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I am writing about your Quarterly magazine.
My daughter is entering her senior year at Ithaca and in the three years I have been receiving your magazine, not once do you mention the dance team. Every sport is mentioned and recognized. I think it is a shame that your school has a great dance team no one seems to notice.
They have won competitions in Albany and Connecticut. They were invited to Disney World to compete in the nationals. They made it to the semifinals, which was great seeing they were up against all the big southern colleges.
I think if you would talk to these girls you will find such pleasant young ladies who represent Ithaca College.
Try going to a football or basketball game they do at halftime. These girls practice three-four nights a week, three hours a night. Besides jobs, being excellent students, and other activities, these girls still show up.
They put on fashion shows to raise money for their uniforms and traveling. Half of the money raised goes to a charity. I wish you people would give these girls some recognition. They sure deserve it.
I am just a proud parent whose daughter, Kristen, has been on the team since day one.
Please take this seriously, and I hope I see these girls in your next Quarterly.
Phyllis Fasanello
Kenmore, New York
 Ithaca's 1996 dance team photo by Eileen Ryan |
Editor's note: Started in the spring of 1994, the Ithaca College
dance team performs during College football and basketball games.
It has also done extremely well in competitions this year. It
placed ninth at the 1996 National College Cheerleading and Dance
Team Championship, held in Orlando, and second at the New England
States College Championship, which took place at Southern Connecticut
State University. In March the team traveled to Albany to successfully
defend its regional title at the National Cheerleaders Association's
Northeast Cheerleading and Dance Team Championship.
As a speech-language pathologist for the past 12 years working in rehabilitation hospitals and currently as director of speech-language pathology services in an outpatient rehabilitation setting, I was pleased to read of the interdisciplinary training opportunities being offered in the School of HS&HP [ICQ, spring 1996]. It is obvious that the faculty is working hard to match the content of academics with employers' current needs in the changing health care arena. Experience with and exposure to teamwork in such medical and education settings were unheard of in the course work of 1983. From an employer's perspective, flexibility, collaboration, and multiskill training are paramount in the provision of quality care, and much harder to train than clinical skills! Kudos to the faculty for continuing to keep Ithaca College on the cutting edge!
Doreen Suffredini Brown '83
Newark, Delaware
My daughter attends Ithaca. I was glancing through the "Weddings" section [ICQ, summer 1996] and was surprised to see the photo on page 40 of Beth and Beth. Congratulations to you and the liberal attitude in general of Ithaca College. Not many schools would have the guts to publish that announcement. My kids grew up with "two aunts" and we support them totally.
Lindy Spiezer
East Amherst, New York
Thanks for using the picture of the IC alums at WOKR-TV in Rochester. Mary Bubala ['91] has since left us for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- but the IC spirit is alive and well at "TV-13."
Don Alhart '66
Penfield, New York
The Ithaca College Quarterly (summer 1996) reports the death of David P. Canteen '63. A handful of cold lines and David P. Canteen, class of 1963, is noted and is disposed.
Dave deserves better than that.
Dave and I probably met in DeWitt Park drinking cheap wine . . . or in Victorian Valentine dorm . . . or in front of the administration building on Buffalo Avenue in the fall of 1959, the start of our freshman years. More than likely we were both wearing our blue Ithaca College beanies (truly a spiffy sight, those beanies . . . lacking only plastic spinning propellers to complete the total image).
It is important to note that Dave Canteen was many things during his four years at Ithaca. But most seriously one should recall that Dave was very bright, sharply witty, and honestly involved. Dave had a wonderful sense for nonsense. He was that rare combination of top-notch student, capable athlete, and bon vivant.
Dave was my friend and roomie.
Jim Levie '63
Longwood, Florida