Maxwell Perspective
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Fall 2012
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Heart of Our Founding
Almost 90 years after its creation, the Maxwell School continues to build
on its founder’s vision of a world where citizenship matters.
C
itizenship is at the core of Maxwell’s identity and mission — so much so that it is literally
carved into the stone above our doors. This issue of Perspective focuses on the past, present,
and future of citizenship at the School, from George Maxwell’s founding vision; through
the establishment, dis-, and re-establishment of undergraduate courses focusing on citizenship; to the efforts of current students to support our community; and to the new signature
major in citizenship and civic engagement. Over the past year, we’ve been privileged to host, thanks
to the generosity of W. Lynn Tanner ’75 PhD (PA), two of the most respected thinkers on the role
of citizens in our society: former Senator Bill Bradley (author, most recently, of We Can All Do
Better) and Michael Sandel, the Harvard political philosophy professor whose lectures on justice
and society have attracted a worldwide following.
I was especially encouraged to hear President Obama raise the issue of citizenship in his nomination acceptance speech in Charlotte this summer. He said, “We also believe in something called
citizenship. Citizenship — a word at the very heart of our
founding; a word at the very essence of our democracy; the
We are committed to creating
idea that this country only works when we accept certain
an environment where informed obligations to one another and to future generations.”
The importance of this value is front and center today.
discussion can illuminate
choices and allow advocates to We see the need for that perspective in our too-often polarizing national debate about how to chart an economic future
seek common ground.
that promotes growth and opportunity — one that invests in
the human capacity and physical infrastructure we will need
to sustain our competitiveness and that tackles our structural deficit, while meeting the challenge of
sustainable development. We see it in the Arab world, among young and old who have thrown off
the repression of the past, but who struggle to find a new way of defining their polity in ways that
honor traditional religion and culture while respecting the rights of individuals and neighbors. We
see it in the dangerous rise of hypernationalism in East Asia, where disputes over barren island outcroppings are being transformed into matters of national identity and pride.
None of these problems admits to simple answers, but at Maxwell we are committed to creating an environment where informed discussion can illuminate the choices and allow advocates to
seek common ground. Through our strong social science research programs, we advance knowledge
to inform debate. Through our policy centers we engage the issues of the day and reach out to
wider audiences beyond the University. And through our teaching — and not only our justly celebrated MAX Courses and new signature major, which we feature in this issue — we engage the
next generation of global citizens. I concur with the judgment offered by
Bob McClure in our study of the School’s citizenship legacy (page 14):
George Maxwell would be proud.
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School
UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
Learning to Give
To understand how funding organizations evaluate potential grantees,
undergraduates in PAF 410 field real requests and award real money.
B
oard members are discussing how they’ll decide who receives the $5,000 they can award.
They’ve received 23 grant applications, packets that beckon from across the room.
“I don’t think we should each evaluate every application,” suggests board co-chair
Erin Carhart. They decide each board member will read eight applications, with every
application having at least three readers.
“We’re not going to be able to make 23 site visits,” adds Victoria Honard, board co-chair. They
decide seven feels like a good number, with as many members as available attending each visit.
They’ll create standardized questions, so similar information is collected, regardless of who attends.
They leave the board meeting armed with their packets and empowered with their task: improving the quality of life of Central New York residents.
The board members are
actually students in an upperlevel policy studies class,
Philanthropy and You. The
course, in its second year,
provides an overview of
philanthropy, including
nonprofit board management
and grant making. The goal
is to teach students how they
can strategically improve
their communities via philanthropy — whether giving
their time, treasure, or talent
— while also exposing them
to possible career paths in
foundation work. The $5,000
is real, provided by donors to
the class. (The lead gift for
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MAXWELL
KEEGAN BARBER / SU PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER
The people and
programs of
Maxwell today
Renée Gearhart Levy is a
freelance writer, specializing
in higher education, based in
Fayetteville, N.Y.
Linda Linn, a 1984 SU graduate with a BS in broadcast
journalism and marketing, is
a freelance writer and public
relations consultant based in
Syracuse.
For their site visit with Baltimore
Woods Nature Center representatives, students in Philanthropy and
You visited a Syracuse park where
the center’s youth program takes
Martin Walls is a freelance
writer, communications consultant, and author of three books
of poems.
place. Representing Baltimore Woods were
Katie Mulverhill (top, left) and Patty Weisse
(right). Students were (l-r) Zach Schreiber,
Victoria Honard, Janessa Bonti, and Mat Mazer.
Miscellaneous photography
courtesy of SU Photo and
Imaging Center; Steve Sartori,
manager and photographer.
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Shown meeting with PEACE Inc. are (right, l-r)
students Zach Schreiber, Erin Carhart, Kara
Jeffries, and Nicole Perman.
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CHUCK WA
this year’s grant was given by
“You can’t just give
the Dorothy and Marshall M.
to organizations for
Reisman Foundation.)
emotional reasons.”
Students comprise a
Carol Dwyer
nonprofit board — they call
Instructor, Philanthropy and You
themselves The Council of
Young Philanthropists — and
elect officers. They research needs in Onondaga County and present those needs to the full board, which then votes on a theme for
their giving. Last year it was health care; this fall, education.
They then structure an application process and invite Syracuse
nonprofits who fit the theme to apply. All of this is supplemented
with lectures from Carol Dwyer, their course instructor, and guest
speakers on the history and importance of philanthropy, foundation
management, and legal aspects of nonprofits.
On this particular morning, they were visited by executives
from the Gifford Foundation, who provided advice on the grantmaking process. “The organization with the best written application doesn’t necessarily have the greatest need,” Lindsay McClung,
director of community grant making, offers. “Make site visits and
follow your gut.”
When they meet next, they’ll
narrow the pool down to nine
applicants and conduct site visits
over the following two class periods. The “process” is an important
part of the course, designed to
teach students to make informed
decisions as philanthropists. “You
can’t just give to organizations for
emotional reasons. You have to do
some due diligence and know that
they are good caretakers of the
money that is given to them,” says
Dwyer, director of the Maxwell
School’s Community Benchmarks
Program.
A week later, narrowing the
pool proves to be difficult. Board
members remind each other to
stick to the selection criteria: the
program should benefit those
under 18, living under federal
poverty guidelines, or benefit
refugees or immigrants.
The site visits help sort
things out. “There were some organizations I thought were
home runs based on their applications,” says junior Mat
Mazer. “But when I got to the sites, I found some had exaggerated on their applications.”
Others wowed the students. Senior Kara Jeffries was
sold after her visit to an organization that hadn’t appealed
MAXWELL IN
THE MEDIA
A sampling of appearances
by Maxwell faculty members in the national and international media . . .
Catherine Bertini, professor of practice in public administration and
international affairs, “Feeding the World in Face of
Drought,” Politico, 8/7/12
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate professor of political
science, “Iran Bans ‘Luxury’
Imports as Sanctions Bite,”
AP, 11/8/12; “Ahmadinejad Wounded But Wily in Final Year,” The Times of Israel,
6/12/12
Leonard Burman, Moynihan Professor of Public
Affairs,“Middle Class Faces
Quick Impact from Fiscal Cliff
in Form of Alternative Minimum Tax,” Washington Post,
11/4/12; “Low Capital Gains
Taxes May Not Help the
Economy,” Bloomberg Businessweek, 10/3/12
Don Dutkowsky, professor
of economics, “New York’s
Rising Jobless Rate Poses
Test for Cuomo,” New York
Times, 10/15/12; “Consumers
Slash Card Balances to Lowest Levels in 10 Years,” NASDAQ, 8/29/12
Jerry Evensky, professor
of economics, “Bernanke to
Economists: More Philosophy, Please,” Bloomberg
Businessweek, 8/6/12
INWRIGHT
Thomas Keck, associate
professor of political science,
“Same-Sex Marriage Heads
to US High Court,” Agence
France-Presse, 7/29/12;
“Judgment Fray for America’s
Health Care,” Toronto Star,
6/2/12
Henry Lambright, professor
of public administration and
international affairs, “Decades
After Armstrong’s Moonwalk, Can NASA’s New Robotic Mars Landing Inspire?,”
Washington Post, 8/27/12
Andrew London, professor of sociology, “Petraeus Affair: Why Do the Powerful Cheat?,” USAToday,
11/13/2012
Daniel McDowell, assistant
professor of political science,
“Japan, China, South Korea Island Disputes Threaten
Global Economy,” Christian
Science Monitor, 10/22/12
Don Mitchell, Distinguished
Professor of Geography, “A
City Faces Its ‘Berlin Wall’:
An Interstate Highway,” NPR,
7/24/12
Devashish Mitra, professor
of economics, “FDI in Retail
Means More Jobs,” India Today, 10/15/12
James Steinberg, dean,
“Obama to Support Seoul’s
N. Korea Engagement Policy,” Korea Times, 11/13/12;
“Outside Countries Disagree
on Next Steps in Syria,” NPR,
6/4/12
Jeffrey Stonecash, Maxwell
Professor of Political Science,
“New York Democrats Skipping Convention for, Well, You
Name It,” New York Times,
8/16/12
Margaret Thompson, associate professor of history, “Sanctions Against Nuns
Spark Backlash,” Boston
Globe, 6/12/12
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T H E C A M PA I G N F O R
S Y R AC U S E U N I V E R S I T Y
New Funds Honor Former Professors
Otey Scruggs and Fred Burke
Recent gifts demonstrate how philanthropy can harken
to the past while helping to fuel the future.
The Campaign for Syracuse
neer in the development of
recently received gifts estabAfrican American history as a
lishing two new funds in the
discipline. He oversaw a fedMaxwell School, both honorerally funded program training former faculty members.
ing African American histoThe Otey and Barbara
rians to teach in community
Scruggs History Fund reccolleges. In 1992, he received
ognizes a well-loved profesSU’s Chancellor’s Citation for
sor emeritus
Exceptional Academic
For more on the
of history and
Achievement.
Campaign and its
his wife. It
He is also a forconclusion, see
was created
mer athlete — a track
page 30.
by the Scrugand basketball star at
gs’s son, Jefthe University of Califrey Scruggs, and daughterfornia, Santa Barbara, who
in-law Robbin Mitchell.
placed fifth in the 1952 U.S.
The gift provides support
Olympic decathlon trials. He
for students and professors
resides today in Pittsburgh.
in the Department of History,
The Fred G. Burke
in the form of research aid,
Graduate Student Fund
workshops, events, and the
was created by a gift and
like. Initially, it funds the Otey
bequest commitment from
and Barbara Scruggs History
Clyde Ingle ’70 PhD (PSc).
Faculty Scholars; inaugural
The fund will proscholars are Andrew Wender
vide financial and
Cohen and Samantha Kahn
scholarship supHerrick, both associate proport to graduate
fessors in the department.
students at MaxOtey Scruggs, who joined
well. Preference
the faculty in 1969 and retired
will be given to
in 1995, is a recognized piostudents from the
southern United States.
Burke, who died in 2005,
was a political scientist and
prominent Africa scholar who
wrote six books about the
continent. He had profound
influence at Maxwell in the
early and mid-1960s, creating
the Program of East African
Studies and generally bolstering efforts in international studies. He later directed
Peace Corps training in Africa
and then served as commissioner of education for Rhode
Island and New Jersey.
Both funds are accepting
gifts from other admirers of
these respected professors.
New funds at Maxwell
honor former faculty members Otey Scruggs (above)
and Fred Burke
to her on paper. After meeting with the director and another employee, “I was deeply moved
by the passion they displayed,” she says.
Students also weighed financial ratios
(indicators of the sound management of an
organization) and how well the grant proposal
aligned with an organization’s overall mission.
Mazer was lobbying for a community
group that sought funding for a healthcare
training program. “It met all of our goals:
working with refugees, working with an impoverished population, and education,” he says.
But ultimately the decision came down to
financials. “We wanted to determine the financial risk of the organization we would be fund4
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ing,” he adds. The group he favored
came up short on this score.
After thorough debate, the
Council of Young Philanthropists
selected Baltimore Woods Nature
Center as their recipient. The
$5,000 grant will provide a handson nature experience for city school
children by taking them to various
parks to learn science in a natural
setting. The grant will be matched
by Syracuse city schools and Onondaga County’s Save the Rain Foundation. Total contribution: $13,200.
“The deciding factor was that
the $5,000 we would give to Baltimore Woods would be matched,”
says Mazer, “more than doubling
our investment. The more we discussed their program, it was a clear
choice for all of us.”
The students are unanimously
excited about the class and their
engagement with the community. “I
will always look at philanthropy in a
different light because of this experience,” says Carhart. “It is so much
more than giving. You are truly
changing lives.”
“My hope,” says Dwyer, “is
that community giving will become
a normal part of their lives, not just
something they do for a class. My
second hope is that we are training
future board members.”
That’s the argument Lisa Honan uses when seeking gifts to fund
the class’s grant. “It was not difficult to find people who were excited about this idea,” says
Honan, assistant dean for development.
Honan says Philanthropy and You fits the
School’s traditions in citizenship education
— something donors appreciate. Judy Mower
’80 MA (SPsy)/’84 PhD (SPsy) is one of them;
her gift launched the course. “I’m getting double the impact with my money,” she says. “I
gave a little bit of money that’s going to help
students learn to become mindful, informed
donors. And they’re going to turn around and
invest it in some very good organization in the
community where I live.”
— Renée Gearhart Levy
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INSTITUTES
Back From the War
Syracuse’s new Institute for Veterans and Military Families considers
the impact of service on soldiers and on the people around them.
A
PHIL GREGORY / WBGO-WHYY RADIO
s unemployment rates across the country begin to improve, one group of job seekers remains underrepresented: recent veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
“Our research suggests these veterans have been disproportionately affected by the
recession,” says Janet Wilmoth, a Maxwell School sociologist and demographer who has
been studying veterans’ issues since 2005.
Helping veterans become employed and encouraging employers to hire those who’ve served is
a major focus area of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), established last year at Syracuse University. The one-of-a-kind national institute, a joint
venture of SU and JPMorganChase,
develops programming, research,
policy analysis, and technical assisSTUDENT SNAPSHOT
tance to address challenges facing
the veterans’ community.
Aligned Against Violence
“Veterans face formidable
A tragedy in Ashlee Newman’s family
social and economic challenges
created a new legislative advocate.
throughout their post-service life
course,” says the institute’s director,
Sophomore Ashlee Newman is more
Mike Haynie, a management prothan a student. She’s an activist. She
promotes the adoption of New Jersey
fessor at SU and a former Air Force
Senate Bill 331, which would require
officer. “The resources and capabilielectronic monitoring of convicted perties of higher education are well
petrators of domestic violence.
In a press conference at the New
positioned to inform and impact
Her advocacy comes in direct response to NewJersey State House, sophomore
many of these challenges. However,
man’s own brush with domestic violence. Roughly a
Ashlee Newman (center) discusses
the benefits of “Heather’s Law” with
these resources and capabilities have
year ago, her cousin, Heather — after having not one,
state senators who sponsored it
but
two
restraining
orders
denied
—
was
murdered
by
never before been coordinated and
an
abusive
husband.
leveraged on a national scale.”
Newman and her family resolved to make life safer for other domestic violence victims. First,
The creation of the IVMF
as an independent project at Maxwell, Newman documented the timeline leading up to Heathcomes at a critical juncture for
er’s death, with the intention of making officials more aware of holes in the legal system. The
veterans in America, in the wake of
project led to contacts with legislators’ offices, while also educating Newman in the nuances of
life as a victim of domestic violence. Soon Newman was appearing at press conferences with
10-plus years of sustained military
politicians and advocates who worked to promote a new law, eventually named Heather’s Law.
conflict. Although there are fewer
The legislative work has led to opportunities for this political science and policy studies mamilitary personnel than during past
jor and Chancellor’s Scholar. This past summer, Newman attended the conference of the Nationconflicts, it’s also the case that more
al Coalition Against Domestic Violence; her attendance was subsidized by SU’s Renee Crown
members of an all-volunteer force
University Honors Program. While there, she received the Blue Bra award for her part in promotchoose to stay beyond their initial
ing this legislation. “I now have a deep understanding of domestic law,” said Newman, “as well
as a deep respect for our lawmakers. . . . They make it look stress-free, when in reality it is not.”
hitch — some for an entire career.
She continues working to get Heather’s Law passed, recently conducting a grassroots letter“In the past, most people who
writing campaign by SU students who are New Jersey residents. After Heather’s Law passes,
served were young, single men,” says
Newman plans to draft another — possibly a 48-hour law, mandating that police check in with
Maxwell sociologist and demogradomestic violence victims following a dispute. “Other states have this, and it is something we
pher Andrew London, who, along
don’t have in New Jersey,” Newman says. “But my first priority is to get [Heather’s Law] passed.
Then I will move on—just take one step at a time.”
— Linda Linn
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Dateline Maxwell
Nonprofit Expert
Fills Bantle Chair
Post was created by a
long-time SU trustee and
former member of
Maxwell’s Advisory Board.
Stephen Rathgeb Smith,
previously Evans Professor of
Public Affairs at the University of Washington, has been
named to the Louis A. Bantle
Chair in Business and Government Policy
at the Maxwell
School.
Smith’s
specializaStephen
tions include
Rathgeb
nonprofit and
Smith
public management, social policy implementation, contracting and
privatization, and public-private partnerships. His most
recent book is Government
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tensive research on veterans over the life
course. “Now there are more military families.
There are more dependents of military personnel today than there are military personnel.”
The IVMF charges itself with understanding the challenges of military families
and supporting them as they meet those challenges. The institute takes a dual approach:
solid social science research combined with
boots-on-the-ground practical intervention.
In the latter category are efforts to assist those
who have recently served — such as training
programs to help veterans start small businesses, and industry partnerships to encourage
employers to hire veterans.
The research side of the institute takes a
broader view, examining issues related to
long-term effects of service, including World
War II, Korean, and Vietnam-era war veterans. The research hopes to foresee how service
today might affect new veterans 10 or 50 years down the road.
Wilmoth and London, both senior fellows of the IVMF, are the SU faculty members with
perhaps the greatest research expertise in this area. Their work began with a grant from the National Institute on Aging, with which they compared veterans with non-veterans to see how military service affects health trajectories among older men. Building on that work, they are finalizing
an edited volume, Life Course Perspectives on Military Service, which includes contributions by other
Maxwell faculty members and will
be published later this year.
Wilmoth and London’s conSymposium Honors
and Regulation in the Third
tinuing research on military service
James Powell
Sector (2010).
and life course has led to policy
Smith is past president of
In late September, Syracuse
implications. For instance, they
the Association for Research
University held a day-long
recently established that a comparaon Nonprofit Organizations
colloquium in memory of
tively high proportion of disabled
and Voluntary Action and is
James M. Powell, profesveteran households live below the
the former editor of
sor emeritus of medieval
its journal, Nonprofit
history, who died in early
poverty threshold and experience
and Voluntary Sec2011. It focused on relireal material hardships. “This is not
tor Quarterly.
gious tolerance and viosomething that is widely recogThe Bantle Chair
lence in medieval times,
nized,” says London. “People aswas endowed by
and featured remarks by
sume that Veterans Administration
Louis G. Bantle,
Powell’s former students
trustee emeritus of
James Powell and colleagues, most of
programs are adequate to support
Syracuse Univerthem prominent mediveterans who are unable to work
sity and a former member of
evalists. It was co-organized
due to disability.” The research
the Maxwell School Advisory
by Albrecht Diem, associate
suggests this is not so; more assisBoard. Established in honor
professor of history.
tance might be required.
of Bantle’s father, the chair
Powell taught at MaxAnother Maxwell unit with a
provides funding for research
well from 1965 to 1997 and
and teaching focusing on the
was the author of Anatomy
stake in the IVMF is the Institute
intersections of business,
of a Crusade, 1213-1221. He
for National Security and Countergovernment, and non-govoversaw cataloging of SU’s
terrorism (INSCT), which is coernmental organizations; it
Leopold van Ranke collection
sponsored by Maxwell and SU’s
also supports an annual symand organized a major, interCollege of Law. INSCT’s deputy
posium.
national conference celebrating the library.
director, Robert B. Murrett (a re-
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Andrew London
tired vice admiral), recently
oversaw a demographic analysis of veterans in the Syracuse area — a project undertaken with the Syracuse VA.
The survey was conducted by students in a Maxwell MPA workshop.
They identified and evaluated reasons veterans choose or avoid VA
facilities for health care.
The complementary relationship of veterans studies and national
security concerns is no accident.
William Banks, a professor of public administration and international
affairs who directs INSCT, is also a
distinguished fellow at the veterans
institute; Murrett, INSCT’s deputy
director, is an inaugural member of
the IVMF board. Even apart from
the new veterans institute, Murrett
says INSCT’s work related to veterans is growing “pretty dramatically.”
