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hree years ago, I got motivated. I was in my mid-50s and out of shape. Like, really out of shape. I had been very active for a short time in my early 40s, but somewhere along the line I’d fallen off the exercise wagon and surrendered to some bad eating habits.

And then, suddenly, there was this perfect storm:  My husband got a Fitbit and we started walking together regularly for the first time in our 35-year marriage.  I learned that I would be hosting a trip to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands – this was a powerful motivator, because I did not want to wimp out in front of my travel companions.  My doctor told me my cholesterol was too high and suggested I modify my diet and start exercising.  I was experiencing some other health issues associated with growing older and thought improving my fitness level would help.  I knew a couple of people who had a great deal of weight to lose, and I figured if they could tackle their weight loss, I could certainly get into better shape and lose a few pounds.

So I hired a personal trainer through our local parks and rec program, and it wasn’t nearly as luxurious nor as expensive as it sounds. I met with her eight times after work for an hour each time over the course of a few months.

She assessed my (pathetic) fitness level and talked to me about my goals. She put me through a regimen of weights, balance exercises, bodyweight moves 2

like squats and lunges, and core exercises. I wanted something I could do at home, so she taught me the moves in the weight room and gave me a written list of what I should be doing (she even included little pictures so I’d remember how to do each exercise).

She gave me exactly what I needed.

Within a couple of months, I felt so much better! And I didn’t die on a mountain at Machu Picchu.

I’m not a big fan of self-help books.

But around the same time I stumbled upon a wonderful resource in a book called Younger Next Year, written by a doctor and an older guy who is insanely fit. They talk a lot about the importance of regular exercise (like, 45 minutes a day, 6 days a week) to keep the body from going on its inevitable downhill slide once you hit middle age. They said that a full 70% of chronic disease is preventable simply by exercising regularly and eating nutritious food.

Isn’t that incredible? This just seems like a no-brainer, right? Better than taking medication, and much better than suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

Why didn’t I get this before?

I’ve really taken the advice to heart, and I do, honestly feel younger than I did three years ago. I’m more flexible, have better balance, feel great, and haven’t been sick even once during that time. I’m not a natural athlete – believe me, that’s an understatement.

I am not much of a joiner (I’ve never joined a gym or taken an exercise class), and I don’t bike or swim.

I don’t enjoy weight-training, but I do it occasionally because it’s important.

Mostly I walk on my treadmill at

home – even though it’s a lot more fun to walk and hike outside, so I do that when I can. I have a stationary bike and some free weights, so my bedroom is also my exercise room.

I’ve also cut out as much sugar from my diet as I can. I have a huge sweet tooth, so I do eat dessert sometimes, but I try to reserve those times for special occasions. I’ve also cut out junk food and I avoid processed food as much as possible. I think I actually enjoy food more now that I’m being more mindful about what’s nutritious and delicious and not just something to stuff in my mouth whenever the clock says I should be hungry.

This is what works for me. Others will have their own list of what gets them motivated, what keeps them motivated, and what kind of nutrition and exercise plan works best for them. I definitely haven’t approached this new lifestyle as a short-term fix.

I’m looking at this as improving my health, not to lose weight or reach a short-term fitness goal. I’m turning 60 this year, and I want my body to take me charging full-speed into my old age.

Along those same lines, I’m truly inspired by the groundbreaking work of Iowa State researchers and alumni in the areas of exercise and nutrition, medicine, wellbeing, and aging.

I think we’ve put together a great line-up of wellness stories in this issue, with pro tips and advice sprinkled throughout. I hope you’ll take a look, beginning on page 10.

Here’s to a happy, healthy life! 

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The ISU Alumni Center has added a new level of Cardinal & Gold spirit to football gamedays – and to Homecoming pep rallies. The Alumni Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

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COVER STORY

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Being well ISU researchers and alumni are working to find solutions to the big challenges of living a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

FEATURES

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Beware of the shark Stories from the 2018 Faculty-Staff Inspiration Awards

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Homecoming Honors & Awards: The complete list

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Switching up children’s wellness habits – for good

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Happy 10th anniversary to the ISU Alumni Center

Getting Started Letters to the Editor Around Campus Cyclones Everywhere Newsmakers, Cyclone stories, Association news, alumni events & more 52 Fall sports preview 54 Calendar

On the Cover: Rebecca (Bossow) Hooker (’10 marketing) is a yoga instructor in Des Moines.

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2018-2019 ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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OFFICERS Lawrence Cunningham**^# Chair ’02 Liberal Studies Ames, Iowa Thomas A. Connop**# Chair-elect ’76 History Dallas, Texas Nicole M. Schmidt**# Immediate Past Chair ’09 Const. Engr., MS ‘13 Ankeny, Iowa Timothy R. Quick**# Vice Chair of Finance ’01 Marketing, Intl. Business Clive, Iowa Kathy A. (Sullivan) Peterson**^ Vice Chair of Records ’95 Speech Comm.

Aurelia, Iowa Joan Piscitello** University Treasurer ’98 MBA Ex-officio/voting West Des Moines, Iowa #

Jeffery W. Johnson**# Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed President & CEO PhD ’14 Education Ex-officio/non-voting Ames, Iowa ELECTED DIRECTORS Daniel A. Buhr**# ’95 Elec. Engr.

Ames, Iowa Wendell L. Davis** ’75 DVM Overland Park, Kan. Heather L. (Reid) Duncan** ’06 Public Service & Admin. in Ag. Kansas City, Mo. Duane M. Fisher**# ’73 Ag Ed., MS ‘80 Mt. Auburn, Iowa Jeffrey Grayer** ’05 Liberal Studies Grand Blanc, Mich.

Kari A. (Ditsworth) Hensen** ’96 Sociology, MS ‘98 Higher Ed., PhD ‘05 Ankeny, Iowa Erin Herbold-Swalwell** ’03 Liberal Studies Altoona, Iowa Donald A. Hoy**# ’63 Ag. Business Weatherby Lake, Mo.

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Marc Mores**# ’95 Exercise and Sport Science Parker, Colorado

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

Blake Heitman*** Senior, Marketing Student Alumni Leadership Council Representative Roselle, Illinois

I just received your wonderful packet of VISIONS, Traveling Cyclones catalog, and the 2018-2019 calendar. When I saw that 4,437 ISU alumni reside in Arizona, it sparked me, at 98 years, to learn of those who may live next to me here in Mesa.

Now, flash back to Ames. My folks moved to Ames, on Storm Street, in 1939, the year I enrolled in Iowa State College. I got a summer job driving the ambulance for Adams Mortuary, which got me to know Ames and Campustown pretty well.

During my college years, I had summer jobs with the Iowa State Highway Commission in Ames. I enrolled in mechanical engineering with a major in aeronautical engineering. I then pledged Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. I also got on the staff of The Iowa Engineer monthly magazine. At the beginning of WWII, in 1943, I became editor. I was also elected to Engineering Council and then to Cardinal Guild.

I still have my pristine copy of the April 1943 copy of The Iowa Engineer. I was losing staff members to the Services. Then the aircraft manufacturer, Curtiss Wright Corporation, enrolled 97 women who were college graduates, or in their senior year, at colleges through the U.S. to take an accelerated course in aeronautical engineering. They were called CurtissWright Cadettes.

I surveyed the Cadettes for any who had journalism experience. Two answered my call.

I appointed them associate editors and to one, Marjorie Allen, I gave the assignment of writing the feature article about the Cadettes.

In my second year, the Aeronautical Engineering Department had been separated from the Mechanical Engineering Department and stood on its own feet. Then, in my senior year war had broken out and I volunteered for service before graduation. I served in the 50th Signal Intelligence Company, where I learned to take not only German code but later Japanese code as well as enemy radio direction finding and served until the end of the war in 1946 when I returned to Ames to receive my degree.

I was put to work by some of the professors to help them reestablish some activities such as the engineers’ ball and the Knights of St. Patrick, an engineering honorary.

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’47 aeronautical engineering Mesa, Ariz.

Larry Pithan** ’73 Mech. Engr.

Andalusia, Illinois Gregory Smith** ’91 Occupational Safety, MPA ’10 Public Admin.

Marion, Iowa Deborah Renee (Verschoor) Stearns**# ’81 Journ. & Mass Comm.

Altoona, Iowa Amy Burrough Tetmeyer** ’91 Accounting Johnston, Iowa Kurt Alan Tjaden**#^ ’85 Accounting Bettendorf, Iowa Dana (Willig) Wilkinson** ’78 Interior Design Bettendorf, Iowa Eric Wittrock**# ’92 Mech. Engr.

Urbandale, Iowa Suzanne J. Wyckoff**# ’70 English Riverside, Mo. APPOINTED DIRECTORS Sophia Magill** ’05 Pol. Sci. Office of the President Representative Ames, Iowa Michele Appelgate* ’88 Journ. & Mass Comm.

College Representative Ames, Iowa Phyllis M. Fevold**^ Non-alumni Representative Ames, IA

and was eager to build my campus involvement résumé. Days following the interview, I ran into Julie pushing her infant daughter Sara (now in her early 30s) in a stroller down Lincoln Way. Julie greeted me as if we were old friends, and it’s been the same ever since. We’ve bumped into each other at conferences and ISU events around the country, and without fail, Julie has authentically made me feel as if I were the only one who had ever graduated from Iowa State.

For those of us who’ve pursued careers in higher education, Julie has been an inspiration and mentor, supplied us with endless quotes for capstone projects and dissertations, and always been just a phone call away when we needed counsel on how best to help students survive and thrive on campus.

Thanks again for capturing the “100megawatt smile” and spirit of ISU’s greatest ambassador!

Greg Fritz* *

’87 journalism and mass communication Fremont, Neb. THE MARTIN HOUSE

What a great thing for the Martin House to be a registered historic landmark (“Family seeks to preserve historic Ames home,” Around Campus, summer 2018). I am 86 years

Graydon Peoples*

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JULIE LARSON: ‘A TRUE PASSION FOR IOWA STATE’

Kudos to VISIONS on your recent tribute to my good friend Julie Larson! (“A true passion for Iowa State,” summer 2018.)

I first met Julie in the mid-’80s when she interviewed me for a student ambassador gig with the Student Alumni Association (now Student Alumni Leadership Council). I had just arrived in Ames (fresh off a Nebraska farm)

old and lived on South Sherman Avenue until I graduated from Iowa State in 1954. The Grant (General) Shipp family lived in the next block north on Sherman, the Freddie Martin family lived in an upstairs apartment on Kellogg Avenue near Lincoln Way, and the Norman FALL 2018 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

family lived on the south end of Washington Avenue. The Martin family practically ran the Sheldon Munn Hotel, especially Johnnie.

We all admired this beautiful home, and the Martins were always looked up to as being one of the wealthiest, nicest people around. That house was HUGE. We all went to Lincoln Grade School, Central Junior High, and Ames High School, now a city office. We were a close-knit group of friends, played “knuckles down skinny bone tight” marbles, dug a hole in the ground, dibbied up marbles, and played Potsie. Always had a hopscotch pattern drawn on the ground some place, played hours and hours of soccer using a worn-out basketball Howard Thurmond had found in the Ames dump.

Yes, I said Ames dump, located on East Lincoln Way. Many summer Saturdays we would have a burlap bag and walk the highway ditches between Ames and Nevada collecting empty bottles we could sell for 2 cents apiece, and the dump was on the way so we always checked for valuables. On one occasion Ames flooded and we went to the dump for a swim.

Grant Shipp saved me when I got in over my head.

So much history in that beautiful, old house and the families connected to it. What a beautiful memorial for Ames, Iowa. There was never, and never will be, a closer-knit group of friends and neighbors than that south-side group of families.

Your story in VISIONS was excellent. You could have written a book.

Dick Cox* *

’54 physical education Fort Myers, Fla. DIAGNOSIS

The “Diagnosis” feature in the spring edition is one of the most moving articles I’ve ever read.

We all owe Jill Viles a huge thank you for the life she leads, and the resulting contributions she has given to so many already, and the multitudes to benefit

in the future. So thank you, Jill; we owe you!

Kelt Kinnick* *

’67 mathematics Wilmette, Ill. *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.

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A conversation with Julian Neely

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the past. What are your feelings about the current status of representation in ISU student government?

[Being elected president was] about being able to show that it is possible to be in this position, not only to all students but especially to those who are in underrepresented populations. Student government and other organizations can have an intimidation factor, but I don’t think

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ith 69 percent of the student vote last March, Julian Neely and Juan Bibiloni were elected president and vice president of ISU student government. The duo ran on a platform of increasing the organization’s communication, diversity, and inclusion and serving

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as an open environment to give voice to student concerns. Neely, a journalism major and McNair Scholar from Johnston who was active in the Black Student Alliance and later recruited to student government’s diversity and inclusion committee, says more ISU students need to be aware of what student government does and how to get involved with it.

He sat down with VISIONS this summer to talk about what’s ahead for him in 2018-2019.

You’re not the first African American student government president at Iowa State, but perhaps in recent history, and your election was considered a victory for representation in an organization that has often lacked diversity in 6

that has necessarily stopped people.

I just think some didn’t understand what student government was or the impact it had. So I think with better communication and being able to explain the purpose of [student government] and ways to get involved, diversity will increase. That’s something Juan and I have been doing ever since we got elected: going to other campus communities and [seeking out] representation in different areas. Our diversity and inclusion committee has been expanded to include international students, Latinx student initiatives, and folks who have different political views.

We’ve also learned from our conversations in spaces where students may have a disability that accessibility is a big issue on campus. Without getting them

attached to this committee, we wouldn’t have known about it.

