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FEATUREFumio Kobayashi, a member of the YCC faculty, teaches Pitt-Bradford students the art of ikebana (flower arranging) during their trip to Japanthis spring. Kobayashi has also been a visiting professor at Pitt-Bradford, where he taught Japanese language and culture.Intensive English Program.Arimoto’s first trip to Bradford was in 1999,when, as dean of student affairs for YCC, hetraveled with the first group of 14 Japanesestudents to Pitt-Bradford. Since then, he alsohas played host to Pitt-Bradford faculty andstudents as they traveled to YCC for researchand to learn about Japanese culture.“There are different kinds of students inthe intensive English program,” he said ofthose he has brought to campus. “Some wantto improve their English. Some just want toexperience America. They are very interestedin American culture and life.”Keigo Omura, a business student fromYokohama, came with Arimoto this year onthe two-week trip and was clearly interestedin American culture. He dressed almost tooAmerican – like a parody of a hip-hop video –entirely in black with a snapback hat embroidered in gold, track jacket, T-shirt, large goldcross, long plaid shorts and sports slides withlong socks. He says he would like to studyEnglish and American culture and the character of Americans.4PP OO RR TT RR AA II TT SSTF IE TA LT EU R FE A LF LA/ LWL I / NWT I ENRT E2 R0 1220 1 2Fourteen years after aformal sister collegeagreement was signed byPitt-Bradford and YCC in1998, the relationshipbetween the small collegein the wooded mountainsof Pennsylvania and itscosmopolitan sibling aworld away has matured.The Japanese and American students havemore in common, however, than a few wardrobeelements and a smattering of English. AlthoughYCC has only three business-related majors tochoose from, many of its students live with theirfamilies and commute to school and work tohelp pay for their tuition and their participationin SIEP.This year brought more interaction betweenPitt-Bradford and YCC students to the summerprogram. Several Pitt-Bradford students who hadtraveled to Japan in the spring returned to campusto accompany the Japanese students on trips andoutings and give them people their own age tocommunicate with.The YCC students who come each summergenerally arrive in mid-August and spend a weekin Bradford, spending time at people’s homes, taking English lessons from Gary Tessmer, assistantprofessor of composition, visiting Niagara Falls,and enjoying iconic American experiences likeshooting at the Bradford Gun Club, whitewaterrafting, riding a horse and fishing in a pond.Cheryl Lutz ’71 and her husband, Rick, hostthe students for a dinner each year featuring a

Family Artifact Returned to Japanese Familysmoked meal, bonfire and s’mores (somethingthe students often don’t care for, thinking they’retoo sweet).“It’s very interesting to have them visit,” shesaid. “It’s fun. They now have Pitt-Bradfordstudents come with them. I observe more thananything else – how they can communicatewithout having a common language. They justseem to connect. It’s fun to watch.”The students were also treated to a picnicand swimming at the home of Samila Sosic ’11,who visited Japan on a Pitt-Bradford trip led byIsabelle Champlin during the spring of 2009.Sosic, Champlin, retired assistant professor ofanthropology and director of international studies, and her successor, Kristin Asinger, who isalso a visiting instructor of sports medicine, saidArimoto and the other Japanese professors whohave come to Pitt-Bradford are generous hosts.Dr. Don Ulin, right, and members of the Ito family gather around a Japanese battle flagcarried into battle by their ancestor, Ryozo Ito. From left are Haruni Ito, Koichi Ito(Ryozo’s grandson), Hisako Ito (Koichi’s mother), Dr. Fumio Kobayashi (YCC professorwho helped return the flag to the Ito family), Ryota Ito (Koichi’s son), and Ulin’s children,Alex and Colin.TSIEP 2012 – YCC students visiting with theSummer Intensive English Program get areal taste of America while visiting thehome of a Bradford resident and herhorses. (Photo by Alan Hancock ’07)This spring, Asinger took Pitt-Bradford’s largest group of students so far to Japan. Arimotoset up their itinerary and played the part oftour guide.“My idea is to show them Japanesetraditions and also current Japan and let themcommunicate with Japanese people,” Arimotosaid.The communication, he has found, iskey, even if it’s sketchy. When he brings hisurbanite students from Yokohama, visitingNew York City is one of the major draws forthe trip to America – it is the place they cannotwait to go to.