VISIONS Magazine: Fall 2014 Issue

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Campustown at a crossroads A student housing boom and new office and retail space are changing the cultural fabric of the district

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wit & delight of Kate Arends

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stadium expansion

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The Champlin Building on the corner of Welch and Lincoln Way in 1941.

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY

by Carole Gieseke

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very day, when I do my little six-minute morning commute to the Alumni Center, I thank my lucky stars that I live in Ames and not (fill in the name of any big city or suburb).

It’s not that I don’t love cities, because I do. And I grew up in a suburb. But there’s nothing like living in a small, self-sustained city with no rush hour.

You know how great Ames is, right?

Because you went to school here. And it doesn’t even matter when you were here: I’d wager that Ames is a little bit different now but mostly the same in all the ways that really matter.

Did you know Ames turns 150 this year – isn’t that amazing? Ames is YOUNGER than Iowa State University!

(Find out more about the city’s history and sesquicentennial celebration at www.ames150.com).

Ames has been my home for 17 years. I’ve been here long enough to be nostalgic about the shops and restaurants that have come and gone.

I miss Campustown’s Pizza Kitchens (for the California pizza), Café Shi (for the truffle fries, guacamole with homemade chips, and coconut pie), Brewer’s (because it was such a classy bar), Taraccino Coffee (yes, I can easily get great coffee in Ames, but I still miss the zucchini muffins and strawberries & cream smoothies), and Shoppes on Grand (both for lunch at the tearoom and for holiday shopping).

But life goes on. Restaurants come and go. For every one that’s shuttered, a new one (or two) pops up. I adore the new +39 Italian eatery up north in Somerset, right next to one of my other favorite restaurants, The Café. I love Ames’ ethnic-restaurant mix, especially Indian Delights, El Azteca, Café Beaudelaire, Thai Kitchen, and the tacos at Es Tas. I enjoy relaxing with a beer and some popcorn at Welch Avenue Station, and I like the natomeli pizza at Ge-Angelo’s.

When I was an Ames newbie, I thought

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Hickory Park was the only place to eat.

That restaurant – now in its third and largest location – topped the list of “must-visit” places in Ames on a recent online alumni poll. It’s also third on the list of favorite student hangouts through the decades (see the full list on page 20), topped only by Cave Inn (now closed) and Cy’s Roost, both in Campustown.

I learned about some old favorites in that survey. I learned that Ames once had bars called That Place and Granddaddy’s, that people have fond memories of standing in line for Do-Biz cookies on 2-fer Tuesdays, and that Boyd’s Dairy sold milk in glass bottles and made delicious ice cream. I learned just enough about spudnuts to want to know more. (Can anyone enlighten me?)

Ames has Starbucks, but nothing beats a local coffee shop and Ames has several: Stomping Grounds, Lorry’s, Café Milo, Café Diem, and Arcadia, just to name my favorites. And speaking of Stomping Grounds, I eat in that Campustown restaurant at least once a week and sometimes several meals a week. I gravitate there for soup, coffee drinks, and chai lattes in the winter, egg salad sandwiches and patio seating in the warmer months, and cheese plates all year round. I go there for brunch on the weekends and drinks after work. If this place ever closes, I swear I’m wearing a black armband.

What else do I love about Ames? I love the shops on Main Street, and the food there, too: pizza at Great Plains Sauce & Dough, gelato and chocolate at Stam, and dollar pint night at Olde Main (where else can you go out on the town with nothing but a handful of change?)

I love the parks and the farmers markets and the local arts scene. I love that there’s a nice new pool for the local kids and an expanded public library and a growing medical center. I love the civic pride.

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Happy 150th birthday, Ames

One thing about Ames that might surprise you if you haven’t been here for a while is the growth in student housing.

Since I’ve lived here, apartment buildings have been going up steadily. Just when I think the market can’t possibly bear another one, six more apartment buildings appear. They’re taking over the farmland between Hwy. 30 and 16th Street and filling West Ames. They’re going up right now in Campustown, adding to a lot of relatively new housing that’s already in the district. (Read more about Campustown construction starting on page 14.) Family housing has expanded, too – drive north to Somerset, Northridge, and Northridge Heights and you’ll see what I mean. Even where I live, in south Ames, the former farm fields across from my neighborhood are now bursting with new homes.

Of course, you know the BEST thing about Ames: Iowa State University. If you come back this fall for a Homecoming reunion or football game, be sure to spend some time on central campus – it looks as beautiful as it always has. Walk through the Memorial Union, shop at the University Book Store, and drop by the ISU Alumni Center. If you have time, visit one of the University Museums or Reiman Gardens.

And be sure to come back for Dinkey Day in Campustown on Sept. 26 – help Ames celebrate its 150th birthday with live entertainment, family activities, historical displays, and food vendors. 

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Campustown is undergoing an unprecedented building boom. This the corner of Welch Avenue and Lincoln Way, looking southeast.

COVER STORY

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Ames, Iowa: The city we call home

FEATURES

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The wit & delight of Kate Arends Scott Braucht: Out of darkness and into the light

On the cover: Significant changes are coming to Campustown. Let writer Steve Sullivan walk you through the development of that district and give you an update on other booming areas of Ames, the city we call home.

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Teaching entrepreneurship Fall Honors & Awards

DEPARTMENTS

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Getting Started Letters to the Editor Around Campus Diversions

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Letters 

WE’D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU Let us know what you think about

stories in this issue – or about other topics of interest to VISIONS readers. Email your letters to: CGIESEKE@IASTATE.EDU. OFFICERS

Chair: Thea “Ted” H. Oberlander**# ’77 Industrial Admin.

Des Moines, Iowa Chair-elect: Alan E. Krysan** # ’87 Ag. Business Lakeville, Minn.

Vice Chair of Finance: Ryan J. Schon** ’95 Agronomy Ankeny, Iowa Vice Chair of Records: Ryan M. York** ’95 Marketing, MBA ’03 West Des Moines, Iowa University Treasurer: Warren R. Madden** # ’61 Industrial Engr.

Ex-officio/voting Ames, Iowa ISU Alumni Association President: Jeffery W. Johnson** # PhD ’14 Ed. Leadership Ex-officio/non-voting Ames, Iowa ELECTED DIRECTORS

Mark D. Aljets** ’79 Indust. Admin.

West Des Moines, Iowa Timothy C. Becker** # ’94 Const. Engr.

Glenwood, Iowa Kenneth R. Bonus** ’85 Construct. Engr.

West Des Moines, Iowa Joy Wiegman Boruff** # ’76 Home Ec. Journ.

Moline, Ill. Eric Burrough** ’97 DVM, PhD ’11 Vet. Path.

Ames, Iowa Lawrence Cunningham** ’02 Liberal Studies Urbandale, Iowa Craig K. Denny** # ’71 Civil Engr., MS ’73 Lenexa, Kan.

Melanie J. Reichenberger** ’00 Indust. Engr.

Shorewood, Wis. Julie Rodgers Rosin* ’78 Home Ec. Ed., MS ’81 Ankeny, Iowa Darryl Vincent Samuels* ’88 Pol. Sci., MA ’90 Comm. & Reg. Plan. / Pol. Sci. Pearland, Texas Nicole M. (Bell) Schmidt**# ’09 Const. Engr., MS ’13 Overland Park, Kan. Rebecca Murphy Stadlman**# ’74 Journ. & Mass Comm.

Ankeny, Iowa APPOINTED DIRECTORS

Miles Lackey* ISU Assistant to the President Office of the President Representative Ames, Iowa Kim McDonough** ’02 Jlsm. & Mass Comm., MS ’04 College Representative Ames, Iowa Lora L. Talbot** # Non-alumni Representative Belmond, Iowa Joe Kukulski*** Senior, Civil Engr.

Student Alumni Leadership Council Representative Eagan, Minn.

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THE MONUMENTS WOMAN

How nice to see the little article about Gladys Hamlin (“Meet the monuments woman,” Around Campus, summer 2014).

She was my first adviser and invited those of us in that group to her house for tea. I remember her as being very kind and helpful.

I also took her art history class. It was one of my favorite electives, and I still have the book. The quarter that I took that class we went to Omaha to view a scaled-down version of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. I also remember seeing Grant Wood’s painting Stone City there.

It is neat to know that she had a part in saving the stolen art of the WWII era. She did know her subject well!

Karen (Kruwell) Schlue*

’60 home economics education Van Horne, Iowa It was a pleasant surprise to read the article about Gladys Hamlin in VISIONS. Professor Hamlin was the landlord for my roommate, Keith Nichols (’69 ag. op.) and me during the 1968-1969 school year. We lived in the basement of her charming little home on Beach Avenue.

One of my vivid memories of Professor Hamlin was her belief in the curative and healthful properties of Vitamin C. She would provide Keith and me with an endless supply of Vitamin C pills and extol the teachings and beliefs of Linus Pauling on the subject.

I have pleasant memories of living in her house. To read she was a “Monuments Woman” adds another dimension to those great memories of an interesting woman.

Mac Willemssen**

'69 history Chaska, Minn.

As students at Iowa State in the mid-1960s, the man I married (Doug Denton,’67 chemistry) and I took Hamlin’s course on art history. Doug took it as an elective and I took it to fulfill an applied art requirement. We still have our textbook, Art and Civilization by Bernard S. Myers, one of the few saved from undergraduate days. The class was profoundly influential in our lives as we have had the opportunity to travel widely, and in every city one of our first choices of things to do is to go to the art gallery. We are members of the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, Mich., and visit it often, seeing every special exhibit as well as old art friends we have gotten to know well. Doug often com-

ments that it was probably one of the most important classes he ever took.

In Hamlin’s class we kept our eyes on the slides, trying to take notes as she explained what we were seeing and its importance. It wasn’t a class for the faint-hearted because on any day she would ask us to close our books and take a quiz; you had to go to the class prepared lest the quiz happen early, and during class you had to listen and watch in case she surprised us at the end of the session.

From icons at the Tretyakov, rooms of Matisse’s in the Hermitage, Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum, works of Van Gogh at the Musee d’Orsay, the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Peter Paul Rubens exuberant paintings of women at Alte Pinakothek, Grant Wood’s rolling hills in Davenport, Iowa, and so many more, we have seen what we could hardly imagine while we sat in that MacKay Hall darkened room during Art History A.A. 301. Thank you for reminding us of this formative time in our lives.

Gretchen Miksch Denton**

’67 home economics education Rochester Hills, Mich.

I was fortunate to be one of the people who had the privilege of touring Europe and North Africa with Miss Hamlin. We had a wonderful experience, learning more than we realized by studying on questions to ask, hoping to stump her. It never happened!! We traveled by Greek ship and landed in Gibraltar, visiting North Africa before heading north to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Occasionally we talked her into a few hours of shopping, but she preferred churches, museums, and monuments. Three months later we arrived back in Montreal, several days after school had started, but, to our surprise, the professors were happy to excuse us from the classes we missed. Probably the highlight was looking at each other’s slides in the week after returning, and especially to have Miss Hamlin ask us for a copy of one of them – a rare compliment to our photographic ability.

Lynne Robertson**

’58 family & consumer sciences institutional management, MS ’66, PhD ’88 Clearwater, Fla. Gladys Hamlin was one of my favorite teachers at Iowa State in the early 1950s. I have fond memories of her art history class. It was full of stories about rescuing art in Europe after WWII and numerous slides picturing

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Katherine E. Hallenbeck** ’02 Finance / MIS Ankeny, Iowa 4

Ana M. Hays McCracken**# ’84 Fashion Merch.

Menlo Park, Calif.

Trent L. Preszler** ’98 Interdisc. Studies Brooklyn, N.Y.

Immediate Past Chair: David A. VanHorn** # ’89 Aerospace Engr., MS ’90 Kingwood, Texas

Geoffrey C. Grimes** ’69 Architecture Waterloo, Iowa

Duane A. Halverson** # ’67 Ag. Business, MS ’69 New Brighton, Minn.

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European cathedrals and other art. It’s fitting that her slide projector is pictured because it was a big part of her classes. Her textbook, Art Through the Ages, is among my “saved” college texts.

Marilyn Groomes McDonald*

’54 home economics education Houston, Texas What a revelation about Ms. Hamlin in the summer VISIONS. As an engineer, I took art history as a needed elective...it might be easy. Years later, when my ISU alum wife, Julie, and I moved to Paris and remembering her slides of great works of art, I said that her class may have been one of the most valuable and meaningful learning experiences at school. As a student, you could feel her love for art. Your story enhanced my understanding of that love. Thanks!