This year the majority of our senators are women, and those women are all from different backgrounds as well. So that’s great. There’s always room for growth in certain areas, but we’re making steps.

How would you assess the current campus climate at Iowa State?

After the campus climate survey was released [last year], we know how students are feeling. So what are the next steps to solving these issues? I think that’s where we’re at. But it’s also about not sweeping under the rug the conversation that’s going on in our society that’s also affecting our campus. Some of the things the U.S. President is doing and how he’s influencing others to vocalize how they’re feeling can be very negative and also hurtful to communities in our country, including on our campus – and it has happened on our campus. We need to have a dialogue about it. You can have a difference in opinion, but we need to respect each other.

You have a lot on your plate. How do you put your arms around all the challenges involved with your position during a uniquely challenging time on campus?

When we went to the Big 12 student government conference last year it really opened my eyes to everything student government does. It was really a learning opportunity to understand the operations, the impact, and how strong a voice [student governments] have. As for tackling the challenges, it’s all about team.

Change is not going to happen overnight, and we understand that. Being supportive allows our team to feel like a family – [Juan and I] are all about just being very open-minded and chill and really genuine with our team.

What’s it like working with ISU President Wendy Wintersteen?

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amazing. She’s very open, and she’s also a great listener. She also has the wisdom to share. The times I’ve met with her, she makes the environment feel very comfortable and very genuine. I’ve also heard from her colleagues that she’s worked with before that she’s a great person to work with and also a great leader.

What are your priorities for the upcoming year?

Tuition, state funding, and campus safety.

What ideas, opportunities, and projects are you most excited about?

Just seeing our vision come to life. Things are falling into place as the school year is coming, and [I’m excited about] just being able to see how we are able to expand as

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well as improve student government. We have a new communications team focused on outreach. I’m truly excited about that.

I’m also excited about the new senators we have coming in and some of the bills that have already been proposed that wouldn’t have otherwise been thought of – like addressing standardized exams from different countries. Just seeing the new ideas and perspectives about ways we can better serve students.

This summer I’ve been able to network with other student government representatives and learned about the best ways to communicate with the legislature, about sexual assault prevention programs, student life and student activities, and career services. Another big [topic] is the freedom of speech vs. hate speech and seeing how different campuses are handling that conversation and those situations.

What’s the best way for alumni to support current ISU students?

Stay engaged. Stay engaged with what

the university’s doing. Assist when needed, especially when there are concerns on campus. Work with students to be able to vocalize concerns. Understand what student government does. If there are things you’d like to partner with us on, come help us out. Reach out to students and provide opportunities.

You seem so positive despite all the challenges that lay ahead.

I think that’s the biggest thing: being able to stay positive and keep your drive alive.

If you always look at the negative, it’s going to build anxiety within you and overshadow the things you want to get done.

Keep folks close to you who are going to keep you motivated and going, and I think that’s the most important thing. You also have to keep in mind why you’re doing it. If you’re doing it for the right reasons, you’ll always have that drive and motivation.

Do you have higher political aspirations?

I’m still thinking about that.

cool things you should KNOW and SHARE about ISU

1: Iowa State research is a worthwhile investment.

For the fourth-straight fiscal year, ISU attracted a record amount of external funding during the period from July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018. The university received $509.2 million in grants, contracts, gifts, and cooperative agreements.

working to develop nanovaccine platforms to combat pancreatic cancer. Their idea is to load fragments of certain proteins associated with pancreatic cancer into nanoparticles that can be introduced into the body. The proteins would arm a patient’s immune system and help it target and kill cancer cells.

2: Iowa State students are the cream of the crop.

A student-run micro-creamery is coming to campus this fall.

It will produce ice cream and cheese from the milk produced by cows at the ISU Dairy Farm. The first product slated to be produced? ISU Signature Ice Cream, a recipe created by a team of food science students. The peanut butter ice cream with scotcheroo balls and fudge swirls is designed to honor peanut researcher George Washington Carver (1894 ag, MS 1896) and Rice Krispies Treats inventor Mildred Day (’28 home ec).

4: Iowa State is a national men’s golf contender.

3: Iowa State is in the fight against pancreatic cancer.

Researchers from the ISU-based Nanovaccine Institute are

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The Cyclone men’s golf team placed 19th (891) at the 2018 NCAA championships that concluded on Memorial Day at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla. The performance marks ISU’s second-straight finish in the nation’s top 20.

5: Iowa State is still highly fashionable. The website

Fashion-Schools.org has released its 2018 rankings of the nation’s top college fashion programs, and once again Iowa State rises to the top: No. 1 in the Midwest and No. 2 nationally for fashion merchandising and No. 3 in the Midwest and No. 10 nationally for fashion design.

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PASSING Around Campus

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Cyclones and Cyclone wannabes descended on Ames and the ISU campus during RAGBRAI 2018 – the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. It was the first time in a decade that riders stopped in Ames overnight. Coming into town on July 24, cyclists entered Ames from the south and had the option of taking the Cyclone Loop – a spin around the field inside Jack Trice Stadium.

The ISU Alumni Association and other campus and community groups sponsored a welcome area just east of the Jacobson/Olsen Buildings near the stadium. Cyclists enjoyed music, Cyclone-themed giveaways, and pep rallies throughout the afternoon. Cyclones everywhere were encouraged to mark their hometowns on a large map of the U.S. at the Alumni Association tent. Riders came from as far away as Kiev, Ukraine!

PHOTOS BY JIM HEEMSTRA AND CAROLE GIESEKE Cy made an appearance in Jack Trice Stadium and posed for selfies

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Jackson (’16 environmental studies) and Katie Harper (’17 music) Griffith were excited that the RAGBRAI route stopped in Ames overnight.

RAGBRAI riders arrived in Ames on July 24.

Cyclones everywhere! Jordyn Harris (in circle) (’18 advertising) lives in Chicago.

The Cyclone Loop

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Grooms named vet med dean

InBrief ■ Tuition rates are up for 2018-2019 After months of uncertainty, the Iowa Board of Regents in June finally approved 2018-2019 tuition rates. Rates have been increased by 3.8% ($284) per year for resident undergraduates and 4% ($852) for nonresident undergraduates this fall. The rate package also expands the application of differential tuition rates for some of Iowa State’s most costly-to-operate programs – including apparel merchandising and design, chemistry, athletic training, and more than 25 others. Differential tuition has already been in effect for a number of programs, including architecture, animal science, and agricultural systems technology.

■ Kedrowski named Catt Center director Karen M. Kedrowski, executive director of Winthrop University’s Center for Civic Learning and co-director of its John C. West Forum on Politics Karen Kedrowski and Policy, has been named the next director of ISU’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. She succeeds Dianne Bystrom (A), who retired in August after serving as the Catt Center’s director for 22 years. Kedrowski’s appointment begins Jan. 1; Kelly Winfrey, assistant professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, is serving as interim director.

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Grooms succeeds Lisa K. Nolan, who became veterinary dean at the University of Georgia in February 2017, and interim dean Pat Halbur (L)(DVM ’86, MS ’92 vet path, PhD ’95), who has been leading the college since Nolan’s departure.

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degree and a Ph.D. in veterinary preventive medicine. He joined Michigan State in 1997 and was promoted to his present position in 2014. He holds board certification from the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists, with specialty in veterinary virology; is a former president of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners; and has served on the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s Committee on Animal Health.

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■ Winning solution Three Iowa State graduate students were named the winners of the worldwide 2018 Food Solutions Challenge, supported by Monsanto, the World Business Council

for Sustainable Development, and Net Impact. Samuel Kiprotich, Mike Sserunjogi, and Emmanuel Nsamba – all current graduate students who completed their undergraduate work at Makerere University in Uganda – have been working since November 2017 on their proposal to improve the shelf life of cassava, which is a staple food in Africa and can rot within three days after harvest. The ISU team’s proposal was named the overall winner from among 133 submissions from 13 countries.

■ Football field gets a new name At the Iowa State football home opener Sept. 1, the field in Jack Trice Stadium was officially named MidAmerican Energy Field in recognition of a new partnership between the athletics department and the central states electric and natural gas service provider. MidAmerican has pledged support for the construction of Iowa State’s new Student-Athlete Performance Center, which will include a new academic and sports nutrition center adjacent to the Bergstrom Football Complex. Construction is set to begin in the spring.

■ A more accessible Stephens Summer projects inside Stephens Auditorium have tripled the seating for theater guests who use wheelchairs and enhanced guard rails in the building’s upper levels. Stephens Auditorium turns 50 next year, and its 1969 opening predates federal legislation on accessibility.

Future enhancements will include a renovation of the building’s southwest entrance and the addition of LED lighting and handrails on the main floor.

■ A sleepier MU For decades, the Iowa State University Memorial Union was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But now, operating

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Dan Grooms, professor and chair of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State University, has been appointed the next Stephen G. Juelsgaard Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University. He will begin Oct. 1.

Grooms, an expert in bovine infectious diseases, earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Cornell University and two degrees from The Ohio State University – a veterinary medicine

without the guest rooms that have served as hotel or student residence space since 1928, a new nightly ritual has been taking place at the MU: locking the doors and shutting off the lights – at 11 p.m. this summer, and a little later this fall. An $11 million renovation plan approved by the Board of Regents will see the guest rooms, which are no longer needed as overflow space by the residence department, converted to student services office space.

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Xavier Sivels is a personal trainer in Des Moines.

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By Carole Gieseke

What is wellness? Is it simply a state of good health? Or is it something more? Is it diet, exercise, and a healthy lifestyle? What if we called it “wellbeing�? Does that change the meaning? Would that include stress management, healthy sleep patterns, financial security, satisfaction with your lifestyle and career? Does it mean living in a healthy community?

Does it mean being well at all stages of your life?

Wellness, or wellbeing, means all that and more. Iowa State has programs in place to support and improve the wellbeing of its students and faculty, and ISU researchers and alumni are working to find solutions to the big challenges of living a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

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Jay Alberts rides in RAGBRAI with his daughter, Abby, and son, Grant, as part of the Pedaling for Parkinson’s team.

Pedaling for Parkinson’s While biking across Iowa on RAGBRAI in 2003, Jay Alberts discovered an amazing treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

He was on a tandem bicycle with Cathy, a Parkinson’s patient. With Alberts in the front, Kathy was forced to pedal faster than she normally would. After the ride, she made the comment that she didn’t feel like she had Parkinson’s. Alberts initially attributed the feeling to the fun of the ride. But even her writing, which had been small and illegible, improved immediately.

“That was the first inkling something was going on,” Alberts said.

Alberts (’94 physical education) was a Parkinson’s researcher at Georgia Tech.

A year after his initial “a-ha!” moment, he tested the exercise theory again when he rode a tandem bike with a Parkinson’s patient in Tucson. After about 15 miles, they stopped for a snack and the patient said, “Where did my tremor go?”

“At that point, I said, ‘We need to look into this,’” Alberts said. He submitted a grant to the National Institutes of Health, “and they 12

laughed at us,” he said. The prevailing treatment for Parkinson’s patients at that time (2005) was to exercise slowly in a chair or by lifting soup cans.

“They said we were being irresponsible,” he said.

So Alberts found some alternative funding and got the research study going anyway.

This was groundbreaking work – nobody was studying the effects of more strenuous exercise on people with Parkinson’s disease.

Today there are 80 “Pedaling for Parkinson’s” groups at YMCAs and other health clubs across the United States, with more than 3,000 patients involved in the groups. Many more are pedaling on their own.

Alberts’ research has shown that cycling improves Parkinson’s symptoms in the areas of movement and speech in most patients.

And even more important, he says, with exercise, patients have an active role in their own treatment.

“The more engaged a patient is, the better the outcomes for that patient,” he said.

“There’s value in giving patients the ability

to be more active. In chronic neurological diseases, social isolation becomes a big problem. Patients feel like they’ve been given a death sentence, and they’re told by their primary care provider to sit in their chair and let the disease take its toll. Pedaling for Parkinson’s is an opportunity to build a community of people going through some of the same things.”

Alberts is currently vice chair of innovations at the neurological institute of the Cleveland Clinic. He still rides on RAGBRAI (the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) nearly every year with his Pedaling for Parkinson’s team, often including his family.

“We’ve had almost 50 Parkinson’s patients ride RAGBRAI with us,” he said.

“That’s very gratifying. For these folks, it’s like climbing Mt. Everest. There’s such satisfaction and such a great feeling of accomplishment.”

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This fall, the Iowa State campus will have a cohort of students that it hasn’t seen before: nurses.

Administered by ISU’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, the RN-to-BSN program is designed for registered nurses to advance their nursing careers with a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Health promotion, nutrition, and disease prevention are strong themes throughout the new curriculum.

Virginia “Ginny” Wangerin (A)(PhD ’15 education) was hired in 2017 to direct the new program.

“When diving into the university’s strategic plan and the mission and vision of the college, it became clear to me that health promotion and wellness are strong themes.

I really see nursing’s role in promoting health and disease prevention as a re-emerging role that’s gaining greater emphasis,” Wangerin said. “We have a strong emphasis on utilizing research and evidence-based practice, developing leadership and management skills, and improving population and community health. We’re the only program that I know of, anywhere, that has that strong a focus on culture and population health.”

Students entering the program will be registered nurses with associate’s degrees in nursing who have already completed pre-licensure programs. The 32-credit BSN program can be completed in three full-time semesters or six part-time semesters, including practicum experience.

