MAGAZINE Summer 2017
RHONESHA BYNG ’11 Her Agenda
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Renewable Support: DePauw Move Out The Inspiration Behind the Art: Senior Studio Art The Natural: John Jessup ’17
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE i
HIDDEN INSPIRATION By Emily C. Fox ’18 Parts of our world are invisible to us until they’re called to our attention, whether it’s a word you’ve just learned that keeps popping up, or that little arrow tucked into the FedEx logo. Non-coalescence is one of those things. Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jacob A. Hale studies this largely unnoticed phenomenon which occurs when a small droplet of water meets a larger pool. For a split second, the droplet bounces and skirts across the surface before it is absorbed. The interaction happens so quickly that it can be difficult to see with the naked eye. Hale uses high-speed cameras to capture these moments, but take a closer look the next time you visit the fountains at Stewart Plaza. You might catch a glimpse of this brief and surprising dance. “The way water droplets behave is not something that you would expect, and that’s what really intrigues me,” Hale says. “The world is full of these non-intuitive ideas, but we can explain them using the fundamental principles of physics.” The study of non-coalescence is important to surface coatings such as those on camera lenses because the makers of the spray must be sure that the spray adheres to the lens and to itself and does not bounce off the surface. Engineers also consider coalescence in attempts to reduce the friction on airplanes as they move through clouds and collide with water droplets in the air. Hale collaborates with students on his research throughout the year, from semester-long independent study projects to projects that stretch into the summer months. In the summer of 2015, he had a breakthrough while working extensively with Caleb Akers ’17. Together they coauthored a journal article and attended the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics conference in San Francisco, where Hale gave an oral presentation and Akers presented a poster on the topic. “Working on research with students gives them an opportunity to get experience outside the classroom and allows them to develop creativity and detail-oriented focus,” Hale says. Hale has used his experience with students in the lab to bring a similar creativity and focus to the classes he teaches. With large classes, he challenges students to produce their own ideas for research. Students in past courses have developed projects concerning subjects such as acoustic levitation and modeling the air circulation inside a car that has a window open. When classes are smaller, Hale instead starts off with a topic close to his heart: non-coalescence. He explains what he knows and what questions are still left, and then lets students decide where to go with it. “Everything I do has this teaching aspect,” Hale says. “I do research, but I don’t call it my research. It’s one of the tools I use to engage students.”
MAGAZINE
12
18 22
RHONESHA BYNG ’11
THINK
LIVE
No One Ever Slows Her Agenda
The Inspiration Behind the Art: Senior Studio Art Students
The Natural: John Jessup ’17
DEPARTMENTS 6 News 10 Recent Words 26 Connections: Engaging with DePauw 32 Class Notes
STAFF Mariel Wilderson director of University communications marielwilderson@depauw.edu Kelly A. Graves creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Steven J. Setchell ’96 associate vice president for alumni engagement ssetchell@depauw.edu
Renewable Support: DePauw Move Out
Contributors: Miranda Bemis, Joel Bottom, Larry Ligget, Eldon Lindsay, Sarah McAdams, Ken Owen, Linda Striggo, Bill Wagner and Christopher L. Wolfe DePauw Alumni Association Officers
MAGAZINE
Summer 2017 / Vol. 80 / Issue 1 depauw.edu/pa/magazine
Denise Castillo Dell Isola ’96, president Leslie Williams Smith '03, vice president Thomas R. Schuck ’72, secretary
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 1
OUT ON THE TOWN Local merchants welcomed alumni, students and Greencastle community members for a block party on Indiana Street sponsored by Old National Bank during Alumni Reunion Weekend on June 10, 2017.
2 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 3
SKY HIGH An aerial shot of campus from Seminary Street and Burkhart Walk shows off the beauty and tranquility of campus during summer.
4 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 5
news PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER
"DePauw has taught you how to be a critical thinker. Now you need to use those critical thinking skills – commit yourself to always ask the right questions of others and of yourself."
On April 20, Tony Kushner participated as the keynote speaker during DePauw's annual National Undergraduate Honors Conference for Communication and Theatre. The keynote was a conversation between Kushner and Deborah R. Geis, Raymond W. Pence Professor of English. Kushner’s visit coincided with DePauw Theatre’s presentation of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, the first half of Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama detailing the lives of two couples struggling to make sense in a world torn apart by disease, sex and religion.
JIM ALLING, 1983 graduate of DePauw University and CEO of TOMS, addressing 561 graduating students
in the class of 2017 during DePauw’s Commencement on May 21, 2017.
3
DePauw captured its third North Coast Athletic Conference All-Sports Trophy in six years of conference competition. Two teams won conference titles with 19 posting top-five finishes.
71
student-athletes named to North Coast Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll (sophomores, juniors and seniors with a 3.50 or higher cumulative GPA).
6 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
“Kushner displayed his dazzling wit and range of knowledge as we chatted about topics ranging from the upcoming National Theatre revival of Angels in America, to DePauw's production last semester of The Good Person of Szechuan, to the current political landscape. He was also exceptionally generous with students and stayed for hours afterward to sign their books and to talk about his work.” ENGLISH PROFESSOR DEBORAH R. GEIS
WELCOME TO THE CLASS OF 2021, COMPRISED OF:
FROM THE PRESIDENT
634 Students
27 School of Music 107 Legacy 15% International 23% Domestic Students of Color 19% First Generation 49% Male 51% Female
Welcome Parents of the class of 2021! We’re thrilled to welcome you into
the DePauw family, whether you’re
D. Mark McCoy
With the 2016-17 academic year now behind us and in preparation for a new year ahead, I reflect back on what DePauw has witnessed since last summer. In May, we held commencement ceremonies and saw 561 leaders cross the stage into a new chapter in their lives. Hoover Hall and Stewart Plaza were unveiled, and we continue to become a great place to live, learn and work with the upcoming Justin P. and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion. We welcomed Vernon Jordan and David Cameron to share their wisdom and experience, and we have just celebrated Alumni Reunion Weekend with over 1,400 guests. Rhonesha Byng ’11, featured in this issue, is a shining example of the pioneers of tomorrow. The pace of change is accelerating and we must understand, prepare and lead that change. Our liberal arts experience prepares future leaders for problems that have yet to be created. In many cases, we are preparing students for employers and careers that do not yet exist. Rhonesha’s drive and passion are what make her the quintessential DePauw graduate. This August we will once again welcome a new class of scholars into our community. They are poised to become the next Rhonesha, but also the next Ferid Murad or Barbara Kingsolver, because the transformative education we provide must continue to create the leaders the world needs now. Each of you play an important role in the life of DePauw University. As we look forward to a new academic year, new celebrations and challenges ahead, I hope you will continue to be engaged champions of this magical place we all call home.
an alumnus or a new face to the
community. We hope you enjoy our
take on life at DePauw both on and off the campus.
D. Mark McCoy President
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 7
news
32
summer research projects where students and faculty have hands on experiences on specific topics, including “The Temporal Dynamics of Neural Activity Underlying Moral Decision Making” with professor of psychology Robert West.
34 7
students majoring in global health students minoring in global health
ENDING DISEASE
Paige M. Bagby ’19 went to Washington, D.C., in May to lobby Congress as part of END7 Student Advocacy Day. END7 is a public awareness campaign dedicated to controlling and eliminating the seven most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by 2020. Most people have never heard of elephantiasis, river blindness or snail fever, but nearly one in six people globally – including more than half a billion children – have these diseases. Without treatment, NTDs can lead to lifelong disabilities and suffering. Bagby met with members of Congress and their staff to discuss the importance of U.S. funding for NTD treatment. Pharmaceutical companies donate the drugs, but funding is necessary to administer them. “It was a life-changing experience,” Bagby says. “Though at first, the thought of talking to members of Congress was overwhelming, and I asked myself, what are my credentials to be here? These people make decisions about our country. But at the end of the day, I realized they are people just like we are and they care. I also realized that student voices do make a difference.” Bagby is a global health and conflict studies double major from Indiana. She plans to establish an END7 chapter at DePauw in the fall.
SUMMER READING FROM DEPAUW
Lili Wright, professor of English at DePauw and author of Dancing with the Tiger, was a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award for “Best First Novel.” In April, Wright attended the awards gala in New York City presented by the Mystery Writers of America. The Mark Gordon Company has optioned the novel for a feature film, and TimeOut just named it one of the best summer reads for 2017. Professor of Physics and Astronomy Howard L. Brooks and Papa Kobina "Kobby" Van Dyck ’19 tie off a latex weather balloon for the 96th Balloon Assisted Stratospheric Experiments (BASE) launch. Brooks, Van Dyck and Zachary M. Wilkerson ’20 are working on a method to record cosmic rays traveling 20 kilometers above Earth.
8 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 BY THE NUMBERS*
1,449 262 1,501 $1,106,225 $32,697,989 alumni and friends attended
alumni volunteered to plan reunions
alumni made gifts to DePauw to celebrate their reunion
The Fund for DePauw
total giving by reunion classes to
total gifts and commitments by the 50th reunion Class of 1967 since their 45th reunion *as of June 28, 2017
CONNECT AND EXPLORE WITH US depauw_u @depauwu
MUTUAL GRATITUDE Melanie J. Norton
DePauw is basking in the glow of a successful Alumni Reunion Weekend where some 1,449 alumni and friends returned to Greencastle for one of our biggest events of the year. We reveled in Chamber of Commerce weather only enhanced by our enjoyment of newly opened Stewart Plaza, named after the late James G. Stewart ’64. Water is back in the heart of campus and the fountains are stunning. Attendees enjoyed meals and meetings in beautiful Hoover Hall, providing a majestic focal point not only for the 50th reunion class but also jaw-dropping tours for those who had yet to experience its grandeur. Our relationship with the community was strengthened as we celebrated with a block party in the streets of downtown Greencastle. Purveyors old and new had an opportunity to showcase their talent and welcome DePauw. These were just a few of many highlights and memories of the weekend that will live on long after the summer is over. What surprised us the most, however, was the volume of positive feedback we received after this year’s reunion. If I had to sum it up in one word, the overwhelming response would be “gratitude.” As one attendee said, “This was my 50th and I am now truly abashed that I’ve not been to previous reunions.” He goes on to say that his experience, and that of his friends “was so emotionally gratifying that it moved some of us to tears and thrilled us all.” They vowed to come back next year. I hope they will. Gratitude is the driver of Alumni Reunion Weekend and the reason we do so much of what we do at DePauw. June reunions are just one opportunity to thank our alumni and friends for your support of our students and campus. We cannot survive – or thrive – without that support. What happens at DePauw changes lives and we believe strongly that the world needs more alumni like the ones who returned to campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend. Please know how much we appreciate your support, whether as a volunteer, donor or attendee. You inspire our work and we remain immeasurably grateful.
Melanie J. Norton Vice President for Development and Alumni Engagement
@DePauwU SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 9
recent words
HAROLD R. BOOHER ’60 Hell: Deciphering Its Biblical Meaning (First Edition Design Publishing) Hell: Deciphering Its Biblical Meaning is about hell’s traditional role in the Christian Church and the problems it creates for Christians, both for those who believe in it, and for those who do not. Booher writes that believers in orthodox hell often have an issue with their conscience, and non-believers tend to more readily question the reliability of scripture. Hell shows a way we can have both – accurate scripture and a secure conscience. Booher concludes that not a single word, phrase or story in the Bible convincingly illustrates a basis for orthodox hell. God is a God of love and wishes that all men might be saved. He is also a God of free will and the insurer of justice. In the end, it will be his judgement whether to exercise destruction for those who choose evil. Booher is a freelance writer on issues of philosophy, science and religion. This is his fourth book. He lives in Baltimore.
10 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
BECKY BROWN ’62, illustrator Thomas Jefferson Built Monticello: Was Palladio Looking Over His Shoulder?
MARK COX ’78 Sorrow Bread, Poems 1984-2015 (Serving House Books)
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Hands-on activities make classical architecture come alive in this nonfiction narrative for readers ages 9 and up. Thomas Jefferson’s design of Monticello drew on 16th century Italian architect, Andrea Palladio. Jefferson’s “conversations” with Palladio arose from reading his “Four Books of Architecture.” The book features parallels in the men’s lives and work, illustrated by pen and ink drawings. Readers will identify elements of Roman architecture, from columns to porticoes to capitals, as used inventively by Palladio and Jefferson. Brown has worked in pen and ink for 40 years, illustrating and teaching, as well as participating in various shows and a local gallery in Gettysburg, Pa.
AMBER R. CALDERON ’17, illustrator All About Sir Edmund Hillary All About Martin Luther King, Jr. (Blue River Press) The “All About” series is designed for young readers ages 9 through 13. The series features biographies that span the entire life of each figure. Calderon was honored by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with a Benjamin Franklin Award for her illustrations in the book All About Sir Edmund Hillary. It won the gold award in the category “Interior Design: 1-2 Color”. The Ben Franklin Award Program is regarded as one of the highest national honors for small and independent publishers. Calderon was a double major in anthropology and studio art, with a minor in art history.
In this collection, poems are used to explore essential connections – one’s relationship to poetic tradition, the reader, the natural world, other lives and language itself. Cox renews strategies that have served poets across centuries and international borders – voice, rhythm, image, vision, myth, humor, shrewd architectonics, whether “free” or not – with a willingness to bring the reader decisively into the transaction. Cox is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he served as founding chair. This is his fifth volume of poetry. A sixth book is scheduled for publication in 2018.
BRIAN E. DIXON ’01, editor Health Information Exchange (HIE): Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems (Academic Press) Health Information Exchange (HIE): Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems allows health professionals to appropriately access and securely share patients’ vital medical information electronically, thus improving the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care. The book presents foundational knowledge on HIE, covering broad areas of technology, governance and policy. It provides a concise, yet in-depth, look at HIE that can be used as a teaching tool for universities and healthcare organizations, certification institutions, and as a tool for self-study for independent learners who want to know more about HIE when preparing for certification exams. The book was selected as the 2016 Book of the Year by Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. Dixon is co-editor of Clinical Informatics Study Guide Text and Review. He is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
DEREK R. FORD, DePauw assistant professor of education studies, co-editor Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (Palgrave MacMillon) In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In both its institutional and informal configurations, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons. Ford is associate editor of Issues in Teacher Education. He is the author of Education and the Production of Space: Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution and Communist Study: Education for the Commons in Studies in Philosophy and Education.
WENDY BLYTHE GIFFORD ‘71, writing as Blythe Gifford Rumors at Court (Harlequin) Rumors at Court is part of the “Royal Weddings” series. Widow Valerie of Florham wants nothing more than to forget her abusive marriage and live peacefully at the mercy of no man. She’d never have dreamed of a liaison with handsome Sir Gil Wolford, but then comes a royal decree – they must wed. Gil craves military conquest in Castile, far from his haunted past. Marriage to Lady Valerie is the last thing he should want, yet both have truths to hide from the rumormongers at court. They have no choice, and once wed, the marriage bed changes everything. Gifford was an English (composition) major. Her other books include The Witch Finder, Innocence Unveiled, The Harlot’s Daughter, The Knave and The Maiden and In the Master’s Bed. Gifford’s books have been released in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany and Brazil among other countries.
LINDA H. HEURING ’76 A Woman Walked into the Bar (stories) (All Nations Press) This 15-story collection includes tales set in locales from a Caribbean resort for the generously-figured to rivers and bayous that hold secrets or become escape routes into and out of relationships. The characters don’t always do the right or legal thing, but they act for the right reasons. A Woman Walked into the Bar has been named an “Editor’s Picks” by NewPages. Heuring’s short story “Red Light, Green Light” won the 2016 Rash Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in the 2012 Fish Anthology (Ireland), among other publications. She was awarded the Fish International Short Story Prize in 2012. Her short stories have been nominated for the Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize. Heuring was an English (composition) major. She has worked as a journalist and newspaper editor and has held global positions in corporate communications and marketing.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 11
recent words
JAMES G. JOHNSTON ’70 Jung’s Indispensable Compass: Navigating the Dynamics of Psychological Types (MSE Press) Jung’s psychological types could be thought of as a compass useful for navigating personal growth to greater “wholeness.” This detailed and intensive review of Jung’s original model of psychological types discerns important new insights about the eight types, their structure and dynamics. Illustrated with biographies of well-known people, this book brings the eight types to life, while it analyzes and explains their collaborative and oppositional dynamics in the process of unique personality development that Jung termed, individuation.
12 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
JAMES G. JOHNSTON ’70 Joshua: The Light of the World
SIEL JU ’00 Cake Time: a novel-in-stories
(MSE Press)
(Red Hen Press)
Though he is known today, after two millennia, as Jesus Christ, while he lived he would have been called Yehoshua ben Yosef (Joshua, son of Joseph). This book, Joshua: The Light of the World, assembles, as a composite chronological story, the four New Testament Gospels about Jesus. The four Gospels enable us to both listen to him and observe the life he lived. When we listen to him in those stories, we hear him refer to himself as The Light of the World; The Bread of Life; The Way, The Truth, and The Life; but never as The Lamb of God, a central doctrine of Christianity. This book seeks the original gospel of Jesus, before the rise of Christianity.
