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Thursday, May 28, 2009

A.O. Fox Recognizes Nurses For Excellence

Fox Hospital recognized three nurses May 6 during National Nurses’ Week.
Diane Earl, RN, received the Lisa Hunter Memorial Nurse of Excellence Award for exhibiting compassion, caring, patience and professionalism. Earl, who works in the emergency room, has worked at Fox for over 11 years.
Charity Burton and Teresa Pope, both LPNs, received the Barb Strickland Memorial Nurse of Excellence Award for their outstanding service and commitment to quality care.
Burton, who works at Child & Adolescent Healthcare Associates in the FoxCare Center, has been with Fox four years; and Pope, who works at the Fox Nursing Home, has been with the organization for over 21 years.

Executive Service Corps Chooses 8 New Directors

Eight new directors were elected to the board of the Executive Service Corps of Otsego-Delaware County at its annual meeting Wednesday, May 20:
• Richard (Dick) Bryden, National Bank of Delaware County
• Betsy Cunningham, owner, Artware, downtown Oneonta
• Bill Davis, IT consultant
• Bruce Dolph, accountant and H&R Block franchise owner, Delaware County
• Bob Harder, Wilber National Bank
• John Insetta, retired City of Oneonta administrator
• Tanya Shalor, Publisher, Oneonta Daily Star
• Robert T. Wood, Oneonta town supervisor, former owner, Woodie’s Market
With offices at 12 Dietz St., the Corps consists of executives willing to provide advice and guidance to fledgling businesses.

Professor To Seek Anti-Wildlife Turfs

SUNY Oneonta Associate Biology Professor Donna Vogler has $25,000 from the Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Research
Grants Program.
The grant will support a 15-month field study to explore turf species that would discourage wildlife in the vicinity of airports.
Grad student Kristin Dorsch will assist Dr. Vogler.
Oneonta Airport will be one of three test sites.

Fox Donates Apparatus To HOPE

Fox Hospital has donated a Thermo-Shandon Tissue Processor to the HOPE Foundation, a nonprofit, charitable foundation that benefits special needs children.
The HOPE Foundation is both a national and international organization that acquires medical equipment and supplies and has recently been liquidating outdated medical equipment to raise money for projects in this tough economic climate.
Fox’s donation will be used to provide medical services to special needs children.

WINS CERTIFICATION: Melanie Colburn, executive commercial lines customer service representative in Mang Insurance’s Oneonta office for 10 years, has been designated a certified insurance counselor by the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors.

CORTLAND GRADS: The following local students were among 1,429 who graduated from SUNY Cortland on May 16: Brady H. Aborn and James R. Aborn, Milford; Allison Elizabeth Kaster, Mount Vision: Emily Ann Kishbaugh, Unadilla; Tyler Steven Lloyd, New Berlin; Kenneth John Luettger and Mackenzie R. Winne, Oneonta: Brendan Thomas Neary, Richmondville; Corey Lynn Redmond, Sidney; Michelle Rose Valentine, Hartwick.

DEAN’S LIST: Lowell Huntington of Schenevus and Jesse Blanchard of Oneonta were named to the Florida Institute of Technology’s Dean’s List for the spring semester.

ANNIVERSARY: T.J. Peacock and Marc Richard are celebrating their third anniversary operating the Quiznos on Oneonta’s Southside.

NEW PALTZ GRADS: These local students have received bachelor degrees from SUNY New Paltz: Mary Doherty of Schenevus, music therapy; Lucas Howard of Maryland, communication media; Hally Norton of Worcester, childhood education, and Daniel Pomarico-Maxson of Cooperstown, computer science.

VIRTUAL HOSPITAL: Jim Greenberg, SUNY Oneonta director of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, will lead a team collaborating with SUNY Ulster in building a virtual medical facility in Second Life, a 3-D online “world” that enables educational institutions, businesses, organizations and individuals to communicate, collaborate, and share. The project is designed to offer nursing student teams to conduct live patient simulations. Greenberg will work with Hope Windle, his counterpart in Ulster.

JOINS FIDELIS: Marie Hegeman, a licensed clinical social worker, has joined the Fidelis Care provider network. The Oneonta office is in Suite K, 50 Dietz St.

APPOINTED: SUNY Oneonta graduate Carol Henrich-Herrera was appointed assistant vice president of client services at Amalgamated Life Insurance Company on Tuesday, May 26.She has a BS in mathematics from SUNY Oneonta. Henrich-Herrera and her family reside in White Plains.

HOSPITALITY DEGREE: Jennifer DiMartin of Oneonta, received a bachelor of science in hospitality management during the commencement ceremony at Widener University on May 16.

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WEEKEND’S BEST BETS

BIKE RIDE: Opportunities for Otsego will host its 9th Annual River Ride on Saturday, June 6th. The bicycling event will benefit OFO’s programs. The event is open to riders of all levels of experience. Registration for the event begins at 8AM on Saturday, and the event starts at Neahwa Park at 9AM. Registration forms can be found at Opportunities for Otsego’s main office, 3 West Broadway, Oneonta, Sport Tech on Main Street, Oneonta, or online at www.ofoinc.org. Information, 433-8000.

AUTHOR PRESENTATION: 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6, Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta. Steve “The Dirtmeister” Tomecek will bring the fun of science to one and all. Information, 433-8898.

BOOK AND PLANT SALE: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday June 6, Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Books, plants, movies, music and more! Information, 432-3491.

CHINESE AUCTION: 1-4 p.m. Saturday June 6, Oneonta Moose Lodge, 87 West Broadway. Food and beverage available. Information, 432-6040.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL: 1-5 p.m. Sunday, June 7, upper level Wilbur Park, Oneonta. (Hunt Union Ballroom at SUNY Oneonta in the event of inclement weather.) By the Oneonta World of Learning. Free ice cream, live entertainment, Utica Zoomobile and more. Information, worldoflearning@live.com or 433-0160.

