DePauw Magazine Spring 2020

DePauw M A G A Z I N E

Spring 2020

IN THIS ISSUE: The nonconformists: Old Pogue distillers, the guardian angels of Casa Alitas and more / A chemistry prof reflects on Percy Julian / “Lo siento”

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THE BO(U)LDER QUESTION

by Rebecca Bordt The United States has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world, 716 per 100,000 residents, and Americans spend $270 billion a year to keep 2.2 million of their fellow citizens locked up. Congress undertook criminal justice reform last year, passing the First Step Act with bipartisan support.

Bordt, a DePauw sociology professor, has researched the sociology of punishment. We asked her:

Why does the U.S. imprison so many of its citizens?

Should state and federal government leaders do more to address mass incarceration?

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any assume that our country’s high imprisonment rate is a result of a high crime rate.

But incarceration rates and crime rates move independently of each other. In the past 40 years the incarceration rate has more than quadrupled as the crime rate has steadily decreased. Any discussion of mass incarceration must be decoupled from crime; something else is driving imprisonment rates.

To understand what that is, we need an updated conceptualization of prisons.

When I started studying prisons 35 years ago, it was standard to think of prisons as autonomous units loosely aggregated by state or a federal system. Today prisons are situated in a vast network linking corporations, government, correctional communities and media – the prison industrial complex. Identifying the economic, political and social interests embedded in this complex reveals why we have mass incarceration, why it is so resilient and why it is unlikely to reverse direction.

Mass incarceration is profitable: CoreCivic and the GEO Group Inc. run

private prisons and have government contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Marshall Service and Federal Bureau of Prisons, among others. State-run prisons outsource most services, such as health care, food and telephone services, to private companies.

Corporations “employ” prisoners to make their products or carry out services (e.g., Target, Honeywell, Microsoft, Revlon), paying them literally pennies for their labor. If you are in the prison business, more incarcerated bodies represent more profit, a hallmark of capitalism.

Mass incarceration reinforces our government’s neoliberal public policy: Central to neoliberal ideology and policy is the privatization of public services. The American Legislative Exchange Council, at the behest of its corporate funders, writes and lobbies for “model” legislation such as the “Truth in Sentencing Act” and the “Three-Strikes-You’re-Out Act,” both of which fuel mass imprisonment.

Mass incarceration is consistent with our racial order that criminalizes skin color, immigration and poverty: Scholars

argue that mass imprisonment is the latest in a long line of systems that legitimize white supremacy: first slavery, then convict leasing, next Jim Crow and now mass incarceration. Others include other dispossessed groups: Latinx, immigrants and poor whites. Racism, in various iterations, fuels who makes up the mass in mass incarceration.

So should federal and state government leaders do more to address mass incarceration? Should we applaud the First Step Act? Yes and no. It is hard to argue against justice reinvestment, aiding prisoners with reentry and reducing recidivism. But none of these actions will put a dent in the structural forces that ensure the tenacity of mass imprisonment.

The prison industrial complex does not just encapsulate prisoners. It envelops those of us in the free world as well. We are all implicated in mass incarceration – by the products we consume, the corporations that employ us, the politics we preach. So it will take us all in nothing short of a mass movement to begin to chip away at it.

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STAFF Mary Dieter University editorial director marydieter@depauw.edu 765-658-4286 Kelly A. Graves Creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Joel Bottom Staff videographer/photographer joelbottom@depauw.edu Donna Grooms Gold Nuggets editor dgrooms@depauw.edu EDITORIAL BOARD: Deedie Dowdle, vice president for communications and marketing Sarah McAdams, internal communications manager Leslie Williams Smith ’03, executive director of alumni engagement Brittney Way, staff photographer Mariel Wilderson, executive director of communication Dawna Sinnett Wilson ’82, interim associate vice president for development and alumni engagement Chris Wolfe, social media manager

IN THIS ISSUE

The Bo(u)lder Question

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DePauw Digest

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Book Nook

6

Letters to the Editor

7

The nonconformists

22

1,000 Words’ Worth

37

Gold Nuggets

46

First Person

48

Old Gold

Leaders the World Needs

Image: Students in a winter-term class participated in the global Empty Bowls project by crafting ceramic bowls that were used at a community meal to raise money for the food pantry at New Life Baptist Church in Greencastle.

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DEPAUW DIGEST Lori White named DePauw’s 21st president Lori S. White, a visionary and student-focused leader whose education and career have taken her to some of the country’s best universities, will become DePauw University’s 21st president July 1.

The Board of Trustees voted March 3 to appoint White, the vice chancellor for students at Washington University in St. Louis, to succeed D. Mark McCoy, DePauw’s president since July 2016.

She was the unanimous choice of an 18-member search committee that considered more than 100 applicants. The committee, chaired by Justin Christian ’95, was comprised of alumni, faculty members, a staff representative, students and administrators.

Chemistry professor and 1986 alum Jeff Hansen, a member of the search committee, said the DePauw community wanted its next president to be “a great communicator, a great listener, someone who makes good decisions after carefully hearing input from all constituencies and someone who can build community and unite the campus.” White, he said, “excels in all of those qualities.”

She comes with more than 30 years of experience in student-focused positions and also has academic credentials. She earned an undergraduate degree in psychology and English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.

She attended Harvard University’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education.

White, who also will hold the rank of professor of education studies, will be the only African-American woman leading an institution of higher learning in Indiana and one of few women of color in the country to lead a college or university. The American Council on Education found in 2017 that only 5% of college presidents were women of color.

Look for more on President White in the summer issue of DePauw Magazine.

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DePauw named a top Fulbright producer for 9th straight year For the ninth consecutive year, DePauw University has been named a top producer of Fulbright student scholarship winners.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in February announced the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. DePauw had seven winners, more than any other four-year school in Indiana.

Five 2019 graduates and two 2016 graduates won the coveted awards earlier this school year and headed to their assigned countries in late summer or fall. Conner Gordon ’16 won a scholarship to conduct research in Serbia. The others are teaching English: Bo Shimmin ’19 in Italy; Nelson Blake ’19 in Germany; Liam Byrnes ’19 in Thailand; Riley Hawkins ’16 in the Netherlands; Peper Langhout ’19 in India; and Stephanie Ramos ’19 in Paraguay.

Nice going, Tigers!

A record 243 DePauw student-athletes were named to the Tiger Pride Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.4 grade point average for the fall semester. That tops the previous high of 217. Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw’s associate vice president for campus wellness and Theodore Katula director of athletics and recreational sports, created the honor roll in 2012. n Senior guard Sydney Kopp became the all-time leading scorer in DePauw women’s basketball in a Feb. 8 winning effort against Hiram College. She took the top spot from Maya Howard ’19, her former teammate, who set the record a year earlier. Kopp also broke a DePauw record for scoring in a single game when she scored 42 points Jan. 18 against Ohio Wesleyan University. The record had been held by Jennifer Bauer ’88, a 1999 Hall of Fame inductee who scored 40 points against Huntington University in 1985. n Sophomore Jenny Noll represented DePauw at the NCAA Division III Women’s Cross Country Championships in November. Noll, a two-time all-North Coast Athletic Conference and all-Great Lakes Region performer, finished 78th in her first Division III Championships.

Art program ranked in top 10% in country

We’re blushing … gold Your DePauw Magazine struck gold in two recent competitions.

For the second consecutive year, the magazine won gold in late February in the Educational Advertising Awards competition, which had more than 2,350 entries from more than 1,000 schools.

DePauw’s junior viewbook won a silver award.

The magazine also was named the best alumni magazine for schools with 2,999 students or fewer among Great Lakes members of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Winners in the Pride of CASE V Award competition were announced in late November. The DePauw Communications and Marketing team won silver for its Heart of Gold social media campaign on Valentine’s Day 2019.

DePauw University’s art program ranks in the top 10% of art programs offered by four-year colleges and universities, according to College Factual, a website that gathers what it calls “unique insights” into higher education.

The website placed DePauw’s program at No. 47 out of 512 schools nationwide.

What’s more, DePauw’s program ranks fourth highest among liberal arts schools on College Factual’s list. Many of the schools that make up the top 50 are large universities or arts schools.

DePauw’s Department of Art and Art History offers majors or minors in studio arts and art history and a minor in museum studies. Studio courses are offered in drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video and digital art. Art history courses combine traditional and non-traditional approaches to the study of art, past and present.

College Factual made its rankings based on several factors, including earnings of graduates who majored in art; the percentage of current students majoring in art; and the institution’s overall quality.

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BOOK NOOK Is a recent read occupying your thoughts? Has a book indelibly imprinted your life? We want to hear from you.

Send your recommendation to marydieter@depauw.edu.

What We’re Reading

by Liz Copher Browning ’84 I pitched the book across the room.

The final page left a void; I needed answers about the narrative – answers not easily forthcoming. Once again, I was going to have to do the work, which is one of the earmarks, I think, of literary merit.

The book I threw? Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” I threw it out of frustration because I ended the novel with more questions than answers. Rereading the ending, I slowed my pace. Explored the loss. Why would I do that? McCarthy’s post-911 work breaks grammatical rules. Fragments punctuate its pages. Quotation marks are absent. Prose translates into poetry. Mostly, though, I was invested in the characters’ switchback struggle across the Appalachians to the Eastern seaboard. “The Road” sticks to my bones and, even today, 14 years later, I wonder about myself in their world. Would I have the father’s strength? The son’s hope? Would I, too, be able to “carry the light?”

Copher Browning is a member of the DePauw Alumni Association Board of Directors and frequent reunion cochair. An English teacher at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis and a lifelong reader, she rarely recommends just one book when so many are waiting to be discovered.

Kathleen Fine-Dare ’74 “Urban Mountain Beings”

David Newman, professor of sociology “A Culture of Second Chances”

Rob Harrell ’91 “Wink” John Norberg ’70 “Wings of Their Dreams”

Sujung Kim, assistant professor, religious studies “Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian ’Mediterranean’”

John Norberg ’70 “Ever True”

Roger Nelsen ’64 “A Cornucopia of Quadrilaterals”

Ted O’Connell ’91 “K”

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

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The President’s Bookshelf

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by D Mark McCoy In my final contribution to The President’s Bookshelf, I thought I should choose a great DePauw author. The challenge immediately presented itself. Which one? I have enjoyed the engaging works of so many talented faculty and alumni. I could easily choose Greg Schwipps’s “What This River Keeps” for its powerful portrayal of people and place; I could choose Eugene Gloria’s evocative poetry in “My Favorite Warlord.” But the list of successful faculty authors would be longer than this note, so I limited my choices to alumni. This helped but little, as I still could not choose only one. The list of DePauw alumni authors is also long and distinguished; John Jakes ’53 was my introduction to DePauw alumni authors long before I came to DePauw. What to do? Ultimately, I settled on current efforts from three successful and distinctive voices.

This demonstrates the power of our liberal arts education. Bret Baier ’92 majored in political science and English; James B. Stewart ’73 studied Western Europe in a self-directed major combining political science, history and French. Barbara Kingsolver ’77 started in the School of Music and graduated with a degree in zoology. Yet somehow each of these alums became authors by using their education to live their passion. Who could ask for more than that from an education? The power of our liberal arts education remains abundantly clear.

Baier is a highly engaging author and television anchor who has put his DePauw education to good use in his well-received “Three Days” series.

His latest, “Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II,” is impeccably researched and captivatingly written. Bret’s eye for fascinating detail makes this book come to life.

Stewart is a respected Pulitzer Prizewinning author known for the clarity of his writing and his uncanny ability to render complex situations in a highly readable style. “Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law” follows a long line of successful books. While my favorite remains “Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th” (maybe because it is the only one that has spawned an opera), “Deep State” is a great read.

Kingsolver is one of the greatest novelists of our generation and her work never ceases to impress.

The ingenuity of “Unsheltered” – chronicling the lives of two families living in the same house separated by time – is unequaled. As I marvel at Barbara’s command as an author, I am almost convinced that seeing her name on a book about vacuum cleaner maintenance would compel me to read it. No matter her subject, she fascinates and enriches me.

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LETTERS

DePauw M A G A Z I N E

Fall 2019

IN THIS ISSUE: Plight of the Honey Bee / The Prime Minister’s Legacy / 21CM / ARTifacts / and more

Look &Listen DePauw Alums in the Visual and Musical Arts

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TO THE EDITOR: Congratulations on the fantastic redesign of the DePauw Magazine.

Love the new look and the interesting feature on DPU artists.

– Lisa Hendrickson ’81 I applaud your new issue (which is beautiful, by the way) for its focus on accomplished DePauw alumni artists and performers. I’m glad that you have acknowledged the artistic depth of DePauw’s alumni.

