DePauw M A G A Z I N E
Summer 2019
IN THIS ISSUE: The Sweet Taste of Success / Parallel Paths / Entrepreneurship: Three Takes, Three Tracks / and more
“I create.”
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THE BO(U)LDER QUESTION
by Erin Rees Clayton ’01 Recent data from the United Nations suggest hunger and chronic undernourishment are increasing around the world. Simultaneously, global rates of obesity are skyrocketing, due in part to developing countries adopting a more “Western” diet. Meanwhile, the world’s population is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion people by 2050. Rees Clayton is a senior scientist with The Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to build a sustainable, healthy and just food system. We asked her:
How can we evolve the food system into one that will sustainably nourish the world’s growing population?
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olutions to our global food system crisis must be bold and transformative, implemented justly and efficiently, and focus on both public health and planetary health. In the study “Shifting Diets for a Sustainable Food Future,” the World Resources Institute estimates that, compared to 2006, we will need 70% more food to meet global demand in 2050. It is unlikely that improvements in agricultural productivity alone will close this gap, given yields would have to increase 33% faster than they did during the Green Revolution of the 1950s and ’60s. It’s true that modern-day food production is vastly more efficient than in our great-grandparents’ time. However, our current food system already uses more than a third of Earth’s habitable land, displacing wild ecosystems. Deforestation for new crop and grazing lands is a leading contributor to climate change, as is feedcrop production itself. Additionally, feedcrop fertilizer and manure from industrial farms are significant sources of water
pollution and rural air pollution. There is immense opportunity to course correct. From a scientific and technical standpoint, we’ve never been better equipped to address complex global problems. Brilliant minds from around the world are already collaborating to identify potential solutions to today’s food issues. Researchers from disciplines as varied as plant biology, cell biology, protein chemistry, biomedical and chemical engineering, economics, ethics, sociology and food science all have invaluable expertise and perspectives to bring to the development of these solutions. I am particularly excited about two emerging innovations in our global food system: plant-based meat and cell-based meat. Plant-based meat gets all its amino acids, fats and minerals from plants. Cellbased meat – sometimes called clean meat as a nod to clean energy in the energy sector – is made up of animal cells but grown from these cells directly rather than as part of an animal. One of the main motivations for producing both plant-based
and cell-based meats is to develop a food system that functions more efficiently from economic and environmental standpoints. We already spend many billions of dollars every year to create incremental improvements in the status quo. Imagine if instead these resources went toward advancing the bold and transformative solutions of plant-based and cellbased meat. There is an urgent need for exponentially more research, training, technical talent and funding from around the world to enter these fields. Academic institutions are positioned to play a vital role in fast-tracking both the research and workforce development necessary to accelerate the plant-based and cell-based meat industries. If successfully implemented on a global scale, a food system based on plant-based and cell-based meat has the potential to sustainably feed 10 billion people by 2050. These solutions would mitigate climate change and other pressing environmental problems and decrease global public health issues such as antibiotic resistance and zoonotic threats.
IN THIS ISSUE
The Bo(u)lder Question
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DePauw Digest
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Book Nook
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Letters to the Editor
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The Sweet Taste of Success
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Parallel Paths: Best Friends Transform Career Crises into Triumphs
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Entrepreneurship: Three Takes on It, Three Tracks to It
STAFF
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1,000 Words’ Worth
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Students of All Types Tap Centers to Learn Business and Tech Skills
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Gold Nuggets
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First Person
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Old Gold
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Leaders the World Needs
DePauw
M A G A Z I N E
Mary Dieter Managing editor marydieter@depauw.edu 765-658-4286 Kelly A. Graves Creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Timothy Sofranko Photographer timothysofranko@depauw.edu Donna Grooms Gold Nuggets editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Contributor: Kate Robertson
Cover art by Paula DiLeo.
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DEPAUW DIGEST McCoy Steps Aside, Search Begins DePauw President D. Mark McCoy announced May 13 that he has resigned his position effective June 30, 2020. In emails to faculty and staff members, McCoy said that he was proud of the steps his administration took “during a period of so much change” to make DePauw safer and more financially stable than it had been and that the university “can now move forward best with new leadership.” Kathy Patterson Vrabeck ’85, chair of the Board of Trustees, praised McCoy for “his selfless contributions to DePauw and his willingness to remain in leadership as we conduct a comprehensive national search for DePauw’s 21st president.” McCoy, who came to DePauw in 2011 to be dean of the School of Music, was named president in March 2016 and took the reins the following July 1. Trustee Justin Christian ’95, chief executive officer and founder of BCforward, is chairing the committee tasked with selecting the next president.
You Go, Girls A pair of teams represented DePauw at NCAA Division III Championships in the spring as the women’s golf team finished fifth in the nation and the softball squad was runner-up in a regional it hosted. Larisa Luloff ’19 led the golfers as the nation’s topranked player throughout the year. She was named the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Golfer of the Year in addition to her first team all-America honors. Layla Ahmadi ’21 earned the Kim Moore Spirit Award for her work with Type 1 diabetes. The softball team was the first in North Coast Athletic Conference history to go undefeated in conference play, posting a 16-0 record.
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About the Class of 2023:
448
STUDENTS
45%
55%
20.8%,
or 93 students, are the first in their families to attend college.
15%
or 68 class members are legacy students, meaning either a member of their immediate household or a grandparent has a DePauw connection. Class members come from
30 states 20
countries
The class includes
17
valedictorians
7
salutatorians
20.5%, 18.5%, or 92 students, are of color.
or 83 students, are international.
THE CLASS FEATURES 43 honor scholars. 50 management fellows. 20 media fellows. 11 environment fellows. 10 science research fellows. 9 Rector scholars. 22 Posse scholars. 175 athletes.
DePauw Leads on Sustainable Ag DePauw hopes the new Ullem Campus Farm and Center for Sustainability will make it a national leader in sustainable agriculture. The 12-acre farm and the center, which integrates the farm’s operations with the university’s liberal arts curriculum, were dedicated May 9. Malorie Imhoff, DePauw’s director of sustainability, said that, in the 30 months since Scott Ullem ’89 and his wife made a gift that paid for the farm and center, “I have seen more students than ever involved in hands-on farm work, more produce grown for our very own Hoover Dining Hall and more partnerships developed within and beyond the DePauw community.”
Newsletter News The alumni newsletter has a new look! If you aren’t receiving it in your inbox, but would like to, email alumnioffice@depauw.edu.
Happy Trails – and Thanks – to “Mom” Brown More than 150 people – most of them brothers from Phi Kappa Psi fraternity – attended a retirement party June 6 for their house mother, Dorothy “Mom” Chapman Brown. For more than 25 years, Brown was a second mother, a sounding board and a safe harbor for hundreds of young men. She was the first AfricanAmerican person to teach in Greencastle public schools, and later was a collegelevel educator and faculty adviser and DePauw’s assistant dean of minority affairs. Joe Allen ’59, a NASA scientist-astronaut, spoke to the group about his experience living under the mentorship of Brown’s father, Oscar, who was house father of Beta Theta Pi for 39 years.
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BOOK NOOK Is a recent read occupying your thoughts? Has a book indelibly imprinted your life? We want to hear from you. Send your recommendation to marydieter@depauw.edu.
What We’re Reading by Andrea Sununu I began recommending Paul Kalanithi’s incandescent memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air,” as soon as I first read it in 2016, and I’m rereading it now because I plan to include it in my English 120 class this fall. With a title indebted to Sir Philip Sidney’s friend Fulke Greville and prose so unforgettable that, as Abraham Verghese notes in the foreword, “out of his pen he was spinning gold,” Kalanithi charts his abrupt transformation from young neurosurgeon to cancer patient intent on finding a way to “translate … back into language” the experiences that his medical training had given him. As Lucy Kalanithi reports in her compelling epilogue after her husband’s death at age 37, “Paul faced each stage of his illness …with an authenticity that allowed him to grieve the loss of the future he had planned and forge a new one.” English professor Andrea Sununu, deemed a legend in DePauw Magazine in 2014, has taught at DePauw since 1990. She took time from her spring-semester sabbatical, during which she spent three months at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., to recommend this book. She is returning to Folger for eight weeks this summer to continue her co-editing work on “The Complete Writings of Katherine Philips.”
The Book Nook features notable, professionally published books written by DePauw alumni and faculty. Self-published books will be included in the Gold Nuggets section.
Chuck Grose ‘53 “Dealing with Differences”
Sherry Richert Belul ’86 “Say it Now: 33 Creative Ways to Say I Love You to the Most Important People in Your Life”
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Mary Stoecklein ’10 “Native American Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations”
Marsha McCracken Voigt ’74 “Disciplinary Literacy in Action”
The President’s Bookshelf
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by D Mark McCoy
In thinking about what book I would recommend from the shelf for this issue, I considered “Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society” by Nicholas A. Christakis because of its hopeful account of our ability to strive for good and goodness. I also considered “Educated” by Tara Westover because it tells of the transformative and truly life-changing power of an education. Ultimately, however, I chose “Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men” by Alexandra Robbins. DePauw has a long and proud history of Greek organizations (and is even mentioned in the book for this) and I wanted the deeper dive into today’s fraternity experience. It is an eye-opening book and worthy of the time to reflect upon the complexity of our modern society and the Greek organization’s role within it.
LETTERS
DePauw M A G A Z I N E
Spring 2019
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Rectors: Changing Lives, an Institution, the World / Developing the Well-Rounded Person / A Chicken-or-Egg Debate / and more
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF RECTOR SCHOLARS
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TO THE EDITOR: The spring edition of the DePauw Magazine … without doubt is the best we’ve seen in years and, for the first time ever that we can recall, the magazine focused on the undergraduates’ lives and the achievements of a host of DePauw alumni who, to put it mildly, were amazing. Thank you to your staff and you for turning out a superior “product,” one that finally identifies your reading audiences. – Chuck Larson ’57 I read with dismay but not a lot of surprise the uncritical or, one might say, tone-deaf profile of Wilbur Kurtz … Yes, he fell in love with the South; it’s clear as he worked on some of the prime propaganda of the Jim Crow era, helping create the legend of the “Lost Cause.” The revisions of the Atlanta Cyclorama were part of this creation with myths baked into the work … His movie credits for “Gone with the Wind” and “Song of the
South” – the latter too controversial for its implied racism to be released for viewing by Disney – are certainly cringe-worthy … I wonder how alums or current students of color at DePauw feel about this profile … I don’t think it does much for DePauw’s reputation, especially given recent racial incidents there, to be portraying this kind of career as “remarkable.” – David H. Miller ’64 The layout and new look are outstanding, along with some truly great articles. – Don Hamilton ’57 and Laurie Hooton Hamilton ’58 I echo the plaudits of the respondents to your previous issue. The high standard continues in the latest issue, especially with the inside cover commentary by professor Kuecker. His message needs to be heard beyond the DePauw community … A more specific concern arises from the obituaries of professors Schwartz and Weiss, colleagues I remember with great respect, and that of alumnus Richard Locke … It is unfortunate that Ann Weiss and Henrietta Schwartz and Mrs. Locke are not fully identified … Faculty spouses and family contribute greatly to the successes of their mates. – Ernest Henninger, physics professor emeritus The Bo(u)lder Question posed to Glen Kuecker in the spring 2019 magazine was “What can individuals do to halt degradation of the planet?”
I read his lengthy and rather verbose essay several times and did not find an answer, or even an attempt to directly answer the question. He seems to conclude that in this regard the situation is hopeless, and all the individual can do is “take action that prepares for deepening systemic crisis” without suggesting what such actions might entail. I did not find this at all informative. – Stephen R.S. Martin ’67 Outstanding issue! Impressive touches, like the Rector scholars’ gold. Loved the cover. – Rae Lahti Donnelly ’59 I wish you could have expanded on the reasoning behind the need for the reduction in staff … It seems (that) DePauw strives to be same as their peers and not to rise above them in excellence and achievement. – Sally Enchelmeyer P’12 Editor’s note: We want to reassure Ms. Enchelmeyer and anyone with similar concerns that DePauw University has not abandoned its longstanding quest to be a premier liberal arts institution. To the contrary, recent staff reductions were undertaken to ensure the university’s continued financial stability and its ability to provide excellent educational programs taught by a top-notch faculty. Staffing intentionally remains above the benchmark for universities of similar size, however, because of our commitment to student success.
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PATHWAYS
The Sweet Taste of Success DePauw nurtured Kristie Carter’s early inklings of entrepreneurship By Mary Dieter
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K
ristie Carter can’t figure out where her kindergarten journal might be. Not that that’s so surprising for a 32-year-old member of the Class of 2009.
But she knows she kept it; over all these years,
she hasn’t wanted to part with the eerily prophetic
drawing that an entrepreneurial prodigy had sketched on its back.
“I’ve got a little stick figure and the building says ‘Carter Inc.’ and
there’s a stick figure in this building,” she says, gesturing, “that says ‘Kristie
Inc.’ So I’m looking out of this building at this building, because I own the whole street.
“So I knew very young that I wanted to own my own business. I didn’t
have a clue what, right? I didn’t know what opportunities were going to come about.”
This was before the elementary school days when she arose at midnight
or 1 a.m. so she could accompany her grandmother – and share in the
profits – from the elder woman’s commercial newspaper-delivery route.
Before she had fallen into an accidental but highly lucrative candy-selling business at her middle school, only to be expelled for operating it. Before
she, as a high school senior, partnered with her brother to buy a used Ford Expedition limousine that they rented out for proms and parties.
