Giving Tribute Summer 2013

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Issue 18 // Summer 2013

The Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor In this issue

Campaign Surpasses $500 Million Goal Campaign For Love and Honor to officially conclude Dec. 31, 2013 Page 2-3

Miami Parent Supports CEC Student Success $1.5 million gift from Karen Buchwald Wright endows CEC Assistant Dean for Student Success Page 4

Gift to Advance Awareness of Civil Liberties Issues Ron Hall ’70 supports professorship and enrichment fund within Department of Political Science Page 5

Armstrong Student Center Opening Set for Feb. 7, 2014 Construction work rapidly progressing on numerous fronts Page 6-7

Becker Scholarship to Provide Access to Higher Education

Memory of beloved Kroger Co. executive vice president honored with fitting scholarship Page 8

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Campaign Surpasses $500 Million Goal, Dec. 31 End Date Announced Love and Honor indeed. Miami University has announced that The Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor, the most successful fundraising effort in University history, has surpassed its $500 million goal.

“This is a proud moment for Miami University that has been made possible through the passion, loyalty and vision of our alumni and friends,” President David Hodge said. “Miami became the 10th public university to celebrate its Bicentennial during the Campaign, and the achievements of the Campaign For Love and Honor ensure that Miami’s enduring commitment to providing the very best undergraduate education will continue shaping and inspiring students well into the University’s third century and beyond.”

According to Tom Herbert, vice president for university advancement, the Campaign will officially conclude on Dec. 31, 2013. The opportunity remains for alumni, friends, faculty and staff to share in the Campaign’s success by adding to its significant and ongoing impact.

“The impact of the Campaign For Love and Honor is being measured in more ways than the number of dollars raised, facilities built and scholarships named,” Herbert said. “The Campaign has served to educate our alumni and friends, including many first-time donors, on the vital role their private support plays in Miami’s future. While we have reached a significant milestone, the Campaign continues through the end of the year, and the effort to make Miami stronger for current

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and future Miamians is a passion that will continue to define our University beyond the Campaign.”

Since the start of the Campaign, more than 105,000 alumni and friends have contributed at a variety of giving levels, including 84 who contributed at the leadership level of $1 million and above. For fiscal year 2012-2013, 18 percent of Miami alumni contributed to the University, ranking it among the very top public universities nationally.

The Campaign was launched to take Miami to new heights of excellence in terms of student financial aid, faculty support, student learning opportunities, research impact and facilities. It began with an objective of $300 million, but its momentum resulted in the goal being raised first to $350 million and later to $500 million.

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1. Armstrong Student Center groundbreaking (2011); 2. Fitton Conservatory at Miami Hamilton (2005); 3. Farmer School of Business building dedication and gala (2009); 4. The Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute dedication (2012); 5. First game at Steve Cady Arena at The Goggin Ice Center (2006); 6. The Campaign For Love and Honor Gala Kickoff (2005).

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The Impact of Love and Honor

“From the financial support

Following are just some of the achievements made possible through

that made it possible for

the Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor. The Campaign officially concludes on Dec. 31, 2013.

• More than $120 million in scholarship support, including 586 new scholarships endowed; • More than $31 million in faculty support, including 31 new endowed professorships and chairs;

me to come to Miami to the faculty and staff mentors who are always there for me to the many opportunities I’ve enjoyed out of the classroom,

• More than $100 million in capital project support;

I cannot count all the ways

• Current and former Miami faculty and staff contributed $16.5 million

donor support has touched my

and created 99 endowed funds through the Miami University Faculty/ Staff/Retiree Endowment Program; • The Farmer School of Business, which celebrated the opening of a new Farmer School of Business building in 2009, has raised more

college experience.”