“They really want to visit New York City,”he said, “but after coming back to Japan, theyalways say they wanted to spend more time inBradford. As long as they are in Bradford, theyare getting in touch with people and doingthings in the outdoors.”hanks to the partnership betweenPitt-Bradford and the YokohamaCollege of Commerce, a family artifacthas been restored to the family of a Japanesesoldier who fought in World War II.Dr. Don Ulin, associate professor of English,found an envelope in his father’s attic markedonly with “left by a Japanese soldier onMorotai.” Inside was a silk Japanese flag withwriting on it.Ulin’s father, now in his 90s and alwaysreluctant to talk about his role in World WarII, could not remember how he came to havethe flag, although Ulin knows he served in abomber squadron stationed in the Philippines.The battle for Morotai was part of the Alliedforces’ campaign to retake the Philippines. TheAllies met little resistance from the Japaneseon Morotai. Presumably, the flag was leftbehind in a hasty retreat.When he found the flag, he showed it toa colleague, Dr. Fumio Kobayashi, a YCCprofessor who was teaching at Pitt-Bradfordduring the 2010-2011 academic year.Kobayashi translated the writing on theflag as “Good luck in battle and come homesoon” along with a list of names. It was common for Japanese soldiers of the era to carrysuch flags into battle. Kobayashi said thatthere was a name of a town on the flag.Kobayashi’s curiosity was now piquedas well as Ulin’s. First Kobayashi had todetermine the new name of the town, sincemany Japanese towns changed their namesafter the war. Then he contacted descendantsof those named on the flag before findingthe grandson of Ryoto Ito, who had returnedsafely from the war, but who had died in1969.Ulin decided that when he traveled toJapan this spring to teach at YCC, he wouldreturn the flag to the family. Kobayashi andUlin finally met the Itos in June, when theytraveled to the village where they still live,laid the flag on the family shrine and visiteda local temple and festival – a peaceful day offriendship born from a moment of war.As part of “50 and Beyond: The Campaign for the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford,” theuniversity is raising 500,000 for international travel studies scholarships to help students be ableto afford to visit or study abroad. For more information, contact Jill Ballard, executive director ofinstitutional advancement at (814)362-5091 or jballard@pitt.edu.P O PR OT R AT RI TA SI T SF E AT TI TU LR EEW II NN TT EE RR 22 00 11 22FF AA LL LL // W5

CAMPUS HISTORYAnimal HouseBy KIMBERLY WEINBERGPortraits editorPitt-Bradford is full of critters from skunks on the trail to bears in the parking lots,but sometimes they make their way insideThe CuteCuddly” is notreally the thoughtthat first comesto mind when one thinksof Bob Ellison ’99, whohas spent his years sincegraduation working forComputing, Telecommunications and Media Services atPitt-Bradford and who fosters abit of an aloof, tech-geek persona.But during his time as a studenton campus, he harbored a wholelitter of baby bunnies under hisbed.“I had two rabbits I kept undermy bed,” he said. “One day thefemale jumped out of the penwhen I opened it to feed her. Sheimmediately gave birth to ninebabies on my comforter. I had11 rabbits in my room for quitesome time until they were oldenough to transport home. I hadweight equipment in my room,too, so my housemates thoughtit was just me clanging weightsaround when the rabbits wouldstomp in their cage.”“6PP OO RR TT RR AA II TT SSTC IAT ML PE U SF AH LI LS /T WO RI NY T E FRA L2 L0 /1 W2 I N T E RThe WeirdWhile researching an old housing photo, we spokewith Robin Robinson ’73-’75, who we thought wasthe person in the photo. Alas, he was not, but hetold us a great story about Mike Flinko ’72-’75, who Robinsonbelieved was in the photo.“Mike Flinko was the guy who caught a fly in mid-flight, tiedit to the end of a hair strand of my then-girlfriend, Ruth (whohad hair down to her behind), and thumbtacked the other endto a wooden table,” he told us. “We spent a whole hour laughing as the fly flew around in a circle ’til it died of frustration andhumiliation.“Another time, Mike showed up at my apartment standing inthe door. He was wearing a light jacket, and we were chattingwhile I sat on the sofa eating a newly bought hero sandwichfrom a local pizza joint. Ever so casually, Mike slowly unzippedhis jacket to reveal a dead rat hanging from a piece of stringaround his neck, then proceeded to chase me around the roomwith it.”When we tracked Flinko down in the Pittsburgh area, hecouldn’t confirm the stories, but he didn’t deny them either.2 0 1 2