Wangerin said there’s been strong support for the new nursing program.

“One of the most rewarding pieces for me developing this program has been the tremendous level of response from all of our stakeholders,” she said. “Our local employers are very excited and supportive.

I’ve heard from alumni and high school counselors, potential students, parents… not just in the Ames area but literally through the entire center of the country about how excited they are to see nursing start here at Iowa State. There’s a passion for the university, but there’s also a passion for nursing as a very respected career choice.

People are saying these two belong together.

It’s a very good fit.”

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Fighting the SUPERBUGS Superbugs, beware! Iowa State will lead a national institute to address a global public health concern: antimicrobial resistance.

The new Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education builds on a partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, University of NebraskaLincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Iowa, Mayo Clinic, and other researchers, educators, clinicians, and extension personnel. The institute will be housed at Iowa State and funded by ISU and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Each year in the U.S., at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria resistant to antibiotics, and 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections. Many more die from other conditions complicated by an antibiotic-resistant infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These drug-resistant “superbugs” also harm the ecosystem and cost multibillions annually in medical costs and economic losses.

Amy Stark (left), director of nursing professional practice at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, visits with Ginny Wangerin, ISU nursing program director, and Alaina Bohnert, an incoming nursing student, at the hospital.

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Alumni Julie Vogt Witt and Pete Howell work together at UnitedHealthcare in Minneapolis to streamline service to families with children who have special healthcare needs.

Cutting through the red tape for families in need One in five U.S. families has a child with special healthcare needs. According to insurance experts, these families submit 13 times as many claims, spend 81 times more out of pocket, and see five times as many physicians in a year as families of children without special needs.

Iowa State alumni Pete Howell (’89 aerospace engineering) and Julie Vogt Witt (’03 interior design) are part of a team that has helped cut through the administrative red tape that is often the reality for these families. They work on a unique program called the Special Needs Initiative at UnitedHealthcare in Minneapolis.

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of other diagnoses) often called member services on a frequent basis, sometimes several times a week, and potentially get a different customer service representative on the phone each time they called.

“They’d have to re-tell their story, and sometimes these stories are complex,” Witt said. “It’s already enough to manage everything to ensure their child’s wellbeing, and the added complexity is just not helpful.”

The point of the Special Needs Initiative was to provide a dedicated resource to break down barriers to those internal departments dealing with prior authorization, claims, appeals, and more. Today, when a parent of a child with special needs calls, he or she is routed to the Family Engagement Center and assigned a family advisor.

“If they call tomorrow they’re going to get

their family advisor. If they call two months from now, they’re going to get their family advisor,” Witt explained. “This advisor knows the family’s story. They develop a relationship with the family and can help them longitudinally. As long as they have benefits through UnitedHealthcare (UHC), they have this available to them.”

Witt is a product director for UnitedHealthcare, and Howell is a consultant who works closely with UHC. Both are proud of the work they are doing.

“It’s exciting,” Howell said. “I’ve done a lot of things at United over the last 18 years, but from a mission perspective, this is not only the most exciting but also the most rewarding. We are really making a difference for these families.”

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A new perspective on the opioid crisis Youth show lower rates of substance abuse, including prescription opioid misuse, well after high school graduation if they have participated in proven prevention programs that follow the PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) model developed at Iowa State.

That’s according to researchers at Iowa State’s Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute (PPSI). PPSI is part of a larger effort to better translate Iowa State’s social and prevention science into widespread community practices.

“Mountains of data” show that the PROSPER delivery system has been enormously successful in preventing teens from abusing drugs, including opioids, according to the lead researcher, Richard Spoth, who

ISU Brain Initiative ISU researchers are providing expertise for the ISU Brain Initiative aimed at reducing effects of debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The initiative is a multidisciplinary effort among the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Colleges of Engineering, Human Science, Veterinary Medicine, and Design.

The team is focusing its research on developing technology to treat and diagnose brain disorders and advancing neuroscience.

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is the F. Wendell Miller Senior Prevention Scientist and director of PPSI. “If implemented broadly across communities, the PROSPER delivery system model has the potential to reduce substance misuse over the long term,” Spoth said.

While legislators, drug enforcement agencies, and healthcare providers have been scrambling to solve the growing opioid crisis, they’ve focused their attention on the legality of the drugs, persuading doctors to prescribe fewer opioids, controlling opioid drug manufacturers, and providing much-needed help to addicts. But since 2002, Iowa State has quietly been implementing a prevention program that keeps teens and young adults from succumbing to opioids in the first place.

The program has been successful through education and community involvement, and long-term studies show that it works. One report that followed 1,900 19-year-olds who took part in the program at age 12 had substance abuse issues 41 percent lower than kids who weren’t involved in the program.

PROSPER’s community-based preventive intervention delivery system is offered during a pivotal developmental period to young adolescents ages 11 to 13. This is when exposure to and an uptake of controlled substances and other risky behavior often begin.

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–– Richard Spoth community teams made up of ISU Extension and Outreach staff and school representatives guide the application of family-focused and school-based prevention programs. PPSI scientists work with extension-based prevention coordinators to provide support for the community teams.

“We already knew that programs delivered through the PROSPER model help reduce substance misuse and student conduct problems during middle and high school, but now we see its impact extending beyond high school into early adulthood,” Spoth said. “This is important news, given that the prevalence of illicit drug use is highest among young people between the ages of 19 and 22.”

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Gluten-free goodness

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When Kathy Jensen Schwartz’s nephew Brody was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2012, her ISU dietetics training kicked into high gear.

Though supermarket shelves had become increasingly filled with gluten-free items, many of the baked goods had sub-par taste and texture. So, Schwartz (A)(’90 dietetics) started her own gluten-free baking company.

“When I first started, I was thinking of Brody and going to school for his birthday treat,” Schwartz said. “What’s he going to bring in that everyone else is going to like and that he can actually eat? If he brings in cupcakes, he can’t eat them. If he brings in something gluten-free no one’s going to like it. I thought, ‘There has to be a way

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to bake something that he can eat that everybody else will like.’”

The company, Brody’s 579 – named for the actual diagnostic code for Celiac Disease, a condition in which individuals are unable to process nutrients when the protein gluten is introduced into the digestive system – began small, with fresh-baked muffin sales at farmers’ markets around the Twin Cities.

Today, Brody’s 579 muffins and baking mixes are produced in a gluten-free, peanutfree commercial kitchen in St. Paul. The company’s sales have grown in double digits every year. The muffins – in flavors like blueberry, chocolate, pumpkin, and banana chocolate chip – are sold in four-packs in grocery stores (including some Hy-Vee stores)

in the Midwest, and muffin-baking mixes are sold in stores and online at brodys579.com.

In January, Schwartz’s orange blossom honey muffins received a New Product Award from the Specialty Food Association.

“We have people who come up and sample our products and say, ‘Oh my god, I haven’t had anything like this in so long!”

Schwartz said. “We have seen people brought to tears that they’re so glad there’s something they can eat.”

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Got questions?

Wendy White

ISU Extension and Outreach has answers Iowans eager to improve their health through better nutrition need look no further than the myriad resources provided by ISU Extension and Outreach.

• Families find it challenging to choose and prepare healthy foods within a limited budget. Buy. Eat. Live Healthy helps families learn to make informed choices about low-cost, nutritious foods; to better manage family finances; and to become more self-sufficient.

Eat veggies – with a little oil Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: It’s okay to put some fatty dressing on your salad greens. In fact, it’s good for you.

Not only does salad dressing make your lettuce and tomatoes taste good, it also helps your body absorb important micronutrients that promote good health. A study, led by Wendy White, the Charlotte E. Rodruck Faculty Fellow in food science and human nutrition, appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition last fall. Soybean oil-based salad dressing used in the ISU study aided in the absorption of the fat-soluble nutrients that promote eye health and help prevent cancer.

“Recent consumer data indicates that 60% of Americans report that they eat a salad as a meal for lunch or dinner at least once a week, so salad is a very important source of vegetables for Americans,” White said. “Fewer than 10 percent of Americans consume the recommended two to three cups of vegetables per day, so for that reason it’s very important to try to ensure that people get the optimal benefit that they can from the few vegetables that they do actually consume.”

The specific salad ingredients used for the study were dark green romaine lettuce, baby spinach, carrots, and tomatoes, which combined provided alpha and beta carotene, lutein, lycopene, two forms of vitamin E, and vitamin K. The oil also promoted the absorption of vitamin A, which forms in the intestine.

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• The Shop Healthy Iowa Team works with Latinx retailers to increase sales of produce and other healthy foods to Iowans.

The team helps store owners to improve store layout, energy efficiency, marketing, food labeling, ordering and displaying produce, and pricing strategies.

• Local food systems encourage job creation, economic development, and stronger, healthier communities. The Local Foods Program team supports local food systems development across the state of Iowa.

• Preserve the Taste of Summer is a food preservation program comprised of both online lessons and hands-on workshops teaching safe food preservation techniques.

• Latinos Living Well is a series of classes for Latinos designed to reduce diabetes, heart disease, and other diet-associated conditions.

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• Stay Independent: A Healthy Aging Series is a nutrition and wellness program for individuals age 60+ designed to help adults remain healthy and independent as they age.

Nutrition topics focus on: Three Meals a Day, Feast on Fruits and Vegetables, and Power Up with Protein.

• The Spend Smart. Eat Smart. blog focuses on sharing ideas, tips, resources and recipes to help you feed your family for less. Blog contributors are Extension and Outreach staff members trained in food, nutrition, and health.

• The Words on Wellness blog promotes a healthy lifestyle. In each post, you’ll gain reliable, research-based information about nutrition and food safety and explore the power of incorporating healthy practices into daily living.

• AnswerLine provides unbiased, research-based answers to questions related to nutrition, food preparation, and food preservation. Call toll free in Iowa, 800-262-3804 or call 515296-5883. The line is open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1-4 p.m.

Central Time, Monday through Friday. Or ask your question via email, answer@iastate.edu, or visit the blog, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

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“Even Even 5-10 minutes of running can reduce mortality risk. If you run 5-10 minutes you’re going to live longer. [Studies show that] one hour of running may add seven hours to your life.”

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–– D.C. Lee

The ultimate exercise study The research is clear: Exercise improves heart health, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and overall fitness in adults.

But what kind of exercise is best? Many studies have been conducted, and researchers have drawn conclusions from the data, but how accurate are these studies?

Duck-chul “D.C.” Lee wants to find out.

Lee, an associate professor of kinesiology at ISU, is conducting a 5-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, involving 400 participants each agreeing to year-long commitments.

Participants aged 35-70 are divided into

four groups: aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, combined aerobic and resistance exercise, and a control group that remains sedentary in Year 1 and starts to exercise in Year 2. Each of the three exercise groups commits to three 1-hour sessions per week for a full year, with physical activity monitors, health screenings, and nutritional reporting.

Lee has employed a team of full-time research associates, plus graduate students, interns, and 100 undergraduate research assistants to help with the study, which runs from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily in his hightech fitness lab in the Forker Building.

“This is a big study,” Lee says. “I told NIH I wanted to do a big study to show the real difference” between aerobic, resistance, and combined exercise on overall health. “This is the gold standard of research. The results can be used by policy makers and change people’s lives.”

The ultimate goal of the CardioRACE (Comparison of the Cardiovascular Benefits of Resistance, Aerobic, and Combined Exercise) study is to develop more effective strategies for preventing cardiovascular disease.

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Panteleimon Ekkekakis

The interface between mind and body Panteleimon “Paddy” Ekkekakis, ISU professor of kinesiology, is an expert on exercise psychology who studies how our bodies and brains respond to exercise – more specifically, the pleasure or displeasure we experience when exercising.

“My field is called psychophysiology, the association between psychology and physiology,” he said. “Everything we do is in the interface between mind and body.”

Ekkekakis is involved in two current studies that deal with “two great, unsolved mysteries in the field of public health”: the biological basis of exertional physical fatigue and the dramatic decline in physical activity from childhood to adolescence.

In the first current study, Ekkekakis and his team are employing a technique called neuromodulation, which jolts the brain to improve the communication between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala during exercise. (“The amygdala is there primarily to alert you to bad things,” he says. It activates an emotional reaction in response to threats – such as seeing a bear or having a heart attack.)

“Under normal conditions the prefrontal cortex keeps the amygdala under control,”

he said. “But what we have found is that the prefrontal cortex is deactivated. We don’t know exactly why, but the evolutionary function is probably as a safety mechanism, because if that did not happen then you could run yourself to death.” Ekkekakis believes that this mechanism may hold the key to understanding the basis of the sense of physical fatigue, which is still considered a scientific and medical enigma.

In his second ongoing study, Ekkekakis is seeking to understand the phenomenon of the dramatic decline in exercise when kids transition from childhood to adolescence.

“Most public health interventions are based on the idea that human beings, including children, are rational creatures, and therefore the way to prevent this decline and the way to promote healthy behaviors is by presenting people with information,” he said. “This approach has made no difference whatsoever in the promotion of physical activity. None.”

He hypothesizes that, through experiences of displeasure in physical education classes and on youth sports teams, many people unconsciously avoid exercise later in life.

“It’s unbelievable. Experiences [in a national survey of adults] were split half and half – an equal number of good memories and bad memories from physical education – but when you look at the bad memories, some can make you cry. They were about being ridiculed by the PE teacher, being made fun of by peers, very nasty things said to people in the locker room.”

He says that, at moments of decision when you have to choose whether to sit and play a video game or watch TV OR go out and move, those prior negative experiences push you implicitly toward the sedentary option: the avoidance of exercise.

