DePauw Magazine Fall 2011 by DePauw University

Fall 2011

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KYLE SMITLEY ’07

an entrepreneur with a calling for service PAGE 10

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IT’S GREEK TO ME Grab some costumes, with a bit of dancing and lots of energy. Then merge it all with scholarship and a good cause, and what do you get? Greek Week at DePauw, of course. The weeklong festivities highlighted DePauw’s many Greek chapters, ending with Greek Pride Day and crowning of a Greek God and Goddess. This year, in addition to their philanthropic efforts, chapters held a Greek community BBQ, relay race between different chapters, scholarship night study sessions in Roy O. West Library and Percy Lavon Julian Science & Mathematics Center atrium, and an inter-chapter trivia match-up.

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THRIVE

THINK

LIVE

On the cover: Kyle Smitley ’07,

Documentary film trip sends Professor Sherry Mou and her students to Inner Mongolia

A look at first-year programs and the role they play in turning students into graduates.

DEPARTMENTS

STAFF

founder of Barley & Birch, is an entrepreneur with a calling for service.

Letters

News

28 Recent Words 31 Alumni and Advancement 36 Class Notes Cover photo by Melissa Barnes.

Christopher Wells vice president for communications and strategic initiatives christopherwells@depauw.edu

Jennifer Clarkson Soster ’88 executive director of alumni relations jsoster@depauw.edu

Larry G. Anderson senior editor landersn@depauw.edu

Contributors: Melissa Barnes, Jonathan Coffin ’06, William Pike, Duncan Wolfe ’11, Linda Striggo, Dawna Wilson and Chris Wolfe

Kelly A. Graves director of publications kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Larry G. Ligget editorial assistant, photographer larryligget@depauw.edu

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DePauw Alumni Association Officers Marcus R. Veatch ’75, president Brent E. St. John ’89, vice president Gilbert D. Stanley ’82, secretary

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letters Editor: I saw the notice in your last issue of the new screen on the Alumni Gateway that lets alumni connect with students, which I thought was great. It made me stop and think a bit about what the DePauw alumni network has meant to me since I was a student. Keith spent an entire year persuading me to enroll at DePauw. Though DePauw “felt” right, I was skeptical about leaving my foundation in Kansas and trusting the DePauw community with the next phase of my life. During my four years at DePauw, programs such as Management Fellows and ITAP connected me to alumni like Tom Fagan ’98, Beth Owens ’89 and Dave Becker ’75, who were willing to mentor me through internships and my college startup, Booksnag.com. Younger alumni RJ Talyor ’02 and Nate Romance ’02 pulled me into their company, Exact Target, as part of their first internship class. Toward the end of college, alumni at notable companies across the country, such as Jason Becker ’04 and Allison Andrews ’08, pushed my credentials to the top of their companies’ recruitment short list. When I left my job to run my hobby website consulting business full-time, the DePauw network was, again, waiting to take care of me and send me on my next adventure. Friend and fellow economics major Brandon Burriss ’09 had already lined up my first consulting project: a two-month project to build health databases in Kenya. In the year after Kenya, I slept on couches of DePauw friends and acquaintances who had become my web design clients: Matt Newill ’09 (Denver, founder of TrueHeroTies.com), Kyle Smitley ’07 (San Francisco, founder of BarleyandBirch.com), Ben Baenen ’08 (Chicago, founder of SendaSmore.com), Beth Owens ’89 (Fort Worth, Texas, founder of BrandEra Marketing). I’m currently starting a new company in Cincinnati, WellthyApp.com – it’s an

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online social competition for employees that makes getting healthy fun. The DePauw network is already clamoring to bring Wellthy into their companies.

I changed my plans and matriculated at DePauw, pledging Sigma Chi. In the fall of 1955 (following a long winless streak for DePauw), some fresh

“I’m forever indebted to the immense impact of DePauw alumni who have supported me during the past few years. I can only hope that I'll be in a position to do the same for motivated DePauw students in the future.” RYAN D. TINKER ’09

I’m forever indebted to the immense impact of DePauw alumni who have supported me during the past few years. I can only hope that I'll be in a position to do the same for motivated DePauw students in the future. Had I only realized sooner the number of doors to which the DePauw community would open my world, I would have made my college decision much sooner and saved Keith Stanford hours on his cell phone bill. Ryan D. Tinker ’09 Cincinnati Editor: It was Bud Vear ’50 (letter about sports exploits in the summer issue) who prompted me to write this. I had committed to Wabash and pledged Phi Gamma Delta to play football on a team with a winning tradition. But a Monon Bell Classic in Crawfordsville changed my orientation 180 degrees. I agonized while watching the Cavemen, starring the legendary Stan Huntsman, bury the Tigers 47-0. There was a stirring in my gut as I exited the bleachers. I said to myself: I want to be on a team that avenges. So,

faces hit the gridiron, and things to be had a promise. If my memory serves me, they were: Dave Bridgford, Skip Mathieson, Jack Johnson, Dene Knight, Dwight Tallman, Dick McCracken, Clark Taylor, Don Boveri, Pat Ewing, Bill Adams, Tom Campbell, Jim Braden, Dick Hackenberg, Tom Holthouse, Ron Turner and Morrie Goodnight. Ex-marine Bob Fink was our captain. After DePauw lost the first two games to Evansville and St. Joseph, the cloud lifted, and the star-studded Tigers bounced Ball State 19-6. Then the supreme moment arrived: the sole reason DePauw was my choice. In the last three seconds of the game against Wabash, Fearless Freddie Williams booted the field goal that is immortal in our grid history, ringing and returning the bell back where it belonged: DePauw 23, Wabash 20. And down came the goal post. If you peruse the ’56 Mirage, you will see the famous droodle, i.e., the sphere between the goal posts beneath the clouds. My DePauw jacket may be seen in DePauw Archives. I left it there at my 50th reunion. On the back, it reads: DePauw 23 Wabash 20. Don M. Dixon ’57 Battle Creek, Mich.

Editor: I enjoyed reading the “11 in 2011” story in the last issue of DePauw Magazine. It’s nice to get a sense of DePauw students today and to see where they’re headed. As was the case when I graduated in 1993, DePauw’s liberal arts students seem to be going off in all different directions, which is a very good thing. In my day, DePauw students were involved in a variety of areas, so it’s good to see we still have graduates all over the map: a philosopher who is also an athlete about to enter law school, a writer who is also a musician working as a marketing strategist, a biochemist committed to service work while pursuing a degree in public health, and an economist who was an Ethics Intern working for a software technology company. It’s wonderful how DePauw’s graduates are always game to take things on and to make the most of their days. There is an important difference between DePauw graduates of 1993 and those of today, though. I was one of few students of color in my class. Today’s classes are more diverse, and I was happy to see signs of this in the “11 in 2011” feature. Reading about students from all over the world, I thought of how lucky today’s graduates are to have been educated in an environment that will prepare them for real-life diversity and internationalization. I hope DePauw continues to build on the gains it’s made in this area. Thanks for featuring such a great group of students. I hope you’ll share some stories from next year’s graduates when summer rolls around again. Lisa Henderson Bennett ’93 Indianapolis We want to hear from you! Submit your letter to: DePauw University, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN, 46135-0037. Or email landersn@depauw.edu.

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS THAT MATTER MOST President Brian W. Casey

As you will notice, DePauw Magazine has changed. There is a new look and feel as the magazine has undergone a redesign, but there is also a change in focus. When I arrived in Greencastle in 2008, I said that DePauw was a jewel of an institution that deserved to be better known across the country and around the world. I argued that those of us who love this school should not be shy in speaking about DePauw's history and its strengths. This redesign is part of that effort. In the years since my arrival, I have indeed had opportunities to share stories about what is happening at DePauw across the globe. On many of these travels, I meet with alumni, and I have had wonderful conversations about the state of American higher education and the elements of a liberal arts education. But on most trips, I find that DePauw alumni often ask a few key questions. How are things on campus? (The campus feels good; it feels like it is moving forward.) Are students still inspired by faculty, and faculty by students? (They are.) Are young people coming out of their shells and finding their paths? (They are.) Do they help and support each other? Do they encounter the new and the difficult, and do they rise to the challenge? (Yes, and again, yes.) Do we still continue to produce leaders in every imaginable walk of life? (To a very remarkable extent.) Students still arrive here full of potential, and with truly wonderful regularity, they move through their years here toward that promise, and each spring we send a class off into the world, where they do remarkable things. These are the questions I am asked – because our alumni recognize that this is the story worth telling about DePauw.

Beginning with the one in your hands, every issue of DePauw Magazine will work to answer these questions and tell our story, by focusing on our academics, the way our students live and the many ways in which they thrive after commencement. I also know that in the years ahead we will have stories to tell of DePauw’s growing strengths, its increasing reach and reputation. I have little doubt that DePauw is on the verge of moving swiftly and surely into the highest ranks of liberal arts colleges. Every now and then, you can witness an institution moving surely forward, entering into the national ranks of schools universally admired and regarded. Over the next several years, we will report on how we are improving the DePauw educational experience, how we are improving the campus, how we are improving faculty quality and faculty support, how more and more students of growing achievement and promise are applying to and enrolling at DePauw. This is the story worth telling about DePauw, and with your help and support, we will keep telling it. I hope you enjoy this issue of DePauw Magazine. Write in and tell us what you think about your alumni magazine. It, along with the entire university, will need your input to bring it to the heights we seek. Sincerely,

Brian W. Casey

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news TRAP AND SCOOP. CRADLE. BODY CHECK.

Lacrosse will be added as a menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s varsity sport at DePauw, effective with the 2012-13 academic year. DePauw students have been playing club lacrosse, and they will continue to do so through the coming academic year.

The addition of lacrosse as a varsity sport is made possible by a generous gift of $1 million from trustee Steven L. Trulaske â&#x20AC;&#x2122;79, and by leadership gifts from James K. Baker â&#x20AC;&#x2122;53 and Joe and Nancy Hollingsworth â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;72. Their gifts will fund start-up costs and the initial operational expenses of the two teams. A national search is under way for lacrosse coaches, who will work with lacrosse participants as they continue to play a club schedule during spring 2012. With menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse, DePauw will have 23 varsity athletic teams.

WHAT WAS HAPPENING 175 YEARS AGO?

ENERGY WARS!

Since its introduction in fall 2008, the Energy Wars programs have saved DePauw almost 250,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity usage and 700,000 gallons of water. The program, in which residence halls and Greek houses compete to cut down on energy and water waste, has grown in impact each year, and has saved DePauw more than $16,000.

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Number of students who work each semester to keep WGRE radio on the air 24/7.

Do you think times were a lot different in 1837 when Indiana Asbury University, which later became DePauw University, was founded? How about this: New York City banks failed and unemployment levels reached record levels in what was known as the Panic of 1837, Martin Van Buren was inaugurated as eighth president, the first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactured Worcester Sauce, Congress recognized the Republic of Texas, and Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber patent.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE CLASS OF 2015

Dan Meyer, vice president for admission and financial aid

When Frogs Fly Can frogs fly? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one of the questions investigated during student-faculty summer research projects. Working with Biology Professor James H. Benedix, sophomore Ashley M. Conard, junior Stephen G. Hesterberg and sophomore Luke B. Miller designed an experiment to study the falling behavior of frogs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a behavior that is referred to as parachuting, essentially a gliding behavior. Some frogs actually do jump out of trees, and the DePauw group wanted to determine if and how frogs can slow their descent to avoid injury. The students built a 12-foot-high wall, marked it like a ruler and set up two video cameras to record the frogs falling. Then they figured out a formula to calculate the frogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; acceleration using the videotape. As with all good experiments, the students needed a control group, so they added toads. Can toads fly? Not so much. There is a serious scientific significance to the research. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The importance of the study is that we were able to document the first step in the evolution of what could eventually become gliding behavior,â&#x20AC;? Professor Benedix said. THE JOY OF INCOMING STUDENTS. One has a hobby for growing bonsai trees, currently caring for 20 of them. Another competed in the Team USA 4x400 Junior Olympics. And one first-year sang for both President Bush and President Obama as a high school choir member.

The leaves have turned â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fall is here. At DePauw, fall is perhaps the best time to see this campus at its finest. As our admission staff begins another recruiting season, this is also a time to reflect on DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class of 2015. Numbers can only tell a portion of the story, but some of them are interesting: 5,234 applications, the second highest in University history; 29 percent of the class represent either domestic diversity or international students; SAT middle 50 percent improved to 1640-1990; and we enrolled more men than women for the first time in recent history. I take a specific approach in evaluating the success of our admission efforts. When all of the various goals and objectives are reduced to their basic form, three primary admission and financial aid goals emerge. These include: Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; 0.!*#0$!*%*#Ć&#x17D;0$!Ć&#x17D; !)% Ć&#x17D;,.+Ăľ(!Ć&#x17D; of the students who enroll at DePauw. Clearly, there is evidence of continued success in this endeavor. While I never merely match statistical numbers from one class vs. another, the comparative academic strength of DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class of 2015 is clear. Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; 1/0 %*%*#Ć&#x17D;0$!Ć&#x17D; %2!./%05Ć&#x17D;+"Ć&#x17D;0$!Ć&#x17D;/01 !*0/Ć&#x17D; we enroll. DePauw has made remarkable strides in its efforts to achieve greater diversity in the students we enroll, the faculty and staff we employ, and the life-changing experiences we provide through the wide array of multicultural experiences both on and off campus. Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; '%*#Ć&#x17D;0$!Ć&#x17D; !/0Ć&#x17D;,+//% (!Ć&#x17D;1/!Ć&#x17D;+"Ć&#x17D; financial aid funding. Like individual households, DePauw has a financial budget within which we must work in balancing all of our objectives.

This past year saw successes in each of these areas, and also (as with every year), room for improvement. This year, the Admission Office will set up operations in a new location, and we will work with newly redesigned recruiting materials, aimed at better telling the story of DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich academic opportunities and of the ways in which our students benefit from unique experiences offered at DePauw to launch their lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. We are looking forward to bringing in the Class of 2016. It is encouraging, though, to take one more look back at the class we just welcomed to campus. Assisting with MoveIn Day in August is one of the highlights of any recruitment cycle. To see so many wide smiles and receive handshakes and hugs from so many new students make all the effort that goes into the recruitment process feel well worth it. I was proud to see the members of the Class of 2015 assemble for the Opening Convocation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I am confident they will use their remarkable talents to make a difference, both at DePauw and in the world. As we move forward, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to thank all the alumni and friends of DePauw who have taken the time to recommend students to us. If you know of a promising high school student you think should be hearing from DePauw, please feel free to let us know (via email at admission@ depauw.edu). Thank you for all your support. Sincerely,

Dan Meyer

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5,234

ADMISSION APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FOR THE ENTERING CLASS OF 2015 – THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER IN DEPAUW'S HISTORY.

“For more than 40 years, Page Cotton has been at the heart of DePauw’s athletic culture. As we position our athletic facilities and programs for success in a new conference, I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have leading these efforts.”

ENTERING STUDENTS WHO COME FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, EQUATING TO 11 PERCENT OF THE FIRST-YEARS.

New Heights for the DePauw Bubble Members of the DePauw BASE Program prepare their balloon for launch at Space Jam 5 in Rantoul, Ill.

ENTERING STUDENTS WHO WERE EITHER VALEDICTORIAN OR SALUTATORIAN OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS.

ENVIRONMENTAL FELLOWS, NATURALLY Count study of the environment and environmental issues as the latest addition to DePauw’s fellows programs. With a four-year focus on issues ranging from environmental policy to environmental science, the new Environmental Fellows program was designed to foster an

interdisciplinary understanding of the environment and the issues and questions that surround it. It will be the University’s fifth Honors and Fellows program, and features three main components – coursework with an environmental focus, an internship and senior seminar. Students choose three classes from the sciences and three from art, humanities or social sciences in addition to the senior seminar. The internship will enable students to have an extended, intensive research experience. James “Jim” H. Benedix, professor of biology, and Michele T. Villinski, associate professor of economics and management, are Environmental Fellows Program co-directors. This year the program is accepting lateral-entry applicants – sophomores this fall and first-year students in spring 2012.

Ever let go of a balloon outside and wonder how high it went? If it was a balloon in DePauw’s Balloon Assisted Stratospheric Experiments (BASE) program, pretty high. BASE’s 67th balloon flight, which was part of Space Jam 5 at Rantoul, Ill., featured a helium-filled balloon that carried an assortment of radios and meteo-

rological sensors into the stratosphere and climbed to a height of 125,200 feet before the balloon burst. “This is the eighth highest altitude ever achieved by a latex balloon, and exceeded the previous record in the BASE program by more than 20,000 feet,” according to Howard L. Brooks, Paul B. Kissinger Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and chair of his department, who oversees the BASE program. “Although the balloon made a track above the earth’s surface that was 70 miles long, the distance between the launch and landing points was only 4.4 miles. This is fourth shortest distance ever for a stratospheric balloon flight. No single flight has ever made the record books for both maximum height and shortest distance.”

STUDENT STRIKES CONGRESSIONAL GOLD

Senior Bryan A. Sable received the Congressional Award Gold Medal on June 23 in recognition of his community service efforts, environmental activism and personal development. The Congressional Award is the United States Congress’ award for young Americans. Sable has mentored troubled young people through the Haven program and volunteered with such efforts as Special Olympics and the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life. He also traveled to Costa Rica to conduct research on endangered sea turtles.

The 520-acre DePauw Nature Park plays host to dozens of faculty and student research projects every year.

PRESIDENT BRIAN CASEY, about Director of

Photo by Ralph Alswang/Clinton Foundation.

Athletics Page Cotton and his new appointment as senior adviser to president Brian W. Casey where he will lead efforts to raise funds for investments in DePauw’s athletics programs and facilities.

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THE UBBEN LECTURE SERIES CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY. In 1986 Timothy and Sharon Williams Ubben, both Class of 1958, earmarked one of their many gifts to DePauw for a new lecture series that would “bring the world to Greencastle” and expose students to the world’s most influential and thoughtful people. On Nov. 5, 1986, Richard Lamm, then the governor of Colorado, came to campus as the first Ubben Lecturer. Twenty-five years and 90 events later, Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd president of the United States, came to DePauw on Nov. 18, marking the 25th anniversary of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series.

