Jack Halloran ’50

Peter Koryzno

Bob Lalley ’66

Nancy Langham ’59

Eric Malmberg

Gail Maloney ’72

Sandy Morley ’77

Louis Pettinelli, Jr. ’55

Susan Rayl

Harry Schwarze ’63

Joan Sitterly

Kris Terrillion ’72

Antoinette Tiburzi

Mike Urtz ’93

Garry Van Gorder

Hank von Mechow ’49

Bob Wallace ’53

Margaret Walsh ’70

Ted Woods ‘53

President’s

Distinguished

Executive-in-

Residence

Matthew L. Asen ’73

Leanne M. Leonard ’79

Anthony R. Moon Jr. ’86

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

Kevin P. Zink ’77

Auxiliary Services

Corporation Directors

And Members

Joanne Barry ’97

Raymond D. Franco ’72

Casey M. Hahl

Aaron K. Marsh

Jamie C. Riddoch

David G. Ritchie

William E. Shaut

Henry J. Steck

Michael A. Urtz ’93

Alumni Reunion

Committee

M. Diane Moyle Batzing ’68

Susan R. Blumenson ’58

Janet Pelton Caraccilo ’58

Vincent L. Caraccilo ’58

Mary Thompson Coronato ’58

Suzanne Kaley Dalton ’58

Carole Shannon Dwyer ’68

Donna Still Franco ’73

James A. Galvin ’58

Geraldine Dean Galvin ’58

Robert G. Hancock ’58

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68

J. Robert Johnson ’58

Judith Austin Kurtz ’68

John Larsen ’68

Carolyn Macleod Long ’58

Marilyn Lewis Marcy ’58

Carol A. McKinzie ’58

Richard J. McKnight ’58

Elizabeth Cassidy Morrell ’58

Lynn E. Olcott ’68

Eileen Davies Pens ’68

George A. Perry Sr. ’58

Virginia Wisniewski Rabe ’58

Edward J. Reilly Sr. ’58

Sharon Geary Rumsey ’58

Joyce Manchyk Sandman ’68

Sheila Smalley Schneider ’58

Louise DaMassa Sessa ’58

Anne Plaumann Snyder ’58

Robert A. Tagner ’58

Dorothy Glick Tagner ’58

Maryanne Onoff Trapanese ’58

Gordon C. Valentine ’68

Rosemary Walters ’58

Arlene Boerem Zabielski ’58

Alumni Chapter and

Event Committee

Linda May Armstrong ’76

Marian Natoli Atkinson ’54

Amy Poster Beekman ’69

Richard A. Cecconi ’74

Christine Perry Cecconi ’74

Louis P. Chistolini ’65

Maxine Lehrman Cleveland ’64

Robert B. Demske ’85

David J. Dengler ’78

Mary Emm ’85

Jennifer M. Gaeta ’06

Maureen Andrews

Goodwin ’90

Bernadette Mackin Graycar ’78

Christine Semeraro

Gregory ’72

George F. Herrick ’63

Linda Wilson Herrick ’62

Michael D. Horelick ’67

Edward E. Hotchkin ’72

Ann Devery Hotchkin ’75

Arthur H. Jones ’74

Michael A. Kennerknecht ’01

Megan Benjamin

Kennerknecht ’02

Rose Marie Luppino

Kleinspehn ’49

Stephany L. Krauz ’04

Katherine A. Liberti ’07

Betsy Sandwick Lomonaco ’63

and Joseph P. Lomonaco

William Mahon ’49

Cindy Mardenfeld ’93

Julie Gentner Murphy ’03

Edward H. Olivari ’49

Cheryl Blythe Papa ’65

Louis R. Pettinelli Jr. ’55

Carole Wilsey Phillips ’48

Robert E. Rhodes ’53

Robert J. Samaniuk ’00

Lisa Falvo Santangelo ’77

Marilyn Mohney Schafer ’54

Michael W. Schafer ’53

Nancy Niskin Sorbella ’82

Thomas J. Spanbauer ’83

Judith Cunningham

Swartwout ’65

Beryl Cooper Szwed ’70

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

Gail Terry VanPatten ’75

Alumni Board of

Directors

Marian Natoli Atkinson ’54

Jeffrey T. Beal ’76

Harry Bellardini ’56

Marjorie Dey Carter ’50

Bonnie King Comella ’88

T. Peter Dady ’74

Caroline T. Donawa ’99

Joseph C. Eppolito ’74

Paul S. Fardy ’63

Raymond D. Franco ’72

Carl F. Gambitta ’63

Deborah DeProspo Gloor ’76

Peter N. Kanakaris ’70

Andrea S. Licht

Maureen A. McCrystal ’00

James I. McGuidwin ’63

Jessica M. Mifsud

James I. Newlands ’65

Carole Wilsey Phillips ’48

Elizabeth Pujolas ’86

Gloria Quadrini ’59

Arnold T. Rist ’47

Kathleen Hoefert Schuehler ’78

Ronnie Sternin Silver ’67

Nancy Niskin Sorbella ’82

Cheryl Singer Sullivan ’81

Gordon C. Valentine ’68

Estella Eckler Vangeli ’47

Alumni Speaker Series

Raul Aguirre ’95

ReBecca L. Canzano ’02

Joseph I. Cooper ’07

Jessica Hatfield Daily ’01

Kelly Eagan Fuller ’94

Brian L. Hoffman ’00

David A. Kilpatrick ’82

Michael J. Koperda ’07

Kyle M. McGowan ’06

Laura Prestopnik Morse ’02

Laureen Penney-McGee ’99

Christa A. Reese ’05

Margaret Riley ’79

Kathlene Rowell

Erin M. Rurey ’03

Leslie H. Wilkins ’99

Recognizing SUNY Cortland’s Dedicated Volunteers

JULY 1, 2007 TO JUNE 30, 2008

lumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff and emeritus

members of the SUNY Cortland educational

community are an amazing group of people.

This listing of the Annual Report is a formal recognition of the

people who have selflessly given their time, talent and energy to

advance the mission of the College throughout the past year.

In this section, you will read the names of many of the people

who have volunteered for the College from July 1, 2007 to

June 30, 2008. The names recognized here are submitted

by departments of the College that manage volunteers. The

Cortland College Foundation is deeply grateful to all those

who volunteer to support SUNY Cortland.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 7

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

JoAnn Soll Park

Ethel Rands Pufpaff

Robert S. Robinson

Barbara Martin Rosenberg

Lillian Hyde Scanlon

Marjorie Spencer Swart

Patricia Catlin VanLone

Doris M. Vollmer

Dorothy Cristaldi Will

1 9 5 0

Participation: 29 percent

Total Raised: $48,296

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Paul Volk u

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Mary Alice Catlin Haase

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marjorie Dey Carter

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Eleanor Clark Donnelly

Eleanor Feeley Hancock

Beverly Smith Lloyd

Joseph A. McKendrick

Rosemary Esposito Pertot

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Donald Ainsworth u

Paul Amrod

Barbara Bennett Carey

William H. Carey u

Lawrence Cid

Dorothy Maye Croteau

Nancy Rickey Davies

Viola Katz Di Marzio

Bernard W. Dolat u

James J. Grady

Annabelle Hartman Herbold

Harry P. Herbold

Patricia McKendrick Laing

Herbert M. Maistelman

Dominick J. Morelli

Richard S. Nostrant

Floyd L. Petitt

Harry Rapenske

Clara Hyde Slocum

Charles Stitt

John L. Tilley

Helen Dence Walker

Richard F. Witter

1 9 5 1

Participation: 35 percent

Total Raised: $16,619

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

Marilyn Muller Clark u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Carmen G. Girolamo u

George Hancock Jr. u

Eleanor Hyatt

Phyllis Muller Jackson

Beverly Stowell Kearing

Eugene M. Long

Ramona Dubick Mirabito

Peter Procops

William J. Tomik

William C. Wangler u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Archie H. Avedisian u

Robert D. Berberich

Edward W. Bosse

Franz Brill

Jeannette Coleman Bush

Philomena Tucci Corsi

Bettie Johnson Cross

Frank W. DeGraff

W. Raymond Demuth

Rae Stephens DeVoe

Leslie F. Distin

Najla A. Farhart

Wilson W. Fitch Jr.

Ann Coney Fitzgibbons

L. Arlene Frederick

Marguerite Hart Fuge

Milton E. Hess u

Virginia Dobbins Hess u

Carolyn Studwell Irwin u

Donald E. Kamm

Frederick W. Kreutzer

Wade G. Lange

Virginia West Litman

Mary A. Maher

Barbara Guelfi McCormick

Walter Meier

Joseph Meyers

Arline Kahn Michaelson

Fay Buschmann Molnar

Paul E. O’Donnell u

Lois E. Piehler

Donald E. Pierce

Margaret Hickey Pierce

Betty Ott Reutershan

Joyce Minor Rockefeller

De Villo Sloan Jr.

Herbert J. Slutsky

Ruth Fitzpatrick Stapleton u

Julie Sherrill Steitz u

Beverly O’Neill Tiffany

Barbara Woods Twentyfive

Patricia C. Woodward u

1952

Participation: 31 percent

Total Raised: $8,035

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

Harvey B. Brownstein ’52

1868 SOCIETY

Dorothea Kreig Fowler u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Margaret A. Curry u

Joseph W. Halper u

Bernard W. Hungerford u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Mary Poole Bickford

Howard Goldman

Donald E. Merrill u

Leonard Schleichkorn u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Joseph M. DeLucca u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Barbara Truman Angell

Dolores Schmidt Black

R. Jeanette Leininger Burns

Alvah R. Cramer

Cora Abbott Cramer u

Raymond H. Davison u

Sally Ellis Dwyer

Philip Fiorenza

Joseph A. Fitzgibbons

Ann Buscher Fox

Elaine Sawner Gleason

Jean Keeler Hand

Aileen E. Johnson

Jane Miller Johnson

Donald V. Joyce u

Marjorie Mc Dowell Kennedy u

Elaine De Lutis Kowalsky

Jacqueline Merkt Loop

Lois Charles Lorusso

Joseph J. Lucey Jr.

Alice Duffy Page

Jacqueline Carr Pender

Carol Kissel Perta

Oscar J. Pultz

David C. Rider

Robert F. Riedel

Richard E. Rollins

Patricia Tickner Steubing u

Marilyn J. Stricker u

Ann Maslin VanBork

Laurence A. Walsh

Louise Richardson Wilson

Shirley Baltimore Winter

Joy Ingianni Zailian

1 9 5 3

Participation: 29 percent

Total Raised: $66,672

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

David E. Hennessy

Gerald P. Theisen

LYCEUM SOCIETY

June Isgate Willson u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Joseph R. Vorbach

Robert H. Wallace

Sally Yaeger Wallace u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

John F. Marder Jr.

Norma Young Rhodes

Robert E. Rhodes u

Donald A. White u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Joyce T. Cavanagh u

Donald L. Miller u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Anne Apgar Cook u

Glenn D. Cook u

Carol Gese DeLucca u

Nancy Maney Foster u

Norman E. Foster u

Martha Crisara Girolamo u

Fritz Hess u

Juanita A. Kuehner u

Roberta Miller Mascia u

Vincent J. Mascia u

Theodore Woods

Beverly Noyes Zimmer

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Marjorie Jurusik Bates u

Dorothy Bentall Bilodeau

Carolyn Colby Cameron

Patricia Glennon Carey

Joanne Riley Condron

Eleanor Tait Cosens

Gwynne F. Crosley

Richard C. Davies

Barbara Miller DeGraff

Lois Cameron Duncan

James L. Dutton

Eilene J. Edwards u

Linnea Ahrenberg Fargo

Mary Lou Stalley Fitch

Frances Marion Fitzpatrick

Marilyn J. Geraty

Lawrence Goldberg

Morton Harrison

John A. Hay

Lawrence J. Heldman u

Nancy Dillon Kane

Simon Kaufman

Beverly Whitman Loller

William J. Mahoney

George E. Mason u

M. J. Black Nichol

Joseph A. Notar

Marianne Smith Notar u

Gerald L. Riendeau u

Michael W. Schafer u

Jean McDougall Strothmann

Joan West Swales

Diana Hillick Vianna-Brignola

Margaret Dishington Walsh

1 9 5 4

Participation: 34 percent

Total Raised: $7,579

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Marian Natoli Atkinson u

Richard B. deFrances u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Carol R. Emes

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Ruth Ferris Merrill u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

William J. Berech

Lillian Stierholz Hess

Jerald Jewell u

Paul J. Maphia

Louis M. Withiam

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Harley M. Albro u

JoAnne Workman Allison

Leola Paine Anneser-Cross

Barbara Meinhold Barreiro

Ann Fisher Bigelow

Nadine Rice Bishop u

Jeanne Miller Bowker

Andrea Knuth Brandt

Shirley Andrews Brandt

Alice R. Brennan

Vivienne Lilienborg Burkleo

Betsy Weisberg Buxer

Herb Collins

Bruno J. Cosentino

Betty Dalton

Joseph V. Di Pace

Allen B. Dodge

Mimi Smith Doyle

Constance J. Durkee u

Robert R. Elder u

Dorothea Everett

Janet Batten Finck

Jane Steele Flannery u

Virginia Foster Gagnon

Shirley Halstead Gillis

Mimi L. Greenstein

Carl C. Heidle

Robert R. Jorgensen

Charles L. Kellogg

Lois Vallely Kiley

Janet Irene Miller Knapp

Consuelo Lafuente Krolak

Barbara Clark McKee

Nancy Hoefler Mortellaro

Ann Chittenden Murphy

Barbara Barrow Palmer

Nicholas Pauldine

Elizabeth Ghent Pfueller

Howard Pivnick u

Robert B. Preston u

Margaret Neugebauer Race

Bernard A. Sadowski

Joseph A. Scalzo

Marilyn Mohney Schafer

Ruth Kertzer Schwarz

Jean Halloran Seaton

Stanley Silver

Norman Skliar

C. Glenn Stevens

Senta Dombrowsky Streeter u

Marilyn J. Thomas u

David C. True Sr. u

Michael D. Twohig u

Joan M. Walsh u

Leighton B. Wilklow u

E. Therese Chanatry Zogby

1 9 5 5

Participation: 34 percent

Total Raised: $7,919

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

Ethel Mahan Theisen u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Rhoda Chase Curtiss u

Rosa La Sorte Rich u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marilyn Knowles Dixon u

Robert Hoppey u

Louis R. Pettinelli Jr. u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Karen Mescall Daly u

Barbara Shirey Wayman u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Grace Caravaglio Franze

Marie Capparelli Maphia

Robert D. Stubbs

Walter G. Vogel

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Carol Schroeder Bannister u

Joseph Bloom

Louisa Stahl Cario

Sam Cario u

Phyllis Denapole Conigilaro u

Neil W. Curtin u

Lois Boyce Dann

Laura Jean Vought Dluzak

Margaret Ann Thiemke Double

Carol Rogers Dunton

Gary J. Dunton u

Douglas A. Fessenden

Joan Burris Fisher

Alma Santana Galati

Islay Sewall Hedger

Johanne Cerio Holcomb

Margaret Reames Kyff

Jean Sliva Lown

James J. Lucey u

George W. Marlatt Jr. u

Barbara Grubbs McCabe u

George J. McCabe u

John A. Millett Sr.

Carol Van Wyck Moran

Alice Casella Murphy

Barbara Francisco Murphy

Anthony F. Palumbo

Helen Cascio Phillips

Rachel Sbarra Pittarelli

Donald J. Quinn

Susan Cinnater Quinn u

Dolores Halliday Reynolds u

Donald W. Schmidt u

Ruth Rushmore Smith u

Frank Spina u

Beverlyn Beyer Summers u

Frank N. Terras u

Constance Saulsbury Tilroe

Eileen Adsit Tremper

Joan Bouton Vorbach

Catherine Panto Welner

Harold Welner

Flora McMartin Wing

1 9 5 6

Participation: 28 percent

Total Raised: $23,045

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Richard M. Ball u

1868 SOCIETY

Robert R. Snyder u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Harry Bellardini u

Peter T. Kachris u

Jean Cross Nessle u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Shirlee Hall Hilton u

Joan Lombardi Peck u

Beverly Teed Shaffer u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

George Jones

Angelo Schibeci

Richard J. Warner

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Barbara A. Berlin u

Donald W. Campbell u

William Robert Magill u

Ronald McCrindle

Donald Squires

Joanne St. George

Alice Blanton Vogel

Helane Steffens Walker

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Ann Allison

Bruce Allison

Donald J. Annino u

George T. Breen u

Arlene Twitchen Brett

Robert Bub

Pauline Cooney Carlyon

Robert L. Carroll

Jule Beaudry Churchill

Joan Blanton Cummings

Barbara Crespy Duggan

Lucy Masoomian Durr

Wilburt G. Fenner

Kathleen Clampett Fielding

Herbert J. Friedman

Norman E. Friedman

Samuel A. Fuller

William L. Fuller

Arlene Karsten Geiger u

Robert J. Graziadei

Alton W. Hall

Joan Whelan Hall

Patricia Mahon Hanlon

Nancy Carlson Hayes u

Gertrude Briggs Hovey

Helen R. Jaeger

William J. Judd

William G. Keating

George C. Kelley

Kathryn J. Kent

Francine Auerbach Lane

Richard H. Lee

Doris Dollard Lethi

William C. Lown u

Diane Gregor Lucey u

Harold Mahoney u

Marion Reiss Mahoney u

Mary Jo Avery Matthias

Jane Thomsen Moran

Lois Lord Norris u

Isabel Cotter Nystrom

George W. Oliver

Nancy Budd Paul

Marie Hirt Phares

Jean Olsen Rapp

Leroy C. Rapp

Nelson H. Schell

Gail Howard Snyder

Alyn Sovak

Donald B. Stone u

Marilyn Merwin Stone u

Donald H. Szen

T. Richard Terry

Anthony M. Tonachio u

Nancy Harte VanVooren

Carol Walker Warren

James B. Wilson

Rita Bilsky Yeates

1 9 5 7

Participation: 25 percent

Total Raised: $31,491

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Neil W. Wortmann u

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Grace Sparkes Ball u

1868 SOCIETY

Susan Cooper Scales

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Mary Lynn Collins

Arline Rimmer Halper

Alexander N. “Norm” Peck u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Rocky J. Coronato u

Anita M. Rathbun u

Harry Reynolds u

Theresa DeStefano Scott u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

C. Douglas Billion u

Warren J. Hasseler u

Helen Filshie Martin u

Ruth Schoen Nelson u

Nancy Potter Stewart

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Doris Klukkert Allen

Bruce A. Austin

Anna Galeotti Balducci

Dauryne Haas Barrett

Dorothy M. Birmingham u

John R. Brett

Louise Haack Burns

Roger G. Burns

Howard G. Carey

Victor J. Carrk Sr.

Margaret Murray Cashen

Virginia Wray Cawley

Barbara Cronk u

Barbara Sweet Curtin u

Jane Mitchell De Mayo

John F. De Pompeo

Samia Durham Dwyer u

Carol Robertshaw Eberhardt u

Phyllis Fisher Gozley u

Antoinette De Leonardis

Graziadei

Felix M. Guernier

Monica Gorecki Guernier

Nancy Shanahan Heldman

Nancy Powell Hewett

Janie Sprouse Hinkle

Gerald G. Homer u

Grace Davis Homer u

John E. Jones u

Janet Johnston Kostolansky

Louis E. LaGrand

Stanley Leibner

Sarah M. Luna

Joan Smith Magin

Dorothy Holihan Marlatt

Reginald L. Mosior

Michael A. Nagle

Sally Maroney Nicol u

Richard V. O’Brien

Janet Murdock Osterhof

Sylvia Gilbert Parker

June Belknap Paser

John A. Rathjens u

Ruth Lieberman Rosenberg

Eileen Whalen Rozell

Carolyn Freytag Shaffer u

Betty Jean Kinney Simmons u

Carl F. Smith u

Muriel Sweetman Smith u

Muriel Pryce Spagnolli u

Richard H. Taylor

Shirley Cusworth Telford

Theresa McGovern Terry u

Marilyn Hort Thomson u

Phyllis Du Ross VanDemark u

Eleanor Bauman Waldorf u

Dixie E. Wheeler u

Joyce Vining Wingerter u

Carolyn Pomeroy Woods u

Beverly Finley Wooster

Christina Golashevski Zodikoff

David H. Zodikoff u

Richard A. Zuck u

1958

Participation: 48 percent

Total Raised: $152,451

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

John M. Fantauzzi u

Louise DaMassa Sessa u

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Rosemary Walters

1868 SOCIETY

J. Robert Johnson u

Anne Plaumann Snyder u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Mary Alice Bellardini u

Douglas B. Nessle u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Joan F. Dwyer u

Philip W. Engle u

Marilyn Lewis Marcy u

Carol A. McKinzie u

Sylvia Nassar Morris

George A. Perry Sr.

John W. Ramsey u

Edward J. Reilly

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Susan R. Blumenson u

Janet Pelton Caraccilo

Vincent L. Caraccilo

Mary Thompson Coronato

Rosemary Maggio Cournoyer

Joan I. Freedman

Carolyn Macleod Long

Gretchen Bradshaw Niva

Joan Brendes Pucker

Nancy Lou Walther Warner

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Charles J. Bocklet Jr. u

Connie Weaver Bocklet u

Susan Hart Carl

Barbara Thompson Clarcq

Andree Wetterau Cowan

Geraldine Dean Galvin u

James A. Galvin u

Robert G. Hancock

Agnes Gallagher Hartigan

Clifford C. Hughes

Carol Walsh Lowell

Robert E. Martin u

Maxine Hochen Reiss

Sharon Geary Rumsey

Joan Patterson Sheil

Ernest E. Southworth

Richard E. Vuolo u

Emelda M. Williams u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Helen Fanning Ackroyd

Sandra Woodrow Annino

Nancy Anderson Bower u

Joan Kubiak Bromante

Erna Shapiro Brout

Geraldine E. Brown u

George J. Calley

Jean L. Cammer

Ann Miller Carey

Don Cassalia

John W. Churchill

Jo-Ann Wallace Clegg

Garnita Winsor Cole

Elsie Lee Colella

Nancy Evans Condron

Jean Puzzilla Cosentino

Vivian Cotter

Carol Y. Crosby

Suzanne Kaley Dalton

Phyllis Wheelock De Ronda

Gloria Samson Dellow

Dick R. Dier u

Joseph Dondero

Carole Bowser Dowdy

Patricia Cleary Durbin

Lorraine Respol Evans

Ernest A. Fierro

Marilyn Stackhouse Fleck

John Forsythe

Richard L. Foster u

Phillip Gordon u

Nancy A. Hadland u

Donald J. Hartley

David G. Hemme

John Hingher Sr.

Shirley K. Hodge

Kay Batty Holb

Shirley Smalls Hornbeck

Ann Huston Howe

Nancy Rietmann Hutchinson

Martha Kaufman Kantor u

Margaret Roach Kennedy

Caryl Ann Reich Koesterer

Joseph C. Koesterer u

Clara Vincze Layman

Joan De Fazio Lincoln

Arlene Milstein Linsk

Betty Ann Campbell Lockhart u

Judith Brull MacIntire u

Richard J. McKnight

Audrey Mistretta

Donna Morgan

Elizabeth Cassidy Morrell

Patricia Haley Murray

Marcia Dunigan O’Brien

Marcia Surtes Plumleigh-Ozag

Kenneth R. Puffer

Virginia Wisniewski Rabe u

Edith Gardiner Reardon

Nancy Schoenfield Russo

Sheila Smalley Schneider

Jerry R. Shepardson

Dorothy Glick Tagner u

Robert A. Tagner u

Maryanne Onoff Trapanese

Sharon Line VanAllen

Carol Krieg Voelger u

Kay Munson Weaver

F. Wayne Weiss

Marian Doebele Wood

Edward T. Woods u

Richard J. Young

Arlene Boerem Zabielski

John A. Zanetti

1 9 5 9

Participation: 28 percent

Total Raised: $42,301

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

James D. Gallagher

1868 SOCIETY

Donald Traver u

Donna Bell Traver u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Suzanne Pratt Birch u

Gene Farry

Gloria Quadrini

Eleanor King Strode u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

John P. Griffin u

Judith Morenus Wildenstein u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Alice Ann Brittain Bowman u

Irwin M. Davidson

Andrea Bucher Guy

Laura Travis McDade u

James Sellars

Frederick C. Smith

Virginia Wunsch Smith u

Diana Bernstein Wolff u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Eldred R. Adams u

Marie Lake Colclough u

Caroline Nardone Hubert u

Diana Duplessis Jenkins

Pamela A. MacCormack

Katherine Izzo Moore

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

8 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Ethel A. Abbott u

Terry Nottingham Albro u

Nancy Pembroke Anderson

Jean Van Hensbergen

Bascom

Frederick J. Bobrek u

Donald E. Burlingame u

Grace Mowatt Burritt u

Maribeth Burr Carey u

Mary Tompkins Chappell u

Mary Ditmars Colandene u

Joyce Oatman Coleman u

C. Stanley Cutler

Roberta Goering Dempsey

Sandy Cooper Denicore

Jane Hranek Depew

Warren Deutsch

Sandra S. Foster u

Gordon C. Gilfilian u

Joseph Girolamo u

Margaret Moore Green u

William G. Hair u

Dennis Hutchinson u

Travis E. Jackson

Joan Fries Johnson

Elaine Hawkins Joseph u

Barbara Miller Kalleberg u

Diane Percival Kapusansky

Mary E. Kavanagh

Muriel Craine Kehoe

Annabelle Brockway Kerwin

Hildabeth Ruda Klein

Phyllis Gitelson Klein

Mary Duncan Kmiecik

Marlene Dieterle Kuntz

Nancy L. Langham u

Lois Weller Lent u

Lenore Pearlman Lundberg u

Margie Merkt Lyon

Robert B. MacNeill

Edward W. Magnus u

Eleanor Marion Mahony

Karen Kriedemann Maier

Joan Stenard Mars

Camilla Titus Mengwasser

Ronald J. Moss

Janet Schrauth Newbury

Isabelle Lovett Niles u

Rotena Du Bois Nippert

Evelyn Klaxton Nostrand

John E. Nyilis u

Jorene Post Page u

Mary Ann Schneider Park

Anthony Parks

Barrie E. Parrish

Patricia Spector Parsons

Beverly Carney Petterelli

Virginia Lull Polo

Robert H. Ridall

Roland Ryan u

Sudee Sanders

George A. Seiler

Lewis Spagnola

Ruth Sumstad Squires

Martin G. VanVleet

Ronald H. Warnock

Bette A. West

Barbara Hitchcock Wright u

Herman W. Wyld u

1 9 6 0

Participation: 29 percent

Total Raised: $12,740

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous

Genevieve Burhans Barden

Edward E. Birch u

Richard A. Fitch

Angelo Taranto

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Jeanne Galvin u

Katherine Daniels Pfiester u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Elizabeth Ursitti

Henry J. Veix

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Frank M. Blauvelt

James S. Colclough

Francis R. Filardo u

Judy Chapman Gray u

Priscilla Tedesco Hancock

Carol Helwig

Leo J. Johnson

Walter T. Munze

Lorraine A. Nagle

Anne Nevader Planck

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Lynne Stagnitti Ahnert u

Mary Louise Consadene

Ballard

Barbara Kilian Bernstein u

Judith McGauley Borger u

Carol Margaretten Cassell u

Thomas L. Chapman

Linda Murphy De Lorenzo

Charles Fairben

Sandra R. Ferro

Eugene Fitzpatrick

Enid Davis Fleisher

Robert L. Fragnoli

Barbara Hendricks Galletti

Sharon Hedden Gibbons u

Sandra Bernstein Guttentag

Henry Heitner

Jacqueline Newell Hotchkiss

Esley Kantor Isseks u

Joseph T. Ivers Jr.

Janet Wandersee Juneau

Merle Hurwitz Kalishman

Elaine Ort Kanef u

Anne Stuart Kantor u

Madeleine Lieblein Kasof u

Marcia Sussman Korotkin u

Renee A. Lamkay

Carol Kinsey Lefferts

Sandra Levine

Clare Heaney Manes

John R. Markell

Lawrence J. Marquit

Veronica Wallace Marsico

Katherine Berry McEvoy

Edith Slovshek Mellace

Laurie Simmons Meyers

Bruce F. Miller

Donald Mills

Sandra Keck Minckler u

Bobbie Duncan Monroe

Marilynn Collins Moran

Drue Doll Morris

Carol Doyle Moss

E. Beverly Nilsson

Victor M. Nippert Sr.

Bertha Pittari O’Connor

John P. Perretta

Carolyn Sweeney Perry

Richard T. Perry

Marion Sternberg Pollack

William R. Reilly

John T. Richards u

Rose D’Amore Richards u

Rochelle Smuckler Riven

Elizabeth Hausner Roberts

Joan Rothblatt Sadoff

Susan Libenson Saltman

Civita Petronio Schilling u

Rosalie Falasco Schriftman

Anne De Marco Scott

Natalie Fain Sellers

Carol Gardner Sigafoos

Bernard M. Smith

Joan Wilcox Smith u

Juliana Buros Smith

Loraine Ostrowski Spagnola

Richard A. Stitzel u

Sally Simpson Stitzel u

Anita Emeterio Strods

Doris Morris Stuart

Judith Webb Sutton u

Barbara Perrine Taylor

Gerald Taylor

Anne Fleming Tobin

Douglas Tobin u

Jean Wilcox Torregrossa u

Virginia Y. Weinstein

Elaine Schwartz Wilson

Karen Van Duyl Withers

1 9 6 1

Participation: 30 percent

Total Raised: $37,228

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Margaret Sevka Gallagher

Thomas L. Goodale

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Andrew C. Kerfut u

Gail Briggs Quinn

Martin J. Quinn

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Judith Fleming Barcik u

James L. Cranfield u

Gail Cox Mazur u

Frank J. Nazitto

Rose Marie Paternostro

Thomas Schmidt

Beverly Tuttle Schwarze

Roberta Klein Veix u

Robert Weinhauer u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Dawn Nolan Allyn u

Franklin J. Borst

Ralph Dreyer

Roberta Glasser Dreyer u

Thomas Galeazzi

Joanne Bush Haefele

David J. Perry u

Edward A. Thomson u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Jane Mitchell Alamo

Kenneth L. Baer

Mary Clark Baer u

Carol Pascale Baird

Bernadette Spoerer Barker

Ronald T. Benizio

Wilma Dimock Blakeman

Frances Goldberg Brough

Phyllis Eddy Brown

Wayne Bryan u

Joan Byam

Allen T. Carley

James E. Casey u

Toby Jane Dolgow Cherny

Loretta Rejman Clark

Blanche V. Coffineau

Joseph Coffineau u

Juanita Cooke

Carol Ziegler Craft

Ernest W. Craumer u

David Cutler u

Thomas B. Decker u

Susan Wilms Diffily u

Delores Schiele Economou u

Linda Kubiak Fairben

Russell Ferris

Barbara Hawkins Fineco-Higgins

Freya Fischer Fisch

Janet Hauser Franz

Barbara Breslau Frink

Phyllis Kasha Gelman u

Susan M. Gibbons u

Julius Gundersheim u

Yvonne Jacobi Haff u

Margot Desmond Hall u

David Handy

Marianne De Lany Heesters

Gail Schussel Heitner

Robert F. Herodes

Patricia Helms Huddle

Christine Kemp Brown

Sheila Burris Konfino

Regina Carlson Kowenhoven

Delores Muggeo Larque

Margaret Plaumann Larson

Peter M. Lawson

Edward D. Lipton u

Mary Wentworth Loope u

Gerard B. Lynch

Susan Gandolf MacNeill

Janice Reed McCloy

Frank P. McGrath

Judi Mesibov

Loretta Anzivina Miller u

Ellen M. Mitchell

Dennis E. Murphy

Gary E. Myers u

Raymond E. Myers

Joseph Petrosino

Maxine Aaron Pines

Alfred F. Pisano Jr.

Mary D’Ercole Pritchard

Barbara Reger Roberts

Margaret Robinson

Kathryn Fenton Saunders

Julianna Ford Saydlowski u

Gail Weiss Scharf u

Marilyn Mishkin Silberglied u

Claudette Rima Smith

Marian Boyn Spano

Arlene Howard Stoker

Warren E. Stoker

Mary A. Sullivan

Christopher Sweeney u

Mary Cay Crosby Sweeney u

Anne Sweidel

Gary R. Thompson

Richard L. Vercruysse

Dennis A. Vinton

Sherry Adam Watson

Barbara O’Brien Wecker u

Susan Adams Whitman u

Jane Atz Wichmann

Judith Hoffman Yando

Robert Zigrossi u

Ronald H. Zorn

1 9 6 2

Participation: 31 percent

Total Raised: $41,781

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Maureen O’Rourke Murphy

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Carol Bailey Baird

Norma Smoczynski Schlager

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Linda L. Pons u

1868 SOCIETY

Ira J. Sheier u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Dixie Davis Curtice u

Lynn D. Hemink u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Barbara Payne Brugel u

Barbara A. DiPalma u

Rose Marie Jones

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

James P. Henneberg u

Linda Wilson Herrick

Shirley Underhill Lubin

Joseph M. Mayer

Gloria Boga Patinka-Jones

Martha Ives Williams

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Nancy Wick Adams

Wayne L. Adams

John P. Brogan Jr.

Martha Couch Brogan u

Alden L. Dumas

Bonnie Cole Griffin

Barbara Nichols Holmes

Robert Jenkins

Louise Lawrence

Margaret Moon O’Connell

Patricia Cole Rogers

Nancy Belloff Smith

Marilyn Scholefield Villante

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Cecile Tepper Alexander

Barbara DeMott Bareford

Marilyn Moldoff Bauman

Raymond Borden u

Marlene Braslow Landon

Constance Egan Brogowski

Richard F. Brogowski u

Kenneth N. Brooker Jr.

