DePauw Magazine Fall 2020

DePauw M A G A Z I N E

Fall 2020

IN THIS ISSUE: The Public Servants: DePauw influences alums to serve others / Reflections on racial justice / Success stories from 40 years of DePauw nursing / and more

The Public Servants

OLD GOLD

The president and the benefactor: Close friendship created an enduring legacy

By Chuck Grose ’53

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tumultuous world set the stage for the poignant personal relationship of Edward Rector, DePauw’s great benefactor, and George Richmond Grose, my grandfather and DePauw’s president from 1912 to 1924.

World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic and the height of the violent Ku Klux Klan deeply touched the lives of our Indiana world and DePauw.

Their warm relationship led to Rector’s generous endowment of scholarships that support DePauw students to this day. “It is very seldom that one forms a friendship after 40 as close and intimate as was ours,” Grose wrote of Rector in 1925 to H. B. Longden, DePauw vice president and director of the Rector Scholar Fund. “I have no brother in the flesh whom I love with a deeper devotion than I loved him. I have never known a nobler type of Christian gentleman.”

While attending the May 1916 Methodist General Conference in New York, the two men discussed the opportunity of Rector giving to DePauw.

Rector asked Grose what was most needed at the university; Grose responded, “A dormitory.” Later that month, while Rector

and Grose were seated on the long porch of a Saratoga Springs Hotel, Rector promised his gift for Rector Hall, which was erected to honor Isaiah Rector, his father and a university trustee in the late 1800s.

Rector Hall was Edward and Lucy Rector’s baby. They had no children and had taken as much interest in Rector Hall as they would a child. They adopted the students, some of whom called them “Daddy and Mommy Rector.” Mrs. Rector always wore an engaging smile and was charming and gracious. Mr. Rector had a luminous personality, exhibiting dignity, pride and poise.

In a 1920 speech to the Board of Trustees, Rector said that nothing attracted him so strongly as concrete illustrations, so his desire to invest in DePauw was encouraged by Grose’s “telling me appealing instances of some of the finest and worthy DePauw students.” In 1919, he told Grose that he wanted to start a scholarship to benefit students – regardless of their race, color, “previous condition of servitude” or religious beliefs. He especially sought to ensure that no student would have to leave campus for financial reasons and “they could have my last dollar.”

That spring, Grose wrote to school superintendents across Indiana, telling them about the Rector scholarship, for which the best graduate from each school would be eligible. Beginning that fall, Rector scholarships covered all college fees.

“Mr. Rector and you had a great dream,” Longden told Grose.

Whenever on campus, Edward and Lucy Rector visited the chapel, to the delight of students. “President Grose would present Mrs. Rector so that we could properly show our appreciation for what they had done for the students,” Winona Welsh wrote in a statement in the DePauw Archives. “In introducing Mrs. Rector, President Grose had her stand and student applause went on for a long, long, long time.”

When Rector died Aug. 1, 1925, my grandfather cabled to Mrs. Rector, “Our prayers and deep sympathy are for you.”

Burial stones of the Rectors and Groses stand next to each other on a hill at the Greencastle Forest Hill Cemetery. For the Rectors, it was considered a way to “look out” at the university.

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IN THIS ISSUE

Old Gold

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DePauw Digest

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Letters to the Editor

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Book Nook

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Leaders the World Needs: The Public Servants

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1,000 Words’ Worth

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The Bo(u)lder Question: Racial justice

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Gold Nuggets

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First Person

CONTRIBUTOR: Kate Robertson EDITORIAL BOARD: Deedie Dowdle, vice president for communications and marketing Sarah McAdams, internal communications manager Leslie Williams Smith ’03, executive director of alumni engagement Mariel Wilderson, assistant vice president for university communications and marketing Dawna Sinnett Wilson ’82, interim associate vice president for development and alumni engagement Wendy Wippich ’04, director of alumni engagement for campus and volunteer programs Chris Wolfe, social media manager

Photo: Tim Sofranko

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DEPAUW DIGEST By the numbers The Class of ’24 will be remembered as the first modern group of students to enter DePauw during a worldwide pandemic. But the 382 matriculants who joined the DePauw family this fall have a lot of other distinctions:

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first-generation college students

87

domestic students of color

8

high school valedictorians

3.76 average high school GPA

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high school athletic team captains

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legacy students

80

international students from 15 countries

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high school salutatorians

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average ACT score

1230 average SAT score

Eagle scouts

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We’re No. 1 – and a good value too DePauw remains one of the best national liberal arts institutions in the nation – and No. 1 in Indiana – according to the 2021 ranking by U.S. News and World Report. DePauw ranked No. 47 on the list, and no other national liberal arts school in Indiana came close to its ranking, which placed the university among the best seven national liberal arts institutions in the Midwest.

DePauw also ranked No. 42 among the best value national liberal arts schools.

Money magazine agrees DePauw is among the 100 best-value colleges in America, according to Money magazine.

“Going to college shouldn’t mean a lifetime of debt,” the magazine said. “To find the schools that successfully combine quality and affordability, Money weighed more than 20,000 data points, including tuition fees, family borrowing and career earnings.”

Money evaluated data from 750 schools and placed DePauw at No. 89, among Ivy League and top research universities.

Money said that DePauw’s estimated price of $66,700 for the 2020-21 academic year is reduced to $30,600 when students receive the average financial grants that the university awards. The magazine calculated that 97% of DePauw students receive grants, and that the average debt upon graduation is $26,000. New DePauw graduates earn $53,100 on average early in their career.

This fall: In response to the pandemic, DePauw waived the residency requirement in the fall. Here a breakdown of who studied where.

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students living on campus

97

commuters

855

students studying remotely

32

students studying off campus

Re-envisioning DePauw More than 170 alumni participated in mid-October listening sessions that kicked off DePauw University’s strategic planning process.

President Lori White called for a “highly collaborative” process with the goal of developing “a clear and concise vision for the renewal and reimagination of DePauw as a 21st-century liberal arts university.”

Thematic working groups, developed from ideas gleaned in the listening sessions, will continue the work by soliciting more input from the DePauw community and exploring strategies to be executed. A draft plan is due to the Board of Trustees by its January meeting.

High score wins in this golf competition The DePauw women’s golf program was recognized by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association for achieving one of the best grade point averages in NCAA Division III during the 2019-20 season.

DePauw compiled a team GPA of 3.74, the 12th highest in Division III. The Tigers ended their shortened season ranked No. 21 in the final Golfstat rankings and 22nd in the last WGCA coaches’ poll.

Visualizing COVID’s effects An exhibit of photographs depicting everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic will adorn the entrance of the Richard E. Peeler Art Center through the academic year, thanks to a project started by Margaret Leininger, Peeler’s director and curator of exhibitions.

Leininger invites alumni, as well as students and faculty and staff members, to participate in the project, called “proximity,” by posting to Instagram digital photos that tell the story of the pandemic. Contributors should use the tag “#proximities2020.”

“We have about 40 submissions so far and definitely are collecting more,” she said. “I actually anticipate expanding this project throughout the remainder of the academic year, as it will be interesting to document how the pandemic impacts us through the seasons,” she said.

The photos’ subject matter varies widely. One photo shows West African fabric imprinted with a pattern of the COVID-19 virus. In another, a demonstrator holds a sign that says, “If you think your mask makes it hard to breathe, imagine being Black in America.” Other photos suggest what isn’t there, such as people on a previously crowded commuter train. Still another photo documents graffiti under a highway overpass that, Leininger said, “not so nicely tells people to wear a mask.

“Who would have ever thought that there would be graffiti with a social service message?”

Photo: Margaret Leininger

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LETTERS We’re grateful

M A G A Z I N E

A $2 million grant from the Buehler Family Foundation and its president A.C. Buehler III ’78 will be used to renovate the DePauw Health Wellness Center and DePauw Counseling Services.

The Buehler Health and Wellness Suites will have individual exam, therapy and training offices, group counseling spaces and educational programming spaces. The foundation previously made a grant to create the Buehler Biomedical Imaging Center, where students may use light and electron microscopes to study regeneration biology, wound healing and the neuroscience of addiction.

The wellness center and counseling services moved to the Lilly Center for Physical Education and Recreation in April to provide comprehensive care. It schedules about 3,500 student appointments and 2,400 faculty and staff appointments annually. DePauw’s counseling services are following a national trend of students requiring more mental health services. As individual appointments have increased 26% since 2015, DePauw also is offering more mental health education, preventive programming and campuswide outreach and wellness activities. n A $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will enable DePauw to use technological lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to attract students and help faculty members integrate presentations by alumni into their courses.

The grant comes from Lilly Endowment’s statewide initiative, Charting the Future for Indiana’s Colleges and Universities, which is challenging Indiana’s 38 accredited public and private higher education institutions to improve how they prepare students for successful futures and to address ways to strengthen their long-term financial sustainability.

During the four-year grant period, DePauw will develop courses to entice high schoolers to consider DePauw; offer the courses to admitted students to keep them from changing their minds about attending; help faculty members integrate alumni presentations into courses and career programs; and provide funding to faculty members to redesign traditional, face-to-face courses to include virtual approaches.

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DePauw Summer 2020

IN THIS ISSUE: DePauw’s new president / The healers: medicine, research and hope / DePauw in the time of COVID-19 / and much more

Looking forward with President Lori White and the Class of 2024

TO THE EDITOR: I just wanted to say thanks for an incredible issue. I usually do a quick read, skim the Nuggets and recycle.

Not this one. I am absorbing every page – so timely – and you’ve made me want to hop in the car and come meet Lori White in person. What a dynamo!

– Martha Riester Nice ’73 Congrats on another very readable DePauw Magazine. Just finished reading most of it in one sitting this afternoon. How exciting it was to learn of and about the new president!

– Nancy Miller ’64 I’ve just finished reading every article and snippet. What a terrific issue! Great photos, fascinating content and articles that made me laugh out loud and ones that made me cry. Outstanding! Thank you!

– Kim Condas ’83

Just wanted to send my compliments for a great issue of DePauw Magazine. Especially enjoyed the submission by Leila Hernandez.

Please let her know.

– Laura Schafer ’06 Editor’s note: We just did. Also, we apologize to Hernandez for erroneously reporting her graduation year. She is a member of the Class of 2003.

I’ve never written a letter before, but I’m moved to do so now in response to Leila Hernandez ’03’s comments on the pandemic, “Magical thinking.”

Hernandez is so eloquent about COVID, comparing this time of crisis to a stage in the rites of passage we humans go through: “separation, liminality and incorporation.” That we are in a period of liminality, “where the magical transformation takes place ... the scariest yet most interesting phase” is evident, and Hernandez’s poetic acceptance of “liminality ... where growth and change happen,” is just about the most uplifting thing I’ve read about our current situation. I’m with her in hoping for a slower, fairer society.

Like her, “I’m ready for the magic.”

– Pamela Loveless McRae ’67 As a DePauw graduate, Class of 1964, and member of Delta Tau Delta, I always enjoyed getting the DPU mag, especially to check on my old classmates, and it was OK. But the new version, edited by Mary Dieter, is truly an excellent step up. The articles are well written and often inspiring. It further shows that many of our grads

spent time in places other than Moore’s Bar. I attended when it was against school rules to drink, so let’s just say I only heard stories of people who went there. I’d hate to have my diploma rescinded.

I even sent two of my sons to DePauw. I think they would both agree they got an excellent education and it was money well spent by their old man.

I think the future of my alma mater, with folks like Mary and our new president, Lori White, is bright indeed.

– Stephen R. “Schroeder” Miller M.D. ’64 I picked up my copy of DePauw Magazine and started to read, then couldn’t put it down until I had read it all. It was humbling, inspiring and full of hope – just the thing I needed in these difficult times. I know the work of many people go into creating this publication. I thank you for your contribution and hope that you will share with all involved my thanks for a wonderful edition.

– Jeff Hansen ’86, professor of chemistry and biochemistry Just wanted to say great work on the DePauw Magazine. Great words, great stories. Truly.

– Chris White, professor of English

After taking time to review DePauw Magazine’s summer 2020 issue, I am grateful for far more than your story and photo of The Men of Note’s Hulu TV gig. The cover story, for example.

President Lori White seems perfectly suited to our changing times. A letter from Chuck Grose ’53 recalls that a brilliant Black life mattered very much to DePauw’s then-president 100 years ago. DePauw’s global health program, arriving years before the coronavirus, seems prescient at least. That its first five student majors graduating in 2018 grew to 22 in 2019 is even more encouraging. And then there’s Tom Mote ’74, who only wants a couple mil so he can start a medical school. If not for the three examples above, I might be laughing. I’m not laughing.

– Jack Thomas ’67 I love the new design and editorial direction of the alumni magazine. It’s been such a pleasure to read! I was particularly thrilled to see my favorite professor, Wayne Glausser, featured in this past issue.

– Katy Sprinkel Morreau, ’99

I just read the DePauw Magazine from cover to cover. Excellent issue!

As I read the article about Dr. Glausser, I thought to myself, “what a shame it is that I have never told him what an incredible influence he has had on my writing.” He taught me how to write when I thought I knew all I needed to know, and maybe more important, he taught me to enjoy writing. He was an incredible professor.

– Vicki Freeman Pugh ’87 Editor’s note: Pugh and Morreau both asked to be put in touch with Glausser, and he graciously agreed.

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BOOK NOOK Is a recent read occupying your thoughts? Has a book indelibly imprinted your life? We want to hear from you. Send your recommendation to marydieter@depauw.edu.

What We’re Reading

By Terry Crone

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“Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America,”

by Gilbert King,” is the chilling true story of a young Thurgood Marshall traveling to a small county in central Florida to defend four African-American young men falsely accused of raping a white woman. Marshall confronts a violently racist sheriff, the Ku Klux Klan and a corrupt legal system. It is an extraordinarily well-researched story of an ugly place and time in our history. Alternately inspiring and horrifying, this is a must-read for those who want to understand the modern civil rights movement and the criminal justice reforms by the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1960s.

Crone is a judge on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Read about him on page 23.

The Book Nook features notable, professionally published books written by DePauw alumni and faculty. Self-published books will be included in the Gold Nuggets section.

David Callies ’65 “Regulatory Takings After Knick”

Wendy Blythe Gifford ‘71 “Tudor Christmas Tidings”

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Ellen Lindseth ’86 “The Long Path Home”

Craig Owens ’96 (co-editor) “The Shaken and the Stirred: The Year’s Work in Cocktail Culture”

Catherine RobinsonWalker ’68 “Leading with Mastery and Heart”

The President’s Bookshelf

By Lori S. White

“The Small College Imperative: Models for a Sustainable Future” is written by Mary Marcy, president of Dominican College. I selected this book for members of DePauw’s cabinet and a small group of faculty and staff to discuss at a virtual summer retreat. We also used it as a focus for an Executive Committee meeting of the DePauw Board of Trustees.

