DePauw Magazine Summer 2018

MAGAZINE Summer 2018

YOUR BRAIN ON ETHICS

Emily Budde ’18 and professor Rob West measure brain reactions to ethical questions

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Encouraging an ethical ethos Prindle’s purpose Art and science and serendipity Front and center: The Gold Commitment

COMMENCEMENT 473 DePauw students graduated at the 179th commencement exercises May 20.

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DEPARTMENTS 6 News 10 Recent Words 24 Connections: Engaging with DePauw 30 Class Notes

Cover image: The gyri of the thinker’s brain as a maze of choices in biomedical ethics.

Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1997. Credit: Wellcome Collection.

YOUR BRAIN ON ETHICS

STAFF Deedie Dowdle Vice president for communications and marketing deediedowdle@depauw.edu

Leslie Williams Smith ’03 Executive director of alumni engagement lesliesmith@depauw.edu

Mary Dieter Managing editor marydieter@depauw.edu

Contributors: Joel Bottom, Emily Chew, Sarah McAdams, Kate Robertson, Tim Sofranko and Linda Striggo.

Kelly A. Graves Creative director kgraves@depauw.edu

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Photographer Tim Sofranko recently joined the DePauw communications team to tell the university’s stories – big and small, simple and profound – in vivid photographs. His bold, documentary-style work has appeared in a number of national newspapers and magazines, as well as numerous college and university publications.

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news “Rather than turn away from subjects that might be challenging, you must look deeper, listen closer and learn all that you can.

And you can choose to make this country – and this moment – better.”

VERNON E. JORDAN ’57, civil rights leader and

a trusted adviser to American presidents, speaking

Alumni gift to fund centers’ leadership programming

Environmental fellow Mayra Leon Coss ’20 envisions a future for U.S. agriculture that includes sustainable practices and minority land ownership.

The desire of the women’s, gender and sexuality studies major to bring local minority farmers to campus in the fall to talk about their work demonstrates the interdisciplinary connections that set DePauw apart and the type of project that will be funded by the Sanger Leadership Initiative, which has been created through a $20 million gift from Karen Ogren Sanger and Steve Sanger, both members of the Class of 1968.

The gift will enable DePauw’s eight centers to create cocurricular leadership-learning opportunities and experiential programs for students, the foundation of DePauw’s Gold Commitment.

“DePauw has developed leaders for more than 180 years,” President D. Mark McCoy says. “It is a joy to behold those leaders choosing to give back to DePauw in such profound ways.”

at commencement May 20.

Seeking input

Three trailblazing women were awarded honorary Doctor of Public Service degrees at the May 20 commencement. Recipients were Jinsie Scott Bingham ’56, the first woman in Indiana to own and operate a commercial radio station and leader of numerous professional and civic organizations; Dorothy Chapman Brown, house director for nearly 25 years at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house and the first African-American person to teach in Greencastle public schools; and Eva Mozes Kor, who has forgiven the Nazis for conducting experiments on her and her twin Miriam but who ensures, through her CANDLES museum in Terre Haute, that the horrors will not be forgotten. (L-r, Bingham, President D. Mark McCoy, Brown, Kor and Jordan.)

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DePauw University is seeking comments about the university as it prepares for an evaluation by its regional accrediting agency. The university will host a visit Sept.

10-11 from a team of peer reviewers, who will assess DePauw’s ability to meet the Higher Learning Commission’s criteria for accreditation.

Comments are due Aug. 9. They must be in writing and must address substantive matters related to the quality of DePauw or its academic programs. You may submit comments on the commission’s website at www.hlcommission.org/comment or mail them to Public Comment on DePauw University, Higher Learning Commission, 230 S. LaSalle St., Suite 7-500, Chicago, IL 60604-1411.

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DePauw legacy students graduated at the 179th commencement exercises.

25 YEARS OF SERVICE

DePauw’s 25th class of Bonner scholars, who receive scholarships, learn about civic engagement and social justice and perform community service, has just completed its first year. Over the years, Bonner scholars have volunteered more than 900,000 hours locally, nationally and abroad.

“Bonner students learn firsthand how to fully immerse themselves in the community in a way that allows them to bring their gifts to the table in meaningful ways without trying to save the community,” says the Rev. Katherine Smanik, assistant dean of students for spirituality, service and social justice.

“The goal is not to save us from ourselves; the goal is to build stronger, healthier, more vibrant places for all of us to live, learn and work.”

“I can’t quite describe to you how it feels to create something that matters to people.”

KEAH BROWN, journalist and creator of the

#DisabledAndCute movement, speaking April

20 at the Undergraduate Ethics Syposium at The

FROM THE PRESIDENT D. Mark McCoy

DePauw has been developing leaders for more than 180 years.

How has it done so in the past?

The bedrock of this effort is a rigorous liberal arts curriculum provided by stellar faculty with terminal degrees. This is the foundation on which DePauw is built and under which it has flourished. Provided in an undergraduate-only, opportunity-rich environment, our small classes and 100 percent residential setting made us the gold standard of undergraduate education.

How will it do so in the future?

First, a look at that future: One study suggests that 6 percent of all jobs will be eliminated by 2021. Another estimates that 47 percent of jobs are at risk of replacement by automation or artificial intelligence. Clearly, automation and technological ubiquity will continue to change the nature of work. What must students know to prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence, automation, climate change (to name only a few) and the world after it?

Philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey believed that deeper learning takes place when skills and knowledge acquired in the classroom are applied in realworld contexts. In “Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Joseph Aoun says, “to acquire the cognitive capacities at a high level, students … need to experience them in the intensity and chaos of real work environments.”

Those with a liberal arts education coupled with robust cocurricular and experiential opportunities will become the leaders in this data-driven world. By coupling our rigorous curriculum with a robust cocurriculum focused on experiential learning, we will continue to develop leaders the world needs. Knowledge gained in a liberal arts curriculum and employed in a powerful experiential environment cannot be automated.

DePauw has identified eight particular skills that will be even more valuable in this future: technology, entrepreneurship, media literacy, ethics, creativity, connectivity, community and cultural agility. DePauw has brought together eight centers to address these skills necessary to lead in the 21st century. You will read about all eight (see page 17) and one in particular (see page 18) in this issue. By developing these within and beyond our liberal arts education, we thrive.

Welcome to the future.

D. Mark McCoy President

Prindle Institute of Ethics.

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news LEAVING SMALLER FOOTPRINTS

DePauw University is investing $40 million to reduce its carbon footprint, improve energy efficiency and improve student housing.

Work is underway to install new HVAC technology; convert the campus’s heating system from steam to natural gas; and install LED lighting and solar panels. The Campus Energy Master Plan is expected to save $750,000 a year in energy expenditures and reduce greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent. A designer is drawing up a housing master plan for new residential options for first-year students and to improve existing spaces.

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME Six alumni from four decades and seven sports teams will be inducted into the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in Kresge Auditorium.

New inductees are Scott Farnham ’97 for football; Amy Argetsinger Newman ’05 for women’s basketball; Ted Rutan ’82 for men’s basketball and baseball; JaMarcus Shephard ’05 for football and men’s track and field; Sid Showalter ’64 for men’s swimming and diving; and Sarah Gates Wagoner ’07 for women’s golf. These six join more than 200 student-athletes, coaches and administrators who have earned induction since 1986. A complete list of inductees and a link to the nomination form are available at www.depauwtigers.com/honors_awards/ hall_of_fame/roster.

ONE OF FIVE

Sam McManus ’18 became the fifth DePauw student-athlete ever to win an individual NCAA championship when he captured the 200-yard breaststroke title in March at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis.

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DePauw graduates have been named Fulbright Scholars for 2018-19 academic year.

BOWLING FOR ETHICS

DePauw’s Bioethics Bowl team placed third out of 21 teams at the 2018 National Bioethics Competition in April.

The five-member team offered nuanced moral arguments, coach Marcia McKelligan says, on topics such as advance directives and dementia and addiction and the allocation of scarce medical resources.

The University of Portland, which won the competition, was coached by Paddy McShane ’07, a member of the DePauw Ethics Bowl team.

DePauw’s Bioethics Bowl team was national champion in 2012 and its Ethics Bowl team won the national championship in 2013.

“We just had Sophia here on campus. And when people were all panicked about that, I said, well, if it makes you feel any better, she came in a box. We didn’t buy a seat for her; she was in the cargo hold.”

DePauw President D. MARK MCCOY, recalling some disquieted reactions to robot Sophia, who came from

Hong Kong to DePauw Feb. 28 with her creator, David Hanson, for a Timothy and Sharon Ubben lecture.

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AS WE LIKE IT

DePauw students set out May 5 to prove that all the world’s a stage, when the 74 Putnam County middle and high school students they had been directing for 10 weeks performed in the seventh Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare. The 25 DePauw students learned about teaching methods and directing and then headed into the schools to work as directors, stage crew members and costumers or serve in related capacities.

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DEPAUW REAFFIRMS AND STRENGTHENS COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION FOLLOWING RACIST INCIDENTS AND CAMPUS CONVERSATIONS DePauw is implementing a series of initiatives to create a more welcoming and inclusive community following racist incidents that occurred on campus in April and prompted students to protest at a Timothy and Sharon Ubben lecture featuring actress and author Jenna Fischer and elsewhere on campus on two other occasions the same week.

The university launched investigations into each of the racist incidents. Police identified several non-student juveniles as responsible for one of them and referred the case to the Putnam County prosecutor and local school officials. Investigations into the other incidents are ongoing.

The Board of Trustees at its May meeting approved a new, cabinet-level position dedicated to diversity and inclusion, for which a national search will soon begin. The trustees also began a dialogue with minority student leaders as part of its Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.

In addition, DePauw will contract with an outside company to develop a scorecard to assess the university’s diversity and inclusion efforts that will be used to guide future actions. All new students and new and current faculty and staff members will take antibias training; the president’s cabinet will begin the training this summer.

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“DePauw’s core values are founded upon trust, integrity, diversity and inclusion,” says President Mark McCoy. “Our mission is to develop leaders the world needs, and that means preparing leaders for a world more diverse than any in history. All of us on this campus, with profound opportunities and resources, must be leaders to a better place, starting with our own corner of the world.”

Alumni Reunion Weekend by the numbers*

1,316 $1,190,783

alumni and friends attended

188

alumni volunteered to plan reunions

total giving by reunion classes to The Fund for DePauw

1,457

$35,744,042

alumni (28 percent) made gifts to DePauw to celebrate their reunion total gifts and commitments by the 50th reunion Class of 1967 since its 45th reunion

*as of June 28, 2018

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recent words

BETH BENEDIX, DePauw University professor of world literature, religious studies and community engagement Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story This work offers an intimate look into the difficult task of telling a harrowing story that is, at once, humble and intense, calm and breathless.

TROY CUMMINGS ’96 Can I Be Your Dog? This children’s picture book tells the story of Arfy, a homeless mutt whose letters make a desperate plea for a forever home.

Carrie Jo (Cooper) Howe ’82 Island Life Sentence Fictional Peg dives into island life when she moves to Key West, only to create a wide wake of catastrophes. When a tropical depression descends, Peg must gather her strength to survive the storm.

Howe is author of “Motherhood is NOT for Babies.” She and her husband Tom Howe ’82 live in Key West.

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MONA BHAN, DePauw University associate professor of anthropology Coauthor Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene

MONA BHAN, DePauw University associate professor of anthropology Contributor and coeditor Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

The book discusses the controversies around climate change by focusing on how communities in South Asia and beyond experience, perceive and articulate everyday changes in weather patterns.

Bhan and other contributors, many of whom have conducted fieldwork in Kashmir and were raised during the 1990s’ armed insurgency against Indian occupation, present new ways of thinking about contemporary social, legal and political life in Kashmir.

CHARLES “CHUCK” H. MCFALL ’63 The Calling: Based on True Events in the Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Indiana Pastor

CHRIS ’95 AND AMY (HOUSTON) ’96 OLER Molly and the Magic Suitcase: Molly Goes to London

COMER PLUMMER III ’83 Conquistadors of the Red City: The Moroccan Conquest of the Songhay Empire

This book recounts stories about the influence McFall’s father, the Rev. Dr. Merrill B. McFall ’24, a former member of the DePauw Board of Trustees, had on family and friends and the insights he gained from those people.

Molly and her brother Michael use a magic suitcase to explore London. This is the 11th book in a series that debuted in 2013. Chris, Amy and their children Molly and Michael recently ventured to Panama to research an upcoming book.

This book recounts a 16th-century Moroccan ruler’s search for gold in West Africa, a quest that proves ruinous for the Moroccan army and the entire region. This chapter in early modern African history was a precursor to even more devastating exploitation – the slave trade. (DePauw Magazine ran the wrong synopsis of this book in the last issue. We regret the error.)

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SARAH “SALLY” MILLS BUTZIN ’67 Creating Joyful Classrooms: A Positive Response to Testing Accountability in the Elementary School Butzin provides strategies to create engaging classrooms and address the malaise created by high-stakes testing, disrespect for teaching and the redirection of resources to charter schools and vouchers.

AMITY READING, DePauw University assistant professor of English Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book Scholars have been perplexed by the Vercelli Book, a 10th-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose.

This book argues that its organizational logic lies in the relationship of its texts to the performance of selfhood.

ABBY CHEW ’02 A Bear Approaches from the Sky Chew’s second poetry collection explores how humans emerge from the isolation of personal and family history and how they connect in their shared lives. Chew is the 2013 winner of the Orlando Prize for her poem “Storm.”

ANDY SLIPHER ’94 The Big How: Where Strategy Meets Success Slipher draws on real-world client dilemmas encountered in more than 20 years in marketing to advise readers on how to overcome business challenges.

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JEFFREY DUNN, DePauw University professor of philosophy Coeditor Epistemic Consequentialism How should we structure inquiry and form our beliefs? Just as an investor chooses investments with the goal of maximizing monetary value, the epistemic consequentialist advises us to structure inquiry and form beliefs with the goal of maximizing accurate belief.

This book features advocates and critics of such a view.

MATTHEW SUMPTER ’08 Public Land This collection of poems was inspired by Sumpter’s work on crews that built trails, felled trees and suppressed wildfires.

The author was fascinated by the ways environments make possible surprising ways of being ourselves.

WAYNE GLAUSSER, DePauw University professor emeritus of English Something Old, Something New: Contemporary Entanglements of Religion and Secularity This book offers a fresh perspective on debates surrounding religious and secular thinking, comparing topics of contemporary relevance to issues of old. Glausser is author of “Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eighteenth Century” and “Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD.”

CHRIS WHITE, DePauw University professor of English The Life List of Adrian Mandrick White’s debut novel, named a Best New Book of 2018 by The Chicago Review of Books, is about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world’s rarest species and escape his past.

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ENCOURAGING AN ETHICAL ETHOS How and why DePauw cultivates moral reasoning skills in its students

By Mary Dieter

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In the long-running debate in higher education over whether ethics can be taught in college, DePauw University has, since its founding, come down firmly on the side of “yes.”

The belief was alive in 1837, when the Methodist Church founded the school that would become DePauw and deemed it “forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general.”

Then, in 2007, DePauw affirmed the conviction when it opened The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, joining a small contingent of institutions of higher learning that put ethics front and center.

In those intervening 170 years and the 11 since, ethics have been debated in all manner of disciplines and classes have been shot through with conversations about ethical considerations.

“As an institution of higher education, we are preparing our students to make meaningful contributions to a diverse democracy and a global society,” says Anne Harris, vice president for academic affairs.

“In that work, ethics, especially as they guide interpersonal interactions and how people value each other, are crucial. Liberal arts graduates are critical thinkers who can discern and articulate their convictions, largely because these have been explored and tested in a living and learning environment.”