Donald D. Brown

Joan Quatrokey Caruso u

Barbara Greges Casey u

James S. Colligan u

Leila Van Aernem Colligan

Pamela Ward Courtney

George O. Davenport

Elizabeth David-Ross

Susan Gilrod Dechnik u

Vincent D’Esposito

Ellen Schatz Diamond

Gary Dillingham

Eugene W. Eddy

Judith Eddy Ewing

Judith Binder Faherty

Gary M. Fish

Judi G. Forrest u

Andrew Gibbs u

Michael M. Gifford u

Stephen D. Golder u

Jo-Ellen Schmid Gould u

Vincent J. Guido

Deborah Fairman Guile

Susan T. Gute

Eleanor G. Harvey

Judith Cerio Holland

Donna M. Hudak

Sally A. Johnson

Marie Reiss Kane

Carol Lehrman Klein

Kathleen Short Klotz u

Virginia Allen Lammers

Roy J. Larson

Elizabeth Syage Lawrence

Marilyn Lewis Magur

Shirley Pernat McCaffrey

Ellen K. Mitterer u

Sheila A. Montague

Edith Haggerty Munze

Susan Wright Myers

Elizabeth Benson Nichols

Thomas Nichols u

William R. Perry Jr. u

Frieda Rudman Pilson

Bonita Rubenstein Pitcoff

Phyllis Kalenak Plog

Robert C. Polo u

Betsy Bain Rich u

Walter Rieb u

Loretta O’Reilly Roberts

Patrick G. Roche

Agatha Notaro Romita

Louis Rozanski

Paul Sbrollini u

Rebecca Schwartz Sbrollini u

Joanne Sarensky Schmitt

Arlene Vacirca Scolnick

Barbara Molefsky Serling

Linda Shader u

Alice Gridley Shaughnessy u

John Shaughnessy u

Ruth Gordon Stahl u

Warren W. Thornton

Allen Tinkler

Carole Kowalski Valesky

Marilyn Hartlieb Wade

George J. Weinbrenner

Elizabeth Hogan Whalen u

Susan Downs White u

Edna Pierce Whiteley

Patricia Beckerman Whittaker

Clair A. Wilkins

Doris Lipsky Wine

Gary Winters

Alan Woodruff

Patricia Morey Youmans u

Robert C. Youmans u

Judy Stuart Zuck u

1 9 6 3

Participation: 32 percent

Total Raised: $72,781

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

William L. Haines

1868 SOCIETY

James C. Codispoti u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Julianne Nash u

Mary Beth Williams u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Nancy Feldman Beckerman u

Rita Storti Campanella u

Elaine Lepkoske Collora

Paul S. Fardy

Maria Brancato Galton u

Betsy Sandwick Lomonaco u

James I. McGuidwin u

Leslie Griffith McGuidwin u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Richard C. Gnida u

George F. Herrick

Gerard C. Mergardt

Ann Devany Nazitto

Harry T. Schwarze

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Donald J. DeBadts

Richard R. Griffin

Alphonso J. Palmiotto

Roberta Freebern Swingle

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Frederick P. Acee

Dorie Hammerschlag Anisman

Nancy Simpson Arras

Linda Harrington Bean

Susan Coles Belkin

Sylvia Goldstein

Berkelhammer

Rochelle Saretsky Berliner

Inez M. Beyer

Pamela Stone Brennan

Barbara Ackerly Brosnan

Helen Haritatos Cato

Robert J. Ceglerski u

Mary Chambers

Barbara Corrow Cinquanta

Marilyn H. Converse u

Marga Lipacis Cutler u

Americk D’Addio u

Carolyn Dailey-McArdle

Nancy Bloomgren

Diefenbach

Kira Siewert Dirghalli u

Peter L. Dorwaldt

Jean Schwab Dougherty

Barbara Holley DuColon

Kathleen Reynolds Duell

Joanne Kobel Dunleavy

Neil P. Edkins

Patricia Roudabush Elliott

Richard A. Fiorentini u

Ronald J. Frank u

Michael F. French u

Linda Spencer Frost u

Barbara Stevens Glueck

Harry J. Grogan III

John J. Hagan

Sally Hoffman Hall u

Thomas W. Hall u

* Faculty, staff, emeriti, parents, families and students who are also alumni are listed as alumni.

Category Donors Contributions Donors Contributions

July 1, 2006- July 1, 2006- July 1, 2007- July 1, 2007

June 30, 2007 June 30, 2007 June 30, 2008 June 30, 2008

Corporate

and Matching Gifts 104 $126,568.45 92 $120,251.01

Total 6,389 $1,681,181.05 5,994 $3,313,776.78

A summAry of gifts to suNy CortlANd

Alumni 5,142 $1,185,730.43 4,939 $2,182,690.57

Faculty, Staff

and Emeriti * 154 $104,641.08 153 $101,012.69

Foundations, Friends

and Organizations 144 $235,895.95 185 $888,061.19

Parents, Families

and Students 845 $28,345.14 625 $21,761.32

Dominion Scholars

Kevin Zink ’77, representing Dominion Transmission, Inc., a subsidiary of energy giant

Dominion, visited campus on Nov. 16, to speak with geology/environmental students

about careers in energy and to meet the four latest SUNY Cortland Dominion Scholars.

He directs area operations for Dominion Transmission’s Northeastern Area from his

regional office in New Hartford, N.Y. Shown, from the left, are (foreground from the

left) Elizabeth Hensel and Bobby Taylor, and (background) Zink and George Holmes.

Dominion donated $10,000 through its foundation to SUNY Cortland’s Geology

Department to continue an eight-year-old scholarship program that helps undergradu-

ate geology majors pursue research and careers in the environmental geosciences. Since

2002, the Richmond, Va.-based corporation has presented the College with $70,000 to

support a $1,000 per semester scholarship available to recipients for up to six semesters.

Dominion Scholars are academically outstanding sophomore, junior or senior geology

majors who are interested in or are doing research projects in the environmental geo-

sciences. To date, 11 students have benefited from this corporate generosity.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 9

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Charles A. Hoffman u

Margaret Hogan u

Harry M. Isokane

Patricia Gray Jackson

Carl G. Johnson

John V. Knapp

Ellen Wainwright Konecny

Janet Schmoller Kowalczyk

Melchiore La Rosa

John D. LaBombard

Jeanette Carlini Lamb

Ellen Cohen Lazarus

Susan Brandt Lerner u

Paul A. Limmer

Constance W. Lull

Loretta MacDonald

David P. Marble

Francis X. McGarvey

Mary Davis McIntire u

Patricia J. Mihalko

Francis E. Millard

Roger W. Millard

Sandra Wilson Millard

Diane Scott Miller

David N. Noble

Anne Dobie Nozzolio

Michael E. Nugent

Joseph V. Oblamski

Carolyn Goodfellow O’Hara

Nancy Heinsohn Oldham

Linda Gale Olds

Patricia Simpson Owen u

Craig Pratt u

Ellen Novich Pressman

Joan Davis Prindle

Sandra Rafter

Thomas A. Rausa

Barry M. Rosenberg

Richard Russ

Paul Schlegel

Maryanne M. Schumm u

Gail Berkowitz Sherman

Virginia Shanahan Shippy

Linda Feuerstein Sklaroff

Ann Di Giovanni Sorrentino

Anthony Sorrentino

John K. Steinbrenner

Jackie Fagouri Sutton

Janice Richard Teegarden

Maura Katz Temes

Dell N. Thompson

John B. Tuciarone

Suzanne Jones Unell

Joseph J. Valesky

Barbara Burfeindt Vieni

Floyd W. Wallace

Michael W. Warwick

Marka Cornwall Welsh

Suzanne Kleinhenz Williams

Marilyn Wiwczar

Warren K. Ziegler u

Elizabeth Gordon Zukowski

1 9 6 4

Participation: 28 percent

Total Raised: $47,768

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Jean M. Dunlavey

1868 SOCIETY

Shirley E. Bowen u

Lois Kornrumpf Codispoti u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

David H. Bleau u

Robert B. Ditton u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

John F. Brugel u

Eileen Stancati Clune

Elaine Punger Dana

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

William Bowman u

Elizabeth Enzel Dawson u

Ned Deuel

Phyllis Smith Johanson

Walfred E. Johanson u

John M. Tobin u

Marilyn Wilson Tucker u

Diane Katopes White u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Beverly Beebe u

Carolyn Myer Cranfield u

W. Mark Cranfield u

Beth Grand Hulsart u

Judith Bennett Koehn u

Ronald G. Miller

James R. Mooney

Barbara Morgan Roberts

Joseph A. Silvey Jr.

David A. Spengler

Nicholas Winter

Mary La Greca Yager u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous (2)

Phyllis Leventhal Abramson

Carol A. Adams

Laurie O’Brien Albright

Susan Goldstein Assail

Janice Kneer Bacon

Willis F. Bennett

Judith Jonas Berg

Lydia Smyth Blake u

Julia Fitzsimmons Bookhout

Diana Paris Breslav

Helen J. Bunt

Amelia Lambros Cacciatore u

Grace Johnston Cappadona

Linda Luhrs Charlton

Leslie F. Cleland

Maxine Lehrman Cleveland

Martha Tuthill Cowburn

Roberta Anthony Culpepper

Joan Stortecky D’Addio

Judith Schachel Davis u

Vicki S. Diescher u

Pat Cullen Dryden

Terry Wells Edwards

Marcia Landau Eisenberg u

Beverly Fouts Fabricius u

Douglas J. Ferrigno

Karen Collier Flewelling

Robert J. Foglino u

Mary Coty Gilbert

Geoffrey C. Godbey

Rema Oblas Goldstein u

Lynn A. Gordon u

Marilyn Gordon Gundersheim u

Joyce Denlinger Jelinek

Carol Misiaszek Jordan

Donald King u

Helene Kolber Laufer u

Phyllis Good Lepori u

Alexander Lindsey

Patricia O’Neil Lynch

Stephen Mahon

Cesare Maniccia u

Nancy Sweeney McMahon u

Donna Boyce Merkt u

Janet Zeppieri Mikovich u

Nikki Millonzi u

Eleanor Burt Moody u

Linda Moskowitz u

Nancy Miller Murphy u

Joan Williams Oliver

Richard O’Mara

Elinor W. Osterhoudt

Patricia Crout Parker u

Jean Kauth Parry u

Margaret A. Payne

Rochelle L. Pedretti

Linda Fliegel Perry

Rita Coffield Podair u

Renee Bloom Rauch u

Susan Mee Riggin

James Rose

Donald A. Saddlemire u

Penelope Neilson Saddlemire u

Linda Spivack Sandersen u

Carol Hittner Sauer u

Sue Dyckman Schmidt

Jacqueline Seide

Lyman J. Sheils u

Suzanne Turner Shenkman u

Samuel B. Shoor

Barbara Meurer Sicke

Kenneth Sicke Jr.

Mitchell Skrzypecki

Sally Fitzgerald Soule

Margaret Dennis Squires

Angela Zaccarello Stortz

Janet Guaspari Stratton

Carol Elston Sweet

Susan Cohen Ullman

Carol Soderlund Weidemier

Joanne Kaplan Weinbach u

Carol Lowensberg Weissfeld u

Irene Street White

Duane R. Whittaker

Charles L. Wilkison u

Charles E. Williams u

John Wilson

Mimi LaVine Wilson

Eileen Fries Winters

Walter J. Wiwczar

Kathleen Arnold Young

Joanne Riccio Zemlin

1 9 6 5

Participation: 29 percent

Total Raised: $15,240

1868 SOCIETY

Helen B. Wils

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Julia Wright Levine u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Antonette James Cleveland u

Patricia Kemmerer Kearney

Roger D. Rayburn

Dorothy Norkus Schiffel

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Judith Jordan Blume u

Robert L. Cleveland Jr. u

Duane O. Eddy u

Deena Radwin Garod

Gary E. Hayden

Jo Ann Cacioppo Maroney

Lloyd Mott u

Donald Rhuda u

Lynne Barrett Shapiro

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Rita Sardo Alcorn

Carol A. Countryman

Darlene Gettsy Greco u

Robert Greco u

Jo Ann Bleiweis Greene

John A. Jackson

Adrienne Schneider Mavragis u

Diane Gardiner Okoniewski

Dennis J. Skora

Nancy Robb Viola u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

George A. Ampagoomian

Judy A. Arndt-Oppedijk u

Sarah Mann Baker u

Donald W. Barry u

Lonalee Riedl Berkowitz

Perry Berkowitz

Karen Dobbis Bernbach

Carol Stathis Bishop

Lynne Snyder Boone

Lois Polley Buckner

Marilyn Guthrie Buxton

Steven A. Caine

Janice Handy Campbell

Karen Meyers Capacci

Kathryn Grant Clarke

Dale Cross Cole

Carole Shapiro Cox u

Robert E. Dalton

Clifford De Mayo

Richard J. Dietz

Roslyn F. Fischer

Sheila Gross Fleysher

Robert F. Friedman

Sallie Snyder Friedman

Ruth Horowitz Frisz

Ruth Klein Gach

Jerry B. Gilchrist

Sally K. Hamilton

Toby Bank Hasson

Alan R. Henry

Sharon Brady Henry

Inara Vents Hirn

John R. Hoover

Aletha M. Hungerford

Robert S. Isaf

Beverly Wall Johnson u

Kathleen Krauszer Jones u

Susan Mandel Kaen u

Henry O. Kahlke u

Heidi E. Kistler u

Charlotte Klein u

Dawn P. Knox u

Jeffrey F. Koodin

Ingrid Nyberg Lamont

Susan Lewis Levine

Judith Lewin-Kossover

Phyllis Eisner Lowinger u

David C. Lynch u

Patricia Schoninger MacKenna u

Suzanne Williams Maioli

Judith Chemin McCormack

Kathleen Caprarulo McDonald u

Joseph T. Meda u

Philip Meddleton

Miriam Pisk Miller

Epp Jaakson Milles

Harry W. Moore III

Sandra Whitman Moore

Janet Alleman Nadler

Nancy Earl Neglia

Thomas H. O’Brien

Margaret A. O’Grady

Stella Pavlakis O’Hanlon

Suzanne A. Olmsted

Roberta Sopp Oughterson

Helena Freedman Ozer

Edward Pakel

Michelle Maloney Pangallo

Cheryl Blythe Papa

Gregory J. Papa u

Rose A. Papa u

W. Lynn Parsons u

Angelo C. Perna

Marion A. Pesek

Marie Johnson Plavocos u

Judith E. Rink u

Marcia Baum Rosenberg

Lana Faulkner Roske

Patricia Irene Ryan

Karen Semel Sachs u

Constance C. Saldicco u

Judy Samuels Schneider

Marianne Simms Scully

Seena Schreiber Sharp u

Ellen Rosenblum Sheirr

Jeffrey Sherer

Anne Natov Siegel

Judith LoCascio Siracusa

Pat E. Siracusa

Carol Anderson Sottile

Judith Trobridge Steigerwald u

Dennis O. Stratton

Timothy F. Sullivan

Judith Cunningham

Swartwout

Susan Van Patten Swayze u

Arlene Rubin Taraschi

Nancy Kelly Taylor

Ann Hull Thacher

Judith Mura Tokos

Martha Whiting Tucker

Douglas Unell

Lynn Rittell VanderVeen

Peter R. VanderVeen u

Linda Smith Vanderwall u

Merrianne Gomer VanNess

Patti Anne Vassia

Joseph T. Velsini

Beverly Silver Venouziou

Ann Terwilliger Wenzl

Carolanne Donato Wilson

Gary N. Woods

Sharon Burke Wright

1 9 6 6

Participation: 19 percent

Total Raised: $14,140

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Shirley Reome Cahill u

Carol A. Davis u

Curtis Richardson u

Carol Varone Snyder u

George Snyder u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Willard L. Lewis u

Tanya I. Ludutsky u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Patricia Hobbs Almeida u

Robert J. Gregor u

Paul J. Maroney u

David C. Parker u

Patricia Esposito Piner u

William H. Piner u

Joyce Freeman Press u

Robert Stevenson

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

he Auxiliary Services Corporation

(ASC) made a generous $525,000

gift of to the Cortland College

Foundation in Spring 2008 to launch a

permanently endowed scholarship fund to

help students who demonstrate financial

need.

Once the fund is active, awards total-

ing approximately $20,000 will be made

annually to recipients selected by the

enrollment management staff. The schol-

arship was created to recognize ASC’s con-

nection to SUNY Cortland and its strong

commitment to supporting the College’s

educational priorities and its students.

“ASC’s mission is to support the

mission and goals of SUNY Cortland,”

said Raymond Franco, vice president for

institutional advancement. “I appreciate

the fact that the ASC board did not put

any restrictions or designations on this

scholarship endowment. They told us to

use the funds to support the priorities of

the College and the enrollment goals of

the institution now and in the future.”

“It’s our role to improve the quality of

student life on campus,” said Dana Wavle,

executive director of ASC, a campus based,

not-for-profit organization that provides

dining services, vending, campus stores,

identification cards and other essential

services to the College. “We saw this as a

great way to show our support for SUNY

Cortland and future students.”

“The board felt it was appropriate to

support students and their educational

goals in a tangible way,” said Joanne Barry,

assistant vice president of human resources

and the ASC Board president for 2007-08,

about the latest ASC gift.

ASC has previously given the College

$2 million over the last 40 years to support

the Merit Scholarship, the Past Presidents

Scholarships and the Overseas Academic

Program Award.

Michelle Housworth, a senior English,

international studies and Spanish major

from Owego, N.Y., was awarded all three

past scholarships and sees them as transfor-

mational in her College career.

“Without the scholarships I have

received, I wouldn’t have been able to go

to Venezuela or intern in Washington

D.C.,” said Housworth. “My experience

at Cortland would have been purely

academic.” She traveled to Merida,

Venezuela, in Summer 2008 and worked

in Washington, D.C., during the Spring

2008 semester.

The Merit Scholarship, which gave

its first gift in 2003-04, awards about 53

scholarships per year. The program was a

major factor that attracted Housworth to

SUNY Cortland.

“The four-year ASC Merit Scholarship

has given me $1,500 toward my tuition

every semester,” Housworth explained.

“The award was so important that it

helped me make my decision to attend

Cortland that much easier. And, this year,

my parents didn’t have to take out a loan,

thanks to the scholarships I have received.

That means so much to me.”

No single major will be targeted by the

newest scholarship funding.

“Keeping scholarship money unre-

stricted was an appropriate way to provide

much-needed resources to the campus

community in a way that will benefit stu-

dents for years to come,” Wavle said.

“The Cortland College Foundation

is in a better position to know where the

money is needed,” Barry added.

“If the ASC board was to designate

scholarships, there is a presumption on

their part that they know better than the

College leadership how the scholarship

money should be distributed and they did

not do that,” Franco explained. “If they

said this should just be for freshman physi-

cal education majors, and the need is there

now, 10 years down the road who’s to say

that might not change. So, the money will

be applied by the foundation differently as

the years go by, but always for scholarships

to SUNY Cortland students.”

ASC to Help Cortland Students with $525,000 Gift

Senior Michelle Housworth, left, experienced the Venezuelan culture thanks to the

Overseas Academic Program Award, which was funded in part by the Auxiliary Services

Corporation (ASC). Housworth and her roommate in Venezuela, Hannah, a student from

the University of Minnesota, ride a cable car in Merida, Venezuela.

10 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

David H. Adams u

Stuart C. Bush

LeRoy Hay

Michael A. Messere u

Paul Okoniewski

Robert Rightmire

Ralph M. Shortell

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Ruth Pritchard Augenstein u

Norma Bernard Barash u

David G. Bauer

Jane Schutt Benton

Diane Hill Brown u

Anne Bailey Clicquennoi

Henry L. Collins Jr.

Dennis J. Connors

Carolyn A. Cooke u

Mary Curran Culver u

Suzanne Zeigler Currie

Joyce Scanziani Donlon

Leni Beris Dwyer

Lynn Clark Ellis-Myers

Ruth Shapiro Epstein

Linda Barnes Gadkowski

Marilyn Goodman

Neal Greenfield

Karen Firpo Haley

Cynthia Elliott Hutchens

Richard Iovino u

Michael J. Kelly u

Thomas F. Kirkwood

Marilyn Heath Koren

Stanley L. Kozenewski

Thomas La Puma

Amanda J. Laky

Robert J. Lalley

Carolynn Jakes Longuil

Robert A. Longway u

Carolee Hughes Lynch u

Robert McCormack u

Ingrida Karlsons Miemis u

Linda D. Moore

Betty W. Mulbury

Lenore Demperwolff Naranjo

Ralph J. Naranjo

Katharine Swanson Owens

Clement D. Pangallo

Janet Sadler Parsons

Cheryl Buggs Payne u

Marguerite Mottola Pisano

Carol Dean Privitera

Ruthellen Bien Rankin u

James W. Romansky Jr.

Marilyn Katz Rubel

Phyllis Sanfilippo

Alice J. Shander

Carole M. Shramek

Virginia Carpenter Stairs u

Barbara Jones Thornton

Marco J. Tomaso

Elaine Simmons Turnbull

Robert E. Uhorchak

Laimute Jonusas Vosylius

Robert L. Wakefield

Norma Holt Warne

Peter G. Warner u

Kathleen McKeighan Whittet u

Judith Ramsay Wills

James B. Wright

Janice Leveen Wright

Christine Johnson Zigrossi

1 9 6 7

Participation: 24 percent

Total Raised: $55,862

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Peter F. Eisenhardt u

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

B. Gail Reed Knox

1868 SOCIETY

Ronnie Sternin Silver u

Marsha Goodfliesh Wilkins u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Kathy Lopez Fernandes u

Paul E. Fernandes u

Stephen Gumaer u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Ellen Burke

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Robert H. Fitts u

Norma S. Gold-Benevent u

Virginia Yackel Gregor u

Robert Hildreth u

Donald C. Katt u

Linda Stern Katt u

Jeanne Pitt Rose u

Paul Rose u

Karen Snetlage Scagnelli u

Betty Rech Stear

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Rocco L. Damato u

Eva Draper Gonroff u

J. Michael Gonroff u

Mary Lou Stegner Karahuta u

Elizabeth Fleury Leadbeater u

Diane Wachter Mallah u

Edward G. Migdal

Charles J. Okraski

Roger S. Pratt

Harris Silver

Ina Kaplan Singer

Maureen Murphy Skora u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Judy Miller Barclay u

Beverly Bloom Bayer

Ellen Reuschle Beebe

James D. Benham

Anita Sebastiano Blasiak u

Barbara Mayerhofer Borsman u

Carolyn Buckley Brunelli u

Betty Burfeindt u

Robert Byers

Joseph Chibbaro

Willa Choper Siegel

Eileen Kipling Coccaro

Laura Steinberg Cohen u

Marilyn Goldblum Cornell u

Barbara Carey Crooke u

Sandra J. Dell u

Ingrid Rubin Di Giovanna u

Stephen W. Edgerton

Sandra Alexander Emmerich

Phyllis Mass Fink

Edward J. Freedman u

Carol Brown French

Barbara Klein Gordon

Judith Tauber Gordon

Craig R. Gould

John H. Grant u

Janet Burgan Gullace

Linda A. Hartnett

Robert E. Hayes

David Hewitt

James F. Kelly

Nancy Milles King

Patricia Konetchny

Robert A. Kopelman u

Eugene R. Krause

Edward Krawiecki

Linda Defendorf Law

Patricia Hafford Lawrence

Kathryn Thompson Leonard u

Donato Leopardi u

Lilka Hall Lichtneger

Linda Morris Litchfield

John D. Longuil u

Ellen Kahn Masters u

Thomas J. Mayer

Greg McAdam

Patricia Eckdahl McComb

Robert McMurray

Barbara Black Moore

Dorothea Riechers Moores u

Terrance J. Oliver

M. Rick Page Jr.

Douglas Pens u

Jeff M. Plotkin

Douglas J. Prato

Georgia Caritj Riley u

Susan Mc Donald Rogan u

Thomas P. Rogan u

Kathleen Fischer Rogers

Robert C. Romaninsky

Bonnie Peck Rosenthal

Nancy Sincoff Rothstein

Virginia Chiappe Rowcroft

Susan Clark Scott

Rachel Pappo Segal

William W. Shear Jr.

Helaine Zimmerman Sikora-

Morrocco

Richard Steinacher

Diane Schultz Stone

Sandra L. Suits u

Hollis Carroll Szabo

Judith A. Tator

Kathleen Ryan Tavarone u

Douglas Thaler

Doreen Eichler Todorov

Maria Mascoli Tornek

Kathleen Leo Updike

Marilyn Searls VanDenburg u

David J. Vittor u

Karen Olson Wadsworth u

Laureen Olszewski Wagner u

Susan Moskowitz Waldman u

Barbara Wolfe Wexler

Carol Buffa Williams

Sharon Stanger Williamson

James G. Zambardino

Peggy Tolpa Zinsmeister u

1 9 6 8

Participation: 27 percent

Total Raised: $231,291

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

Lynne Parks Hoffman u

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Breta C. Sisson u

1868 SOCIETY

Katherine Emerich Compagni u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Sandra Laghi Cerulli

John F. Jackson

Barbara Berk Katz

Judith Knoetgen Manzo

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Susan Gardner

Jo Ann Gallo O’Neill

Walter R. Rosendale

Gordon C. Valentine

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

David J. Checcino u

Karen Freise Parker u

Nancy Gaetjens Shiroma

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Penny Farr Adams u

John H. Brady

Judith Robbins Hecht

Emma Patavino Migdal

Carol Cropper Obenshain

Sydney Wigtil Pasternack

Charles A. Quattrochi

Eric Rosenvold

Rocco J. Scaptura

Sharon L. Smith u

Richard C. White u

Diane Burcha Wielenga

Gary L. Wilson

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Thomas C. Acee

Sharon Godleski A’Hearn

Margaret Anderson

Ellen Beckmann Andrews

Thomas F. Andrus

Robert Arnold

David H. Baker

Roger E. Baldwin

Dorothy Gusciora Barkos

M. Diane Moyle Batzing

Diane Alkes Beale u

Jane Sheehy Benham u

Carol Luskey Birish

Joan Cahn Blackstein

Barbara O’Reilly Blaisdell u

Barbara Thorpe Bookholt

David W. Bundy

Susan Wood Cardinal u

Janet Blair Carpenter u

Marjorie Cohan u

Pamela Torrance Collins

Charles J. Cornell

Brian Cory u

Gene C. Darter u

William De Sario Jr. u

Lorraine Crowley Duffy

Carole Shannon Dwyer

Linda Dyer-Smith

Dianne E. Emmick

Lawrence Etri

Kenneth C. Fasanaro

Frances H. Filshie

A. Lee Flanders

Donald Fleming

Patricia Raymond Fleming

Marilyn Farrelly French

Barbara A. Galpin u

Mary Lee Garner u

Terry M. Gaskill u

James K. Gordon

Allan Greenberg

Roberta Wasser Greenseid

Linda Shroat Hale

Timothy G. Hale

Barbara Pratt Hancock

Roberta Levine Hand

Karen A. Hanlon u

Nancy Krell Hawkins

Vivian H. Heyward

Bal Hoeffner

Veronica Ledges

Hollingsworth

Jill Faulkner Hopfenmuller

Bonnie Hermann Innerst

Suzanne Frederick Iovino

Patricia Capaldo Johnson

Diane Fluhr Keller

Barbara Davis Kerbel

Capri Towle King u

Lawrence B. King u

Kathie L. Kingett u

Karen Reid Kline u

Bonne Wilson Klossner u

Margaret Bigliardi Klotz u

Barbara Hunt Knight u

Harry E. Kost

Karen Bieber Kunisch

Fern Yasser Kupfer

Judith Austin Kurtz

Sandra O. Kurtz u

Margaret A. La France u

Robert Larkin u

John Larsen

Ronni Goldstone Leibowitz

Barbara Baum Lieberson

Beva Osdoby Lowe

Marie Johlfs Maguire

Susan Tracy Martone u

Beverly Butch McGee u

Linda Bareford McNamara u

Sara Jacobs Menikoff u

Karen Boardman Miller u

Scott F. Miller

Stetson Pennell Momosor

Gayle Gebbia Moroney

Donald E. Mortin

Carol Dorn Nelson

Kathleen O’Brien Nelson

Richard Nelson

Sandra Stejskal Ohlerich

David J. Oliver

James Ondecko

Charles D. Ostrander

Edward Ozaroski u

Eileen Davies Pens u

Carole Hoffman Pizzillo

Sally Milner Potter

Rochelle Moskowitz Prince

Richard A. Puffer

Carolyn Barry Ridout

Barbara Reibel Rodgers

Joan Whitehill Roth

Richard R. Rowcroft

Julia Violon Roy

Diane Ertel Schneider

Linda Goldberg Shapiro

Olivia Ekstein Shapiro

Sharon McQueeney Short

Ruth Rumble Simpkins

Suzanne Daucher Slater

Ernest D. Spainhower

Gail Klein Spear

Richard P. Spina

Dennis Steier

Bill Stewart

Stephanie Ortiz Stewart

Carol Sturcke Stubbs

Patrick P. Tamburro u

John J. Tavarone Jr. u

Margaret Casey Thorpe

Marilee Schang Tremlett

Richard J. Tuttle

Ann Feinsilber Wasserman

Orest M. Wasyliw

Beverly M. Westacott

Karen Kinney White

Nancy Hullar Willis

Gail Wexler Wolfert

John C. Wyckoff u

Thomas A. Yanno u

Anita Forgeron Zaccardi u

1 9 6 9

Participation: 23 percent

Total Raised: $17,642

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

William M. Dickerson u

Darlene Nider Gumaer u

Cynthia Rowley Malet u

Steven R. Paxhia u

Lynn Wecker u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Susan Kleppel Serotte u

Karen May Snyder u

Michael J. Tully u

Patricia Seaman Tully u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Stephen D. Fisher

Brian M. Roberts

Suzanne Gehring

Schnittman

John P. Silsby u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

William E. Brooks

William R. Doughty Jr.

Holly Phillips Haeselin

Susan Cronin Kinnally

Stephen A. Kline

Dorothy Costie Madden

Barbara Cappelli Messere

Sylvina Tracy Powrie

Susan L. Rosenstock

Mary Bonaiuto Salierno

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Patricia L. Abeles

David L. Alberding

Diane Archer Arnold u

Janet Bagnall u

Bernadette J. Baldini u

Linda Steffen Bauer

Amy Poster Beekman

Nancy Lurie Blanda u

Carol L. Burton

James A. Carmon

Janice Franzetti Cirincione u

Donna M. Corsale u

Vincent A. Daniele u

Mary Ripley Danila

Joann Faulhaber De Sario

Linda Martin DeHaas

Diane Salomone Dinehart

Louis S. Dominick u

Janice E. Eastlund u

Toby Yust Eisenberg u

Judith Blick Fiestal u

Gail Grable Flannery u

Ronald Fleury u

Rhoda Azersky Flohr u

Gwendolyn Foster u

Robin Fuchs Freyer u

Marcia Kraus Glynn u

William C. Glynn u

Susan Mariner Grahame u

Richard G. Haldeman u

Carol Bertine Hall u

Mary B. Halsdorf

Janet Morrow Hartz

Donald A. Hawkins

Mary Fairman Hewitt

Anita Yoss Hoch

L. Catherine Towner Hoover

Ellen Barash Kaiden u

Patrick F. Kapusansky

Marilyn Meyers Karlson

Christine Cernik Karmosky u

Barbara Butkus Kasper

William V. Ketcham

Leslie J. Kiernan

Beverly R. King

Marilyn Rosenstreich Kline

Gilbert P. Knapp

Nadene Baker Kopetz

Elaine Greggs Kulakowski

Susan Bunnell Lacey

William B. Lawrence u

Alvin J. Leslie u

Edward Loesch u

Mary Brzostowski Loesch u

Kathleen Cunningham Looby u

Barbara Moenich LoPiccolo u

Edith C. Madden-Bosch

Bonnie Bauer Marks

Donna Kolb Marsh u

Thomas McCormack

Frank McLaughlin

Kathleen Terry McLaughlin u

Jeffery H. McLellan

Kathleen Ash McLellan

Frances Rosenzweig Miller

John Molloy

James Monaco

Linda Gokey Monaco

Elaine Uram Moon

Michael J. Moon u

Sandra Soderlund Oatley

Constance Lukaszonas

O’Connor

Andrew Oleski

Coleen Tooley Oleski

Elaina Olynciw

Nancy Trombley Ozaroski u

Bruce Parker

Diane Mizwa Perkins

William G. Pestell Jr.

Juanita Varnado Pople

Linda Lou Carnright Powell u

Gary L. Powers

Rosemary Paone Prato

Catherine McGrogan

Quinn-Jerger

Sharon Micalizzi Rabesa

Linda J. Radler

Richard L. Recordon u

Bradley Ring u

Jacqueline Cohen Salomon

Richard G. Schiller

Patricia Shannon Sharpe

Judith Bauer Shaughnessy

John Sheeran

Dean F. Short u

Peter A. Siegel u

Judith Austin Sinner u

Barbara Pietras Smith u

William L. Snyder

Jacqueline Scattoreggio Spina

John Spissinger

Delores Gresko Steier

Linda Steinberg

Janet U. Stokoe u

Adele R. Topham u

Annabelle Edmonson Treacy

Gary W. Vail u

Madaline VanValkenburg

Judith Schneider Veltidi

Ms. Rodney E. Verkey

Sheila O’Leary Vormwald

Carol Tamburo Wallace

Cynthia Melnick Weisberg

Kay Costello Wiswall

Kathryn Nider Wolf u

Charlou Ahrens Woodrow

Jay B. Yesselman

1 9 7 0

Participation: 20 percent

Total Raised: $16,355

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Eric G. Bradshaw u

Thomas M. Kiec

C. Michael Malet

Lance J. McAllister u

Beverly Dams O’Connor u

Joseph O’Connor u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Beverly B. Cree

Russell C. Thompson

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Robert D. Alspaugh

Bruce Burdick

Gay Bowen Burdick u

Thomas L. Hyder u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Ralph E. Boerner

Jane Ferraioli Brooks

Joseph W. Chick

Linda Bleier Cooley

Susan Leary Fyfe

Patricia Hale Gauly u

Laurel J. LeLoup u

Roger G. Madigan u

Larry A. Peeler u

Sheila Sabo Petersen u

Judith Mechalke Quattrochi

Claire Murphy Sylves

Richard T. Sylves u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Sandra L. Allen

Susan A. Balcewicz

Joyce Judd Barker

Bruce Bartholomew

Stephen C. Baxter u

Doris B. Beaton

Sandra Glasgow Beglinger

Marilyn Vail Brands u

Betty Coughtry Brayer u

Ann Gustina Brouse

Mary Martin Burback

Susan Schiller Burns

Mark L. Buzel u

Marian B. Calale u

Carolyn Kenny Carroll u

Elaine R. Ceresko u

Ellen Kehn Chalfant

Patricia D. Charwat

Robert J. Church

Linda Blauth Collier

Joanne Campbell Colomb

Katherine Hauber

Countryman

Steve Countryman u

Kathleen Terwilliger Courville u

Joyce H. Cox u

Sharon Valentine Cree

Richard J. Daymont

Margaret Ludwig Deys u

Edwin T. Dippold

James L. Dolph

Brenda Wood Fellows u

Nancy Benedict Field u

Nancy Sheperd Fleischauer u

Shirley Johnson Flint

Nancy Sherman Foster

Richard A. Freyer u

Kenneth J. Furnkranz u

Diane L. Gill

Betsy Hood Griner

Virginia Hagmann Guille

Dennis K. Hanley

Gilbert E. Harrington

Carol Morgenstein Harris

Henrietta Voelpel Hobert

Terrence Horton

Sandra L. Jago u

Janice Jenson-Duseau u

Ellen Schrager Kemp

Robert L. Kemp

Lynn Rosenbaum Kerr

Barbara Anderson Kessing

Randy Brooks Kiehle

Ellen G. Klohmann u

Joseph J. Kneidinger u

Michele Vonderlin Kolodij

Julia Lawrence Krueger

Lucille F. Kullman

Kathleen Warner La Moreaux

James P. Lalli

Linda Bennett Lenhard

Wendee Wallach Levy

John T. Lloyd

Linda Weinberg Lopez

Nancy S. Manning

Lillie M. Manson

Carol Bixby Marrin

Hope B. Martin u

Three reunion classes won trophies for their fundraising efforts during the 2008 Alumni

Reunion Weekend. The Class of 1968 won the Cortland Cup, awarded to the class that makes

the most generous gift. The Class of 1958 received the Foundation Directors Cup, presented

to the class with the highest participation of giving; and the Class of 1958 also was presented

the President’s Cup, given to the class that makes the largest unrestricted gift.

