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IN THIS ISSUE:

Truth Behind Gettysburg Address P.J. O’Rourke’s Boomer-tinted Glasses Art Historian on Shroud of Turin

John Thompson ’62, who studied painting at Miami, is an internationally known illustrator, painter, and professor of art at Syracuse University. Often inspired by assignments abroad, he has completed a series of paintings of Morocco, including this acrylic titled “The Brass Seller.” These days he’s capturing various scenes of New York City’s Central Park in oils and watercolors. John and his wife, Darren, split their time between an apartment that overlooks Central Park and a home in Syracuse, N.Y.

Staff Editor Donna Boen ’83 MTSC ’96

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Senior Designers Donna Barnet Belinda Rutherford

Web Developer Suzanne Clark

STORIES

18 Boomers’ Ballad

Copy Editor Beth Weaver

Satirist and Baby Boomer P.J. O’Rourke ’69 gleefully takes on the role of generational jester.

Issue Design Consultant Lilly Pereira University Advancement 513-529-4029 Vice President for University Advancement Tom Herbert herbertw@MiamiOH.edu

Boomer-tinted glasses (see page 18).

26 One Across Two Down

Find puzzling out crosswords fun? This one’s for you. Lots of trivia about the 101-year-old game, plus a puzzle to solve.

IN EACH ISSUE

Office of Development 513-529-1230 Senior Associate Vice President for University Advancement Brad Bundy Hon ’13 brad.bundy@MiamiOH.edu

Send address changes to: Alumni Records Office Advancement Services Miami University 926 Chestnut Lane Oxford, Ohio 45056 alumnirecords@MiamiOH.edu 513-529-5127 Fax: 513-529-1466

ON THE COVER The man behind the puzzle, Andrew Reynolds ’10 loves to create crosswords, and he’s pretty darn good at it. Good enough to get his into The New York Times four times, so far. Cover photo by Jeff Sabo.

24 Four Drafts and Seven Edited Versions Ago …

Even Abraham Lincoln needed more than one rewrite to craft his now iconic address that almost wasn’t.

Alumni Relations 513-529-5957 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations Ray Mock ’82 MS ’83 mockrf@MiamiOH.edu

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2 From the Hub

The importance of play.

3 Back & Forth

To and from the editor.

WMUB at 570 KC on the AM dial (see page 48).

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Crazy, new bumper ball is all the rage.

30 Love & Honor

5 Along Slant Walk

Campus news highlights.

18 young alumni return to Oxford to receive kudos for their achievements.

10 Inquiry + Innovation

32 Class Notes

12 Media Matters

46 Farewells

Shroud of Turin as art.

New works by alumni.

14 My Story Opus Web paper features FSC® certifications and is Lacey Act compliant; 100% of the electricity used to manufacture Opus Web is generated with Green-e® certified renewable energy.

16 Such a Life

“Potty cat” upsets house.

Notes, news, and weddings.

48 Days of Old

Dusting off a historical gem from the archives.

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The Seriousness of Play

By President David Hodge

This is bumper ball soccer, the newest and hottest game on campus. To watch a bit of video of the rather bizarre sport, go to http:// miamioh.edu/bumperball.

It’s even more fun than it looks.

You are invited to write to President David Hodge at president@MiamiOH.edu.

Follow him on twitter @PresHodge.

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When I saw that this Miamian’s cover story featured crossword constructor Andrew Reynolds ’10, I chuckled. I happen to love crosswords.

One of the many things I enjoy about them is that the clues often have double meanings. You have to kind of twist your mind a little to figure out the answer. I find that fun — and challenging.

Often, though, especially as you get further on in the week, crosswords include many cultural references and people that I simply don’t know. My sense is that more and more of these puzzles are being written by Millennials, who were born in the 1980s and ’90s. Can you say “generation shift”?

I’m a Baby Boomer, just like journalist P.J. O’Rourke ’69, who shares his sardonic wisdom in this issue’s “Boomers’ Ballad.” Born only a year after P.J., I grew up (literally) working with threshing machines. Current Miami students can’t even comprehend how far we’ve come in just a few generations.

It’s pretty amazing to me, too.

In the same article with P.J., Suzanne Kunkel, director of our Scripps Gerontology Center, shares several

fascinating facts from a report she co-authored, GenerAges: Generations As They Age. For example, my parents’ generation worked nearly 50 hours a week, usually on the farm, to buy a 15-cent gallon of milk and 40-cent pound of coffee.

Yet, they were also some of the first Americans to be allowed time for fun. Before them, youngsters were expected to grow up fast and help support the family.

Even when play started to be recognized and studied in the 1930s, researchers focused only on children because nobody believed that adults played.

Thank goodness that attitude has changed. But whereas children spend their playtime practicing adult roles, you and I are already living those roles.

Instead, our play allows for a much needed break from stress, according to Brooke Spangler, one of our psychology faculty, who leads classes during Winter College and Alumni Weekend on the benefits of playfulness in adulthood.

I enjoy physical as well as mental play. Both are significant to me. Crosswords and other word games, such as Catch Phrase, a favorite in my family, keep my mind active.

Physical play, such as broomball and bumper ball, cranks up my endorphins and keeps me happy — especially when my team wins. You may not have heard of bumper ball yet. It’s a rather bizarre form of soccer that is new to the U.S. I recently tried it with several willing students and loved it. The photo on this page and page 16 give you an idea of what it’s about.

Watching students tackle bumper ball, Quidditch, and everything in between, I appreciate the results of research by professors like Suzanne and Brooke that prove the positive benefits of play. Whether we’re 6 or 66 (my age), it fuels creativity, creates social bonds, and reduces stress, all good reasons to take play seriously.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

In Uber Drive The Wedding Planner Medical Training in 3-D

A Miracle with Every Breath

5 people can breathe again ’85 Schwartz thanks to surgeon Jeffrey and his transplant teams

Editors and their punchy verbs When my wife, Cynthia Riley Adams ’69, handed me Mary Schmich’s article on her editor Dave Burgin ’62 (“The Editor Who Hated Adjectives,” Fall 2014 Miamian), Cindy knew I would devour it. Mary’s description of Burgin could have been of the two editors I had as a rookie reporter on the city desk of The Cincinnati Post in the early ’60s.

Eddie Halloran was a bulky Irishman with his shirt draping out and a wry sense of humor. Leo Hirtl was a short, dapper Patton with no sense of humor.

Like Burgin, Halloran and Hirtl hated adjectives and adverbs, as well as long or complex sentences.

They loved punchy verbs.

Leo winged my first piece back onto my typewriter with the wrist action of a discus thrower. He wasn’t smiling; he rarely smiled.

He’d marked my copy with so much red it resembled a road map.

Eddie early on assigned me to report on the construction of Fort Washington Way, the distributor between downtown Cincinnati and

the riverfront. I’d used the architect’s Latin word for the ground cover on the distributor’s hillsides.

Eddie red penciled through the Latin, substituted “grass,” and muttered, “Nobody understands that Latin stuff anymore.” (I’ve used “stuff” in place of the actual word, which is unfit for this refined publication.)

Indeed, the newsroom of old, as Mary recounts, was the best writing classroom in America.

—Edmund Adams Cincinnati, Ohio As a former reporter, I found my interest piqued by Mary Schmich’s “my story” piece, “The Editor Who Hated Adjectives,” which focused on C. David Burgin ’62, her editor when she was a cub reporter at a small Palo Alto, Calif., newspaper.

I had to smile at these words regarding her subject: “Burgin was not an easy boss. Everyone who worked for him would agree.”

The words sum up my first editor after I returned home in the summer of ’68 from Vietnam, where I was a reporter and then editor for the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division’s weekly newspaper.

I went back to the same employer in Cleveland I had when drafted in 1966, but with a new national trade journal and a new editor.

It was a challenging adjustment for me to move from a relatively easy job in the Army into a demanding job in civilian journalism. The learning curve was steep and my editor’s patience was tested severely as I struggled to adapt.

After a few months, I finally satisfied my editor with my writing, and he deserves much of the credit for my successful progress.

During the training period, however, I remember saying to a fellow writer on our trade journal, “Did you ever get the feeling Pete (the editor) was the neighborhood bully when growing up?” He smiled in agreement.

—Louis Pumphrey ’64 Shaker Heights, Ohio License to park I was delighted to see the Ohio MIAMI U license plate in Class Notes (Fall 2014 Miamian).

My wife, Mary ’53, and I lived in Columbus in the early 1970s when the state decided to issue vanity plates.

I was able to secure the rights to MIAMI U and MIAMI 1, and they were on our two cars until we moved to Florida in 1980, at which time I gave the rights to Miami to auction off the plates.

One unexpected benefit to the plates was that when we drove to away football games and pulled up to a restricted parking area, quite often the guard at the gate looked at the plate and waved us right on in.

—Don Jameson ’51 Columbus, Ohio

Send letters to: Donna Boen Miamian editor 108 Glos Center Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056-2480 Miamian@MiamiOH.edu; or fax to 513-529-1950.

Include your name, class year, home address, and phone number.

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Toasted rolls and hot cocoa Delighted to see we know how to serve up great food. However, nothing will ever touch a hot cocoa and toasted roll at Tuffy’s.

It was a slightly Bohemian joint sunk halfway into the ground at the Tallawanda, an apartment building on the northwest corner of Tallawanda and High that Miami leased and eventually bought for housing. Lots and lots of carved initials into table tops, often put there by our classmates’ parents when they attended. If you were in a

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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Is this Cheating?

My 92-year-old father cheats. What’s worse, my 86-year-old mother

Anybody know a six-letter word for “rug”?

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cheats along with him. Sunday after Sunday, once they’re dressed for church, Dad takes the crossword section from the local paper, folds it precisely so, and fastens it to his clipboard.

Then they go to work. He fills in what he knows and passes puzzle and pencil to Mom. She erases some of his letters, since he can’t spell to save his life, and fills in more squares. When they’re stymied, they pull out a crossword puzzle dictionary, one of three within reach under the lamp table. Wait, I tell them … that’s cheating!

Although they protest, it sure seems like cheating to me. Still, it doesn’t stop me from typing in their crosswords’ more obscure clues on my iPhone to help them out. By the way, I now know that “obscure” is often a clue itself.

Talking with crossword creator Andrew Reynolds ’10 for this Miamian, I’ve learned a lot. For one thing, he doesn’t create, he constructs. And he does it because … ? He can’t help himself. His is a crossword compulsion. I asked him if he thought using dictionaries or Google was cheating. Well … not really, he says. It’s learning, right?

When he sees people struggling with his puzzles, he’s tempted to help them. No constructor wants solvers to give up.

Andrew says the difficulty’s not so much in the “answer words” as in the clues, especially those meant to misdirect. He uses The New York Times as his example. Times puzzles, especially later in the week, sometimes include difficult words, but most answers are usually basic vocabulary that anyone with a sixth-grade education would know.

“Once you see it, you slap your forehead and say, ‘Ah, I should have gotten that.’ ” Another thing I’ve learned is that everyone seems to know the name Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times crossword. So I did some homework and found an article Shortz wrote about how to solve a puzzle. Often asked if it’s cheating to use references, he responds by quoting Will Weng, a predecessor of his, “It’s your puzzle. Solve it any way you want.”

With that in mind, I invite you to read about Andrew and his crossword endeavors, and then turn to the back inside cover of this issue to solve the puzzle he’s created especially for Miamian readers.

As for cheating, here’s a parting thought from Shortz, “Is it cheating to call the Times’ 900 number to get answers? Well, of course! But what nobody knows won’t hurt you.” Sorry. Miamian doesn’t have a 900 number. I suppose you could call my mom and ask to borrow one of her dictionaries. —Donna Boen ’83 MTSC ’96

pinch, Tuffy (yep, the guy himself ) would carry you till you could come into some cash.

When it was really cold and awful, Tuffy’s was always warm and snugly bugly with the fragrance of cinnamon, butter, coffee, toasted rolls, and that glorious hot cocoa.

—Tom Kerns McKnight ’70 Washington, D.C. Different recollection I question Mr. Breitenbach’s recollection regarding seating in the Miami-Western Theatre. I entered Miami in 1959 and spent many evenings in the Miami-Western and the quaint and delightful Tallawanda (now the Princess).

Had I spent less time there, perhaps my GPA would have been better! I feel certain I would remember segregation in the theaters. I do not.

This does not mean Miami or Oxford were welcoming to AfricanAmericans. They were not. As a freshman I lived in McBride Hall and remember only a few AfricanAmerican students, all members of the football team and one student from Haiti. The fraternities were segregated, with only one black.

Jews also were pretty much excluded from all but their “own” fraternities. In the next three years, I lived off campus, occasionally ate at “townie” restaurants, and often heard derogatory talk about blacks, though they were not referred to by that neutral name.

Fortunately Miami, Oxford, and the entire country are better places for all of us, black and white, though there is still much to be done. To that point, I live about 5 miles from Ferguson, Mo. —Loren Grossman ’63 University City, Mo.

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Voiceful Awakening 2014 Effective Educator Tammy Kernodle demonstrates a different kind of vocal training

By Margo Kissell Tammy Kernodle is trying to draw students in her

“Enter the Diva: Women in Music” class into a discussion about the emergence of singer-songwriters Carole King and Joni Mitchell.

Their rise on the charts was set against a backdrop of an escalating Vietnam War, growing feminist movement, and other social change, she points out.

The students quietly take notes, keeping their heads down.

“Are we all praying?” says Kernodle, professor of musicology, whose quip elicits chuckles from her 52 students.

One wades into the conversation.

Then another.

The Miami University Dr. K challenges students to remember Alumni Association that their songs aren’t selected Kernodle for just about them. “So take responsibility for the 2014 Effective the carbon and spiritual Educator Award, imprints you leave on this world.” which recognizes “the people of uncommon quality who instruct, impact, and inspire.” Since 1983, the award has been given annually to these difference-makers, nominated by members of that year’s five-year reunion class; in Kernodle’s case, the Class of 2010.

John Killings ’10, assistant director of student advocacy and programming at Case Western Reserve University, nominated Kernodle for having a great impact on his life. He recalled taking her junior-level class “The Roots of Winter 2015

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“… no matter what song you sing, what life you live, do so loudly, clearly, courageously, and beautifully!”

—Tammy Kernodle, from her fall commencement address

Black Music” as a freshman and discovering he was unprepared to handle the course load and assignments.

“At that point in my college career I did not have the foundational knowledge of basic writing techniques and research skills to accomplish all of the required assignments,” he wrote in the nomination letter.

Kernodle scheduled an academic intervention to discuss his performance and assisted him in writing the thesis statement for his research paper. “She even offered to come in on the weekend to help me with understanding other course assignments,” he wrote.

“Her persistence and compassion provided an example to follow,” he said, noting that he now models that same approach with his students.

For Kernodle — called “Dr. K” by some students — the award is validation that she not only is having an impact in the classroom but made the right choice going into this field of study.

Kernodle earned a bachelor of music in choral music education and piano from Virginia State University and a master’s and doctorate in music history from Ohio State University.

She had planned to teach music in the public schools but made a discovery during her student teaching experience that made her change course.

“Because there was such a large population of African-American students I was dealing with, I really needed information

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that could relate various things musically to them and it wasn’t there,” she said.

“There were very few people writing about black composers of classical music.

You could find information on people like Michael Jackson, but these alternative voices just weren’t there.”

Mentors encouraged her to help bring about that change.

At Miami, her research focuses on various genres of African-American music, jazz, as well as gender and popular music.

Kernodle also has served as the Scholar-in-Residence for the Women in Jazz Initiative at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Mo., and has lectured extensively on the operas of William Grant Still and the life and compositions of jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams.

She wrote the biography Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, served as associate editor of the threevolume Encyclopedia of AfricanAmerican Music, and was senior editor for the revision of New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

The past two years she has kept busy as a consultant on the music exhibits for the Smithsonian’s National African-American Museum of History and Cultures, slated to open on the National Mall in the summer of 2016.

Back in Presser Hall, Kernodle and her class listen intently to audio clips of Mitchell and King singing to get a sense of the lyrics and their unique styles.

And she’s still nudging students to add their own voices to the class discussion.

“I’m trying to get them to understand that your voice is your voice,” said Kernodle, who gave the fall commencement address Dec. 12. She will be recognized for the Effective Educator Award at the Alumni Awards dinner Feb. 21.

To read her commencement address, “Life is like a Blues Song,” go to the online Miamian at www.

MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.

I’M GLAD YOU ASKED Miami was one of the first in the U.S. to offer intramural sports. It’s as popular as ever, so we asked:

What sport do you enjoy?

I recently tried the newest, bumper ball, with co-workers from the Howe Writing Center. I’d highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fun way to get some exercise.

Daniella Conti ’16, Middletown, Ohio, graphic design

I have made a lot of friends out on Miami’s soccer fields.

Travis Peraza ’15, Canal Winchester, Ohio, management information systems

Intramural Quidditch on Cook Field

Ultimate Frisbee. It’s a great team-building sport that will give you a few laughs with friends.

