#erin pettit

[tealin]

Antarcticans

I may not have used my sketchbook as much as I thought I would, with regard to locations, but I did fill a few pages with one of my favourite pastimes back in The World: people sketching.

My biggest anxiety about going to McMurdo was the human factor.  Whether it was school or work, a recurring motif in my life is that I do not do well in a big box full of Americans, and that is, almost literally, exactly what McMurdo is.  Sure, the continent wants to kill you, and every way of getting to and around it comes with risk of serious accident, but the only thing I was actually afraid of was finding myself in a stressful social situation and not having any recourse to escape.  I know how to build a snow cave.  I don't know how to deflect the ire of people who've taken a set against me – and, for whatever reason, I tend to rub people in the States the wrong way.  When I was shortlisted for the placement, the person handling the admin briefed me about the process and asked me if I had any further questions, and I raised this concern.  She responded that, speaking purely from her own experience, she had never felt more comfortable being herself than when she was at McMurdo.  Not knowing who 'herself' was, I took this with a grain of salt, but it was an encouraging answer nonetheless.

It turned out that the best thing about McMurdo was, in fact, those very people I had been afraid of.  Everyone I met was absolutely splendid.  In my first days there, my supervisor joked that if you shake the world, all the best people end up at the bottom; the remainder of my time there proved how right she was.  One of the main things that attracted me to the Terra Nova story, and has kept me committed to it for so long, was how wonderful the people were – far outside what I had come to expect from humanity.  Warm, genuine, accepting of and attentive to each other, a wide range of personalities and dispositions that nevertheless got on and functioned together as a society, in the face of environmental and emotional extremes ... I needed to know such people were possible, and clung to them as an ideal.  It was a wonderful surprise to discover that they would not be out of place amongst their modern counterparts.

Is it because they're scientists, as someone theorised? But they're not – most of the people at McMurdo are support staff, working in the kitchen or waste disposal or shuttle fleet; helping the science happen, yes, but that's not necessarily why they're there, personally.  Is it because a harsh environment triggers something in the human psyche to support each other, rather than compete?  Maybe, but these people seem like they'd be solid wherever they are, and were like that before going South.  

I suspect there is an element of self-selection – something about the sort of person who would want to go to Antarctica correlates with a certain mindset, one that gels extremely well with others who share it, however different they may be in other respects.  There is no denying that everyone there is a bit odd.  They tend to be types that exist on the fringes back in The World and, like me, may struggle to conform to its values.  A few years ago, I came across this adage from an Antarctic veteran: "You go the first time for the adventure.  You go the second time to relive the first time.  You go the third time because you don't belong anywhere else."  Many of them live in remote places, or travel, or do itinerant work when not on the Ice.  There is a bit of a running gag in Where'd You Go, Bernadette? that everyone doing a mundane job in Antarctica is a high achiever in something amazing, who left it all behind – and that's not exactly untrue.  Perhaps what unites Antarcticans is an awareness of what really matters, when you get right down to it: they've played the game enough to see through it, and are done with it.  "Glory? He knew it for a bubble: he had proved himself to himself. He was not worrying about glory. Power? He had power." So Cherry wrote about Wilson in 1948, but many modern Antarcticans might sympathise.  When you come out the other side of self-aggrandisement and jockeying for status, and are happy just to be yourself and let others be themselves, you get a happy, harmonious society.  Or so it would seem.

At midnight on my last day there, I had a deep conversation with someone I'd only met in passing before, but who was totally down to have a long talk with a random stranger on a footbridge in the middle of the night. I presented her my hypothesis that no one at McMurdo was popular in high school.  No, she replied; there may be a handful who were popular in high school ... but they're not popular at McMurdo.  Maybe the secret is in there somewhere.

Anyway, I didn't do nearly as much people sketching as I'd have liked, given that the base was populated entirely by Characters, but these are the pages I did manage to get. 

