Eileen Bailey ’85, The Rhodesian Ridgeback: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet
(New York: Howell Book House, 2000)

This book is geared toward first-time Rhodesian Ridgeback lovers and to newcomers to the dog world. It contains basic breed information, history, standards, and care instructions, as well as stories and anecdotes of real-life people and their Ridgebacks. About 50 percent of the book is Ridgeback-specific and written by Bailey; the other half is general information on dog training and dog activities written by other well-known authors, trainers, and behaviorists. The book is one in a series of books on AKC-recognized breeds. Bailey, a breeder who shows her dogs, writes a column on Rhodesian Ridgebacks for the AKC Gazette.

Frances Horning Barraclough, translator, The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000)

Barraclough, a tutorial instructor in the Higher Education Opportunity Program, has tackled the challenging task of translating José María Arguedas’s complex novel about life and death. The book’s setting is Chimbote, Peru, during the height of the economic boom in Latin America. It is an expression of the human cost of rapid modernization. Society’s pains are tragically reflected in the literal self-destruction of the author, a process chronicled in four diaries woven into the novel. This work is the author’s last — he committed suicide before the novel was complete.

Michele and Steven Browne ’73, The Accident Report: Questions to Be Asked When You’re Involved in a Car Accident
(La Cañada Flintridge, Calif.: Wilton Place, 2000)

In the chaos of the aftermath of an accident, many shaken drivers neglect to record important information such as passenger and witness names, road conditions, visibility, citations issued, and type of damage. The book has a pouch for insurance registration information, tear-out driver identification cards, and forms for important phone numbers and accident information.

Diane Gayeski ’74, Managing the Communication Function: Capturing Mindshare for Organizational Performance
(San Francisco: IABC Publishing, 2000)

This manual, published by the International Association of Business Communicators, is an intensive guide for developing or reorganizing communication departments and managing day-to-day communication functions within organizations. It includes models for managing the convergence of communication, collaboration, and learning systems, as well as interviews, case studies, and job descriptions for illustration. Gayeski, a professor in the Department of Organizational Communication, Learning, and Design, is also a communications consultant.

Paul Goldstaub ’69, I Am Prospero and Other Instrumental Works
(CRS Barn Studio, Northeastern Digital Recording, 1998)

Goldstaub, a former IC faculty member (1985–92), is a conductor and the coordinator for music theory at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His music has been performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, off-Broadway, and at universities throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. This compact disc features many Ithaca College musicians performing Goldstaub’s instrumental works. Participating IC performers are the Ithaca College Wind Quintet, associate professor of flute Wendy Herbener Mehne, associate professor of trombone Harold Reynolds, former associate dean and associate professor of music Jamal Rossi ’80, and conductor David Becker ’67.

Terri Levine, M.S. ’79, Work Yourself Happy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Joy in Your Life and Work
(Buckingham, Penn.: Lahaska Press, 2000)

As the founder of a "career coaching and coach-training" company, Levine helps professionals and others to become more effective in their current professions. In her book she shares her own coaching success stories and challenges readers, using interactive exercises, to make changes and find the work they are passionate about. Her exercises are helpful to anyone facing a career or job change, working toward a promotion, or becoming an entrepreneur.

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson ’70, Oral-Motor Exercises for Speech Clarity
(Tucson, Ariz.: Innovative Therapists International, 1999)

Rosenfeld-Johnson is a speech and language pathologist with more than 30 years of professional experience, 22 of which have been in private practice. Her specialization is treating preschool and school-aged children with physiologically-based speech and language disorders. This book and the accompanying workbook are designed for interactive use among the therapist, client, and parents; it outlines the author’s step-by-step program for teaching oral-motor therapy — using hands-on techniques that have been tested in her clinic and that are meant to be used in addition to traditional therapy methods.

Joel Savishinsky, Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000)

Professor of anthropology Savishinsky followed 26 people in an upstate New York town through their transition from work to retirement. He interviewed 13 men and 13 women from various backgrounds and professions, covering a wide range of topics. He discovered that rituals surrounding the transition to retirement can be both comforting and disturbing. "For a lot of people," he says, "how hard or easy it was for them to deal with their last day of work or first week of retirement depended upon how successful their ‘retirement rituals’ were." It is helpful, he found, to plan future activities — taking a trip, attending a party, or completing a long-delayed project — "to buffer the potential emptiness of those first days away from the job." His subjects found that even cleaning out desks can be therapeutic, serving as "a kind of mini–life review" in which they "reflected on all the things they had done or had hoped to do at work, all the people who [had] fulfilled or disappointed them, and . . . their feelings about their careers and life’s work."

Rolf Sturm ’84 and Feed the Meter, Violation
(Water Street Music, 1999)

This is the debut album of Rolf Sturm’s current band, Feed the Meter, which plays funk, pop, and rock music. Sturm can be heard playing guitar on more than 20 CDs as a sideman with various artists, including Buddy Cage, members of the Grateful Dead, and Glen Valez. Sturm has performed with Eddy Arnold, Illuminati, Billy Martin, New York–Buenos Aires Connection, and Tony Trischka. He’s also featured on several film and television sound tracks. In 1997 he and his brother Hans recorded some of their original material on the CD Back Home. Sturm recently released a solo acoustic guitar recording of jazz standards, also recorded by Water Street Music.

Stephen Tropiano, TV Towns: An Illustrated Guide
(New York: TV Books, 2000)

Tropiano, director of the IC communications program in Los Angeles, obviously had fun with his topic — the fictional towns featured in television shows. Covering a variety of different television show genres, from sitcom to soap opera, TV Towns guides readers through 22 classic, cult favorite, and current hit venues. It includes information on the towns’ histories and prominent citizens, comprehensive cast lists, recommended viewing, and TV Web sites, as well as information on where to shop, price ranges of local restaurants and hotels, and lists of local media. Discover where to stay in Capeside (Dawson’s Creek), where to party in Orbit City (The Jetsons), or where to dine in Hazzard (The Dukes of Hazzard).