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FROM the PRESIDENT I hope you enjoy this edition of Butler Magazine, especially the stories of how The Butler Way—as exemplified by our students, faculty, and alumni—continues to make a positive impact on the world. I am actually writing this letter on my first day of summer vacation in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, a location that our family has enjoyed for many years. While Bethanie and I will find time to enjoy walks on the beach, reading, and the local casual cuisine, it is also a perfect time for reflection and rejuvenation. Reflecting upon my time at Butler to date, my first thought is how quickly seven years have passed. My mind then turns toward strategy (I am not the most relaxed vacationer!) as Butler 2020 reaches its namesake year. We have already started to engage our community in setting the course for Butler’s next shared vision. We recently convened a series of Leadership Summits wherein academic and administrative leaders discussed the disruption occurring within higher education and approaches to career preparation, and how we may best ensure the future success of Butler University, our students, and our alumni. A highlight for me this year was a Butler group trip to the Silicon Valley area. During the trip, we gained insights into the high-tech economy thanks to our generous alumni hosts. Chad Pingel ’16, a Finance Automation System Administrator at Google, organized a headquarters tour, which provided us with the perspectives of newly hired employees and recruiters on the skills and education they find most relevant. Frank Levinson ’75, a major supporter of the sciences at Butler over the years, welcomed us into his home for a discussion on trends in technology and innovation. Trustee Lynne Zydowsky ’81, an experienced leader and entrepreneur in the life sciences industry, hosted a dinner and discussion for alumni and friends from the San Francisco area. We also had an enlightening visit to Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the d.school, where there is interesting contemplation underway on the future of higher education. I was struck by an analogy drawn by Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, co-Director of the Innovation Fellows program. She said that just as you can’t compress a lifetime of fitness into four years and expect to stay in shape, you can’t compress all higher learning into a four-year block and expect it to sustain you. Indeed, whether it’s training the body or mind, it takes a lifetime of dedication to excel. What opportunities might this concept suggest for Butler? At my inauguration seven years ago, I encouraged us to Imagine the Possibilities. As we further advance our University and continue to pursue such possibilities, we will remain grounded upon the foundation built by the Butler stewards who came before us. Thank you for being an active member of the Butler University community. Your continued involvement is an important part of the next chapter, and we will keep you informed.
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Stephanie Judge Cripe, MBA ’99 EDITOR
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Sherry Crabtree Ann Ehinger Krisy Force Emily Heck ’12 Meg Liffick Chloe Lyzun Starleaf ’14 Nancy Lyzun Rachel Stotts Courtney Tuell ’99 ART AND DESIGN TEAM
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CARING FOR BUTLER’S ART
A Renaissance in Butler’s Art Collection
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REAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Student-Managed Investment Funds Walk the Walk
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A RARE OPPORTUNITY
Students Benefit from Cadaver Lab Partnership
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A CHANCE TO BE HEARD
Taking Butler to the Community
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ENSURING THE FUTURE
The Gift of Education Makes Student Impact
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MENTORSHIP IN ACTION
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Reality
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Sponsored by Elements Financial ALWAYS IN STYLE 26 Andrew Gelwicks ’15 ENJOYING THE JOURNEY 28 Smita Conjeevaram ’85 CAPITALIZING ON COLLABORATION 30 Brian Stemme ’91 ROOM TO EXPLORE 32 Amy Wierenga ’01
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... FiveThirtyEight cited Psychology Professor Stacy Wetmore’s research on the impact of an informant’s testimony on jurors’ behavior.
James McGrath, Philosophy and Ethics Professor, tells VICE there is no ethical dilemma when it comes to the use of a Human Uber, as long as you pay fairly for their time.
“Astronomers worry that people won’t be thrilled by looking through a telescope. But there’s something really special about seeing the sky with your own eyes.”
College of Communication Professor Nancy Whitmore tells USA Today that journalists work for the public and are expected to pursue the truth, regardless of whether they are an investigative reporter or conservative political commentator.
—Physics and Astronomy Professor Brian Murphy tells the Washington Post in a story about a mid-August planetary party that featured multiple planets lined up with the moon.
NOTEWORTHY KENZIE ACADEMY AND BUTLER UNIVERSITY TEAM UP Kenzie Academy, an Indianapolisbased education and apprenticeship program that develops modern tech workers, and Butler University announced a partnership to offer a new model of education to the next generation of tech professionals. Individuals looking for alternatives to a traditional, four-year college education can pursue a joint Kenzie-Butler Executive Education certificate.
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BUTLER RANKED NO. 1 IN THE IN THE MIDWEST MIDWEST (tie) FOR THE FIRST TIME BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Butler hit the trifecta in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings released on September 10. The University is the No. 1 regional university in the Midwest, home to the best undergraduate teaching among Midwest universities, and—for the fourth year in a row—the most innovative school in the region.
BUTLER LAUNCHES ONLINE MASTER’S IN RISK AND INSURANCE Butler University’s Lacy School of Business will introduce an online Master of Science in Risk and Insurance (MSRI) program—among the first of its kind in the nation—beginning in January 2019 to help address the gap between the risk and insurance industry’s personnel needs and the limited talent pool that exists in today’s job market.
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Julian Wyllie ’16 taught himself how to be a journalist in two weeks. The setting was the Butler University Library and it was winter break 2015. Wyllie, a junior, had just been named The Collegian’s Editor-in-Chief. Despite being named the leader of the campus paper, Wyllie didn’t really know journalism. He was a business major. He had never taken a journalism course at Butler. He wondered why the paragraphs in newspapers were so “little.” He was used to writing essays. He enjoyed reading long books. He had worked at The Collegian, but was the Opinion Editor, and didn’t feel ready to oversee an entire paper. So, he locked himself inside Irwin Library for two weeks. A crash course, of sorts, in journalism. “I read everything cover-to-cover,” Wyllie says. “The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, everything I could get my hands on. For two straight weeks, I just went to the library, borrowed newspapers and magazines, and read every single word. I copied down stylistic things I noticed, reporting tricks, everything. I did not talk to anyone for two weeks.” It must have been a decent crash course. Wyllie, who graduated from Butler in 2016 with a degree in Economics and Entrepreneurship, has already worked at the Indianapolis Recorder, Governing magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Politico. But it was more than just that self-guided, bleary-eye-inducing, two-week course that set Wyllie down the journalism path. He credits Butler’s tight-knit community, which was conducive to “stumbling,” he says, upon the student paper. And more than that, it allowed people with no reporting background to get involved, very involved, in the paper. Butler’s curriculum also enabled an individual in the Business School to explore other interests, something Wyllie says he wouldn’t have been able to do at a larger institution. Wyllie recently accepted a full-time position as a reporter at The Chronicle of Philanthropy. This comes after completing the 2018 Politico Journalism Institute, which offered 13 university students intensive, hands-on training in government and political reporting. His goal is to continue to tell the stories that drew him to the library in the first place: individual people who are experiencing something that represents a much larger societal issue. “I stumbled on my life’s passion while at Butler and I am so lucky that I was able to find that, cultivate that, almost by
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accident, all while still pursuing a completely different major that helped me in so many ways,” he says.
“The primary reason I am where I am, is that Butler is small enough to meet people who can change your life by accident. If you go to a massive school, you can only focus on business, or engineering, for example. At Butler, I was able to have a business major, yet also get involved in the college paper, which was something I didn’t even know I wanted to do, all because of the small community. I never would have been able to get that support at a bigger place. At Butler, I met so many people who pushed me to do what I knew I wanted to do, but didn’t have the courage to do.”
Off to Indiana
Wyllie grew up in Brooklyn. The son of immigrants. Most of his family is from the island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean. Wyllie’s mother moved to Canada in the 1980s to attend graduate school, and eventually moved to New York where Julian was born in 1994. His parents broke up in the late 1990s, and after his mother remarried someone from Indiana, they moved to Indianapolis when Wyllie was 13. When it was time for Wyllie to start thinking about colleges, Butler was very much on his mind. In fact, it was on the minds of most people in Indiana, he says. It was 2011 and Butler was fresh off an NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship appearance. Wyllie knew he wanted to stay in Indiana for college and narrowed his list to Indiana University, University of Indianapolis, and Hanover. Butler, he says, was his top choice, but he didn’t think he had a chance of getting in. Enter Jamie Martindale. Martindale was Wyllie’s government teacher at Pike High School. And Martindale didn’t want to hear Wyllie say he couldn’t get into Butler. He pushed Wyllie to “just give it a shot.” Wyllie took Martindale’s advice and was thrilled when he was accepted early.
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“Butler seemed like the type of place where people would ask you how you are,” Wyllie says. “I remember visiting campus and just being completely sold on it right after my visit. I loved the size, the feel, and the people. Random people were just so friendly.” Fear of rejection wasn’t Wyllie’s only hesitation in applying to Butler. Even if he did get in, he figured he wouldn’t be able to afford it. But, much to his surprise, Butler ended up being more affordable than any of the other Indiana schools he go into. Wyllie received the Morton-Finney Leadership Award and the Heritage Award. The Morton-Finney Leadership Award is given to students who have taken a leadership role promoting diversity and inclusion in their schools or communities. The Heritage Award, Wyllie says, was because he was a first-generation college student.
A New Passion Emerges
Hilary Buttrick knows she is not supposed to have favorite students, but when it comes to Wyllie, she can’t really help it.
“He is one of those students who really sticks out in my mind,” says Buttrick, Associate Professor of Business Law. “He is a great kid, who is really creative, and has a natural curiosity. He just has an interest and desire to go way beyond what the assignment requires.” Wyllie first met Buttrick in her Business Ethics course when he was a sophomore. That’s where, he says, he really learned to write, and also realized how much he loved it. Buttrick’s class tackled Karl Marx, criticisms of a capitalist society, classical philosophy, and more. Wyllie, she says, had a gift for close reading and writing. If the whole journalism thing doesn’t pan out, he would make a great lawyer, she says. “He was always such a good contributor to our class discussions,” Buttrick says. “He raised the bar in class. Our
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entire class benefitted because Julian would raise his hand and say something truly insightful. He is the kid that every professor wants to have in their class.” As he was taking Buttrick’s class, he just happened to be approached by a Collegian reporter for a story she was writing and asked to do an interview. He agreed and, because of that interview, learned more about what The Collegian was. He connected with the Opinion Editor at the time and she looked at his essays.
A Long Way from the Library Crash Course
Wyllie remembers his first column with a bit of disgust. “It wasn’t very good at all,” he says. He waxed poetic about why it was perfectly OK to be an independent student at Butler, but still have friends who were part of the Greek system. “It was very basic,” he says. “I was still learning how to write, let’s put it that way.” Eventually, he became the Opinion Editor and put his business background to good use, shaping the section through a new lens.
“I wanted to have different types of writers for the opinion section. A business-focused person, a culture-focused person. I wanted an opinion writer for everybody,” he says. “I wanted to build the section so that if someone tuned in for one specific thing, they would be able to find it. I approached it from the perspective of, we need to get readers. I would never take back my business background. Without it, I would never have had that mindset.” After serving as Opinion Editor, Wyllie became Editorin-Chief. “Julian is the only non-media major to ever hold the Editorin-Chief position that I know of,” says Nancy Whitmore, who has been a Journalism Professor at Butler for 18 years. “He was very unusual and unique in terms of the history of the paper and we not only enjoyed that, but greatly benefitted from his new perspective.”
