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THE MAGAZINE OF M AR IE T TA COLLE G E
Renaissance City ALUMNI REDISCOVER THE PIONEER CITY
ALSO: Internships provide crucial educational element for students Stoney’s legacy still felt on campus
PHOTOS BY PETER FINGER
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vening walks along The Mall, watching impromptu intramural games being played in the Hermann Bowl, being pelted with acorns by the zillion squirrels nesting in mature oaks while walking to class, celebrating with friends after bringing your A-game during finals week, realizing that your four years at Marietta College went by in the blink of an eye — these are moments that every Pioneer shares. No matter how long you’ve been away, your Marietta College experience forever links you to a Long Blue Line of talented professionals and caring citizens. You are a part of Marietta College’s history, and you’re always welcome back.
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t wasn’t long before Diane and I discovered our favorite place in the President’s Home. If you happen to be in the neighborhood on a nice evening — and it doesn’t have to be perfect — you will likely see us on the west porch enjoying dinner. We are glad to say we feel completely comfortable in the residence that has been called “home” by 10 Marietta College presidents since it came to the College in 1937. The College is fortunate to have many distinguished buildings on its beautiful campus, and the Wilcox-Mills house — the President’s Home that sits on the corner of Fifth and Putnam streets — is certainly among them. Diane and I are honored to live in the home and have endeavored to make this beautiful structure a site of social life on campus. We love opening our home to alumni, students, employees and the community. Since our arrival in July 2012, Diane has regularly invited visitors to sign one of our guest books, all of which will be placed in the College PRE SI D E N T BRU N O O N L I N E archives eventually. As a result of her diligence twitter.com/PresidentBruno on this front, we know that we recently hosted instagram.com/PresidentBruno our 100th event at the house, a dinner with facebook.com/MariettaCollegePresident the leaders of Marietta’s Student Government Association. This certainly was not a coincidence! When advised of the upcoming milestone, the SGA leaders specifically asked to be our 100th guests, and this seemed wholly appropriate. We have had more than 2,600 guests sign the book, and the events have been divided among students, employees, alumni and the community. The student events range from small dinners, to large receptions at which all students are welcome, to picnics with specific student organizations or clubs. One enterprising student, clearly a member of many campus organizations, contends he had eight dinners at the house in the last academic year! We haven’t consulted the guest book to confirm this, but he certainly seems comfortable during his visits. We have also endeavored to be good neighbors, and have twice placed the house on the local Tour of Homes, an annual December event designed to raise funds in support of the Betsey Mills Club. In one busy weekend, we hosted an alumni reception for 150, an initiation ceremony for a student honorary society and the Tour of Homes with 180 guests. That’s nearly 400 guests in a 48-hour period. The house is part of campus, but also part of the community. Therefore, we have made the house available to local nonprofit organizations for fundraisers. And during the winter holiday season, we have opened up the house for local agencies to host parties. Whenever we have any group over to the house, we love to share its history. For example, did you know the home, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1822 by Henry P. Wilcox, Marietta’s eighth postmaster? Mr. Wilcox left Marietta only a few short years later, and the house belonged to a series of owners until Col. John Mills, treasurer and generous benefactor of the College, purchased it in 1837. Col. Mills and his wife, Dorothy Webster Mills, expanded the house dramatically by adding a rear wing with room for a bedroom and kitchen, while still maintaining the original Georgian and Greek Revival elements seen today. The home remained in the Mills family until the College acquired it in 1937. During the “Mills Period,” the house was the site of many noteworthy events, including the 1910 visit of President William H. Taft, during which he spoke in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the founding of Marietta College. Of course, I mention all of this to convey that we very much enjoy hosting alumni when they return to campus for their class reunions, for Homecoming or just to marvel at the beautiful Marietta campus. Now that you know where to find us, I hope you’ll take the time to visit. Diane and I look forward to welcoming you back to Marietta College. 2 < FA L L 2 0 1 4
Chair Barbara A. Perry Fitzgerald ’73 Vice Chair George W. Fenton Secretary William H. Donnelly ’70 Treasurer Dan Bryant Roger D. Anderson ’79 Anna (Ann) Bowser Bailey ’87 Robert M. (Bob) Brucken ’56 Joseph W. Bruno T. Grant Callery ’68 Christopher Cortez ’71 Patricia G. (Pat) Curtin ’69 Harry H. (Hap) Esbenshade III John B. Langel ’70 Matthew J. Macatol ’97 C. Brent McCurdy ’68 Michael Moffitt ’91 Michael Milone Kathleen Mitchell Murphy ’82 Cathy A. Percival Leonard M. (Randy) Randolph Jr. ’65 Jason C. Rebrook ’96 Ronald E. (Ron) Rinard ’72 Toni M. Robinson-Smith Michael J. Salvino ’87 Edgar L. Smith Jr. Charles (Chuck) W. Sulerzyski Elliott Thrasher ’62 James J. Tracy ’79 Dale L. Wartluft ’63 Jo Ellen Diehl Yeary ’76 Patricia (Patti) Kral Zecchi ’71 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Matthew B. Weekley ’81 Vice Chair Andrew D. Ferguson ’95 Timothy J. Bennett ’85 James P. Brady ’92 Brooke A. Exley ’11 Frank D. Fleischer ’71 S. Jason Gromelski ’98 John E. Hopkins ’65 Robert S. Johnson ’05 Tia Knowlton Lane ’98 Matthew J. Macatol ’97 Kathleen Mitchell Murphy ’82 Jennifer Roach Offenberger ’86 Paula King Pitasky ’96 Jazmyn Barrow Stover ’06 Elliott L. Thrasher ’62 James J. Tracy ’79 Mark J. Vizza ’98 Tracy L. Zuckett ’96
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EDITORS Tom Perry and Gi Smith
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ART DIRECTOR Ryan Zundell
Harmar Tavern’s fried bologna sandwiches, late-night stops at Brownie’s Bakery and peaceful walks along the many brick streets are just as much a part of the Marietta College experience for generations of alumni as classes in Mills or late-night talks in Elsie Newton.
PHOTOGRAPHERS Robert Caplin, Ken Chamberlain (OSU/CFAES Communications), Mark Edward Dawson, Sam Droege (U.S. Geological Society), Peter Finger, Nate Knoble, Marietta-Washington Co. CVB, NCAA, James Regal, MaLisa Spring, Tori Taylor, Ryan Turnewitsch
For many alumni, one of the reasons they chose Marietta College was because of the quaint little
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chelsey Scott
city and community that surrounded it. Over the last few years, the Marietta and Washington County
PRESIDENT Dr. Joseph W. Bruno
community have focused on drawing visitors back to the area to rediscover what the Pioneer City
PROVOST Dr. Karyn Sproles
has to offer.
4 | M A RIE T TA S C E N E New and notable campus & alumni updates Long Blue Lines by Hub Burton
6 | JOURNA L > Helping Malawi > Cherishing late geology professor’s collection
10 | S K ILL BU ILDIN G Internships provide valuable experience to students
22 | P IO N EERS Athletic news
26 | DEVELO P MEN TS News from our Advancement Office
> A liberal arts look into the Great War > Caitlin’s kindness continues
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY MARK BENDER
29 | TH E LO N G BLU E LIN E Alumni class notes
CLASS NOTES Cheryl Canaday
INTERIM VP FOR ADVANCEMENT Angela Anderson ASSOCIATE VP FOR ADVANCEMENT Hub Burton M A R I E T TA The Magazine of Marietta College is published twice a year by the Office of Strategic Communications & Marketing. The magazine serves its readers by providing information about the activities of Marietta College alumni, students, faculty and staff through the publication of accurate and balanced content that informs and stimulates intellectual discussion. Text, photographs and artwork may not be reprinted without written permission of the Associate Vice President for Advancement at Marietta. CON TA C T U S Send address changes, letters to the editor and class notes to Marietta Magazine, 215 Fifth St., Marietta, OH 45750. Fax: 740-376-4509 Phone: 740-376-4709 | 1-800-274-4704 Email: alumni@marietta.edu
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> COMMUNITY SERVICE Latrice Nelson ’18 (left) and Stephanie Monroe ’18 sign bricks, while Bruce Westbrook ’17 waits his turn during the first Saturday of Service this semester. The bricks were used to make a patio outside of the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business.
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Students, faculty and community members attended the opening reception of the Art Department’s Faculty Exhibition in Gallery 310 of the Hermann Fine Arts Center.