PLAY-BY-PLAY

How many sports contests have been broadcast live on WGRE radio so far during 2011? 130 – including DePauw football, men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, field hockey, baseball and softball as well as Putnam County high school football and basketball. WGRE is a fully student-run radio station and broadcasts music, commentary and sports programs 24 hours a day. FALL 2011 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 7

“I know better than anyone that DePauw can shift the very axis of the earth, because that’s what it did for me. I’ve seen students come here great and leave even better. And I’ve seen [others] come here green and leave more worldly and wise. I’ve come to expect great things from you.” PROFESSOR GREG SCHWIPPS ’95, the Richard W. Peck Professor of Creative Writing and associate professor of English, speaks of his expectations for the first-year class

during a speech at opening convocation.

RECRUITMENT, PHILANTHROPY BRING NATIONAL AWARD TO DEPAUW GREEKS

Run for it! The women’s track and field team was recognized for its academic excellence and named an All-Academic Team by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

DEPAUW DISCOURSE WITH YO-YO MA MUSIC POWERS ARTS-FOCUSED WEEKEND ON CAMPUS

DePauw’s Greek women are getting kudos for their work in recruitment and philanthropy. The National Panhellenic Council (NPC), an umbrella organization for 26 international women’s fraternities and sororities, recently presented DePauw’s Panhellenic Council with the Membership Recruitment Award. The NPC cited DePauw’s Council – in particular – for its no-frills recruitment style and limited spending. They noted that DePauw chapters brought philanthropy to the recruitment process, prioritizing community 8 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2011

service and service to the campus. Student members of Panhellenic Council represented DePauw and participated in the national conference held Oct. 15 in Austin, Texas. “The DePauw Council’s application – especially its efforts to have a positive impact on sororities on campus – really spoke to the awards committee,” said Nicki Meneley, executive director of the conference. “DePauw has always had a strong Greek heritage, so it’s good to see them recognized.”

DEPAUW GRADS AMONG TOP WHO TEACH FOR AMERICA

Improve education in America. That’s what an increasing number of DePauw students want to do. In fact, DePauw is among the top contributors of individuals to Teach For America’s 2011 teaching corps, with 15 May graduates and one 2008 alumna beginning their two-year TFA commitment this fall. DePauw ranks seventh among the nation’s small colleges (enrollment of 2,999 or fewer undergraduates) for the number of graduates joining TFA this year.

For a few days in late September, it seemed that music might erupt at any moment on the DePauw campus. A concert on the Greencastle town square. Trumpets sounding in Holton Memorial Quadrangle. An orchestra in the Union Building. The music was beautiful, featuring students from DePauw’s School of Music, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and, perhaps the world’s greatest cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. The string of performances were part of the latest edition of DePauw Discourse, a campus tradition that brings alumni, distinguished guests, faculty and students together in stimulating discourse about important public issues of the day. This year’s events brought Yo-Yo Ma and a host of other guests to campus to explore the role of the arts in empowering society. The two-day series of lectures, panel discussions and performances explored issues ranging from the empowerment of youth through the arts, to the relationship between the arts and diplomacy, to the connection between

leadership and creativity. Discourse also featured Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Heart of a Soldier, James B. Stewart Jr. ’73, leading a conversation about the power of music and how his work of nonfiction was transformed into opera. For his part, Yo-Yo Ma – who is Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago – spent nearly three days on campus and performed on numerous occasions, including during an evening lecture in Kresge Auditorium where he performed the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1. He also performed with the DePauw Orchestra in a flash-mob performance during lunchtime in the Union Building, and later visited and performed at Asbury Towers, a Greencastle retirement community. As a bookend to this year’s events, Yo-Yo Ma joined his colleagues in the Civic Orchestra for a Friday evening performance to a sold-out audience in DePauw’s Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts.

DOING GOOD Doing Well by

Organic Clothing and a Commitment to Service: A Profile of Kyle Smitley ’07 by Jonathan Coffin

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A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN YOUR EARLY TWENTIES. If you work hard, you might graduate

from college, even get a great job. You might fall in love – with another person, with a passion, with something. And this all happens in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar new people. Bottom line: College grads deal with a lot of new things. And just pulling off the basic tasks of life as an adult will likely be pretty challenging. (Have you ever tried cooking a real meal in a galley kitchen?)

“I loved it, but it was an unpaid internship and it was using approximately zero of my double majors,” she lamented. So, in addition to her day job, she answered a post on Craigslist and became a part-time consultant doing research for the owner of a collection of children’s clothing boutiques in the Washington area. Smitley’s new boss wanted to open a store with an environmental twist, but she knew nothing about the industry, the eco-friendly clothing or the science behind it. Enter Smitley’s research. For the uninitiated, eco-friendly clothing is a big deal. It’s a fast-growing, $5.61 billion industry known for its environmentally conscious “I saw a big gap in the market for a brand that consumers. Some of the nahad really high standards, was really outspoken tion’s biggest brands now sell about it, and would use whatever profit we could organic clothing lines. Adisqueak out to make a difference somewhere.” das, Nike and H&M all sell organic lines. Other brands – such as Patagonia – make sustainable producRather than basking in the sun of southtion a centerpiece of their brand story. ern California, Smitley found herself among With this as the backdrop, Smitley looked the throngs of interns who descend upon the at everything from pacifiers, to mattresses Capitol every summer. n 2007 Kyle Smitley was like a lot of college graduates. The double major in philosophy and geology had worked hard for four years, and she wanted to take a bit of time off. “My brain hurt,” said the Defiance, Ohio, native. “I needed a break.” She had visions of San Diego, off surfing all day, mixed in with a bit of yoga. When she wasn’t on the beach, she’d work on law school applications. Her parents, on the other hand, had a different vision, one that involved a bit more productivity.

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to wooden toys, with a particular eye for the materials and raw ingredients that were going into children’s clothes. What she found made her angry, incensed really. Technically, for cotton to be labeled as officially organic, it must meet strict federal regulations. Toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizers are forbidden, as is the use of genetically engineered seed. Yet, while these rules and regulations provide guidelines about the cotton that goes into garments, they have no bearing on the sustainability of the rest of the clothing production process. “There was a lot of deception,” Smitley said. “Companies saying that this garment is organic and saving the planet, when it was actually sewn by people in shady sweatshops, dyed using really toxic dyes and printed using chemical-laden inks.” “I saw a big gap in the market for a brand that had really high standards, was really outspoken about it, and would use whatever profit we could squeak out to make a difference somewhere.”

As she saw it, there was a void in the children’s clothing market, a void to be filled by a company that was truly, and fully, committed to non-toxic, organic production of highquality clothing, while also using its profits to give back to communities in need. What began as research for someone else would put Smitley on a path to launching her own business that – in a matter of three years – would be on track to sell nearly 400,000 garments, with a presence in nearly 200 stores worldwide.

mitley’s friends tend to speak of her energy. They talk of an infectious personality, or her constant peppiness, or her commitment to the causes she cares about. “I always think of Kyle as being like a shark,” said Brandi Browning, who started law school with Smitley at the University of Toledo in 2008. “She’ll die if she stops moving.” For someone who started a business while simultaneously enrolling full time as a law student, such a seemingly endless supply of energy was probably a good trait to have. After all, there was a lot to accomplish and a limited number of hours to make it happen.

RIGHT: TWO OF BARLEY & BIRCH’S TOP SELLING DESIGNS, THE HIPPO AND SUSHI BEAR..

As Smitley pegged it, the six months after she made the decision to start Barley & Birch became the “how the hell am I going to do this” phase. It was now the fall of 2008. Smitley needed to figure out a production plan. Where would she get her cotton? Who would sew it? Who would dye it? With what? She needed a company to help her with her branding. She needed someone to build her website. Perhaps most of all, she needed to find someone who would give her $10,000 to fund the whole effort. And, as if to underline the fact that starting a business is an enormous undertaking, Smitley was trying desperately to get her start while – all around her – the entire economy was crumbling amid the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Though credit was scarce, she managed to land a micro-finance loan to kick-start her operations. She started developing designs. She put together sales sheets. She’d take breaks from class to email potential suppliers.

By January of 2009, she was finally ready to reach out to retailers. “I don’t know why we did it then,” she said. “It was right after the holidays. It was at a really gnarly point in the recession. It was really just the worst timing ever.” Nonetheless, she got her first sale, a sale she credits to the unlikely help from a non-traditional group of partners: mom bloggers. There was no money for advertising, and no money for any sort of traditional marketing. Nearly all Smitley had was a smile and the energy of her personality. She made a lot of friends, and she knew that friends among influential mom blogs would be an enormous help. One of those bloggers was Emily Elling, a mother of three from Indianapolis, who became one of Smitley’s initial converts and posted an early review of a Barley & Birch one-piece baby outfit. Elling runs a blog called “Simple Reviews” and also contributes regularly to Babble.com, a staple of the online world of mom blogs and websites. For moms like Elling, blogs, Twitter and Facebook have helped foster a community to share opinions and offer support. “I think that companies are finally realizing that as moms, if we have any spare time, we’re not watching soap operas,” Elling said. “We’re online, engaging with each other, talking about a really cool thing a company did, or a really uncool thing that a company did. Word gets around pretty quickly.” Word did seem to get around pretty quickly, and customers liked what they saw from Smitley’s line of children’s t-shirts, pants and one-piece baby outfits. They even started re-

LEFT: SMITLEY MEETS WITH DESIGN STAFF ABOUT BARLEY & BIRCH’S SPRING 2012 COLLECTION.

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BARLEY & BIRCH FEATURES ORGANIC COTTON, DYES AND INKS. SMITLEY PRIDES HERSELF ON PRODUCING HIGH-QUALITY CLOTHING, BUT DOING SO SUSTAINABLY. HERE SHE REVIEWS BASIC CONCEPTS AND SAMPLES.

RIGHT: DANCING PENGUINS, GOLDFISH AND SCARF-WEARING BEARS ARE FRONT-AND-CENTER IN THESE THREE BARLEY & BIRCH DESIGNS.

questing that their local stores start stocking Smitley’s line. “My kids love it,” Elling noted. “It’s a little bit different, really a lot a bit different. It’s not your typical teddy bears and football prints.” That’s probably an understatement. With the help of lead designer Jodie Milmore, Barley & Birch definitely has a fresh look. One t-shirt design features a graphic with a hippopotamus wearing snorkeling gear. Another design includes a grid of 16 lion heads, each with its own expression, including one with a Mohawk. One shirt has five polar bears, with one wearing a scarf. One of the more popular designs? It’s a bear with chopsticks eating sushi. “To a kid, it’s silly,” Milmore said. “It’s a bear doing something that bears shouldn’t do. But at the same time, bears eat fish, so it isn’t too far off.” It’s almost as if Milmore and Smitley build a puzzle into each design, a puzzle that’s fun for children and parents alike.

to Barley & Birch because of their commitment to sustainability, to local agriculture and to giving back to worthy causes. Smitley meant it when she said she wanted to run a company with really high standards. Barley & Birch cotton is organically grown in North Carolina. The garments are also sewn there and then dyed and printed with water-based “With us, you’re paying for completely organic. pigments. The company offYou’re paying for fair trade, and less carbon sets its carbon emissions and emissions. It’s about shopping responsibly.” makes donations to a host of charities and good works. On a practical front, moms like Elling “While we’re making this super safe for found that Smitley’s clothes wore well. They children,” Milmore adds. “We’re making sure were durable. The organic cotton made them it isn’t made by children somewhere else.” softer and gave them a more natural cream The customers seem to notice. color, which meant that they didn’t show dirt “The biggest feedback we hear, post-purthe way traditional white cotton might. chase, is that ‘my kids won’t take this off,’” For the budget conscious, many Barley & Smitley said. “But the biggest feedback we hear Birch designs are unisex, making them atduring the purchase is, ‘this is cute, and it’s so tractive as hand-me-down clothes in multiple cool that you’re a responsible company.’ I think children households. it’s just sort of icing on the cake for them.” “My oldest daughter can wear them, and If the numbers mean anything, it must be a then they’re still really cute for my son in a few good cake. years,” Elling said. “They’re just very simple, The company broke Smitley’s initial expecand they lack a lot of the frilly stuff that you tations and turned a profit in year one, sellfind everywhere else.” ing nearly 10,000 garments. In year two, that And then, of course, there are those drawn number jumped to 75,000 garments, and she

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expects to sell nearly 250,000 garments by the end of year three. Less than 10 months after her first sale, Inc. magazine included Smitley in its “30 Under 30” rankings, a listing of the nation’s coolest young entrepreneurs. She’s also been named a Greatest Person of the Day by the Huffington Post, and counts celebrities like Sheryl Crow, Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman among her customers. It’s been a good run, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few growing pains.

he challenges for Smitley are mostly self-imposed, in a sense. Not only does she give a portion of her profits to various charities, but she also set other markers that add to the complexity of her venture. She has a strong aversion to taking on debt, which means a tricky balancing act that can impact cash flow. Smitley also draws heavily on relatively small-scale fabric manufacturers, which means she has a constant eye on the supply of available fabric. The firm’s growth has given it more leverage to make larger orders and negotiate better pricing, but it’s still a concern.

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TOP: STUDENTS AT THE BARLEY & BIRCH FOUNDATION SCHOOL IN THEIR AFTERNOON FRENCH LESSONS. MIDDLE LEFT: MATH CLASS IN THE BARLEY & BIRCH FOUNDATION SCHOOL. MIDDLE RIGHT: THE CHILDREN IN THE BARLEY & BIRCH FOUNDATION HOME SING AND DANCE WITH ACTOR RAINN WILSON OF THE OFFICE. BOTTOM LEFT: SMITLEY ENJOYS A SWIM WITH CHILDREN OUTSIDE PORT-AU-PRINCE. BOTTOM RIGHT: THE CHILDREN SPENT THEIR SUMMER LEARNING TO PLAY A VARIETY OF MUSIC INSTRUMENTS.

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On a more obvious front, the very environmental standard at the center of her firm’s reputation is also the source of some of Smitley’s most significant obstacles. With inks and dyes entirely derived from natural sources such as marigold, indigo or pomegranate bark, she’s at the mercy of agricultural realities. Something as simple as a summer drought or too much rain can cause a mini-panic in the production process.

“Our designers might be bummed out because we want a particular shade of blue,” Smitley said. “But the crazy plant we get blue from didn’t get the amount of rainfall it normally does, so we can’t absolutely achieve the level of turquoise called for in our design.” As might be expected, a certain degree of flexibility is standard practice for Barley & Birch. Yet, that flexibility doesn’t necessarily transfer to customers, particularly when it comes to the price point of Smitley’s line of clothes. Put bluntly, her clothes can be expensive, as much as $30 per t-shirt for a kid that’s likely to grow out of it in a matter of months. When a comparable, non-organic shirt can sell for as low as $7.50, Barley & Birch pricing can seem steep. It’s a problem Smitley doesn’t take lightly, and is working hard to solve. She takes particular issue with competitors who she says claim organic status because they use organic cotton, but cut costs with the use of traditional (read non-organic) practices on dyes and screen-printing. As Smitley and Milmore see it, their competitors aren’t being entirely truthful. “With us, you’re paying for completely organic,” Milmore says. “You’re paying for fair trade and less carbon emissions. It’s about shopping responsibly.” It’s a nuanced pitch, but it’s a pitch that works. “I can find cheaper clothes, for sure,” Elling said. “But I feel really confident supporting [Smitley] and supporting her company because of what she does with her profits.” Not surprisingly, the sale section of the Barley & Birch website is a hot spot for bargain seekers looking to take advantage of discounts. Yet, Smitley is adamant that despite the high price point and the challenges that come with it, her success is directly related to her company’s willingness to give back and do good with the money it makes. “If we weren’t giving away money, we would not be making as much money as well,” she said. “It’s just the reality of the situation.” For her part, Smitley wears a symbol of the social impact she hopes her company can

make: an equal sign tattooed on her left wrist. It represents what she calls a commitment to equal opportunity across the globe, and provides a constant reminder of the challenges facing children all around the world. Smitley often contrasts the childhood she had growing up in the Midwest with what she saw on a high school trip to when she was 16. “Haiti was the first time I really saw people just completely starving,” said Smitley. “These kids didn’t have anything to eat, and the only difference between me and them was being born a few thousand miles apart. And because of that our lives were so incredibly different. It was just really unfair.” With the success of Barley & Birch, Smitley suddenly had an opportunity to really tip the scale in favor of those kids she met in Haiti and others like them.

creation with actor-turned-White-Housestaffer Kal Penn. Yet, her biggest breakthrough came a few months earlier at a conference sponsored by Fortune magazine in San Francisco. Each year, the magazine hosts an event to feature the world’s most powerful women entrepreneurs. It’s the sort of event that demands a lot of mingling and a really good elevator speech. And to be fair, Smitley had a good one. She’d talk about Barley & Birch and mention the brand’s commitment to organic, nontoxic manufacturing. She’d highlight the fact that they also give a lot of money away to worthy causes. “Our big mission is to give parents a really healthy choice for clothing for their kids, and we use the money to give other kids a better life as well,” she’d say. For the well-heeled, it was a compelling story, a story that made them excited. Donors – including Berkshire Hathaway’s uring the early days of Barley Warren Buffett – wanted to support her vi& Birch, Smitley would make small sion, but she had no way to accept it. No donations to dozens of potential nonprofit status. No vehicle for accepting charities or causes. She might give charitable contributions. No mechanism for to support sustainable agriculture partnering with other organizations. education in Belize or to help fund shelters for “They had checks ready to give me, and I victims of abuse in Kenya, but it was always in could do nothing,” she said. relatively small donations. It was then, on Smitley’s 26th birthday that With the help of some big names and a the Barley & Birch Foundation was born. new organization, those small donations were Armed with foundation status, she could about to come together in a bigger, more fonow accept donations to leverage the money cused way. her company was already contributing to In light of her early success, Smitley recauses she cared about. ceived a slew of invitations to attend conferDonors are lining up to help. Cash Warences on entrepreneurship. Just this past sumren, a producer and husband “Our big mission is to give parents a really healthy of actress Jessica Alba, sent a check. Office pools were choice for clothing for their kids, and we use the sending money. The owners of money to give other kids a better life as well.” a mom-and-pop toy company also joined the cause. The results speak for themselves, and Smitmer, she was one of 20 business owners invited ley made Haiti – the site of her high school to the White House for the Buy Young Sumservice trip – the centerpiece of the foundamit, the outgrowth of a national campaign to tion’s early work. support young entrepreneurs. She had lunch On June 1, the Barley & Birch Foundation with Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, and opened an orphanage for 20 kids in Port-auSenator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., joined a Prince. It will open a school later this fall, and roundtable discussion with Judy Woodruff of a new home for girls is in the works. PBS, and then held breakout sessions on job

Smitley’s model is rather simple. The foundation builds a school, or an orphanage, and then finds co-sponsors to fund the operations and make it sustainable. “You can be personally invested,” she tells donors. “This is your orphanage. It’s your baby.” For now, at least, there is no shortage of people willing to lend a hand.

t would be an incredible understatement to say that there have been a lot of new things in Smitley’s life over the last few years. She’s a law school graduate. She’s widely known as an up-and-coming business owner, and she’s built a company despite having a non-existent background in business and almost zero industry experience. Yet, you get the sense that Smitley is never completely satisfied. There’s always something new on the horizon, some new idea cooking in her head. When asked what life as a young entrepreneur feels like, she’ll tell you that it sucks, that it’s hard work and that nobody takes you seriously. It’s also obvious that she loves every minute of it, that it gives her opportunities that wouldn’t have otherwise been there. “This is my calling,” she says. “I’m basically a five-year-old that never grew up. I love my job.” DM

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ABOVE: THE CREW (L TO R) INCLUDE CHRISTOPHER GRANGER ’11, SETH TSUI ’11, BETTY CAO ’12, STEFAN O’NEIL ’12 AND TAVIAN LUCAS ’12.