THEATRE SEASON OPENING: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, June 7. Chapel Hall, Franklin. Nationally-known writer Jim Mullen performs “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Garbage,” kicking off Franklin Stage Company’s 13th season. Each performance will be followed by a meet-and-greet with Mullen. Information and reservations, 829-3700, or reserve@franklinstagecompany.org.

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De Frances, Wade Thomas, Jane Clark Honored As Alumni Descend On City

ONEONTA

Hundreds of people with affection for SUNY Oneonta will be in the City of the Hills Friday-Sunday, June 5-7. for Reunion Weekend 2009, and some of them will be singled out for special recognition.
Among the local honorees who will be recognized at the Reunion Weekend Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Hunt Union are:
• Sonia Rossbach de Frances ‘59, ‘71G, of Franklin, Chair of the Membership Committee of the College at Oneonta Foundation and a long-time supporter of the college, who will receive the Excellence in Alumni Service Award.
• Dr. Wade Thomas of Oneonta, associate dean of economics and business, who will receive the Current Faculty Outstanding Service Award.
• Jane Forbes Clark of Cooperstown, who will receive the Friend of the College Award for, among other contributions, her support of the Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake.
“I’ve met some amazing people,” Mrs.
de Frances, a retired teacher, said of her six years on the College Council. “The people who are on the board are just the smartest and finest people I’ve ever worked with.
“And,” she added, “I’ve reconnected with the students.”
The reunion begins with golf and tennis tournaments Friday and a 120th anniversary celebration on campus in the evening.
On Saturday, President Nancy Kleniewski will recognize the 50th Reunion Class of 1959, followed by the reunion barbecue at the Alumni Field House at noon and tours of campus, including the recently renovated Science Building 1.
That afternoon, Kleniewski and her husband, Bill Davis, will host a reception for substantial donors in the atrium of Science Building 1. The 40th anniversary of the Educational Opportunity Program will be marked, and the 50th Reunion Class will gather to toast at the pillars of Old Main.
Other honorees at that evening’s banquet include:
• Eileen LaCorte ‘76 of Latham, president & CEO of LaCorte Companies Inc., will receive the Distinguished Alumna Award.
• Dr. Steven Ackerman ‘76 of Madison, Wisc., director, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
• Dr. William Kaufmann of Los Altos, Calif., whose gifts endowed the College’s Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Lecture on Environmental Education and Communication, will receive the Honorary Alumnus Award.
• Caryl Stern ‘78 of Bayside, president & CEO of the US Fund for UNICEF, will receive the Outstanding Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Alumna Award.
• Jonathan Kaplan ‘99 of East Brunswick, N.J., volunteer alumni coordinator for radio station WONY, will receive the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award.
Reunion Weekend 2009 is open to all alumni and friends of the College at Oneonta, as well as to members of the community. Some events require advance registration. Call (607) 436-2526 for details or check www.oneonta.edu

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Art Everywhere

SAM GOODYEAR

ART BEAT

The other Saturday, Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote an editorial in the New York Times entitled, “Some Thoughts on the Art of Reading Aloud.”
In the 1960s and ‘70s, hip people everywhere were devouring Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving.” Alfred Dunhill, venerated purveyor of tar and nicotine, promoted, in a bygone day, “The Gentle Art of Smoking.”
During my years living in Paris, I had a concierge (a profession normally much-maligned in the old days) who qualified as an artist for the sheer skill, commitment, thought, and personal involvement she put into executing her duties.
I have gone to people’s houses for dinner and come away transformed by the artistry of the cuisine, not to mention the floral arrangements, and the raiment of the assembled company.
In other words, art seems to be everywhere in one form or another.
This, in spite of the the frequently and apologetically expressed, “Oh, I like music but I’m not a musician,” or, “Well, of course, I don’t know anything about art,” or, “I’m no expert.” Well, thank heaven everyone isn’t an “expert.”
For whom would musicians, painters, writers, poets, et al., be creating their wonders? And, besides, you have to be pretty “artistic” to appreciate the artistry, expert or not.
On doctors orders, I have recently taken to doing a lot of walking, a good way to focus on what normally whizzes past when one is driving.
One day, I came across some exceedingly arresting art that stood unobtrusively on the front lawn of a house at the corner of Maple and Spruce Streets in Oneonta.
It takes the form of three stately cairns rising to a height of three or four feet. Composed of rocks and stones of various sizes (numbering about 60 per figure), each one stands precariously perched on either a stump or a larger rock as a base. Beautiful.
Two of them have diminutive arches through which the other side is visible. The third, behind the other two, is closed tighter than the proverbial drum, as if concealing age-old secrets.
The pieces have been painstakingly, harmoniously assembled with skill, commitment, thought, personal involvement, and impressive inspiration. There are traces of humor here and there, as well as affection and understanding.
I inquired one day who the creator was. It turned out to be a modest and gentle resident of the house, and he seemed surprised at my interest and the effect his sculptures had on me.
I had seen him quietly taking walks in the neighborhood and now I felt privileged to shake his creative hand.
When you find yourself in that neck of the woods, slow down to take a look. You may want to park, so that you can contemplate at leisure.
Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage.” I would add (if asked), “...and a forum for all the arts.”

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7th-Grader Hurdles SATs On Fast-Track To College

By LAURA COX

Typically, students don’t take the SATs until their junior year of high school; sophomore year, if they’re real ambitious.
Seventh-grader Christopher Lentner, the son of Joanne and J Lentner, of Oneonta took the SATs in January at age 12. (He’s since turned 13.)
He sat in a room filled with Oneonta High School students and took the test right along with them. It was the longest test he’d ever taken, four hours.
This seventh-grade boy loves to play soccer and baseball, loves to snowboard and wrestle. He participates in Boy Scouts and plays saxophone – alto in concert band and tenor in jazz band.
But his parents found he was in need of something more to keep him intellectually stimulated in school. So mom Joanne searched the Internet and learned about the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.
According to its Web site, the Johns Hopkins program’s mission is to “seek students of the highest academic ability through its talent search and offer them challenging educational opportunities that develop the intellect, encourage achievement, and nurture social development.”
It also underwrites research about gifted children and supports educators in meeting the needs of these children.
Chris took the SATs, scored well, and on Saturday, May 30, along with 40 other Upstate students, was honored with a certificate welcoming him into the program at a ceremony at Siena College.
At school, Chris is most interested in technology classes because they involve more than just “sitting around” and are “hands-on.”
His class in school has completed many projects, including making a hydraulic arm, Co2 race cars and supporting 200-pound of weight with just a sheet of paper and some glue. He also enjoys science and English, and is always in the middle of a book.
Now that he is in the Johns Hopkins program, Chris will be able to take online courses that are self-paced, can participate in family academic programs and summer programs, long distance learning opportunities and his mom is pursuing a single course offering that may be available at Hartwick College, one of the participants in the program. Scholarships are available from CTY for each of these programs.
“I am excited about all the opportunities it will provide,” said Chris.
His advice to his fellow students is, “Keep going and keep at it,” when it comes to school work.

