Miamian Magazine Summer 2016

miamian The Magazine of Miami University

A NEW ERA

Greg and Renate Crawford, new president and first lady, join our Miami family

Summer 2016

IN THIS ISSUE:

Best Buddies Bond Ode to Summertime Moving Moments

THE CUSP OF TODAY AND ETERNITY Because of his self-confessed obsession with trying to capture the perfect sunset, Rodney Coates shot over 12,000 nightfall photos around Oxford this past year, averaging 300 each evening as the sun’s wonders unfolded. The Miami professor of global and intercultural studies and director of black world studies selected 40 for his Sunset Photo Series, which was on display for purchase during Alumni Weekend.

All proceeds are going to Miami’s Hope Scholarship for underrepresented students.

Staff Editor Donna Boen ’83 MTSC ’96

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Senior Designers Donna Barnet Belinda Rutherford

Web Developer Suzanne Clark

STORIES

18 In High Gear

Copy Editor Beth Weaver

Energetic and optimistic, Greg and Renate Crawford arrive eager to dive headfirst into Miami’s 22nd presidency.

Issue Design Consultant Lilly Pereira University Advancement 513-529-4029 Vice President for University Advancement Tom Herbert herbertw@MiamiOH.edu Alumni Relations 513-529-5957 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations Ray Mock ’82 MS ’83 mockrf@MiamiOH.edu

22 ‘Life’s a Happy Song’

Best Buddies are friends who focus on happiness in everything they do.

24 Baseball, Ice Cream, & Apple Pie Looking for a piece of the pie in LA (see page 28 ).

2 From the Hub

Crawfords off to a fast start.

3 Back & Forth

To and from the editor.

MiamiOH.edu/alumni

ON THE COVER Greg and Renate Crawford waste no time donning red and white and embracing everything Miami. Meet our new president and his wife on page 18.

Offered as a summertime treat, these three separate features share fun baseball anecdotes, give a taste of what Graeter’s is all about, and look at life as a pie shop owner/actress in body-conscious Hollywood.

IN EACH ISSUE

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

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Photographers Jeff Sabo Scott Kissell

Selling your house doesn’t mean tossing out memories (see page 16).

6 Along Slant Walk

Campus news highlights.

10 Such a Life 10%

Dynamic digital interns.

12 Inquiry + Innovation

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 My Story

Whether 6 or 60, leaving home is never easy.

30 Love & Honor

Alumni Weekend started out hot and humid. Then skies cleared for a lovely time with friends and family.

32 Class Notes

Notes, news, and weddings.

In real hot water, warming lakes are a major concern.

46 Farewells

14 Media Matters

Dusting off a historical gem from the archives.

New works by alumni.

48 Days of Old

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Wide Open Future

By President Greg Crawford

At the end of our first 24 hours on the job at Miami,

You are invited to write to President Greg Crawford at president@ MiamiOH.edu.

It’s even more wonderful than we imagined, especially the people.

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Renate and I took a run through campus, releasing some of the abundant energy we had absorbed and soaking up more from the quiet beauty around us.

We felt like freshmen again, two freshmen thrilled to arrive at their dream school and find it’s even more wonderful than they imagined — the campus, the food, Lewis Place, and especially the people.

The faculty is such a reservoir of wisdom where we can learn, the staff so dedicated to service, the students so eager to imagine a better world, the community so close-knit, passionate, and supportive, and, as we sensed as undergraduates decades ago, the future is wide open to opportunity and possibility.

We took turns calling out our favorite moments from this fantastic day as we ran by the Cradle of Coaches statues, the Seal, the Freedom Summer Memorial, Upham Arch. But in the end, we agreed the best thing about Miami is beyond its physical locations — it’s the Miamians. We paused to rub the turtle heads at the sundial for that last bit of good luck as our new roles begin.

I should have been tired. I was so eager to get to Miami that I hopped a red-eye in Los Angeles, after I finished my responsibilities for my last job, and, after numerous delays, landed in Dayton nearly 24 hours later. I’ve heard a quote about Oxford, part of which says, “To get here, you have to want to get here,” and I’m living proof. Renate and my new colleague picked me up, and off we went to Middletown and Hamilton for campus meet-and-greets — all so warm, welcoming, and enthusiastic. We then made it to Oxford for an informal reception with the faculty, students, and staff. We are no longer visitors but truly belong here.

Our 20 minutes at the Seal were especially moving.

As we meditated on the motto “to accomplish rather than to seek fame,” “Love and Honor” came to mind, and we committed ourselves as leaders to living and advancing those virtues and values so central to Miami.

Greg and Renate enjoy getting to know Miami and Miamians.

At the Cradle of Coaches, we had our picture taken next to the statue of our friend and mentor Coach Ara Parseghian ’49. We stopped at Western’s Freedom Summer Memorial to reflect upon Miami’s rich history of social justice. We marveled at the beauty and precision of the pendulum in Kreger Hall as perhaps only two physicists can. We passed the Art Museum filled with human creativity. We walked through the Armstrong Student Center and saw the 3-D Seal surrounded by radiating circles of human generosity.

We felt like first-day freshmen, but this is so much better. We get to keep on learning from the remarkable faculty, keep on working with the dedicated staff, keep on being inspired by the optimistic students, keep on sharing life with the unparalleled Miami family on campus and beyond. This is really the commencement of an exhilarating new phase of our lives.

Our last stop, at the sculpture near the Hub, revealed our new favorite quote: “To think that in such a place, I led such a life.” We joined that to the motto on the Farmer School gates — “Leadership requires virtue, integrity, and courage” — in gratitude for the life we have at Miami and in commitment to leadership worthy of this incredible institution.

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From the heart Thank you so much for including Emily Welbourn ’08 in this issue’s “My Story” (“A Stroke at 27,” Spring 2016 Miamian). The entire issue is fantastic, and the heartshaped shoestring illustration on the running shoes is beautiful.

We appreciate your inclusion of the F.A.S.T. stroke message, especially as May is national stroke month. We will be sharing the story and link on your online page with a broader audience, so you will be supporting the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association message and helping women be more aware of their cardiovascular health.

—Lissa McCann ’82 Marketing manager, Go Red For Women, National Center, Dallas I read with interest your article on Emily Welbourn’s stroke, which inspires me to share my story.

I joined Miami’s School of Business in 1967 as an associate professor of finance. In 1980, I resigned to join Armco Steel, now known as AKS. I continued as an

adjunct professor of finance at Miami University Middletown.

In May 2002, I suffered a stroke as a result of high blood pressure. It was surprising because I am a vegetarian, swam regularly, and considered myself an active member of Bally’s Vic Tanny Club in Dayton. I also walked every day.

In May 2003, I suffered a severe seizure, which fractured my hip.

In 2014, I went to India for an alternative ancient medical treatment, Ayurvedic medicine, which included oil massage, herbal medicines, diet control, physical therapy, and yoga meditation every day.

After a month, my droopy eyes disappeared, my arm and leg became stronger so that I could walk up to 500 feet with a cane or by holding someone’s hand, my speech became normal, and my mental condition improved, leading me to publish two books, Laughter is the Best Therapy, a compilation of 1,000 jokes; and In Search of Happiness, Peace, and Success. I am mentioning these publications to inspire other stroke patients to pursue their passions and make contributions to mankind.

When I returned to Dayton after my treatment, my neurologist was surprised that, although I am still not fully recovered, I continue to make progress. In the allopathic system, it is believed that a patient makes progress only during the first six months after a stroke.

My neurologist even mentioned that if he suffered a stroke, he would like to go to India for his treatment. Based on my progress, more than a dozen patients have gone to India for treatment.

—Surendra Singhvi Dayton, Ohio

A ‘fairy tale’ time together You’d think that at least one of the 29 current and former journalists who attended a first-ever 1970sera Miami Student reunion during June’s Alumni Weekend would have taken copious notes or turned on a smartphone’s video camera to record the event for posterity.

You’d be wrong.

All of us were too busy hugging, reminiscing, laughing, getting a bit misty-eyed, and instantly renewing friendships that were cemented nearly 40 years ago. That’s when we worked together as writers, photographers, editors, graphic designers, advertising-circulation reps, and business managers at the twiceweekly campus newspaper.

Remarked Terence Moore ’78, former Student sports editor, a nationally recognized sports journalist, and a Miami Alumni Association board member who now teaches digital sports journalism at his alma mater: “In some ways, the reunion was like a fairy tale. Then again, you also can say that about our time together at Miami. Even then, we knew what we had was special. The talent. The camaraderie. The creativity. The teamwork. The final product. But it was still unreal to reunite 40-something years later and realize that all of us felt exactly the same magic we had back then.”

The reunion was steeped in the realization that 1970s-era journalism was far different from 2016 journalism. The journalism-track “emphasis” during our time at Miami encompassed four basic writing-editing courses in the English department, supplemented by untold hours of on-the-job training: two nights a week at Student

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We produced a tangible product, every Tuesday and Friday, for the entire university community to hold, enjoy, and scrutinize.

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offices (then in the Shriver Center), two nights a week at the Oxford Press offices on Beech Street, and summer writing and photography internships in newsrooms across the country.

We learned journalism before the advent of CNN, computers, camera phones, the Internet, and social media. Some pursued (or are still pursuing) successful careers at numerous mid-size and metropolitan Ohio newspapers and at other major newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, and New York Times.

Unlike our peers at “big-name” journalism schools elsewhere, we did not have to register for a class to work on the college newspaper. We just showed up, picked up a reporter’s notebook or an SLR camera and a few canisters of Tri-X black-andwhite film, and started chronicling what was going on around us — university and student government events, dorm and apartment life, arts, entertainment, sports, weather, speeches, and whatever else happened in ZIP code 45056.

Fellow staffers have parlayed their newspaper experiences into successful careers in other fields, including law, marketing, public relations, events and sports management, foreign service, nonprofit and advocacy work, academia, publishing, research, business, and corporate communications.

Individually, our campus journalism experiences covered the gamut — inspiring, sobering, educational, heady, humbling, and downright fun. Collectively, we understood that — far beyond joining a club or pursuing an extracurricular activity — we produced a tangible product, every Tuesday and Friday, for the

entire university community to hold, enjoy, and scrutinize.

Given the opportunity, most of us agreed we’d go back and do it again.

As the next-best alternative, we’ve decided to hold another reunion in 2019, open to Miami Student staffers from all decades. Thanks, Miami Alumni Association, for a great weekend.

—Sue MacDonald ’77 Miami Student editor 1976-1977 Miami, Fla. Editor’s note: For more 2016 Alumni Weekend coverage, see page 30.

One for the history books The latest Miamian brought me the horrible news that Professor Andrew R.L. Cayton passed away late last year. What a towering loss.

I took his much-respected survey course in American history some 25 years ago — back when he was still a young professor in his 30s with curly dark hair. The fact that I still remember his name all these years later puts him in a class shared with only a few others.

I went online to read the tributes written about him and recognized the absolute truth in them that went beyond the usual platitudes — that his survey course was wildly popular, that students would sit in a packed lecture hall in “rapt attention” listening to his storytelling, that his course was a treat for the mere underclassman — and I realized that many others had grown in the intervening years to appreciate what a great professor he was.

History to me up until that time had always just been — as it is for many — “these dates I gotta know.”

But he wove the most mundane eras into a type of ongoing drama

that I felt privileged to hear him talk about. Getting his take on periods I had read about in high school and many times before was like being introduced to them for the first time.

His best tactic was how he approached every lecture with an overarching question that he unfailingly helped us answer by the end of each session, a tactic I still use today in my AP U.S. history class. That trick, which I flat-out pilfered, is vintage Cayton. And what a good-natured, funny guy.

I bought his Ohio: The History of a People years later simply because I saw he wrote it. It has sat on a shelf until now. This history teacher has decided on my summer reading, as a tribute. I look forward to spending more time with Professor Cayton — a distinct privilege.

—Steven Couch ’93 Madison, Ohio Team rallies round Trevor Ogilvie was in third grade at St. Ignatius in Cincinnati when he started having seizures. They became more frequent and more severe as he progressed through the fourth grade. In April 2015, a ganglioglioma was removed from his right temporal lobe.

Trevor, who is my grandson, has played ice hockey in the Junior RedHawk program at Miami since he was 4. When Miami hockey Coach Enrico Blasi ’94 became aware of his pending surgery, he presented Trevor with a signed RedHawk hockey game jersey.

After surgery, RedHawk player No. 9, Sean Kuraly ’16, called Trevor to cheer him up and encourage him on. Sean told Trevor that when he felt better, the players wanted him

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to practice with the team. Trevor participated in a regular practice at Goggin arena in December and was treated like a celebrity. Afterward, the whole team gathered for a picture with him.

Coach Blasi had a poster-sized print of the photo signed by the entire team. Sean also signed an individual photo of Trevor and him with an encouraging message and sent my grandson the most uplifting note along with the picture.

Trevor has finished fifth grade, caught up on his studies, and is able to continue with his Junior RedHawk hockey team. Coach Blasi, Sean Kuraly, and the entire Miami ice hockey team have played a major role in his recovery and outlook as he heals.

—John Tromans Hanover Township, Ohio

Facebook comment Response to “Apocalypse. Ready.” and women’s clothing designer Azmara Asefa ’08 in Spring 2016 Miamian: My sweet, you are an inspiration!!!! I have a fashionsavvy son who is a fine arts/ theater-focused business guy. We are looking at universities to visit this summer. Your spotlight on Miami’s website stood out. All I can say is as a technology selling, Type A mom of an artsy, intelligent son who is considering Miami, I gain hope and confidence from you that Miami might just be the right place for Randall to find his way! —Sue Belovich, Aurora, Ill.

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Here’s the Scoop When I was chatting with Richard Graeter ’86 about his family’s ice cream

business (“The Scoop on Graeter’s,” page 26), I asked him why he thought Americans love the frozen treat so much. Depending on which chart you Google, either China or New Zealand recently surpassed the U.S. as the top ice cream-consuming country in the world. We’re a close second.

Richard thinks it’s because, other than the occasional sneak to the freezer at midnight, we associate it with shared celebrations — birthday parties, graduations, first dates, Talk Like a Pirate Day. OK, so maybe we don’t need an official reason to enjoy a mint chocolate chip double dip. We do have “official” days, you know. National Ice Cream Day is July 17, and Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day — declared by a mother of six suffering from cabin fever — is the first Saturday in February.

Whether we share it plain or with chocolate sauce, it’s ingrained in our cherished memories of family and friends.

“I had a little old lady come up to me in her late 80s and tell me about how she remembered being a child of 6 and having her grandfather take her to Graeter’s,” Richard tells me. “And she remembers it with a twinkle in her eye. That kind of gets to the heart of it.”

This Miamian’s story about ice cream actually started with our story about baseball (“Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” page 24). Listening to Don Crain ’70 share his favorite Miami baseball anecdotes, I got to thinking about what other topics would be fun for our summer issue. That’s when I hit on baseball, ice cream, and apple pie. Yes, I know it’s supposed to be baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. How about a compromise? Hotdog flavored ice cream? It exists. Really.

As summer wanes and we at Miami prepare for freshman move-in day, two special “freshmen” have arrived already. Greg and Renate Crawford are extremely excited about joining our Miami family. When you meet Greg, Miami’s new president, and his wife, Renate, you will better understand that when I say excited, I truly mean EXCITED! Our cover story about them, “In High Gear,” which starts on page 18, gives you a glimpse into their high-energy personalities.

For instance, they love running. Biking, too. They’ve pedaled across the country (more than once!) to raise support for a disease fatal to children.

The Rockies were particularly rough, but remembering the kids kept them going. Advocating for the underdog — that’s sweeter than a triple dip of rocky road any day. —Donna Boen ’83 MTSC ’96

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Sharing Our SOULs During 16 orientation sessions this summer, these SOULs introduced members of the Class of 2020 and their families to college life at Miami.

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Two dozen Student Orientation Undergraduate Leaders — better known on campus as SOULs — spent the month of June helping some 3,500 new students ease into college life.

