Summer 2012
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HEATHER HITCHENS ’91 Broadway is 3,000 miles long for her and the American Theatre Wing PAGE 10
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YEAR OF THE DRAGON In a vividly colorful cultural celebration, DePauw students welcomed the Year of the Dragon on Feb. 11. Organized by the ASIA Club and Asian Studies Program and held on the last day of the Lunar New Year celebration, the festival featured traditional foods and authentic dragon and lion dances performed by the Indianapolis Chinese Community Center, Inc. in the Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center.
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On the cover: Heather A.
Professor Jonathan D. Nichols-Pethick studies the evolution of TV cop shows.
On deadline: Student media DePauw-style.
Hitchens ’91 – from the Tony Awards to arts advocacy.
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28 Recent Words 30 Alumni and Advancement 40 Class Notes Cover photo and photos on pages 10-17 by Anita and Steve Shevett.
STAFF Christopher J. 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: Jonathan C. Coffin ’06, Marilyn E. Culler, Bob Handelman, Sarah McAdams, Carter E. McKay '13, Chris Wolfe and Duncan Wolfe ’11
Kelly A. Graves director of publications kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Larry G. Ligget University photographer larryligget@depauw.edu
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 RESPONSE TO SEPSIS Editor: I very much appreciated the clarity and information provided in the article about Dr. James O’Brien ’91 [winter issue]. A few years ago, after a fall and surgery, my husband was diagnosed with sepsis, along with other complications. Suffice it to say that we had barely heard of sepsis and how deadly it could be. An emergency room RN gave us knowledgeable input, but nowhere have we read a more informative article than your story about Dr. O’Brien. Thank you for excellent journalism! And good luck to Dr. O’Brien in his research. Roberta Milburn Carlson ’59 Downers Grove, Ill. Editor: I just finished reading the article you wrote on Dr. O’Brien and the issue of septic shock. As an ’06 DePauw graduate, I’m drawn to medicine and am currently in the application process to medical school. I want to thank you for writing a great story on another DePauw graduate – Dr. O’Brien [’91] – who is making an ardent contribution to the medical community. I hope one day I’m able to make a difference in the medical community as Dr. O’Brien continues to do. Phillip B. Mann ’06 Denver Editor: I read the winter 2012 magazine article about James O’Brien ’91, M.D. and the little-known killer disease of sepsis with great interest. The article left me wondering whether the increased known incidence of sepsis is due to more accurate diagnosis or to antibioticresistant bacteria. The article made no reference to it, but I thought to google
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“sepsis antibiotic resistance” and found numerous refereed articles on the subject. No wonder: 80 percent of all antibiotics in the U.S. are used on animals confined in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) for prophylaxis and growth acceleration, only 20 percent for human health needs.
ward and ICU had unrecognized sepsis in the emergency department. Another study of general surgery patients found that septic shock occurred in one out of every 63 patients in the post-operative period. This is more than five times more common than either pulmonary embolism (blood clot to the
“I hope one day I’m able to make a difference in the medical community as Dr. O’Brien continues to do.” PHILLIP B. MANN ’06
I was fascinated by Dr. O’Brien’s attention to the immediate care EMTs give to possible stroke victims and their inability to test for sepsis, which, along with emergency room admission procedures, results in a deadly 5-6 hour delay in administering antibiotics. Your article could have been even more informative had it provided a measure of the degree to which sepsis is iatrogenic, i.e., arising from bacteria contracted while under hospital care. Michael Rice ’50 Delmar, N.Y. Dr. O’Brien says: Dr. Rice raises a number of important questions. Regarding the use of antibiotics in the food supply, I admit that I am not an expert in this area. However, it was of enough interest that the FDA has been ordered to look again at the use of antibiotics in livestock farming. As for iatrogenic, or at least hospitalacquired, infections leading to sepsis, the numbers are not easy to know on a national level because we have not conducted a population-based study that allows for a confident estimate of this number. However, a recent qualityimprovement project aimed at sepsis found that, of the more than 15,000 patients included, 52 percent originated in the emergency department, 35 percent in hospital wards and 13 percent in ICUs. It is unclear whether those identified on the
lung) or heart attack. Septic shock killed nearly seven times more post-operative patients than pulmonary embolism and heart attack combined. We do not know how many of these infections might have been prevented – but assuredly some of them were preventable. In my opinion, the single best preventive measure against sepsis in hospitalized patients is to make sure people wash their hands before they touch any patient. Patients and families can be important participants in this safeguard against sepsis. Editor: Thank you for the interesting and informative article about Dr. James. M. O’Brien Jr. ’91 and the wonderful work he is doing. I am a sepsis, E. coli, gram-negative rods survivor myself. I realize now, more than ever before, how fortunate I am to be alive. In 2006 diverticuli ruptured and perforated my colon. I had no pain, but I did have sepsis symptoms that Dr. O’Brien talks about in the article. A trip to the emergency room and lab work allowed my doctors to diagnose the disease. After receiving massive doses of antibiotics, a colostomy was performed, and I received a temporary colostomy bag. It was a long haul with many weeks in ICU followed by a month-long stay in a rehabilitation facility. I thank Dr. O’Brien for making others aware of the seriousness of this
disease. I will forever be grateful to my surgeon, the head of ICU and all the hospital staff who took care of me. Sarah J. Roberts Salmela ’63 Shreveport, La.
FROM THE PRESIDENT President Brian W. Casey
SNOWBALLS AWAY! Editor: While perusing an old scrapbook recently, I found the enclosed article from the Chicago Tribune describing various aspects of college life when I attended DePauw in the 1940s. [Editor’s note: The enclosed newspaper article described how life was different on the DePauw campus during the WWII years. In particular, there were very few male students, and the female students took up residence in the fraternity houses, while apprentice seamen in the V-12 and V-5 programs filled Rector, Lucy Rowland and Longden halls, for example. The article also recounts an interesting story about young servicemen living in Longden Hall who entertained themselves by throwing snowballs at the Theta women as they exited their house across the street. When an officer discovered their antics, he called the men “to attention and ordered the Thetas to pelt them, which they did with hilarious vengeance.”] Reading it now revived so many memories of my time there on campus. I lived in the Delta Tau Delta house with a roommate in a small cubicle, slept with everyone else in a large “attic” style space, and we had a room in the basement called The Smoker where we gathered socially. I recall, also, a veranda off of the first floor, which opened out overlooking a spacious lawn. Cameras weren’t as ubiquitous then as they are today, although I do have several snapshots taken at the time. As noted in the article, there were very few civilian men on campus, and even the V-12 and V-5 males were scarce, although I recall attending (Letters continued on page 4.)
This issue of DePauw Magazine offers stories of students, faculty and alumni who demonstrate leadership in arts and media. These stories celebrate a special kind of creativity not unique to DePauw, but especially strong here. Creativity and innovation have long been parts of the energy of DePauw and hallmarks of its alumni. This issue puts a focus on creativity expressed openly in the world. The late Steve Jobs is said to have argued that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” In a way, this is merely common sense: those who take the first, new steps will always be at least a step ahead of those who stay back in the crowd. The trick, of course, is that innovation is not merely the creation of the new. Novelty is not enough. True innovation creates what is useful, what is beautiful, what is worthy. Why does this matter? What is it about creativity that makes it so important a part of a powerful liberal arts education? If the purpose of college is to prepare young people for lifelong success, then creative thinking is not a luxury, but a necessity. Technologies change. The geopolitical arena changes. Economic forces ebb and flow, and are always changing. Scientific breakthroughs overturn past assumptions as each year passes. We foster our students’ critical thinking to ensure that they can effectively manage the information and ideas they will encounter every day, but it is their creativity that will allow them to develop the thinking that no one has yet recognized is needed, and to identify the solutions that will be required tomorrow, and next year, and
for the next generation. The creativity that DePauw students practice in building a foundation for their future lives is guided by the values that they learn by diving into the riches of a wide-ranging liberal arts education, an education that celebrates creativity, in music and theater and fine arts and poetry, but also in genetic splicing and economic modeling and computer simulations. As I write these words in the campus quiet after Commencement Weekend, DePauw has just sent off into the world another outstanding group of young men and women. In their years at DePauw, these young alumni honed their critical thinking in our classrooms, explored the world through study abroad opportunities and Winter Term, and engaged with the world through internships. They also, in ways that probably surprised some of them, developed themselves as future leaders. By participating in their Greek houses and in student organizations and on athletic teams, by dedicating themselves to philanthropic and political causes, these young people learned to re-create themselves as the adults they wanted to be. Throughout its 175-year history, DePauw has produced an astounding number of leaders in every field of human endeavor, and it has done so by offering our students the tools and the space they need to practice this kind of self-improving creativity.
Brian W. Casey President
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news (Letters continued from page 3.) several USO dances, and we did have The Barn, the only hangout spot available. I pledged Pi Beta Phi, and as mentioned [in the Tribune article], it then resided in the Sigma Nu house. When seeing pictures of DePauw today in this magazine, it’s extremely difficult for me to relate, of course. In the scrapbook, I also found a receipt from the only dress/accessories store in town named S.C. Prevo Co. from which I had purchased a dress for $8.95! I also have a menu from a place called Campus Subway: Below the Surface, But on the Level, where a cheeseburger was 15 cents and soda pop or coffee were 5 cents! Another item I found was the DePauw Certificate of Admission dated July 8, 1943, informing me that I’d been admitted to the College of Liberal Arts, which was signed by Willard E. Umbreit, secretary of admission. It would be just as difficult for students at DePauw today to relate to what I experienced – are there still covered bridges out in the farmland where we’d ride our bikes? [Editor’s note: Yes, there are.] – as it is for me to comprehend what college life entails today. For example, I had to send my laundry home on the train for my mother to wash. And, alas, as you can probably tell, I’m still using a TYPEWRITER. [Editor’s note: Yes, the letter was written on a typewriter. The editor knows because he is old enough to have used one of those himself – a manual one, at that.]
FULBRIGHT FUTURE Four graduating seniors received 2012-13 Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to conduct research and teach abroad during the next academic year. Kara L. Bischak, a Rector Scholar and double major in English literature and political science, will teach English and conduct a research project in India as recipient of an English Teaching Assistant grant. Bischak’s passion for teaching abroad was stoked during a semester of study in India, where she volunteered teaching English at a school. Sam Holley-Kline, a double major in Spanish and anthropology, will conduct anthropological field research in Mexico. His project, “Ancient Pyramids, Modern Populations: Totonac Perspectives on El Tajín,” will focus on a site in northern Veracruz now known as El Tajín and will involve the indigenous Totonacs of nearby Papantla. Stewart E. Jones, a sociology major and Honor Scholar, will teach English in Malaysia through an English Teaching Assistantship. Jones also plans to create an after-school club for female students. While at DePauw, she had international experiences in Malawi and South Africa. Case M. Nafziger will teach English in South Korea through an English Teaching Assistant grant, and he plans to start an after-school music club in South Korea. At DePauw, Nafziger majored in English writing and vocal performance, and he traveled to two continents. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and established in 1946, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition aims to increase mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange while serving as a catalyst for longterm leadership development. The Chronicle of Higher Education has listed DePauw among the Top Producers of Fulbright Awards for U.S. Students.
Nancy Miller Sherman ’47 Hermosa Beach, Calif. We want to hear from you! Submit your letter to: Editor DePauw Magazine P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. Or email landersn@depauw.edu.
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ABOVE: Four distinguished individuals received honorary doctoral degrees at DePauw’s 173rd commencement on May 19. From left are Sara King Lennox ’65; Sarah Reese Wallace ’76, chair of the DePauw Board of Trustees; James B. Stewart Jr. ’73, commencement speaker; President Brian W. Casey; David N. Baker Jr.; Timothy H. Ubben ’58; and Sharon Williams Ubben ’58.
“… I am reminded that it is a wonderful, marvelous experience to return to one’s alma mater – that shining place John F. Kennedy once called the second home of our youth.” VERNON E. JORDAN JR. ’57 in the inaugural 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture Feb. 19
HIGHLY DEBATABLE A DePauw student team won the Bioethics Bowl debate tournament at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference in Denver. The team – seniors Bethany A. Buis and Bryan A. Edwards, juniors Benjamin C. Hoffman and Mohammad Usman, and sophomore Cole P. Rodman – won all six of its matches against Georgetown University, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, University of Central Florida and University of Miami. The team’s coaches are Marcia A. McKelligan, Blair Anderson and Martha Caroline Rieth Professor of Applied Ethics and professor of philosophy, and Ted R. Bitner, assistant professor of psychology. Hoffman’s paper, “The Ethics of Using Neuroenhancing Drugs on Children,” was selected for presentation at the conference, and he won the award for most inspired student presentation.
WORLD-CLASS MUSIC D. Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music
Graduation is many things: a beginning and an end; happy and sad; an opportunity to look forward and back; a time when each class moves up, except for the one that moves on. As we prepare for graduation, a palpable sense of pride permeates the entire campus. Faculty and staff are proud of the students, students are proud of their accomplishment, and we are all proud that DePauw has prepared another excellent set of citizen scholars ready to face and to lead the world. DePauw alumni have had a profound impact. These graduates have seen that example and are ready to make a mark of their own. This graduation marks my first time around the wheel, the opportunity to come full circle in my first year as dean of the School of Music. As I look forward and back, I remember our first ever DePauwpalooza — the School of Music coming out of its glorious house to perform a wide variety of music for everyone at DePauw in a picnic-like atmosphere. Of course, having Yo-Yo Ma as a guest in your first semester is an event impossible to forget – or to top. Yo-Yo’s appearances at the Hub and the senior center were as memorable as those in our concert hall. Yo-Yo and I share the desire that music be heard in as many places and times as possible, and that desire next took shape in the form of our first annual Holiday Gala, a town-gown event with another packed house at Kresge Auditorium. Our spring semester saw an opera by our worldrenowned visiting director, an amazing performance by the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, a new radio show by and about the School of Music and dozens of performances one would expect from a world-class School of Music. Looking forward, we are excited to announce a dazzling Guest Artist Series, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and four groups among the most exciting and virtuosic in the world today: Project, Voces 8, Time for Three and The Canadian Brass. We revive the touring process, and our choirs will showcase the excellence of DePauw domestically while the orchestra will perform abroad. DePauw has always been a valuable partner to our community, and the School of Music started a “preparatory program” to provide musical instruction to schoolage children. Even more remarkably, the School of Music “adopted” the Greencastle Middle School Music Program and will work hand-in-hand with the public school to provide the best musical education possible. DePauw is the only leading liberal arts college in America with a fully accredited School of Music. The power and synergy of these two elements create a whole far greater than the sum of its parts. A liberal arts environment informs and enriches a musical training, and music infuses a collegiate setting with a vitality and energy to be envied. It is one more way that DePauw creates citizen scholars ready to face and to lead the world.
D. Mark McCoy Dean, School of Music
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MAKING HEADLINES The Indiana College Press Association named The DePauw Indiana’s Division III Newspaper of the Year. In the association’s 2012 awards competition, the student newspaper staff received first place for single issue, front-page design, news or feature series, informational graphic, breaking-news reporting, sports column, in-depth story, entertainment story, special issue, themed issue, feature story, sports-news story, sports page design, special section or front-cover design, and illustration. Second-place awards included overall design, staff editorial, editorial cartoon, photo essay, feature page design, special section or front-cover design, standalone/pullout section and special issue. Third-place awards were in the news photo, sports photo and themed issue categories. The DePauw is Indiana’s oldest college newspaper. Two professional journalism associations honored 10 student broadcasters for WGRE radio. In the Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association competition, DePauw students received three first-place awards in the local radio division for best feature, best sports play-by-play and best enterprise story. In the Society of Professional Journalists contest, they received second- and third-place awards for radio in-depth reporting and second in radio sports. Student-managed WGRE was founded in 1949 as the nation’s first FCC-licensed education station.
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“Dedicating your life to peace is one of the most beautiful things, but it’s one of the most difficult things.” 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT LEYMAH GBOWEE, activist for women’s rights and peace in her native Liberia, in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Feb. 15. Gbowee was the ninth Nobel laureate and seventh Nobel Peace Prize recipient to give an Ubben Lecture at DePauw.
MENDING A BROKEN HEART Four students are listed as co-authors, and two students are recognized for their technical support on a published paper written with Pascal Lafontant, assistant professor of biology. Their research on the giant danio fish as a model of cardiac regeneration was published in the February issue of The Anatomical Record. The researchers demonstrated that the heart of the giant danio, a three-inch fish, can regenerate itself after suffering damage similar to heart attacks in humans. Learning how the fish achieve this remarkable feat might provide knowledge to help reduce the threat of human heart disease. Co-authors are Jamie A. Grivas ’10, assistant director of on-campus programs at DePauw; Mary Ann Lesch ’10, a second-year medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine; Tyler D. Frounfelter ’09, a third-year student at IU Dental School; and Tanmoy Lala Das, a senior biology major. Benjamin L. Golden ’10 and Amanda R. Miller ’11 helped perform assays. It is unusual for undergraduate students to have the opportunity to be published as co-authors in a scientific journal.
The number of DePauw juniors who received prestigious 2012 awards from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Tyler L. Perfitt is a biology and Spanish double major with a minor in classical civilization, an Information Technology Associate and member of the men’s swimming and diving team. Bradley P. Wethington, a computer science and economics double major, is a Science Research Fellow. The Goldwater Scholarship, the premier U.S. undergraduate science and mathematics award, is designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. Six DePauw students have won Goldwater Scholarships in the past four years.
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TOP 10 The American Cancer Society recognized the student-directed, 24-hour-long Putnam County Relay For Life as one of the nation’s top 10 events for per-capita fundraising. The 2012 event, held April 21-22, raised more than $129,300. During the 17 years DePauw University and Putnam County have cooperated to raise money for the American Cancer Society through Relay For Life, the events have raised a total of approximately $2 million to fight the deadly disease and received several awards.
First time’s a charm DePauw posted top-five finishes in 18 sports to earn the North Coast Athletic Conference All-Sports Championship in its inaugural season in the league. DePauw captured conference championships in women’s basketball, women’s golf and women’s tennis and shared the league’s field hockey title. The men’s soccer and baseball teams turned in second-place finishes, while women’s cross country, men’s swimming and diving, softball, men’s tennis and women’s outdoor track and field finished third, and the volleyball team tied for third. The Tigers won the trophy despite not competing in three sports (men’s and women’s lacrosse, and football).
“I hope there is a future for Americans in space.” JOSEPH P. ALLEN IV ’59, former astronaut,
during the 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture May 10 in Meharry Hall
“Your defining moments are at hand. They will likely come sooner than you expect. Let me assure you: you are ready.” JAMES B. STEWART JR. ’73, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, in his
address to 515 graduates at DePauw’s 173rd commencement on May 20.
THE PLAY’S THE THING Senior Joan Catherine “J.C.” Pankratz, an English writing major and women’s studies minor, was one of four student playwrights in the nation selected to receive the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play. The Cauble Award recognizes one or more outstanding scripts each year for presentation at the Kennedy Center American College Theater National Festival. Presented as part of the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program, the Cauble Award seeks to recognize student-written short plays and to encourage young writers to develop the short-play form in preparation for the playwriting profession. As a finalist, Pankratz received membership in both the Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, along with an invitation to the Kennedy Center during the national festival, April 17-21, at the Center’s expense. Her play, Honest to God, was showcased during the festival with a cast of professional actors and a director from Washington, D.C.
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
BASEBALL
WOMEN’S TENNIS
SWIMMING
The DePauw baseball team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championship and finished fourth in the regional competition. The Tigers won their first game of the doubleelimination tournament. Jake Martin was named NCAC Coach of the Year as well as D3baseball.com Mideast Region Coach of the Year.
DePauw’s women’s tennis team won the North Coast Athletic Conference title and automatic qualification into the NCAA Division III Championship. The eighth-ranked Tigers hosted the first three rounds of the tournament, defeating Wheaton (Ill.) before losing to sixthranked Carnegie Mellon. Senior Kelly Gebert earned a spot in the Division III Women’s Singles Championship and advanced to the second round, and Maggie MacPhail was named the NCAC’s Newcomer of the Year.
Senior Catie Baker is DePauw’s 19th NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, one of 58 NCAA studentathletes on all levels to earn the $7,500 award. Baker also earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. As a swimmer, Baker achieved all-America status three times and was honorable mention allAmerica four times. Baker finished as DePauw’s all-time career and singleseason scoring leader.
WOMEN’S GOLF The women’s golf team finished second at the NCAA Division III Championships – just six strokes behind Methodist University. The second-place finish was DePauw’s third in program history and marked the ninth time in 11 appearances that the Tigers finished in the top five. Seniors Taylor Beaty and Kelly Gaughan and sophomore Paige Gooch were named to the Division III All-America Second Team. Sophomore Kelsey Smith earned honorable mention all-America. The Tigers won the NCAC Championship as Smith was the medalist, and Vince Lazar earned NCAC Coach of the Year honors.
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LACROSSE Carl Haas, previously head coach at NCAA Division III Saint Vincent College (Pa.), is DePauw’s first men’s lacrosse head coach. His teams finished in the top 10 in the nation in scoring during the last two seasons. Susanna Wilcox, previously girl’s lacrosse coach at Culver Academies, is DePauw’s first women’s lacrosse head coach. Wilcox has taught and coached at Culver since March 2010. She was a starter and captain for the Mount Holyoke Lyons lacrosse team.