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n a fairly frequent basis, our counterparts from the University of International Relations in Beijing visit us on campus, and somehow during their hectic schedule, we find time to share information on how we in America go about the important work of fostering support for Marietta College. These particular encounters often prove to be very one-sided affairs, featuring what we assume to be economical translations of our best practices and experiences into Chinese, with the odd quesHUB BURTON tion or two reserved for the close of the program. However, this year, emboldened by the encouraging nods and smiles of our visitors and fairly certain I could not possibly breach any obscure protocol and touch off an international incident, I opted to stray from the script and ask a question of our guests. Because the concept of fundraising remains a work in progress in China, I aimed my query at the individual identified as their “alumni guy” and
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followed up on his question asking how we keep track of our graduates by asking him how he keeps track of his. What I discovered was that there is most definitely a universal language of alumni, if not international, relations! When I posed the query, a knowing smile came over his face, followed by a resigned shaking of the head. Through the interpreter I learned that it is hard, demanding work and all manner of methods are employed — even going so far as to invite alumni back to campus, gathering graduates by major and by year for special events and setting up different groups to participate in athletic competitions such as golf and tennis. Each of these programs includes a healthy dose of networking and the opportunity to discover new addresses, jobs and all kinds of useful information to help cement that connection between the university and its very special audience. Doesn’t that sound faintly familiar? You bet it does. And perhaps sometime in the future when the agenda permits, we can explore such striking similarities in greater detail. For now, the revelation will just have to serve to remind that for all of our differences, we really are very much the same in so many ways, including alumni relations.
> FOOTBALL GREAT > MOVING FORWARD Coulton Waite ’16 was one of 36 Physician Assistant students to participate in the annual White Coat Ceremony in the Alma McDonough Auditorium in October.
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t’s not something that an editor likes to hear. “There’s a hole,” says Art Director (we sometimes call him “Ryan”). As a former news journalist, by this point in the process of putting together the magazine, I’ve consumed copiGI SMITH ous amounts of coffee and eaten a 6-year-old’s weight in candy. The squirrels on campus would refer to me as “the twitchy one.” I begin to pepper him with questions. “Where’s the hole? How big is it? Can we preview something in that spot? Is the hole too big for an ad? Are you going to eat that Kit Kat? Is that the last Kit Kat?” Thankfully, TP (Human Resources calls him
Marietta College’s all-time winningest football coach, Joe McDaniel, was recognized during the Homecoming festivities this fall. Former players in attendance, including Eric Scheider ’78 (center), signed a Pioneer football helmet that was given to Coach McDaniel.
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“Tom”) refilled the candy jars a week earlier. Back to the hole … “We have no letters,” Art Director says. “Yes, Page 5. Nope, no letters to the editor,” I say. “Maybe it’s time for you to write something,” TP says, “like a column. A regular column.” Regular? Regular sounds like an invitation to write about my cat, or candy, or both. “OK, I’m going in,” but before I could share my idea, “Tom” clarifies the whole column thing. It has to be about Marietta College “and, no, by Marietta College, I don’t mean you get to substitute your cat’s name (which is Big Bud Cowboy, in case you were wondering) with ‘Marietta College.’ You need to write about the actual college.” Oh, OK, change of plans. You will not have to read about my cat, candy, coffee or my cat in this edition of Marietta Magazine. Instead, you’ll be treated to an interesting story about the city of Marietta (and why we want
YOU to come back for a visit). You’ll also learn about three go-getter students who successfully completed internships in fields they’d like to pursue as professions. I followed one of those students — Katie Buchanan — to Baltimore to watch her in action as she began her summer role as an intern with the National Aquarium. During a follow-up interview on campus, she introduced me to the constrictor that lives on the third floor of the Rickey Science Center. It was a very brief conversation. You also might be interested in learning that our Regional Association Program is soon to grow in numbers and that plenty of your classmates have reached out via Class Notes to let us know what they’ve been up to since graduating. Now, as for that space formerly known as “the hole,” my co-editor, TP, will be happy to know that I didn’t fill it with a gripping cat story, or candy wrappers, or with strategically placed coffee circle stains … this time. M A R I E T TA > 5
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or many undergraduates, nailing down exactly what they want to do professionally is something that takes years to decide. That wasn’t the case for Jessica “Jessa” Herron ’13. “Throughout college, when anyone asked what it was I wanted to do, my response was to work for an international nonprofit supporting communities and children in Africa,” she says. “And here I am!” “Here,” for Herron, is in Liwonde National Park in Liwonde, Malawi, where she is the international volunteer coordinator for the H.E.L.P. Malawi organization. The Cleveland, Ohio-based nonprofit stands for Hope, Educate, Love and Protect Malawi, and clings to the mission of developing a pathway for poor children living in rural areas of Africa to have access to and success in secondary school. The focus of this preparation is to teach the children strong English skills. Once a child is accepted into secondary school — the equivalent of high school — H.E.L.P. Malawi provides a scholarship to pay for that education. Herron, who earned a degree in Political Science and certificates in Leadership Studies and Teaching English as a Foreign Language, will remain in Malawi for a year, recruiting volunteer English teachers from around the world to teach in the program and to collaborate with government teachers. She also plans and implements afterschool activities aimed at reinforcing the students’ English speaking skills. The work is similar to what she did during a servicelearning trip to Ghana in 2010. Dr. Janie Rees-Miller, Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the English as a Second Language Program, was a faculty advisor during that trip. “Jessa’s few days of teaching experience during the MC service learning trip to Ghana gave her a taste of the challenges of teaching children in rural Africa,” ReesMiller says. “The TEFL Certificate courses that she subsequently took emphasized the importance of adapting teaching to fit the situation, including the age, level and cultural background of the learners as well as the availability (or not) of materials.” In Malawi, the third poorest country in Africa, children are not entitled to free high school education. Students in H.E.L.P. Malawi’s Standard 8 program who pass the high school proficiency test earn full scholarships to high school. “Because of the additional education opportunities H.E.L.P. provides, 27 students from last year’s Standard 8 class were accepted into high school and received
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scholarships. The most rewarding experience I’ve had thus far was watching the list of students’ names who were accepted into secondary schools be posted on the wall outside of our head teacher’s office, and seeing the entire community rush to the door to see which students were going to have the opportunity to continue their education,” Herron says. “The excitement was overwhelming.” Herron’s experiences as an undergraduate student at Marietta College reinforced her goals of working internationally and pursuing opportunities to help populations in need. “Political Science allowed me to focus on learning more about governmental and nongovernmental organizations, along with international affairs,” Herron says. “Most of all, my professors at Marietta always allowed me to pursue my interests. When I approached Dr. (Mark) Schaefer, my Political Science capstone professor and advisor, about wanting to write my Capstone on Human Trafficking in the United States, he encouraged me to do so and never once tried to influence me toward a more quantitative political topic. Dr. Rees-Miller, my TEFL professor, also played a huge role in inspiring me to excel in her classes and seek out opportunities for teaching English.”