ON MAY 10, 2011,

INNER MONGOLIA

Li Lindong, a coal truck driver, hit and killed a goat herder in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China. The herder, Mergen, had tried to block Li’s path through his pasture, but neither fate nor physics were on his side. Reports later said that the truck dragged Mergen more than 100 yards before it came to a stop. Across the ocean, Professor of Asian Studies Sherry J. Mou was preparing for a trip. She and five DePauw students received a sizable grant from the ASIANetwork Freeman StudentFaculty Fellowship to film a documentary about Inner Mongolian culture. It was to be a comprehensive study: Christopher R. Granger and Seth J. Tsui, both 2011 graduates, would explore the region’s ecology and music, while current seniors Betty Cao, Tavian J. Lucas and Stefan B. O’Neil would focus on food, rites of passage and religion. After the group arrived in Hohhot, the capital, their hosts at Inner Mongolia Normal University would escort them during three weeks of filming. “When we first met about this project less than a year ago, I don’t think the students knew anything about the region,” Mou says. “It’s not very often that I have an opportunity to teach students about something completely new and get them excited about it in such a short period of time.” Meanwhile, anti-mining protests were spreading in Inner Mongolia. Mergen belonged to the ethnic Mongol minority, and Li was Han Chinese – the largest ethnic group in China and, for that matter, the world. To demonstrators, the incident represented a clash of cultures the Mongols were losing. To the Chinese government, it was an isolated hit and run. As the DePauw students found out, the truth is somewhere in between.

Documentary Film Project is DePauw Group’s Ticket to Cultural Experience by Christopher Wolfe

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ABOVE: ETHNIC MONGOLS PERFORM ON TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS AS DEPAUW STUDENTS AND GENGHIS KHAN (ON THE WALL) LOOK ON.

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THE NIGHT BEFORE

Xilin Gol

Chifeng HOHHOT Ordos

GEOGRAPHY: LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, INNER MONGOLIA SHARES A BORDER WITH THE COUNTRIES OF MONGOLIA AND RUSSIA. DEMOGRAPHICS: CHINA'S HAN CHINESE POPULATION COMPOSES NEARLY 80 PERCENT OF INNER MONGOLIA'S POPULATION. MONGOLS ARE THE SECOND LARGEST ETHNIC GROUP AT ROUGHLY 17 PERCENT OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS INCLUDE THE DAUR, THE EVENKS, THE OROQEN, THE HUI, THE MANCHUS AND THE KOREANS. HISTORY: UNITED BY GENGHIS KHAN, THE MONGOLS GREW FROM FEUDING WARLORDS TO BECOME THE LARGEST EMPIRE IN HISTORY. GENGHIS’ GRANDSON, KUBLAI, CONQUERED CHINA, WHILE MONGOL POWER EXTENDED AS FAR AS CATHOLIC EUROPE. BUT THEY HAD STRETCHED THEMSELVES TOO THIN. AFTER A CENTURY OF MONGOL RULE, THE HAN RETOOK CHINA AND QUICKLY BUILT MOST OF WHAT REMAINS OF THE GREAT WALL. THE MONGOLS AND HAN WERE AGAIN UNITED UNDER THE MANCHU QING DYNASTY IN THE 17TH CENTURY, LASTING UNTIL THE HAN-BACKED CHINESE REVOLUTION OF 1911. THE COUNTRY OF MONGOLIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS CHAOS, BUT HAN FARMERS HAD SETTLED THE SOUTHERN MONGOL LANDS, KEEPING INNER MONGOLIA IN CHINESE CONTROL.

the DePauw group’s departure, Mou received an urgent message from their hosts at Inner Mongolia Normal University. They wrote to tell Mou that the Chinese government was clamping down in response to the demonstrations. Travel and Internet connections were blocked in Xilin Gol, the area where the incident had taken place, and at universities around the region. Finally, they asked Mou to delay the trip. She wrote back to say that six international tickets are not the kind of thing you delay on such short notice. Her group would arrive in China regardless. Mou awoke the next morning to an email inbox overflowing with yet more requests to delay the trip. At this point – hours before the flight – there was little she could do. Mou phoned the group’s travel agent in Beijing and asked to have their schedule changed. The travel agent, however, hadn’t heard of any such demonstrations. This reassured Mou; she knew the Chinese government was well practiced at nipping these things in the bud. “In the back of my mind, I had confidence that the government would contain the demonstrations,” Mou says. “In other areas, where ethnic conflicts are more common, the government is very good at isolating troublemakers. I don’t mean this as praise, but democracy delays that kind of efficiency.” After spending a week in and around Beijing waiting for tensions to die down, Mou

and the students finally made their way into Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. The two capitals look very different despite being a short distance apart. Throughout Hohhot, shop signs and billboards are written in both Chinese characters and the ribbon-like Mongolian script. Even for Chinese visitors, it’s a near-foreign experience. Despite the group’s delayed arrival, signs of the government's crackdown remained in effect. Roads north of Hohhot to Xilin Gol were blocked by government checkpoints, supposedly to prevent “foreign interventionists” from adding fuel to the fire. With the north off limits, Mou and her students instead planned a route through the region's southern prefectures, from the eastern grasslands of Chifeng to the desert industrial hub in Ordos to the west. In the city, where Mandarin is the common tongue, Mou and Betty Cao could easily translate for the rest of the group. But as they traveled deeper into the Mongolianspeaking steppe, they relied on the help of the mostly ethnic Mongol students who had accompanied them from the university. The conversations often worked like a game of international telephone. When they met a Mongol to interview, a question would be translated from English to Mandarin, then from Mandarin into Mongolian. Then the process would reverse. LEFT: A VIEW OF EASTERN INNER MONGOLIA’S GRASSLANDS, WHERE FILMING BEGAN.

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LEFT: SETH TSUI ’11 STANDS IN FRONT OF A GER, THE TRADITIONAL STEPPE HOME STILL USED BY HERDERS AND SUMMER VACATIONERS.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS: DYNASTY: A SEQUENCE OF POWERFUL LEADERS FROM THE SAME FAMILY. GER: A PORTABLE STRUCTURE TRADITIONALLY USED BY MONGOLIC NOMADS IN THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA. BECAUSE OF ITS THICKER WALLS, IT FEELS MORE HOME-LIKE THAN A TENT. PREFECTURE: A SELF-GOVERNING BODY OR AREA. IN MODERN-DAY CHINA, PREFECTURE IS THE LEVEL IMMEDIATELY BELOW A PROVINCE. STEPPE: A LARGE AREA OF FLAT UNFORESTED GRASSLAND IN ASIA. YUAN: THE MONETARY UNIT OF CHINA, WITH ROUGHLY 6.5 YUAN TO ONE U.S. DOLLAR.

As they traveled through Chifeng, they played the telephone game with Mongol herders and families over tea, meat and cheese. They even helped one man erect a ger, the circular tent home common among central Asia nomads. Although, as Mou tells it, he might have been better off without them. By the time Mou and her students circled back toward the west, news came out of Xilin Gol that Li Lindong – the coal-truck driver – had been sentenced to death. It was reported that Mergen's family approved of the way the government handled the situation, which helped to dampen the protests. The common sentiment among people the students interviewed, however, was surprise

that demonstrations had even taken place – not because they didn't believe it, but because Han Chinese and Mongols have shared the border region peacefully for so long. “They have existed like this for centuries,” Cao says. “Mongols and Chinese have been in this area for so long that they have cultivated a close relationship.” In recent years, that relationship has become very valuable. China's economic boom created a new vacationing class eager to spend newfound wealth on travel. Many Han Chinese are lured north of the Great Wall by tales of great conquerors and the romance of nomadic culture, making tourists Inner Mongolia’s biggest herd.

Accommodating these visitors is proving to be a lucrative way for ethnic Mongols to preserve their heritage. In fact, each of the eight students who joined Mou’s group from the university in Hohhot was in school for tourism. During their journey, the group passed through some of the most popular tourist attractions: an outdoor movie set, lined by boulders carved with the titles of movies that had been filmed there; a Mongol-themed village where vacationers could stay in authentic gers; and everywhere, monuments large and small dedicated to Genghis Khan, who the Chinese have wholeheartedly –and ironically – adopted as their own. Mou and her students arrived in the southwestern prefecture of Ordos just in time to film a ceremony held at the mausoleum of the Great Khan. Herders from the area visit the ceremony grounds with their goats and horses in tow, offering the fruit of their labors to the spirit of Genghis Khan in exchange for his blessing. Most Mongols moved away from shamanistic beliefs long ago, but it remains a part of their culture. The Ordos mausoleum is one of many dedicated to Genghis Khan (none of which actually contain his body), but it is certainly the most impressive. A giant mounted Genghis welcomes visitors at the entrance, and nearby, life-sized statues of Mongol riders march across a field. You might think of it as a battle for disposable income that Genghis Khan won from his grave, like a Graceland on the steppe, but it’s what lies beneath these monuments that made all of Ordos' above-ground grandeur possible.

IF EVERYTHING’S BIGGER in Texas, everything’s biggest in Ordos, whose wealth and industry stands in stark contrast to the pastoral Chifeng prefecture. Ordos dug incredible wealth from the ground in the form of coal and rare earth metals. China provides 97 percent of the world’s supply of these met-

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FAR LEFT: ONCE AN ENEMY OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE, GENGHIS KHAN IS NOW A NATIONAL HERO. TOP: TSUI, O’NEIL AND LUCAS TAKE A BREAK FROM FILMING ON THE ORDOS DUNES. BOTTOM LEFT: A HERD OF MOPEDS IN A CROWDED HOHHOT MARKET, WITH MONGOLIAN SCRIPT APPEARING NEXT TO CHINESE CHARACTERS ON A NEARBY BUILDING. BOTTOM RIGHT: THE REGION’S POWERFUL WINDS CARVED OUT DISTINCTIVE ROCK FORMATIONS IN CHIFENG’S ASHIHATU STONE FOREST.

als, crucial to the manufacture of high-tech equipment. Much of it comes from the Ordos mines, making the southern prefecture the wealthiest in Inner Mongolia and among the richest areas in all of China. Dongsheng, Ordos’ administrative seat, is a thriving cosmopolitan center. Its streets are filled with high-priced imports, luxury cars and designer clothing. “It was like walking along Fifth Avenue, no matter where we went,” Mou says. This prosperity put so much strain on the city’s water supplies that a second city needed to be built at a nearby reservoir. Impossibly, Kangbashi, a district of Ordos, is even more impressive than Dongsheng. Its library was built in the shape of giant books leaning against each other. A herd of dozens of horse statues – each unique – gallops along the man-made canal that runs through the city center. In the parks, buildingsized monuments depict the stories of Geng-

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his Khan’s rise to power, from birth to death. Yet, as Mou and her students traveled through the city, it often seemed as though they were the only ones there. It would be easy to mistake Kangbashi for a perfectly preserved ruin spread over 14 square miles of empty

IT’S NOT VERY OFTEN THAT I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW AND GET THEM EXCITED ABOUT IT IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.” PROFESSOR OF ASIAN STUDIES SHERRY J. MOU

buildings. Of the hundreds of thousands of people Kangbashi was built to house, only a small fraction has moved in. And yet, private construction continues at a healthy pace on the ghost city’s outskirts. Inner Mongolia’s future has already been built.

To the south, other cities have sprouted up out of nowhere. They have been built to house ethnic Mongols who have sold their land rights to the government, abandoning a way of life that has been theirs for thousands of years. The Mongols are not a monolithic group. Many have lived in the city for generations and have long forgotten how to speak their own language. Others take summer retreats to the steppe with ger and a few goats. But thousands live as they have for centuries, moving between mountain and grassland with their herds as the weather seesaws through the seasons. There is fear that these herders are increasing the rate of desertification in the driest areas of Inner Mongolia. The herders – more specifically, their cashmere goats – are eating themselves into a corner. As the demand for high quality cashmere grew among tourists, Mongol goat herds swelled to unsus-

tainable sizes, stripping protective vegetation from the soil and turning steppe into sand. In response, the Chinese government has constructed enormous honeycombed antierosion barriers, and barbed wire divides once open plains into fixed grazing plots. These new obstructions are especially challenging to the psyche of a nomadic people. One surprised Mongolian national told Mou, “You’d never find barbed wire back home.” The government pays herders to move into its ready-built cities in the south. One government official gave a compelling defense of its relocation program to the group. Fertile land is simply disappearing at too great a rate to provide for every herder, and the compensation is typically generous. A family might be offered many thousands of yuan to relocate to a furnished city home. Lost in the interview footage was the presence of a police officer who stood a foot behind the students the entire time. The same police officer turned up at their hotel later that day to observe them.

The carrot-and-stick approach to hospitality, however, could not cover up the fact that Mongols are also losing their traditions to the demands of Chinese industry. Both desert and mines are advancing on the steppe. For herders caught in the middle, moving into a furnished city apartment isn’t a perfect solution. “The herders’ biggest concern was if you accepted the government’s aid and moved to the city, you were not allowed to return to the steppe again,” Seth Tsui says. “You would give up your home and your connection to the land itself. If you listen to their songs, the lyrics are often about the land being a beautiful and vast expanse. You would lose that. And in the city, the jobs require a lot of education or training; the herders only know one thing. This is their struggle right now.” When Mou and her students left Inner Mongolia in late June, they had recorded more than 60 hours of footage, all of it needing to be catalogued and shaped into a cohesive story.

During a five-week workshop, they added animated maps, voice-overs courtesy of Timothy A. Good, associate professor of communication and theatre, and subtitles for interviews. “It was their first documentary, and I’m proud of that,” Mou says. “But when we got back, the students almost immediately began to apply the experience to other things they are doing in school or in life – planning a new documentary, or looking for an internship back in the region. That’s what I’m really happy about.” By the beginning of fall semester, they had trimmed 60 hours down to 60 minutes. The final documentary will be screened at ASIANetwork’s annual conference in spring 2012. DM

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THE COLLEGE TRANSITION:

TURNING STUDENTS INTO GRADUATES by Christopher Wells

Sarah excitedly opens up the acceptance letter sent to her from the college of her choice. This was the moment she’d been anticipating for months. This was why she’d visited all those schools and written all those college essays. And now it was official, she was going to college. It was her first choice, and she would be the first in her family to attend. At her rural high school, most students don’t go on to four-year colleges, but she is confident that – with hard work – she can get the education she needs to launch an ambitious career. She wants to be a doctor. Charles opens a similar envelope. He has also been accepted to his first choice college, and he thinks that with the right amount of financial aid, he’ll be able to attend. As far as he knows, no other students from his inner-city neighborhood will travel so far from home. He’s never traveled outside his neighborhood, and he is both excited and terrified. He would never tell them, but he is anxious about leaving his family behind. He wants to be an engineer. Despite the best of intentions, one of these kids probably won’t make it.

ight now, the chances are only a little better than 50/50 that students like these young people will end up with a degree once they enroll. Although the story is much better at elite schools like DePauw, the national six-year graduation rate for undergraduate students is a mere 55.5 percent. This means that almost half of the mil-

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lions of young men and women who begin their college education every fall still won’t have a college degree six years later. At some point these students believe that they have what it takes – intellectually, emotionally and financially – to become college graduates, but something happens on the way that keeps them from reaching their goal. And it usually happens early. Most students leave after the first year. This is despite the best efforts of schools to support and retain their students, and in spite of a growing national awareness of the importance of higher education for American workers and the nation’s economy. The need to produce successful college graduates is clear. Jamie P. Merisotis is president and chief executive officer of Lumina Foundation, the nation’s largest foundation dedicated exclusively to increasing students’ access to and success in college education. He makes the case that today “there is a high probability that you’ll be poor without some form of postsecondary education, and that makes education one of the most critical factors in our nation’s long-term economic growth plans.” More and more careers in this country are closed off to those who only have a high school diploma. Currently, only about 41 percent of America’s adults have a college degree.

At the same time, the demographics of college students have been changing, and an increasing proportion of college-age students are first-generation students, having grown up in a household in which no family member has gone to college. All new college students face challenges as they learn to take full charge of their own educations and begin to live away from home, often for the first time. These challenges can be even greater for firstgeneration students, for whom the collegiate environment can be wholly unfamiliar, and who can struggle with anxieties about whether or not they belong there. SO HOW DO WE HELP OUR STUDENTS MAKE IT? By now, almost all American colleges and universities have developed special programs for first-year students to help them make the transition to life at college. Some schools use a brief orientation period at the beginning of the first year. Others have a special advising structure for new students. Or a course particularly designed to help new students learn what is expected from them in and out of the classroom. Some schools look for ways to introduce a sense of community and even fun into that crucial first year.

“I ACTUALLY CHOSE TO COME TO DEPAUW BECAUSE OF THE MENTOR PROGRAM. I KNEW KIDS WHO CAME TO DEPAUW, AND THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW GREAT THE EXPERIENCE WAS.” KELSEY QUIGLEY ’12, CURRENT MENTOR

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MENTOR GROUP ORIENTATION ISNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T ALL WORK. NEW STUDENTS AND MENTORS ALSO SPEND TIME SOCIALIZING AND GETTING TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS. .