ART MAKES A DIFFERENCE By Sarah McAdams When Nicole M. Koschmeder ’12 and Brittany A. Sievers ’13 entered their artwork in the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, they did not imagine its impact on their lives. The show is historically popular, and this year was no different with more than 100 entries. The only qualification for a submission to the show is that the artist must have taken an art class at DePauw. Sievers’ oil on 5-foot-square canvas titled Red Cliff won first place in the 2D category. Koschmeder won first place in 3D for an earthenware piece, Untitled – 40 animals. Professor of Art and Art History Robert D. Kingsley explains, “It’s a juried show, and as a result, anyone who is in the show is, in fact, an award winner because their work was chosen. There is a bit of prestige to it. It gives students an opportunity to test their mettle on someone outside the DePauw community, because each year we bring someone in who both curates and judges the show. The idea is to get students to look outside of our community, and experiences like this help them to do that.” This year’s guest juror was Tyler Lotz, associate professor of ceramics at Illinois State University. He arrived in January to choose entries to fill the Visual Arts Gallery at the Peeler Art Center and returned in February to announce the winners. Student participants did not know whether their work was selected until the show opened. Sievers says it was a complete surprise to see her painting hanging in the gallery. “Lotz talked about all the artwork
and how he curated the show,” she says. “It was a really good experience to learn how each piece fit into an actual exhibit – especially since it was my first show. The experience has made me relax a bit about picking studio art as a major. It’s been a nice confidence booster. “I really like larger scales of artwork, but it’s scary and intimidating to stand in front of a blank canvas that big. Once I started going, it was really fun to work with.” Koschmeder, a Romance language major and English literature minor, took a ceramics course and created more than 60 small, clay animals as part of an assignment. Her professor encouraged her to enter 40 of them in the show. “I rediscovered my passion for art when I studied abroad my junior year in Paris and took an art history class that met at the Louvre,” Koschmeder says. “It was such a great experience, and when I returned to campus, I started working in the ceramics studio. I learned how to make clay and take care of things. This was my first art show. I didn’t know how to react, but I was just excited to get in. Winning definitely gave me more confidence and made me think, yes, I can pursue this.” Curator of Exhibitions and University Collections Craig R. Hadley submitted Red Cliff and Untitled – 40 animals on behalf of Sievers and Koschmeder to the Independent Colleges of Indiana for display in a recent exhibit. “It was a new event this year for our students, but we thought it made sense to invite the juried winners to represent DePauw,” Hadley says.
Heather A. Hitchens ’91 From the Tony Awards to arts advocacy by Larry G. Anderson
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If you watched the credits roll all the way to the end of the CBS broadcast of the 66th annual Tony Awards from New York City on June 10, the very last name you saw was Heather A. Hitchens ’91. The closing credit might reflect her behind-thescenes work, but it belies the leading role she plays in the Tony Awards and in advocating for theatre and the arts throughout the country. Since July 2011, Hitchens has been executive director of the American Theatre Wing, best known for creating the Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards, which it presents annually with the Broadway League. “The Wing founded the Tony Awards and owns the trademark, but we are executive producers of the show with the Broadway League,” she says. “We, along with the League, have the final say on all the decisions that are made about the Tony Awards, including rules, eligibility and broadcast.” Its signature Tony Awards event paves the way for the American Theatre Wing’s many other significant programs. After all, “What other not-for-profit, theatre-related organization gets a threehour network television show dedicated to one of its activities?” says Ted Chapin, chair of the Wing’s board of trustees and president and executive director of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Name recognition generated by the Tony Awards gives the Wing a great deal of credibility in its efforts to recognize and support work happening not only in the bright lights on Broadway, but also off
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Broadway and across the nation – the latter shows perhaps less well known, but just as important to Hitchens. As Emmy Award-winning actress and singer Lucie Arnaz, vice chair of the Wing’s board of trustees, said when presenting the Wing’s National Theatre Company Grants to regional organizations, “It’s thrilling to me to prove, once again, that great theatre isn’t just on Broadway between 40th and 50th streets, but that Broadway is a road that is 3,000 miles long.”
42nd Street* For Hitchens, that road now starts at the American Theatre Wing’s offices, located on the seventh floor of a building at Seventh Avenue and 41st Street amid the urban traffic of Manhattan. “Think of these 10 blocks between here and 50th Street as a campus of theatres. There are other businesses interspersed, but this is the Theatre District,” Hitchens says. “The Wing is particularly important
because we sit in a unique place between the commercial and nonprofit world. We support everything from the most avant garde work and emerging work on one end all the way to some of the things that are recognized by the Tony Awards.” It’s also a new and unique place for Hitchens to be, both professionally and personally. She joined the Wing last year after four years as executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts, the largest state arts agency in the country. There, she oversaw distribution of more than $123 million in grants to more than 2,000 state arts organizations of all stripes. Prior to that, she revitalized artistic programs as president of the renowned national arts service organization Meet the Composer. At age 24, she became CEO of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. While she now focuses primarily on theatre, music has been a major part of her life, including four years in DePauw’s innovative music business program. Hitchens, who began as a percussionist at
*The subheads in this story are productions that won Tony Awards for Best Musical. Can you identify the year for each? (NOTE: Answers are provided at the end of the story.)
RIGHT: At the 2011 American Theatre Wing Gala, from left: Kelli O’Hara, Jennifer Hudson, Sir Howard Stringer, Elaine Paige, Marva Smalls, Theodore S. Chapin, Heather Hitchens, Marilu Henner.
6 years old, keeps a 4 1/2-octave marimba in the living room of her 700-squarefoot apartment, along with a collection of small percussion instruments, African instruments and shakers. Hitchens was always an avid theatergoer, and she already had built an extensive network in the New York arts world that gave her a leg up as the Wing’s executive director. And there are opportunities the setting provides. Among the first things Hitchens did was to obtain a proclamation from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg commemorating the date of the American Theatre Wing’s 2011 Gala. The proclamation hangs in the lobby of the Wing’s office and begins: “Whereas, New York City is the performing arts capital of the world ….” “It’s a phenomenal place to live if you love arts and culture, and I’m an active audience member,” Hitchens says. “I go to Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. There’s something called Barge Music in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. It’s an old coffee barge converted into a concert hall, and I can literally walk down the hill and hear some of the best classical and jazz musicians playing concerts. And, of course, there’s Carnegie Hall, Roundabout Theatre, Governor’s Island, tons of outdoor space for art exhibits and concerts, and much more.”
Crazy for You That vibrant arts scene translates, not surprisingly, to a busy schedule for Hitchens. In the run-up to the Tony event, 16 Broadway shows opened in one month alone, which meant Hitchens was at a theater as many as four nights a week. In addition, “I looked at my calendar for a two-week
period,” she says, “and I had everything from a meeting with colleagues in the Broadway community to review our joint assets and pursue sponsorships, to individual staff meetings, meeting with a 54-member advisory committee, several planning meetings for the Tonys, talked with The New York Times to discuss a panel discussion there, met with a potential donor and attended theatre post-parties with actors and directors.” As the paid executive responsible for maintaining the Wing’s brand and excellence of the Tony Awards, Hitchens had to learn quickly about what goes into a national television broadcast, especially one that received Emmy Awards the last two years. “We have wonderful producers who produce a number of major television award shows and events, and we try to just let them do what they need to do to make a great television show,” Hitchens says. Hitchens has taken the learning curve in stride. “In each job, there are always new things to learn,” she says. “The fact that I have more of a liberal arts education has allowed me to make those transitions, and I think it has played a
role in making them easier.” That is a real plus in her position at the Wing, says Judith O. Rubin, chair of the board of Playwrights Horizons, a well-established nonprofit theater in New York City. “As a musician, Heather’s first consideration is for artists. Without this, the executive director is just an administrator with transferable skills. With it, she becomes a real partner in the work who contributes empathy as well as management acumen,” Rubin says. Rubin, who also praises Hitchens for navigating the state workings in her previous leadership position at the New York State Council on the Arts, says, “Once Heather moved to the American Theatre Wing, she had to learn an entire new world – that of commercial
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theatre in New York City. It isn’t an easy universe as you can imagine; theatre is as complicated a business as any around, and emotion is a large factor. Heather brings her own brand of transparency, calm, confidence-without-ego to the table.”
does exactly that in 12 episodes a year. The long-running television series features theatre people – well-known actors as well as individuals behind the scenes – that make it all work. After Sutton Foster won a Tony last year
“The fact that I have more of a liberal arts education has allowed me to make those transitions, and I think it has played a role in making them easier.” HEATHER HITCHENS ’91 After a dress rehearsal for the Tony Awards in the afternoon, Hitchens was in her seat at the Beacon Theatre by early evening and anticipating the show’s opening along with the rest of the star-studded audience.
The Producers “I’ve always been attracted to organizations that combine an extraordinary history (the Wing got its start as a war-relief effort during World War I; see related story on page 17) and a tremendous potential for writing a new history. The American Theatre Wing fits that bill perfectly, so it is really the right next challenge for me. It’s one of those rare times in life when personal and professional come together,” Hitchens says. (On the personal side, Hitchens married Felix Cisneros III just three months after starting the new job.) She is passionate about supporting and recognizing emerging talent as well as established artists and performers. “That’s what it’s about at the end of the day for me; that is what drives me and is fulfilling,” Hitchens says. “It’s also really wonderful to connect audiences with people that work in theatre.” One of the Wing’s programs, aptly named “Working in the Theatre,” for which Hitchens serves as executive producer and develops show themes,
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and thanked her dresser, Hitchens saw an opportunity for her first program. She contacted Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions, and arranged for him to host a show focusing on behind-thescenes people. The resulting show featured a musician from the pit of The Lion King, make-up transformations and a quick change by Mary Poppins. In the latter segment, overhead cameras and a clock captured everything that happens when Poppins comes off stage, changes her entire costume and returns to stage, all in 30 seconds. Other recent “Working in the Theatre” guests have been actors David Alan Grier and Judith Light, artistic director Andrew Leynse, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and producer Jean Doumanian. Those episodes and other Wing video programs are available to aspiring artists and the public on the Wing’s website at http://americantheatrewing.org. American Theatre Wing efforts, notes Hitchens, also include: • National Theatre Company Grants of $10,000 to emerging theatre companies across the country doing outstanding new play development and/or committed to education and community outreach. • Jonathan Larson Grants to
promising book writers, composers and lyricists to support their developing careers. Larson, the composer of Rent, died suddenly prior to the Tony Award-winning musical’s opening night, and his family established a foundation in his name to make these awards. • “Downstage Center,” the Wing’s acclaimed theatrical interview podcast, which spotlights creative talents from Broadway, off-Broadway and around the country and world. Hitchens is executive producer. She changed the podcast’s format to feature a rotating cast of interviewers matched with guests and provides insights into artists’ work unavailable anywhere else. The podcasts are also available on the Wing’s website. Hitchens is particularly enthusiastic about the Wing’s two professional
HEATHER A. HITCHENS ’91 • MAJOR AT DEPAUW: PERCUSSION/MUSIC BUSINESS • STUDIED WITH: STEVE HANNA, ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PERCUSSION • DEPAUW ACTIVITIES: CONCERT BAND, ORCHESTRA, MARCHING BAND, PEP BAND, PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, INTRAMURAL SPORTS, ALPHA GAMMA DELTA SORORITY • CLASS THAT HAD THE MOST IMPACT ON HER: FRESHMAN WRITING SEMINAR TAUGHT BY KEITH M. OPDAHL, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH • FURTHER EDUCATION: M.S. DEGREE IN ARTS ADMINISTRATION, DREXEL UNIVERSITY PREVIOUS POSITIONS: • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS • PRESIDENT, MEET THE COMPOSER • CEO, DELAWARE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA • DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, AMERICAN MUSIC THEATER FESTIVAL
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development programs for their potential to develop interest in the arts among youth. SpringboardNYC is a boot camp for college students who aspire to a career in theatre, either in front of the curtain or behind it. “Students come here for two weeks and are provided with job-seeking skills, insight into the business of theatre, urban-survival tools and workshops about how to audition. As a music or theatre major, it is one of those things where you say, ‘Okay, I have my degree, now what?’ It is intended to help them with the transition from college to real world,” she says. The Wing also offers internships that provide networking and professional development for young people beginning careers in theatre administration and management. The program features advice and presentations from younger veterans in the field, which can help a
RIGHT: Heather A. Hitchens ’91 and her husband, Felix Cisneros III, on the red carpet at the 2012 Tony Awards.
Simmons adds, “Heather’s experience as a musician and manager of organizations that promote the arts has afforded her the right tools to usher in the next generation of performance providers. Her genuine love for the arts is reflected in her careful stewardship of organizations that provide development and shaping of the cultural landscape. The Wing has chosen an advocate and manager who knows how to get the job done right.”
Applause Encouraging young people to become involved in the arts is a priority for Hitchens, who remembers her own interest being sparked by music and
“But the point is, the arts are not a losing proposition; they are a winning proposition. ” HEATHER HITCHENS ’91 person trying to get started in a career. “I didn’t have any of this after I graduated,” Hitchens says. “We cover how to translate this assistance into the next job and what decisions to make. There has to be not only a next generation of performers, but also a next generation of administrators behind the scenes.” Many in the community consider that mission vital. Danny Simmons, a well-known visual artist, writer and arts advocate, says that recognizing actors and budding actors and producers, and providing educational programs to nurture new and emerging talent, are essential. The Wing’s programs do both.
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art classes and the school play as early as elementary school. “I think it is a tragedy that doesn’t exist the way it did when I went to school. By the time I was in elementary school, it was already disappearing,” she says. “I’ll hit on his until I’m blue in the face, but they need to put the arts back in the schools.” That’s not the only challenge the arts face, however. The arts and arts organizations also must compete for dollars for their programs, and then compete for audiences in a world where technology gives them access to so many entertainment and cultural options anywhere and anytime.
Ironically, the Broadway community has recently experienced its most successful years ever during difficult economic times, Hitchens notes. “The Broadway community is driven by tourism, and tourism is up in this city,” she says. “But it is much harder for the regional theaters around the country right now because they are struggling for dollars.” That’s another reason the American Theatre Wing’s programs to support regional theatre and arts are so important. It’s also why arts advocacy is needed more than ever, she believes. “I’ve always been an advocate in every job I’ve had,” Hitchens says. “When I was with the New York State Council on the Arts, that was a more formalized advocacy role because I was heading the largest state arts agency in the country. What I’ve tried to do in every job is find things we can measure, such as economic activity. In the state of New York, for
example, the arts deliver $25 billion worth of economic impact. “Advocacy is critical, and the arts have struggled with advocacy over time because there is some of the impact that is difficult to measure. But the point is, the arts are not a losing proposition; they are a winning proposition. Not just economic impact, but also what they do for people from an educational standpoint, to helping kids stay in school, to making communities more livable.” The arts community traditionally has had trouble unifying on message points because so many individual voices speak for the various sections of the arts, Hitchens says. Now they are becoming progressively more organized, and more reliable data is available. In tough economic times, the arts tend to be moved to the back burner in favor of issues deemed more pressing; Hitchens is committed to making the arts a frontburner issue. “Those of us who have been around the Wing for years have long felt there are more ways we can support and encourage good theatre across the country,” says Ted Chapin, the Wing’s board chair. “We are, after all, the American Theatre Wing. Five years ago, I would say the Wing was not ready for a Heather Hitchens to run it. We have come a long way.”
Years the musicals won awards: 1. 42nd Street, 1981 2. Crazy for You, 1992 3. The Producers, 2001 4. Applause, 1970
ABOVE: Heather A. Hitchens ’91; Ted Chapin, chair of the Wing’s board of trustees; and Marva A. Smalls, a top executive at MTV Networks.
The Tony for Longest-Running Service Organization in Theatre Goes to … On the eve of America’s entry into World War I in 1917, seven ladies of the theatre decided to bring members of the theatre world together to determine how best to contribute to the war effort. Two weeks later, people representing every segment of the theatre family – from the internationally famous to wardrobe mistresses, producers to stagehands – packed the Hudson Theatre in New York City. The Stage Women’s War Relief was born. Through its workrooms for sewing, clothing and food collection centers, canteen on Broadway for servicemen, performances to entertain troops and sales of Liberty Bonds, the Stage Women’s War Relief became one of the most active relief organizations in the world. In January 1940, nine women, including three of the original founders, reactivated the committee at the government’s request as the American Theatre Wing under the auspices of the Allied Relief Fund. Later, the Allied Fund merged with the British War Relief Society. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the American Theatre Wing became an independent organization with a 43-member executive board made up of a “Who’s Who” of the theatre. It became well known for operating Stage Door Canteens that provided entertainment to servicemen in several American cities. The chairman of the board and secretary of the American Theatre Wing throughout World War II was actress Antoinette Perry. After her death in 1946, the organization created a series of awards for distinguished achievement in theatre to be given in her honor. Since 1947, the Antoinette Perry Awards have been a prestigious honor better known by their nickname, the Tonys. Dedicated to celebrating excellence and supporting education in the theatre, the American Theatre Wing has been an integral and influential part of the theatrical community for more than seven decades. Read more about the American Theatre Wing, its history and programs at www.americantheatrewing.org.
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RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES Evolution of TV cop shows by Christopher Wolfe
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Jonathan D. Nichols-Pethick, associate professor of communication and theatre, used to be like the rest of us. He used to sit in front of a television purely for entertainment and slip into the world behind the screen. Those were simpler days. That all changed when he gave up the Garden of Couch Potatoes for a life of television research. All because of a cop show. It all started in 1995, before NicholsPethick had begun his academic career. At the time, Nichols-Pethick was helping to produce a morning news show at an NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine. One night after work, he was flipping through the channels for something to watch when he stumbled across an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, a show he’d never seen. The episode was about the shooting of one young boy by another, but the pursuit and arrest of the suspect – the entire narrative arc of most cop shows – was condensed into a 2-minute music sequence, leaving the rest of the show to follow two single mothers struggling in the aftermath of the murder. It was stylish, it was dark, and most of all, it was captivating. “It was like nothing I’d ever seen on network television,” he recalls. Two years later, when NicholsPethick was in graduate school, he remembered that episode while searching for a topic to write about. As he began to research other cop shows for his paper, he made a startling discovery. The literature all seemed to conclude that cop shows were ideologically rigid. A cop show has a clean resolution in which crime can be contained and understood, the critics said. Homicide didn’t seem to fit that. It had too many gray areas, and it grappled with crime as a symptom of underlying problems rather than the cause. But
how could a show about homicide investigations be anything other than a cop show? It couldn’t, he decided. The critics were wrong, and not about just one show. They were wrong about an entire genre. What Nichols-Pethick didn’t know at the time was that one show – no, one man – was responsible for nearly all that had been written about cops on television – a man whose unwavering conviction was celebrated by police officers and television audiences alike. His name was Joe Friday.
Just the facts, ma’am. When considering police portrayals on television, there are two eras: Before Dragnet and After Dragnet. It was the first show to focus on a police officer’s work outside of shooting and driving. In other words, it wanted to be realistic. While Dragnet looks dated now, it had a completely modern look to television audiences in 1951. It used real case files – viewers were reminded of this fact before and after each episode – and nailed down all the details of police life, even going as far as to use authentic police station phones. Jack Webb, the show’s creator, starred as Sgt. Joe Friday of the Los Angeles Police Department. Friday was likable, but aside from a desert-dry sense of humor, he was a crime-solving machine. At the risk of slighting RoboCop,
whose character at least had a backstory, Joe Friday went about his job almost robotically. His no-nonsense “Just the facts, ma’am” attitude became shorthand for Dragnet, underscoring its position that crime was a simple thing with no shades of gray. It was terrific television, too. Dragnet made viewers want to yell “You tell ’em, Joe!” as Friday let an uncooperative suspect know what’s what. In the final scene of every show, the apprehended crook shifted about nervously while the narrator announced his sentence. All was right with the world, every week. When Dragnet went off the air in 1959, it wasn’t because of falling ratings. At the time, the show was as popular as it had ever been. Webb simply wanted to work on other projects. Those who have seen late-night reruns know that wasn’t the end of the line for Webb or Dragnet. Webb returned to the series with Dragnet 1967, a color version that was thematically more … colorful. The prodrug, anti-cop counterculture of the late ’60s was a frequent topic of the remake. In California, an epicenter of the youth movement, Webb and actor-turnedgovernor Ronald Reagan assumed the role of authority on screen and in office. The change gave rise to the notion among critics that Dragnet – and all the cop shows that followed – was a simple message whose purpose was to curb challenges to authority. Webb later acknowledged that he
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returned to Dragnet out of a sense of duty to the police. He was, for all intents and purposes, one of them. Upon his death, the LAPD gave Webb a burial with a police honor guard, and Sgt. Friday’s badge number, 714, was retired from the force. Webb’s show received a ceremonial burial of its own. It was the first true police procedural and the gold standard by which all others would be judged for decades. Any discussion of cop shows in the future would have to go through Dragnet, and by the time NicholsPethick began his studies of the genre, critics had established a habit of treating all cop shows as if they were variations on the Dragnet formula.