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n just about every room on the third floor mentor’s home and pole barn just outside the city of the Brown Petroleum Engineering and of Marietta to begin the daunting task of moving a Geology building, there’s a touch of Dr. Dwayne lifetime of academic study and hobby into their ve“Stoney” Stone’s legacy. hicles and onto Marietta College’s campus. “Dave and Wendy, who were both students in Drawers filled with fossil and mineral samples Stoney’s classes, cleared out his house while I was he unearthed during his countless paleontologiin Utah,” Freeman says. “I went with them aftercal digs, dollar store dinosaur toys he bought to ward to help with the contents in the pole barn.” help teach young children, his field trip guidebooks Jeffery says the moving process took from May and geology books line tables in the capstone through August to pack, move, sort, store and room, and special shelving installed in room 307 recycle Stoney’s his estate left to the Geology showcase his finer dinosaur models — a lifetime department. of research and collecting from a man dedicated “The collection will be used for educational disto his field and to teaching are being preserved plays, classroom examples, capstone research, by colleagues in a place where Stoney shared and swapping with museums and individuals for his passion for rocks, minerals and fossils with things we’d like to have,” generations of budding Jeffery says. “The fosgeologists. Some of sils are from a lifetime those students became of his collecting. He just his colleagues in the loved to hunt for and find department at Marietta things. He sold fossils College. during his grad student With Stoney, there years, so he went out in was never a mystery as search of and traded for to whom he would befossils all the time. When queath his massive geolhe was a prof, he’d arogy and fossil collection range field trips just so after his death. > SP EC I A L C O L L EC TI O N Dr. Dave Jeffery holds one he could collect.” “He’s told us for forThe fossil collection of the many fossils bequeathed to the Geology Department ever that the Geology he bequeathed to the by the late Emeritus Professor Dwayne “Stoney” Stone. Department would reGeology Department is ceive his fossils, minerals so large, a storage room in the lower level of Mills and his academic books and files,” says Veronica Hall houses the greatest portion of his lifetime of “Rocky” Freeman, who teaches in the Geology fossil collecting. One of Stoney’s items, however, Department. remains in Rocky Freeman’s office. Though the Geology faculty knew their mentor “I have his hammer,” she says. “I also have Roger was sick, they were not prepared for his death last Kirkpatrick’s, E.B. Andrews’ and (Samuel Prescott) December. Hildreth’s. One day, I’d like to create a display of “I still catch myself sometimes, thinking that hammers from former geology professors.” I’ll ask Stoney about something,” Freeman says. One aspect of Stoney’s collection that meant the “My husband (Professor Dave Freeman ’82 was most to Rocky Freeman was never found among hired in ’92 and Stoney retired in ’93. They needed his things. someone to teach his classes, so they asked me. “Stoney kept what he called his ‘Brain Book’ He was a wonderful mentor to me. He and Roger in his front pocket,” she says. “They’d contain (Kirkpatrick ’57) really guided me those first few sketched location maps, his notes and little drawyears. Even though Stoney officially retired, he ings of formations or dig sites. They held what didn’t stay away. He wanted to make sure the dewas on Stoney’s mind at the time. We looked and partment was OK.” looked but we never found any of his Brain Books. During the summer break, about six months after The pages were him — and I’d gladly give up all of his death, faculty members Dr. Dave Jeffery ’89 the rest of his collection just to have them.” and Wendy Bartlett ’74, both former students and colleagues of Stoney’s, were invited into their late GI SMITH
“One of the reasons I know Jessa will be successful is that she is up front and honest in admitting difficulties,” Rees-Miller says. “Instead of giving up, Jessa uses the difficulties as motivation to work hard to understand and find ways to cope with challenges.” Herron credits the support of her family, friends and the Marietta College community for helping her reach the first of many professional goals. “They led me all the way to Africa and I am beyond thrilled,” Herron says. “I plan on working with H.E.L.P. Malawi for at least a year; after that, I could choose to sign on for another year or return home in search of a new adventure. I would love to continue to work in the nonprofit sector, but am willing to see where life takes me. I am confident that my Marietta education and professional experiences will help me succeed in the future!” GI SMITH
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s he waited with his family in a row of seats at Thomas Hall, Dr. Matt Young was bowled over by what he saw. The room was filling up with students, employees and community members who wanted to learn more about World War I. There were so many people that extra seats had to be brought in from the hallway. With so few Americans still alive who actually remember World War I, it’s easy to assume an hour-long discussion about “Marietta in the Great War” might not pique the interest of many. Instead, the room filled up with more than 100 people who were all curious to learn more about a war that began a century ago in July. “Anniversaries often prompt renewed interest in an event, and with this being the centennial of the outbreak of the war … it is not surprising to see a desire among the public to reflect on the meaning of an event,” says
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Young, McCoy Associate Professor of History. “It helps us to see what has changed, and what has not, over the passing of time.” On Sept. 22, Young was the first of seven presenters in the College’s new World War I Colloquium “Exploring the Great War.” Dr. Nicole Livengood, who is organizing the series, says the College was able to provide the series after receiving a grant from Walmart’s Community Giving program. “I am pleased to see the way the community came together. There were people from all walks of life, and I particularly enjoyed the questions and comments as people shared their knowledge of Marietta’s history and of World War I,” says Livengood, Associate Professor of English. “This interest suggests that the Colloquium is filling a need, and it’s wonderful that Marietta College and its liberal arts foundation can begin to address it.” Dr. Katy McDaniel, McCoy Associate Professor of
“This interest suggests that the Colloquium is filling a need, and it’s wonderful that Marietta College and its liberal arts foundation can begin to address it.”
History, was scheduled to deliver the second presentation, “The Same Old Moon: The Gender Divide and the Western Front in World War I,” on Oct. 27. McDaniel notes that while women often believed they were at least “under the same old moon” as the soldiers they loved, men typically did not share the same sentimental idea. “Looking through poetry, memoirs and war letters, we can see the sharpened distinction between what women and men of the ‘lost generation’ experienced and come to understand the way this shaped gender relations in the modern era,” McDaniel says. Other speakers include Dr. Mark Sibicky (Intelligence Testing in WWI: Keeping America Safe from the Menace of the Morons), Dr. Douglas Anderson (The Music of World War I), Dr. Jim Jeitler (Chemists Go to War: Where Skill and Courage Count), Dr. Mark Schaefer (Woodrow Wilson and the Origins of Neo-Conservatism in American Foreign Policy) and Provost Karyn Sproles (Portraits of Pacifists: British Conscientious Objectors to the Great War). Young says he is looking forward to attending other presentations and seeing how the discussion and conversations evolve over the academic year. “I’d like to know more about what others find compelling about the First World War — for me, it stands as a transition into a new age, and connected to that, there is a kind of loss of innocence,” he says. “I think about all the young draftees who stood together to get their picture taken on the steps of the Armory, preparing to leave home. Many of these men had never been outside of Washington County before, and they had no idea of the horrors they would encounter in trench warfare along the Western Front.” TOM PERRY
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t’s been almost a year since the Marietta College community was devastated by the tragic loss of sophomore Caitlin Yager, the 19-year-old rising star at Marietta who died in a tragic car accident on Dec. 26, 2013. Now a group of her friends and classmates are launching a line of greeting cards, fittingly named Caitlin’s Cards, to keep Yager’s memory and charitable spirit alive. Yager was an active member of the Honors Program, Student Alumni Association, Student Senate, Sigma Kappa sorority and cross country and track & field teams. But despite her busy schedule, Yager always found time to send her friends and teammates personalized notes and letters, and this is how they want her to be remembered. “Receiving a handwritten note from Caitlin was bound to brighten your day and illustrated her love for people and thoughtfulness of others above her own life stresses,” says Annalee Haviland ’16 (pictured above, right), who was Yager’s close friend and roommate. Haviland worked with Yager’s parents to get the project started and later brought on Caroline Sigmon ’17 (pictured above, left), another one of Yager’s friends, to create the designs. The pair hosted a forum on campus to generate ideas for the cards from the College community. “I designed the cards with the idea of focusing on Caitlin’s many sayings and quotations,” Sigmon says. “My favorite card is the ‘It’s chill’ card. ‘It’s chill’ was one of my favorite Caitlin sayings. She often used it sarcastically and sentimentally, which speaks to her personality as a whole.” Caitlin’s Cards went on sale over Homecoming weekend in October and are available on a cash-only basis at the Bookstore. All proceeds from Caitlin’s Cards benefit Marietta’s Alternative Winter Break program. Yager not only participated in the program as a student, but also was involved with the foundation of the Alternative Winter Break Scholarship. “Caitlin would be thrilled about the project because it encourages empathy, selflessness and thoughtfulness among the students and community, which she emphasized and expressed each and every day,” Haviland says. “But I’m sure she would probably sum up her approval with her catchphrase, ‘It’s chill.’” CHELSEY SCOTT
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s Katie Buchanan ’15 took a brief tour behind the scenes at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, where she would intern full time during the summer, the Australian Aviary habitat filled with a cacophony of birdcalls. King parrots Mr. King and Elvis noticed the redheaded stranger walking around their enclosure and were serving as a warning system to all the other birds in the exhibit. “The birds followed her wherever she went and made sure to sound the alarms whenever she was on the move,” says Mallorie McDermott, the intern mentor in the bird-keeping exhibits. “But, by the next day, after she was wearing one of our blue staff shirts, they recognized her as a part of their area.” Buchanan, who is a Biology major at Marietta College, spent the majority of the summer between her junior and senior years in Baltimore interning at both the National Aquarium and the Maryland Zoo. “In this field, you have to do internships,” Buchanan says. “The only way to learn how to do this job is to actually do the job. There isn’t a book you can read or a class you can take that will prepare you to work in a zoo or aquarium.” On her return to campus, Buchanan reflected on what she experienced during the summer and concluded her future career will involve working in a zoo or aquarium setting. Student internships are common for college students who want a better understanding of how their education can be applied in the workforce. Many of Marietta’s majors require students to complete one internship before graduation. “Internships provide valuable experiential education, for sure,” says Hilles Hughes, Director of Marietta College’s Career Center, “but they also benefit students in other ways. Internships are nothing new, by any means. Apprenticeships have always been a tradition in America — you not only receive instruction and hands-on training, you also receive mentoring from someone who has experience in that field.” During the 2013-14 academic year, which includes the fall, spring and summer semesters, there were 106 students who completed internships for academic credit. Slightly more than half of those internships were unpaid. Additionally, more than half were through nonprofit corporations or charities. Since 2008, there have been nearly 800 student internships completed for academic credit. “All internships for academic credit result in some form of report by the student and the employer,” Hughes says. “But even the internships that aren’t for academic credit have a tremendous impact on a student’s education, and provide crucial experiential education.”