To Andrew Cullison, the Phyllis W. Nicholas endowed director of Prindle, “ethics ought to be one of the fundamental things that a liberal arts college is focused on.”

Graduates, says Cullison, a 2001 DePauw graduate, should be “competent to weigh values, to think about competing interests, to think about the cases for both sides of a critical issue or a public policy issue.”

Ted Bitner, the Lee G. Hall

distinguished visiting professor of psychology and neuroscience, agrees. “We’re educating people here not to get a degree that gets them a certain job,” says Bitner, who also is scientific research coordinator at Prindle, “but we’re educating them in terms of their character, in terms of morality – those kinds of things that, when they go into business, they go into education, they go into whatever they go into, they know how to think through these situations that are always confronting each and every one of us.”

That doesn’t mean that professors attempt to “give them the true way to live,” says associate philosophy professor

and Professional Ethics chose to locate its national headquarters at Prindle, DePauw was invited in March 2017 to join the National Ethics Project, which was launched to gather such data. Other partners in the project are Harvard and Stanford universities, the University of South Florida and The Citadel. Prindle recently was identified as the project’s clearinghouse for data.

Course catalogs from DePauw and Harvard were used as guinea pigs to test the tool the project will use to capture data. “The research director at Harvard said … ‘DePauw’s came out at about 90 percent, so I think there’s a problem with

“We’re educating people here not to get a degree that gets them a certain job, but we’re educating them in terms of their character, in terms of morality – those kinds of things that, when go into whatever they go into, they know how to think through these situations that are always confronting each and every one of us.”

TED BITNER, Lee G. Hall distinguished visiting professor of psychology and neuroscience

Jeffrey Dunn. “It’s critically important for DePauw to encourage people to reflect on their own ethical principles and to give them the skills to be able to do it in a useful way so they’re able to competently think through these ethical questions that are going to arise for them.”

No one keeps tabs on how and how often ethics are taught in higher education, but preliminary data suggest that ethics training is pervasive at DePauw.

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the tool,’” Cullison recalls. “I said, ‘or maybe there’s not a problem with the tool.’

We really do have more ethics-y classes because of the way our professors have been structuring their classes.”

Harris says that ethical training happens outside the classroom too – “in the residence hall, in campus events, in controversies and in social media – some of it planned; some of it unpredictable.

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platforms where discussion and dialogue about complex ethical situations can take place. The Prindle Institute provides such a place and platform, but we can also think about diffusing those important conversations throughout campus.”

To measure whether DePauw’s efforts are effective, students will take a test each year to measure changes over time in their capacity for moral reasoning, Cullison says. A preliminary test of 100 DePauw students showed they scored above the national average for all four grades.

“I think you could make a case that ethical discussions should be at the root of a liberal arts education, that there are foundation principles for humanity that we should be trying to identify and discuss,” says Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication and theatre. “That’s not to say that everybody’s going to look at them in the same way. People are welcome to have disagreements about what is proper in any given context but I think to ignore the discussion is a disservice to students.”

A lot is at stake. For example, “very soon we will be able to edit the genomes of people who perhaps have a disease …

If you understand the gene, and now we have the power to change it, that’s where the Pandora’s box of Pandora’s boxes is,” says Dan Gurnon, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry and program director for the Science Research Fellows.

“That is why training in ethics is so critical. Places like Prindle are so important for students and a liberal arts education is so important for students, for anybody who is going into science.

They’re going to have to think about these issues … We’re doing a good job, I think, of exposing our students to problems of immediate interest and importance.”

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ETHICS IN DISCIPLINES KHADIJA STEWART ON COMPUTER SCIENCE ETHICS:

Computer science students internalize ethical behaviors because many have experienced violations, says Khadija Stewart, associate professor of computer science.

“We talk about malware a lot,” she says. “They are aware of how personally they can be affected with that, whether the piece of malware does something damaging to their data or whether it simply turns the camera on and watches them.”

Ethics discussions bookend computer science majors’ time at DePauw. First-year students undertake exercises that require ethical decisions while seniors study the Association of Computing Machinery’s code of ethics, which calls for computer professionals to, among other things, honor copyrights and patents; give proper credit for intellectual property; and respect privacy.

Impromptu discussions about ethics also occur often, the result of Stewart’s request that students raise topics during each class period. “Often,” she says, “they will bring up an ethical issue that we discuss in class.”

JEFFREY MCCALL ON JOURNALISM ETHICS:

The proliferation of media outlets and formats has eroded some journalists’ ethics, says Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication and theatre.

“They all have to get their audiences or their clicks or their ratings or whatever (so) they’ve all got to do something to distinguish themselves,” resulting, he says, in “less compelling responsibility among the journalists themselves to say, ‘I’ve got to do it fairly; I’ve got to do it right.’”

The news industry “needs to come to a reckoning here and figure out maybe the way we’re going about news in this day and age is maybe not keeping people engaged. And we need to think about what we can do … There’s a role in education, both secondary education and certainly higher education, to reach out and convince young people now who are becoming bystanders that that’s not healthy for them or for our nation – that things are going on that affect them and they might well pay more attention.”

TED BITNER ON MEDICAL ETHICS:

Recognizing that different people and different cultures have different ethical standards, Ted Bitner, the Hampton and Esther Boswell distinguished university professor of psychology, teaches Honor Scholar students to approach ethical decisions with a consistent methodology.

First, he says, they must identify the moral dilemma. And then they must ask a lot of questions. In end-of-life decisions, for example, is the dying person’s autonomy threatened? If she left a directive, is there a compelling reason to countermand it? Are medical procedures made possible by new technology ethical? Is it ethical for a patient to go to another country where a needed organ is more readily available, perhaps because someone will sell it? Is extending life, no matter what, always ethical?

“People have different views because of their own value system,” says Bitner, also the scientific research coordinator for the Prindle Institute. “We have to be very careful with the students to help them understand that, just because we have this value, just because we have this moral behavior, doesn’t really make it moral.”

KEVIN KINNEY ON THE ETHICS OF ECOTOURISM: Sixteen people on an airplane. The 70foot, diesel-fueled touring boat. Electricity.

Fresh water. Shipped-in food. The risk of inadvertently bringing in pathogens.

Humans cannot visit the Galapagos Islands 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador without stressing them, even damaging them, biology professor Kevin Kinney says.

It’d be nice if visitors followed the ecotour mantra of “take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints,” he says. Better still if nobody visited at all.

But that’s not realistic, and Kinney recognizes the ethical dilemma and opts to take students to the islands that inspired Darwin’s theory of natural selection “because I want them to see this and I want them to think about these issues. . . We’re doing damage when we go down there but there’s nothing to substitute for the firsthand experience of being there.”

Kinney expects his Winter Term students to return from their experience proselytizing

about preserving the Galapagos and the environmental issues they illustrate.

“I’ve had students who have come back and changed their career arc and wanted to go into more environmental studies because they saw what was going on,” he says. A couple became vegetarians. He hopes those who are not immediately moved will reflect on the experience and ultimately make ecofriendly choices in their lives.

“You can show them videos and show them pictures” but students are more likely to respond “when they see an animal, when they see the bones of a marine iguana and realize this animal died because of an El Niño year, when it was very dry on the islands. And then they start to think, well, is that El Niño something that we had a hand in? And then they start to realize this is life or death for these organisms. When they start to realize that, that’s a big moment.”

ABOVE: Kevin Kinney keeps his (required) distance from a land iguana in the Galapagos Islands.

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PASCAL LAFONTANT ON ETHICS OF GENE MANIPULATION:

Pascal Lafontant was aware of the ethical dilemmas presented by the cutting-edge CRISPR technology when a colleague from Harvard Medical School visited DePauw for four days in April to teach students and professors how to use it to excise problematic genes from the human genome.

“I felt we needed to have an ethical component” so the associate professor of biology arranged a discussion about the ethical questions prompted by CRISPR, which holds the promise of curing dread diseases but also raises the specter of eugenics – creation of designer babies or pursuit of a master race.

“To me, those are discussions that need to happen,” Lafontant says. “Those are discussions that are happening.”

And not just about CRISPR, says Lafontant, who thinks about ethics in his research on fish.

For example, when he performs surgery on a fish, the subject is anesthetized and surgery is done in a room separate from the general population of his lab.

“I definitely want to make sure,” he says, “that when we’re doing our work we’re conscious about the ethical issue involved.”

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REBECCA SCHINDLER ON ETHICS IN ARCHEOLOGY: Archeological ethics are “challenging and intellectually engaging because there aren’t necessarily right answers,” says Rebecca Schindler, a classical studies professor. “It’s always contextually dependent on what your goal is and what your values are.”

So Schindler asks her students a lot of questions: Should a monument that humans intentionally destroy be reconstructed for educational purposes? Does authenticity matter? How will future archeologists study such a site?

It’s easy, she says, for students to condemn collectors or museums that pay huge sums for artifacts, incentivizing looters to rob graves, but it’s a more difficult question if the seller, displaced by war, is doing whatever he can to feed his family.

When students fret that archeological sites were flooded when Turkey built dams to generate hydroelectric power, she asks them, “how could you possibly let a million people go without electricity?”

In Schindler’s “Who Owns the Past?” class, students consider the ethics of archeological research; handling artifacts, the art market; and displaying material culture from the past.

And at an excavation site in central Italy, where Schindler and her colleague/husband Pedar Foss, also a classical studies professor, arrived with six students in late May for a fourth DePauw expedition, students are encouraged to “be really conscientious of the implications of their work” – not just its contribution to knowledge but also its effects on the community.

At the dig in Comune di Castiglione del Lago, that means listening to locals and consulting them about what they want for their museum, the repository of artifacts recovered from the site, she says.

“Archeologists used to shun local knowledge, like we’re the experts,” she says.

“But we’ve tried to embrace it. We try to listen to what everybody tells us about the area because everybody has a story that they want to tell …

“The ethical question is, whose story do we value? There’s more than one way to tell the story of the site.”

ABOVE: Rebecca Schindler, left, makes notes as her students and colleagues work at the Gioiella-Vaiano site in central Italy.

FRONT & CENTER DePauw University, like other liberal arts institutions, had to do some soulsearching.

Liberal arts enrollments have been declining across the nation, the result of a diminishing college-age population and the concerns of parents anxious that their offspring won’t be employable unless they have a STEM-related degree – that is, a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.

But rather than validate that anxiety or appease concerns, DePauw President D. Mark McCoy specifically sought to obviate the notion. And thus the Gold Commitment was born.

Each student who enters DePauw starting this fall and who meets traditional academic requirements and new cocurricular requirements over the next four years is eligible for a guarantee that he/she/they will find a job or be admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation. If that doesn’t happen, the university will help the student get a job or bring him/her/them back to campus for a tuition-free semester.

The job guarantee – the first such comprehensive commitment in the country – should go a long way toward assuaging parental concerns, McCoy says. But like any marquee, there’s

more than meets the eye. He and other administrators expect the guarantee will seldom come into play; DePauw already boasts a post-graduation job-attainment rate of about 95 percent. More to the point, they are so convinced that the liberal arts, especially DePauw-style, prepare students for life that they zealously proselytize about them.

DePauw liberal arts, McCoy says,

“It’s the human experience that matters the most.”

D. MARK MCCOY, president

imbue students with cultural agility and teach them to write well, speak well, think critically and quickly and put things into context. They prepare students to thrive at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to radically change the world – a time that McCoy, as an administrator whose responsibility is “to see around corners and to think about the bigger picture of what’s coming down the road,” has mulled considerably.

DePauw draws attention with well-centered Gold Commitment

When artificial intelligence catches up and surpasses human abilities – an impending moment some call “technological singularity” – “it’s the human experience that matters the most,” McCoy says. “What skills must we focus on to survive in the technological age, after the technological singularity? In my opinion, and to the best of my ability and with my murky crystal ball, it seems that there are eight.”

Those eight skills – including ethical reasoning, creativity and entrepreneurship – dovetail with eight centers on DePauw’s campus, whose programming is the backbone of the new cocurricular requirements.

“Just like we provide a set of options for (students) to choose from in the curriculum, there will be a set of options that they can choose from” for out-of-class experiences, says David Berque, associate vice president for student academic life and executive director of the Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement.

“This is not about asking our students to do more than they’ve been doing in many cases,” Berque says. “It’s about giving them some framework to understand how the pieces of what they’re doing fit together and to help them be able to tell a story about what they’re doing.”

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Berque heads the Centers Council, which facilitates collaboration among the centers to create “a cohesive cocurriculum for the student body (that), coupled with the powerful curriculum we already have, would lead to a truly first-rate experience.”

Says McCoy: “It has to be understood definitively and categorically that the key to our success is our liberal arts education.

Period … That is the necessary ingredient.

All of these other things are what we’re doing to add to the liberal arts to make them even more powerful … That’s how we develop leaders the world needs.”

DePauw has eight centers that provide cocurricular experiences for students.

They are: • Robert C. McDermond Center for Management & Entrepreneurship

• Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion

• Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media

• Tenzer Technology Center and Visualization Laboratory

• Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics

• Hartman Center for Civic Engagement

• Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement

• 21st-Century Musician Initiative

This issue of DePauw Magazine focuses on the Prindle Institute. The other centers will be highlighted in future issues.

PRINDLE’S PURPOSE Janet Prindle had had a successful career on Wall Street, serving as a pioneer for women and proving that socially responsible investing pays off.

Her success presented the 1958 DePauw University graduate with another investment decision: how and when to distribute her holdings. “The issue for me,” she said in 2007, “was either to give money away when I die or to do so while I’m still alive so I can gain satisfaction from seeing it make a difference for a place that I love.”

She chose the latter, endowing her alma mater with funds that enabled it to establish the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and construct a showcase building that was the first in Indiana to earn a gold rating for energy efficiency and environmental design from the U.S. Green Building Council.

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The institute is the only national ethics institute at a liberal arts college, says Andrew Cullison ’01, its Phyllis W. Nicholas endowed director.

Prindle’s vision, he says, was for the institute to enhance ethical training on DePauw’s campus as well as “pure national engagement – to try to get the nation to think about the critical issues of our time.” To meet both goals, the institute has undertaken a variety of projects and programs, including: • PRINDLE POST: This digital periodical (https://www.prindlepost.org/) each week publishes five to seven explanatory articles about ethical issues and popular culture, about half of which are written by scholars from around the country. Students write the rest. A “best of ” collection

is printed annually and distributed to K-12 schools, the DePauw community, Prindle alumni and prospective students.

• EXAMINING ETHICS: This podcast (http:// examiningethics.org/) provides content about ethics, including interviews with ethics experts and stories of regular people’s struggles with ethics in their everyday lives.

• PEA SOUP: This scholars’ blog (http://peasoup.us/), which has been connected to DePauw since 2016, provides a forum to discuss philosophy, ethics and academia.

• UNDERGRADUATE ETHICS SYMPOSIUM: Through a rigorous selection process, 25 to 28 students from institutions across the country are invited to the annual three-day gathering,

where they consider pressing ethical issues and present their work to one another.

• APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH RETREAT: Doctoral graduates and candidates in philosophy may apply to attend the eight-day retreat, where attendees from around the country workshop papers they have written on applied epistemology, the study of knowledge.

• SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL ETHICS BOWL INVITATIONAL: Any school in the country that finished in the top four of its regional competition may participate in this July event, which is capped at 20 teams.

• LECTURES: Prindle partners with Delta Gamma and the Delta Gamma Foundation to sponsor the Dorothy Garrett Martin Lecturer on Ethics and Values. Tarana Burke, who started the #MeToo movement, which went viral and was named Time’s 2017 Person of the Year, is scheduled to speak Sept. 6. Four people who recently earned their doctoral degree in philosophy are invited to DePauw each fall for the Young Philosophers Lecture Series.