– Mark Fields ’81

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Thanks to all for the latest DePauw Magazine! The feature on the arts is especially welcome. My wife and I were excited to see the profile on Pamela Coburn. As she sang during a few services at the Presbyterian Church in Greencastle, tears were in my eyes for the beauty of that voice. I knew then that, if she willed it, she could have a stellar career in opera. … Being a part of the DePauw community, long hours and challenges and all, was a privilege and a joy. I’m sure it remains the same, despite pressures and anxieties that we oldtimers were spared. I hope all there now realize that.

– Ernest Henninger, professor emeritus of physics, 1968-98 Just thought I would relay my compliments on the fall issue of DePauw magazine. While I always enjoy scanning the magazine, I found this particular issue very interesting.

Thank you!

– Karen Petree Cashman ’79

I’m a 1963 DePauw grad who loved this campus from Day 1 because of the people I met. From my third floor Rector Hall suite mates to my AXO sisters on Seminary Street to Dean Ethel Mitchell and finally to professor Robert Newton, I have memories that will last a lifetime. So I was moved to give back. With a daughter, Cherie LaFollette DuPuy ’95, and a son, Dr. Christopher P. LaFollette ’98, and an extraordinary M.D. husband, Dr. James W. LaFollette, how could I not?

My husband and I decided that providing scholarships for undergrads to take the MCAT Preparatory Test could provide a meaningful way to make a difference in their lives.

Recently, we learned that eight of the 12 applicants in midwinter who applied for the scholarship were accepted, thus enabling them to begin their journey of becoming doctors. As you can see, there still is something in this place that continues to warm my heart. It was the Gold Within on that hot August day in ’59 that has never flickered.

– Evelyn “Ev” Whaley LaFollette ’63

GOLD WITHIN

f The noncon ormists Stories by Mary Dieter

They march to a different drummer.

Think outside the box. Color outside the lines.

It’s true that nonconformists are common

enough to inspire clichés. But here’s the thing: No two are alike. That’s certainly the case of

the nonconformists who have passed through DePauw University. Some have experienced

something unexpected, causing them to veer from their expected path. Others have figured out ways to meld their disparate interests into satisfying lives. Still others just happen to be quirky.

The uncommonly successful people we feature in these pages have pursued success on their own

terms. Each has chosen a path less traveled. And that has made all the difference.

8 A twist of fate 14 Indelible images 18 Aligned stars 24 The lucky guy 26 The juggler 28 The beekeeper 30 The most American athlete ever 32 The iceman 34 The poet

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erhaps the fates decided it was time for the Pogue family to experience some good fortune.

The family certainly had had its share of disaster. Henry Edgar Pogue in 1876 bought the Maysville, Kentucky, distillery where he worked and reestablished it as Old Pogue Distillery, only to be killed on site in 1890, when a tail on his suit coat – distillers dressed formally back then – got inextricably caught in machinery.

His son, Henry Pogue II, took over the distillery and was meeting great commercial success, only to be killed in a similar accident in 1919.

His son, Henry Pogue III, having recently returned from U.S. Navy service in World War I, took over the distillery.

But the 18th Amendment, which banned alcoholic beverages, had been ratified in January 1919 and, when Prohibition took effect a year later, Pogue was relegated to making limited quantities for medicinal purposes. He even bought a couple more distilleries to do the same, but he couldn’t stay afloat. The Pogue distillery ended operations in 1926.

Prohibition ended in 1933, and Pogue III – soured on operating his own distillery – became a consultant to upstart distilleries. In 1935, he sold the business to a Chicago company that renovated the distillery and produced bourbon for 18 years before shifting to fuel production during World War II. So much for Old Pogue bourbon.

Until a moment of serendipity changed everything.

“I graduated from law school in 1989 and my dad brought out a box that had corporate minutes in it and he said, ’Now that you’re a lawyer, I thought you’d like to read the corporate minutes,’” said

Peter Pogue, a 1983 graduate of DePauw University and Henry Pogue’s great-great grandson. Peter’s father, Jack, was Pogue III’s son.

They were Old Pogue documents.

Modern members of the Pogue family were vaguely aware of the family business but, like Peter, whose law practice is in Indianapolis, had pursued careers far removed from the distilling business.

Peter’s brother Paul, a 1975 DePauw graduate, then was an orthodontist in Evansville. John, a 2007 DePauw graduate and, as the son of Jack’s brother Henry Pogue V, is their first cousin once removed, would become a geologist doing environmental cleanups for the city of Portland, Oregon.

“And I’m like, yeah, those are great, but what’s this here?” Peter recalled. “And he said, ’Oh, yeah, well, those are the original recipes.’ And I said, well, now we’re talking. And we would get together on the Fourth of July in Evansville or in Kentucky at Christmas and we’d say, ’Wouldn’t it be great? Wouldn’t it be great?’

And we’d always say no, we don’t know anything about it, and we’d put it on the shelf for another year.”

Still, the allure of the family legacy was strong, and the topic of “what if ” resurfaced during numerous family gatherings. This, even though Henry III had extracted a promise from his children – including Jack, Peter and Paul’s father – that they would never go into the bourbon business that had so stung his family.

“We would always say, we agree, but he never made us promise that,” Peter said.

When the banter grew more serious, Jack arranged for his sons to meet in spring 1996 with his friend Sam Cecil, who had been a distiller at some of Kentucky’s most prominent distilleries.

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“John pretty much walks on hallowed ground every day. He walks in the footsteps of six generations of his family who did the same thing and is able to bring that legacy back. For me, as a prideful part of it, that’s pretty cool.”

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“Our dad, who was a veterinarian by trade, thought that Sam was going to shut us down and say, ’You guys don’t have a clue; you don’t know anything about the business. Just go away.’ And we had lunch with him and he looked over all the original recipes and he would look at my dad and finally he said, ’You all are one of the original bourbon families in Kentucky. Everybody else is owned by a big conglomerate that’s international. You have to do this.’”

And they did. Intending only to have a hobby that allowed them to spend more time together, the Pogues embarked on reviving the family legacy and have turned it into a thriving, small-batch distillery producing products that have been praised widely by those who know premium bourbon.

They started in 1998 by identifying a Bardstown, Kentucky, distiller (its identity is a closely held secret) that would use their recipes – updated, with Cecil’s help, to modern standards – to distill Old Pogue products, which reached the market in 2004.

“It was just luck when we decided to start because bourbon didn’t really take off until, I don’t know, five, six years later,” Paul said, “and, by that time, we were at least regionally established, even though we were super small compared to the big players. Then about, I guess, ’09, ’10, craft just really came on the scene and it has spread like wildfire, in almost every state.”

Another stroke of luck occurred in 2009, when a three-acre property next to the site where the original distillery once stood came on the market. The property included a house that Henry II’s widow, Annabelle, had sold in 1953 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The family snatched it up.

This prompted more conversations:

“Should we keep having things done for us in Bardstown or should we really think about maybe doing some things on a small scale over here?” Peter said. “And so we took that leap of faith.”

Nearly 60 years after bourbon was last produced in the immediate vicinity, the Pogue family began distilling on the family homestead, which is registered as the third distilled spirits plant in Kentucky.

As best as they can tell, they are the only family to own a bourbon distillery before and after Prohibition.

Paul, then nearing retirement, built on his science background to become the weekend distiller. “With our first batch,

we thought among ourselves, we may have Christmas presents for life,” he said. “We didn’t know if we could ever sell it. …

“We all got together at least Thanksgiving and Christmas every year, because the six of us were spread out … but this was a way maybe we could get back together more often. We went from twice a year to talking on the phone three or four nights a week.” (In addition to the DePauw contingent, Peter and Paul’s four siblings and John’s father, Henry V, are owners. Jack also was an owner before his death in 2015.)

Those conversations led to what John called “a precipice” – should they increase

production or call it quits? Would he return to Kentucky – he grew up in nearby Fort Thomas – to become a full-time distiller?

“It just got to that point around 2011 where someone needed to come and take the helm, and I was happy to do it,” John said. “Ultimately, it came down to math – the statistical kind of approach where I was one of 300 registered geologists in the state of Oregon, versus being one of about 20 people who were responsible for 95% of the world’s bourbon. I am probably better off going to make bourbon.”

Persuading John to return, Paul said, “turned out to be the biggest stroke of

luck for us. I still had a day job then and I wasn’t going to be making a lot, coming over one weekend a month. So we didn’t really have a plan going forward.”

They do now. With John on site, the distillery produces about 130 barrels a year, and the plan is to phase out all production at Bardstown over the next two years. Old Pogue Master’s Select, a bourbon, and Old Maysville Club, a rye, are the flagship brands, made in regular rotation and available at the distillery and in Kentucky, Illinois and New York. Other recipes – there are eight in all – are used to produce what the family calls “one offs” – products made for even more limited distribution, such as Port of Kentucky and Old Mason County, both bourbons, and Five Fathers, a rye malt whiskey.

“We try things to keep it interesting,” Paul said. “And we’re always looking for better. We do have just those main two products that we try to keep going all the time … and whether we ever have any that are widely distributed other than those two, I don’t know that we want to.”

The products’ name pays homage to the historical significance of Maysville, which was an important Ohio River port dating to the Revolutionary War. “We try to do everything that’s integral to the history and heritage of this area because it is one of the most historical areas in the entire United States,” Peter said.

“John pretty much walks on hallowed ground every day. He walks in the footsteps of six generations of his family who did the same thing and is able to bring that legacy back. For me, as a prideful part of it, that’s pretty cool. …

“Our only rule is that John can’t wear tails to work.”

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HENRY E. POGUE, a distiller at Old Time Distillery, buys the business in 1876 and makes the first Old Pogue spirits.

Dies in an accident, November 1890.

HENRY E. POGUE II takes over the distillery.

Dies in an accident, March 1919.

HENRY E. POGUE III takes over distillery operations.

The 18th Amendment is ratified, January 1919.

Prohibition begins, January 1920.

Old Pogue ends manufacturing medicinal products, August 1926.

The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition, December 1933.

Pogue III sells his distillery to a Chicago company, 1935.

JOHN “JACK” POGUE

HENRY E. POGUE IV

PETER POGUE ’83

HENRY E. POGUE V

MERRITT POGUE ’19

JOHN POGUE ’07

PAUL POGUE ’75

John’s brother is also a DePauw alum – Benjamin Pogue ’02. They have DePauw connections on their maternal side too: grandmother Julia Christian Dillon ’31; uncle James Dillon ’62 and his wife Susannah Harger Dillon ’60; uncle Daniel Dillon ’64 and his wife Catherine Hash Dillon ’65; cousin William Dillon ’87 and his wife Sarah Clark Dillon ’87; cousin David Dillon ’91; and two first cousins once removed, Julia Dillon ’17 and John Dillon ’19.

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In addition to Peter (president), Paul (vice president) and John, the distillery is owned by Jack’s other children, Jack Jr. (treasurer), Mary Milliner, Amy Pogue and Robert “Bo;” and by John’s father, Henry Pogue V (secretary).

De Pogues discuss DePauw

PETER ’83: “One of the things that I loved about DePauw was the fear factor: You had to be prepared when you went to class, because with only 10 or 12 people in your class, you knew that you were going to get called on, and you knew you had to be prepared. And that’s something that I needed at that stage of my life, as a teenager. Law school was simple for me because of the preparation that I got at DePauw.”

PAUL ’75: “Given DePauw’s reputation, it was kind of a no-brainer. I didn’t really start out knowing that I wanted to go more the science route, but that’s what worked for me in high school. It took me a year and a half to figure out that that’s what worked for me at DePauw. I just did the general courses and then did science through to the end. DePauw definitely helped me get into professional school, dental school.”

JOHN ’07: “The class size at DePauw, in particular, really won the day for me in my visits there. And then once I was actually boots-on-the-ground at DePauw, the rigors of my major and the geosciences department really prepared me for the professional world beyond what I saw in my colleagues. In hindsight, it was definitely the right choice. … It gave me the capacity to approach unique endeavors, like starting a distillery or dealing with complicated federal regulations in the environmental world.”

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Indelible images: Devastating photo, desperate need move alums to act The plight of asylum-seeking immigrants didn’t resonate much in Madison, Wisconsin. It was 1,500 miles from the southern border. A world away.

Maggie Musgrave ’11 was aware, but she was busy being a new mom, working at a new job and acclimating to a new city, where she and her husband, Andrew Pfaff ’12, a recent medical school graduate, located for his anesthesia residency.