For more than a decade, DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy has relied on a program that does all these things. DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Year Experience includes orientation, programs in the residence halls, academic advising and a special First-Year Seminar (see sidebar on page 27). For many new students, however, the most compelling part of DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Year Experience is the Mentor program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually chose to come to DePauw because of the Mentor program,â&#x20AC;? says Kelsey L. Quigley, Class of 2012 and a current Mentor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew kids who came to DePauw, and they talked about how great the experience was.â&#x20AC;? DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mentor program was introduced in 1999, part of the overall First Year Experience program that was built around a series of specially designed first-year seminars. These interdisciplinary courses emphasize discussion in small groups, exploration of ideas, careful reading of texts and critical thinking. Classes are small, with plenty of opportunities for discussion and interaction with the

professor and other students. The professor is the academic adviser for the students in the course, and an older student Mentor is assigned to each seminar group. The Mentors and their first-year students (â&#x20AC;&#x153;menteesâ&#x20AC;?) meet outside of class to participate in programs and discussions about college life and campus issues. New students learn about where to get help if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re struggling academically or emotionally, but they also have fun. When Quigley spoke with us, she had just finished leading her first-year students through a â&#x20AC;&#x153;time capsuleâ&#x20AC;? exercise. The mentees were asked to write a letter to their older selves, laying out their hopes for their first year and the things they worried about. Quigley will mail the letters to them at the end of their first year, to remind them of how far theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come and what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve achieved. Mentors are selected through a competitive application process. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a certain degree of pride students associate with the program.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I LOVE WHAT DEPAUW HAS BEEN FOR ME THESE PAST FEW YEARS. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M EXCITED FOR WHAT IT WILL BE FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER ME.â&#x20AC;? JOSH SANCHEZ â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12, CURRENT MENTOR

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love what DePauw has been for me these past few years,â&#x20AC;? said Josh Sanchez, a senior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited for what it will be for those who come after me.â&#x20AC;? AND THE PROGRAM WORKS. The year that DePauw introduced the First Year Experience program, retention of students immediately rose. Students give a lot of credit to the Mentor program for providing support on multiple fronts. The Mentors connect students with the resources they need, from reference librarians to writing support to quantitative tutoring to counseling. Mentor groups also give new students an immediate sense of community, a place to turn for answers or support in getting through the highs and lows of the first year at college. Quigley puts it simply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;On my first day at DePauw, I already had 15 friends. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different, in that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not just dropped into a sea when you get here.â&#x20AC;? Rather than assuming that new students will eventually connect with the resources they need, mentors help new students navigate through everything from feelings of detachment, to identity crises, to management

of heavy academic workloads, to selection of classes, but their role isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to steer their mentees in any specific direction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just like throwing options on the table, letting them see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available, so they can make their own choices,â&#x20AC;? says Daniel K. Cetina, a senior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what a liberal arts education is all about.â&#x20AC;? There is also something powerful about the guidance students receive from peers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so close in age to our firstyear students, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been exactly where they are â&#x20AC;&#x201C; clueless about who they are and how they fit inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to build these strong relationships,â&#x20AC;? senior Mentor Jared Norman says. Students will turn to their Mentors with challenges they might not feel comfortable sharing with older staff or faculty members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to help not because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re perfect, but because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had all the same difficulties,â&#x20AC;? adds Patrick Ledwidge, a junior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our job isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to push ourselves into their day-today lives, but to build a support system with the other students in their Mentor group so when they need it, they know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there.â&#x20AC;? Kelly A. Harms, a Mentor from Franklin, Tenn., says that new students may benefit most from knowing that they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone. She says Mentors frequently encounter students who keep their anxieties to themselves because they think they are the only ones who are struggling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It helps to know that there are others who have had all the same challenges,â&#x20AC;? she says. THE MENTORS SERVE AS SUPPORT TO EACH OTHER AS WELL. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the Mentors are different and have their own leadership styles, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a real strength of the system,â&#x20AC;? says Michelina Ferrara, a senior from Staten Island, N.Y. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really make use of each other, and I would absolutely turn to another Mentor if I was having a hard time reaching one of my students.â&#x20AC;? The Mentors themselves benefit from the program, too, in developing leadership skills, and in learning about the complex ways universities work. They play an active part in helping administrators to improve the program each year.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One cool thing about being a Peer Mentor is getting to shape the kinds of info that new students get to hear, and the resources theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get connected to,â&#x20AC;? Peer Mentor Marshana S. Roberts says. DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recently reported first-tosecond year retention rate was more than 92 percent, but the University is still as concerned as any school about helping new students make the jump to college life successfully. Cara L. Setchell, associate dean of students, oversees the Mentor program. She believes that the program should be constantly improving and adapting itself to the needs of DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As good as the program is, it has to keep getting better, if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be the kind of support our students deserve,â&#x20AC;? says Setchell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re extremely proud of our Mentors and the work they do, every year. Getting to work with these remarkable students is one of the best parts of my job.â&#x20AC;? Students such as Sarah and Charles will keep coming to DePauw every fall, and every spring young people like them will march across the stage to receive their diplomas. At a school like DePauw, the years between should be challenging. But they should also be joyous, full of self-discovery, new friendships and new possibilities. The Mentors make sure the challenges donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overwhelm the joys, and in the process they become better leaders, and better people. As Mentor Olivia Flores puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how much we learn when we help others.â&#x20AC;?

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS. ENTERING STUDENTS ARE GIVEN A LIST OF FIRST YEAR SEMINARS, AND THEY CAN RANK THOSE THAT ARE OF MOST INTEREST TO THEM. THEY ARE THEN ASSIGNED TO A COURSE AND GO THROUGH THEIR FIRST YEAR AS PART OF A MENTOR GROUP WITH THE OTHER STUDENTS IN THEIR SEMINAR. THIS YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFERINGS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS: Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D;

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Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D;Ä&#x2022;Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH? Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D;Ä&#x192;Ä&#x201A; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; SCIENCE FICTION Ä?Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; AN INTRO TO WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S STUDIES Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D; CORE VALUES

STUDENT MENTORS (L TO R) PATRICK LEDWIDGE â&#x20AC;&#x2122;13, DANIEL CETINA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12, JARED NORMAN â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12, MICHELINA FERRARA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 AND MARSHANA ROBERTS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN THEIR WORK.

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recent words FACULTY NEWS

Sandy Williams, jazz guitarist and adjunct instructor of music, appeared in a nationally televised PBS special, “Michael Feinstein: The Sinatra Legacy,” on Aug. 22. Williams was featured accompanying Feinstein on the song “Fly Me to the Moon” in the program, which was taped in May at the Palladium in Carmel, Ind. JAMES C. GIESEN ’95 Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South (The University of Chicago Press) Between the 1890s and 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean, destroying tens of billions of pounds of cotton and leaving behind countless tales of its attack. In Boll Weevil Blues, Giesen weaves together the stories of wealthy planters, tenant farmers, politicians, scientists and blues singers to tell the full history of the boll weevil’s invasion of the South. While the stories suggest that the pest destroyed southern plantation life forever, Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South. Giesen is an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University and executive secretary of the Agricultural History Society.

WILLIAM S. HAMRICK ’66 and Jan Van Der Veken Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty’s Fundamental Thought (State University of New York Press) This is the first book-length account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts that he did not know about in order to complete his last ontology. The treatment is enriched by several of Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished writings not previously available in English. William S. Hamrick is professor emeritus of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville and has written and edited several books, including Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought.

MATTHEW J. HERTENSTEIN, associate professor of psychology, and Sandra J. Weiss, editors The Handbook of Touch: Neuroscience, Behavioral, and Health Perspectives (Springer Publishing Company) Touch has received increased attention during the last few years, with growing recognition of its profound importance to all facets of life. The Handbook of Touch is the first authoritative, state-of-the-art resource for scientists, scholars and students interested in the neurobiological foundations of touch and its many applications. This text provides an in-depth overview of the conceptual and empirical scope of the field. Chapters are written by internationally known experts on touch from the behavioral, health and neuroscience disciplines. Hertenstein, who also directs the Touch and Emotion Lab at DePauw, has conducted research on touch from both developmental and social perspectives.

ROGER B. NELSEN ’64 and Claudi Alsina

KENT A. ONO ’87 and Michael G. Lacy, editors

MAYNARD D. POLAND ’57

STEVE RITTER ’77

Icons of Mathematics: An Exploration of Twenty Key Images

Critical Rhetorics of Race

On Wings of Trust (Barringer Publishing)

Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams

(The Mathematical Association of America) The authors present 20 icons of mathematics – that is, geometrical shapes such as the right triangle, Venn diagram, and yang and yin symbol – and explore mathematical results associated with them. Their proofs are visual whenever possible, and the results require no more than high-school mathematics to appreciate. Still, many of them will be new even to experienced readers. In addition to theorems and proofs, the book includes many illustrations and gives connections of the icons to the world outside of mathematics. Roger Nelsen is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Lewis & Clark College. Nelsen and Alsina collaborated on three previous books about mathematics.

(New York University Press) According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States is enjoying a post-racial age, seen most vividly in Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency. Others claim that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this collection, scholars examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. Chapter contributors from a range of academic backgrounds challenge traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. Ono is professor of Asian American studies and media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Maynard Poland tells the true story of Captain Carole Leigh Litten, who proved worthy of the trust of 114 passengers and crew by skillfully landing a crippled aircraft that had suffered two major emergencies. This memoir describes her search for the explanation of the engine failure that caused the emergencies. The book also recounts Litten’s struggle to become a navy, then a commercial pilot. Along the way, she overcame gender bias and resisted harassment, faced bogus threats of court-martial and endured imposition of needlessly dangerous pilot training maneuvers by instructors. Her navy adventures include anecdotes about physical fitness and wilderness training, tracking Russian submarines, fatal episodes involving fellow pilots, collection of information for feedback to atomic subs and survival of an attempted kidnapping into white slavery in Senegal.

(MawiBooks) Steve Ritter is an internationally recognized expert on team dynamics, and his clients include Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams and educational organizations. For the last 25 years, he has helped those groups create breakthrough results. His teambuilding tool, the Team Clock, gives teams a concise language that they can use to communicate and provide a way for them to harness the power of conflict, build trust and go beyond existing limits to create new possibilities. Ritter is senior vice president, director of human resources at Leaders Bank, which was named Best Place to Work in Illinois in 2006. He also is on the faculty at Elmhurst College.

Erik Wielenberg, Johnson Family University Professor and associate professor of philosophy, gave presentations during two conferences in July at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Wielenberg contributed to the “Naturalisms in Ethics” program and the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA) conference. Kent E. Menzel, professor of communication, is national champion in the 50-54 age bracket after winning the 8-kilometer “scratch race” at the USA Cycling Masters Track Nationals. Menzel serves as coach of the DePauw cycling team. Micah E. Ling ’03, part-time assistant professor of English, was a finalist in the Emerging Author category of the 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. The award and its $5,000 prize go to a writer who has published no more than two books. Ling and the other two finalists were recognized at the Indiana Authors Award dinner and festivities on Oct. 29 at the Central Library in Indianapolis. Cas Mudde, Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar in Ethics, contributed an essay, “European Integration: after the fall,” to the June 2011 issue of Leadership magazine, published in South Africa.

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SUPPORTING DEPAUW

ROBERT W. SCHRIER, M.D. ’57

ROBERT SIEBEN, M.D. ’59

JACK W. WILEY ’74

Profiles of American Presidents in the Twentieth Century: Merits and Maladies

Beyond Survival: A Patient’s Guide to Managing Complications of Colorectal Cancer

Strategic Employee Surveys: Evidence-based Guidelines for Driving Organizational Success

(CreateSpace)

(Bay Tree Publishing)

(Jossey-Bass)

A realization that United States presidents have had mental and/ or physical illnesses at critical times during their administrations is very important for our country. With the great responsibilities and stresses on presidents, there is real potential for physical and mental illnesses, particularly depression. Presidents’ personalities – and thus their adult decisions – have been influenced by prolonged illnesses during their early years. Profiles of American Presidents in the Twentieth Century: Merits and Maladies discusses these issues relating to all 17 U.S. presidents in the 20th century – from Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to William Jefferson Clinton. The past failure to use the 25th amendment in such times of crises has implications for the future of the country. In addition to the text, there are more than 120 pictures in the book. Robert Schrier was chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine for 26 years and head of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension for 20 years.

As a 20-year survivor of stage three rectal cancer diagnosed when he was 54, Robert Sieben wrote Beyond Survival to provide a needed resource for patients with colorectal cancer and for the doctors and other caregivers that patients might consult. Once the multiple specialists have completed their treatments, a patient may be pronounced cured of colorectal cancer, but he or she is not cured of the complications of this dreaded cancer and its complex treatment. Offering hope to 25 million Americans who suffer similar symptoms from a variety of causes, Beyond Survival describes the day-to-day challenges the author has successfully managed, answers questions patients are often too embarrassed to ask, and offers practical help for regaining quality of life and dignity. Sieben is a physician in the private practice of neurology with special competence in child neurology.

Most large organizations today conduct employee surveys to measure employees’ opinions regarding the organization and its policies and practices. Although there are a handful of books available to guide the development of survey programs, there are none that approach the topic from a strategic point of view. In Strategic Employee Surveys, Jack Wiley explains the Strategic Survey Model and how it can be used to guide development of employee survey programs, ensuring that they serve their strategic purpose. In addition, the book guides organizations in the most effective survey feedback and action planning processes. A pioneer in linkage research, Wiley is founder and executive director of the Kenexa Research Institute, a division of Kenexa, a global provider of business solutions for human resources.

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DICK YEMM ’66 The Stories, Tomorrow: Your Business Without You (Riley’s Press) The Stories looks at the variety of ways in which small businesses can and often are affected dramatically by unforeseen events. Dick Yemm, a Certified Financial Planner, describes what happens to business owners, their families and employees when they are affected by an accident, retirement, medical event, addiction, death and more. In the book’s introduction, Yemm writes, “Exposing how precarious the survival of a small business can be without a contingency/succession plan is the purpose of this book.” He also suggests guidelines and strategies that can be used to find solutions to each case. This book is winner of a 2009 Axiom Business Book Award. Yemm has owned and operated many types of businesses, ranging from mini-warehouses to childcare centers, motels and even a gold-panning operation in Alaska.

2010-2011 GIVING

ALUMNI GIVING

The DePauw family believes in making a difference. Our students see themselves as thinking, acting citizens of a larger world, and as alumni they strive to make a positive impact in whatever they do. Perhaps that explains why so many of you give generously of your time, talents and resources to benefit your University. Despite a challenging economic environment during the past year, alumni, friends and parents responded with outstanding support of DePauw’s students and faculty members. That support included a total of $21.96 million in gifts to the University, including $5.48 million for the DePauw Annual Fund, which had 30.2 percent alumni participation. DePauw also experienced growth in endowment investments that was slightly above average compared to institutions nationwide, and as of June 30, 2011, the University’s endowment was $508,515,000. In particular, we are pleased to report that several donors made leadership gifts so that DePauw could begin to move forward on phase one of the Campus Master Plan. Also of special note is how the impact of alumni support was clearly demonstrated through the Meeker Challenge for GOLD alumni (Graduates of the Last Decade). Liz Meeker ’78 provided a 1:1 match for all GOLD alumni gifts to the Annual Fund on May 20, 2011, and GOLD alumni responded with a 5 percent jump in their participation rate in a 24-hour period. As DePauw nears its 175th anniversary, its core mission remains the same: to teach students in the liberal arts tradition and prepare them to be leaders where they live and work. DePauw is poised for even further greatness, and your continued support is vital – especially to provide scholarships that make it possible for students to receive a high-quality and life-changing education. Thank you for all you do for DePauw.

8,723

1,186

ALUMNI DONORS

WASHINGTON C. DEPAUW SOCIETY ANNUAL MEMBERS

30.2% ALUMNI PARTICIPATION

(Alumni, Parents and Friends)

ALL GIFTS BY SOURCE TOTAL: $21,963,290

49% ALUMNI ($10,730,197) TRUSTEES ($3,320,163) 15%

FAMILY TRUSTS AND OTHER 8% ORGANIZATIONS ($1,754,876) CORPORATIONS ($725,625)

FOUNDATIONS ($3,271,441) 15%

5% PARENTS ($1,147,858) 5% FRIENDS, FACULTY AND STAFF ($1,013,130)

ALL GIFTS BY PURPOSE TOTAL: $21,963,290

CURRENT USE - RESTRICTED 15% PURPOSE ($3,220,095)

25% ANNUAL FUND ($5,486,109)

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ($3,589,436) 16%

DEFERRED GIFTS ($243,710)

43% ENDOWMENT/BOARD DESIGNATED ($9,423,940)

gift figures are from July 2010 - June 2011

SUPPORT BY ALUMNI, FRIENDS AND PARENTS IS CRUCIAL IN ALLOWING DEPAUW TO CONTINUE TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO DESERVING STUDENTS WHO NEED INCREASED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. IT ALSO HELPS THE UNIVERSITY TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN HIGH-QUALITY FACULTY MEMBERS WHO TEACH STUDENTS, CONDUCT RESEARCH AND ADD TO THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THEIR DISCIPLINES.

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WHY I GIVE

To support international study, to reward teacher-scholars, to ensure that the experience of current students is just as good as it was for students past, if not better — those who give to DePauw give for many reasons. Mostly, they give to make a difference. LEFT: ELEANOR “ELLIE” YPMA IN FRONT OF ROY O. WEST LIBRARY.

