RPTM Kudos and Announcements March 10, 2008
Congratulations Alumni
Richard Shultz ‘79 (rshultz@nashawtuc.com) is General Manager and COO of Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, MA.
Greg Petry '81 (gregp@waukeganparks.org) is the Executive Director of Waukegan Park District in Waukegan, Illinois.
Janet Haner MS ‘89 (jah3@psu.edu) is President of the Pennsylvania Council for International Education and Public Affairs Coordinator for the Penn State University Office of International Programs.
Michael Baker ‘94 (mbaker72@verizon.net) has accepted the position of Director, Wildwood Conference Center, Harrisburg Area Community College. From 1996 to 2008, Michael was the Director of Conference and Event Services for Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
We are pleased to announce the 2008 RPTM Alumni Award recipients:
Eileen Soisson ’94 (eileenD11@aol.com) - Alumni Recognition Award
Mark Lammi ’99 (mlammi@reynoldsplantation.com) - Emerging Professional with an Undergraduate Degree
Jesse Ellis MS ’01 - Emerging Professional with a Graduate Degree
Congratulations Students
PGM students Mark Chianese and John Ebmeyer were the PGM Student Society’s dancers for THON 2008. The PGM Student Society raised over $7,000 for THON this year.
Congratulations Faculty
Dr. Linda Caldwell and Dr. Edward A. Smith gave a presentation at Penn State on February 27 on the topic "HealthWise South Africa: A Discussion on Adapting U.S. School-based Risk Prevention Programs to a South African Context." The lecture focused on Dr. Caldwell and Dr. Smith’s development of HealthWise South Africa, a school-based risk prevention program.
Dr. Garry Chick attended the combined meeting of the Society for Anthropological Science and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in New Orleans on Feb 20 - 24. For the first group, he presented a paper titled "Objective Questions, Projective Questions, and Cultural Expertise” and for the second group, he presented, "Leisure Lifestyles in Urban China: A Six City Comparative Study” with co-authors Professor Ling Ping from Hangzhou Normal University, Dr. Erwei Dong from SUNY Cortland, and Dr. Geoffrey Godbey. He was also an invited participant on the panel "The Irrelevance of Anthropology."
Drs. Andy Mowen and Mark Ivy and RPTM graduate student Andrew Purrington were part of a Penn State project team hired by DCNR to conduct a recreation resource inventory of 12 state parks in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Departmental Happenings
Pete Carmichael ’00 (pcarmich@sftp.com), Operations Manager at Six Flags New England, visited on February 20 to recruit students and to speak in RPTM 101 about employment opportunities with Six Flags.
If you have accomplished something you would like to share with the RPTM crew, please notify me. Also, if you are aware of accomplishments or quotes by our alumni, students, or staff, please let me know so I can share the news. Thank you! – John Dattilo, Professor and Department Head jxd8@psu.edu