Fighting the system For the next 15 years, Nichols-Pethick spent countless hours watching cop shows and investigating their place in the history of television. His paper became a master’s thesis, which led to a doctoral dissertation and finally a book. Judging his book solely by its cover, there’s nothing heretical about it. Its title, TV Cops, appears in bold letters across yellow police tape, with the face of career cop actor Dennis Franz front and center. Inside, however, is a direct challenge to the critical orthodoxy. The critics, Nichols-Pethick thought, had gone out of their way to disqualify
RIGHT: Jonathan Nichols-Pethick
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Dragnet (NBC 1951-59)
Adam-12 (NBC 1968-75)
shows like Homicide on a technicality. If a show wasn’t clean and confident in its approach to crime, then it had to be something “experimental,” or perhaps a “primetime soap opera.” Nichols-Pethick’s book throws that preconception right out the window – because it doesn’t match the evidence. “Cop shows comprise something of a cultural forum around crime, community and citizenship,” he says. “On a given night 30 years ago, you could see T. J. Hooker saying that you need to get tough with criminals. Or you had Cagney and Lacey saying how crime is a very complicated thing to understand. Taken as a whole, you see a lot of variety and a lot of interesting things going on around these issues. They’re one of the places we get to rehearse some of those ideas.” In that era of broadcast television, however, only a handful of major networks dominated the airwaves. To compete, a show had to appeal to the largest audience possible. To even get on air, it needed to follow strict guidelines, decades before “wardrobe malfunction” was part of the vernacular. These considerations often shaped cop shows as much as their producers did. But the television industry, as Nichols-Pethick says, is something of a living thing. In March, CNN asked critics and scholars from around the country to name the most influential shows in television history. I Love Lucy, The Tonight Show, The Cosby Show and American Idol all appeared on the list, but none of them claimed the top spot. The most influential
Barney Miller (ABC 1975-82)
show – as selected by people who watch television “professionally” – was a show that TV Guide’s Matt Roush said “paved the way for television drama to grow up and be truly adult.” It is with this show, Hill Street Blues, that Nichols-Pethick begins his book.
1981, it was unlike anything television audiences had seen before. It was dark and gritty, but also had moments of laugh-out-loud humor. Here was a confusing world in which sometimes viewers didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Hill Street set out to breathe new life
“Cop shows comprise something of a cultural forum around crime, community and citizenship.” JONATHAN NICHOLS-PETHICK
NBC was struggling in the early 1980s, lagging far behind ABC and CBS in the ratings, with only Little House on the Prairie breaking into the Nielsen top 10. Desperate for a hit, NBC president Fred Silverman asked Mary Tyler Moore’s production studio, MTM Enterprises, for help. Silverman wanted a hit show. A hit cop show. Head writers Stephen Bochco and Michael Kozoll rejected the idea at first. “When Silverman approached them, they didn’t want to do a cop show at all,” Nichols-Pethick says. “They’d done a few that didn’t work out and were convinced that the form was dead. They just thought, what more can you do?” When Silverman insisted, Bochco and Kozoll demanded complete control over the show. With his network in last place, the soon-to-be-former network president had nothing to lose. When Hill Street Blues premiered in
Police Woman (NBC 1974-78)
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into cop shows. And it almost backfired. “Hill Street Blues was a show that failed by all measures of traditional television,” Nichols-Pethick says. “It came in something like 90th of 92 shows in its first year. It should have been
Tartikoff ’s surprise, the research showed that Hill Street was doing very well among viewers with cable. Eureka. Cable was a luxury in 1981, a new technology that only true television aficionados adopted. A concentrated
“It was striking how open these people are to listening to scholars, and they actually like to think about these things.” JONATHAN NICHOLS-PETHICK
canceled.” It wasn’t. Despite awful ratings, the few people who did watch the show loved it. In May 1981, The New York Times television critic John J. O’Connor wrote of Hill Street, “[I]t has received generally rave reviews from the critics and has quickly attracted a following that constitutes an influential cult.” The praise helped the show to six Emmy Awards and a second season, making it one of lowest-rated shows of all time to survive to a second season. But Emmys don’t pay the bills. Despite its critical success, Hill Street still needed to improve in the ratings to stay on the air. At least, that was the conventional wisdom. After taking over from Fred Silverman at NBC, a young up-andcomer named Brandon Tartikoff asked an assistant to research Hill Street’s viewership. He knew that its overall share was abysmal, but he wanted to see if the show could be salvaged. To
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group of young, affluent viewers meant NBC could sell ads targeted to that audience. Sure enough, Mercedes-Benz was one of the first advertisers to jump on the bandwagon. No longer did a show need to appeal to the most possible viewers, just the right viewers. “Tartikoff looked at the research and said, ‘This is the kind of show that we need to compete in the future,’” NicholsPethick says. “This was actually a shift in the dynamics of television itself, and one of the early examples of thinking about a niche market.” Although it never broke the top 20, Hill Street Blues lasted until 1987, a run fueled by the same rabid following that earned the show its second chance. Bochco went on to develop megahit NYPD Blue and legal drama L.A. Law, but it was a little-known writer on the show who truly capitalized on Hill Street’s legacy.
Cagney and Lacey (CBS 1982-88)
Moral Mystery, Inc. Dick Wolf is a television giant, a man whose first name might as well be “Created by.” On a recent episode of NBC’s 30 Rock, a character examining a script exclaims, “You can’t say ‘Dick Wolf ’ on television!” An entire episode of Community, also on NBC, was shot in the no-frills, up-tempo style of Wolf ’s Law & Order series with the title of “Basic Lupine Urology, “ a lowbrow reference that wouldn’t work at all if the man weren’t a household name. Originally a copywriter for Crest and Scope advertisements, Wolf broke into television as a staff writer for Hill Street Blues. His first real work in the medium clearly rubbed off on him. Law & Order borrowed Hill Street’s ensemble cast, multi-episode story arcs and interpersonal tension. Most importantly, Law & Order borrowed its doubt and ambiguity. Signature “chung CHUNG” noise excluded, Law & Order episodes are best known for their internal debate. The constant back-and-forths made it easy to forget that all the characters were actually written by only one or two people. While working on his book, Nichols-Pethick interviewed Julie Martin, a writer for both Homicide and Law & Order. She told him she always tried to approach Law & Order’s ripped-from-the-headlines episodes with an even hand – not to be politically correct, but because the ambiguity was more challenging to viewers. Wolf himself may have best explained the show’s formula to NPR’s
Cop Rock ((ABC 1990))
Fresh Air host Terry Gross. “The first half is murder mystery,” he said. “The second half is a moral mystery.” It was through Law & Order that Nichols-Pethick became an established authority on cop shows. Prior to 2011, his most prominent appearance as an expert witness was on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann – an experience that disappointed everybody involved when Nichols-Pethick refused to connect reality television with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Last April, he got another moment in the spotlight. As a result of his scholarship that recognized the rich complexity of the modern cop drama, Nichols-Pethick joined a select group of industry professionals and academics invited to celebrate Law & Order’s 20 years on television at the University of California-Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center (half-named for Dick Wolf ). He was asked to sit on a panel about the Law & Order brand, which extends far past the original series. During its run, Wolf launched multiple spinoffs, one of which, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is still on the air. As of this season, the three main Law & Order shows amount to 943 episodes in total, or 39 full days of non-stop viewing.
Foreign adaptations of Law & Order have made their way to France, Russia, Britain and South Africa. These shows are all developed from what Wolf Films refers to as the “bible,” a book that describes in detail how an episode of Law & Order needs to look and how its story should unfold. The event was a treasure trove of information for Nichols-Pethick. People from every level of the show’s production, from actor Benjamin Bratt to Wolf himself, had all the answers he’d been chasing. But, to his surprise, it turned out that the conversations were a two-way street. “It was striking how open these
people are to listening to scholars, and they actually like to think about these things,” Nichols-Pethick says. “One of the nicest moments was when Betsy Scolnik, a media consultant who gave Wolf Films an online presence, came up to me and said, ‘You and I need to talk because I think you can tell me a lot about the genre that I can use.’ I’d never had an industry person tell me they could use me before.” The exploration of complexity has its benefits. In a room with people whose work he’d spent his entire professional life writing about, he was the one answering questions.
RIGHT: Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, second from right, was invited to join a panel of industry professionals and academics at the University of California-Santa Barbara that discussed the Law & Order brand during a celebration of the show’s 20 years on television.
Law & Order (NBC 1990-2010)
The Wire (HBO 2002-08)
CSI (CBS 2000-present)
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ON DEADLINE Student media – from reality television to hard-nosed journalism and everything in between by Jonathan Coffin
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leep tends to be optional for just about any college student, but it’s especially so for one specific subset of students on the DePauw University campus: staffers at The DePauw, WGRE radio and D3TV. “We spend from about 3 o’clock [in the afternoon] on deadline night to 2 or 3 in the morning, and that’s an average day,” says Chase G. Hall ’13, who just
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finished a semester as editor-in-chief of the University’s student newspaper, The DePauw. He says that he prefers not to think about how many hours that is. For the uninitiated, deadline night is ground zero in newspaper-land. Copy is due. Stories are fact-checked. Copy editors make last-minute edits. And designers lay out each page of the paper
before it goes to the printer in the wee hours of the morning. It’s a ritual, every Monday and Thursday night. Next door at WGRE, Hall’s radio colleagues – DJs, news reporters and sports broadcasters – are on the air and streaming on the Web 24 hours a day. No pre-recorded programs. No syndicated shows. If classes are in session, a human being is in the studio.
LEFT: “Taste of DePauw” filmed at The Elms, the DePauw President’s home.
Not to be outdone in the realm of sleep deprivation, Lara E. Naanouh ’13 and Brian K. Alkire ’14, co-producers of D3TV’s varsity-chef reality show, “The Taste of DePauw,” are known for all-night editing sessions and daily production meetings that start at midnight. Long hours. Hard work. Stress. And a huge dose of managing your peers. It’s all in a day’s work. And then, of course, there is apparently an expectation that one also should find time to fit in classes.
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he DePauw legacy of journalism – and the media more broadly – is far from a recent affair. Asbury Notes, which became The DePauw, was first published in 1852, making it Indiana’s oldest college newspaper. WGRE went on the air in 1949 as the nation’s first FCC-licensed, 10-watt educational radio station, while the youngest member of the trio – D3TV – hit campus in 1991. Sigma Delta Chi, now known as the Society of Professional Journalists and the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, was founded at DePauw in 1909. Several icons of media have roots in Greencastle: Bernard Kilgore ’29, who served as editor of The Wall Street Journal and president of Dow Jones & Company, is considered the father of American business journalism. The Pulliam family – including Eugene C. Pulliam ’11 and Eugene S. Pulliam ’35 – notched multiple Pulitzer Prizes during their tenure at the helm of The Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News. Network news watchers remember the late John McWethy ’69, a longtime national security correspondent and Emmy-winning journalist for ABC News. American sports fans can thank
William F. Rasmussen ’54 for bringing them ESPN, while political junkies can get the latest political news from Brett Baier ’92, host of the FOX News Channel’s “Special Report,” and Stephen F. Hayes ’93, a CNN contributor and writer for the Weekly Standard. Readers of the Business Day section of The New York Times get a regular dose of “Common Sense” in columns written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart Jr. ’73. Meanwhile, fans of NBC’s “The Today Show” or “Weekend Today” might watch segments produced by Katherine “Kate” A. Billman ’06 or with the help of a seemingly constant stream of DePauw interns who have made 30 Rockefeller Center (the network’s New York headquarters) a temporary home. Local news viewers in Indianapolis recently welcomed Nicole R. Pence ’06 to the anchor desk of the city’s NBC affiliate WTHR, a station that is also the on-air home to Lynsay A. Clutter ’00. From “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central to the Los Angeles Times, CNBC, Chicago’s WGN radio and the Dallas Morning News, dozens of media outlets around the country can boast of DePauw alumni on staff as writers, producers or on-air talent. For many of these graduates, student media was the gateway.
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It’s a learning laboratory, and it’s a place for them to really try what they’re learning in the classroom.” That’s how Elizabeth “Lili” D. Wright, associate professor of English and faculty adviser for The DePauw, describes the newspaper’s newsroom culture. “They’re learning to write. They’re learning to think critically. There’s such an overlap between [what it takes to be
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a good journalist] and what you get in a good liberal arts education,” she adds. Then there’s the leadership factor – the reality that for student media staff, the boss isn’t a professor or administrator, but rather one of their peers. “You have to figure out when you can ask more of someone and when you can’t,” notes Tyler G. James ’11, a former editor at The DePauw and now a staff
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“They’re learning to write. They’re learning to think critically. There’s such an overlap between [what it takes to be a good journalist] and what you get in a good liberal arts education.” — ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH ELIZABETH “LILI” D. WRIGHT writer covering University of Notre Dame football recruiting for the South Bend Tribune. James is also working on a book about the Monon Bell rivalry. To make things even more challenging, there’s no paycheck to motivate the students, just peer-to-peer encouragement. “I think that’s part of the culture of DePauw,” says Jeffrey M. McCall, professor of communication and theatre and faculty adviser for WGRE.“People get an opportunity, while here, to engage in leadership activities, to try and fail, to try and see success, or to manage their peers, which is a very challenging thing,” he says. The students have a sense of self-
confidence that Wright calls “fearlessness.” “It’s a confidence in thinking that there’s nothing that you can’t understand if you work at it,” she says. That being the case, it’s easy to imagine the conversation that led to the latest television series on D3TV. A four-episode, reality-TV cooking show? Sure. Hosted and judged by students, with student contestants? Of course. Using the kitchen in the University president’s home as the set? That’s a bit more challenging. With shoots lasting eight hours or more? Let’s do it. We’ll call it “Taste of DePauw.” That was the project D3TV coproducers Brian K. Alkire ’14 and Lara E. Naanouh ’13 dreamed up. After
playing a role in a previous D3TV venture into reality television, with a spoof of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” the bar was set for another successful series. “I had a very surface knowledge of how to run a show,” Alkire notes. “I knew how to work a camera. I knew how to edit reasonably well. I knew how to do all the little things. But when you’re putting all those together, calling the shots and dealing with your friends …. We’re doing every aspect of what a production would be.” With a new panel of student judges for each episode, a list of cooking challenges ranging from salad to dessert, and plenty of exceptionally flustered chefs running around a hectic kitchen, the show has all
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Hours spent on set-up, filming and tear-down for the first episode of D3TV’s “Taste of DePauw.” A premiere screening of the show on campus attracted 200 attendees, and the first episode boasts more than 1,000 views online. Watch episodes at www.d3tv.org.
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the elements of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” except perhaps the celebrity appeal. To generate buzz, Alkire and Naanouh planned a premiere party to screen the first episode, which 200 students watched on a massive projection screen in Neal Fieldhouse. In the weeks since, the show has received more than 1,000 views on Vimeo, an online video sharing network similar to YouTube that serves as the station’s primary distribution method. “I didn’t know what to expect,” Naanouh says. “When you’re putting on a show like this, from the top to bottom in every aspect, you’re so focused on the show itself that the last thing you think about is what the final reaction will be. I’m still taking it in.” Over at WGRE, the tasks are a bit different, but no less ambitious. Programming runs around the clock, literally. Live sports broadcasts are commonplace. Most major concerts in the School of Music are streamed live. The station hosts the local candidate forums in election years and broadcasts high school football games in Putnam County. “Let’s face it,” McCall says. “Being a DJ is fun. Covering sports is fun. Having a talk show is fun. For people who are newshounds, reading the news or doing a news interview is fun.” With the fun, however, comes a sense of responsibility, a sense of dedication to the community. “College media at its best really creates a space for current students to reflect in a contemporary moment on what’s happening at my school right now,” says Hall, of The DePauw. As he sees it, the newspaper is his way of giving back to the University. He started as an opinion editor with no interest in writing news. “I knew I liked writing, but I hated the idea of being a journalist,” he says. That was only true, of course, until it wasn’t. After a semester as news editor, one as managing editor and
one as editor-in-chief, Hall will take another turn as the paper’s managing editor in the fall. He is now a regular in the University president’s office and at faculty meetings, asking questions and digging around. “When your name is attached to a story and your face is attached to a story, and your reputation as a student is attached to the story, sometimes that’s great,” he says. Other times, “It’s not easy.
a daily paper. Ad revenue continues to decline at major dailies. At the same time, new distribution methods are catching on. Tablet devices double as newspapers. Mobile applications entice readers and viewers with online-only content. To say that the media is undergoing a transformation is so obviously cliché that it seems old news. Yet, perhaps what matters most is that which has remained constant. “The
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You really have to think in terms of how can I be fair and how can I be honest, even though it goes against what you want to do as a student or as a friend.” This summer, with the help of the Kilgore Fellowship – an endowed program that provides DePauw students with stipends for unpaid newspaper internships – Hall is trying his hand at a larger beat, with an internship at The Oregonian in Portland.
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he news about journalism and the state of media has not been entirely cheerful in recent months. The Times Picayune in New Orleans recently announced that it will no longer print
media has changed so much in the last 10 years, but no matter what form it takes, the essence of good journalism remains the same,” Wright says. “In my mind, the skills I teach in my class apply on a Kindle, on the Web or in print. Tell a story. Put it in context. Have history. All these sorts of skills apply to journalism, wherever it is.” As for the media on campus? Hall sees it all as a challenge. “How do we create something that is useful, important and worth picking up? It makes us value more when we do something right, and makes us more creative when we’re trying to engage students. That challenge is exciting to me.”
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BERNARD W. BEVER ’65 Cotton Fields (PublishAmerica– ISBN: 978-1-46266794-9) Cotton Fields takes place in an institution for “damaged” members of the middle class accused of murder, although the murders may or may not have happened. It is partly farce, partly comedy, partly a statement about the condition of humanity and what keeps it where it is. The story revolves around First Group, which consists of Carl, a priest and therapist; Menlo, whose dissatisfaction begins with her husband’s sock drawer; Sterling, whose mental problems center around plumbing; Wilkie, about whom nothing is known; KC, who is accused of murdering neighborhood dogs; Karen, who claims to have committed suicide; Annie, who was married to Sterling; and Cora, accused of murdering her daughter. Are any of the murders real? The story leads to surprising conclusions and an unlooked-for ending. Bever, who lives in Bourbon County, Ky., is the author of two other books.
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JOSEPH W. HEITHAUS, University Professor and professor of English Poison Sonnets (David Robert Books – ISBN: 9781936370603) After encouraging a student to write a series of sonnets, Joe Heithaus turned the assignment on himself and began to write sonnets inspired by illustrations of poison plants in an old Webster’s Dictionary. Heithaus began publishing some of the sonnets in magazines and received the prestigious 2007 Discovery/The Nation Prize for a group of 10 “Poison Sonnets.” Those sonnets are now the central thread of his first book, a weave of 54 sonnets exploring the nature of poison and celebrating the complexities of language. Heithaus has taught at DePauw since 1996, and his book is the product of a decade’s work. His poems have appeared in Poetry, North American Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner and Indiana Review. He is one of five “airpoets,” whose poems were integrated into stained-glass window murals in the Indianapolis International Airport and featured in two books, Rivers, Rails and Runways and Airmail.
ALEX J. KONDONASSIS ’52 Global Economic Development: The Evolution of Theory and Practice – A Handbook
JAY P. MORAN ’90 and Jeffrey Cohn Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?
(College of Continuing Education, University of Oklahoma – ISBN: 0-9630698-6-1)
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In his latest book, Alex Kondonassis focuses on three main elements in understanding the principles of economic development: the meaning and measurement of development, the driving forces behind development, and an analysis of the effects and remedies. With an emphasis on the role of institutions, he discusses “swings of the pendulum,” the phenomenon by which one economic policy is replaced by another, eventually resulting in a synthesis. Detailed chapters cover the evolution of less-developed countries as well as the success stories of Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and United States. The handbook is intended for use by economics students, professionals in economic-related fields and anyone interested in learning more about the world’s complex economic condition. Kondonassis is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Economics Emeritus and Regent’s Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Oklahoma.
At a time when a majority of Americans believe we are suffering from a crisis of leadership, do you ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors when organizations pick their top leaders? It can be a contentious, secretive, even brutal process. Many leaders look good on paper, yet they often lack the good qualities that are necessary to succeed. In Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?, Jay Moran and Jeffrey Cohn share the same insights and ideas that they use to help organizations make better choices. Identifying seven essential attributes of all great leaders, the authors provide a fresh and powerful evaluation technique anyone can use to assess leadership potential. Through dynamic, firsthand accounts from the business world, entertainment, sports, politics, education and philanthropy, they offer the ultimate insider access and reveal how top organizations find and choose the best talent. The Globe and Mail selected this book as one of its Top 10 Business Books of 2011.
FACULTY NEWS SAMUEL A. AUTMAN, assistant professor of English, is author of “A Dash of Pepper in the Snow,” which is included in a new anthology, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. “A Dash of Pepper in the Snow” received the second-place award in the 2009 SoulMaking Literary Contest for the Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize.