“So, that’s our starting point,” he said.

“We believe that we are basically doing the wrong thing. Instead of instilling joy into the experiences of movement and exercise in young people, we are doing the opposite.

The lesson from that is we absolutely need to change our physical education practices and we absolutely need to rethink youth sport practices. People have been saying this for many years, and nothing has happened. We’re hoping to reinvigorate that conversation, because it’s overdue.”

Doctoral students in kinesiology Mark Hartman (left) and Matt Ladwig conduct neuromodulation on healthy subjects such as Jeff Mettler, a PhD student in biomechanics, in the lab.

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“The evidence is so P R O overwhelming that T I P exercise will not just extend life – which is important in itself – but it will enhance life. Exercise does wonders. It is enormously beneficial for maintaining function.” –– Paddy Ekkekakis

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OLLI at ISU, a lifetime-learning program of the ISU Alumni Association, offers both classroom and outdoor experiences for adults aged 50+.

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Aging: Everybody’s doing it

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Jennifer Margrett is passionate about aging because, she says, it’s a topic that affects us all.

Margrett is an associate professor in human development and family studies and director of Iowa State’s interdepartmental gerontology program. The program, which involves 50 faculty across all ISU colleges, offers undergraduate and graduate minors, master’s and doctoral programs.

“We say we span from cells to community,” Margrett says. “We have biologists to

political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, and engineers. So we’re really trying to ‘gerontologize’ the campus and get everybody thinking about the life span and adult development and aging. We’re not going to solve the big grand challenges one discipline or one person at a time. It takes teamwork and team science to address those big societal issues.”

Research focuses on multiple levels: the person, the family, the community, and the society. Specific ongoing research projects include those studying dementia, cognitive aging, nutrition, brain health and development, obesity, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease, among others. Researchers are looking at home design, the built environment, and smart home technologies that can aid multiple generations of families.

The gerontology program also works closely with ISU’s Extension and Outreach in Iowa, covering 99 counties and providing programming on diet, fitness, exercise, and

other whole-person health and wellbeing topics.

“One of our programs is called ‘It’s not all wrinkles and rocking chairs,’ Margrett said.

“Society has had this idea that once you retire you don’t have anything to offer, or you should go sit in that rocking chair on your porch and not interact. That’s really old-school thinking. What have you done before, and how can you continue the things that are important to you?”

In the classroom, students study the biological principles of aging, theories of aging, and foundations of gerontology. Electives include cognitive aging, spirituality of aging, and environments designed for all people.

“I saw a stat that said Americans spend more time planning their vacations than we do our retirement,” Margrett said. “We might think of finances, but we tend not to think about the purpose and social roles and how we’ll spend our time.”

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“People often don’t realize that retirement is more than financial.

Sometimes there’s a knee-jerk reaction to move or to make some major life decision post-retirement. But just like after you’ve experienced a loss or a death, you should wait at least six months to a year before making a major change. People often leave their community and the social network that they know.” –– Jennifer Margrett 20

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“Start planning your retirement when you’re 50. If you wait until you’re 62 PRO to get serious and start doing your budgets and you realize that you don’t TIP have enough money to live the lifestyle that you want, that’s kind of late to adjust. When you’re 50, you can look and say, ‘If I want to do this, I have that chance.’ Test some of your ideas, and kind of ease into it. Be patient with developing your trajectory so it’s not so intimidating.” – Chuck Kuster

Retirement, rebooted

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Chuck Kuster experienced a slow epiphany.

It started when the company he worked for was purchased by another company, and a number of his colleagues were offered early-retirement incentives.

At first his friends were giddy about all the free time, Charles Kuster but after a couple of fishing trips and cleaning out the basement, they became frustrated and unfulfilled. They had been successful businessmen, and they suddenly lost their identities.

Likewise, Kuster’s parents were self-described workaholics, and out of the blue they announced they were retiring. They moved from their farm into town.

They didn’t have social networks there. They were comfortable, but bored. They had no reason to get up in the morning. In the end, as their health deteriorated, they became miserable.

“I looked at that and I thought, ‘Boy, retirement didn’t need to be that way,’” Kuster says. “You start looking at these things and realize that our retirement is not an event. It’s a process. Statistically, we Baby Boomers are going to live longer, and we want to be more active, right? People aren’t asking that fundamental question: What does living longer and being more active mean? And what have we done to support that with a real strategic plan?”

Kuster (L)(’76 ag journalism), co-owner (with his wife, Joanne, ’76 home ec journalism) of DynaMinds Publishing, put on his marketing hat and decided to BRAIN CHANGERS 365 write a book. The result is Is THIS Your Plan to Retire? How to Thrive and Not Just Survive in the Changing Retirement Environment, which hit the marketplace this fall.

The how-to book covers all the bases you’ll need to plan a happy, successful A the emotional retirement. With chapters on financial issues, legal matters, and side of retirement, the book also contains exercises like “how to craft and support your bucket list,” “drafting your retirement timeline,” “how to choose your advocates,” “taking a retirement honeymoon,” and “retirement from 30,000 feet.”

“I just want to encourage folks to figure out how you can thrive, not just have a ho-hum retirement, and avoid that ‘just-survival’ mentality,” he said.

“If we can get a lot of these key decisions made earlier, it’s a lot easier to embrace.”

Want to keep your brain in tip-top shape?

Oscar Lenning (’64 engineering operations) has this tip: Spend just 10-15 minutes each day exercising your brain. His book, Brain Changers 365: Build a Better Brain with 7 Activities Each Day, written with his wife and daughter, offers exercises to stimulate basic brain functions: inspirational thinking, personal memory/visualization, objective memory recall, problem solving, creativity, information processing, and mindfulness/movement.

Lenning has worked as a researcher, writer, consultant, academic vice president, dean, and education program developer; he has written more than 150 publications.

“Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation endorses this because they feel strongly, based on other research they’ve seen, that this can help delay and even prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease,” Lenning said.

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—Pat Sievers, Education Leadership Graduate Professor

s an active person, you might diversify your finances and cross train your body to ensure a healthy future. But a truly healthy lifestyle also includes a healthy mind. Many people fear mental decline, and 84% are willing to do something about it. If you are one of those 84%, this book’s for you!

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These kinds of practical activities are valuable for anyone who wants to stay sharp through all phases of life. I will definitely use these exercises myself!

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BUILD a BETTER BRAIN with 7 ACTIVITIES EACH DAY

Like smart investing and effective fitness, the best brain training methods engage variety. Brain Changers 365, provides activities to train your brain seven different ways each day for a year!

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Inspired by the latest scientific research, the authors designed activities to prompt inspirational thinking, personal visualization, recall, problem solving, creativity, information processing, and mindfulness/movement. These activities can help keep your brain sharp and active!

LORENE “RENIE” LENNING, MS • OSCAR LENNING, PhD • ALISHA SOLAN, PhD With foreword by Pat Sievers – National Speaker w i t h D r. P a t W o l f e ’s B r a i n y B u n c h

“Ask yourself, ‘What will make you happy in retirement?’

Because if you can’t define what will make you happy, odds of attaining happiness are pretty slim! People know what they don’t want, but not always what they do want.” –– Chuck Kuster

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Wellbeing: Not just jogging and broccoli When you hear the word “wellness,” what comes to mind?

Stephanie Thompson Downs (A)(’90 exercise science) knows the answer, because she frequently asks the question.

“The initial reaction is jogging, running, exercise, and diet/nutrition,” she said. “And then there’s sort of a pause, and they might bring up stress management. And then there’s a much longer pause, like they’re really not sure beyond that jogging/broccoli mentality what ‘wellness’ is.”

Now, when you say “wellbeing,” Downs said, you start to hear things like “work satisfaction, life satisfaction, happiness.

It broadens the understanding of what wellbeing is.”

As Iowa State’s employee wellbeing coordinator, Downs prefers the “wellbeing”

concept, “because for most people it’s not just physical; it’s mind, body, spirit, emotion, financial, and community – including social and environmental.” Downs oversees Adventure2, a holistic employee wellbeing program. She’s worked with programs directed toward healthy body image, energy management, better sleep, team-building, local foods, walking events, and even a culinary bootcamp.

She says the campus programming can be broken down into four groups: • Prevention: Flu shots, chronic disease support, health care consumerism, health screenings, and more • Lifestyle. Adventure 2 tools and resources, fun incentives, connections with people, and financial resources • Development: Team building, coaching,

self-leadership, resiliency, and supporting colleagues • Culture and engagement: How can we drive engagement for our employees? Do they feel connected? Do they feel like they belong? Does their work bring them value and meaning?

But back to broccoli and jogging. “We don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater,” she said, laughing. “We do have nutrition and exercise built into everything we do. We know that exercising and providing nutritious foods to your body is foundational to your health, and the stress management piece is always in there. But we’re building to expand to more of that whole-person, whole-institution programming.”

Making peace with your body Alison St. Germain wants people to be happy with the shape they’re in.

The ISU dietitian and clinician for the dietetics internship program in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition encourages people to accept their body by focusing on what it can do for them rather than what it looks like.

“America’s standard for beauty is very unrealistic and unattainable without doing some pretty significant harm to the body to achieve it,” she said.

St. Germain guest-lectures about healthy body image to student organizations and classes, works with eating-disorder awareness and prevention, coaches ISU peer wellness educators, and works with the ISU Wellbeing program on body-positivity training.

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body,” St. Germain said. “You can’t escape it with the diet culture that we live in and with all of the marketing saying, ‘Everything about you is wrong!’ There’s a very narrow range of what bodies look like on TV and in magazines, so people start comparing.”

St. Germain embraces the principles of the “Health at Every Size” concept: a weight-neutral, non-diet approach to wellbeing. In doing that, individuals are encouraged to “focus more on the whole body, not on thinking that weight loss is going to cure everything.

“Intended weight loss has a very poor success rate, with approximately 95% of individuals regaining the lost weight, plus more,” she continued. “This sets the stage for yo-yo dieting, which puts the individual at higher risk than if they would have remained the same weight before the weight loss. With

those odds, I think it is unethical as a health professional to recommend a weight-loss program.”

For some people, dissatisfaction with body image overtakes their lives and can elevate to an eating disorder or body dysmorphia. Especially in today’s culture, St. Germain said, with Photoshop, Instagram, and Snapchat filters, social media has the capability to distort reality.

“It messes with your head.”

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W E L L B E I N G

Eight dimensions of student wellness ISU Student Wellness launched in 2017, and with it came a totally new conversation about healthy student environments.

Mark Rowe-Barth leads the unit, which is separate but partners with the Student Health Center, Student Counseling Services, and Recreation Services. Student Wellness focuses on eight dimensions of wellness: physical, intellectual, occupational, spiritual,

environmental, financial, social, and emotional. Many of the wellness topics – stress, sleep, healthy relationships, substance abuse – intersect with all dimensions of student wellness and also affect academic performance.

Key to the program’s success is a group of 25 undergraduate Peer Wellness Educators, who educate their peers on priority

Blake Wilson, a senior in communication studies, and Gretchen Henningsen, a May 2018 graduate in nutritional science and dietetics, were in the first cohort of Iowa State’s Peer Wellness Educators.

focus areas such as stress, anxiety, sleep, depression, colds/flu, nutrition, disordered eating, and substance abuse.

“Peer educators will be outside with the Be Well hut when the weather is nice, engaging with students, having activities around topics,” Rowe-Barth said. “Sometimes students are just more comfortable coming up to them, especially if they’re new students, saying, ‘Hey, do you know where I can find X?’ They make a lot of referrals to counseling, health center, academic success center. Students are asking, ‘Where can I go for this assistance?’”

Programs through Student Wellness also include Joyful Eating, the Green Dot violence prevention program, and mental health promotion. A separate Cydekicks program involves peer health coaches working to achieve positive changes through movement. Another group, the Student Health & Wellness Ambassador Team, is launching this fall.

Student Wellness has a presence during summer orientation and at Destination Iowa State for incoming freshmen. A recent climate survey conducted on campus shows that feeling welcome and connected is an important aspect of the student experience.

“If you don’t feel like you belong here because of your identity, that has huge wellbeing and student success implications,” Rowe-Barth said. “We’re part of so many on campus working on these efforts. We want to change the culture at an environmental level.”

Alumni WELLBEING Alumni have access to the collective wisdom of ISU faculty, staff, alumni, and others through the ISU Alumni Association’s free wellbeing offerings: • “Living a Life” podcasts: Topics range from working for Peace Corps to improving your fitness level.

• Career support: Resources include networking opportunities, webinars focusing on careers, tip sheets, and a career/life coach directory.

• Archived series of wellness webinars: Are you well at work? Are you financially well? Are you physically well? Is your social circle well? More topics are also available.

Find these resources at isualum.org/career. Additional programs are being created in the key areas of social, financial, physical, career, and community wellbeing.

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LeQuetia Ancar* ’99 indust ed & tech, MS ’04, PhD ’08 Assistant Director of Student Services / Multicultural Liaison Officer, College of Engineering Ames, Iowa

“It’s hard for me to believe that I am standing here today, three degrees and many years after beginning my adventure at Iowa State as a firstgeneration, low income, 18-year-old student, to now being blessed to serve hundreds, if not thousands, of our most vulnerable Cyclones: multicultural and women students in engineering and technology.

