Health Sciences and Human Performance
	New Chairs The 1997-98 academic year is a transition year for several departmental and academic units in HS&HP. Winifred Mauser completed a three-year term as departmental chair in physical therapy and will be succeeded by Michael Pagliarulo. Mauser provided leadership for the reaccreditation of the physical therapy program. Roger Riley, a native of New Zealand, will be joining the newly named Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Services (formerly the Department of Recreation and Leisure Services). He earned his doctoral degree from Texas A&M University in recreation and tourism, with a minor in marketing. Since 1993 he has been teaching at Illinois State University, where he received the Illinois State University Meritorious Teaching Award. Thomas Ormond has left the Department of Health Promotion and Human Movement to accept a position in physical education at Sonoma State University in California. He had been at Ithaca College since 1989. Gary English will assume chair responsibilities for the department. Gary Sforzo has been appointed as chair of the graduate program in exercise and sport sciences. Stewart Auyash, who was appointed chair for the Department of Health Services Administration midway through the 1996-97 academic year, will continue those responsibilities for the next year. Rich Retirement After 26 years at Ithaca College, including service as chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Sarah Rich will make the transition into early retirement. She began her career at Ithaca College as a coach and physical education instructor. Her coaching assignments included 14 years as head of the women's volleyball team, which had, under her leadership, a record of 306-96-3. Shortly after acquiring her doctorate from Texas Woman's College, she retired from active coaching to focus on teaching both theory and applied courses in physical education and recreation. She was instrumental in implementing the concentration in therapeutic recreation, which has grown to a nationally recognized and accredited program. In 1996 she received the Tommy Wilson Memorial Award from the American Association for Leisure and Recreation, which is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to recreation in programming for individuals with disabilities. Student Honors Two students in the Department of Health Services Administration received national awards this semester. Gregory Atkins '97 was selected as the recipient of the Bugbee-Falk Book Award. Sponsored by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, this award provides a student with 10 of the most important books in health services management. Bouakham Sisana '98 received a scholarship from the Institute for Diversity in Health Management. The award provides funding for the summer internship at Revere Health Center in Massachusetts. This is the third time in the past four years that an HSA student has received this scholarship. Workshops/Continuing Education Programs The Gerontology Institute sponsored a program entitled "Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment and Caregiving," which attracted over 300 participants. The program was supported by a grant from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group. In June the Department of Physical Therapy and the Division of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions hosted "Motor Control and Motor Learning: Their Impact on Functional Outcome Measures." Copresenters for this event were Renee Brown, an assistant professor in Ithaca's physical therapy department, and Patty Smith, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Faculty News L. George Van Son and Mary Ann Simpson have produced a 15-minute video titled Safe Feeding Techniques for Patients with Swallow Disorders. This rapidly expanding area is known technically as "dysphagia" and afflicts a large population of older persons. Barbara Coutts Belyea '82, M.S. '94, and Michael Pagliarulo received service awards at the recent delegate assembly meeting in Saratoga Springs. Belyea's award was for outstanding service at the district level. She currently serves as the editor of the district newsletter and vice chair of the Southern Tier district. Pagliarulo received an award for outstanding service to the New York State Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association. He serves as the chair of the chapter's leadership committee. Appointments and Honors John Krout, professor and director of the Gerontology Institute, was recently elected a charter fellow of the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education. Fellow status recognizes outstanding leadership in gerontology/geriatrics education by established scholars/educators. Krout was also elected to a two-year term on AGHE's board and Executive Committee as a member-at-large for July 1997 to June 1999. Janice Elich Monroe, an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Services, has been elected a professional representative on the board of directors for the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification. Her term of service is from April 1997 to April 2000. Assistant dean John Bonaguro was appointed to a three-year term on the Research Coordinating Board of the American Association for Health Education. He also was elected treasurer of the Tompkins County Community Mental Health Board. Presentations/Conferences This spring Ithaca College hosted the State University College at Cortland chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association workshop, entitled "An Integrative Approach to Servicing Children and Adolescents with Behavioral, Cognitive, and Communication Needs after Traumatic Brain Injury." Mark Ylviasaker was the featured speaker, and there were over 150 participants. Students representing the Departments of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Recreation and Leisure Services, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy attended the conference and learned a variety of techniques for helping clients with traumatic brain injury. Nick Quarrier '76 was an invited speaker at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in Dallas in February. He presented "Introduction to Music and Physical Therapy." Faculty Activities Debbie Nawoczenski edited and wrote two chapters of Orthotics in Functional Rehabilitation of the Lower Limb. Belyea and Cynthia Zablotny also contributed chapters. Associate professor of exercise and sport sciences Stephen Mosher served as a preproduction consultant for the HBO original program Sports on the Silver Screen, which was first telecast March 16. The program is an encyclopedic documentary exploring Hollywood's 100-year history of employing sport themes in feature-length films. Mosher teaches the course Sport in Film and Literature and has written extensively on the subject. In August 1996 he was appointed audiovisual review editor for the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. This August he served as site coordinator for the Sport Literature Association's 13th annual national conference, which met on the Ithaca College campus.