And then that devastating photo appeared last June in newspapers and on computer screens and in TV reports across the country: the lifeless bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his toddler daughter, Angie Valeria, her little arm draped on his neck, her tiny body tucked into his t-shirt. They had tried to cross the Rio Grande from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, but were swept away by the currents and drowned as his wife, the baby’s mother, watched.

“She was almost Poppy’s age now, actually,” Musgrave said, referring to her daughter, born in April 2018.

“She was 23, 24 months old. Valeria and her father, who were crossing the river back in June? They died. That was really hard for me to see that, to see that they had tried to enter the United States in a legal way and they were denied, but they were so desperate that they had to find another way, right?

“That was just heartbreaking. … To see a little girl who was, in my eyes, essentially Poppy – I see no difference between Valeria and Poppy – I just couldn’t stand that anymore. I started paying a lot more attention to what was happening down there at the border after that incident.

“And so then Rachel coming along – I think it was only a week later – saying, ’hey we need more baby clothes for the families at Casa Alitas,’ it was very easy for me to quickly pack up those clothes.” n

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Rachel Cheeseman ’12 was touring Casa Alitas, a Tucson shelter for asylumseekers just released from detention

by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. They are awaiting transport to live with sponsors elsewhere in the country until a final decision about their asylum is rendered.

The asylum-seekers come from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Brazil. Some are escaping extortion by violent gangs; some are targeted by drug cartels; and some, especially those from Guatemala, are indigenous people displaced from their homesteads by logging and mining companies.

“As I was there, Border Patrol showed up with 45 people and the person who was leading the tour was, like, ’I’ve got to go handle this,’ and I was, like, all right.

Somebody came up to me and said, ’Oh, my God, do you speak Spanish?’ Yes. ’OK, come here.’ She was one of the clinicians and I wound up doing a bunch of medical intake interviews and interpreting for them.”

The doctor didn’t know Cheeseman was only visiting. “She thought I was a volunteer, and I thought, well, I guess I am.” n Cheeseman, who “had always been a little bit of a bleeding heart,” had been interested in working with refugees and for a while considered joining the Peace Corps or working for the State Department.

She thought she could ease in by working stateside for AmeriCorps VISTA, and she chose to locate in Phoenix for a year, then another year in Des Moines. Along the way, “I felt really strongly that it was my place to do it here. … I don’t see much of a difference between the asylum-seekers at

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“We’re really a good team; we really balance each other out.”

the border and the folks from Somalia and the folks from Burma.”

She returned to Phoenix to work for the Arizona Community Foundation, then got a master’s degree at the University of Chicago and again returned to Arizona to work until recently for United Way of Tuscon and Southern Arizona, where she ran a program that provides free tax preparation and other financial services to low-income people.

In early July – coincidentally, about a week after Musgrave saw the horrific photograph – Cheeseman, who knew that her friend from DePauw had had a baby, texted her a request: Do you have any old clothes of Poppy’s that you could donate to Casa Alitas?

Musgrave, corporate development manager for LDI Ltd., had started at DePauw with a plan to use an economics degree to run a Fortune 500 company. She

chose instead to major in classical studies, “where I developed my writing skills. That’s where I developed my research skills. That’s where I developed my public speaking skills; all my organizational skills actually came from the classical studies department.

And specifically through (professor) Pedar Foss, actually. Even though I still love economics and I love what you can do with it, I would actually say classical studies is what set me up for success after DePauw.”

When Cheeseman asked about clothing, “I put together a box and I shipped it out first thing,” she said, and then she posted a message on Facebook to a Madison mothers’ group, asking if anybody wanted to donate for the next shipment.

The post “got shared and reshared across almost all of Madison,” she said.

“And it had my address in it. So within two or three days, I had 400 pounds of

baby clothes sitting on my front doorstep.

I was like, oh, so this probably means something. And so we realized that we could really make an impact. …

“I had no idea that there was that amount of a desire to help here in Madison.

I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere but here in Madison I feel like the story of what’s happening down there on the border or even in Tucson in particular doesn’t get talked about here. It’s not really a topic of conversation. I think it can be a little bit invisible, so having such a great showing of support from the Madison community really filled my heart.”

She checked with Cheeseman: too much? No, her friend said; keep it coming.

Until the Madison donations arrived, a mother at the shelter typically was given only one pair of pants for her child, hardly sufficient for a baby making a crosscountry trip.

No longer. Musgrave has shipped – or Madison-area volunteers have delivered – more than 4,000 pounds of clothing.

With the need for baby clothes fulfilled, the organization that she and Cheeseman started and have named Alitas Angels has expanded its ask to other needs: Clothing for other family members, toiletries, shoes, nail clippers, razors and lip balm.

Musgrave is preparing the paperwork to make Alitas Angels a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

A GoFundMe page has raised enough money to provide $1,000 to the medical team for antibiotics and diabetes medicine and $1,000 to the kitchen for fresh fruits and vegetables; an Amazon Wish List enables donors to buy items and have them shipped directly to the shelter.

Neither founder expects the organization can disband any time soon; there will always be asylum-seekers, they said, and there will always be a need.

“Just knowing Maggie and the conversations that we had while we were at DePauw together, I kind of knew that if anybody was going to be, like, ’oh, how do I scale this up immediately?,’ it would have been Maggie,” Cheeseman said.

Musgrave said of Cheeseman: “She is a force, that’s for sure. … I mean, she’s the creative force and I’m more of the tickytacky, everyday organizational stuff. We’re a good team. We’re really a good team; we really balance each other out.”

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Aligned stars: Snowshoeing scientist studies the skies You might be surprised to learn that Daniel Mendoza was in his senior year at DePauw University and had not identified a major.

But don’t assume that this is the story of some indecisive slacker, some ne’er do well.

Mendoza – who did graduate in 2001 – is anything but.

Call him a Renaissance man. A jack of a lot of trades and, yes, a master of many. A polymath.

He is a prolific scientist with the sensibility of a policymaker and the skills of a diplomat. He is a former competitive cyclist who now competes in snowshoe races and duathlons. If Mendoza has a problem, it is that he has too many interests.

He acknowledges that that created some issues when he was at DePauw. As the offspring of two scientists – an agronomist father and a physicist/mathematician mother – Mendoza was determined not to follow in their footsteps, he said. As he was growing up in his native Peru – with a detour of several years in Nairobi, Kenya, where his father worked for the United Nations Environment Programme – he decided to study chemistry.

“I actually bounced around the sciences a lot,” he said. “I would take several courses in one major and then I would bounce to another major and by my senior year I was basically 80% of the way through four majors.”

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Everything scientific interested him – so much so that he double-booked classes.

Registration was not computerized in those days, so he got away with it. “I would have classes at the exact same schedule and I would just alternate between which ones I went to. I was averaging, I think, 21 credit hours,” as opposed to the traditional 16.

“I just wanted to learn a lot,” he said. “I was just really curious and I was just really happy to be here.”

He managed to hold down his expenses for texts by borrowing each one from the library for the allotted two hours. “I would actually force myself to get all the reading and all the homework done in those two hours.

Just once a week and that was it,” he said.

He saved time and money, enabling him to socialize, pursue athletics (he was the pusher for Sigma Nu’s Little 5 team his first year, then rode for the next three) and work 30 hours a week. His grades were another story.

“I barely got a 2.8,” he acknowledged.

And then, in his senior year, there was that problem of no major. Computer science professor Gloria Townsend “sat me down and said, ’OK, you have to graduate with a major.’ Because I was basically only two classes away from a chemistry or a math major. But then I wanted to really focus more on physics and computer science. …

“I always tell everyone that Gloria saved my life. She basically helped guide

The University of Utah’s Stout Scope, a traveling outreach telescope, silhouetted against the dark sky into which it peers. Photo by Paul Ricketts.

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me and she was very real. She was saying ’you’re screwing up; you have a lot of talent and you can do this.’ And that kind of mentorship, that kind of guidance, that kind of caring you don’t see in a large university.”

Townsend remembers telling Mendoza, “You can’t do everything. You have to focus. If you water yourself down, you will be mediocre in a large number of areas and will not be able to make the world a better place. …

“When he was a teenager, Danny’s ability to see the world differently from the way others see it distinguished him.”

As right as Townsend was about his abilities, he has proven her wrong in one way: Though he focuses on plenty, he is rarely mediocre. He ended up graduating with two majors and two minors. He got a master’s degree in physics and a Ph.D. in Earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University. As he was completing his doctorate, “I realized that about 50% of people believe in climate change; about 100% percent believe in lung cancer,” precipitating “my left turn, as I like to call it, into health.”

At Purdue, he studied air pollution and greenhouse gases, and measured carbon monoxide emissions from specific sources in specific locations – a particular building or an exact spot along a road – in Indianapolis. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Florida, he researched road-source emissions that are known to damage health.

He moved in 2014 to the University of Utah, where he is a research assistant professor in the atmospheric sciences department, a visiting assistant professor in city and metropolitan planning and a postdoctoral fellow in the medical school’s pulmonary division. He has expanded his

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“Danny’s ability to see the world differently from the way others see it distinguished him.”

– Gloria Townsend research to study the atmospheric transport of pollutants and gene-environment interaction – that is, how gene mutations can make some individuals especially susceptible to a pollution-related illness.

“We need to put a face on this,” Mendoza said. “So a lot of the work that I do is focused on vulnerable populations, and the easiest population to really track down and that everyone can relate to is children.” He recently submitted a research paper for publication in which he assesses the impact of pollution on school absenteeism. Because he understands that lawmakers – those with the power to

regulate emissions – respond more to dollar signs than heart strings, he expresses that impact in costs: a school district’s loss in state funding when students miss school; the loss in productivity when mom or dad misses work to care for the sick child; the loss of profit to the parent’s employer.

His savvy has paid off; during Utah’s legislative session last year, he worked on four bills, including one that equips all schools with emergency inhalers for students with asthma. All four passed.

A couple of years ago, university colleagues noticed the breadth of Mendoza’s interests and recommended

Submitted photos. Mendoza is No. 27.

that he read a research paper about ozone, a serious problem caused by sunlight in the American West. Ozone dissipates at night but, the study found, Los Angeles is so lit up by artificial lights that the ozone wasn’t breaking down as expected.

“They baited me with that paper,” he said, and he soon joined the university’s Consortium for Dark Sky Studies. He since has become the consortium’s codirector and editor of the Journal of Dark Sky Studies.

Though he has mentored students and guest-lectured for years, he’ll teach his first class next fall, the capstone class for the school’s new minor in dark sky studies.

Students will study the effects of the loss of dark skies on human health, the ecology and tourism and will learn how to frame policy proposals to enact change.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Mendoza sits on the board of numerous service organizations and has organized three Breathe Clean festivals (he couldn’t attend the 2019 event because he was at DePauw to address students).

He also is an avid athlete. He learned during grad school that, if he read a problem and then went out for a run or bike ride, he could devise solutions and internalize a lesson. In 2007, he cycled in 84 road, off-road, track and velodrome races in the United States and, in 2008, he landed a spot on a professional cycling team in Spain, riding as a support worker for the team leaders. “Dream fulfilled,” he said, but “my science is more what’s my calling.”

While in Florida, he joined a sixrunner group that won the Ragnar race from Miami to Key West. Less eager to

run in mountainous Utah, he turned to snowshoeing. In 2016, he won the 10K and marathon international division competitions in the U.S. National Snowshoe Championships. He also skis cross-country and participates in runningcycling duathlons.

You might wonder if he ever sleeps. “I actually sleep a solid seven to eight hours a night,” he said. “I used to not, and then I started to read a lot more of the background on the impact of lack of sleep and the incidence of Alzheimer’s, and I decided that I want to remember my name when I’m 80.”

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Cesar Mendoza ’22 (second from left) and Nicolas Forwood ’23 (second from right) learn how to make bracelets using materials found on the land. The students were in Tena, Ecuador, as part of their winter-term course supporting medical professionals with Timmy Global Health in underserved communities. Photo by Brittney Way.

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MORE NONCONFORMISTS

The lucky guy As storied as his soccer career is, Brad Hauter ’87 has a lot going on outside soccer.

True, he started for four years as DePauw’s goalkeeper and twice was named the team’s Most Valuable Player.

And yes, he played professional soccer for a decade. He has coached at the college and pro levels and, since 2008, has been head coach at his alma mater, where over 12 seasons he has racked up a record of 139 wins, 53 losses and 34 ties. And he is the on-air “color analyst” for broadcasts of Indy Eleven’s professional soccer matches.

But Hauter is anything but single-

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Photo by Richard Gold.

minded. Entrepreneur? Humanitarian?

Risk-taker? Nonconformist?

Yes, yes, yes. And yes.