Marcy argues persuasively that liberal arts colleges must reimagine themselves to be sustainable for the future. She profiles five “emerging models of small colleges and universities” to remain competitive.

Some institutions have created distinctive programs; others offer common experiences for every student; and some have created graduate and professional programs closely aligned with the liberal arts.

She describes other institutions

that have moved away from a traditional liberal arts experience in response to demographic changes in their recruiting markets or to meet workforce needs. Marcy says there is not necessarily a one-sizefits all model for the future of small colleges. We each need to examine critical questions related to our mission and history, institutional strengths and challenges, location, resources, current and potential student populations and culture, to name a few, as part of our strategic conversations about our future.

Speaking of history, while you probably remember that DePauw used to have a School of Nursing, did you know that DePauw once had a short-lived medical school, law school and engineering program, and that our School of Music was once the school of Music AND Art? Throughout our 180 years we have not been afraid

to be innovative, explore new ideas and build on the expertise of our talented faculty and staff. We must be willing to pivot as student interests and academic fields evolve and resources constrict and/or to refocus on our core liberal arts mission.

Those who read the book found Marcy’s framework for conversation most compelling as we renew DePauw’s strategic planning process.

We have begun conversations with all members of our DePauw community about our collective hopes and dreams for our future – how can we best match our resources and ambition to be one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country? You are not required to read the book to participate, though I think you will find it enlightening.

And oh, by the way, President Marcy is the person who nominated me for the DePauw presidency.

Introducing: The President’s Book Club Ever since she learned about Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents,” President Lori White has been eager to read it. According to the publisher, the book “examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.” A New York Times reviewer said the book “made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away.”

If you’re interested in reading the book too, White would love for you to join her in discussing it in the first-ever meeting of The President’s Book Club. We will schedule the meeting for early January and let you know via your alumni e-newsletter. Let us know by emailing marydieter@depauw.edu if you’d like to be invited to a virtual gathering.

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LEADERS THE WORLD NEEDS

THE PUBLIC SERVANTS

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Stimulated and prepared by DePauw, alums work to serve others Stories by Mary Dieter

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hey give up privacy and expose themselves to criticism, even ridicule. Every move they make is subject to scrutiny or fodder for videotaping, every utterance to close dissection. Their kids are mocked; their finances are made public. And they must mount unrelenting campaigns just to keep the job.

Why would an individual endure such strife in the pursuit of public service?

The reasons are myriad, said former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton ’52, arguably one of DePauw’s most outstanding contributions to public service.

“People come in for all kinds of reasons,” he said. “Some want to tackle policy. It boosts the ego to engage in politics. … Some do it for the intellectual challenge of it. Some do it because they just like the game; they enjoy the conflicts. Some people are turned off by it.

“You find such variety of reactions to the lure of politics. I was always on the side where I thought it was a worthy endeavor, that one could live greatly if you lived in the business of politics and do some good. The sheer challenge of it appeals to me. These problems come at you with such complexity and such rapidity that you can never feel like you accomplished what you wanted to and victories come small.

But in most cases, there are not huge retreats. I don’t know of any other profession that I would think would match politics for the sheer challenge of it. And that appealed to me.”

Hamilton’s early interest in public service was heightened at DePauw, where classes in history, political science and sociology “stimulated my interest in policy and made it very clear to me that the common good should be the welfare of all people … DePauw certainly advanced my sense of obligation to engage in public service,” he said.

He also played basketball at DePauw, and “I enjoyed competition as an athlete. I saw a lot of parallels in politics.”

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Early on, “I didn’t have any unique ideas was chairman of several House committees, or ambitions. I simply wanted to make a including Foreign Affairs and Intelligence, contribution to the direction and success and has served on many significant ad hoc of my country. I was stimulated by the commissions since his retirement. challenge of doing so. I became more and His accomplishments, he said, are “for more fascinated with public policy and how others to judge.” But “the thing that gave it’s made. Interestingly enough, I’ve never me the most satisfaction over the years been greatly absorbed or captivated was having a seat at the table. I always by politics. My interest has felt from the very beginning always been policy. And that I could call up it became clear the governor or I to me that if I could call up the wanted to president. I have any could call up kind of a cabinet impact on official and policy, I I was never should turned best do it down. I through was always politics. welcome, So I by got more Republican and more or Democratic interested in leaders … I Lee H. Hamilton ’52 politics. Once really enjoyed the I took the plunge, it’s kind of unrelenting and it captivates your time and attention.”

His first political activity was volunteer canvassing for several election cycles. “That led gradually to an interest in public office and my interest had always been more in national than local affairs, so I was drawn to foreign policy and domestic economic policy,” he said. “I figured out if I was going to deal with those topics, I’d better go to the federal level rather than the state or local.”

He was elected in 1964 to represent southeastern Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served 34 years and gained a global reputation for his extensive knowledge of foreign affairs. He

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people, all of them.

The politicians, different philosophies, different values.”

DePauw influenced other alumni who have gone into public service in a variety of ways. It taught Brittany Bulleit ’05 “to juggle a lot of different things,” a skill she uses as a prosecutor in Michigan. “Being a science research fellow teaches you how to think like a researcher and I don’t think thinking like a lawyer is that different,” she said. “There’s a step-by-step process in research where you have to have each step done and the same is true of law.”

J.P. Hanlon ’92, U.S. judge for the Southern District of Indiana, recalled “the small classes and the faculty. … You’d sit in a little circle and there was nowhere to

hide, there was no getting off the hook.

You had to come to class very ready to talk and engage. …

“Having to learn how to research and write as a history major was very influential, as well as the in-person experience,” he said. “That really sticks out in my mind as being one of the really key things – having to engage, think in a critical way on the spot and show up in class ready to engage in these topics.”

Nancy Boyer ’73, who retired from the Allen County, Indiana, bench in June, said “DePauw prepared me better for being a judge than anything else. Law school just taught me the law. DePauw taught me how to think, how to analyze, how to approach different issues and problems.”

Former Indiana Secretary of State Sue Anne Gilroy ’70 said her ability to pivot throughout her career “did start with DePauw giving me the liberal arts background, the ability to re-create myself into different careers. I put myself into different situations that were all new and different … DePauw played a big role in all that.”

And Dave Jones ’84, who has held several elective positions in California, said DePauw “helped me be a critical thinker, be a better writer, be a better speaker and exposed me to a number of different academic disciplines, which is what I think is great about a liberal arts education.”

A winter-term experience particularly imprinted him, he said. “I took advantage of one of those to go do an internship on the Hill in then-Sen. Richard Lugar’s office. That was a fantastic experience for a young college student to have a chance to work in the office of a very, very thoughtful United States senator. That also helped to inform my interest in public service.”

Profs see promise in poli sci, history students who plan public service careers

By Sarah McAdams

Deepa Prakash

Bruce Stinebrickner

David Gellman

hey want to right wrongs. They see flaws in the way things are, and they want to fix them. They understand that the stakes are high, yet they are hopeful and determined that their generation can make a difference.

Students who are pursuing careers in public service “are just political nerds in the best possible sense,” Deepa Prakash, associate professor of political science, said.

“What seems to motivate them – though it sounds really simple – is that they have a desire to contribute positively to making public policy.”

Since she began teaching at DePauw in 2011, Prakash starts each class with the idea that “we’re living through a turbulent time.

And it just seems that every year it becomes truer and truer,” she said. She tells students “you should be paying attention to politics and international relations because it’s so important to understand these things that are actually affecting your life.”

While some students “can be super apathetic,” apparently believing that “nothing seems to matter and all these

systems are going to hell anyway,” many readily internalize her message. “They really understand that there are stakes and, I know it sounds a bit cliché, but that they can make some sort of difference,” she said.

“The ones whom I’ve seen really motivated really believe that their generation can change things, even if (they are) on different sides of the political aisle.”

Bruce Stinebrickner, professor emeritus of political science, said people go into public service for a variety of reasons. “It’s not a single cause. There are a number of factors: opportunity, prestige and money, to serve others and ideological concerns.

“We human beings want monocausal explanations,” he said. “.. It’s a complex, difficult world to understand and that applies to individuals wanting to go into public service.”

David Gellman, the A.W. Crandall professor of history and chair of the History Department, said that “a lot of history majors go into public service …

Everything has a history. So, if you’re going to address current problems, you

have to be able to figure out not only where they came from but also that, more often than not, this is not the first time that an issue has come up.”

For example, “it’s not like there aren’t precedents for our current Black Lives Matter struggles, or reactions in the highest places against progress that we’ve forged on race, gender and sexuality,” Gellman said.

“There aren’t simple lessons like ‘cut and paste this policy to this time’ or ‘just follow the ways of Abe Lincoln and all will be well.’ But it does remind you that we’ve been here – wherever here is – on any public service issue or crisis.”

Gellman asks his students to put themselves in the shoes of ordinary people “who had choices to make” in the past.

“When you take a history class, you get to apply your imagination to that and it makes you humble,” he said, “but it also makes you understand the implications of power and decision-making and politics and who gets included and who gets excluded from those decisions. I think it’s a great preparation for public service.”

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Nancy Ashcroft Boyer ’73

Photo: John McGauley

Nancy Ashcroft Boyer ’73 was crushed when professor F. Walker Gilmer urged her to abandon her dream to do exactly what he was doing – teach English literature at a college.

She mulled her future and landed on the law. She graduated from Indiana University School of Law and by 1991

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had practiced 15 years when Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh appointed her to complete a retiring judge’s Allen County Superior Court seat. She subsequently was elected five times and retired in June.

As a judge, she said, “I did what I wanted to do and what I enjoyed doing at DePauw, which is why I say it’s the best job ever.”

She made history as the first female judge in Allen County and as chief judge when the nine-judge superior court boasted five women. As a judge, she employed the same sort of organized thinking and succinct writing that she used as an English lit major. “You have to be able to distill what your thoughts are and put them down on paper and communicate – and that’s such an important aspect of the practice of law and being a judge,” she said. When as a judge she used lessons learned at DePauw, “it was like a full circle.”

When Boyer reviews her 29-year career on the bench, she points to two projects that

she undertook outside the formal courtroom as her biggest accomplishments: Her work toward implementing plain English instructions for civil juries and intervention that kept 3,430 Allen County homes from foreclosure.

“Being a judge and doing that job well is one thing; the other is how do we serve the public better?” she said.

Her English degree landed her on the Indiana Judges Association committee to rewrite model civil jury instructions in plain English.

“Disorganized and jargon-heavy instructions do an utterly inadequate job of informing jurors of what they are to do,” Boyer said. “For instance, half of the jurors in one study thought that ‘preponderance of the evidence’ … meant a slow, careful pondering of the evidence.”

Her motivation, she said, “is kind of simple: I think it’s the right thing to do. I mean, I think about these jurors. … We’re imposing on their lives to have them come and help the third branch of government operate. Shouldn’t we treat them and give them the best tools?”

She is even prouder of her foreclosureavoidance work. About 10 years ago, the Indiana Supreme Court solicited volunteers to establish a mortgage foreclosure assistance project in their counties and Boyer promptly volunteered for Allen County. She worried about the displaced homeowners with nowhere to go; about the value of properties neighboring a vacant house where break-ins would occur and weeds would grow. She wondered why a lender would foreclose, only to end up with an empty house that would cost money to insure while generating zero revenue.

“I was always very proud of that project,” she said. “It was so gratifying. I kept the notes that people would send me.

I’d see some of them out. They’d say, ‘Judge Boyer’ – and you never know; did I upset

them with my decision? And they would come up to me and say ‘Thank you so much; we’re still in our house.’

“It’s good for the community if these individuals can stay in their homes,” she

said. “… Our job is to deliver justice to individuals, all individuals, and I think that’s what we did when I was involved with this program.”

Matthew Kincaid ’92 scholar, Kincaid majored in economics and, upon graduation, followed through with a plan to go into commercial banking.

He was working as a credit analyst in a large Chicago bank when, at a meeting one day, he heard a bank lawyer who “had a way of making things as simple as they could be without making them simpler than they are. I was just impressed with him.” And, Kincaid said, he realized that

Court judge in Lebanon, Indiana. “He had the experience of losing an election somewhat surprisingly. … It was a real setback to him personally.”

So, as a DePauw student and Rector

maybe the law was right for him after all.

He went to Loyola University Chicago School of Law and practiced for five years before running successfully in 2002 for the judge’s seat from which his father, Ora A.

Photo: Brittney Way

His grandfather was a state legislator, his father a prosecutor and a judge. So is it any wonder that Matthew Kincaid ’92 would enter the law?

Well, yes.

“My grandfather’s story is interesting because there were some aspects about his career that I think maybe gave me some initial pause about pursuing something like this,” said Kincaid, a Boone Superior

Kincaid III, was retiring.

“The opportunity to be a judge was just too good to pass up,” the younger Kincaid said. His goal as a judge is fairness, and “I just hope that people pray for public servants and give them the benefit of the doubt. Nobody’s perfect. …

“Whatever we’re doing, we’re all really trying hard. There’s a lot of criticism out there in the world. I’d ask for grace and prayers for all who have to make these kind of decisions, but it’s a great privilege and a great honor. We do the best we can with our abilities and try to do what’s right.”

Kincaid, who won the Indiana State Bar Association’s Civility Award in 2017, has the rare distinction of having twice, in 2016 and 2017, been among the three finalists recommended by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Committee for a Supreme Court seat. Both times, the governor selected another candidate.

“I’d be being disingenuous to say it wasn’t disappointing, but since then I feel like I’ve continued to do the work that I’m good at, and I’ve been grateful to do it,” he said. “I never have thought that not being a Boone County judge is something I ought to strive for. I got some really good advice from somebody before I even got into the process of applying for these. He said, well, you know it’s tough; there are a lot of good people. But don’t let what you think you want make you think that you don’t like the job that you already have.”

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“For me and for people who stay in public service a long time and enjoy it as much as I do,” said Shatrese Flowers ’95, “you have to really like people.”

That is some statement from someone who for more than 20 years has defended criminals, assisted judges on major cases and, for the past six years, served as a Marion County, Indiana, superior court judge, presiding over trials of people charged with homicide, major felony drug and gun offenses, child molestation and other heinous crimes. And whose courtroom once broke out in a melee when the defendant’s family didn’t like the guilty verdict. (“I was upset then; I was heated,” she allowed. “I was frustrated and I think the record reflected that.”)

So there are exceptions, but for the most part, “you have to like different types of people,” she said. “Because the people you deal with in public service aren’t all like you or like your friends. They’re not all like your family. I mean, it’s a mix of everyone and everybody, different levels of education. Different social economic statuses. Different ethnicities. Different languages they speak.”

She wanted to be a lawyer since she was in fifth grade. Corporate law; definitely not criminal. But things change and people grow, and Flowers was drawn to criminal defense work while working at a small family-owned practice, her first job as a lawyer.

“I would cover cases for the father in criminal court and I thought, well, that’s

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kind of interesting. It’s more interesting than I thought.” She went to work as a public defender, intending to serve a year but staying three and a half.

