Fall 2013 magazine by DePauw University

Fall 2013

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GREGORY A. SISSEL ’94

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“He has been an inspiration to not only the players here, but all across the state and the country. He’s well known as one of the greatest coaches in America.” ROBERT J. DOYLE ’82, during the

dedication ceremony on Old Gold Day, Oct. 12, for the new Nick Mourouzis Field at

Blackstock Stadium in honor of the legendary

DePauw coach who led the Tigers for 23 years and is the University’s all-time leader in football coaching victories.

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THRIVE

THINK

LIVE

Investing in Industry: Gregory A. Sissel ’94 Invests Both Equity and Expertise

An Extraordinary Voyage through the Writing of Jules Verne

Students and Faculty Join Forces in Summer Research

DEPARTMENTS

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4 News 8 Recent Words 31 Development and Alumni Engagement 37 Class Notes Cover photo and photos on pages 12-19 by Ellen Jaskol.

Christopher J. Wells vice president for communications and strategic initiatives christopherwells@depauw.edu

Steven J. Setchell ’96 associate vice president for alumni engagement ssetchell@depauw.edu

Larry G. Anderson senior editor landersn@depauw.edu

Contributors: Bob Handelman, Sarah McAdams, Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe

Kelly A. Graves director of publications kgraves@depauw.edu

DePauw Alumni Association Officers

Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Larry G. Ligget University photographer larryligget@depauw.edu

Brent E. St. John ’89, president Donald M. Phelan ’79, vice president Gilbert D. Standley ’82, secretary

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letters Because so many alumni responded to our request to share the meaning of their international study experiences as students and throughout their lives, we were unable to print all their letters in the winter 2013 and summer 2013 issues due to space limitations. We are printing more letters in this issue. – Editor LIFE LED TO GERMANY For many of us who studied abroad while at DePauw, the experience proved to be one of the most memorable of our lives. For me, it changed my life. In spring semester 1975, I was one of 30 students participating in DePauw’s program in Freiburg, Germany. We spent about 10 weeks in Freiburg and a couple more in Aix-en-Provence, France. I always wanted to go to Europe and chose the Freiburg program because many people I knew recommended the city – also as a central location facilitating travel in any direction in Europe – and because of the weeks in southern France. Although I was not a language major, French – and thus France – was a long-held interest. During those weeks in Freiburg, I met an interesting young German man with whom I corresponded once I returned to the States. When it became clear to me after my graduation from DePauw a year later that our friendship was growing into something more serious, I abandoned my plans to work in the Peace Corps and went to Germany instead to learn the language. Eventually, I married that young man and have spent most, although not all, of my adult life in Germany. Besides the personal joy of my marriage and children, I am extremely grateful for many aspects of the life that unfolded for me in Europe. Not only is it satisfying to be comfortable

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in another language and culture, I value the lessons I learned about my own country and about how the rest of the world views the United States. These have been, and continue to be, challenging and yet inspiring lessons. Last summer I was in Freiburg for a couple weeks, so I took time to look for Hotel Helena, the place where my Freiburg group lived while we were in the city. Not only does the Hotel Helena continue to exist as a thriving business, it is still owned and run by Wilhelm Schiele, now 77, who enjoys telling stories about the “amazingly easy-going students” he met during the 15 years he hosted a Freiburg group in his hotel.

that you can be at home anywhere if you accept persons in their home and appreciate their culture and what they do. Both in the Philippines and other travels, some “touristy” locales and visits with family friends were on my itinerary. On two occasions, I invited myself – oh, the brashness of youth – to homes, and the visits are among the most memorable. The first was to the home of F. Olin Stockwell, author of a well-known autobiography of the day, With God in Red China. The single overnight became two due to problems with the airline. The second evening was the occasion for meeting the Methodist Bishop of Singapore, father

“I was reminded once again that it is not only DePauw students who profit from the time they spend abroad; so, too, do the people they meet.” DONA FISHER GEYER ’76

Listening to him, I was reminded once again that it is not only DePauw students who profit from the time they spend abroad; so, too, do the people they meet. Dona Fisher Geyer ’76 Munich, Germany

GREAT LESSONS When contemplating a year abroad for the 1957-58 year, I took an iconoclastic approach: everyone went to Europe somewhere, so I would go off to Asia somewhere. It was a great year at University of the Philippines, Diliman, and the couple of months following, traveling around Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and several sites in India. The great lessons learned from 12 months abroad were that people are pretty much the same everywhere, and

of one of my schoolmates at DePauw. The second self-invited visit was the home of Chuck Iikubo ’57. This was my home away from home as I visited several of the famous sites of Japan. Student life at UP was not much different from DePauw. There were different insects, different foods on the cafeteria steam table, different clothes, different languages, different vaccines at the health center, different standards of modesty. And, it was always summer. Some things were very much the same: lines at registration, slow-poke transportation, dormitory camaraderie, drama club, lectures and tests, intense bull sessions about philosophy or politics, student religious groups and student mission trips, and the campus hangout where we enjoyed dinuguan and halo-halo.

For me, this year was the year of self-discovery. After 50+ years as a pastor, I find that the year of selfreliance and learning to meet and be at home with many disparate people, from professionals in many nations to the families living on the sidewalks of Mumbai, from celebrations in rural India to the dump trucks making their daily corpse pickup in early morning Kolkata – this year’s experiences shaped my world view and my somewhat iconoclastic approach to my life of thought, teaching and service. Leland C. Schwarz ’59 Bothell, Wash.

Letters continued on page 51.

DID YOU TAKE A COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASS IN 1963 OR EARLY ’60S?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first computer science course taught using a DePauw computer. Robert J. Thomas, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science, taught the first computer science course in 1963 and led computer science education at DePauw until his retirement in 1991. DePauw Magazine wants to hear from alumni who took computer science classes in 1963 or early ’60s. Tell us whether or not you eventually worked in that field and what impact the classes had on you. Did the experience prepare you for the digital world? Share your experiences in a letter, and we will print them – as space allows – in the next issue. Send letters to: Editor, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. Or email landersn@ depauw.edu.

FROM THE PRESIDENT Brian W. Casey

Given their small size and number, our nation’s leading liberal arts colleges and universities have always played a disproportionately large role in educating leaders in business, science, law, the arts, government and public service. Despite this historical record, it seems that in the national conversation on higher education we see periodic concerns about the relevance of a liberal arts education. As a nation, we have a recurring anxiety that a liberal arts education does not fully prepare students for the careers of today. Such commentators forget too easily how quickly the world of today becomes the world of yesterday. Current technologies quickly become obsolete, geopolitics evolve in unexpected ways and research develops new fields of inquiry. In a world defined by rapid change, nothing could be more valuable than the widely applicable skills that liberal arts offer, and the adaptability and confidence this form of education fosters in students. On the other hand, an understandable concern about relevance can serve a positive function for DePauw and its peers. The leading liberal arts colleges must continually and carefully consider the ways in which their academic programs prepare graduates to construct lives of accomplishment and purpose over the arc of their lifelong careers. DePauw has a long history of engaging with this project of connecting a liberal arts education to life’s work, but there will always be value in stepping back to evaluate the programs that serve this purpose, and in strengthening them. The current work being done in the new Hubbard Center for Student Engagement is an example of this effort, as is the focus on enhancing the impact of DePauw’s Fellows Programs (Management Fellows, Media Fellows, Science Research Fellows and the new Environmental Fellows.) The Hubbard Center for Student Engagement, located in the Memorial Student Union, combines the efforts and programs of the offices of Career Services, Pre-Professional Advising, Winter Term and Study Abroad Programs, and Community Service. The Hubbard Center has become, in short order, the physical embodiment of DePauw’s efforts to ensure that every student has a plan to move productively from the campus to life. In a parallel effort, we must take all steps necessary to strengthen our Fellows Programs and consider new programs in important areas. These programs, which first appeared at DePauw in the 1980s, have long served our liberally trained students well in connecting the life of the mind to the life well led. Our University is also developing new and more effective programs to connect our students with DePauw alumni. Few efforts will better serve to connect our students to their careers. All of this work ensures that we are serving our students well, even as the world changes and evolves in ways that are difficult to predict. DePauw must, and will, remain committed to the form of education that has served its graduates well for centuries. It must now be more intentional in preparing students to succeed in the complex world they face. In the months ahead, many of you will receive communications from the Office of Alumni Engagement asking that you help, in whatever way you can, our students launch their careers. I can think of no greater gift to DePauw, and its students, than this.

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news INTERNATIONAL MEDIA Junior and senior members of the Media Fellows Program are gaining valuable hands-on experience during semesterlong internships around the world this fall, including: “The Today Show,” New York City; Big Sky Productions, Cape Town, South Africa; Threeview, Munich, Germany; and The Aspen Times, Aspen, Colo.

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Where DePauw ranked among the nation’s colleges for contributing the largest number of graduating seniors to Teach for America’s 2013 corps. Fourteen recent DePauw graduates joined the teaching corps this fall. Approximately 13 percent of DePauw’s 2013 graduating seniors applied to Teach for America.

Management Fellows students experiencing semester-long internships this fall in locations across the nation as well as in Argentina, England and India.

GOLDEN BYTES

“The music of the 21st century has yet to be written. Someone in your generation is going to write that music. Someone is going to perform it. And someone from your generation will be the first to hear it, and be the first to be changed by it. That’s what makes music possible. And it turns out that’s what makes chemistry possible. And physics. And economics. And art. And life.” PRESIDENT BRIAN W. CASEY in his remarks to entering first-year students during the opening

convocation on Aug. 24.

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5,623

Pounds of produce harvested during the first season for the Campus Farm. A wide variety of fresh vegetables were provided for consumption through DePauw’s dining services, and nearly 10 percent was given to the Greencastle food pantry for use by community residents. The single largest crop was 1,400 pounds of tomatoes.

ENGAGING ALUMNI

Steven J. Setchell ’96, associate vice president for alumni engagement DePauw needs its alumni now more than ever. As the University brings renewed focus to preparing students for lives of purpose and achievement, DePauw alumni must fill an increasingly significant role. Following President Brian W. Casey’s call for expanded alumni programs last spring, DePauw is, in partnership with the Alumni Association Board of Directors and other alumni leaders, engaging alumni in three primary ways. Connecting alumni Alumni want to connect with one another, students and faculty. We aim to facilitate these connections through better use of information and technology practices consistent with those of our peer colleges. We will expand basic information available through our secure online alumni directory and make it accessible to other alumni and students seeking internships and employment. To provide further connection, we are exploring plans for a new mobile application for alumni networking. Mobilizing volunteers and expanding opportunities to help students DePauw students need alumni to host eight-week summer internships, participate in mock interviews and skills workshops on campus, and to mentor them in preparation for a job or graduate school. We are asking alumni to help future students by identifying and recommending to DePauw the talented college-bound residents in your neighborhood or community. We are seeking volunteers to strengthen our class networks and regional alumni engagement as a critical means of connecting alumni and creating meaningful events. Creating meaningful events We want to provide alumni with events and programs that reflect the vibrancy of the DePauw experience. This fall’s Old Gold offered an opportunity to fully experience campus life, including an Ubben Lecture, concert by a Grammy Awardwinning musician and high-energy game day experience in our expanded Athletics Campus. We have introduced a Virtual Alumni College of webinars led by some of DePauw’s great professors. Our regional alumni leaders are facilitating meaningful events through substantive networking and service-related programs. To measure progress and define success, we are launching an Alumni Engagement Index to reflect alumni activity across these programs. Just as in DePauw’s proud tradition in athletics, we want to “keep score” and be measurably better in alumni efforts to make this proud University even greater. I encourage you to visit our new alumni home page at depauw.edu/alumni to learn more about these initiatives and explore how you can connect, help our students, and join in meaningful alumni events and programs. I look forward to seeing you soon either on campus or in your hometown. Thank you for all you do for DePauw.

Steven J. Setchell ’96

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The winning percentage of DePauw’s teams

through the regular season.

DePauw studentathletes have earned the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship since the award was created in 1964.

50,773

Pounds of plastic and glass recycled from DePauw’s buildings last year.

FAST-TRACK MARKETERS

Members of the Management Fellows Program traveled to Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati headquarters in May for the culmination of a semester-long collaboration with the consumer goods giant. Tasked with improving the online presence of Olay, CoverGirl and DDF brands, DePauw students presented to some of P&G’s top-level managers. By the following week, P&G had developed a new online ad campaign for Old Spice based on their ideas. The students received high marks from all involved, including F.D. Wilder ’82, P&G’s vice president of global market and strategy planning. “As they were presenting, I felt like I was with a team of P&G colleagues,” Wilder said. “From a personal standpoint, I have never been more proud to be a ‘P&G Tiger.’”

“One thing that I’ve noticed is a lot of young people are very interested, and they’ve become very much involved in the freedom movement, and they’re very concerned about the country, and they’d like to see some big changes made.” RON PAUL, three-time presidential candidate and 12-term member of the U.S. House of

Representatives, during a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture on Sept. 10.

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Students in the entering Class of 2017

The number of DePauw teams competing in the fall that were ranked in the top 25 nationally. The sports were field hockey, men’s soccer, women’s golf and women’s tennis.

Fulbright Grant applications received this fall from DePauw students and recent graduates.

“The bonds that connect DePauw University and the City of Greencastle are made stronger by the community service efforts of DePauw students.”

600,000

Gallons of water saved during one year by using new energyefficient, carbon-neutral laundry machines on campus.

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The number of times DePauw University and Wabash College have played each other in football.

GREENCASTLE BANNER-GRAPHIC in

a story on Sept. 26, reporting that DePauw

students contributed a total of 17,657 hours

of community service through the University’s student volunteer programs during the 201213 academic year.

Football team captains under legendary coach Nick Mourouzis who returned to campus on Old Gold Day to witness the dedication of DePauw’s new synthetic turf as Nick Mourouzis Field.

“The ‘classical’ music world is changing. The days of the single-career musician are waning. Today’s musician must be flexible and open to new possibilities. With the generosity of Judson and Joyce, we have an opportunity to systemically create musicians for a new century.” MARK McCOY, dean of the DePauw University School of Music, upon the announcement of a $15

million gift from Judson and Joyce (Taglauer) Green ’74, ’75 that will launch an initiative to transform the School of Music to meet the needs of students who are entering a rapidly changing music industry. The Greens’ gift will establish the 21st Century Musician Initiative (21CM).

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LARA A. DODDS ’97 The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish (Duquesne University Press – ISBN: 978-0-8207-0465-4) As a reader of her literary predecessors and a writer who herself contributed to the emerging literary tradition, Margaret Cavendish is an extraordinary figure whose role in early modern literary history has yet to be fully acknowledged. In this study, Lara Dodds reassesses the literary invention of Cavendish – the use she makes of other writers, her own various forms of writing and the ways in which she creates her own literary persona – to transform our understanding of Cavendish’s considerable accomplishments and influence. In spite of Cavendish’s claims that she did little reading, Dodds demonstrates that the duchess was an agile, avid reader (and misreader) of other writers – all of them male and now considered canonical, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton and Bacon. Dodds is associate professor and graduate studies coordinator in the Department of English at Mississippi State University.

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ARTHUR B. EVANS, PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES (FRENCH), EDITOR Travel Scholarships (Wesleyan University Press – ISBN: 978-0-8195-6512-9) This is the last of four novels by the legendary author Jules Verne that had never before been available in English until Arthur Evans became general editor of the Early Classics of Science Fiction series in 1999. Teri J. Hernández, a former professor of modern languages at DePauw, translated Travel Scholarships, a suspense-filled adventure tale about piracy on the high seas. Nine students from London’s Antillean School receive travel scholarships to visit their island homelands in the Caribbean. Accompanied by their eccentric Latin professor, they set sail on what they expect to be a thrilling educational voyage. They do not know that – prior to their arrival on board – their ship was hijacked by escaped convicts who murdered the original captain and crew. Although ostensibly written for an adolescent audience, the book’s suspense-filled plot, sophisticated narrative style and critique of European colonialism make it an enjoyable read for all ages.

GEORGE E. FELTON JR. ’70 Advertising: Concept and Copy, third edition

ROBERT J. S. GREDE ’74 Naked Marketing – The Bare Essentials, 3rd edition

(W. W. Norton & Company – ISBN: 978-0-393-73386-0)

(Maven Mark Books – ISBN: 978-159598262-9)

A classic text in a new edition, George Felton’s Advertising: Concept and Copy is the most comprehensive text in its field and provides an innovative approach to advertising creativity. It covers the entire conceptual process, from developing smart strategy to executing it with strong ads – from what to say to how to say it. Part 1, “Strategies,” operates on the premise that the idea beneath an ad’s surface determines its success. Part 2, “Executions,” explains how to put strategy into play. Part 3, the “Toolbox,” gives advice about how to think creatively and presents an array of problem-solving tools, a series of techniques that advertisers have used repeatedly to produce exceptional work. The new edition features greatly expanded discussions of guerrilla advertising, interactive advertising, brand voice, storytelling and use of social media. Felton is professor of English at Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio, and he teaches copywriting and design writing.

After Prentice Hall published Robert Grede’s Naked Marketing – The Bare Essentials in 1997, the book became an international bestseller. In the third edition, published by Maven Mark Books, Grede has revised the bestseller with the same succinct prose and straight-talking style as the original. He borrows research from academia, throws in examples from small and big companies, and presents the results in an easily understandable style. It is a no-nonsense tool for business managers and entrepreneurs who want to get market smart quickly and painlessly. There is no jargon or hype-speak. Readers learn the ropes of developing a marketing plan, budget preparation, creative copywriting, and – in this new edition – social media and online marketing. Grede received the USA Book News 2012 award for Best Business Book in the marketing category. He was ghostwriter for Rebuilding the Brand: How Harley-Davidson Became King of the Road.

TYLER G. JAMES ’11 The Monon Bell Rivalry: Classic Clashes of DePauw vs. Wabash

JOSEPH E. KOOB II ’70 Difficult Men: A Book for Women by a Man

KENT B. MCDILL ’78 100 Things Bears Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

(The History Press – ISBN: 978-1-60949-659-3)

(Infinity Publishing – ISBN: 0-7414-9611-9)

(Triumph Books – ISBN: 978-160078-412-5)

History is made every November in central Indiana when DePauw University and Wabash College meet on the football field to battle for the Monon Bell. Tyler James, who played for the DePauw Tigers, recounts the classic moments of the oldest college football rivalry of its kind. In his first book, he highlights the coaches and players who gained glory capturing the Bell. Deep historical research and personal interviews with players provide an intimate look into the epic games that live on in legend. Fans also receive due recognition for their part in this time-honored rivalry. The Bell heists. Songs. Game-day traditions. James describes fan fervor in vivid, often humorous, detail. James has spent falls on the football field since early childhood. He grew to love the game as a coach’s kid, high school football player and, now, a newspaper reporter. He is a staff writer for the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune covering Notre Dame football recruiting yearround.

