Trustee Zeddie Bowen and President George Hagerty pose with new Franklin Pierce University seal.

RINDGE, NH – The Board of Trustees of Franklin Pierce
has voted unanimously to make the school’s transition to university status official and change its name to Franklin Pierce University, effective July 1, 2007.

“This decision marks the most visible step toward anchoring Franklin Pierce’s public identity in the reality of our growth and stature,” said Trustee Marlin Fitzwater. “This was the next logical step in advancing our mission to develop new global initiatives and expand our graduate level programs – all while retaining the character of a liberal arts college.”

Fitzwater, who served as press secretary to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and was instrumental in establishing the Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce, called the vote “a major milestone” in a process that began last June after Franklin Pierce completed a yearlong study of the potential change and decided to proceed with becoming a university.

Franklin Pierce enrolls a total of 3,200 students at its residential, undergraduate campus in Rindge and five satellite campuses operated by the school’s Division of Graduate and Professional Studies, in Concord, Keene, Lebanon, Manchester and Portsmouth.

Dr. Zeddie R. Bowen, chair of Franklin Pierce’s Board of Trustees, said it will take a full year to complete the university transition. The conversion of signs, logos, publications, the Web site and other elements of Franklin Pierce’s visual identity will take place starting in January. There will be no significant operational changes or administrative restructuring because the institution has already been functioning as a small university, Bowen said.

Throughout this process, administrators worked closely with state and regional accrediting agencies, and they indicated that Franklin Pierce fully meets university criteria, Bowen said. They will be notified by letter today that the Board of Trustees has adopted a change in both status and name, effective July 1, 2007.

Dr. George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce, hailed the decision as affirmation of the evolution of the liberal arts college from its founding in 1962 with nine faculty and administrators serving 97 students in a pair of converted summer resort buildings in Rindge Center, about five miles east of today’s campus.

“Our transition to university status goes far deeper than a name change,” President Hagerty said. “It affirms our place in higher education today and it will carry us forward as an institution with great ambitions – for ourselves and our students.” He noted the benchmarks that provided the rationale for Franklin Pierce to become a university. They included:

• Growth of graduate programs that now consist of three master’s degrees and two doctoral degrees. A practitioner-focused Doctor of Physical Therapy began in 2004 and a research-based Doctor of Arts in Leadership enrolled its first students this fall.
   
• A Division of Graduate and Professional Studies that operates five regional satellite campuses in addition to a distance education program that offers degrees online.
   
• A growing international presence marked by a new Pierce in Vienna program for undergraduates and a partnership with Luhansk National Pedagogical University in Ukraine that will offer a Franklin Pierce MBA to Ukrainian and international students beginning in January 2007.
   
• A record number of incoming freshmen and an historic high of 1,705 students on the traditional undergraduate Rindge Campus this fall, attesting to Franklin Pierce’s widening reputation.
   
• Increased national visibility of the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce, which hosts prominent leaders and practitioners in the media, politics and business, and provides a forum for student engagement and public debate essential to healthy democracy. The college also maintains three additional academic institutes: The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture; The New England Center for Civic Life; and The Center for Applied Public Opinion Research (CAPOR), commonly known as the Franklin Pierce Polling Institute
   
• A strong athletics program that has produced championship teams in women’s soccer (five-time NCAA Division II champions, six-time NE-10 Conference champions), men’s soccer (2005 NE-10 Conference champions), and baseball (two-time Northeast Region champions; five players selected in 2006 Major League Baseball Draft). Franklin Pierce is also two-time winner of the NE-10 Academic Achievement Award.

Franklin Pierce University
officials spent the past year discussing the potential change in status and conducting surveys and focus groups with students, faculty and alumni. Most feedback pointed to the benefits of becoming a university.

President Hagerty said Franklin Pierce must now direct its external messages to expressing the benefits of a small liberal arts university focused on teaching and learning. In recent campus forums, he assured students and faculty that there are no plans to significantly increase the student population at the Rindge Campus. “We will be a different kind of university, a comfortably-sized one where our hallmark qualities of small classes and close community are preserved,” he said.

That reassurance is important, said Student Government Association President Elizabeth Ward. “Students here value their relationships with professors and the fact that they’re known by name across campus. We’re proud and excited to be part of a school that’s both forward-thinking and committed to retaining its special qualities.”

The Class of 2007 will be the last cohort of graduates from Franklin Pierce College. Students entering in the fall of 2007 will be informed that Franklin Pierce will take on the full-fledged and unified identity of a university during their first semester. The Class of 2008 will graduate with diplomas containing the university name.

Franklin Pierce will spend the next year converting its internal and external communications to reflect university status. “We look forward to celebrating a series of milestones throughout the year as we turn the page to a new chapter in our history,” President Hagerty said.

Named after Franklin Pierce, the 14th and only New Hampshire-born president of the United States (1804-1869), Franklin Pierce University
was founded by Frank S. DiPietro, the first president of the College. Walter R. Peterson, who served two terms as the governor of New Hampshire, was College President from 1975-1995. He is now President Emeritus. Dr. George J. Hagerty, educated at Harvard and having a distinguished career in higher education, business and government, became the third president in 1995.

Franklin Pierce is a private, four-year, coeducational nonsectarian university with a curriculum that is a blend of traditional liberal arts, pre-professional study, teacher preparation programs and a nationally-recognized core curriculum, "The Individual and Community." The main campus in Rindge, New Hampshire is situated on 1,200 acres on the shore of Pearly Pond near the base of Mount Monadnock. Graduate and Professional Studies are offered at five campuses, in Concord, Keene, Lebanon, Manchester and Portsmouth, and online.
 

Humanities Oktoberfest, 2006
An Academic Series for the College and the Region 

The Humanities Division at Franklin Pierce University
presents the following series of speakers and forums during October. Unless indicated, all events are free and open to the public.   

Fashioning Family and Career
October 2, 11:50 pm, Fitzwater Television Studio

Join us for a presentation by Dana Buchman, fashion designer and author of A Special Education 

What is Conservative Feminism?  2006 Humanities Lecture Series

October 2, 7:30 pm, Cheney Hall

Join us for a lecture by Amy Baehr, Assistant Professor of Philosophy from Hofstra,  

editor of Varieties of Feminist Liberalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and author of many articles and book chapters. http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/amy_baehr/ 

Socrates Café

October 2, time and location to be announced

Join us for conversations with Amy Baehr and Dana Buchman
Contact Jed Donelan, 899-1019 or donelanj@franklinpierce.edu
for details.

The Harriet Wilson Project

October 5, 12:15, Cheney Hall

Join us for a presentation by JerriAnne Boggis, Director of The Harriet Wilson Project.  In 1859, Harriet Wilson, a mulatto woman from New Hampshire, published a novel with the stated hope of earning sufficient money simply to survive. Instead, her novel Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black, became a powerful and controversial narrative that continues to touch and unsettle readers around the world. It is the intent of The Harriet Wilson Project to promote, preserve, and seek recognition of Harriet Wilson's book Our Nig; or Sketches from the life of a Free Black for its historical significance, and to provide a fitting memorial in her honor. 

Luisa Igloria, poet and writer

Monday, October 16, 7:30 pm, Lakeside Education Center

Join us for a poetry reading by Luisa Igloria, Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University .  Included are selections from her recently published collection , Trill and Mordent.  Followed by remarks and a book signing. 

The American Dream: Expectations and Realities

Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 pm, MH102

Join us for an interactive panel discussion in which our recent immigrants and refuges share stories about their search for the American Dream. 

Reading Aloud: The Theme of Freedom in American Literature, 2006 Humanities Lecture Series

Monday, October 23, 7:00 pm, Cheney Hall

Joins us for a lecture by Dr. John L. Mahoney, Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English, Emeritus from Boston College. 

The New Challenges of Immigration: What Should We Do?

Tuesday, October 24, 6 pm

Friday, October 27, noon

Contact Jed Donelan, 899-1019 or donelanj@franklinpierce.edu
for details.

The idea that our country offers opportunities for all is part of the American Dream. Many of our relatives and ancestors were immigrants themselves. More recently, however, immigration has become an increasingly controversial topic. The assumption that immigrants will be assimilated into our culture has been questioned by those who fear it is "American culture" itself that will be assimilated. The New Challenges of Immigration: What Should We Do? Join us for a deliberative forum on this timely and important issue. 

Monadnock Institute Annual Symposium  Celebrating Where the Mountain Stands Alone

Saturday, October  28,   9am—3pm 

$35 charge.  FP
faculty and students are free.

Join Scott Russell Sanders, Howard Mansfield, and anthology authors including Ernest Hebert, Sy Montgomery, Jane Brox, Edie Clark, Janisse Ray, Jim Collins, Paul Hertneky, Gerald Burns, Robert Goodby among others in a series of panels discussing themes from Where the Mountain Stands Alone.

Ann Compton, national correspondent for ABC News Radio, will spend two days at Franklin Pierce discussing a career that has taken her to the White House, Capitol Hill and through eight presidential campaigns.

She will conduct a broadcast journalism workshop at the Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce on September 25. Throughout the day, she will meet with faculty and students in class to discuss reporting and presidential politics. She will also participate in a Tuesday Briefing on September 26 at 11 a.m. in the Fitzwater Center Television Studio.

“We are pleased to have Ann Compton come to campus as the first Fitzwater Fellow of the academic year,” said Dr. Kristen Nevious, director of the Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce. “Our students will have the opportunity to learn from someone who is an expert in her craft and who has occupied a front row seat in national politics for more than 30 years.”

Compton’s career has spanned the Cold War to the Internet revolution. On Sept 11, 2001, her experience was put to the test as she was the only broadcast reporter allowed to remain onboard Air Force One during the dramatic hours when President Bush was unable to return to Washington. Her reports during the crisis were cited when ABC News received the prestigious Silver Baton Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University award for its coverage. Compton was also on the team that received an Emmy and a Peabody Award for ABC News' September 11th reporting.

She has traveled around the globe and through all 50 states with presidents, vice presidents, and first ladies, reporting for all ABC News broadcasts. Twice during national campaigns, Compton was invited to serve as a panelist for presidential debates (1988 and 1992) and she was assigned as a floor reporter at the 1976 Republican and Democratic national conventions.

Weeks after the Watergate scandal came to an end, Compton became the first woman assigned to cover the White House by a television network, and she was one of the youngest to receive the assignment. As the Internet surged in popularity, Compton became chief Washington correspondent for ABCNews.com where she wrote and anchored a daily political column, On Background. Currently she holds the title of national correspondent for ABC Radio News, heard daily on thousands of ABC Radio stations as she covers the White House.

Compton was recently elected president of the White House Correspondents Association and will assume that role in 2007. Her career in the national limelight has been awarded a prestigious place at the National Museum of Broadcasting. She was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at ceremonies in November 2005. Her campus visit is sponsored by the Fitzwater Center for Communication and the Women in Leadership Certificate Program at Franklin Pierce.

The excellency of the place:
A poet’s journey and lessons from the mountain

I want to express my gratitude to the students who chose me as faculty member of the year, thus granting me the privilege of helping to welcome you -- the class of 2010.

In September of last year, we were welcoming the class of 2009 – and soon afterward we were also welcoming – embracing in fact -- scholars displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Included were a number of college students from New Orleans – and – amazingly -- a world-famous poet originally from Africa, Dr. Niyi Osundare – who stayed with us a semester before returning to his work as a professor of literature at the University of New Orleans.

When he arrived in a Red Cross shelter in Alabama about this time last September, Dr. Osundare posted this message on the internet to tell his friends and family on several continents, “I am alive!”

