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FAITH & TENACITY

LENS CRAFTERS

REMEMBERING 9/11

CURRAN, CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY RIVER STEWARDS

Campus horticulturist Roger Banks counted 1,545 trees on campus this summer. See more of them in our album of aerial photos at facebook.com /magazine. (Facebook account not required to view.)

In This Issue 2 PRESIDENT’S PAGE 3 LETTERS

Archie Miller’s cover shot, Easter weather semantics and “My Old House” antics

4 CONVERSATION PIECES

Science facts, science fiction and a breakfast to die for

6 EXPERT INSTRUCTION

How to break the ice with fellow Flyers and wait years for a life-saving organ transplant

ASK A MARIANIST How busy can a brother be? Brother Tom Pieper, S.M. ’67, answers your questions about Appalachia, ministering to students in Stuart and more.

8 FLIGHT DECK

The 10th anniversary of 9/11, free textbooks for incoming students, research on the Himalayas, a PlayStation 3 supercomputer, plus Mike Kelly’s induction into the College Football Hall of Fame

20 FAITH AND TENACITY

New land. World-class research. Strong enrollment. Rising reputation. A look at Daniel J. Curran’s presidency of the University of Dayton as he begins his 10th year.

26 LENS CRAFTERS

New research about newts has overturned 250 years of scientific assumptions about regeneration and has scientists looking ahead to what it might mean for mammals like us.

30 A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

On the water and in the community, UD’s River Stewards are helping the region rediscover its rivers.

38 CLASS NOTES 56 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

The 2011 alumni award winners highlight graduates who lead, serve and better connect us to one another.

58 CHAPTER POSTCARDS

Alumni across the country run to remember Dan Haubert ’06, and New York/New Jersey alumni talk about how to show off the Big Apple.

60 GOOD WORKS

Fiore Talarico ’74 knows how to close the deal.

HIDDEN TREASURE We beat X, won the cup and never gave it up.

62 PERCEPTIONS Singing in Burundi, summering at the lake and finding God among the weeds

64 PARTING WORDS Notes on regeneration

Cover: Daniel J. Curran, University of Dayton president Photograph by Larry Burgess See story, Page 20.

PRESIDENT’S PAGE

COMMENTARY BY DANIEL J. CURRAN PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

The power of community A journalist recently asked me about the University of Dayton’s remarkable growth during my presidency.

As I enter my 10th year as president, I’m grateful to lead a university that’s been extraordinarily well-managed

for more than 160 years. I inherited a university on an upward path from Brother Ray Fitz, S.M., who led UD into the modern era with a blend of pragmatism, boldness and humility.

In the spirit of our Marianist founders, our faculty and staff have embraced change at a pace some might consider

astounding for higher education. Our local, state and national leaders have rallied around our knack of seeing the possibilities — whether it’s the transformation of a brownfield or the launching of centers of excellence in emerging high-tech fields.

We’ve accomplished the extraordinary

because of the ingenuity, leadership and buy-in of a community of supporters on

campus and beyond.

That’s how we were able to nearly dou-

ble the size of campus through two major

acquisitions from NCR Corp. and then attract a new GE Aviation research center.

Seizing opportunities, our faculty and researchers have doubled the sponsored research volume by developing expertise

in emerging fields like sensors and alternative energy. We’ve changed our market-

ing strategy and dramatically increased selectivity and the geographic diversity of

our student body. This fall, we’re enroll-

ing the largest number of international students in history and opening a stand-

alone institute in China in one of the fastest-growing innovation parks in the world.

Those are all achievements our faculty, staff and students accomplished by reading the signs of the times and

acting boldly. It’s just the Marianist way of working together as a community to make change that has created a real difference in the way the University is perceived in the world. I’m inspired — and gratified — by their tireless work.

Alumni tell me they’re proud of the new residential and academic facilities on campus, but it’s the everyday

moments that strike me the most.

When a professor or student shares news of winning a Fulbright scholarship, I feel so proud. When an alumnus

visits campus after decades and catches the spirit of innovation and the infectious energy of this place, that renews me. When a group of Chinese students tells me they feel at home here — that this is their community — I’m gratified. When our alumni and friends respond with gifts, large and small, that help us grow our endowment and become a stronger university, I’m motivated to set our aspirations higher.

The strength of the University of Dayton is — and will always be — the strength of our community. Nowhere is this

more creatively communicated than in the lobby of Albert Emanuel Hall. If one prospective student stands in front of the new motion-sensitive iWall in our admission welcome center, only one vignette of a larger video pops up. If a group

is talking to one another in front of the wall, a surprising panoramic view is created. It sends the message that we learn, live, pray and solve problems together — in community. And great things happen when we do that.

As I reflect on the University of Dayton’s future, I believe we are poised to make a quantum leap into the realm of

world-class universities. Just as we prepare students with the ability to adapt and thrive in a changing world, we’ve positioned our university to do the same.

We will not be followers, nor will we embark on this journey by ourselves. In the Marianist spirit, we will imagine

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Editor Emeritus: Thomas M. Columbus Editor: Matthew Dewald Managing Editor: Michelle Tedford Art Director: Frank Pauer Photographer: Larry Burgess Vice President, University Advancement: Deborah A.W. Read Associate Vice President, University Communications: Teri Rizvi Director, Communications: Michelle Tedford Associate Director, Communications: Matthew Dewald Assistant Director, Communications: Shannon Shelton Miller Editor: Thomas M. Columbus Production Manager: Jeaneen Parsons Art Director: Frank Pauer Designer: Gina Gray Photographer: Larry Burgess Director of Media Relations: Cilla Bosnak Shindell Associate Director, Media Relations: Shawn Robinson Assistant Director, Media Relations: Cameron Fullam Assistant Director, Advancement Direct Marketing: Cathy Johnson Communications and Marketing Editor: Mike Dunekacke Web Developer: Alex Kordik Administrative Assistant: Amber Dilworth Student Staff: Brian Bucy, Meredith Hirt

LETTERS DARTH MILLER

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E. Cavallaro ’07 [“Free on the Inside,” Sum-

University of Arizona season ticket holder,

ing might be “dreary,” but the morning it-

basketball

coach

Archie

[“Strong Suit,” Summer 2011]. As a current

I can confirm his hire was a great one for

self can never be!

—GORDON HONEYMAN DAYTON

H o we ve r,

the cover pho-

FACEBOOK FAN

to of the coach

The UD Magazine Facebook page [facebook

is simply horrid! I like the

.com/udmagazine] is very interesting to

“ornery”

photos of ongoing campus projects, e.g.,

me, primarily because of the great, current

proclaimed ture

na-

Stuart Field, Brown/Caldwell apartments,

the

GE R&D center and more. The facilities

coach, which

management site has construction project

should be to

UD’s advantage, but making him look

like Darth Vader on the cover was a huge mistake.

updates, but Facebook’s helicopter photos are really special and are particularly interesting and informative. I love it!

—BILL NIGHAN ’61

—DONALD A. MOUNCE ’95

MANCHESTER, CONN.

GREEN VALLEY, ARIZ.

My husband and I are both alumni,

and we had the same impression of the

cover of the magazine. It was terrible! The photo of Archie Miller looks like a mug

shot. A black background for someone

with dark hair and a dark suit makes his

face very stark and menacing. I had to look

inside at the article to discover that he is actually a nice-looking young man.

The campus photo you had on the

back of the cover would have been a better choice.

—CAROLE O’BRIEN HRASTAR ’68 SPRINGBORO, OHIO

INSTANT NOSTALGIA Makes me want to go through school all

over again. :)

—KRISTIN O’CONNELL ’11 DAYTON

STAYING POWER

O’Connell sent this note via Twitter in reply to

I enjoy the articles in the magazine

and, every once in a while, I catch a name

that stirs old memories. “The Next Big

Thing” [Summer 2011] spoke of an experiment that engineering students were

performing that involved possible light

a tweet about an album of aerial photos posted on

our Facebook page called “What Superman Saw.” Twitter followers can find us @daymag.

HOUSE PROUD Sunday afternoon I was sitting at the

movement in a completely dark room. In

kitchen table relaxing with a cold iced tea

paid students to do a similar experiment

scour the issues from cover to cover looking

would still be available and possibly useful

at UD. First, I look for letters to the edi-

1963 (plus or minus a year), Wright-Patt

and my University of Dayton Magazine. I always

— I imagine the data from our responses

for memories and connections of my days

in the current experiment.

tor and the “Conversation Pieces.” Next are

ISLAND LAKE, ILL.

mer 2011] that the weather on Easter morn-

UD.

—JIM LABEAU ’65

Great summer issue. However, tell Mr.

Miller

head

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HAPPY EASTER

I enjoyed the article on new men’s

See Letters, Page 12

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CONVERSATION PIECES This I Believe FIRST-YEAR READ

Not quite home cookin’ KANELACAFE.COM

Sometimes it’s important to know not just what you believe, but why you believe it. That’s the thinking behind the selection of This I Believe as the text for the 2011 First Year Read. Incoming undergraduates read the book in preparation for New Student Orientation. There, intentional discussions in commu nity about personal philosophies became the starting point for their years at UD.

Because of a random encounter at a golf course, Chicagoans can start their day right — with chocolate covered bacon on waffles with bourbon sauce. Chris Cowan ’05 and Jack Dybis ’91, who met by chance when Dybis asked to join Cowan’s golfing group, opened Kanela Break fast Club on Valentine’s Day 2011. The breakfast spot four blocks south of Wrigley Field caters to young professionals, new families and the area’s medical professionals, who often have odd schedules. But get there early on weekends. “We always have a line out the door Saturdays and Sundays,” Cowan said.

If walls could talk

Game night

THIS ONE CAN

FAMILY WEEKEND

Visitors to the typical university ad mission office are greeted by comfy couches. At UD, they’re greeted by an immersive experience. A new interactive video wall, installed this summer in Albert Emanuel Hall, invites visiting families to step up and interact with a 36 foot wide wall that asks provocative questions and offers glimpses of campus life in videos activated by guests’ move ments. “It’s a great way to get the conversation about UD going,” said Kevin Schultz ’09, assistant director of University marketing and digital innovation.

Is there a more social game than cornhole? Organizers of Family Weekend, which will be Nov. 4 6 this year, think not. Many families agree, said Dave Ostrander, associ ate director of campus recreation, who organizes the Friday night cornhole tournament.It draws more than 150 players on average, he said, with a single elimination format that can last up to three hours. “It’s a big hit every year,” he said. “It starts them off well for the weekend.”

“It’s a sign that the pastoral needs are sufficiently grave now that priests are speaking up and saying, ‘Wait a minute, you can’t just ignore the pastoral consequences of the things you do and say at the top.’” —PROFESSOR DAVID O’BRIEN, COMMENTING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT A LETTER FROM 150 AMERICAN PRIESTS SUPPORTING PRIESTHOOD FOR WOMEN AND MARRIED MEN

“It’s like looking at a scary movie.” —TRACY HARMON, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING, SPEAKING ABOUT NEW FDA-MANDATED ANTISMOKING IMAGES ON CIGARETTE PACKS

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“Not only do our students need to go out to the world, the world needs to come to our students.” —SUNDAR KUMARASAMY, VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT, DISCUSSING UD’S 200 PERCENT INCREASE IN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT OVER THE LAST DECADE

“After a while I realized my job was a lot bigger than just winning. You see guys graduate, and after awhile a lot of them come back with their families and they talk about the influence you had.” —FORMER UD FOOTBALL COACH MIKE KELLY, WHO WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JULY 16. SEE STORY PAGE 14.

ESTONIAN FOOT BA LL ASSOCIATION

Long-distance calls

‘Starry Messenger’

Värav!

Luminescence

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

4 ADELE LOUNGE

(OR “GOOOOOAL!” IN ESTONIAN)

SCIENCE CENTER

Annie Doty got quite a present for her 73rd birthday. On March 1, she and about 20 family members — including daughter Cari Coleman Hopkins ’88, Cari’s husband Mark Hopkins ’86 and nephew Garrett Coleman ’11 — gathered at UD’s Technologically Advanced Cognition Lab so that astronaut Cady Coleman, Cari’s sister and Annie’s daughter, could join them from the International Space Station via a 4 foot video screen. They got a tour of the space station and a chance to sing an extraterrestrial “Happy Birthday.”

When electronic media major María Elena Badillo ’13 and design major Erin Bolles ’13 were given a theme — “science of the future” — they turned it on its head with a blast from the past. The summer artists in residence at ArtStreet produced a series of panels inspired by ’50s comic book science fiction, with Badillo contributing words and Bolles creating the visuals. Now in its sixth year, the artist in residence program has meant a lot of new art for campus. This year’s pieces include everything from a soundscape in Roesch Library’s stairwell to anatomy themed paint ings outside the doctor of physical therapy program’s classrooms.

Junior midfielder Colleen Williams — the A 10’s 2010 Offensive Player of the Year — has a new weapon on offense going into this year: incoming sophomore Katrin Loo. Loo brings unique experience — three goals scored in international competition. The forward has 22 appearances and three goals for the Estonian national women’s team. Her two most recent goals came during a 3 0 victory over Lithu ania in the 2011 Baltic Cup in May. Here’s hoping Loo and Williams find the back of the net early and often at Baujan Field. Värav!

The sun might have been shining outside all summer, but the lab of associate chemistry professor Shawn Swavey was glowing inside. While many of their friends took a summer break, Samantha Viviani ’12 and Carmen Parnell ’12 joined a couple of dozen undergraduate students spending the summer on campus doing research, their housing costs funded through a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. The pair worked with new compounds to study the effects of certain molecular components on their luminescent properties, the kind of research that down the road could lead to better techniques for probing tumor sites.

CONVERSATION PIECES Science facts, science fiction and a breakfast to die for

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EXPERT INSTRUCTION

How to wait for an organ donation In 2002, Theresa Bakum ’78 was diagnosed with glo-

meru-lonephritis, an incurable kidney disease. Proving that patience is indeed a virtue, nine years later she is still waiting for a kidney transplant. Though the wait has been long,

Bakum has spent it with grace. Here’s how to handle the passage of time:

1. Stay positive Bakum puts out good vibes, praying and

believing that when it’s the right time and the right match,

it will happen. “You have to have a great attitude or every day it’d be miserable.”

2. Keep busy “Do other things that make you happy.

Keep active; otherwise you’re home and thinking about it 24/7, which really puts you in a funk.” Bakum is an avid reader, swimmer and practicer of yoga.

3. Understand your body Follow doctor’s orders. Try to

stay as healthy as you can. “The most important things: Be aware of your body and pay attention to what you do.”

4. Don’t be afraid to ask for help “I always did things

on my own and didn’t want to rely on anyone. Realize you’re

sick and can’t do it all yourself. My friends really rallied around me; people really do care about you.”

5. Be open Anyone could be a potential donor. Ask peo-

How to break the ice with a fellow Flyer Michael Pedley ’98 will be meeting more alumni than ever in his life in the coming months and years. Recently named assistant vice president for alumni outreach, he leads a staff charged with engaging all of UD’s 103,000 alumni and inspiring them to stay connected to and support their alma mater. All of which raises an interesting question — just how do you spark the conversation with a fellow Flyer? Pedley and his staff, among them Anita Brothers, Tracie Johnson ’08 and Teresa Perretta ’09, offer their tips:

Look for the best porch in the neighborhood The love of porches that students develop at UD follows them when househunting and beyond, Brothers said. “UD alums have fantastic porches. I’ve had so many show them off to me.”

Talk about Dayton travel deals The perfect spot to get away with your Flyer friends now flung across the country? For a lot of alumni, it’s Dayton, Perretta said. “I love hearing from alumni that they vacation in Dayton.”

If you see Flyer attire, don’t be afraid to shout “Go Flyers!” Anywhere. An obvious one, but easy, too. In the airport, out shopping, at the beach — if they’re wearing their support, show yours. “There’s never shame in yelling ‘Dayton!’ anywhere,” Johnson said. Look at it from their viewpoint — you’ll make their day.

ple their blood type. “I always talk about it. You never know when someone will say, ‘Oh, I’m interested.’”

6. Appreciate what you have “Everybody has a challenge in life to take.

You just go with that. You can still live, even

regulated by a machine.

It’s not the worst-case scenario.”

—Meredith Hirt ’13

Name-drop your street, your service, your intramural glory Even across generations, the chances of shared experiences

are very high at UD, Brothers said. Virtually everyone lived on the same few streets, visited the same chapel and calls “Learn. Lead. Serve.” the UD motto (even though it isn’t officially — that’s “Pro Deo et Patria”). We’re a community, in part, because we all know a lot of the same things and share UD’s Marianist spirit.

Step back and let the story flow “At UD, we value listening as much as talking, the mark of the friendliness and openness everyone feels across campus. We also want to know how UD has carried us forward and remained part of us,” Pedley said. When one UD alum meets another, there’s really no ice to break. —Matthew Dewald

BIG QUESTIONS

STUART HALL, UDSAP AND SAYING THE ‘HAIL MARY’ ... ASK A MARIANIST How busy can a brother be? Right now, Brother Tom Pieper, S.M. ’67, is filling in as resident campus minister at Marycrest while still ministering to the needs of Stuart Hall, where he has worked for 15 years. He coordinates the nine-week UD Summer Appalachia Program in Salyersville, Ky. And he’s taking suggestions for the UDSAP 50th anniversary reunion, less than three years away. Email him ideas at Tom.Pieper@notes.udayton.edu. What is your favorite part of ministering to first-year students in Stuart Hall? —DANIEL ZIDEK ’13 UD STUDENT When students first come here, they have left everything. I be-

lieve the Marianist spirit and charism really offers them a

place of welcome. For the first

month that’s my main goal — get to know as many names as

our Marianist and Catholic presence.

As for volleyball, I watch,

maybe take a few swipes at the ball.

We really do learn that Appa-

lachia is not just a place where

poor people live. We know the faces and the names. Knowing

the people, we can be advocates for them. And we live simply — we have a great outhouse.

1196, the bishop of Paris ordered all the clergy to teach these

Marian verses to all the people.

Why not add an intercession

for all of us? No one knows who

wrote it but, by the 1500s, this intercession tradition.

was

already

the

I feel like the poor have such terrible

Is there a difference between Marian-

needs in our current economy, and

ists who are brothers and those who

ers on retreats, leaders of faith-

—NICHOLE DAVIS ’06

many political leaders seem to be the

are priests?

INDIANAPOLIS

worst enemies of their most desperate

activities

Kentucky is my home state. Go-

ministry. It uses lots of my natu-

state is valuable to me. When I

to become. And, since I live in the student neighborhood, I can

continue to be present to these students as they move on in their four years at UD.

How has the renovation of the Chapel of St. Joseph the Worker enhanced the campus ministry in Stuart Hall? And are you also still playing sand volleyball? —NICK POHLMAN ’00

NAIROBI, KENYA

ing back and being present to my

—MARILYN STAUFFER KAPLE ’69

first went down to fill in for Sis-

Do research and listen to the

in love with the place and what

community that can instruct

ter Nancy Bramlage, I just fell they’re doing. It’s a unique service experience in that the 14 students are involved with the

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. volunteer organizations in your you on how to help financially

and how to be involved because we are all just part of this great

community. At UD, we challenge students to have experiences of being with and living

with the poor. Later in life, students who have had these ex-

periences change the way they live, vote and look at the needs of others.

When was “Holy Mary, Mother of

Our chapel moved from the back

God ...” added to the “Hail

of Meyer Hall to the front where

Mary”?

the dryers and washers were

—ROBERT CORGAN

a rectangle with burnt orange

The first parts are

walk in, it’s a beautiful sa-

the Gospel of St.

carpeting. Now, when you cred space to have liturgy and pray — stained glass, sacred

furnishings

and

—BILL LORENZ ’84

constituents. What can be done?

GENEVA, ILL.

located. The chapel used to be

to celebrate. It’s a great sign of

and that has changed me a lot.

back every summer?

faith and in the person they want

the 10th and 11th centuries. In

many more students have come

They were said by monks before

UDSAP? What has kept you coming

tunity to help them grow in their

home visits and family visits —

share their faith by being lead-

ral gifts and gives me an oppor-

And because of its location,

Why did you initially begin moderating

in my residence hall. I love this

and Elizabeth at the Visitation.

day camp, teen center, nursing

inviting students to deepen and

community-building

lives of the people — through a

by Brother Gary Marcinowski.

possible. I try to be proactive,

sharing communities, leaders of

wooden liturgical pieces made

MADEIRA, OHIO scripture

from

Luke — Gabriel at

the

Annun-

ciation and Mary

We all call one another “brother,” and that’s an important thing

because the Marianists have an equality between brothers and

priests. Some brothers have a desire to perform the sacred litur-

gies and preach the word of God. We as a whole group of brothers

work to discern where the spirit

is moving in their lives and how

to carry out Mary’s mission of bringing Christ into the world. We all have gifts and we discern

how to use those gifts for the community.

For our next issue ask FATHER JIM FITZ ’68, vice president for mission and rector and former assistant provincial of the Marianist Province of the U.S. His office is coordinating UD’s celebration of Chaminade Year, running through January 2012. EMAIL YOUR QUESTION TO MAGAZINE@ UDAYTON.EDU.

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FLIGHT DECK

News from campus and beyond

Among the best The Princeton Review again ranks the University of Dayton in the top 15 percent of the best institutions for undergraduate education in the nation and the Midwest. The 2012 Review says the University of Dayton is “known for friendly students, strong academics and Flyer basketball” as well as being “academically challenging yet unpretentious [and] casual, yet fun.”

‘A valuable university’ Electronics giant Sony listed the University among its 10 “valuable universities” for professional development of its employees. The move adds UD to the list of choices available to Sony employees who receive sabbaticals to attend a university in the U.S. for a year. Sony made the move with an eye on cameras, said Keigo Hirakawa, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Hirakawa runs UD’s Intelligent Signal Systems Laboratory, where he works on improving digital cameras, remote sensing and 3-D displays.

Four years of free textbooks With three simple steps, students in next year’s entering first-year class can receive up to $4,000 over four years toward their textbooks.

1 2 3 Step

Step

Apply.

Visit campus.

Step

Complete the

financial aid form.

It’s that simple, as long as they do it all by March 1, 2012. The goal is to offer families considering UD some clarity and certainty about one piece of the college cost puzzle, said Kathy McEuen Harmon, assistant vice president and dean of admission and financial aid. It’s also a strong incentive to visit campus. “We know if we get students on campus, they can see and feel if the University of Dayton is right for them,” Harmon said. “We can begin understanding who they are and exploring their financial needs.”

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Mark Ensalaco twice in recent months, once for comment on Honduras’ entry into the Organization of American States and Ensalaco again as a guest on the Sunday evening talk show “Choque de Opiniones” to discuss President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from Afghanistan. The channel reaches 30 million people in North and South America. n Does cloud computing make sense for large organizations like, say, a major university? College Planning & Management turned to associate provost and CIO Tom Skill for comment. “With 10,000 students, 3,000 employees, 58 buildings, 165 virtual servers, 250 physical servers and campuswide systems that are talking with each other, it’s more complicated to move into the cloud than it appears,” he noted.