In Ju’s first novel-in-stories, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. This novel-in-stories grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world and how to love madly without losing a sense of self. Ju received the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Award for Cake Time. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), and Might Club (Horse Less Press, 2014). Ju is the recipient of a residency from The Anderson Center at Tower View and received a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER ’77, contributor Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Princeton Architectural Press) Award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver is among the contributors to a new anthology, Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future. With the number of American farms about to drop below two million, the fewest the country has had since the early 1800s; and with more farmers aging off the land than are prepared to take their place, this book is dedicated to beginning farmers comes at an important moment. With 36 contributions from some of the foremost thought leaders of our day, Letters to a Young Farmer is both a compelling history and a vital road map – a reckoning of how we eat and farm; how the two can come together to build a more sustainable future; and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers. Kingsolver was a zoology major at DePauw. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2000 and the 2010 Orange Prize. Her books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction include The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, Flight Behavior and The Lacuna.
SAVVY INVESTING
dividual investors who have tion necessary to earn a high aying “the game” intelligently, mall investor to earn a return Although the theories behind individual investor does not r to outperform the so-called steps necessary to become a d news is you can be a savvy ach year on your investment true, but it is.
cessful investors can do is trol and not worry about the cting a stock portfolio, the two are the costs associated with dividual’s portfolio. Adjusting an have a dramatic impact on otentially adding hundreds of nvestment account.
k’s down-to-earth advice, which t seems … [Lemon’s] examples e is cogent and easy to set into s for investing.” –Kirkus Reviews
$19.95 U.S.
Gary D. Lemon
tock market. Professor Lemon when he was a nineteen-yearn invested in the stock market on made investment decisions, ors. All he was sure of was that f the reason Professor Lemon id the mistakes he made when
GARY D. LEMON, professor of economics and management Savvy Investing: Strategies for Successful Investing
TIMOTHY R. PEARSON ’76 and Robert T. Winn Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival
(Dog Ear Publishing)
(Humanix Books)
Relayed in a conversational tone that sounds like two old friends discussing the market, Savvy Investing: Strategies for Successful Investing pares down investing to the basics. Lemon’s professional and personal experience is evident in the book’s organization to the advice he offers. “Keep costs low and allocate your money wisely between risky and less-risky assets.” Savvy Investing was named one of the “75 Best Investments Books” by valueinsiders. Lemon is chairman of an investment committee that oversees billions of dollars in a large number of mutual funds. He has conducted investment seminars and helped individuals construct investment portfolios. Before joining the faculty at DePauw, he was a financial analyst for General Electric Co. in Syracuse, N.Y. DePauw student Zachary L. Taylor ’18 created the cartoon artwork that accompanies the book.
Dr. Robert Winn’s beloved wife, Nancy, is diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), and as a result, he and his family learn effective ways to deal with the daily ups and downs of a possibly terminal illness. Their story is chronicled by Pearson, and shows how love can prevail and triumph over almost any obstacle. Night Reflections is an inspirational story of courage, love, devotion, struggle and ultimately triumph. Pearson is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, The Old Rules Are Dead and founder, president and CEO of Pearson Advisors and Partners.
RICHARD W. PECK ’56 The Best Man (Dial Books) The Best Man is a story of small-town life, gay marriage and everyday heroes. Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-up role models. Three of the best are his grandpa, the great architect; his dad, the great vintage car customizer; and his uncle Paul, who is just plain great. These are the three he wants to be. The New York Times Book Review notes, “Peck is at heart a gentle realist, a keen observer of family dynamics who uses the soft power of understated emotion to tackle social issues. His latest middle-grade novel, The Best Man is … a reminder that no matter your gender or sexuality, love is love is love.” The book was recently honored by the 2017 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards as a "Fiction and Poetry Honor Book" in the competition. An English (literature) major, Peck has written over 41 books for young readers and has won almost every children's fiction award, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Newbery Medal, the Scott O'Dell Award, and the Edgar, and he has twice been nominated for a National Book Award. He was the first children's author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal. Peck received an honorary doctorate from DePauw in 1999.
J. STUART SHOWALTER ’68 The Law of Healthcare Administration, Eighth Edition (Health Administration Press) The latest edition of Showalter’s textbook on health law moves from summaries of the U.S. legal system and the history of medicine to specific issues that affect healthcare leaders daily. The text is used in MHA, MPH, MBA and other programs around the country. Showalter has spent most of his career dealing with health law issues. He has a law degree from Washington University and a master’s degree in forensic science from George Washington University. He is a contributing editor to the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Legal and Regulatory Forum.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 13
NO ONE EVER SLOWS HER AGENDA By Tom Chiarella
When describing the meeting of two people at a southbound train in New York, writers will often turn the phrase “deep in the bowels of Penn Station,” even though the meeting ground is not that deep and there’s nothing particularly bowel-like about it. In fact, the waiting area for the Acela trains at Penn Station is lined by donut stores and by-the-slice pizza places and feels brightly-lit, clean and dry. Midday on a Friday, it’s crowded with New Yorkers skipping work early, headed to one Jersey shore or another. I scan the crowd for the familiar face of Rhonesha Byng (DePauw ’11), my friend and former student, a leader recently named to Forbes’ 2017 “30 Under 30” list in both the media and “dorm room founder” categories, who’s meeting me for a ride down to Washington together. She texts me: I’m about to get off the subway at 34th. To which I volley: It’s track 9e. I’ll be in line.
14 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 15
I figure she is 10 minutes out, deep in the bowels of the subway such as it is. I amble to the queue, and take a deep breath and a look around. The two of us are riding down to D.C. together, where I will watch her give a talk at to a group of young girls at Catholic University. Rhonesha is an editor, motivational speaker and a leader in empowering millennial women. When meeting former students, it’s always easy to imagine that you won’t recognize them. More often, they don’t recognize me. It’s been six years since I saw her last. And just two minutes since I got her text, I look up and there she is! Already in line, way ahead of things as usual. “How did you get here so fast?” Though this is Rhonesha Byng, so I ought not be surprised. “Your hair is short,” she says, by which she means thin. “You look the same!” I say, by which I mean exactly that. She is smiling, collected, stylish. As always. “I’m not!” she says. “It’s been six years!” In her world, this is a long time. “I’ve changed!” she says. I’d bet on that. So, I’ll call her Rhonesha here, since I knew her that way – Rhonesha, Nesha – way back in 2008, when she sat in one of my writing workshops in Asbury Hall as a sophomore and distinguished herself as a funny, insightful writer, a student who came in with surprising media experience and strong media aspirations in her plan for the future. I’d pushed her to major in English. She was the first student of mine who ever produced a readable, relevant and intelligent blog entry from an assignment for my class. I’d thought I didn’t want those. But hers was smart and crafted, and she claimed it proudly. I loved it and urged her to publish it. Nesha wisely chose
16 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
communication as her major in the year that followed, and went on to distinguish herself by winning an Associated Press award for a story she produced for WGRE, and a news Emmy while working at WNBC in New York, her first gig out of DePauw. Nesha’s biggest mark in the media world she inhabits has been as founder and CEO of Her Agenda, a digital media platform that aims to bridge “the gap between ambition and achievement for millennial women.” It’s an effort to get tools in the hands of women between the ages of 20 and 40 that allow them to tap into
resources they didn’t know were out there. One part digital network, one part online magazine, Her Agenda is a well-designed motivational resource for (and fan page of ) vibrant women of all ages, a place for virtual connection between potential mentors and a generation of protégés. Her Agenda’s reach extends elegantly across the familiar multiverse of social networking platforms: Facebook to Google+, Twitter to Tumblr. Its rapid growth – it is currently a community of more than 100,000 millennial women – and savvy editorial developments have lead Rhonesha to be included on the
“Holistic success is what we’re trying to showcase. So, everything about your life impacts what you’re able to do in your career, because if you are not happy and you are lacking in certain areas, it impacts your productivity.” – RHONESHA BYNG ’11
prestigious Forbes list, which has brought her national attention and speaking engagements, as well as NBCBLK’s “28 Under 28” and BET’s “29 People You Should Know.” In the six years since she walked the boards in front of Roy O. to get her diploma, Rhonesha has spoken at the White House and at the United State of Women Summit – while receiving awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists. So, of course it’s not so much that she has changed, but that things have changed all around her. Along the way Nesha – as she’s been called by her mother, Debra
Pugh, since childhood – turned her very name into an acronym which guides the momentum of her nascent media empire: N.E.S.H.A., or “No one Ever Slows Her Agenda.” With what she’s accomplished in 6 short years, it’s easy to see the truth in that sentiment. It’s even fun to watch the principle at work in Rhonesha’s comings and goings. No one slows her, not even me. When we board the train it’s a struggle finding seats next to each other. I’m willing to settle, thumping my bags down between the first two seats that face one another. But Nesha, New Yorker to the core, pushes on. “I’ll see what I can find,” she tells me, before disappearing into the cars ahead. Moments later, she texts me: Seats! And so I follow. “I want to hear you,” she says, as I reach our seats two cars down the line. And me, I need to hear her to learn what she’s up to now, next, and how she gets where she’s going so quickly. The focus of her day to day work in her offices in Chelsea is primarily growing Her Agenda to serve more millennial women. “Through our weekly cover story, we’re essentially telling stories of women at all levels,” she says of the website, “We provide narratives of successful women – what they do, how they got to where they are and what they intend to do now that they have that they have reached that point.” she says. It’s notable that Her Agenda doesn’t focus on movie stars or models. Neither musicians, nor actors. There’s no mention of reality shows. Her Agenda focuses on working women – COOs, VPs, writers, counselors, teachers, media figures. “We look at women whose story hasn’t been told over and over again, inspirational women who make young women wonder: hey, how did she get there? That’s what we document and illustrate.
“Holistic success is what we’re trying to showcase,” she says. “So, everything about your life impacts what you’re able to do in your career, because if you are not happy and you are lacking in certain areas, it impacts your productivity. It’s like, yes, you have to have your finances in order, but your love life is also part of this. That impacts how you’re able to show up. So, we cover everything, but the focus and anchor is on career. “Then our daily content consists of news and politics that impact the lives of women, whether it’s workplace issues, or even fertility and family planning. All of that because, really, millennial woman today, even with all the career planning, they really think about their professional life as one part of their whole life.” The two of us sit side by side on the train pushing towards D.C., passing stockyards, stacks of shipping containers, the rusty, dented architecture of old fashioned New Jersey commerce, without much comment on what’s out there. Byng holds a glance into the space before us when she speaks, as if the digital world she constructed in Her Agenda sits just in front of us both, real as the freight yards we rumble past. There’s nothing delicate or imaginary either. Her Agenda has its feet firmly down in the arena of social influence. It’s amply present in any space where Rhonesha Byng speaks. She’s guided its evolution and shaded its design in every iteration. It started more than a decade ago, when Byng began taking a journalism class as an elective in high school. It grew out of her own insistence. “I was just very pushy,” she says, laughing. “If I wanted to do something, I would always find a way to get it done. And I love to write and read, and be the first to know something. But I
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 17
never thought journalism was a career that I could pursue. It just wasn’t something that entered my mind. “One teacher told me: ‘You’re good at this. You should join the school paper.’” She smirks at the memory of her own expectations. “So, I’m like, ‘You have to stay after school for that? Are you paying me?’” She laughs at the memory of her audacity at 15. “You know, I grew up in New York. I was very fashion oriented. I wanted to shop. So, at first I thought: ‘No, I’m not staying after school.’ Then I realized, there’s actually a career that I can get paid for talking to whomever I want, celebrities and politicians, and telling their stories? I was like: That’s a thing?” She did join the school newspaper, and eventually enrolled in a workshop run by the New York Association of Black Journalists. “I had to give up my Saturdays from 9:00 to 4:00 but it opened up my whole world because I was able to meet professional journalists, and they were so open with their stories. The thing that really set me off came when I realized: I can just do this now. I don’t need to wait. We got to pick our own stories, and I learned to draw them out of my life. I was going to a Kanye West concert and, so, I’m like, “Oh, I’m gonna go to this concert, then I’m gonna review the concert, and I’m gonna interview Kanye.” The workshop put cameras in her hand, and mentors in journalism encouraged her to climb into the churn of reporters at press conferences and red carpets. Suddenly Nesha went from being a simple fan to a participant in the process of reporting. She takes a moment with her phone to pull up a video posted on the program’s website, made at the time she worked as a 16-year-old chasing down man-on-
18 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
the-street stories in Harlem. She laughs forgivingly at her adolescent impatience and the mannerisms that betray it. “It cracks me up because I didn’t realize how Brooklyn I was back then. Back then, Brooklyn was my whole world, but I didn’t realize how much of a Brooklyn accent I had, and how even my mannerisms were so aggressive. I was just an aggressive little girl.” An aggressive little girl who got the work done. Her first interview was with R&B star Chris Brown. Her man on the street interviews involved questions about political and social news in the black community. She shows me a clip where she’s asking 50-year-old men about the violent execution of a gang leader in New York the day before. Where did she get the courage, the chutzpah, to approach people who might be reactive to certain questions, especially when posed by a teenager? “I was also interning, doing all that transcribing, and I was able to hear how the professionals I worked for would phrase their questions, which was the best thing. A lot of the time, in work situations, interns don’t want to transcribe. It’s slow work. But I loved it. I did as many transcripts as I could because I got to hear the unedited interviews that these professionals are creating on the spot. I learned by working.” The work continued at night, when she got home. Rhonesha started a blog called Life, Society and Style in which she recounted her daily adventures in journalism. “It was mostly society and style,” she laughs. “I was 15, but at that time it was pretty rare for a 15-year-old to have an internet presence.” That presence was shaped into Her Agenda. But not before she went off to Greencastle, to become a presence in the community that is DePauw University.
It wasn’t easy at first, transplanting her agenda from Brooklyn to the greenswards that surround East College. It helped that she was a member of the Posse program. “Just having other people who were from my city, being able to talk to them and be around them, that helped a lot.” The Posse community helped her through some early doubts. “I remember sophomore year I almost cried when I had to go back.
“It’s the liberal arts, so there’s not a lot of typical training, but I took a lot of theory-based classes that helped me really put all of the things that I was doing into context.” – RHONESHA BYNG ’11
DePauw was not my number one choice; I’d wanted to go to NYU or Northwestern. I felt like what I was doing would connect to bigger cities. But my posse was at DePauw, and they were reminding me what went on there and why. They drew me back.” She smiles at the thought. “And DePauw was the best thing for me.
The small class sizes, the accountability. The ability to make it in the middle of nowhere, to focus on school. I always say, if I went to school in a big city, I probably wouldn’t have graduated in four years. I would’ve gotten side-tracked or distracted by working on a project or something like that, outside of school. “I took advantage of the radio station. I wanted to be part of the news show, but
It seems fun for her to think back. She’s a million miles from Greencastle now, but DePauw still runs through her mind as she helps Her Agenda set up the ambition and agenda of hundreds of thousands of other women. We glance at the skyline of Philadelphia as it passes. It too seems a long way from New York. “DePauw,” she says, a little blankly as if announcing it like a stop on the route,
Rhonesha’s office, a shared workspace in Chelsea.
that was very much a time-consuming activity. So, I just had my own show, which they let you do. Like, you had access to the studio, so you can do whatever you wanted. I took a class with [Professor of Communication] Jeff McCall. He is very serious about his projects and we did this radio documentary that he submitted to the Associated Press, and we ended up winning.
which of course is exactly what it was for her. “It’s the liberal arts, so there’s not a lot of typical training, but I took a lot of theory-based classes that helped me really put all of the things that I was doing into context.” Nesha puts a finger in the air, as if she’s just realized something. “I remember I was taking a class with Sheryl Tremblay. She
was a character; I loved her classes. She’s very soft-spoken, very knowledgeable. I was very much getting trained in the logistics of journalism, while being exposed to the larger story of journalism and the theories of what make it work.” She shakes her head at the memory. Amazement is what it looks like. “I remember there was an idea called the Agenda Setting Theory about how media sets the agenda for society.” She pauses for a moment. The pun on the website, the larger point even seems too obvious to make. So she doesn’t. Nesha glances into the invisible space in front of us, far from the bowels of the city, riding above ground near the sunlit shore. The train throbs on to Washington, its cars bustle into the distance. The future barrels towards her. Her talk will ensue tomorrow, and she’ll tell the story of how she got to where she is now – the business of telling the stories of how other women, admirable and strong, got to where they are. She’ll be speaking directly to another set of young women, urging them in turn to pay attention to the journeys of those who came before them. Their mothers, their sisters, their teachers and more. Some of them will hear, too. Some of them may even begin their agenda right then and there. And that’s the goal. That’s what Rhonesha Byng wants for all the little girls waiting to become something. A little help. A role model or two. A way to get to where they want to be. We don’t even have to arrive in Washington for me to see that this is Rhonesha Byng’s agenda, and it always has been.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 19
The Inspiration Behind the Art By Sarah McAdams
A record number of seniors presented their work in May during the opening night reception of the Senior Art Exhibition in Peeler Art Center. “Nineteen studio art majors is extraordinary; it’s twice our average size,” says John G. Berry, assistant professor of art and art history. “I was really impressed with how the seniors worked together to stay cohesive, focused and flexible. They clearly learned a lot from each other about how to confront the challenges of art-making.” Four of the recent graduates share insight into their work and future plans.
