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Alan S. Finnecy was named senior affirmative action
specialist in the Affirmative Action Office, Office of the President.
He is primarily responsible for coordinating the University's response to discrimination complaints filed with external agencies, such as the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. Finnecy also will assist in investigating and mediating disputes based on alleged discrimination within the University.
Finnecy earned a bachelor of science degree with high distinction in human development and family studies from Penn State in 1983, and graduated cum laude with a J.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 1997.
In the past, Finnecy has served as a legal intern with the Legal Aid Society of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the Elder Law Clinic at Pitt; as an intern for the Hon. Timothy J. Lewis, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; and for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
He previously worked for Penn State as assistant director for the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Agricultural Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Bob Krimmel, head women's swimming coach at Penn State since 1981, has been named assistant athletic director. Krimmel succeeds Rich Lucas, who retired on March 31.
As assistant athletic director, Krimmel, who graduated from Penn State in 1973, will be responsible for 13 men's sports.
Fran McDermid has been named interim head coach for the women's swimming program. McDermid, nine-time Lady Lion All-American, has been Krimmel's assistant for the last two years. The Lady Lions ranked first in the nation academically for the 1996-97 season among Division I institutions.
McDermid is one of the Lady Lions' all-time best performers. McDermid earned a place in Penn State's athletic history by capturing the first individual Big Ten title in any sport. She collected four Big Ten individual titles, a standard unmatched by any athlete in any Penn State sport.
Floyd Reeser, a senior research engineer in the Guidance
and Control Department, retired from the Applied Research Laboratory after
38 years of service.
During the early years of his career, Reeser participated in a continuing research torpedo program and became involved with the development and testing for the system that eventually became the Mark 48 torpedo. In addition, he spent several years as an independent troubleshooter and developed improved tactics and signal processing. By 1972, Reeser began acting on behalf of ARL in solving problems with other laboratories, government agencies and industry. Later he designed the tests and system modifications required for Mark 48 torpedo tests conducted in the Arctic. Additional tasks ranged from self-noise programs, ring laser gyros, helicopter-towed sonar, submarine target strength and signal processing.
Reeser received several awards for his career achievements: the Chief of Naval Research Certificate of Commendation in 1992; the ARL Distinguished Performance Award in 1994; and the Office of Naval Research Certificate of Commendation for Special Activities in 1996. He spent two years as a visiting scientist and received several patents relating to torpedo control, system processing and detection improvements, and torpedo operation.
Reeser grew up in Freeport, Pa. After leaving the Army, he went to Penn State, where he received bachelor's and master's of science degrees in electrical engineering. Upon graduating, he worked for IBM then returned to Penn State in 1959.
This spring, he and his wife, Elizabeth, will fly across the Atlantic and explore Ireland. They also plan to build a home in Honduras and live there for several months each year.
John Macaluso, assistant professor of engineering research
with the signal processing department, has retired after 35 years of service.
After he joined the Ordnance Research Laboratory, now the Applied Research
Laboratory, at University Park as a research assistant in 1962, he began
a career that focused on electrical engineering design and underwater acoustics.
At a later stage in his career, he specialized in wave propagation phenomena,
underwater acoustics, signal detection and information processing systems.
Overall, he enjoyed meeting the challenges of his profession and developing
unique solutions to problems.
Macaluso, who grew up in Philadelphia, received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University in 1960, his master's degree in electrical engineering from Penn State in 1965, and his doctorate in engineering acoustics from Penn State in 1970. Additionally, he was awarded the professional engineering license to practice in Pennsylvania. Before joining ARL, he worked at Remington-Rand Univac as a systems development engineer.
During a sabbatical leave to study at the University of Minnesota in 1977, Macaluso designed, built and studied a mini-reverberant chamber to investigate the sound absorbency of various materials for use in a proposed sound room to be used for microjets. He has been the author of numerous publications and in-house reports and holds patent on a high-speed (tunnel diode) binary switch.
During his retirement, Macaluso intends to keep busy with church activities, building projects, his grandchildren, swimming, walking and traveling.
Virginia L. Fortney, assistant professor of kinesiology,
has retired from the College of Health and Human Development after 32 years
of service. Fortney began her Penn State career in 1965 as an instructor
in the Department of Health and Physical Education and became an assistant
professor of exercise and sports science in 1974.
While at Penn State, Fortney has worked as a faculty affiliate with the Gerontology Center, and an associate scientist of the Center for Child and Adolescent Health and Behavior. Her research has focused on the motor patterns of children, as well as the biomechanics of Olympic gymnasts, specifically vaulters, at the Seoul and Barcelona games. In addition, she has been a member of the University Faculty Senate, served as an adviser to both undergraduate and graduate students, and taught several courses in the department's professional program.
Fortney received her bachelor's degree in physical education and biology from the University of Illinois in 1956, her master's degree in physical education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1964, and her doctorate in physical education and child development from Purdue University in 1980.
In 1956, Fortney began teaching at Woodstock Elementary Schools in Woodstock, Ill. She continued working with children at the Dependents' Education Group in Mannheim, West Germany, and the Princeville High School in Princeville, Ill. In 1961, she became an instructor for the Department of Physical Education and Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In retirement, Fortney looks forward to traveling, fly fishing in Montana this summer, and spending time with her family and friends.
Moylan C. Mills, professor of integrative arts, retired with emeritus status. Mills headed the integrative arts department at Penn State Abington from 1992 until his retirement.
With a journalism degree from Penn State in 1952, Mills started working for the Reading Eagle as a reporter and feature writer while doing some book editing on the side. His education was interrupted when he was drafted and began work for U.S. counterintelligence as a special agent in West Berlin and Munich, West Germany. Mills returned to Penn State to earn a master's degree in English in 1957.
Mills began as an instructor of English in 1960 at the then-Ogontz campus, and was promoted to associate professor and chair in 1965. He also directed academic affairs and acted as CEO at the Ogontz campus.
Mills earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. He was a book reviewer for Philadelphia papers, published papers in journals of several disciplines and designed collaborative courses. He helped design the integrative arts department in 1990 and was chosen as department head in 1992. He has won numerous awards.
While Mills has retired from administrative duties connected with the department, he will continue teaching at Abington. He has essays forthcoming in several journals and was recently named the editorial reviewer for the Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
Alan Davis, professor of geology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, from Jan. 1, 1973, to Nov. 1, 1997.
John J. Henry, professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, from Sept. 15, 1971, to Feb. 1.
J. Dean Jansma, professor of agricultural economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from July 1, 1964, to Feb. 5.
Marjorie Podolsky, lecturer in English at Penn State Erie, from Aug. 31, 1981, to Jan. 1.
Diane R. Wolf, staff assistant V at Penn State Delaware County, from Sept. 1, 1983, to Feb. 17.
Linda L. Zimmers, library assistant III in University Libraries, from Jan. 1, 1962, to Jan. 1.