She left when a spot came open in the Indianapolis corporation counsel office – the lawyers who represent citycounty agencies and departments. Within 14 months, however, a more tempting opportunity opened: a spot as a superior court master commissioner, who works for elected judges. Flowers got the job and, over nine and a half years, progressed from working in the arrestee processing center to handling initial hearings for misdemeanors and low-level felonies to working for five to seven judges in a week.

“It taught me a lot, like looking at how different judges ran their courtrooms, how they interacted with staff,” she said. After a few years, lawyers began asking when she’d run for judge. “I don’t know,” she’d say. “I guess the time will be right.” In 2013, “I started thinking, I think now is the time … for me to be one of the decision-makers

as far as having my own court.”

She won a six-year term, one of five new judges elected. Seniority rules the process: When judges retire, others move up to the coveted courts according to seniority, leaving the less desirable courts for the new judges to divvy up. Flowers’s time as a master commissioner counted, and, as the most senior among the newbies, she had first choice.

Her campaign manager suggested she choose traffic court; it would be easy. But after presiding over jury trials in lowerlevel felony court, “… I kind of wanted a challenge.”

She chose the major felony drug and gun court, which was rumored to be the busiest court in the state. The caseload was so voluminous that, two years later, it was split into two courts. When vacancies occurred in 2018, Flowers was able to choose again, and she picked a general major felony court, where she would see somewhat less mayhem.

She has learned a lot over 20 years, she

said, including from the mother of a murder victim whose death was so violent that the crime scene photos haunted the judge.

“She wasn’t angry or bitter; she was forgiving,” Flowers said. “She was a woman of strong faith and her resolve and her demeanor just were something that resonated with me. … I thought, if she can be just so forgiving, I should be forgiving of anything and everything.”

Still, Flowers sentenced the defendant to more than 100 years. “Even though the act might be egregious and it’s warranted, it doesn’t feel good,” she said. “It doesn’t.

But you know, I apply the law. I apply mitigating circumstances and aggravating circumstances in crafting the sentence.

And I pronounce it.”

Photo: Brittney Way

C. Shea Nickell ’81 As he progressed through DePauw University, C. Shea Nickell ’81 struggled with an internal debate: Should he become a lawyer or a minister?

His parents, educators and lay leaders in their church, “encouraged and guided me and my curiosity in history, politics and religion,” he said.

As an Eagle scout, he was already involved in service. At DePauw, he was student body president and editor of the student newspaper. He won the Walker Cup, the award given annually to the DePauw senior who had contributed the most to the university.

Ultimately, “my DePauw education and experiences on campus helped me make that decision,” and Nickell, who double majored in communications and political science, headed to study at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was president of the Student Bar Association.

Since graduating, he worked briefly in North Carolina as a lawyer and college instructor but has spent nearly all of his career in his native Kentucky. He practiced for 22 years, maintaining a private practice while also working – as was allowed in Kentucky – as an assistant commonwealth attorney, an assistant county attorney and a public advocate. In November 2006, he was elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, where he served 13 years until he climbed to the top rung of the legal ladder: He was elected last November to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

“I see my practice of law and my role as a judge as being part of living out the ministry of public service that I think DePauw encourages,” he said. “Both attorneys and ministers often come into contact with people and organizations who may feel hopeless or helpless or are in need, perhaps in despair and so, in addition to being students of the law and technicians of the law, we’re also called upon to be counselors, encouragers and teachers. …

“I’ve always tried to remember that the people come into our courthouses, standing in front of the court, fearful; it’s certainly not their comfort zone,” he said. “And yet it is their house, so they should be treated with respect and courtesy so they feel at the end of the day they’ve received a fair hearing, even if the judgment is against them.”

As a justice, he said, he has “a much broader impact” than a lawyer representing a single client or a local judge ruling on a specific case.

“And that weighs heavily on me when I make opinions, that the decision that I ultimately reach, along with my colleagues, will have an impact not only on the parties standing before us but also on society itself,” he said.

“You have to realize from whence you came and that there will be the day when you will return. We have these positions and we have this perceived power, if you will, for a certain time. There will come the day when we pass that on to someone else, hopefully in a better condition than we received it.”

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Dan Quayle ’69 It was a meteoric rise for Dan Quayle ’69 – from an 11-year-old kid who handed out Goldwater literature to a giant slayer who knocked off the estimable U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh to U.S. vice president.

Predestined?

Maybe. Planned? Not exactly.

“When you grow up with it, you don’t really plot your life ahead of you, particularly in a political situation,” he said. “I was raised in a newspaper family and we were very engaged in politics.” His father James owned The Herald-Press in Huntington, Indiana, and his mother Corinne was the daughter of Eugene C. Pulliam, the 1910 DePauw graduate who founded Central Newspapers Inc., which published several newspapers, including the Indianapolis Star and the Arizona Republic.

“You know the Bible verse, to whom much is given, much is expected? We always followed that,” Quayle said.

“I was blessed to be born into a good family. I had a lot of good opportunities to give back. I think public service is a great calling and I encourage young men and women to get involved. We need good people on both sides of the aisle, Republicans as well as Democrats.”

Quayle considered a newspaper career, and worked briefly as associate publisher

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of The HeraldPress. But during law school in Indianapolis, he worked for the Indiana governor and attorney general, and decided electoral politics were for him. Upon graduation, he and his wife moved to Huntington to position him for a run for the Indiana General Assembly in 1976. He ultimately ran instead for Congress, and won.

“Politics and public service are very fulfilling,” he said. “Yes, there’s a lot of criticism; there’s a lot of garbage you’ve got to put up with. But you’re serving the people, and serving the people and being able to make decisions that impact people in their everyday life is very, very rewarding.”

He spent two terms in the House and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980 and 1986 before Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush selected him in 1988 as his running mate. They won

that year, but were defeated for re-election in 1992.

“I got elected young,” he said. “I was 29 when I was elected to the House, 33 to the Senate and 41 as vice president. So I started quickly, went up quickly and went out too young. But anyway, that’s the way it is. … You can’t ever pick your timing.”

Indeed, Quayle, suffering from a serious bout of phlebitis, declined to run for president in 1996, figuring “I’ve got plenty of time.” He briefly entered the 2000 race “and this is where timing wasn’t good because I ran against President Bush’s son.

“And so that was bad luck. Bad timing,” Quayle said. He acknowledged that, in the runup to the 2016 election, “I did think about it … But I’d been out for so long and I know how hard it is, and to go back and reconnect with all the contacts about what you want to do, I said, you know what? Life’s pretty good for me; I think I’m just going to stay right where I am.”

Sue Anne Starnes Gilroy ’70 with whom I’ve become friends, and I think I can get you an interview with him.’ And that’s how it all began.”

That mayor was Richard Lugar, who would hire her to connect with neighborhood associations and encourage new ones and promote her to run the parks department. Later, during his 36-year tenure as a U.S. senator from Indiana, he lured her back into public life after her 11-year-old daughter died of cancer in 1989.

“I was looking for a life after that, a life of service, really,” Gilroy said. “You think back: Why did I make all these decisions? I think she had a big role in that. How do I continue to live in a way that’s giving back and has purpose? It all just sort of fit.”

At the time, Lugar had been criticized for focusing on international affairs instead of Indiana, so Gilroy’s goal, she said, “was to make him local.” She and a posse of experts traveled the state, visiting every county on Lugar’s behalf. A side benefit: “I had a statewide profile.”

Republican operatives noticed. They urged her to run for secretary of state in 1994; recognizing the value of her statewide exposure, she said yes. She won, Photo: Brittney Way

During the summers when she was in high school, Sue Anne Starnes Gilroy ’70 filled in when Crawfordsville Mayor Will Hayes Jr.’s secretary went on vacation.

“That’s where I saw public service modeled,” she said. “That’s when I first saw the value of government in people’s lives. Solving problems. Making their lives better. That was the chord that was struck.”

Several years later, the speech and English teacher-in-training realized, while student teaching in her senior spring term at DePauw, that “it was not my gift.” She called Hays “to say I think I want to go into public service. And that’s when he said, ‘Well, there’s a young new mayor in Indianapolis

then won again four years later. The party leaders saw a winner, and they asked her to run for Indianapolis mayor in 1999.

“Local government was my real love,” she said. “I just loved the idea of that, and I had experience in that. So I just thought, this is it. As we got into the campaign, it was clear that there were a number of things that were not falling into place. It was a slog, the whole thing. I can say that never have I for a period of time gone flat out – physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. It was an experience unlike any other I’ve ever had.

“I was disappointed that I lost. … It took me some time to get over it.” She took up golf, and the game became “a symbol of how I worked through that loss.”

She also shifted her career to the nonprofit world. After completing her term as secretary of state, she became director of advancement at the thenfledgling University High School in Carmel, then vice president of development and executive director of St. Vincent Foundation, where she raised nearly $100 million in 12 years.

These days, she has retired from daily work, but is a member of the State Ethics Commission.

“When I talk about purpose,” she said, “that’s one of the things I’m doing to say I’m still in the game.”

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His grandfather was a lawyer, so J.P. Hanlon ’92 already was thinking about a law career when he participated in the Harvard Model Congress, a government simulation conference.

“The experience when I was in high school just gave me the feeling that law was pretty unique and that one person, as a lawyer, has this amazing ability to cause a lot of change and have a lot of impact,” said Hanlon, a U.S. district judge in the Southern District of Indiana. “And I really liked that a lot.”

Some years later, Hanlon’s youthful notion was confirmed. Then a lawyer in Chicago, Hanlon represented an asylumseeking Angolan refugee who feared he would be tortured and killed if he were sent back to his native country.

“I remember just the incredible feeling that the U.S. government is seeking to sign a piece of paper and send this person out of the country, and that would be his fate,” said Hanlon, who was handling the case pro bono. “And one person – me – as a lawyer had the opportunity to stand between him and the power of the U.S. government.”

In between those two experiences (and, yes, the man won asylum), Hanlon identified the best – if not the most likely – way that he might have an impact. A recent graduate of Valparaiso University School of Law, he was clerking for U.S. Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. of the Northern District of Indiana.

“That was a very formative experience, I would say, just learning about public service, seeing him as a quintessential

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example of a dedicated public servant,” Hanlon said. “A person who is so talented, so smart, so many skills and, with all that, every day working as hard as he can to do things in the public good. …

“From the time I clerked with Judge Miller, I thought, boy, if I ever had the opportunity to do his job, I would do it.

Now, I did not bank on that happening, because the odds are not very good because so many things have to happen.

There’s a lot of work involved, but then there is the timing aspect and there’s some luck involved.”

To say nothing of the presidential nomination and U.S. Senate confirmation that must occur.

But Hanlon set about constructing a varied career that would qualify him if lightning struck. While working three years at the big firm in Chicago, he was doing more pro bono work and applying

for assistant U.S. attorney jobs. He landed one in Indianapolis and spent five years there, handling a variety of cases but becoming particularly intrigued by whitecollar crime. He then moved to a large Indianapolis law firm, where he built a white-collar defense practice over 12 years.

And then lightning struck. A federal judge retired, and Hanlon applied.

President Trump nominated him in April 2018 and the Senate confirmed him unanimously in October that year.

Hanlon enjoys the “incredibly deep array of subject matters” that come before him and said “it’s more important now than ever that judges do whatever they can to have confidence in our branch be as high as it can be. … I just think it’s very important that we do our jobs in a thorough and transparent way that instills a lot of confidence in the public.”

Brittany Bulleit ’05 job, effective April 2019. She recently ran unopposed for a full, four-year term.

Her ascension means longer hours, deeper piles of case files on her desk, responsibility for prosecuting the more serious crimes and supervision of the entire caseload – felonies; misdemeanors ranging from domestic violence to building code violations; juvenile court and juvenile criminal cases; and involuntary hospitalization of mentally incapacitated people. She handles violations of Department of Natural Resources laws and animal abuse. She acts as the county’s

civil attorney too. And either she or her assistant is always on call.

Bulleit said that she was not intentionally pursuing public service when she became a prosecutor, but soon realized that’s exactly what she was doing. “I was helping people move forward through some horrible things in their lives,” she said.

“The more I did it and the more I felt like I fit here, the more I felt like it was an appropriate avenue for me to continue down … I felt like I fit well in public service and that I could give something to it, and I found the right direction for me.”

Photo: Charles Palosaari

The Flint, Michigan, judge for whom Brittany Bulleit ’05 had been working for just six months, right out of law school, died suddenly. She was out of work.

She had wanted to return home to Houghton County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, almost 500 miles north, to be near her family and significant other. Then a position opened up.

“At first I didn’t apply for it because it was chief assistant prosecutor, and I thought that meant you had to have a level of experience that I just didn’t have yet,” she said. But in a county with fewer than 36,000 residents, “chief assistant” also meant “only assistant,” and Bulleit landed a job that gave her the satisfaction of coupling her psychology education at DePauw and her Michigan State University law degree.

“I’m interviewing victims; I’m listening to their stories and helping them work through them and then I figure out how best to handle the case,” she said. “I read psychological reports; I handle mentally ill individuals’ cases. The more I started doing it, the more I realized I was using my background and it was rewarded in a lot of ways. I mean, there are horrible days, but there are days when someone thanks me for helping them, thanks me for listening to them.

“So those days balance out, and I’m giving back to the community I was raised in. I found that I was good at the balance of mediation, social work, practicing the law, trying to find a good rhythm.”

When the prosecutor, Bulleit’s boss, retired, 12th Circuit Court Judge Charles R. Goodman appointed her to the top

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Lucy Ferguson VanMeter ’97 What Lucy Ferguson VanMeter ’97 wanted most during the 17 years she practiced civil litigation in 50 Kentucky counties was fair treatment.

“All I ever wanted was to be before a judge who had read my pleadings, who was prepared for my hearing and who gave me a fair shake and applied the law,” she said. “Of course I wanted to win, but if I had lost and all those things had happened, I was OK with that. I think that’s really what lawyers want. They want somebody who’s going to apply the law consistently and predictably.

Because if your judge doesn’t apply the law consistently, there’s chaos.”

And so, since she was sworn in as a judge in Kentucky’s Fayette Circuit Court in December 2018, “that’s what I try to do in my cases.” She handles criminal and civil cases.

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She said she loved the Lexington firm where she was an equity partner and “would have continued to work there until I retired,”

but she had always wanted to be a judge, and she promptly decided to run after hearing of a sitting judge’s plan to retire.

“I thought it would be a fun job, an interesting job, definitely a different perspective from the practice of law,” she said. “Different from being an advocate.”

Some friends who had made the leap urged her to do the same. Not so much her husband, who happens to be a justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court.

“He would be supportive if I chose to do it, but he wasn’t pushing it,” she said of Laurance VanMeter. They met when he was running for the high court in 2016, and she accompanied him on campaign swings through the 11-county district from which he was elected.