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ike many Marietta students, Michael Fahy ’15 has completed internships — both to gain experience for his professional résumé and to strengthen his chances of getting into a quality graduate school program. As an undergraduate, he applied for an internship working with the U.S. State Department three different times. The Political Science and Asian Studies major learned about the internship through his advisor, Dr. Mark Schaefer. Just after classes ended in May, he learned he finally made the cut. That meant he had to adjust his work plans for the summer, purchase airfare to China and find a place to live within two weeks. “I was one of, I think, 5,000 applicants for a State Department internship,” he says. “There are only 700 or 800 internships available and you could be placed all around the world. On May 30, I found out that I was going to be working with the U.S. Department of State at the Consulate General of the United States in Chengdu, China. I was placed within the Regional Security Office.” His job was to support the physical security of the consulate. One of his roles was to draw up a security plan for a Fourth of July event, which included organizing a security force that consisted of U.S. Marines and locally employed Chinese guards. “I was also tasked with analyzing recent trends of terrorism in China for Procter & Gamble, which is one of the largest operations in China,” Fahy says. “I spent two weeks evaluating the overall terrorist threat in China, and all that work came down to a half-hour presentation.”
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The experience highlights another benefit of student internships: networking. “I was able to meet the head of security for Procter & Gamble in China and make connections with people in the State Department,” he says. Working in China also strengthened his Chinese language skills. “I’ve taken six semesters of Chinese and I also studied abroad in Beijing my Spring 2013 semester. It was studying abroad that really improved my language skills,” Fahy says. Fahy appreciates what the internship did for his career path and knows his professional goal is to work in intelligence analysis for the U.S. government or in the private sector. “My job search starts today because, in this line of work, the security clearance process takes eight to nine months before they’ll even consider interviewing you. I’m also interested in graduate school for international affairs and international security studies,” Fahy says. “The internship didn’t pay, so it was a financial burden on my family. But it came down to this: If I didn’t make the investment, I would definitely regret it. There are many things you can learn in the classroom. What I did this summer isn’t one of them.” The Marietta College community recognizes the benefits that internships provide. Alumni and friends, such as Denise and Mike Salvino ’87 and Sally Evans, created annual grants that help students pursue this type of professional development. The Salvinos established the Robert E. Evans Internship Fund, which supports for-profit internships. Sally Evans annually funds a Marietta-based civic engagement internship that supports McDonough Leadership students. So far, nine students have benefited from the two programs.
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As a child, she was always interested in law enforcement. “But when I first entered college, my goal shifted and I wanted to be a doctor. It was my first Intro to Biology course that let me know that law was in my future,” she says. She transferred her freshman year to Marietta and began focusing on political science. During the spring of her first year at Marietta, she interned for the Marietta Municipal Court, sitting in on morning traffic cases and helping the clerks with paperwork. “That pushed my desire to be a prosecutor,” she says. Her first internship was for academic credit, which meant she had to pay a course fee, submit a final report and have her supervisor submit an evaluation of her work. By the end of her sophomore year, she learned she would be staying on the campus of George Washington University with 40 other interns working for various Congressional offices. This time, it was not for academic credit, but it was a paid internship. “It was a very good experience for me because I had to learn to live away from my family, near people I didn’t know at first and in an environment that wasn’t familiar to me,” she says. “It gave me a lot of confidence in myself.” The internship in D.C. exposed her to professionals who had law degrees but were working in a political setting. “Half of the people working in Congresswoman Fudge’s office were lawyers,” Cornett says. “They were using their law degrees in different ways, from the legislative director to the chief of staff. It confirmed that I would rather be in a courtroom.” Next summer, Cornett hopes to intern a little closer to her home near Cleveland, Ohio. “That will make my parents happier. They didn’t mind me working in Marietta, but they were a little wary about me being alone in D.C. I feel confident that I’ll find something in Cleveland, especially after my first two internships,” she says. “The internships definitely gave me more confidence in what I want to do and the education I’m receiving at Marietta.”
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hanell Cornett ’16, who interned with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in U.S. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge’s (11th District, Ohio) office in Washington, D.C., gained a deeper understanding of what a law degree can offer.
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FI EL D WORK MaLisa Spring ’14 (above) conducts research at a Cleveland site during her first year in The Ohio State University’s Entomology Graduate Program. Spring plans to publish three scientific papers related to her Senior Capstone project completed at Marietta.
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“By the end of my field work, I had collected 2,756 bees from three Washington County sites, including the College’s Beiser Field Station, (the Washington County) Career Center, and on campus,” Spring says. “We found 130 species, eight of which were state records, which means they were never previously found in Ohio. There were several other county records in addition to the state records. Why is this significant? When you study diversity and population, you’d better understand the overall range of different organisms. In Ohio, we’re supposed to have 400 bee species. Research will help better understand the current distributions in previously unstudied areas.” Lustofin says that Spring’s research may reveal that Washington County is a bee diversity hot spot, and that her work may in fact be a springboard for much more research. Spring’s work also involved identifying the pollen loads that the bees carried, which shows not only what different species of bees are pollinating certain plant types, but how effective they are at pollination. Because Spring had experience collecting samples, her advisor didn’t have to show her the process. Lustofin did assist her student during many actual bee collections, particularly when Spring spent six weeks in Thailand the summer before her senior year for a separate research project with Marietta College faculty and students. Lustofin and Spring began the sampling process together in order to keep it consistent, then Lustofin collected bees alone for the six weeks her student was out of country. “The rest of the summer, she sampled by herself,” Lustofin says. “In the fall, MaLisa went with me or with intro biology students to help her. We offered extra credit to them and made sure that MaLisa also talked to them about her project and capstone process in general. Or occasionally we split the days — she might set up the traps and I would collect the next day or vice versa. It was pretty labor intensive, taking several hours before dawn. For a brief period when the dorms were closed, she even spent the night at my house so that we could get up early, about 4 a.m., to go collect.” If collecting more than 2,700 bees wasn’t difficult enough, Spring then had to focus on identifying different species. “Although I confirmed identification of her specimens, MaLisa did all the identification herself,” Lustofin says. “We deliberately used different sources for identification, just to make sure that we were correct. Additionally, MaLisa reached out to a listserv group and was able to send some bees to Sam Droege at the U.S. Geological Society in Beltsville, Md., for confirmation. Actually, we lucked out there, because one of Sam’s researchers has a sister nearby and so she actually came into our lab on a Saturday to meet with MaLisa and me to confirm some of our IDs. MaLisa also arranged to come out to the USGS lab during senior week in May.”