As the researchers’ work builds,
the IVMF’s function as a clearinghouse on matters of military and
veteran families will grow in importance. Its findings will inform policy
makers, advocates, and veteran
families themselves. It’s a contribution all involved believe is vital.
Says Murrett, “The support
and care of veterans and military
families is a national security imperative if the United States is to
maintain an all-volunteer force.”
— Renée Gearhart Levy
Maxwell Offers
Election Analyses
Lectures and classes focus
on race for the presidency
As the presidential election
neared in November, Maxwell
became a hotbed of political
conversation and insight.
More than a dozen campaign-related lectures and
forums were held. Experts included a mix of Maxwell professors and visiting experts.
Speakers included the
Washington Post’s Melinda
Henneberger; Pulitzer-winning journalist Carla Anne
Robbins; Newsweek correspondent Daniel Klaidman;
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
former lieutenant governor of
Maryland; CNN analyst Ron
Brownstein; and Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way.
In addition, a graduate
seminar, Social Media and
the 2012 Election, taught by
Ines Mergel, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs,
focused on social media as a
campaign tactic while providing students with social media skills.
tions with local families, meetings with public and nonprofit
officials, and professional affiliation internships.
This year Humphrey fellows hail from Afghanistan,
Argentina, Bangladesh, Cote
D’Ivoire, Ecuador, Lebanon,
Mexico, Pakistan, Serbia, Tunisia, and Venezuela.
Anthro Students Win
Major NSF Grants
Two current doctoral students
in anthropology have won
highly prestigious National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships —
$30,000 per year for three
years of advanced study.
Melinda Gurr’s research
centers on the role of youth
cultural politics among Latin
America’s largest social
movement, the Landless
Workers’ Movement, in Brazil.
Lauren Hosek is a bioarchaeologist studying a 10thcentury medieval village in
the Czech Republic, piecing
together the effects of changing political structures on mobility, marriage, interpersonal
violence, and religion.
Fourth Humphrey
Cohort Arrives
New Robertson
Fellows Named
Eleven young, midcareer
NGO and government professionals from emerging
democracies and developing countries arrived in July
to participate in the Hubert
H. Humphrey Fellowship
Program — the fourth such
group to study at Maxwell.
The program is funded by
the U.S. Department of State
to help strengthen global exchange and international understanding. Maxwell is one
of 18 schools nationwide
hosting Humphrey fellows.
Fellows take part in 10
months of non-degree graduate study and cultural exchange, including a leadership seminar, courses in areas
of specific interest, connec-
Among graduate students at Maxwell this fall
are its two new Robertson
fellows — the third pair
funded by the Robertson
Foundation for Government.
The program is designed to motivate exceptional students to prepare for federal careers
in foreign policy, national
security, and international affairs. Students are
funded for two years and
then begin careers in federal government.
This year’s fellows
are G. Oliver Elliott,
from Santa Barbara, California, who is concentrating on global and national
security, particularly in South
Asia; and Kate Simma, from
Richardson, Texas, interested in economic development
and post-conflict reconstruction in Latin America. Both
are pursuing an MPA/IR degree.
IR Graduate Wins
Boren Fellowship
Graduating senior Leah
Moushey ’12 BA (IR) was
one of only 119 students
nationwide to win a Boren
Graduate Fellowship in 2012.
The awards, sponsored
by the National Security Education Program, promote
graduate-level study in locations, languages, and topics deemed critical to U.S.
national security. Recipients
commit to one year of work in
a federal security agency.
Moushey was the 2012
recipient of Maxwell’s Harlan
Cleveland Award for Excellence in International Policy
Issues; and served on two
recent delegations to the National Model United Nations.
She is using her Boren award
to focus on the Portuguese
language in Mozambique.
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“There are more
military families.
There are more
dependents of
military personnel
today than there
are military
personnel.”
Political Profiler. The year’s first
speaker in the State of Democracy
lecture series was alumnus Michael
Kranish ’79 BA (PSc), political
reporter with the Boston Globe and
co-author of The Real Romney. He
described the authors’ attempt to
assemble the first comprehensive
portrait of the then-candidate for
the U.S. presidency. The lectures
are sponsored by Maxwell’s Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
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FA C U LT Y F O O T N O T E S
Monmonier Writes Of
Lake Effect Snow
In his 15th book, prolific and
popular geographer Mark
Monmonier
considers Central New York’s
most beloved
climatic quirk.
In Lake Effect: Tales of
Mark
Large Lakes,
Monmonier
Arctic Winds,
and Recurrent Snows (Syracuse University Press), Monmonier, a Distinguished Professor of Geography, uses
a mix of meteorology and
cartography to explore the
societal impacts in communities adapting to notoriously disruptive storms. He also
considers the evolving definition of “lake effect” as a distinctive weather pattern — a
phenomenon first detected
in the 1920s and named two
decades later.
Global Economist
Richardson Retires
At the end of
the fall 2012
semester, J.
David Richardson, professor of ecoDavid nomics and
Richardson international
relations, will
complete a distinguished 20year teaching career at Maxwell.
Richardson, who also
held the title Gerald B. and
Daphna Cramer Professor of
Global Affairs (1999-2007), is
an authority on trade, globalization, and international economic policy issues.
He is senior fellow emeritus of the Peterson Institute
for International Economics
and author or co-author of
Why Global Commitment Really Matters!, Global Competition Policy, and dozens of
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other books and journal articles. His doctorate, on export
growth, is from the University
of Michigan.
Other Faculty
Accomplishments
Catherine Bertini, professor of practice in public administration and international
affairs, was appointed to the
U.S. State Department’s Accountability Review Board,
investigating the deaths of
American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
Robert Bogdan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Social Science, wrote Picturing Disability: Beggar,
Freak, Citizen, and Other
Photographic Rhetoric (Syracuse University Press), which
analyzes the depiction of
physical disability in more
than 100 years of popular
photography.
Leonard Burman, Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs, co-wrote Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs
to Know (Oxford University
Press). It offers a citizens’
overview of how the U.S. tax
system works, its effects on
people and businesses, and
how it might be improved.
Peter Castro, associate professor of anthropology, coedited Climate Change and
Threatened Communities:
Vulnerability, Capacity and
Action (Practical Action) and
wrote chapters on climate
change’s impact in Ethiopia
and Sudan.
Francine D’Amico, associate professor of international
relations, won the inaugural
Outstanding Faculty Advisor
Award from Sigma Iota Rho,
the national IR honor society.
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FACULTY PROFILE
Gary Engelhardt, professor
of economics, heads a multiuniversity study of how housing affordability affects decisions made by older adults
about their health care, living arrangements, and wellbeing. It is funded by a
$500,000 grant from the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Soonhee
Kim, professor
of public
administration
and international affairs,
co-edited
Public Sector Human Resource Management (SAGE).
It studies HRM in public
management and policy,
taking into account globalization, among other trends.
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn,
professor of history, won a
$100,000 Historical Society
grant to research the proliferation of personal-health therapies over the past 50 years.
The award is funded by the
John Templeton Foundation.
Don Mitchell, Distinguished
Professor of Geography, received the Anders Retzius
Medal in Gold from the
Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography. It was
presented by Carl XVI Gustaf,
King of Sweden.
John Western, professor
of geography,
wrote Cosmopolitan Europe:
A Strasbourg
Self-Portrait
(Ashgate), in which the
French city provides a case
study in European identity
and culture.
Messy
Data
Political scientist Colin
Elman is helping change
the way qualitative
research is standardized,
stored, and shared.
T
hese days, a political scientist who wants to explore,
say, a theory about presidential leadership has a
wealth of compelling qualitative
data to draw from. In the modern
era, minutes, memos, speeches, even
formerly secret tapes are available as
never before. Whether from dusty
archives or fresh interviews, rich
qualitative data provide deep content you won’t find in the anonymized numbers and charts of quantitative data.
However, these benefits do not
come free of costs.
“Qualitative data are often
unstructured and much harder to
organize, store, share, and cite than
their quantitative counterparts,” says
Colin Elman, associate professor of
political science, who is co-founder
of the American Political Science
Association’s section on qualitative
and multi-method research.
He is also executive director of
the Consortium for Qualitative
Research Methods, based in Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute. In that
role he co-directs an annual training
institute on qualitative and multimethod research. Partly funded by
the National Science Foundation, it
has trained more than 1,000 graduate students and junior faculty.
Dateline Maxwell
and build on her efforts.”
“Qualitative evidenceElman plans to use
based claims should
the repository for his
be made transparently,
upcoming book, Regional Hegemony: The United
where possible with the
States and Offensive
supporting data to show
Realism. Active citations,
how claims are inferred.”
he says, will make his
historiographical reColin Elman
search immediately
available to readers and
show more clearly how cited materials support
the book’s inferences.
The repository will also provide search
tools, a portal to other databases, and opportunities for peers to annotate texts. It will facilitate training and advice on collecting, storing,
and sharing data — and, as such, it will be a
remarkable teaching tool. “Now students will
be able to go to the repository to see what
qualitative data look like and how they are
used,” says Elman,
who also co-edits
a book series on
Strategies for
Social Inquiry for
Cambridge University Press.
He notes that
archiving qualitative data online is
not without difficulties. Research
subjects may have
to provide informed consent,
and in some cases
confidentiality will
have to be protected. So the repository will have
Colin Elman spearheads a set
access controls to separate “safe” and “toxic”
of projects aiming to standarddata. “There will be levels — fully open data,
ize qualitative research in
political science. Behind him is
data that are available with permission, and
an informal chart showing the
data that may not be accessible for some time,
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As a member of political science’s qualitative and multi-method research movement,
Elman is leading a team focused on data collection and analysis. The goal is to help provide
the incentives and infrastructure to do “messy”
qualitative research in a rigorous, transparent,
and replicable way.
“As with quantitative research, qualitative
evidence-based claims should be made transparently, where possible with the supporting
data to show how claims are inferred,” argues
Elman, who received a 2012 Mid-Career
Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association for his work on qualitative methodology. “New qualitative methodology is setting high standards, but the tools and
infrastructure needed for researchers to meet
those standards are still being developed.”
To help scholars systematically store and
share qualitative research, Elman and his colleagues are developing a new centralized repository of qualitative data, funded by a $600,000
National Science Foundation grant. The repository, also based at the Moynihan Institute, is a
joint project with SU’s School of Information
Studies and has co-principal investigators from
Harvard University, University of CaliforniaIrvine, and University of Chicago.
The repository will be an online archive
where researchers can upload and store their
primary sources and data sets and link them to
their texts via “active citations.” Active citations
will make a scholar’s research methods more
transparent and easier to replicate. Scholars
will have an incentive to do research in a more
rigorous, scientific fashion.
One of the first projects to be uploaded to
the repository will be selections from Elizabeth
Saunders’ Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape
Military Interventions, published last year by
Cornell University Press. When the upload is
complete, scholars will view Saunders’ primary
sources online by clicking on hyperlinks embedded in her footnotes and references. For
example, clicking one footnote will reveal a
foreign policy speech blue-penciled by President Eisenhower.
“Reading Saunders’ activated text online
will make her presentation richer and her
arguments more persuasive,” Elman observes.
“And digital archiving will make it easier for
subsequent scholars to critique her research
timeline and constituent pieces
if at all,” Elman says.!
He hopes the repository will allow data to
be recycled for other research projects, thus
making data more durable. “Because there’s no
norm for storing or sharing,” he explains,
“qualitative data are often discarded after just
one use. It’s a terrible waste.”
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of this ambitious undertaking.
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Challenged to create a new undergraduate program
that captures Maxwell’s distinctive strengths, a faculty
committee selected, as the major’s focus, citizenship and
civic engagement.
The next question was: How do you teach those things?
B
By
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
ack in 2010, a Maxwell faculty committee led by political scientist
Robert McClure convened in response to a challenge from SU
Chancellor Nancy Cantor: consider creating a Maxwell School “signature major” — an undergraduate program that would build on what Maxwell
does best and draw talented students. Members of the committee represented all
the departments in Maxwell, from anthropology to economics to public affairs,
and had no preconceived ideas about what a Maxwell signature major might be.
The task of the committee was to explore the possibilities for a new major and, if
they reached a consensus, draft a proposal.
Among the ideas discussed was creating an advanced-study certificate program or a specialized major, such as gerontology or urban studies, that drew on
one area of expertise within the Maxwell faculty. “We batted a few of these
around and thought, yes, we do that well. We do a lot of things well,” recalls
Paul Hagenloh, who represented the history department on the committee. “But
that leaves out so many people.”
Other ideas, such as a Maxwell honors program, were deemed to have too
much overlap with existing programs. “Our goal was to offer something new to
students,” says Hagenloh, “to enhance but not overshadow other departmental
majors.”
Seeking a broad-based program that would involve all departments, the
committee began to consider the possibility of a major that reflected Maxwell’s
signature mix of public affairs, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary teaching
on citizenship — the defining feature of the School since its founding in 1924.
“Maxwell is unique in that the social science departments and policy departments are located in the same school. That shapes what we do here both on the
policy side and the social science side,” says Hagenloh.
At the graduate level, students who want to take advantage of Maxwell’s
special structure — for instance, by pursuing a PhD in history and also doing
work in international relations — can easily find their own path. But at the undergraduate level, such cross-over is more difficult because of the structure of
departmental majors. So the committee resolved to create a program that would
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From the
Ground Up
facilitate the blending of social science and public affairs and, in Hagenloh’s words, “offer
more of Maxwell to undergraduates.”
The result is the signature major now known as the Maxwell Program in Citizenship and
Civic Engagement. Undergraduates in the program major in one of the social sciences (or in a
related discipline outside of Maxwell with a strong social science component) and also take a
series of interdisciplinary courses, alongside students from many other fields, in which they
apply the tools of their chosen discipline to address important public issues. This combination
gives students a customized education that is rooted in one of the social sciences but also
broadened by the insights of other disciplines, and that ultimately allows them to push beyond
the boundaries of the classroom into real-world social action.
Students in the new program, says Hagenloh, “might have an interest in economics or
sociology or history, for instance, and an interest in political engagement or social activism.
Now they can pursue a degree that supports both. There are plenty of undergraduate public
policy programs, and plenty of civic or political engagement programs, but no other programs
that accomplish this dual task.”
With Hagenloh as director, the new program will soon begin taking applications for its
official launch in the fall of 2013. And with that, the citizenship and civic engagement major
will offer a new way for undergraduates to tap into the School’s oldest traditions.
“There are
plenty of
undergraduate
public policy
programs,
and plenty
of civic or
political
engagement
programs,
but no other
programs that
accomplish
this dual task.”
Exploring Citizenship
A
s a unifying theme of the major, citizenship made great historical and pedagogical
sense. “George Maxwell founded this school as a school of citizenship. That’s
what it says on the outside of the old building and even on the new one,” says
McClure, who joined the political science faculty in 1969 and has been deeply involved in
citizenship education at Maxwell ever since. As the head of the committee developing the
signature major, McClure felt his role was to make sure that the new program was consistent
with the School’s original mission to “both celebrate and illuminate the meaning of citizenship. That’s what we do for undergraduates.”
For nearly 90 years, the School has carried out this mission through citizenship courses in
Paul Hagenloh
Director, Citizenship and
Civic Engagement
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Citizenship and Civic Engagement
and the Policy Studies Major
A
t first glance, the new
major in citizenship
and civic engagement
would seem to share a lot
with another Maxwell major,
policy studies. Both are interdisciplinary, nurture informed
citizens, and emphasize action. But the
similarities
end there.
Bill Coplin (left), who
directs policy
studies and
who sat on
the committee creating
the new major, views his program as an
undergraduate version of the
MPA.
“Policy studies is about
skills,” he says. “I view it as
an undergraduate professional program. My students,
when they go out into the real
world for an internship or job,
can write a report, set up Excel files, and make graphs.”
The citizenship and civic
engagement major is designed for students who want
to immerse themselves in a
social science
and apply it as
a citizen. It’s
unique in its
stress on both
academic rigor and public
affairs, says
Paul Hagenloh (right),
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who directs the new major.
Students are mentored
by field-specific specialists
while they explore the worlds
of public policy and global affairs.
Hagenloh, for example,
specializes in Soviet history.
“A student interested in democracy in the post-socialist
world could major in history
with me,” he says, “and work
with a specialist in Maxwell’s
Transnational NGO Initiative. This combination is an
incredible opportunity for
driven, engaged undergraduates.”
The strongest similarity in
the two majors is their emphasis on civic impact. Policy
studies majors devote considerable time to community
service and research projects
for clients like the Red Cross
or the city school district.
The citizenship major, with its
capstone Action Plan, steers
students toward this type of
engagement.
“I’m in favor of experiential education and applied
learning,” Coplin says, “and it
moves in that
direction. I’ve
been trying to
get kids in the
real world for
40 years now,
so to me it’s
a great victory.”
which students collectively wrestle with contemporary domestic and global issues and consider their obligations as citizens
to address them. (See related story, page 14.) These courses are,
by their nature, interdisciplinary — they create a space for
dialogue among people from diverse backgrounds about the
common problems they face.
Since the ’90s, the main avenue for citizenship education
at Maxwell has been the MAX Courses, which are teamtaught by scholars and practitioners in many fields. To the
committee developing the signature major, the MAX Courses
were an ideal foundation for the interdisciplinary side of the
program.
“We collectively saw the value in these citizenship courses
that already existed and decided to incorporate them in the
major,” says Kristi Andersen, who as Chapple Family Professor
of Citizenship and Democracy oversees the MAX Courses.
Students in the citizenship and civic engagement major will
take at least one of the existing MAX Courses — Critical
Issues in the United States, and Global Communities — and
then proceed to three new MAX Courses that engage more
deeply with issues of citizenship, ethics, and justice, as well as
research methods.
In keeping with the structure of the whole program, the
MAX Courses apply the tools of the social science disciplines
to public issues that are inherently interdisciplinary. The faculty
who teach these courses, says Andersen, are “still individually
political scientists or economists or anthropologists, but the
intended perspective of the students is as educated citizens,
which is what George Maxwell wanted to produce. So we’re
using social science habits of looking carefully at facts and
drawing conclusions in a systematic way to think about important issues, globally or domestically or both.”
Taking Action
T
he committee developing the new major felt that
many Maxwell faculty members and students share a
desire to go beyond just thinking about important
social issues. They want to apply their knowledge and take
action in a way that few academic programs allow. One of the
reasons students come to SU, says Hagenloh, is that they see
the University as a “socially and politically engaged school
where they can find pathways to make a difference.” To the
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faculty committee, an undergraduate major in citizenship could
clear a powerful new path to civic action for these kinds of
students.
In the citizenship and civic engagement major, that path
takes the form of an Action Plan, a capstone project in the student’s senior year. The
Action Plan is where the new program differs most strikingly from other undergraduate majors. In contrast to a traditional academic research paper, the Action Plan
seeks to “get something of importance done, not just explain something worth
Maxwell and Citizenship Education
thinking about,” as the committee’s final proposal puts it.
“The Maxwell major is about exploring what it means to be a citizen and then taking
action as a citizen,” says Bill Coplin, director of the undergraduate Public Affairs program and
one of the core faculty for the new citizenship major. The Action Plan, he says, “could range
from writing a grant for an agency to proposing policy to a senator to starting your own nonprofit organization.”
Peter Wilcoxen, a professor of economics and public administration and international
affairs who will be one of the advisors for Action Plans, offers an example from his field of
climate change. “In economics, somebody might write an honors thesis analyzing a tradeable
permit program at the national or international level,” he says. By contrast, in an Action Plan,
students “will not be coming up with abstract analyses of potential policies. They’re going to
write a plan that an individual or a group of people could actually implement.”
Though the Action Plan aims for real-world impact, the committee wanted to make sure
that it would be based on thorough research and rigorous analysis — not simply well-intentioned activism. In this aspect of the program, too, the student’s chosen social science major is
the key. “The idea is to ground the intervention, whatever the student’s project is, in the social
sciences,” says economist Mary Lovely, director of the undergraduate International Relations
program. “So I think that’s very distinctive, it’s very Maxwellian, and it brings to fruition the
promise that this place has for undergraduate education.”
Engaging Students
R
oll-out of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement program officially begins this
spring. Students will apply to enter the program either as sophomores (starting in
the fall of 2013) or as freshmen (starting in 2014). The rationale behind the
sophomore-year entry point is to make the program accessible to those who discover an interest in the topic after arriving at SU. Plans call for 15 freshmen and 15 sophomores to enroll
each year, so by the time the program is in full swing 120 undergraduates will be majoring in
citizenship and civic engagement — making this one of Maxwell’s larger majors, and a significant presence within the School.
Only when the first classes are enrolled will the precise nature of the program be known.
The major is designed to allow students to define for themselves the nature of their civic engagement. The Action Plans, in particular, will derive from students’ interests.