Registrar emerita continues to make a difference

hen Eleanor “Ellie” Ypma first arrived at DePauw in 1969, she had no idea how long her career here would be, or how many lives she would touch. She and her husband, Edward Ypma, had both received their doctorates at Purdue University, and Ed had started teaching industrial organizational psychology at DePauw in 1966. When Ellie first came on board, it was to oversee residents in the newly constructed Hogate Hall. In 1971, however, the University registrar, Value Timmons Williams Poor ’30,

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retired, and Ellie was encouraged to apply for the position. She was ambivalent at first, “I thought, what am I going to do, just collect grades?” But her work as registrar turned out to be something far more than she could have imagined, allowing her to work closely with students and faculty, to be innovative and to make a difference. She continued as University registrar until her retirement during the 2004-05 academic year. International travel was always an important part of the Ypmas’ lives and careers. Ellie has visited more than 70 countries, and she and her husband often took part in off-campus travel on behalf of DePauw. Under the direction of Vice President Robert H. Farber ’35, the Ypmas spent the 1976-77 academic year in Japan, directing a program for DePauw students. The experience strengthened the couple’s support of international study opportunities for DePauw students. After Ed’s death in 2008, Ellie wanted to provide a gift to DePauw in his memory. In 2009 she established the Ypma Endowed Scholarship Fund to Support Study Abroad, which supports a student each year with a preference for someone studying in Asia. As is the case with many such endowments, Ellie stresses that many other friends, faculty members and alumni contributed to the fund as well. Through these gifts, Ellie Ypma continues to positively affect the lives of DePauw students – and will do so for many years to come.

Fisher Fund changes landscape of faculty development at DePauw

hirty years ago, John W. and Janice B. Fisher endowed a fund that would revitalize the faculty at DePauw. The John W. and Janice B. Fisher Endowed Fund for Faculty Development was established “to reward deserving and excellent faculty members through such avenues as attending professional society meetings, travel and other expenses incident to the advancement of their knowledge of their particular field of study.” As humble as that early statement of purpose may seem today, it was the beginning of the most important avenue for academic and professional growth available for faculty at DePauw. Since its founding, additional gifts from the Fisher family and Ball Brothers Foundation have bolstered the fund. Most recently, the fund has received a sizable new gift from the Fishers’ estate plan. The Fisher Fund reflects DePauw’s ethos of the teacher-scholar and allows faculty the time and resources needed to grow intellectually and professionally – through writing, researching, forming new curricula and by other means. By allowing faculty members the opportunity to maintain a high level of scholarship, the Fisher Fund directly influences the quality of the University curriculum and pedagogy on campus. It is through such opportunities that DePauw is able to attract and retain some of the best and brightest faculty available, and to help them stay at the top of their fields. John W. Fisher served as president and CEO of Ball Corporation. Janice Ball Fisher was the daughter of Edmund B. Ball, one of five industrialist brothers who founded the Ball Corporation in 1880.

The Fishers, parents of two DePauw graduates and grandparents of two DePauw alumni, were also active philanthropists, committed members of the Muncie, Ind., community, and together made an enormous impact on higher education across Indiana.

Young alumnus gives back to DePauw

ix years out of college, Obinna Ugokwe ’05 is still deeply committed to DePauw. While on campus, the Holton Memorial Scholar made good use of every hour of his college experience. He lettered in both football and track, mentored firstyear students, was elected vice president of the student government and took an active role in the men’s intramural board and athletic advisory board. He spent a semester studying in Spain and majored in economics. Like so many students before and after him, Obinna made the most of his DePauw experience. Realizing the importance of DePauw in his life, he now wants to give back. In addition to generously supporting the Annual Fund, Obinna is a GOLD Council Representative and chaired the Class of 2005’s fifth reunion. Of the reunion

RIGHT: OBINNA UGOKWE ’05, A HOLTON MEMORIAL SCHOLAR, GIVES BACK TO DEPAUW THROUGH THE ANNUAL FUND.

he says, “It was enjoyable but challenging, since in five years, members of the class had spread across the nation and around the world. It was exciting for classmates to come back and share stories, see how things have changed and meet President Casey.” A senior account manager for semiconductor manufacturing firm Maxim Integrated Products, Obinna still feels close to DePauw. “I valued my time at DePauw thoroughly. Now I am paying it forward for the next generation by giving back however I am able.”

Met-and-married couple gives annually for nearly half a century

ennis “Denny” and Marilyn Mead Priser (both Class of 1963) met at a mixer during their junior year at DePauw. For decades, they've been in love with each other, and also with their alma mater. “Marilyn and I have always loved everything about DePauw,” Denny explains. “What we give is a small way of paying back the University for what it has given to us.” The Prisers have given to DePauw every year since graduation, and Denny has a hand-written record of those gifts to prove it. LEFT: DENNIS “DENNY” AND MARILYN MEAD PRISER '63 AT ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND.

“I started keeping a log of how much we gave and when, mainly to make sure we would never forget to make our annual gift.” Their remarkable consistency in giving has rightly earned the Prisers lifetime membership in the DePauw Loyalty Society. Wanting to do even more for DePauw, the Prisers also made the University the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. Denny, a retired math teacher, says that “DePauw did a great job preparing me for my career as a teacher, which is exactly what I wanted to do with my life.” Having also played in the marching band at DePauw, he and Marilyn continue to take part in the Tiger Pep Band even now when attending games. Denny’s favorite memory of DePauw was the genuine friendliness of the students on campus, an attribute he sees continuing today in the smiling faces he encounters each time he and Marilyn visit DePauw. Their support helps students continue to benefit from the DePauw experience as they did. Please use the included envelope to make your year-end gift today.

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175th ANNIVERSARY NEWS DEAR DEPAUW ALUMNI:

DEPAUW CROWNS THE OLD GOLD KING AND QUEEN IN 1965. OLD GOLD WEEKEND IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY EVENTS FEATURING THE CELEBRATION OF DEPAUW’S 175th ANNIVERSARY.

Greetings from the Alumni Association and your Board of Directors! As the University prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2012, I invite you to join us in honoring DePauw’s rich history and longstanding traditions during this celebratory period by helping us nominate and recognize 175 of our most exceptional fellow alumni. From the arts, to medicine, business, the academy, public service and countless other disciplines, DePauw alumni continue to make incredible contributions to our world, nation and local communities. In concert with our 175th anniversary, we now have an opportunity to recognize and celebrate their impact. I hope you will join me in nominating a DePauw alumnus or alumna for recognition as one of our 175 most exceptional alumni by completing the included form (attached to the back cover), and I look forward to celebrating this historic anniversary with you during the exciting events of the coming months. Most sincerely,

Marcus R. Veatch ’75 President of the Alumni Association

“This campus echoes with the voices of thousands of students and faculty members who have gone before and have made this institution great.” BRIAN W. CASEY, PRESIDENT

The Monon Bell. A 300-pound relic of the old Monon Line, it once sat atop a locomotive only to find a better home as the prize for the victor of an ancient rivalry. Here, students ring in a victory over Wabash College.

SEEKING 175 EXCEPTIONAL ALUMNI

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY’S 175th ANNIVERSARY, DEPAUW IS LOOKING TO RECOGNIZE 175 OF ITS MOST EXCEPTIONAL ALUMNI. NOMINATE YOUR PEERS, CLASSMATES AND MENTORS TODAY. To nominate a DePauw alumnus or alumna who has provided exceptional leadership or innovation in his or her profession or community, please complete the included form (attached to the back cover). Recipients of previous awards from DePauw are eligible for nomination. All nominees must have attended DePauw for at least one semester. Posthumous nominations are encouraged. Nominations will be accepted until June 30, 2012. Please send completed nomination forms and any additional materials to: 175 Exceptional Alumni Awards DePauw University 300 East Seminary Street P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Materials may also be emailed to respond@depauw.edu or faxed to 765-658-4171. Additional materials – such as a biographical sketch, curriculum vitae, newspaper clippings or other supporting documentation – may be included or mailed separately and noted as appropriate. Letters of support are also encouraged.

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ON JANUARY 10, 2012, DEPAUW UNIVERSITY WILL MARK ITS 175th ANNIVERSARY BY LAUNCHING AN 18-MONTH CELEBRATION OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Commemorative events and programs celebrating DePauw’s 175th anniversary, lasting through June 2013, will include:

KICKOFF

FESTIVAL

January 10, 2012 DePauw University Charter Day and 175th Anniversary Kickoff

October 1-5, 2012 Student Life 175th Anniversary Festival

CONCERT

OLD GOLD WEEKEND

February 19, 2012 “New Morning for the World, Daybreak of Freedom” by Joseph Schwantner, featuring narration by Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ’57

October 5-6, 2012 Join us on campus to celebrate 175 years of Old Gold and reunion of Old Gold royalty

ALUMNI WEEKEND

May 4, 2013 A celebration of DePauw’s 175 Most Exceptional Alumni

June 6-10, 2012 Including special historical tours and the Met & Married Vow Renewal Ceremony

ALUMNI CELEBRATION

175th ANNIVERSARY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE SERIES February 19, 2012 Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ’57 March 7, 2012 Kyle Smitley ’07, founder and owner, Barley & Birch April, 2012 Bret Baier, ’92, FOX News anchor Visit www.depauw.edu for the latest updates on events both on campus and in your region.

1941

The Alpha Phi Class of 1941 has had an active round-robin letter since graduation 70 years ago. Down to four members now, their letter makes the round twice a year, still with interesting news and comments. Class members are: Jayne Burress Burks, Jean Turner Hatch, Margaret Minich Mettler and Alice Hankins Schmidt.

1946

Dr. Wayne S. and Elizabeth ( Jeschke ’47) Montgomery live at 55 Sunset Parkway, Asheville, NC 28801. Wayne is a retired orthopaedic surgeon. He was ranked second in the 2010 five-state southern USTA section for men’s 85 doubles. To accomplish this, he played tennis three days a week and swam 900 yards five days a week.

1952

CLASS NOTES

The class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the University current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class Notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements: ēƎƎ .+1,Ǝ,$+0+/Ǝ+"Ǝ (1)*%Ǝ# 0$!.%*#/ĎƎ%* (1 %*#Ǝ3! %*#/ĎƎ3%((Ǝ !Ǝ +*/% !.! čƎ (! /!Ǝ%* (1 !Ǝ!2!.5+*!ĝ/Ǝ full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation, and background information on the gathering. ēƎƎ %#%0 (Ǝ,$+0+/Ǝ/1 )%00! Ǝ)1/0Ǝ !Ǝ$%#$Ĩ-1 (%05Ǝ&,!#/Ǝ+"Ǝ at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher).

Rev. Jay A. Morris and his wife, Marilyn Miller Morris ’54, live in the retirement community of Greencroft Goshen in Indiana. Their address is 1725 Juniper Place, Apartment #302, Goshen, IN 46526.

1953

Richard K. Finfgeld and Florence Dalrymple were married April 9, 2011, in Lacon, Ill. John W. Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, is a member of the Van Wezel Foundation’s board of directors. Based in Sarasota, Fla., the foundation’s mission is to enrich lives of members of the Gulf Coast community.

1954

Class Notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also submit via the DePauw Alumni Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu.

Marilyn Miller Morris and her husband, Jay A. Morris ’52, live in the retirement community of Greencroft Goshen in Indiana. Their address is 1725 Juniper Place, Apartment #302, Goshen, IN 46526.

Please direct questions to Larry Ligget, editorial assistant, at 765-658-4627 or larryligget@depauw.edu.

1955

Ian M. Rolland was inducted into the Indiana Conservation Hall of Fame, Oct. 17, 2011, in Indianapolis. Ian is retired chairman of Lincoln National Corporation. He serves as a life member on DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

1957

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. received Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, Sept.

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Delta Tau Delta fraternity held its 10th tri-annual golf tournament May 11-15, 2011. In attendance were James W. DeArmond ’61, James L. Zurcher ’63, James V. Palmer’65, James T. Gable ’63, James R. Adams ’63, Stephen R. Miller ’64, Sterling E. Doster ’63, James S. McElwain ’59, William G. Gerber’61, Thomas T. Hicks ’62, Roger W. Martens ’60, Jerry A. Mogan ’59, Fred A. Maione ’59, James B. Nelson ’63, Richard M. Bobb ’59, John F. Meyers ’64, Stephen M. Barney ’62, John S. Null ’61, David G. Owen ’62, Charles S. Combs ’62, James A. Hesse, Richard G. Baumgartner ’65 and Michael C. Hicks ’60.

27, 2011. He received the award for “making important and lasting contributions to advancing a society that fully appreciates, celebrates and recognizes the value of diversity.” Vernon is an attorney, civil rights leader and presidential adviser. Dwight F. and Lou (Ubben) Walton visited Lawrence S. and Suzanne (Blair) Lemser at their home in Montrose, Colo., July 2011. They toured the Black Canyon of the Gunnison near Montrose. They are looking forward to attending their 55th reunion in June 2012.

1958

Robert G. Burney published his first book on using ISO 9001 in Healthcare. His e-mail address is burneyrg@me.com. Max W. Dixon is an international keynote speaker, professional communication coach and actor. As an actor, he focuses on Shakespeare. He appears as a guest artist with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and for Auburn University. He contributed a chapter to Paid to Speak, Best Practices for Building a Successful Speaking Business. Joseph R. Flummerfelt directed The New York Choral Artists in a national and international radio broadcast performance on The New York Philharmonic This Week, June 23, 2011.

1959

Dr. Robert L. Sieben is author of Beyond Survival, A Patient’s Guide to

Managing Complications of Colorectal Cancer. After surgery, irradiation and chemotherapy for rectal surgery, he was left on his own to find ways of dealing with the socially devastating complications of this disease. Now, 20 years later, he shares his strategies for dealing with this disease. He lives in the Oakland hills overlooking San Francisco Bay and continues to practice pediatric neurology, ski regularly and play a major role as a volunteer leader in wildfire prevention. (See Recent Words, page 28.)

1960

Members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity held their 10th tri-annual reunion and golf invitational on St. Simons Island, Ga., May 11-15, 2011. They plan to meet again in May 2013. (Photo above.)

John W. Hare ’62 celebrates his 70th birthday. DePauw alumni and friends attending included George C. Dorner ’61, Mary Wood Dorner ’60, Rhett W. Butler ’62, John W. Hare ’62, Sylvia Chambliss Hare, Raymond I. Geraldson Jr. ’62, Melinda Paine Geraldson ’65, Walter W. Nielsen ’62 and Ada Nielsen.

1964

George R. Rehnquist was reappointed to the Commission for Higher Education, a 14-member public body that serves as a coordinating agency for Indiana’s state-supported system of higher education. George is president of Gibson County (Ind.) Tourism and Visitors Bureau.

1965

Robert L. Lee is recipient of the Barrington (Ill.) Area Development Council’s 2011 Citizen of the Year award. The award is given to recognize an individual who works quietly behind the scenes to serve the Barrington community and other charity organizations.

1966

Paul L. Bancel is author of Driving Them Crazy, a play presented by Blue Sky Productions of Ann Arbor, Mich. The play was performed at IndyFringe 2011 at the Theatre on the Square II in Indianapolis, Aug. 19-28, 2011. William S. Hamrick is co-author of Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty’s Fundamental Thought. William is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Southern Illinois University. (See Recent Words, page 28.) Robert A. Vedder is a retired editor of the Venice (Fla.) Gondolier. He

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1962

Dr. John W. Hare celebrated his 70th birthday at a party given by his daughter in Lake Forest, Ill, July 2011. Several of his DePauw friends attended. John is a member of DePauw’s Alumni Board of Directors. (Photo above.)

1963

Dr. Roy K. Hunteman, a retired physician in Richmond, Ind., received the Distinguished Hoosier Award, which is given to Indiana residents who have excelled in their fields. Roy had a long and distinguished career in medicine. He co-founded Friends of the Battered Women and Children, now known as Genesis Shelter for Women.

WILLIAM G. VANDERBOK ’62, president of the South Asian Studies Association, delivered the keynote address at the Open Pages in South Asia workshop sponsored by the South Asian Studies Programme of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, April 27-28, 2011.

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was recipient of the Florida Press Association’s Lifetime Member Award at the organization’s 2011 annual convention. Bob serves as president of the Florida Press Association as well as a member of the Florida Press Foundation.

1967

Members of the 1971 Delta Gamma class met in Chicago, June 2011. In attendance were Linda Swanson Adams ’71, Judith Bain Hollar ’71, Vicki Noe Hittle ’71, Carol Hansen Ridolfi ’71, Deborah Zonsius Lane ’71, Ann Ross Gamble ’71, Carol Shomo Velde ’71 and Deborah A. Johnston ’71. Two members of the Delta Gamma 1971 class were not able to attend: Sally Hallan Laukitis ’71 and Deborah Woods Standish ’71.

Linda Erf Swift earned a fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2011. She is a freelance photographer working on a four-year series about students in three high schools on the south side of Chicago. You can view her work at www.photoatswiftimages.com.

1970

James H. Graninger was reelected to the board of directors of Equipment and Tool Institute. Jim is vice president of Bosch’s North American diagnostics unit. Robert G. Hughes is president and chief executive officer of Missouri Foundation for Health, the largest, non-governmental funder of community health activities in Missouri. Members of DePauw’s Delta Gamma held a mini-reunion in Indianapolis and said good-bye to “All My Children,” the DG house’s favorite soap opera that ended its long run on Sept. 23, 2011. The Delta Gamma reunion was held in Indianapolis at Ike and Jonesy’s Restaurant, which is owned by Eric H. Eicholtz ’80 (Phi Gamma Delta) and Linda Jones Eicholtz ’79 (Delta Gamma). The event drew 62 Delta Gammas – ranging from class years 1977-1986 – from Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Canada. DG members posed with the anchor that used to reside on the front lawn of the Delta Gamma house at 801 S. Locust, Greencastle. The anchor is being refurbished in Indianapolis in preparation for reinstallation at DePauw.

Elizabeth McNabb Swanson lives at 130 Ridgegate Place, Apartment #1118, Huntsville, AL 35801. Her email address is annswanson320@ hotmail.com. Kipling N. White is president and chief executive officer of Fountain Trust Company in Covington, Ind., as well as an attorney with White & White law firm. He was featured on the cover of Hoosier Banker magazine, a publication of the Indiana Bankers Association.

1971

Michael Goss opened a law office in Greencastle, Ind. He focuses on helping families who need financial assistance for nursing home costs while protecting their assets. Alpha Chi Omega members in the Class of 1973 held a mini-reunion, July 2011, in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Those attending included Mary Jones Landon ‘73, Catharine Penniman Moser ‘73, Leslie Kennedy Bender ‘73, Rebecca Swindler Curry ‘73, Susan Vaughn ‘73, Marilyn Shultz Evans ‘73, Nancy Pierobon Hensel ‘73, Mary Cox Sadler ‘73 and Nancy Netherland Becker ‘73.

Members of the 1971 Delta Gamma class met in Chicago, June 2011. (Photo left.)

1972

Deborah Rogers Emerson is executive director of the Central New York Library Resources Council in Syracuse, N.Y.