—Danaé Tolle ’14

than $111 million, including more than $30 million from Richard ’56 and Joyce ’57 Farmer and the Farmer Family Foundation; • The Armstrong Student Center, a vibrant facility that will bring students together in the heart of Miami’s campus, opens its doors in 2014. It was built through the support of more than 10,000 alumni and friends, including a $15 million leadership gift from Mike ’61 and Anne ’61 Armstrong; • Harry T. Wilks ’48 continued his extensive support of Miami’s Oxford and Hamilton campuses, contributing more than $8 million during the Campaign, including a gift naming the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute and additional University support resulting in the naming of Harry T. Wilks Theatre within the Armstrong Student Center; • In 2007, The Miami Access Initiative was launched through a bequest of more than $15 million from the estate of Lois Klawon ’39 to provide free tuition to Ohio students whose families make less than $35,000 in annual income. It has drawn more than 1,400 students to campus; • Miami Athletics benefitted from the construction of Goggin Ice Center and McKie Field at Hayden Park as well as the McVicker Football Complex additions and renovations to Yager Stadium; • The Howe Writing Center was opened through the support of Roger ’57 and Joyce ’57 Howe to ensure that Miami students excel in writing; • The Conservatory, a 7,000-square foot multi-use facility featuring the largest fully documented collection of exotic plants in Butler County, was constructed at Miami Hamilton through the support of the Richard J. Fitton family; • The Armstrong Interactive Media Studies program was endowed with a gift of $14.7 million from Mike ’61 and Anne ’61 Armstrong to challenge students to experiment, innovate and collaborate in the use

“The success of Miami University’s Campaign For Love and Honor honors not only those who built our University but also the current and future students, faculty and staff who carry on its proud tradition. It enables us to attract and retain the very best educators, recruit highly motivated and talented students and create the best possible educational experience. The impact of the Campaign is transformative for generations of Miamians.”

—Sharon Mitchell ’73 Chair, Board of Trustees

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Left to right: Hunter Wright ’11, Karen Buchwald Wright, KBW Assistant Dean for Student Success Brian Kirkmeyer and Samuel Wright ’15.

CEO Supports Student Success in Engineering and Computing As a girl, Karen Buchwald Wright witnessed the driving force that is American innovation and entrepreneurship begin at the dining room table of her family’s Mount Vernon, Ohio, home.

Now the second-generation president and CEO of Ariel Corporation—the realization of that vision her father brought to life in 1966— Wright has taken on a leadership role in developing the next generation of innovative leaders in engineering and computing.

Her $1.5 million gift to Miami University’s College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) has endowed a chair supporting the Karen Buchwald Wright (KBW) Assistant Dean for Student Success. The endowed chair provides the KBW Assistant Dean for Student Success with the resources to pursue opportunities that enhance student success through engaging CEC students and developing programming that encourages collaboration, supports personal success and enhances professional development.

“The opportunities for young engineers who are needed to drive design and technical innovation in the 21st century are tremendous,” Wright said. “By supporting Miami in its efforts to produce well-rounded professionals, I hope this will help advance America’s legacy as the font of innovation and entrepreneurship for the world.”

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Wright was introduced to Miami and CEC through her sons Hunter Wright ’11, who majored in general engineering at Miami, and Samuel Wright, a junior in Miami’s mechanical engineering program. Wright credits Hunter’s relationship with current KBW Assistant Dean for Student Success

“It’s important that modern engineers know both their subject matter and how to work with team members toward project goals.”

—Karen Buchwald Wright Brian Kirkmeyer and Samuel’s enthusiasm for Miami’s mechanical engineering program as factors in her decision.

The endowment will have a far-reaching impact on both the recruitment of high-ability prospective students and the overall CEC student experience.

“The resources made possible through this endowment will enhance the ways we engage and connect with current students, prospective students, alumni and corporate partners, enabling us to better support our students’ academic success while laying the foundations

for their personal and professional success,” Kirkmeyer said. “We’re going to be able to provide more of the high-impact experiences that get students excited about engineering and computing.”

According to Wright, whose family business has been built not only on manufacturing excellence but also on relationships and customer support, today’s engineers need to be more than just technically proficient.

“Engineers have this reputation of being solitary and socially inept,” Wright said. “It’s important that modern engineers know both their subject matter and how to work with team members toward project goals. Engineers in technical industries are no longer confined to a single discipline and may be involved in sales, field service, manufacturing, research and development, customer support and management. This endowment will help arm new engineers with the personal and social skills they need to succeed.”