Difficult Men: A Book for Women by a Man is the latest work from Joseph Koob, one of the world’s foremost authorities on understanding and working with difficult people. This book is for women – a positive, supportive work intended to help women understand men. It offers valuable information about men, as well as provides tools and skills that women can use in dealing with difficult men and difficult situations with men. He focuses on relationships in two ways: (1) interacting with men/ difficult men in everyday casual and work relationships, and (2) interacting in close, personal, intimate relationships with men. He covers a range of areas that shed light on how men and women are different, including how they perceive and interact with the world, communicate with each other and express intimacy. A dynamic presenter, Koob’s down-toearth style is popular with audiences throughout the world. He is founder and owner of Metacoach LLC and Difficultpeople.org.

Revealing the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches and teams that are part of the storied history of Bears football, Kent McDill’s third book has pep talks, records and Bears lore scattered throughout the pages. The Bears’ longtime rivalry with the Green Bay Packers, little-known facts about many of the Bears’ record 27 Hall of Famers, and profiles of unforgettable Bears personalities, such as Ditka, Payton, Jim McMahon, Brian Urlacher, Jay Cutler and others are included. Die-hard fans and new supporters alike will find everything Bears boosters should know, see and do in their lifetime. McDill has been a journalist for more than 30 years. He covered the Chicago Bears for United Press International from 1985-88 and Daily Herald from 1999-2007, and he handled the Chicago Bulls beat for all six championship teams. He is coauthor of Bill Wennington’s Tales from the Bulls Hardwood. He is now a writer for NBA.com.

DR. ROBERT W. SCHRIER ’57, EDITOR Schrier’s Diseases of the Kidney, 9th edition (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkin – ISBN: 978-1451110753) Recent advances in many aspects of kidney diseases have mandated the ninth edition of Schrier’s Diseases of the Kidney. Consolidated into two volumes, this all-encompassing work provides both clinicians and academicians with information they need to treat and study kidney disorders. Combining basic and clinical sciences, the book provides authoritative, concise and readily accessible information. About 200 international authorities, guided by a team of five distinguished authorities in nephrology, create an invaluable resource. Dr. Robert Schrier, the longtime sole editor of this work, recruited four eminent nephrologists as co-editors for this edition. The book is divided into 11 sections that cover structural and functional correlations in the kidney; disorders, infections and diseases; clinical evaluation; and management of end-stage renal disease. Dr. Schrier is professor emeritus at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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FACULTY NEWS Douglas E. Harms, professor of computer science and chair of the computer science department, was named an Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow for 2013-14. The award provides $3,750 to support a project, “Continuing to Promote Service Learning and Community Engagement in DePauw’s curriculum.” Anne F. Harris, University Professor, professor of art and art history, and director of the women’s studies program, wrote an essay, “Virtual Mobility: Dreamscape and Landscape in a Late Medieval Allegory,” that was published in the summer issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. Pascal J. Lafontant, associate professor of biology, is lead author – with collaborators from University of Houston, University of Utah and King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia – of a paper published in PLOS ONE, a resource from the Public Library of Science. It is titled “Cardiac Myocyte Diversity and a Fibroblast Network in the Junctional Region of the Zebrafish Heart Revealed by Transmission and Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy.” Christopher M. Marcoux, assistant professor of political science, and coauthor Mike Tierney from College of William & Mary presented a paper, “Environmental and Climate Finance in a New World,” at a conference on June 4 in Stockholm. Part of a United Nations University initiative to support research and communication on foreign aid, the program was streamed live on the Web and later broadcast on Swedish national educational television. Daniel E. Shannon, professor of philosophy, wrote a paper, “Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature of 1805-6; Its Relation to the Phenomenology of Spirit,” that was published in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Robert M. Steele ’69, Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and Distinguished Professor of Journalism Ethics, wrote the foreword for a book, The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century, published by the Poynter Institute and SAGE/CQ Press.

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CATHERINE A. ROBINSONWALKER ’68 Leading Valiantly in Healthcare

STANLEY W. ZABKA ’49 Razz Ma Tazz: My Life in Music, Television and Film

(Sigma Theta Tau International – ISBN: 978-1937554835)

(Big Island Music, Inc. – ISBN: 978-0-615-68640-0)

In her second book, Catherine Robinson-Walker, a renowned leadership coach, offers a series of concrete steps that enable business leaders to examine their personal goals and management style and develop outstanding practices that motivate their employees and enhance the bottom line. She notes that the daily pressures of the shifting healthcare landscape can hinder people from evaluating their routine thinking and stunt their growth, rendering them less effective in the long run. Leading Valiantly in Healthcare provides practical guidance to help healthcare professionals become better leaders that inspire others. Robinson-Walker has more than 25 years of experience working with a variety of prominent healthcare organizations, including the National Cancer Institute, American Nurses Association and Kaiser Permanente. Her first book, Women and Leadership in Health Care: The Journey to Authenticity and Power, is a Jossey-Bass health series bestseller.

Stan Zabka provides an extraordinary inside glimpse of the entertainment industry and early days of network television in his memoir. He graduated from DePauw with a major in music and minor in speech, and began his songwriting career in New York as a Page Boy with NBC – composing on any piano he could find. Just as his first song was published, his career was interrupted by military service. After serving as military news chief of the American Forces Network during the Korean War, he continued his music studies in New York and earned recognition as a composer of memorable theme music for Pulitzer, Christopher and Emmy awardwinning television specials. Zabka’s 22 years as associate television director with NBC included five years with Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” and Perry Como’s “Kraft Music Hall.” He received an Emmy Award as director of a daytime serial, “The Doctors.” He also was assistant director for several motion pictures. He is co-composer of “Chimes,” the original “Tonight Show” theme, which later became the signature theme of NBC Network Sports. Perhaps his best known popular song is “Christmas Eve In My Home Town.”

MAKING OF A SHORT FILM Two DePauw professors ventured into new creative areas to develop a short film and shoot it in rural Greencastle. A Tibetan monk on a quest to find the reincarnation of his dead teacher is the basis of Mud Lotus, written and directed by Christine M. White, associate professor of English, and co-produced and edited by Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, associate professor of communication and theatre. They collaborated in roles new to both of them: White had experience in writing and directing for the stage and in writing screenplays, and NicholsPethick’s production experience was in television news. The story is about Nawang, a Tibetan monk who follows signs and the advice of lamas to search in Indiana for the reincarnation of his beloved, late teacher. Nawang goes to a farmhouse in the

country and finds a warring couple and their 10-year-old asthmatic daughter, and he comes to believe that the daughter is the reincarnation – the tulku. Although White originally wrote it as a full-length play, she began adapting Mud Lotus to a full-length screenplay as part of a faculty fellowship project. She enlisted Nichols-Pethick’s assistance when she decided to apply for a New Directions Initiative grant from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. The grant allowed them to buy equipment and produce a short scene with two actors. However, the process led them to decide that what they really wanted to do was to make a short film. White edited the 80-page screenplay to 21 pages – getting rid of characters and subplots. “I’ve never written a short film before,” White says. “I’ve written a number of full-length screenplays. It’s

like being used to writing novels and then having to write a really tight short story.”  Nichols-Pethick handled the editing process, working with digital equipment that is new since he worked professionally in production. For the cast, they recruited Hollywood actress Rae Dawn Chong and DePauw faculty members. Several students and recent graduates served as crew members. Filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu ’07 agreed to be White’s first assistant director while in the middle of one of her own film projects. The film premiered on campus on Nov. 7 during ArtsFest 2013: Art & the Quest. White and Nichols-Pethick plan to submit Mud Lotus to festivals, the market for short films. Read more about Mud Lotus and its cast and crew at http://mudlotusfilm. wordpress.com.

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INVESTING IN INDUSTRY Gregory A. Sissel ’94 Invests Both Equity and Expertise by Christopher J. Wells

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In 2005 Gregory A. Sissel ’94 was ready to be done with private equity. He’d been working as part of a large team at Vestar Capital Partners, which was investing a multibillion dollar private equity fund in large companies. He wanted to be more hands-on and able to shape the direction of the organization he worked for. So, without knowing exactly what his next step would be, and immediately after getting engaged to his now-wife Therese, he left his job at Vestar. “I gave myself two years,” Sissel says. He knew he was walking away from a secure financial future, but he was comfortable with that. “I spent a lot of time talking with my close friends from DePauw and business school, and my parents, and I came to the conclusion that what I needed to do was go find that next opportunity.” Determined to chart the best course for himself, Sissel turned down a number of attractive offers. He thought he might try to find a small business to buy, “where I could invest some of my own savings, limited though they were, and try to buy out an owner or a minority partner of a smaller private company.” Recognizing that he would need more capital than the stake he had saved, Sissel kept his eyes open for potential investors. J. Landis Martin, whom he met through his former colleagues at Vestar, had just retired as CEO of a public company and was planning to start a new private equity

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firm. Sissel began a series of conversations with Martin, hoping to convince him to invest in Sissel’s new venture. “I thought if I could sell him on the value I could bring to a business, he might be interested in helping to back me.” Martin proposed an alternative sort of venture. He invited Sissel to come help him start his new company, which was to be a different kind of private equity experience from what Sissel had been involved in at Vestar. Martin envisioned a lower-middle-market firm that would invest in much smaller businesses and collaborate with these companies in a more hands-on way, building a model of engagement that would draw on Martin’s operating experience in industry. By partnering with the management of the companies they invested in, they could move the needle far more than would be possible when investing in mammoth companies already doing hundreds of millions of

dollars of business. The vision clicked for Sissel. He could play a central role in the launch of this new firm, and he would be able to engage directly with the challenges of running businesses, helping them to operate more effectively. He could help to make them better. Sissel told Martin he was in. Sissel jumped right into everything involved in starting up a new firm, from helping to line up funding from investors and identifying investment opportunities to helping set up the IT and phone systems. From his earliest days at the Denverbased firm, Sissel was hands-on and personally involved with accounting diligence, industry diligence, human resources diligence and environmental diligence. He was engaged in everything the new firm did, and he loved it. Launching Platte River Equity had been the right next step for him.

Putting industry experience to work Sissel’s years at DePauw were shaped by a similar tendency to get involved across the board. On top of his academics – he finished as a Management Fellow with an economics major and German minor – he swam for several years, was the assistant news director at WGRE and served as a tour guide. “That’s one of the things I loved about DePauw,” he says, “the ability to get involved across campus.” Sissel then earned a M.B.A. degree at Stanford University and used his work experiences, including several years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, to develop valuable skills in finance. As a founding partner at Platte River, Sissel has continued to develop his expertise in the rich details of industry. Because Martin and Sissel’s strategy involves deploying not just capital but industry expertise as well, Platte River invests only in companies that operate in sectors where the firm’s partners have knowledge and background. “The deepest experience I have is in aerospace, metals and agriculture, and my experience was learned on the job,” Sissel says. He was one of just five employees when, in April 2006, Platte River bought its first company, an aerospace parts manufacturer in western Massachusetts, and he had primary responsibility for working with the company following the acquisition. “We had developed the thesis that you could put together a number of aerospace parts manufacturers that had complementary capabilities and were manufacturing parts that went together in a larger assembly that would ultimately go into the airplane,” he explains. Joined together, the companies could become more important to their customers and serve them better by

reducing the number of suppliers they needed to manage. Platte River bought another aerospace business in February 2007, a third in April 2007 and a fourth in January 2009. These four businesses were consolidated into a company they named PRV Aerospace, and Sissel worked closely with the management of the acquired companies.

A CEO Partner Sissel also worked closely with Richard Wood, whom Platte River hired in 2008 to lead the newly formed aerospace company. Both men viewed the company as an exciting opportunity to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Wood had never worked for a private equity firm before, but he was attracted to Platte River’s vision that the new organization would benefit from improved management processes, professionalism, efficiency and economies of scale, and would be able to grow, creating value for investors.

Right after Wood became CEO in September 2008, the global economic downturn hit. As the economic outlook grew worse and fallout from the recession spread, small and mediumsized companies hunkered down, laying off workers and abandoning dreams of growth. Given the specific kinds of experience and expertise involved in the businesses he was running, Wood was sure that significant layoffs would be devastating for the company’s future. He was confident that the plan to weave the companies of PRV Aerospace into a stronger overall business was still sound; however, it meant continuing to invest resources during a time of uncertainty. Throughout this period, Wood says, Sissel was his most regular and important partner at Platte River. Sissel encouraged Wood to take the long-term view. “Greg just kept saying to me, ‘Do what’s right for the business,’” Wood says. When business fell off markedly during the downturn, they managed payroll to spare employees the

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earnings in 2006 to almost $50 million when it was sold in 2012.

Behind the headlines

worst pains of the recession, eliminating as few jobs as possible. Between 2008 and 2010, as the outlook improved and opportunities came up to invest in firms that represented missing pieces in PRV Aerospace’s portfolio, Platte River acquired two more companies to complete the business. At every step, Wood says, Sissel and Platte River encouraged him to stay focused on long-term needs. Even in the heart of the recession, “I never felt pressure from Platte River,” Wood says. “They don’t drive just by the numbers.” During the years Platte River launched PRV Aerospace, Sissel was involved daily, working with the individual companies and with Wood on sound decision making as the companies grew and the industry continued to evolve. “Do you spend $5 million on a new piece of equipment when you’re buying it to manufacture one specific part, but that part would fill only 50 percent of the capacity on the machine, and it barely meets the threshold return we would need for investing that much

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capital?” Sissel asks. “Do you upgrade a piece of machinery or do you buy a new machine that may have different capabilities but may cost five times as much as upgrading an older piece of equipment? In those types of decisions we were front and center with them.” Sissel helped Wood bring effective management frameworks and strategic

The individual companies that made up PRV Aerospace were able to grow, creating new jobs and rewarding investors. This case study counters widespread public perception of private equity as “vulture capitalism,” in which companies are acquired and their assets stripped before eventual closure, or as a source of dramatic failures involving highly leveraged buyouts. Examples of these kinds of transactions aren’t hard to find, but these are not the norm for private equity firms, Sissel says. While Platte River may be unusual in the extent to which it deploys the industry and operating experience of its partners, its strategy to increase the value of its investments by making companies stronger is standard for private equity firms, especially in Platte River’s market segment. In almost all cases, private equity is a long-term investment that takes years to pay off, which means that private equity firms generally want the

In almost all cases, private equity is a long-term investment that takes years to pay off, which means that private equity firms generally want the same thing as the companies they invest in: for them to grow and prosper. planning to the companies that made up PRV Aerospace. Together they worked with the companies to understand the levers that drove their businesses and their competitive position relative to the rest of the industry. PRV Aerospace was a solid success story for Platte River Equity, which grew the company from approximately $2.5 million in annual

same thing as the companies they invest in, Sissel explains: for them to grow and prosper. PRV Aerospace is a reminder, too, that while one purpose of private equity firms is to move money from investors to investments, another is to help companies do and make things. Given public confusion and distrust

associated with the financial industry after the recent recession, there is something remarkably comforting about Platte River Equity’s involvement with the concrete and material aspects of industries that make an actual product. Sissel says he enjoys this aspect of his work, the materiality of the products and the kind of thinking required to run manufacturing businesses effectively. He tells a story about a manufacturing business that Platte River Equity acquired a couple of years ago. “They’re forging metal, which is essentially heating it up in excess of 1,400 degrees and then forming it with a large forge press. The company thought about its profitability and forging capacity on a per-pound basis, whether they were working with titanium or stainless steel. Steel weighs more on a volume basis than titanium, but titanium sells for significantly more than stainless steel. Stainless steel also takes more time to forge than titanium. So thinking about forge press capacity and profitability on a per-pound basis could lead to incorrect decisions. They were thinking about their metrics wrong,” Sissel says. One of his Platte River colleagues identified that the company ought to think about capacity on a forge press hour basis rather than on a per-pound basis, which could help the company optimize profitability. Platte River shared this idea with the management team after they bought the business. “And they said, ‘Extraordinary. That’s absolutely right. Not only can we be more profitable, but we can optimize our capacity, and we hadn’t thought about it that way.’”

Human relationships Private equity as practiced by Platte River is as much about human

engagement and shared purpose as it is about the application of funds, Sissel says. The relationships that matter most are those Platte River has with its investors and the management teams of the firms it acquires. In both cases, private equity professionals like Sissel need a meeting of minds with people outside the firm. Potential investors need to understand and trust the firm’s strategy, as do the management teams of the companies Platte River plans to invest in, he says. The effectiveness of the process through which these players in private equity get to know each other is crucial for Platte River’s success. The process of recruiting investors can be a lot of work, Sissel says. Although Platte River still has a number of individual investors (largely friends and family of the partners), much of its funding comes from institutional investors such as university endowments, private foundations and pension funds. For the large investors, an investment in Platte River typically represents an extremely small piece of their overall activity. Sissel describes the process of recruiting these investors, early on: “For close to three months, we were on the road four to five days a week, every single week. Often on those days, I would have four to six meetings with prospective new investors in the big money centers – Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago. “Initially, it’s all about seeing if there’s any kind of connection to be made,” he says. “You’re giving about a 45-minute overview of the firm in an initial meeting, and you can tell pretty quickly if somebody’s interested or not.” When things are clicking, the people across the table are asking questions. “The best

A Commitment to Higher Education Much of Greg Sissel’s volunteer work is in service of higher educational causes. He has given back to his alma mater by serving on DePauw University’s Board of Visitors and National Campaign Committee.

Closer to home, he serves on the board of directors for the Denver Scholarship Foundation, an organization founded in 2006 that works to inspire and empower Denver Public Schools students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge and financial resources essential for success.

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LEFT: Matthew D. Newill ’09, right, with Greg Sissel ’94.

Another View of Platte River Equity After graduating from DePauw, Matthew D. Newill ’09 worked in Chicago for a year before connecting with Allan B. and Kathy (Fortune ’74) Hubbard. They recruited him to help them grow a Colorado-based business they had acquired, giving him the opportunity to develop valuable hands-on industry experience. While working there, Newill was introduced to Greg Sissel ’94 by another DePauw friend, Thomas D. Fagan ’98. Following the successful sale in 2012 of the business where Newill had been working, and after a year of conversations over lunch, Sissel offered Newill a job at Platte River Equity. “Without Al and Kathy, I wouldn’t have moved to Colorado, and without Tom, I wouldn’t have met Greg and gotten to know Platte River. It has been an incredibly fortunate process for me,” he says. Newill describes the environment at Platte River Equity as being remarkably like what he experienced at DePauw. “There is never a feeling here that someone shouldn’t speak up because of age or title. You are expected to voice your opinion,” he says. “At DePauw, the classroom engagements were equally as open and inviting, yet, like here, you had to come prepared to defend your perspective on whatever issue was at hand that day.” He also sees similarities in the personality of the place. Platte River Equity, according to Newill, “is a collection of incredibly intelligent people, who are also grounded and humble individuals. That culture is something that DePauw also provides, and it undoubtedly shapes the careers of its alumni.” Newill prizes many of the same qualities of Platte River as Sissel. At the firm, Newill says, “There is a level of earnestness that is rare, and it is the foundation of the culture: these are hard-working, honest individuals who will roll up their sleeves and work arm-in-arm with you.”