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She and her family live in Geneseo, N.Y. Deborah’s email address is demerson@clrc.org.

1973

Michael S. Humphries took first place in the 20K cycling road race for the 60-64 age group at the National Senior Games in Houston, June 2011. Michael is a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial Services in New Hampshire. He lives in New Boston, N.H. Alpha Chi Omega members in the Class of 1973 held a mini-reunion, July 2011, in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (Photo left.)

1974

Jack W. Wiley is author of Strategic Employee Surveys: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Driving Organizational Success. Jack has more than 30 years of experience as a practicing organizational psychologist. He was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology. He is the founder and executive director of Kenexa’s High Performance Institute. Jack and his wife, Rhonda, live in Wabash County, Ind. (See Recent Words, page 28.)

1976

Randall E. Curran is chief executive officer of OHL, a leading global logistics company based in Tennessee. Randall serves as chairman of the board of RDA Holdings, the owner of Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Linda H. Heuring placed third in the 2011 Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest. Linda was recognized for her short story, “Whatever Will Do.” The competition is presented by the Charlotte (N.C.) Writers’ Club.

1979

David J. Truelove is a partner in the Yardley, Pa., law office of Hill Wallack LLP. He is a member of the firm’s employment and labor law group.

1980

Daniel J. Hasler is Indiana Secretary of Commerce. Dr. Hugh J. Wallace is medical director of Medical Oncology Services in Franklin, Tenn. Hugh’s email address is cycledoc@bellsouth.net.

Michael J. Woodruff is senior pastor at Christ Church Lake Forest in suburban Chicago. He is founder of The Ivy Jungle Network, an association of men and women who minister to collegians. Lisa Reynolds Schlehuber is chief executive officer of Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union. She is a member of the board of directors of CO-OP Financial Services.

1981

1984

Dr. Mark A. Boyd is associate director for St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Residency in Family Medicine. He was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians (KAFP). As president of KAFP, he serves as the face of family medicine in Kentucky and represents more than 1,000 family physicians for 201112. Mark; his wife, Stephanie; and fours sons, including Ian S. Boyd ’10, live in Northern Kentucky. Mark’s email address is mark.boyd@ stelizabeth.com.

1982

Kevin L. Ferguson is vice president of sales at Dayforce, a workforce management company.

1977

W. Tobin McClamroch was among lawyers featured in Indianapolis Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Law for 2011. Toby is a managing partner at Bingham McHale law firm in Indianapolis.

O. Garwood Lippincott is managing principal with Atlantic American Opportunities Fund I, LP. He is a member of the board of directors of Red Bag Solutions, a company that developed the SSM, a machine that disposes of medical waste and secure information at the point of generation.

AROUND THE WORLD If your travels take you on adventures with other DePauw alumni, we’d love to hear about it. Wear your favorite DePauw gear, snap a photo (high-resolution, please) and send it to us! Send photos to DePauw University, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN, 46135-0037. Or email landersn@depauw.edu.

1983

James L. Whitlatch is a community director on the North Central region board of Old National Bank. Jim is a partner in the Bloomington, Ind., law firm of Bunger & Robertson.

Carol D. Gurney is director of the Medina County Board of Elections in Ohio. She is a member of the executive committee for the Medina County Democratic Party and serves as chairwoman of the grievance committee for the Medina County Bar Association. She lives at 3206 Trails Lake Drive, Medina, OH 44256.

Barbara Kingsolver received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, which honors those whose works promote peace.

Pharez A. Whitted, a professional trumpeter and director of jazz studies at Chicago State University, performed at the Ralph Adams Lifetime Achievement Awards, July 3, 2011, in Indianapolis.

Joseph S. Forgey is chief executive officer of A Clean Slate Legal Solutions.

Dwight F. Walton ’57, Suzanne Blair Lemser ’57, Lou Ubben Walton ’57 and Lawrence S. Lemser ’57 at the Black Canyon near Montrose, Colo.

1985

Kristin Schurmeier Wallace is executive director for the United Way of Jefferson and North Walworth County in Wisconsin.

1987

Michael C. Kasales, a colonel in the United States Army, assumed command of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (Iron Brigade) at a ceremony held at Fort Carson, Colo., June 22, 2011. DePauw 1987 Delta Tau Delta pledge brothers attending the Change of Command Ceremony included Donald F. Buhle Jr., Timothy J. Kolbus, Richard W. North and Daniel G. Walsh. John P. Rhodes and his wife, Tracy, announce the birth of their daughter, Sloan Elizabeth Rhodes, April 16, 2011. Sloan joins Cole, 6; Josie, 4; and Rex, 2. John’s email address is john_rhodes@fd.org.

1988

Debra Cowdell Slikkers received her license in mental health counseling, Feb. 3, 2011. She holds a LMHC and works in community mental health. Mark B. Hamilton is vice president of sales and marketing at NIBCO Inc., an Elkhart, Indiana-based company.

Julie Theibert ’09, above with her students, is serving in the Peace Corps in Erwee, Namibia. She teaches grade 6 and 7 English, runs the school library and coaches netball. She is also the co-training coordinator of the Volunteer Support Network.

Erica A. Okone joined the New York office of the international economic consulting company Oxford Economics as senior sales administrator and marketing coordinator. Erica’s e-mail address is ericaokone@oxfordeconomics.com.

1989

David C. Kimbell is vice president of marketing for the Chicago-based wireless carrier, U.S. Cellular. Scott A. Storrer is chief operating officer of Genomind, a company focused on neuropsychiatric personalized medicine.

1990

Jay P. Moran is co-author of Why Are We Bad at

Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Potential. Michael “Misha” Rabinowitch is an attorney with Wooden & McLaughlin, LLP, in Indianapolis. He completed the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series. Misha serves on the boards of directors of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, Broad Ripple Alliance for Progress and Jo’s House Adult Day Services. Amy Youngblood Schuermann is an interior designer and opened her own art studio, ABS Design, in her home. She combined her skills in furniture sales and fine art to launch her design business.

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New job? New email? Exciting personal news? Stay connected to DePauw! Log-in to the DePauw Alumni Gateway and update your professional information, submit a Class Note, connect with DePauw alumni in your area, or with your classmates. You can also learn more about individual career planning, sign up to host a DePauw intern, or serve as a regional alumni volunteer. depauw.edu/alumni

1991

Keira A. Amstutz is president and chief executive officer of Indiana Humanities.

system of higher education. Michael is executive associate director of Ball Brothers Foundation in Muncie, Ind.

Bradley S. Benson was named 2011 Distinguished Teacher by Glenbrook (Ill.) North High School, where he teaches mathematics.

Jeffrey E. Francis spoke at the Robert C. McDermond Center Lecture Series, Aug. 30, 2011. Jeffrey is chief administrative and financial officer of Ministry Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Donald J. Cosley was installed as 51st president of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA). Don’s law practice concentrates in the areas of divorce law, criminal law and litigation. He and his wife, Tracy, reside in Arlington Heights, Ill., with their two sons, Carter, 8, and Braden, 5. Don’s email address is doncosley@comcast.net. Michael J. Fisher Jr. was reappointed to the Commission for Higher Education, a 14-member public body that serves as a coordinating agency for Indiana’s state-supported

Janice M. Hay is vice president for marketing at the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Trent T. Ritzenthaler is associate director of the Butler Business Accelerator, a consulting firm in Butler University’s College of Business.

1992

Patrick E. Johansen is director of business development for Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, an intellectual property law firm in Chicago. He earned

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHT

certified legal manager designation from the Association of Legal Administrators, where he serves on the board of directors of the Greater Chicago Chapter. He and his family live at 12176 W. 106th Lane, Saint John, IN 46373.

Shannon Harris Hammel is assistant news director for WMAQ in Chicago.

Jennifer Mayhew Tucker is owner of A Space to Create, an art studio in Zionsville, Ind. She offers art classes to children ages 4 and up, art camps, birthday parties and workshops for teens and adults.

Richard D. Sucher is a member of the science faculty at Boston Trinity Academy. He lives in Newton, Mass.

Matthew S. Tucker is recipient of a 2011 Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship Award. (Photo below.) Seiichiro Yoshii, a 1988-89 exchange student at DePauw, has published a book titled Scott Lafaro: Sono Shogai To Ongaku Hisui No Yume Wo Otte, March, 2011. This is a translation of Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott Lafaro by Helene Lafaro-Fernandez.

1993

Amanda Burke Aaronson earned a doctorate in nursing, June 9, 2011, from the University of California in San Francisco. She is a member of the University of San Francisco faculty in pediatric nursing. Amanda lives in Mountain View, Calif., with her husband and their three daughters. Her email address is amanda@ momthebabynurse.com. Deborah L. Else and her husband, Cory Engdale, announce the birth of their daughter, Riley Ann Engdale, April 25, 2011. Riley joins sisters Anna, 3, and Lauren, 11, at their home in Georgetown, Texas. Deb’s email address is debelse@hotmail.com.

1995

MATTHEW S. TUCKER ’92 is recipient of a 2011 Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship Award. The grant allowed Matthew to build a wooden boat and use it to explore some of Indiana’s rivers and waterways. He documented his trips with a journal and photographs, which he shares with his middle school students.

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Rosemary Deal Hollingsworth is administrative assistant for the associate dean for academics at the Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She teaches courses in music and theater for Abilene Christian High School. Benjamin L. Fingerhut is director of Breaking and Entering, a documentary that explores the culture and pursuit of a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Dana J. Moell is director of member and provider services for Managed Health Services of Indiana.

1996

Amy Keith Gubner and her husband, Doug, announce the birth of their son, Douglas James Gubner, Aug. 17, 2010. They live in New York City. Amy’s email address is amygubner@ hotmail.com. Mark C. and Erika (Amundson ’99) Melchiorre announce the birth of their daughter, Alessandra Claire Melchiorre, March 24, 2011. Ali joins brother Jack, 2, at their home in Greenwich, Conn. Amanda Nichols Jellerichs won the sprint triathlon on July 9, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. The following day, Mandy competed in the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Waterfront Triathlon, an Olympic-distance event. In May 2011, Mandy finished eighth in her age group at an Ironman event in The Woodlands, Texas. Dr. Vijay U. Rao is a physician with St. Francis Medical Group Indiana Heart Physicians.

1997

Patrick A. Petro is communications director at Sycamore Land Trust (SLT) in Bloomington, Ind. The mission of SLT is to preserve the disappearing natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

13, 2011. Mia joins brother Mason, 2, at their home in Imperial, Mo. L. Paige Landreth and Sean McCaffrey announce the birth of their daughter, Rowan Page McCaffrey, May 12, 2011. Rowan joins brother Cade, 2. Ericka Parkinson Kilbourne is pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Michigan City, Ind. She and her husband, Michael, and their daughter, Hannah Rose, 1, are enjoying their new city and church community. Andrew “Drew” K. Powell is in the remake of the 1971 film Straw Dogs. He also will be seen in an upcoming Kurt Russell film, Touchback.

1999

Erika (Amundson) and Mark C. Melchiorre ’96 announce the birth of their daughter, Alessandra Claire Melchiorre, March 24, 2011. Ali joins brother Jack, 2, at their home in Greenwich, Conn. Summer Burgin Kuhlman and her husband, Kwenton, announce the birth of their daughter, Saylor Grace Kuhlman, Dec. 21, 2010. Saylor joins brother Hudson, 3, at their home in Clarksville, Tenn. Summer’s email address is summerburgin@ hotmail.com. Pamela Fisher O’Connell and her two daughters live in Bedford, Ind. Pamela teaches eighth grade language arts. Her email address is pamelaf19@yahoo.com.

Michael J. Hays and his wife, Jenni, announce the arrival of their son, Tobin Li Hays, born July 27, 2009, in Yunnan Province, China. He came home to Elkhart, Ind., June 2011. Tobin joins brothers Seth, 9, and Eli, 7. Brian M. Hersh is education and outreach director at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Fla. He helped launch the education department’s New Stages initiative, a collaborative project with Florida State University and Asolo Conservatory.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS Do you have a recent achievement or accomplishment to share? Perhaps you were promoted? Or finished graduate school? Whatever your accomplishment might be, we would love to include it in the magazine. Snap a photo (high-resolution, please) and send it to us with a description. Send photos to DePauw University, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. Or email landersn@depauw.edu.

2000

Michael S. Brooks is creative director at Doner Advertising in Southfield, Mich., one of the largest privately held advertising agencies in the world. Jennifer Friant Harris and her husband, Christopher, announce the birth of their son, Phineas Maxwell Harris, Nov. 17, 2010. Finn joins brother William, 3. Jennifer’s email address is jharris@ibj.com. Emily Lowe Mailaender and her husband, Eric, announce the birth of their daughter, Stella Blanche Mailaender, Jan. 19, 2011. Emily is vice president of publicity at Rubenstein Communications in New York City. She and her family live in Brooklyn, N.Y. Emily’s email address is emilymailaender@gmail.com.

2001

Brock J. and Casey (Olsen ’03) Bowsher announce the birth of their son, Benja-

Victoria L. Sharp ’04 and Rudy J. Bohinc ’04, graduates of DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, May 2011.

min Reed Olsen Bowsher, April 10, 2011. Benjamin joins sister Claire, 2, at their home in Indianapolis. Sara Bell Clifford and her tworeporter staff at the Brown County (Ind.) Democrat won the 2010 Nondaily Blue Ribbon and first place in General Excellence from the Hoosier State Press Association. In addition, Sara won individual first-place awards in writing, commentary, graphics and design. She and her husband, Derek, and their son, Caleb, 4, live on and operate a guest ranch in Nashville, Ind.

1998

Melanie B. Downie is a professional singer as well as owner of a small computer programming firm, Counterpoint Data Services. Her husband, Roger Robinson is an architect specializing in low-income housing. Mel’s email address is mel@baroquesoprano. com. (Photo right.) Jason T. Gardner and his wife, Michelle, announce the birth of their daughter, Mia Layne Gardner, June

Ryan C. McGuffey and his wife, Candace, announce the birth of their son, Jackson McGuffey, Sept. 5, 2010. Ryan is coordinating producer at Comcast SportsNet Chicago. He and his family live in Chicago. Ryan’s email address is ryguff1@ yahoo.com. Greggory R. and Erin (Hogan) Simril announce the birth of their son, Ike Hogan Simril, March 30, 2011. Ike joins brother Eli, 6, and sisters Reagan, 4, and Lydia, 2, at their home in Noblesville, Ind. Gregg is a sales and account development manager for CH Robinson. Erin is a full-time mom. Gregg’s email address is greggory.simril@ gmail.com. Erin’s e-mail address is hogan4444@hotmail.com. Ryan E. Slabaugh is co-manager and editor of Colorado’s Aspen Times and its weekly affiliates, the Aspen Times Weekly and the Snowmass Sun.

Melanie B. Downie ’98 and Roger Robinson were married May 28, 2011, in Portland, Ore.

A reunion of DePauw friends from the classes of 1998 and 1997 took place at the 2011 Kentucky Derby. DePauw alumni included Daniel J. Meneses ’98, Shelley Farr Wetzel ’98, Monica Roe Nicholas ’98, Cynthia Beaman Dyer ’98, Jeremy B. Markle ’97, Richard J. Roth III ’98 and Jeffrey J. Summers ’98.

John K. Wall received a national journalism award at the Alliance of Area Business Publications’ summer conference, June 2011, in Providence, R.I. J.K. is a reporter for Indianapolis Business Journal. His weekly Health Care & Reform

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email received the silver award for best industry-specific e-newsletter.

STEFANIE J. CHAMBERS ’04 and Stephen Turchyn were married July 1, 2011, in Indianapolis. DePauw alumni attending included Abigail A. Huffer ’04 (maid of honor), John P. Kinerk ’05 (best man), Kelli J. Smith ’04, Lauren M. McLean ’06, Corey L. Brackney ’04, Amanda Link Krenson ’04, Ashley G. Piper ’07, Lydia J. Butler ’03, Casey L. Brackney ’04, David M. Trogden ’04, Brian E. Power ’03, Daniel B. Matuszewski ’04, Sara K. King ’03, Rose Shingledecker ’04, Alexia Beally Wissel ’06, Lillian Marmouze Kleinlein ’03, Laura D. Clark ’04, Ashlee Nisley Walsh ’04 and Patricia Cooksey Riveire ’04.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Werner completed her Breast and Body Imaging Fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal, Mich. She is an assistant professor in the radiology department, breast imaging, at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Elizabeth’s email address is elizabeth. werner@osumc.com.

2002

Amy Kostrzewa Bracken is an assistant professor of psychology at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind. She earned a doctorate in neuroscience from Indiana University in 2009 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the psychology department at IUPUI. She and her husband, Jacob P. Bracken, live in Indianapolis. Amy’s email address is amybracken@gmail.com.

2003

Micah E. Ling is a finalist in the Emerging Author category of the 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. Micah is a part-time assistant professor of English at DePauw. NATHAN P. O’NEILL ’07 and ANNE A. BURNETT ’06 were married Dec. 31, 2009, in Columbus, Ind. DePauw alumni attending included Franklin C. Aba-Onu ’07, James G. Culmann ’06, Mary W. Compton ’07, Jeyson H. Florez ’07, Jonathan J. Staley ’06, James M. Holmes ’07, John R. O’Neal ’05, Jessica J. Sullivan ’07, Nathaniel L. Day ’07, Rachel M. Holmes ’06, Katherine M. Herman ’06, Mary E. Stroh ’07, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Ashley M. Thompson ’06, Kelli J. Smith ’04, Brandon C. Perry ’07 and Brittany B. Leerkamp ’07. Attending but not pictured were Nicholas A. Early ’07 and Katherine M. Logan ’12.

SARAH K. BRUCKS ’07 AND RYAN R. PLUTH ’08 were married Feb. 19, 2011, in Naperville, Ill. DePauw alumni attending included Sean M. Teska ’08, Kyle P. McGrath ’05, Adam R. Ford ’08, Kyle T. Hampton ’07, Kate E. Stiemann ’07, John H. Tschantz ’08, Jesse L. Groh ’08, Timothy G. Kirkpatrick ’08, Joseph G. Baker ’08, Jessie A. Searles ’10, John J. Costello ’08, Elizabeth Koenig Demmings ’75, Mark R. Koenig ’86, Karen Strasma Koenig ’87, William B. Koenig ’77, John M. Buchta ’08, Kyle D. Kenney ’10, Benjamin W. Baenen ’08, Kathleen C. Musca ’08, Luke R. Miller ’08, Emily Waterman Teska ’07, Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07, Jonathan C. Bostrom ’06, Jennifer Jessen Bostrom ’07, Katherine M. Murphy ’07, Drew A. Lohoff ’07, Lesley Sisler Welch ’07, Allison A. Baccich ’07, Susan Koenig Brucks ’79, Roland E. Koenig ’50, Gregory P. Dahman ’08, Jennifer Pluth Collander ’05, Brett A. McGrath ’08 and Matthew L. Demmings ’91.

