MAGAZINE Fall 2015
DOUGLAS HALLWARDDRIEMEIER ’89
He rose to the challenge of arguing the same-sex marriage case before the U.S. Supreme Court
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TIGER ON THE PROWL
An iconic tiger sculpture now stands guard at DePauw’s Athletics Campus. Created by renowned sculptor Robert Shure, the tiger is dedicated to the memory of Florence Northrop Mote ’50. It was given to the University by John R. Mote ’50, Dr. Thomas R. Mote ’74, Eleanor Northrop Hall ’61, Alan Satterlee, Susan Mote Rosenbluth, Donald R. Cates ’86, and Joseph Satterlee Northrop ’71 and Lynne Utter Northrop ’71.
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SPAMALOT!
A hilarious search for the Holy Grail came to DePauw this fall when DePauw Theatre and the School of Music presented Monty Python’s Tony Award-winning musical. More than 40 students participated in the prodcution.
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BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
This aerial photo during the Monon Bell game on Nov. 14 captures the dramatic scale of the annual clash. In the 122nd meeting of the football teams and 84th since the Monon Bell debuted in 1932, Wabash defeated DePauw 45-17.
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ROCKIN’ OLD GOLD
Kid Quill, also known as DePauw senior Mitchell Q. Brown, performed a concert after the Old Gold Weekend football game, much to the enjoyment of his fellow students. FALL 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 7
THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
These mentors were more than ready to welcome first-year students on Opening Day on Aug. 22. Upperclass student leaders play an important role in helping first-year students navigate their way through the University. 8 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2015
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It’s Her Pipe Dream
A Supreme Effort
Investigating clues to life in England during the Enlightenment
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8 News 12 Recent Words 26 Connections: Engaging with DePauw 32 Class Notes Cover photo and photos on pages 14-19 courtesy of National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Mariel Wilderson director of University communications marielwilderson@depauw.edu
Steven J. Setchell ’96 associate vice president for alumni engagement ssetchell@depauw.edu
Larry G. Anderson editorial director landersn@depauw.edu
Contributors: Hannah N. Bradley ’16, Sarah McAdams, Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe
Kelly A. Graves creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Larry G. Ligget University photographer larryligget@depauw.edu
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DePauw Alumni Association Officers Donald M. Phelan ’79, president Denise Castillo Dell Isola, vice president Thomas R. Schuck '86, secretary
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A total of 1,032 young alumni made gifts to DePauw’s sixth GOLD Challenge, a 24-hour giving effort by alumni who graduated in the last 10 years. The Nov. 11 event surpassed the one-day drive’s goal of 1,000 donors.
WHY DOES BOUNCING BET BLUSH?
Bouncing bet is a weed. Not even a particularly important one. However, it does present a biological puzzle that DePauw students are trying to unravel. In one of more than two dozen student-faculty research projects on campus during the summer, five students worked with Biology Professor Dana A. Dudle to investigate why bouncing bet flowers change from male to female during their lifetime, and at the same time they change color. The male phase tends to be more white than the female phase, which is pink. The question is, why do the flowers change color? Does turning pink yield an advantage in terms of the plant’s ability to reproduce or survive? After all, it requires an expenditure of energy to create the pigment. If the plant invests a lot in being pink, there should be some kind of advantage to the pigment in the flowers, according to Dudle.
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DePauw studentathletes named to the NCAC Academic Honor Roll with a 3.50 or higher cumulative GPA.
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Where DePauw ranks among baccalaureate institutions in the United States for most international students in 2013-14, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“DePauw is a place where people come to change the world.” Student body president CRAIG R. CARTER ’16,
addressing entering students in the Class of 2019
during Opening Convocation on Saturday, Aug. 22.
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The number of students participating this fall in the Sustainability Leadership Program, which is designed for students interested in creating environmental change on campus. A new partnership between DePauw’s Hubbard Center for Student Engagement and Office of Sustainability, it is already the largest program of its kind in the country.
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The percentage of women in the junior class of computer science majors at DePauw. Nationally, the average of women in pure computer science programs is about 12 percent. DePauw’s Class of 2017 includes the largest-ever number of computer science majors: 61.
THE THRIFTY TIGER
Name of a student-run thrift shop that opened in the Mason Hall basement this fall. It is a student-driven effort to expand DePauw’s successful Move Out Donation Program at the end of academic year and support Putnam County Family Support Services (PCFSS) in Greencastle. Students have placed boxes in academic buildings and residence halls in order to collect items for resale. All proceeds go to student staffing and PCFSS.
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Number of DePauw student-athletes who have earned NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships after two DePauw student-athletes earned the distinction in 2014-15.
FROM THE PRESIDENT Brian W. Casey
I write to you as DePauw is in the midst of the 2015-16 academic year. Our faculty members are hard at work, as researchers and scholars across the campus and around the world. Our students are in classes, and in an endless array of activities. The administrators and staff are working to keep the University functioning. The fall is a time of work and activity, as it always has been. This fall, the entire core of the campus is under construction. Hoover Hall, with its Wallace-Stewart Faculty Commons, is well underway and beautiful. It will be a traditionallooking building, one in concert with Asbury and Harrison halls. It will also provide a place for the more than 1,000 students who take some or all of their meals in a University facility every day. It will also provide, for the first time in the institution’s history, a place for our faculty to eat on campus. Hoover Hall will be a place of connection and conversation, and we will be much better for it. Next to Hoover will be Stewart Plaza, a wonderful open space made possible once we remove a series of additions that were made to the Memorial Union Building in the 1990s. This will, I predict, be the new heart of the main campus, a place of gathering and connecting, a central point through which to cross every day. Most great universities have such a central gathering place, and now so will DePauw. It will be one of the places students remember when they think back as alumni. And, finally, in the Union Building we are benefiting from the new Hubbard Center for Student Engagement, a center in which students can plan their time on campus and consider all their options in their lives ahead. When I arrived in Greencastle, alumni often reminded me that DePauw was once known as “the Harvard of the Midwest.” Seven years later, I’ve had the privilege to understand precisely why this was the case. Your reach and influence – the reach and influence of DePauw alumni – is wide and deep. In your ranks, you boast some of the nation’s leading political figures, scientists of the highest order, extraordinary musicians and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, just to name a few. On the cover of this issue of DePauw Magazine is an alumnus who will forever be known as one of the attorneys who shaped civil rights in the modern United States. I invite you to read about his work – and the work of other DePauw alumni – as champions for equal rights. They represent the very best of you, and I know that they are simply a small number among a cast of thousands of other equally dedicated and remarkably talented alumni. It has been an honor to serve as your president, and I look forward to the work that remains before me in the months ahead. Most sincerely,
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The number of countries in which DePauw students will be studying during spring semester 2016.
“They told me there’s a way you can be free. And I asked for first time – because I didn’t know what ‘free’ was. I never heard of the word in North Korea; we don’t have a word for freedom or human rights – ‘What do you mean I will be free?’” YEONMI PARK – who, as a 13-year-old, defected with her family from North Korea – recounting what she said
when she and her mother finally met with Christian missionaries in China. The 22-year-old Park related her
harrowing experiences during a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture on Oct. 5, only six days after her book, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, was published.
Trees removed from the construction site of the new Hoover Dining Hall will live on as benches on campus and in the DePauw Nature Park. Creative DePauw students and staff transformed the logs – unuseable for other purposes – into wood sculptures.
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SILVER TORCH
The Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society chapter at DePauw is one of 45 collegiate chapters that received the Silver Torch Award this year. Mortar Board is the premier national honor society recognizing college seniors for outstanding achievement in scholarship, leadership and service.
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The number of students in DePauw’s 179th entering class, the Class of 2019, this fall.
ART & TRANSFORMATION
Theme of DePauw’s 14th annual celebration of the arts, ArtsFest, from Oct. 28 to Nov. 8, 2015.
5TH IN THE WORLD
A team of four DePauw students earned a Global Top 100 ranking for their performance in The Business Strategy Game, an online business simulator in which teams from colleges and universities worldwide manage virtual footwear companies. Their score for the week of Sept. 14-20 was fifth highest among 2,176 competing teams, tying for 39th place overall. In the game, “Students inherit a business that’s 10 years old, with each business having the exact same product, the exact same production facilities, the exact same markets, the exact same money in the bank account and so on,” explains Assistant Professor of Economics and Management Michael Risdon, who uses the game in his courses – this time with a marketing class. “Starting in year 11, the teams begin to change various factors about their business, potentially making as many as about 50 decisions each week.”
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Number of all-conference selections earned by DePauw student-athletes in 2014-15.
DOING MORE TO MEET THE FINANCIAL NEED OF STUDENTS Cindy Babington
One of the most rewarding things about working in Admission is identifying students for whom DePauw is a great academic and social fit and then seeing them matriculate to the University. DePauw currently provides access by allocating more than $50 million in need-based and merit aid to students. To ensure access to DePauw for many years to come, The Campaign for DePauw has as a primary goal to “Create the DePauw Trust, thereby increasing current endowment for student access by more than 80 percent, making DePauw accessible to a significantly greater number of high-achieving students with financial need and guaranteeing continuation of the financial aid we currently provide in perpetuity.” The first dollars from the DePauw Trust were allocated to students in the Class of 2019. The Admission and Financial Aid Offices allocated funds to students who showed resilience and perseverance in their lives thus far. The stories told by prospective students through admission essays and interviews were truly inspiring. The DePauw Trust ensured that 23 students have the financial resources necessary to attend DePauw. Recipients were representative of the Class of 2019 in terms of academic credentials, racial background and geography. A few of their stories are below: » A student’s parents immigrated to the United States from Bosnia. His father had lost a leg as a result of stepping on a land mine, and the parents sacrificed greatly with the hope of their children having a better life. » A student lost her hair due to illness and had to wear a wig in middle school. She was bullied for this, but instead of succumbing to the bullying, she became an advocate in her school for others who were bullied. » A student managed his household, including grocery shopping, cleaning and taking care of his siblings, because his mother was disabled. » A student’s mother became homeless and lost custody of her. The student lived in a foster home until her mother could provide a stable environment for her. Being able to meet the full demonstrated need of all students is the single most impactful thing DePauw can do to enhance its reputation and ensure that every student deserving of a DePauw education is afforded one. I am very grateful to all those who have already contributed to the DePauw Trust and hope that many more will contribute in the future.
Cindy Babington Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid
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ERIC T. BREWE ’96 and Cody Sandifer, editors Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers: Case Studies and Effective Practices
CHARLES W. McCONNELL ’61 Conquer Your Yips: Win the Employment You Target, How Understanding Golf Stress Defeats Job Search Stress
Claudi Alsina and ROGER B. NELSEN ’64 A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century
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The Physics Teacher Education Coalition, American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers released this peer-reviewed book that provides a practical guide to innovative and state-of-the-art programs. Papers cover topics such as: preparing future physics teachers; case studies of successful physics teacher education programs; recruiting and retaining future physics teachers; structuring effective early teaching experiences; preparation in the knowledge and practices of physics and physics teaching; and mentoring, collaboration and community building. There is a strong emphasis throughout the book on implementation advice, ongoing challenges and lessons learned. Eric Brewe is an associate professor in science education and physics, and associate director of research for the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University.
Amateur golfer Chuck McConnell, who has 20 years of experience in career services and job transition, compares those two stresses to help job hunters – golfers and non-golfers alike – improve their perspectives while locating and securing jobs. In his first book, he develops the thesis that many stress yips found in golf are directly comparable to stress issues afflicting job searchers. McConnell identifies how search yips can strike highly qualified job applicants and impede their campaigns. When stress manifestations are identified and minimized, the search can focus on campaign preparation/practice to make the effort more productive. Unique Brand Equity (UBE), which is mandatory for individuals looking to win over today’s stiff competition for new employment opportunities, is the tactical recommendation in Conquer Your Yips. Armed with this important element, job candidates avoid appearing generic. That helps them gain confidence to conquer their yips and succeed in the hunt.
This is the 10th book for Roger Nelsen, professor emeritus of mathematics at Lewis & Clark College. A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century is devoted to presenting techniques for proving a variety of mathematical results in three-dimensional space, techniques that may improve one’s ability to think visually. Solid geometry is the traditional name for what today is called geometry of three-dimensional Euclidean space. Special attention is given to the classical icons of solid geometry (prisms, pyramids, platonic solids, cones, cylinders and spheres) and many new and classical results: Cavalieri’s principle, Commandino’s theorem, de Gua’s theorem, Prince Rupert’s cube, Menger sponge, Schwarz lantern, Euler’s rotation theorem, Loomis-Whitney inequality, Pythagorean theorems in three dimensions, etc. Each chapter includes a selection of Challenges for the reader to explore further properties and applications. Readers should be familiar with high school algebra, plane and analytic geometry, and trigonometry.
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COMER PLUMMER III ’83 Roads to Ruin: The War for Morocco in the Sixteenth Century (Lulu Publishers) Comer Plummer recounts the 16th century struggle of a nascent Moroccan kingdom for survival between its powerful neighbors, peaking with a defining moment in world history: the Battle of Ksar el-Kébir, also called the Battle of the Three Kings for the three monarchs who perished on the field of battle. This history is told through figures of disparate backgrounds and nationalities, Christians and Muslims, whose lives traversed some of the great events of this era, including the wars of the Reformation, Battle of Lepanto and last siege of Tunis, before converging on Aug. 4, 1578, in northern Morocco. Roads to Ruin describes the end of Portugal’s golden age and the emergence of the modern Moroccan state. The author spent 21 years on active duty with the U.S. Army, the last nine as a Middle East/ Africa Foreign Area Officer. He now works as a civilian employee with the Department of Defense.