And before that fledgling business grew to the 34-vehicle fleet deployed
by Carter’s Aadvanced Limousines, a company based on the southeast side of Indianapolis, just a few miles from the epicenter of Carter’s childhood. (She inherited the intentionally misspelled relic of a moniker from an
uncle’s previous business, so named for advantage in the Yellow Pages.) Her motivation, she says, was to avoid living paycheck to paycheck,
being “stuck at that hourly wage forever.” That, or something worse.
“We grew up in an apartment complex, a low-income one,” Carter
says, with neither sentimentality nor self-pity. “So the neighborhood, the
streets, raised me. My mom was a single parent. She was struggling to put
food on the table and was running around left and right … All my friends
turned out either pregnant or on drugs or locked up, so I have no idea how I successfully made it out. Because I’m pretty much one of the only ones who did something in life.”
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A seventh-grade Carter had two packets of candy, and a friend wondered if she had more. “I said, no. She said, ‘I’ll give you $5.’ I thought, $5 for two Airheads? Phew. I’ll bring four tomorrow. And it just started happening. I brought more and more and more and more.”
with no windows, no phone, no nothing.” The administrators called her mother and threatened Kristie with juvenile hall. “You all have got to figure it out,” Carter recalls her mother, who wasn’t supposed to use the phone at work, nervously saying. So Kristie, a preteen itching to
Her mother, then working at Sam’s Club, used her employee discount to buy big bags of candy for Carter to sell. But the school’s administrators warned her to knock it off. And warned her. And warned her. “They told me about six times to quit. I didn’t,” she says. Finally, “it got real serious. There was a police officer involved. They put me in handcuffs and put me in a room
get out of there, signed a document, unknowingly acknowledging 13 violations of school policy and agreeing to a 10-day suspension, pending expulsion. With the help of a lawyer, intervention by a sympathetic administrator and considerable haggling, the Carters ultimately accepted Kristie’s expulsion for the third quarter of seventh grade, with the proviso that she – an A student – be
allowed to start eighth grade with her class. She did so, and her old customers immediately began clamoring for candy. “By the time they actually expelled me, I was making about $800 to $1,000 a week profit. I mean, you can’t just walk away from your job,” she says. “… And so I sold candy. I was much more discreet about it. I didn’t get caught.” Fast forward to Warren Central High School. She and her brother Ken, often with the help of their uncles or friends, “would save up our money and we would randomly rent a limo.” After being stranded three times by unscrupulous drivers, the siblings joked about buying their own limousine. Not long afterward, her brother’s roommate was perusing an auto trader magazine and spotted a used limousine for sale. One thing led to another, and she and Ken bought the vehicle and began renting it out. Meanwhile, Kristie’s high school counselor reminded her that she had not completed the “plans after high school” form. “I’m like, eh, I don’t plan on going to college; there’s no reason to give you a blank form so I didn’t waste your time,” Carter says. Counselor Craig Clark was having none of that; Kristie had the third-highest grade point average in her graduating class of 778. “She was bright and she was hard-working and she was competitive in school,” he recalls. “I had 400 kids as my caseload, but there are a few that you always have a certain bond or connection with, and she was one of them … If I would tell her to do something, she would always come through for me, no matter what the situation was. As a counselor, that’s all you could ask of a student.” Clark explained to her the value of
college and the financial aid that would make it possible for even a student from an impoverished family to attend. He also tapped her English teacher, Rich Dayment, a 1977 DePauw graduate, and together they persuaded her to visit four schools, including DePauw. The first three were a bust, and the visit to DePauw started out badly. “I quickly learned there’s no entrepreneurship (program) at DePauw,” she says. “So I called Craig Clark and said, ‘What are we doing again? You’ve got me at this college … I want to be self-employed and this school doesn’t offer that. He’s like, ‘Well, there’s this Management Fellows Program. I set you up an interview.” Carter grudgingly met with thendirector Gary Lemon, a professor of economics and management. She was sold on the program. “I don’t know anybody who started with so little who has made so much of their own life,” Lemon says. “She doesn’t overanalyze, which many people do. She has an idea; she goes out and does it. She makes it happen. That’s Kristie Carter. And that’s something I don’t think you can teach people. I think there are people who are risk-averse and there are people who are risk-takers. And she’s a risk-taker.” Still, Carter struggled at DePauw. She suffered from culture shock, she says. What’s more, her mind was elsewhere; she and her brother had purchased two more limos over the summer before she entered DePauw, and she sometimes left class to take business-related calls – much to the consternation of at least one professor, she recalls. Her GPA plummeted below the cutoff for participation in management fellows, and she was ejected from the very program that had sold her on DePauw. College, she decided, wasn’t for her, and
“She doesn’t overanalyze, which many people do. She has an idea; she goes out and does it. She makes it happen. That’s Kristie Carter. And that’s something I don’t think you can teach people. I think there are people who are risk-averse and there are people who are risk-takers. And she’s a risk-taker.” – Gary Lemon
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“I knew very young that I wanted to own my own business. I didn’t have a clue what, right? I didn’t know what opportunities were going to come about.” – Kristie Carter
KRISTIE’S PATHWAY
1993: Sketches her entrepreneurial dreams on the back of her kindergarten journal.
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Winter 2000: Serves a 45-day expulsion from seventh grade for selling candy to classmates.
Spring and summer 2005: Buys her first limousine in March; rents it to prom-goers in April. Graduates from high school in May. Buys two more limousines and installs snack machines in her old middle school in the summer.
she asked Lemon to sign withdrawal papers. He refused and urged her to stick it out for another semester. “I don’t want to stick it out anymore,” she recalls saying. “And he’s like, ‘No, Kristie; you’ve got to. You’ve got to.’ And I was like, then I want to be a part of your program.” Lemon told her that she could participate in management fellows programming but the designation wouldn’t be on her diploma. “I’m not ever going to hand my resume to anybody; that’s not my goal,” she says. “I wasn’t in it so I could graduate with a title … so that was that.” Says Lemon: “She would always participate; she was always networking. She always wrote thank-you notes to people … The advantage to Kristie of DePauw University was networking. It wasn’t particularly the classes. It was the people she met, the opportunities she took advantage of. She took advantage more than any other student I can think of – all the thousands in 40 years.” One of the opportunities was to intern for six months at BrandEra, the Texas marketing firm founded by Beth Hentze Owens ’89 (see page 12), who Lemon says was a role model for Carter. “In my opinion,” he says, “entrepreneurs are born, not made. Both of them are.” Owens says of Carter: “She’s just a rock star.”
Fall 2005: Enters DePauw as a management fellow.
Back then, Carter says, “I didn’t quite understand the value it would bring, but I think Beth’s internship was phenomenal to me because it was a woman-owned, very small business. So not only did I get an internship – yes, technically they’re a marketing firm – but I got the true experience of what is it like to be selfemployed.” Her participation in the Bonner Scholars Program, a scholarship program for students with high financial need through which she volunteered at Asbury Towers Retirement Community and a dog shelter and did Spanish tutoring, “helped with my culture shock,” she says. And the personal relationships she developed, especially with Lemon and his wife Susan and with Sandy Smith, manager of programming and outreach at the McDermond Center for Management and Entrepreneurship and “an awesome support system,” kept her in school. Despite her early skepticism about a college education, DePauw “actually kicked me into gear” and exposed her “to opportunities that I had no idea existed, put me in touch with people that I had no idea were even attainable … The value that the alums bring to the table: I don’t know that every single student on campus sees that value or understands that network or understands that potential or even
Spring and summer 2008: Interns with BrandEra in Arlington, Texas. Spends fall semester studying in Spain.
appreciates the events, the opportunities that are presented in front of their face. And they don’t take advantage of it. It’s insane.” These days, she is president of a growing company that employs more than 40 people as chauffeurs, office staffers and mechanics. She occasionally drives a limo for repeat clients who ask for her, and she complies, wearing a black suit and a petite, licensed 380 revolver in an ankle holster. (“When you’re a female and you’re out driving late at night, you never know what’s going to happen,” she says.) She also dabbles in side businesses; in the summer after high school, her vending company installed snack machines in the teachers’ break room at the very school that expelled her. She doesn’t know what the future will bring. “As an entrepreneur, you can’t really have a plan,” she says. “You just kind of have to wing it and be open to opportunities when they come about, because you never know what’s going to come your way. You’ve just got to always be looking.”
May 2009: Graduates from DePauw with a major in economics, a minor in Spanish and a seven-vehicle limo fleet.
2019: Adds her 34th vehicle to Aadvanced Limousines’ fleet and employs more than 40 people.
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PATHS
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Best Friends Transform Career Crises into Triumphs By Mary Dieter
It was just eight months since Melinda Maine Garvey ’89 had made a move halfway across the country, and she was miserable. “I’d had this sort of Camelot of a career, right? I just moved up and had always done really well and had always gotten what I wanted,” she says. But she was restless for a change and a visit with a childhood friend sparked her interest in Austin, Texas. She applied for several positions and landed “a fabulous job – on paper. Not so much in real life … I didn’t like them and they didn’t like me.” One evening, during a “pity party,” she wondered aloud what she should do. A friend had just returned from a trip to Iowa and told her about “this really cool magazine” called Des Moines Woman. “She said, ‘No one’s talking about women … You’ve done publications; you have that background. You should start that. You should do a magazine here.’ And I will tell you,” Garvey says, “I can remember like it was yesterday. The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I knew. I knew in that moment that’s what I was supposed to do.” A year later and 200 miles away, Elizabeth “Beth” Hentze Owens ’89 –
Garvey’s best friend since they were Kappa Alpha Theta pledge sisters at DePauw – had a career crisis of her own. Owens had followed an unexpected path, launched when she served an internship in Colombia. She had fallen in love with international business, prompting her to study it in graduate school and then land a job selling diesel engines and power-generation equipment in Southeast Asia. Owens knew neither the languages nor the region, but she was game for the experience. A few years later, her boss started American IronHorse Motorcycle Co. Inc. and asked her to handle marketing for its custom choppers. Again, no knowledge about the product but, again, game. And it worked out until the board fired the CEO and replaced him with a 79-year-old engineer who “had nothing for marketing and nothing for women in a position in power. And I was laid off with one day’s notice.” So was her entire marketing department, and she proposed to a colleague that they consider a professional future together. She sent a letter to “every dealer, every investor, every media person, every customer, every everyone. And I said,
you know, there’s this fork in the road and I didn’t realize I was going to go down this new path. I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Here are some things in the last number of years that I’m proud of and I’m thankful that you’ve been part of this story with me.” People started calling her immediately, asking her to do for them what she had done for American IronHorse, but on a contractual basis. “And that,” she says, “is how we started BrandEra.” n Melinda Garvey knew nothing about starting a business. “I knew so little, I also didn’t know the downsides, right? I hadn’t really thought through anything. I just knew that I was so passionate about this.” She wrote a business plan and hired an attorney, who questioned her plan to cash out her $20,000 401K. She understood that he was trying to protect her, but “he wouldn’t stop telling me all the negative and he started to derail me. I started to question myself. Finally, I went back to my business plan and I looked at it and I was, like, no, I’m going to do this. And the next day I fired him … That negative influence could really have changed my whole
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trajectory.” Her childhood friend invested another $20,000 and two other investors came up with $10,000 each. Seven months later, in September 2002, she launched Austin Woman. She lived off savings and credit cards and, by the end of the first full year, the magazine was profitable. Eventually, Garvey bought out her friend; that was the plan all along, she says. The magazine, which has 10 employees, including Garvey and her husband, has a circulation of 75,000 distributed for free at 1,300 locations around the city and at events; a digital version is available, along with web-only content, at https://atxwoman.com/. Garvey says it is “incredibly fulfilling” to meet accomplished women and to have readers tell her that stories have changed their lives. But about four years ago, as she
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contemplated the struggles women face in the workplace, she learned through research that the biggest obstacle to women’s success was a lack of relatable role models. Not everyone can aspire to be the next Oprah or Sheryl Sandberg, she says, and, “if you can’t see it, you can’t be it.” She wanted to reach far beyond Austin and so she set about raising money for a digital enterprise. The first daily “On the Dot” (https://onthedotwoman. com/) email was delivered in April 2016 to individual subscribers, who may read content or listen to a four-minute podcast. “It’s like your best girlfriend or your best female colleague telling you a story about a really cool woman,” Garvey says. She next developed the corporate “On the Dot Connect” platform, which is marketed to large companies as a way to inspire their female employees and facilitate their development of a support system. Garvey says she knew during high
school that she wanted to attend DePauw but her parents, Michael R. Maine ’61 and Suzanne Bauman Maine ’62, “dragged me to other schools because they didn’t want it to just be rote or for me to feel obligated. My dad’s been a trustee for forever.” She prevailed, however, and majored in English literature and minored in French. She subsequently earned a master’s degree in international marketing from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program. She met Owens days before their firstyear DePauw classes began in 1985 and they have been best friends ever since. “I talk to Beth on the phone at least three, four times a week,” she says. “We talk a lot about business and we’ve actually used each other for business … She’s Auntie Beth to my son … “We’re very intertwined.” n
Beth Owens has always blazed her own trail. An Arlington, Texas, native, she had made her deposit to attend nearby Texas Christian University when she began to question her choice. She and her mother, Patricia Herrell Hentze ’63, headed to DePauw. “I just fell in love with it,” Owens says, recalling her first gaze at East College, the friendliness of the people on campus and her impression, subsequently confirmed, that “the relationship between the professor and the student was not one of ‘oh, well, I’m only available during class time.’ Professors really engage with students.” She was accepted as a management fellow, but quit the program because, as a Spanish major and political science minor, she had no interest in the internships it offered. “I’ll find my own pathway,” she decided, and that led to a junior-year internship in Colombia; a master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University; and those unusual jobs. In the early days after Owens birthed her phoenix – BrandEra, a marketing, advertising and public relations agency that handles regional and national clients – the inevitable stumbles occurred, prompting her to ask Garvey for advice. That added a professional dimension to their friendship: Garvey has hired BrandEra to handle brand development and other tasks for Austin Woman, including developing its logo. Owens has bought advertising in Austin Woman and sits on On the Dot’s advisory board; she has nominated Garvey for numerous awards and attends Austin Woman’s two signature events each year, an anniversary party and an awards event for womenowned and women-led businesses. “When I needed to vent about my
business or needed some guidance, she’d be the first person I’d call,” Owens says, “and when she would face business challenges, she would call me.” Among other things, Garvey wondered how Owens retained millennials and instilled in them a strong work ethic. Owens has plenty of experience in that realm, not only with her young employees but also with the DePauw students – management and media fellows – whom she hired as interns over 15 years. “I can provide this very well-rounded experience,” she says. “I think the geographic diversity is something that’s attractive. There are a lot of internships in Chicago, Indy and Cinci, and we were one of the unique ones in Texas.” Among her interns was Kristie Carter ’09, who owns a limousine company in Indianapolis (see page 6) – and for whom Owens developed the company logo. (Says Gary Lemon, professor of
economics and management and the former director of the Management Fellows Program: “I considered it one of the best internships because Beth gave the students a lot of responsibility … She has done well for herself, but she also has done well for our students.”) Owens, who boasts “an almost 30year love affair with the university,” contributes to DePauw in other ways; she was a student trustee and has served on the Alumni Board, the Board of Visitors and the management fellows board. She volunteers in her hometown of Arlington for admission and alumni events. And she frequently travels to Greencastle to speak at management fellows’ forums. Asked why, her response echoes her friend’s “see it to be it” maxim: “There were alums who came into my life early on in my DePauw career who showed me the way.”