Name Changes ...

The name of the former School of Engineering and Applied Science has been changed to the College of Engineering and Computing. Miami’s regional campuses— now an official Miami academic division— are now known as the College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences.

Ron Hall ’70 Provides Gifts in Support of Civil Liberties Studies at Miami There was a time during his senior year at Miami University when Robert “Ron” Hall ’70 may have briefly questioned the logic behind a free press.

More than four decades later, the long-time writer, reporter, editor and public affairs officer is not only a vocal advocate of U.S. Civil Liberties, but he is also sharing that passion with future Miamians.

Hall recently committed to funding both an endowment and an ongoing expendable gift to support and advance the study of civil liberties within Miami’s department of political science.

The Robert “Ron” Hall U.S. Civil Liberties Professorship will be used to recruit or retain outstanding faculty members with impressive credentials to provide intellectual scholarship and leadership in the study of U.S. Civil Liberties. It will be funded through a bequest.

Additionally, Hall has pledged an ongoing annual gift to create an undergraduate student enrichment fund that supports a senior capstone course and student projects on U.S. civil liberties. According to Hall, who has long been active in civil liberties-related causes, advancing the understanding of civil liberties is an issue of utmost importance.

“In my work on civil liberties issues, I encounter a lot of confusion about what civil liberties are and are not,” Hall said. “A lot of the ‘hot-button’ civil liberties issues out there are misunderstood. If I can help students gain a better understanding of our fundamental civil liberties, their importance and their

future in this country, that’s a goal I’m happy to support.”

Of course, there was that time during his senior year when Hall briefly saw the freedom of the press as more of a hindrance than a cornerstone of democracy.

In November 1969, Hall found himself thrust into the role of student body president when his predecessor resigned. It was a contentious time in the history of Miami’s student government, with The Miami Student backing the dissolution of the Student Senate—then Miami’s student governing body. The war of words was intense, with The Miami Student editorial staff blasting the Student Senate as “powerless” and “illegitimate,” and advocates of the Senate repudiating the coverage as “one-sided” and “sensational.”

It was a fitting fight during an era when U.S. college students were pushing for a greater voice, and Hall found himself caught in the middle. Ultimately, the experience led him to see journalism in a new light.

“I may not have liked us being ‘poked at’ by the student press, but I saw the responsibility and the influence that came with the territory of the Fourth Estate,” Hall said.

“If I can help students gain a better understanding of our fundamental civil liberties, their importance and their future in this country, that’s a goal I’m happy to support.”

—Ron Hall ’70 A member of Miami’s Air Force ROTC detachment, Hall would go on to serve four years as an Air Force Intelligence Officer, including time in Southeast Asia. He then worked for a time at a daily newspaper in Louisiana. Hall’s career culminated in 24 years as editor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s employee news publication. Now retired, he remains active with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Virginia.

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The view across Spring Street toward the Miami University Armstrong Student Center. Major construction work is expected to conclude this fall to leave time for installing technology, moving in furniture, putting up graphics packages, testing the facility and training staff ahead of the 2014 opening.

Armstrong Student Center Opening Set for February 7, 2014 The work of building the Armstrong Student Center as Miami University’s first facility built first and foremost with students in mind is ongoing in both a literal and figurative sense.

As the physical construction work steams ahead toward an October deadline, the work of building student leadership within the Armstrong Student Center began during the spring. More than a decade in the making, the Armstrong Student Center will celebrate its opening with a campus-wide celebration scheduled for Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.

According to John Seibert ’90, Miami University director of planning, architecture and engineering, the effort to finish major construction work by early October is advancing on a number of fronts. While wall framing is ongoing,

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more than one-third of the drywall work is complete, and painting is underway.

Once exterior utility work is complete, the site will be graded and landscaping work will begin on the Armstrong Student Center’s three exterior courtyards. This includes construction of the outdoor colonnades and landscaping work, which will wrap up in spring 2014. Major interior work will conclude in October to leave time for finishing touches, testing and staff training.