Two pages of random McMurdites, likely in the Galley:

These last four are from a meeting where team leaders were presenting their projects to some high muckymucks visiting from the NSF. I was only there because my project was allotted a space in the presentation, but the main focus was the massive Thwaites Glacier project, a collaboration between the US Antarctic Program and the British Antarctic Survey to study one of the most unstable regions in Antarctica.  They quite rightly took up the whole meeting time, and the privilege of being there meant I learned a lot about the project.  My longstanding habit is to draw during meetings, so I captured some of them in my sketchbook while absorbing the science into my head.

Notable characters in my sketches include: - David Vaughan, heading up the British contingent of the Thwaites team, was quite an engaging and affable guy but had a concentration scowl that puts mine in the shade. I was shocked when I heard he died of cancer earlier this year (2023) – a great loss to BAS, glaciology, and Antarctic science generally. - When Erin Pettit isn't studying glaciers with an eye to climate change, she's taking girls on wilderness adventures to foster an interest in science and art, as well as self-confidence. - Britney Schmidt, Queen of Icefin, not only earned my profound respect but has a whole episode of PBS's Terra dedicated to her work developing sub-ice autonomous robots with the aim of exploring Europa. (Seriously, so cool.)

I could go on about Antarctic people, but there's nothing so good as showing you, and luckily I can do just that. PBS sent a small team down in 2018 to do a YouTube series, and one of their episodes is all about the cool people who call McMurdo home.  It might make my point better than all my whittering, and is certainly more fun. If you'd like to see more, Werner Herzog's film Encounters at the End of the World is much of the same, but more so.  It had been recommended to me several times, but I hadn't managed to get my hands on it until a week before I left, when it turned out a Cambridge friend had a copy and lent it to me.  'I don't know how true it is,' he said, 'but I want it to be.'  When I got back, I was happy to confirm to him that it was, indeed, exactly like that.  And I miss it so much.

[sataniccapitalist]

[zehub]

Les bulles d'air des icebergs, puissants accélérateurs de la fonte des glaces

La glaciologue américaine Erin Pettit a découvert que les bulles d'air emprisonnées dans la glace provoquent un brouhaha assourdissant. Si ce bruit permet à la faune d'échapper aux prédateurs, l'explosion de ces bulles d'air double aussi la vitesse de la fonte des glaces.

[franklinsense]

Antarctica’s Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated

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[celtfather]

Jigs & Reels of Ireland #576

Jigs & Reels, the Celtic instrumental music of Ireland is on this week’s Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.

Lúnasa, Ogham, Mary - Grace Autumn Lee, The Lilies of the Midwest, Willos' & Massimo Giuntini, Bella Issakova & Randy Clepper, The Chieftains, Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Anne Roos, David Blonski, Barrenhart, Téada, Highlander Celtic Rock Band Australia, Banshee in the Kitchen, Wakefire, Telenn Tri

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0:02 - Intro: Wakefire

0:11 - Lúnasa "Sinead Maire's" from Cas

5:14 - WELCOME

6:34 - Ogham "Johnny Mickey's / Where is the Cat" from The Gold Ring

9:17 - Mary - Grace Autumn Lee "Erin Quinn’s: Tyrell’s Pass/The Coolinarne Jig/The Thatcher (Jigs)" from Eyre

12:43 - The Lilies of the Midwest "That's Right Too  -  The Turnpike  -  Shakin' Down the Acorns" from Flora

16:52 - Willos' & Massimo Giuntini "The Belfort Set" from From Now On

21:37 - FEEDBACK

26:55 - Bella Issakova & Randy Clepper "Blackbird / Jack Rowe / Eanach Mhic Coilin / Carthy’s Reel" from Pre - Release

32:36 - The Chieftains "Humours of Carolan" from Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt  -  Live In San Francisco 1976

41:27 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira "Cumberland Gap" from All It Brings

45:42 - Anne Roos & David Blonski "Lovely is the Dark Blue Sky" from A Winter's Dance