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“I stumbled on my life’s passion while at Butler and I am so lucky that I was able to find that, cultivate that, almost by accident, all while still pursuing a completely different major that helped me in so many ways.”
“I remember she said to me, ‘If we could teach you to write for a newspaper, would you be interested?’” Wyllie says. “I figured why not? Initially, I thought it would be fun to show my friends that I could just write my opinions. That’s what I thought journalism was. Boy was I wrong.”
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Wyllie used his business background to tackle stories that others at the paper shied away from, Whitmore says. He wrote about student debt and tuition increases, the endowment, and budget-centered stories.
Then, she says, he started to embrace the narrative style, as well.
As Wyllie became more experienced, he started to dabble in human interest stories. Whitmore recalled a story he wrote about two students who nearly died in auto accidents. With time, Whitmore not only saw Wyllie’s writing style expand, but she also saw his understanding of journalism grow.
“It was special having him around because we really got to see, right in front of us, his love for journalism, and what it could do, come alive,” she says. “His passion came from this sense of community service and how journalism could result in positive change for the greater public.” When all was said and done, Wyllie took one journalism course at Butler. But, he clarifies, it wasn’t a writing course. It was a journalism readership course. But between The Collegian, his business courses, and the people he met, the blended skills he acquired have helped him land gigs at places he never would have dreamed of, such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Politico, he says. “The primary reason I am where I am and have been able to do what I love so far is because Butler was a small enough campus to allow me to meet people who would change my life quickly,” he says. “I had people telling me to do as many things as possible—not just focus on one thing—and I will forever be thankful for that. That led to me learning way more than just my major.” And let’s not forget about his two-week crash course, too.
You know that Butler provides outstanding education, fields great sports teams, and has a beautiful campus. But did you know that Butler is also home to a stunning collection of fine art?
At a President’s faculty luncheon in 2015, Professor and Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books, and University Archives Sally ChildsHelton raised a concern to my husband, Jim Danko, regarding Butler’s collection of fine art. In spite of her efforts—and those of others who were caring for Butler-owned art in formal and informal capacities—a higher level of attention and oversight was needed to best serve the needs of Butler’s collection. Over the next several days, Jim and I consulted with a range of Butler community members who were familiar with Butler’s art collection. We came to the conclusion that the University had, indeed, reached a point in its history when a comprehensive art assessment and revitalization was in order, and we decided that I would lead this process.
a renaissance in butler university’s art collection I came to the project with an abiding love of art, but no expertise. So, I partnered with others who actually knew what they were doing, including Childs-Helton. Purchasing Manager Shelly Baldauf, and Purchasing Assistant Patti Colip had been tracking and caring for Butler’s art for more than 20 years, so they came on board right away. Associate Provost Michelle Jarvis, Butler Arts Center Community Education Manager James Cramer, and Library Associate Carly Dannenmueller followed soon thereafter.
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Landscape by Otto Stark
Our self-guided mission was to take stock of Butler-owned art and to restore, repair, and redisplay items of particular aesthetic character, monetary value, or historical importance. Above all, we sought to provide Butler students with an even richer campus experience and to expose members of the community and the public to beautiful, interesting, and important works of art. With the financial support of donors Gary Butkus ’88; Jason Range; Patricia ’82 and Frank ’78 Owings; and Kimberly ’69 and Robert ’68 Myers, we established a budget and hired experts including Wickliff Appraisers, textile conservators Harold Mailand and Kathleen Kiefer, art restorer Steve Redman, researcher and writer Christine Carlson ’70, and exhibit designer and builder Mike Griffey. The committee has now completed the University’s first art appraisal in two decades, restored and moved a range of paintings, and created educational signage for artwork campuswide. The new appraisal has led to updated insurance coverage, which is provided by the MJ Student-Run Insurance Company at Butler University. In addition, we’ve established three permanent exhibits to be enjoyed by the campus community and the public at large: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Costume Collection, The Eiteljorg Collection of African Art, and The Indigenous Art Collection at Butler University.
Museum-Quality Artwork
Among Butler’s newly repaired paintings are two portraits by TC Steele, widely recognized as the most accomplished member of the Hoosier Group of impressionist painters. The portraits feature Catharine Merrill, the inaugural holder of the Demia Butler Chair of English Literature, and 1897 Butler graduate Bona Thompson, namesake of the Bona Thompson Memorial Center in Irvington. Mid-century portraits of Edward and Dorothy Gallahue, the benefactors of Gallahue Hall, painted by Jay Wesley Jacobs, have also been restored. After graduating from Harvard University and studying in Paris, Jacobs painted the official portrait of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, which is displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Butler’s collection also received a tremendous boost from Craig ’71 and Mary Fenneman, who had previously restored a landscape by Otto Stark—another prominent member of the Hoosier Group—and who have recently loaned Butler a landscape by William Charles Anthony Frerichs, a member of the Hudson River School movement, along with paintings by Ada and Adolph Schulz. Schulz is widely recognized as the founder of the Brown County (Indiana) Art Colony. Other artists featured in Butler’s collection include Wayman Adams, Ruth Pratt Bobbs, Jacob Cox, Harry A. Davis, Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer, William and Constance Forsyth, Marie Goth, Richard Gruelle, Glenn Cooper Henshaw, Frederick Polley, Frederick W. Rigley, and Clifton Wheeler. The collection also features contemporary artists Conrad Cortellini, James Wille Faust, KP Singh, Alexander Sitnikov, Justin Vining, and faculty artists including Gautham Rao.
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“ We sought to provide Butler students with an even richer campus experience and to expose members of the community and the public to beautiful, interesting, and important works of art.”
New Permanent Exhibits
With such beautiful and culturally important artwork on Butler’s campus, the committee embarked upon the creation of new permanent exhibits to showcase three very special collections. The process of establishing each exhibit included research and authentication of the objects; the design and building of exhibit cases and wall displays to ensure the security and protection of each piece; and the creation of educational signage to enable viewers to engage with—and learn from—each exhibit.
The Indigenous Art Collection
The Indigenous Art Collection
Butler is home to a group of indigenous works including terracotta vessels, bowls, instruments, and decorative figures—some of which are more than 2,000 years old. These objects can also be described as Pre-Columbian, which designates the time period of the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, as well as the cultures and arts of the people who inhabited North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean during this time. The new exhibit is located on the ground floor of Atherton Union, directly across from the Efroymson Diversity Center.
The Eiteljorg Collection of African Art
Harrison Eiteljorg, a renowned Indianapolis business leader and philanthropist, was a passionate art collector. In addition to the collection housed in his namesake institution, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, he was an avid collector of African and Oceanic art. While Newfields displays the majority of his African art holdings, Butler is proud to own and display many objects from Eiteljorg’s African collection, which he gifted to the University. The objects in Butler’s collection have both decorative and functional uses and represent many of the ceremonies and activities that define the historical, cultural, and traditional aspects of West African life. They include jewelry, masks, headdresses, and sculptures in a variety of materials and styles. The new exhibit spans locations including Atherton Union, Irwin Library, Clowes Memorial Hall, and the Schrott Center for the Arts.
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Costume Collection
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was created in 1937 and toured throughout the United States after World War II, effectively introducing classical ballet to America. Its members went on to found schools and companies throughout the United States and Europe, infusing both with the Russian classical ballet traditions that are still embraced today. Among the company’s most prominent choreographers was George Balanchine, considered one of the greatest artistic masters of the 20th century. Balanchine’s long-time collaborator, Barbara Karinska, created hundreds of Ballet Russe costumes, including many of those in Butler’s collection. Karinska, one of the most celebrated costume designers in the worlds of both ballet and Hollywood, invented the “powder puff” tutu and earned the 1948 Academy Award for Costume Design.
The Eiteljorg Collection of African Art
Former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancer George Verdak began his professorial tenure at Butler University in 1959. After the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo closed in 1968, the company’s physical assets were owned by the Ballet Society. In the early 1970s, Verdak arranged to have these assets—including costumes—donated to Butler University. Associate Provost Michelle Jarvis was a Butler ballet student when they arrived on campus and she helped unload them. She guided the committee in choosing six costumes for the new exhibit. These costumes— now beautifully conserved—are among the world’s finest representations of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and their provenance places them at the center of the history of classical ballet. Butler’s exhibit includes a tutu worn by Maria Tallchief, who was America’s first major prima ballerina. Also featured is a tutu worn by Alexandra Danilova, widely recognized as one of the most talented ballerinas of all time. The new exhibit is located in the Schrott Center for the Arts.
Looking to the Future
With the committee’s initial goals met and my tenure as its leader coming to an end, the group is looking to the next chapter of art stewardship under the expert co-leadership of Carly Dannenmueller and James Cramer of Butler Libraries and the Butler Arts Center, respectively. The committee plans to establish a digital presence for the collection, from interactive maps to new webpages. It also plans to continue to build community education initiatives and raise awareness of the collection—both on campus and beyond—so that it may be enjoyed by the greatest number of people possible now and in the years to come.
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Collection
Special thanks to Library Associate Carly Dannenmueller for her contributions to this article. If you have questions about the art collection at Butler University, please contact Carly at cdannenm@butler.edu or 317-940-6488.
REAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE STUDENT-MANAGED INVESTMENT FUNDS WALK THE WALK By Patricia Pickett ’82 APR
When Steven D. Dolvin arrived on Butler University’s campus in 2004, he came with a resume in both education and the investment industry and had an an inkling of an idea that seemed unlikely. He wanted to create a program in which undergraduate students managed a real investment portfolio and did so with real money. “To create a student-managed investment fund made total sense to me,” said Dolvin. But how to convince the University Board of Trustees? Dolvin created a structured platform with safety nets and guidance, yet enough freedom and encouragement to emulate the real world. Dolvin went through the proposal with Vice President for Finance Bruce Arick and Butler Trustee Rollin (Rollie) Dick and pitched the idea to the Trustees. The seed money for the fund was initiated using a small portion of the University Endowment. “In retrospect, Dick laughs and says the University should have kept $1 million and given the rest to the students to manage,” shared Dolvin. Since its inception, despite experiencing the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression, the Student-Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) has grown to over $2 million. A second fund launched in 2014 reflects a value of FALL 2018
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and we split into four teams. Each team is responsible for overseeing two to three sectors of the S&P—e.g., healthcare/industrials; technology/utilities, etc. Students research the investment and make a formal class presentation on a proposed trade, said Dolvin. The class vets the recommendation and, like real life, some are turned down as non-viable investments. “I was surprised at how personally and seriously the students take it. They were much more conservative than I thought they would be,” he said. “I really believe that market volatility helps from an academic perspective.” Dolvin sees these studentmanaged investment funds as a significant catalyst in the increasing profile of the University’s business program. slightly more than $1.3 million. While the SMIF has slightly trailed the performance of the S&P 500, since inception it has outperformed the S&P on a risk and fee-adjusted basis. Nearly a decade later, Dolvin is now the Ratliff Endowed Chair in Finance. And today, the SMIF invests $3 million annually in primarily large capitalization, publicly traded firms (S&P 500). The Butler Business Consulting Group (BBCG) Investment Fund, which was seeded using funds from a Lilly Grant in the early 2000s, invests $2.5 million in private equity, split evenly between private equity fund managers and direct investment deals. More than 300 students have participated in the SMIF and approximately 60 have been involved with the BBCG. Dolvin says while many schools have a managed student fund for the Finance students, Butler’s is unique. “Most of the larger funds are focused on graduate students, while Butler’s program is primarily for undergraduates,” he said. Also setting it apart is the fact that the funds are managed through a structured class. Many universities sponsor investment clubs that exist without much formal structure and are limited to allow only a select number of students. “Structuring it as a class has made it accessible to all students who meet prerequisites including a basic investments class (how markets function, differences in stocks, devaluations) that puts markets and trading in perspective,” Dolvin explained. “The class size is 16,
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“When I started, we had about 600 students in the entire College of Business,” he recounts. “Today, Finance is the second largest major in the Lacy School of Business. While it is just one small aspect of the many great things going on in LSB, I’d like to think the SMIF programs have played a role in attracting students.” The other thing the program has attracted is the Central Indiana business community as well as returning alumni speakers and advisors. The speakers’ list reads like a “who’s who” of business, and students benefit from making those connections through the program. Program graduates have obtained jobs with JP Morgan, Google, Bristol Myers, and Indiana PERF. The program can look forward to “new digs” to be located in the state-of-the-art Lacy School of Business building in fall 2019. Classrooms will include a realistic trading setting complete with Bloomberg terminals. The reality of the equation that plays such an important role in the class will only be amplified. According to Dolvin, “When you put real money to work, they approach it differently. The amount of work students put into it reflects that.”