CAROLYN E. MUELLER ’09 Bubbles the Dwarf Zebu: A Story About Finding a Home at the Saint Louis Zoo (Reedy Press – ISBN: 978-1-93580629-5) Written and illustrated by zookeeper Carolyn Mueller, Bubbles the Dwarf Zebu is the tale of a small cow that makes a journey from India to America. A unique animal at the St. Louis Zoo inspires the story. A dwarf zebu is a type of cattle originating from the zebu cattle of India – one of the oldest known breeds of cattle, easily recognized by their silvery grey coats, distinctive humps on their withers (known as dewlaps) and flaps of skin under their necks. The story begins with Bubbles doing what zebus do best – pulling carts and living happily in India – but her life changes dramatically when she is sent to live across the sea and her dewlap and hump make her look different from cows she meets on an American farm. Bubbles finally makes new friends and realizes that her differences are really what make her special. Mueller, who majored in English writing at DePauw, is a freelance writer and trains a variety of animals for summer shows at the Emerson Children’s Zoo, where the real-life Bubbles can be found.
MARTIN J. NAPARSTECK ’74 Richard Yates Up Close: The Writer and His Works (McFarland – ISBN: 9780786460595) Richard Yates has been referred to as America’s least-known great writer. Martin Naparsteck, who received a master’s degree in English from DePauw in 1974, first became interested in Yates when Thomas A. Emery, a longtime English professor, invited Yates to speak at DePauw – an incident that Naparsteck mentions in the book. Today Yates is known primarily for the novel Revolutionary Road, considered by many critics as the greatest American novel of the second half of the 20th century. Naparsteck’s critical study examines the life and work of Yates by placing his body of work in both cultural and personal context. Topics covered include the writing of his major novels, homosexuality, his role as a critic and his relationship with Hollywood. The book divulges new details about Yates’ life and offers a thorough analysis of unpublished materials from the Richard Yates archives at Boston University. Naparsteck has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a book of writing advice. He writes full-time and lives in Rochester, N.Y.
REBECCA L. BORDT, associate professor of sociology, is recipient of the 2012 John F. Schnabel Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, presented by the North Central Sociological Association, in recognition of her efforts to enhance the teaching of sociology. TIM D. COPE, associate professor of geosciences, was awarded a $144,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support his ongoing project, “Tectonic Development of the Yanshan Fold-Thrust Belt, Northeast China.” Through the project, Cope will take approximately three students to China each summer of the grant period to assist with the research. DAVID N. GELLMAN, professor of history, contributed an essay to a new book, Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream, part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series published by Ashgate Publishing Company. Gellman writes about “Springsteen, Richard Ford, and the American Dream.” DAVID M. NEWMAN, professor of sociology, gave a special feature presentation at the 25th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education held May 28-June 2 in New York City. Newman spoke about “Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality.” KERRY E. PANNELL, dean of faculty, Q.G. Noblitt Professor of Economics and Management and associate professor of economics and management, was appointed a Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Teagle Pedagogy Fellow. She will have a key role in development of a new consortial program called the GLCA Lattice for Pedagogical Research and Practice, which is designed to connect interested faculty on a given campus to a larger consortial community of interest centered on liberal arts teaching and learning.
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Trustee R. David Hoover ’67 honored at groundbreaking Members of the Board of Trustees, along with faculty, students, friends and community members, joined on May 10 to honor R. David Hoover ’67 and his wife, Suzanne Anderson Hoover ’67, through a groundbreaking of the Hoover Gates, designed to be the new grand entrance to DePauw’s campus. Hoover, who chaired the Board of Trustees from 2008 through 2012, recently retired as chairman of the board at Ball Corporation. As a way of honoring Hoover’s work for Ball, as well as his commitment to serving the community, Ball Corporation has provided for the construction of the Hoover Gates, an integral part of the ongoing campus master plan. John A. Hayes, president and CEO of Ball Corporation, was on hand for the ceremony. “Dave Hoover has contributed to Ball Corporation’s success for more than 40 years. His integrity, financial insight
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and clear leadership were a driving force behind transforming Ball into a world leader in packaging and aerospace and creating significant value for Ball’s stakeholders – and in embedding economic, social and environmental sustainability within our company as part of how we operate every day.” The Hoover Gates will welcome visitors to DePauw by providing an attractive entry off of Bloomington Street to Anderson Street, which is being transformed from a one-way street leading away from campus into a two-way street designed to invite traffic directly toward the heart of DePauw. The Hoovers have been notable leaders of the DePauw community. In addition to service on boards and committees, they have established the R. David and Suzanne A. Hoover Scholarship, which provides assistance to students with demonstrated financial need.
SAVE THE DATE Celebrating 25 years Old Gold Weekend 2012 First-ever celebration for Walker Cup alumni DePauw celebrated its 175th anniversary by hosting the first-ever gathering of Walker Cup alumni. Thirty Walker Cup recipients and their families, along with five Walker family members, gathered on campus during commencement weekend events headed up by Walker Cup Celebration co-chairs Robert W. Schrier ’57 and Lindsey R. Ciochina ’05. Established in 1927, the Walker Cup honors that member of the senior class who has done the most for DePauw University. The Cup was endowed by Guy Morrison Walker, A.B. 1890, LL.B. 1891. He held a lifelong affinity for his alma mater and endowed both the Walker Cup and Horizon Lecture Series, DePauw’s first endowed lectureship. Festivities included a dinner at The Elms with President Brian W. Casey and a celebration breakfast in the morning prior to commencement. In addition, the plaques listing Walker Cup recipients, which had hung in the Memorial Student Union Building, were replaced with a new display to honor awardees well into the future. Bruce Walker ’53, grandson of the Cup’s founder, generously made this new display possible. Walker addressed attendees at the breakfast on behalf of his family, reading from a 1929 letter from his grandfather, which stated his original purpose to endow the Walker Cup, as follows: “It is because I want the students of DePauw to appreciate the extraordinary value of cultivating an ability to sell DePauw, DePauw graduates, DePauw ideals and standards, and themselves in an impersonal way that I have endowed this Walker Cup to be given to that member of each senior class who during his or her college course has done the most to advance the interests and fame of DePauw.”
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WHY WE GIVE Gilmer Scholarship honors rich life in academia By Cynthia E. Cornell, professor emerita of English
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e’re sitting at the round table in 2 West of the Inn at DePauw where we gather every Friday at noon. We’ve been doing that since Walker Gilmer retired in 1997. He and his wife, Peggy, drew us – six women who were colleagues of them both – like magnets to keep reading, talking, eating and laughing with them about books, film, Broadway and good restaurants. On this particular Friday in December, our talk spills over onto the table next to us, and we quickly discover that the middle-aged man there is a DePauw alumnus. Walker asks him if he remembers any of his English professors. Yes, he tells us, adding that he virtually majored in English because of his favorite professor, Walker Gilmer. Gilmer was such a good lecturer in American literature, he recalls, that his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers would crash Walker’s classroom when he lectured on The Great Gatsby. “God, I’m sophisticated,” he says, mimicking Walker, mimicking Gatsby’s darling Daisy.
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ur conversation dissolves into laughter as Dennis L. Southerland ’72, realizes he is talking to that very favorite professor. At least 40 years have passed, and although Professor Gilmer looks exactly the same to us, he has lost enough pounds and enough hair to go unrecognized by this former student. But it doesn’t take Southerland 30 seconds to realize that this is the charismatic teacher who, for 34 years, had been devoted to his students, to American literature and
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theatre, to his colleagues and to the University to which he had given his entire career.
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hat is why Walker’s decision to establish The Peggy and Walker Gilmer Scholarship is no surprise to us. This most generous gift, announced in Indianapolis on March 1, is Walker’s way of thanking the students and University that gave his professorial life such meaning and pleasure. It is also a way to remember and honor his wife and “soul mate,” Peggy, who passed away in June 2010. For many years, she taught at the University, too; strolled with Walker and their students down the sidewalks of New York on their legendary Winter Terms; and with Walker welcomed them to their home on Taylor Place and later on Hilltop Lane. The Peggy and Walker Gilmer Scholarship will allow promising students of greatest need, especially first-generation
students, to enjoy the full richness of the DePauw education that the Gilmers contributed to and enjoyed for so many years. It also challenges his former students, colleagues and friends to match him in this gift to future Gilmer Scholars. Peggy and Walker Gilmer and their daughter, Gail, began their life in Greencastle and at DePauw University in 1963, having met at Northwestern University, where Peggy was earning a second master’s degree (her first was from Harvard) and Walker was completing a Ph.D. degree in American literature. (Both were Phi Beta Kappa undergraduates – Peggy at Carleton College and Walker at University of Virginia.) In their early years, Peggy helped Walker with his teaching of American literature and the preparation of his widely acclaimed book on the flamboyant 1920s publisher Horace Liveright (New York: David Lewis, 1970). Five years after the birth of their
FAR LEFT: PEGGY GILMER. LEFT: WALKER GILMER. RIGHT: WALKER GILMER, CENTER, WITH HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE SUSAN GULDIN FISCHER ’93, LEFT, AND MEREDITH L. GUERRERA ’96.
son, Charlie, in 1965, Peggy was back in the classroom, where for more than 20 years she delighted in teaching Latin and hosting students and colleagues at home. s a member of the DePauw English Department for his entire career, Walker had a lifetime of opportunities to serve the University and mentor colleagues. For all of us who joined him in the English Department and for many across the University, he modeled – as teacher, department chair and member of a variety of University committees – commitment to professional excellence, civil discourse in times of disagreement and openness to change. He was the first to teach a course in African-American literature and one of the first to shift from a lecture to a discussion-centered classroom. As a leader, he insisted upon democratic principles of governance as opposed to privilege and hierarchy. His colleagues recognized his contributions with his appointment to the James Whitcomb Riley Chair in the early 1980s and his selection in 1990 as one of the first three professors to receive the Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award. But the honors Professor Gilmer is most proud of are the ones given him by students in various forms over the years. Typically, when he was interviewed for a story in the DePauw Alumnus about his winning the 1976-77 Panhellenic Professor of the Year award, he credited DePauw for his luck. Here, he said, he had “the chance to see and talk to students in class and on campus – an opportunity … [I] would never have had in a larger and more impersonal school. To know students and be with them and teach them – that was the career … [I] wished for most.”
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WHEN GILMER RETIRED IN 1997, HE ASKED FOR LETTERS FROM FORMER STUDENTS KEEPING HIM UP TO DATE ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD DONE SINCE THEIR GRADUATIONS. HE RECEIVED MORE INFORMATION THAN HE EXPECTED. HERE IS A SAMPLING: “Over the years since I graduated, it has been a privilege to see you and your wife, Peggy, whom I adore. I teach a writing course myself now, and recently my students asked me why I do it. I was a bit taken aback, and I’m afraid that I did a poor job of explaining that if I can touch even one of their lives the way you did mine, it will be ample reward, and the best way I know of to express my thanks.” — James B. Stewart Jr. ’73 “After all these years, I realize I have you to blame. If I had not taken your American Literature class, I would not have thought I was Hemingway for the better part of my adult life. If I had not taken that Winter Term trip to New York with you and Peggy, I would not have been lured to a life in the theater … And I would not have named my youngest daughter, a girl whose love of life surpasses even my own, Elisabeth Walker Evans.” — Timothy J. Evans ’73 “Perhaps the warmest memory I have is bringing my son, Byron, to DePauw in August 1993 and introducing him to you at the welcoming tent. I didn't know then that Byron would choose English as his major, and that he would enjoy some of those literature courses that I missed. Byron continually reminisces to me about his journey (it’s really much more than a mere “class”) with you in American Writers and your influence on his years at DePauw. When you have made this kind of mark on two generations, it's time to start talking legend!” — Max W. Hittle Jr. ’66 “The fact that my letterhead says “Marnie McPhee, Writer” still astounds me. I wouldn’t be a writer, if it hadn’t been for you.” — Marnie McPhee ’70
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2012 We were delighted to welcome many of you back to campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 6-10. The reunion was a celebration of not only your time on campus, but also 175 years of history and tradition that were honored with several special events and reunions, including Alumni Board and Rector Scholar reunions, 175th Anniversary tours, and a Met and Married vow renewal and reception. As the old adage says, a picture is worth a thousand words. We hope you enjoy this sampling of photos from the weekend. To see more photos, please visit http://photos.depauw.edu. Don’t miss the fun next year! Save the date: June 5-9, 2013!
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CELEBRATION OF DEPAUW ATHLETICS Five former DePauw student-athletes entered the DePauw Athletic Hall of Fame May 5, 2012 as the 26th class of inductees since the charter class entered in 1986. The induction ceremony took place at the Inn at DePauw, Social Center as part of a Celebration of DePauw Athletics. This year’s Hall of Fame inductees included: Elizabeth Walse DeGraff ’01, soccer; Susan Guldin Fischer ’93, volleyball; Dr. Gene C. Laker ’54, basketball; Eric V. Lortz ’68, football; and Thomas A. McGurk Jr. ’68, basketball. Plaques in their honor were placed in the Hall of Fame area on the second floor of the Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center. As part of DePauw’s 175th Anniversary Celebration, all Athletic Hall of Fame members were invited to attend the Celebration of DePauw Athletics Banquet to join us in paying tribute to DePauw’s iconic athletic figures: Charlie Erdmann, Barb Federman, Judy George, Bob Harvey, Ted Katula, Jim Loveless, Elmer McCall, Ed Meyer, Mary Louise Miller, Tom Mont, Nick Mourouzis, Gaumey Neal and Mike Snavely.
ABOVE: 2012 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTION. FROM LEFT, RICHARD J. BONACCORSI ’85, PRESIDENT BRIAN W. CASEY, SUSAN GULDIN FISCHER ’93, DR. GENE C. LAKER ’54, ERIC V. LORTZ ’68, ELIZABETH WALSE DEGRAFF ’01, THOMAS A. MCGURK JR. ’68, PAGE COTTON AND STEVIE BAKER-WATSON, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS.
PLAN TO ATTEND OLD GOLD WEEKEND ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AND TRADITIONS HIGHLIGHTED DURING OLD GOLD WEEKEND Celebrate DePauw’s 175th Anniversary and alumni achievement during Old Gold Weekend 2012. All alumni are invited to join us for several exciting events scheduled for Oct. 4-6. » Alumni will be honored on Friday, Oct. 5 at the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards dinner. Awards to be presented include the Old Gold Goblet, Young Alumni Award and Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards for Citizenship and Service, Creative and Performing Arts, Management and Entrepreneurship, Media, Professional Achievement, and Science and Technology. » During your visit to campus, plan to tour the DePauw Nature Park, Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, Bartlett Reflection Center and Richard E. Peeler Art Center galleries. You also won’t want to miss other Old Gold Weekend events, including: » Alumni networking event with current students » Second annual Old Gold communitywide tailgate on Saturday, Oct. 6 » 25th anniversary of The Washington C. DePauw Society » Royalty Reunion for former Old Gold kings and queens » Special 175th Anniversary Union Board concert on Saturday night
ABOVE: FROM LEFT: JEFFREY E. LORTZ ’65, ERIC V. LORTZ ‘68 AND GEORGE C. LORTZ ’62.
For more information about Old Gold Weekend 2012 and for event and registration details, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations by calling toll-free at 877-658-2586 or via email to alumnioffice@depauw.edu.
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ALUMNI EVENTS
LEFT: ALUMNI AND FRIENDS JOINED FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE ’69 AND VERNON E. JORDAN JR. ’57 FOR A DEPAUW 175TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ON JUNE 12 AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA IN NEW YORK CITY. FROM LEFT ARE DEPAUW PRESIDENT BRIAN W. CASEY, QUAYLE AND JORDAN.
TOP LEFT: DENVER ALUMNI GATHERED AT THE ARAPAHOE BASIN “BEACH” BETWEEN RUNS WHILE ENJOYING A DAY OF SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING. TOP RIGHT: WASHINGTON, D.C.-AREA ALUMNI AND FRIENDS POSE FOR A PICTURE AFTER A TOUR OF THE WHITE HOUSE LED BY ELISABETH “BESS” EVANS ’07. BOTTOM LEFT: NINETEEN CINCINNATI ALUMNI, ALONG WITH SIX FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, ATTENDED A THOUGHT-PROVOKING DISCUSSION OF “THE VALUE AND VALUES OF LEADERSHIP” LED BY ROBERT M. STEELE, THE PHYLLIS W. NICHOLAS DIRECTOR OF THE JANET PRINDLE INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS. BOTTOM RIGHT: ALUMNI IN NORTH TEXAS WELCOME HOME THE TROOPS!
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175TH ANNIVERSARY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE by Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ’57
EDITOR’S NOTE: VERNON E. JORDAN JR. ’57 DELIVERED THE INAUGURAL 175TH ANNIVERSARY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE ON FEB. 19, 2012. BELOW IS AN EXCERPTED VERSION OF JORDAN’S LECTURE. A COMPLETE VERSION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.DEPAUW.EDU/ABOUT/ CELEBRATION/DISTINGUISHED-ALUMNI-LECTURE-S.
… In September of 1953, my parents, along with my youngest brother, drove me to Greencastle. After two days on campus, it was finally time to say goodbye. We were just outside of East College. My brother, happy that finally he would have the bed and the bedroom to himself, said a quick goodbye and rushed off to the station wagon. My mother, with tears in her eyes, said, “God bless you, son,” and eased $50 into my pocket. My father gave me a firm handshake, looked me straight in the eye, and said, “You can’t come home.” Stunned, I said, “What do you mean, I can’t come home?” He said, “Your classmates attended fine township high schools and prep schools, and you attended a segregated, ill-equipped, overcrowded, doublesessioned colored high school in the South. But you can’t come home. Given your reading score, when you and your classmates are reading history of civilization, they will be in chapter six, and you will be struggling to get out of chapter one. But you can’t come home.” My father said, “You are the only black in your class, and there are only five other black students here. But you can’t come home.” Puzzled, I asked, “So, what am I to do, Daddy?”
So while I came here to learn political science and history, it was also an opportunity to learn about people I did not know, and people who did not know me. I hoped that by my presence, I would learn and teach. He said: “Read, boy, read.” Four years later at graduation, my brother slowly walked to congratulate me, thinking that I might be returning home. My mother, tears in her eyes, again said “God bless you, son,” and gave me $100. My father gave me the same firm handshake, looked me straight in the
eye, and said, “You can come home now.” My father’s message to me was the same message that Percy Julian got, before going on to become a leading chemist and one of DePauw’s most distinguished black graduates. … Every black student who came to DePauw heard some version of that
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message – seemingly unwelcoming, but in truth, empowering. “You can’t come home.” It was embedded in our hearts, minds and souls. “It’s on you to make a living, and make a life … you’re here to do something.” You’re here to do something. I knew what I was going to do. As a boy, listening to the great black civil rights lawyer A. T. Walden speak in my church, I long ago decided to become a lawyer and use the majesty of the law to remedy the injustice of the law. I needed to equip myself with the
and cakes from your mother. You snore. You sing in the shower. You do your homework. You fall asleep at your desk.” It was one of the nicest observations anyone has ever made about my singing and snoring. Whatever Russ and Roy were predisposed to think, our living together had broadened their perspective, and mine. We became true roommates and friends. I took them to Atlanta as a graduation gift, where they stayed in my home. They were somewhat stunned by the real racism of the segregated
Today’s DePauw graduates enter a world marked by significant turmoil, but defined by unmistakable progress. This campus, where blacks could not live in the residence halls until 1946, celebrated when America elected our nation’s first black president. tools to do that. So while I came here to learn political science and history, it was also an opportunity to learn about people I did not know, and people who did not know me. I hoped that by my presence, I would learn and teach. … What I found surprised me. My two roommates were white midwesterners, Russ Foote and Roy Carlson. They were best friends and had expected to spend their senior year together, just the two of them. When they walked into Longden 106 and saw their third roommate, the look on their faces said, “What have we gotten ourselves into?” For a few weeks, we coexisted. But one night, I came back from the library, and Russ said, “We’ve been talking about you.” I said, “Really?” – not knowing where this was going. “Yeah,” he said. “We’ve decided something … we’ve decided that you’re no different than we are. Like us, you get mail from home, boxes of cookies
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South, but they stuffed themselves on my mother’s cooking, went with me to NAACP mass meetings and enjoyed themselves immensely. My father was pretty surprised at all this. When another white classmate from South Carolina spent the night, my father came in to observe as we slept through the night. He could not believe that this young white man was sleeping under his roof – under his rules and protection – just like any of my other friends would have. My father cried in disbelief. That was the DePauw difference – helping us realize we were not so different after all. … The DePauw I experienced was a shelter, in some ways, from the upheaval that was simmering outside the Greencastle gates and, sometimes, a reflection of it. But most importantly, more than masking or mirroring the outside world, DePauw gave me an understanding of
the world. It educated me, and prepared me for law school. That education, combined with a passion for the issues, and the constant reminder that all of us are here “to do something,” have been the foundation upon which I have tried to build my life. … Today’s DePauw graduates enter a world marked by significant turmoil, but defined by unmistakable progress. This campus, where blacks could not live in the residence halls until 1946, celebrated when America elected our nation’s first black president. In fact, if you need further proof of our progress, consider that my last visit to DePauw, about three months ago, was to introduce my dear friend, and one of the great, great leaders of our time, former president Bill Clinton. We stepped onto a campus at whose center now stands the Percy Lavon Julian Science & Mathematics Center, named for one of DePauw’s most accomplished graduates, black or white. So I believe in American democracy. I believe in the free enterprise system. I have seen America change. I have had a hand in that change. And I have been a beneficiary of that change, as have so many others. As I look out at this DePauw student body, I know that you are capable of great things. You inherit not just a tradition, but a responsibility – a responsibility to push progress further still. You are the ones who welcome new experiences and challenge old stereotypes. Who see things you know to be wrong and try your best to make them right. And we need today’s DePauw students to let this place enlighten them – as my roommates Russ and Roy and I were enlightened. That’s my charge to you. Let me leave you with an image of how far we have come – thanks to the steady march of shattered preconceptions and expanded opportunities. I got a lot from DePauw; I got a lot of mentoring and tutoring, a good
education and unforgettable experiences, but the experience that is etched forever in my heart that has made me what I am is the experience of my grandfather. My grandfather, Jim Griggs, was a sharecropper on Mr. Robert Callier’s place in Talbott County, Ga., where I visited every August of my childhood. In the summer of 1947, I got up the nerve to ask him something that concerned me. We were sitting on the front porch of his roadside shanty, rocking to the same rhythm in our rocking chairs, and I said, “Pa, I want to ask you a question.” He said, “What is it, boy?” And I said, “Pa, at 70 years old, way down here in Talbott County on Mr. Robert Callier’s place, what is it, Pa, that you most want out of life?” And Pa raised himself up from that old raggedy rocking chair, and he had snuff in the front of his mouth and tobacco in the back of his mouth at the same time. He got up and spit that tobacco and snuff all the way to the highway in a straight line. And he leaned back and said, “Junior, at 70 years old, way down here in Talbott County on Mr. Robert Callier’s place, all I want out of life is to be able to go to the bathroom indoors in a warm place one time before I die.” That was my grandfather’s highest aspiration. That was his impossible dream – to be able to go the bathroom indoors in a warm place one time before he died. He didn’t say that he wanted to learn to read and write and do arithmetic so the white man could not cheat him when he dealt with him. He didn’t say that he wanted to register to vote or sit on a jury or eat at the lunch counter or go to the library, because his life was so blinded by segregation, discrimination and dehumanization that his highest aspiration was a basic creature comfort. I am forever reminded, edified, sanctified, yea, even tormented by my grandfather’s experience. The shutters of my grandfather’s life were so closed that he could foresee no future for his 12-year-old grandson
or himself. But thanks be to God, the shutters of my life – and many others’ – are sufficiently open that we can aspire to higher ground. But only if we continue to learn. Learn, at institutions like this one. And learn from each other. So as I leave you now, I think back to when I left this place, diploma in hand, when my father told me, “you can come home now.” Because then I realized – I had found a new home. … Here … the second home of my youth. And I
realized, further, that as comfortable as I felt here, the work of a lifetime beckoned. So my hope for the next 175 years is that students of this great university, of all colors and backgrounds, will find a home here. And that they will then leave the comfort of these hallowed halls, to go out and make the world a better place. I can think of no greater tribute one can pay to a university than to urge it to continue producing graduates who do just that. Thank you.