ADAM D. RATHBUN studio art major
What inspired you to create these pieces? My work is based on my curiosity about radiation and mutations, which all began when my dad was diagnosed with cancer. These pieces address how we treat one mutation with a substance that has either a life or death quality. I have an interest in how we treat something that’s actually a mutation of our own body with radiation, which is a substance that has this life or death like component – like a double-edged sword. So, in my paintings, I try to show this either prospering and or this mutation as deteriorating, which relates back to cells that either can adapt to the mutation and prosper and grow or deteriorate and die. In RAD, there is a fallen tree that’s melting and deteriorating into a tar substance. And in Alba, I painted a biomorphic form that’s prospering and growing in an atmosphere and space that is very radioactive and toxic. Rathbun is recipient of the DePauw University Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship for 2017-18. The one-year paid fellowship is awarded to promising DePauw students who have graduated in the previous year in studio art and planning to seek advanced degrees in the arts (MFA).
Alba oil paint, house paint, spray paint on canvas 49” x 63” 20 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
RAD oil paint, house paint, spray paint on canvas 55” x “70
MI LIN studio art and economics double major
Untitled oil on canvas 30” x 30”
Untitled oil on canvas 30” x 40”
What inspired you to create these pieces? Both paintings express the same idea. Though abstract, my paintings reference the world in which we live and are geomorphic and architectural in character. By creating geometric shapes and stripes that touch the outer edge of the painting, I expand the pictorial space and reference artifacts which indicate human activities. These stripes form a comparison between the natural environment and human intelligence. Combined with an earthy color palette, the floating elements evoke a feeling of entering into a geological and architectural world. Through my paintings, I ask whether we can achieve a balance between architecture and nature, and I believe we can. I think these two pieces look very peaceful and optimistic. Lin will pursue a Master of Arts degree in arts administration at New York University this fall.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 21
EMILY G. MENSCHING studio art major and art history minor
What inspired you to create these pieces? I’ve always been really interested in sewing, and I like working with fabric. My grandmother gave me a sewing machine, and my aunt taught me how to sew. I’m most passionate about textiles, which led me to create paintings out of sheer fabrics. I used the technique of sewing to create line and the overlapping of fabric to give a sense of density to produce pieces that express femininity. I wanted to address the tension I feel with what I am supposed be as feminine, including traits and responsibilities. My pieces are made out of tulle, a fabric used to make tutu’s which have the reference as being a feminine product already. Tulle is transparent and also fragile. I sewed it together to make it stronger to challenge that quality, and used spray paint and acrylic paint to make the
Ladylike tulle and acrylic 31-1/2” x 42-1/2”
pieces louder. Many traditional female responsibilities, such as sewing, only get appreciated for a short time, but they take so much time to complete. I wanted to challenge the momentary appreciation by putting my pieces in a gallery, which is a traditional male space. Mensching will pursue an associate’s degree in fashion design from Parsons School of Design.
Soft tulle and spray paint 48” x 49-1/2”
22 DEPAUW DEPAUWMAGAZINE MAGAZINESPRING SUMMER 2017 2016
MACKENZIE M. SIKORA studio art and art history double major
What inspired you to create these pieces? Sikora notes several things which influence her work – a semester abroad in South Korea surrounded by vibrantly painted traditional architecture; her interest in typography and text; and a recent visit to a strip club. My work explores the architecture of objectification, focusing on the physical and conceptual structures that are associated with stripping. Drawing inspiration from actual language and advertisements combined with the structures I paint, I play with language’s duality – showcasing how a word or phrase can be interpreted in a variety of ways. I pair colors that are typically associated with femininity with masculine forms of architecture. Through the painting process, I transcribe problematic spaces into a language of clean lines and flat color. Sikora is recipient of the DePauw University Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship for 2017-18. She will also work as a teaching and studio assistant for Professor John Berry. Tulips acrylic on board 18" x 24"
For Rent acrylic on board 16” x 20”
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 23
THE NATURAL This fall, John Jessup ’17 will begin his post-DePauw life in the mountains of Vail, Colorado, serving as a teaching assistant for students with learning disabilities. But first, he has to compete in this summer’s Paratriathlon National Championships. Despite missing most of his right foot at birth, Jessup was a born athlete in a family of born athletes. Staying active with his father, who swam for Notre Dame, and his mother, a marathon runner, defined Jessup’s childhood more than anything he lacked. But his condition caught up to him as a young teenager. Just as he was catching his older brother’s lacrosse bug, the weakened muscles in his right leg began causing pain in his knee and back. Jessup’s doctor gave him a choice. He could either cut back on physical activity or have his leg amputated below the knee and learn to use a prosthesis. He decided to go forward with the amputation just two weeks after turning 15. Though an infection extended his recovery time from a few weeks to nearly a year, he excelled when he finally returned to the lacrosse field. As a senior at Marian (Mishawaka, Ind.) High School, Jessup won the 2013 U.S. Lacrosse National Bob Scott Award, given to the player who best represents the sport on and off the field. Jessup hoped to continue playing lacrosse at DePauw, where a new varsity team had formed, but a new complication sidelined him once again. The skin around the amputation site was weakening from rigorous activity, putting him at increased risk for another serious infection. He looked to the University’s trap and skeet 24 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
By Christopher L. Wolfe
“We knew as soon as he got there that he was someone with big potential. He impressed us all day with his athleticism. We knew we had a great athlete on our hands.” – Melissa Stockwell, co-founder, Dare2tri
club to scratch his competitive itch as a freshman until becoming fully invested in his English writing major and campus leadership positions. In the years that followed, Jessup has been a peer mentor, president of the Student Philanthropy Council and a member of Order of Omega Greek Honor Society where he represents his fraternity, Sigma Chi.
But Jessup always knew his sporting hiatus was temporary. “I crave competition,” he says. “I missed it, and I knew I had to get it back in my life.” While studying abroad in Cork, Ireland, in 2016, Jessup was looking for a way to exercise. He found a pool and … things snowballed quickly. Soon he was swimming 4,000 meters a day. He added
a stationary bike and light jogging to his routine when he got back to the States. Finally, this February, all the swimming, running and cycling led Jessup to a natural endpoint: a multi-sport clinic hosted by Dare2tri, an organization that supports disabled athletes in competitive triathlons. Co-founder and coach Melissa Stockwell, a two-time Paralympian who lost a leg to an IED while serving in Iraq, noticed John immediately. “We knew as soon as he got there that he was someone with big potential,” Stockwell remembers. “He impressed us all day with his athleticism. We knew we had a great athlete on our hands.” Stockwell and Keri Serota, Dare2tri’s executive director, pulled Jessup aside. They wanted him to have a special prosthesis – a flexible blade – to help with his running. But only if Jessup would attempt to qualify for nationals. Jessup accepted the blade and the challenge. In May, he traveled to the Carmel (Ind.) Sprint Triathlon for his very first race. Knowing he hadn’t been training for long, he told the contingent of DePauw fans that followed him, “I don’t think this is going to happen, but thank you for coming.” Then he beat the qualifying time by nearly 10 minutes. In the months leading up to nationals, Jessup has been working on some of his weak spots. The running blade immediately shaved two minutes off his mile, and he’s been improving steadily ever since. Then there are his transitions. In a triathlon, the clock doesn’t stop until you cross the finish line. Valuable time ticks away as you wrestle with a shoe or cycling gear. Of course, things are just a little more complicated for Jessup, who literally has a different leg for each leg of the race. No worries. If Jessup has mastered anything during his life, it’s how to make a transition – and flourish.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 25
Renewable Support: DePauw Move Out By Mariel Wilderson
DePauw’s Office of Sustainability has organized Move Out since spring 2009. Unlike the annual tradition of move in, when DePauw volunteers assist students and their families upon their arrival to campus, Move Out operates a bit differently. There are U-Hauls. And plenty of boxes. But this time students are giving back to the community. Sustainability, along with the Hartman House, places large cardboard trashcansized boxes for students to place items in as they clean up and leave for summer break. DePauw students have come to expect this practice and donate items that would otherwise end up in a landfill. Piles and piles of donated clothes, shoes, electronics and household items are soon given new homes with Greencastle families, sold in a garage sale, given to a nonprofit organization or taken by Goodwill. Junior Anna M. Werkowski has participated for the last two years. “The fact that it helps the Greencastle community and helps the environment by preventing things from going in the landfill is the best part,” she says. This year, boxes were placed in residence halls, and more than 75 DePauw volunteers and 25 local community members stood ready to help. Boxes are collected, loaded into a U-Haul and taken
26 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
to the Putnam County Fairgrounds to be sorted. Tables are lined up in preparation and labeled by area. It takes four days of collecting, moving and cataloguing items to get ready for the next phase: finding new homes for it all. Putnam County Family Support Services (PCFSS) has been a partner from the beginning and provides a connection between DePauw and families in need. “We have learned a lot over the years about how to get volunteers there and what needs to happen,” PCFSS Executive Director Cari Cox, says. “The more efficient we have become, the more organizations have become involved and benefit, and when that happens, more families benefit.” This year, after items were donated to select families and organizations, the remaining items were sold in a community-wide garage sale. “We’re always looking to strengthen our programs, and we wanted to find a model that allowed even more people to be involved” Director of Sustainability
Anthony M. Baratta ’10 says. “Quite honestly, the event’s success exceeded all of our expectations.” Over two days, the sale netted $3,000, which will be divided between PCFSS and DePauw. The Office of Sustainability and Hartman House will use the funds to create a student-administered pot of grant money for innovative ideas in the Greencastle community. PCFSS will use their portion for family preservation and connecting Greencastle families to helpful resources. “Greencastle and DePauw are coming together to empower our communities, to keep items out of the landfill, to help people find things they need and to raise money for a good cause,” Baratta says.
“Greencastle and DePauw are coming together to empower our communities.” – ANTHONY BARATTA ’10, director of sustainability at DePauw
Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry
INDIANA WOMEN’S PRISON
Beyond Homeless Inc.
GARAGE SALE
DON
AT I O N
S
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 27
connections: engaging with depauw Alumni gifts support alumni engagement, inclusion, international studies, library and research A major capital gift from Timothy and Sharon Ubben, two of the greatest benefactors in DePauw University’s 180-year-history, will create a new home for the college’s development and alumni engagement division. At the request of the Ubbens, who are both 1958 graduates of DePauw, the building will be named the Robert G. Bottoms Alumni and Development Center to honor the University’s 18th president for his leadership and lasting influence. The plan calls for the building at 201 E. Seminary Street, which formerly housed Sigma Nu fraternity and later, Delta Zeta sorority, to be renovated. Bottoms led DePauw from 1986 to 2008 and worked in the University’s administration for more than 30 years. Under his leadership, DePauw became a national, top-tier liberal arts college and an institution with much greater diversity in its student body and faculty, with an endowment that grew nearly five-fold. “Bob was a visionary president and an outstanding fundraiser,” Tim Ubben said. “The development and alumni engagement division has waited a number of years for a space that not only serves as a front door for our returning alumni, but also signals the importance of the work that happens inside.” “In addition to honoring Bob Bottoms and the many things he has done for DePauw, Tim and I are very pleased to be able to breathe life back into this stately building,” added Sharon Williams Ubben. “Giving the structure new life and a prominent role in campus life will underscore that this is a place that has
28 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
President D. Mark McCoy, Tim and Sharon Ubben (both class of ’58), Don (’61) and Barbara Daseke, Vice President for Development and Alumni Engagement Melanie Norton.
transformed young lives for generations.” “The potential for a project like this relies on angel investors, and the synergies DePauw will experience with a co-located development and alumni engagement team cannot be overstated. The Ubbens are definitely our angels, and we cannot wait to invite our alumni back to what will be a fabulous new home,” said Melanie J. Norton, vice president for development and alumni engagement. As part of the $20 million commitment announced last spring, a gift by Don ’61 and Barbara Daseke will fund a significant and long-awaited renovation of the Roy O. West Library. The 80,000 square foot facility, dedicated in 1956 and named in
honor of a DePauw trustee (1914-50) and board president, will receive a total makeover and a 14,000 square foot addition that will house a spectacular two-story reading room and rooftop terrace. “Don and Barbara allowed us to announce their staggering $20 million commitment last spring for a purpose yet to be determined,” noted President Mark McCoy. “We are incredibly grateful for their decision to direct a portion of this gift to the renovation and expansion of the library,” he continued. “There is no building more central to the mission of an academic institution, and their investment will allow us to re-imagine and create a collaborative and relevant 21st century
J. William “Bill” Asher ’53 visited with students (including YaTing Yang ’17), faculty and staff during a reception in Hoover Hall’s Wallace-Stewart Commons. The reception honored Dr. Asher’s endowment of four research funds at DePauw and his fifth gift to create the J. William Asher Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.
space that will serve DePauw well for decades to come.” Three other recent commitments have also helped propel the campaign forward: • Bill ’50 and Dorothy Asher made a $1 million commitment to establish the J. William Asher Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. The Asher Office will provide oversight, support and resources to students and faculty members in forming, sustaining and improving undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity on campus. • Luis ’81 and Debbie White Davila ’82 made a gift of $750,000 to create the
Deborah White Davila '82 and Luis Davila '81
Luis R. Davila and Debbie White Davila Endowed Fund for Global Engagement. This gift will encourage and facilitate the integration of international experiences and global perspectives into all areas of teaching and learning at DePauw. • Lawrence ’84 and Judith Young issued a challenge commitment of $125,000 to support the Inclusive Excellence Initiative and the University’s emerging Center for Diversity and Inclusion recently named by Justin ’95 and Darrianne Christian ’95. This multi-faceted initiative supports new space and includes funds for access,
programming, endowment and other needs. The Young Challenge will match endowment gifts to this initiative at a rate of 1:1. “The generosity of DePauw’s alumni and friends continues to astound me,” stated President McCoy. We will never take this support for granted and look forward to the ways in which the remarkable philanthropy of our donors will continue to ensure DePauw’s relevance and importance in the world of higher education.” The Campaign for DePauw, which was formally launched in October 2014 with a goal of $300 million, has raised more than $317.8 million and will continue.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 29
connections: engaging with depauw Coming Together for Inclusive Excellence The University officially launched its Inclusive Excellence Initiative May 6-7 on campus. DePauw’s vision for diversity and inclusion aims to create a campus that encourages examination and dismantling of the historical, systemic and social barriers that inhibit inclusion and which respects and values the contribution of each person’s unique and multifaceted identity to the DePauw community. To reach these goals, DePauw aspires to provide a diverse and inclusive learning and living community that supports critical thinking and encourages all of its members to bring their own identities and life experiences to campus to engage actively, intentionally and respectfully with one another. The Inclusive Excellence initiative will enhance spaces on campus for diverse communities; create more flexible space for all DePauw students to gather; provide endowed funds to support campus programming, experiential learning and opportunity grants, curricular offerings, student-faculty engagement and scholarships. Attendees celebrated the construction of the Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion, a landmark for the initiative, which is scheduled to open this fall. Dean of Students Myrna Hernandez said, “Today, with the generosity of Justin and Darrianne Christian, DePauw is intentionally devoting a visible and prominent space that explores both the legacy and resiliency of the Association of African-American Students and student support offered by the Dorothy Brown Cultural Resource Center. It simultaneously encourages current
30 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
TOP LEFT: Pharez Whitted ’82 and his band. TOP RIGHT: Maya Howard ’19, Tamika Ragland Nordstrom ’93 and Taylor Howard ’17. ABOVE: Justin and Darrianne Christian (both ’95) join President D. Mark McCoy, students and other DePauw community members in signing a beam that will be used in the construction of the Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion.
students to embrace all of their salient identities and find solidarity with others on this educational journey.” The Center will provide a new space for one of the oldest, student-led organizations on campus – the Association of African American Students (AAAS). The Dorothy Brown Cultural Resource Center will join AAAS in the new Center and houses United DePauw, the Committee for Latino Concerns, the Asian American Pacific Islander Initiative, the Asian American Resource Center and the International Student Center.
Justin and Darrianne Christian (both ’95) have committed $1 million to the project. Additional naming opportunities remain inside and outside the building. Funding needs also exist for scholarships, experiential learning, faculty diversity and student programming. Learn more at depauw.edu/inclusiveexcellence or email inclusiveexcellence@depauw.edu. The kickoff was held during Coming Together Weekend, formerly Philanthropy and Excellence Weekend, and brought together 120 alumni, students, faculty and staff to engage multi-cultural alumni with
SAVE-THE-DATES Old Gold Weekend: Oct. 6-7, 2017 24-Hour GOLD Challenge: Nov. 8, 2017 • Give, share and compete via social media
Monon Bell: Nov. 11, 2017 • DePauw Tiger Football vs. Wabash at Blackstock Stadium. Live stream and telecast parties nationwide.
Alumni Travel Program
• 2018 trips include Alaska, Galapagos Islands, Ireland, Italy and more. • depauw.edu/alumni/events/
the University and build alumni-student relationships. Events included a keynote address about mentoring relationships by Tamika Ragland Nordstrom ’93, a networking presentation called “Building Your Platform,” and concerts by Exalt Gospel Choir and trumpet virtuoso Pharez Whitted ’82 and his band. Old Gold Globes were awarded to Yesenia Silva ’17, Student Excellence award; Jordan Davis ’14, Ambitious Alumni award; Leslie James, Exceptional Faculty Member award; and Alan Hill ’81, Administrative Leadership award.