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Brooke Baker Slalomed To Fame

CHRIS McSWIGGIN

BLAST FROM THE PAST

After the heroics of Kevin Burnsworth and the accolades he earned at OHS, the community would have to wait 11 years for the next state champ. Her name was Brooke (Baker) Bass, and she was an NYSPHSAA Ski Championship Giant Slalom champion.
Brooke won the Giant Slalom in Lake Placid in 1993 on historic White Face Mountain.
Like most of the athletes featured in this series, she played many sports while at OHS. She joined the ski team as a seventh grader and was a member for six years, becoming the varsity co-captain as a senior.
She played Varsity Soccer and Varsity Track & Field for three years and also competed on the Varsity Tennis team for one season. She lettered six years in skiing, three in soccer, three in track and one in tennis, for a total of 13 varsity letters. OHS Soccer won the Susquenango League Championship three times, was Co-Section IV champions with Maine-Endwell, and State Section IV semi-finalists once.
Brooke was not just a great athlete but also a great student.
She received the New York State High School Athletic Association’s Academic Recognition during soccer, skiing and track & field season in grades 10-12 and joined the National Honor Society in 10th grade.
In her senior year, Brooke was first chair, first clarinet in the concert band.
She won numerous individual achievements in skiing at the local, sectional, and state levels. During her skiing career, Brooke competed against racers from all high schools in New York State, regardless of size, and won two Section IV championships in 1995 (slalom and giant slalom) and the State Championship in Giant Slalom in 1993, besting all female skiers (those that qualified for the State races) from all sections in New York.
Like all of those great state champs before her, she had to go through numerous big schools on her long ladder to the top.
She won the Coaches Award for three consecutive years as the top female skier in Section IV. She also was awarded the E.C. Dutch Damaschke Award for sportsmanship at the Varsity “O” awards ceremony in her senior year. Competing with all of the best skiers in the state, Brooke Baker could safely say that she was the one on top.
Despite those accomplishments, Brooke set yet more records. She set records in Track & Field as a member of the Spirit Medley Team that still stands today. Her triple jump record would later be broken by Toni Lee McDaniels.
Brooke would move on to play three varsity sports at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Though they were a Division III school in athletics (and one of the top in the country in academics) OHS still played a very competitive schedule.
Collegiate ski racing only has one division, so Brooke found herself up against skiers from schools such as Boston College, UMass, Plymouth State, Smith, Colby-Sawyer, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, University of New Hampshire and Univeristy of Vermont.
She became captain of her varsity soccer and ski teams for her junior and senior year at MIT. If not impressive enough, she walked on to the MIT lacrosse team, a sport she had never played before, and was a starter on defense for three seasons.
“At the collegiate level, some sports cross over seasons, so if I was going to do track it would have to be in the spring,” said Brooke in a recent interview. “They also have a winter segment and my skiing coach didn’t want me to miss any of that season. I had always enjoyed watching lacrosse.”
Oneonta did not have a lacrosse program when Brooke was a student, but did install a men’s program shortly after.
“I had some friends who played it and field hockey and they convinced me that it may be something I would be interested in. The sport seemed to come naturally to me.”
Brooke capped off the most successful four-year career of any Alpine racer in the history of MIT women’s skiing. Her accomplishments have yet to be eclipsed.
She was a top 10 racer in the Osborne Division of the ECSC and went on to race in the NCAA Regional competition in her sophomore and senior years.
Brooke excelled in everything she did athletically, and never settled for being second place. She wasn’t Oneonta’s all-around athlete, but more like Oneonta’s super athlete.
She did all of this while maintaining stellar grades at one of the nation’s top academic institutions. Brooke (Baker) Bass is truly something special.
She graduated from MIT with a degree in environmental engineering, and then from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Brooke married Jeff Bass in 2003 and had daughter Avery in January of this year. She lives in Massachusetts and is an assistant vice president/property claims at the Liberty Mutual Group in Boston. She recently became a designated CPCU.
When asked if she still skis whenever she can, her response was, “It’s a little more difficult to do it in the work world when you can’t just go skiing everyday like you would on a team. Plus, I just had a baby in January so it is tough for me to get out that often.”
However, soccer is still a major part of Brooke’s life. She still plays on area club teams and women’s teams.
Brooke, who has all the qualities of an OHS Hall of Famer, still has not gotten the call.
“It would certainly be a great honor if the day came. It would be a great accomplishment to stand beside them,” said Brooke, “I really think that it is a unique accomplishment to say that you competed against the absolute best and came out on top – it makes me proud to say I was a state champion in that circumstance.”
She more than deserves her spot in the OHS Hall of Fame, “If I get it, I would be honored and accept my award humbly. If I do not, then I will still be very proud of my athletic accomplishments.”

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Hometown History

125 Years Ago
Electric light for Oneonta – By reference to the proceedings of the village trustees it will be noted that the right has been granted a company of well-known men of Oneonta to erect poles for the purpose of running upon them wires for electric lights in this village; and it is not improbable that at no distant day this system of illuminating will be in operation here. It is understood that the electric light can be furnished at cost far below that of gas.
June 1884

100 Years Ago
The Oneonta Theatre was crowded to the doors and from pit to gallery last Thursday evening, when “Polly of the Circus” was presented by the Frederick Thompson Company. Besides townsfolk many were present from Cooperstown, coming on a special trolley excursion, and from Otego and Unadilla on the D.& H. Everybody was pleased with this clean, wholesome play.