Jeff Gilbert**

’64 industrial administration Pinehurst, N.C. Gladys Hamlin was my art history teacher at Iowa State, ca. 1967. She assigned her students to make a hand-drawn map of Europe and located where we’d find art treasures. She said that people travel so much now that we would get to see this art in our lifetime, and she wanted us to know where to find it. In 2011 my husband and I went to Greece and Italy. Standing in the Piazza del Signoria in Florence, Italy, I recognized some of the statues I’d studied.

Immediately I remembered Miss Hamlin and thought, “She was right!”

Deanna Valley**

’70 textiles & clothing Stillwater, Okla.

THE 1940S: IOWA STATE AND A WORLD AT WAR

Congratulations on another GREAT issue.

I was taken aback when I saw the photo on page 13 (“The 1940s: Iowa State and a World at War,” summer 2014). The female student shown here just happens to be my first wife for 52 years, Marian Snyder (’45 general engineering), from Des Moines. She was probably the first female general engineering graduate of ISU. Two years after graduation she returned to the campus as an employee, being the librarian in charge of the Engineering Reading Room in Marston Hall for 3 1/2 years while her husband (me) got his degree as an ex-GI. She often spoke of the changes experienced during those “war years.”

Byron Veath**

“The 1940s” was quite educational, but I must say that I was deeply disappointed to note the complete omission of the Camp Dodge campus for freshman engineering and science students for 1946-1947. This was a complete campus with living facilities, resident instructors, etc. I can say that I completed my first year at ISC after having visited the main campus only three times. This was a significant experience for ISC and me.

Victor Smith**

’50 chemical engineering Portland, Ore. I enjoyed the article about World War II at Iowa State. My uncles served in the military, four of them in WWII. My uncle Bob was a freshman at Iowa State before the war started. He was studying to be a veterinarian. I have a couple of postcards that he sent to my parents and sister while he was in a German prisoner of war camp. He was captured in North Africa and then moved to Germany. When he came home in 1945, I was not born yet, but my dad’s large family (13 siblings) knew right away that his experience had changed him dramatically and sadly. He suffered from alcoholism for the rest of his life, battling the unimaginable demons and images that haunted him. He did not go back to school.

My uncle Francis, who was called “Smoke,” was in basic training in Arizona in order to be sent to North Africa, but he was sent to the Aleutian Islands instead when the Japanese attacked an island there.

Dennis Howe*

’74 English Tempe, Ariz.

Thanks to Douglas Biggs, author of “The 1940s: Iowa State and a World at War.” I was a member of the freshman class of 1948 – the class so large that it filled the entire floor of the Armory. I am sure I am in the picture somewhere. The occasion pictured was my initial activity at ISC, but not the final. Blessings for the Armory...it was certainly not a thrilling venue, but who could be choosy? My graduation program listed “Clyde Williams Field;” the date: Friday, June 13! True to quirks of Friday the 13th, rain poured and everyone ran for the cover of the Armory. Parents and guests put aside their dampness and cheered. That was the 81st annual commencement; reading the names brought back more memories....and the sight of the new ensigns in their whites with black blotch stains from black gowns.

Barbara Beck Thomson**

’52 household equipment Indianapolis, Ind.

’51 mechanical engineering New Albany, Ind.

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VISIONS ACROSS AMERICA

I am probably in the minority in saying this, BUT I think the “VISIONS Across America” project was an extravaganza of inordinate proportions for editor Gieseke and ubiquitous photographer Jim Heemstra. It was a good excuse for them to say they’ve traveled to all 50 states. And who are Gieseke and Heemstra to be the ones to judge which alumni are the most outstanding in each state? I’m sorry, but every alumnus has a story to tell; I can only imagine the stories that were not discovered by these self-appointed gods of VISIONS. They only touched the tip of the iceberg as far as uncovering the stories that are really out there.

Jean Harkin*

Portland, Ore. In the letters section of the summer 2014 issue of VISIONS in a letter from Lorraine J. Hoffman is this statement: “I hope many more alums send their stories as per invitation.” She goes on to hope that all alums who stay at or return to ISU for their career pursuits would write a story upon retirement. I think those are great ideas, and I suggest an additional concept.

Along with the stories, perhaps there could be a place to describe autobiographies and memoirs written by ISU alums. I found and read Running Away to Home by Jennifer Wilson (’93 English) after reading about it in a VISIONS issue. I found and read Wolfer by Carter Niemeyer (’70 fisheries & wildlife biology, MS ’73) after seeing it mentioned in VISIONS Across America. I thoroughly enjoyed both of these books, and I can imagine that there are many more such books written by ISU grads, but no easy way to find them that I know of.

Of course, such a project would need someone to maintain the listings, which I would think would include the book title, author, and a short paragraph about the book.

If I were 10 years younger and lived in Iowa I would consider volunteering to do it. Just an idea, but maybe someone else can refine the idea and actually make it feasible.

Thank you for all your past work to introduce us to some of our fellow alumni.

Rob Nelson**

’71 political science Bakersfield, Calif.

Editor’s note: Thanks for the great idea, Rob! *Annual member, **Life member Iowa State University values communication with alumni and other audiences, and VISIONS welcomes letters from readers about topics in the magazine. Letters must be signed and include address and daytime phone number.

Letters chosen for publication may be edited for length and clarity. The editor may decide to publish a representative sample of letters on a subject or limit the number of issues devoted to a particular topic. While univer-sities are places of open discussion, letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or group will not be published.

Letters express the views of the readers and not Iowa State University nor the ISU Alumni Association. Send letters to VISIONS Editor, ISU Alumni Center, 420 Beach Ave., Ames, IA 50011-1430.

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University cancels VEISHEA permanently

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resident Steven Leath (L) announced Aug. 7 his decision to permanently discontinue VEISHEA, supporting the recommendations of the 2014 VEISHEA Task Force and ending a celebration that has been overshadowed by destruction and violence over the past three decades.

“I understand that it is very sad and disappointing to see this 92-year tradition come to an end, and there may be some who are upset with this decision, but I am not going to continue to put students at risk so that we can preserve what, to many, has become a week-long party,” Leath said at a news conference. “I will not be the president who has to call a student’s parents in the middle of the night to say your child has been critically injured in another VEISHEA-related disturbance.”

Leath said that numerous changes to VEISHEA and attempts to prevent related disturbances since 1992 ultimately did not succeed. Citing student safety as his No. 1 priority, Leath said his decision was a

“I understand that it is very sad and disappointing to see this 92-year tradition come to an end … but I am not going to continue to put students at risk so that we can preserve what, to many, has become a week-long party.”

– ISU President Steven Leath

difficult one, but it is the right one for Iowa State.

“It’s time to stop the cycle. We can’t continue to do the same thing and expect a different result,” he said.

Leath had suspended VEISHEA 2014 in the

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aftermath of an April 8 late-night disturbance in Campustown. He appointed a 19-member task force, led by Tom Hill, senior vice president for student affairs, to examine the celebration’s future.

The task force delivered its final 45-page report on July 11, including 12 recommendations for addressing the future of the popular event.

Central recommendations listed in the report revolved around the ideas of discontinuing VEISHEA in its current form and discontinuing use of the VEISHEA name; creating a new, overarching, university-wide event or series of events; and addressing student behavior such that the university can reduce the chance of disturbances at events going forward.

Dwayne Vande Krol (L)(’93 accounting) served as the ISU Alumni Association’s representative on the task force. This summer he told VISIONS that learning how strong the negative VEISHEA connotations are in the student community was eye-opening for him.

“I love VEISHEA,” he said. “My wife Lori and I were involved as students, and we really enjoy participating in VEISHEA as alums, especially the opportunity to show off the university to our three daughters. Similar to most members of the task force, I started this process with the hope of being able to continue VEISHEA. But when we started to look at the actual data, the number of disturbances that have occurred; the input we got from experts about ‘unofficial VEISHEA’ and what it has become – we heard that many students have it on their bucket lists to experience a VEISHEA riot; the connotation the name has taken on; the $8 million of damage the 2014 riot caused to the Iowa State brand and the value of an ISU degree, it became apparent that all those things added up to the fact that VEISHEA could not continue as it has in the past.”

Some traditions associated with VEISHEA will likely continue, Leath said, such as a musical theatre performance. He said he remains open to a future university showcase or events, but the content and

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timeframe have not been determined.

The task force report supported the idea of replacing VEISHEA with an “overarching, university-wide event or series of events,” that is not held during one week in the spring. Vande Krol said that while the task force’s decisions and discussions were extremely tough, he was encouraged by the discussions it had about future opportunities.

“The task force considered recommending that ISU not hold any university-wide celebrations in the future, but we didn’t do so. Instead, we hope a new event or series of events can be created that will

“I started this process with the hope of being able to continue VEISHEA. But when we started to look at the actual data … it became apparent that all those things added up to the fact that VEISHEA could not continue as it has in the past.” – Dwayne Vande Krol replicate the benefits VEISHEA provided in terms of student leadership, community outreach, and opportunities to showcase the great things happening at Iowa State,” he said. “I think there’s hope that with hard work and creativity going forward, the university can implement an activity that will provide all the benefits of VEISHEA, yet be disassociated from the negative aspects.”

The third category of recommendations in the report revolve around reducing the probability of disturbances at future university-wide events.

Among the recommendations listed are to consider stricter enforcement and harsher penalties in both the Student Code of Conduct and city ordinances; consider additional Campustown security measures such as better lighting and the installation of cameras; strengthen neighborhood relations with more cohesive communication; implement a university-wide curriculum that includes instruction on everything from student conduct regulations to crowd behavior; and develop a multidisciplinary group to improve the effectiveness of university dis-

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turbance prevention and management, handling of student behavior, and programming related to the culture at Iowa State by studying other universities.

Leath said he plans to work with members of the Faculty Senate, deans, and Hill’s office to evaluate the university’s student disciplinary regulations, and he plans to collaborate with city, neighborhood leaders, and local law enforcement to address the task force recommendations related to security and city ordinances.

Vande Krol says he knows and understands that many alumni are disappointed with the task force’s recommendation, but the opportunity he had to learn from history as a task force member gave him tremendous understanding of just how challenging a crossroads the university was facing that Tuesday night in Campustown.

“We spent a lot of time reviewing the task force reports from 1992 and 2004,” he said. “The 1992 task force report said very clearly that if a riot of [such a] magnitude were to occur again, VEISHEA should be canceled. In 2004, the task force and university decided they were not ready to cancel it. Instead, they recommended numerous changes that they hoped would avoid future riots and allow VEISHEA to continue. And, to the credit of the university, the Ames community, and the VEISHEA student committees, they implemented those changes, most of which were still in place this year.

But all of those measures still couldn’t prevent a riot from occurring. In light of that history, combined

“It’s time to stop the cycle. We can’t

continue to do the same thing and expect a different result.”

– ISU President Steven Leath

with the current task force’s review of the 2014 disturbance, it became painfully obvious that the only option left was to discontinue VEISHEA in its current form.”

Even as VEISHEA ends, Leath reiterated his pride in Iowa State.

“I don’t want (this) to, in any way, diminish all of the other extraordinary things we’re doing every day, in every college, department, and unit on campus,” he said.

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Walking on peace

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ust before Christmas in 1983, Joseph Malual waited in a swamp and climbed onto a ship traveling up the White Nile toward the city of Khartoum. Behind him: his mother, younger siblings, and childhood village. Before him: hope. With government troops killing young men in Southern Sudan, his mother and older brother had agreed: Gabriel would join the rebel troops, and Joseph would go to school with the goal of someday helping build a better nation. He was about 13.

Sleeping under sheets of cardboard, he worked as a laborer by night and took classes by day, making it all the way to the University of Khartoum. But he became alarmed while attending Islamist combat training, a government mandate for students.

“South Sudan is Western-minded,” he explains, “and I saw this mobilization to crush it.” He and a friend launched out for an Ethiopian refugee camp, crossing a war zone to get there.

By 1998, most of his family had died in the long war and he’d been imprisoned for helping younger refugees escape military conscription. “This seemed like a tipping point,” he says. “I thought, either you grab a gun and agree to kill people or you’re going to be a victim all the time.”

But when the ordeal was over, he reconsidered.

Progress, he reasoned, would begin with reducing hunger, and that would require education. A year earlier, the United Nations had offered him a resettlement opportunity. Just before it expired, he accepted. “I wanted to see a culture where people were walking on peace and making life better.”