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meetings are those where you never get past the first page of your presentation or you go from the first page to the last page where you look at our past performance because they’ve already asked all the interesting questions. “The other meetings can be utterly painful.” When potential investors indicate interest, Platte River gives them access to a kind of online data room with information about the firm’s performance, approach and underlying portfolio companies. This kind of number crunching and data analysis only goes so far, even for large institutional investors, Sissel says. Once the data has been digested, “If they’re interested at that point, they come out and spend time meeting with the partners of the firm and perhaps with a couple of our junior colleagues as well.” On this visit, the potential investors want to get to know the firm on a personal level, Sissel says: “They want to know about the culture of the partnership, how the firm interacts, what our communication style is, what our decision-making process is. They want to understand if the firm’s early success is replicable. If so, why is it, and for how long? What is the risk that its performance won’t be replicable? They want to make sure that one person hasn’t been making all the decisions, that one person doesn’t have the singular ability to push a new investment through our process. They want to know that we’re thorough, and frankly, that two people aren’t going to leave in six months and go try to start their own firm. It’s a lot of personal interaction with them trying to understand how we fit together and

whether our model is sustainable.” Sometimes this process can be a little mysterious. On a couple of occasions, Sissel and his colleagues went through extremely in-depth interviews that had little to do with how they worked on a daily basis. “One or two people sat in a room and interviewed us individually for three or four hours,” he says. “They went back to grade school and high school for me, trying to see if there were patterns that led to decisions I had made and how and when I had succeeded. Then they put all the pieces together, from everybody they interviewed, and asked themselves, ‘Does this team work well together? Are the personalities that exist here compatible? Will they result in clashes or in a group that will work well together?’” Sissel adds, “It’s an introspective process for us … in terms of how we interact, who does what, in what parts of the process different people bring value.” He also admits, “It’s a lot more fun to be marketing to management teams to buy their company and to be picked as their partner.” In these cases, Sissel does much of the exploration of strengths and weaknesses. A great deal of scrutiny of the numbers is involved, looking at the companies’ track records, growth potential, market position in the industry, and in each company’s effectiveness. A more personal investigation is also needed. Platte River’s model requires a collaborative partner in the management of the companies it acquires. Even where there appeared to be an attractive opportunity, Sissel says, “We’ve walked away from situations where we knew it was somebody we could never work with, where it would be too complex to separate the business from that manager.”

The process works two ways. Management can play an important part in acceptance or rejection of Platte River’s bid for a company. “Chemistry with the management team can be critical to being successful,” Sissel says. “The key is to develop a chemistry so that they know you can be a great partner.” Making the highest bid and having a good sense of fit generally win the day. “Even at a slightly discounted price, though, if management has a say in who its partner is going to be,

from your customers to impact your business at this point?’” Demonstrating Platte River’s industry knowledge and that we’re thoughtful about how to use that knowledge, is valuable. “So let’s have that conversation,” Sissel says. His goal is to demonstrate to management that Platte River is a knowledgeable partner, not just a financial partner, and one that can help the team manage its business better. Sissel encounters managers who are not excited by Platte River’s model and who are looking for someone to bring in funding and sit quietly on the sidelines. “We’re not the right partner for them,” he says. “We don’t want to run the businesses on a day-to-day basis, but we want somebody with whom we can lock arms and work closely to try to create value for everyone.” In the end, Sissel says finding the right fit is profoundly important. “These are business relationships that are akin to marriage. Entering into the wrong relationship can be very painful, but finding the right partner can be very rewarding.” Sissel says he’s happy with the direction his professional life has taken. “Platte River went through a fund-raising process about a year ago, including deep diligence from a number of institutional investors. I told the story about how I’d wanted to get involved in running a business, and they asked me, ‘Do you think you’ll want to fulfill that desire at some point in the future?’ “I said to them, ‘I’m fulfilling that desire right now.’”

“It’s an introspective process for us … in terms of how we interact, who does what, in what parts of the process different people bring value.” – GREG SISSEL ’94 sometimes they really want to work with Platte River. That’s where the experience that we have from an operating and industry standpoint become important.” Occasionally, Platte River competes against firms that have never invested in a particular industry. In the case of aerospace, “The management team may have to spend at least half its presentation educating the firms on the dynamics of the aerospace industry,” Sissel says. His approach would be quite different. While he wants to hear a bit about their business, he also likes to get down to brass tacks. “I would ask them, ‘So Boeing came out with its Partnering for Success program in November of last year, which is impacting the supply chain because of the significant price reductions Boeing is requiring from its suppliers. How much of that price pressure has flowed down

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Verne’s editor, PierreJules Hetzel, lacked the author’s talent for storytelling, but he knew how to market the Voyages Extraordinaires. The novels received special “collector’s edition” treatment that made them irresistible to affluent French. 20 DEPAUW MAGAZINE FALL 2013

An Extraordinary Voyage through the Writing of Jules Verne By Christopher L. Wolfe

Jean Verne dusted off the old safe that had passed through his family from father to son for nearly a century. As a child, he remembered staring at the safe, used to prop up the end of a workbench in his father’s garage, and imagining all the treasures it must contain. Both key and combination had been lost since its original owner, Jean’s great-grandfather and world-famous author Jules Verne, passed away in 1905. The bronze behemoth was 4 feet tall and 31 inches deep, and assumed to be empty – a family heirloom that nobody really wanted. Jean had inherited the safe after his father’s death, but the mover he hired to clear out his father’s possessions estimated its weight at nearly a ton and refused to transport it. Rather than abandoning the safe and his childhood dreams with it, Jean called a locksmith, who told him that the only way to open it was to blast the door off. The explosion revealed three shielded compartments. The first two were empty, but inside the third compartment Jean found a stack of papers: Russian loan documents, a collection of correspondence and an old manuscript.

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LIFELONG FOCUS

Forbes magazine once called Arthur B. Evans, DePauw University professor of modern languages, the most prominent Jules Verne scholar in the United States. Evans found out about his ascension to the top-most rung of the field at the same time Forbes’ readers did. Too late to change – perhaps a qualifying “one of ” would have worked better – the story was a source of teasing from fellow Vernians. Evans laughed it off with his wide, bearded grin. There is some truth to Forbes’ claim, however. Evans has spent most of his adult life nose-deep in one Verne novel or another, and he has written pages numbering in the thousands on the topic of the legendary author’s work. While there are Verne scholars in the United States who share a table with Evans, Forbes would have been hardpressed to find someone who knows more. There might even have been a time when if someone had burst into Evans’ office and shouted, “Art Evans doesn’t know a damn thing about Jules Verne,” he would have dropped his Santa Clausian demeanor and raised his fists. But, now nearing retirement, Evans’ once outspoken opinions on Verne have mellowed – partly because, with increased age and notoriety, he no longer needs to speak loudly to be heard. And maybe in small part because the ghost of Jules Verne once humbled him. Evans’ interest in Verne’s stories goes back to his childhood when he read them reprinted in comic books, but it wasn’t until his doctoral studies at Columbia University that he stumbled upon the French author as a subject of scholarship. It was an unusual dissertation topic for an American student at the time. According to prevailing thought, Verne wrote

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ABOVE: Arthur B. Evans

children’s adventures filled with futuristic marvels and fantastic machines. At best, Verne was an author – perhaps even the father – of science fiction, which didn’t really count for much at the time. In any case, he certainly didn’t write capital-L Literature. Meanwhile, in Verne’s homeland, academic and public opinion of him couldn’t have been more different. To the French, Verne was a national hero who popularized science and proselytized progress while poking a finger in the eye of mighty empires. Were French and English audiences reading two different authors? Well, yes, they were. When a curious Evans compared English translations of Verne’s works to the originals, he was stunned.

VANISHING SCIENCE

Not only were the names and nationalities of characters changed, but also paragraphs and even entire chapters were missing.

Gone were Verne’s subtle sense of humor and not-so-subtle political critiques – especially of the British, who were doing most of the translating. Gone, too, were Verne’s detailed explanations of scientific principles. For example, in an early English edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (a title that should have been translated as “Seas”), Verne’s description of the sodium batteries powering the submarine, Nautilus, was cut entirely. Strangely, the same translator also described the sub’s steel plates as having a density of “.7 to .8 that of water” – in other words, being lighter than water. Science-minded critics of the time blamed these glaring errors on Verne. He wasn’t serious, they thought. His creations had no grounding in real science. Of all the casualties of the early Verne translations, the loss of science was the most devastating. Verne’s editor and publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel,

groomed his talented young author to sell books first and foremost, but Hetzel had ulterior motives. The Church controlled French public schools at the time and left no room in the curriculum for science. Working under Hetzel, Verne began his Voyages Extraordinaires series of novels as a way to present the natural sciences to a starving audience. “Verne was actually hired to teach science through fiction,” Evans says. “The translators just slaughtered it.” Like Twain without race or Austen without social class, these translations were different books. Stripped of science, the stories were still captivating, and movies would still be made – in 1960 TIME called him “the best dead writer Hollywood has ever had” – but Verne’s English translations had been robbed of their soul. Evans’ dissertation would practically write itself. “I couldn’t believe it,” Evans says. “I said, ‘Ah-ha, I’ve got my angle.’”

TAKING A DIFFERENT TACK

Some 600 pages later – a doorstop, he calls it, with the side-effect of scaring department skeptics away from his review committee – his dissertation argued that Verne wasn’t an author of speculative science fiction as most of the English-speaking world believed, but rather a writer of scientific fiction, intended to educate. The Verne we knew, which poor translations created and the media propagated, was mostly plain fiction. To many, Verne was a technological prophet and futurist. Consider his Nautilus, an electric submarine years before its time. Or most famously, in From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Around the Moon, that manned trip to space aboard the Columbiad, which launches from Florida with three astronauts and splashes down in the Pacific Ocean. Sound familiar?

Never mind that submarines had been around since the 17th century. In fact, long before Verne wrote of them, Napoleon Bonaparte hired steamboat inventor Robert Fulton to design a practical military submarine to use against British ships. The name of Fulton’s prototype: Nautilus. As for Verne’s moonshot, he’d simply done the math. The “spaceship” of From the Earth to the Moon is no more than a bullet fired by a cannon so giant that only the Americans of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club could have built it. Space travel is only an afterthought of its inventors. Nor were his stories futuristic; except for the short story “In the Year 2889,” later found to have been written by his son, Michel, virtually all of the Verne’s works were set in his own era or in the recent past. After DePauw hired Evans as a French professor in 1985, Evans pressed on with his Verne scholarship. He took the fight to the pages of Science Fiction Studies (SFS), making his case for Verne in the top academic journal of the field, and published a book version of his dissertation, Jules Verne Rediscovered, which won the Eaton Award for nonfiction. As he wrote in the introduction: “Do we really know Jules Verne? Evidently not. But how did this myth about him – so obviously brimming with error and misjudgment – come to be? … Undoubtedly, there must be more to this author than we have heretofore believed.” Evans was right, just not entirely the way he thought.

NEW DISCOVERY

The contents of the Verne safe remained in storage for a few more years. Jean initially believed the stack of papers belonged to Jules’ son, Michel, and, disappointed, put them away. One day

in 1991, in a fit of curiosity, he decided to take a closer look. Very quickly he recognized the handwriting on the manuscript. Jean called Piero Gondolo della Riva, a Vernian scholar of the highest order, and asked whether he had heard of a manuscript titled Paris in the 20th Century. Gondolo della Riva was aghast. “Of course I have, and it is shameful that you haven’t,” he shot back. The manuscript had been mentioned in a previous biography of Verne, and Michel had once tried to finish it himself, but failed. Rejected by Hetzel in 1863 – making it Verne’s second novel – the manuscript was believed to have been lost during World War II when Nazis requisitioned the Verne home and left with souvenirs. Under different circumstances, Vernians would have been tripping over each other to get a look at Jean’s discovery, but most were skeptical, suspecting a hoax or just another case of Michel borrowing his father’s name. But when Paris in the 20th Century was finally published in French in 1994, it came with Gondolo della Riva’s seal of authenticity. Only one thing was more surprising: this “new” novel contradicted nearly everything that the world’s top Verne scholars had been saying about the long-dead author. Not only is Paris in the 20th Century set in the future, but deep into the Modern Era. Advanced technology dominates Verne’s 1960s Paris society, but without the boundless can-do positivism of his other early stories. Streets are crowded with gas-powered automobiles (introduced in 1886), and all trade is automated with a network of counting machines (ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, first came online in 1969). Nothing is subtle about Verne’s

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treatment of humankind’s progress. His young Romantic protagonist is mocked for having a degree in literature, and Victor Hugo, who published Les Misérables just as Verne was beginning to work on his manuscript, is long forgotten. The same electricity that carried the Nautilus into battle against imperialism is used, to the narrator’s horror, for executing criminals. (The first electric execution, or electrocution as it became known, was carried out in 1890.) Gondolo della Riva’s research into the manuscript produced Hetzel’s rejection letter to Verne. “My dear Verne,” Hetzel wrote, “even if you were a prophet, no one today would believe this prophecy … they simply would not be interested in it.” For the American reading public, Paris in the 20th Century was typical Jules Verne. For the French and Verne scholars around the world, it was unrecognizable. It was pure science fiction. Only a few years earlier, Evans

had seeded his reputation by arguing in SFS that Verne wrote nothing of the sort. By the time the lost Verne manuscript was published, not only had the journal moved to DePauw University, but Evans was also its managing editor. “It took a lot of us scholars down off our high horses,” Evans says. “I thought, ‘How could Verne have written this? It’s so science fiction-y!’ My own words came back to haunt me.” Or maybe it was Verne returning to say, “But that was the author I wanted to be!” Shortly after Paris’ belated release, Evans addressed its impact in an article for SFS. “In an ironic twist of fate,” he concludes, “Vernian scholars must now acknowledge the painful truth: the public’s longtime and much-maligned perception of Jules Verne as visionary technological prophet and ‘Seer of Tomorrow’ was actually more accurate than we, the so-called ‘experts,’ ever suspected.”

RIGHTING A WRONGED AUTHOR

Jules Verne (1885) This famous portrait of Verne was taken by Nadar, a French photographer and balloonist who inspired Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon and the character Michael Ardan in From the Earth to the Moon.

Even Hollywood (unsurprisingly) took liberties with Verne’s work. The film version of Journey to the Center of the Earth adds a new plotline and multiple characters, including a duck named Gertrude.

The 10-by-8-foot Columbiad space-bullet in From the Earth to the Moon is said to contain among its cargo: two dogs; six chickens and a rooster; 12 shrubs; and a year’s supply of food, water and wine for the three astronauts. Henri de Montaut, the illustrator, did his best to capture Verne’s vision.

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In the years that followed, Evans expanded his views about what is and isn’t science fiction, even as a new wave of scholars once again challenges Verne and the genre’s paternity. Evans is now the new old guard, doing his part to do right by a wronged author. Amazingly, after Paris, four of Verne’s novels had never been translated into English. Hetzel’s death in 1886 allowed Verne the freedom to write stories that wouldn’t have sold under another author’s name. He moved away from the kind of roman scientifique that made him so popular in France, while his enormous fame prevented translators from getting away with the liberal interpretations that were popular abroad. Still, it’s hard to believe that the second-most translated author behind Agatha Christie had several untranslated works outstanding into the new millennium. Working with Wesleyan University

Press, Evans managed to include translations of the four remaining Voyages Extraordinaires in a book series focused on early science fiction that he heads as editor. But even Evans acknowledges that these late novels are science fiction only in the broadest possible sense. One deals with filling the Sahara Desert with water, thus creating an inland sea for trade in North Africa (a European venture fought by Muslim warlords). The final of the four, Travel Scholarships, published this year, is a pirate adventure. Evans is now working on an anthology of scholarly essays on early science fiction to be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014. In an ironic twist, included in the volume will be his own, first contribution to SFS that argued so strongly against Verne’s traditional treatment as an author of science fiction – with an explanation in the afterword.

Count the arms on that “squid.” A poulpe, or octopus, attacks Nemo’s submarine in the original French version of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, but English translations feature a giant squid.

HOW SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES FOUND A HOME AT DEPAUW

Founded in 1973 by Indiana State University professor R.D. Mullen, Science Fiction Studies is one of the earliest and most prestigious academic journals of its kind. So how did it find a home at DePauw? In the early 1990s, McGill University in Montreal, then home to the journal, lost a Canadian government grant that supported SFS. Sensing an opportunity, Professor of Modern Languages Arthur B. Evans and Professor of English Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. contacted Mullen, who had retired from ISU, about bringing the journal back to Indiana. With Mullen’s support, SFS moved to DePauw in 1992, where three times a year Evans and his co-editors publish nearly 800 issues for colleges, universities and other subscribers in more than 30 countries. Evans says that the professional support he’s received from the University has kept both him and the journal at DePauw, although he is not the only beneficiary of the journal’s residence. While SFS has allowed him to pursue his interests outside of the classroom, it has also bolstered DePauw’s name recognition internationally, often in unexpected ways. “Once a month or so, I’ll get an email from someone around the world asking if they can come here to study science fiction for their graduate degree,” Evans says. “I have to break the news to them that DePauw University is a small liberal arts college. They say, ‘But how can you do SFS in such a small school?’ Well, mostly with the wonders of modern technology and email. And with the additional support of DePauw’s wonderful faculty development program.”

Around the World in Eighty Days

Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Students and Faculty Join Forces in Summer Research By Sarah McAdams Stephen C. Dobbs ’15 stood on top of a mountain range in northern China last summer with Tim D. Cope, associate professor of geosciences. After weeks of painstakingly mapping rocks in a rugged region around the Great Wall, together they realized they had discovered something significant and worthy of publication. Dobbs and Cope are among 40 students and faculty members who participated in DePauw’s StudentFaculty Collaborative Summer Research Program this year. The projects are as diverse as studying the dynamical similarities between fluid drops and superballs to understanding the perception of song salience in female zebra finches.