• EDUCATION: Prindle offers creditbearing, graded courses in which students delve into a single work that speaks to ethical issues. The $300 Prindle Prize is awarded to students who submit papers that address ethics and that were prepared for a class in another discipline. Prindle hires student interns, who create and promote the institute’s events and programs or write for the Prindle Post. DePauw also sponsors Ethics Bowl and Bioethics Bowl teams.

• RESEARCH: Faculty members are awarded grants for sabbaticals or student/faculty summer research to

work on projects that address ethical questions.

• COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: High school students are awarded $300 each for winning essays that consider ethical issues involved in a specified subject.

The weeklong Express CAMP, which stands for character, attitude, morals and perspective, is available to Putnam County, Ind., students in grades one through five, who are

exposed to philosophy through the stories and themes of well-known children’s books.

• SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Grants are made to DePauw students in the early stages of planning a nonprofit, a for-profit with a social mission or a for-profit whose founder demonstrates a commitment to ethical reflection.

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Art and science and serendipity A

s a biochemist and a woodworker, Dan Gurnon has long been interested in the intersection of science and art.

The associate biochemistry professor arranged for students in a 2011 research class to collaborate with art students and a professional artist, resulting in the four-piece “Villin” steel sculpture that hangs in the Julian Science and Mathematics Center’s atrium.

After a 2015 campus visit by environmentalist and photographer Chris Jordan – who shot the now-famous images of desiccated albatross carcasses teeming with ingested plastics – science research fellows recognized “how powerful his work was and how more compelling it was immediately than perhaps a graph or a statistic would be,” Gurnon says. “They were excited.

I said, for your senior year, one of the projects we’ll do for your senior seminar will be to curate this art show.”

The result is the Art of Data, an exhibition running through July 15 at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center that presents scientific data in visually compelling ways. In other words, as art.

“I feel a little uncomfortable saying if something is art or not,” says Gurnon, who pitched the idea of the exhibition to Craig Hadley, Peeler director and curator of exhibitions and university collections. “The way I would define art – and I don’t know if this is right or not or if there is a right answer – but I think it needs to make you feel something. I feel that way with a lot of those works.”

Among the installations are five images depicting the differences in brain activity when a subject makes ethical and

LEFT: Computer visualization of the Zika virus isolated from an infected patient is shown in near-atomic resolution. This image is a

depiction of data published in 2016, using a drawing style developed by biologist and artist David Goodsell. Like other viruses, Zika features a tightly packed shell of proteins on its surface. But the discovery of unique sugar molecules on its surface, shown in blue, may help scientists figure out a means to fight the virus.

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RIGHT: Craig Hadley (left) and Dan Gurnon

unethical decisions. The images, collected during a Rob West-Emily Budde ’18 study, are the only installation in the exhibit that is the product of a DePauw lab. Other installations include a rendering of the Zika virus; an 1854 epidemiological map plotting cholera cases in London; a page from Charles Darwin’s notebook; and a video that demonstrates the evolutionary process.

Meredith Brickell, chair of the art and art history department, says of the exhibition: “I’m willing to talk about it as art. I love that challenge. It’s like, can you engage with this? Can you can engage in a conversation accepting this as art?”

At Peeler, she says, “we have demonstrated – and I think that this Art of Data exhibit is one of the ways we have demonstrated it – our willingness to have this really expansive view of what art is: how we look at it, critique it and move forward from there.”

Hadley, who upon Gurnon’s request promptly penciled in the exhibition for three years hence, said that Peeler “is a good place to have a conversation about the intersection of art and science and talk about the art angle, the science angle, where the two meet – or do they meet? – and I think that’s why something like this is so productive.”

Indeed, Peeler’s mission is, in part, “to stimulate the spirit of inquiry” and the center’s fulfillment of that mission played a part in its accreditation in March by the American Alliance of Museums. It’s a rare distinction; of the 33,000 museums in the country, only 1,070 – of which only a fraction is affiliated with a university – are accredited.

The accreditation “reinforces the idea that our collections are teaching collections. They’re here in service of the public,” Hadley says. “We hold them in trust for the public good; that means both for community researchers but also our students and faculty.”

For the five-plus years that Hadley has been preparing the accreditation application, he also has been collaborating with the Art and Art History Department, which had been working even longer to create a museum studies minor. DePauw’s faculty approved the minor in November; that the accreditation came just five months later was a bit of serendipity, he says.

Those events also coincided with the rollout of DePauw’s Gold Commitment, a guarantee that any student who has met

curricular and cocurricular requirements but has not found a job or been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation may return to DePauw for a tuition-free semester or will be given a fulltime job with a university partner.

“The commitment and initiatives of the last one to two years have spoken about hands-on, experiential learning and integrating classroom and curricular, cocurricular, hands-on practice and academic coursework,” Hadley says. “This is exactly what this (exhibit) is doing.”

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YOUR BRAIN ON ETHICS

DePauw study suggests it takes mental energy to make ethical decisions

By Mary Dieter You’ve heard the clichés since childhood: Think hard. Put your mind to it. Wear your thinking cap.

Apparently Mom was right – or, at least, early evidence from a research study being conducted by a DePauw University professor and his students suggests so. It appears that, when an ethical decision is considered, those who put more mental energy into the task are more likely to decide ethically. Those with low self-control are more likely to make an unethical decision.

Many more experiments must be conducted and many ethical questions must be considered before definitive statements can be made, findings can be verified and practical ways to use the work can be identified. But the work by Robert West, a neuroscientist and the Elizabeth P. Allen distinguished university professor, and his students already is attracting international attention.

West, who came to DePauw in fall 2015 in part to create a neuroscience major, has expanded on two experiments that he had conducted with a colleague at Iowa State University. There, West and the colleague, who worked in information systems, wanted to find out what happens in the brain when people decide to commit cybercrimes, which cost the world economy $3 trillion – yes, that’s with a “t” – in 2015 and are expected to cost $6 trillion by 2021.

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West’s work at DePauw constitutes a third experiment, on which he collaborated with Emily Budde ’18, starting with her 10-week summer research experience in 2016 and, except for the following summer, until she graduated in May. “Right now we’re at the point where we’re trying to understand what’s going on when you’re making those decisions,” West says. “What are some of the variables that might modulate that? And so, 10 years from now, we might actually be able to make a recommendation.”

The first goal of the research at DePauw was to reproduce the effects found at Iowa State in a new environment. West and Budde also sought to learn if eliminating an aspect of the first two experiments that raises ethical concerns for some – deception of the subjects – would make a difference in the results. The subjects in Iowa were told that a survey they completed established a personality profile and that their stipends would be higher if their responses during the research were consistent with the profile. That wasn’t true, West says, but the researchers used the deception – which is considered acceptable by some researchers as long as it is ultimately revealed – to motivate subjects to answer candidly, even when doing

so revealed their willingness to make an unethical decision.

At DePauw, the subjects were encouraged to answer the questions as honestly as they could while pretending to be someone else. “We got rid of the deception and still basically got the same data,” West says.

They also introduced several new concepts: Did the time span between a decision and the anticipated result matter?

Did it matter who benefited from the decision – the person making it or someone else? And did one’s self-control, impulsivity and willingness to take risks – determined by the volunteer subjects’ responses to questions about the likelihood that they would engage in certain activities – affect the results?

For the experiment, 40 subjects – students, faculty and staff – worked a saline gel into their scalps and donned headgear resembling a swim cap. As the subjects completed a questionnaire that posed ethical questions, 32 electrodes measured activity in the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction parts of their brains.

“Within about a fifth of a second to a half of a second after the person starts thinking about this, making one of these

decisions, this region seems to be active,” West says. Less brain activity occurred when a subject made an unethical decision, apparently because he or she was “not spending the brain energy to do the work of making the correct decision.”

West and Budde noted that the effects did not occur when the subject was making a less consequential decision, such as whether to attend a ballgame.

“It’s only when you’re making a decision about doing something you shouldn’t be doing,” West says. “It’s not simply the act of having to weigh a decision.”

Budde, who performed much of the hands-on work with subjects, came to DePauw and its Science Research Fellows program with an interest in psychology. One class with West, she says, convinced her that she should study social neuroscience, and the lab experience afforded her as a research fellow has been a plus.

Budde did research last summer in her hometown at the University of Cincinnati. She landed the position

through networking enabled by the fellows program – one of its benefits, says Michael Roberts, chair of DePauw’s Psychology and Neuroscience Department.

“This level of research engagement is unusual and exemplary,” he says. “It is terrific preparation and makes our students stellar candidates for top graduate and professional programs.”

Budde has been accepted to graduate school for the fall, where she hopes to figure out if she prefers academia or applied research psychology.

Though it is premature to drawn too many conclusions, the work generated interest and garnered news coverage when West and his Iowa State colleague submitted a paper in June 2017 for a survey of the social and behavioral science for national security conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

The paper concluded that the work “has the potential to provide insight into violations of (information security) by organizational insiders and to also identify processes or procedures that may serve to mitigate insider threat to organizational InfoSec.” West presented another paper, coauthored by science research fellows Kaitlyn Malley ’19 and Bridget Kirby ’20, at the NeuroIS Retreat in Vienna in late June 2018. Early that month, Kirby presented the work at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience at the University of Michigan.

Given the extent of cybercrime, any mitigation would be significant, West says. He also wants to learn whether the findings apply to other fields – say, police

work or journalism.

It’s too early to know, he says, if hiring managers will someday use brain activity to determine if a candidate will be a good hire or criminal investigators will be able to determine if a suspect is likely to commit a crime – and whether the law and society will accept such uses. But he warns that businesses already use questionnaires to screen prospective employees, even though such uses are not necessarily validated by evidence.

That’s just one of the ethical gray areas related to West’s research about ethical decision-making.

“For me,” he says, “the ethical piece is, don’t put the cart before the horse, No. 1.

No. 2, you can’t jump from basic science to translational science in months or years.

It doesn’t happen. I’m sorry; I know the world wants that but it doesn’t happen.”

Emily Budde ’18

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connections: engaging with depauw Coming Together Weekend 2018 welcomes alumni and students of color

SAVE-THE-DATES Old Gold and Family Weekend Sept. 29-30

Monon Bell Game at Wabash College Nov. 10

Rector Scholarship Centennial Celebration A group of Coming Together participants at the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media with Kareem Edwards ’07.

Fifty alumni and current DePauw students gathered on campus May 5-6 for the annual Coming Together weekend, which fosters relationships among alumni and students of color.

Attendees participated in a conversation with university President D. Mark McCoy. The Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion hosted a dialogue, “What Now?,” about diversity and inclusion in DePauw’s community, along with a luncheon and celebration for graduating seniors and “A Night to Unite” mixer.

Kareem Edwards ’07 presented a keynote address on “Blueprint to Allyship.”

Participants also enjoyed a concert by DePauw’s Exalt! Gospel Choir at Gobin United Methodist Church.

“The courage and fortitude that student leaders possess to create a stronger DePauw community is inspiring,” Edwards said. “As allies, it’s our obligation to not only listen, but also act to ensure all students feel safe on campus.”

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A Posse Scholar and a Bonner Scholar, Edwards majored in mathematics and minored in anthropology. He was president of the Rho Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., a resident assistant, a WGRE DJ and treasurer of Men of Excellence. Having earned an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, he is associate brand manager at Kraft Heinz Co. and Chicago president of Suit Dreams, an organization that seeks to transform the national perception of the young urban male.

To engage more alumni, Coming Together Weekend has expanded to events in cities around the country. The Office of Alumni Engagement began these efforts last fall in Atlanta, Chicago and Indianapolis. Nigel Bruce ’15, assistant director of alumni engagement, is leading the effort to cultivate community among alumni. If you are interested in having a Coming Together Series event in your city, please contact Nigel at nigelbruce@ depauw.edu or by phone at 765-658-4298.

May 10-12, 2019

HIRE A TIGER! To share an internship or job opportunity for DePauw students, visit www.depauw.edu/hubbardcenter and click “Hiring Our Students.”

For more information or to discuss participating in career fairs or meeting with student groups, contact the Hubbard Center for Student Engagement at 765-658-4622 or hubbard@depauw.edu.

Alumni assume leadership positions on the board and staff

Kathy Vrabeck ’85

Steven J. Setchell ’96

Leslie Williams Smith ’03

Kathy Patterson Vrabeck, senior client partner with Korn Ferry and a 1985 graduate of DePauw, was elected in May to a four-year term as chair the university’s Board of Trustees.

Vrabeck was a French and economics major at DePauw who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Walker Cup. She earned an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She has held leadership roles at major game and film makers, including Activision, Electronic Arts and Legendary Pictures, and has led digital entertainment in the fastest-growing segments of the market – mobile, online, social networking and e-commerce. The Hollywood Reporter and Business Week have named her to

lists of “100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment” and “25 Up and Coming Media Executives.”

Steven J. Setchell ’96 has been appointed vice president for development and alumni engagement, a job he held on an interim basis for several months.

Setchell joined DePauw’s development and alumni engagement staff in 2002.

In 2013, he was appointed to lead an expansion of alumni involvement in the life and mission of DePauw and has served the university in major gifts and corporate and foundation relations; managed The Campaign for DePauw; and chaired the 175th anniversary planning committee.

Setchell and his wife, Cara, DePauw’s first-year class dean, live on the edge of

campus in Greencastle.

Leslie Williams Smith ’03 has been named executive director of alumni engagement. She previously was vice president of DePauw’s alumni association board of directors and delivered a keynote address at “DePauw Dialogue: Building Community through Engaging Difference.” She has served as an admission volunteer and member of the Chicago Regional Chapter of DePauw Alumni. Prior to joining DePauw’s staff, Smith was data manager for The Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago.

She lives in the Indianapolis area with her husband Roland and their two children.

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connections: engaging with depauw DePauw’s newest graduates grateful for alumni contributions To support students like these, consider a gift to The Fund for DePauw. For ore information, visit depauw.edu/give or call 800-446-5298.

“Alumni philanthropy allowed me to intern with Start the Heart Foundation. I taught ninth-grade health classes Hands-Only CPR to help reduce the amount of deaths from cardiac arrest in Louisville, Ky. I was able to gain experience working with a nonprofit organization in the public health sector and shed light on a serious public health issue.”

– SYDNEY LEWIS ’18, sociology major

“My experience at DePauw was shaped by my three years as a Hillman intern at the Prindle Institute for Ethics. Alumni philanthropy allowed me to intern there for two summers as well, where I conducted research on the value of ethics and moral reasoning in business. From this research, I presented at a conference in February 2017 and, later that spring, the Prindle Institute received a $30,000 grant to continue research. My next step in life, working for DePauw alum-founded company BCforward, came from the valuable skills I learned during these summers at Prindle.”

– SARAH ERTELT ’18, religious studies major

The Campaign for DePauw Total gifts and commitments $333,527,078 Bequests received $19,666,223 (6 percent) Deferred gifts $60,260,652 (18 percent) Commitments $51,509,775 (15 percent) Cash on hand $202,090,428 (61 percent) Figures as of April 30

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“Being provided the opportunity and resources to intern at the World Health Organization and United Nations Library has cultivated my leadership skills and passions for global health. I am so appreciative of alumni support that helps provide outstanding programs that contribute to a rich community environment where everything we learn abroad we bring back to campus and teach our peers.”