Malual landed in Iowa on a frigid January day in 1999 and took a job stripping hides from hogs at a meat-packing plant. Again, his future seemed bleak.

Then spring arrived with its annual sea of corn and beans, and he realized he was in the best place in the world to pursue his dream.

He enrolled at Grandview College and then ISU, juggling work and studies to complete degrees in biology, economics, and sociology. His sweetheart moved here from Ethiopia; the two married and started a family. In 2011, when South Sudan became the world’s newest independent nation, he dared dream of returning there to open a small agricultural teaching center.

Then last December, as he closed in on his Iowa State PhD, war reignited in South Sudan. For nearly a month, his dissertation sat untouched as he grieved old losses and corresponded with friends trapped in the violence.

But life has given Joseph Malual a profound ability to face down grief and seek opportunity. On a bone-chilling Sunday afternoon in January, he sat in a Des Moines coffee shop and talked about hope. “Always, there are other ideas,” he said, using his hands to illustrate his ideas on the table before him. “Norman Borlaug said that if you want peace, you cultivate justice. And if you want justice, you cultivate the land.”

On graduation day, Joseph Malual celebrates with friends and family including his wife, Haymanot, and sons Emanuel, 15 (not pictured), and Daniel, 3.

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In May, his family and friends cheered as he crossed the stage at Hilton Coliseum to accept a PhD in sustainable agriculture. He is seeking a university teaching appointment or a position with an agency serving rural Africa.

– Ann Hinga Klein Journalist Ann Hinga Klein is developing a longform piece about Malual’s travels. His story is also chronicled in “VANG: A Drama About Recent Immigrant Farmers” by ISU professor of English Mary Swander with photography by Dennis Chamberlin, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.

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he Zeta Delta chapter of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, which was active at Iowa State from 1977 to 1998, is returning to campus this fall, and plans are also in the works to establish a chapter of Delta Gamma International Fraternity as early as fall 2016, the ISU Office of Greek Affairs announced this May. The addition of the two sororities will bring ISU’s Collegiate Panhellenic Council membership up to 17.

“We are so pleased,” Alpha Phi executive director Linda Kahangi said. “I know I speak for all Zeta Delta alumnae in expressing our gratitude and excitement in having the opportunity to come home to Iowa State.”

Delta Gamma has more than 210,000 members, but the proposed colony at ISU will be the first ever in Ames.

External funding for fiscal year 2014 is second-highest on record External funding at Iowa State increased to $368.4 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, representing a 12.9 percent increase from the previous year – the second-most in school history. “As we anticipated, external funding has rebounded

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well from last year’s federal budget sequester impact,” President Steven Leath (L) said. “We are especially pleased that funding from federal sources was up substantially, by 21.6 percent over last year’s federal total.”

Some of the top sources of funding for ISU research last year were the U.S. Department of Energy ($57.9 million), the U.S. Department of Agriculture ($57.9 million), and the

1: Iowa State is going for the gold. When it comes to LEED® certification of its facilities, that is.

Troxel Hall, the new auditorium facility on the east side of campus, recently became ISU’s eighth LEED-certified building when it earned the gold distinction this summer.

Nearly three-fourths of the building’s roof is planted with vegetation.

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2: Iowa State is teaching the masses.

This spring ISU announced plans to offer its first-ever MOOC: massive open online course, a new trend in higher education that allows universities to make learning accessible to everyone online. The MOOC will be offered in September 2015, when University Professor of political science Steffen Schmidt will teach about the Iowa Caucuses.

3: Iowa State boasts the defending NCAA shot put champion. Cyclone shot putter Christina Hillman defended her title as indoor NCAA champion

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National Science Foundation ($31.6 million). Vice president for research Sarah Nusser (L)(MS ’87 statistics, PhD ’90) says ISU’s researchers have been very competitive when it comes to securing federal dollars, largely due to how well ISU’s research initiatives are aligned with national and state priorities. “We saw real growth in 2014,” she said.

this spring when she also won the outdoor title on a career-best throw of 58’2”. The junior from Dover, Del., went on to place fifth at the USA Outdoor Track and Field championships in June.

4: Iowa State can design a mean solar

machine. Team PrISUm placed third in this summer’s American Solar Challenge race from Austin to Minneapolis.

The team repeated as winner of the Best Mechanical Design award for its suspension design on Phaeton; the team won the same award with solar car Hyperion.

5: Iowa State is a good “buy.” A recent article

on the Forbes website identified ISU as a university to “buy” if “colleges were a stock market.” Writes Rich Karlgaard: “I’d buy America’s great public universities known for their strength in science and engineering, and I’d be biased toward universities with a land-grant history.”

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When Kate Arends (’06 graphic design) first learned that she had topped 1 million followers on Pinterest, she couldn’t believe it.

Her blog, Wit & Delight, had begun in 2009 and slowly built a following. Then, as an early adopter of Pinterest, she branched out.

“Out of the top hundred [Pinterest] pinners, there are a handful of us who are bloggers as well, so that’s been really powerful because we exist on multiple platforms instead of just one,” Arends said. “If you love Wit & Delight on Pinterest you can then discover the blog and then discover the Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter accounts.”

Arends now has more than 2.6 million followers on Pinterest – a feat that has not gone unnoticed.

Her unique passion for art, fashion, and culture has been featured in the New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Lucky Magazine, The Inside Source (eBay’s digital shopping style magazine), Elle Decor, Mashable, the Glitter Guide, and The Everygirl. She was recently profiled in the July/August 2014 issue of Martha Stewart Living.

When she launched her online presence, Arends said, “I found the things that I gravitate toward the most always had an element of beauty, and there was always an element of humor in it. Those two things equaled a really interesting point of view; not a lot of people were looking at the world from that angle.”

A former communications and digital media director for The Daft Group and graphic designer for Cue, Inc., Arends is now running the Wit & Delight Studio full-time from her home in Minneapolis.

And her brand is about to take another big leap: Last February, Target announced that Arends and two other top Pinterest tastemakers would have party collections featured in stores nationwide.

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quirky and adorable mind behind the blog Wit & Delight. Kate embraces the fun side of fashion, home decorating, and even cooking – and injects happiness and humor into everything she does.”

– From the Glitter Guide, an online style newsletter

The Wit & Delight Target party collection was inspired by artisan food and craft beer.

wit & delight of Kate Arends

Blogger and Pinterest style curator launches a new boutique brand and design studio

By Carole Gieseke

It’s not unusual for ISU alumna Kate Arends to work late into the night, or in her pajamas, in one of her favorite chairs.

“My grandparents gave us their Bertoia Diamond chairs,” she says. “I grew up curling up in these chairs.”

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more than 700,000 party-planning-related items “pinned” on its boards every day. The Wit & Delight party collection – in stores this fall – provides everything you’d need for a beer-tasting party. Arends said the collection was inspired by artisan food and craft beer.

With her influence on her followers – mostly 25- to 40-year-old urban-dwelling females – Arends is approached every day by companies pushing the latest décor, jewelry, footwear, and clothing.

“Someone like J. Crew will approach me and they’ll say, ‘We’ll pay you a fee for creating the photography, writing, and doing your thing with our product and sharing it,’” she said. “I’m very, very choosy as to whom I accept sponsorships from. I say no to 80 percent of inquiries. But you get to put your creative stamp on it, and I think people appreciate the effort that goes into that.”

Arends admits her life isn’t as glamorous as it may come across online.

Her husband, Joe Peters, has his own Twitter account (“Wit in Real Life”) that shows the behind-the-scenes life of a style maven.

“He tweets about the mess I leave behind trying to Instagram a waffle,” she says.

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Diversions A GUIDE TO ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EVENTS

‘When in Ames…’

Experience the ExCYtement!

10 PLACES you won’t want to miss when you’re IN TOWN FOR HOMECOMING

Homecoming weekend is Oct. 10-11

Homecoming is our favorite time of year. Why? Because YOU come back! Make plans now to celebrate Cy’s 60th birthday, reunite with college friends, do some tailgating, and enjoy your other favorite Homecoming activities Oct. 10-11. Here are just a few highlights of the biggest alumni weekend of the year: Friday evening Pep Rally and open house at the Alumni Center: • Gourmet birthday cake for Cy’s 60th birthday • Cy’s birthday activities for kids • Kids invited to sing “Happy Birthday” to Cy on stage • Sponsored by University Book Store Saturday: • Alumni Center open house beginning at 9 a.m.

• Homecoming Cyclone Central Tailgate at the Alumni Center, 11:30 a.m.

• Silent auction 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Homecoming game at 2:30 p.m.

Students on the SALC Homecoming Central Committee are still looking for items you might be willing to donate to the silent auction, which benefits Cardinal Court student scholarships. You can also help by bidding on these items. A few of the donations so far include gift cards from Stomping Grounds, Hickory Park, and Chocolaterie Stam, and Iowa State memorabilia from Cyclone Engraving. To donate, email alumnirelations.homecoming 2014@gmail.com For Homecoming details, go to www.isualum.org/homecoming

In an online survey, we asked alumni where they like to go when they return to Ames for a visit. Here are their Top 10: 1. Hickory Park (everyone’s favorite BBQ and ice cream) 2. Central campus (you KNOW it’s the most beautiful place on earth!)

3. Memorial Union / University Book Store (the campus classics) 4. Jack Trice Stadium / Hilton Coliseum (for Cyclone sporting events) 5. Great Plains Sauce & Dough (for the cheese, for the crust, and definitely for the honey) 6. Tie: Reiman Gardens (for butterflies and blooms) and Campustown (for food and fun) 7. Downtown (check out the unique shops and restaurants) 8. The Café (long lines but worth the wait…located north of campus in Somerset) 9. Aunt Maude’s (for a relaxing dinner) And may we add another? The ISU Alumni Center (your HOME in Ames!) Read more about the changes in Ames in our cover story starting on page 14.

Hickory Park is No. 1

Big 4 Classic

Better than Facebook Wouldn’t it be fun to reconnect face-to-face with your classmates and friends from the residence halls, fraternities and sororities, and clubs at Iowa State? The fall alumni weekend at Homecoming is the ideal time to get your group together. And we can help! If you’re organizing a reunion, register with the Alumni Association so we can include your event on our calendar. We can also assist you with reunion planning,

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venues, and promotions. (Of course, alumni reunions can also be held at any time of the year.)

Contact Katie Hartranft (A)(’09 liberal studies) toll-free at (877) 478-2586 or email khartran@ iastate.edu.

Also in reunion news, the annual Alumni Days weekend, traditionally held in May for the 50-year class and Gold Medal Club, will no longer be offered. “Over the last five years,

graduation class sizes have increased and attendance at the special anniversary reunion has decreased,” ISUAA president Jeff Johnson (L)(PhD ’14) said. “The Alumni Association will focus on engaging alumni much sooner than their 50-year reunions, and my staff and I feel this can be accomplished through expanded programming efforts during Homecoming weekend.”

Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines Dec. 20 Excitement is building for what promises to be one of the best seasons of Cyclone men’s basketball ever. Check out a doubleheader in Des Moines at the annual Big 4 Classic. Iowa State plays Drake and the University of Iowa plays UNI in back-to-back games. Come early for a spirit gathering sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association!

Cyclone Central at the ISU Alumni Center Quad Cities Cardinal & Gold Cylebration

Football season is here! Celebrate the Cyclones and show your pride at Cyclone Central at the ISU Alumni Center three hours before each home football game.

The ISU Alumni Association event features meals, a cash bar, Cy, and Cyclone gear for sale. The ISU Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band performs a step show 80 minutes before kickoff on the east side of the Center.

Pre-order your meals by noon three days prior to gameday at www.isualum.org/cyclonecentral or call (877) 478-2586. Members receive a discount!

HERE ARE THE REMAINING 2014 CYCLONE CENTRAL TAILGATES: • Sept. 27: Cyclones vs. Baylor Sponsored by University Book Store (UBS) and Green Hills Retirement Community • Oct. 11 (Homecoming): Cyclones vs. Toledo (2:30 p.m. kickoff) Sponsored by UBS, Green Hills, and Publishing Concepts Inc. • Nov. 1: Cyclones vs. Oklahoma • Nov. 22: Cyclones vs. Texas Tech Sponsored by Green Hills • Nov. 29: Cyclones vs.

West Virginia

Crow Valley Golf Club 4315 East 60th St., Davenport Nov. 16, 6 p.m.