He wrote:

“The nightmare of the past seven days is simply unimaginable. We very narrowly escaped drowning in our own house. Pursued by an 8-foot high toxic flood water (15 feet in the street outside our door), we were forced up a stuffy, airless attic, where we were holed up for 26 hours, with no food, no water, no prospect of any rescue. We were only saved by the fortuitous intervention of a neighbor who heard our shout for help when he came round with his rescue boat to pick up something from his own house. With life vests provided by him, we managed to swim out of our house, leaving everything we had behind. Right now, all our clothes, books, academic and professional credentials, travel documents, computers, manuscripts, etc. etc. are submerged in the dirty waters of the New Orleans flood. Hell has no other name...”

From New Orleans to New Hampshire

The poet had looked at catastrophe up close. Imagine the sudden shift of perspective as –in a matter of weeks – he found himself standing –in shoes donated by somebody in Birmingham -- looking out his 3rd floor office window at the Franklin Pierce campus in the fall. With his skin still blistered from his immersion in the contaminated flood waters, Niyi Osundare wrote the serene poem “Autumn in New Hampshire” later published in the Northern New England Review [Vol. 28: 2006, page 10], a journal produced right here at Pierce. Allow me to read you a few lines of that poem. It begins,
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“The sun strikes a match
In the yellow corner of the sky
Forest tops are aflame
With autumnal splendor
The maple laughs its joy
In orange and running red . . .”

The poem ends with a picture of the mountain:

“As it did last season
And the season before the last
The Monadnock watches it all
From an earthy distance . . .
Its dialogue with the New England sky
Is as old as the ravens on its ribs.”

Most of us have come to the foot of Monadnock from a place safer than New Orleans was last September – but we still have something in common with the poet: we all look at that mountain from a new place in this new September.

Lessons from the mountain

Looking at that mountain is not so simple. As you drive on the curving roads of Cheshire County, Monadnock jumps from one side of the road to the other – with a nimbleness amazing for an object of its size. Now you see it –now you don’t. Now it’s over here, now disappeared, now re-appeared on the other side of your road. Or you suddenly see the mountain for the first time -- from a road you’ve traveled many times. For me, this capricious revealing and retreating of beauty is an image of the experience we came here to share, the experience of lifelong education. Sometimes, the truth – what we know -- seems as unchanging as that mountain; then it seems to move or even to disappear. Each jump can be startling as well as exciting – but it’s a very good sign. It’s a sign that we are on the move – changing – and we have come together just for that -- to change, to catch fresh glimpses.

It gives me more delight than I can convey to welcome you, the class of 2010, to this sometimes wild ride around Monadnock. We, the faculty, want it to be wild – we want you to see this mountain and every mountain for the rest of your life from as many perspectives as possible. We want you to be elastic enough to move – like the poet – from storm and tragedy to serenity – and back. And we want the same thing for ourselves. When you came here through the threatening weather today, you came bringing us a gift. As the poet did last September, you have come to make the mountain new again for all of us. You bring new perspectives that make what we know – or thought we knew – jump over to the other side of the road. We, your faculty, are eager to return that favor. Thank you and welcome.

Dr. Osundare’s words quoted with his permission.

Franklin Pierce University
and St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua have signed a collaboration agreement to create and deliver a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) beginning next spring. The partnership is designed to address the critical nursing shortage in central New England and take advantage of synergies from the combined resources of both institutions.

Dr. George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce and Peter Davis, FACHE, president and CEO of St. Joseph Hospital

The agreement allows students who have completed an associate's degree in nursing from St. Joseph School of Nursing or another accredited institution to be admitted to the new program and receive their BSN in two years. Franklin Pierce will develop the academic program in consultation with St. Joseph School of Nursing, and the school will provide classroom, laboratory and library facilities as well as internships and placements for student capstone experiences.

"This partnership builds on the success of Franklin Pierce College's Doctor of Physical Therapy program and addresses the growing need for skilled practitioners in health related fields," said Dr. George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College. "We look forward to working with St. Joseph Hospital to provide a dynamic program that graduates nurses who enhance the profession and bring significant benefit to their hospitals and communities."

"We are thrilled that we will be able to offer this to our nursing students and our community," states Peter Davis, FACHE, president and CEO of St. Joseph Hospital. "The two plus two option is a great opportunity for our nursing students."

Classes will take place at Franklin Pierce College's Concord Campus, at 5 Chenell Drive, and at the St. Joseph Academic Center at 5 Woodward Avenue in Nashua.

St. Joseph Hospital is southern New Hampshire's largest acute care hospital and trauma center, dedicated to providing innovative, high quality health care in an environment of dignity, compassion and safety. The St. Joseph Academic Center has offered quality nursing education since 1908. In addition, the practical nursing program is offered at Franklin Pierce's Keene campus.

June 22, 2006
Former White House insiders and veteran presidential primary and Washington journalists to share their knowledge with the next generation of reporters at weeklong Presidency and the Press conference

A group of young journalists from across the country will spend their first week of summer break at Franklin Pierce University
immersed in the dynamics of presidential politics with a host of state and national experts at the first Presidency and the Press: A Conference for High School Media sponsored by The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce.

During a week of intense training and hands-on practice, 20 of the country’s most engaged youth will learn about presidential politics, the media’s role in election coverage and the relationship between candidates and the press. Student journalists will work alongside seasoned political reporters who have covered the First in the Nation Primary and past presidential elections as well as former White House insiders.

Participants include Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; former White House photographer David Valdez; Jean Becker, chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush; John Mashek, who participated in four presidential debates during four decades as a U.S. News & World Report correspondent; Bill Seamens, former Tel Aviv Bureau Chief at ABC News; and Gene Gibbons, executive editor of the national political news site stateline.org.

Veteran New Hampshire journalists who will share their knowledge and experiences covering the First in the Nation Primary include Mike Pride, Editor of the Concord Monitor; Tom Fahey, State House Bureau Chief for the Union Leader; John DiStaso, Senior Political Reporter for the Union Leader; Kevin Landrigan, State House Reporter for the Nashua Telegraph; and Scott Spradling, Political Reporter for WMUR-TV.

The program runs from Saturday, June 24 through Friday, June 30 at the Fitzwater Center on Franklin Pierce College’s Rindge campus and includes trips to the college’s Manchester campus and the State House.

The Presidency and the Press is designed to prepare young people for full participation in the 2008 presidential election. Throughout the week, students will conduct interviews, write stories and produce news packages – all involving state and national media and political representatives.

“An important part of our mission involves educating leaders of conscience in public communication,” said Dr. George J. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College. “The young people participating in this conference represent the best and brightest of the next generation of journalists. The Presidency and the Press represents our commitment to engage candidates and the electorate in the robust and open debate that is essential to healthy a democracy.”

New Hampshire students from Nashua, Manchester, Derry and Keene will participate in the conference along with students from:

• Washington
• New Mexico
• South Dakota
• North Dakota
• New Jersey
• South Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Kansas
• Nebraska

“The goal of this conference is to thoroughly train and engage these students in the Presidential election process so that when they return to their high schools, they will inform and motivate their peers to get involved and participate in the democratic process,” said Dr. Kristen Nevious, Director of the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce. “We expect this experience will spill over into their college years and beyond.”

Highlights of the week include a First-in-the-Nation Debate at Franklin Pierce’s Manchester Campus on Sunday, June 26, moderated by Michael Chaney, president of the New Hampshire Political Library. The panel includes John Mashek, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, and veteran political strategists Thomas Rath, principal, Rath, Young and Pignatelli and Edward E. Shumaker, Executive Director of NEA New Hampshire. Later that afternoon, Marlin Fitzwater will deliver a keynote address on “The Presidency and the Press,” followed by the opening of a photography exhibit from David Valdez. The exhibit is a showcase of photographs President George H.W. Bush during the 1992 Presidential Election, and will be on display to the public throughout the week.

Other highlights during the week include a briefing on the 2008 presidential election on Monday afternoon followed by a question and answer session with representatives from the campaigns of potential candidates, and a Wednesday meeting with Jean Becker, Chief of Staff in the office of President George H.W. Bush.

To ensure that students receive a comprehensive view from the Granite State, Franklin Pierce University
is partnering with several key organizations for the conference. They include the Nackey S. Loeb School for Communications, the New Hampshire Political Library and the New Hampshire Alliance for Civic Engagement.

For a daily schedule of activities and a list of participants please click here or contact Brian Stuart, Director of Marketing and Communications at 603-899-4221 or stuartb@franklinpierce.edu
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RINDGE, NH - Dean Kamen, entrepreneur, science education advocate and holder of more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, and Myron Kandel, founding financial editor of CNN will receive honorary degrees and address graduates at Franklin Pierce’s 41st Commencement on Saturday, May 13. The ceremony will take place on the Rindge Campus at 11 a.m. on the lawn next to the library.

Degrees will be conferred on 348 seniors from the Rindge Campus and 350 students who completed programs in the Division of Graduate and Professional Studies. These will include Franklin Pierce’s first doctoral program graduates, who completed the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree this year.
During the ceremony, Kamen and Kandel will both receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees and will address graduates and guests. The Franklin Pierce Commencement will be Web cast live at http://powerlink.powerstream.net/002/00215/live3.asx.

Kamen is the founder of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, where he develops internally generated inventions and provides research and development for corporate clients. He holds patents for numerous devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. Some notable inventions include the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics, the HomeChoice™ portable peritoneal dialysis machine, the INDEPENDENCE® IBOT® Mobility System, and the Segway® Human Transporter.

Among Kamen's proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use, and enjoy science and technology. He has recruited scores of the top leaders of American industry, education and government in this crusade. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined and his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his determination to spread the word about technology’s virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States.

In addition to his own attempts to master science and technology, Kamen has received significant public recognition for his crusade on behalf of science and engineering. He was labeled by Smithsonian Magazine as "the Pied Piper of technology" and profiled by the New York Times as "a new kind of hero for American youth."

Among the honors received by Kamen are The Kilby Award, which celebrates those who make extraordinary contributions to society; the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment; and the National Medal of Technology, awarded by President Clinton in 2000 for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology. He received the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005.

Myron Kandel was CNN’s founding financial editor. One of the executives who created CNN in 1980, he was instrumental in the growth and development of CNN Business News and helped pioneer the coverage of business news on network television. Before joining CNN, he served as the financial editor of three newspapers – the Washington Star, the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Post. In March 2000, he was named one of the ten most influential business journalists of the 20th century by TJFR, a media industry publication.

He started his more than a half-century career in journalism as a copy boy at The New York Times, working nights while completing his senior year at Brooklyn College and then while earning a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism. From 1976 to 1982, Myron Kandel co-authored The Greer / Kandel Report, a syndicated financial column that appeared in leading papers around the country. He also authored How to Cash in on the Coming Stock Market Boom, published in 1982, which accurately forecast the bull market that began that August. He has written a wealth of magazine articles, and has been published in Harper's, Institutional Investor, The New York Times Book Review, Finance Magazine, Nation's Business and The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Myron Kandel has taught journalism at Columbia University and the City College of New York and lectures frequently around the world. He is the recipient of the Columbia Journalism Alumni Award, the New York Financial Writers' Association's Elliot V. Bell Award for outstanding contribution to financial journalism, the ICI Education/American University Journalism Award for excellence in personal finance reporting, and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society of Business Editors and Writers.