He was coaching at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota when a colleague suggested “something that would be perfect for you.” MTD Products Inc. was sponsoring a cross-country trip on its Yard-Man lawn mower to raise money for the charity Keep America Beautiful.

And it was looking for a driver. At his colleagues’ urging, Hauter reluctantly applied and ultimately beat out hundreds of other applicants to get the nod.

He started on the 5,000-mile trip

in Atlanta on April 7, 1999 – 30 days after his twins were born (yes, he is still married to their mom, Charlotte, and son Christian is a DePauw junior) – and arrived at Santa Monica Pier in Southern California 67 days later, having drawn the attention of major news outlets as well as Rosie O’Donnell, Jon Stewart and Paul Harvey.

It was, he said, “an absolutely incredible experience, a life-changing journey” during which he developed friendships with his crew, raised money and drew attention to a cause important to him. And had fun. So when MTD decided to reprise the stunt

in 2003, Hauter was on board. Literally.

This time, he traveled – topping out at 25 mph – from San Francisco to New York City, with an unplanned delay in San Antonio, Texas, when somebody stole the team’s semi-tractor trailer and its contents, including the lawn mower.

If driving nearly 10,000 miles on a lawn mower doesn’t qualify Hauter as a nonconformist, consider that he also started “Off the Streets,” a Chicago organization that sought out homeless people to act in plays, giving them a boost in confidence and their finances.

Reluctant to move his family to New

York City, he turned down an overture from “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels but liked the idea of doing a television show. So he and two partners started a production company that created 55 episodes of “Junk’d,” his own homemakeover television show that lasted eight years; the popular “Coop Dreams,” a show about raising chickens, goats and bees; and a bunch of other shows and documentaries.

He wrote a soccer coaching manual called “The Invisible Game” and a selfhelp book called “Counter Terrorism” about a boy and a squirrel. He holds a

patent on Free Kick, a soccer training product available in Walmart and Target stores. And he wants to live off the grid after he retires.

Hauter allowed that he lives an unconventional life. “I can’t sit here now at 55 and say that I’m a conformist when I look at my life’s path,” he said. “It just doesn’t fit what I see as the definition of ’conformist.’ But I don’t think any of it was by design. I think it was random situations that I sometimes lucked into, sometimes just was in the right place at the right time.”

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The juggler Rachel Gutish ’18 readily admits she was living a double life when she was a student at DePauw.

“Whenever I was in class, I was there,” she said. “I asked questions; I participated; I tried to be the very best student I could be because I knew that it would pay off. I wanted them to want me in their class. I wanted them to be sad I was gone.”

Because she would be gone, usually on the weekends but sometimes during the week too, when road trips to her offroad motorcycle racing competitions were too long to be accomplished without infringing on class time. “It was like I had a double life,” she said. “Nobody really understood both of them.”

She didn’t really expect her DePauw classmates and professors to comprehend her passion for racing, her love of the speed and the wind but especially the competition. Nor did she expect her friends and competitors in the racing world to appreciate her desire to secure a DePauw degree.

So she would beg her professors’ indulgence, tackle her homework, arrange to take exams early and otherwise do whatever it took to maintain her racing career but graduate summa cum laude with a major in psychology (and membership in the Psi Chi Psychology National Honor Society), a double minor in philosophy and business administration and an eye toward law school someday.

“I would not recommend it for everyone,” she said of her college-era lifestyle. But it was the right choice – maybe the only choice – for Gutish, who started riding motorcycles at 5; started racing at 7; went professional at 15; trains on courses laid out on a field and cut through the woods of her parents’ rural Terre Haute property; pole vaulted for DePauw’s track team for two years; returned to racing two months after breaking her elbow a year ago; has lost count of her concussions; skipped her high school graduation ceremony to compete in the 2014 X Games, where she won a bronze medal; and has appeared on the podium numerous times in the Grand National Cross Country Series and the National Enduro Series.

Those series sponsor head-to-head “hare scrambles” and time-based, indoor and outdoor “enduro” races on obstacle courses. Her approach to overcoming particularly intimidating obstructions in the latter might double as her approach to life: “You’ve got to figure out the right path and use momentum,” she said.

“Momentum is always your friend. The faster you hit something, the more likely it is you’re going to make it up.”

Photo by Drew Ruiz.

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The beekeeper As he learned more and more about honey bees, Jay Hosler ’89 “was struck by the fact that these creatures were so, so alien and so unlike us and so really profoundly successful.

“If you’re talking evolutionarily, if you look at the number of species of insects that exist,” he said, “there’s no question they are the King Kong, cat daddies of this planet in terms of multicellular life.”

Sometime later, when reading a text about honey bee biology to prepare for his postdoctorate research, Hosler had “that revelatory moment where I realized, oh, my gosh; this is a great story. These are great characters. This is a world that has family, has conflict, but also lives in a bizarre way. I kept thinking someone should make a comic about this. It was literally in the first year of my post-doc when I thought to myself, why, I should try to make a comic about this.”

And so began the union of the disparate pursuits – science and cartooning – of Hosler, the David K. Goodman ’74 professor of biology and chair of the biology department at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. He also is the award-winning author and cartoonist of graphic novels: “Clan Apis,” originally published as five comic books, is about a honeybee named Nyuki. “Optical Allusions” is a college-level comic book about Wrinkles the Wonder Brain. “Last of the Sandwalkers” features an adventurous beetle named Lucy. And “The Sandwalk Adventure” is about follicle mites who live in Charles Darwin’s left eyebrow. He also wrote the text of a fifth graphic novel.

“Am I a nonconformist? That is a hard question,” he said. “I have a very specific image of a nonconformist. They have an interesting hair color, funky clothes, and they do not care about what other people think. That isn’t me. While my hair is two-toned, that’s just because of the gray hairs, there’s nothing funky about my sweater vests and, while I’m not consumed with other’s opinions, I would be a liar to say they don’t matter. That said, I think my brain is wired differently. I have very specific ideas about how to teach science and what I want to do with my comics. They aren’t always marketable, but I do them anyway. So, am I a nonconformist? I think so, just not in the traditional sense.”

Hosler started doodling in high school and for three years at DePauw drew a comic strip with human characters for every issue of The DePauw, the student newspaper. “My interests existed in parallel” until they converged in that revelatory moment, prompting him to apply for two grants: one for $1,500 to cover the printing costs of the first issue of “Clan Apis,” the other for $100,000 for three years’ salary and research funds. He won both, and “I was way

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more excited about the 15-hundred-dollar grant. …

“I’ve always wanted to contribute something unique, and my human characters weren’t doing that. But this, I felt, was a unique contribution to comics,” he said. “What I discovered as I did it was that I could use this vehicle, use these characters, to inspire interest in organisms that people would normally want to squish.”

He aims to do that in his Juniata classroom, of course, but also beyond. He gave a TEDx talk called “Science Comics Save the World” and posts comic stories on his website (jayhosler.com) so teachers anywhere may download them for use in the classroom. Edna the ant and Wilbur the fly teach topics such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Over 20 years of teaching, Hosler said, he has come to realize that “I can’t possibly teach all my kids everything they need to know about all there is to know about neurobiology in my neurobiology class. I can’t. I can expose them to some stuff. What I can do is … inspire their sense of wonder (and) stimulate them to learn on their own. And in the end, I think that is the most important thing a faculty member can do for a student.”

Photo by Lisa Guerra Hosler.

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The most American athlete ever Noah Droddy ’13 finished dead last in the July 2016 Olympic Trials for a spot on the 10,000-meter team.

And yet he caused such a sensation that social media went wild. “An American hero.” “Majestic.” “The most American athlete to ever live.” “The coolest Olympian in the history of the Olympics.”

Runner’s World magazine called him a hipster, suggested it would be “easy to believe” his participation in the trials were “an elaborate prank” and said that, having “crashed” the trials, he became a star.

All because of his unconventional appearance.

Said Runner’s World: “In the lineup of clean-shaven, big-brand-sponsored distance stars hoping to make the U.S. Olympic team on a Friday night in Eugene, Oregon, the Joe Dirt doppelganger with bouncing locks and a killer ’stache didn’t fit.”

More than three years and many, many miles of training later, Droddy takes it all in stride, maybe even enjoys it a little. He noted – without bitterness – that he did not crash the 2016 trials, but had qualified to participate. The attention, he figured, came because he was “a pretty unknown quantity in the running world” who had an “untraditional look. There aren’t a lot of guys with hair as long as mine, so I think I definitely stuck out a little bit on the start line.”

These days, he aims to stick out more at the finish line. At 29, he is “entering that prime status” for long-distance running and is training full time in Boulder, Colorado, as a member of the Roots Running Project. He is sponsored

by Saucony, the shoe company, and Polar, which makes heart rate monitors and GPS watches.

Droddy placed 20th – and first among Americans – in a marathon in Rotterdam last April and was 17th in the Chicago Marathon (and the eighth American) in October, when he lowered his personal best time by a few minutes. A knee injury thwarted him from competing in the Feb. 29 Olympic marathon trial; he hopes to qualify for the 10.000-meter trial this summer.

Though he was a standout on DePauw’s cross country team, he didn’t plan to be a professional runner but did not have an alternate career path in mind. “I could do a lot of different things and I didn’t feel a lot of pressure to narrow it down to something else,” he said. “So I just kind of went with communications, and I felt good about it.”

Nor did he seek to be a noncomformist. “I’ve always had people in my life who support the things that I’m passionate about, so it’s been easy for me to pursue those things,” he said. “Whether they’re nonconformist or not has never really been something that crossed my mind.”

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The iceman He crossed the roughest water in the world on a Russian expedition ship, strode through frigid water to a landscape dotted with penguins, doffed waders, donned trainers and took off running, determined to cover 26.2 miles in 25-degree weather and a 40-mile-an-hour wind.

In Antarctica.

And when he crossed the finish line and unfurled his DePauw Tiger flag, Luis Davila ’81 became one of the few people in the world who can say that they have run a marathon on each of the seven continents.

Years ago, Davila had been regularly running a couple miles at a time to stay in shape when he decided that he should run a marathon before he turned 40. He trained and in April 1999 “ran the Madrid marathon when I was, like, 39 and a half,” he said. “And then I just thought it was an amazing event and I just kept running them.”

He was stationed in Spain at the time, working in international business for Reynolds American. He joined the company’s marketing team in his native Puerto Rico in 1985; was assigned, in addition to Spain, to Hong Kong, South Korea, Hungary, the Canary Islands and China over the course of his career; and retired, as vice president of international business, in 2017.

“I really believe a political science degree helped me deal with the international environments I had to deal with a lot,” he said. “It just opens your mind to a lot of things and to understand the way things work in other countries.”

Davila had completed marathons on three continents when he was struck with the idea of running on all seven. And so he has, completing several marathons in North American and Europe, as well as races in China in 2010 and Tokyo last year; Oceania in 2011; South America in 2014; Africa in 2015; and Antarctica in 2018. He has worn or carried DePauw gear on all but one race, when he championed the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys on a game day.

He spent three years on a waiting list for the Antarctica run, since only 100 runners go a year, and it was “a real test. … When you are done, you feel like you’ve really accomplished something.”

According to Marathon Tours, 527 men and 263 women have matched the feat.

Davila had hip surgery on his 60th birthday, Nov. 7, to treat osteoarthritis. In mid-February, his doctor gave him the go-ahead to resume running, and Davila marked the moment with a threemile run and a ski trip.

“I’m just very competitive and running is something you don’t have to be world-class to compete because you can compete against yourself,” he said. “That motivates me to try to do better than the last time.”

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The poet Like the methodical scientist that he is, Alexander Komives delves deeply into a new interest, explores it intensely and, when he has chewed on it sufficiently, sets it aside.

For a while, he was keen on reading books written in French. Another time, he qualified to solo in a small airplane. Years earlier, he had been fascinated by Tolkien’s created language and the Bronte sisters’ made-up world. More recently, he started teaching himself Latin.

His insatiable desire to write poetry has broken his routine. Three years running, it shows no sign of abating.

And that delights Komives, an associate professor and the self-styled “lesser poet” of DePauw’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Poetry, it appears, has become as much a passion as astronomy and physics.

“Ever since I was a little kid, eight years old or so, I became very fascinated with a variety of sciences but astronomy was my first one, my first passionate interest,” he said. As he grew, he considered a variety of careers, including writing, but always came back to science.

His love of the stars and planets abided, but “I was advised – and I think it’s sage advice – to keep your training as broad as possible,” he said. “Astronomy is a fairly narrow field as opposed to physics, so there’s a greater base of employment prospects when you study physics and it doesn’t shut the door to study astronomy by any means.”