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applying things that students learn in their academic classes. “It’s a whole host of things that go into this very nice mentor/apprenticeship model,” she says. “When you think about high-impact practices and what sorts of things have really good impact on outcomes for students, this is one of the terrific ones. “If you look at any type of undergraduate research, there are specialized skills that students learn, but the basic skills are also important,” Bonebright says. “Students learn how to work independently, when to ask questions and how to work with other people.” Cope discovered a passion for plate tectonics in graduate school and has spent all but two summers since then conducting research in China. One to three students have gone with him each summer – depending on the funding source. For the last two years, a National Science Foundation grant enabled him

to take three students. The project, RUI: Tectonic Development of the Yanshan FoldThrust Belt, Northeastern China, is complex, and Dobbs describes the work as being much like putting together puzzle pieces that often don’t fit. Asia is the world’s largest continent, although, as Cope explains, it hasn’t always been that way. “India and Asia collided and uplifted the Himalayan Mountains – a geologically recent collision that uplifted the highest mountains in the world,” he says. That process has been going on for about 200 million years. “We’re working in the northern part of the North China plate, which collided with plates to the north in Mongolia, a plate to the south in South China and the Pacific plate off to the east,” Cope says. “We’re looking at the effects of those collisions on the North China plate back in the Jurassic Period – when

this area was a mountain range as big as the Himalayas.” To understand the effect, they first have to map the rocks. “Mapping all of the rocks on the mountain range tells us which rocks are younger, which are older, when faults were active in that area, what types of faults they were and what was happening to the crust at that time,” Cope explains. Then they establish the age of the rocks by taking samples to a lab with laser technology at University of Arizona. “We are searching for a particular mineral – zircon,” Cope says. “Each grain looks like salt; each one is a single crystal, and those crystals contain

uranium. Over time, the uranium decays into lead. You can take each individual crystal, zap it with a laser beam and extract the uranium and lead, and measure the ratio. It will tell you how old that single crystal is.” One of the advantages of having NSF funding is that Cope can take students earlier in their careers and guarantee them at least two summers of collaboration. Dobbs has been to China twice with Cope. “I’m working with Steve [Dobbs], and I’m hoping he’ll be able to go again next summer and have a very solid thesis or publication before he graduates,” the professor says. That’s his ultimate, but challenging

goal. “I like to give students as much ownership of a parcel of this project as I can, but since it’s ongoing, it can be really difficult to carve out bite-size pieces all the time.” Students are paid for their summer work. Some students continue working on the project after the summer, even though they are not required to. “Usually they’re interested enough that they want to keep going,” Cope says. “For example, this summer I had three students, and all three are flying with me to Arizona during fall break so we can zap our zircons – working in a basement lab for a week, 24 hours a day, taking shifts on a machine that runs continuously.” The four will then fly to Denver to present their research. At the very least, Cope’s students present a poster. “Any student who goes with me in the summer will always present at the Geological Society of America annual meeting,” he says.

Out in the field “It’s very difficult work. It’s humid and rough, but it’s fieldwork,” Dobbs says. “The phrase that every geologist uses is that the geologist who knows the most is the one who has been in the field the most. That’s the thing about geology; your laboratory is the outdoors. That’s partly why people love it so much.” Dobbs took an introductory geology class with Cope on a whim during first semester of his first year, and he has taken a class with him every semester since. “Because of my experiences in China, I have been able to learn exponentially quicker than maybe other students who have just had a textbook education,” Dobbs says. “Being able to LEFT: Stephen C. Dobbs ’15 with Tim D. Cope, associate professor of geosciences, in northern China.

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This past summer, 27 faculty members worked with numerous students on projects that represented all of DePauw’s academic divisions. Below are just a few of the summer 2013 projects, which provide a sense of the diverse kinds of research work bringing faculty and students together. » A Pebble in the Sand: Finding Patterns in Classes of Graphics Faculty Sponsor: Suman Balasubramanian, assistant professor of mathematics » Epistemic Utility Theory Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey S. Dunn, assistant professor of philosophy » Dynamical Similarities Between Fluid Drops and Superballs Faculty Sponsor: Jacob A. Hale, assistant professor of physics and astronomy » Plants vs. Climate Change Faculty Sponsor: Bryan A. Hanson, Simon Smith Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry » Optimizing Peak Power in a Wingate Anaerobic Power Test Faculty Sponsor: Thomas E. Ball, professor of kinesiology » Regeneration in Zebrafish Faculty Sponsor: Pascal J. Lafontant, associate professor of biology » The Midwife Crisis: Catching Babies in Prohibition States Faculty Sponsor: Alicia E. Suarez, assistant professor of sociology » Problem Solving Using Parallel Programming Faculty Sponsor: Scott M. Thede, associate professor of computer science » Theoretical Investigation of Small Molecules Coupled to Infrared Picosecond Pulse Trains Faculty Sponsor: Bridget L. Gourley, professor of chemistry and biochemistry » The NHANES-I Epidemiologic Study: QVF Measurement Error Models and Empirical Likelihood Faculty Sponsor: Naima Shifa, assistant professor of mathematics » Design and Evaluation of Persuasive Technologies Faculty Sponsor: Dave Berque, dean of academic life and Herrick E.H. Professor of Computer Science » Ecology and Genetics of Floral Color Change and Pollinator Attraction in the Perennial Herb (Bouncing Bet) Saponaria Officianalis Faculty Sponsor: Dana A. Dudle, professor of biology

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go out and see the actual work Professor Cope does in a field that I want to pursue – I love it.” Dobbs spent seven days a week in the rugged terrain, sometimes working 12-hour days. “It’s humid. You’re hiking through bushes that have lots of thorns. You’re going through your own personal hell,” he says. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, it’s frustrating. You see a formation and ask, ‘What does this mean?’ It makes no sense, and it’s utter confusion. Then there’s this 1 percent of the time when you have an epiphanic moment – Wow, this makes sense. We’ve put the puzzle pieces together, and now we actually have a story. “I think that’s what geologists like Professor Cope love. This specific branch of geology, stratigraphy, is such a puzzlepiece kind of thing. Nothing makes sense, and out of nowhere something clicks, and that click is what I think a lot of people who go into this specialty crave.” He had one of those moments. “I was lucky enough to lead my own expedition this year in a certain region. We were three weeks in, still mapping the area, and it was still not making much sense,” Dobbs says. “Then Professor Cope and I went to a specific place high up in the mountains, and we saw a huge landscape. Everything just made sense, and we said we could publish this, that this proves something. That moment is intangible.”

Theatre for unexpected purposes Jessica G. Maginity ’15 had an idea to design and implement a reading and writing curriculum for gradeschool students in the same school she attended in Putnam County. She got her inspiration while taking an independent study course during Winter Term with Tim Good, associate professor of

communication and theatre, to read and discuss unconventional literature. “It made me think about ways English could be taught, and I thought about ways in which I could do that,” Maginity says. For help, she turned to Good, who agreed to work with Maginity and Felicia M. Santiago ’14. Under the umbrella of Applied/Community Art in Performance and Creative Writing, the students collaborated with Good on separate projects and focused on using theatre for other purposes. “Professor Good helped us think about community involvement and making the project work for the community and for you, the artist,” Maginity explains. She developed an after-school reading and writing program for third- through fifth-graders at Central Elementary School after spending the summer developing the

LEFT: Summer Shakespeare Program in Ghana

stories says so much about their culture as a reflection of values, religion, culture and richness of the people.” Good agrees. “The three of us working together has really helped each of us see new things. That’s the purpose of it for me. I keep participating in collaborative summer research because it becomes a key part of students’ intellectual growth. They are freed from grades and are able to follow their own thought processes.” He and his two students hope to travel to Portugal, where they have had a paper accepted at the World Universities Forum. They also plan to present their research at a theatre conference this year.

Change in perspective curriculum and doing fieldwork at the Putnam County Library and Putnam County Museum. Maginity uses theatre games to access students’ creativity – as an icebreaker – and to get them thinking in physical ways. She says Good was especially helpful in their discussions about how best to reach the students. Good’s project was to design a community-based series of workshops integrating the work of Arthur Lessac and Augusto Boal. Arthur Lessac was an acting master teacher who created the Lessac Kinesensic Training, a holistic approach to developing the voice and body. Augusto Boal developed his Theatre of the Oppressed interactive techniques in Brazil, Argentina and worldwide. “My particular purpose is service theatre – team building and problem

solving,” Good explains. “It’s mostly in a workshop setting where we do cooperative games for the purpose of working on a particular problem or issue. The focus is not necessarily something terrible, but something that needs to be thought about. So, I frame it as a physical intelligence.” Good’s other student, Felicia Santiago, took her work to Ghana where she participated in the Summer Shakespeare Program developed by Elizabeth E.G. Sutherland ’13. “It was a truly amazing and unforgettable experience,” Santiago says. “Learning how to apply different performance forms and ways to tell a story truly captured my attention. It is something I want to learn more about – Nigerian masks, Ghanaian oral tradition and Burkina Faso puppets. The way people perform and convey their

“Another part of student-faculty research is to get our work out there as artists and scholars,” Good says. “Students are not only responsible for their work, but they are also responsible to take their work into the field. “It’s an amazing program,” he says of the Student-Faculty Collaborative Summer Research Program. “They’re still in college, but thinking about how they will apply what they’re learning. If you can catch students after their sophomore year, and they have two more years to apply it, it really becomes a turning point for them. They even take their classes in a different way. They are less worried about an A or an A-, and they think more about expectations of the professor and expectations of themselves. “Their own thinking changes from following orders to taking ownership of their work,” Good says. “That turnaround is the beauty of the program.”

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The Making of a 21st-Century Musician By B. Suzanne Hassler

Not content with a single choice, Eleanor Geffert Shearing ’55 has been an accomplished performer, recording artist and producer in the course of her successful career. Recently, she added the title of record executive. She is the perfect example of a 21st-century musician: a highly skilled performer, who also teaches and now happens to own a record company. When the DePauw University School of Music alumna first graduated, however, she didn’t go into music right away. She wrote radio commercials for a CBS affiliate in South Bend, Ind. But she always wanted to prove to herself that she could sing professionally. “I had such wonderful memories of singing with the Collegians and choirs at DePauw,” she says. “I wanted to see if I could really make it in the ‘big time,’ so I auditioned and made it into one of the choral groups that did the New York World’s Fair back in 1964.” That was the beginning. She joined the Schola Cantorum ensemble in New York City, then auditioned for the Norman Luboff Choir and became Luboff ’s alto soloist for three seasons. She was also singing with the New York Choral Artists for which Joseph R. Flummerfelt ’58 was conductor. “It was Norman who said, ‘Go West,’” she recalls – to the abundance of recording opportunities in Hollywood. There she met and married jazz pianist George Shearing. Shearing, a British-born musician who was knighted in 2007, died in 2011. “Many years ago, George widowproofed me,” Ellie Shearing says. “He took me aside and said, ‘If I go first, you

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will know where every penny is; you will know every connection I have in the business.’” That knowledge proved invaluable when she found a recording that Sir George made with bassist Don Thompson, which had been forgotten in a drawer in the Shearings’ New York apartment since l983. “If I had given the tape to one of the big record companies, they would have taken 96 percent,” she says. “So I asked the question, ‘How do I start a record company?’” Music revivalist Michael Feinstein advised her about where to have the recording pressed. She had a thousand copies made. Then she needed a distributor, which started a chain reaction of discovering people who had known

or worked with George Shearing and wanted to help her get the music out. The recording, released April 15, 2013, is available nationwide and through the Internet. Thanks to international interest, it is already in its second pressing. “To be able to count Ellie as one of our own is remarkable for us, and we are richer for it,” says Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music. The 14-track recording, George Shearing at Home, is available for purchase on the new Jazzknight label, in CD format or as individual MP3 downloads, through Amazon.com and the DePauw University Music Library.

SUPPORTING DEPAUW ALUMNI GIVING

8,238

1,169

ALUMNI DONORS

THE WASHINGTON C. DEPAUW SOCIETY ANNUAL MEMBERS (Alumni, Parents and Friends)

FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

ALL GIFTS AND PLEDGES BY SOURCE TOTAL: $89,395,538

PARENTS ($813,962)

1% TRUSTEES ($64,011,424)

72%

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY ($3,378,361)

FRIENDS ($1,380,298)

Melanie J. Norton 14%

Dear Friends, During this very special year, it is important to recognize the many alumni, parents and friends of the University who make the DePauw experience possible. Your dedication, leadership and generosity have built the exceptional University we see today, and these same qualities continue to make it even better. The Division of Development and Alumni Engagement is here to help you take part in the life of DePauw. We invite you to connect with alumni, refer and mentor students, visit campus and support the life of the University. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to hear from you! Above all else, on behalf of the entire campus community, thank you for sharing your time, talents and resources. DePauw is an exceptional place because of your investment and your involvement. I know you will help us make it even better for many years to come. Sincerely,

Melanie J. Norton

ALUMNI ($12,543,820)

2% FAMILY TRUSTS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ($1,404,843)

FOUNDATIONS ($5,862,830)

ALL GIFTS AND PLEDGES BY PURPOSE

CURRENT USE - RESTRICTED PURPOSE ($2,218,109)

TOTAL: $89,395,538

53% ENDOWMENT/BOARD DESIGNATED ($47,445,099)

41%

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ($34,193,446)

6% ANNUAL FUND ($5,496,187) Gift and pledge figures are from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013.

DePauw University gratefully acknowledges the gifts and pledges that comprise the 2012-13 fiscal year giving detailed herein. Support by alumni, parents and friends is crucial in allowing DePauw to remain accessible to deserving students who need increased financial assistance. It also helps the University recruit and retain faculty members who are committed to excellence in teaching and their scholarly or creative activities.

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WHY WE GIVE Alumni couple give for what DePauw gave them

When Justin P. Christian ’95 and Darrianne Howard Christian ’95 met as students at DePauw University, the computer science department was still in its infancy. Justin asserts that the department was on “the leading edge and fairly unique for DePauw” at the time. Both he and Darrianne were computer science majors, and both pursued information technology careers after DePauw. Prior to leaving corporate America in 2003, Darrianne received a M.B.A. degree from University of Notre Dame and worked as an IT project manager for AT&T in Indianapolis. Justin is president/CEO of BC Forward, a software solutions and staffing company, which he founded in 1998, that employs nearly 1,500 professionals serving clients throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As parents of three daughters, the couple says that DePauw modeled for them how to encourage young people to pursue their career interests. They speak fondly of their mentor, Gloria Childress Townsend, Tenzer Family University Professor in Instructional Technology and professor of computer

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science, who remembers her former students well. “I particularly remember how helpful Darrianne was … on a project using positive role models to recruit women to computing. Darrianne fit the project perfectly, because her speaking skills were highly polished and she spoke engagingly about her computing experiences.” Justin credits Professor Townsend in helping him secure internships that opened doors to future jobs and, eventually, to starting his own company. Justin also recalls having enjoyed classes with Dave A. Berque, professor of computer science. “As I moved into my professional career,” Justin says, “I reached back to Professor Berque for (computer science) interns and potential employees to work at my company. Life at DePauw came full circle.” As loyal Annual Fund supporters, Justin and Darrianne became members of The Washington C. DePauw Society. Justin continues to serve the University as a member of the DePauw Board of Visitors. He has also served on the 361º Program Board of Advisers, Alumni Board and Indianapolis Alumni Regional Council. Many factors keep alumni connected to DePauw through the years. For Justin and Darrianne, they include the meaningful relationships they had with their professors, along with their shared personal journey that began on campus. Justin reflects, “DePauw has helped put the pieces in place for us, both professionally and personally. My wife and I met at DePauw, which obviously makes it a special place to us.”

Of their longstanding commitment to the DePauw Annual Fund, the two affirm, “We look at it as an honor and a privilege to be in a position to be able to give back.”

Christopher M. Maine Scholarship Fund to attract the best to the School of Music

“Vocal music was such an important part of my and Christopher’s lives that when DePauw School of Music Dean Mark McCoy announced his new ideas on the 21st-Century Musician, I was immediately enthusiastic about a program that was designed to give performance a more prominent role in music education,” Michael R. Maine ’61 says of the recent decision he and his wife, Suzanne Bauman Maine ’62, made to transfer the Christopher M. Maine Scholarship Fund to the School of Music. The Maines are parents of Melinda Maine Garvey ’89 and the late

Christopher M. Maine ’87. Mike and Sue established the Christopher M. Maine Scholarship Fund in 1991 in memory of their son, who died of cancer in 1990, just as he was beginning a law career. In doing so, the Maines wanted to provide incoming students with assistance needed to attend DePauw. In 2012 they generously committed to augment the fund and redirect support to the School of Music in order to attract the best, musically talented young men and women to DePauw. Dean McCoy says of the Maines, “We are both honored and touched by the kindness of this gift. Though they were political science majors, Mike and Christopher were also very involved in the School of Music, both of them the epitome of a DePauw education. This gift, and gifts like these, will help us launch our 21st-Century Musician Initiative and strengthen the relationship between the College of Liberal Arts and School of Music. The Maines have been incredibly important to and incredibly supportive of DePauw over the years, and this is one more example of their dedication to and love for their alma mater.” Both Mike and Sue are lifetime and annual members of The Washington C. DePauw Society and lifetime members of the 1837 Loyalty Club. Mike currently serves on the DePauw University Board of Trustees, which he joined in 1990. Suzanne has served in the past on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Mike adds, “We know for certain that Christopher would approve, as musical performance was as important to him as it has been to me and Sue.”

LaFollettes’ gift supports pre-med program Evelyn “Ev” Whaley LaFollette ’63 and her husband, Dr. James “Jim” W. LaFollette, already helped one of their children prepare for application to medical school. Through their generosity, many more in the DePauw family will have their support, too. Established by the LaFollettes in summer 2013, the Evelyn Whaley & James W. LaFollette, M.D. Endowed Fund for Medical School Preparation supports a Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) preparatory course unique to DePauw. During a new “MCAT boot camp” Winter Term, DePauw’s medical school hopefuls will receive peer-led instruction by senior students who themselves performed well on the test. The LaFollette Fund will make the course accessible to students with financial need by reducing the cost of the Kaplan-based curriculum – typically a few thousand dollars per student – and providing for related application seminars. “The LaFollettes’ gift is critical to our mission of preparing all our students for the full range of opportunities available to them after DePauw,” says Rajesh “Raj” Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning. “The new MCAT preparation program will help our pre-med students become desired applicants at the country’s top medical schools, and students who otherwise would have lacked the resources for this kind of course will now be able to compete on a level playing field for those limited openings.” Ev LaFollette says, “It is our goal for the LaFollette Fund gift to become the seed for creating a highly recognized pre-med program at DePauw

University.” Ev began thinking of ways to give back to her alma mater in recognition of her 50th reunion in June 2013, during which she served as class cochair. “I knew I wanted to give back to the University because my four years there were just what I needed in the early ’60s,” she says. “I was focused on having a family throughout my first several reunions, so it was not until after my 25th that a tug to thank DePauw for the many opportunities it afforded me began to resonate with me. As my 50th approached, I shared with Jim that I wanted to make a gift to celebrate my 50th anniversary of a place I love so much.” She and Jim, lifetime members of DePauw’s 1837 Loyalty Club and donors to the Tiger Club, spoke with the University about additional possibilities for giving. Of all the options, one that stood out was part of an envisioned overhaul of DePauw’s pre-med program. The University had offered a MCAT preparatory Winter Term once before and hoped to offer it again, but the cost of the course was prohibitive for many students, thus limiting enrollment. (Continued on page 36.)

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OLD GOLD – Oct. 12, 2013

BRET BAIER ’92 GAVE A TIMOTHY AND SHARON UBBEN LECTURE.

SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS MET WITH STUDENT RECIPIENTS AT THE WASHINGTON C. DEPAUW SOCIETY BREAKFAST.

FORTY FOOTBALL TEAM CAPTAINS AND OTHER FORMER PLAYERS RETURNED FOR DEDICATION OF DEPAUW’S NEW SYNTHETIC TURF AS NICK MOUROUZIS FIELD.

THE TAILGATE PARTY WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT HELPED BRING BACK TWICE AS MANY ALUMNI TO OLD GOLD 2013.