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Entrepreneurship: Three Takes on It, Three Tracks to It By Mary Dieter
David Hersh figured out a way to step up companies’ internal communication and collaboration. Brian Thompson recognized that marriage equality raised myriad financial questions for LGBTQ couples and used his skills to answer them. Jon Weed just wanted to share his yummy peanut butter concoctions, with a side helping of his upbeat attitude about life. The trio of DePauw grads came to entrepreneurship in varying ways and for various reasons. But each brought with him a liberal arts education that primed his interest in following his dreams and creating his own business. “We really do develop leaders the world needs. Critical thinking is a very important part of being an entrepreneur,” says Steve Fouty, director of DePauw’s Robert C. McDermond Center for Management & Entrepreneurship. “The heart of entrepreneurship is bringing new things out to the earth, bringing new things that fix problems. And that’s what a liberal arts education does – you look at problems in society … and look at ways to be better, to do it better.”
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hen he came to DePauw, Dave Hersh ’94 figured he’d pursue a business career. Upon graduation, he thought it wise to start out working for someone else, so he worked as a management consultant and for a dot-com. But DePauw was “where my eyes were opened to entrepreneurship as a legitimate direction,” he says, and that knowledge enabled him to pivot confidently when he and his wife, who was about to start graduate school, arrived in New York City Sept. 10, 2001. With job prospects bleak, Hersh revisited his entrepreneurial instincts and hooked up with some former colleagues to develop Jive Software, a platform that facilitates customers’ internal collaboration and employee engagement. As Jive’s founding chief executive officer, Hersh oversaw the company for more than eight years and orchestrated its 2011 initial public stock offering, which raised $161.3 million. That tremendous success positioned him for a career in which “I buy companies that stalled and weren’t able to make it on the first go-around … and I nurse them back into companies that are healthy, sustainably growing, purposeful. And I do it as CEO for a while.” He holds that title at his most recent acquisition, Mobilize Networks. Entrepreneurial spirit can be cultivated, says Hersh, whose parents, James Hersh ’65 and Martha Anderson ’66, likewise are DePauw grads. “But there definitely has to be an interest. In other words, once people are exposed to it, they have to want to learn more and get excited about it and really enjoy the process. They have to have an engine under the hood and an excitement for building something and working closely with other people. If that’s the case, entrepreneurship can open up a whole new world for them.” Early in one’s career, he says, the entrepreneurial drive is “really all about proving yourself worthy in the world – everything from having a job to finding a significant other, making money or fame or whatever it is. All those things are just drives to prove that you’re worthy, that you belong, right? “Now I do it because I love doing it and I love helping people and just creating new things in the world and, hopefully, trying to make the world a little better each time.” As an entrepreneur, he said, “I create; that’s a big part of it. The creative part of business-building. It’s not all widgets and building machines; there’s a big creative element to it, to create something that doesn’t exist. And I think that, to me, is the most exciting part. To do things that haven’t done before and do it in unique ways, to be really different in the world. To solve people’s problems and create.”
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Hersh is writing a book to share his ideas on how to build “a lean, focused, purpose-driven company” and anticipates that, as he ages, he’ll stop working as CEO and shift to coaching others. He also plans to establish a nonprofit organization; his favorite causes are autism and education. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate in my career, and am grateful for my success,” he says. “After the basics of a good life are covered financially, the money would just be spent on unnecessary things that aren’t improving the bigger picture. … So my philosophy is to understand where to draw that line in a way that reflects our values, and ensure the rest goes to charities that we believe make a difference in the world.” n
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rian Thompson’s career offered two divergent pathways, and he took the one less traveled by: entrepreneurship. He had never anticipated this; when he came to DePauw as a cross country and track recruit, he had no idea of what his career might eventually be and “I didn’t even know what entrepreneurship was.” His father, an executive at General Motors Co., pushed him toward business consultancy or engineering; Thompson, a philosophy and English writing double major who graduated in 2001, considered college-level teaching. His career adviser suggested the law and, after staying at DePauw for a fifth year as assistant director of the Writing Center, Thompson headed to Boston University for law school.
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His first law job was with a Chicago bankruptcy practice, chosen because he and his partner, Benjamin Rogers ’01, missed friends and family in the Midwest. After a year, Thompson moved to another firm, where he ran the tax preparation business and earned certification as a financial planner. When the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Windsor v. the United States affirmed the legality of
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same-sex marriages that had already occurred, nationwide marriage equality seemed to be on the horizon, so Thompson began writing a blog about financial issues surrounding it. Then in 2015, his firm’s partners split. One asked Thompson to join his new firm with the promise that Thompson could buy into partner status in five to seven years. Thompson flinched; having worked at the firm for nine years, such a promise seemed anemic. “At that point,” he says, “I was, like, all right, I’ve got to figure out what I want to do.” His research suggested a niche financialadvising practice focused on Generations X and millennials, who he believes are underserved because most financial advisers seek clients who already have sizeable bank accounts. Meanwhile, the high court – ruling in a case argued by Douglas Hallward-Driemeier ’89 – in June 2016 made marriage equality the law of the land. Thompson recalled the numerous considerations he and Rogers weighed before they were married under Illinois law in 2014, and he wanted “to be the change that I want to see.” So he chose to serve LGBTQ couples, many of whom were considering marriage after a lifetime of believing it would always be out of reach. LGBTQ couples often are more financially vulnerable than straight couples, he says, because they earn less and have less job security and they are more likely to consider themselves to be spenders. As he builds Brian Thompson Financial, he recognizes that “you need to take things one day at a time. Obviously it’s a risky venture. There are a lot of ups and downs” but “the quality of life is much better than I ever imagined.” DePauw prepared him for entrepreneurship, he says, by making him a better writer, “and that’s the way I have really sold my brand and my services;” in addition to the blog, he is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine. He also credits DePauw for his success in law school and for his ability “to think and analyze, not just hear something and read it but to really internalize it and process it. … The breadth of experience helped me figure out what I want to do and know that I can succeed in many things.” n
Jon Weed with his wife Kathy (center) and Nicki Dapp Griffin ’92.
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on Weed ’91 had been mixing up batches of gourmet peanut butter to use at home or to give as gifts when it occurred to him and his wife Kathy that “it would be kind of a neat thing to do the Zionsville (Ind.) Farmers Market and a way to have the kids be in front of people and have to do sales and just learn about having a small business,” he says. “So I signed us up to do that.” It was 2013, and B. Happy Peanut Butter was born. A friend gave the family after-hours access to her commercial kitchen, where Jon, a financial adviser who moonlighted into the wee hours, concocted the confections: peanut butter made with honey-roasted nuts and infused with goodies such as chocolate, pretzels, cranberries and coconut. Kathy – who says the recipes are Jon’s “creative outlet” – and the kids, then 14, 12 and 7, jarred, labeled, boxed and prepared orders for delivery and mail. “All of a sudden, stores found us and … and what started out as a little summer project grew into this real business,” Jon says. “And then we had some good publicity from TV a few times and articles in the newspaper and magazines. When those hit, more stores would call us and ask to carry our product.” Says Kathy: “When we first started this little project, we were
super excited if we sold 100 jars at the farmers market each week. That was a big week. And now we’ll make 2- to 3,000 jars a week” and triple that during the holidays. Now made at the Weeds’ own commercial kitchen, the nine varieties, whose names – including Count Your Blessings and Dream Big – reflect Jon’s optimism, are available in many Target, Fresh Thyme and Market District stores and on the Uncommon Goods and B. Happy websites. And at Zionsville’s farmers market. Besides Kathy, who works nearly full-time for B. Happy, the company has four employees, including Nicki Dapp Griffin ’92, whom Jon has known since he was a waiter in her Delta Gamma sorority house. Despite the brand’s success, Jon has no plans to quit his full-time job. But he allows himself to dream of selling the company some day and using the proceeds to ease his and Kathy’s retirement. Weed says he has been entrepreneurial since childhood, when he helped his mother create lacquered brooches that she sold. When he graduated from DePauw during a tanked economy, he and his friend Rob Harrell ’91 started a catalog company to sell t-shirts nationwide. (Harrell, now a graphic novelist with a movie deal with Paramount Pictures Corp., later designed the B. Happy logo.) DePauw, he says, did “a really good job of encouraging” his entrepreneurial drive and of informing students “that there’s more than just (being) an accountant or a lawyer. You can be a lot of different things.” In the early years of B. Happy, “when I was here working at 2 o’clock in the morning, I didn’t mind it,” Weed says. “It wasn’t drudgery to come in here; it was exciting to be able to make something and get that feedback from people how much they like it. It’s really rewarding. “I always tell people, you’d better be passionate about whatever you do, if you’re going to do your own thing, because it’s a lot of hard work and if you’re not overly passionate about it, it’s too easy to give up.”
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Majoring in music? Studying religious studies?
Students of All Types Tap Centers to Learn Business and Tech Skills By Sarah McAdams
Above: Zach Johns ’19. Right: Steve Fouty. (Photos: Tim Sofranko)
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Pardon the staff at The Robert C. McDermond Center for Management & Entrepreneurship for tweaking DePauw’s vision of “developing leaders the world needs” just a bit. Those folks see their goal as developing business-ready leaders. And it doesn’t matter what discipline those future leaders are pursuing or what major they’re studying. The same goes for the staff at the Tenzer Technology Center, where the goal is to make DePauw graduates, regardless of their discipline, more technologically literate than peers who study elsewhere and thus better equipped to handle challenges in
the workplace. At McDermond, “we want to make sure that the music student, the art major – not just the economics and computer science departments but all majors – understand that, when they’re looking for a job or trying to enter into business or entrepreneurship in any field – music, history, psychology or education fields – they can utilize the McDermond Center to get ready for their job,” says Steven Fouty, the James W. Emison center director. McDermond often is closely associated with the Management Fellows Program – which it houses – “but most of our programming is for all students,” he says. Zach Johns ’19, who majored in economics at DePauw, landed a job is employed as a human resource associate at Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis. “Through the McDermond Center programming, whether it’s the entrepreneurship pitch competition or the McDermond Speaker Series, I truly believe that I received a
business education that cannot be matched by another school,” he says. The center oversees six student-led groups, including Women in Economics and Business. Rachele Miller ’19 was a member of its executive team and says, “the McDermond Center does an excellent job of supporting student organizations. “I was able to tap into the center’s large alumni network in order to plan speaking engagements for the organization,” says Miller, who was director of relations and, during her senior year, co-president of the group. “These student organizations are sometimes the best ways to get real-world leadership experience.” That, Fouty says, is the goal. “We reach out to the business community and to the Greencastle community to help develop projects for students so that they actually benefit businesses and gain real-life experience … “If a student wants to do something creative with a nonprofit in downtown Indianapolis, for example, we’ll try to connect them and help them develop a real-life project.” Miller credits the McDermond Center for not only preparing her for internship and job interviews, but for helping her find her first employer post-graduation: Appirio, an information technology consulting company. “They helped me pursue internships in many different fields in order to help me find what I aspired my first job to look like,” she says. “I would not be nearly as self-assured or well equipped for life post-graduation without the McDermond Center.” Fouty says the center helps alumni, too. “Especially in the entrepreneurial world, many students have an entrepreneurial
mindset but yet they want to get real- life experience. So their first job or two they’ll go out and into industry and, five to 10 years later, they think they’re ready to start their own business. We will help them through that process and introduce them to other alums.” Over at the Tenzer center, “we’re not just targeting the computer science students,” says Michael Boyles, its director. “We’re really focused on all students across all disciplines … “Computer science students will find the center, the initiatives and the technologies that we have because they have to, and they want to. What we really want to do is make all other majors readier for the world. We talk about preparing leaders the world needs at DePauw. Well, those leaders go on to lead companies and people and projects that use tech, and maybe even build tech.” Boyles says he’s not suggesting that every English or religious studies major switch to computer science, but those students need to be comfortable with technology. “We want to decrease the level of anxiety with those students involving tech. We want those students to be able to manage technical folks – to be able to envision and foresee the possibility of bringing existing technologies together to build a bigger technology and maybe a new technology.”