So he earned undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in physics at Indiana University. He joined the DePauw faculty in 2003, learning that “one of the

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neatest things about my job here” is his involvement with McKim Observatory, which dates to 1884 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

“When I go there I feel like I’m stepping back into another era, going back to 130 years ago, and I get the sense that I’m an astronomer who is in the latter part of the 19th century,” he said. “And I like that.”

Some years ago, Komives sent an email inviting the campus to “do an impossible thing before breakfast” and view a lunar eclipse at 5 a.m. The invitation was a variation on a line from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” and its positive reception sent him on a mission to find other literary references to astronomy.

“I didn’t find anything that I really liked,” he said. “I thought, well, I’ll have to write my own. Then I thought, that sounds like a lot of work and I’m not sure I really have the focus to do that. So I just set the idea aside.” Then three years ago, while he was on sabbatical, Komives – inspired to learn that Emily Bronte wrote poetry – decided to try.

“I surprised myself,” he said. “I was wondering if I was delusional, because I would read these things and I thought, well, this doesn’t seem bad to me. I would ask some other people and they seemed to think it was all right. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. But then it sort of snowballed.”

By the end of the sabbatical, he had crafted 13 poems (he has written many more since) and the fervent nonfiction reader had begun to read others’ poetry and literature more avidly. “It exposed me to what other people can do and that inspired me to play with things and the words in different ways,” he said. “It gave me ideas of

the things that I could explore.”

That experience led Komives to wonder “about what are sometimes called the two cultures, the humanities and the sciences. …

I became fascinated with trying to bridge those two worlds because I think scientists are human. They’re not machines. They are moved by heart, they are moved by poetry, like other humans are. And I like to think of science as a very human endeavor. …

“It’s as natural to be in a state of wonder and awe and want to know more about how the world works as it is to experience beauty.”

SPERO I hope I made you smile once.

A smile of a young child enthralled in a discovering moment of socks.

I hope I made you laugh once.

A laugh of indigenous joy that shook the air clean of shadows and filled an exhausted night with stars.

I hope I made you consider once.

A consideration of yourself folded in a question so intimate it could only be posed in a language of thought and dream.

Alexander Komives stands before a chalkboard full of research data, notations about conversations with students, appointments, addresses and other notes to himself. He has not erased the board since he moved into his office in January 2003, he said, because “what I had written on here was meaningful.”

I hope because I showed you wonder once.

A wonder ignited by beauty and fanned by curiosity incubating a conflagration through enveloping turns of a logarithmic spiral, spira mirabilis, until it circumscribed a known universe like Copernicus and all that remained was to take the next step.

A step into a realm beyond the fist of any telescope where myth stands proxy for truth.

I hope because you took that step with all the fear, exhilaration and courage needed to begin that journey without me and in so doing you taught me to hope and once I started found I could not stop.

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1956

1961

Thomas A. Jameson has volunteered more than 2,200 times for the Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Environmental Education Program. He was honored with a Recognition Award by the Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education. Since 1992, he has served as a naturalist for environmental education programs.

David B. Whitaker was elected in November to the town council in Floyd, Virginia.

1958

1966

While on a tour of Southeast Asia in September, Martha Moore Trowbridge and her daughter, Julie A. Trowbridge ’88, discovered that one of their fellow travelers was Marsha Fralick ’68. (See photo.)

John M. Repp self-published a book titled “Deep Cooperation Made Us Human,” a collection of articles published in the Pacific Call, the newsletter of Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation.

1965 Hampton S. Tonk is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” a publication of “Marquis Who’s Who.”

Pamela R. Clinkenbeard ’77

Gregory B. Gattman ’81

1967

1976

Connie Campbell Berry’s debut novel, “A Dream of Death,” has been nominated for an Agatha Award, which honors traditional mysteries, typified by the works of Agatha Christie. Connie’s second book, A Legacy of Murder,” was published in October.

J. Russell Mason, former wildlife division chief for the Michigan Department of Natural Resouces, has been named the DNR’s executive in residence at Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

1968

Kurtis B. Reeg last year was profiled on the big screen in Times Square, New York City; received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in corporate law; and was named a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyer.

Barbara Condy Paschal wrote and illustrated two children’s books in 2019.

She wrote 15 stories and illustrated every page with one or two watercolor paintings. Her books are being used by local teachers to teach reading.

She volunteers in a second grade class teaching beginning watercolor and sketching.

1972 William P. Hamilton IV, who recently retired from a career as a medical illustrator, twice served as chair of the Board of Governors and is a past president of the Association of Medical Illustrators. He is an emeritus member.

Cathy Ryan Watt, who was widowed in 2016, remarried June 22 to William C. Wynant. She now goes by Cathy Ryan Wynant. She and her husband live in Carmel, Indiana. Her email address is cathyjan13@hotmail.com.

Marsha Fralick ’68, Martha Moore Trowbridge ’58 and Julie A. Trowbridge ’88.

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1977 Pamela R. Clinkenbeard received the 2019 Purdue University Distinguished Education Alumni Award. Honorees are selected biennially by Purdue College of Education leaders for professional achievements. Pamela is a professor of educational foundations at the University of WisconsinWhitewater, and is grateful for her excellent undergraduate education as a psychology major at DePauw. (See photo.)

Richard B. Kotila, an Andover, Ohio, lawyer, was honored by the Ashtabula County Bar Association with a distinguished service award for his service to the community.

1978 Donald S. Smith, a partner at Riley Bennett & Egloff in Indianapolis, became the 53rd president for the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana.

1979 Jane Drew Lubbenhusen is a landscapes and still life artist in Terre Haute. She was featured in the January Wabash Valley Art Guild’s Artist of the Month gallery space at the Vigo County Public Library.

Rodney E. Lasley ’92

Lambda Chi Alpha members from the Class of 1982 held a reunion in October in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, hosted by Christopher W. Bear. Those attending were Bruce W. Luecke, Dave Gislason, Timothy S. Maloney, Robert A. Frauenheim, Mitchell Gordon, Christopher W. Bear, Christopher O. Gentry, Richard J. Hoge and Kenneth D. Randall.

1981 Gregory B. Gattman is vice president and chief operating officer of Sheppard Pratt Health System. (See photo.)

John F. Stevenson is senior vice president and general manager of SubSahara Africa with PepsiCo Inc., based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1983 James A. Hill wrote and published “Midpoint: Manhood, Midlife and Prostate Cancer,” recounting his experiences after being diagnosed with stage 3 prostate cancer. He has a career in marketing.

Comer Plummer III has published “Empire of Clay: The Reign of Moulay Ismail, Sultan of Morocco (1672-1727).”

This is his third entry in his Morocco trilogy. Comer is a civilian employee with the Department of Defense.

Peter H. Pogue was named the 2019 Defense Lawyer of the Year by the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. He is a partner in the Indianapolis firm of Schultz & Pogue.

1985 Matthew S. Ponzi is a fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel.

He is a partner at the law firm of Foran Glennon.

Amy Tucker Ryan ’94

1986 Mart G. McClellan wrote and published “Your Retirement Smile,” a book on how Americans, especially dentists like him, can fully replace their income in retirement and still give to charity. Mart also started a financial company and is a charter member of the Forbes speakers group.

Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae from the Class of 1990 reunited in Rome, Italy, to celebrate 33 years of friendship. Those present were Kersten Wagschal Gorski, Juliane Janac Farrell, Elyse Crenshaw Brasseale, Michiko Lloyd Corriette and Julie McKeag Meyer.

1988 The Washington Lawyer featured Steptoe partner Alice E. Loughran in a member spotlight titled “Alice Loughran Reaches for the Limit.” In the article, published in the January/February issue, Alice describes her passion for marathon running. Over the last few years, Alice has completed five 100-mile races, seven Ironman triathlons and numerous 50-mile/100k races. She runs at least a half marathon every weekend, and most weekends runs a marathon. She runs the Marine Corps marathon every year.

“Running gives me a lot of calmness; it gives me a lot of perspective,” Alice says.

Cassidy Ruschell Rosenthal ’98

Jeanne M. Henning ’99

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2002

Rodney E. Lasley is the executive vice president of operations and member services of the Indiana Bankers Association. He is president of two companies; chairman of the Hendricks County Board of Zoning Appeals; and an IHSAA soccer official. (See photo, previous page.)

Nicole N. Long is the executive director for planning and strategy in the division of student life at the University of Delaware. (See photo.)

1994 Nicole N. Long ’02

Amy Tucker Ryan is a shareholder in Martin Leigh PC. She is a partner in the St. Louis/Clayton office. (See photo, previous page.)

1998 Cassidy Ruschell Rosenthal, an attorney with Stites & Harbison PLLC, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. (See photo, previous page.)

Ka’Lena Cuevas-Jansen ’10 and Julia Tucker Wallyn ’77

1999 Hilary Guenther Buttrick is the associate dean at the Lacy School of Business at Butler University. Hilary joined Butler’s faculty in 2012 and has served as the chair of the department of economics, law and finance and as an associate professor of business law.

She lives in Carmel, Indiana, with her husband, Stuart Buttrick ’97, and her children Laurel and Robert Foster.

Angela To ’10

Jeanne M. Henning was named “Marketing People Leader of the Year” at Roche Diagnostics Corp., where she is a group marketing manager leading the Molecular Diagnostics franchise marketing team. (See photo, previous page.)

2000 Matthew S. Clifford was named the 2019 Middle School Principal of the Year by the Indiana Association of School Principals. He is the principal at Greensburg (Indiana) Junior High School.

Genna R. Chiaro ’17

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Andrew T. Simpson published “The Medical Metropolis: Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston.” He is an assistant professor of history at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

2005 Gina Mancuso Edelman and her husband Dan announce the Aug. 21 birth of their daughter, Jessa Marie Edelman.

They live in Cleveland and have another daughter, Jillian, 6. Gina is in executive talent acquisition for the power management company, Eaton Corp.

David Fox, a lawyer in Sacramento, was recognized by the Legal Services of Northern California for his pro bono work on behalf of victims of a 2018 Butte County camp fire.

2006 Helen Carlson Shultz and Brenton A. Shultz announce the Nov. 23 birth of their daughter, Ava Elizabeth Shultz.

They live in Houston and have another daughter, Jillian, 5. Brenton is a partner of Haynes & Boone LLP. He focuses his practice on banking and finance.

Bradley T. Giordano joined the restructuring and insolvency group as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, an international law firm. Brad is based in Chicago.

William H. Metzinger IV is a partner in the law office of Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis.

2007 Alexander A. Boucher is a pediatric and adult hematologist at the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Jeana Monrad Boucher ’06, and their two children live in the Twin Cities.

Austin Brown is among the 2020 “Forty under 40” sports business professionals named by Sports Business Journal. The 40 are considered the best young talent in sports business for their hard work, accomplishments and aspirations.

2010 Ka’Lena Cuevas-Jansen was a member of the ensemble cast of “Social Security,” a comedy performed at the Westfield (Indiana) Playhouse, that was given the 2019 Encore Award for Best Ensemble in a Play by the Encore Association of Indiana. Julia Tucker Wallyn ’77 was the assistant director for the play. (See photo.)

Angela To taught English in Madrid for three years. She recently joined Columbia University as the Ph.D. administrator of the history department. (See photo.)

2014 Jamie A. Catton and S. Reid Garlock ’13 were married Aug. 17. (See photo.)

2015 Kacy R. Rauschenberger and William A. Calderwood ’14 were married June 1 in Elgin, Illinois. (See photo.)

2017 Genna R. Chiaro received her master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in August. She is continuing on in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Vanderbilt University to obtain her Ph.D. (See photo.)

2018 Mitchell J. Regel, John “Jack” B. Harbaugh, Grace B. Saint and Scott F. Russell ’78 work for Indianapolisbased Appirio delivering Salesforce CRM technology to the financial services industry. Grace and Mitch are consulting developers building end-user functionality. Jack supports the program with organizational-change consulting.

Scott leads the delivery team of 60 consultants in the U.S. and India.

