THE ALTRED SUN - AURA - Alfred University

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Obits: Lehman, Dowd, Norton, Nesbit 2

Kelly’s Forecast, Sherry’s Scene ...3

Sun Spot, Community Chest ...4

Acupuncture Instructor visits ...5

Alfred University news ...6

One Time, One Meeting ...7

Nutrition in a Nutshell ...8

What’s Cookin’?, DIY ...9

Pigskin Picks Winner...10-11 King Crossword, Cartoons...12

Classifieds, Arts news ...13

Years Ago in the Sun...14

Operation Christmas Child ...15

Alfred-Almond Sports ...18

AU, Alfred State Sports Roundups ..19

Dugout ...20

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Andrew Trice (AA ‘82) and Christine Ebangi read the Alfred Sunat their wedding in San Francisco on October 17. Also eager to catch up on news are his adoring mother, Sandy Greiff, and her husband Lou; his sister, Jennifer (AA ‘85) and her wife Tamara Knapp of Seneca Falls; David and Angela Rossington of Alfred, and son, Philip (AA ‘84) and his wife, Maeve, of Mill Valley, CA. Andrew, Jennifer and Philip grew up together on High Street.

Vol. 134, No. 44 Alfred, Allegany County, New York State, U.S.A. 14802 Thursday, November 14, 2019

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Of the Community. By the Community. For the Community.

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Bring on all that snow!

Town of Almond ready to maintain roads with new salt shed

ALMOND–Just in the nick of time, the Town of Almond is better equipped to maintain the town’s many miles of roads during winter weather, thanks to a newly completed salt shed.

Almond Town officials gathered on Wednesday morning, Oct. 30 to cut the ribbon on the $431,000 facility that will store 6,000 tons of salt and sand.

Town Supervisor Dawn A. Wildrick- Cole said that thanks to a state grant re- ceived a few years back, the Town’s share of the cost is about 20%.

Town Highway Superintendent Jamie Mansfield said the facility will allow the Town to now save on salt and sand cost. He said the Town had suf- fered lost sand and salt when it was stored on the ground.

Wildrick-Cole said ground was broken on the building this past summer.

She credited “the highway guys” for moving the old pile, putting down the floor and doing all of the prep work.

She said the Town provided much of the labor, the site preparation and pour- ing and all the blacktop work.

“The building went up fairly quickly once the materials got here,” added Mansfield, estimating that the building was constructed in about two weeks time.

Wildrick-Cole said that grants are a lot of work.

“We had a grant administrator that has helped us through those bumps and they’ve been invaluable to us,” she said, adding, “It has been a long road, a labor of love. It’s exciting that it’s here and done.”

It’s as if the Town of Almond High- way Department is saying, “Snow in the forecast? Bring it on!”

But don’t blame the Almond Town Highway Department for this week’s early winter weather.

ALFRED–Alfred State College is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a five-year $2.25 million grant from the US Department of Education as part of the Title III Strengthening In- stitutions Program.

This program is designed to help eligible colleges and universities expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.

To be eligible for the Title III grant, an institution must have at least 50 per- cent of its degree students receiving

Title IV need-based assistance or have a substantial number of enrolled students receiving Pell Grants, and also have low educational and general ex- penditures.

Alfred State will now utilize the grant to increase several target areas, including student retention, associate degree completion rates for students considered “at risk,” bachelor’s degree completion rates, student satisfaction with advising, and the college’s endowment fund. It will also seek to reduce financial services’ caller wait times and abandon rate.

Dr. Skip Sullivan, president of Alfred

State, said, “Our college is grateful to have been awarded the Title III grant and we look forward to implementing several strategies that will enhance student success. I applaud Betsy Penrose for leading the effort that made it possible for us to receive this grant.”

Dr. Kristin Poppo, provost, said, “Al- fred State College is committed to helping each of our students meet their goals and attain a higher educational credential. The Title III Strengthening Institutions grant allows us to enhance our student support so that more ASC students are successful. Students are our first priority at ASC, and we are

thrilled to be able to enhance their experience through this grant.”

Betsy Penrose, vice president of En- rollment Management, said, “The Title III Strengthening Institutions funding will help us build upon the strong student success foundation at Alfred State.

We plan to expand academic advising, improve student onboarding, and increase the college’s endowment to support students in the future. This grant is an unwavering commitment to our students and an investment in their success.”

ALFRED STATE COLLEGE

Sun at Trice Wedding

College receives $2.25 million Title III grant

Almond Town Highway Superintendent Jamie Mansfield (from left), Deputy Highway Superintendent Wayne Jefferds, Town Councilman Bryan Snyder join Town Supervisor Dawn A. Wildrick-Cole (with giant scissors), Arlene McMahon, Town Councilman Joanne Freeland and Town Councilman Dan Hegarty at salt shed ribbon- cutting ceremony held Wednesday, Oct. 30. (Photo provided)

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OBITUARIES

Puzzles on Page 12

Mary Lou O’Connor, 90, beloved wife, mother Kathleen (Kit) Norton, 88, school dental hygienist

Elnora Jennings Dowd, 91

ROBERT G. NESBIT Born in Hornell CANANDAIGUA–Robert G. Nesbit, of Macedon, passed away on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 at the Ontario Center in the Town of Hopewell at the age of 80.

