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Hands of hope Winter 2006 Volume 12 Issue 1 Karen Crowley Metzinger MA ’97 editor
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Hurricane Katrina cast a sobering reality over New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast. However, renewed hope and determination are fueled by great numbers of volunteers who have come to help. Read about Bradley alumni who live in the area impacted by Katrina, as well as alumni and students who have offered a helping hand.
Nancy Ridgeway associate editor
Let it snow
Aimee Roy assistant editor
With the use of fiber-optic light and techniques such as optical staining, snowflakes become beautiful works of art. At Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. Michael Peres ’78 offers a unique class in which students use a microscope to photograph images of just about anything they can imagine, including snowflakes.
Gayle Erwin McDowell ’77 classnotes editor/contributing writer Michelle Bowers Gray designer/illustrator Duane Zehr university photographer Daniel Manson web communications Student Staff Assistants
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Mike Wagenbach ’89 has been commissioned to preserve the Pullman State Historic Site, 15 miles south of the Chicago loop. The Pullman factory town, built in the late 1800s by industrialist George Pullman, is famous for the variety of cars manufactured there, as well as the town’s aesthetic beauty and progressive urban design.
Allison Camp ’07 Taija Jenkins ’08 Christy Moss ’06 Administration Dr. David C. Broski president
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Watercolor of Dingeldine Music Center by Jack Simmerling
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“Milkshakes and Study Breaks” My husband, Robert Leib ’71, and I enjoyed the current issue of Hilltopics featuring “Milkshakes and Study Breaks” probably more than any previous issue. However, two of our favorite restaurants were Davis Bros. Pizza, and for special occasions, Vonachen’s Junction, a restaurant located in the car of a train. These were not mentioned in the ’60s and ’70s section. We have not been back to Peoria since 1971, but this article brought back fond memories—gastronomic and otherwise! Judy Friduss Leib ’71 Villanova, PA My applause for your article (Gayle Erwin McDowell ’77) on the hangouts we frequented while at Bradley. I remember Hunt’s well. A friend of mine (Greg Florey ’69) ate lunch there every day! According to your article, it closed. What a pity. Now onto other memories. I realize you can’t get all of them, but Sie’s and The CI (College Inn) were visited by all sneaking the suds, and the food wasn’t bad either. The two establishments were down the hill, just past Hunt’s on the left hand side. They really were in competition with each other, but Sie’s dominated. Perhaps these two places were just left out in favor of more delicate reading. Now Davis Bros. in East Peoria had the best pizzas in the area. It had the best thin crust pizza anywhere. Whenever we could scrounge up a car (the Greeks were lucky as they had them most of the time), we all fell out for pizza across the river in a rather industrial part of that town. I see part of your article is about fine dining. Certainly, when parents came for a visit, we went to the Pere Marquette, Kramer’s, and the unmentioned Vonachen’s Junction. I think it has changed its theme and type of food now, but then it was marvelous…pate de fois, crown rack of lamb, filet, etc. There were one or two railroad cars that you could dine in,
plus a restaurant with real walls. Yes, it was in Peoria Heights, out past Pabst Blue Ribbon. I understand that even Pabst has been demolished. Is there no justice? Ed Staley ’70, Modesto, CA (Editor’s note: Davis Bros. Pizza opened a Peoria location on Glen Avenue in 2002. Vonachen’s Old Place closed last summer and recently reopened as Bud’s Steakhouse.) You have done a masterful job to assemble so much in great detail. Your cover, the photos, the layout, the many interviews with personal stories all make for an enjoyable evening for alums. I find myself going back and rereading, for one incident leads to another fond memory. It is a great issue, and Gayle Erwin McDowell ’77 should be proud to have covered the action and time frame in such detail. This issue will be a “keeper” for me. Marion Putnam Bohner ’38, Peoria, IL As always, the first thing to read when it arrives in my mail is my new Hilltopics. And, once again, the article about Hunt’s and Kramer’s hits close to home. As a child, I knew Mr. Kramer, Mr. Hunt, and certainly his son, Gordon [Hunt]; these men were accounts of my father’s, who sold them J.D. Roszell Dairy Co. products for many years. I have fond memories of going with him to call on these restaurants and of seeing “my name” in print on their walls, on their menus, and on their billboards. Thanks for this nostalgic trip down memory lane! Roger Roszell ’57 MBA ‘59, Sarasota, FL I absolutely enjoyed this article [“Milkshakes and Study Breaks”]. I’m sure, however, that I speak for many when I ask, “Why was Taco Gringo not mentioned?” Ray Asher ’82, Chicago, IL I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the article on the restaurants. I even took
the issue to my parents the next day so they could take a walk down memory lane. Even though I was a non-traditional Bradley student, I grew up in Peoria and fondly remember the “old” Hunt’s and the “old” Avanti’s. Just a few weeks earlier, we were trying to remember the name of Mr. Chips. Lots of good times! I also appreciate the article about Tourette Syndrome by Aimee Roy. It’s great to get the word out so that people have a better understanding and that those who struggle with it have yet another role model. It was a great issue. Laurie Hahn ’04, Peoria, IL I just received the issue concerning restaurants around campus. In the 1960s section, there is the following “...Swiss emigrant Albert Zeller purchased a littleknown Italian restaurant called Lardano’s.” Lardano’s was not little known; it was a bigtime hangout, virtually right next door to campus. We referred to it as “The Drain.” But what did we know? We were 19 and would eat anything. Also there is the following on page 14: “...it helped to have something more unique.” Now, I was just an accounting major, but even I know that something is either unique or it is not. Something can’t be more or less unique. It is a binary situation. Like pregnant. Larry Jacobs ‘67, Oakland, CA Agatucci’s may have been the first restaurant to introduce pizza to Peoria in 1954, but Theta Xi fraternity had pizza parties on campus in 1951 and 1952. How do I know? I made the pizzas from scratch in the Theta Xi kitchen. I was the kitchen manager for those two years. Theta Xi was then located on Fredonia Avenue, the current location of Sigma Kappa sorority. Robert Pitra ’52, Glen Ellyn, IL I enjoyed your article in the fall issue of Hilltopics. It is always fun to go nostalgically down memory lane as Gayle Erwin McDowell ’77 did in her article “Milkshakes and Study Breaks.” When a former student returns to the Bradley campus today, it is often hard to envision what was there when one was a student. As a 1955 graduate, I have a recollection of all of those you mentioned, but I was Bradley Hilltopics Spring 2006
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surprised by what I think was a definite oversight. The reference was made to Kern’s as one popular “greasy spoon,” but the “greasy spoon” I remember was Boyle’s, located onehalf block south of Main on University on the east side of the street. It was a small place, but was certainly patronized by the Bradley students who lived in Harper Hall and the (then) new dormitories a block away at Main and Elmwood. Kern’s may have had more of a selection, but Boyle’s did a good job with eggs for breakfast or a hamburger for noon, supper, or a late night snack. I remember well the pork tenderloin sandwich at Hunt’s. Before Agatucci’s, my introduction to pizza was at a downtown location called the Flamingo, and I spent many nights driving there to bring pizza back to campus. Another food spot that started in the ‘50s (I believe) was John’s BBQ that was famous for its ribs and became very popular with Bradley students. I know the article was not intended to be all-inclusive, but I thought I should point out the absence of Boyle’s and throw the rest in for good measure. You are doing a great job with Bradley Hilltopics. It always makes for interesting reading. Ron McGauvran ’55, Clinton, IA I was delighted to get the Bradley Hilltopics today in the mail. The cover was eyecatching; I couldn’t wait to open the magazine and walk through the memory lane of places I’ve eaten while taking classes at Bradley. I want to offer my compliments to Gayle Erwin McDowell ’77 for fantastic research and a positively great
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job on the article. The pictures were fun, and Gayle provided great recollections of fun times and great food. What an excellent member of your staff. After looking over the cover, I naturally turned to the inside cover to discover what other wonderful articles were inside. I immediately recognized Joe Stowell ’50 MA ’56. By the way, great interview, Justin Phelps ‘05; you scored a goal with me! I read [Nancy Ridgeway’s] stem cell article, excellent; and I do mean excellent. I have been reading articles from National Geographic and Scientific American on stem cell research. This article captured all the main points on the subject and brought them home, right here in Peoria. Just wonderful! Steve Richards, Pekin, IL
Kudos to Dr. Craig Cady I would like to thank you for the article, “Microscopes, Lab Coats, and Stem Cells.” In particular, I would like to commend Dr. Craig Cady, and his assistant Kate Koehler Pastucha ‘06, for using only human bone marrow, rat bone marrow, and human umbilical cord stem cells for their research. I firmly believe that using embryonic stem cells would be highly unethical. Please convey my thanks and applause to Dr. Cady and Kate Pastucha! Maureen A. Corrington, Peoria, IL
Stowell’s greatest contributions Thank you so much for the recent feature story on a true Bradley icon, Joe Stowell ’50 MA ’56. Limited space and passage of time prevented coverage of perhaps Coach Stowell’s greatest contributions to Bradley basketball—the nine years before he became head coach. With freshman ineligible to play varsity sports, Coach Stowell served as freshman coach, assistant varsity coach, and primary recruiter during a sustained period of excellence. When a loss in Peoria was barely more common than an eclipse, Bradley won 3 NIT titles (’57, ’60, ’64) and beat Oscar Robertson’s powerhouse Cincinnati teams three times and both of Cincy’s national championship squads. Bradley’s NIT champs were a combined 73-15, with the 1960s team going 27-2 and rising as high as #2 in the national rankings. As for “Stowell Stats,” his record as freshman coach was a remarkable 120-15. He was always so nice to me when I attended the games as a young schoolboy and approached him before, during, and after his regular post-game radio show with Tom Kelly or Bob Starr on WMBD. No question to Coach Stowell ever went unanswered. He treated me like a son. Greg Florey ’69, Montgomery, AL I just wanted to send a couple of comments regarding the article on Joe Stowell ’50 MA ’56 in the Fall ’05 issue. As a big basketball fan, I listened to many BU games on the radio as a senior in high school after I had been accepted to Bradley. Going forward to my first semester freshman year classes, we
all had to take two semesters of PE classes. Imagine my surprise when my badminton and table tennis class instructor turned out to be Joe Stowell, who I think probably beat everyone he played in a class. Can you imagine a Division I NCAA coach nowadays teaching and participating in class like that? When I was a junior and a resident advisor, my assistant resident advisor was Joe Stowell Jr. ’76. On several occasions we went over to Joe’s parents’ house on Sunday night for a home-cooked meal. I don’t remember what we had, but the warm home atmosphere of the Stowells was great. Thanks for the memories. Richard Kolar ’74, Naperville, IL I just received the Bradley Hilltopics Fall 2005 issue. I can’t remember ever spending so much time reading the articles. I loved “From the court to the air” mostly because I remember having the coach as my PE teacher in the fall of ’67, and watching Bradley basketball with Coach Stowell for my four years in Peoria. The coach and the team would come over to the Tau Epsilon Phi house for dinner on Tuesday (steak night). The cover story, “Milkshakes and Study Breaks” was a hoot. I remember those places like yesterday. Back in the ’80s, the South Florida Alumni Chapter held an Avanti’s Night and served gondolas on Avanti’s famous bread that was FedEx’ed in for the event. The only place missing was Davis Bros. Pizza. Your Hilltopics was very cool. Steve Goldman ’71, Pembroke Pines, FL
Overseas appreciation of emeriti I’m a student at Bradley currently away in Iraq. I thought that interviewing the faculty was a pretty sweet idea [Summer 2005]. I enjoyed their responses to questions regarding students, the University, and some general social changes. I figured I would let you know that I appreciated it. Someone or group put a lot of effort into doing it. Don Lazarz ’06
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Pi O K’s members identified On page 22 of the Spring 2005 issue, you had a picture of Pi Omicron Kappa fraternity members. My father, Holt Thomas, is in the first row of three boys. Dad is on the right. He did not attend Bradley, but like a few others, was invited to belong to this local fraternity. I have an original of the same picture. When I attended Bradley (1949-1953), my mother, Hazel Brown Thomas, class of 1909, got the picture out and would tell me about these great fellows and all the wonderful parties they had. I can identify three others in the picture. The very handsome fellow on the far left end is Dick Whiting. He wrote popular music of the day, and his daughter is Margaret Whiting, a popular singer with well-known bands in the late 1930s-1940s. Next to Dick is Charles Benford, my parents’ best friend. He and his wife Mildred moved to Lakeland, Florida, during the Depression. Charles opened a ladies’ shoe store called Benford’s Bootery. It was THE place to get shoes, even when I lived in that area in the ’50s and ’60s. Behind Charles Benford in the next row, left end, is his brother, Fred. Fred also went to Lakeland and opened a lovely bookstore. I wish my mother were here to name all the Pi O K’s for you and give you their histories. Martha Thomas Casselberry ’53, Pompano Beach, FL
BU football and Coach Stone Enjoyed the article on Bradley football [Winter 2005]. I remember Coach Billy Stone as one of my instructors in 1957. Always enjoyed! In fact, I kept the football card I collected as a young boy. Go Braves! Jerry Ennis ’61, Chesterfield, MO Send a letter to the editor about an article in Bradley Hilltopics or about a University–related issue. Letters must be signed and have an address and telephone number.