I got a lot from DePauw; I got a lot of mentoring and tutoring, a good education and unforgettable experiences, but the experience that is etched forever in my heart that has made me what I am is the experience of my grandfather.
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1944
John E. Hopkins celebrated his 90th birthday, May 5, 2012, with family and friends. John is a World War II veteran. He served as a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, flying and surviving 35 missions. He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and still proudly wears his pin. Rawson H. Murdock Jr. and Arthur H. Zwierlein ’47 enjoyed themselves at the 25th anniversary of the 70+ Ski Club outing, Feb. 2, 2012, at Nubs Nob in Harbor Springs, Mich. (See photo.)
1945
Jack Runninger is author of Funny Female Foibles, described as “a discussion of the humorous aspects of female behavior.” Jack has been a popular humor columnist for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune for 30 years, and he is author of several books.
1947
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: • Group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation, and background information on the gathering. • Digital photos submitted must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher). 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.
Arthur H. Zwierlein and Rawson H. Murdock Jr. ’44 enjoyed themselves at the 25th anniversary of the 70+ Ski Club outing, Feb. 2, 2012, at Nubs Nob in Harbor Springs, Mich. (See photo.)
1950
The Alpha Omicron Pi class of 1950 started a round-robin letter shortly after graduation, which has continued more than 60 years. Their letters have chronicled careers, families, accomplishments, difficulties, losses, relocations and joy of long-term friendships that started at DePauw. The following are still part of the circulation: Betty Jannasch Athey, Marilyn Davis Boles, Kathryn Schwarz Colten, Suzanne Johnson Early, Patricia Jacobs Jenkins, Dora Hildebrand Meredith, Zillah Janes Novak, E. Jane Kuentzel Maulbetsch, Elizabeth Horn Schumacher and Marjorie Gardner Schweitzer.
Please direct questions to Larry Anderson, senior editor, at 765-658-4628 or landersn@depauw.edu.
1952
William D. Dyke is circuit judge for Iowa County (Wis.) and chief judge of the Seventh Judicial District. He is one of three DePauw alumni serving as members of the Wisconsin judiciary. David T. Prosser Jr. ’65 is justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Thomas E. Lister ’70 is circuit judge for Jackson County, Wis.
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ROBERT H. GILES ’55 was included in the 2012 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which recognizes “some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders.” A newspaper editor and former curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Bob has joined the international news site GlobalPost as commentary editor. He has been a newspaper reporter and editor for 40 years, most recently as editor and publisher of The Detroit News.
A new book, Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians, presents a window into the mind and heart of one of the world’s most accomplished and soughtafter choral conductors: Joseph R. Flummerfelt ’58. Written by Donald Nally, chorus master at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the book looks at Flummerfelt’s life, art and ideas, and it includes sections on Flummerfelt’s formative years as a DePauw student and faculty member. Alumni Reunion Weekend 2012 – Members of the Class of 1952
1954
William F. Rasmussen, founder of ESPN, was keynote speaker at the second annual Wharton Sports Innovation Conference, March 16, 2012, in Philadelphia.
1955
Ian M. Rolland, a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees, received the 2012 Sachem Award, Indiana’s highest honor, April 25, 2012. The award is given annually “to recognize a lifetime of excellence and moral virtue that has brought credit and honor to Indiana.” Ian is former chairman and chief executive officer of Lincoln National Corp.
Rawson H. Murdock Jr. ’44 and Arthur H. Zwierlein ’47
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Seven Alpha Chi Omegas from the Class of 1957
enjoyed an October 2011 reunion in Isle of Palms, S.C. They were joined for part of the time by some of their husbands as well as Nancy W. Lovett ’74. (See photo on page 42.) Gretchen Kiger Cryer was director of the one-woman musical, Relative Pitch, at Manhattan’s Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, Feb. 21-March 3, 2012. The play was part of the theatre’s award-winning Mentor Project, and Gretchen served as the playwright’s mentor.
1958
Timothy H. Ubben is the 2012 recipient of the Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement, which is presented by the Council for Advancement and Support
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of Education (CASE) to alumni volunteers in recognition of exceptional overall service to their alma maters. Tim is an advisory trustee of DePauw. He and his wife, Sharon Williams Ubben, received honorary doctoral degrees at DePauw’s commencement, May 20, 2012.
1959
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Willis “Bing” Davis, founder and retired president of Willis Bing Davis Art Studio & Gallery in Dayton, Ohio, was invited to create a sculpture model for the Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden in Lexington, Ky., that will memorialize the legendary African-American Hall of Fame jockey and pioneer in his sport who won three consecutive Kentucky Derbys. Robert P. Godwin spoke at the DePauw Department of Physics luncheon, May 10, 2012. Bob retired as a research scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory in Arizona. Dr. W. Allan Walker is a medical researcher for Harvard Medical School in the Department of Mucosal Immunology Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. On Feb. 8, 2012, he spoke with DePauw students interested in medicine and medical research.
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Alpha Chi Omega members from the Class of 1957 met in Isle of Palms, S.C. Those attending included Jeanne Petracek Kipp ’57, Lou Ubben Walton ’57, Sue Galbraith Roberts ’57, Roberta Bruns Oleson ’57, Ann Luttrell Grant ’57, Donna Hostetter Peebles ’57 and Mary Goff Pontius ’57.
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Sandra Frakes Parsons ’62, Linda Kissell Browne ’62 and Janalee Smith Holmes ’62 met in Cave Creek, Ariz., for a Delta Delta Delta mini-reunion.
1961
Dr. Karl Y. Hostetler is recipient of the 2012 Gertrude Elion Memorial Lecture Award from the International Society of Antiviral Research. Karl is a professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious diseases and endocrinology at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
1962
Susan Donovan Henry served as a United Methodist missionary in Bolivia for 40 years, retiring in 2007. While working in Bolivia, she was co-author of a basic cookbook in Spanish, compiled a hymnal for the Bolivian Methodist Church and wrote a history of church work in eastern Bolivia as well as worked with volunteer construction and medical teams. Her husband is deceased. She has three children and seven grandchildren. Her retirement gives her time to spend with them and to volunteer at her church. Three Delta Delta Delta members from the Class of 1962 met in Cave Creek, Ariz., in February 2012 for a mini-reunion. (See photo.)
1963
Barbara Smith Banker is director of community services for School District 200 in Woodstock, Ill. She was recipient of the second annual Award of Excellence given by the District 200 Education Foundation. Bayard “Bud” Walters was featured on the cover of Radio Ink, January 2012. Bud is president of Cromwell Group, serving local communities with radio broadcasts. He is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.
1964
Scott M. MacDonald, a documentary filmmaker, was selected an Academy Scholar for 2012 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood and received a grant to conduct research on documentary filmmaking in Cambridge, Mass. Scott expects his project to produce two books: a critical history of the major accomplishments of ethnographic film and personal documentary and a
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book of interviews with many of the filmmakers.
1965
Bernard W. Bever is author of Cotton Fields published by PublishAmerica. (See Recent Words, page 28.) David L. Callies is co-editor of Tax Increment Financing published by the American Bar Association. David is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law. Michael D. Peyton is recipient of the Distinguished Hoosier Award given by the State of Indiana to Hoosiers who have uniquely brought admiration and respect to the state through their character and accomplishments. Michael is a retired judge of Indiana’s Henry Superior Court. David T. Prosser Jr. is justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He is one of three DePauw alumni serving as members of the Wisconsin judiciary. William D. Dyke ’52 is circuit judge for Iowa County (Wis.) and chief judge of the Seventh Judicial District. Thomas E. Lister ’70 is circuit judge for Jackson County, Wis.
1966
Nicholas E. Hollis is president of Agribusiness Council, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit trade group. Nick’s
commentary articles on history and heritage subjects have become nationally syndicated. Robert F. Wells received the Obie Harrington-Howes Community Spirit Award. The award is presented to an individual who has served several organizations as a volunteer in a dedicated and impactful way. Bob is a trustee of DePauw.
1968
Mary Martin Canada completed a tour of duty with the Peace Corps in Kenya, 2009-11. Her assignment was education and outreach in public health with emphasis on malaria and HIV/AIDS. Mary says she “found her experience very rewarding and encourages more seniors to consider joining the Peace Corps.” Mary lives in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Her email address is mcanada62@gmail.com. Cheryl Slagell Kinsinger is a science ambassador for Autism Speaks. Cheryl’s role as an ambassador includes helping to educate the community about Autism Speaks’ science programs and to support autism research efforts. Cheryl’s email address is ckinsinger@comcast.net. Thomas W. Walsh is chairman of the board of NCB Capital Impact, which works to improve access to high-quality health and elder care, healthy foods, housing and education in low-income communities.
1969
Jeffrey L. Pytlarz is retired. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Michigan. Their address is P.O. Box 122, Watersmeet, MI 49969.
1970
R. David Bray is working in planned giving at the University of California Davis, a joint position for the university and UCDavis Health System. David looks forward to connecting with DePauw alumni in the Sacramento and Bay Area. Judith A. Edstrom and Mary Leonard Ramshaw’s discussion, “Leading with Excellence and Ethics in Times of Great Change,” was part of DePauw’s 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series, April 2012. Judith, an advocate for social development and good governance, has worked with the World Bank, UNICEF and RTI International in more than 30 countries. Mary has had a 30-year career as a Washington correspondent, editor and bureau chief, and she is now deputy managing editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Thomas E. Lister is circuit judge for Jackson County, Wis. He is one of three DePauw alumni serving as members of the Wisconsin judiciary. David T. Prosser Jr. ’65 is justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. William D. Dyke ’52 is circuit judge
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Elisa A. Turner teaches at Miami Dade College and is a freelance art critic in Miami. She received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for 2012 from Miami Dade College. Elisa logged 200 hours of volunteer service, which included work for Miami’s art community, The Children’s Movement of Florida and Coral Gables Congregational Church. In March 2012, she helped Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard Art Museums, an international group of art collectors and patrons, plan their visit to South Florida by connecting them to various private art collections in Miami and speaking with them. She is married to Dr. Eric S. Smith ’72.
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for Iowa County (Wis.) and chief judge of the Seventh Judicial District.
1972
David S. Greenfield is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in rehabilitation counseling. He started his career at a mental health and mental retardation center in Temple, Texas, and later, joined the Veterans Administration Hospital in Waco, Texas. He transferred to the Bay Pines Veterans Administration Hospital in Florida in 1988, retiring in December 2011 after 30 years of federal service.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Class of 1973 met in Denver. Those attending included Deborah J. Daniels ’73, Donna DeChants Bolz ’73, Mitzi M. Belknap ’73, Nancy Eshcoff Boyer ’73, Anne Getty Kelvin ’73, Jennifer Simmons Althaus ’73, Margaret “Peggy” Moore Horton ’73, Kristina Anderson Thompson ’73, Susan Henderson Burleigh ’73, Elizabeth Page Van Wagener ’73, Sally Wilkinson Gilbert ’73, Ruth Weber Johnson ’73, Pamela Nielsen Schilt ’73, Sally Aldridge Wamsley ’73, Gayle Torian Meyer ’73 and Matilda J. Wilhoite ’73.
ROBERTA ELLIOTT ’74 is owner of The Velvet Hammer and does blacksmithing artwork. She was featured in a recent book, Tiffany Studios’ Techniques: Inspiration for Today’s Artists, by Edith Crouch. The cover features six pieces of contemporary art, one of which is a lamp created by Roberta.
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Richard E. Pound retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2009 after more than 33 years of service and accepted a position as vice president at Strategic Intelligence Group, a small consulting firm. He looks forward to hearing from his 1972 classmates.
1973
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Class of 1973 enjoyed a summer reunion in Denver. The members have kept in touch since graduation with a biannual newsletter. (See photo.)
1974
P. Bai Akridge is director of global projects for the National 4-H Council. He executes National 4-H Council’s global strategy through the Global Clover Network, supports the network of 4-H Council’s global programs and develops new global partnership opportunities.
Linda Underwood Fernandez is superintendent of Goochland (Va.) schools. She was named Region One Superintendent of the Year by the Virginia Association of School Superintendents.
1975
Mark A. Emkes was commencement speaker at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn., May 12, 2012. Mark is commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration. Frank R. Portolese is a jazz guitarist and has been playing professionally for more than 30 years. He teaches at University of Michigan and Elmhurst College and is author of Fundamentals for Jazz Musicians, a widely used theory textbook. His latest compact disc is titled Plectrum Jazz Guitar Solo. Kathleen Snell Jagger was appointed interim vice president and dean of the college at Transylvania University, effective in August 2012.
1976
Linda H. Heuring’s short story, “Side of Bacon,” appeared in the online literary journal, Southern Women’s Review. Linda won first place for her story, “Roommates,” in the 2011-12 Fish Short Story Prize competition presented by Ireland’s Fish Publishing. Donna Morris Burroughs is superintendent of Indiana’s Triton School Corporation.
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Robert A. Paterson is co-owner of Hot Glass Houston. Bob held successful management and leadership positions in major corporations, and he left the corporate world to pursue his love of glass with the opening of his Hot Glass Houston studio. Bob’s email address is bob@hotglasshouston.com. You can see his glass works at www. hotglasshouston.com.
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1977
Laurel Birch de Aguilar is happy to be back in the United States after spending 20 years in the United Kingdom and Malawi. She is an expert for the UK courts on risk of persecution in southeast Africa and also works in real estate. Laurel lives in Tampa, Fla. Nancy O’Donnell Hellyer is executive vice president and chief administrative officer for CHRISTUS Health-Louisiana. She and her husband, Timothy, live in Alexandria, La. Nancy’s email address is nancy.r.hellyer@gmail.com.
1978
John M. Donnelly is purchasing manager for ITW’s Hobart Food Equipment Weight Wrap group as well as president of the Dayton chapter of APICS. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Dayton, Ohio. They have two children, Alexander and Kate. John’s email address is jdonnelly1@woh.rr.com.
1979
Glenn E. Davis is vice chair of the Academy of Antitrust Law of the Litigation Counsel of America. Glenn is an attorney at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman L.C. in Saint Louis. (See photo.)
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1981
Mary G. Meeker is listed on Forbes magazine’s Midas List, which includes 2012’s top tech investors. Mary is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. James M. Reynolds is the 18th president of Wilmington College in Ohio. He has received six Teacher of the Year awards as well as an American Council on Education fellowship at Illinois Wesleyan University and a postdoctoral research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. He and his wife, Sue, have two daughters.
1982
Bruce W. and Cathy (Chesnut ’83) Luecke live at 7147 Maple Bluff Lane, Indianapolis, IN 46236.
1983
Cathy (Chesnut) and Bruce W. Luecke ’82 live at 7147 Maple Bluff Lane, Indianapolis, IN 46236.
1984
Mary Burnham Curtis is director of proficiency testing for the Society of Wildlife Forensic Science. In addition to serving as chair of the Proficiency Test Board, Mary oversees
administration of proficiency test programs for federal, state and international laboratories that specialize in wildlife forensic genetic analyses. Mary also serves on the Scientific Working Group for Wildlife Forensic Science, which is developing best practices standards and guidelines and certification guidelines for wildlife forensic practitioners. During summer 2012, Mary is leading a team of scientists to Southeast Asia and China to work with international wildlife law enforcement organizations and associated wildlife forensic genetics
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Knoxville, Tenn. He enjoys running and competitive contact archery in the master’s division. His email address is schmo@mac.com. Mark J. Sifferlen is vice president of ethics and compliance at Cummins Inc. in Indianapolis.
1988
David M. Bagley is a principal with the financial and operational advisory firm of MorrisAnderson. David is a certified turnaround professional and an active member of the Turnaround Management Association.
1989
Jay S. Hosler is author and illustrator of biology graphic novels. He did only the writing for his latest book, Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth, which was chosen for the Great Graphic Novels of 2012 List by the American Library Association/Young Adult Library Services Association. Jay is an associate professor of biology at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., as well as a researcher and biologist.
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Christopher W. McLoughlin is publisher of Men’s Journal. Wallace “J.” Nichols, a marine biologist and environmentalist, received the 2012 Wave Saver Award from the Save The Waves Coalition, June 15. The award recognized him for his ongoing innovative work to protect the ocean environment and inspire others to do the same.
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laboratories as part of her duties with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory. Mary lives in Ashland, Ore., with her husband, Gary, and son, Christopher. Lorraine Dunn Martin is vice president and deputy for the F-35 program at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Joseph R. Heerens, chief legal officer for the Indianapolis Airport
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Authority, was elected chairman of the State Employees’ Appeals Commission.
1985
Brian K. Gran is a sociologist with a secondary appointment in the law school of Case Western Reserve University. Brian received a Fulbright award to visit Iceland in spring 2013. He will conduct research and teach in the law school of Reykjavik University.
1987
Timothy S. Clark is chief executive officer of Urban Ventures, a faith-based community organization working to end the cycle of generational poverty in South Minneapolis. Courtney Olds Kurland is Midwest sales director for 33Across, which operates the largest social and interest graph in the world. Christopher M. Schmalz is a business manager for Apple in
Matthew D. Pate is a board-certified pediatric dentist. He and his wife, Kristen, purchased a general dentistry practice on the north side of Indianapolis. They live in Kokomo, Ind., and have three daughters: Danielle, 14; Erika, 11; and Gabriella, 9. Matt’s email address is mattdpate@ comcast.net. Scott A. Storrer is president and chief executive officer of Genomind, a company specializing in neuropsychiatric personalized medicine.
1990
John E. Adent is chairman of the National FFA Foundation Sponsors’ Board for 2012. He is president and chief
executive officer of Animal Health International. Amy Youngblood Schuermann’s interior design firm helps homeowners remodel and enhance their powder rooms. Her work will be featured in the September/October issue of Design Bureau Magazine, an international publication featuring top design trends and projects around the world. (See photo.)
