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June 2007

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CLARKSON ASSOCIATE DEAN CHAIRING NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES COMMITTEE
Amy Zander Clarkson University Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering Amy K. Zander is the chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Advancing Desalination Technology. The National Research Council's (NRC) Water Science and Technology Board has undertaken a study on advancing desalination technology. Zander's committee is conducting a study that will produce recommendations to federal, state, and local governmental and private entities concerned with advancing desalination. The committee will study the potential for both seawater and inland brackish water desalination to help meet anticipated water supply needs in the United States, assess the current state-of-the-science in desalination and recommend long-term goals for advancing desalination technology. Following up on an NRC recommendation calling for the development of a national research agenda, the committee will determine what research is needed to reach the long-term goals for advancing desalination and what technical barriers should be resolved with existing technologies. The committee will also examine the practical aspects of implementation, like economics, financing, regulatory, institutional, public acceptance, and consider how much research funding is needed to significantly advance the field of desalination technology and the appropriate roles for governmental and non-governmental entities, including the private sector. The study, sponsored by the Department of the Interior and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, should be completed by the end of the year. Zander has been a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson since 1991. She was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and was named full professor in 2003. She has been the associate dean for Academic Programs in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering since 2005.

CLARKSON BIOLOGY PROFESSOR WILL TRAVEL TO COSTA RICA AS FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR
Langen Clarkson University Associate Professor of Biology Tom A. Langen has been named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He will travel to Costa Rica during the 2007-2008 school year, during which he will also receive a National Geographic Society Committee for Research & Exploration Grant. Langen's Fulbright grant will support him for a semester of research and teaching at the International Program in Wildlife Conservation & Management at the National University of Costa Rica. He will teach a new course on animal behavior for wildlife conservation, and conduct research focusing on the impact of public roads on Costa Rica National Parks. Clarkson will provide him with a paid sabbatical leave for the other semester. The National Geographic Society Grant will support Langen's field research at the Guanacaste Conservation Area, a major national park in Costa Rica which is bisected by the Pan-American highway. Because of concerns about wildlife road mortality, both in terms of impact on sensitive species and as a hazard to motorists, there is increasing pressure for management agencies to develop accurate methods of locating hotspots of road mortality for mitigation purposes. Langen will determine whether there are hotspots of road crossing and road mortality for animals along the highway as it crosses the national park, which was established to protect a critically endangered ecosystem, Central American tropical dry forest. The results of the study should indicate where mitigation measures, like wildlife barriers and passageways, are likely be most effective and may also provide a model for how to locate road mortality hotspots along public roads in other Costa Rican national parks and elsewhere.

REUNION 2007….JUST AROUND THE BEND!
Please make plans to join us the weekend of July 12 - 15, 2007. We invite all alumni, not just those who are celebrating reunion years, to return to campus this July to join in the festivities. In addition to reunion-year events, we are planning to celebrate the following anniversary reunions:

30 years of Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority
45 years since the inception of the Golden Knight Award
50 years of Theta Xi Fraternity
75 years of the Clarkson Theatre Company

These programs are planning special Mini-reunions:

ROTC Army
School of Business EGOM Program
Pipeline Programs
Men's and Women's Hockey Programs
Clarkson Athletic Hall of Fame Induction 2007
Delta Upsilon/Lambda BBQ at the house

Please visit the alumni Web site at www.clarksonalumni.com/reunion for a full schedule of events.

REUNION WEEKEND INCLUDES CLARKSON INDUCTING SIX MEMBERS INTO ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME
Four outstanding student-athletes, a legendary coach and a long-time, enthusiastic supporter of Golden Knights Athletics will be inducted into the Clarkson University Athletic Hall of Fame this July during the University’s annual summer Reunion. Clarkson will honor Cathy Champion-Demers ’84, Dan Fay ’66, Ed McMahon ’91, Terry Yurkiewicz ’66, Len Ceglarski and Ernie Richmond ’42. Ceremonies for the fifth induction class into the Clarkson Athletic Hall of Fame will take place on Friday, July 13. A standout hockey and lacrosse player for the Lady Golden Knights in the early 1980s, Champion-Demers helped to establish a solid foundation for women’s intercollegiate athletics at Clarkson. Fay was a dominant wrestler for the Golden Knights' powerful squads in the mid-1960s, losing only one match, and also played lacrosse and served as captain in his senior year. He will join his brother, Ed, a 1992 Inductee, as the first sibling combination in Clarkson’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The Golden Knights’ all-time leading scorer in lacrosse with 288 points, McMahon was a two-time All-American and helped to lead Clarkson to the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance as a senior in 1991. A two-time All-American goaltender for Clarkson’s highly-rated hockey teams in the mid-1960s, Yurkiewicz backstopped the Green and Gold to the program’s first ECAC Tournament Championship title as MVP of the tourney in 1966, and led the Knights to that season’s NCAA Championship game. Serving for 14 years as the head coach of the Clarkson Hockey team, Ceglarski compiled a .717 winning percentage behind the Knights’ bench, posting a 254-97-11 record from 1958-1972. He guided Clarkson to its first ECAC Tournament title and was named AP Coach of the Year in 1966. Ceglarski’s 1961-62, 1965-66 and 1969-70 teams finished as runner-ups in the NCAA Tournament. An avid fan of Clarkson athletics as an undergraduate at the college in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Richmond’s unwavering support of the Golden Knights continued after his graduation in 1942. Richmond and his wife, Connie, attended Clarkson Hockey games at Cheel Arena for many years and could be seen in the stands at Princeton’s Hobey Baker Rink when the Green and Gold battled the Tigers near his hometown in New Jersey. Affectionately known as “Uncle Ernie”, Richmond passed away this May at the age of 92.