Above: Althea Jinzhi Qin ’21. Left: Michael Boyles.
Tenzer offers workshops, curriculum development for faculty and summer stipends to teach faculty members how to infuse technology into their classrooms. It temporarily occupies a small space, including a visualization lab and interactive touch screen, in the lower level of Roy O. West Library. The $10 million gift made in 2016 by the Tenzer Family Foundation, founded by Lee Tenzer ’64 and his wife Marilyn, to establish the center provides funding to install technology throughout the library and perhaps elsewhere eon campus, Boyles says. Students such as Althea Jinzhi Qin ’21, a communication and studio art double major, see the value of the center’s
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Centers connect DePauw with Indy
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technology. “As we all know, we are in a computer science era, and it’s important for everyone to get to know the latest technologies like virtual reality, data visualization and 3D printing,” she says. “Attending workshops in the Tenzer Center would be a good start.” Keisuke Ohtani ’19, who majored in computer science, says the center is a place where non-programmers can get their foot in tech projects and programmers can find a project to work on. “The technology that the Tenzer Center was very useful,” Ohtani says. “It was really helpful for me getting into a new area of computer science, and I know I would have a tougher time finding a job without the experience at the center.”
DePauw’s reach into business and tech spaces extends, quite literally, into the heart of Indianapolis. At Union 525, a hulking tech hub on South Meridian Street, the university operates two initiatives aimed at creating connections between students and prospective employers, as well as spreading the word to prospective students about DePauw’s robust educational offerings. One initiative provides DePauw students, faculty and staff with membership in and 24/7 access to Launch Indy, a coworking space started in 2016 as an incubator for entrepreneurs; it is located in a building that started life in 1895 as an industrial training school. The second initiative provides an Indianapolis presence for DePauw’s Robert C. McDermond Center for Management & Entrepreneurship and its Tenzer Technology Center. “Not every business is going to come out to Greencastle and not every business really understands what we do at DePauw,” says Steven Fouty, McDermond’s James W. Emison director. “So we’re there advertising. We’re bringing people together. It’s a way to immerse students in the experience, and it’s also a place for alums to connect. “I think DePauw is all about relationships,” Fouty says. “And Union is just a way to really capitalize on those relationships in Indianapolis.” Michael Boyles, the Tenzer center director, concurs. “It’s about relationship building. The rationale behind the Tenzer center being involved is that we want the students to have access to a tech community, and that is literally happening in Union 525.” Katie Birge ’08, executive director at Launch Indy, says her organization and DePauw developed a relationship “to provide the DePauw community with an environment to connect with the Indianapolis startup community and to offer a space for working on new ventures, internships and training.” Keisuke Ohtani ’19
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DID YOU KNOW? 19% of the current student body are legacy students. 43% of students referred by alumni enroll at DePauw. For generations, the university has enrolled some of its most promising students with the help of DePauw alumni and friends. If you know a promising student who would excel on DePauw’s campus, complete a referral form at www.depauw.edu/recommend.
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Alumni Reunion Weekend 2019 Weekend Highlight: A Visit 75 Years Later by Class of ’44 Alumna Seventy-five years after she left DePauw University and headed for a teaching career, Phyllis Walcott Nichols returned to Greencastle in June to celebrate four special years of her life. Nichols ’44 was the oldest alumna by 10 years and the only member of her class to attend Alumni Reunion Weekend June 6-9. Eight members of the Class of 1954 also attended, as did a total of 1,267 alumni and friends. The largest contingent – 156 – came from the Class of 1969, which was celebrating its 50th year since graduation. President D. Mark McCoy marked the occasion by presenting flowers to Nichols during the convocation Saturday morning. Nichols, who double-majored in Spanish and English literature at DePauw, had a 20-year career in education during which she started the Spanish Department at LaPorte (Ind.) High School and, after earning a master’s degree, created media centers in the school corporation’s elementary schools. She has returned to DePauw for several reunion weekends, including last year’s, because her experience at the university was important to her. “Those four years were really special for me,” she says, “because I had a lot of friends. It was a different experience, I guess. I’m an only child and it was nice having all those other people around. I have very happy memories of that.”
Steve Sanger ’68 (right), recipient of the Old Gold Goblet, with President Mark McCoy.
Kyle Smitley ’07 (left), recipient of the Young Alumni Award, with Alumni Board President Denise Castillo Dell Isola ’96.
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FALL WEEKEND FESTIVITIES
Make plans to return to campus for one or more of the following fall events: ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME WEEKEND AND FAMILY WEEKEND Sept. 27-28 » Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Saturday, Sept. 28, 10 a.m Green Center for Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium
2019 Class of Inductees: • Amy E. Hasbrook ’00, women’s basketball (posthumously) • Prudence Dix Hilger ’57, women’s cross country • Natalie Shaffer Govert ’05, women’s cross country/track and field • Ryan M. Sipe ’05, baseball • Bradley K. Stevens ’99, men’s basketball • Anton A. Thompkins ’91, men’s soccer • Rex A. Call, sports medicine (honorary) • 1983-84 men’s basketball team
» Coach John Carter memorial dedication » Football game vs. Wittenberg University, 1 p.m.
Athletics Hall of Fame inductees recognized during halftime.
OLD GOLD WEEKEND Oct. 3-5 » Celebration of The Campaign for DePauw » Tailgate picnic and festivities » Football vs. Wooster, 1 p.m.
COMING TOGETHER WEEKEND Nov. 14-16
MONON BELL CLASSIC Nov. 16, 1 p.m. » The 126th game in the historic DePauw-Wabash football rivalry will be played on Nick Mourouzis Field at Blackstock Stadium.
GOLD NUGGETS GOLD NUGGETS publishes submitted updates about DePauw alumni’s careers, milestones, activities and whereabouts. Send your news to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 or dgrooms@depauw.edu. Faxes may be sent to 765-658-4625. Space considerations limit our ability to publish photos. Group photos will be considered if you include each person’s name (first, maiden and last), year of graduation and information about the gathering or wedding. Digital photos must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi. Submitted hard copies cannot be returned. Questions? Contact Mary Dieter at marydieter@depauw.edu or 765-658-4286.
Pi Beta Phi members of the Class of 1961 who attended a January reunion were Carol Shauman Alaimo, Joyce Jones Herbert, Karen Jenkinson Barnes, Peggy McQuiston Kitterman, Marletta Farrier Darnall, Jeanne DeCosted Pittman, Alice Stout Sherman and Eleanor Rapp Poland.
1952 Muriel Nelson Berger’s husband of 38 years died Feb. 12.
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1954 Row 1, l-r: Chester W. Browne, James M. Holland, Jerry L. Williams, Marjorie Davis Morehead. Row 2, l-r: Ronald K. Holmberg, Loraine Loomis Cox, Maurice A. Tuttle. Joyce Dixon Wilson-Sanford ’66
Jim Hollensteiner recently was featured in Exeter College’s alumni magazine. Almost 70 years ago, Jim – at the encouragement of Hans Grueninger, his German professor – accepted an exchange scholarship to attend the school in England, where he had “a most remarkable year” and starred in a number of athletic pursuits. He invites anyone interested in seeing the article to write to him at 22993 Rollins Lakeshore Drive, Rollins, Mont., 59931, or, “better still, come visit us in Montana and help pick some of the best sweet cherries in the USA.”
1961 Members of the Class of 1961, who met as Pi Beta Phi pledge sisters in fall 1957, gathered for a reunion in January. (See photo above.) ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1959 Row 1, l-r: James S. McElwain, Vivian Usher Ripley, Frances Bagby Ray, Robert D. Sandine, William V. Blake, Alberta Matzke Buckman, Willis H. Davis, Charles C. Boyer, Nancy Clemens Ulmer, Rae Lahti Donnelly, Joseph P. Allen IV. Row 2, l-r: Patricia Foley Siddiq, Carolyn Hostetter Smith, Sue Strickland Hirschman, Beverly Baker Baker, Sally Hirsch Hinchman, Nancy Spier Null, Susan Stirling Little, Charles E. Racine, Fred A. Maione, Kenneth L. Kirk, Gretchen Frank McKee. Row 3, l-r: Richard H. Whited, Virginia Greenwald Logan, Susanne Proud Kroeger, Nancy Findley Bizal, Thelma Hunter Harkness-Thompson, R. Elaine Degenhart, Suzanne Wilhelm Cook, Whitney Fearer Morrill, Carol Unterberg Merriam, Ruth Eichelman McElwain, Wesley M. Vietzke.
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1966 Joyce Dixon Wilson-Sanford is the author of “I Pray Anyway: Devotions for the Ambivalent.” She recently published a companion book, “Playbook for I Pray
Anyway,” a discussion guide for groups or individuals. Both books are available on Amazon.com. Joyce’s website is readjoyce.com. (See photo previous page.)
1968 Timothy S. Feemster, chief executive officer and managing principal for Foremost Quality Logistics Inc., was among 500 people selected by D CEO Magazine as one of “The Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth” for 2019.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1964 Row 1, l-r: Patricia Howell Papero, Marilyn Schaaf Owen, Sandra Elles Hansen, Carol Parks Morrison, Susan Bicket Jones, Roma Williams Hess, Susan K. Arndt, William R. Spomer, Donald F. Foley, Timothy A. Stabler, Kenneth B. McCoy Jr. Row 2, l-r: John F. Kent Jr., Maureen Sullivan Taylor, Maxine May Hubbard, Vernell Gehron Fettig, Carolyn Preslar Eskew-Farrell, Kathrine Harris Hauck, Mark E. English, R. Griffith McDonald, Barbara Swensrud McCoy. Row 3, l-r: Howard L. Bull, Paul M. Shimer, Vernon O. Hamilton Jr., Philip C. Hauck, Thomas A. Bond, Richard G. Lubman.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1969 Row 1, l-r: Larry D. Lankton, Barbara Heisel Manning, Raymond W. Owens III, Teresa Kendall Owens, Alison E. Frost, Holly Gaden Bushnell, Sue DeFrees Wright, Jane Dooley, Bonnie Booz Boyer, Gregory M. Boyer, Paula Drake Ilardo, Rebecca Tatman Sipe, June Scott Barber, Anita M. Deckard, Mary Brown Kimmel, Janel Howell Miller, Cynthia Croneigh Burrell. Row 2, l-r: Rachel Bourland Lankton, Sharon Nelson Arendshorst, Linda Greenhoe MacConnell, Robert Cochran Christman, Rebecca Morris Tucker, Ann Bauld Newton, Karen Pratt Peiffer, Nancy Van Sickle Kent, Sarah Katterhenry Dutton, Nancy Reynolds Fairchild, Gail Austin Siegers, Martha Musk Robertson, Barbara White Parker, Fredrick W. Parker II, Elizabeth Clark Swank, Nancy Bruns Lawler, Robert C. Moore. Row 3, l-r: Benjamin F.P. Ivins, W. Randolph Lazear, Mary Petticrew Smalling, Susan Campbell Foster, Judith Land Moore, Mary Jane Glick Wilson, James E. Dirks, Edward N. Stoner, Mari Doren Stoner, Victoria Erdmann Burgman, Deborah Roessing Cuerden, Linda Spreen Budelsky, Neil W. Budelsky, Martha Depler Zink, Vernon R. Zink, Teddy (honorary alumnus), Philip A. Scheidt, Sarah Jane Proctor Moore. Row 4, l-r: John G. Meyer III, Victoria Elliott Lazear, Robert A. Schmidt, Margaret Sheridan Schmidt, Catherine A. Crawford, Nancy B. Gable, Catherine Healy Hofmann, Holly Munchoff Kendig, Linda Mongold Weatherby, Barbara Zaring, Pamela Andberg Krause, Barry M. Krause, Bruce A. Buhrandt, John S. Marlatt, Nancy Bruce Alexander, Linda Warren Smith. Row 5, l-r: Robert M. O’Neil, Peter E. Valessares, Suan Hackman Valessares, Walter W. Pope, Robert S. Tongren, Christopher J. Wurster, Michael K. Irwin, Paul M. Mitchell, John W. Sorenson, Roy M. Van Cleave, Jon W. Joseph, F. Allen Hester, Joseph D. Haythorn, Jerry L. Alexander. Row 6, l-r: William L. Crist, John A. Caputo, James D. Putnam, John V. Gambaiani, John B. Gross Jr., Kerry P. Moskop, Dennis R. Stuckey, Derrick L. Warner, Christine Kleemeier, Mason P. Jett, Dale H. Van Kirk, S. Russell Sylvester, Grey M. Emmons, Jonathan O. Speers. Row 7, l-r: Lynn Reuss Bohmer, Roberta Graef Carlin, John R. Current, Dwight L. Nestrick, Anne Werner Nestrick, Marlyn I. Chadwick, Dale Brumbaugh Dowlen, James H. Young, Robert V. Crane, Ned E. Lee, Thomas F. Kyhos, Ellen Stock Carp, Paul N. Stanley, Timothy F. Campbell. Row 8, l-r: David A. Bohmer, Tyler B. Somershield, Samuel A. Kocoshis, James M. Tomsic, Douglas B. McAlister, John F. Martin, Jeffery J. Bowden, Martha O’Dell Harter, Robert B. Diehl, Stephen C. Jones, Richard E. Aikman Jr., Alan B. Cloe, Michael H. Uno. Row 9, l-r: Warren R. Onken Jr., Susan J. Curnick, Lizabeth Frank Horn, Janet L. Jones, Beth Montgomery Selke, Susan Christopher Swift, Daniel L. Swift, Barbara Palm Gibson, John H. Gibson, William L. Roller Jr., Thomas M. O’Neil, William J. Wieland.