Jonathan Moritz ’15, Chesterland, Ohio, strategic communication

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Excellent field position: Making one of the largest single donations ever received by the athletic department, real estate developer Randy Gunlock ’77 and his wife, Vicki, of Dayton, are providing a lead gift of $6 million to construct the Gunlock Family Performance Center, which will include a weight room, football locker room, hydrotherapy area, and student-athlete rehabilitation center. The facility will be built between Yager and the new Indoor Sports Center at the northeast end of the stadium. Vicki was a letter-winner on the University of Charleston’s crew team and Randy was a letter-winner and former captain of Miami’s football team (1973-1976). During those seasons, the team won three MAC championships and three bowl victories. Randy’s father, Bill ’51, was also a successful Miami student-athlete, lettering in football. A former football coach and retired from the company he founded, Bill is a former Miami trustee, foundation and Red & White advisory board member, and a 2008 inductee into Miami’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

New chief academic officer Phyllis Callahan is Miami’s new provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.

As dean of the College of Arts and Science since 2012, she managed a $70 million budget and oversaw 26 departments offering 69 majors and co-majors, eight programs, and several special centers.

She came to Miami in 1988 as assistant professor in zoology and was promoted to full professor in 1999. Affiliated with Miami’s women and gender studies

program, she is nationally recognized in her field of research — neuroendocrinology, with a focus on gender differences in regulation of pituitary hormone secretion.

She has mentored 40+ undergraduates conducting research projects in her lab and has advised many graduate students who have gone on to scientific careers.

Chris Makaroff, associate dean and professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, is now interim dean of the college, Miami’s largest.

LOVELY LANDSCAPING Miami ranks 5th among Midwest colleges with the best-landscaped campuses on LawnStarter’s Top 10 list. Looking at photos, scanning message boards, and interviewing students, alumni, and faculty to create the list, the lawn care-related technology company also considered the amount of green space on each campus, the prevalence and uniqueness of landscape installations, and the attention given to lawns and landscapes. Kenyon College topped the list.

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BY THE NUMBERS: More than 25,300 students applied for fall 2014 admission. This record number culminated in enrolling 3,641 impressive, diverse, and talented students as Miami’s Class of 2018. Here’s a snapshot of some of the new classmates, taken during a block party at Goggin Ice Center their first night on campus as freshmen.

with ACT average of 30+

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381 enrolled in University Honors Program

398 enrolled in

College of Engineering and Computing

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251 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

189 enrolled in University Academic Scholars Program

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Controversial Relic’s Artistic Value Scholar’s historical perspective encourages new appreciation for Shroud of Turin

By Heather Beattey Johnston

Like many others around the world, professor Andrew Casper found himself captivated by the spectacle surrounding the carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin in 1988.

“I was only 9 years old at the time,” Casper says, “but I remember being fascinated when I saw a big write-up about it in Time magazine and the subsequent results of the tests.”

Today, as an assistant professor of art history at Miami University, Casper remains fascinated by the shroud. But the question at the heart of that 1988 magazine article — “Is the Shroud of Turin real?” — is largely irrelevant as far as he’s concerned.

“That’s a question of faith, of religion,” Casper says. “I have zero interest in confronting those issues. What I’m interested in, as an art historian, is the historical significance of the shroud in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.”

According to a website produced by the of Turin Education and Research Association in Colorado, “The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth.

“Is it really the cloth that wrapped his crucified body, or is it simply a medieval forgery, a hoax perpetrated by some clever artist? Modern science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the shroud. It is, in fact, the single most studied artifact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the controversy still rages.”

For his part, Casper has studied devotional manuals, sermons, and other printed texts that focus on the shroud from the 1500s and 1600s, the period of the 14-foot linen sheet’s most heightened and unprecedented devotional enthusiasm.

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According to Casper, no one at that time thought of the shroud as a painting per se. “They didn’t regard it the same way they did Michelangelo’s painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for example,” he says.

But the printed literature does refer to the shroud metaphorically as a painting made by God, whose brush was Christ’s body and whose pigment was Christ’s blood. Casper says these ways of discussing the shroud reveal a different conception of artifice and authenticity, which today we often perceive as binary opposites.

Contrary to what one might expect in modern times, metaphorical comparisons to art in the 16th and 17th centuries bolstered rather than undermined the shroud’s authenticity.

Shroud photo (left) by Unknown — own work, photographed at Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Photo (right) courtesy of Andrew Casper.

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“There was a reverence at the time for artifice,” Casper says, “and the shroud was, in a certain way, an artistic relic that for contemporary believers gave evidence of God’s creative powers as artist.”

Supported by a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, Casper traveled to Turin, Italy, last July to conduct archival research at the Archivio di Stato (State Archives), Biblioteca Reale (Royal Library), and the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria (National University Library).

There, among the documents, he discovered personal correspondence between the archduchess of Tuscany, Maria Maddalena d’Austria, and the duchess of Mantua, Margherita of Savoy, which provided

Andrew Casper poses in front of the Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) in Turin, Italy. The palazzo belonged to the House of Savoy, which owned the shroud and put it on frequent public display in Turin throughout the late-16th and 17th centuries, beginning in 1578.

further evidence of the power of the shroud as an artistic relic.

In handwritten letters dated in 1624 and 1626, the archduchess of Tuscany asks the duchess of Savoy, whose family then owned the shroud, for painted copies to worship in absentia.

She stipulates that the copies must be by an “accomplished artistic hand” and that when they are finished, they must be pressed up against the original before being sent to her. This, according to Casper, demonstrates a dual source of power.

“The object of worship draws power not only by coming in contact with Christ’s blood on the original shroud,” he says, “but also by faithfully reproducing what it looks like.”

Casper earned a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and has taught at Miami ever since. In 2014, he received the Miami University Distinguished Teaching Award.

Ultimately, Casper plans to put his work in a book that he says will introduce a different way of looking at the Shroud of Turin. “The shroud is so overwhelmingly wrapped into these questions of authenticity that it has deflected the desire to look at it in a historical framework,” he says.

For most scholars, there’s just one question to answer: “Is the Shroud of Turin real?” But by approaching the shroud from a historical perspective, Casper has found many other questions in need of answers. In the end, he may even show us that “Is it real?” is the least interesting question we could ask.

“It is, in fact, the single most studied artifact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the controversy still rages.”

Heather Beattey Johnston is associate director and information coordinator in the Office for the Advancement of Research & Scholarship at Miami.

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A Song in his Heart Music arranger Larry Moore ’68 MA ’70 infuses new life into old shows Playbill.com said of his Dearest Enemy recording, “Orchestrator Larry Moore (seen here directing the Roberta dialogue) … is mighty good at unearthing, reassembling, and providing the missing pieces of vintage musical comedies. … This new recording, I imagine, couldn’t be bettered.”

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Orchestrator and arranger Larry Moore ’68 MA ’70 would like to transport listeners to another time with his new recording of Jerome Kern’s 1933 romantic comedy Roberta — a time when sophisticated dialogue, song, and dance solved most of life’s problems.

Moore finished recording Roberta’s many songs, including “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” in February 2014.

It’s his fifth for New World Records as music editor and producer. Considering the five, he says his biggest challenge was casting Victor Herbert’s 1917 Irish comic opera Eileen, which he recorded in Dublin.

“I knew no Irish or British singers in 2012, and I had to cast the recording from MP3 files that the Irish production team sent me or from YouTube clips.”

Living in New York City sine 1979, Moore grew up in Middletown and earned degrees in classics and theatre.

Career highlights include working with great musical directors like Michael Tilson Thomas and Rob Berman

and reconstructing the 1935 Cole Porter-Moss Hart musical Jubilee and the 1925 Rodgers and Hart show Dearest Enemy.

After Stephen Sondheim helped him get his first published choral arrangement, Moore reciprocated by nominating the Sondheim-James Lapine musical Sunday in the Park With George for a Pulitzer Prize for drama. He was thrilled when it won.

These days he’s editing a new vocal score for a 1963 Jerome Moross musical about the American Civil War, Gentlemen Be Seated!, and working with City Center Encores! on its production of Paint Your Wagon, a 1952 musical by Lerner and Loewe.

“A lot of my career was sheer luck because I never knew what I wanted to do with myself until I was 33.”

As for his next project?

“I have no idea. I’m waiting for the phone to ring. In the meantime, I’ll finish the Moross score.”

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The Dark Side of the Mountain Bonnie Sollars Johnston ’61 Soul Mate Publishing Bonnie’s debut novel blends fact and fiction as it describes two turbulent decades in the life of Anna Margaretha Mallow. Moved by her husband to the frontier of Virginia at the beginning of the French and Indian War, she and her five children must seek safety at Fort Seybert. Surviving the deadly 1758 massacre, Anna and her children are taken captive and marched to the Ohio River Valley where she endures indescribable losses and change. Many families involved in the real incident still have descendants in Ohio.

Wormwood: Beyond Dead Robert Van Kirk ’70 CreateSpace Junior Lament, funeral and retirement home operator, plans to expand his business empire quickly with a crazy scheme to steal and sell organs from his retirement home clients and bodies from his funeral home competitors. Even stranger, he plans to build an Indian casino — without any Indians. Private investigator Ty Svenson is hot on Junior’s trail, but he has his own issues. Mixed messages prevail as he consults on the case with a gorgeous, guntoting neurosurgeon. The whole, confused cast of characters ends up at the Indian casino while a winter

fashion show is underway — in the heat of August. The question is, will anyone make it out alive?

How the Earth Turned Green Joseph Armstrong MS ’72 PhD ’75 University of Chicago Press On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85 percent of Earth’s roughly 3.5 billion years. Joseph traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today.

True Love Lasts James Wegert ’77 Strong Book Publishing Written by a school counselor who partially messed up his life and who has seen so many teens and young adults mess up theirs by making bad relationship choices, True Love Lasts communicates crucial information about how to have a healthy relationship. James explains in a down-to-earth manner how to use the strong approach to dating in order to maximize the possibility of a lifelong loving marriage.

Naked Feet Leadership: Real People Leading in Extraordinary Ways Lisa Shasky ’84 CreateSpace Following in the footsteps of her first book, Lisa’s second book examines the life skills and qualities that make people effective leaders.

Each chapter opens with an inspirational true story of a person who has demonstrated leadership in his or her own capacity. It also includes expert advise and a series of questions that help readers perfect their skills.

Converts to Civil Society Lida Nedilsky ’90 Baylor University Press Lida captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith during Hong Kong’s pivotal political turmoil.

From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of Hong Kong into Chinese sovereignty, she conducted detailed interviews with more than 50 Hong Kong people and followed their daily lives, documenting their involvement at the intersection of church and state.

Citizens of Hong Kong enjoy abundant membership options, social and religious, under Hong Kong’s free market culture. Whether identifying as Catholic or Protestant, or growing up in religious or secular households, the interviewees share a story of choosing faith.

NOTED ROBERTA Larry Moore ’68

Musical Theater/Opera Release date: 10/20/14 Orchestra of Ireland conducted

by Rob Berman.

Composer: Jerome Kern Book and Lyrics: Otto Harbach Music edited/produced: Larry Moore ’68 MA ’70 New World Records

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Editor’s note: In The Good Luck Cat (Lyons Press, 2014), Lissa Warren ’94 shares her family’s story of saving Ting, a Korat cat her family adopted to keep her father company after he retired.

The following is an excerpt.

MY STORY is a place for you to share reminiscences and observations about everyday happenings.

Submit your essay for consideration to: Donna Boen, Miamian editor, “My Story,” 108 Glos Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 or Miamian@ MiamiOH.edu. Please limit yourself to 900 words and include your name, class year, address, and home phone number.

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The Littlest Warren

By Lissa Warren ’94

Exhausted from the combination of cat show, car ride, and homecoming, Ting slept straight through her first night with us. And her first morning. And much of her first afternoon. But shortly before dinner she decided to go exploring — to make our home her home.

Unfortunately, she started with the toilet.

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We’ll never know what possessed little Ting to go for a swim — whether it was curiosity, poor balance, bad aim, or a combination — but one minute Mom and I were draping the crust over a chicken pot pie, and the next we heard a huge splash coming from the half-bathroom by the kitchen, followed by what can only be described as a death yowl. We went running and Mom got there first, reaching into the bowl just as I plowed into her, unable to stop because I had on socks and we have hardwood floors. We fell, and Ting, who had hooked a desperate paw into the sleeve of Mom’s sweater, came with us. Mom whacked the back of her head on the bathroom wall, I whacked the back of my head on Mom’s front teeth, and Ting whacked both of us with her now-free scissor-paws in an effort to get the hell out of Dodge as the towel bar came down with a clatter.

“Stop her!” Mom screamed as Dad popped his head out of the bedroom to see what on earth was happening.

“Potty cat!” I screamed as Ting vaulted past him.

It was the only phrase I could think of.

By the time Mom and I got up to my parents’ room, Ting had already run behind the rocker and started grooming.

“Don’t let her lick herself,” said Mom. “She could get sick or something.”

“Why can’t she lick herself?” asked Dad, thoroughly perplexed. We didn’t have time to explain. We are germaphobes, and we had a cat to bathe.

We felt sure there was no way Ting would tolerate being washed in the bathroom sink — it’d be too much like drowning — so I ran downstairs and threw on my bathing suit while Mom started the shower. We reasoned it would feel like rain — a warm, gentle rain.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to take a shower with a cat, but if you haven’t, don’t. Two seconds in, I realized it was a big mistake. Three seconds in, Ting did — and used my head as a trampoline to get to the top of the shower stall, where she clung for dear life until Mom pulled her (and several towels) down.

Mom and I spent the next half-hour crouched on the floor in front of the space heater (wisely, Dad had forbidden us to use the hair dryer), blotting Ting dry

with Bounty (cloth towels were out of the question; we liked that cat, but she’d been in the toilet) and soothing her while Dad sat on the edge of his bed, watching us and shaking his head. Mom, determined to take full advantage of the situation, declared a new rule: From now on, the toilet lid had to be put down.

Dad called her an opportunist, but knew better than to argue.

Thankfully, Ting seemed no worse for wear and quickly set her sights on her next area of conquest: the big bay window in the living room and its irresistible (custom-made) window shades. Or, rather, its irresistible window shade cords, which to her apparently resembled dental floss. She chewed through two before we caught her.

When she circled back to have a go at a third cord, Dad got the bright idea to lure her away with real dental floss instead — a bait and switch that worked especially well because he had, by accident (or not), grabbed the special mint-flavored floss that Mom preferred and he despised. He plopped Ting down on the kitchen table, unrolled about a foot of the stuff, wrapped each end around his pointer fingers, and held it up in front of her. One quick sniff, two tentative licks, and she commenced chomping, angling her chin so that she could get her back left teeth, then her right.

A dentist would have been pleased by her form. She kept going until she had severed the floss, at which point Dad unfurled some more.

Unbeknownst to him, Dad had created a monster.

In a matter of days, Ting would figure out which bathroom drawer housed the flavored dental floss and would loudly demand a chance to practice good oral hygiene — aka, get a “mint fix” — every time she heard it roll open. Mom tried switching to cinnamon floss, which it turns out is equally tasty to cats. Eventually, Mom resorted to the far less enticing unflavored variety. Eventually, Dad started sneaking off to the drugstore to get Ting the mint kind.

None of this helped the shades, by the way. No sooner had we replaced the two ruined cords than Ting munched her way through a third and a fourth — and later, a fifth and a sixth. Mom, exasperated, put the “blind man” on speed dial.

Ting whacked both of us with her now-free scissor-paws in an effort to get the hell out of Dodge as the towel bar came down with a clatter.

Lissa Warren ’94 is vice president, senior director of publicity and acquiring editor at Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. She has a BS in English education from Miami and an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. Her poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Oxford Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and Verse, and she’s a poetry editor for the literary magazine Post Road.

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FLIPPING OVER NEW SPORT Bumper ball is a crazy, new variation of soccer introduced to Miami this fall by two students who witnessed the game while studying abroad. Created

by Norwegians, the sport is quickly rising in popularity in the U.S. During the 5-minute halves, the six-player teams kick an oversized soccer ball down the field. Or try to anyway.

The bumper balls, attached like backpacks, impede visibility as well as running, causing players to crash into their own teammates more often than not and end up on their heads in the middle of Cook Field. As a result, Miami’s newest intramural sport is also great fun for spectators.

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EMOGRAPHICALLY, Baby Boomers have always been

the pig in the python, an immense, largely indigestible 1946–1964 lump in the body politic. The nation has been trying to swallow us ever since.

E M OT I ON A LLY, Baby Boomers have claimed to be the center of the universe

since 75,831,000 of us entered, squalling. Given our inexhaustible fascination with ourselves, other generations have been tracking the actuarial tables ever since. The news here to Boomers is that there even are other generations.