1991
Amy Comer Elliott and her husband, Kent, announce the birth of their son, Levi James Elliott, Oct. 13, 2011. Levi joins sisters Leah, 15, and Ava, 4, and brothers Luke, 14, and Mark, 11. Amy’s email address is aelliott@ comerlaw.com. Tanya J. Stanish is a senior partner and divorce and family law attorney with the Chicago law firm of Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP. Tanya has been listed in Super Lawyers in 2006 and 2012 as well as in Best Lawyers in America in 2010-12.
1992
Betsy L. Houser is director of psychological health for the Alabama National Guard. She lives in Huntsville, Ala., where she works with the Alabama Pain Center. Her email address is betsy.houserlcsw@gmail.com. Rodney E. Lasley is vice president of products and services at Indiana Bankers Association and president of the for-profit companies owned by the IBA. Michael N. Pagano is a magistrate of Indiana’s Lake Superior Court Division 3, where he adjudicates civil, criminal and traffic cases.
1994
Vonda Mitchell Newborn is pursuing a career as a writer of children’s books and fiction. She is a stay-at-home wife and mother of two boys who are eight and nine years old.
1995
Derek E. Empie is an associate general counsel at Indiana University Health. He was named one of Forty under 40 by Indianapolis Business Journal.
Brently A. Johnson is an assistant English professor at Pacific University and director of its Writing Resource Center. He was awarded the Berglund Center for Internet Studies Faculty Fellowship for 2012-13.
1996
Brent E. Breithaupt and his wife, Tina, announce the birth of their son, Wesley Evans Breithaupt, Feb. 8, 2012. They live in Chicago. Brent’s email address is brent.breithaupt@perficient.com. Eric L. Fotsch is field experience coordinator in Metropolitan State University’s Urban Teacher Program, College of Professional Studies. He is a national affiliate nonprofit director for Dealeebob, Minneapolis, as well as founder and director of Camp Fotsch, King Leadership Camp in Saint Paul, Minn.
Amy Youngblood Schuermann ’90
M. Margaret “Maggie” McAlister ’97 and Stephen Ruiz
Christine Stiehl High and her husband, Dan, announce the birth of their son, Cooper Stiehl High, Feb. 22, 2012. Cooper joins sister Riley Quinn, 2, at their home in Marco Island, Fla. Christy’s email address is christy9296@aol.com. Eve M. Wright, vice president and associate general counsel for the National Basketball Association’s Miami Heat, is a member of the board of directors of USA Track & Field.
1997
Matthew W. Bowers and his wife, Emeli, announce the birth of their son, William Michael Bowers, March 1, 2012. Matt, Emeli, daughter Lily and Will live in Carmel, Ind. Matt’s email address is mbowers82@hotmail.com. Brian J. Fisher and his wife, Christine, announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Miles Fisher, Dec. 24, 2010. Benjamin joins brother Jackson, 3. Brian is a senior communications specialist for Accident Fund Holdings Inc. in Lansing, Mich. His email address is brian.fisher@ accidentfund.com. Jason G. Kamler and his wife, Jen, brought home Samuel Patrick Kamler from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 5, 2012. Samuel was born Sept. 27, 2011. Jason’s email address is jason.kamler@ wellsfargoadvisors.com.
YOU CAN VOLUNTEER AGAIN! Alumni reunion service trip to El Salvador planned in 2013 A group of DePauw students first made a connection with the community of Consolacion, El Salvador in 1993. They helped build a school while learning from the local community through the Winter Term in Service (WTIS) program. In 2012, DePauw maintains this partnership with the same community – now Las Delicias – through WTIS and Companion Community Development Alternatives (CoCoDA), an Indianapolisbased nonprofit organization. To commemorate 20 years of partnership and a commitment to service, WTIS, CoCoDA and DePauw Alumni Relations Office will host an alumni reunion service trip to El Salvador during the summer of 2013. By inviting alumni to participate in the service trip, DePauw and CoCoDA intend to offer a reunion experience for those who have participated during the 20 years, reach out to family of alumni to connect with the DePauw tradition of service, and provide an opportunity to those that were unable to participate during their years at DePauw. Tentative dates and price: July 21-31, 2013, and $1,300 per person (plus airfare). Interested alumni should check the website for further details and contact information: www.depauw.edu/alumni/events/ alumni-service-trip.
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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.
Catharine L. Sprinkel ’99 and Laine Morreau wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Ling Chin Adams ’99, Carrie Clogg Barlage ’97, Christina Martin Dunnick ’99, Cole G. Dunnick ’96, Lauren Bennett Hersh ’99, Brian M. Hersh ’99, M. Margaret McAlister ’97, David C. Powers Jr. ’98, Meleah Rush Powers ’98, Holly J. Rich ’96, Kimberley Rogers Savage ’98, Kimberly Gilbert Sykes ’99 and Melissa Kiefer Willis ’99.
Stephen A. and Katharine (Heldt ’99) Falace announce the birth of their daughter, Emmet Falace, Jan. 18, 2012. Emmet joins brother Stuart at their home in Napa, Calif. Susan Hutz Worth and her husband, John, announce the birth of their daughter, Laurel Avery Worth, Dec. 31, 2011. Laurel joins brothers Cullen and Gunnar at their home in Evanston, Ill. Katrina L. Wahl is a member of Dysinger & Associates LLP in Tipp City, Ohio. She focuses her practice on business law and estate and Medicaid planning.
1999
Kelly A. Conway is the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.
Monica Brownewell Smith ’00
Steven J. Lubiarz ’00
Michael J. Hays is a member of the Tuesley Hall Konopa law firm in South Bend, Ind. He practices in the areas of general business, commercial litigation and employment law. Katharine (Heldt) and Stephen A. Falace ’98 announce the birth of their daughter, Emmet Falace, Jan. 18, 2012. Emmet joins brother Stuart at their home in Napa, Calif. Todd D. Miller released a single featuring Cleveland Orchestra cellist Brian Thornton, titled “Something to Lose.” Todd sang and played guitar and Brian played the cello. Todd’s email address is musicbiz@ toddmillerweb.com.
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Jason P. Kreag is a staff attorney at the Innocence Project in New York City. He represents individuals wanting to establish their innocence in post-conviction proceedings. Jason gave a presentation at DePauw to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 16, 2012. M. Margaret “Maggie” McAlister and Stephen Ruiz (Southern
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Methodist University) were married, January 2012, in Napa Valley, Calif. Maggie is a writer for a toy company and maintains a fashion and etiquette blog called AnnabelManners.com. Stephen is a technology consultant. They live in Los Angeles. Maggie’s email address is maggiemcalister7@ gmail.com. (See photo on page 47.) Ryan A. Miller is a senior vice
president of strategy and corporate development for the health information network Availity.
1998
Lisa Davisson Schneider and her husband, Eric, announce the birth of their son, Luke Owen Schneider, Aug. 31, 2010. Luke joins brother Noah. Lisa’s email address is lmschneider00@yahoo.com.
M. Karega Rausch, Indiana director of Stand for Children, was listed among 10 to Watch in The Indianapolis Star, Feb. 10, 2012, in recognition of his contributions to helping students graduate from high school and be prepared for higher education. Catharine L. Sprinkel and Laine Morreau were married July 21, 2011 in Winchester, Tenn. Katy is a freelance book editor and author. (See photo.) Bradley K. Stevens, Butler University’s head basketball coach, broke the NCAA record for most
victories in the first five seasons as head coach, March 14, 2012, raising his record to 138-39. Sean M. Surrisi is city attorney for Plymouth, Ind.
2000
Monica Brownewell Smith is a construction litigation attorney with the Indianapolis law firm of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Monica was named a Rising Star in Indiana Super Lawyers 2012. (See photo.) Laura Downs Young and her husband, Todd, announce the birth of their daughter, Isla Jean Young, July 16, 2011. Isla joins sister Mia, 4, at their home in Millis, Mass. Laura’s email address is lauraj23@comcast.net. Steven J. Lubiarz is a violinist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada. (See photo.) Jennifer Monty Rieker is a partner of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA, in the firm’s litigation and defense group. Jennifer is based in the firm’s Cleveland office. Sean J. and Katherine (Sermersheim ’02) Sreniawski announce the birth of their daughter, Anna Caroline Sreniawski, Jan. 8, 2012. Anna joins brother Jacob, 2, at their home in Orlando, Fla.
2001
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Michelle L. Evans and Douglas P. MacLachlan were married Oct. 29, 2011 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Michelle is a business analyst at Euromonitor International Ltd. in Chicago. Douglas is an insurance broker with USG Insurance Services Inc. in Palatine, Ill. They live in Chicago. Michelle’s email address is mmaclachlan14@gmail. com. (See photo.)
In March 2012, ADAM C. CHAPMAN ’01 returned from a seven-month deployment with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, a United States Marine Corps infantry unit stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. He and his wife, ALISON (FRANK) CHAPMAN, and their 18-month-old daughter, Evelyn, live in Richmond, Va. Alison completed her neonatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins last summer. She is an assistant professor and attending physician in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Richmond. Adam is a special assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia as well as founder of Centum Staging (centumstaging.com), a real estate marketing company.
Kelly C. Elmore is a member of the Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit law firm in its Chicago office. She serves in the community association law practice group as a principal.
S. Luke Flory is an assistant professor in the agronomy department at University of Florida. His research focuses on the ecology of non-native plant invasions. Luke’s email address is flory@ufl.edu. Ivan D. and Andrea (Clark ’02) Hoffman announce the birth of their son, Colston Ewan Hoffman, March 29, 2012. Colston joins sister Avery at their home in Indianapolis. Ivan’s email address is ivan_hoffman@ hotmail.com. Andrea’s email address is ac2384@yahoo.com.
Air Force Capt. MICHAEL C. PHILLIPP ’05 is a lawyer assigned to the headquarters legal staff of the United States ForcesAfghanistan. He joined the Air Force and became a military lawyer in 2009.
Andrea “Annie” John is president of the DePauw Club in Washington, D.C. The club’s alumni and friends toured the White House, April 28, 2012. The tour was led by Elisabeth “Bess” Evans ’07. (See photo.)
The Washington, D.C., DePauw Club and friends at the White House.
MICHELLE L. EVANS ’01 and Douglas P. MacLachlan wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Anne Bracken Gavin ’00, Jennifer Randall Knox ’01, Natalie N. Seibert ’03, Meagan M. Sinn ’02, Jennifer N. Szynal ’01 (bridesmaid), Laura Tharp Brim ’01, Amber C. Stewart ’02, Kristi M. Spears ’03, Christine Hohenberger Novalis ’01, Alison N. Krebs ’01 (bridesmaid), Bridget Chase Yuhas ’01, Sarah Batterton Flemming ’02 (reader), Kristin Weber Poole ’01 (matron of honor), Angela Dusendschon Davis ’01 and Jennifer M. Williams ’01.
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medicine physician. They live in Jasper, Ind.
2003
Roy R. McFarland and Jeremy N. Pyle opened the law firm of McFarland Pyle & Stone. Jeremy manages the firm’s offices in Portland, Ore. Roy runs the firm’s offices in Denver. Scott K. Shelbourne and Emily Camillo (University of Florida) were married Sept. 17, 2011, in Las Vegas. They live in Chicago. Scott’s email address is scott_shelbourne@hotmail. com. (See photo.)
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Abigail M. Lovett and Brian Pokomy were married Nov. 5, 2011 in Chicago. They live and work in Chicago. Abby is vice president and group manager at Ketchum Public Relations. Brian is senior manager at PepsiCo. (See photo.) Sarah S. Moore was named one of the 2012 Forty under 40 by the Indianapolis Business Journal. She is vice president of strategic growth initiatives for The Mind Trust, a not-for-profit education reform organization in Indianapolis. Sarah is involved with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Legacy Fund, the community foundation for Hamilton County Ind.). In October 2011, she ran the Chicago Marathon. Brendan P. Rodman completed the Mille Miglia or 1000 Mile classic car race in Italy, May 17-20, 2012, as a navigator in a 1952 Alfa Romeo 1900. Brendan says, “The whole race was an amazing experience. From driving through some of the most historically significant towns in Italy, driving through St. Peter’s Square in Rome, having a private police escorted tour of Rome on a Saturday night, racing on the Ferrari test track, seeing the sites and sounds of the Italian countryside, and racing against some of the most beautiful vehicles in automotive history, each moment was better than the last.”
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David P. and Melissa (Reinke ’02) Simon announce the birth of their daughter, Chloe Sue Simon, Nov. 3, 2011. They live in Westchester, Ill. Melissa was a heart recipient five years ago. She and David, along with other DePauw alumni, took part in Chicago Alumni Hustle up the Hancock the past two years in honor of Melissa’s heart donor. (See photo.)
2002
Jane H. Bankhurst is listed among Atlantic City Weekly’s 2012 Top 40 Under 40. She is activities manager at Marriott Vacation Club. Haley Carney Altman and her husband, Daniel, announce the birth of their daughter, Kennedy Grace Altman, Oct. 27, 2011. They live in Indianapolis. Haley’s email address is haley.altman@gmail.com. Brandon M. Chapman is a cultural anthropologist for the Inupiaq tribe of arctic Alaska as well as an instructor of anthropology at University of Alaska. Andrea (Clark) and Ivan D. Hoffman ’01 announce the birth of their son, Colston Ewan Hoffman, March 29, 2012. Colston joins sister Avery at their home in Indianapolis. Andrea’s email address is ac2384@ yahoo.com. Ivan’s email address is ivan_hoffman@hotmail.com.
Michael W. Howland is head boy’s basketball coach at Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Ill. He was named Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Class 3A/4A District 4 Co-Coach of the Year and East Suburban Catholic Conference Coach of the Year. Melissa (Reinke) and David P. Simon ’01 announce the birth of their daughter, Chloe Sue Simon, Nov. 3, 2011. Melissa was a heart recipient five years ago. She was keynote speaker at the 2012 American Heart Association Chicago Heart Ball, where she shared her survivor story and motivated others to give back. She and her husband David, along with other DePauw alumni, have participated in Chicago Alumni Hustle up the Hancock for the past two years in honor of Melissa’s heart donor. (See photo.)
ABIGAIL M. LOVETT ’01 and Brian Pokomy wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Aubrey E. Brandt ’01 (maid of honor), Brian F. McCord ’01 (attendant), Richard J. Loeffler ’66, Sunniva H. Rodgers ’01, Sarah M. Holian ’01, Christopher L. Grashoff ’01, Kaeley Lynch Ritterskamp ’01, Melissa Dorko Swartz ’01, Jacob A. Swartz ’02, Lora Alvery Perry ’01 and Molly Carrell Pierce ’01.
Katherine (Sermersheim) and Sean J. Sreniawski ’00 announce the birth of their daughter, Anna Caroline Sreniawski, Jan. 8, 2012. Anna joins brother Jacob, 2, at their home in Orlando, Fla. Kristin Spellmeyer Werne and her husband, Nick, announce the birth of their daughter, Elise Rose Werne, Aug. 22, 2011. Elise joins sisters Ava Claire, 4, and Tessa, 3. Kristin is an OB/GYN, and Nick is an internal
JENNIFER B. RYAN ’05 and Gidon Silverstein
Scott H. Thies is athletic director at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Ill. He and his wife, Lea, have three children. Scott’s email address is sthies@fenwickfriars.com.
2004
David V. Blackburn II is area scout for the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens. Margaret N. Doherty is patron services manager at Glacier Symphony and Chorale in Kalispell, Mont. Maggie manages the box office as well as recruiting, training and coordinating volunteers.
Michael W. Langellier received the TechPoint Young Professional of the Year Award, which honors an individual under 30 years old associated with the Indiana technology industry. Jennifer G. Stone and Padraic Swanton were married Aug. 20, 2011, in Chicago. Jennifer is a sales account manager with Sunset Magazine. Padraic is director of marketing and communications for the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce. Jennifer’s email address is jsswanton@gmail. com. (See photo.)
2005
Paul M. Johnson will travel to Spain on a Fulbright Research Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. His research will center on the multifaceted role of emotion in the social spaces of 16th- and 17thcentury Spain. Jason is pursuing a doctoral degree in Spanish literature at University of California, Irvine.
Linden K. Christ is artistic director of the Chicago Opera Play House. The touring outreach company visits schools, churches and other organizations with a musical called Cinderhood. The purpose is to help students understand what is opera and what is musical theatre.
Jocelyn B. Keller is head women’s soccer coach for Carleton College.
Aaron M. Gress was The Robert C. McDermond Center Lecture Series
SCOTT K. SHELBOURNE ’03 and Emily Camillo wedding. DePauw alumni attending their Indianapolis wedding reception included Brian P. James ’03, Ryan N. Stan ’03, Mark E. Anderson ’90, Jack M. Maniscalco ’03, Elizabeth Donahue Jones ’03, Jeffrey A. Jones ’03, Cory R. Long ’03, Nicholas S. Partlow ’03, Leslie A. Haas ’03, Thomas N. Tunnicliff ’80, Guillermo “Will” H. Amezcua ’03 and Jeremy M. Rust ’03. Attending but not pictured was Robert B. Dinn ’03.
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Chicago Alumni Hustle up the Hancock in honor of Melissa Reinke Simon’s heart donor. Those participating included Melissa Reinke Simon 02, David P. Simon ’01, Felix P. Yau ’01, Daniel R. Klemencic ’01, Katherine M. McCleary ’01, Xavier L. Pokorzynski ’00, Benjamin G. Elrod ’98 and Bradley J. Kreutz ’00.
JENNIFER G. STONE ’04 and Padraic Swanton wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Ann Farber Werbach ’04, Kellie L. Hasselbeck ’04, Lauren R. Baird ’04 and Allison C. John ’04. Attending but not pictured were David I. McMillin ’06, Maria R. Cereghino ’04 and Katherine M. Nicolson ’04.
HEIDI L. GONSO ’06 and Matthew Carey wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Nadya S. Schmitter ’06, Elisabeth Goldman ’06, Kelly Velazquez Fegley ’06, Lauren Archerd Donaldson ’06, John A. Wallace ’04, Lisa Chambers Wallace ’06, Blair A. Loftspring ’06, Peter G. Hogg ’05, Lauren I. Brummett ’06, John C. Stephens ’06, Whitney Long Stephens ’06, Claire Sorenson Devlin ’06, Adam J. Devlin ’05 and Kelli A. Corney ’06. Attending but not pictured was Laura Benjamin Hogg ’06.
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speaker, Feb. 28, 2012, at DePauw. Aaron is a volunteer with the Peace Corps working in sustainable agriculture in Ecuador. Elizabeth A. McDaniel is director of creative services for Blue Crane Creative, an agency in Cincinnati that writes fundraising materials for a variety of local and national nonprofit organizations.
MARTHA A. LEADER ’06 and Nicholas D. McGeehon wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included William B. Coulter ’06, Sara A. Meyer ’06 (bridesmaid), Brittany N. Barber ’06, Tiffany S. Ballard ’06, Kathryn E. Reid ’05, Jennifer L. Wallace ’06, Gabrielle Peek Benson ’05 and Katie A. Burns ’06.
Karl G. Odenwald III is head baseball coach at Missouri’s Rolla High School. Karl is a teacher in the social studies department at Rolla High School and also an assistant coach for the football team. Peter E. Ohs and his wife, Andrea Sisson, made a feature-length documentary film, I Send You This Place, which premiered April 13, 2012, at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C. Jennifer B. Ryan and Gidon Silverstein were married Sept. 10, 2011, in Pittsfield, Mass., surrounded by friends, family and DePauw alumni. Jennifer is an advertising executive at Time Inc. Gidon is formerly of the Israel Defense Forces. They live in Brooklyn, N.Y. (See photo on page 50.)
KATHERINE H. DEWERT ’07 and JACOB P. WHAM ’06 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Isaac Colon ’06, Clayton A. Clark ’06, Elizabeth A. Farrelly ’07, Aaron J. Wham ’08, Christina M. Shockley ’08, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Richard C. O’Donnell Jr. ’06, Erik P. Simons ’07, Jaime Mathias Miller ’07, Mary E. Stroh ’07, Robert B. White ’07, Sara Willingham White ’05, Sarah K. Gates ’07 and Anna Hake Method ’07. Attending but not pictured were John A. Michels ’06, Antony D. Rhine ’06, Jennifer Williams Rhine ’05 and Wesley M. Anderson ’06.
Elizabeth A. Thompson is an associate with the Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP. She works in the firm’s litigation practice group.
2006
Kathryn Dyall Nicely and her husband, Aaron, announce the birth of their daughter, Marie Nicely, May 12, 2011. Kathryn is a grant and education manager for the Indiana State Department of Health. Jennifer (Fedchak) and Chad A. Call announce the birth of their son, Clark Adrian Call, Nov. 1, 2011. Heidi L. Gonso and Matthew Carey (University of Illinois) were married Sept. 24, 2011, in Chicago. They live in Chicago. (See photo on page 51.)
ANNELIESE M. KITE ’07 and Michael D. Stone wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Andrea K. Thompson ’06, Neal J. McKinney ’09, Ladan S. Nekoomaram ’09, Kelly A. Fransted ’07, Thomas G. Kaczmarek ’07, Javaneh S. Nekoomaram ’09, Mark J. Loomis ’06, Audrey L. Walker ’07 and Megan Duffee Loomis ’07.