Bob was born on Sunday, MARY LOU O’CONNOR

Grandmother of eleven KENMORE–Mary Lou O’Connor (nee Hawkins), of

Robert G. Nesbit, 80, lineman many years

Helen L. Lehman, 94, homemaker, TV fan of Dancing with the Stars

Kenmore, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019 at age 90.She was the beloved wife of 68 years to William M.

O’Connor and dear mother of Kathleen Benzaquin of Al- fred, Eileen (John Cobb), Margaret O'Connor, Betsy (John) White, Brigid Cotton, William (Nancy), Thomas (Niki) and Sheilagh O'Con- nor; loving grandmother of eleven grandchildren; sister of the late Lt. James Hawkins, Jr., late Robert (late Patricia) and the late Donald (late Janet) Hawkins; also survived by many nieces and nephews.

Calling hours were held from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the D. Lawrence Ginnane Funeral Home, 3215 Delaware Ave., Kenmore, where a funeral was held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 6 at St.

Paul's R.C. Church.

Memorials may be made to the Carmelite Monastery, 75 Carmel Rd., Buffalo 14214 or to the Theodore Roosevelt In- augural National Historic Site, 641 Delaware Ave., Buf- falo 14202.

KATHLEEN (KIT) NORTON A-A school dental hygienist

CANASERAGA–Kathleen (Kit) Norton, 88, of Canaseraga, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 at Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville.

She is survived by her children, Michele (Mitzi) of Buena Vista, Colorado and Geoffrey of Canaseraga. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert (Ted) Norton; and sister, Mar- ilyn Cronk.

Kathleen was born Dec. 21, 1930, to the late John and Treva Gates. She was a graduate of the Eastman Dental School in Rochester and worked for as a school dental hygienist at Al- fred-Almond and Canaseraga Central Schools.

On June 22, 1957, she married Robert (Ted) Norton. Together they raised their family in

Garwoods. Kathleen was an active member of the Garwoods United Methodist Church for many years.

Kathleen will be remembered for her unfail- ing faith, her smile and the love she showed all people. She loved her Irish Setter dogs and working in her many flower gardens.

Calling hours will be held on from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 at the Garwoods United Methodist Church. Funeral services will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Garwoods United Methodist Church with Pastor Gregory White officiating.

Memorial donations may made to the Gard- woods United Methodist Church, 10524 County Road 15B, Canaseraga, N.Y. 14822;

or The Cru, 100 Lake Heart Drive, Orlando, Florida 32832, account number 0425962.

ELNORA M. (VINCENT) JENNINGS DOWD County Fair Board director

BELFAST–Elnora M. Vin- cent Jennings Dowd, 91, of Belfast, died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019 at Wellsville Manor Care Center.

Born Dec. 8, 1927 in the Town of Allen, she was the daughter of Frederick and Daisy (Behrens) Vincent. On Nov. 6, 1948 she married Mil- ton E Jennings, who predeceased her in April 1995. In May 1999 she married Ed- ward Dowd, who passed away in August 2009.

Elnora graduated from Fill- more High School. She moved to Belfast after her marriage to Milton and became an active member of the community. Elnora was a member of the Belfast United Methodist Church and Belfast Firemen's Auxiliary, organiz- ing Swiss Steak Dinners for the church over many years.

She was active in Grange both at a local and state level.

Elnora served on the Allegany County Fair Association board, supervising the com- mercial display building.

Elnora worked at the former Harris Grocery Store in Angelica for over 20 years and was loved by all of her customers. She also served on the Board of Elections for the Town of Belfast many years.

Surviving Elnora are her loving family, a son, David E (Margo) Jennings of Belfast;

and her daughters, Mrs.

Karen (Rick) Snyder of Trin- ity, Florida, and Mrs. Kathy (Paul) Taylor of Marion, North Carolina. Her grand-

children, Randy Jennings of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Darcy (Rick) Ralyea of Chalfont Pennsylvania, Robyn Baldeck of Scottsville, Sherry (Rob) Durfee of Salt Lake City, Utah, David (Angie) Beck- with of West Jordan, Utah, Katelyn (David) Murr of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania and Kelly Snyder of Germantown, Maryland, Jason Taylor of Oswego, and Scott (Corey) Taylor of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She has 11 great- grandchildren. She leaves be- hind a brother-in-law, Howard (Arlene) Jennings of Olney, Maryland, and sister-in-law, Sally Miller of New Port Richey, Florida.; and several nieces and nephews.

Elnora was predeceased by her husbands and by her daughter, Doris M Jennings Beckwith and a son, Lynn H Jennings, and two sisters.