THE GREATEST GENERATION 1901–1945 Centenarians before 1914

Silent Generation 1923–1945

BABY BOOMERS 1946–1964 GENERATION X 1964–1981 MILLENNIALS 1981–1990s YET-TO-BE NAMED 1990s–2020

“The first pronouncement of the Baby Boom is ‘I have to be me,’ ” satirist P.J. O’Rourke ’69 writes. “It’s as if we think the pronouncements of those who came before us were something like, ‘I have to be Gerald and Betty Ford.’

“History is full of generations that had too many problems. We are the first generation to have too many answers.”

O’Rourke serves up his version of all the answers in his new memoir The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way … And It Wasn’t My Fault … and I’ll Never Do It Again.

Much of his Boomer cul-de-sac cred — he’s from suburban Toledo, after all — comes from his undergrad years at Miami. On the first day of college, O’Rourke and a friend were reading the course catalog, trying to pick out likely majors. “We can do anything!” his friend exclaimed. “Registration began the next morning … ‘English’ caught my eye.

I speak that.”

G E N E RAT I O N A L JEST ER Turns out, he specialized in English, earning a bachelor’s in it at Miami and a master’s at Johns Hopkins. After that, O’Rourke, his hair flowing like Veronica Lake’s, began writing for an underground newspaper. He went on to edit National Lampoon and report for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly.

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Today, he’s a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, fellow at the Cato Institute, and a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait …

Don’t Tell Me! Two of his 16 books, Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, hit No. 1 on The New York Times’ best-seller list.

And now here he is again, sharing sardonic insights in his latest book. He makes it clear from page one that this will be “a ballad of the Baby Boom … [a] rhapsody, not a report” on “God’s favorite spoiled brats.”

“What makes the Baby Boom different from other generations is the way everybody was feeling we could be or do anything,” O’Rourke writes. “What unifies the Baby Boom is the way we talked everyone into letting us get away with it.”

“Tell It Like It Is,” Aaron Neville crooned in 1966, and it could be a Boomer theme song.

We’ve always been more than willing to tell the world just exactly how we think it is, but are we willing, at this late date, to scrutinize ourselves?

With the youngest of us hitting 50 and the oldest of us hitting the home, are we ready for a little truth-telling, courtesy of our own generational jester, P.J. O’Rourke?

“By being big ideological left-wingers, we could oppose prejudice, poverty, war, and injustice and annoy our parents.”

FO R E V E R YO UNG “I think it’s a surprise to anyone who went through the ’60s that there isn’t any sign of distinct politics in the Boomers,” O’Rourke says from his vantage point as a 1947 baby. “We want it all, the Tea Party and the Communist Party.”

For many Boomers, the Vietnam War was the Continental Divide of their generation: Which side were you on? Did you serve or did you dodge, like O’Rourke? Or were you simply lucky enough to pull a high draft number? You can sometimes hear the collective Boomer sigh when they try to describe the draft to their children and grandchildren. To later generations, it’s unfathomable that such an arbitrary number might decide if you lived or died.

Of course, soon some of the Boomers were morphing into the very establishment they’d railed against a few years before. Jimmy Buffett, a card-carrying Boomer from 1946, had a catchy hit in 1983 with “We are the people our parents warned us about.”

For O’Rourke, “we were indeed the people our parents had warned us about — lawyers, bankers, and politicians.” “[I]n the late 1970s … we were old enough for our deepest beliefs, our most cherished values, and our unique vision of the future to have a profound and permanent effect on American life,” he wrote in AARP Magazine, the Boomer Bible. “[W]e took over on July 28, 1978, the day Animal House was released.

“Our passionate belief in change hasn’t altered, going from ‘spare change?’ to ‘Hope and Change’ with stops along the way for ‘you’d better change your ways,’ ‘change of life,’ and ‘any change in a wart or mole.’

“All children, at all times, have wanted to be adults, except the Baby Boom. We wanted to be older, greater children. “[I]f we hadn’t decided to be young forever, we’d be old.”

Bring on the artificial joints, the spare parts sculpted in 3-D printers. A few Frankenstein scars are small price for immortality.

“We may have made a mess,” O’Rourke told C-SPAN, “but it’s for the younger generation to clean it up. I have no intention of writing the final chapter of the Baby Boomers, because we’re gonna live forever.”

G EN ERAT IO N A L D IFFER EN CES While O’Rourke is good for the Boomertrademarked ironic take, Suzanne Kunkel leavens the mix with actual facts.

As director of Miami’s Scripps Gerontology Center and a professor in the department of sociology and gerontology, Kunkel works with the oldest Americans. She knows that as soon as the last Boomer fades into the tie-dyed sunset — imagine the countdown for the last passenger pigeon, but on Twitter — the Millennials, Gen X, and sometimes Y will march right in.

Just as Boomers did to the generations before them. So who are all these

different generations and how do they relate to Boomers?

T H E GR EAT EST GENERATION Before journalist Tom Brokaw crowned them, these Americans, born about 1901–1924, were often called the Veterans Generation. “They lived through the horrors of World War II, “ Kunkel says, “but also had the GI Bill.”

Many demographers extend the Greatest Generation to include the Silent Generation, 1923–1945, who experienced the war as children.

“They have a very strong work ethic and respect for authority,” Kunkel says of the entire group. “They believe in fulfilling their duty before having fun.”

Yet these were some of the first Americans to have a bit more time for fun. “Before them, there was not as much a concept of childhood. It was ‘hurry up and be an adult so you can pitch in.’

“They had time for education and for being a kid. They had entertainment that featured their peers, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, and Shirley Temple. The first use of ‘teenager’ in print was in Popular Science magazine in 1941,” Kunkel says.

For O’Rourke, there’s no precise definition of the Greatest Generation.

‘Tell It Like It Is,’ Aaron Neville crooned in 1966, and it could be a Boomer theme song. We’ve always been more than willing to tell the world just exactly how we think it is. …”

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The mortgage is underwater.

We’re in debt up to the Rogaine for the kids’ college education. And it serves us right — we’re the generation who insisted that a passion for living should replace working for one.”

“You had everyone from Douglas MacArthur and [Dwight] Eisenhower to 18-year-old kids fighting the Battle of the Bulge.”

O’Rourke dedicates The Baby Boom to his late parents, Clifford, a car salesman, and Delphine, a housewife, both of whom died when he was young. He remembers their generation as a quiet group: “They spoke their wisdom rarely, we listened to it the same way.

“They wanted a safe world for us, we wanted a world of endless possibility.

“The Greatest Generation took the world as it came. People who looked different, talked different, and acted different were different. The hell with them. People who were the same were enough trouble. …

“The Greatest Generation integrated the armed forces and Little Rock Central High, passed the Civil Rights Act, sent their daughters to law school, and founded the gay liberation movement by watching Liberace on TV.” And the Boomers’ response to the Greatest Generation? “During the 1960s we would talk about our parents, as a group, in a way that today we would be embarrassed to talk about militant Islamic fundamentalists, as a group,” O’Rourke writes. “[W]e got all soppy and sentimental about the Greatest Generation just in time to put them in nursing homes or the grave.”

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Centenarians: Members of the Greatest Generation now receiving birthday greetings from the TODAY Show’s Willard Scott started with a life expectancy just shy of 60 years and a jarring introduction to the first World War and the first flu pandemic, according to GenerAges: Generations As They Age, a report Kunkel coauthored. They worked nearly 50 hours a week, usually on the farm, to buy a 15-cent gallon of milk and 40-cent pound of coffee.

To O’Rourke, “Grandma’s 1920s had had flaming youth, rude manners, shocking fashions, permissive sex, illegal drugs in the bathtub gin, atrocious music, and sillier dancing than at Grateful Dead concerts.

Everything the Baby Boom set out to do in the 1960s had been done already, 40 years before. But, suddenly and completely, it had disappeared.

Were the ’20s a failed experiment at having a ’60s, like a first attempt at a space launch blowing up on the pad?”

The Silent Generation: This small cohort of 55 million Americans often gets steamrolled by the older vanguard of the Greatest Generation.

This group of patriotic, hardworking Americans is “sometimes called the Baby Bust — too young to fight in World War II, too old to be Boomers,” O’Rourke says during a

phone interview with Miamian. “They sort of invented rock ’n’ roll,” he points out, adding that many credit them with starting the Civil Rights movement, too.

“They never had a president. [Jimmy] Carter almost fits, because he was in the Naval Academy then.

“Somehow the Silent Generation was mostly just noise,” O’Rourke writes in The Baby Boom. “They are the generation who ultimately surrendered to adulthood. We are the generation who kept fighting the battles of adolescence down to the present day.

Between the Baby Boom and the Silent Generation there is a marked difference in outlook, opinion, and polyester Sansabelt pants.”

BABY BOOMERS “We’ve changed every social institution as we moved through them,” says Kunkel, a 1951 Boomer. “They built schools for us, now they’re building retirement communities.”

The Boomer generation is such a large slice of the American pie that it’s being segmented for study. “We have the Leading Edge Boomers,” Kunkel says, “the Middle Boomers, and the Trailing Edge, who have much more in common with the generation that came after them than the older Boomers.

“We’re changing aging. So many of us are living longer, and living healthy lives for more of those years. We want to be more active and stay engaged in the community. We want or need to work longer. We aren’t done yet.”

This Boomer urgency has led to a new civic engagement movement in gerontology. “It’s a new idea for our society, because of Boomers.”

O’Rourke agrees that Boomers won’t retire: They can’t.

“The mortgage is underwater. We’re in debt up to the Rogaine for the kids’ college education. And it serves us right — we’re the generation who insisted that a passion for living should replace working for one.”

To O’Rourke, Boomers aren’t “much for stolid affection that matures and strengthens with age.” The divorce rate for people 50 and older, according to the National Center for Family & Marriage at Bowling Green State University, doubled between 1990 and 2010.

And we might be slightly implicated in another statistic: 90 percent of Boomers grew up with both parents, according to Kunkel’s GenerAges report. By 2005, that figure had slipped to 66 percent.

But nothing stopped us from becoming awesome parents, often choppering around our kids in our own little helicopters. Ironic, since teenage Boomers would have been repulsed by such hovering if our own parents had tried it. O’Rourke’s take? “Our generation would have shot the helicopters down.”

Fast-forward a generation.

“The worst penalty we could devise, when we got children of our own, was to give them a ‘time-out.’ Probably the tykes were thinking — like many people who have had experience with our generation — ‘Please, make it two.’ ” GENERATION X These Americans, born about 1964–1981, are masters of “social, technological, and economic change,” Kunkel says. “They’re very connected and confident in who they are and their place in the world. They’re interested in family/work balance and change jobs frequently. They have a desire for balance.”

Gen Xers are the Baby Busters, born during the long, slow decline of the Baby Boom birth rates. They’re also called the MTV Generation, coming of age with grunge bands and Lollapalooza.

To O’Rourke, “Larry Page and Sergey Brin [are] a couple of those Generation X slackers who had to come up with Google because they lacked the Baby Boom gumption for a real shouting match. …”

MILLENNIALS, AKA GENERATION Y This multi-tasking group of Americans, born in the 1980s through the mid-’90s, is often called the Baby Boom Echo. It’s the biggest generation both because of its long span and because aging Boomers and Gen X’ers were having babies simultaneously.

Millennials are quick adopters of both technology and globalization.

“The educational level continues to rise,” Kunkel says, “along with increased diversity. Geographic and political boundaries are not barriers to how they see their work and how they communicate. Look at how the maps changed during their lives. And at the phenomenon of Psy from Korea on YouTube.

“There is some thought that the Millennials may be our next ‘hero’ generation,” she adds. “They’re our best educated and our best behaved,” and may follow in the footsteps of the Greatest Generation.

THE YET-TO-BE-NAMED GENERATION Some people call the new cohort Generation Z, but this group of highly educated, affluent, and diverse Americans may demand something a bit more original. Viscerally connected to social media, will they become Digital Natives or Generation Like? Maybe Rainbow Generation for their great diversity?

Or, more soberly, will they be the Homelanders or 9/11 Generation?

“Some of them were in kindergarten when 9/11 happened,” Kunkel says, “and they are growing up with that as their reality. It doesn’t have to be a negative, but it is a defining moment for them.

“Just as the day [President] Kennedy was shot is a life-altering moment we share as Boomers. When something like this happens when we’re adolescents, it shapes our ideas about the future and our hopes for the world.”

The very concept of generation, after all, “is the intersection of how old you were when major events were happening in the world around you,” she says.

Or maybe today’s adolescents will christen themselves with a click: The Selfie Generation.

TOUCH AND GO? IMAGINE THAT. O’Rourke lives with his own sociological study in the family’s New England home.

The oldest of his three children with wife Tina, a 1962 Boomer, is 16 and starting to look at colleges.

“She can only be urged by indirection.

If I mentioned Miami to her, she’d scratch it off her list. I’ll take her there instead and that would be more persuasive.

“I’d love to see all [my children] go there.” He takes a beat. “I probably couldn’t get into Miami now, the person I was when I was in [high] school.”

But he was and is a Miamian, and made more of a mark than he realized at the time.

“I went to speak at Miami when President [Phillip] Shriver was very old.

I didn’t know he knew I existed. After my speech, he came up and said, ‘Pat, we were worried about you. We thought it was sort of touch and go, whether you’d do good work or get into trouble.’

“I was very touched by that.” And no one ever told Patrick Jake O’Rourke that he couldn’t do both.

A freelance writer in Cincinnati, Betsa Marsh is a fellow Boomer, grooving with bell bottoms and flowers in her hair. Her most recent article, “A Miracle with Every Breath,” appeared in the Fall Miamian.

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Four Drafts &Seven MIAMI HISTORY PROFESSOR SHARES STORY BEHIND GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

BY J ES S ICA B AR G A ’15

Abraham Lincoln (see arrow) at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 1863. The photo was made from the original glass plate negative, which lay unidentified at the National Archives until 1952 when Josephine Cobb, chief of the Still Pictures Branch, recognized the president, head bared and probably seated. The man wearing the top hat is bodyguard Ward Lamon.

The photograph is estimated to have been taken at noontime, three hours before Lincoln gave his address.

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abraham lincoln is a paradox.

Lincoln, the president, is widely considered one of the greatest figures in American history, preserving the Union under tremendous pressures and sparking the process that ended slavery in the United States.

In contrast, Lincoln, the man, with his humble log-cabin origins, earned a reputation as a good stump speaker but a poor orator. Because of this, he almost wasn’t invited to speak at the Nov. 19, 1863, dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. Yes, what is perhaps the most famous speech in American memory almost wasn’t.

Lincoln was judged “at best simply not suited for the elevated proceedings

being planned, and at worst might bring the tone down to the level of a frontier tavern,” Miami associate professor Martin Johnson explains in his book Writing the Gettysburg Address.

Johnson, who teaches history on Miami’s Hamilton Campus, received the acclaimed Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize in 2014 for his book. Throughout its 336 pages, he examines the differences between the address Lincoln gave at Gettysburg and the one memorized by millions, an address Lincoln reworked and polished months later.

A GRUD GING INVITATION

In the autumn of 1863, the Pennsylvania state government planned a dedication of the cemetery four and a half months after Union

Edited Versions Ago... armies defeated the Confederacy in the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The somber ceremony was to be “one of the grandest and most imposing affairs ever beheld in the United States,” according to 32-year-old Gettysburg lawyer David Wills, the ceremony’s organizer, who owned a big house on the town square.

As Pennsylvania’s governor was not an avid Lincoln proponent, the president’s invitation to attend — much less to speak — came only 17 days before the dedication.

Even then, Lincoln’s role was simply to make “a few appropriate remarks” after keynote speaker Edward Everett finished his two-hour oration, Johnson says. A 69-year-old former U.S. senator and secretary of state, Everett was the most celebrated orator of the day.

Lincoln’s decision to go did not come easily. He would be leaving behind a sick son and a wife still grieving over the loss of another son the year before. But he would soon be up for re-election, and even his nomination as the Republican candidate was not assured, Johnson says. He needed to be seen out among the people.

AMONG THOUSANDS OF FRESH GRAVES Despite a popular myth that began in 1882 and persists today, Lincoln did not scribble his speech on scraps of paper while on the train. Instead, he began it in the White House a few days before leaving, according to records that Johnson has studied.

With his initial one-page draft in hand, Lincoln set off for Gettysburg on Nov. 18 and began a pilgrimage that would shape his words. He looked “sallow,

sunken-eyed, thin, careworn,” Johnson relays. By the time he delivered his speech, he was quite unwell. Doctors later diagnosed his illness as smallpox.

Upon arrival, Lincoln stayed at Wills’ home, working on his speech well into the night with the help of Secretary of State William Seward, whom he admired as having a way with words. In the morning, he visited the battlefield and makeshift cemetery with its thousands of fresh graves.

Moved by the site, Lincoln made additional handwritten edits to the now two-page speech.