48:39 - Barrenhart "Hector The Hero" from Celtic Grass

53:23 - THANKS

55:15 - Téada "Jigs  -  The Cauliflower / Tom Busby’s / A Tribute to Jim" from Coiscéim Coiligh / As the Days Brighten

58:36 - Highlander Celtic Rock Band Australia "Bung Knee Jigs" from North of the Wall

1:01:50 - Banshee in the Kitchen "Rouge Mouse" from The Last Pint  -  Not

1:04:58 - Wakefire “Catharsis” from Meaning of Life

1:08:34 - CLOSING

1:09:27 - Telenn Tri "The Rock on the Clyde / Monaghan's" from Macquarie Street

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[alwaysbewoke]

A few weeks ago, scientists participating in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a $25 million five-year-long joint research program between the National Science Foundation in the U.S. and the Natural Environment Research Council in the U.K., presented their latest research. They described the discovery of cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf, predicting that the ice shelf could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years. “It won’t scatter out into sea as quickly as what you saw when you were down there,” Erin Pettit, a glaciologist at Oregon State University and one of the lead principal investigators in the ITGC, later told me. “But the basic process is the same. The ice shelf is breaking up and could be gone in less than a decade.”

Given the ongoing war for American democracy and the deadly toll of the Covid pandemic, the loss of an ice shelf on a far-away continent populated by penguins might not seem to be big news. But in fact, the West Antarctic ice sheet is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth’s climate system. If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea. Globally, 250 million people live within three feet of high tide lines. Ten feet of sea level rise would be a world-bending catastrophe. It’s not only goodbye Miami, but goodbye to virtually every low-lying coastal city in the world.

We've fucked up soooo bad.

[kreuzaderny]

Ice shelf holding back keystone Antarctic glacier within years of failure

An alarming crackup has begun at the foot of Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier, whose meltwater is already responsible for about 4% of global sea level rise. An ice sheet the size of Florida, Thwaites ends its slide into the ocean as a floating ledge of ice 45 kilometers wide. But now, this ice shelf, riven by newly detected fissures on its surface and underside, is likely to break apart in the next 5 years or so, scientists reported today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The most dramatic sign of impending failure is a set of diagonal fractures that nearly span the entire shelf. Last month, satellites spotted accelerating movement of ice along the fractures, says Erin Pettit, a glaciologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, who is part of a multiyear expedition studying the glacier. The shelf is a bit like a windshield with a series of slowly opening cracks, she says. “You’re like, I should get a new windshield. And one day, bang—there are a million other cracks there.”

[starsberrisnunicorns]

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🔥🔥AND ANOTHER ONE!🔥🔥

‘Erin Jackson became the first black woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic long-track speedskating team, finishing third in 39.04 seconds in the 500-meter race, Friday in Milwaukee.

Jackson joins Maame Biney, who recently became the first black woman to qualify for the speedskating team with her short-track finish in the 500 meters in Utah.

Both women follow the footsteps of Chicagoan Shani Davis, who was 19 years old when he became the first black athlete to qualify for U.S. Olympic speedskating team in 2002.  He went on to win two gold medals in long track events and recently qualified for his fifth-straight Olympic Games during the trials at Pettit National Ice Center.

Jackson, a 25-year-old from Florida, has only been long-track speedskating for four months after switching over from dominating inline skating competitions where she was a three-time roller sports athlete of the year.

“I really wasn’t expecting it coming in,” she said in an NBC interview after the race. “Pretty cool.”’

And don’t forget these ladies…

‘Driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Akuoma Omeoga, Ngozi Onwumere have qualified for Pyeongchang 2018, ensuring an African nation will be represented in the sport [bobsled] at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever.’

✨BLACK GIRLS REALLY ARE MAGIC!✨

✔Make sure to tune into NBC for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang on February 9th!!!

[wutbju]

Meanwhile, Erin Matthews earned less than 10% of Steve Pettit’s salary at $15,740. 

There are two kinds of people at BJU: the 1% and everybody else.