Calling hours were Friday, Nov. 8 at the Brown and Pow- ers Funeral Home, 101 West Ave., in Angelica. A Memo- rial Service was conducted by the Pomona Grange at 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 8. The funeral service was held at the Belfast United Methodist Church Sat- urday, Nov. 9, with Pastor Craig Buelow officiating.

To send a remembrance please visit www.brownand- powersfuneralhomes.com, or on Facebook @brownpow- ersfh, the family is being as- sisted by director Chester A.

Gosper IV.

Memorials may be made to the Belfast Volunteer Fire De- partment or the Belfast United Methodist Church.

HELEN L. LEHMAN Cared for husband, children

ANDOVER–Helen L.

Lehman, 94, of Andover, passed away Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 at Highland Park Reha- bilitation and Nursing Center in Wellsville.

Mrs. Lehman was born on Aug. 8, 1925 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania to John and Gertrude (Witter) Glace. On June 8, 1946, she married Raymond S. Lehman, who predeceased her on Dec. 2, 2005.

Helen devoted her life to the care of her husband and the raising of her children.

Helen is survived by her six children, Kenneth Lehman, Diane Ordiway (Dale) and Jonny Lehman, all of An-

dover, Raelene Salmonson (Ronald) and Evelyn Fanton (Rodney, Sr.), both of Wellsville and Jeanne Wyrough (Jim) of Owego; 14 grandchildren, Nicole Koch, Todd Bush, Paula Cornell, Donna Bertrum (Christo- pher), Larry Ordiway, Jamie Ordiway, Amy Salmonson, Jason Salmonson (Jessica), Shelly Gates, Brian Salmonson (Debra), Kristy Fanton, Rodney Fanton, Jr.

(Hallie), Dylan Wyrough (Jessica Murtha) and Saman- tha Wyrough (Joshua Brown);

19 great grandchildren, Dono- van Koch, Devin Cornell, Steven Jefferds, Billy Jef- ferds, Karissa Ordiway, Bryce Ordiway, Gracie Hirt, Janessa Hirt, Jackson Mascho, Robbie Leon, April Leon, Brandon Rould, Mikalah Rould, An- thony Button, Noah

Salmonson, Haylie

Salmonson, Kylie Fanton, Kamie Fanton and Alex Wyrough; three great-great grandchildren, Noah Leon, Brooklyn Leon and Everly Leon; many nieces, nephews and cousins; and her yellow parakeet, Miss Daisy.

In addition to her husband of 59 years, she was predeceased by two brothers, Howard Glace and John

Glace and four sisters, Lula Smith, Alice Randal, Ruth Mamon and Bertha Furlong.

Helen lived a very simple life with three simple yet very important aspects to that life.

First and foremost, she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She devoted lots of her time to home can- ning for her large household.

Among her family favorites were dirty applesauce and ici- cle pickles. She was noted for her famous boiled dinners and cornbread and her delicious dumplings. Love is often spelled “time” and she spent a lot of time playing games with any of the family that was around.

Secondly, Helen was a big television enthusiast. Her fa- vorite shows over the years were game shows of any type, Perry Mason, My Lottery Dream Home, Miss America and Miss Universe Pageants and on Mondays, Dancing with the Stars, which she even kept a score sheet. Forget calling during the show, she wouldn’t answer.

Lastly, she was a diehard baseball fan. She loved the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Car- dinals and the New York Mets and she loved watching the Little League World Series.

February 12, 1939 in the City of Hornell to the late Donald and Leah "Doty" Nesbit. He is survived by extended family and friends.

Bob was a lineman for many years and also had acted as a supervisor at a solar farm in Texas.

Friends are invited to gather for a celebration of life service at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 at Murphy Funeral &

Cremation Chapel, 1040 State Route 31, Macedon. For more info, visit www.mur- phyfuneralservices.com.

Helen was a member of the Rebekahs, the Andover Golden Agers and the An- dover Legion Ladies Auxil- iary where she served as chaplain. She was a long time member of the Andover Bap- tist Church and sang in its choir.

Calling hours were held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

9 at the Baker-Swan Funeral Home in Andover. The memorial service was held at 4

p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 at the funeral home immediately following the visitation with Rev. Philip Barner of the An- dover Alliance Church officiating. Online condolences may be offered at www.baker.swan.com.

Memorial contributions in Helen’s name may be made to Allegany County Cancer Services, Attn: Lori Bal- lengee, 100 South Highland Ave., Wellsville, NY 14895.

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[Editor’s Note: Like most of the recipes she shared with our readers over the past couple of decades, Ellen Shultz’s Sunny Side Up columns are worth repeating. ]

Carl Shively gave me the recipe this week. He says Sylvia used to make this delicioussauce to go over raisin or spike cake.

It was always one of his favorites in the fall. I used it over pumpkin-raisin cake and it delighted my family.

Carl said he didn’t know why it was called John Bull Sauce, so I looked up John Bull on Google and found as the first listing a distinguished English keyboard player who lived from 1562 to 1628. Perhaps by keyboard they meant harpsi- chord.

The next entry said that John Bull is the personification of England much like our Uncle Sam stands for the United States.