You’re invited to an evening of fun, food, friends, and auction item bidding at the inaugural Cardinal & Gold Cylebration to celebrate and support Iowa State University alumni and student outreach. Quad Cities area alumni, family, and friends will enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction starting at 6 p.m., followed by a live auction at 7:30 p.m.

Tailgate at Texas UT Rec Center, Austin, Texas Oct. 18, 4-6:30 p.m.

The ISU Alumni Association and Iowa State Athletics Department will host a pre-game tailgate gathering at the University of Texas before the Cyclone football game with the Longhorns. All ISU alumni, family, and friends are invited. Tailgate packages are available through Oct. 8 and include a catered tailgate with cash bar. Special discounted pricing is available for members of the Alumni Association, Cyclone Club, Letterwinners Club, and/ or Gridiron Club. Call (877) 478-2586 or register online at www.isualum.org/texastailgate.

VAA: On the road again

A select number of photographs from the VISIONS Across America: Portraits of Iowa State Alumni

by Jim Heemstra exhibition will begin touring this fall. The portraits – along with photographer Jim Heemstra, VISIONS editor Carole Gieseke, and ISUAA president Jeff Johnson – will travel to the ISU Alumni Association Clubs

of Chicago, Omaha, Twin Cities, Kansas City, and Denver. Dates and specific locations are still yet to be determined, so if you live near one of these club areas, be sure to watch your inbox for an invitation, or check online for details at www.isualum.org/ calendar.

Dinkey Day Sept. 26 (all day, free) Ames 150, the yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, is sponsoring Dinkey Day in Campustown on Friday, Sept.

26. Come for the historical and community displays, a youth and family area, food vendors and root beer garden, and live entertainment by a cappella band Home Free, pop/rock group Dazy Head Mazy, and rock band Red Wanting Blue. Student Alumni Leadership Council will be on hand with the inflatable Cy and fun giveaways. The all-day event was created to strengthen the town/gown relationship between Ames and Iowa State University.

For more information go to www.ames150.com.

Cheer on the Cyclones in YOUR city The BEST place to watch the Cyclones is in Ames, Iowa. But if you can’t make it to Ames this football and basketball season, you can cheer on the Cyclones at an ISU gamewatch Cyte near you.

To find locations in your city, go to www.isualum.org/clubs.

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AMES, IOWA: THE CITY WE CALL HOME

All Iowa State alumni have two things in common: attending ISU and spending time in Ames, Iowa. Right? Ames was as big a part of many students’ experiences as the university itself. From Campustown to Main Street to South Duff, Ames is home.

This year Ames celebrates its 150th birthday. The city of nearly 60,000 residents has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a modest railroad town established on swampland. The first 12 blocks of Ames were platted and recorded on Dec. 17, 1864. Today, Ames is a vibrant college town, with its downtown cultural district, great restaurants, music and theatre venues, a new aquatic center, and newly expanded library and hospital.

And if you haven’t been to Campustown lately, you won’t recognize it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMES Ames is celebrating its sesquicentennial all year long – from a bang-up 4th of July celebration to Dinkey Day in Campustown on Sept. 26 to Platting Day on Dec. 17. Go to www.ames150.com

REBORN Campustown

A wave of development has everyone wondering about the future of the retail and entertainment district.

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hen the state of Iowa prohibited smoking in bars and restaurants in 2008, the crew at Welch Avenue Station took action.

They removed everything from the walls of the longtime Campustown oasis.

The neon beer signs. The music posters.

The Iowa State memorabilia. All of it.

After years of nicotine were scrubbed away, the walls were repainted as close to the same color as they had been for as long as anyone could remember. Then the Welch Avenue gang put everything back on the walls, hanging each sign and picture exactly where it had been, even using the exact same nail holes.

“Alumni come back to town and come in and say the place hasn’t changed a bit,” says Mike Adams, Welch Avenue bar manager since 1996. “It has, but it feels the same.”

This bit of tavern lore offers an apt metaphor for the challenge now facing Campustown: How to hold tight to the district’s diverse character, while embracing the opportunities presented by significant change.

And significant change is most definitely coming to Iowa State’s Campustown.

A Campustown renaissance Kim Hanna, director of the Campustown Action Association (CAA), does not hesitate to use the “r” word when talking about what’s happening in the nine-block district that for more than 100 years has been a hang-out for Iowa State students, staff, and alumni drawn to the bars,

Ames City Council member and Campustown restauranteur Matthew Goodman is best known for his popular late-night gyro cart.

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restaurants, hair salons, T-shirt shops, book stores, movie theaters, tattoo parlors, and much more.

“We’re seeing the biggest wave of investment in Campustown by the city and

The old theater was one of nine buildings on the 2400 block of Lincoln Way owned for decades by the Champlin family of Ames. Kingland purchased all nine in 2012, launching a redevelopment

Iowa State’s live music scene in the 1990s.

Over the years, Champlin built more structures along the 2400 block of Lincoln Way, including the Ames Theater.

Champlin constructed it in 1919 after the city lifted a ban on theaters near campus.

Sections of façades of the Ames Theater and 1908 buildings where the Champlin name was embedded were salvaged by the Ames Historical Society.

Kim Hanna, director of the Campustown Action Association, oversees Campustown construction

project that will alter the landscape of Campustown, and quite possibly the very personality of the district.

“We are excited about this being our permanent home in Ames,” says Todd Rognes (A)(’85 accounting), Kingland president. “We believe this area can attract college students and professionals alike, and we hope our project demonstrates that Campustown is an area for the entire community.”

university in years,” she says. “This is the renaissance of Campustown.”

This so-called renaissance is driven primarily by Kingland Systems, a software and data-management company started in the ISU Research Park by founder David J. Kingland (L)(’80 industrial administration). The company moved to the old Ames Theater space on Lincoln Way in 2004, tightening the bond with its biggest pool of employees: Iowa State students.

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Birth of a district The late A.L. Champlin is considered by many to be the father of Campustown.

In 1908, he built the area’s first brick building at the corner of Lincoln Way and Welch Avenue. It was the entry point to what would eventually become today’s Campustown. During its long history, the building housed a grocery store, a drug store, a dance hall (in the years before Memorial Union), and various eating and drinking establishments, including People’s Bar and Grill, which energized

The 2400 block itself has hosted the occasional residence and a variety of businesses, including the Varsity Theater, Student Supply Store, and the Maji Jewelry Store. The strip has also been home at one time or another to long-defunct restaurants with names like Cyclone Lunch, College Inn, Mother’s Kitchen, L-Way Café, Baxter’s Bar and Grill, and Serpico Pizza.

The Champlin buildings are now gone, demolished in May 2014 to make way for the Kingland project, which Rognes hopes will provide “a positive lift in attitude and appearance to Campustown.”

A retail tenant, CVS/pharmacy, will occupy a portion of the new three-story structure going up at the corner of Lincoln and Welch. Kingland plans to use about a third of the remaining new space for its growing business. Iowa State also has plans to use a significant amount of the new space for staff offices. The entire ground level will be available to retail tenants.

Kingland expects to eventually have more than 300 employees working in Campustown. Rognes acknowledges that some may view the project as an office space takeover of the district. But, he points out, the project also “actually increases the amount of retail space from its previous state. We engaged with many parties as we designed our project, including the city, CAA, the Champlin family, and Iowa State to design a project that will draw people to Campustown for a multitude of reasons.

This project can support Campustown in becoming a district that is well-rounded and full of a

Café Beaudelaire 2504 Lincoln Way

variety of offerings.”

Lynn Lloyd, the granddaughter of A.L. Champlin and former co-owner of the Lincoln Way buildings, knows all too well the toll that business turnovers, upkeep of aging buildings, and competition from other areas of the city have taken on Campustown.

“We had 17 bars at one time,” she says.

“There’s no way that many bars can make it now.”

While the brick-and-mortar buildings represented a wealth of Champlin family history, Lloyd feels as exhilarated as she does bittersweet about their demise.

“I hope new and interesting and exciting things happen for the students, and that this also inspires other parts of Campustown to develop,” she says. “My grandfather would be happy to see all this.

He didn’t believe in sentimentality.”

An informative timeline of the nine buildings created by Iowa State University Community and Regional Planning students in collaboration with Kingland, the Ames Historical Society, and CAA is here: www.kingland.com/ our-company/ames-expansion/ the-future-expansion/ A neighborhood Campustown has been going through a gradual transformation for several years, spurred by increasing Iowa State enrollment.

High-rise apartment buildings share space with bars, restaurants, and shops in Campustown.

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razil native Claudio Gianello and his wife, Kelly, opened Café Beaudelaire in 1994. The name means “beautiful of the air” and announces that Beaudelaire is a place with atmosphere – a decidedly international one. To get an idea of the café’s customers, just look at the woodwork around the bar, which is covered with money from all over the world – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. And let other Campustown establishments go bracket-loony during March Madness.

Beaudelaire is for soccer lovers, and even posts a large, vinyl World Cup schedule outside of its door.

A cozy bar with terrific beer selection, Beaudelaire’s South American-street-food-inspired menu is one

of Campustown’s most unique, offering temptations like yucca fries, empanadas, and a slow-cooked rice/beans/pork/ vegetable dish called feijoda simple.

But the star of the place is the bauru.

Served on a big bun, it starts with a base of chopped vegetables (lettuce, onions, corn, peas) and is traditionally topped with ham, a beef patty, and a fried egg.

It’s filling and delicious and a Campustown must. www.cafebeaudelaire.com

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n National Free Comic Book Day, Mayhem owns Campustown. This year’s first-Saturdayin-May event attracted more than 500 people to the colorful store on the 2500 block of Lincoln Way. They came for a free comic and a chance to get a sketch from Marvel artist Skottie Young.

It was a big day for comic book fans, and just one example of how Mayhem has kept geek appetites sated for nearly 25 years. In addition to superhero tomes, the store carries anything Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, board games, role-playing games, manga, and all sorts of other collectible pop culture stuff. If Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard were at Iowa State, this is where they’d hang out.

Founders Rob Josephson and Dave Cory (L)(’89 finance) met as Iowa State students. In 1990, they pooled their talents and opened Mayhem. The shop has grown beyond anything they imagined.

About 10 years ago, along with a third partner, they bought the building next door and put in a game room. They also opened a second store in Des Moines and have an active online business. www.mayhemcomics.com

Stomping Grounds 303 Welch Avenue

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wo things make Stomping Grounds distinct: It’s the only restaurant in town that routinely offers crepes, and it has the only “sidewalk café” in Ames where you can enjoy an adult beverage. Okay, it’s really a patio surrounded by sidewalk, but close enough. The place was one of Campustown’s original coffee shops when it opened in the early 1990s. Sensing an opportunity to create a European-style cafe, Jonathan Reed bought it in 2000. He took over some additional space in 2004, expanding the cafe by more than 3,000 feet. Stomping Grounds now offers a range of coffee drinks, a wine and beer list with great

appeal to those with discerning tastes, and a menu of lighter fare. And that popular patio is also one of the few places you’ll catch live music in Campustown during the summer. Not enough? Stomping Grounds serves what is arguably Ames’ best grilled-cheese sandwich.

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The 2500 block of Lincoln Way remains relatively unchanged.

There are 20 apartment buildings with 501 units in the district as of June 1, 2014.

More than half of those units were built in the last decade. Many of the new buildings feature retail space.

More housing is on the way. In May 2014, Campus Book Store, at the corner of Lynn Avenue and Lincoln Way and directly across from campus, was demolished to make room for The Foundry, a six-story structure with 53 rental units and groundlevel retail space. It is slated to be completed in August 2015.

Just up the street, a small building that most recently housed a coffee shop (Lorry’s, which has since moved to West Street where it shares space with Mother’s Pub, which was once home to Boheme Bistro and before that the gone-but-fondly remembered Dugan’s Deli) was torn down.

A bank building next to it also was razed.

The site will now be home to 23 Twenty Lincoln, a 320-bed student housing complex. 23 Twenty will also have retail space, as well as the kind of amenities that get the HGTV crowd oohing and aahing: granite counter tops, walk-in closets, enclosed courtyard with a hammock garden, fire pit, and outdoor barbecue kitchen. Oh, and there’s also a coffee bar and fitness center

Welch Avenue Station 207 Welch Avenue

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eing at Welch Avenue Station is like being at the most awesome man cave you’ve ever seen. You’ve got your fully stocked bar and popcorn machine. You’ve

got televisions everywhere, most tuned to a sports channel. You’ve got four pool tables and two dart games. You’ve got Campustown’s best and biggest collection of beer and sports memorabilia and rock posters adorning the walls. Oh, and upstairs? A huge pizza kitchen.