Mini quiches and bacon-wrapped water chestnuts were just two of the delights on the table in

the atrium of the Columbus State-

house the evening of June 29 at a

reception marking the end for the summer of UD’s new Statehouse Internship Program.

Before eating, a dozen UD stu-

dents gathered in an unnamed conference room to share their ex-

periences of interning for various Ohio government officials during the past six weeks.

The discussion was upbeat,

from sharing the lighter moments

of cleaning a taxidermy fish for a representative for use during a speech to the more somber experience of visiting a shelter for human trafficking victims.

“As an intern I thought I’d just be filing, but I went along on all sorts of cool things,” said

Rebecca Young ’12, who worked for Gov. John Kasich. The other interns nodded, all pleasantly surprised at the level of their duties.

Rep. Clayton Luckie of Dayton is known for his aversion to social media. When Kevin Shee-

han ’12 announced, “I convinced him to use Facebook and Twitter,” the students laughed. Many of them used such tools as part of their work on communications teams while also doing the more traditional work of contacting constituents and writing speeches for their representatives or senators. “Hearing Representative (Teresa) Fedor read something on the floor that I wrote was amazing,” Liz Mitchell ’13 said.

Making it all run well was the job of Eileen Austria ’81, UD state advocate and program coordina-

tor. “I held my breath when I made the first calls at three weeks,” she told the students, “but without

exception your supervisors were pleased.” It was good news all around for the program aimed at not only giving internship opportunities to students but also increasing UD’s profile in Columbus.

Before choosing among the assorted oversized cookies for dessert, there was longer-term talk

of possible careers in politics. Bethanie Joseph ’12 said, “It’s something I wouldn’t have put myself in, but now I could see myself do it since I’ve had a taste of it.”

The students unanimously considered the program “phenomenal,” and the food was, too.

—Meredith Hirt ’13

S ’12

n CNN en Español turned to

Students at the Statehouse

CHRISTINE BATE

n An international gathering of theologians at the University in May resulted in three stories in National Catholic Reporter. The stories covered remarks by, among others, UD professors Dennis Doyle Doyle, Mark Ensalaco and Leslie Picca about the issue of exclusion in religion. n Did the “CSI effect” have an influence on the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial? Law professor and jury expert Thaddeus Hoffmeister tackled that question in an opinion piece on CNN.com two days after the verdict. n Voice of America turned to new UD law school dean Paul McGreal for comment when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. “The Supreme Court said we’re going to decide what counts as speech and then leave it up to private individuals, not the government, to decide what speech they want to see and want to view.”

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Media Hits

May we have this dance? Dayton Contemporary Dance Company has returned to campus as community artist in residence, a collaboration that not only brings worldclass dance to campus but also helps students tap into their creativity in non-arts fields, said Paul Benson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “In an era in which education in STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] fields rightly has a high priority, we are looking for ways to liberate and develop students’ creative imagination,” Benson said. “DCDC is a powerful educator in the art of creative thinking.”

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The iPod kid Can uploading videos on YouTube cover tuition? For one UD

when his popularity jumped.

But these aren’t just any videos, and this isn’t just any kid.

stroke of luck in 2008, he became the first person in Ohio and one

student, the answer is yes. Bill Cooper ’14 calls

himself “The iPod

hung his family’s digital camera from a golf

— mostly reviews

club and filmed himself unwrapping the

applications

Apple’s

product and using it. By the time he got home

iPod,

from school the next day, his seven-minute

iPhone and iPad —

video had more than 100,000 hits. He was

have been watched

16 years old.

more than 6.3 million

times.

Now he lives the life of a regular college

That

student, but in a corner of his room there’s

.002 percent of You-

a tripod and a fold-out background. The av-

puts him in the top

a small mobile studio: a handheld camera,

Tube’s 48 million

erage video takes him about 20 minutes to

accounts. That, in turn, puts him in the top 1,000.

make and upload and averages between 10,000 to 20,000 hits.

kid my age,” he said.

ucts to review, companies saw it was going well, so they started

est mobile apps, tech products and accessories. His income

I’m paying for one of the best colleges in the world with just my

“I’m a full-time student, and I have one of the coolest jobs for a Yes, YouTube fame is a job. Cooper’s videos review the lat-

comes from the advertising YouTube requested to put on his page

The Lord be with you, and with your spirit The University is offering a free podcast and low-cost online course to help parishioners adjust to changes to the Roman Missal coming to Masses in the United States on Nov. 27. The next course session, offered through UD’s Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation,

Success breeds success. “I was able to buy more and more prod-

sending me products to review,” he said. “Before you know it, YouTube money. That’s a pretty sweet deal.”

Chilling effect

Geologists call the Himalayan glacier “the third pole” because it contains more ice than anywhere in the

world outside the polar regions. As the glacier and seasonal mountain snows melt, they feed the rivers of the Himalayan foothills, including the mighty Indus River, so it is little wonder that this geological reality is also a geopolitical and economic issue for regional powers India, Pakistan and China.

With their growing populations and economies comes a need for more energy production, says Umesh

Haritashya, a UD geology professor who co-edited Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, an exhaustive reference released in June that contains the latest research on this vital component of the earth’s systems.

“They have started building and planning large numbers of hydropower plants in the foothills of the

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for

of the first in the country to purchase a sec-

ond-generation iPod Touch. He went home,

Kid,” and his videos of

And for Cooper, YouTube fame was nearly instantaneous. By a

Himalayan Mountains,” Haritashya says, noting that the right to build such plants on the Indus River has become a recent source of conflict in already tense relations between India and Pakistan.

begins Sept. 25 and lasts for five weeks. More information is available at http://vlc.udayton.edu. The free podcast, “Beyond the Words,” is available through iTunes at http://bit ly/qALyhe or online at http://bit ly/pCGv3C. The changes are the first major update to the Roman Missal in 36 years. They include a number of new translations of well-known responses and acclamations of the people during Mass. 10 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZIN

Because we have nearly

100 trillion neural connections

knocking around our skulls, no

current

supercomputer

has the power to simulate the human brain. But UD re-

searcher Tarek Taha is having fun trying.

The associate professor of

electrical and computer engi-

neering has worked his way up to modeling about half a

billion neurons — the size of a mouse’s brain — by cluster-

ing together 300 PlayStation 3

game systems at the U.S. Air

Force Research Laboratory. He is working on expanding the

cluster to include all of the 1,716 PS3s in his lab as he looks

Tarek Taha

for ways to make computers mimic human brains for possible applications such

SMART thinking, applied A Moraine, Ohio, company is commercializing the RFID technology developed by UD Research Institute researcher Bob Kauffman and reported in the Spring 2011 issue of the magazine [“SMART, Indeed”]. American Thermal Instruments licensed the technology to develop and manufacture monitors to report unsafe temperature changes in products as disparate as fruit and train wheels while they are in transit.

as self-driving vehicles and smart robots in hospitals.

A related issue is all of those electrical outlets. Proteins and sugars, so ener-

gizing to the human brain, are useless for computers.

“A human brain consumes about 20 watts of power, while the PS3 cluster

consumes megawatts,” he said. “The brain is very efficient at what it does.”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

He, robot

One in 10 About one of every 10 UD

students this fall comes from

another country, said Sundar Kumarasamy, vice president

for enrollment management. The total international enrollment — more than 1,000 international students — marks

a record high for the University. Roughly half are from China.

This

year’s

incoming

class numbers 2,050, about half of whom come from out-

side Ohio. They include four

students from Roswell, Ga., whose families rented a huge recreational

vehicle

and

van, decorated in Flyer red and blue, to make the 500-mile journey to Dayton together.

“When we found out we

were all headed to UD, … we

said, ‘Let’s make a memory out of this,’” said Eileen Cun-

ningham, mother of first-year student Dan.

Steady as she goes

Just add water(colors) The visual arts program has a new home. This summer, the University completed renovations of 33,000 square feet of space in College Park Center, consolidating visual arts spaces across campus. With high ceilings and reclaimed hardwood floors reminiscent of a city-center loft, the new space includes faculty offices, classrooms with banks of windows providing natural light, painting studios with specialized ventilation systems, a ceramics kiln, long hallways with wallboard for displaying projects and an art gallery. Rike Center, once home to visual arts and before that chemistry labs and the women’s gymnasium, is going global. In 2012,

“Run like an old lady” — as a headline it was neither helpful nor gracious, but the publication was Men’s Health, after all. The story it reported was new research by UD health and sport science professor Paul Vanderburgh, a national expert in fitness generally and marathon running in particular. Vanderburgh analyzed the pacing of hundreds of marathon runners — particularly whether they maintained a steady pace, started slow to save energy for later, or came out more quickly than they would later finish. He found that runners who kept a more consistent pace — and they tended to be female, faster and older (and perhaps wiser) — had better overall finishing times. “Men, particularly young men,” Vanderburgh said, “tend to go out fast and blow through their carb stores.” It is a lesson in careful pace planning. Not quite slow and steady wins the race, but a reminder that, in the long run, levelheaded planning often wins out over well-meaning enthusiasm.

it will house the Center for International Programs.

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With a soft launch in July, University of Dayton Magazine became among the first alumni magazines in the country to be available as an iPad app. Apps for the iPhone/ iPod Touch and Android devices are also now available, all free. The interactive editions offer multimedia features and hyperlinks that bring alive the sights and sounds we report in print. This issue, for example, you can paddle the waters of the Great Miami River with the River Stewards, see inside the lab of Panagiotis Tsonis, and visit Salyersville, Ky., with Meryl Makielski ’11 and the students of the Summer Appalachia Program. Class notes remain available only in the print issue. The University of Dayton joins a small number of university magazines now available as apps, including Emory, Stanford, Cornell and Loyola Marymount universities. The move is part of a general trend among commercial magazines, hundreds of which are now available as apps, to appeal to changing reader habits by supplementing print

On Android

On iPhone/ iPod Touch

On iPad

issues with the convenience and capabilities of digital presentation.

Happy 103rd birthday As a boy in Columbus, Ohio,

Brother Frank Deibel, S.M., made the lifelong decision to become a

Marianist because it “would be one

good way to save my soul.” It seems to have suited his body just as well.

On Aug. 13, he celebrated both

his 103rd birthday and 85th jubilee of religious profession at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception.

“About the 103rd birthday, I’m not

excited about it,” he said. “It’s what the good Lord gave me.”

12 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

Start me up

Letters, from Page 3 the articles. And, eventually, I make my way to the back of the magazine to the class notes. Here, I immediately turn to the sections for my span of years, which I carefully read. My last portion of time is spent

reading the short articles inserted within the “Class

Notes” section. This is my favorite part of reading the

magazine. I am proud of my UD education and proud to see the stories of those who came before and since

my years there. The UD sense of family swells within my heart even if (as in most cases) I do not know the fellow alum featured.

Well, one cannot imagine my surprise

when I turned the page and there, on Page 48, was a picture of a student house [“My Old House 1992-93,”

Summer 2011]. I did a double take.

Yes, it was [236 College Park]! The next thing I knew my phone was in my hand, and I was calling my roommate! With watery eyes I read her the

article. That house had wrapped

its arms around the five of us girls

our junior and senior years and held

us tight. Like the young men 20 years after us, we too pooled our money for groceries and ate meals together

as a house. We also took turns cooking and rotated the cleaning chores weekly. And many nights we sat together at the dining room table typing papers due the next morning. During our years there, the house was

also a center of activity with people dropping in constantly, sometimes to socialize, sometimes to study.

It warmed me to read that 236 is still wrapping

its arms around students and teaching its lessons. It

warmed my heart even more to find that other stu-

dents felt the same as we do about 236. 236 is a great humanitarian!

My days at UD are some of my best and happiest

times. I treasure the education I earned and the friend-

ships that I made in those years. I feel very fortunate and have great memories. Thank you to the young student who wrote this article for resurfacing the emo-

tions and memories that dwell within me. Thank you,

UD, for the best education that a university can offer. And, thank you, 236, for the same!

—SUSAN KOSHOFFER HOBBS ’71 SURPRISE, ARIZ.

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“While on a backpacking trip throughout Europe to celebrate senior year,” writes Kate Poli ’11, “we stopped in Zermatt, Switzerland, for hiking that provided beautiful views of the Matterhorn.” From back to front, Megan Stewart ’11, Katy Richards ’12 and Poli.

Kathleen Rocco ’92 writes that she “learned how to scuba dive at UD. After a 17-year hiatus, I put on my mask, fins and tank in 2008. My last plunge in November 2010, I attempted to read the UD Magazine at Sipidan Island, Borneo. ... I want to remind my senior-year dive buddies that it’s not too late to get back in the water.”

2004 graduate and current MBA student Greg Hyland, back right, sent a photo of UD MBA students in Hong Kong. The trip was part of the MBA’s Peace Through Commerce elective course.

Amy Askins ’96 and husband Chris Schairbaum ’95 snapped this photo in Vatican City a few days after the beatification of Pope John Paul II. “We enjoyed a week in Rome. Go Flyers!” writes Askins. Tarek Kamil ’90 writes, “We took Archie down to New Zealand with us a couple of weeks ago. This picture was taken off the coast of Kaikoura while whale watching.” From left to right, Phil Doepker ’67, Bonnie Weber Doepker ’67, Kelsey Kamil, Kayla Kamil, Nikki Doepker Kamil ’92 and Tarek Kamil.

Chul Kim McGuire ’86 writes, “In July 2011, the UD Magazine traveled on the road with me and my twins on a 4,000-mile road trip,” including this stop at Fort Zachary Taylor, Key West, Fla.

David Bushroe ’93 writes, “My daughter, Kylie ’14, and I climbed the highest peak in Maine: Baxter Peak on Mount Katahdin. It is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Here we are reading at 5,267 feet. Kylie loves UD!”

“I first studied/lived in Costa Rica with UD’s International Study Abroad Summer Spanish Program,” writes Jessica Schulte ’09. “Every summer since, I’ve lived and worked in Costa Rica for the same language immersion school where I studied. Gooooo Dayton Flyers!”

WHERE ARE YOU READING UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE?

Future Flyer Joseph McCarron, son of Kevin ’99 and Jessica Jewell McCarron ’03, takes in a little light reading in his living room in Atlanta. Joseph turns 1 Sept. 16. Happy birthday! Hope you like this issue. Eight alumni (plus one magazine) traveled to Honduras to provide clean drinking water technology to several villages. Pictured are Justin Kuhbander ’09, Kelly Kaufman Kuhbander ’08, George Peterson ’08, Beth Huelskamp ’09, Brian Berger ’12, Marissa Dolle ’09, Brad Doudican ’04, and Jill Cibik Doudican ’03.

Mark Anderson ’88 and Jennifer Kincaid ’13 read on the balcony of the Speaker of the House John Boehner at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mark is chief of staff for Rep. Lee Terry (Neb.), and Jennifer was a summer 2011 intern. “The Dayton magazine never leaves my side,” writes Mark.

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SPORTS

The right fit

Coach Mike Kelly takes his place in the College Football Hall of Fame Missing from his life as an

Coaching, Mike Kelly

observed, can be a “crazy

administrator is the high of a

do well and you move. Or,

One day in his post-coaching

big win — and the low of a loss.

business. Sometimes you

life he came home after attend-

you don’t do well. And you move.” Kelly

came

sports teams. “How

asked.

moved.

was

it?”

was not how he would have

Fame on July 16. Nearly

ing.

Besides the highs and the

have

The Hall of Fame has few-

phrased it when he was coach-

College Football Hall of

played college football.

She pointed out to him that

to be enshrined in the

people

Jeanne

“Oh, we lost.”

He did take a recent

trip to South Bend, Ind.,

million

ing a game by one the Flyer

35 years ago and hasn’t

The right fit for Kelly, center, is a Hall of Fame jacket, size 40 Regular.

lows, Kelly said, he also misses “recruiting

and

identifying

er than 1,100 members. Kelly has done well.

who was a good fit for us.”

talked to his wife, Jeanne, about it; they agreed, he said,

sity, coaches seek him out to schedule

“neat” for the University are Kelly’s post-coaching contri-

families. “I don’t try to sell us,” he said.

Fortunately for him and the Univer-

When he received word of the Hall of Fame honor, he

time with visiting prospects and their

“that this is neat stuff for us and the University.” Also

“I just tell our story.”

butions to UD. His role now as senior associate athletics

No institution, he said, is going to

director is to oversee 16 of the 17 Flyer sports — all except

tell a prospect, “Come here and get a

men’s basketball — as well as the offices of athletics infor-

lousy education.”

mation and academic services.

He spends much of his time with student-athletes.

“When I travel with a team, I’m not involved in the details

of buses and hotels and such,” he said, “so I can observe

Kelly’s former quarterback, Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden ’84, joined him at the induction ceremonies.

student-athletes, what their needs are.”

His work also includes helping with budgets, scheduling, fund-

raising and recruiting as well as mentoring young coaches. He soon learned administration is very different from coaching.

“As a coach,” he said, “life was structured. I’d make a list in the

morning and check it off through the day. In administration, you can have your list. But it means nothing.”

What a day holds for him now is largely determined by what comes

through his door. Kelly said that for about a year he viewed these inter-

ruptions in routine as problems. “Now I see them as opportunities,” he said, “a couple of opportunities coming through the door each day.”

themselves and UD.

So rather than try to sell the Uni-

versity by expounding on how wonder-

ful it is, Kelly emphasizes to prospects the importance of seeing a fit between

“It’s all about fit,” he said.

And he tells prospective student-athletes of a way to go about mak-

ing a good decision. “If they don’t have a notepad,” he said, “I give

them one and tell them to take notes. I tell them to do it the old Ben Franklin way. Make a list of plusses and minuses about the University for you.”

He admitted that “some people see that as old school. It is old

school. But it works.”

—Thomas M. Columbus

Winning character “With three national championships and seven national Coach of the Year awards to his credit, Mike Kelly is the winningest coach in Football Championship Subdivision history winning 82 percent of his games. With 27 years and a 246-54-1 all-time record at Dayton, Kelly places among the top 20 for coaches across all divisions in both wins and winning percentage. … He is the only Flyers coach to receive Dayton’s Lackner Award, which is awarded to a member of the university community who demonstrates high character in service to the school.” —from The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame announcement of its 2011 class

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Sports briefs For the third year in a row, the Flyer volleyball team earned the Team Academic Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association. The Flyers are just one of three teams among last season’s top 15 to earn the award, which recognizes teams with cumulative GPAs of 3.3 or higher. The other top-15 teams were Stanford and UC-Berkeley. The Flyers entered this season ranked No. 19 nationally. n n n Six Flyers received Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Awards, which recognizes dual achievement in academics and athletics by minority undergraduate students. The six Flyers are n Clara Ang — mechanical engineering, women’s golf n Casey Nance — marketing, women’s basketball n Patrice Lalor — electrical engineering, women’s basketball n Jerica DeWolfe — international studies, women’s soccer n Andre Crawford — operations management, football n Robert Salcedo — entrepreneuership/finance, men’s tennis n n n Flyer teams led the Atlantic 10 in the final 2010-11 Division I Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Standings, which awards points based on each institution’s finish in up to 20 sports. Individually, UD had eight conference Performers of the Year, five Student-Athletes of the Year, four conference Coaches of the Year, six Capital One Academic All-Americans and three other All-Americans. n n n The NCAA men’s basketball championship will again begin at UD Arena for at least the next two seasons, the NCAA announced in June. “With [Virginia Commonwealth] going from Dayton to the Final Four last year, there’s a brand to build, a theme to embrace, a storyline of hope to sell for the NCAA,” wrote Matt Norlander, a columnist for CBS Sports. “And with every other round rotating sites each year, it’s good that University of Dayton Arena can lay claim to this.” In 2013, UD Arena will also host second- and third-round games. The Arena, the most-used tournament venue in NCAA history, has hosted 87 tournament games during the last 41 years, including the start of each championship since 2001. “This gives us a real opportunity to cement the First Four in Dayton for years to come,” Tim Wabler, vice president and director of athletics, said. “It’s our goal to make Dayton as synonymous with the First Four as Omaha is with the College World Series.” n n n Up-to-date Flyer schedules, records and rosters are available at

Kelsey Miller, front, taking her time in Togo

Eyes on the bigger picture Senior Kelsey Miller has a lot going on. She’s a pre-med major and central defender for the women’s soccer team who spent a month in Togo, Africa, this summer as a medical intern. Yet she knows none of it is about her. “Whether you are on the field or volunteering, the bigger picture is that you are a part of something great,” Miller said. To contribute to that picture, she traveled with Projects Abroad to Lomé, Togo’s capital, to shadow a doctor in the pediatric center of Tokoin Lomé University Hospital Center and visit local orphanages. Though Miller was very busy, there wasn’t necessarily a schedule to follow. “No one knew what time it was,” she said. In the United States, “people have to do this, this, this, and it’s so chaotic. Over there, we could slow down. Patience is now a virtue I possess.” Along with patience, Miller’s experience taught her how fortunate she is. Though visiting the orphanages was her favorite part of the internship, it was also the saddest. She interacted with kids who had no idea how seriously ill they were. It was difficult to know that, after she left, their conditions weren’t going to change. She talks of returning after she’s spent a couple of years practicing medicine. “I want to figure out what I’m doing first,” she said. “I want to go back when I can actually make a difference.” A month in Togo taught her not to worry about the little things, a bigpicture mentality that lends itself to her soccer career. Being a teammate, Miller said, is a lot like being a volunteer. “Being part of a team really teaches you how to work with others and remember that you are just one piece of the puzzle. On a team you are working for your teammates, which is what a volunteer does. They give their time and skills to help others.” —Meredith Hirt ’13

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IN MEMORIAM

Seven-story-high steel tridents — part of the original facade of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center — rise inside the museum pavilion at the National September 11 Memorial.

16 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

By Shannon Shelton Miller n

9/11

A decade later, the nation and UD look back

arc Wieman ’78 appears

bombing, now sit, inscribed in bronze panels,

and cribs to women in the Miami Valley. “I cel-

video for the National

former site of the Twin Towers.

Tracy Irvine Janess ’87.

at the beginning of a

September 11 Memorial

n Alfonse Joseph Niedermeyer II ’83 worked

a ceremony for victims’ families on the 10th an-

for the Port Authority Police Department as an of-

shares an anecdote about

was scheduled the following day.

occupies S-28 with other first responders. Nieder-

Trade Center, where he

his wife’s decision to stay

niversary of the 9/11 attacks, and a public opening Along with the six University graduates, all of

in New York City the night of Sept. 10, 2001. The

whom died at the World Trade Center, many more

land, but Mary had a late client dinner near her

of University alumni faculty, staff and students

office and an early meeting the next morning. His wife never returned home.

Mary Catherine Lenz Wieman ’80 worked for

Aon Corp. in 2 World Trade Center. At 9:03 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 175 slammed

into her building, the south tower, just 16 min-

friends, family members, spouses and associates were lost in the terrorist attacks that day in New

A museum of artifacts and details about the

which consists of two reflecting pools with bronze tains the names of those who died in the north tower or on Flight 11, along with the 1993 victims.

of Bermuda native Rhondelle Cherie Tankard, an

Aon co-worker, requested that Tankard’s name be placed next to Wieman’s, Marc Wieman said.

n William Eben Wilson ’65 was an insurance

broker at Aon. His name is engraved on S-61 with other Aon employees.

n David Wiswall ’69 was a senior vice presi-

news stories that after the first plane hit the north

into the Pentagon, and United Flight 93, which

changed the nation. Outside the greater New York

the World Trade Center attacks. Her square, S-59,

on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed

raise funds for the memorial and increase aware-

that future generations would never forget how it

n Mary Lenz Wieman was a marketing execu-

dent at Aon. His name occupies S-55 with other

south tower, at the Pentagon, on Flight 175,

ness of that day’s tragic events, hoping to ensure

of Flushing Bay in 1992.