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JUDSON AND JOYCE (TAGLAUER ’75) GREEN ’74, IN CENTER, GAVE $15 MILLION TO ESTABLISH THE 21ST-CENTURY MUSICIAN INITIATIVE (21CM) IN THE DEPAUW UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC. PRESIDENT BRIAN W. CASEY IS AT LEFT, AND AT RIGHT IS D. MARK MCCOY, DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

Young Alumni Connect with Newest DePauw students This fall’s incoming students began their DePauw educations with an added perspective. For the first time at DePauw, New Student Orientation mentor groups included young alumni, who joined students for dinner to provide advice about their first full day on campus. The topic of discussion was how best to begin navigating a DePauw education and preparing for life and work after four fast years on campus. A total of 44 young alumni returned to campus to connect with members of the Class of 2017. Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07, now executive director of external affairs for the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, told of a candid conversation with students. McGrath said, “The students were particularly interested in the challenges I experienced as a student and how I overcame them. I think it’s important for students to know it’s all about the collective experience and that you’ll only regret what you didn’t do at DePauw as opposed to what you did. I challenged them to identify those fears early on and figure out a way to conquer them.” Emily M. Bell ’17 found the dialogue with Justin D. Weiner ’09 helpful on her first full day at DePauw. “We were all a bit shy and nervous as to whether this place would ever become our home. Justin assured us that DePauw would feel like home in a matter of two weeks, and he was right,” Bell said. “It was also another connection early on to reinforce that a DePauw education and alumni networking are truly something special.” Following the dinner conversations, the Class of 2017 heard an address from B. Kyle Kerrigan ’10, who began

connecting them to alumni as a resource for their personal and professional development. “I thought we were able to speak to the students at eye level,” Kerrigan said. “They’re peers who are separated from us by a few years. I thought I could motivate some of DePauw’s newest students to embrace an opportunistic mindset and a longterm outlook on their relationship with the University.” Kerrigan called for students to “show up” and take advantage of the many opportunities of a community-centered liberal arts experience. Emphasizing that DePauw means a lifelong relationship, Kerrigan told how the alumni network was the key factor in each of his three jobs since graduation. Kerrigan currently works for Kyle E. Lanham ’79 at Global GoodSource in Indianapolis. Young alumni engagement with new students promises to be an opening weekend tradition in the future. McGrath said, “I’m not sure who benefited more from this program – the alums or the students. A program like this makes you appreciate how closeknit the DePauw family is and how each year we only become stronger as a community.” It is a collaborative initiative among the Office of Alumni Engagement, Hubbard Center for Student Engagement and Division of Student Life. To learn more about opportunities to engage students and be involved at DePauw, visit www.depauw.edu/alumni.

Expanded Online Directory for Alumni and Student Networking DePauw is pursuing multiple initiatives to support the career development of students and young alumni. These efforts emphasize connection to the alumni network through on-campus, regional and online programs. Consistent with information and technology best practices at peer institutions, DePauw is expanding its secure, password-protected online directory to provide alumni and students with access to alumni business titles and email addresses. “Facilitating the connection between our alumni and students gives our graduates a distinct advantage,” said Steven J. Setchell, associate vice president for alumni engagement. “We are grateful for our alumni support and membership.” If you want your business title and email address to be unavailable through this secure, passwordprotected directory, you may “opt out” by contacting the Office of Alumni Engagement at alumnioffice@ depauw.edu or by calling 877-658-2586.

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DePauw Announces Virtual Alumni College Alumni now have the opportunity to “go back to school” with some of DePauw’s great professors. A Virtual Alumni College is now underway, offering faculty-led discussions through online webinars. “The Virtual Alumni College provides opportunities to participate directly in the intellectual experiences our students routinely enjoy. As a member of the DePauw Alumni Association, we want you to continue to benefit from this stimulation and discourse,” says J. Lawrence Stimpert, vice president for academic affairs. Recent and upcoming virtual Alumni College sessions are listed below. Please visit www.depauw.edu/alumni for more information. Virtual Alumni Colleges Webinars available through www.depauw.edu/alumni » Oct. 14, 8 p.m. ET Brett O’Bannon, professor of political science “Humanitarian Intervention” » Nov. 20, 8 p.m. ET May English Dixon, professor of economics and management “The Federal Reserve and its Historic Response to the Great Recession”

» Jan. 16, 8 p.m. ET D. Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music “Creativity: What it is, What it isn’t, and How to Make it Work for You” » Feb. 18, 8 p.m. ET John A. Dittmer, professor emeritus of history “Freedom Summer Revisited” » March 11, 8 p.m. ET Sharon M. Crary, Percy L. Julian Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry “A Global Health Crisis”

Save the date

ALUMNI COLLEGE The Pursuit of Happiness and Well-Being Friday, Feb. 7, 2014

Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort 5001 Coconut Road, Bonita Springs, Fla. Engage in conversation with some of DePauw’s great professors and distinguished alumni, including John M. Caraher, associate professor of physics and astronomy, “Petroleum, Plutonium, Photovoltaics and the Pursuit of Happiness;” Matthew J. Hertenstein, associate professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department, “The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are;” Douglas A. Smith ’68, former business leader who works to help individuals live and lead abundantly, “Happiness: Skills for Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy;” and Barbara J. Whitehead, professor of history, chair of the history department and coordinator of the European Studies Program, “History of Happiness.”

If you have questions or would like additional information, contact the DePauw Office of Alumni Engagement at 877-658-2586 or alumnioffice@depauw.edu.

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LaFollette gift

(Continued from page 33.) However, a permanent Winter Term course would be unquestionably valuable to students; the doctors in the LaFollette family knew that from experience. Both Jim and their son, Dr. Christopher P. LaFollette ’98, recalled the difficulty of studying for the MCAT in the middle of an already cramped spring semester. Ev and Jim decided that if DePauw continued the course, they would help keep it filled. “The idea of an endowment to enable pre-med students to take the preparatory class came into being, hopefully making their journey easier and more successful,” Ev says. “We think providing this class during Winter Term will allow students time to concentrate fully on the preparatory course, and we also hope our fund will provide for students who may not otherwise be able to afford the class.”

1935

Thomas N. Ewing Jr. celebrated his 100th birthday, Nov. 6, 2013. He is a retired psychology professor from University of Illinois. He was inducted into DePauw’s Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the 1933 football team that was unbeaten, untied and unscored-upon.

1942

David Z. Logan retired July 1, 2013, after 20 years in a second career in the admission department of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. He was the subject of the Fox News evening segment “What is right with Tampa Bay,” showing him at work at age 90. His first career was in retailing as operating manager of all New England stores of Jordan March Company and at Harvard Coop in Cambridge, Mass. He has traveled in more than 50 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. He has also traveled the United States to visit all 50 state capitol buildings. He would enjoy hearing from his classmates at dzlogan@gmail.com. (See photo.)

CLASS NOTES

The class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the University current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements: • Group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation and background information on the gathering. • Digital photos submitted must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher). Class notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also submit via the DePauw Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu. Please direct questions to Larry Anderson, senior editor, at 765-658-4628 or landersn@depauw.edu.

David Z. Logan ’42

1947

Dorothy Giles Dyer’s husband, Colin, passed away July 18, 2013. They were married 58 years. She lives at 6000 Riverside Drive, #B225, Dublin, OH 43017.

1953

Phillip C. Davis is author of Happening, a story of unbelievable occurrences in a human being’s life. As he deeply questions and defines what happened to him, he discovered it has happened to everyone he talked with! (See photo, page 38.) John W. Jakes received a Literary

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Legend Award at the Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writers Conference, September 2013. John will be executive producer as Discovery cable network develops a new miniseries based on his bestselling book trilogy, North and South.

1954

On April 20, 2013, four of DePauw’s 1954 alumni got together in Chicago at the Northwestern University Medical School 55th reunion of the Class of 1958. Attending were Alfred D. Biggs Jr., James M. Holland, Gene C. Laker and Kenneth O. Johnson. They enjoyed reminiscing about their medical school experiences and look

forward to returning to DePauw in 2014 for their 60th reunion. Those not attending the 55th reunion from the DePauw Class of 1954 included John W. Beabout, Kenrad E. Nelson and J. Loren Pitcher (dec.).

1956

Thomas J. and Ann (Luttrell ’57) Grant were in Palm Springs, Calif., for the 2013 Indian Wells Masters tennis tournament. They met with Janet Daniels Bell ’57. Ann and Janet are Alpha Chi sisters. (See photo.)

In July 2013, members of the Class of 1957 Pi Phis met in New York City for a reunion and celebration of the revival of Nancy Ford Charles and Gretchen Kiger Cryer’s musical, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road. The group saw the show, visited the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum, had lunch at the Russian Tea Room, lunch at the Last Leaf (in Fort Tryon Park), saw a performance of Jersey Boys and enjoyed a carriage ride through Central Park. (See photo.)

J. PATRICK AIKMAN ’57 is author of Memoirs of a Life, his first book, which includes 77 years of his life from his childhood in Dana, Ind., to time at DePauw, and later, to working at The Indianapolis Star. He was active in student organizations at DePauw from 1953-57, including editorship of the campus newspaper. He interviewed Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957 during a campus visit. In 1988 he joined The Indianapolis Star and was often in the media as director of the Indiana High School All-Star basketball series. To order a copy, contact Pat Aikman at 102 W. Poplar St., Greencastle, IN 46135 or order via email at pat.aikman@hotmail.com.

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Laurie (Hooton) and Donald L. Hamilton ’57 were on campus during Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 2013, to celebrate Laurie’s 55th reunion. They celebrated with son and daughterin-law, Mark B. and Elisabeth (Shorney) Hamilton, both ’88, who

Richard W. Peck’s latest book, The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, is a lively tale for 8-12-year-olds. He is author of more than 40 books for young adults and winner of numerous literary awards.

1957

Phillip C. Davis ’53 book, Happening

Ann Luttrell Grant and Thomas J. Luttrell ’56 were in Palm Springs, Calif., for the 2013 Indian Wells Masters tennis tournament. They met with Janet Daniels Bell ’57. Ann and Janet are Alpha Chi sisters. (See photo.)

Ann Luttrell Grant ’57, Thomas J. Grant ’56 and Janet Daniels Bell ’57 in Palm Springs, Calif.

Reunion of Pi Phis in New York City. Attending were Nancy Ford Charles ’57, Anne Jaudon Campbell ’57, Judie Roser Smith ’57, Mary Shauman Reiff ’57. Margaret “Peg” Steffen Sant’Ambrogio ’57 and Rosanne Miller Jacks ’57.

Laurie Hooton Hamilton ’58, Donald L. Hamilton ’57, Mark B. Hamilton ’88 and Elisabeth Shorney Hamilton ’88 on campus during Alumni Reunion Weekend June 2013.

were celebrating their 25th reunion. (See photo.)

1962

James R. Kuehl, Philip A. Schuman ’06, Philip N. Eskew Jr. ’63 and guest Brian Laver won the 13th Annual Wabash/ DePauw Alumni Golf Outing at Knollwood Country Club in Granger, Ind., Aug. 1, 2013. (See photo.) George C. Thornton III attempted to swim the 21 miles from southern England to northern France, July 2013. He was forced to abandon his effort halfway across the channel due to hypothermia. He was hoping to raise more than $20,000 for Team Fort Collins, an organization that fights substance abuse. George is professor emeritus of psychology at Colorado State University.

1963

Philip N. Eskew Jr., James R. Kuehl ’62, Philip A. Schuman ’06 and guest Brian Laver won the 13th Annual Wabash/ DePauw Alumni Golf Outing at Knollwood Country Club in Granger, Ind., Aug. 1, 2013. (See photo.)

Margaret “Molly” Titus Simon is author and illustrator of Colors of Hope, a first year’s journey with breast cancer. She is a cancer survivor of more than seven years. Molly is also author of Ring For Joy and Ring For Joy II, books about creating handbell choirs, which have been used by children in her church, by her grandchildren and senior citizens in nursing care facilities. (See photo.)

1964

James M. Callane is president of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Jim was inducted into DePauw’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.

1966

Sally Smerz Grooms Cowal is senior vice president of global health for the American Cancer Society. Sally is co-founder of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS in Switzerland and has served as United States ambassador to Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is president and chief executive officer of the notfor-profit Cuba Policy Foundation and Youth for Understanding International Exchange, the largest high school exchange program in the country. She has served on DePauw’s Board of Visitors. She is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

1967

Margaret “Molly” Titus Simon ’63 book, Colors of Hope

Three classes of DePauw’s Phi Gamma Delta enjoyed fellowship at a Wheaton Municipal Band concert in Wheaton, Ill., August. 2013. (See photo on page 40.)

James R. Kuehl ’62, Philip A. Schuman ’06 and Philip N. Eskew Jr. ’63 at the 13th Annual Wabash/DePauw Alumni Golf Outing at Knollwood Country Club.

CYNTHIA BATTS SUMMERS ’66 and three friends, early childhood educators and grandmothers of 22, wrote a book filled with ideas and suggestions they wish had been available when their grandchildren first arrived. The Grammie Guide: Activities and Answers for Grandparenting Today is a guide for “doing it right” with your grandchild. In addition, the authors respond to recent research that indicates old-fashioned, get-down-and-play activities are best for both grandmother and grandchild. The handbook includes indoor and outdoor activities for fun; music, books and art for infants to preschoolers; experts’ views about too much TV time; strategies for enhancing long-distance grandparenting; a chapter for grandpa; and more. Read more about The Grammie Guide at www.thegrammieguide.com. Published by Tell-A-Gram Publishing, the ISBN is 978-1-4675-4486-3. FRED N. WENDELBOE ’66 was inducted into the North Carolina Volleyball Hall of Fame, July 2013, in Winston-Salem. The surprise ceremony gathered friends, family and colleagues from across the country to honor an individual that has been promoting the sport of volleyball throughout North Carolina since 1978. Wendelboe was introduced to the sport while serving his country in Vietnam. He continued to play when he returned to the States, and he formed Triad Volleyball Club in WinstonSalem, which included North Carolina. In 1981 he lobbied USA Volleyball for the formation of the Carolina Region. In 1987 South Carolina split into its own region, and Wendelboe became the first commissioner. He served as president of the Carolina Region Board from 2008-12, and he now serves on the board of directors as pastpresident. He became the women’s volleyball head coach at Wake Forest University in 1981. He is an accomplished referee, receiving a national rating in 1983 and the Silver Whistle award from USA Volleyball as the best referee in his class. He received the Dr. Harold T. Friermood “Frier“ Award, the highest honor the USA Volleyball bestows.

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Members of DePauw’s Phi Gamma Delta at Wheaton (Ill.) Municipal Band concert. Those attending were Daniel T. Hickey ’15 (principal bass clarinetist), Wayne L. Nelson ’67, Garth K. Anderson ’09 (cornet), Craig R. Stokely ’67 and Leif I. Anderson ’15. Pointe, Mich. Sue’s email address is suewebb2@aol.com. (See photo.)

1971

Doug Frantz is assistant secretary for public affairs at the United States Department of State.

Sue A. Webb ’70 and Barry W. Dickson

1969

Theodore “Tim” M. Solso received the first biennial Mitch Daniels Leadership Prize, October 2013, in recognition of his leadership that dramatically advanced Indiana. Tim is a former member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees. He is former chairman and chief operating officer of Cummins Inc. Robert M. Steele, DePauw Distinguished Professor of Journalism Ethics, wrote the foreword for The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century.

1970

Sue A. Webb and Barry W. Dickson were married Aug. 2, 2013, in Detroit. Sue retired from Wayne State University after teaching nursing students for 40 years both at Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing. Barry owns B and P Electric Company. They live in Grosse

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Robert C. Kirk Jr. is head coach for the Columbus Academy Boys Division III track team in Gahanna, Ohio. The team won the 2013 Ohio High School State Championship, repeating its championship from 2012 for the school’s fourth state championship. Robert was inducted into DePauw’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.

1973

Cristine Boswell Marchand is interim executive director of Family Voices, a national nonprofit organization promoting familycentered health care for children and youth with special health care needs or disabilities. Timothy C. Mooney retired in May 2012 after 39 years of teaching. He taught instrumental and vocal music for 18 years in New Orleans and orchestra and piano for 21 years in Cobb County, Ga. He continues to perform with Atlanta Lyric Theatre and maintains a private cello studio in Marietta, Ga. Tim’s email address is drmoont@hotmail.com.

1975

Diane E. Phillis is president of Illumina Insights & Strategy LLC in Riverwoods, Ill. Diane enjoys traveling, keeping up with her golden

Diane E. Phillis ’75

Dr. James H. Jones ’76

retriever pup and playing traditional Irish music on her bodhran. Her email address is dphillis@ illuminainsights.com. (See photo.)

award given for achievement in tax problem resolution work by American Society of Tax Problem Solvers. (See photo.)

1976

Dr. Stephen N. Polezonis was honored as Optometrist of the Year by the Connecticut Association of Optometrists. He was recognized for his active participation on academic and legislative committees of the state association as well as for his service with Lions, including conducting eye screenings through Lions Eye Health Program and volunteering as chief clinician at CT Lions Community Eye Clinic.

Linda H. Heuring’s award-winning short story, “Whatever Will Do,” was published in the Summer 2013 issue of Clover, A Literary Rag. The print journal originates from the Independent Writers’ Studio in Bellingham, Wash. Kathleen Jefferis Cooper was elected to the board of trustees for Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital. She is a certified perioperative nurse and works as an interim operating room educator for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses as well as nursing education consultant and nurse planner for Lowcountry Area Health Education Center. She and her husband, Mike, live on Spring Island. Dr. James H. Jones is president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine and medical director of Wishard Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in Indianapolis. (See photo.) Members of DePauw’s 1976 class who lived in Rector Hall, third floor, south wing, met in Monterey, Calif., May 2013. (See photo.)

1977

Tom S. Ebbinghouse is an attorney with Ebbinghouse Law Group, LLC, in Indianapolis. He was the first attorney/practitioner in Indiana to receive the highest

Michael M. Thompson is specialty product manager at United Chemical Technologies in Bristol, Pa. He manages sales, marketing, production and research for Silane, Silicone and Platinum Catalyst product lines. He lives at 2137 Bartram Road, Bristol, PA 19007. His email address is mthompson@unitedchem.com.

1978

David M. Underwood is senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Heritage Enterprises, which provides residential and health care services for seniors throughout Illinois.

1979

Dr. Michel J. King is a director of Owen County State Bank in Spencer, Ind. He operates a dental practice in Bloomington, Ind. William J. Roess is vice president of corporate development for Technical Assurance Inc. in Willoughby, Ohio.

1980

Robert R. Millard is chief financial officer for GoHealth, a company that provides consumers with online tools to compare quotes for health insurance. Eunice Wadewitz is music director at Fort Wayne (Ind.) Civic Theatre. Leslie A. Wheelock is director of the Office of Tribal Relations for the United States Department of Agriculture. Leslie is a member of Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She serves on the board of directors of Oneida Total Integrated Enterprises as well as National Council and board of directors of Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and New York. She is founder of Georgetown Farmers Market and is active with Washington, D.C., Farmers Market Collaborative. (See photo.)

