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Remembering a Science Star

Remembering a Science Star

Dr. Barbara Palmer Shineman ’65, M ’71, professor emerita of education, sifts through memorabilia of her late husband, Dr. Richard S. Shineman. She finds a card their granddaughter Megan gave Dick for his birthday one year. It reads, “The man who reaches for his star is admired, but the man who helps others reach theirs is loved.”

Dr. Demidowicz

Faculty Hall of Fame: Dr. John Demidowicz

Dr. John Demidowicz, professor emeritus of Spanish, liked to play a little joke on the first day of class. He would let a golf ball slip out of his pocket and tell the students, in Spanish of course, that he was on the golf course when he remembered he had to teach. “You ruined a great game,” he would say.

Weather  Channel’s Winter Expert Has Roots in Oswego

Weather Channel’s Winter Expert Has Roots in Oswego

When your résumé includes experiences like standing atop Piez Hall measuring the wind speed as the Blizzard of ’77 rolls in off Lake Ontario, where else would your career take you but before the cameras of The Weather Channel as the Winter Weather Expert?

The student-staffed Lake Effect Storm Prediction and Research Center opens for business at 4 a.m., serving mostly school districts from November through March.

Students at SUNY Oswego Pinpoint Storms for Schools

When Oswego County BOCES trans­portation supervisor Kathy Jamerson thinks there might be a bad winter storm ahead, she turns to students at SUNY Oswego for help.

Photo: Glass guru

Photo: Glass guru

John Belt, Associate Professor of Technology

Lewis, Belt earn top SUNY-wide awards for teaching

SUNY has bestowed a 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching on two professors whose work has been transformative for decades of Oswego students: Tracy K. Lewis and John H. Belt.

Inc. Magazine named Christine Do ’80 a top 10 Asian entrepreneur in 2010 and 2011. The Vietnam native and Soft Tech Consulting founder used math to bridge the language gap and make a career in computers.

Oswego Is No. 1 for Top 10 Asian Entrepreneur

Math gave Christine (né Huong) Do ’80 a common language to share with her peers and Oswego’s pioneer computer science program gave her a place to excel.

Marianne Matuzic Myles ’75 oversees 600 teachers and more than 2,000
students as dean of the Language School of the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C.

Buffalo to Bogota: Around the World in 35 Years with Marianne Matuzic Myles ’75

When Marianne Matuzic Myles ’75 left her home near Buffalo to come to Oswego after high school, she was “a bit scared as all freshmen are” of moving so far from home and not knowing anyone.

Lauren Cobello Greutman ’03 used to spend freely and paid the price when
she fell into debt. Today, she spreads the word about living with balance. “I’m not frugal by nature,” Geutman says. “I had to retrain my brain.”

Cashing In: Alumna makes a living saving money

The road to managing money responsibly, saving financial sanity and making the most of what you have runs through aisle 7. And Lauren Cobello Greutman ’03 can be your guide.

John Barker '96

Newsmaker: John Barker ’96

John Barker ’96 has been named dean of undergraduate and graduate students at Tufts University.