Students who have the odds stacked against them the moment they step foot on the college campus and decide to pursue a degree in fields where they have been historically underrepresented. Students who have been told that they aren’t good enough, made to feel as if they don’t belong and have been knocked down time and time again. Students who just need someone to believe in them, cheer them on, provide guidance, mentorship, and sometimes a little tough love; someone to simply believe they have limitless potential. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to serve as a champion for our students, to have my passion be my purpose as I strive every day to unlock and open doors to academic, professional, and social opportunities, to assist in the growth and development of our next generation of leaders. Because in everything I do, I know and believe that every Cyclone has potential.”

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George Micalone Director of Student Activities / Assistant Director of the Memorial Union Ames, Iowa “My friend and classmate Andrew Lopez [’12 comm studies] and I first started volunteering on Student Union Board together and later joined the VEISHEA entertainment committee, both under the guidance of George. People frequently ask us how two kids from rural Iowa came to be a producer for [film director] Judd Apatow or a tour manager for [musician/rapper] Childish Gambino, and truthfully I don’t think we could have had these opportunities if it weren’t for the breadth of experience we had with campus events made possible by George’s tireless passion for providing the Iowa State community with quality programming and the faith that he has in his students…. The culture George has fostered in student programming has made Iowa State something of a hidden gem in the cornfields.”

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The ISU Alumni Association established the Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award in 2011 as a way for former students to recognize current or former ISU faculty or staff members who had a significant influence in their lives as students at ISU. The award is partially funded by earnings from the Nancy (’72 food science) and Richard (’72 agriculture, MS ’77) Degner (L) Alumni Association Endowment. Read more about these inspirational faculty and staff or nominate someone for the 2019 award online at www.isualum.org/ inspiration. The nomination deadline is Dec. 1.

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THE IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE!

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GATEWAY HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER AT IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Your Gateway Hotel & Conference Center is bleeding the colors and the passion of ISU to support the missions of Iowa State University.

The Gateway Hotel & Conference Center is a proud supporter of Iowa State University and its many colleges. Walking through the hotel’s gallery second floor hallway, you will see high overhead panels featuring Iowa State University’s eight colleges.

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Honors&Awards Celebrate these extraordinary alumni and friends who enhance our pride in Iowa State Awards will be presented at the 87th Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony, 1:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building Reception to follow the awards ceremony. The event is sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association and is open to the public.

ISU A LUMNI ASSOCI ATION Alumni Medal Deborah M. Tharnish** 1977 English Attorney/shareholder, Davis Brown Law Firm Des Moines, Iowa

Roger C. Underwood** 1980 ag business Private investor/ entrepreneur Ames, Iowa

Brian Darrow** 1979 an sci, DVM 1983 Veterinarian Anamosa, Iowa

COLLEGE AWA R DS AGR ICU LTU R E A ND LIFE SCIENCE S Floyd Andre Award James R. Christensen** 1980 farm op Farmer/owner, Royal Beef, Christensen Feedlot Royal, Iowa

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Outstanding Young Alumni Award Mindy Aust* 2001 architecture Principal, Substance Architecture West Des Moines, Iowa

Shane M. Jacobson** 2003 comm studies, MS 2008 education President/CEO, Univ of Vermont Foundation Shelburne, Vt.

Alumni Merit Award

Ron Tapper 1982 distrib studies, DVM 1984 Veterinarian Hollywood, Fla.

Lee An De Reus** 1986 pol sci Executive director, DV LEAP North Bethesda, Md.

Sara Marcketti* PhD 2005 textiles & clothing Director, ISU Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT) Ankeny, Iowa

Impact Award ISU Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Ames, Iowa Iowa State Cyclone Football ‘Varsity’ Marching Band Ames, Iowa Alumni Service Award Dave Kurns** 1982 journ & mass comm Editorial content director, Meredith Agrimedia Ankeny, Iowa

James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award Laura Weiglein** 2007 health & human perf Project manager, Health Partners Richfield, Minn.

George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award Dawn A. Mellion-Patin PhD 1995 ag ed & studies Vice chancellor, Southern Univ Ag Research & Extension Center Baton Rouge, La.

Outstanding Young Professional Award Jen Sorenson 2001 an sci / journ & mass comm Communications director, Iowa Select Farms Ankeny, Iowa

Henry A. Wallace Award Max F. Rothschild* Charles F. Curtiss distinguished prof / M.E. Ensminger endowed chair in intnatl animal ag, ISU Dept of Animal Science Ames, Iowa

Ivy Award John D. DeVries** 1959 indust admin Retired CEO, Colorfx West Des Moines, Iowa

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Citation of Achievement Curt Espeland 1986 accounting Executive VP / CFO, Eastman Chemical Company Kingsport, Tenn.

Kurt Tjaden** 1985 accounting President, HNI International / senior VP, HNI Corp.

Bettendorf, Iowa Renee Schaaf* 1980 indust admin Senior VP / chief operating officer, Principal International Des Moines, Iowa Russ and Ann Gerdin Award Ben Allen** Retired interim president, Iowa State University Webster Groves, Mo. DE SIGN Christian Petersen Design Award Douglas C. Smith** 1987 landscape arch President, EDSA Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Design Achievement Award Steve Foutch** 1988 architecture CEO, Foutch Brothers Weatherby Lake, Mo. Matthew Nielson** 1984 com & reg plan Sr dir of operations & campus planning, National YoungArts Foundation Miami, Fla. Dana J. Wilkinson** 1978 interior design Founder / CEO, Paragon Commercial Interiors Bettendorf, Iowa ENGINEER ING Anson Marston Medal Timothy Anderson 1973 chem engr Dean, College of Engr, Univ of Mass, Amherst Amherst, Mass.

Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering Jim Fay 1974 chem engr Entrepreneur Boulder, Colo.

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Azmi Yahya MS 1985 ag engr, PhD 1988 Prof of engr, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor D. Arul Ehsan Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Dean's Arts and Humanities Award Henry Ong MS 1978 journ & mass comm Playwright Los Angeles, Calif.

Young Alumni Award John Kevern MS 2006 civil engr, PhD 2008 Assoc prof of civil engr, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City Leawood, Kan.

Distinguished Service Award Art Slusark Chief communications officer, Meredith Corporation Des Moines, Iowa

HUM A N SCIENCE S Alumni Achievement Award Cathy H.C. Hsu** MS 1986 hotel, rest & instit mgmt, PhD 1989 Prof/chair, School of Hotel & Tourism Mgmt, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ Kowloon, Hong Kong Robert B. Nielsen PhD 2004 human dev & fam studies Prof/dept head, College of Human Environ Sciences, Univ of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. Helen LeBaron Hilton Award Margaret Edgar McWilliams 1951 home ec ed, MS 1953 Prof emerita, food & nutrition, California State Univ Los Angeles Redondo Beach, Calif.

Outstanding Young Professional Award Austin J. Paule 2009 apparel merch, design & prod Director of product & merch, TASC Performance New Orleans, La. Lissa D. Stapleton PhD 2014 higher ed Asst prof, College of Education, California State Univ Northridge Fontana, Calif.

LIBER A L A RTS & SCIENCE S Citation of Merit Award Maryl Rae Johnson** 1973 zoology Prof of cardiovascular med, Univ of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health Madison, Wis. Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award Sharon Haselhoff 1998 pol sci General manager, Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort Larchwood, Iowa

Young Alumnus Award Dan Winters** 2003 journ & mass comm Anchor/reporter, WHO-TV News Des Moines, Iowa Adam J. Clark (2017) 2003 meteorology, MS 2006, PhD 2009 Research meteorologist, Natl Severe Storms Lab Norman, Okla.

V ETER INA RY MEDICINE William P. Switzer Award in Veterinary Medicine Darrell L. Neuberger 1973 an sci, DVM 1977 Retired, Zoetis Technical Services Garner, Iowa William O. Reece** DVM 1954, PhD 1965 vet phys & pharm University prof emeritus Ames, Iowa Stange Award for Meritorious Service T. Robert Bashara DVM 1963 Retired CFO, Doris Day Animal Foundation Bennington, Neb. Daryl Olsen DVM 1982 Senior partner, AMVC Mgmt Services Audubon, Iowa Martin R. Smith DVM 1976 Founder, Drs. Foster & Smith Minocqua, Wis. IOWA STATE U NI V ERSIT Y MEMOR I A L U NION Harold Pride Service Medallion Warren R. Madden** 1961 indust engr Retired senior VP for business & finance, ISU Ames, Iowa *ISU Alumni Association Annual Member **ISU Alumni Association Life Member Only ISU degrees are listed

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SPYRIDOULA VAZOU

Switching up children’s wellness habits – for good

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magine a child in a rural Iowa community who has never tried watermelon. Imagine that, through school programming, this child is afforded the opportunity to not only sample a slice of watermelon for the first time, but also tomatoes, peppers, pineapple, and more. Imagine that, in doing so, the child realizes how tasty fruits and vegetables are – and ultimately how a nutritious diet contributes to their health and wellbeing.

Through the Iowa State University trademarked SWITCH (School Wellness Integration Targeting Child Health) program, children in schools throughout Iowa are learning the importance of making these healthy choices. The USDAfunded project is led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and is currently being disseminated across the state. The innovative program helps encourage children to “switch what they ‘Do, View and Chew,’” says Greg Welk, Barbara E. Forker Professor in Kinesiology and SWITCH project director.

According to Welk, SWITCH aims to build schools’ capacity to plan and enhance their wellness programming, and it provides them with resources to implement the program and a customized web interface to enroll and support their students. Using SWITCH’s online module, students complete assessments of their wellness behaviors and use a weekly tracker to evaluate their Do, View and Chew activities. The focus shifts

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each week so kids can explore their physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and eating habits.

Obesity now affects one in six children and adolescents in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With this serious issue on the rise, SWITCH programming can change the trajectory of many Iowa youths’ lives by instilling in them the tools necessary to lead a healthy life.

Currently, 25 elementary schools are involved in the program. However, according to Welk, the team is expanding the reach of the program as well as adding programming to support middle school applications.

To reach more schools across the state and ensure the program’s sustainability, SWITCH partners with Iowa 4-H through ISU Extension and Outreach and is part of the ISU Translational Research Network – an initiative led by Welk to build capacity and support for an array of health-related projects that can impact the population.

Before graduating in May 2018 with a doctorate in kinesiology, Joey Lee served as the SWITCH project coordinator for the past four years and wore many hats during his time with the program. One of his most notable projects was developing the School Wellness Environment Profile, which helps schools evaluate their wellness environments.

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about transformational experiences, like when students say that they had never tried a certain fruit before making a ‘switch,’” he said. “It’s been really great to see that this relatively small program that we ran with four schools during my first year will be taken up by more than 50 schools next year and will continue to grow to a statewide – and potentially multi-state – program in the future.”

While completing his doctoral studies, Lee received donor support from funds like the Helen Easter Family and Consumer Sciences Scholarship and the Barbara Forker Graduate Scholarship.

“The support allowed me to work with 10 schools to evaluate and better understand their wellness environments,” he said. “As a result, those schools were better positioned to make an impact on their students’ health.”

Imagine that now, elementary students across the state are leading lives in which they put their health and wellbeing at the forefront. The Forever True, For Iowa State campaign seeks to accelerate Iowa State’s contributions to the social good by extending its expertise, knowledge and values to improve quality of life – an aspiration exemplified by the work of Welk, Lee, and the other members of the SWITCH research team.  Lindsey Davis (’17 English/journalism & mass comm) is a donor relations specialist for the ISU Foundation FALL 2018 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

What does it mean to be forever true?

It means keeping the Iowa State experience accessible for students.

It means supporting world-class faculty and programs.

It means creating a university for the 21st century and beyond.

Your gifts to Iowa State help prepare the difference-makers to solve tomorrow’s challenges.

Because the world needs more Cyclone spirit.

To learn how you can be forever true to Iowa State, visit ForeverTrueISU.com.

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Celebrating a decade as the campus “home away from home” for Cyclones everywhere When the ISU Alumni Center opened its doors in 2008, the Alumni Association staff and Board of Directors could not have predicted the tremendous impact the building would have on alumni, students, the university, and the Ames community. In 10 years, the Center has become the place to meet and learn, the place to mingle and celebrate, and the place to gather before Cyclone sporting events. More than 5,400 events have been held at the Center; the building is a physical home for Iowa State alumni; it’s changed the culture of football gamedays; and it’s seen more than 200 couples celebrate their wedding day. Here’s a look at how the Alumni Center has evolved in the past 10 years

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and at some of the Center’s most memorable events and activities.

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The ISU Alumni Center gardens were dedicated in October 2011.

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On Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, more than 750 alumni, students, and friends – including lead donors Roy and Bobbi Reiman (with ISUAA President Jeff Johnson) – attended the ISU Alumni Center dedication ceremony. Then-ISU President Gregory Geoffroy told the crowd, “Iowa State University has become home for thousands of young people as they begin their life’s journey. Now alumni and friends have a home. Welcome home to your new Iowa State University Alumni Center!”

NEW ADDRESS In 2018, the university officially gave the name “Alumni Lane” to the street running through the Iowa State Center parking lots on the Alumni Center’s east side in order to improve visibility of the facility and direct visitors to more convenient parking. Thus, the new address became 429 Alumni Lane.

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Say “I DO!” at the Alumni Center NiCole Hammer + Casey McClain Oct. 14, 2014

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The ceremony and reception were both held in the Alumni Center’s Reiman Ballroom. “I felt like a princess,” NiCole said. “The building was beautiful, absolutely stunning. It was a great experience.”

The couple invited Cy to the reception and, because their wedding date was “Sweetest Day,” they served a huge assortment of desserts.