The ScaryThis story comes to us from Jay Monti,Pitt-Bradford’s first dean of men duringthe days when students lived in the former Emery Hotel at the head of Main Street.There was not much to do at the fledglinguniversity, and the students could get a littlewild finding fun on Main Street.One winter, a group of male students pooledtheir money, went down to the pet shop onPine Street and bought a 4-foot-long iguana.“The boys had spent a lot of money to buythis iguana,” Monti said. “They must have spentclose to 100. I think they didn’t just plan thisthing overnight. I think they had seen thisiguana in the window for a long time.”That night, after the female students hadreturned to their assigned floors (5, 6 and 7),Monti got a call from Mary Florence Taylor,dean of women, who lived with the femalestudents. Monti lived with the male studentson floors 2, 3 and 4.“Mary Florence called and was going crazybecause she had heard that the boys weretrying to get the girls to open the door on five,”he said. Monti discerned which side of thebuilding the boys were on and began to sneakup the other side to come up behind the boys.“As I’m between four and five, I heard thisgigundous ‘swish,’” he said. “As I looked downthe landing, there was this iguana that musthave been four feet long.” The swish sound wasmade by the lizard whipping its long tail acrossthe concrete.“It scared the heck out of me,” he said, but hecornered it and captured it in a garbage can. Hetook it to the basement and called a friend whotaught biology. She told him to feed it lettuce,and a few weeks later, he drove it to Altoona,Pa., where it lived out the rest of its days in herbiology classroom. He told no one.“The boys thought they were going to getthe biggest thrill out of hearing all those girlsscream when they opened the door,” he said.The boys would not get their satisfaction, butMonti would.The girls never saw the iguana, but the storyof the loose lizard circulated through thebuilding.“Everybody in the building was going nutsbecause they thought the iguana was loose,” hesaid. “The girls were really leery about openingany doors, and the guys were a little bit edgy,too.”Monti, of course, had nothing to fear.P O R T R A I T S P OC RA TMRPAUI ST SH I ST TI TO LR EYFF AA LL LL // WW I I NN TT EE RR 22 00 11 2277

CAMPUSCAMPUSNEWSNEWS - FACULTY NOTESAn article by Dr. Vaughn Bicehouse, assistantprofessor of education, “The Portraiture of Nick:Scene one the Early Years,” was published in theJournal of Case Studies in Education.The portraiture is a case study of an autistic boyand his mother. Portraitures provide a holistic viewof a subject that other studies often do not. He alsopresented the paper at the Academic and BusinessResearch Institute in Orlando, Fla.He also presented “Leaving Sam Behind: TheNeed for Dedicated Special Education Teachers” atthe Clute Institute Conference.vDr. Jessica Blackburn, assistant professor ofEnglish, made a presentation, “Digital-Appalachia:Rural Ethos, Online Discourse, and Cyber-frontiers” at the 2012 Appalachian Studies AssociationConference at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Earlier she made a presentation at the 2012 Conference of Digital Collaboration in the Academy andBeyond at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.She also led a two-day composition workshopat Seton Hill University and will serve as guesteditor of a forthcoming special issue of Across theDisciplines.Blackburn teaches courses in composition,rhetoric, literature, digital media and feminist theoryand texts. She joined the faculty in 2010.vDr. Carys Evans-Corrales, professor ofSpanish, worked with students in her ElementarySpanish I class to test new software from VistaHigher Learning. She was also invited to serve asco-editor of a Galician language edition of Metamorphoses, an academic journal published bySmith College that focuses on literary translation.Finally, Evans-Corrales’s translation of “LeopardoSon,” a book of Galician poetry by Pilar Pallarés,has been accepted for publication by Small StationsPress.vDr. Kevin EvertDr. Kevin Ewert, was promoted to full professor.He is co-editor of three new volumes in a seriespublished by Palgrave Macmillan, “The Shakespeare8PP OO RR TT RR AA II TT SSTC I AT ML PE U SF AN LE LW/ SW I NF TA EL RL / 2W0I 1N 2T E RHandbooks: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries.” Thenew volumes are on “The Changeling,” “The WhiteDevil” and “’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore.”Ewert also published a review of “Sleep No More”in the Special Theatre Review Section: Text/Performance/Memory of the spring issue of “ShakespeareBulletin.” Finally, Ewert presented a paper titled“Reading Performance: Shakes and Not Shakes” atthe annual meeting of the ShakespeareAssociation of America in Boston and a papercalled “No Longer on Speaking Terms:Shakespearean Performance Fatigue” at theinvitation-only Shakespeare InternationalConference in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.vFollowing the retirement of Trisha Morris as director