Meanwhile, the Armstrong Student Center is living up to its billing as “a building by students, for students.” Katie Wilson was named the inaugural Armstrong Student Right: Interior and exterior images of the former Rowan Hall, which will be the Shade Family Room within the Armstrong Student Center. It is slated to open for orientation events this October.

Center director last October, and creating a structure for student involvement and input is her top priority.

“It’s an interesting challenge, because I’m the director, but by nature, the Armstrong Student Center will be very much student-run,” Wilson said. “I am working very closely with students on policy and procedural decisions and all the things they need to essentially run the Center.”

Wilson’s first order of business was putting together a board comprised of 15 student leaders, representing a variety of perspectives and campus interests. They are currently working as parts of 12 student-staff teams, each tasked with its own focus.

According to Nick Miller, a senior from Toledo, Ohio, the students are having a lot of fun envisioning how the Center will look and function, but they also understand their responsibility.

“Every student selected to the board understands the importance of the Armstrong Student Center and the impact it will have on our students,” Miller said. “We all want to leave Miami a better place than we found it, and I believe that’s something we share with every Miamian.”

Members of the Armstrong Student Center Board are playing a significant role in the planning of the Center’s day-to-day operations as well as policy and procedural decisions.

recent Campaign commitments Of the recent commitments to The Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor, the following are among the most generous:

$1 million from Fred ’50 and Mary Jane Hugh ’56 Brower for university scholarships

This impressive skylight towers over the Armstrong Student Center’s Slant Walk. The Center’s design placed a heavy emphasis on providing ample natural lighting and openness throughout.

$1 million from Fred ’67 and Laura Applegate for Farmer School of Business scholarships

$300,000 from Robert “Ron” Hall ’70 for a department of political science professorship

$250,000 from Sherry Sheffield ’67 for intercollegiate athletics

$250,000 from Thomas Walsh ’82 for university scholarships

$200,000 from Nancy Wygant Mills ’52 for Class of 1952 Scholarship A view from the Armstrong Student Center’s Bicentennial Rotunda looking toward the second-floor Slant Walk, which is overlooked by student organization offices on all sides.

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Scholarship Honoring Self-Made Man Provides Access to Higher Education For Don Becker, earning a college degree meant bouncing around between colleges, serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, picking up classes where and when he could afford them, and scrimping and saving every step of the way.

He eventually earned that degree, and the rise that followed is as powerful an example of the American Dream as you will ever find. The self-made man began as a grocery clerk/bagger at The Kroger Company at the age of 19 and, during his remarkable 43-year career with the company, ascended to the position of executive vice president. He befriended custodians and mailroom employees as willingly and easily as executives, and his legacy is the countless lives he touched and mentored along the way.

Becker died suddenly in February 2011. More than 4,000 people attended his memorial service, which had to be hosted in Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Center. According to his daughter, Mackenzie Becker Rice ’99, the outpouring of support and memories that flowed into the family’s home in the weeks that followed showed the extent of his legacy.

“People loved him,” Becker Rice, director of university advancement administration and chief administrative officer to the Miami University Foundation, said. “We received hundreds of letters, many sharing stories of things he did for others that we didn’t even know about. His passion was always people,

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and he never forgot where he came from.”

Becker, who grew up with very little, was outspoken not only in his support of the less fortunate but also on the importance of access to higher education. Among the three scholarships created in his memory, Becker’s wife, Lynn, and the Becker family established the Don Becker Scholarship at Miami University in support of the Miami Access Initiative—a program that enables students whose families have annual household incomes of less than $35,000 to attend Miami tuition-free.

Don and Lynn Becker at the Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor Kickoff Gala in 2005. Becker was a respected professional but dedicated family man first.

When word of the Don Becker Scholarship got around, The Kroger Co. and dozens of former co-workers, business

“He used to tell us ‘take the high road, no matter what,’ and ‘stay strong.’ He was an example and a mentor in all things. I had an amazing dad.”

—Mackenzie Becker Rice ’99

acquaintances and companies he worked with stepped forward to support the effort. To date, more than 100 gifts have been received, totaling more than $150,000.