“Once he was there, I think he felt much more strongly the sacrifices of the soldiers in Gettysburg, and I think that brought a lot of emotional power to the speech,” Johnson says. “That’s where you can see Lincoln joining together his thoughts from Washington and Gettysburg.”

A SPEECH FOR EVERY GENERATION

And yet, what Lincoln said after his “Four score and seven years ago” introduction that afternoon was slightly different from the speech we recite today.

In fact, it wasn’t until February 1864 that Lincoln penned the version we now see reprinted in books and engraved on the Lincoln Memorial.

Called the Bliss Copy after the family who owned it, it is the last known copy written in Lincoln’s hand.

As for the crowd’s reaction to the speech that day, some say the audience was disappointed, but Johnson disagrees.

While the “cult of the address,” as he calls it, did not become pervasive

until the late 1800s, Lincoln’s comments seemed well-received at the time, garnering praise from simple observers and famous figures alike, including poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

“For American memory, as speeches go, this one would be at least among the top three,” Johnson says. “I’m not sure that any other speech has yet made it to the level of American civil religion the way the Gettysburg Address has.”

He attributes part of the speech’s success and endurance to its dynamic nature, allowing it to be interpreted differently and for a different purpose by each generation, from World War I to Sept. 11, 2001.

For Johnson, who has been researching the Civil War for nearly a decade, Lincoln’s speech crescendos with the line “a new birth of freedom.” While the rest of the speech did not break much new ground in terms Miami associate professor Martin Johnson of content, Johnson says, solves a number of this line was something new mysteries in his book Writing the Gettysburg and different, something Address, which won Lincoln would not have said the prestigious Lincoln Prize last year. in any other context.

“It suggests this project of freedom that we started in 1776 is never going to end,” Johnson says.

“We will always have new vistas to open up for freedom.”

Jessica Barga ’15 of Versailles, Ohio, is double majoring in journalism and marketing.

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ANDREW REYNOLDS ’10 is always working on a crossword puzzle.

Actually, make that more like six or seven. But unlike most of us, he has a tremendous advantage. He knows the answers without looking at the clues. And he should.

They’re his answers. In the puzzle world, he’s known as a crossword constructor.

At age 27, he’s still perfecting his game, which is coming along nicely. Since 2012, The New York Times has published four of his creations. He’s waiting to hear about a fifth.

His first, framed and on a wall in his North College Hill home in Cincinnati, focused on Led Zeppelin’s song “Stairway to Heaven.” He couldn’t resist after he discovered he could turn the phrase into a stair-step pattern and run it from one corner of the grid to the other.

During long trips from his childhood His fresh approach appealed to the home in Holland, Mich., his family would Times, whose crosswords are considered pass a Times puzzle book around the the gold standard. car. As the middle school kid, Reynolds His first will always be special to him, would fill in all the clues about pop culbut he’s proudest of his puzzle that ran ture and the Simpsons. in the Times last April 1. Readers were He first tried his hand at making them anticipating special word play on April during high school, but his standards Fools’ Day. weren’t terribly high. He even put in Reynolds didn’t disappoint. He cretwo-letter words. ated clues with more than one correct When he got to college, he never answer. Known as a Schrödinger Puzzle, thought about approaching The Miami only a handful of these have run in Student. But it just so happened that the Times since 1996, when the first he lived on the same floor in Elliott as appeared on election day. the guy who became the newspaper’s The clue to the middle answer editor-in-chief. They got to talking, and across the grid was “Lead story in the editor suggested he submit one of his tomorrow’s newspaper.” The answer puzzles sometime. Reynolds went on to could have been “ClintonElected” or make about 40 for the Student.

“BobDoleElected.” Either worked.

Not long before the chemical engiUnaware there was more than one way neering major graduated from Miami, to answer, readers were furious that the he decided to send his material to the Times puzzle appeared to be predicting Times. The editors said no to his first the new president. seven attempts but gave helpful feedFor constructors, that now legendback. The clues were too obscure or the ary puzzle is something to aspire to. It theme wasn’t exciting enough or was certainly was for Reynolds. too similar to another they’d run in the “I started trying to think of other ways past three years. to do that concept. ‘Flipping a coin’ was “Once you start getting some rejecwhat came to mind because ‘heads’ or tions, you start upping your own stan‘tails’ had the same number of letters, dards,” Reynolds said. which was the key.”

No more two-letter words. Plus, a Times puzzle has to pass the “breakfast test.” Don’t use any word you wouldn’t 2. ON THE GRID be comfortable discussing with your family at the breakfast table. And no seriReynolds doesn’t remember an exact ous medical conditions or profanity. moment when he decided to craft Then one day, the rejections sent out crosswords. His grandmother works the by an assistant editor on behalf of Will Times puzzle religiously, which is how Shortz, the Times’ longtime crossword his father got started and then shared puzzle editor, became an email from the tradition.

Shortz himself accepting Reynolds’ puzzle — with several suggestions for improvements.

If The New York Times is the gold standard of crossword puzzles, Will Shortz is its standard-bearer.

3. PUZZLING HISTORY A native of Crawfordsville, Ind., Shortz graduated from Indiana University with a degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles. The only person in the world with such a degree, he has been the puzzle master on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday since the program started in 1987 and editor at the Times since 1993.

In the 2006 New York Magazine article “The Puzzlemaster’s Dilemma,” he told reporter Clive Thompson that he receives “about 75 submissions a week but has exacting standards: A puzzle must be ‘jam-packed’ — his favorite phrase — with unusual, new, or unexpected words.”

When Shortz started at the Times, he made changes. Constructors were given bylines; puzzles became harder as the week progressed, with Saturday being the hardest and Sunday the largest; and cultural references began including movies, television, and rock music.

Today’s fan of the crossword wouldn’t recognize the first known published puzzle, hastily put together by journalist Arthur Wynne for the Dec. 21, 1913, Sunday “Fun” section in The New York World. Called a word cross, it was diamond shape with no black squares.

Not particularly good, it had “a sort of bizarre system of saying where the answers had to go. The conventions we take for granted, 1 across, 2 down, weren’t there,” said Alan Connor, author of The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief (Gotham).

Talking with Think host Krys Boyd on KERA-FM, Connor explained that

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the crossword as we know it is the work of Margaret Petherbridge, assigned the task of checking Wynne’s puzzles.

“She paid attention to the letters of complaint and worked out what was satisfying and what wasn’t satisfying,” Connor said, “and she began to establish some conventions that are still followed by constructors nowadays: no twoletter words, no areas of the grid that are hard to get into, make sure there’s lots of nice interlocking, the symmetry of the grid, and where any black squares might occur.

“The counter-effect of that, I suppose, was that these restrictions made it much harder to construct.”

last. Working an hour or two a couple of nights a week, he usually finishes a puzzle in about a month.

He keeps sticky notes nearby at work so he can jot down themes when they pop into his head. He’s an environmental planner for RA Consultants, an engineering firm in Cincinnati. He has a master’s in urban planning from the University of Cincinnati and works on green infrastructure projects for the city.

Like most constructors, Reynolds creates puzzles for fun, not money.

Although payments recently went up at the Times, $300 for a Monday through Saturday puzzle and $1,000 for the Sunday puzzle isn’t going to pay many bills.

4. TIPS FOR CONSTRUCTING

5. TIPS FOR SOLVING

A standard crossword grid is 15 squares by 15 squares, some white, some black.

Although you can put the black squares anywhere, part of the challenge is the grid’s rotational symmetry. In other words, if you rotate the grid 180 degrees, the pattern of the black squares will appear exactly the same.

That means that if Reynolds places a black square four rows down from the top and one column from the left, he must also place a black square four rows from the bottom and one column from the right.

But before he can fill in the grid, he must come up with a theme. To do that, he likes to make word lists.

“The number of letters is key because all of your answers in a crossword are usually symmetrical,” he said. “So if you have a theme answer that’s 11 letters long, you need to have another one that’s 11 letters long to make the puzzle balance out visually. It’s kind of an unwritten rule.”

After Reynolds types in his theme answers on his laptop (software has replaced graph paper and pencil), he puts in the black squares and then fills in the rest of the words. Clues come

Aseas. Oleo. Smee. Etui, arete, ogee, and ewer. All great words for puzzle solvers to know because constructors value them for their A’s and E’s and S’s.

Marc Romano, author of Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession, believes, “to do well solving crosswords, you absolutely need to keep a running mental list of ‘crosswordese’ … words frequently found in crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation.”

Shortz’s top recommendation for solvers is that you begin by answering words you’re sure of. As for the rest?

Be willing to guess and erase.

That’s precisely why Brooke Spangler, who teaches psychology at Miami, prefers a pencil. In her family, crosswords are a big deal during the holidays. When they return home to Montana, the first person to pick up the newspaper in the morning makes a photocopy of it for everybody. Then the competition begins!

In Spangler’s child development classes, her students examine the importance of play, in which children practice adult roles, learn to solve

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SOLVE IT! If you’re feeling up to the challenge, Andrew Reynolds ’10 has created a crossword for Miamian’s readers.

It’s on the back inside cover of this edition.

Andrew Reynolds confidently uses a pen to fill out a crossword puzzle in The New York Times.

Impressive.

problems with peers of equal status, and relieve stress.

“Adult play is also important, but more from the stress-relief level. Stress has a strong connection to mental health. The less we play, the more stress we have, the greater our likelihood for health troubles,” Spangler said.

She will be leading a session on “Light Hearts, Full Minds: The Benefits of Playfulness in Adulthood” at the Alumni Association’s Winter College Feb. 27– March 1 in Charleston, S.C. Studies suggest that regularly tackling puzzles, crosswords, cards, and

checkers helps maintain memory and cognitive skills.

In one such study, researchers examined mental acuity for adults in their 50s and 60s. HealthDay News medical journalist Amy Norton in a July 14, 2014, article reported they “found that people who played those games at least every other day performed better on tests of memory and other mental functions. And, based on MRI scans, they had greater tissue mass in brain areas involved in memory.”

“There are cognitive benefits of staying engaged, and for a lot of adults that comes in the form of doing puzzles because they’re inexpensive, they’re easy to tote along with you, you can do them throughout your day, and you don’t need a group,” Spangler said. “I think everyone should increase the amount of play they engage in because there are lifelong benefits.”

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A puzzle has to pass the ‘breakfast test.’ Don’t use any word you wouldn’t be comfortable discussing with your family at the breakfast table. And no serious medical conditions or profanity.

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So how good is Andrew Reynolds at solving the Times puzzles? Good enough to reach for a pen instead of a pencil, but he backs off from bragging.

“People assume I’m a professional solver of puzzles. I get through about the first half of the week for the Times.

I’m hit or miss from Thursday on.”

The difficulty isn’t so much in the answers as in the clues. As he explains it, you might have the same word in a Monday and a Friday puzzle, but the Friday puzzle will have some sort of misdirection in the clue whereas the Monday puzzle will be straightforward.

The editors determine most of the difficulty level.

“On some puzzles, they can totally change about 50 percent of the clues,” Reynolds said. “I would have a tough time solving some of my own puzzles.”

Donna Boen ’83 MTSC ’96 is editor of Miamian.

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Bill Angsten ’08

Rachel Chase ’08

Pulkit Datta ’08

Brian Dean ’06

Jamie Eckert ’07

Whitney T. Feld ’05

Jessica Hohman ’06

Jessica J. Hughes ’07

Chet Mason ’05

Cheryl M. Miyamasu ’05

Brad Moore ’08

Jonathan Nielsen ’05

Erin B. Patterson ’06

Nick Seguin ’07

Beth Stebner ’08

Beth Stelling ’07

Ashley M. Walters ’06

Brad White ’07

18 Of the Last 9 Honorees Making their way in the world 18 Of the Last 9 recognizes 18 outstanding alumni who graduated in the last 9 years, bringing them back to campus to honor them and have them share their experiences. The following stories introduce five of them. To meet all of the 2014 honorees, go to www.MiamiAlum. org/18of9.

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T H E T H E RA P I ST

For Erin Bower Patterson ’06, the best part of being a pediatric physical therapist is watching a child take his first step when nobody believed he would.

“I get to see children meet goals they never thought they could,” says Patterson, who works at St. Vincent Health’s Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis.

She understands the struggles and dreams of her patients and their parents. When she was 5 years old, a shopping trip with her mom and younger sister almost ended her life. As she picked up what she thought was toothpaste, a pipe bomb inside the box exploded.

While she spent nearly a year in the hospital, doctors tried through numerous surgeries to save her left hand and left eye. They failed, but Patterson

survived and knew what she wanted to do when she grew up.

She graduated from Miami with a major in exercise science. Despite her high grades, several doctoral programs denied her admission. They thought she wouldn’t be able to handle the work because of her prosthetic arm. Finally accepted at Indiana University, she graduated No. 1 in her class.

“Erin now works every day with kids who have obstacles to overcome,” says her husband, Nathan ’05.

They are parents to Clara. “She draws on her lifelong experience of overcoming adversity to inspire her patients to do the same.”

T H E STORYT E L L E R Pulkit Datta ’08 considers New Delhi and London his hometowns, although he actually grew up in

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six countries across four continents. He attended high school in Slovakia before coming to Miami to double major in mass communication and interdisciplinary studies.

With his global upbringing, it’s no surprise he traveled after graduation before moving to New York City and pursuing filmmaking.

With an MA in cinema studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he has worked in creative and production capacities on a range of international projects including narrative films, Sundance-backed documentaries, and multimedia campaigns.

“It wasn’t the easiest journey to go through but after a lot of rejections and struggles and also learning from amazing mentors that I met in New York, I’m finally now working on projects that I’m proud of and have some sort of ownership of,” he says.

One of those projects is his feature film, Colony, which he started focusing on last year.

“What I took away from Miami was this amazing sense of community … where I was actually able to pursue whatever I wanted and blend different interests. So Miami was quite instrumental in allowing me to explore beyond the box and find new ways of telling my story.”

THE ENTR E P RE N E U R Within a year of graduating, Bill Angsten ’08 founded Compass Automation. The Chicago-based automation engineering company designs and builds custom equipment for manufacturers.

Compass was honored recently by Inc. magazine in its 500 fastest-growing private companies report — No. 55 overall and No. 1 in manufacturing.

“We help manufacturers compete, we create jobs, and I hope that more young people of my generation build businesses,” says the marketing major who now heads business development and marketing as executive vice president.

He and wife Nancy flew back from their honeymoon in Taiwan to attend the awards dinner.

The things he misses most about Miami are the “cocoon that is college and the transfer of ideas.”

Like his father and brother, he studied abroad as part of the Luxembourg program.

“It might have been my best decision at Miami,” he says. “I made great friends and great memories.”

T H E COM E D I AN Beth Stelling ’07 didn’t start out performing standup comedy. The theatre major headed to Chicago after graduation to pursue professional theater. After becoming jaded, she shifted to stand-up, something she tried in Oxford at The Balcony.

“There were not many women in stand-up in Chicago at the time that I was starting there and that presented challenges in the sense that I was representing an entire gender and didn’t ask to.”

She honed her craft and was named Best Standup Comedian in Chicago by the Chicago Reader in 2010. She relocated to Los Angeles, where she made her late-night debut on Conan and appeared on StandUp in Stilettos, Comedy Central’s @midnight, and Chelsea Lately.

These days she looks at her career as a gift.

“I do what I do to make people laugh and have a better life and sort of see how similar we really all are.”

T H E E N GI N E E R Brad White ’07 would like to thank all of his professors, as each of them helped make him the person he is today. The electrical engineering and engineering management major is director of production control and logistics for Textron Aviation, formerly Cessna Aircraft.

He manages all aspects of Textron’s production control departments, supporting component manufacturing and aircraft assembly and leading nearly 300 employees and 300 contractors across Textron’s global manufacturing facilities.

“My team and organization are responsible for managing all of Textron Aviation’s 3.2 billion in inventory, but all of this wouldn’t be possible without my time at Miami,” says White, who lives in Wichita, Kan., with his wife, Lindsay Turner White ’08, and their children, Clara and Luke.

Lindsay was a Miami Shakerette, and Brad was president of the Miami Wrestling Club.

They met when the wrestlers hosted a barbecue for the Shakerettes.

“Besides not having to dress up Monday through Friday, I miss living in the college atmosphere with my college friends the most. I met some of my closest friends at Miami and keep in touch with them to this day.”

“I get to see children meet goals they never thought they could.”

—Erin Bower

Patterson ’06, pediatric physical therapist

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Miami women head out for a sleigh ride in Oxford.

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Robert Klima of Rhinelander, Wis., sent emails to 16 of his classmates last spring and was anxious to see how many would respond. In the fall, Bob shared, “Thus far, I have had four responses from classmates of the Class of 1943. That’s good considering that we’re 92 or 93 and not really Geeks on our PCs.”

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Thalia Croushore Oswald

of Dayton, Ohio, (Miami Merger with Richard Oswald ’50) celebrated the graduation of her twin grandchildren, Kelly ’14 and Eric Oswald ’14, at Millett Hall Dec. 12, 2014. Kelly graduated with a degree in bioengineering and Eric with a degree in mechanical engineering.

