FDU Magazine — Winter/Spring 2011 — Volume 18, Number 2
 
Image: Cover - The Play's the Thing!

On the Cover
Directed by Professor Stephen Hollis and well trained for the vigors of theater life, FDU students rise to the challenge of Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

Making an Impact
The United Nations Academic Impact promises to address worldwide challenges and engage students in global concerns.

A Cinematic Tale of Loss and Redemption
Catch a sneak preview of the award-winning film “Favorite Son” with writer, director and professor Howard Libov.

Images That Will Stand Forever
Professor David Hanson’s images of the World Trade Center have become a moving historical tribute.

Bridging the Pacific World
John Vitale describes his FDU study abroad experience in Japan, from mountain villages to the bustling Tokyo.

Alumni Profile
International Alumnus Finds Global Success
John Mangeli, BS'64 (M)

Alumni Profile
Reaching Out to Stricken Haiti
Donna Bruno Stuart, AA'60 (T)

Across the Pacific — Continued
Hiroshima: sad, beautiful, busy

The distance between Kyoto and Hiroshima is about the equivalent of traveling from New York to Boston. It took about an hour and 45 minutes on Japan’s bullet train, known as Shinkansen. With zero delay at each stop, the train traveled at a smooth 200–300 miles per hour over 193 miles of Japanese landscape. It was one of the most relaxing, simple, exhilarating and easiest forms of travel I have ever experienced.

"I had stook where others had vanished in the blink of an eye. It is a breathtaking experience … "Arriving by streetcar at the mouth of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, my stomach dropped. I felt strange, awful, sad, confused, yet at the same time happy. I was happy to see that the city was beautiful and busy. It was almost as if the United States never dropped the atomic bomb at all.

The Genbaku Dome, a World Heritage Site, which is the only preserved building left from the atomic bomb’s hypocenter, is a concrete frame with twisted and bent steel with wind blowing through its walls. It left me quiet and disturbed. I had stood where others had vanished in the blink of an eye. It is a breathtaking experience that only intensifies inside the memorial museum, which provides a representation of the realities of nuclear warfare and a message of hope that we may never use nuclear weapons again.

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J. Michael Adams, President; Richard Reiss, Senior Vice President for University Advancement; Angelo Carfagna, Assistant Vice President for University Advancement and Communications; Okang McBride, Director of Alumni Relations; Carol Kuzen Black, Director of Publications/Senior Editor; Rebecca Maxon, Editor and Web Designer;

Contributors: Howard Libov, Tom Nugent, Melissa Payton, John Vitale

Photo/Illustration Credits: Bill Blanchard, Bill Cardoni, Gary Darden, Favorite Son Productions, Don Hamerman, David Hanson, Ted Horowitz Photography, Dan Landau, Mike Malone, Morteza Nikoubazl, Gloria Pastorino, Nick Romanenko, Danny Schwartz, Jayson Scrimizzi, Daniel Twomey, John Vitale

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