Regional Alumni Chapters Honored for Involvement For the second year in a row, the Alumni Association Board of Directors recognized the leaders of three outstanding Regional Alumni Chapters during Alumni Reunion Weekend. “Best Regional Alumni Chapter 2016-17” awards were presented to the Washington, D.C., chapter and the Chicago chapter. Accepting the awards from incoming President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors Denise Castillo Dell Isola '96 were Lindsay Bartlett ’07 (left) on behalf of the Chicago chapter and Amy O’Donnell ’97 (right) on behalf of the Washington, D.C., chapter. Jack Campbell ’68 accepted a third award, “Best Monon Bell Telecast Party 2016-17” on behalf of the Denver Regional Alumni Chapter. Criteria for selecting award winners include number of regional events hosted by the chapter, type and variety of events offered and effective use of communication channels such as social media. There are currently 17 Regional Alumni Chapters in cities throughout the country. To get involved or to find a chapter near you, visit depauw.edu/alumni/regional-chapters.
Total gifts and commitments: $317,746,120 # of donors: 16,440 n Bequests received: $18,812,441 (6%) n Deferred gifts: $57,460,173 (18%) n Commitments: $69,733,484 (22%) n Cash in hand: $171,740,021 (54%) Figures as of May 31, 2017.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 31
connections: engaging with depauw Alumni Reunion Weekend 2017
Alumni Reunion Weekend included a 5K run, live music, dinners, dancing, campus tours, conversations with President Mark McCoy, Alumni College sessions and more. 1. DePauw President Mark McCoy with award recipients: Dennis E. Bland '87, Distinguished Alumni Citation; R. David Hoover '67, Old Gold Goblet; Kevin R. Armstrong '82, Distinguished Alumni Citation; and Lawren K. Mills '01, Young Alumni Award. 2. Emily Meadows ’12, Ryan Storey, Morgan Hooks Storey ’12, Megan Jensen ’12, Danielle Boyd ’12 and Ashlyn Archer ’12 in front of East College. 3 Stephanie Lakin and Colin Lakin '07 ring the iconic Monon Bell, recaptured in the 2016 football win over Wabash. 4. Alumni gathered for a cocktail reception on the new James G. Stewart Plaza, with its beautiful patio, landscaping and fountains. 5. Members of the DePauw Legacy Society and Washington C. DePauw Lifetime and Annual Societies enjoyed breakfast at Hoover Hall. 6. Mark Rabideau, director of DePauw's 21st Century Musician initiative, moderated an Alumni College presentation – "From DePauw to Broadway and Back" – by Nancy Ford Charles '57 and Gretchen Kiger Cryer '57.
3
4
1 5
2 32 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
6
7. 2017 reunion attendees and spouses from the Class of 2002 and 1999 celebrate on the academic quad with Roy O. West Library in the background. 8. Alumni Association Board of Directors President-elect Denise Castillo Dell Isola ’96 and Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement and Campaign Initiatives Steve Setchell '96 recognized outgoing Alumni Board President Donald M. Phelan '79. 9. The 50th Reunion Class of 1967 revealed a record level of philanthropy to DePauw during the Convocation of Alumni in Meharry Hall. 10. James Stevenson '82, Alison Walker '77, Kim Suchy '77, Mark Wiedner '77, Katy Keck '77, Dane Daugherty '77 and Jane Robison '77 gathered at Taphouse 24 in downtown Greencastle. 11. Obinna Ugokwe '05, member of the Alumni Board, with his daughter Sydney.
7 “I am ecstatic, and our class should be so proud, with 35 percent participating in giving back to DePauw.” – EMILY REAVIS ’12
9
8 Reunion Classes Give Back
10
The Fund for DePauw, which supports everything from scholarships and classroom equipment to building maintenance, depends on reunion class giving for nearly a quarter of its annual budget. This year, the five-year, 50-year and 60-year class reunions showed a phenomenal outpouring of generosity for the University’s current and future students.
“Making a small financial contribution goes a long way toward creating those experiences that made DePauw so rich for us.” – CHARLES PIERRE ’12
11 SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 33
Photo: KIWI Photography
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 Member of the Class of 1947 Kenneth J. Lee
CLASS NOTES
The class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the University current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements: • Group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation and background information on the gathering. • Digital photos submitted must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher). Class notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also submit via the DePauw Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu. Please direct questions to Miranda Bemis, communications assistant, at 765-658-4416 or mirandabemis@depauw.edu.
James M. Totman ’55
1955
James M. Totman competed in cross country while a student at DePauw. He has continued to run since graduation, one marathon (Minneapolis), and many 5 and 10 mile races. He now specializes in the 400 meter. Jim won the Arizona Senior Olympics four years in a row. This year he beat everyone over the age of 70. He is 83. (See photo.)
1956
Norval D. Reece, author of Private Quaker/Public Quaker, spoke about his experiences in religion, politics and business, March 5, 2017, at the Wrightstown Friends Meetinghouse in Newtown, Penn. Jinsie Scott Bingham, former owner of WJNZ radio, worked with Elisabeth W. Evans ’07, David R. Dietz ’11 and 34 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Photo: KIWI Photography
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1952 Row 1: Irene Koebke Ansel, Nancy Hartz Nesbit, Beverly Grant Paherson Frier, Fauneil Brattain Stewart, Carolyn Coleman Searight, Lynn Trzer Bowles, Nancy Cox Lahr. Row 2: Joseph H. Manhart, William R. Nesbit, Richard C. Holland, William C. Ashman, Leland A. Lahr.
Elisabeth W. Evans ’07, Jinsie Scott Bingham ’56, David R. Dietz ’11 and Duncan L. Wolfe ’11.
1957
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. delivered Syracuse University’s 2017 commencement address. He is senior managing director of New York Citybased Lazard Fréres & Co. LLC, an investment banking firm, as well as senior counsel with the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Vernon is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees, a business executive and legendary figure in the civil rights movement.
1962
Rebecca “Becky” A. Brown illustrated a children’s book, Thomas Jefferson Built Monticello: Was Palladio Looking Over His Shoulder?, written by Nancy Whitman. Becky’s pen and ink drawings serve to amplify the theme of architectural elements and style as found in various buildings designed in Italy by Palladio and in Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The book was published this year and is available on Amazon. (See Recent Words, page 10.) Georgette Zirbes is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita in Stamps
School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Her work was on display at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw March 10 through April 9, 2017.
1963
Roger C. Johnson is Bethel University’s faculty marshal and professor of physics and computer science. He was Bethel’s commencement speaker, May 6, 2017.
1965
David L. Callies is a professor at William S. Richardson School of Law at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He will receive the 2017 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize in October from William & Mary Law School Property Rights Project. The award is presented annually to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights. David is a prolific scholar and has lectured around the world as well as authored or collaborated on 90 articles and 20 books. He is a member of American Law Institute and is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Thomas S. Porter is general partner at Trillium Ventures. He was guest speaker at The Robert C. McDermond Center Speaker Series April 11, 2017, at DePauw. Tom is co-founder of Michigan Climate Action Network. He met with students to discuss his environmental and foundation work.
1966
Dr. James N. Thompson received the Distinguished Service Award from Federation of
Photo: KIWI Photography
Duncan L. Wolfe ’11 while they were undergraduates at DePauw. All three went on to work for the Obama White House in various capacities. Bess, David and Duncan (all three Media Fellows Program graduates) were on campus for two days in March to speak with current Media Fellows Students about their time with President Barack Obama and their journey, “From Iowa to the White House: Our Time with President Barack Obama”. (See photo.)
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1957 Row 1: Barbara Wright Nesbit, Gail Loomis Ward, Jerry H. Rose, Tom Holthouse, Joy J. Holthouse, Ed Nimmo, Jeanne Patrack Kipp, Ian Hoffmoukhaut, Bobbie Bruns Oleson, Sue Richardson Owen, LouAnn Williams, Alana N. Alexander. Row 2: Sandra Louy Burroughs, Barney Burroughs, Sue Galbraith Roberts, Richard J. Laker, Prudence Dix Hilger, Herbert E. Marohn, James C. Van Horne, Lou Ubben Walton, Dwight F. Walton, Miriam Cole Breese, Sharon Noll Smith. Row 3: Lois Cashin Danner, Nancy Hunger Galliher, Judith Folk Aikman, Ronald T. Hafer, Eugene N. Halladay, Barbara Zerell Edwards, Frances Ott Allen, Jo Petry Hershberger, G. Richard Hershberger, Sue Farrell Supple, Beverly Trudgen. Row 4: Max W. Dixon, Martha Faitz Gamble, William R. Powell, Donna Hostetter Peebles, Fred W. Hawk, Veryl F. Frye Jr., Robert N. Younger, Larry R. Robinson, John L. Yarling, Paul C. Arnold. Row 5: Margaret “Peg” Steffen Sant’Ambrogio, Suzanne DeCosted Breckenridge, John A. Morehead, Donald L. Hamilton, David L. Burt, Nicholas L. Jones, Charles E. Ballinger, Robert H. Puckett, J. Patrick Aikman. Row 6: Gail Achtner Hawk, John E. Morrill, Frank D. Walker, Nancy Ford Charles, Gretchen Kiger Cryer. State Medical Boards (FSMB), April 2017, presented in Fort Worth, Texas. The award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated the highest level of service, commitment and contribution to FSMB.
1971
Wendy Blythe Gifford is author of Rumors at Court, which blends historical details and romance. Wendy’s books include The Witch Finder, Innocence Unveiled, The Harlot’s Daughter and The Knave and The Maiden. Her books have been released in the United Kingdom, Australia,
France, Germany, Brazil and other countries. Wendy writes under the name of Blythe Gifford. (See Recent Words, page 11.) Shaun O. Higgins is recipient of the 2016-17 Humanities Washington Award for Philanthropy and Leadership. The award is presented annually to a citizen of the state of Washington by Humanities Washington, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Shaun was recognized “for his steadfast support of lifelong learning, public humanities SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 35
Photo: KIWI Photography
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1962 Row 1: Rhett W. Butler, Kay Burney Butler, Barbara E. Smith, Richard D. Watson, Edris Baily Hoover, John W. Hare, Ellen Myers Clippinger, John A. Thomas, Joel M. Blumberg. Row 2: Frederick O. Roberts, William J. Vesey, James C. Dillon, Gail Griffith Hart, Allan D. Hart, Edward E. Thompson, Susan Price Miller, John H. Miller, Daniel R. Hardt. Row 3: Charles S. Combs, Virginia Nelson Combs, John W. Hederick Jr., Richard L. Fairchild, Walter R. Foltz, Patricia Murphy DeArmond, George “Kit” C. Lortz, Herbert J. Spier, Jr., William W. Graham. Row 4: Thomas O. Dawson, Walter W. Nielsen, John A. Kellogg, David S. Williams, Frederick V. Bales, Garry S. Moore, Gerald “Jerry” D. Capoot Jr., Douglas B. Oler, James B. Drew. Row 5: Suzanne Noble Gerke, Saundra Fabrick MacGregor, Stuart G. Cozzens, Warren E. Magnuson, Robert G. Elrod.
and Humanities Washington.” Shaun is the author/co-author of a number of books and online study guides that apply lessons drawn from history, art and film to the practical aspects of everyday life and business. Among his titles are The Leadership Secrets of Elizabeth I, The Following a Newspaper in Art, Movies for Business and Movies for Leaders. Following a long career in newspapering, Shaun now heads The Oxalis Group LLC, a webpublishing and consulting firm based in Spokane. He is also a regular host of Saturday Night Cinema on KSPS Public Television. Shaun is a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, and Legacy and Loyalty societies. He recently completed two terms of service on the advisory board of DePauw’s Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media. W. David Snodgress retired from
The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind., after 27 years of managing the photography department.
1974
Rev. James B. Lemler is retiring summer of 2017. He is the pastor of Christ Church in Greenwich (Conn.) and a minister with 41 years of service in the Episcopal Church.
1975
Dan L. Doan is Fort Wayne (Ind.) region president and region chief executive officer for Old National Bank. Dan has more than 35 years of banking and leadership experience. Merrietta Smith Fong is a certified public accountant with Servatius, O’Brien & Fong, LLP, in Torrance, Calif. She served as chairman of the board for the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the board for Switzer Learning Center. She is chair of the Ad Board for Rolling Hills United Methodist Church and on the boards of Pediatric Therapy Network and Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation. She was honored by the South Bay Women of the Year, March 10, 2017.
1976
Photo: KIWI Photography
Linda H. Heuring is author of A Woman Walked into a Bar, a collection of 15 short stories. The book has been named an editor’s pick by New Pages. (See Recent Words, page 11.)
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1967 Row 1: Larry H. Mayfield, Daniel T. Hasbrook, Adele Tressler Davis, William H. Watson, James A. Readey, Eugene W. Metcalf Jr., Daniel L. Schermer, Beth Ritter Schermer, Susan Steele Márquez, Ann Barrow Cook, Martha Kuenzli Smith, Joseph M. Gardewin. Row 2: Wendy E. Browder, Andrea Caperell-Grant, Purdie D. Meissner, Victoria Mayfield Hall, Diane Best Nosek, Heidi Anne Huizenga, Janet McAdams, Douglas W. Waples, Carole Thorlton Gorsich, Elizabeth Hamilton Smith, Diane E. Anderson, Barbara Lewellen Powell, Ann Montgomery Jones, Sue Palmer Wise, Karen Coburn Gottschall. Row 3: Jean Gossard James, Kay Daugherty Klunder, A. Claire Clildress, Suzanne Anderson Hoover, R. David Hoover, Wendell R. Drew, David C. Johnson, Ronald C. Gibson, Martin F. Farrell, Barrie A. Peterson, Russell E. Stullken, David Edward Grass, Nancy Stewart Surber, Jaclyn Sehrt Doty, Janice Biedron Lutton. Row 4: Ralph E. Spelbring, Dennis L. Barrett, Gregory T. Mutz, Joseph A. Guirreri, Thomas L. Metz, Robert E. Hausner, Tim A. Grodrian, R. Randolph Hatch, John “Jack” W. O'Neil Jr., Jody Schoenwetter Orthey, Sally Mills Butzin. Row 5: Richard M. Beaty, Larry A. Junod, Wayne L. Nelson, Harold Groves Cooke III, Charles L. Rouault, Craig R. Stokely, Kenneth H. Golden, Donald B. Aslan, Stephen W. Hadley, Richard A. Hall, William “Will” A. Hazelton. Row 6: Alan Bruce Trego, Benjamin F. Lehman III, Robert E. Blessing, Thomas A. Drew, Stephen R.S. Martin, Stephen C. Norris, Daniel C. Blaney, Ronald S. Miller, William D. Bucher, William S. Parker, Robert W. Orthey, Randolph H. Stokely, Jack M. Hogan. Row 7: John H. Huneke III, James M. Taylor, Dean C. Osterling, Gustav E. “Ed” Staahl Jr., Steven L. Davis, Delos N. Lutton, John “Jack” A. Thomas.
Timothy R. Pearson is president and chief executive officer of Pearson Advisors || Partners. On April 24, 2017, The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts launched a new interactive web portal for advancing a goal of world peace. The new website, thepearsoninstitute. org, is designed to be the pre-eminent global portal connecting stakeholders, including academics, policymakers and military, to better inform new strategies to prevent, resolve and recover from conflict by providing insights about the roots of violent conflict, as well as the human, economic and social impact of conflicts. The website is a result of a gift from Thomas L. and Timothy R. Pearson (both class of 1976) to University of Chicago.
1977 36 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Barbara Kingsolver had an essay published in the
Mark D. Cox gave a poetry reading and participated in a discussion, March 20, 2017, at Bladen Community College. Mark is founder of the creative writing department at University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is known for public readings, workshops and panel discussions across the United States.
1979
Charles D. Brooks is vice president for government relations and marketing for Sutherland Global Services. He is chairman of Computing Technology Industry Association’s New and Emerging Technologies Committee. Philip R. Davis, after 35 years in real estate brokerage and commercial property appraising, received a J.D. degree from Indiana Tech Law School, May 13, 2017, as the school’s oldest graduate at age 60. Philip plans to sit for the Indiana bar exam in July and wishes to practice real estate, consumer and small business law in Fort Wayne, Ind. Dr. Mark R. Kelley is the Betty and Earl Herr Professor of Pediatric Oncology Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is professor of pediatrics, biochemistry and molecular biology, and pharmacology and toxicology at Indiana University. Mark was selected to join the education board at American Health Council and will share his knowledge and expertise on redox signaling biology, DNA repair and cancer drug development. He is the recipient of 2017 BantzPetronio Translating Research into Practice faculty award which recognizes outstanding faculty research. John H. Miller is president and chief executive officer of Power Solutions International, a leader in the design, engineering and manufacturing of emissions-certified, alternative-fuel power systems.
