LETTERS
DePauw M A G A Z I N E
Summer 2021
IN THIS ISSUE: Sports, medicine and business / The Mourouzis tree / Title IX’s effect on women’s sports / and more
GOOD SPORTS
TO THE EDITOR: Thank you for the recent tribute to Coach Nick Mourouzis in DePauw Magazine. I never played for Coach Nick, but served as one of his assistant coaches during the 1987 season. That season was especially critical for the Tiger football program after we had lost the three previous Monon Bell games. During the summer of ’87, Coach Nick asked me to help with the tight ends and to scout. We ended up defeating Wabash in the final game 33-11 with a brilliant overall game plan by Coach Nick! Tiger Pride, baby! – Tom Fitzpatrick ’82 The Public Servants issue (fall 2020) was very helpful in making connections for Kiara Goodwine ’19, who is a law student at University of Michigan. She contacted Matt Kincaid (’92, Boone Superior Court judge) after reading his interview in the magazine. They had a nice conversation and then Matt
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connected her with me. My law clerks and I then went to lunch with Kiara. So the story, combined with her initiative, had an extremely helpful outcome for her. Also, I thought the other recent issue (spring 2021) that profiled alums in many different fields asking, “so you want to be a [fill in the blank],” with a story about that alum and how he or she got to their position was fantastic. Please keep up your great work on behalf of DePauw! – J.P. Hanlon ’92, U.S. judge, Southern District of Indiana Thank you for the sports edition. It warms my heart to see all the opportunities for DePauw’s female athletes. When I was a student, there were NO varsity sports for women. There were a few intramural games, and I recall playing on the Theta basketball team. That was about it. Thanks to Title IX for opening the door for women to have a true liberal arts experience beyond academics. And thanks to the editors for showcasing sports at DePauw. – Sally Mills Butzin ’67 P.S. I am a fourth-generation DePauw family. My great-grandfather was former President Hillary Gobin. You did a fabulous job on the summer issue of DePauw Magazine. That was a wonderful tribute to “Tiger Nick.” If our son, Scott ’81, were alive, he would have added his comments. He and Nick became
good friends even though Scott was not a football player. Scott was sports editor of the newspaper. As I recall, the graveside service we had at Forest Hill for Scott in June ’91, Tiger Nick attended … We were very touched. – Laurie Hamilton ’58 I am a 1969 graduate who has always valued the education and experiences from my years there. I also enjoy reading the DePauw Magazine as a way to keep up with what is happening at DPU and my former classmates. I was concerned with some of the statements in the article about the music department made by Elissa Harbert. Specifically, her statement about “dismantling the white superiority and racism baked into this traditional curriculum” concerns me as part of the critical race theory that is infecting many institutions of higher learning. I fully agree with the goal of a diverse and inclusive curriculum and community but starting from the premise that white people are by definition racist is not a position that I would expect professors at our great university would be promoting. – T. Bruce Fox ’69 Just read the DePauw Magazine cover to cover. I found the profiles so compelling that I couldn’t stop. Congratulations! – David Gellman, professor of history