The origin is traced to a character in John Arbutknot’s The His- tory of John Bull published in 1712. John Bull then appeared in cartoons in the Punch magazines. He was accompanied by an English bulldog. The characterization was used even through World War II, but appears only infrequently now.

There is, however, an English outdoor clothing company that now bears this name.

John Bull Sauce Mix together: 1 stick butter, melted, 2 c. milk Add: 3 T. cornstarch, 1/4 c. sugar, cinnamon to taste

Mix cornstarch to a smooth paste with a little of the butter and milk mixture, then add to the rest, stirring constantly. Heat slowly to a boil and until thickened, stirring carefully. Watch not for scorching. Cool a little, then add sugar and cinnamon.

Serve warm over raisin or spice cake.

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Kelly’s Forecast

By KELLY SNYDER The Alfred Sun Weather Forecaster

“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.” ―Martha Gelhorn

Thursday, November 14 MOSTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 35– LOW 25) Chance of precipitation..20%

Friday, November 15 PARTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 34– LOW 12) Chance of precipitation....20%

Saturday, November 16 PARTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 28– LOW 16) Chance of precipitation....10%

Sunday, November 17 PARTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 39 – LOW 28) Chance of precipitation...10%

Monday, November 18 MOSTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 44 - LOW 30) Chance of precipitation....20%

Tuesday, November 19 PARTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 46 - LOW 35) Chance of precipitation....20%

Wednesday, November 20 PARTLY CLOUDY (HIGH 48- LOW 38) Chance of precipitation....20%

For more up to date weather information add your Alfred Sun

Weatherman Kelly Snyder on Facebook and as always if you

don’t like the weather in Alfred just wait five minutes!

John Bull Sauce...like Uncle Sam

A L F R E D

Weather for the Week

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By FION MacCREA Alfred Weather Recorder

On a recent trip to Geneseo, NY, to dine at Euro Cafe' with friends from our Al- fred University days, we were attracted to the items in the photos. The first was a drain to the city's storm sewer. Of course, the Gene- see River runs nearby, on its way to Lake Ontario. The second was to a patriotically painted former mail drop box. Please see photos for explanations.

ALMOND–Come to the Almond Historical Society November meeting on Sun- day, Nov. 17 and listen to Al- legany County Historian Craig Braack give an exciting account of his personal celebration in May in Utah of the sesquicentennial of the completion of the Transcontinen- tal Railroad.

The Hagadorn House on the corner of Main and Kar- rdale Avenue (at the red light) will open at 2 p.m., with the AHS annual meeting to be held at 2:30. Louise Schwartz, president, will conduct the election of officers and report on this year’s activities.

Refreshments will be served.

ALFRED–Alfred Univer- sity’s H2O for Puerto Rico initiative will sponsor a polar plunge into icy Foster Lake from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

24. This is the second year students, faculty, administra- tors and community members will be (briefly) plunging into Foster Lake to raise money for a water-related charity.

Last year, over $4000 was raised for the Navajo Water Project at the plunge, which was just one of many fund raisers to raise money to install running water in homes on the Navajo reservation.

This year, funds are being raised to install a new well in the village of Buenos Aires in Puerto Rico through the charity RCAP Solutions. Many communities on the island, including Bueno Aires, are still recovering from the devastat- ing effects of Hurricane Maria two years ago.

If you would like to register to “plunge” or if you would like to pledge money to some- one who is plunging, please visit http://polarplungefor- puertorico2019.myevent.com.

If you would like to come to the plunge, come to Foster Lake on Sunday, Nov 24 by 1 p.m. Because parking is right CRAIG BRAACK

(Olean TimesHerald Photo)

Historical Society will meet Nov. 17

Second annual Polar Plunge to aid H2O for Puerto Rico

at the lake, consider parking on Lake Road and walking in (it isn’t very far). There will be a bonfire and hot chocolate at the event for warmth.

If you have any questions, contact Jeff Sluyter-Beltrao at [email protected] or Michele Hluchy at [email protected].

A recent trip

to Geneseo

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Last Hurrah—Or Should I Say, Last Huffing-And-Puffing

From Now On We’re Going To Call Them “The Great Sweaty Mountains",Or, And Since We Were At Their Highest Peak Till After Sunset, I Suppose We Should Rename That To “Clingman’s Gloam”—

But That Might Be Asking A Lot We went to the Smokies for last-minute hiking

before Old Man Winter's big show.

“Why not Adirondacks?" we're frequently asked.

Look around you—you really don't know?!

No, it seems we prefer just to torture ourselves

up the steep Stairs of Chimneyith Ungol:

To end with no heart attack—or broken leg—

why, we see THAT as being a fun goal.

(Of course, in the process of scaling the Stairs,

you’ll maybe encounter a spider;

If perchance it should be quite the size of a bear…

you might give it a berth a bit wider.) Now, when hiking a trail up a tall and steep mountain,

has this ever happened to you?

You've climbed all the way to the top of the peak—

then forgotten to look at the view.