The south pool lists those who died in the

moment, I knew that she was not coming home.”

Wieman would travel the nation years later to

USAir Flight 405, which crashed in the icy waters

contains co-workers from Aon. Family members

gether, a nonprofit organization of 9/11 families.

panels edging the structures. The north pool con-

ing collapse,” he said later in the video. “At that

previously risked his life to save passengers of

ma, in the Pentagon and founded Our Voices To-

example, Eugene Steuerle ’68 lost his wife, Nor-

was gone, and the north tower would follow at

“When I turned around, I watched that build-

meyer was a 16-year Port Authority veteran who

tive at Aon, one of the companies hit hardest by

events of Sept. 11 accompanies the memorial,

10:28 a.m.

ficer in commercial vehicle inspection. His name

York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. For

utes after American Airlines Flight 11 hit the north

tower. Fifty-six minutes later, the south tower

crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa. First responders are also listed on the south pool.

Settling on an appropriate way to list the

Aon employees. Surviving co-workers said in tower, Wiswall helped his colleagues evacuate the south tower by getting them to the stairwell and holding the door open.

n Joseph J. Zuccala ’68 appears at space S-44

area, where many lost loved ones, Wieman wor-

names was no easy task. Alphabetically didn’t

with co-workers from Fuji Bank, where he worked

“The museum and memorial are important,”

didn’t make sense either. Names were divided

79th-82nd floors of the south tower, part of the

ried that Sept. 11 was becoming “just another day.” Wieman said. “There’s a whole generation of kids where the phrase ‘post-9/11’ is all they know. [My

travels] were to explain how life was before. Not just mine, but everyone’s.”

That pre-9/11 world was one where airports

casually screened passengers and let family and

seem right. Some kind of chronological order based on occupation or location at the time of

death. From there, victims’ family and friends could request that their loved ones’ names be engraved in proximity to the names of others with whom they shared a special connection.

that tragic day but who perished together as they attempted to help one another.

The names of all of the UD graduates appear

2,976 people participated in the routine of everyday

on south pool panels.

planning vacations, marrying, raising families

in space S-51, is linked to other co-workers at the

last time. Six of them were University of Dayton

ners. Family members and friends who live in the

life — going to work, attending religious services,

and contributing to their communities — for the alumni.

The names of those 2,976 individuals, along

with six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center

honor at the University, named for Zuccala’s fraternity, Delta Gamma Omega.

As for Marc Wieman, he’s spent the past de-

the grief but not spending their time “living in

volved people who didn’t know each other before

It was also a world where, on Sept. 10, 2001,

ily and friends established a scholarship in his

co-workers and friends. A few placements in-

booming and military engagements in the Midresults.

area where Flight 175 made a direct impact. Fam-

cade raising three children and working to make

family ties. In others, there were bonds between

dle East felt to many like swift affairs with quick

as a consultant. The bank had offices on the

In some cases, connected names represented

friends follow fliers to their gates and greet them

there when they returned. The economy was

Dedication of the memorial took place during

ebrate her life through Secret Smiles,” said sister

& Museum at the World

Wiemans lived in Rockville Centre, on Long Is-

on a permanent structure in New York City at the

life as normal as possible, learning to live with that place,” he said. Mary’s birthday and Sept. 11

will always remain difficult, but there have been bright moments, such as his remarriage two years ago to wife Stephanie.

His work with the Sept. 11 memorial has been

n Kristin Irvine-Ryan ’93, whose name sits

beneficial, and he praised the foundation’s design

investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Part-

ber of names, and the placement of the names on

Dayton area continue to operate Secret Smiles, a

charity Ryan started in New York to help women in need. Today, the organization provides beds

work. The panels don’t all contain the same numeach square is not symmetrical.

That randomness is purposeful, he said.

“Conceptually, I like the design,” Wieman said.

“Everyone didn’t die in neat, orderly fashion.”

IN MEMORIAM

By David O’Brien n

9/11

Then and now

his month we share memories

example people left: Be selfless, help the person

know that there is history and

Jesuit Jim Martin told us later of visiting

of Sept. 11, 2001. We historians

around you and get through it.”

history, what happened and our

Ground Zero, offering what help he could as a

For example, referring to moving

of a large boat anchored near the site that had

stories about what happened. photographs that caught the experiences of 9/11, Garrison Keil-

lor wrote: “The mainstream media seized upon

and American. And I have never had to. I thus

came from across the country to help.

“The main dining room, warm and redolent

tered around dozens of round wooden tables,” he

national leaders prepared for war, many Ameri-

cans paused in wonder amid the pain. We met people who lost loved ones, each with a story,

we attended and heard about remarkable ceremonies, and there was a lot of silence. I recall

a “reflection session” at my college where some expressed strong political reactions, but Father

Bill Reiser said quietly that he found it too over-

whelming to offer a thoughtful response quite yet.

Later I read of ministers at the site who sim-

ply listened to the anguish of stricken families and exhausted rescuers. Father Mychal Judge,

firemen’s chaplain and “the Saint of 9/11,” asked his Lord to take him where he was sup-

fee, is crammed with hundreds of workers, cluswrote in Searching for God at Ground Zero. “Firemen

ber day. I could not get enough of those sto-

ries, in the reporting of superb journalists like Jim Dwyer, even more in the profiles of victims

published day after day, week after week, in The New York Times.

And I could not stop looking at those power-

ful photographic images of sacrifice and death

or, truck drivers offer to fetch a cup of coffee for a

state trooper. It is a strange and beautiful sight. … Here, I think, is a powerful image of the King-

dom of God — here is everyone eating together, working together, talking with one another,

sharing stories, encouraging one another in

the common work of charity. It’s difficult not to

really were in ‘a state of grace.’ They helped each other. They didn’t panic. Most people are basi-

cally good. I know this, with certainty, because I had gone through the crucible. What a great

think it was an illusion, they were found wormonk Thomas Merton who had fled the world

in 1940 for the Trappist monastery and from his monk’s cell blasted away at the world and its

people until, on a famous day, coming from the dentist, standing on a crowded street corner in Louisville, Ky., he looked around him and his heart cried out: My God, I love all these people.

So 9/11 meant for me recommitment to

ly, a vision grounded for me in memories of fam-

the presence of God.”

From life stories of victims, unending stories

ing, I learned, maybe relearned, lessons of love.

workers and airline passengers, knowing they would die, who called others to say “I love you.”

I learned that the much decried American individualism is real and for the most part good — at

least among our own, we Americans do value

persons as persons, thank God. And I learned that individualism is also a myth for, when the chips of life were down, so many of these people thought not of themselves but of others.

and Christian — vision of a single human famiily and anticommunist Catholicism, challenged

and revised by encounters with John XXIII and Norman Thomas and Martin Luther King Jr. and

Catholic Workers, too easily backsliding into self-serving complaints masquerading as meta-

criticism, but drawn back to shared responsibili-

ty by history itself. As a young African-American woman discovered on a civil rights march one day in Boston, history isn’t made by somebody else, in some other time and some other place;

it’s made by us and by the choices we make. Freedom, including ours, has a purpose, and it is tested by private and public choices.

The meaning of 9/11, history as story, will

I have always cherished a line from a Cath-

be constructed out of the choices we continue to

lationships we all have in family, workplace,

have been for civic idolatry and empire, and for

neighborhood and says that it is from that com-

came to on 9/11 is that people in the stairwell …

On 9/11 Americans, our people, my people,

At the very least, the room seems suffused with

bread in the spirit of sacrifice and remembrance.

workers headed down. Later one of those office ee, said of the experience, “The one conclusion I

Americans as much as Catholics.

America and Americans, and to the American —

olic religious text that describes the many re-

workers, John Labriola, a Port Authority employ-

present and future of American Catholics — as

think of it as a Eucharistic meal — a breaking of

and of heroic generosity. In one image a young

fireman is ascending the stairs, passing office

ing responsibility for, as best I could, the past,

thy. We shared for a moment the feeling of the

clear room at their table for a Red Cross counsel-

How many stories there were of Twin Tower

lives history as actuality exploded that Septem-

historian, interested in, worried about, tak-

bread with search and rescue teams, soldiers

water bottles to iron workers, counselors break

Of course, I was distressed by the quick pub-

stories of the people of 9/11, people into whose

became an American historian, not a church

were tested and, for a shining moment, I don’t

of helping and remarkable reports of mourn-

lic talk of war, but I was distracted, absorbed, by

I would ever have to choose between Catholic

eat with FEMA officials, police officers hand

posed to go, then “keep me out of your way.” He died that day.

So 9/11 reminded me that I am, I have always

been commandeered to serve the rescuers, who

mound of rubble); thus began a sort of mythifiBut theirs was not the only story. While

in the middle of real life.

been, an Americanist — I never understood that

of the smell of lasagna, roast chicken and cof-

cation of the day.”

and faith and love can and do happen right here,

priest. At one point he entered the dining room

inspirational and patriotic images, such as the

picture of three fireman (placing the flag on the

limited, that evil and sin are real, but that hope

plex fabric that “the very web of our existence is woven.” And as fascinating stories of such webs were told, it became clear to me — why had it been so dim — that love really does matter.

It is easy to find such stories sentimental,

but I found in people like Labriola and Dwyer

and Mychal Judge an awareness that we are all

make in its wake. So far too many public choices death, but the story is not over, not by a long shot. Look at all the love that day. Love can still

write another chapter and keep hope alive for a better future. The meaning of 9/11 lies ahead, and it’s in our hands, and maybe in our hearts.

David O’Brien is University Professor of Faith and

Culture.

J E F F S TA H L E R F O R T H E C I N C I N N AT I P O S T , S E P T E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 0 1

ANDY SNOW

20 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

New land. World-class research. Strong enrollment. Rising reputation. Forward thinking and bold moves inspired by our Marianist mission have characterized the presidency of Daniel J. Curran at the University of Dayton. B y Paul Fain

an Curran answers his cell phone even from 12 time zones around the world. “I would wake him up at 3 a.m. in China, and he would take the call,” says J.P. Nauseef ’88, the former president and CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition. “He has always been almost 100 percent accessible.” Nauseef’s call to China was a sign of changing times, for the University of Dayton and its president. Curran is more likely than ever to be a player in high-level discussions about Dayton’s regional economic interests, which was on Nauseef’s mind that morning. And there’s a decent chance that when Curran’s cell phone rings, he’s traveling internationally and representing a Catholic university that’s gone global in a big way.

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Curran has embraced these multifaceted

roles, more so than most university leaders nationally. Higher education can be a cautious in-

dustry, and colleges and universities typically choose to turn their focus inward during chal-

says the “University is now as Catholic as it has ever been.”

UD at all. When approached about the presi-

dency, he initially declined. He was happy at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, an

CALCULATED RISK TAKING

Doubt has lurked around the edges of some

Atlantic 10 Conference member where he had spent 23 years as both an administrator and

lenging times, like a recession’s wake. Not UD,

of the changes at the University. But UD’s suc-

nary degree during Curran’s more than nine

ran’s tenure has quickly erased worries about

ran that the University would be a perfect fit

One example is UD’s 2005 purchase of a

his first day at UD, a student guide gave him

which has expanded its reach to an extraordiyears at the helm.

The pace of change has been among the

cess at analyzing and taking risks during Curthe pace of the momentum.

most rapid and substantial seen at any Ameri-

50-acre brownfield from NCR. This summer,

ally doubled in size in the last five years. Also

lion research center on eight acres of the re-

can university. The physical campus has literdoubling since Curran’s arrival has been the volume of sponsored research to nearly $100 million annually — a benchmark that puts

UD in the big leagues. At the same time, applications for the first-year class have also almost doubled, with growing numbers of students coming from beyond Ohio and even the

GE Aviation began construction of a $51 milmediated land. With it will come high-tech

jobs, which is desperately needed good news

for Dayton. And the facility creates a valuable

the change is enough to make your head spin. Even Brown Street is virtually unrecognizable thanks to

the University’s seemingly endless

redevelopment

projects. As the cliché goes, this isn’t your daddy’s UD. Or is it?

People who know both

old and new at the Uni-

versity say its character remains very much intact and has actually driven much of the progress in recent years.

president, Brother Raymond L. Fitz, S.M. ’64,

asked to meet his family. “He’s cool,” Curran’s two young sons reported after chatting with Brother Ray.

Curran says he quickly got a sense of the

dent. But doubts about his candidacy lin-

This outcome, however, was not a sure

the deal the first time around.

Keeping up with all

the standard walking tour and the current

and faculty.

versity, which stands to benefit both students

while the University’s selectivity and academic for more.)

for him, he decided to visit campus. During

University, that it would indeed be the right

thing when the University was negotiating

reputation also continue to rise. (See Page 25

But when a search consultant told Cur-

partnership between GE Aviation and the Uni-

United States. Total student enrollment is up

by almost 11 percent, to 11,199 Flyers in 2010,

scholar.

the purchase. In fact, Curran had to break off

place for him to become a university presigered. Fitz was a tough act to follow. He was

beloved during his 23 years as president, the longest presidency in the University’s history.

Curran would also be UD’s first lay presi-

“We had to step away because the risk was

dent. While other Catholic universities had

of pollution from the

town University, some alumni and others con-

too high,” says Curran. Cleaning up decades

‘He kept the Marianist tradition and feel, but he turned up the speed limit for everybody.’

manufacture

cash

registers is no easy task, and an environmental

hired lay presidents, most notably Georgenected to UD worried that its distinctive Marianist character might be diminished.

During the interview process, Curran de-

analysis convinced Cur-

cided to just be himself. At the time he was

the costs would be too

vice president for academic affairs, as well as

ran and his team that

much under the initial terms.

But UD kept at the

table, to use a Marianist metaphor. And eventually Curran felt confi-

Saint Joseph’s executive vice president and a sociologist with impressive bona fides as a

scholar specializing in criminology, juvenile justice and social problems. He also had deep experience in international affairs, particularly with China.

Finan and Dave Phillips ’62 were co-chairs

dent that the University

of the presidential search committee. Finan

federal and state money

lips talked with Curran.

would be able to attract

to help pay for environ-

says it was an easy decision after he and Phil-

“We said, ‘This is our guy.’ He knew where

Take UD’s leadership in Dayton’s economic

mental cleanup and infrastructure improve-

he wanted to take the University.”

said he felt the University should be an “agent

still-substantial $25 million. Later, the prop-

comfortable with the Marianists, and that

than $10 million from the U.S. Army Corps of

social justice resonated with him. He also saw

development. When Curran arrived in 2002, he for social change.” That means an active engagement in the local community — a central

tenet of the Marianist tradition. Ignoring Day-

ton’s painful decade-plus of economic turmoil and lost jobs would not have been true to UD’s

ments. The University bought the land for a erty’s redevelopment was bolstered by more

Engineers and the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund.

“It was a leap of faith,” says Richard Finan

core beliefs.

’54, who was chair of the University’s board

city,” says Archbishop Emeritus Daniel E. Pila-

was the right thing to do.”

“The University is an energetic part of the

rczyk, who worked closely with UD during his

of trustees at the time of the purchase. “But it

The bold move is part of a recurring theme

25 years as archbishop of Cincinnati. Just as

of Curran’s presidency, which many describe

have been “conspicuously Catholic.” In fact, he

Curran’s first leap of faith was coming to

important, he says both UD and its president

as one of calculated risk taking.

22 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

For his part, Curran says he quickly felt

their sense of community and commitment to

a well-managed University that was poised to take a leap.

“There was a sense of building upon some-

thing,” Curran says. “It was just the perfect match for me.”

Worries about a lay president failed to ma-

terialize after Curran arrived. In fact, many

say UD has been more intentional about its

Marianist influence under a lay president. Rick Pfleger ’77, a member of the board of

trustees, says Curran’s administration has worked hard to preserve and integrate the Uni-

versity’s Catholic culture in its work.

“He kept the Marianist tradition and feel,

but he turned up the speed limit for everybody.”

His pace could have been a concern. Some

people felt the up-and-comer from the East Coast might use the presi-

But don’t underestimate the competitive,

That passion sometimes includes push-

serious side of UD, or its president.

ing boundaries, as UD did with the branding

ing savvy negotiators and tend to move much

lar, the glossy and provocative viewbook the

Universities generally aren’t known as be-

more slowly than their peers in the corporate world. UD, however, has bucked this trend with its recent growth.

A good example is Marianist Hall, the new-

campaign it introduced in 2007. In particu-

University sent to prospective students raised eyebrows.

Some people, including several faculty

members, alumni and the student newspa-

per’s editors, thought

dency as a steppingstone

the viewbook went too

to another job. Curran has

far. One page asked: “Do

proved that fear wrong. By

you know more about

all accounts, he’s a Flyer basketball

fanatic,

Lindsay

even

when Saint Joseph’s is in

women wearing glossy

under his belt, the 60-year-

lipstick.

old Curran is diving into the

The branding effort

University’s next big move

was part of a key shift

China.

ter arriving on campus,

— an ambitious venture in

for UD, Curran says. Af-

Perhaps the best proof of

he and Sundar Kuma-

Curran’s UD roots is that his

rasamy, the University’s

younger son, Aidan, is a ju-

vice president for en-

nior at the University. Hav-

rollment management,

ing a parent’s investment is

took a hard look at UD’s

an undeniable influence on

enrollment pipeline and

Curran, and it shows.

saw a looming problem.

“My son coming here,”

Ohio’s

he says, “was just an affir-

shifts

mation of what I thought UD was all about.”

Christine Farmer is a

senior psychology major at

demographic

were

resulting

in fewer students who During his career, President Curran has traveled numerous times to China, where the University will open the University of Dayton China Institute in Suzhou Industrial Park in 2012.

UD and the Student Govern-

were academically prepared to attend UD. To

strengthen

even maintain its aca-

ment Association’s president. She’s met with

est residence hall on campus, which opened in

demic reputation and enrollment, the Uni-

the president, she says: “He acts like a parent.

timeline to finish the building. The University

students from around the country and inter-

Curran several times. When asked to describe He wants to get to know you as a student.”

TELLING UD’S STORY

2004. A construction firm asked for a two-year pushed hard for one year, and the firm hit the deadline.

their jobs long amid controversy, even if the problem isn’t their fault.

had

become

very

Ohio-centric,”

Chicago and population centers on the East

the south student neighborhood, about the

can be a volatile job, and presidents don’t keep

“We

Street project, a residential arts complex in

cooperation between the University’s faculty, stops with the president. A college presidency

nationally.

Curran says. “We had to go back to many

contractor, which was working on the Art-

staff, students and supporters. But the buck

versity would need to work harder to recruit

Even better, UD administrators told a rival

Curran is quick to say that UD’s progress

over the last nine years has been the result of

compressed schedule for Marianist Hall. Al-

of our traditional markets,” which include Coast.

The viewbook was part of the attempt to

though ArtStreet was planned as a two-year

get the word out more broadly about a Univer-

year as well.

ficult draw.

construction project, the firm finished it in a Beating construction deadlines for major

sity in a region that had become a more difThe University brought in a marketing

Leadership also sets a tone, even for an

buildings is virtually unheard of in higher ed-

firm from Philadelphia to work on the cam-

university. Curran’s approach meshes well

and some of that speed is due to Curran, who

But being a little bit brash appears to have paid

organization as large as a national research

with UD’s dominant personality type, which is a blend of friendly and efficient. The Uni-

ucation. UD is agile for a research university, is often described as being high-energy.

“It’s hard to keep up with him,” says

paign, which was both edgy and expensive. off.

Applications for the 2008 freshman class

versity has the intimate feel of a much smaller

Joseph Saliba ’79, the University’s provost.

went up a whopping 33 percent, which helped

western affability.

passionate.”

its standing in the U.S. News & World Report

college, which is helped by its laid-back, Mid-

than

a picture of two young

town. And with nine years

Lohan

Darfur?” and included

“He doesn’t always show it, but he’s very

the University be more selective and boosted

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ANDY SNOW

rankings. UD has continued that momentum, and this year’s freshman class is among the

largest, most ethnically and geographically diverse, and academically strong in the University’s history.

The branding campaign also drew national

media coverage, including a story in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the headline: “Once-Quiet University of Dayton Pushes a Bold Brand.”

Pfleger, who has founded two technology

companies, says the time had come for UD to do 24 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

When Curran arrived in 2002, he said he felt the University should be an ‘agent for social change.’ That means an active engagement in the local community — a central tenet of the Marianist tradition.

some bragging.

“I was very frustrated, coming from a sales

and marketing background, that the story was

NCR headquarters.

means the University is ready to sit back and

Curran brings the skills of a corporate CEO to

next ambitious pursuit: the University of Day-

how they handled the purchase, noting that

in spades.”

the university setting — no easy task, given UD’s broad range of stakeholders, including

SEALING THE DEAL

UD’s viewbook may have been bold, but no

move during Curran’s tenure has been more assertive than the purchase of NCR’s corporate headquarters and adjacent parkland. The 2009 acquisition included

a world-class 455,000-square-foot building, which is now home to

was 115 acres of land, which increased the size of UD’s landlocked campus by 45 percent.

The purchase was also enor-

mously symbolic. “What

underestimated

was the reaction of the greater Dayton community,” Curran says.

NCR’s departure had stung

Dayton

deeply.

The

company

had long played a leadership role

“College presidents have so many constit-

the Suzhou Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province

many more.

uencies,” Luongo says. “He doesn’t sacrifice one for the others.”

Campus size

Sponsored research

holds, UD has a serious operation brewing in in eastern China. A five-story, 54,000-square-

foot building will be exclusively UD’s and will include classrooms, laboratories and

Then

Now

212 acres

387 acres

University students is from outside

$47.5 million

$95.3 million

Applications

7,496

11,567

for the world they’ll enter.

35 percent

48 percent

24.7

26.1

Average ACT

strategic goals with the institutional missions

University, working with a private developer, façades and 427 beds at the site.

Activity also started to hum over at the

old NCR headquarters, now called River Cam-

mendous business acumen.”

building is open and staffed, and work is con-

“He has great vision,” she says, and “a treUD drove a hard bargain for the NCR head-

chase, opting against using a middleman.

quisition. The nation’s most influential news-

rubble that was the former Frank Z

of its members.

the national news media took note of UD’s

wrote a substantial story about the NCR ac-

During one hot summer day, bull-

is building student housing with townhouse

quarters and surrounding land. Curran’s staff

move, including The New York Times, which

ects continue on campus as well.

McGlade refers to Curran as a “CEO” when

ca and the new hope of a knowledge economy fostered by research universities. As a result,

The action at UD isn’t just hap-

pening in China. Construction proj-

Chevrolet dealership on Brown Street. The

discussing his role in balancing the A-10’s

about the decline of manufacturing in Ameri-

engagement and preparing students

Bernadette V. McGlade agrees. The com-

it was a changing of the guard.