Many parents send their children off to college with serious (and often justified) concerns about their financial knowledge. At best, students hearing the word “investment” may conjure up a memory of a regular statement of an account perhaps set up by a grandparent or something they’ve heard on the news or glanced at on the Internet. However, for Finance majors at Butler University, the word “investment” gets real with the Student-Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) and program. The class, created and taught by the Ratliff Endowed Chair in Finance Steven Dolvin, provides students the opportunity to manage real money—nearly $3 million to be exact.
INVESTING GETS REAL
Finance and Marketing major Nicholas Y. Huang ’18 admits he had limited exposure to the stock market through family members, but he was not an active investor. “Before participating in the (SMIF) program, I was very intimidated at the thought of managing a $3 million portfolio.” Taylor Viti ’18 initially visited the Butler campus as a potential Dance major, but the rigors of the program and vocation initiated a rethinking of her career goals. She found her way to Finance as her major and a seat in Dolvin’s Student-Managed Investment Fund class. “The class acts as a real-world application of everything learned during the course of four years,” she said. “When you’re dealing with the University’s millions, you have a real sense of due diligence that I think was very valuable.” Huang concurs. “I loved it. As a Finance student, it is fantastic to have an expert like Professor Dolvin in the classroom. The SMIF provides real-world experience that you simply cannot get anywhere else.” While the class pace reflects the frenetic energy that exists in the high-stakes world of investments—including five formal stock presentations for each student team throughout the semester as well as a final overview evaluation—the methodical approach guided by Dolvin and supplemented with Central Indiana business leaders and alumni as speakers and advisors provides countless, lifelong lessons for students. “As students, we have access to outside investors who manage portfolios for a living. This, alongside Professor Dolvin’s expertise, creates a supportive learning environment,” said Huang. “Throughout the course, I truly learned the importance of teamwork. With 90 percent of our work being team based, it can be challenging with so many diverse perspectives at the table. Our group took time to understand each other’s individual strengths and used that to fuel our results.” In addition, Huang learned the value of storytelling … something one might not associate with the financial industry. “In the business world, storytelling applies to us just as much as a liberal arts student studying English. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) isn’t just a massive healthcare company with billions in revenue; it’s a company fulfilling the vision of a family who wanted better, healthier, and happier lives for their children. Whether you’re a new mom using baby powder on a newborn or a high schooler using Clean and Clear face wash before heading off to school, J&J serves millions of families every day. These narratives push investors to see themselves, and what matters most to them, beyond the numbers on an income statement. And, this is what gets money on the table.” The biggest life lessons learned by Huang (one that many people twice his age might heed) is to invest early. “One thing Butler professors reinforce, especially in Finance courses, is the importance of saving for retirement. It pays off big even though it’s far from your mind as a 21-year-old college student.” We’re pretty sure there will be some well-informed Butler graduates to help you plot your financial future. Photo courtesy of Jeff Haynes
EXPERTISE, INSIGHT, AND REAL
It is no secret that Butler University graduates have a soft spot for their alma mater. It’s not unusual for alumni to be frequent visitors to campus as guest lecturers, advisors, and volunteers. Corey Waddell ’08 is one of those Bulldogs tenacious about finding a way to give back.
Waddell grew up visiting the Butler campus and attending basketball games at Hinkle Fieldhouse. His mother, Darlene, was an Administrative Specialist at Butler; his father, Greg, graduated in 1979; and his older brother, Drew, graduated in 2006. The Butler Way was a way of life at the Waddell house. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when the younger Waddell chose Butler, majoring in Finance. In fall 2007, Waddell found himself in Professor Steve Dolvin’s inaugural section of the Student-Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) class. “I was lucky enough to be there in fall 2007 and it was a class I really enjoyed. Professor Dolvin identified me as a group leader, so I was able to pick who was in the group. I thought that was a huge honor.” Today Corey Waddell is a Certified Financial Analyst and Senior Consultant at Capital Cities LLC. His primary responsibilities include supporting the investment process and serving clients and prospects. He is also a member of the Capital Cities’ Investment Committee. And he serves as one of several outside advisors to the SMIF.
He salutes Dolvin, the current Ratliff Endowed Chair in Finance, in getting the class off the ground and the University’s Board of Trustees for allowing the class to take place. It wasn’t all profits, profits, profits, according to Waddell. “We got pretty heady when some of the first stocks we picked made money. And then there was the fall after the October 2008 crash, and we took a sizeable loss.” That experience and story is a great one for Waddell to relate to Dolvin’s SMIF students. “Looking back, we were all so green. There was a ‘fake it ‘til you make it’ mentality. As an advisor, it’s something I try to relay. You are not going to know everything about picking stocks as a 20-year-old. You have to be able to make mistakes—that is when you will learn the most.” Case in point, the most recent semester presentations. Waddell was present during final class group presentations this past spring. He shares that he witnessed one of the best final presentations overall, but in terms of stock picking, they had a very mediocre performance. Often the fear is the group with the banner portfolio for the short, two-month holding period may not have learned as much as the group facing failure who had to revise their thesis. But, that is reality. What knowledge does he pass along as an advisor? “I try to stay out of the weeds with the groups on specific financial metrics or how a chart is looking. I make sure their logic is sound, but analyzing market trends can take years of practice. I really try to get them to think outside the box on what to analyze,” he said. What does that mean? Waddell shares, for instance, that the group assigned to the tech industry has most likely heard of Apple and Facebook, and those are easy investments to pitch. But, the semi-conductor business is going to require a lot more research on the group’s behalf for the entire class to be comfortable with the stock. These more researched presentations end up being more complete. They’ve identified the ideas they should be diving into. Like everyone involved in the course, Waddell points to the real-life experience as the prime benefit of the Student-Managed Investment Fund program. “If you’ve taken this course, talk about it in your interviews,” he said. “Even a decade later, it’s a rare class and opportunity. Bring examples of what you’ve done in the class. You may not be interviewing to be an equity analyst, but this class and its real-life learning and management experiences can translate to almost any career opportunity.” FALL 2018
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“Everyone is so different, yet we are all the same.” By Rachel Stern
The dissection lab where people donate their bodies to science resembles a car dealership in a way: squeaky clean, brightly lit, a distinct smell, ready for a big reveal. But until this year, that was virtually unknown to Butler University students. That’s because there is no cadaver lab at Butler. Dissections have largely been confined to the classroom, done occasionally on donated bison hearts, but more often than not, anatomy has been taught via plastic models and textbooks. While there is the new Anatomage table—a virtual cadaver dissection table that enables students to manipulate three-dimensional virtual human cadavers—there is nothing quite like seeing the human body in its natural state, says Mikaela Drake, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences. “Fresh tissue enables students to see the tissue as it exists in our body, but to also experience the smell, manipulate the joints, and remove the organs,” Drake says. “In a traditional cadaver lab, bodies are preserved, which means everything is the same color and has an almost plastic feel.” 14 14
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Enter the Medical Academic Center. The Medical Academic Center, or MAC, is a medical education center in Carmel, Indiana. Often, a medical device company would go to the MAC, for example, to train physicians on new products or procedures using fresh tissue cadavers, explains MAC Director Sandra Haugo. But that training, done on donated fresh tissue bodies, is almost always confined to a small area of the body—a shoulder, fingertip, knee—and then the rest of the body would be untouched. “I couldn’t stand having an entire torso sent to cremation, knowing the abdomen was untouched,” Haugo says. “We have people who donated their body to us and we weren’t using it to its full potential. Let’s get as much as we can out of this because that is what these individuals would have wanted.” So, Haugo started freezing the bodies after procedures were completed, and opened the MAC up to educational programs. At around that time, Drake, Amy Peak, Director of Undergraduate Health Science Programs, and Michele Moore, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, went to get some dissection practice of their own. And a partnership was born. Butler is the only university working with the MAC.
“This isn’t just memorizing bones and nerves and where that is and what that is called,” Peak says. “This enables our students to see how everything is all connected, what everything feels like, and smells like, but it goes beyond that. Experiencing a human cadaver enables our students to make connections beyond the physical, to the emotional, and all other aspects that go into who that person was and what their life journey was.” On a recent Thursday afternoon, about 15 Butler students were at the MAC, ready to take part in their first fresh tissue dissections. The students, part of the Anatomy and Physiology Lab, gathered in a classroom at the MAC first to learn a bit about the individuals whose bodies they would be working on. They learned the age, gender, weight, BMI, date of birth, date of death, and cause of death, then were told if they felt queasy to take a seat in one of the chairs in the lab. They were warned that the arm would have the most “intense odor.” Then, the students put on yellow gowns and blue gloves and headed into the lab. Questions were shouted out. “Do your fingernails keep growing?”
It just really makes you wonder about so much, and her life, and if she suffered.” Then, Drake ran into some trouble. When she was trying to cut out the female donor’s heart, she was having trouble getting it out. One of the major vessels that leaves the heart and brings blood to the rest of the body, it turned out, had an aortic aneurism. This was only discovered once Drake was able to take the heart out. “I could cut into the heart and show the disease from the inside out. It was a fantastic teaching lesson. They could understand and I could show them how it happened and you cannot beat that,” Drake says. “I wondered if we were the first ones to see this. Those are ticking time bombs and are not possible to feel in a preserved cadaver. “With a plastic model, everything is where it is supposed to be and where you expect it to be. Pieces come apart perfectly, and go back together right where they should. But when you work with donor bodies, as soon as you pull back the breast plate, you don’t know what you will find.” The 2017–2018 school year was the first year students went to the MAC. About 66 participated, and this fall, about 110 are enrolled in the Human Anatomy and Physiology lab, and therefore, get to head to the MAC. Most want to be healthcare professionals of some sort, Peak says, ranging from medical school, to dental school, to PA school, but others are Music, Communication, and Chemistry majors, to name a few. Recently, a student came into Peak’s office and said the MAC experience influenced her career path. She was thinking about becoming a medical examiner because of her love for solving problems and mysteries.
“Is this his actual skin skin?” When it was time for Drake to open up an 83-year-old woman who died of dementia, there was an audible gasp in the lab. Her lungs were dark. “This is very different than the plastic models,” says Andrew Thompson, 2018 graduate with a double major in Health Sciences and Spanish who is currently in Butler’s PA Program. “The black is indicative of disease, but it says she died of dementia.