“We don’t want to press our interests in citizenship upon the students,” says Amy Lutz, a
sociologist who, along with Paul Hagenloh, will be teaching the new MAX Course on research methods and civic engagement. “We want them to develop it themselves. We’re there
as mentors. So it shouldn’t be that we give them the Action Plan and they fill it in. It should
be initiated by the student’s desire to engage with a particular social problem.”
Lutz and her colleagues foresee no difficulties in finding students who are self-directed in
this way. “Maybe because I’ve been teaching MAX 123 [Critical Issues for the United States],
I’m amazed at some of the students in their first and second year who have done a lot of volunteer work in particular,” says Lutz. “They are starting nonprofit organizations and doing
things that I never considered when I was a college student.”
Hagenloh, who has been teaching the Global Communities MAX Course, is equally
struck by the students’ diversity and breadth of experience. “They bring a tremendous amount
to the table, in terms of what they already know about the world,” he says. Many of them, he
adds, are already deeply engaged in civic activism in the varied countries from which they hail.
As he anticipates some of these MAX students becoming citizenship and civic engagement majors, he sees the great potential in how they will help shape the program. “This will
be a joint project of the faculty and the students as we move forward, which is exciting because our students have a lot to offer intellectually to the institution.”
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“The Action
Plan is very
Maxwellian,
and it brings
to fruition
the promise
that this
place has for
undergraduate
education.”
Mary Lovely
Member, Citizenship
and Civic Engagement
committee
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Legacy
and
Change
Current initiatives to expand the citizenship program
offer a reminder that civic engagement is one of the
School’s trademark themes, tested and proven by time.
By
R
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
alph Ketcham began teaching citizenship at the Maxwell School in
1951, when, as a doctoral student in social science, he became a
teaching assistant for the course called Responsible Citizenship, or
Cit 1. Thoroughly enjoying the challenges of the interdisciplinary course, Ketcham was keenly aware that Cit 1 carried on a legacy of citizenship education
that extended back to the founding of the School in 1924. In fact, Ketcham’s
mentor, Michael Sawyer, then a junior faculty member, had taken the original
Responsible Citizenship course himself as an undergraduate in the newly
opened Maxwell Hall.
Ketcham still teaches at Maxwell, now as a professor emeritus of history,
public affairs, and political science. He recalls his formative years in Cit 1, directed in that era by American studies professor Stuart Brown.
“It was really a combined course on democratic government and the responsibilities that entailed for citizens,” Ketcham says. “The first half was the
study of ideas of democratic government as they’d been developed in the United
States, and then in the second half we switched to practical applications.”
Ketcham pulls from his shelf a series of booklets titled Problems of American
Citizenship that compiled current articles on the economy, industry, foreign policy, education, and other topics. “These would be the issues out front in the
country at the time,” he recalls, “and the idea was to have students apply the
understanding of democratic government that they’d gotten in the first half of
the semester to these current issues.”
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The issues at the time when Ketcham began teaching
were, of course, markedly different from the concerns when
Maxwell was founded in the 1920s, and they have continued to
change in the decades since. So, too, has Maxwell’s approach to
teaching citizenship evolved from the days of Cit 1 up
through the development of the new Program in Citizenship and Civic Engagement, which will enroll its first
students in 2013. That evolution is very much on Ketcham’s mind these days, inspiring him to write a comprehensive history of citizenship education at Maxwell.
Though the content of the courses — and even the interpretation of citizenship itself — have been reshaped, along
with changes in university and public life, the commitment
to educating responsible citizens has guided the School for
nearly 90 years.
ven as Maxwell prepares to launch its undergraduate major in
citizenship and civic engagement, another new program
invites diverse perspectives
on citizenship and civic re-
Training Citizens
C
itizenship education was the core mission of the
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert
M. Bass Professor of Government
Maxwell School right from its founding, as
at Harvard University, gave the
envisioned by the Boston businessman and class
second Tanner Lecture, in October
of 1888 SU graduate George Maxwell. “It was George
Maxwell’s view that no person blessed with a college edusponsibility into the life of the
cation in America should leave unmindful of the blessings that
School.
American citizenship bestowed on them, and moreover they
should be good stewards of those blessings and work to share
The Tanner Lecture Sethem with others,” says Robert McClure, a professor of politiries on Ethics, Citizenship,
cal science and a longtime teacher and champion of Maxwell’s
and Public Responsibility
was created with a founding
citizenship curriculum.
gift by W. Lynn Tanner ’75
In laying out his proposal for a school of citizenship,
PhD (PA), founder, CEO, and
George Maxwell wrote of his desire to “develop a body of leadchairman of TEC Canada, a
ers, especially trained in U.S. citizenship, who will go out
leadership development
through this country as educators, statesmen, financiers, business men, etc., to upbuild the foundations and bulwarks of
citizenship intelligently and patriotically.” Behind this idea was
a sense of alarm about the state of citizenship in the United
States at that time and what Maxwell described as “the general ignorance among the masses
of our history, the principles of our government, its aims and safeguards.” In the words of
McClure, Maxwell felt “that the public had not understood, for example, what the first World
War was all about, that they weren’t doing very well at helping to improve the public life of
the country after the war, and that the University had a responsibility to attend to this.”
The Maxwell School was designed to teach citizenship for “both everyday citizens and
public administrators,” says Ketcham. “That led to the parallel development of courses in
citizenship for all freshmen, and the graduate public administration program.” The main vehicle for teaching everyday citizens was the Responsible Citizenship course that was a requirement for all freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts. It explored the obligations of citizenship
by surveying the social sciences, giving special emphasis to the political process and to public
organization.
The series is intended to
introduce “outside voices of
consequence,” Tanner says,
to the School’s broadest exploration of the meaning of
citizenship. Speakers are to
consider such questions as
“What does it mean to be an
ethical citizen?” and “What
does the need for public responsibility demand from us,
whether we work in the private or the public sectors?”
Each of the first two
speakers in the series possessed impeccable credentials on citizenship, hailing
from the worlds of politics
(former U.S. Senator Bill
Bradley) and academe (Harvard faculty member Michael
Sandel, an expert on social
justice). Going forward, Tanner is especially interested in
the private sector. He expects
the series will feature leaders
and thinkers from the world
of business, as well.
“It’s important for students
to realize these aren’t just
ideas in a classroom,” says
Tanner. “The values of citizenship inform really difficult
questions we face throughout
our lives, in every aspect of
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administration. According to a 1941 Responsible Citizenship text, the course was “thoroughly
embedded in a scientific understanding of politics and human society that saw government as
a positive instrument for the ‘constructive transformation and betterment of life.’”
Though course readings on political philosophy spanned historical texts from Plato to
Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill, Cit 1 was by its nature inevitably transformed by
current events. Just as World War I had been an impetus for founding a school of citizenship
in the first place, Cit 1 (and the upper-level electives that followed it) continued to respond to
successive periods of social and political crisis.
“During World War II and the time leading up to it, the faculty’s attention was more and
more distracted toward the war and world affairs,” Ketcham says. In fact, Maxwell’s first dean,
William Mosher, who oversaw Cit 1, was one of many academics who went to Washington to
work in the administration.
Mosher died in 1945 — shortly after VE day — and Cit 1, Ketcham says, “no longer
seemed to have the spirit and energy, and seemed kind of old fashioned.” Society was on the
cusp of a new era, and citizenship education with it.
“Our belief
was that
citizens had
to wrestle
with questions
together —
questions that
have no ready
answer.”
“What Should Be” and “What Is”
I
n Ketcham’s view, perhaps the deepest change in citizenship education from the 1950s
onward was the movement away from teaching “what should be” toward teaching “what
is.” The original Responsible Citizenship course exemplified the former approach. The
shapers of the curriculum prescribed the skills a young American citizen ought to possess as
an incoming member of the body politic.
By the late 1950s the nation’s mood had changed and the academy followed. The second
Red Scare and the perceived excesses of McCarthyism made many Americans wary of monolithic political views and suspicious of any attempt to “train citizens,” which some viewed as
simple indoctrination. “Citizenship has always been a contentious term,” says Robert McClure.
“As the ’50s unfolded it got a lot more contentious, as did the whole curriculum inside universities.”
Maxwell’s citizenship curriculum became part of this debate. Many preferred approaches
that were strictly empirical and analytical, not prescriptive.
“The old approach looked at the idea of democratic government and the way citizens
should respond to it,” says Ketcham. By contrast, the new approach emphasized “what the
social sciences had learned about how the economy worked, how social groups acted, how
political parties operated, and so on.” A new-era citizenship course would transmit information the disciplines were collecting about the public life of the country and then apply that in
an empirical way to, for instance, foreign policy. This approach was thought to be “much more
useful for the students than the theory about citizenship,” says Ketcham.
As the individual social science disciplines rose in prominence and University departments became more specialized, the meaning of citizenship itself began to fragment. Many
called into question the very idea of special status for a citizenship course. In 1960 the faculty
voted to disestablish the requirement that all freshmen take Cit 1.
Robert McClure
Chapple Family Professor
of Citizenship and
Democracy Emeritus
From Citizenship to Public Affairs
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
is a contributor to National
Public Radio’s All Things
Considered and author of
Rock Troubadours and other
books on music.
N
o longer required for undergraduates, Maxwell’s intro-to-citizenship course continued as an elective, offered via an undergraduate program known as Public
Affairs, with Donald Meiklejohn as its director. Public Affairs carried on, to some
degree, the approach of Cit 1 (and its upper-level companion, Cit 10). But the emphasis on
empirical analysis continued to intensify, and the social sciences focused on scientific under-
Dana Cooke is the Maxwell
School’s publications manager and editor of Maxwell
Perspective.
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standing of the political and social upheaval of the era. Universities, Ketcham writes, sought
greater obvious relevancy to “critical moral and policy issues at home and abroad.” Ultimately,
much of what had been taught in Cit 1 was absorbed into an introductory public affairs course
that “taught ‘actors’ how to analyze policy, formulate positions, and then become effective
advocates,” he says. This policy focus increased in 1976 when Bill Coplin became director of
Public Affairs and soon introduced the undergraduate major in policy studies. The goal of
engaging students with public issues was now pursued through an emphasis on job skills and
community service; in fact, Coplin saw public affairs as essentially a pre-professional theme.
As it happens, there was room in the School for both Coplin’s approach and the traditional style of teaching citizenship — with teams of professors from different disciplines leading debates on current issues. Ketcham, constitutional law professor Michael Sawyer, historian
David Bennett, and others developed an upper-level course within Public Affairs, PAF 320,
that was offered through the 1980s. It asked students to grapple with complex issues, organized around such themes as “Leadership,” “The Professional in Society,” “Religion and Politics,” and “America in World Affairs.”
Faculty members and students from across the University
— from the humanities to public communication, manageRobert McClure’s Citizenship Legacy
ment, education, and social work — explored a social problem
from many angles, and then students worked in small groups to
obert McClure, with
eral incarnations of the Maxarrive at a position and compose a paper outlining it. For Ket43 years on the politiwell citizenship curriculum.
cham, the course’s interdisciplinary, deliberative approach modcal science and public
And as an associate dean
eled what citizens must do in a functioning democracy.
affairs faculty, has long been
under John Palmer, McClure
This perceived dichotomy — between an experiential and
one of the School’s staunchsecured the $4-million grant
deliberative approach to citizenship — complicated life at
est advocates of teaching
that, in part, funded the creMaxwell for the next two-plus decades. Over time, though, it
citizenship — the founding
ation of the interdisciplinary
would be resolved, with profound results.
mission of the School. He
MAX Courses, which explore
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The MAX Courses
citizenship and major public issues in the United States
and around the world. After
McClure left the dean’s office he returned to the classroom to teach a MAX Course,
Critical Issues for the United
States — then took the helm
of all the MAX Courses in
2006, as the inaugural Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy.
AF 320 served as a template for a significant
expansion of the citizenship curriculum in the
early 1990s: creation of the interdisciplinary
MAX Courses.
They were created and funded as part of a larger
project, intended to enhance the undergraduate experience. An anonymous $4-million grant served to increase
the number of small-size classes taught by senior faculty,
expand community-service learning opportunities, and
(among other initiatives) create two courses for freshmen,
Critical Issues for the United States and Global Community, now known as the MAX Courses.
Robert McClure, who was then senior associate dean,
helped secure the grant. As a champion of the citizenship
curriculum who had taught in PAF 320, he also helped shape
the new courses. They were designed, he says, to create a highquality first-year experience, through a mixture of large plenary
sessions, small discussion sections, and intensive writing.
Underlying the MAX Courses was the idea that good
citizenship entails finding a common understanding and perspective. Both the domestic and globally focused MAX Courses, which change topics yearly in response to current events
has been a diligent student of
George Maxwell’s stated intentions and considers carefully whether the School that
Maxwell created is still on
track. (The answer is yes.)
In the early years of his
career, McClure taught in sev-
This last development was
particularly sweet for McClure, since John Chapple
’75 BA (PSc), former chair
of the SU trustees who established and endowed the
professorship, was one of
his former students. “The
fact that I will end my career
here as the Chapple Family
Professor of Citizenship and
Democracy Emeritus,” says
McClure, “is one of the great
gratifications of my career.”
— JPR
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and debates, were designed to be forums for “serious examination of issues that we collectively
had to address,” says McClure. “Our belief was that citizens had to wrestle with those questions together — questions that have no ready answer.”
In that spirit, the MAX Courses aimed to foster dialogue among the students — asking
them to consider the facts, listen respectfully to others, and articulate their own views. And
that remains the core idea of these courses today, now directed by political scientist Kristi
Andersen. “This is no course for the faint-hearted, the thin-skinned, or the closed-minded,”
notes the current introduction to MAX 123: Critical Issues for the United States. “Nor is it a
course where all opinions are equal. Grasp of the facts, cogency of argument, and evidence of
moral understanding make some opinions better than others. . . . We are looking for factbased reason in service of democratic values.”
This year’s election season was a reminder of how rare this kind of respectful give-andtake on divisive issues has become — and how important is the task to expose students to a
more productive form of public dialogue.
“From my perspective, citizenship needs to be taught more today than ever, because a free
society cannot survive on individual rights alone,” says McClure. “Citizenship stresses obligations and constraints. If those obligations and constraints are not taken seriously, no free people can govern themselves.”
The Global Dimension
I
n earlier incarnations of Maxwell’s citizenship curriculum, global issues came into play,
especially through discussions of foreign policy. But these courses were about citizenship
at the level of the nation or state, and focused primarily on domestic issues and American government in world affairs. By the ’90s, many in Maxwell felt that modern citizenship
had a distinct international dimension that ought to be reflected — hence, the introduction of
the Global Community MAX Course alongside Critical Issues for the United States.
In this era of globalization, the notion of citizenship has new complexities. Margaret
“Peg” Hermann, director of Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, provides a few
cases in point: workers in the U.S. who collectively send remittances to their hometowns in
Mexico and are influencing governmental policy decisions from afar, for example, or Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. who cast votes for or against Hugo Chávez in the recent election.
“So what are you a citizen of?” asks Hermann. “Family, local community, state, nation, the
international system? Can you be a citizen of several countries? There are multiple ways of
defining what a citizen is.”
Because models of citizenship vary around the world, individuals sometimes find themselves juggling approaches that compete. Hermann gives the example of people working for
international organizations who are exposed to diverse views of people and their governments.
When they return home, their views of their own citizenship are complicated, maybe confused. “They have much more difficulty translating what they do, and the responsibilities they
have, back to the countries and communities that they came from,” she says.
The internationality of the student body opens up new conversations about political systems, social issues, and basic concepts of citizenship. Hermann cites a study that asked a crosssection of people in Phoenix and in Birmingham, England, about the meaning of democracy
and citizenship, and found that the Americans tended to look at citizenship as a set of rights,
while the English stressed a sense of responsibilities.
Questions about the meanings and implications of citizenship in the era of globalization
are front and center in Global Communities and in programs such as the Moynihan Institute’s
Transnational NGO Initiative. The international dimension of citizenship was also a factor in
the development of the new undergraduate major in citizenship and civic engagement.
“This program as it develops will look different from the programs of the ’40s and ’50s
“You’re
sitting in this
auditorium
where these
people sat 75
years ago and
took this same
course.”
Kristi Andersen
Director, MAX Courses
to new students
in MAX 123
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because we live in a different world,” says historian Paul
Hagenloh, who directs the new major. “The student body is
different. Citizenship will need to be redefined as a global
construction, and Maxwell can be and should be at the forefront of that redefinition.”
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
W
Kristi Andersen and the MAX Courses
I
n 2010, when Robert McClure stepped down as
Chapple Family Professor
of Citizenship and Democracy to begin a phased retirement, a natural choice to be
his successor was his political science colleague
Kristi Andersen.
ith the creation of the new citizenship and
civic engagement program, undergraduates will
The primary rebe able to major in citizenship and civic ensponsibility
of the
gagement in conjunction with a major in the social sciences,
Chapple
Professor
is
and learn not only how to discuss social issues but how to work
directing the interdistoward solving them.
ciplinary, team-taught
Given the opportunity to create a signature major for
MAX Courses, which
Maxwell, the faculty essentially tapped into the School’s DNA
explore citizenship
as a school of citizenship. (For more on the major, see page 10.)
and current public isThe program builds its citizenship curriculum on the foundasues. Andersen began
tion of the MAX Courses, which were modeled on the public
teaching MAX 123,
affairs citizenship course of the 1980s, which itself carried on
Critical Issues for the
the legacy of the Responsible Citizenship courses that were a
United States, in 2007,
and helped create the
cornerstone of Maxwell for the first four decades of the School.
MAX Course on quanAnd it incorporates elements of action and case study that
titative methods.
resolve the old deliberative vs. experiential dichotomy.
These historical connections are very clear to Kristi AnNow in her third
dersen in her role as the director of the MAX Courses. These
year as Chapple Prodays, in her first lecture in MAX 123, Andersen tells the class
fessor, Andersen works with
the diverse MAX Course
about George Maxwell’s original goal to “upbuild the foundateaching teams to identify the
tions and bulwarks of citizenship,” and she quotes Ralph Ketcritical issues and debates
cham’s description of Responsible Citizenship, which aimed to
that will be the focus each
illuminate “social and political problems from a variety of anyear — such as the electoral
gles.” Says Andersen, “I read that to the kids and say, ‘OK,
process, health care reform,
you’re sitting in this auditorium where these people sat 75 years
education, and Social Secuago and took this same course.’”
rity. One of the current topics
To Robert McClure, the Maxwell School in its new citiin MAX 123 is immigration,
zenship initiatives is staying true to its roots. “My assumption
which ties in with Andersen’s
all along was the path we’re now traveling is a path that George
recent research on immigrant
Maxwell would be pleased with and encourage,” says McClure.
political incorporation — the
“The original Responsible Citizenship and all the iterations
subject of her book New Immigrant Communities: Finding
that we’ve gone through continue to honor his legacy.”
a Place in Local Politics.
Ralph Ketcham, too, sees the continuity as well as the
evolution of citizenship education, as chronicled in his recently
Popular among undergradcompleted history. In the article’s closing sentences, he notes
with satisfaction the creation of the new major. He writes,
“Dean Mosher and Professor Brown would have been pleased.”
Though all citizenship programs at Maxwell have a deep historical resonance and benefit
from nearly 90 years of experience in teaching the responsibilities of citizenship, a new initiative like the citizenship and civic engagement major is ultimately not about paying tribute to
the past. In each era, new social conditions and challenges emerge that require a renewal of
the commitment to instill what George Maxwell termed “intelligent patriotism.” Q
uates for nearly two decades,
the MAX Courses now also
serve as a foundation for the
new citizenship and civic engagement major. The citizenship component is evident in
the courses on U.S. and glob-
al public issues, but Andersen
sees the quantitative methods
MAX Course, too, as essentially about citizenship.
“One of its goals is to
teach students how to be
critical consumers of data as
citizens as well as potentially
as policy analysts or working in some social science-related occupation,” she says.
“It’s about how you use data,
how other people use data,
and where data comes from.
I see those skills as very important for a citizen in a de— JPR
mocracy.”
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Alumni Matters
CLASSNOTES
1950s
1960s
Donald Heller ’51 BA (PSc)/’52
MPA is chairman of planning
and zoning, Greenwich, Conn.
Howard A. Palley ’63 PhD
(SSc) is one of three co-authors
of The Political and Economic
Sustainability of Health Care in
Canada: Private-Sector Involvement in the Federal Provincial
Health Care System, published
by Cambria Press. Palley is professor emeritus of social policy
and a distinguished fellow at
the Institute of Human Services
Policy, School of Social Work,
University of Maryland.
Mary Lynne Miller Bird ’56
BA (Social Studies Educ) retired
as executive director of the
American Geographical Society,
earning the society’s Charles P.