Class Amount Number of Gifts Number of Donors Alumni Count Percent

Class of 1948 $7,733.00 47 38 116 31.90%

Class of 1953 $66,672.35 82 57 195 28.72%

s n

Class of 1958 $152,450.50 164 118 246 47.56%

Class of 1963 $42,806.00 153 119 372 31.99%

Class of 1968 $231,291.83 193 157 571 27.32%

Class of 1973 $35,440.67 270 176 857 20.30%

Class of 1978 $37,258.18 193 157 956 16.42%

Class of 1983 $19,107.92 282 139 1,021 13.61%

Class of 1988 $6,155.00 95 91 1,200 7.58%

Class of 1993 $11,697.19 131 80 1,467 5.39%

Class of 1998 $2,581.56 32 30 1,183 2.54%

Class of 2003 $1,248.00 30 28 1,816 1.54%

u Cortland Cup winner s President’s Cup winner n Foundation Directors Cup winner

2008 Class Reunion Gift Campaign

Alice Trudell Matthews

Constance McCarrick

Therese A. McDonald

Ruth Tobin McKeever u

Lynn VanHensbergen Meldrim

Linda Gurney Millard

Lucinda Allen Pasternak

Lynn Smyth Peffley u

Karen Pepkin u

Judith Kawecki Pilotta

Cathy Christ Poxon

Kathleen Quinlan

Patricia Gregg Reilly

Janice Wayne Rosenberg

Cyd Rosenberg-Weiss

Linda Rapp Salinger

Carole Zwart Sauer u

Cathy Vogt Senkier

Marc J. Shale

Gerald P. Shore

Elizabeth Stevens Snyder u

Howard W. Snyder u

Robin Corwin Stahl

Christine Camise Stephan

Maura O. Stouter

Evan D. Summer

Lynn Hyatt Szymanski

Arthur W. Thomas u

Priscilla Lawton Thomas u

Sara Richmond Treadwell

Linda Meabon Vacovec

Robert C. VanSchaick

Mary Thomas Versprille u

C. Judith Wallace

C. Michael Ward

Richard A. Welch

Donna R. West

Susan Kelley White

Gerald R. Whitehead

Lois Brooks Yacavone

Kathleen Hoctor Yeats

Robert F. Yehl

1971

Participation: 20 percent

Total Raised: $55,540

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Gloria Spina Friedgen u

John C. Hubbard

Betsy Corey Spada

1868 SOCIETY

Ann E. Graziadei u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Michael J. Cappeto u

Maura Feeney Dickerson u

William A. Thompson

Robert W. Vinal

Edward J. Zambraski

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Thomas Connolly u

Barbara Stewart Glanz

Diane Ahern Mellstrom

Martin Mellstrom Jr.

Janice T. Pauly

Richard L. Rhodes

Gerard M. Ruvo

Kenneth W. Torrey

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Linda Munson Wells u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Susan Wiley Berlinski

Adrienne Greenbaum

Wanda Okraska Lukas

Marilyn E. Martin u

John Pessala

Andrea Seger

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Priscilla Mathia Aa u

Barbara Stevens Ball

Orlow E. Ball

Jane Mc Manus Bernstein

Kenneth M. Bernstein u

Paul E. Besstak u

Linda Murphy Bohrer u

Robert J. Bourlier u

Clifford Buck

Cynthia Cooke Burger

Thomas Butcher u

Jean Klein Buzel u

Henry E. Carpenter

Paul F. Chartrand

Cheryl Robinson Chinn

Terry Ciotti Gallo

John H. Ciulla Jr.

Caryl Wolf Cohen

Jerilyn E. Costich

Frances Crawford

Sally Foxx Davidson

Martha Frazier Davis

Peter DeFina

Karen Humphreys Denihan

Joanne Di Frisco

Kathryn D’Imperio Doherty

Paul T. Edgerton

John C. Elliott

Joan Talbot Evans

Carl L. Fadale

June Anderson Fahey

Erica Lobsenz Feldman

Patricia Nino Ferris

Anita Reichick Fields

Roberta M. Fox

Thomas Fox

Susan Lewis Franco

Susan Weeks Furnkranz u

Patricia Price Genovese

Bonnie Brown Germain

Sidney J. Germain u

Denise Ann Gesvantner u

Carol Lazeration Gettings

Kathleen Mowers Glass

John E. Hammond Jr.

Deborah Hunt Hartman

Douglas A. Hartman

Ellen Danz Hayes

Barbara Yost Heffernan

Hilary A. Himpler

Susan G. Hirschfield u

Peter R. Hughes

Barbara Kachura Isaacs

Joan E. Johnson

Karen E. Keegan

Arlene Finewood Keppler

Gale Giroux Ketcham

Wendy R. Kohli

John R. Kowal Jr.

Rosalyn Kishel Landsman

Howard W. Lang

Donald A. Lipman

Nancy E. Mangialetti

Barbara D. Manzo-Cusseddu

Donna Giudici Marquardt

Michael R. Martin

Darcy Sigrist McCabe u

Janis Bush McCormack u

Theresa A. McDonald

Jeffrey J. McGrath

Joyce Koehler McGrath u

Maureen McGrath-Lynch u

Pamela E. Moak

Lane Mowers Montgomery

Suzanne Barnes Morton u

James W. Myers u

Marla Grunewald Myers

Patricia Nowak-Comens

Douglas L. Parsons u

Charles E. Patch u

Henry J. Pesce

Linda Toback Pettersen

Diane Doughty Price u

Melanie Meyer Purcell

David S. Redmond

Arthur E. Rider

Daniel O. Riggins

Kathy Turevich Riggins u

Laurie K. Robson

Martin Ruglis

Nancy Ifflander Sagar u

Evelyn Neuberger Sammons u

Ronald F. Saunders u

David I. Schotz

George H. Schuster Jr.

Kathleen Kabanek Schuster u

Rhonda Y. Seeley u

Linda Fleener Seiler

Thomas M. Seilheimer

Jeanette Craib Smith u

June Frederick Smith u

Jean A. Stapleton

Lucille P. Stroble

Christine Batten Truncali u

Joy Schwinger Tuman u

Robin Samuel Twerdahl

Stuart J. Volan Jr.

Carol Hoffman Walts

Barbara A. Webber

Patricia Schragel Weber

Marcia Humphrey Wentworth

Lynn E. Wheeler

Michael E. White

Barbarann Ferris Youmell

1972

Participation: 21 percent

Total Raised: $21,033

1868 SOCIETY

Gail F. Maloney u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Candace Pople Curran

Raymond D. Franco

Linda Weltner Thompson

Mitchell Wolf

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Karen Cornell Funk u

Barbara G. Hemink u

Nancy Sullivan McInerney

Donald T. Rohel

Sue Severns Ruvo

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Stephen A. Baumann u

Heide-Rose Funk Cleary u

Linda Van Dellon Johnson u

Darlene Swift Mack u

Craig R. Woodcock u

Elizabeth Dier Woodcock u

Charles H. Yaple u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Norman T. Berlinski

Renate Born

John C. Carlough

Catherine Ames Carroll u

Charles T. Coggin

Diana Jakubowski Coggin

Nancy J. Ehrsam

Philip Esposito

Douglas B. Galke

John M. Haeselin

Anne Hornberger Harris

Lee J. Hollett u

Janet Lysaght Mangano

Nadine Winnick Martin

Fred A. Serravallo

Mary Kienle Spina u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Margaret Mc Fee Acello u

Carol Whitney Agate u

Barbara Hopkins Alberts

Catherine Marino Alexander

Karen M. Andreone u

Donald C. Atwood

Nadine Balgley

Sue Carnahan Bays u

Nancy Mac Neill Belt u

Cynthia Blyszczak Bianchi

Isabelle Carino Birdsall

Diane Mc Laughlin Brady

Michael J. Brady

Marilyn Walsh Brown

Alan Brunetti

Chris W. Burger

Betty Weber Burrmann u

Carlo F. Cairo u

Ron W. Carlson u

Nora Fagan Carpenter

Judith Cullen Carter

Barbara Piazza Castellitto u

Richard A. Castellitto u

Ronald C. Castiglia

Gary W. Ceponis

Maria Guiliano Chakmakas u

Peter J. Chakmakas u

Margaret Hyland Chartrand u

Rudolph C. Chlanda

Kathleen V. Collins

Barbara Evans Condon u

Barbara Berry Conway

James J. Conway

Mark G. Cowan

Paula Gratch Cushman

Thomas F. Egan

David A. Feagles

Gary Fields

Ann Harris Ford

Donna Suriano Frederick

Allen L. Freedman

Alan J. Freyer u

Donna Forcucci Funaro

Daniel K. Gilbertson

Ann Scher Goldfarb-Clapp

James L. Goodrich

Pati Drumm Grady

Joanne P. Hamilton u

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

he generosity of two excep-

tional Class of 1958 graduates

has further solidified the

financial foundation of the

Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland Alumni

House as a focal point for future genera-

tions of alumni.

During 2007-08, John Fantauzzi ’58

and Louise DaMassa Sessa ’58 presented

separate gifts of $100,000 to a Cortland

College Foundation endowment fund

that supports the alumni house located

at the historic former Wickwire mansion

at 29 Tompkins St.

Their generosity, expressed through

their gifts to the Alumni House Trustee

Program, has earned them recognition as

the first-ever alumni house trustees.

“They’re special people and you have

to remind yourself that they’re very special

because they’re so unselfish in their giving

and have no interest in recognition,” said

Douglas DeRancy ’75, executive director

of the alumni association.

A major donor to scholarship funds

since 1987, Fantauzzi, a retired teacher

living in Cape Coral, Fla., is among the

College’s most generous donors, DeRancy

noted.

“John’s focus is and will continue to be

helping young people get a college educa-

tion,” said DeRancy. “His Trustee Program

gift represents his willingness to do some-

thing to help the Alumni Association. I

think he believes the Alumni Association

plays a valuable role and he understands

the value of the house.”

Sessa of Jamesville, N.Y., has remained

active in her sorority Nu Sigma Chi and

has volunteered to help with alumni

reunions on many occasions. After the

house was acquired, she made a generous

first gift that was acknowledged by putting

her family’s name on the mansion’s grand

staircase. She has also been a benevolent

supporter of the Nu Sigma Chi Legacy

Fund.

“Louise and her husband owned a

pharmacy and so she understood what

it cost to run a business,” DeRancy said.

“She probably has a good understanding

of the financial challenges we face in

running the house.”

The SUNY Cortland Alumni

Association Board of Directors created

the Trustee Program in January 2007 to

continue where the original, Opportunity

to Give Program had left off in develop-

ing permanent support for the facility

acquired in 2002.

The gracious dwelling hosts many

alumni and College events including

large banquets and weddings and its five

elegant bedrooms accommodate visitors

from inside and outside the campus

family. With the enhanced support from

Fantauzzi and Sessa, the endowment

fund will not only underwrite upkeep

of the beautiful property but will offset

the need to seek as much revenue from

groups outside the alumni and College

community.

“The Opportunities to Give Program

was a way to get your name associated

with the house with gift expectations

starting at $500 and ranging up to

$75,000,” DeRancy said.

Donors were allowed to name rooms

and other spaces inside the house or

outside in the garden, matching the size

of the gift with the space’s location, size

and beauty.

“As a public university, we had to

be concerned with setting our sights at

different levels and giving as many people

as possible with the opportunity to

support the house with some name

recognition,” DeRancy explained. Many

donors contributed $500 while a few

made major gifts of up to $100,000.

As the College and Alumni

Association approached the original

endowment fund goal of $500,000 in gifts

pledged through 2010, the more than 800

individual donors were invited to a Donor

Recognition Dinner on June 7, 2008, at

the house to celebrate that milestone.

Alumni board members already knew

their work wasn’t done.

“After four-plus years of experience in

running the house, we felt we had a clearer

picture of the amount of endowment we

needed in order to ensure its financial

solvency,” DeRancy said. “We were no

longer talking about a $500,000 endow-

ment, we were talking about a $2 million

endowment and probably more.

“The Alumni House Trustee Program

takes the naming to a very different level.

Clearly, this is an exclusive group, which

is going to have its own special wall

of recognition in the Goodale Library.

There will be biographies on each person,

if he or she chooses to share their life

story with us, and a nice portrait of the

alumnus or alumna on the wall in the

library. To be in the Trustee Program,

to get that kind of recognition, you have

to give $100,000 in the form of a cash or

planned gift.”

The board originally hoped to find

ten such donors.

“We asked four people and three

have said yes,” he continued. “And

one of the people who said yes, Lynne

Parks Hoffman ’68, has since evolved to

becoming our first $1 million donor.

“The idea behind the Trustee Program

was to keep it small, having 10 individuals

giving $100,000,” DeRancy said. “Now, the

feeling is that we don’t need 10 trustees.

We probably need four to six trustees,

which will bring the endowment to close

to $2.1-$2.2 million dollars.”

DeRancy’s theory is the house has

earned a special place in the hearts of

alumni and friends of the College because

it offers stability against the ever-changing

backdrop of the bustling campus up the

hill.

“It’s a credit to our graduates and our

friends that they are so willing to support

the house,” DeRancy said. “The house

has evolved into a little museum. Each

room tells its own story. On campus,

someone redecorates and it’s all different.

You don’t have that in the alumni house.

You’ve got a solid base of historical fact

and it’s not going to change. It’s going

to be celebrated. And I’m convinced that

has a lot to do with people’s generosity.

We respect their time, their era, and it

gives us a chance to recognize them.”

Alumni interested in learning more

about the Trustee Program should

contact DeRancy at (607) 753-2516.

Alumni House

New Trustee Gifts Ensure Future Financial Stability

Louise DaMassa Sessa ’58 became an Alumni

House trustee in 2007-08.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 11

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

12 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

but read about the opportunity to name a

room. I called Kathy Emerich Compagni ’68,

a very good friend from Nu Sig who lived

in Cortland. That year, Sue Smith

DeMichaele ’68, another close friend of

mine from Nu Sig, had passed away. Kathy

and I decided we would raise $10,000 to

name one of the bedrooms in her honor,

but they were all quickly snapped up.”

Lynne and Kathy learned from Alumni

Affairs Director Doug DeRancy ’75 that the

dining room was still available as a naming

option for $25,000.

“I didn’t know Doug, but I told Kathy

to tell him that I will write a check today if

he will hold that room,” continued Lynne.

“Within two years, we had paid it off.

“Sue Smith DeMichaele died on my

birthday while I was at the Hyde Park

reunion. I had just talked to her days before

she passed away. Her husband, Don, has

been very generous to the Nu Sigma Chi

Dining Room. He donated funds as well

as one of Sue’s beautiful pastels that now

hangs there. She had gone on to become an

accomplished artist. Kathy had it reframed

to match the woodwork. We also named

the room in tribute to Lorraine Lombardi

Drake ’68 who died that same year.”

Lynne, moved by the outpouring of her

Class of ’68 sorority sisters, envisioned an

even larger role in the College’s life for Nu

Sigma Chi.

“I told Doug, ‘If we can raise $25,000

just from our class, the potential for Nu

Sigma Chi is much greater,’” said Lynne.

“‘Let’s create a Nu Sig Legacy Fund!’”

The fund supports special programs

hosted by the president at the Alumni House,

Alumni and Executives in Residence at the

Alumni House, unique alumni programs

including social gatherings on- and off-

campus, alumni networking, alumni guest

speakers, student-focused events, and Nu

Sigma Chi events at the Alumni House or

during Alumni Reunion Weekend.

“We have already raised about $75,000,”

said Lynne. “We purchased china with the

Alumni House logo on it for the Alumni

House. On the back, it reads, ‘Donated

by Nu Sigma Chi.’ We had a West Coast

reunion at my house in Palm Desert, Calif.,

in February that was partially underwritten

by the Nu Sigma Chi Legacy Fund. We had

a goal of $100,000. It looks like we are going

to meet that soon.”

So, during Alumni Reunion Weekend,

Lynne met with a few members from the

College’s Division of Institutional Advance-

ment to take the Nu Sigma Chi Legacy Fund

to another level.

“Let’s form the Centennial Committee

for the 100th anniversary of the sorority

in 2028,” she recounted. “Looking ahead

within the next 20 years, let’s set a goal

of a half million dollars to be raised for

the Legacy Fund and expand even further

its potential impact on scholarships and

underwriting campus arts programs.”

Lynne and her husband, Jack, a Portland

native and longtime partner in a prestigious

law firm there, already had been benefac-

tors to the Art Museum and the Japanese

Gardens in their Oregon community. Jack,

who was a well-respected lawyer and the

former national president of The American

Lung Association, died in July.

“I established a foundation at the Japa-

nese Garden in my husband’s and my

name,” said Lynne. “He had been in a care

facility the last two-and-a-half years. This

whole project, me being involved with the

Alumni House and the Japanese Gardens,

is a tribute to him.”

In February, Lynne was talking about

the success of the Legacy Fund with Presi-

dent Erik J. Bitterbaum during dinner.

“I said, ‘I am ready to step up to my next

donation, but it’s going to have to have my

name on it,’” recalled Lynne. “He just turned

to me and casually said, “You can name

the Alumni House for a million dollars.’ I

thought about it overnight. I called Doug

DeRancy, who is the key guy, and said I am

going to go ahead with this.”

On April 12, the Alumni Association

Board of Directors formally approved the

naming of the house.

“My only criteria for the naming was

that because it was my 40th class reunion

and my sorority’s 80th reunion, I wanted

the name to be on the sign when I drove

in,” said Lynne. “When I pulled in during

a torrential downpour on Thursday (of

Alumni Reunion Weekend), there it was —

the Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland Alumni

House. It was a special moment.”

Forty-four years earlier, Lynne first

arrived at SUNY Cortland through the

doors of Bishop Hall as a freshman from

Amsterdam, N.Y., where she was a member

of the chorus, Phi Delta Sorority and a

popular cheerleader for the W.H. Lynch

High School football and basketball teams,

the latter advancing to the state champion-

ship game.

Her father moved the family in 1956

from Yonkers to Amsterdam, where he

worked with Mohawk Carpet Mills. “I was

the first one in my family on both sides to go

to college,” said Lynne, who chose Cortland

because she wanted to major in physical

education. “My mother passed away after

my freshman year. My father remarried and

has been married to Margaret since 1966. I

have two brothers. My brother, Bob, joined

me in Oregon in 1979 and has worked with

Intel Corporation his entire career. My

younger brother, John, is an engineer and

lives in Loudonville, N.Y., with his wife,

Diane, and their children, Natalie and

Ryan.”

In Bishop Hall, Lynne roomed with

Diane McKinnon. The two pledged Nu

Sigma Chi that year and were only two

of four sophomores chosen to live at the

sorority house on Prospect Terrace, their

college home for the next three years.

“It was an amazing experience because

the house was so big,” remembered Lynne.

“There were 40-some of us who lived there.

It’s funny because friends of mine who were

in other sororities and fraternities aren’t

nearly as close today because their houses

weren’t as big. It was Mother Bickford’s

first year. We had formal dinners. We had

cooks and people to clean, although we had

to take care of our own rooms. We were

always doing fundraisers for good causes in

Cortland or at the College.”

Lynne immersed herself in Hellenic

activities.

“We went to Cornell, Colgate and Syra-

cuse for fraternity and sorority parties,” she

said. “Our whole social life revolved around

the sorority.”

Academically, Lynne recalled the strin-

gent demands of her physical education

courses.

“It was a tough major,” she said. “We

are talking about every Saturday morning

being down at the field house for classes. But

the preparation we had for teaching school

was wonderful. It was a very, very rigorous

program. Most of the women who were PE

professors were very, very dedicated and

talented. They made us toe the line.”

Lynne singled out one professor, Arden

Peck, as “an inspiration.” She supervised

Lynne during her student teaching stints in

the Endicott, N.Y., schools and wrote her

recommendations when Lynne sought a job

in California.

“Many of us had a pact that we were

going to California,” said Lynne. “Some

of the gals from the class of 1967 had gone

before us. Every single day the recruiters

were here, there was someone from Cali-

fornia. I must have applied for 10 jobs. I was

offered a job in every single school district.

We were zeroing in on Orange County.”

Lynne accepted a job as a 7th and 8th grade

physical educator in Tustin, Calif. Another Nu

Sig, Barbara Schnell Dryden ’68, also taught

in Tustin while sorority sister Nancy Hullar

Willis ’68, took a teaching position nearby.

They formed a two-car caravan with Lynne

and Diane, who had a job on Long Island

but went along for the cross-country ride.

Soon, Ellen Balet Wilson ’68, who accepted a

teaching job in California, flew out and lived

with the other three.

“Tustin was a very wealthy district,

but they never had a PE teacher who was

a trained PE teacher,” noted Lynne, who

also was able to expand upon her interest

in dance. “I was chosen in the school district

for a summer school program. I wrote up

a curriculum for modern dance, interpre-

tative dance. I taught for three summers,

specifically with interpreting poetry and

modern and folk dance.”

Always possessing a bit of wanderlust,

Lynne traveled throughout California and

visited Mexico and Las Vegas. After three

years at Tustin, she envisioned touring

Europe, perhaps getting a job at the 1972

Olympics in Munich. Just before she was

ready to head East, Lynne got an offer to

teach for the Department of Defense at

Chofu High School located on an American

air base outside Tokyo, Japan.

“It changed my life,” said Lynne. “Once

I learned the train system, I traveled all

over Japan. It was such a clean country

with beautiful gardens. I loved the whole

aesthetics and Zen kind of feel of the Japa-

nese people. It affected me for the rest of

my life. My house in Oregon is all Asian.

I brought back antiques and artwork from

Japan. I am on the Asian Art Council at the

museum in Portland. I wear a lot of Asian-

inspired clothing and jewelry. I am involved

in charity events at the Japanese Gardens

in Portland.

“When you traveled around Japan back

then, you could always find a little sushi

stand or a soba shop to have soup. You

also could travel inexpensively by staying

at a ryokan, a small Japanese inn where you

slept on the floor. I was only there one year,

but at Christmas vacation I went to Taiwan,

the Philippines and Bangkok on a tour.

Then for Easter vacation, I flew to Guam.”

Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68, center, spends time with Class of 1968 friends during the Nu Sigma Chi Luncheon Cruise on July 18 as part of Alumni Reunion

Weekend 2008. Seated from the left are Marie Johlfs Maguire, Virginia Lemmerman Thorenz, Lynne, Nancy Hullar Willis and Diane McKinnon.

Continued on page 13

“I am what I am today because

of Cortland and Nu Sigma Chi.

It’s because of the values I learned

at the College and the opportunity

to get a good job after college.”

— Lynne Parks Hoffman ’68

Million

Continued from page 1

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 13

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Mary J. Harrington

Geraldine Pomart Heesch

Douglas A. Heintz

Cynthia Westbrook Helmer

Varina L. Henson u

Edward E. Hotchkin u

Darlene Roberts Howland

Paula Rabin Impalla

James W. Kenney

Arlene Nisgor Klavens

Carole Louzan Koroluck

Linda Reese Krausz u

Robert K. Krausz u

Rosemarie Kuhar

Ronald D. Lewis

Deborah Drake Lintal

Gail White Mangan

Stephen A. Mangine

Barbara Peemoeller Marczak u

Vicki F. Marquart u

Michael E. Marsallo u

Angela M. Martin u

Curtis W. Martin u

George K. McCarthy

Michael E. McDonnell

Kenneth P. McEwan

Susan K. Mehl

Gary R. Metz

Kenneth W. Miller

Barbara Betschart Montagu-

Pollock

Gail S. Moon

Judy G. Morris

Ellen Stuckart Mulvihill

Mrs. Margaret Nicholas

Vicki L. O’Brien

Dawn Dempsey Olczak

Virginia Owen

William C. Parke

Susan Marks Pierce

Karen Lucas Piersma u

Joan Balling Post

Yee Lee Rausch

Christine Riley

Diane Rodger-Greenberg

Philip M. Rodrigues

Mark D. Rotker u

Ronald A. Rybij

Thomas R. Sands Jr.

Karen Clark Sato u

Leonard F. Scala u

Bruce Schnittman u

Carolyn B. Sowdon u

J. John Spinella

Woodrow L. Stroble

Patricia Strong u

Jack R. Stubbs Jr. u

David P. Tarleton u

Susan Sartori Temple u

Kristine Terrillion u

Nancy Gammons Troup u

Ronald B. Truncali u

Gary VanDerzee u

Gennaro F. Vito

Mary Sullivan Vito

James Walsh

Jill Jackson Walsh

Lynn Hopkins Watson

Gail E. Webster

Lolita Loomis White

Cynthia Hutton Wright

Susan B. Wuori

Christine A. Zettler

William J. Zmudosky u

Edward J. Zukowski

1 9 7 3

Participation: 21 percent

Total Raised: $35,441

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Joan Steiner Blank u

Ernest A. Logan

1868 SOCIETY

Bonnie Miller Sciera u

Joseph A. Warren

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Lewis J. Cowan

Donna Still Franco

Jack C. Sheltmire u

Margaret Amato Sims u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

George J. Pfeiffer u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Marcia G. Anderson u

Sally F. Familton Consulting, Inc.

Warren C. Fretwell

Kathleen Prokop Hoerup

Steven D. Johnson u

Laurence Reed

Lynn Johnson Stark

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Joan E. Branca u

Susan Dunn Caruso

Richard L. Comerford

Gary P. DeBolt u

Patricia A. Doyle u

Mary Fogelsonger Galke u

Jacob R. Karl Jr. u

Joseph J. Lucia Jr. u

Jon M. Maatta

Gary B. Mac Dowell

Timothy D. Morsch

Susan Kielawa Peeler u

Roy R. Placet

Charles F. Sims

Nancy Lovstrom Sims

Suzanne A. Snyder

Paul D. Thompson u

Warren Waxenfeld

Frederick Weinstein

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Louise M. Abrahamsen u

Barbara Szigeti Allen u

Janice L. Atwood u

Janice Pflum Bays u

Kevin L. Beall

Kenneth C. Beekman

Sandra Toellner Beers

Dennis C. Belt

Susan Guptill Bennett

Mary Ann Dorn Benson

Hank Birdsall

Jayne Lyke Borden

Spencer Borden u

Gay Delong Boyer

Kenneth M. Bradstreet

Anne Schultz Browne

Teresa Van Ness Bulan

Kathie J. Burnside

Lorraine Cizek Butcher u

C. George Carlson

Mary Stiefel Carney

Frederick P. Castaldo

Kathleen Zemberi Chlanda

Douglas R. Churcher

David R. Cole

Patrick W. Collier

Carol Lawton Collins

Sarah Collins

Daniel A. Consol u

Mary Ellen Dickinson Cook

Veronica Eckert Courtenay

Diane Livoti Cox

Jerry L. Crandall

Douglas N. Cutter

Robert C. DaRin

Daniel D. De Benedetto

Denise Uhl DelRosso

Robert T. DelRosso

Judy Wedderspoon Dennis

William C. Dennis u

Robert B. Doolittle u

Lenore Mayer Dumas u

Peter Dumas u

Michael J. Dutkowsky u

Dianne Stackwick Eddy u

Claudia Heinen Ellis u

Susan Crutchley Eves u

Shelley Gellman Feinberg

Barbara Field

Kathryn Peller Fries

Robert G. Gardner

Carol Vetrone Gauthreaux

Kathleen Kinsey Gerdts

Anastasia Kerantzas Goodrich

Elaine Foster Goria

Gloriana Waters Grant

Anne Tumsuden Greene u

Lorine Hartman Gregg

Christine Ukasiak Hadzicki

Michael J. Hanna

Janice Winslow Harding

Daniel B. Hoag

Don Hochheiser

Karen Hollender Hochron

Ileana Horowitz Hoeschele

David P. Hudy

Catherine Beckwith Hughes

Laurie B. Iskowitz

Linda Walter Isler

Donald Jermusyk u

Helene Yentis Jones u

Clyde K. Kaneshiro u

James A. King u

Gail Pace Kirsch u

Joan Nelson Kleinman u

Dennis H. Lake u

Janet Portzline Lang u

Marianne Larzelere u

Patricia Schell Lascari u

Allen F. Lash

Dale H. Leighton

Arnold M. Leitner

Gerard G. Lo Dolce

Pamela Horton Lundy u

Barry W. Mack

Ayn Janowitz MacKenzie

Bonnie A. Maroney

Charles H. Marsh u

Patricia Hores Mason u

Patricia Lang McDonnell u

Bryan D. McGrath u

John D. Mecca

Carol Ann Fertig Metz

Janet De Gennaro Miksa

Elvira Cadolino Miller

Frances J. Miller

Richard C. Miller

Richard J. Miller

John F. Mollo

Ellen Monagan

Linda Bassett Mudge

Craig W. Niebauer

Elaine K. Nortz u

Linda Keely O’Donnell

Laura Fiedler O’Gorman

Andrew L. Orlan

Robert M. Ornstein

Sharon Roberts Ornstein

Peter Paduch

Deborah Williams Palmer

Catherine Goldman Parker

William S. Parker

Travis Peace

Barbara Smith Perrone

Gordon C. Pollard u

John J. Prestopnik u

Belle De Leon Prusinowski

Erich C. Raynor

Keith N. Richards

Earline Martin Richardson

Charles L. Robbins

Carolyn M. Roman

Ray Rostan

Claudia Kaufman Rubicco

Robert J. Salomone

Lila Loscalzo Schmitt u

Susan Lynch Scully u

Karen Kaczmar Shea u

Patricia Duffy Sheeran u

Terese Shekitka

Kevin J. Stock

Carol Statkevicus Suto u

Stephen J. Suto u

William N. Szymanski

Debra Morey Taranto

Ann Yurchuk Val u

William J. Ward u

Nancy Steele Weis

Gayle Gaetano Westervelt

Cynthia Kukenberger White

Sandra A. Yahner

1 9 7 4

Participation: 18 percent

Total Raised: $27,140

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Jo Ann G. Wickman

1868 SOCIETY

Veronica M. Plucinski u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Martin H. Borell u

Virginia Meyer Carter

Robert A. Cohen

T. Peter Dady u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Richard J. Carhidi u

Bertram C. Edelstein u

James E. Ellis

Ronald J. Gerson

Ronald C. Geuther u

Barbara Koppisch Griffin u

Geri Knortz u

Katharine A. Pawelko u

William H. Startup u

Morris Weinberger u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Joseph C. Eppolito u

Virginia Marcinkoski Eppolito u

Charles-Eric Gordon u

Joyce A. Heflin u

Michael A. Moscatello

Mitchell Pally

Nancy Carroll Pally u

Harvey L. Riback

Robert R. Snashall III

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Gary R. Bottfeld

Christine Perry Cecconi

Richard A. Cecconi u

Richard A. Deakins u

Anne Boivin Dwyer u

Carolyn Cass Esposito

Lois Haas

Eileen Butt Hoey u

Evelyn M. Losert

Sandra Licitra Ratner

Penny Seltzman Springer

Theresa A. Tiso

Robert E. Turner u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Marilee Todd Asher

Joan Hubbard Ashton

Lorraine Russell Barde

Karen Rapp Barendse

Timothy H. Barstow

Bonnie P. Barton u

Angelo Bellardini

Pamela M. Beyer

Edward J. Bidanset

Mary Grace Lazzaro Blackwood

Carole Ranke Blake

Leslie S. Blake u

James C. Boughton u

Linda R. Boyd - Pursley

John L. Brady

Steven J. Branfman

Roger S. Brown

Diane H. Campbell u

David P. Cantor u

Karen K. Cantor u

Maria A. Carella u

Robert B. Carle u

Dennis K. Caruso

Catherine Cerulli

Dorrine Bellamy Chambers

Mary Lou Charland u

A. James Christopher u

Andrea Mavroidis Christopher

Kristin Conrad-Uyttenhove

Virginia Carney Corbett

Margaret Finch Corwin

Marilyn Rivkin Crossley

Robert J. De Berardinis

George F. DeHaas

Christine DeLape

Diane Lynch Dellureficio

James P. Dellureficio

Bernadine Di Miceli

Jody E. Diaz

Thomas Dooling

John H. Drucker

Gary M. Dwornik

Rita E. Eddy

Karen Elkin

Bruce D. Engelson

Janice B. Eulau

Annette Santa Lucia Fallon u

Laura N. Farrara u

Raymond R. Farrara u

Elaine J. Farrell u

Amanda Figueroa u

Ronald J. Filippi

Harriet Mann Fogarty

Joan Lewandoski Garner

Steven E. Garner

Michael J. Gettings

Sharon C. Giammaria

Concetta Mellia Goodrich

Ronald F. Gordon Jr.

Jeffrey D. Grant u

Janet Stark Griffin u

Arlene Solomon Griggs

William A. Gross

Susan D. Hackel

Susan Kowalski Hamann u

Grove W. Havener Jr. u

Lynn B. Havens u

Mary Kudlick Hayes u

Lynda Nussbaum Honberg

Cynthia Milks Johnson

Mitchell D. Johnson u

Arthur H. Jones u

Janice Ivers Jones u

Lenore Shapiro Kahne

Alan D. Kaye

Carol D. Keenan

Tom Kehoskie

Wright S. Kirk Jr.