(See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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Decrying the “paucity” of ’52 news, William Allan “WAG” Greene of Frederick, Md., and Naples, Fla., notes that not only is this the 25th anniversary year of his retirement as an official at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., but the 63rd anniversary year of his class, which was graduated while the Class of 1889 was celebrating its 63rd!

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Samuel Johnson’s histor-

ical novel The Cherokee and the Slave (e-book, Amazon.com) highlights the little-known history of Cherokee farmers who bought and sold slaves to work their farms and plantations in the Southeastern states.

The story follows Eagle Hunter, the Cherokee, and Amanda, the slave.

In 1838 Gen. Winfield Scott and his armed militia evict Eagle Hunter and three slaves along with 13,000 other Cherokees from their homes and force them to journey 900 miles west to the Oklahoma Territory. The

tragic route becomes known as the Trail of Tears because so many died along the way. During this “Indian Removal” operation, Eagle Hunter escapes and meets Amanda. Although Eagle Hunter is a fictional Cherokee slave-owner, Sam writes, “The slaves, Louis and Amanda, were my very real great-great-grandparents. My research for the novel led me from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to sites in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. The story will continue with my second historical novel, The Cherokee and the Schoolteacher.

For more information, email me at cenerap324@gmail.com.” ¶ William Stewart, MD, of Sanibel, Fla., has written a novel, Spines of Steel, Gold and Rubber: How the medical profession prostitutes itself for the medical industrial complex. In the foreword, he writes, “America has the best medical care in the world available in some of our major medical centers and private clinics. The constant stream of patients to these centers from all corners of the globe bears witness to this excellent level of care, including spine surgery, which is the subject of this attempt at Swiftien humor to draw attention to a nationwide problem of too much of the wrong type or unnecessary spine surgery.” William, who earned his MD from Ohio State University College of Medicine, is retired USNR. A surgeon with the Marines in Vietnam, he also worked in the Mujahedeen field hospitals during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He spent a year as director of a Project Hope mission in West Africa, and until recently, he was a professor of clinical neurosurgery.

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Reunion ¶ Conrad Fruehan of Hurst, Texas, and his wife, Mary Ellen, celebrated 52 years of “fantastic” marriage in November.

Conrad is a retired member of the Boy Scouts of America national staff.

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J0el and Nancy Peacock

Walker ’67 were honored

as 2014 Distinguished Citizens by the Troy (Ohio) Area Chamber of Commerce in November. They were recognized for their “dedicated support and promotion” of the Troy/Miami County community for more than a half century. Between Stouder Memorial Hospital and the Upper Valley Medical Center, Joel has been on local hospital boards as a member and chairman for 30 years. He has served 12 years on the Edison Community College foundation board and chaired the annual holiday event. Nancy, an elementary school teacher in the Troy City Schools for many years, initiated the Newspapers in Education partnership between the Troy City Schools and The Troy Daily News and was instrumental in many levy campaigns for the schools. Most recently, she has served on the board of directors for the Hayner Cultural Center. Both served two terms on Miami’s Alumni Association board.

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Reunion ¶ Constance

Gamiere ’65 MEd ’69 pupil

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personnel degree ’71 has retired

from Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey, Calif., after 40 years of teaching theatrical arts and counseling.

She has designed costumes and makeup for more than 200 theatrical productions, including movies, commercials, and industrial films. She was the Allen Griffin recipient of Excellence in Teaching in 2008. This spring she is lecturing at the American University of Rome. She is married to Conlon Keator ’72, and they live in Pacific Grove, Calif.

At Miami, Connie was an assistant head resident counselor and May Day chairman of 1962. She plans to attend

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her 50th college reunion in June. She writes, “I credit Miami University with giving me the freedom and encouragement to pursue my dreams. Professor Emeritus Dr. John Michael, art education, was my mentor. I can’t wait to see Oxford again this summer. I am sure there are lots of changes. We have several friends still living there.”

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J. Richardson “Rick”

Johnson, Kalamazoo County, Mich., circuit judge, retired from the bench Oct. 31, 2014, having served for 21 years. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Portage, Mich.

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Bruce Frallic, AAE, of

Diamondhead, Miss., has retired from the aviation industry after 45 years. Subsequent to graduating from Miami with a BS in business, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and flew combat missions as a naval aviator

in Vietnam where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Bruce transitioned to civil aviation while stationed at NAS Pensacola, Fla., in 1972 and entered the airport management profession. He worked in airport management positions at Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; LaurelHattiesburg, Miss.; and Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss., during the succeeding four decades, receiving his AAE accreditation from the American Association of Airport Executives in 1980, his MBA in aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1989, and taught as an adjunct assistant professor at the Embry-Riddle campus in Biloxi, Miss. Living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1986, Bruce continued to teach and work as executive director of the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport until his retirement in late 2012. ¶ When Virg and Trish Headley Otto ’66 traveled with the Miami

University group to Miami, Okla., for Stomp in January 2014, they bought their family T-shirts. At Christmas 2014 they were all together for the first time last year, so Trish passed out the shirts, and they took a picture. Included are six Miami alumni and one current Miami student: Julie Otto Klink ’93, Jed Klink ’92 MS ’93, Virg Otto ’67, Trish Headley Otto ’66, Eric Hill ’87, Jennifer Otto Hill ’93, and Kelly Hill, who is a sophomore majoring in manufacturing engineering in Miami’s College of Engineering and Computing. (See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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Terrence Houvouras of

Houston retired in December 2013 after 40 years of teaching, 32 in Houston ISD. For 20+ years, he was vice president of the Houston Federation of Teachers. After 18 years, he continues to play trumpet with

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the Clear Lake Symphony. ¶ John Reedy, Fred Arnow, Marshall Hall, Jim Sutter, Bill Dlwgosh, and Chip Brown, all members of the NROTC Class of 1968, recently got together in Las Vegas to recount sea stories and start planning for an even larger reunion in Oxford in 2018. Thus far, 30 former midshipmen from the class have been located. (See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.) ¶ Jim Rohr recently won the Senior gross and handicap divisions at the World Hickory Open at the Panmure Golf Club in Carnoustie, Scotland.

The winner of the Open division was Sandy Lyle, former Masters and British Open winner. Jim was also part of the American team that defeated an international team in Ryder Cup-style matches at the Monifeith Golf Club.

He also won the Senior Player of the Year from the Society of Hickory Golfers. Jim and his wife, Charleen, have retired to Pinehurst, N.C. (See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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Reunion ¶ Marilyn Keister

Clark of Grand Rapids, Minn.,

retired in May 2014 after teaching history and political science at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids for 14 years. She began teaching at Wilmington (Ohio) High School in 1970 and also taught at community colleges in Texas and at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

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William Failor, senior vice

president at Cobbs Allen in Birmingham, Ala., holds a Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors, the premier public company director education and credentialing organization and the originator and exclusive sponsor of the “Gold

Standard” Professional Director Certification.” ¶ Tom Magoto Jr. retired as an agent with State Farm Insurance in Versailles, Ohio, after 42 years. His wife, Shila Dapore Magoto, retired as his office manager after 42 years with the Magoto State Farm Agency. Their son, John Magoto III ’02, is a State Farm agent in Denver.

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Yale University bestowed an Honorary Doctor of Letters on Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia at its 313th commencement May 19, 2014.

Among Rita’s fellow honorees were Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel laureate in economics. ¶ James Halderman MEd ’73 announces that the fifth edition of his comprehensive college automotive technology textbook was published Jan. 17, 2015, by Pearson Education.

The latest edition of Automotive Technology: Principles, Diagnosis, and Service, which is used by colleges throughout the United States and Canada, has been updated with the latest technology, including electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Jim is the author of 14 other automotive technology textbooks, all published by Pearson Education. See www.jameshalderman. com for details. ¶ Mike Kluse, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., and senior vice president at Battelle, is retiring March 31. Battelle operates PNNL for DOE’s Office of Science. Mike was named interim laboratory director in January 2007 and permanent director in May 2008. He joined Battelle in 1976 as a defense and space systems research scientist and held several leadership positions at the company’s

corporate headquarters in Columbus before moving to PNNL in Richland in 1997 where he led its national security research efforts for nearly a decade.

During his tenure, PNNL’s business has grown from $750 million to over a billion dollars annually. Mike and his wife, Gloria, will continue to live in the Tri-Cities. Mike earned an MS in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio State University. From 1973 to 1976, he served in the Air Force at Eglin Air Force Base, receiving an Air Force Commendation Medal.

Edna Strickler Bromley ’38, seen here on graduation day, turns 98 on March 29.

Although a sociology major, she was mistaken for a phys ed major by at least one professor who saw her ride her bike to class almost every day. Now living with her son in Canton, Ohio, the retired case worker from Ashtabula County still remembers almost all of her college professors’ names.

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Leslie Brauer retired June 30,

2014, after a 40 years with 3M Co. as process and quality engineer and development chemist. He worked in paper making and coating; respirator assembly; non-woven manufacturing, injection molding — plastics; and hearing protector assembly. He’s also been active in Junior Achievement and MathCounts and is a Sunday School teacher and adult small group leader.

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Reunion ¶ Greg Bleakley has been appointed to the board of directors for Georgia For FairTax, an all volunteer organization dedicated to passage of The FairTax.

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photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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Gail McHenry Raymond,

coordinator, academic advising services II at the University of Central Florida, was an Outstanding Advising Award — Primary Advising Role winner. She was recognized during the National Academic Advising Association’s 2014 National Awards Program for Academic Advising in Minneapolis last fall.

Cari Breitinger Swanson ’82 of Amenia, N.Y., is a USDF Silver Medalist, FEI dressage competitor, eventing competitor through Preliminary, and a graduate of the USDF “L” Education Program for Judge Training. She trains, breeds and sells horses for dressage, jumping, eventing, and trail riding in addition to teaching.

Sought after by top film and TV producers and directors to polish actors’ riding skills, she worked with Academy Award winners Ang Lee on Taking Woodstock, Akiva Goldman on Winters Tale, and Steven Soderbergh on the TV series The Knick.

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Ray Bower ’76 MA ’87

PhD ’92 received the 2014 Samuel L. Mayhugh Award for Scholarly Excellence from Olivet Nazarene University during the 101st Commencement Convocation May 10, 2014. Having joined the faculty in 1987, Ray, whose areas of special interest for teaching and research are human learning, memory, and cognition, retired in the summer of 2014 from his position as professor and chair of the department of behavioral sciences. In 2011, he received the Bill M. Sullivan Founder’s Award from the Association of Nazarene Sociologists and Researchers (ANSR). The award is the highest honor given by ANSR, and he was chosen unanimously by his peers for his work in developing a new generation of social researchers to serve the Church of the Nazarene. ¶ To celebrate their milestone birthdays (we’ll let you do the math to figure which milestone), Peggy Grimsley, Laurie Sanders Thompson, Nancy Douden Brawley, Penny Dunfee Blankenship, Linda Ailes, and Debra Stevens Gallo traveled to New Orleans for a reunion and dined at Commander’s Palace. The six 1976 classmates met while living in McFarland Hall on North Quad. (See

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Peggy Dewey Opatken of Willard, Ohio, an English teacher for 34 years, is retiring May 31.

Peggy says that she’s enjoyed the classroom but is ready for new ventures.

She’s planning to be a flight attendant

by September. Peggy is married to Tim, and they have three children: Eric, 26, Doug, 24, and Alyssa, 22, all living in Columbus.

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Paul Wingenfeld was recently promoted to chief counsel for PNC Equipment Finance, headquartered in Cincinnati. Paul and his wife, Barbara DeNies Wingenfeld, live in the Pittsburgh area, although Paul travels to Cincinnati frequently. Paul and Barb’s oldest son, Joseph ’10, is an urban planner. Their youngest son, Thomas, is enlisted in the Navy and is stationed in Norfolk, Va., aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

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Greg Giesen MS ’82 has

a new job as manager of employee development at the University of Denver.

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Bill Huefner is the new president of Barna, Guzy & Steffen in Coon Rapids, Minn. Bill is a shareholder who focuses his practice on estate planning, estate and gift taxation,

guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate administration, trusts and wills. Prior to law school, he was a CPA in the banking industry and worked with the Internal Revenue Service. He joined the firm in 1991 as a law clerk while attending law school at Hamline University. Upon completion of law school and admittance to the Bar in 1993, Bill was hired as an associate in the firm’s litigation department. Bill has been named a Five Star Wealth Manager/Estate Planning (2011 and 2013) as featured in Mlps-St. Paul Magazine and Twin Cities Business. ¶ Bob Lowden, director of athletics, has been inducted into the Finger Lakes Community College Athletic Hall of Fame. He joined the college in 1989 as an associate professor and head baseball coach; the latter post he held until 2005. Since joining the athletics staff, he has twice been awarded the Northeast District Coach of the Year Award by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), was twice selected Regional Coach of the Year, and was granted the Louisville Slugger Coaching Award. And he has twice led the FLCC baseball team to regional titles and the NJCAA World Series — in 1992 and 1994. He was named Mid-State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2005.

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John McKaig is an instructor of visual arts (printmaking, painting, figure drawing, and photography) at the Interlochen (Mich.) Arts Academy, nationally recognized as the premier boarding high school for the arts. He has recently taken part in several group and solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, including “100 Works: The Centennial Exhibition,” at The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology/Pennsylvania State

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University, October-November 2014, where he received first place for “Saints Never Surrender IV, Forward Construction, Burned Bridges.” At “The Print” exhibition at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Art Center, May-June 2014, he received best of show for “Saints Never Surrender III.” ¶ Col. Nancy Reeves-Flores retired from the Air Force in October 2013 after serving for more than 29 years. Her last assignment was director of communications for U.S. Air Forces in Europe.

She has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service and is now serving as the associate chief information officer within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. ¶ Lee-Ann Williams Stephens, a teacher at St. Louis Park (Minn.) High School, is a member of the Model Code of Educator Ethics Task Force, sponsored by the National Association of State

Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC). Lee-Ann is a teacher on special assignment as a High Achievement Program advocate.

She has served for 12 years in the district and has 24 years in education.

This group began its work with an initial meeting in Baltimore last June and plans to have the first national framework for P-12 educator ethics completed within one year. In forming the task force, NASDTEC is responding to a movement growing within the greater P-12 and educator preparation educational communities to ensure educators and prospective educators understand how professional decisionmaking can impact the safety and well-being of children, as well as the culture and mission of the school. ¶ Tom Szafranski sent in a note about the recent TKE Fraternity reunion in Oxford. He says the Classes of 1983,

This summer, a new generation of scholars will fall in love with

Miami.

1984, and 1986 were represented at the reunion in June. The guys started off a great weekend with the traditional porch party in front of the TKE house on Friday afternoon and were joined by many of the current house members. The weather remained beautiful on Saturday for the TKE golf tournament at Hueston Woods Golf Course. “The walk down memory lane continued Uptown with dinner at 45 East Bar and Grill on Friday night and MIA on Saturday night, with late-night reminiscing at several of Oxford’s hot spots after dinner both nights despite being referred to as ‘Old Timers’ by the students!” Attending were Eric Miller, Drew McElvain, Ned Purtell, Joe Schott, Paul Fenton, Greg Edwards, Paul Smith, Jim Ensign, Jeff Pfau, Bob Massengill, Tim Hoying, Tom Szafranski, Tom Parish, Kevin Smith, Tom Law, Todd Hooks, John

MIAMI SUMMER SCHOLARS Session I: July 5–17, 2015 Session II: July 19–31, 2015

MiamiOH.edu/summerscholars summerscholars@MiamiOH.edu Summer Scholars is a two-week program designed for high-achieving, rising high school juniors and seniors. During their studies on the Oxford campus, these scholars will collaborate with Miami’s nationally recognized faculty to delve deeply into such topics as government, social justice, health care, entrepreneurship, and more. They’ll also participate in workshops about navigating the college search process and experience campus life in a Miami residence hall shared with other scholars. If you know any exceptional high school students eager to take on challenges, encourage them to check out Miami’s Summer Scholars Program and apply by the May 1 deadline. It will be a summer they’ll never forget!

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Fovel, Jay Wigdale, Dave Mills, Chris Crump, Matt Parsons, John Dye, Eric Fornell, Dave Grabill, Rich Thompson, Mike Lewis, and Dave Rechtor. (See

photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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Stephanie Bradford, a

Cincinnati Police detective who has been with the force for 25 years, was the reason for a Nov. 22, 2014, benefit held by members of the Cincinnati Police Department and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.