Yes, I—after starting down—turned back around,

and brought my descent to a halt So to take in the vista—but did it darn quick,

lest I turn to a pillar of (ba)salt.

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Dear Editor:

The Alfred-Alfred Station Community Chest kicked off its 2019 drive the week of October 15. We have held our budget meeting and have set our goal for this year at $ 36,965 (over

$800 less than last year). The need for charitable donations around the world continues to be great. However many of the organizations we support here in Alfred have experienced de- creases from other sources. We hope it will be possible for us to provide as much support this year as we have in the past.

Only with your generosity will this be possible.

We hope that those who have been so generous in the past will continue to help the agencies that provide support for our young people, for our older citizens, and to the less fortunate of our community.We also encourage new members of the community, and those who have not donated recently, to step up and replace the gifts of those who have left the area recently. New members of the community are encouraged to send donations to

Alfred-Alfred Ststion Commnunity Chest P.O. Box 603

Alfred, NY 14802

If reached, our goal will be divided among the following organizations as indicated:

Alfred Ambulance Operation ...10000

Support for "Lifeline" ...$ 3200

Alfred Station Fire Company ...$ 4000

Alfred Box of Books Library ...$ 1500

Allegany Co. Assoc. for Blind and Visually Handicapped ...$ 900

Baker’s Bridge Historical Association ...$ 360

Allegany ARC – Special Olympics...$ 500

Allegany Co. Mental Health Assoc. ...$ 1800

American Red Cross, Western NY Chapter ...$ 6000

Allegany Co. SPCA...$ 2000

Alfred Area Food Pantry ...$ 675

Boy Scouts -- Cub Pack 26 ...$ 810

Boy Scouts -- Scout Troop 19 ...$ 900

Boy Scouts -- Five Rivers Council ...$ 1800

Allegany,Cattaragus & Chatauqua Fund for Women $ 270

Literacy West New York, Inc. ...$ 500

Senior Nutrition Site ...$ 200

Comfort House of Allegany County ...$ 1200

Campaign Expenses ...$ 350 Area residents, businesses and those employed in our community will soon, if they have not already, receive pledge forms and an appeal letter. Donations may be left at the Alfred Pharmacy in Alfred, the Canacadea Country Store in Alfred Station, Wes Bentz in Myers Hall at AU, or may be mailed to Alfred-Alfred Station Community Chest, Box 603, Alfred, NY, 14802-0603. With the generous support of the entire community, our member organizations will be able to continue to serve us in the splendid way we have come to expect.

Sincerely, The Community Chest Board:

Anthony Graziano, Andy Call, Scott Misture, Wes Bentz, Tricia Debertolis, Wes Bentz, Laurel Buckwalter, Linell Soule, Andy Eklund, Catherine Chambers

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Submitted by Kevin FerSt Licensed Acupuncturist As many of you know, The Center for Traditional Acupuncture continues to operate in Alfred. We are open one day a week, by appointment only, and practice in the back of Hair Care. The rest of the week we are open in our main clinic in Hamburg, Southtowns Acupuncture & Herbs.

Over the past year we have had the good fortune to host one of our teachers, Dr Martha Lucas, in both our Al- fred and Hamburg locations. Dr Lucas is a well known acupuncturist who lectures throughout the world on a variety of specialized topics including pulse diagnosis, cosmetic acupuncture, women's health, and more. In addition to our regular weekly clinics with Kevin in Alfred, we have held several special clinic events in Alfred throughout 2019, in which Dr Lucas worked with both Sarah and Kevin on advanced pulse diagnosis. We were able to serve over 50 local patients in these specialty clinics in 2019. It has been a great pleasure to have her with us in Alfred, and she has come to love this community as much as we do. We look forward to having her return in 2020.

Please email us at clinic@al- fredacupuncture.com if you have any questions. Now a letter that Dr. Lucas wrote to Alfred.

Acupuncture in Alfred:

View from the Rocky Mountains

Submitted by Dr. MartHa LuCaS

Licensed Acupuncturist Hi Alfred!

Some of you already know me: I’m Martha Lucas, a Research Psycholo- gist and Practitioner of Chinese Med- icine living in Denver. In the last year, I have visited Alfred three times, have been welcomed, and have met some wonderful people from the area. Let me explain how I even ended up visiting Alfred.

In April of 2018, I met Kevin and Sarah Nelson Ferst. Sarah was attend- ing a class I was teaching in Cosmetic Acupuncture in Toronto. The weather was frightful; my flight out of Toronto was canceled so I changed to a flight out of Buffalo. Kevin and Sarah knew I needed a ride to Buffalo, offered to give me one, and we have been friends ever since. As we were getting to know each other on that trip, they told me that Kevin practices acupuncture in Alfred. Even though I am originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania, I didn’t know much about Alfred ….

maybe just that there is a renowned ceramics school there because one of my brothers is a potter, but not much more than that. I became interested though and wanted to learn more.