[tastydregs]

How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier

Two Decembers ago, Erin Pettit layered up, slapped on goggles, cued up an audio book, and went on a hike—across Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Behind her, she dragged a sled loaded with a ground-penetrating radar, which fired pulses through a thousand feet of ice and analyzed the radio waves that bounced off the seawater below, thus building a detailed image of the glacier beneath her feet. Pettit—a glaciologist and climate scientist at Oregon State University—hiked alone through the snow, sometimes eschewing headphones for the absolute auditory stillness of the most remote landscape on Earth. “It was actually kind of an amazing, meditative field season,” she says, “I just bundled up, I went out there and pulled my sled, and just walked for miles and miles.”

In case you were worried, her colleagues always knew where Pettit was; every so often someone would roll out on a snow machine to bring her supplies or to swap out the radar’s battery. Sure, the team could have covered more ground by towing the radar behind the vehicle, but the vibrations would have introduced noise to the data. And by walking slowly, Pettit could maximize the resolution of the radar images. Every night, she’d return to camp, download that data, and begin to parse it. “And then the next day, I would go out and do the same thing—walk this peaceful, quiet walk,” says Pettit. She hiked up to 12 miles each day for over two weeks, for a total of 135 miles. “I was thinking: I'm walking on top of 300, 400 meters of ice that's on top of the ocean, and on this piece of ice that was unlikely to be there for much longer.”

That’s because Thwaites—aka the Doomsday Glacier—is deteriorating fast, losing 50 billion tons of ice to the sea each year. Stretching 75 miles across the coast of Antarctica, encompassing an area about the size of Florida, it’s currently responsible for 4 percent of global sea level rise. (It straddles land and sea: The bit on land is known as an “ice sheet,” but where it floats it’s an “ice shelf.”) If it melted completely, the glacier would not only contribute over 2 feet of sea level rise, but as it slid into the ocean, it would also tug on the glaciers surrounding it, further destabilizing them. That’d add another 8 feet of sea level rise.

Scientists are racing to understand how Thwaites is disintegrating, and to figure out how much time humanity has before the thing causes disastrous sea level rise. The ice shelf could crumble in three to five years, which will dramatically accelerate the decline of the rest of the glacier. Each new satellite image of Thwaites shows deeper and longer fractures that are growing up to 6 miles a year, and they’re heading toward thinner ice. 

Erin Pettit leaves camp with a ground-penetrating radar in tow

Photograph: Karen Alley

[antikorg]

Une partie du « glacier de l’Apocalypse » pourrait se briser d’ici cinq ans

Une partie du « glacier de l’Apocalypse » pourrait se briser d’ici cinq ans

2021-12-14 16:27:50 https://reporterre.net// La fonte de ce glacier participe déjà à environ 4 % de la montée annuelle du niveau des océans dans le monde. 14 décembre 2021 à 16h27, Durée de lecture : 1 minute Climat Monde Dans un rapport publié lundi 13 décembre, la glaciologue américaine Erin Pettit explique que d’immenses nouvelles fissures ont été observées sur le glacier Thwaites. Situé à…

[alaturkanews]

48 Hours preview: "A Sister's Fight for Her Brother"

48 Hours preview: “A Sister’s Fight for Her Brother”

Scott and Janet Pettit were killed in their Modesto, California home back in 2013. Their son, Brandon Pettit, is accused of hiring a friend to kill them. But his sister, Lauren Pettit, has stood by her brother from the beginning and insists he's innocent. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty joins "CBSN AM" with a preview of tomorrow's report. CBSN is CBS News’ 24/7 digital streaming news…

[vm4vm0]

Beefeater Gin - Make Your World from Shan on Vimeo.

Beefeater Gin extended cut version.

Director / Producer: Shan Phearon Director of Photography: Courtney J Bennett Production Design: Charlotte Toon / Sheena Brobbey Stylist: Kashmir Wickham MUA: Aaliyah Oke / Tale Imevbore 1st AC: Eve Carreño Gaffer: John Letsinger Spark: Isaac Whittingham Production Manager: Sophie Le PA: Tom Soltonas Editor / Colour / VFX: Shan Phearon VFX: Gino Fernandez Sound Designer: Danny Trachtenberg Composer: Drel

Talent: Penelope Gwen Natasha Minter Georgia Bowen Jessie Pettit Erin Leighton

[celtfather]

Rights of Celtic Women #571

Stand up for the rights of Celtic Women on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.