Mother to Tiffany, a freshman at Miami, and Josh, 12, Stephanie has Stage IV cancer. In September 2010, she was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on her appendix. The cancer has now spread. A social worker at the old Workhouse prior to becoming a police officer, she is still working cases in the midst of her chemotherapy. ¶ Mark Cannon returned to Miami’s Oxford campus in October 2014 to serve as the first Visiting Fellow in Public Leadership as part of Miami’s “Ohio Public Leaders: Inside State and Local Government” program. During his stay, which was sponsored by the Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs and the political science department, Mark visited classes, gave guest lectures, and presented “Public Leadership Careers in NGOs.” He is chief of staff for the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International. ¶ Susan Christy of Batavia, Ohio, is director of marketing and recruitment for the Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Cincinnati. The Christ College is a fully accredited, private health-care institution affiliated with the Christ Hospital Health Network. Susan, who has an MFA from the University of Cincinnati, leads the creative process for the college’s visual and conceptual

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brand and has seen enrollment more than double in the three years she’s worked there.

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Jeannie Howe MA ’87,

executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, was named to The Daily Record’s 2014 listing of Maryland’s Top 100 Women, recognized for their professional accomplishments, community leadership, and mentoring — 370 women were nominated for the statewide honor. ¶ Scott Ryan of Newark, Ohio, was recently elected to the Ohio House of Representatives’ 71st District for a term that began in January 2015. He spent 23 years with Leader Printing and Publishing in central Ohio, the last 16 in the president’s office. He was appointed and later ran for treasurer of Licking County before he was asked to run for the Ohio House.

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Doug Tirola of Westport, Conn., owner of 4th Row Films, premiered his company’s 93-minute documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival Jan. 25, 2015. According to news accounts, the film “weaves never-before-seen archival footage with the magazine’s beautiful and often shocking art, in a film that is already drawing praise and attention.”

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Chandra Brown ’89 MBA ’90 and Todd

Schwartz ’86 represented the U.S.

at the 2nd U.S.-Morocco Business Development Conference in Rabat, Morocco, in March 2014. Chandra is deputy assistant secretary for manufacturing in the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Todd is deputy special representative for commercial and

business affairs at the U.S. Department of State. ¶ Kevin Carden has joined REDICO, a full-service real estate development and investment company headquartered in Southfield, Mich., as senior vice president of acquisition. He is focusing on the strategic expansion of its senior living business, which includes growing the American House Senior Living platform, an affiliate company of REDICO. He is based in the Chicago regional office. Kevin has more than 20 years of experience in acquisition, portfolio management, and corporate finance. He has an MBA, with a concentration in finance and international business, from the University of Notre Dame. ¶ Born: to Kevin and Amy Russell O’Neill ’90, John Robert, Nov. 19, 2014, joining sisters Molly and Madeline. They live in Centerville, Ohio. ¶ John Roberts was recently promoted to chief auditor-technology for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York.

Through his 22 years with the firm, John has held several audit positions and traveled extensively including internationally to London, Manila, and Mumbai. He is now responsible for evaluating systems, cyber-security, and infrastructure used across JP Morgan’s global businesses. He earned an MBA from Ohio University and has active CPA and CISA licenses. John, his wife, Lori, and their four daughters live in central Ohio. ¶ Litigator Brent Silverman has joined national trial and litigation law firm Kaufman & Company’s eight-lawyer Cleveland office as a member. With more than 20 years’ experience, he focuses his practice on high-stakes business litigation matters including commercial litigation, class actions, bankruptcy court adversary proceedings, shareholder disputes, business tort liability, unfair competition, and professional liability.

He also provides legal counsel to clients

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regarding compliance with federal employment laws, employee discipline and termination issues, non-compete agreements, social media and electronic communications policies, and document retention policies. He served on the American Diabetes Association Community leadership board and is a member of the Litigation Counsel of America, the William K. Thomas American Inn of Court, and the Defense Research Institute, Commercial Litigation Section.

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Elissa Graff completed a doctorate in executive leadership and graduated Dec. 14, 2013. Her dissertation, “Experiential Education: Enhancing the Liberal Arts Curriculum,” was published in January 2014. Now director of the honors program and an associate professor of art at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., Elissa received the university’s prestigious Houston Award for Excellence in Teaching during spring commencement in May 2013. A member of the LMU faculty since 2007, she was nominated by her peers and her nomination included several letters of support from students. She specializes in metal-smithing and jewelry design, drawing, design, painting, and printmaking. She has worked with science faculty members to create an interdisciplinary course merging art with biology. The course includes a 10-day

field course abroad. She has taken her classes to Belize twice and Africa once. ¶ Craig Pierson has opened a restaurant, Orange Table Tempe, in Tempe, Ariz. He offers an eclectic menu serving award-winning breakfast and lunch selections. ¶ Major Kenneth York graduated May 22, 2014, with a master of military art and science degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He is now assigned as an operational planner for the U.S. Army Central/3rd Army at Shaw AFB, S.C.

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Peter LeVan Jr. has opened

a new Philadelphia law firm based on a model that eschews the billable hour in favor of flat fee and contingency arrangements. LeVan Law Group is on the 27th floor of One Logan Square at 18th & Cherry streets.

A trial and appellate attorney known in high-stakes litigation, he was formerly a partner with Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check in Radnor, Pa., where he acted as lead counsel for the firm’s class of plans and securities lending litigation cases. ¶ David Pfalzgraf Jr. is a founding partner of Rupp, Baase, one of the fastest growing law firms in western New York. David and his partners founded Rupp Baase in April 2000 and the firm now boasts 40 attorneys in three offices (Buffalo, Lockport, and Rochester). In addition to his recent appointment as the firm’s managing partner, David leads the firm’s corporate practice group and represents a range of clients, from privately held businesses to publicly traded companies. He recently completed a tour as the president of the Buffalo Club. He lives in Buffalo with his wife, Amanda, and their four children. ¶ L. Patrick Reedy is the vice president of advancement at the Rehabilitation Institute of

Chicago (RIC). He is working with the senior vice president of advancement and the individual giving and major gift officers to raise the remaining $120 million of the $300 million Advance Human Ability Campaign goal, which funds construction of RIC’s new research hospital, the Ability Institute of RIC. Founded in 1954, RIC has been designated the No. 1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America by U.S. News & World Report every year since 1991. ¶ Stephanie Engle Tortorici, executive vice president and director of health at Zeno Group, an award-winning, midsized global PR agency, is a director on the Cook County Health foundation board in Chicago. The foundation was developed in 2011 to advocate and raise funds for programs and services that improve quality patient care and meet the health-care needs of communities served by the Cook County Health and Hospitals System. At Zeno, Stephanie provides strategic counsel and support around elevating health messages and significant medical announcements and is involved in program development, media relations, stakeholder engagement, consumer outreach, physician education, and issues management.

Jim Warden ’91, with the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and Richard Goorevich ’88, with the National Nuclear Security Administration, work together on nuclear nonproliferation and civil nuclear cooperation policy for the U.S. government, traveling quite a bit internationally. Here they are at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs building in New Delhi.

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This is an installation view of Western Exhibitions’ summer show in 2014, “We do what we like and we like what we do,” which celebrated the art gallery’s 10th anniversary. Scott Speh ’93 is the gallery’s owner and director. Photo by James Prinz. See more about Scott under Class of 1993.

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Scott Fink is the new

business unit leader of the bankruptcy practice group at Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co. in Cleveland.

Scott has been an attorney for more than 17 years, handling bankruptcy matters with WWR for more than nine years. As the managing partner of the bankruptcy practice group, he handles consumer and commercial bankruptcy matters. He is also involved in the firm’s real estate default group. Based in the Brooklyn Heights office, he manages the attorneys and employees in his unit, creating innovating bankruptcy programs for clients and marketing.

His JD is from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and he is a member of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar associations. Scott is licensed in Ohio and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court (Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio). ¶ Scott Speh in summer 2014 celebrated 10 years of running his commercial contemporary art gallery in Chicago, Western Exhibitions, with an exhibition, “We do what we like and we like what we do,” which featured new or never-exhibited-in-Chicago works by gallery artists and by publishing a book, 10

Years, 4 Locations, 3 Logos, 118 Shows, 245 Artists, which compiles every press release from every show over the past 10 years. Western Exhibitions was conceived in 2002 as a nomadic commercial gallery, staging shows at apartments, lofts, other galleries and participating in the second and third iterations of the influential Stray Show.

In 2004, director (and ex-artist) Scott opened a bricks-and-mortar space on Chicago’s west side and moved to Chicago’s main contemporary gallery district, the West Loop, in 2008.

Western Exhibitions has since continued as a commercial contemporary art gallery, representing a varied roster of conceptually minded and visually innovative artists. In addition to gallery artist shows, Western Exhibitions presents unique artist projects, curated group shows and maintains a specific inventory of artist books and multiples, gathered together as a sister entity and website, WesternXeditions. ¶ Barb Steinberger Witteman MEd ’93 PhD ’95 of Fargo, N.D., spent more than

two months last summer working at an Aboriginal independent school near the town of Alice Springs, Australia, after the Concordia College education professor was invited to help improve the institution. Before she left, teachers at the Yipirinya School gave her a rare honor, showing their acceptance by giving the professor her own “skin name” of Kngwarriya. They consider her a sister now.

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Keith Denham joined CohnReznick, the 10th largest accounting, tax, and advisory firm in the U.S., as managing principal and national director of CohnReznick Advisory Group Aug. 4, 2014. He leads the advisory services arm in diverse practice areas including governance, risk, and compliance; government

advisory, management, and technology consulting; restructuring, litigation, and transactional advisory; and valuation advisory. ¶ Christie Catalano Dillon recently joined YouSeeU (www. youseeu.com) as director of marketing and account management. YouSeeU, an educational technology company based in Loveland, Colo., provides asynchronous, assignment-driven video activities and assessment for online, hybrid, and traditional courses. ¶ Andrew Medlar is president of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Currently assistant chief, technology, content, and innovation, at Chicago Public Library, as president in 2015-2016, he leads the world’s largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children with a network of more than 4,000 children’s and youth librarians, literature experts, publishers, and educational faculty. ¶ Joni Wright Sims sent in note about the 20th annual Michigan City, Ind., get-away with Miamians who became fast friends during their freshman year in Morris Hall. At the reunion were Nicole Kalkbrenner Staskowski ’94

with husband and daughter (age 3); Peter Wilson ’94 with wife, son (4), and daughter (2 months); Kaylin Junge Castelli ’94 with husband and son (3); Joni Wright Sims ’94 with husband and daughters (8 and 6); Peter Gates ’95; Kristin Finlay Sneeringer ’95 with husband and son (3); JD Watson ’95 with wife and son (2 months) and daughter (2); and Eric Learned ’94 and wife. (See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.)

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White ’95 MAcc ’96 has

joined the Las Vegas office of BDO USA as senior director of tax services. Ben is

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responsible for directing the Las Vegas tax department, managing client and prospect relationships for the firm, and providing support to other offices in the West. Ben has more than 18 years of public accounting experience, most recently specializing in income tax process and technology, serving clients across the western United States in the manufacturing, energy, distribution, and technology industries. He is a member of the Ohio and the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and an honorary member and professional adviser of Beta Alpha Psi Fraternity at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Mary Adams recently celebrated 10 years at the helm of ECG, a meeting planning, association management, and executive education firm she founded. She has designed and developed a meeting and hospitality course she is teaching at Bergen Community College this spring.

Mary earned an MBA from Fordham University and lives in Ridgewood, N.J., with her 2-year-old son and husband. ¶ Tedd Cittadine was promoted to senior vice president, digital distribution at 20th Century Fox Movie Studios in Los Angeles. He recently hosted professor Howard Kleinman’s Inside Hollywood class for a great discussion about entertainment and digital media and hopes more Miamians will make their way to Tinseltown. ¶ Rebekah Bishop Eisenbarth is vice president of H-P Products, headquartered in Louisville, Ohio. H-P Products manufactures fabricated tubular products and residential built-in central vacuum systems.

In her new role, she continues to be responsible for all tubing-related manufacturing operations and the on-time delivery of products and service to

customers. She also helps drive H-P Products’ overall strategic direction and growth by increasing both customer and employee satisfaction, maximizing manufacturing efficiencies and company resources, expanding markets and offerings, and maintaining safety and quality excellence. She has an MBA in finance and strategy from Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School. She is a graduate of Leadership Stark County, served on the boards of Junior Achievement, Junior League, and the Canton City Schools Foundation, and is a member of Vistage. She is married with one daughter and lives in Canton, Ohio. ¶ Dawn Kasper Gibel launched her women’s product lifestyle brand Inspired

by Dawn (InspiredbyDawn.com) with the Style Rx line of originally designed pill box cases. She writes, “Inspired

by Dawn delivers stylish, unique, and practical solutions for busy women at every stage of life — from pregnancy to parenthood and beyond.” ¶ Born: to Jacquelyne Hama Gilmore and John Paul, Chancellor Harris, Dec. 5, 2014, joining brothers Sebastian and Colton.

They live in Wadsworth, Ohio.

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Married: Caroline Babin and Antonio Lopez, July 5, 2014, in Hawi, Hawaii, on the Big Island.

Caroline is a business administrator for The Salvation Army of Alameda County and Antonio works for R&B Distributors. They live in Alameda, Calif. ¶ Gregory Gilmore is the owner/ operator of the Toolbox Men’s Supply Company, a men’s clothing boutique in Indianapolis. The store, which specializes in men’s underwear, swimwear, and accessories, marked its second anniversary this past November. Gregory writes, “In June, we hosted acclaimed men’s underwear fashion designer Andrew Christian and two of his

leading models for their first appearance in Indiana.” ¶ Scott Norcross is a partner in the business and employment and professional liability practice groups at the Cleveland law firm of Gallagher Sharp. Scott, who earned a law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law, represents businesses in commercial litigation, including lending institutions in workouts, foreclosures, and bankruptcy matters.

He also counsels public and private companies, partnerships, and individuals with respect to their ordinary business transactions such as entity formation, buy-sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting, and review. He is a member of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar associations and a 2014 Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Star.

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Born: to Tom Maxwell and Vanessa, daughter Avery Rose, Jan. 24, 2014. Avery is the couple’s first child. ¶ Julie Schweigert is senior vice president of client service at Marketing Werks, a Crossmark and leading consumer engagement firm in North America. Based in the New York City office, she has been at the firm for almost a decade. In her new senior leadership role, she oversees the agency’s New York and Southern California offices. ¶ Born: to John Shertzer and Ellen, Bennett Ernest, joining brothers Jack, 8, and Luke, 4, in Zionsville, Ind., which is in the greater Indianapolis area. ¶ Aaron Thielemier is controller of Largo Homes in Bluffton, S.C. Using both his executive and national experiences in finance and accounting, he is helping Largo Homes grow to include both spec and custom homes from $325,000 to $1.5 million in the gated golf, equestrian, and historical communities around Hilton Head Island.

“BaconSports. com. A sports comedy blog that combines two of the greatest things in life.”

—Rob Cressy ’02, founder of the community of bacon-loving, jersey-rocking sports fan

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new market opportunities and develop new products and services. ¶ Vanessa Green Gonyer earned a master’s in organization development from the School of Business at Bowling Green State University Aug. 9, 2014.

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Josh Vincent ’01

(Luxembourg ’00), and Leah

Chapman Vincent ’03

(Luxembourg ’02) celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their Miami Merger with a sailing trip down the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia last August.

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Cynthia Wentzel Sagel, DVM, is a small animal practitioner. She recently purchased Camargo Animal Hospital in Madeira, Ohio, and is excited to own her own business. She and her husband, Jay, have three young children. ¶ Born: to Jamie and Ally Zipko Wilcox, Maren Grace, July 14, 2014, joining James, Lucy, and Ryan in Chicago.

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Mittman Check and David,

Audrey Rose, May 23, 2013. Audrey joins big brother Austin. They live in Illinois. ¶ Sarah Buckley Faulkner, principal, has launched Faulkner Strategic Consulting to provide insight-driven innovation and brand building services for consumer goods and services companies. Sarah has 14 years of experience with Procter & Gamble across consumer insights, market research, innovation, and brand strategy. For the past six years, she worked in multiple corporate innovation groups, including the joint venture of P&G and Whirlpool and the launch of Swash laundry-refreshing device.

Faulkner Strategic Consulting, in Cold Spring, Ky., offers expertise in consumer insights to identify and assess

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Greg Boose, a columnist for The Miami Student during his undergraduate days, has a new book out, a young adult thriller. The Red Bishop (Full Fathom Five Digital) is the story of Lake Price, a redheaded teen whose brother disappeared without a trace four years ago. The tragedy breaks her family apart, and Lake and her mother move to Cape Cod where Lake becomes an adrenaline junkie, seeking out danger to feel alive again.

A night exploring a legendary local haunted house with friends leads to Lake meeting a coven of witches who have a chilling connection to the disappearance of her brother. ¶ Born: to Kara Beierle Dowling and Mike, Jack David, Jan. 1, 2014. Jack is the first child for Kara and Mike. They live in Buford, Ga. ¶ Adam Poutasse ’01 MAcc ’03 has been named partner of Savran Benson in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. He has been with the firm since September 2009. Adam specializes in tax consulting and compliance for real estate professionals, high net worth individuals and families, and individuals working overseas.