A summer staple in their red shirts, the SOULs performed skits and led discussions on a wide range of topics that concern incoming freshmen, from how to live with a roommate to exploring individual identity. Talk about Miami traditions came up too.

SOULs are important members of the program, said Elizabeth “Buffy” Stoll Turton PhD ’15, director of orientation and transition programs.

Many apply for the position to gain leadership experience, she said, adding that throughout the

weeks, they also build strong ties with a diverse team of peers and mentors and authentic connections with first-year students.

“We hear from SOUL alumni year after year about the lasting impact of this experience on their lives during and after Miami,” she said, explaining that the program is centered around the “four C’s.”

“We want to help students become more confident, comfortable, connected, and curious.”

SOULs are part of an orientation team that includes staff members who set up the rooms, dining hall servers, and faculty and staff advisers who help the new students schedule classes for fall semester, which starts Aug. 29.

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Fulbright Recipient Off to Bulgaria Emily Paxson ’16 wants to show it’s “totally OK” to be different

Emily Paxson ’16 visited Monkey Forest in Bali, Indonesia, while studying abroad in Thailand.

Ever since scrimmaging in her first basketball game at age 7, Emily Paxson ’16 has been out to show people she can accomplish whatever she sets her mind to, despite missing her middle and index fingers on both hands.

“One game in junior high, no one guarded me because I had three fingers,” she said. “I think they assumed I couldn’t play.” She scored 21 points.

Starting guard on her Greenville, Pa., high school team, which went to the state playoffs four years straight, she recalls

one opposing team’s players and coach who refused to shake her hand.

“Though it has not always been easy, I have learned over time all you need is determination and the rest will fall into place,” said Paxson, one of five Miamians offered 2016-2017 Fulbright English Teaching assistantships.

She will teach at a high school in Bulgaria for nearly 10 months starting in September. An international studies major with a German minor, she wants to be a positive role model for children with physical and developmental disabilities, especially those in countries where life is more difficult for them.

“I know it will probably freak them out at first, but I think that it’s kind of one step in the direction of normalizing the idea that people are different and that’s totally OK.” The others receiving Fulbright offers — five is the highest number Miami’s ever received in one year — are Matthew Armelli ’16, a German major who will teach in Germany; Rebekah Harper ’16, an integrated English language arts education major who plans to head to Turkey; Jonathan Meyer ’16, an international studies and German double major, also going to Germany; and William Smeal ’16, a Spanish and linguistics double major, with plans for Bulgaria.

“In Phoenix, they were called illegal aliens and pegged as criminals. … Now, for a moment, they were simply teenagers at a robotics competition.”

—Joshua Davis, author of Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, Miami’s 2016 summer reading book. He will speak at convocation Aug. 26.

I’M GLAD YOU ASKED While 24 Student Orientation Undergraduate Leaders guided new students through orientation this summer, we asked them:

What’s the best part about being a SOUL? All the relationship building with the other SOULs, the super faculty, and the first-years.

Kellie DiNapoli ’17, Beavercreek, Ohio, special education major

Having the chance to ease all their worries about college and assure them how great it will be.

Jordan Corral ’18, Decatur, Ind., social justice studies/criminology major

I want to make first-years feel they made the right choice by coming to Miami.

Steven Bower ’19, Groveport, Ohio, software engineering major

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NOTEWORTHY

Academic “sizzle,” a dedicated faculty, high-caliber students, and a picture-perfect campus placed Miami in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2017, which highlights the “best and most interesting” U.S. schools. The guide hails Miami for its “strong emphasis on liberal arts and opportunities for research, travel abroad, and leadership.”

Rick Page, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program. One of NSF’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty, the grant goes toward his research on biological regulation of quality control in proteins, a fundamental repair process that allows us to renew the “machinery of life,” he says.

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Miami’s on Money’s Top 10 list for CEOs of Fortune 500 companies; only school in top 10 with 2 female CEOs.

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Miami’s digital game studies program ranking among public schools by Animation Career Review.

The Final Buzzer After 85 years, Withrow Court came

down this summer to make way for a 270-bed residence hall that is slated to be ready for the 2018 fall semester.

Named for an 1875 alumnus and longtime trustee, Withrow was built in 1931 to serve as a men’s gymnasium for classes and recreation.

The building’s basketball court could hold up to 5,000 when chairs were placed on the gymnasium floor, making it the primary location for commencement,

dances, and convocations until Millett Hall was completed in 1968.

Most recently it housed archives, offices, and athletic practice facilities.

Miami’s Housing Master Plan anticipates a demand for 8,100 beds by fall 2018, generating a shortfall even with the approved construction of a new residence hall on the North Quad tennis court site.

Trustees expect the Withrow Court residence hall to fill that need.

Cameron Williams, a senior biochemistry major and mathematics minor from Hamilton, received an Astronaut Scholarship, one of 40 awarded nationally. He is conducting research this summer at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through an internship with the U.S. Department of Energy. He also was named a 2016 Goldwater Scholar. Other Miami Goldwater Scholars are Hannah Devens, a senior double major in botany and zoology with an environmental science co-major, from Plymouth, Minn.; and Blake Rasor, a senior biology and microbiology double major, from Dayton.

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Long past its prime, Withrow Court came down in July to make way for a new residence hall.

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A selfie the old-fashioned way: After setting up her tripod, graphic design major Sam Summerlin ’17 took a photo of herself cooling off the best way she knew how in Vernazza, Italy, during her study abroad experience. Miami is ranked #2 nationwide among public doctoral universities for undergraduate participation in study abroad. Through its Global Initiatives office, it offered 55 programs in 33 countries this summer, the top five visited being the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Luxembourg. The top non-European destinations were Mexico, Belize, and China.

Engineering Excitement Using wires, straw, magnets, and a paper template, Oxford’s Talawanda High School students collaborated with Miami students to create working paper speakers capable of projecting music from their smartphones and MP3 players.

Miami’s new STEM outreach program is geared toward different grade levels and abilities. In this first session, three undergraduates and a graduate student taught how to generate and move sound.

It was the first of many outreach activities that are being planned by

Mark Scott and Yamuna Rajasekhar, both assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering. Senior Matt Boubin, a major in their department, assisted them.

Their goal is to get students, from grades K-12, excited about electrical and computer engineering applications.

“Once you present engineering concepts in terms that most people can understand, it becomes fun, exciting, and empowering to realize what you can do with electricity and circuits,” Scott said.

NEW GARDENS ABUZZ Far more butterflies are visiting Miami this summer thanks to pollinator-friendly gardens created by horticulturist Dan Garber. They provide new food sources for pollinators, especially the Monarch butterfly, whose population has been declining rapidly due to habitat loss in North America. In various locations throughout the Oxford campus, the gardens contain flowering plants native to the area and provide homes and food for native butterflies, birds, and a number of species of bees as well.

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AIMS HITS DIGITAL MARK Seen here walking through the Mission District, these students spent spring semester at Miami’s San Francisco Digital Innovation Center, interning with some of the most dynamic and fastest growing startups in the world.

They also participated in behind-the-scenes tours and one-on-one coaching with top executives, many of them Miami alumni, from such Bay Area powerhouses as Google, Twitter, and Facebook as well as small startups, venture capital and angel investors, and tech luminaries.

The Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, which debuted the San Francisco digital lab in 2012, offers it to students of all majors. AIMS launched a similar center in Cincinnati in 2014.

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Temperatures Rising Rapidly warming lakes due to climate change threatening drinking water, fish, ecosystems

By Susan Meikle, and Craig Williamson

Climate change is rapidly warming the surface waters of lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new study spanning six continents.

More than 60 scientists, including Craig Williamson, Ohio Eminent Scholar of Ecosystem Ecology at Miami University, took part in the research, published in Geophysical Research Letters Dec. 16.

Funded in part by NASA and the National Science Foundation, the study is the largest of its kind and is the first to use a combination of long-term hand measurements and temperature measurements from satellites, offsetting the shortcomings of each method.

A total of 235 lakes were monitored for at least 25 years. While that’s a small fraction of the world’s lakes, they contain more than half the world’s freshwater supply, the authors said.

The study found lake surface water temperatures are warming an average of 0.34 degrees Celsius, or 0.61 degrees Fahrenheit, each decade. That is greater than the warming rate of either the oceans or the atmosphere and can have profound effects, the scientists stated.

The most rapidly warming lakes are scattered around the globe. They include Siberia’s ancient Lake Baikal, where warming temperatures are threatening

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the Baikal seal, whose pups are born on lake ice. In agricultural areas, warmer waters can fuel harmful algal blooms, like those in Lake Erie that threatened Toledo’s water supply in August 2014.

Changes unavoidable At the current warming rate, algal blooms, which ultimately can rob water of oxygen, are projected to increase 20 percent in lakes over the next century. Toxic algal blooms, a serious problem in many Ohio reservoirs, would increase by 5 percent over the next century.

“These results suggest that large changes in our lakes are not only unavoidable, but are probably already happening,” said lead author Catherine O’Reilly, associate professor of geology at Illinois State University.

“Lakes are important because society depends on surface water for the vast majority of human uses,” said co-author Stephanie Hampton, director of Washington State University’s Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach.

“Not just for drinking water, but manufacturing, for energy production, for irrigation of our crops. Protein

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One of Miami professor Craig Williamson’s field study sites, Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada serves as a sensor, providing signals about changes in the surrounding environment. Right: Daphnia, a common crustacean in fresh water and extremely important in the food chain, is a similar monitor of such conditions as UV transparency.

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Lakes, home to one-fourth of the planet’s freshwater supply and an important source of fish for food.

“Our knowledge of how lakes are responding to global change has been lacking,” said Henry Gholz, program director in the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation.

“That has made forecasting the future of lakes — and the life and livelihoods they support — very challenging. These newly reported trends are a wake-up call to scientists and citizens, including water resource managers and those who depend on freshwater fisheries.”

from freshwater fish is especially important in the developing world.”

Increased evaporation associated with warming can lead to declines in lake water level, with implications for water security, substantial economic consequences, and, in some cases, complete ecosystem loss.

Wake-up call Various climate factors are associated with the warming trend, according to the researchers. In northern climates, lakes are losing their ice cover earlier, and many areas of the world have less cloud cover, exposing their waters more to the sun’s warming rays.

Many lake surface temperatures, including those of the Great Lakes, are rising faster than the average air temperatures. Some of the greatest warming is seen at northern latitudes, where rates can average 0.72 degrees Celsius, or 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, per decade.

Warm-water, tropical lakes may be seeing less dramatic temperature increases, but their increased warming can still have negative impacts on fish. That can be particularly important in the African Great

Further research Williamson and colleague Rachel Pilla MS ’15, a research associate in Miami’s biology department, are working on an extension of this project that will examine changes in the deeper water as well as surface temperatures in more than 100 lakes worldwide.

Although satellite measurements go back only 30 years, some lake measurements that Williamson and Pilla have collected from colleagues go back more than a century.

Study co-author Simon Hook, science division manager at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said satellite measurements provide a broad view of lake temperatures over the entire globe. But they only measure surface temperature, while hand measurements can detect changes in temperature throughout a lake.

The 235 lakes studied include Lake Lacawac in the Poconos. It is one of the field sites for Miami’s Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences (CAWS).

“Rapidly warming temperatures may be especially important in many of Ohio’s lakes, many of which are shallow and already have algal bloom problems,” said Mike Vanni, professor of biology and director of CAWS. “In these lakes, warming temperatures are likely to exacerbate blooms of harmful algae and the surface waters of some lakes may become too warm to support healthy populations of sportfish.”

“Rapidly warming temperatures may be especially important in many of Ohio’s lakes.”

—Mike Vanni, director of Miami’s Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences

Susan Meikle is a writer/editor in Miami’s university news and communications office. Craig Williamson is the Ohio Eminent Scholar of Ecosystem Ecology at Miami.

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Not Your Father’s Poisons Professor Alan Kolok ’78 explains basics of contemporary toxicology “Nobody deliberately put DDT on the market to kill bald eagles. There was no malfeasance. There was nothing evil about it,” says Alan Kolok ’78 (above). “It was just an ‘Oh, didn’t see that one coming.’ ”

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Talk about toxic chemicals used to mean discussing

how alcohol damaged your liver and cigarette smoke scarred your lungs — straightforward cause-and-effect stuff with overt impacts.

In today’s “chemical soup” world, outcomes aren’t as predictable, says Alan Kolok ’78, Isaacson Professor of Research and director of the Nebraska Watershed Network at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

“The impact of those chemicals, either in isolation, or more dangerously, as a mixture, on animals and humans, can be much more subtle and much more perverse than most people imagine.”

Kolok doesn’t intend to be alarmist in his new book, Modern Poisons, a Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology. Rather, his “take-home message” is that our actions have unintended, unanticipated consequences.

He hopes that after people read his book, written for laypeople in a Jerry Seinfeld meets environmental

activist Rachel Carson “did you ever wonder” kind of way, that they will think differently about the global spread of chemicals.

For an example he cites everyday items, such as antibacterial soaps, toothpaste, and lip gloss, that often contain the antibiotic triclosan.

As that chemical and the more than 10,500 others inside personal care products manage their way off us and into the environment, they are having adverse effects on animals and humans, he says.

“The main point of the book is this is not your grandfather’s and probably not even your father’s toxicology anymore,” says Kolok, who is also director of the Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology in the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

“We’re living in a brave new world of toxicological issues,” he says.

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The Zorkoff Experiment Robert Hatch ’45 Lulu Publishing In his first novel, at age 93, Robert Hatch ’45 opens his science fiction tale with the head of Boston University’s neural department looking for a human subject to undergo an experimental procedure he believes will redefine old age.

His assistant, who stands to inherit half a million dollars if it works, suggests his own grandfather.

Journey of Friends Jo Ann Pritchard King ’66 L & J Books Longtime friends Jo Ann King ’66 and Lori Wilson have written a novel about women in the same book club for 15 years. They share their joys and struggles and support each other through tears and laughter with books, faith, and glasses of wine.

Heard…But Not Seen Dave Ferrell ’73 Outskirts Press Holly Pruitt, a blind girl, is the only witness to a horrific crime. If the jury believes what Holly heard that afternoon in the neighborhood store, her testimony could send the perpetrator to the electric chair. But in an eerie irony,

it’s Holly who becomes the hunted.

This is the first published novel for Kathryn Kade, actually a pen name for Dave Ferrell ’73 and his wife, who co-wrote this book and are developing stories for more novels, including a Civil War-era mystery.

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern Thomas Knock ’73 Princeton University Press In this major biography’s first volume, Thomas Knock ’73 traces George McGovern’s life, from his boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town to his rise at the 1968 Democratic National Convention where police and antiwar demonstrators clashed.

Drawing on McGovern’s private papers and interviews, Knock shows the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate’s importance to his party and American liberalism.

Night of the Animals Bill Broun ’89 MA ’93 Ecco Described as an enchanting and inventive tale that explores the boundaries of reality, the ghosts of love and trauma, and the power of redemption, this recast tale of Noah’s Ark features Cuthbert Handley, a homeless man who believes he has the ability to communicate with animals. One night in 2052, he sets out to release the

animals in the London Zoo while everyone else anxiously anticipates the rise of a suicide cult determined to destroy the world’s animals along with themselves.

The Young Skin Diet Michelle Lee Rakiec ’03 Salut Studio After compiling peer-reviewed research on how to revitalize aging skin, Michelle Lee (Rakiec ’03) has produced The Young Skin Diet.

To diminish and forestall wrinkling, sagging, and similar issues, she provides a holistic diet program based on six principles of nutrition.

Her meal plan includes 75+ recipes with color photos.

Preventive Force Kerstin Fisk MA ’07 New York University Press Is the U.S. setting a dangerous international precedent by using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they fully materialize?

Editors Kerstin Fisk MA ’07 and Jennifer Ramos bring together legal scholars, political scientists, international relations scholars, and prominent defense specialists to examine questions regarding preventive force. Their book highlights preventive drones strikes, which mark a complete transformation of how the U.S. understands international norms regarding the use of force.