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

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

Alumni attending the wedding of Jamie A. Catton ’14 and S. Reid Garlock ’13 wedding included Jay D. Robinson III ’15, Thomas W. Stanley ’14, John A. Wigen-Toccalino ’13, Keeley J. McFall ’16, Alyson E. Marzonie ’16, Amanda K. Repass ’16, Sarah A. Mitchell ’17, Addie McDonnell White ’13, Anna G. Sterry ’13, Emily Vierk Glerum ’13, Bradley K. White ’14, Sydney A. Wagner ’14, Paige Fehr Wojda ’14, Anna C. McKown ’13, Samuel A. Miles ’14, Colleen M. McDonagh ’16, Hannah C. Weigel ’13, Angela P. Cotherman ’14, Benjamin F. Kopecky ’14, Michael D. Rardon ’12, Steven D. Pjevach ’13, Clare K. Mail ’12, Anne Knubbe Kunz ’13, Marcelle N. Forsyth ’14, Noah A. Swiler ’13, Robert S. Dillon ’15, Thomas D. Fernitz ’15, Katya F. Carey ’16, Hannah J. Gardner ’18, Anne R. Connelly ’16, David E. Moss ’13, Barry X. Flynn ’13, Eric B. Hubbard ’12, Amer Somun ’13, Christopher J. Cassella ’11, Matthew L. Davis ’13, Dean A. Weaver ’13, William T. McClamroch Jr. ’16, Molly A. Henry ’16, Mary C. Brody ’14, Suzanne Spencer Mpistolarides ’14, Paul R. Mpistolarides ’14, Theresa Figliulo Layton ’14, Kelly Doyle Noll ’14, Ryan W. Klein ’16, Grace E. Quinn ’16, Elizabeth Gentry Kaster ’13, William T. Catton ’11, David R. Dietz ’11, Joseph C. Wojda ’13, John C. Dillon ’19, Janet Cristee Clark ’82, Robert J. Doyle Sr. ’82, Nicholas C. Nunley ’15, Kevin S. Sullivan ’13, Katherine S. Spataro ’15, Anna Field Dietz ’11, Austin H. Miller ’13, Marek R. Burchett ’16, Megann M. Lear ’16, Sarah Harbison Tosh ’12, Ashley Bauer Brady ’14, Cady S. Gottlieb ’14, John R. Glerum ’13, Tyler J. Vieke ’13 and Ellen C. Werner ’16.

IN MEMORIAM

1944

1937

Ned D. Johnson, Bethlehem, New Hampshire, Jan. 17. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and the Washington C. DePauw Society; an insurance agent; and a business owner. He was preceded in death by his wife, Kathleen Driscoll Johnson ’45, and a brother, Jack E. Johnson ’40.

Lydia Campbell Bohn, 104, Columbus, Indiana, Oct. 22. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a private piano teacher.

1940 George F. Condike, 102, Granbury, Texas, Oct. 3. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association, the Washington C. DePauw Society and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; and an emeritus professor of chemistry.

1941 Margaret Hardgrove Wilson, 101, Akron, Oct. 15. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta. She was preceded in death by her son, Randal L. Wilson ’67.

1942 Corlita Reich Cramer, 99, Winnetka, Illinois, Jan. 2. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald E. Cramer ’43.

Alumni attending the wedding of Kacy R. Rauschenberger ’15 and William A. Calderwood ’14 wedding included John D. Hoover ’14, Kylie A. Maloney ’15, F. Marian Hillebrand ’16, Alexa M. Masters ’15, Lauren A. Gray ’15, Kahla R. Nolan ’15, Mary V. White ’15, Rachel A. Miller ’15, Anna K. Locke ’15, Jon A. Stroman ’14, Cara C. Bargiacchi ’16, William P. Johnson ’16, Celine E. Wachsmuth ’16, Ian D. Mills ’13, Taylor E. Beegle ’16, Matthew L. Welch ’11, Christine E. DiGangi ’11, Adam W. Cecil ’14, Leah M. Mahlka ’17, Daniel T. Hickey ’15, Derrick S. Roach ’14, Andres E. Munoz ’14, Genevieve Flynn Munoz ’14, Leif Anderson ’15, Orlando Ramirez ’13, Seth A. Mills ’15, Timothy D. Brooks ’14, Tessa V. Loftus ’15, Willie E. Brooks Jr. ’13, Caitlin E. Qua ’16, Margaret C. Paxton ’18, Erin K. Law ’16, Stephanie Baxter-Ivey ’18, Kaela T. Goodwin ’17, Caroline T. Maloney ’16, Shannon M. Mahoney ’14, Eleanor A. Axt ’14, Lauren E. Schultz ’15, Emma J. Cooper ’15, Grace L. Goodbarn ’16, Mackenzie F. Gordon ’16, Meredith E. Benson ’15, Donna Dechants Bolz ’73, Brian Chan ’17, Michael W. Wu ’16, Adam M. Smith ’16, Jacqueline M. Graf ’15, Joseph C. Haynes ’16 and Julia E. Roell ’16.

1945 John P. Isenbarger, 96, Muncie, Oct. 26. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame and a businessman. He was preceded in death by his father, Paul M. Isenbarger 1920; his mother, Mazie Palm Isenbarger 1920; his first wife, Jean Phillips Isenbarger ’45; and a sister, Joan Isenbarger Murray ’50.

Mary Loop Doughten, 96, New Philadelphia, Ohio, Nov. 29. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Beta Kappa; a teacher; and a community volunteer.

1946

Fred H. Rohles, 99, Manhattan, Kansas, Dec. 30. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a professor emeritus and a consultant.

1943 William F. Edington, 98, Flushing, Michigan, Oct. 21. He was a member of Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; and a retired educator.

Isabel Fulton Ahlgren, 95, Sun City, Arizona, Dec. 24. She was a college teacher; a biologist; a researcher; and an author.

1947 David H. Neustadt, 93, Louisville, Nov. 9. He was a Rector scholar and a rheumatologist.

1948 Edward K. Banker, 93, Skokie, Sept. 19.

He was a member of Beta Theta Pi; a former member of the DePauw Alumni

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GOLD NUGGETS Board; and a banker. Survivors include a daughter, Judith Banker Castellini ’81.

He was predeceased by a son, John B. Banker ’77, and a sister, Phyllis Banker Voelz ’49.

Steve Bertalan, 100, Indianapolis, Aug. 28. He was a member of Sigma Nu; a high school teacher; and a business owner.

Georgann Eley Frebel Cleveland, 91, Fort Wayne, Jan. 1. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and an elementary school teacher. Survivors include daughters Nancy Frebel Hoard ’76 and Katie Frebel ’88.

Mary Kathryn Hinton Henry, 92, Lebanon, Missouri, Oct. 7. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a librarian. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo R. Henry ’47.

Marilyn Seabrook Pinaire, 93, New Albany, Indiana, Oct. 25. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and a community volunteer. Survivors include a son, Stephen E. Pinaire ’81, and grandsons Stephen Q. Pinaire ’13 and Zachary S. Pinaire ’15.

Warren J. Wolfe, 95, Bowling Green, Ohio, Sept. 21. He was a university professor.

an attorney; and a judge. Survivors include sons H. Daniel Lewis ’80 and Jeffrey O. Lewis ’74; a daughter, Sarah Lewis Johnston ’85; a grandson, Henry F. Johnston ’14; a granddaughter, Margaret Brewster Johnston ’11; nephews Gregory J. Lewis ’81 and Robert D. Lewis ’84; and daughter-in-law Paula SchmidtLewis ’75. He was preceded in death by a brother, Robert O. Lewis ’50.

Carol Kreiger Salter, 90, Columbus, Indiana, Nov. 3. She was a member of Delta Zeta. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert E. Salter ’50.

Marian Otto Winter, 90, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Oct. 19. She was a music teacher; a musical director; and a pianist and organist.

1951 Cynthia Davis Bailey, 90, Rocky River, Ohio, Oct. 1. She was a member of Alpha Phi. Survivors include a daughter, Jane Bailey Shemela ’77. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ben Bailey ’51.

Nancy Harter Green, 90, Delaware, Ohio, Nov. 14. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and an educator.

Charles E. Buzzard, 91, Austin, Texas, March 4. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a businessman.

Raymond J. Payne, 90, Bloomfield, Connecticut, Dec. 31. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha; a Rector scholar; an attorney; and a community volunteer.

Survivors include a daughter, Christine C. Payne ’90. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Class Payne ’53.

Philip L. Hayes’s obituary, which appeared in the fall issue, should have said that Mr. Hayes’s survivors include his brother, William F. Hayes Sr. ’47.

We regret the error.

Johanna Lichvar Sinks, 90, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Oct. 11. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta; a teacher; and a musician. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Sinks ’51.

Cynthia Rice Hogan, 91, Bloomington, Indiana, Jan. 14. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and an elementary school teacher.

1952

1950

Henry Lewis, 93, Carmi, Illinois, Nov. 28. He was a member of Sigma Chi; past member of the DePauw Alumni Board;

Loren K. Bethke, 89, Williamsburg, Michigan, Sept. 13. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a businessman.

Paul H. Lee Jr., 87, Chicago, March 17, 2019. He was a president of Sigma

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Chi, a quarterback and president of the DePauw student body. He operated a printing business started by his father and was an avid athlete, coach and fan.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Suzanne Sturges Lee ’52.

Sallie Elliott Light, 89, Naples, Florida, Nov. 10. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and an elementary school teacher.

James R. Kanney, 91, Muncie, Dec. 19. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a businessman.

Murray J. Miller, 90, Green Bay, Nov. 1. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a businessman. Survivors include a son, Kimmon J. Miller ’76. He was preceded in death by his wife, Nan Warren Miller ’52, and a brother, Hutton W. Miller ’50.

Mary Roll Symon, 88, Terre Haute, Oct. 14. She taught children’s choir at Central Presbyterian Church and was a great cook.

James M. Schlatter, 89, Avon, Indiana, Nov. 15. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association; a chemist; and a research scientist.

John M. Sutherland, 90, Petoskey, Michigan, Oct. 17. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a businessman.

1953 Steven H. Feagler, 88, Albuquerque, Nov. 26. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and an orthopedic surgeon.

Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Wray Feagler ’54.

Judith Drompp Guild, 88, Plymouth, Indiana, Jan. 20. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Washington C. DePauw Society.

Survivors include sons John K. Guild Jr. ’80 and Steven A. Guild ’85; daughters Anne Guild Adams ’82 and Sarah Guild Smith ’88; granddaughters, Emily J. Adams ’12, Laura E. Guild ’15, Ellen Guild Smith ’18 and Leah Guild Smith ’22;

a sister, Joan Drompp McAfee ’50; a nephew, Bradley K. Stevens ’99; a niece-in-law, Tracy Wilhelmy Stevens ’99; a niece, Susan Moore Van Deman ’74; and a nephew-in-law, Mark Van Deman ’75. She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Kent Guild ’53; her mother, Lucile Barnes Drompp ’22; and a sister, Carolyn Drompp Moore ’46.

David S. Johnson, 89, Dayton, Nov. 29.

He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a financial analyst. Survivors include his wife, Anne Prindle Johnson ’54; a daughter, Mary Katherine Johnson Moran ’79; a sister-in-law, Janet Prindle Seidler ’58; and a granddaughter, Jennifer A. Johnson ’11.

Mildred Trares Schaefer, 89, Beverly Hills, Jan. 9. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and an actress.

She received an alumni citation from DePauw in 1978.

1954 Louis A. Hageman, 87, Whippany, New Jersey, Dec. 27. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and an advisory mathematician.

Sarah “Sally” Harris Lee, 87, Brookfield, Illinois, Oct. 25. She was a member of Delta Zeta. She sewed, knitted, camped, canoed and threw great parties.

James A. Humphrey, 87, Fort Collins, Colorado, Aug. 21. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and an attorney.

Survivors include a daughter, Laura L. Humphrey ’84. He was preceded in death by a brother, Arthur G. Humphrey Jr. ’50, and a sister-in-law, Kathleen Kelsey Humphrey ’51.

Rodney R. Petterson, 87, Indianapolis, Jan. 5. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and an insurance executive. Survivors include a daughter, Polly Petterson Best ’80, and a son-in-law, Michael J. Best ’79. He was preceded in death by his wife, Merry Chester Petterson ’54.

Alpha Epsilon and a software engineer.

1955

1957

1959

Clinton R. Allison, 85, San Diego, Dec. 20. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a consulting marketing representative.

Walter M. Bagot, 83, Fishers, Indiana, Jan. 21. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta; a Rector scholar; and a businessman. He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances Morrison Bagot ’31.

Patricia Brown Beard, 83, Memphis, Tennessee, Oct. 10. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, an accomplished seamstress and a soprano singer in many choirs. She was preceded in death by her husband, James D. Beard ’59.

Philip F. Bradford, 85, Scottsdale, Arizona, Oct. 2. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; a Rector scholar; and a physician. Survivors include a daughter, Barbara Bradford Weingartner ’84, and a son-in-law, James L. Weingartner ’84.

Connie Duncan Hedde, 86, Aliso Viejo, California, Dec. 22. She was a member of Alpha Gamma.