“Those who had the great pleasure of working with Don wanted to do something in his honor, and we knew the high value he placed on education,” Lynn Marmer, group vice president for corporate affairs at The Kroger Co., said.

“Honoring his legacy through a scholarship that benefits future students is the perfect way to remember and pay tribute to a man of great honesty, integrity and humility.”

Flodin’s Love of Miami Students Reflected in $1.6 Million Bequest To those who knew anything about Raymond W. Flodin, there was no doubt about his love for Miami University.

He spent the majority of his career as a teacher, assistant principal and principal in the Hamilton City School District.

But even those who knew him best—and perhaps not even Flodin himself—realized the impact his final wishes would have on the University and generations of students.

Flodin met his wife, Virginia Selby, when she was a waitress at the popular Oxford House restaurant. They married in 1960 at Sesquicentennial Chapel and lived the rest of their lives in Oxford. Virginia worked in Miami’s office of staff benefits until her retirement in 1985 and passed away in 1991. According to Flodin’s sister-in-law, Dorothy Pierson, Flodin became a creature of habit in the years following Virginia’s death.

Flodin died in August 2011, and when his estate settled last year, he left a $1.6 million legacy at Miami that will directly support the varsity women’s volleyball program and honors program for generations. According to Miami Head Volleyball Coach Carolyn Condit, the surprise and significance of the bequest were likely just as Flodin would have intended.

“He was a selfless man,” Condit said. “He always wanted to know what the team needed, but he never wanted to be thanked. I planned to recognize him at our banquet one year. When the time came, I looked out to where he was sitting, and he had snuck out on me.”

A photo of Ray Flodin taken on his final day of work at Buchanan Elementary School in Hamilton, Ohio.

“[Ray] was a sweetheart.

He loved his family ... and his Miami family.”

In addition to scholarship support for Miami Volleyball, the bequest has also been used to create Flodin Scholarships within Miami Honors. Seven $5,000 scholarships have been awarded for 2013-14, based not only on need and academic success but also weighted heavily toward community involvement and service.

the difference in them being able to continue calling Miami ‘home,’” Kari Taylor, senior associate director of university honors, said.

“The Flodin Scholarships not only allow us to reward students who put the mission and values of Miami Honors into action but, for some, it’s

Oxford and Miami had been “home” for Flodin, who earned his master’s in educational leadership from Miami, since the late 1950s.

“He never learned to cook, so he’d typically eat dinner at Martin Dining Hall,” Pierson said. “He loved being around the students and formed a lot of lasting friendships over the years.”

Flodin also was a regular at Miami athletic events, holding season tickets in football, volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball while also serving on the Red & White Club Advisory Board.

—Dorothy Pierson To make an estate gift...

To learn how you can maximize your impact on future generations through an estate gift, contact Jayne Whitehead, senior director of development for gift planning, at 513-529-5223 or jayne.whitehead@MiamiOH.edu.

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Q&A with David Sayler, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics only behind our peers nationally but also in comparison to our competitors in the MAC. When we bring recruits to campus, we want our facilities to reflect our commitment to the studentathlete experience and our vision for where Miami Athletics is going. This can happen very quickly with donor involvement, and that success in recruiting translates to winning.

When David Sayler was offered the chance to become the 16th director of intercollegiate athletics at Miami University, he considered the decision a nobrainer.

Sayler, whose first contact with Miami was attending a basketball camp during his high school years, says he has always admired the University, and that sentiment has only grown during his first six months on campus.

Miami opens the home football season against the University of Cincinnati on Saturday, Sept. 21. Homecoming is Oct. 19 versus the University of Akron.

The Ohio Wesleyan graduate comes to Miami after serving as director of athletics at the University of South Dakota. His extensive experience in intercollegiate athletics administration also includes time at Rice University, Oregon State University and Bowling Green State University.

Q: What is your role as the director of intercollegiate athletics at Miami?

A: I see my role as maintaining the standard of academic excellence that Miami is known for while also growing the department’s revenue stream to support an even stronger student-athlete experience. Athletics is a front porch for a university, and I want to see more championship trophies on Miami’s front porch. We need to win more, particularly in football and men’s and women’s basketball.