For Drake, just like most of the students in her lab, her first fresh tissue dissection came courtesy of the MAC. She has dissected hundreds of pig hearts and cow hearts, but about a year ago had her first fresh tissue human dissection at the MAC. “I never dreamed I would have done this and I find myself, much like our students, still thinking about the individuals we dissected,” she says. “This experience gets at the heart of what we teach. Everyone is so different, yet we are all exactly the same.”
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A CHANCE TO BE HEARD BUTLER STUDENTS TAKE TESTING TO THE COMMUNITY By Marc D. Allan, MFA ’18 Harper, a 3-year-old in a pink jacket with tan sleeves, is supposed to have her hearing checked, but she’s having none of it. Margaret Fries ’19, a Butler senior from St. Louis majoring in Audiology, is trying to coax Harper to raise her hand when she hears a tone through the headphones she’s wearing. “It’s not scary,” says Fries, one of nine Butler Communication Sciences and Disorders students at Children’s Day In preschool to administer speech and hearing tests as part of Professor Ann Bilodeau’s Community Screenings class. “I promise.”
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Harper sits silent and stone-faced, so Fries tries Plan B—a set of rubber-tipped darts known as play audiometry. Fries shows her the set of green darts with blue suction tips. She tells Harper to hold a dart up to her ear and then stand it on the table after she hears a tone. Before long, Harper is actively participating. When she’s finished, she utters two words to Fries: “Thank you.”
“It started out a little tough,” Fries says afterward, “but you just have to change up methods. We always like to start with raising their hands—that’s just the easiest way—but most younger kids don’t do that, or don’t want to do that. So then we move on to play audiometry. If that doesn’t work, high-fives or some way of getting them to recognize they are hearing the sound is next. It sometimes takes a while.” Fries and her classmates have gotten plenty of practice. During the spring 2018 semester, they administered more than 500 speech and hearing tests at almost a dozen locations. Nearly a quarter of the children they tested needed some kind of follow-up attention. Bilodeau, Director of the Butler Speech and Language Clinic, says what they’re doing in this preschool and other places they visit fills a gap in the healthcare system. Typically, children are screened for hearing and speech disorders from birth to age 3, and then again when they’re in school. But from ages 3-5, services aren’t readily available. “There aren’t enough speech-language pathologists to see all the kids who need to be seen,” she says. “All the preschool directors are so grateful, the teachers are so lovely when we come, and the parents are lovely.” At this preschool, located at a United Methodist Church near 54th and Illinois streets in Indianapolis, the Butler students are separated into two rooms. One is for hearing tests, which are administered using an audiometer, a machine that measures the ability to hear different sounds, pitches, and frequencies, and one is for speech. Breanna Corbin ’19, a senior from Indianapolis studying to be a Speech-Language Pathologist, is in the speech room, working with a preschooler named Ruben. She opens a colorful book and points to the pictures. “This is the woman’s …” “Foot!” Ruben says. “And you write with …” “A pencil!”
Dozens of questions follow. While Corbin is administering the test, Shelby Miller ’19, a senior from Fishers, Indiana, who’s studying to be a SpeechLanguage Pathologist, explains that the Butler students in this room are checking to make sure the preschoolers can produce specific words and sounds and can identify colors, shapes, and body parts. They evaluate the children based on articulation, fluency, and voice intelligibility. They also see whether the preschoolers can carry on a conversation. Ruben certainly can. When he coughs, Corbin asks if he needs a tissue. She helps him blow his nose. Ruben tells her that when it’s time to use hand sanitizer, he holds his hands together. “Like a book!” “When I first started doing this,” Corbin says afterward, “it took a lot of adjusting. I’d never worked with kids before, so it required adjusting to what the kids say. They’re going to be silly, but that’s how kids are. Now, it’s knowing what to expect, knowing that you’ve got to be patient. You have to take time to talk to them but also keep them on track.” By the time the Butler students have finished their work at Children’s Day In, they will have seen nearly 40 children. Christy Whaley, who runs the preschool program, says Butler is providing an important and much needed community service. “I’m a teacher at heart,” she says, “so my former background wants the Butler students to encourage the students to come in and let us be their guinea pigs. And it really works out—the parents love having the opportunity to have their children have free screenings. This is a perfect age group for the students and a perfect setting.” Whaley said every time Butler Communication Sciences and Disorders students have visited her preschool, they have diagnosed at least one preschooler who needs further attention. “Even if you catch just one a year, it’s worth having,” she said. The Butler students all will go on to graduate school for advanced degrees in Audiology and Speech Pathology. Courtney Rooker ’19 a senior from St. Joseph, Michigan, said getting into the community to administer these tests gives them needed experience. “In Butler’s program, you get a lot of hands-on opportunities in the clinic, at school, and then here,” she says. “Kids can be anxious and nervous and difficult to work with, so that’s definitely been a huge learning curve for me, especially the patience part of it and teaching them what to do. But this is an amazing experience that Butler offers.” FALL 2018
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THE PLAYER WHO WEARS MORE THAN A UNIFORM Photo courtesy of Zach Bolinger.
IMPACT IS A TWO-WAY STREET By Peyton Thompson ’20 Junior Drew Bevelhimer ’20 wears the number 36 on his jersey and his heart on his sleeve. “I love giving back and helping people,” the football kicker/future Speech Language Pathologist said. “Any opportunity that I have to help on campus or in the community I will take. It can be kind of a problem because sometimes I may try and do a little too much, but I will always be trying to do more service.” In 2017, Bevelhimer helped organize a nine-day mission trip to Brno, Czech Republic. Ten of his teammates— Eric Perry, Isaak Newhouse, Evan Giebel, Bobby Jensen, Anthony Scaccia, Brian Ranallo, Pace Temple, Matt Hawkins, Danny Cotter, Sean Horan—and some of their family members joined in. They taught English as a second language, physical education, and football, and even did some landscaping. He said it was one of the most amazing experiences of his life, and if he could go back again this year, he would in a heartbeat.
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“I had numerous opportunities to go on mission trips in high school, but I never felt an urge to go,” said Bevelhimer, who grew up in Indianapolis—right in Butler’s back yard. “When I heard about this opportunity there was this feeling inside me that was pushing me to go. It sounded like an amazing opportunity to grow closer to my teammates and friends.” Bevelhimer also has shown his public-spirited nature with an honorary member of the Butler football team, 8-year-old Robert Shaffer. The youngster, who suffers from a rare kidney disease, became a member of the Butler squad through Team Impact, a national nonprofit that connects children facing serious and chronic illnesses with local college athletic teams. Beverhimer, along with the rest of the team, has a special place in his heart for Robert. He comes to some practices and even has his own locker at Hinkle. “Robert is a constant source of energy for us as a team,” he said. “He is able to bring a smile to everyone’s face with ease. He truly is the strongest person I have ever met. It’s funny how the organization is called ‘Team Impact’ and we are supposed to make this impact on his life, but in reality, he is the one impacting our lives.”
LEADING ON THE COURT FACING ADVERSITY WITH STRENGTH OFF THE COURT By Jackson Borman ’20 For Taylor Takeda ’19, volleyball has been a plane ticket across the world. Her collegiate volleyball career started at Dowling College, a private Division II school in New York. In her first year there, she racked up 491 digs and was named the East Region’s Freshman of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Her career at Dowling was short-lived, however, because the college closed in summer 2016. The following day, Butler University Head Volleyball Coach Sharon Clark reached out to Takeda about transferring, and a week after that, she committed—hesitantly—to becoming a Bulldog. “I was overwhelmed by the thought of it: how the game changes and whatnot,” the Hawaii native said. “We had summer workouts and open gyms that gave me time to play with the Butler Volleyball team and get to know them, but also to get to know the speed of the game and know what we were going to see throughout the season.” Takeda shined in her first year as a Bulldog, leading
Butler and ranking 4th in the BIG EAST with 540 digs. She also ranked 3rd on the team in both assists (111) and service aces (22). The summer leading into her junior season, Takeda and the team traveled to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During the trip, the women volunteered and donated to an orphanage, hiked one of the tallest peaks in Rio, visited the Christ the Redeemer statue, and went on a boat tour around the coast. They also played games with local clubs. During the fall 2017 season, the team went 23-8, including a 13-5 conference record, its best showing since 2013. Takeda continued to lead on the court, ranking 1st on the team in digs per set and service aces, and second in assists. What may have been most impressive about her effort was the way she dealt with adversity. Her father died last fall, and she went home mid-semester to be with him in his final moments. A week later, she returned to Butler and her team. On her father’s birthday, the team went out to eat together to celebrate his life. “It was sweet,” Takeda said. “They didn’t have to do all that, but they did. It was nice to be surrounded by so many supportive people.” FALL 2018
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A COMMITMENT to GIVING CULMINATES with ENDOWED CHAIR
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FUTURE By Patricia Pickett ’82 APR
Professor Linda Willem has frequently traveled to Spain to gather information and gain knowledge on the country’s architecture, literature, and cinema. In turn, she passes that knowledge on to her students in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Butler University. Both Willem and her students are direct benefactors of the Betty Blades Lofton Endowed Chair in Spanish, established within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) in 2004, commemorating the 50th wedding anniversary of Thomas and Betty Blades Lofton. According to the endowment’s namesake, “We both thought education is the answer to so many problems, and this seemed like a gift that would make the most impact.” Where does the journey begin for a gift of this magnitude? When Betty Blades Lofton ’51 arrived on campus in fall 1947, the recent Shortridge High School graduate found it a much different place than today. A vast majority of students were from the Indianapolis area, and classes were filled with WWII veterans taking advantage of the GI Bill.
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“Tuition was relatively inexpensive, and my parents thought it best for me to get my education here and live at home,” Lofton said. Nonetheless, Lofton pledged a sorority—Pi Beta Phi —and was active in campus activities. She graduated with a major in Spanish and a minor in French, and she soon landed a job with Eli Lilly, copy editing and proofing French and Spanish documents. And, for those opportunities and lifelong friendships she made along the way, she is grateful. A few years after graduation, she married Thomas Lofton, whom she had met at Butler during her freshman year. Like many young couples, they quickly settled into a routine of children, school, and church activities. But unlike others, they made a concerted effort to volunteer and donate where they thought there was a need. She
is a past President of the Indianapolis Day Nursery Auxiliary and Pi Beta Phi Foundation; a member of Pi Beta Phi’s Grand Council serving as Vice President of Philanthropies; a past board member for the Indianapolis Senior Citizens Center and Indianapolis Retirement Home; and is an elder at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. But Butler always held a special place in her heart. “Butler is an educational institution that needs our support. It’s constantly growing, and it cares deeply about its students in a very nurturing way,” she said. “We always wanted to return to Butler what it gave us.”