Daly medal for outstanding service to the field of geography.
ALUMNI
MATTERS
Dick Koelling ’56 BA (Geog)
had his novel, Click, published.
It is based on his 24-year career
as a pilot.
Accomplishments
by and programs
for our graduates
Donald Megnin ’54 BA
(PSc)/’65 MA (PSc)/’68 PhD
(PSc) had his seventh book
published, titled Glimpses of the
Past: Letters From Overseas.
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Richard Wilson ’68 MPA is
port director of Anchorage,
Alaska.
1970s
Joseph Agonito ’72 PhD (Hist),
professor emeritus at Onondaga Community College, had
his third book published, titled
Key to Degrees
Alumni are designated by year of graduation, degree level, and (in
parentheses) discipline — for example: Joan Smith ’87 MA (Soc). A
few of the degree abbreviations indicate both level and discipline,
such as MPA and MSSc.
Alumni with more than one degree from Maxwell are listed under
the year of the latest such degree.
AmSt
Anth
EMIR
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American Studies
Anthropology
Executive Master of
International Relations
EMPA Executive
Master of Public
Administration
DFH
Documentary Film
and History
Econ Economics
Geog Geography
Hist
History
IR
International Relations
JD
Law
MAIR Master of Arts, International Relations
MPA
Master of Public
Administration
MPA/IR Joint MPA and MAIR
MPH
Master of Public
Health
MRP
MSSc
NG
NVCC
PA
PD
PPhil
PSt
PSc
RusSt
Soc
SPsy
SSc
UrSt
Master of Regional
Planning
Master of Social
Science
Not graduated
Nonviolent
Conflict
and Change
Public
Administration
Public Diplomacy
(IR/Public Relations)
Political
Philosophy
Policy Studies
Political Science
Russian Studies
Sociology
Social
Psychology
Social Science
Urban Studies
Lakota Portraits: Lives of the
Legendary Plains People. His
second book, Buffalo Calf Road
Woman: The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn, was
awarded the Western Heritage
Award for Best Western Novel
in 2006.
Howard Groopman ’72 BA
(PSc) retired in June 2009 as
a bankruptcy specialist for the
Internal Revenue Service. He
lives in Portland, Ore.
Gladys Montgomery ’72
BA (AmSt) is the author of An
Elegant Wilderness: Great
Camps and Grand Lodges of
the Adirondacks. The book won
the 2011 publication award of
the Victorian Society of New
York and the literary award
(nonfiction) of the Adirondack
Center for Writing.
Robert J. Taylor ’72 BA (PSc)
is an attorney in private practice
in New York City. His areas of
practice include real estate
transactions, mortgage foreclosures, and estate planning.
Alan R. Gitelson ’68 BA
(PSc)/’70 MA (PSc)/’73 PhD
(PSc) is professor of political
science and founding director
of the Magis Initiative at Loyola
University Chicago.
Astrid Merget ’68 MPA/’73
PhD (SSc), the John W. Dupuy
Endowed Professor in the
Public Administration Institute,
Louisiana State University, was
recently selected to Mount
Holyoke College’s “Women of
Influence Gallery.” Merget is
a graduate of the college and
a former chair of Maxwell’s
Department of Public Administration.
Girard Miller ’73 MPA is chief
investment officer of Orange
County (Calif.) Employees
Retirement System. He had
been senior strategist at the
PFM Group, a consulting firm,
and a columnist for Governing
for the past five years.
A L U M N I R E L AT I O N S
s ALUM MAXWELLSYREDU
The Space Between
Classroom and Work
Sometimes alumni are instrumental in
creating or finding career-launching
internships for students
This past summer, Mario Huapaya Nava ’11
MPA spearheaded an effort, involving a
number of Maxwell alumni in Peru, to develMAIR candidate Edgar Luce
op internships specifically for our students.
spent the summer interning with
The opportunities included working for:
the World Food Programme in
s #IUDADANOS AL $IA WHICH WORKS TO IMPROVE THE RELATIONSHIP
Geneva, where he produced
between citizens and the state;
reports on Syrian refugees.
s 6ICEVERSA #ONSULTING WHICH FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
and relationship building, plus corporate social responsibility; and
s 0ROMPERU THE 0ERUVIAN #OMMISSION FOR THE 0ROMOTION OF %XPORT AND 4OURISM
Although the location was a bit exotic, this process was not at all unusual. Alumni play a key role in
helping Maxwell students find and land internships. In fact, alumni frequently create internships just with
our students in mind. They help students apply the skills learned in the classroom to real-life problems
and to assess a spectrum of career opportunities. Frequently, internships also lead directly to a job offer.
Roughly 200 graduate and undergraduate students participate in semester-long internships around the
globe. (Most are international relations students, but others study public affairs, economics, and political
science.) While many intern in Washington, D.C., others are working in places like Geneva, Amman, Nairobi, and Hong Kong. Projects are as varied as marketing for Nike (in
Singapore) and a global anti-smoking initiative for the World Health
Even with a database
Organization — two examples from this semester. We have stuof more than 400
dents in the Department of Defense in Washington and students
internships, we are
documenting human rights violations for the Human Rights Musealways looking for
um in Santiago.
additional opportunities
Even with a database of more than 400 internships, we are
always looking for additional opportunities for our students. We are
currently seeking placements for graduate students in public diplomacy, markets and economics, corporate social responsibility, energy, and environmental policy. Other popular areas include monitoring and
evaluation, security, international development, conflict resolution, and foreign policy. Placements that
emphasize fund raising and development are welcome. Opportunities on Capitol Hill, especially in women’s rights and empowerment and other domestic policy areas, are desirable.
If you think your organization would be a good fit for Maxwell interns, please e-mail us
at alum@maxwell.syr.edu, including a job description and qualifications (or the name of
your organization’s internship coordinator). While hosting a Maxwell intern provides an
organization with extra help, it’s also a big commitment, and we are deeply grateful to our
alumni and the employers who are willing to consider hosting a Maxwell intern.
Norma Shannon ’91 MPA
Director, Alumni Relations
Remembering Jo Sheridan
Jo Sheridan, who retired in 2009 after 13 years as
office coordinator for Career Development and
Alumni Relations, passed
away in May. Jo was the heart
and heartbeat of our office,
and a beloved staff member,
colleague, and friend.
Jo loved Maxwell and was
at the center of the Maxwell
network. A note from Jo’s son,
Scott, sums it up: “Please let the Maxwell community know how much she loved them all and, even
over the past couple of weeks, she had her
thoughts on some of the e-mails she received
from one of Maxwell’s listservs. While retiring was
the right call for her, I do believe she missed it
every day.”
Her family would be touched to hear from
alumni who knew Jo. Send notes of condolence in
care of Scott Sheridan, ssheridan@naughtonnet.
com or 115 Maple Road, Syracuse, N.Y. 13219.
Fall 2012 Maxwell Perspective 21
Alumni Matters
Sports Beat
I
Jack Cavanaugh’s career shifted from political reporting toward
sports coverage — but both strengths anchor his latest book.
BRYAN HAEFFELE
who handed the reporter the scoop that he
n his latest book, Season of ‘42, Jack Cavanawas considering a 1968 presidential campaign;
ugh ’52 BA (PSc) delivers a history lesson
and Martin Luther King Jr., whom Cavanaugh
that draws on his strengths as a veteran
recalls as “far and away the most impressive perjournalist in both politics and sports. Subson” he ever met.
titled Joe D., Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball’s Fight
“The relationship between the media and
to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War, Cavanathe top political figures was
ugh’s fourth title in six
th
more cordial,” Cavanaugh says.
years digs deep into 20
“The relationship
“It was a better relationship
century history, examining
between the media and back in the ’60s, ’70s.”
how America’s favorite
After writing his first book
pastime struggled on while
the top political figures
in 1995 about handicapped athmany of its fans were
was more cordial . . .
letes who rebounded, Cavanafighting overseas.
back in the ’60s, ’70s.” ugh would not publish another
To bring the competJack Cavanaugh
book until 2006. Tunney was
ing dramas to life, shifting
the saga of former world heavyfrom the underdog Carweight boxing champion Gene Tunney. It was
dinals demolishing the Yankees in the World
followed in quick succession by Giants Among
Series to the Bataan Death March, required
Men, about the New York football Giants of
scholarship and tenacity. Cavanaugh possesses
the 1950s and 1960s; and The Gipper, about
both. He reviewed daily editions of major
Notre Dame football legend George Gipp.
newspapers from 1942, culling war reports and
Tunney was shortlisted for a 2006 Pulitsports page coverage.
zer Prize for biography. Reviewers praised the
“It’s the hardest book I’ve researched,”
author’s extensive research.
Cavanaugh says. Nonetheless, the venture took
“I get so much material,” Cavanaugh
only six months, and was sandwiched between
says of his fact-gathering, “and then I wind up
the journalist’s regular schedule of college
maybe using one-third of it. But that’s just the
teaching, speaking engagements, and writing
way I work.”
a column for his hometown newspaper, the
— Jay Blotcher
Stamford Advocate.
Cavanaugh became a full-time sportswriter
in the late 1960s, after working as a reporter for
newspapers and news agencies in New Haven
and Hartford, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode
Island; New York City; and Washington, D.C.;
and then as a reporter for ABC and CBS. He
spent a quarter-century at the New York Times
sports desk, while freelancing for Sports Illustrated, Golf, Tennis, and the Sporting News.
He brought to athlete interviews the same
meticulousness exhibited when interviewing
former president Harry
Truman, whom Cavanaugh
Sports journalist
remembers as refreshingly
and author
Jack Cavanaugh
candid; Richard Nixon,
22 Maxwell Perspective Fall 2012
Dallas Salisbury ’73 MPA won
the 2012 Hazlehurst Lamon
Outstanding Achievement
Award, presented by the Southern Employee Benefits Conference. Salisbury is president
and chief executive officer of
the Employee Benefit Research
Institute.
Mohammad M. Khan ‘74 MPA
was appointed to the University
Grants Commission of Bangladesh. He is professor of public
administration at the University
of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
George Schaefer ’74 MPA has
retired after 38 years and 15
employers. He is devoting his
time to charitable work, fly fishing, wine tasting, and travel.
Vithun Tulyanond ’74 MA
(Econ) is the owner of a
boutique hotel in Bangkok,
Thailand. Prior to retirement
from the Thai government, he
was chief negotiator on free
trade agreements with Australia
and New Zealand from 2004 to
2005.
Joseph M. McGuire ’75 MPA
chairs the board of directors
of the American Society of
Association Executives. He
is also the president of the
Association of Home Appliance
Manufacturers, director of the
American National Standards
Institute, and a member of the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s
Committee of 100.
Anthony E.
Joseph ’77 MPA
is vice president of
long-term care at
Samaritan Medical
Center in Watertown, N.Y.
Clare Lopez ’79
MA (IR) was recently
featured on EMPact
Radio as a national
security expert.
Lopez is senior
fellow at the Center
for Security Policy
and vice president
Alumni Matters
1980s
Lucinda Antrim ’82 MPA is
a psychoanalyst in private
practice. She lives in Dobbs
Ferry, N.Y.
Mary (Connelly) Beaulieu ’82
BA (PSc) is director of career
advancement and assistant
dean at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard
University.
Zurich Insurance Group. He
and his family reside in Zurich,
Switzerland.
Nina Ascoly ’88 BA (PSc)
is international programs
facilitator at Friends of the Earth
International.
Jeni Lee
Chapman ’89
BA (IR) is
managing
director of the
U.S. operations
for Gorkana
Group, a public relations firm.
Michael J. Rustum ’89 JD/
MPA is senior counsel at
Henrik Dullea ’82 PhD (PSc),
vice president emeritus for
university relations at Cornell
University, was appointed to
the State University of New
York board of trustees by N.Y.
Governor Andrew Cuomo.
1990s
Deborah K. Feldman ’82 MPA
is president and chief executive
officer of the Children’s Medical
Center of Dayton. Prior to her
current position, Feldman was
the executive of Montgomery
County, Ohio, for 15 years.
Patrick Doyle ’91 MA (PSc) is
director of business development at Broome County (N.Y.)
Industrial Development Agency.
He lives in Binghamton, N.Y.,
with his wife Casey and two
children.
Jeffrey K. Jordan ’82 MPA
is deputy director at Midcoast
Regional Redevelopment
Authority (Maine).
Jennifer Lader ’91 MPA is
editor of HAKOL, a newspaper
produced by the Jewish Foundation of Lehigh Valley.
Michelle M. Thompson ’82
BA (PSt) is assistant professor
of planning, urban studies, and
geography at the University of
New Orleans.
Michael H. Long ’92 MA (PA)
is city manager of Oneonta, N.Y.
Douglas Louie ’84 PhD (SSc)
recently had his autobiography,
1000 Voices in the Thunder,
published. He lives in Granite
Quarry, N.C.
Greg Loh ’87 BA (PSc) is chair
of the board of directors at the
United Way of Central New
York. He has been a member
since 2004.
Francis Bouchard ’88 BA
(Hist) is group head of government and industry affairs at
Fulbright and Jaworski LLP in
Washington, D.C. He practices
law on the regulation of the
electric power industry.
Ranjana Madhusudhan ’86
MA (Econ)/’92 PhD (Econ) is
deputy director of revenue
and economic analysis in the
Office of the Chief Economist,
Department of the Treasury,
New Jersey.
Mitch Messinger ’92 BA
(AmSt) is publicity director at
ABC Entertainment Group.
Mark A. Milewski ’92 BA (PSc)
is a faculty member of business
administration at Tunxis Community College, Farmington,
Conn.
Alumnus Is Oldest Peace Corps Volunteer
After completing his career in law, Bernard Cheriff pursued
a long-delayed goal.
COURTESY, PEACE CORPS
of the Intelligence Summit. She
also serves on multiple boards
of directors of security-related
organizations.
It is never too late to
pursue your dream.
Consider Bernard
Cheriff ‘52 BA (PSc),
for example, who recently returned from 27
months of Peace Corps
service in Ukraine
— pursuing a notion
he’d first had 50 years
ago.
A U.S. Army veteran,
Cheriff returned from
Bernard Cheriff (left) with fellow Peace Corps
volunteers during his stint in Ukraine
military service and was
married and had kids by
the time President John F. Kennedy announced the creation of the
Peace Corps. Family obligations prevented Cheriff from joining. He
went on to practice law for more than 50 years in New York City.
Then, a few years ago, Cheriff’s wife, Rikki, was dying of lung
cancer; before she passed away she told him, “Now is your chance!”
“And the next thing I know,” he says, “I’m in Ukraine as a Peace
Corps volunteer.” At 81, he was the oldest volunteer then with the
Peace Corps. Assigned to youth and community development, he
taught English in local schools and started a program repairing used
bicycles and donating them to orphanages. In his spare time, he also
taught American traditions, such as square dancing, to the locals.
For Cheriff, Peace Corps is the best program in the United States’
engagement overseas. “Many Ukrainians might grumble about the
Americans and the U.S.,” he recalls, “but they said, ‘Bernie’s nice!’”
Would he do it all over again? “Absolutely,” he says. “Peace Corps
is an unbelievable experience for people of any age!”
— Sean Wang
South Side Initiative Director
Wins Chancellor’s Citation
Linda Littlejohn ’82 MPA, director of Syracuse
University’s South Side Initiative (SSI), was one of
five SU faculty and staff members honored with
the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence last spring.
Through SSI, the University collaborates with
residents on projects that address quality-of-life
Linda Littlejohn
issues in Syracuse’s southern quadrant. Joining
SSI in 2005, Littlejohn helped create the Southside Community Coalition, allowing SU and the South Side to undertake neighborhood
projects. The coalition has created a communication center, where
educational projects are launched, and a public access technology
center, including a bank of computers and community classes and
workshops.
Littlejohn has also created and organized SU Faculty for Community Engagement, the Black History Preservation Project Team
(promoting access to African American historical materials), and the
South Africa Meets the South Side Initiative (using digital media to
connect Syracuse with residents of Alice, South Africa).
Other SSI projects include the Food Cooperative, an annual film
festival, and the Virtual Community Museum, which highlights the
history of African Americans through narrations of their lives as Syracuse residents.
Fall 2012 Maxwell Perspective 23
Patrick Mullaney ’92 MA
(Econ) is director of NexGen
Medical Systems, Inc., a medical device company based in
Melbourne, Fla.
Scott Rayder ’92 MPA is senior
advisor for development and
partnerships at the University
Corporation for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colo.
Kevin Reigrut ’92 BA (IR) is
chief of staff for Congressman
Andy Harris of Maryland.
John Selman ’92 MPA is
program director of the Energy
and Environment group at LMI,
a government consulting firm in
McLean, Va. He leads a team
of LMI’s experts working on
its new book, Climate Change:
What You Can Do Now.
Katherine A. Dawes ’90
MPA/’93 MA (Geog) was
awarded the 2012 Alva and
Gunnar Myrdal Government
Evaluation Award by the
American Evaluation Association. Dawes is director of the
Evaluation Support Division at
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Chris DeMarco ’88 MA
(SSc)/’93 PhD (SSc) is vice
president of research and planning at Sage Growth Partners,
a health care consulting,
technology and marketing firm
in Baltimore, Md.
Peter M. Marino ’93 MPA is
director of the Rhode Island
Office of Management and
Budget, a newly created statelevel office by Rhode Island
Governor Lincoln D. Chafee.
Kelli Parmley ’93 MPA is
executive director of Bridging
Richmond, a public-private
partnership on education reform
in Richmond, Va. She was previously associate vice provost
for planning and decision support at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Rhett Hintze ’96 MPA is chief
24 Maxwell Perspective Fall 2012
The FBI in
Afghanistan
Robert Allan Jones’s career led him to a side
of the FBI unfamiliar to most Americans.
F
ans of old-time radio might recall This Is Your FBI,
which turned case files into ripped-from-the-headlines crime dramas, introducing the agency’s fraud
investigations and gangster stakeouts to a mass
audience.
Back then, the FBI was mostly a domestic law enforcement agency, and agents only occasionally investigated
international heists or the death of an American citizen
abroad. September 11, 2001, changed all that. Since then
the agency has taken on more responsibility for counterterrorism, counterintel“Your FBI is not
ligence, cybercrime, and
supporting international
just a domestic
law enforcement partners.
law enforcement
“Your FBI is not just
a domestic law enforceagency anymore.”
ment agency anymore,”
Robert Allan Jones
observes agent Robert
Allan Jones ’96 MSSc. “Today, we’re an intelligence-driven
agency with a large national security and counterintelligence mission. Our 13,000 agents are split 50-50 between
domestic enforcement and national security.”
Though recently named special agent in charge of
the FBI’s Indianapolis Division, Jones spent most of the
last decade on counterterrorism and counterintelligence
operating officer and technology and procurement practice
lead of Bravo Group.
Jacob Lynn ’96 BA (PSc) is
manager of policy and regulatory affairs at Lockheed Martin.
He resides in North Bethesda,
Md.
Andrew J. Gebara ’97 MSSc,
a colonel in the United States
Air Force, is commander of the
2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale
Air Force Base, La.
Bonnie Winfield ’90 MA
(Soc)/’96 PhD (SSc) is director of the Landis Community
Outreach Center and associate
dean of the Center for Intercultural Development, Lafayette
College.
Naomi Barry-Pérez ’98 MPA
is director of the Civil Rights
Center, U.S. Department of
Labor. She is responsible for
administering all Equal Employment Opportunity programs of
the department.
Alumni Matters
assignments. He joined the
FBI’s Counterterrorism Division
after the 9/11 attacks, became
supervisor in the FBI’s Usama
Bin Laden Unit, and later served
as an FBI representative to the
military in Iraq. From 2009 to
2010, Jones was in charge of
Afghanistan FBI operations.
The FBI’s Afghanistan
legal attaché office is one of 76
throughout the world, many
of them in war zones. As such,
conditions for the 100 or so
agents on months-long rotations
were both austere and dangerous.
“Most lived together in pre-fab
trailers,” says Jones. “Many didn’t
have bathrooms, so the height
of living were the ‘wet trailers.’”
When traveling beyond the U.S.
Embassy, Jones carried firearms, ammunition, a radio, and medical
supplies. “We had a few close calls, but nothing serious.”
The work in Afghanistan prepared him well for the diverse
law enforcement and counterintelligence assignments he now performs stateside, he says. “My proudest moment followed the 2010
Pamir Airways crash. Forty-four people were killed — Afghans,
Turks, British, Filipinos, and a U.S. civilian. We put together an
international forensics team and identified all bodies using DNA
analysis. The Afghans staged a ceremony to return remains. It was
moving to see families so thankful for what we did.”