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GOLD NUGGETS 1974 Robert F. Sharpe Jr., Barry R. Cesafsky ’76 and James W. Lucas ’63 were honored by the Sigma Chi International Fraternity as Significant Sigs, alumni who have distinguished themselves in their business, profession, government or military service and civic or community involvement.
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1974 Row 1, l-r: Garey L. Carson, Melanie Millis Wissel, Sandra A. Hamilton, James S. Cunning, Gregory Reed, Deborah S. Doud, Douglas B. Wood, Julie Read Hildebrand. Row 2, l-r: Larry J. Marfise, Steven S. Eich, Kathryn Fortune Hubbard, Marie A. Alles, Thomas R. Mote, Carter L. Oldfield Jr., Florence E. Beatty, Nancy Wells Lovett, Barbara J. Schwegman. Row 3, l-r: Jay D. Moore, Timothy T. Glidden, Catherine Bryan Whitford, Andrea Hannon Brown, Terry A. Crone, Stephen W. Perkins, Jeanette M. Temple, Nancy Milligan Frick, Christine Niles Cancelmo. Row 4, l-r: Katherine Prestholdt Luzar, Sarah Egly Ayers, Julia Knipe Mills, Peter M. Stragand, Diann Lindquist Ryan, Marilyn Knapp Litt, Susan Keller Vigorita, Katherine W. Keith.
Mark A. Emkes and Georgia Wralstad Ulmschneider received the 2018 Outstanding Philanthropy Award in November from the Northeast Indiana chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
1978 David S. Goltermann has been chairman of the national board of directors of the Alzheimer’s Association since October 2011.
1980 Priscilla Pope-Levison, associate dean for external programs at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1979 Row 1, l-r: Jean Rudolph Scott, Forest P. Whitlow Jr., Amy Daganhardt Whitlow, Nancy Hollenbeck Martin, Pamela Kinsey Lungmus, Mary T. Rock, Melinda Helmen Schweer, Daniel B. Kinsey, Mary Helmen Kinsey, Deborah Miller Smith, Trudi Miller Horner, James M. Maakestad, Debra Baptist Maakestad. Row 2, l-r: Maya, Craig S. Iorio, Michel J. King, Jeffery D. Lenfestey, Pamela Kaczynski Blankenship, Leslie Weck Gospill, Terri Gregory Brotze, Margaret Kissinger Boynton, Blake S. Tollefsen, Katrina Sorenson Stallings, Leslie Dustman Fenwick, Mary Lynn Scovill Bernacchi, Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, Andrea J. deVoursney. Row 3, l-r: Laura P. Whitcomb, Kathryn Hubert Beach, Michael B. McCracken, Byron W. Daugherty, Donald M. Phelan, Maurie Jones Phelan, Mary Beth Hucek, Leslie Bates Johnson, Cathryn Cochran Shiver, Joy Hodgkinson Gibson, Douglas P. Conner, Kyle E. Lanham. Row 4, l-r: Genet C. Soule, Terri List Green, Carole Summers Shaw, Susan Roessler Korb, Daniel F. Korb Jr., Richard W. Hazlewood, Elizabeth Gardner Russell, Megan Lewis Haddox, Kathryn Jennings Radostits, Karen Grinter Finegold, Tracy Gibson Conner, Elizabeth L. Hake. Row 5, l-r: Robert K. Beaumont, David A. Poggemeier, William J. Roess, Verne L. Barnes, Amy Butler Beseth, Carolyn Mueller Lanter, Anne Johnson Harris, Kathleen Robison Weiss, Susan Leis Thiele, Karen Luce Branding, Mary Katherine Johnson Moran, Alicia L. Dailey. Row 6, l-r: Gary W. Kriebel, Nicholas M. Tzakis, Timothy W. Swift, Linda Woods Armlovich, Amy Dolan Malaney, Ruth Chadwick Moore, Karen Uhlir Conrad, Sally Henning Carpenter, Sarah Harman Hunter, Elizabeth East Skalla, Susan Wexelberg Kelley, Mark R. Kelley. Row 7, l-r: Carol Funk Ives, Robert T. Ives, Charles S. Hoeppner, Robert C. Davis, John D. Hixon, Keith J. Sanborn, Philip R. Davis, David E. Lambert. Row 8, l-r: Frank A. Hoffman, Michael T. Sutton, Kerry E. Notestine, Michael J. Best, Joe H. Vaughn, Gilbert H. Reese, Timothy J. Bogue, John A. Scully. Steven L. Trulaske.
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Priscilla Pope-Levison ’80
Mary Hammond Atkinson ’84 and Laurie Hinson Kohrs ’87. School of Theology, received a fiveyear, $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment for an initiative designed to strengthen congregational ministries with youths. She and a colleague will co-direct the grant. (See photo above.)
1982 Robert M. Rabb is a long-term patient at Majestic Care Assisted Living, 803 S. Hamilton St., Sheridan, Ind., 46069. He would appreciate hearing from DePauw friends.
1984 Greg Gelzinnis couldn’t make it to his class’s 35th reunion in June because he was leading his eighth mission team to Honduras since 2005. His team, part of the United Methodist Church’s Honduras Mission Initiative, is undertaking construction and administering 2,000 fluoride treatments to children. It also is conducting
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1984 Row 1, l-r: Julie A. Paris, Virginia Vonnegut Hahn, Marcia Redmond Lehrman, Andrew B. Buroker, Kenneth P. Geoghegan, Donald A. Bolazina, Amy Robb Bolazina, Paul N. Geyer, Joseph H. Rohs, Elizabeth Copher Browning. Row 2, l-r: Florence Sullivan Gorman, Juliana Bialek McGrew, Jennifer Hinshaw Deethardt, Jeffery W. Davis, Dale E. Stackhouse, Robin L. Olds, Kelly E. Naylor, Catharine Iversen Zabrowski, Anne Ringer Whitlock, Carol Schussler Martin. Row 3, l-r: J. Jeffery Kauffman, Janice Amoroso Kershaw, Jeffrey W. Ahlers, Paul M. Hershberger, Elizabeth Lewis McMillan, Catherine Cockerill Moran, Susan A. Ellefson, Elizabeth Hughes Krebs, Ana Morgan Stark. Row 4, l-r: David S. Hathaway, Douglas S. Taylor, Steven D. Riley, Steven A. Williams, Michael C. Lueder, Theodore W. Wanberg, Stuart J. Ferguson, Stuart B. Smith. Row 5, l-r: Jennifer Kneisley Ferguson, Susan Stringfellow Ainsworth, Kathleen Betsill Dewey, Steven A. Edwards, David T. Dillon, Curt N. Stanton, John C. Otteson, James E. Ransdell, Kenneth H. Bushelman. Row 6, l-r: Suzanne Helton Beck, Kimberly Langhout Benson, Cindy Tibbetts Frey, Sara Nelson Couron, Susan Hoeppner Cristiano, Laura Ventura Mowery, Pamela Kern Clippinger, Kathryn Senseman Laudick, Kathleen Baldwin Leipprandt, Lisa Blair Banker. Row 7, l-r: Susan Cislak Sokolsky, Heidi Hunsberger McFadden, Lisa J. Kennedy, Sharon Clift Drbul, Elizabeth Rogers Laudati, Elizabeth Helm Beans, Sue Shurmer Ball, Ellen Lipe Fliss, Steven H. Kennett. Row 8, l-r: Barbara Geiler, Lynn Beunduej Morris, Holly Conreux Donnell, Stephen R. Donnell, Eric F. Harding, Larry B. Scott, Thomas P. Callan, Jeffrey J. Cieply. evangelistic outreach and vacation Bible school. Pi Phi sisters were surprised to find themselves at the same wedding in South Africa. Mary Hammond Atkinson was there for her nephew, the groom. Laurie Hinson Kohrs ’87 was there for the bride. (See photo above.)
1986 Doni Driemeier-Showers was ordained Jan. 19 into the United Church of Christ and has accepted a part-time chaplaincy at St. Louis University Hospital. A number of DePauw alumni attended her ordination, including her father Donald Driemeier ’60, who died in April. (See photo and “In Memoriam.”)
DePauw alumni attended the January ordination of Doni Driemeier-Showers into the United Church of Christ. They are (seated) Donald Driemeier ’60 and (standing l-r): Steve Westbrook ’85; Douglas Hallward-Driemeier ’89; Doni Driemeier-Showers ’86; Carie Rogavich Kennedy ’87; Tracy Shively Grantham ’86; Debra Driemeier Danen ’92; Liza Mitchell Wilhelm ’86; Randy Wilhelm ’86; and Terry Harrell ’86.
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Lucy Ferguson VanMeter ’97
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1989 Row 1, l-r: Julie A. Camarillo, Andrew J. Grieve, Charlotte Harshfield Gonzalez, Christine Szillat Messerschmidt, Charis C. Gaines, Patrick E. Meyer, Joseph W. Klupchak, Scott B. Ullem. Row 2, l-r: Dennis J. Stehlik, Melissa Straubinger Stehlik, Deneen Troutman Brennan, Nancy Fox Ardell, Susan Geeslin Woodhouse, Barbara Miller Compton, Dana C. Riess, Marilyn Combs Bisbecos, Joan Richards Lawrence. Row 3, l-r: John G. Stevenson, Dale Gossard Stevenson, Elizabeth LeSourd Ehlers, Elizabeth Lawson Houghtalen, Charles A. Compton, Jennifer Pope Baker, Jeffrey D. Hamilton. Row 4, l-r: Ragnar V. Flesvig III, Jack A. Lawrence, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier.
1988 Timothy S. Holt summitted Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, at 9:05 a.m. Jan. 2. (See First Person, page 41.)
1989 Kevin A. Krakora joined the Chicago office of Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC as a managing director. He is a corporate turnaround professional who leads financial and operational restructurings for distressed companies. He serves as chairman of the Turnaround Management Association, a global organization for corporate renewal and restructuring professionals. Fourteen alumnae of the Eta chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta had a mini reunion Feb. 2 in Indianapolis. Attending were Tina Burger Cloer ’89, Susan Hacker Nelson ’89, Heather Northrup Stith ’91, Leslie Smith Douglass ’88, Angela Howland Blackwell ’89, Stephanie Kingsley Riggle ’91, Nedra McKinney Richardson ’90, Catherine Morrison Stowers ’90, Diane Stinson Elliott ’88, Pamela J. Nyberg ’90, Cynthia Havenstein Nugent ’89, Margaret Martin Reeves ’89, Laura Woods Hauter ’89 and Laura Uhlemann Horwitz ’89.
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Rebecca D. Dukstein, director of the TRIO Talent Search program at the University of Kansas, was inducted into the Mid-America Education Hall of Fame April 27.
Charles E. Snider has helped open
Greenwich Living Antiques and Design, an art, antiques and furniture gallery in the Flatiron neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. He invites everyone to stop by for a tour at 40 W. 17th St. His email address is csshow@gmail.com.
1996 Earl R. Macam was named in Princeton Review’s 2019 edition of “20 School Counselors Who Make a Difference.” The former director of admission at DePauw has been a college counselor at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School since 2013.
1997 Lucy Ferguson VanMeter was elected in November to an eight-year term as Fayette Circuit Court judge in Lexington, Ky. She presides over criminal felony matters and civil cases concerning more than $5,000. She previously was an equity partner at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in Lexington for 17 years. She is married to Laurance B. VanMeter, a justice on Kentucky’s Supreme Court. (See photo above.)
1998 Jamie L. Lewis and Christian Mitchell were married Feb. 16 at Three Forks Ranch in Colorado. Cara M. Adler was her best woman. Jamie and Christian live in Manhattan. (See photo, page 36.)
director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute.
2001 Brian Dixon, founding president of the DePauw chapter of College Mentors for Kids, was honored in February with the Inspiring Alumni Award for exemplifying the organization’s mission and values. Brian, a research scientist, is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and
Abigail M. Lovett is Chicago marketplace leader at Ketchum, a global communications firm. (See photo, right.)
2002 Barry S. Wormser was named a 2019 Indianapolis Business Journal “Forty
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Under 40” honoree. His boutique law firm, Wormser Legal, focuses on entrepreneurial and venture capital services as well as business and real estate transactions. Barry and his wife, Jackie, live in Indianapolis with their children, Elle and Teddy.
2003 Sarah Mordan-McCombs, the division head for natural sciences, the Deppe chair of biology and an associate professor of biology at Franklin College, in May received the Clifford and Paula Dietz Award for Faculty Excellence, which recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates extraordinary dedication and commitment in service
Abigail M. Lovett ’01 to the college. She received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014.