Prior to joining Savran Benson, he worked at both a boutique tax firm in Ohio and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ¶ Natalie Hostacky Stevens has been elected to the position of shareholder with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart in Cleveland, one of the largest management-side labor and employment law firms in the country.

Natalie was also named a Rising Star by the 2015 Super Lawyers magazine in the category of employment litigation: defense. ¶ Kelsey Timmerman has

again been chosen as an Emerging Author finalist for the 2014 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation has announced. The award recognizes authors’ contributions to the literary landscape in Indiana and across the nation.

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Brigadoi and Chris, their

first child, Allyce Victoria, June 21, 2014. They live in Leominster, Mass. ¶ Born: to Tyler and Kelly Greenwood Carlson ’03, Warren Kenneth, July 2, 2014, joining siblings Leanna, Truman, Whitney, and Grant. ¶ Married: Rob Cressy and Rachael Gmerek, Sept. 19, 2014, in Buffalo, N.Y. Rob is the founder of BaconSports.com, a community for bacon-loving, jersey-rocking sports fans. Its website says it this way, “Thanks for visiting BaconSports.com.

A sports comedy blog that combines two of the greatest things in life: bacon and sports. We create original content that hopefully makes you laugh and drops some sports knowledge. We are the #1 site for random jerseys so send us any random jerseys you see on the streets. Part of USA Today Sports Digital Properties.” Rachael is a marketing coordinator for Monroe Capital. They live in Chicago. (See photo in online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.) ¶ Aaron Galvin has been named to the third annual Double Chai in the Chi: 36 Under 36 list of young Jewish movers and shakers in Chicago. (The letters of the Hebrew word “Chai,” which means “life,” also represent the number 18.)

Presented by the Jewish United Fund/ Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago’s Young Leadership Division and Oy!Chicago (www.oychicago.com) — an outreach website for Chicago 20and 30-somethings — the list spotlights

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the faces of Chicago’s Jewish future and recognizes the amazing contributions of this generation. Aaron is managing broker and owner of Luxury Living Chicago Realty, a boutique, luxury real estate brokerage with a focus on residential rentals. He also serves as an advisory board member of the Chicago Jewish Entrepreneurs Forum. He and Amy, his wife and business partner, are parents to Mia, 4, and Lana, 2. ¶ Born: to Dan and Courtney Stimpert Lindsay ’01, Caroline Wild, Aug. 17, 2014, joining Ben, 4, and Megan, 2, in Cleveland. ¶ Born: to Stephanie Zentko Rozman and Steve, Chase Stephen, May 1, 2013, joining big sister Mia. They live in Charlotte, N.C.

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Johnson Brislin ’02, Ilsa

Marie, Oct. 3, 2013. They live in Nashville, Tenn. ¶ Born: to Benjamin and Laura Hackett Case ’05, Henry Benjamin, Dec. 29, 2013. Ben is an underwriting manager at Cincinnati Insurance Co. and Laura is a teacher for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. ¶ Born: to Jeff and Alison Rose Prosek,their first child, Pearl Rose, May 19, 2014, in Boston. Jeff completed his MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and is joining the Dallas office of Boston Consulting Group. ¶ For Julie Von Holle Urbanski and her husband, Matt, hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana meant a dramatic shift in perspective, a strengthening of love and friendship, and a redefining of the journey. The couple, known as Optimist (him) and Stopwatch (her) on the trail, tell their story in their book, A Long Way From Nowhere: A Couple’s Journey on the Continental Divide Trail. In sharing the narration, they reveal how different they think

and act in the face of challenges, but also how well they work together. This is Julie’s third book. ¶ Born: to Jill Wells and Shunsuke Yamamoto, their first child, Sandra Dena, Jan. 27, 2014.

The family lives in Corvallis, Ore., where Jill is employed by the Oregon State University Extension Services. ¶ Chris and Kara Hoppel Wilson ’05 of Springboro, Ohio, recently started a new business. thinkPT is a physical therapy and wellness company providing clinical and concierge physical therapy and wellness services. Chris writes, “We currently serve the Springboro and Centerville, Ohio, regions as well as neighboring communities. We provide a unique approach to help get and keep clients healthy using active management techniques unmatched in the area. In doing so we keep visits down and save our clients time and money.”

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Born: to Phil Anderson and Anna, Brody John, July 11, 2014. They live in Columbus. ¶ Married: Michael Bonham and Alex Heller ’07, Oct. 20, 2014, in New York City. Michael is a cost/price analyst for the Air Force and Alex is a retail manager for ColeHaan. They live in Centerville, Ohio. ¶ Married: Emily Douglas and George McNab, Oct. 10, 2014, in Westerville, Ohio. George attended Ohio State University, as did Emily after she graduated from Miami.

Emily is the director of human capital for Battelle for Kids. George is a legislative liaison for the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Together they volunteer for the nonprofit Emily started in 1993 at age 11, Grandma’s Gifts, and recently started a business together called ThnxPress.com. They live in Delaware County, Ohio, with their dog, Frazier.

Emily was selected as a Global Hero in Education by Microsoft. Anthony Salcito, vice president of worldwide

education for Microsoft, recognizes global heroes daily on his blog, dailyedventures.com. Emily was selected for her work in education as the director of human capital at Battelle for Kids; for her work as a blogger on talent management issues for Education Week, the world largest online educationfocused newspaper; her dedication to learning and growth; and her nonprofit, Grandma’s Gifts. To read Emily’s story, go to http://dailyedventures.com/ index.php/2014/04/07/emily-douglas/. ¶ Born: to Mike and Liz Hauser Hemme ’03, Emily “Claire,” March 2, 2014, in Dallas. Both architecture graduates, Mike is a senior associate architect at Corgan Associates. Liz also worked at Corgan for several years on the architectural visualization team. She then found her way to a local animation studio in Dallas, Reel Fx Creative Studios. She’s worked on numerous feature films and commercials and is currently one of the lighting and compositing supervisors on the entertainment team, which worked on the animated comedy The Book of Life, released in theaters last fall.

Julie Von Holle Urbanski ’03 and her husband, Matt, near Brooks Lake in Wyoming on the Continental Divide Trail. Julie, aka Stopwatch, and Matt, aka Optimist, recount their 3,000 mile walk — which meant 27 days without seeing another hiker, yet encountering six bears within 15 hours — in their book A Long Way From Nowhere. See more about their adventure under Class of 2003.

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When this student says she’s juggling all her time between classes, she really means it.

Ah, to be back on campus comparing notes with friends as you walk back to your residence hall.

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Smith, Sept. 20, 2014, in Mariemont, Ohio. Jennifer works for Teva Pharmaceuticals in quality. ¶ Born: to Cheryl Ramsey Barker and Brad, Caroline Jane, Aug. 22, 2014. They live in Birmingham, Mich., where Cheryl is a senior research analyst for Fund Evaluation Group and Brad works in private equity. ¶ Born: to Brian and Caitlin O’Neal Barre, Olivia Grace, July 23, 2014. They live in Cincinnati.

Brian is a commercial underwriter at Cincinnati Financial and Caitlin is a CPA and works as an enterprise risk manager for Fifth Third Bank. ¶ Amanda Aquino Barreto has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Stars for 2015. A prestigious group of lawyers who represent less than 2.5 percent of the population of practicing attorneys in Ohio, Rising Stars are 40 and younger and have been practicing fewer than 10 years. Amanda is an associate attorney specializing in residential real estate at Ott & Associates in Cleveland. ¶ Married: Bijayta Berger ’05 MBA ’11 and Kenny Parzgnat, April 12, 2014, in Beavercreek, Ohio. They both work for GE Capital, Bijayta in Kettering, Ohio, and Kenny in Chicago. Bijayta is the consumer eCommerce leader for GE Capital — retail finance and has

been with GE since she graduated. She writes, “What made the wedding even more special was that my birth mother from Katmandu, Nepal, and one of my birth sisters from Copenhagen, Denmark, were able to make the journey to the U.S. to attend. I was born in Katmandu and was adopted when I was 6 by my parents. I was the youngest of four daughters and was chosen to be adopted to a family in the U.S. to have a better life.” ¶ Married: Cynthia Bolden and Wyatt Neal, on Sept. 28, 2013, in Cincinnati, where they live.

Cindy is an attorney at Dinsmore & Shohl. Wyatt is a software engineer at Northrop Grumman. ¶ Born: to Joseph and Courtney Cole Dietrich, Macey Kathleen, Sept. 15, 2014. Macey joins Allie, 4, and Jake, 2, in Uniontown, Ohio. Joe is an orthodontist, practicing at Dietrich Orthodontics with his father, serving both Alliance and Canton, Ohio, areas. Courtney is the front office and business manager for the practice. ¶ Married: Katy Milane and Don Charnley ’06, May 24, 2014, in Greenville, S.C. They live in Arlington, Va. ¶ Rebecca Powelson was selected as American Airlines Road Warrior for 2014. She also was asked to be its first ever Military Ambassador to serve as a civilian liaison representing all the Veteran initiatives the airline sponsors.

Rebecca, who lives in Chicago, is vice president of sales and marketing for Atlas Imports, a wine company.

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Kelly Cocanougher is membership director of Terrace Park Country Club in Milford, Ohio. She lives in Cincinnati and is the daughter of John Cocanougher Jr. ’64 and Lois Kelly Cocanougher ’71 MEd ’75 and sister of J. Marc Cocanougher ’08. ¶ Married: Jenny George and Tim Sheldon of Greentown, Ohio, July 4, 2014. Tim has a master’s

in civil engineering from Ohio State University. Jenny earned a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State in August 2013. Her dissertation is titled “TQFTs from Quasi-Hopf Algebras and Group Cocycles.” She continues to work at Ohio State as the Bareis Lecturer in Mathematics. Jenny and Tim live in Columbus. ¶ “In 2001, the names of these two breeds came together in the new official name of a Canadian province.” Alison Baranowski Meermans answered, “What are Newfoundland and Labrador?” The only contestant to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy clue under the category of dogs and geography, Alison earned more than $34,000 during her two days on Jeopardy! last June. Alison lives in Lakewood, Ohio, and is a project manager in fundraising at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Married: Chelsi Day and Jesse Ghiorzi ’06, June 20, 2014, in Columbus. Chelsi is a licensed clinical and sport psychologist and Jesse works in sports PR. They live in Indianapolis. ¶ Born: to Matthew Evins ’ 07 MA ’09 and Catherine, Sara Lynn, May 23, 2014, in Cincinnati.

Matthew is an instructional design and technology specialist in Miami’s e-learning office and Catherine teaches in Springboro Schools.

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Married: Kristin Collins and Brandon Caputo ’02, on Sept. 20, 2014, in Charleston, S.C. They met in Washington, D.C., in 2012 playing on the Miami alumni softball team.

Both served on the Alumni Association board. They moved to Charlotte, N.C., in November. (Go to online Miamian class notes, MiamiAlum.org/Miamian, to see wedding photo, which includes seven Miami Mergers, one 3-week-old baby of a Miami Merger, and one future

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merger in 2015. All in all, there were 37 Miamian in attendance.) ¶ Married: Sarah Kendig and David D’Amore ’09, Nov. 8, 2014, in Cleveland. Sarah is an associate attorney in the corporate department at Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. David is a senior credit analyst at Key Bank. They live in downtown Cleveland. ¶ Michael Wessel is senior associate, client leadership, in the Cincinnati office of dunnhumbyUSA, a leading customer science company. He is responsible for delivering customer-focused insights and recommendations to consumer packaged goods clients to help drive brand loyalty and growth. Prior to joining dunnhumbyUSA, he worked for Anheuser-Busch as a category manager and at The Nielsen Co. as an associate manager. He earned a JD in 2012 from Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar and is a lead team member at Monfort Heights United Methodist Church. He lives in Mack, Ohio.

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Reunion ¶ Married: Laura Crosby and Joshua Birkenhauer, May 24, 2014, at Miami’s Sesquicentennial Chapel in Oxford. ¶ Married: Kerry Logan and Bryan Mace ’11, Aug. 23, 2014, in Chicago.

Joined by 33 other Miami alumni, they celebrated and danced the night away at the beautiful Palmer House Hilton Hotel. They thank their friends and family for their support and encouragement over the past 5 years and couldn’t wait to receive their first Miami Merger valentine this February!

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Married: Meg Glassman and Jack Hudson, June 14, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn., where they now live. Meg finished a doctoral degree in occupational therapy in December and Jack is an associate financial

adviser with Northwestern Mutual. ¶ Peter Hemwall is a portfolio manager at Romano Wealth Management in Evanston, Ill., working alongside firm President Joe Romano. A native of Evanston, Peter was a finance major at Miami. Prior to joining Romano, he spent three years with Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser. Founded in 1962, Romano Wealth Management is an independent investment firm with close to $1 billion in assets under management. The firm serves individuals, corporations, foundations, and trusts with investments in common stocks, tax-exempt bonds, government securities, corporate bonds, and mutual funds. In 2012, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary under the same family ownership and management. ¶ Married: Kristen Hill and Robert Nussbaum ’10, May 24, 2014, in Medina, Ohio. They live in Cincinnati where Kristen is a physical therapist and Robert works with Fifth Third Bank as a commercial portfolio manager. ¶ Married: Monica Solt and Nick Horton ’10, May 10, 2014, in Sylvania, Ohio. Also in May, Monica graduated from the University of Toledo College of Law and Nick graduated from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. They now live in Cleveland, where Nick will be completing his residency at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Jeana DeNardo has been promoted to senior associate, organization engagement at dunnhumbyUSA, a leading customer science company, based in Cincinnati. Jeana is responsible for onsite training and management lead, merchandising responsibilities, and working alongside category managers. She previously served as an associate, organization engagement, where she was responsible

for working with dunnhumby clients to leverage data-driven shopper insights throughout their organizations. Prior to joining dunnhumbyUSA, she served as an intern at VP Chemical. ¶ Meredith Fossett, digital media strategist at Strategic Advisers, has entered into a joint venture with two other Cincinnati area marketing and public relations firms to create Barrister Marketing Group to provide marketing and PR services for lawyers and law firms in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. Meredith continues to work as a strategist at Strategic Advisers, where she has been employed since January 2013. Prior to joining Strategic Advisers, she was the marketing/public relations college program director for Shop My Label, a New York City-based fashion website. At Miami, she was fashion director for Up magazine in Oxford and served on the Miami University Television News team. She is a member of Legacy, an organization of young professionals in Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati that is affiliated with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce PR Committee.

SAVE THE DATES Alumni Weekend is June 11–14, 2015.

Homecoming is Sept. 18-19, 2015.

Learn more at MiamiAlum.org.

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Devon Costello of Pittsford, N.Y., has committed to two years of service to the Children’s Corps program. She is a member of the program’s fourth class, which recently began work in the field. The program offers employment opportunities for individuals who want to work with at-risk children, youth, and families.

Children’s Corps partners with 15 New York City child welfare agencies, improving caseworker retention rates, as well as opportunities and outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare system.

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farewells 1930s Elizabeth Moomaw Kramer O’Connell ’36, Angels Camp, Calif., Sept. 13, 2014.

Robert C. Frame ’38, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2014.

Don H. Stewart ’38 MEd ’52, Lebanon, Ohio, Aug. 1, 2014.

1940s Mason F. McQueary ’41, North Branford, Conn., Aug. 14, 2014.

John R. Ehrich ’42, San Diego, Calif., July 22, 2014.

Carol Jones Hirsch ’42, Anderson, Ind., Aug. 22, 2014.

Elijah “David” Russ ’42, Baldwinsville, N.Y., April 28, 2014.

Elizabeth Gage Breese ’44, Farmington Hills, Mich., July 25, 2014.

William M. Summers ’44, Vermilion, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2014.

William O. Donovan ’46, Lebanon, Ohio, March 17, 2014.

L. Dale Ashley ’47, Overland Park, Kan., Sept. 2, 2014.

Carolyn Rasmus Aungst ’47 MA ’55, Hudson, Ohio, July 26, 2014.

Rosamay Lottridge Schley Hess ’47, Orrville, Ohio, Sept. 27, 2014.

Donald A. Agne ’48 MA ’50, Plainwell, Mich., Sept. 23, 2014.

Charmond Vance Evans ’48, Midland, Mich., Sept. 26, 2014.

Paul C. Hayes MA ’48, Wilmington, Ohio, Aug. 17, 2014.

Robert K. Longley Jr ’48 MEd ’50, Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 25, 2014.

Robertine “Bobbie” Heilman Yerkes ’48, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 31, 2014.

Margaret “Peggy” Barnthouse Canright ’49, Tempe, Ariz., Oct. 15, 2014.

William J. Doyle Jr. ’49, Bradenton, Fla., Oct. 22, 2014.

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Raymond F. Kirkendall Jr. ’49, St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21, 2014.