David E. Hood, 87, Downers Grove, Illinois, Oct. 8. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and a businessman. Survivors include his wife, Joanne Christensen Hood ’53.

H. Edward Tolle, 86, Barrington, Illinois, Oct. 11. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a businessman.

1956 Joanne Jones Garrigus, 85, Indianapolis, Sept. 23. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a docent for more than 40 years at Newfields in Indianapolis. She was preceded in death by her husband, Timothy P. Garrigus ’54.

Susan Overstreet Stevens, 84, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Nov. 13. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a retired librarian; and a community volunteer.

Isabel Wakefield Oppen, 84, Pinehurst, North Carolina, Oct. 5. She was a member of Alpha Phi; a docent at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and a volunteer for the Junior League of Philadelphia, the Fairmount Waterworks and the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Elaine Wussow Grant, 85, Mequon, Wisconsin, Aug. 24. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega.

John A. Bruhn, 84, San Diego, Oct. 7. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; a retired bank president; and a financial consultant. Survivors include his wife, Joene Cline Bruhn ’57. He was preceded in death by his father, John A. Bruhn 1926; his mother, Rachel Hull Ruddell 1926; a brother, James B. Bruhn ’62; an aunt, Ruth Hull 1913; and uncles M. Lair Hull 1915 and C. Hollis Hull 1929.

Barbara A. Fuson, 84, Greencastle, Oct. 7. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and an artist. Survivors include a daughter, Lisa Poor Cooper ’91; a granddaughter, Anna Cooper Kendall ’02; a grandson-in-law, Wesley S. Kendall ’01; and a sister-in-law, Shirley Smythe Fuson ’57. She was preceded in death by a brother, Robert L. Fuson ’54.

Thomas R. Ransom, 85, Richmond, Virginia, Dec. 16. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha; a Rector scholar; and a businessman.

The Rev. Verl W. Winslow, 100, Kokomo, Nov. 29. He was a minister and the manager of the Indiana Business College in Lafayette.

1958 Charles A. Countryman, 83, New York City, Aug. 27. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a businessman; and a probation officer. Survivors include sisters Julia Countryman Yanson ’50 and Karen Countryman ’72; a nephew, Christopher P. Yanson ’72; and a niece, Julie E. Yanson ’77.

W. Richards Kindig, 83, Skokie, Nov. 1.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and an investment adviser.

Herchel K. McKamey, 82, Phoenix, Nov. 21. He was a Rector Scholar; a music and band instructor; a minister; and a school administrator.

Matthew C. Lawlor, 84, Melbourne, Florida, Dec. 12. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a businessman. Survivors include a brother, Joseph M. Lawlor ’58, and a sister-in-law, Mary Dyson Lawlor ’58.

Terry K. Savage, 82, Tryon, North Carolina, Oct. 18. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a businessman.

Ethna Sulmonetti Bergstrom, 82, Orlando, Oct. 10. She was on the staff of First United Methodist Church for 37 years as assistant music director and interim music director.

Jonathan D. Cryer, 80, Iowa City, Iowa, Dec. 11. He was a member of Sigma Chi; a Rector scholar; and a professor emeritus. Survivors include a brother, D. David Cryer ’58.

Georgia Petry Walmoth, 80, Hazel Crest, Illinois, Nov. 4. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta; chief of testing services for Psychological Services of Pittsburgh; and an international travel agent in the Chicago area. Survivors include a sister, Jo Petry Hershberger ’57; a nephew, Paul M. Hershberger ’84; and a niece, Katherine Hershberger Neuser ’88. She was preceded in death by her mother, Josephine Overton Petry ’28, and a brother-in-law, G. Richard Hershberger ’57.

David B. Sarver, 80, Seattle, Jan. 15.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta; a Rector scholar; a certified public accountant; and a business owner.

Phyllis Smith Welter, 76, Healdsburg, California, June 9. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; an attorney; a consultant; and a business owner.

Richard Vartanian, 82, Belleville, Illinois, Dec. 24. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and an insurance agent.

1960 David F. Rush, 81, Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 25. He was a member of Delta Kappa Upsilon and a university professor.

Walter J. Yovaish, 81, Englewood, Florida, Oct. 13. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon; a potter; an artist; and a teacher.

1961 Paul D. Bunn, 79, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Dec. 13. He was a member of Sigma Chi; a physician; and a hospital administrator. He was preceded in death by his father, John W. Bunn ’34.

Ronald R. Clark, 80, Zionsville, Indiana, Dec. 12. He was a member of Sigma

Richard M. Smith, 80, Edgerton, Ohio, Nov. 9. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and a teacher. He was preceded in death by his mother, Lucille Rhodes Smith ’24.

1962 James G. Beurle, 79, Augusta, Georgia, Sept. 13. He was a member of Sigma Nu and an oral surgeon.

Cheryl Young Guenther, 79, Fort Lauderdale, Sept. 22. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta; a teacher; and a computer programmer.

Mary M. Gwinn Hatcher, 76, Moorestown, New Jersey, Sept. 5, 2016.

She was an English professor who created the first African-American literature course at Ocean County College.

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GOLD NUGGETS Stanley M. Haude, 79, Montgomery, Ohio, Dec. 20. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a senior recruiting manager for Procter & Gamble.

Geraldine Primich Pigott, 79, Valparaiso, Nov. 25. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a computer programmer. Survivors include a son, Theodore J. Pigott ’92.

Frederick L. Warnke Jr., 79, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Nov. 15. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; a businessman; and a community volunteer.

1963 Judith Warren Heaps, 77, Red Lion, Pennsylvania, Jan. 8. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and a social worker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Genevieve Walts Warren ’25.

John R. Rhode, 78, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Nov. 29. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi; a retired Navy officer; and an elementary school teacher.

1964 Steven R. Bradley, 77, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Oct. 30. He was a dentist.

Florence Southall O’Neal, 76, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 20. She was an elementary school teacher. Survivors include her husband, John W. O’Neal ’63.

Tommy R. Young II, 78, Mount Carmel, Illinois, Sept. 18. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a historian.

1965 Melode Gifford Reinker, 74, San Mateo, California, June 1. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta; a children’s librarian for 20 years; a judge for the Hawaii Figure Skating Club for more than 25 years; and a T’ai Chi instructor.

Albert A. Hodge, 75, Rushville, Indiana,

Oct. 16. He was a Rector scholar and a high school teacher. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Fretageot Hodge ’28.

owner. Survivors include a grandson, Jeremiah G. Engel ’22.

T. Barrett Lindsey, 74, Westlake Village, California, Feb. 26, 2017. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a real estate developer. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert M. Lindsey ’36.

Jerrold M. Barton Sr., 73, Wheaton, Illinois, June 9. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and a teacher and coach. Survivors include his wife, Rebecca Sweeney Barton ’69; a sister, Nancy Barton Bavisotto ’63; a brother, Terrence R. Barton ’60; brothers-in-law, Gerald O. Sweeney Jr. ’74 and Brian P. Sweeney ’80; sister-in-law, Linda Goodyear Sweeney ’76; and a nephew, Nicholas O. Sweeney ’12. He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Gerald O. Sweeney ’43; his motherin-law, Elizabeth Young Sweeney ’45; and his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Michels Sweeney ’79.

1966 Owen J. Neighbours III, 76, Indianapolis, Oct. 22. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a businessman. Survivors include a brother, John T. Neighbours ’71. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Ida Basinger Neighbours 1907; his father, Owen J. Neighbours Jr. ’41; his mother, Eleanor Miller Neighbours ’43; and an uncle, Robert O. Neighbours ’37.

1967 Donald B. Aslan, 73, South Orange, New Jersey, Dec. 8, 2018. He was an attorney.

Nancy Betourne Ketchum, 74, Yorktown, Virginia, Nov. 15. She was a retired English teacher who enjoyed feeding the neighborhood dogs, cats, birds and other wildlife and loved gardening.

Jack W. Frieze, 74, Dallas, Oct. 4. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an attorney.

David E. Grass, 73, Carmel, Indiana, Sept. 29. He was a Rector scholar and a businessman. Survivors include his daughters, Courtenay M. Grass ’02 and Stephanie L. Grass ’12.

Lynne Wright Kodey, 72, Port Orange, Florida, Nov. 11, 2017. She was a member of Delta Zeta and Phi Beta Kappa and an elementary school teacher.

Michael F. Rapp, 74, Evanston, Illinois, March 29. He was a Rector scholar; a high school teacher; and a business

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Martha Dunning Long, 72, Indianapolis, Aug. 23. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and an educator. Survivors include her husband, John C. Long III ’70.

Ronald E. Klinkiewicz, 73, Santa Rosa, California, April 13. He was a business owner.

Mary J. Rezek, 73, Evansville, Oct. 23. She was a graphic artist. Survivors include a sister, Lynn Rezek Rule ’61; a brother-in-law, Ned P. Rule ’61; a nephew, Ned P. Rule Jr. ’90; and a niecein-law, Julie Inkrott Rule ’91.

1970 Roberta Hicks Rogers, 71, Plainfield, Indiana, Nov. 6. She was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society and a nurse practitioner.

1971 Thomas V. Close, 70, Wellington, Florida, Sept. 17. He was a member of Delta Chi and an attorney. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Bayless Close ’71. He was preceded in death by his parents, Warren J. Close ’42 and Verna Beggs Close ’42.

1972 Melanie Terhune Swartzentruber, 71, Indianapolis, Jan. 15. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi; a medical technologist; and a research investigator.

1973 John W. Adams, 68, West Chester, Ohio, Dec. 12. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a marketing coordinator. Survivors include his wife, Janis Alling Adams ’74; a niece, Elizabeth Adams Bahe ’98; and a cousin, Karen Vancader Goodwell ’81.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles W. Adams ’48 and Ruth Henley Adams ’48.

David F. Lau, 68, Bloomfield, Michigan, Oct. 7. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega; an attorney; and a business owner. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Pfeffer Lau ’75, and a son, Jonathan D. Lau ’04.

1976 Ralph E. Hatcher, 70, Indianapolis, Sept. 16. He had a career in emergency medicine and as a professor. Survivors include a son, Wesley L. Hatcher ’00.

1977 Steven L. Reff, 65, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Aug. 27. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a businessman. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Smith Reff ’77; brother-in-law, James W. Hazen ’76; and sister-in-law, Melissa Smith Hazen ’76. He was preceded in death by his mother-in-law, Charlo Holden Smith ’37.

1979 Kathy Avery Wynne, 62, Indianapolis, Nov. 8. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and a registered nurse. Survivors include her husband, Robert S. Wynne ’79; a brother-in- law, Gregory P. Wynne ’81; and a sister-in-law, Mary Wynne Cox ’84.

Lynn Jackson Osland, 62, Lebanon, Indiana, Dec. 12. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a business owner.

Survivors include her husband, John N. Osland ’79.

1981 Mary Hutcheson Dunigan-Morris, 80, Greenwood, Indiana, Sept. 27. She was an elementary school teacher.

Dean C. Maar, 61, Indianapolis, Nov. 27. He was an orthopedic surgeon.

1982 Kristina I. Moeller, 59, Indianapolis, Dec. 30. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a nurse. She volunteered many years for the Indianapolis chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America and in 2008 was recognized for excellence in volunteerism.

1984 Anthony M. Smart, 58, Carmel, Indiana, Sept. 29. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a businessman.

Survivors include his wife, Kathryn Guttman Smart ’86. He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, James M. Guttman ’60, and his mother-in-law, Margaret Brown Wagoner ’60.

Elizabeth A. Lovette, 58, Indianapolis, Indiana, Nov. 17. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and an attorney.

James A. Tribbett, 65, St. Augustine, Florida, Nov. 2. He was a basketball coach.

1990 Dana M. Augustin, 51, Richmond, Indiana, Oct. 1. She sang and wrote music and volunteered at a religious education program for special needs children. Survivors include her stepfather, John R. Dehner ’56; and stepbrothers, John S. Dehner ’89 and Thomas R. Dehner ’90.

1991 Shannon E. Canty, 50, Chesterfield, Missouri, Sept. 27. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and worked as a managing editor for medical books and with the Staywell Co. LLC in support of the American Red Cross.

1995 Timothy J. Theiler, 51, Sharon, Massachusetts, Nov. 9. He was a sales engineer.

2004 Darlene L. Turner, 36, Gary, Indiana, Dec. 26. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta.

2008 Emily Flaspohler Prifogle, 33, Brookville, Indiana, Dec. 3. She was a member of Delta Gamma who worked in marketing.