Both Lustofin and McShaffrey helped connect Spring with bee experts and brought her to conferences where she could meet with entomologists who were experts on bees. One of those contacts, whom she met during a statewide conference, became her current graduate school advisor. “Her trip to Maryland was last spring during Senior Week,” McShaffrey says. “She went to Maryland to identify more bees, even though her Capstone was officially over, the grades were in and her classmates were partying. She also started her summer work at OSU literally the day after graduation.” Meeting with Droege was a true pleasure for Spring. “I went to his lab and he set aside some time to double-check my collection,” Spring says. “He sees a lot of collections and he said he liked mine because it had such diversity. He took photos of some of my samples and confirmed that I had a gynandromorph, a half-male, half-female bee.” Spring is currently working on publishing three papers from her senior research project, focusing on the bee diversity aspect, the gynandromorph bee, and the pollen loads of her collection. All the while, she expects to spend the next three years completing the graduate program at Ohio State and then possibly enter a doctoral program. Her dedication to entomology and the amount of work she puts into her research don’t come as a surprise to her Marietta professors. Rather, these are points of pride. “MaLisa gave a talk at the Ohio Natural History Conference last spring,” McShaffrey says. “She followed a speaker who is very well known in the state and who gave an excellent talk. I was sitting with some people (who didn’t know that MaLisa was my student) who comSAM DROEGE/USGS mented on how much better her talk was than the preceding one (as well as others given that day), and one person commented that they didn’t know Marietta had a graduate program. MaLisa was a standout in that way. She also got a prestigious fellowship at OSU and won a competitive national award for undergraduate research in entomology.” Lustofin tells a strikingly similar story to McShaffrey when asked about Spring. “Honestly, working with MaLisa was more like collaboration with a colleague than it was advising a student — she is that self-motivated and enthusiastic,” Lustofin says. “When we went to the International Pollinator Conference in August at Penn State, more than one of my friends there commented to me, ‘I didn’t know Marietta College had grad students.’ At least one person there thought this was her Master’s dissertation project — she’s that good.” GI SMITH
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n a late summer morning, Jane Wickham Higgins ’70 sat with a small group of friends on the porch of a quaint bed and breakfast overlooking the city of Marietta. “It’s been about five years since I’ve been back,” Higgins says. “We have a lot of family history in Marietta. My mom and grandma and aunt went to Marietta College, and we have ancestors buried at St. Luke’s (Episcopal Church).” Though Higgins grew up in Marietta and knew the community quite well before earning her degree and moving away, she enjoyed returning to the area for a short vacation to experience the touristy side of the city — a side of Marietta that is ever present to current students but is often overlooked during the time crunch of undergrad years. “We visited Campus Martius Museum and plan on seeing the downtown area,” she says. “We just planned on having a nice mini-reunion for a few days in Marietta.” For many alumni and students, one of the reasons they chose Marietta College was the picturesque little city that surrounds the campus. Each year, Smithsonian Magazine highlights a group of the best small towns to visit in the nation. This year, the Pioneer City was named sixth on that list.
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eather Allender, President and CEO of the Marietta Community Foundation, says the area has much to offer in terms of vacation destinations as well as investment opportunities. The Marietta Community Foundation is a nonprofit that manages and distributes donated funds to various community organizations. “In 2009, our president and CEO was Bill Thompson,” Allender says. “Around that time, he began thinking about how the Community Foundation really needed to do more to support the city of Marietta. We needed to take action to help the actual city, which would also benefit the surrounding area.” From that, The Good Life Marietta was formed. “Our goal is to bring people back to Marietta to live, retire, work and play,” says Allender in reference to the marketing initiative that was established to promote the city. Visitors have their fair share of places to stay, including five bed and breakfasts, more than a dozen hotels, vacation rentals and five camping areas.
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MA R I ET TA SC EN E From the buzz at the Town House, to unique downtown shopping, to the grandeur of the Sternwheel Festival, residents and visitors always have something to enjoy in the city.
“As students, maybe we weren’t as tuned into what the city had to offer,” Hancock says. “But now you see things in a different light. Marietta is more than just a lovely memory, it’s a place worth returning to.” In addition to the Marietta staples, there are newer attractions to the area, including The Adelphia, which offers dining, drinking and live music on the weekends, Austyn’s restaurant, which is across from the Lafayette Hotel, and the Marietta Aquatic Center, which is a large water park open during the summer months. Visitors looking to make the most of their time can arrange specific tours that can include a detailed guide to the area’s covered bridges, a ride on Marietta’s Trolley, or the Hidden Marietta Tour, which ranges from a Ghost Trek walking tour to a Hidden Places, Secret Spaces look at the city. Knowlton says so many people refer to Marietta as a historic city. Alumni can spend days visiting the places that make up that history, including the Mound Cemetery and the many museums that celebrate the city’s story. “One of the reasons I hear why students choose Marietta College is because of the city,” Allender says. “They liked what’s available to them here and they liked that it has a small-town atmosphere. We’re still here — why not come back?” GI SMITH
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“I HAVE GREAT FONDNESS OF MY MARIETTA COLLEGE EXPERIENCE TO THIS DAY. I ALWAYS REFLECT ON THE LIBERAL ARTS APPROACH THAT I GOT AT MARIETTA. THE FACT THAT I GOT TO EXPERIMENT WITH ELECTIVES LIKE A FRENCH REVOLUTION CLASS FROM DOC HARTEL, MY ADVISOR, AND AN EVENING LEADERSHIP CLASS … COURTESY OF NCAA
I STILL USE LESSONS FROM THOSE CLASSES IN MY TEACHINGS. THOSE CLASSES WERE SOME OF THE BEST EXPERIENCES I EVER HAD.” — JOHN PARSONS ’94 Arizona in 1996 and in Medical Informatics from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2001. He also completed a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Arizona State University. “While I had been in the classroom for a while, over the years I had become very interested in health policy,” says Parsons, who is originally from Euclid, Ohio. He served as the Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee for the Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association, where he had an opportunity to work on policy and legislation, which strengthened this interest. “The Sport Science Institute has a primary responsibility for the health and safety of student-athletes at NCAA institutions.” Among the SSI’s responsibilities are handling of NCAA’s drug testing and researching injury trends in an effort to provide expert advice and assist with the legislative process. “There’s no other position like this in the country that could offer me the experience that I’m getting now,” Parsons says. “It’s an unbelievable opportunity.” The only drawback Parsons can see to the job is living in Indianapolis while his wife, Andrea, remains in Phoenix, where she works as the Director of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. “My wife has a great job and it made sense for her to stay there,” Parsons says. “There are logistical issues with a commuter marriage and it has been challenging, but it’s only this kind of job that could justify that type of upheaval.” His mentor and good friend Paul Spear ’64, who chaired the Sports Medicine program and worked at the College for 36 years, says seeing former students become so accomplished in their fields is satisfying.
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“He was a very good student and a role model for the program,” says Spear, who reconnected with Parsons in June at a conference in Indianapolis. “He’s very dedicated and a smart thinker. This was a great opportunity for him and I know he will be successful.” Marietta’s current Sports Medicine Chair, Associate Professor Sam Crowther, says he is thankful that Parsons has returned to campus over the years to speak with students in the Athletic Training program. “I am very proud of John in regard to what he has accomplished since leaving Marietta. He was at the right place at the right time in Arizona when he was able to hook up with my, as well as John’s graduate school mentor, Gary Delforge,” Crowther says. “Dr. Delforge was asked to develop an Athletic Training Education program for A.T. Still University. Dr. Delforge saw the potential in John and asked him to join. John became one of the leaders in the Athletic Training Education program.” Crowther even attended education conferences where Parsons was lecturing. “So the former student was able to teach his former teacher,” Crowther says. Parsons says it was the lessons at Marietta, including the one taught to him by the crew coach, that have allowed him to reach his dream job. “I have great fondness for my Marietta College experience to this day,” Parsons says. “I always reflect on the liberal arts approach that I got at Marietta. The fact that I got to experiment with electives like a French Revolution class from Doc Hartel, my advisor, and an evening Leadership class … I still use lessons from those classes in my teachings. Those classes were some of the best experiences I ever had.” TOM PERRY
Never too busy for Alma Mater Dr. Matt Macatol ’97 Dr. Matt Macatol ’97 is busy … like crazy busy. Between his dedication to his family and a jam-packed schedule as a pathologist with Marietta Health System, Matt wasn’t looking for additional responsibilities. But when his alma mater reached out about serving as an Alumni Trustee on the Board, Matt was ecstatic to join the leadership team at Marietta College. Matt is an active member of the Board of Trustees and gives in many ways to his alma mater, including representing the Office of Alumni Relations at College events. Matt also provides generous financial support to Marietta through annual gifts to The Marietta Fund and to a scholarship that was created in his mother’s memory. Matt understands, like many other alumni, that giving back is important. When Dr. Macatol speaks on behalf of the college, he likes to remind students and alumni as well “that the four years at Marietta College are going to be some of the greatest experiences of their lives, but also let them know that their time on campus is going to go quickly and they need to cherish it.” Like many alumni and friends, Matt gives of his time, treasure and talent to serve his alma mater. Matt is The Marietta Fund. To find out how You are The Marietta Fund and make your gift today, visit www.marietta.edu/Give.