Ian B. Davidson can be heard performing oboe solos on the recently released film The Vessel. Ian serves as Regents’ Professor of Music at Texas State University, as solo English horn of Austin Symphony Orchestra and principal oboe of Austin Opera Orchestra. He is a Fulbright senior specialist with the United States Department of State. Margaret “Peggy” Mathias Rasmussen and her husband, N. Peter Rasmussen Jr. ’79, live at 6 Point Bluff St., Fredericksburg, VA 22406. Peggy retired from AbbVie Inc. Peter works as a senior editor for the securities law area for BNA, a division of Bloomberg.
Photo: KIWI Photography
1978
1980
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1972 Row 1: Mila Flickinger Pierce, Elizabeth Cole Dickerson, Alexe Reed Fogle, Diana Lilly Whitehead, Marianne Orton Petersen, Bobbi Cokinis Prichard, Catherine Ryan Watt, Constance Ryan Lathrop, Meredith Knowles Jenkins. Row 2: Peggy Carlson Hall, Margaret A. Hargis, Carol Flummerfelt Helmling, Carolyn Berger Parsons, Ellen Silva Chrapla, Scott C. Norris, James A. Campbell, Robert M. Lott, DavAnne Parry, Wade R. Nichols. Row 3: Lynn Downing Underwood, Joan Erlandson Kiburz, Janice Payne Daly, Lynn Forester Barbeau, Sharon Anderson Mellin, Linda Bellinger Kinnett, Anne Troxel Golden, John N. Pearce, Harry J. Cangany. Row 4: Gregory McGarvey, Christopher H. Penn, Marshall L. Kiel, Eric S. Smith, Thomas R. Schuck, Neal E. Kitchell, John C. Isley. Row 5: D. Thomas Mellin, William W. Montgomery, Linda Evans Smith, Scott P. Smith, John L. Knutsson, Cynthia Young Peters, David C. Anderson. Row 6: Sally Draper Zoll, Judith Hunter Koerner, Narda J. Cotton, Virginia Ritchie Brown, Kathleen Crowley Emison, Lucy A. Emison, Linda Jordan Ruane-Miller.
Patricia McCabe Puccinelli is administrative liaison and lead instructor for Ozaukee County Jail Literacy Program at the Ozaukee County Justice Center in Port Washington, Wis. The program provides educational opportunities to incarcerated adults who do not have high school credentials in the hope that when released, they will be better equipped to find employment and provide for themselves and their families, as well as be less likely to reoffend and return to jail.
1981
Dr. Jeffrey C. Bird is president of the East Central Region for Indiana University Health, which includes IU Health Ball Memorial and Blackford hospitals. Kimberley Kelley Rhoades joined the Indianapolis office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP as counsel in the health and life sciences group. She will focus her practice on regulatory and corporate matters, with particular emphasis on long-term health services. Martha Weber Victor was named events manager for University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
1982
Kenneth A. Owen is the executive director of media relations at DePauw. He was master of ceremonies at the Public Relations Society of American Hoosier Chapter luncheon, April 19, 2017, as they honored 2017 Indy PR Legend Bob Dittmer. The Indianapolis Public Relations Society is a limited membership organization comprised of
Photo: KIWI Photography
anthology, Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future, from Princeton Architectural Press and the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. The award-winning author has 13 books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. (See Recent Words, page 12.)
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1977 Row 1: Katherine R. Nunn, Patricia Smith Reff, Steven L. Reff, Mark A. Millis, Janet S. Casey-Allen, Scott Layne Davis, Carrie Loving DeVilbiss, R. Matthew Neff, Pamela R. Clinkenbeard. Row 2: Ann Burner Brown, Patricia Smith Choban, Janet Marx Fortune, Gail Williams Harowski, Kimberly Antcliff Jackson, Jane Willander Danis, Gloria J. Barger, Alison M. Walker, Kathleen Auchter Leighton, Mark Small ’78. Row 3: Elizabeth C. Burtelow, William B. Koenig, Jay S. Whitney, Steven T. Roess, Martha Williams Wye, Jamie Leschansky Fullenkamp, Susan Foley Hinkamp, Holly Moffat Barr, Wendy Bockstahler Wickliff, Mary McTague McDaniel, Mark B. Scott, Keith A. Conn. Row 4: Colin P. Smith, Barrett J. Corneille, Paul S. Kruse, Anne Driscoll, Leta Brown Chaney, Linda M. Orlady, Leslie Lindquist Neil, Janet Ruehlmann Lopuski, Pamela A. Rons, Charlann Sandberg Handlon, Deborah Hill Wyght, Michael J. Heffernan. Row 5: Carter Hiestand III, Richard W. Brown, Richard A. Huser, Frederick J. Doremus, Dane R. Daugherty, Julie Reynolds King, Catherine Krumwiede Robertson, Thomas “Skip” E. Robertson, Greg Leatherman, Thomas n. Swift II, John M. Maxfield. Row 6: Mark M. Hughes, Linda K. Ernst, Judith Lanum Mohan, Blake H. Turner, Neil T. Goltermann, Kim W. Suchy, John R. Jewett Jr., Paul S. Detlefs, Richard S. Deutsch, Richard P. Dayment, Kathy Haynes Guiliani. Row 7: Debra Bavender Dougan, Charles E. Barbieri, Stephen M. Trumbull, Stephen N. Polezonis, Kevin L. Bazur, Katherine L. Keck, Jane Robison, Randolph C. Elble, Peter M. Dayton, Sara Coapstick. SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 37
senior level public relations personnel. Ken is a member and has served on the board of directors. Pharez A. Whitted and his band performed at Coming Together Weekend at DePauw, May 5-7, 2017.
1983
James C. Alling received an honorary degree at DePauw’s 2017 commencement. He gave the
principal address at the ceremony. Jim leads TOMS and has more than 30 years of general management and marketing experience in consumer packaged goods and consumer retailing. Laura Belfiglio Gold and Mary Matson Latta returned from a month long trip to Athens, Greece, where they volunteered to develop a pilot program for refugee children who are
not enrolled in school. They also helped raise $1,500 through a generosity campaign. They did this work at Za’atar Orange House with the support of a DePauw abroad program – Dikemes/ College Year in Athens (CYA), which they attended in 1982. During their travels, Mary and Laura created a classroom and taught 10-15 students daily, developed a lesson structure and networked with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)s and volunteers in the region. They are currently researching developing a NGO in the region to create a pilot program of virtual classrooms and non-traditional education models for young refugees. Learn more at https://www.generosity. com/emergencies-fundraising/orangehouse-to-support-syrian-refugees.
Photo: KIWI Photography
1984
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1982 Row 1: Ann Thompson Zeiler, Deborah White Dávila, Kathryn Burger Johnson, James W. Vidmich, Thomas M. Schneider, Michael G. Neill, W. Wade Smith, Kenneth A. Owen. Row 2: Tamryn Maione Hennessy, Kimberly Leonard Walker, Amy Cannon Austin, Deborah Guttman-Carlisle, Lauren L. Stevens, Michael P. Shea, Timothy S. Shelly, Susan Clift Gislason, Dave Gislason. Row 3: Robert A. Frauenheim, Richard J. Hoge, Mitchell Gordon, Kenneth D. Randall, Susan McNichols Cassidy, John C. Cassidy, William J. Butler, Anne Guild Adams, Sharon M. Foster, Susan M. Ansel. Row 4: John A. Harcourt, Timothy S. Maloney, Nancy Ball-Blake, Cynthia Swearingen Waddell, Joel C. Hammond, Gabriele Goerlich Nash-Hammond, Joseph P. O'Leary, Carol Grimes Hetzler, Deborah J. Ames. Row 5: Bruce W. Luecke, Anne E. Norris, David S. Norris, Wesley W. Royce, James N. DeVries, James W. Stevenson Jr., Blair P. Faber, Byron C. Kauffman, L. Mark Geoghegan. Row 6: Kenneth W. Coquillette, Carrie Melind Coquillette, Ted William Rutan, Matthew R. Fischer, Bradley W. Neff, Mark J. Conklin, Rob E. Mitchell Jr., Lisa E. Ritter, Jill E. Lewis, Victoria Jakes Montgomery. Row 7: Kevin L. Kellam, Nik E. Lee, Heather Horner Hohlt, Kimberly King Roberts, Amy Miller Marschand, Michelle Palmer Neill, Lesley Kidd Turner, Lisa Wenger Henderson, Julia Mullin Piatka, Helen L. Poorman.
James M. Mullin ’83, David A. Morris ’83, Gerald Haberkorn ’83, Jon D. Terpstra ’83 and Benjamin P. Hohman ’83 catching Cubs World Series fever in Scottsdale. 38 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Lisa Carter May is executive vice president and chief human resources officer for RTI International. The company provides research, development and technical services to government and commercial clients. R. David Edwards is senior vice president of strategic corporate accounts at Siemens Healthineers North America. J. Chris Herin is principal hydrogeologist for Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., in Boca Raton, Fla. Pamela J. Para is president and chief content developer of CE Companion, Inc., a content development company that prepares online courses, webinars and other virtual continuing education products to enhance career goals of healthcare professionals. She began her career as a staff nurse in the maternalchild clinical specialty, followed by service in the United States Air Force, a graduate degree in Public Health, and careers in both healthcare risk management and regulatory oversight. She is a certified professional in Healthcare Risk Management, an associate in risk management and Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Pamela is a published author and nationwide presenter on a variety of healthcare risk management, patient safety and regulatory topics. Her email address is ppara@ cecompanion.com. (See photo.)
1985
Alice H. Ripley is an award-winning actress and singer. She was honored by The Actors Company Theatre at the Off-Broadway company’s spring gala May 8, 2017, for her dedication, determination and unique talent.
1986
Sean D. Major is executive vice president and general counsel at Air Products, an industrial gases company. Sean has 28 years of international legal management, commercial and transactional, and compliance and regulatory experience. Garry M. Stevenson works for CENCOR, Inc., in Indianapolis. He is busy with several projects on the environmental consulting front, including a recent installation of an active soil/groundwater remediation system.
1987
Steve R. Battreall was guest speaker for The Robert C. McDermond Center Speaker Series, March 21, 2017. He is the chief finance officer for Wells Fargo. Rita Strange Wilder is a certified public accountant and director of Agresta, Storms & O’Leary, which has offices in Indianapolis, Greensburg, Batesville, Martinsville and Columbus, Ind.
1988
Mark D. Johnson is chief communications and marketing officer for Davidson College. He provides counsel on institutional communications and leadership in public affairs, marketing, branding and crisis communications. Alice E. Loughran is a partner in the international law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Alice was featured in an exhibit at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha, Neb. The exhibit recognized nine women trailblazers in the railroad industry. Alice is recognized for being the first appellate lawyer and one of three women who have received the Recognition of Excellence Award from the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. (See photo.) James A. Sandgren is the president and chief operating officer for Old National Bank in Evansville, Ind.
Alice E. Loughran ’88
1989
Charles A. Compton is a member at Jackson Kelly law firm and serves as managing member for the Evansville, Ind., office. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and natural resources.
Andrea has served on the boards of Indiana Alzheimer’s Association, Indiana Salvation Army and Indiana Commission for Women.
Jeffrey L. Harmening is chief executive officer of General Mills and a member of the board of directors. He is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.
Michelle L. Carnahan was the speaker for the McDermond Center: Women in Economics and Business event, March 15, 2017. She is vice president and global alliance leader for Eli Lilly and Company.
Ann-Clore Jones Duncan is the founder and college admissions counselor at Duncan College Consulting. She was honored April 20, 2017, with an Award of Excellence from the Societies of Oklahoma City University for her volunteer service. Ann-Clore has been involved with Edmond, Okla., public schools for 17 years, served on committees, lobbied at the Capitol and worked as a substitute teacher. She serves on DePauw’s Board of Visitors.
1990
Allen Ali is an advisor to Recovery Force. The company is “weaving titanium into textile fibers to develop wearable products that have a variety of medical and comfort benefits.” Allen is also managing director with Visionary Private Equity Group. Thomas E. Braden is vice president of enterprise technology at IMMI in Westfield, Ind. IMMI is a global manufacturer of automotive safety products. Andrea Heslin Smiley is a member of the board of directors of Egalet Corporation. She is president and chief executive officer of VMS BioMarketing.
1991
Hilary Barton Billman is director of the Marquette Maritime Museum in Marquette, Mich.
Tiffany DiBernardo O’Donnell is chief executive officer of Iowa Women Lead Change, a nonprofit and Iowa’s premier leadership organization for women, offering comprehensive leadership resources. Linda Glass is vice president of talent for Nordstrom. She was the keynote speaker for RESOLVE 2017, presented by FirstPerson and ProCourse Fiduciary Advisors May 16, 2017, in Indianapolis. She anchored a half-day conference offering insights to creating meaningful workplace experiences for employees. Andrew J. Harmening is senior executive vice president and consumer and business banking leader for Huntington Bancshares Incorporated. Richard A. Sheppard has lived the past five years in Geneva, Switzerland. He and his family (wife Julie and their three teenage boys and six year-old daughter) are moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rick will serve as president of GSK Consumer Healthcare for the Latin America Region.
Photo: KIWI Photography
Pamela J. Para ’84
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1987 Row 1: Sarah Morehead Combs, Stephen N. Combs, Martina Alvey Podgorski, Janet Rostron Piedmonte, Paul A. Melkus, M. Gregory May, J. Brad Voelz, Robert J. Fleschler. Row 2: Carolyn Lukens Nyren, Laura Gallina Poole, Joan Ruggles Piedmonte, Tracy Weston Turner, Joseph E. “Ted” Ukrop ’89, Charles A. Miller, David William Hasenbalg, Charles A. Sadler Jr., Gregory J. Alm. Row 3: Steven L. Blakely, Leanna Hardin Walther, Laura Parsons Schoch, Kathleen Meredith Pearson, Denise Cooke Meuser, Elizabeth Tinsman Lee, Nicole Foster DeVere, Laurel Evers Short, Norene Lippincott Bennett, Denise A. Knight, David D. Robinson. Row 4: Kara Kaminski Thomas, Gina Pagano Redwine, Melinda S. Henbest, M. Paige Bates Green, Carie Rogovich Kennedy, Amy Wiesen Castle, Karen Stehlik Sear, Steven M. Sear, Ranford Richardson, Michael W. Lynch, Timothy J. Michaels. Row 5: Linda Ely Falotico, Kristin Roehr McClure, Vicki Wilson Bohlsen, Ann Woods Bruehl, Elizabeth Fitzsimmons Raab, Alyson Brown Navarro, Rita Strange Wilder, Sarah Clark Dillon, William C. Dillon, Michael A. Ehlers, Richard H. Lohmeyer Jr., David B. Coolidge. Row 6: Bryan D. Sorge, Stephen M. Smith, James S. Bozzo, Michael P. Baldwin, James G. Bonebrake, Glenn D. Dill, Mark C. Rauschert, Cynthia Rankin Rauschert, Amy Reavis Noden, Susan Barkley Rice, Stacy Pope Rullman, Rose M. Kunkemoeller '88. Row 7: Todd R. Hansen, David B. Briggs Jr., Kristin Ker Bruton, Teryn Price Gilmore, Leigh Lisby Balay, Laura Stebelton Mason, Carrie Lunsford Correl, Ellen Johnson Fishel, Kurt D. Emde, Judith Geoghegan Burbach, Jeffrey D. Wood, William K. “Dan” Daniel, Robin Wieland Daniel. Row 8: Andrew Charles Watson, Mark D. Locke, Dan G. Walsh, Michael B. McAuliffe, Leslie Alexander North, Richard W. North, Edward T. Schultz, Christopher A. Buck, Carrie Travis Raab, Michael G. Rabb, Todd G. Gardner, Daniel H. Emerson, Bradley C. Graveline.
1992
Jill Frederickson returned to DePauw, April 26, 2017, to give a talk titled “The Value Of A Liberal Arts Education.” Jill is vice president of SportsCenter and News Editorial Operations for ESPN. She oversees the news desk, assignment desk and event news team as well as the talent producer unit. Shannon Johnston Schroeder teaches eighth grade language arts at Homer Jr. High in Homer Glen, Ill. She is the 2017 recipient of Illinois Computing Educators Educator of the Year award in the classroom teacher category. Kathleen C. Nicely is vice president of advancement for San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
1993
Tamika Ragland Nordstrom gave the keynote address for Coming Together Weekend, May 5-7, 2017, at DePauw. She is a partner at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLC. Marguarite D. Rodgers is principal harp for South Shore Orchestra. She was a featured performer for LaPorte, Ind., County Symphony Orchestra’s Bonjour Paris, March 5, 2017, at Elston Performing Arts Center in Michigan City.
1994
Ian J. Forte joined 1st Source Bank in Elkhart City, Ind., as a personal trust administrator and officer. He has 17 years of legal experience and serves as treasurer for Elkhart City Bar Association. SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 39
Sarah C. Gormley is vice president of brand marketing for Adobe. She is a member of the DePauw Alumni Board of Directors. Brian O. Harvey is a development executive at Amazon Studios where he works with writers, directors, producers and actors to develop one-hour television projects from pitch to pilot to produced episodes. He currently oversees three drama series; Bosch, Sneaky Pete and Goliath. Brian was on the DePauw campus, April 13, 2017, to talk about his career in the television industry. David J. Hersh was speaker for The Robert C. McDermond Center Speaker Series, March 1, 2017. He is owner and chief executive officer of Monsoon, Inc.