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Martha A. Leader and Nicholas D. McGeehon were married Sept. 3, 2011, in St. Louis. (See photo.) Eric T. and Melissa (Walpole ’07)
Mattingly announce the birth of their son, Parker Thomas Mattingly, Feb. 1, 2012. They live in Indianapolis. Eric’s email address is emattingly7@ gmail.com. Melissa’s email address is mnmattingly@gmail.com. Tusha Mittal is a reporter in the Kolkata (Calcutta) news bureau of Tehelka, a weekly news magazine in India. She is the 2012 recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson in recognition of her reporting of life in the deep interior of Bengal, Orissa and Chhattisgarh areas affected by bloody civil strife. Nicole R. Pence is an anchor and reporter at Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR. Jacob P. Wham and Katherine H. DeWert ’07 were married Oct. 8, 2011, in Cincinnati. Katie and Jake live in Seattle. They both work at financial services firms. Katie’s email address is kdewert@gmail.com. Jake’s email address is jakewham@gmail. com. (See photo.) Eileen M. Wiedbrauk earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University in June 2011. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Swink, Northville Review and Enchanted Conversation. Eileen attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2010 and is a two-time honoree in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
2007
Alison Hoover Collins and her husband, Bart, announce the birth of their twin sons, Charles “Charlie” Joseph Collins and Theodore “Theo” Nolan Collins, Jan. 14, 2012. They live in Indianapolis. Katherine H. DeWert and Jacob P. Wham ’06 were married Oct. 8, 2011, in Cincinnati. Katie and Jake live in Seattle. They both work at financial services firms. Katie’s email address is kdewert@gmail.com. Jake’s email address is jakewham@gmail.com. (See photo.) Elisabeth “Bess” Evans led a tour of the White House for the Washington, D.C., DePauw Alumni
Club and friends, April 28, 2012. (See photo on page 49.) Anneliese M. Kite and Michael D. Stone were married April 2, 2011, in Arlington, Va. Anneliese and Michael are both attorneys practicing in Washington, D.C. (See photo.) Ryan J. Miller and Stefanie Baldauf ’08 were married Aug. 6, 2011, in Worth, Ill. They celebrated with friends and family in Lemont, Ill. Ryan’s email address is rjmiller5@ gmail.com. (See photo.) Nicholas C. Noel is boy’s soccer coach at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. Nick has coached at the DePauw summer camps since 2006, where he now serves as director. Melissa (Walpole) and Eric T. Mattingly ’06 announce the birth of their son, Parker Thomas Mattingly, Feb. 1, 2012. They live in Indianapolis. Melissa’s email address is mnmattingly@gmail.com. Eric’s email address is emattingly7@gmail.com.
2008
Lauren E. Auld and Robert “RJ” Capozza were married Oct. 22, 2011, in Gainesville, Fla. Lauren and RJ live in central Florida. Lauren is in her last year of dental school. RJ works as a general dentist. Lauren’s email address is lauren.capozza@gmail.com. (See photo.) Stefanie Baldauf and Ryan J. Miller ’07 were married Aug. 6, 2011, in Worth, Ill. They celebrated with friends and family in Lemont, Ill. (See photo.) Andrew M. Bever is a physics teacher at Logansport (Ind.) High School. Andrew teaches on a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship, which is awarded “to those with science, technology, engineering and mathematics backgrounds who are interested in teaching at a lowincome school system.” Katherine E. Doogan and Drago Petrusic were married June 25, 2011, in Greencastle, Ind. They live in Chicago. Katie is a promotional marketing manager for
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InnerWorkings. Drago is a fifth-grade teacher for Chicago public schools at Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy. Katie’s email address is katie.petrusic@gmail.com. Drago’s email address is dragopetrusic@gmail. com. (See photo on page 54.) Marion C. Field debuted a monthly Southern fiction column on The Oxford American website. Katie W. Gobel and Lucas T. Buchler ’09 were married June 3, 2011 in Oak Brook, Ill. Katie’s email address is katiegobel@gmail.com.(See photo on page 54.) Jennifer C. Kopecky earned a M.B.A. degree from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, June 2012. Ali C. Murtaugh and Carson Harris were married Sept. 24, 2011 in Lafayette, Ind. Ali’s email address is ali.harris924@gmail.com. (See photo on page 54.)
RYAN J. MILLER ’07 and STEFANIE BALDAUF ’08 wedding celebration. DePauw alumni attending included Mark C. Abdon ’08, Paige E. Stallings ’08, Christopher A. Jones ’07, Ross A. McEntarfer ’07, Anthony M. Valentine ’08, Mary Stroh Sabo ’07, Timothy J. Piatek ’07, K. Andrew Beck ’08, Brittany Hughes Durr Beck ’07, Mary Beth Robinson Riley ’07, Joseph A. Piatek ’09, Ryan D. Wheeler ’09, Tara E. Langvardt ’08, Taylor C. Penrod ’08, C. Matthew Middleton ’05, Katherine Doogan Petrusic ’08, Drago Petrusic ’08, Alison M. Andrews ’08, Laura Parks Jackson ’08, Christopher J. Jackson ’08, William P. Tank ’08, Charles W. Carpenter ’06, Erica Santa Carpenter ’06, Connie S. Shim ’08, Elizabeth A. Korb ’09, Philip R. Mooney ’07, Sarah K. Gates ’07, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Grace A. Noppert ’08 and Kraig A. Kirchner ’07.
Sarah Flick Bruce ’08, Elle K. Cordes ’08, Gretchen J. Haehl ’08, Gwen M. Haehl ’08, Abigail L. Currens ’08, Anne V. Mail ’10 and Morgan L. Price ’08. Eileen Park has joined NBC26 in Green Bay, Wis. Eileen has worked as a foreign correspondent for various network stations and has reported from 17 countries.
LAUREN E. AULD ’08 and ROBERT CAPOZZA ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Daniel P. Bretscher ’06, Kathryn L. Gernand ’08, Lauren A. Hill ’08, Morgan L. Price ’08, Anna K. Boyd ’08 and Taylor C. Penrod ’08.
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KATHERINE E. DOOGAN ’08 and DRAGO PETRUSIC ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni and friends attending the wedding included Janelle J. Blasdel ’08, Connie S. Shim ’08 (maid of honor), Meagan E. Goss ’07, Adam J. Davis ’09, Kara Kreikemeier Labedz ’08 (bridesmaid), Henry H. Malm II ’08 (reader), Ryan J. Miller ’07, Stefanie Baldauf Miller ’08, Charles M. Middleton ’05, Megan M. Davenport ’06, Natalie B. Hollies ’08, Kelsey J. Warsinske ’08, Kellie E. Weller ’08, Laura Link Zimmerman ’08, Kelly M. Niezer ’08, Sarah E. Mickes ’08, Varinia Salazar Arceo ’05, Austin A. Arceo ’06, Laura R. Suchy ’08, Danielle A. Johnson ’10, Lindsay E. Riggs ’10, Sabrina N. Long ’10, Bradlee C. Jacobs ’08, Michael R. Murphy ’08, Nicholas T. Dascoli ’08, Paul D. Turner ’08, Laura M. Solotorovsky ’09, Ryan D. Wheeler ’09, John D. Cross ’08, Nicholas C. Noel ’07, Mark L. Labedz ’06, Phillip M. Whitley ’08, James Redd IV ’08 (groomsman), Scott D. Noel ’08, Stephen N. Aryee ’07, Carl A. Beardsley ’09, Justin M. Pribble ’09, Christina M. Giordano ’09, Kristen D. Kriegshauser’08, Sarah J. Drew ’08, Daniel B. Notestine ’08, Toukam G. Ngoufanke ’07, Kyle A. Hawkins ’07, Kelly Schaffer Hawkins ’08, Andrea E. Sununu (DePauw professor of English), Steven R. Raines (DePauw professor emeritus of psychology), Nancy W. Lovett ’74 ( DePauw major gifts officer), Dorothy Brown (Phi Kappa Psi house director), Mary M. Bretscher (DePauw associate professor of kinesiology, associate athletics director and coach of women’s swimming) and Jun Yamaguchi (former DePauw assistant swimming coach).
ALI C. MURTAUGH ’08 and Carson Harris wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Nicole F. Garza ’09, Erin M. Kielty ’10, Matthew G. Hodge ’06, Sabrina Henry Hodge ’08, Jillian Barr Krein ’08, Sarah K. Gates ’07, Reid D. Murtaugh ’06, Alison M. Andrews ’08.
JENNIFER L. ZOLLER ’08 and DIMITRIOS C. LALOS ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Aaron M. Gotway ’05, Staci L. Hollar ’08 (bridesmaid), Bethany Eshleman Bates ’08, Erin M. Gatley ’08 (bridesmaid), Kellie E. Weller ’08, Seth C. Elder ’08, Danielle Zink Etter ’08, Ryan D. Etter ’05, Jacob R. Schuler ’07, LaDonna J. Hayden ’06, David T. Furman Jr. ’07, Morgan M. Bates ’06, Nicholas Q. Vetz ’08 (groomsman), Caleb J. Beasley ’06, Thomas D. Fontana ’08, Brian W. Furman ’08 (groomsman) and Jeremy P. Brok ’07. Attending but not pictured were Katy Losure Brammer ’08 and Mark W. Holwager ’08.
KATIE W. GOBEL ’08 and LUCAS T. BUCHLER ’09 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Michael A. Burke ’09, Benjamin W. Baenen ’08, John J. Costello ’08, Aaron B. Acton ’09, Daniel L. Bouchee ’11, Anne K. Stephens ’08, Justin D. Weiner ’09, Cassius C. Sisler ’09, Matthew D. Newill ’09, Elizabeth Brick Corbett ’08, Sarah K. McClamroch ’08, Elyse Fisher Cisler ’08, Shawn R. O’Banion ’07, Emily B. Randazzo ’08, Thomas S. Corbett ’07, Leia D. Welsh ’08, Kyle D. Kenney ’10, Alison J. Rose ’08, Leah S. Burkhardt ’08, Bess M. Browning ’07, Breana A. Buchler ’11, Jennifer Holmes Colver ’75, Laura E. Ferguson ’09, Brian J. Sullivan V ’08, Mary-Therese Schmidt ’09, Hillary N. Buchler ’12, Jesse L. Groh ’08, Jill E. Schneider ’08, Erin D. Faulk ’08, Kate Pohl Lane ’09, Catherine M. Kline ’10, Jeffrey S. Cunning ’09, Matthew M. Smoot ’09, Kathryn M. Deppe ’07, Lauren J. Curosh ’07, Katherine R. Gladson ’09, Geoffrey E Jacobs ’09, Eric M. DeFreeuw ’09, Brian J. O’Neill ’09, David S. Barkhausen ’10, Scott C. Mason’12, Matthew M. Skura ’13, Sarah Schultheis Moore ’08, Patrick M. Lane ’09, John M. Buchta ’08, Christopher J. White ’11, D. Zachary Barnes ’08, Aaron W. Meyers ’08, Rachel A. Hilgendorf ’11, Brooke A. Hollingsworth ’10, John R. Gavin ’09, Adam R. Ford ’08 and David C. Moore ’09. Attending but not pictured were Patrick J. Cisler ’08, Alexander M. Berlin ’08, Lindsey Anderson Berlin ’08, Brandon K. Burriss ’09, Matthew B. Strautman ’09, William H. Cath ’10, Gregory J. Gobel ’76, Barbara Holmes Gobel ’77, John H. Tschantz ’08, Anna S. Whitelaw ’09 and Kolin F. Atkin ’10.
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Psi Lambda Xi sorority celebrated its five-year anniversary. Those present included Laura E. Crawford ’14, Juliana P. Keller ’09, Vanessa N. Maxwell ’14, Kathryn L. Harris ’14, Rebecca L. Janvrin ’11, Rachel E. Jewell ’13, Andrea M. Stathopoulos ’10, Julissa M. Palomo ’14, Melissa R. Bock ’10, Jennifer A. Wilson ’12, Erin L. Meid ’10, Anna C. Allen ’13, Amanda R. Brinkman ’13, Taylor L. McGarrah ’14, Ryanne K. Forbes ’08, Katelyn T. Hayes ’12, Celeste M. Gossmann ’08, Jaclyn N. Melusky ’11, Lyndsay L. Moy ’10 and Christina M. Foerstner ’09.
Joshua R. Perez completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C. Grant S. Smith earned a Juris Doctor degree from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center in Florida in May 2012. He was recognized as a Silver-level Pro Bono Honors graduate for performing pro bono legal work at public service agencies while a student. Jennifer L. Zoller and Dimitrios C. Lalos were married Oct. 8, 2011 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Jennifer’s email address is jennifer.lalos@gmail.com. (See photo.)
2009
Psi Lambda Xi sorority celebrated its five-year anniversary on campus, March 11, 2012. (See photo.) Patrick M. Lane participated in a basketball benefit that included breaking a Guinness world record and raised more than $100,000 to help tornado victims in Joplin, Mo. Patrick was a member of Team St. Louis, which played against Team Joplin. Neal J. McKinney was accepted to University of Maryland’s master’s degree program in Higher Education, Student Affairs and International Education, and he received a graduate assistantship. Carolyn E. Mueller is author and illustrator of Bubbles the Dwarf Zebu, a children’s book. (See Recent Words, page 29.)
2011
Joshua M. Yoder is a member of the 2012 class of Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows. He will teach math and science in Indiana’s urban and rural schools.
2012
Lauren A. Hannan is girl’s soccer coach at Washington (Ind.) High School.
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Delta fraternity and partner in the Checkley Insurance Agency. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include daughters Tracy Jones McVay ’68 and Deborah Jones Barnekow ’71.
IN MEMORIAM
Dr. Mary Sanders Perry ’39, Jan. 5, 2012, of Redfield, S.D., at the age of 94. She was a physician and an associate professor at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine for more than 20 years. Survivors include her husband.
1929
Willard M. Avery ’29, Feb. 11, 2012, of Greenfield, Ind., at the age of 105. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, a Rector Scholar and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1933
Cloyd J. Julian ’33, April 10, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 101. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, DePauw Athletic Hall of Fame, DePauw Alumni Board of Directors, a Rector Scholar and retired as principal from George Washington High School in Indianapolis. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Brooks Julian ’33.
1934
Dorothy Ward Trapp ’34, May 4, 2012, of Springfield, Ill., at the age of 99. She was a Latin, history and English teacher and high school librarian in Lincoln, Ill. Survivors include a sister, Agatha Ward Sigmond ’35.
1935
Ray F. Dawson ’35, April 3, 2012, of Winter Park, Fla., at the age of 101. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar, professor at DePauw and retired as professor emeritus from Rutgers University. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1937
Dorothy Brown Morgan ’37, April 22, 2012, of Palos Park, Ill., at the age of 95. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
Cecil R. Coons ’37, March 28, 2012, of Columbus, Ind., at the age of 95. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Rector Scholar, and he retired from Cummins, Inc., after 38 years in sales and purchasing. Bennet R. Ludden ’37, April 16, 2012, of Washington, D.C., at the age of 97. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired as head librarian from The Juilliard School in New York City.
1938
Lila Dayhoff Crosby Kalm ’38, April 26, 2012, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 95. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Gifford W. Crosby ’37. Survivors include her husband; son, Stephen R. Crosby ’61; daughter, Rita Crosby Macfee ’66; and son-in-law, Michael S. Macfee ’67. Cleo Owens Milteer ’38, Dec. 19, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nev., at the age of 95. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1939
Marjorie Coolsen Homan ’39, Aug. 4, 2011, of Arlington Heights, Ill., at the age of 93. She was a member of Alpha Phi, self-employed business owner, certified Yoga Today instructor and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry P. Homan ’37. Survivors include her daughter, Carol A. Homan ’79. Richard G. Jones ’39, Feb. 22, 2012, of Mission, Kan., at the age of 93. He was a member of Phi Gamma
Dr. Willard A. McDonald ’39, March 31, 2012, in Corvallis, Ore., at the age of 94. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and a podiatrist. He was preceded in death by his first and second wives. Survivors include his wife.
1940
Dr. Melvyn A. Bayly ’40, Jan. 16, 2012, of Glenview, Ill., at the age of 92. He was a member of Sigma Nu, Rector Scholar, physician and surgeon in Chicago and a professor of medicine at Northwestern University School of Medicine. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lila Seneff Bayly ’42. Margery Miller Mills ’40, Jan. 30, 2012, of Wallingford, Conn., at the age of 92. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta; assistant dean of students at the American University in Washington, D.C.; an English teacher; and a geriatric social worker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands, and her mother, Mildred Jones Miller ’10.
1941
Robert E. March ’41, April 15, 2011, of Carefree, Ariz., at the age of 91. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar and retired chemist and vice president of research and development for Scott Paper Company. He received an alumni citation from DePauw in 1966. Survivors include his wife. Dr. Edward W. Hauch ’41, March 12, 2012, of Pomona, Calif., at the age of 92. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar and practiced internal medicine and gastroenterology. He was preceded in death by his wife.
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Marybeth Sears Wheeler ’41, Dec. 11, 2011, of Wallingford, Conn., at the age of 90. She was a homemaker and 51-year member of the Wilton (Conn.) Garden Club. She initiated the Herbarium project, a botanist’s library with a collection of preserved plant specimens found in Connecticut. She was preceded in death by her husband. Cynthia Welcker Fraser ’41, March 3, 2012, of Hamilton, Mont., at the age of 92. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, George D. Fraser ’42.
1942
George R. Chapman ’42, March 4, 2012, of University Place, Wash. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a food broker for Johnson Lieber in Renton, Wash. Survivors include his wife. Richard M. Daugherty ’42, May 9, 2012, of Medinah, Ill., at the age of 91. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and financial director for Prairie State College. Survivors include his wife, Shirley Lauridsen Daugherty ’45; son, Dane R. Daugherty ’77; daughter, Sharon Daugherty Speckhard ’70; and sonin-law, David C. Speckhard ’70. Elroy F. Langill ’42, Feb. 3, 2012, of Northbrook, Ill., at the age of 91. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a manager with Illinois Bell Telephone. He was preceded in death by his wife, Janet Morrissey Langill ’46. Jack R. Poole ’42, Jan. 16, 2012, of Spokane, Wash., at the age of 90. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Rector Scholar, and engineering administrator and systems analyst for IBM. Survivors include his wife. James M. Robinson ’42, May 17, 2012, of Claremont, Calif., at the age of 91. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Rector Scholar, and a chemist in the pharmaceutical, aerospace and healthcare fields. He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife. John A. Seddon ’42, April 22, 2012,
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of Columbus, Ga., at the age of 91. He retired from the United States Army after 34 years of service. Later, he was a history and government high school teacher. He was preceded in death by his wife. 1943 Esther Akers Benson ’43, Feb. 20, 2012, of West Lafayette, Ind., at the age of 90. She was an elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Margaret “Peggy” Horr Murphy ’43, Jan. 13, 2012, of Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 90. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Robert T. Murphy ’42. Wilma Rothenburger Winkler ’43, April 14, 2012, of Salina, Kan. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and retired high school teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1944
Wilma Palmer Bloom ’44, Feb. 10, 2012, of Hartford City, Ind., at the age of 89. She was a registered dietician. She was preceded in death by her husband. Robert S. Schley ’44, June 19, 2011, of Milwaukee, Wis., at the age of 89. He was a member of Sigma Chi and founder of Robert S. Schley & Associates, a real estate appraiser firm. He was preceded in death by his wife. Ralph F. Williams ’44, April 12, 2012, of Frankfort, Mich., at the age of 89. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and retired from The Prudential Reinsurance Company. He was preceded in death by his father, Ralph M. Williams ’16. Survivors include his wife.
1945
Harriett Dugan Veach ’45, Sept. 14, 2011, of Cedar Park, Texas, at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Christian M. McClure ’45, Feb. 23, 2012, of Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 88. He was a member of Sigma Chi and retired as executive
director of the United Way Agency. He was preceded in death by his sister, Marian McClure Bittles ’43. Survivors include his wife, Frances Caylor McClure ’45, and daughters, Diana McClure Gale ’68 and Mary McClure Hanna ’73. Evelyn Pictor Taylor ’45, Oct. 27, 2011, in DeLand, Fla., at the age of 98. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and an English teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, W. Ralph Taylor ’34. Survivors include her son, Lawrence P. Taylor ’69, and daughter, Dorothy R. Taylor ’77.
1946
James W. Clark ’46, Feb. 26, 2012, of San Rafael, Calif., at the age of 87, from cancer. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and worked in advertising. He was preceded in death by his wife. Margaret Tinkler Stone ’46, May 27, 2012, of Atlanta, at the age of 87. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1947
Arthur L. Beyler ’47, April 27, 2012, of Dennis, Mass., at the age of 90. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar and research endocrinologist. Survivors include his wife. Donald F. Petersen ’47, March 9, 2012, in Tijeras, N.M., at the age of 85. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and physiologist in the health division of the University of California’s Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He was preceded in death by his wife. Ralph M. Weinrichter Jr. ’47, March 24, 2012, of Portola Valley, Calif., at the age of 91. He was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and retired as director of corporate credit from Del Monte Foods. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ann Durham Weinrichter ’44. Survivors include a brother, Woodson S. Weinrichter ’50; sister, Barbara Weinrichter Whitehead ’48; and brother-in-law, Walter R. Whitehead ’48.