2016 MAY SWENSON

POETRY AWARD

HEMMING FLAMES Patricia Murphy ’93 University Press of Colorado

In her first collection of poems, Patricia Colleen Murphy ’93 explores the deepest reaches of family dysfunction through imaginative language and landscapes as varied as an Ohio back road and the summit of Kilimanjaro.

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my story

Beyond Wood and Brick 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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By Marky Mathews Olson ’70 MEd ’74

Whidbey Island. It was a beautiful day in May, and I sat on the beach with my 6-year-old grandson. Then suddenly, two young girls on horses splashed through the water. Will and I laughed joyously.

It became a turning point for me, watching an exquisitely beautiful and yet profoundly simple sight with that child I love so much. It was my 65th birthday. It was the moment I knew I could leave my home.

Saying farewell to a home with history, cultivated through 26 years of family doings ranks high on my list of life’s challenges.

my story

Kurt and I had raised our children there, in a house Kurt designed, built, and repaired. We pursued successful careers there, and nurtured forever friendships with dear neighbors, whose kids I taught. Each firstday-of-school picture was taken on the front porch.

Both of our daughters were married there. Now our grandchildren knew all of its nooks and crannies.

But Kurt felt it was time to sell. As I laughed with my grandson that day on the beach, I heard my mom’s simple words of wisdom: Honey, you don’t need the house. It’s beautiful, but it’s just wood and brick. You’ll take the love, the memories, the traditions, and the friendships with you.

My mother had been gone three years at that point, and yet I still missed her deeply. For my two brothers and me, Mom was a role model of a life well lived. She was an open-hearted friend to many, endlessly curious and adventurous, and taught me that nothing trumps unconditional love. She never talked about the work required for a good marriage or taking care of our environment, the importance of exercise, or the power of resourcefulness.

Instead, she lived all this. Although Mom never heard the term “workout,” she faithfully exercised in front of our black and white TV, jumping around with Jack LaLanne. By the time the rest of the world caught on to “green,” Mom had long since taught me to use resources carefully. She rode my little brother to kindergarten in the basket of her bike even though she had a car.

I hovered over her sewing machine as she made me two new dresses for school every year. She sewed matching clothes for my Terry Lee doll. She loved studying Vogue and drawing pictures of dresses she saw in stores. She’d save up for fabric, alter a pattern, and recreate the dress. She won $25 in a sewing contest in 1955, money that made a significant difference in our 1950s budget.

In 1970 while visiting me at Miami in Oxford, my parents met Kurt. Mom came around the car and whispered to me: If I were 25 years younger, I would go after him myself!

My husband lived on a pedestal all the years Mom was alive. I knew it would be fruitless to call her and

complain about Kurt because she would always be on his side. I had watched Mom. Now my daughters’ husbands enjoy pedestal-status in my eyes.

When my parents began aging, worries that had only been on the edge of my mind took center stage. They needed care for seven years. Working through the maze of deteriorating health, emotional havoc, and endless choices was unbelievably difficult. I wasn’t prepared for the guilt, the raw fear of losing them, the neverending needs. I learned that caregiving means doing the best you can, trumping guilt whenever possible, and stopping to cherish a wrinkled hand. This journey, for which I was startlingly unprepared, led to my coauthoring a book about caregiving for parents.

When Kurt started talking about downsizing, he said, We can’t take care of all of this. I want to travel, build furniture, play golf, attend grandkids’ games. THEN he said, This is what your book is about — kids who are left to pick up the pieces.

He didn’t understand. I meant other people should make these decisions. Not me. I loved the seasons of the house, the squeaks in the floors, the memories that paraded in the halls. Even so, the house went on the market and sold quickly.

As I see my own future of aging, a whole new level of realization dawns: My children are watching. My husband and I are now the protagonists, dancing on center stage for our children.

And here is the surprise payback: Making the hard decisions opened the door for the best time of my life.

I let go of my home. We jumped through the legal hoops for financial and health decisions and made public who gets the diamonds, the cherished 1932 train, my great-grandmother’s basket. Nothing is permanent.

Accepting that sweetens both the mystery and the joy.

I don’t talk much about missing my mom. I’m not supposed to. … No one gets to have parents forever. I grabbed the golden baton of unconditional love from her and passed it to my daughters. I cherish what I learned from her. She spoke to me when I most needed her. Mom doesn’t say much these days. She doesn’t have to. Because … It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

I don’t talk much about missing my mom. I’m not supposed to. …

No one gets to have parents forever.

Marky Mathews Olson ’70 MEd ’74 and her husband, Kurt ’70, love living in a smaller house overlooking Mutiny Bay, where she and their grandson, Will, saw the horses. Their backyard cottage invites friends, their two married daughters, and four grandchildren to visit. Marky enjoys sewing, writing, and volunteering.

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In HIgH gEAr GREG CRAWFORD’S OFF TO A FAST START AS MIAMI’S 22ND PRESIDENT

BY DO N N A BO EN ’ 8 3 MTS C ’96

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ust before dawn in Tucson, the two cyclists set out, encumbered by heavy jackets. The desert, forever fickle, is freezing in the dark. So many hairy spiders cover the road in their own search for warmth that the humans must slalom through them.

Every now and then a snake slithers by. Armadillos also litter the way, maybe alive, maybe not.

A huge German shepherd aggressively chases the couple, becoming their largest obstacle. That is until the sun finally rises and provides blistering heat. Mini sandstorms swirl up long enough to chafe their skin and cut visibility to a hundred feet.

Then Greg and Renate Crawford climb the steep mountains where a mist falls, the temperature drops, and flowers bloom among the cacti. Once again challenge is met with reward.

Greg, Miami University’s new president, and his wife, Renate, embrace challenges with the enthusiasm of children. That seems fitting as their multiple bike rides across the U.S. have all been for children, sick children enduring a deadly disease with no cure. As of yet.

When Greg became Notre Dame’s dean for the College of Science in 2008, he met Mike and Cindy Parseghian, son and daughter-in-law of football coaching great Ara Parseghian ’49 MEd ’54. Three of their four children, Christa, Marcia, and Michael, succumbed to this rare, inherited disorder called Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC).

“As a physicist, I could not add much to the biology, biochemistry, or medicinal chemistry part of the research, so Renate and I decided to do a cross-country bike ride to raise money and awareness,” Greg says.

Noticeably fit and energetic, the two start every morning with a workout and thrive on daily runs where they recharge and mull over ideas. Renate likes to joke that when she became a physics department chair, she started running half marathons to think through problems and then stepped up to marathons when she became an associate

dean. An avid goal setter, she’d like to shave 5 minutes off her time to qualify for Boston’s big race.

HEADFIRST ENTHUSIASM

Greg’s first day as Miami’s 22nd president was a whirlwind.

He was already on a tight schedule for his July 1 start date. He’d planned to take a red-eye from Los Angeles as soon as he finished his final meeting for Notre Dame.

As vice president and associate provost, he, with Renate and their younger daughter, Ally, now 17, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area a few years ago to develop the university’s presence in California. Older daughter, Michaela, 21, who will be a senior at Notre Dame this fall, visited them during holidays.

If all had gone smoothly, Greg would have arrived at the Cincinnati airport at 3 a.m.

MEET THE

CRAWFORDS GREG, 51 INAUGURATION AS MIAMI’S 22ND PRESIDENT:

Oct. 10, 2016.

HOMETOWN: Elyria,

Ohio.

DEGREES: Bachelor’s,

master’s, doctorate from Kent State University.

CAREER: World-renowned physicist, 20+ U.S. patents, 300+ research and education publications, editor of four books. Research on liquid crystals and polymers, nanoscience, and photonic materials spans fields of condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, applied mathematics, and biomedical engineering.

After postdoctoral fellowship at Naval Research Laboratory and a stint at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, recruited to Brown University, which wanted a researcher with an emphasis on optics for the electrical sciences group. Became dean of engineering at Brown same year he was promoted to full professor.

PRAISE FOR WORKING WITH PARSEGHIANS’ FOUNDATION TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR NIEMANN-

“We had been at it 22 years and were kind of running out of steam after that period of time, and all of a sudden it was like he dropped right out of heaven.” —Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian ’49 MEd ’54, who started his storied football coaching career at MU when Woody Hayes left for Ohio State.

PICK TYPE C:

RECENTLY READ: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Likes historical fiction. Nonfiction titles he’s enjoyed are Salt by Kurlansky, 1491 by Mann, and The Guns of August by Tuchman. For science fiction, it’s The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov.

FAVORITE SONG: “Glory Days” by Bruce Springsteen or “Somebody to Love” by Queen.

FAVORITE QUOTE: “Individually,

we are one drop.

Together, we are an ocean.” —Ryunosuke Satoro.

BOTH PHYSICISTS, WHO’S SMARTER, RENATE OR

HIM? “Well, that depends on who you ask. I enjoyed inventing and the research, trying to figure out how to make things work, how to make gadgets run, and how to measure different quantities. Renate is much better with theory.”

RENATE, 48 Married 28 years, Greg and Renate met while both were conducting research in Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute. They don’t agree on who started the flirting.

HOMETOWN: Chagrin Falls near Cleveland. Her family moved there from the Netherlands when she was 16. She is the oldest of four. Sister Debby Ondris DeSalvo ’93 MS’95 is a Miami Merger.

She and husband Matt ’93 MS ’95 are physicians in Myrtle Beach. When Debby found out Greg would be Miami’s next president, she teared up.

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“I have always looked up to my sister and Greg for their achievements thus Greg and her being president and first lady of Miami makes me exceptionally proud.”

Bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate from Kent State.

DEGREES:

CAREER: National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biomolecular Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory; on faculty at University of Massachusetts, where she became chair of the physics department and associate dean of engineering; adjunct associate professor of physics at Notre Dame; now university ambassador and adjunct professor of physics at Miami. Has numerous publications in research and teaching pedagogy and is co-inventor on three patents.

HOBBIES: Health and fitness. Running.

Triathlons are her “go-to.”

Neat freak. “When you put down a cup, next time you reach for it, better look in the dishwasher.”

FLAW:

FAVORITE FOOD: Many Dutch favorites: hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles on bread), kroketten (bread-crumbed fried ground beef), and especially vlaai (pie-like). Also really enjoy a good hamburger and fries, with mayonnaise, and chocolate mousse cake. At Bagel & Deli, “Messy Katie” is her favorite so far.

MICHAELA, 21 Daughter

Michaela is a senior at the University of Notre Dame studying economics with minors in poverty studies and sociology. Passionate about serving others, she volunteers at the Center for the Homeless in South Bend. She’s interning at the Boston district attorney’s office in the homicide unit this summer.

FUN FACT: She’s

a huge college football fan.

ALLY, 17 Daughter

Ally, short for Alexandra, starts her freshman year at UC Berkeley this fall majoring in applied mathematics. Her senior year, she worked after school in a research lab at Stanford University with a well-known professor on Niemann-Pick Type C. She creates her own cosmetics out of natural products, which makes for a messy kitchen.

FUN FACT:

EMMA, 14 Family dog

Emma, their adored golden retriever. “There is nothing bad you can say about golden retrievers,” Greg says. “They are the perfect animal, always happy, outgoing, loving, and, if dogs can be, optimistic.”

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and worked a few hours before heading to breakfast at the Middletown and Hamilton campuses. His schedule then called for more introductions on the Oxford campus and a tour of iconic traditions, such as the Seal and Upham Arch. He wanted to dive headfirst into Miami.

But mechanical problems left him at the gate, and the July 4th holiday weekend made finding another plane difficult.

Not one to give up, he and Renate, who came the day before, arrived at the Middletown campus in time for a light lunch with faculty, staff, and students. They then headed to Hamilton and Oxford. At that point, he’d been awake for more than 24 hours, but you’d never have known it.

He walked into all three receptions eager to talk with every individual. To each, he extended his hand and said, “Hi, I’m Greg Crawford. Nice to meet you.”

Underneath the suit jacket of that extended arm he wears half a dozen or so multi-colored, plastic wristbands.

He and Renate started collecting these from the families of NPC children during their second cross-country ride. The one for the Parseghian children is purple because it was Christa’s favorite color.

HEALTHY CURIOSITY

Greg and Renate are committed to their communities and to fighting for social justice. Much of their work is “advocacy for the underdog,” Greg says, pointing to the bike rides, spin-a-thons to raise money for women who can’t afford mammograms, and events for South Bend’s homeless center, where Michaela has volunteered since high school. Both Greg and Renate are also passionate about improving health in Haiti.

Health and wellness programs are especially important to Renate. She and Ally share an interest in nutrition, which may explain why she makes kale smoothies every morning.

“Greg will drink those only when forced to and pretty much holding his nose the whole time,” she says. “If you wonder what they taste like, just think of grass clippings.”

Renate and Greg really like Miami’s toasted roll and malt tradition.

People are understandably curious to know what their roles at Miami will be. With so many options, they’d like to spend the first six months learning about the campus and the community and meeting as many Miamians as possible.

In advance of face-to-face introductions, here are a few details about them, some serious, some fun: Greg: I am a builder and entrepreneur.

I love to brainstorm and engage with colleagues on problem solving, vision creation, and consensus building. Although a scientist by training, I am passionate about the liberal arts. I tend to see similarities in things and disciplines, trying to bring unity rather than seeing things divided or separated.

Renate: I am very much a social person.

As a faculty member, office hours were my favorite part of the day. In some ways, I see my new role as extended office hours, getting to know the extraordinary people behind the faces that make up the Miami family and working together toward a common goal.

Greg: I do have a character flaw with chocolate. If you put it in front of me, it will disappear — the entire bowl or whole bar. Then I will get mad at myself for eating so much.

Renate: Our girls remind me that I am not funny, but I like to think I am.

Greg’s and Renate’s bikes on campus and always ready to roll. Greg rides his to meetings.

—GREG CRAWFORD Greg: I tend to sleep 4–5 hours a night, and I wake up very early (4 a.m.). A mentor once told me one of my flaws was that I only have one gear — fast. I have to continually work at this, making sure I know when to slow down and shift to a lower gear and when to accelerate.

VIRTUOUS COURAGE

Greg believes virtues are the “bedrock” of leadership with courage being the most important, especially for those who truly create change, transform thinking, or steer others through tumultuous times.

In one of his favorite sayings, Maya Angelou states: “… without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

For Greg, challenge and courage are inseparable.

“People often ask how I trained to get into shape for a month of riding 100-plus miles day after day. I always say, ‘You don’t train to finish something that big — you train to gather up enough courage to start.’

Having the courage to attempt new things — challenging myself and the system — pretty much sums it up.”

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

Sandra Mattingly ’17

“

I ALWAYS SAY, ‘YOU DON’T TRAIN TO FINISH SOMETHING THAT BIG — YOU TRAIN TO GATHER UP ENOUGH COURAGE TO START.’ HAVING THE COURAGE TO ATTEMPT NEW THINGS — CHALLENGING MYSELF AND THE SYSTEM — PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.”

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‘Life’s a Happy Miami’s Most Outstanding Best Buddies chapter creates special friendships

hey hug. They sing. Then they hug some more. Perhaps not typical behavior during a choir rehearsal, but this group isn’t typical.

This is Miami’s Best Buddies Friends Choir where college students share Saturday mornings and sheet music in a classroom on Miami’s Hamilton campus with community adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

The Friends Choir is one of several programs that helped Miami earn the Overall Most Outstanding College Chapter of Best Buddies International Award at the organization’s leadership conference last summer.

The nonprofit, founded in 1989, has grown from one chapter at Georgetown University to almost 1,900 chapters worldwide, impacting the lives of more than 900,000 people with and without IDD, according to its website. It has chapters in every state and in more than 50 countries.

‘When there’s someone by your side’

When then-junior Ashley Johnson started Miami’s chapter in 2004, she paired about 10 students with people who have IDD. “It’s really blossomed as a program,” said Connie Mehlman, advocacy coordinator for the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Also the host site coordinator for Miami’s chapter, she helped Johnson start the program.

A photograph hanging on Mehlman’s office wall shows the first group of Miami students with their buddies.