– PETER GORMAN ’18, global health major

DEPAUW ALUMNI TRAVEL PROGRAM 2019 TANZANIA MIGRATION SAFARI JAN. 23-FEB. 3, 2019 Search for the thundering herds of wildebeest, the silent stalk of the cheetah and the cacophonous cackle of African hoopoe. With unparalleled access to Tanzania’s national parks, the guidance of an Orbridge expedition leader and luxurious accommodations, this journey provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the spectacular array of wildlife in this part of the world.

FLAVORS OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA APRIL 17-26, 2019 From snowy mountain tops to deserts and rosés to reds, discover the endless diversity along the South American continent’s edge.

Embrace the myriad of treasures cultivated by welcoming locals as you unwind and experience the spirited traditions of this prismatic land.

SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PARKS SEPT. 25-OCT. 4, 2019 Immerse yourself in the majestic beauty of the American Southwest, discovering the geological wonders of our national parks, including Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyon. Millions of years of uplift and erosion have left a spectacular, monumental imprint across America’s Southwest plateau.

TIMELESS CUBA OCT. 23-30, 2019 Open the door to this changing island nation on a weeklong cruise featuring visits to three of Cuba’s most engaging cities.

Find details online at www.depauw.edu/alumni/events/alumnitravel-programs or contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 877-658-2586 or alumnioffice@depauw.edu.

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connections: engaging with depauw Alumni Reunion Weekend 2018 1. Ferid Murad ’58 and Thomas A. Lancaster ’58 at 60th reunion lunch at the Prindle Institute for Ethics.

2. Class of 1958 classmates at the Washington C. DePauw Societies breakfast in Hoover Hall: Carol Dorsett Pyle, Barbara Tracy Cochran, Nancy Ruyle Dodge, Carolyn Beasley Gilbert and Carolyn T. Jones.

3. Young Alumni Award recipient David Vincent Blackburn II ’04, Obinna Derrick Ugokwe ’05, James R. Foster ’02, Andrew Huff ’06 and JaMarcus Laquenten Shephard ’05 at downtown Greencastle block party.

4. GOLD Council members on campus for meetings: Caitlin M. Cavanaugh ’09, Stewart M. Burns ’13, Siobhan Lau Hunter ’09, Kyle B. Moore ’11, Ellen M. Tinder ’17, Austin H. Miller ’13, Margaret E.MacPhail ’15 and Nicole M. Burts ’13.

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6. The Class of 1968 unveiled its 50th reunion gift during a convocation in Meharry Hall.

7. James B. Stewart ’73, Sander L. Esserman ’73 and Robin Esserman at downtown Greencastle block party.

8. Distinguished Alumni Citation, Old Gold Goblet and Young Alumni Award recipients: Jeffrey M. McCall ’76, Max W. Hittle Jr. ’66, David Vincent Blackburn II ’04, Elisabeth “Bess” Walker Evans ’07 and Pharez A. Whitted ’82.

9. Timothy S. Feemster ’68 and faculty members Robert E. Calvert and David A. Berque.

10. Alumni applauded Class of 1968 classmates Stephen W. Sanger and Karen Ogren Sanger on the announcement of their $20 million gift to establish the Sanger Leadership Initiative at DePauw.

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Dr. Paul F. Brown celebrated his 95th birthday May 3. He retired from Maquoketa Medical Center and lives in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

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William “Bill” F. Hayes Sr., an actor and singer who has performed on television’s “Days of Our Lives” for 48 years, was honored April 29 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Daytime Emmy® Awards.

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CLASS NOTES The class notes section of DePauw Magazine enables DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the university current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but because of space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned.

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 about the gathering.

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Class notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You also may submit via the DePauw Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu.

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John Jakes, who has sold 120 million copies of the nearly 100 books he has written, now has a scholarship at the New College of Florida named for him. The John Jakes Endowed Writing Scholarship will be given to students pursuing careers in writing, journalism or publishing. More than $100,000 was raised for the fund, triggering a match of $100,000 from an anonymous donor. The school celebrated completion of the fundraising drive with a fireside chat with Jakes, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., and his friend, fellow author Don Bruns.

1954

Dr. James M. Holland of Wilmette, Ill., and Dr. Alfred D. Biggs Jr. of Leawood, Kan., attended the 60th reunion of the Northwestern University Medical School Class of 1958 in Chicago in April. Jim and Al were among seven 1954 DePauw graduates who were members of the Northwestern class. Jim is professor emeritus of urology and associate dean at the medical school. Two of his three children also attended DePauw: John Holland ’83 and Meg Holland ’85. Al retired from his medical practice in 1996 and as chief executive officer of Health Midwest Comprehensive Care in 2001. His wife, Ruth Hawkins Biggs, retired from her teaching career and as a docent at the Nelson Art Gallery.

They spend their retirement traveling and volunteering in Kansas City. Their four children are DePauw graduates: Dr. David Biggs ’80, Laura Biggs Ericson ’81, Dr. Thomas Biggs ’84 and Katherine Biggs Kaster ’86.

1957

Hirotsugu “Chuck” Iikubo was the speaker April 18 for the first Arthur E. Klauser Asian Studies Memorial Lecture at DePauw. He also spoke April 19 about problem solving at 30 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2018

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 Marjorie Hamblin Sheridan ’44 and Charles H. Sheridan ’43. an event sponsored by the McDermond Center and the DePauw Consulting Group, a student organization.

1958

Joseph R. Flummerfelt was the guest conductor at a May 19 concert by the Kona Choral Society in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Dawn Follett Schumann was the featured speaker at the April 8 meeting of the Unitarian Universalists of the Islands in Sanibel, Fla. Her talk was titled “Can Separation of Church and State Exist?” She recently received a lifetime achievement award from the state of Michigan.

1961

Don R. Daseke was the guest speaker May 8 at the spring McDermond Center Entrepreneurship Series. He is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Daseke Inc. and a DePauw trustee. He was a recipient of a 2018 Horatio Alger Award by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and profiled in Chief Executive magazine.

1962

Charles “Biff ” Geiss and his wife Barbara walked 60 and 80 miles respectively along the Camino de Santiago in Galicia, Spain, April 2-8.

They were with 30 other pilgrims from Northwest Indiana. Mass was celebrated at the end of each day. Biff was inducted into DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame on Old Gold Day last October. Supporting him were his family, grandchildren and baseball teammates James M. Force ’61 and Fred O. Roberts.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1948 Row 1 (left to right): Glenn C. Steiner, Mary Ellen West Huggard, Dona Lou Wilson Imler, the Rev. William A. Imler, John J. Baughman, Catharine Manhart Walton, T. Lyle Harlor and Howard W. Eloe.

1964

Richard D. Nice was one of five new members elected to the Plastics Pioneers Association, a nonprofit organization of industry leaders with at least 20 years in the plastics industry.

Lee E. Tenzer is the owner of Greencastle (Ind.) Windy Hill Country Club golf course. The club has been renamed Tiger Pointe Country Club. Lee is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

1966

Nine members of Alpha Phi sorority gathered in Cleveland for a weekend in April. They took a Lolly the Trolley tour of the city and visited the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They also spent time reminiscing about their years at DePauw. (See photo, page 33.)

David Cook completed his 40th 500 Festival Mini Marathon, a 13.1-mile race run May 5 in advance of the Indianapolis 500 car race. David has missed just two since the event debuted – the first one, because he wasn’t yet running, and the 1995 event, because his wife Amy Barrow Cook ’67 and his cardiologist forbade it: Cook had had a heart attack in 1994. David and Amy are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this year.

Thomas B. Grooms gave a lecture on art and architecture in a democracy at an April 5 event hosted by DePauw’s Department of Art and Art History. He is the former director of design excellence and the arts at the U.S. General Services Administration, where he was responsible for the selection of the architect and

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1953 – (left to right): Kenneth A. Wieland, Bruce Walker and the Rev. Robert A. Schilling.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 - Members of the Class of 1958 Row 1 (left to right): Judy Blang Locke, Susan Stevenson Imel, Janet Prindle Seidler, Martha Obear Huggins, Nancy Lindquist Temple, Marilyn Hansen Lancaster, Katherine Keith Milne, Nancie Clark Williams, Patricia Moore Life, Martha Moore Trowbridge, Howard N. Greenlee Jr., Jerry G. Gaff. Row 2: George L. Mazanec, Carolyn Beasley Gilbert, Emily Hooton Hamilton, Nancy Ruyle Dodge, Richard B. Hackenberg, Edward L. Unterberg, Daniel L. Henderson, James B. Life, Belinda Nickel Watts, Albert A. Watts Jr., Robert N. Davies, Thomas A. Haygood. Row 3: Robert W. Edler, Robert D. Britigan Jr., Richard T. Hill Jr., Thomas A. Lancaster, Joseph R. Flummerfelt, Daniel E. Lewis Jr., Charlotte Nelson Lueckel, Marie Bromer Moore, Richard W. Moore, Carlton B. Stringfellow, Anne Earhart GlennWhite. Row 4: Nancy Young Gehlbach, Linda Stang Hanahan, William A. Kirk, Barbara Tracy Cochran, Carol Dorsett Pyle, Thomas L. Turk, John W. Schiller, John M. Johnson, Lee Lewis Johnson, Douglas A. Holmes, Kathryn Orr Taylor. Row 5: Timothy H. Ubben, Sharon Williams Ubben, W. Richards Kindig, Nancy Hadley Wilhelm, Carolyn T. Jones, James H. Boyd, Mary McCorkle Sondee, Carol Leopold Murad, Ferid Murad.

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engineering teams that design federal buildings and the development and approval of the designs.

1967

The Men of Note Alumni Singers have been invited to perform Oct. 18-20 at the fan-based

Four Freshmen Society get-together in South Bend, Ind. Sarah “Sally” Mills Butzin is the author of “Creating Joyful Classrooms.” She is the creator of the Project CHILD instructional system and founder of

the Institute for School Innovation in Tallahassee, Fla., and has served in numerous leadership positions.

1969

Douglas McAlister drew on more than 40 years in sales and marketing to write “The High Road Code.” The former member of the Alumni Board says he wrote about business ethics because “I’m appalled, almost daily, to read about corporations and politicians’ public examples of ethics lapses.”

1971

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1963 Row 1 (left to right): Bayard H. Walters, Jane Turk Schlansker, Evelyn Whaley LaFollette, Martha Stutsman Oman, Roy K. Hunteman, Julia Caldwell Boltz, Irene Kinzer Milliken, Robert W. Bluhm. Row 2: Kathleen Spangler Vashaw, Susan Day Brattain, Judith Allen Charlick, Constance Malm Cripe, Catherine Laplante McCray, Anne Husted Burleigh, Marilyn Muse Thompson, Marylyn Sexton Burridge, Virginia Cox McCoy, Jerry D. McCoy. Row 3: Rebecca Rudy Rusling, Rebecca Zabel Das, Marilyn Mead Priser, Michael J. Cripe, Jane Cockerill Hunt, Eric P. Doepke, William W. Shilts. Row 4: Herman L. Barber Jr., Dennis A. Priser, John T. Elliff, Michael H. Thomas, J. Kent Flummerfelt, Jerry H. Nessenson, Philip N. Eskew Jr. Row 5: Joe F. Volkman, Barbara Owen Volkman.

Edward M. Greene is vice president of strategic partnerships and community outreach for the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network. He was honored by Exchange Leadership Institute for his contributions to the field of early childhood. Over his 40year career, Ed has worked with infants, toddlers, preschool children, adolescents and families in a variety of roles in the philanthropic, private and public sectors and in higher education.

David C. Westerholm has been a property and casualty actuary for 47 years. He is the chief actuary at 7710

Insurance Co., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for firefighters.

He reports that he is a world-class chocoholic who spends much of his free time trying to get in shape to accomplish the only thing on his bucket list – complete an Ironman triathlon.

His email address is davidwesterholm1@ gmail.com.

1972

Richard H. Moore was a keynote speaker at the 2018 March for Science in Washington D.C. He represented the National Council for Science and the Environment as a senior fellow. In his remarks, he emphasized the need for increased funding for science and the environment.

Leah Schulte Mannweiler received the 2018 Richard M. Fairbanks Circle of Hope Award April 26 for her commitment and contributions to the field of addictions. She is a partner at the Indianapolis law firm of Krieg DeVault LLP.

1974

Judge Terry A. Crone of the Indiana Court of Appeals participated April 9 in a question-andanswer session for pre-law students at the Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement. He discussed his DePauw journey, legal education and career path.

1976

J. Russell Mason received a Conservation Service Award from Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever that recognizes individuals who have affected wildlife habitat conservation efforts nationwide. He is the chief of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ wildlife division.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1968 Row 1 (left to right): Stephanie Stewart Lazzeroni, Hilda Gaston Tecklenberg, Marcia H. Lake, Shirley Zivich Mertz, Robert S. Kurtz, Mary Ann Bower Schubert, Sharlene C. Peterson, James O. Baxter Jr, Bonnie Boilini Baxter, Darel F. Lindquist, Jack B. Campbell, B. Thomas Boese, Christine Van Nada Riggle, Kathleen McKay Gilbert, Ruth Russ Huneke, Anne Frankel McDermond. Row 2: Susan H. Kosinski, Susan Pilant Rose, Cheryl Slagell Kinsinger, Gretchen Benedek Feemster, Timothy S. Feemster, Joanne Cockrill Vetterick, Sue Thalacker Welcome, Linda James Lortz, Eric V. Lortz. Mari McGaughey Greves, Diane Davis Cordell, Royal Parsons Klauk, Ann Wilhoite Brilley, Rev. Faye Arvidson Snyder, Karen Ogren Sanger, Catherine Meier Jenkins. Row 3: William N. Keadey Jr., William R. Van Bokkelen, Stuart Showalter, Larry L. Patchell, Rev. Andrew C. Mead, Robert R. Schlueter, C. Scott Molden, Jane Heineman Molden, Jeanne Chapman Partridge, Robert H. Partridge, Christina Hughes Tugeau, Monica Reid Zontanos, Robert E. Nelson, Jane Broyhill Houser. Row 4: Wayne G. Jeronimus, David R. York, Bruce W. Fritch, Ronald F. York, Stephen C. Grubbs, Gerald R. Connor, Thomas R. Arendshorst, William A. Carlson, Raymond R. Arvay, John W. Payne, Daniel P. Cope, Terry G. Rehn, Nancy J. Flint, Mildred Longden Meehan. Row 5: Steve W. Sanger, Jay R. Walton, Paul D. Smith, Jeffrey E. Fisher, James A. Fisher, John P. Douglass, Jan Ebershoff McGurk, Thomas A. McGurk Jr., James W. Payne, G. William Higbee, Heather Cibulka Higbee, Bruce M. Montgomerie, Joan E. Hamilton. Row 6: Martha Drake Shiffler, Olwen Twyman Wright, Vicki Little Evanatz, Jane Arterburn Bucher, Susan Goff Minihan, Mary Martin Canada, Kathryn Klim Sturrock, Joann Brookmeyer Lininger, Geneese Gottschalk, Barbara Smith Johnson, Susan McGraw Aqeel, Eric Robertson. Row 7: Jeffrey L. Henry, David W. Campbell, J. Randall Reifers, David L. Gregory, Sally Kile Alden, Richard M. Faner, M. Kip Kistler, Thomas R. Lininger, George Knickerbocker, Ross J. Gigliotti. Row 8: Gregory F. Udell, Nancy J. Geiss, Mayre K. Williams, Susan Farquhar Lipchak, Charles F. Isaacson, Charles F. Haigh, Jean G. Hamilton, Anne Roberts Krause, Richard W. Talley, Sondra Mutz Talley, Daniel L. Weber.

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Nine alumni of Alpha Gamma Delta classes of 1976 and 1977 met in Indianapolis during March to eat together, visit a flower conservatory and go duckpin bowling. (See photo.)

