Jeanette Banker (Class of \u2753), interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Jeanette Banker was in the SUNY Brockport Class of 1953. She studied in the Elementary Education program. In this program, she was placed at Brockport\u27s campus school as well as Rochester\u27s #35 school. She worked in the Rochester City School District for a short period before taking a position in SUNY Brockport\u27s campus school, and continued to work at SUNY Brockport until her retirement. Jeanette Banker passed away in February 2020

George and Rosie Rich, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Rosie A. Rich worked at SUNY Brockport for six years from 1958 to 1964. She taught health and served as a faculty advisor for women\u27s bowling, field hockey, swimming, water ballet, and in many more sports in Brockport\u27s athletics and physical education department. George Rich is an alumnus of SUNY Brockport, and was in the Class of 1954 and Class of 1962 for his BS, MS, and his CERT. He attended the Campus School as a child, as he is a Brockport native. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Brockport as well as his Master’s Degree in Education. He was inducted into the Hall of Heritage in 2004. He served as the President of the Brockport Alumni Association from 1998-2004. He has also served on the Board of the Association

Andrew D. Virgilio, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Andrew D. Virgilio graduated from SUNY Brockport in 1949. He served in the Air Force in World War Two and was part of the large group of veterans who attended Brockport in the late forties. Virigilio worked in an East Rochester elementary school as a teacher and principal until 1960, and taught at St. John\u27s University for one year before becoming Principal of the Campus School at Brockport. He retained that position until the closure of the Campus School in the late sixties, and then served in an administrative roles at SUNY Brockport until 1987. During this later period he also served in various roles in the New York State Legislature

William G. Andrews, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Dr. Bill Andrews attended Cornell University from 1955-1958, where he earned his PhD in Political Science. He served as a Professor of Political Science at the College at Brockport from 1967 to 1996, also serving as the Dean in during the 1970\u27s. He is also a scholar of the history of Brockport, and has written several published books on the town\u27s history and development

Orlo A. Derby, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Dr. Orlo A. Derby served on the Brockport faculty from 1941 to 1974. He came to Brockport Normal in June 1941 as an Instructor of English. He held that position until June 1942 when he left to serve in the army. In June 1946, after he served as an Infantry Captain, he came back to Brockport, then the Brockport State Teachers College, as an Assistant Professor of Education. In 1948 he received a full professorship position. From 1969 to 1971 he served as Director of Graduate Programs for the Development of Curriculum and Instruction

Karen Taylor, interviewed by Keegan Leslie Taylor

Karen Taylor grew up in Fairport and attended MCC (where she earned her Associate\u27s Degree in Liberal Studies), the University at Buffalo, and Nazareth College (where she earned earned her Bachelor\u27s Degree of Science in Art Education), before attending SUNY Brockport in the mid-1990\u27s. The majority of her classes were on SUNY Brockport\u27s downtown campus. Here she earned her Master\u27s Degree in Counseling and Teaching Children with Special Needs. Taylor has worked throughout her life in several different fields of education, running multiple daycares, substitute teaching, and tutoring. As of 2019, she still tutors

Owen Ireland, interviewed by Erika Curtis

Dr. Owen Ireland worked in the History Department of SUNY Brockport as a professor and administrator for fifty years, from 1968 to 2018. He attended the University of Toronto, St. Michael\u27s College, where he earned his bachelor\u27s in philosophy and British literature. He then attended Colgate University, where he earned a master\u27s degree secondary social studies, before earning his PhD in history at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Ireland has served as the Chair of the History Department for three distinct periods. He and Dr. John Ingham were instrumental in starting and running the Brockport Conference of Social Political History. He and Dr. Bruce Leslie together established Brockport\u27s relationship with Maynooth College

Lessons learned in promoting evidence-based public health: Perspectives from managers in state public health departments

Evidence-based public health (EBPH) practice, also called evidence-informed public health, can improve population health and reduce disease burden in populations. Organizational structures and processes can facilitate capacity-building for EBPH in public health agencies. This study involved 51 structured interviews with leaders and program managers in 12 state health department chronic disease prevention units to identify factors that facilitate the implementation of EBPH. Verbatim transcripts of the de-identified interviews were consensus coded in NVIVO qualitative software. Content analyses of coded texts were used to identify themes and illustrative quotes. Facilitator themes included leadership support within the chronic disease prevention unit and division, unit processes to enhance information sharing across program areas and recruitment and retention of qualified personnel, training and technical assistance to build skills, and the ability to provide support to external partners. Chronic disease prevention leaders\u27 role modeling of EBPH processes and expectations for staff to justify proposed plans and approaches were key aspects of leadership support. Leaders protected staff time in order to identify and digest evidence to address the common barrier of lack of time for EBPH. Funding uncertainties or budget cuts, lack of political will for EBPH, and staff turnover remained challenges. In conclusion, leadership support is a key facilitator of EBPH capacity building and practice. Section and division leaders in public health agencies with authority and skills can institute management practices to help staff learn and apply EBPH processes and spread EBPH with partners

The Complexity of Approximately Counting Retractions

Let $G$ be a graph that contains an induced subgraph $H$. A retraction from $G$ to $H$ is a homomorphism from $G$ to $H$ that is the identity function on $H$. Retractions are very well-studied: Given $H$, the complexity of deciding whether there is a retraction from an input graph $G$ to $H$ is completely classified, in the sense that it is known for which $H$ this problem is tractable (assuming $\mathrm{P}\neq \mathrm{NP}$). Similarly, the complexity of (exactly) counting retractions from $G$ to $H$ is classified (assuming $\mathrm{FP}\neq \#\mathrm{P}$). However, almost nothing is known about approximately counting retractions. Our first contribution is to give a complete trichotomy for approximately counting retractions to graphs of girth at least $5$. Our second contribution is to locate the retraction counting problem for each $H$ in the complexity landscape of related approximate counting problems. Interestingly, our results are in contrast to the situation in the exact counting context. We show that the problem of approximately counting retractions is separated both from the problem of approximately counting homomorphisms and from the problem of approximately counting list homomorphisms --- whereas for exact counting all three of these problems are interreducible. We also show that the number of retractions is at least as hard to approximate as both the number of surjective homomorphisms and the number of compactions. In contrast, exactly counting compactions is the hardest of all of these exact counting problems

Tuberculous Infection of Thyroid Gland: A Case Report

Introduction. Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and almost one-third of the world is infected with this disease. Tuberculosis has been reported in many parts of the human body. But thyroid gland involvement is extremely rare and its true incidence is unknown. Case Presentation. We present the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented with a thyroid cyst which turned out to be a primary mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Conclusion. The correct diagnosis of thyroid tuberculosis is important because of the availability of medical treatment and the limited role of surgery