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1994 Row 1, l-r: Amy Tucker Ryan, Jennifer Briner Cody, Sarah Brooks Ward, Julie Tippett Simon, Missy Vail Houser, Phyllis Barkman Ferrell, Andrew T. Claar, Wendy Fletcher Franzen, Nancy Brougher Benincasa, Derrick D. Freeman, Sarah C. Gormley. Row 2, l-r: Jean Gileno Lloyd, Jennifer Clark Hopkins, Sarah Francis Walsh, Jennifer Hegman Higgins, Stephanie Beck Klein, Michael C. Cox, Andrew J. Raterman, Eric M. Stisser, Donald N. Sullivan, Peggy L. Carson. Row 3, l-r: Brian C. Willett, Germaine Winnick Willett, Amy J. Brondyke, Kimberly Worthy Troup, Daniel L. Kiley, Katherine Gouthro Kiley, Kenneth E. Knutson, David W. James; Alison Baxter Giunta. Row 4, l-r: Michael C. Hetzel, Rachel Ekkens Goad, Pamela Gerbosi Heiss, Kathryn Stevenson Geraghty, Tricia Hanson Anderson, Sarah Walker Krauss, Amber Walker Empie, Karen Curley Vowells, Sarah Wade Van Pelt, Cheryl Wilkins Bird, Mary Wilson Seitz, Kathy L. Beymer. Row 5, l-r: Dawn J. Ingram. Abby Pelletiere Shaffer, Gwynn Lloyd Hurshman, Elisabeth Kringel Lien, Ingrid Mount Benson, Jennifer Pietrini Prochaska, Adrienne Rasbach, Jennifer Marshall Manns, Richard L. Steele, Jeffrey S. Smith, Edward J. Meier. Row 6, l-r: Stephen B. Crilly, George F. Bashaw III, John R. Perkins, Gregory A. Sissel, Kevin R. Eskew, Justin C. Dye, David J. Hersh, Todd E. Williams, Barbara Rowley Steele, Bradley A. Ahlbrand, David G. Sadler. Row 7, l-r: Keith R. Veneziano, Michael W. Colby, Gregory C. Brubaker, Eric G. Johnson, David C. Naftzger, Jennifer R. Hill, Megan M. Scott, Magen Elliott Savo, Matthew D. Carpenter, Michael A. Giunta.
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Amy S. Martin ’04
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 1999 Row 1, l-r: Mark D. Folger, Michael J. Rusie, Jonathan A. Klinginsmith, Joshua D. Holton, Jesse S. McKinney, Ryan P. Carr, Elizabeth English Eckert, Lindsey Gottfred Holton, Lindsay Perry Sonnenberg. Row 2, l-r: Stacy Goodwin Lightfoot, Shannon McInerney Flynn, Katherine Taylor Mulder, Jeanne M. Henning, Lori Bahleda Shattuck, Megan Greves Klinginsmith, Corrie Klopcic Chumpitazi, Errolyn Yavorsky Healy, Elizabeth Laughlin Raymond, Matthew Laughlin Raymond. Row 3, l-r: Kenton B. Smith, Garrett P. Flynn, Kara Quillico Paris, Rebecca McConnell Cunningham, Jaime W. Walker, Deborah Perez Vohs, Jessica Collins South, Christina Martin Dunnick, Lauren Bennett Hersh, Brian M. Hersh. Row 4, l-r: Kristin Steinbrecher Amendola, Cara Crosby Clippinger, Emily Jones Knuth, Analisa Boatman Barrett, Kristy Whikehart Neal, Kimberly Gilbert Sykes, Susan Bender Price, John A. Price, Lynn Martin DeHoyos, Catharine Sprinkel Morreau, Caroline E. Nagy. Row 5, l-r: Benjamin L. Stewart, Jeffrey D. Mohl, Patricia Guagliardo Mohl, Elizabeth Martin Yates, Leonica Keilman Parker, Erica K. Amoni, David L. Nie, Bradley H. Dawson. Row 6, l-r: Kent A. Works, Sean M. Surrisi, Brian A. White, Ryan J. Danks, John H. Bankhurst, Megan E. Duffy, Shanon Dugan Vollmer, Justin T. Vollmer. Row 7, l-r: Kathleen Leary Klitzke, Erika Amundson Melchiorre, Valerie Beauchamp Gallagher, Tiffany Booth Gay, Kinsey Singhass Bevilacqua, Heather Wolf McKnight, Allison Smith Broadgate.
2004 Amy S. Martin is the executive director of clinical ethics for Indiana University Health. She previously worked as director of ethics for Presence Health in Chicago. Amy received her master’s degree in health care ethics from Loyola University and her doctorate in bioethics and health policy from Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine. (See photo, this page.)
2006 Ashley Hadler Herschberger was named a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Cohen & Malad LLP. She focuses her practice on personal injury litigation. (See photo, this page.) Gary R. Rom has joined the Indianapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels’ health and FDA practice.
Gary’s expertise includes launching and marketing drugs and medical devices and their corresponding support programs. (See photo, next page.)
2007 Benjamin A. Huffman was promoted to partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, where he is a member of the energy, infrastructure and project finance industry team and the real estate, land use and environmental practice group in the Chicago office. (See photo, next page.) Norah L. Schneider received her Ph.D. in humanities from Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I., in May 2018. She wrote her dissertation on The Sentinel: American-Jewish Weekly Coverage in Chicago of Nazi Persecution of European Jewry and the Holocaust, 1930-1947.
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2010 Samantha B. Levy and Edwin “Ted” P. Jacobi were married July 1, 2017, in Greencastle. They live in Brooklyn, N.Y. (See photo, page 36.)
2011 Katherine A. Satterfield and Ian Campbell were married Oct. 26 in Brown County State Park in Indiana. (See photo, page 36.)
Ashley Hadler Herschberger ’06
2012 Sarah E. Norris and Lucas Young were married Feb. 2 at the JW Marriott Los Cabos Beach Resort and Spa in Mexico. (See photo, page 37.)
2014 Lilian D. Ehrgott and Dillon J. Raidt were married in September. (See photo, page 37.)
2015 Emma Clor traveled to Washington D.C. in April for B2S Life Sciences,
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 2004 Row 1, l-r: Ashlee Nisley Walsh, Daniel B. Matuszewski, Deborah Bushouse Thenen, Jessica Daniel Moore, Maria Herrera Norman. Row 2, l-r: Craig P. S. Snyder, Kirstyn M. Wentzel, Abundance L. Boekestein, Eric A. Wolfe, June Javens-Wolfe, Shelby Hutchinson Schuh. Row 3, l-r: Brent R. Hornett, Robert B. Sokol, John S. Gergely, Amanda Baker Mulroony, Colin P. O’Flaherty, Lauren Peoples Bush, Katie Lewis Murphy.
Benjamin A. Huffman ’07 where she works as a scientist to advance biotherapeutic treatment options for a variety of medical needs, including diabetes. Emma and her team met with members of Congress and visited the Argentina Embassy, where Emma served as a Spanish translator, to discuss an international partnership and the impact B2S Life Sciences is having on Indiana’s life sciences industry.
2017 Perrin Clore Duncan recently completed her master of fine arts degree at the Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland. Her work was part of an exhibit favorably reviewed by Circa Art Magazine, which noted that Perrin’s work injected color “into the noticeably monochromatic space” and her invitation to viewers to rearrange her canvases to their taste “gives life to what could otherwise come across as a very safe, commercial project.”
ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 2009 Row 1, l-r: Megan Rebuck Schneider, Jillian Irvin Burriss, Brandon K. Burriss, Christian W. Goodrich, Julie E. Theibert, Matthew R. Jennings, Justin D. Weiner, Amber K. Peckham, Andrew P. Donovan. Row 2, l-r: Ashley Chin Morefield, John R. Anthony, Thomas R. Alford, Brandon M. Piper, Thomas M. Walz, Neal J. McKinney, Molly Mason Stevens, Lindsay Rudolph Engel, Megan Bowker Morey. Row 3, l-r: Benjamin D. Armstrong, Caitlin M. Cavanaugh, Lindsay A. Schroeder, Elizabeth Korb Bareman, Beth A. Towle, Keely Nearpass Floyd, Robert J. Engel, Kurt E. White, Jacob T. Krouse. Row 4, l-r: Alexandra L. Schulze, Lindsay Pavell Gramlich, Ashley Clark Fitch, Jennifer McPeak Robinson, Katherine R. Gladson, Tina A. Irvine, Kristie F. Carter, Chatel Bennett Beck, Sarah Cancelmo Graham. Row 5, l-r: Amber Miller Ruoff, Jessica Sadler Nowak, Cassandra J. Cardwell, Katie E. Schmelzer, Jessica K. Dudar; Douglas J. Strodtman, Kyle P. Booher, Brandon R. Newhart, Seth A. Berger. Row 6, l-r: Katherine E. Rappaport, Rachel Pfennig Hales, Erin Cunningham Buesink, Jacqueline Smith Goodrich, Elyse Fenneman Loeser, Alexandra L. Neff, Patricia M. Fletcher.
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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2019 – Members of the Class of 2014 Row 1, l-r: Lincoln J. Barlow, Paul R. Mpistolarides, John B. McCallum, Collin P. Brady, Benjamin J. Roess, Andrew J. Hooley, Tophel Secuskie IV, Max T. Guenther, Andrew L. Cusumano. Row 2, l-r: Alexandra M. Butler, Kristine V. Ruhl, Elizabeth A. Grady, Marcelle N. Forsyth, Brian K. Alkire, Stuart M. Newstat, Lilian Ehrgott Raidt, Jemma A. Losh, Zachary J. Alleman, Olivia C. Flores, Katherine E. Reichel, Christine Norris Barlow. Row 3, l-r: Andrew C. Yott, George T. Elliott, Brandon S. Johnson, Caroline M. McElvain, Mary V. Grady, Elizabeth A. Cangany, Christine T. Crowe, Elizabeth G. Hineman, Jocelyn N. Jessop, Jacquelyn E. Stephens, Alicia A. Erwin, Madeline E. Zacha, Kristin H. Jonason. Row 4, l-r: Jordan B. Davis, Traci Balz Snyder, Alissa R. Britigan, Brittney K. Biddle, Sally Qiu, Anna P. Steinbart, Erica Tucker Colliver, Christine Webster Wright, Sarah J. Edwards, Sean F. Brennan, Bailey L. Anstead, Katrina A. Zacha, Dillon J. Raidt. Row 5, l-r: Abigail E. Emmert, Maritza Mestre Steele, Caitlin Adams Groth, Nicole L. Dobias, Judith Yi, Frances M. Jones, Emily A. Curnow, Rachel E. Mazanec, Mary C. Brody, Kelly Doyle Noll, Jamie A. Catton, Theresa Figliulo Layton, Suzanne Spencer Mpistolarides, Lauren N. Perkins.
We want to hear from you! Submit a Gold Nugget about your life to dgrooms@depauw.edu. Jamie L. Lewis ’98 and Christian Mitchell
Alumni attending the wedding of Samantha B. Levy ’10 and Ted Jacobi ’10 were John G. Wallace ’08, Keith W. Chapman ’10, Patrick J. Mitchell ’06, Alex P. Borggren ’10, Maggie Pajakowski Borggren ’13, Eric M. Freshour ’10, John H. Wallace ’76, David S. Barkhausen ’10, Claire Apatoff Newman ’11, Sarah Reese Wallace ’76, Mary Schmidt Barkhausen ’09, Jonathan P. Newman ’10, Eric W. Dahman ’10, Beverly Gutermuth Levy ’79, Mary Levy Huffman ’67, J. Dennis Huffman ’66, Richard B. Levy ’77, Robert L. Levy ’69, Christopher R. Day ’10, Keith B. Stanford ’95, Erica L. Martin ’10, Amanda J. Levy ’05, Patrick J. Bergerson ’08, Sara Jaeger Bergerson ’10, Elinora Owen-Fardig Bokhari ’10, Julie E. Kallas ’10, Gwendolyn A. Brack ’10, Erin Kielty Varner ’10, Caroline Majers Backer ’10, Brian M. Oilar ’08, Luke C. Beasley ’10, Emily Smith Oilar ’13, Nathan R. Kober ’12, Amy E. Clark ’14, Jonathan C. Coffin ’06, Emily J. Watts ’10 and Erica Levy Reh ’98.
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Alumni attending the wedding of Katherine A. Satterfield ’11 and Ian Campbell were Ellen E. Snell ’11, Victoria S. Googasian ’12, Joan C. Pankratz ’12, Ann E. Jonker ’11 and Laura J. Hedrick ’11.
DePauw Magazine marks the death of alumni, faculty and staff members and friends. Obituaries do not include memorial gifts. When reporting a death, please send as much information as you have about the person and his/her affiliation with DePauw to Alumni Records, DePauw University, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, Ind. 46135-0037 or to jamahostetler@depauw.edu.
IN MEMORIAM 1937 Alumni attending the wedding of Sarah E. Norris ’12 and Lucas Young were Molly McGonigal Tekulve ’12, Brian K. Tekulve ’09, David S. Norris ’82, Anne Boyd Norris ’82, Andrew P. Donovan ’09, J. David Gislason ’82, Elliott S. Ross ’12, Richard A. Coleman ’80, Susan Clift Gislason ’82, Molly E. Sender ’12, Van Cam Hoang Hagberg ’12, Rachel M. Crump ’12, Lauren Gregerson Finamore ’12, Ashley D. Smith ’13, Sydney Crouch Ross ’12 and Margaret L. McDaniel ’12.
Genevieve O’Hair Kee, 102, Burlington, N.C., Jan. 31. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the Washington C. DePauw Society, a librarian and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; her father, Fred L. O’Hair ’10; her mother, Iva Smith O’Hair ’13; and an uncle, Robert H. O’Hair ’18.
1940 Miriam Campbell Senger, 101, Shelbyville, Ind., Feb. 1. She was a public school teacher, a librarian and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, James W. Campbell ’38; and a sister, Mary Campbell Merkle ’38. DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Dillon J. Raidt ’14 and Lilian D. Ehrgott ’14 included William Bond ’15, William Potter ’13, Samuel Doku ’14, Anthony Schwab Jr. ’13, Megan Morrison ’15, Zachary Crenshaw ’14, Matthew Wisen ’88, Brian Alkire ’14, Elizabeth Notestine Crenshaw ’15, Matthew Maloof ’12, Bailey Anstead ’14, Clinton Bird ’12, Nigelie Assee Leijgraaff ’14, Nathan Smith ’12, Katrina Zacha ’14, Joseph Hessburg ’14, Austin Good ’14, Joseph Wojda ’13, Kyle Coronel ’14, Sarah Edwards ’14, Sean Brennan ’14, Christine Crowe ’14, Stuart Newstat ’14, Stefanie Pavlick ’15, Hilary Gerwin Raidt ’09, Laura Arvin ’13, Claudia Monnett ’17, Colin Chocola ’13, Lincoln Barlow ’14, Dean Weaver ’13, Carter McKay ’13, Kristin Jonason ’14, Jemma Losh ’14, Katherine Reichel ’14, Molly Gaffney ’14, Madeline Zacha ’14, Paige Fehr ’14, Elizabeth Conley ’14, Chelsea Courtney ’13, Sydney Wagner ’14 and Paige Powers ’16. (Not pictured: Christine Norris Barlow ’14, Cameron Wiethoff ’14 and Andrew Hogan ’11.)
