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In Brief
The College was deeply saddened to learn of the death of three members of the Campus Community. Word of the sudden death of Brittany Broulliard, 18, a first-year chemistry major who last spring graduated from Lakeland Regional High School in Waneque, NJ, came as a shock to all. Brittany died early Monday morning, September 12, in her Cromwell Hall suite. While no foul play or suspicious activity is suspected, the exact cause of her death has not yet been determined. Although she had been on campus only a little over two weeks, Brittany had impressed other first-year students with her outgoing and good-humored personality. A large contingent of new friends and acquaintances held an impromptu candlelight service for her in front of Cromwell on the evening of her passing. In high school, Brittany compiled an impressive record in the classroom, participating in the school’s gifted and talented program and graduating fourth in a class of 242. She was also involved in extracurricular programs such as cheerleading, the school newspaper, Math League, Dance Club, Student Council, and leadership programs. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Brittany Broulliard Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o Lakeland Bank, Attn: Felicia, 45 Skyline Drive, Ringwood, NJ 07456. Estelle J. Volen, a secretary with the Mathematics and Biology Departments from 1970 to her retirement in 1987 died September 8 at the Mercer County Geriatric Center after a 16-year battle with Alzheimer's Disease. She was 83 years old. Estelle was a member of the Faculty Dames. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph J. Volen, who was employed at the College from 1958 until his death in 1982. He worked in Phelps Hall, the Hub, and later served as associate manager of the College Bookstore. Estelle is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Jeffrey Pageau, and her grandaughter, Carly Pageau. Joan has worked at the College since 1974 and is currently working in the Office of Student Accounts. Estelle is also survived by her son and daughter-in-law, John and Virginia (Jaslar) Volen, both alumni of the College. Janet Barfoot, long-time adjunct professor of English, died suddenly at home on Friday, September 9. She was 73. Janet taught courses in rhetoric and composition at the College from 1988 to the spring of 2004. She attended Temple University and was a graduate of TCNJ and Lehigh University. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent in Mrs. Barfoot’s name to the Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, P.O. Box 685, New Hope, PA 18938. * * * Faculty and Staff
The work of Fanky Chak, assistant professor of art, will be featured in several upcoming shows around the country and across the pond. Next month, 15 images from Chak’s “Misplacement” series will be shown in a group exhibit at the Art Association of Harrisburg, PA. Chak describes “Misplacement” as playing off “the ideas of consciousness versus randomness, staged versus documentary photography, and analog versus digital technology.” Combining both technologies, he inserts black and white photographs into another setting and takes a new photograph in color. Other future shows will be held at Southern Illinois University’s Gallery 1101 in November and a gallery at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, PA, from February through March. “Misplacement” goes international in December 2006, with a showing at the Dimbola Lodge Museum on the Isle of Wight in England. Blythe Hinitz, professor of elementary and early childhood education, coauthored The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book for Preschool Classrooms, published in July by Gryphon House. Hinitz also coauthored a chapter on the impact of desegregation on the schools of Topeka, KS, in Brown v. Board of Education: Its Impact on Public Education 1954-2004, published in August by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. Over the summer, Hinitz made presentations on “responding to diversity by putting critical theory into action” at the June meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children Professional Development Institute in Miami, and on the use of literature, poetry, and culture to help with conflict resolution at a meeting of the International Forum for the Culture and Literature of Peace in Los Angeles. In August, Hinitz and Lisa Cipriano-Rogalski, a TCNJ graduate who is the director of academic affairs at the Howley School in Trenton, taped a television interview with Nora Muchanic on the subject of bullying and harassment that was aired by WPVI television, an ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, on September 10 and 16. Robert Schuetrumpf, a locksmith in the Access Control Center, recently achieved the level of certified journeyman institutional locksmith through successful participation in the Institutional Locksmith Certification Program (ILCP). This is the second highest level of certification awarded by the Institutional Locksmiths’ Association. Robert is one of the first ten access control professionals in the country to achieve this level of certification. Michele Tarter, associate professor and coordinator of graduate studies in English, has been invited to present the endowed "Daughters of the American Colonists Lectureship" at Wilmington College of Ohio this month, where she will speak about Quaker women in the early South. In November, Tarter will lecture at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, on her prison writing program and on Quaker literary history (funded by the college's Quaker Leadership Scholars Program and a Lilly Foundation grant). While in North Carolina, she will also be a guest lecturer at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, where she will speak about 17th-Century transatlantic Quaker women.
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