1977

Barbara Kingsolver was profiled in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, which notes that her new novel, “Unsheltered,” is set to be published in October.

1978

Robert R. and Sally Henning ’79 Carpenter travelled in December to Vienna, where they visited with their former German teacher Gretl

Class of 1966 Alpha Phi alumni get-together: (l to r) Carol Cannom Ferrell-Faville, Barbara Spitler Framke, Jeanie Brown Belhobek, Nancy Martin Warren, Kay Yoder Thompson, Martha Fearer Highsmith, Ruth A. Mahaney, Patricia L. Henderson and Nicholi A. Evans.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1973 Row 1 (left to right): Mary Jane Murray Hall, George E. Clift, Jennifer Simmons Althaus, Nancy Eshcoff Boyer, Donna Dechants Bolz, Deborah J. Daniels, Elizabeth Cooney Englbrecht, Suzanne Steubs Thompson. Row 2: Julie Houk Goodrich, Matilda J. Wilhoite, Mary Ann Cox Sadler, Catharine Penniman-Moser, Patricia Gorman Brownlee, Susan Vaughn, Mary Jones Landon, Dwight E. Matthews, Lynn Halloran Yaeger. Row 3: William J. Hamm, John W. Timothy Jr., Stuart M. Walker, Leslie Kennedy Bender, Nancy Netherland Becker, Rev. Rebecca Swindler Curry, Gail Ritchie Henson, Kathryn A. Miller, Michael S. Humphries. Row 4: Sander L. Esserman, Steven L. Tyler, John C. Korschot, Phillip W. Brown, Mark E. Howard, Frank C. Donaldson Jr., Elizabeth Burnett Boulet, James A. Kegley, David E. Hickman. Row 5: Janet Hooker Winningham, Rebecca Clark Williams, Lea Johnson Renfro, Phillip L. Stiver, Stephen K. Long.

Alpha Gamma Delta get-together: Deborah A. Ulrich ’76, Cynthia A. Gossett ’77, Jerri Iula Roberts ’76, Kathy Haynes Guiliani ’77, Sara Coapstick ’77, Patricia Haynes Gainey ’76, Susan A. Rising ’76, Laura Brown Roberts ’76 and Kim E. Schaefer ’76.

Weissgärber at the Austro-American Institute, where they and many other DePauw students studied.

James L. Powers Jr. was appointed chief executive officer of Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States.

1979

Charles D. Brooks was selected by the Washington Post to be a part of The Network, a list it composed of the most influential people in cybersecurity. He is the principal market growth strategist for cybersecurity and emerging technologies for General Dynamics Mission Systems and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in its applied intelligence program.

Sally Henning Carpenter and Robert Carpenter ’78 travelled in December to Vienna, where they visited with their former German teacher Gretl Weissgärber at the Austro-American Institute, where they and many other DePauw students studied.

Jane Judkins Stegemiller was the featured photographer at First Friday events in April and May at M10 Studio in Indianapolis. Her show, “Breathing the Light,” featured 23 images on dye-infused aluminum. The presentation showcased landscapes, cityscapes and natural microphotography. M10 Studio is part of the Circle City Industrial Complex, a collective of more than 50 galleries, artists and artisans in downtown Indianapolis.

Dr. Mark R. Kelley is the associate director of basic science research at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, where enrollment has begun in a phase one clinical study of a drug designed to battle cancer while protecting against chemotherapyinduced peripheral nerve damage.

The clinical study is the outgrowth of nearly 30 years of research by Mark.

Scott M. Kelley, the son of Mark and his wife, Susan Wexelberg Kelley, recently completed his freshman year at DePauw’s School of Music.

1980

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1978 Row 1 (left to right): Pamela Huber Collins, Rolanda L. Hughes, Kim Lorentzen Grant, Jill Thompson Ash, Aimee Guest Hucek, Ingrid Grujanac Kay, Lee Ann Loving Neff.

Row 2: Philip J. Nicholsen, Mark E. Small, Cecilia Maron-Puntarelli, Salvatore J. Puntarelli Jr., Donna J. Sprague, Jamie T. Tyson, Jayne Knobbe Schultz, Arlene Burnside Crow, Gregory A. Crow. Row 3: Anne Page, David L. Harlor, Michael G. Stout, Cynthia Cox Curnutt, Kathy Hungness Foster, Mary Vanderbosch Round, Karen Kerwin Spicer, Laurie Entz Brown, Susan Suckow Barkhausen, Cary D. Bussema. Row 4: Nancy Emmert McNab, Katherine Harcourt Hallett, Victoria Gilbert Peters, Joanne G. Horner, Lisabeth Fortune Somerville, Janet Hayes Nice, Christine Boeke, Steve A. Steckler, David M. Underwood.

Row 5: Randy Romero, David G. Kraemer, Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Julia Kelly Smith, Scott F. Russell, Jarrell B. Hammond, William B. Caskey, David S. Pickard, Anton G. Florian. Row 6: Jeffrey D. Hallgren, Kevin W. Horn, Kenneth J. Kubat, Jill O’Daniel Langrand, Mary Jane Glover Dodds, Elizabeth Barcus Leitch, Paul H. Van Every, William R. Donaldson, Timothy C. Collins. Row 7: Eric W. Fredbeck, Rev. Wayne A. Sayre, John A. Wilson, Robert S. Lukemeyer II, Karol Mason McIntosh, Catherine Pfluger Lewis, Diane M. Norman, Ellen Vogel Seeman, James W. Davis.

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Alpha Gamma Delta members meet in Napa Valley. Those attending included Barbara Bradford Weingartner ’84, Shari Strickler ’84, Sherry Gross Scircle ’85, Catherine Shoemaker Richey ’86, Janet A. Burris ’84, Angela Cheser Southern ’85, Amy Ebner Buck ’84, Paula John Bartel ’84, Karen Krickhahn Benton ’84, Sandra Ratliff Rose ’84, Michelle Melin Niemeyer ’86, Linda R. Noble ’84, Lisa K. Crawley ’84, Kathleen Kirby Kibbe ’84, Julie A. Cason ’84, Jennifer Walter Ryba ’84, Marianne Sorge Ell ’85, Rachel Weingartner Jenkins and James L. Weingartner ’84.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1983 Row 1 (left to right): William R. Shinn, Peter M. Baldwin, Todd J. Kaiser, Edward C. Holub, Margaret N. Laurien, G. Richard Locke III. Row 2: James M. Mullin, G. Douglas Stewart, Cheri Branch Buckley, Anne Vollette Fischer, Elizabeth Close Dierksheide, Cynthia Treadwell Bridges, Brynne Williams Shaner. Row 3: Megan Cassidy Walls, Gayle Soderstrom Gaeth, Julia Mathews Meneghin, Jennifer M. Johnson, Susan Eckerly O’Donnell, Mary Matson Latta, Martha Kennedy Weiss, Susan M. Hickey, Julia A. Pratt, Margaret L. Markham. Row 4: David S. Dewey, Bradford H. Collins, Christopher L. Johnston, Craig W. Landis, Lisa Reynolds Schlehuber, Barbara Sundheim Roloff. Row 5: Benjamin P. Hohman, Brent D. Holt, Randal S. Forbes, R. Keith Howard, Gerald Haberkorn, Kimberlee Warning Foglton, Elizabeth Morehead Wilson, Anna Fenoglio Tift.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1988 Row 1 (left to right): William A. Dahlgren III, Deborah Frazier Dahlgren, Cynthia Dugan Curnow, Victoria Blum Skelton, Stephanie Branson Douglas, Jennifer Lodovisi Evanseck, Jane Mutchner Ferguson, Julia A. Weise, Cynthia J. Shaum. Row 2: Lyle R. Hardman, Jennifer Nichol Horsey, Eric B. Braun, Molly Davenport Kirk, David J. Kirk, Rev. Ann Morehead McClellan, Karen Barg Baldwin. Row 3: Robert A. Wunderlich Jr., Michael D. Stratton, Russell O. LaMore, Douglas S. Ingersoll, William T. Shier, Julie A. Trowbridge, Stephen F. Jent, Wendy Wise Haskell, Krista Cummins Rohrscheib. Row 4: Janice A. Hornaday, Amy Bowman Meyer, Julia Thompson Venetis, Angela Tate Eugenio, Jane E. Durkee.

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John C. Kesler is the chief operating officer of the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Show. The show is heard on 103 radio stations across the country and has been on the air for 35 years.

Thomas W. Rafferty and Howard E. Smith executive with Reliance Steel and Aluminum and moved to Fishers, Ind., where he became involved in community organizations. In 2018, he was appointed vice president of the Fishers Police Department Citizens’ Academy Alumni Association and the CERT logistics section chief for Hamilton County. His email address is derosaking@comcast.net.

Ian B. Davidson released several new recordings: “488 Around the World,” “Christmas Too” and “Wind Music.” He performed last fall with the Pleasant Street Players at the New Zealand School of Music and with We Soloists at the Seoul Arts Center.

In November he was the featured soloist at the RioWinds Festival in Brazil. He is principal oboe player of the Austin Opera Orchestra, solo English horn player of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and a Fulbright senior specialist with the U.S. State Department. He teaches at Texas State University, where he holds the dual ranks of university distinguished professor and regents’ professor.

Thomas W. Rafferty and Howard E. Smith celebrated 60 and 40 years of attending the Indianapolis 500. Tom lives in Indianapolis. Howard lives in Dayton, Ohio. (See photo.)

1981

David A. Borbely is the offensive line coach for the University of Pittsburgh football team.

He has coached for 37 years.

Luis R. Davila, a DePauw trustee, is one of only about 600 people who have run a full marathon on all six continents.

1982

David W. Greising is the chief executive officer of the Better Government Association, a Chicago-based nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog group. David will support its fundraising and civic engagement.

1984

Seventeen Alpha Gamma Delta members met in Napa Valley in April to celebrate 35 years of friendship. The group is a subset of a much larger group that stayed close with annual Christmas letters in the 1980s and 1990s and on Facebook since then. The trip was such fun that they are planning trips every few years to resorts around the United States and abroad to visit classmates in Germany. (See photo.)

1985

Marvin E. Flewellen, a Darnall alumni fellow and senior director at INVESCO, was the speaker for the spring 2018 McDermond Center Speaker Series. He is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

Robert G. Harrell’s graphic novel, “Monster on the Hill,” will be made into a film by Paramount Animation. Rob is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Big Top and writes and draws the strip Adam@Home.

Kathy Patterson Vrabeck was elected chair of DePauw’s Board of Trustees at its spring meeting and will serve a fouryear term. She is a senior client partner with Korn Ferry.

The Rev. Spencer L. Lundgaard is senior pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Northbrook, Ill.

Alice H. Ripley is an award-winning actress and singer. She returned to DePauw in March to lead a master class with voice students and to conduct an audition workshop. She is featured in the Netflix comedy “Girlboss.”

1986

Scott W. Rasmussen participated in a Feb. 6 town hall discussion in West Palm Beach, Fla. The session was titled “Tax Reform: Your Voice, Your Future.” He is the publisher of ScottRasmussen.com and an editor-at-large at Ballotpedia, where he created the Number of the Day feature. His most recent book is “Politics Has Failed: America Will Not.”

1987

Thomas W. Blessing is a partner and team leader for the education law practice group at Massillamany Jeter & Carson LLP in Fishers, Ind.

1992

W. Bret Baier is chief political anchor for Fox News Channel.

He was one of the celebrity participants in February at the AT&T Pebble Beach ProAm. He received the 2017 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, the highest honor for a broadcast journalist given by the National Press Foundation. He is the author of “Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire.”

Victoria Duncan Gardner is the director of communications for the city of Westfield, Ind. Kathryn Grissom Kiely is the curator of education at the Missoula Art Museum.

James P. Hanlon was nominated by

President Trump to serve as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. He is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, where he serves as co-chair of the firm’s white collar defense and investigations practice.

M. Davis O’Guinn III is vice provost for student affairs and dean of students at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Clarenda M. Phillips is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She is responsible for supporting research and scholarly activities; providing a challenging educational experience for the diverse student body; overseeing international activities; and supporting collaborative efforts involving industry, the community and educational partners. Clarenda has authored several book chapters and articles. She is the co-editor of “African

Kappa Alpha Theta members meet in Scottsdale, Ariz. Those attending included AnnClore Jones Duncan, Wendy Weddle Irvine, Sally Ulmer Anglim, Nancy Fox Ardell, Rebecca Yaeger Kimbell, Mindy Laukitis Ellis, Susan Geeslin Woodhouse, Dana C. Riess, Debra Bangert Gerardi, Melinda Maine Garvey, Cynthia Luh Hallinan, Barbara Miller Compton, Marcia Van Nest Smith, Denise Hart Alfeld, Kathleen Shortridge Crawford, Elizabeth Hentze Owens, Caryn Cockerill Anderson and Elizabeth Butler Pruett.

1988

Donna M. Elam has been promoted to captain with the Indiana State Police. She is assistant division commander for the Special Investigations Division.

1989

Members of Kappa Alpha Theta held a reunion in Scottsdale, Ariz., last year to gather, reconnect and celebrate a significant birthday milestone. (See photo.)

David E. Forsell was the recipient of the Arbor Day Foundation’s J. Sterling Morton Award for his positive impact on the environment through his commitment to tree planting and conservation. He is the president of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.

1991

Bradley R. Brownell, head men’s basketball coach at Clemson University, was named Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1993 Row 1 (left to right): Deborah Hoerner Price, Krista Mullman Tweed, Jennifer Stafford Klinger, Elizabeth Nordahl Sekera, Mary Ann Brumbaugh Prouty, Justin T. Glass, Charles John Hajek, Tripp M. Freeman III, S. Jeffrey Kaye, André L. Brewer, Jonathan E. Bauer, Lisa Henderson Bennett. Row 2: Audra Entenman Kalmbach, Mary Stoesser Magnuson, Stuart M. Morton, George P. Patterson, Timothy G. Franzen, Suzanne Lavelle Foley, Elizabeth Mandala Bernreuter, John P. Armstrong, Tamika Ragland Nordstrom, Marcia Fuller Guinyard.

Row 3: Cory D. Puyear, Rebecca Deaton Jones, Amy Parkinson Underwood, Janet L. Tennyson, Christina Knutson Honos, Rebecca Metz Mavon, Julie Dimmers Hafner, Lisa Gerdes Jennings, Rita Wetterstroem Hyland, Amy Cook Lancaster. Row 4: Heather Olson Peterson, Jean Throckmorton Puyear, David M. Sterenberg, Brian J. Zalewski, Brian S. Perry, Bradley J. Simmons, Miriam E. Cleveland, Wendy Hamstra Rosenberger, Julie Ruffolo Gilpin, Katherine Pell Daniello, John E. Lancaster, Richard G. Lancaster. Row 5: Amber Kennedy Miller, Jennifer L. Barth, Tay B. Bourquein, Rev. William J. Murphy, John E. Zimdars, Jason D. Barth, Emily Smith Coolidge, Elizabeth Parker Carlson, David H. Lavelle, Andrew P. Coolidge, Scott E. Davis. Row 6: Erica E. Hayward, Cynthia H. Schneider, Tege E. Lewis, Richard J. Hawk, Mary Kay Rivard Dore, Heather Whittemore Locke, Kathryn Heeke Buck, Katie Rawson Yarber, Jennifer Pelzer Martay, Kenneth M. Alt. Row 7: John P. Marshall, Michael R. Ferrari III, Scott C. Campbell, David W. Fitzgerald, Peter J. Erickson, Christopher T. Jones, Jonathan P. Kiefer, Karl F. Reineke, Christopher J. Maher, Jeffery A. Kent. Row 8: John G. James, Edwin J. Simcox Jr., Brian N. Ullem, Steven A. Cobb, Kenya Stella Cobb, Michael D. McConnell, Egbert J. Warner, Kris M. Carlson.

