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whose friendship with Ferris spans 25 years.
“We are trying to mobilize projects in the
Humanities. Dr. Ferris’ inspiration and ad
vice is going to be instrumental to us,”
Bronner said of the visit.
“We want to be a regional center ... We
have the potential of cultures in the midstate,
such as German, Hispanic, the Amish and
African-American,” Bronner said. “The Hu
manities programming has been channeled
in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but we want
to bring more attention to Central PA.”
Ferris saluted Bronner’s work for the NEH,
a federal independent grant-making agency
that supports research, education and public
Zaboski brings excitement, control to new SGA position
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with his grandfather; cheering on his favor
ite Philadelphia teams.
It reminds him of good times like the
day he caught the pearl. Not a perfect pearl
but a pearl all the same.
He and his grandfather always sit in the
front row behind the third base line prime
seats for snatching foui bails. Zaboski bas
four to his name. But the pearl is the foul
ball from Mark McGwire.
Zaboski reached his long arm over the rail
and calmly plucked the bounding ball from
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programs in the humanities. He spoke about
this historic moment for Harrisburg and Penn
sylvania, with 300 institutions signing on to
the NEH initiative.
“We are helping regions build cultural tour
ism in their regions,” Ferris said. “Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia have much to offer, but so
does Central PA. This is an important, excit
ing place. There are many stories in Harris
burg waiting to be told.”
If those stories aren’t told, we risk much
more, Ferris said.
“We are losing our memory as a culture,”
he explained. “We study Shakespeare and
Physics, but we do not study the neighbor
hoods we live in. We never tape an hourlong
conversation with our grandparents about our
the field. Unfortunately, you won’t be able
to see an instant reply because Zaboski was
“robbed of TV time.”
But he will be in the SGA spotlight this
year after being appointed junior senator of
business. He’s laid back enough to take the
pressures of SGA a characteristic that’s
only matched by his competitive drive.
He enjoys off-road mountain biking at
Hawk Mountain even though the posted signs
forbid the sport. He’s taken a few hockey
sticks to the head, suffered several bruises
and collected enough calcium deposits from
puck shots to avoid osteoporosis for the next
history. When those parts of the family are
gone, those libraries bum to the ground.”
Ferris, whose filmography includes “Mis
sissippi Blues,” a 1983 feature at the Cannes
Film Festival, felt denied a culture when he
grew up: “My story is everyone’s story. Ev
eryone is denied a culture of our neighbors.
The study of Humanities is a way to do that.
It is a way for us to step out of our skin and
into the skin of someone else. If we cannot
feel them, then we failed.”
William Mahar, Director of the School of
Humanities at PSH, said: “Dr. Ferris’ visit
will inspire us to continue to collect more
things to promote Pennsylvania’s history.
History is a part of our grand point of vision,
and his visit will help generate financial sup
five centuries. Normally though, he’s the one
dishing out the pain.
Zaboski’s not all blood and guts, but even
when he’s hits relax mode he keeps moving.
Last summer, for instance, Zaboski piled into
a van with three fraternity brothers from
Lehigh and hit the concert trail with Phish.
One concert trip took him on a seventeen
hour drive to the northern tip of Maine. “A
stone’s throw from Canada,” he explained.
After graduating in 2000, he would like to
take a couple weeks and travel the concert
scene in Europe. Preferably with Phish and
the Grateful Dead humming through his ears.
Zaboski is also a self-proclaimed “diehard
Trekkie” and fan of the X-Files. But when it
comes to those Philadelphia sports, the word
is rabid. The Flyers, the Eagles, the Phillies,
the Sixers, he’s seen all of them live. In fact,
he still remembers the Phitin’ Phils recorded
a “rare win” the day he caught McGwire’s
ball.
Zaboski, originally from Orwigsburg, at
tended Lehigh University in Allentown for
two years before coming to PSH. He began
in engineering before settling into an account
ing major and the Finance and Accounting
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Ferris is well-known for three decades of
work as an author, folklorist, filmmaker and
academic administrator. In addition to his
encyclopedia, he authored “Blues from the
Delta,” which led to his November induction
into the Blues Hall of Fame. He also is the
recipient of many honors, including the presi
dentially bestowed Charles Frankel Prize in
the Humanities.
The NEH is starting new projects and pro
grams to help educators and citizens learn
about each others’ history. To get more in
formation about NEH, its projects, its mis
sion and its goals, go to their web site at
www.neh.gov.
At Lehigh, he was actively involved in his
fraternity, Delta Chi, where he learned a lot
about responsibility and working well with
others.
“I learned more about life in my fraternity
than anywhere else,” he said.
He also built a sense of involvement with
their extensive community activities and kept
his sports-enthusiast juices flowing through
the interfratemity competitions. Yet, he
doesn’t regret the change to a smaller, slower
college campus.
“Students at this campus don’t realize how
good they have it,” he said. At Lehigh,
Zaboski states there were rapes and break
ins. The crime on the PSH campus is low in
comparison.
In addition, Zaboski said, he chose the PSH
campus because of the class size.
“Because the class sizes are smaller, stu
dents get more personal attention,” he said.
“I don’t want to be just a number, and I know
I’ll get a quality education.”
Zaboski will be hosting the Business Open
Forum, along with Senior Senator of Busi
ness Wanda Bonasera on Nov. 17. He hopes
to see a high turnout of students bringing any
concerns they have to the faculty attending
the meeting.
Zaboski also encourages students to get
involved on campus: “SGA meetings are
every Tuesday and open to the public. We
encourage all students to come but no one
attends.”
Don’t make him make you.
SGA meets at12:30 p.m. every
Tbesdey in room 212