Today, there are about 175 participants, making it one of the largest student organizations on campus. Johnson ’05, a clinical faculty member of special education in Miami’s educational psychology department, now serves as Best Buddies’ faculty adviser.

Being selected for the international award from 473 college programs was an unexpected honor for Miami’s chapter, which was categorized as an expansion WATCH Miami’s Best Buddies Friends Choir sing “Life’s a Happy Song” at tinyurl.com/bestbuddieschoir << Tanner McClellan ’16

Song’ program because it didn’t have a state office like so many others. Since then, Best Buddies International has opened an office in Columbus.

Mehlman, who sits on the state advisory board, said having the office means more support. It already plans to start 14 new chapters. They are located at middle schools and high schools as well as colleges. In August, Oxford will gain its newest chapter, Talawanda High School.

For the most outstanding award, all 473 chapters were evaluated on the amount of community awareness each raised and the quality of friendships it established.

Miami’s organization has stepped up its awareness activities beyond the annual Best Buddies Friendship Walk in recent years. For instance, two buddies, Amanda Stoeppel and Kim Hudson, walked the runway during this spring’s Miami Fashion & Design fashion show.

Its choir also has boosted awareness during events like the A Capella Awareness Concert where it joined voices with other musical campus groups such as Just Duet, Soul2Soul, The Cheezies, and the Treble Makers.

‘To sing along!’

Tanner McClellan ’16 started the choir during her freshman year. The May graduate in kinesiology and health watched the choir grow from its original five members to nearly 30 faithful attendees at this spring’s rehearsals.

BY M A RGO K I SSE LL

“Soon, they’re going to need a bigger room,” said McClellan, who is working part time as an intern this summer at the Ohio Best Buddies office. She starts graduate school in August at Kettering College to pursue a doctorate in occupational therapy. She intends to stay involved with Best Buddies.

There’s no doubt Holly Oehler of Ross Township will stick with Miami’s Best Buddies group and its choir.

“It’s pretty fun because I have lots of friends here,” she said at a rehearsal. She particularly enjoys “Life’s a Happy Song” from The Muppets movie.

That was the first song McClellan taught the choir members, so they usually save this favorite for their concert finale, reveling in the chorus: “Life’s a happy song, when there’s someone by your side to sing along!”

As much as Oehler enjoys the singing, her mom, Patty, is equally thrilled to see Holly, now 29, gleefully performing on stage. Her daughter was diagnosed with Landau-Kleffner syndrome, a rare, childhood neurological disorder that affects comprehension and speech.

“I like the friendships Holly makes and how much they all love each other and accept each other,” Oehler said. It means a lot to the families to have their adult children participate in something that makes them so happy.

“There can be so much sadness when raising children with special needs,” Oehler explained. “Having Best Buddies

“

Having … the Best Buddies Choir makes our sons and daughters so happy, and that makes moms and dads so happy. and the Best Buddies Choir makes our sons and daughters so happy, and that makes moms and dads so happy.”

Margo Kissell is news and feature writer in Miami’s university news and communications office.

G ET INVOLV E D To find out how to become involved with Best Buddies in your area, contact Connie Mehlman, advocacy coordinator for the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities and host site coordinator for Miami’s chapter, at cjmehlman@ butlerdd.org.

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BASEBALL, Take Me Out to the Ballgame

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The next Alumni Weekend for the Miami Baseball Players Alumni Association is Sept. 23-25, 2016. For details, contact Dan Menkins, Miami’s director of baseball operations, at Menkind@miamioh. edu; 513-529-2338.

AS WE HEAD INTO THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER and Major League

pennant races heat up, there’s no better time to slather on sunscreen, get comfy in a deck chair, and imagine yourself sitting in a dugout next to Mr. Miami Baseball himself, Don Crain ’70, as he tells his favorite stories.

In his opinion, MU baseball’s produced two major figures, one being left-hander Buddy Schultz ’73, who pitched for the Cubs and the Cardinals.

“Easily the best pitcher we ever had,” says Crain, a teammate of his. “Buddy’s major claim to fame, and there are many, is that he set a NCAA Division I record that will never be broken.” [See page 48] The other major figure was Walter “Smokey” Alston ’35, a hard-hitting shortstop and pitcher during his college days who’s enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Nicknamed Smokey because of his blistering throws, Alston grew up in the tiny burg of Darrtown, southeast of Oxford.

Named Manager of the Year six times, he skippered the Dodgers for 23 years, in Brooklyn and in LA, and his teams won seven National League pennants and four World Series.

Alston coached many of the greats, and after he retired, he even coached Crain, coming over to Oxford from Darrtown to “manage” alumni players in their annual game against varsity.

“A real gentleman,” Alston shared those duties with Cincinnati Reds announcer Joe Nuxhall, who started his broadcasting career calling MU basketball games.

“The alumni games would take forever to play because Alston and Nuxhall would be telling stories in the dugout, and at the half inning, when it was time to go out, you didn’t want to leave and miss the rest of the story,” Crain says.

Miami’s varsity teams have been rounding third and heading for home at McKie Field since around the turn of the 19th century.

Baseball attracted fans before that, though. Crain says it was the most popular indoor sport in America. So much so, that

the original plan for Withrow Court was for an L-shaped building with a dirt floor to give players room to run the bases. Before the first brick was laid, however, basketball caught on, and Withrow was redesigned.

Through the years, some MU baseball players have become famous for their prowess as football coaches.

Paul Brown ’30 (Browns and Bengals) was a three-year starter in center field and a notorious base stealer. He and Weeb Ewbank ’28 (Colts and Jets) played in the same outfield.

Ara Parseghian ’49 (Notre Dame) was also a three-year starter. Bo Schembechler ’51 (University of Michigan) was a “great” lefthanded pitcher with impressive speed.

By Crain’s count, seven of the eight original Cradle of Coaches members played Miami baseball. Close to a hundred MU players have been drafted or have signed professional contracts and 24 have played in the Majors.

Currently, Adam Eaton is centerfielder for the White Sox. For 50 years, despite his hectic schedule as a lawyer and partner with Frost Brown Todd, Crain’s reached out to help every MU baseball coach, from his own, Bud Middaugh ’62, to today’s, Danny Hayden.

He also co-founded the Miami Baseball Players Alumni Association with longtime sports information director Dave Young to help former players in their careers. Stryker, a medical technology company in Kalamazoo, is one of their success stories, having hired more than a dozen alumni in a decade.

The association invites former teammates back to Oxford every spring and fall to relive their halcyon days on the diamond.

In Crain’s day, that diamond was a rough one. Left field rose up, and right went downhill and was short by 30 feet. It had no dugout.

No press box either. Young kept score on a

“It’s the highest and the purest form of the sport of baseball in America ’cause for these guys, it’s not a job, it’s not a profession. They play for the love of the game and for their school.” card table behind home plate. When it rained, he popped open his umbrella. Fans feared lightning would strike his live microphone.

“Our coach would roll the infield with a tractor to make it hard and fast, giving us an advantage over our opponents because they weren’t used to ground balls rocketing at them at the speed of sound,” says Crain, who wore No. 4 and played center, third, and a little bit in left. He had a good arm and speed was his ticket.

“You had to have great hands to play infield for Bud Middaugh, or you had to put your teeth on your watch chain.”

Ah, to be a college kid stepping up to the plate once again. For Crain, there’s nothing better, especially on a sunny afternoon with fans rooting you on.

“It’s the highest and the purest form of the sport of baseball in America ’cause for these guys, it’s not a job, it’s not a profession,” he says. “They play for the love of the game and for their school.”

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The Inside Scoop on Graeter’s

I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM for black raspberry

chocolate chip. Or at least there’s a good chance you do if you indulge in Graeter’s.If you know Graeter’s — the family-owned ice cream business in Cincinnati — you’re likely not surprised that this is its top-selling flavor.

Richard Graeter ’86 is fairly certain his family’s business is the second largest consumer of black raspberries in the U.S. He thinks the only company that possibly uses more is Smucker’s, another familyowned operation in Ohio headed by a Miami alum.

Graeter’s dad, Dick, is the one credited with concocting the flavor.

Always experimenting, Dick created a small batch of plain black raspberry, something he’d tasted as a kid while traveling with his family. In Dick’s day, customers came into the back room while he packed their purchases in dry ice. One such visitor suggested adding chocolate chips.

“So he did, much to his regret because it took off like wildfire, and he had to stop making the plain black raspberry, which he liked,” Richard says.

No surprise there. Almost every Graeter born into the family prefers plain. Richard, who opts for vanilla and chocolate, explains their taste.

“Our wives and people who marry into the family like the chocolate chips — 80 percent of our production is with chocolate chips. That’s what most of our customers like. But for those of us behind the scenes, we know how much goes into making the ice cream, and that’s what we truly like the best.”

Great-grandfather Louis started the business in 1868, selling at neighborhood street markets. After he married Regina Berger, they bought a store, making their product in the back room.

When Louis died, Regina took over and saved the business as mass-produced, cheaper ice creams flooded the market.

Stubborn, she stuck with her labor-intensive, old-world French pot freezers and eventually opened 20 parlors.

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“She built the business in an era when women were not businessmen,” Richard says. “She is why we’re here today.”

Each era has its struggles. Richard and his partners, cousins Chip and Bob, are the fourth generation and have gone through difficult growing pains.

“Transitioning a family business is extremely difficult. It’s not just legal and accounting stuff. There are a lot of emotions and relationships tied up in the transition, especially when you go from brothers to cousins. The fact that we had challenges is not unique. What is unique is we solved those challenges and moved on to another generation of success. I think only 1, 2 percent of family businesses ever make it to the fourth generation.”

Corporations are another challenge, trying to crowd out craft brands, Richard says. Graeter’s isn’t exactly the cheapest in the grocery store, where its competition is Ben & Jerry’s and Talenti, both owned by Unilever, and Nestle’s Häagen-Dazs.

Richard says the “dirty secret” about ice cream is it’s sold by volume because many manufacturers pump air into it. By law, ice cream can be 50 percent air.

“The big boys like to sell it by volume because if you put a pint of cheap ice cream on the shelf next to a pint of Graeter’s, they look the same. Now, if you pick ‘em up, you don’t even need a scale to tell that the cheap ice cream is missing something because it is so much lighter. If you go ounce by ounce, put it on a gram scale, the price is much closer.

“But nobody, and I mean nobody literally anywhere in the world, supplies ice cream at the scale we do manufacturing it at 2 and a half gallons at a time.”

Richard says the “dirty secret” about ice cream is it’s sold by volume because many manufacturers pump air into it. By law, ice cream can be 50 percent air.

Food & Wine in its list of “Best Ice Cream Spots in the U.S.” awarded Graeter’s the Ohio title, crediting the company’s technique for making an extra dense and creamy dessert.

Its French recipe calls for an egg custard base unlike American ice cream, which is made without eggs.

Graeter’s opened a store in Oxford in July 2015 and four this summer in Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. In total, it has 55 scoop shops in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

As a teenager, Richard spent summers learning the business. He worked up front in a retail store as well as behind the scenes on maintenance, in the bakery too near the hot ovens for the season, and alongside his dad and grandpa in the factory his great-grandmother bought in the Depression.

He and his grandpa were particularly messy with the bittersweet and the syrup.

By the end of the day, they looked like they’d been dipped in chocolate.

As for Richard’s current relationship with the sweet treat?

“I try to eat a little bit every day. People say, ‘Oh, you must be sick of ice cream,’ and I’m, ‘Are you crazy? I love it!’ ”

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BY BETSA MARSH Cincinnati freelancer Betsa Marsh wrote about architecture major and clothing designer Azmara Asefa â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 in the Spring 2016 Miamian.

Actress Lindsay Hollister â&#x20AC;&#x2122;99 seeks her slice of the American dream

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IN HOLLYWOOD, LAND OF APPEARANCES, CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING. Does the guy ordering a warm Mom’s Apple Crumble recognize the woman behind the counter from her wicked mambo with Steve Carell in Get Smart?

Does the gal savoring her Salted Caramel Pecan slice spot the barista as one of the farmer’s daughters in Pee Wee’s Big Holiday?

They rarely do, and that’s all right with Lindsay Hollister ’99, who majored in theatre performance at Miami. She doesn’t expect everyone craving shepherd’s pie to have her filmography top of mind.

Hollister serves up comfort food with one hand and a hefty side of cinematic sass with the other. She weaves between food and film, ringing up tabs and tearing off to auditions.

Blending in the many facets of her personality spices the acting and the cooking.

A dedicated actor since high school, Hollister veered into pastry when partnernow-husband, Matt Heffner, tired of special effects makeup and industrial design. He wanted to fulfill his mother’s dream of a pie shop. In 2011, the couple fired up secondhand ovens to launch The Pie Hole Los Angeles.

“Five years later, we’re about to open our fourth pie shop on Hollywood and Vine, right on the Walk of Fame,” Hollister marveled.

“People feel happy when they’re here. Pie is like something their mom or grandmother would give them.”

Hollister blends home comforts with show biz edginess. When no audition beckons, she’s crafting a film script she hopes to bring to Ohio this year.

“It’s a horror-comedy set in a weight-loss camp,” Hollister revealed. “I work very closely with Miami’s theatre department, and I’d like to engage the students there.”

The theme? Bullying. Something Hollister has been researching all her life.

“I’ve been bullied since I was in second grade. I always stuck up for the little guy, for people being bullied, including myself. I give the credit to my parents — they never taught me that my self-worth was equivalent to a number on the scale.

“I think everyone can relate to a bullying storyline, whether it’s ethnicity or sexual orientation.” And to the fear of fat. “That’s the

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thing that connects all of us,” Hollister said.

“Everybody can be fat.”

It leads to the last acceptable public prejudice: body shaming.

“Our society treats obesity like a crime instead of an addiction. Our food is just as addictive as heroin or crack cocaine, but there’s no support for overweight people. Why aren’t we angry at the manufacturers who put chemicals into our food?

“I follow Tess Holliday, a plus-size model, and when she posts on Instagram, people write, ‘You should kill yourself.’ Would you say that to a heroin addict? An alcoholic?

“The size acceptance movement is very similar to Black Lives Matter. We’re all struggling to be considered as valuable as the next person.”

Hollister’s sense of mission helped fuel her move to Los Angeles after Miami. Within a year she was portraying Christine Banks on Fox’s hit Boston Public.

Christine, an overweight student relentlessly bullied, was invited onto the wrestling team. Viewers hadn’t seen anyone like Christine, but Hollister knew this girl inside out. She imbued Christine with her teenage self, who ran track, played basketball, and made friends at Pickerington High School outside Columbus. Who had her eureka moment when she acted in Neil Simon’s Rumors and heard her classmates laugh.

“I don’t mean the bullying stopped, but it gave me confidence,” Hollister recalled. “I discovered ‘I can do something you can’t do.’ ” Armed with that chutzpah and a deep well of persistence, she landed guest spots on CSI: NY, Nip/Tuck, Scrubs, andCold Case.

She originated the role of Susan Adamson on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, which sparked a wave of fan mail. “They were from all over the world: ‘Thank you for being on television, because I can relate to you.’

“I was the largest actress in Hollywood at the time,” she recalled. “Going to Hollywood at size 26 was inherently defiant. ‘You can’t tell me I don’t have the right to pursue acting,

“You can’t tell me I can’t be in my happy place because I don’t look like Angelina Jolie. If there’s going to be a fat joke, I’m going to be the one to write it.” which makes me happy and fulfills my soul like nothing else I’ve ever done.’ ” Her attitude sparked one of her boldest scenes. Steve Carell’s secret agent asks Hollister to dance in Get Smart, a square off against Anne Hathaway’s character. Theirs is a flamboyant mambo that shuts down the haughty, skinny girls and lights up YouTube.

“I loved it, it was very empowering and funny. It was my first movie released into theaters — I got to go to the premiere.”

The irony may be that now, either behind The Pie Hole counter or at a casting call, no one may recognize her as the heavy woman from Get Smart with the updo and icy blue gown.

Hollister has lost 150 pounds after gastric bypass surgery.

“I did the surgery for myself first, then for my career.” But fickle Hollywood has since synced with the size acceptance movement.

