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PHYLLIS BARKMAN FERRELL ’94 Lilly’s Vice President for the Global Alzheimer’s Platform guides a team into the unknown ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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PUTTERING AROUND Sculpture students built a miniature golf course at Peeler Art Center to raise money toward the purchase of art materials and equipment for Greencastle elementary schools.
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STAFF Mariel Wilderson director of University communications marielwilderson@depauw.edu Kelly A. Graves creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Steven J. Setchell ’96 associate vice president for alumni engagement ssetchell@depauw.edu
Contributors: Miranda Bemis, Claie Ladd ’17, Larry Ligget, Eldon Lindsay, Sarah McAdams, Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe DePauw Alumni Association Officers
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Donald M. Phelan ’79, president Denise Castillo Dell Isola ’96, vice president Thomas R. Schuck ’72, secretary
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STARRY NIGHT DePauw University's McKim Observatory, on the National Register of Historic Places, is an example of a late 1800's observatory. The Department of Physics and Astronomy regularly hosts open houses for the Greencastle and DePauw communities.
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HEADING HOME Joey Plesac ’17 scored the game-winning run on a squeeze bunt by Zack Wade ’17 in the 10th inning of an 8-7 win over Rockford on March 19.
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news THINKTANK
DePauw is the first liberal arts college
to have a student chapter of European Horizons, the largest U.S.-based
European thinktank. Founded at Yale University, the thinktank now has
32 U.S. chapters, including Harvard University, Stanford University
and other top universities. Student
members will draft policies on various global issues, discuss and debate them at an annual conference held at Yale,
and then present them to government officials and policy makers.
“But ultimately, how 2016 goes down in history will depend on what political leaders do next. If they put their heads in the sand and say, ‘Well, this will pass, and we’ll just carry on the way we are,’ then 2016 will not be seen as a real watershed. If our democracies are flexible enough and our leaders are aware enough, they will course correct, as I put it, the problems that we face.” DAVID CAMERON, former British prime minister, during a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture on Dec. 8 in
Lilly Physical and Education Center. It was one of Cameron’s first public speaking appearances since he left office in July 2016.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
RADIO IS HERE TO STAY
DePauw’s student-managed radio station, WGRE, was ranked fourth among the nation's college radio stations in a top 10 list compiled by Value Colleges, a research website. The website noted that WGRE helps to introduce up-andcoming indie rock musicians, does a great job of reporting school news and has proven it is here to stay. WGRE went on the air in 1949. 6 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
The first national undergraduate research conference on Science, Technology, Medicine and Society was held at DePauw from March 10-12. Undergraduate students from across North America submitted papers and attended the interdisciplinary conference, which featured the theme “Transcending Boundaries.”
COURSE SHARING
The Paradigm Shifts course is an innovative teaching and learning model in which four faculty members from the sciences share a course devoted to "paradigm shifts" – major moments of change and discovery in science that teach students about the scientific process. Students work with all faculty members who rotate through the course, making connections between STEM fields and empowering students to think about their own design and discovery in the scientific process.
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people attended the sold out show for KODO on Feb. 24 in its only Indiana appearance on the DADAN tour, meaning "Drumming Men."
CITY LAB
Glen Kuecker's City Lab provides
students with 24 hour access to a room within a project-based learning plan.
From the beginning of the semester to the end, students learn by developing
FROM THE PRESIDENT D. Mark McCoy
The DePauw community well knows the ways in which this institution empowers its graduates to lead a life of purpose. As students, our alumni cultivate the skills and resolve to make a difference in the world, in every facet of society, going on to become educators, doctors, CEOs, marketers, homemakers and researchers, among other roles. Some walked directly from the commencement stage onto their career path; others pursued more education to build upon the strong foundation of their DePauw undergraduate degree. Life’s pathway varies for each student, thus underscoring the ongoing pertinence and derivative value of a liberal arts education. Some scholars are empowered through an encounter on or off campus – an experience that planted ideas that grew throughout their lives. Take, for example, the students highlighted in this issue’s story about a Winter Term class whose members dismantled the Campus Farmhouse piece by piece with a specific goal in mind. Collaborating in real time, the students made connections with the community, faculty and staff that helped them reevaluate the project, rethink its objective, and redirect their work. Other students are naturally driven, and DePauw provides the tools, skills and structure to guide and encourage them. In these cases, a student’s time in Greencastle is less about identifying a purpose, but rather helping them develop and shape their passion. Phyllis Barkman Ferrell ’94, featured in this issue, found her life’s purpose taking on a major health issue that exacts a devastating mental and physical toll chiefly among senior members of our society. As vice president for the Global Alzheimer’s Platform at Eli Lilly and Company, Phyllis heads a team of 900 employees whose dream is to someday see that patients no longer deal with the debilitating impact of the disease. Daily, Phyllis harkens back to the leadership experience she had at DePauw which taught her how to think and empower others to face macro challenges, even when they hit home at a micro-level – further evidencing that DePauw graduates not only lead, they inspire.
on-going projects and models connected to Urban Studies through their major
lens – issues range from climate change
to demographics to urban planning and more. Faculty and students collaborate
D. Mark McCoy President
throughout the semester in this projectoriented pedagogy.
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news “I'm not even thinking about any other team. We're trying to be the best version of ourselves.” BRAD STEVENS ’99, Coach of the Boston Celtics,
to Inc., in an article published Jan. 16. The headline read: “It Took a Successful NBA Coach Only 2
Sentences to Drop the Best Advice You’ll Hear Today.”
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students received grant funding for international experience around the world last summer.
Peter Brockman, senior music major and cellist, traveled earlier this spring to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall alongside members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra. The program, Mahler for Vision, was a benefit concert in support of the work of HelpMeSee and its efforts to end preventable cataract blindness.
A record 217 DePauw student-athletes have been named to the Tiger Pride Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.40 grade point average for the 2016 fall semester.
TAKE HEART
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Professor Pascal Lafontant has long maintained a lab that welcomes students and their contributions. With the award of a $287,000 grant from the National Institute of Health, professor Lafontant could expand his lab and its possibilities. Research on how zebrafish regenerate damage to their hearts will contribute to emerging treatments for human beings as they recover from heart attacks and will significantly improve lives.
FUTURE HOME OF APPE
The Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University will be the new institutional home for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). APPE is the largest practical and professional ethics association in the country with over 100 institutional members and 858 individual members. Nine proposals were submitted from institutions around the country. The APPE board narrowed it down to two finalists for campus visits. APPE national office staff will begin moving into the Prindle Institute in late June, some transition work is already underway.
DePauw has long been a leader in offering powerful experiential opportunities that enable students to make deep connections to disciplines, ideas, people and places. Recently, DePauw expanded its well-established Winter Term into a broader Extended Studies program that provides Winter Term, May Term and summer experiences in the form of on- and off-campus courses, independent studies and internships. Our Extended Studies offerings give students the chance to discover what it is like to take a deep dive into focused experiences selected from a great variety of options.
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Topics for on-campus courses were equally varied and included Opera Production, Fishing in Literature, Holocaust on Film and Sweet and Savory Science (the science of cooking).
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WINTER TERM DISCOVERY David A. Berque
During Winter Term 2017, off-campus courses covered a wide range of topics and countries. A group of students traveled to the Galapagos Islands to study evolution, some traveled to Paris as part of a course called The French Revolution, and others enrolled in Life after Mandela which took them to South Africa. I was fortunate to co-lead a course called Japanese Culture, Technology and Design, which traveled to Japan. Students in this year’s Winter Term built a school in Nicaragua with CoCoDa and led a medical brigade to Ecuador with Timmy Global Health. Closer to home, students studied film at Sundance Film Festival (Utah) and the southwest culture that inspired Georgia O’Keefe at Ghost Ranch (New Mexico).
The Hubbard Center for Student Engagement offered the course Becoming My Own Career Expert to help students with career discernment, and several alumni gave back to DePauw teaching courses including The Skills of Happiness and Preparing for Law School and a Future Law Career. Course offerings were rounded out by partnership programs in business (with the Indiana University Kelley School), informatics, athletics administration and EMT training. Students also completed internships and independent studies in topics including business, marketing, epidemiology and studio art. One student earned a private pilot’s license, while several others taught children with physical challenges how to ski. Whether on-campus, off-campus, through a structured course, or independent study these varied Extended Studies experiences help students connect to ideas, disciplines, people and places in ways that have lifelong impact.
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WILLIAM BRET BAIER ’92 Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission
JENNIFER BAY-WILLIAMS ’87 Teaching Student Centered Mathematics Book Series
ANDREA R. GREGOVICH ’97, translator Wake in Winter
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This book illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power. Baier masterfully casts the period between Eisenhower’s now-prophetic farewell address on the evening of January 17, 1961, and Kennedy’s inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the closing act of one of modern America’s greatest leaders — during which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both the country and the next president for the challenges ahead. Five decades later, Baier’s Three Days in January forever makes clear that Eisenhower, an often forgotten giant of U.S. history, still offers vital lessons for our own time and stands as a lasting example of political leadership at its most effective and honorable. Baier is the chief political anchor for Fox News Channel and the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier. This is his second book.
Effective mathematics teaching includes such things as using interesting problems, engaging students in making sense of mathematics, reasoning about how to solve a problem, and using tools to model mathematics (e.g., technology and manipulatives). A student-centered approach is quite different than the traditional approach of a teacher showing how-to at the chalkboard, and it reflects a growing body of research about how children learn mathematics. This book series is, in its third edition, widely used by teachers and instructional coaches across the United States. Part 1 describes elements of effective mathematics teaching, including instructional strategies, ways to differentiate instruction, assess learning, meet the needs of English language learners and students with special needs. Part 2 provides specific guidance on content taught within that grade-band. Bay-Williams is a professor at the University of Louisville and has published more than a dozen books focused on effective mathematics teaching and learning.
Nina’s graduate program at Moscow University isn’t exactly cheap. So, when she is offered work translating for Spanish families looking to adopt orphans from the provincial town of Rogozhin, she quickly agrees. Besides the much-needed money it brings, the job is a great opportunity for Nina to use her education to help people in hardship. But soon she finds that nothing is as it seems. By the time Nina realizes that all too often the business of international adoption is not a humanitarian enterprise, she’s in too deep. Will she be able to navigate a world of exploitation and political corruption in order to help the children? Or should she return to the much simpler world of academia and leave the orphans behind? Wake in Winter is a captivating story of one woman’s choice in the face of a shattering discovery. Gregovich is a writer and literary translator. This is her second translated novel.
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LEE H. HAMILTON ’52 Congress, Presidents, and American Politics: Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections (Indiana University Press) When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a U.S. Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics. He continued to write regularly throughout his 34 years in office and up to the present. Lively and full of his distinctive insights, Hamilton’s essays provide vivid accounts of national milestones over the past fifty years: from the protests of the Sixties, the Vietnam War and the Great Society reforms through the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs, to the post-9/11 years as the vice chairman of the 9/11 commission. Hamilton offers frank and sometimes surprising reflections on Congress, the presidency, and presidential character from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. He argues that there are valuable lessons to be learned from past years, when Congress worked better than it does now. Offering history, politics and personal reflections all at once, this book will appeal to everyone interested in understanding America of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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DAN L. HENDRICKS ’70 Turnings, Love in a Time of War (Outskirts Press) Can love endure in a time of war? Will the clash of their different worlds doom the love of a Shaker woman and a Confederate soldier? Turnings introduces us to Pleasant Hill, a utopian village of devout Shakers who practice a radical Gospel of racial justice, pacifism and gender equality. In the autumn of 1862, their peaceful community is torn asunder by civil war when a massive rebel army invades Kentucky and camps out on the rolling hills of the Bluegrass surrounding Pleasant Hill. A chance meeting of Sarah Pennybaker and Colonel John Thomas Helm sets in motion a love story of unimaginable depth and incomparable tenderness. Their unfolding love will test their loyalties to God and country in a time of profound and passionate partisanship. Writing under the pen name, Chloe Canterbury, this is Hendricks‘ third novel.
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ANN JOHNSON TUDOR ’58 Fast & Fearless Cooking for the GENIUS
KEVIN M. WALTMAN ’95 Quicks
(For the GENIUS Press)
Marion High, an inner-city school in Indianapolis, has never won a state basketball championship. It’s D-Bow’s senior year. His game has it all, and colleges are taking notice. But he’s still rehabbing a knee injury and his job as Marion East point guard is under threat. Plus, he’s got family drama. And girl trouble. Can he put it all together for his senior season? Or will he crash and burn like so many Marion East players before him? Quicks is the fourth and final book in Waltman’s D-Bow High School Hoop series. It follows basketball phenom Derrick Bowden from freshman to senior year at Marion High. Waltman teaches at University of Alabama.
This book outlines basic and easy principles and techniques for cooking. Using ingredients and methods that are sometimes idiosyncratic yet always approachable and time-tested, Tudor presents her credo, don’t be afraid. She suggests having a basic larder with some normal ingredients and some that are new to you, and approach the whole business in a spirit of play. Built on years of experience in the kitchen, and constant practice of preparing three meals a day, Fast & Fearless Cooking for the GENIUS lovingly presents all of that knowledge for the reader in a catchy style. Constantly inventive, Tudor shares her revelations and shortcuts and pulls readers into the warmth of her kitchen and her life.