1995
Geoffrey B. Dains finished his first year as interim head men’s basketball coach at California Lutheran University with a 20-7
overall record. The Kingsmen finished second in the conference and lost in the championship game of the SCIAC conference tournament. The 20-7 record is the fifth best record in school history. (See photo.) Angela Hicks Bowman, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Angie’s List, received the TechPoint’s Trailblazer Award, April 29, 2017, at the 18th annual Mira Awards Gala in Indianapolis. She was recognized for her contribution to lasting and significant impact on the technology ecosystem. She was also presented with Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award at the Class Day ceremony for the M.B.A. Class of 2017, on May 24. Scott S. Kemper is a partner and director of client portfolio services for LSV Asset Management in Chicago. He was The Robert C. McDermond Center Series speaker, April 25, 2017.
Thomas R. Nolasco in Phoenix, Ariz., joined Dickinson Wright PLLC a general practice business law firm. Michael "Boomer" Wallace was diagnosed with upper motor neuron dominant ALS on June 7, 2016. Since then he has been working to raise money and awareness to fight this unforgiving disease. He established the Michael S. Wallace Foundation to fund the most promising ALS research and patient services for people living with ALS (PALS). To learn more, visit BoomerWallace.com.
1996
Jennifer Steadman Ryan is an assistant director with Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus, Ind. She focuses on the iGrad program, an intervention program for high school students who are at risk of dropping out. Nicole Sunkel Lorch is chief operating officer of First Internet Bank of Indiana and First Internet Bancorp.
David C. Wolf received University of Colorado Alumni Association’s 2016 Kalpana Chawla Award, which recognizes outstanding career achievement and significant community contributions within 15 years of graduation. David received his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 2001 from University of Colorado. He serves as managing principal of BSW Wealth Partners. David is the founder and CIO of R3 Returns, an impact-bond strategy.
1997
Darren P. Keller is vice chairman of the national board of directors for Cancer Treatment Centers of America®. CTCA is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., and is a national network of five hospitals that serves adult patients who are fighting cancer. W. Hunter Wolbach was named by Barron’s Magazine as one of the Top Financial Advisors in America. He was ranked by Barron’s as the seventh highestranking advisor in Missouri and the second highest-ranking advisor in Kansas City. He is senior vice president of wealth management at UBS Financial Services.
1998
Jerry K. Pyle Jr. was selected to be part of the inaugural DGA Episodic TV Directors Workshop and Mentorship Program in Hollywood, Calif. You can read more about it here: http://deadline.com/2017/05/dgadirector-mentorship-program-unveilsmentors-proteges-1202084200/.
1999
Photo: KIWI Photography
Anthony C. Gibson is executive vice president of Murvin Oil, an independent oil operator.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1992 Row 1: Katharine A. Teegarden, M'Liz Mawicke Simonds, Jennifer Mills Trerotola, Jill Pool Roth, Jennifer Olsen Oswald, Tricia Kirkby Hofmann, Kathlyn E. Fletcher, Stephanie Lancaster Santino, Karen Horvath-Wulf. Row 2: Rhett N. Cochran, Dawn Grogan Kenny, Jennifer Solon Partee, Sheila McDermott-Sipe, Kathryn Perrin Williams, Amanda Madden Kutoloski, Victoria Duncan Gardner, Jill Endicott Baurle, Emily Dicks Reynolds, Elizabeth McCoy McCarty. Row 3: Andrew F. Nelson, Brian T. Adam, Karen L. Jung, Christine A. Olson, Lauren Pierce Richardson, Jennifer Hildenbiddle Peterson, Stacia Holland Pratt, Laura Lingle Luth, Elizabeth Dienner Lawrence, Francesca Moroney Cooper. Row 4: Christopher E. Ottsen, Rayna Vaught Godfrey, Travis S. Wilson, Carlos Ortiz, Steven C. Earnhart, Gregory A. Rohlfs, Matt F. Hatfield, Diana M. Sluhan, Ted A. Bateman. Row 5: John D. Meyer, Eric F. Wapole, James P. Hanlon, Matthew C. Kincaid, Joel D. Hand, Jennifer Mayhew Tucker, Matthew S. Tucker, Jonathan Q. Arnold, Alfred E. Hackbarth III. Row 6: John William Fulkerson, Michael C. Musgrave, Lisa Foerster Musgrave, Barbara LeSourd Harper, Lisa Grey Johnson, Blake E. Johnson, Allen P. Ashley. Row 7: Anne Decker Steinberg, Janice Kennedy Monahan, Laura Watson Davis, Mary Bridges Lyne, Polly Clutts Ascher, Kate Waller O'Neil. 40 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Jeanne M. Henning received the Marketer of the Year award for the molecular diagnostics division of Roche Diagnostics Corporation, which is headquartered in Indianapolis. She is the group marketing manager-medical marketing, overseeing Roche’s cervical cancer screening and prenatal testing portfolio.
2000
Nicolas O. Brissette was named 2016 AAPG Visiting Geoscientist. He returned to DePauw, Sept. 16, 2016, to give his 2016 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Visiting Geoscientist Series talk, “The Gunn Graben: Geology,
Engineering and the Missing Key – Geomechanics.”
2001
Eileen Emison Booth and artist Barbara Fields Timm, the Putnam County Public Library director of programs and assistant professor of art at DePauw, were among those whose works were on display at a painting exhibition, March 4, 2017, at the Frankfort, Ind., Community Public Library’s Women’s Expo. The opening speaker was Sarah E. Gerkensmeyer, author of What You are Now Enjoying and Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for short fiction. Sarah spoke on the topic of chasing aspirations. Jamie D. Anderson was the event organizer. Abigail M. Lovett is director of digital engagement and senior vice president for Ketchum. In Jan. 2017, she won the agency’s prestigious David Drobis award in recognition of her commitment to client service and extraordinary individual performance. She has a three-year-old daughter, Clare, and a one-year-old son, Thomas. Joseph W. Schoen is assistant general manager of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Emily Short Babb is assistant vice president for Title IX Compliance at University of Virginia. She provides key leadership and oversight to the university’s policy on sexual and genderbased harassment and other forms of interpersonal violence.
2002
Christopher M. Amidon is supervisory park ranger at Isle Royale National Park based out of
Houghton, Mich. He is Isle Royale’s web and social media coordinator, volunteer coordinator, oversees a visitor center and ranger staff and trains staff. He also manages a fee collection program, all park statistic collection, a ferry reservation system and an artist-in-residence program. Chris and his wife, Erin, have three children: Tess, Nigel and Gwen. Jane Bankhurst McMullen and her husband, Glenn, announce the birth of their son, Reid Daniel McMullen, Dec. 9, 2016. Jane’s email address is jane. bankhurst@gmail.com. James R. Foster participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. James formed Robert Louis Group which is one of the only minority-centered commercial real estate brokerage firms in the country. He serves as president and chief executive officer. Amy Kostrzewa Lauer is associate professor of psychology at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind. The Franklin College Board of Trustees granted her continuous tenure, Feb. 2017.
2003
Stanislaus P. Jastrzebski is news director of West Lafayette, Ind., public radio station WBAA. He received an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for Best Investigative Reporting for Region 7/Small Market Radio. Leslie Williams Smith was involved in planning Coming Together weekend on the DePauw campus, May 5-7, 2017.
Photo: KIWI Photography
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 1997 Row 1: James C. Roach, Kristy Reith Wagester, Heidi Farid Sprowls, Gregory P. Irwin, Catherine Grogan Briggs, Julie Altman Artz, Steven C. Showalter, Kevin L. Cammack, Eric C. Peterson, Brian J. Fisher. Row 2: Ben H. Beck, J. Kristoffer Sacchini, Victoria Gering Portell, Raphaella Palmer Prange, Deena K. McBain, Amy M. O'Donnell, Joan Rodgers Cubias, Ryan A. Miller, Clint D. Mitchell, John Matthew Broughton. Row 3: M. Danniel “Dani’ Weatherford, Sandra J. Ante, Heidi A. Kohne, Amanda Meyer Clark, Stacy Winans Meloun, Shawn Highland Ullman, Kimberly Svenson Weas, Kathryn Ventura Neely, Shelby M. Thompson, Melissa C. Feemster, Jennifer Cleveland Cassidy, Julie Tuggle Caldwell. Row 4: Jessica L. Whelan, Tina Breen Rees, Sarah Ragsdale Beck, Anne Browne Goodwin, Kendra A. Wall, Lorraine Abney Bishop, Kathryn Stowring Basham, Jared C. Basham, Margaret Kurz Braun, Deirdre Deakyne Asnis, Laura A. Nein. Row 5: Allison Morrow Delp, Lara A. Dodds, Traci Bailey Coil, Cheryl Heiss Mondi, Deborah Drenzyk Robins, Mary Overlease Schubert, Anne Olson Bell, Katherine Bostwick Glass, Jeremy T. Hopple, Daniel C. O'Brien, Marc H. Taylor. Row 6: Benjamin Robert Wolf, Kimberly Stammel Wolf, Carrie Reeder Petkavitch, Matthew W. Bowers, Alyssa Frelk Quinlan, David Joel Gilliland, Elizabeth Schindel Gilliland, Jason R. Dibler, Todd D. Hickerson, Nicole Chabraja Graham. Row 7: Timothy J. Capper, Brian W. Rymer, Mary Beth McConnell Say, Dina Houck French, Carrie Fugate Roberts, Julianne K. Beck, Melinda Samp Capper, Amanda Martin Hittle, Byron D. Hittle, Eric J. Graham.
Photo: KIWI Photography
Coach Geoffrey B. Dains ’95 and his players at California Lutheran University.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 2002 Row 1: Tammer A. Farid, Abbi Harrison Achterberg, Meghan Frelk Schnell, Amanda Curley Rushbrooke. Row 2: Gregory T. Cook, Elizabeth Elliott Cook, Jennifer Sampson Thiermann, Jennifer Poehler England, Natalie Emge Sandefur, Katherine Tapke McNeely, Jill Garrison McKinney. Row 3: Jaclyn McDaniel Duma, Justin C. Woodard, Julia Demske Woodard, Christopher S. FitzGerald, Sally Rush Peter, Amber Wolma McGuire, Jane Bankhurst McMullen. Row 4: Catherine Modisett Berkey, Elisa Slaton Eckel, Abigail L. Tonsing, Mary Catherine Kosinski, Nicholas C. Snider, Michelle Ziegler Quagliaroli, Angela Beth Thompson, Kara Beth Smith.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 41
science at Southern Arkansas University. Laura Windisch Mahaffey and her husband, Jason, announce the birth of their daughter, Ava Rose Mahaffey, Aug. 22, 2016. Laura works as a hospitalist nurse practitioner at St. Louis University Hospital. Jason is a pilot in the United States Air Force Reserves.
Photo: KIWI Photography
2006
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 2007 Row 1: Jesse Warren Williams, Elizabeth Helen Brack, Reid W. Sakel, Christopher Carl, David Sprehe, Kathryn Patricia Osterhage, Brittany Graves Mann, Elisabeth Walker Evans, Margaret McDermott Metzger, Mary Ryan Godley, Forest H. Andrews, Kyle W. Burns. Row 2: Jill Turner Lee, Courtney Shea Figg, Corinne Audra Wagner, Blair Kathryn Rudert, Janell Nagel Hager, Jaime Mathias Miller, Christopher P. Newman, Casey Elizabeth Jolley, Brandon J. Horn, Meghan Rowland Boyls. Row 3: Amanda Marie Stoermer, Pamela Powers Wicker, Shayla Lynne Williamson, Matthew D. McDonald, Mark R. Peterson, Benjamin T. Clement, Alison Hoover Collins, Lisa Lathrop Martin, Lauren Budreau Weigle, E. “Brad” Webb Bassick V. Row 4: Andrea Elizabeth Jones-Peeples, Emmalynn Brown Horn, Meredith Barnett Federle, Lindsay E. W. Morris, Adam T. McClean, Ashley Lynne Baxstrom, Susannah Marie Ramshaw, Catherine Flynn Friedman, Kate Stiemann Federer, Elizabeth Polleys Burden. Row 5: Caitlin McGonigal Alerding, Allison Elizabeth Fisher, Kimberly Michelle Elmore, Katie Goforth Gentry, Amanda Chapman Hoff, Lindsay Erin Eckert, Stacey Ann Johnson, Kathryn Knight Randolph, Kristen Uminger Eisterhold, Courtney Pierce Brinkman, Jerilyn Kremer Galley. Row 6: Colin T. Lakin, Jason A. Spilbeler, Patrick M. Doumas, Brian A. Tweedie, Michael T. Motch, Stephen N. Aryee, Michael D. Claus, Nicholas A. Early, Franklin C. Aba-Onu. Row 7: Benjamin M. Lane Jones, Andrew E. Brandstatter, Forrest R. Johnson, William R. Brown, Erik P. Simons, Tyler S. Napier, Richard W. King, Thomas G. Kaczmarek, Nathan P. O'Neill. Coming Together Weekend is an annual reunion and community building event for students and alumni of color. Leslie is an alumni data manager for The Noble Network of Charter Schools. She is co-host and co-founder of Freedom Girlz Talk, a video talk show ministry. Leslie remains active with DePauw on the Alumni Board and is an alumni volunteer and donor. David J. Ziemba was admitted into the United States Supreme Court Bar, March 2017, in Washington, D.C. This honor allows him to appeal cases and argue in front of the United States Supreme Court. David serves in Indianapolis and its surrounding communities as a deputy prosecuting attorney with Marion County Prosecutors Office. He and his wife, Abigail Alexander Ziemba, live in Indianapolis. They have one son, Cooper.
2004
Maria Herrera Norman is a member of Fort
Wayne, Ind., Community Schools’ Board of Trustees. She is the student portal administrator at Indianapolis University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne. She is working toward a master’s degree in public administration. Michael W. Langellier is president and chief executive officer of TechPoint. He was presented with the Sagamore of the Wabash award, Indiana’s highest civilian honor. Indiana’s governor presented the award at TechPoint’s 18th annual Mira Awards. Abigail L. Lynn is chief executive of American Association of Sleep Technologists (AAST) headquartered in Chicago. The AAST is the premier allied health membership association for professionals dedicated to improving the quality of sleep and wakefulness in all people.
2005
42 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
James M. McQuiston is assistant professor in political
David C. Simons is a software developer at Bertram Labs in Denver, Colo. He was elected to the board of directors for Music for All, a nonprofit educational organization. Stephanie Snell Chaudhary is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Riley Bennett Egloff LLP. She concentrates her practice in the areas of business litigation, construction litigation, medical malpractice defense and non-profit law.
2007
Jacob J. Blasdel is town manager of Speedway, Ind. Jacob has served as treasurer of the Speedway Community Development Corp. since 2014. Aftin R. Brown is an attorney in private practice in Indianapolis. She took part in the IndyStar Call for Action “Call A Lawyer” held at the John Boner Community Center in Indianapolis April 25, 2017. Volunteers and attorneys were on hand to help people with a variety of concerns about legal issues. The event was featured in an article in The Indianapolis Star. Elisabeth W. Evans, David R. Dietz ’11 and Duncan L. Wolfe ’11 spoke at a Media Fellows speaker event, March 20, 2017. Their topic was “From Iowa to the White House: Our Time with President Barack Obama.”
2008
Charlotte Buehler Cherry works in Nashville at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, with affiliation with the Division of Gastroenterology, Herpetology and Nutrition, focused on infectious cancer prevention and control in Latin America. Andrea E. Cofield participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. She is an artist working in New York
City. She is the founder and director of BOMBPOP!UP Collective, a group of artists, writers and musicians organizing pop-up art and music events that work to collapse hierarchies and create temporary intersectional cultural spaces. Kathryn G. Denton and her husband, Dustin R. White, relocated from Chicago to Dustin’s home state of Colorado at the end of 2016. Katie is marketing specialist at AnswerOn Inc. in Longmont, Colo. Dustin is plant buyer and planner at Aurora Organic Dairy in Platteville, Colo. Kathryn’s email address is kathryndenton@gmail.com.
2009
Alumnae and actives of Psi Lambda Xi reunited the weekend of March 10-12, 2017, to celebrate the 10 years of their founding on DePauw’s campus. (See photo.) Sarah E. Merkel is head athletic trainer at Justin-Siena High School in Napa, Calif. The school received the National Athletic Trainers Association’s Safe Sports School award for its sports medicine program. Sarah is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the California Athletic Trainers’ Association. She teaches an introduction to sports medicine course. Catherine L. Pruzin and Casey R. Ellinger were married Oct. 2015 in Merrillville, Ind. (See photo, page 44.) Lauren N. Schaefer earned a doctoral degree from Michigan Technological University-Houghton, Mich. Lukas T. Schooler participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. Lukas is executive director of NOEXIT performance. He is refocusing the company on its original mission: site-responsive work that highlights new, innovative and multi-disciplinary methods of performance. His work has been featured throughout Indiana and he has been a fixture of the Indianapolis art scene since his graduation from DePauw.
