Dear Editor:
Congratulations! What a pleasure it was to receive your first complete issue of YSU Magazine. It is very professional in look and feel and a significant improvement over earlier issues. I am familiar with my sons’ university magazines from the University of Virginia and Duke University, and feel this issue is competitive in print quality, presentation and content.

I enjoyed reading the variety of articles and stories. Seeing the action photo of our great-niece, pole vaulter Stephanie Jarvis, on the lead page of the Sports News section was a special treat. I also enjoyed the Alumni Spotlight section and reading about Kim Katsaras, the daughter of Dennis Katsaras. We were neighbors of the Katsaras family in Campbell.

Thank you for your good work. I look forward to your next issue.

Carl Alexoff, ’50 (BEE)
Haddonfield, N.J.

Dear Editor:

I just received my YSU summer 2008 magazine which reminded me of my enjoyable time at YSU.   I am an ’83 BSAS computer technology graduate and was wondering what happened to the CAST College.   Do you have a link, document or a description of what the College of Applied Science and Technology became at YSU? If you can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. And secondly, where might I look for some of the professors I had during the early 80s? Thank you.

Robert J. Dombrowe, ’83 (BSAS)
Keswick, Va.

(Editor’s Note: The College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) was disbanded in 1993 and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems was created in the College of Arts and Sciences. Computer Science and Information Systems is one of the ten academic departments that later became part of YSU’s new College of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in July 2007. You can check out the STEM Web site at stem.ysu.edu. There’s also a faculty-staff directory link on the YSU Web site, www.ysu.edu, where you can look up faculty members you remember.)

Dear Editor:
I thought the recent issue of the magazine was excellent. Represented the university very well and, most important, was an interesting read. I am particularly glad the magazine did not overdo the sports content.
My wife, Ruth K. Bradshaw (’90, MBA), is a life member. We have been impressed with the alumni events and how on-the-ball the alumni staff has been. Makes us want to support the university.

Garland Bradshaw
Howland, Ohio

Dear Editor:

Thank you for choosing such a great picture (The Humphrey Girls, back cover, summer 2008 edition) and writing such a stirring caption!

Ann Berroteran Saluga, ’93 (BA)
Oberlin, Ohio

(Editor’s Note: We thought the 1968 Humphrey-Nixon era photo was appropriate for an election year, especially one in which YSU was visited by so many political dignitaries. Barack Obama, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton were all on campus at least once last year.)

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