REGION 1

 

NIRSA

 

 

Below you will find our region one “historical” compilation, beginning in 1985-86.   The attempt is to include all pertinent information to the region and use this source as reference when needed.  The documents will typically be distributed in paper form to State Directors, Regional VP and candidates for office.  Edits, corrections, additions, deletions should be brought to the attention of Steve Young at 215-204-4782, fax 215-204-3800 or email = sey@temple.edu

 

Attached:       - 1985-86 through present

 - Regional host site selection document and time frame.

 

LAST UPDATED:     12-2007

 

 

 

Most current version can typically be found linked off the website of Temple University Campus Recreation at: www.temple.edu/campusrec

Click on “links” and scroll down to Region 1 documents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REGION ONE (1) – NIRSA

 

ACADEMIC YEAR              2007-2008

 

Regional:       Site: Ithaca, NY        Date: Nov. 8-10, 2007

                       

Host(s):  By Committee = Jen Cudaz - Cornell, Cindy Cowden –

Binghamton Univ., Janice Bennett – Binghamton Univ., Brad Buchanan – Ithaca Univ

 

152 Professionals            117 Students   22 Exhibitors (15 reg. indv.)

 

Vice-Pres: Kurt Klier                                    Institution: University of Maryland

 

Membership (as of Nat’l. Confr. 2008)     Prof.    Stdt.    Inst.

                                                                       

National Site: Austin, TX                            Date:  August 2-5, 2008

 

President: Tom Kirch                                  Institution: Oregon State University

 

Regional Honor Award:                              Institution:

 

Regional Account (as of 3-01-08):            Balance = $

 

Regional Business Meetings:                   Items of Note/Vote

 

Fall 2007

-          PIRSA Conference (Bucknell Univ.) Sept. ‘07

o   32 Attendees (8th annual)

-          Anne McDonald – regional student rep. (Rowan University)

-          Bill Crockett chair – Regional Honor Award Committee; with John Leahy (Stonehill) and Michael Williams (Mass College P+HS)

-          N+E Committee (07-08) – Steve Young (Temple University) + Anne McDonald (Rowan University)

-          PIRSA, Bill Swann Winner = TBD

-          R-1 Awards Committee = Silvia Chan (Chair – UConn), Gregg Bates (UVM), and Greg Sferra (SRU)

-          August, 2007 – 2nd annual Summit for Region 1 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) hosted at Loyola College in Maryland.

-          Raised $310.00 for Foundation @ Regional conference.

-          10 University sponsors (between $100 + $500) @ regional conference ($2,850.00).

-          Voted @ regional business meeting to increase # of student scholarships from 4 to 6 for 2008.

-          2008 Regional; UMass – Lowell (Peter Murray)

-          Officiating Clinic Funding Committee: Mike Medina (Quinnipiac), Marcus Hutchinson (SUNY – Buffalo), and Chris Schmidt (Providence College).

-          Contingency Fund Committee: Matt Tsimikas (Chair – Brown), Jill Moffitt (UVM) and Earl Cabellon (UMD)

 

Spring 2008

 

-          Region 1 Scholarship Award Winners

-          Will Holsberry Endowment

-          NIRSA Foundation Student Scholarships

-          Horace Moody Award

-          William Wasson Awards

-          Regional Award of Merit

 

 

 


REGION ONE (1) – NIRSA

 

 

ACADEMIC YEAR              2006-2007

 

Regional:       Site: Baltimore, MD  Date: Oct. 19-21, 2006

 

                        Host(s):  By Committee = UMB – Bill Crockett

                                       Towson Univ. – Dirron Allen, Loyola College of MD –                                                 Grady Sheffield, Towson Univ – Larry Mellinger

                                    w/assistance from American Univ., Univ. of Maryland

                                    Univ. of Baltimore, Mt. St. Mary’s, St. Mary’s, John

                                    Hopkins, Univ. of Delaware, UMBC

 

147 Professionals            129 Students   28 Exhibitors (52 reg. indv.)

 

 

Vice-Pres: Sev Brown                                 Institution: Syracuse University

 

Membership (as of Nat’l. Confr. 2007)     Prof.    Stdt.    Inst.

                                                                        492     136     161

 

National Site: Minneapolis, MN                Date:  April 18-21, 2007

 

President: Maureen McGonagle               Institution: DePaul University

 

Regional Honor Award: Bill Crockett       Institution: UMBC

 

Regional Account (as of 4-01-06):            Balance = $13,064.27 (less $1500

Baltimore Deposit)

 

Regional Business Meetings:                   Items of Note/Vote

 

Fall 2006

-          PIRSA Conference (Kutztown Univ.) Sept. ‘06

o   82 attendees

-          Paulette Lanzerotti (UNH) – regional student rep.