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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 1998 Row 1 (left to right): Molly Wilkinson Chavers, Lauren Dobbins O’Neil, Jonathan T. Coan, Carlin R. Metzger, Neil A. Guthals, Jaime Best Guthals, Kerrie L. Milligan, Alison L. Pilgrim, Natalie Griffin Vinje, Janna Schwenn Jackson, Elizabeth A. Sundermann. Row 2: Christopher J. Bausano, Amie May Wojtyna, Loraine D. Heckenberg, Benjamin T. Clark, Krista L. Clark, Mark A. Smiley, Mark A. Huss, Michael J. Curley, R. Cameron Gaskins. Row 3: Jonathan V. Fortt, Nadia T. Mitchem, DiJeana Wilks Posley, Angelette Hines-Williams, LaShon K. Fincher, Larnise Johnson Boain, Anita Lyles Studgeon, Thomas D. Fagan Jr., Sean P. Roberts, Adam T. Payne. Row 4: Damien A. Bender, Julie Kollhoff Ball, Kimberly M. Hauber, Sarah Voss Wagner, Renea Marsh Johnson, Danica Rodemich Mathes. Row 4: Peter V. Henry, Gregory A. Hewitt, Derek T. Coe. Row 5: Erica Levy Reh, Emily Jedlicka Latzka, Marguerite D. McCarthy, Kathryn Krause Dattomo, Michelle Walter Hadidi, Colin W. Johnsmeyer, Joshua M. Pitcock, Jonathan M. Clippinger, Brandon M. Burke, Todd O. Carter, Adam T. Kruse. Row 6: J. Zachary Hopkins, Fredrick P. Hougland, Jason M. Phelps, Ian L. Stewart, Robert S. Pinter, Kelly Ortner Grant. Row 6: Jennifer L. Johnson, Brooke Young North, Bryan R. Schaffrath, Bernerd C. Haskins. Row 7: Janet Andres Cavanaugh, Elisabeth Jakubisin Purdy, Margaret Snyder Laird, Sara Nakasone Denckhoff, Kathy E. Kawamura, Maggie Dosmann Donovan, Lindsay Render Donovan, Kristin Sasse Griffin, Kathryn C. Arbogast, Adrienne Hoos Johnson, Austin S. Johnson. Row 8: Krisha Salyers Werner, Nathan C. Werner, Kelly Grider Rees, Jennifer Metzig Nie, Jennifer Stevenson Hensley, Meredith Manchester Yamnitz, Elizabeth Husted Duffy, Gretchen Uphoff Fruchey, Christy Kemp Ciolkosz. Row 9: Jeffrey J. Summers, Richard J. Roth III, Cassidy Ruschell Rosenthal, Alexandra A. Rafferty, Elizabeth McGroarty Lucey.

Timothy E. Keating earned his divemaster and master scuba diver ratings.

Robert B. Thomson III received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during Illinois College’s commencement. Robert was a member of the college’s board of trustees 2003-17 and served as chairman of the investment subcommittee responsible for the college endowment fund.

Tricia Robinson DeLeon is a litigation partner at Holland & Knight in Dallas.

She is a member of the firm’s financial services industry group.

1993

Tamika Ragland Nordstrom is a partner in the employment and labor relations practice group of Atlanta’s Taylor English Duma LLP. She has worked 20 years with corporate clients on employment litigation and arbitration matters.

1994

David J. Hersh is the cofounder and chief executive officer of Glimmer. He was the speaker for the McDermond Center Entrepreneurship Series in March.

Nicholas J. Kaster was elected a shareholder at Moss & Barnett in Minneapolis. He is a member of the firm’s wealth preservation and estate planning and business law teams.

John R. Perkins II is the chief executive officer of U.S. Radiology Specialists in Charlotte, N.C., and serves on the firm’s board of directors.

1995

Laura Allport Hammack was appointed to the regional board of trustees for Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Ind. She is Brown County (Ind.) Schools superintendent. Laura serves on the board of Lotus Arts and Education and is chairwoman of the Brown County Drug Free Task Force.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 2003 Row 1 (left to right): Leila C. Hernandez, Tara Bevington Fleck, Leslie Haas Brewer, Carey Mougey Haladay, Tracey King-Danadio, Emily Zoch Campbell. Row 2: Leslie Williams Smith, Megan Bevington Thornhill, A.Morgan Cope, Natalie Deer Sutton, Caleb M. Sutton. Row 3: Annette Hobbs Magier, Sarah Glass Phillips, Marissa Gee Kopp, Megan Grande Libey, Britney Rose Walker, Jason C. Walker. Row 4: Leyla Marie Raizk, Nathan M. Moch, David A. Scott, Casey F. Trela. Row 5: Matthew B. Phillips, Michael E. Harmon, Andrew R. Tolle, Jeremy J. Bettis, Todd E. Humerickhouse, Andrew P. McGovern, John E. Bossnack.

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1996

American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision,” which is serving as the basis of a documentary.

Chad L. Bailey was the speaker at a DePauw Lunch and Learn information session April 13. He is a dentist and real estate entrepreneur in Noblesville, Ind. Christopher B. and Amy Houston Oler ’96 published “Molly Goes to London,” the 11th book in their Molly and the Magic Suitcase series. Chris, Amy and their children, Molly and Michael, recently ventured to Panama to research an upcoming book.

Steven J. Setchell was named DePauw vice president of development and alumni engagement in May. He previously served as interim vice president.

1997

Melissa C. Feemster is vice president of business development for MyRegistry.com, which bills itself as “the world’s leading universal gift registry provider.”

1998

Dr. Leroy V. Heldt ’67, Jamie L. Lewis, Katharine Heldt Falace ’99 and Stephen A. Falace celebrated the opening of the Savage & Cooke distillery on historic Mare Island in Vallejo, Calif.

Jennifer Philips Bott is the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University.

1999

Dana Bowen Cummings is vice president for development and alumni engagement at Franklin College.

2000

Jeffrey T. Hudson earned his certified special event professional designation from the International Live Events Association in recognition of his knowledge, skills and ability to prepare all components of a special event. He is one of two DJs in the world with this designation.

Jeff owns Spacecraft Entertainment in Austin, Texas.

Steven J. Lubiarz and Calvin A. Wright were married March 1. DePauw alumnus Robert K. Morse ’99 attended the wedding. The couple lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Steven’s email address is slubiarz@live.com. (See photo, page 39.)

2001

S. Luke Flory is an associate professor of ecology at the University of Florida. His research lab focuses on the non-native plant invasions, climate change and agroecology. He is the chair of the invasion ecology section of the

Ecological Society of America. In 2017, he was named the University of Florida International Educator of the Year.

office of the Chapter 13 U.S. trustee for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend and Fort Wayne divisions.

Kathleen C. Quinn and Liam S. Hartigan were married Aug. 8, 2017, in New York City. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Katherine Brambl Taylor and Lisa Goecke Malikow. Katie is a personal wardrobe stylist in New York City and also serves clients in San Francisco and Chicago. Her email address is q@qthestylist.com. (See photo, page 39.)

Andrew J. Tangel and Benjamin Toff were married March 17 in Tucson, Ariz. Andrew is a reporter covering the aviation industry for The Wall Street Journal in Chicago.

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2004

Abigail J. Chew is the author of a poetry collection titled “A Bear Approaches From the Sky.” She is a teacher at the Webb Schools, a college preparatory boarding/day community in Claremont, Calif., and an adjunct instructor at Ohio University.

J.R. Foster, managing partner and cofounder of Robert Louis Group and Robert Louis Capital, testified in February before the U.S. House Small Business Committee about the climate for American small businesses.

Mary K. Huse was a guest speaker May 1 at the McDermond Center Speaker Series. She is the executive vice president of product management for Salesforce.com.

Abigail L. Tonsing was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with a third-place award in the Best of Indiana competition for a non-deadline story or series.

Rebecca W. Wright is an attorney with the Rathbone Group LLC.

2003

Adam M. Broderick is managing director of JLL, a commercial real estate firm in Indianapolis.

Stanislaus P. Jastrzebski took third place in the Society of Professional Journalists Best of Indiana competition for his indepth radio reporting. He is news director of WBAA in West Lafayette, Ind. Jon R. Rogers was named to the Michiana “Forty Under 40” class by the South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Young Professional Network South Bend and other partners. He is staff attorney for the

Leslie Williams Smith was appointed DePauw executive director of alumni engagement effective July 9.

Dr. Krista M. Brucker is one of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2018 Health Care Heroes and a top physician honoree because of her role in battling the abuse of opioids.

Krista took the lead in starting Eskenazi Health’s Project POINT program in Indianapolis in 2015, a year after coming to Indianapolis to teach at the Indiana University School of Medicine and work in Eskenazi’s emergency room.

Megan Casey Glover is co-founder and chief executive officer of 120WaterAudit, a subscription-based water-testing service. She is among the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” for 2018.

Allene Wicker Lilly became executive director of the Rush Memorial Hospital Foundation in Rushville, Ind., in June.

Maximilian M. Maile was recognized among the “Forty Under 40” by the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly.

Max is the director of virtual health for Parkview Health. His email address is maximilian13mm@hotmail.com.

Andrew E. Molnar Jr. is a pediatric neuropsychologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. His email address is andrew.e.molnar@vanderbilt.edu.

Sara Robertson Wietbrock and her husband, Chad, announce the birth of identical twin girls, Addison Rose and Payton Marie Wietbrock. Sara is a Latin teacher at Crown Point High School.

The family lives in Kouts, Ind.

2005

Molly Herrmann Kozlowski is a certified physician assistant with the Apex Dermatology

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 2008 Row 1 (left to right): Alison Rose Ackford, Sarah Schultheis Moore, Adam J. Davis, Porschia K. Davis, Veronica D. Diaz, Sonja G. Bugvilionis, Katherine A. Rasmussen. Row 2: Katie Holland Keeven, Jamie Emerson Porter, Christine Lewellen Davis, Carrie A. Birge, Katherine N. Birge, Shaylyn Laws Shiely, Whitney Long Newton, Rhyan J. Smith, Olufunmilayo A. Fadugba. Row 3: Katherine E. Dalin, Amanda L. Giddings, Emily Flaspohler Prifogle, Brittany Hellmich Fortman, Ashley E. Alles, Amy McDonald Sterling, Erin Ponto Brown, Sara A. Doody. Row 4: Alvin C. Bibbs Jr., Henry H. Malm II, Katherine Doogan Petrusic, Connie Shim Middleton, Anne Cawley Keegstra, Rachel Walsh Dillion, Karyn A. Keenan, Ashley Day Daly. Row 5: Marquis D. Bynum, Robert A. Snyder, Samuel S. Rund, Drago Petrusic, Philip A. Taylor, Kristin Oyler Maguire, Allison Wallace Burns, Jeffrey M. Tienes, Martha Hardy Ellsworth, Barrett T. Ellsworth. Row 6: Haley A. O’Brian, Cathryn G. Richter, Laura Anderson Baker, Rachel K. Routh, Matthew A. Demaree, Christine Dougan Carter, Kelly M. Gagnon.

Group in Denver. She has worked six years in dermatology.

Amy Irby Shasanmi is assistant professor of sociology at the University of West Georgia. She was the keynote speaker Feb. 17 at the seventh annual Celebrate, Educate and Appreciate Diversity Conference at Eastern Oregon University.

2006

Laura Baker Bickel is a nurse practitioner at Huntsman Cancer Hospital in Salt Lake City. She specializes in hematology and hematological malignancies. Laura completed her master’s degree in nursing at Simmons College in Boston in 2016. She is married to Dr. Tyler Bickel ’06. (See photo.)

Laura Baker Bickel ’06 vice president at Brewster Financial Strategies Group: Wells Fargo Advisors.

2007

Andrew S. Hanson and Natalie Trociuk were married in February 2017 in Los Angeles. They live in Denver. DePauw alumni Michael S. Benedik ’07 and Megan Kaulakis Benedik ’07 attended the wedding. (See photo, page 39.)

Lindsay A. Bartlett and Patrick Pantelis were married Nov. 18 in Chicago. Lindsay is director of development and board relations at Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girl private school in Chicago. (See photo, page 39.)

Conor T. McCoy was named as one of “40 Under 40” Irish Americans in New York City by the Irish Echo, the oldest Irish-American publication in the United States. Conor is a first

Jennifer Rowe Bender is vice president of operations for Proof Positive Consulting. She travels the country to oversee medical clinics where her company provides health care to

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and infrastructure planning program at the Indiana Financial Authority.

Matthew L. Rivera, known as rap artist Matteo Rico, returned to DePauw April 25 to present a concert at The Inn. He also participated in a panel discussion April 24 on black writers in the Midwest and visited DePauw’s songwriting workshop.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2018 – Members of the Class of 2013 Row 1 (left to right): Stephen I. Buchholz, Nicholas L. Lucca, Kevin J. Wynn, Amanda J. Faulkenberg, Aubrie E. Scott, Lindsay Thomas Gough, Kyle R. Gough. Row 2: Robert P. McMurray, Allison N. Jones, Andrea Z. Barrett, Olivia M. Clark, Ashley Adora Castillo Mitchell, Nathan K. Tehada. Row 3: Anisha K. Yadav, Samantha J. Stahler, Michael D. Osborn, Orlando Ramirez, Rachel C. Lemonds, Maggie M. Cohen, Berkley S. Frost. injured employees; provides ergonomic consulting; and works to improve onsite safety and decrease workers’ compensation costs for its clients.

2008

Projesh Banerjea is the author of “The God Gene Chronicles: The Secret of the Gods.” He is a senior investment manager at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Carrie A. Birge returned to DePauw March 19 to participate in a panel titled “Don’t Call Me Dear.” The panel explored gender-related experiences in the workplace, education and life. Carrie is a global RFP associate analyst at Salesforce.

Matthew H. Sumpter’s first book of poems, “Public Land,” was published by the University of Tampa Press. Matthew teaches academic and creative writing at Rutgers University.

2009

Sarah Grant has a lead role in “Southern Gothic” at Windy City Playhouse in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune called the audience-immersive experience “gripping” and the production’s run recently was extended through Dec. 9.

2010

Lindi Conover Thompson is the executive director of Shelby Arts Alliance in Shelbyville, Ind. Lindi says, “Right now, the job entails bringing together a lot of the different organizations and becoming a hub for how all those will function together as well as strengthening some relationships with the foundation, the city and the county.”

James C. Duncan Jr. recently returned from his second deployment to the Western Pacific onboard the USS Chafee. While deployed, he led his team through two successful tests of the SM-2 missile. After four years based in Pearl Harbor, he will transfer this summer to Washington D.C. Anajah L. Roberts was promoted to vice president of corps member leadership at Teach For America Chicago-Northwest Indiana after six years of service to the organization.

Mary C. Roberson of Danville, Ill., won the Democratic nomination for Vermilion County clerk. Mary taught English as a second language at Danville Area Community College for several years and recently has coordinated after-school programs at Project Success in Danville, in addition to raising three children.

2011

Rahul D. Abhyankar and Sonia Dhingra were married March 17. (See photo.)

Ryan D. Myrehn was one of several announcers for the 102nd Indianapolis 500. He is a reporter and podcast host at Sportscar365.com and a pit reporter for the Advance Auto Parts IndyCar Radio Network.

