Journalist, editor, publisher, educator and East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania graduate, Bruce Frassinelli ’61 M’69, was the keynote speaker for the university\u2019s graduate commencement ceremony at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 11, 2012, in Koehler Fieldhouse.\u00a0 Employed as a communications and educational professional for more than 50 years, Frassinelli received his bachelor of science degree in secondary education with a French major in 1961 and was one of the first four recipients of the master of arts degree in political science in 1969 from what was then East Stroudsburg State\u00a0College.<\/p>\n
Frassinelli began his career in communications while at ESU in 1960 when he was a part-time\u00a0announcer for Stroudsburg radio station WVPO.\u00a0 He eventually became the program, news and sports director of the station until 1966 when he became Pocono bureau chief of The Easton Express<\/em> newspaper (now known as The Express-Times<\/em>).\u00a0 He held several regional editorial positions before his appointment as the paper\u2019s managing editor in 1981, then editor in 1990 and general manager in 1991. In 1972, Mr. Frassinelli and a colleague earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a series of articles “The Rape of the Poconos,” which exposed over-development and land fraud\u00a0in the second-home industry in the Poconos that led to Congressional legislation. While he was the newspaper’s editor in 1989, The Express <\/em>was named\u00a0as one of the 14 best small-city newspapers (under 50,000 circulation) in the United States and\u00a0the\u00a0best in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n In 1992, Frassinelli was promoted\u00a0to publisher and editor of The<\/em> Palladium-Times<\/em>\u00a0in Oswego, New York.\u00a0 He retired from the newspaper in 1998 and taught journalism and communication courses at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego. He has been a senior columnist for Oswego County Business Magazine<\/em> and a companion publication, 55 Plus<\/em>, since 2002.<\/p>\n While in Oswego, Frassinelli was the first external chair of the board of directors of Oswego County National Bank. He was involved in numerous community initiatives and served as\u00a0governor of Rotary District 7150 in Central New York and president of the Oswego Rotary Club. He\u00a0served as coordinator and master of ceremonies for the regional finals of the Scripps’ National Spelling Bee for 25 years in both New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Frassinelli teaches online communication ethics courses for SUNY Oswego, has taught at\u00a0Lehigh Carbon Community College, East Stroudsburg University, Northampton Community College, Strayer University\u00a0and Stroudsburg,\u00a0Notre Dame of East Stroudsburg and Washington, New Jersey, high schools.<\/p>\n He received the coveted Distinguished Alumni Award from East Stroudsburg University last fall. He also received the Distinguished Service Award from the Pocono Mountains Jaycees and the Optimist of the Year Award from the Optimists of the Stroudsburg Club.<\/p>\n Frassinelli resides in Schnecksville, Pa., with his wife, Marie. They have five children and nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU Graduate, Mr. Bruce Frassinelli, Keynote Speaker for Spring Graduate Commencement Exercises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}