Kenneth L. Tarvin ’54, Naples, Fla., Oct. 16, 2014.

Donald J. Kosin ’61, Port St. Joe, Fla., Aug. 5, 2014.

Albert D. Schmidt ’49, Sioux Falls, S.D., Oct. 16, 2014.

Robert K. Chiles ’55, Worthington, Ohio, Sept. 8, 2014.

Alice Flanagan Mitchell ’61, Wilmington, N.C., Oct. 20, 2014.

Paul A. DePaulis ’55, Bellaire, Ohio, Sept. 5, 2014.

Theodore F. Pade ’62, Ulster Park, N.Y., March 11, 2014.

Gerald Klobusnik ’55, Connersville, Ind., Aug. 6, 2013.

Barbara Little Perry ’62, Cornwall, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2014.

Thomas Y. Blackiston ’50, Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 7, 2014.

Karen Young Towle ’55, Lima, Ohio, Aug. 24, 2014.

Donna Wester Davis ’50, Boardman, Ohio, Sept. 16, 2014.

Shirley Sledz Wakefield ’56, Madeira, Ohio, Aug. 12, 2014.

Linda Donohoe Rhoden ’62 MEd ’74, Oxford, Ohio, Aug. 3, 2014.

Joseph A. Quattrone Jr. ’50, Steubenville, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2014.

David Williamson ’56, Strongsville, Ohio, Jan 20, 2014.

Richard A. Spensley ’50, Erie, Pa., March 21, 2014.

Barbara Goodwin Dolliver ’57, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Oct. 4, 2014.

1950s Robert L. Balyeat ’50, Lima, Ohio, Aug. 28, 2014.

Robert E. Butler ’51 MS ’54, Evansville, Ind., Feb. 27, 2013.

Robert S. Nelson ’51, Royal Oak, Mich., Oct. 11, 2014.

Janice Sunderland Trueman ’51, Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 29, 2014.

Thomas E. Williams ’51, Elyria, Ohio, April 26, 2014.

Norbert J. Wirkowski ’51, Mississauga, Ontario, Oct. 15, 2014.

John W. Brennan ’52, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 21, 2014.

Beverly Phallen Fike ’52, Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 19, 2014.

Patricia “Mel” Little Holmbo ’52, Powell, Ohio, Oct. 6, 2014.

Ethel Henry Kiefaber James ’52, Oakwood, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2014.

Walter S. Stokes ’52, Green Valley, Ariz., May 22, 2014.

James R. Wilkinson ’52 MEd ’57, Montevallo, Ala., Oct. 20, 2014.

Harry Duane Bailey ’53, Carmel, Ind., April 19, 2014.

Mary Kathryn “Kay” Litton Loudenslager ’53, Portsmouth, N.H., Sept. 20, 2014.

Paul W. Muenzer ’54, Naples, Fla., Oct. 14, 2014.

Michael C. Rodbro ’62, Lincolnshire, Ill., Oct. 16, 2014.

Charles M. Trone III ’62, Lady Lake, Fla., Jan. 13, 2014.

Norman L. Hayes ’63, Centerville, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2014.

Robert L. Harris ’57, Cumming, Ga., Aug 13, 2014.

Thomas A. Johnson ’63, Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 25, 2013.

Sally Fehn Robbins ’57, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Oct. 20, 2014.

Roxane Florian Morrison ’63, El Rito, N.M., Sept. 28, 2014.

Charles H. Beaty ’58, Lake Barrington, Ill., June 25, 2014.

Robert E. Sullenberger ’63, Valrico, Fla., Aug. 26, 2014.

Donald J. Brulport ’58, Sidney, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013.

John R. “Ronnie” Brown ’64, Honor, Mich., Sept. 15, 2014.

Lynn L. Hyre ’58, Pinehurst, N.C., Oct. 11, 2014.

Nancy Horner Ehrensberger ’64, Washington Township, Ohio, July 10, 2014.

Joanne Swank Lear ’58, Greenville, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2014.

Richard K. “Pete” Lennox ’58, Zionsville, Ind., May 6, 2014.

William D. Gourley ’59, Wilmette, Ill., Sept. 2, 2014.

William I. Hecht ’59, Sebring, Ohio, Sept. 7, 2014.

Donald C. Molter ’59, Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2014.

Gene E. Pica Jr. ’59, Zanesville, Ohio, Aug. 12, 2014.

Marion T. Rautsaw ’59, Eaton, Ohio, Aug. 30, 2014.

Violet R. Strahler MA ’59, Springfield, Ohio, June 15, 2014.

1960s Gary F. Kline ’60, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 11, 2014.

John D. Hauser ’65, Astoria, Ore., Aug. 28, 2014.

Frederick L. Olmstead ’65, Longmont, Colo., Sept. 9, 2014.

Roger A. Thomas ’65, Tipp City, Ohio, Oct. 5, 2014.

H. Thomas Anderton ’66, Grass Valley, Calif., Aug. 20, 2014.

James E. Cannon ’66, Vandalia, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2014.

Virginia “Ginny” Boone Frye ’66, Tryon, N.C., Sept. 30, 2014.

Susan Howell Gardner ’66, Powell, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2014.

Janice Wickstead Jadlow ’67, Allen, Texas, Sept. 20, 2014.

John B. Miller ’67, Westerville, Ohio, April 15, 2014.

Callie Comolli Zimmerman ’67, Oakwood, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2014.

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Jeffery L. Brown ’68, Jasper, Ga., Aug. 8, 2014.

Leonard C. Pace ’72, Blanding, Utah, Aug. 18, 2014.

Cindy Frankenstein Taphorn ’81, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 3, 2014.

Paul D. Dawson MEd ’68, Punta Gorda, Fla., May 20, 2014.

Diane Mayernik Ross ’72, Export, Pa., Sept. 6, 2014.

Mark J. Imfeld ’84, Land O’ Lakes, Fla., Sept. 28, 2014.

John A. Gee ’68, Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 27, 2014.

Cynthia M. Brown MS ’73, Chillicothe, Ohio, Oct. 19, 2014.

Melinda S. Neal ’84, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1, 2014.

Russell J. Hohman ’68, East Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 5, 2014.

Catherine Christos Nadaud ’73, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 7, 2014.

Leoncio L. Carlin ’85, North Olmsted, Ohio, June 30, 2014.

MaryAnn Van Liew Reeb ’68, Granville, Ohio, Sept. 22, 2014.

Julie Thomas Troendly ’73, Fresno, Ohio, Sept. 11, 2014.

Lyn Farinacci Cortez ’85, Newark, Ohio, March 14, 2014.

Keith C. Unger ’68 MEd ’79, Panama City, Fla., Aug. 6, 2014.

Stephanie Y. Gibbs ’74, Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 2013.

Deborah Winston Setliff ’85, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Feb. 5, 2014.

Charles M. Cobbe ’69, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 22, 2014.

William J. Schubert ’74, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2014.

Jenny Richter Weislogel ’86 ’95, Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 16, 2014.

Mary Kay Ryan Hahn ’69, Willoughby, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2014.

Patricia Rainey Yoder ’74, Macon, Ga., March 15, 2014.

David C. Foley ’87, Middletown, R.I., Aug. 31, 2014.

Gary N. Kocher ’69, Hilton Head Island, S.C., March 19, 2014.

Robert L. Fortney ’75, Westlake, Ohio, Oct. 22, 2014.

Alan E. Huggins MA ’88, Granville, Ohio, Aug. 21, 2014.

Lois Paolucci Martin ’69, Strongsville, Ohio, Aug. 12, 2014.

N. Bruce Kazee ’75 MA ’76, Loveland, Colo., Sept. 12, 2014.

Joseph L. Dunham ’89, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Oct. 6, 2014.

Thomas M. “Zoom” Zamzow ’69, Springboro, Ohio, July 26, 2014.

Donald A. Merkle PhD ’75, Farmville, Va., Sept. 28, 2014.

1970s Linn E. Belden ’70, Wadsworth, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2014.

Terry M. Kramer ’70 MS ’72, Delaware, Ohio, Aug. 13, 2014.

Elizabeth Kiracofe Willis ’70, Gratis, Ohio, Aug. 19, 2014.

James L. Conrad ’71 MEd ’73, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 11, 2014.

Lynne Ferenz Dennison ’71, Jonesborough, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2014.

Evelyn Stearns Rasbach MEd ’75, Hilton Head Island, S.C., Oct. 1, 2014.

Lawrence E. Leugers ’76, Hallowell, Maine, Sept. 10, 2014.

Marion Mills Steeples MEd ’76, Denver, Colo., May 2, 2014.

Donald E. Frazier Jr. ’77, Conroe, Texas, Sept. 6, 2014.

Larry K. Williamson ’77, Mesa, Ariz., Aug. 22, 2014.

Jerome J. Kinzel MS ’78 PhD ’81, Zionsville, Ind., Aug. 26, 2014.

1990s Owen L. “Lee” Gentry II ’91, Dublin, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2014.

David M. Wojcik ’92, Chicago Ridge, Ill., Sept. 6, 2014.

Korey E. Yorkin ’92, Simsbury, Conn., Aug. 25, 2014.

Sharon Markey Wilkins ’79, Roswell, Ga., Aug. 13, 2014.

Shaquela V. Johnson ’07, Maple Heights, Ohio, Sept. 5, 2014.

Joseph C. Martin ’81, Mequon, Wis., Sept. 23, 2014.

Barbara Walker Callen ’72 MEd ’74 MEd ’82, Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 14, 2014.

Kristen L. Mitchell ’81, Hamilton, Ohio, Jan. 5, 2014.

Adon M. Foster, Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 18, 2014. Miami professor emeritus of music, 1953-1984.

Lewis Gibson, Oxford, Ohio, July 3, 2014. Former Miami mechanic and electrician.

Sarah K. James, Oxford, Ohio, Aug. 21, 2014. Retired from Miami’s Shriver Center in 2008 after 32 years.

James E. Kollstedt, Reily Township, Ohio, Aug. 19, 2014.

Retired Miami groundskeeper.

Helen Kisker Martin MEd ’70, Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2014.

Miami professor emerita, office administration, 1970-1986.

Sandra L. Kuebler ’71, Evansville, Ind., July 10, 2014.

Peggy Tedford Barns ’72 MEd ’74, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 14, 2014.

Carl K. Crane, Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 26, 2014. Taught business courses at Miami Hamilton.

2000s Marquita D. Holmes ’03, Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2014.

Edsel D. “Daryl” Stamper ’04 ’08, Middletown, Ohio, Sept. 7, 2014.

1980s Ronald E. Phillips Sr. MFA ’80, Hebron, Ky., Aug. 9, 2014.

Ruth Ann Busald, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 13, 2014. Miami professor emerita of nursing, 19681982. Founding chair of nursing department, a founding faculty member at Miami Hamilton.

Patricia A. Livzey, Middletown, Ohio, Aug. 27, 2014. Retired Miami faculty secretary.

Tom L. McDade ’79, Springboro, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2014.

Mary Lou Donnelly Ahlstrom ’72, Marietta, Ga., Aug. 14, 2014.

FACULTY AND STAFF Jnanendra K. Bhattacharjee, Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 7, 2014.

Miami professor emeritus of microbiology, 1968-2005.

Laura J. Simpson ’95, Broadview Heights, Ohio, Sept. 4, 2013.

Patrick T. Hughes ’71, Oxford, Iowa, Aug. 6, 2014.

Daniel H. Rubin ’71, Corunna, Mich., Aug. 23, 2014.

Bryan J. Faber ’16, Hamilton, Ohio, Nov. 8, 2014.

Lee R. Winkler ’10, San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 25, 2014.

Connie M. Mulcahey, Hamilton, Ohio, June 25, 2014. Miami security.

Joyce Marple Trump MEd ’69, Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2014. Taught for 28 years in Miami’s health and physical education department; former coach, Miami Marlins.

In Memory of… If you would like to make a contribution in memory of a classmate, friend, or relative, send your gift to Miami University in care of Wendy Mason, Advancement Services Building, Miami University, 926 Chestnut Lane, Oxford, Ohio 45056 or call Wendy at 513-529-3552. More classmates are remembered online at MiamiAlum.org/Miamian.

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days of old

On the Air

Mama Jazz, aka Phyllis Campbell, hosted a radio show on WMUB for nearly 30 years.

She interpreted its call letters as “With Mama Until Bedtime.”

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Radio transmission from Miami University started Oct. 6, 1947, when a student-operated station began broadcasting via campus power lines.

WMUB at 570 KC on the AM dial was located in war surplus Building D on lower campus and reached six dormitories with its 20 watts of power. Reception was sketchy, according to the Oct. 10, 1947, Miami Student.

Halls not served by university power lines were excluded. Residents of other halls were advised to “rotate your radios to obtain best reception. Make sure your antenna is as close as possible to a light line.”

In 1949 a 20-foot antenna was erected on one of the twin towers of Old Main (site of today’s Harrison Hall) for Miami’s new 10-watt FM station at 88.5, which took over the call letters WMUB. The AM station was renamed WRMU. Don Leshner ’50, a big fan and supporter of WMUB throughout his life, loved to tell how they broadcast before receiving an official operating license by simply throwing the antenna out the window. Caught by the FCC, they had to stop or risk never gaining a license.

By 1960 the Miami University Broadcasting Service’s Radio-TV Center on South Oak Street behind Bonham House boasted three control rooms, seven studios and classrooms, and equipment “to train students for work in communications.”

In 1980 this building was named after Harry Williams, who, while chairman of the speech department in 1944, negotiated with the new radio station in Hamilton to allow Miami to take part in broadcasting. His experimental radio station led not only to WMUB and WRMU, but WMUB-TV, MUTV, and WMSR.

crossword

Across, Down, and Gown

By Andrew Reynolds ’10 When the puzzle is completed, black out all squares that contain the letters of MIAMI (A, I, M) to reveal an important number. For more about Andrew and his crossword puzzles, see pages 26–29.

Across 1 CBS show, “___: Miami” 4 See 52-Down 8 Mine passage 13 Dodge truck 14 Needed a massage, maybe 16 Aquarium fish 17 Band aid?

18 Ryan of “The Beverly Hillbillies” 19 Job at Hall Auditorium 20 Dude 21 White wine apéritif 22 “Big” man on Miami’s campus in the early 2000s 24 NASA vehicle 25 Ones with 4.0 GPAs 28 Musical McEntire 29 Commencement or graduation 30 Concerned with beauty 32 Ariz. neighbor 33 Stunt bike 34 Frozen drinks 35 Scuttlebutt 36 Alma mater of NPR’s Tom and Ray Magliozzi 37 Medical plan option, for short 38 Motor City org.

40 The Divine, to da Vinci 42 Tabula ___ 46 Former SNL cast member Oteri 49 “Holy cow!,” in a text message 50 503, to Caesar 51 It’s hard to come by on Family Weekend 54 “Das Rheingold” goddess 55 Lambs’ mothers 56 Faultless 59 Like the ans. to this clue 60 Nutritional info 61 Flying Cloud maker 62 Cable alternative 64 Explorer ___ de León 66 Tots found in a dining hall?

68 Had lunch 69 Address given to new students 70 Praise highly 71 Certain hula hoop?

72 Track team 73 Alternatively 74 M.P.G. monitor Down 1 Beach-dwelling hermit?

2 “Spider-Man” director 3 Phony 4 Japanese verse 5 Bad-smelling 6 Question asked in a foggy state 7 “Jeopardy!” champ Jennings 8 Phaser setting 9 “For ___ a jolly good fellow” 10 Scholarship recipient, maybe 11 Miami Welcome Week giveaway 12 Landing strips 15 Outstanding numbers of alumni?

23 Oxford hrs. in winter 26 Surface qualities

27 One house over 28 Elementary school instrument 29 Three min. in the ring 31 That guy 33 Mini Cooper maker 37 Monopolize 39 Run a fever, say 41 Mount Olympus resident, for one 43 Breed known as the “King of Terriers” 44 Evade 45 Professional org. of some Alumni Hall alums 46 Less costly (like used textbooks) 47 “Why?” 48 Unending 52 With 4-Across, our mascot 53 Lecture 57 Gear for fishermen and film crews 58 Strong suit 60 Depend (on) 63 Luke’s sister, in sci-fi 65 The Company, for short 67 Body spray brand

WIN A MIAMI SW E ATS H I RT Solve this puzzle and you might win a Miami sweatshirt. Mail in your completed puzzle to Crossword Puzzle Answers, Miamian, 108 Glos Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 or take a picture that clearly shows your answers and email it to Miamian@MiamiOH.edu.

We must receive your puzzle by 5 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2015. We will draw a winner for the Miami sweatshirt from the correctly answered puzzles, so be sure to include your contact information. The answers will be in the next Miamian and on Miamian’s website, MiamiAlum.org/ Miamian, after the contest’s deadline, of course. Enjoy!

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“Potty cat!”

Lissa Warren ’94 shares the adventures of Ting, who turns her household upside down, page 14.