Four years later, NiCole is still over the moon about the experience. “Some people say if they had it to do over again, they wouldn’t have such a big wedding,” she said.

“But if I had it to do over again, I would do it over again and over again and over again.”

NiCole and Casey McClain walk into their wedding reception escorted by Cy.

More than 200 weddings/wedding receptions have been held in the ISU Alumni Center.

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OLLI AT ISU Since 2008, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI at ISU) has found a permanent home at the ISU Alumni Center. OLLI provides classes and travel opportunities for adults 50 and older.

In 10 years: • 615 classes held • 11,936 seats filled

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The Cyclone Central Tailgate Step Show featuring the ISU Cyclone Football ‘Varsity’ Marching Band and Spirit Squad.

see you at cyclone central In 10 seasons of Cyclone Central Tailgates, the presence of the ISU Alumni Center has added a new level of Cardinal & Gold spirit to football gamedays.

Catered meals are served buffet-style at each Cyclone Central Tailgate.

About Cyclone Central • Cyclone Central Tailgates, hosted by the ISU Alumni Association, are free and open to everyone at the ISU Alumni Center, 429 Alumni Lane (adjacent to lots A2/A3).

• Cyclones everywhere can grab a bite to eat at a food truck, enjoy a beverage from the cash bar, or sign up for a catered meal.

• The KASI Cyclone Tailgate Show broadcasts LIVE from the Newlin Terrace every game.

• Watch for guest appearances by Cyclone celebrities, student-athletes, and coaches.

• Enjoy giveaways, shopping, and kids’ activities.

By the numbers, 2008-2017 • 3 hours before each home football game, the Alumni Center doors open for Cyclone Central Tailgates.

• 90 minutes before kickoff, the ISU Cyclone Football ‘Varsity’ Marching Band and Spirit Squad perform on the steps of the Alumni Center.

• 60,000: Total estimated attendees • 13,300: Catered meals served

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A LIBRARY FILLED WITH BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA The Mente Alumni Library and Memorabilia area showcases 100 years of Bomb yearbooks, historical documents, and Iowa State memorabilia. Stop by and take a look!

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The Spirit of Iowa State is a 6 x 38-foot cut-glass mural by Clint Hansen (’87 graphic design)

EVERYONE LOVES BRONZE CY The bronze Cy sculpture is one of the most popular places on campus to take a selfie or group photos.

Wedding parties frequently stop by, even if they aren’t holding their event in the building.

A wedding party gathers around the bronze Cy sculpture by Michael D’Ambrosi

The words to the “Bells of Iowa State" can be found in the Slater Alma Mater Monument Garden and Native Prairie.

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ART OF THE CENTER The ISU Alumni Center houses a number of works of art, both inside and outside: • The Spirit of Iowa State mural by Clint Hansen • Bronze Cy by Michael D’Ambrosi • Cyclone Tower by Lyle London of Tempe, Ariz.

• The 4-H Calf by Christian Petersen • Photographs of Christian Petersen’s artwork and other campus scenes by Jim Heemstra • Traditions pillars in the Eggerling ISU Traditions Garden by RDG Dahlquist Art Studio • Red Gold Flight by Priscilla Sage

ALUMNI GARDENS Alumni Center gardens were officially dedicated in October 2011. Garden spaces include: • Hopson Memorial Garden and Patio • Eggerling ISU Traditions Garden • Slater South Lawn and Gardens • Slater West Entry Lawn and Gardens • Slater Alma Mater Monument Garden and Native Prairie • Nelson Family East Prairie Garden • Tubbs Cyclone Garden VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2018

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a space for students • The ISU Alumni Association held the first senior send-off in 2009. This coming spring will be the 10th anniversary of this event.

• More than 3,000 students have attended Homecoming Pep Rallies since moving the event from central campus to the Alumni Center parking lot in 2012.

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After being headquartered in the Memorial Union since it was created, the Student Alumni Leadership Council (formerly Student Alumni Association) has had a home in the ISU Alumni Center for 10 years.

• 592 student leaders have utilized the SALC office space in the Alumni Center since 2008.

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5,416 THE WALL OF ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Nearly 5,000 Iowa Staters have already written their names in ISU history with a plaque on the Wall of Alumni and Friends, located on the east side of the ISU Alumni Center.

Go to isualum.org/wall to leave your legacy.

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COME HOME TO THE ISU ALUMNI CENTER!

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Stop by the Alumni Center during Homecoming weekend and help celebrate the Center’s 10th anniversary.

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THE PLACE TO MEET Spaces in the ISU Alumni Center were designed for meetings and other events.

The Reiman Ballroom, Uelner Executive Board Room, Horton Multi-purpose Conference Room, and other spaces have attracted meetings, retreats, career fairs, classes, workshops, banquets, lectures, and more.

Friday night, Oct. 26, 6-9 p.m.

Homecoming Celebration & Pep Rally Saturday, Oct. 27, time TBD Homecoming Cyclone Central Tailgate

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CENTERED AROUND COMMENCEMENT From graduation receptions to photos with bronze Cy after commencement ceremonies, there’s no better place than the ISU Alumni Center to start the after-party!

HOORAY FOR HOLIDAY PARTIES The ISU Alumni Center loves to get dressed up for the holidays! It’s become a popular place for holiday parties, including the Ames Chamber holiday business-after-hours event, which attracts hundreds of community members annually.

• The ISU Alumni Center provides a beautiful and unique setting that will create the perfect atmosphere for your event: meetings, conferences, graduation receptions, anniversaries, holiday parties, and more.

• Say “I Do” at the ISU Alumni Center!

Celebrate your wedding shower, rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony, or wedding reception.

Call toll-free (877) ISU-ALUM (478-2586), isualumnicenter.org Email alumnicenter@iastate.edu RACHEL MUMMEY

Paul Armbrecht (L)(’71 DVM) enjoys the antics of Cy during an Alumni Hall Reunion on Sept. 16, 2017 Dan Buhr (L)(’95 electrical engineering) was honored at a retirement party on April 27, 2018.

SPECIAL EVENTS THAT ARE REALLY SPECIAL Name an event, and the ISU Alumni Center has probably hosted it: Baby showers, retirement parties, memorial services, fundraising events, birthday parties, anniversary receptions, book signings, and so many more.

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REUNIONS The ISU Alumni Center is a perfect place for reunions!

Here are some of the reunions taking place at the Center since 2008: • 50-year class

• Other class reunions, both ISU and Ames High • Residents of Alumni Hall • Departmental reunions • Family groups • Black College Reunion 39

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Helping Cyclones ‘live a life’ At 55, I’m becoming more like my dad every day.

As a kid, I thought people who were 50 were old. It’s not that way when the shoe is on your foot. Yep, your perception of “old” changes very quickly.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think more deeply, more peacefully, and more authentically about my father and mother. I lost both of them in 2016, both in their 80s, 16 days apart. These were really special people in the lives of my siblings and me. Moreover, they were stalwarts in my hometown of Collins, Miss. (Population 1,600!)

Today, I’ve already encountered a few of the health issues that my father faced later in his life. And like you, over the years, I’ve been handed the clipboard and asked to fill out the health questionnaire when I visited my doctors. I’ve also had my weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart rate, etc. checked every time I’ve gone in to see my

doctor. I know these health details were shared with me, but I don’t think I ever translated it to the fact that I was becoming my dad and might face some of the health issues he faced. Simply put, I don’t think I saw my life changing, saw myself getting older, or interpreted the statistics from them as affecting my quality of life. Why? Well, it was just intangible information until there were issues.

I know, I know – I can hear many of you saying, “Jeff, you’re smarter than that.” I am now!

In 2016, I had the pleasure of reading Tom Rath and Jim Harter’s book, Well Being…The Five Essential Elements. You may recognize these two authors from StrengthFinder 2.0. The book focuses on five areas of wellbeing in our lives: career, social, financial, physical, and community.

I think the concept and broader definition the book’s authors bring to wellbeing is very profound. Wellbeing is not simply about health and wellness. Rath and Harter write, “A comprehensive definition of

ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES

ISUAA President and CEO Endowment Alumni Association Programs Endowment Student Leadership Programs Endowment VISIONS Magazine Endowment Awards Program Endowment Staff Development Endowment Madden Technology Endowment LegaCY Club Endowment Young Alumni Programs Endowment Alumni Clubs Endowment Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Endowment General Program Endowment

GOAL RAISED** $2.5 million $2.5 million $10 million $2.1 million* $1 million $382,884 $2 million $71,083 $1 million $51,538 $250,000 $263,187 $250,000 $355,930 $1.5 million $222,908 $1 million $64,033 $2 million $1 16,325 $1 million $67,338

$493,672

Total ISU Alumni Association Campaign Goal $12.5 million $4.6 million **As of 6/30/18

wellbeing is based on a worldwide study of the elements that differentiate thriving lives from those spent struggling or suffering.” Also, “Wellbeing isn’t about being happy. Nor is it only about being wealthy or successful…. Our work is aimed at giving individuals and organizations even more opportunities to improve the quality of their lives and their daily performance, regardless of their endeavors.”

Every time I read the book, I kept coming back to the thought that these five areas are key fields of research for some power hitters on Iowa State’s faculty. My current emphasis for your Association is to start a small, focused conversation with a number of my campus colleagues who are doing important work in the areas of career wellness, social wellness, financial wellness, physical wellness, and community wellness and determine how we can build constituent programs around these areas. I hope we can bring some of these experts into your communities as well as bring their input to you via webinars and podcasts. In the interim, stay tuned, and do share your thoughts with me regarding this exploration and future undertaking.

I feel this effort ties in very nicely with the famous quote from alumnus M.J. Riggs, an 1883 graduate who was president of the Alumni Association in the 1920s and helped raise $1 million for the Memorial Union project: “We come to college not alone to prepare to make a living, but to learn to live a life.”

We’re preparing programming and opportunities to help you live life…well!

Yours for Iowa State and Cyclones everywhere –

Jeff Johnson **# Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed President and CEO PhD ’14 education

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‘Why I give’ ISU launched its $1.1 billion campaign, Forever True, For Iowa State, in fall 2016.

For the ISU Alumni Association, the campaign will help position the Association to better serve and showcase Iowa State and Cyclones everywhere. These are just a few of the donors who are contributing to the Alumni Association’s campaign priorities.

‘Something special about Iowa State’ “For me, Iowa State is not a place. It’s a TIME. It’s a FAMILY. It’s a CONNECTION. I always knew there was something special about Iowa State from the first time I stepped onto campus back in 1987. Iowa Staters go off and do great things.

They are everywhere, and they are all connected!

For each, it’s about THEIR time and THEIR ISU Family. It’s that yell from across the terminal at airports all over the world – “Go Cyclones!” – or the quick shout-out and friendly Cyclone nod at the 7-Eleven, when someone recognizes that familiar cardinal & gold, which is at least 50% of my wardrobe – ask anyone who knows me. It’s twice a year coming back to events on campus and meeting up with great lifelong Cyclone FAMILY. When Iowa Staters are asked to serve, they say YES, because they can’t say no to that TIME, that FAMILY, that CONNECTION. The ISU Alumni Association is the bridge that CONNECTS us to that TIME and FAMILY – such a critical role to play and so well done. What a great time to be a Cyclone!”

Jim Anderson** ’93 industrial engineering Lake In the Hills, Ill. Pledged $2,500 to the Student Leadership Programs Endowment

Our own Cyclone legacy “We were excited to learn about the LegaCY Club offered through the ISU Alumni Association as part of the Forever True, For Iowa State campaign. What a neat marketing tool to keep children of ISU alumni who are enrolled in the LegaCY Club connected to Iowa State. LegaCY children receive gifts at various stages of their life, starting at birth and continuing through high school, and, upon graduation from Iowa State, they receive a cardinal-and-gold braided honor cord. Our own legacy consists of two daughters, one son-in-law, and two grandchildren, with the potential of six (currently) great grandchildren who are all enrolled in the LegaCY Club and may someday grow into full-fledged Cyclones.

Needless to say, we have a deep love for Iowa State. In addition to supporting the LegaCY Club Endowment and having provided several other financial gifts to ISU, we have stayed connected by serving as volunteers for the ISU Alumni Association, Iowa 4-H Foundation, ISU Foundation, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Cyclone athletics.”

‘Where would we be without Iowa State?’

“We met and fell in love at Iowa State. And the skills we developed at ISU – communication, decision making, planning, leadership, and creating a vision for the next mission – have been critical not only in the growth and success of our business (TS Banking Group), but also in raising a family and in our community involvement.

We did so much at Iowa State: Gamma Phi Beta, student teaching, SOV, Iowa State Singers, and Cardinal Key Notes (Judy) and Army ROTC, Pep Council, Cy mascot, Theta Delta Chi, GSB, IFC, and more (Mick). These activities naturally led us to give through the Forever True, For Iowa State campaign to the LegaCY Club and Student Programs Endowments. We both serve on the ISU Alumni Association’s campaign committee and are governors of the ISU Foundation. We have also served on the ISU Parents Board, and Mick served on the ISU Athletic Association Board. Our question is: ‘Where would we be without Iowa State?’ We have no question in our minds that Iowa State has been and continues to be an ongoing blessing in our lives.”

Glen and Mary Jo Mente** Glen: ’61 animal husbandry, MS ’63 Ames, Iowa Contributed $100,000 to the LegaCY Club to fund the LegaCY backpack, a gift sent to children at age 5.

