Reflections Magazine Issue #54 - Fall 2000 | Page 6

From the
Heights

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ongratulations to the following Siena Heights faculty, whose promotions in rank were approved by the
Board of Trustees at the end of the
Spring 2000 semester: promoted to Professor—Daniel McVeigh (English), Christine
Reising (art), and Simone Yehuda (English);
promoted to Associate Professor—Mark
DiPietro (theatre and speech), Idali Feliciano (education), and Jun Tsuji (biology).
Peggy Treece Myles (Graduate Studies)
was selected as the outstanding Educator of
the Year by the Lenawee County Chapter

Doug Miller ’74, director of technical theatre
at Siena Heights, this summer served as designer for the Plowshares Theatre Company
production of “Full Circle” at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
“I was honored to work with Plowshares,”
said Miller noting that they are Michigan’s
only professional African-American theatre
company and one of just a few such companies in the nation. “They are a real force in
the Midwest.”
Working with Plowshares was especially
rewarding for Miller because it reunited him
with Leslie Gladden ‘93, now the Plowshares
business manager. “Leslie was a great student
and I really enjoyed working with her again,”
Miller said.
A member of the Siena Heights faculty
for more than 20 years, Miller teaches
production and design
classes such as lighting,
costume and scene
design. He also tries to
give students as much
hands-on production
experience as possible.
Much of that experience comes from

Faculty Honors
and Awards
of Phi Delta Kappa, an international professional society of educators.

Conformational Analysis using Chime or
RasMol.”

Steve Wathen (chemistry) attended the
16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, held at the University of Michigan
this past summer. In
addition to attending
workshops on “Safety
in Academic Laboratories” and “Writing
Across the Chemistry
Curriculum,” he presented a program titled,
“A Student Exercise in

Jack Bologna (business administration
and management, emeritus) has two new
books available: “Avoiding Cyber Fraud in
Small Businesses: What Auditors and Owners Need to Know” (John Wiley & Sons)
and “Preventing Corporate Embezzlement”
(Butterworth-Heinemann). Both books are
co-authored with Paul Shaw. The online
bookseller amazon.com lists a total of 11
books by Siena’s own Jack Bologna!

working on five Theatre Siena productions
each year.
“We work on a limited budget, so we have to
push, squeeze and tug to provide the in-yourlap theatre that audiences demand,” Miller
said. “It is exactly the kind of work students
will need to be doing when they leave and get
professional jobs.”
Theatre students also sometimes have the
opportunity to assist Miller with professional
design assignments. Miller’s recent work
has included projects with the American
Drama Group of Europe in Munich, the LynnAllen Organization of New York City, the
International Theatre Company of London,
the Toledo Repertory Theatre, the Michigan
Ensemble Theatre in Traverse City and the
Westgate Dinner Theatre in Toledo, as well
as the Plowshares project.
Through the years, he also has worked on
18 productions at the Croswell Opera House
in Adrian.
Miller directs one or two Theatre Siena productions each year, and designs almost
every Theatre Siena show. Although
he enjoys the stimulation of outside
professional assignments, he has
no plans to leave his teaching
position and looks forward to
many more years working with
students.
“I would love to design and
direct forever,” he says.

Greg Fallon (business administration
and management) was invited to and participated in the Congress of Political Economists
(COPE) at the London School of Economics
in August. Topics addressed at the week-long
conference included: Third World Nations,
the European Union, GATT, and political
events and consequences regarding the freedom of the republics of the former Soviet
Union.
Mark DiPietro ‘83 (theatre and speech)
followed in the venerable footsteps of
Jimmy Durante this summer when he took
to the stage in Adrian for the Croswell Opera House’s historic revival of Cole Porter’s
1936 musical, “Red, Hot and Blue.” Until the
Croswell took on the task, the show had never
been revived, anywhere, since its original
Broadway production
starring Ethel Merman,
Bob Hope and Durante. The “fabulous trio”
who reinvented those
roles in Adrian pulled
off a “tour de force”
according to The Daily Telegram. DiPietro’s
performance as the lovable jailbird Policy
Pinkle was lauded as “an over-the-top performance” and “great fun.” Although “not a
show to see for the storyline...one of the silliest ever put on stage,” the musical featured
wonderful Cole Porter tunes, offbeat humor
including some surprisingly contemporary
political jabs, and “madcap performances”
such as DiPietro interrogating himself before
a Senate committee. The show, and DiPietro’s
part in it, attracted considerable attention
throughout the region.
Pat Schnapp, RSM (English) gave a precontinued on page 16
sentation last spring on “Restorative Justice”