The June number of Engineering Magazine has a four-page illustrated article descriptive of the new Elapsed Time Recorder which has just been put upon the market by the International Time Recording Company of Binghamton. The new recorder is an ingenious device whereby there is automatically printed upon a card the time when a workman begins work upon a job, the time when he completes it, and the actual time he was employed, automatically deducting also the time when the man was not working, thus enabling the employer to know accurately what the labor item costs. The matter has local interest from the fact that Geo. W. Fairchild, president of the I.T.R. Company, resides in Oneonta. There is also a large amount of company stock owned here.
June 1909

80 Years Ago
In the Section 7 track meet held at Utica on Saturday, Oneonta High school scored 25 ½ points to finish second to Utica Free Academy which had 38 points. The most exciting race of the day was the hundred yard dash which Ed Joslyn captured in the fast time of 10.1 seconds coming up from behind in the last 10 yards to nose out Tracy of New York Mills by inches. Don Southern of Oneonta tied for first place in the high jump with Prophet of Sherrill with a jump of five feet, seven inches. Southern is regarded by many as a leading contender for the state championship. Arley Wilbur of Oneonta was clocked at 4:53 in the mile to take fourth place.
June 1929

60 Years Ago
Advertisement – Del-Sego Drive-In Theatre – Emmons, N.Y., 2 Miles East of Oneonta on Route 7 – Two Shows Nightly – 8:30 and 11 p.m. Children Under 12 admitted Free of Charge – Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11 – “Old Spanish Trail” starring Roy Rogers and Jane Frazee – Also “Twilight Rio Grande” starring Gene Autry and Adele Mara – Sunday and Monday, June 12 and 13 – “Macomber Affair” with Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck – “Who Killed Doc Robin?” with Virginia Gray and Don Castle –Tuesday and Wednesday, June 14 and 15 – “My Wild Irish Rose” with Dennis Morgan and Andrea King – Also “Power Behind Nation” and “Bear and Bean” – Thursday, June 16, “Jiggs and Maggie in Society” with Joe Yule and Renie Riano and “Brideless Groom” plus Seven Big Cartoons.”
June 1949

40 Years Ago
Is there nothing left? Is male pride to be humbled still further? It certainly seems so. Now comes word that, even in the days when “men were men” and man was “a mighty hunter,” the tales of masculine prowess were greatly overdrawn, and that woman was the real provider for the household. According to Dr. Irven DeVore of Harvard University, it was woman “the gatherer,” not man “the hunter,” who fed the primitive family. As still happens, man’s activity got the publicity and made the biggest outward impression, but it was woman’s quiet work which kept things going. None of this will startle womenfolk; they have known it all along. Of course, they have sometimes wondered when menfolk would find this out and admit the truth of the matter.
June 1969

20 Years Ago
Advertisement – Bresee’s Health Bar Specials – 8 a.m. till 10:30 a.m. Breakfast: Bacon, eggs, coffee, toast, reg. $1.50, just 99 cents. 11 a.m. till 7:15 p.m. Famous roast beef dinner with potatoes, vegetable and roll, reg. $5.45, just $2.99. Fashion Center – Street Floor: Dresses Special Prices! Entire stock of regular priced dresses in misses, petites and full figure sizes, reg. $40 to $58, now $10 off; reg. $60 to $78, now $15 off; reg. $80 and up, now $20 off. London Fog Jackets, 50 percent off. Large Selections, Great Styling, Orig. $70 to $95, now $35 to $47.50. All Weather Coats by London Fog, 50 percent off. Several great colors in the traditional trench style, orig. $175, now $87.50. Suits & Blazers 50 percent off – fashion conscious misses’ suits and blazers, reg. $69 to $159, now $34.50 to $79.50.
June 1989

10 Years Ago
Historians throughout the state will assemble June 10-12 in Oneonta as Hartwick College hosts the 1999 Conference on New York State History. This annual conference, organized by an informal group of academic and public historians and established more than 40 years ago, is held at different locations around the state to allow participants to experience New York’s diverse cultural heritage. This is the first time it has been held at Hartwick College. This year’s three-day event will address a variety of topics including “Mohicans and the Albany Traders,” Colonial Transportation Routes,” “The Performing Arts in Colonial New York,” “Sex in The 19th Century,” and “The Underground Railroad in Upstate New York.”
June 1999

Resources for Hometown History have been provided courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library.

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Letters to the Editor

AIDS Less Prominent, Still Onerous

To the Editor:
While HIV/AIDS is a less prominent issue in our local newspapers, we should not operate under the illusion that living with HIV or AIDS is less onerous than ever.
Moreover, the epidemic is spreading in the United States faster than predicted. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate of 56,000 new infections for 2006 is much higher than the previous estimates of 40,000.
True, there are now numerous medications available, but there is still no cure and every medication has side effects and limited efficacy.
As the virus mutates easily, not adhering to a strict regimen of taking medication can be dangerous.
People living longer with HIV/AIDS have aged faster, been prone to early onset of cardiac diseases, emphysema, diabetes, cancers, disfigurement from weird lipid metabolism, neuropathies, liver, spleen and kidney toxicities and depression, among other things.
AIDS medications continue to be extraordinarily expensive. For those with co-pays, it drains resources; for those with government-assisted insurance (now 75 percent of those living with the disease), there remain limits on which medications can be prescribed and governments are cutting drug assistance programs as they face huge budget deficits. (California has just cut its AIDS Drug Assistance Program by over $55 million).
The shame, fear and hiding has not ceased, nor has the daily struggle been made easy even with the availability of the large number medications (pills and injections) that most people need to take every day to sustain their lives.
The AIDS case rate in New York State is nearly double that of the nation. The message must be that every effort must be made to find better treatments and hopefully a cure.
All of us, including those of us living in rural upstate New York, must continue to prevent transmission by knowing and avoiding the risk factors.
June 27 is National HIV Testing Day and a good time for those at risk to take advantage of the free anonymous HIV testing available in Delaware and Otsego Counties.
MARC J. OSTERWELL
Margaretville