“Suddenly there were roles for girls much larger than I was, like Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson. When I used to go for a callback, there would be five girls. Now there are 20, 25, 30 in the room.”

So Hollister hones her writing. “I don’t need permission, I don’t have to wait for a call.”

She also wants to expand her teaching, as she returns to Miami to give workshops and speak to professional classes. She offers tips on casting prep, follow-up, and dreaded rejection. She shares her mantra: “I’m going to keep going until I work — quitting is not an option.”

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Alumni Weekend 2016 Experience Miami Mark your calendar now for Alumni Weekend 2017, June 8-11, and see the full Alumni Weekend 2016 photo gallery at MiamiAlum.org/ AlumniWeekend.

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More than 1,700 Miami University alumni and

friends returned to campus for Alumni Weekend 2016 this past June. In addition to celebrating the Class of 1966 — this year’s golden reunion class — the weekend featured a Miami Glee Club reunion and other Alumni Weekend favorites such as Alumni College, MiamiFest, and the Farewell Brunch with parting thoughts from retiring President David Hodge and University Ambassador Valerie Hodge.

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Summer school in 1911 in Professor Burkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoology lab must have been toasty with those long-sleeved blouses, suit jackets, and absolutely no air conditioning.

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John Fulker, a practicing attorney in Troy, Ohio, for more than 60 years, has published his sixth true crime book, Home Run: A Murder Conundrum (Orange Frazer Press, October 2015). The story, set in Miami County, Ohio, in 1999, follows an insurance claim that turns into a murder case, one John was involved with. In a feature on John’s book, reporter David Fong of the Troy Daily News said John averages one book every five years or so, while still maintaining his career. He writes after everyone else goes to bed.

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In 1953, two young newlywed couples, Jim ’54 and Barb Brown Lyons ’54 and Dave ’53 and Sally Pfandhoefer Welday ’55, moved into Miami’s married students’ quarters, better know as Veterans’ Village. Located near today’s rec center on the south end of Miami’s Oxford campus, Vetville consisted of a series of leftover World War II Quonset huts.

Divided in half, one couple lived on each side. Unit 11A was assigned to Barb and Jim and 11B to Dave and Sally. Writes Sally, “In Vetville, we cooked on a two-burner hotplate and a roaster oven. Our one-room quarters were flimsy, the walls thin, and we slept on a single bed or a hide-a-bed, which served also as a sofa. We could chat with each other through the walls without raising our voices. But all four of us were happy as clams.” After graduation, both men went off to U.S. Air Force duty, and the couples lost track of each other. Following their years of military service, Dave went to work for Chevrolet Motor Division of GM and Jim worked for IBM. Fast forward to 2016: One day the Weldays arrived to explore a retirement community near Charlotte, N.C., and discovered another couple there doing the same thing. It was the Lyons! After 62 years,

the friends who had begun their married lives together — with no contact in the years between — found themselves meeting once again. Says Sally, “What are the odds of this happening? WOW! Surely there is an amazing plan from the God who orders our lives, and He sure surprised us with this one!” See pages 34 and 35 for photos of them in Vetville. A current photo of the two couples together is online.

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Kyle Robeson and his wife,

Phyllis, of Champaign, Ill., received the Distinguished Citizen Award in May from the Prairielands Council, Boy Scouts of America. Kyle Kietzmann, president of Prairielands Council, told The News-Gazette that the Robesons have “spent their lives making a difference in Champaign County through their continued support of the arts, youth organizations, health care, and many more areas. Their generous contributions of their time and resources have impacted the lives of countless young people throughout the area.”

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Reunion ¶ Coming back to campus with her family to celebrate her 80th birthday, Gail Silber Bock ’57 joined 31 other Silber family members in a tailgating party before the Miami University vs. University of Cincinnati football game. The gang sent in a Miami-Silber family photo, taken to mark the happy occasion, which you can find in the online Miamian. In it are Sara Silber Musch ’16, Sheryl Silber ’86, Stephanie Zeidler Silber MA ’07, Joyce McKendree Silber ’63, Nathan Davis ’14, Matt Silber Watson ’13, Dale Silber ’89, Samantha Silber ’16, Gail Silber Bock ’57, and Robert Silber ’64. Missing from the picture are Dan Silber ’70, Elaine Bolling Silber ’74, Alex Silber Singer ’16, Lindsey Silber Singer ’17, Brian

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Silber Bock ’87, and Sandra McKendree Zimmerman ’69.

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Barry Kent of Dublin, Ohio, would like to congratulate all of his classmates who are turning 80 this year. He encourages the Class of 1958 to work hard to stay healthy. ¶ John White Jr. of Oxford participated in a birthday celebration at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2016. Douglass, a social reformer, orator, and statesman and one of the most prominent African-Americans of the 19th century, lived in the house in Anacostia that he named Cedar Hill, from 1877 until his death in 1895.

During the daylong celebration, John signed and discussed his latest book, Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America.

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Terry Reed of Fairfield, Ohio, has published his seventh book, Bachelors Abounding: Their Mutinous March on Matrimony (Algora Publishing, March 2016). Standing up for gentlemen who prefer to avoid matrimony, Terry explores, explains, and defends the unsteady reputation of wondrous bachelordom against its traditionally soiled reputation, its questionable eccentricities, its illcomprehended motivations, and its ostensibly nefarious ends.

SUBMIT A CLASS NOTE Please send news of your life to: Donna Boen, Miamian, 108 Glos Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 or Miamian@MiamiOH.edu.

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

For more class news, go online to MiamiAlum.org/ Miamian.

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Jim Rauth of Terrace Park, Ohio, has had a lifelong interest in photography. After retiring from a 33-year business career, he made the transition from casual to serious photography, studying at professional workshops. He worked on his first book, Mannequin, as he turned 70 and wanted to capture what he found to be an interesting subject. Unlike his first, his second book, Catching My Eye,

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for the evening.” He and Jane Lusher Finch ’67, his wife of 51 years and a

vocal major at Miami, met in an introduction to music theory class.

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Vetville: Dave ’53 and Sally Pfandhoefer Welday ’55 at Miami’s married student housing in the 1950s. See 1953 class note on page 33 for more “then and now.”

had a limited press run for family and friends to celebrate his 75th in 2013.

He is now selecting the best general interest images from that book to republish for wider distribution and working on two additional books for his 80th.

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Carleen Herring Bonds of Avon Lake, Ohio, published a children’s book, Super-Duper Oxtail Soup, inspired by her English as a Second Language students. In her book, everyone in the family is very hungry, so Mom finds a super-yummy soup recipe. Now all they need is a super-duper ox, leading to a story about Tiny and his tail. ¶ Roger Finch, who has been a trombonist with the Yakima (Wash.) Symphony Orchestra for 45 years, took his final bow in May 2016. He continues as conductor of the Yakima Valley Community Band and choir director for his church, Englewood Christian Church. He is also remaining in his job as an insurance agent. He told reporter Jane Gargas at the Yakima Herald, “In ’71 it was all local people. Essentially it was a volunteer orchestra. We got a hot deal from a tux shop and were paid just enough — $13 — to rent a tuxedo

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Reunion ¶ Stan Wernz of Cincinnati portrayed Abraham Lincoln on Memorial Day in the Civil War section of Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum. He has portrayed the 16th U.S. president without a script thousands of times since 1969 when, while teaching in North College Hill, he grew a beard, and a student passed him in the hallway and yelled out, “Hey, Abe!”

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Connie Eger Payne of Cincinnati sent in a note and photo of herself with Linda Pauszek Collins ’88 of Greenwood, Ind., taken on the Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park. The two met by chance on a land and sea tour of Alaska. As they got to know each other, they discovered that Linda did her student teaching at Wyoming (Ohio) High School, where Connie’s daughters attended. ¶ James Roberts, founder and president of the American Studies Center, a nonprofit foundation in Arlington, Va., returned to the Oxford campus recently for a visit. He brought along his books, The Conservative Decade and Hardball on the Hill: Baseball Stories from Our Nation’s Capital.

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Mike “Doc” Emrick MA ’69, famous for his play-by-play sportscasting and currently the lead announcer of the National Hockey League, is a huge fan of Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates. He lived out a dream this March when he got to call two innings of the spring training game between the Pirates and Toronto

Blue Jays for KDKA radio. The last time he called a baseball game was when he was a graduate student at Miami, an experience he described to MLB.com as “awful.” He’s been calling NHL games for more than 40 years. ¶ Ron Grant, former athletic director of University School, was inducted into the Northeast Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame in spring 2016. Ron served US for 46 years as a teacher, coach, and athletic administrator.

He was varsity swim coach for 30 years, coached 29 All-Americans, was named Northeast District Coach of the Year four times, and in 1988 was the recipient of the OHSAA’s Sportsman, Ethics, and Integrity Award. During his tenure as AD, he researched, proposed, and oversaw the construction of the 68,000-square-foot Kilroy Field House. He coordinated the installation of an all-turf football field, press box, and outdoor field house for the school’s athletic stadium. Under his leadership, the school joined the Premier Athletic Conference in 2008, and the interscholastic program added the sport of squash to varsity status in 2004.

During his tenure, US won 12 state titles in five different sports. ¶ Robert Lubran received a Merit Award from the The Federation of State Medical Boards at the FSMB annual meeting April 30. The award recognizes activities and contributions that positively impact and strengthen the profession of medical licensure and discipline and help enhance public protection. As the former director of the division of pharmacologic therapies at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Robert recognized and valued the critical role of the FSMB and its member boards in public health. ¶ Robert Simpson, an

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instructor of accounting at Marshall University, was named interim dean of the university’s Lewis College of Business, effective July 1, 2016. Since August 2011, Bob has instructed courses on accountancy and legal environment. Prior to his teaching position at Marshall, he co-founded a CPA firm in Charleston from 1974 to 2007, which later merged into the firm Dixon Hughes Goodman. A national search for a permanent dean will take place this fall.

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Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights honored longtime coach Jim Emery with the 2016 Beaumont Award April 16. He has served Beaumont for 26 years as cross-country and track and field coach, amassing 18 state titles. The award is given to individuals who have shown service, leadership, and/ or philanthropy to the Beaumont community. Jim also taught social studies in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District for 35 years, retiring in 2005. He and his wife, Sharaee, have two sons and two grandchildren. His hobbies include photography, reading, and golf. ¶ Rick Ludwin, the now-retired NBC late-night and specials chief who said yes to Seinfeld and worked with Carson, SNL, and Letterman, among others, returned to campus in April to head a group of alumni panelists, who shared five decades of experiences at WMUB. Other speakers at the reception for the “And now, Live from Miami ‥. WMUB” exhibit in King Library’s Walter Havighurst Special Collections, were Nathan Hengstebeck ’16, Garth Herbert ’17, Ryan Lewis ’02, Britton Perelman ’16, Tana Weingartner MA ’07, and Maryanne Zeleznik ’83.

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Married: Roger Voisinet and Jessica Hoover, May 7, 2016, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Fla. They live in Charlottesville, Va.

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Reunion ¶ Longtime Rhodes College Coach Herb Hilgeman of Cordova, Tenn., received the 2016 Division III Outstanding Service Award April 2, 2016, from the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

The award recognizes those who have contributed significantly “inside and outside the lines” of coaching as distinguished members of their communities. Herb spent his entire career at Rhodes College, serving as head basketball coach for 34 seasons, retiring in 2010. With a record of 473 wins and 360 losses, he is not only Rhodes’ leader in basketball victories for a career, but holds that position for all Lynx sports. Since retiring, he has taken an active role in his Memphis church, becoming a life elder and a “Stephen Minister,” providing pastoral care for people going through a crisis. ¶ Tom and Shila Dapore Magoto of Versailles, Ohio, were honorary marshals of the 2016 Versailles Poultry Days Parade June 11. Tom opened a State Farm Insurance agency in Versailles in 1972 and ran the business for 42 years. He started the Versailles Bike Rodeo, coached girls softball for 14 years and T-ball and Little League for more than 10 years. Shila taught in Russia and Greenville and then served as Tom’s office manager. She was a Girl Scout leader for 15 years, served on the Downtown Restoration Committee, was a member of the Coterie Club, and was a founding member of the Versailles Handcrafters. Retired in 2014, they have two sons, three daughters, and nine grandchildren.

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was honored as Oregon State University’s Stone Award winner April 5, 2016. The Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement honors a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed work and has been a dedicated mentor to succeeding generations of young writers. Rita, poet laureate 1993-1995, holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband. ¶ Sharon Janosik Mitchell, former senior vice president for research and development, Global Fabric Care, at Procter & Gamble, gave the divisional commencement address at Miami May 14 for the College of Engineering and Computing. ¶ Mike Pratt, the first dean of Miami’s combined regional campuses, has retired.

Associate provost and dean, he led the Hamilton and Middletown campuses since 2010, guiding them through historic change.

Jim ’54 and Barb Brown Lyons ’54 were the Weldays’ neighbors in Miami’s Quonset hut 11. See 1953 class note on page 33 for details.

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Patti Marinelli, who has

taught Spanish at the University of South Carolina for more than 30 years, has won a CODiE

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in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Medical College of Georgia and is associate center director for education in the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, is the new dean of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Ovarian Cancer Academy. She is principal investigator on a $2 million grant to fund the academy. The tumor virologist/ biologist and educator is leading the DOD’s national initiative to enable early career ovarian cancer investigators to stay focused and successful in their fight against the fifth-leading cause of cancer death in women.

While on a writing assignment about Jews in India for B’nai B’rith Magazine in April,

Sandra Goldberg Gurvis ’73 discovered that many

people, like these villagers in the town of Pune, wanted to be in photos with her. She says the trip was “amazing and challenging on many levels.

But I loved it and am excited about writing the story.”

award, the equivalent of an Oscar in the digital content and software industry, for her latest Spanish textbook, Conectados, Cengage Learning. The book won for Best ESL, ELL or World Language Acquisition Solution. ¶ Mike Rohrkemper, former president/CEO of Gold Star Chili, gave the divisional commencement address at Miami University Middletown for the College of Professional and Applied Sciences May 15, 2016.

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Michael O’Neal of Manassas, Va., is the director, modeling and simulation, for the Marine Corps Systems Command. He received the Department of the Navy Acquisition Excellence Award for Innovation at a ceremony at the Pentagon.

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Gary Schirr is co-author

(with three professors at the CTF Service Center at Karlstad University, Sweden) of a new book.

Service Innovation was published by Business Expert Press in May 2016. His Amazon author page is www.amazon. com/author/garyschirr. Gary is an associate professor of marketing at Radford University in Virginia. ¶ Nita Maihle, who has led the PhD training program

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Bill Davidge MEd ’78, color analyst for the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team on Fox Sports, was the guest speaker at this spring’s signing day at Marion (Ohio) Harding High School. ¶ Michelle Powe Marvinney has joined the Cleveland law firm Walter/ Haverfield as an associate and a member of the financial services and real estate practice groups. For more than 20 years, Michelle has helped financial institutions, businesses, and individuals structure, restructure, document, and close lending transactions in traditional middle-market, asset-based, real estate, health care, nonprofit, construction, and other lending areas. She also counsels clients in connection with their purchase, sale, and leasing of real property. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Cleveland. ¶ Scott Mingus has just released a new book, which he co-authored with fellow award-winner Eric Wittenberg.

The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg June 13-15, 1863 combines their researching and writing talents to produce the most in-depth and comprehensive study of Second

Winchester ever written. Their efforts are based on scores of archival and previously unpublished diaries, newspaper accounts, letter collections, and other firsthand sources. They are also deeply familiar with the terrain in and around Winchester and the lower Shenandoah Valley and have explored the battle from every perspective. ¶ Sally Yoder is director of human resources for Tri Alpha Energy, a privately funded R&D company based in Orange County, Calif. Tri Alpha’s purpose is to deliver world-changing clean fusion energy technology, and “the company is well along in validating the science and engineering integration of the technology,” Sally writes. Sally commutes daily to Orange County from her longtime home in San Diego and is the proud mother of one son, Tim Ramseyer, a recent graduate of the University of San Diego. She enjoys hosting international students from the University of California, San Diego and passionately follows politics and world events.