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Casey (Olsen) and Brock J. Bowsher ’01 announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Reed Olsen Bowsher, April 10, 2011. Benjamin joins sister Claire, 2, at their home in Indianapolis. Anne Plymate Field is a senior associate brand manager for Kraft Singles. She was chosen by Kraft Foods as one of five young marketers 30 and younger globally to be a part of the Kraft Delegation attending the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, June 19-25, 2011. Anne participated in the Young Marketers Program designed to recognize young, talented in-house marketers from around the world. Anne lives in Chicago with her husband, Michael C. Field ’02, and their daughter, Elizabeth.

2004

Margaret N. Doherty is a member of the 201112 United States Telemark National Ski Team. She will compete in regional, national and World Cup Telemark events.

Blake R. Newton has joined the Nashville, Tenn., office of Cassidy Turley. He will focus on office sales and leasing for the commercial real estate services provider. Stefanie J. Chambers and Stephen Turchyn were married July 1, 2011, in Indianapolis. (Photo left.) Victoria L. Sharp and Rudy J. Bohinc graduated, May 2011, from the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrogate, Tenn. Vicki is starting a general surgery residency at Botsford Hospital in Farmington Hills, Mich. Rudy is starting an internal medicine residency at Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio. (Photo, page 41.)

2005

Sara B. Kiesler is new media and communications coordinator for Working Washington as a part of the Fight for a Fair Economy campaign. She enjoys hiking, mountain climbing, biking and vegan baking. Her email address is sara_kiesler@yahoo.com. Lya Kostroski Hurst and her husband, Todd, announce the birth of their daughter, Kinley Judith Hurst, Sept. 10, 2010. James D. Larson is Indiana’s director of school turnaround and improvement. Richard A. Livingston and Katherine E. Dalin ’08 were married April 30, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. Natalie (Shaffer) and Bret M. Govert announce the birth of their daughter, Grace Kathryn Govert, June 30, 2011. Grace joins brother Evan, 2. Natalie is corporate recruiter at POLARIS Laboratories in Indianapolis. Bret is an industrial outside sales representative with Pipe Products, a Ferguson Enterprises company, in Indianapolis. Joshua M. Wilson earned a doctoral degree from Duke University, May 15, 2011. He has begun a medical physics residency in the department of radiology at Duke University Medical Center. He continues to research the quality of nuclear medicine images, specifically positron

emission tomography (PET), which is frequently used for oncology.

2006

Anne A. Burnett and Nathan P. O’Neill ’07 live in Bloomington, Ind. Anne is an attorney for Cummins Inc. Nathan is a doctoral student in public policy at Indiana University. Abigail (Troutman) and Gary R. Rom announce the birth of their daughter, Eliza Rom, June 3, 2011. Abby is an attorney law clerk for the Indiana Supreme Court. Gary is an Indiana Deputy Attorney General in Criminal Appeals. They live in Zionsville, Ind. Abby’s email address is abigail.rom@gmail.com. Gary’s email address is gary.rom@ gmail.com. Anne A. Burnett and Nathan P. O’neill ’07 were married Dec. 31, 2009, in Columbus, Ind. (Photo left.) Jeffrey M. Roth and Elizabeth E. C. Tassell ’08 were married July 30, 2011, in Cincinnati. (Photo right.) Rachel Wolff Eder and her husband, Eric, announce the birth of their son, Leopold James Eder, May 8, 2011. They live in Quantico, Va., where Eric is stationed through the Navy.

2007

Lauren L. Budreau and Kristopher L. Weigle (Purdue University) were married June 6, 2009, in Fowler, Ind. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Ashley R. Amodeo (reader), Suzanna M. Doughty (bridesmaid), Kimberly Weigle Grogg ’03 (bridesmaid), Aimee R. Menne, Abigail Trainor Obszanski (bridesmaid), Kara Warner Yaraschefski (bridesmaid), Hannah Wieland Wilson (bridesmaid) and Dane C. Wilson ’06. Lauren received a master’s degree in occupational therapy from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, December 2009. She is an occupational therapist at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Ill. Lauren and Kris announce the birth of their daughter, Lillian Marie Weigle, June 1, 2011. They live in Bolingbrook, Ill. Lauren’s email address is lauren.budreau@gmail.com.

Chinonye O. Chukwu, writer and film director, filmed her first feature, AlaskaLand, in Fairbanks, Alaska, during winter 2011. Sarah K. Brucks and Ryan R. Pluth ’08 were married Feb. 19, 2011, in Naperville, Ill. (Photo left.) Jeyson H. Florez was honored as a 2011 Posse Star at the Posse Foundation’s annual gala, May 25, 2011, in New York City. Jeyson is a federal strategy and operations consultant for DeLoitte Consulting LLP. Sentari M. Minor was selected one of 23 emerging, nonprofit leaders for the Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy. Sentari is a program specialist with the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona.

JEFFREY M. ROTH ’06 and ELIZABETH E. C. TASSELL ’08 were married July 30, 2011, in Cincinnati. DePauw alumni attending included Emily B. Randazzo ’08, Anne K. Stephens ’08, Elizabeth S. Ackermann ’08, Meredith L. Coats ’08, Deanna C. Shaw ’08, Brady B. Hayes ’08, Emily S. Winders ’08, Stephanie L. Hollander ’08, Carolyn A. Blattel ’08, Gregory R. Wagner ’08, Kaitlin E. Thomure ’08, Jessica L. Runkel ’08, Emily L. Wightman ’08, Erin Curran Timur ’08, Katelyn P. Conrad ’08, Stuart K. Anness ’08, Michael P. Lindsey ’08, Michael E. Tennery ’08, Paul T. Raskin’06, Lesley Rasp Raskin ’06, Elizabeth A. Bryant ’06, Brandon C. Perry ’07, Nathaniel L. Day ’07, Jacklyn Norris Roth ’06, Franklin C. Aba-Onu ’07, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Julia Legler Reynolds ’06, Shawn M. Evans ’06, Jason A. Spilbeler ’07, Mark D. Webb ’06, James D. Gehring ’07, Nicholas A. Early ’07, Jeyson H. Florez ’07, Arlene Burnside Crow ’78 and Gregory A. Crow ’78. Attending but not pictured were Abigail Thompson Green ’06, Sarah E. Summers ’08, Janelle J. Blasdel ’08 and William C. Riley ’05.

Katherine H. Morse was one of 10 women chosen as a Perform Beautifully ambassador for Oakley Women. Katie is a personal enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She has completed four marathons and is training for several Ironman competitions in 2011. Nathan P. O’Neill and Anne A. Burnett ’06 live in Bloomington, Ind. Nathan is a doctoral student in public policy at Indiana University. Anne is an attorney for Cummins Inc. Blair K. Rudert is a member of the board of directors of the Delta Gamma Center for Children with visual impairments.

2008

Katherine E. Dalin and Richard A. Livingston ’05 were married April 30, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. Kate’s e-mail address is kdalin42@gmail.com. Shaylyn P. Laws was awarded an English Teaching Assistantship grant through the 2011-12 Fulbright United States Student Program competition. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year in Lithuania teaching English. Katherine A. Rasmussen is a member of the 2011 Teach for America corps. She teaches fifth grade gen-

KATHERINE E. MACLIN ’09 and ROSS B. DEPPE ’09 were married June 4, 2011, in Louisville, Ky. DePauw alumni attending included Katherine M. Carrico ’10, Angela Metz Claxton ’08, Robyn W. Jenkins ’09 (bridesmaid), Susan S. Stallings ’09 (bridesmaid), Christina M. Giordano ’09, Sarah E. Mickes ’08, C. O’Neil Broshears IV ’09 (groomsman), John R. Stallings III ’09, Maribeth A. Kupstas ’09 (bridesmaid), Natalie L. Ciambrone ’09, Kaitlin E. Wanta ’09, Ivy J. Hamstra ’09, Brett A. Claxton ’08, Samuel A. Weigley ’11, Bradlee C. Jacobs ’08, Daniel G. Dorsey ’09, Katharine M. Dobbins ’09 (bridesmaid), Jeffrey S. Bonner ’08, Mark D. Barrett ’95, R. Brodie Wright ’07, Mitchell I. Troyer ’09 and Charles X. Yang ’08. Also attending but not pictured were Eric A. Kitchell ’09 (groomsman), Abigail A. Garrison ’10 and Thomas M. Walz ’09 (groomsman).

eral at Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle School in Baltimore, a high-need public school. Her email address is katieanneras@gmail.com. Elizabeth E. C. Tassell’s email address is roth.etc@gmail.com.

2009

Katherine E. Maclin’s email address is deppe. katie@gmail.com. Katherine E. Maclin and Ross B. Deppe were married June 4, 2011, in Louisville, Ky.

Julie Theibert is serving in the Peace Corps in Erwee, Namibia. (Photo, page 39.)

2010

Charles F. Boehme is head swim coach and aquatics coordinator at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. Gerry R. Dick is an office broker at the Indianapolis office of Cassidy Turley, a commercial real estate services provider.

2011

Ashlee L. Anton was awarded a Fulbright

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United States Student Scholarship. She will teach English in South Korea during the 2011-12 academic year.

istered by the Japanese government and brings native English speakers into public schools and government offices to teach and translate.

Benjamin C. Solomon is a videographer with the New York Times. (Photo below.)

G. Ross Simpson is an associate in the office services division of Colliers International in Kansas City, Kan. Colliers is a commercial real estate firm.

Christine E. DiGangi is a copy editor for The New York Times. Nathan K. Evans is serving with Rebuilding Together as the Rebuilding Day coordinator in Tacoma, Wash. Kyle K. Inman is one of four national recipients of a 2011-12 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship. Kyle will use the grant to conduct an independent project in Northern Ireland to study musical organizations that help bridge the divide between the two conflicting political and sectarian populations. Chelsey E. Jonason was awarded an English Teaching Assistantship grant through the 2011-12 Fulbright United States Student Program competition. Chelsey will spend nine months assisting teachers in Slovakia.

Sally E. Tabler is a wholesale account service representative for Lilly Pulitzer, a Palm Beach fashion company specializing in signature stores. Matthew L. Welch is a designer and copy editor for The New York Times. Stephen K. Worden is recipient of the Davies-Jackson Scholarship for a year of graduate study at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. Stephen plans to pursue a master’s degree in politics.

Brandon D. Roberts was selected for the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme ( JET). JET is admin-

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHT

IN MEMORIAM

1927

Pauliena Gaither LaFuze ’27, Jan. 3, 2011, of Acton, Calif., at the age of 105. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was a high school teacher and a writer. She was author of The Saga of the San Bernardinos, a two-volume work that covers the mountain history from 1851-1930. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1928

Elizabeth Engle Driscol ’28, Aug. 16, 2011, of Lorain, Ohio, at the age of 104. She was a member of Delta Zeta sorority. She was a homemaker as well as a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul E. Driscol ’27; daughter, Carol Driscol Brandt ’54; and son-inlaw, Thomas H. Gardner ’52. Her survivors include daughter, Nancy Driscol Gardner ’52; son, Paul E. Driscol Jr. ’56; son, Thomas E. Driscol ’53; son, Theodore D. Driscol ’58; and daughter-in-law, Kay Farr Driscol ’56. Esther Ritz Collyer ’28, Aug. 26, 2011, in Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 104. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She retired as supervisor of music and art from Allen County Schools in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was preceded in death by her husband; sister, Faith Ritz Hippensteel ’30; sister-inlaw, Muriel Peterson Ritz ’36; and brother-in-law, H. Robert Rusie ’39. Her survivors include a brother, V. Eugene Ritz ’36, and sister, Ruth Ritz Rusie ’40.

1930

Mary Baker Himebaugh ’30, May 16, 2011, of Bedford, Ind., at the age of 102. She was a high school teacher, and later, a homemaker. She and her husband were retail merchants in Orleans, Ind., from 1934-70. She was preceded in death by her husband.

BENJAMIN C. SOLOMON ’10 (pictured second from right) traveled to Tripoli as a videographer with senior New York Times writers. He is the youngest journalist The New York Times has ever sent into a war zone.

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1932

Gerald H. Doty ’32, June 8, 2011, of Missoula, Mont., at the age of 101. He began his career as a teacher in the public schools and as principal violist in the Louisville Symphony Orchestra. In

1941 he became a faculty member at Indiana University School of Music where he directed the Marching Hundred from 1941-47. He left Indiana University in 1958 and became president of the American String Teachers Association. In 1958 he joined the University of Montana faculty, retiring in 1976 from the music department. His survivors include his wife. Robert C. Kendall ’32, Aug. 27, 2011, of Beekman, N.Y., at the age of 86. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Rector Scholar. He received an alumni citation from DePauw in 1974. He worked in management of computer programming productivity at IBM for 27 years. Later, he was an adjunct professor in computer management at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. His survivors include his wife.

1936

Raman W. Stultz ’36, July 13, 2011, of Palo Alto, Calif., at the age of 97. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He retired from Leo Burnett advertising agency in 1969 as vice president of personnel. Later, he was a real estate broker and president of Ramar Properties, Inc., in Sarasota, Fla. His survivors include his wife.

1937

J. Frank Durham ’37, May 20, 2011, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 95. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He practiced probate law for nearly 70 years. He served two terms as Putnam County (Ind.) prosecuting attorney as well as two terms as a Greencastle city judge. He was preceded in death by his wife; father, Andrew E. Durham ’01; and sisters, Margaret Durham ’36, Ann Durham Weinrichter ’44, M. Joanna Durham McGaughey ’32 and Jane Durham Anderson ’35. His survivors include a daughter, Madeleine Durham Thomas ’80, and sister, Aura M. Durham ’46. Mary De Prez Harris ’37, April 19, 2008, of Indianapolis, at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She was author of the social column, “Punch

Lines,” which appeared in The Indianapolis Star. She was preceded in death by her husband. G. Walter Scott ’37, July 3, 2011, of Warren, Ind., at the age of 95. He was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was an English teacher and college administrator. He retired as dean of admission for Eastern New Mexico University. He was preceded in death by his first and second wives.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William W. Sweet Jr. ’38. Edith Voigt Devine ’41, June 29, 2011, in Rochester, N.Y., at the age of 91. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was a retired teacher and guidance counselor as well as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert G. Devine ’42.

1942

J. Milton Yinger ’37, Aug. 2, 2011, of Oberlin, Ohio, at the age of 95. He was a Rector Scholar. He received an honorary degree from DePauw. He taught sociology at Oberlin College from 1947-87. He was preceded in death by his wife and brother, Paul W. Yinger ’36.

William F. Laramore ’42, June 15, 2011, in Plymouth, Ind., at the age of 90, of myeloma. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He was a Rector Scholar. He retired as president and manager of F. W. Bosworth Company, a family store in Plymouth, Ind. His survivors include his wife.

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1943

Mary Derodes Greene ’39, April 15, 2011, of Oakland, Calif., at the age of 94. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She was a junior high school teacher as well as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Jack Gans ’43, April 16, 2011, of Seymour, Ind., at the age of 89. He was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He owned and operated Gans Interiors in Seymour, Ind. He was preceded in death by his wife. His survivors include a sister, Helen Gans Rains ’49.

Carolyn Elliott McManaman ’39, Aug. 9, 2011, of Greendale, Ind., at the age of 93. She was a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. Her survivors include a great-niece, Katherine Taylor Mulder ’99.

Don V. Harris Jr. ’43, May 15, 2011, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 90, following a stroke. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was an attorney and partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington and Burling, retiring in 1987. His survivors include his wife.

Elizabeth Parker Ware ’39, Feb. 10, 2011, in Moraga, Calif., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Josephine Spear ’39, June 7, 2011, of Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She retired as an associate professor from Indiana University in 1983. She was preceded in death by a sister, Elizabeth Spear Eitel ’40.

1941

Jo Anne Clippinger Sweet ’41, Jan. 11, 2011, of Lakeway, Texas, at the age of 91. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was a homemaker as well as a community volunteer.

Marion Haas Peeler ’43, Sept. 13, 2010, of Houston, at the age of 89. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold A. Peeler ’43. Her survivors include a son, Michael A. Peeler ’70, and daughter-in-law, Pamela Phelps Peeler ’70. Calvin J. Netter ’43, July 30, 2011, in Chicago, at the age of 89. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was an accounting supervisor for Western Electric from 1946-84. He was preceded in death by his first wife. His survivors include his wife.

DePauw Magazine marks the passing of alumni, faculty and friends of DePauw University. Obituaries in DePauw Magazine do not include memorial gifts. When reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible: name of the deceased, class year, fraternity/sorority/ living unit, occupation and DePauw-related activities and relatives. Newspaper obituaries are very helpful. Information should be sent to Alumni Records, DePauw University, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 461350037. You may also fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email &!**%"!.$ //(!.ŀ !, 13č! 1čƎ George K. Schnable ’43, June 12, 2011, of Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 89. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He was an optical engineer. Ellene Whipple ’43, June 29, 2011, of Delray Beach, Fla., at the age of 90. She was a member of Delta Zeta sorority. She was a retired medical social worker for more than 30 years for Jackson Memorial Hospital.

1944

Elizabeth M. Kaiser ’44, Dec. 10, 2010, in Glenview, Ill., at the age of 88. She was a dietitian and retired as manager of the dining hall and as an instructor in the College of Home Economics at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. Martin J. Tuckett ’44, June 28, 2011, of Hessel, Mich., at the age of 89. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He retired as vice president of sales and marketing from Greenlee Tool Company in 1977. He was preceded in death by his first wife. His survivors include his wife.