When Jones enrolled in Maxwell’s social science master’s
program, he was a Marine captain. His FBI career began soon
after graduation, in 1997. Based in Detroit, he worked on domestic
terrorism cases, including an extensive plot by the Michigan-based
North American Militia. “A Navy admiral told me once that the
best careers start as a challenge, become an adventure, then a pro-
2000s
Benjamin Clark ’00 MPA is
assistant professor of urban
studies at Cleveland State University. He was recently elected
to the executive committee of
the Association of Budgeting
and Financial Management.
Nikki Diamantes ’00 MPA is
chief of staff at Recovery (La.)
School District. She is also a
resident at the Broad Center
for the Management of School
Systems.
Jennifer Ragland ’02 MPA/
IR is director of international
government relations and
public affairs at the Coca-Cola
Company. She lives in Atlanta,
Ga., with her husband and two
children.
David Anderson ’04 BS
(Econ) co-authored a chapter in
Developing Essbase Applica-
Robert Jones !96 MSSc is currently
special agent in charge of the FBI!s
Indianapolis Division, but in 2010 headed
FBI operations in Afghanistan. He!s
shown in front of the U.S. Embassy there.
When traveling beyond the embassy,
agents wore military vests and carried
weapons.
fession, and finally a calling,” Jones
says. “That's what I wanted, and
that’s what I got with the FBI.”
If domestic terrorism was
Jones’ first FBI challenge, the
Usama Bin Laden Unit was the
start of his adventures. “After 9/11 I became both UBLU supervisor and chief of a unit examining Sunni extremism, investigating
plots to harm U.S. citizens on U.S. soil,” Jones recalls. “We could ill
afford to miss any clues, and we disrupted multiple attempts. It was
rewarding work.”
Criminal investigation and counterintelligence were two
roles for Jones and the FBI in Afghanistan, but he says the most
challenging was the creation of a major crimes task force (MCTF)
within the Afghan police. “MCTF training and mentoring took
most of our time,” Jones says.
Training Afghan police to perform FBI-like investigations
into corruption, kidnapping, and organized crime isn’t easy. “Afghan investigators are intelligent, diligent professionals,” says Jones.
“But it’s tough to build an investigative entity in a country so exposed to corruption, and to move from investigation to prosecution.
It was sometimes difficult to ‘break the code.’”
— Martin Walls
tions: Advanced Techniques for
Finance and IT Professionals.
He is financial systems manager
at Pinnacle Foods Group LLC.
Christopher Malagisi ’04
MPA is director of National
Conservative Political Action
Conference and external relations at the American Conservative Union; and a member of
Young Americans for Romney’s
national leadership team.
Malagisi was recently profiled
Fall 2012 Maxwell Perspective 25
Ambassador Cunningham Accepts
Diplomatic Post in Afghanistan
James B. Cunningham ’74 BA (PSc), U.S. ambassador to Israel in 2008-11, was sworn in as
U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan in August.
The appointment builds on a long and varied
career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Prior to Israel,
Cunningham was U.S. consul general in Hong
James
Cunningham
Kong and, from 1999-2004, ambassador and
deputy permanent representative to the United
Nations. He has completed postings in Stockholm, Washington,
Rome, and the U.S. Mission to NATO (where he was chief of staff to
NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner). He has directed the State
Department’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs.
Cunningham is the recipient of the State Department’s Superior,
Merit, and Performance awards; the National Performance Review’s
Hammer Award for innovation in government management; and the
President’s Meritorious Service Award.
Kedikilwe Named Botswana V.P.
In August, Ponatshego Kedikilwe ’72 MPA was
endorsed by the parliament of the Republic of
Botswana and sworn in as the country’s new vice
president — the seventh since Botswana gained
independence in 1966.
Kedikilwe’s MPA includes an emphasis in
development economics, and he has spent his
Ponatshego
Kedikilwe
career as an economist. He has held several ministerial positions in Botswana’s government, in its
divisions of commerce and industry, education, and finance and
development planning. Most recently, he was minister of minerals,
energy, and water resources — a position he retains while serving as
vice president. Kedikilwe has been the elected member of parliament
representing the village of Mmadinare since 1984.
O’Keefe Chairs School
Advisory Board
Sean O’Keefe ’78 MPA, former
chief administrator of NASA and
chancellor of Louisiana State
University (LSU), was named in
August to chair the Maxwell
School’s Advisory Board.
Dean James Steinberg noted
O’Keefe’s “broad perspective,
shaped by a diverse background
in public service and private
industry.” In addition to his time
at NASA and LSU, O’Keefe has
been secretary of the U.S. Navy
and comptroller and CFO of the
Department of Defense. He is
now chairman and CEO of EADS
North America.
O’Keefe is also a former
Maxwell faculty member (holder
of the Bantle Chair, 1996-2001)
and director of Maxwell’s National Security Studies program.
26 Maxwell Perspective Fall 2012
O’Keefe replaces William Eggers, who retired from the board
earlier this year.
Perry Wins
PA Alumni
Award
John Perry ’72
MPA, former
village administrator of Woodridge, Illinois, received this
year’s PA Alumni Award, given
to individuals who exemplify the
ideals of public service espoused by Maxwell and the
Department of Public Administration and International Affairs.
Perry retired in 2009 after a
37-year career in city management, including 20 years in
Woodridge, named one of the
“100 Best Small Places to Live”
by Money during his tenure.
in Campaigns and Elections as
one of D.C.’s “Movers & Shakers.”
non-governmental organizations
coordinator at the International
Monetary Fund.
George Bain ’06 MA (PA), a
freelance writer and editor in
Syracuse, N.Y., is now a member of the board of directors of
Meals on Wheels of Syracuse.
Andrew S. Garver ‘09 MA
(Econ) is a trial attorney at the
U.S. Department of Justice. He
married Natalie Nikole Saracco
on June 23 in East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Andrew M. Maxwell ’06 MPA
was appointed to the board of
directors of Leadership Greater
Syracuse. He is director of the
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Syracuse, N.Y.
Drew Bland ’07 BA (PSc/Econ/
PSt)/’08 MPA is a management
consultant for Grant Thornton in
Alexandria, Va.
Mark Hibben ‘07 MA (PSc) is
assistant professor of political science at Saint Joseph’s
College of Maine and a PhD
(PSc) candidate at the Maxwell
School.
Nichole Franko ’08 MPA is
director of business systems
of the Girl Scouts of Colorado.
She is also the staff liaison to its
executive committee. In her free
time, she volunteers with Dress
for Success and for Outdoor
Colorado.
Tilla Sewe Antony ‘01 MA
(IR)/’09 PhD (SSc) is economic
governance advisor and global
Anne Robinson Wadsworth
’09 EMPA is executive director
of the Girls Education Collaborative, a Buffalo, N.Y., nonprofit
developing educational solutions for girls in Africa.
2010s
Pat Fiorenza ’11 MPA is a
research analyst at GovLoop,
an online knowledge network
of over 55,000 government
employees. He was a featured
speaker at the 10th annual
462 Conference, an event for
Equal Employment Opportunity
professionals.
Angela Narasimhan ’11 PhD
(PSc) is assistant professor of
political science, Keuka College.
Amanda St. Hilaire ’11 BA (IR)
is the morning show reporter
for WTOL 11, Toledo, Ohio. She
was previously Wood County
(Ohio) bureau reporter.
IN MEMORIAM
Carl A. Linden ’51 BA (IR),
professor emeritus at George
Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian,
and Eurasian Studies, passed
away on April 2. He was born in
Greenwich, Conn., and raised in
Rye, N.Y. After graduating from
the Maxwell School, he went on
to receive a master’s degree in
Russian studies from Harvard
University in 1956 and a doctorate in political science and
international affairs from George
Washington University in 1965.
He did intelligence work with
the United States Air Force
during the Korean War. He
was a political analyst for the
CIA-affiliated Foreign Broadcast
Information Service from 1956
to 1965, followed by five years
of teaching courses in Western
thought at St. John’s College
in Annapolis, Md. He taught at
George Washington University
from 1971 to 2001.
Dimitrios G. Kousoulas ’53
MAIR/’56 PhD (IR) passed away
COURTESY, NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL
on July 3. Born in Greece in
1923, he came to the Maxwell
School as a Fulbright Scholar in
1951 after earning a bachelor’s
degree in law from the University of Athens, Greece. In 1953,
Syracuse University Press published his master’s thesis under
the title The Price of Freedom,
Greece in World Affairs 19391953; it was the first time in its
history that SU Press published
a master’s thesis, and historian Hans Kohn reviewed the
book for the New York Times.
After graduating from Maxwell,
Kousoulas joined the faculty of
Howard University in Washington, D.C., and was chair
of the department of political
science in 1966-1970. Before
retiring in 1983, he had another
five books published, the most
famous being Key to Economic
Progress (1958), translated and
published in 27 languages. After
retirement he published another
two books on the origin of
Christianity in Greece
and contributed to
a bi-weekly column
on current affairs for
the National Herald for the past six
years. Kousoulas was
awarded the Golden
Cross of the Order
of Phoenix by the
government of Greece
and the Medal for
Exceptional Actions
for his participation in
the Resistance during
Greece’s occupation
by the Nazis. He was
named Archon Deputatos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in
Constantinople.
George B. Saunders
‘59 PhD (Econ) passed away on
July 7 at his home in DeWitt,
N.Y. Saunders was professor
emeritus of marketing at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management
and taught at SU for 35 years.
Born in West Philadephia, Pa.,
on May 31, 1921, Saunders
grew up in Philadelphia and
worked at the Frankford Arsenal
American Youth
As chief operating officer for 4-H, Jennifer Sirangelo helps attract financial
support for a youth organization that’s active well beyond the farm.
4
-H Clubs are often considered a quaint part of America’s past, helping rural youngsters feed
lambs and plant string beans. But a century after its founding, the organization now serves
nearly 7 million diverse young people. Reminding potential donors of 4-H’s longevity and
continued relevancy falls to Jennifer Sirangelo ’96 MPA, executive vice president and chief
operating officer of the National 4-H Council.
With 90,000 clubs operating in 3,000 counties,
“We’re addressing this
4-H is the nation’s largest youth organization, Sirangelo
nation’s shortage of
says — “an American icon and part of the fabric of
scientists and engineers.”
many communities.”
4-H executive Jennifer Sirangelo
The organization’s objectives have changed as
America becomes less agrarian. Yes, its 100-plus offerings include hybrid seeds and livestock, but also biotechnology, rocketry, and robotics. In a variety of
subjects, 4-H offers hands-on educational opportunities outside of the conventional school model.
“We’re addressing this nation’s shortage of scientists and engineers,” says Sirangelo. “We’re
working now to spark an early interest and engagement in science, technology, engineering, and applied math.”
Sirangelo has built her
career around charitable organizations. She has operated a
shelter for homeless families
and spearheaded fundraising
for a chapter of the Boys &
Girls Clubs of America, both
in Missouri.
“I went into the nonprofit
sector because I wanted to
make things happen,” she says.
But Sirangelo realized that
programs needed capital to
operate, so she made fundraising her focus.
The nature of charity has
changed, according to Siran4-H executive Jennifer
gelo. “Our investors today are very savvy,” she says. “They want to see us
Sirangelo (front center)
solving problems, creating solutions. And they want to understand the
impact they are having through their gifts.”
Sirangelo makes the case. Since 2007, 4-H’s science campaign has
introduced 1.3 million new members to new initiatives. An eight-year study has determined that
young people in 4-H are three times more likely to be involved in science and computer technology
and twice as likely to go to college. These facts are brought to the table when Sirangelo meets with
philanthropists. The result is an uptick in 4-H program funding.
“What I’ve found in my career,” she says, “is that Americans understand the need to invest in
young people and their futures.”
— Jay Blotcher
Fall 2012 Maxwell Perspective 27
Rangel Reunion. In early October, Christine Omolino (front), director of admission and financial aid for Public Administration and International Affairs, attended
a Washington, D.C., event celebrating 10 years of the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program and 20 of the Pickering Foreign Affairs Program; both
provide financial aid to help attract students into careers in the U.S. Foreign
Service. Omolino currently sits on the selection panel for the Rangel program.
Among Maxwell alumni at the event were (from left) Dominic Randazzo ’07 MPA/
IR and Jennifer Handog ’07 MPA/IR, the first students to enter Maxwell via the
Rangel program. They’re shown with Ambassador Ruth Davis (Ret.) and Rangel
program director Patricia Scroggs. Other Rangel and Pickering alumni are
currently serving overseas.
building artillery shells after
high school. After World War
II, Saunders matriculated at
Pennsylvania State University,
earning a bachelor’s and a
master’s degree in 1949 and
1950, respectively. He also met
his wife of 57 years, Sally, at
Penn State. The couple moved
to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1950, and
Saunders graduated from the
Maxwell School in 1959. He
spent his entire career at the
Whitman School, starting in
1952 as an instructor, received
tenure in 1963, and retired from
teaching in 1987.
Austin Dunham “Dunny”
Barney ’69 MPA died on June
22. He was born into a prominent Connecticut family in 1945
and graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University
before attending the Maxwell
School. After graduation he
joined the Hartford (Conn.) city
planner’s office and later the
Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection. He
also served on the zoning commission of Simsbury, Conn.,
for more than three decades,
and chaired the commission
for three years. As a member
of the commission, he pushed
LET TERS TO THE EDI TOR
The Face of Melvin Eggers
Melvin Eggers
Thank you for your article on the portrait of Chancellor [Melvin] Eggers [“Executive
Power,” Spring 2012].
I was a student in Professor Eggers’s economics class in 1971-1972, during his first
year of chancellorship. He was the most marvelous man, I think, I had ever met. After
all these years I still have fondness for him. He seemed always optimistic, cheerful,
and full of life. I can still see him in class, conveying his points with much style and
grace. This would have been about the time Mr. Witkin knew him and painted his
portrait.
Professor Eggers’s kind and expressive face will be with me all my days. He was
also a very well dressed man, and I can still remember his suits and ties and how good
he looked in them.
I appreciate the viewpoint of Mr. Witkin, but I think he missed the essence of the man.
Joe Kearney ’74 BA (Hist)
Remembering Walter Ullman
Supplementing our coverage of the death of Walter Ullman, professor emeritus of history . . .
I was [Ullman’s] student as an undergraduate and worked for him as a grader while studying for an MA. At
the time, Walter was one of the finest and most thorough teachers in the department, in general European,
East European, and even Russian history survey courses. . . .
[He] worked for several years in the Canadian forests after coming to North America in 1948. I repeatedly retained Walter for quality evaluations of the Czech and Slovak programs of Radio Free Europe, and
was impressed by the detail and extent of his assessments. I sincerely hope he will rest in peace.
Martin K. Bachstein ’68 MA (Hist)
28 Maxwell Perspective Fall 2012
developers to preserve as
much open space as possible.
He was a strong advocate for
environmental conservation
and affordable housing, and
formed the Community Garden
of Simsbury. He also served on
the boards of the Westledge
School, a now-defunct progressive school in Simsbury, and the
Hartford Art School, now a part
of the University of Hartford.
Henry “Curt” Miller ’92 MPA
passed away on July 17. A
New York City native, Miller had
a long career in various New
York state agencies and was a
project manager for the Department of Education for the past
12 years. He was an accomplished amateur photographer,
past president of the Berkshire
Museum Camera Club, and a
longtime member of the Schenectady Photographic Society.
He also enjoyed hiking and was
past president of the Adirondack Mountain Club.
James Kent Leander ‘97 MA
(PA) passed away on August
17, at his home in Salem, S.D.
Born on March 18, 1948, in
Norfolk, Va., Leander graduated
from the South Dakota School
of Mines and Technology. He
pursued graduate education on
the East Coast, earning an MBA
from Boston University before
coming to the Maxwell School.
Leander had a long and distinguished career as a professional engineer. He was in the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
and later its reserves for most of
his career, and was stationed in
Germany and Japan in addition
to various Army bases across
the United States, before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in
2008. Leander was active in
many organizations, including
the Boy Scouts of America, the
Knights of Columbus, Society
of American Military Engineers,
National Association of Retired
Federal Employees, and the
American Legion.
Alumni Matters
SCRAPBOOK
Year round, alumni meet with one another, with Maxwell representatives,
and with current and prospective students. Many events are organized
by regional alumni groups across the country and overseas; others are
sponsored by Maxwell and held on campus.
If you’d like information about activities in your area, please e-mail
alum@maxwell.syr.edu or visit www.maxwell.syr.edu/alumni.
Young Alumni. In July, Francine D’Amico,
associate professor of international relations,
arranged a meeting of recent IR grads;
among those on hand were (at left, left to
right) Andrea Serra ’09 BA (IR), Jackson Droney ’09 BA (IR/PSt), Wilson
Aiwuyor ’09 BA (IR), and Diana Zarick
’08 BA (IR/PSt). Similarly, in October PAIA
faculty member David Van Slyke invited
recent students to dinner; attendees includ-
Jolly Good. In London this September, Norma Shannon
’91 MPA, director of alumni relations, hosted a dinner attended by (from left) Alyssa Simon ’08 MPA, Stasha Fyfe
’02 BA (PSt)/’06 MPA; Jennifer Kested ’06 BA (PSt/
IR); Sovann Suos ’93 BA/’95 MA (Econ) and wife, Christy; spouse Siddharth Bhatia; Brett Jetter ’93 MPA; special
guest Lorraine Wilson; Dipti H. Kapadia ’08 BA (PSt/IR)
and husband, Rajen; Kerry A. Lipsitz ’03 MPA; and Kongkona Sarma ’11 MPA.
ed (lower left, from left) Emily Newman ’06
MPA, Allison Quigney ’07 MPA, Kevin
Jensen ’07 MPA, and Kevin DePodwin
’06 MPA. And in April Maxwell alumni (and
other Syracuse graduates) took part in
Washington, D.C., Servathon — a regionwide initiative involving roughly
10,000 volunteers. Working to
revitalize Fort Mahan Park were
(below, clockwise from top
center) SU alumnus Jerry Augustin, Laura Ann Blake ’10
MAIR, SU alumnus Michael
Konrad, Benjamin A. Peskin
’09 NG (IR), Charles Cutshall
’07 BA (IR)/’09 MPA, and
Dara Kahn ’09 BA (IR).
Long Time Between Hellos. In May, five members of Maxwell’s 1951 MPA class held a reunion in Arlington, Virginia — the first time since graduation they had been together. (Only eight members of the class are
known to survive.) Shown below, from left, are spouse Marty Adams, Mel Adams ’51 MPA, Nancy Roe
Crowell ’51 MPA, spouse Jean Marotta, George Marotta ’50 BA (PSc)/’51 MPA, spouse Marianna
Uhrlaub, John Uhrlaub ’51 MPA, Eric Stork ’51 MPA, and spouse Dottie Stork.
Meanwhile, a somewhat younger cohort — Maxwell’s 50th anniversary MPA Class of 1962 — held a
reunion brunch in September at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. Shown below right are (standing, from
left) Gerald Pagano ’62 MPA, Marjorie Smith ’62 MPA, Gordon McKay ’62 MPA, Frank L. Morris
Sr. ’62 MPA, Irving H. Freedman ’62 MPA, James N. Purcell Jr. ’62 MPA, spouse Linda McKay,
James Willie ’98 MPA (a Maxwell Advisory Board member updating the class on School activities), spouse
Jean Purcell, and spouse Peter Smith; kneeling was F. Bernard Forand ’62 MPA.
STEVE SARTORI / SU PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER
The rededication of
Maxwell’s global
affairs institute to
honor former faculty
member Daniel Patrick Moynihan was
an early highlight of
the Campaign for
Syracuse. (The renaming attended a
$10-million grant
from Congress.) Later, a gift from the
Leon Levy Foundation created a named
professorship in honor of the Senator.
Other Campaign Highlights . . .
Louise and Howard ’70
BA (PSc)/’71 MPA
Phanstiel created a
chair in strategic management and leadership
Lynn Tanner ’75 PhD (PA)
established a lecture and
colloquium series on ethics,
citizenship, and public
responsibility
SU alumnus Sid Lerner and
wife Helaine created a center and professorship dedicated to public health promotion
Former Federal Reserve Chair
Paul Volcker (left) was honored by SU Trustee Robert
Menschel, who created a
professorship in his name
Jay ’75 PhD (SSc) and
Debe Moskowitz committed a large bequest
for a faculty chair in
Mexico-U.S. affairs
Donald Erenberg ’61 BA (PSc) created a
trust that will ultimately provide a major
gift to the Dean’s Discretionary Fund
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END OF CAMPAIGN REPORT
A Stunning Success
By any measure, Syracuse University’s latest fund-raising campaign has
been a triumph. And, as the Campaign neared its end on December 31, no
academic unit had fared better than Maxwell.