Staci M. Orr returned to DePauw March 19 to participate in a panel titled “Don’t Call Me Dear.” The panel explored gender-related experiences in the workplace, education and life. Staci is a project manager with the water resources

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2012

Naiomy M. Guerrero has received the inaugural Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative curatorial fellowship at the Perez Art Museum Miami. The two-year fellowship is given to students from historically underrepresented groups in the curatorial and museum profession and offers an opportunity to work on at least two major projects. Naiomy will generate at least four written pieces and initiate at least two community partnerships in exhibitions, programs and/or collections.

Sara D. Horton earned her Master of Music degree at the University of North Florida. This fall, she will begin a fellowship and studies toward a doctorate of musical arts in vocal pedagogy and performance at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. She recently performed Pamina in “Die Zauberflote” and Mimi in “La Boheme.”

Duc A. Pham is founder and chief executive officer of ViCare Corp., a health and wellness platform in Vietnam.

Its mission is to make high-quality health and wellness services available to every Vietnamese. He is listed among Forbes Vietnam’s “30 Under 30.”

2013

Nicole M. Burts participated in a panel at DePauw March 19 titled “Don’t Call Me Dear.” The panel explored gender-related experiences in the workplace, education and life. Nicole is a pre-law adviser at DePauw.

Alexandra B. Chamberlain, assistant curator of exhibitions and education for the Peeler Art Center at DePauw, juried the 25th annual Working Together art exhibit in Evansville, Ind., a partnership between the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana and the Evansville Museum.

Amanda J. Faulkenberg is a Bonner Scholar alumna. She presented a talk,

“Food for Thought,” at DePauw Feb. 6.

Amanda volunteered 1,660 hours during her four years at DePauw. She worked with the Putnam County Museum during the school year and with the U.S. Forest Service over the summer. Amanda is the director of alumni engagement for campus and regional programs at DePauw.

Madison Gallegos Beatty is a science teacher at LaPorte High School in Northwest Indiana.

Kyle R. Gough is an associate attorney at Yoder & Kraus PC in Kendallville, Ind. Maria T. Haag is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Missouri. She received a Mizzou 18 award for her research, leadership and service.

2014

Kalen Granger and Mel Hernandez were married Dec. 23 in Indianapolis. Kalen’s email address is kalengranger@gmail.com.

2015

F. Pierce Ellinwood has been admitted to the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College and will begin classes in the fall. He is teaching ninth- and 10th-grade English at The Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H. He coached alpine skiing last winter and is an assistant coach for the boys’ varsity lacrosse team. He lives in Concord, N.H. Casey A. Hooker received a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. He is a graduate student at Purdue University studying agricultural and biological engineering.

Joseph R. Leppek, a tenor, won second place at the 47th annual William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition for Voice in March.

Joseph’s most recent role was as Giacomo de Wisants in the American premiere of Donizetti’s “The Siege of Calais” at the Glimmerglass Festival.

2016

Anika Green and Caitlin E. Qua returned to DePauw March 19 to participate in a panel titled “Don’t Call Me Dear.” The panel explored gender-related experiences in the workplace, education and life. Anika is a lead teacher at Kinder Academy.

Caitlin is a graduate assistant at Indiana University Arts and Humanities Council.

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Kirstyn M. Walker received an English teaching assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. She will spend the 2018-19 academic year teaching English in Greece. An English (writing) major and history minor at DePauw, she joined Teach For America after graduating and teaches 10th- and 11th-grade English at James Groppi High School, an alternative Milwaukee Public School.

She recently was featured in a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

2017

Andrew K. Casey made his debut performance conducting the Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra at the Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis. He will begin his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, United Kingdom, in the fall.

Kyle J. Kopchak, John S. Ward and Carter T. Johnston ’20 received Albert L. Lund ’48 scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year. Lund, who is deceased, was a member of Phi Delta Theta who established the scholarship in 1999 to reward members of his fraternity for their scholarship, campus and community involvement.

Joseph M. Ross is teaching third grade at KIPP Indy Unite, a nonprofit collegepreparatory school in Indianapolis, for Teach For America and working on his master’s degree at Marian University.

Joe brought 85 third-graders to DePauw April 6, when the children visited the athletic fields, Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center, Hoover Hall, Roy O. West Library and Peeler Art Center. They had lunch in the ballroom with DePauw students, who hosted a panel to answer questions.

Brock E.W. Turner is a reporter for Indiana Public Media, focusing on rural issues. His work appears on NPR affiliate WFIU and PBS station WTIU, both based in Bloomington, Ind., and on public broadcasting outlets statewide.

Brock recently won a national Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for breaking news reporting he did while at The DePauw. He was among eight DePauw student journalists who were honored by the journalism society with regional Mark of Excellence Awards at the spring conference in Chicago. First-place

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Steven J. Lubiarz and Calvin A. Wright wedding.

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Kathleen C. Quinn ’01 and Liam S. Hartigan wedding.

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Andrew S. Hanson ’06 and Natalie Trociuk wedding.

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Lindsay A. Bartlett ’07 and Patrick Pantelis wedding. DePauw alumni attending included Andrew B. Cole ’07, Carolyn Walker Cole ’05, Sarah G. Beatty ’09, Haley A. O’Brian ’08, Joshua G. Enneking ’07, Kyle D. Aberle ’07, Justin T. Bull ’09, Karl R. Koehler ’08, Elizabeth Tobin Koehler ’09 and Matthew A. Demaree ’08.

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Rahul D. Abhyankar ’11 and Sonia Dhingra wedding. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Jeffrey A. Rost ’11, Bethany M. Velcich ’13, Shelton L. Graves ’12, Charles F. J. Pierre ’12, Sydney L. Crouch ’12, Elliott S. Ross ’12, Maira Lopez Wright ’12, Alexander E. Wright ’12 and friend Emilce Wright.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Do you have a recent accomplishment to share? Perhaps you were promoted? Or finished graduate school? Whatever your accomplishment might be, we would love to include it in the magazine. Snap a photo (highresolution, please) and send it to us with a description.

Send photos to DePauw University, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037, or email dgrooms@depauw.edu. winners were Brock, Austin H. Candor ’18 for sports reporting and Byron L. Mason II ’20 for feature photography.

Receiving finalist citations were Madison R. Dudley ’18, David M. Kobe ’17, Bryttni N. Carpenter ’20, Lindsey T. Jones ’18 and Samuel L. Caravana ’17.

Mary Ann Etling won a Fulbright U.S. Student award to conduct research in Uganda in affiliation with St. Mary’s Lacor Hospital. She was a science research fellow who majored in global health and biochemistry and minored in biology at DePauw.

2018

Greisy Genao won a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to conduct research in the Dominican Republic. She was an English (writing) major and a film studies minor at DePauw.

Elizabeth Aguilar received a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. Liz, a life sciences-genetics major at DePauw, will major in genome sciences at the University of Washington.

Christine R. Beckmann was awarded third place for the best student editorial cartoon by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Best of Indiana competition April 27. The cartoon appeared in The DePauw.

Chelsea F. Conard received a U.S. Department of State critical language scholarship. She is traveling to China this summer for an intensive language and cultural-immersion program at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She majored in economics and minored in Chinese, French and computer science at DePauw.

Maya Cotton wan a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to teach English in Morocco. She was a religious studies major and double minored in French and peace and conflict studies.

Ashlyn R. Cox won a scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. She will pursue an MLitt degree in early modern European history.

Miranda E. Dafoe received a critical language scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. She will spend the summer in Lucknow, India, studying Urdu, the official national language of Pakistan.

Rachel E. Higson received an English teaching assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. She will spend the 2018-19 academic year teaching English in Taiwan.

Erin N. Lupardus received a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship. She will spend the 2018-19 academic year in Austria, where she will teach English and conduct research.

Samuel R. McManus won a national title in the men’s 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Division III championships March 24 at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. Sam became the fifth student-athlete in DePauw history to earn an individual national championship.

Sarah Pearson, an anthropology and Spanish major at DePauw,will teach English in Brazil during the upcoming academic year as the recipient of an English teaching assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Samuel R. Showalter is the recipient of a summer undergraduate research fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He will work with a researcher in Boulder, Colo., on a project titled “The Characterization of Quantum Computers.”

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DePauw Magazine marks the death of alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Obituaries do not include memorial gifts.

When reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible.

Information should be sent to Alumni Records, DePauw University, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email jamahostetler@depauw.edu.

IN MEMORIAM

1939

Margaret McCall Nichols, 100, Oak Park, Ill., April 16.

She was a pianist and music instructor who taught for 70 years in the greater Chicago area.

Virginia Porter Palmer, 100, Valparaiso, Ind., Jan. 31. She was a homemaker. She and her husband owned and operated Palmer’s Hotel for Children in rural Valparaiso. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis E. Palmer ’38.

1940

Dorice Conner Roberts, 100, Belfast, Maine, March 17. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a musician, a piano instructor and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; a sister, Martha Conner Bauer ’42; an aunt, Margaret A. Conner ’12; a brother-in-law, Richard A. Pruitt ’53; and stepmother, Clara Seibel Conner ’23. Survivors include a sister, Betty Conner Pruitt ’53.

1941

Mary Conrad Kemp, 97, Simi Valley, Calif., March 26, 2017.

She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John D. Kemp ’41. Survivors include a sister, Dorothy Conrad Masten ’48.

Stanton Golding, 97, San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 4. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a retired NASA administrator. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Mary V. Hickox, 98, Skokie, Ill., Jan. 25.

She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a secretary.

1942

Pauline A. Douglas, 96, Decatur, Ill., April 10. She was a college English professor.

Betty-Jane Yuncker Lee, 97, Boynton Beach, Fla., March 31. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, an elementary school secretary, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and a sister, Barbara Yuncker ’43. Survivors include a son, Terry A. Lee ’69.

1943

Ronald P. Alford, 94, Traverse City, Mich., Nov. 15, 2015.

He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and retired as a traffic manager at Traverse City Iron Works.

He was preceded in death by his wife and brother, John W. Alford ’35.

Dr. William C. Schulte, 96, Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 21. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and an oral and maxillofacial physician. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1944

Stanley A. Baker, 96, Pentwater, Mich., Feb. 22.

He was a Rector Scholar and a high school teacher and administrator. He was preceded in death by his father, Ross A. Baker ’06; brothers, Philip S. Baker ’38 and Porter Baker ’41; sisterin-law, Isabelle Loague Smith ’47; and brother-in-law, Walter C. Loague Jr. ’49. Survivors include his wife, Miriam Loague Baker ’43.

1945

Caryl McClelland MacMorran, 93, Carthage, Mo., April 2. She was a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Harris Peel, 92, Danby, Vt., Sept. 29, 2016. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and a regimental historian. He was employed by the U.S. Information Agency and operated the Peel Gallery of Fine Art until his retirement. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1946

Frederick A. Clark Jr., 93, Richmond, Va., Feb. 1. He was a member of Sigma Chi, a former department director of the Richmond City Health Department, an associate clinical professor in community medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and director of regulatory

affairs for A.H. Robins Pharmaceutical Co. Survivors include his wife.

Jeanne Guild Townsend, 93, Williamsburg, Mich., May 17. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, an executive secretary and a homemaker, She was preceded in death by her husband; her father, Bernard E. Guild ’20; her mother, Mildred Reed Guild ’20; her aunt, Florence C. Guild ’24; her uncle, Merrill D. Guild ’20; her aunt, Lilly Kent Guild ’21; and cousin, James T. Little ’48.

Mary Guild Lothamer, 92, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 2. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Merrill D. Guild ’20; mother, Lily Kent Guild ’21; husband, John L. Lothamer ’47; sister, Susan Guild Trauba ’50; and brother-in-law, Thomas N. Trauba ’47. Survivors include a grandson, Bradley K. Stevens ’99; a granddaughterin-law, Tracy Wilhelmy Stevens ’99; and a cousin, Jessica Reid Read ’81.

1947

Harriett Hesslin Crum, 91, Chesterfield, Mo., April 7.

She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, a chemist and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband and sons, James R. Crum ’72 and John B. Crum ’75.

Dr. Erwin S. Huston, 92, Fox Point, Wisc., April 10. He and his twin John, who predeceased him, joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 and were sent to DePauw, where they entered a wartime accelerated pre-medical program. After the war ended, they chose to complete their undergraduate education at DePauw, where they became Rector Scholars.

Erwin was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the university choir.

Another brother survives.

Carol Maurin Hunt, 91, Wheatland, Iowa, March 27. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a museum curator and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

John G. Taflinger, 89, Paris, Ill., Sept. 29, 2015. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and had a career as a fire and safety inspector for the state of Michigan and later with Great American Insurance.

He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife.

Barbara Van Dellen Bere, 92, Hinsdale, Ill., April 24. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a daughter, Lynn Bere Stine ’77.

1948

The Rev. Kenneth H. Crandall, 92, Rockford, Ill., Feb. 7. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector Scholar and a United Methodist pastor. Survivors include his wife, Esther Hildebrand Crandall ’49.

1949

Martha Field Louden, 90, Indianapolis, Feb. 21. She was a member of Alpha Phi and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert W. Louden ’50.

Eleanor Mackey Thomsen, 90, Atlanta, Ga., April 13. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a tax examiner and a homemaker.

Virginia Porter Dolk, 89, Fort Wayne, Ind., March 8. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a community volunteer and a homemaker. Survivors include a sister, Dorothy Porter Rouse ’54.

Joan Wolter Glase, 90, Mishawaka, Ind., April 12. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a legal secretary and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Page B. Glase ’50, and a sister, Harriet Wolter Connor ’46.

Survivors include a niece, Patricia E. Conner ’77.

1950

Ned B. Chase Jr., 91, Joplin, Mo., May 12. He was a Rector Scholar and a physician.

Survivors include his wife.

James N. Cook, St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 25. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and a Rector Scholar. He served 38 years in the DePauw Alumni Office as assistant director and alumni director and retired as director of alumni at Eckard College in 1988. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Buboltz Cook ’52; brother, David L. Cook ’53; and sister, Judith Cook Crossman ’59.

George W. Delaney, 89, Lynchburg, Va., April 4, 2016. He was a nuclear engineer. Survivors include his wife, Virginia Deitrick Delaney ’49.

Arthur E. Garrison, 91, June 10, 2017, Madison, Miss.. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and an employee of Allied Van Lines.

Warren A. Goodlad, 92, Saint John, Ind., Feb. 4. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and an industrial engineer. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Frisbie Goodlad ’49.

Nancy Longshore Brest, 89, Orrville, Ohio, March 3. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a former school teacher, community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; and sisters, Margaret Longshore Lytle ’44 and Joan Longshore Goodwin ’47.

C. Lane Moore, 93, Austin, Texas, March 22. He was a member of Sigma Nu and the Washington C. DePauw Society and was manager of a grain products brokerage firm. He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Macartan K. Miner ’49. Survivors include his wife, Marian Miner Moore ’50.

John R. Mote, 91, Indianapolis, Feb. 24. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a retired hospital personnel and human resources administrator. He was preceded in death by his wife, Florence Northrop Mote ’50. Survivors include a son, Thomas R. Mote ’74: a grandson, Jackson R. Mote ’16; a granddaughter, Meghann E. Pogue ’12; a sister-in-law, Eleanor Northrop Hall ’61; a brotherin-law, Joseph S. Northrop ’71; a sisterin-law, Lynne Utter Northrop ’71; and nephew, Charles A. Northrop ’02.

Mary Snape Beck, 89, Lynn, Ind., March 11. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, I. Thomas Beck ’50, and her father, William H. Snape ’22. Survivors include a sister, Janet E. Snape ’54.

Woodson S. Weinrichter, 89, San Francisco, Jan. 7. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and a commercial real estate broker. He was preceded in death by his brother, Ralph M. Weinrichter ’47; his sister-in-law, Ann Durham Weinrichter ’44; and his brother-in-law, W. Russell Whitehead ’48. Survivors include his wife and his sister, Barbara Weinrichter Whitehead ’48.