That, of course, is Pizza Pit. It’s a regional chain but has been part of Ames for so long it feels homegrown. Tom Northrop opened the restaurant in 1976 in a space that had been used as a game room for The Library, the bar in the building’s lower level at the time. Northrop returned to the corporate office in Madison, Wis., for a time but came back to Ames in 1980 and bought Pizza Pit. In 1984, he bought The Library. “It was not a

busy bar, and we wanted Pizza Pit to be associated with a busy bar,” says Northrop.

He changed the name to Welch Avenue Station. It’s a popular place with the university community and stays busy during the summer thanks to a loyal cadre of regulars.

While he wants a busy bar, Northrop prides himself on respecting the space’s occupancy rule. “You can actually move more product if you’re a little less busy,” Northrop says. “It’s more comfortable for customers.”

Welch Avenue is indeed a comfortable bar, whether you want to watch the game or have a conversation over a few rounds of darts.

And you can’t beat the promptness of the pizza delivery. www.welchavestation.com

Want to get a taste of the international flavor of Campustown, as well as the cuisine that dominates? Just take a stroll through the district and look at the names on the restaurant signs:

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with a tanning room.

On Chamberlain Street, just off Welch Avenue, yet another building offering eight units with 40 bedrooms, as well as retail space, is going up.

Guarded optimism The Campustown student housing boom has, at least to this point, had little impact on the retail environment of Campustown.

While a few new establishments have popped up, the district remains a collection of primarily locally grown businesses housed in aging buildings that are owned by a mix of area and long-distance landlords. With all the new retail space coming, the CAA has a long wish list for the district: a grocery store, an 80-seat restaurant, and a combination performance and cinema space.

“Campustown has thousands of students and hundreds of residents, but we are missing so many services,” Hanna says.

“We want regional and national chains moving into the district, but we also want a mix of local businesses and chains to keep our diversity alive.”

Diversity is a huge component of the Campustown personality, and one that many fear will be diminished. A bright and

Fighting Burrito 117 Welch Avenue

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f you walk into The Fighting Burrito and there’s a line, be patient – it moves fast.

That’s because of a highly efficient assembly line process that turns out tightly rolled

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shiny 2400 block of Campustown facing Lincoln Way runs the risk of making the 2500 block look like an ugly cousin. (The city has recently made grant money available for façade renovation.) With its row of older buildings, each with its own distinct curb appeal, housing ethnic eateries, a comic book store, a tanning salon, and more than one hairstyling establishment, the block arguably has more of a “lived-in” look that you might expect from a campus town.

“They are missing the whole point of Campustown if they are going to tear it down and give it a facelift,” says Rob Josephson, who opened Mayhem comic book store in 1990. “Looks are one thing, but it’s the businesses that draw people.

Who wants to come to a campus town that’s all office space?”

“We’re happy to see a fresh look coming to Campustown. The rundown look can chase people away,” says Welch Avenue’s Adams. “But I’d hate to see the character of the place go. You need more than apartment buildings and big box stores.”

Matthew Goodman (’96 chemistry, MS ’00), both a Campustown restaurateur and a member of Ames City Council, hopes “we can maintain the incredible

diversity of ownership and incubator nature of Campustown. I think we have more foreign-owned restaurants per square feet than any place in Iowa. If our choices destroy the unique cultural fabric, then we’ve failed. It’s going to take vision and courage to maintain this. It’s the only district like this in town. This is it. If you gussy it up too much to the point of it being sterile you’ve really lost something.”

All anyone can do right now is wait and see what the impact of the new developments will be. In the meantime, contractors and cranes will be busy along Lincoln Way. Visitors to the district will continue to stop by Stomping Grounds for a latte, University Barbers for a trim, and Mayhem for the latest installment of “The Avengers.”

But there’s no avoiding this fact: The Champlin buildings are history, and in Campustown, a new era is has begun.

missiles of deliciousness that can provide much-appreciated sustenance after a raucous night on Welch Avenue. The burrito-creation process starts with the tortilla, then moves through a series of other vital decisions a customer needs to make involving rice, beans, meat, vegetables, cheese, salsa, and selection of other tasty additions.

The “Burrito” is the flagship of Matthew Goodman’s Campustown restaurant empire.

The motivation behind the place was simple: “There was no burrito shop in Campustown,” says Goodman. It opened in 2004 on Lincoln Way, just west of Campustown, and in 2010 moved to its current location on Welch Avenue. (Goodman’s since opened a second place in downtown Des Moines.)

Goodman (’96 chemistry, MS ’00) learned to turn out fast, good food as an Iowa State student working at a gyro stand on Welch Avenue. The gig was outside, smack in the middle of “the celebratory nature of Campustown,” says Goodman.

He ultimately bought the gyro food cart business. Then he bought a hot dog food cart business called Super Dog; he also took over operation of Battle’s Bar-B-Q, a longtime Campustown eatery now located on Welch Avenue. Battle’s has had some ups and downs in recent history, but Goodman was inspired to help out because, once again, he loves the food and district where it is located. “I didn’t want that Campustown draw or my favorite barbecue sauce to go away,” he says.

Ames freelancer Steve Sullivan counts a Dugan’s Deli T-shirt among his most cherished possessions.

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Ames regions at a glance

A total of 30 Cy statues, each one uniquely painted, will make their way through Ames this fall. The first two statues were unveiled during the city’s July 4th festivities. Others will be revealed the morning of the first ISU home football game on Aug. 30. Proceeds from the statues will go toward local charities and scholarships. Take a look: http://bit.ly/1o4WBJd

Somerset Grand Ave.

CyclONE City

13th St.

“I remember when Hickory Park was a tiny, tiny restaurant on Lincoln Way east of Duff.”

“The one-andonly Dugan’s Deli.”

Downtown

West Ames

Campus

Lincoln Way

Hwy. 30

South Duff

University Blvd.

Campustown

“I have fond memories of making Boyd’s Dairy and Do-Biz Cookie runs…on weekends we’d make our way downtown to That Place and Granddaddy’s.

It was the early ’80s and we were all on tight budgets…”

Ames ranks…

Just hangin’ out In an online survey, we asked alumni about their memories of Ames. These are some of ISU alums’ favorite off-campus places to chill with friends when they were in school throughout the decades:

2 4 1 3 5 6 Cy’s Roost

That Place

Cave Inn

Hickory Park

Welch Avenue Station

8 7 10

Dugan’s Deli

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Third-lowest unemployment rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2014) No. 2 of “The Top 20 College Towns” (American Institute for Economic Research, 2013-14) 13th Geekiest City in the U.S. (Forbes.com, 2011) 5th Fastest Growing Small City in the U.S. (Forbes.com, 2010) 17th Best Small Place for Business & Careers (Forbes.com, 2010) 9th Best Place to Live in the United States (CNNMoney.com, 2010) 100 Best Communities (America's Promise Alliance, 2010) 15th Brainiest Metro (American Social & Economic Theorist Richard Florida, 2010) Best Places to Launch a Business (CNNMoney.com, 2009) Best Places to Raise Your Kids (Business Week, 2009) Top 15 Cities for Commuters (U.S News, 2009) Top 5 Places to Live a Stress-Free and Simpler Life (AARP, 2009)

Campustown crush

Downtown:

10%

Area of town alumni typically spent the most time as students:

South Duff:

People’s

Do-Biz

The Library

Great Plains Sauce & Dough

And some enthusiastic RUNNERS UP… Granddaddy’s Boyd’s Dairy Spudnut Shop Green Pepper Pizza Lost and Found Lounge

“I love Ames and would move back in a heartbeat.”

“I come back for the food!

So much Ames food, so little time…”

2% Campustown/Dogtown:

88%

What are your favorite memories of Ames?

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AroundAmes

Ames offers plenty of attractions, many in new or redeveloped areas of town

Main Street

South Duff Avenue

Downtown Ames has gone through a renaissance of its own over the past few years. Grants have helped businesses give facades much-needed facelifts.

The College of Design’s Design on Main studio, the Octagon Art Center, a recently expanded Ames Public Library, and a new grassroots radio station, KHOI, contribute to the cultural flavor of the area. The variety of retail remains significant – everything from shoe stores to bike shops – as does the restaurant/bar scene.

Among the new-ish spots are Della Viti, a self-serve wine bar, and a significantly remodeled Whiskey River, which reopened under new ownership in 2011. Established attractions include Aunt Maude’s, Olde Main brewpub, Café Diem coffee shop, and Lucullan’s, the longtime Italian eatery. But the downtown place most cited in a survey of Iowa State alumni faves: Great Plains Sauce and Dough, founded in 1979. Given the carpet of cheese used on its pizza, it is no surprise that Great Plains holds a special place in Iowa Stater hearts. It’s also remembered for encouraging diners to douse their pizza crust in honey.

To most of America, Duff is the name of Homer Simpson’s favorite brew. To anyone who has driven in Ames, though, South Duff is a heavily trafficked thoroughfare lined with big box stores and chain restaurants. But at the south end of this congested artery is an Ames icon, and one of the restaurants mentioned most in a recent survey of alumni favorite places: Hickory Park. It’s a sprawling, ever-busy eatery that keeps herds of diners moving in and out without making anyone feel like they’ve waited too long or been rushed through a meal. The menu is meat heavy with burgers, deli sandwiches, and smoked meats. Hickory Parks’s signature item is the Saucy Southerner, a tangy mix of smoked pork, beef, and turkey simmered in barbecue sauce. While there’s something on the menu called a spinach salad, the most popular non-meat selections will be found at the restaurant’s old-fashioned and hard-to-resist ice cream counter. Further down Duff, past the Highway 30 viaduct, you’ll find The Mucky Duck, a British-style pub that serves rashers and bangers, as well as the best fish and chips you’ll find in Ames.

Somerset This village-concept development built in north Ames in 1997 has had mixed success developing a thriving retail area. But things are looking up with an influx of new restaurants. The Café at Somerset, a consistently excellent bistro with an irresistible bakery, has long been almost the only reason to visit the area. But now it has company. Plus 39, an upscale and welcoming Italian restaurant, had tongues in town wagging for weeks after its opening in late 2013. The pasta dishes have a fresh, authentic taste, but the roasted Brussels sprouts appetizer with bits of prosciutto and shavings of parmesan is some kind of amazing. Wallaby’s, a favorite sports bar in west Ames, is moving to a brand new building in Somerset this year. It will have a rooftop patio. El Azteca, Brick City Grill (winner of the 2014 Best Burger in Iowa contest), and Black Market Pizza (once featured on “Man vs. Food”) round out the dining offerings in Somerset.

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West Ames The area is dominated by a recent influx of student housing complexes, but with them came several eating, drinking, and entertainment options: West Towne Pub, Joe’s Pizza & Pasta, and Café Milo coffee shop among them. The biggest draw is Perfect Games. High-energy and hugely popular with families, it offers bowling (the only lanes in Ames outside the Memorial Union), pool tables, a noisy arcade, laser tag, and some decent pizza.

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OUT OF DARKNESS AND INTO THE LIGHT Scott Braucht was in the prime of his career. A consulting practice partner at a Wisconsin public accounting firm, his work life was outwardly focused and driven. But inside, he was struggling with a dark secret. For five years, Scott lived with deepening depression, unresponsive to multiple medications. And then, a doctor suggested an extreme, dramatic treatment. A new book, Into the Light, chronicles Scott’s experience.

By Carole Gieseke | Photos by Jim Heemstra

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cott Braucht remembers what it was like to grow up with a mentally ill parent.

His father was “deeply manic depressive,” he says. He smoked, he drank – he had a terrible marriage and family life. Scott’s parents divorced when he was in his late teens. His father never sought treatment for his illness. He committed suicide at age 42.

Scott’s grandmother and aunt also displayed signs of mental illness, taking “nerve pills” and tranquilizers.

He began to experience symptoms of his own in his late thirties, just when his career began to take off. Around his 40th birthday, his depression got worse. He became unfocused, lethargic, anxious, and fearful. 

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“I had endured periods of unusual sadness before but had been able to shake them off. This one was different. It lingered and deepened. It was as if I couldn’t move.”

Scott checked in with his primary physician, who recommended low doses of an anti-anxiety medication. And he suggested that Scott make an appointment with a psychiatrist.

That doctor diagnosed Scott with clinical depression and put him on a daily dose of Prozac. It wasn’t what Scott wanted to hear. He returned home to tell his wife, Mary.