Watch Out For Theocrats, Totalitarians

To the Editor:
I have always considered the question of same-sex-marriage and the anti-abortion non-issues not really a matter for public debate, let alone political and legal actions.
Not being one directly concerned with either matter, I have never read deeply on either subject.
Most of what I have read on same-sex marriage and abortion has been magazine and newspaper articles and letters therein from both sides of the question. I don’t recall, in any of those articles, having seen mention of Constitutional Amendment 9.
The amendment states: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.”
Those words would seem an adequate defense of individuals’ rights to marry whom they choose and their right to choose how they determine their own bodies are treated, adequate defense against the disparagement of, and intent to deny these rights by would-be theocrats and other totalitarians among us.
WILLIAM F. ROBERTS
Otego

Beware, Free Yorkies May Not Be Free

To the Editor:
My wife and I saw the ad in Hometown Oneonta for the free Yorkies, which gave an e-mail address to contact.
We thought that the idea of a free puppy was too good to pass up, so we contacted the e-mail address listed.
We received a response the following day, and just to make sure it was real, we Googled Rev. James Dalton.
It turns out it is a scam.
We wanted you and your readers to be aware that they may be taken for their money and receive nothing from it.
MICHEAL VALINOTI

Scores Up, But Is It English?

To the Editor:
Students Improve in English?
Without the question mark, which arrives as a deduction later in the article, that’s the notice in a major metropolitan newspaper.
Joel Klein, the chancellor of New York City’s schools, was pleased with the improvement.
Among his statements:
“This is confirmatory of the fact that results continue to grow and increase.”
“I think we have multiple data points now that show that we are making that progress.”
Translated into direct statement, these might read: “Tests show student improvement,” and “We are making progress.”
Considering that many college texts are not written in English but Educationese, Mr. Klein acquitted himself, if not admirably, as least positively. Keep that hope pipeline open – even though it is clogged and needs a bypass for the uninhibited flow of direct subjects and active verbs.
A realistic note sounds later in the article – from an educational leader: “Nothing is clear here. You can spin these results however you want.”
Another warns that the tests, like the national scores for “achievement,” may be getting easier – not more revelatory: “You must ask whether the test is getting harder or easier.”
That statement concludes the article, inserting the question mark – as it were – after “Students Improve in English” (?)
As for the language spoken by the young, it has descended into a muddle of minimal terms highly skewed.
Beginning with “scary,” which describes everything from atomic blasts to the ire of school librarians, the language dispenses monotones with a few dozen terms.
The statements are flattened and run together. Translating one of Klein’s statements quoted above, it would be rendered in student-speak as follows: “Ithinkwehavemultipledatapointsnowthatshowthatwearemakingthatprogress.” There’s only one problem with the example – generally no young person speaks a sentence of that length – so it should be broken into a minimum of three statements. The goal is to open the mouth as little as so that only those right next to the young speaker can hear anything.
The recent murder of the Wesleyan college student should have aroused adequate diction from classmates to express a literate range of grief.
The murder interrupted the “Spring Fling,” celebrating the end of tests with an onset of rock concerts, movies, games and parties. One student said, “It was supposed to be the most fun day of the year.”
As for student reactions to the killing: “I don’t know if this is the vibration we really need at this point.”
Another said: “I’m really freaked out about it. It’s just scary the way the campus changed so fast.”
So where is the English language headed? Right into the trash heap, test scores notwithstanding, or as recently translated: “Tests maybe maybe not either way its scary.”
ROBERT MOYNIHAN
Middlefield

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Let’s Define Oneonta By Its Strengths, Not By Its Bogeymen

It’s worrisome that a Unadilla woman was found dead in a local motel in recent days from an overdose of heroin. So are reports of three arrests for possession of hypodermics in May.
But it doesn’t mean Oneonta is awash in heroin.
A look at what data are available and interviews with people on the front lines suggest quite the opposite: Heroin is minimally present in the City of the Hills, marginally less, indications are, than similar cities in Upstate New York.
“I don’t think people should lose any sleep,” said Lt. Dennis Nayor of the Oneonta Police Department.
“The truth is the use is actually very, very low,” said Julie Dostal, executive director of the LEAF Council on Alcoholism & Addiction, which seeks to direct young people away from liquor and drugs.
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Yes, there’s some around, but only 3 percent of high school students report having any contact with it, Dostal said LEAF’s surveys indicate. The equivalent Upstate figure is 4 percent, 33 percent higher than the Oneonta number.
Only 2 percent report using hypodermic needles to inject any substance. The Upstate figure is 3 percent, 50 percent higher.
If we want to worry, let’s worry about kids sniffing glue: 13 percent report doing it, the same as the Upstate figure.
Even more, let’s worry about young people drinking. 72 percent of local young people have tried it, about the same as the Upstate figure (73 percent) Some 46 percent of local kids say they’re drinking now, higher than the Upstate figure (42 percent).
At the county Chemical Dependency Clinic, director Nicole Gerace said “opiates” – heroin, but also cocaine, oxycontin and the like – come in second as the most abused category of drug, after alcohol.
She was unable to break out heroin from the rest, but said the clinic has begun administering Suboxone – it works like Methadone – in the past year because of rising numbers.
Nationally, FBI figures show use of heroin and cocaine (the statistics are folded together) has been trending upwards since 2002, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if a little more heroin shows up around here.
But, again nationally, the number of arrests annually – above 500,000 a year – is sharply down from the 750,000 peak in the mid 1980s.
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Drug abuse is something any sensible person should decry. It has ruined many lives – it’s the rare, lucky person who doesn’t know someone who’s been touched by it.
But it doesn’t come out of nowhere. When heroin use is on the rise, there are clues.
For instance, suddenly there are rashes of auto break-ins, which hasn’t been evident here. Users are scrounging for change to buy a $120 bag. They split the bag, use half, sell the other half and use it to buy the next hit. This grows exponentially.
If a drug house is established, neighbors will see unfamiliar cars driving up and away at all hours of the day or night. Call the cops.
These are the types of indicators Lieutenant Nayor alerted residents to be aware of during a crime-prevention forum last month.
We don’t have to be helpless victims.
Further, while we don’t have to be Pollyannas, neither do we have to define our community by the lowest common denominator, particularly when that denominator is a fraction of a fraction.
Certainly, there are child molesters, wife beaters and alcoholics here as in every community – occasionally, someone will overdose – but that is not the Oneonta most of us know, or care to know, or even need to know.
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A death is regrettable and to be mourned. Three hypodermics are three hypodermics.
We shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand, but the numbers don’t show that drug abuse is Oneonta’s defining attribute, or even in the top 10, or 20, or more.
The beauty of our hills, and nature in general. The brainpower at our colleges. The Huntingtons and Fairchilds and Bundys – and Pentarises? – nurtured here. Our interesting ethnic mix. Our gritty railroad history. The Soccer Hall of Fame. The Tigers, and baseball generally. Our entrepreneurial strivings. Our art community.
Yes, that’s more like it.