Andrea Meltsner Kluepfel

Karen Johnsen Korinda

Francine Lanzolla Lamonica

Robert Lamonica

Martin S. Lampner

Mary M. Lee-Szymanski

Suzanne D. Legge

Gerald P. Lehner

Randi Fosburg Levine

Bernard LoBracco

Karen Patterson LoBracco u

Elizabeth Spencer Lockwood

Christine MacLeod-Harman

Barbara La Bau Mahoney

Barbara O’Callaghan Marmion u

Thomas O. Martin

James J. McCaul

Gary W. McGinnis u

Susan Foley McGowan u

Nancy Bill McIntyre

Barbara Jacovine Meighan

Thomas M. Meighan

Barbara Pellettier Midlam

Fran L. Miller

Dennis B. Moore

Janet Wimer Morrissey u

Linda Lance Morrissey

Patricia Denniston Murphy

Joanne M. Nicoletti

Anthony Nuzzi

Sally Haight Oliver

Joseph M. Pagano u

Doreen Goldbach Park u

John J. Petzke Jr. u

Craig J. Phillips

Linda Annona Powers

Daniel A. Prusinowski

Alice Levy Reh

Leonard S. Rodin u

Steven C. Rogers

Nancy Filetto Romano

Elaine Tussey Rotker

Barbara J. Ryan

James M. Ryan

Daniel S. Saulsgiver u

Ed T. Sayles u

James R. Schatz u

Steven S. Schieffelin u

Roger J. Schilling u

Sue Belevich Schilling u

Madalyn Silver Giasi

Janet Shields Smith

Steven Spiegel u

Joseph A. Sposato

Margaret Hughes St. James

Donald R. Stalker

Carol A. J. Stanley

Harold Stephens

William T. Studdert

Mary Ellen Suss

Sally Saxton Swift

Richard W. Thomas u

Ilona Leidner Thomson

Ruth Robinson Toal

Hugo J. Uyttenhove

Rosemary Shay VanWart

James V. Volpone u

Daniel J. Walikis u

Meryl Trager Weiner

Gary V. Welikson

George T. Williams

Mary Beth Wright

Thomas E. Yochem

Sherry Mc Clenin Youngkin

Alan W. Zimroth

1 9 7 5

Participation: 17 percent

Total Raised: $19,528

1868 SOCIETY

Karen V. Erani

Christine Moran Guba

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Douglas DeRancy u

William T. Goff u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Anonymous

Diane R. Bonenfant

Mark R. Ginsberg

Mark W. Glickman

Susan Marshall Marcott

Lugene Trant Miller

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Ann E. Collins u

Gloria J. Governali-Slama u

Randolph Price u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Laura C. Goldberg u

Arnold Johnson u

Sue E. Lauder u

Diana M. McGeeney Hyland

Mary E. Miskell

Donald C. Ridall u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Virginia Thomas Allen u

Judith Levine Altman

Victoria DelRosso Ambrosio

Joseph E. Apicella

James R. Austin

William M. Barber

Joseph T. Barbieri u

Shirley A. Bascombe

Thomas S. Battaglia

Randall S. Berstell

Joyce Wolfe Berube

John A. Bishop u

Lorraine Jensen Boles

Eileen Bossong-Martines

Judy Lougheed Boyle

Anderson G. Bradshaw

Marie Salaun Broadley

Suzanne Reid Brown

Therese Sullivan Caccavale

Clare Johannessen Caretto

Barbara Matusick Clark

Carol Bozzuto Clark u

Michael T. Collins u

Dennis D. Croswell u

Richard M. Crowley

Maureen Tighe Cullen

Monika Kretschmann

Cunneen

Patricia Pisano Cyganovich u

Ruth Ann Dandrea u

Christine Schilly Daymont u

Patricia Crump Decker

John D. DeCotis

Joe D’Entrone

James P. Dougherty

Elizabeth Thompson Doyle

Yvonne Regetz Emery

Lynn Bartholomew Enny u

Steven L. Esposito u

Jayne Gold Ettinger

Mary Ann Fadale

Elizabeth Wayne Fantone

Jacqueline Farrell

Christine Holbein Fesko

Theodore P. Fiust u

Deborah A. Fordham u

Susan Zaicek Foster u

Rebecca Postol Freed u

Robert Fritz

Francis J. Gacioch

Michael T. Gay

Ira Sanford Geffner

Karen Grimm Gembar

Sally A. Gewinner

Thomas A. Giammaria u

Leon Ginenthal u

Martin B. Glod u

Judith A. Gordon

Karen Geuther Graham

Thomas V. Guarino

Patricia Leary Guillebeau

Joanne Solomon Guralnick

Paula Wynnyk Halliday u

Patricia Hallinan-Canini

Marvin E. Harrison

Richard J. Hartz

Debra M. Haskins

Jane Schinella Hay

James T. Hiza

By the end of the academic year, Lynne

wasn’t sure what she wanted to do except

not to teach.

“I really didn’t enjoy my teaching

experience there as much as in California,

possibly because I was now teaching high

school and I looked like I was only 18 years

old,” explained Lynne, who sent job appli-

cations around to the military bases.

She landed a position as a program

director at the Yokota Air Base Recreation

Center near Tokyo. She planned programs

and supervised a travel department for soldiers

and their families. Her most memorable trip

was leading a contingent up Mt. Fuji, Japan’s

highest peak.

“That’s a religious experience for most

Japanese people,” Lynne noted. “They have

to climb Mt. Fuji at least once in their lives. It’s

not a steep climb because there’s a pathway

all the way up. It’s about a 12-hour hike. We

started in late afternoon so that we could see

the sunrise.”

Four months into her new job, Lynne

met a schoolteacher from Portland. When

he returned to Oregon for his master’s

degree, he asked Lynne to join him. The two

were wed in Amsterdam in 1972 and lived

in Portland for the next two years. Lynne

worked briefly as the Timberline Lodge Ski

School secretary at Oregon’s Mt. Hood.

Once her husband earned his master’s,

the couple decided they wanted to work

in Europe and put in for Department of

Defense teaching positions. He was offered

one in Ansbach, Germany. Lynne substitute

taught briefly before once again becoming a

recreation program director.

“I was in Bavaria for five years and

had wonderful assignments,” she said. “I

worked in Ansbach, Berchtesgaden and in

Nuremberg, where I lived in the old city,”

she recounted. “One of the first things the

Army did when you got there was to take

the dependents to the Iron Curtain border

and show us the guards and the dogs. One of

my friends was a recreation center director

in Berlin. I stayed there for five days and

went through Checkpoint Charlie into East

Berlin on a military bus in civilian clothes.

It was an eye-opener. So, to this day, I am

very patriotic, supporting our troops and

what they are fighting for.

“Then, in 1979, my marriage broke up

over there. I decided it was time to come

back. I’d been back only once to visit. I

wanted to go back to Portland. I loved it

there. I didn’t have any family but a lot of

friends.”

Lynne earned an MBA from Portland

State University in 1981. She founded and

operated RSVP Events, a corporate and

private event planning company in the Port-

land area, until 1991. As a student at Portland

State, Lynne lived in an apartment walking

distance from campus. While there, she met

her future husband, Jack Hoffman.

“He was a partner in a huge law firm,

Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pendergrass and

Hoffman,” said Lynne. “When he went to

work for it, there were only five lawyers. The

firm now has more than 200 lawyers. When

he retired, he had been a lawyer for 50 years

in Portland. In September, we would have

celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary.”

Lynne stays active with yoga, Pilates and

swimming while working with a personal

trainer. She enjoys needlepoint and plans

to “travel, travel and travel.”

“I’ve been to Morocco, Egypt, Israel

and all over Europe,” she said. “I’ve been

to Vietnam, Cuba, the Galapagos Islands,

Australia and New Zealand. I have a very

wonderful lifestyle. I go to Cabo San Lucas

every year. I drive the Baja from Palm

Desert.”

With her name on the historic struc-

ture, Lynne said she might be back more

frequently to visit the Alumni House and

the College.

“I believe there’s unlimited potential as

far as the money we can raise for the Alumni

House and the functions related to alumni,”

she concluded.

Million

Continued from page 12

14 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Ellen M. Hoffman u

David S. Holzer

Karen Prokop Hopkins

Ann Devery Hotchkin

Diane Downs Hunt u

Holly Marenna Hurley

Anne Sanders Jacobs

Lynn Sims Jacobs

Carol-Ann Janik

William A. Judd u

Marsha Kadish-Lulley u

Linda Karlson-Selsky u

Vanlon Huff Keel u

Terry L. Kelly u

Jean Klem u

Jeffrey J. Kroutil u

Stephanie Mc Enroe Lalli

Renee Fey Larison

Michael B. Latini Jr.

Seth Jay Liebowitz u

Robert C. Long

Pamela Olsen Loverso

Richard W. Lynch

Patrice Halleran Marchica u

Mary Janak Marin u

Joan Mackey McCabe u

Richard B. Meyers

Lucinda Bellows Miller

Donna Miller-Zajac

Jeanmarie Mendes Moore u

Tania Tolosky Moore

Lauren L. Moyle-Tagliaferri

Bruce A. Muldoon

Diane Boylan Myers u

Angela J. Nevaldine u

Seford R. Olsen u

Eileen Silverman Osterman

Paula Dobbins Ourso

Deborah Hoover Owen

Leland R. Palmer

Michael J. Patnode

Doreen Czarnecki Patry

Judith Sherow Petrosillo

Sarah A. Pickett

Ronald G. Plante

Paul B. Reh u

Jo Anne Rinallo

Ellyn Geller Roloff

Paul R. Roloff u

Helen A. Ronan

Ann Elmer Russell

Christopher Sadlocha u

Sallye Stebbins Sadlocha u

Leon R. Schimmelfing

Howard Schindler

Karen S. Schmalzbach-Nolan

Donald A. Schwartz

Donald Selsky

Robert Shannon

Connie Sue Pirko Shipos

Stephen J. Smith u

Patricia Dondero Somers u

Arlene Zdanowicz Stellato

Diane Bull Stevens

Charles S. Strauss Jr.

Sally L. Sumner u

Nicholas B. Sylstra

Gary G. Theobald

Anne Ellis Trombetta

Christopher Tyson

Mary Innes Urda

Gail Terry VanPatten

Brian Vorwald

Penny Hellman Vorwald

Raymond J. Walter

Mark S. Warner

Howard L. Warren

Jane Parker Warren u

Diane M. Weider

Judi Fetterman Whilden

Christina M. Whitehouse

Mary Brodfuehrer Wiese

William J. Wiese u

Mark J. Wolff

Ellen Zabel Pataska

1 9 7 6

Participation: 15 percent

Total Raised: $40,626

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Michael E. Morandi ’76

George H. Weissman

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Fritz Favorule u

George E. Kronman u

Judson W. Smith u

Kathleen Wilmott Smith u

1868 SOCIETY

William C. Baerthlein

Paula E. Thoma

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous

Linda May Armstrong u

David P. Hempson u

Frederick G. Holcomb Jr. u

Edward J. Olivari u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marley Sweet Barduhn u

Patricia Mirabito Getz u

Stephen Miller

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Dennis W. Barr u

Robert S. Bookman u

Richard G. D’Angio u

Deborah J. Dubois

Gary P. Knoblach

John J. Lennon

Michael J. McKiernan

Dominica E. Muccio u

Joyce Cliff Romano u

Ted Ruback

Marion Wood Tunney

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Jeffrey T. Beal u

Bruce W. Cunningham

Nellie Polmateer Dumas

Julie A. Herman

Susan E. Knapp u

Patricia Edwards McCoy u

Cheryl Spencer Purvis u

David M. Radder u

Rory D. Whipple

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Susan Patella Aguado u

Richard W. Arnold u

Eric L. Balzer

Cindy George Barbieri

Rosemary Nye Battaglia

Deborah Crowther Bauer

Meryl Kula Beckingham

Cynthia A. Bennett u

Mark D. Bennett u

Dianne J. Berger

Wendy A. Bivona

Lynn Benjamin Boettger

Nancy K. Brennick

Dean S. Brown

Ann Kovar Brunson

Patricia Butt

Carol Wheeler Chapin u

James P. Cody u

Cynthia Conway Colburn u

Joseph H. Cooper

Arthur W. Costanzo

Scott D. Craig u

Steven A. Crain

Jacqueline C. Cross

Thomas K. Da Rin u

Elaine L. Davis u

Bob Deegan

Susan Jones Deegan

Mary Molascon Ditzer

Heidi Weissman Doering u

Margaret Craig Doolittle u

Joyce Rombaut Duryee u

Jeffrey B. Ehrlich

Sandra Woodworth Ehrlich

David J. Evans

Ken Feifer

Marjorie Potenza Fopeano

Curtis V. Fordham

Kenneth Frankman

Rosanne Kiefer Fritz

Mary Steflik Furlong

Carole Haskell Gehrig

Franklin D. Gerechter

David F. Giorgis u

Joseph R. Guss u

Donald P. Halferty u

Johanna Sweeney Hartnett

Marie E. Heher

Deborah Hermann

Kathy M. Herrick

Paul C. Hertkorn

Michelle Pollner Holzer

Bonni Cherkis Howard

Wendy Zales Hultsman

Carla Ferreri Jennings

Glenn Kaiser

James P. Kelly

Pamela Hillary Kelly u

Barbara Palmer Kohl

Robert A. Kraft

Michael G. Kramer u

Kathleen Last-Barney u

Constance Mosher Laurenzo u

Diane M. Leccese

Martin Lew

Michael F. Linett

Thomas P. LiVigne

Edward M. Louiz

Diane Miller Magnani

Kevin P. Mahoney

Patrick D. Maloy

Richard Mancini

Catherine Mieczkowski Mason

Teresa A. Mathis-Nielsen

Cynthia L. Matteson

Judy Newman Meyers

Lee E. Mittelstaedt

Allan A. Monaco u

Timothy G. Morgan u

Mary Mayhood Moyer u

Nancy Anderson Muldoon u

Marilyn A. Murphy u

Theresa Carthy Murphy

Kathleen Boeri O’Brien

Kevin A. O’Connor

Kristine Oczkowski u

Timothy E. Ott

Gary P. Palmer

Timothy M. Panek u

Diane Ellis Paterline

Linda M. Perroni

Nina Stacy Peterson

Robert G. Piper

William L. Plante

Janet Shaughnessy Priscantelli u

Patricia Glynn Rao u

Mildred Warn Reilley

Martin Richter

Susan Lemieux Richter u

Cathie Cole Rogers

uture SUNY Cortland students

who take time out from their

studies to help make the world

a better place have a new group

of admirers and supporters in the broth-

ers of the former Lambda Phi Delta

fraternity.

In 2006, during Alumni Reunion in

Cortland, some of the brothers who gath-

ered around the Lambda bar inside the

Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland Alumni

House wondered how to extend their sup-

port of the College beyond this gift placing

the name of the fraternity on the bar.

Founded in 1968 as the first fraternity

of record at SUNY Cortland dedicated to

college and community service, Lambda

Phi Delta disbanded in the middle of the

next decade. But members never quite

lost their passion for making a difference.

“We supported the Alumni House

first and then brothers Bill Meagher ’74

and Mitchell Wolf ’72 suggested we

should be supporting a service scholar-

ship because we were a service fraternity,”

said Lance McAllister ’70 of Liverpool,

N.Y., a spokesperson for the scholarship

committee who was a founder of the for-

mer fraternity and its first president.

“One of the things we wanted to do

in creating this scholarship was to recog-

nize the members of fraternities here that

were founded on an element of commu-

nity service,” explained another former

brother, John Busch ’71, of Cortland.

Joseph Eppolito ’74 of Liverpool,

N.Y., a former SUNY Cortland Alumni

Association president, suggested fund-

ing a scholarship through the Cortland

College Foundation as a natural expres-

sion of the fraternity’s mission.

On Oct. 2, 2007, the scholarship

committee signed a commitment

agreement with the Cortland College

Foundation to fully endow the scholar-

ship with $25,000 in gifts by 2011.

The committee members pledged an

additional $1,000 a year so the scholar-

ship could be awarded immediately.

This year, senior physical educa-

tion major Michael A. Scala of Shirley,

N.Y., became the inaugural recipient of

the $1,000 Lambda Phi Delta Service

Scholarship.

The award is open to members of

Greek organizations or any campus club

or group, according to the scholarship

agreement. All juniors, seniors and grad-

uate students who have a positive record

of active participation and impact in

service to the Cortland campus and com-

munity are eligible to apply for the new

scholarship. Worthy recipients might win

the award more than once.

The scholarship committee, com-

posed of the former fraternity brothers

McAllister, Michael Cappeto ’71, Edward

Zambraski ’71, Wolf and Busch, were

most impressed with the civic engage-

ment credentials of the 38 scholarship

applicants.

“The committee thought 10-12

applicants showed extremely high levels

of community service and there were

no slackers among the 38,” McAllister

added. “We hope some of them will

reapply next year.”

Scala, a senior physical education

major, stood out for his ongoing com-

munity service record, McAllister said.

Notably, Scala revived a former com-

munity service co-educational Greek

organization, Alpha Phi Omega, and led

it to raise many dollars for community

charities through social events and to

provide volunteers for many college and

civic service projects.

“The projects of many other appli-

cants were the results of Scala’s service,”

McAllister said. “He grew about a dozen

applicants himself.”

“Through these volunteer experiences

I realized that I had a true passion for

helping others,” Scala observed in

his scholarship application. “There are

no words that can describe the feeling

that I get from this. Knowing that I am

part of this and helping others is worth

more than any riches anyone can buy

or offer.”

Students can perform community

service in a variety of ways to qualify

for scholarship consideration, including

paid service and volunteerism for course

credit, McAllister said. However, endeav-

ors receiving no compensation or course

credit are viewed most favorably.

Founded with 40 brothers in August

1968, Lambda Phi Delta members

became involved with a wide variety of

civic projects, the brothers said. Among

other efforts, they distributed Christmas

trees to needy families, engaged in vari-

ous town projects, including cleaning up

stream beds, painting the inside of senior

citizens’ homes, organizing bloodmo-

biles and reaching out to at-risk youth

through the local Big Brother program.

Unfortunately, the young fraternity

had insufficient resources to weather the

downturn in participation that Greek

organizations suffered in the 1970s and

closed its doors around 1976.

“However, our brotherhood has

remained active in supporting our

College and the communities in which

they’ve lived,” said McAllister. Many of

the approximately 170 former fraternity

brothers also renewed their tight bonds

with each other at special gatherings dur-

ing reunions in 1979, 1989, 1993 and

2006 in Cortland.

Committee members have matched

the donations from the brothers and

their friends since 2006 and Lambda Phi

Delta has almost reached its initial fund-

raising goal.

“They have been very successful in

raising most of the initial endowment

goal, so I think they are likely to also

succeed in convincing their fraternity

members to raise that goal to $50,000 to

expand the scholarship,” said Michael

Katz, manager of leadership gifts with the

Cortland College Foundation.

“We’d like to be able to support

an annual scholarship of $2,000 to one

student or two scholarships of $1,000

apiece,” McAllister said.

If they get their altruistic wish, the

Lambda Phi Delta brothers will shine

a spotlight on yet another community-

spirited student each year.

Former Lambda Phi Delta Brothers Rekindle Legacy

By Funding Scholarship for Civic Engagement

Many members of Lambda Phi Delta, a fraternity that was active from the late 1960s through the

mid-1970s, contributed to endow a scholarship fund for students devoted to College and commu-

nity service. Several brothers, who serve on the Lambda Phi Delta Service Scholarship Committee

or supported the fund, met in June at their former Greek residence on Tompkins Street. They are,

from the left, John “Mick” Haeselin ’72, Douglas Hartman ’71, Donald Rohel ’72, Robert Vinal ’71,

John Busch ’71 and Lance McAllister ’70.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 15

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Matthew J. Rosenberg u

Daniel C. Ross

Douglas A. Ross

Anthony J. Rossi

Nancy Ruiz-Smith

Anne O’Neill Ryan

Richard H. Ryther

Cindy Rosenhaus Santner u

Miriam Rodriguez Seda u

Elizabeth Schilling Sheldon

Laurel S. Smith

Helen Exton Spencer

David J. Stanton u

Claire M. Strati

Hal I. Sussman

Dannie Stanton Taylor

Nancy C. Taylor

Joan Barton Terrana

Janice Koblosh Thomas

Gary L. Tiffany

Rebecca M. VanDer Heide

Peter J. Variano

Dorothy J. Walsh

Philip J. Ward

Wayne A. Werner u

Carolyn Osborne Williams

Ellen Kocak Williams

Patricia Williams-Felder u

1977

Participation: 17 percent

Total Raised: $22,945

1868 SOCIETY

John P. Jelinek u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Jonathan D. Brown u

Clem J. Caprara III

Mark S. Goracy

Sandra G. Morley u

Richard J. Pollack

Jane Fowler Wood

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Candy Altman-Bergantino u

June Everin Clark u

Russell J. Collett u

Michael J. Sansolo u

Alexander P. Voitovich u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Lisa M. Briskie u

Joseph C. Gazzini u

Katheleen Reidy

Carolyn Berg Ruback

Carol Glass Santacrose

Thomas A. Santacrose u

Thomas C. Tunney u

Constance M. White u

Molly Cavanaugh Williams

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Tara A. Boyan

Donna Fairweather-Foley

Ellen Zaprowski Fiorillo u

Kathleen Larrick Pullan u

Donna M. Natale O’Neil

Walter J. O’Neill

Loraine Jones Ridall u

Sharon M. Sawler u

William K. Schult u

Gary S. Wilcox u

Elizabeth Wrobel-Boerner

Jane Alpi Zink

Kevin P. Zink

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Kimberly Allen

Nancy Collier Allen

Michael Ambrosio

Susan Blodgett Bennett

Kathy Clark Berstell

Barbara Doepp Blatz

Ralph D. Boettger

Susan Kulesa Boswell

Marianne Bradford u

Cheryl Gress Buggs u

Keri Cartwright-Cox u

Linda J. Case u

Steven H. Chaikin

Catherine Citarella Brown

Alfred Colburn

Robert E. Connolly u

Micheline Contiguglia

Joanne M. Coons

John A. Cordes

Denis J. Cox

Debbie George Crandall

Amy B. Dahlman

Mary Savino Davenport

Robert V. Delrosso

Garth W. Doering

Marilyn Sill Donald

Randall G. Drake

Karen Morrison Dreher u

Christine Sullivan Dropinski

John M. Drozda

Daniel J. Dwyer

Elizabeth J. Dwyer

Diana Vincent Embser

Robert G. Ernst

Janet Schreiner Evans

Jack R. Fass

Kathleen J. Feldman u

Sarah Casey Fiacco u

Robin D. Fisher

Bruce W. Fleishman

Richard J. Fopeano

Helen Mark Forward

Debbie Coren Friedman

Dianne Kerr Gay

Arnold J. Genovesi

Angelo Godio u

Charles F. Gregory u

Rosemary Else Haller

Debra Jones Hartley

Steve W. Heath

Sheryl Thelen Heenan

Denise Di Veglio Herman

Gary D. Hogestyn

Kristi Earl Houseman

Theresa Mazzella Howell

Jill Jackson Hubbell

Tedd R. Jamieson

Margaret Tirrell Johnson

Margaret Devins Jones

James S. Kahn

Lois Harris Kahn u

Cheryl J. Kastel

James F. Keahon

Allison Beard Kehoe

Noreen M. Kelley-Jacob

Frank J. Kiernan Jr. u

Nancy Beach Kimble u

Edmund J. Kinder

Linda R. Kinel-Karch

Carol Pilie Kistner

Susan L. Klinger

Bruce R. Knapp Jr.

Anne O’Neill Kolyer

Linda Posson Kotsides u

Garry W. Krom

Paul H. Ksionzyk

Leslie Crisafulli Kulewicz

Alan J. Lerner

Edwin C. Levy Jr.

Lisa Mc Donald LiVigne

Gary Loudan

Jill Woodworth Lynch

Jean Barlin Madigan

Paulette Plessl Maggiacomo

Karen Lehrman Mansky

James D. Marko u

Michele Clark Marocco u

Bonnie S. May u

Terrence J. McAllister

Michael E. McCann

Karen Rote McEvoy

JoAnn Maltese Meaker

Leigh Herrmann Merriman u

P. Michael Merriman u

Carol Brenenstuhl Michie

Barbara Faigin Millstein

Cheryl Carlson Mitchell u

Patricia Burns Mitchell u

Susan Bush Mockler u

David S. Moore u

Linda McCoy Nettleton u

Suzanne Donley Pangie

Melissa Kaplan Parker

Jacquelyn Hager Pataki

Joseph R. Peluso Sr.

Deborah Howard Pentecost

Darla Kibbe Perry

Bruce G. Peters

Daniel C. Poupore

Carol Palm Powers

James M. Pricola

Ann Doyle Pritchard

Susan Saperstein Rabin

Bruce P. Reed

Mary G. Reid

Nancy Finkelstein Ricci

Barbara A. Riess

Paul D. Robinson u

Cynthia Farrelly Rooker

Cathy Siegel Rosso

Rebecca Carnrite Russell

Douglas E. Ryan

Susan Burns Ryan-Kron

Lisa Falvo Santangelo

Eileen T. Scheier u

Bette Schneider u

Emilio Seda Jr. u

George J. Seneck u

Allison Schulman Shapiro u

Barry S. Shelofsky

Jeffrey S. Sherman

Madeline Sinkinson u

Barbara Linnehan Smith u

William A. Soeffing

Ellen Santagate Sparks

Margaret Steele

Ellen Verrilli Stevens

Sandra Castiglione Tarnow

Nancy Litchfield Thane

Patricia Tirone u

Michael Turi

Fred von Mechow

Lorraine Altieri Warner

Romona Nellis Wenck

Eileen A. Whalen u

William L. Wienecke u

Jacqueline Scott Willis

Kathryn Nelson Wood

Bonnie Meyers Young

Sharon Voehringer Youngman

Marianne Beatty Zacharia

Louis M. Zocchia Jr. u

Teresa Yates Zumbrook

1978

Participation: 16 percent

Total Raised: $37,258

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Mindy Spector Kronman u

1868 SOCIETY

Patricia Ignagni Allen u

Terry J. Allen u

Lucy C. Gettman u

James P. Murphy u

Bernard E. Thoma u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Michael L. Flaster

Karen M. Hempson

Edward S. Leone

John F. Snow

Terri Crandall Snow u

Richard D. Winkler u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

J. Michael Reagan u

Kathleen Hoefert Schuehler u

Mary Pentangelo Terhune

Laurel Barnard Wexman

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Suzanne Rainville Coffey u

Karen Conavatchel Damato u

Irma N. Douglas

Brian J. Dovi

Scott W. Johnson u

Lynn M. Spadine Taylor u

J.J. Walsh u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Darrell Becker

Dale P. Broomhead Jr.

Cheryl S. Cawley

Pamela L. Christina

Patricia DeCausemaker

DeCicco

Peter DeCicco u

Linda A. Fennelly u

Lori Lampert

Patricia Fanning Marlin

Andrea Bonchonsky O’Neill u

David J. Redmond u

Kathleen McConnell Southerton

Timothy M. Southerton

Maryjane Anderson Wurth

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Barbara Givin Abbey

Marilyn Hauver Akins

Denise J. Annona

Virginia Hagen Babcock

Kathy Griswold Bailey

Gail Whitney Baird

Richard C. Bardi

Bridget Braun Berbrick

Pamela L. Berge-Soeffing

Teresa D’Errico Bevington

Martin P. Bladen u

Laurie Donnelly Bradshaw

Catherine Richardson Brennan

Lee Ann Burr

Barbara Labella Cacia

Debra Calabrese

Ruth Marshall Campbell

Carmen Casas u

Thomas L. Cashmore

Michael G. Chiapparelli

Kathryn Sage Civilette

David A. Clemente

Mary Clinton Concannon

Dale W. Cook

Diane O’Connor Cortese

Nicholas Cortese Jr. u

Karen Oddey Dagley

Mark T. Dalton

Teresa Wojcik Daly u

Anne P. Dapolito u

Jane Williams Davis

Frank M. Day

Patricia Hennessy Day

Carol Terjesen De Avila

Lisa Dickinson Docster u

Joan Gefell Donovan u

William T. Duford

Timothy G. Dugan

Paul A. Dunbar

Ernest G. Dykeman

Keith D. Elliott

Lorraine Simms Fiedler

Charles Forte

Steven D. Freifeld

Steven W. Frey

Timothy R. Gale

Maria Becerra Gallagher

Peter F. Goggi

Janis L. Grant

Bernadette Mackin Graycar

Susan Schamber Haley

Bradford D. Hamer

Shannon Bresson Hamer u

Mark Hogan

Sally Anderson Hootnick

Daniel J. Hopkins

Joan Mastrianni Hopkins u

Michael J. Hoppey

Janice S. Hyde

Kathleen A. James

Nancy Van Camp Jennings

Mark D. Johnson

Joseph A. Kellogg

Renee Sacks Keselman u

Neil J. Kluger

Janet I. Kowal

Patricia Murphy Kowalewski

Charles F. Krauss u

Mary Kay LaLonde

Sharon Lieberman

Lynda J. Lyman

Robert G. Maire u

Christine Schoell Mangio

Thomas E. Marzeski

Kathaleen Mason

Deborah Compagni

Mastronardi

Carlos N. Medina

P. David Meyerholz

Ken J. Mitchell u

John E. Moosbrugger

Cynthia Dunne Morgan

Jeanine Poggis Murphy

Terence Murphy

Meryl F. Novor

Russell C. Parker

Wynetta Kirk Pass-Kirk u

Richard M. Perugini

Ronald B. Petracca

Susan Reed Plaisted

Deborah H. Platt

Nancy Gingerich Pleskach

Kathi Oken Pober

Melanie J. Poorman

Judith Alberts Przybyla

Kevin P. Przybyla

Philip J. Reed

Joanne M. Roberts u

Joan M. Rosebush u

Raymond D. Rossicone

Richard N. Rubin

Cheryl Lindquist Ruiz

Robert L. Russell

Evin V. Ryan

Steven E. Sadwick u

Lauren C. Schultz u

Robert E. Sherwood Jr. u

Richard W. Siergiej

William F. Suess

Kenneth Swalgin

John K. Swart

Lynn Pierleoni Timmons

Daniel F. Tronolone III

Diane Carruthers Tronolone

Janet Heffernan Welch

Paula A. Wilkinson

Amy Jo Koslow Willig

Philip L. Wingert u

Paula S. Wolyniec u

James M. Young

Steven P. Zollman

1979

Participation: 14 percent

Total Raised: $22,448

1868 SOCIETY

Elizabeth Anderson Fontana u

Leanne M. Leonard u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

James A. Bonaventura u

Christopher J. Grady u

Barry H. Kornblum

Kevin J. Smith

Joseph A. Vallo u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Robert M. Mallow u

Jeffrey D. Northing

Janice Coon Sansolo

Henry A. Terhune

Steven J. Wexman

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Christopher Atkins u

Daniel L. Revai u

Kim Stack-Myers

Sandra L. Tullius

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Matthew O. Assael

Christine Helbock Berg

Judith A. Fallat u

Grace Nicotra Gorman

Jane Taylor Hastedt

Barbara Gale Huggins

Janet Denison Jeffers

Heidi J. Jewett u

Patricia E. Kelly u

Gray Arnold Kendrick u

Thomas K. Kreider

Christopher McKeever

Barbara Heil Redmond

Lynn Jacobsen Rohrs u

Annette M. Sassi

Laurie Loughlin Sweeney

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jacquelynn Shimp Albers

Laurie Drischell Alden

Lisa Thompson Baker u

Maryanne Gyidik Balles u

Thomas J. Barrett

Denise Felt Baxter

Martin M. Bayard

Ellen Perlet Blythe

Patricia Bennett Brady u

Suzanne F. Brisk

Judy Antal Buffa

Ronald K. Buggs

Catherine De Luca Caligiuri

Jeffrey E. Calkins

Elizabeth Bradbury Carpenter

Bonnie Elsworth Churcher

Gertrude Cook Claudy

Susan Hesslink Corrie u

Carla Clawson Crowley

Susan M. Cruickshanks

Lou Anne Medici Da Rin

Michael P. Dahlem

Reginald Daigle

Heather G. Daims u

Jeffrey R. Dallas

Catherine DeGarmo

Karen Stevens Diefendorf u

Cathy Andrews Distefano

Michael P. Donnelly

Michael C. Dorkings

Susan Dorkings u

Mark R. Dunn u

Patricia Eberle u

Jeffrey P. Ehlers

Bruce N. Einhorn

Robin Warner Faust

Debra A. Fenocchi

Janet Carroll Fetterman u

Paul F. Forhan u

Margaret C. Fritton

Howard W. Ganter

Deborah La Croix Geiss u

Barbara Sturton Gendron u

Laurie Gilbert

Keith A. Goodrich

James F. Griffin u

Christopher Gulbin

Nicholas P. Hanslowe

Mary Gallagher Hart u

Judy G. Haskell

Michael J. Hastrich

Alice Cotter Hautman

Gregory J. Heidelberger

Claire Smith Herlihy

Cheryl A. Horton

Linda Ann Hunt u

Cynthia Bieler Jay

Mark Kensy

Jon R. Kirchhoff u

Michael E. Kitto u

Michael J. Krapf u

Denise Kiser Laible u

Roy Lapidus

Cynthia Emmi Lattimore

Eric J. Leeper

Kathie Leete Lyon

Sondra Chase Mansur

Carol Lepak Marashian u

Charlene Klempa Marzeski

Susan C. Matheson

Louis W. Matta

Billie Gamble McAdam

John K. McCauley

L. Jamie McGrory

Honora Hennelly McMahon

Connie Marshall Medina

Tracy Stickels Meyer

Marjorie Hagin Molino

Diane Wood Nachtrieb

Steven Nettler

Michelle Griffin Nikiforov

Colleen Lynch O’Mara

Kevin B. Page u

Lorraine Johnson Page u

Nancy Turner Palermo u

Janice A. Paris u

Michael S. Pilat

Karen Jackson Pittleman

Amy Ansel Porciello u

Scott J. Porciello u

Deborah A. Quigley u

Richard Quinn u

Carol Ringanese u

Cecile Bubak Rossicone

Robert K. Rothstein

Nancy Wisotzke Salatino

Karen Caruso Schrock u

Wendy K. Seifried u

Daniel W. Serrao

Howard S. Sharp

Kirk J. Simonis u

Edgar F. Singer u

Gail Skapik-Hurewitz u

Dale L. Strauf u

Thomas E. Stroud

Robbin Sharpe Suess

Mary Moran Tacea

Robert M. Tarnow Jr.