“She just sat there and listened and then stared off into the distance,” Scott writes in the book. “But she knew.

And I knew she knew. I think it seemed to her like something was always wrong with me.”

The next three years were a roller coaster of doctor appointments, crises at work and home, and a seemingly endless combination of medications. Nothing helped.

He was missing his three sons’ high school years.

“Three years into my diagnosis, none of the meds were working…. I was just surviving. I wondered if I would ever crawl out of this hole.”

He took a leave of absence from his job – a workplace that for Scott had become toxic and unbearable. He spent most of his time off sleeping, walking his dogs, and seeing doctors.

His diagnosis had been changed to deep depression and anxiety. After four months, he returned to work, his condition unimproved.

Scott’s depression was dark and deep, and it was going nowhere. He sought out a new doctor, who gave him a different diagnosis: bipolar disorder. The doctor prescribed lithium, which immediately made Scott violently ill.

Mary and other members of Scott’s family staged an intervention. They persuaded him to go to the hospital.

He was admitted to the psychiatric unit.

It was at this point, which Scott describes as one of the lowest points of his illness, that he first learned about ECT: electroconvulsive therapy.

“My psychiatrist decided that it was time to intervene more drastically,” Scott writes. “I was willing to try anything that had a good chance of making me feel better.”

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“I cannot say I was afraid of this process….

Everything else I had tried had neither fully lifted my depression nor relieved my anxiety.”

In simple terms, an ECT treatment momentarily sends a jolt of electricity through a patient’s head. Most patients require multiple treatments – sometimes more than a dozen. Despite the public’s view that electroconvulsive therapy is an outdated and barbaric procedure, ECT is widely accepted by the mental community and has seen a resurgence at many medical centers around the country.

The Mayo Clinic calls the treatment, which has a reported success rate of 70 to 80 percent, the “gold standard” treatment for severe depression. The most common side effect, according to proponents, is temporary short-term memory loss.

Scott was eager to give the procedure a try. The first treatment failed, likely because he still had too much anti-depression medication in his system. Two weeks later, the doctors tried again. This time the procedure “worked” – it induced seizures in Scott’s body. After the treatment, he didn’t feel any different. Nine or 10 more treatments followed.

“Each time…they asked, ‘Is he better yet?’

The response was, ‘No, not yet.’”

Finally, toward the end of the treatments, Scott’s darkness began to lift. “I wasn’t so foggy,” he writes. “I felt more aware of what was happening. It had been so long since I felt well that I wasn’t sure what ‘feeling well’ felt like. I was cautious.”

During this time, Scott and Mary visited the ISU campus for a special alumni event. At one point, he writes, he realized he was having fun. “I kept pinching myself, kind of in disbelief.” The dark days seemingly were over.

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THE WORST OF SCOTT’S ILLNESS lasted for five years, lost years he regrets that he will never get back. His family – his wife and sons, his mother and stepfather – stayed strong for him the whole time.

“The person who was behind me – holding me up, staying with me, putting up with it, carrying on with the children, running the household – was Mary,” Scott told me.

It had been 10 years since his last ECT treatment. We were visiting in his home in Verona, Wis., on a warm spring day in late May. Scott’s book had been published the previous fall.

Fifteen years ago, when Scott was first diagnosed with depression – and later with bipolar disorder – he says he looked for a book that would help him navigate the disease, but what he found was mostly books that were clinical in nature or focused on pharmaceuticals. He only found one – the book written by “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace – that was a first-person account written by a man. “Middle-aged men are very guarded,” Scott says.

“We don’t discuss our weaknesses.”

During the worst of his symptoms, Scott had the idea to write his own book.

“I made a bet with God: ‘If you get me through this thing, I will write a book to help others get better,’” he says.

“There was no other motivation behind it.”

Scott (’80 speech communication) and Mary Whitmore (’80 home economics education) Braucht (L) live in Verona, Wis. They have three grown sons, whom Scott says he observes closely for signs of a genetic predisposition to mental illness. Scott is a former member of the ISU Alumni Association Board of Directors.

In 2011, Scott says, he wrote the book in three months while he was recovering from a fall.

“People say it took courage to write the book,” he says.

“Actually, it really didn’t.”

But, clearly, Scott took a risk by writing about his darkest moments. He admits that by writing the book, he’s completely “exposed.” Throughout his struggle with his illness, he says he was haunted with the notion that those in the professional community would find out.

Around this disease, he says, people have a hard time knowing what to say. People especially have a hard time talking about ECT because there’s still fear about that process.

“But it’s not scary,” he insists. “The doctor said ECT rearranges the protons and neutrons in your brain. He told me if it works, we don’t know why. I just know it worked for me. I wish my health care providers had introduced ECT into the mix much earlier in my treatment plan.”

Scott says he’s now “10 years clean and well” and for that, he is grateful. He left his old company, and for a time he managed a capital campaign fundraising firm in Madison. But now he’s returned to the classroom.

He teaches business classes part-time at Cardinal Stritch University and Edgewood College – mostly evening classes for returning adults.

“I am well and my disease is under control. I have recovered. I still am a mental health survivor and still must tend to my disease when stressful events occur.”

Scott still takes medication for his disease, something he’s more than happy to do for the rest of his life if it means his illness is kept in balance. He’s had a positive reaction to the publication of his book – nothing but thoughtful and deliberate support, he says.

“People tell me they never knew [I had a mental illness],” he says softly. “I must have covered it well.”

Scott Braucht’s 2013 book, Into the Light, chronicles his five-year battle with depression and bipolar disorder. The book can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble (BN.com), or ordered from local booksellers.

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Iowa State students in Kevin Kimle’s class learn about food-related business opportunities on a visit to Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania.

Teaching entrepreneurship

By Betsy Snow Hickok

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he last place Kevin Kimle (A) thought he’d find himself is back in the classroom. When he completed his graduate studies in agricultural economics at Iowa State in 1991, he followed his entrepreneurial instincts and set out to start up a business.

After working at Pioneer Hi-bred International, he co-founded E-Markets, Inc., in 1996, and then created Decision Commodities, LLC, in 2002, which provided commodity sellers and buyers innovative risk-management contracts. By 2009, he had sold the business, and he began seeking his next challenge.

Kimle was intrigued when he learned about Iowa State’s new Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative, created through a 2005 gift from Iowa State alumni Roger (’80 ag business) and Connie (’84 political science & international studies) Underwood (L). As a practicing entrepreneur, he was supportive of its aims. “In 2008, I mentioned to my wife that the program was looking for a director to succeed Dr. Robert Jolly, and she immediately said, ‘That’s what you’re going to do.’” Although it’s not the career turn Kimle expected, he said, “It has been a delight and honor to come back to ISU. I enjoy working with students and dealing in the realm of ideas.”

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Kimle – who not only serves as director of the initiative but as a lecturer in economics who holds the Bruce Rastetter Chair in Agricultural Entrepreneurship – has dedicated his classroom work to finding ways to teach through experiential learning. Students in his Entrepreneurship in Agriculture class create business plans and present them to panels of business experts, and his small-business management course partnered this year with Woodley Aerial Spray in Walnut, Ill., to help the company solve an actual business challenge.

“Entrepreneurship is a multi-dimensional activity – as a teacher, I am always seeking ways for students to experience it, not just talk about it,” Kimle said.

One of the professor’s most ambitious endeavors is an annual travel course to different global destinations. This year, partnering with West Central Cooperative, a farmer-owned cooperative in Ralston, Iowa, the class was charged with assessing the market potential in Africa for a soybean product. After spending part of the semester analyzing opportunities and challenges from a continental perspective, the group went to Tanzania for 10 days, where they met with the general manager of one of the largest food companies in eastern Africa, among other businesses.

“There are high-level reasons for stu-

dents to learn about the global economy, but as a professional, the more things you are exposed to, the more effective you will be,” he said. “For a young person, going abroad shakes you up, changes your perspective, and gives you practice forming relationships with professionals from other countries.”

Some of Kimle’s students have already established businesses of their own.

For example, a start-up company called ScoutPro, which offers a mobile application for identifying crop pests and tracking data over time, came out of the entrepreneurship class.

At a time when students are entering a competitive job market, the value of experiential learning is high. Faculty support helps attract experts such as Kimle back to the classroom and enables them to pursue novel and job-relevant approaches to teaching.

“Holding an endowed chair certainly offers prestige, which is appreciated,” Kimle said. “Most important, the Rastetter Chair enables me to get an idea off the ground – it allows me the freedom to operate and explore, and find the best possible ways to prepare and inspire students.”  Learn more at: www.foundation.iastate.edu/faculty (A) = ISU Alumni Association annual member (L) = ISU Alumni Association life member FALL 2014 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

Honors&Awards Please join us in honoring these extraordinary alumni and friends Awards will be presented at the 83rd Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building Dessert reception to follow the awards ceremony. The event is sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association and is open to the public.

For information, go to www.isualum.org/awards To nominate alumni and friends for 2015 homecoming awards, go to www.isualum.org/honorsandawards.

Nomination deadline is Feb. 1, 2015.

ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Alumni Medal Carol L. Anderson** PhD 1976 home ec. ed.

Extension educator & administrator, educational consultant Cobb, Wis.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award Elizabeth Kathryn Andre** 1998 Spanish & international studies Asst. prof., outdoor environ. ed., Northland College Ashland, Wis.

Alumni Service Award Lorraine Hoffman** MS 1968 bacteriology, PhD 1974 ISU prof. emeritus, Vet. Diagnostics Lab. Ames, Iowa

Alumni Service Award Alumni Medal Kevin K. Drury** 1983 ag. business Owner & president, Hedlin Ag Enterprise Ankeny, Iowa

Alumni Medal Stephen L. Watson** 1967 indust. engr.

Private investor Natick, Mass.

Alumni Merit Award Dale A. Johnson** 1960 mech. engr., MS 1962 Retired engr. director, 3M Mahtomedi, Minn.

Alumni Merit Award Beverly Kruempel** 1961 home ec., PhD 1990 education Retired ISU adjunct asst. prof., family & consumer sciences ed. & studies Ames, Iowa

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Outstanding Young Alumni Award Matthew Eddy** 1999 ag. & life sciences ed., MS 2009 Ag. ed. instructor, Southeast Polk Community School Pleasant Hill, Iowa Outstanding Young Alumni Award Nupur Ghoshal 1995 genetics Asst. prof., neurology, Washington University Medical School St. Louis, Mo. Impact Award Jim Heemstra* Freelance photographer Des Moines, Iowa

Impact Award

Douglas Nelson** 1971 horticulture Owner, Wallace Garden Center Ellen Nelson** 1972 zoology Secretary, Pleasant Valley Schools Le Claire, Iowa James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award Rachel L. Hymbaugh** 1996 horticulture Strategic account manager, SDL, Inc. Littleton, Colo.

James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award Brooke E. Prestegard*** 2003 political science & history Project manager, Nortech Systems, Inc. Bricelyn, Minn.

Melvin Ejim 2014 history Former ISU men’s basketball player Ames, Iowa

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COLLEGE AWARDS

Agriculture and Life Sciences Henry A. Wallace Award Steven Bradbury MS 1981 entomology, PhD 1985 President, Steven P. Bradbury & Assoc., LLC; ISU visiting prof., Dept. of Entomology; retired director, Office of Pesticide Programs, US Environ. Protection Agency Washington, D.C.

Design Achievement Award Matthew Getch BLA 1998 landscape architecture Design director, Martha Schwartz Partners London, United Kingdom Michael Wagler MCRP 2006 community & regional planning State coordinator, Main Street Iowa Ankeny, Iowa

Engineering Anson Marston Medal Wesley F. Buchele** PhD 1954 ag. engr.

ISU professor emeritus, ag. & biosystems engr.

Ames, Iowa

Floyd Andre Award Sig Cornelius** 1976 farm operations President & CEO, Freeport LNG Fulshear, Texas George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award Antoine J. Alston* PhD 2000 ag. & life sciences ed.

Prof. and assoc. dean for academic studies, School of Agriculture and Enviromental Sciences, North Carolina A&T University Reidsville, N.C. Superior Achievement Award for Early or Mid-Career Alumni Laurie Hueneke Martens* 2001 animal science & intl. ag.

Exec. director, animal health public policy, Merck Animal Health Bellevue, Iowa

Business Citation of Achievement Jerry L. Ivy** 1953 indust. admin.

President, Auto-Chlor System Los Altos, Calif.