The NCR purchase is part of a broader story

trators to China to see the vast oppor-

dozers could be seen rolling over the

missioner of the Atlantic 10 Conference,

the Dayton Daily News wrote in an editorial.

Curran has brought faculty, stu-

dents, trustees and fellow administunities for advancing international

University sent a message about its growing

ful as it was, has set the stage for UD’s rise,”

campus’s global perspective.

11,199

Out-of-state students

“NCR’s long-term decline in Dayton, pain-

the United States, enriching the

10,125

stature in Dayton and beyond. In some ways,

fall, approximately one in every 10

Total enrollment

By quickly taking on NCR’s headquarters, the

The China Institute is another

step toward UD’s globalization. This

$420 million

Endowment

project space.

$258 million

amid severe economic hardship.

dealt directly with the corporation on the pur-

The University ultimately paid $18 million for a property assessed at $31.3 million.

But a good price isn’t all the university

pus, even during the dog days of summer. The tinuing on the Alumni Center. It’s a beautiful

space with a retro feel. The facility looks over the Great Miami River toward UD Arena. The

University now stretches all the way from the

historic core of campus to the Arena Sports Complex across the river.

An eye-catching feature sits in the front of

paper briefly mentioned similar purchases by

got. Tom Burkhardt ’70, the University’s vice

River Campus. It’s a huge, welcoming lawn.

University of Michigan — signaling that UD

services, played a major role in the negotia-

NCR lawnmowers. UD

other universities — Yale University and the can now hold its own among the cream of the crop in higher education.

Pete Luongo ’65, a University trustee and

the retired president and CEO of The Berry Company, says Dayton is fortunate, on many levels, for the University’s growing influence.

“That would have been an absolute night-

Unlike some university forays into China,

which can be little more than tenuous foot-

in the region, and its exit came

ton China Institute.

students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni and

tute and the developing Alumni

included in the $18 million deal

rest on its laurels. Indeed, Curran is on to the

Then and Now: UD’s Momentum Since 2002

the University’s Research InstiCenter, among other uses. Also

The largest expansion in its history hardly

Luongo praises Curran and his team for

not being told,” he says. But with the branding campaign, “it happened, and it happened

FROM RIVER CAMPUS TO CHINA

mare if that had sat empty,” he says of the

president for finance and administrative

tions. As the deal was closing, Curran asked

Burkhardt to push for NCR to include all the

And yes, it’s been freshly mowed, with those

Paul Fain is a veteran higher-education journalist

furniture in the headquarters building as part

and a reporter with Inside Higher Ed. He also re-

Burkhardt landed the furniture and also

sistant vice president for Widmeyer Communications.

of the sale.

got NCR to throw in all the lawnmowers for the facility.

cently worked with colleges and universities as an asAn Oakwood, Ohio, native, he grew up in the shadow of UD and is a lifelong Flyer basketball fan.

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 25

By Jeanne Erdmann Illustration by Randy Palmer

Lens crafters

New knowledge about the regenerative powers of newts is overturning 250 years of conventional scientific wisdom and may one day lead to unlocking a similar capacity in humans.

IN 1994 GORO

Eguchi headed out the door

to test that conclusion. Eguchi and his col-

Okazaki, Japan, on a hunt

cions about how aging would affect regen-

of his research laboratory in that had become familiar to him over the course of his long

career.

Eyes

trained

downward, Eguchi, 61 years old at the time, searched ponds and puddles for the Japanese fire-bellied newt. The creatures aren’t easy

to spot. Although their underbellies are dotted in bright orange from chin to tail, their

newt for decades. Tsonis, director of UD’s Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engi-

neering at Dayton, had done doctoral work in Eguchi’s lab and has devoted his career to figuring out how lens regeneration in newts works.

To test such an idea, of course, they

needed to take the long view. That’s

Few developmental biologists in the

lecting adult newts. He needed newts

world are as familiar with these newts, also

known as Cynops pyrrhogaster, as Eguchi. He’s

devoted his career to studying a biological phenomenon known as regeneration, the

ability of some animals to regrow a lost body part. Other animals can regenerate — in-

cluding salamanders, frogs and worms —

why, 17 years ago, Eguchi began colthat were nearly full-sized to make

certain they would be old enough at the start of the experiment. The fire-

bellied newt grows slowly, reaching

about 4 inches long — about 90 percent of its mature length — after 14 years.

Japanese fire-bellied newts were the per-

but newts are the champions. Remove part

fect research subjects for this type of experi-

away the lens on the eye? No problem. In

live very long and don’t tolerate captivity

of a limb or tail and another one grows. Take one month, a new lens grows back.

The fire-bellied newt’s ability to restore

certain tissue has fascinated scientists for

more than 250 years. In 1768, Lazzaro Spall-

ment. Unlike American newts, which don’t

well, Japanese newts can live more than 30 years in captivity and thrive in laboratory life.

Eguchi’s lab took responsibility for the

anzani studied regeneration in newts and

animal maintenance and planning of sur-

ones return. Sometimes, though, the limbs

ers at the Sanford Children’s Health Re-

frogs, cutting off limbs and watching new that regrew in Spallanzani’s experiments were missing some bones or didn’t otherwise grow back properly. So for a long time,

researchers studying regeneration were con-

gery, and Tsonis collaborated with researchsearch Center in La Jolla, Calif., to analyze

the animals’ DNA, molecular profile and the structure of their lenses.

“American newts have such a short lifes-

vinced that as animals aged, their ability to

pan in captivity, so keeping them around in

minished over time.

says Tsonis. “It’s the type of collaboration

regenerate limbs, lenses and even hearts diNo one had ever designed an experiment

eration because they’d both worked with the

backs are brownish-black, helping them blend with muddy water.

league Panagiotis Tsonis had their suspi-

the lab for a continued experiment is tricky,” that could not happen otherwise.”

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 27

Starting such an experiment was a leap

The technique to remove the lens (called

moved when the experiment began 16 years

cornea followed by a light pinch with fine

were at least 30 years old — comparable to a

of faith. Seventeen years ago, the DNA tech-

a lentectomy) is simple. Just a tiny slit in the

hadn’t been developed or were too expensive to

forceps, and the entire lens comes out in one

niques needed to analyze the data either even consider. That’s why up until a decade or

so ago, regeneration science had been mostly

descriptive, says Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, a regeneration specialist at the Stowers In-

piece. The cornea heals in 24 hours, and a lens has been differentiated within a month.

Over the first six years of the experiment,

earlier, they found. And even newts that 90-year-old human — showed no decline in

their ability to regrow lenses every bit as good as those they started out with as young’uns. Each lens regrew with equal speed and vigor.

stitute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo. Scientists had been chopping off limbs or

heads and tails of worms or removing lenses and then watching them grow back, but they couldn’t do much more.

WHETHER ONE

is watching newts regrow

lenses or watching worms regrow heads and tails,

regeneration makes for great videos. But those videos don’t tell research-

ers what is going on at the molecular level, nor

can it identify the genes responsible. Over the past 10 years, though, DNA sequencing — the

technique that allows scientists to “read” the

genetic code — has become less expensive, and other molecular techniques that allow scientists to add or remove genes or switch genes off have helped the regeneration field in general.

The progress at the molecular level has

Panagiotis

TSONIS

been slow because animals that regenerate

well (newts and a species of worm known as planaria) have not been amenable to study with traditional genetics, either because their sex-

ual reproductive cycles are too long or because traditional genetics and molecular resources

Eguchi’s team performed 12 lentectomies (two

erating brethren began to fall behind other

carefully examining the lenses from those

were not available. So newts and their regen-

research animals, such as mice or even zebra fish.

Researchers like Tsonis spent painstak-

ing years getting these genetic and molecular techniques to work in the newts, his lab supported by continuous funding from the Na-

tional Institutes of Health since 1995. As other molecular techniques became available (such as ways to silence genes), the field of regeneration technology slowly became less descriptive

and researchers started to piece together the networks of genes and molecules involved in

chez Alvarado. “It’s going to become a classic

surgeries, the researchers determined that

entific reason.” Such lengthy, basic science

repetition was not a problem: The lens architecture (the size and shape of the tissue) and

molecules in each lens were exactly the same. After that, Eguchi removed the lenses only

once a year, and the team focused on the ef-

fects of aging. In 2011, after the experiment

had been going for 16 years, Tsonis felt it was time to stop. “We had quite clear data,” he says.

IN A STUDY

rebuilding lost tissues.

published this summer in Nature Communications,

As the 16-year experiment continued, Tso-

Eguchi and Tsonis con-

nis was able, through painstaking work, to

cluded that newts’ abil-

eration. Eventually, Tsonis could compare

was practically limitless:

use these techniques to analyze lens regen-

whether the same genes were switched on or off year after year as the newts grew older.

“This is a fundamental paper,” says Sán-

a year on the same eye of each newt). After

ity to regenerate lenses

the 17th and 18th lenses (the last two lenses removed) were exactly the same as lenses re-

28 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

for two reasons, a practical reason and a sciexperiments are extremely unlikely to be

funded in the United States, he says, because such research grants are given for five years and renewals for four years. Funding is also rare for a single experiment. “It’s very difficult to accomplish long-term experiments.”

But the experiment is notable not only

for the researchers’ perseverance but also for

its scientific significance, Sánchez Alvarado

says. “Here is a real experiment with real data that essentially says, ‘Vertebrates can actu-

ally do this; they are aging chronologically, the animals are 30 years old, but biologically

they’re young.’ To me that’s a remarkable paradigm shift because it provides incontrovertible evidence that chronological and biologi-

cal age are not necessarily the same thing.

It’s nice to go to your list of things we don’t

know about regeneration and scratch that one

lens offered another advantage over limb re-

all sorts of cancer-inducing chemicals,

from cells in the dorsal, or upper, part of the

wants to return to those experiments so

off the list.”

generation: the newt lens always regenerates

entists don’t know about regeneration is still

eye and never the ventral, or lower part, even

Sánchez Alvarado says the list of what sci-

quite long. Now, with all of the information from genome sequencing on so many species,

researchers know there’s a finite collection of

though they’re the same type of cell.

REGENERATION

starts as a group of cells

genes, and those genes are coming together in

lection of attributes that are shared throughthe take-home message is that “we’re incred-

form) and transdifferentiation (when one cell type

tion.’’

Even though people don’t regenerate body

parts like newts, the regenerative capacities

we do possess begin to diminish with age. Hair

converts into another cell type). Tsonis wants

to know everything about how these processes

work to understand fundamental biological

generate limbs and heads and others don’t. Researchers suspect that we all have the capability, but in humans that capacity is geneti-

cally turned off for most tissues. People can regenerate liver and skin, and children can

regenerate fingertips. Now that researchers

erative Biology and Medicine, compares the man’s ability to regrow the liver. Researchers

can remove a fairly substantial fraction of the liver in lab experiments, and it will regenerate

over and over — but he says the Tsonis team

He’s also continued to make his own mark in lens regeneration. He finds the lens attrac-

tive because it provides a more clear-cut way for the research to proceed than limb regen-

eration because the process happens faster. Even more alluring was the way the lens re-

generates. For limb regeneration, part of the limb is removed. In the lens, the entire organ

is removed and then rebuilt from a different group of cells in the eye tissue. That phenom-

repeatedly

generated the liver.

Studying regeneration in the

completely different strategies.” Investigating

such

strategies

can

eventually people, says Tsonis. Although are similar and so are cell physiologies. He wants to discover

whether newts and people have the same genes and

cellular

nisms.

One

mecha-

day,

nis

future,

the

hopes

Tsouse

the ultimate goal of regeneration, to treat

regenerate limbs declines.

people.”

or the new limb grows with mistakes, such

as an extra digit. In the long newt experiment the cells that built lens after lens made no mistakes, suggesting that the problems with

limb regeneration might result from its more

Jeanne Erdmann is a medical science writer in

Wentzville, Mo. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Nature and Science News.

complex structure or external factors such as

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old dogmas — and there have been lots of them

CENTER FOR TISSUE

infection. “It tells us though that all of these — are not viable anymore. So the possibility exists that we will find out how to manipulate

things at the site of an injury or disease to regenerate the tissue.”

Tsonis plans on going down some of those

questions in other areas. For instance, Tsonis

the newt,” he says.

according to needs. I don’t think they’re

eration. “It’s not that easy, but that’s

then recreates an entirely different “That’s quite unique, even in

then modified them in different animals

eye disease, such as macular degen-

As newts age, explains

research avenues. He says finding answers

kind of tissue.

ture invented common strategies and

this research to find a way to treat

has

enon has allowed Tsonis a unique opportunity to study how one tissue stops in its tracks and

“There’s no doubt in my mind that na-

anyone

many more times than

Either regeneration slows

rated on not only the lens aging experiment.

and

how stem cells work.

distant

out how to restore specific tissues lost to deOver the past 16 years, Tsonis has collabo-

dur-

has regenerated the lens in the same animal

Stocum, their capacity to

generation and aging.

cells

regeneration

that’s a long way off, cellular pathways

know that aging newts can churn out fresh lenses, Tsonis says they may be able to figure

ing

David Stocum, a regeneration researcher

and die, and why some turn cancerous.

capacity of newts’ lenses to regenerate to a hu-

be able to figure out why some organisms re-

rela-

spark ideas for research in mice and

lenses. None of the newts got cataracts. Since genes, regeneration scientists say that we may

the

tionship between what

questions about how and why cells grow old

at the Indiana University Center for Regen-

humans, mice and so many organisms share

tiation (when cells slip back to a less specialized

recedes, wrinkles increase, muscle mass goes away. None of this happened in the newts’

then back again. Scientif-

can do certain things and others cannot; why comes part of the landscape for our interroga-

He also wants to

newt

ic lingo for these twin processes are dedifferen-

some animals can regenerate so well now be-

trace it.”

that turns them into com-

ibly closely related to each other, so it should

be feasible to understand why some animals

regulated, then I can

investigate

pletely different cells and

out all animal species. For Sánchez Alvarado,

he can figure out why. “If that process is

responsible for pigment

in the iris begin a process

some organized fashion to produce a finite col-

but the newts never got cancer. Now, he

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A river runs through it

By Michelle Tedford P h o t o g r a p h s by L a r ry B u r g e s s

the last five years. All agree that these students

and their ideas are changing the landscape and contributing to a national and local refocus on water resources.

“The river changes every day. Some days, you love it. Others, you’re just frustrated by it.”

And on this sunny July day, senior Bethany

Renner says she is loving it. The sky is blue and the Mad River, an artery winding through East Dayton toward downtown, gurgles over rocky

riffles at a pace easy enough to be navigated by the novices of the group she’s leading.

Renner, blond hair in a tight ponytail, knifes

her kayak through the water. She alerts boaters to a water hazard ahead, an old bridge piling.

More students are teaching in other disciplines, pointing out a blue heron the boaters keep scar-

ing downstream (biology), the clarity of the water (geology), the factories operating alongside (economy) and an outflow pipe that drains

stormwater and whatever else eastside residents dump down the storm grate (public policy). This summer, the River Stewards

“The greatest thing I’ve found is that adults are listening to

of public policy, science, economic development and quality of life.

The Dayton Development Coalition is the re-

gion’s economic development engine. In 2008,

DDC began focusing attention on water as an

economic resource. Then the River Stewards got involved — first as guest presenters, then

as seated members of the Dayton Water Round-

21-year-olds, and what I say matters.”

table — and the conversation evolved to embrace

mill Avenue, hair in a ponytail, arms hugging

retention of a young creative class. Maureen Pat-

lege senior. But the life she describes is some-

DDC, calls the River Stewards “visionary.”

year, she’s been part of a 16-member cohort of

excited by it and that inspires the people sitting

of river education, experience and action in ad-

allowed DDC to better sell the region, she says,

For Mustee, that’s marketing. But she adds

nology and innovation, and marketing quality

Laura Mustee sits on a porch swing on Stone-

quality of life, environmental stewardship and

knees to her pink T-shirt, looking every bit a col-

terson, vice president of stakeholder relations at

thing quite unexpected. Since her sophomore

“They all speak about the water. They are so

River Stewards. Members commit to three years

there,” Patterson says. The stewards’ voices have

dition to their major areas of study.

by growing educational curricula, pushing tech-

biology, sociology, ecology and economics to

of life.

ulty and community partners, much from the

ronmental advisory board. They have presented

in the interdisciplinary program that is more

Water Management Association of Ohio’s an-

the list of what she’s learning, some from fac-

other River Stewards who represent 27 majors intense than a club, more amorphous than a

major. River Stewards choose each new cohort

by application and interview process. The sophomores commit to three years of Friday after-

noon classes and service and civic engagement

of the University of Dayton’s Rivers

River Stewards sit on the city of Dayton envi-

at the Midwest Ground Water Conference, the nual meeting and at the annual meeting of the

Association of American Colleges and Universi-

ties. A steward led a presentation to the DP&L Foundation that netted a $250,000 educational grant. Senior AJ Ferguson coordinates the new

Ohio’s Great Corridor Association,

which brings together governments,

Institute taught nearly 200 paddlers

businesses and community organi-

— professors and students, mayors

zations to promote the Great Miami

and council members, artists and en-

River watershed.

gineers — in their floating classroom,

In the June OGCA meeting, Fer-

just one way the students are fulfill-

guson took notes and allowed partici-

to the river.

100 he wrote on easel sheets that he

ing their promise of bringing Dayton

pants to explore ideas — more than

Senior Alex Galluzzo is paddling

taped around the room — to find com-

sweep on the trip and talking a nau-

mon threads before he offered careful words of analysis.

tical mile a minute. “My first job is

That may be the best part of being

to be sure everyone gets safely down the river,” he says. “Then I’m going to

a steward, he says — being part of the

you, and if you can crawl out with one

most excited about being in a roomful

dynamic conversation. “What I get

throw a big blanket of information on

of mayors and city managers is that I

or two facts, I’m good with that.”

What started as a river trip with

get to test where I am in the quality of

two dozen honors students in 2004 has grown

opportunities. They work with their cohort on a

the ideas I offer.”

sity’s Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

to accomplish the Rivers Institute’s mission of

collaborative power is the annual River Summit,

ers as a strategic natural resource central to the

spring, it attracted more than 200 of Ohio’s lead-

into a sea change emanating from the UniverThe Rivers Institute’s staff, community partners, faculty and committed students can now be

found at the table of every major regional discussion regarding water and its connection to economic vitality, quality of life and environmental

integrity. Some point to these River Stewards as the catalyst for the regional water discussions of

senior project. They constantly create new ways helping the Dayton community to see its riv-

communal, economic, aesthetic and ecological vitality of the region.

The program stretches students and their

leadership potential, and Mustee and others

have proven themselves skillful in discussions

32 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

The best example of the Rivers Institute’s

begun in 2008 and held on UD’s campus. Last ers to sessions on recreation, tourism, watershed protection and how nonprofits and governments can work together to garner grant money for river restoration and recreation projects.

UD is the reason the River Summit works,

RANDY PALMER

the students espouse. “A stronger river corridor is a stronger Troy,” he says. “A stronger Dayton

and a stronger Miamisburg is a stronger Troy. Regionally, when we all grow, we all benefit from one another’s achievements.”

This collaborative mindset is a far cry from

the competitive rhetoric once dominant in the

region, and Kegley points to the River Stewards as a reason.

Dayton city commissioner Nan Whaley ’98

agrees. “They’ve been the catalyst in the region around water issues. If they hadn’t done the Riv-

er Summit and didn’t show the excitement and take the leadership role, you wouldn’t see the OGCA, you wouldn’t see the (downtown Dayton) plan. They’ve been the catalyst.”

“My friend picked me up from the airport, and the first place I went to was RiverScape (in downtown Dayton) so I could see my river.”

Katie Norris ’10 is now surrounded by waters

— geographically, encircled by the Stillwater and Penobscot rivers at the University of Maine in

Orono, and academically, as a graduate student studying the impact of native migrating fish

called alewives on the local ecology. Her research takes her wading through cold streams and ca-

noeing in lakes that are the alewives’ breeding grounds. But she has never felt more connected than she did as a River Steward in Dayton.

“I’ve always loved nature,” she says. “The

Rivers Institute solidified that for me and

showed me how to make the connection be-

tween my love for ecology and water and the rivers with community and the social piece.”

And the river she so loves is different from

the one known by UD alumni from a decade or more ago. During the last 40 years, organiza-

tions like the Miami Conservancy District have been working with farmers, factories and municipalities to improve the quality of the water.

Fish kills of 40 years ago are replaced with

fishermen who catch prize-sized smallmouth says Amy Dingle, outdoor recreational coordi-

nator for Five Rivers MetroParks, the region’s

city of Troy. In 2009, Mayor Mike Beamish wel-

says the University of Dayton, with a reputation

from the headwaters near Indian Lake to Tay-

conservation and recreation organization. She

for seeking the common good, is the neutral player that can bring together competing interests to understand how our ultimate goals are connected.

In the Great Miami River watershed, those

connections extend like the fingers of its tributaries.

Twenty-seven miles upriver from UD is the

comed River Stewards who paddled for five days lorsville Dam north of Dayton as part of their senior project. In Troy they learned about the

city’s long connection with the Great Miami River, about its investment in Treasure Island as a family recreation destination and more.

Stan Kegely, Troy’s project manager, is an ad-

vocate for the River Summit and for the mission

bass in the shadow of the Monument Street bridge. For $6 a half hour, you can rent a kayak

on a lazy Saturday afternoon and paddle where the Great Miami River and Mad River merge in the spray of six giant fountains. More than 40

miles of paved pathways along the river corridor connect to 300 more that wind through farm-

land and prairie, tying Piqua and Urbana to the north through Dayton and Xenia to Cincinnati in the south. Bicyclists share pathways with

joggers, dog-walkers, lunchtime exercisers and young families with toddlers muddy from chas-

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 33

ing geese. Five Rivers MetroParks’ RiverScape

In the Rivers Institute, students become

— with its three blocks of gardens, fountains,

part of the story — and part of the community.

all walks of people downtown, including UD

educates leaders who build community. Cincin-

four-seasons pavilion and bicycle hub — draws students like Norris.

It’s also a river much more accessible to cur-

rent students thanks to the Rivers Institute. The 2011 cohort, the second to graduate from the

program, organized bus trips to introduce Uni-

versity students to recreational amenities and other features of a livable city. The 2012 cohort is

helping to begin a bikeshare program; UD students can check out a bike as easily as a basket-

ball and pedal the spur along Stewart Street to connect to the Great Miami River Trail and the city or countryside beyond.

As an arm of the Fitz Center, the Rivers Institute

a community of learners and a community of

engagement. Civic engagement is a hallmark of

need to feel connected to place. She sought out

recreational enthusiasts. She also is making sure her scientific research is relevant to people

and their concerns — the impact of repatriated fish populations to property values, tourism and fishing. These are values she says she will carry

with her always, no matter the name of the river along which she lives.

near the levees built to protect citizens after the

For AJ Ferguson, that hook was kayaking.

more hooks.”