Tulua, Ogham, Avon Faire, Lissa Schneckenburger, Niamh Dunne, Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, The Chivalrous Crickets, The Lilies of the Midwest, The Gothard Sisters, Low Lily, Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen, Gwendolyn Snowdon, Mary - Grace Autumn Lee, Clare Cunningham, Banshee in the Kitchen

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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC

0:02 - Intro: Erin Ruth

0:10 - Tulua "All Hours" from Rising

Kayleigh Moran: fiddle, vocals

Caoimhe Moran: Irish harp, concertina and piano (name pron. Kwee - vuh)

5:13 - WELCOME

7:19 - Ogham "The Piper's Despair / Miss McLeod's" from The Gold Ring

Amanda Caretta - Hull: bodhran

10:17 - Avon Faire "The Jolly Beggar" from Tales of Love and Adventure

Andriette Redmann: Vocals, guitar, percussion

Kath Green: Vocals, guitar, percussion

Anna Marie Spallina: Vocals, guitar, percussion, mandolin, ukulele, recorders

13:42 - Lissa Schneckenburger "Petronella" from Dance

Lissa Schneckenburger: fiddle, vocals

18:14 - Niamh Dunne "Ballyneety's Walls" from Portraits

Niamh Dunne: vocals and fiddle

21:34 - FEEDBACK

22:41 - Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira "Fleur Reels" from All It Brings

Jocelyn Pettit: fiddle, stepdancer, singer, and composer.

Ellen Gira: cellist

26:23 - The Chivalrous Crickets "Daughter of France" from The Chivalrous Crickets

Fiona Gillespie: vocals, Irish whistle, flute, percussion, mountain dulcimer

Genevieve Gillespie: fiddle, vocals

30:03 - The Lilies of the Midwest "Kitty O'Neil's Champion Jig" from Flora

Charlene Adzima  -  fiddle, voice

Kara Rogers  -  concertina

Jeanna Schultz  -  mandolin, box

35:26 - The Gothard Sisters "Shadow and Sun" from Dragonfly

Greta: guitar, violin, vocals, Irish dance

Willow: violin, mandolin, Irish dance, bodhran, vocals

Solana: vocals, violin, bodhran, djembe, percussion, whistles, Irish dance, ukulele

38:50 - THANKS

41:29 - Low Lily "ROCK OF AGES" from 10,000 Days Like These

Liz Simmons: Guitar & Vocals

Lissa Schneckenburger: Fiddle & Vocals

44:11 - Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen "Allistrum’s / Ned Kelly's" from Brightly or Darkly

Laura Feddersen: fiddle

47:57 - Gwendolyn Snowdon "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" from Three Strand Braid

51:46 - Mary - Grace Autumn Lee "Trip to Thornfield: Hills of Coore/Seán Ó Duibhir A Ghleanna (Hornpipe/Set Dance)" from Eyre

Mary - Grace Autumn Lee: hammered duclimer

55:39 - Clare Cunningham "Dear Ireland" from Dear Ireland

Clare Cunningham is one of the female performers September 10  -  11 at the Middle Tennessee Highland Games & Celtic Festival in Hendersonville, TN. I’m performing there as well. If you want to come join us at the Games, you will find a special link in the shownotes where you can buy a ticket. Please come find me and get your free Irish & Celtic Music Podcast sticker.

59:05 - CLOSING

1:01:39 - Banshee in the Kitchen "Lads O' the Fair" from The Last Pint  -  Not

Jill England: accordion

Kat Edmonson: guitar

Brenda Hunter: hammered dulcimer

Kris Wilber: bass

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We are enjoying the music of the women of Celtic music this week on the podcast. There are some who continue to devalue women and strip them of their rights. But this podcast believes strongly that women too need representation. That’s why I play at least one podcast a quarter highlighting the women of Celtic music. And I’ll be honest. That’s not nearly enough.