Abdel-Aziz Fouad PhD 1956 elect. engr.

ISU distinguished prof. emeritus, elect. engr.

Ft. Collins, Colo.

Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering Sheila Grant 1988 engr. science, MS 1990 biomed. engr., PhD 1994 materials science & engr.

Professor, Department of BioEngineering, University of Missouri Columbia, Mo. John Kaiser MS 1987 chem. engr.

Global director of process technology, Mars Chocolate Manheim, Pa.

Human Sciences

John D. DeVries Service Award David J. Kingland** 1980 indust. admin.

CEO & chair of board of directors, Kingland Systems Clear Lake, Iowa Russ and Ann Gerdin Award Aegon/Transamerica Cedar Rapids, Iowa Labh S. Hira* Raisbeck endowed dean emeritus, ISU College of Business Tahira K. Hira* ISU retired senior policy adviser to the president Ames, Iowa

Design Christian Petersen Design Award Roger Baer* ISU professor of graphic design Ames, Iowa

Alumni Achievement Award Christopher A. Duree** PhD 2007 education Chancellor, Iowa Valley Community College District State Center, Iowa Daniel H. Hanson PhD 1998 education President, Peru State College Peru, Neb. Outstanding Young Professional Award Annice Enyonam Kwawu Fisher MS 2006 higher ed. admin.

Graduate student, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.

Helen LeBaron Hilton Award Justin D. Moore** 1993 dietetics VP, public policy, practice & prof. affairs, American Physical Therapy Assn.

Arlington, Va.

Liberal Arts and Sciences Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award Judith Brandlin** 1964 modern language Founder & president, Stone Soup Child Care Programs Los Angeles, Calif.

John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award Jun Ye** MS 1991 physics & astronomy CEO, Founton Technologies Palo Alto, Calif.

Distinguished Service Award Diane and Robert Stupka Supporters of the Stupka Symposium & the Rob Stupka Memorial Scholarship, Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology St. Paul, Minn.

Citation of Merit Benjamin Bierbaum** 1957 zoolology President, Longwood Orthopedic Assoc., Inc. Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Laura Jackson 1990 psychology Exec. VP, health care innovation & business develop., Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield Johnston, Iowa

Veterinary Medicine Stange Award for Meritorius Service Joel K. Elmquist** DVM 1992, PhD 1993 vet. anatomy Prof., Dept. of Internal Med., Psychiatry, & Pharmacology, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southlake, Texas Janet C. Garber DVM 1976 President, Garber Consulting, LLC Pinehurst, N.C. Marcus Kehrli 1978 bacteriology & dairy science, DVM 1982, PhD 1989 Immunobiology Director, National Animal Disease Center, USDA Ames, Iowa William P. Switzer Award in Veterinary Medicine Richard Ross* DVM 1959; MS 1960 vet. microbiology, PhD 1965 Dean emeritus, ISU College of Vet. Med. & College of Ag. & Life Sciences Ames, Iowa

Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate Award Bradley A. Buck MS 1997 ed. admin., PhD 2006 ed. leadership & policy studies Director, Iowa Department of Education Urbandale, Iowa

*ISU Alumni Association Annual Member **ISU Alumni Association Life Member Only ISU degrees are listed

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Newsmakers I O WA S TAT E A L U M N I I N T H E N E W S

 Botany boys

A landmark case A sleeping woman, raped by a stranger. A court decision that would shock and outrage the public. A historic change in the state of California’s rape law.

ISU alumnus Frank Dunnick (L)(’97 political science) was at the center of this landmark case for more than five years. Dunnick, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, won a conviction in the original 2009 case of a man sneaking into a sleeping teenager’s room and raping her. At the trial, the defendant claimed the woman was awake and thought he was her boyfriend. The jury convicted the man, but on appeal the court found that because of an 1872 California law an unmarried woman could be legally forced to have sex if the man pretended to be her boyfriend, while a married woman could not.

The conviction was overturned, and a media frenzy ensued.

What happened next, Dunnick said, “really put a spotlight on a distinction in the law that basically highlighted a time gone by – back to a time when legislators and lawmakers were less concerned with protecting rights of single women.”

In September 2013 the state changed the law, and earlier this year Dunnick successfully tried the case again.

“Justice was done both now and in the future,” he said. “We were able to try this young man and convict him. I’m happy with the outcome; the victim is happy with the outcome. Because of her courage and strength to go back into court to face this guy, we were able to convict him. And we got a law changed.”  New hope for quadriplegics

Thanks to a technology developed by Chad Bouton (’93 electrical engr., MS ’96 aerospace engr. & engr. mechanics), a 23-year-old quadriplegic Ohio man has become the first person able to move his paralyzed hand using his thoughts and a microchip sensor 36

implanted in his brain. Bouton, a research engineer for Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, was profiled by Gavin Aronsen in the Ames Tribune in June.

Bouton holds more than 70 patents, was recognized in 2010 by Congress for his achievements, and has won many awards – including the ISU Alumni Association’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2012. His research focuses on helping stroke patients and those who have suffered traumatic brain injury.

We do love it when Iowa Staters make the New York Times. Writer Michael Tortorello, in the June 25 issue, wrote a glowing profile of “Botany’s New Boys” – Kelly Norris (A) (’08 horticulture, MS ’11), Tyler Johnson (’10 horticulture, ’13 marketing), Josh Schultes (’10 horticulture), and Winston Beck (L)(’12 horticulture) – horticulturists at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. Tortorello writes, “The four plantsmen started gardening together in the horticulture club at Iowa State University” and adds that Whitney Bouma (’04 biology), education and outreach manager for the garden, is “an honorary member of the boy horticulturists of Des Moines – Marie to their Osmonds, or Janet to their Jackson 5.” Clearly the Times had fun with the topic, but Norris tried his best to remain serious. “In Iowa, we’re the capital of the agrarian belt of the country,” he said. “It’s a great place to grow things. But it’s the last place I think people expect to grow great gardens.”  A friendlier downtown

Des Moines Ken Smith (’76 landscape architecture) of Ken Smith Landscape Architecture is leading the overhaul of the former Nollen Plaza into Cowles Commons, a feat that writer Joel Aschbrenner of the Des Moines Register says will make the downtown area a “friendlier place.” “It was really cut off from the rest of the city,” Smith said.

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for World One, a 117-story residential tower in Mumbai, India.  Repinned

The colorful, playful style of Riana LeJeune-Copeland (’04 psychology) has been in the central Iowa news several times recently. Her repurposed and upcycled furniture, pillows, and accessories can be found in “Repinned,” a Des Moines business “making Pinterest dreams a reality.” LeJeune-Copeland told the Des Moines Register, “If we know what someone is looking for, chances are we can make it for them.”

• The Des Moines office of national architecture firm BNIM announced last May the appointment of new leadership, including three Iowa Staters. Kevin Nordmeyer (A)(’87 architecture, MA ’90) has been named a principal in the Des Moines office; he will add day-to-day operations to his role in addition to continuing design and project-related work.

Carey Nagle (’01 architecture) has been named an associate principal, and Jonathan Sloan (’99 architecture) has been named an associate.

• Libby Pederson Crimmings (’04 art & design) joined the staff of the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines as its second director of national education programs. She joins fellow Iowa Stater Keegan Kautzky (L)(’04 political science) in this role. Also new to the World Food Prize Foundation is Jacob Hunter (’11 ag education). He has joined the staff as the director of Iowa education programs. Hunter replaces Catherine Swoboda (L)(’08 agronomy, MS ’10 crop production & physiology), who is now the World Food Prize director of planning.

Heidi Rumer Watkins

Brooke Bridenstine

• Heidi Rumer Watkins (’97 psychology, MBA ’99) and Brooke Bridenstine (’06 liberal studies) are new employees of Des Moines Performing Arts. Watkins is the new finance director/controller, and Bridenstine is the new ticket office staff manager.

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• Southeast Polk (Iowa) Community School agriculture teacher Matthew Eddy (L)(’99 ag education, MS ’09) has received the 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Association of Agricultural Educators.

Eddy has taught in the district for 10 years; he focuses on integrating STEM principles and local community engagement in his hands-on agriculture classes.

• San Francisco-based Office has received the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for 2014. Office is led by ISU graduates Jason Schulte (L) (’95 graphic design) and Jill Robertson (L)(’96 journalism & mass comm).

Since Schulte founded Office in 2004, the studio has developed differentiated solutions for some of the world’s most iconic companies, including Google, Disney, Coca-Cola, Target, and IBM. • In March, David Schejbal (’82 philosophy), dean of continuing education and outreach at the University of Wisconsin, received the Julius M. Nolte Award for Extraordinary Leadership from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.

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ISU grads are climbing the career ladder. Here are just a few alumni we’ve heard from lately:

the U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration program.

• Scoopshot, a mobile platform for photo and video crowdsourced content, has named Nancy Shonka Padberg (’88 family and consumer journalism) vice president of global marketing. Padberg is a former marketing executive for The Phelps Group, where she worked on campaigns for Fairmont Hotels, PETCO, and Whole Foods Market.

A N D T H E AWA R D G O E S T O . . .

• John Hobson (A)(’98 marketing) & Lew Hill (’98 computer engr., MS ’00, PhD ’06 human computer interaction) met in 1994 at Iowa State as members of the President’s Leadership Class, where Hill was a sophomore adviser. The two now work together building innovative software applications for Project Tiki. This year the duo was recognized with a Webby Award (“the Internet’s highest honor”) for a mobile application in the health and fitness category: My Wellness Journal. The app organizes a family’s complete health information.

(A) = ISU Alumni Association annual member (L) = ISU Alumni Association life member

• Joseph Chody (’79 aerospace engineering) has been named a recipient of the 2014 Collier Award from the Engineers’ Council, San Fernando Valley, Calif.

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ASSOCIATION N EWS

Securing the next generation of alumni leaders Dear Iowa Staters: More and more, units, individuals, and couples are choosing to partner with the ISU Alumni Association to help new graduates secure their connections to Iowa State before or right after they graduate. The explosion of such partnerships has been nothing short of amazing this past year.

Alumni Association membership still remains the easiest, most affordable, and most consistent way ISU alumni, students, and friends can ensure lifelong connections to and communications from their alma mater. It ensures that Iowa Staters will be kept up to date on how their university is doing and helps manage the value of their academic stock…their degrees.

You see, the value of the institution is really based on the current reputation of the institution. Iowa State’s past achievements remain important, but it is how Iowa State is progressing today that matters most. When Iowa State’s stock is strong, outstanding faculty choose to work here, new students choose to attend, and employers continue to hire our graduates.

But why does Alumni Association membership matter? Here are a few reasons it matters: • Strong Alumni Association membership numbers say a lot about how those in the Iowa State family feel about and value their institution. When this number is strong, it makes it easier for others to want to also invest in and partner with Iowa State. In other words, when an institution’s own stockholders are partners (members), others are convinced they’re investing in a good thing.

• Membership strengthens one’s voice in matters related to or facing the institution. It’s no different than casting a vote in an election. It says you care enough to be more than just a spectator.

In other words, it gives what you say power.

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• Membership also allows you to know that you are helping us get Iowa State’s story out beyond the Iowa State family.

By members helping us reach a broader audience, the Association is able to help raise the awareness and profile of the university, its people, and its agenda.

• Finally, membership ensures that the baton of leadership, involvement, and care is passed on to the next generation.

I’d like to salute the following individuals who have chosen to fund gift memberships for the next generation of Iowa State leaders, advocates, and partners: • One hundred twenty-seven 2014 Sustaining Life donors provided 164 gift memberships this year! See a complete list of these generous donors on the following page.

• The following fraternity and sorority gave a total of 32 memberships to their newest graduates: – FarmHouse Fraternity, for the second year in a row provided seven of its newest graduates with two-year memberships in the Association.

– Chelon Stanzel (L)(’61 textiles & clothing) has established a perpetual endowment through the ISU Foundation that will fund three-year memberships to every new graduate in the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority.

The first 25 three-year memberships were awarded this past spring.

• Jon Fleming (L)(’75 meteorology) of Theta Chi, for the sixth year in a row, has provided fully paid Student Alumni Association memberships to all active members of his fraternity.

To date, Jon has provided more than 200 memberships to the men of Theta Chi. Jon also stepped up this year and challenged the alumni of Theta Chi who were not Alumni Association members to join. For those who did, he personally funded their second year of membership. To date, he has funded 25 second-year memberships for his brothers.