1913 flood, the visual communication design

What better way to entice a student than the

deposited the gravel that naturally filters Day-

ways and hike the trails? River Stewards talk of

major spoke of the glacier 18,000 years ago that ton’s drinking water, making it some of the best in the world.

“It sort of surprises people about how special

Dayton is,” she says. “They came to the school

(UD) because they know it’s special, but in Dayton you always run into something new and

exciting. The River Stewards have helped to cement us to this city.”

Ferguson was one of three students who pre-

sented at the June Marianist Universities Meet-

“If we want more students to be civically engaged, we need

RiverScape on the Fourth of July. As they sat

you’ll want to protect it,” he says.

nati native Norris took with her to Maine that

Jenny Biette took her boyfriend and friends to

And all stewards are ambassadors. Senior

“There’s a city out there we want you to

enjoy, and when you know it you’ll love it and

opportunity to kayak the rivers, bike the path-

this and more when recruiting the next cohort

ing to presidents, deans and faculty about civic

Marianist education, and the three Marianist universities (University of Dayton, St. Mary’s

University in San Antonio and Chaminade University of Honolulu) are always looking for ways

to do it better. Ferguson believes the Rivers Institute is a perfect example. So does his father.

Dick Ferguson ’73, Fitz Center executive di-

rector, sees in the actions of the Rivers Institute a practical wisdom. Students are not necessarily probing the depths of science but are instead

identifying the knowledge needed by everyday citizens to make connections and take action.

What makes an economics major passionate

about the aquifer? Tap that, and you have the key to civic engagement.

“It’s always very clear that in order to get the

of students, who vie for the 15 or so positions

most out of the students, you have to engage

for the fun, the intensity and the commitment

tell them, you have to be willing to get wet ...

available each year. For fall 2011, 35 applied — that will consume most of their formerly free time.

And once they are hooked by kayaking, the

rest follows.

34 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

their hearts, heads and hands,” he says. “We and spend every Friday afternoon for the next three years with the Rivers Institute. You’re going to have to use your head and think along

with community leaders about how to bring

Dayton to the river.”

And that thinking starts with listening.

In the Rivers Institute, the 45 or so students work with coordinator Leslie King, graduate as-

Around the nation, universities are joining

dominant brainstorming style called nominal

The Rivers Institute at Hanover College in In-

field that both empowers and humbles. A moderator asks each person to contribute an idea.

Ideas are written down, but none are discussed until every idea is out, often after many rounds

of the room. Then the discussion begins, and the group condenses, collapses and prioritizes

ing at ways to use, protect and market water. diana is a hallmark of higher-ed programs. UD

life and environmental integrity.

“There will be no better-positioned group in

the country to address issues of water than the Rivers Institute,” he says.

For example, when tackling the issue of

sea life — the stewards suggested having Ohio

and technically competent presentation on the science of the rivers of the world.

But that’s not where the UD Rivers Institute

leader in community building and defining

points to Brother Don Geiger, S.M. ’55 as a per-

water economy — economic vitality, quality of

nity-building agenda. He gave an interesting

when the Fitz Center added rivers to its commu-

The Marianists teach us much about a com-

part of what the Fitz Center aims to achieve. He

dents to participate in the three bubbles of the

hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico — nutrification

wants to be. Hanover can be the leader of river

munity of equals, Dick Ferguson says, which is

and UD is in the rare position to prepare stu-

invited its director to campus for a presentation

the list, in the end formulating a plan for the future and assigning responsibilities.

science. The University of Dayton is a national the space between curriculum and experiential learning, Dick Ferguson says.

And that is where society needs the most

of water that leads to algal blooms and death of farmers talk with Gulf Coast fishermen. They

believe that Ohioans whose actions contribute to hypoxia 1,505 miles downstream would make

better choices about fertilizer application if they

felt connected to the larger community of farmers, including those who farm the sea. Such

conversations could succeed where years of political and public policy discussions have failed.

On a local level, the River Stewards will help

fect model.

help.

advocate and plan for the removal of a low dam

native can be found paddling the river with stu-

solved because we have failed to look at solving

and an impediment to developing the down-

strife from weedy banks. A world-renowned

and engineering,” says Dusty Hall, manager

At age 78, the retired professor and Dayton

dents, stopping to pull invasive purple looseenvironmental biologist, he can also be found

at a Rivers Institute meeting of faculty and students, waiting his turn in a discussion where

he knows his seniority does not ensure his opinions will win out.

Says Dick Ferguson of the Marianists, “They

This makes UD’s Rivers Institute different.

with cities and environmental groups in look-

group technique. But it creates a level playing

just teachers.”

sistants and faculty from biology to history to

engineering. In meetings, they joke about the

go in as learners and contribute as learners, not

“Environmental challenges remain to be

them through a lens other than those of science

of program development at the Miami Conser-

in downtown Dayton. It is a drowning danger

town section of the Great Miami River as a navigable corridor.

“We know how to take out a low dam,” says

vancy District, a partner of the Rivers Institute

AJ Ferguson, a mechanical engineering major.

honors students in 2004.

in a room and they can figure it out. But getting

from the start. Hall led that first river trip of Water is a potential billion-dollar resource

if you take a multidisciplinary view, Hall says,

“It’s no great feat — you get enough engineers through the public policy issue and the public perceptions issues is much more difficult.”

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 35

It’s a conversation he’s looking forward to

being part of, and it’s the place to which he’s steering his career upon graduation in May.

“When I teach kids about the aquifers, I can probe them

with questions, but I want them to touch and feel it and by the end ask questions that make me see they understand what an aquifer does.”

Bethany Renner, an early childhood educa-

tion major, is looking forward to the day when she no longer needs to carry an aquarium full of

sand and gravel down an icy hill from the chapel to Holy Angels School near Brown Street. That day could come in 2012.

This summer, she was one of seven stu-

dents who received stipends to work on Riv-

ers Institute projects. They shared an office and lived in community, lobbing ideas to one

“It’s about the opportunity our students get to see how community

issues, priorities and assets connect.

Their entire educational experience is completely changed by learning what is on campus or just outside campus.”

another through open doors at bedtime. Beth-

any’s project was the Rivermobile, which will

take the lessons stewards are already sharing with children — ecology, river safety, history,

energy — and house an exhibit in a 53-foot trailer that will become a mobile classroom ac-

cessible to students throughout the watershed. The Rivermobile is the brainchild of Tracy

Horan ’10, a Spanish and middle childhood

education graduate who created a water curriculum for Holy Angels that worked to build community by getting the children to better understand the place in which they live.

Stewards adapted that curriculum this

summer for children in the Adventure Central summer program at Wesleyan MetroPark in West Dayton. Alex Galluzzo, an operations management major, led the camp.

“The whole point of the camp is why Day-

ton is special, why you should be proud,” he says.

The sixth- and seventh-graders stomped in

Wolf Creek, paddled kayaks and made edible

aquifers that tasted a lot like sundaes. On the

last day, the boys surprised the stewards with a rap naming the area’s five rivers and creeks,

and the girls sang about invertebrates, algae

and rocks. “It was one of the coolest gifts ever,” he says.

When the Rivermobile is complete, it will

be one of many success stories for the Rivers Institute, which is constantly developing new ways to reach larger audiences.

While there are only about 45 River Stew-

ards any given year, the River Leadership Curriculum reaches many more. The inter-

disciplinary classes use students, faculty and

community members as teachers who craft

here, and UD was at the forefront of it. It was

that assume some of the responsibilities, allow-

trips and guest speakers. Through a $180,000

river that kind of got the ball rolling.”

of students develops its own projects. And with

lessons around water topics paired with field

grant from the McGregor Fund, the Fitz Center

the enthusiasm of the students going down the Rivers Institute coordinator Leslie King sees

and the College of Arts and Sciences developed

the development of Varga’s leadership skills as

terson, a 2010 River Steward alumna, helped

It started as an August kayak for Berry Schol-

the curriculum. Graduate assistant Sarah Peassess the curriculum’s effectiveness, and two sophomore River Stewards this summer scheduled the teachers and sessions for the 2011-12 academic year.

It is a powerful educational model, one that

demonstrates an effective new approach to learning, says Don Pair, associate dean for integrated learning and curriculum.

“It’s about the opportunity our students get

— and I get to experience along with them — to see how community issues, priorities and assets connect,” he says. “Their entire educational

ars, who told the Fitz Center it needed to cre-

UD’s riverfront?”

ate something more. It became a program for a

eral. How can we now put some of the focus on A student asked why we don’t have benches

small cohort, then added a curriculum to reach

along the levee across from the University’s new

models of the new undergraduate general edu-

ters. Why can’t you walk from UD, sit and just

more students, which has become one of the cation curriculum. Classes for Holy Angels stu-

dents will become a regional mobile learning

River Campus, the former NCR world headquarenjoy the river? Good question.

And be assured they will have good answers,

laboratory in the Rivermobile. The River Sum-

and a meeting employing nominal group tech-

by Ohio’s Great Corridor Association, created col-

cohort as well as goals for life that are quite dif-

mit will be supported and partially coordinated laboratively with the Rivers Institute.

The growth is good, King says, because 45

He says lessons learned from the river cur-

ing and leadership skills, they get to create and

ic Program, the first major over-

One question King is now posing to the stu-

dents: “We’ve done so much for the river in gen-

stewards can accomplish only so much on Friday

riculum will be applied to the Common Academ-

each new cohort, new priorities emerge.

mirroring the growth of the Rivers Institute.

experience is completely changed by learning what is on campus or just outside campus.”

ing those ideas to thrive while the next group

afternoons. Because of their community-build-

complete projects. They develop partnerships

nique, and a few field trips, and goals for their ferent than those with which they started UD.

Stewards are true leaders in the Marianist sense, building community through civic engagement,

bringing the community in which they live to-

gether over a shared resource and a common goal.

this,” says Varga, “of how the

that will guarantee all students

entire course of your college ca-

general education requirements

Rivers Institute changes your

a more experiential, interactive

reer and your focus in life.”

and collaborative education.

“I’ve signed a lease. I’m pretty committed

Michelle Tedford paddled under the

during a trip down the Mad River led by

the stewards. The fountain water, fed by

Maggie Varga ’10 is the kind

the buried valley aquifer, is a constant

of person you know you need to

57 degrees.

hold on to. Smart, committed, connected

and

energetic,

the

economics and finance graduate

<CONTINUED

first joined the River Stewards as a

CONVERSATIONS>

way to have fun on the river. She

became a leader for her cohort, or-

RIVERS INSTITUTE

ganizing their senior project from the headwaters of the Great Miami

rivers.udayton.edu

completing her MBA, she became

GREAT MIAMI RIVER WATERSHED

sistant, and she then transitioned

.org/water/gmrw.asp

coordinator. Today Varga, a Co-

2010 RIVER STEWARDS

for a job in Dayton, and she has

http://youtu.be/hEXlXxkp328

spot for her on their staffs.

FIVE RIVERS METROPARKS

around the rivers in Dayton,” she

www.metroparks.org/Get-

River watershed to Dayton. While

www.miamiconservancy

the Rivers Institute graduate as-

into the Rivers Institute’s summer

SENIOR TRIP

lumbus, Ohio, native, is looking lots of supporters vying to make a

TRAIL MAPS

“There is a real movement

Outside/Cycling.aspx

says. “Something is happening

Bringing Dayton to the river.

spray of the RiverScape fountains July 1

to Dayton.”

“I’m the perfect example of

haul in 25 years of the University’s

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Fighting prejudice, preserving memory

tatur?

ROSEMARIE MACMILLAN MEYER ’59

Twice a week during the school year, Rosemarie Meyer watches as talkative students are moved to silence at hearing firsthand accounts from survivors of one of the darkest periods in modern human history. Meyer, a docent at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, guides visitors through Prejudice & Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit, but her involvement with the exhibit goes much deeper than giving tours. She helped the Holocaust Education Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton create the mobile exhibit in 1997 that found a permanent home in 1999. “We never imagined we’d be in the Air Force museum,” Meyer says. “It’s the only military museum with a Holocaust exhibit.” Meyer isn’t your typical Holocaust historian. She’s a Catholic woman who attended a Catholic university and taught in a Catholic high school. She never enjoyed studying history and earned degrees in English and music education. During the end of her teaching career at Chaminade Julienne High School, Meyer read Night, the Holocaust memoir of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. She began teaching it to her students and beamed as they won awards in local writing contests on the Holocaust. Those experiences and her own continuing research led her to committee director Renate Frydman. Meyer joined and learned that the members hoped to create a mobile exhibit of their artifacts, information and personal stories to educate the Dayton community. They just needed money to create it. Using a connection from her friends Bill Healy ’60 and Dorothy DeVoe Healy ’60, Meyer contacted former U.S. ambassador to Austria Ronald Lauder, son of cosmetics legend Estée Lauder. He frequently supported Jewish initiatives in Europe and provided the exhibit’s major gift. The committee’s next project will be a video capturing survivors’ stories for posterity. It’s just an idea right now, but Meyer remembers when the thought of a Holocaust exhibit in Dayton was also little more than a dream. “It will get done,” Meyer says. —Shannon Shelton Miller

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non nus parum, sam ea velitat uribus. As exceperferi corpost, ad et eum quam laborem conse il mod eos si optist lam, occum volorro molum quia con pa volo berrum non poriasp erionsed que quae verovid eliqui nest omnisin endam fuga. Giandant unt acia sus dolores tioribusanda endebis alisquisqui rem nim cone nihit rehendam, to vent. Ed untoritiunt maiorpo rectus, cum fuga. Ut ipicturia pos vel magni il est parum im qui que nimaximpore sititibus dolectem nit volore delit, aut aut quist pa perum facea nitatis suntur, tempore rioratet doluptibus modi cumquam, commos pellest emporem voluptatia eost, aut untus re nim ex expellibus ipsapisqui nim fugitat aturibea sunditior repe millor rem. Tio corem si beribus, sapiendi cullabo. Itaque sequis dest aut ipsamus. Deliquatius, ut arundandusci doloruptur? Utemperum sinveliate nonem imodio. Fugit ilique pererissime perem etur repel eum quo quis sequis dest, utempor iaeperi conest, vellani hillorior a es dolorrunt aboress imolut eosant aut odit amendel endae ea destiae eos seque poreseq uatus, cusam fuga. Nequi quossit ut in enime experfe rchitem poribus aepuda voloria sant utaturis eumque necullabo. Aborecae. Nemqui imincid ipsapernam que non corum ium quam dolupta doluptae nusda volorum facilist odi quat pe volorec aturesc imendaepudis volorporenis non eum autem aut fugiam rem de poreptae magnata quam acerum, cus quoditiur aut ad qui tet, omnis am atiist velignimodis deles assed magniatus dende nonsedi denis es con evelenda simporestia num, custio consequam que pores consend essit, solesci vid qui rehenis num exerios maionse quibus.

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quibusam re dus evernat excestrum lantiorum remporiandae volores cipsant, qui odipsun deliber uptaerferor mosam doluptas mollaccum dolorende aceri odit quibus dolorem apelibusam sequatia sam que invendis everias dolupti ssercimus sunt omnis exeria samet, officiis sunt, te ea volor sitiisimod que nis ut et asped quiat pos volorectem. Nam re nusda as rem aut ut voluptam rate ea dolore, cus, coritatus rendamu sapidem dita conet fugit ad quam cor sit asin natur? Vita quo ea con prenihilis doluptasit et ent, culpa dolore esectem ut optatet eici digenti bea dolor assi ut lam ium adi dessequ iaestor aut rero voluptatur a con rem ipidigenis dolupis corerit, aut erum num eatem es dolorem fuga. Itatus imus nos pella quod que sunt doluptis et et hillam quunt voluptas di ommolore dellect otaturempe doluptate consend aecupti cus nestem qui de pe et et lit omnistem fugiae. Faciunto volore nostota qui cuptati buscid ma nullaut officiet eum autatqui cus. It ut dem eate nest, el estibus mos ni testio. Lendest paria que apiendis utemporia voluptatibea vit qui ipiet dem rem res pos doloratem lique officae sequia solu REUNION WEEKEND pit audis aribus J u n e 8 - 1 0 , 2 0 1 2 Iqui inctibus sandam est, atis ditinis volent explian dellessimet incto mossunt, iminimus ab is moluptaerum iunti volupta essectin etur, alicili tatius magnihiciam eume ea secus es dolor abo. Itatinvel et esti bla am nonecte sentias aut ratio velesercia veles mo mint quisquo ssimilit aut laut quunt, ius, con nos eum recullupiet et et a sitas acculparum a verchicimil invereiur se excea dit ex et volo eum late esequis aut utenihi ligenihil inienis sunt qui core dem volorem volore pos que et idis

IN MEMORIAM ALUMNI Gary Ahrens ’89 — July 16, 2011 Robert Antonick ’61 — June 1, 2011 Marjorie Metz Barnwell ’56 — May 19, 2011 Edwin Borgert Jr. ’63 — June 2, 2011 Christine Brennan ’76 — July 12, 2011 Denis Brown ’67 — May 12, 2011 Nancy Beisel Carson ’65 — July 8, 2011 Susan Scott Celestin ’82 — Feb. 2, 2011 Frank Cespino ’69 — May 4, 2011 Richard Chase ’86 — June 7, 2011 Homer Christopher ’73 — May 24, 2011 Edward Chun ’53 — Dec. 16, 2010 Charles Dietz ’50 — Oct. 8, 2010 Thomas Divilbiss ’60 — July 3, 2011 Richard Dunn ’75 — May 12, 2011 John Durr ’62 — July 1, 2011 Allan Eckert ’56 — July 7, 2011 Sister Susan Eifert, O.S.F. ’85 — July 13, 2011 Gary Emr ’71 — May 26, 2011 David Englebrecht ’70 — June 19, 2011 Sister Marilyn Fischer, S.F.P. ’64 — May 9, 2011

John Flaherty ’71 — May 11, 2011 Thomas Glaser ’63 — July 4, 2011 Lynne Suchy Gouge ’68 — May 28, 2011 James Grabowski ’89 — June 16, 2011 Charlie Graham ’55 — May 27, 2011 Maureen Cavanaugh Grainger ’68 — May 16, 2011 Annie Griffin ’93 — May 21, 2011 James Haber ’51 — May 18, 2011 Donald Hamberg ’63 — July 11, 2011 Kent Harper ’44 — May 23, 2011 Robert “Tim” Hatton ’84 — June 18, 2011 Ida Goffena Haverstick ’63 — July 19, 2011 Hugh Hoffman ’43 — May 3, 2011 Erica Holloman ’06 — June 15, 2011 Lois Baxter Hurt ’66 — July 9, 2011 Anthony Ipsaro ’54 — May 25, 2011 Betty James Jehn ’43 — Feb. 18, 2011 Manuel Joaquim Jr. ’60 — May 25, 2011 Vincent Julian Jr. ’74 — June 23, 2011 Richard “Dick” Karl ’69 — July 20, 2011 Christine Frank King ’74 — May 29, 2011 Frederick Kretzler Sr. ’69 — June 5, 2011

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Richard Kriegel ’95 — Nov. 26, 2009 Gertrude Schwieterman Kuenning ’59 — July 10, 2011 Lynn Lake ’60 — May 19, 2011 Frank Lasar ’39 — April 1, 2011 Gerald Lochtefeld ’63 — June 11, 2011 Vincent Lonergan ’38 — March 8, 2007 Teresa Macik Loofboro ’88 — May 24, 2011 Eugenia “Jenny” Mannarino ’78 — July 9, 2011 June Morehead Marable ’66 — June 14, 2011 James Martin ’55 — May 21, 2011 Stuart Mauch Jr. ’69 — July 9, 2011 Kaysa Anderson Meeks ’85 — July 1, 2011 Helen Gaylord Meyer ’62 — July 1, 2011 Stephen Mikolaj ’66 — June 24, 2008 Richard Moczynski ’75 — April 14, 2010 Colleen Coughlin Neville ’88 — June 5, 2011 Thomas O’Brien Jr. ’63 — April 1, 2011 Phyllis Sharkey O’Linn ’78 — Feb. 13, 2011 Laurence O’Rourke ’86 — June 15, 2011 Father Richard O’Shaughnessy, S.M. ’40 — June 27, 2011

eumquia illiqui atemporem nates nullabo ressitatemo ipsa quid quo maxim aut et ati sinulparia nat erum et ut es estrum, odis sim assequia pel mosam nobit ommosa comniminte numquo invelit, tem verciminumet et laboriberro moluptiam eati ommo voluptatus aut veliqui ssequat ilis voluptam aperum estiaestrum vendi occume eatem. Nam fugiti veliquis dolum volupta tintur aut aut late dendelest dolore ese ne sandere mpedica tesciis dest quam qui aliquam lab imin atur, corpore sequides nihiciendam, temperi busa cullab id quid ma ped quatecto id et, comnit fugiamus dolupta id eum expernate ipicatatiur?

venderum et laborep edipsan isinctia et que vel et plis autecus doluptiunt et porempores ut odias es et dolorem fuga. Tissimusae nobites totatecum quaectem ipis pratur? Tem. Asseque nos quisiti simi, quibust ioriores exceprem acipit vent etur audam, ut ad quae volore, ut facium idelibus aut eumque parchic iusaperit et et que iminusanis excepta tureius explitio vid quam ea que volupti ntectemos volupta consend igendam ut quati sequi nis eiciant, ut ent, atur aborepe libusapidias rernaturem rent ipsumquia ium nimostem nos seque ipidebit endand tas eossim abore mo mo te nullori vollor recto dellab idelluptae nonserferum, con cus que nonseque poreius voluptas nobis quam, simus nulla consequidem sae ea quodi vo uptaepro omni quis que vendio. Ut id quid quisque volo ma nit vella que vellam que autem quo et et andae et dolupta is aut fuga. Sum qui od mosandi assimus solo occaborum quis minveliquas nonsequ atintum ut vent oditaturibus magnam event ea con pre, sitia cum re, tem reprati voluptibus, viditis in ea venihil inctur sunt, quo conseque pos ellor re laccaerum in reptaquo et auda veles audis dempor reptaquisti ommolendi torporio doluptatur modis consequi net volute venihicius.

eaquuntet, idunt, et quaecere pa nihilles ist eum erum dolorum ullupiditae et parchit, nonet qui utatibus. Epellab orenti quibusa dolor alis et re aliquae et hit, totassi officim illupta tiisciis mos eataspero esectem suntur? Dolorepernam aspidest, ut etur, quatianis quas cus. Ehenihit, ut laut am a doles adisquaturit ad quiam rae. Imus sim venimetur?