1948
E. Claire Neff Hutchison ’48, March 31, 2012, of Peoria, Ill., at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, business owner and homemaker. Sally Smith Scott ’48, Sept. 22, 2011, of Bakersfield, Calif., at the age of 85. She was a retired teacher for Bakersfield, Calif., school district. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands. Mary “Jo” Tranbarger ’48, May 6, 2012, of Indianapolis. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and retired from Indianapolis Life Insurance Company after 28 years of service as a tax specialist. W. Bruce Walker ’48, March 12, 2012, of Winfield, Ill., at the age of 86, from a heart attack. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and retired from a career in sales. He was preceded in death by his wife, F. Loraine McClelland Walker ’47. George F. Westfall ’48, March 7, 2012, in Palm Beach County, Fla., at the age of 86. He was an elementary school teacher and principal. Survivors include his wife and daughter, Priscilla Westfall Hart ’79.
1949
Phyllis Chapman Dickson ’49, March 24, 2012, of Wauconda, Ill., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Phi, an administrative assistant and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Mary Fisher Brown Bowmar ’49, Jan. 27, 2012, of Auburn, Ind., at the age of 84, from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. She was a member of Alpha Phi and retired elementary school teacher. She was preceded in death by her first husband, James E. Brown ’49. Survivors include her husband and daughter, Peggy Brown Dwyer ’76. William E. Gildner ’49, April 19, 2012, of Arlington, Texas, at the age of 84. He was a member of Sigma Chi and retired as an insurance agency manager. Survivors include his wife.
Dorothy Jacobs Carpenter ’49, April 28, 2011, of Hinsdale, Ill., at the age of 83. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, an earlychildhood educator and advocate, and co-founder of the DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville, Ill. She was preceded in death by her husband, William W. Carpenter ’48; sister, Esther Jacobs Miller ’39; brother-in-law, Guy D. Carpenter ’41; and sister-in-law, Jane Mohler Carpenter ’41. Survivors include nephews, Paul D. Carpenter ’69 and John S. Carpenter ’77; niece-in-law, Colette Borom Carpenter ’76; cousin, Robert L. Jacobs ’87; and grandniece, Michelle Miller Scales ’94. Charlene Quinn O’Connor ’49, Jan. 5, 2012, of Aurora, Ill., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Phi and medical technologist. She was preceded in death by her husband. M. Frances Tobias Higbie ’49, May 10, 2012, of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., at the age of 84. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and executive assistant to the chairman of Market Opinion Research. Survivors include her husband. M. Wayne Wolfe ’49, May, 6, 2012, of River Falls, Wis., at the age of 93. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former vice chancellor and founder of the journalism department at the University of Wisconsin. He was preceded in death by his wife. Evelyn Wood McCreary ’49, May 1, 2011, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at the age of 82. She was a member of Alpha Phi and retired psychotherapist.
1950
William P. Buckner Jr. ’50, Feb. 19, 2012, of Cypress, Texas. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and a professor of health sciences and allied health at University of HoustonBaylor Medical Hospital. Survivors include his wife. Mary Hester Bayer ’50, April 30, 2012, of Palatine, Ill., at the age of 83. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa, a church secretary and homemaker. She was
preceded in death by her husband, Richard F. Bayer ’50; grandfather, Joseph P. Allen Jr., Class of 1897; grandmother, Blanche Swahlen Allen, Class of 1897; father, William F. Hester ’25; mother, Cornelia Allen Hester ’25; brother, William A. Hester ’56; uncle, Joseph P. Allen III ’30; and aunt, Harriet Taylor Allen ’28. Survivors include sons, James R. Bayer ’81 and Keith W. Bayer ’75; sister, Blanche Hester Wicke ’67; brother-in-law, Brian G. Wicke ’66; brother, F. Allen Hester ’69; sister-inlaw, C. Elaine Dunbar Hester ’69; and cousins, Joseph P. Allen IV ’59, David T. Allen ’61 and Timothy J. Allen ’92. Charles R. Jordan ’50, March 6, 2012, of Athens, Ga., at the age of 83. He was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, Delta Upsilon and retired executive advertising manager for The Wall Street Journal. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Brooks Jordan ’51; brother, Arthur C. Jordan ’50; and sister-in-law, Mary Lee Jordan ’50. Barbara Lenfesty Holt ’50, Feb. 25, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 82. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John M. Holt ’50. Survivors include sons Mark B. Holt ’73 and Brent D. Holt ’83. Donald F. McCullough ’50, March 2, 2012, of Terre Haute, Ind., at the age of 87. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and retired as regional manager of General Motors Acceptance Corporation. He was preceded in death by his wife. Marjorie Moore Snave ’50, March 13, 2012, of Rehoboth Beach, Del., at the age of 83. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Barbara Ocheltree Stepp ’50, Feb. 10, 2012, of San Jose, Calif., at the age of 83. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Ralph F. Stepp Jr. ’50. Rev. Victor E. Ramsey ’50, Feb. 27, 2012, of Glen Carbon, Ill., at the age of 86. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and a United Methodist pastor serving churches in
Indiana and Illinois. He was preceded in death by his wife and brother, Donald K. Ramsey ’57. Dr. Robert A. Rehm ’50, March 15, 2012, of Hilliard, Ohio, at the age of 83. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and surgeon. Survivors include his wife and daughter, Nancy Rehm McCloskey ’85. David J. Ware ’50, March 3, 2012, of Mill Valley, Calif., at the age of 83. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and financial planner. Survivors include his wife.
1951
Lois Coleman Rutherford ’51, May 6, 2012, of New Albany, Ind., at the age of 82. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, former nursery school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Helen Diehl Hinderland ’51, April 30, 2012, of Phoenix, at the age of 82. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a high school journalism and English teacher as well as chair of the English department. She was preceded in death by her husband. Kenneth L. Eldridge Jr. ’51, March 13, 2012, of Roscommon, Mich., at the age of 85. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and worked as a buyer for Sears Roebuck and Co. Survivors include a granddaughter, Allison M. Caplinger ’14. Donald E. Robinson ’51, March 24, 2012, of Madisonville, Ky., at the age of 82. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and president and manager of Madisonville Tire and Retreading for 49 years. He was preceded in death by his first wife; and daughter, Julia Robinson Phar ’76. Survivors include his wife. John F. Russell ’51, Jan. 31, 2012, of Houston, at the age of 82. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar, and elementary school teacher and librarian. He was preceded in death by his wife. Jean Wilcox Morris ’51, Dec. 3,
2011, of Pittsford, N.Y., at the age of 81. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and retired as an administrative assistant from the University of Rochester. She was preceded in death by her father, Richard M. Wilcox ’25, and mother, Lois Zimmerman Wilcox ’25. Survivors include her husband; brother, John T. Wilcox ’59; sister, Patricia Wilcox Oliver ’54; and sister-in-law, Margot Guessford Wilcox ’62.
1952
Charlene Brumage St. John ’52, Feb. 14, 2011, of Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 80. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, musician, writer and teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband and brother, Leonard K. Brumage ’43. William H. Closz ’52, April 2, 2012, of Muskegon, Mich., at the age of 81. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, an elementary school teacher and principal. Survivors include his wife, Mary Renkenberger Closz ’52, and brother, Harold F. Closz Jr. ’45. Mary Sloop Cabler ’52, May 7, 2012, of McKinney, Texas, at the age of 81. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, x-ray technologist and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1953
Millicent Chapman Lewellen ’53, April 9, 2012, of Bellaire, Mich., at the age of 81. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, William R. Lewellen ’53. Survivors include her son, William R. Lewellen Jr. ’75, and granddaughter, Christine Lewellen Davis ’08. James C. Costin ’53, April 13, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 80. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and founder and president of CSA Promotions, Inc. He was preceded in death by his father, James W. Costin ’20, and mother, Mildred Chandler Costin ’19. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Boyd Costin ’54; daughter, Janice Costin Tedrow ’79; sister, Carolyn Costin Tucker ’49; and brother-in-law, John D. Tucker ’48. Nancy Dodge Smith ’53, Dec. 22, 2011, of Denver, at the age of
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80. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, civic and community volunteer, the first woman elected to the Albuquerque (N.M.) City Commission and consultant to the philanthropic community. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1954
Dr. Robert L. Fuson ’54, March 16, 2012, of South Pasadena, Fla., at the age of 80. He was a member of Sigma Chi, physician and senior vice president for Zimmer Inc. in Warsaw, Ind. Survivors include his wife, Shirley Smythe Fuson ’57, and sister, Barbara A. Fuson ’57. Gordon C. Gimple ’54, Jan. 4, 2012, of Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 79. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a retired captain from United Airlines. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Jeanne DeButts Gimple ’54. Survivors include his wife. Thomas A. McClure ’54, March 8, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 79. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and retired from his own independent insurance agency in Lebanon, Ind. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne Sullivan McClure ’57. Grace Nappi Berg Mitchell ’54, March 19, 2012, in Marin County, Calif., at the age of 78. She was a member of Alpha Phi and former president of Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Ralph W. Riecker ’54, Jan. 14, 2012, of Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 79. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Rector Scholar and retired senior vice president of the United Bank of Arizona. Survivors include his wife. Jean A. Snow ’54, May 3, 2011, of State College, Pa., at the age of 79. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Rector Scholar, university researcher and owner of Property Management & Consulting Services. Survivors include his wife. John O. Wyandt ’54, May 8, 2012, of Evanston, Ill., at the age of 79. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and spent his career in finance and sales. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy
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Johnson Wyandt ’54; daughter, Elizabeth Wyandt Walker ’84; and sister, Joan Wyandt Vreeman ’51.
1955
Stanley A. Williams ’55, April 13, 2012, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, at the age of 77. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a retired attorney. Survivors include his wife, Sueann Stedman Williams ’56; son, Steven A. Williams ’84; and daughter-in-law, Jennifer Perkins Williams ’85.
1957
Jean Anderson Weliver ’57, Jan. 17, 2012, of Ingleside, Ill., at the age of 76. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, artist and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Kay Barthelmeh Voorhees ’57, March 31, 2012, of Sun City West, Ariz., at the age of 76. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and retired as office manager of Re/Max Town & Country in Houston. Survivors include her husband and sister, Sue Barthelmeh Eckstein ’54. Everett A. Fox ’57, Dec. 30, 2011, of Manhattan, N.Y., at the age of 77. He was a social worker and activist in New York City. He was preceded in death by his wife. Larry D. Shafer ’57, April 7, 2012, of Goshen, Ind., at the age of 76. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, high school band director and owner of Blessing School of Music Inc. Survivors include his wife. Ronald L. Thomas ’57, May 17, 2010, of Danville, Ill., at the age of 79. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a manufacturing executive and industrial engineer. Survivors include his wife. Fred A. Wingert ’57, April 14, 2012, of Michigan City, Ind., at the age of 78. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a teacher and administrator in the Michigan City school system. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1958
Howard F. Lund ’58, Feb. 23, 2012, of Plano, Texas, at the age of 75. He was a member of Sigma Nu and management
consultant with leadership positions at General Motors, Touche-Ross and A. S. Hansen. Survivors include his wife, G. Jayne Kuebler Lund ’59.
1959
Joe L. Holsen ’59, April 8, 2012, of Nitro, W.Va., at the age of 75. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and worked with N.L. McCullough and Hitwell Surveys for 35 years. Richard B. Will ’59, Jan. 16, 2012, of Rotonda West, Fla., at the age of 74. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and economics consultant.
1960
Thomas M. Robertson ’60, Sept. 10, 2011, of Carrollton, Ga., at the age of 72. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and retired from Southwire Company as manager of plastic research. He was preceded in death by his father, Graham T. Robertson ’30. Survivors include his wife and daughter, Miriam Robertson Threadgill ’92.
1961
John L. Carney ’61, May 15, 2012, of Brevard, N.C., at the age of 73. He was a human resource manager for Bechtel Corporation. He was preceded in death by his father, William E. Carney ’30. Survivors include his wife. Rev. E. Max Case ’61, Jan. 9, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 72. He served as senior pastor at several Indiana Methodist churches, teacher at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, administrator at University of Indianapolis and executive director of Indiana Network for Higher Education Ministries.
1962
Michael G. B. Evans ’62, May 13, 2012, of Houston, at the age of 72. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a realtor and broker associate. Survivors include his wife. Bradley M. Foland ’62, Dec. 12, 2011, of Centerville, Ohio, at the age of 71. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and teacher in the West Carrollton Schools.
1963
Marilyn Augburn Sharp ’63, May 11, 2012, of New York City, at the age of 70. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and author of three best-selling novels. She received an alumni citation from DePauw in 1980 and honorary degree in 1986. She was DePauw’s commencement speaker in 1986. Survivors include her husband, Philip R. Sharp ’64. Judith Holden Wright ’63, Feb. 2, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 70. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, mortgage loan processor and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1966
Paul K. Vetterick ’66, Feb 3, 2012, in La Jolla, Calif., at the age of 67. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a manager and consultant. Survivors include his former wife, Joanne Cockrill Vetterick ’68; sister, Nancy Vetterick McElligott ’78; and brothers, John H. Vetterick ’68 and Gerald A. Vetterick ’68.
1967
Richard D. Fisk ’61, May 17, 2012, of Hot Springs, Ark., at the age of 74. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi . Survivors include his wife and brother, Charles B. Fisk ’57.
Barbara Cornelsen Bradshaw ’67, April, 20, 2012, of Venice, Fla., at the age of 66. She was a member of Delta Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband, John F. Cornelsen ’66. Survivors include her husband; daughter, Katherine Cornelsen St. John ’90; son-in-law, Brent E. St. John ’89; brother, Scott K. Koepke ’71; sister-in-law, Catherine Moles Koepke ’71; nephew, James S. Koepke ’00; and niece-in-law, Allison Lake Koepke ’00.
Lance V. Masters ’61, April 5, 2012, of Phoenix, at the age of 72. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and chiropractor. Survivors include his wife.
Carol Pritz Kyhos ’67, March 25, 2012, of Canton, Ohio, at the age of 67, from cancer. She was a member of Delta Zeta and learning disability
Barbara Collins Whatley ’61, Nov. 6, 2011, of Gadsden, Ala., at the age of 72. She was a medical technologist. Survivors include her husband.
teacher. Survivors include her husband, Wayne C. Kyhos ’66.
1968
Thomas E. Brown ’68, March 9, 2012, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 65. He as a Rector Scholar and owner of The Computer Tutor. Survivors include his wife. Daniel W. Helt ’68, Feb. 17, 2012, of Mansfield, Conn., from cancer. He was a member of Delta Chi, Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his mother, Martha White Helt ’31. Survivors include a sister, Mary Helt Gavin ’69.
1973
Kris S. Nelson ’73, June 17, 2011, of Minneapolis, at the age of 73. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, founding director of Artspace Projects and the director for neighborhood programs at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at University of Minnesota. Survivors include his wife. Cynthia Stidham Welch ’73, April 20, 2012, of Anderson, Ind., at the age of 61. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and elementary school teacher for 33 years. Survivors include her husband; brother, Joel D. Stidham ’71; sister-in-law, Kristine Krumholz Stidham ’72; and niece, Mallory K. Stidham ’12.
1975
Janis Whittenberger Anderson ’75, Feb. 16, 2012, of Spring Green, Wis., at the age of 58. She retired after 35 years of teaching deaf and elementary students. Survivors include her husband, Blair W. Anderson ’74.
1976
David K. Hendrickson ’76, Feb. 15, 2012, of Kokomo, Ind., at the age of 57, from a brain tumor. He was a Rector Scholar and trainer in the Foreign Services Institute of the State Department in Washington, D.C. Survivors include his partner.
1978
Barbara Boyll Knapp ’78, April 20, 2012, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 57, from injuries suffered in an accident. She worked in television advertising and sales, and later, started her own advertising firm.
Clarissa Sumners Snapp ’78, May 9, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 62. She was a high school teacher and assistant principal, taught education classes at IUPUI and Butler University, and founded the Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy.
Faculty
1982
Sally H. Gray, March 13, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 78. She was an economics professor at DePauw from 1965-79 and retired senior judge of the Putnam County (Ind.) Court. Survivors include her husband, Ralph Gray, DePauw emeritus professor of economics.
David J. Cislak ’82, Feb. 3, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 51. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and professional photographer. Survivors include his wife and sister, Susan Cislak Sokolsky ’84.
1989
Timothy S. Darosett ’89, March 19, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 44. He was a member of Sigma Chi and worked in the Asian financial markets. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, G. Warren Phillips ’30, and grandmother, Ruth Bickel Phillips ’26. Survivors include his parents, William J. Darosett ’61 and Nancy Phillips Darosett ’63; sister, Kimberly J. Darosett ’92; uncle and aunt, George W. Phillips Jr. ’56 and Martha Williamson Phillips ’57; and cousins, Thomas M. Phillips ’82 and William S. Phillips ’85.
1990
Joy Warfield Washington ’90, March 25, 2012, of Charlotte, N.C., at the age of 44, of kidney cancer. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, managing editor for Bank of America Securities, preschool teacher and staffing coordinator for University City United Methodist Church.
1994
Brent C. Hastings ’94, Jan. 29, 2012, of Atlanta, at the age of 39. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi and worked for State Farm in Atlanta. Survivors include his wife. Matthew C. Taylor ’94, May 20, 2012, of Hammond, Ind., at the age of 40. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
1997
Peter N. Schlecht ’97, Jan. 30, 2012, of Swannanoa, N.C., at the age of 36. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, band director at Erwin Middle School in Asheville, N.C., and member of the Smoky Mountain Brass Band. Survivors include his wife.
J. Fred Bateman Jr., Jan. 10, 2012, of Athens, Ga., at the age of 74. He was a visiting faculty member at DePauw, taught at Indiana University and retired from University of Georgia.
David W. Herrold, May 31, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 69. He taught ceramics at DePauw from 1972-2008 and retired as an emeritus professor of art. Survivors include his wife. David J. Klooster, June 2, 2012, of Grand Rapids, Mich., at the age of 58, from a brain tumor. He was a professor of English at Hope College and member of the DePauw faculty from 1984-89. Survivors include his wife.
Friends Diana M. Buis, March 30, 2012, at the age of 75. She was employed at Reelsville (Ind.) Elementary School, South Putnam (Ind.) High School and DePauw. Survivors include her husband. Joyce G. Christiansen, May 8, 2012, in Indianapolis, at the age of 78. She was a secretary in the communications department at DePauw for 25 years. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a son, Paul J. Christiansen Jr. ’98. Marion M. Cook, Jan. 2, 2012, of Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 95. She worked as an administrative assistant at Indiana University and DePauw, was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald “Jack” Cook, emeritus professor of chemistry at DePauw. Anna B. Dean, Feb. 8, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 90.
She was a cook for Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Sharon C. Evans, May 6, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 69. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was a fifth and sixth grade teacher from 1972 until her retirement in 2012. Survivors include her husband, Robert W. Evans ’59. Mary F. Luzar, April 10, 2012, of Cloverdale, Ind., at the age of 91. She was employed in residence life at DePauw for several years. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her son, James C. Luzar ’81. Diane McClure, March 1, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 66. She worked in housekeeping at DePauw for more than 20 years. Survivors include her husband. Katherine “Kay” Kroth Page, Jan. 16, 2012, of Palm City, Fla., at the age of 92. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and homemaker. Survivors include her husband and daughter, Elizabeth Page Van Wagener ’73. Betty J. Sillery, May 8, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 74. She worked for DePauw for 48 years, retiring in 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband. Willie Belle Williams, April 13, 2012, of Spencer, Ind., at the age of 93. She was a cook at Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at DePauw for several years. She was preceded in death by her husband.
CORRECTIONS Because of incorrect information in alumni records, Sue Galbraith Roberts ’57 was inadvertently included in the In Memoriam section of the Winter 2012 issue of the magazine. It was not Sue Galbraith Roberts ’57 of Reno, Nev.; rather, Sue Gregg Shepard Roberts ’49 of Richmond, Ind., should have been listed. The magazine staff apologizes for the error.
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Generosity of Robert and Margaret Schmidt, both Class of 1969, rings in Music of the 21st Century endowment
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edicated music lovers, Robert A. and Margaret A. Schmidt, both Class of 1969, began providing funds several years ago for Music of the 21st Century, a program of the DePauw School of Music. The event is an annual residency, which brings some of the world’s most outstanding composers to DePauw. It provides students and faculty members a special opportunity for personal interaction with these composers, and to study, perform and share with our audiences the music of our time. This year’s guest composer was Joseph Schwantner, above center (pictured with, from left, President Brian W. Casey, program coordinator Amy Lynn Barber, Bob Schmidt and School of Music Dean Mark McCoy). This year, Bob and Meg decided to permanently endow the program by increasing their annual support, while also including DePauw in their estate plans to fulfill any balance not funded during their lifetimes. Although neither were School of Music students, music is an important part of their lives. They have, along with
other members of their family, commissioned several new works with the Chicago Symphony. “We believe bringing living, working composers offers students and faculty in the School of Music an invaluable and distinctive opportunity that enriches their performance experience,” Bob said.
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