In December 2005, he was appointed by Gov. John Lynch to be President of the New Hampshire Initiative for Corporate Responsibility and Investor Protection. The initiative, funded through the Investor Protection Trust and New Hampshire’s $5 million settlement with Tyco International Ltd., will focus on training present and future business leaders in appropriate professional conduct and sound corporate governance.

RINDGE, NH – Veteran Washington journalist and presidential scholar Kenneth T. Walsh accepted the 2006 Marlin Fitzwater Award for Leadership in Public Communication at Franklin Pierce College’s third annual Fitzwater Center Honors. The ceremony also featured presentations of Fitzwater Medallions to a Franklin Pierce alumnus, a graduating senior and a high school newspaper advisor, all of whom were cited for making outstanding contributions to public discourse.

Walsh has been U.S. News and World Report’s White House correspondent for more than 20 years. He has covered the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and currently George W. Bush. In his keynote speech to more than 100 guests of the College at its Manchester Campus, Walsh described personal encounters with each leader and discussed broader trends in American journalism, including a blurring of the lines between reporting and entertainment.

“I was brought up in a generation of journalists that believed journalism was a form of public service,” Walsh said. “I think we’re losing sight of that today and it’s unfortunate.” He suggested that reporters stick to covering the news and leave the punditry and commentary to others. Walsh also recommended that the Washington D.C. and New York press corps “break from their cocoon” and seek to understand the concerns of the average American.

The Marlin Fitzwater Award for Leadership in Public Communication was established by Franklin Pierce University
in 2004 to honor an individual whose civic engagement has made significant contributions to healthy democracy. The award is named for the former press secretary to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Marlin Fitzwater has been a trustee of Franklin Pierce University
and serves on the advisory board of the Fitzwater Center for Communications at Franklin Pierce.
“Ken Walsh is a legend among Washington journalists, and a public communicator of the highest order. He exemplifies every aspect of our highest achievement award,” said Fitzwater, who presented the award and medallions to honorees. Previous recipients of the Fitzwater Award were U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) in 2005 and Victoria Clarke, former assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, in 2004.
Tom Griffith, news anchor for WMUR Channel 9, served as this year’s Master of Ceremonies for the event. Following the ceremony, Walsh took questions from the audience.
Several focused on media coverage of the war in Iraq and whether reporters were being too soft or too harsh on the administration. Walsh said perhaps the media wasn’t critical enough during the build up to the war, but now many reporters portray the White House as incapable of doing anything right. The appropriate balance is probably somewhere in the middle, he said.
Receiving the Fitzwater Medallion as an alumnus was Thomas Crawford MBA ’04. Crawford, of Springfield, Vermont, is a healthcare executive with demonstrated accomplishments in hospitals and medical centers, and within an alliance framework. He is currently chief operating officer at Springfield Hospital, which consists of a 49-bed acute care hospital, a 20-bed psychiatric unit in Bellows Falls, and five hospital-owned physician practices.

Through his career, Crawford has developed initiatives that contributed to organizational effectiveness, growth and profitability. He has advanced his institution’s clinical and financial performance, enhanced safety and quality of care, and improved employee morale. Crawford has also written articles for healthcare publications and he volunteers his time with numerous professional and community organizations. He received an MBA from Franklin Pierce University
and serves on the College’s Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Receiving the Fitzwater Medallion as a graduating senior was Stephen Lacey, of Keene, New Hampshire. Lacey studied mass communications with a concentration in journalism. He served as news director at WFPC-LP, the FM radio station on campus, and as senior editor for The Exchange, a multimedia journalism Web site at Franklin Pierce.

During his sophomore year, Lacey completed an internship at the Talk Radio News Service in Washington, D.C. He reported on current events and produced news clips for use by radio stations around the world. Lacey is also a Pierce Media Fellow and a member of the Alpha Chi academic honor society. A lifelong fan of National Public Radio, Lacey’s goal is to work as a reporter and eventually produce talk-format programs where issues and current events are given thorough and fair treatment.

Also receiving a Fitzwater Medallion was Sharon Wilson, advisor to the award-winning student newspaper, The Little Green, at Manchester Central High School. She was credited with helping young people find their voice in public discourse through the practice of high school journalism.

Franklin Pierce University
will host its first “National Teach-In on Human Rights and the ‘War on Terror’: Where is the Outrage?” on Wednesday, April 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, sponsored by The Coalition To End Torture, features national speakers, workshops and a panel discussion designed to break the silence and bring awareness to human rights issues presented by the “War on Terror.”

Speakers will include Gita Gutierrez, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents detainees in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Rear Admiral John D. Hutson (Retired U.S. Navy), former Judge Advocate General and current Dean and President of Franklin Pierce Law Center; and Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, author and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Graduate School and Director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.

Also speaking will be Hina Shamsi, senior counsel for Human Rights First and an expert on counterterrorism, U.S. interrogation and detention policy and national security.
Representing the U.S. government will be Vijay Padmanabhan, an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S Department of State. Padmanabhan currently serves in the Legal Adviser's Political and Military Affairs office and is the action officer on detainee litigation.

Morning and afternoon workshops will be conducted by representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights First, Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union. “The goal is to tackle a range of issues from the specific treatment of detainees to the broader human rights issues presented by the global war on terror,” said Jerry Levine, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Franklin Pierce University
and a member of the Coalition To End Torture.

Advanced registration is encouraged. Registration is available on line at http://eraven.franklinpierce.edu /specanncmt/teachin.htm  or by contacting Professor Jerry Levine at 603-899-4265 or Bill Beardslee at 603-899-4188.

The structure of modern political campaigning - with canned messages, reliance on focus groups and a presidential debate format bound by 50-plus pages of rules hammered out by candidates’ lawyers - is detrimental to healthy democracy, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said during a visit to Franklin Pierce College.

“We need to talk about big enough ideas so that the country rises to the level of those ideas,” Gingrich told students, faculty and community members gathered in the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce. His talk was part of a series of forums at the Fitzwater Center designed to stimulate meaningful deliberation on issues of public policy.

New Hampshire residents can play a role in elevating campaign discussion by asking presidential hopefuls to pledge that early campaign meetings feature bipartisan audiences, Gingrich said. Otherwise, it’s too easy for both major parties to play to their extreme bases and enthusiastically diminish their opponents, he said.

Gingrich spoke for approximately an hour and a half, delivering a speech on the history of American political dialog and then responding to questions from the audience. The talk was streamed live on the Web and Gingrich joked several times that this was his first “Fitzcast.” Several questions and audience comments were received via e-mail and included a greeting by former presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater.

Gingrich is recognized as the author of the "Contract with America" which many credit with helping the Republican Party win a House majority in 1994 for the first time in four decades. He earned his bachelor's degree from Emory University and his master’s and doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University.

He recently authored his ninth book, Winning the Future, which presents his platform for strengthening the country. Though it has been rumored that Gingrich is considering a presidential run in 2008, he has stated that his immediate goal is to speak out on political issues and influence public policy.

During his time on campus, which included a press conference with student media, Gingrich fielded questions on American foreign policy, immigration reform, the drug war, science education, pop culture and the government response to Hurricane Katrina.

Freshman Steve Dodrill asked Gingrich for career advice. He responded with five principles: dream big, work hard, learn every day, enjoy life and be true to yourself. “And remember that to do anything well, you have to do it a lot. So make sure it’s something you love,” Gingrich said.

He also praised the work of the Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce, noting that it had national and worldwide potential to promote the tools of discourse essential to a free society.

The creative process for Franklin Pierce senior Kitty Glines is often private and even her finished pieces rarely gain an audience outside family and friends. So she was particularly excited to have one of her linoleum block prints selected for the annual Student Artist Exhibition at the College’s Thoreau Gallery.

“It is very rewarding to show people what I’ve done,” said Kitty, whose piece Foot in the Grass was produced by linoleum color reduction. The process involved carving a negative image and then rolling ink across the surface and making a print in three phases – one for each color.

Seventy two art pieces reflecting the work of nearly 50 students are currently on display in the gallery. Media include photography, illustrations, stained glass, blown glass and three-dimensional design. Pieces were judged and selected by faculty in the fine arts and graphic arts programs at Franklin Pierce.

“This is an honor and thrill for the students,” said Lorettann Gascard, associate professor of fine arts and curator of the Thoreau Gallery. “For many, it’s the first time their work has been exhibited publicly and it creates a sense of community among our student artists and the rest of the campus.”

Kim O’Neill, a junior and graphic design major, stood near her stained glass panel and described the work to students and faculty who stopped by during the exhibit’s opening reception. The giant “G” design framed by roses was created for her daughter Grace and would hang in her room after the show, Kim explained.

The Student Artist Exhibit continues through April 11. A senior art exhibition will begin on April 26. The Thoreau Gallery at Franklin Pierce University
is located in the Emily Flint Campus Center. The gallery is open daily from noon to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call 603-899-4201.
 

Russian poet and former literary dissident Katia Kapovich visited Franklin Pierce to discuss the significance of the early 19th century Russian short story writer, Nikolai Gogol, and relate his views on the human condition to the modern society’s treatment of its marginalized members.

Kapovich said she feels a kinship with Gogol and shares his aesthetic. Like Gogol, she said, she writes about the “marginal members of the human species,” people whose existence is considered “a public offense.” Her participation at Franklin Pierce was sponsored by the Humanities Division and included a lecture, a reading from her latest book, Gogol in Rome, and a Tuesday Briefing session at the Fitzwater Center.

“You cannot write with a tear in the eye,” Kapovich said of her effort to capture the human condition in literature. “You must have laughter – tears for laughter. Then you smuggle the pain into (the laughter).”

Kapovich is a bilingual poet whose work in English and Russian has appeared in literary journals around the world. At age 18, her participation in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1980s resulted in her being arrested and imprisoned. She has lived in Russia and Israel and now makes her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she co-edits the poetry magazine Fulcrum. A 2001 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, Kapovich was recently awarded the Copland Fellowship to be the 2007 Poet in Residence at Amherst College.

She completed her dissertation on Nikolai Gogol and shared with Franklin Pierce students and faculty the continued significance of the 19th century short story writer who twice fled Tsarist Russia to escape censorship and criticisms of his literature’s sometimes twisted take on Russian life.

Gogol in Rome is Kapovich’s first book of poetry in English. It contains a series of narrative portraits of the alienated and disenfranchised, including beggars, pickpockets, peasants, Israeli Bedouins, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts and political convicts.

Her work parallels Gogol’s in that it seeks to illuminate the beauty in misery. “Gogol is about finding some dark light in aggravating, morbid situations,” Kapovich said. “The message is that some people can be comfortable in misery and poverty. That is how he survived.”

An initiative by Franklin Pierce faculty and students to secure permanent protection for the most critical forest and wetland portions of the college’s 1,200-acre Rindge campus was selected for inclusion in the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Yearbook for 2005.

The case study cited in the publication focused on the college’s Ecological Conscience Initiative and participants’ work to preserve undeveloped lands on campus. Last year, the college protected a 46-acre land parcel to offset the environmental effects of construction of two new athletic fields.

This land protection project was carried out by Franklin Pierce Vice President Bruce Kirsh, under the guidance of the Rindge Conservation Commission, including geology professor Dr. Fred Rogers, who is a member of the Initiative committee. The Initiative, founded by Dr. Catherine Owen Koning in 1998, collaborated with the Conservation Commission in providing ideas and support for the new protected land. .