IT’S HER PIPE DREAM Professor of Music Carla Edwards has a pipe organ in her office. No, really – a real pipe organ. While it might not rival the 1,000pipe goliaths you’d find in a French cathedral, it dominates an otherwise ordinary room tucked in the back of the Green Center for the Performing Arts. Built in 1965 by C.B. Fisk, Inc. of Gloucester, Mass. (whose current president, Steven A. Dieck, is a 1973 DePauw graduate), it was designed to be portable, but even a short move can mean a few hours of tuning. So, there it stands: a personal pipe organ in Edwards’ private quarters, placing her in the company of Captain Nemo and the Phantom (of the Opera). Admittedly, as the School of Music’s organist, hers is more for practical reasons than dramatic. Nobody bats an eye when a cellist has a cello nearby; Edwards’ instrument is the pipe organ. It’s a love that began the first time she sat in a grand hall filled by its sound and wondered, “How can one person make so much noise?” Her parents found lessons for her in high school, and she’s been answering that question ever since. But even a real organist like Edwards has something in common with her fictional counterparts: She has great stories. It makes sense when you think about it. A pipe organ contains countless parts, some taller than a tree and some smaller than a fingernail. And yet, despite all that could go wrong acoustically or mechanically, these Rube Goldberg instruments tend to be played at the most solemn occasions. On one Easter Sunday, Edwards confused and delighted churchgoers as she pounded furiously on a stuck key with one hand while she continued playing with the other. Her musician-slash-repairman skills, gained from a stint at an organ manufacturer after college, also came in handy when she found a hole in the piping of an organ she was invited to play. She didn’t have her toolset, but she had chewing gum. Then there are weddings, those true tests of human character. Edwards has played, in her best estimate, more than a thousand of them, and often a few on the same day. At her very first wedding, the 15 minutes of music she had prepared stretched into an hourlong performance when the flower girl forgot her shoes at home. The phrase “everybody will laugh about this some day” could be the coda to most of Edwards’ tales. That day just comes a lot sooner for the organist. FALL 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 15
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EFFORT Two DePauw alumni played key roles in same-sex marriage case that went before the nation’s highest court By David McKay Wilson
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ouglas Hallward-Driemeier ’89 was driving home from his downtown Washington, D.C., law office one evening in early November 2014 when his mobile phone jangled. It was Chris Stoll ’91, his DePauw friend and Harvard Law School classmate. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had just upheld Tennessee’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages in an appeal filed by Stoll’s legal team at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), where he serves as senior staff attorney. The decision differed with those by other appeals courts across the country. The conflicting opinions begged for resolution before the U.S. Supreme Court. But time was running short for the 2014-15 term of the nation’s highest court. If the same-sex marriage proponents wanted to seek a hearing, papers had to be filed within seven days. So Stoll turned to Hallward-Driemeier, who, when serving in the U.S. Justice Department, had argued 13 cases before the court. He had appeared two additional times for private clients. “Chris wondered if I was doing anything next week,” recalls HallwardDriemeier, who leads the Supreme Court and appellate practice at the international law firm Ropes & Gray. “I was on the phone that night with our assignment person. We had an associate who had been following the cases. We jumped in. And then it went fast. It was really crazy.” Five months later, Hallward-Driemeier was one of two lawyers standing before the nine-judge panel arguing for the rights of same-sex couples to be married. On June 26, the court ruled 5-4 for marriage equality. “We knew it would be very important to have someone on our team who appeared regularly before the Supreme Court,” Stoll
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says. “The court trusts these lawyers. It’s very important to have their names on your papers. And if your case gets accepted to be heard, you want them to appear on your behalf.” The story of these DePauw college friends – and their role in the landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges – is a tale of legal intrigue, gender politics and the changing face of marriage in the 21st century. For Stoll, 46, who is gay and has lived with his partner in San Francisco for the past 10 years, it was the high point of a career in nonprofit legal advocacy that gained traction in 2008 when he joined NCLR and became an important player in the national battle for marriage equality.
For Hallward-Driemeier, 48, who is straight and has been married to his wife, Mary, for 19 years, Obergefell solidified his stature among Washington’s elite advocates and made him a hero in the community known as LGBT – those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. He floored a journalist from the online news magazine Slate when, in the midst of a podcast interview, he burst into recitation of a poem by Edwin Markham. He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him in!
The poem, he said, reflected the view of marriage purported by the state of Michigan, which, by focusing on how traditional marriage was necessary to reinforce the bond between a child and his or her biological parents, was drawing a line in an effort to shut out these plaintiffs. “That’s the only aspect of marriage that doesn’t apply to same-sex couples,” he said. “The state was drawing a circle that got smaller and smaller to almost a dot of what marriage is. We know in our hearts that marriage is much more than that.” At DePauw, both Stoll and HallwardDriemeier majored in political science. They knew each other through classes and their participation in the University’s Honor
Scholar program. Hallward-Driemeier, who had been accepted at Yale and Dartmouth, chose DePauw, following a family tradition in Greencastle that included his father, Doug ’60; aunt, Joan Driemeier Haskin ’64; and sisters, Doni ’86 and Debra ’92. At DePauw, he was awarded the Walker Cup as the Class of ’89 member who had contributed the most to the University community during his or her four years. Stoll found a home in the political science department, where he says his adviser and mentor, Professor Ralph Raymond, was instrumental in his intellectual development. While in college, Hallward-Driemeier recalls knowing only one gay person: his cousin. Stoll had yet to come out as gay. The late 1980s were different times on DePauw’s campus, when there was neither an LGBT services office, with its LGBT services coordinator, nor a student organization that met every other week at the Queer Center in the Dorothy Brown House, as it now does. “DePauw was a pretty conservative campus, and by the standards of the 1980s, being out there wasn’t really an option for me at that time,” Stoll recalls. It wasn’t until Hallward-Driemeier studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship that he came to have openly gay friends, including the first openly gay Rhodes Scholar who took his boyfriend to the annual Rhodes Ball. The night he met his wife-to-be in Oxford, he recalls that she spent most of the evening chatting with Brian Rolfes, now director of global recruiting for McKinsey & Company. The Hallward-Driemeiers attended Rolfes’ commitment ceremony in Saskatchewan in 1998. Stoll and Hallward-Driemeier reconnected at Harvard Law School in
“We knew it would be very important to have someone on our team who appeared regularly before the Supreme Court. The court trusts these lawyers. It’s very important to have their names on your papers. And if your case gets accepted to be heard, you want them to appear on your behalf.” – Chris Stoll ’91, senior staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights
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1991. The next year, they were hanging out often in the lounge of Harvard Law Review, the monthly publication that is edited and written by law school students who are selected from their first-year grades and their performance in a writing competition. Also on Law Review with them was a conservative Texan named Ted Cruz, now a U.S. senator and Republican presidential candidate. By then, Stoll had become open about his sexuality. Studying in Harvard Square, the heart of American liberalism, certainly helped. “There’s no question that being at Harvard, in Cambridge, made it a lot easier,” he says. After law school, Stoll moved to San Francisco and went into private practice. He pitched in as a volunteer with the National Center for Lesbian Rights in 2001 after a woman named Diane Whipple was mauled and killed by two dogs in the lobby of her apartment building. At the time, the state’s domestic partner law did not allow her same-sex partner to sue for wrongful death. Stoll worked on the case that made California the first state to grant same-sex partners that right. In 2004 Stoll again got involved in gender legal issues after challenges swiftly arose following San Francisco’s decision to issue same-sex marriage licenses. By 2008, after his private firm dissolved in bankruptcy, Stoll joined NCLR’s staff, just before state voters cast ballots on whether California should legalize same-sex marriage. “I could have gone to another firm, but decided I wanted to do something that was more meaningful,” he says. By 2013 the same-sex marriage legal environment had changed dramatically. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that
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the federal Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional in Windsor v. the United States, opening up federal benefits to those married in states where same-sex marriage was legal. Hallward-Driemeier’s firm had submitted a friend-of-the-court brief for the Anti-Defamation League, seeking to overturn the law. It was overturned on a 5-4 vote, with Justice Anthony Kennedy casting the deciding vote and writing the majority opinion. After Windsor, the nonprofit legal advocacy organizations involved in samesex marriage – NCLR, American Civil Liberties Union, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and Lambda Legal – decided to push the issue. The Windsor case was based on the U.S. Constitution’s 5th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection for issues involving the federal government. The advocates believed that a similar argument could be made under the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection in each of the nation’s 50 states. So legal challenges were launched throughout the nation in states that had yet to legalize same-sex marriage. Stoll and NCLR were involved in one of the first post-Windsor challenges on the state level. They filed a case on behalf of three same-sex couples living in Tennessee who had been married legally in New York or California. But when they moved to Tennessee, the state refused to recognize their legal marriages. It didn’t seem fair. In New York, if one spouse died, the married spouse could inherit their property tax-free. But in Tennessee, that same property would be taxed. One of the Tennessee couples comprised two women, who fell in love in veterinary school, got married and landed
professorships at University of Tennessee. Then one of the mothers gave birth to their child. They were unable to obtain a family health insurance policy that covered all three. And if their baby had become ill and was hospitalized, the non-birth mother would have had no right to be with her daughter or be involved in medical decisions. Another Tennessee couple was two men who married before one shipped out to Afghanistan. Upon his return from the front, he was assigned to a base in Tennessee, where their marriage was not recognized. “They had moved to Tennessee for work, and their marriages were invalidated,” Stoll says. “Some had children. It was not a good situation.” In March 2014, a Tennessee judge stopped enforcement of the same-sex
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And so it went for 25 minutes, with the justices peppering HallwardDriemeier with questions, and him parrying back with his response. They’d cut him off. He’d return to his themes. He enjoyed the conversation.
marriage ban. But it was overturned in November by a Tennessee federal appeals panel in an opinion that said the decision should be left to the democratic process – through ballot initiatives or action by state legislatures. Hallward-Driemeier says the opinion hung on a single line in a 1972 case, Baker V. Nelson, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that denial of same-sex marriage did not present a substantial question of federal law. “We didn’t think Baker v. Nelson was the last word,” Hallward-Driemeier said one day in August, when he came to work at Ropes & Gray’s Washington office in a blue-checked shirt, blue blazer and no tie. “There had been so many decisions and developments in gender law since then that had knocked the legs out from under Baker v. Nelson.”
By late January 2015, the Supreme Court decided to hear the Tennessee case, along with cases from Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. There were two issues the court would decide upon. First, the question of whether the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause required acceptance of same sex-marriage in every state, regardless of state law. The second question arose if the court ruled that state laws had primacy: should states recognize legal marriages of couples moving into states such as Tennessee? When Hallward-Driemeier agreed in November to become involved in seeking Supreme Court review of the Tennessee case, he had no illusions that he would be chosen to make the oral argument before the panel, because there were many qualified candidates. When it came time to designate oralists, the LGBT legal
advocacy community proposed that two lawyers argue on each of the two questions, meaning one from each of the four state cases. But the court let it be known that it would only allow one lawyer per question. Hallward-Driemeier met with legal teams from the other three cases in Michigan in March to decide how to proceed. They were able to reach consensus. They chose same-sex marriage pioneer Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, to argue the first question. HallwardDriemeier was selected to argue the second regarding recognizing another state’s legal marriage. “When we bring these cases, we are representing an engaged and opinionated community,” Stoll says. “We knew it was important to have someone who was committed to the issue. Having known
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Doug for so long, I was absolutely certain that he’d be 100 percent committed, and he was someone that the community could put their faith in. I was not wrong about that.” That decision was made on March 31, which happened to be HallwardDriemeier’s 48th birthday. The next day, he was arguing a bankruptcy case, Bullard v. Hyde Park Savings, before the Supreme Court, which was later decided unanimously in his client’s favor. They had four weeks before the climactic argument before the court. “We had a ton of work to do,” he recalls. Bonauto says that the team of Stoll and Hallward-Driemeier were crucial to the eventual victory. “Doug brought great heart, formidable intelligence, not to mention extensive Supreme Court experience to both questions before the court,” she says. “He was open to the input, and we all laughed a lot despite the pressure. To his and everyone’s credit, we worked together closely to avoid any traps that might help one case but hurt the other, and to get the right answer on both questions.” Bonauto, meanwhile, had worked with Stoll on several previous cases. “Chris brings great passion, incredible smarts, and a cool head to all he does,” she says. Preparing for a Supreme Court argument is an arduous task, with briefs to be written and what’s called moot court proceedings undertaken with legal colleagues to practice one’s delivery, and answer the full range of questions that might be asked by the argumentative justices. Hallward-Driemeier did four moots – at the Bar Association in Louisville, at Nashville School of Law, and in Washington, D.C., at Howard University
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and Georgetown Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic. At one moot, a former clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia played his former boss. “They are exhausting affairs,” HallwardDriemeier says. “They keep you going nonstop for an hour. But after four of them, you feel like you have answered every possible question. It forces you to articulate orally, and do it succinctly. You figure out how to turn a hostile question into making a point that’s favorable to your argument.” Long walks help, too. He recalls walking through Bethesda, Md.’s Kenwood neighborhood with colleagues, while the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. “At one point, you have to push away
from the desk, put away the binders and vocalize it,” he says. “My colleagues came to my house. We walked. And we talked.” When the legal argument came on April 28, Hallward-Driemeier was prepared. Four sentences into his argument, the questions began. First, Justice Samuel Alito, then Justice Scalia, asked him to explain why a state should recognize a marriage legal in one state that would be unlawful to perform in another. Scalia asked whether HallwardDriemeier’s contention that one had the right, once married, to remain married, would extend to one who was married in a state that permitted polygamy. “I think the justification would be that
the state doesn’t have such an institution,” responded Hallward-Driemeier. “The polygamous relationship would raise all kinds of questions that state marriage laws don’t address.” Alito wondered whether states should recognize the marriage of a 12-year-old girl. Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked about marriages between cousins. Scalia raised the state of Kentucky’s argument that allowing same-sex marriage would reduce the birth rate. But Hallward-Driemeier returned to his basic point. “The state asserts that it has an interest in the stability that marriage provides children,” he said. “That interest does not
justify extinguishing marriages that already exist.” And so it went for 25 minutes, with the justices peppering Hallward-Driemeier with questions, and him parrying back with his response. They’d cut him off. He’d return to his themes. He enjoyed the conversation. “They are an inquisitive bunch, and very smart,” Hallward-Driemeier says. “They are going to ask questions, and they also want to make points with their colleagues. They’ll try to trip you up, or make you concede a point. Part of the skill you develop is discerning what they are getting at. And the questions may be one they know a colleague needs convincing on.” Two months later, Stoll and HallwardDriemeier returned to the hallowed chambers, which coincided with the second anniversary of the Windsor case. They sat up front, in the section reserved for attorneys, with Bonauto, and others involved in the four cases. It’s a solemn scene, with even a smile frowned upon. “I was sitting there, and it didn’t feel real,” Stoll recalls. “They announced the case name, and at that point, I stopped breathing for a while. Then the chief justice announced that Justice Kennedy wrote the decision. That was a good sign. And in a moment he was reading excerpts from it. He was talking about tradition and history. And then he said that tradition and history were the beginning of our analysis, but not the end of it. That’s when I finally exhaled.” The 5-4 decision subscribed to the arguments made by Bonauto and Hallward-Dreimeier. Same-sex marriage was legal throughout the land. “Once we were outside the building, we got to celebrate,” Stoll says. Since the celebration, HallwardDriemeier has continued his appellate
work. In early October, he filed briefs in 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta over a Florida law that makes it a crime for a physician to ask patients if they own firearms. Hallward-Driemeier is filing on behalf of physicians who say it’s a violation of their First Amendment rights. Stoll, meanwhile, remains involved in the same-sex marriage issue. Despite the June victory, several states have created obstacles to full marriage equality. Stoll was on the legal team that has sought relief in federal court after the state of Florida refused to list both spouses in a same-sex marriage on birth certificates. There are also issues emerging in states that must now allow same-sex marriage but lack human-rights laws that prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation. That opens the door for same-sex couples to marry one day, and be subject to being fired from their jobs the next. “The fight isn’t over,” Stoll says. “There’s still work to be done.” David McKay Wilson’s work has appeared in alumni magazines at 125 colleges and universities, including law school magazines at Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, Fordham and University of Chicago. He also writes for USA Today.