(Cinco Puntos Press)
M. SCOTT WILKERSON, DePauw Professor of Geosciences, M. BETH WILKERSON, DePauw FITS GIS Specialist, and Stephen Marshak Geotours Workbook, A Guide for Exploring Geology using Google Earth (Norton) This newly revised and expanded edition of the popular workbook allows students to engage more deeply with Google Earth Pro (now available free) and to consider examples from around the world on such topics as the life of a star, where the minerals used in electronics are found, and the environmental and socio-political consequences of the use of these minerals, how to use seismograms to calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake, and why sea levels are rising along some (but not all) coastlines.
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DEPAUW OPERA By Sarah McAdams
Nearly 100 students – including 25 performers; members of the DePauw University Orchestra; stage, construction and technical crews; and local school children – were involved in DePauw Opera’s production of Street Scene.
available to undergraduates in the School of Music. She had a major role in Spamalot, the musical comedy based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, presented by DePauw Theatre last fall.
Opera has been a part of the School of Music since its founding. Presented by the School of Music and Department of Communication and Theatre, DePauw Opera continues that tradition every spring following Winter Term.
“Spamalot was a lot of fun, but it is also great having the opportunity to do something more classical and more serious like Street Scene,” she says. Tack played Rose Moran, one of the female lead characters. “The plot is pretty dark,” she says. “I prepared all summer for it. There were a lot lines to memorize.”
When Professor and Music Director Orcenith G. Smith was hired in 1974, then-director Thomas D. Fitzpatrick was staging a yearly opera production with students. There were no actual classes for it, and rehearsals were held outside of class time. “When Winter Term was established, it became a perfect time to rehearse an opera,” says Smith, who now conducts the opera. Still an important part of a School of Music student’s experience, the opera continues to be an annual production. Visiting Professor Joachim Schamberger, who works internationally as a stage director, video designer and opera coach, has directed the opera for six years. “I love coming to DePauw,” he says. “The students are motivated, and their level is very high for an undergraduate school.” Schamberger says assigning the cast is like putting together a gigantic puzzle. He double casts the major roles, and students alternate between shows, giving more people the chance to perform – and learn. “The experience students get singing over a live orchestra with a conductor on stage is something they cannot learn in a coaching studio,” Schamberger says. One reason Marin M. Tack ’18, a vocal performance major, came to DePauw was for the diverse opportunities
Based on Elmer Rice’s 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning play and later set to music by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Langston Hughes, Street Scene paints a slice-of-life portrait of the occupants of a Manhattan East Side tenement on two tumultuous summer days in 1946. The opera follows their despair, passion and laughter through song, showcasing the composer’s varied musical interests in jazz, opera, show tunes and even Gershwin-styled tunes. Tack says that, unlike working with a pianist, trying to keep up with an orchestra was a challenge for the first few rehearsals. “The orchestra brings the opera to life because all of the different instruments add another element,” she says. “The piano is wonderful, and it is beautiful music, but performing alongside a full orchestra – especially in those dramatic moments – made me realize just how much emotion was coming from them. It was a pretty amazing experience. “We all worked very hard – the singers and the instrumentalists and all of the crew – to make everything run smoothly. The music was not easy, and everyone was exhausted by the end of final rehearsal. However, the performances made it all worth it.”
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TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS Phyllis Barkman Ferrell ’94, Lilly’s Vice President for the Global Alzheimer’s Platform guides a team into the unknown
Phyllis Ferrell has traveled a great deal in the past few years since becoming Eli Lilly and Company vice president and global Alzheimer’s Disease platform leader. The trips – and the circumstances behind them – have been hard on her youngest son, 10-year-old Jack. “We would tell him ‘Mommy’s traveling to do something to help Boppy and Papaw’ and explain to him what kind of work I do and why it was important to be gone,” Ferrell says.
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Ferrell and her husband, David ’92, moved back to Indiana in 2001 to be close to his family. A few years after the move, Dave’s father, Garland, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. And in 2010, about six months after taking the vice president position, Ferrell’s father, Paul, was diagnosed with dementia. The Ferrells had long explained to Jack that a potential treatment for his grandfathers’ disease was on the horizon. They knew what many outside Lilly’s campus did not: data from an extensive study, from a program that began before Jack was born, was imminent. The Lilly Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) team was in the thick of Phase III studies for solamezunab (sola), a drug designed to attack amyloid, a substance that causes sticky plaque to buildup in patient brains. Every day, Jack would ask his mother, “Is there data yet?” In late November 2016, Jack asked again. “He dragged me inside the house, and he showed me he had created a name and logo for the new drug,” Ferrell says, “He called it Purplexus, ‘because purple is the Alzheimer’s color and all drug names have an X a Y or Z in them.’” Ferrell broke down. The data had come the day before, and Lilly’s wonder drug had failed to achieve the primary endpoint of the study.
TEAM WORK
The AD team is ‘small’ but mighty, comprised of less than 900 of Lilly’s 40,000 employees. But it’s no wonder that almost every member, including Ferrell, has a personal connection to the disease. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than five million Americans are thought to have Alzheimer’s. By 2050, that figure may increase to more than 16 million. The disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
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On November 23, 2016, the day before Thanksgiving, Lilly leadership announced the new results in the company’s three-decade, $3 billion search for an Alzheimer’s drug. Word of sola’s clinical trial failure hit especially hard. Employees were preparing to go home to their families and some were already on vacation. No one expected sola to be the cure, but the team hoped they had made it to first base with a productive treatment that would slow the disease progression.
gave people opportunity to process the loss,” Ferrell said, “But even during the announcement I told them there was going to be a day when the grieving process would end, and then we have to figure out how to make things better.” In addition to investing hope into the research, Lilly had invested in people and resources. Not only would the team not be able to deliver for patients in the way they envisioned, the team might be breaking up as well. Uncertainty was rampant. Phyllis
“The Alzheimer’s team is like a family. We’re allowed to yell at each other and to challenge each other. We’re supposed to hold each other accountable – to be the best we can be – and do it in the name of the patient and in the name of science.” – PHYLLIS BARKMAN FERRELL ’94 Not only did it hit the scientists hard, the marketing team also felt a strong blow of the trial results. They had sat behind the glass in qualitative market research and watched people affected by the disease participate in interviews with their loved ones. The faces of the patients they had seen but would not be able to help were forever imprinted in their minds. Some recall the overwhelming feeling of numbness, disappointment and the heavy heart that comes when someone close to them dies. But the sadness wasn’t for themselves, it was for the patients that they wouldn’t be able to serve, at least not right away. The lead team opened up a space for heartache with food, hugs and individuals opening up to one another in conversation. “From a leadership perspective, we
and the leadership team instituted weekly announcements to bring transparency to a potential restructure. Monday morning ‘fireside’ chats were created. The meetings provided an opportunity for concerns to be heard and also filled a space that might have been filled with gossip. Employees could attend at their leisure and bring questions to Ferrell and the COO, even if the questions could not always be answered. By providing a time for talking through the transition on Mondays, Tuesday through Friday could continue on as normal workdays. February 13, 2017 was the last fireside chat. It was an opportunity for a widow, whose husband had passed away from Alzheimer’s, to speak to the team, thank them and tell them not to give up. At the
LEFT: Barkman (left) walks during the 2016 Indiana Alzheimer’s Association walk with Heather Hershberger, executive director of the Indiana Alzheimer’s Association chapter and John Devine, team Lilly walk captain.
end of the speech, she looked around the room and said, “I know you’re going to save my children.” And that was it. Back to work. Patients and caregivers face the impact of Alzheimer’s every day and they cannot quit. So neither could the Lilly AD team.
LEADING FORWARD
It was important for Ferrell to show the team that, though she may have been fazed, she strongly believes in the work. “To be able to lead through with sensitivity on the one hand and resiliency and optimism on the other was important,” said Scott MacGregor, global
communications director at Lilly and 1995 DePauw graduate. “She has been very strong from the outset of this, reinforcing both to the internal and external worlds that we are not getting out of Alzheimer’s research and we are pushing forward.” Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, wrote a monograph to accompany the original book in 2005 titled Good to Great and the Social Sectors. In it he points out the complexities of leading in the social sectors, where power is diffused. Executives cannot simply make decisions that trickle through the ranks as they likely would in the business world. They need the
power of mission. “True leadership only exists if people follow when they have the freedom not to,” Collins writes. There is no pyramid structure that reports through staffing chains in the AD team. The core team works with assigned individuals or groups from other areas – communications, statistics, marketing, regulatory and safety – that undergird their mission. Still, many of the employees talk about how the work ceased being a job long ago. “The Alzheimer’s team is like a family,” says Ferrell. “We’re allowed to yell at each other and to challenge each other. We’re supposed to hold each other accountable – to be the best we can be – and do it in the name of the patient and in the name of science.” Being part of a family is messy. You get to know people for who they really are. You have ups and downs. In this family, colleagues are encouraged not to hold back, because withholding impedes creativity and the research process. Patients always come first, and then the team, and then leadership. It’s what makes the department work. In 2014, Ferrell gave a lecture as part of the series TEDxLilly: Making Life Better - Through Caring, Discovering and Delivering. Her talk, titled “My Epic Failure at Gravitas,” centered on being a vulnerable leader. Being able to admit mistakes is important in a research setting, especially from leadership. “If we run around pretending like we aren’t making mistakes, and pretending like things are perfect, we’re going to miss the best
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The DePauw Connection
Holly Barce ’80, advisor, global customer insights Erica Bennett ’13, senior marketing associate Rob Brown ’83, senior vice president, marketing and chief marketing officer Leslie Daugherty ’80, consultant, clinical pharmacology Tom Fagan ’98, senior director, global Alzheimer’s commercialization Phyllis Ferrell ’94, vice president, Alzheimer’s disease platform Gwen Haehl ’08, associate brand manager, marketing John Hixon ’79, senior director and head of global new product planning Emily Liffick ’99, medical advisor, global product safety Scott MacGregor ’95, global communications director, Lilly biomedicines Kyle Moore ’11, senior marketing associate Kati Monroe ’99, manager, clinical trial project management, neuroscience Meghan Myrehn ’12, marketing associate Kathy Pearson ’87, senior director, market research, Lilly bio-medicines (daughter Sarah Pearson ’18 attends DePauw now) Related ties Claire Farrand, consultant-data sciences and solutions (worked in IT at DePauw from 1983-84 and took classes; her husband received a Master’s degree from DePauw) Ashraff Rampersaud, regulatory consultant (son attended DePauw) Keith Johns, senior marketing director (daughter, Elizabeth Johns ’20, is actively trying to raise $10,000 for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America)
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learnings, observations, ideas, creativity, perspective and whatever will help us solve the problem,” she said.
LIBERAL ARTS FOR LIFE AND WORK
Ferrell credits much of her DePauw experience to paving the way for her career and for her life outside of work. She was an economics major, Rector Scholar, Management Fellow and member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She went on to earn a MBA degree and certificate in public management in health care from Stanford University. Though another university had offered her a full ride scholarship, Ferrell was drawn to the business opportunities within a liberal arts environment like DePauw. “DePauw grads do a really good job of bridging emotional and rational thinking. The ones that know how and when to bring emotion into the discussion, and vice versa, need to know how/when to keep it out, are the ones that can really lead teams,” Ferrell says, “I see this in successful DePauw grads at Lilly. Maybe it is akin to living in a sorority or fraternity, you have to look for ways to do the right thing, be persuasive, and live in harmony.” Tom Fagan, senior director, international commercial leader at Eli Lilly and 1998 DePauw graduate, knows firsthand the importance of separating work and personal life. Fagan and Ferrell met during his prospective student interview for DePauw’s Management Fellows program, where Ferrell was his interviewer. They have been colleagues off and on during the past 20 or so years, but friends throughout. Fagan is currently part of the core AD team. Perhaps it is Indianapolis’ proximity to Greencastle, or the Eli Lilly connection
RIGHT: During the 2017 National Alzheimer’s Summit, Barkman (second from right), participates in a panel.
to the town that draws graduates to the pharmaceutical giant. The DePauw bookstore, Eli’s, is named for Lilly and stands as a nod to his early pharmaceutical ventures, one of which was located near where the bookstore now operates on the Greencastle Town Square. More likely, however, is the missional connection and liberal arts experience that Lilly embodies. All told, there are 14 DePauw graduates who work in or with the AD team at Lilly. There is a strong understanding that the liberal arts lens provides an ideal way to look at complex problems like diseases, and solutions will not be found within one discipline. Ferrell talks about the ‘white space challenge’ of Alzheimer’s disease: researchers don’t have all of the answers yet. “Our world is changing at an incredible pace, and just knowing how to be successful today won’t ensure success tomorrow. The Pharmaceutical business is incredibly complex and there is not a single problem that we tackle than can (nor should) be evaluated through just one perspective,” Ferrell said. “Financial, regulatory, scientific, ethical, legal, and customer considerations all have to come together into one solution, and often those perspectives don’t all align – there isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t have to balance multi-discipline thinking into our decision making.”