2010
Courtney R. Knies is a community coordinator with Current Blend, a co-work space in Huntingburg, Ind. She is building
Christopher P. Miller has been busy working, traveling and studying since graduating from DePauw. His next project is: Chris Cross The Nation. On July 17, 2017, he will leave from Liberty State Park, N.J., on foot and embark on a 3,000 mile solo run across America to raise awareness about drug and alcohol addiction and long term recovery. Chris said, “I have received a lot of support from friends and family. I would like to share this idea with you because my experience at DePauw was such an important chapter in my life.” You can follow him on www. ChrisCrossTheNation.com. William E. Rhoden III completed a master of music degree in music education from University of West Georgia April 2016. He authored a thesis titled “Martin Luther for Today’s Music Educator.” He and Jennee M. Klos were married on May 30, 2016. Kendra Graf Duncan ’06 attended the wedding. Will and Jennee live in Mesquite, Nev., where Will directs a middle school orchestra and guitar program. (See photo, page 44.)
2011
David R. Dietz, Duncan L. Wolfe and Elisabeth W. Evans ’07 spoke at the Media Fellows speaker event, March 20, 2017. Their topic was “From Iowa to the White House: Our Time with President Barack Obama.” Joanna G. Edwards earned her doctor of medicine degree at the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She will begin her residency program in family medicine at Community Hospitals in Indiana. Julia Shaw Sessions earned a master’s degree with high honors at University of Tulsa. She is working for Paladin Geological Services. Kathleen I. Shipley earned a master’s degree in higher education management from University of Pittsburgh in
April 2017. She alumnae engagement coordinator at Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Headquarters and advising the Rho chapter of Alpha Phi at The Ohio State University. Kate’s email address is kshipley@kkg.org.
2012
Rajpreet K. Heir wrote an essay for The Atlantic titled “Bend It Like Beckham and the Art of Balancing Cultures.” Rajpreet said, “Bend It Like Beckham offered an optimistic message of cultural wholeness. It taught me that shaping a hybrid identity could be a beautiful, inventive and at times lonely experience.”
Members of Psi Lambda Xi in front of their first house on campus. Those attending the reunion included Michelle Edvenson Weaver ’07, Jennifer Townsend Galasso ’07, Tuyen-Kim T. Le ’07, Alexandra D. Gandy ’19, Katelyn T. Hayes ’12, Julissa M. Palomo ’14, Ashley Odle Nelson ’10, Adrienne F. Sumpter ’08, Juliana Keller Ewing ’09, Melissa R. Bock ’10, Ryanne Forbes Zender ’08, Andrea M. Stathopoulos ’10, Celeste M. Gossmann ’08, Vanessa N. Maxwell ’14, Christina M. Foerstner ’09, Kathryn L. Harris ’14 and Laura E. Crawford ’14.
2013
Alexandra B. Chamberlain participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. She is assistant curator of exhibitions and education at DePauw as well as teaching introductory courses related to museum studies. Jaime A. Diaz completed a master of fine arts degree in music composition at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Feb. 2017. He will pursue a master’s degree at University of Sheffield and continue on pursuing a doctorate degree at the Royal Holloway, University of London in music composition. Noah D. Droddy finished seventh in the New York half-marathon in 1 hour, 1 minute, 48 seconds. He ran the 13.1 mile race March 19 at 4:44 pace, nearly as fast as the 4:43 mile pace in which he was second at the United States 10-mile championship Oct. 9. Madison Gallegos Beatty was named a 2016 Indiana Teaching Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Sara K. Scully received an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright United States Student Program. She will spend the 2017-18 academic year teaching in Taiwan. Upon her return to the United States, Sara plans to continue working with young people and pursue additional education.
Photo: KIWI Photography
a community of entrepreneurs in Dubois County by bringing people together for open discussions that lead to new business ideas. She will develop programs and conferences for Current Blend and residents in the community who are seeking to become part of entrepreneurship in Dubois County.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2017 - Members of the Class of 2012 Row 1: Aliza Javed Keen, Sarah Danielle Myers, Arielle Elaine Brosman, Katherine Elizabeth Richmond, Kelsey Moore Cecil, Michael D. Rardon, Sommer Madison Braun, Sarah Elizabeth Norris, Lucy First Gerlach, Kyle R. Gerlach, Kathryn Anne Strader. Row 2: Morgan Hooks Storey, Jenifer Kae Binder, Melissa Lynn Penfold, Danielle Nicole Boyd, Claire Elizabeth Jagla, Laura Elizabeth Bruce, Nicole Marie Koschmeder, Rajpreet Kaur Heir, Allison Kelsey Taylor, Peter T. Richard, Lily Josephine Bonwich. Row 3: Megan Ann Jensen, Elaine Christine Wiley, Macy Ayers Bennett, Carolyn Chapin Latta, Katherine Ann Janowiski, Zachary A. Keller, Eilene Renee Ladson, Jean Elizabeth Rebarchak, Olivia Lynn Telfair, Tiamo Katsonga-Phiri, Alexa Noelle Kovachevich, Andrew L. Manson. Row 4: Ashlyn M. Archer, Katherine Sarah Morrison, Kelsey Quigley Jarmus, Mallory Kaitlin Stidham, Anna Christina Fogt, Anne Katherine Hickey, Nefertiti Muhammad, Charles F. J. Pierre, Kristopher D. Schmelzer, Samuel B. Meyer, Cortney Steinborn Meyer. Row 5: Scott A. Meyer, Stephanie Lauren Grass, Lauren Elizabeth Messmore, Emily Judith Adams, Maria Beth Dickman, Joshua W. Sanchez, Mason D. Heyde, Vincent M. Aguirre, Xinyi “Sunny” Wang, Christina Fillenwarth Desmarais, Andrew D. Desmarais, Kara Lynn Bischak. Row 6: Matthew P. Maloof, Jacob M. Weinstein, Madeleine Patterson Weinstein, Emily Michelle Reavis, Erin Christine O'Donnell, Emily Marie Schuler, Ariel Morelock Schoen, P. Garrett Nickell, Andres J. Leal, Samuel E. Swafford, Lauren Palmer Richmond. Row 7: Kreigh A. Kamman, Ethan A. Schweir, Kathryn Thomas Denbow, Gina Marie Zerbini, Stewart Elizabeth Jones, Allison Mara Winkle, Kaitlin Elizabeth Cassidy, Joan Margaret Bemenderfer, Emily Louise Dye, Elizabeth Ann Harrison, Michelle Alexandra Baer. Row 8: Brianna Randall-DePauw, Margaret Catherine Erzinger, Emily Boyle Schmidt, Kacy Lou Wendling, Katherine Elizabeth Butler, Brendan J. Flores, Kevin D. Rusie, Claire Elizabeth Hollis, Caroline Victoria Carter, Kelly Elizabeth Gebert, Kelsey Thompson Floyd.
2014
Dana M. Ferguson is a reporter for South Dakota’s Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Dana returned SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 43
DEPAUW WEDDINGS
1
1
Catherine L. Pruzin ’09 and Casey R. Ellinger ’09 wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Thomas J. Pruzin ’05, Matthew J. Fair ’08, Bradley J. Paus ’10, Gwen M. Haehl ’08, Gretchen J. Haehl ’08, Eliza B. Dowell ’11, Abraham J. Winkle ’08, Anna Hodge Winkle ’09, Michael J. Fultz ’12, Mallory A. Kraly ’10, Elizabeth D. Elliott ’10, Jenna M. Fernandez ’10, Cary A. Werntz ’12, Spud R. Dick ’10, Ian R. Yearwood ’09, Kalei Lowes Grigaitis ’08, Anna R. Cox ’11, Loren C. Sloan ’09, Emily Y. Smith ’09, Katharine C. Stoll ’10, Kerry A. Pappas ’08, Marc D. Hoeppner ’09, Christopher M. Moore ’09, Kathryn T. Denbow ’12, Sarah Mitchell Moore ’09, William W. Lutz ’08, Mary Snyder MacLaughlin ’10, Rocky L. Buchta ’09, Kristen Ellis Hoeppner ’09, Erik J. Lundorf ’09, Emily J. Marshall ’10, William R. Nan ’09, Jonathon C. Ellis ’12, Justin D. Weiner ’09, Robert S. MacLaughlin ’09 and Michael P. McNelis ’09.
to DePauw, March 2017, to counsel student reporters. She spent time with staff of The DePauw, where she worked as a student journalist and served as editor-in-chief during her senior year. Olivia C. Flores is a ninth grade English teacher at UCSN Soccer Academy High School in Chicago. She received an English Teaching Assistantship award from the Fulbright United States Student Program. Olivia will spend the 2017-18 academic year teaching English in Colombia. Meredith S. Strader participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. Meredith is an associate producer at Lauren Greenfield Photography/Evergreen Studio in Los Angeles, Calif. She plans to combine her knowledge of journalism with her knowledge of visuals to make documentaries that highlight public housing issues in the Midwest.
2015
Shibali Patra is an environmental data analyst at the Southwest Center for occupational and environmental health at University of Texas Health’s School of Public Health in Houston.
Taylor M. Zartman participated in an alumni panel at DePauw, April 27, 2017, with other DePauw alumni to discuss with students what path they would follow after leaving DePauw. Taylor is an art historian of modern and contemporary art specializing in DADA and Surrealism as well as an artist working in performance and mixed media. She is an archival researcher at DePauw and works at the Indianapolis Art Center as a teaching artist for the center’s artreach program.
2016
Adrian A. Ables has been signed by Indy Eleven, the Indianapolis franchise in the North American Soccer League. Adrian is an assistant men’s soccer coach at DePauw. Grace E. Anshutz received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Miracle Network Dance Marathon. Grace was honored for her “leadership of DePauw Dance Marathon (which) helped raise $89,186 on Nov. 19, 2016, for Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.” Tyler R. Donaldson has accepted a fellowship for a master’s program at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis in the Department of Anthropology. She will be combining
44 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
2 2
William E. Rhoden III ’10 and Jennee M. Klos
her geoscience skills with her expertise in archaeology. Taylor E. J. Hackett is an associate broker at RESOURCE Commercial Real Estate. He specializes in tenant and landlord representation for both local and national firms. Laurel E. Johnson began a full time service year with AmeriCorps in August of 2016. Located in Marietta, Ohio, she coordinates the Live Healthy Kids program, teaches nutrition and cooking lessons in second grade classrooms as well as the Ewing School for developmentally disabled students.
2017
Ines Giramata is a Rwandan poet and was featured in Rwanda’s leading daily English language newspaper. She was an economics major and women’s, gender and sexuality studies minor. Madison T. McIntyre’s short film, Grace and Betty, competed in the Cleveland International Film Festival, March 29-April 9, 2017. Her nine-minute film was screened three times during the festival. Jacqueline Rueda received a Fulbright United States Student scholarship for
the 2017-18 academic year to conduct research in Brazil at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in the department of gender and diversity. Sarah J. Salazar will spend the 201718 academic year teaching English in Colombia after being awarded an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright United States Student Program. Sarah will be teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. Gesenia Viviescas received an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright United States Student Program. She will spend the 2017-18 academic year teaching English in Taiwan. She hopes to pursue a master’s degree in international relations when she returns from Taiwan.
DePauw Magazine marks the passing of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of DePauw University. Obituaries in DePauw Magazine do not include memorial gifts. When reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible: name of the deceased, class year, fraternity/sorority/living unit, occupation and DePauw-related activities and relatives. Newspaper obituaries are very helpful. Information should be sent to Alumni Records, DePauw University, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email jamahostetler@depauw.edu.
IN MEMORIAM
1936
Robert H. Shaffer, April 21, 2017, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., at the age of 101. He was a member of Sigma Chi, a Rector Scholar, member of the 1933 DePauw football team which was unbeaten, untied and un-scored upon, and professor emeritus of education and business at Indiana University. He received an honorary doctorate from DePauw in 1976. He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife.
1939
Mildred Gadient Hedden, April 7, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas, at the age of 99. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, an English teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husband. Survivors include daughter, Anne Byrn Youngblood ’74; son, Stephen R. Byrn ’66; and daughterin-law, Sarah Rushmore Byrn ’69.
1941
Marjorie Nelson Wiseman, March 8, 2017, of Muncie, Ind., at the age of 97. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a retired librarian from Ball State University and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Alta Pitts Nelson Class of 1917; and brother, Harold E. Nelson ’46. Survivors include her husband, Park A. Wiseman ’40; and niece, Laurel J. Nelson ’98.
1942
Arthur A. Adams, March 27, 2017, of Davenport, Iowa, at the age of 96. He was a member of Sigma Chi and retired as branch manager in tractor-trailer sales from Mutual Wheel. Survivors include his wife.
cattle farmer, pilot and operated the first woman air taxi business in Indiana. She was preceded in death by her husband; and sister, Louise Martin Mohler ’48. Survivors include nephew, Mark R. Mohler ’79.
Dr. Max R. English, April 8, 2017, of Towson, Md., at the age of 97, of heart failure. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, a Rector Scholar and physician. Survivors include his wife.
Georgetta Wilson Madole, April 8, 2017, of Owensboro, Ky., at the age of 95. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.
Virginia Fellows Dial, Feb. 13, 2017, of San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 96. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a retired library technical assistant and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; and sister, Elizabeth J. Fellows ’43.
Edwinnia Wood Scott, April 4, 2017, of Portland, Ore., at the age of 95. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
Robert T. Murphy, May 21, 2017, of Mansfield, Ohio, at the age of 97. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, a Rector Scholar and business manager. He was preceded in death by his wife, Peggy Horr Murphy ’43.
1943
Dr. H. Lambert Filer Jr., Feb. 20, 2017, in North Branford, Conn., at the age of 95. He was a member of Sigma Chi, The Washington C. DePauw Society and was a pediatrician in private practice. He was preceded in death by his father, Harry L. Filer Class of 1914; mother, Ehrma Green Filer Class of 1915; brother, John H. Filer ’47; uncle, Riley H. Selby Class of 1920; and aunt, Marjorie Green Selby Class of 1917. Survivors include his wife; and daughter, Dorothy Filer Scott ’70. Dr. William B. Fischer, Feb. 28, 2017, of Fontana, Wis., at the age of 95. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an orthopedic surgeon. He was preceded in death by his first and second wife. R. Drew Miller, April 15, 2017, of Rochester, Minn., at the age of 95. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a Rector Scholar and professor of medicine emeritus of Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Lancaster Miller ’45. Survivors include his grandson, Drew J. Miller ’05. Mary Martin Wyall, March 9, 2017, of Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 95, from brain cancer. She was a homemaker,
Barbara M. Trese, May 1, 2017, of Elgin, Ill. She was employed by Elgin Mental Health Center, a community volunteer and homemaker.
1946
Margaret Foley Showalter, March 22, 2017, of Grand Ledge, Mich., at the age of 92. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Richard H. Showalter ’49.
1947
Rev. Gordon L. Ingram, May 5, 2017, of Evanston, Ill., at the age of 92. He was a Presbyterian pastor and president of the Institute for a Theological Future. Survivors include his wife.
1944
M. Lewis Gulick, May 20, 2017, of Falls Church, Va., at the age of 93. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a Rector Scholar, served on the DePauw Board of Visitors, a Washington, D.C. journalist and senior congressional consultant on the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States Congress. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include daughter, Spencer Gulick Baker ’91.
Jessie Smith Carpenter, April 14, 2017, in Kannapolis, N.C., at the age of 89. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a homemaker and taught speech pathology and audiology at Appalachian State University for 32 years. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1945
Mary Baker Winning, March 1, 2017, in Denver, Colo., at the age of 94. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, James M. Winning ’43; father-in-law, Montgomery S. Winning Class of 1913; sister-in-law, Patricia Winning Dodson ’42; brother-in-law, Darrel E. Winning ’50; and son-in-law, David B. Drummond ’71. Survivors include daughters, Barbara Winning Drummond ’71 and Rebecca Winning ’74; son, James M. Winning Jr. ’68; grandson, James D. Drummond ’96; and nephew, Stephen M. Winning ’68. Jean Mehlig Watson, March 2, 2017, of Crofton, Md., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Washington C. DePauw Society and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert T. Watson ’44. Survivors include her son, John M. Watson ’74. Robert L. Scobee, March 1, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 97. He was an engineer. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Harold O. Spicer, May 17, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 95. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a Rector Scholar, taught English and journalism at DePauw and retired as professor emeritus of English at Indiana State University. He was preceded in death by his wife, Hilda Templeton Spicer ’44. Survivors include son, Stephen M. Spicer ’82.
1948
Nina Fay McCunniff, April 5, 2017, of Hilton Head Island, S.C., at the age of 88. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Doris Goetsch Minnich, Feb. 22, 2017, of Minocqua, Wis., at the age of 91. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, a retired math and German teacher, coowner of a resort and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Kenneth L. Merrick, April 1, 2017, in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 94. He was a member of Delta Chi and a business executive. He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Carroll Merrick ’48.
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 45
Dr. Stacy R. Mettier, April 26, 2017, of San Francisco, Calif., at the age of 90. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a physician and retired as clinical professor emeritus at the University of California at San Francisco. Survivors include his wife. Suzanne Lanz Short, April 20, 2017, of Bedford, Ind., at the age of 90. She was a teacher, homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her mother, Lelia Roth Lanz Class of 1919; aunt, Selma A. Roth Class of 1913; and husband.
preceded in death by her husband; daughter, Nancy Hodshire Dixon ’80; father, H.E.H. Greenleaf (DePauw math department); sisters, Elizabeth A. Greenleaf ’41, Edith Greenleaf Aanderud ’44, Marion Greenleaf Smith ’50; and brother-in-law, Paul D. Smith ’50. Survivors include daughter, Judith Hodshire Hauck ’81. DeForest A. Hamilton Jr., Aug. 3, 2015, of Bluffton, S.C., at the age of 86. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a salesman.