As I said in my first sentence, I am a Research Psychologist who now practices Chinese medicine. How did that happen, you might ask? Well, my research was with cardiovascular by- pass surgery patients so I saw some very dramatic modern medicine at work. But I was always curious, as research scientists are, about what else was working in the patients’ body to keep it working.

I knew that the surgeons fixed the engine, as it were, but what other processes, more subtle processes, were at work. So I started to study what some people call “energy medicine.” A few years of study led me to Chinese medicine school. I felt that Chinese medicine is the oldest, most time-tested medicine there is so I wanted to further my study of it. Chi- nese medicine is a complete system of medicine even though the most com- monly known therapy is acupuncture, and most practitioners are called Acupuncturists. But the medicine includes Chinese medicine massage therapies, herbal medicine, nutritional recommendations, and teaching pa-

tients techniques to reduce stress (meditation).

The goal of every practitioner is to determine the cause of your symptoms, address those, and renew your good health. That sounded wonderful to me and it made sense: treat the cause, not the symptoms. I signed up and in my very first semester of the

four year long program, I met my pulse diagnosis mentor, Dr. Jim Ramholz. Pulse diagnosis is an important diagnostic tool that Chinese medicine practitioners/acupuncturists use to determine what is out of balance in your body or what is causing your symptoms. I describe it this way:

imagine that your body has a highway

system running through it. When I take your pulses on the right and left wrists, I can feel whether or not the highways are flowing, whether there are traffic jams or roadblocks, and then I work to fix those roadblocks and restore traffic flow using acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies.

Jim, my pulse diagnosis teacher, showed me that the body works like a biofeedback loop. That means that, once I feel the imbalances, I put acupuncture needles in and then re- take the pulses to see exactly what imbalances those needles shifted. When I heard that I thought, “oh my, that’s like every person’s body is a little research project!” I was so very excited that I was going to learn to actually see how acupuncture works rather than just trust that it works.

For 20 years, pulse diagnosis has been the basis of my acupuncture practice. I feel the person’s pulses, put in acupuncture needles, take the pulses again to see the changes, and then keep going until I feel a state of balance in those pulses. It’s a beautiful and effective system.

It’s so effective that I am teaching as many acupuncturists as I can how to become better diagnosticians.

Kevin and Sarah are part of my pulse diagnosis internships. When I found out that they came from a rural setting, I was very curious about how what I call “big city pulses” (all of the pulses I feel in Denver) would differ from

“rural pulses”.

The Research Psychologist in me had some hypotheses about how the pulse diagnoses might differ. I asked Kevin if he thought I could come to Alfred to study this idea, he set it up for me, and I’ve been to your village three times now. The first time I came, I was welcomed by the sign I sent with this article and the people I’ve met, and treated, and have been so very gracious and friendly, they’ve made me fall in love with Alfred and I hope to visit you even more!

Sign in Hair Care window welcomes Dr. Martha Lucas.

Renowned Acupuncture Instructor Visits Alfred

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ALFRED–Alfred University’s Global Studies Program last week welcomed journalist Suzy Hansen, author of "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World," as Hansen delivered the inau- gural Global Studies Lecture at Alfred University.

Hansen’s lecture, “Seeing America from a Distance,” was a reflection on her years living in Istanbul and drew from "Notes on a Foreign Country."

The book was named winner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cor- nelius Ryan Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

Hansen also met with students and faculty member during classes and a panel discussion Thursday, engaging them in dialogues that built on her ear- lier remarks.

Her well-attended lecture in Nevins Theater summarized challenges she faced after settling in Istanbul to work as an American journalist. As she writes in her introduction:

“My learning abroad was threefold:

I was learning about foreign countries;

I was learning about America’s role in the world; I was also slowly under-

standing my own psychology and tem- perament and prejudices – the very things that had made it so impossible to acquire worldly knowledge in the first place.”

Alfred University Associate Profes- sor of Political Science Jeff Sluyter- Beltrao, who introduced Hansen, said the issues she examines in "Notes on a Foreign Country" pose key questions for Americans living in a post-Cold War world.

"What makes her book unique is the way it weaves in her personal story of relentless self-examination and soul- searching,” Sluyter-Beltrao says, “as she interacts with people from many different countries from her home base in Istanbul. And that personal dimen- sion enables the reader to grasp how in- credibly important it is that we Americans question and overcome our limited understandings of the wider world.”

Hansen is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, a Practitioner- in-Residence at New York University’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and in 2020 will serve as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

Hansen’s lecture was organized by

the Global Studies Program with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Alfred University’s Provost’s Office, and the Divisions of Social Sciences, Human Studies and

Psychology and Communications. In introducing Hanson, Director of Global Studies Dr. Meghen Jones noted the program offers a unique cross-discipli- nary major as well as a minor.

ALFRED–Alfred Univer- sity’s Herrick Memorial Li- brary will host its final Team Trivia Night of the fall semester from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 in the library’s Book- end Lounge.

Host of Herrick Library’s Team Trivia Night is Mike Allen of Elmira. His trivia questions cover a broad range of topics such as current events, sports, geography and history. He intersperses his trivia questions with pop music, making for an enjoy- able evening for those partici- pating.