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lunch with these passionate donors, and talk to them about why Marietta is so important to them, is inspiring. We are so thankful for alumni and friends like the individuals we met with in Cleveland.” The first lunch was held at the Crop Bistro & Bar, which is located in the old United Bank Building. Guests dined with the Brunos in the vault of the former bank. >
I NTIMATE GATHERING President’s Circle members in the Cleveland area were treated to a special lunch in a former United Bank vault. To learn more about The Marietta Fund, please visit www.marietta.edu/Give.
“This is not meant to be a subliminal message or anything,” President Bruno told the group as they sat down to eat. President’s Circle members are critical to the College, as their support accounted for more than 70 percent of The Marietta Fund total last year, which eclipsed the $1.85 million goal. Membership is granted to donors who give at least $1,500 annually. Angela Anderson, Interim Vice President for Advancement, says she hopes to keep the private lunches intimate and continue to host them in unique venues like a bank vault. “The President’s Circle members are important to the success of The Marietta Fund and to Marietta College,” says Anderson, who also lunched in Cleveland. “This first event in Cleveland went well and we plan to do more of these around the country. This is our
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his Marietta days, including a radio show he hosted with Rich
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Galen ’68 and Ernie Hartong ’70 that typically ended in a late-
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night meal with some co-eds, who weren’t supposed to be out after
As the conversation flowed in the dimly lit vault, it became very clear that everyone there had a deep love for Marietta College.
10 p.m. “I got a great education, but I also had a lot of fun,” Schwartz
Pat Tatom ’76, who retired as President and CEO of WCI
says. “I used to take a coaching class with Coach (Bill) Whetsell
Steel Inc., enjoys telling people how he came to Marietta from
and I got to know all of the athletes. So when I went to games I
Fairfield, Conn., each fall after playing minor league baseball in
knew everybody and had a great time.”
the Oakland A’s organization. “For me, Marietta was a special place and still holds a meaningful place in my life,” says Tatom. He and his wife, Susan ’74, have
Marietta Fund Director Brandee Norris enjoys hearing donors’ stories, but says a big reason for the lunches is for President Bruno to provide an “inside” look at what’s happening at the College.
been consistent contributors to The Marietta Fund. “Coach Schaly
“We are pleased to offer this opportunity to meet with our loyal
and I developed a great relationship and he asked me to help with
donors to let them know what’s going on at Marietta, while gaining
the baseball team at Marietta. That was a wonderful experience and it boils down to the people. Many of the friends I made at Marietta remain close friends to this day.” Alan Schwartz ’68 enjoyed telling the group in Cleveland about
their insights on moving the College forward,” she says. “Based on the conversations at the event, we can tell this is something our donors are really interested in, and they’re looking forward to additional events.” TOM PERRY
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DEFINING MEMORIES OF COLLEGE LIFE
ROBERT CAPLIN
A M ar ie t t a Mo m ent
Ricci Davis ’14 ALUM NA IM PACT S LOCAL CHI LDRE N’ S EAT I N G H A B I T S B I O GR A PHY Ricci Davis ’14 earned a degree in Psychology and minored in Environmental Studies at Marietta, and was also a 2012 and 2014 Varsity Heavyweight 8+ Dad Vail Champion for Women’s Rowing. She is the 2014-15 Live Healthy Kids coordinator, serving elementary schools throughout Washington County, Ohio.
Seated behind a neat pile of student and parent surveys on her desk, Ricci Davis ’14 eyed the stack of work and smiled. “Yeah, it’s going to take me a while to enter all this data,” says Davis, who is the AmeriCorps VISTA at Marietta. “I keep reminding myself that it’s all worth it.” While it takes years for some alumni to have that special experience when they reconnect with the College, for Davis, her Marietta Moment happened within weeks of joining The Long Blue Line when she was hired as the coordinator for the Live Healthy Kids program through AmeriCorps/COMCorps. Though the program is based at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, she coordinates a satellite program from Marietta College’s Office of Civic Engagement, which is a branch of the McDonough Leadership Program. Her role in the program is to plan and teach nutrition and cooking curriculum to elementary school children in Washington County. But first, she has to gauge the individual and family eating habits of the children she will teach during the 201415 school year. To do that, she had to input pre- and post-survey comments provided by families and children who had gone through the course last year. “I first got involved with Live Healthy Kids my senior year at Marietta,” Davis says. “One of my fellow rowers, Erika Gill ’15, told me about it. She
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said, ‘Ricci, you need to do this. You love kids and you’re always trying to eat healthy and stay fit.’ She was right; I really loved being a part of this program.” By the time her senior year was coming to a close, it was clear the Marietta community needed to have its own satellite office teaching children what they need to eat to stay healthy and how to prepare the meals themselves. Already knowing what Live Healthy Kids involved, Davis was excited to take on the new AmeriCorps/COMCorps role, which will last through June 15, 2015. Growing up in Marietta, Davis knew the community like the back of her hand. As a standout rower on the high school team, she even knew the rivers. But one aspect of the town she wasn’t too familiar with was Marietta College. “It was its own sub-community,” she says. “I really never had a reason to be on campus growing up, so when I decided to attend Marietta, it was a new experience. Marietta allowed me to stay near my family, which was very important to me, and it offered a rowing program and my major. I know how lucky I am to be here.” As a student at Marietta, she was also able to learn more about the issues affecting her hometown, namely the hunger-combating initiatives aimed at the local youth. This fall, she’s teaching six classes in three different schools. In the spring, she will teach in three of the five schools that feature the Live Healthy Schools program. The program purchases ingredients for healthy meals, which Davis will help children learn how to prepare during a hands-on class once a week. “It’s hard to see how much of a difference you are making when you’re sitting at a desk for hours going through surveys or when you’re writing up lesson plans for a class,” Davis says. “But when you’re in a class and a child thanks you for teaching him about strawberries, saying he never had a strawberry until you gave him one — that hits home pretty fast.” GI SMITH
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TH E L O N G BL U E L I N E > C L ASS NOTES W. Robert Moseley ’51 and his wife, Donna, celebrated 66 years of marriage on Aug. 1, 2014.
John R. Ghublikian, Jr. ’67 (Lambda Chi Alpha) has been elected to the Corporation of the Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, Mass.). John taught at Wentworth from 2002-13 after retiring from a successful 36-year career of teaching English to public middle and high school students. During his teaching time at Wentworth, John was instrumental in developing an “Executive in Residence” program in the management and facilities management programs. As a corporator, John will serve on this key advisory group for advising and advancing the Institute.
David L. Pierce ’73 (Alpha Sigma Phi) and his wife, Pam, invited the groomsmen from their wedding party to join them at a beautiful villa in Ficulle (Umbria) Italy for their 30th wedding anniversary celebration in September 2013. The friends all arrived first in Rome and while there toured the Necropolis under the Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican before traveling to the villa in Ficulle. They took the opportunity also to take day excursions to Siena, Orvieto and Assisi while there. As always, the Marietta College flag went with them! Pictured at the villa (left to right) are William F. Maher ’73 (Alpha Sigma Phi) and Denise Maher; Patty and William P. Kenney ’73; James B. Fryfogle ’73 (Alpha Sigma Phi) and Wendy Keck Fryfogle ’75 (Sigma Kappa); David and Pam Pierce; and Vickie and Jeffery L. Koerber ’73 (Alpha Sigma Phi). Edward A. Eiskamp ’69 (Alpha Tau Omega) and Cheryl Bambach Eiskamp ’70 (Alpha Sigma Tau) and their friends and classmates, Andrew H. Wolf ’71 (Alpha Tau Omega) and Barbara Priscilla Wolf ’71 (Alpha Sigma Tau), took a trip back to Marietta for a summer getaway this past July. They spent three days revisiting old sights and getting acquainted with new sights, and in spite of so much that had changed, the College and town still made them feel warmly welcomed. Raymond F. Voelker ’67 (Alpha Sigma Phi) has been reappointed as a Probate Magistrate by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut. Ray, a retired probate and child court judge, was one of four former probate judges appointed to the Probate Magistrate Program, which has statewide jurisdiction and helps facilitate the prompt disposition of contested cases. He also continues to serve as a probate mediator to help parties resolve their differences without litigation. Ray and his wife, Lynn Jewett Voelker ’68 (Chi Omega), live in Cheshire, Conn.
