Faculty and Staff

Selected Professional Experience

• 1977-present: Lecturer in/Instructor of Music, Saint Francis College (now Saint Francis University), Loretto, PA
• May 1997-Dec. 1999: Dean of General Education, Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA
• March 2005-July 2005: Interim Associate Dean of General Education (part time), Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA
• July 2005-present: Dean of General Education, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA

Selected Campus Service

• General Education Committee—several terms
• Readers' Forum and Summer Book Selection group
• Music Director:
  • Sesquicentennial Opening Mass -- Fall 1996
  • Baccalaureate Mass -- 1997-1999; 2005-2008
  • Alumni Weekend Mass -- Summer 1997
  • Sesquicentennial Solemn Mass -- Fall 1997
  • Sesquicentennial Closing Mass -- December 1997
  • Mass of Thanksgiving for Fr. Gabriel’s inauguration—Fall 2004
• First-Year Advisor--1997-2005; 2008
• Faculty Advisor to the B.R.I.D.GE. Project (the university’s Haiti outreach)
• Day of Reflection Committee—every year since its inception
• Academic Restructuring Task Force (2006-07)
• Academic Strategic Planning Task Force (2007-08)
• Diversity Strategic Planning Task Force (2007-08)
• Christian Culture Task Force (2008)
• New Faculty Orientation presenter (2006-08)
• Distance Education Task Force (2006-08)

Selected Past

• Johnstown Symphony Chorale--1970s: Member and soloist
• Music Reviewer--1980s: Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
• Director of a play for the local Bi-Centennial Festival--1976
• Board of Directors; Talus Rock Girl Scout Council: Member--1970-76; 1st VP--1976-82; President--1982-88
• Girl Scout Camp Director (resident and day camps)--1969-73
• Trainer - special music session--1982: Nuestra Cabana, International Center of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts,Cuernavaca, Mexico
• Support Staff (mainly informal interpretation) World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
• Founder and Director - Holy Name Women's Choir, Holy Name Church, Ebensburg, PA
• Seasonal Volunteer: DDC
• Interpreter and teacher for various mission trips to Haiti

Present

• Board of Directors, Kindred Journey, Inc. (a mission outreach to Hinche, Haiti)
• Member: Women’s Choir—Holy Name Church
• Involvement in planning and implementation of “Peace from Pole to Pole” peace walk (2005-2008)
• Girl Scout leader (2007-present)

Selected Performances, Publications, and Presentations

• On-campus concerts -- at least one per semester
• Joint concert with Mount Aloysius—April 2008
• Producer of 3 tapes of Haitian religious music composed and performed by the Petits Frères et les Petites Soeurs de l’Incarnation, including liner notes and/or trilingual booklet
• Presentation: “Sister Emmanuelle Victor’s Haitian Rhythms”—Festival of Women Composers—Indiana University of Pennsylvania—March 2001
• “A Feminine Voice in Contemporary Haitian Roman Catholic Religious Music: The Songs of Petite Soeur Emmanuelle Victor, P.S.I.”: The Journal of Haitian Studies, Fall 2004.

Research (ongoing)

• Oral history with Mme. Catherine de Béchillon, a Holocaust survivor. CDs and DVD of interviews.
• Translation of part of French text based on aforementioned interviews.

Travel

• Canada -- yearly
• Europe -- June 1986; June 1990; March 1995; February 1996; June 1996; June 1999; March 2000; March 2004; March 2005; March 2006; March 2008 (France, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Spain, Germany)
• Haiti
  • September 1991 -- as a parish representative on a visit to our “twin” parish
  • November 1995 -- to plan production of tape
  • November 1996 -- to record for tape
  • March and November 1997 -- group leader for “Spiritual Tourism” trips
  • March 1998&9 -- group leader for service-learning/intercultural exchange trips
  • January 2000--interpreter for workshop given by a group of American nuns for a group of Haitian nuns
  • May-July 2000-- immersion experience in Haiti- activities included: Teaching basic weaving skills, recording for tape, beginning the study of Haitian drumming, improving skills in speaking Haitian Creole
  • May-June 2001—immersion experience in Haiti - Activities included: recording for tape, improving skills in speaking Haitian Creole, continuing the study of Haitian drumming
  • May-June 2002—leader of service-learning/intercultural exchange trip with extension of trip for immersion experience - Activities included: Various activities with trip participants, weaving, teaching block printing, interpreting for a medical mission improving skills in speaking Haitian Creole
  • January 2003—interpreter for a medical mission to Les Petites Soeurs, January 2004—interpreter for a medical mission to Les Petites Soeurs
• Various places in U.S.A.