1941 Julia Menninger Gottesman, 97, Sierra Madre, Calif., Sept. 12, 2016. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a teacher, a consultant for English language arts and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her sister, Martha Menninger Nichols ’45. Rosaneil Reynolds Schenk, 97, Scottsville, Va., Dec. 26, 2017. She was a theatre and speech teacher and a school theatre director. She was a Walker Cup recipient. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard B. Schenk ’41. Frank H. Roberts, 99, Palo Alto, Calif., Feb. 7. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a Rector scholar; and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice
Longley Roberts ’42; a brother, Charles C. Roberts ’48; and a sister-in-law, Mary Roberts Roberts ’48. Survivors include a daughter, Patricia L. Roberts ’71; nephews Douglas C. Roberts ’74 and John T. Roberts ’80; a great-nephew, Charles D. Roberts ’16; and a niece-inlaw, Robin Richey Roberts ’80.
1945 Robert A. Harper, 94, Evanston, Ill., March 19. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega; a Rector scholar and an author. He was chairman of the geography departments of Southern Illinois University and the University of Maryland. Survivors include his wife.
1947 James J. Baldwin, 93, Indianapolis, Jan. 31. He was a member of Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; an orthodontist; and an educator. He was preceded in death by his wife, Martha Wisehart Baldwin ’47; a brother, A. Kirby Baldwin Jr. ’50; a sister-in-law, Carol Sanford Baldwin ’51; and a brother-inlaw, Robert F. Wisehart ’49. Survivors include a son, Frank A. Baldwin ’76; and a brother, Charles L. Baldwin ’47. Marjorie Snyder Beckett, 93, Des Plaines, Ill., April 4. She was a teacher, writer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1948 Carlos L. Bell, 93, Indianapolis, April 18. He was a track and football coach and a high school teacher. Survivors include his wife. Dorothy Buckstegge Harrison, 93, Lincoln, Ill., April 20. She was a medical
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GOLD NUGGETS technologist and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. JaneAnn Nicholls Curto, 93, Willowbrook, Ill., Feb. 14. She was an elementary school teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Sue Shafer Farmer, 91, Annapolis, Md., Feb. 12. She was a member of Alpha Phi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; a high school math teacher; and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; her father, Joseph E. Shafer ’25; and her mother, Emily Marine Shafer ’26. Survivors include cousins Marjory A. Allen ’51 and Janet Allen Parker ’56 and a cousin-in-law, Bruce W. Parker ’56. Marilyn Spickler Sorensen, 91, Lake Forest, Ill., April 5. She was a high school English teacher, a real estate agent and a homemaker. H. James Van Ornum, 92, Red Lodge, Mont., Jan. 18. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega; a retired cattle rancher; a real estate and business developer; and a founder of The Four Square Church in Billings, Mont. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Bogan Van Ornum ’48.
1949 Robert M. Baker, 91, Phoenix, Jan. 24. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a Rector scholar. He had a career in advertising and the antiques business. He was preceded in death by his wife, Cynthia Dreher Baker ’50. Betty Benson Weideman, 91, Novi, Mich., April 8. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; a vocal music teacher; and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert G. Weideman ’47; and a sister, Marjorie Benson Foster ’56. Survivors include a cousin, Jeanne Benson Van Nest ’54. Charlotte Crandall Shumway, 92, Worcester, Mass., April 27. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega; an elementary school librarian; and a
homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, William E. Shumway Jr. ‘48; and a sister, Carolyn Crandall ‘46. Carolyn Feicht Noss, 91, Palm Coast, Fla., April 1. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, a homemaker, military wife, community volunteer and church secretary. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a sister, Martha Feicht Neitman ’59. David N. Francis, 94, Menominee, Mich., Feb. 17. He was a member of Delta Chi and a business executive. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane Reading Francis ’49. Survivors include his partner; a daughter, Sara Francis Saver ’76; and sonin-law, Daniel A. Saver ’76. Alice Leisenring Shull, 92, Waitsfield, Vt., Jan. 31. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Walter C. Loague Jr., 95, North Aurora, Ill., March 28. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association; a mechanical engineer; and a high school teacher. He was preceded in death by his wife; sisters Isabelle Loague Smith ’47 and Miriam Loague Baker ’43; and a brother-in-law, Stanley A. Baker ’44. John L. Novak, 93, Pasadena, Calif., March 4. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and a business manager. He was preceded in death by his wife. E. Webster Shaker, 91, Evanston, Ill., April 13. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a business owner. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne Currier Shaker ’51.
1950 John D. Fetters, 92, St. Joseph, Mich., May 5. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a business owner. Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Holtman Fetters ’54, and sons, John D. Fetters ’80 and Jeffery H. Fetters ’83.
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Johanna Nash Van Valkenburgh, 92, West Granby, Conn., Feb. 21. She had a career with The Travelers Cos. Inc. Survivors include her husband.
Fla., Feb. 14. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a community volunteer and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
Diane Severns Farage, 90, East Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 30. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; her mother, Barbara Beeson Severns ’23; her grandmother, Mary Harrison Bryant ’10; and uncles John Harrison ’35 and Stephen A. Bryant ’49. Survivors include a cousin, John H. Bryant Jr. ’68.
George W. Ziegelmueller, 88, Chicago, May 18. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association; a former professor of communication and debate coach at Wayne State University; and an internationally recognized debate educator. He was preceded in death by his wife and a sister, Katherine Ziegelmueller Vincent ’51.
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Elizabeth Class Payne, 87, Bloomfield, Conn., Feb. 20. She was a member of Delta Zeta and the Washington C. DePauw Society, a community volunteer and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Raymond J. Payne ’51, and a daughter, Christine C. Payne ’90.
Mary Downs Ohm, 90, Medford Leas, N.J., April 30. She was a member of Alpha Phi; a homemaker; and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. Robert F. Green, 89, Grand Junction, Colo., Jan. 19. He was a member of Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; and a radiologist. Robert L. Koenig, 89, New Buffalo, Mich., March 20. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa; a Rector scholar; and a physician. He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife.
1952 William T. Chapman, 88, Rutland, Vt., March 29. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. He worked as a journalist for the Washington Post, covering Congress, the Johnson presidency, political campaigns and civil rights; he also was posted to Tokyo, where he also worked for the Boston Globe. He wrote books on Japan and the Philippines. He was preceded in death by his wife. Edward O. Gammel, 89, Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 4. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and a neurosurgeon. Survivors include his wife. Nancy Sjostrom Miller, 88, Naples,
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John N. Elliott, 88, Franklin, Ind., May 9. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a Rector scholar; and a United Methodist minister and missionary. Survivors include his wife, Joyce Whitehead Elliott ’53, and a son, Stephen P. Elliott ’80. Nancy Lemen Zimmerman, 87, Springfield, Ohio, April 14. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a legal secretary, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1954 George H. Aldrich, 87, St. Michaels, Md., April 4. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a Rector scholar. He was an international lawyer and a judge who served his country for 53 years. He held positions in the U.S. Defense and State departments and became an expert on the laws of war. He worked with Henry Kissinger to negotiate the peace agreement with North Vietnam and drafted protocols about the return of prisoners of war and the cease-fire with South Vietnam. He also drafted protocols to the Geneva
Conventions on the Laws of War. He was the U.S. representative to the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Conference from 1977 to 1981. He sat on the IranUnited States Claims Tribunal, which was established to resolve the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, from 1981 to 2012. While working at The Hague, he was a professor of international humanitarian law at Leiden University and a member of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission. He attended Harvard School, where he earned an LLB degree in 1957 and an LLM degree in international law in 1958, and received an honorary law degree from DePauw. Survivors include his wife. John F. Barco Jr., 89, Kansas City, Mo., March 31. He was a business executive. Survivors include his wife. Peggy Cooper Babcock, 85, Naples, Fla., Feb. 7. She was a member of Delta Gamma, a college instructor, an interior designer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert F. Babcock ’51. John A. Jennings, 87, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 8. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association; a Rector scholar; and an obstetrician and gynecologist. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Williams Jennings ’53; daughters Kathryn Jennings Radostits ’79 and Jill Jennings Rowe ’96; a son, John W. Jennings ’82; and a son-in-law, William M. Radostits ’80. Ellen Little Vanden Brink, 86, Torrance, Calif., Feb. 27. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, the Washington C. DePauw Society, a former member of the DePauw Board of Visitors, a professional volunteer, a fundraising consultant for nonprofits and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Daniel J. Ritter, 87, De Pere, Wis., March 17. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, worked for the U.S. Air Force in military intelligence and taught in public schools and a community college. Survivors include his wife.
Patricia Tassell Walker, 86, Mishawaka, Ind., March 10. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a teacher, a real estate agent, a business owner and a homemaker.
1956 Joanne Adams Stout, 85, San Diego, Calif., March 10. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a probation officer and a community volunteer. Margery Eichmeier Deurmier, 84, Kingston, Ill., April 6. She was a library and classroom aide and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother, Roger W. Eichmeier ’54. Marcia Gray Brehm, 84, Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 3. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a sales service coordinator and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband. Karen Knutson Rikhoff, 85, Eugene, Ore., Jan. 10. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a book publisher and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John L. Rikhoff ’56. Survivors include a son, Jeffrey J. Rikhoff ’80.
1957 Jacqueline Snyder Critchett, 84, DeKalb, Ill., April 5. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a community volunteer and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband and a brother, Robert P. Snyder ’60.
1958 Arthur L. Lindbloom III, 83, Portland, Ore., Jan. 22. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and an accountant. Survivors include his wife. Phillip L. Ribbe, 83, North Canton, Ohio, April 12. He was a member of Lambda Chi, a businessman and account executive. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marilyn Gerrard Ribbe ’61.
Gordon E. Wesner Jr., 83, Lansing, Kan., April 24. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a college professor and administrator. He was preceded in death by a sister, Ann Wesner Evans ’55. Survivors include his wife, Jane Rightsell Wesner ’58.
Driemeier-Showers ’86 and Debra Driemeier Danen ’92.
1959
Richard “Dick” H. Tomey, 80, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 10. He was a member of Pi Kappa Psi who earned three varsity letters as a catcher on the DePauw baseball team; he was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994. He was the head football coach at the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona and San Jose State University, compiling a record of 183-145-7 over 29 seasons. In 1992, during his tenure at Arizona, he was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year; he was the winningest coach in UA’s history. Survivors include his wife.
Artemis Demos Palios, 81, Tampa, Fla., April 18. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma; a vocal music teacher, choir director and organist; a community volunteer; and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and a sister, Elaine Demos Miliotes ’54. Survivors include her nephews, George C. Miliotes ’84 and James D. Miliotes ’85. Beverly Johnson Atkins, 81, La Grange, Ill., March 5. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, a teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Lynn A. Snelson, 81, Cortland, Ohio, May 4. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and an accountant. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois Southard Snelson ’60; his father, Ralph A. Snelson ’25; and a brother, Ralph E. Snelson ’57. Survivors include a sisterin-law, Diane Woodard Snelson ’58.
1960 Harold R. Booher, 82, Baltimore, Md., May 18, 2018. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega; a Rector scholar; a recipient of a DePauw alumni citation in 1992; a patent engineer; an engineering psychologist; and a personnel research psychologist. Survivors include his wife. Donald H. Driemeier, 80, St. Louis, Mo., April 6. He was a member of Delta Chi; former dean and deputy chancellor at the University of Missouri; a former member of the DePauw Alumni Board; and a community volunteer. He was preceded in death by a sister, Joan Driemeier Haskin ’64. Survivors include his wife; a son, Douglas HallwardDriemeier ’89; and daughters Doni
Kathryn Kendrick Cofield, 80, Kokomo, Ind., March 18. She was a high school art teacher and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.
1961 Arthur J. Sumrall, 84, Indianapolis, April 10. He was a dermatologist. Survivors include his partner.
1962 Judith Gregory Western, 78, Baltimore, Md., April 28. She was a member of Delta Zeta and Phi Beta Kappa; former divisional director of Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland; a community volunteer; and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, John C. Gregory ’29, and her mother, Delitha Swadener Gregory ’30. Survivors include her husband, Loren J. Western ’62. Karen Brooks McGinnis, 76, Zionsville, Ind., May 23, 2017. She was a superintendent for the Indiana Department of Correction and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband and a daughter, Colleen McGinnis Holtkamp ’87. Jay M. Stoner, 78, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 22. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a minister. Survivors include a sister, Carol Stoner Raitzer ’65.
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GOLD NUGGETS George L. Stubbs Jr., 78, Shelbyville, Ind., Oct. 22. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association, a Rector scholar and an attorney. Survivors include his wife and a sister, Mary Stubbs Ormerod ’60.
1963 Richard S. Bloomer, 77, Indianapolis, April 10. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a periodontist. John W. Boyer, 77, South Bend, Ind., March 18. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, an accountant and a business owner. Survivors include his wife, Lois Knickerbocker Boyer ’66.
