Lifelong Cleveland Browns fan now develops team's software
Josh Stipanovich NEWS EDITOR
Issue date: 10/15/09 Section: News
Hooker has achieved an incredible amount of success, and said he attributes all of it to YSU.
"What YSU was great for was the interactions between people," Hooker said. "YSU's environment through the dorms, through the campus atmosphere, through all of the intramurals and extracurriculars, really encourages people to get together."
Faculty members such as assistant director of Student Programming Greg Gulas, Honors Program assistant director Dr. Amy Cossentino and associate professor of computer science and information Dr. John Sullins were all inspirations, Hooker said.
Gulas, who worked with Hooker in bringing the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity up off the ground, said he knew Hooker was going to be an asset not only to himself but also to the fraternity.
"He was one of the guys that was a driving force in trying to get them [Sigma Tau Gamma] recolonized, and you just knew that entire group, Seth included, was a very, very special group because number one, they had 'stick-to-it-iveness.' They were very caring and they were very passionate," Gulas said.
Sigma Tau Gamma still exists, and Gulas said since they have been reorganized, they have been one of the elite fraternities at YSU, winning Greek Sing numerous times and being named all-sports champions.
"They were the number one chapter academically nationwide out of all the Sig Tau's, and in the top five several times," Gulas said.
Gulas and Hooker aren't just Sigma Tau fraternity brothers; they now have both worked with the Cleveland Browns.
Gulas, who interned with the Browns as a graduate student at Ohio University in 1978, said he knew Hooker would get the position.
"Not only are we fraternity brothers, but we both worked for the Browns," Gulas said. "[Hooker is] much more important than I ever was."
Although working for the Browns is certainly the milestone of his career so far, his main goal in life is quite simple, and Hooker said that because of his busy schedule, he hasn't had the time to have the benefit of the doubt.
"My main goal in life has never really been a work-related goal … [my main goal] is to learn more about having a family, a nice place to come home to and just at the end of the day just to be satisfied with who I am and with where I am in life," Hooker said.
"What YSU was great for was the interactions between people," Hooker said. "YSU's environment through the dorms, through the campus atmosphere, through all of the intramurals and extracurriculars, really encourages people to get together."
Faculty members such as assistant director of Student Programming Greg Gulas, Honors Program assistant director Dr. Amy Cossentino and associate professor of computer science and information Dr. John Sullins were all inspirations, Hooker said.
Gulas, who worked with Hooker in bringing the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity up off the ground, said he knew Hooker was going to be an asset not only to himself but also to the fraternity.
"He was one of the guys that was a driving force in trying to get them [Sigma Tau Gamma] recolonized, and you just knew that entire group, Seth included, was a very, very special group because number one, they had 'stick-to-it-iveness.' They were very caring and they were very passionate," Gulas said.
Sigma Tau Gamma still exists, and Gulas said since they have been reorganized, they have been one of the elite fraternities at YSU, winning Greek Sing numerous times and being named all-sports champions.
"They were the number one chapter academically nationwide out of all the Sig Tau's, and in the top five several times," Gulas said.
Gulas and Hooker aren't just Sigma Tau fraternity brothers; they now have both worked with the Cleveland Browns.
Gulas, who interned with the Browns as a graduate student at Ohio University in 1978, said he knew Hooker would get the position.
"Not only are we fraternity brothers, but we both worked for the Browns," Gulas said. "[Hooker is] much more important than I ever was."
Although working for the Browns is certainly the milestone of his career so far, his main goal in life is quite simple, and Hooker said that because of his busy schedule, he hasn't had the time to have the benefit of the doubt.
"My main goal in life has never really been a work-related goal … [my main goal] is to learn more about having a family, a nice place to come home to and just at the end of the day just to be satisfied with who I am and with where I am in life," Hooker said.
Be the first to comment on this story