1945

Elizabeth Darrah Boyd ’45, May 21, 2011, of Colorado Springs, Colo., at the age of 87. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Frances Tracy Squire ’45, July 8, 2011, in Perrysburg, Ohio, at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was a registered nurse as well as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Kathryn Westphal Gentry ’45, May 15, 2011, in Danville, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was an accountant for Parker & Associates in Pittsboro, Ind., retiring in 1987. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1946

Willard H. Chester ’46, April 7, 2011, of Elkhart, Ind., at the age of 86. He was an attorney in private practice until his retirement in 2000. He was preceded in death by his wife. His survivors include a son, Thomas W. Chester ’81. Margaret Fish Rockwood ’46, Aug. 23, 2011, in Dublin, Ohio, at the age of 87. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Lois Shouse Fish ’18, and her husband. Her survivors include her daughter, Mary Lois Rockwood Setterlin ’72. Barbara Loomis Good ’46, June 26, 2011, in Kokomo, Ind., at the age of 86. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mildred Stricler Loomis ’20, and husband.

1947

Rita Niesse Sorrells ’47, Aug. 7, 2011, in Rossville, Ind., at the age of 85. She was a licensed pilot as well as an emergency medical technician for Carroll County (Ind.). She retired from Flora (Ind.) Utilities Office. Her survivors include her husband.

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Edward H. Polley ’47, June 12, 2011, of Evanston, Ill., at the age of 87. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He was a professor of anatomy at the University of Illinois Medical Center for 30 years. He was preceded in death by his wife. Joseph A. Rein Jr. ’47, July 14, 2011, of Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 88. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a product quality manager at International Harvester from 1948-78. He was preceded in death by his wife, Harriet Mendenhall Rein ’48, and sister, Stellamarie Rein Hopkins ’43. Susan Winkler Matthews ’47, April 22, 2011, in Vero Beach, Fla., at the age of 85. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She and her husband co-founded the Frankfurt International School in Germany. She was an interior designer and co-owner of Interiors by Papillion in Morristown, N.J. She was preceded in death by her husband and brother, Claude C. Winkler Jr. ’43.

1948

Edith W. Schmidt ’48, Oct. 23, 2009, of Newton Square, Pa., at the age of 83. She was a speech pathologist for Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia. Marie Wolter Fitzgerald ’48, Aug. 3, 2011, in Rockford, Ill., at the age of 84. She retired as a bowling lanes manager after 25 years of service.

1949

H. Jane Bragg Peterzen ’49, Nov. 21, 2010, in Davenport, Iowa, at the age of 83. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. William S. Emly ’49, June 3, 2011, of Westport, Ind., at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was a retired farmer as well as a community volunteer. His survivors include his wife. Natalie Kerr Smith ’49, June 19, 2011, in Perrysburg, Ohio, at the age of 83. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her

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husband. Her survivors include a brother, Richard A. Kerr ’47. Jane Noble Luljak ’49, June 12, 2011, in Katy, Texas, at the age of 87. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She served in the Indiana House of Representatives. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Lee J. Noble ’22; and her husband, Laddie Luljak ’50. Her survivors include a sister, Betty Noble Patterson ’48, and two brothers, Thomas F. Noble ’51 and Ben L. Noble ’52. Marjorie Sherry Anderson ’49, May 29, 2011, of Indianapolis, at the age of 84. She was a market researcher as well as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1950

Peter S. Anderson ’50, July 30, 2011, of Rockford, Ill., at the age of 82. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was a retired interior decorator. Eugene “Gene” L. Delves ’50, Aug. 3, 2011, in Chicago, at the age of 84. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a partner and lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. He served as a member of the DePauw Alumni Board of Directors and was president from 1971-72. He was a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees for more than 30 years and served as chair from 1983-86. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from DePauw. He was honored with the Old Gold Goblet in 1992 and an Alumni Citation in 1973. He was a computer pioneer. He was a partner in Arthur Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), retiring in 1987. After retirement, he was chief operating officer of Saatchi Consulting for three years and consulted for Unisys and AT&T. He was an active member of several community organizations. Survivors include his wife, Sue Howard Delves ’51, and son, Donald P. Delves ’78.

Edward H. Hammond ’50, June 6, 2011, in Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 83. He was a partner and founder of Hammond and Hammer Accounting Firm in Greencastle. He was preceded in death by his wife. His survivors include a son, Jeffrey L. Hammond ’77. Emily Murray Michael ’50, June 28, 2011, in Warren, Ind., at the age of 82. She retired from the Huntington City Township Public Library as a genealogy secretary. She was preceded in death by her husband, John V. Michael ’50; father, William D. Murray ’21; and brother, William D. Murray Jr. ’53. Ross S. Thomas ’50, July 30, 2011, of Springfield, Ill., at the age of 86. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He retired as president of Booth & Thomas, Inc., in 1992. He was preceded in death by his wife. Doris Wells Duesing ’50, July 9, 2011, of Bonita Springs, Fla., at the age of 82. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Boots Duesing ’50. Her survivors include a daughter, Nancy Duesing Takaichi ’79.

1951

Helen Freund Linville ’51, Nov. 7, 2010, in San Jose, Calif., at the age of 81. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She had been a clerk typist for Santa Clara County’s Child Protective Services in San Jose, Calif. She was preceded in death by her husband. Margery Guston Tovey ’51, Aug. 10, 2011, in Whispering Pines, N.C., at the age of 82. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was an elementary school teacher as well as an artist. Her survivors include her husband, George R. Tovey ’50. Dr. George R. Keesling ’51, May 25, 2011, of Campobello, S.C., at the age of 81. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was

an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He practiced in Cincinnati for 26 years, retiring in 1986. His survivors include his wife. Cornelius B. Phillips Jr. ’51, June 23, 2011, in Perrysburg, Ohio, at the age of 81. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was a stockbroker. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1952

Nancy Noaker Bivenour ’52, May 16, 2011, of Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 80. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She was a homemaker as well as a community volunteer. Her survivors include her husband and sister, Barbara Noaker Clark ’49.

1953

Arthur M. Millholland ’53, July 11, 2011, of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., at the age of 83. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He was a business executive. He was employed by Jockey International from 1953-85. His survivors include his wife, Carlotta Lance Millholland ’51. Raymond A. Mattson Jr. ’53, May 8, 2011, of Greenville, S.C., at the age of 79. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He worked for Cryovac in Greenville, S.C., until 1973. In 1973 he became president of Southeastern Kusan in Greenville, retiring in 1983. He was preceded in death by his wife. Thomas W. O’Neall ’53, Oct. 9, 2010, in New York City, at the age of 79. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a counselor at Gracie Square Hospital in New York City. He founded community agencies to aid recovering substance abusers and the homeless. He was preceded in death by a brother, William O’Neall ’36.

1954

Roberta Farrow Baldwin ’54, July 25, 2011, of Watertown, Wis., at the age of 78. She was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She was a retired pre-school teacher, homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert C. Baldwin ’54.

James F. Knaggs ’54, Aug. 7, 2011, of Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 79. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was employed with the National Standard Company in Niles, Mich., for more than 30 years. Later, he opened Knaggs Medical Specialties. His survivors include his wife, Karen Drake Knaggs ’55. William R. Weatherly ’54, Nov. 10, 2009, of Vinemont, Ala., at the age of 77. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was president of Blue Ridge Best Foods, Inc., in Birmingham, Ala.

1955

Richard L. Christopher ’55, June 11, 2011, in West Lafayette, Ind., at the age of 78. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and served as president of his house while a student. He was an attorney and practiced law at the Frasier-Isham law office in Fowler, Ind. His survivors include his wife.

1956

John R. Lawrence ’56, March 12, 2011, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 77, from Parkinson’s disease. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was vice president of Mercantile Bank of Naples. He was preceded in death by his father, Richard H. Lawrence ’26. His survivors include his wife and brothers, William F. Lawrence ’56 and Jere D. Lawrence ’63. Lois McDonnell Rasmussen ’56, June 23, 2011, in Seattle, at the age of 77. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was a retired high school teacher. Her survivors include her husband, William F. Rasmussen ’54; son, Scott W. Rasmussen ’86; and daughter-inlaw, Laura Haines Rasmussen ’86.

1957

Vernon C. Dahlstrom ’57, June 2, 2011, of Lafayette, Ind., at the age of 78. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was an industrial trainer and college instructor for more than 37 years, retiring in 1992. His survivors include his wife.

Duane R. Yonan ’57, March 3, 2010, of Bloomingdale, Ill., at the age of 74. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was a territory manager for Bryant Air Conditioning. His survivors included his wife, Ann Bowen Yonan ’57.

1959

William A. Fisher III ’59, Aug. 8, 2011, of Greensboro, N.C., at the age of 74. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was a retired banker. His survivors include his wife, Nancy MacVay Fisher ’59.

1960

Richard L. Mace ’60, June 18, 2011, of Pelham, Ala., at the age of 72. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a 1991 inductee into DePauw’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He was head football, track and wrestling coach at Seymour (Ind.) High School, and later, he spent 19 years with Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company, retiring as an assistant regional vice president. He was preceded in death by his first wife. His survivors include his wife and daughter, Michelle Mace Campbell ’85. Lynn A. Schreiber ’60, May 19, 2011, in Olmsted Township, Ohio, at the age of 72. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was a school teacher, and later, a librarian at Midpark High School in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. Her survivors include a brother, Glenn E. Schreiber ’69.

1962

Jennifer Sanger Griffin ’62, June 8, 2011, of Bethesda, Md., at the age of 70. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She was director of teen programs for the YWCA in Worcester, Mass. Later, she worked in human resources for American Standard Company in New York City. From 1965-69 she was director of volunteer selection for the Africa Region of the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C. Later, she served as an administrative assistant in the Montgomery County (Md.) public schools for more than 15 years. Her survivors include her husband and daughter, Robin W. Griffin ’92.

1963

Linda L. Haynie ’63, May 6, 2011, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., at the age of 69. She was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She was director of marketing for Topco Associates in Skokie, Ill. She was preceded in death by sister-in-law, Millie Tereze Haynie ’54. Her survivors include a brother, Kenneth H. Haynie ’54.

Donald T. de Camp ’70, May 30, 2011, of Bakersfield, Calif., at the age of 63. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was an attorney. He worked in the public defender’s office in Modesto, Calif., and later, in the district attorney’s office in Kern (Calif.) County. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1964

1971

David B. Bills ’64, March 17, 2011, of Glenview, Ill., at the age of 68. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He was a retired elementary school teacher. His survivors include his wife, Beryl Bobinette Bills ’65.

1965

Richard S. Coventry ’65, June 2, 2011, of Bowling Green, Ohio, at the age of 68. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He was a Rector Scholar. He was owner of Comstock & Coventry Furniture. His survivors include his wife. Katherine C. Springer ’65, Dec. 17, 2010, of New York City, at the age of 67. She was a senior technical adviser of international economic and social development in the Third World Development Program for the United Nations. She was preceded in death by her father, William L. Springer ’31.

1966

John W. Martin ’66, June 22, 2011, of Mountainview, Hawaii, at the age of 66. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was a tax accountant and real estate developer. He was preceded in death by his mother, Helen Snider Martin ’31, and aunt, Mary Snider Charles ’35. His survivors include a brother, James R. Martin ’65, and nephew, Bruce A. Myer ’79.

1969

Thomas L. Peyton ’69, July 31, 2011, in Cambridge City, Ind., at the age of 64. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He was a pharmacist at Hook’s Drug Store in Cambridge City, Ind., for 15 years. Later, he worked at Kroger Pharmacy in New Castle, Ind., and as manager at Kroger Pharmacy in Richmond, Ind. His survivors include his wife.

1970

B. Phillip Sayre ’71, June 7, 2011, of Owensboro, Ky., at the age of 61. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He retired as national copy desk editor from The New York Times in 2009. His survivors include a brother, Wayne A. Sayre ’78.

1973

Stephen C. Adams ’73, June 22, 2011, of St. Petersburg, Fla., at the age of 60. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a project manager working for ThinkDirect Marketing Company. His survivors include his wife and daughter, Christina Adams Farmer ’99. Francis E. Morrissey ’73, Aug. 15, 2011, of Bennington, Vt., at the age of 60. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association. He received a community leadership award from DePauw in 2008. He was a certified public accountant and an attorney. His survivors include his wife.

1975

Nancy Piech Moser ’75, Aug. 26, 2011, of Middletown, Md., at the age of 58. She was employed by Bioqual, Inc., a medical research company, for 27 years.

1977

Jeffry L. M. Hendrix ’77, June 28, 2011, of Falls Church, Va., at the age of 56, of cancer. He was a former United Methodist pastor. He taught at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church’s school in Arlington, Va., for the past 10 years. His survivors include his wife.

1978

Vinson E. Hendrickson ’78, June 16, 2011, of Boonville, Ind., at the age of 59. He was preceded in death by his father, Waldo Hendrickson ’35. His survivors include a brother, Mark H. Hendrickson ’72.

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Cathleen Beatty-Hollenkamp â&#x20AC;&#x2122;88, March 29, 2011, of Mariemont, Ohio, at the age of 44, from complications from the flu and pneumonia. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She worked in marketing, and later, as a French teacher in a private school.

1989

Daniel E. Nelson â&#x20AC;&#x2122;89, April 12, 2011, of Carmel, Ind., at the age of 43. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was an attorney. He worked as a deputy prosecutor in the child support division of Brown County (Ind.).

1994

Jennifer L. Newman â&#x20AC;&#x2122;94, June 30, 2011, of Chicago, at the age of 45. She was a nurse. She began her career at Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Later, she worked at Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group Pediatrics. FACULTY Ernest â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ernieâ&#x20AC;? J. Ford Jr., June 1, 2011, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 70. He served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Utah State University. He was a lecturer to journalism students at DePauw as well as a part-time instructor in University Studies during 2001-02. He was a journalist and served as president and executive director of the Society for Professional Journalists. He was owner of the Fine Print Bookstore in Greencastle. His survivors include his wife. Wallace B. Graves, Aug. 17, 2011, of Evansville, Ind., at the age of 89. He was a professor of political science at DePauw from 1950-58. He taught at Texas Christian University, University of Texas and Butler University and became president of the University of Evansville in 1967. He served as president until 1987, and later, as the university chancellor for two years. He retired as president emeritus. He was preceded in death by his wife. FRIENDS Claude E. Boswell, Aug. 18, 2011, in Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 91. He retired from DePauw after

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35 years as a fireman in the heat plant. He was preceded in death by his wife. Charles E. DuMond, May 25, 2011, of Westfield, Ind., at the age of 85. He was a United Methodist minister. He served churches in Kansas, Illinois and Indiana. He served as superintendent for the Terre Haute (Ind.) District of the South Indiana United Methodist Conference. He served as the United Methodist representative to DePauwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Trustees. He retired in 1991. His survivors include his wife. Margaret B. Ferree, June 21, 2011, in Easton, Md., at the age of 90. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was a humanitarian, volunteer and philanthropist. She was preceded in death by her husband. Ada M. Kallner, June 13, 2011, of Frankfort, Ind., at the age of 89. She was head cook at several sororities at DePauw, retiring in 2002. She was preceded in death by her husband. Marjorie Voorhees McCall, July 6, 2011, in South Bend, Ind., at the age of 95. She was a pianist and organist. She performed in hotel dining rooms in the Midwest and played piano on her own radio program in California. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer E. McCall, former teacher and basketball coach at DePauw. Her survivors include a daughter, Sharon McCall Jenson â&#x20AC;&#x2122;66. Ann E. McCammack, May 30, 2011, of Cloverdale, Ind., at the age of 85. She was a cook in sororities at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Nancy A. McVay, May 14, 2011, in Lebanon, Ind., at the age of 73. She was a housekeeper at DePauw for several years. Her survivors include her husband. Rhea D. Myers, May 19, 2011, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 92. She was employed at DePauw as a receptionist at Bishop Roberts Hall. Her survivors include her husband.

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Helen L. Samuels, Aug. 11, 2011, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 86. She retired from DePauw as a dispatcher in the security department. She was preceded in death by her husband. Louise F. Thomas, May 24, 2011, in Danville, Ind., at the age of 80. She was a dietitian at Putnam County (Ind.) Hospital and a teacher for Head Start, and she worked at DePauw.

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1988

BILL AND DOROTHY ASHER.

Statement of nomination:

WHAT WILL YOUR DEPAUW LEGACY BE? IN 1996 BILL ASHER '50 GENEROUSLY ENDOWED THE ASHER RESEARCH FUND AT DEPAUW TO SUPPORT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY EFFORTS OF FACULTY AND STUDENTS. Because of this gift, DePauw faculty and students have been able to present their research findings at conferences, work closely with each other on challenging projects and travel to conduct research. After witnessing the impact of this original gift, Bill and Dorothy also decided to endow The Asher Fund in Social Sciences to provide similar opportunities in political science, communication, sociology and other social sciences. Throughout the years, Bill and Dorothy have continued to make gifts to these funds, several via IRA rollovers when allowed. Most recently, Bill and Dorothy decided to increase Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous estate commitment for their endowed funds, ultimately expecting DePauw to receive more than $2.5 million. As informed donors, they realize that gifts of IRA assets avoid unnecessary taxes and allow them to maximize the impact of their charitable gift. DePauw thanks Bill and Dorothy for establishing their legacy at DePauw.

Planned Giving provides attractive investment options that enable you to support DePauw while realizing your personal financial goals. For more information about planned giving options and to establish your own legacy at DePauw, contact: DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING Lisa Maxwell-Frieden, J.D., Director of Gift Planning ĂşĂˇĂˇĆ&#x17D; Ä?Ć&#x17D; !)%* .5Ć&#x17D; 0.!!0Ć&#x17D;Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; Ä? Ä?Ć&#x17D; +4Ć&#x17D;ĂşĂžĆ&#x17D;Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; .!!* /0(!Ä&#x17D;Ć&#x17D; Ć&#x17D;ĂťĂ˝Ă¸ĂşĂźÄ¨ĂˇĂˇĂşĂž $+*!Ä?Ć&#x17D;ĂžĂ˝ĂźÄ¨Ă˝ĂźĂżÄ¨ĂťĂšĂ¸Ă˝Ć&#x17D;Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; +((Ć&#x17D; .!!Ä?Ć&#x17D;ĂżĂˇĂˇÄ¨ĂťĂťĂ˝Ä¨ĂźĂšÄ&#x20AC;ĂżĆ&#x17D;Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D;(%/ ".%! !*Ĺ&#x20AC; !, 13Ä?! 1Ć&#x17D;Ä&#x201C;Ć&#x17D; !, 13Ä?,( **! #%"0/Ä?+.#

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