DaVita Dialysis in the St. Louis region. He and his wife, Susan Clift Gislason, live in Chesterfield, Mo. Penny Rutherford Sitler was recipient of the 2013 Women in AV Award from InfoComm International, the trade association representing professional audiovisual and information communications industries worldwide. Penny is advertising manager for Draper Shade & Screen Company.

1983

Laura Belfiglio Gold is a national board-certified teacher in Language Arts and Literacy. Christine Boland Holliday starred in and co-produced Be A Good Little Widow, a dark comedy, at Wild Project in New York, Sept. 12-22, 2013.

1981

Christopher “Shea” S. Nickell and Carolyn Watson were married Oct. 6, 2012, in Paducah, Ky. Luis R. Davila was groomsman. Shea serves on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He serves as interim music director at First Baptist Church of Paducah. Carolyn is partner with Pathology Associates of Paducah. She is music director and organist at Highland Baptist Church. Shea’s email address is sheanickell@gmail.com. (See photo.)

1982

J. David Gislason is regional operations director of hospital services for

Christopher S. Nickell ’81 and Carolyn Watson

Reunion of members of the 1976 class who lived in Rector Hall. Those attending included Susan Miner Cirigliano, Cynthia L. Vernon, Sarah P. MacDowall, Christine Hewlett Kinsey, Deborah Riefe Wilson, Barbara Little Hendrickson, Karen Sheperd Mozzo, Jaclyn Rose Manzoni, Donna Lockwood Benson, Margot Renne Payne and Cynthia A. Maritz.

On the day KIMBERLY E. SEDMAK graduated in 1980, Jane Pauley, co-host of the “Today” show with Tom Brokaw, received an honorary degree from DePauw. After the graduation ceremony, Sedmak returned to the stage and asked Pauley to autograph her commencement program. When Sedmak, a double major in communication and political science, announced that she, too, planned to go into broadcast journalism, she recalls Pauley laughing and saying, “Just don’t take my job.” Thirty years later, they’ve teamed up to produce the awardwinning series “Life Reimagined Today” bringing Pauley back to “Today” with Sedmak as executive producer of the series produced and sponsored by AARP. The monthly segments focus on Baby Boomers reinventing their lives in new and different ways. In its fourth year, “Today” has taken Pauley and Sedmak on location around the world to shoot stories. Pauley, Sedmak and their crew returned to Indianapolis on Aug. 27 to shoot the 34th segment featuring flight mechanics for Flying Eye Hospital, which travels to developing countries to bring eye care to people in need.

Tom S. Ebbinghouse ’77

Leslie A. Wheelock ’80

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David M. Findlay ’84

Thomas S. Lewis ’88

Michael J. Fisher Jr. is president and chief operating officer of Ball Brothers Foundation. He is a member of the board of directors of Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind.

1984

Robert “Rob” G. Harrell is an illustrator and cartoonist. He has written his first graphic novel, Monster on the Hill, which is set in a fantastical 1860s England where each town has its ferocious monster, except for one. Rob created the syndicated comic strip Big Top. He writes and draws the strip Adam@Home.

David M. Findlay is president and chief financial officer of Lakeland Financial Corporation and Lake City Bank. He will become chief executive officer in April 2014. (See photo.)

1985

Wendy Lund Warner received a master’s degree in counseling from Oakland University, August 2013. She is employed at Trinity Family Counseling Center in Shelby Township, Mich. She and her husband, Gary, and their two daughters, live in Rochester Hills. Wendy’s email address is wendy. warner@trinityfamilycounseling.com. Lori Spoon Rafkin is senior vice president of customer and broker engagement at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance.

1987

Seven DePauw alumni were among 100 business and community leaders with the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce participating in a Leadership Exchange to Cologne, Germany, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Indianapolis/Cologne Sister City relationship. The purpose of the trip was to explore similarities between the two cities, such as size, population and location of city assets. Cologne and Indianapolis also share comparable ideas and areas of economic development, especially in the automotive, life sciences and energy industries. The DePauw alumni included DENNIS E. BLAND ’87, LISA REYNOLDS SCHLEHUBER ’83, KEIRA A. AMSTUTZ ’91, MOLLY WILKINSON CHAVERS ’98, DENNIS A. TRINKLE ’91, JENNIFER POPE BAKER ’89 and DAVID B. LAWRENCE ’90. “And, of course, we had to take the photo as we all remembered taking “Marvin’s Delivers” photos all over the world when we were traveling as students at DePauw during Winter Term, spring break, semesters abroad, etc.,” Jennifer Pope Baker said. “We figured we couldn’t possibly be too old to want to eat a GCB and cheese fries on the steps of the Dome.”

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1991

David A. Morris is senior vice president for Colliers International in St. Louis. He is a 25-year industry veteran specializing in office and industrial leasing. He does classroom teaching for Junior Achievements and participates in Habitat for Humanity.

Leanna Hardin Walther is a member of the board of directors of Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Illinois. She is vice president of human resources operations at AbbVie, Inc., a global, researchbased biopharmaceutical company headquartered in North Chicago.

1992

Marc P. Sultzer joined the law firm of Frost Brown Todd LLC in Indianapolis. He works with clients in the areas of criminal and civil litigation. (See photo.)

1993

Rev. Timothy L. Knauff Jr. is senior pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in Valparaiso, Ind.

1994

Jean Gileno Lloyd and her husband, Christopher, announce the birth of their son, Cameron John, July 18, 2013. Cameron joins brother Joel James, 3, at their home in Carmel, Ind. Jean’s email address is jean.g.lloyd@gmail.com. Kevin M. Waltman is author of NEXT, his third young-adult novel. The book is first in a four-part series of novels about a high school basketball player in Indianapolis.

1988

Christine Isham Walsh is pastor and staff leader at Edwards Congregational United Church of Christ in Davenport, Iowa.

Jason P. Kreag is a visiting assistant professor at University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law.

Thomas S. Lewis is chief executive officer of SmartAction Company LLC, a leader in call automation. (See photo.)

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1989

Christopher W. McLoughlin is publisher of Rolling Stone.

1990

Scott D. Uddenberg was named a full-time lecturer at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill. He serves as professor of voice for the department of music and music director for theatre.

1997

Danica Rodemich Mathes was included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014. She is of counsel for Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP law firm in Dallas and specializes in entertainment law. (See photo.)

1999

Emily Bealke Parenteau is global communications leader for the coating materials business at The Dow Chemical Company. She and her husband, Ryan, have three children: Claire, 5; Oliver, 3; and Miriam, 1. They live in Villanova, Pa.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS Do you have a recent achievement or accomplishment to share? Perhaps you were promoted? Or finished graduate school? Whatever your accomplishment might be, we would love to include it in the magazine. Snap a photo (high-resolution, please) and send it to us with a description. Send photos to DePauw University, DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. Or email landersn@depauw.edu.

Marc P. Sultzer ’92

Danica Rodemich Mathes ’98

Kathleen Borysiak Toothaker was selected for the Michiana Forty Under 40 program. She is director of business development and marketing at Tango Design in South Bend, Ind.

Mark A. and Julie Egner Wilhjelm announce the birth of their son, Jack Kenneth, Oct. 23, 2012. Jack joins sister Olivia, 6, and brother Andrew, 4, at their home in Cincinnati. Mark’s email address is mawilhjelm@ gmail.com. Julie’s email address is julieegnerwilhjelm@gmail.com.

Kelly A. Conway is curator of American glass at Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y. She is a specialist in 19th and early 20th century American glass. Kelly lectures on the history of glass and serves on the board of directors of National American Glass Club. Edward M. Garnes Jr. contributed an essay to the anthology Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African American Community. He is adjunct professor of public speaking at Spelman College in Atlanta. Walter J. Lenckos was honored as one of Northwest Indiana’s top young leaders by inclusion in Leadership Northwest Indiana’s 33rd leadership class. Walter is superintendent of parks and recreation for Porter County, Ind.

2002

Heather Boody and Matthew P. Dinn announce the births of their daughters, Emma Adare, Aug. 13, 2012, and Clare Nichole, March 25, 2010. Matt is partner with Popcheff & Dinn, LLP, a family law firm in Indianapolis. Heather is art consultant with Public Art & Practice, LLC. They live in Indianapolis. Katherine Tapke McNeely is vice president at Fifth Third Bancorp. She is an enterprise risk programs and reporting manager.

2003

Michael J. Appelgate is assistant sports editor of Michigan’s Holland Sentinel.

2000

Elizabeth B. Hamilton and Jonathan Macy (Denison University) were married May 1, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Their daughter, Kaitlyn Elizabeth, was born Feb. 3, 2013. They live in Arlington, Va. (See photo.)

Susan Cromer Clements and her husband, Michael, announce the birth of their son, Robert James, June 21, 2013. Robert joins sister Addison, 3, at their home in Marietta, Ga. Susan’s email address is susanclements939@ gmail.com.

2001

Elizabeth Porter Larson and her husband, Robin, announce the birth of their daughter, Alexandra Anne, Sept. 4, 2013. They live in Batavia, Ill.

Aaron E. and Eileen Emison Booth live at 6200 Fisher Lane, Greendale, WI 53129. Aaron is marketing manager with CNH. Eileen is an artist and plays roller derby for Brew City Bruisers. Eileen’s roller derby name is Sorah Bones #1424. They have two children: Colette, 5, and Declan, 3.

Daniel M. Reck is managing editor of Jamboree Today news service. Every four years, the Boy Scouts of America assemble about 40,000

WILLIAM “BILL” E. SWARTZ ’90 and EILEEN WILLIAMS CHAMBERS ’91, DePauw School of Music alumni, got together to encourage Chicagoans to be like a “Blue Man” and enjoy Busstopulum, an interactive installation created by Bill, who is part of the creative team at New York-based Blue Man Productions. Eileen serves as vice president at Carol Fox & Associates, a Chicago-based marketing and public relations firm that promotes Blue Man Group Chicago and other Chicago area arts and entertainment events. Busstopulum is a modified bus shelter made of stainless steel, acetal, cast acrylic, PVC pipe and custom electronics. The installation provides members of the public with the opportunity to create their own soundtrack and light show while waiting for the bus.

Elizabeth B. Hamilton ’00 and Jonathan Macy wedding party. DePauw alumni attending included Ryan C. Palmer ’99, Erin L. Majka ’99, David A. Copple ’00, Olivia M. Castellini ’99, Lindsay Johnson Pak ’01, Scott M. Kalmus ’99, Sara N. Imhulse ’00, Anna Eidson Palmer ’99, Anne Becker Wierbicki ’99, Nancy Martin Podurgiel ’70 and Jennifer Raney Kalmus ’99.

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Leslie A. Dahlen ’04 and A. J. Bloom

Craig P. S. Snyder ’04 and Aubrey B. Smith

Kelly J. Patterson ’04 and Eric Stetler wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Stephanie L. Sladnick ’14 (cousin), Pamela L. Zdunek ’81 (aunt), Amy MacDoniels Rhodes ’04, Christopher V. Rhodes ’03, Kady Clevenger Becker ’04 (reader), Tyson C. N. Becker ’04, William M. Radostits ’80, Lauren Bohlander Kanaan ’04 (reader), Kathryn Jennings Radostits ’79, Aaron L. Drake ’04, Katherine McCrea Shaul ’04, Ashley Boling Molyneaux ’04, Wesley J. Molyneaux ’04, Georgianne Siepka Mastison ’04 (bridesmaid), Kassey J. McQuinn ’04 (reader), Emily Johnson Skeeters ’06, Bryce A. Skeeters ’04, Andrea Speller Kleymeyer ’06, Matthew J. Kleymeyer ’04, Katherine Gehring Erdel ’04 (greeter) and Blake L. Erdel ’04.

David A. Egger ’05 and Diana Cox wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Blake M. Bryan ’05 (best man), Sarah Myers Bryan ’06 and Robert L. Bruder ’05 (groomsman).

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Jessica Daniel Moore ’04

Dr. Peter G. Hogg ’05

scouts and venturers in one location for a celebration of scouting. Jamboree Today has been published at every jamboree since the first one in 1937, and it has been a traditional daily paper operating with a fully staffed newsroom. Daniel has been integral in making a transition from paper publishing to digital distribution and in building a website. Daniel is director of Web media for Northwestern University Bands.

Wendy M. Petzl and Joshua Thomas were married May 4, 2013, in Greenwood, Ind. She is now stepmother of three boys. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Heather Wildrick Holman ’04 and Natalie N. Seibert ’03. Wendy’s email address is wpetzl7@ yahoo.com.

2004

Leslie A. Dahlen and A. J. Bloom were married April 27, 2013, in Chicago. They live in Chicago. (See photo.) Jessica Daniel Moore was selected to participate in the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series in Indianapolis. She is immigrant outreach specialist for the Indianapolis Public Library. (See photo.) Sara S. Mummey was honored as 2013 Tippy Connect Top 10 Under 40 Award winner, June 2013. The award is presented by Tippy Connect Young Professionals and Greater Lafayette Commerce, and it recognizes 10 outstanding young professionals in Tippecanoe County, Ind. Kelly J. Patterson and Eric Stetler (University of Wisconsin) were married Oct. 13, 2012, in Naperville, Ill. Kelly is a media director at Spark Communications in Chicago. Eric is an investment banker at R.W. Baird in Chicago. Kelly’s email address is kellyjstetler@gmail.com. (See photo.)

Craig P. S. Snyder and Aubrey B. Smith (Butler University) were married Sept. 29, 2012, in Indianapolis. Craig is brewing supervisor for Samuel Adams in Cincinnati. Aubrey is employed by Dow in Indianapolis. They plan to live in West Chester, Ohio. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Philip D. Snyder ’73, Judith Stone Snyder ’74, Kristin Snyder Himsel ’02, Cynthia DeWitt Chapman ’74, Erin C. Andrade ’08, David M. Trogden ’04, Casey Brackney Trogden ’04, Patrick J. McGrew ’04, Jaclyn Blackwell McGrew ’05, Colin P. O’Flaherty ’04, Joshua A. Greulich ’04, Daniel B. Matuszewski ’04, Robert L. Bruder ’05, Brian E. Power ’03, Adam W. Czerwinski ’03, Andrew D. Falkenstein ’03, Matthew S. Mooney ’05 and Katy Quirk Teats ’05. (See photo.) John L. Stanley and his wife, Lisa, announce the birth of their daughter, Isla Mae, Aug. 30, 2013. John has worked at the Chicago law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP for six years and was promoted to director of office administration for the firm’s 14 offices. John’s email address is jlstanley82@gmail.com.

John A. Wallace was a 2013 recipient of an Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant. The grant allowed him to travel to Antarctica for two weeks to study climate change and biology. He is critical care district manager with Cook Medical. He and his wife, Lisa Hamilton Wallace ’06, live in Indianapolis.

2005

David A. Egger and Diana Cox (Butler University) were married June 2, 2013, in the gardens of Musee Rodin in Paris, France. David is a lead marketing manager with AT&T. He serves as chapter adviser to Sigma Alpha Epsilon at DePauw. Diana is a grants and database administrator with The Julian Center. They live in Indianapolis. David’s email address is davidegger@me.com. (See photo.) Nicholas D. Gaffney is an associate with Evansville, Ind., law firm of Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders, LLP. He specializes in tax law, estate and gift tax planning, and business succession planning. Dr. Peter G. Hogg won the USA Track & Field 100-mile trail running national championship, July 2013, at the Burning River 100 in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. He surpassed all former records at the seventh annual race. Peter is an orthopaedic surgery resident at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. (See photo.) James M. McQuiston defended his dissertation, “Social capital in the production gap: social networking services and their transformative role in civic engagement,” May 2013. He earned his doctoral degree in political science, August 2013. He is teaching at Kent State University. His email address is editor@neufutur.com. Peter E. Ohs and his wife, Andrea L. Sisson, were listed in the 16th edition of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. They were cited for their experimental documentary, I Send You This Place, a memoir and a work of travel journalism. N. Evan Shook and his wife, Lauren, announce the birth of their daughter, Fiona Warren, Dec. 20, 2012.

2006

David C. Bausman is program manager for policy and regulatory affairs with the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. Daniel P. Bretscher and Kathryn L. Gernand ’08 were married Dec. 29, 2012, in Greencastle, Ind. (See photo on page 46.) Peter H. Curts is teaching pastor at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Floyd County, Ind. Peter serves on the Strategic Planning Committee for the Indiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Alexander B. Penning and Allison Baccich ’07 were married Oct. 15, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (See photo.) Philip A. Schuman ’06, James R. Kuehl ’62 and Philip N. Eskew Jr. ’63 and guest Brian Laver won the 13th Annual Wabash/DePauw Alumni Golf Outing at Knollwood Country Club in Granger, Ind., Aug. 1, 2013. (See photo on page 39.)

2007

Allison Baccich and Alexander B. Penning ’06 were married Oct. 15, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (See photo.) Courtney E. Fischer is a freelance reporter for WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. Peter J. Lazaroff was among the St. Louis Business Journal’s “30 Under 30.” He is a chartered financial analyst at Acropolis Investment Management as well as founder of the firm’s blog and editor of its newsletter. Kendall R. Schumacher graduated, June 2013, from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine. He plans to practice general dentistry in east-central Florida.

2008

Kathryn L. Gernand and Daniel P. Bretscher ’06 were married Dec. 29, 2012, in Greencastle, Ind. (See photo.)  Alicia Keck Wilson graduated with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic

Allison Baccich ’07 and Alexander B. Penning ’06 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Brett A. Bohlander ’06, Laura Page Bohlander ’06, Anthony M. Williams ’05, Kaitlin E. Thomure ’08, Meghan E. Murphy ’07, Kristyn Currier Klear ’06, Lowell M. Huffman ’06, Christian L. Cullen ’06, Bryan D. Cuculich ’05, Lindsay Tato Cuculich ’05, Jonathan C. Bostrom ’06, Jennifer Jessen Bostrom ’07, Lesley Sisler Welch ’07, Michael R. Klear ’06, Matthew R. Kapfhammer ’05, Andrew D. Gagle ’05, Sean M. Teska ’08, Sarah K. Gagle ’07, Scott T. Sadowski ’06, Andrew S. La Casse ’08, Melissa Walpole Mattingly ’07, Courtney E. Fischer ’07, Keith A. Schonberger ’07, Elizabeth Hecker Hartman ’07, Christopher C. D. Sprehe ’07, David J. Wildt ’06, David M. Araiza ’07, Brian S. Gooch ’06, Christopher H. Thiele ’06, William H. Metzinger IV ’06, Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07, Kyle P. McGrath ’05, Emily Waterman Teska ’07, Mark A. Gonzales ’06, Zachary C. Harris ’06, Katie Lewis Murphy ’04, Rebecca J. Gaines ’07, Karyn A. Keenan ’08, Forrest R. Johnson ’07, Kathryn Deppe Truka ’07 and Anne Sturgis Parish ’07.

