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Writing Portfolio 2012 Update Flat Rate for Writing Projects: $75.00 Per Hour Maria Jacketti, Ph.D. Co-Creator and Partner Mountain Laurel Consultants Professional Writers 545-549 Kiefer Ave. Hazleton, PA 18201-7701 570-459-5615 drmariawu@msn.com Clients Bryn Mawr Bulletin (glossy magazine) Bucknell Magazine Glutasome/Zeolife Hazleton Standard Speaker Jim Healthy Nightengale Conant Palimpsest Sevani Botanica Suite 101 Tilth Beauty Vapour Organic Beauty Example Profile Articles from Bucknell Magazine, Bucknell University Keel Meisters  Hank Why ’59 has always loved boating, but his avocation is reaching new levels and audiences. A native of Pennsylvania, he made his way to New Hampshire, where he established a summer home in Wolfeboro. After a successful career as a mechanical engineer in the Philadelphia area, he retired to this sailor’s dream of a location, where ull time life in New Hampshire presented Why and his family with intriguing nautical opportunities. This setting provided a stable launching ground to share his passion with a new crew of diverse boat makers in training.
Beginning this original venture, Why became an active participant in the New Hampshire Boat Museum in 1998. In addition to serving on the museum’s board of trustees, he founded several successful community boatbuilding programs that now serve the needs of specialized groups. He launched the women’s kayak-building course in 2008, after coordinators from the museum’s family program responded to interest in lessons that could serve this audience’s particular ambitions. “Not being sure of their skills in woodworking, the women were a bit intimidated and preferred an environment where they could support each other,” explains Why. The program quickly filled and reprised its success in 2009. Participants construct their own lightweight crafts, embellishing them with “patterns of paint and varnished bright work,” each a jewel for nearby Lake Wentworth to behold. -- Maria Jacketti Additional special groups have emerged from the museum. Families come together to work as a team to build their own crafts. Teenagers, most of whom are scholarship recipients, have their own program, giving them a chance to “be in charge of their destinies and master the mechanics of wind.” This winter, Why will sponsor the start of an Antique Wooden Boat Restoration course with the goal of “demystifying the complexities of restoring wooden boats.” — Maria Jacketti Advocate for the Earth  What influence has Bucknell University’s meal plan had on the world? Just ask Caryn Hartglass ’80, executive director of EarthSave.org. When she came to Bucknell University as a first-year student, she was welcomed with a vegetarian meal option, a rare sign of enlightenment in days when meat was the unquestioned staple of the American diet. She had become a vegetarian at the age of 15, yet, making such a lifestyle work was not always practical or easy, until the University made it so for her.
While at Bucknell, Hartglass became a chemical engineer; however, her passion for sustainability led her to EarthSave, an organization started by John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America. A pursuit of a plant-based diet culminated in veganism and, ultimately, her taking the helm of the organization. Through EarthSave television and radio (www.earthsave.org), Hartglass hosts a variety of programs exploring many aspects of veganism, which range from gourmet cooking to global warming. According to Hartglass, demands of our changing planet will lead to “veganism’s becoming the lifestyle of necessity” during the 21st century. One of her goals is to let the public know that 50 percent of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions — in the form of methane — come from the emissions of animal factory farming. Aside from the by-products of mass agriculture, such as pervasive use of chemicals and agricultural waste that seeps into groundwater, she says, this type of factory farming is accelerating global warming but garnering little press coverage. During her career as a chemical engineer, Hartglass worried about chemical clean-up not being adequately considered in long-term projects, as if the residues of such activities might vanish magically. She says that mainstream media showed little interest in addressing these burgeoning concerns. The question of the long-term outcomes of human commerce still motivates Hartglass’ investigations, as she and her group expose the ramifications of many of modern life’s conveniences, tastes and traditions. — Maria Jacketti Skills — Dance, Marketing Jelani! Exclaim it. Feel its inner poetry. Jelani is the Swahili word for “mighty” or “powerful.” While at Bucknell, India Branch ’03, along with three other student-dancers, created a dance group that bore this potent name. The exultant syllables might well be a mantra for Branch’s career in New York City’s arts community today. Born in Harlem, she learned about Bucknell University through one of her high school mentors at the Institute of Collaborative Education, a progressive high school, located on 14th Street in Manhattan. She believed that Bucknell could extend the educationally rich and personalized atmosphere of her high school.