of the Hanley Library, Marietta Frank has beennamed the interim director and instruction librarian.She received the 2010 University Library SystemFaculty Excellence Award. Frank holds a Master ofArts degree in children’s literature from HollinsUniversity and a Master of Library Science degreefrom the State University College at Geneseo (N.Y.)vDr. S.N. Gajanan, associate professor of economics, presented two invited lectures, “Ethics and FoodSecurity” at the Institute of Economic Educationand “Development Economics With an Attitude” atthe University of Madras in Chennai, India, wherehe also conducted data entry and a preliminarystatistical analysis for ongoing research to calculatethe benefit of vaccinating against the debilitatingillness chickungunya.vDr. Tony Gaskew, associate professor of criminaljustice, presented a paper titled “The OrganizedCrime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program:Silver Bullet or Smoke and Mirrors in the War onDrugs” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences2012 Conference in New York City.vJeff Guterman, associate professor of communications, moderated a panel titled “Administrators’Roundtable: Your Turn -- The Challenges of theNew Department Chair” at the BroadcastEducation Association Convention in Las Vegas.vAn essay by Judy Hopkins ’71-’73, an adjunctwriting instructor, appeared in skirt! magazine. Inthe essay, “Parting Gift,” she reminisces about a pastlove with a penchant for trivia and appearing ongame shows.v2 0 1 2Dr. Rick Knott, assistant professor of healthand physical education, presented a paper titled“Rose Revisited: An Examination of the PeteRose Baseball Scandal After More Than 20 Years”at the North American Society for Sport History convention at the University of California,Berkeley.vDr. Matt Kropf, director of the AmericanRefining Group/Harry R. Halloran Jr. EnergyInstitute, co-authored “A Review of Progressin Atomic Force Microscopy,” which will bepublished this fall by Bentham Science Press, andwrote “Sensor Design and Packaging forUltra-High Temperatures,” a chapter in theforthcoming book “High Temperature Materialsand Mechanisms.” Also this summer, Kropfserved on the abstract review committee for the2012 National Advanced Biofuels Conference.vDr. Ron Mattis, associate professor ofengineering, traveled to Aix-on-Provence, France,where he presented a paper titled “Enhancing theAssociate Degree with Independent StudyCourses” at the International Journal of Arts andSciences conference. Dr. Hashim Yousif,professor of physics, was co-author.vAn essay by Dr. Nancy McCabe, associateprofessor of writing, was named a Notable Essayof 2012 by Best American Essays (the fifth timeshe’s been included on the list) and for the firsttime as a Notable Work of 2012 by BestAmerican Nonrequired Reading. The essay,“Threads,” was published last fall in PrairieSchooner. McCabe also published several worksthis summer, gave readings and signingspromoting her new book, “Crossing the BlueWillow Bridge,” and continued research for herforthcoming book, “Medium-Sized House onthe Prairie: A Memoir About ImaginativeHeroines and Literary Landscapes.”vCarol Newman, an adjunct writing instructor,took three awards at the 2012 Chautauqua Literary Arts Awards, including the Hauser Award forFiction with her story “Pens.” She also earned asecond place in the adult poetry category for herpoem “Retrospection” and an honorable mentionfor her poem “If a hen Runs Into Your House.”v

CAMPUS NEWS - STAFF NOTESDr. David Soriano, associate professor of chemistry, worked with three students in the SummerUndergraduate Research Program to synthesize and develop a larger scale process for twocandidate “second generation” biodiesel fuels/additives for diesel engines. The fuels were run inan on-campus diesel generator with no observedproblems. Soriano has reported his findings andplans to submit them for future publication.Dr. Stephen RobarDr. Stephen Robar, associate professor of politicalscience, has become the new associate dean ofacademic affairs. Previously, he was the chairman ofthe Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Heis the director of the environmental studies programand directs the “Perspectives on the Environment”seminar series and has served as both president andvice president of the Faculty Senate.He holds a doctorate in political science andenvironmental policy from Northern ArizonaUniversity and was the recipient of the Pitt-BradfordAlumni Association Tea

community impact study provides the data that will help us explain the nature of our impact, particularly in terms of our alumni. Although Pitt-Bradford alumni reside in all 50 states, about one-third (or 3,000) of our alumni live in our six-county service region. They occupy positions of authority in some