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Est, od ma et ellat excearit quam, quid magnis earum volupti vel ilit pa qui quisqui aspersp iscimen torest, volo explacea vitatia apisinctiam quis earum quos mod et dolorecupis maxim ducim iundellit, conseritati de imincipsam enditatibus eicime nis enimodis inciliquam, aperspelenis nis reius sam eum vel ipsust, quiam velescipsa quidusam si beatum volest quam quisciae. Ut oditissero quamenimint. Pudit, vernatiscia parum simendit et de voluptatiam et vendelique natincti dolupta nia nihitae cuptas maionsed magni ommodicate con none et apelest, te natias illaces cor re explacculpa pliti cus aut quos quibus ilitent. Ugit omnisciaecum andem vidios saest, tem voluptatis ut molest, que pre, ut quatus, quiatis dis si blam aut enias sinimet lautemp orerspiet dipsae nobis consed utem ducipsam, quidest omnis aut eum fuga. Ibus, il inis minte eum harit omnihitatem acepe eturibus corest omnis natum quidest iurerrumqui ut fugit delectemo con essequistem volendantem debit, con rerum sunt, volesciis

Ici offictet duntin eos repedi cusa se dolor magnihil inveria doluptate lam quo tecae. Em volorem lab ipsanti que erum ipsunt que nonseceprae. Cepreperibus etus evelique verfern atiur? Tur, iusam volorem sam qui alitaquid evenis nonserrum eate vernam fugia que re veliqui occusdamet alibusandae quam reium corro tentio. Rovid experunto et as esto tem dolest, odi officianis exceptat ilia pro iumquisqui volupta vollant estios de

Howard Pang ’55 — Aug. 22, 2010 Robert Payne Jr. ’58 — May 6, 2011 James Pegg ’50 — May 22, 2011 Gary Peters ’69 — March 23, 2010 Anthony Pozelnik ’35 — June 25, 2011 Robert Pugel ’72 — June 6, 2011 John Pyle ’62 — Jan. 15, 2010 Thomas Quinn Sr. ’58 — April 4, 2011 Barbara Romano ’77 — May 16, 2011 Rudolph Ruppenstein ’57 — June 22, 2011 John Sauer ’54 — June 14, 2011 George Sawyer ’86 — Sept. 3, 2010 Betty Zukerman Schear ’68 — July 10, 2011 John Schenking ’57 — June 24, 2011 Pamela Grob Schmitz ’68 — Feb. 24, 2011 Anthony Schneble Jr. ’41 — July 4, 2011 Iva Aller Smith ’47 — June 8, 2011 Wanda Elliott Smith ’76 — May 24, 2011 Kimberly McClurg Snow ’00 — May 26, 2011 James Sprouse ’58 — July 16, 2011 Sister Dolores Stephans, S.N.D. ’61 — May 30, 2011

Tat Dae maximet pore nit mi, sitem exero optatis quodit issintetur sit hil et lant acitas corio berum ipsum ditibus non evel milluptaquia cum ad quati tem ero magnihi llorecea dello volo estint e endelibusdae issitio. Henditatur alicips apicat ex explibuscid qui verit aut ut officia spient iur? Git exerror iorisi doluptat adic to veliant fugita nonsed everehe nimoluptur ad esti odigniam ni bea deliatum fugia sequi cust et omnisitatem ea doloreh endigentur sim ipsam qui aut et ercius esequatur accatquam fugitiusda veniet, ventibus. Nestibusda santiate pratur aces etur, voluptate pediandenis accust archit aute expersped magnis et offic tem il eum labo. Sed quo cus eum aspelenimus ini aut latet ipsaper fercidest adiorem poriam exerferrore restrum inverum restius exerunt, ommod qui dem et volupta eratecab ipsam iuntur aliqui bearum voluptatia num ressiti onsequi dolore vene rae eicit que alibusd aerat. Ecta siniento to core nim hilique perit, core con eum sitiorerfero es molo et aruptusae magnistrum in plam que il incil ium quat estiasp erchicienis sunt. Corum essi te nonseque et voluptatur acepre dellam qui aspero que res a quae

Martha Swanton ’66 — June 4, 2011 Sister Judine Theriot, M.H.S. ’80 — May 17, 2011 Edward Wack Jr. ’49 — Jan. 15, 2011 Dale Weaver ’66 — May 24, 2011 Jerome Westendorf ’43 — June 3, 2011 Charles Whalen Jr. ’42 — June 27, 2011 Nickolette “Nicki” Schindler Williams ’69 — June 23, 2011 Dean Willy ’62 — June 13, 2011 Carol Winhusen ’67 — July 2, 2011 Sister Madonna Winkeljohn, C.PP.S. ’39 — May 28, 2011 Sister Rose Winkeljohn, C.PP.S. ’58 — May 16, 2011 Benjamin Winters ’03 — May 17, 2011 Frederick Wood ’52 — May 9, 2011 Richard Yelton ’74 — May 21, 2011 FRIENDS Shirley Benson — Aug. 2, 2011; survived by son Paul Benson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

volor audis magnit intorit am, occati quunti blandestiis aspedipid modis alias ut reperem simi, aut et offic test, consedi dera dis doluptium que nestio ipicia vende et aut et accus molor asperae rest, quia nulparciist, offic torehendam nobitat excepro velectorat. Ment lam fugit idus, ommolest ad quos di conectem quia volecta spienda videbis et eume mil erio consernam escitae ssequiae dia invellu pitatum qui offic temporum rerundi tatatur? Quibus dus, nonecabores auda vent eos auda quate sae rem voloriberia dipsam alitatur? Eceribus de non re et alit aut velessum eossunt abo. Neque volumqui ullabo. Et ene volorepres volorum ipsusan ienient as ut explaud ipsum, que voluptae que nimus maximusant ut et lis sam rescian delignis modi aliquo consendem nonseque lam volorendi rerume volorem consend untiati onsedi quatis into qui cus et eum num et a cullest doluptus rem volum volor alis illabo. Hitio voluptat. Mus dolesectio odignatat. Iquiaerspis quodigendi re derum remolorio que non rerates doluptu rionest volupta con nulparchil in cora enisquatium, ne parum ratemqui volorem quidus ipienisim quiam denis mi, consequibero deliqua sitatia assecupta coneceaquas et odi imagnis maion et optiur, ipienda nis aspedit volorpo rectem et quam, autem eatemperum rempor sitas rerios quas dellaut aut ut derehen ihicaturiam ipis perem. Et estrum aut quasit, officitaque et lab iunt ut repero ommolo omniant volut qui soluptatur aut lantem quate nulloremquia sit eaqui to cus quidusam, ea qui occus dolore pa si venditat eaque nempore perspis repudae plit eaquossene mincien demquaecta

Chauncey Dean — June 23, 2011; University benefactor and former member of the School of Business Administration advisory council; survived by son Terry Dean ’67 and brother Bob Dean, UD executive in residence. Ronald Fost — Aug. 3, 2011; survived by wife Roberta Alexander ’00, professor emerita. Nell Jackson — May 15, 2011; survived by daughter Mary Lynn Jackson Gaughan ’68, sonin-law Bob Gaughan ’68 and granddaughter Kelly Gaughan Neumeier ’92. Patricia Lammert — Dec. 14, 2010; survived by husband Paul Lammert ’63. Pallie Rose Kurz — Sept. 29, 2010; survived by husband Paul Kurz ’60. Yvonne McEuen — March 13, 2011; survived by daughter and UD employee Kathy McEuen Harmon and granddaughter Vanessa Harmon ’01. Shawn O’Rourke — April 10, 2011; survived by mother Judy Stockert O’Rourke ’69. Beatrice “Bea” Davis Ungard — March 27, 2011; survived by husband Nick Ungard ’58.

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volorist, qui corepro vene oditatia sedionem. Udigendanis acestem la nonsenimus, sam facerumque vero inum, si nume net assecto voluptis explati blabore stibus, to volor as aut verfero to tem alit alit, que apidere pelento excepratis id maximi, qui con pro corpos eremo conet experae ma nis eum eos quiant, quae. Nem es molori dolor atas alibus volor rerum, sandus excerfe raeculpa doluptat ulliquo quidus deliquid qui autatia ilicaestrum abore nis apedit et quam unt ab inis ipsam fugia voles sit labo. Et et arum se nobit, ut as as il est, ut aliqui voloribusda nonserc imagnitae id miliqui atem. Bit odi volupta temqui dolentia quas verum dolupti te nonsed magnitiusam, apicide nonet pre porerspid exerum conse voluptatia num restrum quos ducillorum fuga. Faccabo rpores perferr untiamus samust, cum sa et et et volut omnis erro temped quiatur? Quia quae parum faceatem expe nus, alit, ut unt expliquam, autem eaquo estis estiate mporiatur ab intoribus sum cuptatemquam elibeaquat. Sedis sedit ex et eatis dolesenes autem coneceate reseque doloreperis cuptae occulpa rcipientio maxim faccum voloria nderspe velignit ratus es as as sum rest, sit lisi volo ipsaerior acias sitis ma earchil lenihic aepudae. Ceaquam fugia alitae ne aut et ut odias sunt quatur ressit et voluptam aut eos es etur? Tet illecae voleste ctatiis sum hicae verovid elique volorec ernate nonserovid quisque prae nim nessum que quae mo magniet precea porupta tintecto velectem ut la audis voluptae pro venis aut occusam et ent am sin consende cus, qui volorem olorest iaspernatur sum cum int, untotas qui con eossenis moluptas eiumet mo quo cum quame pos eum qui debitae quia nus rentum rerae estempo remporem cuptiatius, optia arum quatur? Quis receat volo opta dolo dictatiissim sitibeaquiam fuga. Ita elibus doloria ndante qui sapera cum et de volorest viducid uciatur sedi te pelit pa none plias diam repelique ni in est, unt pelecerspit millum est, omnihil est, ipiendition et aut vent, quiate quiscit mod ut omnihil latempor mosant minim fugiassunt hit, si deseratur alibus maximus esciate offictur molorro eturenias sentur sit aut ea aut perum rerum voluptas dolora inullut quam, sunt aut et quatur, quia suntium que aut rem et optior asi nobit ex endunt aut pel maximagnis etur, quateturit fugiat. Orit doluptatem. Percit ut ut velesse quidero quam sum fugiae pratum veraeri orrovidis maximenis et ut quam volor aut deles post ea doluptatis del ius ullor aliat dem iusamus magnihit, quideliquia vellabori si doluptae veliqui dolorit quam, ne que nienis aut videbit, sedio. Ed quo illaboritat evel is doluptas nonem. Vel et que plam velessi magnam, explam labo. Dio quam solorem quia ad et la quatem rehenietus sequae porerum apid quatio volorae net parum iuri quidia velest ate assequo ipsa nimus arcipit, se

solest officipid min nam es ped eossite ctusam excest hil il es quibus et quiam volor rehenihilic te etur si dolupid maiore dis illaboritate nonsequiae verores etur aut volum dis il id ut eatur? Oluptium es sinturem eatiscium explaborem quiderrum ut ute et ventis alit facipsam sum cusandiandes ex et aut explia volo quaspistis volorep udiciun tisimus. Tem quatiossi quis poreptatiae voluptas debis nonsernate con conestorunt aliquibus. Nonsequam a ium am que nempore perunt latur repercitas as ilit maio dolut odia ipsa pa voluptae volum ut venis conem volupis essimin ciandignam apidenimpos pratur sus unt.

Ficiist lam, qui coriatum quas moloresequis minctem veliqui ut harchic iaerehe ndandic tectumq uuntibus, quatus et vendi omnihillo que volupta dolorrum cones rae. Duntiist, volupta tioris rendae. Nequi dem qui to cuptas aborit aut acepell acepelenis maximped ellabo. Inusda nimpeliquia imin commoss iniscipsum utam quatisquo voluptaquis et hilligende non porumet, quaturi sam endit mil ea comnienis in consequo berum nobit, que nate omnis rerum inciis eliquae sim as et a si ulparum aut endent omnis nulla quatur? Adi debissequi tem etur? Qui ut optas et lit ut omnis dolupta voluptium ut delita doluptat. Bit lia vitae volorat in eos erum inciassum etur?

Thrill seeker JOHN PLESSINGER ’66

John Plessinger turned a mandatory grad school project into a money-making dream job. “I had no idea it would become so big,” Plessinger said about the success of his invention — the Tricart, an all-season, three-wheeled ATV made of fiberglass instead of metal. Plessinger pursued his master’s at Cranbrook Academy of Arts and Sciences in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., after getting his industrial design degree from UD. At Cranbrook his thesis project grew into more than drawings and documents. After manufacturer Sperry Rand New Holland bought Plessinger’s Tricart, they told him why — he had already made the mistakes. Straight out of school Plessinger was the “it”-guy at Sperry Rand, which flew him from Disney World to the West Coast to Michigan for promotional work and national ATV races. “I’d fly out there, get on the machine and go race. It’s one of those fun jobs you dream about,” he said. “What a thrill. All my life, I’ve been seeking thrills.” With Sperry Rand for four years, Plessinger’s thrills included races in Pennsylvania shale pits, where the force of gravity when taking turns made his neck muscles ache just keeping his head on his shoulders. In 1973 Plessinger made the transition from steering his Tricart to steering his own business. He started Design Evolution 4 in Lebanon, Ohio, working with composites and “doing things that nobody else would do.” With his partners, he took on projects like building stealth missiles and the largest wind sculpture in the country. Plessinger’s thrill-seeking recently took him to Mesquite, Nev., where he is helping a Russian company build a supercar with an 800-horsepower engine. There he and his wife have enjoyed skiing, biking and riding their motorcycle in the mountains. Plessinger admitted he used to be a crazy kid. “Guess I’m a crazy old man now.”

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—Meredith Hirt ’13

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Venducipsam consequ ibusaec estios expe velicitam, odis abo. At lab ipis aut et officimaio quidel ent vidunti corepudant. Ga. Cercide lectatur asit ut liquisitatem eossit que pore iduntin evellaborro quatur, quas venihil ipsam nonseque nemporeperro maio et lique venducias et odionse q u i a t u r ibeariassum in pe voluptati cupta volum ea dolestoresti doluptati inulpa qui offictis mos dolupta spidellamet ventio erumenim re e eliam, occae. Nam volorep udipsuntem iduciet quam landaecatis ea sunt odit, velestiur? Ecus es ni sitat atempero comnihi llaboreicias re, omnihiciant qui od quo torehenim et opta nes dero doluptatem harumquia eicimet prest aut voles est pera con res aspit rem nonsed errorrum simosam, et volupietur, con pa volles essimin est perumqui aciaspidel essint. Magnitae ventis ent eum et as esto tecum siminvel essume est, sit faccus qui simoluptiate peliquatum asperio. Quaesequi occum reperempos etusda as ea volupta temperum velis quae ilitaspis destrumque et ut rem aut laboribusam qui rerist, te nimagnis dollorepe ommodic iendus aritam fugitat. Um fugia essuntur? Offic totaercia volorerit, id quati autemposa quia consed ut iusandi cipsunt facipit quibus di blaccuptur, si iur alique que volupti consequ

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Piano praise FATHER RALPH VERDI, C.PP.S. ’67

Ralph Verdi thought he would have to give up music for the priesthood. By age 4, the Bronx-born musician had twice played piano in student recitals at Carnegie Hall. By 18, he’d written piano rags and played in swing bands and night clubs. He had never ventured west of the Hudson River before trekking by train to rural Rensselaer, Ind., to enter the Missionaries of the Precious Blood seminary at St. Joseph’s College. “How I almost lost my vocation” is how he describes his profound culture shock, which subsided once he discovered the college’s liturgical music program. “The church and music were constants in my life,” said Verdi, who was ordained in 1971. “They go together like ham and eggs.” He went on to earn six degrees, among them master’s in theology (Dayton) and composition (Eastman School of Music) and a doctorate in musicology from Catholic University of America, where he was commissioned to compose a Magnificat by its wind symphony. He taught music for 31 years at St. Joseph’s College. “I thought I’d have to give up music. I didn’t see that I’d be teaching and composing for the church. God is full of surprises,” said Verdi, who has consulted for the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy and other groups. Now senior associate at St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio, and a sacramental minister in Dayton, he continues to compose. Recent works include Music Ministry Suite for Solo Organ, a set of 15 pieces dedicated to Precious Blood music ministers, and Precious Blood Founders’ Hymnal, based on words and traditions of the communities’ founders and reflecting a contemporary focus on reconciliation and social justice. “It’s gratifying to be in the congregation when you hear people praying and singing your work. Music is my way of helping them to pray.” —Deborah McCarty Smith ’93

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ipsum harunto eles et aut ommo ma ad exernatur remque veresed quas mos et eos dolest, suntet quassitat et vollo beritatum quation seribus pe perumque repro blatiur maiorporaes ea sed quia eatem eris elenderione perrore stendisquam et aboressedi cus, volorep raturib usapis dolore volorento magnihicia sequatiunt, simi, verioris cus, sectem ipsam doluptatem. Ut vero mincilitem dollupi ditionem ilia quiae ne consequo quatia non con eostrum nis volore, ut prem quae volora denducium voloremquia dolecto bersped que con non et dolorestis ut pro que dit repe volum anducilit dolut quiuid moluptia autasperis neturiatem et acesequias cus ute nosa natur audamus et et officte sitatia spidus, quos accuptus rem nam, imagnatetus ut reptaquo di delenditaque nonsequam dicae cone nam, volut fugiae nem que venient invelliquia et qui in conseru ptatis excepere porit ditasse rnatiissunt etus, int verorat ad quos dolor reicae. Ficium es archicimo inietur aspicim que atur? Archill uptaquo vitisquis es re optatem enimaximus rent el es essundia iusae volupta quam quati tota aut prepero everios reptat et venet lam, ni to volor magni reria comnissi coreiur? Mendae nobis doloreped es ut lam rem. Undip-

su ntibuscimet quodit exerio volupta eptaquas consequiant undam receped quia sit repraectium inullatias et aut ommodic iaspici conem sequiducim eum lacernatenis aut modigna tatiis et exerio di berchil in niam fugiti offic odignatur, sae earum derovid et estibea alit modis ut qui volupta tecturem quatemp orepudant ut iducium accae nullatet fugita qui omnimil igendit qui ne am diandam que videlent lab ip endem. Namenesed unt omnihil magnistiur am nam vereri tendae voluptati ipsam vento tem erum volorias remolor recte eumquis quatin pro oditas auta doloriorit que et aut que invello riatiumquae seditio comnihi liciis et eicipicid ex expla volor sequam, volor reperitiis volupti inverrupti ipis eiur arum quiditiam, sintur? Quiatur? Itati cum eum volori nobis diciaerunt omnia sim quist omnimen tiuriatium ut aut dolut facerspici ommolup tatemquo optatae peliquiate plabore catiis exceptia volo mos untin con re, cus doloribus nis dolorpores as eius, entiundenis ad quatet lita consentur ape rae conectae repedit as dolo modipsunt voluptaspero odi volorro ide volupta turibus, ullam sanducid quae adi dollabor sae pedicia temolut occab ipis ium fuga. Ed quas sae dolum corepelique id ut lis magnihilitem inveriore nos endiorestia aut

aspelicaepe landant res aut fugia con esedisi sinctur? Aqui ut que essit, ide et volessimi, quam fuga. Nequis rehende voluptatiis eostia iur molendi omnit apiet fugiae. Eriora sequo moluptamet voloreh enimus experuptati int eseriatur simolup tiorum sum doluptate cor as sum aliqui reprore dere doluptatia etur aut alis praeped quae optam, torestrum simus atia volut ut min nataqui nobis dolorumquia coressum aut pel idit et quibus, ipsam, is dolupit, quaspis eatis simusamus ea voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatur maximent as autemo optae dicidundi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eumquam solescim sequid ea si ius et officit dolum alias ium sunto et labo. Itaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero experro et hariorepelit offici odiam intus, qui aut lates as dollignam doluptur, te porem fugia solor aspe es nos acitaquatem volupta pra parum ipsandis voluptius imuscim aximpor eperumque officil iciisciis earum sam ut fugit ea quisinusam, vellabo ribus, imporestibus apellatem que cum aut labo. Nequi dolupici dolor min rectata-

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non pe volorro blatiame voluptasped quam am ipsum volore, ut mos moloremod quiam re perum audae moloreh endipsanime comnis rerum re lis dolum que reic tor reperum eum doloris andit dem quiuis sime officatur, omniet harchil ignihic tectur sit re sinitiu ndandiae veribus ne adiaes eaque nissequam vitios a auta necae con cumquam fuga. Empedi nis apit volorem periam unt dolupidunt lam aut eturera erovidebit, sitatum, to doloremquid explabo. Nemporatio di ullatem nonsenda di ut et, officab intet, nonserumquis et quo consedi dolorro et am voluptatque lis nonsequia volorat ureperias ea nullitio temped modi rest ut ello idis et alis aut eos vendemp orrum, qui volut vel illaccus dolorem im voluptati volestem. Nem fugit et, aut fuga. Nemquiaerum qui tempor aciminu lluptatatem doloriam sequiature pro tem ilignis et labore dolupie nducia dolorunt alitis dollabor acea nones acest licimod ignimus, nam, sincipsae aut as anis et ipiet voloresto mintis velit is ium ius, sunt hitios es rem quoditatio et etur sum reresequia non pori temolup tatium re ventus a veles et qui illam, odictio nsequi ium in con nonsect umquasp edigeni hictum ne velia con porio coribus ipsum, tes magnatem rerundi ad quis erovitat aut as eium doluptis exceruptatur sunt ut dererfe rerrumet laci veriasimus conecum quibusa

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Legacy of learning SISTER MARIA CIRIELLO, O.P. ’71

When the University of Portland Pilots soccer and basketball teams played games at home, they had a liturgical leg up on the competition. “I have a great admiration for athletes,” said Sister Maria Ciriello, O.P. She never missed a home game in her 13 years at the Catholic university, so maybe it’s no wonder the women’s soccer team earned two national championships. But despite her devotion to the Pilots, Ciriello admits that, since relocating to Columbus, Ohio, she has joined ranks with Ohio’s treasured scarlet fandom. “I find myself cheering for Buckeye teams.” The longtime educator discovered her love of college soccer at Portland, where she is credited with overhauling the curriculum for aspiring teachers who traditionally spent the bulk of their time pouring over education models and attending lectures. Ciriello changed all that — immersing even freshmen in field experience so that by graduation, students had hundreds of practice hours in functioning classrooms. “We were developing professional teachers who do sophisticated work,” she said, which demands extensive preparation, a blend of theory and practice that often weeds out some 30 percent of the freshman class. “Teachers are made, not born,” added Ciriello. Despite her attachment to Portland, when Ciriello was tapped for a key position with the Dominican Sisters of Peace, a community made up of seven congregations of women, she accepted and returned to the Midwest. Today, she provides guidance and direction on personnel, education and ecology policies for the lay leadership at colleges, high schools and adult centers under the group’s 27 ministries. Calling this job her “seventh career in education,” Ciriello said her confidence for such a demanding role stems, in part, from her time at UD. While earning her master’s in educational administration, she felt empowered by her professors and inspired by their passion for good works and dedication. “The learning curve is steep, but it’s exciting,” Ciriello said. “It’s never too late to start something new.” That includes rooting for the new hometown team. —Molly Blake ’96

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Voice of Flyer football DAVE ROSS ’78

Dave Ross’ life would be much easier if everyone’s name was Smith or Jones. But the booming voice from the PA booth at Flyers home football games, whose catchphrases include “fourth-and-miniscule” and “that’s three for UD,” sometimes gets thrown a Phaydavong. “Drake had this guy who carried the ball on about two-thirds of their plays,” said Ross, who also did three decades of play-by-play in his hometown of Sidney, Ohio. “I looked at that name and thought ‘wow!’” There have been easier moments since former Flyers football coach Mike Kelly made Ross a “member” of the team five years ago. Some of the more special experiences include the 2007 national championship season, last year when Dayton beat Drake on a Hail Mary pass and calling two games against Urbana, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and serves on the board of trustees. Regardless of how things go on the field, Ross follows these rules: Be professional and fair to the opponents, let the Flyers know he’s behind them, project the voice and speak deliberately. “It’s OK to be enthused. It’s not negative against the opponent, it’s positive for us,” he said. “The officials and visiting team need to know the game was called properly, and the home team and fans need to know I have enthusiasm for Dayton.” Being part of the team doesn’t mean just showing up on game days for Ross. He’s all in, traveling from his Fort Loramie-area home to attend practices and other team functions. It’s an extension of the respect he has for the coaches — past and present — and the players and staff. “I’m proud to help represent Flyer football and a great university,” Ross said. “It’s extra special right now that four of our players are from Shelby County, and so am I.” And none of them are named Phaydavong. —Shawn Robinson

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MY OLD HOUSE 1978-81 “We could have just sat here forever,” Mary Pat

In the kitchen, the residents felt unusually tall

Luddy Cornett ’81 said as she sat on the porch of her

due to the low countertops. They took turns making

gie Grace ’81 during Reunion Weekend 2011.