FairPle is an organization based in Ireland that seeks to achieve gender balance in the production, performance, promotion, and development of Irish traditional and folk music. They advocate for equal opportunity and balanced representation for all. A recent look at the top festivals in Ireland revealed that less than a quarter of all musicians featured at festivals were women. Headliners are even less.

And I get it. Again, I do this feature on women in Celtic music every quarter. That’s not a lot. I hope to increase the number of these shows and to continue to highlight Celtic women. But it’s a tough process with my time constraints. If you have ideas or suggestions or want to help, make something happen, please drop me a line.

And make sure you sign up for the FairPle.com website for more details about the work they are doing.

WHAT’S NEW IN IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2022

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The Pool Scene - Billy Thorpe, Brandon Shuff, Earl Strickland, Frank Hernandez, Jayson Shaw, Jeremy Sossei, Len Gianfrate, Raphael Dabreo, Shane Van Boening, Shaun Wilkie, Steve Fleming, Thorsten Hohmann, Tom Zippler, Yesid Garabello - Joss Northeast 9-Ball

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Shane Van Boening wins 5th Turning Stone Title

Everyone, Here is the complete order of finish for our Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour’s, “Turning Stone Classic XXXII 9-Ball Open”, which was held August 22-25, 2019. The event was $25,000 added with a total prize fund of $41,400. There was a full field of 128 players. All players were paid in cash immediately upon their elimination from the event!

1st          $8,000            Shane Van Boening 2nd         $5,000            Earl Strickland 3rd          $3,600            Jayson Shaw 4th          $2,600            Billy Thorpe 5/6th       $2,000 each – Brandon Shuff, Thorsten Hohmann 7/8th       $1,600 each – Raphael Dabreo, Frank Hernandez 9/12th     $1,200 each – Jeremy Sossei, Yesid Garabello, Len Gianfrate, Shaun Wilkie 13/16th   $850    each – Hunter Lombardo, John Andrade (Can), Dan Hewitt (Can), LoreeJon Hasson 17/24th   $550    each – Randy Labonte, Steven Winter (Can), Brent Boemmels, Damon Sobers, Jorge Rodriguez, Chad Bazinet, Kevin West, Qais Kolee  25/32nd  $300    each – Mike Yednak, Eric Lim, Jesse Docalavich, Eric Cloutier (Can), Matt Krah, Holden Chin, Sean Morgan, Earl Herring 33/48th – Zion Zvi, Dave Fernandez, Darren Clement (Can), Mika Immonen, Nick Coppola, Erik Hjorleifson (Can), Paul Laverdiere, Rich Kravetz, Jia Li, Dave Dreidel, Nick Antonakos, Brad Guthrie (Can), Mike Hurley, Bucky Souvanthong, Jerome Rockwell, Donny Mills

49/64th – Matt Tetreault, Tom Zippler, Fred Gokey, Willie Oney, Johnny Archer, Dan Sharlow, Keith Nelson, Ray Buthe, Jon McConnell, Dave Shlemperis, Jennifer Barretta, Dave Grau, Alvin Thomas, Ron Casanzio, Nelson Weimer, Caroline Pao 65/96th – Tony Antone, Bob Cunningham, Bud Robideau, Ed Yero, Alan Gordon, Frank Wolak, Joe Dupuis, Steve Fleming, Jed Jecen, Rich Howard,  Jerry Crowe, Gregg McAndrews, Ray Lee, Roarke Dickson, Dave Mills, John Moody, Sean Santoro, Bruce Gordon, Pascal Dufresne, Tom Gildea,               Larry Phleger, Jay Chiu, Greg Antonakos, Phil Harju, Jim Kearney, Mike Pettit, James Stonkus, Dominic Byrne, Ed Culhane, Mike Toohig, Chris Braiman, Rob Pole, 