JOHN R. CHITTUM ’08 received a FulbrightHayes Grant to study in Stockholm, Sweden, during the 2013-14 academic year. His research will include interviewing Swedish death metal bands about political ideologies in their music. He will use the research to write a full-length political opera to be finished by June 2014, and he will present a world premiere of his piece, All Things are Not Equal, in Buffalo, N.Y., June 3-9, 2014. He will present new research in the field of analysis of interactive multimedia at the Electroacoustic Musical Studies conference in Lisbon, Portugal. John’s first opera, Cake, will be performed by Intimate Opera of Indianapolis, Nov. 29-30 and Dec. 6-7, 2013. His second opera, Till Coffee Do Us Part, was produced by Black House Collective and the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance in Kansas City, Mo. John is University of Missouri Kansas City’s Chancellor’s Research Fellow for 2012-13 as well as a Kansas City Kansas Community College adjunct lecturer of music and audio engineering.

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Medicine from Des Moines University, May 2013. She started her pediatric residency at University of Toledo, July 2013. Karl R. Koehler is co-author of research published by Nature, the international weekly journal of science. Karl is a doctoral student in the Medical Neuroscience Graduate Program at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Sarah K. McClamroch and Brian J. Sullivan V were married June 9, 2012, in Indianapolis. (See photo.) Samuel S. Rund is one of the lead authors of research published in Scientific Reports. The study is an integrative approach to examine the mosquito’s ability to smell across the 24-hour day. Sam is doctoral degree candidate at University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health.

2009

Three classes of DePauw’s Phi Gamma Delta enjoyed fellowship at a Wheaton Municipal Band concert in Wheaton, Ill., August 2013. (See photo on page 40.) Troy A. Montigney is manager of political affairs and member activation for the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He is responsible for leading fundraising efforts for the Chamber’s Business Advocacy Committee PAC and engaging membership in grassroots initiatives in state and municipal government.

2010

Margaret A. Sutherlin is editorial assistant at Footwear News. Margaret received a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in May 2013.

2011

Kathryn L. Gernand ’08 and Daniel P. Bretscher ’06 wedding party. DePauw alumni and friends attending the wedding included Alison A. Case ’09, Lauren Auld Capozza ’08 (bridesmaid), Lauren A. Hill ’08, Mary M. Bretscher (DePauw associate athletics director, associate professor of kinesiology and mother of the groom), Luke P. Bretscher ’12 (usher), Dusty L. Kime ’08, Luke C. Beasley ’10 (groomsman) and Kori Stoffregen (DePauw head men’s and women’s track and cross country coach and part-time instructor in kinesiology).

Joanna G. Edwards began her first year of medical school at Medical School for International Health (MSIH), a collaboration between BenGuiron University of the Negev and Columbia University Medical Center. Located in Beer-sheva, Israel, medical students spend the first three years in Israel, and then return to New York to take their fourth-year electives at Columbia University Medical Center and its affiliates and other medical institutions in the United States and Canada. Andrew C. Richardson is a doctoral student at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Seth J. Tsui was co-winner of the inaugural Film Scoring Competition for Emerging Composers, June 17, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

Sarah K. McClamroch ’08 and Brian J. Sullivan V ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Rebecca Reasner Cleveland ’77, Elyse Fisher Cisler ’08, Tory W. Key ’08, Leah S. Burkhardt ’08, Jesse L. Groh ’08, Jill E. Schneider ’08, Mark A. Fuller IV ’08, Cody J. Shoemaker ’08, Marjorie R. Nyhart ’11, Lindsey Anderson Berlin ’08, Laura E. Ferguson ’09, Anne Sturgis Parish ’07, John J. Dillon III ’82, W. Tobin McClamroch ’77, Carolyn Kubec McClamroch ’79, Jessie A. Searles ’10, Patrick J. Cisler ’08, Thomas S. Corbett ’07, Betsy Brick Corbett ’08, Whitney D. Sewell ’08, Peter W. Barre ’08, Calvin B. Sullivan ’13, Alexander M. Berlin ’08, Anne Stephens Spilbeler ’08, Katie Gobel Buchler ’08, Lucas T. Buchler ’09, Anne Trudgen Dillon ’81, Joseph G. Baker ’08, Kaitlin E. Thomure ’08, Leia D. Welsh ’08, Adam R. Ford ’08, Alison J. Rose ’08, John H. Tschantz ’08, Sarah Plymate Lofton ’06, Jacqueline K. Pence ’08, Benjamin W. Baenen ’08, Erin D. Faulk ’08, William T. McClamroch Jr. ’16, Greta Krucks Montagano ’08, Christopher P. Montagano ’08, Sarah Schultheis Moore ’08, Jason A. Spilbeler ’07, David C. Moore ’09, Brett A. McGrath ’08 and Scott F. Sauer ’08.

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Meghan R. Wolfgram established the Lure Course Brevard at Wickham Park in Melbourne, Fla., now Melbourne-based Swift Paws Central Florida. Lure chasing allows dogs to be exercised as they chase lures, small plastic bags or a toy, moved by the action of a motor and pulleys. Meghan did a tour of organizations and events along the East Coast and into Canada, where Swift Paws was demonstrated.

Morgan M. Hooks ’12

2012

Morgan M. Hooks is one of 51 Fellows selected for the 2013 W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship. She will receive a $30,000 stipend to complete a special intensive master’s degree program. She plans to take her fellowship at University of Michigan and then she has committed to teach for at least three years in a high-need urban or rural school in the state of Michigan. (See photo.) Anthony E. Navarrete is a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia, where he is an English language improvement adviser in Mizan Teferi. Sarah E. Anderson is a community outreach volunteer for the Peace Corps in Zambia. She focuses on projects concerning at-risk children or youth, adult literacy, health and HIV/Aids, environmental awareness and information technology. Brianna M. Dennison is site director for Sierra Service Project in Stockton, Calif. Kaitlin F. Klose was awarded a summer internship by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. She was a Live Event Production intern and worked for Creative Arts Emmys/Primetime Emmys. Ellen C. Kobe is communications coordinator for the Society of Professional Journalists.

DePauw Magazine marks the passing of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of DePauw University. Obituaries in DePauw Magazine do not include memorial gifts. When reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible: name of the deceased, class year, fraternity/sorority/ living unit, occupation and DePauw-related activities and relatives. Newspaper obituaries are very helpful. Information should be sent to Alumni Records, DePauw University, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email stuggle@depauw.edu.

IN MEMORIAM

1935

Elizabeth Scipio Fisher, Sept. 20, 2013, of Worthington, Ohio, at the age of 98. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a son, Alan W. Fisher ’61. Charles A. Stevenson, Sept. 1, 2013, of Walsenburg, Colo., at the age of 99. He was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar and retired technical director of Curtice-Burns Inc. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1937

Mary Longpre Scott, July 28, 2013, of Hinsdale, Ill., at the age of 98. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband and second husband, John R. Scott ’40. Wendell K. Simpson, March 18, 2013, of York Beach, Maine, at the age of 98. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar and retired vice president of administration from American Counsel of Life Insurance. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Karen Simpson Young ’68. Survivors include his wife and son, Stewart K. Simpson ’78.

1938

Forst D. Fuller, July 6, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 97. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and retired DePauw professor emeritus of physics. He was preceded in death by his first wife; his second wife, Leota Mullins Haines Fuller ’38; and stepson, R. Philip Haines ’60. Survivors include daughters, Lucinda Fuller Guevara ’64 and Melinda Fuller Mayhall ’60;

son-in-law, John T. Mayhall ’56; and stepson, David W. Haines ’64. Mary Gibson Gibson, Aug. 9, 2013, of Brockton, Mass., at the age of 97. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. James B. Haman, Aug. 29, 2013, in Rabun Gap, Ga., at the age of 97. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar and professor emeritus of English at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1939

Richard D. Geckler, Sept. 2, 2013, of La Jolla, Calif., at the age of 94. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar, chemical engineer and owner of Geckler Industries. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1940

Victor B. Lawhead, June 11, 2013, in Muncie, Ind., at the age of 94. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and retired emeritus dean of undergraduate programs and professor of higher education at Ball State University. Survivors include his wife.

1941

Dorothy Kline Lee, July 12, 2011, of Penney Farms, Fla., at the age of 91. She was a retired musician. She was preceded in death by her husband. Stephen M. Olin, Dec. 13, 2012, of Flat Rock, N.C., at the age of 92. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, Rector Scholar and retired chemist at Ayerst Laboratories Inc. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Lois Saunders Olin ’43. Survivors include his wife.

1942

Peggy Bridges Naus, Aug. 1, 2013, in South Bend, Ind., at the age of 92. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, James H. Naus Jr. ’42. Theodore A. Groenke, May 23, 2013, in Green Valley, Ariz., at the age of 92. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his brother, John H. Groenke ’47. Survivors include his wife and sister, Barbara Groenke Manning ’50. John K. McAllister, July 24, 2013, of Melbourne, Fla., at the age of 92. He was a member of Sigma Chi and library director. He was preceded in death by his wife. Jean Montgomery Hughes, Aug. 14, 2013, of Pompano Beach, Fla., at the age of 92. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Virginia Perry Lloyd High, July 21, 2013, of Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 93. She was a member of Delta Zeta, homemaker and retired from Fort Wayne National Bank in 1989 after 20 years of service. She was preceded in death by her husband. Ann J. Smilanic, Jan. 11, 2013, of Mount Prospect, Ill., at the age of 93. She was an analyst for Commonwealth Edison Company in Chicago and community volunteer.

1943

Bernard J. Flood, July 2, 2013, of Brevard, N.C., at the age of 91. He was a member of Sigma Nu and retired president of Hyde Park Development Company. He was preceded in death by his wife, Bobbie Owens Flood ’42. James M. Houck, July 26, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 91. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his mother, Norris McPherson Houck ’19. Survivors include his wife, Helen Jome Houck ’43. John F. McConnell, Aug. 31, 2013,

of Worthington, Ohio, at the age of 93. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and retired vice president for Motorist Mutual Insurance Company. He was preceded in death by his first and second wives, and sister, F. Anne McConnell Wright ’43. Robert J. Muncie, Dec. 23, 2012, of San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 92. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, retired United States Air Force colonel and retired manager of Healthcare Prescription SUCS. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert H. Muncie ’17, and his first and second wives. Eleanor Oswald Foster, July 20, 2013, of Monrovia, Calif. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1944

Shirley A. Moses, July 9, 2013, of Alum Creek, W.Va., at the age of 91. She traveled internationally with the Girl Scout organization helping to establish Girl Scout troops in more than 15 countries. She retired as executive director of Black Diamond Girl Scout Council in Charleston, W.Va. Dr. William H. Poggemeier Jr., Sept. 5, 2013, of Saint Charles, Mo., at the age of 89. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar and physician. Survivors include his wife; son, David A. Poggemeier ’79; and daughter, Jean Poggemeier Ehlmann ’82.

1945

Robert D. Barendsen, Nov. 13, 2012, in Silver Spring, Md., at the age of 89, from a stroke. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar, author of books, articles and reviews relating to China and Japan, and worked with United States Department of Education as a specialist for Far Eastern countries. Survivors include his wife. Jane Robertson Paetz, Aug. 31, 2013, of Rockford, Ill., at the age of 90. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband; mother, Eva Morrish Robertson, Class of 1915; aunt, Mary Robison Morrish, Class of 1913; and uncle, Charles H. Morrish, Class of 1912.

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Robert C. Vanderham, May 26, 2013, of Holland, Mich., at the age of 91. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and retired college professor and social worker. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marion Stiles Vanderham ’44.

1946

Emory G. Simmons, June 3, 2013, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 93, from cancer. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and retired head of the Mycology Lab at United States Army Natick Laboratories in Massachusetts. Guy M. Walker II, Aug. 1, 2013, of Ocean Springs, Miss., at the age of 89. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and attorney. He was preceded in death by his father, Ray M. Walker, ’14; mother, Marian Tippy Walker ’20; brother, Merle R. Walker II ’44; sister, Zella W. Walker ’44; and cousins, F. H. Nibs Walker ’50 and Guy M. Binx Walker ’44. Survivors include his wife; son, Wendell R. Walker ’77; and cousin, Bruce Walker ’53. Katherine Wright Pickert, June 16, 2013, of Los Altos, Calif., at the age of 88. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

1947

Barbara Boydston Johnson, Aug. 18, 2013, of Austin, Texas, at the age of 87. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, homemaker and co-founder, teacher and administrator of Kingsway Missionary Institute. She was preceded in death by her husband. F. LaVerne Riley, Sept. 9, 2013, of Tallahassee, Fla., at the age of 94. He had a career in the music service business. Survivors include his wife, Ruth Fosket Riley ’47. V. Joan Spencer Heaton, June 12, 2013, of Tipton, Ind., at the age of 88. She was self-employed as owner, manager, secretary and treasurer of Title Guaranty and Abstract Company, Inc. She was preceded in death by her husband, Loren J. Heaton ’49. Survivors include her daughter, Kathryn Heaton Benjamin ’75, and son, James J. Heaton ’78.

1948

E. Jeanne Pitkin Masterson, May 31, 2013,

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of Gosport, Ind. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and high school teacher. She was preceded in death by her father, McKendree C. Pitkin ’17; uncles, Edward M. Pitkin ’14, William A. Pitkin ’22, and Dwight L. Pitkin ’25; and aunts, Ruth Pitkin Zimmer ’25 and Mary VanArsdel Pitkin ’16. Alice Rauch Jacobson, Aug. 22, 2013, of Traverse City, Mich. She was an artist and junior high school art teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1949

R. Daniel McMichael, Sept. 23, 2013, of Pittsburgh, at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, secretary of Pittsburgh philanthropies and writer. Survivors include his daughter, Marcia McMichael Miller ’78. Marian Smith Carter, June 24, 2013, of Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Thomas E. Carter ’50. Cyndalu Stivers Piquette, July 28, 2013, of Akron, Ohio, at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Alfred Piquette ’50. Jerry F. Weaver, Aug. 13, 2013, of San Diego, at the age of 92. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Rector Scholar and sales representative for Eli Lilly and Company. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Scudder Weaver ’49.

1950

Bruce E. Baiden, June 4, 2013, of Saint Petersburg, Fla., at the age of 86. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and business owner. Survivors include his wife, Gloria Plasket Baiden ’50. Roland E. Koenig, June 17, 2013, of Madison, Wis., at the age of 86. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and retired store manager of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Blackwell Koenig ’50. Survivors include his daughters, Elizabeth Koenig Demmings ’75 and Susan Koenig Brucks ’79; sons, William B.

Koenig ’77 and Mark R. Koenig ’86; granddaughters, Sarah Brucks Pluth ’07 and Amy E. Doan; son-in-law, Matthew L. Demmings ’91; and grandson-in-law, Ryan R. Pluth ’08.

the age of 84. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and officer for the City-County of San Francisco. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane Dinkins Dickinson ’51.

James A. Rice, June 17, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 85. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and had a career in banking. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Reed P. Rice ’52 and Robert C. Rice ’46. Survivors include his wife and brother, T. Brooks Rice ’49.

Joan Kaniewski Mull, June 4, 2013, of Sun City, Ariz., at the age of 83. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, John C. Mull ’52; son, David J. Mull ’79; and daughter, Mindy Mull Bostick ’80.

Dr. John J. Rick. June 23, 2013, of Nashville, Tenn., at the age of 86. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and physician. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Payne Rick ’50. James R. Williams, Sept. 7, 2012, of San Diego, at the age of 84. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, lifetime partner of The Washington C. DePauw Society, and owner and president of Kearny Mesa Toyota automobile dealership in San Diego. Survivors include his wife.

1951

Karl G. Anderson Jr., June 25, 2013, of Garland, Texas, at the age of 84. He was a member of Delta Chi and had a career in the toy industry. Survivors include his wife. John W. Schlotz, May 27, 2013, of St. Louis, at the age of 83. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and worked in advertising sales for Time magazine. Survivors include a son, William J. Schlotz ’80, and daughter-in-law, Kimberly Brodersen Schlotz ’80.

1952

John E. Beesley, Aug. 25, 2013, of Monterey, Calif., at the age of 82. He was a member of Delta Chi and had a lifelong career in insurance sales. He was preceded in death by his wife; father, Joseph L. Beesley ’26; nephew, John B. Beesley ’79; and cousins, Clyde M. Biddinger ’50 and Robert W. Biddinger ’50. Survivors include his brother, Lester E. Beesley ’50, and nephew, Joseph L. Beesley II ’78. Donald W. Dickinson Sr., June 9, 2013, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., at

Mary Obear MacDougall, July 1, 2013, Greenville, Mich., at the age of 83. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, James H. Obear ’27, and mother, Mary Morrison Obear ’27. Survivors include her husband; daughters, Susan MacDougall Coleman ’78 and Allison MacDougall Hamrin ’88; son, W. James MacDougall ’91; and sister, Patricia Obear Roush ’56. David C. Pratt, Aug. 8, 2013, of Haverhill, Mass., at the age of 82, from Parkinson’s disease. He had a career in the insurance business. He was preceded in death by his wife. Rodman L. Underwood, July 1, 2013, of Daytona Beach, Fla., at the age of 83. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and social services administrator with the federal government. Survivors include his wife.

1953

Joan Afflech Ryan, May 29, 2013, of Long Beach, Calif., at the age of 82. She was an elementary school teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband. Carole Boardway Murray, Sept. 21, 2013, of Dublin, Ohio, at the age of 81. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. James K. Baker, July 24, 2013, of Columbus, Ind., at the age of 81. He was a member of Sigma Chi and lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. He spent his career with Arvin Industries, serving as general manager and, later, chief executive officer and president. In 1986 he became chairman of the

board. He was a member of many boards including Indiana National Bank, PSI Resources, NBD First Chicago, Cinergy Corporation and Veridian Space Industries International. He served as trustee of DePauw from 1979 to 2006. He was the 1991 DePauw commencement speaker. DePauw honored him with the Old Gold Goblet in 1991 and Alumni Citation in 1972 as well as an honorary degree. He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Willard A. Metcalf ’48. Survivors include his wife, Beverly Baker Baker ’59; daughter, Betsy Baker Laskey ’83; son, Dirk E. Baker ’84; sister, Marilyn Baker Metcalf ’48; son-in-law, Thomas P. Laskey Jr. ’83; and daughter-in-law, Katherine Sparenberger Baker ’84. Maralyn Fletcher Burton, July 14, 2013, in Fishers, Ind., at the age of 82. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband, Robert T. Burton ’53. Wallace E. King, Dec. 16, 2011, of Honolulu, at the age of 80. He was a member of Sigma Nu and retired radio and television announcer. Survivors include his wife. Ralph E. Lowe, May 20, 2013, of Batavia, Ill., at the age of 81. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and attorney. Survivors include his wife.

1954

Bernard F. Slanec, July 9, 2013, of La Grange Park, Ill., at the age of 81. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and businessman. Survivors include his wife; brother, Glenn J. Slanec ’57; and sister-in-law, Alice Jones Slanec ’56. Frank J. Tolford Jr., June 12, 2013, of Evanston, Ill., at the age of 81. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and worked in graphic arts. Survivors include his wife.