“It was during that process that I not only got to see what it took to run a campaign but also had to force myself to do the things that you have to do in a campaign – walk into a room where you don’t know anybody and try to meet everybody,” she said. “And so, having gone through that experience, it gave me the confidence to think that I could do this. I could run a campaign, a successful campaign.”

Laurance VanMeter, who had served 13 years on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, was sworn in in January 2017. They were married in August that year, and “we really just had about two months of calm” before the judge retired “and we just cranked up the machine once again.”

These days, she said, “it’s really great just to be able to do the job.”

Dave Jones ’84 When ambitious young people ask Dave Jones ’84 about running for public office, he always tells them this: “Find something that you love to do; do that thing. You’ll do it well as a result.

You’ll be able to develop your leadership skills, develop relationships, in the course of doing whatever work it is in either the private or the public sector that you enjoy doing. And if there’s an opportunity that presents itself, then you could run for office. But I counsel folks not to make that their central focus because it’s really hard to control.”

Jones speaks from experience. Public service “was an ethos within my family.

My dad and my grandfather were both active in civic affairs in their respective communities and encouraged us as kids to be aware of and think about and get involved in the life of our community.”

He volunteered for political campaigns throughout his school years and went to Harvard Law School and earned a Master of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government with the notion to become a public interest lawyer. He got a job with Legal Services of Northern California, where he had moved with his new wife, and worked six years on affordable housing and other issues. Then he landed a yearlong White House fellowship, which placed him in the office of then-Attorney General Janet Reno. She ended up keeping him on two more years as counsel.

Seeking political office beyond the presidency of the Carl Sandburg High School student body “wasn’t a driving goal of mine.” But “as luck would have it,” when he and his wife returned to Sacramento,

their city councilman – seeking election to the California State Assembly – urged Jones to run to fill out his term.

“I ran and was elected,” he said.

“That then created other opportunities for me to continue in public service going forward.”

Opportunities did indeed follow: After five years as a councilman, Jones was elected to the state assembly for three two-year terms, then the limit. In 2010 he ran for and was elected state insurance commissioner, who leads the agency that regulates all facets of the insurance industry.

“In California, we have the largest market for insurance in the United States and probably the fourth largest in the world,” he said. “It’s a big part of everybody’s life. People have insurance for their auto, their home, their life, their health; just about every aspect of your life, insurance touches upon. And so it’s really a consumer protection job.”

In addition, President Obama was elected two year earlier, “and it was becoming readily apparent that health care, health care reform, was going to be a big priority of the Obama administration. … I anticipated that I could play a significant role in implementing health care reform in California.”

As his second term was coming to a close, Jones ran unsuccessfully for attorney general. He now is a senior director at the Nature Conservancy, working on a

range of issues, including partnering with the insurance industry to address climate change. He also directs the Climate Risk Initiative at the University of California, Berkley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.

“I love public service,” Jones said, “because it’s a way to make a difference in people’s lives and in the lives of communities. And that’s what motivates me.”

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John Hammond ’76 Finance Committee, which had a close association with then-Lt. Gov. Orr, who had previously served in the Senate and, as lieutenant governor, was its president.

Orr, on the ticket with Gov. Otis Bowen, was seeking re-election, and he hired Hammond for $50 a week as a campaign aide. “I traveled with him 24/7 potentially, in terms of when we were awake to travel the state,” Hammond said.

Hammond, who grew up in a household sharply focused on public affairs and a family brimming with DePauw graduates, had made the connection that would launch his professional life during an independent study project in his senior year at DePauw. He was an intern, working for the state Senate

“By car, airplane. It was a pretty interesting experience, a heady experience, at an early age.”

For a while, anyway. When Bowen and Orr won, enabling Hammond to enjoy the spoils, he was assigned to an obscure state agency in a job so meager that he struggled every afternoon to stay

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The governor’s second term was winding down, leaving the people who had helped him get into office and served him there scrambling for their next step.

“I felt a little untethered by it because it was a glorious experience and you do feel like, at least in a macro sense, you were helping people,” said John Hammond ’76, who for his entire career had been tethered to Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr.

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awake. He won a reprieve several months later when an administrative assistant job opened in the lieutenant governor’s office.

Hammond’s trajectory was skyward thereafter. When Orr ran for governor in 1980, Hammond took a 15-month leave from state government to be deputy campaign manager.

“Power for power’s sake is not enough,” Hammond said. “The election is a choice between two people with varying philosophies and it’s for the opportunity to govern. That’s the public service piece.

That’s the opportunity to make an impact.”

He was the governor-elect’s first hire, rejoining the public sector as transition director. He went on to become Orr’s senior executive assistant for legislative affairs and education policy, securing passage of, among other things, Orr’s signature A+ education program.

In September 1988, two months before Orr’s successor would be elected, Hammond, who was attending law school at night, left state government to form a lobbying firm with a former House speaker. He has held several government relations jobs since, and now is a member of Ice Miller’s Public Affairs Group.

“It’s the closest thing I have to continue to be in public service,” he said, “because I still have the flexibility ultimately as a lawyer and a community citizen to participate on a variety of boards and commissions on the local level here in Indianapolis. I contribute in that way and through the political process.

“Not every political science major gets to say this, but I get paid to practice my hobby and my passion.”

Terry Crone ’74 sprinter for two years and qualified for the NCAA Division II finals in the 220, but “I got in a fist fight and broke my hand.”

Lucky enough to learn life lessons – perhaps because he was on “a first-name basis” with DePauw security, the Putnam County sheriff and the dean of students and did things “you wouldn’t necessarily want your kids to know about”

– that “young people do things that should not destroy their entire life forever.”

Lucky enough to have a father who was the political director for the United Auto Workers for north-central Indiana, a connection that positioned the son, upon graduation from DePauw and during law school at Notre Dame, to work for U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh and meet contemporary political stars, including President Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Lucky enough to get that judge’s invitation, and wise enough to accept it and work two years as magistrate until the judge retired. Lucky enough to have thenGov. Evan Bayh – Birch’s son – appoint him to the St. Joseph circuit court bench.

He completed the retired judge’s term and was elected three times to retain the seat.

“I’ve always believed that the efficacy or integrity of the court system is dependent on people trusting the system,” Crone said.

And so, as a circuit judge, he appointed the first African-American man and the first woman to the judicial nominating Photo: Brittney Way

Terry Crone ’74 especially enjoyed courtroom work over the nine-plus years he practiced law in South Bend, so the trend “that lawyers were going to be spending less and less time in the courtroom” worried him.

“When the judge called and said, ‘Do you want to come over here and work with me and possibly position yourself to move up into my position?’ I thought, well, that’d be a wonderful opportunity,” he said. “So I was very lucky. I’ve been lucky all my life.”

Lucky enough to be the first person in his family to attend college. Lucky enough that, after Crone received a disappointing financial aid package from the University of Notre Dame, which he hoped to attend, a friend’s father suggested he look at DePauw, which not only provided robust financial aid but also “a wonderful liberal arts education. It taught me to think critically. It gave me opportunities to do things.” He was a conference-champion

commission. His third appointment, the first African-American woman, had doubts about her credentials.

“I said, Gladys, if nothing else, these people who come in as applicants have to look an African American in the eye and try to seek their approval so that, later on, when some African-American individual is standing in front of them, maybe they have a little more understanding of what it feels like to be in a reverse situation as far as power,” he said.

He also initiated the county’s Spanishspeaking program for public defenders. “It’s important that when people come to court they see people whom they can relate to and have faith and trust in the system,” he said.

Crone also was lucky enough to be dear friends with Joe Kernan, whom he met 40 years ago when they both worked for South Bend city government. In the brief time that Kernan was Indiana governor – 16 months between Gov. Frank O’Bannon’s death and the inauguration of Gov. Mitch Daniels, who defeated Kernan in 2004 – an opening occurred on the Indiana Court of Appeals, and Kernan appointed him. Crone was retained by the voters in 2006 and 2016; the latter vote will take him to the mandatory retirement age, 75.

“I enjoy the work because of the intellectual stimulation and I enjoyed being in a position where I could make decisions that I felt were helpful to people, whether it be on a micro basis or on a more systemic basis,” he said. “Justice is not just a result; it’s also a process. You need to have a just result, but you also need to have a just process. It works better when people believe that that is the case – that the process is fair, as well as the just result.”

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Veronica Pejril readily admits she started it.

Her 2019 opponent for the Greencastle City Council’s Third Ward seat had told her “I don’t care how you live” and “I’m not going to make an issue out of that in the election.

“I said, ‘well, I’m glad that you don’t think it ought to be an issue in this election because I’m not making an issue of it either,’” she recalled. “The fact that I happen to be a transgender woman is irrespective of my ability to serve and lead in our community. It’s neither an attribute that necessarily makes me a better leader or not, right? It’s just part of who I am. It’s like my shoe size.”

But then, Pejril, who is DePauw’s director of Faculty Instructional Technology Support, coordinator of the Music Instructional Technology Center and an adjunct assistant professor of music, became aware of her opponent’s “hateful,” islamophobic social media posts.

“My heart was telling me that I can’t, in good conscience, let that go unseen,” she said, so she publicized the posts and braced for what she knew was coming.

In no time flat, she was “deadnamed” – that is, “somebody calls out a transitioned, transgender person’s former name to dehumanize them or to have them be seen as something other than what they represent themselves to be.” Transphobic social media posts followed.

So why would Pejril expose herself to that? “I needed to bring light to them and point out that these are not the values that we hold to represent the city of Greencastle and the spirit of Greencastle,”

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she said. What’s more, “I’ve developed some thick skin over the years … I’ve had some tough times in my life; I don’t want to discount that. That was one of the weirder ones, but definitely not the toughest.”

Pejril’s campaign “tried to uplift my own work for the community, my background, what I brought to the table, where my values stand as far as valuing education and community and being a good neighbor.” She won in a landslide, becoming the first transgender elected official in Indiana.

Though most duties of her first year

in office have been conducted virtually, she said she has been pleased to find that “the labels that often divide folks on the national level are not represented in our city politic and that’s a great thing. We generally vote with consensus that crosses party line. …

“It’s just a pleasure and a joy to work with every one of these folks.”

Jane Noble Luljak ’49

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Luljak, who died in 2011 at age 87, got at it from that angle and maybe that’s told Life that her newspaperman father why she really didn’t pursue it. She wasn’t https://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/archives/id/3... encouraged her to run for office after she cut out for all of the interpersonal stuff that described a “complicated and successful you have to do.” maneuver” she made in DePauw student Her decision also may have been politics. The maneuver is a mystery, said her influenced by the times, he said. She was only child, David Luljak, who suspects his married in August 1949 to Laddie Luljak grandfather encouraged the run because of ’50, who had served two years in the Army ... his own failed electoral attempts. before using the GI Bill to go to DePauw, It also will remain a mystery why where the couple met on a blind date. They Jane Luljak, elected as a Democrat in were married 57 years; Laddie died in 2006.

November 1948, chose to serve just one After graduation, Laddie, an economics term in the Indiana House. After the major and president of the student body, 61-day 1949 session, she returned to went to work as the merchandise manager Greencastle to complete her degree. for the Foley’s department store chain, “My mother wasn’t a natural politician requiring a move to Houston. Besides, in the sense that you think of people just Laddie told Life, “it’s one thing for a girl to loving to meet people and being outgoing,” serve a term in the legislature, but another David said. “She was thoughtful. I think she for her to enter politics permanently.”

Said David: “That’s a little cringeworthy, actually.”

So were the terms used in the rampant publicity afforded to Jane Noble Luljak’s service. “Coed Dazed But Ready to Serve.”

“Pretty.” “Photogenic. “Petite brunette.”

“The pride and the sweetheart of the 86th General Assembly.” “The House pinup girl.”

The same stories noted, at least, that Noble Luljak was interested in social welfare, education, labor and veterans’ issues, and she authored a bill that would prohibit racial discrimination at hotels and restaurants.

She remained interested in politics throughout her life, though she never practiced again. For a time when David was little, she was a member of the League of Women Voters and she loved reading presidential biographies, her son said. She also loved cooking, golf and the Houston Astros.

Photo: Courtesy DePauw University Archives and Special Collections

It’s an unlikely story, to be sure.

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Indiana, who “on a lark” puts a political science major to the test and runs for and wins a seat in the state legislature.

Whose feat becomes the subject of a feature in iconic Life magazine, circulation 13 million or so.

Noble Whose accomplishment is noted by Mademoiselle magazine for its annual Merit Awards, also given that year to famed ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn and Broadway actress Julie Harris.

Who, midway through DePauw, left school to serve her country in the Women’s Army Corps.

And Jane Noble Luljak ’49 did it all backwards and in heels. Metaphorically, at least.

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1,000 WORDS’ WORTH The Class of 2024 was welcomed by a virtual and historic opening convocation Aug. 26. (L to r) Timothy Good, professor of communication and theatre; Dave Berque, vice president for academic affairs; President Lori S. White; and Alan Hill, vice president for student academic life, toast DePauw.

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THE BO(U)LDER QUESTION The May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man in police custody, set off international protests, community conversations and, perhaps, individual examination of conscience about racial justice in America. We asked members of the DePauw community:

Will you share your reflections on George Floyd’s death, the aftermath or any aspect of racial justice?

By Willis “Bing” Davis ’59 Davis is a visual artist and former assistant dean of art and coordinator of Black studies at DePauw.

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ike that of most artists of color in America and the African diaspora, my artwork reflects a social consciousness. I create artworks that reflect my perceptions, thoughts and feelings about what I experience and see around me.

As I began my artistic journey after graduating from DePauw, I had to decide if I wanted to paint visually pleasing landscapes, tasty fruits in still lifes or smiling portraits of neighbors and friends or visually speak about the vision, goals, aspirations and struggles of the

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Black experience and peoples of color in America and around the globe.

Most of the great teachers that I had at DePauw encouraged students to “find your own voice.” The liberal arts education and arts education at DePauw gave me a solid foundation on which to build an art and teaching career that filled my life with purpose. I learned early from my academic adviser, mentor and friend, professor Richard Peeler, that the arts have the energy and power to touch, move and inspire others. I chose to teach the arts as agents of change.

It is not by accident that the Anti-Police Brutality Dance Masks that appear in my current virtual exhibit at the Haan Museum of Indiana Art were created in 1999, 2002 and 2012, before the death of George Floyd. Like many other artists, poets, singers, dancers and dramatists, I have been speaking for years of the need for police reform, end of racism and social reform.

The series may appear to be an unusual association at first but not when you think about human history.

Dance or specialized movement has always been a part of most

human events or activities, such as weddings, coming-of-age events, even funerals and war, war dances, parades with drummer boy and flute player.

Some recent protesters were criticized for singing and dancing as they moved down the streets. That is a part of the human experience. I want my AntiPolice Brutality Dance Mask images to encourage the viewer to walk, run or dance to whatever meeting, gathering or event to get involved with police reform, antiracism activities and social reform.