San Salvador Cathedral in Zamora, Castilla y Leon. Spain
IN brief popular concussion test doesn’t catch sandbagging as often as it claims, according to butler professor’s research
Their gratitude to Butler and their commitment to supporting education led to Betty being a member of the Butler Alumni Board and the Ovid Butler Society (OBS) Executive Committee. She served on the Butler University Board of Trustees in 2002 and was appointed Trustee Emeritus in 2014. She was awarded the Butler Medal in 2005. In celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 2004, Tom wanted to make a special donation in her honor. It was then that the Betty Blades Lofton Endowed Chair in Spanish was established and Linda Willem became the Betty Blades Lofton Professor of Spanish in 2006. “Butler is very generous with its professional stipends for travel and conferences,” said Willem. “My conference presentations are funded by my LAS Dean, but the research trips are funded by the Lofton stipend.” This past summer, Willem spent a week in Madrid consulting Spain’s national theater and film archives for material needed for scholarly articles she was writing on 21stcentury adaptations of 19th-century Spanish novels. That was followed by two days in the town of Zamora to photograph Romanesque churches and Modernista (Art Nouveau) buildings for her current Art and Architecture of Spain course. “All of it has boosted my profile in my profession, contributing to me becoming President of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (International Association of Galdós Scholars),” said Willem. “It is literally as high as I can go professionally. It has been an incredible opportunity.” Betty Lofton is delighted with Willem’s travels and the knowledge it allows her to share with her Butler students. “Linda has such an enthusiastic sparkle and is a ‘doer.’ She has really made the best of all of the benefits of the endowment.” The impact of the Loftons’ generosity is one that will last for generations. And for that, Betty is also grateful. “You feel you have done something for the future,” she said. “You are preparing these young people to assume their positions in society. It leaves me believing that the world is in good shape.”
The ImPACT Test, one of the most widely used of several similar concussion management tools, is a computer-based test that measures shape recall, reaction time, attention, working memory, and other mental abilities. According to new research from Butler University Director of Undergraduate Health Science Programs, Dr. Amy Peak, and Butler Health Science student Courtney Raab ’18, individuals are outsmarting the test. national science foundation grant awarded to butler biochemistry professor to study natural movements of proteins
Jeremy Johnson, Herschel Whitney Professor of Biochemistry, received an NSF Grant for $250,000 to study the biological regulation of acyl protein thioesterases, or APTs. Johnson is looking at APTs and how they are involved in cancer progression, neural deterioration, and if they could be an antibiotic target.
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By Krisy Force Recent Butler University graduate Shandeep Singh’s ’18 Linkedin opening says a lot about who he is as a person and who he hopes to be as a medical professional. He writes, “I am a firm believer that medicine is an art that combines compassion and knowledge in order to provide effective healthcare.” When his Career Planning Strategies Professor Courtney Rousseau read that statement in fall 2017, she remembers being struck not only by its verbiage but by its simplicity. “The typical response I get from students pursuing fields in the medical profession is that they want to help people or they like science,” Rousseau said. “But it’s the first time I’ve ever heard anyone describe the medical field as an art. Statements like that are going to help develop the empathy that is sometimes lacking in healthcare.” So if Singh’s passion is to become a doctor, what led him to pursue an internship through Butler’s Washington, DC Learning Semester? He figured out, like most Butler students, that at Butler he was able to combine his other passion—politics—with his love for science to pursue a hands-on learning experience. When searching for an internship in Washington, Singh made sure to choose one that covered topics in the medical field while also allowing him an inside look into the career of a politician. Singh ended up interning for
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Representative Jackie Walorski in the capital for four months in spring 2018. “My internship focused on the backside of healthcare, which allowed me to learn how I can really make a change and possibly make the system more efficient,” Singh said. “This is how it all starts. You develop a medical product, you go to Congress and lobby, and you hope to get funding.” Singh explained there are a lot of great products that could potentially save someone’s life or ease the process of getting treatment, but the general public doesn’t even know about them because the lobbying and funding process is inefficient.
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As a doctor, he hopes to lacking in healthcare. ” use what he learned in his —Professor Courtney Rousseau internship to help lobby for the products and devices that could positively impact patients’ lives. Rousseau said students like Singh illustrate that careers shouldn’t be the only thing that defines who we are. “Singh knew he was passionate about a lot of things and he knew he could explore them without them necessarily aligning,” Rousseau said. “It’s finding the right spaces for the things you’re passionate about.”
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Help You? Giving Voice to Those Who Need It By Cindy Conover Dashnaw When Natalie van Dongen ’18 describes her passion for the environment, she’s not referring to climate change, clean air, or protecting forests. She’s concerned with how one’s environment can influence how other people treat them. “Certain socioeconomic groups are treated differently based on their environment or place in the community,” she said. “For example, wealthy and white people, frankly, have access to better food systems and more organic food than lower-income and minority groups.” Van Dongen credits her childhood for her ability to recognize these disparities. She was born in Indianapolis but grew up in the small farming town of Towanda, Illinois, with a population of just 480 at the 2010 census. Though her family never wanted for anything, it wasn’t the case for everyone in Towanda, where the median household income is under $45,000—and big stores with healthy food options are unknown. “I was incredibly privileged growing up. I still am. And I knew if I wasn’t using that privilege to help others, I’d feel guilty,” she said. “My childhood is one that not a lot have lived. My experience is my own, and there’s a lot that can be done with it.” But what?
In thinking about a college degree and a career, Van Dongen found herself considering the employability of her passions. “I’m quite outspoken and really care about a lot of issues. When I was looking at what to study, I didn’t know which basket to put my eggs in,” she said. “In today’s world, you can be someone who is outspoken yet not very productive. I wanted to make sure I was putting my time and resources where my mouth is, but more than that, I wanted to do it for others.” At first, mostly because both parents are Butler Bulldogs, she was adamantly opposed to attending Butler. But like many students, the moment she stepped on campus, she made her choice. “There’s such a sense of community that’s unlike anything else. It’s like a neighborhood but more than that. I’ve never experienced it anywhere else. It’s a sense of solidarity and camaraderie that’s amazing.” With the help of her professors, Van Dongen centered her academics on critical communications: The importance of messaging and rhetoric, how they can affect our understanding of the world, and how we can change the ways the world works. Without them, Van Dongen said, she would never have been able to see a career path from combining her studies and her passions. “My
professors identified strengths in me that I didn’t see in myself, and encouraged me to do academic and personal work that would help me explore them. In fact, they made me feel more comfortable in all facets of my life,” she said. She’s now working for the City of Indianapolis, where she began as a Communications Intern. She helps callers to the Mayor’s Action Center figure out which department handles their questions and requests, giving everyone an equal voice. Van Dongen’s Instagram profile features a quote from Paul Farmer, international health and social justice activist. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” Now that she’s a Butler graduate, Van Dongen is out to correct the imbalance.
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KEEPING TEACHERS TEACHING By Marc D. Allan, MFA ’18 Amanda Huffman ’12, METL ’16 wrote her master’s thesis on how to mentor math educators to keep them in the profession. Then she put her plan into action. Working in collaboration with several Butler University professors and in partnership with Pike High School in Indianapolis, Huffman established a mentoring program at Pike, where she has taught Math since 2012. The program
helps Butler’s future teachers bridge the gap between what they theoretically know about math and teaching and the reality of classroom life. That program has proved to be so effective that it has expanded to other subjects at Pike, a 3,500-student school on the city’s northwest side. During the 2017–2018 school year, Jenny DiVincenzo ’16 mentored eight future English teachers and Ali Ranallo ’16 supported a group of eight would-be Social Studies teachers. During the weekly sessions, which took place after school on Wednesdays, the mentors shared career advice, classroom tips, lesson-planning ideas— anything to help make the future teachers more comfortable and prepared. “It’s a powerful thing to sit down with somebody who has walked a similar path and is seeing it from a few years down the line looking back,”
Meredith Varner ’18 said. “In college, it’s really easy to think of the most beautiful picture of a classroom, where every lesson runs really smoothly and times are perfect and you integrate those strategies and it’s incredible execution. We were able to get into the nitty-gritty of what it looks like to apply teaching concepts to the actual content and what it looks like to bring that into the classroom.”
Varner did her student-teaching at Pike in Indianapolis from January to March. By the time she had finished, she had verbally agreed to a full-time offer from Pike to teach math there beginning in 2018–2019. Varner then went to Westlane Middle School, which feeds into Pike High School, from March to May and, when she finished there, returned to Pike and ended the year by filling in for a teacher who went on maternity leave. She said she benefited from what she learned in Butler’s College of Education, but also from what she learned from Huffman, her mentor.
New Pike High School teachers are assigned what’s called a “cooperating teacher” to help them through early growing pains in the classroom, but those are usually highly experienced teachers.
DiVincenzo, who in June finished her second year of teaching English at Pike, said there’s something reassuring about having a mentor who’s close to your own age sharing her experiences. That’s why she wanted to be a mentor. “I am more of a neutral person they can go to,” she said, sitting in her classroom, one corner of which was decorated with Butler pennants and pictures. “And I’m closer in age to them, so they feel more comfortable.” She said her mentees wanted to know about topics ranging from lesson-planning to how to navigate relationships with coworkers and maintain professionalism even if you have different philosophies. Each session would focus on something different. DiVincenzo studied Education and English at Butler and is licensed to teach English as a New Language. She teaches three sections of that and three of regular English 10. She said her faculty coworkers at Pike have been incredibly helpful, “but I would have had less stress and less anxiety going into my first year if I’d had a mentor. It does feel nice to be supported and feel like I have a Butler community here.” Ranallo, who finished her second year of teaching Social Studies at Pike in the spring, said she was delighted to be a mentor. “Butler was such a great part of my life, and I wanted to keep going with that and helping out as much as I can,” she said. She spent her Wednesdays with her mentees discussing topics like: How to talk about current events and help students process the information; how to explain and use primary sources; how teachers figure out if their students learned what they were trying to teach them. Classroom management, observing state standards, and how to make sure you’re applying them—those subjects also came up frequently. Ranallo said she advised the future teachers to keep trying new things. There are going to be lessons and strategies
you’ve learned that are going to be fantastic and you’re going to want to do them again, and there are going to be some that need some major readjustments or tweaks, she said. But your students deserve new ideas, so keep trying them and don’t be afraid to go for it.
The mentoring program began to take shape in 2012, the summer after Huffman graduated, when she participated in a Pike/Butler Partnership for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math teachers. There, Butler professors Ryan Flessner (College of Education) and Mary Kron (Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences) gave a presentation about combining math and new methods of teaching. Huffman approached her advisor, Associate Professor of Education Shelly Furuness, and together they figured out how best to translate that idea into action. “She believed us in the College of Education when we said we continue to support our students even after graduation,” said Furuness, Huffman’s thesis advisor. Huffman, who’s now six years into her teaching career, said she’s proud to have established the mentoring program, particularly because it fits with the Butler College of Education’s mission: To make schools what they should be— not what they are. Huffman teaches five sections of pre-calculus/trigonometry and one International Baccalaureate senior level section of calculus. One of the lessons she shared with her mentees was a classroom session where she broke up her class into groups and gave each group a calculus problem to solve at the board. Once the group finished and had the correct answer, the members were dispersed to other groups until, finally, there was one group of 20. “Some teachers would think that there’s nothing happening there,” she said. “It’s going to turn into chaos. I would say three-fourths of the students were still engaged in that last group, trying to figure out that last problem.” Furuness said Huffman’s work—which earned national recognition from the federal Department of Education in 2016—demonstrates how Butler’s College of Education integrates theory and practice. “So often, the narrative out in the world is that what you learn in teacher preparation isn’t real,” Furuness said. “We’re showing them people who are doing these things. Amanda, Jenny, and Ali help bridge that theory-to-practice gap. Our students tell us over and over again how thankful they are. They like seeing the graduates doing the work.”
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to take their style and bring it to the next level.” And in just three years since graduating from Butler, he has a growing list of clients to prove his point. Celebrities such as Tommy Dorfman and Brandon Flynn (Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why), KJ Apa (Riverdale), Sistine Stallone (model, daughter of Sylvester Stallone), Serayah (Empire), Cordell Broadus (model, Snoop Dogg’s son), Larsen Thompson (dancer/model/actress), Chloe Lukasiak (Lifetime’s Dance Moms), Dascha Polanco (Orange Is the New Black), and Camren Bicondova (Gotham) are just some of who have all taken their fashion cues from him.