-          Kurt Klier, chair – Regional Honor Award Committee; with John Leahy.

-          N+E Committee (06-07) – Steve Young (Temple Univ) Beth Brunelle  (SUNY-Cortland)

-          PIRSA, Bill Swan Winner = Joseph Deck (West Chester University)

-           Regional Contingency Fund Student Scholarships Committee Chair – Brad Trittington, (College of the Fenway) with Sylvia Chan and Pam

      Metcalf.

-          Quilt donated by Temple University raised  $100 for foundation

-          August 7, 2006 – first Summitt for Region 1 Historically Black Colleges

      and Universities (HBCU’s) held at Univ of Maryland–Baltimore.          

Hosted by Bill Crockett (UMBC) and Jocelyn Hill (American Univ.), the Summit was attended by 4 HBCU schools with a total attendance of 18 people.

 

-          Committee formed to review and make recommendation on Contingency Fund goals/usage.  Matt Tsimikas (Brown Univ.) as chair.

-          Membership voted to refer to the Student Scholarship awards as “Region 1 Awards”.

Conference raised $810 in charitable donations = Quilt $250, ($150 Contingency-$100 Foundation) Make a Child Smile $360 Youth Hockey Raffle $200

 

Spring 2007

 

-          Region 1 Scholarship Award Winners

o   Ainslie Seeber, UNH (undergrad)

o   Jill Tosti, Bridgewater (undergrad)

o   Christopher Schmidt, UConn (undergrad)

o   Christine Dias, URI (undergrad)

-          Woodway USA Scholarship

o   Christine Dias, URI

-          NIRSA Foundation Student Scholarships

o   Linda Paquette, West Chester University

-          Horace Moody Award

o   Bhavin Parekh, UConn

-          William Wasson Awards

o   Paulette Lanzeroth, UNH

o   Erica Leeds, Drexel

o   Dawn Bartolomeo, Binghampton

o   Joseph Deck, West Chester

-          Region One Award of Merit

o   Bill Crockett, University of Maryland - Baltimore

-          Site for Fall 2007 Regional, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University

-          National Student Services Award

o   Jillian Salvatore, East Stroudsburg University

-          Recreational Sports Journal Awards

o   Dr. Robert Barcelona, UNH

 

Elected as Regional VP for 2007-2009:  Kurt Klier (University of Maryland)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


REGION ONE (1) - NIRSA

 

Regional:       Site: Syracuse, NY  Date: Nov. 11-13, 2004

 

                        Host(s): Syracuse University – Mitch Gartenberg

 

126 Professionals              98 Students             21 Exhibitors

 

Vice-Pres: Steve Young                 Institution: Temple University

 

Membership (as of National Confr. 2005)           Prof.    Stdt.    Inst.

                                                            476     154     166

 

National Site: Orlando, FL              Date: Apr. 5-9, 2005

 

President: Tamra Gartska                           Institution: Arizona State University

 

Regional Honor Award: Kurt Klier                        Institution: Univ. of Maryland

 

Regional Account (as of 3-1-05):              Balance = $12,313.94 (less 3,500 – Providence 4/1/05)

 

Regional Business Meeting:                     Items of Note/Vote

 

Fall 2004

-          Region 1 student scholarship committee for 04/05; Dave Leach (SJU) chair, Sandy Keenan-Jeffers, Brad Tittrington, Silvia Chan

-          Region 1 Honor Award Committee; Eric Stein (chair), Jodi Hawkins and Karen Hilberg.

-          Jamie Drahos Regional Student Rep.

-          Sports Officials Development Committee; Kurt Klier (chair), Peter Koutroumpis, Art Tuveson.

-          Regional Contingency Fund Scholarship awards CLARIFIED as; four (4), two minimum to undergrad, no more than 1 per institution.

-          Baltimore option for 2006 Regional.

-          VP Candidate for 05-07 = Bill Crocket (Univ. of MarylandBaltimore) and Sev-Ira

-          Brown (Syracuse University). Nominations and Elections committee – Lisa LaCombe (co-chair), Gregg Bates Beth Dishner.

-          PIRSA State Workship 9/23 + 9/24 @ Millersville University. Attendance = 27.