My masks give visual and tangible form to a real social concern that has been going on from slavery to the present. The viewer can see and touch the masks. Their Africanlike appearance gives a visual association to a people and a culture. The viewer sees common objects and byproducts of our industrial society used to create these contemporary masks and hopefully make a positive connection to an African heritage.

My primary audience is the AfricanAmerican community. I want my art to remind them that we are not alone in the struggle and that the struggle has been going on for a long time. I want my artwork to remind us that the ancestors are with us, for it is they on whose shoulders we stand.

By Jessica Daniel Moore ’04 Moore is the diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the Indianapolis Public Library.

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By Landon Laven Jones ’09 Jones is a special assistant with the Executive Office of the Mayor of Washington D.C.

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ommy, are we Black people?”

Both of my children had asked me this question by the time they reached age 3. I take a deep breath, answer “yes” and pull out our copy of “Shades of Black” by Sandra Pinkney. As toddlers, my children were already forming an understanding of Blackness in this country. Being Black in America has meant death – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – for far too many.

My mother’s generation bore witness to the murder of Emmett Till as the tipping point that activated the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The events that followed would lead the country through protests that mobilized the movement: Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the eventual passage of the Civil Rights Act, Bloody Sunday and subsequently the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Fast forward more than 50 years and the murder of George Floyd catapulted us into the racial-justice movement of this generation. We’ve watched and participated in protests. Called for change in our institutions. We want police officers held accountable for murdering unarmed Black people. We want policy and legislative changes, but legislation alone is inadequate.

How do we legislate liberation? How does this generation win if my children’s skin is seen as a threat?

Coretta Scott King said: “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation.” We are at a critical tipping point. The future of my children – and yours – depends on our ability to figure this out.

n 2020, we are still celebrating firsts. More personal to the reader, our alma mater is celebrating our first Black and woman president.

This first of many to be revered, firsts celebrated long before, and firsts that will never be celebrated.

I wonder what Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, founder of Chicago, would have thought of this moment in 1780. I wonder what this moment would have meant to Matthew Simpson, anti-slavery

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THE BO(U)LDER QUESTION advocate and DePauw University’s first president in 1839. I wonder what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have spoken about at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, had he had this knowledge in 1960.

I wonder about the surprise and pride that George Floyd and his daughter Gianna would have felt in 2031, walking through our campus, entering a building named after Percy Julian and another named after Dorothy Brown, and learning that DePauw has a Black woman as president. The first. I wonder how often, in 2035, he would have had to catch his breath between tears as she strutted across the stage.

I abandon wonder, wander back to reality.

Alas, racism did not allow that for George, as it has not allowed so much. The safety and tradition of white supremacy have proven to be a foundation too important. Resistance to independence – in layman’s terms, change – is the ways of white folks. This moment is not new, nor is the desire to be rid of its oppression.

I find comfort in defying oppression and being rid of it before my own death.

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By the Rev. Mary McKinnon Ganz ’71 Ganz, a former journalist, retired last year from her second career as a Unitarian Universalist minister.

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ome weeks after the murder of George Floyd played its sickening reveal on nearly every screen in the U.S. and beyond, there was a demonstration in my senior community. More than a hundred people turned out under hot sun, nearly all of them white, wearing masks, some behind walkers, most carrying signs saying “Black Lives Matter.” It struck me that, before seeing that video, many of these people would have said “What?

Don’t ALL lives matter?” A few of them had stopped me coming out of my apartment to ask that very question about the sign that was in my window last year.

So there is an opening, a dawning awareness. May it continue! I worry that it won’t go far enough, that it will stop abruptly when it collides with the perceived self-interest of those of us for whom systems in this country, including the police sworn to protect people and property, have done well.

How much am I and other white people willing to look at? Can we open our hearts to see how capitalist goals of productivity and profit at the expense of human well-being are based on the way field hands were whipped harder when cotton prices were high? Can we open our eyes to how police and carceral systems were instituted to create another form of slavery and control for our Black kin? Will we – we white people – be willing to move beyond a feel-good, antiracist posture toward one that actually dismantles the systems that perpetuate and enforce white supremacy, even when that movement tips against our economic interest? I hope so. It will require a bigger, more conscious opening of minds and hearts. Institutions such as DePauw could take the lead in making it happen. Will we? Will DePauw?

By Emmitt C. Riley III Riley is an assistant professor of Africana studies and director of the Africana Studies Program.

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t is a complete understatement to say it was a surprise when Mississippi, my home state, moved to retire its state flag, which contains the Confederate battle emblem. I never thought that I would see the day when our political leaders would take such a step. To understand what this moment means for so many Mississippians is almost impossible to capture in words.

Mississippi has historically represented the heart and soul of resistance to the expansion of civil rights. We’ve rejected the expansion of health care under the Affordable Care Act. We’ve consistently elected embarrassing political figures such as Cindy Hyde-Smith, who joked about public hangings. We’ve underfunded our K-12 public education system. We’ve failed to create an equitable funding formula for our state’s historically black colleges and universities. We’ve failed to invest in technology, innovation and infrastructure. Many of our residential communities are still divided along racial lines. As we celebrate this longoverdue moment, I want to challenge my fellow Mississippians, and all Americans, to use this momentum to turn our fight toward eradicating systemic racism and inequality. Although the disgraceful flag has been retired, the white supremacist ideology that it represented is very much still alive.

We all know precisely what the confederacy represented and the cause it championed. The state’s flag was a consistent reminder of anti-Blackness and the terror that so many African Americans endured. Symbols are important. They tell stories.

They remind us of who we are, where we’ve been and who we are not. A common argument among defenders of the state’s flag is that it is about heritage, not hate. However, let us recall what was written into the articles of secession: “Our position is thoroughly

identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.” In the same sense that symbols are important to African Americans, the Confederate flag and other relics are essential to some whites’ hope that the South will one day rise again.

Although I am happy that our political leaders have decided it was time to retire this disgraceful flag, I am reluctant to applaud political leaders in Mississippi who merely did, 20 years into the 21st century, what should have been done a long time ago. In this political moment, it has become politically expedient for white people to engage in performative measures that do not engage in the real work of dismantling systemic inequality. It is my sincere hope that white people are raising their children to reject images such as the Confederate flag. This is what is expected from decent human beings. The difficult work that white people must now do is to disrupt, reform and dismantle systemic inequality wherever it exists in our society.

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By Lala Tanmoy Das ’12 Das is an M.D.-Ph.D. student in a program offered by Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

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t our first lab meeting since the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted, I sensed unease. After taking a seat at a large table, I noticed

that no one seemed to want to sit next to me. As more people shuffled in, most of my labmates huddled on the opposite side of the table. Someone mentioned the “kung flu.” Another labmate “joked” that Asians really ought to be wearing masks, especially in small gatherings such as lab meetings. It took me a few moments to realize that – as the only Asian person in the room – they were likely talking about me. I know I should have been wearing a mask, but I wasn't the only person in the room without one.

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in the building’s atrium with a Black colleague discussing an experimental method when a scientist from another lab joined us. Upon noticing my colleague’s Black Lives Matter pin, the scientist said, “You really ought to keep your politics at home.”

We were both taken aback.

Our visitor went on to declare that looting is not the right solution to George Floyd’s killing, that people need to get jobs instead of protesting all day and that Black people shouldn’t be so angry all the time. We sat there, appalled, but didn’t say anything.

On another occasion, a former co-worker asked me – as an immigrant – how I felt about President Donald Trump’s immigration bans.

I said I wished immigrants weren’t constantly viewed as a threat to the economy because we have so much to offer, particularly in niche work sectors. The person’s response was along the lines of, “At least Silicon Valley will be less of a ‘brown town’ and give others a chance.”

I laughed but felt seriously uncomfortable.

Why didn’t I speak up? Because I feared repercussions – and I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that way. On the rare occasions when I have voiced my concern about racist comments, I’ve been told I am “too much of a social justice warrior.” I’m at a precarious point in my training, because I’m currently doing lab

rotations, and I will settle on a Ph.D. adviser next year. Strained relationships with my colleagues may make it harder to find a permanent lab, or they may lead to poor letters of recommendation or lost authorship opportunities.

Yet racist comments, no matter how funny some people may think they are, should not be normalized and tolerated.

I feel deeply unsettled that in the current political environment, some people – including some scientists – think it’s OK to say these things. And I wish early-career scientists like me felt more comfortable questioning them.

It will take action at all rungs of scientific institutions – from deans’ offices down to individual labs – to change the climate. We need more than a few hours of mandated online bias training to really mobilize a shift. Universities need to create safe spaces to discuss racial issues and microaggressions head-on – for example, by developing seminar series or journal clubs to educate the community about problems and to generate solutions. And science itself needs a culture change. We should commit to holding one another accountable for problematic behavior.

When issues arise, institutions should have a clear procedure for filing grievances.

And, more broadly, there should be open and honest dialogue about the culture of intimidation and hierarchy in science. Universities and labs should seek actionable ways to flatten research team structures so that early-career scientists can feel empowered to speak up against

By Joshua Jones ’14 Jones is a master licensed social worker and a therapist who specializes in trauma work.

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problematic behavior.

Change is hard and takes time. Talking about racism with your colleagues is even harder. Mopping up centuries of racism that have percolated into everyday parlance will take a long time. However, science thrives when there are alternate perspectives. Now more than ever, we must acknowledge that and champion a culture of positive change.

From Science, July 17, 2020, Vol. 369, Issue 6501, page 342. DOI: 10.1126/science.369.6501.342 Reprinted with permission from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

ehumanization of Black lives makes my career as a Black, male, millennial therapist increasingly more imperative. There are too few therapists who look like me, leaving communities of people feeling unseen and unheard. My identity regularly informs my practice and provides a unique understanding of the layered trauma of racial injustice.

My clients’ frequent experiences with racial injustice and other traumas require that I provide therapeutic space for healing. I’m deeply committed to ensuring their physical, emotional and relational safety; building trust through consistency, acknowledgement of power imbalances and collaboration; providing room for choice and autonomy; and empowering them to live their lives more fully as they counter feelings of hopelessness and helplessness associated with trauma.

The significance of my clinical mental health training has been profoundly evident since my first weeks of graduate school. After graduating from DePauw, I began working toward a Master of Social Work at Saint Louis University. Two weeks later, Michael Brown Jr. was killed in my hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. I was serving as the graduate assistant in the Cross Cultural Center, where I oversaw the African-American Male Scholars Initiative.

Committed to increasing the retention and graduation rates of Black male students, I worked with young men every day whose lived experiences weren’t dissimilar to Mike Brown’s.

The recent killing of George Floyd and too many others continues to engage all I learned from these young scholars. They taught me the importance of safety, trust, collaboration, choice and empowerment and set me on the path to using these evidencebased practices in trauma intervention. Most important, I’ve learned that the provision of these core principles does not require credentials as much as commitment to the healing power of equity and justice.

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By Katherine Cauley ’74

Cauley is a professor emerita at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine with expertise in the theory and practice of service.

She serves on the advisory board of the Bryan A. Stevenson School of Excellence, a public charter school that focuses on social justice and racial equity and operates with a service-learning curriculum.

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share the opinion of Bryan A. Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of “Just Mercy,” that slavery in this country never really ended; it just evolved. From slavery to sharecropping to convict leasing to segregation to mass incarceration, Blacks in this country have been held in involuntary servitude, terrorized and disparately treated for more than 400 years. The narrative, generated and perpetuated by the white majority, that Blacks are less than human, to be feared … fill in any stereotype you like … serves to justify this behavior generation after generation.

Twice in our history, the better angels in our citizenry have sought to change this narrative and the pervasive structural and institutional racism that supports it, through federal legislation: Following the Civil War, the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and about 100 years later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Sadly, anger, retribution and desperate measures to maintain the power of the white majority followed both attempts, leaving us today with a society in which a Black man can be murdered by a police officer, seemingly at will. I remain hopeful, however, that George Floyd’s death and the protests that continue following his death, represent the beginnings of a renewed spirit of justice in this country. Perhaps this time we will indeed achieve the “more perfect union” called for in the Constitution of the United States.

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By Rachel Goldberg Goldberg is an associate professor and director of peace and conflict studies and supervisor of the Restorative Justice Mediation DePauw.

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write while my government takes actions to prevent federal agencies from doing training in the history of white supremacy in this country, using language that is frighteningly reminiscent of the McCarthy era. History showed that silencing voices is not commensurate with democracy, and I struggle, often, to understand what possible kind of democracy our leadership now supports.

However, my hope comes from the people I see working together to name and change the darkness gathering strength, and although it has been here long, at least it is now harder to hide. I have been inspired by the leadership of amazing young, white community members who led the racial justice protests in Greencastle this summer. They worked respectfully with the local NAACP and the local police, and had significant support from both, which seems rare and speaks well of all three.

It felt good to do something in the face of escalating violence and dehumanization in the United States, and it felt better to have many times the number of waves and beeps than the number of angry responses from passing cars.

I wondered if the work was really making a difference, but was told by the NAACP representative working with us that people told him they felt better about coming to Greencastle, that students of color said they felt better coming back to DePauw when they knew community members were doing this, and leading this. As a white person doing this work, I know my need to learn will be continuous, and ongoing. I am so troubled by the world I live in now, but my hope comes from how many white people are standing up, speaking truth and continuing to do so.

By Maryclare Flores ‘14 Flores is a fifth-grade inclusion teacher in the Boston Public Schools.

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here is no such thing as being “neutral” in education.

When we are engaging in learning with young people, we are either reinforcing stereotypes and biases and maintaining the current systems that produce them, or we are empowering students to think critically, ask questions and confidently express themselves. Can’t you be somewhere in between? Absolutely not.

Desmond Tutu famously said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Too often we hear denials of responsibility in times of injustice. By teaching a curriculum that erases history and paints colonizers as explorers, for example, we are contributing to, at worst, hate and, at best, ignorance. We cannot act like racism has not permeated every aspect of schooling from inequitable funding, aggressive policing in schools and inaccurate portrayals or deficits in the curriculum. We must teach our students to always

ask critical questions such as “Who is telling the story?” and “What perspectives are missing and why?” Rather than becoming complicit in maintaining white supremacy, choose to read stories about the solidarity at the 504 Sit-in for disability rights, the horror of Japanese-American internment camps, the systematic kidnapping and abuse of Indigenous peoples by the child welfare system, the prosperity of Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street” and the empowering leadership of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. In the classroom, we notice the curriculum depicting certain people as victims while erasing the very existence of others. How does this affect student perceptions of these groups today?

Some think that being a teacher means “playing both sides” of history and, while it is important to show opposition or hate as a point of reference, educators should not uphold xenophobic, sexist or racist ideas as if they are valid arguments. This is not a philosophical debate, but rather life or death for our students.

It is my responsibility to be supportive of the identities and lived experiences of my students and to provide the skills and opportunities for their development. I know that I can’t be neutral in situations of oppression. As a DePauw grad, student or staff member, I hope that you can’t be either.