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Hank Daviero MA ’80 of Maitland, Fla., and wife Judy celebrated their 45th anniversary with a trip to Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colo., where Hank played football when Mesa was ranked second nationally in junior college football. Hank is an administrative dean with Orange County Public Schools in Orlando. For their anniversary, their kids bought them a riding lawn mower.

They have four grandchildren. ¶ Hal Hilmer MA ’80, longtime athletic trainer at John Hersey High School, retired in June 2016. His entire 36-year career has been with the Arlington Heights, Ill., school. ¶ Bryan Jeffries is a partner with the regional Ohio law firm of Eastman & Smith. Resident in its Columbus office, he serves as the chair of the firm’s construction law

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practice group. Bryan was also recently appointed to be the chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Construction Law Committee for 2016–2017.

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Greg Kavanagh is regional vice president, sales operations, for BridgeStreet Global Hospitality in Reston, Va. In his new role, Greg is overseeing the launch of Mode Aparthotel, which is slated to open in spring 2017 in Paris and Washington, D.C. Additionally, Greg will handle owner relations for managed assets in the U.S. and key sales functions. Greg brings with him 32 years of hospitality sales and operations experience. BridgeStreet provides guests with customized apartments, with more than 50,000 apartments in over 60 countries. ¶ Jeff Noe ’82 MS ’85 and wife Bobbi are owners of the Welsh Hills Inn, an award-winning bed and breakfast in the rolling Welsh Hills

northeast of Granville, Ohio. It is on top of a hill amid 15 wooded acres and, along with its four guest rooms, offers a heated outdoor pool and courtyard gardens, complimentary wine and cheese, an outdoor stone fireplace, and home-cooked breakfasts. It was named 2016’s No. 3 bed and breakfast/inn in the country by TripAdvisor Traveler’s Choice Awards.

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Mary Titsworth Chandler

has been named an officer of Cummins effective June 1, 2016, serving as vice president — corporate responsibility and chief executive officer of the Cummins Foundation. For almost five years, Mary has helped lead Cummins’ development of policy and strategic programs in corporate responsibility.

With her team, and Cummins global leaders, Mary designed an innovative and metrics-based approach to TEC:

Technical Education for Communities.

TEC began as a pilot program for 60 students in Morocco; today TEC is on pace to deliver technical vocational education to almost 900 students in nine countries, enabling youth in our global communities to gain the skills needed for good-paying jobs. She lives with her husband, Bryan, and their three children in Indianapolis. Headquartered in Columbus, Ind., Cummins is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute, and service diesel and natural gas engines and related technologies. ¶ Jim Stratton is owner and originator of Trek Network, an all-purpose guide service based out of his Upper Arlington, Ohio, home. He was recently profiled in the Dayton Daily News for his belly-boat fishing service. He told writer Jim Morris that belly-boat fishing is like “sitting in a Cadillac, floating and

Armstrong Student Center

The house [well, the home of student life] that Miamians built …

With the names of more than 11,000 alumni and friends recognized within its walls, the Armstrong Student Center is a celebration of the Miami Family and a statement about the loyalty and commitment of Miamians. With the Center’s East Wing project opening a variety of new named recognition opportunities, starting at $250, you have one last chance—until Dec. 31, 2016—to ensure your place in the heart of the Miami Experience.

Learn more or make your gift at ForLoveandHonor.org/ ArmstrongNaming or contact Susie Brower Sadler ’84, senior director of development for the Armstrong Student Center, at 513-529-9217 or sadlers@ MiamiOH.edu.

ForLoveandHonor.org/ArmstrongNaming

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Jeffrey Eckel ’80, president & CEO of publicly traded Hannon Armstrong, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange April 21, 2016, in celebration of Earth Day, the third anniversary of the company’s IPO, and the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement. Hannon Armstrong, headquartered in Annapolis, Md., provides debt and equity financing to the energy efficiency and renewable energy markets.

fishing. There’s even a cup holder for your favorite beverage.”

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Peter Eberle was recently appointed chief executive officer of Empire Countertops in Pilot Point, Texas. Empire has fabrication facilities in Austin and Dallas and specializes in granite, quartz, and other hard surface materials. In addition to custom and production home building, the company recently finished high-profile commercial work at Love Field, DFW Airport, and Globe Life Park. Peter and his wife, Jeannie, are excited about this new chapter in their lives. ¶ Daniel Levy, composer, educator, and multiinstrumentalist, gave the divisional commencement address at Miami May 15, 2016, for the College of Creative Arts.

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Ancramdale, N.Y., was recently featured in The Kansas City Star. She taught at the Kansas City Art Institute for 10 years before leaving to work full time as an artist. One of her mentioned works was “Pivot Green Blue.” Made up of miles of thread stapled overhead to create a cloud of color, it is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through July 2017. ¶ This year

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was the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby and remarkably the 28th year that the Tony Ryan ’85 family hosted the annual Derby Day group gathering.

Phyllis Raymond Jenkins ’84 wrote about the Miami gathering: “Over the years, the group’s dynamics definitely changed as we all graciously plodded through all life’s stages. In the early years when the Ryans lived in Geneva, Ill., the guests were mostly young professionals, singles, newlyweds, or engaged couples. As time marched on, suddenly the guest list included many babies, toddlers, and pregnant guests and, of course, the usual invitees and family members. The Ryans moved to Northbrook and the tradition continued. Betting board opens at 2 p.m. and is always managed by Rich Thompson ’84. As the babies turned into little people, Nancy Ahern Ryan ’84 took it all in stride and offered face painting, yummy treats, games, etc. However, the next year it was declared to be ‘Adults Only.’ No one complained and everyone always knows to keep the first Saturday in May open for the infamous Derby Day gathering at the Ryans’! Thank you, Nancy and Tony!” In this year’s Derby Day picture, which you can see online, are Patty Ahern Baxendale ’87, Alex Munroe ’15, Kelly Ryan ’15, Paige Patterson ’15, Nancy Ahern Ryan ’84, Maggie Shermerhorn McElvain ’83, Rich Thompson ’84, Drew McElvain ’83, Tony Ryan ’85, Phyllis Raymond Jenkins ’84, and Amy Wunder Thompson ’87.

Unfortunately five alumni at the party missed the photo session.

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Charles Parcher has joined

Civista Bank in Sandusky, Ohio, as executive vice president and chief lending officer and has also been named a senior vice president of Civista Bancshares Inc. With 28 years of commercial banking experience in

northwest Ohio, he has leadership experience that includes recently serving as First Merit Bank’s market president, northwest Ohio. He is on the board of trustees for ProMedica Flower Hospital and the YMCA/JCC of Northwestern Ohio, where he has served as vice chairman since 2013.

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Reunion ¶ Sean McHale is a principal at Avison Young, focusing on corporate services and tenant representation for the company’s growing Indianapolis office. He also leads new business development for the firm’s industrial practice group in the Indianapolis market. He most recently was a principal with Resource Commercial Real Estate (formerly Colliers International) in Indianapolis.

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Miami grads from 1987 and 1988 recently gathered in Wheaton, Ill., to celebrate the 50th birthdays and 25th wedding anniversary of Miami Merger Dale and Christine Banta Bailey. Present were Charlie Kimble ’88, Carrie Hughes Czajka ’88, Neil Clark ’88, Susan Banta ’87 MA ’88, Roland Minogue ’88, Dale Bailey ’88, Christine Banta Bailey ’88, Martha Piper ’88, Jennifer Miller Felbinger ’88, Lisa Lehner Lovelace ’88, Patrick Przyborowski ’88, and Marybeth Radomski Stemen ’88. ¶ Nicholas Cavalaris has joined the Columbus office of Roetzel as a partner in the firm’s public law practice. Nick focuses on municipal law with an emphasis on zoning, land use, and real estate development. A Loyola University Law School graduate, prior to joining the firm he was a partner at a Columbus zoning and land use law firm, as well as general counsel for privately held companies engaged in public and private planning, architecture, and engineering matters. ¶ Katherine O’Dair is

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Harvard College’s new dean of students.

She reports to the dean of Harvard College, the undergraduate program within Harvard University, and oversees all initiatives that support Harvard’s distinctive residential house system and student involvement outside the classroom. In addition, she oversees the college’s efforts to integrate the academic, residential, and co-curricular spheres of students’ lives, linking outof-classroom experiences to the mission of the college. Prior to accepting this position, she served as the associate vice president for student affairs at Boston College.

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James Falter is the new dean of the Harold Walter Siebens School of Business at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He had been a director at the Dauch College of Business & Economics as well as the lead faculty for the MBA program at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, since 2013. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he managed and coordinated activities associated with a multi million-dollar student investment portfolio. He is a Fulbright Scholar with experience in the Baltic region of Europe. ¶ Andrea DelVerne Hubler sent in a photo showing a group of Phi Mus from the Class of 1989 who got together this June in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., to celebrate their impending 50th birthdays and all that that means. Celebrating were Cathy Guilian Lightner, Julie Judge Neiheisel, Andrea DelVerne Hubler, Coleen Walsh Petrello, Linda Zaleski Turley, Michelle De Bildt Baucum, Marni Metzler Hall, Karen Jauch Hamade, Lynne Way Lloyd, Karen McCallum Williams, and Christi Modin Garvin.

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Richard Benenson, a share-

holder and co-chair of the

litigation department at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Denver, was elected to a three-year term on the board of the Colorado Judicial Institute (CJI). His involvement with CJI draws on his experience defending companies in complex litigation, antitrust, consumer protection, business torts, and class action matters. ¶ Sandy Gross ’91 MFA ’04, co-creator of the Sleepy Bee Restaurant, founder of Brazee Street Studios, and co-owner of the Blue Manatee Bookstore in Cincinnati, was a guest speaker at Miami’s Institute for Food symposium, “Imagining a Better Food Future,” May 6, 2016. ¶ Carolyn Ringer Lepre is the new dean of the School of Communication and the Arts at Marist College, Poughkeepsie.

Hired in January 2008 as an associate professor of communication, she most recently served as interim dean of the school, where she was responsible for developing and implementing specific programs, engaging with advisory boards, alumni and other professionals, hiring and evaluating full-time faculty, and supervising personnel, planning, fiscal management, operations, and assessment activities. She also served as director of the honors program, where she headed a major restructuring of curriculum, and chairedthe communication department from 2012–2013. ¶ John Pascoe has been appointed to Miami’s board of trustees by Ohio Gov. John Kasich. He fills the position vacated by Don Crain ’70, whose term expired in February 2015. A longtime technology executive, John has been a key sales leader for companies based in Silicon Valley, Boston, and the Midwest and has played an integral role in their IPO or sale to strategic buyers. He is a senior member of Oracle’s sales team as the infrastructure account manager for enterprise accounts in Ohio. During his years at Miami, John was a resident

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assistant and undergraduate assistant at Dennison Hall, sang in the Collegiate Chorale, was the head engineer for WMSR, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He lives in Worthington, Ohio, with his wife, Dawn Wallace Pascoe ’92, and their children, Juliana and Ian. He will serve as a trustee until February 2024.

Stephen Schwartz ’80 was sworn in as the new U.S. ambassador to Somalia on June 27, making him the first to that nation in 25 years.

In 1991, the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu closed after Somalia’s military regime was overthrown and violence erupted among warring clans.

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Reunion ¶ Jenifer Belt, partner in the Toledo office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, received the Ohio LGBT Ally Award presented by the Ohio Diversity Council at the Ohio LGBT Roundtable and Awards Breakfast in Toledo June 9, 2016. The award is presented to leaders in corporate America and within the community who exemplify recognizable LGBT advocacy efforts. The LGBT Roundtable presented resources and information to elevate the conversation regarding workplace equality. Jeni spoke as a distinguished panelist at the event along with other awardees. Jeni serves as co-administrator of Shumaker’s Healthcare practice group. Her practice includes both transactional and litigation matters for a range of health-care providers. She also counsels general corporate entities regarding their health

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law concerns. She is a recipient of the 2013 Most Powerful and Influential Woman of Ohio Award, presented by the National Diversity Council, the Order of the Heel Award, and the 20 Under 40 Leadership Award. ¶ Valerie Shreffler Krueckeberg, a CPA, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of LCNB Corp. and LCNB National Bank. Through her firm, she provides a variety of finance and accounting advisory and consulting services to her clients. Prior to starting her firm, she was a partner at KPMG. She has previously served as a board member and audit committee chairperson for Kenra, board member and interim executive director of The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, and interim controller for Medpace. She is the current chairperson of The Ohio CPA Foundation board of trustees and is a member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accounts and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The Miami graduate serves on the Miami University Accountancy Advisory Group and is an active volunteer for Mason, Ohio, city schools. LCNB Corp. is a financial holding company headquartered in Lebanon, Ohio. ¶ Marne Levine, Instagram’s first chief operating officer, gave the speech for the recognition ceremony honoring Miami’s College of Arts and Science graduates May 14, 2016, in Millett Hall.

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to associate professor of emergency medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University.

He teaches residents and medical students clinically at the bedside and formally in the classroom and lectures nationally on various wilderness medicine topics. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and daughter (Miami class of 2033). ¶ Born: to Gregg ’93 MA ’94 and Dana Hazelbaker

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Darbyshire ’97 MEd ’00, Cove Thomas,

April 11, 2016. He joins older siblings Grant, Bryce, Lola, Cash, and Jett. Gregg owns ProCamps Worldwide while Dana teaches at Sycamore Junior High. They live in Montgomery, Ohio. ¶ Jennifer Otto Hill earned a master’s in nursing from the top ranked graduate nursing program at Frontier Nursing University in 2014. She is practicing as a women’s health nurse practitioner at Rose Gynecology in Hyde Park, Cincinnati.

In 2015, she earned certification as a menopause practitioner from the North American Menopause Society. ¶ Morane Bourland Kerek was promoted to chief financial officer of the United States Olympic Committee in January 2016. She has been with the USOC for nearly nine years, spending the first six as controller and the past three as managing director of internal audit on the executive team. In her current role, she is tasked with the overall management and supervision of the organization’s financial operations, including accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, budgeting and forecasting, cash management, risk management, mail services, purchasing and warehousing operations, travel services, audit, and USOC retirement plan administration.

She is married with two kids and lives in Colorado Springs.

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has been promoted to senior product manager at 84.51°, a powerhouse in pioneering customer engagement. Previously senior project manager at the Cincinnati company, she is responsible for driving the vision and development of 84.51° products.

Jennifer, who has a master’s from the University of Cincinnati, lives in Liberty Township. 84.51° helps companies create sustainable growth by putting the customer at the center of everything.

Using a sophisticated suite of tools and technology, 84.51° works with some of the world’s leading CPG manufacturers and partners. ¶ Kara Newport, who has been executive director of the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Belmont, N.C., the past 10 years, will become the new executive director at Filoli, Woodside’s historic mansion house and gardens, Sept. 1. Kara, who has a master’s in public horticulture administration from the University of Delaware, has also been vice president of development for the Discovery Place, a hands-on science museum in North Carolina, conducted fundraising for the Franklin Institute science museum and education center in Philadelphia, and worked for the Philadelphia Zoo. She is treasurer of the American Public Garden Association. Filoli is a country house and estate about 25 miles south of San Francisco in Woodside, Calif.

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Jason Busch, most recently deputy director for curatorial affairs and museum programs at the Saint Louis Art Museum, is Sotheby’s new vice president, division director of decorative arts in New York. He began his new role at Sotheby’s April 4, 2016, just ahead of the firm’s European decorative arts sales. ¶ Rajiv Joseph’s play Mr. Wolf, was part of the Cleveland Play House 2015-2016 season. Although the playwright has lived in New York City for years, he’s a “Cleveland boy,” which he proudly proclaimed last year at CPH’s season announcement. Naomi Rodri, CPH artistic apprentice, writes in the CPH program, “That human beings can see so deeply into the fabric of space — to see as far as Z8_GND_5296 — and yet be blind to the world around them is a central contradiction in Mr. Wolf.