Mick and Judy (Frazier) Guttau** Mick: ’69 farm operation Judy: ’68 home ec ed Treynor, Iowa Pledged $25,000 – half to Student Leadership Programs Endowment and half to LegaCY Club Endowment

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The mind of an entrepreneur Newsmakers ON THE RUN – AGAIN  After smashing the record for running across the U.S. in 2016 (42 days, 6 hours, and 30 minutes), ultrarunner Pete Kostelnick (’09 intl business/finance) embarked this summer on a new adventure: “Ke To Key: Unlock Your Wildest Dream.”

Kostelnick’s goal is to run more than 5,300 miles from Kenai, Alaska to Key West, Fla. And this time, he’s going it alone.

“I’m going to do it with all my gear in a stroller, and I’m going to try to do it averaging more miles than anyone (to my knowledge) has ever averaged on a point-to-point unsupported run of over 5,000 miles,” he announced.

A self-supported run means that he’ll run as far as the day allows and manage everything that goes along with such a trek – finding a place to sleep, finding food and drink, doing laundry, and finding ways to solve the challenges that arise each day.

Kostelnick is posting daily updates on his petekostelnick Instagram account.

“I’ve tackled my Everest,” he said in a social media post. “Now it’s time to shoot for Mars.”

VISIONS featured Kostelnick in the fall 2017 issue.

REPRESENTING IN NYC  It isn’t often that you open the Sunday New York Times and find a story about an Iowa State grad written by an Iowa State grad. But such was the moment on July 29 when a story about Trent Preszler (L)(’98 interdisc studies), written by Carrie Seim (’00 journ & mass comm), was on the front page of the Sunday Styles section. Preszler, former ISUAA board director and the CEO of Bedell winery in Cutchogue, N.Y., was featured for his work creating luxury hand-made canoes, an avocation that has garnered him a tremendous amount of press, including an Emmy-winning 42

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hen it comes to experiencing success, failure, and obstacles Gaithersburg, Md. in business, Wendy Muhammad #CyclonesEverywhere (’87 finance) has been there. For all of it. A self-made millionaire who today is a partner in multiple businesses, the owner of a business consulting firm and coaching service, executive director of an outpatient surgical center, and the host of the metropolitan D.C. radio show “Mind of an Entrepreneur,” Muhammad didn’t always have it easy. In fact, it was painfully difficult.

Today Muhammad says her “Mind of an Entrepreneur” brand, which now also includes a book by the same name, is on a mission to inspire marginalized populations to pursue entrepreneurship as a path out of poverty.

“As an African-American woman, I was marginalized by both the corporate world (due to my race and gender) and by my own community (owing to my determination to be a businesswoman and my middle-class upbringing),” Muhammad writes. “So I set out as an entrepreneur because I knew this was my only option.”

WENDY MUHAMMAD

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Show your state pride at the Festival of Trees

documentary film. Seim is a freelance writer living in New York City. Both have been previously featured in the pages of VISIONS.

A LONG LIFE, WELL LIVED  We recently learned that Eila Brooks Butterworth (’34 home ec ed) celebrated her 105th birthday in August. A native of Whiting, Iowa, Butterworth attended graduate school at the University of Arizona, where she met her future husband, Art Butterworth. They moved to Wisconsin in the early 1940s, where they started their own manufacturing business. After Art’s death, Butterworth began to work at the

The ISU Alumni Association is partnering with ISU Athletics to sponsor an ISU Neighborhood Tree at the Festival of Trees and Lights in Des Moines Nov. 20-25, 2018. This year’s tree theme is “Cyclones Everywhere.” With Cyclones in all 50 states and 152 countries, we’d like to represent as many locations as possible on the tree, so we’re asking for your help. Send us an ornament that represents your state or country (such as a maple leaf from Vermont or a cactus from Arizona) and we’ll put it on the tree to help show that Cyclones really are everywhere. Your contribution will be featured on the tree at Des Moines’ Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center.

Ornaments can be mailed to: ISU Alumni Center, 429 Alumni Lane, Ames, IA 5001 1 (Attn: Festival of Trees). For more information (and to see the places in need of representation), visit isualum.org/festivaloftrees.

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PERSONALIZING NUCLEAR WAR  Brad Baer (’07 architecture) of Bluecadet has collaborated with the Outrider Foundation, created by Frank Burgess (’64 engr op), to launch a documentary website about nuclear proliferation and climate change that has been viewed more than 1.5 million times in more than 217 countries

across the globe. It's also been covered in major press publications including Fast Company, Mashable, Gizmodo, Vice, and the Verge.

Top Jobs  Spectrum Health announced in July that its System Board of Directors has appointed Tina Freese Decker (L)(’00 finance) as the health system’s next president and CEO. Freese Decker has been with Spectrum Health since 2002 and most recently was executive vice president and chief operating

The Sullivan girls

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orty-seven years ago this fall, eight young women moved into Linden Hall’s Sullivan House in Richardson Court on the east side of the ISU campus. And this past summer, seemingly without skipping a beat, the eight women met on campus for their 40th annual reunion.

The women – Karen Mangold, Joy (Hodgin) Tokheim, Polly (Moeller) Lilly, Diane (Lund) Kroeger, Elizabeth (Glab) Cushman, Eleanor (Glab) Freund, Marcia (Huffman) Stoever, and Carolyn McCutcheon – arrived on campus in 1971 as self-described naïve, frightened freshwomen and were paired up as college roommates. Together, they navigated classes, parties, boyfriends, cafeteria food, and sunburns.

“We all had the same kindred spirit, all looking for adventure,” Lilly said.

Each graduated from Iowa State, and several met their soon-to-be husbands at ISU. Even after going their separate ways, they continued to meet – initially at each other’s weddings.

Eventually, they ran out of weddings to attend, and in 1978 they began the tradition of a summer reunion.

“We decided we needed an excuse to get together,” Tokheim explained.

“It’s the kind of reunion where we just pick up where we left off,” Stoever added.

When the group met in July of this year, it was, indeed, as if no time had passed. The friends shared photo albums and told stories of their college days and their past reunions. At times, it seemed as though everyone was talking at once.

“All of our reunions have been memorable!” someone said.

“Something bizarre or weird or fun has happened at every one.”

The eight friends have a total of 26 children and 57 grandchildren. Some of their children have attended Iowa State; some of the grandkids are even starting to look at ISU.

officer for the organization. During her 16 years at Spectrum Health, Freese Decker has developed a strong reputation for her forward-thinking strategies, sound business acumen, successful execution, authenticity, and collaboration. Under Freese Decker’s leadership, Spectrum Health has focused on building community partnerships and implementing innovative solutions to

The Sullivan girls, left to right: Carolyn McCutcheon (L) (’79 zoology, DVM ’81), Memphis, Tenn.; Polly (Moeller) Lilly (’75 child dev), Riceville, Iowa; Marcia (Huffman) Stoever (A)(’75 fam environ), Okoboji, Iowa; Elizabeth (Glab) Cushman (L)(’75 child dev), Dubuque, Iowa; Eleanor (Glab) Freund (’75 textiles & cloth), Dubuque, Iowa; Karen Mangold (’75 child dev), LeCenter, Minn.; Joy (Hodgin) Tokheim (’75 psychology), Osceola, Iowa; Diane (Lund) Kroeger (L)(’76 elem ed), Johnston, Iowa.

CELEBRATING A 47-YEAR FRIENDSHIP #CyclonesEverywhere

CAROLE GIESEKE

University of Wisconsin Platteville and became a VISTA volunteer. She lives today at the Park View assisted living center in Platteville, Wis., where she continues to beat all of her friends at Scrabble.

“We’ve been through so much life together: cancer, lost spouses, lost babies, moves, jobs, new shoulders, new hips,” Lilly said. But after more than 40 years, their friendship stays strong.

Sitting in a circle in the Pride Lounge of the Memorial Union, they tried to remember a song they sang as college friends.

Some struggled to come up with all the right words, but all eight sang the end in unison: “When you love a Sullivan sweetheart, you’ll never forget her, don’t try.”

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address the health needs of the community it serves.  Scott Hutchins (PhD ’87 entomology), the global leader of integrated field sciences for Corteva Agriscience, has been nominated

by President Donald Trump to be USDA’s undersecretary for research, education, and economics.

Hutchins, an entomologist, also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska. He was global director for crop protection research and development at Dow AgroSciences and is a past president of the Entomological Society of America.  Robbyn Wacker (PhD ’90 sociology) has been named president of St. Cloud State University. She is an experienced administrator and a tenured professor with a reputation for leadership of strategic initiatives, encouraging innovation, and advancing student enrollment, retention, and success.

She previously served the University of

Northern Colorado as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and as senior campaign adviser in the UNC Office of Development and Alumni Relations.  A proven coach with a record of success in the Big Ten Conference, Mark Hankins (A)(’93 psychology, MBA ’97) was announced as the new head men’s golf coach at the University of Nebraska on June 13. Hankins was an assistant athletic director at the University of Iowa and led the Hawkeye golf team to six consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and 11 team tournament championships from 2009 to 2014 as the head coach. As a collegiate student-athlete, Hankins was a two-year captain of the Iowa State golf team, earning All-Big Eight Conference honors and GCAA Scholastic All-America honors his senior season.

Consumers can eat it raw from the jar or bake the dough into bars. And because the company does not pre-package bars in wasteful individual wrappers, consumers can reuse or recycle the jar. Unwrapp’d is currently available in grocery stores from Denver to Longmont, Colo., and is sold online.

Unwrapp’d recently partnered with Hy-Vee to bring the natural food product to Iowa.  Judith (Linder) Zimmerman (A)(’86 interior design) has been named president of RVK Architects in San Antonio, Texas.

She has managed the business operations for the firm during the past 13 years.

 Reed McIntyre (’12 psychology) is a startup founder of Unwrapp’d, a product that’s gaining attention in Colorado and Iowa.

Founded in 2017 in Denver, Colo., Unwrapp’d is a unique nutrition bar dough: It’s like edible cookie dough meets nutrition bar.

Landing the job

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eth Ford (A)(’86 management) joined Land O’Lakes – a $14 billion farmer-owned cooperative based in Arden Hills, Minn., in 2011 as head of its dairy food and Purina Animal Minneapolis, Minn.

Nutrition businesses. In her #CyclonesEverywhere eight years with the company she has played an integral role in its diversification and expansion, including the 2017 acquisition of Vermont Creamery, and was promoted to chief operations officer in December. But now Ford has taken another giant career leap that lands her in rarefied air: one of only 25 female chief executives, and the first openly lesbian CEO, at a Fortune 500 firm. On July 25, Ford was named Land O’Lakes’ first-ever female CEO. “There’s a perception that some of these industries, they’re only maledominated and they’re not welcoming necessarily,” Ford told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune July 26. “I think in the end what they’re expecting is performance, and I can drive the business. That would be whether I’m a man or a woman.”

BETH FORD

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Association welcomes new colleague, Jamie Stowe

THE CARDINAL & GOLD GALA

Place your bets on a great evening Bet on a great evening Feb. 15 as the ISU Alumni Association’s annual Cardinal & Gold Gala moves to a NEW location for 2019. Make your way to Prairie Meadows Casino & Hotel in Altoona, Iowa, as Cyclones everywhere gather for a black tie-optional affair to celebrate Iowa State University and raise funds for first-generation student scholarships and student and alumni outreach programming. With ample free parking, newly renovated Prairie Meadows will be an ideal location for the casino-themed 2019 gala. Registration will open Jan. 1, but mark your calendar now for this can’t-miss celebration: 2019 Cardinal & Gold Gala Friday, February 15 at 6 p.m.

Prairie Meadows Casino & Hotel

Co-chairs: Julie ('88) & Jay ('89) Jacobi Sara and Kent ('78) Johnson Go to isualum.org/gala to reserve your table today or contact Chelsea Trowbridge, ctrow@iastate.edu, (515) 294-2584.

Take advantage of special table-host pricing during the month of October!

Guests who reserve a table of 10 in October will receive a $100-per-table discount.

Book your hotel room now: Contact Prairie Meadows for a special rate now through Feb. 1.

To book, call (515) 957-3000 and reference Cardinal & Gold Gala or go to www.prairiemeadows.com and use group code 02152019CAR

CRUISIN’ IN STYLE!

One of our go-to vessels for ISU travel, Oceania’s luxurious Riviera, has been named by Cruise Critic as the world’s best overall mid-size cruise ship. You can sail aboard Riviera with Cyclones everywhere; we currently have three trips aboard Riviera setting sail in 2019: Legendary Europe, North Atlantic Quest, and Fall Foliage of Canada and New England. Space is limited – BOOK TODAY! Visit isualum. org/travel or call Heather Botine at (515) 294-9171

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Jamie Stowe (L) (’97 exercise & sport science, MEd ’05), an employee of the ISU Foundation, became ISU Alumni Association’s new director of development, replacing Julie Larson’s work in that role. He has been employed with the Foundation since 2013. As the Association’s director of development, he leads the fundraising and major gift strategies for the Alumni Association by engaging with alumni, donors, and friends of Iowa State, matching their philanthropic passions with the needs of the university and the ISUAA. Stowe is a native of Rockford, Iowa, and previously worked in real estate in North Carolina. He also spent 16 years coaching basketball at the high school and collegiate levels.

CONNECT WITH CYCLONES EVERYWHERE! Find ISU alumni events in your area with the “Near Me” function on the Iowa State Alumni mobile app. You can find local clubs, gamewatches and other events, and connect with local Cyclones. Here’s how it works: • • • • •

Click on “Near Me” icon Search for your state Select your local club Visit the events calendar Check in when you arrive

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Alumni Honors  Arlan Kay (L)(’66 architecture) has been named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects. As a young professional, Kay was inspired to volunteer his architectural service in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

He created the Design Coalition, a nonprofit corporation that advocates for individuals and neighborhoods in need.