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Investigating clues to life in England during the Enlightenment Commonplace books were the social media of their time By Christopher L. Wolfe
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The year is 1714. Queen Anne, first monarch of the new Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has died, leaving behind no children to inherit her throne. Although many of her living relatives have traditionally valid claims, the merging of Scotland and England into a single political entity has introduced a new stipulation to the line of succession: the next king or queen cannot be Catholic. Thus, dozens of Anne’s closer, Catholic relations are skipped in favor of a Lutheran living in Germany who doesn’t speak English. For the two months between Anne’s death and George I’s arrival on British soil, Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, serves as regent of the kingdom.
Three centuries later, Parker is a footnote in history books. His Wikipedia entry is only a few paragraphs long, perhaps proving he was the right person for the job of keeping the throne warm. By contrast, Hannah Swynock has no entry on Wikipedia or anywhere else. Only an old marriage record and a worn manuscript with her name inscribed on the front page seem to verify her existence at all. Other than sharing a time and place in history, Swynock and Parker have no known connection. So, how did her book end up in his possession? This question has loomed over Assistant Professor of English Tamara L. Stasik’s
research into Parker’s manuscripts. Not to spoil things, but she still doesn’t have an answer. Nor does anybody else. The Parker collection, held at Indiana University’s Lilly Rare Book Library, is unstudied and unavailable to anybody who hasn’t walked through the library’s doors. Stasik, a scholar of these kinds of things, only knew about it because she once worked there as an archivist. It’s possible that Swynock’s place among Parker’s many volumes of legal notes is a mystery without a resolution. But like any good mystery, there are clues to uncover. Stasik’s research project began in the classroom, the way many do at DePauw. During a Winter Term course titled
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Pillaging the Text, she gave students a crash course in early handwriting, or paleography, and bookmaking. “The course gave me some context for what students could put together in a short amount of time and what they could handle,” Stasik says. “What I really wanted to do was a project with a student that would be more accessible. I thought, ‘How can I pursue my interests, but also help students who aren’t trained develop their skills?’” Then she recalled the largely untouched Parker collection at the Lilly Library. Unlike printed materials, handwritten documents are hard to untangle. Most manuscripts weren’t meant to be historical records or widely disseminated, leaving modern readers at the mercy of the writer’s penmanship and sometimes vague intent – just think about the headaches a simple email can cause. “Books like these are complex and crazy,” Stasik says. “Things are written over each other, crossed out, upside-down and backwards. They’re not books you can read in the traditional way, and you don’t want to.” To even begin to analyze Parker’s collection meant someone needed to take the painstaking first step of transcribing it, which rendered his manuscripts effectively off-limits to most academics. Most, but not all. Teaching at a school just up the road, Stasik saw an opportunity for a motivated student research assistant. During the summer break, Stasik and English writing major Hannah N. Bradley ’16 traveled to Indiana University to photograph individual manuscript pages and begin the process of off-site transcription. With the year 1687 scrawled beneath her name on the front page, Swynock’s book was the earliest manuscript
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in the collection, making it a logical starting point. More than that, the book’s place in a British noble’s collection piqued Stasik’s curiosity. To be clear, Swynock’s book is not a book in the modern sense, but what’s known as a commonplace book. The term dates back to ancient Greece, where Aristotle spoke of keeping an arsenal of relatable proverbs – koinoi topoi or “common places” – to deploy in teaching and debate. By the time of the Enlightenment and Swynock, the term had taken on an entirely different meaning. Education and literacy were on the rise in Western Europe, and commonplaces
existed as personal collections of writing that Stasik likens to an early form of social media. “You might share your commonplace book with somebody else, and they might copy something from it into their own,” Stasik explains. “Depending on your reading circles, that could determine your content and format. So, you might find a family of these texts that share the same material because they’ve been passed around.” A commonplace book was more than just a casual blog or Pinterest board, however. The form of the proper commonplace book was taught in schools and written about
LEFT: Professor of English Tamara L. Stasik, left, and Hannah N. Bradley ’16.
Pages are cluttered with text wherever it will fit. Taken as a whole, Swynock’s commonplace painted a picture of a modestly educated woman living a domestic life as best she could, within the space society and the pages of her book allowed.
at length by scholars of the day. English philosopher John Locke even wrote an entire book about how a person should go about writing his or her own commonplace. According to him, “Commonplace books, it must be stressed, are not journals, which are chronological and introspective.” These were to be crowdsourced self-help books. Swynock’s book is a mixed bag by that standard. In it, mundane housekeeping records are scattered among Protestant hymns and writings about how to live a better life. There are other quirks that give Swynock’s commonplace book some personality. Spelling mistakes abound.
The hymns transcribed within Swynock’s book turned out to contain other important details. Several are borrowed from William Cowper, one of England’s more influential poets of the period and coauthor of the Olney Hymns, a bestseller in its time and origin of “Amazing Grace.” But Stasik and Bradley found one hymn, “Blinded in Youth By Satan’s Arts,” that differed from what was published in the Olney Hymns – in 1779, nearly 100 years after the earliest date recorded on Swynock’s commonplace. The gaps in time and content pointed to the possibility that this was an early version of the hymn passed among the people of Cowper’s rural Olney Parish. Coincidentally, Olney Parish is only a short distance from from Thomas Parker’s retirement home of Shirburn Castle. This is where things got messy. Stasik and Bradley leaned on paleography to look deeper into the text. Letter shapes and abbreviations form a kind of DNA in words, particularly when they are written at a time when they could vary dramatically. The time period of the handwriting in Swynock’s commonplace book checked out, but Stasik and Bradley discovered distinct differences between some of the entries. After closer examination, they found that at least three different people had contributed
to Swynock’s book throughout the years. It’s safe to say that Hannah was the first of them, but Cowper’s hymns, for instance, are written in a different hand than other, earlier entries. Hannah Swynock had started her book, but she hadn’t ended it. The tri-author revelation left the truth about Swynock and her commonplace in limbo, and Stasik with more questions. Was Swynock’s book passed through her family as a living heirloom, maybe to a relative who served Parker at Shirburn Castle? Old paper was also frequently repurposed. In one of Parker’s own manuscripts, his legal notes are written over and around the sums in an old arithmetic workbook. Could one woman’s commonplace have become another person’s commodity? For now, Stasik and Bradley are pressing forward, laying the groundwork to digitize the entire Parker collection. Her office whiteboard is filled with lines of an HTML-like programming language they plan to use to transcribe each manuscript, making it searchable by anyone. If an answer to the Swynock mystery does exist, it may be in the haystack of remaining books. If not, Stasik and her student will have opened the collection to the world. “We are trying to reinvigorate what are essentially dead books, just sitting there,” Stasik says. “What’s a book if you don’t have somebody to read it?”
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connections: engaging with depauw DEPAUW INVITES ALUMNI TO GO, GIVE, HELP AND CONNECT:
An Interview with Steven J. Setchell ’96, Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement and Campaign Inititatives Alumni have long been an institutional strength and reflection of the empowering nature of a DePauw education. As the University aims to be increasingly intentional in engaging alumni, it is focusing on four actions in support of the life and mission of DePauw. They are Go, Give, Help, Connect. DePauw Magazine: Tell us about Go, Give, Help, Connect. Steve Setchell: It is an exciting time to be part of the DePauw community. Many alumni are asking how they can get involved and make an impact for students. Our job is to facilitate alumni opportunities to go, give, help and connect. In other words, “go” to mission-aligned events, “give” to co-invest financially in DePauw students, “help” with a variety of meaningful volunteer activities and “connect” to make our alumni network even stronger, especially for the benefit of young alumni and students launching their careers. DePauw Magazine: So DePauw wants alumni involvement in additional ways to giving? Setchell: Yes. Making an annual gift of any amount is still critical for DePauw students. But we also need alumni to participate in the life and mission of DePauw in other ways that truly make a difference for students and the University as a whole. DePauw Magazine: What are some of the ways alumni are getting more involved? Setchell: We’ve received good feedback 28 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2015
from online event opportunities to engage professors – we call this the Virtual Alumni College. Virtual Alumni College gives us the opportunity to engage in an academic, classroom-style virtual interaction with alumni on topics such as current events. In the “help” area, all alumni can make an impact on DePauw’s future by recommending talented prospective students in their families and communities. That’s so important, and alumni have probably noticed our regular appeals for student referrals. DePauw Magazine: How can young alumni best access the alumni network? Setchell: About 2,000 alumni are connecting and networking with one another through the EverTrue mobile app, which enables alumni to search the alumni directory and map classmates and professional contacts nearby through business address. It is already proving to be a great resource for current students during internships in new cities, but we aim to get this app in the hands of even more alumni to make the DePauw network stronger and more accessible, particularly for young alumni.
DePauw Magazine: What about social media? Setchell: Right now, just under 4,000 alumni and friends “like” the DePauw Alumni and Friends Facebook page, which provides a steady narrative on alumni events, opportunities to engage and insights into the student experience. Alumni on Facebook, along with those following @ DePauw_Alumni on Twitter, can expect an increased volume of video narrative and storytelling in the weeks and months ahead.
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connections: engaging with depauw Go, Give, Help, Connect 1. Marshall Reavis IV ’84 (second row, third from right) welcomes Vice President for Finance and Administration Brad Kelsheimer to meet DePauw alumni working at SVM on July 10. 2. “Alumni in Action” – The DePauw University Alumni Network at Eli Lilly and Company gathered at Heritage Hall at the corporate office on Sept. 15, 2015, to discuss new ways to make life better for Lilly patients. 3. Senior advisor to the president for diversity and compliance Renee N. Madison ’95 addresses alumni at a multicultural alumni networking event in New York on Aug. 13. 4. Brad ’99 and Tracy Wilhelmy Stevens ’99 with Coach Kris Huffman and members of the women’s basketball team. Bradley K. Stevens received the Young Alumni Award at this Aug. 27 luncheon.
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5. Bret Baier ’92 addresses alumni in Washington, D.C,. at an event hosted by Joe G. Hollingsworth ’71 and Hollingsworth LLP.
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Recognition and Dedications 1. The Athletics Hall of Fame inducted six new members on Oct. 10: (left to right) Cara Duckworth Weiblinger ’02, Elizabeth Broering Ernst ’01, Robert O. Cathcart ’82, Brett M. Crist ’91, Brett D. Hecko ’91 and Virginia McCracken Vogel ’83. 2. On hand for the Kathryn Fortune Hubbard Center for Student Engagement dedication are Janet Crawford Evans ’75, Allan B. and Kathryn Fortune Hubbard ’74, Ken W. ’82 and Carrie Melind Coquillette ’82, Richard S. Neville ’76 and Katherine Cornelsen St.John ’90. 3. Thomas R. Mote ’74 and John R. Mote ’50 help dedicate Satterlee Northrop and Mote Family Tiger Sculpture on Oct. 10. 4. Men’s soccer alumni and S. Page Cotton ’71 at the dedication of S. Page Cotton Field at Reavis Stadium on Oct. 10.
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Oct. 9-10, 2015 1. Several of the Washington C. DePauw Lifetime Society 2014-15 New and Upgraded Members: Blair A. Rieth Jr. ’80; Carson Evans, Parent; Janet Crawford Evans ’75; Susan Vaughn ’73; John A. Scully ’79; Walter W. Sampson Jr. ’58 2. Daniel E. Lewis ’58 and Linda Brainard Lewis ’60 Onyinyechi O. Awani ’17, Dahl-Williams Scholarship Bradley L. Burch ’17, Dahl-Williams Scholarship William J. Burke ’17, Dahl-Williams Scholarship Victoria J. Cline ’16, Dahl-Williams Scholarship Vanessa Gonzalez ’17, Dahl-Williams Scholarship Zachary J. Reichle ’17, Dahl-Williams Scholarship 3. Tony Bolazina ’84 and Amy Robb Bolazina ’84 4. Lisa Henderson Bennett ’93 with Kristin Perks Champa ’91 5. Irene Koebke Ansel ’52 Susan M. Ansel ’82 Joseph A. Buckley ’16, Ansel Annual Fund Scholarship Shirley Tandy ’18, Don B. and Irene K. Ansel Endowed Scholarship 6. Walker Gilmer, emeritus professor of English David Baza Fuentes ’16, Peggy and Walker Gilmer Scholarship 7. Brandon W. Delesline ’08, Rhyan Smith ’08, Leslie N. Smith ’03 and Charles M. Kuykendoll ’09 serve on a panel as part of the Tucker E. Wilson Series. 8. Tucker E. Wilson attendees. 9. Coach Nick Mourouzis and former players. 10. John Cassidy ’82, Joe Johnson ’81, Jim Meyer ’86 and Jeff Pohle ’81 attend the Old Gold tailgate.
