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51 SPRING 2018 IN MEMORIAM Ann McCormack Korinda '47 Clara Loepkey '48 Harry J. Garbe Jr. '50, MA '70 Robert Michael DeCastro '55 Stanley L. Berger '59 Gloria DiRicco Knapp '59 Sherman DeMill '60 Barbara M. Hilge '61 Intisar Shareef '68 Phyllis Raughley '69 Jessica K. Granville '70 Debera Libkind '72 Joan Faulkner Campbell '78 Bruce Alan Pregger '78 Alexander Krych '79 Michael Brady MEd '86 Naomi Elkins '86 Steven Gillule '86 Jennifer Carnes '97, MAT '02 Brian Hill '05 Remembrances Joe Herzstein '58, 1935–2017 Professor emeritus of health and physical education AS WE GO THROUGH LIFE, we leave footprints in the sand by what we did and who we have touched. Joe Herzstein '58 left elephant prints. As a TCNJ Hall of Famer in football, basketball, and baseball, as a beloved backfield football coach, and as a health and physical education professor, he is remembered for his outstanding dedication to the college. I first met Joe in 1967 when I came to teach and coach wrestling at what was then Trenton State College. We shared offices (and a lot of laughs) in Packer and Phelps Halls. He had a reputation as being someone who really cared. He taught a class in death and dying, and students would often come to him after losing a loved one. Joe was always there for them with compassion, counseling, and comfort. An avid fisherman, his prints were left along the beaches that stretched from Maryland to New Jersey. He cooked great Maryland crabs and was well known for hosting an annual crab party at his home in Ewing for the health and phys ed staff and hundreds of close friends. Joe was a dear friend, and it was my pleasure to work, coach, and share many laughs, memories, and crabs with him. —Mike Curry '63, former assistant professor of health and physical education and head wrestling coach (1967–76) LILYAN WRIGHT influenced generations of women with her passion for sport and was one of the strongest female leaders of her time. She was a pioneer not just for health and physical education majors and women, but for anyone who ever brushed by her. She taught my mom, Barrie Riddle '67 at Trenton State College, and then 22 years later, I was her pupil. My own young daughters met her in 2008 on the sideline of a field at the National Field Hockey Festival — she was in her late 80s and still playing. She had a vigor that commanded attention, and she didn't hesitate to remind me that I should be playing with her. She pushed relentlessly for women's rights (including helping to establish a women's varsity program at TCNJ) and insisted others fight for those rights too. There are few people in the world that have lived such a full life and accomplished as many victories on and off the field as she did. She never saw a ceiling, and there was no place that she couldn't make you believe you could go. I feel very fortunate to have been one of her girls — and P.S., even after winning the National Championship as a forward on the TCNJ field hockey team in 1990, I got a C in field hockey class with her! Amen! —Jill Cosse '93 Lilyan Wright, 1920–2017 Former dean of physical education and women's athletic director

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