“We thought we ate regular meals,” said Grace, “but

old house reminiscing with former roommate Mag-

the

From 1978-81, eight friends rotated through

ping

house,

and

swap-

dinner, though some were better cooks than others. I don’t think we really did.” One night, Cornett forgot about the egg she

roommates

sharing

bathroom

was

one

with

nally returned to the

very large window looking house Jamie

into

Caples

kitchen, she found it

the

on the ceiling.

door.

One memorable

Far-

escapade

ley ’81 summed up

the back room. The

mates had “very few

women had to shoo

arguments, lots of parties.”

it out using mops

many

and

didn’t

With the house

located

between

even

they

know

must have left those

Evanston

behind because we never

brary was quite the

cleaned

the

place,” Grace said.

hike. “You had to a

brooms

they had. “Someone

Irving

and Trinity, the li-

take

cat got caught in

saying the house-

and

occurred

when a huge, hairy

their time there by

laughs

hard-boiling,

and when she fi-

mandatory

but

nap once you got

Messy, not

maybe,

destruc-

tive — except one

there,” Grace said.

incident at the end.

515 IRVING

The laundry room in Campus South was

“One of our parents

got us this huge cake

close enough to push a shopping cart of dirty clothes

for graduation,” Cornett said. “While trying to cut

and dryer, but they were located in the basement,

cake!”

to, though. The house came equipped with washer which the roommates were afraid of.

it, we broke the dining room table. But we saved the The memories the roommates shared celebrat-

As the focal point of the living room, the fire-

ing their 30th anniversary of graduation were fond

didn’t really use the furniture in there,” said Cor-

didn’t see details, we saw people and experiences.

place was always decorated for the holidays. “We nett. Instead, the housemates were always on their feet, dancing around.

ones. Cornett said, “The boring things fade. … We … We made every year count.”

—Meredith Hirt ’13

Take a tour with today’s residents at http://udquickly.udayton.edu.

And suggest we take a tour of your old house. Email us at udquickly@udayton.edu.

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Never too late ROBERT GLASER ’83

Robert Glaser wanted to honor his father; he ended up honoring hundreds of other World War II veterans. In 2009, Glaser, along with car and truck dealers, started The Triangle Flight of Honor, a nonprofit that flies veterans to Washington, D.C. More than 500 North Carolina veterans have visited the National World War II Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, the Marine Corps War Memorial and the Enola Gay exhibit, thanks to the organization. “It’s never too late to say thank you to this generation,” said Glaser, a Flyer basketball walk-on and president of the North Carolina Auto Dealers Association. “This generation of men and women left home to fight for our freedom and, when it was over, they went back to work and raised their families. More than 400,000 never came back.” Working with local businesses and media outlets, the group has organized seven trips, including two this coming fall. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue and Miss North Carolina are among those who greet veterans at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for the start of their trip. In Washington, veterans travel to monuments, receive commemorative flags and are presented plaques by North Carolina’s senators. When they return to Raleigh later the same day, a crowd of more than two thousand greets them. A band plays 1940s music, the USO passes out food and drinks, and family members welcome home their World War II heroes with the praise they deserved long ago, he said. Glaser, from a family of more than 20 Flyers, like me, said he owes the honor of serving these veterans to his father. “My dad fought in the Battle of the Bulge, won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He didn’t want any recognition. ... He wanted to raise his family.” Private First Class Thomas J. Glaser died Oct. 4, 2007, without ever visiting the Washington memorial. —Alison Glaser ’15

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ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis similigniet eosandant. Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui

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Global vision to save sight SEAN DONAHUE ’84

Cataract detection in older individuals can spare them from years of substandard vision. For children, early detection can make the difference between a life of sight and permanent blindness. That’s the message that Dr. Sean Donahue is delivering to doctors in China and other developing countries working to end childhood blindness. He and a team of American physicians will help train doctors at a hospital in Tianjin, a city outside Beijing, to diagnose and treat cataracts in children. “In adults, it’s just a result of aging, but in children, both eyes can be rendered blind if the cataracts aren’t treated and diagnosed early,” he says. Donahue is chief of pediatric ophthalmology and director of the Tennessee Lions Eye Center, a division of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University. His work at Vanderbilt and Lions Clubs International led to his appointment to the global advisory council of the Pediatric Cataract Initiative, a partnership between Lions Clubs International Foundation and the Bausch & Lomb Early Vision Institute. The council helps select the sight-related programs to be funded in developing nations. One-third of pediatric cataracts are related to infection, another third are inherited and causes are unknown for the other third, Donahue says. Because many children in developing countries don’t receive postnatal care, such vision issues are never discovered. Even in China, a nation experiencing strong economic growth, doctors often aren’t trained to look for cataracts in children experiencing vision problems. Donahue has also visited Brazil, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates as a medical adviser for Lions Clubs International. He has seen the smiles on people’s faces after they’ve traveled days to receive a sight-saving treatment that’s nearly impossible to find in their countries. He hopes for the same result for children in China. “We have an opportunity to change their lives,” Donahue says. —Shannon Shelton Miller

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In charge of champs DAYNA WELLS SCHERF ’93

As Jeremy Wariner was sprinting to a gold medal finish in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, Dayna Scherf was back in Texas, screaming “Go, Jeremy, go!” at the TV. As director of championships for the Big 12 Conference at the time, Scherf knew Wariner as the student-athlete at Baylor University who had won the Big 12 title for the 400 meters. Says Scherf, “I was like, ‘Hey, a few months ago I put a medal around his neck.’” At the Big 12 headquarters in Irving, Texas, Scherf is now the Big 12’s assistant commissioner for championships. It suits her that the conference is basically a service organization and that her efforts are on behalf of schools, student-athletes and fans. And yes, she and her family score great seats at bowl games — though at this point, her 5-year-old son “thinks I just tell the teams which bench to sit on,” she says. Scherf loves overseeing collegiate competitions that can produce some of the fastest times in the world. But she also loves the myriad of moving parts and details, down to providing the needles for pumping the balls and surprising coaches with their favorite snacks. She and her team have their hands everywhere: marketing, the fan experience, and arena and game operations. “I am,” she says with a laugh, “the spreadsheet queen.” At UD, Scherf competed in softball and volleyball. She draws on those memories as she pieces together travel schedules for games and events, asking herself, “What would make this special? What would I have liked?” Such thoughtfulness, combined with her organizational prowess and commitment to the Big 12, recently won Scherf a trophy of her own. She was one of four women honored in 2010 with the Judith M. Sweet Commitment Award for leadership in intercollegiate athletics. Scherf keeps the medallion in her office, a gleaming reminder of her purpose. —Janet Filips ’77

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tium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi a R Ei Ut N I O N W EiEt K E N D tia doluptas d J u n e 8 - 1 0 , q2 0 1 2 liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor

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alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis similigniet eosandant. Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui con plamet ernam est posamet et alit volupta tionsedit escipsapis eum aut fuga. Nequist peri dolesti beriatu sandunt orepernatus eum que pa essitat. Tem. Sed undesed quae nonet maxim et omnimusame dolupicto te nonse nimus ut ut omnit, quid quidellorum quia quassit quam ipsapidus eles doluptio blaut porepe perum de sin rem imusda qui optae perferrum num nullit alic tecusci tatiatu samenima eumenimus, ommodiscia s R E U N I O N W E E K E N D June 8-10, 2012 sanis eume voluptatempe et maximin nosamus antium il evendiant aut vidundio quam aut modi tem rerferorum hilicaerat mincti optatistio quunto que iunt veles rest, endae peliqui tem. Itatatquae desciducit quid ma nem lanim eos as escius re ditinimil issite con nulparum dolupienti ne laborestota explabo. Ehenit mo cus moluptatust aliatatus maxim et, ut ma quae voluptaquid

Friend for life KRISTI SCHULENBERG ’96

Before Kristi Schulenberg attended a talk by anti-death penalty crusader Sister Helen Prejean during her junior year on campus, her opinion on capital punishment ranged somewhere between “pretty indifferent” and “probably pro.” By the end of Prejean’s lecture, Schulenberg felt her faith calling her to explore the issue in greater depth. Within weeks, the religious studies major had joined the nonprofit group Ohioans to Stop Executions and started writing to a death row inmate. Today, Schulenberg is a second-year law student at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and hopes to pursue a career in human rights law and capital defense. It’s a path that started with the random selection of a pen pal 16 years ago — she said she picked Daniel Lee Bedford’s name simply because it was near the top of an alphabetical list and because she had a number of associates named Dan. “He was surprised,” she said. “He wondered why anybody like me would want to write someone like him.” She eventually learned he had been convicted for the 1984 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend. Letters gave way to phone calls, and then to in-person visits. Schulenberg continued to write, call and visit Bedford over the next 16 years, even after moving to Washington, D.C., Hawaii and California. In April 2011, Schulenberg spoke at his clemency hearing and also heard testimony from the victims’ families. She grappled with a range of emotions as they shared the pain caused by a man Schulenberg considered a friend. Bedford, 63, was executed by lethal injection in Lucasville, Ohio, May 17, 2011. The experience continues to motivate Schulenberg as she works toward her degree. “I can’t imagine how it is for the men and women who face the death penalty without adequate legal representation,” she said. “Lawyers really do make a difference.” —Shannon Shelton Miller

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undam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem

reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis similigniet eosandant. Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui con plamet ernam est posamet et alit volupta tionsedit escipsapis eum aut fuga. Nequist peri dolesti beriatu sandunt orepernatus eum que pa essitat. Tem. Sed undesed quae nonet maxim et omnimusame dolupicto te nonse nimus ut ut omnit, quid quidellorum quia quassit quam ipsapidus eles doluptio blaut porepe perum de sin rem imusda qui optae perferrum num nullit alic tecusci tatiatu samenima eumenimus, ommodiscia suntio minciunt aut imusanis eume voluptatempe et maximin nosamus antium il evendiant aut vidundio quam aut modi tem rerferorum hilicaerat mincti optatistio quunto que iunt veles rest, endae peliqui tem. Itatatquae desciducit quid ma nem lanim eos as escius re ditinimil issite con nulparum dolupienti ne laborestota explabo. Ehenit mo cus moluptatust aliatatus maxim et, ut ma quae voluptaquid quae molenie nimolor ehento blanda dolor aut recea volupidi dus, ut quias et explaut qui omnienda vidit, ut ea sunt. Eveniet mi, ommolor essincto iur mo elenihi lluptis elici to odit laccusd an-

derion natur rerepro blaborrumet hitius coreper ciuriatem quo totatio restio expelitatiae voluptat faccus, officiunt apit dolupiet aut venienis susaesti omnihilita aut est deliquibus quiae non conesse quaspis cuptat. Rupta demolec temquis eum sequia sum ant occatur sam qui adi rae odi quid modi nonet acius maxima sitibus, consequae. Namenit et voluptas eatemos eat doloremquis ad maxime nate reniaerundam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat.

Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto ntium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur?

verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d

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Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus.

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coreper ciuriatem quo totatio restio expelitatiae voluptat faccus, officiunt apit dolupiet aut venienis susaesti omnihilita aut est deliquibus quiae non conesse quaspis cuptat. Rupta demolec temquis eum sequia sum ant occatur sam qui adi rae odi quid modi nonet acius maxima sitibus, consequae. Namenit et voluptas eatemos eat doloremquis ad maxime nate reniaerundam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et er REUNION WEEKEND speli beaquia n J u n e 8 - 1 0 , 2 0 1 2 reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque con-

et as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et

Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur?

High-octane interests MARCUS SMITH ’08

Marcus Smith is in the business of the smaller than small: nanoparticles, nanomaterials and other stuff that was science fiction not that long ago. When describing his work, he can’t help but utter head-scratchers like “acoustic cavitation” and “energetic materials.” “I feel like it goes over most people’s heads,” Smith said. “And they’re just like, ‘Oh? That’s cool.’” Smith is creating aluminum nanoparticles (energetic materials) by applying ultrasound to a chemical system, a process which results in the formation and collapse of bubbles (acoustic cavitation). “Basically, the sound waves are responsible for promoting highenergy chemical reactions,” Smith explained. The goal is to create particles that, when added to jet fuel, increase the fuel’s energy content, allowing planes to fly longer and farther on less fuel. Smith’s research efforts have also led to the discovery that, when added to water, the aluminum particles release hydrogen gas, meaning the particles themselves have the potential to be used as a fuel. Nanotech wasn’t Smith’s first love. He started out studying electrical engineering as an undergraduate but found it too abstract and theoretical for his taste. In his senior year, he landed a UD Research Institute internship as a research assistant in a nanofuels lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he has stayed. “I’m a very hands-on type of person,” he said. “When I started working out at the base, it was completely different. I was very interested in what I was doing.” Smith won a fellowship from the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute, a partnership between area universities and the Air Force that allowed him to pursue a master’s in materials engineering. Today, he’s a full-time materials engineer. As a kid, he played with Erector sets and Legos but never owned a chemistry set. Now he’s doing sonochemistry for a living. “My mom says she always knew I would be an engineer,” he said. “She just didn’t know what type.” —Emanuel Cavallaro ’07

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bus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur?

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

To generate alumni pride and to reflect the excellence of a University of Dayton education, the National Alumni Association since 1967 has — through its awards program — recognized alumni whose accomplishments personify Learn, Lead and Serve. The winners of this year’s alumni awards: Distinguished Alumnus Award

Christian Service Award

Special Achievement Award

Joe Belle Memorial Award

M. Michele Mariscalco, M.D.

Daniel R. Fiehrer, D.D.S.

Susann M. Brady-Kalnay

James “Scott” Murphy

Bachelor of Science Pre-med 1977 College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Science Pre-dentistry 1962 College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Science Biology 1987 College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering 2001 School of Engineering

For the last year, Michele Mar-

As a young dentist in 1966,

Once her junior high school

iscalco’s title has been associate

Daniel Fiehrer moved to Brown-

science teacher introduced her to

sity of Kansas School of Medicine-

Health Service. After serving the

M. Brady-Kalnay, the daughter

dean for research at the UniverWichita. Previously, she was a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine.

But titles do not describe her

work. She’s done award-winning teaching and research, but she is

ing, Mont., as part of the Public

Native American Blackfoot Nation

for two years, he went to work on a degree in orthodontics. In 1972, he returned to Montana, opening a practice in Helena.

From 1972 to 2010, once a

exceptionally good at taking what

month, Native American children

and tying it all together to serve

ena to receive orthodontic treat-

she does and what other people do

those who entrust their care to medical professionals.

One of her last projects at

Baylor was to change the process

of how a child with a sickle cell

were driven from Browning to Helment from Fiehrer, who received

In the mid-1990s, Fiehrer com-

Medicine Lodge Sun Dance Cer-

a title to coordinate all that. On a

committee with no name, serving without a title, Mariscalco worked

with the stakeholders in the pro-

cess to develop a vision, to sell it to

paintings of the Blackfoot Indian emony, a collection now housed in

the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mont. Fiehrer also commis-

national

recogni-

tion — the 2010 Barry A. Shapiro Memorial Award for Excellence in Critical Care Management.

Dayton who gave her the opportu-

nity (rare at most universities) to do research as an undergraduate. After

graduating

from

UD,

from the University of Cincinnati

doctoral fellow at the Cold Spring

Harbor Laboratory. Since 1995, she has been on the faculty of the de-

partment of molecular biology and microbiology at Case Western Reserve University.

Her work focuses on the role of

are altered in cancer. To make tis-

In 2002, the Montana Dental

dentists for outstanding public

received

including those at the University of

people.

sion documentary on the Blackfoot

to lead and to serve. she

family and encouraging teachers —

cell adhesion (the ability of cells to

Association gave Fiehrer its T.T.

Nominated by her colleagues,

And she did, graced by a supportive

sioned an award-winning televi-

the stakeholders’ direct reports up and down the line, to get it done —

she wanted to become a biologist.

College of Medicine and was a post-

ple — in primary care, in an emeran outpatient clinic. No one has

where he has the title of chief en-

engineer (a UD alumnus), knew

family.

missioned an artist to create 42

gency room, in intensive care, in

of a teacher and a NASA electrical

Brady-Kalnay received a doctorate

disease was served. Such a child comes in contact with many peo-

Scott Murphy is known for his work

no fee. Over the years, he treated as many as three generations in a

Rider Award, which recognizes service. In 2007, the head chief of

the Blackfeet Tribe gave Fiehrer an

eagle feather headdress and bestowed on him the title of Chief Dan Holy Eagle.

56 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2011

In the engineering profession,

fruit flies and genetics, Susann

at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base gineer for the flight test program of the X-51A, which in 2010 made the longest-ever supersonic combustion

ramjet-powered

hypersonic

flight, reaching a speed of Mach 5. In

the

Dayton

community,

Murphy is known as the founder

and chair of updayton, a volunteer project to help the region better at-

tract and retain young talent. Combining the analytical mind of his profession with a flair for public

speaking, he has won community support, enabled volunteers and

brought together from across the

region “young creatives” — artists, engineers, teachers, architects and

others, including some people notso-young but dedicated to Dayton.

Although the transition from

stick to one another) and how they

sue, cells communicate with one

young people in the Dayton re-

another; cancer cells, however, lose the ability to be controlled

by the normal cells surrounding them. Leading cancer journals re-

port her groundbreaking research.

manufacturing-oriented

econ-

omy might seem to token fewer

gion, Census Bureau numbers for 2008 showed an increase of 18- to

34-year-olds in the area — a trend updayton is dedicated to continue. The

Dayton

Business

Journal

Cancer Research features results of

named Murphy to its list of the Top

2011, cover story.

in the Dayton Region.

her most recent work in its Sept. 1,

10 Most Influential People of 2010

HILLARY HOPKINS ’10

My mall hair Every era has a defining hair-

about her UD scholarship, the first for a Flyer female athlete.

She — now Deirdre Kane — told

style: Mall hair. Afro. Pageboy. Mullet. Beehive. Greaser.

this story to incoming first-year

smiling faces framed by them —

Philadelphia

University of Dayton Archives. It is

summer. There, Kane met new

and making every page accessible

him and the others in attendance

And those styles — and our

students and their families at the

are being forever preserved by the

nic, one of 26 held nationally this

digitizing our Daytonian yearbooks

Flyer Gordon Gearhart ’15. She told

to alumni everywhere.

to learn from her story — UD can

For starters, see the severely

parted hair of the boys of St. Mary’s

Institute in 1905. More than a

dozen yearbooks through 1961 are currently online, with more being added soon for our enjoyment

(and embarrassment). Visit digital .udayton.edu/cdm-yrbooks/.

Life’s a picnic

Me gotta go

student

pic-

open doors to the rest of your life,

There’s no better way to feel young than to dance to “Louie

Louie” under the big tent with hundreds of your closest friends. For 1,820 alumni, friends and family, that was just part of the fun at Reunion Weekend 2011 June 10-12.

Thirty-five members of the Class of 1961 received their wings

during the Golden Flyers ceremony Friday. Across the lawn, the

Class of 2006 reconnected in a party that drew 23 percent of its graduating class.

Make plans to return June 8-10, 2012. As always, Reunion

Deirdre Moire ’76 transferred to

Weekend is open to all, with class parties on Friday night for the

stead, she found the love of her life,

and 2007. From FlyerFest to the vow renewal ceremony to just

ate also found her vocation in life

Visit alumni.udayton.edu/reunion.

UD chasing the love of her life. In-

graduates from 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002

Tim Kane ’76. The biology gradu-

roaming campus and reminiscing, it’s a party not to be missed.

— coaching — thanks to publicity

new

and what a good life it is.

Hidden no more Don Asher, known as Ameri-

ca’s job search guru, will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, on “Cracking

the

Hidden

Job

Market.”

Dayton-area alumni can attend the

campus event, and alumni every-

where can participate via simulcast online. Asher’s campus talks are supported by the offices of alumni

outreach, career services and enrollment management. Details at alumni.udayton.edu.

ALUMNI BOOKSHELF Putting Makeup on Dead People /JEN VIOLI ’96/ Hurricane Katrina scattered members of the University of New Orleans creative writing MFA program, blowing Violi north to Dayton. That’s when the seed of the story that had been germinating since her father’s death in 1988 took root. “I always knew I was going to write about loss, honoring my dad and exploring my own healing through fiction,” she says. What began as a short story cycle evolved into an absorbing young adult novel in which high schooler Donna deals with the grief of her father’s death by finding her own path in life. Violi sets the story in Dayton and hopes readers will forgive Donna, who turns down UD for mortuary school.

Fastened to a Dying Animal /GARY LEISING ’95/ Leising forages for free coffee in the offices at Utica College N.Y., where he teaches creative writing and contemporary literature. In its absence, he grudgingly visits the overpriced campus coffee cart where he is repeatedly stuck behind a customer with a complicated order. He turned his impatience into “Your Punishment in Hell,” one poem in his new book of poetry. “I try to engage readers with a lot of humor and, I hope, a sense of assertion and self deprecation,” he says. His poems deal with questions of mortality through symbolism of the human animal. But don’t take him too seriously. Every bit of venom he directs at a character illustrates he’s as flawed as us all, just more creative in showing it.

Parenting Your Adult Child /SUSAN VEIHDEFFER VOGT ’69/ A mother of four, Vogt gives parents hope, guidance and support as she addresses the personal and spiritual formation of adult children. She writes from a Catholic perspective but provides lessons for families of any faith. “The kids don’t always follow the path we hoped or wanted for them ... but that’s part of our faith journey — learning how to let go and trust God.” A professional Catholic family minister for more than 30 years with husband Jim ’68, she is also a vowed lay Marianist and points to Mary’s formation of Jesus — and by Jesus — as instructive for parents: Our children form us.