“Habitat restoration projects like the one at Franklin Pierce demonstrate the importance of disseminating knowledge of environmentally sound practices such as reducing waste on campus,” said Kristy Jones, the National Wildlife Federation’s manager of campus climate action and education. “We were thrilled to include it in the Yearbook as an example for other campuses to follow.”

The publication by the nation’s leading conservation education and advocacy group includes 56 case studies from more than 40 higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. Featured projects address a variety of conservation and sustainability issues ranging from environmental literacy, to recycling and waste reduction, to examining biodiversity on campus.

Dr. Koning said the Ecological Conscience Initiative at Franklin Pierce has accomplished several significant projects since its inception, namely starting and maintaining a highly successful student-run recycling program, expanding the goals of the student experience to include awareness of the natural world, supporting the outdoor recreation program, working with food services to expand local and organic offerings, working with the facilities department to site and manage buildings and athletic fields in locations that minimize the need to drive, and hosting a series of events each semester to increase environmental literacy.

The land protection project submitted for inclusion in the National Wildlife Federation publication was particularly important because our campus is special in its possession of undeveloped and ecologically productive wild lands, Dr. Koning said. “To set aside a portion of fragile and critical land for permanent protection is one of the most lasting and inspirational commitments that an institution can make,” she said.

The Ecological Conscience Initiative is currently focused on working with the local community on a bio-inventory project to determine which species use the college’s property and nearby wild lands.

Instrumental to the success of the land projection initiative was a cross section of the campus community representing several academic institutes, departments and interests. Discussion forums on the preservation proposal were conducted using the deliberative dialog model outlined by The New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce, and the Monadnock Institute of Nature Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce provided funding for internships, administrative assistance and expertise.

Other key individuals were Dr. George Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College; Dr. Rhine Singleton, associate professor of environmental science; Dr. Jed Donelan, senior lecturer in philosophy; and Rindge Conservation Commissioners Richard Mellor and David Graham Wolf.

Learn more about the project by reading the case summary published in the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Yearbook.

Franklin Pierce University
has been approved to offer a new Doctor of Arts Degree in Transformational Leadership, in conjunction with Plymouth State University. The only degree of its kind in New Hampshire, the Doctor of Arts was designed to meet the needs of senior managers in business, education, non-profit organizations and government who want to transform their professions and communities.

The new degree, and its delivery through a distinctive public-private partnership, was approved by the New Hampshire Post Secondary Education Commission in December. It will be offered in September at Franklin Pierce College’s campuses in Concord, Lebanon and Portsmouth.

“The Doctor of Arts differs from the traditional PhD and EdD in that it shifts attention from the scholarship of theory-building to the scholarship of theory in practice,” said Dr. George H. Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce College. “The applied research focus of this degree reflects our 21^st century understanding of what it takes to bring sustained positive change to communities and solve complex organizational and social issues. We’re excited to be able to offer practitioners in the Granite State this opportunity for advanced post-Master’s preparation.”

The program was developed in response to a study by Plymouth State University that identified a significant regional population in need of advanced degrees but who would not be effectively served by existing programs. Plymouth State University and Franklin Pierce saw the potential of joining together to draw upon the missions, strengths, and strategic goals of both institutions. Franklin Pierce will be the grantor of the new degree.

“This is a new category of doctoral degree that will help meet society’s need for educated leaders who can integrate rigorously tested and approved strategies across the business and social dimensions of their professions – for the benefit of broad communities of people in New Hampshire and beyond,” said Dr. Michael Bell, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Raymond Van der Riet, dean of graduate and professional studies at Franklin Pierce, said the program will be delivered through a hybrid in-class and on-line model – to meet the needs of students who want to invest in their education while continuing in their professions. Completion of the Doctor of Arts is expected to take three years.

“This will meet the needs of working professionals who want to enhance their knowledge and transform their organizations while they pursue advanced study,” Van der Riet said. “In fact, there will be an immediate benefit to the degree candidate, the organization and the surrounding community as soon as students enter the program and begin involving their colleagues and local stakeholders in research and collaboration.”

Thomas Crawford, chief operating officer at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Vermont, plans to enroll in the first cohort for the Doctor of Arts in transformational leadership.

“To me, the community involvement of the program and the transformation that you create in your own community while pursuing this degree is what sets it apart from other degrees,” he said. “I hope to use the knowledge I gain from this program to create a positive transformation where I live and work. My town used to be a manufacturing town and has gone through the changes that resulted from the loss of manufacturing. I hope to work with others to help complete the rebounding process.”

President Hagerty said that Franklin Pierce saw the new Doctor of Arts degree, with its strong practical focus, as a direct extension of the college’s historic mission. Franklin Pierce intends to support the development of transformational scholars of conscience who bring lasting positive change to the institutions and communities where they practice and serve, he said. “The return on this investment will be a generation of new leaders who are able to solve complex problems and bring long term social and economic benefit to the region.”

For more information on the Doctor of Arts in transformational leadership, call 800-325-1090 or e-mail gradstudies@franklinpierce.edu

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More than 250 students, faculty and staff climbed 3,165-foot Mount Monadnock in an annual Franklin Pierce tradition that stretches muscles, strengthens relationships and helps cultivate a sense of place among members of the College community.

The crisp, late-summer day offered clear skies with visibility so high that climbers could distinguish the Boston skyline on the eastern horizon. “We are so happy to be up here,” said freshman Erin Larson, from Coventry, Rhode Island. She shared a rock near the summit with classmate Ashley Michel, from Shelton, Connecticut. “Halfway up, we thought maybe we couldn’t do it,” Erin said. “But we’re here.”

As they reached the summit, climbers were met by the color guard of the Franklin Pierce University
Fire Department. Students signed their names to a banner commemorating the climb and then posed for a group picture. Some took out cell phones to call parents and report that they had ascended the mountain.

“The climb is designed to be a community event that kicks off the semester,” said Director of Campus Recreation Doug Carty. “It helps connect students, faculty and staff, and it shows new students what community life at Franklin Pierce is all about.” Some faculty and staff members brought their children along. Students traveled in groups, according to ability and preferred pace, and often encouraged one another to press on.

Also participating were several students from New Orleans who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. They were among 20 Gulf Coast students who are spending the fall semester as guests of Franklin Pierce University
through its Katrina Scholarship program.

Marsha Smith, a sophomore from Tulane University and resident of Wilton, Connecticut, said she expected to be continuing her studies in the South and never imagined she would find herself on a New England mountain top. “But I am glad that I can move forward in my education,” she said. Jessica Orgeron, a New Orleans resident and senior at Loyola University, borrowed a cell phone and called her family from the summit. They were staying at an uncle’s home in El Paso, Texas until they are allowed to return to New Orleans. Jessica came to New Hampshire from El Paso to attend Franklin Pierce for the fall semester after she read about the College’s offer on the Web.

Before the climb, students learned about mountain safety and environmental stewardship from a Monadnock State Park ranger. The group descended to a picnic lunch provided by Sodexho food service. Mount Monadnock, a regional landmark, is said to be the second most frequently climbed mountain in the world, after Japan's Mt. Fuji.

Rindge, NH – Students in Professor Bryan O’Neil’s Investment Analysis course got a lesson in the ups and downs of playing the stock market. This past semester 19 students took part in the portfolio simulation known as Stock-Trak.

Stock-Trak is available to schools and colleges across the country and internationally. Set up as a discount brokerage office, Stock-Trak allows students to set up a brokerage account with an imaginary cash balance determined by the professor. Students may trade as often as they want online or by calling into a toll-free number and just like real-world trading, commissions are charged on trade transactions.

Eric Niedomys, a junior from W Hartford, Connecticut, turned his initial investment of $500,000 into $537,528 to take first place in the class simulation competition. Eric, a financial management major, enjoyed spending the big money, and experienced some highs and lows over the course of the competition. He found himself dropping from first place to seventh in one day and at one point in the competition had over $600,000. “Watching the market go up and down was a stressful job,” he said. His strategy was to invest in the insurance companies primarily. His big winner though was United Defense, which he bought at $52 and sold at $70.

Finishing in second place with an ending balance of $511,421.60 was Kaitlin McDonough, a senior from Lexington, Massachusetts. A management major with finance minor, this was Kaitlin’s last class at Franklin Pierce. “I had gone to a stock broker before,” stated Kaitlin “but I learned so much more about the stock market through the game.”

Third place winner Kimberly Nadeau, a senior and accounting/finance major from Wilmington, Massachusetts. Kim assembled a portfolio worth $500,838.86 with no prior experience in the stock market. Of her third place finish Kim said, “No one had any faith in me. I guess it was beginner’s luck!” Kim is graduating this month and will be working as an events planner at Investors Capital in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Professor O’Neil has taught at the College for seven years and serves as the faculty advisor for the College’s Investment Club. He has been using the Stock-Trak program in his classes for 6 years and believes that the program presents students with all of the challenges faced by professional investors. “I always tell them, don’t get too confident, you could still lose it all, said O’Neil.

RINDGE, NH - Franklin Pierce University
is proud to announce that The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) will accept the second annual Fitzwater Center Award for Leadership in Public Communication at the Fitzwater Center Honors on May 3.

The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication is dedicated to educating leaders of conscience in public communication. This award honors those who have consistently demonstrated through their contributions to the public discourse that they are committed to the same ideals that drive the center, which include an unwavering belief that robust debate and the informed participation that results is the hallmark of a healthy democracy.

Marlin Fitzwater said, "Senator Hagel has spoken forthrightly and comprehensively to the American people about Iraq and social security, two of the leading issues of our time. We are honored that he accepts our Leadership in Public Communication Award. His strong public voice in the Senate has led the country through many serious debates, and he is an inspiration to Franklin Pierce University
students."

Dr George Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce, also praised the Senator's contributions to the public discourse. " Numerous organizations have recognized Senator Hagel for distinguished public service," he said. "Franklin Pierce University
is grateful to the Senator for accepting the 2005 Fitzwater Center Award for Leadership in Public Communication and is proud to add its name to Chuck Hagel's most impressive record of personal and professional recognition."

Victoria Clarke, former assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, was presented the inaugural Fitzwater Center Award for Leadership in Public Communication during the past academic year.

The Fitzwater Center Honors ceremony will take place at the College's Manchester, NH. campus, located in Manchester's historic Jefferson Mill, on May 3, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.

It is largely through the support and generosity of the Pappas’ that this beautiful new, modern baseball facility was built. The original baseball field overlapped the College’s soccer field making it impossible to play both sports simultaneously. Worse than that, during the spring thaw the snow-melt and spring rains would turn the field into a swamp making baseball play nearly impossible. The new field includes a state-of-the-art drainage system, artificial turf, which one student athlete described as “like playing on a big, cushiony rug,” and facilities for home and visiting teams.

“The new Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas baseball field provides our baseball program with an outstanding facility for our student-athletes to perform on,” said Bruce Kirsh, vice president and athletic director at Franklin Pierce. The facility, at the doorstep of our campus provides a breath-taking panoramic view that gives a wonderful first impression to our beautiful campus.”

Pappas is considered by many to be a pioneer in the field of sports medicine. As medical director for the Boston Red Sox for more than twenty years, his expertise is well known. He served at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for more than twenty-five years and is the founding Chair of the Department of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation.

Dr. George Hagerty, president of Franklin Pierce stated, “It is Franklin Pierce College’s privilege to honor Dr. Arthur Pappas, member of the Board of Trustees, and his wife Martha, with the naming of the new baseball field the Arthur and Martha Pappas Field. Together, Dr. and Mrs. Pappas have made tangible their commitment to education through their efforts to help the College build this superb athletic facility. We are most grateful to them for the time and resources they have shared with our students.”