HUSKINS & MARCHANT ADD NAMES TO CUP
Kent Huskins and Todd Marchant will add to the growing list of Clarkson University Hockey players who have their names inscribed on the Stanley Cup as the former Golden Knight standouts helped the Anaheim Ducks win the National Hockey League's coveted championship trophy. Huskins and Marchant are the latest Golden Knights to win the Stanley Cup. Erik Cole hoisted the Cup last year with Carolina and Colin Patterson lifted the Stanley Cup with NHL champions Calgary in 1989. Anaheim defeated Ottawa 6-2 in Game 5 on Wednesday night in California to win the championship series 4-1. Three other former Clarkson all-stars have also played in the finals. Chris Clark and Craig Conroy skated in the 2004 championship with Calgary and Dave Taylor helped the Los Angeles Kings make the 1993 finals.

CLARKSON SUMMER SOCCER CAMP: JULY 9 - 13
The Clarkson Soccer program announces their summer camp for children ages 5-18. The camp will focus on technical and tactical soccer skills and have a fun time while learning! The camp hours will be:
Ages 12-18: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Ages 5-11: 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

If you would like further information on ALL summer sports programs or would like to enroll your child, please contact Marjorie Meashaw at 315-268-6622 or click here to find out more information.

IN WOOD’S WORDS: FIRPO’S
Once again we welcome our friend, alum and trustee Jim Wood ’64 to the alumni newsletter with his most recent story entitled FIRPO's. In addition, you can find all of Jim’s written submissions to the newsletter by visiting: http://clarksonalumni.com/stay_connected/woods_words.html

DR. MATIJEVIC TO APPEAR IN SYRACUSE, NY
The celebration of 50 years with Dr. Matijevic continues in Syracuse, New York, on September 10 and will be sponsored by O’Brien and Gere Engineering. Thanks to trustee Terry Brown ’72 and his wonderful staff for pulling this event together. More information on time of event and registration will be available soon!

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM STUDENT AFFAIRS
Are you an alumni member of a fraternity and sorority and would like to play a role in the leadership on the Greek alumni council? Please notify Kurt Stimeling, Dean of Students, at kstimeli@clarkson.edu or call him at 315-268-6620 and perhaps he can answer questions about the available positions and how you can get involved in the future of our Greek system at Clarkson!

KNIGHTS OF NOTE
Scott D. Smith ’83 has recently been named President, Sales and Marketing for the ModusLink Corporation. ModusLink provides technology clients in the software, computing, consumer electronics, storage and communications markets with customized supply chain solutions that improve time-to market, productivity and customer satisfaction while reducing risk and cost. Scott has more than two decades of sales and marketing experience and will be responsible for ModusLink’s global sales and marketing organization.

Pat Bahn ’85 is the CEO of a company called TGV Rockets. They recently announced that it has successfully completed critical test firings of a technologically advanced throttleable rocket engine that his company believes will one day be able to facilitate the shuttling of equipment and sensor payload on quick-turn-around suborbital missions for the military and to help dramatically reduce the cost of geo-spatial imagery.

Donald Kerwin III ’86 has been made partner of ElectriComm Inc. He will direct sales efforts for the firms in upstate NY, Western PA, and New England territories. ElectriComm is Syracuse based and is an independent agency specializing in electric power and communication equipment sales to the utility, municipal, commercial and industrial markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S.

Judy Biviano Lloyd ’82 co-owns Altamont Solutions, a Pleasanton-based custom software company. She served as a Schwarzenegger appointee as alternative member of the California Coastal Commission, and currently serves on the Bay Area Boards of Directors of the California Women’s Leadership Association and the California Elected Women’s Association for Education and Research. She is a member of Women Impacting Public Policy, a national bi-partisan public policy organization, and works locally with the Contra Costa Council, Tri-Valley Business Council, Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce, and the Diablo Valley Women in Business. Judy is a 2008 candidate for the 15th Assembly District. For further information, please visit http://www.joinjudy2008.com.