LOOKING FURTHER INTO THE UNKNOWN
When the results of sola were announced, leadership agreed that even in hindsight investing in the research was the right path to take. “The whole Lilly team is beloved by everyone including their competitors,”
said Nancy Lynn, senior vice president for strategic partnerships at the BrightFocus Foundation. “In November, when sola’s result was announced, there were 2,000 people attending a panel. Everyone in the room, including competing teams, stood up and gave them a standing ovation for their trial design, their personal efforts in the field and their collegiality. The individuals are so admired, and the company is admired for taking the risk.” Lilly is now moving forward researching solanezumab in prevention studies in partnership with the National Institute of Health. They have two products currently in Phase III research. One is a therapeutic and the other is a diagnostic, which help address both sides of the Alzheimer’s coin: how can we help once someone is diagnosed and how can we figure out why patients get the disease
to begin with. Getting people to participate in the studies has proven difficult. During trials with sola, AD hosted a planking competition to get 300 individuals enrolled in 30 days, which they achieved in 32. But research continues, so the goal is never fully met. “I go home every day and look at my son who looks so much like my father, and I know I need to figure this out,” says Ferrell. “I know this disease starts 2030 years before symptoms begin. And it impacts me too, because my son got his genes from me. We don’t know that it is hereditary. But someday I want people to be walking around saying that they are living with Alzheimer’s. Not ‘I’m a patient with Alzheimer’s,’ but ‘I’m living well with Alzheimer’s.’”
There’s a hunger for connections between disciplines from current students as well. Due to increased demand, DePauw recently added a Global Health major, which provides students with a series of perspectives for tackling international health. Its core courses include statistics and a practicum, but students are able to design their curriculum by choosing thematic tracks like Ethics of global health interventions or Biosocial determinants of health. DePauw students pursuing the global health major may be the next Eli Lilly employees working on Alzheimer’s disease.
If you would like to learn more about participating in Alzheimer’s research please contact the Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match www.alz.org/research/clinical_trials. Or you can look for a Lilly trial near you at www.lillytrialguide.com.
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WINTER TERM By Christopher L. Wolfe
This January we embarked on 22 Days of Winter Term, a visit to a different Winter Term course every day in our social media. It made us realize: we know why students love Winter Term, but what makes it meaningful to faculty members? DePauw Magazine spoke to two professors who led vastly different courses to find out.
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From the country road that runs past it, the little white house on DePauw’s Campus Farm shows no signs of trouble. Crack open the front door, and it’s immediately clear why the property is condemned. With ceiling tiles bulging downward from rainwater leaks and patches of soaked carpet that squish underfoot, the interior feels more like a derelict spacecraft than a place to call home. Some of the tiles have deteriorated completely, exposing black mold-ridden insulation that hangs down like Spanish moss and holes that continue straight to the sky. For an older house in this condition, it often makes more sense to tear it down than to try to repair the damage. And that’s exactly what will happen – with a twist. This past January, Associate Professor of Philosophy Jennifer J. Everett led a Winter Term with a different vision of home demolition. Instead of leveling the house and hauling the remains to landfills or incinerators, Everett wanted to find a way to reuse or recycle as many of the materials as possible. Wood, fixtures, shingles – the works. At 10 a.m. of the first day back from winter break, she and her students were already combing through the house in winter coats and respirators, trying to figure out where all of it would go.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
More than a tear-down project, her course was a holistic introduction to material culture. When students weren’t conducting material inventories or stripping pieces from the home’s interior, they were joined by guest speakers from across DePauw’s curriculum and visiting people who’ve worked on similar “unbuilding” projects throughout Indiana. One of their trips was to Indianapolis-based People for Urban Progress, a nonprofit that turned 11 acres of the RCA Dome’s discarded fabric roof into a line of fashionable handbags. All this time spent outside the house had a purpose: to get students thinking about possibilities rather than the status quo. The lifecycle of even the most mundane
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Students receive instruction from Jennifer J. Everett prior to beginning a home deconstruction during Winter Term.
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object ties together issues of economics, ethics, culture and science in a way that act as a roadmap for modern society. Think of something much smaller than a house: a gallon of milk. Our time with a plastic milk bottle encompasses only a fraction of its life. It must be designed, tested, manufactured, transported, used and ultimately recycled. Less ideally, it gets moved to a landfill where it will outlive everybody involved in the process of making and using it. When it comes to milk, the packaging is vital. It helps sell the product and (hopefully) stores its contents without it leaking all over the refrigerator. Still, from its moment of conception, a plastic container is essentially waste-in-waiting. When the milk is gone, the container has served its purpose, and we throw it away. But as Everett, who co-directs DePauw’s Environmental Fellows Program, likes to point out, there is no “away.” When a bottle gets hauled off, it doesn’t just disappear. It becomes somebody else’s problem. A condemned building presents the same issue, but its end-of-cycle solutions aren’t as developed. Most materials used in construction aren’t designed for reuse, and many contain chemicals that make their recycling or repurposing difficult. Everett’s
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students ran into this problem head-on during the course. “There may be markets for these materials,” Everett says, “but like glass recycling, it might be cost prohibitive just to get the materials to those markets.”
TEAMBUILDING
This is all familiar territory for Everett, who has been studying, writing about and teaching issues of waste and the environment since her own time as a student. She wrote her dissertation at the University of Colorado Boulder on the ethics of consumption, and at DePauw has worked on multiple sustainability initiatives that became the new normal on campus. But while Everett had a lot to say about alternative approaches to building demolition, the actual practice of it was new to her. Fortunately, she didn’t have to work alone. As DePauw’s energy engineer, Chris Hoffa spends most of his days tending to facilities projects, looking after old buildings and planning for new ones. Hoffa had wanted to use the house to teach sustainable renovation – until inspectors discovered the black mold. But Winter Term is nothing if not flexible: flexible enough for a course syllabus to change on the fly, and for Everett and
Hoffa share a spot at the front of the class. Everett heaps praise on her coinstructor, but when asked about his impact on the project, she got right to the point. “This course wouldn’t have been possible without him,” Everett says. She wasn’t just talking about Hoffa’s expertise. When you have somebody like Hoffa to help teach a course, it grounds the experience in a way that only a person who does that thing for a living can. Big ideas aren’t always easy for students to grasp. You need to be able to break them down into something tangible.
Early on, Hoffa was explaining to students how project charters are used in engineering to define the scope and purpose of work, and he asked them to draft one of their own for the house. While they were getting started, Hoffa was summoned elsewhere on campus and Everett stepped in to replace him. She struck up a conversation with the class – mostly first-year students still acclimating to college life – and asked them whether they thought they were doing actual work, or if they were just being asked to do busywork to pass time.
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“Their sentiment was very much like, ‘We’re a bunch of first-year students. Clearly what we’re doing here is for practice,’” Everett says. “My response was, ‘No, you don’t understand. We want this project to happen, and Chris and I don’t have time to write the words. That’s the problem, that’s why you’re doing this. We need you.’”
It was a spark, the moment students started to come around to the idea that what they were doing was bigger than just a Winter Term. Their work with the house was many things. It was experiential, technical, intellectual, integrative – and very much real. n
On September 15, 1835, the HMS Beagle arrived at an archipelago 600 miles west of Ecuador. During the four years prior, the Beagle’s crew had been charting the coasts of South America. They probably did a fine job, but it’s their relatively brief, five-week expedition on the Galapagos Islands that anybody has a reason to remember.
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Along for the Beagle’s voyage was a fledgling naturalist named Charles Darwin. Just 26 at the time, Darwin was a medical school washout who planned to enter the clergy when he returned to England. Of course, that never happened. Instead, Darwin’s experience in the Galapagos turned him into a lightning rod in the scientific and religious communities he straddled. The islands were a living illustration of what became Darwin’s theory of natural selection, establishing evolution as a bedrock of modern biology and Galapagos as a place of permanent fascination. Professor of Biology Kinney S. Kinney had never been to Galapagos before coming to DePauw. It’s not that he didn’t want to go – he had dreamt about it since he was a kid. “Galapagos occupies this mythic place in nearly every biologist’s mind,” Kinney says. “It’s got this almost religious significance, like visiting Mecca or the Wailing Wall.” It’s just, for a physiologist who did his work in a lab, a trip to the islands always seemed out of the way, professionally and geographically. But Winter Term presented an opportunity: an open month when faculty members could break from their usual routine. It made a trip to Galapagos not just possible, but reasonable.
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Kinney’s first trip was in 2004. Nine trips later, students always in-tow, Galapagos has become a Winter Term home for him.
FAR AWAY AND UP CLOSE
Unlike a zoo, there’s no convenient walking path through the islands to guide you from one animal to the next. Kinney and his students almost literally follow in Darwin’s footsteps as they trek through the wild, ferrying from island to island aboard a boat that doubles as their hotel. Kinney doesn’t make any promises about the animals they’ll see on each trip. He knows where to look for the penguins and the tortoises, but animals can and do move around. As difficult as it can be to find one of Galapagos’ hallmark species, once you do, getting close – really close – is easy. Most animals in the Galapagos are indifferent to humans. With no large predators on the islands, nothing in their history has made running, flying or swimming away any safer than being equally curious about the two-legged mammals loitering near them. Kinney contrasts the experience to National Geographic documentaries with close-up footage of animals in the wild. It all seems very intimate until you realize, to get that shot of the cheetah licking its lips, a photographer had to wait in a blind with a telescopic lens for weeks on end. In the Galapagos, chances are good you’ll walk out of the airport and directly into the path of one of the large, nonhuman locals. Once, as his group was on its way to board their boat, they discovered that the bench at the dock was already occupied by a six-foot sea lion soaking up rays. “It looked right at us like, ‘I was here first,’” Kinney says.
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No matter how much students know about Galapagos before the trip, the experience of exploring a natural paradise always shocks them. Sometimes it changes their direction, too. One student who traveled with Kinney in 2016 worked with the Hubbard Center to find a way to go back. This semester she’s in a study abroad
program, spending three months in the Galapagos. Another student’s time on the islands turned her to vegetarianism. What’s been most gratifying for Kinney are the biology students who have shifted their focus because of the trip. “They come to DePauw wanting to go to medical school, and they realize, ‘Wow, biologists can spend their lives studying tortoises,’”
Kinney says. “Not that I don’t think we need more doctors, but it’s nice for them to realize there are more ways to use your biology degree.” Like Darwin, most of Kinney’s students will only visit Galapagos once in their lives, and yet, as it was for Darwin, a single trip is sometimes enough to change a person. But what about Kinney, who
returns to the islands nearly every year? When he first traveled to Galapagos, Kinney thought of himself mainly as a physiologist. Or, more precisely, he thought like a physiologist. His mind was tied up in his Olin lab, a room filled with reptiles basking under heat lamps. Since then, the trips have restored a wonder for the natural world that drew him to biology
in the first place. There are still species on the islands he’s never seen – he saw his first vermillion flycatcher and ocean sunfish this year – but with each visit, he spends more time thinking as a naturalist, looking for ways the islands are changing. The most profound change Kinney noticed this year was in one of his favorite species. A recent El Nino event decimated the marine iguana population, leaving behind scattered reminders of the islands’ fragile ecosystem. Galapagos sits directly on the Equator, which keeps its climate fairly consistent from season to season, but that also means even minor shifts in weather patterns can have immediate and dramatic effects on the animals, making Galapagos the proverbial canary in the coal mine when it comes to climate change. Kinney is teaching a course on biodiversity this spring, and naturally, he’s brimming with stories to share with the class. With Galapagos occupying a growing portion of his headspace, it leaks into his teaching more and more every year. He says it’s common for a professor to bring their interests into the classroom, mentioning his colleagues and the animals they turn to when they need an anecdote to share with students. For Kinney, his go-to is a bit different. “It’s not an organism, it’s a place,” he says. “It’s Galapagos.” n
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connections: engaging with depauw Campaign surpasses $300 million; new gifts support diversity and inclusion, campus farm, and athletics “The love alumni, parents and friends of DePauw University have for this institution is apparent, intense and transformative,” said President D. Mark McCoy in announcing that DePauw surpassed its original goal of $300 million in gifts and commitments to The Campaign for DePauw. The campaign was formally launched in October 2014 and now totals $300,832,027. Campaign co-chairs R. David Hoover ’67 and Sarah Reese Wallace ’76 stress that, although the original target has been eclipsed 23 months early, the fundraising effort will continue. “We are thrilled with the progress and pace of this campaign” said Wallace. “However, these are challenging times for higher education, and we are confident the momentum can continue and help to build an even stronger foundation for DePauw’s future.” Three recent and significant gifts pushed the campaign over its initial goal: • Trustee Justin Christian ’95 and Darrianne Howard Christian ’95 have committed an additional $500,000 to name and build the Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion on the DePauw campus. This additional gift brings their commitment to the project to $1 million and joins that of other donors to construct a new building that will house the former Association of African American Students and Dorothy Brown facilities. • DePauw also received a $1 million gift to transform the University's
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campus farm and fund a nationallyrecognized sustainability program. The Ullem Family Campus Farm and Center for Sustainability has been funded and endowed by Scott Ullem ’89 and Beth Daley Ullem and will be located near the athletic fields, providing easy access to the main campus and surrounding community. • Two Elkhart entrepreneurs – who played for legendary DePauw football coach Nick Mourouzis – along with their spouses, are teaming to renovate the press box at Blackstock Stadium. Todd Cleveland ’90 and Melissa Cleveland together with Trustee Scott Welch ’82 and Kimberlee Welch have committed $500,000. The new 10,000 square foot Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion will be built on the western side of campus north of the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at the corner of Hanna and Jackson Streets. It is scheduled for completion in the fall. “My family and I
see this as the latest addition to what is already an engaging and diverse experience at DePauw University,” said Justin. “This new facility will provide a dedicated gathering place for not just its members but for students of all backgrounds to learn about each other and more importantly discover their shared experiences.” Justin Christian graduated with a major in computer science and a minor in rhetoric and interpersonal communication. Justin is the CEO and founder of BCforward, one of the largest IT consulting organizations in the Midwest. Darrianne Howard Christian graduated with a major in computer science. She earned an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Darrianne is on hiatus from a successful career to focus on the couple’s four daughters. She serves on the Park Tudor Parent Council and the boards of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and Indianapolis Museum of Art. “We are thrilled to help strengthen the University and affirm our family values regarding the natural environment and
sustainability,” Scott and Beth Ullem said of their gift. “We are committed to supporting the best liberal arts-based sustainability and farming education in the nation.” This new investment is aimed at supporting holistic connections between the farm and the University’s academic mission while providing opportunities for agriculture experimentation and a more comprehensive sustainability program. Building construction is scheduled to begin this summer. Scott graduated magna cum laude, earning a degree in political science at DePauw and a MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He is chief financial officer of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. Beth earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Beth is a passionate advocate and nationally recognized governance expert for patient safety and quality. Scott and Beth own a cattle and crop farm in Iowa that has been in the Ullem family since it was established in 1843. The press box at Blackstock Stadium was built in 1941 when technology played no role in game-day operations. Today, both teams have multiple coaches in the booth providing information to coaches on the sidelines along with staff broadcasting games on the radio, providing live stats and web-streaming. Expanding the square footage of the press box will allow various staff members and guests to perform their game-day responsibilities, providing updated technology, power and internet connectivity to everyone working in the press box. “We are so thankful to both Todd and Missy Cleveland and Scott and Kim Welch for their generosity. Both couples understand the tremendous work ethic
of both our athletics communications group and our coaching staff on game day and wanted to provide them with an opportunity to work “smarter” by increasing space and access to technology. Blackstock Stadium is a wonderful venue; however, the press box is showing its age (76 years), and it’s time for a refresh. We are thrilled for these gifts and look forward to the project’s completion this fall,” said Stevie Baker-Watson, associate vice president for campus wellness and Theodore Katula Director of Athletics and Recreational Sports. Todd Cleveland earned a degree in economics from DePauw in 1990 and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He is CEO of Patrick Industries, Inc. Missy Cleveland is a 1990 graduate of Purdue University School of Nursing. The Clevelands’ son Tanner is a member of DePauw’s Class of 2020. Scott Welch earned a degree in psychology and was a member of Sigma Nu. He is CEO of Welch Packaging, Inc. Kimberlee Welch studied at Purdue University. This is the Welches’ third gift to support DePauw athletic facilities, following their $5 million gift to create the 16,000-squarefoot Welch Fitness Center dedicated in
2014 and an earlier gift to light the soccer field. The Welches are parents of Brock ’10, Lindsay and Emily ’14. “These gifts, alongside the many others that have brought us to this point in the campaign, offer an inspiring commitment to the value of a transformative liberal arts education,” said President McCoy. “DePauw’s ability to offer a worldclass education – both in and out of the classroom – is a direct result of the investment of our benefactors. We are able to enhance the student experience immeasurably thanks to the alumni and friends who support our mission in this way. We are eternally grateful.” “DePauw’s alumni, parents and friends have been incredibly supportive, and we never want to take that generosity for granted,” noted David Hoover, co-chair of The Campaign for DePauw. “We have important work still ahead and know that the security of DePauw’s future and a relevant and life-changing education lies in the balance. There is much work yet to do.” President McCoy and campaign leadership will determine formal next steps for the Campaign in the coming months. Learn more about The Campaign for DePauw at campaign.depauw.edu.