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Correction
In the Alumni Reunion Weekend photo number four on page 38 of the summer magazine, Susan Stirling Little was misidentified as being a 1969 graduate. Her correct class year is 1959. The staff regrets the error.
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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 Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu. Please direct questions to Larry Anderson, editorial director, at 765-658-4628 or landersn@depauw.edu.
John J. Baughman, professor emeritus of history at DePauw, received the 2015 Ministry of Memory Award, July 21, at the annual meeting of the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church. John taught at DePauw from 1953-92. He has actively supported the study of Indiana United Methodist Church history for more than three decades. He is author of Our Past, Their Present: Historical Essays on Putnam County, Indiana and coauthor of DePauw University: A Pictorial History. Baughman has served as the official historian for DePauw as well as Putnam County. Mary E. Thoits, at the age of 92, turned over the reins of the Long Beach Senior Studies program at Long Beach City College. She led the group for four decades. Mary has been adventurous throughout her life. She was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and taught other women to fly. She spent 15 years in Europe as a recreation director for the Special Services branch of the American military. To celebrate her 85th birthday, she jumped out of a plane over Lake Elsinore. At 86 she went parasailing over San Diego, and at 87 she flew a Cessna over Catalina Island.
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Delta Tau Delta members from the classes of 1950, 1951 and 1952, and their spouses got together. (See photo.)
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William D. Dyke is recipient of Iowa County Circuit Court’s 2015 Lifetime Jurist Achievement Award presented by the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Bench and Bar Committee. The award recognizes a jurist who has demonstrated outstanding, long-term judicial service as a sitting judge. He has served as Circuit Court judge of Iowa County for 18 years, illustrated a children’s book, helped to produce a cult-classic science 34 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2015
Gathering of Delta Tau Delta members and their spouses. Those attending included John D. Fetters ’50, Marilyn Holtman Fetters ’54, Ralph A. Berg ’51, David M. Parmelee ’51, Anne Mossberg Hillman ’51, Diane Forst Stephens ’51, Norval B. Stephens Jr. ’51, Anabel Russell Mason ’52, James H. Mason ’52 and Herbert W. Hoover ’51. fiction movie and hosted a popular local children’s television program. Leland A. Lahr was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the College of Management at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich. He began teaching at Lawrence in 1964 and retired in 1995. As a professor emeritus, Leland continued to serve the College of Management in a variety of roles.
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Rev. Samuel B. Phillips, a retired Indiana Conference United Methodist minister, former DePauw trustee and currently chief financial officer at Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt in San Francisco, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, May 15, 2015, at Garrett’s commencement ceremony. One of the presenters of the award was his daughter, K. Amy Phillips ’78. Gerald R. Vare and his wife live in Stratford, a community retirement center in Carmel, Ind. Their address is 2460 Glebe St., Apartment 205, Carmel, IN 46032.
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Anne Allaway Gilbert is coauthor of The Holiday Trilogy Collection. The book “invites young readers to rediscover the origins of their favorite catchy tunes. Through compelling stories, vibrant illustrations and enchanting rhythms, children are taught how Halloween, Hanukkah and Christmas came to have their own special days.”
DePauw alumni met at the home of Donald L. and Laurie (Hooton ’58) Hamilton in Pinehurst, N.C., for golfing and shopping. Don’s email address is dlhpinehurstnc@earthlink.net. (See photo.) Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is recipient of the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
DePauw alumni in Pinehurst, N.C., included Emily “Laurie” Hooton Hamilton ’58, Donald L. Hamilton ’57, Susan Belt Herrmann ’89 and Barbara Hartong Belt ‘58
New York’s City Center revived offBroadway musicals this past summer, including I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, book and lyrics by Gretchen Kiger Cryer and Nancy Ford Charles. The musical, an exploration of women’s changing roles, was first staged in 1978. Gretchen and Nancy hope the revival will lead to production of the sequel they have written. Jo (Petry) and G. Richard Hershberger have moved to Middleton, Wis. Their new address is 3111 Pheasant Branch Road, Apartment 107A, Middleton, WI 53562.
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Marilyn Fitch Herrmann was visited by two of her Alpha Phi roommates, July 7, 2015, at her home in Estes Park, Colo. She said they had a great time reminiscing about DePauw and catching up on their lives. (See photo.)
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Dr. William M. Dugan Jr. was honored by Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle, Ind., during a celebration of 30 years of cancer care locally. He was recognized as
Marilyn Fitch Herrmann ’58 and Alpha Phi classmates at Rocky Mountain National Park. From left, Brad Fitch Smith (Marilyn’s son and seasonal ranger at Longs Peak), Judith Neighbours McSwine ’58, Jane Jarrell Robinson ’58 and Marilyn Fitch Herrmann ’58. a founding member of the Community Cancer Center outreach program in 1983. The program focused on providing cancer care in rural settings to prevent patients from having to travel for treatment. His wife is Ann Carper Dugan ’61. Five of his children attended DePauw as well as two of his grandchildren.
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Kathleen Vietzke Evans retired in September 2014 after more than 33 years as public defender in Porter County, Ind., juvenile court. She was recognized at a reception by judges, fellow attorneys, court staff,
probation officers plus therapists and agencies that work with youth. She was one of nine 1961 Kappas who enjoyed a reunion in Naples, Fla., March 2015, at the home of Suzanne (Stratton) ’61 and Donald J. Perozzi ’59.
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Kennard B. Bork, Denison University’s alumni professor of geology, emeritus, received the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) 2015 Friedman Distinguished Service Award of the History and Philosophy of Geology Division. The award was presented at the GSA annual meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 3, 2015. Kennard FALL 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 35
DAWN FOLLETT SCHUMANN ’58 received a Lifetime Achievement Award, May 15, 2015, from the Michigan Historic Preservation Network. Dawn was a major player in the revitalization of Oak Park, Ill. She was cochair of the Citizens Action Committee, which formed a long-range strategic plan, including the Oak Park Landmarks Commission. She worked with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to restore the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and studio. The project won the All-American City Award and was the first preservation project in the country to be so honored. Dawn was a founding board member and officer of Preservation Action. In 1980 she worked to get the Milwaukee, Wis., warehouse district on the state and national register, which resulted in the passing of the Omnibus Preservation Package. Dawn was hired to be executive director of Milwaukee Turner Hall and obtained funds for its restoration. Dawn retired in 1995 and moved to Douglas, Mich. She soon became involved in creating a preservation committee, whose work and programs restored Douglas to a vibrant small town. She is also active in the environmental movement of the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance. Years ago, she was among a group of early leaders in the preservation movement invited to a Rose Garden ceremony, where President Jimmy Carter thanked them for their work.
Class of 1963 visited DePauw. The group included Herman L. Barber Jr. ’63, Jan Barber (parent), J. Stanley Hewitson ’63, Karen Pfenning Hewitson ’63, Dennis A. Priser ’63 and Marilyn Mead Priser ’63.
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Members of the Class of 1963 who were unable to attend their 50th reunion in 2013 at DePauw held a mini-reunion, June 26-28, 2015, to celebrate their 52nd. They had a fabulous time seeing campus – both old and new buildings – staying at the Inn, visiting the Boulder and invoking memories while creating new ones. Denny and Marilyn Priser coordinated the get-together. Their email address is priser9423@aol.com. (See photo.)
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The Delta Tau Delta Class of 1965 had a 50th reunion warm-up at the home of James V. Palmer in Indianapolis, on June 4, 2015, prior to festivities at DePauw during Alumni Reunion Weekend. (See photo.) Hampton S. Tonk is author of God’s Opportunity: It’s God’s Time … It’s Kingdom Time … It’s the Fullness of Time … It’s God’s Opportunity!, to be published in December 2015.
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Richard T. and Janet (Williams) Roessler live in Fayetteville, Ark. Rick retired after 40 years as professor of rehabilitation research at the University of Arkansas. He continues to write grants and serve on local boards of organizations for the
Alpha Tau Omega roommates Stephen R.S. Martin and David M. Emery ’68 and their wives drove 1,200 miles through Ireland in June 2015. Steve’s email address is srsmartin1@gmail.com. David’s email address is demery2357@ gmail.com. (See photo.)
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Dr. Samuel A. Kocoshis is director of the Pediatric Nutrition and Intestinal Care Center in the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition as well as medical director of the Small Intestinal Transplantation Program. He is a professor of pediatrics at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and he is internationally known as one of the best in his field, pediatric gastrointestinal transplants. Jane Wieser Heim is author of Three Little Farmers Who Saved the World, for young children. Jane has been a lifelong activist for sustainable living and organic growing. (See book cover.)
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Richard A. Dean was selected by Best Lawyers® as the 2016 Lawyer of the Year in the area of Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants in the Cleveland market. He is also
Delta Tau Delta Class of 1965 celebrated a pre-reunion before Alumni Reunion Weekend 2015. Those attending included James M. Hess ’65, James V. Palmer ’65, James G. Miller ’65, John C. Harbottle ’65, Tim B. Hunter ’65, Curtis W. Bush ’65, Richard G. Baumgartner ’65, Bruce W. Jeffreys ’65, Richard G. Lubman ’64, James R. Martin ’65 and Stuart R. Sellers ’65. Attending but not pictured, Bert M. Wilhoite ’65.
Three Little Farmers Who Saved the World on the 2016 list of The Best Lawyers in America®. Richard is a partner in the law firm Tucker Ellis LLP. John B. Norberg is coauthor of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer, the story of a boy, Jerry Ross, who dreamed of travel in space and became the most-launched person in space history, published in 2013. The book is in its third United States printing, and a recently translated edition was published in France by Altipresse. John is author of seven books. John’s email address is norbergj@purdue.edu. (See book cover.)
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John T. Neighbours is a member of the board of directors for First Financial Bancorp. John is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels, representing employers throughout the country in all aspects of labor and employment law.
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Mark A. Robertson is a partner at Robertson & Williams in Oklahoma City. He received the American Bar Association Law Practice Division’s Samuel S. Smith Award, July 30, 2015, at the annual meeting in Chicago. The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in law practice management throughout his or her lifetime.
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Roger W. Boswell received the Longevity Award from American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has had 30 years of continuous board certification in his specialty. Roger is also certified in internal medicine.
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MARTIN F. FARRELL ’67 was recognized by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies with the Dick Ringler Distinguished Peace Educator Award for 2014-15. He was honored for his contributions to academic and public discourse on issues of peace and conflict, intercultural communication, gender relations and environmental sustainability. He is a professor of politics and government at Ripon College. Martin has served as chair of the Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors since 2006.
Steven W. Burr is a professor of recreation resources management at Utah State University. He teaches undergraduate students at USU-Moab and serves as an extension specialist in outdoor recreation and tourism. Thomas L. Hicks retired from the plastics industry after 35 years in R&D and product development. He cofounded “CLIMB” (Citizens for Long Island’s Manufacturing and Business) to address senior citizens’ rights and ability to contribute to a high-tech industry such as medical, electronics or chemical products.
Stephen R.S. Martin ’67 and his wife Nancy, and David M. Emery ’68 and his wife, Joan Penfold Emery ’69, traveled through Ireland, June 2015.
Alpha Chis from the Class of 1973 met for a mini-reunion at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., June 2015. (See photo.)
1974
Dr. Stephen W. Perkins is president of Indianapolis Medical Society. He is a plastic surgeon, founder of the Meridian Plastic Surgery Center in Indianapolis and Meridian Plastic Surgeons, and a clinical associate professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. Caroline I. Ruhl is president of Ruhl & Ruhl Realtors, based in Davenport, Iowa. She was inducted into the Quad-Cities Business Hall of Fame, June 2015, and recognized for her high standard of business ethics and as a role model for Junior Achievement students and volunteers.
Alpha Chi Class of 1973 mini-reunion. Those attending included Marilyn Shultz Evans ’73, Katie Penniman Moser ’73, Susan Vaughn ’73, Leslie Kennedy Bender ’73, Rebecca Swindler Curry ’73, Nancy Netherland Becker ’73, Nancy Pierobon Hensel ’73, Penelope Leitner Lisi ’73, Mary Jones Landon ’73 and Mary Cox Sadler ’73.
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DR. MARGARET GOETTLE RUSH ’80 is executive medical director and chief of staff for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University. She was named among Nashville Tenn. Lifestyles’ Top 10 Women in Business for 2015. Meg came to the Children’s Hospital in 1984 as a resident in neonatology. She joined the faculty in 1990 and became a leader in education, research and clinical care, and eventually a administrative leader. Meg is program director for Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, associate director of Pediatric Transport, medical director of Neonatal Transport and cochair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Ethics Committee. She recently completed a master’s degree in management in health care from Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.
1978
Robert F. Kyle is head baseball coach at Rockville (Ind.) High School. He led his team to its first-ever state championship, June 20, 2015, at Victory Field in Indianapolis.
David G. Kraemer ’78 and Jeffrey R. Kennedy ’78 at Mount Whitney. Julie Smith Wiehl and her husband, Roger, have retired to Prescott, Ariz. They would enjoy hearing from other DePauw alumni in the area. Julie’s email address is jswiehl@gmail.com.
1976
Linda H. Heuring’s short story, “Breaking Point”, was published in the 2015 edition of Broad River Review. Her entry was a finalist for the journal’s Rash Award in Fiction. Cynthia L. Vernon is chief operating officer of California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium. 38 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2015
David G. Kraemer and Jeffrey R. Kennedy celebrated their 40-plus years of friendship and their 60th birthday with a fund-raising hike across 60 miles of the Eastern Sierra, summiting Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48. David’s email address is davidkraemer2001@gmail.com. (See photo.) David C. Thomas is a patent examiner in biotechnology for the United States Patent and Trademark office. Helen M. Weeks retired after 35 years of teaching elementary school. She lives at 10245 Quail Covey Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33436. Her email address is h.m.weeks@comcast.net.