Note to the press: Members of the press are invited to attend. Please contact Shirley English-Whitman at 603-899-4104 if you wish to attend.

RINDGE-A team of students from Franklin Pierce University
won the 2005 New England Regional Competition in the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) program. The Franklin Pierce team matched its educational outreach projects against the programs of teams from Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, and SUNY Buffalo at the SIFE Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair held in Boston on April 4.

Students in Free Enterprise encourages students to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations, and to use their knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach projects. Some of the twenty projects presented by the Franklin Pierce University
SIFE Team included:

o The development of marketing strategies for a variety of local organizations
o Teaching senior citizens how to use the computer
o The development of PSAs for local non-profit organizations
o Teaching business skills to 8th graders in the community.

Teams were judged on the effectiveness of their projects during a 24-minute presentation and were evaluated on creativity and innovation, results of education programs, success in utilizing resources and documentation of activities. Franklin Pierce University
SIFE students also met with dozens of corporate representatives from the Boston business community to discuss job opportunities. Franklin Pierce University
will now go to the 2005 SIFE USA National Exposition, hosted by the Kansas City Business Community, May 22-24 in Missouri.

Dr. Kelly M. Kilcrease, Professor of Management, serves as advisor for the SIFE Team and was named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow in recognition of his leadership and support of the SIFE program at Franklin Pierce College. Dr. Kilcrease stated that although this is the third time FP
has won the SIFE regional competitions, he is most proud of this team as they had a high degree of competition and were the most professional group of students he has ever been associated with.

Founded in 1975 and active on more than 1400 college and university campuses in 33 countries, SIFE is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with business and higher education to provide students the opportunity to make a difference and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise. For more information, contact SIFE World Headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, at 1-800-677-SIFE or contact Dr. Kilcrease at 899-4163.

April 5, 2005
TUESDAY BRIEFINGS SERIES TO FEATURE LOCAL AUTHOR

RINDGE - PETER C. WENSBERG a local author from Greenfield, New Hampshire, will be the featured speaker at Franklin Pierce College’s Tuesday Briefings series. Mr. Wensberg will address the challenges that writers face in his presentation “How to Write a Book” on Tuesday April 12, 2005 at 11 a.m. in the Fitzwater Center for Communications on the campus of Franklin Pierce College. The presentation is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live on WFPC, 105.3LP.

Wensberg is an author and consultant specializing in marketing, communications, and strategic planning. He has published two books, “Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It”, an insider’s look at of Edwin Land, developer of the Polaroid camera and founder of the Polaroid Company and “The Last Bastion,” a social satire about the introduction of women into "the last bastion," Boston's men-only social clubs.

Mr. Wensberg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington and had a career in publishing with Harcourt, Brace and Little, Brown and Company. He joined Polaroid Corporation where he directed marketing in the U.S. for all consumer and technical/industrial products, as well as managing communications and public relations for the corporation as executive vice president. Mr. Wensberg is also a member of the College’s Board of Trustees.

The Fitzwater Center is dedicated to educating leaders of conscience in public communication. To help them find their voices in the public discourse, the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication helps students acquire skills, engages their intellects and challenges their perspectives.

The Tuesday Briefings series brings to campus and regional audiences the information they need for informed participation in the public discourse that is so necessary to a healthy democracy.

April 5, 2005
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF SEEDS OF PEACE, BARBARA GOTTSCHALK TO VISIT FRANKLIN PIERCE

RINDGE - Barbara (Bobbie) Gottschalk, Executive Vice President, Seeds of Peace, will be a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow on the campus of Franklin Pierce University
in Rindge NH the week of April 3-7, 2005.

During her visit, the College plans several public events. On Tuesday April 5 at 7 p.m., a film and discussion session will feature “Peace of Mind” a film in which three Palestinians and four Israelis film their lives after camp, sharing how they feel about historic and current events in their divided land. Viewers will see extraordinary visits between the campers in their homes, which include a refugee camp and an Israeli town built on top of an old Arab village. Each of the film presentations will be in the Fitzwater Center for Communications, room 101.

Wednesday April 6 at 7 p.m. a film and discussion session will feature “Seeds” a movie about ten extraordinary teens that attend the Seeds of Peace International Camp in the USA for three lifechanging weeks during Summer 2002. They share their dreams and fears, listen to opposing views, see beyond prejudices, and eventually respect each other as individuals in an attempt to build the one thing they all strive for: a future.

Finally, Ms. Gottschalk will give a public presentation on Thursday, April 7 from 10 – 11 a.m. in Cheney Hall at Franklin Pierce College. Ms. Gottschalk’s presentation is entitled, “Peacemaking in Good Times and Bad”. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Seeds of Peace is an organization that brings together young people from Israel, Palestine, and other troubled areas for experience in living together peacefully. The organization has a summer camp in Maine as well as a Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem. More than 2,000 participants have graduated from the camp and then returned to their regions for regular meetings and coexistence programs. Ms. Gottschalk has also directed a social service agency responsible for treating people with mental and physical disabilities.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has made Ms. Gottschalk’s visit to Franklin Pierce possible. The Foundation develops programs that bring government, business, and medical leaders, journalists and environmentalists to college campuses across the country.

March 16, 2005
BISHOP GENE ROBINSON IN CHENEY LECTURE SERIES AT FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE

The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, IX Bishop of New Hampshire, is the featured presenter for the 2004-2005 Francis X. Cheney Lectureship in Religion and Society. On Monday, March 28, 2005, Bishop Robinson will speak from 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. in the Fieldhouse at Franklin Pierce College. His presentation, "What in God's Name is Going on in America?-One Christian's Reflection on Religion, Politics and Life in America," is free and open to the public.

When Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of New Hampshire on June 7, 2003, in St. Paul's Church, Concord, NH, he stepped into the international spotlight. The election, the subsequent consent to his election by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in August 2003, and his consecration as bishop in November 2003 prompted an historic and ongoing debate within the Episcopal Church about the nature of leadership, the authority of scripture, and the complexity surrounding how similar churches around the world can live together despite significant cultural differences. As the first openly gay bishop, Robinson met his critics with strength and determination and with an embracing message of respect and hope.

Robinson completed his Master of Divinity at General Theological Seminary in New York in 1973 and has spent more than thirty years in service to the Episcopal Church. He came to New Hampshire in 1975 as the founding director of the Sign of the Dove Retreat Center in Temple, and from 1978-1985 held the position of Youth Ministries Coordinator for Province I. Since 1983 he has served as Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Province of New England, and since 1988 as Canon to the Ordinary for the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.

Robinson sees three important challenges facing the Episcopal Church in the immediate future. The issues that have surfaced as a result of his being named Bishop will require opposing factions to resist the urge to declare certain groups outside the embrace of the Church. Secondly is the need to involve more young people in the life of faith. And finally, the Church's ability to create a sense of community will be a high priority. The 57 year-old Robinson who grew up in Central Kentucky, has vowed to approach the future with his two unshakable qualities - his integrity and his faith.

The Francis X. Cheney Lectureship in Religion and Society was funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in 1999. A trustee (1987-1995) and friend of Franklin Pierce College, Francis Cheney had a long and distinguished career as an Episcopal minister. The lecture series draws nationally and internationally renowned speakers and is dedicated to offering students, faculty, and the public opportunities to hear current thinking on issues of social consequence and spiritual value.

[Note to the press: Members of the press are invited to meet with Bishop Robinson at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, March 28 after the public presentation.]

In a historic ceremony in  Vienna, Austria on November 18, 2004, Dr. George Hagerty, President of Franklin Pierce College, and Dr. Zeddie Bowen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, signed an agreement with the Theresianum Academy that will allow students from the College to study abroad. “This program is very much in keeping with Franklin Pierce’s mission to provide experiential learning opportunities outside the traditional classroom setting,” said Hagerty. “We believe this study abroad program will provide an educationally enriching experience for our students and may create positive memories that will last a lifetime.”

Dr. George Hagerty signs agreement with Dr. Stephan Nagler, Ministerialrat, Kurator, at the Theresianum Academy in Vienna.

The agreement was signed in an eighteenth-century palace once used as a summer residence by the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “This building is indicative of the kind of cultural experience students will have while studying abroad,” said Stella van Renesse-Walling, Special Projects Coordinator at Franklin Pierce College. “These programs are important as they provide a connection to the people, language, history and culture of other countries.”

The three-year agreement between Franklin Pierce University
and the Theresianum Academy in Vienna was approved by the College’s Board of Trustees in October 2004 and will begin in September of 2005. “We selected the Theresianum in Vienna because of the centrality of Austria’s position in the evolving landscape of the European Union,” said Hagerty. “Austria is at the historical and cultural heart of the region and is fast becoming the center of new business development. Austria will play a key role in the near future as the European Union continues its rapid expansion.”

According to Hagerty, approximately seventeen students are expected to travel to Vienna each semester to focus on culture, the arts and language in the fall and business and economics in the spring. In addition, the College will be offering credit towards its certificate in global citizenship through the study abroad program.

The agreement with the Theresianum Academy in Vienna is the second implemented by the College recently. An agreement with Arcadia University provides study abroad options to England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. A program initiated with Lynn University in Dublin two years ago, allows students from the College to study in Ireland as well.

For more information on the international study options available through Franklin Pierce College, please contact Stella van Renesse-Walling at 603-899-4147.

Contact: Shirley English-Whitman
Franklin Pierce College
603-899-4104

August 25, 2004
CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM UNDERWAY AT FRANKLIN PIERCE
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With the infusion of nearly $9 million, Franklin Pierce University
has embarked on an ambitious construction program aimed at providing new or renovated facilities associated with housing, athletics, classroom space and faculty offices. Nearly a dozen projects have been scheduled between May 2004 and the opening of school in 2005, all of which are focused on increased services for students and a dramatically improved infrastructure. Funds for these and other projects have been raised through donations, the sale of bonds, and the College’s operating budget.

Athletic Facilities
Since their construction, the College’s soccer and baseball fields have overlapped making it impossible for the two fields to be used simultaneously. Given their natural grass playing surfaces, playing seasons have often been limited by early or late snowstorms and rapid melting in the spring leaving the fields waterlogged and unusable. Just under $2 million of the College’s construction budget is being allocated to creating two distinct fields, installing artificial surfaces and enhanced amenities such as lighting, dugouts and permanent seating. “The overarching plan for both fields is to provide high quality playing surfaces for the safety of our student-athletes and the general comfort and accessibility of our fans,” said Dr. George Hagerty, President of the College. “The existing fields were inadequate to serve intercollegiate and recreational programs because of the problems with seasonal weather and chronic issues with drainage and playing surfaces.”


One of just a few artificial surfaces in the New England region, the baseball field will be dedicated to Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas in early October. Dr. Pappas, longtime team physician for the Boston Red Sox, is recognized as a pioneer in the field of sports medicine. A Trustee of the College since 1998, Dr. and Mrs. Pappas are the leading donors to the project.

The second field will serve the College’s soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey teams, and will also be constructed with an artificial playing surface. Scheduled for completion at the beginning of the 2004 school term, the multi-purpose field was made possible by the generosity of Sodexho, Inc.

Over the past summer, the College’s Field House received a new roof and the front entrance was extended to create a lobby. The expanded lobby area will allow for a ticket booth, concession stand, and Hall of Fame Room. “The Hall of Fame Room is an important addition to our athletic program,” said Bruce Kirsh, Vice President and Director of Athletics. “The College has never had a central location where the accomplishments of both our individual athletes and our teams can be celebrated by students and visitors to the campus.” Construction on the Field House will take place in three phases with the completion of the phase one roof and lobby to be completed by September of 2004. The second and third phases include renovations to the indoor playing surface and an addition for office space, locker rooms and equipment storage. The final two phases of the project are scheduled in three to five years.