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connections: engaging with depauw Rector Scholarship 100th Anniversary Nearly 100 years ago on April 30, 1919, Edward Rector announced his creation of an endowment establishing full-tuition scholarships in perpetuity at DePauw. This “Investment in Humanity” forever changed the University and has directly benefitted nearly 4,000 students, enriching their lives, their communities and the world. Approaching the centennial of this generous gift, DePauw seeks to collect the stories of Rector Scholars and the transformative investment of Edward and Lucy Rector. Your story is an important part of DePauw’s story. Rector Scholars interested in sharing your stories can contact Dana Cummings ’99 or Eli Coronis in the Office of Development and Alumni Engagement. Thank you for helping preserve and share the Rector legacy in honor of the centennial. Email: Rector100@depauw.edu Phone: 800-446-5298 Write: P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135
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Basketball alumni honor Coach Bill Fenlon with international travel fund A ceremony at Neal Fieldhouse in January announced that alumni and friends of DePauw’s men’s basketball program led by Troy Noard ’93 have committed $410,000 to establish The William J. Fenlon Endowed Fund for Men’s Basketball Travel. The fund honors men’s head basketball coach Bill Fenlon’s 25th coaching season. Annual revenue from this endowed fund will support student-athlete travel experiences, including opportunities for international competition. “I am humbled beyond words by this gift made in my name to enhance our student-athletes’ experience," said Fenlon. “More than anything else, this endowment is a reflection of the power of a DePauw education and of the loyalty our guys have to our basketball program and to one another.” Troy Noard ’93 and Kerri Noard led the initiative to create the Fenlon Fund. “We wanted to do something substantial for the men's basketball program and create a tribute to Coach Fenlon, who has been a great friend and mentor to me,” Troy said. “Kerri and I liked the idea of a permanent endowment to make possible cultural experiences and overseas travel for future student-athletes as a lasting legacy to coach. We quickly learned that the fund would be enthusiastically supported by multiple generations of former Tigers and friends of Coach Fenlon.”
“One of the most transformative experiences we have as student-athletes is the opportunity to travel as a team, including the international trips many of us took once during our four years at DePauw,” said Chase Newsom ’95. Fenlon is DePauw's winningest men's basketball coach with 412 victories. His 519 wins in 32 seasons as a collegiate head coach rank 13th among active NCAA Division III men's basketball coaches. Throughout his DePauw career, Coach Fenlon has provided studentathletes with enriching cultural opportunities, including competition tours of Eastern and Western Europe and trips to England, Italy and Ireland. This year, he will lead his fourth DePauw extended studies student trip to Northern Ireland through Peace Players International, an organization that uses basketball to unite, educate and inspire young people to create a more peaceful world.
Trees family gift grows DePauw Trust by more than $100,000 John “Jack” Simmons Trees ’54 passed away in June of 2016, and his family has established the John S. and Dianne Trees Family Endowed Scholarship in his honor. The gift affirms their belief in the transformational value of a DePauw education for young men and women of all backgrounds and increases The DePauw Trust, the University’s endeavor to raise $100 million in new endowment for student scholarships during The Campaign for DePauw. Jack earned a degree in mathematics and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Dianne Schneider Trees, a history major, was a member of the Class of 1956 and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at DePauw. She earned her degree from Lake Forest College in 1991. Many in the Trees family are DePauw alumni, including John’s grandmother, father, siblings, cousins and granddaughter.
There’s an app for that The Alumni Community app by EverTrue features searchable access to the alumni directory and a nearby function for mapping alumni by business address worldwide. Find details on alumni events, social media accounts and opportunities to connect with DePauw at depauw.edu/ alumni/connect/evertrue.
One gift writes many stories … Please consider a gift to The Fund for DePauw before the fiscal year ends on June 30. No matter the size, your gift supports student stories like these. Visit depauw.edu/give or call 800-446-5298.
If not for donors like you, I would not be at DePauw University. I have traveled to Minnesota to learn wolf tracking and attended a United Nations conference in Ecuador. I have gained leadership experience and built a network through the Environmental Fellows and Sustainability Leadership Programs. I owe every donor a sincere thank you. – ANNIE DIXON ’18, environmental biology major, Environmental Fellow
Thanks to DePauw donors, I have been able to complete two unpaid internships and study abroad in London, Oxford, Paris and Vietnam, all while forming lifelong relationships with peers and incredible faculty on campus. Without the generous support from DePauw’s scholarship program I would not have been able to attend DePauw. I certainly wouldn’t have had all of the experiences that have helped shape my time on campus. – BROCK TURNER ’17, English and political science major
I spent a semester abroad in Aberdeen, Scotland, where I joined the university hillwalking and mountaineering society and took courses in geology, art history and archaeology. I was also able to complete an independent research project on granite in the Mahabharat range of Nepal. I have found my passion in geology and am excited for what the future holds. I have recently sent in graduate school applications for igneous petrology and volcanology at multiple schools. You have funded a female scientist! – GENNA CHIARO ’17, geology major
As a Management Fellow, political science major and business administration minor, I won seed funding at the DePauw Entrepreneurship Showcase, completed several internships, served as a First-Year Mentor, Student Government Senator and co-leader for an annual Habitat for Humanity trip. Each opportunity required effort on my part, but was only possible with your generosity. Your selflessness inspires me to one day give back in hopes of opening doors for DePauw students in the same way you have opened doors for me. – EVERETT SCHAU ’17, political science major, Management Fellow
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1. Dr. Keith Kenter ’84, chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Western Michigan University, and Patricia Lilly Kenter ’85, spoke to Rector Scholars on campus Feb. 3. 2. Jamie Lewis ’98, finance executive, entrepreneur and founder of JLEW Bags, visited campus as a Robert C. McDermond Center speaker and met with the Women in Economics and Business student group in February. 3. Healthcare entrepreneur, Dr. Tom P. Cooper ’66, visited campus in January to discuss career discernment with Winter Term classes. 4. DePauw faculty members presented Alumni College programs in Naples, Fla., on Feb. 10. Pascal J.E. Lafontant, associate professor of biology; Deepa Prakash, assistant professor of political science; Gregory L. Schwipps ’95, professor of English; Mac Dixon-Fyle, professor of history. 5. Women’s basketball alumnae gathered on campus for a reunion and a game against the current team on January 28. 6. David Hersh ’94, CEO of Monsoon, Inc., founder of Zag Partners and founding CEO of Jive Software, met with students during his time on campus as a Darnall Alumni Fellow and Robert C. McDermond Center speaker on March 1.
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DEPAUW ALUMNI TRAVEL PROGRAM » Cruise the Rhine River with Professor of Art and Art History Mac MacKenzie July 10 – 18
Alumni Reunion Weekend June 7-11, 2017
» National Parks and Lodges of the Old West July 25 – Aug. 3 » Adriatic Rhapsody Oct. 27 – Nov. 4 Details and 2018 destinations online: depauw.edu/alumni/travel.
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Visit depauw.edu/alumni, call 877-658-2586 or email alumnioffice@depauw.edu.
Atlanta Reception with President Mark McCoy April 13, 2017
Alumni Legacy Commencement Reception May 20, 2017
Louisville Reception with President Mark McCoy May 24, 2017
Cincinnati Reception with President Mark McCoy
Old Gold Goblet recipient R. David Hoover ’67
Return to DePauw to see classmates and friends, engage faculty members, and celebrate alumni achievement with the presentations of the Old Gold Goblet, Young Alumni Award and Distinguished Alumni Citations (Kevin Armstrong ’82, Dennis Bland ’87 and James Schlatter ’52). Specific classes to be honored are those ending in 7 and 2, but all alumni are welcome for the festivities. Details and registration online: depauw.edu/alumni/reunion.
Camargo Club May 25, 2017
Coming Together
Seven Bridges Golf Club, Woodridge, Ill. July 24, 2017
A reunion and community building event for students and alumni of color. • Keynote address by Tamika Nordstrom ’93 • Concert by Pharez Whitted ’82 • Conversation with President Mark McCoy • Networking Event with students • Construction Celebration, Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion
Tiger Club Golf Outing Opening Day Legacy Luncheon August 19, 2017
Old Gold Weekend October 6-7, 2017
Women's Field Hockey Alumnae Reunion October 7-8, 2017
Monon Bell
November 11, 2017
Young Alumni Award recipient Lawren Mills ’01
May 5-7, 2017
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Penny Parker (aka Ellen Pengilly) along with her teacher/partner placed high in the oldest age group (75+) in the standard gold level at the national pro/am ballroom competition at Ohio Star Ball in November.
1948
Glenn C. Steiner received a honor when he participated in the Never Forgotten Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., in Sept. 2016. Glenn served in United States Coast Guard from 1943-47.
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CLASS NOTES
The class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the University current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements: • Group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation and background information on the gathering. • Digital photos submitted must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher). Class notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also submit via the DePauw Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu. Please direct questions to Miranda Bemis, communications assistant, at 765-658-4416 or mirandabemis@depauw.edu.
Cynthia Davis Bailey has moved to Normandy Senior Living Community in Rocky River, Ohio. Her new address is 22731 Lake Rd., Apt. 3024B, Rocky River, OH 44116. Her email address is ccynbailey@yahoo.com.
1952
Lee H. Hamilton, who served 34 years in the United States House of Representatives, is author of Congress, Presidents, and American Politics Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections.
1953
John Jakes, author of 17 best-selling New York Times books, is being honored by creation of a scholarship at New College of Florida by Rotary Club of Sarasota and friends of the author. The John Jakes Endowed Writing Scholarship will support students who focus on writing in their studies. Duane A. Patterson was the delegate of Washington University in St. Louis to the formal inauguration of Dr. Mark McCoy. (See photo.)
1958
Judy Blang Locke was honored by Decatur (Ill.)