I
n mid-2005, Syracuse University launched a multi-year fund-raising drive
with a goal of $1 billion. SU had never attempted anything so ambitious. Not
even close. And yet across the University donors stepped forward, momentum was unrelenting, and it came as no great surprise when, this fall, Chancellor
Nancy Cantor announced the goal had been met, a little ahead of schedule.
A little more surprising was just how well the Maxwell School succeeded
within the larger campaign. “We are a strong school,” says Lisa Honan, assistant
dean for development. “We enjoy great loyalty from our alumni and a widespread appreciation for our mission. Still, except for the Eggers Hall drive, no
one had ever asked our ‘base’ to respond to something quite like this.”
Faculty member Walter
Broadnax ’75 PhD (PA) and
wife Angel established a
bequest for student scholarships
Donna Shalala ’70 MSSc/
’70 PhD (SSc) has made a
large unrestricted gift,
much of it in the form of a
bequest
John Chapple ’75 BA (PSc)
gave a substantial gift to
create a major professorship in citizenship and democracy
Joseph Strasser
’53 BA (Hist)/
’58 MPA has given
a series of major
gifts, all in unrestricted support;
the Academic
Village and Commons were
named in his honor
SU trustee Gerald
Cramer supports
global programs,
scholarships in
counterterrorism
and security, student exchanges,
and professorships
End of Campaign Report
She needn’t have worried. Though the final dollars have yet to be counted, at press time
the School had tallied gifts from more than 3,000 supporters, totaling more than $90 million. The latter figure places Maxwell number one among SU academic units; only SU’s
athletics department raised more.
Maxwell’s part of the Campaign — like any such campaign — devoted most of its headlines to the largest gifts; some of those are listed around the margins of these two pages.
But according to Honan there are other important indices of success — for example, the
number of people who participated (the 3,000-plus) and
the institutional trends that even modest gifts, when
“Behind the dollars
pooled in the Dean’s Discretionary Fund, have helped
are hundreds of
underwrite. The Campaign’s momentum helped fuel transindividual stories
formative developments and an overall sense of possibility
at Maxwell. The past seven years have witnessed the conof donors who had
tinuing internationalization of student programming, the
an urge to make a
restructuring of the professional degree programs, an updifference.”
tick in student scholarship aid, and development of the
undergraduate citizenship curriculum.
Honan also highlights medium-sized gifts that fund specific initiatives, thereby marrying a donor’s interests to School needs — for example, Sheldon ’64 BA (Hist) and Laurie
Goldstein’s gift to enhance citizenship education; Sean ’78 MPA and Laura O’Keefe’s fund
memorializing alumnus Brady Howell and supporting students in national security; Scott
Bailey ’96 MPA’s gift helping students pursue career options; and too many more to list here.
“These are the kinds of gifts that not only help fund our efforts but, in a sense, sanction
our efforts. Giver and recipient meet at a point of shared mission,” Honan says. “I always
remind people that, behind the dollars, are hundreds of individual stories of donors who had
an urge to make a difference.”
Dean James Steinberg shares Honan’s reflections, and her optimism. “Though I have
been at Maxwell for only the concluding year-and-a-half of the Campaign, its success assures
me of the strong support we enjoy,” Steinberg says. “It will stand us in good stead as we look
toward growth and funding opportunities in the near future.”
— Dana Cooke
Samuel Goekjian ’52 BA
(Hist) established the McClure Professors program,
and provides ongoing support for global study
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
’72 BA (Econ) made a major unrestricted gift; Eggers
Hall’s central atrium was
renamed in her honor
Walter Montgomery ’67 BA
(PSc) established the Dr.
Walter Montgomery and
Marian Gruber Professorship of History
Susan Penny ’70 BA
(Econ) established a bequest providing a major
unrestricted gift to the
Dean’s Discretionary Fund
Melvin Eggers (right), former SU chancellor and
Maxwell faculty member,
was honored with a fund by
sons William and Richard
Peter ’69 BA (PSc) and
Sharon Kissel (SU grad in
fine arts) made commitments supporting discussions about civil liberties
End of
Campaign
Report
AND
2011-12
Honor Roll
of Donors
2011-12
Honor Roll
of Donors
Thank you
from the
Maxwell
School
When you give to
Maxwell, you subscribe
to an ideal that our students, faculty, and staff
endeavor to achieve every day. In that way, you
advance the ongoing
Maxwell School story.
You’re not just a piece
of our past.
You’re a link to our
future.
The Faculty,
Students and
Staff of the
Maxwell School
Gifts from Individuals
Maxwell
Ambassadors
$100,000 - $999,999
Berlin, Andrew T. ’83
Cramer, Daphna
Cramer, Gerald B. ’52
Heisen, JoAnn Heffernan ’72
Lerner, Helaine C.
Lerner, Sidney ’53
Menschel, Robert B. ’51 H’91
Payson, Doris L. ’57
Strasser, Joseph A. ’53 ’58
Maxwell Diplomats
$50,000 - $99,999
Cohn, Alan D.
Cohn, Betsy Levitt ’59
Eggers, Richard M. ’73
Eggers, William D.
Gruber, Marian A.
Montgomery, Walter G. ’67
O’Keefe, Laura J.
O’Keefe, Sean C. ’78
Maxwell Pillars
$10,000 - $49,999
All gifts were made July
1, 2011, through June 30,
2012.
Gifts to Maxwell are recorded
also as gifts to Syracuse
University, with attendant honors and benefits. For example,
individuals who give $1,000 to
Maxwell qualify for membership
among SU’s Benefactors.
Class years (e.g. ’90) reflect all
Syracuse University degrees.
H denotes an honorary degree.
An asterisk (*) indicates that
the donor is deceased.
The utmost care was taken
in the preparation of the
Honor Roll of Donors. We
apologize for any omissions,
misspellings, or other errors.
If you have questions, contact
Lisa Honan, assistant dean for
development, at 315-4435056 or lchonan@maxwell.
syr.edu; or write to 200 Eggers
Hall, Maxwell School, Syracuse,
N.Y. 13244-1020.
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Bashe, Lawrence D. ’66 ’68
Bodkin, Angela M. ’77
Daicoff, Cathy L. ’79
Elefante, Michael B. ’65
Friedman, Thomas H. ’77
Horowitch, Sheldon J.
Horowitch, Sheila ’54
Kelso, David A. ’68
Kissel, Peter C. ’69
Kissel, Sharon Murphy ’70
Lefkowitz, Charles
Lefkowitz, Helen ’60
Lefkowitz, Michael E. ’86
Lourie, Betty B.
Mendik, Julie L. ’89
Mitchell, Robbin E.
O’Hanley, Ronald P. III ’80
O’Hanley, Karen A. ’79
Palmer, John L.
Palmer, Stephanie G.
Parratt, Catherine F. ’65 ’72
Perlik, Susan E. ’72
Pigott, W. Terry ’79
Rapking, Caroline H. ’82
Scruggs, Jeffrey
Tanner, W. Lynn ’75
Volcker, Paul H’08
Wallerstein, Mitchel B. ’72
Weist, Dana R.* ’84 ’91
Anonymous Donor
Fall 2012
Maxwell Stewards
$5,000 - $9,999
Bailey, Scott W. ’96
Berkman, Norman M. ’57 ’60
Carroll, Darren J. ’83 ’87 ’93
Chapple, John H. ’75
Dias, Wesley C. ’74
El-Hindi, Ahmad M. ’52
El-Hindi, Elizabeth
Gleysteen, Nicholas ’74
Gleysteen, Paula M. ’70 ’73
Glick, Marilyn ’60
Godshaw, Gerald M. ’78 ’81
Goldstein, Laurie A. ’66
Goldstein, Sheldon M. ’64
Hyams, George-Ann ’64
Kohl, Victoria F.
Layton-Carroll, Rene ’83 ’90
Pearce, William D. ’84
Penny, Susan C. ’70
Polf, William A. ’71 ’73
Prombain, Lewis A. ’65 ’66
Rapaport, H. Lewis ’59
Rapaport, Susan H. ’59
Roche, Ellen P. ’76
Ryan, Mark W. ’77
Ryan, Nancy A.
Schaefer, George P. ’74
Smith, Elmer W.* ’52
Speranza, Paul S. Jr. ’69
York, Stephen S. ’71
Zrebiec, Donald A. ’59 ’61
Zrebiec, Susan Jane ’60
Maxwell Fellows
$2,000 - $4,999
Bertini, Catherine
Boilard-Harkin, Lucille
Broad, Molly Corbett ’62 H’09
Broad, Robert W. ’60
Broadnax, Walter D. ’75
Clark, R. Theodore Jr. ’62
Clark, Sandra H. ’62
Davis, Alvin B. ’64
Degen, Kenneth L. ’81
Fabian, Merle G. ’59
Firestine, Robert E. ’65 ’71
Harkin, James M. ’76 ’77 ’78
Harris, Jayne R.*
Hayes, Susan W. ’79
Heaney, Stephen E. ’76
Hirsch, Elaine Jean ’53
Hirsch, Leonard S. ’55
Hogan, John D. Jr. ’49 ’50 ’52
Hoyle, Patrick W. ’04
Israel, Hollis Z. ’45
Katz, Alan B. ’70
LaSala, Robert S. ’76
Marotta, George R. ’50 ’51
Mazzotta, Lawrence A. ’74
Meier, Kenneth J. ’74 ’75
Mower, Eric ’66 ’68
Mower, Judith C. ’66 ’73 ’80 ’84
Patch, David C. ’75
Patch, Pamela A. ’76
Powell, Wilson B.* ’33
Redmond, William Jr. ’62
Rekhi, Raj-Ann K. ’98
Schaefer, John M. ’69
Schuler, Patricia M.
Skelton, Peter B. ’60
Smith, Michael A. ’74 ’75
Struga, Alba ’07
Williams, Mary Lou ’50
Williams, Mitchell R.
Willie, James Theodore ’98
Willie, Susan Tompkins ’99
Maxwell Citizens
$1,000 - $1,999
Abbott, Sherburne Bradstreet
Amon, Philip S.
Anderson, Eric A. ’67 ’70
Anderson, Linda B. ’67
Ansell, Mitchell J. ’84
Ayres, David J. ’76
Ayres, Kim A.
Baker, David H.
Baker, Dorothy Z.
Baker, Lawrence J.
Bergeron, Mary Ellen ’69
Birkhead, Guthrie S.
Birkhead, Louise G.
Block, Roberta Messner ’55
Bobkiewicz, Walter J. III ’89
Bolding, H. Stanley ’75 ’76
Boniche, Armando P. ’99
Byron, Kristin L.
Cecala, Guy D.
Cecala, Laura S.
Chen, Yong ’06
Degen, Eileen Dawkins ’49
Donahue, Robert A. ’95
Dos Santos, Richard ’88
Fallon, Brian L. ’93
Francoeur, Mary T. ’83 ’84
Gaudiosi, George F. Jr. ’84
Gaudiosi, Lorre T. ’86 ’87
Gold, Frances F. ’56
Gottlieb, Kevin C. ’70
Hanewall, Casey A. ’05
Honan, Lisa C.
Honan, Thomas J.
Iglauer, Bruce H.
Jamsheed, Jackie T. ’88
Kaplan, Kenneth T. ’68
Kaufman, Linda H. ’72
Kaufman, Norman S. ’72 ’76
Kurz, Sandra Joan ’58
Laube, Elaine F. ’72 ’73
Liu, Liqun ’06
McCann, S. Anthony ’69
McMorrow, Ruth ’79
Melnick, Andrew B. ’73
Menter, Sanford ’49
Merrick, Sarah G. ’89
Michalski, Edward Robert ’02
Miner, Jerry
Moskowitz, Debe
Moskowitz, Jay H. ’75
Mullane, Michael C. ’81
O’Leary, Rosemary ’88
O’Neill, Robert J. Jr. ’74
O’Rourke, Elizabeth Breul ’77 ’04
O’Rourke, Frederick H. ’77 ’87
Prina, L. Edgar ’38 ’40
Priore, Renee L.
Rubenstein, Ross
Schroeder, Larry D.
Shalala, Donna E. ’70 H’87
Stansky, Mildred R. ’56
Stein, Michael R. ’61
Steinberg, James B.
Sternberg, Frances R. ’65
Sternberg, Rolf ’71
Sternburg, Fred K. ’81
Sunshine, Eugene S. ’72
Tallon, James R. Jr. ’63 ’68
Tucker, Clara J. ’65
Wasylenko, Lydia W. ’75
Wasylenko, Michael J. ’75
Webb, Margaret E. ’76 ’96
Webb, Stephen S.
Weinberg, Dana E.
Weinberg, Lawrence R. ’77
Weiss, Jerome F. ’68
Willie, Charles V. ’57 H’92
Willie, Mary Sue ’59
Wolf, Dona ’72
Wolfson, Donald Jay ’72
Zeigler, Sara ’02
Zimba, David M. ’84
Zimmer, Mary D. ’53 ’81
Zimmer, Robert H. ’50
Maxwell Associates
$500 - $999
Adelman, Anita ’64
Adelman, Richard ’61
Amezcua, Alejandro S. ’05 ’10
Baker, Robert J. ’78 ’79
Ball, Margie T.
Bartfeld, Ruth M. ’51
Biemer, Linda H. ’79
Biemer, Robert R. ’74
Bischoff, Donald M. ’73
Bischoff, Helen K. ’74
Bobseine, Urban L.* ’48
Bonds, William N. ’59
Bottar, Karen R. ’79 ’80 ’81
Bowman, H. Woods ’65 ’69
Bringewatt, Margaret M. ’68 ’72
Brodsky, Michael B. ’90
Burger, Harold Bielous ’00 ’03
Calder, Jennifer N. ’68 ’70
Calder, William T. ’70
Calkins, John T. ’49
Castellani, Paul J. ’63 ’75
Clark, Kathryn D. ’68 ’01
Codispoti, Frances M. ’65
Cohen, Eric J. ’75
Cooper, John A.
Coppie, Comer S. ’59
Crary, David B. ’72
Del Olmo, Jose ’10
Dennison, Thomas H. ’74
Donald, Andrea S. ’72
Douglas, Judith B. ’77 ’81
Duncan, Matthew David ’09
Dunsky, Robert M. ’95 ’97
Falbaum, Bertram S. ’72
Ferraro, Amy Elizabeth ’00
Fisher, William P. ’88
Fitzpatrick, Donald G. Jr. ’80
Flickinger, Marie A. ’66
Flickinger, Richard S. ’72
Flusche, Grace Ball
Flusche, Michael A.
Gambaccini, Louis J. ’56
Gocek, Joanne L. ’81 ’00
Goertz, Margaret E. ’68 ’71
Greenstein, Kenneth Ira ’51
Grillo, Joseph P. ’57
Hansel, Bettina G. ’77 ’85
Harowitz, Steven M. ’72
Holstein, Alyse L.
Holstein, Philip L. ’79
Hunter, Jean E.
Illick, Edith W. ’42
Ingmire, Robert E. ’45
Johnson, Geoffrey A. ’78 ’83
Kahn, Helene M. ’10
Kennedy, Marc J. ’67
Ketcham, Julia L. ’66
Ketcham, Ralph L. ’56 H’99
Krietor, David I. ’76 ’78
Krietor, Katherine L. ’83
Kweit, Robert W. ’67
Lane, Frederick S. ’77
Lauth, Thomas P. Jr. ’76
Lisauskas, Stephen P. ’94 ’96
Lourido, Anthony ’84
Lu, Caton ’92
Mason, Jeffrey C. ’70
Mason, Paul T.
McArthur, Alastair ’55
McGregor, Carol ’68
McGregor, Eugene B. ’69
Meiklejohn, Douglas
Meiklejohn, Harriet
Meinig, Donald W. H’94
Michel, David S. ’63 ’65
Miller, Shawn D. ’96
Montgomery, Dorothy A.
Montgomery, Gregg A.
More, Alan C. ’69
Mulcahy, Daniel J. ’68
Muller, Ralph W. ’66
Murray, David R.
Noonan, John M. ’56
Noss, Anne Lewis ’76
Noss, Jeffrey B. ’76
Omolino, Christine F. ’95 ’96
Paige, Dana W. ’80
Parker, Tennille Smith ’98
Platt, George M. ’55 ’62
Quinn, William T. ’65
Rattray, James B. ’72
Rattray, Paula C. ’72
Reinherz, Jill R.
Rimerman, Ira S. ’60
Rimerman, Iris ’62
Rose, Daniel ’52
Rosen, Steven A. ’76
Rosenthal, Jerrold P. ’53
Rothstein, Robert Alan ’68
Sabo, Robert L. ’78
Schaefer, Dennis L. ’72
Schul, Norman W. ’62
Selig, Margaret K. ’64
Shanok, Nathaniel A. ’98
Singer, Michael E. ’86
Smith, Stephen R. ’94 ’10
Sokolow, Alan V. ’66
Stace, Peter A. ’73 ’79
Steinberg, Kathy Broiles ’86
Steinberg, Richard P. ’86
Strome, Charles Bowman Jr. ’50
Sullivan, Sean T. ’86 ’88
Sundquist, James L. ’42
Tabors, Patton ’68
Tabors, Richard D. ’70 ’71
Thoresen, A. Robert ’65 ’69
Thoresen, Susan Werner ’67
Vengroff, Richard ’70 ’72
Wanetik, David L. ’71
Webb, Kempton E. ’55 ’58
Western, Donald J. ’72 ’76
Woodson, Dwight A. ’67
Maxwell Friend
$250 - $499
Aid, Rita F. ’51
Aloi, Francis M. ’63
Anderson, Iver M. ’83
Aubrey, Leonard A. ’74
Baker, Marvin W. Jr. ’70
Barrington, Eugene ’76
Birnbaum, Linda S. ’76 ’87
Bozeman, Barry
Brown, Douglas R. ’69
Brown, Robert T. ’72
Bryers, Lynn F. ’64
Callan, Nancy K. ’69
Cardwell, Larry D. ’65
Cease, Ronald C. ’54
Chin-Fu, Diane ’95
Colten, Craig E. ’84
Covert, Kathy L. ’89 ’03
Crouse, Peter R. ’76 ’77
Crowley, John C. ’67 ’77
Cummings, Lawrence Michael ’00
Dalton, Dell Marion ’48
Dawes, Katherine A. ’90 ’93
Dong, Zhihui ’01
D’Oronzio, Joseph C. ’59 ’65
Evans, Robert W. II ’82
Evans, Cynthia Sherwood ’86
Felker, John M. ’95
Fisher, Alan M. ’76
Foell, Virginia J. ’54
Frank, Sheri L.
Frank, Warren M.
French, Nelson V. ’66 ’71
Friedman, Stuart I. ’73
Fulton, Bernard B. Jr. ’56
Gailor, Frank R. ’63
Garcia, Dorothy Linda ’63
Gaughan, Monica ’92
Gelles, Walter R. ’51
Gerbino, Vincent A. Jr. ’50 ’55
Gordon, George J. ’71
Greenstein, Michael S. ’70 ’74
Harkness, Edward M. ’73
Hayes, Paula F. ’73
Hayes, Robert Jude ’72 ’73
Healy, Candice Mathew ’96
Hernandez, Darren Philip ’94
Hogan, Carol Lee ’74
Hogan, Thomas M. ’73
Hou, Yilin ’02 ’98
Huard, Roger L. ’77
Humes, D. Joy ’56
Hunt, John P. ’75 ’80
Joerger, Helen N.
Joerger, Robert E.
Johnson, Dale B. ’74 ’80 ’01
Johnson, Jennifer D.
Johnson, Lorraine P. ’68
Johnson, Stephen P. ’69
Johnson, Steven G. ’85
Joyner, Thomas E. ’48 ’50
Kah, Marianne S. ’76
Kamp, Joshua Wesley Price ’06
Katz, Neil H.
Keuch, Donald J. Jr. ’55
King, Lynn H. ’66
Kingsley, Gordon A. ’94
Kirabo, Doreen ’08
Kogut, Barry R. ’74
Koroma, James Sanpha ’71
Laird, John R. ’64 ’65
Laird, Ruth J. ’64
Larsen, Sara R. ’97
Leonard, Dorothy L. ’54
Lewis, Minchin G. ’68
Linder, Norene ’55
Linder, Peter J. ’54
Lipke, Tamara B. ’90
Livent, Gary R.
Lutz, Theodore C. ’68
MacDonald, Jill W. ’74
Mandelson, Dayle A. ’76 ’77
Markell, Eric M. ’74
McCarty, Nancy K. ’54 ’55
McKee, James R. ’77
McKee, Mary Jane ’76
McKeon, Martha P. ’49
Miller, Jay J. ’52
Mogel, Frederick R. ’77
Montgomery, Douglas G.
’66 ’69
Morley, Elaine J. ’74 ’76
Moss, Frank E. ’75
Moss, Kathryn G. ’75
Myers, Robert B. ’73
O’Connor, Diane D. ’67 ’72
O’Connor, Kevin W. ’67
O’Hern Rizzo, Gail E.