Style
The Andrew Gelwicks Course
Gelwicks traces his desire to be part of the fashion industry to well Photo courtesy of Ben Hider before he arrived at Butler. Strategic By Marc D. Allan, MFA ’18 Communication Professor Rose Campbell remembers looking at the website Gelwicks Andrew Gelwicks ’15 is wearing ripped jeans, a white designed when he was in high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, T-shirt, Converse sneakers, and a baseball hat, which seems and being impressed by the modeling, clothing, and design. antithetical to how a stylist to the up-and-coming stars ought to be dressed. “It was a cool, well-done visual, and very clever,” she said. But no, he said. His personal style is to keep things simple. “You see stylists on TV and they’re portrayed as ultraglamourous, running around in heels and designer clothes,” he said. “While that is sometimes the case, the reality of it is that styling is more physically demanding than most people would think. You’re carrying garment bags, you’re bringing racks of clothes around to people’s hotel rooms, you’re standing on set for 12 hours. So I just dress for comfort. I love dressing my clients in very luxurious, high-end clothing, but my personal style is not that.” He added: “At the end of the day, my objective is to make sure that as soon as my client steps in front of the cameras, they look and—more importantly—feel their best. It’s my job
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“We don’t see too many students who have that kind of interest early on.” She added: “We didn’t turn him into what he is; he came here laser-focused on what he wanted to do, and he found that our department was the way to get there.” Gelwicks had looked at a number of schools, but when he visited his older sister’s friend, who was a Butler student, “there was a click between me, the students, and the campus.” He came in as a Strategic Communication major, with a minor in Digital Media Production. After Gelwicks’ first year at Butler, he wanted to do an internship in New York City. Before the end of his first semester, he had six internship offers around the country, including at Hearst Magazines and Vogue. (He went
with Hearst). At the time, the department didn’t have a mechanism to allow him to get credit—something all of the companies he was considering required—so they created a new course, STR199, Field Experience in Strategic Communication.
months in, he met the entertainment editor at Vogue, “an Editor I had been fascinated with for years. I was so curious about her and her job and what she did every day— she books all the celebrities for Vogue, and is such a big force at the magazine.”
“That,” Campbell said, “is the Andrew Gelwicks course.”
Then, by happenstance, Gelwicks ran into her again on the street. She hired him that day and two weeks later, he was handling the celebrity bookings for Teen Vogue. “Butler helped me
He also was interested in the design aspects of Strategic Communication, but the department only had one required design course and no photography or videography courses. Strategic Communication Instructor Armando Pellerano worked with Gelwicks, supervising multiple independent studies where he was able to expand his knowledge on photography, video, and design. “Having an Andrew Gelwicks teaches you about the holes in your curriculum,” Campbell said.
figure out myself, what my priorities are, and my personal goals. If I had gone to school in New York, it would have been very, very different.”
Beyond his coursework, Gelwicks made a splash nationally with articles he wrote for Out magazine and The Huffington Post about being gay in a fraternity. (He published a dozen more pieces for the Huffington site.) And he periodically flew to New York to assist stylists on photo shoots, help out at New York Fashion Week, and to interview for a job. He was adamant about keeping one foot in the city as best he could. “In my senior year, I did a freelance project for Self magazine, helping them with an event they were doing with Drew Barrymore,” he said. “I would sit in the basement of my senior house helping arrange the guests for this 600-person event.” Ultimately, he said, Butler “helped me figure out myself, what my priorities are, and my personal goals. If I had gone to school in New York, it would have been very, very different. The fact that I grew up in Ohio and went to school in Indiana really helped me as I’m now in this hyper-chaotic world with extreme personalities and egos. Coming from the Midwest, I was able to be with people who are really grounded and care about their friends and families. That has been so valuable.”
Building His Own Brand
After studying in Berlin, Germany, his junior year, Gelwicks came back for the fall 2015 semester and graduated in December. He waited a week or two and moved to New York the first week of January. That first week, he had 20 interviews. By Friday, he had accepted a job at GQ, working in the fashion closet. Four
He was there almost a year— booking celebrity talent for the print magazine and digital, and getting to meet up-andcoming actors, actresses, and musicians. But he missed the fashion element of the business, so on the weekends he started doing test shoots for modeling agencies. He would find photographers and models on Instagram and they would come together to create work for all of their portfolios.
For the next six months, Gelwicks did two or three shoots a weekend to put together as much content as possible. In summer 2016, Madonna’s publicist introduced him to an agent who represents Hollywood stylists and makeup artists. He’s been working in that end of the business ever since. Connecting with clients happens in a variety of ways. He will sometimes see someone in a new show or movie that interests him and reaches out, or the talent finds him via word of mouth or social media. His agents bring in new work as well. Right now, his aim is to build his business as much as possible. “I’m working with a lot of great clients who I have a connection with and I feel passionate about—where they’re going, what our vision is, where we want to take their careers.” In the days after this interview, he was scheduled to do two shoots with Cosmopolitan and another with Refinery29, a digital media and entertainment company focused on women. “I’m really enjoying myself,” he said. “This is definitely a high-stress and 24/7 job, but I can’t imagine doing anything else. And going from being an employee to now operating my own business was definitely a learning curve. I didn’t study business, so figuring out how to operate the financial end of things was incredibly overwhelming at the beginning. All of that aside, though, I’m loving every second of what I’m doing.”
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Journey ENJOYING THE
Retirement from Wall Street opens doors
By Cindy Conover Dashnaw
Smita Conjeevaram ’85 was born
in Mumbai at a time when a college degree for Indian daughters was generally a means to one end: A marriage arranged by her family. But Conjeevaram, describing herself as “intense and serious” from her earliest days, had a family that helped her focus on her own goals, rather than on others’ expectations.
For instance, she joined India’s National Cadet Corps at age 18 and became South India’s first female glider pilot. “My mother was very progressive in how she raised me and my siblings,” she said. “She wanted us to be able to rely on ourselves when we grew up.” Conjeevaram has relied on herself all her life. As an adult, holding senior positions at prominent investment management firms for over 25 years, hundreds of other people learned to rely on her, too. Now retired, she continues to keep her finger on the pulse of business and the financial industry by serving on corporate boards, including a public financial tech company, SS&C. And a new endeavor has another audience counting on her: young artisans hoping she can revive global interest in handloom textiles. 28
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A Midwestern Butler Welcome Her father’s electronics and plastics manufacturing company inspired Conjeevaram to pursue a business career. In India, she had earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and was working toward a master’s degree when she met her future husband. He accepted a job with Allison Gas Turbine in Indianapolis to design military aircraft engines, and Conjeevaram packed up and moved with him. She had no intention of altering plans for her life, however. “Ideologically, I was very much about building a career and making the most of opportunities that came my way,” she said. Conjeevaram enrolled at Butler University to pursue Accounting and Business Administration. She remembers how welcome she felt.
“Butler had a very comfortable and approachable ambience, and the professors were fantastic,” she said. “People were curious about my background … but never did I feel like I was different. Everyone had an equal interest in my success and gave a lot of care to making me feel like I belonged.” Conjeevaram adjusted to the informality of an American campus, where it was OK to call professors by their first names and keep your seat when they entered the classroom, and she appreciated Butler’s approach to academics. “While at Butler, I felt I was not only learning through courses directly related to business and finance, but also through a curriculum that included liberal arts classes that brought perspective and provided a well-rounded education, something I missed in India,” Conjeevaram said. Since earning her Butler degree magna cum laude in 1985 and becoming a CPA in 1989, Conjeevaram has held senior positions in some of the most sophisticated Wall Street financial services companies: PwC, Long-Term Capital, Fortress Investment Group, and others. Among other things, she was actively involved in growing the business and designing and bringing about efficiency and controls in operational infrastructure.
Business of a Different Sort
it, the life and culture of the weavers. During a three-year weaving course in Florence, Italy, she also realized her textile books had little visual documentation of old weaving techniques. She later captured her journey on film and turned the footage into a trailer, Threads of India, from which she plans to make a documentary. Meanwhile, Conjeevaram launched online retailer Esse et Cie to create a marketplace for artisans she met and to continue visually documenting textile arts. She hopes that by educating consumers on how products are made, they will appreciate them more.
‘You’ll Never Regret Finance’ In addition to advising young textile artisans, Conjeevaram also has some advice for Butler students. “Finance and Accounting are two courses which you’d never regret studying. They present career options in a wide variety of industries,” she said. “While it is great to plan out your career path and future early on, it’s important to be flexible and nimble to make the most of opportunities that arise. At most times, how you respond will dictate your career path. So go with the flow, take a few risks, and enjoy the journey.”
Now that she’s retired, Conjeevaram has time to devote to her other passions: textiles and philanthropy. She visited every textile center in South Asia, spending three months with weavers and artisans and the nonprofit groups and governmental agencies that support them. She realized that the centuries-old craft of handloom was dying and, with
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COLLABORATION Forging the Way in the Indiana Life Sciences Industry By Monica Holb ’09
When Brian Stemme ’91, Director of BioCrossroads, graduated with an Accounting degree from what is now the Lacy School of Business, “venture capitalist of ideas” in the life sciences industry was not a job description he imagined. He pursued public accounting with his business background and evaluated companies’ financials. From there, he learned the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry by way of Eli Lilly and Company. And then, the Lacy family provided him a spark to venture into a new career—long before they lent their name to Stemme’s alma mater’s school of business. Stemme joined the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series, where he met emerging leaders and engaged with the Indianapolis community. “The program inspired me,” Stemme said. “I wanted to find opportunities to make Indiana better, and I felt like there was more we could do.” Stemme took his first step toward “venture capitalist of ideas” as he and other leaders began exploring what would become BioCrossroads—an organization established to be a catalyst for the continued growth of the life sciences sector in Indiana. After determining that they could make a difference and that the work was important, the group set out with just two years of grant funding to start. Stemme told his Eli Lilly colleagues that he was leaving to pursue the startup nonprofit;
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they thought he was crazy for leaving a stable and successful company. It is highly unlikely they still would call him crazy. His first bet was a good one. After 14 years, Stemme has seen BioCrossroads provide seed funding for 26 companies, help increase local venture capital investment from $7 million to $111 million, create “I wanted to sustainable business models for find opportunities organizations from IndyHub to to make Indiana the Indiana Health Information Exchange, and share knowledge better, and I of the life sciences in Indiana. felt like there The inspiration from the was more we leadership program has sparked new ideas and energy for could do.” the industry. Stemme wants Butler students to know how close they are to this exciting, growing sector—56,000 people work in the industry with an average salary of $95,000, or about twice as high as an average salary in the state, Stemme explains. Further, think tanks
rank the top five states for life sciences as California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina—and Indiana. “And unless we stand up and say that, no one will know, even though we have as much activity and scientific expertise as those states,” Stemme said. It is no accident that Indiana earns these accolades. “Historically, we’ve been lucky to have companies such as Eli Lilly and Zimmer start here,” Stemme said. “But, even better, they have remained here and expanded as their businesses grew.” Many life sciences companies not only perform research and development here, but also manufacture their products in Indiana. This has led to an unusually strong life sciences sector. In addition to these companies, supporters of the life sciences sector, including governments, universities, and philanthropies, are investing in the region. World-class companies and highpaying jobs help make Indiana a desirable place to live. And because it is a good place to live, more companies want to locate here, Stemme explains. BioCrossroads helps to create an environment for companies to thrive. But a hospitable environment still isn’t much without the right seeds. Life sciences, because it relies on scientific
ideas, is about people, Stemme says. “If it is all about the people, a big part of that is how they are educated.” Butler is readying its students to succeed in the industry and is supporting talent attraction and retention activities, according to Stemme. The school is connecting interns and new graduates to life sciences companies and developing relevant post-graduate programs. Butler is also enhancing the student experience with innovative partnerships such as one with 16 Tech and providing thought leadership through initiatives like One Butler: The Brain Project and hosting BioCrossroads talks on campus. Stemme knows collaboration is key in the industry. It is also key to continuing Butler’s success in it. He has collaborated with Butler by serving as President of the Alumni Association and on the Board of Trustees, assisting Internship and Career Services by meeting with students, and, in general, being a connector for the school and life sciences industry. Stemme spends his days evaluating and investing in ideas that will help the life sciences industry grow in Indiana. In Butler he sees an institution that is expanding its collaboration with the industry. And that spirit of collaboration will only help in finding the next big idea.