Residence Halls
By far, the largest investment in the College’s infrastructure will be in student housing. With the completion of two townhouse-style residences in 2003, the College is constructing two similar facilities in 2004. Together, the two eight-unit facilities will house 120 students and will be situated near Pearly Pond. According to Hagerty, the new construction allows the College to house more of its students on campus. The new construction is estimated at $3.5 million.

Over the summer of 2004, windows and five stacks of bathrooms were replaced in the Westside residence halls. This phase of work at the Westside Residences is estimated to cost $500,000. Exterior renovations to the three structures are planned later in the construction cycle.

Classroom and Faculty Offices
A new multi-purpose space is scheduled for completion during the fall of 2004. Located adjacent to the boathouse with a view of Pearly Pond, the space may be used for teaching, meeting, or conference activities.

Faculty offices at various locations around campus will be renovated and updated during the summer of 2005 to ensure their ability to meet student needs.

“These projects, and others like them are part of the College’s master plan to provide the most up-to-date and efficient services for our students,” said Hagerty. “Our focus is always on attracting the most motivated and qualified students. In monetary terms this is no small investment, but in the human capital that it fosters, our commitment here is beyond measure. We are truly grateful to all those who have made these projects possible and to the College community for its continued hard work and dedication.” The College has worked closely with The Pons Phillips Group of Portsmouth, New Hampshire which has assisted in the planning and financing of these construction projects.

Other leaders of the state’s law enforcement community scheduled to appear are Keith Lohmann, director, New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council; Chester Jordan, sheriff, Merrimack County; James F. McLaughlin, detective, Keene Police Department; Tim Russell, chief, Henniker Police Department; and Vern Thomas, captain, Derry Police Department.

The media will be represented also by John Greenberg, news director, New Hampshire Public Radio; Tom Kearney, executive editor, The Keene Sentinel; Martin Morenz, news director, WNDS; Charles Perkins, vice president of editorial, The Union Leader; Andrew Vrees, news director, WMUR; and Roger Wood, news director, Clear Channel Communications.

The Law Enforcement Information Technology Fair will run during the conference.

The conference will be held at the new Franklin Pierce University
Manchester campus, 670 North Commercial Street. The keynote dinner with Charles Moose will be held at the Bedford Village Inn starting at 6 p.m. Monday, August 23. Tickets for the dinner are $35 each. The cost of the Monday or Tuesday conference (excluding keynote dinner) is only $55 each day, or $130 for the full conference and keynote dinner. Admission to the Law Enforcement Information Technology Fair is included with any ticket purchase.

For more complete program information, call (603) 899-1039, e-mail
fitzwater@franklinpierce.edu
, or visit www.franklinpierce.edu

RINDGE, N.H. (July 22, 2004) -

Franklin Pierce has earned the fifth annual Northeast-10 Conference Academic Achievement Award for the 2003-2004 academic year. The announcement was made today by Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner David R. Brunk.

Franklin Pierce, which has earned the award the last two years, is the first school to earn the award multiple years in the five years the banner has been issued. Franklin Pierce edged out University of Massachusetts Lowell and Southern New Hampshire University for the second-straight year for this year’s award.

“I am proud to congratulate all of the Franklin Pierce student-athletes on their achievements,“ Brunk said. “The Northeast-10 Conference takes pride in its strength academically and once again, Franklin Pierce has worked hard to epitomize the well-rounded student-athletes on our campuses who successfully integrate athletics and academics.”

The award is determined by the Conference’s faculty athletic representatives by calculating the average grade point average for the entire student body of the 15 member institutions during the academic year. That average is compared to the average grade point average of all the student-athletes competing in all the Conference-sanctioned sports. Each respective institution’s academic standing is then determined by subtracting the average grade point average for the entire student body from that determined for the student-athlete population.

The 2003-2004 academic year was another successful one on and off the fields of play for Franklin Pierce. The 2004 women’s lacrosse team earned Academic Squad status by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) for having a team grade point average over 3.0.

The women’s soccer team placed three student-athletes on the Verizon/CoSIDA District I Academic All-America team in addition to reaching the NCAA Division II Final Four a record 12th-straight season en route to its record sixth appearance in the National Championship match.

Finally, for the second-straight year a student with ties to the athletic department was Valedictorian of the graduating class. Clint Daggan (Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis), a three-year letter winner for the baseball team who served as student assistant coach of the team this spring, earned the honor for the Class of 2004 after former field hockey Academic All-American Kelly Henry was Valedictorian in 2003.

" I am very pleased that Franklin Pierce has been named the recipient of the Northeast-10 Academic Achievement Award for the second consecutive year,” said Bruce Kirsh, Vice President and Director of Athletics at Franklin Pierce. “This is a well deserved honor that our coaches, administrators, faculty and student-athletes can take much pride in for a job well done."

In addition, a school-record 39 Franklin Pierce student-athletes were named to the Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll, also released today. The Honor Roll includes a gold, silver and bronze scholar-athlete list. Each Gold Scholar finished in the top five percent for grade point average among student-athletes at their institution, respectively. Silver Scholars finished in the top six through ten percent and Bronze Scholars placed among the top 11 through 15 percent.

FRANKLIN PIERCE RETAINS NE-10 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - ADD ONE

Franklin Pierce Commissioner’s Honor Roll members are:

GOLD SCHOLARS:
Jennifer Bulcao (Middletown, R.I./Archbishop Williams), Women’s Tennis
Adam Traut (Manchester, Conn./East Catholic), Men’s Cross-Country
Jennifer Wilson (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme), Women’s Cross-Country
Jillian Tente (Wakefield, R.I./South Kingstown), Women’s Soccer
Rachel Mitchell (Shirley, Mass./Ayer), Women’s Cross-Country
Elizabeth Allen (Durham, N.H./Oyster River), Women’s Soccer
Angelique Bottomley (Hampton, Va./Hampton), Women’s Lacrosse
Kenneth Reid (Sarpsborg, Norway), Men’s Soccer
Amanda Sheehan (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich./Moreau Catholic), Women’s Cross-Country
Aase Kibsgaard (Korgen, Norway), Women’s Soccer
Courtney Boardman (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle), Women’s Lacrosse
David Mura (Auburn, Mass./Auburn), Men’s Cross-Country
Mia Makarainen (Espoo, Finland), Women’s Soccer
SILVER SCHOLARS:
David Reid (Cape Elizabeth, Maine/Cape Elizabeth) Men’s Golf
Craig Weeks (Chepachet, R.I./Johnston), Men’s Tennis
Patricia Lang (Monroe, N.H./St. Johnsbury Academy), Women’s Basketball
Briana Bates (Belmont, N.H./Endicott College), Volleyball
Christine Morchauser (Utica, N.Y./Notre Dame), Women’s Cross-Country
Michael Fortier (Barre, Vt./Spaulding) Men’s Cross-Country
Tracy Mallette (Bomerseen, Vt./Fairhaven), Women’s Tennis
Benjamin Niles (North Barrington, Vt./Mt. Anthony Union), Men’s Cross-Country
Alison Considine (Needham, Mass./Needham), Women’s Soccer
Carol Pennamacoor (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), Women’s Tennis
Domenico Roma (Windsor, Ontario/Ste. Annes), Men’s Soccer
Clay Jenkins (Easton, N.H./Profile), Baseball
BRONZE SCHOLARS:
Andrew Jones (Watertown, Conn./Watertown), Baseball
Shayla Wyche (Berlin, N.H./Berlin), Field Hockey
Kelli Fili (Pelham, N.H./Salem), Softball
Dean Patty (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme), Men’s Lacrosse
Danielle Simmons (Syosset, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy), Women’s Basketball
Michelle McConnell (Elora, Ontario/Centre Wellington), Volleyball & Softball
Greg Redding (Kerhonkson, N.Y./Rondout Valley), Baseball
April Demers (Gorham, N.H./Gorham), Field Hockey & Women’s Lacrosse
Hanne Nordberg (Sarpsborg, Norway), Women’s Soccer
Jessica Lloyd (Seymour, Conn./Sacred Heart Academy), Women’s Lacrosse
Bethany Findley (Clinton, Conn./Morgan School), Volleyball
Shalon King (Phippsburgh, Maine/Morse), Women’s Lacrosse
Lene Johansen (Sarpsborg, Norway), Women’s Soccer

The Northeast-10 is one of the largest and most diverse NCAA Division II playing conferences in the nation. It sponsors 23 championship sports including baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, football, field hockey, men’s golf, men’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s indoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, women’s outdoor track and field, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, softball, women’s volleyball, men’s swimming and diving and women’s swimming and diving.
Members of the Northeast-10 include American International College, Assumption College, Bentley College, Bryant College, Franklin Pierce College, Le Moyne College, The University of Massachusetts Lowell, Merrimack College, Pace University, Saint Anselm College, Saint Michael’s College, The College of Saint Rose, Southern Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University and Stonehill College.

Franklin Pierce University
to host panel discussion on
media coverage of ’04 presidential campaign

RINDGE, N.H. (April 21, 2004) -- Franklin Pierce University
will be hosting a panel discussion entitled “Local Edition: Examining Current Political Coverage” on Thursday April 22nd at 12:15pm in Cheney Hall. The event, held at the Rindge campus, is free and open to the public.

"We are quite fortunate to have national and regional journalists coming to campus to share their perspectives on media coverage of the 2004 presidential campaign," said Dr. Kristen Nevious, Visiting Professor and program coordinator for the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce College. "With growing interest in the upcoming general election, it is important that we look at how the media has covered the early stages of this campaign and what needs to transpire in the months ahead.”

The panel

Callie Crossley, Woodrow Wilson Fellow/Documentary and TV News Producer

Callie Crossley is a seasoned broadcast professional whose portfolio includes commentary, media criticism, and speaking, as well as producing and directing television and film. Ms. Crossley is most familiar to Bostonians from her weekly appearances on the WGBH-TV show Beat the Press, an award winning program examining local and national media coverage. Most recently she’s appeared on NPR, the New England Cable News network, and CNN as a commentator. Ms. Crossley is currently Principal of CrossChannels, a company she founded to represent her work as a professional moderator, public speaker, producer, writer, and media consultant.

Prior to her current work, Ms. Crossley spent thirteen years as a network television Producer for ABC NEWS 20/20. In addition, she was a Producer on the critically acclaimed PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize. Her work has earned several top journalism awards, including a national Emmy, an Edward R. Murrow award, and the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia award (Gold Baton), considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism.

Ms. Crossley’s visit to Franklin Pierce has been made possible by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Foundation develops programs that bring government, business, and medical leaders, journalists and environmentalists to college campuses across the country.

Jeff Feingold, Editor, New Hampshire Business Review

Jeff Feingold has worked as an editor and reporter for 28 years, 23 of them in New Hampshire. He has worked as an editor at weekly and daily newspapers in New Jersey and New Hampshire and is currently editor of the biweekly New Hampshire Business Review. For a number of years, he wrote "Between The Lines" and "The Last Word," the only media criticism columns in New Hampshire.

In 2003, he was named the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Journalist of the Year.
Feingold is a longtime regular panelist on two political TV talk shows -- NHPTV’s 11’s "Outlook"program and "Capitol Ideas" on WNDS-TV -- as well as a regular guest on a number of New Hampshire radio programs.