Okimoto, Mildred Y. ’61
Olson, Kent R. ’83
Ostman, Henry E. ’74 ’76
O’Toole, Laurence J. Jr. ’72 ’75
O’Toole, Mary I. ’74
Palkovitz, Judith Launer ’65
Panton, Georgiana G. ’59 ’60
Panton, James E. ’61
Pauwels, Kenneth G.
Phares, Donald L. ’67 ’70
Piper, Robert L. ’59 ’65
Pitt, David G. ’70
Porter, David O. ’70
Price, Marie D. ’86 ’91
Raff, Carol Zeiger ’54
Raff, Harvey M. ’54
Ransom, Richard A. ’76
Reimers, Carolyn M.
Reimers, Michael G.
Rieber, Michael ’52
Ritchie, Daniel G. ’68
Rollins, Martha G. ’62 ’67
Ross, Lynn C. ’88
Rudolph, Rosalind ’44
Ruscitto, Daniel R.
Ruscitto, Kathryn H. ’92
Russell, Robert D. ’73
Ryan, John D. ’91
Sager, Alan J. ’63
Salis, Harry A. ’70
Schackman, Dulcie ’49
Schackman, Walter M. ’50 ’58
Schloss, Arthur E. ’66 ’67
Schloss, Sharon R. ’67
Schlosser, Barbara A.
Schlosser, Bruce K.
Schlusberg, Paula L.
Schuler-Anderson, Patricia A. ’81
Sciscioli, Vito J. ’70
Scott, Samuel T. Jr. ’77 ’78
Scott, Richard A. ’69 ’82
Scully, Patrick L. ’82 ’88
Seckler, Constance S. ’49
Seibert, Jean D. ’74
Seyffarth, Linda W. ’70
Shaiko, Ronald G. ’82 ’89
Shycoff, Donald B. ’53
Simmonds, Jan S. ’00
Siskind, Mary ’62
Smith, Russell A. ’77
Smyser, Constance ’67
Smyser, Jeffrey G. ’66 ’68
Sopher, Tressa L.
Stauffer, Bruce E. ’83
Steinberg, Charles M. ’64
Stell, Evelyn W. ’57
Stell, John R. ’58
Stevens, Alan V. ’69
Stocks, Anthony H. ’56
Teague, L. Charles ’62 ’66
Thiel, Nathan Richard ’07
Thomas, Wilbur G. ’84
Thon, Carolyn A. ’77
Tompkins, Christopher R. ’00
Treckel, Paula Ann ’76 ’78
Tsubaki, Yoji ’07
Tully, Heather A. ’91
Tyson, Richard J. ’76
Uhlmann, Philipp Andre ’98
Valentine, Wilbur L. ’51 ’66
Vandenburgh, Stephen J. ’90
Vecchione, Frank J. Jr. ’57
Maxwell Dean’s Circle
As major supporters of the Maxwell School and Syracuse University,
members of the Dean’s Circle have made gifts to the School totaling
$100,000 or more over their lifetimes.
HRH Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal
Abdulaziz Al Saud
Diane B. and George I.* Baker
Louis F. Bantle*
H. Douglas and Sara S. Barclay
J. Patrick and Christine Barrett
Lawrence D. Bashe
Andrew T. Berlin
Alan K. Campbell*
C. Duncan Campbell
John H. Chapple
Stephen K.F. Chung
Jane and Kenneth N. Clark*
R. Theodore Jr. and Sandra H. Clark
Sarah Cohen
Alan and Betsy Levitt Cohn
Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer
Renee and Lester Crown
Cathy L. Daicoff
Wilfred L. Ebel
Melvin A.* and Mildred A.* Eggers
Richard M. Eggers
William D. Eggers
Michael B. Elefante
Donald S. Erenberg
Donald W. Flaherty*
Evelyn E. Fleming*
Thomas H. Friedman
Joan de Sardon Glass*
Samuel V. Goekjian
Raymond H. Gusteson*
Helen R. and Gerald T. Halpin
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen
Patrick J. Hennigan
John D. Hogan, Jr.
Sheila J. and Sheldon J. Horowitch
Hollis Z. Israel
Hazel A. Johnson*
Li Ka-Shing
Ralph L. and Julia S. Ketcham
Peter C. and Sharon Murphy Kissel
Fall 2012
Charles Lefkowitz
Helen Lefkowitz
Michael E. Lefkowitz
Sidney and Helaine C. Lerner
Betty B. Lourie
Elisabeth P. and James E.* McCabe
Julie L. Mendik
Robert B. Menschel
Donald M. Mitchell
Walter G. Montgomery and Marian
Gruber
Eric and Judith C. Mower
Daniel Patrick Moynihan*
Alexander G. Nason
Joseph Neubauer
Kimberly Campbell Oxholm
Bernard G. and Louise B. Palitz
Catherine F. Parratt
Doris L. Payson
Susan C. V. Penny
Howard G. and Louise Phanstiel
W. Terry Pigott
L. Edgar Prina
Caroline H. Rapking
Ellen P. Roche
Raymond T.* and Patricia A. Schuler
Donald and Cynthia Schupak
Donna E. Shalala
Gerard A. Smith*
Chalermbhand Srivikorn
Joseph A. Strasser
Helvi W. Suominen
Susan M. Walter
Walter K.* and Eleanor W.* Webb
Elizabeth M. and John P. White
Florence White*
Chris J. and Grace M. Witting*
Abdallah H. Yabroudi
Anthony Y.C. Yeh
Walter R. Zimmerman*
Anonymous Donors
Maxwell Perspective
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Honor Roll
of Donors
Vecchione, Polly ’57
Vertucci, Richard J. ’86
Warren, Cynthia J. ’73 ’75
Watson, William D. Jr. ’65
Weinberger, Peter H. ’72
Weissman, Marvin ’54
Wheeler, Laura A. ’89 ’93
Wilford, John N. ’56
Wojtowycz, Martha A. ’88 ’94
Young, Sarah C. ’01
Maxwell Donors
$100 - $249
Abramson, Mark A. ’73
Adler, Kenneth P. ’48
Ajello, James A. ’76
Akins, Joyce Lanell ’00
Alesky, Pamela D. ’94
Allan, Nigel J.R. ’70 ’78
Altenberg, Katerina E. ’59
Altmeyer, Ann S. ’78 ’82
Ames, Christine Melinda ’10
Anastasi, Joel D. ’57
Anderson, John E. ’62
Anna, Henry J. ’71
Applegate, Howard L. ’60 ’66
Arnold, David S. ’43
Arnold, Thomas R.* ’70
Ashley, Amanda M. ’03
Auletta, Ken B. ’65 ’77
Auth, John L. ’66
Axelrod, Leonard ’42
Bailey, Marianne M. ’86
Bain, George S. ’06
Baird, Vincent C. Jr. ’79
Baker, Julie M. ’78
Baker, Randolph Loren ’75
Bannon, John T. Jr. ’73
Barnes, William E. Jr. ’72
Barnes, William R. ’70 ’77
Barr, Culver K. ’57
Barringer, Jody M. ’95 ’98 ’08
Beachell, Merlin C. ’53
Beckley, Nancy C. ’71
Beeks-Napierski, Elizabeth D. ’72
’74 ’77 ’83
Behuniak, Michael P. Jr. ’84 ’86
Belkowitz, David F. ’71
Bell, Barbara T. ’66
Belsky, Ami E. ’75 ’78
Belsky, Judith E. ’58
Bennett, John D. ’68
Birnbaum, Mark Samuel ’00
Bjornstad, David J. ’73
Black, Frederick H. ’75 ’76
Black, James D. ’73
Bogus, Carl T. ’70 ’73
Bolenbaugh, Lynn K. ’88
Bonham, Jay B. ’00
Bonham, Meredith Harper
Bookman, Kenneth ’70
Bourque, Alison ’07
Bowles, Suzanne Geissler ’71 ’76
Boyle, Michael J. ’76
Brainerd, Richard Kenneth ’69
Brannen, George B. ’50 ’56
Brattain, Steven M. ’70
Brennan, John P. ’67
Brereton, Thomas F. ’70 ’73
Bridgers, Daniel
Brindger, Cynthia M.
Brindger, John A.
Brower, Clayton R. ’47 ’48
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Brower, Dorothy ’50
Brown, Albert W. ’49 ’52
Brubaker, Henry P. ’70
Brydges, Dennis J. ’64 ’66
Brydges, Evelyn O. ’66
Burdick, Mary P. ’51
Burdick, Robert E. ’51 ’58
Burgevin, Jules D. ’69
Burgevin, Patricia M. ’73
Burnes, Joan E. ’93
Bush, Charles Philip ’98
Butler, Martha M. ’77
Campbell, Eric D. ’87
Campbell, Richard W. ’75 ’78
Cane, Lenore ’56
Carmichael, Julie E. ’87
Casella, Christina S. ’92 ’94 ’04
Cashion, Diane E. ’69 ’72
Cashion, Marvin J. ’68 ’71
Caspi, Marcia E. ’48
Caufield, William M. ’72
Caulfield, Robert James Jr. ’07
Chalmers, Brock R. ’85
Chappelle, Daniel E. ’65
Chen, Bangtian ’96 ’98
Chorazak, Mark Joseph ’00
Ciccone, Anthony J. Jr. ’75
Clark, Jane ’53
Clough, Elizabeth T. ’70
Cochrane, J. Theodore Jr. ’71
Cochrane, MaryJane S. ’72
Coddington, Andrew M. ’01
Coddington, Laurie E. ’97
Cohen, Ilene G.
Cohen, Neri M.
Coleman, Mary Jo ’78 ’81
Collins-Ocumarez, Felicia D. ’98
Colton, Kent W. ’68
Combs, Brett D. ’80
Combs, Nina G. ’68 ’69
Comiez, Maynard S. ’53 ’55
Connolly, R. Kenneth ’66 ’68
Connolly, Sandra O.* ’67
Cooke, Corinna ’79
Cooper, Jennifer G. ’99
Costello, James P. ’99
Cota, John F. ’59
Cowles, Carol A. ’83
Cox, Jimmy D. ’70
Cullinan, Paul R. ’78 ’79
Curran, Maura ’84
Cushman, D. King ’70
Cutler, Michael B. ’85
Czajkowski, Ronald J. ’75
D’Ambrosio, Mary Ann ’85
D’Amico, Francine J.
Davidson, Robert H. Jr. ’73
Davidson, Elizabeth K. ’73
Davis, Jeffery K. ’69
Dayan, Elizabeth A. ’83
De Bonis, Anthony Jr. ’73
De Planque, Karen ’50
Dearstyne, Bruce W. ’74
Deb Roy, Joyjit ’95
Deitchman, Eleanor S. ’71
Demeksa, Bulcha ’61
Depriest, Troy A. ’86
Deutsch, David J. ’78
Distasio, Patrick J. ’56 ’59 ’66
Dolgin, Cindy ’76
Dolgin, Kalmon ’64 ’66
Dolgin, Margaret ’67
Dolgin, Neil A. ’75
Dornbusch, Barbara F. ’50
Dornbusch, Sanford M. ’48
Douglas, Barbara C. ’94
Fall 2012
Douglas, James T. ’85 ’88
Drake, Emily Boer ’04
Drew, Frederick D. Jr. ’69
Drezner, A. David ’62 ’67
Drezner, Esther B. ’64
DuBick, Michael A. ’76
Duncombe, William D. ’87 ’89
Dustin, William K. ’70 ’75
Ebner, Eugene M. ’74
Edmondson, Susan H. ’78
Eilon, Lindsey K. ’09
Eldred, Thomas G. ’65
Ellsweig, Steven R. ’75
Evia, Aristotle E. ’99
Ezring, Jennifer Meira ’00
Farkas, William ’57
Farnen, Russell F. Jr. ’60 ’63
Felicetti, Anthony J. ’66
Felicetti, Carolyn Virginia ’67
Fenlon, Emmett J. ’63
Fennel, Pauline Montesi ’53
Ferrara, Barbara N. ’68
Fillip, Kevin M. ’82
Fisher, Joyce ’52
Fisher, Lois Apman ’53 ’58
Fitzpatrick, Stephen F. ’78
Fitzpatrick, Susan K.
Flynn, Amelia E. ’89
Flynn, Christine G. ’81
Flynn, Paul J. ’79
Flynn, Thomas M. ’90
Forden, David W. ’53
Fox, Thomas G. ’65 ’66
Frazer, Christine H. ’45 ’47
Friedland, Audrey F. ’49
Friedlander, Joel L. ’72
Gabel, Katherine ’67
Gair, Robert M. ’52
Gale, Robert E. ’60 ’62
Gambaccini, Mark S. ’78
Gaston, David Mark
Geier, Amy Y. ’76
Geier, Philip O. ’75 ’80
Gentilcore, Richard C. ’96
Gerlach, Daniel J. ’90
Gerlach, Franklin T. ’59
Giglio, Ernest D. ’64
Giglio, Karin E. ’62
Gillen, Mark J. ’82
Gingrich, Susan E. ’77
Gladfelter, Bruce G. ’60
Godward, Sophie R. ’68
Godward, Thomas E. ’63
Goodrich, Janet ’60
Goodrich, Lorin L. ’60 ’61
Gordon, Beverly A.
Gordon, Keith E.
Gottlieb, Marc D. ’80
Gray, Tracey Alan ’02
Griffin, William R. ’76
Gross, Philip J. ’73 ’74
Grossman, Debra A. ’73
Groth, Jennifer L. ’90
Gruber, Edward M. ’68
Guild, Janice C. ’56
Guo, Xu ’96
Gurell, Daniel P. ’95 ’96
Gustafson, Charles R. ’68
Guzzardo, John C. ’72 ’75
Hagenah, Todd D. ’66
Halter, Samuel H. ’62
Hancock, Jonathan R. ’95 ’98
Handelman, John R. ’72 ’74
Harley, Asher J. ’01
Harley, Carolyn Marie ’00
Harm, Kathleen Jenks ’68
Hartnick, Alan J. ’50
Hastings, John M. IV ’85
Hatch, Diana D. ’57
Hatch, Richard C.
Hauge, Erik R. ’67 ’70
Hayes, David M. ’65
Hayes, Elizabeth T. ’77 ’78
Hebel, Linda G. ’70
Heer, Nancy W. ’54
Heffern, Brian J. ’94
Helms, W. David ’69 ’79
Henderson, Nelson H. Jr. ’52
Henderson, Diane D. ’53
Hennigan, Robert D. Sr. ’56 ’64
Herzog, Susan K. ’54
Heschel, Jerald H. II ’84
Hester, Donald V. ’66
Higbie, Craig C. ’75
Hillenbrand, Bernard F. ’49 ’51
Hilton, Kenneth H. ’72 ’91
Hoff, Margaret B. ’50
Hoffman, Donald S. ’58
Holden, Alfred C. Jr. ’68
Holden, Lorianne S. ’65 ’63
Holland, Lael A. ’67
Holmes, Mary Rudney ’83
Honadle, Beth Walter ’76 ’77 ’79
Honadle, George H. ’73 ’78
Hopkins, Ward L. ’60
Hopps, Michael R. ’99
Hugill, Peter J. ’77
Hunt, Margaret Shelly ’73 ’75
Hurlburt, Holly S. ’95 ’00
Hussein, Mohamed O.H. ’74
Hutton, John P. ’79
Ingle, Clyde R. ’70
Jachles, Harriet O. ’53
Jacobs, Gerald ’83
Johnson, Anita Silfies ’47
Johnson, Jill A. ’77
Johnson, Michael Kevin ’06
Jones, Vernon D. ’95
Jordy, Lauren E. ’82
Joseph, James E. ’87
Kadish, Alexander H. ’01
Kamerling, David S. ’75
Kanter, Deborah L.
Kanter, Robert K. ’03 ’04
Kaplan, William M. ’48
Kasper, Bentzil M. ’76
Kassop, Mark S. ’70
Katz, Edward ’80
Katz, Cecilia Stanley ’55
Katz, S. Stanley ’54 ’56
Sustainers
Members of this group have shown their commitment by making
gifts in each of the past 10 years.
Charles A. Adams
Anita and Richard Adelman
Pamela D. Alesky
Ann S. Altmeyer
Henry J. Anna
Howard L. Applegate
David S. Arnold
Ken B. Auletta
Scott W. Bailey
Jeremiah M. and Suzanne T.
Baker
Marvin W. Baker Jr.
Rand L. Baker
Robert J. Baker
Wilmer K. Baldwin
Lawrence D. Bashe
Merlin C. Beachell
Nancy C. Beckley
Barbara T. Bell
Mary Ellen Bergeron
Norman M. Berkman
Dawn M. Berney
Linda H. and Robert R. Biemer
Linda S. Birnbaum
Frederick H. Black
Roberta M. Block
Walter J. Bobkiewicz
Lynn J. Bolenbaugh
Jay B. Bonham
Armando P. Boniche
John F. Bovenzi
Suzanne Geissler Bowles
H. Woods Bowman
Steven M. Brattain
John P. Brennan
Margaret M. Bringewatt
Walter D. Broadnax
Clayton R. and Dorothy Brower
Douglas R. Brown
Robert T. Brown
Henry P. Brubaker
Dennis J. and Evelyn O. Brydges
Michael A. Calabrese
Jennifer N. and William T. Calder
John T. Calkins
Nancy K. Callan
John N. Carvellas Jr.
Marcia E. Caspi
Paul J. Castellani
William M. Caufield
Ronald C. Cease
R. Theodore Jr. and Sandra H.
Clark
W. Bruce Clark
Eric J. Cohen
Craig E. Colten
Maynard S. Comiez
John A. Cooper
Comer S. Coppie
John F. Cota
Kathy L. Covert
Daphna and Gerald B. Cramer
Allan T. and Annette L. Crandall
Peter R. Crouse
John C. Crowley
Ellen B. Culbreth
Lawrence Michael Cummings
Herschel Cutler
Cathy L. Daicoff
Jeffery K. Davis
Elizabeth A. Dayan
Eileen Dawkins Degen
Thomas H. Dennison
Wesley C. Dias
Richard Dos Santos
Brian E. Dustin
William K. Dustin
Richard M. Eggers
William D. Eggers
Michael B. Elefante
Cynthia Sherwood and Robert
W. Evans
William Farkas
Emmett J. Fenlon
Honor Roll of Donors
Kayser, Kenneth W. ’69
Keating, Janis Milczewski ’98
Kebbede, Girma ’77 ’81
Keller, Gordon W. ’68
Kelly, Barbara Economides ’66
Kelly, Cathy ’77 ’82
Kelly, Gerald E. ’65
Kendrick, J. Richard Jr. ’90
Kiefhaber, John L. ’75
Kim, Kenam ’52
King, Courtney ’07
Kingon, Robert J. ’70
Kish, Randall A. ’82
Klein, Helen C. ’71
Klein, Jonas ’85
Knight, Fred ’74
Koff-Ginsborg, Elisa C. ’89
Kolb, Douglas H. ’51
Korf-Dill, Sarah Wells ’01
Kranz, Jonathan E. ’69
Krepol, Brenda ’73
Kuci, Richard A. ’68
Kuo, Chun-Mai M. ’95
Kushlis, Patricia H. ’78 ’69
LaBuff, Jeffrey B. ’80
Landau, Brian D. ’06
Landis, Ronald N. ’56
Lane, Sandra D.
Lanham, Betty B. ’62
Larkin, Brian J. ’67 ’73
Lauer, Steven K. ’69
Lax, Stephen ’67
Lebel, Jacques O. ’66
Lebel, Maureen O. ’72
Lee, Robert D. Jr. ’63 ’67
Lee, Jessica K. ’05
Leevy, Alfred C. ’94
Lefmann, Norman A. ’95
Leibman, Joan S. ’51
Leidner, Nelson J. Jr. ’70
Leidner, Anne ’70
Lelong, Donald C. ’53 ’57
Lentini, Maura Jane ’00
Leonard, Brad ’63
Leuckel, Lea A. ’87
Levit, Jan D. ’73
Lex, Leo K. ’89
Lieberman, Harold ’57
Linn, Daniel A. ’51 ’55
Lobon, John ’73
Lucy, William H. ’73
Ludewig, Elizabeth A. ’55
Ludewig, Joseph E. Jr. ’52
Luxenberg, Linda H. ’70
Barbara N. Ferrara
Alan M. Fisher
Lois Apman Fisher
Donald G. Fitzpatrick Jr.
Richard C. Fitzpatrick
Marie and Richard S. Flickinger
Grace Ball and Michael A. Flusche
Paul J. Flynn
Virginia J. Foell
Christine H. Frazer
Thomas H. Friedman
Betty A. and Paul J. Fuda
Robert M. Gair
Robert E. Gale
Louis J. Gambaccini
George F. Jr. and Lorre Gaudiosi
Monica Gaughan and Barry
Bozeman
Vincent A. Gerbino Jr.