1951

The Rev. Dr. Eunice Blanchard Poethig, 88, Chicago, March 25. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a Presbyterian minister and a homemaker. She received the Walker Cup as a student and the DePauw Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award for citizenship and voluntary service in 2003. Survivors include her husband.

Dorothy Stout Smith Aldridge, 88, Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 30. She was a medical technologist and retired chief of Missouri Psychiatry Laboratory for the state of Missouri. She taught medical technology students at Southern Illinois University and was a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.

Robert H. Stracke Jr., 91, Chicago, April 30. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and an elementary school teacher. He was preceded in death by a brother, Paul T. Stracke ’50.

Survivors include his wife.

H. William Tharp, 88, Greenville, Texas, Feb. 15. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and had worked for Southland Corp. 7-11 stores and Frisco State Bank and later with his sons. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1952

Geraldine Aker Pritchett, 87, Greencastle, Ind., April 23. She was a registered nurse and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Charles L. Aker ’51 and Robert M. Aker ’52. Survivors include a son, Charles J. Pritchett ’79.

Mary Bullington Beatty, 89, Kansas City, Mo., April 29. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; and sister, Ailcy Bullington Schindler ’42.

Dr. Carl J. Freund, 87, Phoenix, Ariz., March 1. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, a Rector Scholar and a physician. Survivors include his wife.

John I. Lundmark, 87, Albion, Ill., Jan. 26. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a Rector Scholar and a circuit judge of Edwards County in Albion. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ehrlich Lundmark ’53.

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Feb. 17. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a Rector Scholar and an administrative engineer in the defense industry. Survivors include his wife.

Janet Teetor Loring, 87, Oil City, Pa., April 18. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a musician and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Richard W. Loring ’52, and a son, Steven J. Loring ’76.

1953

Alice Rogers Freeman, 87, Pacific Grove, Calif., March 16. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband, Jerry A. Freeman ’53; a son, Daniel R. Freeman ’89; a sister, Mary Rogers Snyder ’61; and a niece, Amy Snyder Spencer ’92.

John W. Shawver, 87, Davenport, Iowa, April 1. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a business owner. He was preceded in death by his sisters-in-law, Lois Saunders Olin ’43 and Patricia Saunders Beaurline ’45. Survivors include his wife, Sue Saunders Shawver ’53.

Donald O. Tomes, 86, Chicago, Feb. 1.

He was a member of Delta Chi and a business owner. Survivors include his wife.

1954

John C. Banter, 87, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., April 19.

He was a member of Sigma Nu, a Rector Scholar, a chemist and a college chemistry professor. Survivors include his wife.

James A. Brandt, 85, Decatur, Ill., Feb. 6. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. a Rector Scholar and retired from Mueller Co., where he worked in sales and accounting. He was preceded in death by his cousin, Norman H. Hake ’50. Survivors include his wife, Carol Rodebaugh Brandt ’55, and a brother, Truman L. Brandt ’53.

Carolyn Gipe Stauffer, 83, Holt, Mich., March 28, 2016. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a nursery school director and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Susan Healey Eynon, 85, Lantana, Fla., April 27. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a real estate sales agent and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles C. Eynon ’ 53.

1955

Judith Fredriks Strever, 84, Ballston Lake, N.Y., March 13. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a community volunteer and a registered nurse. Survivors include her husband.

Richard H. Hebel, 84, New Palestine, Ind. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and had careers in insurance, photography sales and journalism. He was preceded in death by a sister-in-law, Virginia Arnold Hebel ’51. Survivors include a brother, L. Charles Hebel Jr. ’52.

Sara Rife Smith, 83, Elwood, Ind., Feb. 5 from cancer. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a public school teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

1956

William L. Baxter, 83, Palatka, Fla., Feb. 19. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and was retired from Georgia Pacific as production manager after 32 years.

Survivors include his wife.

Bruce R. Danner, 83, Terre Haute, Ind., April 2. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a former director of Waters Computer Center; and an associate professor of physics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Survivors include his wife, Lois Cashin Danner ’57, and a daughter, Tracey Danner Laubert ’87.

Lila Hanna Manhart, 84, Muskegon, Mich., March 10. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel T. Hanna ’24, and a brother, Daniel H. Hanna ’47. Survivors include her husband, Joseph H. Manhart ’52.

Richard W. Peck, 84, New York City, May 23. He was a member of Delta Chi, a Rector Scholar, a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society and an award-winning author of books for young readers. He received an Alumni Citation from DePauw in 1986 and an honorary doctorate in 1999.

1957

Kay Kenna McMaster, 83, Brandon, Fla., April 28.She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, a teacher, a realtor, an antique dealer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Harold F. Kenna ’31; her grandfather, Alpha H. Kenna ’15; and

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two aunts, Elaine Kenna White ’33 and Dorothy Kenna Hodges ’37. Survivors include her husband and a brother, Harold H. Kenna ’58.

1958

Sally Petersen Williams, 81, West Hartford, Conn., March 27. She was a member of Delta Gamma and Phi Beta Kappa, a museum curator, a hospital chaplain and a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband.

James G. Reynolds, 82, Ashland, Ohio, April 27. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a Rector Scholar and a professor emeritus of Ashland University. He was preceded in death by his father, Harold J. Reynolds ’28.

for 30 years and later a benefits manager for IBM.

1962

Linda Gwin Cusimano, 72, Albuquerque, N.M., Feb. 28. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a records manager for Sandia Laboratories and a homemaker. Survivors include a sister, Betty Gwin Lansdowne ’67.

1963

Dorothy Dewald Thomas, 76, Mount Prospect, Ill., Feb. 7. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a homemaker and a medical technician; she also was employed in customer service for several scientific companies.

Survivors include her husband, William H. Thomas ’64.

1964

Ruthanne Williamson Johnson, 79, Albuquerque, N.M., Sept. 13, 2016.

She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, an elementary school teacher, an executive secretary and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas A. Johnson ’58. Survivors include a sister, Barbara Williamson Pack ’62.

J. Minette Conrad Trosch, 76, Charlotte, N.C., April 27. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, an attorney, a small business owner and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Theodore C. Conrad ’25. Survivors include her husband.

1959

Patricia Trexler Pollak, 79, Evanston, Ill., April 5, 2017.

She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

The Rev. Paul S. Hammer, 74, Bear Lake, Mich., Feb. 2, 2016, of cancer. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a Presbyterian minister. Survivors include his wife, Susan Greenhoe Hammer ’64.

1960

James W. Schroeder, 75, Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 11. He was a member of Sigma Chi and worked in Christian organizations. He was preceded in death by his father, Wayne W. Schroeder ’35. Survivors include his wife and a sister, Janet Schroeder Hall ’70.

John R. Pigott Jr., 79, Monticello, Ind., April 22.

He was a member of Lambda Chi and retired from Inland Steel. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include a sister, Helen Pigott Laker ’58; a son, Theodore J. Pigott ’92; and a brother-in-law, Richard J. Laker ’57.

1961

Dr. Robert M. Blankenship, 79, Denver, Colo., Feb. 22.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a physician specializing in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Survivors include his wife.

Marilyn Gerrard Ribbe, Monticello, Ind., Dec. 9. She was a member Alpha Omicron Pi, a musician and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Phillip L. Ribbe ’58.

Hubert H. Hyten, 79, Crawfordsville, Ind., May 25. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and was employed with International Business Machines Corp.

Dolores M. Templeton, 75, Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 27. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa; she was an instructor of mathematics at DePauw and Indiana State universities and a systems analyst.

Survivors include a son, Michael N. Woodworth ’99, and a daughter-in-law, Sarah Schwartz Woodworth ’02.

1965

Marilan B. Douglass, 75, Sarasota, Fla., April 20.

She was a member of Delta Gamma, a musician, a real estate saleswoman and a homemaker.

1967

Dr. Jonathan G. Penn, 71, East Lansing, Mich., June 16, 2017. He was a member of Phi Gamma

Delta and a physician. Survivors include his wife; a sister, M. Pamela Penn ’61; a brother, Christopher H. Penn ’72; and a cousin, Joseph D. Haythorn ’69.

Jeffrey C. Taylor, 72, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 26. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and retired from Sohio/BP after 38 years. Survivors include his wife.

22. She was a member of Alpha Phi, an elementary school teacher and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Alan B. Trego ’67, and a sister, Laura Swiontek George ’68.

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1968

Janice S. Koch, 62, Springfield, Ill., Jan. 31.

She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a community volunteer and an adjudicator with the Illinois Department of Human Services.

1969

Brad N. Loudenback, 62, St. Louis, Mo., April 3. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a professor of art and director of the drawing and illustration programs at Webster University. He was preceded in death by an aunt, Elizabeth Halpin Strain ’58. Survivors include his wife.

David L. Hanselman Sr., 72, Fort Myers, Fla., Jan. 23.

He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, a Rector Scholar, an attorney and a circuit judge in Bluffton, Ind. Survivors include his wife, Vicki Wolf Hanselman ’69, and a sister, Ruth Hanselman Crum ’65.

Ronald D. Fairchild, 71, Jacksonville, Fla., April 22.

He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, a Rector Scholar and a tax attorney. Survivors include his wife.

John R. Hill Sr., 70, Greenfield, Ind., Feb. 16. He was an attorney in private practice and a Hancock County judge for 10 years. Survivors include his wife, Baird McDonald Hill ’69.

1970

Kathryn A. Everman, 69, Inverness, Ill., June 9, 2017.

She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a nurse and a sales executive.

Robert C. Wilson, 70, Crawfordville, Fla., Feb. 10. He was killed in an ontrack accident during a Porsche Club of America event at Roebling Road Raceway, Savannah, Ga. He retired in 2008 after 25 years as supervisory archeologist and associate director of the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee.

He earned a master’s degree at Florida State University and completed doctoral coursework at the University of Florida.

Survivors include his wife.

Robert F. Prewitt, 70, Philadelphia, Feb. 27. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and the retired president and chief operating officer of Dana Communications. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph S. Prewitt ’42; his mother, Charlotte Feaman Prewitt ’42; and a brother, Michael D. Prewitt ’66.

1972

Mary Swiontek Trego, 67, Louisville, Ky., April

1979

Sue A. Butler, 63, Carmel, Ind., Aug. 28. She was a high school teacher.

Anne R. Conover, 60, Chicago, Nov. 27. She was a member of Delta Gamma and had a career in advertising sales.

Survivors include a brother, Jevne R. Conover ’74, and a sister-in-law, Susanne Head Conover ’73.

1980

John E. Murphy, 59, Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 13. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and worked in development in the health system. Survivors include a daughter, Nora L. Murphy ’13.

1983

Deborah Lynn Schrier-Rape, 56, Coronado, Calif., June 27. After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw University and Stanford Law School with distinction (Order of the Coif ), Debbie became a nationally recognized expert in bankruptcy law and a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, Andrews Kurth LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Debbie was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession and relished the opportunity to mentor young professionals. Survivors include her husband and three children.

Dr. Scott H. Teusink, 56, Holland, Mich., Dec. 30. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a podiatrist.

Erik G. Nelson, 78, a 1961 graduate and former DePauw University trustee, died April 15 in Cincinnati. He retired in 1998 as a senior vice president and chief financial officer of Procter & Gamble Co. During his 36 years there, Nelson established explicit financial goals, strengthened strategic planning and launched a global business service organization. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta at DePauw and went on to earn an MBA at Indiana University. He served on the board of Cancer Family Care and was chairman of the board of Tri-Health Hospital. He was a member of the Commercial Club of Cincinnati, Coldstream Country Club in Cincinnati and the Hole in the Wall Golf Club in Naples, Fla. He is survived by his wife; two children; three grandchildren; and a sister, Greta Nelson Whealy ’56.

Robert P. Hershberger, 54, professor of modern languages (Spanish) at DePauw University since 1998, died May 20 at his home in Greencastle. He founded Servicio en las Américas, a three-week, language-immersion program that sends incoming DePauw freshmen into Spanish-speaking countries, where they speak only Spanish after the second day and partner with service organizations on transformative and sustainable projects.

Hershberger also created the Community Technology Enhancement Program, which collects used computers from DePauw, local schools and the community to be refurbished and donated to low-income families and nonprofit organizations. Hershberger chaired his department for two terms and co-authored several textbooks. He received the 2004-05 Exemplary Teaching Award, given jointly by DePauw and the General Board of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church to faculty members who exemplify excellence in teaching; civility and concern for students and colleagues; commitment to value-centered education; and service to students, the institution and the community.

He is survived by his wife, Natasha Ryadovaya; sons William Sawyer and Matthew Nicholas; his first wife, Sarah McAdams, communications manager at DePauw; and daughters Kate and Annie.

1990

Candace Guz Solomon, 46, Washington D.C., Aug. 11, 2015. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a business owner, an information technology business manager and a homemaker. Survivors include a sister, Corinne Guz Lee ’92; brothers, Nathan R. Guz ’96 and Justin J. Guz ’03; and a brother-in-law, Robert S. Lee ’92.

his wife, Erin A. Mahoney-Sutherland ’86, director of career development and advising in the Hubbard Center at DePauw; and a daughter, Shea A. Mahoney-Sutherland ’15.

Friends

Rena S. Blue, 93, Greencastle, Ind., March 11. She worked as a cook for DePauw and Greencastle High School. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Rick R. Sutherland, 54, Greencastle, Ind., May 12. He was an IT manager before his retirement. Survivors include SUMMER 2018 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 43

BACK ON CAMPUS Relaxing by the fountains in Stewart Plaza during Alumni Reunion Weekend.

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creating a legacy A shared experience: Met-and-marrieds Vernon O. ’64 and Valerie Watson Hamilton ’65 provide for the university they love

By William E. Pike, associate director of legacy and estate planning For both VERNON “BUD” and VALERIE WATSON HAMILTON, the decision to attend DePauw was an easy one.

Valerie came to visit the campus with a friend and, she says, “was sold within hours.” Likewise, Bud, a Rector Scholar, who says DePauw was the only school to which he applied. Their experiences on campus – the beginning of what Valerie characterizes as a lifelong “shared experience” – were rich and memorable. Close-knit Greek life (Alpha Phi and Sigma Nu), life-changing professors (Vincent Serpa for Valerie; Perk Allen for Bud) and rewarding academic careers (Valerie majored in Spanish, Bud in economics) marked the early years of their shared DePauw experience.

The Hamiltons went on to distinguish themselves in the workplace. Bud rose up the ranks of management at Procter & Gamble Co. and Valerie taught at The Seven Hills School in Cincinnati. Their son Jeffrey would go on to attend DePauw, graduating in 1989. In 1992, work took the Hamiltons to Venezuela for more than two years, during which Valerie’s expertise in Spanish played a major role in their daily lives. Now they reside in Santa Fe and are passionately active in the community.

Throughout their life together, DePauw has played an important role. “Increasingly, alumni cherish the friendships they made at DePauw,” says Valerie. “And in addition to old friendships, we create new ones.” Both Bud and Valerie encourage alumni to visit campus as often as possible and to remain engaged by forming relationships with current faculty and staff members.

The Hamiltons have given generously to DePauw, and are providing for the university in their estate through an irrevocable charitable remainder unitrust. “We’re progenerosity,” Valerie says. “We place a great value on education and on the type of education that DePauw provides.” It is exactly because of donors such as Bud and Valerie Hamilton that DePauw can continue providing that meaningful education year after year.

We’d be happy to help you build a legacy at DePauw. For more information, contact Eric Motycka, director of legacy and estate planning, at 765-658-4216, 800-446-5298 or ericmotycka@depauw.edu. Learn more at www.depauw. planmylegacy.org.

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