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Which psychological processes involved in decision making are most interesting to you? “When Bradley Hilltopics asked the psychology department to comment on the topic of decision making, I thought it would be interesting to ask two of our nationally-known alumni to comment. Professors Wayne Weiten ’72 MA ’73 and Richard Griggs ’70 have published extensively in psychology, written introductory texts, and received APA awards for teaching. Bradley’s Richard Stalling, former department chair, was asked to add his perspective. None of the writers saw the others’ essays before they were finished. While attending Bradley, Weiten took psychology classes from Dr. Stalling, Dr. Claire Etaugh, and Dr. Ronald Wasden, professor emeritus; and Stalling and Wasden have authored the widely used study guide for Weiten’s text. Coincidentally, Griggs taught three of Bradley’s faculty who attended the University of Florida: Dr. Demaris Montgomery, Dr. Forrest Files, and me.” Dr. Derek Montgomery, associate professor of psychology
Dr. Wayne Weiten ’72 MA ’73 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Decision making involves evaluating alternatives and making choices among them. One interesting facet of this process, for me, is just how pervasive it is. Both laypeople and cognitive psychologists seem to think of decisions primarily in terms of major decisions—choices that require some serious thought. This approach makes sense, but it obscures the fact that decision making is
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a constant, ongoing process. For example, earlier today you decided when to get up, whether to eat breakfast, and if so, what to eat. You may have made a decision about whether to work out, and if so, how to work out. You presumably made a series of decisions about what to wear. If you then drove off to work, you may have made another series of decisions about your route, and when you pulled into the parking lot, you had to decide where to park. At some point today, you decided to pick up Bradley Hilltopics, and a moment ago you apparently decided to read this article. If I don’t make this article more interesting fairly quickly, you may soon decide to stop reading it. By now, you hopefully get my point: if you are awake, decision making is almost as pervasive as breathing. Small wonder then, that psychologists have shown a keen interest in decision making. Decades of empirical research on decision making have yielded a vast cornucopia of fascinating findings that I could choose to discuss (here we go again—another decision) in this essay. In a general sense, perhaps the most interesting finding is that people are not as systematic and rational in their
decision making as they would like to think. Research has shown repeatedly that human decision strategies are riddled with errors and biases that yield surprisingly irrational and suboptimal results. Are there some specific, recent findings that I find especially interesting? Yes. Recent studies have shown that in making decisions, comparative evaluations of alternative options tend to yield different results than separate evaluations (assessing an option on its own, in isolation). A chronic problem faced by decision makers is that they frequently make choices based on comparative evaluations, but the chosen product, activity, or event is actually experienced in isolation. This mismatch can lead to decisions that are suboptimal. For example, a shopper may make precise head-to-head comparisons of several speaker systems at an audio store and decide to spend an extra $1,500 on the best speakers, but at home the speakers will be experienced in isolation. There are no comparisons available at home to reaffirm the slight superiority of the selected speakers. This person may have been absolutely delighted with a much less expensive set of speakers if they had been evaluated in isolation. Thus, a host of considerations can distort decision making, which is one reason why it is such a fertile area for cognitive research.
Dr. Richard Griggs ’70 University of Florida I am most interested in the judgment heuristics (general rules of thumb) that people use in making decisions, especially about the
likelihood of events. We use these heuristics because they usually lead to reasonably good, speedy judgments; however, the downside is that they sometimes lead to very predictable errors. To understand how, we’ll consider two well-known heuristics and some simple problems that illustrate their use. To get started, read the following personality sketch and then answer the question that follows Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which of the following is more likely? Linda is a bank teller, or Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement. If you are like most people, you decided that the second alternative is more probable. Not so! There are clearly more bank tellers than feminist bank tellers. The conjunction of two different events (bank teller and feminist) cannot be more likely than either event alone (in this case, bank teller). We ignore this simple probability truism. So how do we make such decisions? We use the representativeness heuristic—judging the likelihood of category membership by how well something matches a particular category (the more representative, the more probable). Linda matches your idea of a feminist more than a bank teller and, via the heuristic, you incorrectly judge the probability of the conjunctive event to be greater. Now consider the following finding. Many people think that seven-letter words ending in ”ing“ are more frequent than words with ”i“ as the fifth letter. Why? Availability strikes again. Seven-letter words ending in ”ing“ (e.g., resting) are easier to imagine, but note that every one also has ”i“ in the fifth position as do many other words not ending in ”ing“ (e.g., reality). Thus, counter to the heuristic, they are not more probable. This should also help you to understand the answer to the Linda problem. Just as there are some seven-letter words with ”i“ in the fifth position that do not end in ”ing,“ there are some bank tellers who are not feminists. To learn more about these heuristics and human decision making, I strongly recommend Scott Plous’s engaging book, The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. Editor‘s note: See page 24 for additional information on Weiten and Griggs.
Dr. Richard Stalling Bradley University To begin a discussion of decision making calls for a couple of assumptions: that there is an external world of reality, and that we have access to it through some sort of sensory/cognitive apparatus. The first assumption is required to begin the conversation. The second assumption creates problems because, while we ordinarily operate as if the inner world of thought matches the outer world, a moment’s reflection and a great deal of research indicate that this is not necessarily the case. I’ll limit my comments to two categories: (1) heuristic versus systematic processing and (2) group influence. Several models propose that in making decisions we follow either a heuristics route, involving quick, perhaps intuitive reactions or else a systematic route, by which we rationally ponder alternative arguments and outcomes. In considering whom to vote for, we might ask someone (the heuristics route), or we might engage in detailed weighing of the issues (the systematic route). The heuristics route works well but has some built-in biases or errors described by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel in economics, 2002) and his colleague Amos Tversky. Here’s an abbreviated example from their work: A stranger describes a short, slim person who likes to read poetry. Which is more likely, that the person is a professor of classics from an Ivy League university or a truck driver? Our quick, intuitive, heuristic decision is that it’s the professor, and that is what most subjects indicate. But, as our recent psychol-
ogy graduates are likely to know, there are more than three million truck drivers in the U.S.—and only a handful of people in the other category. This use of representativeness heuristics causes us to ignore probability. In some sense, group influence could be considered a type of heuristic. Without much thought we abide by group norms. Conformity allows us to function, but there are pernicious forms of it. After Kennedy’s ill-conceived invasion of Cuba, Irving Janis proposed the notion of groupthink: groups characterized by isolation, high concurrence-seeking, and directive leadership (like Kennedy’s inner circle), tend to make bad decisions. One would think that a lesson had been learned, but Vietnam, Watergate, and the Challenger disaster are more recently cited textbooks cases. Is Iraq yet another example? Even those who initially favored the invasion point to badly flawed decisions. The treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib was not in what most of us like to think of as the American tradition, and was clearly not in our rational self-interest. How can we account for it? The “few bad apples” theory favored by the administration has little resonance in psychological literature, but consider these two alternative models. In Philip Zimbardo’s simulated prison at Stanford, undergraduate boys randomly assigned to be guards developed norms of tormenting boys randomly assigned to be prisoners. In Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment, subjects ordered to deliver severe electric shocks to a helpless stranger did so. The surprise (to Milgram as well as his readers) was that it wasn’t the rare, sadistic outsider who obeyed but the majority of participants. It is impossible to know if these models apply to Abu Ghraib. One suggests that the guards’ behavior arose in the normal course of group interaction; the other suggests that people are likely to engage in behaviors they find abhorrent when instructed to do so. Either way, our leaders should anticipate these well-chronicled human reactions. I have just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Blink. He has a point: sometimes we may know more intuitively in the blink of an eye, especially about facial expressions, than after an exhaustive analysis. More often, I suspect, what we call intuition is the desire to conserve cognitive energy with the use of heuristics. Bradley Hilltopics Spring 2006
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Outstanding alumni honored for achievements Outstanding Young Graduate Award Michael B. Stillman ’91, an attorney with Querrey & Harrow in Chicago, received the Outstanding Young Graduate Award. This award recognizes a graduate who has gained early and exceptional professional or civic achievement in addition to continuing his/her University involvement. Stillman practices in the law firm’s Joliet and Chicago offices and concentrates his practice in general litigation, school, and municipal law. He received his juris doctor degree from DePaul University. He is a member of the South Suburban Bar Association, Will County Bar Association, and Illinois State Bar Association. Stillman serves as president of the Board of Education of Community High School District 218 in Chicago’s south suburbs. He is also a member of the Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation Board of Directors and an active member of St. Catherine of Alexandria parish in Oak Lawn. He resides with his wife, Denise Miarecki Stillman ‘92, and their two children in Oak Lawn. Shown from left are Ed King ’54 MA ’62, Keith Bane ’61, and Michael Stillman ’91.