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Exploring potential colleges, Amy Wierenga ’01 discovered she had too many interests for most. The Grand Rapids, Michigan, native didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life, and she balked at the idea of having to discard some of her passions so soon. A dedicated oboe player and a great student, she wanted to pursue two degrees, in music and pre-law, and a number of other interests. “A lot of colleges said there was no way I could do all that. I definitely couldn’t double major and study abroad and do music, and that was the end of the conversation,” she said. “But Butler University’s reaction was, ‘We’re going to do the best we can to help you pursue all these potential paths.’” And they did. Thanks largely to the opportunities offered at Butler, Wierenga went from career uncertainty to overseeing $20 billion in investments at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York.
Exploring A Multitude of Interests
Butler gave Wierenga the chance to do it all: Double major, run track, play her instrument, study abroad (Buenos Aires, Argentina), be active in student organizations, work as a Resident Assistant (RA), hold a job off campus, and have “two amazing internships that helped me learn I shouldn’t go into law.”
“Butler let me explore all my interests and figure out what I wanted to do,” she said. Wierenga graduated Cum Laude in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a second major in Music and a Spanish minor. Deciding music could always be part of her life, she forged ahead toward a career in finance. She got her first job at a small IT consulting company in Chicago. “The business was entrepreneurial, which was great, but I was in a sales role, talking to people who didn’t want to talk to me. Being conflictaverse, it was probably the worst job I could’ve chosen.”
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A tip from a former Butler professor led to an illuminating job at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “At the Fed is where I really fell in love with what I do,” she said. “As a bank examiner, I was exposed to quantitative modeling of market and liquidity risks, and I was very drawn to it.” She earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and met her (now) husband there. They moved to New York and she got a job with Merrill Lynch, soon learning big banks weren’t for her. A call from BlueMountain changed her career into what it is today.
Giving Back Through Experiential Opportunities
BlueMountain is a $20 billion alternative asset manager for pension funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Hired in 2008 to be responsible for market and liquidity risk, Wierenga became Chief Risk Officer in 2016, running the company’s Risk and Portfolio Construction team. She’s also a host on Butler’s Lacy School of Business annual Wall Street Trek, designed to make students aware of the many professional roles in finance. “Until working at an investment management firm, I didn’t have as rich an understanding of the many types of roles there are for people with different interests in finance,” Wierenga said. “I feel really lucky that I stumbled into work I find intellectually challenging and fulfilling. So, to give Butler students that same opportunity is something I really want to do.” As with the Wall Street Trek, she believes the best Butler has to offer isn’t necessarily inside the classroom. “Butler’s academics are solid, and I had memorable classroom experiences. What I really appreciated was the opportunity to find and define the worldviews that were made possible through the University,” she said. “Growing up in the Midwest, I didn’t see that the world doesn’t always operate in the same way. The servant leadership philosophy is so embedded at Butler.”
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SEPARATED BY MILES BUT FRIENDS FOR LIFE Two Butler Grads Stay Connected for over 50 Years
From l to r: Harold Smith, Norma (Duv alle) Smith, Vivia
n (Rhea) McLean, and Carlos McLe an
By Megan Ward, MS ’14 IT’S A SMALL WORLD.
To clarify, I’m not talking about the song that inevitably gets stuck in your head (apologies in advance). I’m talking about those moments when you discover a new way in which you are connected to a person or a place. Many believe life is about connections and “who you know.” Luckily, current Butler student Briana Lilly ’19 knows Butler alumna Vivian (Rhea) McLean ’42. Briana’s mother happens to be a friend of Vivian’s son and daughter-in-law, so Vivian has been “like an aunt” to Briana her entire life. When it came time for college, she encouraged Briana to pursue her education at Butler just as she had so long ago. When I heard Vivian’s story, I realized that her connection to Butler and Indianapolis runs deep. It is here that she met who would become her dearest friend.
I’m pretty sure if I looked up “friendship” in the dictionary, a picture of Vivian and Norma would be there. After graduating from Butler, Vivian started teaching in a one-room school in Indianapolis. She met her husband, Carlos McLean, when she was in Los Angeles for an AKA event. They talked via phone and wrote for two years before he proposed via long distance. They married in 1948 and moved to San Francisco, California, where they had three sons: Carlos Jr., James, and Arthur. Vivian continued teaching elementary school in San Francisco. Her husband was a chiropractor and also worked at the San Francisco Post Office, where he was promoted to customer service—a rare feat at that time for an African American man.
Norma went in the opposite direction—at least geographically. She married Harold Smith, Alpha Kappa Alpha Event moved to New York, and then to Connecticut where she taught elementary students. Harold Vivian met Norma (DuValle) Smith ’42 at Crispus Attucks opened up the only African American-owned and -operated courtHigh School in Indianapolis, from which they both graduated reporting school in the country. Norma and her husband had a son, in 1938. Then, both graduated from Butler in 1942 with degrees Jan, and a daughter, Pamela. in Elementary Education. And, until recently, both were active Now, Vivian and Norma are in assisted living and speak regularly. members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first Greek-lettered Thanks to their children Carlos and Pam, they recently had the sorority established by African American college women. chance to talk via FaceTime. “They hadn’t seen each other in Over the years, Vivian and Norma shared many interests and about 15 years, so of course they had comments on how each other milestones in each other’s life. Both regularly attended church. looked!” Carlos shared with a laugh. “They seem to be thriving.” Both loved teaching. Both were devoted wives. Both were active in We talk a lot about how “connected” we are today, and some days it the lives of their children and, now, grandchildren. can make the world feel pretty small. They were maids of honor at each other’s weddings. They were like But, if you ask me, true connection is something like what Vivian an “aunt” to each other’s children. And when their husbands died, and Norma have—one that spans more than 75 years and nearly they dropped everything to be by each other’s side. 3,000 miles.
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Briana Lilly ’19 is the recipient of The Dean Herbert F. Schwomeyer Scholarship and also benefits from The Lake Trust Book Fund. Read more about her story at butler.edu/magazine.
CLASS ACTS The ’60s William Skinner ’60 has been awarded the Palm Beach County GOP Jean Pipes Award for male volunteer of the year. David Clark ’62 received the 2017 NARD Ownership Award by the National Community of Pharmacists Association, which recognizes excellence in the field of community pharmacy ownership. (1) Ralph Ogden ’67 was appointed Board Chair and Managing Director of the International Peace Initiatives—United States, which funds an organization in Meru, Kenya, by the same name.
The ’70s Ernest Boyd ’75 received the 2017 John W. Dargavel Medal for Leadership and Service from the National Community Pharmacists Association. (1) Stephen Stanton ’77 has been named incoming President of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court for the 2018–2019 year. John Wharton ’77 was recently elected as a board member for Music for All. (2)
The ’80s Kathy (Summers) Pitts ’81 was recently elected as a board member for Music for All. (3) Norman Lasiter ’82 joins Music for All, a nonprofit educational organization in downtown Indianapolis, as its Office Manager and Executive Assistant. (4) Kevin Wachtel ’82 formed The W Group Consulting LLC as President and Principal. (5) Janet (King) Harris ’84 recently became responsible for recruitment for three homebased travel agency brands, divisions of World Travel Holdings. (6) Brian D. Urbanski ’84 has been named 2017 CFO of the year by Indianapolis Business Journal.
CLASS ACTS Shannon (Cagle) Dawson ’86 has been appointed Director of Public Relations for Indianapolis Classical Schools. Joseph Hornett, MBA ’88 has been named Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Franklin College. Steven Schultz ’88 has been named a 2018 Distinguished Barrister by The Indiana Lawyer. Jennifer Shoup ’89 has joined Wooden McLaughlin in Indianapolis as Senior Counsel.
The ’90s Colleen (O’Donnell) Mockbee ’90 ’94 has been appointed Chief Development Officer of Partner Therapeutics Inc. in Boston. David Marcotte MS ’91 recently accepted the position as Executive Director of the Indiana Urban Schools Association. Brady Ballentine ’93 has been promoted to Head of Business and Government Products at Transdev North America in Pasadena, California. Kathryn (Stevens) Jessup ’93 completed her EdD in Educational Administration at Ball State University. Joseph Zompetti ’93 has received a Fulbright specialist grant to conduct trainings and presentations in political communication in Kyrgyzstan scheduled for February 2019. (7) Mary Dewan, MS ’94 has been appointed as the new Superintendent of Schools for Santa Clara County in California. Renee Nicholson-Bauman ’95 received the 2018 Susan S. Landis Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts given by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History as part of the West Virginia Governor’s Arts Awards. Jeffrey Todd, MS ’95 has been named President and CEO of Prevent Blindness in Chicago, effective April 1, 2018. (8) Lyn (Maddox) Mettler ’96 has written The Step-by-Step Guide to Earning the Southwest Companion Pass. Damien Highfield ’97 is retiring from GroundWorks Dance Theater. Jay Payne ’97 has been appointed Principal of Central Middle School, effective July 1, 2018. Randi Alter ’98 has been appointed Executive Director of the American School Health Association. Michael Braverman ’98 has joined hc1.com as Vice President of Services and Analytics.
Linda Broadfoot ’98 has been appointed to the Invasive Species Council by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb. Matthew Graves ’98, MS ’03 has been recognized as a 2018 inductee to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Gregory Jung, MBA ’98 has joined Seven Corners Inc. as Vice President of Marketing. Eric Payne ’98 was recognized by Financial Times as a Top 400 Financial Advisor, for his work as a Wealth Management Advisor at Merrill Lynch. (9) Erin Roth ’98 has been appointed as Executive Vice President and General Counsel to the Strada Education Network. (10) Robert Seidler ’98 has been appointed as the Principal at Jackson Lewis PC. Lesley Crane ’99 has been appointed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb to commission the Indiana Department of Administration. Brent Rockwood ’99 has been appointed Senior Vice President of Corporate, Community, and Public Relations for Pacers Sports and Entertainment. (11) Jason Whitmer ’99 has been promoted to Partner of Crowe Horwath LLP’s Audit services.
