DePauw Digest

’18 alum wins competitive foreign service fellowship

Maybe next year

Maya Cotton ’18, whose studies and academic acumen resulted in several global experiences when she was a student, has secured a highly competitive Pickering Felllowship offered by the U.S. State Department. The fellowship will support Cotton’s pursuit of a master’s degree in international affairs with a specialization in economics and business. After she completes the degree, she will serve at least five years in the foreign service, a requirement for Pickering fellows. Cotton was a Bonner scholar who studied in France in spring 2017 and then, after winning a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, in Thailand that fall. A month after she graduated from DePauw, she won a Fulbright award that sent her to Morocco to teach business English. (Photo: Johnny Shryock)

DePauw was well represented in the AFC Championship game Jan. 24 between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. Unfortunately, our guys lost.

Rob Boras ’92, the Bills’ tight end coach, has coached 17 years in the NFL after 11 years at universities. Joe Schoen ’01 is the Bills’ assistant general manager; he previously was the Miami Dolphins’ director of pro personnel and spent a number of years scouting for the Carolina Panthers.

The Bills finished the regular season 13-3 and won a wild card playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts and divisional playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens before falling to the Chiefs 38-24.

Bottoms writes about DePauw tenure, leadership

Former DePauw President Robert Bottoms has written a memoir that his publisher calls “half life story and half

leadership parable.”

In “A Story of Vision and Values: Memoirs of DePauw University’s 18th President,” published last October, Bottoms writes about his rise from a childhood in Alabama to become the longest-serving president in DePauw history, 1986 to 2008. He then became the first director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.

Bottoms’s publisher, Bilbo Books Publishing, writes that Bottoms brought “a liberal and more inclusive perspective” to DePauw. It was challenging, it says, to make Greencastle “a place where world leaders and prominent writers and lecturers speak,” but “Bottoms proves that with determination, some financial resources and unshakable faith, anything is possible.”

The book is available at Eli’s Bookstore and on Amazon.