1979
Charles D. Brooks is vice president for government relations and marketing for Sutherland Global Services. Glenn E. Davis was named the Best
Alpha Phi Class of 1981 reunion. Those attending included Sarah Dewart Morrison ’81, Mary Morris Hamilton ’81, Wendy Putnam Pierce ’81, Margaret Thomson Kelsey ’81, Jody Tweed Gullifor ’81, Nancy Sommer Gariepy ’81, Susan Gallion Ball ’81, Vicky Martin Hime ’81, Jill Taubensee Havey ’81, Marcie Stults Vormohr ’81, Marsha Brown Webster ’81 and Amy Miller Marschand ’82. Lawyers’ 2016 Antitrust Law Lawyer of the Year in Saint Louis. Glenn was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America© in the practice areas of antitrust law, commercial litigation, franchise law and litigation for antitrust, intellectual property, mergers and acquisition and securities. Margaret Kissinger Boynton, an investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was included in The Best Newspaper Narratives. The anthology collects the 12 winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest. Margaret’s “A Mother, at Her Wits’ End” was a runner-up in the contest.
1980
Deborah K. Burand is an assistant professor in clinical law at New York University School of Law. She plans to launch an international transactions clinic similar to one she cofounded and directed at University of Michigan Law School. Gregory L. Holzhauer is an attorney for downtown Orlando and Winter Park (Fla.) offices of the law firm of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman, P.A. He was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America© (2016). Melissa Hunter Long has been a television news anchor in Fort Wayne, Ind., for more than 30 years. She is retiring from WPTA-TV at the end
of the year. The mayor of Fort Wayne declared June 25, 2015, as Melissa Long Day in the city.
1981
C. Kennon Hetlage is the chief executive officer of Memorial Hospital West in Pembrook Pines, Fla. He was selected as a Broward Ultimate CEO and profiled in the South Florida Business Journal. The award recognizes leadership and community contributions. Kennon says his most effective attribute as an effective CEO is passion. The passion to make his hospital the best it can be. The Alpha Phi Class of 1981 enjoyed a reunion at Hilton Head Island, August 2015. Wendy Putnam Pierce shared a photo and list of attendees. Her email address is wpiercem@att.net. (See photo.)
1982
Matthew R. Fischer is president and creative director of Curiosity Advertising. The agency is listed as number 10 on the Courier’s list of largest ad agencies. Michael G. Neill has joined First MidIllinois Bank & Trust as Carbondale Community Bank president, and trust and wealth management officer. Dayle A. Ohlau has transferred her global Ph.D. study to the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco with a focus on community activism. Her email address is dayle. cafe@icloud.com.
1983
Kent W. Lanum is president and chief executive officer of the Paul Ogle Foundation Inc., which works to fund nonprofit organizations, activities and projects that directly improve the lives of citizens in Southern Indiana. Kent was featured as one of 20 People to Know who work for nonprofit organizations in Business First of Louisville, Ky. Kappa Alpha Theta Class of 1983 met in Hamilton, Ind., Sept. 12, 2015. (See photo.) Comer Plummer III is author of Roads to Ruin: The War for Morocco in the Sixteenth Century. (See Recent Words, page 12.)
1984
Jeffrey W. Ahlers is an experienced litigation lawyer for Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP, attorneys. Jeffrey was included in The Best Lawyers in America©2016.
1985
Mary Geoghegan Stephens is executive director of a start-up nonprofit with a mission to teach literacy to children in Guatemala. Global Learning Exchange provides the curriculum, quality classroom materials and teacher training for the program, which is delivered in an afterschool setting. Contact her at marylee@ glexchange.org. Steven A. Guild is the general manager for the Greensboro/Winston-Salem, N.C., division for Fairway Outdoor Advertising. His home address is 5208 Winnow Court, Kernersville, NC 27284. Steven’s email address is guild. steven@yahoo.com. Kathy Patterson Vrabeck is a senior client partner in the consumer markets for Korn Ferry. Kathy is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees. Renee P. Wynn is chief information officer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1986
Jannie Flook Marthinsen is national managing director of Clinical Informatics for Tenet Healthcare. Her email address is jmmtampa@hotmail.com. Carol A. Pontius address is 269 South
Village Square, Canton, GA 30115. Her email address is carolptaylor64@ gmail.com.
1987
Susan Conger McKinney is a librarian and director at the St. Joseph Township- Swearingen Memorial Library in St. Joseph, Ill. Jonathan “Jon” C. Dill is chief financial officer, executive vice president and partner at Ampac Packaging LLC. He is among three runners-up for Plastics News’ 2015 CFO of the Year Award. Donald G. Heatherly is a vice president and wealth strategist with The Northern Trust Company in the Wheaton and Naperville, Ill., areas. He continues to serve as a board member on the J.R. Mitchell Fund of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
1989
Kimberly Adams Beck lives at 315 Lowell Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301. She works as a publicist for Chef Charlie Ayers, “the chef who fed Google.” She has three children: Christian, 19; Harrison, 17; and Lily, 14. Kimberly’s email address is kimberlybeck1@gmail.com. Rachael Andrew Boezi was one of the vocalists featured in the Dayton Philharmonic Concert Band and Summer Chorus, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachael, a mezzo soprano, has sung professionally in the choruses of Dayton Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Baltimore Opera and New Jersey Opera Theatre.
Jennifer Pope Baker is the executive director of Women’s Fund of Central Indiana. Jennifer is a member of DePauw’s Board of Visitors. Jay S. Hosler has written his fifth graphic novel, Last of the Sandwalkers, which was listed as one of Scholastic Instructor magazine’s 50 Best Books for Summer. Jay, a biology professor at Juniata College in Huntingdon (PA.), has intertwined scientific lessons into stories of adventure, relationships and humor. Scott A. Storrer is chief executive officer of Strand Life Sciences, a global genomic profiling company.
Catherine H. Lusheck is program director and assistant professor for University of San Francisco’s arts history/ management department. Kate specializes in early modern European art and teaches art history and arts management courses. She returned to DePauw, Sept. 28, 2015, to give two art talks. Craig D. Queen is a member of the Ginzkey Law Office in Bloomington, Ill. Christopher M. Schmalz and Jennifer Crook (University of Michigan) were married July 11, 2015, in Akron, Ohio. (See photo, page 44.) Steven M. Sear was the guest speaker, Sept. 17, 2015, for The Robert C. McDermond Center Speaker Series at DePauw. Steve is the senior vice president of global sales for Delta Air Lines. Steve serves on the Business Travel News Editorial Board and is a member of the board of directors for United Way of Greater Atlanta.
1988
Michael P. Bailleux is director of hedge fund sales for TradingScreen, Inc., based in New York. Mike’s email address is mbailleux@ yahoo.com. James W. Silkworth is vice president of human resources at United Methodist Homes, which operates four campuses in New York and Pennsylvania.
Kappa Alpha Theta Class of 1983 reunion in Hamilton, Ind., Sept. 12, 2015.
JENNETT MCGOWAN HILL ’85 is senior vice president and general counsel of Citizens Energy Group. She is a member of the board of directors of Lilly Endowment Inc. Jennett joined Citizens in 2013 after working as a partner at the law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels. She led her law firm’s efforts in creating the Indiana Lawyers for Soldiers program, which, offered pro bono legal services to deployed Indiana National Guard members and their families. Jennett also serves on the boards of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., Center for Leadership Development, Eskenazi Health Center, Indiana Energy Association and Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership. She is a member of The American Law Institute, the leading independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law. FALL 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 39
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David E. Taylor is mortgage loan originator for Home Bank in Mooresville, Ind. He is a member of the board of trustees for the Putnam (Ind.) County Public Library.
1990
Matthew P. Brookman was selected to serve as a magistrate judge in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana. He is currently chief of the drug and violent crime unit for the United Sates attorney’s office in the southern district. He is also a member of the United States attorney’s executive committee and capital case coordinator for the southern district. He is an adjunct professor at University of Evansville (Ind.). He and his wife, Michele, live in Newburgh, Ind., with their three children.
1991
Katherine Blair Ukrop is director of Quirk Gallery in Richmond, Va. She was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Katie and her husband, Joseph E. Ukrop ’89, are co-owners of the 75-room Quirk Hotel + Gallery, a boutique hotel.
RICHARD J. BONACCORSI ’85 and GORDON L. HARRIS ’90 were members of the first USA rugby team to play in Cuba after the two countries restored diplomatic relations in July. During the Sept. 5-12 trip, the 22-member USA team played and was defeated in two highly competitive contests in Havana versus strong Cuban teams. The games generated a great deal of local interest, including news coverage by local TV stations. While there, team members had opportunities to enjoy the culture and music of Havana. It was also a great sportsmanship and diplomatic experience, according to Bonaccorsi, despite the fact that he dislocated a finger and fractured a hand during the second game – requiring his hand be placed in a cast. The USA team and Cuba trip were coordinated through the alumni rugby club at Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management, from which Bonaccorsi received a master’s degree. When not playing rugby, Bonaccorsi is vice president of international operations for Harrison College in Indianapolis. Harris, a former Cook County state’s attorney, is an international manufacturer’s representative in Chicago.
Zachary (Burczyk) Fritz is chief revenue officer at Health Integrated in Tampa, Fla. He; his wife, Susan; and their children, Remington Maya and Tucker Nicholas, live in the Old Northeast historic neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Fla. Andrew J. Paine III was The Robert C. McDermond Lecture Series speaker, Sept. 11, 2015. He is president of Keybanc Capital Markets in Cleveland. Dennis A. Trinkle is chief executive officer of College Mentors for Kids. He saw the program firsthand, as a faculty adviser of DePauw’s program.
1993
Lisa Gerdes Jennings is president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati-based injection molder PMC Smart Solutions LLC. She was among Women in Plastics featured in Plastics News.
1994
Steven S. Hoar, a civil litigator at Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP, in Evansville, Ind., was elected president of Evansville Bar Association. Jason W. Kistler and his wife, Yuliya,
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announce the birth of their daughter, Tatiana Maya Kistler, Aug. 1, 2014. Jason’s email address is jasonkistler@ me.com. Amy Tucker Ryan is a partner of Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen, P.C., in the firm’s St. Louis, office. She and her husband, Andy, live in Webster Groves, Mo., with their sons.
1995
Geoffrey B. Dains, assistant men’s basketball coach at California Lutheran University, helped coach the first-ever SCIAC All-Star collegiate team against four professional teams in Italy, going 3-1. (See photo.) Riley R. Robbins is vice president of development for Backroads Entertainment, producers of “Lake Life” on DIY Network and “Joking Off” on MTV2. He was most recently vice president of development for JV Productions, which developed and sold the upcoming series “Curse of the Frozen Gold” to Animal Planet and “Yours Mine Or Ours” for Bravo.
1996
Craig N. Owens was promoted to full professor of English and appointed chair of the English department at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He has taught at Drake University since 2003. Tricia Robinson DeLeon is a partner in the Dallas-based law firm of Gruber Hurst Elrod Johansen Hail Shank LLP.
1997
Jason M. Anders is business editor of the The Wall Street Journal. He is a 17-year veteran of the newspaper. Ronald J. DeFeo is vice president of global communications for American Airlines Group Inc. David S. Koehlinger and Ildiko Incze were married Sept. 12, 2015, in McCall, Idaho. David is employed with Raytheon Polar Services. His email address is dkoehlinger@gmail.com. (See photo, page 44.) M. Danniel Weatherford is executive director of the National Panhellenic Conference, an advocacy organization for women and the sorority experience.
1998
Neal R. Allen is an assistant professor of political science and pre-law adviser at Wichita State University.
1999
Muriel J. Collison was named one of the top 40 Lawyers in Illinois Under 40 to Watch by the Chicago Law Bulletin. Muriel is a partner at Collison Law Offices, Ltd., which specializes in personal injury and worker’s compensation. She and her husband, Jeremiah F. Elrod, live in Northbrook, Ill, with their three children: Sophia, Jack and Charles. Scott H. Liapis and Darren Gero were married June 21, 2015, in Provincetown, Mass. They live in San Francisco. Scott’s email address is scottliapis@gmail.com. (See photo, page 44.) Jeffrey D. and Patricia (Guagliardo) Mohl announce the birth of their son, Brendan Samuel Mohl, May 24, 2015. Brendan joins brother Jason, 3, at their home in Niles, Ill. Bradley K. Stevens received DePauw’s Young Alumni Award at a private luncheon in Indianapolis, Aug. 27, 2015. The award is typically presented each June at Alumni Reunion Weekend; unfortunately, Brad was unable to travel to Greencastle because of other commitments. Brad is head coach of the National Basketball Association’s Boston Celtics.
2000
Manuel Amezcua is managing partner of MassMutual Chicago. Because of his volunteer efforts, The Melanoma Research Foundation received a $10,000 grant from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company as part of its national Community Service Award. Manny has dedicated countless hours to The Melanoma Research Foundation, serving on committees, participating in and sponsoring the Miles for Melanoma 5k race annually, and cochairing the Foundation’s Annual Wings of Hope Gala in Chicago. Joseph P. Rogowski is director of physiology and research for the National Basketball Players Association, a labor union that represents basketball players in the National Basketball Association. Joe serves as the union’s liaison on issues
relating to player health and safety. Alicia “Nikki” Warner Davis received a News4U magazine Top 20-40 and Under award. She and her husband, Robert J. Davis, are in the process of restoring a historic house, the Boehne House, in Evansville, Ind.
2001
Allison Burdge Hardin was named Sales Manager of the Year by BRG Sports, Bell Helmets Action Sports Mass Division, the world’s leading manufacturer of bicycle helmets. Alli and her family live in Mandeville, La. Her email address is allisonleigh01@me.com.
2002
Michael C. Field is director of educational technology for Glenbrook, Ill., high schools. He earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northeastern Illinois University. Michael W. Howland is director of basketball operations at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. Jedediah W. McClure is author of Myths of Christianity: A Five Thousand Year Journey To Find The Son of God. His book was selected by the Independent Author Network as a 2015 Book of the Year Award finalist in the nonfiction (religion/spiritual/inspirational) category.
2003
Aarti Bajaj Judd lives and works in Kansas City, Mo. She is a research analyst at the international customer experience research firm Service Management Group. Aarti’s email address is aartibajajphd2011@gmail.com. John T. “JT” Benton is chief revenue officer for Goji, which bills itself as the largest online, independent auto insurance agency in the United States. Jacob J. Coy is senior central compliance manager for Rothschild Group. He volunteers as treasurer for Rene Cassin, an international human rights organization based in London (with a branch in the United States), and as an adviser to senior management of one of the largest local age-related charities in the United Kingdom.
