Janet Hinds Pivalis ’71 Honored by University of Findlay
Janet Hinds Pivalis was one of eight people honored at the University of Findlay’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. Janet is a retired educator who taught for 34 years in what she calls her “dream job” in Delran Public Schools. After retiring from Delran in 2009, she was an adjunct professor for seven years at Rowan College Burlington County, teaching intensive reading and composition.
Janet earned numerous teaching awards throughout her career including the New Jersey Governor’s Teacher of the Year Recognition in 1988 and 2006. In 2007, she was named the Special Education Outstanding Educator by the National Association of Special Education Teachers. Janet has also dedicated time and energy to helping various nonprofit organizations over the years. She served as a 211 telephone crisis counselor for Contact of Burlington County, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, food pantries and food kitchens, and EARS Animal Rescue Thrift Shop in Englewood, FL, where she and Frank, her husband of 43 years, reside during some of New Jersey’s cold months.
Alumni News
Professor Robin Bachin ’84 Publishes Historical Manuscript That Provides a One-of-a-Kind Peek into the Challenges of a Single Working Mother in the 1920s
Robin Bachin '84 served as editor and annotator of her latest work, Big Bosses: A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America. The autobiography, written in the 1920s, was penned by Althea Altemus, a single mother who worked as a personal secretary for the most...
Reception and Book Signing with Emmy Award-Winning ABC Journalist Linsey Davis ’95
Wednesday, March 21 from 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Stokes Hall Lobby Click here to Purchase and Reserve a book for Linsey to sign. The World is Awake, the first Children’s Book by Linsey Davis '95 takes readers on a journey to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Emmy...
Emily Tatum ’15 Interns at the UN Refugee Agency
During her fall semester, Johns Hopkins University student Emily Tatum ’15 was one of fifteen undergraduates selected for the Aitchison Public Service Fellowship in Government offered by the school’s political science department. She studied in Washington, D.C. to...