James W. Pindell, Managing Editor & Political Reporter, PoliticsNH.com

James Pindell is the editor of www.PoliticsNH.com , a New Hampshire political news website based in Manchester. He is also a New Hampshire correspondent for the Boston Globe. A consummate political junkie, James attended Drake University in Des Moines solely because of the Iowa Caucuses. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York. Before moving to New Hampshire he worked at the Des Moines Register, the Indianapolis Star, and covered West Virginia politics for the Morgantown Dominion Post.
During the recent presidential primary he was profiled in both the Washington Post and Concord Monitor. He comments on Granite State politics for CNN, Fox News Channel, WMUR, New Hampshire Public Television, and New England Cable News.

Rich Killion, Director of Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication, Franklin Pierce College

Killion is Director of the Marlin Fitzwater Center and is the director of the College’s widely recognized Polling Institute. Prior to this appointment, Rich was the campaign manager for Bruce Keough's 2002 gubernatorial campaign and Executive Director of N.H. Citizens for A Sound Economy where he ran a number of state-wide issue advocacy campaigns.

In 2003, Killion was recognized by The Union Leader in its “40 Under 40” series of emerging leaders making New Hampshire a better place to live. Frequently sought for comment on politics and policy, Rich has appeared on national broadcast outlets such PBS, NPR, C-SPAN and been quoted in scores of national and regional newspapers.

The Moderator

Paul Bush, Assistant Professor, Mass Communication, Franklin Pierce College

Professor Bush was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003 and serves as Coordinator of the Mass Communication Department at Franklin Pierce College. He has been teaching at Franklin Pierce since 1990.

Paul has been a journalist for twenty-five years and has served as a correspondent for the New England section of The Boston Globe and for the American News Service. Previously serving as an editor for three start-up magazines, Bush received his B.A. from Bucknell University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the Vermont College of Norwich University.

About Franklin Pierce College

Franklin Pierce is a fully accredited four-year liberal arts college in Rindge, N.H. The college has six Graduate and Professional Studies campuses in six other New Hampshire communities: Concord, Keene, Lebanon, Nashua, Portsmouth, and Salem.

The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication is a 12,000 square foot state-of-the-art communications facility on the Rindge campus of Franklin Pierce. The Fitzwater Center is committed to the study of the relationship between the presidency and the media, and the role of that relationship in the public discourse.
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MASS COMM SENIOR OFFERED POSITION WITH PARAMOUNT

Mass Communications Senior Sara Barnthouse has been offered a position beginning June, 2004 at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, California. Ms Barnthouse went to Los Angeles over Spring Break and interviewed with Franklin Pierce University
grad Matthew Reiss (class of ’82) who is the Manager of Group Recruitment and Guest Relations.

Ms. Barnthouse is currently in production on the pilot of the documentary series “Franklin Pierce Family,” a biography of Franklin Pierce University
President Dr. George Hagerty, in an Independent Study with Professor Katherine Cronin. After graduation, Ms. Barnthouse will live in Hollywood and join a group of Franklin Pierce alum that work at Paramount Pictures. Franklin Pierce University
is proud to be well represented by our current and former grads working at Paramount.

Contact: Katherine Cronin

View more (PDF): Crossley TV Screenings, Crossley Speaking Engagement, Crossley Panel Discussion

DOCUMENTARY AND TV NEWS PRODUCER, CALLIE CROSSLEY, TO VISIT FRANKLIN PIERCE

Documentary and TV News Producer, Callie Crossley, will give a public presentation on Monday, April 19 from 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. in Cheney Hall at Franklin Pierce College. Ms. Crossley’s presentation, “Real Heroism/Reel People” will offer reflections on the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision that required schools to integrate their classrooms in the 1950s. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Crossley is best known for her work on the landmark series Eyes on the Prize. As producer for two of the series’ episodes, Crossley was nominated for an Oscar and received an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award. She also produced the ABC News Special Black in White America and This Far By Faith for public television. She currently produces the news program 20/20 for ABC and is a frequent guest on the PBS program, Beat the Press.

Ms. Crossley’s visit to Franklin Pierce has been made possible by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Foundation develops programs that bring government, business, and medical leaders, journalists and environmentalists to college campuses across the country.

 Video - Commencement Highlights

The thirty-ninth Commencement of Franklin Pierce University
will be held on Sunday, May 16, 2004 on the College’s Rindge campus. Scheduled to receive degrees will be candidates from the College’s six satellite campuses and seniors from the Rindge campus. The College will award honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degrees to Linda Biehl, co-founder of the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa; Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Communitarian movement; and Jerry Lewis, actor, director and humanitarian.

The 2004 Valedictorian for the Rindge campus is Clinton Daggan, a Political Science and History major from Staten Island, New York. And the Valedictorian for the Division of Graduate and Professional Studies is Amy Moorman, an American Studies major from the College’s Portsmouth Campus.

Since their daughter Amy’s politically-motivated murder in 1993, Linda and Peter Biehl have worked tirelessly to transform the very environment that fostered their daughter’s killers. At the time of her death, Amy Biehl, a graduate of Stanford University, had been working in South Africa on a Fulbright Scholarship to study the country’s transition from a society based on apartheid to a free democracy. Through the Amy Biehl Foundation, Linda and Peter have been able to provide residents of South Africa’s poorest townships with access to increasing levels of healthcare, education and employment opportunities. The foundation has sponsored a wide range of sporting events, arts, music and theater programs, and skills training, and has opened a bakery that employs local residents and distributes free bread. In an unprecedented act of forgiveness, Linda and Peter Biehl testified at the hearing of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission when Amy’s killers appealed for amnesty. The four young men were granted amnesty and since that time, two of them have been employed by the foundation to carry on the legacy of Amy Biehl. Through her work, Linda Biehl has been a strong advocate for restorative justice and has voiced her message of compassion and reconciliation around the world.

An educator for over forty-five years, and a prolific writer, Amitai Etzioni is best known as the founder of the Communitarian Movement. Moved by what he considered to be a moral erosion of society, Etzioni developed a vision of a society that is fair and just and fosters a strong sense of responsibility among its members. This vision of a caring society became the basis for his Communitarian principles. The movement advocates for a society without preference to race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference; one in which both children and adults are safe from the proliferation of weapons and personal violence. In support of these concepts and others, Etzioni has authored twenty-two books including an autobiography entitled, My Brother’s Keeper: A Memoir and a Message. He taught at Columbia University for twenty-two years and has been a professor at The George Washington University for twenty-four years where he is the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. In addition, he has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institute and has advised the White House on domestic affairs.

Jerry Lewis began his career in show business at the tender age of five and for more than fifty years has been recognized as the consummate comedian. His association with fellow actor and comedian, Dean Martin, resulted in a decade of nightclub performances, recordings, and sixteen popular films. Lewis’ talents drew him into the realms of writing, directing, and producing. He has been honored in Europe eight times as the Best Director of the Year, received the Comic Life Achievement Award from the National Academy of Cable Programming and was inducted into the Broadcast Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters. Other honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Comedy Awards and the Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival. Many know Lewis for his philanthropy in his ongoing crusade against muscular dystrophy. Since 1949 Lewis has personally waged a campaign to raise funds to assist those stricken with the neuromuscular disease. His humanitarian efforts have been recognized by the United States Senate and the AFL-CIO and he has received the Jefferson Award in a ceremony at the Supreme Court, the Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Perhaps the crowning achievements for a lifetime of selfless dedication to his fellow man were his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 and his induction into the French Legion of Honor in 1984. Lewis has been described by Congressman Les Aspin as “a man for all seasons, all people, all times.”

The Messiah, by George Frideric Handel, will be performed on Saturday, December 6 at 8:00 p.m. at Franklin Pierce University
in Rindge, New Hampshire. Perhaps the most popular musical tradition of the holiday season, this year’s performance marks the thirtieth consecutive year that the work has been presented at Franklin Pierce. Music Director, David E. Brandes, will conduct a professional Baroque orchestra and a chorus that could number up to three hundred singers.

Soloists for the performance include Molly Jo Bessey, soprano, from Waltham, Massachusetts; Dorothy Jean Yanish, alto, from Peterborough, New Hampshire; Thomas Oesterling, tenor, from Boston, Massachusetts; and Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass, from Nashua, New Hampshire. The chorus is made up of both amateur and professional musicians from the surrounding communities.

David E. Brandes, Professor of Music at Franklin Pierce College, has been the Musical Director for The Messiah for the past thirty years. “I can tell you I still find musical inspiration in this work every time I conduct it,” said Brandes. “This is great music. This work still speaks to us today as it has down through the ages.” Brandes notes the number of both participants and audience who return annually to be part of the performance as testimony to the great appeal of this work.

The Messiah, written by Handel in 1741, is organized into three sections consisting of arias and choruses based on passages drawn from the Bible and describing the birth, death, and resurrection of the Christ. The performance of December 6 will include selections from each of the three sections and will feature many of the familiar pieces associated with the holiday season.

The concert is free and open to the public. Anyone wishing to sing in the choir should call 603-899-4147. There is no registration fee for choir members. Singers are asked to attend rehearsals beginning at noon on Saturday, December 6 and should provide their own scores. Scores may be purchased through the Franklin Pierce bookstore (603-899-4093 or fpc_bkstr@fheg.follett.com).

Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Jaymie Durnan, will present “An Update on Iraq and the War on Terrorism” at Franklin Pierce University
on Monday, November 24 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Clubhouse in the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Activity Center at Northfields.

In his capacity as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr. Durnan advises both Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Deputy Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, on numerous issues facing the Department of Defense. Mr. Durnan served on active duty as a naval officer with tours in carrier-based aviation. He is an attorney whose practice includes general corporate law, government contracts law, and Internet law.

The program is free and open to the public. An opportunity for questions will follow the program.

Lawson believes that in presenting a known work it is valuable to subvert the expectations of the audience. “You go in thinking you know what you’re going to get. But if that’s all you get – there’s an inherent disappointment in the experience. I think that way for both the audience and the artist. Is it ‘Hamlet’? Sure. It’s about a man so obsessed by revenge that he subverts everything else in his life for that end. Is he successful? Yeah – but the consequences far outweigh his central achievement. In fact, he winds up killing everything he loves. It’s very much ‘Hamlet’. I also think it’s startlingly relevant to many world events around us now. That’s what makes the literature so vital.”

Bob Lawson has been an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Franklin Pierce University
for the past ten years. His production of “…but the rain is full of ghosts” was one of four productions selected for performances at the National American College Theater Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in April of 2003.

September 22, 2003

CYCLING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE MAKES STOP AT FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE

This fall a group of bicyclists representing the Global Living Project (GLP) will ride nearly 1500 miles throughout New England to deliver a message about sustainability and the future of the natural environment. Along the way, organizers will conduct over thirty workshops to educate community and environmental groups on the options available to the public for living a simple yet abundant life.

On Tuesday, September 30 members of the Global Living Project will ride to the Franklin Pierce campus at approximately 5:00 p.m. and conduct a workshop at the Fitzwater Center Lecture Hall at 7:00 p.m. “Cycling for a Sustainable Future,” is sponsored by the College’s Ecological Conscience Initiative which promotes activities and ideas that will make the College and local communities more environmentally sustainable. The program is free and open to the public.

According to Rowan Sherwood, co-director of the Global Living Project, “Attaining sustainability will require change on all levels of society including business, media and government. Each one of us can make a difference in creating a sustainable world.”