Geoffrey B. Dains ’95, California Lutheran University assistant men’s basketball coach, and two all-Region and all-Conference players from CLU, in front of the Fontana del Fiumi in Rome, Italy.
Thomas M. Kominsky is chief growth officer for Student Transportation Inc., a provider of school bus transportation and management services. Micah E. Ling is author of Flashes of Life, her fourth collection of poetry. The book consists of prose poetry centered on concepts of music and memory, and how the brain and senses function and interact. She is an English instructor at Fordham University in New York City. Amanda Miller Luciano is a broker associate of commercial and residential properties for Synergy Realty Group in Colorado. She worked in journalism for nearly a decade before transitioning from journalist to realtor. Karen L. Mullins is executive secretary of the Benton, Illi., Chamber of Commerce.
2004
Tyler A. Fischer is a commercial loan officer for First Financial Bank in Clay County, Ind. He has joined the board of directors of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce. Robert C. Frederick is director of legislative affairs and public policy for the National Grain and Feed Association.
2005
Nicholas D. Gaffney is a member of the law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP in the Tampa,
Fla., office in the firm’s estate, trust and wealth preservation practice group. He was selected to The Hillsborough County Bar Association Leadership Institute Class of 2015-16. Olivia L. Hatton is an assistant professor of molecular biology at Colorado College. Meredith H. Siemens is executive director of public relations and communications for South Carolina Federal Credit Union. She is among Forty Under 40 featured in the Charleston Regional Business Journal. Laura Windisch Mahaffey and her husband, Jason, announce the birth of their son, Aiden Lee Mahaffey, Jan. 12, 2015. Laura is an acute care nurse practitioner and works with a pulmonary and critical care physician at a local hospital. Jason is a major in the United States Air Force and flies the B-52. They live in Bossier City, La. Laura’s email address is laura.m.mahaffey@gmail.com.
2006
Katherine (Bremer) and Christopher A. Doran announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Therese Doran, June 19, 2014. Caroline joins sister Charlotte at their home in Iowa City, Iowa. Katy’s email address is katherine.bremer@gmail.com. Lisa Chambers Wallace is the senior communications manager of
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Nicole Pence Becker ’06
Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07
conventions and meetings for Visit Indy, Indianapolis’ official sales and marketing organization for tourism.
Danielle earned a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. (See photo.)
Rev. Peter H. Curts is pastor at Indiana’s Yorktown United Methodist Church. Bradley T. Giordano is a partner and a restructuring associate with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the Chicago office.
Kareem J. Edwards was recognized as a 2015 Poets and Quants MBA to Watch at University of Michigan Ross School of Business. As a student, Kareem cofounded Manbassadors, an organization designed to fight gender inequality. He was president of the Black Business Student Association and was selected as one of 100 global MBAs to present at and participate in the 2015 MBA World Summit in Barcelona, Spain. Before enrolling in business school, Kareem worked at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank as a money markets sales assistant and Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a capital markets business analyst. After graduation Kareem will join Kraft Foods as an associate brand manager. Kareem’s email address is kareem.edwards@gmail. com. (See photo.)
Katharine C. Manecke is host of “Broad & High”, an Emmy Award-winning weekly magazine show produced by WOSU Public Media, based in Columbus, Ohio. Kate also serves as special events marketing manager with WOSU Public Media. Nicole Pence Becker co-anchors the 5-to-7 a.m. newscast for WTTV/CBS in Indianapolis. She is a member of the advisory board for DePauw’s Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media. She and her husband, Jason E. Becker ’04, live in Carmel, Ind. (See photo.) Peter A. Taschenberger and Rachel Ruben (Bucknell University) were married July 5, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Peter is senior counsel at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General in Washington, D.C. (See photo, page 44.)
2007
Lauren Budreau Weigle and her husband, Kris, announce the birth of their son, Wyatt Alan Weigle, Feb. 28, 2015. Wyatt joins sister Lillian and brother Wesley. Lauren is an occupational therapist at Lafayette Regional Rehabilitation Hospital where she served as interim director of therapy. Chinonye O. Chukwu is assistant professor of motion pictures at Wright State University. Her most recent film, A Long Walk, is an adaptation of a short story by Samuel Autman, assistant professor of English at DePauw.
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Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07 is deputy chief of staff in the Indiana governor’s office. She oversees executive branch agency and legislative matters. Before joining the governor’s office as deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs last year, Danielle served as executive director of external affairs for the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
Brandon S. Gee is senior reporter at Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. He wrote a 10th- anniversary story on the case that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. He also covered the federal death-penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as one of a handful of journalists granted full-time, incourtroom access to the case. Kathi Harland Harp is assistant professor at University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health, where she continues research on health disparities among under-served populations. Kathi’s email address is kathi.harp@ gmail.com.
2008
Patrick J. Bergerson and Sara C. Jaeger ’10 were married Oct. 18, 2014, in Columbia, S.C. (See photo, page 44.) Kathryn Gernand Bretscher is head coach of the St. Olaf College women’s track and field program. She also serves as an assistant coach for the women’s cross country team. Lauren T. Huff and Daniel F. Stroh ’09 were married May 16, 2015, in Cincinnati. (See photo, page 44.) Justine M. Keller and Joshua D.
McKenney were married July 2014 in Carmel, Ind. DePauw attendees posed for a photograph on the dance floor adorned in hats and props accumulated during and since their college days. Josh is commercial portfolio manager at First Merchants Bank. Justine is an operations manager at Angie’s List. They live in Indianapolis. Justine’s email address is justine.mckenney@gmail.com. (See photo, page 44.) Laura Link Zimmerman is an English language learner teacher in the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Community School District. She was 2015 recipient of the Educational Partner Award from her area’s educational agency in recognition of her devotion and dedication to serving students and colleagues. Laura serves as a Professional Learning Community leader, Building Leadership Team member and Parents as Educational Partners instructor. Her email address is lazimmerman@cr.k12.ia.us. Eileen Park joined Portland, Oregon’s KOIN-TV. She anchors the station’s weekend morning newscast, as well as reporting three days a week. Nicholas K. Parkinson is working toward a doctoral degree in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University. Madison H. Payton was featured in Literacy Today, the magazine for The International Literacy Association (ILA), on its inaugural 30 Under 30 list in the September/October 2015 issue. The list highlights young trailblazers from 13 countries and several different sectors, and recognizes individuals who are working to impact the future of global literacy advancement. Madison’s email address is madison.h.payton@ gmail.com. (See photo.) Maria A. Romaine is a health and fitness coach and founder of Like the Lettuce. Maria writes guest blogs for local and national outlets and is an ambassador for Earth Fare Earthlete and Second Helpings, as well as working full-time for Angie’s List. Marie’s website is www.mariaromaine.com.
2009
Ellen A. Dollarhide earned a Ph.D. in education leadership and policy studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is
Madison H. Payton ’08
Katherine A. Janowski ’12
executive director of quality schools and school improvement planning at the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
new community program in Ferdinand, Ind., called ChalkTalk. The community put its old chalkboards in public places where people, especially youngsters, could express themselves. Courtney remembers a chalkboard on one of the lawns at DePauw during her student days where students were free to write and draw. This gave her the idea of community chalkboards. Courtney is executive director of Mentors for Youth of Dubois County (Ind.).
Darrell E. Felling II is city attorney for Terre Haute, Ind. Eddie has experience in general law practice, criminal law and family and civil law. Andrew D. Kehr earned a doctoral degree in biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 12, 2015. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Andy’s email address is andrew.d.kehr@gmail.com.
Kristen L. McMahon is head girls’ soccer coach at Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio.
Sainabou Musa Sonko is founder of LRW Lawyers, LLC, a legal services firm founded with the mission of providing exceptional legal research and writing services to solo practitioners and small law firms. Sainabou’s email address is sainabou@lrwlawyers.com.
Michael D. Reed and Elisabeth A. Jones were married July 25, 2015, in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. Michael’s email address is mreed1855@gmail. com. Elisabeth’s email address is elisabethjonesreed@gmail.com. (See photo, page 44.)
Daniel F. Stroh and Lauren T. Huff ’08 were married May 16, 2015, in Cincinnati. (See photo, page 44.)
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2010
Anthony L. Holton has joined the law firm of Reminger Co., L.P.A., in Indianapolis. He focuses his practice on defense litigation. Tony is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, Defense Research Institute and Young Professionals of Central Indiana. Sara C. Jaeger and Patrick J. Bergerson ’08 were married Oct. 18, 2014, in Columbia, S.C. (See photo, page 44.) Courtney R. Knies helped develop a
Shannon D. Fayson is the director of Ohio State University’s M.D. Camp, a program for high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates from disadvantaged economic and educational backgrounds. Shannon is a medical student at Ohio State University. Joshua M. Yoder is a 2015 Woodrow Wilson M.B.A. Fellow in Education Leadership. The Fellowship prepares leaders who will drive innovation, expand the use of analytics and evidence-based practices, raise student performance to international standards, and improve the quality of school systems and teaching over time.
MICHAEL T. GRIFFY ’07 and STEPHEN C. GRIFFY ’09 own and operate Richey Athletics. The company was selected as an Indiana Company to Watch, 2015, by the Indiana Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and it was profiled in BizVoice Magazine, September 2015. The company manufactures track and field equipment for high schools, colleges (including DePauw) and private track clubs.
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2012
Katherine A. Janowski received a master’s degree, May 2015, from Indiana University. Her M.S.Ed. is a license to counsel grades K-12. She is a high school guidance counselor at Brown County High School in Nashville, Ind. (See photo.) Tiamo Katsonga-Phiri is a doctoral candidate in clinical-child psychology at DePaul University in Chicago. She was guest speaker for the Psychology Speakers Series at DePauw, Sept. 30, 2015. Andrew L. Manson and Lindsay C. Shake ’13 were married Aug. 1, 2015, in Indianapolis. (See photo, page 44.) Mitchell A. Ray is an associate attorney at the law firm of Kirtley, Taylor, Sims, Chadd & Minnette. He is based in the Crawfordsvillle, Ind., office. Mitchell earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.
2013
Lindsay C. Shake and Andrew L. Manson ’12 were married Aug. 1, 2015, in Indianapolis. (See photo, page 44.)
2015
Haley A. Pratt was recognized by the Indianapolis Alumnae Panhellenic (IAP) as its 2015 Outstanding Senior Greek Woman. The award recognizes exceptional achievement and participation in chapter, campus and community activities. Kacy R. Rauschenberger received an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. She will spend the 2015-2016 academic year teaching English in Malaysia.
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DEPAUW WEDDINGS
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Christopher M. Schmalz ’87 and Jennifer Crook wedding. DePauw Alpha Tau Omega alumni attending included Donald G. Kennedy ’87, David B. Langhout ’87, William D. Krauss ’87, James S. Price ’87, John P. Gray Jr. ’87 and Glenn P. Oberlin ’87. Attending but not pictured were David L. Schmalz ’60 and Charles D. Schmalz ’84.
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David S. Koehlinger ’97 and his classmates at his wedding in McCall, Idaho. DePauw alumni included Jeremy R. Gould ’97, Brian T. Moore ’97, W. Hunter Wolbach ’97 and Michael R. Rethinger.
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Scott H. Liapis ’99 and Darren Gero’s wedding party.
Peter A. Taschenberger ’06 and Rachel Ruben wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Zachary S. Pfister ’06 (best man), Daniel P. Butler ’06 (groomsman), Christopher C. Reams ’06 (groomsman), Brenton A. Shultz ’06, Helen Carlson Shultz ’06, William B. Coulter ’06, Sara A. Meyer ’06, Caitlin Brown Reams ’06, Matthew J. Ehinger ’06, Tod M. Karpinski ’06, Peter J. Makielski ’06, Peter C. Burns ’06 (usher), Douglas J. Elsbeck ’06 and Anthony J. Borgmann ’06.
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Lauren T. Huff ’08 and Daniel F. Stroh ’09 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included David A. Morefield ’09 (best man), Justin M. Pribble ’09 (groomsman), Brittney Nondorf Lieske ’08 (bridesmaid), Paige E. Stallings ’08 (bridesmaid), Mary E. Stroh ’07 (bridesmaid), Carl A. Beardsley ’09, Sarah Flick Bruce ’08, Brenton A. Clough ’09, Caitlin A. Creighton ’09, Tyler J. Davidson ’09, Adam J. Davis ’08, Rickey Lavers Davis ’06, Bryan W. Heck ’09, M. Katherine Kaminski ’07, Michael C. Mills ’09, Ashley Chin Morefield ’09, Michael R. Murphy ’08, Stephen M. Murray ’69, Justin L. Remmelts ’06, Joshua D. Runge ’09, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Scott A. Smith ’09, Christine Tanner Smith ’10, Paul D. Turner ’08, Kaleb R. Wagoner ’07 and Sarah Gates Wagoner ’07.The wedding was photographed by Jessica Milano Limeberry ’06.
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Justine M. Keller ’08 and Joshua D. McKenney ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Anne H. Groggel ’08 (bridesmaid), Amanda M. Lane ’10 (bridesmaid), Jeffrey S. Bonner ’08, Mark W. Houston ’08, Abraham J. Winkle ’08, Anna Hodge Winkle ’09, Christopher F. Roberts ’08, Anna R. Scheibel ’08, Laura R. Suchy ’08, Michael R. Murphy ’08, Leigh Gusky Barcham ’08, Charles E. Singer III ’08, Emily K. Petrus ’08, Brett A. Claxton ’08, Angela Metz Claxton ’08, Amanda L. Giddings ’08, Jessica Hemmeigarn Fletcher ’08, Lindsay E. Vandivier ’13, Maria A. Romaine ’08 and Emily Flaspohler Prifogle ’08.
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Sara C. Jaeger ’10 and Patrick J. Bergerson ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Benjamin T. Clements ’07, Travis J. Behrens ’07, David M. Araiza ’07, W. Foster Tidwell ’11, Edwin P. Jacobi ’10, Reed D. Jaeger ’14, Matthew S. Kelley ’08, Caroline Majers Backer ’10, Sarah Drew Notestine ’08, Daniel B. Notestine ’08, Michael S. Bergerson Jr. ’04, Samantha B. Levy ’10, Gwendolyn A. Brack ’10, Elinora R. Owen-Fardig ’10, Erin M. Kielty ’10, Julie E. Kallas ’10 and Brooke A. Hollingsworth ’10.