1964 Barbara A. Hartman, 76, Springfield, Ill., April 16. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and a college professor and administrator. Survivors include her husband.
1967 Stephen W. Hadley, 73, Indianapolis, April 11. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta; retired from the U.S. Air Force; and was a sales and marketing manager. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Kiger Hadley ’34. Survivors include his wife.
1968 Keith F. Gehlhausen, 72, Tell City, Ind., Feb. 21. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and retired from the U.S. Air Force. Darel F. Lindquist, 72, Greencastle, April 2. He was a member of Delta Upsilon; a Rector scholar; a musician; an award-winning lyricist; and a writer. He wrote the lyrics to “The Ballad of the Monon Bell.” Survivors include a brother, Denis J. Lindquist ’67. Stephen M. Winning, 71, Irvine, Calif., Dec. 5. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society. He was a Rector scholar and had a career in hotel management. He was
preceded in death by his grandfather, Montgomery S. Winning ’13; his father, Darrell E. Winning ’50; an uncle, James M. Winning ’43; and aunts Mary Baker Winning ’45 and Patricia Winning Dodson ’42. Survivors include his wife.
1969 John C. Butler, 72, Indianapolis, April 7. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and a real estate agent. Survivors include his partner.
1970 Linda Brown Trout, 83, Coatesville, Ind., April 4. She was a teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Millard R. Trout ’70. Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Trout Collins ’88; a son-in-law, Bradford H. Collins ’83; and a sister, Virginia Brown Salsman ’77.
1971 Timothy J. Essling, 70, Denver, April 6. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an attorney.
Calif., March 26. He was an environmental scientist. Survivors include his wife. Robert M. Stevens, 64, Merritt Island, Fla., June 29. He was a member of Delta Chi, a Rector scholar and an anesthesiologist.
1977 Steven R. Coons, 63, Middleton, Wis., March 11. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and a Rector scholar. He had a career with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Lewis R. Hirt ’25, his father, Richard W. Coons ’50; and his mother, Barbara Hirt Coons ’48. Survivors include a brother, James W. Coons ’79; a sister, Nancy Coons Pearson ’85; and an uncle, Ronald E. Coons ’58.
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Kimberly McClure Norwood, 53, Kennesaw, Ga., Dec. 9. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a senior account executive.
1988 Christopher N. Fix, 53, Hermosa Beach, Calif., March 22. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an accounts manager. Survivors include his wife.
Lori J. Carey, 50, Indianapolis, Jan. 26. She was a registered nurse.
Laurence L. Stewart, 60, Plainfield, Ind., Feb. 6. He was a United Methodist minister. Survivors include his wife, Deborah Brinley Stewart ’81.
Eugene R. Mancini, 70, Camarillo,
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Kathleen L. Walker, 63, Portland, Ore., March 15. She was a caretaker, foster parent and director of Oregon Industries for the Blind.
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Gregory M. Palmer, 56, Miami, Fla., May 3. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and an attorney. Survivors include his wife.
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C. Rex Wilkinson, 68, Chicago, March 6. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a music teacher. Survivors include his wife, Carol Newman Wilkinson ’72, and a sister, Karen Wilkinson Fruits ’62.
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Sharon Hammill Humphreys, 69, New York City, Feb. 17. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a business executive; a community volunteer; and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Noel D. Humphreys ’70.
Kenneth W. Richardson, 83, Plainfield, Ind., Feb. 24. He was a retired math teacher. Survivors include his wife, Revenna Singleton Richardson ’67.
educator and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband.
Brian C. Cross, 60, Green Bay, Wis., April 13. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a dentist. Survivors include his brother, J. David Cross ’83, and a cousin, Sarah Donnelly Crenshaw ’76.
1981 Lynne Fleming Kinzie, 60, Indianapolis, March 5. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a sales consultant and an advertising director. Survivors include her mother, Ann Copeland Fleming Tannehill ’56; a sister, Sara Fleming Merten ’90; and an aunt, Sara Copeland Reynolds ’61. Priscilla Snow Algava, 78, Princeton, N.J., April 23. She was an artist, an
Jeffrey E. King, 49, Greencastle, Feb. 25. He was a member of Delta Chi and a soil technician and scientist.
2001 Scott D. Griffith, 41, Winfield, Ill., April 3. He was a member of Sigma Nu. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, George F. Griffith ’46, and his grandmother, Margaret Lovett Griffith ’46. Survivors include his father, David G. Griffith ’71.
Faculty Richard Kelly, 84, Greencastle, April 11. He was a professor at DePauw and the director of the university’s Bureau of Testing and Research. He provided assessments to help children in area schools and worked as a psychologist in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Survivors include his wife.
FIRST PERSON
with Tim Holt ’88 Tim Holt works in the printing industry. He and his wife, Jennifer Majewski Holt ’89, have three children. They live in Raleigh, N.C.
Just past midnight on Jan. 2, we gathered in our mess tent at Barafu Camp. Snacking on crackers and sipping hot tea, light from our headlamps darting about, we checked our gear and preparations. We were eager and anxious, readying ourselves to face the harshest conditions of our hike. With five days of ascent behind us, our goal was in reach: the summit of Kilimanjaro. This journey had become a life lesson about survival and achievement, persevering through challenge, trusting people and process, taking one step at a time. Mount Kilimanjaro, the fourth highest of our planet’s seven summits, offers moderate and accessible hiking routes that do not require technical climbing ability. Still, the effort to reach the “Roof of Africa” is a physical, mental and spiritual challenge, and it draws thousands from around the world to Tanzania annually. While good physical health and conditioning are a must, there is little way to prepare for the illness and exhaustion brought on by of the shortage of oxygen. Altitude sickness halts the climb for many. For me, hiking Kilimanjaro was an unplanned and unimagined adventure. A year earlier, a longtime friend invited me to join him on his bucket-list adventure and I was hooked instantly. We invited friends to join us, creating a team of 10. Then life intervened. One of our most enthusiastic and healthy members died from a heart attack at age 52.
Scott’s memory bound the nine of us together tightly and our trip became more than midlife adventure. We immersed ourselves in preparations: hikes in Raleigh’s parks and in the foothills of central and western North Carolina. We consulted YouTube videos, blogs, internet sites and associates at REI and The North Face. We created lists and more lists, and checked off items one-byone: flights, immunizations, insurance policies, hiking gear, clothing, foodstuffs, etc., etc., etc. Then, from various routes out of the United States, we met in Moshi on Dec. 27. Kilimanjaro National Park requires hikers to travel with registered guides and porters who carry tents, cooking fuel and food up the mountain. Our support group numbered more than 30 and their physical strength and knowledge ensured our safety. Our guides’ leadership styles varied between encouragement and edict. On the night of the summit, we would stop occasionally, but for not more than a couple minutes (preventing hypothermia in the subzero temperatures). The words “pole, pole” (pronounced PO lay PO lay) – Swahili for “slowly, slowly” – were our final instruction; if we followed in the steps of the person ahead we would make it to the top.
I have several distinct memories from those eight hours of ascent: a guide standing guard between me and a nasty fall at the edge of a sharp and rocky turn; wind blowing with such strength that I wondered if it would push me off the mountain; the morning sun breaking the horizon above the cloud line. We climbed through the night. At 9:05 a.m. from 19,341 feet – above the clouds, with the earth bending before us and around us – the view was breathtaking and the achievement fantastically satisfying. I was changed by the effort. As I reflect on that moment I am reminded that life’s most difficult goals and challenges are overcome with energy and persistence, just like hiking Kilimanjaro, pole, pole, into the night.
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OLD GOLD
Alum Finds Clarity in 8,000-Mile, 154-Year Journey By Midori Kawaue ’17
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y journey to U.S. history began as I was growing up in Japan. As a child, I was inspired by how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” created a world for me to experience the physical and social forces of the American frontier life. This propelled my interest in the colonial system that I since have endeavored to understand in a broader sense, especially how it has framed and oppressed Native Americans. The series also touched on social issues of the 19th century, such as anti-Semitism and racism, which are resurgent today. Although Wilder’s narratives had their
own blind spots, they fostered my interest in the concept of the American Dream and the contradiction that this dream did not allow non-white people to enjoy the romantic frontier life depicted in the series. I became fascinated by how personal narratives of ordinary people speak about the past, even as their lives are constrained by larger social forces. Intellectual curiosity drew me to pursue U.S. history 8,000 miles away from home. At DePauw, the thrill of the unexplored diary of a Civil War prisoner of war transformed my understanding of history as a discipline. Working as co-editor of
a diary by James Riley Weaver – who became a DePauw professor – was my first professional experience with history. In 2011, Brian Casey, then president of DePauw, received Weaver’s diary, which documented Weaver’s life as a Union cavalry officer, experiences as a POW in Confederate officers’ prisons and return to civilian life. Editing this diary was a collaborative process. Archivist Wesley Wilson uploaded the 700+-page diary on Flickr, an online photo-sharing application, and Tony Klingensmith, an independent scholar, used the images to transcribe the diary. I received a student-faculty summer research grant that enabled me to edit Klingensmith’s draft with Wilson and John Schlotterbeck, then a history professor, in 2015. Unlike other prisoners, Weaver avoided sectional rancor and recorded a comprehensive account of his experiences, thereby providing an unusual angle of vision into life in the Confederacy. The excitement of spending a summer in the DePauw Archives and editing Weaver’s diary inspired me to pursue history as my lifelong career. Smelling the earthy and sweet odor of something that has been in this world for more than 150 years; feeling like a detective as
I used a magnifying glass to transcribe almost illegible words; and exploring the caves of archival material on Weaver made my heart bounce every single day that summer. At first, Weaver’s writing looked only like scribbles but, after a couple of weeks in the quiet stacks at Roy O. West Library, I was able to decipher his handwriting. I always had a 19th-century English dictionary in my hand to look up words not frequently used today. When I saw Weaver used the term “ague,” I was exhilarated because Laura Ingalls Wilder also used this word to talk about malaria. Personal accounts of ordinary people transmit significant sociocultural narratives of the past. Through editing Weaver’s diary, I was moved by how his religious faith, racial beliefs and commitment to the Union wavered and he experienced physical, mental and psychological strain during the 17 months of incarceration. He made remarks like “hunger is good sauce,” “when I think of spending the war here, I get the horrors” and “I fear some evil may grow upon us either bodily or mentally th[r]ough this confinement.” I became more and more interested in the history of psychology and the ways in which people of this time described mental conditions when they are not yet pathologized in the
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medical world. It continues to be my desire to bring personal stories to life. Weaver’s diary was a gateway to read more about the Cherokee removal, the caricature of blacks in prison minstrel shows and the devastating effects of poor sanitation during the Civil War. Weaver mentioned many historical markers that I knew little about before I edited this diary. I believe that personal stories give the reader an opportunity to cultivate a relationship with a historical actor. Just like building a relationship with a friend, I became invested in understanding the world view that these historical actors experienced. Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the history of science at Princeton University, where I am learning how to use multiple voices to tell a comprehensive narrative of the past. Different historical actors oftentimes tell a story in diverse ways, particularly in a settler colonial setting. I am committed to bridging these different voices to bring forth historical narratives for modern readers.
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From the Poignant to the Profane: Alum Preserves Soldiers’ Personal Stories
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ee Lutz Beltrone ’64 didn’t hesitate when her husband Art told her about the Vietnam War memorabilia he had found. “Well, we’ve got to save it,” she told him. Art, a military artifact appraiser, had been a consultant on “The Thin Red Line,” a World War II movie for which their neighbor, Jack Fisk, was production designer. Fisk, seeking a reference for a set design, gained access in 1997 to the U.S. Navy troopship General Nelson M. Walker, anchored two hours from their Keswick, Va., homes, and invited Beltrone on his scouting trip. The 608-foot ship, which carried as many as 5,000 troops per trip to WWII, Korean and Vietnamese battlegrounds, “was a virtual time capsule,” Art says. Nothing had been dismantled since it was inactivated in 1968. Beltrone was struck
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by the messages and sketches – from the pedestrian and poignant to the prickly, profane and perhaps prophetic – on the underside of the canvas bunks, stacked four high, on which Vietnam-bound troops whiled away almost three weeks at sea. “Why me?” asked one. “How sad I am,” said another. “Don’t want no war!” “Will she marry before I get out of the army?” “Lyle’ll be killed in Viet Nam/Do-Da/ Do-da.” “At least reading this gives you something to do.” The troops professed love and questioned fate. They depicted shapely women, including “Viet-Nam Susie,” with a Ho Chi Minh-style goatee; cartoon characters; and a crude rendering of Robert F. Kennedy, with a dialogue balloon, “get out of Vietnam!” The Beltrones, recognizing the historic value of the bunks, went about preserving
them. “I realized that so much from the Vietnam era was not being saved,” says Lee, whose brother, a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran, died from Agent Orange-related cancer, “and how poorly the vets had been treated upon their return. And I felt very strongly that something had to be done to honor the vets and preserve this part of history.” They got permission from the government, collected 100 canvases and distributed them to a dozen museums, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. When the ship was moved to Texas in 2004 to be scrapped, the Beltrones, aided by three volunteers, headed there to salvage 300 more canvases, with which they created a traveling exhibit that has visited more than 70 venues across the country over 13 years. It is booked into 2020 when, Art says, he hopes to retire it and donate the canvases. The Beltrones, who wrote a book about the project, also are donating photos of the canvases and salvage work shot by Lee, a piano major at DePauw who taught music before turning to photography, and more than 100 recorded interviews conducted by Art, a former newspaper reporter, with the troops whose graffiti provided sufficient information for the Beltrones to locate them.
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