Terrier Volume 77, Number 1 - Spring 2013 | Page 15

Faculty Notes
Dennis Anderson (Management/Information
Technology) served as an observer at the
12th session of the Committee of Experts on
Public Administration (CEPA) of the United
Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) to participate in a global discussion
on public administration.
John DiFiore (Physical Education) was selected
to be part of the Urban Physical Education
Leadership Coalition. Along with people from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the National Association for Sport and Physical
Education, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and
Action for Healthy Kids, DiFiore will work to increase
the quality of physical education in urban settings.
Uwe Gielen (Psychology) co-edited the book,
Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an
International Context (Routledge), which reviews
the state of counseling and psychotherapy around
the world. The prolific Gielen also wrote the
Foreword to L. R. Naidoo and S. M. Sehoto’s new
book, AbaNguni traditional healing: Indigenous
mental health practices in KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa; two co-authored articles that appeared in the
International Psychology Bulletin, and two book
reviews (“Confessions of an Education Mama”
[Review of the book: Battle Hymn of the Tiger
Mother] and “Pragmatic and Flexible Returnees
with Multilayered Identities” [Review of the book:
Return migration and identity: A global phenomenon, a Hong Kong case]. Gielen delivered the
keynote address, “Healers and Counselors on the
Roof of the World,” at the 7th Critical Multicultural
Counseling and Psychotherapy Conference:
Integrating Asian Healing Traditions into Mental
Health Care, and gave three presentations at the
30th International Congress of Psychology in
Cape Town, South Africa. He also discussed
“Young Female Chinese Americans” in NYC at
the 5th On New Shores Conference 2012 at
Ryerson University, Toronto.

Marlon Joseph’s ’05 (Biology) research, “Breast
Cancer Diagnosis from Screening in Trinidad and
Tobago: Opportunities for Cancer Prevention,”
which tries to determine why women in Trinidad
have among the highest mortality rate for breast
cancer in the Americas, was published in the
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Joseph
hopes his research will help in, “designing an
effective strategy for managing and controlling the
public health burden of breast cancer.”

Marlon D. Joseph ’05 with students Raghda
Elshafey’16, Gabriela Ortiz ’16, and Farah Sherine ’16.
John McNamara (Physical Education) had his
paper “Keeping Football Players Hydrated”
published in the National Strength and Conditioning
Association’s Performance Training Journal.
Mark McSherry (Communication Arts) again helped
judge the $50,000 Media for Liberty Awards in
Washington, DC and the United Kingdom-based
global Online Media Awards. In addition, McSherry
wrote about the final of the US Open Tennis Grand
Slam for The Scotsman, the newspaper where he
served as Business Editor for five years.

sides of the argument surrounding assisted suicide,
taking a hard look at the last 100 years of prosecutions against doctors in the US and the United
Kingdom who participated in medical euthanasia/
assisted suicide. Pappas also focuses on the role
of media in some of these high profile cases.
At a faculty colloquium
at Touro Law School,
Demetra Pappas
compared the assisted
suicide case of Jack
Kevorkian to the
Michael Jackson, Conrad
Murray medicinal
overdose case. P H O T O :
Courtesy Kristen Grennan
Terry Quinn’s (English) two-act play, “Bad
Evidence,” received its West Coast premiere at
The Elephant Theater in Hollywood. The play
previously ran for five weeks in Manhattan.
Frank Sorrentino (Political
Science) published his new
book, Presidential Leadership
and the Bureaucratic State
(Outskirts Press), that traces
the political battle for power
and policy in America between
the Oval Office and agencies
as varied at the FBI and the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Gregory Tague (English)
edited the latest anthology
of stories published by
Editions Bibliotekos, Puzzles
of Faith and Patterns of
Doubt: Short Stories and
Poems. The collection offers
stories of divine mystery and
moral courage. ●

Carmine Nogara (Accounting) won re-election
to the Glen Rock Borough Council for another
three-year term.
Demetra Pappas’ (Sociology) book, The Euthanasia/
Assisted Suicide Debate (Greenwood Press),
was nominated for the 2013 British Society of
Criminology Book Prize. The book presents both

Ervin and
Edith Drake
with St. Francis
College students
at The Mabel
Mercer Cabaret
Convention.

Kathryn Grant (Communication Arts) brought students from her Acting Class to see The Mabel Mercer
23rd Annual New York Cabaret Convention. They were treated to an impromptu lesson in the American
Songbook from songwriting legend, Ervin Drake (“Good Morning Heartache,” “I Believe,” “It Was a
Very Good Year”). “Drake’s impact on the world’s music scene was enormous. Both Ervin Drake, 93,
and his charming wife, Edith, 90, were happy to greet SFC students, tell them a bit about their lives and
urged the students to ‘t