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Roland T. Rust was awarded the Distinguished Marketing Scholar award from European Marketing Academy. He is one of two people to have won the top career academic award from both American Marketing Association and European Marketing Academy. Rust is a distinguished university professor and David Bruce Smith Chair in marketing at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Ming-Hui Huang, a professor at National Taiwan University. Ellen Myers Clippinger ’62 receives the Sagamore of the Wabash award.
Daniel P. Cope ’68
Park District with the renaming of 31st Street Park as Locke Park in recognition of her longtime dedication to the city’s parks. She is a former member of the district’s board.
in Dec. 2016 in New York City. This was the first time Mary and Geneese had reconnected since they met in Kenya in 2010 while Mary was a Peace Corps volunteer. They had a great time showing three of their granddaughters the holiday sights and activities of the “Big Apple.”
1959
Willis “Bing” H. Davis, artist, educator and former member of DePauw faculty, spoke at the annual meeting of the 365 Project, Nov. 14, 2016, at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He discussed “Art as an Agent of Change.”
1962
Ellen Myers Clippinger was awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash award, Oct. 20, 2016, in Indianapolis. The award recognizes her long and distinguished career of leadership in child and youth development and her service to children and families in Indiana. She founded and guided AYS, Inc., a child and youth agency, for 34 years, retiring in 2014. (See photo.)
1965
Sara King Lennox is professor emerita of German studies at University of Massachusetts. She is editor of Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on AfroGerman History, Polities, and Culture.
1968
Daniel P. Cope at the age of 70.3 is prepairing for an Ironman 70.3. It took nine months of training, but he completed his first 70.3 in Jan. 2017 with an hour to spare. (See photo.) Mary Martin Canada (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) and Geneese Gottschalk (Franklin, N.C.) enjoyed a long weekend
1969
Dennis K. Killinger, university professor emeritus of physics at University of South Florida, was named to the new class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was cited “for pioneering contributions in tunable laser spectroscopy and atmospheric remote sensing.” He is director of Lidar Remote Sensing Laboratory at University of South Florida’s College of Arts and Sciences and serves as president and chief executive officer of SenOptics, Inc. Dennis has published eight patents and more than 100 papers and book chapters.
1972
Deborah Rogers Emerson is director of Wadsworth Library in Geneseo, N.Y.
1974
William “Rick” R. Niersbach Jr. retired in May 2016 as senior vice president of RMD/Patti Insurance & Financial Services in Richmond, Ind. He began a northbound hike on the Appalachian Trail, May 10, 2016, arriving in Harper’s Ferry, W.V., Aug., 12, 2016, completing 1025 miles. He will begin the northern section of the Appalachian Trail in April 2017 intending to summit Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine, in late July. William M. Park joined Rick for a couple of days on the trail. Rick’s email address is golfhiker@aol.com.
1976
Susan Engle Reynolds participated in the USA Triathlon in Omaha, Neb. She is headed to Mexico to compete in the World Triathlon Championships. Sue placed 11th in the World Championships. Sarah Reese Wallace is director and chairman of the board of central Ohio’s First Federal Savings. She is 2016 recipient of the Victoria Woodhull Woman of Achievement award. She is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.
1977
Nancy R. Allen is the pastor of Wellspring United Methodist Church in Shrewsbury, Mass. Barrett J. Corneille, an attorney in Madison, Wis., was inducted into American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. He was recognized as one of 10 top attorneys in the state of Wisconsin and Super Lawyers Magazine. Barbara Kingsolver was among five acclaimed authors inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, Feb. 2, 2017, at Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Ky. Barbara is an award-winning and best-selling author whose books explore themes of feminism, social justice and environmentalism. Gregory R. Lippert is chief executive officer of Taco Mac. The casual dining restaurant has 29 locations across Ga., Tenn. and N.C. W. Tobin McClamroch is a member of the Indianapolis Airport Authority
Board. He is a senior corporate and government lawyer and serves as managing partner of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP. Steven W. Peterson’s new play, The Actuary, will premiere at Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wis., from June 13 to July 2, 2017. The 600seat theatre is America’s oldest resident summer theatre on the shores of Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. Details of his play are available at peninsulaplayers. com. Steve is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists.
1978
Dr. Rockne L. Brubaker joined Lourdes and Mercy Medical Associates in Mercy Clinic ear, nose and throat. Rockne has 29 years of clinical experience in otolaryngology. Donald S. Smith was named secretary of Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana at their 23rd annual conference and meeting Nov. 2016. He is with the Indianapolis law firm Riley Bennett & Egloff. Lawrence J. Zelenz was inducted into Gustavus Adolphus College Athletics Hall of Fame. He served as head men’s soccer coach at the college for almost a quarter of a century as well as assistant athletic director.
1979
Charles D. Brooks is vice president of Sutherland Government Solutions and chairman of the new emerging technologies committee for CompTIA. He was awarded Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year at the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. The awards recognize companies, products and individuals that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. Barry L. Nelson was inducted into Columbus (Ind.) East High School’s Alumni Association Wall of Fame. He is the Walter P. Murphy professor and chair of the department of industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern University.
1980
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Carmel International Art Festival and Penrod Art show at Indianapolis Museum of Art.
1985
Betsy Stelle Morgan was a guest for a meeting cosponsored by the Women in Economics and Business and Student Academic Life at DePauw, Nov. 19, 2016. Betsy is a lead partner at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie. She is head of the firm’s global immigration and mobility practice. David B. Parish ’80
Amy G. Youngblood ’90
David B. Parish represented U.S. Para Powerlifting team last summer at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He is associate dean of clinical care and director of sports science rehabilitation. He returned from the Paralympic Games as coach of powerlifter Ahmed Shafik. David has been part of two United States Paralympic teams as doctor and as coach. (See photo.)
listed in 2001 as Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana’s “10 Most Endangered Places of Indiana.” Tim, a distant relative of Steele’s, purchased the house in 2013. The Greek Revival house was built around 1850 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
1981
Alan P. Hill and Andrew J. Harmening ’91 are recipients of the Terre Haute North 2016-17 Polaris Award for Patriots of Purpose. The award is presented annually “to recognize three current or former staff, or alumni who have brought distinction to North Vigo (Ind.) High School through meaningful personal, professional, or civic accomplishments.” Alan is vice president for student academic life and dean of experiential learning at DePauw. Andrew is vice president of consumer banking at Bank of the West. Martha Weber Victor is events manager for Institutional Advancement.
1982
Robert J. Doyle Sr. is football coach at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. He is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm Due Doyle Fanning & Alderfer LLP. Kara Moseley Hensley is vice president of talent and brand at Cripe, an Indianapolis-based design firm. Timothy S. and Margaret (McCarty ’83) Shelly restored the boyhood home of Indiana artist T.C. Steele in Waveland, Ind. The house was 36 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
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Anne E. Bingham is chair of Cleveland Municipal Board of Education. She is an assistant vice president of private banking at Fifth Third Bank. Kimberley Wheat Condas retired from Central Intelligence Agency after a 32-year career as a librarian and information review and release analyst. She and her husband, Steve, live in Herndon Valley, Va. Kim’s email address is kimcondas@yahoo.com.
1984
Amy Fitz Gibbon Sonnenberg is assistant director of development at The Center Foundation in Houston, Texas. The Center promotes the pursuit of choice, growth and personal independence for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Amy came to know The Center and their clients through her work at United Way of Greater Houston and as a Special Olympics coach. Joseph R. Heerens serves as general counsel in the Indiana governor’s office. Anne Roscher Parks is a featured artist at Athens Arts Gallery in Crawfordsville, Ind. She has taught all ages from kindergarten to senior citizens. Her work has been in juried shows, including Round the Fountain,
Robert J. Wesselkamper is senior partner and global head of the Hay Group division of Korn Ferry in the company’s reward and benefits solutions practice.
1986
Anne Christy Ballentine is vice president of communications at Rogers Behavioral Health based in Wisconsin. Anne is a member of DePauw’s Alumni Board. Michele Daily Bryant was named 50th president of Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana at the 23rd annual conference and meeting Nov. 2016. She is with the law firm Wooden & McLaughlin in Evansville, Ind. Peter G. Ruppert was Robert C. McDermond Center speaker, Oct. 28, 2016, at DePauw. He is founder and chief executive officer of Fusion Education Group in Grand Rapids, Mich.
1987
Kevin J. Hollahan is senior vice president of sales at Cachet Financial Solutions, Inc.
1988
James M. Gladden is associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education and dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. He provides leadership for campus-wide student success programs and initiatives.
1989
Janet Zamber Rummel is vice president of workforce alignment operations and marketing at Ivy Tech Community College.
1990
Amy G. Youngblood recently appeared as an interior design expert on Cincinnati Channel 9 Fox News Morning Show. Amy Youngblood Interiors, relocated to Over-the-Rhine
downtown area of Cincinnati. Her work address is 1420 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. You can view her work and credentials at www.amyyoungblood.com. (See photo.)
1991
Michael A. Catalano is vice president and general counsel for Southern Research, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 research institution working to solve problems of drug discovery, drug development, engineering, and energy and environment. Michael leads both the intellectual property and contracts teams. Cathy L. Day, author of The Circus in Winter and Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love, was keynote speaker at Steel Pen Writers’ Conference in Merrillville, Ind., Nov. 12, 2016. She spoke on literary citizenship. Cathy is associate professor of creative writing at Ball State University. Andrew J. Harmening and Alan P. Hill ’81 are recipients of the Terre Haute North 2016-17 Polaris Award for Patriots of Purpose. The award is presented annually “to recognize three current or former staff, or alumni who have brought distinction to North Vigo (Ind.) High School through meaningful personal, professional, or civic accomplishments.” Andrew is vice president of consumer banking at Bank of the West. Alan is vice president for student academic life and dean of experiential learning at DePauw.
1992
W. Bret Baier is chief political anchor for Fox News Channel. His show, Special Report, was cable’s third most watched news show in 2016. He is the author of Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission. Robert J. Boras is tight end coach for the Buffalo Bills. He began his coaching career at DePauw as offensive line coach.
1993
Stephen F. Hayes is editorin-chief of The Weekly Standard. Stephen is author of two New York Times best sellers, The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America and Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. Stephen is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel.
1994
Angelina Andrews Torain is associate athletics director of human resources, legal and risk management, for University of Notre Dame. Ian J. Forte joined 1st Source Wealth Advisory Services in Elkhart, Ind., as a personal trust administrator and officer. Ian is active in the Elkhart community with Indiana State Bar Association, Michiana Estate Planning Council and Elkhart County Estate Planning Council. He serves as treasurer for Elkhart City Bar Association. Sarah K. Herrlinger is senior manager for global accessibility policy initiatives at Apple. She delivered the Liberal Arts at Work talk, Nov. 8, 2016, at DePauw.
1995
Yasmine Bell Allen is assistant dean of faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Justin P. Christian is one of five prominent business leaders inducted into Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame. Justin is chief executive officer and founder of BCforward. (See photo.) Geoffrey B. Dains is interim head men’s basketball coach at California Lutheran University.
1996
Nicole Sunkel Lorch is chief operating officer of First Internet Bank and its parent company, First Internet Bancorp.
1997
Orlando Cela is director and conductor of Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra; music director and conductor of Governor’s School of North Carolina Orchestra; assistant music director of Juventas New Music Ensemble; and founder of Project Extended. Orlando won second prize in American Prize’s Ernst Bacon Memorial Award in the Performance of American Music, Youth Orchestra Division. He participated in conducting a masterclass and competition in London winning second prize in competition. Orlando’s email address is ocela@berklee.edu.
officer of Conroe Regional Medical Center in Texas. He is chair of the Conroe/Greater Lake Conroe Chamber of Commerce. Andrea R. Gregovich translated a new novel by Russian writer Nadezhda Belenkaya, Wake In Winter. The novel is published by Amazon Crossing and can be found on Amazon.com. Raphaella Palmer Prange was named one of “20 people under 40 who make a difference in Central Illinois.” She was selected for community involvement in the local public school system and her work to recruit and retain talented and diverse first-generation college students. Raphaella serves as dean of student development at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. Her email address is rpalmer@millikin.edu. (See photo.)
1998
Jonathan V. Fortt is a business news network technology correspondent for CNBC. He interviewed Andrew “Drew” Powell, an actor who portrays Butch Gilzean in Fox’s hit series Gotham, for his Fortt Knox podcast.
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CATHERINE A. NEVILLE ’95 founded Feast Magazine, a culinary magazine in 2010. The half-hour television show, Feast TV, received two Mid-America Emmy Awards. This year, Feast Magazine won the Navigator Media Award from Missouri Department of Tourism for their work highlighting delicious ways to explore the state, was named Media Outlet of the Year by Kansas City Restaurant Association and won a Folio: Eddie award. Catherine’s email address is publisher@feastmagazine.com.
Jamie L. Lewis is founder and designer of JLEW Bags. She was a speaker for the Robert C. McDermond Center speaker series at DePauw, Feb. 7, 2017. Joshua M. Pitcock is Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff. He was on Pence’s congressional staff and was state government’s lobbyist when Pence was governor of Indiana. Edwin P. Scherer is a commercial real estate broker for Cushman and Wakefield/Commercial Kentucky. He is listed among “20 People to Know: Real Estate” in Louisville Business First.
1999
Carvana Hicks Cloud joined the district attorney’s office in Harris (Texas) County as a family criminal law unit chief.
Timothy P. Cooper was appointed quality control assistant for University of Pittsburgh football program.
Eric D. Plemons teaches medical anthropology at University of Arizona. He returned to DePauw, Feb. 23, 2017, to present his work on “The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine.”