Lisa Helfrich Jackson ’86, co-executive producer of “Everybody Loves Raymond” won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Jackson has won 14 Emmy awards as a member of the production team for the comedy series. The show completed its ninth and final season in 2005.
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The Bradley University Alumni Association presented three awards to alumni on Founder’s Day.
Distinguished Alumnus Award Keith J. Bane ’61 received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, which recognizes a graduate whose professional or civic activities bring the highest distinction to themselves, their community, and to Bradley. Bane retired from Motorola, Inc. as executive vice president of global strategy and corporate development after 30 years with the company. He held a number of top management positions and was responsible for Motorola’s merger and acquisition strategy. In 1983, Bane became a charter member of the Bradley Council, an advisory board created to advise the University in areas of advancement. He was active in the Campaign for Bradley capital campaign, and was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1987. He has been active in many civic and church organizations, including the Rolling Meadows City Planning Commission, the YMCA, and United Way. Bane received the outstanding alumnus award from Fenwick High School and has served on its board. He is involved with the Chicago alumni chapter of Theta Chi fraternity. Bane earned his juris doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1968 and was a partner with Kirkland and Ellis until 1973. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association. He and his wife Kathy live in Rolling Meadows.
Lydia Moss Bradley Award Edward M. King ’54 MA ’62, retired executive director of housing, residential life, and the student judicial system at Bradley, received the Lydia Moss Bradley Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the University. King retired in 1996 after a 39-year career with the University. He served as dean of men and later was director of residential life and the judicial system. He was involved with Sigma Chi and was recognized with the fraternity’s Order of Constantine award. He became a national authority on fraternity life on college campuses and traveled extensively to lecture and conduct seminars. He served as chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC) Commission on Values and Ethics and received the NIC’s distinguished service award. King also has been active with many civic and charitable organizations, including the Citizens Committee for the Office of Economic Development, the Diocese of Peoria Pastoral Council, the Peoria Association of Retarded Citizens, the Peoria County Tuberculosis Association, and the Salvation Army. He is past president of the Catholic High School Board in Peoria. Previously King has been recognized by Bradley with the Francis C. Mergen Award for Public Service and the Orville Nothdurft Award for lifetime achievement by a former athlete. He and his wife Mary live in Peoria.
Five inducted as Centurions Five alumni were inducted into the Centurion Society during the Founder’s Day Convocation on October 21. Founded in 1982, the Centurion Society honors alumni who have become national or international leaders in their fields and recognizes them for achievements in business, public life, and their professions. As the Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient, Keith J. Bane ’61, whose information is on page 6, was named to the Centurion Society. In addition, the following alumni were named Centurions: John J. Ciardullo, Jr. ’61; MS in architecture ’67 Harvard University Graduate School of Design; principal, John Ciardullo Associates, PC, New York; served as instructor of design and structural engineering courses in the Department of Architecture at Pratt Institute; served as instructor and director, first year Planning Studio in the City and Regional Planning Department; served as associate professor in architecture at Columbia University; taught structural engineering at Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture. Robert J. Clark ’67; MBA ’74 Northern Illinois University; director, president, and CEO, Bear Cub Investments, LLC, Denver, Colorado, a natural gas gathering and processing company; past president and member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Petroleum Club. James D. Fiala ’67; founder, president-CEO, James D. Fiala Paving Company, Bolingbrook; also president and CEO of Delcumbray Inc. and ILS Properties, LLC; business has grown from a residential paving contractor to a major road building general contractor prequalified with the Illinois Department of Transportation, for projects in excess of $20 million; past president, Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association; past director, Illinois State Crime Commission. Jerald F. Kehe ’68; president, Kehe Foods, Chicago; largest privately held specialty food distributor in the U.S., employing 1,900 individuals in 37 states; past president, National Food Distributor Association.
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Shown from left are James Fiala ’67, John Ciardullo, Jr. ’61, Jerald Kehe ’68, Robert Clark ’67, and Keith Bane ’61.
Faculty recognized at convocation Faculty achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service were recognized during the annual Founder’s Day Convocation. Pictured after the ceremony in Dingeldine Music Center, from left are Dr. Kevin Swafford, assistant professor of English, recipient of the Caterpillar Inc. Faculty Award for Scholarship; Dr. Jeff Huberman, dean of the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts, recipient of the Francis C. Mergen Memorial Award for Public Service; Dr. Larry Weinzimmer ’83 MBA ‘85, professor of management, recipient of the Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching; and Dr. Sherri Morris, assistant professor of biology, recipient of the Caterpillar Inc. Faculty Award for Teaching.
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NCAA “Braves” update Bradley University has submitted its final appeal to the NCAA Executive Committee. The University continues to dispute the characterization of the name “Braves” as being “hostile and/or abusive.” Kathy Fuller, assistant vice president for university relations, said, “We do not expect to receive a response from the NCAA until after the first of the year.”
American Chemical Society recognizes BU professors
The Reynolds receive President‘s Award Warren Reynolds ’53 MA ‘67 (left) and his wife Carol (far right) were recognized recently for their years of service to Bradley with the 2005 President’s Award. They are shown above with BU president David Broski and his wife Sharon (center). Warren retired from Keystone Steel and Wire in 1983, where he served as vice president and corporate secretary. He received the Centurion Award in 1993, was a member of the National Alumni Association serving as president in 1971, and has been a member of the Bradley Council since 1987. He chaired the committee that planned Bradley’s 75th anniversary celebration in 1972, and helped Bradley celebrate its centennial 25 years later. The Reynolds have endowed two scholarships, a travel fund for forensics, and named the Business Management and Administration wing of Baker Hall. They beautified campus by endowing a garden near Bradley Hall in memory of a family member. The Reynolds are perpetual members of the Founder’s Society and charter members of the 1897 Society.
CBS to broadcast MVC championship game CBS Sports has acquired the rights to the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s College Basketball Championship game. The multi-year agreement begins with the 2006 Missouri Valley Conference Championship game, broadcast live on Sunday, March 5, 2006 from the Savvis Center in St. Louis, Missouri, at 1 p.m. (CST). The tournament has changed from a Friday-Monday to Thursday-Sunday format due to the CBS Sports programming window. First round games will start the tournament on Thursday, March 2, and the tournament will end with the championship game on Sunday, March 5. Visit bubraves.com for more information.
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Drs. Kenneth and Doris Kolb, professors emeriti of chemistry at Bradley, were honored by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Education during the annual meeting of the ACS in Washington, D.C. They received the 2005 Outstanding Service Award. The Kolbs have given more than 100 years of combined service to the ACS. Doris has served on various ACS committees since 1972. She is currently a feature editor for the Journal of Chemical Education’s column, “Overhead Projector Demonstrations.” She has co-authored two books, authored more than 60 papers, and presented more than 50 talks at ACS meetings. Doris has received the Catalyst Award from the Chemical Manufacturers Association and the Visiting Lecture Award from the Eastern Connecticut ACS Section. Ken’s service to the ACS began when he was president of the ACS Student Affiliate Chapter at the University of Louisville. He has since served at the regional level of the organization, and nationally on Division task forces and committees. He twice served as chair of the Heartland Local Section and as its councilor for 11 years. He has been a member of the Great Lakes Regional Steering Committee for 30 years. Ken has organized four symposia at National ACS meetings, published approximately 40 papers, and presented approximately 75 talks at ACS meetings. He recently completed his ninth tour as an ACS speaker.
If at first you don’t succeed… grad finds success twice by Allison Camp ‘07 Discovering that a major is too difficult can be stressful and discouraging, and for some college students, it is the equivalent of failure. When faced with this problem, Christian Hawkinson ’95 and ‘02 decided instead to change the scope of his dreams.
Hawkinson began his path at Bradley as a civil engineering major. “Differential equations were my downfall,” he said, and decided to change his major to history. “If I couldn’t be there, helping with construction, I thought it would be neat to study the architecture.” After graduating from Bradley, Hawkinson landed a job at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center through the aid of friend and mentor, English professor Dr. Robert Prescott. As he was leaving his job one day, he noticed a group of men working on a structure near OSF. Hawkinson realized how much he missed civil engineering and decided to return to Bradley. Working at OSF while taking classes was difficult, but living off campus made it “easier to study,” and on his second attempt, he earned his civil engineering degree. Since his second turn as a graduate, Hawkinson has put his education to use in Iraq as a member of the Army Corps of Engineers. He served in Baghdad for five months as a civilian engineer, and then returned to the United States for six months. He has since returned to Iraq to continue his work. Dr. Prescott believes Hawkinson was successful at his second try because he was more focused. Hawkinson encourages students who are struggling with their studies to get to know their professors. “I learned so many things,” he said. “They give you a whole other view. It’s really valuable.”
Smith Career Center Needs You Summer reading skills programs offered Bradley University Continuing Education, in cooperation with the Institute of Reading Development, will again offer summer reading classes for children and adults during the summer of 2006. The classes, which offer eight different reading skills and speed-reading, are designed to produce a significant boost in reading proficiency and comprehension. Last summer, 248 students enrolled. For more information, contact Continuing Education at 309-677-2820, the Institute of Reading Development at 800-979-9151, or visit bradley.edu/continue/ird_sum/index.html.