97/128th – Greg Bombard, Bruce Nagle, Mike Verducci, Jason Platt, Nabil Lazouzi, Gene Hunt, Ben Werblow, Steve Sutton, Dave Callaghan, Steven W. Smith, Don Reigel, Jesse Piercey (Can), Lida Mullendore, Joe Sinicropi, Randy Whitehead, Pat Fleming, Erin Bechner, Chris Pyle, Bill Cote, Ryan Smith, Allen Hazelwood, Catherine Ong, Devin Buttle (Can), Jim Prather, Aaron Cameron, Bruce Barthelette, Tommy Tokoph, Jim McManus, Marco Kam, Brian Wheel, Rob Hart, Bruce Carroll

Our Second Chance event had a field of 26 players with a total prize fund of $1,300.

1st     $400 Steve Fleming 2nd    $300 Tom Zippler 3/4th  $180 each – Ben Werblow, Jim Prather5/8th  $60 each – Brent Boemmels, Joe Sinicropi, Jesse Docalavich, Jim Kearney

$1,500 Joss Cue raffle winners – Scott Brown & D. Nixon &  the winner of the autographed Aramith Pro Cup cue ball used in the final match – Bill Keymel The Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour Is Proudly Sponsored By;

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BU holds 150th commencement ceremonies

A total of 1,550 undergraduates were awarded diplomas this spring during Bloomsburg University’s 150th commencement ceremonies at Redman Stadium for the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Technology and the Zeigler College of Business.

The morning undergraduate ceremony was help for the 560 graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and the 140 graduates in the College of Education. Daniel Greenstein, chancellor of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education addressed the graduates.

“Each one of you are success stories and are what BU stands for,” Greenstein said. “Be proud of your accomplishments. This is not the end but another beginning.”

The afternoon commencement ceremony was held for the 471 graduates of the College of Science and Technology and the 379 graduates of the Zeigler College of Business. Michael Boguski ‘85, CPCU, a director and president of Eastern Alliance and its operating subsidiaries addressed the graduates.

"This university has transformed our lives, and we are so incredibly grateful,” said Michael Boguski '85. “I believe the Class of 2019 being honored today will be transformative and will represent this university in a manner we can all beam with pride and joy.”

Graduation Photo Gallery 

Top Honor Graduates

The students who earned the highest grade-point average in each college will be recognized during the ceremonies. The top honor graduates are:

College of Education

Nancy Marie Zola, Sugarloaf, Bachelor of Science in education in secondary education with an emphasis in English

College of Liberal Arts

Joshua Lloyd, Muncy, Bachelor of Arts in languages and culture (Spanish); Bachelor of Arts, communication studies

College of Science and Technology

Erin Elizabeth Riley, Birdsboro, Bachelor of Science in speech pathology and audiology

Natalie Grace Smetana, Milford, Bachelor of Science in speech pathology and audiology

Andrew Scott Cross, Benton, Bachelor of Science in biology

Mitchell Alexander Kile, Millville, Bachelor of Science in electronics engineering technology

Zeigler College of Business

Jillian Elizabeth Oley, Elysburg, Bachelor of Science in business administration/management.

Matthew Curtis Swales, Muncy, Bachelor of Science in accounting

Doctor of Humane Letters

BU awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters to Steph Pettit ’89 during the morning commencement ceremony. Pettit graduated with a degree in mass communications and was a four-year member of the Huskies football team. He was part of the 1985 Huskies football team that won the PSAC title and was the first team in school history to win 12 games.

After graduation, he was a sales manager for E & J Gallo Winery before taking ownership of Clean Earth Systems, Inc. in 1993. The company began as a small, corrugated box company, and has since grown into a nationwide distributor of hazardous waste containers with 15 warehouses and sales teams in each. Clean Earth Systems’ innovations has reinvented hazardous waste storage while maximizing efficiency, through cost-effective, sensible, and environmentally-responsible hazardous material transportation, and disposal.