This will be the eleventh year that Mike has been hosting Team Trivia twice a semester at Herrick Library. He has also been hosting at Hor-

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ALFRED–Alfred Univer- sity alumnus Garth Ehrlich '77 recently made a $600,000 bequest to the University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences which include commitments to endow two scholarships and a lecture series.

The Heritage Circle bequest includes scholarship commitments that honor Ehrlich’s late mother, Evelyn Ehrlich, who served on the staff at Alfred University’s Herrick Library from 1967- 80, and the late John Stull, a physics professor at Alfred University and founder of the University’s Stull Observa- tory.

Ehrlich also committed to endowing a lecture series in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He had previ- ously created an endowed scholarship honoring his late

father, Robert Ehrlich, who

served as a mathematics professor at Alfred University from 1967-80.

Ehrlich, who earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Alfred University in 1977 and

a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Syracuse University in 1987, is professor of microbi- ology and immunology, oto- laryngology-head and neck surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.

He is the executive director of three Research Centers of Excellence in the Institute for Molecular Medicine and In- fectious Diseases in Drexel’s College of Medicine: the Center for Advanced Micro- bial Processing, the Center for Genomic Sciences, and the Center for Surgical Infection and Bacterial Biofilm. Ehrlich also serves as executive director of the Genomics Core Fa- cility, which is a University-wide sequencing and bioinformatics service core.

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Groups are welcome to come compete as a team; individuals are also welcome to play either solo or to join oth- ers to compete for the prizes awarded to the top teams.

Pizza and soft drinks along with milk and cookies will be provided, free of charge, to all participants.

Spring Semester Team Trivia events at Herrick Library during the 2019-20 academic year have been scheduled for Satur- days, Feb. 15 and April 4.

ALFRED–The parents of a recent Alfred University graduate have facilitated gifts that will create unique new opportunities in the University’s School of Art and Design.

Norman and Sarah Keyes and parents of Mary-Hall Keyes, who earned a B.F.A.

degree from Alfred University in May. The Keyeses have created opportunities for faculty, staff, and students in our School of Art and Design to utilize a seacoast property in Maine for collaborative and creative projects, curriculum development, and skill building.Inspired by their daughter’s experience at Alfred Univer- sity, Norman and Sarah Keyes also facilitated an anonymous

$1 million endowment gift to establish a Special Projects Fund for the School of Art and Design.

The Fund will support academic innovation and collabo- ration, student scholarships, visiting professorships, and other programs aimed at en- hancing educational opportunities in the School of Art and Design.

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NON-STOP THINKING

“Maybe you’re thinking too much,” my wife once suggested. She was not the first to do so. Nor, to par- aphrase John Lennon, am I the only one. “Non-stop thinking,” Thich Nhat Hanh has called it. And in our present hyper-connected, information-driven era, that common human tendency has become ever more prevalent.

For centuries Zen masters have warned against over-reliance on conceptual thought. According to Zen teachings, our dualistic concepts—subject/ob- ject; self/other; up/down—interpose an “ego-filter”

between our minds and our sensory experience.

They mediate between what is and what we believe it to be. Likewise the abstract words we use to frame our experience. They impose a yardstick, as the Soto Zen teacher Shohaku Okumura Roshi puts it, on a universe that is in reality boundless, indivisible, and ungraspable.

Take, for example, the term Village of Alfred. That term designates a geographic entity. Its boundaries have been delineated, its contours mapped. But were you to fly over the Village of Alfred in a small plane, as I did once with the pilot Ray Wells, you would perceive no fixed boundaries. Rather, you would see a deciduous wilderness, in the midst of which a configuration of impermanent man-made structures, many of them bearing terracotta roofs, has been created. Village of Alfred is an abstraction, a thought-form superimposed upon an amorphous space. At once useful and artificial, that form is eas- ily mistaken for reality itself.

And the same is true of other mental constructs, however real they may appear. Zen practice is in part about gaining awareness of thought-forms, es- pecially fixed, habitual thought-forms, and their sometimes harmful impact on our lives. Beyond this fundamental point, however, the practice also aims to liberate us from unnecessary thinking, obsessive thinking, and attachment to what the American philosopher Thomas Kasulis has called the “retro- spective reconstruction of reality.”

With respect to unnecessary thinking, one vener- able piece of advice, attributed variously to a Stoic philosopher, the Dalai Lama, and a sagacious base-

ball player, can provide a practical corrective. “If you can’t control it,” so the saying goes, “then why worry about it? And if you can control it, then why worry about it?” To that general guideline Buddhist teachings would add a specific corollary. Pain is one thing, suffering another. Pain is what we experience;

suffering is what we add to that experience, often by way of fear-based speculation. Mindful of the difference, we can abstain from speculation and focus on the experience itself: the pain and ways to relieve it.