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YMCA Caters To Senior Members With ‘Keep Moving’ Day

By LAURA COX

With a $2,660 grant from McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the makers of Tylenol Arthritis Pain, the Oneonta Family YMCA held an open house for senior citizens on Friday, May 29, around the theme of “Keep Moving.”
The day focused on acitivities designed for senior citizens such as a “Silver Sneakers” class on muscle strength and range of motion, a water class for people experiencing arthritis, an open swim and a seminar on fall prevention by Senior Fitness Specialist, Bill Medlin.
“YMCAs have long been at the forefront of efforts to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities,” said Karina Goodrich, program manager, “We believe the Keep Moving program can have a real impact on helping older adults overcome some physical obstacles and achieve an active, healthy, lifestyle.”
Medlin gave the seniors preventative meausres and tips for avoiding and recovering from falls.
Amongst his tips for fall prevention were to take note of environmental factors, such as making sure walking areas are well lit and removing clutter from floors, physical factors including proper sitting posture, learning to walk without tripping and avoiding falls by having proper glasses, footware, and correct cane or walker height and, finally, to excercise and tone the proper muscles to make everyday activities easier.
Vivian Waliska, one of the participants in “Keep Moving” day said, “ I am a member of the Y and this program really appeals to me. I am 83 and I have to keep moving on my feet.”

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2009 SALLY MULLEN LOCAL HISTORY AWARD

Beautiful Then, Beautiful Now

Editor’s Note: This is Sarah Masucci’s essay, “The Oneonta Post Office Building,” that won the 2009 Sally Mullen Local History Award Monday, June 1, from the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. She is a fourth-grader at St. Mary’s School.

The Oneonta Post office building was opened in June 1915. It was the first federally-funded post office in Oneonta.
Before that the post office was in many different places around Oneonta. The very first post office was located in McDonald Tavern in 1817 on the corner of River and Main streets, where Stewart’s is now. It moved around town a few times. Many of its buildings burned down.
In 1915 the “new” building replaced a few shops. It has big columns and front steps. It was used as the post office in Oneonta until 1967. A new one had to be built because there was not enough room in the building anymore.
Then it was used by Otsego County for offices. Now it is Oneonta’s City Hall. It is still a busy place. This is where the mayor has his office, where taxes are collected, the city planning board meets, and the city code enforcer works.
Comparing the pictures of then and now I found many differences. There are differences in traffic, transportation, the use of electricity and more.
There are now trees growing in front of the building; originally there were only trees in the background. Instead of the flagpole being on top of the building, it is now in the ground in front of the building. The fire hydrant is gone and in its place is a modern blue mailbox. There are now railings on the front steps that were not there back then.
Transportation is very different now than in the old picture. In the original picture I can see trolley lines which probably means people got around on the trolley.
Trolleys were somewhat like buses that ran on electric tracks. The tracks ran in the middle of the road. Even if people owned a car or rode a horse into town they could park the car, stable the horse and get the trolley to get around town easier.
People paid money to ride on the trolleys. They were also used for delivering freight and carrying milk. In the early 1920s, some of the trolley lines that were in the city were not used anymore. Passenger trolley service ended completely in 1933. Almost all the freight trolleys were not used by 1941.
The trolley lines are no longer there because the trolley is not needed. Today the roads are paved and smooth. Today Oneonta has public buses, taxis and most people drive their own cars. The car in the picture is old fashioned compared to what we have now.
Looking at the two pictures we see that there is much more traffic today. We can tell because we see traffic lights to control the traffic. There are also signs to guide the traffic.
We have a lot of new technology today. There are now antennas on the roof of the building. There is no evidence of electricity in the old picture. Today we see the traffic light controls by the traffic control box on the side of the building. They both use electricity. Now there is a chandelier hanging down above the main entrance with two ceiling lights on either side. There are also electric street lights that light up the sidewalks and streets.
The building has gone through many changes during its existence. This is easy to see when you compare the two pictures. Technology, transportation and traffic have changed the Oneonta Post Office Building, and Oneonta. The building was beautiful when it was built, and is still beautiful today.