Alison Trinkl Teeter

Edward C. Vander Voort

Kerri Lentin Wagner

Lana Marcoccia Wagner u

Wendy L. Ward u

Laurie Turner Warner

Gregory J. Weinman

Janet S. Weschler

Jean M. Whitney

Mary A. Wilson

Carol Coogan Wing

Michael M. Zak

1 9 8 0

Participation: 14 percent

Total Raised: $20,454

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

David J. Kronman

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Terry Bedell Grady u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Michael J. Andrus u

Martin J. McDonough u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Richard E. Ferguson u

John F. Fricke u

Alexander Politis

Janet Darrigo Politis

Karen A. Valko

Jeffrey J. Widrick

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Alexander G. Bellos u

Laura Evola Hendler u

Howard T. Kraft

Noreen Burns McDonald

Brian K. Schuldeis

Susan Chigaridas Smith u

Denise Pettee Spencer

Carlene Wilcox

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Katherine Abba

Margaret Ginter Anderson

Larry Badgley

Gail Levien Barnett

Charlene Berry-Pickering

Tami A. Boss u

Cynthia Sabal Bowen

Lawrence J. Briggs

Catherine Buck-Kennedy u

Kathleen Morgan

Bugenhagen

Maryann Bump

Deborah Tuczinski Campbell

Amy November Capazzi

Joanne Napier Carey

Laurie Mastin Carney

Betsy Cook Cheetham

Beryle Baer Clum u

Jane A. Coddington

Donna Greene Converse

Anthony P. Curro Jr. u

Jamie Faricellia Dangler u

Diane Carroll Darling

William G. Darling Jr.

Barbara Wilson Davis

Terence A. Davis

Patricia Cummings Delaney

Pamela Dandridge Denison

Antoinette DiRado

Cynthia Finch Dunn u

Ellen Rothenburg Flynn

Deborah Dodge Gaddy

Elena Geonie

Thomas P. Gerner

Donna M. Gildersleeve

Ronald W. Granish

Shirley Tucholski Graziani

Mark J. Gullo

Diane Keehle Hadfield

Joanne Langendorfer Hastrich u

B. Scott Hecox

Mary Whiteman Heider

Maureen Bunce Hickey

Scott Himelstein

Catherine A. Holmes

Jennifer Hames Huczko

Gianine Linsalata Ippolito

Ronald Jennings

Larry A. Jones

Jeanne King-Polan

Melinda Kettler Knoerzer

Michael J. Krisak Jr. u

William J. Kurz

Manny Lann

Leesa Herne Latulipe u

Mary Ann Moran McCrum

Julie Parsons McDougal

Brian P. McKenna

Isaac B. Mitchell

Paul A. Moczarski u

Carolyn Holl Moore u

Neale A. Moore u

Jan Faiola Morrissey u

Gail Anderson Morse

Kevin J. Muldoon

Gail Bowen Murphy

Gail F. Nalven

June Hayner O’Brien u

Marilyn Proskine Oliver u

Susan Padovano-Nocco

Caryl Fanizzi Piekarski

M. Tina Giangobbe Rapp

Edward J. Rathgeb

Kevin F. Rosko

Susan Pohevitz Rothstein

Christopher Schaefer

Diana Boise Schaffer

Cindy Schofield-Bodt u

Debra Sarno Schulman

Jerome S. Schulman Jr.

John R. Sciera

Matthew Senk

Nancy Simoga

Beth Rooney Sloane

Nancy Hickey Smith

George F. Solan

Susan L. Stanger

Nora B. Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan u

Karen Hoek Tampellini

Virginia Mc Farland Vrabel

Diane M. Wahlers

Jennifer R. Waite

Joan J. Watros

Carl P. Weaver

Nancy J. Willets

Barbara Krawczyk Wilson

Lori A. Yacone

Barbara Yetman

Cheryl M. Zehr

1 9 8 1

Participation: 12 percent

Total Raised: $23,772

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Catherine Suarez Leeolou u

Michael T. Leeolou u

1868 SOCIETY

James S. Sorbella u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Michael W. Millington

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Anonymous

Patricia F. Ewing

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Henry C. Atterbury III

Jeffrey D. Baker

Amy R. Bryan u

Alison Hill Clarke

Jay R. Clarke

Jennifer Albrecht Donovan

Cathleen O’Connor Ferguson u

Jeffrey W. Harr u

Daniel F. Kana

Cheryl Singer Sullivan

Thomas J. Textor

Stephen D. Tybur

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Lisa Stokoe Barrett u

Brian D. Berg u

Abigail Bergoffen u

Patrick T. Doyle u

Katherine Riker Grifferty u

Michael B. Hessler

Madelyn Hale Hornstein

Ellen Hesler Meeks

Eric L. Sternberg

Judith L. Treadway

Gretchen Van De Carr

Steven C. Winokur

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous (2)

Barbara A. Arnold

Wendy Blackburn Barrett

Alison Brody Beard u

Laurie E. Bennett

John D. Bliss

Michael J. Bovino u

Kathleen Bracken Brown u

Patrick R. Burns

Bonnie Goldfine Chasin

Julieann Klaczany Cleary

Darren T. Crossett

Beth Tarakov Cummings u

Peter J. Delaney

Diane Piper Dermody

Janet E. Dickinson u

Lisa Caruso DiVietro u

Christopher Donoghue Jr.

Diane M. Duffus

Deanna M. Fagan

James E. Felix

Anne Fitzgerald

Suzanne I. Fortin

Penelope Thorpe Fromer

Thomas J. Gallagher u

Glen C. Graham

Susan L. Gruber

Gary M. Hadfield u

Gwenn Mc Millen Harnen

Paul F. Hickey

Brent F. Hopkins

Margot Trushaw Hopkins u

Anne Goodier Hursh

Michelle Hyde

Karen Toper Jamieson u

James E. Johnson Jr. u

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

16 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Patricia Rennison Johnson u

Allison Davis Jones

Diane Keefe

Diane Abrey Kirnie

Janet Knott

Stacie Sharp Krolikowski

Jean M. Lam

James P. Lamb

Kristine Amodeo Lanchantin

Maureen McCall Lenowicz

Mickey S. Locke

Diane Shaw Lowery

James J. Lumley

Melaney Rydzynski Mackin

Matthew T. Mahar

Debora L. Maille u

Laurie Mittelstaedt Maki

Sandra J. Mancuso-Lopez

Annamaria Maniaci

Jodi R. Manis

Timothy P. McDermott

Theresa Lucente McKenna

Laurie Stank McKeveny

Gabrielle Hunter Miller u

Karen Vogel Morey

Deirdre Loughlin Mos

Calvin J. Mosher

William B. Murphy

Andrew P. Nykolyn

Jayne Hoey Nykolyn

David C. Olbert

Patricia Jablonowski O’Mara

Timothy P. Phillips

John J. Pisciotta u

Annette Mattera Pizzorusso u

Yvonne M. Plain u

Michael R. Polan

Ronald T. Racey

Susan Graham Ramsey u

Beth Krasavage Rice u

Richard J. Rienecker

Maureen Mack Rowley

Michael Rubin

Nancy Romano Schaefer

William L. Schoff

Jean Bauco Schult

Sheryl D. Skillman

Kurt D. Smith

Thomas C. Stimson Jr.

Marcia Stumpf Szablewski u

Francine Cali Taibi

Ernest N. Tate

Henry C. Thurston-Griswold

Diane C. Vecchio

Christine Hogan Weinman

Sylvia Weiser

Carter R. Westbrook

Suzanne Ehmann Wightman

Lisa Carr Yelich

1 9 8 2

Participation: 12 percent

Total Raised: $21,396

1868 SOCIETY

Pamela A. Fenstemacher-

Berkowitz

Stanley J. Okula

Nancy Niskin Sorbella u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Thomas M. Carroll

Karen Jackson Goodell

Judith T. Hoffmann

Joan Hoyt Kornblum

Matthew G. Saltarelli

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Scott R. Lictus u

Steven Norman u

Matthew O. Seabold

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Doreen O’Brien Cipolla

Robert W. Cipolla

James B. Hart

Joseph W. Moorhead u

Joyce Hall Rice u

Karen M. Schuhle-Williams u

Eileen Maroney Unrein u

Scott A. Williams

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Diana Lampone Abraham

Paul M. Alexander

Steven R. Barrett u

Cynthia Steenburgh

Dalrymple

Janet Harter Garrity u

Christopher Honness u

John J. Quigley u

James P. Sheerin

Warren H. Williams

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Linda Garner Allen

Arthur A. Alvut

Henri Andre

Lisa Olsen Andrews

George H. Arias

Rosemary Finley Bachman

Catherine Mueller Bahantka

Barbara Hurd Barry

William F. Beard

Randi Beckmann

Nancy J. Belli

Mary Lynn Bowen u

Ann E. K. Brown

Carolynn Finnen Cageao

Louis F. Calderone

Melody Di Orio Calderone

Stephen A. Caton

Gary H. Cederstrom

Maryanne Ahearn Ceriello u

Jo-Anne Chapin u

William C. Cheetham u

David E. Cooper

A. Jan Gregoire Coughlan

Diane Meader Crossett

Brenden D. Crowe

Margaret Kane Crowe

Thomas Crowley

Robert H. Cuffney

Renee Beckley Davis

Ann A. Decker

Patricia Dittmann Del Zoppo u

Martha Stock Donnelly u

Carrie A. Doyle

Beth Steinitz Dunlap

Deborah McCabe Ehmann

Karen Schreyack Fekete

Mark Filiberto

Lori Stockwell Fredericks

Angela Giorgi

Beth Parmington Hall

Linda M. Harjung

Mary Kellett Hogan u

David Hogestyn

Andrew M. Hrycyk

John V. Irion

Patricia Lenhart Irion u

Renee L. James

Barry L. Kaufman

Nancy Di Paola Kelly

Sandra J. Kimiecik

Peter Koenig

Jean Schiller Krochmal

Maureen Hubert Lehet

Lucille A. Leopardo-Tibbetts

Jean Register Lovett

Theresa Monaghan Ludanyi

Lyman W. Lyon u

Carol Jean Dowling Mackin

James E. Mackin

Hugh G. McCabe

Mary O’Connell McCabe u

James J. McMahon u

Mark E. McQuade u

Marc A. Mercadante

Pamela Harris Meyers

Kathleen Dunham Millier

Cheryl S. Mills

Jodi Lester Mucha

Donna Eychner Mucks

John E. Newton

Margaret L. Pendergast

Lisa Ann Burright Richards

Sheila Singleton Rienecker

John S. Rosenbach

Joyce Hulse Ryan

Richard P. Ryan

Tami Beahm Ryan

Nancy Dillman Sanfilippo

Jane C. Schiferle u

Rebecca Nack Schopp

Nancy Bogel Schumacher

Catherine Game Scoons

Genevieve Pilato Siggia

Susan Greenberg Silberman

Luann Southworth Skeval u

Amy Crumrine Spinella u

Katherine Rock Staub

Cynthia Wright Stogsdill

Linda Zarcone Swedin

Anthony J. Szurly

Mary Webster Thomas

Nancy J. Thompson

Gail Wactawski Tylec

Mike Volza

Michael A. Vreeland

Richard Wasserlauf

Lisa Greenberg Wells

Anne Lazarus Whalen

Joseph C. Whalen

Ivan S. Zeitlin

Christine Perretta Zoltan

1 9 8 3

Participation: 14 percent

Total Raised: $19,108

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Brian G. Murphy u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

M. Barry Bocklet Sr.

Debra Kiederer Cucullo

Todd H. Smith u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Diane Waugh Oliver u

Steven P. Sayko u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Neil J. Crawford

John A. Cuiffo

Jacqueline Powers Fricke u

Theresa Loomis Hart u

Amy Henderson-Harr u

Kelly Gardner Panzanaro

Mary Quinby Young

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Catherine Golder Honness u

Donald C. Mertz Jr. u

Andrew S. Nolan

Barbara Elwood Schlatter

Thomas J. Spanbauer u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

David L. Aiken

Lisa Nettleton Ames

Leslie J. Archer-Kassel

Deborah Stewart Armstrong

Robert N. Aser

Scott F. Bahantka

Lawrence Bean

Karen Junginger Bell

Patricia Williams Berman

Bruce E. Blackwell

Mark J. Bolebruch

Teresa A. Breen

Christine Giuricin Breglia

Betsy L. Brigantti

Laurie A. Broussard

Jamie Partigianoni Brown

Laura Rehm Caccavale

Raymond V. Cali

Varina Eisenhower Caton

Lois Daley Celeste

Elvira Medeiros Cestaro

Jody Collins Chase

Frank Ciliberto Jr.

Bonni Augenbaum Cohen

Ellen Vliet Cohen

Richard M. Cohen

Thomas J. Colonna

Martin L. Conner u

William J. Corbett

Deborah Tomazin D’Angelo

Theresa Kieffer Davis

Yvonne J. Deligato

Mary Patricia Dewey

David DiFolco

Lauren Lucas DiFolco

Shari Hughes Dunbar

Janet Macomber Falconer

Valerie Esposito Fine

Lorie Hickey Fischer

Mark J. Fitzgerald

Stephen C. Fox

Rosemary Frisaro-Kessler

Andrew M. Galotti

Philip J. Gambon u

David S. Goddard u

Lori B. Goodale

Gregory Gould

Lauren Schopen Gould u

Janene Fischer Grabowski

Patricia Stahl Hagen

Judith Worzel Hallingstad

Karen J. Hamlyn

Regina M. Hand

Cathleen Reppert Haunfelner

Frank J. Healy

Beverly E. Heinen

Debra Vance Henneberger u

Maura Murphy Hogan

James D. Howells

Kathleen Cousin Hunt

Amy Costello Jackson

Dorenda Shattuck Johnson

Franklin Johnson Jr. u

Monika H. Juergens

Richard D. Knott

Joan H. Krohn

Eleanor V. Labieniec

Joseph W. Leirey

Frances Heenan Locastro

MaryGrace Mc Carthy Lynch

Carol Baberadt MacBride

Annamaria Martin

Deirdre M. McAvoy

Irene M. McLaughlin

Lisa J. McVey

Kathleen Zraly Merget

Catherine Morano u

Rosemary Impelizzieri Morgese

Scott W. Murrock

Monica Myers-Hull

Dorothy Nolan

Kerry T. O’Dwyer-Marrano

Nicole Fornsel O’Neill

Patrice E. Packer

Donna De Souza Pambianchi

Elizabeth Braggins Penk u

William R. Perrault

Holly Piche Porkka

Timothy C. Pratt

Eugene M. Prisco

Abby Kessler Reuben

Edward M. Risi

Margaret Letteney Robelee

Daniel J. Robinson

Lynn Kloppenburg

Rosenbach

Rosanne Vespo Russell

Susan Ryan

Susan Mc Grath Santacesaria

Ronald E. Sanzo Jr.

Michael A. Schiedo

Joan P. Schlachter-Daniels

Sharon Buckley Schmidt

Marc R. Schulman

Sandra Hallenbeck Schuster

Stephen T. Shafer

Maureen P. Shiel

Benno G. Spiehs

Dennis J. Sweeney

Traci Herman Thiele

Peter J. Tracey

Susan N. Treadwell

Barbara Vogt Tydings

Laurie Lo Faro Tynan

Denise Treadway Vorbach

Tina Houghton Ward

Phyllis Hitt White

Heidi D. Whitehair

Paula F. Williams

David L. Wolfanger

John J. Young

Mariann Vetere Zink

1 9 8 4

Participation: 9 percent

Total Raised: $39,096

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Victor M. Rumore II u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Terry Logan Bocklet

Brenda S. Nobles

Judy M. Wolfe u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

C. B. Bucknor u

B. Lynn Soracco Lictus u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Maryellen Micozzi-Cuiffo u

Theresa M. Zablocki

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Janine D. Henrickson u

Gregory D. Vairo u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Nancy A. Berger

Carol Chetcuti Bitetto

Katharine Ackerson Bliss

Denise Dutcher Bolebruch

Anne Peterson Brenon

Robert D. Brow u

Meryl Rappaport Brown u

Robert A. Capreol

Michael F. Carboine

Douglas J. Carroll

Diane M. Coe u

Julie Southworth

Costantini

Gerard J. Cushing u

Eileen Warnke Delulio

Andrea Colletti DiCarlo

Nancy Stinton Diehl

Donald C. Dillon

Anne Shields Dinan

Theresa Mahar Dolan u

Lori Biondi Early

Frank J. Fariello

Robert Fasano u

David Feuer u

Tracey Maxson Freeman

Margaret Bader Galotti

Lisa Cantor Gillen u

Karla Sargent Goddard u

Steve B. Golub

Virginia Atwell Greenwood

James R. Grieger

Linda A. Griggs

Janet Cossavella Gruber

Michael J. Hagen

Constance Taylor Harris

Meaghan A. Healey u

Vivian Chan Healy

Wayde E. Herneisey

Kathleen Lent Hill

Thomas J. Huber

Lucinda R. Imhoff

Doreen Bufi Klein

Sharon Farhi Kleinbaum u

Gerilyn Koren-Mahlof

John Kuhn

Amy Lainoff

Colleen Delaney Lee

Mark Lynch

Catherine Maligno

Mary Lynn Ketchell McCauley

Mary Alice Adair McDonald

Robert J. McMahon

Hal R. Moore

Marcy Jean Romano Musarra

Cynthia Varano Nagle

Diane Young Nevola

Barbara Haines Newton

Elizabeth Garramone

O’Flaherty

Elaine M. O’Mara-Hulbert u

Gary G. Podsiedlik u

Linda Guerrera Prosser u

Ellen M. Pryor

Beth Lieberman Qualley

Michael D. Qualley

Laurie Pernicone Risi

Lisa Rouleau-Robinson

Michael E. Scarsella

Mary Krolczyk Schulman

Nestor W. Sherman

Jennifer Livingston Simmons

Mary Jean Simonin

Martha Christie Stanley

Jean Clark Stewart u

Richard C. Sutphin

Stephen D. Tela

George Waddington

Michele Steele Wasserlauf

Randee Perretta Wolfanger

Susan Deming Wulf

Leanne Thomas Youngkrans

Andrew J. Zmoda

1 9 8 5

Participation: 9 percent

Total Raised: $7,495

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Lisa A. Noll u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

John J. Belmonte u

Cindy Walrath Colley

Elizabeth A. Hart

Rae Ann Carlton Luken

Jon D. Redfield

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Kathryn Thompson Bosley

William M. Bosley

Ellen Hoppey Cabana

Lisa Hills Carr

Daniel Lenz u

Kimberly Cuozzo Lenz

Edward J. Purce

Charles M. Scheftic u

Lorraine Richardson Scheftic u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Kathy Nichols Aldrow u

John S. Amberge

Suzanne Ludwig Amberge

Beth Rowe Amisano

Stephen P. Amisano u

Karen M. Anderson u

Susan Leibundgut Baldwin u

Suzanne G. Barg

Bruce W. Barker

Moira Mulhern Bowers

John A. Bruno

Mary D. Buck

Craig M. Burns

Christopher Butterfield

Laureann Caporusso

Candreva

Erin K. Catrambone

Fern S. Chamberlain

Joseph P. Condame

Rene A. Conk

Julie Constantino

Kathryn Callahan Couture

Steven Couture

Mary Beth Fiffik Craven

Lisa Cantoli Davignon

Ronald F. Davignon

Brian J. De Socio

Dale W. Delulio

Beth Gelatt Demith

Chris J. Dengler

Brian J. Dixon

Cynthia B. Doane

Andrea De Stefano Dziekan

Amy Read Edwards

Donna Brusso Erickson

Kenneth J. Fabian u

Sandra Pulinski Fabian u

Alison M. Ferris

Shari Becker Feuer

John W. Freda

Douglas H. French

Hilary B. Gibbs

Mary Whalen Glenn

Craig S. Goldman

Carol Christiansen Greiner

Christopher Gruber

Joanne Matteson Herneisey

Kathryn A. Heyde

Loriann Aiello Hines

Laura Bachner Hudson

Mary Ann Anthony Jensen u

David D. Johnson

Donna Stanfield Johnson

Carol Tesar Jones

Douglas P. Jowdy

Darlene Bancroft Kemp

Nancy Crast Kirchof

Julie Milligan Laskey

Scott J. Lenhart

Edmund B. Ludwig

Stephanie Williams Moore

Felicia Hunter Morrice

Michael J. Motsay

Steven M. Mucha

Thomas C. Mueller u

Paul C. Nagle u

Christine Holloran Nickerson u

Kevin M. O’Reilly u

Karen Greer Piascik

Leslie Ranaldi Potente

Kevin P. Pristash u

Diane M. Quinlan u

Stephanie Pratt Randall

Richard T. Reilly

Michael B. Rickard

James M. Rogalski

Suzette Sheils Roof u

Dale E. Seeley u

Jon S. Sexton

Lori Iacobucci Shuster

Ralph E. Spinelli

Janet Heinle Stayer

Ann Marie Ferris Tarcza

Beth Cameron Tellefsen u

Joel G. Tiss

Kristin E. Tremlett

Victoria L. Ursitti

Catherine Moon Waddington

Frank J. Wallace

Mary Ellen Szlasa Whiteley

Daniel T. Whittemore u

Ellen Sickles Whittemore u

Marianne Galasso Zmoda

1 9 8 6

Participation: 9 percent

Total Raised: $9,100

1868 SOCIETY

Anthony R. Moon Jr. u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Catherine Cahn Aanonsen

Lloyd Aanonsen

Lisa M. Codispoti

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Shari Allen Irion u

Raymond F. Mattfeld

Christopher RoDee

Janine Wilbur Sarbak

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Lenore A. Bandler u

Barbara K. Barrett-Murray u

Oliver L. Bickel u

Kelly Palmer Bliss u

Amy Miller Bradley u

Heather Collings Brewster u

Eric E. Briggs

Robert S. Brokaw

Ann J. Bush u

Marie-Theresa Palisi Buttner

Mary A. Chittenden

Caroline Collins Fritsch

Michael V. Comella

Wendy Owen DeMilt

Joseph G. Di Vilio

John R. Dial

Clare R. Doyle u

Thomas S. Dunham

Denise M. Dunn

John F. Edwards

Linda Mueller Fitzhugh

Carrie Odell French u

Thomas A. Glenn

Kathleen Reinholz Goldsmith

Anthony P. Goss

Maryellen Griffin

Annemarie Cox Gulino

John Harker

Sheila Howe Harker

Brian E. Hollister

Heather Wishart Holmes

Ronald M. Hughes

Michelle Young Hutchinson

Kathy L. Jackewicz

Catherine Farrell Klein

Martin A. Klein u

Nancy Jean Davis Landrigan u

Lorraine Lawler

Jean Hyland Ludlow

Guy A. Maisonet

Melinda Murdock Malia

Cathy Danyko Malone u

Anna Dirico Maraia

Daniel R. Maravi

Theodore J. Matosich

Kathleen Matson

Corinne Bates Mayer

Patrick J. McGowan

Lisa Orzell McVey

Wanda Johnson Moore

Beth Smaldon Mumpton

Mary Vandenburgh O’Brien

Jacqueline Race O’Neil

Victoria Orsino

Carol Mazzola Pacileo

Lisa J. Palfini

Kirsten Verfuss Parker

Stephen R. Penn u

Frances A. Pizzola u

Teresa Dietz Pristash u

Patrick J. Quinn

Christopher Reiss

Betsy Smith Roberts u

Amy Keifer Rodriquez

Sharon Speechley Rosaschi

Barbara Mc Carthy Rudolph

Glenn E. Rudolph u

Michael M. Rundle u

Sharon Yurkonis Schug

John Sheppeck

Anne Pascale Shively

Joanne Guinee Skrable

Stephen M. Spaulding

Renee M. Spear

Valerie Stone Stahl

Donald Steger

Judy H. Taylor

Bill A. Toran u

Lori Lardaro Whitman

Thomas Whitman

David M. Wilson

Alan Zaino

1 9 8 7

Participation: 7 percent

Total Raised: $5,023

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Joseph Lawless

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Michael L. Perkins

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Theresa E. Howard

Jerald V. Irion

Timothy D. Smith

Steven W. Williams

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Brian R. Abbondandelo

Ann Marie Mercer Agostinello

Gerard V. Agostinello

Patricia Koabel Bagley

Nancy J. Barber

William T. Beerman

Mary Borrelli

Elizabeth A. Briggs

Timothy J. Brindle

J. Josh Brown II u

Gary L. Bynon

Laura Schwabe Bynon

Derrick Cornelious

Michael C. Drozd

Dino D. Dutcher

Greg A. Farah

Richard S. Farnham

Carrie Wiles Fitch

Sara Stabins Freda

Maggie Fitzpatrick Friers

Lisa A. Fugazzi

Kristen Smedek Geuss

Charles P. Green u

Kim M. Guttendorf u

Jean Brown Hansen

Todd M. Hobin

Kathleen Jones Hoyt u

Joyce P. Hunt

Susan Juzwak Jenny

Susan L. Krencik

Mark J. Krysczak u

R.C. Lange u

Grace Killory Leff u

Kimberly Peck Ludwin u

Michael Malewicz

Kathleen Mayer Marley

Jolie Petrillose Massicci

Patricia McKinny

Jacqueline M. Merwin

Sonja Flansburg Peterson

Beth Knieser Phillips u

John Piropato u

Joanne Ritter Pugh

Marie Carlos Raver

Matthew H. Raver

Michele Hotchkiss Reilly

Debra L. Reynolds

Christine O’Sullivan Ricker

Brian E. Rosenberger

Christine Battaglini Rosenberger

John A. Ross Jr.

Howard I. Rubenstein

Kerry Langell Rubenstein

Joan E. Rueckert

John R. Sardella

Margaret Keane Sardella

Lisa Cleland Schug

Colleen M. Sheehan

Leah Feuerberg Sider

Virginia Little Thompson

Julie M. Trivisonno-Pace

Christopher Warren

Sheree Ziskin Waterous

Kathy L. Watrous

Peter M. Wells

Kathleen LaRock Woods

1 9 8 8

Participation: 8 percent

Total Raised: $6,155

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Michael A. Vela

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Diane Grix Cichy

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Donna M. Margine u

Sharon Brownell Redfield

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Kim Doody George u

James J. Mango u

John I. McBride

Emily Rinehart Richards

William G. Richards u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jack F. Bambace u

Christopher J. Baron u

Carmen Ziccolella Bates

Dean A. Berardo

Henry C. Boshart

Gregory P. Brewster u

William R. Brown u

Dawn M. Burdick u

Mary Ann Burns

Kevin M. Byrne

Thomas M. Cameron

Pennie Howd Carlo

Bonnie King Comella

Kevin I. Conly

Nancy L. Crawford

Kristen Erwin Culkin

Mr. Kevin Byrne-Darlin

Mary Martello DePalma

Lisa Wedel Drozd

Loren Duffy Farah

Carol Anne Fisher Florkowski

Elizabeth Rank Gallup u

Kathleen Maloney Garay u

William C. Gardinier u

Jane Earl Giambrone

Matthew Giansante

Gary A. Greer u

Nancy E. Grossman u

Lynn M. Halliwell

Amy Knapp Harper

Zoe Miller Hicks

Mary Eblacker Hill

Robert D. Hill

John A. Hoffmann

Brian K. Hoyt u

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 17

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

David A. Johnson

Jeffrey S. Kern

Lawrence B. King

Christine M. Kisiel u

Mary Ann Cleary Knapp

Barbara Dailey Kramer

Carolyn R. Lampman

Daniel F. Lord

Mary Lynne MacDonald Malone

Frederick E. Marienfeld III

Jean M. Matuszewski

Andrew J. Milone

Patricia Stanley Noblett

Thomas C. Ogden

Stephanie Pappas-Seifert

James J. Peraino

Rosemary A. Phillips

Dennis W. Poyer

Melissa L. Quimby

Betty J. Rauhe

Robert M. Reagan

Roger K. Recker

Darla Hoerner Redding

Michael R. Reeder u

Thomas E. Reilly u

Deborah Geiger Roberts

Gregory M. Schmalz

William S. Sheehy

Darlene Harvey Sheffer

Nicholas J. Siany

Judith Browne Sides

Catherine Smith

Marie G. Souvenir

Daniel Stehm

Sally Ann State Stehm

Thomas C. Stephens

Linda Staurowsky Trevor

Bruce R. Tytler

Robert J. VanValkenburgh u

Katherine Barney Wagner u

Lisa L. Whitcombe u

Diane Peabody White

Martin C. White

Alice Holzhauer Willingham

Barbara Booth Wilson

Barbara J. Youmans

Patricia J. Zappala

1 9 8 9

Participation: 7 percent

Total Raised: $6,660

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Joseph C. Iorizzo u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

James S. Barry u

Daniel G. Cichy

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Edward W. Stickles u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Erika M. Adams

Michael T. Adey

Judith Sparks Arlington u

Christopher J. Bablin

David R. Banas

Rosemary DeRado Barletta

Cathy L. Beerman

June Rosati Bernardini

Todd R. Bogenschutz

Bettyann Falcone Bohringer

Grace M. Braniff u

Lisa Pietrocarlo Brignall u

Constance H. Brown u

Susan Meyer Bundschuh

Timothy J. Caracciolo

Nancy J. Carroll

Lisa Stevens Czajka

Shawn Mahoney Danus

Andrea La Mendola Dayton

Bradley S. Dayton

Danielle Terry Demarest

Sharleen Niles Dunbar

Mary M. Dunn

Chad M. Eassa

Marcia W. Emmerich

Eileen Fitzgerald Spiehs

Caryn Conners Flaherty

Katherine Wiedeman

Giansante

Gary R. Giewat

Kelly McKeon Giewat

Danielle Bartow Grant

Eric C. Hartz

Susan Duff Harvey

Melanie Gallagher Hoffmann u

Christina Sileno Hopper u

John M. Hopper u

David Kelly

David E. Klem

Stephen J. Komanecky

Jeffrey N. Levine

Michael J. Lilac

Elizabeth Raymond Lynch

Jeanne R. Lyons

Peter L. Maitland

Timothy J. Mallery

James R. Marzec

Ricardo J. Mauro

Bonni Fidelman McCoy

Deanna Witham McGregor

Bonnie Schwartz Milone

Lisa K. Montgomery

Peter A. Morenus

David M. Nellis u

Barbara Spaulding Nelson

Amy C. Norton

Allison Hall O’Hara

David M. Pitcher

Susan J. Pizzola u

Daniel T. Pone

James E. Povero

Beverley Rounds Rice

Patrick J. Rice u

Eric W. Roy u

Kathleen M. Russell

Pamela Leopard Ryan

Jo Ann Sabourin

John Schillaci

Thomas P. Schmandt u

Darlene Demmin Senko

Karen Calabro Shirley

William T. Sickinger u

Tamala Scherfling Smith

Ann Marie Stasiukiewicz Soto

Sandra L. Southworth

Pamela Kenyon Stephens

Scott L. Strebel

Ellen Eschbach Sweeney

Timothy D. Uetz

Carole Gensicki VanBuren

D. A. Wakefield

Carolynn Foster Walsleben

Kimothy Cowan Warren

John D. Wise

Brenda Brown Zariczny

1 9 9 0

Participation: 5 percent

Total Raised: $5,500

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Pamela Longin Vela

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Kevin M. Conley

Marsha L. Mullen

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Nick Amodio

Andrew T. Spence

Beth A. Tartaglia

Suzette A. Warren

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Cindy Ray Argiros

Sandra Blendell Banas

Nancy L. Blessing

Timothy L. Bloom

Wendy McGrogan Bonomo

Amy Boquist

Suellen Bowe

Regina M. Boyd

Francis X. Brennan Jr.

Douglas S. Brown

James M. Brown

Coleen Dunn Brunken

Lisa Cannon Bryant

Michael Bundschuh

John J. Cain

Ann Marie Dalton Carroll

Michael T. Clark

Heidi Kaye Coliskey

Laura Bland Conti

Carol A. Cook

Robert A. Crabtree

Joseph Czajka

Keith L. Declercq

Linda M. DeForest

David S. Dercola

Debra C. Desnoyers

John J. Dixon

Mary E. Fairchild

Christine Szalach Finn

Mary Diraffaele Fiscarelli

Patrick A. Flamio

Kathleen Ryan Gallagher

Peter M. Hannigan

Joyce Savelli Hanrahan

Ann J. Haynes

Darlene Hall Huff

Leslie Duszynski Kannus

Benjamin M. Karas

Deborah L. Keenly-Truex

Michele Stagliano Kelley

Kevin Kucko

Kristine M. La Paglia

Douglas B. Larison

Marcia Clemens Ludwig

Andrew P. Lutz

James R. Lyke

Kristen McCann Maggiolino

Thomas P. Maggiolino Jr.

Christopher B. Manaseri

Marilyn Fessler Mann

Bernard E. McDermott

Amy Arseneault Militi

Ann Marie Geheb Miller

William B. Miller

Timothy S. O’Connell

Robert P. Pelton

Robert D. Powell

Katherine M. Przygocki

Robert C. Reakes

Joseph N. Reilly

Thomas Richardson u

Robert E. Rovegna

Anna L. Russell

Jeffrey D. Russell

Vaughn B. Sayles Jr.

Marla Schneider

Donald K. Secrest

Richard R. Share II

Gerald E. Soborowski

lthough she only graduated last

year, Alicia Grisel ’07 realizes

the impact that being a Dragon

Dialer, or student caller, for the SUNY

Cortland College Foundation has had on

her young career.

“I didn’t seek out the position specifi-

cally,” said Grisel, who majored in health

science and worked in the Call Center

in Brockway Hall from October 2005 to

October 2006. “But, I thought I would

give it a try. The experience led me to an

internship and it certainly opened up a

new career direction for me.”

In addition to the salary she earned

to support her college expenses, being a

student caller led her to an internship in

the health field.

While talking with an alumnus on

the phone during one of her shifts,

Grisel learned of an internship with the

New York State Department of Health’s

Central New York Regional Office in

Syracuse.

“Callers were matched with like-

majored alumni so we could talk with

them on a more personal level about

our experiences and theirs,” said Grisel,

who interned with the New York State

Department of Health from May 2007

through January 2008. “It was a fun

atmosphere to work in.”

The opportunity encouraged Grisel to

apply for a position outside of her major

and one that would raise money for

higher education.

“It opened up doors to lead me where

I am today,” said Grisel, a development

research associate in the SUNY Oswego

College Foundation. “Being a caller defi-

nitely influenced the path that I took.”