Sharon A. Moynahan ’69, after retiring from the University of New Mexico Libraries in 2006, is enjoying travels with her husband from Albuquerque to visit their daughter and son-in-law in Colorado. Marcus R. Canaday ’79 has devoted his career to disability advocacy, working for the past 12 years in the longterm care policy and service delivery arena for the state of West Virginia. Currently, he is the director of the Take Me Home, West Virginia Program, a Money Follows the Person program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The purpose of MFP is to support state Medicaid programs in providing people who need longterm care a greater choice of where to live and receive needed services and support. Take Me Home, West Virginia plans to, over its demonstration period, transition more than 600 persons with physical disabilities or serious mental illnesses from facilitybased living to their own homes and communities.
Gary A. O’Korn ’83’s son, John O’Korn, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound sophomore, is the starting quarterback at the University of Houston this fall. Last year, he placed tops among all true freshmen by throwing for 28 touchdowns and 3,117 yards, and was voted second team true freshman All-American. Gary is looking forward to watching the Houston Cougars football games regularly on ESPN this fall.
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T H E L O N G BL UE L I N E > CL ASS NOTES Jill L. deBroff ’93 has taken the position of a conservator at the Heinz History Center’s new Museum Conservation Center, which just opened in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 2014. Coincidentally, the new Conservation Center is housed in a building built in 1917 for the Marietta Chair Company. Roberta Chamberlin McWilliams ’97 recently retired after 14 years with Edward D. Jones Company in Marietta, Ohio.
Kathalyn T. Taylor ’04 (Alpha Xi Delta) married Jeffrey Caspersen on June 28, 2014, at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Pictured against the backdrop of the beautiful, blue Crater Lake are (left to right) Jon Petit, Elizabeth Holway, Rev. Mary Ellen Deckelman, Beth Taylor, Preston G. Taylor ’74 (Katy’s father), Virginia Baron, Jeffrey, Katy, Jeff Caspersen, Debbie Caspersen and Mike Taylor. Katy and Jeffrey live in Bend, Oregon.
Nicholas R. Pottmeyer ’03 joined several other extended Pottmeyer family members at the Society of Petroleum Engineers student chapter annual spring meeting and golf outing at the Marietta Country Club this past April. All graduates of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geology, pictured are (front row, L to R): Nick, Ashleigh D. Pottmeyer ’08, Daniel C. Pottmeyer ’74, Dustin A. Pottmeyer ’10; (back row, L to R): Alexander L. Pottmeyer ’08, Taylor J. Pottmeyer ’14, Heath M. Pottmeyer ’12 and Sean J. Pottmeyer ’13.
Kenny A. Cramer ’06 has been selected as a featured artist at the HOLIDAY RAWk 2014 showcase presented by RAW Columbus (Columbus, Ohio) on Dec. 1, 2014, at Shadowbox Live in downtown Columbus, where he will debut his new series focused on the urban renewal and revitalization of the city’s downtown riverfront. Kenny, an illustrator and graphic artist, is currently the graphic designer for the Office of Special Events at Columbus Recreation and Parks, where he is responsible for designing and illustrating marketing materials for such programs as Jazz & Rib Fest, Rhythm on the River, FountainSide and Grand Illumination. One of his recent projects was the creation of “The Scioto Mile Falls: A 3-D Visual Adventure” at Bicentennial Park for the 2013 summer season.
> L UKE AGNINI ’02
Alumnus switches coasts to become crew coach at Georgetown Luke Agnini ’02 never felt the need to jump at any head coaching opportunity that came his way. As an assistant rowing coach at University of CaliforniaBerkeley, Agnini loved what he was doing. “I was given a lot of responsibilities at Berkeley and a lot of autonomy running the freshman program,” Agnini says. But when the opportunity to come back
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East and run his own program at Georgetown University presented itself, Agnini knew that the time was right. “It has been an adjustment, but Georgetown is a great brand and has a beautiful campus. I feel very much at home,” says Agnini, who took over the Hoyas’ program in August. “I’m very lucky to have this opportunity to make a good living doing something I really like.” Agnini says the Jesuit values that Georgetown follows fit right in with the type of program he wants to run. “What I’m preaching to my team about accountability and what I’m telling recruits about the program aren’t just buzz words at Georgetown — it’s
actually what this place is all about,” he says. Agnini moved to the Washington, D.C., area with his wife, Katharine, and their 2-year-old son, Henry. He says they are all looking forward to having more traditional seasons. “Don’t get me wrong, California was nice, but I’m looking forward to having autumn again and winter again,” Agnini says. “This also gets us closer to the grandparents and other in-laws.” Agnini did say there was a bit of irony in him joining Georgetown: “My father-in-law, Jim Chess, and brother-in-law, Peter Chess, are both Georgetown graduates.” TOM PERRY
TH E L O N G BL U E L I N E > C L ASS NOTES
Kiara L. Divine ’06 and Chad A. Kavander ’06 (Lambda Chi Alpha) were married April 12, 2014, at Buckeye Lake Winery in Thornville, Ohio. More than a dozen Marietta College alumni and friends attended their wedding. Kiara and Chad said they “got more than a great education at Marietta College. We also made lifelong friends and we are so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives.” Pictured are (left to right) Thomas L. Archer ’06, Matthew J. Peloquin ’06 (Lambda Chi Alpha), Stephanie Esparza Peloquin ’06 (Alpha Xi Delta), Anne M. Falatach ’09 (Alpha Xi Delta), Amie L. Weis ’06, Chad, Kiara, Bobbi J. Greene ’06, Ashley Volpe Bachman ’06, Alisha Yoder Numbers ’04, John D. De Moya ’06, Tiffany Elliott Tucker ’06 (Alpha Xi Delta), Brooke N. Godby ’06 and Stephanie Houston Arcuri ’06.
Danielle McClelland ’04 (Sigma Kappa) and Michael C. Shrimpton ’05 were wed on Sept. 6, 2014, in Huron, Ohio, with several Marietta College classmates and Sigma Kappa sisters in attendance. Pictured (from left to right) are Lindsay R. Shuba ’05, Elisabeth Ann “Bethann” Chordas ’03, Sarah-Brooke Mankins Nutini ’06, Lauren A. Kickel ’05, Wayne “Scotty” Stocker ’04, Mark D. Meili ’04, Natalie R. Chorey ’04 and ’06, Lindsey Swank Meili ’04, Elizabeth K. “Liz” Leary ’04, Erin Getty Dolhi ’04 and ’06 and Andrew J. Dolhi ’05. Also in attendance, but not pictured, were Katherine “Katie” Burrows Stewart ’04, Candice Y. Miller ’04 and Brian Q. Shrimpton ’13. Danielle and Michael are currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Michael is still very active with baseball. He is the assistant varsity coach for baseball at Sycamore High School, and also plays on an adult league and gives private instruction. Danielle is still active with Sigma Kappa, serving as a national officer for the Marietta College chapter.
Michael R. Joliat ’06 (Lambda Chi Alpha) and Patrick C. Quinn ’06 (Lambda Chi Alpha) were married on Aug. 2, 2014, at the Quinn family farm in Hardyston, N.J., with many friends and alumni in attendance. Allan R. Fordham ’07 (Lambda Chi Alpha) served as Michael’s best man. Joining in the celebration were (left to right) Ashley K. Deas Plummer ’07 (Alpha Xi Delta), James D. Plummer ’07 (Lambda Chi Alpha), Melissa Hawdon Huggins ’06 (Chi Omega), Rachel A. Cass Kauser ’06 (Alpha Xi Delta), Alexander S. Haskins ’08 (Lambda Chi Alpha), Patrick, Hillary Hoff Haskins ’08 (Sigma Kappa), Michael, Holly M. Bader ’06 (Chi Omega), Allan, Elizabeth J. Lehman ’08 (Chi Omega), Kieron M. “Michael” Dey ’08 (Lambda Chi Alpha) and Eric J. Finn ’06 (Lambda Chi Alpha). Patrick is currently a graphic design and marketing specialist at Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., a corporate law firm, while Michael continues his work as the principal of Tailoj Marketing, a boutique marketing and promotions firm.
Megan Schreck Yunn ’06 and Michael Yunn welcomed their second son, Lincoln, on Aug. 15. The couple also have an 18-month-old son, Wyatt. Megan was recognized at Homecoming this year with the Outstanding Young Alumna Award. She is the founder of Beverly’s Birthdays, a nonprofit organization that provides birthday celebrations for at-risk and homeless children in the Pittsburgh area. Megan is also the director of volunteer programs at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa.