Susan E. Gingrich
Sholom I. Gliksman
Joanne L. Gocek
Gerald M. Godshaw
Margaret E. Goertz
Frances F. Gold
Laurie and Sheldon M. Goldstein
Stanley Goldstein
Carl L. Gugel
Samuel H. Halter
Ralph S. Hambrick
Jonathan R. Hancock
Bettina G. Hansel
Kathleen Jenks Harm
Paul E. Harris
Erik R. Hauge
Linda G. Hebel
Brian J. Heffern
W. David Helms
Patrick J. Hennigan
Jerald H. Heschel II
Donald V. Hester
Kenneth H. Hilton
John D. Hogan Jr.
Sheldon and Sheila Horowitch
Peter J. Hugill
Robert G. Hunt
Mohamed O.H. Hussein
Bruce H. Iglauer
Edith W. Illick
Hollis Z. Israel
Robert M. Janes
Alan B. Katz
Neil H. Katz
Linda H. and Norman S. Kaufman
Girma Kebbede
Cathy Kelly
Mary C. Kelly
Lynn H. King
Robert J. Kingon
Peter C. and Sharon Murphy Kissel
Jonas Klein
Elisa C. Koff-Ginsborg
Patricia H. Kushlis
Robert W. Kweit
Ronald N. Landis
Brian J. Larkin
Robert S. LaSala
Elaine F. Laube
Steven K. Lauer
Jacques O. and Maureen O. Lebel
Helen Lefkowitz
Joan S. Leibman
Anne and Nelson J. Leidner
Lea A. Leuckel
Minchin G. Lewis
Richard T. Lewis
Harvey Lieber
Harold Lieberman
Norene and Peter J. Linder
Gary R. Livent
Brian T. Lock
Mildred and Richard E. Lonsdale
Betty B. Lourie
Caton Lu
Stephen G. Lynch
Col. Roland R. Lynn
Jane M. MacCallum
Jill W. MacDonald
Ernest C. Marriner Jr.
Stacey S. Mazer
Lynch, Stephen G. ’48 ’51
Lynn, Roland R. ’55
MacCallum, Jane M. ’67
MacDonald, JoAnn ’66
MacDonald, William W. ’64
Macofsky, Pamela L. ’55
Madaio, Molly A. ’11
Maddaloni, Anthony J. ’75
Maddaloni, Maria E. ’93
Madoff, Abigail Loren ’10
Mahar, Richard Alan ’59
Manor, Carolyn J. ’85
Marino, Robert A. ’75
Markell, Barbara B. ’74
Marriner, Ernest C. Jr. ’47
Martin, Thomas C. ’96
Massey, Jane A. ’83
Mauro, Frank J. ’69
Maxwell, Deborah D. ’71
Mayo, Joan P. ’76
Mayo, Stephen I. ’73
Mazer, Stacey S. ’79 ’80
McElroy, Jerome D. ’66
McGuire, C. Phillip ’54
McKay, Gordon H. ’62
McLaughlin, Frances Sliney ’63
McLaughlin, William J. ’58
Alastair McArthur
S. Anthony McCann
Priscilla B. McConnell
Phillip C. McGuire
Gordon H. McKay
Robert H. McManus
Ruth McMorrow
Douglas and Harriet Meiklejohn
William B. Menczer
Sarah G. Merrick
David S. Michel
Clifford J. Miller
Stewart W. Miner
Mark Monmonier
Douglas G. Montgomery
Walter G. Montgomery and Marian
A. Gruber
Elaine J. Morley
Daniel J. Mulcahy
L. Scott Muller
Ralph W. Muller
Kevin J. Murray
Barbara S. and Jerome Mushkat
Nozomi Nara
David L. Nass
Jerome E. Oberst
Rosemary O’Leary and Larry D.
Schroeder
Kent R. Olson
Robert J. O’Neill Jr.
Allan D. Osten
Laurence J. Jr. and Mary I. O’Toole
John W. Outland
John L. and Stephanie G. Palmer
Georgiana G. and James E. Panton
David C. and Pamela A. Patch
Doris L. Payson
Joyce B. Pazianos
Vernon D. Penner
John F. Perry
Donald G. Phillips
W. Terry Pigott
Robert L. Piper
George M. Platt
William A. Polf
McManus, Robert H. ’50
Medeiros, Stephen A. ’02
Menczer, William B. ’75
Mendolia, Joseph S. ’74
Menotti, David E. ’64
Merrick, Sally S.
Merrow Loughlin, Jessica Ruth ’02
Meyers, Harry G. ’71 ’72
Meyers, Susan S. ’71
Miller, Clifford J. ’51
Miller, Raymond C. ’66
Miner, Stuart L. ’72
Minner, Joseph S. ’85
Mirabito, Frederick B. ’49
Mokry, Benjamin W. ’85
Monmonier, Mark
Morales, Louie
Morales, Vanessa
Morrill, William A. ’53
Mulvaney, Peter C. ’70
Munoz, Ignacio ’08
Murphy, Janet C. ’54
Murray, Jessica W.
Murray, Kevin J. ’72
Mushkat, Barbara ’61
Mushkat, Jerome ’53 ’54 ’64
Napierski, James M.
Lisa Marie Porter
Philip W. Porter
Jerome C. Premo
Lewis A. Prombain
Edward L. Radoane
Richard A. Ransom
William Redmond Jr.
Beverly T. and Donald J. Reeb
John D. Rhoades
Gerald M. Richmond Jr.
Ellen P. Roche
Steven A. Rosen
August W. Roth
Donald M. Roznowski
Robert D. Russell
H. Cheryl Rusten
Ruth E. Sadler
Harry A. Salis
Earl P. Sandquist
Dulcie and Walter Schackman
John M. Schaefer
Stuart Schillinger
Arthur E. and Sharon Schloss
Paula L. Schlusberg
Christopher L. and Lael S. Schwabe
Kenneth L. Schwartz
Vito J. Sciscioli
Richard A. Scott
Samuel T. Scott Jr.
Constance S. Seckler
Jean D. Seibert
John L. Seitz
Margaret K. Selig
Laurence E. Shapiro
Michael J. Sheehan
A. Ross Shepherd
Robert M. Shields
Marilyn Silberfein
Brenda D. Silverman
Kaleel C. Skeirik
Peter B. Skelton
Joseph S. Slavet
Debra L. Smith
Dwight C. Smith Jr.
Michael A. Smith
Fall 2012
Nara, Nozomi ’83
Nass, David L. ’70
Nathan, Jason R. ’53
Nishide, Junro ’02
Nishide, Yuko Y. ’02
Noetzli, Claudio A. ’06
Novak, Stephen J. ’60
O’Brien, Dennis J. ’72 ’75
O’Connor, Francis J. ’67
O’Connor, Laura Ann Kelly ’98
Oechsle, George R. ’77
Olson, Janet M. ’64 ’65
Outland, John W. ’70
Palley, Howard A. ’63
Palley, Marian L. ’60 ’63
Pendergast, James J. Jr. ’76
Perelman, Benjamin ’75
Perry, James L. ’72 ’74
Perry, John F. ’72
Peterson, Don H. ’50 ’51
Phelps, Jill M. ’05
Phillips, Thomas D. ’78
Pickett, Jane N. ’67
Pickett, Robert S. ’63
Pieth, Reto A. ’70 ’72
Pirone, William R. ’60
Porterfield, Josephine H.
Jeffrey G. Smyser
Alan V. Sokolow
Robert B. Southworth
Mildred R. Stansky
Bruce E. Stauffer
Charles M. Steinberg
Rosalind Rudolph Stephan
Frances R. and Rolf Sternberg
Alan V. Stevens
Joseph A. Strasser
James L. Sundquist
Eugene S. Sunshine
Samuel H. Talley
James R. Tallon
Martha C. Taub
Christopher R. Tompkins
Edward R. Trubac
Clara J. Tucker
Jayne B. Tuttle
Stephen J. Vandenburgh
Eleuterio Vega-Goicoechea
David Q. Voigt
Glenn N. Wagner
Charles Waldauer
Fitz Roy Walling
Judith L. Warren
Lydia W. and Michael J. Wasylenko
Mark E. Watkins
William D. Watson Jr.
Marilyn J. Weeks
Lois W. Weitz
John M. Werly
Helen and John P.* Wildnauer
Mary Lou Williams
Charles V. and Mary Sue Willie
Marisa Wohl
Martha A. Wojtowycz
Dona Wolf
Daveen H. Wood
Dwight A. Woodson
Stephen S. York
John A. Ziegler
Joseph F. Zimmerman
Donald A. and Susan Jane Zrebiec
Anonymous Donor
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Bequests and Planned Gifts
During 2011-12, these donors made commitments as a bequest or
life-income gift.
Jill Bodkin
Thomas F. Brereton
Margaret Bringewatt
Kenneth Ira Greenstein
Jay H. Moskowitz
Helen and John P.* Wildnauer
In Memory Of
Gifts were made in memory of these individuals.
Agehananda Bharati
Jennifer Carroll
Steven A. Clark
J. David Foell
David Edward Greytak
Brady Kay Howell
Kenneth Rex Howell
Leslie J. Klein
Stephen P. Koff
Joseph M. Levine
Louis Richard Mariani
G. Eugene Martin
Donald Meiklejohn
Richard Paul Monetti
John W. More
Daniel G. Pauwels
Michael O. Sawyer
Frank A. Shea
Walter Ullman
Robert O. Wright
In Honor Of
Gifts were made in honor of these individuals.
Harold Bielous Burger
Jeffrey B. Burger
Anthony Ravindra Cummings
Donald P. Gregg
Porterfield, Richard B.
Post, Jay Louis ’01
Post, Nicole S. ’03
Premo, Jerome C. ’66
Rabine, Joel H. ’63 ’65
Rabine, Sally
Ralley, Daniel M. ’04
Ramist, Roselyn B. ’61
Reed, Eric Steven ’01 ’06
Reed, William S. ’61
Ressler, Claire L. ’80
Robert G. Gregory
Stuart Thorson
Ann G. Wicks
Richey, Mary Beth ’86
Richey, Patrick E. ’86
Robertson, David E.
Robinson, Nyle D. ’86
Romano, Anthony M. ’73
Romberg, Greg ’81
Rosser, Jeffrey W. ’93
Rothe, Beatrice ’48
Rothe, Irving A. ’48 ’53
Rowe, Sylvester E. ’73
Rubinstein, Robert A.
Sadler, Ruth E. ’72
Salins, Peter D. ’61 ’68 ’69
Salkin, Andrew George ’97
Samra, Baljit Kaur ’00
Sarkozy, Steven R. ’88
Schilling, Thomas L. ’58
Schillinger, Stuart ’87
Schlosberg, Hubert M. ’53
Scholp, Alexander J. ’66 ’67
Schreiber-Steckler, Evelyn ’73
Schulz, Bernard Donald ’00
Schuppenhauer, Elizabeth K.
Schuppenhauer, John A. ’76
Schwabe, Christopher L. ’93 ’94
Schwabe, Lael S. ’94
Schwabish, Jonathan Alan ’02 ’03
Schwartz, Kenneth L. ’69
Schwartz, Samuel ’77
Scott, Matthew J. ’04 ’05
Seckler, Barbara J. ’82
Seitz, John L. ’53 ’54
Shamlian, Catherine A. ’91 ’02
Shamlian, John W. ’79
Shapiro-Auerbach, Judith S. ’76
Sheedy, Kevin J. ’98
Shepeluk, William A. ’82
Shepherd, A. Ross ’61 ’63
Sheppard, Audrey D. ’70
Shields, Robert M. ’76
Shull, Jonathan R. ’86
Silbar-Voorhees, Rachael Lynn ’09
Sipe, Amy E. ’02 ’04
Sitrin, David ’52
Skinner, Don Covill ’66
Slavet, Joseph S. ’47
Slazer, Frank A. ’81 ’80
Smith, Dwight C. Jr. ’52
Smith, Linda J.
Sobol, Marion G. ’51
Sowers, Charles E.
Spector, Andrew E. ’66
Spector, Helen ’72
Spigel, Barbara J. ’79
Staffeldt, Isabelle A. ’55
Honor Roll
of Donors
Stazesky, Richard C. Jr. ’82
Stazesky, Elsa L. ’91
Stein, Francine S. ’66
Stephan, George J.
Stephano, Mary Winslow ’70
Sternberg, Rolf Max ’67 ’68
Sterner, Nathan J. Jr. ’89
Stewart, Phaedra Rice ’91
Stoltman, Jeffrey J. ’84
Storms, John M. ’59
Sucato, Pamela P. ’87
Sutter, Neil P. ’94
Svanda, David A. ’73
Tague, William W. ’89
Takamura, Hiroko ’67
Talley, Samuel H. ’53 ’58 ’66
Tang, Linghui ’97 ’98
Taylor-Rogers, Sarah J. ’70 ’76
Thomas, Julie L. ’93
Thompson, Theodore A. ’78
Thurmaier, Kurt M. ’91
Touba, Jacquiline S. ’58
Tremain, Inez K. ’62
Trubac, Edward R. ’60 ’65
Tsitsos, Dianne C. ’68
Tsukamoto, Hisao ’73
Tucker, Samuel A. ’48
Turner, Rich W. ’66 ’68 ’73
Tweedie, Patricia S. ’66
Tweedie, Stephen W. ’69
Van Voorhis, Patricia A. ’71
Vanderzell, John H. ’55
Vasquez, John A. S. ’72 ’74
Vaughn, Harold A. ’84
Vega-Goicoechea, Eleuterio ’47
Veillette, Paul T. ’54
Velji, Shirin N. ’70
Volpel, Ann M. ’95
Wagner, Glenn N. ’79
Waldauer, Charles ’70
Waldron, Stephen E. ’72 ’76
Walker, Jeffrey K. ’91
Walker, Lehman O. ’86
Wallace, Robert J. ’76
Walling, Fitz Roy ’49
Walraven, Kornelis J. ’57 ’59
Walter, Elizabeth Rubin ’01
Wang, Huaning ’98 ’99
Warner, David C. ’65 ’69
Warner, Phyllis ’67 ’72
Warren, Judith L. ’74 ’84
Watson, Patricia A. ’03
Weeks, E. William ’75
Weeks, Marilyn J. ’70
Weinberg, Leonard B. ’61 ’68
Weissman, Marsha R. ’70 ’10
Weitman, David ’77
Weitz, Lois W. ’58
Welch, Lewis P. ’57 ’62
Werly, John M. ’72
Werner, Roland ’62 ’71 ’72
Wertz, James F. ’54
Wertz, Patricia Lou ’53
Wetmore, John French ’72
White, David E. ’59 ’60 ’65
Whitehouse, George W. ’49
Whitman, Robert A. ’51
Wicks, Elliot K. ’71
Wildnauer, Helen ’46
Wildnauer, John P.* ’44 ’48
Williams, Elizabeth M. ’97
Williams, Jeane E. ’65
Williams, Richard L. ’62
Williams-Bridgers, Jacquelyn L.
’77 ’78
Wilson, Sherry M. ’77 ’86
Winters, Margery B.
Winters, Tobey L. ’66 ’70 ’75
Witkin, Maxanne R. ’78
Wohl, Marisa ’80
Wohlbruck, Aliceann ’60
Wolohojian, George G. Jr. ’74 ’79
Wood, Daveen H. ’64
Wright, Giovanna ’92
Wyckoff, William K. ’79 ’82
Zahavi, Gerald ’78 ’83
Zeoli, Joseph T. ’78
Zimmerman, Joseph F. ’51 ’54
Corporations, Foundations, and Other Organizations
Direct Giving
Judith J. Anderson Family
Foundation Inc.
Authentic Safety Services Inc.
Willard & Roberta Block Family
Foundation
Bunce Island Coalition (US)
Cashion Mediation & Arbitration LLC
Central New York Community
Foundation Inc.
The Claremont Colleges
The Betsy & Alan Cohn Foundation
Inc.
Organizations listed here
have made gifts or provided
grants to Maxwell during the
past fiscal year. Included are
direct gifts and select grants,
and gifts by individuals that
have been matched by their
employers.
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Colgate University
The Gerald & Daphna Cramer Family
Foundation
East Coast Adjustment LLC
Eggers Charitable Foundation
The Ahmad & Elizabeth El-Hindi
Foundation Inc.
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Leopold & Ruth Friedman
Foundation
O.W. Havens Foundation
The Horowitch Family Foundation
Jewish Communal Fund of New York
Jewish Community Federation
Endowment Fund
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Inc.
Karetsky Group LLC
The Kresge Foundation
Lakeshore Capital Management Inc.
The Miami Foundation
New York State Society of Municipal
Finance Officers
Newzjunky Inc.
Oxford University Press Inc.
Pacific Century Institute
Fall 2012
Pantech Co. Ltd.
Renaissance Charitable Foundation
Inc.
Robertson Foundation for
Government
Robo North Self Service
Rochester Area Community
Foundation
Daniel & Joanna S. Rose Fund
Schwab Charitable Fund
John Ben Snow Foundation Inc.
Sternburg Communications Inc.
Stocks Economic Research
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd.
TEC Canada
University of Denver
University of Pittsburgh
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
Vital Projects Fund Inc.
Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric
Life Improvement
Yale University
Matching Gifts
American Express Company
American International Group Inc.
Assured Guaranty Corporation
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of New York Mellon
Corporation
CIGNA Foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
ConocoPhillips Inc.
Constellation Energy Group
Deloitte & Touche
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Inc.
Ernst & Young
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fannie Mae
Fitch Ratings Inc.
FM Global
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
GE Fund
Genworth Foundation
Guardian Life Insurance Company
of America
The Home Depot Inc.
IBM Corporation Matching Grants
Division
J.P. Morgan Chase & Company
KeyCorp
Eli Lilly & Company
Macy’s Foundation
Main Street America Group
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
The Medtronic Foundation
Morgan Stanley Foundation
Occidental Petroleum Charitable
Foundation
Oracle Matching Gifts Program
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prudential Community Giving
Program
Science Applications International
Corporation
State Farm Companies Foundation
Tupperware Corporation
Verizon Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Xerox Foundation
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In 1964, SU proposed a new building to allow Maxwell to
grow — three decades before a “Maxwell II” finally happened.
H
idden away in the University’s archives is a glossy booklet
from 1964 titled “A New Center for Public and International
Affairs.” It was designed to elicit financial support for a proposed new building sitting on the bluff overlooking Irving Avenue.
We assume the booklet failed, since the building never happened.
It’s interesting, though, to view the booklet as a window into
the Maxwell School of 1964. It described tremendous growth in
programs, faculty, and enrollment. (The faculty, at 117, had quintupled in 40 years.) It pressed the need
for office and classroom
space. As such, it was the
granddaddy of Dean John
Palmer’s campaign to create
a “Maxwell II” (actually,
Eggers Hall) 25 years hence.
When Palmer, now
dean emeritus and University Professor, looks at
the 1964 booklet today, he
notices aspects beyond office
and classroom space. In an
era of Peace Corps and Ford
Foundation grants, for example, Maxwell asserted its burgeoning
internationalism. The building was to feature a research library in
international affairs, an international restaurant, a foreign visitors
center, and living space for visiting scholars. The building’s facade
would be sculpted to reflect global regions and interior spaces decorated with “objet d’art from various parts of the world.”
To an extraordinary extent, the building also would have represented a “reaching out to the local community,” Palmer says — due,
probably, to a personal interest of Dean Stephen Bailey. A TV/
movie theater, large courtyard with an Asian-themed “lagoon,” and
special lecture and meeting halls were intended for school children and civic leaders. Similar to (but more than) Eggers Hall, the
The cover of the building prospectus and, at
left, a rendering of the courtyard and “lagoon”
proposal emphasized public spaces, which
Palmer decribes as “our equivalent of science
laboratories.”
The building’s internationalism strikes
Palmer as apt, if a bit grand; today, such diversity plays out organically, without Epcot-style encouragements. In a building that would have been smaller than Eggers
Hall — 90,000 square feet vs. Eggers’s 108,000 — the courtyard
and other large gathering spaces impress Palmer as a bit luxurious.
But if Palmer has any strong criticism of the 1964 proposal, it’s
this: The building would have been near to, but not connected to,
Maxwell Hall. In his pursuit of a “Maxwell II,” Palmer insisted on
a contiguous location. “It was a very high priority,” he says, “almost
a sine qua non. In retrospect, it proved to be every bit as important
as I thought it was, if you consider the explosion of innovation and
collaboration that’s taken place at the School since Eggers opened.”
Without that, he feels, the Center for Public and International
Affairs falls short of the “Maxwell II” that came to be. — Dana Cooke