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500 March At 11th Relay For Life

By LAURA COX & JAMIE LANGLEY

WESTVILLE

Three of five of the Bush brothers have battled prostate cancer. They marched as the Bushwhackers.
Three NBT Bank branches – Cooperstown Commons, Richfield Springs and Cherry Valley – joined together in NBT Team Bonnie, in support of Bonnie Domion, a teller in Richfield Springs (and member of the Richfield Town Board.)
Nine girls from Cherry Valley marched as Team Judy in support of Emily Schafsteck and in remembrance of Judy Ditmars, who was like a grandmother to the younger girl and died of lung cancer in November.
They were among 500 people who gathered at dusk Friday, May 29, at the Westville Airport runway for the 11th annual Cooperstown Relay for Life, dedicated this year to the memory of Jean Wyckoff, the Cooperstown English teacher who passed away after a battle with cancer in December.
The 12-hour overnight event kicked off by means of an opening ceremony with invocation by Rev. Betsey Jay, a welcome from organizer Carla Eckler and a keynote address from cancer survivor Bob Hage.
The Cooperstown High School Choir sang from the bandstand just before Jean’s family members lit the Flame of Hope, a cone-shaped torch that remained lit throughout the night and the duration of the Relay.
The first lap – as always – was for cancer survivors and the loved ones who cared for them during their hardest times, on the second lap, the rest of the Relay participants joined in the
march up and down the runway.
Tents were raised around the track with team names hanging prominently. Team members gathered together to share memories of loved ones lost and survivors still living strong. An air of hope, love and remembrance moved throughout the camp.
With a disease as widespread as cancer, it did not take much for anyone to recount a connection to cancer, their reasons to be there that night, their reasons to raise money for the fight against cancer. Most teams formed around a single local survivor, others formed around someone passed but whose memory still remains very much alive in the hearts of loved ones.
At the Bushwhackers’ tent, Peggy Bush, the team leader and top fundraiser for this year’s event, said she was inspired to put together a team in honor of her father, Doug, of Mount Vision, and her two uncles, John and Les, of Hartwick and Edmeston respectively, who have survived prostate cancer.
“Cancer is a huge issue in our family,” Peggy said. “We’re advocates of early detection, and without the American Cancer Society, there wouldn’t be research and development.”
In its fifth year, the Bushwhackers boast 55 members, including members of the Bush family, friends, and other cancer survivors. With all of those members, there were ample fundraising opportunities.
“Each team sets a fundraising goal. Last year, we got just over our goal. We wanted to see if we could get more this year,” Peggy said.
The Bushwhackers definitely got more. Between luminary sales, breakfasts held by the team, donations on the American Cancer Society website for the team, and a scrapbooking event last fall, the Bushwhackers were the top fundraisers for this year’s Relay for Life.
Chris Martin, captain of NBT Team Bonnie, brought 22 marchers to the Relay on Team Bonnie.
“We were the NBT Stars up until this year, when we switched to Team Bonnie after bringing in the Richfield Springs branch,” Martin said.
The Edmeston Central School Panthers of Hope weren’t participating in the Relay for Life in honor of any one specific person.
“We all know people who have had cancer,” Tanner Gelatt, a senior at Edmeston Central School and barista at Stage Coach Coffee in Cooperstown, said, “This is a good cause.”
The ECS Panthers of Hope are comprised of about 20 students from ECS who are a part of Interact, a Rotary-like program for younger students. “We have to do projects that benefit the community,” Gelatt explained. “Not every member from Interact is here. We’re doing it because we have a stake in it.”
This is the first year that the ECS Panthers of Hope participated in the Relay for Life, but it was Gelatt’s “4th or 5th” Relay.
The team did well with their fundraising efforts, Gelatt said, for a “small team made up of high school kids from a very small town.”
Team Judy sported bright pink shirts decorated with flamingos and the words, “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” a phrase that Judy would have appreciated.
The Farmers’ Museum and Fenimore Art Museum team had more than 30 members, and was led by tri-captains Kate Betz, Meg Preston, and Kajsa Sabtke.
At first, there was not a specific reason the two historic Cooperstown museums started a Relay for Life team, according to Paul Kuhn, team member. Then, two people at NYSHA succumbed to cancer, and the team’s participation in the Relay became all the more important and poignant. The team participates in the Relay in honor of members of NYSHA who have both won and lost battles with cancer.
The team raised more than over $5,000.

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‘Junior Idol’ Crowns Claimed By 2 Talented Oneonta Teens

By LAURA COX

Oneonta reigns, talent-wise.
When 40 area kids signed up for the “Junior Idol” contest hosted by Central New York Radio Group they weren’t quite sure what to expect – it was the first year of the competition and the singers came from near and far to sing at the Moose Lodge.
“Over 300 people attended each night,” said CNY organizer Carla Balnis. “We had 40 participants and a waiting list.”
In addition to native talent, kids streamed into Oneonta from Franklin, Walton, Sherburne, Morris, Schenevus and Jefferson.
Two age groups competed for a grand prize – a $200 savings bond, a recording session with IMPACT Studios in Afton, a song written especially for them, and an opportunity to sing the National Anthem at a Oneonta Tigers ball game. Second and third place won savings bonds, $100 and $50 respectively.
After two rounds of competition, the group was narrowed down from 20 to six competitors in the 13-16 age group and from 20 to five in the 17-20, the group competed on Friday, May 22 for the chance to be the Jr. Idol for 2009.
Two Oneonta girls came out on top: Devon Champen, 13, and Jaclyn Kelly, 18.
Devon, the daughter of Keisha Champen and granddaughter of Doronda Champen, is a seventh grader at Oneonta Middle School. She found out about the competition from a friend who said: “Dev, you’ve gotta do it.”
She participates in chorus at the middle school and sang in a local Motown group in the past.
To win the competition she sang two songs, “Superwoman” by Alicia Keys and “You’re Gonna Love Me” by American Idol Jennifer Hudson. She enjoys singing R&B, Soul and Motown.
Devon said the most exciting part of the competition was “sharing my talent with my friends and family and having fun on stage.”
Her advice to her peers is, “Don’t let anyone or anything get in the way of following your dreams.”
Devon will kick off the Oneonta Tigers’ 2009 season on June 19 by singing the National Anthem.
Jaclyn, the daughter of Tammy Pearce and a Oneonta High School senior, found out about the competition from her manager at the Dunkin’ Donuts on the West End.
She participates in choir at the high school and sings the National Anthem at softball games around Oneonta.
For the final round Jaclyn sang “All Jacked Up,” by Gretchen Wilson and “I’m Okay,” by Christina Aguilera. She likes singing country, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston.
She was really excited to compete in this competition because she beat her stage freight and really rocked the show.
Her advice to her peers is, “Do it! Get out there and show them what you’ve got. I’m glad I did and it’s a memory I will never forget.”
Last summer Jaclyn auditioned for American Idol in New Jersey, but didn’t make it past the first round. She plans to audition again this summer, wherever the nearest audition will be. She will also participate in a Karaoke competition in Walton this weekend.
Second and third place in the 13-16 division were Khalil Carnie, 13, of Morris, and Pamela Powell, 16, of Sherburne.
In the 17-20 age group Natalie Yambor, 19, of Franklin, won second and Jaclyn Poss, 19, of Walton, won third.