By exploring the heavens, characters in the play attempt to answer earthly questions and heal all too human wounds.” ¶

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Mich. ¶ Michael Schwegler of Nashville and his law partner, Ernest Williams, have authored the Tennessee chapter of Commercial Lending Law, Second Edition: A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law, published in June 2016 by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. The treatise sets forth the authoritative summary of statutory and case law relevant to commercial lending in the state of Tennessee.

00 Capt. Matthew Dickerson ’04, USAFR, deployed this past year with his unit as the OIC for the 920th EAMXS at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

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Rick Szabrak is the economic development director for Fairfield County, with headquarters in Lancaster, Ohio. Most recently he’s been director of territory sales for the Media Network of Central Ohio, a division of Gannett.

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Born: to Christopher and Amy Beach Rowe ’99, Adelaide Elise, Feb. 15, 2016. They live in Lebanon, Ohio.

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Born: to Randolph J. Hart III MBA ’99 and Tamicka Flannagan Hart MBA ’99, Rylee Jordan, Jan. 7, 2016. She joins brother, Randolph, 11, and sister, Reece, 8. Randy and Tamicka and their family live in Indian Head, Md. ¶ PwC’s Atlantabased practice has admitted Kenneth LaManna as a principal within its advisory practice. He specializes in helping financial services clients with business process improvement, post-deal finance integration, and finance transformation. ¶ Born: to Kelli Miller Robinson and Andrew, Maclaine Grace, May 19, 2016, joining big brothers Andrew, Rhys, and Lachlan. (Finally a baby sister!) Kelli is a senior director with Stella & Dot and Andrew is a vice president at Stout Risius Ross. They live in Beverly Hills,

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Sarah Chine Waite sent in a photo of Miamians enjoying the world’s largest 10K, the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race, which takes place on the Fourth of July every year. For the past several years, Miami friends have come together to participate. Patrick ’99 and Sarah Chine Waite ’00 live in the Atlanta area with their daughters, London, 7, and Hadley, 5. Brandon ’00 and Jessica Taylor Kepple ’00 brought son Willem, 6, from Orlando, and Les Mitchell ’99 brought daughter Carly, 7, from Cincinnati. Missing from the reunion this year was Becky Neefe Mitchell ’99, who was unable to make the trip with daughters Mary, 2.5, and Allie, 5 months. Although Jessica and Patrick were the only ones who ran in this year’s race, all had an outstanding time.

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Michael Gilpin of Byron Center, Mich., is proud of the family-run FASTSIGNS business he and his parents, Kim and Judy, started in 2005. It has grown into a successful sign, graphics, and visual-display business in Grant Rapids with 15 employees and was crowned Michigan’s top franchise

by America’s Star Franchisees in 2016. ¶ Jason Plowman, a senior associate in Littler’s Kansas City office, has been recognized among the National LGBT Bar Association’s Best LGBT

Lawyers Under 40 2016 class. The award honors 40 legal professionals who have distinguished themselves in their field and demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBT equality. Jason’s practice covers labor and employment law topics including discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. He also counsels employers regarding federal and state employment laws. He is an active member of Pride, the LGBT affinity group for Littler attorneys, and is a 2016 graduate of the Mid-America Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s Barnes Leadership Series.

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Reunion ¶ Adoption and family law attorney Kathryn Carso Liss took office as chair of the Young Lawyers Section (YLS) of the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), at the YLS annual meeting, June 8, 2016.

Kathryn holds a law degree from DePaul University in Chicago. An attorney at the law offices of Jean Conde, she practices exclusively in the area of family law. Her focus is in domestic relations with the goal of assisting families through difficult transition periods while attempting to educate clients and minimize the length of the process. She also teaches adoption law as an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law.

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Becca Davis, director of practice growth at Rea & Associates in Dublin, Ohio, a regional business consulting and accounting firm, was named to the Association for Accounting Marketing’s board of directors during the InNEWvation Summit, the association’s annual conference. In this role, she will help guide the association in its mission to assist accounting marketing and practice growth professionals as they seek to overcome challenges and deliver measurable

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results. She began her term July 1. In her current role at Rea & Associates, she is responsible for leading the firm’s marketing and business development efforts by helping to guide the growth strategy for each of the firm’s 11 offices.

She manages a team of three other marketing and public relations professionals. She lives in Dublin, Ohio, where she is a member of Leadership Dublin, Class ¶ Capt. Matthew Dickerson, of 2016.

USAFR, a former Miami ROTC corps commander and graduate, deployed this past year with his unit as the OIC for the 920th EAMXS at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Matthew serves as an aircraft maintenance officer for the 434th AMXS at Grissom Air Reserve Base in Kokomo, Ind. After earning a master’s degree a few years ago, he also teaches sixth-grade social studies at Centerville (Ind.) Abington Elementary. His recent deployment serves as the highlight of his career. The crazy tempo needed to keep up with supporting both Operations Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve was quite the accomplishment. The unprecedented pace of operations at Al Udeid Air Base involved maintaining an average of 68 KC-135 Arial Refuelers, flying 57 missions a day, and supervising 470 active duty, guard, and reserve military personnel. Matt received several commendations for his performance overseas. He will always value the experience but is happy to be home again with his wife of 12 years, Emily Rodal Dickerson ’02, and daughters Lillyan and Avery. ¶ Bradley Meeks, chartered financial analyst (CFA), has joined Madison Wealth Management as a senior portfolio manager. He has been an investment management professional for more than a decade, with experience on the buy and sell side of equity research and credit research and has extensive knowledge of investment.

He is also a recent graduate of the

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s C-Change program. Founded in 2000, Madison Wealth Management is a trusted financial planning and investment management firm specializing in client portfolios between $1 million and $25 million. It has offices in Cincinnati and the Washington, D.C., area.

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James Davidson has been

promoted to counsel with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va. He joined the firm in 2011. His practice focuses on corporate finance, public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate matters with a particular concentration on real estate investment trusts (REITs). He earned a JD in 2009 from New York University School of Law. ¶ Born: to Eric and Lauren Oakes Fuller, Kinley Elizabeth Fuller, April 12, 2016. She joins older siblings Ethan and Harper. ¶ Kurtis Gildow has been promoted from director of programs: education and community partnerships to dean of programs at Chicago’s Merit School of Music. In his new role, he will supervise an expanded team of program directors who manage each of Merit’s instrumental divisions, overseeing a wide range of instruction for thousands of students across four major programs.

He continues to teach and freelance as a performing tubist. He lives in west suburban Brookfield with his wife, Chelsea Clarke Gildow ’04, and their young children, Charlotte and Nolan. ¶ Justin Mertz has joined Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee as an attorney in the firm’s transactional practice group. Justin’s practice focuses on many aspects of business law with an emphasis on the areas of business bankruptcy, corporate law, commercial loan negotiation, and real estate. He has extensive litigation experience in both federal and state court cases. His practice includes

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complex contract negotiation and drafting, corporate, commercial, and residential real estate transactions and financial decision-making and cash flow analyses for his business clients. In addition, Justin is a volunteer attorney with Legal Action Wisconsin.

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Vanessa Schutz McDonald

served as a 2016 candidate for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Man & Woman of the Year campaign in Washington, D.C. Her team, A Cure is “Vanessa”sary, raised $76,000+ over the 10-week campaign and the 24 candidates and leadership team raised $2.28 million collectively, a new national record. She was also the recipient of one of three citizenship awards, the Volunteerism Award, for her ability to motivate and engage a strong and committed group of volunteers — friends, family, and strangers alike. ¶ Kelly Phelan, who teaches mathematics to students grades 9–12 at Cody High School, won the Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. She is one of only 10 teachers in the state of Wyoming to receive the award, given in recognition of her dedication to the teaching profession and to ensuring the success of her students. She’s been teaching for nine years, has an MA from the University of Wyoming, and has received National Board Certification.

SAVE THE DATES Homecoming is Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Family Weekend is Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2016.

Learn more at miamioh.edu/ homecoming and miamioh.edu/ familyweekend

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David Kiefer MA ’08, a labor

and employment lawyer, has joined the Pittsburgh office of Fox Rothschild. He represents clients in a variety of labor and employment matters, with a specific focus on athletic contracts in relation to collective bargaining and player marketing issues.

Prior to joining the firm, he was an attorney in the Pittsburgh office of an international law firm and served for several years as counsel to the National

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Katherine Makaroff ’16, a biochemistry major and premedical studies co-major, received the 2016 Ken ’67 and Joan Frankel Outstanding Premedical Student Award from Miami’s Mallory-Wilson Center for Healthcare Education. She will be attending the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine this fall.

Basketball Players Association. He earned a law degree in 2011 from Harvard Law School. ¶ Married: Audrey Roberts, MD, and Todd Ludwig, MD, May 29, 2016. Audrey is finishing her last year of obstetrics and gynecology residency in Detroit and Todd is starting his first year of orthopedics residency in Salt Lake City.

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Chris Heaton, a talented

diver in his own right, is head diving coach for Moss Farms, a stateof-the-art diving facility and coaching program in Moultrie, Ga. Chris, his wife, Lindsay, and their daughter, Hannah, went to Moultrie from the Ohio State Diving Club at Ohio State University. Chris, who took over the Moss Farms program last October, is particularly busy lately as USA Diving accepted his bid for the club to play host to this year’s Junior and Senior National Championships at the Moose Moss Aquatic Center this summer. ¶ Andrea Segovia was awarded the 2016 Marian Greenblatt Elementary Master Teacher Award for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. This award represents all elementary teachers in the county. As a result, Andrea was one of three finalists for the 2016–2017

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Teacher of the Year award for the county. The award recognizes teachers who inspire their students to achieve, encourage young teachers to be the best they can be, and help their school and community. Andrea is a third-grade teacher at Ashburton Elementary School in Bethesda, Md. ¶ Jeff Zatkoff became the fourth Miami RedHawk to win a Stanley Cup when the Pittsburgh Penguins clinched it with a 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks in June. He started two Stanley Cup Playoff games and won one in the Penguins’ run to the Stanley Cup. He has changed teams in the offseason and signed a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings.

He’ll be joining his Miami teammate, Alec Martinez, a hero in the Kings’ championship against the New York Rangers in 2014.

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Married: Andrea Atteberry and Sean Mock, Nov. 27, 2015.

They then celebrated their wedding with family and friends at a reception May 29, 2016. Andrea was a member of Miami’s volleyball team and Sean was a member of Miami’s basketball team.

They live in Midland, Mich., where Sean is an assistant basketball coach at Northwood University. Andrea plans special events for Dow Chemical. Go to the online magazine to see all the Miamians at their wedding.

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Married: Olivia Clark and Bryan Baker, June 18, 2016, at the Cape Cod Lavender Farm in Harwich, Mass. The couple met at the Spring Lounge in New York, where she was an account supervisor with Deutsch Advertising and he was a commodities trader with Glencore. Their first date was at the Mermaid Inn. Olivia is an account supervisor in Austin, Texas, for Drumroll Advertising. Bryan is a principal of SCM, a third-party logistics

provider in Austin. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 2007.

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Reunion ¶ Kim Quindlen returned to Miami in spring 2016 to co-lead an improv session as part of university’s Year of Creativity and Innovation. She lives and works in Chicago. ¶ Scott Usher MS ’12, a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team as a swimmer in the 200 breaststroke, has a new job as director of major gifts with the USA Swimming Foundation.

Scott, his wife, Shannon, and their baby, Grant, have moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., after several years of living in Cincinnati while he worked at Miami as a fundraiser.

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Jordan Findley, a naturalist who is working on her master’s at Miami, was featured in The News-Press for coming up with the idea of throwing a baby shower at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida for the hundreds of tiny birds and other baby animals seeking care in the von Arx Wildlife Hospital. ¶ Hillary Oberpeul is a production associate at 84.51°, a powerhouse in pioneering customer engagement. She is responsible for copyediting and proofreading customer communications and also helps maintain the brand style guide and collaborates across the Cincinnati-based business to uphold standards of accuracy. She has an MA in professional writing from UC and lives in Cincinnati’s Hyde Park neighborhood. ¶ Keith Weiser, an Oxford native who ended an eight-year baseball career with the Colorado Rockies organization in 2012, opened Bowtie Barber Club in Nashville last year and launched a similar shop in Oxford this May on the second floor of the John D. Minnis Building on High Street. Following his grandpa’s lead, whose Sayler Park barbershop is the oldest one in Ohio, Keith

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Lindsay Dunkel was featured in

the News-Herald for organizing hundreds of volunteers at St. John Vianney Parish in Mentor, Ohio, to pack thousands of meals last Nov. 21 for hungry children worldwide. The 600 volunteers packed more than 140,000 vegan meals to be distributed through Feed My Starving Children. Lindsay told the paper that she had her first experience with the nonprofit organization while a senior at Miami and knew she wanted to bring it to Mentor. ¶ John Steele, a student support specialist at the high-performing Match Charter Public School in Boston, has been selected for the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship. It’s awarded to only 30 young people each year to train for careers in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Robert Hendricks ’11 MA ’13, assistant dean of students at the school, has seen John’s impact on struggling students.

He says John understands them, having grown up in the projects of inner-city Cleveland with a mother who struggled with substance addiction and an absent father. He came to Miami on a football scholarship, but an injury ended his career during his sophomore year. It left him wondering what he’d do without football. Now he knows. The fellowship covers the cost of graduate study and provides two summer internships.

He starts graduate school at George Washington University’s Eliot School of International Affairs this August.

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Bryson Albright, a former member of Miami’s football team, signed a free agent deal in April with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Bryson played in 48 career games as a RedHawk, making 35 starts as a defensive end.

He recorded 180 tackles, 19 sacks, and

33.5 tackles for loss. This past season he arguably played the best football of his career, earning second- team AllMAC. ¶ Frankie Roskam has founded a nonprofit. Justification of Youth (JOY) forms relationships with international groups and communities to send college students to serve children, especially those at risk and orphaned, in developing countries. JOY, which partners with Kids Alive International, has organized five student mission trips in the past year to the Dominican Republic and started chapters at three colleges.

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Lauren Curtis, a finance major

with a co-major in analytics, served as a KPMG CBE Fellow for the past two years. After graduation in May, she started a full-time job as an associate in KPMG’s financial management consulting practice in Atlanta. ¶ Two of three Miami students who won the Miami University Libraries’ Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence are May graduates. The award is given to students who demonstrate excellence in library research conducted in support of a student project. Mahaley Evans ’16, a history major, received first place.

Mahaley submitted a project examining the discourse surrounding women in East Germany and Eastern Europe and analyzing communism’s effect on their Cold War and postwar lives. Garrett Gust ’16, an individualized studies major, received honorable mention.

He submitted “Tapped: An Insider Look at the Craft Beer Movement.”

The third winner is Marlyka Williams, a rising senior architecture major, who received honorable mention. Lyka presented a project titled “Dare to be a Wildflower: Looking to the Natural World for Answers Through an In Depth Study of Heliostat Technology.” ¶ Danielle Linowes, an early childhood education major, gave the divisional

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

commencement address at Miami May 15, 2016, for the College of Education, Health, and Society. ¶ Julianne Werts of Fairfield Township, Ohio, who majored in zoology and environmental sciences, is an educator at the Columbus Zoo. Her goal is to work as a naturalist or park ranger. ¶ James Winton, a chemical engineering major from Chardon, Ohio, won the OMNOVA Solutions Inc. Award from Miami’s Paper Science & Engineering Foundation this spring. ¶ Joshua Winton, a chemical engineering major from Chardon, Ohio, won the Georgia-Pacific Corp. Award from Miami’s Paper Science & Engineering Foundation this spring. ¶ Betsy Zilch, a graphic design major from Cincinnati, received the Robin Chico Award at Miami’s women’s swimming and diving banquet, an honor given to a senior student-athlete who has shown strength and motivation during times of adversity. The beginning of her senior season, Betsy ruptured her Achilles tendon during a workout. Following surgery, she helped out on the pool deck every day, sometimes from a chair because she couldn’t stand. Working with coaches and sports medicine staff, she persevered and raced in the meet against Akron on Senior Night.