Seeking applicants for internships, cooperative education, or full-time positions? Bradley University is your source for bright, talented, and energetic candidates! The Smith Career Center is hosting three fairs that offer the chance to meet Bradley students with diverse backgrounds, network with faculty, and build interview schedules following the job fair.
Spring Job Fair: Wednesday, February 8 Education Recruitment Fair: March 22 Social Service and Government Fair: March 23 Space is limited. Visit explore.bradley.edu/scc to register.
Officer serves in D.C. Bradley police officer Scott Fryer recently returned from a deployment to Washington D.C., where he served as watch commander for the military police. During his trip to D.C., Fryer was a liaison for five military bases, supervised personnel, and helped set up a new command base. Fryer said his job was very similar to his tasks at Bradley. “You still have to deal with many different policies and guidelines,” Fryer said. “My skills and time spent as a Bradley police officer and in the Marine Corps definitely qualified me for the job.” Fryer said his work in D.C. was a “wonderful opportunity.” “I met President Bush twice while working with the Secret Service,” Fryer said. “I was pretty honored to get to serve my country.” Officer Fryer has been awarded two Navy Achievement medals. He also served in Operation Desert Storm. Fryer and his wife Claudia have two sons.
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by David Driver Bryan Namoff ‘00 was born in Carson City, Nevada, attended high school in Rockford, and played four years of men’s soccer at Bradley University from 1997-2000. So it was somewhat of a shock to his system when he was drafted by big-city and East Coast team D.C. United of Major League Soccer early in 2001. “When I came out here in 2001, it was the first time I had been to D.C. Everything was very new and different to me,” said Namoff, sitting in the interview room underneath RFK Stadium in Washington after a practice session in August. “Four and a half years later, it has become home,” added Namoff, who lives just across the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. A lot of that stability is a result of his success on the field for United, the most decorated team in the league’s history. Namoff, a defender, played 2,384 minutes for the team in 2004, and that ranked second on the club. He had two assists, and his second of the season came in a 3-2 win in the regular-season finale against the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. The win jumped D.C. over the MetroStars into second place in the division, and United won four straight playoff games to capture the MLS crown. Namoff played all 90 minutes in the MLS Cup final on November 14, 2004, in California, as D.C. beat Kansas City 3-2 for its fourth league title since 1996. “It is always the goal of the team to one day hold that trophy up and get that championship ring,” Namoff said. “It was a pretty rocky year. It was a roller-coaster ride the middle of the season. No one really spoke of the championship.” The Washington Post reported in January 2005 that Namoff signed a multi-year contract with United, which would give him a significant raise over his previous base salary of $27,780. He played in all but 14 minutes of United’s title run in 2004, according to the Post. Namoff was all-MVC first team, Bradley scholar athlete of the week three times, and ended his college career with 32 goals and 17 assists for 81 points, the second-most at Bradley at the time. He is one of several Bradley athletes to play in the MLS, which is loaded with players from such big-time Division I conferences as the Atlantic Coast. “You have to give credit to the coach,” Namoff said of Jim DeRose and his staff. “We had a good unit of guys.” Other former Braves who played in MLS include Gavin Glinton ‘01 (now a Bradley assistant coach),
Luke Kreamalmeyer ‘06, who plays for Real Salt Lake, Hamid Mehreioskouei ‘04, who teaches and coaches in Schaumburg, and Tim Regan ‘04, who plays for the MetroStars, based in New York. Regan was a defender/midfielder this past season for the MetroStars. He was a four-time all-conference player at Bradley, and made a school record of 83 starts by the time his college career was done. “Bradley was the perfect place to groom me for professional soccer, not because Bradley was a collegiate soccer powerhouse or a place where pro coaches would come watch me play, but because it was a place where I learned hard work was the only factor I could control in my soccer career,” said Regan. “Off the field, Coach DeRose expected us to perform in the classroom the same way he demanded us to perform on the soccer field. Each player represented the Bradley soccer family and respected that responsibility.” Regan says his goal in MLS at this point is to follow the lead of former Bradley teammate Bryan Namoff and make a spot for himself in the lineup. “I’m realistic and understand that the turn-around in this league is massive, and even the best players get shipped around the league. I’m here to give my best and see what happens.” Editor’s note: David Driver is a freelance writer from Maryland. This is his second article for Bradley Hilltopics. Francis Gardler
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Every Bears fan‘s dream by Aimee Roy Matthew Black ’06 of Algonquin has an internship many other college students only dream about. He spent the past summer living, dining, and going out on the town with some of the NFL’s most famous players—members of the Chicago Bears football team. Black is an advertising and special events intern for the team. After spending two years as a marketing and promotions intern in the Bradley Athletics office, Black, a public relations major with a marketing minor, contacted a family friend who had served as a ball boy for the Bears to see if any internship opportunities were available. Upon receiving Black’s resume, the Bears hired him to help with training camp. For three to four weeks during the off-season, Black helped organize special events for the Bears including autograph sessions and youth camps. Black enjoyed the summer internship so much that he continues to work for the Bears by commuting to Chicago on weekends and school breaks. “I’ve been a Bears fan all my life,” says Black. “It’s a pretty cool experience. I get a front row seat to every game, I’m on the field and I’m part of all the fun stuff that goes on during the games.” Some events Black has planned include moonwalks for kids to jump in, fireworks, pyrotechnics, punt/pass/kick contests, half-time entertainment, and peewee football games. He also assisted with Football 101—an event for women to learn about the game of football, meet the Bears players, and tour the locker room and stadium. Black hopes his internship leads to a fulltime position coordinating special events for an NFL team. “It’s pretty much every Bears fan’s dream to get to hang out with the team. It’s a job a lot of people would love to have, and I feel fortunate to have it.”
NCAA soccer tournament Adam Hage ‘06 controls the ball, but BU lost 2-0. BU hosted Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the first round of the 48-team NCAA Tournament, its third at-large invitation in six years.
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Bradley, Missouri Valley Conference regular-season champions, finished second in the MVC tournament. Creighton won the tournament with a 2-0 defeat over Bradley. After the tournament, Bradley was ranked 17th in the nation and was tied with six teams nationwide for second-most wins (15). Goalkeeper Chris Dunsheath ’06 is MVC defensive player of the year and was named to the all-MVC first team. He is the first goalkeeper in Valley history to be a four-time all-MVC pick by the league’s head coaches. He is third in NCAA Division I history for career goalkeeper minutes and is the fifth keeper to eclipse 8,000 minutes. Forward Zach Bell ’07 earned honorable mention all-MVC honors. Defender Jeff Kellogg ’06, defensive midfielder Adam Hage ’06, and midfielders Salim Bullen ’06 and Steve Chromik ’06 were named to the all-MVC second team.
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Heading into the final weekend of the regular season, Bradley had a record of 15-15 overall, 8-8 in the Valley. The team qualified for the MVC tournament for the first time since the 2002 season. All-American candidate Lindsay Stalzer ’06 broke Bradley’s season and career kills records and at press time, ranked third in the nation in kills per game. She also ranks third in Bradley history in block assists and service aces. Earlier this season, she broke Bradley’s record for kills in a match with 36 against DePaul. Gillian Falknor ’06 had made 479 digs so far this season, giving her the third best season total in school history.
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and 19 respectively in the 2005 NCAA Midwest Regional Cross Country Championships. Chris George ’08 set the pace with 32:38 in the 10K for the men’s team, finishing 48th overall and third among Missouri Valley Conference runners. Nathan Ahart ’09, Nathan Leech ’08, Nick Palumbo ’08, and Bryan Thigpen ’06 also were scoring runners. For the women’s team, Sarah Westrick ’07 clocked in with 23:31 in the 6K, finishing in 71st place overall. Katie Nowak ’09, Ainslie Schultz ’08, Marcia Backstrom ’07, and Bekah Aavang ’08 rounded out the Bradley scorers. th
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Streets are lined with debris of once treasured possessions. Moldy drywall, water-soaked furniture, and other remnants from homes are stacked unceremoniously in huge piles. Leafless trees with twisted and missing limbs remain standing. Pristine, manicured lawns are now littered with fallen trees and other rubbish. No birds are singing, no squirrels are scampering about. An overwhelming, obnoxious stench consumes the area. Yet, while the physical appearance of New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast may be devastating, the spirit of the people remains undaunted. An energy of hope and optimism, a renewed sense of what’s most important in life, an eager desire to help others, and an unwavering faith have surged among the people who have called this area home, as well as among people nationwide who feel a calling to help.
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victims, refugees, evacuees, cases, claimants, survivors, looters, displaced, settlers, heroes, new immigrants, corpses, unemployed, brave Many words have been used to describe the people whose lives were uprooted as the fury of Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Suddenly, Americans who have seen people around the world suffering in the aftermath of a tsunami, earthquakes, and other forces of nature, realized that “others” was not a word that could be used this time. This reality hits even closer when college roommates, sorority sisters, and classmates are among those most dramatically impacted. Several Bradley alumni were forced to evacuate their homes, while other alumni and students have been part of a massive volunteer effort to offer both financial and physical support.
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Amy Wilson ‘77, a New Orleans social worker and adjunct professor of sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University, came to Bradley‘s campus in September to give a first-person account of her experience with Hurricane Katrina. “‘Those people’ are us,” said Wilson as she pointed to a list of terms used by the media, government authorities, and others to describe the people of the Gulf Coast who escaped, endured, or succumbed to the hurricanes. “They’re you and me. We always think it’s somebody else, a disenfranchised person. But the reality is, this could be any of us.” The brutal storm cut a wide swath through the Gulf Coast region, including New Orleans, causing death and devastation in an area famous for its festive atmosphere. A couple of signs in nature foretold the arrival of a “big” hurricane. Thirty-six hours before the hurricane hit land, the leaves on the trees had turned upside down. As Wilson drove over Lake Ponchatrain hours before the hurricane hit, she saw ducks with their heads in the water, their bottoms up. News reports warned about walls of water with surges over 50 feet high. “There was a genuine community effort to get out of town,” Wilson says. “When hurricane time comes, all feuds are off. There had been
looters, displaced, heroes, settlers, new immigran a feud in my neighborhood about a fence, but neighbors loaned their truck to other neighbors so they could get out of town.” Her biggest regret is the number of people left behind in New Orleans. “For many people, it was as simple as a paycheck. They had no money to leave town. One sobering reality is if we all had taken one more person, one more pet, we wouldn’t have seen what we saw.” Wilson remembers the hurricane as it blew through the area where she had sought refuge. “Five 100-year-old trees came down; birds were hurled through the air; the aluminum siding was flapping on the trailer I was in; shingles were blowing like Post-It Notes.” Wilson has returned to New Orleans and currently volunteers at a free clinic on New Orleans’ west bank. “We are providing medical and holistic care to one of the poorest areas of the city that was left with no medical services when Charity Hospital was closed.”