Obsessive thinking is another matter. Psycholo- gists speak of “thought-loops,” by which they mean endlessly repetitive patterns of thought. Leading nowhere and yielding nothing, our thought-loops return, time and again, to where they began. Teachers of vipassana(“insight”) meditation urge us to probe the emotional subtexts beneath our habits of mind:

the fear beneath the compulsive planning, the regret beneath obsessive reminiscence. By and large, Zen practitioners refrain from such analysis. The practice is rather to note our thoughts as they arise and disappear. The more acutely we recognize their in- substantial nature, the more we free ourselves from their grip. And over time, if we persist in the practice, even our obsessive thoughts diminish of their own accord.

Beneath these practical measures, Zen teachings offer a deeper critique of thought itself. Taizan Maezumi Roshi, a twentieth-century master, ex- presses that critique succinctly:

Thinking is an abstraction. It is not being, it is think- ing about being. And since we are born and die seven thousand times in one second, the conditions that we think about are already gone. We are think- ing about shadows rather than being this very life itself.

All thinking, in other words, is after the fact.

Concurring with Maezumi’s perspective, Thomas Kasulis, in his book Zen Action, Zen Person, draws an analogy between the process of thinking and the actions of a batter at the plate. “Being” is what happens when the bat hits the ball. “Thinking” is what happens a moment later, as onlookers reconstruct what has just occurred: A line drive to third base. A high fly ball to right field.

Thinking is a natural activity. No one is proposing to demote it. The objective is rather to strike an even balance between “thinking” and “being.” By so doing, we not only become present for the speeding ball. We also empower ourselves to reflect, clearly and concretely, on those experiences that constitute our lives.

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Ben Howard leads the Falling Leaf Sangha, a Zen practice group in Alfred.

Moonlighter

CLEVELAND, OH–Alfred Univer- sity’s Art Force 5, a program that uses community-based art to inspire discussion on topics of equality and social justice, was at the Cleveland Browns-Buffalo Bills game Sunday, Nov. 10, as part of the group’s effort to celebrate women’s empowerment.

The event outside Cleveland’s First Energy Stadium is part of an initiative in which representatives of Art Force 5 travel to various NFL cities, joining fans in painting tributes to women’s empowerment icons associated with those communities.

Art Force 5 kicked off the project at Buffalo Bills Training Camp in July.

The group engaged fans in painting tiles to create a mosaic of women’s rights icon Susan B. Anthony. An image of the mosaic was embossed on a t-shirt of the blue and red Bills colors, with the number 19 on the back.

Plans were made to visit several other NFL cities and invite fans to create mosaics to local women’s rights lead- ers, with associated t-shirt giveaways.

On Sunday at the Browns’ game, Art Force 5 held an event honoring Cleveland’s Dorothy Dandridge, an entertainer who was the first African- American actress nominated for an Academy Award, for the 1954 film Carmen Jones. The Dandridge design adorns commemorative t-shirts in the Browns’ orange and brown colors.

This was the fifth NFL-related project for the Art Force 5 program, which uses creativity to address difficult issues of violence, poverty, and equality. In January, the program was featured on an NFL360 program as they paid tribute to Atlanta’s earliest

African-American police officers. In July, the program was invited to pay tribute to Susan B. Anthony at the Bill’s training camp in Rochester, and in September in Pittsburgh, the group held a mosaic-painting tribute to Nel- lie Bly alongside Steelers fans. The team honored Harriet Tubman in the Baltimore Ravens’ parking lot Nov. 3.

The program plans to honor Shirley Chisolm in New York City before the completed exhibit begins a tour of conferences, museums, and other special events.

The series of mosaic portraits–designed in the host team’s colors–aims to raise awareness of women’s empowerment as the country prepares to pay tribute to the centennial of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. The first five mosaics will be on exhibit at The Strong Na- tional Museum of Play, Rochester, in January 2020 for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Dan Napolitano, Assistant Dean of Art and Design at Alfred University and program founder, stressed that this is a grassroots effort and not endorsed by the National Football League.

“It is important that this comes from the students and shared directly with the fans,” Napolitano explained.

“Similar to the women we honor, they were outside of a system of power try- ing to be heard and respected. This tribute is a bit scrappy in finding places to set up a pop-up art-build and convince tailgating fans of the merits of paying tribute to these icons.”

The football jerseys are designed by Alfred University alumna Jillian Mullen ‘’17 (B.F.A.) and produced by

Logo Print Services of Hornell. Each has the number 19 on the back (for the 19th Amendment) and the name of the icon above a portrait on the front.

“Our society is totally comfortable with women wearing sports jerseys with men’s names on them,” Napoli-

tano said. “This is an opportunity for women and men to own and wear a jersey showing they’re a fan of women and equality.”

Questions may be directed to art- [email protected] with more information posted at www.artforce5.com.

AU’s Art Force 5 celebrates women’s empowerment

Non-Stop Thinking

Auguste Rodin, “The Thinker” (Photo by Aaron Zhu) Alfred University students model t-shirts adorned with an image of Cleve- land native and Academy Award nominee actress Dorothy Dandridge.