A Year of Hitchcock /JIM MCDEVITT ’96/ Call it a bucket list item, maybe two. McDevitt not only wrote a book, but he spent a year watching every Alfred Hitchcock film, one per week, to do it. The result is A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, released in hardcover two years ago and coming out in paperback in October. From The Lodger (1927) to Family Plot (1976), the book traces Hitchcock’s career film by film with synopses, trivia and a “Where’s Hitchcock?” box for spotting the director’s clever cameos. “Hitchcock’s films are endlessly fascinating, even after many repeat viewings,” McDevitt says. —Michelle Tedford and Matthew Dewald AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 57

CHAPTER POSTCARDS

Run to remember

For a mid-August morning, the weather

was mercifully cool — 60 degrees and light

they ran the Walt Disney World Marathon.

There, they realized they had found some-

rain. Colleen Van Tiem ’06 and cousin Jen

thing important that needed to endure.

preparation for a marathon. They ran 16 miles

and lacrosse player who had never before run

swarm of mosquitoes just a footfall behind.

as a fan and left pledging to run in Haubert’s

ran along the dirt trails of Bald Mountain in

without stopping — in part to stay ahead of the

Some days, Van Tiem runs to remember

the happy times with boyfriend Dan Haubert

’06. Other days, when she’s sad or confused, she runs to help process what’s happened with life.

Kevin Kirkpatrick ’06 — a former football

more than 4 miles at a time — came to Disney

When he runs, Kirkpatrick says, “I re-

businesses including an event ticket search

site, a charismatic leader who brought people

together, a mentor always ready to help others.

The night of Haubert’s funeral, Van Tiem

and Adam Rathge ’06 made a pinky swear —

we will lean on each other and cope using running as a kind of moving therapy.

Eleven weeks later, with 10 fans along for

support and joined by runner Anna Young ’08,

.posterous.com.

They also organize fundraisers there.

ceived to help celebrate life. Mike Jackson ’06,

For the second annual run in 2010, 25 run-

the third run, they’ve chosen the Oct. 2 Twin

emplify Haubert — founder of more than 10

and organize runs online at andnowwerun

would be of me.”

ering to run marathons and raise money for

trepreneurship major whose aspirations ex-

cope with suicide, raise awareness and reach

While the run was conceived to help cope

ners converged in Las Vegas from California,

which this year will be awarded to a UD en-

In addition to running, Van Tiem has

it pushes me through the tough miles and

and brought us together.”

the Dan Haubert Memorial Scholarship Fund,

Dan did.”

out to people. She and others share thoughts

rial runs.

tough stretches ... to know how proud he

Since 2009, supporters have been gath-

general and bringing people together the way

friends who also train for the Haubert memo-

long weekend runs joined by four Chicago-area

to remember Haubert, an exuberant entrepreOf running, she says, “It’s what saved us

Says Rathge, “The marathon is a celebra-

tion of life, Dan’s life in particular, but life in

found blogging another important way to

member the good times I had with Dan, and

neur who died by suicide in 2009.

comed into the event every year.

memory. Kirkpatrick’s training now includes

But most of all, Van Tiem and dozens of

family and friends throughout the country run

Cities marathon and 10-miler. More are wel-

Florida, Illinois, Michigan and beyond. For

with death, the scholarship fund was conwho worked with Haubert in UD’s Davis Center for Portfolio Management, helped com-

bine the Davis Center alumni group’s plans to endow a scholarship with one to remem-

Dan Haubert continues to bring friends together, here at the Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon. Donations for the 2011 memorial run are accepted at www.gofundme.com /andnowwerun.

ber Haubert. To date, they have raised $40,000.

“Dan is why the run and

scholarship are successful,” says

Jackson, who plans to run the Twin Cities 10-miler.

The scholarship is a way to

carry forward Haubert’s love for UD, a love shared by his friends.

“To give that experience to a

UD student is a way for his legacy to live on,” Van Tiem says.

—Michelle Tedford

New York/New Jersey

HOW DO YOU SHOW OFF NEW YORK?

From a luxury party suite in the Staten Island Yankees minor league baseball stadium, New York and New Jersey alumni look across the water toward the towering Manhattan skyline.

When the game is over, the sky between the boroughs erupts with fireworks. A

windy ferry ride to and from the annual alumni event sends alumni floating past the Statue of Liberty.

Incoming chapter president Kevin Stacey ’06 says not many alumni get to see some-

thing that cool on the commute to a chapter event. He continues, “That’s the excitement of living in New York City. It’s one of a kind.”

The city offers plenty of activities for UD’s New York/New Jersey chapter, 3,526

strong. Alumni are attracted to the area, as exiting president Steve DeFilippis ’92 explains, because you can do anything there. “It has everything to offer, period.”

Chapter events range from wine tastings to game watches. With basketball such a

big part of UD’s culture, DeFilippis says anytime a game is in the vicinity, events are

huge. Alumni attend games at Fordham University in the Bronx when the Flyers travel

there. Host for the NIT finals in 2009, the chapter welcomed

alumni from all over the country to New York for the games at Madison Square Garden.

Alumni love to participate in Christmas off

Campus. Held at the Covenant House for more than 20 years and counting, Santa Claus always makes a visit, bearing gifts for everyone.

Stacey knows New York City is a very differ-

ent environment from the Midwest; one of the

reasons he moved there after graduation was so

he wouldn’t have to drive a car. Though the chapter

includes the surrounding suburbs and northern New Jer-

sey, DeFilippis says most events take place in the city and

require alumni to cross a bridge, travel through a tunnel or take a subway — but that’s part of New York City’s charm.

There are three points Stacey wants to focus

on during his presidency: consistency, variety and communication. He plans to build an ongoing relationship with a Catholic charity and, this summer, he put on a co-ed

charity softball game. With the

arrival of fall, the chapter held a back-to-

school event for cur-

rent Flyers and their

families.

“I could hit a golf

ball in any direction

from my house and I’d

1. CONEY ISLAND Chris and Cindy Majewski Sippel ’81 took their daughter’s UD friends to Coney Island to experience Brooklyn history, “not to mention getting to ride the Cyclone and having a few Nathan’s hot dogs.”

2. K ARAOKE U2 After riding an elevator to the basement to find a poorly marked doorway, Emily Cipolla ’09 surprised her high school friends with this underground karaoke bar on St. Marks Place. “There’s nothing like belting out old songs with good friends!”

3. STONE STREET TAVERN Keith Powers ’05 took a fellow grad to this bar in the financial district for happy hour to be outside with all the people and energy. He also likes to take visitors to Yankees games, “since they’re the best team in baseball.”

4. RADIANCE TEA HOUSE & BOOKS Within walking distance of Fifth Avenue, Central Park and the iconic “Love” statue, Lydia Hirt ’07 took her mother and younger sister to Radiance on West 55th for “a fabulous tea tasting and to enjoy their delicious dumplings.”

5. HIGH LINE Brian Torpey ’07 took his father to this park, which stretches through three Manhattan neighborhoods. “It’s fascinating to see how it has been revitalized by making an old section of railroad tracks into a park.”

hit an alum,” DeFilippis

says. With all that the area

has to offer, it’s no surprise

there are so many around.

FRANK PAUER

Stacey says, “It’s New York

City. … If a UD alum can make

it here, they can make it any-

where.”

—Meredith Hirt ’13

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 59

SKIP PETERSON

GOOD WORKS

His biggest sale

basketball game three years ago. Talarico was sold.

“He expressed an interest in sales

and stressed its importance for all stu-

dents,” Shank said. “He’s an advocate for having students understand the role of sales in their career goals.”

Talarico should know. He’s come

a long way from that day in late 1970 when he boarded a bus in Allendale,

Fiore Talarico ’74 knows how to

N.J., with two suitcases in hand. “All

make the sale.

that I had,” he said.

During his multifaceted career,

He undertook a two-day journey

Talarico, a retired Houston business-

to Dayton, and the bus dropped him

man, has bought and sold close to 40

off downtown. He asked some friend-

companies in industries ranging from

ly locals for help, and they directed

pharmaceutical research to pizza. He’s

him to campus, telling him to look for

worked as a venture capitalist, a fund-

the Big Boy statue near the entrance.

raiser for John McCain’s 2008 presiden-

Big Boy is long gone, but Talari-

tial campaign and an adviser for a na-

co’s fond memories of his time at the

tional security think tank.

University remain. Today, Talarico

Regardless of the industry, Talarico

actively works to recruit students in

says that the selling process begins long

the Houston area to the University

before one lands a position with a com-

and invites them to alumni gath-

pany or makes a deal.

erings he hosts at his home and at

“If you want to get a job, how do you

sporting events. His ongoing enthu-

do that? You have to know how to sell

siasm even convinced his nephew,

yourself,” he says.

Andrew McClain, to transfer to the

Now he’s helping other Flyers be-

University. And now his son, Jared,

come just as adept at the art of sell-

has made the move.

ing. Talarico is giving the University a

Selling the University to students

$1 million gift over a five-year period to

might be Talarico’s most fulfilling en-

support the Center for Professional Sell-

deavor.

ing, launched in May 2010. As the call for sales training across disciplines continues to rise from employers and students alike, the School of Business Ad-

ministration wanted to take advantage

versity of Dayton to be a step ahead.”

ing demand. The center is one of about

ment needs for the center, provide sup-

wide.

in the National Collegiate Sales Compe-

tion — a gift described as “transforma-

center.

of the school who became president of

corporate partnerships designed to pro-

summer — the center will take a large

ment opportunities for students. So far,

goals that will help students become

gistics Inc. and Reynolds and Reynolds

workplace.

center hopes to have between eight and

of the opportunity to meet that grow-

Talarico’s gift will help fund equip-

50 at colleges and universities nation-

port for students participating each year

And because of Talarico’s contribu-

tition and be used to help promote the

tional” by Matthew Shank, former dean

Shank said the center is securing

Marymount University in Virginia this

vide internship and full-time job place-

step toward accomplishing significant

it has secured two — Total Quality Lo-

more competitive in the job market and

have signed on as partners — but the

“Selling is important for people

from all walks of life,” Talarico said.

10 partners in the near future.

The gift is three years in the mak-

“This will help more than just future

ing. Shank first mentioned the idea of

from selling. We want kids at the Uni-

enjoying pizza, pool and a Dayton Flyers

business leaders — all kids can benefit

the center to Talarico when the two were

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50 50 60 110 300 60

—Shannon Shelton Miller

Approximate number of professional selling programs at universities nationally

Percent of U.S. college graduates entering the work force, regardless of major, who choose sales as their first career Percent of first-time sales people in the United States who either resign or are terminated from their first jobs due to misalignment UD marketing majors graduating between May 2007 and May 2010 with the sales management emphasis UD students expected to enroll in Principles of Selling and Sales Management courses this academic year

Percent of UD students taking sales courses who are marketing majors, the largest major in the School of Business Administration

HIDDEN TREASURE

Beat X

We won the cup and we never gave it up.

t was Nov. 4, 1972, and there was a lot on the line, including the silver Governor’s Cup, first awarded in 1929 by Ohio Gov.

Myers Cooper to the winner of the UD-Xavier football rivalry

and taken home by the victors every game since. It was also

UD’s homecoming at Baujan Field, and the Flyers were looking to improve on their 20-27-3 series record against the Musketeers going back to 1907.

But Xavier had more at risk. Its football team was losing games, los-

ing money and, possibly, losing the program.

Musketeer quarterback Tim Dydo set Xavier records, attempting

60 passes and completing 31 for 337 yards. But Flyer quarterback Ken Polke ’75 repeatedly turned to Denny Whitehead ’73, who picked up

139 yards and three touchdowns in what Flyer News called “his finest afternoon in a Dayton uniform.”

The game’s score is etched on a silver plate on the trophy’s wooden

stand: 31 Dayton – Xavier 13.

It’s the last series statistic. In 1973, Xavier’s board of trustees ended

the school’s football program, and Dayton kept the cup.

Fast forward to 2002. UD Arena is being renovated, and equipment

manager Tony Caruso ’81 rescues the trophy that was once stored in the

north air-handling room with scores of other memorabilia. Today, you’ll

find it atop a worn wooden wall cabinet outside his office near the football locker room.

He’s surrounded by history he’s saved. There’s a 1949 pigskin signed

by the team. On a high shelf is a brass basketball given by the Rotary Club to the 1952 basketball team. He has a brass football presented

Jan. 18, 1955, at a dinner for legendary football coach Harry Baujan in

honor of 33 years of service; he’d work at UD for 21 more until his death Dec. 30, 1976.

“I keep all of the old stuff — you can’t go forward until you see where

you’ve been,” says Caruso, who played baseball from 1977-81, coached

through the ’80s and has worked with the athletics programs ever since. In the room with industrial-sized washers are more than 40 football

helmets, some from college teams that no longer exist. You can hang your coat on a four-and-a-half-foot trophy that sits by his office door; it’s the TOMPROP, a steel airplane propeller affixed with a brass tomahawk

that passed between the Miami University and Dayton football programs from 1935 to 1955.

These traveling trophies are among his favorites. And he’s in search

of one more. He’s heard rumor of the Flying Cleat, golden with wings,

passed between Marshall and Dayton. Caruso has made some calls, but no one knows where it is.

“It’s in the trash or someone’s house somewhere,” he says. Or maybe

it’s a hidden treasure in plain sight, being guarded by another history buff like Caruso.

—Michelle Tedford

PERCEPTIONS

Reflections from Burundi

‘Another Set of Assumptions 2d’

Music is a universal language that tran-

scends all language barriers, and I enjoyed much singing and dancing while in Matana,

Burundi, in east-central Africa. My body swayed from side to side in the easy rhythm

of soothing music with sing-song melodic

tones. Choral music, or indirimbo, is a funda-

mental part of Burundian music culture, and the multitude of church choirs (i.e., adult, youth, children, professionals, visiting) produce music full of calm, subtle and poetic feelings, with echoes of Christian plainchant or plainsong.

There were many choirs: one for the

Wednesday morning service for the Bible College, four at the Lenten Saturday service at

one of the sub-parishes and six at the cathedral on Sunday. For each choir, there was always a soloist who began singing somewhere

among the seated parishioners. After several

I never saw an identifiable choir director and there was no written music, yet all seemed to know what to do.

opening lines of the song, the other choir members joined in as they moved to assemble in front of the

chancel. I never saw an

identifiable choir direc-

tor and there was no writ-

ten music, yet all seemed to know what to do. Foot

stomping, hand clapping and synchronized hand

motions, with an occasional breaking out into

spontaneous dancing, were all part of the joyful celebration, the drum their only instrumental accompaniment.

Leaders within the Anglican Communion

—John Antoine Labadie ’73 http://www.steppingstonearts.net/

are quietly working to confront the socio-cul-

tural, economic and development challenges facing Burundi — landlocked with Rwanda

to the north, Tanzania to the east and Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. In late

March, I spent a week in Matana, a commune

or village within the province of Bururi, located two hours south of the capital city of Bujum-

master only amahoro, or peace, which is widely

people were seated on backless benches in the

map.

lelujah and amen are universal words, and I was

dents seated to the left, the secondary students

familiar old spirituals.

(ages 3 to 12) seated in the front of the pulpit.

bura; a place so small it does not appear on any

Kirundi is the language of Burundi, and it

is difficult and complex to learn. A tonal lan-

guage, there are five vowels (long and short);

used in greetings. Still, it would seem that hal-

able to sing along in English with some of the On my last day in Matana, I joined the Sun-

the number of consonants (both silent and spo-

day worship service at the cathedral, built from

and low tones. During my visit, I managed to

lagers. As is their tradition, all of the young

ken) can vary from 19 to 26; and there are high

5,000 handmade bricks contributed by the vil-

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front of the church: the Bible and institute stu-

seated to the right, and the young children

I lost count, but there were easily 300 children and youth seated before me and another 700 adults seated behind.

My fondest memory was hearing the sweet

little voice of a 3-year-old girl seated somewhere among them, singing the beginning chords of

Among the weeds

a song before the other children joined in. As the little ones quietly and orderly moved off the

benches and began to gather on the steps up front, they sang a song about being children of

God, reminding their parents to love and to take care of them. After their second selection, all of

the young mothers brought their infants up in their arms or on their backs to join the children’s choir so that the church could pray for

all of the children in the congregation. It was

I love working in my garden — a little

“back to nature” without too much physical

labor. Sometimes it’s a good time for prayer

and reflection for me, too. God speaks when we are quiet and listening.

Today is no different. I am up early. Gon-

na get those weeds that need to be pulled before the sun gets too hot.

Weeds — the things that shouldn’t be

a long, heartfelt prayer, offered by a disabled

there in life. They start out small and harm-

who walked on her hands slid into flip-flops

and

mother whose legs had atrophied beneath her,

less but grow to take over

and who had adopted an orphaned infant from

garden.

the hospital six years ago.

A country torn by years of civil and ethnic

strangle

out

your

Get rid of the weeds.

Keeping us on the right path

war, poverty-stricken Burundi is a country for

in God’s plan.

that it will be the children who will lead this

plants, nice healthy plants.

al, love, reconciliation and forgiveness.

had this patch for more

which I have great hope, for I am convinced country into a new beginning of peace, renewAmahoro.

—Westina Matthews Shatteen ’70, ’74

This past year, Matthews Shatteen, a former trustee, was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where her research focused on women and girls in Burundi.

I get to my strawberry

But the problem is that I’ve than five years, and they

fruit ...”

Time to pull them out and plant some-

thing else that will produce something. Time to change direction, start new.

Finally, as I get to the back corner of my

garden, my hand brushes against something furry. I scream and jump back, but it doesn’t move.

Cautiously, I peer under the corner to-

mato plant, and in the midst of the strawber-

Weeds — the things that shouldn’t be there in life. They start out small and harmless but grow to take over and strangle out your garden.

ries, I see three pairs of eyes peeping out at me.

Baby bunnies ... too scared to

move.

OK, I think, it’s time to regroup.

What now, God? I have weeds and fruitless strawberry plants and a family of bunnies in the back of my garden.

Who says that God doesn’t throw us

a curveball every now and then just to keep us on our toes? (“My ways are not

still don’t produce hardly anything — just a

your ways.”)

eat out of the garden. Nothing that I could

Guess I can probably say goodbye to my

I remember that verse: “If it bears no

—Laura Konikowski Bade ’85

few tiny berries that I or Montana (our dog) ever use for cooking or anything.

I am sure He is laughing right now.

beans, too.

The livin’ was easy Summer officially begins June 21. At least

little speedboat out of storage, haul out all

But for me, that’s always been more of a

down the sand on the beach, and air out the

that’s what the calendar states. technicality.

With my calendar, summer holds the firm

time frame between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, we had

a cabin on a little lake about 15 minutes from our house. We owned

the cabin with two other families and took turns

enjoying it following a prearranged

schedule

that our parents set up

at the beginning of each summer.

However,

families out to the cabin.

celebrated the beginning of yet another hot Nebraska summer. For us children, who had

typically finished the last day of school in the

prior week, it was our first opportunity to taste the freedom of summer.

This was not a fancy cabin. It had two

bedrooms, the coolest of which had

bunk beds. It had a big patio facing

the lake, and a long, sloping sandy beach. And all of the furnishings

were a mishmash of old relics from the three families.

Three months after our Memorial

Day bash, we were back together again, this time at our Labor Day party. More

relaxed and tanned than we had been on Me-

Our Memorial Day bash was the official

rah before we returned to school, studies and

opening of the summer season. We’d pull our

cabin as all of us — pale from the winter —

rial Day and Labor Day together. All 20-something of us.

comed a life that slowed down.

For us children, who had typically finished the last day of school in the prior week, it was our first opportunity to taste the freedom of summer.

always celebrated Memo-

In between those two parties, we wel-

of the swimming toys and life jackets, rake

We had a revolving door of friends and We took time for each other. We grilled.

We played board games. We hung out.

My brothers seemed to tolerate me more.

Sometimes, I even thought they liked me. My dad was more playful. Our dog ran loose.

We kept the windows open at night and

could hear the steady sound of trains on nearby tracks.

We did this every year.

Enjoying the sounds, the tastes, the

smells, the sights and the feel of summer.

—Jim Higley

Excerpted from Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life

morial Day, we enjoyed one more final hur-

Lessons I Forgot I Knew (Greenleaf 2011). Kevin

schedules.

entrepreneurship.

Higley, Jim’s son, graduated in May with a degree in

AUTUMN 2011 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 63

PARTING WORDS

Notes on regeneration I confess that when I think about

back on them a century ago, answering

our Marianist vision, our commitment

regeneration, the subject of one of

a devastating flood with high levees.

to, in the words of Father Chaminade

this issue’s features, my thoughts are

Today, regional leaders look hopefully

who founded the Marianists, read the

not about science so much as science

at a renewed embrace. Recreation and

signs of the times and act. The Uni-

fiction and mythology. I think of poor

tourism, economic development, envi-

versity community has acted boldly

Prometheus chained to that rock, his

ronmental stewardship — they could

and with ingenuity under Dr. Curran’s

liver growing back each night so that

all flow together in the plans being laid

leadership, positioning the institution

an eagle could return to devour it each

today with the help of our students and

for decades to come.

day. It was his eternal punishment

their boundless visions of what the fu-

from Zeus for giving fire to us mor-

ture can be.

tals. Some days I think I know how he

I see the changes daily outside my office windows, which overlook the 50

The rebirth of the river is but one

acres UD purchased from NCR in 2005.

sign of a broader renewal throughout

Tennis courts have sprung up and soc-

But such thoughts mark one dif-

the region, driven in part by a regen-

cer practice fields are dramatically im-

ference between me, an editor, and a

eration of the University itself. This fall

proved. Further in the distance, ground

scientist like UD’s Panagiotis Tsonis.

marks the beginning of the 10th year

has been broken for the new GE Avia-

In the capacity of a newt to regener-

of Daniel J. Curran’s presidency at UD.

tion R&D center.

ate the lens of its eye, he sees the pos-

As another feature story notes, the Uni-

And across Brown Street, life has

sibility of one day unlocking similar

versity has experienced a remarkable

returned to campus classrooms and the

mechanisms in our own mammalian

decade by any measure — the academic

student neighborhoods after a long,

bodies. A fountain of youth may dwell

strength and geographic diversity of in-

hot summer. With the new generation

within us all — but here I am thinking

coming classes, physical growth, infra-

of students, there is also a regeneration

in metaphors again.

must’ve felt.

structure improvements, endowment

of our Marianist commitment to edu-

You can see regeneration as a more

health, internationalization and more.

cate for adaptation and change in com-

purposeful metaphor in this issue’s sto-

It results from careful planning and

ry on the River Stewards, who are help-

calculated risk taking,

And maybe that, too, is a little

ing put the region back in touch with

of course, but those

how Prometheus must’ve felt when he

the five rivers that

are tactics any well-

handed over the secret of fire.

the city’s founders

run

first settled around.

might claim. More

As a community, we turned our collective

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organization

than those, the momentum

munity.

springs

from

—Matthew Dewald EDITOR

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TIME LAPSE

In its inaugural season in 1961-62, the UD Arts Series landed a genuine legend, singer Marian Anderson (left), who went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the years, the series has drawn many notables to campus, including Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, Carlos Montoya, Edward Albee and Marcel Marceau. Another luminary will help the Arts Series celebrate its 50th anniversary this year: pianist Menahem Pressler, a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, which The Washington Post calls “the gold standard for trios throughout the world.” Also highlighting this season are, pictured above top to bottom, Victorie, Imani Winds and So Percussion. Photo (left) courtesy of University archives