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Michael D. Reed ’10 and Elisabeth A. Jones ’10 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Timothy J. Nicholson ’10, Jason L. Yoo ’11, Andrew P. Spataro ’10, Michael W. Ratliff ’10, Jacob M. Weinstein ’12, Ryan D. Bauer ’11, Tyler J. Giesting ’12, Darrin P. Hinkel ’10, Marcus G. Berglund ’12, Matthew P. Maloof ’12, Nicholas W. Laird ’10, W. Trenton Wood ’11, Thomas R. G. O’Donnell ’09, Jane C. Langham ’12, Evan D. Hunter ’10, Brendan R. Belz ’10, Estee H. Ward ’13, Nicholas E. Kennedy ’10, Steven M. Schleibaum ’11, Lauren M. Reed ’13, Madeleine S. Patterson ’12, Sarah Martinez Hall ’12, Siobhan M. Lau ’09, Aurora Flores Garcia ’10 and Christine Hunt Soliday ’10. Attending but not pictured were Evan M. Henricks ’10, Joan Richardson Barritt ’79 and David S. Barritt ’78.
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Lindsay C. Shake ’13 and Andrew L. Manson ’12 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding include Lara E. Naanouh ’13, Anne K. Kunz ’13, Christine A. Clement ’13, McKenzie A. Curran ’13, Katherine M. Purucker ’14, Samuel E. Swafford ’12, Robert A. McPike ’12, Alexander E. Wright ’12, Alexander J. Berlyn ’12, Hillary C. Egan ’13, Anna G. Sterry ’13, Steven G. Ganser ’12, Andrea E. Smith ’13, Steven V. Lemasters ’11, Chelsea B. Wills ’13, Allyson C. Faust ’13, Mitchell A. Ray ’12, Morgan E. Crandall ’13, Emily E. Vierk ’13, John R. Glerum ’13, Katherine M. Anderson ’13, Madeline L. Briere ’13, Megan C. McGowan ’13, Conor T. Heneghan ’13, Natalie B. Swiler ’13, Alexandra A. Troyer ’13, Chelsea L. Courtney ’13, Kimberly A. Trainor ’12, Allison M. Winkle ’12, Margaret D. Gloyne ’12, M. Alexandra Baer ’12, Kaitlin E. Cassidy ’12, Emily A. Boyle ’12, Grant E. Schmidt ’11, Emily M. Reavis ’12, Nigelie S. M. Assee ’14, Margaret F. Ellis ’13, Stephanie L. Grass ’12, Maria B. Dickman ’12, Rachel L. German ’12, Jane C. Langham ’12, Stewart M. Burns ’13, J. Colin Chocola ’13, Zachary A. Snyder ’13, Amer Somun ’13, Dean A. Weaver ’13, Sydney A. Wagner ’14, John A. Wigen-Toccalino ’13, Paul W. Dugdale ’13, Matthew L. Davis ’13, Minda B. Sulak ’13, Benjamin F. Kopecky ’14, Carey S. Kunz ’15, Madeline F. Perry ’15, Kevin D. Rusie ’12, Phoebe L. Duvall ’12, Harry A. Donovan IV ’12, Kathryn T. Denbow ’12, Gina M. Zerbini ’12, Paul R. Mpistolarides ’14, Suzanne E. Spencer ’14, Sean F. Brennan ’14, Sarah J. Edwards ’14, John B. McCallum ’14, Lucas J. Rockefeller ’12, Michael C. Rizzo ’12, Benjamin P. Reider ’12, Robert J Perry ’12, Emily L. Dye ’12, Michael S. Pavell ’12, Scott A. Meyer ’12, Anthony J. Lucchese ’12, David W. Kinsey ’11, Kreigh A. Kamman ’12, Benn Johnson-Tatelbaum ’12, Samuel B. Meyer ’12, Cortney E. Steinborn ’11, Andrew D. Desmarais ’12, Christina Desmarais ’12, Daniel J. Barth ’12, Benjamin J. Roess ’14, Eleanor A. Axt ’14, Patrick J. Mitchell ’06, Lauren E. Messmore ’12 and Katherine Wood Rexroth ’12.
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IN MEMORIAM
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Deloris LaSalle Goshorn, May 27, 2015, of Frankfort, Ind., at the age of 103. She was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and principal for the Indianapolis Board of Education for 40 years. She was preceded in death by her husband.
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Thomas N. Ewing Jr., Aug. 18, 2015, of Urbana, Ill., at the age of 101. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar, member of DePauw’s undefeated 1933 football team, and retired professor of psychology and associate director of the Psychological and Counseling Center at University of Illinois. He was preceded in death by his wife; father, Thomas N. Ewing, Class of 1897; sister, Alice Ewing Pickard ’39; and brother, Wilkin M. Ewing ’31. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Ewing Gosline ’65.
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Nadine Finke Paynter, June 14, 2015, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 99. She retired from Blue Cross/Blue Shield. She was preceded in death by her husband. Mary Hamilton Blackburn Renaud, April 11, 2014, of Alexandria, Va., at the age of 98. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa, retired drama teacher, television performer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.
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Norman F. Buck, Sept. 19, 2015, of Bettendorf, Iowa, at the age of 96. He was a member of Delta Chi, Rector Scholar, actuary and consultant. He was preceded in death by his wife.
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She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Dorothy Wright Peck, March 26, 2015, of Daytona Beach, Fla., at the age of 90. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Philip W. Peck ’46. Survivors include a brother, William O. Wright ’52.
Ward H. Blessing, May 15, 2012, in Bristol, Wis., at the age of 92. He was a member of Delta Chi and tax collector for the Illinois Department of Revenue. He was preceded in death by his first and second wives.
Hilliard J. Fjord, March 31, 2015, in Winters, Calif., at the age of 90. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include a granddaughter, Maren L. Fjord ’03.
Duane R. Murphy, Feb. 27, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 95. He was a member of Sigma Nu, Rector Scholar and former owner of Murphy Funeral Service. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Martha Talley Murphy ’42; second wife; and son, Richard W. Murphy ’73. Survivors include a daughter, Patricia L. Murphy ’65.
Mary Hobbs Walsh, Aug. 24, 2015, of Bradenton, Fla., at the age of 89. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and The Washington C. DePauw Society, an administrative assistant and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her sister, Caryl Hobbs Bailey ’44. Survivors include her husband; daughter, Carrie Hayes Huff ’70; sons, William F. Hayes Jr. ’71 and Thomas H. Hayes ’76; and sister, Dorothy Hobbs Tolle ’52. Donald W. Montgomery, June 16, 2015, of Celina, Ohio, at the age of 89. He was a member of Sigma Chi, attorney, and president and chief executive officer of Celina Insurance Group. He was preceded in death by a sister, Ann Montgomery Jones ’44. Survivors include his wife and sons, Bill W. Montgomery ’72 and Thomas C. Montgomery ’77.
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Robert D. Roler, Nov. 25, 2012, of Kokomo, Ind., at the age of 87. He was a realtor for Robert Roler and Associates, Inc. He was preceded in death by his wife. Frances Williams Duff Toepfer, Dec. 6, 2014, in Englewood, Colo., at the age of 92. She was a member of Alpha Phi, English teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.
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Frederick M. Winship, Sept. 3, 2015, in New York City, at the age of 90. He was a Rector Scholar, reporter, editor and theatre critic for United Press International. He was preceded in death by his wife.
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Jane Evans Berghoff, Feb. 26, 2015, in Indianapolis, at the age of 90. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, social worker, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a son, Michael E. Berghoff ’74. Pauline Peterson Warner, Sept. 22, 2015, in Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 91.
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Ellyn Weinel Swanson, June 16, 2015, of Seattle, at the age of 89. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. John D. Williams, May 26, 2015, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 93. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar and retired journalist from The Wall Street Journal. He was preceded in death by his wife.
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Rev. Preston C. Brown, July 2, 2015, of Rapid City, S.D., at the age of 88. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and United
Methodist minister. He was preceded in death by his wife. Marybelle Haab Shemberger Henry, Aug. 24, 2015, of Plymouth, Ind., at the age of 88. She was a music teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband, William E. Shemberger ’50, and second husband. Barbara Jones Smith, June 21, 2015, of McCall, Idaho, at the age of 88. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband. James B. Kennedy, July 20, 2015, of Bristol, Va., at the age of 89. He was a member of Phi Delta Gamma and an insurance sales executive. He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife. Stuart H. Wildman, July 3, 2015, of Westerville, Ohio, at the age of 90. He was a member of Sigma Nu and retired as president of Bennett Manufacturing Company. Survivors include his wife, Ann Bennett Wildman ’48. Robert E. Williams Jr., July 11, 2015, of Lake Forest, Calif., at the age of 90. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and The Washington C. DePauw Society, president of Chemical Systems Inc. and senior fellow at the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute at University of Southern California. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert E. Williams ’16, professor of speech at DePauw. Survivors include his wife and sister, Dorothy Williams Venning ’53.
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Barbara Burton Hoover, July 19, 2015, in Dowagiac, Mich., at the age of 87. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Lyle R. Burton ’23; mother, Evelyn Wylie Burton ’22; sister, Sally Burton Hoover ’52; stepson, Brian B. Hoover ’83; and aunt, Frances Wylie Condit ’32. Survivors include her husband, Herbert W. Hoover ’51, and stepsons, Herb W. Hoover ’81 and Mark W. Hoover ’86. Nancy Heil Roess, Aug. 21, 2015, of Lima, Ohio, at the age of 88. She was a high school English and Latin FALL 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 45
teacher, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Robert F. Heil ’47 and Eugene R. Heil ’38. Survivors include sons, Steven T. Roess ’77 and William J. Roess ’79; daughter, Jane Roess Livermore ’82; and daughter-in-law, Rebecca Hawk Roess ’77. Joan Hoy Sampson, March 7, 2015, of Cincinnati, at the age of 87. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and homemaker. She was followed in death five months later by her husband, Dean R. Sampson ’50. Mariana Lawson Aug., Aug. 27, 2015, of Jackson, Wyo., at the age of 87. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, retired French and Spanish teacher, and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Phyllis Madden Johnston, Sept. 5, 2015, of Cincinnati, at the age of 88. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. John F. Schroll, Aug. 10, 2015, in Springfield, Va., at the age of 92. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and owner and president of a specialized delivery service in the Chicago area. He was preceded in death by his wife, Delores Vogel Schroll ’48. Charles R. Templin, Sept. 20, 2015, of Burlington, Vt., at the age of 91. He was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and an administrator in secondary education. He was preceded in death by his wife.
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Patricia Collier Waters, July 9, 2015, of Rockford, Ill., at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, medical secretary, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and sister, Sandra Collier Thayer ’54. Joyce Mayer Glenn, Jan. 22, 2015, of Yorba Linda, Calif., at the age of 86. She was a member of Delta Zeta, kindergarten teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband. Survivors include her second husband. 46 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2015
Thomas M. Pontius, June 9, 2015, of Cincinnati, at the age of 90. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and commodity broker. He was preceded in death by his brother, David H. Pontius Jr. ’42. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne Day Pontius ’50. Dean R. Sampson, Aug. 26, 2015, of Cincinnati, at the age of 90. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and retired manager of national accounts for Gibson Greeting Cards Inc. He was preceded in death by his wife, Joan Hoy Sampson ’49.
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Richard C. Doenges, Aug. 24, 2015, in Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 87. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, an associate professor of English, and later, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Bridgeport. He was preceded in death by his first wife and brother, Byron F. Doenges ’47. Survivors include his second wife. Anita Henderson McLoughlin, July 5, 2015, in Vero Beach, Fla., at the age of 85. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard F. McLoughlin ’50. Survivors include daughter, Marianne McLoughlin Marquardt ’75, and son, Christopher W. McLoughlin ’89.
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Joanne Arvidson Sheperd, July 11, 2015, in Palm City, Fla., at the age of 84. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and The Washington C. DePauw Society, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, David A. Sheperd ’51; brother, R. Regner Arvidson ’51; father-in-law, Howard C. Sheperd ’16; and motherin-law, Lois Von Behren Sheperd ’17. Survivors include her daughter, Karen Sheperd Mozzo ’76. Stanley E. Collins, July 24, 2015, in Asheville, N.C., at the age of 73. He was a member of Sigma Chi and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and owner of a children’s bookstore. Survivors include his wife. Alice Fairbank Mulligan, Aug. 2, 2015,
of Bloomington, Ill., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, elementary school teacher, community volunteer and homemaker. Survivors include her husband and daughter, Jeannie Mulligan Swanson ’76. Patricia Harris Anderson, June 22, 2015, of Genoa City, Wis., at the age of 85. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard A. Anderson ’51. Survivors include her daughter, Pamela Anderson Smith ’90; sister, Kathrine Harris Hauck ’64; and nephew, Brian P. Hauck ’98. George F. Hensel, May 30, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and retired as manager of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Indiana. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Taylor Hensel ’51. William M. Ouweneel, June 1, 2015, of Bellingham, Wash., at the age of 84. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, former president and chief officer of an educational consulting and publishing firm, served as director of the Peace Corps in Brazil and had a 30-year career with IBM. Survivors include his wife and brother, Richard A. Ouweneel ’58. Martha Ruddick Boswell, Aug.15, 2015, of Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 85. She was a member of Delta Gamma, elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Charles S. Baker, Class of 1878; mother, Mary Baker Ruddick ’22; brother, Brevoort Baker ’25; and uncle, James K. Baker ’53. Survivors include her husband; niece, Beverly Baker Baker ’59; nephew, Brevoort Baker II ’51; great-niece, Betsy Baker Laskey ’83; great-nephews, Jeffrey B. Baker ’77, Eric G. Baker ’86 and Dirk E. Baker ’84; niece-in-law, JoAnn Givens Baker ’51; great-niece-in-law, Katherine Sparenberg Baker ’84; and greatnephew-in-law, Thomas P. Laskey Jr. ’83. Frances Tuttle Drew, Aug. 31, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Jack B. Tykal, Sept. 24, 2013, of Salt Lake City, at the age of 83. He was a
member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an assistant special agent in charge of Salt Lake City. Survivors include his wife, Helen Gibson Tykal ’52.