The ’00s Ellen Ferringer ’00 has been named Director of Healthcare at Katz, Sapper, and Miller. Lisa (Gaybrick) Gerke ’00 has been promoted to Senior Manager of Network Operations at CVS Health in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was also awarded participation in CVS Health’s Leaders of Tomorrow program. Veronica Newmann ’00 recently accepted the position of Vice President of Research at ProMatura Group, a global market research and advisory firm. (12) Kimberly (Stephenson) Triplett ’00 received a promotion to a Tenured Associate Professor in June 2017 at Tennessee State University. Lindsay D. Navarre ’02 was sworn-in to office as Judge in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio on October 12, 2017. (13) Rhea Cain ’03 was asked to serve a second term as President of LWV Indy from 2018 to 2020. FALL 2018
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Gregory Humrichouser ’03 held a ribboncutting ceremony for Direct Connect Logistix Inc.’s new $2 million downtown Indianapolis headquarters. Andrew Kossack ’03 has been named as the State Director by Senator Todd Young. Betsy Moppert ’03 completed an EdD in Educational Leadership from Maryville University. Jered Petrey ’03 was promoted to Clinical Recruiter at Ascension St. Vincent. Sean Sterrett ’03 accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Monmouth University. Dana Altemeyer ’04, MS ’07 earned her EdD from Indiana University Bloomington in December 2017. Lindsay Faulkenberg ’04 has been named a 2018 Up and Coming Lawyer by the The Indiana Lawyer. Kate (Korslin) Kennedy ’04 has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of ArtsWave in Cincinnati. (14) Benjamin Langhammer ’04 has been honored with an ASPIRE award at OneAmerica. Ryan Marques ’04 has been hired by Lewis Kappes as a new associate. Travis Steele ’04 has been hired as Head Coach of Xavier Men’s Basketball. Kendra Berardi ’05 was elected to partner at Robinson+Cole firm in Boston, MA. Patrick Reilly ’05 has been named a 2018 Up and Coming Lawyer by The Indiana Lawyer. Kristin Thomas ’05 was promoted to Value Principal within the Value Engineering practice at Skillsoft in Indianapolis. (15)
Christopher Jensen ’06 has been elected President of the Noblesville Common Council. Michael Pettry, MM ’06 has been named as a member of IBJ’s 2018 Edition of 40 Under 40 and has been appointed as Vice President of Development at The Center for the Performing Arts. Alex (Orloff ) Umbach ’06 has joined the Indianapolis-based Cocktails and Chemo foundation as Vice President, an organization which provides care packages, support, and grants to sick loved ones. Emily (Flittner) Fiedler ’07 has joined the Board of Directors of the Growth Alliance for Greater Evansville. Loren Synder ’08 has been named Top 40 Advisors Under 40 by Onwallstreet.com and has been recognized as one of United Way of Central Indiana’s 100 Heroes. Amy (Hartman) Zoellner ’08 has joined The Plaid Agency as a Marketing Project Manager. Bryan Findley ’09 has been hired as the Assistant Volleyball Coach for Clarksville Academy.
The ’10s Alexander Anglin ’10 has been promoted to Area Trainer at the Rheumatology Sales Division at Eli Lilly and Company. He was recently honored with Indiana CPA Society’s Building Bridges to the Profession Award. Drake Branda ’10 has joined Building Partners of Central Indiana as a Business Development Manager.
Jill McKinney, MS ’11 has been appointed to the International Center Board of Directors. Marcella Mangan ’12 has been promoted to Director of Public Relations at Salvi, Schostok, and Pritchard law firm in Chicago. (16) Margaret (Anderson) Phelps ’13 has been appointed to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Indiana. Alex Curtis ’14 graduated from Indiana University School of Optometry in May 2018. He will be starting full time as an Optometrist at Visionworks in Indianapolis. Courtney Foye ’14 has been appointed to Area Director of Dubois County Young Life. Pres Maxson, MBA ’14 recently selfpublished his second novel, Pigeon. Jennifer Briggs, MBA ’15 has been promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of the Indiana CPA Society. Stephanie Pan ’15 has been hired as Marketing Coordinator of Illinois-based company Associated. Lance Smith ’15 has been appointed to Senior Fitness Manager at the StaebergLoup Community Center’s Fitness and Wellness Center. Tori Farr ’16 has joined The Plaid Agency as a Digital Designer. Brack Rowland ’16 has become the Major and Planned Giving Officer for WFYI Public Media of Indianapolis. Eric Dick ’17 has been drafted in the first round of the 2018 Major League Soccer Superdraft by Sporting Kansas City.
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Diana Hilycord ’17 has become a Neuropsychology Technician at IU Health Physicians. (17)
New Arrivals Meredith (Rhudy) Palmison ’04 and Andrew Palmison welcomed Evan Mark on August 14, 2017. Emily (Howell) Lefors ’04 and Jeff Lefors ’05 welcomed Everette Rose LeFors on December 18, 2017. (1) Anne (Hardy) Rose ’04 and Warren Rose ’04 welcomed Evelyn Briar Rose on June 9, 2017. Elizabeth (Goerlitz) Hein ’08 and Brad Hein ’08 welcomed Parker James Hein on April 5, 2018. Sabrina (Hopkins) McMillen ’08 and Brock McMillen ’05 welcomed Greyson Carter McMillen March 7, 2018. Mollie (Welsh) Staniewicz ’11 and Mike Staniewicz ’11 welcomed Connor McCrea Staniewicz on October 30, 2017. (2) Lynn (Vogel) Werckenthien ’11 and Evan Werckenthien ’12 welcomed Alice Jo Werckenthien on February 5, 2018. (3)
Emily (Howell) Lefors ’04 and Jeff LeFors ’05 married on June 4, 2017. Tara (Roberds) Cherry ’10 and Kyle Cherry ’16 married on May 27, 2017.
Angie (Smith) Rice ’12 and Casey Rice married on April 28, 2018. Emily (Elliott) Heck ’12 and Jonathan Heck married on May 12, 2018. Erin (Holm) Collar ’13 and Jonathan Collar ’15 married on June 24, 2017. (2) Chloe (Lyzun) Starleaf ’14 and Christopher Starleaf married June 9, 2018. Mark Willis ’14 and Megan (Schlaeger) Willis ’15 married on September 23, 2017. (3) Molly (Anderson) Pagryzinski ’14 and Adam Pagryzinski married December 30, 2017. Shauna (Kaske) Hormiere ’16 and Pierre Hormiere married on August 4, 2017.
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Amy (Armstrong) Coffing ’11 and Cameron Coffing ’12 welcomed Erin Sue Coffing on July 7, 2017.
Jessica (Dodson) Terlep ’99 and Rev. Dr. Alan Terlep married on March 24, 2018. (1)
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In Memoriam Mildred (Haag) Parks ’39 Jane (Robinson) Merrill ’40 Anne (Calvert) Schuster ’41 Madge (King) Hightshue ’42 Barbara (Belknap) Seawall ’42 Barbara (Kelly) Blare ’43 Elizabeth (Meyer) Gunn ’43 Wilmer Murdock ’43 Betty Jane (Grayson) Scofield ’43 Joan (Kriese) Beaumont ’45 Myrene (Liverett) Steele ’45 Jeannette (Walker) Bradford ’46 Irving Joffe ’46 Helen (Farrow) Risley ’46 Phyllis (Carter) Stucker ’46 Virginia (Coxen) Compton ’47 Marian (Stone) Crimans ’47 Jo (Everson) Miller ’47 Francis Price ’47 Barbara (Patterson) Smith ’47 Kenneth Bayless ’48, MS ’62 Warren Hendryx ’48 Joanna (Jennings) Bemis ’49 Suzanne (Ramey) Carr ’49 Robert Mehl ’49 Jack Anderson ’50 Richard Barr ’50 Sherry (McDowell) King ’50 Robert Petzel ’50, MS ’60 George Steel ’50 Constance Zeller ’50 Barbara (Jungclaus) Campbell ’51 Robert Clapp ’51, MS ’58 Barbara (Churchman) Doherty ’51 Rosemary Green-Turhune ’51 George Keller ’51 George Kendall ’51
Robert Madden ’51 Janice (Belcher) Rhoads ’51 Floyd Tague ’51 Barbara (Kidd) Vandivier ’51, MS ’67 Loren Woerner ’51 Orvis Burdsall ’52 Charles Hine ’52 Ralph Jansen ’52 Nancy (Harkless) Russell ’52 Robert Cook ’53 John Holmes ’53 Everett Latham, MS ’53 Pat (Parrish) Marmion ’53 William Moody, MM ’53 Ruth (Myers) Stellhorn ’53 Barbara Hutton ’54 John O’Hara ’54 Donald Smith ’54 Joe Whitehead ’54 Robert Hall, MA ’55 Mary (Stultz) Kennedy ’55 Sara (Spradling) LeBien ’55 Laverne Lindamood ’55 Richard Hess ’56 Patricia (Thompson) Nichols ’56 Judy (Woolgar) Wilson ’56 Mary (Conine) Fayerweather, MA ’57 Elizabeth (Fleming) Miner ’57 Margaret (Loomis) Avery ’58 Donald Hipes ’59 Beverly (Bibler) Foltz ’60 William Huff ’60 Robert Renfro ’60 Guy Tillett ’60 Stephen Challman ’61 Frederick Ham ’61
John Helmer ’61 Theodore Hood ’61 Martha (Mayer) Hooper ’61 Margaret (Herd) Layne, MS ’61 John Schuchman ’61 Thomas Wise ’61 Robert Horton ’62 David Kotzbauer ’62 Robert Ray ’62 Joel Leaman ’63 Maten Gerdenich ’64 Deloris (Reynolds) Jones, MS ’64 Donna (Emmons) LaFollette ’64 Mary Margaret (Partenheimer) Webb, MS ’64 Larry Lachey ’65 Thomas Weeks, MS ’65 James Campbell ’66 Arthur Chandler, MS ’67 Wayne Ferrill ’67 Donald Hess ’67 Dale Mace, MS ’67 Margaret (McKinney) Payne, MS ’67 Wilma Taylor, MS ’67 John Walsh ’67 Lyle Brewer ’68, MS ’71 Stephen Cole ’68 Ann Gootee, MM ’69 Ann (Coral) Parke, MS ’69 Mary (Thurston) Samuelson ’69 Betty (Quick) Brodhecker ’70 John Glover, MS ’70 Sally (Whitaker) Kidney, MS ’70 Elizabeth Templeton, MS ’71 Barbara (Alsop) Walenga ’71 Desma Way, MS ’71 Arlene (Webber) Hancock, MS ’72
Thomas Sughrue ’72 Toni (Loo) Timmons, MS ’72 Catherine (Brooks) Vance, MS ’72 Samuel Wasmuth, MS ’72 Mary Jane Allison ’73, MS ’74 Wallace Anderson, MM ’73 Francis Barron, MS ’73 Joseph Collier, MS ’73 Sandra (Finch) Fowler, MS ’73 Beverly (Johnson) Platt ’73 Stephen Wargo ’74 Don McKibben, MM ’76 Carolyn Natalie, MS ’76 Frank Huse, MBA ’80 Elizabeth (Brumby) McElhiney, MS ’80 Janet (O’Neal) Dizney, MS ’81 Lavon (Stark) Ferger, MS ’82 Teresa (Welte) Pijut ’82 Paul Gianakos ’83, MS ’90 Daniel Keller, MS ’83 Patricia Roberts ’83 Lydia Delon ’84 William Smock ’86 Shirley Ahlbrand, MS ’87 Mark Uchida ’88, MBA ’96 Timothy Bratton, MS ’93 Deborah Agard, MA ’95 Amy (Meyer) Schomacker ’98 Susan Flora, MS ’03 Daniel Thompson ’06 Aubrey Conard ’15 Hugh Barker—Former Trustee Irving Fine—Former Faculty
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