• Since 2009, James Delano (’87 veterinary medicine) and his wife Julie (L) have been providing Student Alumni Association memberships to Iowa

State’s vet med students. As of June 30, the Delanos have purchased 1,140 gift memberships for veterinary students.

• Olivia Madison (L)(’72 history), ISU’s dean of libraries, for the third year in a row has provided a one-year gift membership to each graduating student worker who logged more than 1,000 hours of service to the library.

This year, eight students were awarded memberships. Since the inception of this program, the library has gifted 25 one-year memberships to it its graduating student workers.

• As a new ISU alumnus this year, my wife Peggy and I gave 20 second-year memberships to the first 10 graduate and first 10 undergraduate alumni of the class of 2014 to sign up for their own Alumni Association memberships.

As a result of this gesture, LeVern Faidley (L)(’67 ag engr) reached out to me following the undergraduate commencement ceremony to match my challenge. Thanks, LeVern!

And thanks, everyone, for partnering with us to ensure future alumni leaders.

If others of you would like to aid us in ensuring that Iowa State’s future is being well secured by highly engaged future leaders, think about becoming a membership donor. (Remember, gift memberships are tax-deductible!) Drop me a note at jjohnsn@iastate.edu or give me a call at 877-ISU ALUM (toll-free) or 294-4762 (locally) if you have any questions or want to get involved. Just think: What if every current member stepped up and enrolled just one new member?

That would be awesome! (Cost for a grad who’s been out three years or less is only $30; for a grad who’s been out for more than three years, the cost is just $57; and the cost for an Iowa State employee is only $40.)

Thanks for doing your part, and I remain yours for OUR Iowa State –

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The gift of membership Thank you to the following 2014 Sustaining Life donors who provided 164 gift memberships to new ISU graduates.

Lloyd and JaNelle Anderson David Babler and Jean St. Pierre James and Joan Barr Richard Boettcher Charles Bonney Nancy Bowe Bruce Bowen Winton Boyd Nathan and Annette Burnham Lyndon Cakerice Jay Chapman and Karen Heldt-Chapman Boon Chuan and Bee Nee Teoh Randy and Susan Clarahan Craig Clausssen Kay and Shirley Connelly Burton Cooper Robert Cooper Jack and Dilla Cosgrove Gwen Dahlberg George Davis

John Dear Jim and Julie DeLano Glenn and Viola DeStigter Robert Dighton Donald and Glenda Eggerling James and Paulette Eggert David and Susan Eyre Janet Finer-Moore Jon Fleming Richard Forsythe Elaine and Brian Gifford Craig Griffin John and Barbara Hagie Eldon Hans David and Carol Hawn Stephen and Mary Howard Gerald and Carol Hunter Mark Ingebretson Jay and Julie Jacobi Jose Jenkins Al and Ann Jennings Maryl Johnson

Dale and Janice Johnson Maggie Kolbe and Charles Schleusner Tracy Kolosik Mark and Kathleen Kovacs Timothy Kuntz Joyce Lenz W. Mark and Patrice Lortz Dale and Teresa Loussaert Craig Mahoney and Michelle Rinker Mahoney Kent Mattison Ana Hays McCracken and Edward McCracken Dennis and Jeri McCurnin Ted Oberlander Richard Olin David and Jeanne O'Melia John and Mary Pappajohn Frederick Peitzman Patrick and Nancy Pinkston Gerald and Margaret Pint

Marlin and Carol Reimer Frank and Mary Reynolds Dana and Martha Robes Richard and Barbara Roepke Thomas Ruzicka Jennifer Scharff Neil Schrader I. Sue Shepard-Simmons Tom and Evonne Smith Robert and Norma Snyder Shirley Snyder Gary and Susan Speicher Chelon Stanzel Sandra Steffenson Tankin Betty Stephenson Gerald and Carolyn Te Paske Todd Tierney Roy and Sandra Uelner Roger and Connie Underwood Paul Van Roekel Jay and Sarah Van Wert

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“A Life Membership in the Alumni Association demonstrates a true commitment to your alma mater, and this medallion will make it easy for you to publicly display that commitment,” said Jeff Johnson (L)(PhD ’14), ISU Alumni Association president.

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LIVING HISTORY

As renovations begin at the south endzone of Jack Trice Stadium, many fans see a long-time wish fulfilled

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s he approaches a decade of service as Iowa State University’s director of athletics, Jamie Pollard is proud of many accomplishments – including more than $100 million of facilities improvements. But the department’s latest facilities project, he says, is extra special: living history, if you will.

“Years from now they’re gonna look back and go, ‘Wow, remember when we finally got the stadium bowled in?

Remember the stadium before it got bowled in?’” Pollard (L) says. “It’s a project Iowa Staters have talked about forever, and the fact that it’s happening on our watches is pretty special. We’re living here as history’s being made.”

Renovating the south end zone of Jack Trice Stadium is indeed a longtime dream of Iowa Staters, and the dream is finally coming true thanks to a transformational $25 million gift by Roy (’57 ag journalism) and Bobbi (honorary alumna) Reiman (L). The first phase of

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the $60 million renovation will enclose the stadium with permanent upper and lower seating bowls, including a two-story premium club space, that brings the total capacity to more than 61,000 – smaller only than Texas and Oklahoma in the Big 12 Conference.

“We have great atmosphere in the stadium now, and I think this is just going to add to that,” says senior associate athletics director for facilities planning and management Chris Jorgensen, who is overseeing the project on behalf of the department. Jorgensen says enclosing the endzone will keep more sound within the stadium and make it noisier for opponents, coupled with another large video board and sound upgrades.

Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the south endzone construction is the new club section, which will accommodate 3,000 Cyclone Club members (giving at the $500 level or higher) at a cost of about $750 per seat per year.

(“We’re not going to be asking for an additional donation to get into that club,” Jorgensen says, “which is pretty unique to our industry.”) Fans seated in the club section will have access to large bar areas with video displays on both levels, and the top level will offer panoramic views of the stadium and Reiman Gardens.

Ground was broken in July, and fans can expect to see a lot of progress already this fall when they come to games at Jack Trice. “The biggest challenge we may face with this project is the fact that we’re gonna be inviting 50,000 people to a construction site seven times this fall,” Jorgensen says.

“And the situation will change from game to game. There are going to be changes to the way people get in and out of the south gates, the way people enter the lots on the south side of the stadium, where concessions are located, where restrooms are located. We’re going to do our best to communicate FALL 2014 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

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that to everyone, but we just ask for everybody’s patience.”

All this work builds toward the goal of completing the project on an extremely accelerated timeline – by the start of the

“It’s a project Iowa Staters have talked about forever, and the fact that it’s happening on our watches is pretty special. We’re living here as history’s being made.”

– JAMIE POLLARD, ISU ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

2015 football season. But the project doesn’t end with the stadium renovations. “[ISU President Steven] Leath has been wonderful,” Pollard says, “because he took what was an athletics project and made it a university project. It’s VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2014

not just the south endzone; it’s a new entrance to campus. I call it the crown jewel in a big master plan.”

Leath’s wife, Janet, will use her landscape expertise to play a leading role in the second phase of the project: development of a green space that better connects the Reimans’ pride and joy, Reiman Gardens, with the stadium and the south entrance to campus on University Boulevard.

“I think if you come in on University Boulevard now you do see Reiman Gardens, but the next impression is parking lots,” Jorgensen says. “And an open green space to the east, which is great for campus recreation but maybe not the most scenic view. The beautification of campus is the final product everyone’s looking for. It’s going to be the front door to campus – and that’s really important.”

Because crews will be using the proposed green space area for construction laydown space, Jorgensen says the

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earliest the second phase of the project may be completed is fall 2016. Design is still in process and it’s too early to say with certainty how it will look, but Jorgensen acknowledges the finished product may look a bit like an extension of Reiman Gardens toward Jack Trice Stadium, with many trees and plants and possibly even a water feature.

While the university as a whole and especially Reiman Gardens are treasured by the Reiman family, Pollard and Jorgensen both say Roy Reiman has given university officials the autonomy to move forward at an accelerated pace – something everyone involved hopes will pay off big for the fans, the university, the football program, and the community.

“It’s just a jolt of energy that continues to show our program is growing. It’s pretty special,” Pollard says. “And it’s happening because of Roy and Bobbi.” 

RENDERINGS COURTESY OF ISU ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT

by Kate Bruns

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Calendar  Alumni events

 On campus

 Arts and entertainment

Sept. 11-13: Gilman Hall & Chemistry 100th Anniversary Sept. 18: Cy’s After Five, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sept. 26: Ames 150 celebration: Dinkey Day in Campustown Sept. 27: Order of the Knoll Oct. 2-4: Bio & Pre-Med Illustration reunion Oct. 5-11: Homecoming 2014 Oct. 10-11: Alumni Band reunion Oct. 18: Football tailgate at Texas Oct. 27: Des Moines Young Alumni Beer Tasting Nov. 13: Wine Tasting Happy Hour, West Des Moines Nov. 16: Cardinal & Gold CYlebration, Davenport Dec. 20: Men’s Basketball Big 4 Classic spirit gathering, Des Moines Jan. 17: 50th annual Madrigal Dinner

Sept. 6: Family Weekend Oct. 5-11: Homecoming Week Dec. 20: Commencement

Oct. 23: Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, Stephens Oct. 26: Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood, Stephens Nov. 6: Moscow State Symphony, Stephens

 Events in the

ISU Alumni Center Sept. 6: Cyclone Central Sept. 6: Family of the Year Society reunion Sept. 27: Cyclone Central Oct. 9-10: ISUAA Board of Directors fall meeting Oct. 9-10: ISUAA Young Alumni Council fall meeting Oct. 10: Pep Rally and Homecoming Celebration Oct. 11: Homecoming Open House, Tailgate & silent auction Nov. 1: Cyclone Central Nov. 22: Cyclone Central Nov. 29: Cyclone Central Dec. 20: Commencement Reception

 Career resources Sept. 23: Engineering Career Fair Sept. 24: Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair Oct. 2: “Career Management” presented

by Peter Weddle* Oct. 14: Ag & Life Sciences Career Fair Nov. 6: “Social Media” presented by Melissa Giovagnoli* Dec. 4: “Elevator Pitch” presented by Chris Westfall* *ISUAA career webinars are free and are held 7-8 p.m. central time. Go to www.isualum. org/webinars for more information.

 Cyclone Athletics Sept. 6: Football vs. Kansas State (Family Weekend) Sept. 13: Football at Iowa Sept. 27: Football vs. Baylor Oct. 4: Football at Oklahoma State Oct. 11: Football vs. Toledo (Homecoming) Oct. 18: Football at Texas (with ISUAA tailgate in Austin) Nov. 1: Football vs. Oklahoma Nov. 8: Football at Kansas Nov. 22: Football vs. Texas Tech Nov. 29: Football vs. West Virginia Nov. 21-22: Football Letterwinners Reunion Dec. 6: Football at TCU Dec. 20: Men’s Basketball Big 4 Classic, Des Moines

 Awards

 Alumni travel Exploring Australia and New Zealand Feb. 21 – March 14 From the Great Barrier Reef to the Australian Outback Portrait of Sicily April 16-24 Wine country, Palermo, and more Sri Lanka June 17 – July 1 A unique, 15-day trip of a lifetime

For a complete list of remaining 2014 and the 2015 Traveling Cyclones tours, go to www.isualum.org/travel

 Lifelong learning Sept. 8: OLLI at ISU fall classes begin Jan. 13: OLLI at ISU winter classes begin

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Nov. 15: Elf The Musical, Stephens Nov. 19: China National Acrobats, Stephens Dec. 16: Danú – A Christmas Gathering, Stephens Dec. 18: Sister Act, Stephens Jan. 22: Anything Goes, Stephens

Oct. 10: Homecoming Honors & Awards luncheon and ceremony Dec. 1: Wallace E. Barron Award, Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award, and Iowa STATEment Makers nomination deadline* Feb. 1: Homecoming 2015 awards nomination deadline* *For criteria and to submit a nomination for ISUAA awards: www.isualum.org/awards

 Find more events online Campus Calendar: http://event.iastate.edu/ ISU Alumni Association: www.isualum.org/calendar Cyclone Athletics: www.cyclones.com Department of Music and ISU Theatre: www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/arts/isuarts. shtml Reiman Gardens: www.reimangardens.com Iowa State Center: www.center.iastate.edu University Museums: www.museums.iastate.edu Lectures: www.lectures.iastate.edu/ Homecoming: www.isualum.org/homecoming

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