Call centers are important to the alum-

ni and students because of the relationships

that are built between the alumni, the stu-

dents and the College, said Jennifer Janes,

director of The Cortland Fund.

“Student callers build rapport and

connections with alumni,” she said.

“Students serve as a voice for SUNY

Cortland. It allows alumni to ask ques-

tions and have a conversation with the

students. Phone calls are much more per-

sonal than receiving a letter.”

Michele Stagliano Kelley ’90 relished

the experience the Call Center gave her.

“I worked as a caller for about three

years,” said Kelley, a stay-at-home mom

and personal fitness trainer who lives in

Palm Harbor, Fla. “It was a great job to

be able to connect with alumni and gave

me confidence for the jobs that I had in

advertising and sales after college.”

Kelley, a communication studies

major, was a Dragon Dialer when the

Call Center, which began in 1984, was

part of the Alumni Affairs Office and

located in Corey Union. She recalls rais-

ing money for the restoration of Brown

Auditorium in Old Main.

“It feels like it was just yesterday,”

Kelley said. “Alumni seemed to enjoy

talking with us about their experiences

and about ours. They had a fondness for

SUNY Cortland and wanted to give back.

It showed that people cared about the

College so much.”

Although Nicholas Patrello ’03

graduated a decade after Kelley and made

his calls in Studio West, his sentiments

toward the Call Center mirror hers.

“It was awesome,” said Patrello, a

fourth-grade teacher at PS 97 in the

Bronx, N.Y. “I loved it because I got to

know people and talk to them about

changes that were happening at the

College. It provided me with a good

sense of the school from those that left.”

Named “Top Caller of the Year”

in 2003 for raising the most funds that

year, Patrello learned why giving back to

SUNY Cortland is so important while he

was a Dragon Dialer.

“I understand the process a little

more and why students call alumni,”

he explains. “The experience also helped

me learn what the money goes toward

and how it really affects programs for

students and faculty.”

During the 2007-08 fiscal year, Call

Center gifts totaled $236,460. The funds

are used for student scholarships, aca-

demic program support, international

programs, civic engagement and learn-

ing activities, cultural arts programming,

technology enhancements and faculty

research and development.

The Call Center currently houses

15 workstations on the third floor of

Brockway Hall. The center formerly used

a hard copy, manual data collection sys-

tem but last fall installed a computerized

operation.

“The new system allows students to

be more efficient because they don’t have

to spend time filing,” said Janes. “The

time they spent filing now gives students

an opportunity to have more meaningful

conversations with alumni.”

Call Center Prepares Dragon Dialers for Future Endeavors

SUNY Cortland Dragon Dialers begin their shift in the Call Center located in Brockway Hall.

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

18 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Michele Lockwood Stang u

Cindy Foster Steinmetz

Joan Tinkham

Debora Tracy-Hirsch

Jill Mazzuca Trees

Rosemary Luckman Vahey u

Cynthia Nestor Wadsworth

Jeffrey A. Walsh

Mary K. Whiting

Barbara L. Wood

Steven C. Woodard

David P. Zariczny

1 9 9 1

Participation: 5 percent

Total Raised: $6,433

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Lisa Marsh Ryerson u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Anonymous

Timothy J. Henry

Michael J. Reed

Andrea Baldwin Regan

Cynthia Brooking Siddon

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Cerise Harrington Barber

Carol L. Dumka

Michael A. Endieveri

Elizabeth M. Procino

John W. Tillotson

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jodi M. Armstrong u

Andrea Katz Bambace u

Karen Barrie-Camp

David J. Butera

Jeanie Ann Doyle Chambrone

Laurie Wright Comstock

James F. Crunden

Beth Cooper De Maria

Jaime Hummell Demmerle

Michael P. Dolcemascolo

Paul D. Dooling

Rebecca Bechard Eassa

Scott S. Endieveri

Tracy Coffey Ferlito

Erica L. Galbreath

Teresa Smith Gendron

Cathy J. Grant

Daniel C. Green u

Sarah Wolfley Herting u

David J. Honeywell

Maria Bombard Honis

Maureen O’Connor Isaf u

Russell T. Kadziolka

Charles H. Kershaw

Irvin G. King

William M. Klotz

Richard S. Kohn u

Christopher J. Lawrence

Nancy Zangrilli Manley

Annette Gath McMahon

James J. Mescall

Deborah Clouser Middleton

John P. Miller

Thayer Titcomb Miller

Tracy A. Misata

Victoria A. Mitchell

John W. Mushtare

Kimberly Ohlerich O’Rourke

Jean Arnold Penrod

Elizabeth Watkins Persons

Robert B. Peter II u

Jeanne Plagianos-Beseler

Scott A. Raynor

Hector A. Rosado

Jamie Larmondra Ruzekowicz

Julie Poole Ryan

Darcy Van Der Mark Sant

Joseph B. Serrao

Johanna L. Shaw

Jacqueline Simoncini-Flamio

Leigh Anne Sanborn Staudt

Margo Maira Staunton

Nicholas A. Tartaglia

Cristina Bosso Torrelli

Kathleen Sullivan Travers u

Wendy Zieres Uricoli

Bronwen Jones Vannamee

Shawna Smith Vatter

Angela Cipollone White

David W. Wildermuth

1 9 9 2

Participation: 6 percent

Total Raised: $7,837

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Kerri-Ann Catlaw-Berleth

Kristen Ruyack Iorizzo

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marc T. Syracuse

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Scott A. Siddon

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Peter W. Colino u

Deana Mongiove Endieveri

Joe F. Gulick

Charles H. Keenen

Thomas J. Rogan u

Gregory B. Sweeney

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jason F. Aldrich

Dennis R. Alvord

Allison Berlin Armstrong

Dawn Kullmann Bachand

Anthony J. Barone

Dina Agro Buzea

Heather Fromaget Cammann

Mary Jo Carlo

Linda C. Dafoe

Mark Debald

Lisa DeCurtis

Sarah Jaenike Demo

Dennis A. Emerson u

Matthew S. Ferlito

Julie Kimball Geremski

Dennis J. Gibbons

Marie Griffin Gondek

Tammy F. Halpern

Kevin W. Heinz

Susan Hall Heinz

Lisa D. Henderson

Michelle Zeisler Hitchcock

Pamela A. Ihle

John E. Ives

Brian P. Jack

Jean Bradley Johnson

Patricia Ketelsen

Gabriel P. Kiernan

Jenifer Naron Kilroy

Vicky Exford Kolb

Katherine C. Lambert

Claire Leroux-Watrous

Shane G. Lester

Laura Quick Lisitsky

Peggy Welc Lonczak

Joseph A. Luksic

Theodore N. Mancini

Sharon Kelly Migliaccio

Martha G. Murray

Susan Elaine Fiorenza

Musshafen

James K. Naab u

Melissa Greco Natale u

David B. O’Rourke

Donna M. Ott

Francesca Bartolotta Pecorale

Ralph H. Pecorale

Tammy Cornell Perkins u

Janet M. Peters

Christine M. Plisky

Joseph C. Polito

Jayne B. Port

Robert K. Rademacher

Christine Healy Radomski u

Kelli Lyn Hawk Raynor

Jeannine Blann Reyngoudt

Donna Guyle Rogers

Alan C. Rood

Christopher Roy

Kristen Ferradino Roy u

Michele Holland Schantz u

Darrell E. Schoenl u

Jennifer King Schultz

Lisa Rimbey Serrao

Irving R. Seymour Jr.

Peter H. Shapiro

Deborah Hassett Simmons

Kevin R. Simmons

Dana Krauss Singer

Margaret Winger Steinacher

Rhaenel T. Stone

Michael D. Terboss

Matthew G. Titus

Marianne Nessmiller Van Cott u

Kimberly Swiss VanDresar

Laurie J. Vosburgh

Kenneth C. Ward

Patrick M. Weir

David A. Weiss

Angela Del Giorno Williams

Chrissy M. Wright

Patricia Gallagher Zuck

Carol A. Zygo

1 9 9 3

Participation: 5 percent

Total Raised: $11,697

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Barry J. Thornton II u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Michael A. Urtz u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Mary E. Doss u

Cindy Mardenfeld

Sandra Bradley Odell

Kristen Fox Rogan

Traci Stewart St. Denis

Brian L. Williams

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Gregory R. Amante

Gina Conte Barnum

Margaret Waters Bauer

Matthew J. Bauer

Mark F. Bednarski

Terence J. Benzi

Michelle Linden Birnbaum

Kevin M. Brocker

Patricia A. Ceglio-Chillemi

David M. Christian

Alisha Foggo Constantino

Thomas J. Cranfield

Peggy L. Cripps

Elizabeth Wall De Furio

Krista Fischette Drake

Matthew A. Ferguson

Danielle Antonetti Giambrone

Janine A. Giordano

Colleen Holl Harbold

Alicia Cavallo Hughes

Susan Gmelin Ives

Karen Zwiren Jacobs

Julie Deneen Johnson

Ingrid H. Jordak

Michael D. Katz

Mary M. Kerin

Kimberly A. Kinirons

James R. Knittel

Michael A. Kroemer

Annmarie Raleigh Lebeau

Joanne Durant Makarchuk

Dawn Klammer Marinich

Scott W. Marinich

Mary Hennessey Mazzarella

James J. McCormack III

Laura Patterson McCoy

Ann Tom McDonell

Linda D. Miller

Erin O’Brien Mulligan

Jane Ruotolo Murray

Deanne Yanis Newman

William M. Newman

Barbara A. Nies

Michael Osborn

Michelle Minoia Peter

Sara Costin Pickett

James M. Pidgeon

Todd M. Pierson

Nancy Brennan Poulis

Bonnie Southworth

Quackenbush

Karen Gromoll Reese

Nicole Gold Roby

Camille Peynado Ruiz

Russell R. Ruter

Kathryn S. Sabino

Suzann Breslin Schmanski

Brian D. Schoen

Kirstjan E. Seago u

Jennifer Shanahan

Alayna Bennett Shipley

Kathleen Siracusa

Zaron A. Spector

Michele Camp Teek

Stacey Mizerak Terry

Barbara Dunckel Tompkins

Jerry G. Treadwell

James T. Utter

Janine Hamilton Walsh

Denise L. Ward

Elizabeth Furey Witkoski

Betty J. Yaples

1 9 9 4

Participation: 5 percent

Total Raised: $5,596

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Thomas C. Babcock u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Brian T. Tobin u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Erin McDonough Reed

Matthew D. Sacco

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Mary B. Leary u

Jefferson J. O’Connell

Mark J. Yacavone

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Peter H. Akins u

Colleen Sullivan Aliperti

Lori Flaherty Arduini

Samantha Cross Augur

Scott M. Bennett

Christine Lewis Bonilla

Joseph D. Cantales

Craig R. Charette

Steven R. Ciancio Jr.

Marie E. Clark

Ellen Burtch Connors

Carrie Calkins Cook

Jamal L. Cromity

Kelly Lightcap Daley

Thomas D. Darling

Marcus J. Di Giovanni

Melissa Hallett Di Giovanni

Theodore J. Dieumegard

Katherine Munding DiMarco

Daniel R. Donato

Marcy A. Ellis

Susan S. Fertig

Timothy J. Fisher

Susan Watkins Fratanduono

Arthur J. Graham III

David L. Greene

Amy Riedel Heuson

David E. John

Lorna J. Kerwin

Suzanne McEwan Kienzle

Nicole Dawson Klammer

Matthew J. Lawton

Kimberley A. Lopez

Dawn Colvin Ludovici

John J. Mahoney II

Meghan G. Mahoney

James N. Manchester

Yukako Nakamura Masuda

Richard A. Materese

Nora Williams Matthews

Mira Young McEwan

Shirley E. Mudge

William J. Mullarney

Christian M. Neary

George R. Nettleton

Michael J. Norris

Dale A. Palmatier

Julie A. Petrosino

Amanda L. Robinson

Keri Swoboda Rodriguez

Matthew E. Schilling

Eric Schmanski

Stacia Stuhler Schoen

William J. Seifert

Mark W. Shoemaker

Nicole Salisbury Siglin

Mary S. Songster-Alpin

Corey B. Stricker

Keri Wicklund Stromski

Hilary Rozek Terboss

Debra L. Titus

Timothy G. Watson

1995

Participation: 3 percent

Total Raised: $1,934

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Anonymous

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Janine Vance Allington

Erin Sheedy Bednarski

Alicia L. Berwind

Melisa J. Blankenberg

Elizabeth A. Brunelle

Anthony E. Burnette

Kimberly D. Cameron

Nicole Vieau Cecil

Richard B. Chapman

Shelly Swartele Connors

Tah’mar Grant Cromity

Laura Buckley Crounse

Amy S. Doelling

Michelle Barrows Episale

Brendan J. Flaherty

Victoria L. Gray

Kellie Wilson Gregoire

JoEllen Louey Habel

Jeremy J. Hilts

Kenneth R. Kienzle

Teresa A. La Salle

Jason F. Lehmbeck

Kenneth M. McCabe

Mary J. McGrattan

Ann E. Orman

Amy Dellow O’Shea

Eric J. Potter

either Wendy Foldes nor anyone in her family has

attended or worked for SUNY Cortland. Foldes

comes from the school of hard knocks. But she

thinks that having a college education is important, which is

why she has made a bequest in her will to make it easier for

students to attend SUNY Cortland.

“Education is super important,” noted Foldes, who grew

up in Endwell, N.Y. “I attended the University of Bridgeport

in Connecticut and left before the end of my first semester.

It was just not my cup of tea. Someone asked me about 20

or more years ago now where I received my master’s degree

and I burst out laughing and said, ‘Street Junior College

and Real Life University.’ It has worked well for me, but I

encourage young people to get a degree.”

Foldes, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., and turned 60 this

past year, reviewed her estate to decide how she would

divide it up after she is deceased. She decided that a percent-

age would go to fund a scholarship in her mother’s name

at SUNY Cortland to help a student who wants to major in

physical education and has financial need.

“Wendy first contacted me through SUNY Cortland’s

planned giving Web site,” said Peter VanderWoude, man-

ager of planned gifts for the Cortland College Foundation.

“I was able to help her designate her future gift with proper

wording so that her mother’s memory would be honored

with a scholarship.”

“My mother, Gladys ‘Peg’ Foldes, grew up in

Schenectady, N.Y., and she wanted to become a physical

education teacher,” Foldes said. “When she graduated from

high school during the Depression, there was no money for

her to go to college. I was thinking about my mother’s life

and thought it would be nice to establish a scholarship in

her name.”

When considering what college she would name in her

estate plans, Foldes thought about Cortland.

“I grew up in Endwell and many of my friends were in

the class of 1969 at SUNY Cortland,” Foldes said. “Mom

never mentioned a specific school, but Cortland has a great

reputation for training teachers and it is close to both of

mom’s homes.”

Since Foldes included the Cortland College Foundation

in her estate plans, she is recognized through the Lofty

Elm Society, named after the first verse in the Alma Mater.

Members — composed of alumni, faculty, staff, emeriti and

friends — are honored by the College and invited to campus

twice a year for a recognition dinner and a performing arts

play.

“Wendy Foldes adopted SUNY Cortland and, in turn,

we have adopted her,” said VanderWoude.

Foldes attended the Lofty Elm Society dinner this past

April and hopes to make it to the College once a year to

attend the event.

“This scholarship is special because my mother couldn’t

afford to go to school and she was a very bright woman and

a good athlete,” said Foldes. “If this scholarship even helps

one person it will be worth it.”

“SUNY Cortland is very grateful for friends, like Wendy

Foldes, who have planned an ultimate gift for the College,”

VanderWoude said. “Planned gifts such as Wendy’s will

make the dream of a SUNY Cortland education for future

students in physical education.”

In 1965, Foldes applied to SUNY Cortland after graduat-

ing from Maine-Endwell (N.Y.) High School. Her mother

wanted her to become a teacher, but after attending college for

a semester she decided that it was not going to work for her.

“I was a real gypsy,” she said. “That’s where I learned

what I know through living, different jobs, cities and

people. I had 24 jobs and 26 addresses in 22 years. I came

to the Sarasota area, where my parents retired, and became

a licensed real estate broker, something that I still do full

time.”

Foldes, the youngest of her parents’ three children, has

lived in Florida for more than 21 years.

“My parents were great travelers,” Foldes said. “My

mom wanted to go back to Bali after my father passed in

2001, so we signed up for a tour. Then Sept. 11 happened

and when I asked if she still wanted to travel she said, ‘darn

tootin’ I still want to go.’ It was a beautiful island. I stayed

in touch with two of the guides and decided that I had to

go back.”

In 2005, Peg Foldes passed away. In September 2008,

Wendy went back to Bali where she saw her old friends and

made new ones. This time around, Foldes chose to spread

her philanthropy around more by making a promise to

assist her friends on the island.

After returning home, Foldes is looking to fulfill part of her

mother’s wish that she become a teacher by inquiring about

becoming certified to teach English as a second language.

Daughter’s Planned Gift Honors Mother,

Supports Future Physical Education Majors

Wendy Foldes, right, made a bequest in her will to fund a scholar-

ship in memory of her mother, left, Gladys “Peg” Foldes, to

support future physical education students wishing to attend

SUNY Cortland.

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Michele Petryszyn Ross

Carrie A. Rutkowski

Karriann Dengel Seifert

Roberta S. Sheldon

Elizabeth M. Skinner

Joan M. Sprague

Michelle Konkus Stantz

Brenda McHenry Stricker

Michael C. Sturm

Darin J. Thomas

Eric S. Vincent

Sarah Linko Woodard

Jeffrey A. Yeatts

1 9 9 6

Participation: 4 percent

Total Raised: $3,234

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Marc W. Chamberlain

Wynne Leung

Karen E. Pfeifer

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Sonya A. Comins u

Melissa H. Laskowsky u

S. Nalani Seixas McKenna u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Ellen L. Abend

Robert H. Atten

Terrie Collyer Atwood

Tina Aversano-Sisting

Jerome Bachman

Salama N. Balume

Andrew T. Bisagna

Brian R. Biscari

Tonya L. Brownell

Russell C. Carson

John H Collins III

Diana Hantsch Cornell

Jean M. Czerniawski

Donna Danley Davison

Mark D. Dombrosky

Craig A. Durant

Heather Suzanne Ewy

Cheryl L. Feheley

Matthew D. Gokey

Leah I. Goodman

Diane Irons Hammersley

Miranda Waugaman Kelly

Lesley Moser King

Michael S. Knapp

Linda S. LaDuc

Kenneth J. Leverich

Linda Tierney Markell

Mary Kroboth Materese

David I. Morales u

Mary Biesecker Norris

Brian J. Page

Kathryn Elaine Palmer

Adam Perry

Amy L. Piazza

Stacy Gelardi Piropato

Michelle Pfeifer Potter

John B. Prendergast

David W. Roberts

George M. Sisting

Matthew B. Stark

Sandra Shaw Stokes

Ana C. Tavarez

Nancy Bryant Thomas

Jessica Torres

James P. Walsh

Brian T. Willman

Sharon K. Wormwood

Kelly Danisch Zebro

1997

Participation: 4 percent

Total Raised: $5,341

1868 SOCIETY

Christine Cimino Calabro

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Joanne Barry u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Charlene Rossman Urtz

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Nathan G. Leaman

Steven M. Miller

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Karen Adams u

Jason A. Andrews

Jeanine Kelly Andrews

Mickey C. Bagley

Kaoru Kajita Baker

Ronald R. Beaudoin

Joseph A. Canzano

Bonita B. Carr

Jessica Collins Caruso

Suzanne DeleRaba

Michael S. Dempsey

Jolene Nantista Dombrosky

Bryan Franke

Diane L. Gerhart

Stephen J. Gossin

Jamie Dickman Guiliano

Annette M. Herbert

Christopher L. Iozzo

Keir D. Johnson

Frank R. Jokinen

Grant M. Kirk

Peter A. Klammer

Simone L. Lanning

Sharon A. Leventhal

Laura Litjes Lofberg

Thomas J. Lofberg

Annie Matuszewski Madden

Janet Canavan Owens

Jennifer Gurdak Piekielniak

Douglas E. Premo

Bonnie Fradenburg Prendergast

Jose O. Rodriguez

Christopher C. Rurak

Susan A. Schaefer

Karin Federico Schroeder

Allison E. Sesso

David J. Sheedy

Jessica Ellis Sheedy

Gayle J. Simpson

Ann T. Staiger

Timothy Stogsdill

Lois E. Waffner

1 9 9 8

Participation: 3 percent

Total Raised: $2,582

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

John R. Higgitt u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Richard J. Boergers u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Timothy Heaton u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Erica G. Bacsardi

Joseph A. Barbarito

Marcye Gregg Bears

Joseph D. Carusone u

Rhonda L. Clouse

Danielle Eldred Conte

Ilene Davidson-Morrea

Jennifer Kopalek Dempsey

Wendy Puglia DiMeglio

Juliann Donnelly-Bailey

Joseph A. Douglas

Joshua P. Farrelman

Krista A. Harkenrider

Timothy W. Hughes

Lauren Barke Lanzi

Gerald D. Lynch Jr.

Christopher D. Martinkovic

Patrick C. McGowan

Caroline K. Nevil u

Sara St. Pierre Richard

Jennifer Walsh Rurak

Elizabeth Kennedy Russell

Melissa B. Smith

Jeffrey P. Swick

Janice Rhodes Vercolen u

Patricia Vecchio von Mechow u

Laurie A. Woodcock

1 9 9 9

Participation: 3 percent

Total Raised: $1,685

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Deborah A. McCandless

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jessica J. Barnes

Kevin P. Belanger

Melissa Hudson Belanger u

Danielle M. Berchtold

Karen L. Carlson

Dawn M. Crary

Mary B. DeMatteo

Anne V. Dhondt

John E. Douchinsky

Michelle Gibson Fuller

Michael A. Gofkowski

Margaret E. Grabowski

Claudine P. Holtman

Eric C. Moore

Lisa Hayden O’Connor

Robert E. O’Connor

Adam L. Ortiz

Laureen Penney-McGee

Lori J. Rishe

Colleen Stathis Rodriguez

Laura M. Rooney

Kellianne O’Connor Roth

Laurie Thorsen Seamans

Michelle N. Simone

Julie L. Snyder

David A. Struz

Catherine E. Taggart

Michelle O’Connor VanEtten

Anthony J. Vinci

Lara F. Vivolo

Connie L. Whittaker

Matthew J. Widrick

Virginia A. Wright u

2 0 0 0

Participation: 2 percent

Total Raised: $2,809

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Jennifer E. Novesky

Elizabeth G. Spiro

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Leeann M. Achzet u

Joshua C. Bailey

Jennifer Sullivan Bell

Amy L. Berry

Jeffrey M. Caulfield

Elizabeth Karl Conrad

Amanda Anne Deinhardt

Jacob L. Dumesnil

Janice M. Fiore

Karyn A. Gabriel

Kimberly Sweeney Harrison

William L. Holdrege

Amy L. Hotine

Scott F. Jones

Brooke Bornstein Kary

Gloria J. Kopp

Robert S. Magee

Jill L. Marino

Ellen T. McCabe

Allison E. Murphy

Cindy Giudice Ocampo

Christy Wilson Ortiz

Nancy Marshallis Padula

Lynn Belscher Rogers u

Christopher J. Roth

Starla M. Rudolph

Robert J. Samaniuk u

Ms. James A. Zambardino u

Rosemary Zuluaga

2 0 0 1

Participation: 2 percent

Total Raised: $1,706

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

John M. Baran

Rhonda K. Jacobs

Kevin M. St. Pierre

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Kathryn Smith Polumbo

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Michele T. Baran

Sean R. Billings u

Jessica Fralick Butts

Fred W. Deinhardt

John S. Greene

Scott G. Harrison

Michael A. Kennerknecht

Jennifer Lyles-Hammond

Kelly-Anne Moen

Joseph M. Morse

Sara B. Novak

Leslie A. Sewell

Joseph Shaver

Ms. Bruce P. Steinberg

Christopher W. Tucker

Hope B. VanScoy

Joseph V. Vetrano

Arlene Van Alstyne Widrick

2 0 0 2

Participation: 2 percent

Total Raised: $1,225

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Kathleen M. Burns

Jennifer A. Claps

Lauren B. Conlon

Michael L. Damon

Deborah E. Fletcher

Anne M. Geary

Patricia L. Giovannone

June W. Goggi

Stacey B. Gridley

Paul E. Henegan

Brian T. Hoefer

Megan Benjamin

Kennerknecht

Kathryn Thompson Kohlbach

Kendra R. Liddicoat

Andrea M. Mendicino

Mark W. Milone

Charles R. Monteith

Janice K. Morgan

Ann S. Morosi

Laura Prestopnik Morse

Kevin A. Murphy

Peter K. Reyes

Christine M. Reynolds

Christopher Teerlinck

Sandra W. Weigel

John Zarcone

2 0 0 3

Participation: 2 percent

Total Raised: $1,248

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Robert J. Landy

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Majiel Noonan Baker

Nathan L. Baker

Mary Kate Bagley

Amy Pugliano Bauer

John N. Caraccia

Patricia E. Catterfeld

Rebecca A. Coffin

Heather R. Cooper

Kelli A. Cunningham

Jill E. Fitzpatrick

Suzanne R. Geer

Ronnie M. Genee

Robert E. Gleason

Kara Greeley

Peter P. Grossi

Rachel G. Holden u

Kyle J. Johnson

Elaine M. Levitt

Laura M. McCarthy

Suzanne M. Parson

Gabrielle L. Pysnik

Teresa J. Querns

Michael D. Reid

Michael K. Silverman

Bridget T. Sweeney

Susanne L. Tiffany

David W. Weaver

Jacqueline C. Wingert

Patricia L. Zappala

2004

Participation: 1 percent

Total Raised: $720

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Andrea M. Smith

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Jeffrey Franey

Stephanie C. Geidel

Michael J. Hubbs

Suzanne E. Iacone

Theresa Matulich

Deborah J. McKane

Kelly M. Nolan

Amy E. Prosser

Kate M. Rutecki

Jolene N. Schrage

Robert D. Schultz

Danielle M. Sepe

Melanie E. Stevens

Patricia A Taciak

2005

Participation: 2 percent

Total Raised: $1,031

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Beth M. Bojarski

Aaron J. Cantor

Jennifer L. Demarco

Diane Derby-Morbidini

Robert M. DeThomasis

Edward S. Engelman

Kristen L. Fennell

Andrew D. Ferraro

David A. Grow

James J. Gunning

Deborah D. Hills

Cheryl Smith Hines

Alan W. Howell

Scott M. Jeffers

Meghan L. Keefe

Laurie B. Leach

Catherine M. Lee

John O. Little III

Lauren E. Mock

Nicole L. Mudd

Roxanne L. Noble

Hannah S. Olshan

Judd D. Olshan

Elizabeth A. Peters

Margaret Hannan Rider

Kelly A. Small

Tracey L. Smith

2006

Participation: 1 percent

Total Raised: $573

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Patrick J. Aris

Charles M. Baldo

Thomas A. Beatty

Danielle M. Blanchard

Mary Kate Boland

Aurora I. Caamano

Carol Costell Corbin

Theresa R. Coscia

Sean T. Cunningham

Tiffany M. Hosmer

William L. Kunzig

Colleen M. MacDonald

Kevin G. Misiano

Marissa Turner Paquin

Phillip R. Parillo

Matthew S. Pitti

Kristy A. Richko

Rance P. Sechrist

Bethany S. Stevenson

Amber C. West

2007

Participation: 1 percent

Total Raised: $175

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Brooke E. Fallon

Alicia A. Grisel

2008

Total Raised: $495.32

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Joyce E. Chamberlain

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

James P. Barracca

Leslie A. Cole

Emeline M. Himes

Kathryn H. Hudy

Robert P. Kirshner

Kathryn E. Lester

Craig C. Moyse

Christine E. Schacht

Jean M. Silecchia

Gregory S. Sims

Faculty, Staff

And Emeriti

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY

George L. McDermott

Marcia Spaeth McDermott

Willi A. Uschald

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Kenneth P. Wickman

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Whitney T. Corey ’43 u

LYCEUM SOCIETY

LaRetha Leyman u

Angela Pace u

Breta C. Sisson ’68 u

1868 SOCIETY

James M. Clark u

Elizabeth Davis-Russell u

John L. Fauth u

J. Robert Johnson ’58 u

Antoinette Tiburzi u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous

Erik J. Bitterbaum

Peter J. Cahill ’66 u

Shirley Reome Cahill ’66 u

Marcia K. Carlson u

Douglas DeRancy ’75 u

Janet M. Duncan u

Raymond D. Franco ’72 u

Karen M. Hempson ’78 u

Joy L. Hendrick u

Yvonne M. Murnane u

Mark J. Prus u

Joel L. Shatzky u

William E. Shaut u

Jack C. Sheltmire ’73 u

Joan C. Sitterly u

Matthew A. Steenberg u

Alice A. Walker

Robert H. Wallace ’53

Sally Yaeger Wallace ’53 u

Dana C. Wavle u

Susan M. Wilson u

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Marley Sweet Barduhn ’76 u

Joanne Barry ’97 u

Virginia Springer Booth u

Van A. Burd u

Susana M. Davidenko u

Esther F. Doherty u

Norbert W. Haley u

J. Richard Kendrick u

Peter D. Koryzno u

Donna Mahar

Thomas Newkirk

Richard C. Peagler u

Robert E. Rhodes ’53 u

John M. Sternfeld

Nancy Sternfeld

Brian T. Tobin ’94

Gail Wood u

Arden P. Zipp u

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Gradin V. Avery u

Theodore G. Fay u

Norma J. Helsper u

Amy L. Henderson-Harr ’83 u

Bonni C. Hodges u

Rhonda K. Jacobs ’01 u

Michael Katz u

Samuel L. Kelley u

Thomas Lickona u

Donna M. Margine ’88 u

Gerard C. Mergardt ’63

David L. Miller

Sheila Morse

Mary K. Murphy

Sandra Bradley Odell ’93

Nasrin Parvizi

Nanette Pasquarello u

Thomas Pasquarello u

William F. Sharp u

Linda Simmons u

John D. Snell u

Sherry L. Snell u

Michael A. Urtz ’93 u

Beulah Wang u

Mary Ware u

Mark J. Yacavone ’94 u

Charles Yaple ’72 u

Anderson B. Young u

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Anonymous

Seth N. Asumah

Laurie A. Barton u

Linda L. Battin u

Michael D. Berzonsky

Sonya A. Comins ’96

John Cottone u

Hazel Cramer u

Katherine Graham u

Jennifer Janes u

Peter Jeffers u

Kent A. Klanderman

Jerome O’Callaghan

Roy H. Olsson

Michael Pitcher

Chris M. Poole

Tracy M. Rammacher

James T. Reese

Thomas J. Spanbauer ’83

Gerald Surette

William J. Tomik ’51

Paula N. Warnken u

Jennifer R. Wilson u

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous (2)

Dale A. Anderson

Lynn S. Anderson u

Tina Aversano-Sisting ’96

Darci E. Bacigalupi

JoEllen Bailey

Michele T. Baran ’01 u

David J. Barclay u

Timothy J. Baroni

Barry L. Batzing

Katherine J. Becker ’03

Mary Kate Boland ’06

Thomas L. Bonn

Erin H. Boylan u

Heather Bridge

Elizabeth A. Brunelle ’95

Frank A. Burdick

Thomas Butcher ’71 u

Edward Caffarella u

Terence E. Cahill

Jerome Casciani

Patricia E. Catterfeld ’03

Mark O. Cerosaletti

Mary L. Cervoni

Betsy Cook Cheetham ’80

Sheila G. Cohen

Mark Connell

Carol Costell Corbin ’06

Amy B. Dahlman ’77

Brent Danega

Jamie Faricellia Dangler ’80

Steven Dangler u

Kory T. David ’00

Alyson Dearie

Marc C. Dearstyne u

Marilyn DeLorenzo

Anthony DeRado

Mark A. Dodds

Jeremiah Donovan

Sherry L. Ellis

Gary E. Evans

Dan C. Farris

George C. Fuge ’49

Dianne Lowie Galutz ’73

Patricia L. Garrighan

Michelina L. Gibbons

Joseph F. Governali u

Sanford Gutman u

Herbert Haines u

Johanna Sweeney Hartnett ’76

Gretchen Herrmann

Roger C. Hill u

Cheryl Smith Hines ’05 u

William M. Hopkins u

Kathleen Howarth u

Martha Howlett

Maureen O’Connor Isaf ’91

Robert S. Isaf ’65 u

Jarra F. Jagne

Kathleen L. Jensen

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

Ingrid H. Jordak ’93

Nancy Kane

Lorraine M. Khouri

Elizabeth Klein

Laurie K. Klotz

R. Lawrence Klotz

Stanley Kullman

Peter D. Lalla

Virginia B. Levine u

Darleen Lieber

Paula Lundberg

Steven C. Lundberg u

Thomas A. Maroney

Virginia Marty

Wendy McAllister

Peter McGinnis u

Glen M. McNeal

Lorraine M. Melita

Steven Meyer u

Joy Mosher

Linda Mosher

R. Eugene Nacci u

Mechthild E. Nagel

David E. Neal

Colleen Keefe North ’49

Hannah S. Olshan ’05

Joseph S. Onello

Linda S. Parmiter

Timothy P. Phillips ’81

Catherine Porter Lewis

Charles Poskanzer

Kevin P. Pristash ’85 u

Leonard F. Ralston u

David G. Ritchie u

Brian R. Rivest u

A. Lee Roberts u

Thomas P. Rogan ’67 u

Mitchell Seamans u

Arthur Shedd

Patricia Shedd

John Shirley

Keith D. Smith

Ernest D. Spainhower ’68

Alexander P. Spence

June E. Sprague

Christy A. Stevens

Michael Stoll Jr.