For Branch, who is the marketing manager at New City Center in Manhattan, dance is life. While at Bucknell, she was able to combine her love of dance with the practicality of economics and marketing. She felt it was very important to participate in a serious and challenging dance program, and that is what she found in Bucknell. However, when she began her studies, African dance was not a part of the University’s offerings. To Branch, the movements of African dance are “fluid and low to the ground, showing respect for the Earth, the environment.” She feels that this style of dance has much in common with ballet, as it tells stories of everyday life. Serendipitously, Branch forged a way to share her own knowledge of West African dance with a community eager for cultural expansion. With a collaborative effort from fellow students, Jelani presented its creative work at the Black Box Theater in 2002.Since her Bucknell days, Branch has continued her dance outreach through The Fall for Dance Festival every September, during which time 20 dance companies perform six programs over a period of 10 evenings. A ticket for each performance costs only $10, a real New York bargain, says Branch who is both a skilled dancer and marketer. — Maria Jacketti The Original Groundpounder
Attorney Matthew Jaffe ’63 could make Pheidippides proud. In 1976, the U.S. Marine Corps established the Goundpounders Marathon, a race covering the Washington, D.C., area. To date, only four runners, including Jaffe, have participated in every run since 1976. While at Bucknell, the-attorney-to-be wrestled. He also discovered Mike Ekiss ’64, a passionate runner, who helped extend Jaffe’s cross-training. He began with relatively short three-mile runs. Within a decade his conditioning rose to a level allowing him to take on his first marathon. To date, Jaffe, 69, has run 33 Groundpounders’ marathons, as well as other marathons and shorter races. A member of an aerobically-oriented family, he currently has a new interest, race-walking, another sport with ancient and venerable roots. His wife, Karen D. Weiss, a medical doctor, bikes back and forth to work, covering some 34 miles a day. Jaffes’ four children also have participated in running, no doubt inspired by their parents’ feats. Jaffe says that running has improved every aspect of his life. “Running makes life better and allows you to get frustration out of your system.” He plans to run 50 marathons for Groundpounders, a goal that will take him into his 80s. He says, “I’d rather die than not do this!” — Maria Jacketti Investigative Medicine Theodore Bayless ’53 was born in Atlantic City into a family with a keen interest in medicine. While at Bucknell, he met his future wife, Jaye Nides ’54, who inspired and motivated him in his career.
In the early 1960s, a fellowship brought him to Johns Hopkins, where he began an academic “triathlon” of patient care, research and teaching, culminating in a named professorship of medicine. Over the course of this career, he has treated more than 5,000 patients suffering from a variety of gastrointestinal disorders. In each case, he has spent 90 minutes doing preliminary evaluations, a rarity in the field. The time and investigative depth evident in this diagnostic platform led to discoveries revolutionizing patient care. Bayless was able to recognize that lactose intolerance was a genetic trait by studying patients with milk intolerance. This research inspired the innovation of lactose-hydrolyzed milk, “a commercial product for the millions who are lactose intolerant,” which received the Franklin Institute Nutrition Medal in 1987. Much of Bayless’ work is with adolescents and adults suffering from Crohn’s disease. Again, genetics proved essential in charting and improving patient outcomes. He was able to recognize disease patterns that recurred in families. One particular grateful family provided funds to establish a genetics laboratory. Research generated from this facility helped to locate the main gene responsible for Crohn’s Disease, verifying many of Bayless’ observations. Today the medical community has isolated more than 30 gene mutations, and new medications derived from this research are helping countless individuals to lead lives of greater ease and comfort. A former patient, Richard J. Danzig, who served as Secretary of the Navy, recalls Bayless in this way: “There is about him a kind of warm humanity and careful reflectiveness, concerning both the individual patient and the general disease. An interest in both is by no means universal among good doctors.” — Maria Jacketti Directory: sites -> default -> files -> documents documents -> North Mankato Taylor Library documents -> In the Red and Brown Water documents -> - documents -> Cbp and Trade Automated Interface Requirements Appendix: pga december 22, 2015 documents -> Ace abi catair customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements documents -> Ace abi catair customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements documents -> Mobile audio/video recording systems documents -> The south australian government gazette documents -> All public acts appearing in this gazette are to be considered official, and obeyed as such documents -> Union interparlementaire inter-parliamentary union Download 1.18 Mb. Share with your friends:
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