Richard A. West, Feb. 9, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 91. He was retired president of West Baking Company. Survivors include his wife.
Ruth Herold Dumond, Feb. 1, 2017, of Chicago, Ill. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, an elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1949
1951
Patricia Woodruff Aberson, April 25, 2017, in Libertyville, Ill., at the age of 90. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Virginia Zwickel Willkie, April 15, 2017, in Indianapolis, at the age of 89. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a teacher, community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Nelle Daniels Zwickel Class of 1919; and her first and second husband. Survivors include daughter, Laura Adamson Selm ’78.
1950
Thomas E. Carter, March 17, 2017, of Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 88. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and retired as a financial analyst from New York Life Insurance Company. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marian Smith Carter ’49. Robert H. Gipson, May 8, 2017, of Pompano Beach, Fla., at the age of 89. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and owner of an insurance agency. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert W. Gipson ’22; and his first wife. Survivors include his wife. Mildred Greenleaf Hodshire, April 26, 2017, of Valparaiso, Ind., at the age of 88. She was a member of Alpha Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a teacher, homemaker and community volunteer. She was
Nancy Bartol Darnell, March 12, 2017, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, an elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by brother, Robert R. Bartol ’55. Survivors include sister-in-law, Carole Cox Bartol ’56. Leo V. Deal, March 11, 2017, of East Lansing, Mich., at the age of 87. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and professor emeritus of Michigan State University. Survivors include his wife, Nola Arndt Deal ’53. Jill Foddrill Jackson, March 14, 2017, in Peachtree City, Ga., at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert D. Jackson ’50. Survivors include son, Jacob R. Jackson ’81. Frances Gilpin Gumpper, March 1, 2017, in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include sister, Martha Gilpin Hinshelwood ’58. P. Robert Newsom, March 28, 2017, of Columbus, Ind., at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Chi and a business executive. Survivors include his wife, Virginia Arthur Newsom ’52. Leigh A. Stocking, Dec. 31, 2016, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 88, from
46 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
cancer. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a business owner. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Florence Hurn Stocking ’51; his second wife; and his brother, Charles D. Stocking ’55. Survivors include his wife.
Thomas A. Wright, Nov. 12, 2015, of Glendale, Mo., at the age of 84. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a self-employed businessman. He was preceded in death by his wife, Eleanor Jenkins Wright ’55.
Ayleen L. Wright, Dec. 11, 2016, of Indianapolis, at the age of 87. She was a public health nurse for 40 years; and later, principal and consultant for Wright Company.
1954
1952
Beverly Alley Hall Houze Parrott, Feb. 19, 2017, of Vevay, Ind., at the age of 86. She was a member of Delta Zeta, an elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husband. Survivors include her husband. Allan T. Coulter, Nov. 1, 2016, of McKinney, Texas, at the age of 87. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a retired foreign language instructor in the United States Army Intelligence Corp., worked in financial services and was a manufacturers’ representative for Nutone-Scovill for more than 25 years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Helen Stovall Coulter ’51. Charles W. Cross, Feb. 4, 2017, of Las Vegas, Nev., at the age of 86. He was a member of Sigma Nu and retired director of purchasing for OMC Corporation. Survivors include his wife. Jack L. Fretz, Jan. 30, 2017, of Daytona Beach, Fla., at the age of 86. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and a business man. Survivors include his wife. Charles M. Wishart, Feb. 8, 2017, of Paris, Ill., at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Chi and retired professor of economics at Indiana State University. He was preceded in death by his brother, Frederick Wishart ’51; and sister-in-law, Betty Weber Wishart ’51. Survivors include his wife.
1953
Florence Ullrich Kelley, Feb. 17, 2016, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 83. She was a member of Delta Zeta, executive director and volunteer for Hawaii’s Bahai Community and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
Walter E. Danneberg, March 25, 2017, in Southern Pines, N.C., at the age of 84. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, a Rector Scholar and founder, president and chief operating officer of Mid-West National Bank of Lake Forest, Ill. He was preceded in death by his wife, Judith Hunt Danneberg ’54. Richard E. Deer, March 1, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 84. He was a member of Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his brother, William H. Deer ’53. Survivors include his wife; and daughter, Laura A. Deer ’87. Susanne Matlock Gooding, March 15, 2017, of Albuquerque, N.M., at the age of 84. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a community volunteer and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Richard L. Turmail, Nov. 1, 2016, of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the age of 84. He was a member of Sigma Chi, an actor and writer. He was preceded in death by his wife.
1955
Martha Dehner Copher, March 23, 2017, of Carmel, Ind., at the age of 84. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a community volunteer, elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include daughter, Elizabeth Copher Browning ’84; brother, John R. Dehner ’56; and nephews, John S. Dehner ’89 and Thomas R. Dehner ’90. Janet Higgins Obenchain, Jan. 2, 2017, of Woodstock, Ill., at the age of 82. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a writer and illustrator and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1956
Martha Priebe Anderson, Feb. 14, 2017, of Mount Dora, Fla., at the age of 82. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include sister, Jeanne Priebe Cramer ’54. Joan Trader Long, Dec, 9, 2016, of Hagerstown, Md., at the age of 82. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a licensed school psychologist, author, community volunteer and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1957
Donald D. Tibbits, April 27, 2017, of Erie, Penn., at the age of 81. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and retired from International Paper Company. Survivors include his wife.
1958
M. Keith DeArmond, April 10, 2017, of Las Cruces, N.M., at the age of 81. He was a member of Delta Chi, a Rector Scholar and retired professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University. Survivors include his wife. Robert L. Rudolph, Feb. 17, 2017, of Las Vegas, Nev., at the age of 80. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a retired college professor. Survivors include brother, William H. Rudolph Jr. ’54; nieces, Julia Rudolph Bishop ’80 and Jean Rudolph Scott ’79; granddaughter, Emily C. Rudolph ’16; and great-niece, Grace L. Bishop ’16.
1959
Claire Heywood Dietz, Feb. 13, 2017, of Muncie, Ind., at the age of 80. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a homemaker and elementary school teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, David J. Dietz ’59. Survivors include daughter, Linda Dietz Chase ’89; and son-in-law, Barry A. Chase ’89. Mary Ludlam Hagmeyer, April 26, 2016, in Wheat Ridge, Colo., at the age of 78. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Washington C. DePauw Society and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by brother, John S. Ludlam ’57. Survivors include her husband; and sister-in-law, Rita E. Hagmeyer ’63. Carol Risk Lankton, Dec. 16, 2016, of Belleair, Fla., at the age of 79. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; and cousin, Margaret Gantz Brunskill ’57. Survivors include
cousins, Susan Risk Beck ’60 and John W. Gantz ’62.
1960
Margaret Brown Young, Feb. 25, 2017, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 78. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a business owner and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Margaret Maple Brown ’28. Survivors include her husband. Peter J. Klingler, March 27, 2017, of Tampa, Fla., at the age of 79. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and retired owner of an insurance business. Survivors include his wife. Monnet Smith Bathrick, March 14, 2017, in Barrington, Ill., at the age of 79. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1961
Peter Price, July 27, 2014, of London, United Kingdom, at the age of 74. He was a member of Delta Chi, an English teacher in Webster, N.Y. and later worked as an advisory teacher and lecturer in both Whales and London. Survivors include his wife.
1962
Marjorie Eaton Blocks, March 12, 2017, of Three Lakes, Wis., at the age of 76. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a registered nurse, nursing instructor and homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Jane Sansome Boyer, March 26, 2017, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 75. She was a community volunteer, homemaker and served on DePauw’s Board of Visitors from 2015 to 2017. Survivors include her husband, Charles C. Boyer ’59.
1963
Nancy Allen Fahrmeier, April 16, 2017, of Bluffton, S.C., at the age of 76. She was a member of Delta Zeta and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1964
W. Kenneth Tregenza Jr., Jan. 22, 2016, of Rochester, Mich., at the age of 74. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and retired after a 37-year career at General Motors Corporation. Survivors include his wife, Jill Morton Tregenza ’63; sister, Nancy Tregenza Little ’62; and brother, Arthur R. Tregenza ’66.
1965
Donald M. Malinovsky, April 21, 2017, of Orlando, Fla., at the age of 76, from pancreatic cancer. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a Rector Scholar and general manager for Daniels Manufacturing Corporation. He was preceded in death by his wife.
a member of Beta Theta Pi and a selfemployed architect. Survivors include sister, Mary Scott Stirling ’62. Richard C. Siefert, Feb. 17, 2017, of Seattle, Wash., at the age of 71, from ALS. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a trial attorney.
Carolyn Riddell McDonald, May 23, 2017, of Carmel, Ind., at the age of 74, from Alzheimer’s disease. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Washington C. DePauw Society, a teacher, homemaker and realtor. She was preceded in death by her mother, Josephine Jackson Riddell ’37; and sister, JoAnn Riddell Brandt ’59. Survivors include her dear friend, Bob McDonald.
1969
Dr. Thomas L. McCormick, May 17, 2017, of Kalamazoo, Mich., at the age of 69, from cancer. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, The Washington C. DePauw Society, DePauw’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Rector Scholar and retired as partner and radiologist from Kalamazoo (Mich.) Radiology. Survivors include his wife; and son, Benjamin C. McCormick ’97.
1966
1970
Robert C. Hagemier, March 14, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 73. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and an attorney. Survivors include daughter, Kristin Hagemier McGloin ’98; son, Robert O. Hagemier ’05; and his companion.
Robert K. Kleinops, Jan. 21, 2017, of Cave Creek, Ariz., at the age of 68, from leukemia. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a business owner. Survivors include his wife.
1972
Robert N. Dedaker III, April 24, 2017, of Kokomo, Ind., at the age of 67. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a high school teacher and coach. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert N. Dedaker Jr. ’50; mother, Janet Sutter Dedaker ’48; and uncle, Albert B. Killham’58. Survivors include his wife; aunt, Sue Sutter Killham ’58; cousin, Kimberley Killham Isherwood ’80; cousin, Karen M. Killham ’82; and cousin-in-law, Paul B. Isherwood Jr. ’78.
John S. McConnell, March 27, 2017, of Minnetonka, Minn., at the age of 72. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, helped create the Management Fellows Program at DePauw and was a managing associate at Bentz Whaley Flessner for more than 16 years. Survivors include his wife.
1967
Ralph W. Spang, Nov. 10, 2015, of Denver, Colo., at the age of 71. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and vice president of sales and marketing for Contemporary Products. Survivors include his wife; and brother, Bruce P. Spang ’68. Peter Van Der Chijs, March 20, 2015, of the Netherlands, at the age of 70. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a newspaper publisher. Survivors include his wife.
1968
Richard J. Kallock, April 4, 2017, of Indianapolis, at the age of 71, from complications after surgery. He was a social worker for United Way and later maintained his own health and life insurance business. Survivors include brother, Michael J. Kallock ’67. Tip A. B. Scott, Feb. 28, 2017, of Leesburg, Ind., at the age of 69. He was
Heather E. Neier, April 25, 2017, of Howardsville, Va., at the age of 66, from brain cancer. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, The Washington C. DePauw Society, former Alumni Board of Directors’ president, 25th reunion class speaker, teacher, stockbroker and former director of individual giving and donor relations for University of Virginia. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Walter E. Bundy Class of 1912; mother, Virginia Bundy Neier ’46; and aunt, Wanda L. Bundy (DePauw retiree). Survivors include her husband; and cousin, F. Rick Bundy ’74.
1977
Rebecca Hawk Roess, March 18, 2017, of Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 62. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, executive vice
SUMMER 2017 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 47
president in charge of trust for LCNB National Bank and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, William J. Roess ’79; son, Benjamin J. Roess ’14; brother, Andrew C. Hawk ’83; brotherin-law, Steven T. Roess ’77; and sisterin-law, Jane Roess Livermore ’82.
1979
Sheree A. Harrell, March 17, 2017, of Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 59. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and a systems analyst. Survivors include her husband. Jane Parker Irwin, May 7, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 71. She was an elementary school music teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley R. Irwin, professor of music and director of DePauw University Choirs.
1980
Norma Wray Swenke, March 8, 2017, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 79. She was a teacher, business owner and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her sister, Patricia Wray Smith ’80.
1981
Bruce S. Terlep, May 5, 2017, in Elmhurst, Ill., at the age of 58. He was a member of Sigma Nu and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, John L. Stephens ’53; and mother-in-law, Kay Leonard Stephens ’53. Survivors include wife, Virginia Stephens Terlep ’82; and sons, Michael F. Terlep ’16 and Peter K. Terlep ’11; and daughter-in-law, Zandri Strauss Terlep ’11.
1984
Charlotte Metcalf Lutz, March 1, 2017, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a retired elementary teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1988
Arthur W. Chick, April 16, 2017, of Napervillle, Ill., at the age of 50. He was a self-employed stockbroker and financial consultant.
1995
Hanna Viljanen Powell, April 16, 2017, of Sanford, Maine, at the age of 47. She was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, a musician, music teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
1999
Elizabeth Goldberg Powell, Feb. 18, 2017, of Washington, D.C., at the age of 39, of cancer. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
Faculty
Svend E. Holsoe, May 4, 2017, in Philadelphia, at the age of 78. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Delaware and a member of the DePauw University faculty from 1967-70. In 1967, he came to DePauw to serve as the first director of the University’s new African Studies program. He established an African anthropological museum in the basement of Asbury Hall and published the Liberian Studies Journal. He lectured about Liberia in the United States and around the world. He was presented with the Liberian Studies Association Annual Lifetime Achievement Award. He received Indiana University’s Chancellors’ Medallion in 1999 in honor of his unique contributions to scholarship and donation of valued Liberia Collection papers. Bruce S. Serlin, June 11, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 64, from cardiac arrest. He was an associate professor of biology and member of the faculty for more than 30 years. He received his undergraduate degree in biology-environmental geology from Alfred University, a master of science degree in botany from Cornell University and Ph.D. from University of Texas in Austin. His specialty was cellular biology. He chaired DePauw’s Committee on Academic Policy and Planning. He conducted research at Ohio State and Cornell universities, and spent the 2007-08 academic year as a visiting scholar at Wabash College’s Center of Inquiry. Survivors include his wife; and sons, Mischa A. Serlin ’11, and Ian Serlin.
Friends
Donna L. Collins, April 19, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 65. She had been a cook at Delta Upsilon at DePauw for 18 years. Survivors include her husband.
48 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Nancy A. Huber, April 17, 2017, in Indianapolis, at the age of 82. She served as secretary to three DePauw presidents. She was preceded in death by her brother, Frederick L. Huber ’61. Survivors include her companion; nephew, Peter J. Huber ’93; and niecein-law, Jennifer Fry Huber ’93. Betty J. Owens, March 25, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 73. She worked at Asbury Towers and DePauw as a cook and as a nurse’s aide at Sunset Manor. Survivors include her husband. Elva M. Porter, Feb. 22, 2017, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 94. She was a housemother at DePauw for 14 years at Alpha Tau Omega and three years at Delta Delta Delta. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her companion.
Correction
In the Spring 2017 issue, in Edward L. Hamilton ’12’s obituary, his aunt, Elisabeth Shorney Hamilton ’88, was omitted from the list of survivors. The staff regrets the error.
creating a legacy University registrar and area teacher present DePauw with their home KEN and ANNA KIRKPATRICK have lived in the same house on Bloomington Street in Greencastle since 1990. Since that year Ken has worked at DePauw in various roles, serving as director of the Writing Program, director of the Academic Resource Center, dean of academic affairs for assessment, and finally, since 2005, as University registrar. His wife Anna has been a teacher in local schools, most recently teaching Spanish in the Cloverdale School District. This summer, they are both retiring, and plan to move to Idaho. As they leave Greencastle, they are making the extraordinary step of gifting their home to DePauw. “The college has a lot of options for what it can do with the property,” Ken points out. He and Anna wanted the University to benefit from their gift in whatever manner seemed best. “We decided to donate the house without any restrictions,” he added, “largely because of what I learned serving on the employee campaign committee.” The Kirkpatrick home was built in 1878, making it a contemporary of East College. It has had many ties to DePauw, and for many years was home to popular modern languages professor Vincent Serpa. Director of Legacy and Estate Planning Eric Motycka noted, “This gift represents a strong trust in the ideals and mission of DePauw University by a couple who know the institution intimately. Their generosity, in turn, reflects upon the loyalty and affection for DePauw so often found among its employees and the residents of Greencastle.”
We would be happy to assist you in building a legacy at DePauw. For more information, contact: DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF LEGACY AND ESTATE PLANNING
Eric Motycka Director of Legacy and Estate Planning 300 E. Seminary St., P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Phone: 765-658-4216 Toll-free: 800-446-5298 ericmotycka@depauw.edu depauw.planmylegacy.org
Office of University Communications P.O. Box 37 • Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 765-658-4800 • www.depauw.edu
Nonprofit U.S. Postage PAID Indianapolis, IN Permit #9059