The program will outline three tools that can be used to assess the impact of our lifestyle on the natural world and the rest of humanity. The first, ecological footprinting, quantifies the amount of land needed to support the production of the things we use and to absorb our waste. The second, drawn from the popular book, Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, offers a design for personal economics that includes becoming free of debt, saving money, and aligning work with personal values. And the third tool advocates spending time in the natural environment for inspiration and to gain insight into the needs of other species.

In addition to their sustainability education program, members of the Global Living Project will discuss the new book, Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, written by GLP founder Jim Merkel (New Society Publishers; September, 2003). The book addresses GLP’s “100 Year Plan to Sustainability,” a clarion call to those who have ample resources to live more lightly on the earth. According to Merkel, the theme of the book is equity among humans, species, the present generation and future generations. In his book, Merkel offers personal answers to 21st century global challenges. Rather than prescribing an ascetic lifestyle, Merkel describes a life of abundance where living on less is fun.

Award is College’s first in three Northeast-10 seasons
31 student-athletes named to Commissioner’s Honor Roll 

RINDGE, N.H. (August 18, 2003) – Franklin Pierce has earned the fourth annual Northeast-10 Conference Academic Achievement Award for the 2002-2003 academic year. The announcement was made today by Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner David R. Brunk.

“I congratulate all of the Franklin Pierce student-athletes on their achievements,” Brunk said. “The Northeast-10 Conference takes pride in its strength academically and Franklin Pierce has worked hard to epitomize the well-rounded student-athletes on our campuses who successfully integrate athletics and academics”

The award is determined by the Conference’s faculty athletic representatives by calculating the average grade point average for the entire student body of the 15 member institutions during the academic year. That average is compared to the average grade point average of all the student-athletes competing in all the Conference-sanctioned sports. Each respective institution’s academic standing is then determined by subtracting the average grade point average for the entire student body from that determined for the student-athlete population.

Franklin Pierce edged the University of Massachusetts Lowell and last year’s award winner, Southern New Hampshire University for the honor. Franklin Pierce boasted a 2.991 grade point average among its student-athlete population, which compared against the College’s student body GPA was the largest ratio among the 15 Northeast-10 Conference schools.

The 2003 women's lacrosse team boasted the top team GPA in all of Division II this past spring with a 3.268 GPA.

The 2002-2003 academic year was a highly successful one on and off the fields of play for Franklin Pierce. The 2003 women’s lacrosse team posted the highest grade point average in Division II this past spring as its 3.268 cumulative GPA earned the program its first Merit Award from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA).

A school-record nine student-athletes earned Verizon/CoSIDA District I Academic

All-America honors this past year, including Kelly Henry (Wyoming, R.I./Chariho Regional) who also went on to claim the College’s first Verizon Academic All-America selection since 1998. Henry also served the College as Valedictorian of the Class of 2003, as she graduated with a 3.99 cumulative grade point average.
The women’s soccer team placed a program-best four student-athletes on the Verizon/CoSIDA District I Academic All-America teams and the volleyball program saw the first two student-athletes in program history achieve Academic All-District honors.

“This honor is one that I am very proud of and pleased to accept,” said Bruce Kirsh, Vice President and Director of Athletics at the College. “This is a direct reflection of the fine coaches on our staff, an excellent faculty and the outstanding student-athletes that attend Franklin Pierce.”

Thirty-one Franklin Pierce student-athletes were named to the Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll, also released today. The Honor Roll includes a gold, silver and bronze scholar-athlete list. Each Gold Scholar finished in the top five percent for grade point average among student-athletes at their institution, respectively. Silver Scholars finished in the top six through ten percent and Bronze Scholars placed among the top 11 through 15 percent.

Franklin Pierce Commissioner’s Honor Roll members are:

Gold Scholars

Kelly Henry, Field Hockey
Andrea Caesar (Visby, Sweden), Women’s Soccer  
Rachel Mitchell (Shirley, Mass./Ayer), Cross Country
Clint Daggan (Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis), Baseball
Elizabeth Allen (Durham, N.H./Oyster River), Women’s Soccer
Wolfgang Koschnitzki (Eschborn, Germany), Men’s Soccer
Chris Schwarz (Babenhausen, Germany), Men’s Soccer  
Michael Fortier (Barre, Vt./Spaulding), Men’s Basketball/Cross Country  
Catrina Cuevas (Aurora, Colo./James I. O’Neill (N.Y.)), Volleyball  
David Reid (Cape Elizabeth, Maine/Cape Elizabeth), Golf  
Jennifer Bulcao (Middletown, R.I./Middletown), Women’s Tennis

Silver Scholars

Stephanie Bradley (Warrington, Pa./Miller Place (N.Y.)), Field Hockey 
Zvonko Ilic (Nis, Yugoslavia), Men’s Basketball  
Jillian Tente (Wakefield, R.I./South Kingstown), Women’s Soccer  
Courtney Boardman (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle), Women’s Lacrosse/Field Hockey  
Martta Makila (Vantaa, Finland), Women’s Soccer  
Alison Considine (Needham, Mass./Needham), Women’s Soccer
Andrew Lippincott (Swanzey, N.H./Monadnock), Baseball  
Bjorgolfor Takefusa (Reykjavik, Iceland), Men’s Soccer  
Kim Smith (Beverly, Mass./Beverly), Women’s Tennis)  
Angel Bottomley (Hampton, Va./Hampton), Women’s Lacrosse

Bronze Scholars

Kent Willingham (Queens, N.Y./McNair Academy), Men’s Basketball/Cross Country  
Alissa Silverman (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich), Field Hockey/Women’s Lacrosse  
Patricia Lang (Monroe, N.H./Saint Johnsbury Academy), Women’s Basketball  
Domenico Roma (Windsor, Ontario/Ste. Annes), Men’s Soccer  
Tracy Mallette (Bomoseen, Vt./Fairhaven), Women’s Soccer  
Aase Kibsgaard (Korgen, Norway), Women’s Soccer  
Robin Drastig (Hofheim, Germany), Men’s Soccer  
Ellen Plastridge (Harvard, Mass./Bromfield), Women’s Tennis  
Anumari Ylesmaki (Vantaa, Finland), Women’s Soccer
Sara Cheeseman (Chester, Conn./Valley Regional), Field Hockey/Women’s Lacrosse

 The Northeast-10 is one of the largest and most diverse NCAA Division II playing conferences in the nation. It sponsors 23 championship sports including baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, football, field hockey, men’s golf, men’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s indoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, women’s outdoor track and field, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, softball, women’s volleyball, men’s swimming and diving and women’s swimming and diving.

Members of the Northeast-10 include American International College, Assumption College, Bentley College, Bryant College, Franklin Pierce College, Le Moyne College, The University of Massachusetts Lowell, Merrimack College, Pace University, Saint Anselm College, Saint Michael’s College, The College of Saint Rose, Southern Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University and Stonehill College.
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RINDGE, N.H. (June 18, 2003) – The Franklin Pierce women’s lacrosse team boasts the top cumulative team grade point average in Division II and was named one of eight Merit Squads by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) today. The Merit award is the first for the Franklin Pierce women’s lacrosse program in its seven-year history.

Also honored by the IWLCA were senior Sara Cheeseman (Chester, Conn./Valley Regional) and junior Shalon King (Phippsburg, Maine/Morse) who each earned spots on the Division II Academic Honor Roll. Juniors and seniors with cumulative GPAs of 3.50 or higher earn spots on the honor roll.

Franklin Pierce, which boasts a Division II-best 3.268 cumulative GPA, was the lone Northeast-10 Conference institution awarded Merit Squad status as it topped LIU-C.W. Post (3.26) and University of New Haven (3.224) for the No. 1 spot. Other schools boasting cumulative team GPAs of 3.00 or higher is Bloomsburg (Pa.) University, Lock Haven (Pa.) University, Millersville (Pa.) University, Pfeiffer (N.C.) University and West Chester (Pa.) University.

Ten of the 15 members of the 2003 Ravens women’s lacrosse team earned Dean’s List status (3.33 GPA or above) last semester:

• Angel Bottomley (Jr, Hampton, Va./Hampton) – 3.87 (3.46 cum) anthropology/history
• Sara Cheeseman (Sr, Chester, Conn./Valley Regional) – 3.73 (3.50) history/criminal justice
• April Demers (So, Gorham, N.H./Gorham) – 3.65 (3.67) mass communication
  Kara LaSalle (Fr, Gilford, N.H./Gilford) – 3.58 (3.55) mathematics/psychology
• Courtney Boardman (Fr, Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle) – 3.86 (3.82) mass communication
• Alissa Silverman (Fr, Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) – 3.65 (3.76) mass communication
• Quinn-Monique Ogden (Jr, Hamden, Conn./Sacred Heart Academy) – 3.33 (3.17) anthropology
• Olivia Churchill (So, Bath, Maine/Morse) – 3.47 (3.18) English
• Rebecca Thibault (Sr, Auburn, Mass./Auburn) – 3.50 (3.22) English
• Shalon King (Jr, Phippsburg, Maine/Morse) – 3.73 (3.57) mass communication

Senior Sara Cheeseman was named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for the second-straight year. Cheeseman, who graduated in May with a Bachelor’s Degree in history and criminal justice, earns IWLCA Academic Honor Roll status for the second-straight year with a 3.50 cumulative GPA after registering a 3.73 GPA her final semester at the College. A three-year starter in the Ravens defensive unit, Cheeseman started all 13 matches in 2003 and registered her first career point with an assist in an 18-5 victory over Southern Connecticut State University. She also totaled 11 ground balls and one caused turnover for the season. Cheeseman is also a four-year letterwinner on the Franklin Pierce field hockey team, earning National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFCHA) All-Academic honors.

Junior Shalon King was named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for the first time. King, a mass communications major at the College with a 3.57 cumulative GPA after posting a 3.73 GPA last semester, earns her first IWLCA Academic Honor Roll selection. A co-captain this spring, King is a three-year starter who totaled a career-best 15 points this season. She dished a program-record ten assists, which on its own would have also been a career record, to go with five goals (one match-winner). She also totaled 14 groundballs, ten caused turnovers and seven draw controls for the season. For her career, King has totaled a program-best 12 assists and 11 goals for 23 points.

Franklin Pierce completed its best season in program history in 2003, establishing new program marks for overall (5) and Conference (4) victories and earning the first postseason appearance ever.

Contact: Doug Monson, '96
Sports Information Director
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Athletics Department (603) 899-4222

This brand new, modern facility is one and a half times the size of the existing space, and allows for expansion in all of the College’s programs. The facility features 11 classrooms, two state-of-the-art computer labs, a spacious student lounge and reception area, three physical therapy labs and expanded office space with wireless Internet access throughout.

The only fully accredited, four-year liberal arts college in Concord, Franklin Pierce University
has been the academic home to thousands of local area adult students. The college offers certificate and degree programs in areas such as Accounting, Criminal Justice, Management, and Human Services. In response to the need for more advanced level degrees in the area, the college has added several graduate degree programs including the MBA in Leadership and Master of Science in Information Technology Management (MSITM). This past year, Franklin Pierce in Concord expanded its program offerings to include a full-time Master of Physical Therapy Program and this summer it will be the home of the Summer Intensive Teacher Certification program.

In October 2002, the Master of Physical Therapy program took up residence in the new building, taking advantage of the much-needed and newly installed orthopedic and neurological labs. Future plans for the MPT program include a student-run physical therapy clinic. The new campus will be fully operational in time for the summer session that begins on July 5, 2003 without interruption to student services or programming.
 

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