Business gone, heroes abound Terry Krapausky ’63 and his wife Mary decided to leave their home just outside Waveland, Mississippi, as they saw the eye of the storm narrowing in on their area. “No one ever wants to leave his home,” Krapausky says. “You never know when you’ll get to come back.” They returned about a week later. While the house incurred some damage, all that was left of their business was two concrete slabs. “We lived on a generator, bottled water, and ice for one and a half to two weeks and finally got everything restored. We go to what we now call the ‘site,’ where our business once was, in search of things. File cabinets, desks, presses—there’s nothing; it’s all gone,” says Krapausky, who had opened a business manufacturing and installing signs about nine years ago after leaving the corporate world. He’s waiting for answers from his insurance company before deciding whether to start up the business again or retire. Krapausky’s biggest concern is for the thousands of homeless people along the Gulf Coast. “Of the 8,000 people who live in Waveland, not one of them has a home. Over 600 eighteen-wheelers are hauling debris out of Waveland,” he said in mid-October. “The projection is they will be hauling debris for close to two years. The scale of everything is unimaginable. You really can’t communicate it. It’s beyond belief.” He comments, “The heroes are the tens of thousands of people enduring the loss of their homes and the tens of thousands of people who have come from all over to help. Policemen, firemen, church groups, all sorts of people have come. They run soup kitchens, give out clothes and food, and help in other ways. It’s just amazing.”
Kindness outweighs adversity Ralph Johnson ’86, his wife Nicole (four months pregnant at the time), and four-year-old daughter Natalie evacuated New Orleans and found a hotel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When the hotel was left with no water or electricity after Katrina passed through, the Johnsons
Tara Williamson ’95 MA ’97 of Charlotte, North Carolina, a social worker for Youth Homes, a foster care agency, volunteered with the American Red Cross for three weeks, from September 18 to October 9. She assessed property damage in New Orleans. As Hurricane Rita approached, Williamson was assigned to Derrider, Louisiana, to the eye of the storm, to help at shelters in the area. “The people there have amazing spirits and shared great life lessons. They recognize the importance of friends, family, and holding onto your faith…I didn’t meet any victims, only survivors.” Mike Peterson ’96 of Seattle, Washington, volunteered at the Reliant Complex, including the Astrodome, in Houston, Texas, September 7 to 9. Many displaced New Orleans residents had been bused there. Peterson decided to volunteer when he saw there was a shortage of help. He made arrangements to work his regular job as a toxicologist for Intertox, a public health consulting firm, from his hotel room during the day and volunteer in the evening. His duties included helping a 16-year-old boy through the maze of information desks to register for school, alternative housing, etc.; manual labor, such as tearing down cots and moving supplies; and answering phones at a message center. “I wondered what to expect of the general attitude of the people there. There was not a lot of despair or whining. People were resolved to do what they needed to get on with their lives.” Bob Wiltz ’69 MA ’70, a psychologist from Peoria with a practice in Morris, volunteered with the American Red Cross in Baton Rouge and the Greater New Orleans area from September 2 to 17. He counseled people at the airport in New Orleans. He also helped distribute food, drink, and supplies in St. Bernard Parish and transported four Israeli humanitarian aid workers. He tells about his favorite souvenir from a child about five years old. “It’s a yellow sheet of paper folded into a card. It was on my cot when I returned to the staff shelter one evening. On the cover are the words, ‘Thank you, Red Cross.’ Inside, there is a drawing of swirls that is most certainly a hurricane, and the words, ‘Thank you for helping my Visit bradley.edu/hilltopics/wiltz Daddy in New Orleans.’” to read Wiltz‘s journal. Andrea Herson Littlefield ’87 of Austin, Texas, worked as a risk communications specialist with the Department of Health at the Astrodome from September 7 to 11. She worked in the Joint Information Center, where public information officers from responding agencies came together so they could coordinate messages. One of her roles was writing about health prevention issues, such as hand washing and food storage, for a newsletter distributed to the people staying at the Reliant Complex. “To see this vast sea of cots, especially the children and the babies, really struck me. Texas really did extraordinary things to help. This is what we’ve been working toward with preparedness. We came together and helped a lot of people.” Bradley Hilltopics Spring 2006
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ed, heroes, settlers, new immigrants, unemployed, decided to stay with relatives in Florida. Heading east was difficult as roads were closed due to fallen trees and power lines. “It took us six to eight hours to get out of Mississippi. We only had enough gas to get to the border. There was no power anywhere, so gas station pumps didn’t work,” Johnson says. He pulled into a gas station in Meridian, Mississippi, because he saw someone working on the power lines. The Johnsons waited for about two hours, then noticed the worker had come down from the utility pole and disappeared. Discouraged, they decided to try to go to Alabama, but were concerned about having enough gas. “As we were leaving the gas station, we noticed the lights started to flicker. The individual had gone to the transformer to switch the power back on. We were able to pull back in and get gas.” The family stayed in Florida for about three weeks before returning home to Harvey, a New Orleans suburb. Their home had some wind damage, but no flood damage. Johnson says that while it was heartbreaking to see such destruction in the city he has lived in, it was offset by the generosity and kindness of people everywhere they have gone. At the gas station, a man waiting to fill his gas can for his generator offered the gas he had in his container. In Florida, people at the church they attended gave clothing and other items. Current members and alumni of the Bradley chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity also gave assistance. Johnson had begun the interview process for a position at Norfolk State University in Virginia prior to the storm and has since begun working there as associate vice president of finance. The couple has not yet sold their home, but since theirs sustained very little damage, they’re hopeful it will sell soon.
New routines begin Frank Arceri ’55 MA ’57 found both of his New Orleans area homes and his business heavily damaged from the storm. He remains positive despite the destruction and tells about the generosity and friendliness of the people of Arkansas, where he and his wife Janet sought refuge for two weeks after the hurricane. He’s thankful that his family is safe. “Six of our eight children lost their homes and are now scattered, living throughout the South. My SUV was flooded and totaled. Our house in Slidell took the eye of the storm and was hit by a 30-foot tidal wave. Fortunately, it was only seven feet deep when it hit our house.” The Arceris stayed with friends and relatives before they were able to move back home two months later. As electricity is restored and stores gradually begin to reopen, Arceri says, “Life is slowly getting back to a routine—not our normal one, but a routine.” Arceri, owner of Arceri & Associates, insures Mardi Gras parades. The building that houses his office incurred heavy water damage. He worries, too, about how damages will impact Mardi Gras parades, and thus, his business. “My next big battle will be getting reimbursed for lost business income from my insurance carrier. We insure parades across the Gulf South, and some of the areas hit may not have parades or not as many as they had in 2005. As far as New Orleans, probably only the big parades will roll since they had a reserve cash fund.”
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Life lessons learned Hurricanes have become a relatively new concern for Shayna Lerner Warner ’94, who moved to New Orleans in 2001 after getting married. “Neither of us is originally from New Orleans. Our first tropical storm came in 2002—Isadore. I learned about hurricanes and the nature of what happens in New Orleans. We evacuated with Ivan. We came back after nothing happened. This year, we didn’t hear too much about Katrina. She came upon us very quickly. The forecast originally said the storm was supposed to turn back east toward Florida.” The Warners made arrangements to evacuate with friends to a summer camp outside Jackson, Mississippi. “We were comfortable there, but soon saw we were in the direct path of the storm. It started blowing through at 2 a.m. on the Louisiana coast, and it came up toward us. We rode out the storm and its 80 mph winds. We lost power, water, and phones. After realizing we needed to leave, we headed north to my family in Kentucky. It wasn’t until Wednesday night when we first saw news footage that we began to see the magnitude of the storm.” The Warners decided to stay with a friend in Houston, to be closer to Seth Warner’s work. They arrived about a week before Hurricane Rita. Deciding to evacuate again, they went to San Antonio. After a brief return to Houston, the family plans to return to New Orleans. Seth has visited their home and says it is a complete loss. Mold is growing up the wall; almost all their possessions are gone. Splash lines show a boat went up and down their street. Despite the losses, Shayna speaks for many when she says, “We’re dealing with what comes next, and we’re just fine. We have a healthy baby, a dog, and each other. You really do learn what’s important. What’s been incredible is we’ve heard from people all over and really feel supported.” She adds, “This changes your perspective completely. It’s changed my view of ‘stuff.’ It has impacted how I’ll live the rest of my life.” She worries about the future of New Orleans and wonders how the people who need help the most are going to be able to receive it. “The first time I really got upset was when I heard Harry Connick, Jr. and Wynton Marsalis singing, ‘Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans.’ New Orleans has a culture and character that only exists there.” Warner continues, “We have learned to love Mardi Gras. So many things only happen in New Orleans. Nowhere else do you know you’ll be served red beans and rice on Monday and fish on Friday. It seeps into you and becomes part of your experience and culture. It’s going to be bittersweet to see what’s gone and to take what’s left and go forward.”
Blank slate emerges Jim Durbin ’93 is thankful that he, his wife Pamela Short Durbin ’94, and their pets are safe. The couple lives about 40 miles north of New
victims, refugees, evacuees, cases, claimants, surv Orleans, and while their home incurred some damage due to the hurricane-force winds, they did not get any flood damage from the broken levees. He believes it’s time for the people of New Orleans to stop pointing fingers and go about the business of rebuilding the city. “A lot of people have tried to make this a political issue, and while I think a lot of people dropped the ball, I think the blame really goes back on us. For the last 30-plus years, we’ve put up with, ‘It’s going to be OK,’ instead of making sure the politicians were putting their money in the levees and planning for evacuation. We’ve accepted answers of, ‘We’re working on it,’ and I think we finally realize our lives are more important. Now everybody will be paying for it for the next 15 years and beyond.” One meaning of the name “Katrina” is “to cleanse,” and that, in effect, is what Durbin hopes will now happen in New Orleans. “We have a chance to start over, to get rid of the politics, the hate, the stuff that happens in a city that had been let go. We have a chance to make a better school system and get rid of some of the problems we’ve had. We have a chance to get rid of a lot of the blighted houses and neighborhoods. We have an opportunity to make New Orleans the best city in the States. We have a blank slate, and it’s horrible that we have it, but we have an opportunity to take that blank slate and turn it into a great story. I think there’s a lot of hope.”