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Q: What are the strengths of Miami Athletics?

A: We have a great alumni base. That Miami degree means something, and those who have gone on from this place and found success remain committed to the University and invested in its continued excellence.

Q: What are the key challenges?

A: We need to do a better job of engaging students and making Miami Athletics a more prominent part of their experience. We also need to sell more tickets. Growing our revenue stream and then capitalizing on that growth is a key short-term challenge.

Q: Why is fundraising so critical for Miami Athletics today?

A: Miami’s athletic facilities are lagging not

Q: What are the funding priorities for Miami Athletics?

A: We have recently completed a facilities master plan that is focused on seven critical projects. At the end of the day, the scope of these projects will benefit all of Miami’s athletic programs. We are currently in a silent phase of this effort, but I’m looking forward to sharing more of this vision with all of our alumni and friends.

Q: What do you want to be able to say about Miami Athletics five years from now?

A: We want to be able to say that we have provided our student-athletes the best possible experience. We want to say that we have successfully executed a fundraising campaign that has raised crucial dollars for scholarships and facilities. We also want to be relevant on the national scene, and that means qualifying for and advancing in the NCAA tournament as well as winning bowl games.

Major Athletics Gifts Spur Significant Facility Improvements Legacy Project at Hayden Park The family of Joseph P. Hayden (Jr. and III) has established the lead gift of $1 million toward the construction of the Baseball Legacy Project at Hayden Park. The project, estimated at $2.4 million, will add a baseball facilities building to McKie Field at Hayden Park.

Located along the left-field line and connected to the Miami Baseball dugout, the Legacy Project at Hayden Park will encompass more than 10,000 square feet on two levels. Its exterior will meld seamlessly into the rest of the complex, while its interior will include long-overdue and significantly upgraded locker room facilities and coaches offices as well as training and equipment rooms. The highlight will be a museum-quality reception area housing the rich baseball tradition of both Miami and the region. The Hayden family will match all new money raised for the project, up to $1 million, gifted by alumni and friends.

Construction is expected to begin after the 2013 baseball season, with completion anticipated in 2014.

Ice Hockey Weight Room One of the finest college hockey facilities in the nation is receiving an important addition thanks to two alumni commitments totaling $1.8 million. The support will add an ice hockey weight room and cardio facility and coaches/ media room to Steve “Coach” Cady Arena.

Top: An architect’s rendering of the Legacy Project at Hayden Park, which will be constructed down the left-field line of McKie Field at Hayden Park. Above: Goggin Ice Center was built in 2006 as one of the nation’s premier college hockey facilities.

Construction on the project begins this fall.

“This generous alumni support will allow us to continue to grow our program and compete at the highest level of collegiate hockey,” Miami Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “The facility upgrade will greatly benefit our studentathletes while also adding to the appeal of Steve Cady Arena and affirming its place as one of the NCAA’s top hockey facilities.”

The addition will consist of four areas. One section will be an off-ice shooting area where players can practice their shots on a simulated

surface. The second area will be an actual weight room with free weights and machines.

Along with that will be a cardio center for players to improve conditioning while also testing various body metrics. The final segment will be a coaches/media room.

Alumni and friends interested in named recognition opportunities within the Legacy Project at Hayden Park or other giving opportunities within Miami Athletics should contact Jude Killy, senior associate athletic director for external operations, at 513-5293113 or killyja@MiamiOH.edu.

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Campaign Steering Committee chairman of the board and director of the Convergys Corporation

Panuska Development Center 725 East Chestnut Street Oxford, Ohio 45056

Miami is enjoying success with The Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor in part because of the volunteers on the Campaign Steering Committee.