C. Matthew Davis is chief executive
Jonathan R. Secrest has been named 2017
Justin P. Christian ’95
Raphaella Palmer Prange ’97
Ohio Super Lawyer for general litigation. He is an attorney for Dickinson Wright PLLC in Columbus, Ohio.
serves on the board of United Way of Central Indiana and is a member of the Penrod Society.
Bradley K. Stevens, head coach of the Boston Celtics, was head coach of the East Team in this year’s NBA All-Star Game, Feb. 19, 2017.
Jonna McGinley Reilly and her husband, Daniel, announce the birth of their daughter, Anastasia “Annie” Grace Reilly, Oct. 30, 2015. Annie joins sister, Alexandra Leigh, and brother, Eagan John, at their home in Northbrook, Ill. Jonna’s email address is jonna.reilly@ gmail.com.
2000
Brian R. Garrison is a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. He is among Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40. He
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James P. Updike and Munjot Sahu married in two ceremonies on May 21 and 22, 2016. The first ceremony took place at Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, Ind. The second ceremony was held at Hindu Temple of Central Indiana in Indianapolis. (See photo, page 39.)
2008
Bryan J. Berman ’08
Janelle Beckford Edwards ’07, Elisabeth Walker Evans ’07 and Kareem J. Edwards ’07 at the Obama Farewell speech in Chicago. Jennifer Monty Rieker is counsel in the law firm Ulmer & Berne LLP in the consumer and commercial litigation practice. She is based in Cleveland, Ohio and focuses her practice on consumer finance litigation and financial compliance matters.
2001
Sarah E. Gerkensmeyer won the 2016 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award for Emerging Author. The prize goes to a writer who has published no more than two books during his or her lifetime.
2002
Haley Carney Altman is founder and chief executive officer of Doxley, Inc. She is among Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40. Haley serves on the board of Venture Club of Indiana, advisory committee for Central Indiana Women’s Business Center and volunteers with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Katherine L. Imborek is a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine. She was honored by the University of Iowa’s Medicine Alumni Society by receiving a 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award for Early Career Achievement. Katie has been nationally recognized for pioneering work that has improved the lives and care of LGBTQ individuals. Justin C. Woodard is president of Woodard Cleaning & Restoration. He 38 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
joined the family business in 2008 as an information technology manager, became vice president of operations and president in 2013. He is among St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.”
2003
Heather Wiles McCoy is board chair of a small nonprofit in Denver, Colo., Dress for Success Denver, a nonprofit that serves 1,500 women each year in the Denver metro area to empower them and provide them with the skills necessary to gain employment and retain employment.
2004
Melinda R. Colbert serves as director of fundraising operations for the Indiana Republican Party as well as finance director for the state’s governor. She spends volunteer time helping organizations that support veterans and their families. Lauren Peoples Bush and her husband David announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah Jane Bush, March 2016.
2005
JaMarcus L. Shephard joined the Purdue University football staff as assistant coach.
2006
Allison Grogan Buckley and her husband Michael announce the birth of their daughter, Willa Katherine Buckley, Oct. 11, 2016. Allison’s email address is allisongrogan@ gmail.com.
Nicole Pence Becker and her extended family were in D.C. to attend the presidential inauguration. Those attending included Jason E. Becker ’04, Jacqueline K. Pence ’08, John J. Costello ’08, Emily M. Pence ’10 and Emma A. Pence ’14. David I. McMillin and his band, Fort Frances, launch their first ever West Coast tour. David is a lyricist for almost all of Fort Frances’ songs. David has returned to DePauw several times to perform and offer songwriting workshops.
2007
Janelle Beckford Edwards, Elisabeth Walker Evans and Kareem J. Edwards attended the Obama farewell speech in Chicago, Jan. 10, 2017. Janelle’s email address is Janelle. beckford@gmail.com. (See photo.) Alia Hazel Shuck is senior project manager for the office of communications and marketing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. Her commitment to work and volunteering has earned her recognition as one of Terre Haute’s “12 Under 40” created by Terre Haute (Ind.) Chamber of Commerce and the Tribune-Star to showcase rising community stars. Alia is a volunteer for the United Way of Wabash Valley, Chances and Services For Youth and the Altrusa Club of Terre Haute. Dustin S. Hertel is senior account executive for the healthcare market of central and southern Indiana territories for ESCO Communications.
Dr. Jeremy A. Alland is team physician with Windy City Bulls, the D-League team for Chicago Bulls organization. He was profiled in the suburban Chicago newspaper, Highland Park News. Dr. Bryan J. Berman joined St. Elizabeth Family Physicians Medical Practice in Cold Spring, Ky. Bryan graduated from Indiana School of Medicine and completed his residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Ellen O’Malley Berman ’09, live in Cincinnati, Ohio. (See photo.) Andrea E. Cofield put together her second project for BombPop!Up Productions, Dec. 9-15, 2016. Her project was BPU02: I WANT TO BELIEVE, an art and music residency at Coustof Waxman Annex in New York City. Her drawings were also included in a show, entitled Grammar. Leia D. Welsh and Eric Pitcher were married in Sept. 2016 in Salida, Colo. (See photo, page 39.)
2009
Carolyn E. Mueller and John Kelly were married Oct. 8, 2016, in Saint Louis, Mo. DePauw alumni attending the wedding incuded Alexander P. Breitinger ’09, Ann Schunicht Breitinger ’09, Jaymi Edwards Guy ’09, Matthew E. Calby ’09, Chloie Favinger Calby ’09, John R. Fenley ’08, Meredith Ellis Fenley ’09, Sarah B. Riffle ’10 (bridesmaid), Daniel L. Stetson ’09, Laura Wiscomb Stetson ’09, Randall E. Heyde ’09, Meagan L. Brady ’09, Michelle Weber Loftus ’09, Rebecca S. Elliott ’09, Rebecca P. Rojek ’10, Jenifer C. Snow ’10, Kaitlin E. Thomure ’08, Kristine M. Lewry ’09, Tanner M. Miller ’11, Elizabeth Attewell Miller ’11 and Elizabeth Thompson O’Neill ’09.
2010
Christine E. Borne and Marshall C. Weadick were
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James P. Updike ’07 and Munjot Sahu wedding. DePauw alumni and friends attending the wedding included Katherine S. Holloway ’09, Madison B. Murphy ’08, Carolyn Igoe Young ’06, Michael S. Young ’07, Meagan Goss Jones ’07, Matthew G. Hinman ’07, John B. Sharp ’72 (groomsman), J. Philip Updike ’72 (father of the groom) and Sunil K. Sahu (father of the bride and professor of political science and chair of the political science department at DePauw).
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Leia D. Welsh ’08 and Eric Pitcher wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Elizabeth Brick Corbett ’08, Thomas S. Corbett ’07, Katie Gobel Buchler ’08, Lucas T. Buchler ’09, Sarah McClamroch Sullivan ’08, Brian J. Sullivan V ’08, Kathryn Deppe Truka ’07, Christopher P. Montagano ’08, Greta Krucks Montagano ’08, Leah S. Burkhardt ’08 and Erin D. Faulk ’08.
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Christine E. Borne ’10 and Marshall C. Weadick ’10 wedding. DePauw alumni attending included Therese M. Boyich ’13, Alison Colvin Metelmann ’09, David M. Findlay ’84, Alyshia Smalley Tetrick ’10, Elizabeth A. Feighner ’07, Lindsay A. Schroeder ’09, Meredith C. Haag ’10, Culley H. Pearson ’10, Gregory P. Giometti ’10, Timothy L. Weadick ’83, Kelly Chapman Weadick ’83, Michael R. Weadick ’81, Michael C. Weadick ’09, Patrick J. Wagner ’10, Beau Z. Sorg ’10, Jonathan C. Batuello ’10, Benjamin L. Stilwill ’11, Alexander G. Kleber ’11, Jonathon D. Leyh ’10, Nathan C. Smith ’12 and Todd W. Kuper ’10.
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Andrea C. Brinker ’12 and Jack M. Simon ’11 wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included James A. Stone ’11, Gregory R. Bean ’11, Dustin C. Rusbarsky ’10, Laura B. Sahm ’09, Matthew C. Pustay ’09, Travis K. Sheppard ’11, Patrick M. Brophy ’11, Julie Brinker DeWitt ’81, Eric H. Wudtke ’09, Cynthia S. Brinker ’73, John C. Brinker ’76, Maurice T. Madison ’09, Robert J. Engel ’09, John H. Tschantz ’08, Edward J. Rudy ’12, Madison S. Brinker ’15, Naiomy M. Guerrero ’12, Kimberly A. Trainor ’12, Lindsay M. Rudolph ’09, Luis A. Paez ’13, Renata Dworak Berlin ’12 and Janessa R. Brown ’13.
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Katherine R. Shover ’14 and Matthew P. Hellmann ’13 wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Maritza Mestre ’14, Caitlin Adams Groth ’14, Lauren E. Salay ’14, Abigail E. Emmert ’14, Frank Hu ’14, Madeline A. LeClair ’14, Brittney K. Biddle ’14, E. Grace Harsha ’16, Bryan A. Edwards ’12, Benjamin D. Harsha ’15, Brian D. Good ’14, Michael T. Bennett ’14, Emily K. Hellmann ’16, Michael B. Tobin ’16, and Taylor A. Crenshaw ’16. Attending but not pictured were Alexander N. Curry ’12, Madison Gallegos Beatty ’13, Tyler R. Donaldson ’16, Daylon T. Weddle ’17 and Elizabeth C. King ’15.
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married Oct. 29, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Ind., where they recently moved. Christine is a production manager for Second City Works. Her email address is cbweadick@gmail.com. Marshall is assistant vice president of commercial lending for Lake City Bank. (See photo, page 39.) Katherine Carrico Broshears is director of development and communications for the Central Indiana Workforce Development Initiative. Marshall C. Weadick and Christine E. Borne were married Oct. 29, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Ind. Marshall has moved to Lake City’s commercial east team and works out of the bank’s Fort Wayne (Ind.) North office. (See photo, page 39.)
2011
Tyler A. Archer earned his doctorate degree in educational leadership and policy studies at Maryville University in St. Louis, Mo., April 2016. He was a 2011 Teach for America Corps member in St. Louis and is currently an administrator for Saint Louis public schools. Tyler’s email address is archerat7@gmail.com. Anthony M. Baratta, director of sustainability at DePauw, was recognized as “Citizen of the Year” by Greencastle (Ind.) Commission on Sustainability. He helps oversee a number of successful initiatives at DePauw that reach out to the community. Anthony is pursuing a master’s degree in sustainability from Harvard Extension School. Rhonesha A. Byng was listed in Forbes “30 Under 30” in the media and dorm room founder categories. Rhonesha is founder and chief executive officer of Her Agenda, described as a digital media platform for millennial women. Sally M. Reasoner is vice president of talent identification for the Central Indiana Workforce Development Initiative. Jack M. Simon and Andrea C. Brinker ’12 were married Aug. 20, 2016, in St. Joseph, Mich. (See photo, page 39.)
2012
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Graham A. Wilkerson is founder of Genesis Sports Performance, an Indianapolis-based company which helps high school, college and professional athletes reach their potential. Graham is a certified strength and conditioning specialist. He is head strength and conditioning coach at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. Graham is pursuing a master’s degree in athletic coaching education at Ball State University.
2013
Adalky F. Capellan, returned to DePauw to talk about her work in arts and community organizing, Feb. 24-27, 2017, as well as her current work with Street Scenes of Putnam County and DePauw. Adalky works at Community Action for Safe Apartments as a community organizer. Karah A. Crockett heads a new symphony program created by the school corporation in Plainfield, Ind. She travels between Plainfield Community Middle School and Plainfield High School, directing both orchestras. Noah D. Droddy was included in a fullpage feature in Runner’s World. He took second in Oct. 2016 USATF 10 Mile Championships. Noah was also listed in Indianapolis Star’s Christmas day feature “Humans of Indy: 10 interesting people of 2016.” Matthew P. Hellmann and Katherine R. Shover ’14 were married Oct. 1, 2016, in Avon, Ind. Their email address is katplusmatt@gmail.com. (See photo, page 39.) Elise M. Lockwood is founder of an Indianapolis monthly reading series featuring scripts written by local playwrights and read by local actors. She is a member of Indianapolis’ The Greeky Press writing collective. Elise is pursuing a master’s degree in emerging media design and development at Ball State University. Nikaury A. Roman returned to DePauw, Feb. 24-27, 2017, to talk about her work in arts and community organizing as well as her work with Street Scenes of Putnam County and DePauw. She has expertise in community organizing and group dynamics.
2014
Jordan B. Davis and Shavon R. Mathus graduated from Relay Graduate School of Education this fall with a Master of Arts degree in teaching. They are continuing their work in education in Brooklyn, N.Y. Felicia M. Santiago has worked with Disney, Young Audiences New York and Cypress Hills Development as a teaching artist. She is pursuing acting training at Atlantic Conservatory in New York City. Felicia returned to DePauw, March 11-14, 2017, to work with Street Scenes of Putnam County and DePauw. Katherine R. Shover and Matthew P. Hellmann ’13 were married Oct. 1, 2016, in Avon, Ind. Their email address is katplusmatt@gmail.com. (See photo, page 39.)