‘Study at home’ semester
Ashley McGowan of Peoria was getting ready to return to Tulane University in New Orleans for her senior year when news of an approaching hurricane made headlines. Classes were scheduled to begin August 31, but school officials advised students not to come. About a week after Hurricane Katrina hit, Tulane officials announced the school would not reopen until spring semester. “I called Bradley and asked if I could attend here. They said, ‘Tulane? Sure!’ The next morning, I was in a class,” says McGowan. Kathleen Dotson, senior associate director of admission, and Dr. Joyce Shotick, executive director of the Center for Student Support Services, helped McGowan to enroll in the classes she needed. She says professors seem very knowledgeable, and students have been very helpful. The president at Tulane conducts chat sessions with students every Friday night. A call center also has been established, and students were given e-mail and mailing addresses to send inquiries. McGowan, who plans to return to Tulane in January, has many unanswered questions about tuition, graduation, residence halls, and other related concerns.
Helping hands Bradley students went to the New Orleans area to help people there get their lives back in order. They not only accomplished that goal, but they also came back with their own lives more in order, thanks to a new perspective on life. Students shared stories of generosity, gratitude, and appreciation for what’s really important as they told about developing friendships with the people they helped. The contingent of 53 Bradley students and 10 other volunteers dedicated their fall break to hurricane relief. The group left for Slidell, Louisiana, on October 7 and returned October 11. Organized by Bradley’s Campus Crusade for Christ, the trip was open to the entire Bradley community. The group stayed at the First Baptist Church of Slidell, which has been coordinating hurricane relief efforts in the area. Jaclyn Estes ’07, David Lewis ’06, and Stephanie Richards ’06 were among those who participated. “Every room of the church was full,” says Lewis, noting 270 people were staying at the church when they were there. The Bradley group was among those in the gymnasium, which had a huge hole in the roof due to hurricane damage. People in the community had filled out forms with their addresses and their needs. Students were divided into teams of eight to 10 people and were given work assignments. Lewis’ team helped with clean-up in a house that had six to eight inches of mud, sewage, and swamp grass on the floor. “The bayou in front of the house got shoved into the house, and there had been eight feet of water inside. We had to shovel all that out. After that, we had to rip down drywall and cabinets. Even the cabinets were full of muck. There was mold on the walls, and a couple of snakes were in the house. After we cleaned it out, we moved out appliances. The refrigerator was only a couple of weeks old, but the food in there had spoiled. The owners told us we had saved them $8,000 by helping.” Because of the amount of work needed on the house, Lewis’ group concentrated on one house, while others worked on several houses. They knocked out bathrooms, removed carpet, took down drywall, sprayed bleach water to stop mold, and distributed clothing, food, and bottled water. Estes comments, “People there were so generous. They lost everything and were just so giving. We were there only a couple of days, and they wanted to know what they could do.” Richards adds, “It was hard for them to accept help. They’re used to giving. I saw people there who have lost everything and were still content. There was a lot that wasn’t worth salvaging, but the people would say, ‘At least I have my family.’ I didn’t know how bad it would be there, and yet, everyone is so thankful.” She concludes, “There aren’t that many opportunities to help so many people and touch so many lives. I had homework to do over fall break, but I thought this was much more important. I have everything I need, but they don’t.” Another work trip to Slidell will be planned later this school year. Bradley Hilltopics Spring 2006
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While attending Bradley, Michael Peres ’78 was the manager and team photographer for the men’s basketball team and worked for audio/visual services. “I just loved photography,” he said. “Everywhere I went, I had my camera.” Peres credits Dr. Richard Bjorklund, distinguished professor of biology, emeritus, and Dr. Billy Mathis, professor of biology, emeritus, among those who encouraged him to continue pursuing photography.
Michael Peres ‘78 and his students at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, are creating art with one of the most abundant natural resources in the city near Lake Ontario: snowflakes. Dr. Peres, chair of the Biomedical Photographic Communications department, offers a class in which students photograph images through a microscope creating images like those on this page. “We photograph anything,” Peres said of the 10-week class. “If you can image it, we’ve tried to photograph it.” Peres said photographing snow has been a recent addition to the class syllabus. In 2002, a student returned from winter break inspired by 1800s black-and-white photographer William Bentley, whose art had been used by Saks Fifth Avenue on shopping bags during the holiday season. “She came back,” Peres recalled the moment of inspiration, “all excited and said, ‘We’ve got to photograph snowflakes, we’ve got to photograph snowflakes.’ I said, ‘But Emily, everything’s inside.’ Then I said that was a lame excuse, and we should just take the stuff outside.” And they did, first in a breezeway tunnel on the campus of RIT. Because the wind blew the flakes sideways and out from under the microscopes in the tunnel, Peres moved the class to his garage, six miles off campus. Now he has a microscope, fiber-optic lights, a digital camera, and a computer in his two-car, 18x38-foot garage. Photographing snowflakes presents many challenges, even with an average class size of 14. First, the flakes must be caught before touching the ground. Although the Rochester area averages 100 inches of snow per year, Peres watches the weather forecast the morning of the scheduled class day to see if that might be the day they can catch snowflakes. by Justin Phelps ‘05 Peres does one demonstration with the entire class and hopes everyone gets an opportunity to photograph a snowflake. He then allows students who want to photograph more flakes to stop by on their own time. “It could come down in feet here or a dusting,” Peres said. “It could be good snow or bad snow. Once it hits the ground, of course, it can’t really be photographed. It must be caught and photographed before it joins with other ice crystals and becomes compressed and dirty.” Therein lies another problem. “With snowflakes, there are so many variables,” Peres said. “The snow that you get may or may not be photographic; it might be ugly. We get a lot of ugly snow; it’s called lake effect. Photographing is weather dependent. The type of snow that comes is temperature dependent. So there are a number of variables.” Students catch the snowflakes with a tray covered in clean black velvet. The students then sort through the snowflakes with a fine paintbrush or a needle taped to a pencil. “Collecting snowflakes is fun,” said Peres, noting the best flakes are the big, fluffy type. “It requires quite a bit of patience in trying to isolate and transfer the best flakes to clean microscope slides.” When the flake is ready to be photographed, Peres and his students use different items to adjust the background light on the microscope. “In Rochester, the local newspaper delivers the papers in a pretty blue plastic bag, and that is one of the colors I use, as well as other bread or food product printed plastic bags. This technique is called optical staining,” said Peres. In some cases, a 1mm fiber-optic light is used to create more drama. One or two fiber-optic lights are aimed at a low angle below the flake. The light is bent into the flake, creating bright spots. In the photograph with the blue background, a red balloon was placed over a fiber-optic light to create the red spots. “Most of this type of photography requires improvisation,” Peres said. View Peres’ art work on his Web site at rit.edu/~mrppph/.
Let it snow... Peres uses instant messaging, telephone calls, and e-mail to contact students to come to his garage on days they can catch snowflakes. “Usually the drill is, about six o’clock in the morning, I’ll get up and check the weather, then send out an e-mail to the class,” he said. “They can come on over to the house after 7:30 on the days my class is scheduled.” Peres will visit the Bradley campus on April 6 -7, 2006, and his work will be on display in the Cullom-Davis Library during that time. For more information, contact Chuck Frey at 309-677-2823.
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Pullman State Historic Site by Aimee Roy
Mike Wagenbach ‘89 stands in Pullman’s Hotel Florence, a national landmark.
Following a devastating arson fire at the Pullman Palace Car Factory in 1998, Mike Wagenbach ’89 was hired by the State of Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the superintendent of the Pullman State Historic Site. His job was to establish state operations and local management of the 13-acre site. The factory town, built by industrialist George Pullman in the late 1800s, is about 15 miles south of Chicago’s loop in an area generally known as the Lake Calumet region, home to much of the region’s industry. Pullman owned shops in St. Louis, Detroit, New York, and Delaware, as well as several factories in Europe and England. The company manufactured sleeping cars, boxcars, coal cars, baggage cars, chair cars, refrigerated cars, streetcars, and mail cars. Wagenbach holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bradley, and a master’s degree in public administration and policy analysis from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, but his passion for history started at a young age when his parents took him to visit cultural tourist destinations and historic sites. “My parents were casual collectors, and that early exposure to the ‘stuff of the ages’ was influential in the formation of my own appreciation of cultural material,” says Wagenbach. “They provided a home environment where our minds would be engaged rather than passively entertained.” He gained additional knowledge of early nineteenth and twentieth century construction during some of his early work experiences mowing lawns. One formative experience was at the family estate of Florence Heyl Strubhar, an heir to the Heyl Pony Farm of Washington, Illinois. “It was that early exposure to a spectacular early twentieth century built environment and landscape that made history take on a tangible quality,” says Wagenbach. Later, Wagenbach volunteered as an interpreter at historic site events in order to have free reign in the areas and collections that would have otherwise been under restricted access. “It was from these experiences and others like them that I gained a working knowledge of construction methodologies of the period and a passion for history,” he remembers. The fire at the factory in December 1998 created the impetus for the state agency to commission Wagenbach’s office to oversee the rescue, stabilization, restoration, and development of the Pullman properties held in public trust. “It was nothing short of a strange twist of fate that I had amassed in-depth knowledge of the period construction and was a trained bureaucrat,” says Wagenbach. The Pullman State Historic Site complex is comprised of the last remaining original factory, with its famed six-story clock
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tower; three-story administration building and factory wings; and the four-story, 65-room Hotel Florence with a 60-room annex. The Pullman site was designated as a national landmark in 1969 because of the area’s contributions to labor and urban planning history.