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Emmett F. Kaelble, June 6, 2015, of Kirkwood, Mo., at the age of 83. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and chemist at Monsanto Company for 30 years. He was preceded in death by his father-inlaw, Robert L. Davidson ’26. Survivors include his wife, Martha Davidson Kaelble ’55. Janet Taverner Juckett, Aug. 8, 2015, of Arlington Heights, Ill., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, legal secretary, administrative assistant and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Rev. William L. White, June 28, 2015, of Normal, Ill., at the age of 83. He was a member of Delta Chi and The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar, and retired as emeritus chaplain and professor of religion from Illinois Wesleyan University. Survivors include his wife.
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Mary Curry Hall Shakespeare, April 17, 2015, of Napa, Calif., at the age of 82. She was a member of Delta Gamma, airline stewardess, elementary school teacher and reading consultant, homemaker and retired from Aetna Life & Casualty. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands. Robert F. Irwin, Aug. 14, 2015, of Edmonds, Wash., at the age of 83. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and was employed in the insurance business. Survivors include his wife. C. Travis Kendall, June 25, 2015, of Phoenix, at the age of 83, from cancer. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and United Methodist minister. He was preceded in death by his father, Charles S. Kendall ’27, and mother, Mary Travis Kendall ’29. Survivors include his wife; brother, Philip W.
Kendall ’57; and sister, Margaret Kendall Soulen ’56. Dr. Gene C. Laker, July 3, 2015, of Roanoke, Ind., at the age of 83. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha,Rector Scholar and physician. Survivors include his wife and brother, Richard J. Laker ’57.
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William H. Andrews III, May 31, 2015, of Boise, Idaho, at the age of 80, after complications following heart valve surgery. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and attorney. Survivors include his wife. Jane Norby Piazza, July 13, 2015, of Springdale, Ark., at the age of 81. She was a teacher, tax collector and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. William H. Osha, Sept. 25, 2015, in Goshen, Ind., at the age of 81. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and assistant vice president and head of the purchasing department at Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. Survivors include his wife; sons, Thomas G. Osha ’86 and Robert H. Osha ’89; and daughtersin-law, Susan Hoffman Osha ’87 and Stephanie Stutsman Osha ’88. David P. Rablen, May 20, 2015, of Norwich, Conn., at the age of 80. He was a Rector Scholar and educator. Survivors include his brother, Richard A. Rablen ’52. Donna Wright Plock, June 26, 2015, in Piedmont, Calif., at the age of 80. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband; sister, Amy Wright Novander ’58; and brother-in-law, Kenneth L. Novander ’57.
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Virginia Armstrong Weise, June 24, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 79. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, psychotherapist and homemaker. Survivors include her son, Steven A. Weise ’88; niece, Julia A. Weise ’88; and nephew, Cameron R. Weise ’84. Arthur Lee Lassman, Aug. 28, 2015, of Geneseo, Ill., at the age of 80. He was a member of Sigma Nu and had a 23-year
career with John Deere Plow Planter. He was preceded in death by his uncles, Walter C. Lassman ’33 and Charles E. Lassman ’39. Survivors include his wife. Quincy A. Polk, Feb. 24, 2015, of Asheville, N.C., at the age of 80. She was a member of Delta Zeta, social worker and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Myrtle Ashburn Polk ’24 and her husband. Survivors include her nephew, William P. Miles ’70. Glenn J. Slanec, April 19, 2015, of Evergreen, Colo., at the age of 79. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and business owner. He was preceded in death by his brother, Bernard F. Slanec ’54. Survivors include his wife, Alice Jones Slanec ’58. CORRECTION: Gerald E. Jones ’54, brother-in-law, was inadvertently omitted as a survivor in the summer issue of DePauw Magazine. The staff apologizes for the error. Suzanne Smith Ramsby, Oct. 7, 2012, of Branford, Conn., at the age of 77. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Internal Revenue Service audit defense specialist for H&R Block, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Stuart F. Smith ’28; husband, Gale R. Ramsby Jr. ’57; brother, Peter P. Smith ’58; and aunt, Marion Smith McAuliffe ’30.
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David L. Bridgford, July 2, 2015, of Centerville, Ind., at the age of 78. He was a member of Sigma Nu and optometrist. Survivors include his wife, Linda Fiedeke Bridgford ’59. Phyllis L. Cline, Aug. 20, 2015, of Urbana, Ill., at the age of 77, from cancer. She was a member of Delta Zeta, social worker for the Veterans Administration Medical Center and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her father, Charlton S. Cline ’30, and uncle, Richard H. Cline ’39. Rev. Ralph H. Dude, July 24, 2015, of Normal, Ill., at the age of 77. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and United Methodist minister. Survivors include his wife. Robert L. Harris, June 20, 2015, of
Mattituck, N.Y., at the age of 77, of leukemia. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and attorney. Survivors include his wife and brother, Stuart J. Harris ’63. Elizabeth Oxnam Cullen, Aug. 19, 2015, of Niskayuna, N.Y., at the age of 77. She was a member of Delta Gamma, English and music teacher, tax accountant, business manager, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; father, Philip H. Oxnam ’38; and uncle, Robert F. Oxnam ’37. Sue Schusler Whipple, Aug. 10, 2015, of Kent, Wash., at the age of 77, of lung cancer. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, junior high school science teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
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Eloise Eskew Coffey, June 26, 2015, of Hernando, Fla., at the age of 76, from lung cancer. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, French and English teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Jenny Hartman Scudder Spenard, July 27, 2015, of Prescott, Ariz., at the age of 76. She worked as a medical scheduler for Mayo Clinic, and was a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
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Mary Ann Armer Meyer, June 19, 2015, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 75. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and a speech, English and drama teacher for junior and senior high schools. She was preceded in death by her father, Vaughn E. Armer ’30. Survivors include her husband, Edward H. Meyer Jr. ’62; brother, Vaughn E. Armer Jr. ’67; son, Patrick E. Meyer ’89; and niece, Lauren M. Meyer ’10. Victor J. Gilla, July 24, 2015, of Lake Wales, Fla., at the age of 75. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and retired from Ball Corporation. Survivors include his wife. Barbara Overholt Allen, Sept. 18, 2014, in Fort Collins, Colo., at the age of 75. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, elementary school teacher, community volunteer and homemaker. Survivors
include her husband, Robert P. Allen ’61.
1962
Susanna Matthews Marcos, June 16, 2015, of Albion, Mich., at the age of 74. She was a member of Alpha Chi and retired president and chief executive officer of Greater Albion Chamber of Commerce. James E. Stringfellow, Aug. 29, 2015, of Elkhart, Ind., at the age of 75, of cancer. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and bank executive. He was preceded in death by his sister, Jane Stringfellow McGinn ’53, and brother-in-law, Robert E. McGinn ’53. Survivors include his wife and son, James B. Stringfellow ’96.
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William G. Kinkade, June 9, 2015, of Canfield, Ohio, at the age of 77. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and founder and owner of Duo-Corporation. Survivors include his wife, Diane Lombard Kinkade ’63, and daughter, Traci Kinkade DeCapua ’89.
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Dorn W. Younger, Sept. 3, 2015, of Canton, Conn., at the age of 75. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, cofounder of DePauw Men of Note, regional sales representative for musical instruments, professional jazz musician, conductor, composer and arranger. He was preceded in death by his sister-in-law, Roberta Gates Hill ’58. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Gates Younger ’63, and brotherin-law, Richard T. Hill Jr. ’58.
1965
Carol Ebersol Klein Fox, May 26, 2015, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., at the age of 71. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Beta Kappa, and retired as a professor of Spanish at Beaver College. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands. Edna O’Brien Bonsal, July 31, 2015, of Palo Alto, Calif., at the age of 72. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker.
1968
Paul M. Bierbaum Jr., June 14, 2015, of Boulder, Colo., at the age of 68. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Rector Scholar and attorney. Survivors include his wife, Kay Edmunds Bierbaum ’71.
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James R. Harris Jr., Sept. 20, 2015, of Oklahoma City, at the age of 69. He was a member of Sigma Nu and The Washington C. DePauw Society, accountant and chief financial officer. Survivors include his wife.
1969
Denise “Denny” Manning Solso, July 4, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 67, from lung cancer. She was a member of Delta Gamma and The Washington C. DePauw Society, distribution manager for The Republic newspaper, teacher at ABC Stewart Elementary School in Columbus (Ind.), community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, George A. Manning Class of 1911, and father, John T. Manning ’40. Survivors include her husband, Theodore “Tim” M. Solso ’69.
1970
Tomas H. Jacobs, Aug. 8, 2015, of Phoenix, at the age of 67. He was a poet, journalist and actor. He was preceded in death by his father, Ray S. Jacobs ’45. Survivors include his wife and mother, Miriam White Jacobs ’46.
1972
Michael J. Bleck, June 28, 2015, of Minneapolis, at the age of 65, in Italy. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Rector Scholar and attorney. Survivors include his wife and son, Andrew T. Bleck ’01.
1974
Larry E. Scott, March 25, 2015, of Raleigh, N.C., at the age of 68. He was a member of Sigma Nu, retired from the United States Army and retired lecturer at North Carolina State University.
1975
Rita Randall Smith, Aug. 28, 2015, of Lebanon, Ind., at the age of 67. She was a public school teacher and homemaker.
1976
William J. Irwin, June 16, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 61. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and businessman. Survivors include his brother, Michael K. Irwin ’69. Robert L. Murray, April 29, 2015, of Logansport, Ind., at the age of 61. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and attorney. Survivors include his wife.
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1977
Kevin L. Williams, Aug. 24, 2015, in Ukiah, Calif., at the age of 60. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and businessman. Survivors include his wife; brother, Kenneth J. Williams ’70; sister, Rebecca Williams Marler ’75; and daughter, Lindsi N. Williams ’05.
1979
David J. Pirtle, Sept. 11, 2015, of Indianapolis, at the age of 58. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and The Washington C. DePauw Society, founder and owner of several small businesses, and consultant. Survivors include his brother, Douglas J. Pirtle ’77.
1985
Michael J. Moskos, July 3, 2015, of Hialeah, Fla., at the age of 52. He was a member of Delta Chi and The Washington C. DePauw Society, and technical director for Pubset Miami Incorporated. Survivors include his partner.
1991
Tiffany A. Makaus, Aug. 6, 2015, in Phoenix, at the age of 46. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, worked in corporate finance and international banking, and was a community volunteer.
2002
Kendra K. Hatcher, Sept. 2, 2015, in Dallas, at the age of 35. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and pediatric dentist.
Faculty
Clinton B. Gass, July 27, 2015, in Logan, Utah, at the age of 95. He taught mathematics at DePauw for 32 years, from 1954-86. Before joining DePauw, he taught at University of Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan University. He worked as part of the theoretical physics unit on the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M., helping to build the atomic bomb. He and his wife were part of the team that led DePauw’s first Winter Term in Mission, and he led Winter Term in Mission projects in Central America and Caribbean. He was coauthor of College Algebra, published in 1956 and revised in 1963 as College Algebra and the Basic Set Theory. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include his son, Frederick S. Gass ’64; daughter-in-law, Margery Stoops Gass ’66; and his partner.
Ned B. MacPhail, Aug. 30, 2015, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 82. He came to DePauw in 1962 and served as a professor in education, teaching philosophy of education and monitoring student teachers from DePauw at area schools. He served as department chairman for seven years, retiring in 1998 as professor emeritus. He was part of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education evaluation team for Indiana. He was involved in community activities and was a member of the Ducks of Dixieland Jazz Band, composed of DePauw professors. Survivors include his wife and granddaughters, Sarah K. MacPhail ’13 and Margaret E. MacPhail ’15.
Friends
Marion H. Gabonay, June 28, 2015, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 90. She worked for IBM, the county treasurer’s office and DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Joseph E. Smith, July 26, 2015, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 60. He worked in the Printing Department at DePauw, retiring in 2014. Survivors include his wife. Thomas Tomasian, May 31, 2015, of Worcester, Mass., at the age of 67. He was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, retired owner and operator of Worcester Mass Janitorial Service, and community volunteer. Survivors include his wife, Carolyn Hostetter Smith ’59.
creating a legacy Solid academics, meaningful campus life inspire legacy gift from Edward B. Blair, Jr. ’71 and Barbara Houston Blair, Parent “DePauw was the only school I wanted to go to,” recalls DR. EDWARD B. BLAIR JR. ’71. The quality academic environment and prevalence of tight-knit Greek life drew the Illinois native to DePauw from the start. Blair experienced DePauw during a time of profound social change, yet what he remembers best are the “magnificent educators” who not only helped prepare him for a career in medicine, but also opened his eyes to such fields as history and music. Among his memories are visits to campus by pioneering research chemist and entrepreneur Percy Lavon Julian ’20, “who asked me about my research and spoke to me as a colleague rather than as a student.”
We would be happy to assist you in building a legacy at DePauw. For more information, contact: DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF LEGACY AND ESTATE PLANNING
William E. Pike Associate Director of Legacy and Estate Planning 300 E. Seminary St., P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Phone: 765-658-1051 Toll-free: 800-446-5298 williampike@depauw.edu depauw.plannedgifts.org
Ed’s wife, Barbara, a retired registered nurse, shares his belief in DePauw. “Even though she didn’t go to DePauw,” Blair says, “if you ask her, she’s still a part of the DePauw family.” Their oldest daughter, Lindsay Blair Marsh, is a 2002 graduate of the University. Their experiences have led Ed and Barbara to establish a gift of life insurance for DePauw as a way of amplifying their generous giving to the University. Setting up such a gift as part of their overall estate plan is a way of giving back to an institution that has so deeply touched the couple’s lives. As Ed puts it, “I would not be a doctor in this hospital today if not for my four years in Greencastle, and for people like professors Howard Burkett and John Ricketts, Coach Bob Harvey and others.” Reflecting further, Ed notes, “I could not give back to DePauw what DePauw has given to me.”
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