Julie Taibi

Arnold Talentino

Frederick Taube

James F. Thorpe

Barbara Toomey

Christopher W. Tucker ’01

Louis Vanaria

Melinda VanEtten

Laurie J. Vosburgh ’92

Gilda Haines Votra u

Melony A. Warwick u

Laurence M. Webster u

Michael J. Whitlock u

Marc Wildman u

Glenn W. Wright

Julian H. Wright

Virginia A Wright ’99 u

Jeannette H. Yeoman u

Jeremy Zhe-Heimerman

Tiantian Zheng

Sarah R. Zipp

David H. Zodikoff ’57

Friends,

Foundations

And

Organizations

THE ILLUMINATION

SOCIETY

Auxiliary Services Corp. u

Estate of Elsie C. Brauer

SUNY Cortland Student

Government Association

Fred Nicaise

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Campus Artist and Lecture Series

Theta Phi Sorority

Amy Volk u

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Louise M. Conley u

Stephen G. Corey

Matthew M. Gallagher

James McKee Jr. and

Doris N. McKee Family

Charitable Foundation

Adam Kradyna

M & T Charitable Foundation

T. Rowe Price Program for

Charitable Giving

LYCEUM SOCIETY

Paul W. Blanchard and

Suzy D. Blanchard

Jean K. Cadwallader and

William P. Cadwallader

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund u

LaRetha Leyman u

Russell Steenberg and

Patricia Colbert

Giving Clubs

CORTLAND PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

ILLUMINATION SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($50,000 and up)

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . ($25,000 – $49,999)

PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE . ($10,000 – $24,999)

LYCEUM SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($5,000 – $9,999)

1868 SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($1,868 – $4,999)

COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND . . . ($1,000 – $1,867)

CORTLAND TRADITION OF GIVING

HILLTOP SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($500 – $999)

OLD MAIN SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($250 – $499)

RED AND WHITE SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ($150 – $249)

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .($1 – $149)

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 19

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

1868 SOCIETY

Central New York Community

Foundation

Margaret I. Gibson

Christopher Morris

O’Heron Newman Foundation

Charles H. Spaulding and

Elizabeth S. Spaulding

Sport Management Club u

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous (2)

4Charity Foundation, Inc.

Donald W. Farley Jr.

Robert C. Howe

Patricia B. Mounser u

George M. Rich u

Rochester Area Community

Foundation

James R. Schafer

Siegle Foundation, Inc.

Victor G. Siegle and

Ann Siegle

Mary E. King Smith

Lynn B. Steenberg

William R. Wirth and

Marjrie Coolidge Wirth

Bettie Lee Yerka

HILLTOP SOCIETY

Richard Clark u

Norma Coates u

Friends of the Biology

Department

Thomas B. Galton

Mary Alice Haley u

Mildred B. Horak

Jeanne Hulsen

Lucinda Marder

Betty K. Petrie

Carol Ann Ramsey

Jane Honig Weinberger u

Western NY Chapter

SUNY Cortland

Alumni Assoc.

Betty Jo White

Katherine S. Wickwire

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Anonymous

Charles S. Adams Jr.

Clare E. Avery u

Thomas R. Branca and

Geraldine S. Branca

Cortland Old Timers Band

Michael Donovan u

Mary Goldman u

David Goodstein and

Olga Perkovic

Gospel Choir Singers

Allan Hoerup

Irish Cultural Society of the

Greater Garden City Area Inc.

Rhona and Michael Kenneally

Judith Lickona

Matthew J. Murphy

Jeffrey B. Sellon

Elizabeth A. Sharp

Donald Simmons

A. J. Smith and Susan Smith

Mary F. Stuck

Marshall Thrailkill u

David Thuente and

Mary Helen Thuente

United Way of Greater

Rochester, Inc.

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Margaret Adams u

Lisa L. Court u

Kaye DeLano

Stuart R. Douglas

Rosebud Sophia Elijah

Friends of Gospel Choir

Dale George u

Philip L. Kirstein u

Darryl Mallah u

Rockland Milne and

Lindsey Milne

Carol E. Palmiotto

William Parks and

Margaret Parks

Susan McMahon Schuldeis u

Robert Skala and Cindy Skala

Karin J. Spencer and

Marisa L. Hoheb

Stephen Stuart

Cynthia Willcox Stubbs

Karen Thompson

Rebecca Sheldon Tillotson

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

Stephen Abramson

Carl Ahnert

Robert L. Alston

Yvonne Alston

Paula Apicella

Sally Bagley

Julie L. Barclay u

Ken Barclay u

Marjorie R. Beard

Robert S. Becker

Nancy Beninati and

Angelo Beninati

Philip Bennett

Raymond Bernick

Jonathan Billing

Ronald F. Blake

Elaine L. Bloom and Larry Bloom

Ellen Bonn

Jeremy Boylan u

Mary Breunig u

Gunter Bruckner and

Martha Bruckner

Susanne Buck

Mary Buckley and

Daniel P. Buckley

Susan K. Burcroff

Brenda Caldwell

James Cassidy and

Linda B. Cassidy

Center for Intercultural &

Gender Studies

Richard A. Chalmers and

Susan M. Chalmers

Christ Presbyterian Church

Linda Ciulla

Martin Clark and Eileen Clark

Victoria Cole

Annemarie Colino u

Cindy Compangi

Jason G. Corey

Harold J. Cornelius

David Costill

John Coulter and Pris Coulter

Marge Counsilman

Pamela Cowan

Joan Cullin

Charles T. Culver

Lona D’Entrone

Michael J. Daley and

Ann C. Daley

David Darrell

Richard D. Davis

Elizabeth S. Dean

Sharon Dearstyne

John deFrances

Vicky Delaney

Kathleen M. Devine

James S. Donnelly and

Joan M. Donnelly

Robert Dorn

Anna Drake u

Jacquelin Drucker

Joseph Duseau

Susan K. Egan u

Francis J. Eldredge and

Carol B. Eldredge

Kelly Evans

Jametta R. Felts

Salvatore Ferro and Joan Ferro

Mallary S. Field

Ford Foundation

Robert Francisco and Marilyn

Francisco

Friends of Clayton Alcorn

Friends of Dr. Maureen

O’Rourke Murphy ’62

Friends of Metcalf

Elizabeth W. Golden

Jane M. Goldman

John Gonino and Linda Gonino

Arlene Granet

Maureen Green

Lynn Griffin

Cheryl Gucwa

Sally Gulbin

Elizabeth Hannon

Thomas Hay

Linda A. Heyne

Robert E. Howell and

Dorothy Howell

Scott Huczko

Allen Hurd

William F. Huther

Gregory S. Inman

Karlyn I. Jackson

Daniel H. Jacobs

Christopher Johnson

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Sandra S. Johnson

Edward Jones

Sofia G. Kakoulidis

Harvey L. Kelley and

Dorothy J. Kelley

Elizabeth A. Kempter

Donald C. Kerwin u

Jerald Keselman u

Douglas K. Kessler u

Judy Kieffer

George Klein

Janice Koch

Judith Koodin

Diane Kost

Robert Kunisch

Brian Lacy

Jim Lamond

Mary Beth Lamond

Cindy Lang

Emmet Larkin and

Dianne W. Larkin

Helen Latimer

Karen Latimer

Fred Leff

Kerri Lehmbeck

Ralph Lethi

Mary Levine

Cassandra M. Lewis

Andrea S. Libresco and

Michael D’Innocenzo

Kathryn Lilac

Literacy Department

Edwin Lundberg

Patricia Lustgarten

James MacKillop and

Patricia MacKillop

Bruce MacKenzie

Victor Malta

Robert Marsh

David Martin u

Richard K. Matlick

Paul McCabe

Lawrence McCaffrey and

Joan McCaffrey

Patricia McGivern

Judith Mehlenbacher

Thomas Meldrim

Willie Mae Miller

John Minckler u

Carrie H. Mitchell

Jessica A. Moquin

John W. Mosser and

Jane R. Mosser

Mountianview Squares

Cynthia Moy

Josephine A. Mucci

Natalie A. Naylor

Sherrie Negrea

Judy Wilson Nessel

Cormac O’Braonáin

Stephen R. O’Connor

Kellyann O’Mara and

Joseph Convertini

Kenneth Paddock and

Catherine Paddock

Rodger J. Page

John W. Parks and

Diane M. Parks

Robert L. Parks

Barbara Pauldine

Grace Perretta

David H. Perrin

Elizabeth Piga

Joan M. Poskanzer u

Kevin Quirante

Eleanor Ralston

Sandra Rausa

Alan Rausch

Glenn Ricci

Brent Rider

Karen Rogers

Joseph Rotolo and Marie Rotolo

20 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

ne of SUNY Cortland’s most generous sup-

porters, the Student Government Association

(SGA), made a gift of $175,000 in Spring 2008

to launch a permanently endowed fund to help students

become better leaders.

The SGA Student Leadership Endowment initially

will support $7,000 a year in future campus leadership

training activities geared to empower the presidents and

officers of the College’s 64 clubs and organizations.

“I think the campus community sees it as a good

idea,” said Aaron Marsh, the 2007-08 SGA president

who, together with his officers, spearheaded the initia-

tive. “It can benefit the entire student body or the faculty

and staff if they want to use it to support non-academic

programs for students. The fund is open to being used

by faculty, staff, the President’s Office or the Division of

Student Affairs to enrich opportunities for students to

develop as leaders.”

“By creating an endowment, we’re able to assure

that, forever, there will be funds available to sup-

port student leadership development programming at

Cortland,” observed Raymond Franco ’72, vice president

for institutional advancement and the former vice presi-

dent for student affairs for many years.

“Just like every co-curricular program, student lead-

ership development is at the mercy of the state budget,”

Franco explained. “Funding that is presented to the

College each year by the State of New York trickles down

to the Division of Student Affairs. This endowment sup-

ports campus programming and allows us to ride the

peaks and valleys of state government instability.”

The goal of the fund is to develop student leaders in

large numbers, he said.

“We know that if students become connected to

clubs and organizations, they’re more likely to have a

satisfying experience at college and are more likely to

stay,” Franco said. “If you have good, strong leader-

ship in those clubs and organizations, you increase the

chances that students are going to have a good experi-

ence with them and become connected. Connections

increase your retention. And if we became known as an

institution that invests significant resources into our stu-

dents as they develop both in and outside the classroom,

that becomes a great recruitment tool as well.”

“From the SGA’s perspective, the fund is not just for

leadership training but to enhance student leadership

in general,” added Marsh, an adolescence education:

mathematics major from Bayshore, N.Y. “Hopefully, a

program will be developed like the Honors Program,

a leadership program in which every year 15 to 30 stu-

dents would be selected to participate and graduates

would have the words ‘Leadership Graduate’ on their

diplomas.”

Since 1999, SGA administrations, including the most

recent one, have made a total of $500,000 in monetary gifts

to the Cortland College Foundation to enhance student

leadership on campus. Past SGA officers, under then-SGA

presidents David Marsh ’99, Ryan Bond ’02 and Ronnie

Genee ’03, also used the student referendum process to

allocate SGA reserve funds. Their gifts endowed three

scholarships for student leaders, including two called the

SGA Campus Leadership Scholarship and one honoring

SUNY Cortland President Emeritus Judson H. Taylor.

In 2005 the student government, under the lead-

ership of then-SGA President Mary Kate Boland ’06,

donated to the College’s Dowd Fine Arts Center Gallery

an art collection of 106 separate artworks, then valued at

more than $124,000.

“The idea came through Dr. Franco and we as an

executive board took the idea and ran with it,” Marsh

concluded, referring to himself and SGA officers Casey

Hahl, vice president; Jamie Riddoch, treasurer; and

Jason Clark ’07, executive assistant. “The four of us were

directly involved with presenting the idea to the execu-

tive board. And after we worked on it, they passed it.”

The student referendum passed by an overwhelming

majority of votes.

The existing endowment will grow, but the Cortland

College Foundation also will encourage future donors

to help raise the endowment total to $400,000, with a

goal to support approximately $20,000 a year in student

leader programs.

“I think our overall idea is that somebody in the

future SGA leadership might contribute additional funds

or that other donors might also support the fund,”

Marsh said.

“This is a tremendous testimony to the executive

board members of the SGA who embraced this idea

and to our students who passed this referendum by the

greatest margin of any referenda that were put out in the

year,” Franco said. “That says the students understand

that not only is it important for us to give them the

opportunity to be involved in leadership development

activities but it says how important strong leadership is

to developing a healthy club and organization culture on

campus.”

SGA $175,000 Gift Creates Student Leader Fund

Aaron Marsh, the 2007-08 Student Government Association (SGA) president, meets with students recently in the Memorial

Library. Under his leadership the SGA’s gift to the Cortland College Foundation funded the SGA Student Leadership

Endowment, which will help the College develop student capability in running campus clubs and organizations.

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Susan Rutecki

Robert Ruvio and Victoria Ruvio

Patrick Ryan

Susanne L. Ryan u

Dale Saddlemire and

Rae Marie Saddlemire

Ann Saddlemyer

James Sarvay and

Dorothy Sarvay

Merton Sarvay

Liora Schmelkin and

Alan Schmelkin

Lorraine Schottenfeld and

Herbert T. Schottenfeld

Janet Selby

Robert J. Service and

Patricia Service

Jane Shear

Richard Sherman

Pamela L. Shoemaker

Robert Silberglied

Eileen Simons

Bradley Smith

Theodore S. Stacy Jr.

Michael E. Stang u

Alpheus Streeter u

Carl Strock and Doris Strock

Kathleen Stroud

SUNYAC Athletic Conference

Amir Taibi

James A. Thomson

Agnes Tiburzi

Darlene Tonachio

Michael T. Toomey

John H. Treadwell

John Urtz and Diane Urtz

Cosimo Vieni

Gianni Villella and Debbie Villella

Donna Volpone

John M. Walsh and

Joan T. Walsh

Wendy Walsh

Lucy M. Ward

John G. Warwick Jr.

Maureen Waters

Andrew A. Weickert and

Ann M. Weickert

Wellpoint Foundation

Wells Fargo Foundation

Clifford P. White

E. Webster Whitney

Patricia Wienecke

Bennie Williamson

Theodore D. Williamson and

Gertrude J. Williamson

William Williamson

Sandra Woods

Eric Wright

Brenda E. Wydler

Jan Zajac

Joan Zaleskie

Parents,

Students and

Families

Anonymous (4)

Thomas C. Acee

Robert Albright and

Suzanne Albright

John F. Bagley

Alan Baldo and Joyce Baldo

Maryanne Gyidik Balles ’79 and

Daniel Balles

Kevin Barcavage and

Barbara Barcavage

James Barracca

Robert Billings and Jane Billings

Edward Bornstein and

Bornstein

Cynthia Sabal Bowen ’80

Victor Chiappa and

Catherine Chiappa

Thomas Dooling ’74

Annette Santa Lucia Fallon ’74

Janet Stark Griffin ’74

Claire Smith Herlihy ’79 and

William Herlihy

Mark Himes and Amy Himes

Tedd R. Jamieson ’77 and

Karen Toper Jamieson ’81

Dwight Job

John Kosakowski and

Deborah J. Kosakowski

Roland Lascari and

Patricia Lascari

Patrick Loomis and

Dianne Loomis

Catherine Maher

Robert Moyse and Laura Moyse

Robert Nielsen

Joseph Silecchia and

Loretta Silecchia

Luann Southworth Skeval ’82

William Small and

Kathleen Small

Howard Trauber and

Rochelle Trauber

Linda Vetrano-Zamojcin

Bruce Weber and

Claudia Weber

Diane Burcha Wielenga ’68

Thomas Wolber and

Wendy Wolber

Virginia A. Wright ’99 and

Julian H. Wright

Corporate and

Matching Gifts

TIOUGHNIOGA SOCIETY

Johnson & Johnson Family

of Cos.

PRESIDENT’S

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Coca-Cola Co. Matching Gifts

Program

Dominion Foundation

LYCEUM SOCIETY

ConocoPhillips

Consolidated Edison of

New York

ExxonMobil Foundation

Pfizer Inc.

1868 SOCIETY

Ashland Inc.

Calabro Properties, Inc.

HSBC Bank USA

IBM Corp.

Occidental Petroleum

Corporation

COMMITTEE OF

ONE THOUSAND

Anonymous

4Charity Foundation, Inc.

Autodesk, Inc.

DLH Properties, Inc.

Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

F & T Distributing Co., Inc.

First Baptist Church Toronto

Procter & Gamble

Shell Oil Co.

Tyco Electronics

Wachovia Foundation

HILL TOP SOCIETY

Automatic Data Processing Inc.

BP Fabric of America Fund

CNY Office Products

Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Hage Real Estate

Marsh & McLennan

Companies, Inc.

NYC Soccer Academy Corp.

Orthocare Medical

Equipment LLC

Verizon

OLD MAIN SOCIETY

Anonymous

American International

Group, Inc.

Bank of America

General Electric Foundation

Jubilee Homes of Syracuse, Inc.

The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust

Turbocare, Inc.

Vanguard Group Foundation

RED AND WHITE

SOCIETY

Lacrosse Consultants

Microsoft Corp.

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

New Hope Baptist Church

Union Bank of California

Foundation

United eWay

Wall Street on Court Street

CORTLAND SPIRIT CLUB

Anonymous

3M Community Affairs

AES Westover, LLC

Allstate

Amgen Foundation

Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

Auburn Chamber Orchestra

AXA Foundation

Better World Books

BP Amoco Corp.

Caterpillar Matching Gifts

Program

Cingular Wireless

Corning Incorporated

Foundation

Cortland Regional Medical

Center

Darl Zehr Photography

Dresser-Rand Co.

Eves Broadcasting, Inc.

WXHC - FM

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation

Guardian Life Insurance

Company of America

Hershey Company

Hollywood Restaurant

Home Depot

Ithaca Airline Limousine

John Hancock Financial

Services, Inc.

Madison-Cortland Chapter

(N.Y.A.R.C., Inc.)

Markel Corporation

Merrill Lynch & Co.

Foundation, Inc.

National Grid

National Gypsum Company

New York Life Foundation

Northeast Utilities Foundation

Reader’s Digest Foundation, Inc.

Royal Bank of Scotland

SC Johnson

Science Applications

International Corporation

SI Group, Inc.

Simmons Construction

State Farm Companies

Swarthout Coaches, Inc.

Time Warner Matching Grants

Program

UBS Foundation

Unilever Brothers Co.

United Technologies Carrier Co.

Wellpoint Foundation

Wells Fargo Foundation

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Xerox

In Honor

Of Current

Students

Anonymous

Brady H. Aborn

Richard Aborn and

Rosemary Aborn

James R. Aborn

Richard Aborn and

Rosemary Aborn

Sheena L. Acton

William Acton and

Lorraine Acton

Joseph D. Adams

Antonia Adams and

Mark Adams

Kathryn M. Ajaeb

Alfred Ajaeb and

Martha Ajaeb

Kaitlyn M. Aki

Maureen Aki and Edward Aki

Rachel M. Aleese

Charles Aleese

William B. Allgeier III

William Allgeier and

Vanessa Allgeier

Micheal E. Allocco

Edward Allocco and

Anna Allocco

Michael J. Amaro

William M. Amaro and

Patricia Amaro

Paul J. Anderson

Cleopatra Anderson

Melissa J. Andosca

Randi Andosca

Mallory Anger

Michael Anger

Rebecca S. Aungst

Babette Aungst

Bryan J. Bagala

Bruno Bagala

Joseph C. Bak

Timothy Bak

Jennifer A. Bakala

Anne Bakala and

Dusan Bakala

Lauren E. Baker

Robert Baker and

Deir-tra Baker

Lindsey M. Baker

Robert Baker and

Gabriele Baker

Nicholas E. Baker

David Baker and

Dianne Baker

Lindsay M. Bakker

Garry Bakker and

Marg Bakker

Frank M. Baliko

Frank M. Baliko and

Mary Baliko

Kristin A. Basler

Jeffrey L. Bergstresser and

Marlene A. Bergstresser

Christopher Battaglia

Joan Battaglia and

Gary Battaglia

Blake A. Battin

Linda L. Battin

Whitney E. Battin ’07

Linda L. Battin

William R. Beckmann

Kerry Mullin Beckmann

Jacqueline D. Begnoche

Judith Begnoche and

Stephen Begnoche

Kevin D. Behr

Kathi Behr and Daniel Behr

Alan R. Benson

Joann Benson

Ryan M. Benson

Raymond Benson and

Veronica Benson

Taylor C. Benson

Cheryl Benson

Amanda T. Berger

Marilee Berger

Heather Berman

Arlene Berman and

Gary Berman

Lauren G. Berry

Dale Berry and Eric Berry

Erin E. Biblis

Patricia Biblis

Marie L. Bieber

Doris Bieber

Mark T. Bieganowski

Mark Bieganonski and

Ann Bieganonski

Justine N. Biel

Gregory Biel and Susan Biel

Tanisha Billy

Gaius Billy

David C. Bitterbaum

Erik J. Bitterbaum and

Ellen Howard Burton

Courtney E. Blanchard

Tammy Blanchard

Corinne L. Boening

Carolyn Corella

Ashley E. Boise

Barbara Boise

Dan M. Bott

Mike E. Bott and Mary M. Bott

Michael C. Brandes

Karen Brandes

Drew Brantley

Sabrina Brantley

Caitlin C. Brett

Thomas Brett and

Christine Brett

Michael R. Briotte

Robert Briotte

Christopher G. Brosnan

John Brosnan and

Cathy Brosnan

Rebecca H. Brown

Jeffrey Brown

Glen J. Brozio

Warren Brozio and

Karen E. Brozio

Michael F. Burke

Michael Burke and

Eileen Burke

Margaret M. Byrne

Angela Byrne

Daniel Campana

Steven Campana

Terrence J. Campo

Bruce Campo and

Annemarie Campo

Nicole L. Capo

Steven Capo and

Linda S. Capo

Christine Capobianco

Jerome Capobianco and

Christine E. Capobianco

Tracy A. Capriotto

Carman Capriotto and

Ann L. Capriotto

Nichole C. Capsello

Jules Capsello

Douglas H. Carpenter ’07

Jeffrey T. Carpenter and

Donna L. Carpenter

Maria K. Carucci

Ralph Carucci and

Patty Carucci

Gregory H. Casbeer

Michael Casbeer

Anne L. Cegla

Eileen Cegla

Michael J. Cerasoli

Anthony Cerasoli and

Andrea Cerasoli

Zachary M. Chambers

Nancy Chambers Coty

Alison C. Charlebois

William Charlebois

Sarah F. Christ

Michael Christ and

Frances Christ

Jordan K. Christie

Andy Christie and

Elizabeth Christie

Caitlin C. Cimino

Barbara Cimino

Chad Y. Cinquegrana ’07

Michael Cinquegrana and

Victoria L. Cinquegrana

Eric S. Cizenski ’07

Steven Cizenski and

Theresa A. Cizenski

John F. Clare

John Clare and Patricia Clare

Megan P. Clare

John Clare and Patricia Clare

Ashley S. Clark

John Clark

Courtney E. Claypoole

Kevin Claypoole

Kristina M. Coglitore

Butch Coglitore

Jennifer V. Cohen

Gary Cohen and

Marianne Cohen

Stephanie Cohn

Edward H. Cohn and

Vicki Raphael

Alicia A. Colangelo

Jessica Colangelo and

Joseph Colangelo

Kaitlin J. Conforti

Kathleen Conforti

Amy J. Connell ’07

Diane Connell

Brian P. Conner

Will Conner and Julie Conner

Corinne A. Conroy

Roselinda Conroy and

Michael Conroy

Jerry M. Cook

Michael Cook and

Robin Cook

Andrea N. Cooper

Robert Cooper and

Jane Cooper

Christopher A. Corso

John Corso and Cindy Corso

Amandine M. Corten

Albert Corten and

Sylvie M. Corten

Casey L. Costello

Paul Costello and

Kathleen W. Costello

Benjamin T. Cote

Marcel Cote and Sarah Cote

Caitlin N. Coumatos

James Coumatos

Erin E. Coyne

Timothy Coyne and

Linnea Coyne

Casey A. Crawford

Richard Crawford and

Irene Crawford

Joann M. Crosier

Cheryl Crosier and

William Crosier

Jason L. Crouch

Thomas Crouch

Kevin J. Cuddahee

Thomas Cuddahee and

Annette Cuddahee

Brandon J. Cuddy

Jeffrey Cuddy and

Melanie Cuddy

Lisa R. Cuiman

Sylvia Cuiman and

Leonzo A. Cuiman

Roy E. Culkin

Roy Culkin and

Patricia Culkin

Sean M. Cully

Donna Lee Cully

Joseph F. Cundari

Susan Cundari and

Joseph Cundari

Daniel V. Curtis

Brian Curtis and

Lynn M. Curtis

Paul D. Dagliolo

Dennis Dagliolo and

Linda Dagliolo

Lauren F. Daley

Gerard Daley and Carol Daley

Kerri D. Dalton

Kathleen Dalton

Paul Daly

Nancy Daly

Christina M. Damin

Joseph Damin and

Leeanne Damin

Daniel G. D’Arrigo

Lisa D’Arrigo

Christopher J. Day

John Day and Melanie Day

Andrew L. Debardelaben

Noel Debardelaben and

Catrina Debardelaben

Benjamin Delesia

Brenda Delesia

Thomas Delesia

Brenda Delesia

Abigail H. Dellow

Kim Dellow and

Pamela Dellow

Anthony Delprete

Alliance With Education

Tyler Stiles, a freshman adolescence education: mathematics major from McGraw, N.Y., third from the left, and Jisun Ryu, a freshman

speech pathology and audiology major from Homer, N.Y., far right, are the inaugural recipients of SUNY Cortland Alliance Bank Champion

Scholarships. On Sept. 23, 2008, they met with Jack H. Webb, Alliance Bank president and chief executive officer, third from the right, and

John Mason, Alliance Bank senior vice president of commercial banking and Cortland market executive, far left. Standing, from the left, are

Raymond Franco, vice president for institutional advancement, and SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum. The guests were presented

with certificates of appreciation and a College pin. Launched with a $50,000 gift from the bank, the scholarship program will award 10 out-

standing local students $1,250-a-year scholarships over five years starting in Fall 2008.