-          Courtney Panunzio winner of Bill Swan Award for PIRSA, from West Chester University.

-          PIRSA elections; Steve Gambino (President/St. Director), Greg Sferra (VP), Corey Shannon (Sec./Treas.).

-          Regional conference netted $3,637 in proceeds to contingency fund.

 

Spring 2005

-          Basketball Officials Clinic hosted by Kevin George at Rowan University 1/29 received approval for reimbursement of $250 from contingency fund.

-          Region 1 Scholarship Award winners for 2005;

o   Anthony Odett (Cornell) undergrad

o   Brian Fetky (URI) grad

o   Leslie Cox (Towson) undergrad

o   Ryan McCallum (Slippery Rock) grad

-          William Wasson Award Winners for 2005;

-          Undergrads:

o   Aislinn Ronaghan (Rowan)

o   Ashley Hepp (Rowan)

o   JoAnna Nagle (Binghamton)

o   Nate Hilburger (Binghamton)

-          Grads:

o   Matt Levy (SUNY Cortland)

o   Diane Holtsford (SUNY Cortland)

-          Debbie Jones (Montclair State) 2005-2006 Regional Student Representative.

-          Region One Horace Moody Award Winner 2005 = Steve Young

-          Region One VP for 2005-2007 = Sev’ Ira Brown

-          Retirements: Nick Welter (Syracuse), Ed Michael (Buffalo).


REGION ONE (1) - NIRSA

 

ACADEMIC YEAR              2002-2003

 

Regional:       Site     Waterville Valley, NH          Date:   Dec 5-7, 2002

                        Host    Colby-Sawyer College – Lisa Lacombe

                                    Univ of Vermont – Gregg Bates

                                                Dartmouth College – Steve Erickson

 

                        ---------------------------------------------------------------

 

                        76  Professionals  62 Students  33  Exhibitors

 

Vice-Pres:      Jeff Kearney                                     Inst. Northeastern

 

Membership (as of Natl. Confr.)                            Prof.                Stdt.                Inst.

                                    2003                                      

                                                                       

 

National:        Site:    Cleveland, OH                     Date: April 1-5, 2003

 

President:      Brian Carswell                                  Inst.: Univ. of Arizona

 

Regional Honor Award:                              Inst.: 

 

Regional Account (as of 10-01-02):         Balance  = $12,460.90 ($8760.90)

                                                                                                                                ($2,700 loaned to NH regional)

                                                                                                                                ($1,000 loaned to AC;NJ regional)

 

Regional Event Hosts:        -Regional FFBall at Cornell and Univ. of Maryland

                                                -Regional FFBall Officials Clinic at URI

 

Regional Business Mtgs:   Items of Note/Vote

 

Fall 2002                               -           Region 1 student scholarship committee for

                                                                                02/03; Steve Young (chair) Brad Buchanan,

Sandy Kennan-Jeffers. 

-           Sylvia Chan to head Region 1 Award of Merit Committee. (members include Jodi Hawkins (URI) Anne Wilkinson (Temple).

                        -           Brendon Weaver (IUP) selected as recipient of

                                                            Bill Swan Award, given by PIRSA

                                                            (Pennsylvania IM. Rec Sport Assoc.)

-                      Jeff Gontarek (Loyola College of MD) student

Rep for Region One

-                      Officiating Workshop-Funding Committee;

Gary Wohlstetter (UMBC)-chair, Sue

DiMonda (SUNY-SB), Thad Dwyer (Maine),

Kurt Klier (Cornell) non-voting, Peter

Kostrompis (URI)-non-voting.

-                      Candidates for Region Once Vice-President

Steve Gambino, West Chester University

Steve Young, Temple University

 

Spring 2003                          -           Region One Contingency Fund Scholarship

Winners for the Natl. Conference 2003:

 

Melissa Anderson (Univ of Maryland) Sr-ugrad.

Carleen Smorra (Univ. of Connecticut) Sr.-ugrad.

 

-                      William Wasson Award Winners for 2003:

 

Mike Medina  - Northeastern

Shametrice David – Univ. of MD

Justin Greer – Gettysburg College

Jordan Allen – Binghamton

Jamie Rodriguez – Binghamton

 

-                      Selected as of the 2003 NIRSA

Foundation Scholarship Winner:

 

Jeff Gontarek – Loyola College of MD

 

-                      Selected as All-American Flag Football

Officials:

 

                                                            CJ Rassbach – Uconn

                                                            Matt Caporaletti – Univ. of MD

                                                            Mike Medina - Northeastern