DePauw Digest

Golden futures

Four DePauw students won competitive scholarships from the U.S. State Department’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, enabling them to study abroad.

Michell-Lee Graham ’24 of Bronx, New York, is studying in Italy this summer. She majors in philosophy and minors in world literature and is an honor scholar and Posse scholar.

Marie Gurnon ’23 of Venice, Florida, will study in Japan next fall. She double-majors in English writing and Asian studies.

DeCaria Monroe ’23 of Columbia, South Carolina, is studying in Italy this summer. She majors in communication and minors in sociology.

Solomon Alhakeem ’23 of Houston, Texas, will defer his award, which will enable him to participate in the Trasimeno Archaeology Field Program in Umbria, Italy. He double-majors in music performance and archaeology.

Golden alumni

Joyce Taglauer Green ’75 has been awarded the university’s most prestigious alumni award for 2022, the Old Gold Goblet.

Megan Casey Glover ’04 received the Young Alumni Award, and citations for outstanding professional achievement were awarded to AnnClore Jones Duncan ’89 and Joshua A. Thompson ’04 and posthumously to Steven R. Linville ’06.

Golden graduation

The ranks of DePauw alumni grew by 440 May 22, as the Class of ’22 graduated.

Jon Fortt ’98, an anchor at CNBC and a veteran journalist covering technology, delivered the keynote address, exhorting the graduates to go from Greencastle and, “with love, pursue truth and make an impact. It’s your time.”

While the graduates were leaving DePauw, Fortt said, “the best of DePauw does not have to leave you.”

Christine Bourantas of Wilmington, Delaware, who won the Walker Cup as the senior who contributed the most to DePauw over her four years, offered greetings.

The university awarded three honorary degrees. Elgan L. Baker Jr. ’71, a clinical psychologist and co-founder of Meridian Psychological Associates, and William F. Carroll Jr. ’73, an executive and consultant in the chemical and plastics industry, were awarded honorary doctor of science degrees. Kelsey Kaufman, a former parttime university studies professor who has dedicated her life to improving the lot of prison inmates, was awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree.

Graduating seniors Hannah and Holly Buchanan of Rockville, Indiana, who are of Native American descent, read the land acknowledgement.

James Foxworthy, who died March 12, was graduated posthumously.

Shiny new gold

With classes set to begin next month, it’s looking like the Class of ’26 will be the largest in four years.

“We’re up 6% in enrollment deposits year over year, and we expect more than 525 to arrive on campus in the fall,” said Mary Beth Petrie, vice president for enrollment management. “That will be our largest class since 2018. Much of the growth is due to an increase in students from Indiana and international students.

“Consistent with previous years, the Class of 2026 is academically high achieving, and I expect they will do great things on campus and beyond.”

Indeed. The class boasts 16 valedictorians, nine salutatorians and 10 Rector, 12 Lilly, two Prindle, four Servicio, nine Bonner and 22 Posse scholars. It includes 73 honor scholars, 66 management fellows, 17 media fellows and 14 environmental fellows.

The class is 53.8% female and 46.2% male; 10.6% legacy; 18.6% firstgeneration college students; and 17% students of color. Students are coming from 33 states and 27 countries.

A third of the class are athletes – 187 in total and three state champions.

Gold herein

Like what you see? We hope so. Two organizations do too. The Collegiate Advertising Awards recognized your DePauw Magazine with a gold award in March for our three 2021 issues and the Educational Advertising Awards awarded us a bronze.

Golden achievement

The scholarly achievements of new graduate Nina Štular were recognized in April when the international student from Slovenia won the Ferid Murad Medal.

The medal is named for Nobel Prize winner Ferid Murad ’58, a physician and Ph.D. pharmacologist whose work has saved the lives of premature babies and cancer and heart patients and inspired 160,000 publications that build on his discoveries.

Štular double majored in philosophy and English literature; competed in the Ethics Bowl on regional and national levels; tutored writing at the Academic Resource Center; and conducted research with professors. For her honor scholar thesis, she integrated philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to discuss the historical development of freedom of expression.

Gold medal-worthy

DePauw athletics earned some recent accolades: • Erin Pasch ’22 placed fourth in the NCAA Division III heptathlon championship in late May. She secured All-American honors to complement her award as North Coast Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Year and selection by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as the Great Lakes Region’s Women’s Field Athlete of the Year. • First-year student Bennett DeCoursey ’25 finished ninth in discus in the NCAA

Division III Championship. • The women’s basketball team led NCAA Division III with a rebound margin of +15.7 per game. That was second on all three levels of NCAA play. • The men’s basketball team made a school-record 83.4% percent of its free throws, the best in Division III this year and the highest percentage on all three levels. • Kris Huffman, women’s basketball head coach, was named North Coast

Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year for the fifth time since the Tigers began conference play in 2011-12. • Stevie Baker-Watson, associate vice president for student wellness and

Theodore Katula director of athletics and recreational sports, was named

Cushman & Wakefield Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. • Peter Crary, assistant men's and women's track and field coach, received the inaugural Spirit of Tim Hreha Award, which celebrates those who embody

Hreha's tenacity, integrity and modesty.