Company-owned town The original town of Pullman was completed in 1884 and occupied 300 acres. The town was entirely company-owned and provided housing, markets, a library, churches, and entertainment for the 6,000 company employees and their dependents. Six acres of the land on the shore of Lake Calumet was used for nursery and greenhouse space. The quality of the company-owned and maintained housing was uncommonly good for worker housing. “The place had a distinct aesthetic bias by design,” says Wagenbach. “George Pullman believed that providing pleasant and artfully created spaces would raise the moral character of the industrial worker.” Wagenbach says the Pullman site has not yet reached the point of restoration. “The first thing we do is rescue and stabilize. We secure the envelope of the building—roofs, fenestration, moisture and thermal protection, address structural failures, and attend to life safety concerns.” Jill Popenhagen Murtagh ’85 and her husband Glenn Murtagh ‘88 are among the 3,000 residents of South Pullman’s tidy row houses. “The architects I worked with insisted that we visit the neighborhood for its architectural significance, and we fell in love with the place on sight,” says Jill. “To be able to walk down street after street almost unchanged since the turn of the century—well, that’s why movie studios love to shoot here. The Road to Perdition was filmed here, and all they had to do was move cars and take down street signs.” Jill says it is crucial to the couple that they live in a landmarked area. “We lived and worked in lovely old Chicago neighborhoods that have now been devastated—beautiful historic properties cleared for cash. Since the homes in Pullman are protected, we can expect future generations to enjoy this living history,” she said. Glenn adds, “Mike’s work here in Pullman is a critical component in the preservation of the entire neighborhood. The factory site, the Florence Hotel, and annex are the jewels in the crown here, and their restoration would be going nowhere without Mike’s passion and expertise.” Until a decision is made about the permanent use of the Pullman Historic Site, “behind the scenes” tours are conducted, which are a part-history and part-preservation logic, for roughly 10,000 tourists annually. “Imaginations are engaged in a dramatically different way than seeing a historic site in a fully restored state,” says Wagenbach. “We have organized an archive and have the collections on display, developed academic and special interest tours programs, and have put together a virtual museum on the Web.” See the virtual museum at pullman-museum.org. After stabilization in 2003, the Hotel Florence (top) looks remarkably similar to the way it appeared when first completed in the late 1880s (center). Workers hoist the reconstructed clock tower into place in October 2005 (bottom left). Preservation work continues today on the original factory and clock tower (bottom right).
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1930s
Eloise Preisel Leezer ’34, May 31, 2005, Phoenix, Arizona. Survivors include two children, four grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren. Robert Heiden ’37, July 16, 2005, Concord, North Carolina. He had retired from Szolds department store as vice president and earlier worked for the Peoria Journal Transcript. He had been president of the Creve Coeur Club and chairman of the Peoria Airport Authority board. A World War II veteran, he had served in the Army Air Forces. Survivors include his wife Polly, two children, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
1940s
Kenneth Kime ’41, August 3, 2005, Peoria. He worked at Caterpillar Inc. for 44 years, retiring from the heat treat department in 1973. He has served as president of the Boxer Club and was a member of several kennel clubs. His wife Lois survives. Charlotte Day Witt ’41, June 21, 2005, Elgin. She was employed by the Sinclair Pharmacy and The Village Pharmacy in West Dundee for many years. Survivors include three children, nine grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Bob Herbst ’43, July 29, 2005, Fort Morgan, Colorado. He retired from Clatworth Co. in 1983. Earlier he owned and operated an Enco gas station. His wife Betty, two daughters, and two grandchildren survive. Edwin Klump ’43, July 21, 2005, Mackinaw. After 30 years at Caterpillar Inc., he retired in 1980 from sales and marketing as an earthmoving consultant. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. At Bradley he was a member of Beta Phi Theta. Surviving are three daughters, several grandchildren, and one great-grandson. James McGinn ’43, August 31, 2005, Camp Grove. He had farmed and was a carpenter for many years. He had been a volunteer fireman. A World War II Army veteran, he was the recipient of a Bronze Star. Survivors include eight children, 17 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Louise Strickfaden Rarick ’43, August 24, 2005, Norman, Oklahoma. She held a degree from the University of Illinois, and had been an elementary school teacher for several
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years. Her son, two grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter survive. Robert L. Donovan ’44, June 27, 2005, Washington. An optometrist in central Illinois for 56 years, he retired from Pearle Vision. He served on the Peoria County Board from 1963 to 1968. A talented tennis player, he represented Illinois in golf in the national Senior Olympics in 1997. He was a World War II Marine Corps veteran. Surviving are his wife Rita, seven children, and 13 grandchildren. Charles Dillard ’49, August 31, 2005, Canton. He held a pharmacy degree from the University of Iowa. He owned and operated Orange Lake Drug Store in Largo, Florida before retiring. Later he worked at Health Mart in Farmington. He was a World War II Army Air Forces veteran. His wife Eileen, daughter, and grandson survive. Richard Pottker ’49, July 9, 2005, Peoria. He worked in advertising at Caterpillar Inc., retiring in 1980. He was a World War II Army veteran. Survivors include his wife Dorothy. William Spielman ’49, July 17, 2005, Seward. He was a methods engineer at Barber-Colman for 35 years and then worked at Seward Screw Products. A volunteer with the Seward fire department for 47 years, Bill had served as assistant fire chief and as a trustee. He was a World War II Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife Doris, five children, 10 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
1950s
Donald Antle ’50, July 31, 2005, Peoria. He retired from Caterpillar Inc. in 1988 and had been a data processing manager at the Belgium plant from 1968 to 1971. He was a World War II Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife Joyce Anno Antle ’49, two children, and four grandchildren. Eugene McCallister ’50, July 13, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia. He served as a pastor at various churches across the nation. Most recently he was interim pastor at Temple Baptist Church in Rockford. He held a doctoral degree from Denver Theological Seminary and was a World War II Navy veteran. Surviving are his wife Ruth, three children, four grandsons, and six great-grandchildren. Richard McLinden ’50, July 11, 2005, Houston, Texas. He had worked for Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Dallas, and Houston since 1954. He retired in 1987 as a regional engine
sales representative. He was a past president of the Pioneer Oil Producers Society. A World War II Army Air Forces veteran, he had been inducted into the Greater Peoria Area Sports Hall of Fame for high school football. Survivors include his wife Joan, three children, and four grandchildren. Francis Delaney ’51, July 28, 2005, San Antonio, Texas. He was a retired Air Force major. During World War II he served in the Army. His family became avid travelers after being stationed in several states, including Colorado, Alabama, and Hawaii, as well as Canada. Survivors include his wife Patricia Coogan Delaney ’51, three children, and five grandchildren. Donald Seghi ’51, August 28, 2005, San Jose, California. He had been a real estate agent in San Francisco. Don was a charter member of Delta Upsilon. Loren Jensen ’52, August 2, 2005, McDonald, Ohio. He retired from U.S. Steel in 1982 and then worked as a consultant for McDonald Steel. Loren was active in Masonic work and his church. He had served on the McDonald school board. At Bradley he was a member of Theta Xi. Surviving are his wife Betty Hess Jensen ’49, two sons, and two grandsons. Virgil Conner ’53, April 10, 2005, Lakeland, Florida. He received numerous medals during the Vietnam War and retired as a major after 20 years in the Air Force. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II. Survivors include his wife Elvia, two sons, seven grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. Richard W. Kahler ’53, March 18, 2005, Cherry Valley. His wife Maxine survives. Raymond Zimmerman ’53 MA ’59, June 28, 2005. Princeton. He was head basketball coach at Eureka High School for nine years. He was also a teacher or principal in Washington, Wyanet, and Princeton. He operated the local Dairy Queen and Z’s Christmas Trees for many years. As a pitcher for the Gipps All Star softball team, he had been inducted into the Peoria Area Sports Hall of Fame. He was an Air Force veteran. Survivors include his wife Marjorie, four children, and 15 grandchildren. Betty Drake MA ’54, August 20, 2005. Peoria. She taught at Woodruff High School for 40 years, retiring in 1990 as head of the English department. She then worked as a consultant at Bradley University and wrote grant requests for the Peoria school district.
Betty was a past president of the Suburban Kiwanis Club and also served as a lieutenant governor for the district. She was a member of the board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Linus Heinz ’54, August 13, 2005, Belfast, Maine. He was Midwest sales director of PMI Mortgage Insurance in Chicago until retiring and moving to Maine in 1992. He and his wife Patricia Keenan Heinz ’56 ran a bed and breakfast for six years. He was an Air Force captain during the Korean War. Also surviving are six children and five grandchildren. Sylvia Brent Elliott ’59, July 20, 2005, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Sylvia worked for United Airlines and as a fashion model. She then worked in arts administration in St. Louis, volunteered with the NAACP, and had articles published in local publications. She received her degree from the University of Alabama in 2001 and earned a master’s degree just before her death. She is survived by three children. Edward Sights MA ’59, August 9, 2005, Washington. He was a business teacher at Princeton High School until retiring in 1985. He also operated the school bookstore and was a school bus driver for 20 years. Ed was a World War II Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife Marilyn, three sons, seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
1960s
John H. Fritz ’61, August 29, 2005, Washburn. He was an engineer for Caterpillar Inc. for 37 years. From 1976 until 1991 he worked in Geneva, Switzerland. He then worked in Lafayette, Indiana, until retiring in 2000. Survivors include his wife Mary, four children, and three grandchildren. Jerry Wall ’61, March 24, 2005, Aurora. He was active in the Wayside Cross Mission and was a deacon in his church. His wife Sharon, two sons, and six grandchildren survive. John W. “Jack” Craig ’62, July 29, 2005, Port St. Lucie, Florida. He had worked as a machinist for Caterpillar Inc. in East Peoria and Pontiac for 43 years, retiring in 1993. Jack was a Korean War Army veteran. He had been a Little League coach. His wife Nancy, two sons, and two grandsons survive. Roger Ketelsen ’63, July 14, 2005, Bartlett. After 41 years at Chicago Boiler & Mechanical, he retired as president in 2004. He also owned and operated Guardian Heating & Cooling. He was a Civil War enthusiast. Sur-
vivors include his wife Merle Ann, two sons, two stepchildren, and 11 grandchildren. Karen Seward Walker ’64, July 24, 2005, Peoria. She was a business teacher and director of the co-op program at Washington Community High School for 26 years, retiring in 1999. Karen had served as president of the Peoria Area Business Teachers and the Peoria Area Golf & Bowling League. Survivors include her husband Gary G. Walker ’64, two sons, her mother, and one grandson. Arleen Smith ’66, August 20, Peoria. She worked for Illinois Bell for 42 years, retiring in 1976. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and numerous genealogical societies. Two sons, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren survive. Denny Wagner ’69, June 27, 2005, Tampa, Florida. He was a programmer for Verizon. Survivors include his wife Dale, one son, his mother, and three grandchildren.