Brianna DeCamp ’16 of Kendallville, Ind., was crowned Miss Indiana 2016 in June.

She graduated a month earlier with a bachelor’s in special education. Her personal platform is Ray of Hope Medical Missions. In the talent competition, she performed a tap dance to “Dr. Jazz” from the musical Jelly’s Last Jam. She will represent her state at the Miss America Pageant Sept. 11, 2016.

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farewells 1930s Jean Mckinstrie Long ’37, Colorado Springs, Colo., March 24, 2016.

Harold A. Morgenstern ’37, Pompano Beach, Fla., April 5, 2016.

1940s Robert K. Harrod ’41, The Villages, Fla., April 25, 2016.

Juanita Faust Ruple ’44, Mentor, Ohio, March 24, 2016.

Dorothy Wright MacGill ’45, Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 9, 2014.

H. Jeanne Sonneman Newton ’46, Franklin, Tenn., March 31, 2015.

Frederic W. “Fred” Allen ’48, Shelburne, Vt., April 9, 2016.

Judith DeEulis Ueltschy ’48, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 18, 2016.

Anthony Androski ’49, Altoona, Pa., March 15, 2016.

Marjorie Anne Bullock Derr ’49, Twinsburg, Ohio, June 15, 2016.

1950s Robert E. Opie ’50, Naperville, Ill., April 12, 2016.

Jerome J. Beckrest ’51, Cleveland, Ohio, May 7, 2016.

Robert C. Greywitt ’51, Prior Lake, Minn., June 7, 2015.

Richard L. Barnhart ’52, Sarasota, Fla., March 17, 2016.

Robert “Rob” Phillips ’52, Sunriver, Ore., March 4, 2016.

Virginia Jones Smucker ’52, Westfield Center, Ohio, April 30, 2016.

Melvin C. Eisaman ’53, Aurora, Colo., April 4, 2016.

Ann Montgomery Brower ’54, Goleta, Calif., June 4, 2016.

Carol C. Fox ’54, Manistee, Mich., May 4, 2016.

Juanita Gilbert Powe ’54, Holland, Mich., July 13, 2016.

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Gordon C. Taiclet ’54, Plymouth, Ind., May 3, 2016.

Donald D. Darbyshire ’61, Las Vegas, Nev., April 13, 2016.

Kenneth V. Landis ’65, Germantown, Ohio, March 23, 2016.

Martin Bevis ’55, Maysville, Ky., April 20, 2016.

Marilyn Bauman Kalinowski ’61 MA ’62, Corte Madera, Calif., Oct. 28, 2015.

C. Jan Frericks ’66, Minster, Ohio, March 26, 2016.

James C. Dickinson ’55, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 9, 2016.

Nancy Sheema Oliverio ’55, Cleveland, Ohio, March 13, 2016.

Kenneth J. Furrier ’56, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 20, 2015.

Zane L. Miller ’56 MA ’58, Pensacola, Fla., March 15, 2016.

Myron T. Potter ’56, Makanda, Ill., April 2, 2016.

Winifred Geyer Hilfinger ’57, Maumee, Ohio, April 7, 2016.

Kenneth W. Lockwood ’57, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 13, 2016.

William L. Wendel ’57, Cedar Grove, Ind., Feb. 27, 2016.

John E. Ebert ’58, Ashland, Ohio, March 19, 2016.

John D. Hansen ’58, Lakewood, Ohio, Feb. 19, 2016.

William G. Kern ’58, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 13, 2016.

Russell F. Knight Sr. ’58 MAT ’66, Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 4, 2016.

Diana Baldwin Wilson ’58, Barrington, Ill., June 19, 2016.

Larry O. Zinn ’58 MEd ’60, Tellico Village, Tenn., April 12, 2016.

Thomas A. Gleason ’59, Burt Lake, Mich., March 6, 2016.

Susanne Pool Hartung ’59, Aurora, Ohio, July 6, 2015.

Johanna Hause Lo ’59, Palisades, N.Y., May 13, 2016.

1960s Robert J. “Bo” Brickels ’60, Davidson, N.C., April 22, 2016.

Don L. Conn ’60, Myrtle Beach, S.C., May 7, 2016.

James J. Adams ’61, Middletown, Ohio, April 14, 2016.

Thomas A. Daily ’62, Olmsted Falls, Ohio, April 29, 2016.

Phyllis Ann Shively ’62, Versailles, Ohio, March 16, 2016.

Pamela Mobley Black ’63, Savannah, Ga., Feb. 16, 2016.

John E. Burns Jr. ’63, Dunedin, Fla., April 14, 2016.

Philip H. Geiger ’63, Kettering, Ohio, March 4, 2016.

William M. Hendrickson MEd ’63, Florence, Ky., March 26, 2016.

Thomas B. Marsh ’63, Roswell, Ga., Feb. 22, 2016.

Emma Lou “Emmie” Johnson Steineman ’63, Fort Mill, S.C., March 26, 2016.

Sebert A. Guckian ’64, Xenia, Ohio, April 14, 2016.

Janet E. Hartley ’64, Piqua, Ohio, March 24, 2016.

Richard A. Kahler ’64, Tiffin, Ohio, March 9, 2016.

Donna Schroeder Kelsey ’64, Hudson, Wis., Aug. 4, 2015.

Donald E. Lear Jr. ’64, Cleveland, Ohio, March 18, 2016.

Nan Cline McDowell ’64, Dayton, Ohio, March 13, 2016.

Paul D. McNiff ’64, Albany, Ga., Dec. 28, 2015.

Carol Davis Verbeek ’64, Hilliard, Ohio, April 19, 2016.

Joanne McIntosh Bordewisch ’65, Dayton, Ohio, March 19, 2016.

Stephen R. Hanning ’65, Edmonds, Wash., March 16, 2016.

Jean Wadley Henkel ’65, Ross, Ohio, Dec. 1, 2015.

George R. Kaschak ’65, Fort Myers, Fla., April 26, 2016.

Kenneth C. Krug ’66, Cape Coral, Fla., Feb. 10, 2016.

Keppel L. Small ’66, Oxford, Ohio, March 3, 2016.

Constance R. Wells ’66, Chardon, Ohio, March 4, 2016.

D. Michael Gray ’67, Oberlin Park, Kan., May 12, 2016.

Caryl Kettering Hayes ’67, Maumee, Ohio, April 4, 2016.

Thomas E. Kelley Sr. ’67, Wilberforce, Ohio, March 7, 2016.

Cletus C. “Buzz” Mergy ’67, Hamilton, Ohio, April 3, 2016.

Roger B. Craven ’68, Boise, Idaho, April 8, 2016.

Kenneth C. Fisher ’68, Hamilton, Ohio, April 28, 2016.

Gary Lynne DeVault Gold ’68, Sheridan, Wyo., May 21, 2016.

Jane Heldenbrand Miller ’68, Southport, N.C., Jan. 17, 2016.

Michael D. Poucher ’68, Poway, Calif., Jan. 26, 2016.

Kathryn F. Johnson ’69, Schenectady, N.Y., April 12, 2016.

Lester E. Smith ’69, Conroe, Texas, Feb. 17, 2016.

Frederick J. Toye ’69, Memphis, Tenn., March 30, 2016.

Janet Miller Wadleigh ’69 MEd ’71, Hamilton, Ohio, Jan. 20, 2016.

1970s Dolores Donnellon Dunn ’70, Hamilton, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2016.

Joe N. Forgy ’70, San Martin, Calif., May 7, 2016.

Margaret “Peg” Thomas Witham ’70 MA ’72, Kirkland, Wash., April 13, 2016.

Jimmie Tyndall Wood ’70 MEd ’72, Tifton, Ga., April 11, 2016.

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Stephen H. Chambers ’71, Canton, Ga., May 13, 2016.

John M. Argenzia Jr. ’78, Hokes Bluff, Ala., April 8, 2016.

James M. Lipscomb Jr. ’93, Hamilton, Ohio, March 24, 2016.

Lucy Lantis Ferris ’71 MEd ’77, Oxford, Ohio, April 18, 2016.

Patrick F. Biggs MS ’78, Glendale, Ariz., March 9, 2016.

Jane Grimes Day ’94, Nashville, Tenn., April 14, 2016.

Marian Corwin Kotte ’71, Vero Beach, Fla., Nov. 16, 2016.

Danna Gendell Korell ’78, Marietta, S.C., Feb. 22, 2016.

Timothy W. Edwards ’94, Kettering, Ohio, May 8, 2016.

Frederick S. Spohr ’71 MBA ’77, Arlington Heights, Ill., March 6, 2016.

Gerald W. “Jerry” Caveney ’79, Burr Ridge, Ill., Sept. 9, 2015.

Melanie L. Kushnir ’95, Las Vegas, Nev., May 28, 2016.

David L. Helton Sr. ’79, Hamilton, Ohio, April 20, 2016.

Colleen Johnson ’96, Monroe, Ohio, April 28, 2016.

Joseph Young EdD ’71, Kettering, Ohio, April 13, 2016.

Charles C. Barrett Jr. ’72, Troy, Ohio, Feb. 29, 2016.

Spencer Z. Hiraki MS ’72, Sunnyvale, Calif., Feb. 27, 2016.

Michael L. Moushey ’72, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2016.

Mary Beth Mason Baker ’73, South Point, Ohio, April 9, 2016.

James W. “Bill” Rudy ’73, Troy, Ohio, April 26, 2016.

Gregory F. Rust ’73 MEd ’75, Hamilton, Ohio, March 19, 2016.

David G. Stahr ’73, Arnold, Md., May 15, 2016.

Joyce Adams Thompson ’73 MEd ’79, Monroe, Ohio, April 11, 2016.

1980s Erich R. “Rick” Lauffer ’80, Seattle, Wash., May 8, 2016.

Fay Wiley Spradlin ’80, Tipp City, Ohio, May 3, 2016.

2000s Faith Deppert Hurley ’05, Cleveland, Ohio, July 18, 2016.

Leslie Stewart French ’82, Toledo, Ohio, April 8, 2016.

Russell J. Bird ’12, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 2016.

Paul F. Hughes ’82, Bay Village, Ohio, March 22, 2016.

Derek J. Hartsock ’13, Bryan, Ohio, April 3, 2016.

Walter E. “Gene” Stacy ’82, Middletown, Ohio, May 15, 2016.

Timothy Fresch ’17, Santa Barbara, Calif., April 13, 2016.

Robert A. Clay ’83, Hurricane, W.Va., March 5, 2016.

Haley D. Wetherill ’19, Fort Wayne, Ind., May 20, 2016.

Lana Hasenyager Rahe MEd ’83, Wadsworth, Ohio, April 22, 2016.

Peter K. Meyer ’74, Wilmington, N.C., April 12, 2016.

Mark J. Kepf ’84, Versailles, Ky., April 2, 2016.

Elizabeth Leberman Rains ’74, Broken Bow, Neb., Dec. 5, 2014.

David F. Wroblewski ’84, North Royalton, Ohio, June 11, 2015.

David P. Burke ’75, West Redding, Conn., March 15, 2016.

Lori Nein Davis ’85, Dublin, Ohio, May 30, 2016.

Clyde Gaines ’75, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 20, 2013.

Faith Deppert Hurley ’85, Cleveland, Ohio, July 18, 2016.

Gladys Hayes Moses EdS ’75, Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2016.

Peter J. Bowers ’88, Deerfield Beach, Fla., Jan. 22, 2016.

Karen “Kim” McFarland Passmore ’75, Laurel, Md., April 2, 2016.

Marcia M. McCauley ’89, Cincinnati, Ohio., June 22, 2015.

Linda Black Albrecht ’77, Clarksville, Ohio, March 3, 2016.

Shannon P. Belcher MM ’99, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 16, 2016.

Sandra Taylor Asbury ’82, Middletown, Ohio, April 24, 2016.

David K. Amstutz ’74, Perrysburg, Ohio, April 2, 2016.

Barton L. Susor ’76, Toledo, Ohio, March 18, 2016.

Mary E. Mink ’97, Farmersville, Ohio, March 7, 2016.

1990s Jessica Danda Hogg ’91, Powell, Ohio, April 1, 2016.

FACULTY, STAFF, AND FRIENDS Darlene Allen, Oxford, Ohio, April 7, 2016. At Miami 13 years, retiring in 1993.

Arthur von Krogh Anderson Jr., State College, Pa., March 19, 2016. Taught architecture at Miami, 1964–1973.

Marlene Beaty, Somerville, Ohio, June 1, 2016. Retired from Miami in 2002.

Pamela K. Dean, Hamilton, Ohio, March 11, 2016. Miami retiree.

John H. Eicher, Oxford, Ohio, June 7, 2016. Miami professor emeritus of chemistry, 1952–1989.

Phyllis B. Fry, College Corner, Ohio, May 27, 2016.

Karen A. Gant, Connersville, Ind., May 25, 2016. Formerly in Miami admissions for 13 years.

Dorothy B. Gustafson, Oxford, Ohio, April 30, 2016. Former Miami librarian.

Scott G. Howell, Oxford, Ohio, April 20, 2016. Former Miami employee.

Elizabeth Moeller Knight ’47, Portland, Ore., Feb. 23, 2016.

Returned to Miami while in her 60s to teach for 29 semesters.

Rodney J. Kolb, Somerville, Ohio, April 1, 2016. Retired, station manager, Miami’s Ecology Research Center.

Fred Lick Jr. ’54, Medina, Ohio, March 5, 2016. Miami Board of Trustee member, 1993–2003.

Harvard W. “Mac” McLean, Oxford, Ohio, March 22, 2016.

Miami professor emeritus of teacher education, 1966–1992.

Richard T. O’Connell, Oxford, Ohio, March 1, 2016. Miami professor emeritus of decision sciences and management information systems, 1973–2008.

Robert L. Scholl, Oxford, Ohio, May 5, 2016. Miami professor emeritus of education, 1966–1997; taught as an adjunct until 2005.

James Simpson, Ross Township, Ohio, April 25, 2016. At Miami since 1986, was textbook manager, Miami Hamilton bookstore.

Virginia R. Smith, Eaton, Ohio, March 11, 2016. Retired from Miami in 1976.

Thomas W. Speh ’66 MBA ’68, Oxford, Ohio, April 15, 2016.

Miami professor emeritus of marketing, 1976–2008; continued part time with business school until 2014.

Marilyn D. Summers, Lake City, Fla., Feb. 26, 2016. Retired, in Miami’s admission office from 1965–1993.

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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26K’s For the Record Books The baseball that blew past that 26th batter is displayed in Miami’s new Jay Hayden Baseball Center. For a colorful recap, go to “Nail-biter in the Ninth” at http://bit.ly/ BuddysRecord.

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On a cold April day in 1971, Buddy Schultz ’73 did what

no pitcher in NCAA baseball history had done before or likely will ever do again.

Over the course of a nine-inning shutout of Wright State University, the left-hander with the searing fastball struck out 26 batters.

In the end, he gave up three hits and three walks. As for the 27th out, the guy bunted. Schultz fielded it and threw him out.

“A lot of people have perfect games,” Schultz said. “A lot more have no hitters. Only one person in the whole world for the last 45 years struck out 26.”

Drafted as a 17-year-old by the Philadelphia Phillies and offered $28,000 — a significant amount at the time — to sign, he instead chose Miami.

“We still had the sloping outfield and the snow fences and no dugout. Didn’t matter. We had players who wanted to win, who knew how to win, and a lot of that is attributed to [head coach] Bud Middaugh.”

After college, he pitched five seasons for the Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals and had the National League’s third-lowest ERA in 1977.

“I was on baseball cards, I played in five different countries, I’ve pitched with and against Hall of Famers, but, in this age where statistics have become so prominent, 26 strikeouts seems to be what I’m remembered for,” reflected Schultz, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife, Toby. “It’s all good.

What could possibly be bad when you were able to live your childhood dream?”

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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With nearly 7,500 trees on Miami’s Oxford campus, students find plenty of opportunity to study under a sycamore or swing between two pines and chat.

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