His ongoing pro-bono activism has helped reverse the trend of abandoning older neighborhoods and downtowns. Since 1972, Kay has dedicated 250-500 hours of unpaid community service and pro-bono work annually.  Dan McClanahan (A)(’08 journ & mass comm) of Ames, Iowa, received a bronze medal in the nature category for his photograph Frozen Estuary during the final round

 Two Iowa State graduates were featured in the Des Moines Business Record in July as “Women of Influence.” Wendy Wintersteen, Iowa State’s sixteenth president, was chosen for the recognition for her tenure as dean of the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; for her work on numerous state, national, and international boards; and for being named Iowa State’s first female president. Mandi

SEE YOU AT HOMECOMING Oct. 21-27, 2018 See you on campus and in Ames as Cyclones everywhere celebrate State!

HOMECOMING PARADE Sunday, Oct. 21 2 p.m., Downtown Ames 50-YEAR GOLD MEDAL CEREMONY Friday, Oct. 26 9 a.m., ISU Alumni Center HOMECOMING HAPPY HOUR Friday, Oct. 26 4-6 p.m., ISU Alumni Center Free to attend; giveaways, light snacks, and cash bar with drink specials

of the fifth annual World Photographic Cup on May 6 in Sydney, Australia. McClanahan was one of five American medalists that accumulated the highest country score out of 30 national teams and helped bring the cup to American soil after it had spent two years in Portugal. This was McClanahan’s second consecutive year on Team USA.  Grant Uhlir (A)(’85 architecture), managing director and principal at Gensler, has been named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects. Uhlir brings more than three decades of design experience in mixed-use developments, corporate headquarters, adaptive reuse, and repositioning projects across the globe – including the world-renowned Shanghai Tower, for which he served as senior project director. Most recently, he is leading the repositioning of the 2.8-million-square-foot redevelopment of Chicago’s Post Office.

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McReynolds (MS 2007 interdisc grad studies), director of community relations and the Principal Foundation, was recognized with the 2018 Meredith Emerging Woman of Influence award. McReynolds is a national thought leader on community engagement and philanthropy; she serves as a leader of United Way of Central Iowa’s Women’s Leadership connection.

HOMECOMING CELEBRATION & PEP RALLY Friday, Oct. 26 6-9 p.m., ISU Alumni Center / parking lot Free to attend; kids’ activities, snacks, cash bar, giveaways, and pep rally featuring ISU coaches, student-athletes, and Yell Like Hell finals

CYCLONE CENTRAL TAILGATES AT THE ISU ALUMNI CENTER

Gear up for Cyclone football See you at our family-friendly atmosphere three hours prior to each home football game, where you can eat, drink, shop, and play games. Admission is free and open to Cyclones everywhere! Go to isualum.org/ cyclonecentral for details and to pre-register for meals.

CYCLONE CENTRAL TAILGATE Saturday, Oct. 27 Time TBD, ISU Alumni Center Details at isualum.org/cyclonecentral CYCLONE FOOTBALL VS. TEXAS TECH Saturday, Oct. 27 Time TBD, Jack Trice Stadium AND THE REST: • Honors and Awards ceremony, Friday at 1:15 p.m., Scheman Building • ExCYtement in the Streets, Friday 8-10 p.m., Greek community • Pancake Feed, Friday 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Central Campus • Mass Campaniling and fireworks, Friday at midnight, Central Campus isualum.org/homecoming

Oct. 13: Cyclones vs. West Virginia Oct. 27: Cyclones vs. Texas Tech (Homecoming) Nov. 10: Cyclones vs. Baylor Nov. 24: Cyclones vs. Kansas State Don’t forget: The Cyclone Central Tailgate Step Show begins 90 minutes before each game’s kickoff on the east side of the ISU Alumni Center. The show features the Iowa State University Cyclone Football ‘Varsity’ Marching Band and the ISU Spirit Squad.

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FALL IN LOVE WITH THE CYCLONES: Here’s four cheers to the return of Iowa State athletics Cross country teams

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CROSS COUNTRY The defending Big 12 men’s and women’s cross country champions are set to host the 2018 conference championship Oct. 26 in Ames. It will mark the first time in 10 years that Iowa State has played host to the league championship – an event the Cyclone women have won six of the last seven years and which the Cyclone men won for the first time ever in 2017.

The Cyclones opened their men’s and women’s regular season Aug. 31 at the Hawkeye Invitational and have high hopes to win more hardware in 2018.

Along with their 2017 Big 12 titles, both teams also won NCAA Midwest Regional Championships last season. They’ll look to make it back-to-back regional crowns Nov. 9 in Peoria, Ill., and the national championship is set for Nov. 17 in Madison, Wis. On the men’s side, the Cyclones are led by junior Andrew Jordan, a 52

Pataskala, Ohio, native who finished seventh at the 2017 NCAA championships and was the Big 12’s only AllAmerican last season, earning him Big 12 Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year honors. The Cyclones also return Dan Curts and Thomas Pollard, who both finished in the top 100 at last year’s national championship.

On the women’s side, the Cyclones will be led by senior Anne Frisbie – Iowa State’s top finisher in last year’s NCAA

championships. The duo of Cailie Logue and Amanda Vestri, who had outstanding freshman seasons that culminated in representing Team USA at the IAAF U20 World Championships this summer, also returns to a strong Cyclone roster for 2018.

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Challenge in Croatia, senior outside hitter Jess Schaben is anchoring an Iowa State volleyball squad that has been picked to finish third in this year’s Big 12 preseason volleyball poll.

The 2018 season started Aug. 24 with the Cyclone Invitational, with hopes of culminating in a 13th-consecutive NCAA championship appearance under head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. The first and second rounds will be hosted on campus sites Nov. 29-Dec. 1; the national championships will be held at Minneapolis’ Target Center Dec. 13-15.

Along with Schaben – a Defiance, Iowa, native who earned AVCA honorable mention All-America and firstteam all-Big 12 honors last season, the Cyclones are led by redshirt junior libero Hali Hillegas and senior middle blocker Grace Lazard. Schaben, Hilegas – a 2017 first-team all-conference pick and Big 12 libero of the year, and Lazard – a 2017 second-team all-conference 12 honoree, were all 2018 preseason all-conference selections.

SOCCER On the heels of a successful 2016 campaign that saw Iowa State earn its first-ever Big 12 championship berth and a 2017 season that featured two top-25 road wins, the 2018 Cyclone women’s soccer squad has high hopes for the fall season that began Aug. 17.

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The Cyclones return players who scored 12 of last season’s 13 goals, as well as 32 of 35 points – including seniors Klasey Medelberg, a forward from St. Louis, Mo., and Emily Steil, a midfielder from San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The Cyclones’ top defender, senior Jordan Enga of Ankeny, also returns to lead the Cyclones in 2018 against a roster of opponents that includes eight 2017 NCAA tournament teams.

“We are looking forward to another challenging non-conference schedule,” head coach Tony Minatta said. “We gained valuable experience from last year and will be able to draw from that this season. The schedule also prepares us for the Big 12, which is once again poised to be one of the best conferences in the country.”

It’s needless to say that hopes are high for the 2018 Iowa State football team, which last season went 8-5 with signature victories at No. 3 Oklahoma, against No. 4 TCU on Homecoming, and over No. 19 Memphis in the 2017 AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Third-year head coach Matt Campbell says he was thrilled with the resilience his team showed and the strides it made in 2017, but that there’s even more room to grow.

“I was really anxious to watch the response of our football team coming back in January from some of the lessons we learned a year ago,” Campbell told reporters at Big 12 Media Days in July. “It’s been really fun to watch the leadership of our football team and the growth of our team…go in positive directions.”

Zigging and zagging in all sorts of positive directions is All-American running back David Montgomery, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, who was named to the preseason Doak Walker Award and Maxwell Award watch lists for the nation’s best running back and overall college football player, respectively.

And Campbell hopes Montgomery will be aided in 2018 by improved offensive line play – an area he says has been a challenge for the past two years but is improving with four returning players who accrued significant game experience last season.

Other notable Cyclone returners include all-Big 12 junior defensive tackle Ray Lima, all-Big 12 sophomore tight end Chase Allen, all-Big 12 senior cornerback Brian Peavy, and preseason all-Big 12 junior defensive end JaQuan Bailey.

Quarterback Kyle Kempt also returns for an encore senior season after receiving an extra year of eligibility from the NCAA. Kempt’s auspicious first career start on Oct. 3, 2017 was the talk of college football after he led the Cyclones to a 38-31 win at Oklahoma.  53

Calendar  Cyclones Everywhere:

 On campus &

Sept. 21: Young Alumni Happy Hour at the Des Moines Social Club Oct. 4: Find the Wine Corn Maze young alumni event Nov. 20-25: ISU Neighborhood Tree at Festival of Trees and Lights MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Feb. 15, 2019: Cardinal & Gold Gala, Prairie Meadows

Sept. 21: Wendy Wintersteen formally installed as the 16th president of Iowa State University, 10:15 a.m., Stephens Auditorium Oct. 20-21: Spirits in the Gardens, Reiman Gardens Nov. 29 – Dec. 1: Art Mart, MU Nov. 30: Winterfest, ISU campus Dec. 14: Graduate College Commencement Dec. 15: Undergraduate Commencement

Sept. 18: Fall Engineering Career Fair, Scheman Sept. 25: Fall Engineering Career Fair, Scheman/Hilton Sept. 26: Fall Business, Industry and Technology Career Fair, Hilton Oct. 8: College of Ag & Life Sciences Fall Career Day, Lied Rec Center Oct. 12: ISUAA Career Webinar – “Networking” Nov. 14: ISUAA Career Webinar – “USA Jobs and the Federal Hiring System”

 Cyclone Athletics

 Arts and entertainment

Sept. 15: Football vs. Oklahoma Sept. 22: Football vs. Akron Sept. 29: Football at TCU Oct. 6: Football at Oklahoma State Oct. 13: Football vs. West Virginia Oct. 27: Football vs. Texas Tech Nov. 3: Football at Kansas Nov. 10: Football vs. Baylor Nov. 17: Football at Texas Nov. 24: Football vs. Kansas State

Through Oct. 19: Unpacked: Refugee Baggage, Christian Petersen Art Museum Sept. 23: Steve Martin & Martin Short, Stephens Sept. 24-28: Mystical Arts of Tibet: Tibetan Monk Mandala Sand Painting Exhibition, MU Oct. 4: The Illusionists, Stephens Oct. 22: Capitol Steps, Stephens Oct. 30: Something Rotten! Stephens Nov. 13: Cinderella, Stephens Nov. 30: Noël, Stephens Jan. 31: Kinky Boots, Stephens

Des Moines

 Cyclones Everywhere Nov. 17: Cyclone tailgate at ISU vs Texas football game, Austin

 At the ISU Alumni Center Sept. 15: Cyclone Central Tailgate Sept. 22: Cyclone Central Tailgate Oct. 13: Cyclone Central Tailgate Oct. 20-21: Young Alumni Council fall meeting Oct. 25: ISUAA Board of Directors fall meeting Oct. 26-27: Homecoming events Oct. 27: Cyclone Central Tailgate Nov. 10: Cyclone Central Tailgate Nov. 24: Cyclone Central Tailgate

around Ames

For all Cyclone sports schedules, go to www.cyclones.com

 Alumni travel See the world with the Traveling Cyclones!

The ISU Alumni Association is sponsoring nearly 50 trips from which to choose in 2019, both domestic and international. Here are two examples:

• Classic Europe Grad Trip, May 16-27,  Homecoming 2018 Oct. 21: Homecoming Parade, downtown Ames Oct. 26: Honors & Awards Lunch & Ceremony, Scheman Oct. 26: Homecoming Happy Hour, Alumni Center Oct. 26: Homecoming Pep Rally, Alumni Center Oct. 26: Homecoming CYlent Auction Oct. 26: ExCYtement in the Streets, Mass Campaniling & Fireworks Oct. 26: All Greek Alumni Reunion Oct. 26: 50-year Gold Medal Ceremony Oct. 26-27: Alumni Band Reunion Oct. 26-27: ISU Alumni Center 10th anniversary celebration Oct. 27: Homecoming Saturday Oct. 27: Cyclone Central Tailgate, Alumni Center Oct. 27: Football vs. Texas Tech 54

 Careers

2019: An unforgettable voyage through England, France, Italy, and Greece for new ISU alumni age 25 and under. (A great graduation gift!)

 Awards Oct. 26: Honors & Awards Lunch & Ceremony Dec. 1: Nominations due for Wallace E. Barron Award, Faculty/Staff Inspiration Award & STATEment Makers For criteria and to submit a nomination for ISUAA awards: www.isualum.org/awards

 Find more events online • Tuscany by the Sea Bike Tour, Sept.

18-24: Spin through the rolling countryside of central Italy.

To see where in the world Cyclones are going in 2019, go to www.isualum.org/travel.

 Lifelong learning

Campus Calendar: http://event.iastate.edu/ ISU Alumni Association: www.isualum.org/calendar Homecoming: www.isualum.org/ homecoming Cyclone Athletics: www.cyclones.com Reiman Gardens: www.reimangardens.com Iowa State Center: www.center.iastate.edu University Museums: www.museums.iastate.edu Lectures: www.lectures.iastate.edu/

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