2016
Mitchell Q. Brown, known as Kid Quill on stage, launched his first cross country tour. Mitch has released two albums during his career, Ear to Ear in 2014 when he was a student at DePauw and Name Above the Title in Oct. 2016. Heather R. Bucher began full-time service with Lift For Life Academy in St. Louis, a Jesuit Volunteer Corps program. Morgan M. Pigusch is volunteer assistant softball coach at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Ellen E. Sauter began full-time service with Catholic Charities of Spokane and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.
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IN MEMORIAM
1933
Isabelle Haverstick Harger, Jan. 14, 2017, of Noblesville, Ind., at the age of 104. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include daughter, Susannah Harger Dillon ’60; son-inlaw, James C. Dillon ’62; grandson, William C. Dillon ’87; great-grandson, John C. Dillon ’19; and greatgranddaughter, Julia C. Dillon ’17.
1934
Ronald W. Gilbert, Jan. 22, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 104. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, The Washington C. DePauw Society and a Rector Scholar. He retired as news service director at Tri-State College. He was a former newsman at The Associated Press, The Indianapolis Star and the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Cureton Gilbert ’35. Survivors include his son, David W. Gilbert ’65; and grandson, Christopher W. Gilbert ’91.
1936
Margaret Small Mains, Sept. 25, 2016, of Laramie, Wyo., at the age of 101. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and taught dance at the University of Wyoming. She was preceded in death by her husband. Arthur S. Stafford, Nov. 21, 2016, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 102. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha.
He had a career in hotel accounting and retired as a controller. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1939
Marion Ward Tangren, Dec. 10, 2016, of Austin, Minn., at the age of 100. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, an executive secretary for American Red Cross, community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1940
Morris J. Morgan, Nov. 23, 2016, of Cambridge City, Ind., at the age of 98. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, a Rector Scholar and a United Methodist minister. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1941
Irving M. Heath, Dec. 22, 2016, of Winchester, Va., at the age of 98. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a partner in an insurance agency. He was preceded in death by his wife, Rachel Waltz Heath ’40. Survivors include daughter, Marilyn R. Heath ’71.
1942
Mary Jane Wetherell Webber, Dec. 9, 2016, of Danville, Ill., at the age of 95. She was a homemaker and elementary school music teacher. Survivors include her husband.
1943
Donald E. Beuke, Jan. 25, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 96. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, an ironworker and volunteered for many local sports events. He was preceded in death by his wife. Robert J. Lavidge, Dec. 15, 2016, of Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 94. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a Rector Scholar and co-founder of Elrick & Lavidge, a marketing research firm. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Margaret Zwigard Lavidge ’45. Survivors include his wife; daughters, Margaret Lavidge Gosselink ’70 and Kathleen Lavidge McKinley ’74; and brother, Arthur W. Lavidge ’42.
1944
Martha Clem Million, Dec. 28, 2016, of West Lafayette, Ind., at the age of 95. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, an elementary school music teacher, community volunteer and homemaker. She was
preceded in death by her husband.
Survivors include her husband; daughter, Elizabeth Cole Dickerson ’72; grandson, Andrew B. Cole ’07; and granddaughterin-law, Carolyn Walker Cole ’05.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Alexander Boigegrain ’50; sister, Beverly Boigegrain Rodgers ’57; and niece, Marguarite D. Rodgers ’93.
1947
Clara Lou Aumann Milligan, Dec. 24, 2016, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 91. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a high school teacher, business owner and homemaker. Survivors include her husband; daughter, Nancy Milligan Frick ’74; and son-in-law, Charles S. Frick ’73.
Robert F. Ogden, Oct. 10, 2016, of Flat Rock, N.C., at the age of 88. He was a member of Sigma Chi, a Rector Scholar and retired as manager of human resources from General Electric. He was preceded in death by his father, Tarrence F. Ogden Class of 1922. Survivors include his wife; and son, Scott F. Ogden ’77.
Gloria Rick Price, Oct. 29, 2016, of San Mateo, Calif., at the age of 94. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
William Dailey, Nov. 30, 2016, of Pasadena, Calif., at the age of 92. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector Scholar and retired as an architectural designer. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1945
Charlotte Biernatzki Jeltsch, Dec. 28, 2016, of Spokane, Wash., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, an elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1948
Samuel G. Clifford Jr., Nov. 18, 2016, of Evansville, Ind., at the age of 92. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and retired as vice president of finance from Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Julia Trost Yake, Jan. 16, 2017, of Connersville, Ind., at the age of 88. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a community volunteer, homemaker and retired from Union Savings and Loan Association as secretary-treasurer after 35 years of service. She was preceded in death by her husband.
Luella Boonstra Boaz, Dec. 20, 2016, of Decatur, Ill., at the age of 93. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Luella Worthley Boonstra Class of 1918; and her husband.
David B. Cox, Sept. 29, 2016, of Santa Rosa, Calif., at the age of 89. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a Rector Scholar, a chemist and retired as vice president of Chem-Trend, Inc. He was preceded in death by his wife; father, Ezra M. Cox Class of 1912; mother, Glen Berry Cox Class of 1914; sister, Mary Cox Kochanczyk ’38; brothers, John R. Cox ’43 and Charles W. Cox ’39; sister-in-law, Jane Schlosser Cox ’43; and nephew, David J. Kochanczyk ’69.
Carol Mason Bricher, Dec. 25, 2016, of Saint Charles, Ill., at the age of 94. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Lauchlin H. McLean, July 22, 2016, of Bloomfield, Conn., at the age of 95. He was a member of Delta Chi, retired as assistant general counsel and vice president from Aetna Life & Casualty, and was a public service volunteer. Survivors include his wife.
Kathleen Driscoll Johnson, Dec. 19, 2016, of Bethlehem, N.H., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a community volunteer and homemaker. Survivors include husband, Ned D. Johnson ’44. Oran J. Lamer, Dec. 3, 2016, of Anna, Ill., at the age of 91. He was a teacher, principal and coach. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1946
Marion Palmer Weyrauch, Dec. 3, 2016, of Kingwood, Texas, at the age of 91. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband. Elizabeth Phelps Cole, Jan. 26, 2017, of Evanston, Ill. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a homemaker.
Audrey Morrow Reames, Jan. 12, 2017, of Elkhart, Ind., at the age of 94. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. Elsie Traver Wade, Oct. 13, 2016, of River Forest, Ill., at the age of 91. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1949
Rev. Walter J. Boigegrain, May 3, 2016, of Grand Junction, Colo., at the age of 88. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and a United Methodist minister.
1950
David L. Baker, Nov. 2, 2016, of Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 90. He was president and chief executive officer of Baker & Company, an investment firm. Survivors include his wife, Virginia Bartlett Baker ’50. Cynthia Dreher Baker, Jan. 27, 2017, of Chandler, Ariz., at the age of 89. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a business owner and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Robert M. Baker ’49. Richard A. Marksbary, Oct. 12, 2016, of Austin, Texas, at the age of 91. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and a high school teacher and coach. He was followed in death by his wife. Dorothy Schoneker Skinner, Dec. 30, 2016, of Indianapolis, at the age of 88. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, former director of Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Julia Wilcox Marks, Oct. 31, 2016, in Clarksville, Tenn., at the age of 87. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Julia VanCleve Wilcox ’26; and husband. Survivors include daughters, Constance Marks Matlock ’71 and Julia Marks Meadows ’72.
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1951
Nancy Adams Thorwaldson, Sept. 20, 2016, of Austin, Texas, at the age of 86. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, an elementary school teacher, business owner, real estate agent and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jon S. Thorwaldson ’51. Brevoort Baker II, Jan. 2, 2017, in Columbus, Ind. at the age of 87. He was a member of Sigma Chi and owner of Hoosier Metal Products Inc. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Charles S. Baker, class of 1878; father, Brevoort Baker ’25; aunt, Martha Lou Ruddick Boswell ’52; brother-in-law, James K. Baker ’53; sister-in-law, Jean Givens Boll ’52. Survivors include his wife, JoAnn Givens Baker ’51; sister, Beverly Baker Baker ’59; sons, Jeffrey B. Baker ’77 and Eric G. Baker ’86; and granddaughter, Ann Baker Hale ’04. Charles L. Eldredge, Jan. 12, 2017, of Miami Beach, Fla., at the age of 87. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, The Washington C. DePauw Society and a businessman. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Joy Parker Eldredge ’54. Survivors include his wife. H. Paul Julien, Jan. 10, 2017, of St. Petersburg, Fla., at the age of 87. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a Rector Scholar, scientist and philatelist and owner of The Stamp Place. He was preceded in death by his father, Arlie P. Julien Class of 1920; mother, Wava Doty Julien Class of 1922; and wife, Frances Matkin Julien ’50. Survivors include daughter, Pamela Julien ’74 and Valerie Julien Peto ’83. David M. Parmelee, Dec. 30, 2016, of Grand Rapids, Mich., at the age of 89. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a designer. Robert F. Richardson, May 25, 2015, of Littleton, Colo., at the age of 91. He was a member of Sigma Chi, worked for General Electric Company, a speech writer for executives and owner of an electronics company. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Kathleen Law Richardson ’50. Survivors include his wife; and sons, Paul R. Richardson ’75 and Douglas G. Richardson ’74.
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Dr. David B. Stevens, Feb. 6, 2017, of Lexington, Ky., at the age of 87. He was a member of Sigma Nu, The Washington C. DePauw Society, Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector Scholar, Old Gold Goblet recipient, served on DePauw Board of Visitors, DePauw Alumni Board, an orthopaedic surgeon and a member of faculty at University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sally Symon Stevens ’52. Survivors include his daughter, Patricia Stevens Ardery ’80; son-in-law, Samuel R. Ardery ’80; and granddaughters, Mary E. Ardery ’15; Rachel Ardery Iler ’10; and Grace K. Ardery ’12. Leigh A. Stocking, Dec. 31, 2016, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 88, of cancer. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a business owner. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Florence Hurn Stocking ’51; his second wife; and brother, Charles D. Stocking ’55. Survivors include his companion; and sister-in-law, Nancy Curtis Stocking ’55. Stanley G. White, Dec. 10, 2016, of Richmond, Ind., at the age of 88. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, a Rector Scholar and manager of data processing. Survivors include his wife.
34-year career at North Carolina State University where he was a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Genetics. Survivors include his wife.
1953
Mary Baughman Spilman, Oct. 31, 2016, in Waterford Mills, Ind., at the age of 85. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a substitute teacher, office worker and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Palmer Munson Baughman ’23. Survivors include her husband; and son, Jeffery A. Spilman ’87. Peggy Carey Beman, Jan. 10, 2017, of Fair Oaks, Calif., at the age of 86. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a former singer and actress and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Barbara Feigel Rice, Jan. 4, 2017, of Lafayette, Ind., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, an English and history teacher, genealogist, community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Marian Vickery Feigel ’28. Survivors include her husband; sister, Elizabeth Feigel Gillum ’60; and brother-in-law, Ronald L. Gillum ’60.
James F. Zeis, Jan. 25, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 90. He worked at Headley Hardware in Greencastle for 53 years. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Charles F. Zeis, class of 1891; father, James B. Zeis ’25; and brother-in-law, William H. Barrett ’50. Survivors include his wife; brother-in-law, Arthur G. Nevins ’62; and sister-in-law, Sarah Humbert Nevins ’63.
Virginia Kraft Scatterday, Jan. 18, 2017, of St. Charles, Ill., at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a homemaker, realtor and broker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Scatterday ’50; and brother-inlaw, William H. Buettin ’49. Survivors include sister, Arline Kraft Buettin ’49; grandson, Zachary D. Peterselli ’05; granddaughter, Amy K. Peterselli ’12; and nephews, Bradley K. Buettin ’73 and Daniel P. Buettin ’75.
1952
1954
Bette Doolittle Culver, Dec. 3, 2016, of Austell, Ga., at the age of 89. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, a retired school piano teacher, performer and homemaker. John W. Kinsey, Dec. 14, 2016, of Constantine, Mich., at the age of 86. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and self-employed management consultant. He was preceded in death by his wife. Charles S. Levings III, Jan. 18, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C., at the age of 86. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and had a
Allen K. Billingsley, Jan. 31, 2017, of Wheaton, Ill., at the age of 85. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, The Washington C. DePauw Society and a regional sales manager and consultant for Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Company. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Endres Billingsley ’54; father, Joe K. Billingsley Class of 1917; sister, Betty Billingsley Fehrman ’48; uncles, Allen L. Billingsley Class of 1913 and David W. Billingsley Class of 1919; and aunt, Alma Mohr Billingsley Class of 1914. Survivors include his son, Kent A. Billingsley Jr. ’80; and grandson, Alexander K. Billingsley ’11.
Anne Emison Harmon, Dec, 14, 2016, of Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., at the age of 83, of lung cancer. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, former TIME employee, a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, John W. Emison Jr., class of 1887; father, Robert S. Emison ’28; mother, Dorothy Gantz Emison ’28; uncles, John C. Emison Class of 1911 and Richard A. Emison Class of 1916; aunts, Esse Summers Emison Class of 1917 and Eileen Sullivan Emison ’47. Survivors include her husband; daughter, Julia Harmon Machuca ’89; sister, Mary Emison Davis ’53; brother-in-law, Phillip C. Davis ’53; and nephew, Robert C. Davis ’79.