2007-2008 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 21

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Joshua N. Denton

Richard Denton and

Stella Denton

Joanna L. Depace

Edward Depace and

Loretta Depace

John J. Destito

Eleanor Destito

Nicholas J. Devito

Samuel Devito and

Barbara Devito

Giselle E. Diaz

Ernestina Diaz

Adam M. Diduro

Anthony Diduro and

Judy Diduro

Laura M. Dilandro

Jeffrey Dilandro

Susan J. Dittrich

Joseph Dittrich and

Joanne L. Dittrich

Katelyn M. D’Loughy

John D’Loughy

Dominique T. Dodson

Kenneth Dodson and

Nicole E. Dodson

Emerald A. Doin

Lisa Doin

Megan T. Donahue

Elizabeth Donahue

Jessica A. Downer

Nisla Pierre

Alyssa L. Duesler

Linda Duesler

Conor J. Duffy

Michael Duffy and

Mary Michele Duffy

Melissa M. Dwyer

Donna Dwyer

Kathryn E. Dylag

Thomas Dylag and

Kathleen M. Dylag

Justine M. Dziura

Edward Dziura and

Debra Dziura

Colleen M. Eble

Raymond Eble and

Glynis Eble

Brandon L. Eilbert

David Eilbert

Chelsea N. Einhorn

Lori Einhorn and Ira Einhorn

Michael M. Esteves

Richard Esteves and

Anna Esteves

Kathleen B. Evans

Bradley Evans and

Donna Morrone Evans

David E. Fannon

Ed Fannon and Ellen Fannon

Katie L. Fariello

Kathleen Fariello

Benjamin J. Ferder

Michael Ferder and

Marcie Ferder

Anthony J. Ferragano

Raymond Ferragano

Stephanie M. Ferreira

Eddy Ferreira

Paul M. Fiore

Carmine Fiore and

Anna Paula Trebo-Fiore

Kathryn R. Fitzgerald

Donna Fitzgerald and

Richard P. Fitzgerald

Caitlin A. Foley

Diane Foley

Jessie L. Ford

John Ford and

Catherine Ford

Alyssa L. Fraser

Debra Blackford

Christopher A. Freeburg ’07

Alan Freeburg and

Marilyn Freeburg

Julie A. Freeland

Keith Freeland

Kimberly A. Frost

Thomas Frost and Rita Frost

Stephani L. Furminger

Chris Furminger and

Amy Furminger

Richard R. Galbreth

Lisa Galbreth and

Donald Galbreth

Martin D. Galley

Donald A Galley and

Rita Galley

Kayla M. Gallipeau

Ronald Gallipeau and

Maria A. Gallipeau

Lisa M. Gallo

Virginia Gallo

Julie A. Galvin

Jane Galvin

Kyle M. Garland

Colleen Cole

Sean M. Garland

Paula Begel

Cameron M. Gee

Christopher Gee

Alyssa E. George

Laura George

Jessica R. Getman ’07

Charles Getman and

Cheri Getman

Erica M. Ginley

Laura Ginley and

Thomas Ginley

Jennifer A. Gioia

Jack Gioia and Gloria Gioia

Edward R. Gitlitz

Martha Ellis

Amber E. Golden

Barbara Golden

Juan Gonzalez

Dominga Pena

Haley A. Gottlieb

Gary Gottlieb and

Elizabeth Gottlieb

George L. Gowe ’07

Grace Gowe

Katherine E. Greene

Anne Tumsuden Greene ’73

Kathryn G. Greene

Tatiana Greene

Kristoffer M. Greene

John Greene and

Marguerite Greene

Trevor S. Griffin

Brian Griffin and Leticia Griffin

Seth R. Grossman

Rebecca Grossman

Erin E. Grosso

Daniel Grosso and

Catherine Grosso

Caitlin A. Gruschow

Mike Gruschow and

Debra Gruschow

Sara J. Guando

Daniel Guando and

Patricia Guando

Daniel S. Guanzon

Ferdinand L. Guanzon and

Mary Ellen Guanzon

Ben J. Guidarelli

Thomas L. Guidarelli and

Karen Guidarelli

Daniel P. Guido

Vincent Guido

Casey M. Hahl

William Hahl and Anne Hahl

Shannon M. Hakes

Kathy Schwingel and

Gary Schwingel

Tera J. Harpst

Keith Harpst and

Katherine Harpst

Heather T. Harrington

Michael Harrington

Kayla A. Hauck

Cindy Degroat

Marley A. Hayes

Lesley Hayes

David J. Haylett

Dave Haylett and

Mary Haylett

Brittany Hays

Tammara Hays and

Holbrook Hays

Heather Hays

Tammara Hays and

Holbrook Hays

William M. Hays

James Hays and Ruth Hays

Laurel L. Headwell

Robert Headwell and

Cynthia Headwell

Elizabeth M. Heenan

Thomas Heenan and

Sheryl Heenan

Douglas Heigh

Michael Heigh

Gerard V. Heinz

Gerard Heinz and

Linda Heinz

Lindsey V. Hendricks

Glenn Hendricks

Joshua A. Henry

Robert Henry and

Carole Henry

Katherine M. Herlihy

Patricia Herlihy

Steven Hernandez

Lillian Hernandez and

Dionisio Hernandez

Andrew S. Herrmann

Susan Herrmann

Daniel A. Hershelman

Carol Hershelman

Flynn Hill

Jonathan Hill

Ryan J. Hiller

Diane Hiller and James Hiller

Jennifer L. Hirsch

Jeffery Hirsch and

Maria Hirsch

Allison M. Hodgkins

Bruce Hodgkins

Kenneth E. Hoefs

Thomas Hoefs and

Barbara A. Hoefs

Thomas S. Holden

Kimberly Holden and

Randall Holden

Clark T. Holdsworth

William Holdsworth and

Marcia Holdsworth

Alanna P. Hollborn

Rickie Hollborn and

Grainne M. Hollborn

Kyle Holley

Elaine Holley and

David Holley

James Hopkins

Joseph Hopkins

Terence W. Horton

Kelly Horton

Eileen J. Hoyt ’07

Gary Hoyt

Gregory R. Huether

Ronald G. Huether

Sara B. Hunter

Diane Hunter

Corey A. Hutchinson

Joan Hutchinson

Christopher A. Infante

Awilda Infante

Allen J. Jeter

Kenneth Jeter and Lois Jeter

Lauren A. Jillson

Jay Jillson and Diane Jillson

Michael R. Jock

Robert Jock and Julie Jock

Eric T. Jones

Linda Jones

Matthew W. Jones

Timothy Jones

Jennifer L. Judge

Marty Judge and

Beverly A. Judge

John Kaminsky

Kathleen Kaminsky

Brooke Bornstein Kary ’00

Edward Bornstein and

Carol Bornstein

James W. Katz

Robert Katz and

Mary Ann Katz

Michael B. Kaufman

Richard Kaufman

Brian E. Keefe

Cindy Keefe

Ashley D. Keith

Lori Keith and Douglas Keith

Brittany M. Kelly

Linda Kelly

Amanda S. Kenyon

Deborah Kenyon

Cheree C. Kessler

Diane Schembri

John F. King

Jacqueline King

Sarah L. Kirley

Robert Kirley and Leslie Kirley

Lisa Klubock

Susan Klubock and

Steven Klubock

Tatiana Kneer

Kathren Kneer

Jessica L. Koes

James Koes and

Mary Lou Koes

Kayleigh L. Kohnke

Lynn Kohnke

Brian Kokulak

Douglas Kokulak and

Carol Kokulak

Macey L. Kolczynski

Thomas Kolczynski and

Sherry Kolcztbsju

Michael R. Koral

Joel Koral

Katelyn L. Kort

Ronald Kort

Danielle L. Kreamer

Lisa Kreamer

Kelly L. Kreskow

Gregory J. Kreskow and

Deborah J. Kreskow

Vincent H. Krutchick

Adele Krutchick

Kevin J. Kwasneski

Cathy Kwasneski

Shannon M. Lacombe

Wayne Lacombe and

Ann Marie Lacombe

Kristi L. Lacount

Linda Lacount

Matthew P. Langer

Jeffrey Langer and

Carrie Langer

Caitlin A. Latham

Chilton Latham

Michael A. Lauria

Michael Lauria

Gregory D. Leder

Arthur Leder

Edward T. Lefebvre ’07

Francis Lefebvre and

Irene Lefebvre

Emily C. Leitt

Edward Leitt and

Brenda Leitt

James W. Lenhart

Lynne Lenhart and

John Lenhart

Tiffany L. Lewars

Geraldine Thompson

Kyle E. Liang

John Liang

Matthew D. Librock ’07

David S. Librock and

Martha Librock

Lauren B. Liddiard

Deborah Liddiard

Erika Likar

Raymond Likar and

Karen Likar

David C. Limbach

Paul Limbach and

Marie Limbach

Keith R. Lizzi ’07

Richard Lizzi and

Kathleen Lizzi

Nicole A. Locascio

Allison Locascio

Amanda Lockwood

Janet Lockwood and

Peter T. Lockwood

Joseph A. Lopez

Nora Castillo-Lopez

Geoffrey S. Loughrey

Sheena Gates and

George Gates

Kenneth J. Luettger

Ronald Luettger and

Dorothy Luettger

Megan N. Lupini

Lisa Lupini

Daniel B. Maldonado

Miriam Maldonado and

Manuel Maldonado

Katelyn A. Mann

Arlene Mann

Meghan E. Mannion

Patrick Mannion and

Patricia Mannion

Ross M. Mantell

Ivan Mantell and

Rhonda E. Mantell

Carrie A. Manthey

John K. Manthey and

Monica Manthey

Maria G. Marcoccia

Celestino Marcoccia and

Vanessa Marcoccia

Matthew R. Mariano

Victoria Mariano

Kristina M. Marino

Angelo Marino and

Elizabeth Marino

Amanda R. Markow

Gregory Markow and

Regina Markow

Jeffrey R. Marrone

Audrey Marrone

Laura J. Martin

John Martin and

Maria Martin

Alyse R. Martucci

Robert Martucci and

Catherine Martucci

Sara L. Matthews

Kathleen Matthews

Catherine E. McCabe

Michael McCabe and

Pamela McCabe

Danielle L. McCarthy

Margaret McCarthy and

Joseph McCarthy

Caitlin McDonald

Anne McDonald

Katelyn L. McDonald

Brian McDonald

Sarah K. McDonough

Kevin McDonough and

Patricia McGrath

James B. McEnroe

James McEnroe and

Geraldine McEnroe

Stephanie N. McGrath

Lori McGrath

Rachel A. McKenna

Patricia Mckenna

Rebecca L. McKenney

Teresa McKenney

Erin M. McKinley

Kevin McKinley and

Mary McKinley

David A. McPartland

David McPartland and

Janice McPartland

Abigail E. McPhail

Diana Mcintyre

Patrick T. Meehan

Thomas Meehan and

Peggy Meehan

Christopher R. Mekelburg

Robert Mekelburg and

Helen Mekelburg

Grace E. Mellen

Theresa Brom

Elizabeth A. Milana

Victor Milana and

Debra Milana

Robert L. Miliambro

Robert Miliambro and

Nancy Miliambro

Elyssa R. Miller

Scott Miller

Michael E. Millstein

Barbara Faigin Millstein ’77

and Neil Millstein

Michael J. Mistretta

Louis Mistretta and

Karen Mistretta

Courtney L. Mitchell

Keith A. Mitchell and

Diane M. Mitchell

Jessica A. Mohr

David Mohr and

Linda M. Mohr

Rachel E. Monroe

Risa Monroe and

Robert Monroe

Theodore S. Montalvo

Louis Montalvo and

Daphne Montalvo

Carly J. Montroy

Debra Montroy

Kathleen A. Moore

Michael Moore and

Karen Moore

Rosanne B. Moran

Thomas Moran and

Barbara A. Moran

Christine M. Morelock

Jayne Morelock

Daniel L. Moriarty

Dennis Moriarty and

Susan Moriarty

Deanna S. Morrison

Robert Morrison and

Karen Morrison

Stephen J. Morrison

Jim Morrison and

Michele M. Morrison

Stephen J. Morse

Josephine Morse

Dina M. Muhlenbruck

William Muhlenbruck and

Carolyn M. Muhlenbruck

Amanda K. Mullan

Cheryl Mullan and

Michael Mullan

Jack Murphy

Brian Murphy and

Diane Murphy

Joseph M. Murphy

Martin Murphy and

Patti Murphy

Jonathan E. Namisnak

Peter Namisnak and

Kathy Namisnak

Ian Natoli

Deborah Natoli

Scott E. Neri

Bruce Neri

Matthew J. Newman

Thomas A. Newman and

Patricia G. Newman

Gabriel Newton

Christine Newton

Jennifer A. Nicks

George Nicks

Courtney A. Nye

William Nye and Anna Nye

Kristin D. O’Connor

Peter O’Connor and

Darlene O’Connor

Christine E. O’Dell

Jim O’Dell and

Catherine A. O’Dell

Bryan K. O’Gorman

Bryan O’Gorman and

Vanessa O’Gorman

Patricia I. Olver

William Olver and Jane Olver

Dane R. Onderdonk

Susan Onderdonk and

Robert Onderdonk

Brittany M. Onorato

Irene Miller

Michael P. Orecki

Peter Orecki and

Mary Jane Orecki

Rebecca E. Ott

Timothy Ott

Rosemarie Ott

Virginia Ott

Michael C. Pagano

Charles Pagano and

Genevieve Pagano

Lori A. Panaro

Nicholas Panaro and

Lisa Panaro

Sharon R. Pantirer

Phyllis Pantirer

Jeffrey Paul

Rody Paul

Meghan Peck

John Peck and Helen Peck

Michael J. Perillo

Peter Perillo and

Cathleen M. Perillo

Joseph M. Perry

Stuart Perry and Janet Perry

Brian A. Pesner

Alan Pesner and

Karen B. Pesner

Jennifer K. Peter

Craig Peter and

Carmen D. Peter

Nicole D. Pinkowski

Susan Pinkowski and

Joseph Pinkowski

Megan M. Ploutz

Dawn Vergari and

Dave Vergari

Justin W. Porpora

Rose Marie Porpora and

Johnny Porpora

Daniel A. Porras

Hector Porras and

Mirna E. Porras

James A. Potter

James Potter and

Anne M. Potter

Nicole M. Prechtl

Ken Prechtl and Maria Prechtl

Nora M. Pufky

Thomas Pufky

Crystal T. Quashie

Ann Quashie-Phillips

Kevin O. Quinn

Carole Quinn and Paul Quinn

Brittany Ranaldo

Ronald Ranaldo and

Elaine Ranaldo

Katherine S. Ranieri

David Ranieri and

Melissa Ranieri

Noah W. Rappahahn

Theodore Rappahahn and

Jo Ann Rappahahn

Kathleen A. Reid

Mary Reid

Thomas P. Reid

Ralph Reid and Rose Reid

Heather D. Reilly

Mark Reilly

Samantha L. Reuter

Karl Reuter and

Darlene Reuter

Jeremy D. Reynolds

Jeff Reynolds and

Judith Reynolds

Valerie K. Reynolds

Edward Reynolds and

Jeanette Reynolds

Stacey J. Rice ’07

Sharyl Rice

Zack L. Richter

Carolynn Gambella

Christopher M. Rickert

John Rickert

Caitlin A. Rieck

Susan Rieck and James Rieck

Teresa J. Riley

Robert Riley

Emily J. Ripps

Howard Ripps and

Paula Ripps

Kristina M. Roach

Michele Roach

Edward A. Roberts

Elena Roberts

Xavier Rodriguez

Maria Marte

Catharine M. Rogers

James Rogers

Michael H. Romeo

Frank Romeo and

Janet Romeo

Aaron Rose

Joanne Rose and

Eugene Rose

Valerie L. Rose

Mark Rose

Brian R. Rosebrook

Debbie Rosebrook

Catherine A. Rosenbrock

Douglas Rosenbrock and

Mary Jean Rosenbrock

Derrick J. Rossi

Mary Ellen Yudin-Vandyke

Jessica L. Roth

Thomas Roth

Deena A. Rothman

Steven Rothman and

Varda Rothman

Evan M. Rothstein

Steven Rothstein and

Barbara Rothstein

Marie S. Rubio

Maria Rubio

Christine Russo

Joan Russo

Christopher J. Salerno

James Salerno and

Jean Salerno

Michael T. Salvatore

Michael Salvatore and

Jayne Salvatore

Amanda Sannella

Michael Sannella and

Michele Sannella

Jay D. Santos

Jose Santos and Ana Santos

Patrick M. Savery

Michael Savery

Ryan C. Savery

Michael Savery

Tara A. Sawyer

Kathryn Sawyer and

Christopher Sawyer

Joseph C. Sbarra

Michael Sbarra and

Girolama Sbarra

Bradley D. Schaefer

Harold Schaefer and

Nancy Schaefer

Leonard S. Scheiber

Roger Scheiber and

Paula Scheiber

Jeremy A. Schlick

Lewis Schlick and

Patricia Schlick

Kara P. Schmidt

Bonnie Schmidt and

William Schmidt

Stuart C. Schmitt

Peter Schmitt and

Jane Schmitt

Jason R. Schulman

Rosemary Schulman

Casey L. Schulz

Gregory Schulz and

Kellie Schulz

Kelly A. Schwippert

Mark Schwippert and

Margaret Schwippert

Daniel J. Sechiano

Elizabeth Artieda

Kurt A. Segelbacher

Susan Segelbacher

Allison R. Seguin

Peter Seguin and

Maureen Seguin

April E. Selden

Lynn Selden

Daniel A. Selvaggio

William J. Goll and

Colleen Selvaggio

Carly A. Semrau ’07

Thomas G. Judson and

Kathleen A. Judson

Anthony N. Severino

Nicholas Severino and

Robin Severino

Sa-id T. Shakir

Abdul Shaheed Shakir and

Veronica Shakir

Erin M. Shappell ’07

Gary Shappell and

Roben Shappell

Brian A. Shearer

John Shearer and

Gail Shearer

Matthew J. Sheerin

James P. Sheerin ’82

Rachael M. Shetler

Amy Shetler

Colan P. Shue

Peter Shue and

Katherine Shue

Tyler F. Sick

Ronald Sick and Gale Sick

Bonnie T. Silverman

Alan Silverman and

Teresa Silverman

Jason S. Simone

Dominick Simone

Nicholas I. Sires

Pedro Sires and Vicki Sires

Ryan M. Skibinski

Diane Skibinski and

Steve Skibinski

Aileen C. Sloane

Barbara Sloane and

David Sloane

Craig R. Smith

Kevin Smith and

Jamine Smith

Nicole S. Smith

Hazel Whitehall

Jamie S. Snow

Rick Snow and Virginia Snow

Lindsay A. Snow

Nancy Snow

Matthew R. Solomon

John Solomon and

Dorothy Solomon

Gretchen E. Soule

Thomas Soule and

Pamela Soule

Sara R. Space

Doreen Space

Samantha Spehler

Scott Spehler and

Janis Spehler

Stephanie A. Spirawk

Nancy Spirawk and

Michael S. Spirawk

Laura M. St. Cyr

Donna St. Cyr

Kevin T. Staubitz

Edwin Staubitz and

Lisa Staubitz

Nicole M. Staudt

Gale Staudt

Brandie T. Steele

Diane Steele

Jessie T. Steinberg

Maria Steinberg

Kimberly Stephens

Doris Stephens

Robert D. Stevens

Richard Stevens and

Janet Stevens

Ryan P. Stevens

Irene Stevens

Emily E. Steward

Carlton Steward and

Gail Steward

Aimee J. Stormes

Judith Stormes

Pedro A. Suarez

Zoraida Navarro

Jessica P. Sutch

John Sutch and Janet Sutch

Philip C. Sweeney

Kathy Peterson-Sweeney

Kayla M. Sweet

Michael Sweet and

Mary Sweet

Steven E. Szczesniak

Christine Szczesniak and

Bruce Szczesniak

Katherine A. Taber

Thomas Taber and

Donna Taber

Danielle Takacs

James Takacs and

Theresa M. Bellissimo-

Takacs

Kristen G. Tangen

Gary Tangen and

Maureen Tangen

Christopher P. Tavernese

Peter Tavernese and

Maureen Tavernese

Matthew W. Temme

William Temme

Matthew S. Therrien

Steven Therrien and

Janet Therrien

Cheryl L. Thomas

Caren Thomas and

Ronald E. Thomas

Jennifer M. Todd

Bethany Todd

Allison L. Tomaszewski

Carole Tomaszewski

Nicholas A. Tonini

Christine Tonini and

Joseph Tonini

Danielle R. Torre

Catherine Torre and

Raymond Torre

Nicholas R. Tricarico

Elizabeth Tricarico

Thomas A. Trombetta

Anne Ellis Trombetta ’75

22 SUNY Cortland Annual Report 2007-2008

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased

Elizabeth A. Tucker

John J. Tucker

James P. Turner

James A. Turner and

Patricia M. Turner

Joseph M. Tutko

Jake Tutko and Kathy Tutko

Shirley A. Tyler

Kenneth A Tyler and

Margerie A. Tyler

Benjamin Tyree

Pauline Tyree

Vanessa J. Umbro

Sally Umbro

Keri A. Urban

Joanne Urban and

Thomas Urban

Giana M. Valenza

Barbara Valenza and

Mathew Valenza

Daniel Valvassori

Carl Valvassori and

Christina Valvassori

Chris R. Van De Weert

Roy Van De Weert and

Henrietta Van De Weert

Caleb W. Vansickle

Carl VanSickle

Joseph T. Veltre

Ruth Stein

Dustin W. Verga

Claudia Verga

Lindsay M. Vetere

Patrick Vetere and

Denise Vetere

Michael P. Villarosa

George D. Villarosa and

Patricia Villarosa

Michael R. Viola ’07

Richard Viola and Diane Viola

Annemarie Vitchers

Marianne Vitchers

Kristie M. Vogt

William Vogt and

Donna Vogt

Jonathan Walsh

Carolyn Walsh

Alyson L. Walzer

Bernhard Walzer Jr. and

Lisa Walzer

Marc L. Wanczyk

Debra Huggard

Tara M. Ward

Susan Ward

Dylan M. Warner

Christopher Warner and

Lisa Warner

Melissa Wasko

Robert Wasko and

Linda Wasko

Marybeth Watson

Timothy G. Watson ’94 and

Rebecca Watson

Paul J. Weber

Frederick Weber and

Susan E. Weber

Lisa C. Weider

Christine Weider and

Stephen Weider

Brandon T. Welker

Paula Welker and

Kurt D. Welker

Stephen R. Wells

Gregory Wells

Jesse T. Wenk

Shelley Wenk

Luke A. Wentlent

Christopher Wentlent and

Mary Wentlent

Wayne A. Wheeler

Wayne Wheeler

Tyson S. Wheelock

Nelson K. Wheelock and

Donna M. Wheelock

Dustin W. White

Edward White and

Cynthia White

Kristin A. White

Edward White and

Cynthia White

Annie E. Whitman

Nancy McAvoy

Christine D. Whittam

Barbara Whittam and

Dennis C. Whittam

Carey C. Williams

Virginia Kleinklaus

Jessica M. Willson

Anne Willson and

Douglas Willson

Jeffrey A. Wilson

Brian Wilson

Skylar J. Winter

John Winter and

Carolyn Winter

Ashley N. Wirges ’07

Scott Wirges and

Judy Wirges

Nicole M. Woessner

Thomas Woessner and

Allison R. Woessner

Andrea R. Wolber

Pamela Wolber and

James Wolber

John F. Wolff

John Wolff and

Mary Beth Wolff

Michael Wolfin

Madelyn Wolfin

Michelle B. Wolinsky

Leonard H. Wolinsky and

Arlene Wolinsky

Alex R. Woods

Robert Woods

Mallory A. Worthing

Shelly Worthing and

Douglas Worthing

Amanda N. Wright

Dave Wright and

Patty Wright

Sarah L. Wryk

Lynette Wryk

Hans P. Wulf Jr.

Izabel Wulf and Hans Wulf

Kate E. Yaun ’07

Timothy Yaun and

Cinthia Yaun

Andrew T. York

Mary Ann York and

James York

Aaron M. Zajac

Donna Miller-Zajac ’75 and

Jan Zajac

Amanda L. Zawierucha

Glenn Zawierucha and

Michelle Zawierucha

Timothy J. Zevotek

Ann Marie Zevotek

Michael K. Zitelli ’07

Linda Zitelli and

Kenneth Zitelli

Alexis A. Zoder ’07

Edward Zoder and

Nancy Zoder

Lauren M. Zuber

David Zuber and

Susan Zuber

Gifts in Honor

Of Seniors

Kristen L. Aksionoff

Walter Aksionoff and

Susan Aksionoff

Allison M. Ammirati

Karen M. Mathis

Kelly W. Armstrong

Alan Armstrong and

Patricia Armstrong

Holly K. Bakker

Jackie Bakker

David C. Bernacki

David Bernacki

Lauren M. Boldrin

Henry Boldrin Jr. and

Ellen Boldrin

Amanda J. Booth

Richard Booth and

Linda Booth

Adam C. Brenner

Bonnie Green-Brenner

Lindsay R. Brenner

Patrice Brenner

Jessica M. Brownsell

George Brownsell and

Susan Brownsell

Anna L. Bryant

Randy Bryant and

Diana Bryant

Cecilia A. Buhl

Margaret Buhl

Amy S. Bullock

Terry Bullock

Whitney S. Button

Donna Button

Brian A. Calderon

Marlley Weatherborn

Sara A. Cavanaugh

Patrick Cavanaugh and

Ellyce Cavanaugh

Matthew R. Cioffi

Michael Cioffi and Julie Cioffi

Joshua P. Cittadino

Meryl Cittadino

Erica B. Clark

Allan Clark and Jessica Clark

James A. Classey

Thomas Classey and

Carol Classey

Leslie A. Cole

Carol Cole and Roy Cole

Kaitlyn N. Comastri

Harold Comastri and

Donna Comastri

Jared C. Cook

Lisa Cook and Joe Cook

Dustyn M. Cormier

Nancy L. Cormier

Kristin E. Courtney

Gary Courtney and

Anna Courtney

Brad S. Cringle

Chris Cringle and

Tammy Cringle

Kelly E. Crumb

Anne Crumb

Diana Dacorta

Joseph Dacorta and

Debbie Dacorta

Dana C. DiCarlo

Angela DiCarlo

Katie R. Dieterle

Robert Dieterle

Samantha E. Difato

John Clere and

Rebecca Clere

Emily A. Driscoll

Clare Driscoll

Shawn M. Dunphy

Michael Dunphy and

Susan Dunphy

James W. Durso

John Durso and

Marguerite Durso

Megan M. Falso

Roger Poole and

Lauren Poole

April L. Farnham

Carol Farnham

Maxwell A. Finley

Robert Finley and

Sandy Finley

Kelly L. Fletcher

Donna Fletcher

Matthew J. Frustaci

Anthony Frustaci

William M. Fuchs

William J. Fuchs

James P. Gencarelli

Orlando Gencarelli and

Kathryn Gencarelli

Brittany L. Giuliano

Rita Giuliano

Kristina M. Goldenberg

Sharon Goldenberg and

David Goldenberg

Michelle S. Grant

Matthew Grant and

Suzanne Grant

Matthew C. Gregory

Stephen Gregory and

Diane Gregory

Alyssa J. Guerrier

Yves Guerrier and

Marie Guerrier

James M. Hart

Marie Hart

Krista L. Hoffman

Jack Hoffman and

Penny Hoffman

Colleen M. Horan

William Horan and

Sue Horan

Kathryn H. Hudy

David P. Hudy ’73

Matthew J. Innace

Joseph Innace and

Kathryn Innace

Philip J. Irish

Steven Irish and

Eileen A. Irish

Trevor E. Jackson

Linda Jackson

Jeremiah A. Johnson

Franklin Johnson and

Dorenda Johnson

Kaitlin M. Joslyn

Richard Joslyn and

Kathleen Joslyn

Heather M. Judd

William A. Judd ’75 and

Linda Judd

Bethany J. Kent

Edward Kent and

Marcia Kent

Eric S. Komar

John Oswald and

Linda Oswald

Jennifer N. Labuz

Robert Labuz

Heather M. Lawton

Cornelius Lawton and

Audrey Lawton

Andrea S. Licht

Jeffrey Licht and Susan Licht

Sheena A. Lightell

James Lightell

Michael A. Lopin

Paul Lopin and

Carmela Lopin

Andrew M. Loughlin

John Loughlin and

Linda Loughlin

Robert J. Lyons

Robert Lyons and

Donna Lyons

Sean P. Malone

Gary Malone and

Sherry Malone

Nicole L. Marris

Dale Marris

Stephanie L. Marsh

Charles H. Marsh ’73 and

Donna L. Marsh

Joshua A. Martin

Doris Lewis

Jeremy E. Masem

Michael Masem and

Inci Masem

Domenica L. McKeon

Linda McKeon

Thomas M. McVeigh

John McVeigh and

Kathleen McVeigh

Renee A. Miller

Loren Miller and

Angela Miller

Rebekah L. Moraites

Stephen Moraites

Katlyn A. Moran

Kevin Moran and

Rosemarie Moran

Mary E. Morrison

Paul Morrison

Kyle T. Mullane

Susan Mullane

Kenneth A. Mulvihill

Carol Mulvihill

Zachary D. Nizolek

David Nizolek and

Sally Nizolek

Timmie J. O’Leary

Timothy O’Leary and

Margaret O’Leary

Julia L. Pahler

Thomas Pahler and

Helen H. Pahler

Michelle J. Penso

David Penso and

Joanne Penso

Julianne N. Pepe

Edward Pepe

Heather M. Potts

Stephan Potts and

Karen A. Potts

Jillian A. Quackenbush

Alan Quackenbush and

Luann Quackenbush

Ashlee A. Rashford

Nicholas Rashford and

Margaret Rashford

Elizabeth A. Ross

Glenn Ross and Jane Ross

Lindsay K. Rourke

David Rourke and

Carol Rourke

Patrick J. Ruppert

Charles Ruppert and

Linda Ruppert

Joelle M. Ryals

Julie Carroll

Joseph W. Sargent

William Sargent and

Christine Sargent

Sarah T. Searing

Richard Searing and

Candace Searing

Jamie P. Seminara

George Seminara and

Patricia Seminara

Nick L. Serio

Michael Serio and

Debbie Serio

Kyle C. Simensky

Scott Simensky

Gregory S. Sims

Margaret Amato Sims ’73

Trista M. Smith

Barbara Smith

Laura A. Spitz

Nancy Spitz

Alexander N. Stratakos

Nicholas Stratakos and

Dimitra Stratakos

Felicia R. Strauss

Stewart Strauss and

Barbara Strauss

Bridget A. Stressler

Richard Stressler and

Margaret Stressler

Ronald R. Suatoni

Maureen Quirk

Jillian E. Tabone

Peter Tabone and

Mary Louise Tabone

Danielle T. Talento

Frank Talento and

Teresa Talento

onald Huether is a man of few words. He shuns

the spotlight, so when he chose to make a gift

to SUNY Cortland he gave in honor of his

son, Gregory Huether, a senior sport management and

economics dual major.

“I like to stay quiet, be in the background and just

do the things I like to do,” said Ronald of Islip Terrace,

N.Y. “I made a small gift to the College last year and this

year I thought about it and decided that schooling is

more important than other things, so I gave more.”

Contributing to The Parents Fund at SUNY

Cortland provides a significant way for parents to

express their satisfaction with their students’ undergrad-

uate experience, explained Jennifer Janes, director

of The Cortland Fund.

“Greg chose to come to Cortland,” said Ronald. “It

was one of the top schools for what he wanted to do.

We have a lot of confidence in the school and what

it does for the students. Going to Cortland is both an

experience and a great opportunity.”

“It was really nice of my dad,” Greg said. “My time

at Cortland has been really good. The highlight so far

was the two-week trip to Europe that I took in May with

the Sport Management Department. We visited stadiums

and listened to experts speak on a variety of topics. It

was truly amazing.”

One way a gift to The Parents Fund can directly

make an impact on student life is supporting such field

trips abroad.

“Parent giving has a direct impact on many aspects

of campus life,” Janes said. “These gifts increase the

value of a SUNY Cortland degree by enhancing the

quality of education for which the College is nationally

recognized. Every gift makes an impact, whether it is an

investment of $25 or a gift of $1,000 or more. Parent

generosity truly makes a difference in the lives of all

SUNY Cortland students.”

Carol Rourke and her husband, Dave, understand

better than many parents how much a contribution to

The Parents Fund can help a college.

“I have a different background because I worked

for several years in the development office at SUNY

Potsdam as the alumni director, said Carol, assistant

to the president at SUNY Potsdam. “Initially I was sur-

prised that they asked parents for gifts, but now I under-

stand how difficult it is to find the money to do the

things a college needs to do, not to mention the things

they want to do.”

Parent giving allows the College to have funds avail-

able for campus initiatives, Janes said.

“Most of the money we receive from parents is unre-

stricted, which supports academic programs, cultural

arts programming, faculty development and the College

library.”

For the 2006-07 fiscal year, SUNY Cortland’s parent

gifts increased over the previous year by 68 percent with

$23,852 raised. The 773 parent donors marked a 71 per-

cent increase, as well.

“Allowing parents the opportunity to make a gift in

honor of their child was crucial to this increase,” Janes

said. “Parents are very proud of their children and ask-

ing them to give in recognition of their hard work and

dedication was a plus.”

Both Carol and her husband are SUNY Potsdam

graduates and recognize the quality of education their

daughters, Lindsay Rourke ’08, who earned a degree in

speech pathology and audiology, and Brittany Rourke, a

sophomore psychology major, get at SUNY Cortland.

“We felt the College was worth investing in,” Carol

said. “My husband and I pledged our first gift to Cortland

when Lindsay was just a freshman or sophomore. We

are both appreciative of the excellent education and

good experiences that our daughters are receiving from

Cortland.”

Parent Donations Improve Quality of Campus Life

Lindsay Rourke ’08, center, celebrates graduating from SUNY

Cortland at the 2008 Commencement Ceremony in May with

her sisters Brittany Rourke, right, a sophomore psychology

major, and Chelsea, 16, left. Lindsay and Brittany were hon-

ored by their parents, Carol and Dave, who made a gift to the

College in honor of their daughters’ hard work.

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Megan E. Thayer

Joan Thayer

Robert M. Weilert

Ronald Weilert

Brandon D. Weinberg

Art Drucker and

Sandra Drucker

Jed T. West

Loraine West

Amanda B. Weston

William Weston and

Eloise Weston

Jessica J. Whalen

James P. Whalen and

Mary C. Whalen

Brandon S. Wheeler

Mary Lou Wheeler

Justin P. Winters

John Winters and

Lorrie Winters

Amanda J. Womelsdorf

Allen Womelsdorf and

Sharon Womelsdorf

Caroline J. Woodhead

Gary Woodhead and

Emily Woodhead

Jessica M. Woyner

Mark Woyner

Heather C. Zampino

Glen Zampino

Paul M. Zando

Joseph Zando and

Robin R. Zando

Tyler G. Zysk

Robert Zysk and Anne Zysk

Gifts in Kind

Anonymous

281 Bowling Inc.

All Wired & Bead Dazzled

Anecelle’s Pasta LLC

Jonathan Billing

Erik J. Bitterbaum and

Ellen Howard Burton

Blockbuster

Button’s Automotive Repair

C & L Plumbing Supply Inc.

Center for Intercultural &

Gender Studies

Mary L. Cervoni

Cindy Compangi

Connie Gamel Beautique

Consignment Connection

Cort-Lanes

Deli Downtown

Vicky Delaney

Divas of New York

Doug’s Fish Fry

Sherry L. Ellis

Footies Freeze

Ford Foundation

Frank & Mary’s Diner

Thomas L. Goodale ’61

Greek Peak Ski Resort

Gretchen Herrmann

Hilltop Scentsations Candles

Hobeau’s

Hollywood Restaurant

Martha Howlett

Bonnie Hermann Innerst ’68

JC Penney Co., Inc.

Jodi’s Hallmark Shop

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Barry H. Kornblum ’79 and

Joan Hoyt Kornblum ’82

Joan H. Krohn ’83

Louis E. LaGrand ’57

Julia Wright Levine ’65 and

Max Levine

Thomas Lickona and

Judith Lickona

Linani’s Bakery & Coffee Shoppe

& Happily Ever After

Literacy Department

Little Caesars Pizza! Pizza!

Maines Paper and Food

Service, Inc.

Victor Malta

Mando Books Inc.

Mark’s Pizzeria

Richard K. Matlick

Ellen T. McCabe ’00 and

Paul McCabe

Lorraine M. Melita

Joy Mosher

Alex Hair and Skin Care Salon

Mullen Office Outfitters, Inc.

Yvonne M. Murnane and

Michael Murnane

New Beach House

Roy H. Olsson Jr.

Linda S. Parmiter

Douglas Pens ’67 and

Eileen Davies Pens ’68

Pizza Hut

Price Chopper

Ramada Inn

Sarvay Shoe Company

Shipwreck Golf Inc.

Smith-Ingalls-French

Spirit & Life Book Store

Christy A. Stevens

Sugar & Spice Restaurant

Taco Bell

Arnold Talentino

Tanning Bed

Tops Friendly Markets

Treasure Chest

Kristin E. Tremlett ’85

Ultimate Music

Upstate Shredding

Joseph A. Vallo ’79

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Wendy’s

Marjorie Bremiller Wheeler ’43

Michael J. Whitlock

Gail Wood

Eric Wright

YMCA

Tiantian Zheng

oko Jumbies. Graduate

assistants. Goofs and

Goblets. Faculty research

and travel. Youth Summit

on Energy. Executives-in-Residence.

The Moko Jumbies — those visiting

Caribbean-style stilt dancers that offered

a unique cultural experience to students

during the CaribExpo on April 19 in the

Park Center Alumni Arena — and the

rest of the campus activities outside the

classroom have something in common.

During 2007-08, unrestricted gifts to The

Cortland Fund helped make them all

possible.

Cortland College Foundation fund-

ing for campus programs is far-reaching

in that the generosity of donors to SUNY

Cortland is shared widely and makes a

real difference.

“Unrestricted funds, that is gifts given

to SUNY Cortland without specific direc-

tives on how we must spend them, offer

the institution the flexibility to respond

to pressing needs and seize new oppor-

tunities,” said Jennifer Janes, director of

The Cortland Fund. “These gifts improve

the quality of campus life by taking

advantage of unanticipated co-curricular

educational opportunities for faculty,

staff and students. Unrestricted giving

has the greatest impact with new initia-

tives at the College.”

Last year, The Cortland Fund sup-

ported four graduate assistants to work in

each of the College’s academic schools, as

well as one part-time graduate assistant

helping with the Academic Support and

Achievement Program.

“Unrestricted gifts enable the foun-

dation to provide funds for programs,

services and initiatives that have been

identified by the College as institutional

priorities,’” explained Raymond Franco,

vice president for institutional advance-

ment. “This year, the College wanted to

provide additional graduate assistants,

increase support for faculty development

programs and increase the funding avail-

able for cultural arts programming for

our students. Because of the existence of

undesignated gifts, the foundation was

able to fund these campus priorities.”

This flexibility in The Cortland Fund

made it possible to assist, in part, the

April 2007 campus speaking engagement

by Avraham Burg, a leading dignitary in

Israeli politics for more than 20 years. The

Cortland Fund supports extensive major

cultural and educational programming

outside the classroom, under the umbrella

of the Campus Artist and Lecture Series

(CALS). In this instance, CALS partnered

with the Jewish Studies Committee to

make the major presentation free and

open to the campus community.

“We’re trying to offer a culturally

diverse experience that the students

might not otherwise be able to afford,”

explained Sandra Wohlleber, assistant

director of campus activities and Greek

affairs.

The Cortland Fund also helped

to underwrite the annual Goofs and

Goblets dining program, a joint Alumni

Association and Career Services initiative

that guides career-minded students with

their faculty and staff hosts through the

complex etiquette of a business interview

meal.

During 2007-08, nine faculty mem-

bers were awarded Faculty Research and

Travel Grants to help offset the cost of

their scholarly activities. Because of this

support, they shared their research and

scholarship work through conference

presentations in cities around the U.S.

and in France.

The Small Grant Program provided

funding to help junior Ashley Andrews

and 23 other SUNY Cortland students

attend what was touted as “the first-ever

youth summit on energy,” Power Shift

2007, during November in Washington,

D.C. The program also approved 26

other proposals by faculty and students

to help underwrite the cost of their aca-

demic endeavors.

The foundation underwrites the cost

to host alumni who speak in classrooms

and meet students at least twice a year in

the President’s Executive-in-Residence

Program.

“Another priority for the College is

to encourage and support students to

become active citizens,” Janes contin-

ued. During the year, the foundation

responded to requests as they arose for

funding to build ties with the Cortland

community.

“Next year we will provide $2,500 in

funding to support other programs that

will help SUNY Cortland have a positive

impact on the greater Cortland commu-

nity,” Janes said.

When the Moko Jumbies came to

SUNY Cortland, a cultural cross-section

of the entire campus community had an

opportunity to sample, perhaps for the

first time, Caribbean folklore, cuisine, art,

music and history at CaribExpo, which

was put on by the New York City-based

traveling group, Campus Caribbean

Carnival.

“CaribExpo was phenomenal,” said

Tanya Abilock, coordinator of multicul-

tural life, who organized the event with

students from the Caribbean Student

Association. They had received a Small

Grant Program award from the Faculty

Development Center, which obtains

funding from the Cortland College

Foundation.

“We were trying to bring a piece of

Carnivale to Cortland,” Abilock said.

“We had limbo dancers and the students

all tried it. Steel pan drum sounds floated

across the Alumni Arena. Festival par-

ticipants were able to sample fresh-cut

fruits, coconut and sugar cane prepared

by the Caribbean fruit-handlers. There

were tri-fold poster boards of 20 to 25

countries in the Caribbean and informa-

tion on all the different countries. Some

students collaborated to make the post-

ers and some did it themselves. There

were Puerto Rico and the Dominican

Republic, but there were also some of

the smaller countries not everyone has

heard about. It went flawlessly. We had

a great draw from students who had not

previously participated with multicultural

life programs or the Caribbean Student

Association. They were able to enjoy the

culture in an open and supportive atmo-

sphere.”

CALS received $11,500 from the

foundation in 2007-08. The collabora-

tion has been an especially successful one

in bringing cultural events to campus

as well as making affordable trips to

Broadway available to students.

“We have many students who love

to go on the Broadway trips but also a

group who only go to events on cam-

pus,” Wohlleber said. “It’s a wonder-

ful deal. We’re able to underwrite the

performances with the grants from

the foundation as well as the Auxiliary

Services Corporation and the Student

Government Association. A ticket for

these performances would typically cost

$25-$50. This past year, our students

never paid more than $5. We’re doing

everything we can to bring new groups

to campus to have something that will

appeal to everyone. The purpose of CALS

programming is making cultural pro-

grams more accessible to more people.”

And the objective of The Cortland

Fund is to make all of these things a

reality for our SUNY Cortland students,

concluded Franco.

The Cortland Fund Fills Gaps in Campus Program Support

During 2007-08, The Cortland Fund made it possible for the campus community to experience

the uniquely Caribbean sight of a leggy Moko Jumbie showing off his amazing stiltwalking

ability, during the College’s CaribExpo held during April in the Park Center Alumni Arena.

Red Dragon Society members (annual donors)

Names in italics indicate deceased