1955

Lona Beck Robertson, Aug. 19, 2012, of Coloma, Wis., at the age of 79. She was a member of Alpha Pi and retired technical writer for IBM. Joann Decker Burand, Aug. 28, 2013, of Anderson, Ind., at the age of 80. She was a member of Alpha Chi

Omega, elementary school teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Jerry M. Burand ’55, and daughter, Deborah K. Burand ’80. Wayne E. Jones, May 30, 2013, of Elmhurst, Ill., at the age of 80, of Parkinson’s disease. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and selfemployed musician. He was preceded in death by his mother, Olga Eberly Jones ’25. Survivors include his wife.

1956

Richard R. Brant, May 19, 2013, of Leland, Mich., at the age of 79. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and retired market development manager for Illinois Tool Works, Inc. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Kristen Brant Hawkins ’79. Survivors include his wife; sons, Mark A. Brant ’82 and Eric R. Brant ’87; and daughter-in-law, Kimberly Braasch Brant ’86. Joann Dannheiser Olson, July 25, 2013, of Hamilton, Ohio, at the age of 79. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, librarian and head of the Art and Architecture library at Miami University. She was preceded in death by her husband. Stanley E. Mutti, July 10, 2013, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 78. He was a member of Delta Chi and a French and mathematics teacher at John Adams High School from 1958-93. John L. Rikhoff, Aug. 13, 2013, of Eugene, Ore., at the age of 78. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and co-owner of Walck-Rikhoff Bookpeddlers. Survivors include his wife, Karen Knutson Rikhoff ’56, and son, Jeffrey J. Rikhoff ’80. James L. Veatch, June 3, 2013, in Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 79. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Rector Scholar and research pharmacist. He was preceded in death by his father, Dolph M. Veatch ’29. Survivors include his wife and brother, Dolph M. Veatch II ’53.

1957

Beverly Bryan Wirsching, May 7, 2013, of River Forest, Ill. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and retired

executive secretary. Survivors include her husband. Jane Christensen Soper, July 27, 2013, of Bozeman, Mont., at the age of 78, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was a member of Alpha Phi, teacher, federal government employee and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Robert G. Soper ’55; sister, Joanne Christensen Hood ’53; and brother-in-law, David E. Hood ’55. Charles B. Fisk, Aug. 9, 2013, of Grand Rapids, Mich., at the age of 78. He worked in the insurance business. He was preceded in death by a brother, Richard D. Fisk ’61. Survivors include his wife. Graves F. Ray, Aug. 25, 2013, in Ithaca, N.Y., at the age of 78, from cancer. He taught history at State University of New York at Cortland and retired as an associate professor emeritus. Survivors include his wife.

1958

Roberta Gates Hill, July 17, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 77, from cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Richard T. Hill Jr. ’58; sister, Patricia Gates Younger ’63; and brother-in-law, Dorn W. Younger ’64. Sarah Gregory Phillips, Sept. 1, 2013, of Lake Oswego, Ore., at the age of 76. She was a member of Delta Zeta, high school teacher, artist and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, John C. Gregory ’29, and mother, Delitha Swadener Gregory ’30. Survivors include her husband; sister, Judith Gregory Western ’62; and brother-in-law, Loren J. Western ’62. James E. Hannah, June 28, 2013, in Manhattan, N.Y., at the age of 76. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Rector Scholar and program manager at IBM. Survivors include his wife, Carol Combs Hannah ’59. Sara McSherry Powers, Feb. 6, 2013, of Richardson, Texas, at the age of 76. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and production editor for Electrospace, Texas Instruments and Raytheon. Survivors include her companion.

Permilla Smith Brawley, Aug. 22, 2013, of Baltimore, at the age of 77, from cancer. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, elementary school teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

1959

Gayle L. Byers, Aug. 4, 2013, of Brazil, Ind., at the age of 75. He was a member of Delta Chi, taught music in Ohio and Indiana, worked in the insurance business and owned a consulting firm. Survivors include his wife. Rev. Ronald H. Dixon, June 26, 2013, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 75. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and minister of the United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife. C. Brooks Dodson, Sept. 15, 2013, of Green Bay, Wis., at the age of 76, from complications following open heart surgery. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Rector Scholar and retired professor of University of North Carolina. Survivors include his wife. William R. Prosser, Sept. 23, 2013, at the age of 76, while photographing and enjoying the scenery, people and culture of China. At his 50th DePauw reunion, he received the Community Leadership Award. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Ann Phillips Prosser ’60. Rev. Max A. Tudor, Oct. 24, 2012, of Zionsville, Ind., at the age of 75. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and minister. Survivors include his wife.

1960

Barbara Nelson Bracey, June 24, 2013, of Los Gatos, Calif., at the age of 74. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, homemaker and retired consultant. Survivors include her husband, H. Dale Bracey ’57.

1961

David W. Clifford, Aug. 7, 2013, of Columbia, Mo., at the age of 73. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and pilot for Delta Airlines. Survivors include his wife, Jean McCalister Clifford ’60, and daughter, Elizabeth Clifford Oursler ’88.

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John W. Firth Jr., July 1, 2013, of Roselle, Ill., at the age of 74. He was a member of Delta Chi and small business owner. Survivors include his wife. David L. Rickard, May 14, 2013, of Little Rock, Ark., at the age of 94. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, Rector Scholar, and financial consultant and fundraiser. Survivors include his wife. Robert L. Westfall, June 15, 2013, of Cocoa, Fla., at the age of 73. He was a retired aerospace engineer for Boeing. Survivors include his wife.

1962

Kathleen A. Reynolds, Aug. 13, 2013, in New York City, at the age of 73. She retired as assistant commissioner for special projects for City of New York Real Estate.

1964

Robert J. Ahern, June 21, 2013, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 71. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and partner in Andersen Consulting. Survivors include his wife. Alan H. Black, June 28, 2013, in Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 72. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, research psychologist, high school teacher and senior pastor at County Line Church of God in Auburn, Ind. Survivors include his wife, Mary Gerig Black ’63. William L. Trego, Oct. 13, 2012, of Orlando, Fla., at the age of 69. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and accountant. Survivors include his wife.

1966

Thomas G. Threlkeld, June 14, 2013, of Boston, at the age of 68, from complications of acute myeloid leukemia. He was an education specialist with the federal government. Survivors include his companion.

1967

Jon N. Willcox, June 5, 2013, in White Plains, N.Y., at the age of 68. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and attorney. Survivors include his partner.

1968

Nancy Haas Hawkins, July 18, 2013, in Corvallis, Ore., at the age of 66. She was a

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member of Delta Zeta and business owner of Computerland stores. Survivors include her husband.

1970

Ronald B. Eich, May 13, 2013, of Lake Forest, Ill., at the age of 65, from pancreatic cancer. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, and trust and financial adviser. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Melissa A. Eich ’02; and brother, Steven S. Eich ’74. Charles M. Gudger III, Sept. 6, 2013, of Eugene, Ore., at the age of 65. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and attorney. Survivors include his wife.

1972

Barbara Raffel Cann, May 29, 2013, of Carmel, Ind., at the age of 62. She was a member of Delta Zeta, registered nurse and hospital manager. Survivors include her husband.

1973

Jeffery J. Nicoles, July 31, 2013, of Logansport, Ind., at the age of 62. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and former officer manager for Hartford and AIG Insurance companies. Samuel R. Laudeman Jr., May 30, 2013, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, at the age of 61. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and retired employee of Kahrl & Company Insurance. Survivors include his wife, Ann Browning Laudeman ’74.

1975

James W. Phipps, Sept. 15, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 69. He was a high school teacher, college instructor and attorney. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Jackson Phipps ’75; and daughters, Julia Phipps Dickinson ’85 and Audrie Phipps Grimes ’89.

1977

David L. Straight, Oct. 13, 2012, of St. Louis, at the age of 57, of a stroke. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, Rector Scholar and librarian at Washington University.

1987

Julia A. Robertson, June 18, 2013, of Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 48, from ovarian cancer. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and worked for

Indianapolis Health and Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati. Survivors include her sister, Christine Robertson Andreasen ’88, and brother-in-law, Steven M. Andreasen ’88.

1988

Duane R. Swisher, July 20, 2013, in Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 55. He was a high school teacher, swim coach and aquatics director. Survivors include his wife.

2004

Robert “Scooter” D. Tiemann III, June 10, 2013, in Pecos, Texas, at the age of 31, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and employed in the oil industry where he specialized in GIS mapping, title curative and land acquisitions. Survivors include his wife and mother, Mary Gadd Tiemann ’69.

Friends

Emmylou G. Bollinger, June 6, 2013, in Seymour, Ind., at the age of 97. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Don M. Bollinger ’36. Survivors include her son, Thomas R. Bollinger ’65; daughter, Linda Bollinger McCoy ’62; grandson, John C. Stadler ’92; granddaughter, Elizabeth McCoy McCarty ’92; and son-in-law, James T. McCoy ’62. Ross N. Faires, Jan. 24, 2013, of Knoxville, Tenn., at the age of 78. He was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. He worked for Cummins Engine Company and was president of Arvin Industries, both in Columbus, Ind. Later, he was president of Tibbais Flooring Company in Tennessee. Survivors include his wife, Glady Caley Faires ’56, and son, Kurt J. Faires ’81. Patricia A. Gauly, May 6, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 64. She was a fourth-grade teacher at Tzouanakis Elementary School in Greencastle. Survivors include her husband, Steve, retired director of DePauw’s Office of Gift Planning; daughter, Kristen J. Gauly ’00; and son, David S. Gauly ’02.

Gail J. Lyon, May 20, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 73. She worked as a custodian at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Martha L. O’Neal, July 21, 2013, of Jefferson City, Mo., at the age of 91. She was a secretary at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Mary F. Pearson, Jan. 14, 2012, of Chevy Chase, Md., at the age of 95. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jed W. Pearson Jr. ’34. Survivors include her sons, James C. Pearson ’74 and Wiley H. Pearson ’70, and daughter, Mary F. Pearson ’76. Amy C. Richards, Aug. 12, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 98. She was an office manager and bookkeeper for DePauw Bookstore for 16 years. She was preceded in death by her husband. June E. Sanders, June 18, 2013, of Green Valley, Ariz., at the age of 90. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frederick A. Sanders ’54. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Sanders Gammon ’77; granddaughter, Shannon Garner Rotvold ’90; and grandsons, Clifford W. Gammon ’90 and Bradley A. Garner ’93. Alice M. Sutherlin, June 13, 2013, of Knightsville, Ind., at the age of 98. She retired as a housekeeper at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband. Doris R. Thomas, July 14, 2013, in Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 84. With her husband, she taught a Winter Term course on human sexuality. Survivors include her husband of nearly 60 years, Robert J. Thomas, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science. The couple recently endowed the Computer Science Founders Fund for Excellence. Jane L. Wohlers, Jan. 29, 2010, in Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 89. She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Susan Wohlers Pearson ’69. Survivors include her husband.

LETTERS continued from page 3. ALUMNI COUPLE WENT ABROAD This is a joint letter because my wife and I were both able to go abroad in our junior year – but to different locations. We believe we were in the first group of students to go abroad after World War II, and we each went for an entire year. Pat attended the University of Stockholm and lived with a well-todo family in downtown Stockholm. The family’s son attended DePauw the same year on what was then called an Exchange Scholarship. All of Pat’s classes were in Swedish, and she prepared by going to Chicago the summer before and taking a crash course in Swedish at Berlitz. The second half of her school year was spent at the University of Uppsala, about 40 miles north of Stockholm. There she lived in a living unit that was somewhat

participate in track. He pole vaulted at a number of different meets, including the All European Games at Wembley Stadium in London. He also bought a much-used motorcycle, and he and a British classmate rode through France into Spain and on to Madrid. With General Franco in power at the time, and the Guardia Civil with machine guns guarding all the roads, it was an adventurous trip. Mac was able to attend lectures at the London School of Economics and heard some outstanding professors in political science and economics. Many of his classmates were older, having returned to finish their university education after serving in the war. One of his best friends was an ex-RAF pilot who taught Mac to fly in a rented open cockpit biplane. Being on your own for a year 3,000

“Although it was many years ago, we both look back at the year abroad as one of the most interesting experiences, not only of our college years, but also of our lives.” PATRICIA OPIE PARKER ’51 AND MACLYN T. PARKER ’51

akin to a DePauw sorority. During the summer, she toured Europe as part of a Swedish folk dancing group. Because her Swedish had a very American accent, they passed her off as Danish. She also met up in the summer with a group from DePauw, which was touring Europe under the guidance of Reid Winsey, at the time head of the art department. Mac attended the University of London, but spent a lot of his time in Southampton, then a part of the University of London but now the University of Southampton. He was able to play on the rugby team and also

miles from home brings on maturity very quickly. At the time, talking on the phone was both difficult and expensive, and about the only connection with home was via airmail. We learned to manage finances, make arrangements for our own housing and meals, and make friends and acquaintances where we knew no one. We also had to plan what to do if we became sick or were in an accident. What one finds is that living all day in a different culture is different from traveling there for a short time as a tourist. Although it was many years ago, we both look back at the year abroad as

one of the most interesting experiences, not only of our college years, but also of our lives. Patricia Opie Parker ’51 Maclyn T. Parker ’51 Fort Wayne, Ind.

EXCHANGE IN EXETER I was an exchange student at University College of the South West in Exeter, England, in 1951-52. The college had an enrollment comparable to DePauw. Alex Bandy from Exeter attended DePauw and lived at the Delta Chi fraternity house on South Locust Street that year as the other half of the exchange. My Rector scholarship was exchanged to pay my tuition. I lived in Reed Hall in Exeter, and living expenses were exchanged. This was just a few years after World War II, and I had a ration card just like the other students. Exeter still had scars from the German bombing, and repairs were underway on the beautiful Exeter cathedral. DePauw did not have a formal exchange program then, and Hans Grueninger of the German department met with prospective exchange students in the informal surroundings of the Double Decker and other coffee houses around campus. I sailed from New York on the Queen Mary to Southampton, England. Bill Graham [’53] from DePauw was also on board and headed for Vienna. [See Bruce “Bill” Graham’s letter about his experience in the summer 2013 issue.] Jim Hollensteiner [’53] of DePauw was also an exchange student at Exeter that year. The outstanding class I took during Continued from page 52.

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my year at Exeter was Ethics. It was like a fireside chat. Professor Levine gave essay exams. After he revealed the topics for the essays, he left the building. We students were on the honor system, and it was strictly observed. In Professor Hancock’s history class, I signed my name as Finfgeld, as I did at DePauw. That was not enough, as without a Christian name, it indicated nobility. In Madame Fox’s French conversation class, I tried to explain, in French, the DePauw Greek system. Many World War II veterans attended college in those days. In Reed Hall, there were two German army veterans who had suffered leg injuries in the war. The Reed Hall residents also included Chinese, Egyptian, South American and Communist Yugoslav students. One English resident of the hall, Donald Quick [’55], later became a DePauw student. The athletic teams of the college

acquaintances of folks back in my hometown of Henry, Ill. After the final term, I attended a French Institut in Tours, southwest of Paris. I lived with a French family and interviewed, in French, a representative in the French Assembly. When I returned to DePauw for my senior year, I talked with my DePauw professors to negotiate the number of hours of credit I would receive for my year abroad. Richard “Moby” K. Finfgeld ’53 Henry, Ill.

START OF AN INTERNATIONAL LIFE During the 1960s, study-abroad options were limited. DePauw was perhaps ahead of its time with the Freiburg Semester Abroad, but only a small number of students were able to take advantage of this opportunity. Professor Hans Grueninger, perhaps the father of DePauw’s study-abroad programs, offered me a different path, which had

“More importantly, the year at Durham changed my perspective on the world and what I wanted to do in life.” PAUL DOUGLAS SMITH ’68

did not have paid coaches; rather, the college teams had student captains. Jim Hollensteiner and I were on the basketball team, which played several British armed forces teams in the area. Jim, who played football at DePauw, also made a European trip with the college rugby team. I traveled to Germany after the first term where I connected with John Elliott [’53], a fellow DePauw student who was studying in Frankfurt that year. After the second term, I went to Scotland and visited with

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a strong impact on my life and career. In 1966 there was an exchange program with University of Durham in England. Under the exchange, one student from DePauw was sent to Durham for a full academic year, and DePauw hosted a student from Durham. Durham University is centered around residential colleges, and I became a resident of Grey College. I was the only American at Grey and one of four Americans at the university, including two graduate students and one other student from DePauw, who

applied independently. Durham is one of the UK’s top universities and is academically rigorous. It presented me with the opportunity, for example, to study the American Revolutionary War from the British perspective, which is quite different. I formed some lifelong friendships, and I visit a number of Durham friends on a regular basis. The year also afforded me the opportunity to visit the Soviet Union during a semester break and to ski in Austria. More importantly, the year at Durham changed my perspective on the world and what I wanted to do in life. My understanding of the world and what is important broadened considerably, and I became very internationalist in my outlook. It also affected my career. I went on to earn graduate degrees in international relations and international business, and my career focus was clearly international. Since leaving graduate school, my career has almost entirely had an international dimension. I have been to at least 60 countries, conducted research projects involving perhaps twice this number, and have visited at least 35 countries on business. When asked what I want to do with the rest of my life, a big part of the answer is a list of places where I feel like I yet need to go. So, I owe a lot to Dr. Grueninger, DePauw and the course that my study abroad created for me. I am not sure if the Durham exchange continued after my DePauw days, but I am certainly the better for it. Paul Douglas Smith ’68 San Antonio, Texas

our donors A SCHOLARSHIP INVESTMENT FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW The 60 years that have passed since E. WILLIAM BERGFELD JR. ’54 graduated from DePauw have not lessened his love of the school. “DePauw has always had a soft place in my heart. I’m very proud to have been there, and I’d like other people to have the opportunity to go there, too.” It was this attitude that led Bill to invest in a Charitable Gift Annuity to benefit need-based scholarships at DePauw. Bill and his wife, Margaret, enjoy the guaranteed income from the annuity and are pleased to know that their gift will benefit a student who needs help to attend DePauw, just as Bill did. A year after the initial gift, Bill decided that DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING

Stephen S. Thomas, J.D., executive director of legacy and estate planning 300 E. Seminary St., P.O. Box 37 Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Phone: 765-658-4216 Toll-free: 800-446-5298 stevethomas@depauw.edu depauw.plannedgifts.org

he wanted to fund his scholarship now, to help students during his lifetime. Bill made a second donation to fund the Bergfeld Family Scholarship and to truly make a difference for students today and tomorrow.

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AT A CEREMONY IN THE MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION BUILDING, BALLROOM, ON NOV. 10, MEMBERS OF DEPAUW’S WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM RECEIVED THEIR RINGS FOR WINNING THE NCAA DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIP ON MARCH 16. THE RINGS FEATURE A BLACK BACKING WITH GEMS ON THE FRONT FORMING 34-0, THEIR PERFECT SEASON RECORD THAT CULMINATED WITH THE NATIONAL TITLE.