1955
J. David Gelsanliter, Jan. 5, 2017, of Albuquerque, N.M., at the age of 83. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a newspaper manager and writer. Margaret A. McLaughlin, Nov. 14, 2016, of Camden S.C., at the age of 83. She was a member of Delta Gamma, a university writing professor and homemaker. Survivors include niece, Heather McLaughlin Carson ’91.
1956
Judith Walker Buchanan, Oct. 23, 2016, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 82. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a piano teacher, head of the Catering Clan of Louisville and homemaker. Survivors include her husband; daughter, Jane Lehman Triaire ’78; brother, John R. Walker ’54; and sister-in-law, Carol Mahood Walker ’55. Noble H. Yoshida, Dec. 6, 2016, of Chillicothe, Ohio, at the age of 82. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, a Rector Scholar and retired as technical director from Mead Paper Corporation. Survivors include his wife; and son, David N. Yoshida ’99.
1957
Donald T. Prihoda, July 16, 2016, of Salem, S.C., at the age of 85. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and retired as personnel director and vice president with Campbell Soup and Matchbox Toys. He was preceded in death by his wife. Ralph E. Snelson, April 29, 2016, of Warren, Ohio, at the age of 80. He was
a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, a community leader and dentist. He was preceded in death by his father, Ralph A. Snelson ’25; and sister-in-law, Lois Southard Snelson ’60. Survivors include his wife, Diane Woodward Snelson ’58; and brother, Lynn A. Snelson ’59.
1958
Jane McDaniel Keller, Dec. 10, 2016, of Hagarstown, Md., at the age of 80. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a second grade teacher, an advertising sales representative and homemaker. Kathryn A. Penstone, Sept. 25, 2015, of Boulder, Colo., at the age of 78. She was a member of Delta Gamma, a museum docent and homemaker. Sandra Swisher Sammons, Oct. 13, 2016, of Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 80. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a community volunteer, a medical social worker and homemaker. She was preceded in death by brother, John R. Swisher ’59; and sister-in-law, Eleanor Sammons Greenberg ’44. Survivors include her husband, Robert C. Sammons ’57.
Orrin M. Rose, Nov. 27, 2016, of Akron, Ohio, at the age of 76. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and retired from the Ohio Department of Human Services and Walmart. Survivors include his wife. Roger D. Wegner, Oct. 6, 2016, of Waterloo, Iowa, at the age of 76. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and worked as an actuary and high school teacher.
1962
Diane Haas Haven, Dec. 8, 2016, of Silver Springs, Md., at the age of 76. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, a high school English teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1963
William J. Hampton, Oct. 23, 2016, of Saint Paul, Minn., at the age of 75, of Parkinson’s disease. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, The Washington C. DePauw Society and an airline pilot. Survivors include his wife.
1959
Dr. John Hered, Oct. 30, 2016, of Denver, Colo., at the age of 75. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector Scholar and neurosurgeon. Survivors include his wife.
1960
Stephen D. Morrison, Oct. 13, 2016, of Attica, Ind., at the age of 75. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, The Washington C. DePauw Society and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his mother, Daphene Daggy Morrison ’33. Survivors include his wife, Carol Parks Morrison ’64; and daughter, Ellen Morrison Townsend ’94.
Barbara Herrick Hill, Dec. 16, 2016, of Chicago, Ill., at the age of 79. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a self-employed career management consultant and homemaker. Survivors include son, David C. Naftzger ’94; daughter, Susan Naftzger Leinbach ’86; and sister, Elizabeth Herrick LeTerneau ’61. James E. Strayer, Nov. 26, 2016, of San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 78. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a Rector Scholar, retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Colonel and had a career with Buick and in real estate. Survivors include his wife. Mary Davis Sutherland, Nov. 8, 2016, of Washington, D.C., at the age of 78. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a former public school teacher and real estate salesperson. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1961
Glenda Oosterhuis Hilty, Jan. 13, 2017, in Louisville, Colo., at the age of 77. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a real estate broker.
1964
Dr. James F. Morrell, Jan. 1, 2017, in Carmel, Calif., at the age of 74. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a urologist. He was preceded in death by brother-in-law, James J. Kelly ’54; and sister, Marilou Morrell Kelly ’55. Survivors include his wife.
1965
William C. Hauber, Dec. 23, 2016, of Brighton, Mich., at the age of 73. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a global account executive. Survivors include his wife.
1966
Bradford R. Fleig, Sept. 19, 2016, of Cabot, Ark., at the age of 72. He was a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, The Washington C. DePauw Society and an employee of Masonite Corporation. He was preceded in death by brother, William F. Fleig Jr. ’62. Thomas J. Gates, Feb. 6, 2016, of Indianapolis, at the age of 71. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a musician, screenwriter and world traveler. Survivors include sisters, Mary Gates Wezeman ’57 and Barbara Gates Bensching ’54.
1967
John V. Horton, Oct. 26, 2016, in Jacksonville, Fla., at the age of 71, of cancer. He was a member of Delta Chi and a retired United States Navy intelligence officer. Survivors include his wife, Kathleen Gross Horton ’68.
1968
Jean P. Johnson, Nov. 22, 2015, in Avon, Ind., at the age of 69. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a Spanish teacher for more than 25 years at several levels, including university. She was preceded in death by her great-grandfather, David B. Johnson, class of 1885; great-uncle, Albinus A. Johnson, class of 1875; great-aunt, Alice Thomas Johnson, class of 1876; grandfather, Jesse P. Johnson Class of 1914; and uncle, Clarence C. Johnson Class of 1912. Survivors include sisters, Pamela Johnson Davis ’65 and Beth Johnson Bates ’74.
1969
David J. Kochanczyk, Jan. 21, 2017, of Martinsville, Ind., at the age of 70, from pancreatic cancer. He was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, small business owner and an electrician. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Ezra M. Cox Class of 1912; grandmother, Glenn Berry Cox Class of 1914; mother, Mary Cox Kochanczyk ’38; uncles, Charles W. Cox ’39, John R. Cox ’43 and David B. Cox ’48; and aunt, Jane Schlosser Cox ’43. Survivors include his wife; son, John M. Kochanczyk ’08; and daughter-inlaw, Katie E. Burpo ’08. Roderick V. Manifold, Jan. 23, 2017, of Palmyra, Va., at the age of 69, along with his wife in an automobile accident. He was executive director of Central Virginia Health Services. He was preceded in death by his father, Orrin A. Manifold ’35; and uncle, Harold M. Manifold ’43. Survivors include his
brother, Gregory L. Manifold ’71; and cousin, William R. Manifold ’73. Dr. Theodore G. Shultz, Dec. 6, 2016, of Salem, Ore., at the age of 69, from cancer. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and a physician in private practice. Survivors include his wife; sister, Marilyn Shultz Evans ’73; son, Brenton A. Shultz ’06; and daughter-inlaw, Helen Carlson Shultz ’06.
1970
Robert K. Arters Jr., Feb. 7, 2017, of Phoenixville, Penn., at the age of 68. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and a public accountant. Survivors include his wife.
1971
Sandra A. Whiting, Jan. 8, 2017, of Cloverdale, Ind., at the age of 77. She was a retired teacher.
1974
Michael G. Hallas, Dec. 24, 2016, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 69. He was a high school teacher, coach, athletic director, assistant principal and principal. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Poole Hallas ’75. Catherine Veldhuis Hays, Oct. 25, 2016, of Kalamazoo, Mich., at the age of 64. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1975
David C. Aschmann, Dec. 4, 2016, in Canadaiqua, N.Y., at the age of 63, from cancer. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a dairy farmer, professional chef and businessman. He was preceded in death by his father, Charles O. Aschmann Jr. ’48. Survivors include his mother, Veronica Bowen Aschmann ’47; and brother, James D. Aschmann ’72. Stephen K. Goff, Aug. 17, 2016, of Durango, Colo., at the age of 63, from pancreatic cancer. He was a member of Sigma Nu, a Rector Scholar and chief financial officer for an oil production company. Survivors include his wife; sister, Cynthia Goff Demmon ’76; and mother, Maxine Stout, former secretary in DePauw Office of Admission. Todd E. Klingel, Oct. 30, 2016, of Mendota Heights, Minn., at the age of 63, of cancer. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, a businessman and civic leader. Survivors include his wife. SPRING 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 43
1977
Steven L. Olson, Dec. 24, 2016, of Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 61, from cancer. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and had a career in water management policy and legislative advocacy. Survivors include his wife. Douglas J. Pirtle, Jan. 17, 2017, of Fort Myers, Fla., at the age of 62. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a community volunteer and small business owner. He was preceded in death by his brother, David J. Pirtle ’79. Survivors include his wife.
1979
Abigail Cummings Koppel, Nov. 25, 2016, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., at the age of 59. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a librarian and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, James S. Cummings ’48 and mother, Joanna Cooper Strueber ’50. Survivors include her husband. Elizabeth Michels Sweeney, Oct. 11, 2016, of Hinsdale, Ill., at the age of 58, from cancer. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Washington C. DePauw Society, creator of the patient navigation oncology program in the Amita Health Cancer Institute & Outpatient Center and homemaker. She was preceded in death by father-in-law, Gerald O. Sweeney ’43 and her motherin-law, Elizabeth Young Sweeney ’45. Survivors include husband, Brian P. Sweeney ’80; sisters, Cynthia Michels Kraemer ’77 and Jennifer Michels Heitman ’87; sister-in-law, Rebecca Sweeney Barton ’69; brother-in-law, Jerold M. Barton ’68; brother-in-law, Gerald O. Sweeney Jr. ’74; sister-inlaw, Linda Goodyear Sweeney ’76; and nephew, Nicholas Owen Sweeney ’12.
1980
Josephine Evans Shuck, Jan. 12, 2017, of Brownsburg, Ind., at the age of 95. She was a high school teacher, junior high school librarian and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1981
Mark A. Bryant, Aug. 19, 2016, of Muncie, Ind., at the age of 57. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and senior sales representative for the National Federation of Independent Business. Survivors include his wife. 44 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
Arnold H. Fritz, Oct. 2, 2016, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., at the age of 57. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and an attorney. Survivors include his wife.
1983
Brian U. Loncar, Dec. 4, 2016, of Dallas, Texas, at the age of 56. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a self-employed attorney. Survivors include his wife.
1991
William R. Aker, Jan. 16, 2017, of Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 48. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, chiropractor and business owner. Survivors include his wife; and father, James E. Aker ’64.
2007
Emily Young Lines, Dec. 29, 2016, in Chicago, Ill., at the age of 32. She was an associate marketing director at Nielsen Chicago. Survivors include her husband.
2012
Edward L. Hamilton, Oct. 27, 2016, in Indianapolis, at the age of 27. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and was working toward becoming a clinical therapist. He was preceded in death by his father, Scott L. Hamilton ’81. Survivors include his mother, Lisa Belcher Hamilton ’80; grandparents, Donald L. Hamilton ’57 and Emily “Laurie” Hooton Hamilton ’58; uncles, Mark B. Hamilton ’88 and Todd L. Hamilton ’86; great uncle, Stanley Hamilton ’63; and godfather, Robert L. Ward ’80.
Faculty
Conrad Hilberry, Jan. 11, 2017, in Kalamazoo, Mich., at the age of 88, from complications of cancer and pneumonia. He was an English professor at DePauw from 1954-62. He was a poet and taught poetry, literature and writing at Kalamazoo College from 1962-98. He wrote 11 volumes of poetry, and helped many prominent writers launch their careers. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Friends
Darrell Ewalt, Dec. 4, 2016, in Miami, Fla., at the age of 58. He was vice president and executive producer of event programming and production at AXS TV. He had produced more than 12 Monon Bell telecasts. Survivors include his wife.
Shirley A. Pace, Jan. 1, 2017, of Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 88. She worked at Stanford University library for 10 years; DePauw University library for 10 years; and as a transporter for the radiology department at Danville Hospital for nearly 10 years. Georgia E. Sublette, Jan. 25, 2017, of Meadville, Penn., at the age of 101. She was a homemaker, secretary and retired from DePauw as a payroll clerk. She was preceded in death by her husband, David G. Sublette ’33. Survivors include her son, David L. Sublette ’60.
creating a legacy Dr. Richard Hall ’67 uses a planned gift to provide for students with financial need Coming to DePauw from the Ohio River town of Jeffersonville, Ind., DR. RICHARD A. HALL ’67 understands the struggles of students from rural areas and working class families. The son of a high school principal and of a bookkeeper, Hall’s ability to attend DePauw was influenced by having received a Rector Scholarship. Fifty years after his own graduation, Hall has made provisions to create a scholarship fund of his own, while still giving faithfully each year to The Fund for DePauw. Hall’s final choice of college came down to DePauw or Dartmouth, and he chose DePauw because of the people. On campus he pledged Sigma Chi, played on the baseball team, and sang with Men of Note. He also studied chemistry in the legendary Minshall Laboratory. After graduation, he received his medical degree from Tulane Medical School and began a 29 year career in the United States Army, much of it spent as a Colonel, all of it spent as a practicing general surgeon. We would be happy to assist you in building a legacy at DePauw. For more information, contact: DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF LEGACY AND ESTATE PLANNING
Eric Motycka Director of Legacy and Estate Planning 300 E. Seminary St., P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Phone: 765-658-4216 Toll-free: 800-446-5298 ericmotycka@depauw.edu depauw.planmylegacy.org
Early on a friend advised him, “Invest, even when you think you have nothing to invest.” This proved to be sound advice, and now Hall is investing not for his own future but for the future of others, through a scholarship fund at DePauw.
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