Jessica Craig McDaniel ’08 and Chad M. McDaniel ’08 welcomed daughter Regan Elizabeth McDaniel on May 2, 2014. Regan is the granddaughter of Chris M. McDaniel ’79 and the great-granddaughter of former head football coach Joe McDaniel. She is definitely destined to join her many family members as part of The Long Blue Line! Shara B. Postle ’10 shared some Disney movie magic time with Britney Koser Simone ’09, Patrick M. Simone ’08 and Nancy A. Flowers ’10 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios last July.
Katie E. Woolf ’10 has accepted the position of head softball coach for Gordon College, a liberal arts college of more than 1,700 students in Wenham, Mass., just north of Boston. Katie resides in Beverly, Mass. M A R I E T TA > 31
T H E L O N G BL UE L I N E > I N MEMORIA M
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> 1930s Elinor Ayers Anders ’39 (Chi Omega) of Germantown, Md. (8/21/2014). Alma Gorrell Wharton ’39 of Dover, Fla. (8/6/2014).
> 1940s Barbara Howland Reckhow ’44 (Chi Omega) of Durham, N.C. (9/24/2014).
> 1950s James W. Wagner ’50 of Mansfield, Ohio (7/31/2014). Joan Hollister Farson ’51 (Sigma Kappa) of Naples, Fla. (8/22/2014). James E. Rittenhouse ’51 of Bristow, Va. (8/10/2014). Edwin G. Savasten ’53 (Alpha Sigma Phi) of Silver Spring, Md. (7/7/2014). Survivors include his wife, Barbara Morton Savasten ’53 (Sigma Kappa).
Thomas M. Shedan ’53 of Parkersburg, W. Va. (8/3/2014).
John B. Schmidt ’67 of Columbus, Ohio (7/30/2014).
Dolores Emrod Wagner ’53 (Chi Omega) of Dayton, Ohio (8/4/2014). Survivors include her brother, Herbert A. Emrod ’61.
Larry A. Stiles ’69 (Tau Kappa Epsilon) of Waynesville, Ohio (9/26/2014).
Robert S. Edwards, Jr. ’55 of Kenwood, Ohio (10/16/14).
Stephanie Deats Dorward ’75 (Chi Omega) of Kansas City, Mo. (7/20/2014).
Edgar W. McCauley ’59 of Newark, Ohio (9/2/2014).
> 1960s Rodney I. Streng ’60 (Alpha Sigma Phi) of Flower Mound, Texas (3/30/2014). Ronald E. Dennis ’61 of Marietta, Ohio (9/27/2014). Lois Meals Diehl ’61 (Alpha Xi Delta) of Lafayette, La. (9/28/2014). John C. Williams ’62 of Dayton, Ohio (8/22/2014).
> 1970s
> 1990s Lucille A. Hupp ’94 of Marietta, Ohio (9/18/2014).
> 2000s John M. Stack ’08 (Delta Upsilon) of Loveland, Ohio (9/26/2014).
> 2010s
Mary Stoehr McIntire ’75 of Marietta, Ohio (8/23/2014).
Grant M. Bauer ’12 (Delta Tau Delta) of Marietta, Ohio. (9/5/2014).
Sue Austin Parchesco ’75 (Sigma Sigma Sigma) of Dighton, Mass. (9/16/2014).
Zane M. Carter ’13 of Wellsville, Ohio (8/8/2014). Survivors include his father, Marvin Q. Carter ’80.
> 1980s Katherine Ellis Foster ’84 (Sigma Kappa) of Birmingham, Ala. (9/21/2014). Dennis L. Sturm ’85 of Marietta, Ohio (8/19/2014). Survivors include his daughter, Alyssa L. Sturm McIntire ’13.
Waddles turning tragedy into opportunity to help others
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NATE KNOBEL
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rlee Grace Waddle never got the chance to see her father coach football at Marietta College, and she won’t join The Long Blue Line. But the heartbreaking story of Andy and Kerry Jean Waddle’s late daughter is one that the Pioneer football coach feels compelled to share. “We want to raise awareness and do everything we can to help save the lives of other babies … and stop the pain that new parents feel when they lose something so special, so fast,” says Andy Waddle. Arlee Grace died at birth on Sept. 12, 2014, from a pregnancy complication — vasa previa, which is a condition in which the fetal umbilical cord blood vessels run close to the external orifice of the uterus. When the baby moves into the birthing position, the vessels may rupture. Statistics show it occurs in one of every 2,000 pregnancies and carries a mortality rate of 50 to 95 percent in undiagnosed cases. In a Facebook post, Kerry Jean wrote, “Vasa Previa, if caught by doing a sonogram, will result in a healthy baby being born at 35 to 36 weeks.” Unfortunately, Kerry Jean didn’t have the test, but the experience has inspired the Waddles to make sure that test becomes more common. “I pray that we can change the future of others with Vasa Previa by raising awareness,” Kerry Jean wrote. Andy’s schedule immediately after the loss of his daughter was altered a bit, but he has done his best to return to normal — at least for the time he spends at Don Drumm Stadium and with the team. But there’s always a reminder of the daughter he held for only a few hours. The team has
placed her initials, AGW, on the backs of their helmets. “This is also my family and they have been wonderful in their support of Kerry Jean and me,” Andy says. “I am so proud of all of them. Kerry Jean and I love every one of them and we appreciate all of the kind words and notes we have received.” TOM PERRY
Marietta to expand number of Regional Associations
ROBERT CAPLIN
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hen the idea of creating a Regional Association program for alumni first came about, organizers knew it was best to test the waters in different regions before taking the plunge into issuing a charter. “We were definitely trying to focus on areas where we have the greatest concentrations of alumni and, from that research, we identified certain lead cities,” says Ann Nicely ’03, Associate Director of Alumni Events. Of those cities, Washington, D.C., was the first to receive its formal charter from the College. In the coming months, the College plans to celebrate two additional groups. “New England is in the works,” says Aleece Dye ’11, Assistant Director of Chapter and Young Alumni Programs. “Houston will be following that.” Dye says the cultivation of these future Regional Associations went a little differently from the Washington, D.C., group. She began working with interested alumni in Houston and in the New England area. “I have alumni I’m working closely with but the actual Regional Association Volunteers aren’t going to be named until we officially establish,” Dye says. “The volunteers have terms that they serve — the Lead Volunteer has a four-year term. For me, it didn’t make sense for that term to start until the chapters were formally established.” Prior to chartering regions, the Alumni Office will plan at least four events to make sure that a chapter would be sustainable. “This will also help promote the fact that a group is forming,” Dye says. “It’s important for alumni to work with our office instead of going out on their own to form these groups because we can help reach more people in your area. We want these alumni groups to draw as many new faces as possible and to last.” These pre-chartering gatherings also help the Alumni Office identify core individuals who will likely serve on the volunteer committees. Nicely says future Regional Associations will include the Mid-Ohio Valley, Northeast Ohio, Central Ohio and Pittsburgh. “Each city is different,” Nicely says. “Each city has its own unique way. For the New England Regional Association, we are working to host events in different cities but we are focusing a lot on Boston because there is such a large population of our alumni there.” Dye says alumni who want to learn more about various events being organized in their cities should join the specific regional association Alumni Facebook group and check the Marietta College Alumni site at longblueline.marietta.edu for registration. GI SMITH
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from Marietta College, but his alma mater remains a cherished part of his life. Jamie, who also earned a Master of Arts in Education from Marietta, credits the institution with providing him the foundation that has led to a successful and rewarding career. As the Director of International Student and Scholar Services at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., he oversees student advising. Jamie has been honored with multiple campus distinctions, twice for significant contributions to the LGBTQ and Ally community. Jamie worked at Marietta for seven years as Coordinator of International Student Programs, and at Brown University in Rhode Island. He lives in Boston with his fiancé, Greg McCarthy.
> “I was certainly out of my comfort zone when I boarded a plane for the first time in my life to fly to Italy for a semester abroad. But I knew even then that the experience would be transformative. Studying abroad changed my career trajectory and cemented my passion for lifelong learning about others. I began to develop my intercultural competence, defined by researcher Dr. Darla Deardorff as the knowledge, attitudes and skills requisite to communicate and behave effectively and appropriately in an intercultural setting. I continue to strive toward a more ethno-relative approach to the world by understanding my own culture as experienced in context with other cultures, and I am passionate about helping others bridge differences in race, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc. to accomplish the same.”