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Challenges Aplenty For HoF Leader

Ullman Must Make Ends Meet, Expand Soccer’s Reach in U.S.

By JIM KEVLIN

Jonathan Ullman was a museum guy, not a soccer guy, when he came to the National Soccer Hall of Fame as vice president and director of development.
But he must have made that transition in the hurry.
For after only 18 months at the Oneonta soccer mecca, he is president and COO.
“It wasn’t until I became part of this organization that I received a deep appreciation for this game,” he said the other day in an interview in his new office, where nothing yet was hanging from the picture hooks that dotted the bare walls.
Can 3.5 billion people who play it be wrong?
“It’s a very special game,” he continued. “If you are exposed to it on a regular basis, you really come to appreciate the tremendous athleticism it requires.”
And, while he didn’t play soccer while growing up in Randolph, N.J., he scored twice – more than anyone – at a Hall of Fame staff pickup game last summer.
His new job, however – the Hall’s board of directors named him to the position at a May 16-17 meeting in New York City – doesn’t require him to kick a ball into a goal.
To use a football – not futbol – analogy, his job is to move the ball down the field toward the goal. The goal: To raise the fortunes of the world’s most popular sport in the world’s most powerful nation which, generally, has been more enamored with baseball and the gridiron.
When asked about his goal for the Hall of Fame, he doesn’t respond in terms of the physical building, or Oneonta, but of the sport itself.
“We want to get to the point where the greatest achievers in the field of soccer are known and celebrated by people throughout the United States,” he said.
When soccer is wildly successful, the Hall of Fame will have achieved its mandate.
“You can’t even accomplish it in one single geographic location,” he added.
As noted, Jonathan Ullman was raised in New Jersey in the New York Metropolitan Area’s outer suburbs.
He went to Rutgers, studied neurobiology, and graduated in 1992 intending, after a year or two hiatus, to either get a Ph.D. in neurobiology or go on to med school.
Fatefully, his dad sent him a newspaper clipping, a come-up story on the prospective opening of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.
On his office wall – or soon to be on his office wall – is the framed letter from 1992, offering him a part-time job at the princely sum of $6.25 an hour.
He keeps it handy as a reminder of how one thing can lead to another. He ended up working at the Liberty Science Center, in positions of increasing responsibility, for the next 14 years.
“What it symbolizes to other staff members” – and to Ullman – “is: There is opportunity, if you work hard and care about what you do.”
He might not put it this way, but the recent grad found the science center to be pretty cool. He realized that early on when he found himself trying out a scanning electron microscope.
One day, he’d do something related to geology. The next day, something about human health.
Where a neurobiology doctorate or a medical degree would have focused him even more narrowly, at the science center “you could really dabble in all sorts of disciplines.”
As he moved up the management ladder, “what really started to captivate me was management leadership, organizational issues,” particularly how to meld varied staffers into a like mindset in pursuit of an organizational goal, while allowing their individuality and sense of ownership to flourish.
He went back to Rutgers parttime and earned an MBA.
Ullman had gone through the original Liberty Science Center startup, and in 2007 he went through a second, $109 million expansion. He could have stayed, perhaps for the rest of his career. Instead, he was recruited by Steve Baumann, his predecessor at the Soccer Hall of Fame’s helm.
The Liberty Science Center had a $30 million budget; the Hall’s is $1 million. The science center attracts 1.2 million visitors a year; locally, 55,000 people visit the Hall’s campus annually, but only 20,000 go into the Hall itself. The center had more than 150 staffers (until 37 were laid off in February, due to the economic downturn); the Hall has 10 fulltime, and another dozen seasonal workers in the summer.
“This organization is challenged to make its revenue meet its expenses,” said Ullman.
There are some sponsors, most notably the State of New York and the Century Council, an anti-drunk-driving advocacy foundation based in Arlington, Va., that sees soccer as one way to promote healthy lifestyles among young people.
But more are needed.
Ullman praises the “enormous efforts and generosity of people in this county” for the Hall of Fame’s progress to date, but he recognizes that, for the Hall to thrive, he must reach beyond the county line, perhaps to national sponsors, certainly by upgrading soccerhall.org, perhaps by travelling exhibits – as the Cooperstown Hall has done with “Baseball as America,” its travelling exhibit.
The challenges, clearly, are many.
Meanwhile, however, the Hall’s young president – he is this side of 40 – is enjoying Otsego County’s rural lifestyle after the stresses of his congested home state.
He and wife Joanne, who recently completed her master’s in labor relations through Farleigh Dickinson University, have a home in the Fly Creek Valley and a growing family: Aaron, 7, Sage, 5, and Amalia, 1.
The topic of young people and soccer kept resurfacing in his discussion of the Hall and the sport. It promotes good health. It fosters good values.
“Kids are playing in numbers unlike any other sport,” Ullman pointed out. And given its world-wide scope, they are mastering what the Hall of Fame president terms “almost a common language.”

Fawcett, Agoos Will Be Inducted This Year

Five-time MLS Champion Jeff Agoos and two-time World Champion Joy Fawcett will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame at ceremonies Sunday, Aug. 2, in Oneonta.
Agoos, currently the sporting director of MLS club New York Red Bulls, played 134 times for the U.S. Men’s National Team, the second most in the team’s history. His national team career included participation in two World Cups (1998 and 2002) and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Fawcett won two FIFA Women’s World Cups (1991 and 1999) and two Olympic Gold Medals (Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004) in a career of epic proportions. Her 239 international matches played is fourth in U.S. Women’s National Team history, surpassed only by the currently active Kristine Lilly and Hall of Famers Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm (Class of 2007).
In her remarkable 15-year national team career, she received just two yellow cards and was never red carded.

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