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n light of “a renewed look at the experiences of minority peoples through a contemporary lens” that is taking place across the country, President Lori S. White has tasked a committee of faculty, staff, alumni and students with developing guiding principles and a process to reconsider names, statues, monuments and traditions at DePauw, if requests to do so are made. White said the committee is not an attempt to erase or revise DePauw’s history and traditions, but rather is an opportunity for the university to live up to its motto to be “the light and splendor of the common good” and be an institution that is mindful and respectful of its past and inclusive of and welcoming of all members of the community.

By Brian Gran ’85 Gran is a professor of sociology, law and applied social sciences at Case Western Reserve University. His scholarship concentrates on human rights, law and social policy; for 2020-21, he is a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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e are witnessing racism, often violent, all over the world. George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police. The Chinese government has imprisoned nearly a million Uighurs and is forcibly

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By Maya Arcilla ’15 Arcilla organizes in the Chicago Filipino community advocating for human rights, sovereignty and an end to the killings in the Philippines and is involved in the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and the movement for a Civilian Police Accountability Council.

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eorge Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ronald “Ronnie Man” Johnson, Jayne Thompson, Kian delos Santos, Rekia Boyd, Fabel Pineda, Carl Arnaiz – only a few of the lives stolen at the hands of the U.S. and Philippine police. Each name represents a family and community in mourning and outrage.

In the Philippines, an estimated 27,000 people were murdered under President Duterte’s war on drugs in the past four years alone. In truth, Duterte is waging a war on the poor and against anyone who speaks up against his violent dictatorship. I am part of the Malaya Movement in Chicago – a Filipino organization fighting against tyranny in the Philippines – and we continue to resist state terror in the United States and abroad. We have marched alongside Chicago police torture survivors and community members who have lost loved ones due to police violence. Together, we rose up with millions in the streets after the killing of George Floyd, intensifying a political uprising denouncing statesponsored violence and demanding community control of the police.

Our struggles and liberation are bound together. From Minneapolis to Greencastle to the Philippines, let us continue to rise up for justice and fight for a world free of police impunity.

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sterilizing Uighur women. University researchers report that 20% of Australians have experienced race hate speech. A Russian blogger who regularly criticizes Russians on racism and feminism has more than a million “haters.” In India, people who appear East Asian have been targets of violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since World War II, leaders of nearly every country have committed their governments to implementing human rights at home through ratification of international treaties. A key aspect of human rights is that they are universal; everyone possesses them. Yet leaders of some countries do not take human rights seriously. A government may ratify a treaty merely to look good, and fail to implement it. This runs contrary to ideas that inspire human rights.

Are human rights effective tools to ending racism? Some legal scholars assert that the legal system is organized to benefit powerful and wealthy individuals. They call for reforming societal institutions rather than using rights to bring about change.

Others believe rights remain meaningful and useful to less-powerful individuals. To these experts, when one possesses rights, society recognizes this person as a member who can use institutions to bring about change.

Perhaps both are right. Rights have been effective tools to battling discrimination in the United States and elsewhere. What we need to recognize is that, to overcome racism, we must discern how to use rights to make reforms that enable individuals to live together equally and in prosperity, knowing that who they are and what they do are what matters.

By Megan Soultz ’10 Soultz is a Carmel, Indiana, police officer.

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efund the police.” That’s a curious demand, if you ask me.

Contrary to current rhetoric, a poor decision made by a cop is rarely malicious. More likely, it’s a reflection of their training. Good people can make bad decisions, and bad cops exist, but we’re not all evil. We also are not superhuman robots. We require training.

As a defensive tactics instructor, I spent an entire week helping 120 officers improve their response to high-stress incidents by conducting scenario training. A mentally ill person holding a gun to their head, a disgruntled homeowner charging with a knife and an attack in a squad car are all scenarios that should sound familiar. The challenges are endless and the “right” answer is never the same. Are oral commands clear and deliberate? Is anyone else in danger? What are less-lethal options? Lethal options? How and when should officers transition between the two?

Keep in mind these answers can change in an instant. While you can afford to watch, rewind, fast forward, pause and zoom our body camera footage without your life being at risk, our price tag is a bit higher. We are out there at 3 a.m., away from our families, striving to improve ourselves. We are learning that distance and cover buy us time and allow for better decisions. Also understand the approximate cost to conduct the aforementioned training is $15,000. So if you find yourself concerned by cops’ decisions and believe defunding is the solution, please reconsider your logic. Training leads to understanding distance and cover; distance and cover offer time; time results in better decisions; and as the old saying goes, time is money.

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With 2020 coming to a close, appreciated stock in your portfolio might be useful in

making a tax-advantaged gift to The Fund for

DePauw, which supports the university’s highest priorities, including scholarships and the

Student Emergency Relief Fund, which supports students who have been financially harmed by COVID-19. By directing your gift to The Fund for DePauw or the Student Emergency Relief

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M. Loren Bullock writes that he was impressed to see a photo of the new dorm being built on Olive Street. When he returned for his senior year as a married vet in 1946 after World War II, the corner lot was the location of 10 Quonset huts for married students housing. He lived in half of a Quonset and hung laundry on a clothesline between two trees.

The visage of Willis “Bing” Davis was an award-winner for Florida artist Dean Mitchell, whose portrait of Bing won Best in Show at the 40th International Art Exhibition, held virtually in October on the San Diego Watercolor Society website. (See photo.) Bing recently was the juror of the 96th annual Hoosier Salon Exhibit this year.

1957 Jo Petry Hershberger’s third novel, “Comfort Food,” was published in April.

A resident of Middleton, Wisconsin, she also is the author of “Some Good Memory” and “Windfall.”

Delta Zeta Class of 1960 virtual reunion. Those attending included (left to right) Top row: Dottie Nordlund Harris, Virginia Walsh Knight, Mary Ann Minor Hume and Margaret Verhulst Bradford.

Middle row: Thelma “Suzie” Hunter Harkness ’59, Judy Laird Purvis, Sonja Nay Wise and Janet Thomson Brugos. Third row: Helen Lockhart Smiley, Marilyn Horak Herrick, Joyce Gregg Stoppenhagen and Barbara Prescott Mueller. Not pictured, but participating: Sally Hicks Towson, Gloria Reichenbach Hill and Susie Frazier Longino.

1960 The Delta Zeta Class of 1960 was planning a 60th reunion at DePauw when the pandemic struck. The planned reunion went virtual and then, since March, evolved into monthly Zoom meetings, with 10 or 15 participants every time. (See photo from the group’s August meeting.)

Members of the 1969 Alpha Phi class celebrating their 50th reunion included (first row) Barbara Palm Gibson, Catherine Crawford and Barbara Henry Bowen. (Second row) Marie Lattin Souder, Mary Wetherell Curl, Nancy B. Gable, Cindy Croneigh Burrell, Barbara Zaring, Pamela Andberg Krause, Catherine Healy Hofmann and Holly Munchoff Kendig.

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Hampton Scott Tonk, a management profitability consultant and success coach at MPCSC LLC, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievement and leadership in management consulting, coaching, writing and ministry.

Margaretta “Maggie” Swigert-Gacheru is the arts correspondent for Business Daily and coordinator of the Kenya Arts Diaryavb, an annual journal about Kenya artists. She also writes a blog, kenyanartsreview.blogspot.com. She went to Kenya on an ambassadorial fellowship from Rotary International in the 1970s, and has lived there ever since.

1969 Dean Mitchell portrait of Willis “Bing” Davis ’59.

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The 1969 Alpha Phi class celebrated its 50th reunion last summer. (See photo.)

1973 Bill Carroll has published a book, “Ranking the Albums/The Stereo LP Era: 1963-1989.”

Wendy Sanders Robinson retired as Fort Wayne (Indiana) Community Schools superintendent. She has served as a teacher and administrator for 47 years.

1974 Roland “Tom” Rust was named this year’s winner of the Buck Weaver Award by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, an organization for quantitative marketing. He is one of nine people worldwide to have received both of ISMS’ top career achievement awards. He is grateful to professor Underwood Dudley and the rest of the DePauw mathematics faculty for building the background in math and computer science necessary to succeed in a quantitative field. He is the distinguished uiversity professor and David Bruce Smith chair in marketing at the University of Maryland, College Park. He and his wife, Ming-Hui Huang, live in Bethesda, Maryland.

1975 Kathleen Snell Jagger is the president of Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.

She taught microbiology and public health at DePauw from 1996-2003.

1978 Elizabeth Henry Martin, Watseka, Illinois, retired from her job at Crescent City Grade School as the junior high school English, language arts and social studies teacher.

1981 Ann T. Daly is a major gift officer for the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana.

1985 Brian K. Gran has been named a

Jefferson Science Fellow and is working for a year for the U.S. State Department’s undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights. Fellows are tenured faculty members from U.S. institutions of higher learning who serve as advisers to the U.S. State Department or the U.S. Agency for International Development on issues of foreign policy or international development. Gran is a sociology professor at Case Western Reserve University.

1986 Gregory A. Pitner is a senior business development officer for First Internet Bank and a member of the small business administration lending team.

1987 Arthur “Jim” McGowan Jr. is vice president and general manager of the military and government business unit at Vislink. Vislink provides customers operating in challenging and austere global environments. He, his wife Yolande and their two sons live in Los Angeles County.

1989 Janet Zamber Rummel is the president and chief executive officer for Owen County (Indiana) Community Foundation.

1990 Thomas E. Braden is the vice president of enterprise technology for Indiana Mills & Manufacturing Inc. in Westfield, Indiana.

Francis “Frank” R. Facchini is the president of Varian’s Interventional Solutions business.

1993 Randall P. Stille is the chief operating officer of Mayville Engineering Co.

Steve Wright ’95 and Allan The Dog

Conrad K. Mazeika ’06

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Angelina Andrews Torain is the senior associate athletics director for culture, diversity and engagement at the University of Notre Dame.

Hilary Guenther Buttrick is the interim dean of the Lacy School of Business at Butler University. Hilary lives in Carmel, Indiana, with her husband, Stuart R. Buttrick ’97, and her children Laurel and Robert Foster.

Steven S. Hoar, a partner with Kahn Dees Donovan & Khan LLP in Evansville, was recognized as a distinguished barrister by “Indiana Lawyer.”

1995 Justin P. Christian, founder and chief executive officer of BCforward Corp., has joined Lumina Foundation’s board of directors.

Steve Wright is the voice and puppeteer of the title character in the new movie “Allan The Dog,” which is available to rent or own on cable, satellite and most streaming services. Steve has been a producer for “The Bachelor” franchise for more than a decade. (See photo.)

1996 Connie Ostler Brown, owner of The Brown Cow Ice Cream Parlor in Forest Park, Illinois, will build an in-house creamery after COVID-related supplychain interruptions. Her son, Keegan, established an emergency GoFundMe campaign to help the shop create the creamery. Connie is a single mother with three teenagers, and the ice cream parlor is the sole source of her income.

2001 Abigail M. Lovett was promoted to lead the retail sector division of Ketchum, a global PR agency.

2002 Jonathan “Jack” Stahlmann is the coauthor of “Days of our Work Lives.” The flip book is a single story written from two perspectives, the manager’s view and the employee’s view. Jack, a former actor, is a corporate speaker who humorously addresses workplace challenges.

2005 Dana Hudson Stone is the executive director for the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.

2006 Stephanie M. Daniels is UX design lead for Conde Nast Vogue Forces of Fashion 2020.

Conrad K. Mazeika is the president of the Baltic-American Freedom League.

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GOLD NUGGETS 2008 Ashley Sorenson Sprengnether was named to Dealerscope’s “40 Under 40” list, which recognizes idea-generators in the consumer technology industry.

She is the associate show director for Emerald X/CEDIA Expo.

2010 Lyndsay L. Moy is an education and community engagement coordinator for the Indianapolis Opera.

Andrew P. Spataro is a development director for Irgens, a national commercial real estate solutions firm.

He is based in Milwaukee.

2011 Tyler A. Archer was recognized as a St. Louis Public Schools school leader of the year for 2020. He is principal of Nance Elementary School.

2013 Tyler L. Perfitt earned his Ph.D. in molecular physiology and biophysics from Vanderbilt University. He is a postdoctoral scientist in the Rare Disease Research Unit at Pfizer Inc.

Emily Brelage Sandberg is managing supervisor at VOX Global, a public affairs and strategic communications agency. Emily works in the Indianapolis office and leads communications campaigns to expand Indiana’s pre-K program and pass hate-crimes legislation. The Hoosier Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America named her the 2020 Young Professional Award recipient.

2014 Thomas Kneeland-Johnson is the founder and executive director of The Kneeland Center for Poetry Inc. and the founding editor-in-chief of the quarterly online poetry journal, “The Elevation Review.” The center and the journal aim to cultivate and enhance the voices of underrepresented poets across the globe. Thomas also is the author of two published collections of poetry, “Shades of Gold” (2018) and “Uncaged: Breathing in Public” (2019).

Madeleine M. Lee and Matthew M. Skura were married Oct. 18, 2019, in Wheaton, Illinois. (See photo.)

2016 Olivia Taylor Cloer is the author of

“Stronger Than You Think: The Sisters Who Survived Kid Nation,” a memoir about her time as a contestant on the 2007 CBS reality television show, “Kid Nation.” The memoir is available on Amazon.

Natalie M. Yaipen is a writer, painter and social worker. She has selfpublished her first print book, “Under Construction,” the story of a young woman and her reflections on love, heartbreaks, family drama and sexual violence.

2017 Bradley F. Wise graduated from Pacific University School of Pharmacy with a doctorate of pharmacy.

2018 Matthew A. Peirce received a master’s degree in public policy, specializing in international relations, national security and dispute resolution, from Pepperdine University, Malibu campus. He lives in New York City.

2020 Conner J. Mullin is a tax consultant for McGuire Sponsel in Indianapolis.

DePauw Magazine marks the death of alumni, faculty and staff members and friends. Obituaries do not include memorial gifts.

When reporting a death, please send as much information as you have about the person and his/her affiliation with DePauw to Alumni Records, DePauw University, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, Ind. 46135-0037 or to jamahostetler@depauw.edu.

IN MEMORIAM 1940 Helen Youngblood Cope, 102, Seattle, April 7. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta who enjoyed gardening, boating, fishing and world travel. She was preceded in death by her brother, Willard K. Youngblood ’36.

1944 Ruth Burnet Schroeder, 98, Carol Stream, Illinois, June 20. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta who enjoyed traveling, boating; swimming, reading and volunteer work.

Mary Kirsch Browne, 98, Oak Park, Illinois, Aug. 21. She was an executive secretary who volunteered for many community organizations.