2012 Andrew J. Smith, 31, Roachdale, Indiana, Dec. 28.

2019 Joseph M. Westropp, 22, Fort Wayne, Nov. 11. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. He was an Eagle Scout who was named Outstanding Youth Philanthropist in 2015 for his volunteer work at Erin’s House for the Grieving Children. Survivors include his mother, Jennifer Ruhl Westropp ’90.

2020 Sanford N. Atkinson, 21, Grand Junction, Colorado, Nov. 4. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi; a writer; a poet; an artist; and a naturalist.

Survivors include his mother, the Rev. Mary Hammond Atkinson ’84; his grandmother, Lynn Tozer Bowles ’52; his uncles, Joel C. Hammond ’82, Jarrell B. Hammond ’78 and John R.

Hammond III ’76; and an aunt, Sharon L. Hammond ’73. He was preceded in death by a grandfather, John R. Hammond Jr. ’50.

Faculty and staff Wilna Konzelman Hurst, 88, Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 9. She was employed in the alumni office at DePauw for more than 40 years.

Survivors include a son, David M. Hurst ’73.

Robert Newton, 92, Greencastle, Feb. 4. He taught at DePauw University for 52 years, retiring as the Blair Anderson and Martha Caroline Rieth professor of applied ethics in 2008. At the time, he was DePauw’s third-longest-serving faculty member. He taught biomedical ethics, among other classes, and was a cocoach of DePauw’s Ethics Bowl team.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1950, then a Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1953. He received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1960.

Newton’s wife Ann was an adjunct faculty member at DePauw.

His daughter, the Rev. Beth Newton Watson, is a university chaplain here and his son Christopher Newton is assistant director of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and the operations coordinator for WGRE. Dorman L. Owen, 80, Cloverdale, Indiana, Nov. 9. He retired from DePauw in 2000. He served 50 years on the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department and in the U.S. Army in Korea 1956-58.

Elreo “Reo” Campbell, 50, Plainfield, Dec. 25. He joined DePauw in mid2017 and was associate vice president for enrollment management and financial aid. He recently was appointed multicultural chair for his department.

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FIRST PERSON

by Jonna McGinley Reilly ’00 McGinley Reilly practices law in Chicago and represents clients across the country in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. In late 2019, she volunteered at the southern border for Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center. She worked with the Detained Deportation Defense program, interviewing detainees at El Paso Processing Center and Otero County Processing Center, New Mexico.

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y rental car barrels south en route to the Presidio Chapel of San Elizario. A story plays on the local radio about covers of Tom Waits’s songs, and a halting female voice sings, “Why wasn’t God watching? / Why wasn’t God listening? / Why wasn’t God there…?”

The Presidio, one of three churches that compose the El Paso Mission Trail, sits squarely in the United States, but hasn’t always. A gradual shift in the path of the Rio Grande quite literally unmoored it.

Almost 200 years ago, the Presidio sat on the south side of the Rio Grande and, had I visited then, I would have been in Mexico.

Just before visiting the Presidio, I spent a week using my background as an attorney to interview non-citizens captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crossing this once-fluid border or found to be living in the United States without proper documentation.

Now held in various detention centers, they face deportation. I assessed their claims for asylum or alternative immigration relief, hoping to collect sufficient facts to enable the legal aid center I’d traveled from Chicago to volunteer for to take their case.

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spent my first few days in Texas at the El Paso Processing Center, which can house more than 1,500 people, both men and women.

No windows exist in the whiteand-grey-painted cement block room I interview detainees in. Most of them speak only Spanish. I use a translator. We sit on metal benches bolted to the ground. The doors lock from the outside; neither I nor the detainee may leave the room without knocking on the door and waiting for a guard to release us. To earn the prisonstyle jumpsuit every detainee wears, most legally presented themselves at the U.S. border and asked for asylum.

I meet María from Guatemala, whose eyes well with tears when I outline the five grounds for asylum. She whispers, “I don’t think I qualify,” in Spanish. María left the only town she’d ever known after her uncle, a government official, raped her disabled sister. María took what she could carry, including her younger sister, and fled. When they arrived at the U.S. border, border patrol separated the siblings, owing to the disabled sister’s minor status. María fears returning to Guatemala, but more urgently she fears no one is looking out for her sister.

I whisper, “lo siento.” “I’m sorry.” I repeat myself countless times over the

course of a week. I learn the word “siento” in Spanish means “feel” so the literal meaning of “lo siento” is “I feel it.”

There’s a sewer line that runs underground from Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso. I meet Lilian, who crawled through it. Once a lawyer, Lilian left Honduras 15 years ago after attempts were made on her life for refusing to defend a drug trafficker. When Lilian’s fingerprints were analyzed as part of the application process to become a legal permanent resident, a decade-old order of removal was discovered. Unaware of potential relief available to her, Lilian was deported, leaving behind her two minor children.

Upon her return to Honduras, the same people who previously threatened her life learned of her return. She hid. Then she fought her way back, crawled through a tunnel of waste, and tried to return to her family.

Angela, a mother, discovered the promise of democracy when she went abroad to secure an expensive wheelchair for her terminally ill daughter. She returned to her home country of Cuba, watched the government confiscate the wheelchair at the airport and began advocating with an underground opposition group working to secure medical care for children. Officials tracked

her down, beat her up. They forced her to perform a sex act, threatening to arrest her mother. She left Cuba with the hope of a better life for her daughter.

Ernesto, a young man also from Cuba, endured years of abuse – starting when he was in high school – at the receiving end of police officers’ fists when he refused to join the local Communist party. As a national election approached, the assaults escalated. Ernesto fled to Nicaragua to Honduras to Guatemala to Mexico.

Unfortunately, he did not request asylum in any of them. At the time, he did not know he needed to in order to secure protection in the United States.

At the end of each day, I knock on the metal door, walk through three more metal doors, then step outside. The warm wind slaps me in the face and the southwestern sun instantly burns my skin, reminding me the rest of the world carries on as if this processing center does not exist.

separated by the glass window. Mom places her baby girl, a pacifier in her mouth, one-inch pigtails sprouting from her head, against the window and she slaps her pudgy hands against the glass as dad, on the other side, traces her fingers and tears stream down his face. When they leave, I hear the little boy’s tiny cowboy boots click down the hallway.

Across the hall, we meet a person who now goes by “she” and who was gangraped by homophobic police officers in

in the U.S., his daughter was sent to Pennsylvania. Weeks later, miraculously, family was able to locate her. Months later, they were finally reunited. Days later, a social worker advised that she had been sexually abused. No one knows who harmed her. No one will likely ever know.

She is, after all, only three.

Her father weeps. I whisper “lo siento.”

Marco looks me in the eyes. I feel it.

After four days of hearing stories of horrific abuse by foreign nationals, and

Honduras. Whose testicles were cut from her body. Who asked for refuge at our border. I had no concept of how much depravity existed in this world. With increasing frequency, the stories in the news ring true.

Marco brought his three-yearold daughter to the U.S., where she was separated from him at the Texas border. Though Marco provided contact information for family legally present

terrible conditions in communist regimes, and bitter stories of lives left behind, and families torn apart in the quest for a better life, I feel unmoored. Why wasn’t God watching when Marco’s daughter was torn from her father? Why wasn’t God listening when someone hurt her? Why weren’t we?

If the course of a river can change, why can’t we?

(Pseudonyms were used to protect the identity and confidentiality of detainees.)

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fter three days in El Paso, I travel to Otero County Processing Center, New Mexico. I speed north, past the audacious beauty of the Franklin Mountains. By the time I arrive at Otero, the enormity of the humanitarian crisis our nation faces threatens to defeat me.

A thousand male (or transgender) migrant detainees live at Otero, hidden in plain sight in the middle of the desert.

The cold, stark rooms at the El Paso center seem luxurious in comparison. Here, a wall of glass separates the detainees. There are no chairs. One metal stool is bolted to the ground. The small room where I work is hot, but not everyone gets a private meeting room.

In the hallway outside our door, a young family meets with a detainee,

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OLD GOLD

Percy Julian, unappreciated in his time, inspires today

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hile I never met Percy L. Julian, a 1920 DePauw graduate, my career has been influenced by him. As a student I was named a Percy L. Julian scholar, which besides a monetary component afforded me the opportunity to meet Julian’s widow Anna and their children Percy Jr. and Faith. It wasn’t until after I joined the DePauw faculty that I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation of what made Julian one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century.

Julian, whose grandmother bore the whip marks of her enslavement, arrived at DePauw with only 10 years of formal education, more than most African Americans in the South but too little to prepare him for college work. Despite double the workload in his first two years to make up for his deficiencies, he graduated at the top of the Class of 1920. Perhaps by then he understood his own potential.

Unlike his classmates who went on to

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By Jeff Hansen ’86, chemistry professor

graduate school, Julian left DePauw to teach at black colleges. He never gave up on his conviction that he should study for a doctorate and eventually went to Austria to do so. Upon his return to the United States he was frustrated by inadequate facilities to carry out his research. DePauw hired him in 1932 to supervise lab sections and pursue his research.

Julian was working to synthesize physostigmine to treat glaucoma. He was competing against Robert Robinson, a famed chemist with considerably more resources. Although Robinson published first, Julian found an error that he subsequently exposed in his own publication. It is difficult to overstate Julian’s boldness here, an example of Julian acting on his strong conviction. When he felt he was right he stood up for himself or his ideals regardless of opposition he faced.

Despite that accomplishment, DePauw’s Board of Trustees denied Julian a tenuretrack position, and he departed in 1936 for

Glidden Co. During his career there and later at his own company, Julian secured more than 130 patents. He primarily worked to develop products from soybeans and Mexican yams. One of his inventions was a fire-suppressing foam that saved lives during World War II. He was also instrumental in developing a chemical synthesis of cortisone that provided relief for people suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis and is still used to treat inflammatory diseases today.

Clearly Julian’s chemistry work set him apart; I have no doubt that, had he been white, he would have been one of the most highly regarded organic chemists in the world and may even have won a Nobel Prize. In this year of the 100th anniversary of Julian’s graduation from DePauw, we should be inspired by the strength of his convictions and courage to act on them. Let us be inspired to ensure all students have the support they need.

LEADERS THE WORLD NEEDS

Alum who attended college against odds guides youths to do same

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urely Stacy Goodwin Lightfoot’s leadership at an education nonprofit won her the invitation in 2015 to testify before a U.S. Senate committee.

The hearing, after all, focused on the information students need about college options and, since graduating from DePauw in 1999, Lightfoot had spent her career guiding low-income and first-generation students to succeed in higher education.

But just as surely, Lightfoot’s life story positioned her as an expert able to speak from the heart about the pathway to college.

Lightfoot was the daughter of a single mother who made $12,000 a year so, as she told the committee, “statistics suggested that I would continue to live in poverty, work a low-wage job and not obtain a college degree.” But she attended a Chattanooga K-12 magnet school with a “culture of college-going” that sponsored a tour of Midwest colleges, including DePauw. Her counselor “knew enough about me to know that I would do well in a small liberal arts college environment” and, when DePauw offered a robust financial aid package, “it was a really, really good match. … I was able to grow so much into who I was.”

Lightfoot majored in communication with a concentration in theatre, expecting that theatre was her future. As a Bonner scholar she also spent many hours in service. So when that same counselor recruited her to be a camp counselor during summers, Lightfoot responded.

When the counselor started Camp College to encourage students of color to go to college, Lightfoot chaperoned.

When Lightfoot graduated from DePauw, the counselor helped her get a job at Girls Inc. And when Lightfoot was writing her master’s dissertation, the counselor recruited her to work for the College Access Center she had started. It merged with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Fund in 2009, and Lightfoot has worked her way up to vice president of college and career success.

“I fell into my passion because of her mentorship, because of her knowledge,” she said. “And now I want to be the Susans – and I have been the Susans – for other students.”

Lightfoot does not regret turning away from a theatre career. Her DePauw adviser, Steve Timm, urged her “to explore other

things and to learn other things,” she said.

“That’s the hallmark of what a liberal arts education does. You learn a little bit about a lot, as opposed to learning a lot of information about just one thing that you want to do. …

“No, I did not go to college to become the vice president of college and career success,” she said. “Like, who does that?

People don’t major in what they end up doing. They may use some of the skills from what they majored in. … There really are very few careers where you have to major in that thing in order to become something. Someone can major in English and still become a doctor. You can major in art, art history, and still become a lawyer.

And DePauw helped me realize that.”

Timm recalled Lightfoot’s 1996 performance in “Marat/Sade,” which he directed. “Stacy sang with a conviction transcending the given circumstances of the play; her voice revealed an absolute determination to shape the future. One couldn’t listen to her without thinking she was destined to make plenty of good noise down the road. And to the benefit of many, that’s exactly what she’s done.”

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