1970s
Stephen Akers ’70, August 4, 2005, Quincy. In 2000 he retired as president of State Street Bank where he had been employed in Quincy since 1982. For the previous 10 years, he had been vice president of Peoria Savings and Loan. He had served in the Illinois Army National Guard for six years. His wife RoseMarie, two daughters, and a grandson survive. Kenneth Vreeland ’70, July 26, 2005, Washington. He was a salesman for Allied Handling Equipment Co. in Peoria for 25 years. He was a pilot with the rank of captain in the Air Force and then served in the Air Force Reserves until 1985. His wife Linda and one son survive. Sara Murphy ’71, July 6, 2005, Delaware, Ohio. She was president of Catholic Social Services in Columbus from 1987 until 2002. Earlier she worked as executive director of CHOICES, a shelter for battered women and children that she helped start. Sara held a master’s degree from Ohio State University. Her husband John and one daughter survive. Sandra Dembinski Hayden ’73, August 6, 2005, Trivoli. She was an adult education teacher at Illinois Central College. Sandra was active in the Peoria County Home Extension and the Peoria Christian Women’s Club. She is survived by her husband Dean Hayden ’71, one son, and two grandchildren.
1980s
Bonnie Wiebmer Hume MA ’82, August 16, 2005, Dunlap. She had been a graphic designer for Caterpillar Inc. for six years. Survivors include her husband Craig, three daughters, and her parents.
2000s
Andrew Engel ’00, May 28, 2005, Chicago. He was a social studies teacher at St. Gregory High School. Andrew had taken students to Costa Rica during spring break to see a rain forest. At Bradley he was a vice president of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. Survivors include his parents and stepmother. Joshua Price ’02, July 25, 2005, Ohio, Illinois. He had worked for United Parcel Service and for Wal-Mart in Peoria. Survivors include his parents, stepparents, and one sister.
Faculty & Staff Robert Walters Ed.D. ’56, died on August 27, 2005. He lived in Peoria. He was a professor in the College of Education from 1954 until 1985, and chaired the department from 1980 to 1984. He received the Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996. Dr. Walters also had been a freshman guidance counselor and orientation adviser. He was an adviser to Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for eight years, and was president of the Bradley chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. He served on the executive board of the Illinois Education Association for many years. Dr. Walters began his teaching career in rural schools before World War II. He was an Army veteran. Survivors include his wife Erma, two children, and two grandchildren. Jack Kuntz ’64 MA ’69 died on October 17, 2005. He lived in Peoria. Jack was director of conference facilities from 1980 until retiring in 2002. He joined the Bradley staff in 1965 as assistant director of the Student Center and student activities. In 1973 he became manager of the Field House. Jack was a member of the Chiefs Club. He was a Marine veteran. He is survived by two children and his companion, Patty Gorham.
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people & events
Alumni Events January 18 St. Louis SLABAC TV party, Bradley vs. Creighton men‘s basketball game, Ozzie‘s Restaurant & Sports Bar, 645 Westport Plaza, 6 p.m. (7 p.m. game time) February 28 Rockford 10th annual Rockford alumni event, University Club of Rockford, 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 11 Sarasota Bradley Chorale performance and alumni reception, Church of the Redeemer, 222 S. Palm Avenue, 7:30 p.m. show, reception following May 10 Chicago 11th annual Lincoln Park alumni event, Trattoria Roma, 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 24 Chicago 1980-1989 alumni event, Prairie Rock Brewing Co., Schaumburg, 6-8 p.m.
University Events January 14-15 Alumni Weekend
Chorale tour planned The Bradley Chorale, under the direction of Dr. John Jost, professor of music, announces its annual spring tour. The Chorale will perform at the following locations: March 9 St. Louis, Missouri Bellefontaine United Methodist Church, 10600 Bellefontaine Road, 7:30 p.m. March 10 Atlanta, Georgia Embry Hills United Methodist Church, 3304 Henderson Mill Road, 8 p.m. March 12 Port Charlotte, Florida St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 21505 Augusta Avenue, 11 a.m. mass, 3:30 p.m. concert March 12 Sarasota, Florida Church of the Redeemer, 222 S. Palm Avenue, 7:30 p.m., alumni reception following March 15 Nashville, Tennessee Calvary United Methodist Church, 3701 Hillsboro Road, 7:30 p.m. For more information contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 309-677-2240, 800-952-8258, or alumnirelations@alum.bradley.edu.
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Members of the 2005-06 Bradley University Alumni Association board of directors pose on the steps of Bradley Hall before their October 28 board meeting. Shown from left, front row, are Katie Inukai ‘07, Shelly Heiden ‘85, Michelle Noe ‘98, Michele Morgan Richey ‘74 MBA ‘77, Betsy Wilkinson ‘07, Kelly Driscoll ‘85. Second row, David Mainella ‘90 MA ‘96, Phil Bach ‘91, Doug Pollock ‘71, John Mathis ‘87, Gary Peplow ‘62. Third row, Andrey Denisov MBA ‘03, Ed True ‘54, Jack Leengran ‘50, Jerry Kolb ‘83, Paul Moore ‘62, Andy Heaton ‘82.
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Friday, January 13 Bradley Chiefs Club Hall of Fame Luncheon, Michel Student Center ballroom, 11:50 a.m., $20
Saturday, January 14 Men‘s basketball game vs. Evansville, 2:05 p.m., Carver Arena, alumni may order $9 student section tickets Pre-game party, 12-2 p.m., Peoria Civic Center theatre lobby Post-game party, 4-6 p.m., inPlay, autograph session with Coach Jim Les ‘86 and members of the Bradley team, 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, January 15 Women‘s basketball vs. Illinois State, 12:05 p.m., Robertson Memorial Field House For information or to order game tickets, call 800-952-8258 or 309-677-2241.
Peoria The Central Illinois Bradley Alumni Chapter‘s annual Bratfest was September 1 at the Itoo Hall pavilion. Among the 100 Bradley alumni and friends who attended were, from left, Clay Cantrell MA ‘74, Betty Haston Volturno ‘65, Jim Spears ‘77, David Suzuki ‘67, and Roark Williams ‘80 MBA ‘90.
St. Louis Twenty alumni attended the St. Louis Area Bradley Alumni Chapter happy hour at Growler‘s Pub on August 18.
Chicago Alumni and guests met October 13 at the Living Room in Lombard. Shown from left are Glenn Dougherty ‘04, Shafondra Matthews ‘04, Mike Davis ‘75, Renee Jones Webb ‘74, Edward Pryor ‘83, Elyse Kennard-Leavy ‘74, Greg Teague ‘86, and Rosalyn Adele Ford ‘86.
Phoenix Lindsay Durbin ‘02, Hersey Hawkins ‘88, and Elise Hansen ‘02, shown from left, were among the 36 alumni and friends who met October 9 at the Paradise Valley Country Club. David Snell ‘76 presented, “100 Years of Bradley Basketball.” Chicago A luncheon in honor of Dr. Paul Snider, professor of communication, emeritus, was held October 7 at the Chicago Athletic Association. Twentyeight alumni and friends attended the event, which included tributes to Snider. One alumnus brought one of his old papers with an “FE” (fact error) stamped on it. To contact your local alumni chapter, visit bradley.edu/alumni. Bradley Hilltopics online has been added to the Bradley news feed page at bradley.edu/rss. Bradley Hilltopics Spring 2006
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Celebrating 100 years of teacher education by Taija Jenkins ’08
Courtesy of Glynis Plym
One century ago, Bradley Polytechnic Institute opened the doors to its Teacher Training Program, which today has developed into a department with a nearly
On April 25, Dr. John Brown, expert in curriculum design, who is affiliated with the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, will conduct an “Understanding by Design” workshop. On April 26, Brad Cohen ’96, elementary school teacher and author of Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, will speak. He was featured in the Fall ’05 issue of Bradley Hilltopics. Visit frontoftheclassbook.com. The Little Theatre of the Deaf, a national troupe from Mystic, Connecticut, will perform on April 26 as well. The troupe is the children’s division of the National Theatre of the Deaf and has performed for more than 30 years. The actors use spoken words combined with American Sign Language in their performances. Visit ntd.org for more information. The films Conrack, based on The Water is Wide by author/teacher Pat Conroy, and the PBS documentary, A Touch of Greatness, about teacher Albert Collum will also be shown throughout the spring. Visit patconroy.com and pbs.org/atouchofgreatness.
The art and science of teaching
Lydia Moss Bradley, second from right, is pictured (circa 1877) at the monument of her father Zeally Moss, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Bradley, a real daughter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was possibly celebrating a Memorial Day event with this group of unidentified children.
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100-percent job placement rate. From this beginning, preparing individuals to instruct others moved from those who wished to teach domestic science and manual training, to the preparation of teachers for America’s public and private schools. To celebrate 100 years of preparing teachers at Bradley, the Teacher Education Department is offering a series of events to support the theme “The Art and Science of Teaching.” Throughout the spring, several events will be open to the public. At the opening ceremony on April 18, John Perricone, secondary teacher and author of Zen and the Art of Public School Teaching, will be the featured speaker. Perricone has served the Maine-Endwell School District in New York for 22 years as a health educator. He has also won local, state, and national Excellence in Teaching awards. For more information, visit johnperricone.com. In addition, Mark Dempsey ’06, secondary education major, will perform an original composition for brass instruments, accompanied by an ensemble. This work symbolizes the accomplishments of teacher education over the past 100 years.
Dr. Patricia Chrosniak, professor of education, encourages the community to “join us in the celebration and to become more aware of the wonderful accomplishments of our educators. Teachers are artists, and teachers are scientists. Inside the classroom, teachers have to combine these two facets.” The Bradley Teacher Training Program began as a few course offerings in education in 1905. At that time, teachers needed one year of education. By 1908, they were required to complete two years. The program was extended to four years in 1915. In 1985, teacher education became one of four departments in the College of Education and Health Sciences, which includes home economics, nursing, and educational leadership and human development. In addition to student teaching opportunities throughout the United States, today‘s education majors have the opportunity to student teach through the Department of Defense schools in London. Plans are underway for the renovation and expansion of Westlake Hall, home of the Teacher Education Department. The remodeled facility will allow for interactive learning experiences. The College is compiling a book of remembrances. Contact Chrosniak at pchrosniak@bradley.edu by March 1, or call 309-677-3199 to share your ideas, information, or anecdotes.
Homecoming 2005
The Dingeldine Music Center is named in honor of Mabel Dingeldine ‘14. The original structure housing the Second Church of Christ Scientist was renovated in 1983. The Center hosts the annual Founder’s Day Convocation and more than 50 musical events each academic year, including concerts and recitals by students, faculty, alumni, and guest artists.
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