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Madeleine M. Lee ’14 and Matthew M. Skura ’14 wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Nik E. Lee ’82, Luke Y. J. Freyfogle ’14, Patrick A. Croner ’05, Louis M. Wallis ’13, Paulina J. Haight ’13, Frank P. Scommegna ’83, Emily K. Miller ’13, David R. Goldense ’13, Alex C. McPeek ’12, J. Taylor Baron ’13, Alexander S. Paul ’13, Denzil P. Bennett II ’85, Laura Winans Lee ’83, Jason S. Cohen ’13, Sarah Hilbrich Lamping ’12, Christopher Q. Lamping ’13, Ariana A. Borrello ’14, Elleka A. Okerstrom ’14, Emma J. Cooper ’15, Micheline A. Figel ’14, Chelsea J. K. Cutler ’14, Shannon M. Mahoney ’14, William B. Sharkey ’81, Anne Webster Kramer ’83, Hillary N. Buchler ’12, Breana Buchler Connelly ’11 and Lucas T. Buchler ’09.

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Francile Caylor McClure, 96, Sarasota, July 31. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a high school English teacher. She was honored as a Hoosier English Teacher of the Year.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Christian M. McClure ’45; and a sister-in-law, Marian McClure Bittles ’43.

Nancy Horne Matthei, 95, Wilmette, Illinois, Jan. 27, 2019. She was a member of Phi Beta Phi. She had a successful career in advertising and enjoyed travel,

competitive games, golf and staying current on world affairs. Survivors include daughters Nancy Matthei Garrigus ’72 and Patricia Matthei O’Neil ’80 and granddaughter N. Anne Garrigus ’05. She was preceded in death by a brother, William M. Horne Jr. ’42.

Stanley L. London, 95, St. Louis, June 8.

He was an orthopedic surgeon who was team physician for the St. Louis Hawks basketball team from 1955-68 and head physician for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for more than 30 years.

YWCA in Denver; a camp director; and a real estate agent. She was an expert knitter and seamstress; a stained-glass artist; and an avid reader. She enjoyed camping, hiking and skiing.

Marilynn Kline Elvidge, 95, Bloomington, Illinois, Aug. 10. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta; a church organist; and a piano teacher.

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Kenneth J. Lee, 93, Niles, Illinois, June 11. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and a computer systems consultant. He enjoyed playing golf, basketball, bowling, softball, bridge, cribbage and poker.

Lynette Bradley Beall, 95, Denver, May 8. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma; a physical education instructor; a program director at the

John S. Wells Jr., 94, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 19. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; a Rector scholar; and a banker. He enjoyed golf, tennis,

JOHN J. BAUGHMAN ’48, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of DePauw who returned to the university to teach European history for 37 years, died June 26 in Greencastle. He was 95.

Baughman, who retired in 1990, enrolled at DePauw in 1942, but his education was interrupted by his service in the U.S. Army’s 44th Infantry Division from 1943-45, for which he received the Order of Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge.

He was a Rector scholar at DePauw and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Paris in 1951. He received a master’s degree in French history from Harvard University and a Ph. D. in European history from the University of Michigan. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

While a professor at DePauw, he chaired the History Department; served as university historian and university marshal; and worked as a visiting professor for two years in Athens, Greece. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

Baughman was active in a number of organizations and served as president of the Historic Preservation Society of Putnam County and the Indiana United Methodist Historical Society. He was an avid reader and was a genealogist who detailed the Baughman family tree. He was the author of several books, including “DePauw University: A Pictorial History.”

He was honored in 2002 when Patricia Harms Canfield ’57 and her spouse Robert C. Canfield ’60 endowed a faculty fellowship in honor of Baughman and his wife Elizabeth Bowden Baughman.The Canfields supplemented the endowment in 2015.

squash and skiing. Survivors include a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Loupee Lippert ’78; a stepson, Robert E. Loupee ’76; and a brother-in-law, Peter E. Trees ’56.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Gretchen Trees Wells ’49; his third wife, Deborah Trees Wells ’51; and his father-in-law, Robert C. Trees ’22.

1948 Virginia Auble Knueppel, Tucker, Georgia, May 23. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi; a teacher; an actress; and a church educator. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles M. Knueppel ’48.

Raymond P. Brown, 93, New Port Richey, Florida, July 31. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega; a Rector scholar; and a United Methodist minister. He enjoyed travel; wrote his autobiography; and was an avid reader with a special interest in the Civil War. Survivors include daughters Kathryn R. Brown ’76 and Natalie Brown Shepard ’74 and a sonin-law, Kenneth R. Shepard ’74. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Scytha Martin Brown ’50.

1949 Shirley Cloud Bledsoe, 93, Katy, Texas, July 19. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a community and church volunteer who loved playing bridge and participating in garden clubs, ladies’ lunches and needlework guilds.

Marjorie Horn Shelly, 94, Fullerton, California, July 21. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi; a teacher; and a church choir director. Survivors include a sister-in-law, Susanna Shelly Hennum ’50. She was preceded in death by her husband, William L. Shelly ’47; a sister, Alice Horn White ’44; and a sister-inlaw, Geneva Shelly Carpenter ’42.

Mary Wall Martin, 93, Saline, Michigan, May 2. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta; a teacher; an education consultant; and an antiques dealer. She enjoyed bridge and played in three clubs.

Ann Warner Howard, 92, Mount Vernon, Illinois, March 18. She was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society and Pi Beta Phi and was a community volunteer. Survivors include her husband, H. John Howard II ’49, and a nephew-in-law, Donald P. Delves ’78. She was preceded in death by brothers-in-law Robert T. Howard ’37, Eugene L. Delves ’50 and William A. Nicoll ’46; sisters-in-law Jane Howard Schmehl ’38, Mary Howard Nicoll ’41 and Sue Howard Delves ’51; and an aunt, Mabel Batchellor Howard ’29.

1950 Donald E. Applegate, 92, Pensacola, July 11, of COVID-19. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and a dentist who retired from the U.S. Navy.

He enjoyed photography, jazz, gardening and scholarly study of Pensacola and U.S. history.

Ruth Hill Wills, 91, Hillsborough, North Carolina, June 10. She was a member of Delta Zeta who worked in advertising and business. She was a world traveler and a rescuer of animals large and small.

Patricia Ryan Bromer, 92, Indianapolis, July 6. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi who taught grade school and was a community and church volunteer.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Marie Bromer Moore ’58. She was preceded in death by her husband, William W. Bromer ’49, and a brother-in-law, Henry E. Bromer Jr. ’44.

1951 Shirley Groves Roman, 92, Gary, Indiana, May 15. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a teacher who served on many committees and organizations. She enjoyed gardening, birding and traveling. Survivors include a cousin, Helen Donahoe Sullivan ’51.

Elsie Manny Eads, 91, Raleigh, North Carolina, Aug. 6. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Beta Kappa. She worked in several

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GOLD NUGGETS administrative positions and retired as a disability determination specialist.

After retirement, she took German classes, traveled abroad, attended art performances and was a community volunteer.

Anne Mossberg Hillman, 91, South Bend, Sept. 10. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a former member of DePauw’s Board of Visitors. She was a dedicated supporter of her community. She enjoyed bridge, gardening and traveling. Survivors include a son, Thomas C. Hillman ’80, and a granddaughter, Kristin M. Hillman ’17. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles W. Hillman ’52.

Mary Ellen Taylor Benson, 90, Cambria, California, July 22. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; a Sunday School and nursery teacher; and a community volunteer. She enjoyed travelling and was the copilot of the Cessna 195 airplane she shared with her late husband.

Thomas O. Weaver, 93, LaPorte, Indiana, June 1. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a business manager.

Arthur B. Webb, 90, Rockford, Illinois, July 25. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a United Methodist minister. He was involved in local clubs and organizations and an avid gardener who enjoyed travel. He was preceded in death by a brother, John R. Webb ’47, and a sister-in-law, Lucy Longden Webb ’45.

Gordon D. Williams, 90, Monclova, Ohio, June 5. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a salesman.

He enjoyed traveling, fishing, gardening and tennis.

1952 Barbara Beberstein Susdorf, 90, Stuart, Florida, May 1. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and an elementary school teacher.

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Barbara Brewer Clark, 90, Indianapolis July 7. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a community volunteer. She enjoyed the piano, quilting, Native American history and art, horses, reading and genealogy. Survivors include a daughter, Maryanne B. Clark ’82; a nephew, John W. Breck ’75; a niece-inlaw, Sarah Smith Breck ’76; great nieces Abigail Breck Brown ’03 and Jennifer L. Breck ’01; and great nephews Clint D. Schroer ’05 and Andrew W. Breck ’06. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph H. Clark ’49, and her mother, Gladys Trick Brewer 1922.

Helen Gibson Tykal, 90, Holladay, Utah, Sept. 5. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and a retail buyer who also worked in insurance. She was a Girl Scout leader, library volunteer and literacy volunteer who enjoyed traveling, walking, skiing and bicycling. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack B. Tykal ’52.

Margaret A. Shaheen, 89, New York City, May 20. She taught preschool and a program to promote the arts in New York City public schools. She enjoyed travel, Broadway and musical theater.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Julia David Shaheen 1921, and a sister, Adele Shaheen Freije ’47.

1953 Phillip C. Davis, 88, Mount Vernon, New York, May 31. He was a member of Sigma Chi who had a career in residential real estate. He enjoyed lifting weights, following politics, playing the piano, singing and sharing his faith.

Survivors include a son, Robert C. Davis ’79; a sister, Nancy Davis Smith ’59; and a niece, Julia Harmon Chavez ’89. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Emison Davis ’53, and a sister-in-law, Anne Emison Harmon ’54.

Ronald D. Smith, 87, Salisbury, North Carolina, June 2. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Washington C. DePauw Society. He was a physician and medical research director who enjoyed world travel, competitive

sailing, tennis, reading, gourmet cooking and gardening. Survivors include a son, Stephen N. Smith ’79.

Warren Carr ’55, and a daughter, Karen Carr Furlong ’79. He was preceded in death by a sister, Jane Carr ’58.

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Sanford E. Elton, Bradenton, Florida, April 28. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a Rector scholar; and a physician who served as chief of staff and a member of the board of trustees for Manatee Memorial Hospital. He was president of the Manatee County Heart Association, the Manatee County Health Council and the Manatee Community Blood Center. He served in every possible position at the Hernando DeSoto Historical Society, and had an award for exceptional service named after him.

Howard E. Denbo, 90, San Francisco, May 24. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a cardiovascular surgeon.

He was a pilot and flying instructor who enjoyed travel, biking, horseback riding, music and reading. Survivors include a sister, Mae Denbo Hillman ’55.

Judith Johnson Oberholtzer, 87, Douglas, Michigan, Aug. 25. She was a member of Delta Gamma; an elementary school teacher; an interior designer; and a community leader and volunteer. Survivors include sisters Karen Johnson Spoerl ’58 and Christine Johnson Morgan ’61 and brothersin-law, Glenn H. Spoerl ’58 and Jerry A. Morgan ’59. She was preceded in death by her husband, William H. Oberholtzer ’53.

Gerald E. Jones, 87, Littleton, Colorado, June 22. He was a member of Delta Chi and a general manager with Rand McNally for 35 years. He was a lover of history and maps and enjoyed fishing, traveling and sports. Survivors include a sister, Alice Jones Slanec ’58. He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Glenn J. Slanec ’57.

George A. Wagle, 88, Granger, Indiana, May 18. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and the Washington C. DePauw Society. He served two years in the U.S. Army. He was a businessman who sold accounting machines and computers and, after retiring, owned an antique business. He enjoyed traveling and gardening. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne Rappel Wagle ’56.

1955 James G. Carr, 87, Carol Stream, Illinois, July 22. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a businessman who was active member in his community.

Survivors include his wife, Carol

Elizabeth “Bette” Hardy Holland, 86, Indianapolis, Sept. 1, 2019. She was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and, as a fine arts major, was honored to have a piece of her art included in a traveling DePauw exhibition. Upon graduation, she created displays for the L.S. Ayres and Co. department store and later worked as an interior decorator of several show homes. She excelled at gardening, cooking, decorating, refinishing furniture, painting, home repairs and even body work on cars.

Carol Rodebaugh Brandt, 87, Decatur, Illinois, June 8. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and the Decatur City Council and served as mayor pro tempore of the city. She was preceded in death by her husband, James A. Brandt ’54.

Noll Sanders Davis Cassady, 87, Huntsville, Alabama, July 24. She was a member of Delta Gamma and the Washington C. DePauw Society. Her claim to fame while at DePauw was her hoop skirt, which her friends loved to borrow. She worked as a flight attendant and a real estate agent, and volunteered in the community. Survivors include a sister, Martha Sanders Saunders ’52.

She was preceded in death by her father, A. Dewey Sanders 1923.

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Sylvia Cannon Van Bergen O’Connor, 86, Maitland, Florida, July 28. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and and a community volunteer. Survivors include her daughter, Louise Van Bergen Holzhauer ’80, and son-in-law, Gregory L. Holzhauer ’80. She was preceded in death by her parents, LeGrand Cannon ’27 and Helen West Cannon ’27; her grandfather, Roy O. West, Class of 1890; and a sister, Louise Cannon Francis ’52.

Beverly Boigegrain Rodgers, 84, St. Joseph, Michigan, July 21. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; a teacher; and a research librarian. She enjoyed traveling, camping, gardening, baking singing in the church choir, playing the organ for her church, reading and working crossword puzzles. Survivors include a daughter, Marguarite D. Rodgers ’93. She was preceded in death by her brother, Walter J. Boigegrain ’49.

Suzanne Harvey Trimble, 86, Middletown, Ohio, July 26. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta; a teacher; a business owner; and a community volunteer.

Nancy Holmes Sprague, 85, LaGrange, Illinois, June 26. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a high school teacher.

Sarah E. McGreevy, 86, Wheaton, Illinois, May 9. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She was a kindergarten and first-grade teacher and an artist who painted oil portraits and landscapes. Survivors include a sister, Myrna McGreevy Newpart ’59.

She was preceded in death by a brother, R. Edward McGreevy Jr. ’54, and a brother-in-law, James R. Newpart ’59.

Donna Neff Reinholtz, 86, Osceola, Indiana, Aug. 12. She was the Osceola deputy clerk and clerk treasurer and a newspaper writer who managed the family farm with her husband. She enjoyed golfing, collecting antiques, traveling and gardening.

1956 Jay U. Sterling, 86, Tuscaloosa, May 28.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a Rector scholar who played football at DePauw. He became a CPA but moved into logistics and supply-chain management, then returned to school mid-career and earned a Ph.D. He taught at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration for more than 20 years and was elected to the Faculty Hall of Fame in 2012. He loved Alabama football, golf, reading, traveling and country music, especially Ray Price. Survivors include his son, John Sterling ’76.

1958 Freddie G. Augspurger, 84, Fort Wayne, July 11. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi; a banker; and a real estate agent.

He enjoyed watching basketball and spending summers on the lake.

Julie Harris Kreitzman, 84, Green Valley, Arizona, April 17. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; a piano and voice teacher; organist; and choir director.

