Meterologist Mann Predicts Temperature Swings,
Plenty of Snow, and Storms this Winter

So says Phil Mann, a meteorologist and director of broadcast media and advertising at Keuka College.

“This winter will be very different in the Finger Lakes area from the winter of 2005-06,” said Mann. “There is currently a highly amplified jetstream pattern over the Northern Hemisphere coupled with a persistent blocking pattern.

“This would indicate persistent wide temperature swings in the offing, with intermittent major intrusions of very cold arctic air interspersed with mild periods.”

Along with colder-than-normal temperatures, Mann predicts a stormy winter season in the Finger Lakes.

“There are likely to be at least two major winter storms affecting the region during the winter season,” he said. “Snow totals are very likely to be much greater than last winter and above average generally.”

Thanks to El Nino, the stormy weather won’t be confined to the Finger Lakes region, according to Mann.

“Ocean surface temperature trends over the Pacific correlate to a strong, active southern jetstream which is phasing at times with the northern jetstream,” he explained. “This development not only suggests stormy weather for the southeastern United States, but could also figure in the formation of Nor’easter storms tracking up the Atlantic coast this winter.”

Making a Difference, Indeeed

School of the Arts Senior Selected
Experiential Learner of the Month

Rochester resident Malcolm Cody, a senior at School of the Arts, is the October recipient of Keuka College’s Experiential Learner of the Month Award.

Keuka, the national leader in experiential, hands-on learning, established the program to honor high school students whose commitment to experiential, hands-on learning has made a difference in their communities.

Cody will receive a $10,000 academic fellowship to Keuka and qualify for the Experiential Learner of the Year Award, which carries a full academic fellowship to the College.

Cody was nominated for the award by Michael Murphy, a counselor at the high school.

“Malcolm has an extensive track record of community service and plans to pursue a career path that will allow him to serve the youth of tomorrow,” said Murphy.

Cody is involved in summer recreation programs and is active in Youth Voice, One Vision, an organization that represents 13 to 18 year-olds who are members of city recreation and community youth centers.

He received the Humboldt Recreation Center’s Good Citizen of the Year Award in 2005 and was honored for his work in WXXI-TV’s “Raising 100,000 Voices,” where 15 to 24-year-olds work with local artist-

mentors and youth-serving professionals to produce their own three-minute documentaries on issues relevant to their emerging adulthood.

The Experiential Learner of the Month Award-winner is featured on television stations throughout central, western, and northern New York state, as well as the Southern Tier.

The participating stations include WTVH, Channel 5, Syracuse (CBS); WHAM, Channel 13, Rochester (ABC); WKBW, Channel 7, Buffalo (ABC); WWNY, Channel 7, Watertown (CBS); and WBNG, Channel 12, Binghamton (CBS).

Remembering “Katja”

Former Faculty Member Kathe Riemschneider Dies at 84

Kathe K. Riemschneider, former faculty member and wife of the late Professor of German Ernst Riemschneider, died Oct. 24 at Penn Yan Manor. She was 85.

Affectionately known as Katja, Riemschneider taught French as an adjunct in the ’70s and ’80s and also helped prepare students for Group Field Periods in the former USSR “by giving them a passing understanding of some basic Russian,” said Professor of History Sander Diamond. “She was at home in her native German language as well as Russian, French and Spanish.” 

Riemschneider was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s when she married Professor Riemschneider. 

“They had known each other for years having met in Berlin after the war,” said Diamond. “Together, they took students to a divided Berlin on several occasions for the Berlin Seminar and out of that experience emerged the Group Field Periods.”

According to Diamond, they served as advisers to several classes, maintained a weekly German table with their majors over dinner for 10 years, and were advisers to the Ski Club. Later in life, Kathe helped migrant farmers learn English. 

She and Ernst traveled throughout Europe and especially the German-speaking world of Germany and Austria. 

“When they returned, they always invited the community to see their slides and the room was always packed in the days before cable TV in this region,” said Diamond. “Students

 of that generation will always remember that they had an open door on their home on Keuka Lake for all who wanted to come in and just talk. At Christmas she had her tree decorated with burning candles in keeping with German tradition and the students were served cookies and hot wine.  She will always be remembered as kind, caring, and giving of herself and her time.”

Added Diamond: “With the passing of Katja and before her Ernst, the generation that helped make certain that Keuka’s rich traditions were passed to the next generation is nearly complete.”

Memorial donations may be made to the College or Literacy Volunteers of Yates County.