Sue Morten Rogers ’57 Regional gifts chair, former president of Miami University Alumni Association Board of Directors John H. Skillings ’71 Campus campaign chair, former interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

George Bayly ’65 Former chairman, president and CEO of Ivex Packaging Corporation

and former CEO of Cintas Corporation Robert Griffin ’69 Former managing director and head of investment banking for the Americas at Barclays Capital Joseph P. Hayden, III ’74 Chairman of the Board, the Midland Company Thomas Hayden ’82 AXA Advisors, Life and Financial Services Roger Howe ’57 Former chairman and CEO of U.S. Precision Lens

Diane F. Perlmutter ’67 Retired CEO and vice-chair of Cohn & Wolfe/New York Thomas W. Smith ’50 Founding partner and president of Prescott Investors, Inc. Tom Stallkamp ’68 MBA ’72 Industrial partner for Ripplewood Holdings LLC, founder/principal of Collaboration Management John Walter ’69 Former president and chairman of AT&T

Michael Kumler ’97 Director of Development, Student Affairs

Jennifer Roden Assistant Director, Gift Planning

Whitney Riley Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations

David Zilch ’84 Interim Senior Director of Development, Farmer School of Business

Steve Wilson ’94 Assistant Director, Annual Giving

Sarah Templeton Wilson ’03 Regional Development Coordinator

David Hodge President, Miami University

Erika Dockery Senior Director of Development, Central Programs

Evan Lichtenstein Senior Director of Development, Arts and Science

Susie Brower Sadler ’84 Senior Director of Development, Academic Programs and Armstrong Student Center

Lawrence McVicker ’64 CEO of MVOC, LLC

Jay Fridy Director of Development, Education, Health and Society

Kevin Marks MS ’85 Senior Director of Development, Campaign Services

Mike Scott ’09 Regional Director of Development, East Coast

Editors Kim Tavares MBA ’12 Director, Advancement Communications

Richard T. Farmer ’56 Chairman of the board

Brian Furnish ’01 Associate Director, Gift Planning

Caroline McClellan ’07 Assistant Director, Annual Giving

Torshana Towles Assistant Director of Development, Arts and Science

Kevin Marks MS ’85 Senior Director of Development, Campaign Services

Danielle Gaynor ’09 Assistant Director of Development, Intercollegiate Athletics

Jayne E. Whitehead HA ’06 Senior Director of Development, Gift Planning

Design Ali Place, Graphic Designer

Emily Stewart ’07 Assistant Director, Advancement Communications

Giving Tribute Staff DeVona Miller ’08 Associate Director, Stewardship and Events

Joan Walker ’91 Associate Director, Stewardship and Compliance Officer

Jill Gaby ’91 Senior Director of Development, Regional Programs

Maggie Patrick Associate Director, Annual Giving

Clark Kelly Director of Development, College of Engineering and Computing

Marie A. Ramagli ’88 Director of Regional Development, West Coast Mackenzie Becker Rice ’99 Director, University Advancement Administration and WCAA

Mary Kay Whiston Coordinator, Gift Planning

Writing Vince Frieden Associate Director, Development Communications Heather Kogge Director of Development, Creative Arts Gerald Korkin Assistant Director of Development, Farmer School of Business Matt Kuhn Assistant Director of Development, Arts and Science

Ellen Paxton Senior Director of Advancement, Professional Studies and Applied Sciences

Morrel Wax Assistant Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations

Wayne Embry ’58 Alumni national chair, senior advisor to the general manager of the Toronto Raptors

C. Michael Armstrong ’61 Corporate gifts chair, former chairman of Comcast Corporation

John Altman ’60 Major gifts chair and stewardship chair, co-founder and executive vice-president of Continental Polymers, and retired professor in Miami’s Farmer School of Business

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

David Shade ’66 Executive steering committee chair, Leadership gifts chair, founder, partner and CEO of Wellspring Partners Ltd. Charles Mechem, Jr. ’52 Honorary co-chair, former

Development Staff Tom Herbert Vice President for University Advancement Brad Bundy Senior Associate Vice President for University Advancement D. Coleman Barnes Senior Director of Development, Intercollegiate Athletics Amy Bartter ’89 Regional Director of Development, Northeast Ohio Emily Berry ’01, MA ’11 Director of Annual Giving David Bothast Assistant Director of Development, Central Programs Jennifer Clark MBA ’88 Regional Director of Development, Greater Cincinnati David Davis ’11 Assistant Director of Development Farmer School of Business Emilie Davis Assistant Director of Stewardship and Acknowledgement

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