Richard D. Lockhart, 84, Plainfield, Illinois, July 20. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and a businessman. He enjoyed golf, reading and collecting stamps.

James J. O’Brien, 86, West Lafayette, June 22. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an educator.

Roy M. Stanley II, 84, Fredericksburg, Virginia, June 28. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi who pioneered the use of data automation for photo intelligence.

He retired from the U.S. Air Force, was the author of military history books and appeared in two BBC documentaries.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Arnold Stanley ’58. He was preceded in death by his parents, John H. Stanley ’30 and Pauline Becker Stanley ’31.

Louis L. Watson Jr., 84, Jupiter, Florida, May 13. He was a member of Phi

Kappa Psi and an orthopedic surgeon.

He was an avid tennis player and a pilot who enjoyed traveling in his motorhome and on cruises. Survivors include a brother, John R. Watson ’62.

1959 John T. Phipps, 82, Champaign, Illinois, Aug. 11. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and an attorney in private practice. He lectured for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, wrote chapters in the practice handbook and provided legal services for the underserved. He enjoyed seeing Shakespeare plays, traveling and reading. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Barth Phipps ’60.

1960 Patricia Zwickel Godwin, 81, Fort Collins, Colorado, July 7. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society and worked as a surgical nurse, a public health nurse and a school nurse. Survivors include her husband, Robert P. Godwin ’59; a sister, Barbara S. Zwickel ’62; a brother, James E. Zwickel ’71; a sisterin-law, Cynthia Kloke Zwickel ’71; and a brother-in-law, John P. Godwin ’67.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ralph E. Zwickel ’33.

1961 Gary P. Drew, 81, Sarasota, June 30. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, the DePauw Board of Trustees, the Washington C. DePauw Society and the DePauw Alumni Board of Directors.

He received an Alumni Citation. He and his wife, Sandra Aldrich Drew ’62, established the Cassel Grubb university professorship of music award through an endowment gift. He was employed with General Motors Corp. for 30 years. He served as a board member of the United Way of Michigan, the Mental Health Association of Michigan and the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation.

He loved Camp Mishawaka in Grand Rapids and served as president for the

Mishawaka Foundation. He loved his family, fine food and life on the water in Suttons Bay. Survivors in addition to his wife include a daughter, Dana Drew Johnston ’88, and a brother-in-law, Alan B. Aldrich ’64.

1962 Elizabeth Geider Selmier, 79, Chicago, May 16. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Beta Kappa who worked as an editor and in administrative positions in Chicago law offices. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Donald D. Ake ’62.

James T. McCoy, 80, Seymour, Indiana, Aug. 23. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a Rector scholar; and a businessman. He was a sports lover who enjoyed outdoor activities and a world traveler. Survivors include his wife, Linda Bollinger McCoy ’62; a daughter, Elizabeth McCoy McCarty ’92; granddaughters Samantha L. McCarty ’20 and Margaret M. Royalty ’16; nephews, Timothy M. Pugh ’88, Jason A. Pugh ’91 and John C. Stadler ’92; a sonin-law, Robert W. McCarty ’92; a niecein-law, Vicki Freeman Pugh ’87; and a brother-in-law, Thomas R. Bollinger ’65.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Thompson McCoy ’30, and fatherin-law, Don M. Bollinger ’36.

Norman D. Nelson, 79, Gonzales, California, May 14. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; and a physician. He was an avid horseman, skier, traveler, tennis player, reader and music lover.

1964 Barbara Black Schaad, 77, Las Vegas, Sept. 7. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and and a music teacher.

Marilyn Norris Hamaker, 78, Indianapolis, Sept. 5. She was an artist and a community volunteer who enjoyed travel, old movies, Disney World, art and theater. Survivors include her husband, James B. Hamaker ’63.

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GOLD NUGGETS Thomas E. Reed, 77, San Diego, July 20.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta who worked as a field agent for the U.S. government and as a business executive, as well as in the entertainment business.

1965 P. Jayne Lebsack, 78, Gresham, Oregon, May 7. She was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society who worked for a travel tour company and as a ticket and gate attendant with Alaska Airlines. She enjoyed traveling, concerts and many social activities.

John E. Somers, 77, Angola, Indiana, Aug. 24. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and a business executive.

Survivors include a niece, Stephanie Somers ’86. He was preceded in death by his mother, Jane Rhue Somers ’32.

Dale A. Wood, 77, San Antonio, July 28.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a physician. He established the Southwest Asthma and Allergy Clinic in San Antonio; was an advocate for children of abuse; and was active in community organizations. He enjoyed skiing, hunting and fishing. He was preceded in death by a brother, Gary L. Wood ’67.

1967 Charles P. Rougle, 73, Albany, New York, May 17. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He lectured at the universities of Stockholm and Uppsala in the 1970s and 1980s; was a translator and editor from Russian and Swedish into English; and was a professor of Russian language and literature at the State University of New York. He enjoyed woodworking, playing the cello, gardening and cooking.

1970 Karla Abel Carter, 72, Glenpool, Oklahoma, May 8. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and a chaplain.

Caroline J. Beebe, 72, Bloomington, Indiana, Aug. 1. She was a member of Delta Gamma and the Washington

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C. DePauw Society; a computer artist and programmer; and a consultant for academic computing. She was a world traveler, a bibliophile and a consummate researcher who enjoyed skiing, scuba diving and sailing.

1973 John S. Moffet, 68, Edgartown, Massachusetts, June 27. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon who swam on DePauw’s team and was a member of several university boards.

He worked at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority for four years. He was an avid golfer who managed the Kelley House on Martha’s Vineyard, where he hosted the cast and crew making “Jaws.”

Later, while vacationing in Hawaii, he rekindled friendships with Universal Studios employees, which led him to work on the television show “Magnum, P.I.” Survivors include cousins John W. Busey ’61 and Joseph S. Busey ’63.

Sylvia Specker McCollum, 86, Mooresville, Indiana, May 16. She was a fifth-and sixth-grade math teacher and a community volunteer.

1974 Ted C. Honold, 67, Calabasas, California, May 29. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and an attorney.

1975 Elaine Redmon Greenlee, 79, Crawfordsville, Indiana, June 18. She was a first-grade teacher, a research assistant, a social services director and a dedicated pianist. She worked at the Crawfordsville Public Library.

1977 Catherine Ford Baugh, 70, Franklin, Indiana, May 21. She was an elementary school teacher who enjoyed cooking and traveling.

1978 Christine Bonnamy Newman, 64,

JUDSON GREEN ’74, a longtime member of the DePauw University Board of Trustees and a generous benefactor of the School of Music, the university as a whole and the city of Greencastle, died Aug. 31 in Orlando, Florida. He was 68.

Green and his wife Joyce Taglauer Green ’75 gave $15 million to DePauw in 2005 to frontload the $29 million expansion and renovation of what is now the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts and another $15 million in 2013 to launch the 21st Century Musician Initiative. They also established Music on the Square, then gave the performing arts center to DePauw. They further enlivened Greencastle’s square by opening Bridges Craft Pizza and Wine Bar. Their Breadworks by Bridges, a bakery, opened recently.

Green was a successful business executive who combined his business savvy with his lifelong love of music. He was an accomplished jazz pianist and French horn player, but his father steered him away from his plan to major in music at DePauw, saying a career in business made more sense. A Rector scholar and a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Justin Green majored in economics but pursued music wherever he could, including playing with a big band around the Midwest on weekends.

He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a CPA. He worked 20 years for Walt Disney Co., where he rose to be chief financial officer and then spent 10 years as president of the theme parks and resorts. Eager for a new challenge, he took over the bankrupt NAVTEQ Corp. in 2000, shepherded it through a successful initial public offering in 2004 and sold it to Nokia in 2008.

Green was the 1999 commencement speaker. He won the Robert C. McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship from DePauw in 1997 and the Old Gold Goblet in 2011. He was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society and a recipient of an Alumni Citation.

Survivors include his wife, Joyce Taglauer Green ’75.

Vienna, Virginia, July 2. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and a tax accountant. Survivors include a sister, Mary Bonnamy Mastro ’76.

1980 David C. Kluever, 61, Lake Forest, Illinois, May 20. He was a member of Sigma Chi and played football at DePauw. He was a real estate attorney who co-founded the Kluever Law Group.

He loved the outdoors, skiing, working on the family ranch, tending his lush backyard and hunting, as well as history, nature, geology, politics and genealogy.

He often joked that he had too many hobbies to afford to retire. Survivors include his wife, Lisa Boysen Kluever ’80; a brother, Brian D. Kluever ’84; and a sister-in-law, Claire Gilbert Kluever ’84.

1983 Andrew P. Wirick, 59, Indianapolis, May 22. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and an attorney who was involved in his community and church.

1987 Nancy Kadlick Violette, 54, Fairfield,

Connecticut, April 18. She was a member of Delta Gamma and had a 25-year career in banking, rising to the position of vice president of administration.

1992 John W. Fulkerson, 50, Fort Wayne, Aug. 6. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a businessman.

1995 Todd W. Mazzier, 48, Evansville, July 1. He was a business owner who played on several softball teams and enjoyed playing soccer and golf.

Faculty John R. Foxen, 93, Williamsport, Maryland, Nov. 14, 2019. He was a speech professor at DePauw 195770. He served on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received a fellowship from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation to study the Japanese language and a Ford Foundation research grant to study Japanese culture and history. The Great Lakes College Association awarded him a grant to sponsor 25 students in a yearlong study-abroad program in Tokyo. After retiring, he was active in several civic organizations; volunteered at the Shepherdstown Visitors’ Center and Meals on Wheels; read stories for the children at a local day care center; was lead singer for a musical group; and cofounded a poetry group.

Ralph Gray, 89, Greencastle, Oct. 4. He taught economics at DePauw from 1965 until his retirement in 1997. Upon his arrival in Greencastle with his wife Sally Hall Gray, also an economics professor who died in 2012, he was an immediate star: Students named him “best teacher” for 1966-67. He co-authored a textbook for undergraduate courses in American economic history and articles for several journals. He took a year-long leave of absence in 1967 to serve as development economist for Arkansas’s Economic Development Administration. He graduated from Ohio University and received a doctorate from Syracuse University.

Friends Norma J. Barger, 87, Greencastle, May 14. She worked at the Banner Graphic and retired from DePauw University.

Judith Cox Kelly, 85, Greencastle, July 13. She was a speech pathologist and audiologist and taught part-time at DePauw University.

NICK MOUROUZIS, DePauw’s football coach for 23 seasons and an upbeat and beloved fixture on campus, died Sept. 16 in Greencastle. He was 83.

Mourouzis, a professor of kinesiology, was named head coach in 1981 and directed the Tigers to a 138-87-4 record before retiring at the end of the 2003 season. He was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2000 after leading the Tigers to a three-way share of the conference title and was named the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1996 and 1990.

Mourouzis received the Distinguished American Award from the central Indiana chapter of the National Football Foundation in 2001 and named a Sagamore of the Wabash by Gov. Joe Kernan in 2003. He was inducted into Miami University of Ohio’s Cradle of Coaches in 2003, the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. He was DePauw’s commencement speaker in 2004 and DePauw’s football field was dedicated as the Nick Mourouzis Field in 2013.

He founded Chi Alpha Sigma, the nation’s first collegiate scholar-athlete honor society, which has 289 chapters in 42 states. He graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1959, earned a master’s degree in physical education from Ohio University in 1961 and received a director’s degree from IU in 1971.

Beverly Emery Bruce, 82, Greencastle, June 1. She began her 30-year working career at DePauw in the Roy O. West Library and later worked in the registrar’s office. She enjoyed crossstitching, traveling and attending plays.

Maxine Gibson Davies, 86, Greencastle, June 2. She worked as a secretary at DePauw in administration; served as the clerk for the town of Fillmore; and was instrumental in getting Fillmore incorporated.

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FIRST PERSON

By Marjorie Lentz Porter ’70 Porter and Hancock are registered nurses with master’s degrees. Porter earned an Ed.D. and taught 21 years at the University of Indianapolis.

Hancock earned a Ph.D. and is the patient safety and quality adviser and sepsis clinical lead for the Indiana Hospital Association.

A

s two of the 787 women and men who earned nursing degrees during the 40-year life of the DePauw University School of Nursing, we recently set out to learn more about fellow graduates.

The Alumni Office sent an electronic questionnaire in January to the 288 known nursing graduates to ask about their careers and impact on their communities, the profession and health care.

DePauw nursing students spent two years on campus, taking courses required by the university and the major. The emphasis on the liberal arts was integral to the curriculum and provided a foundation for professional practice. They then moved to Indianapolis for two years to have access to clinical facilities.

After 40 years, the university closed the school in 1994. The reasons included DePauw’s changing values, weak institutional linkage of the school with the university, decreasing enrollment and high tuition relative to other Indiana nursing schools.

Students and recent alumni often are

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surprised that the university had a nursing school. We want to change that and give the school its due recognition. The school was known for its high quality, its students and faculty and its contribution to nursing.

A hundred people who graduated between 1962 and 1994 responded to the survey. Forty-nine had obtained master’s degrees and 11 received doctorates. The graduate degrees are primarily in nursing, but also public health, business, theology and psychology. Twenty-four responders have had their work published in books or journals.

Most responders are working as nurses.

Others are in advanced practice, higher education, leadership and administration.

Our alumni ranks boast two deans of major universities, a Fulbright scholar and several presidents of professional organizations.

To illustrate the impact of the nursing program, we are highlighting four individuals.

Angela Greiner McNelis ’85 obtained two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. and secured a postdoctoral fellowship. She taught at Indiana University for 17 years.

In 2016, she was named associate dean for scholarship, innovation and clinical science at George Washington University School of Nursing. Rigorous academic programing at DePauw prepared her to think critically and have a spirit of inquiry.

Meg Chaney Wilson ’76 completed her Ph.D. and has worked in acute care, occupational health, education, research and administration. Her education at DePauw set the foundation for a rewarding career, exposing her to diverse ways of thinking and communicating.

Marcia Reynolds Van Riper ’75, who has two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., has focused her 30-year career on conducting research on families living with an individual with a genetic condition, particularly Down syndrome. She is a professor at the University of North

and Rebecca Neal Hancock ’84

Carolina at Chapel Hill and was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2011. “The liberal arts education I received at DePauw helped me to think critically and analyze information more effectively,” she said. “It also helped me to recognize the value of working both within and across disciplines.”

Tom Swanger ’75 was the first man to graduate from DePauw’s nursing school.

After two years of working in surgery, he obtained an advanced degree as a certified registered nurse anesthetist and worked 40 years in that role. “The education I received and the career I enjoyed were made possible by DePauw,” he said.

These four exceptional alumni are only a sample of the quality of the DePauw nurses. Many other graduates have contributed in some way, both large and small, to their communities, nursing profession and health care.

Alumni are encouraged to connect using the DePauw University School of Nursing Alumni Facebook page and through the DePauw Alumni Office.

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