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ONU alumnus Jack E. “Ed” Corle’s recent ceramic work will be on display in the Elzay Gallery of Art September 11-29, 2006. He received his BA in art from Ohio Northern in 1978 and holds a master of fine arts degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Corle has earned many honors and awards for his work, both regionally and nationally. Currently, he is co-director of the art department and an associate professor of art at the University of Findlay, where he was honored last spring for 20 years of service.
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Dear Friends: As our students are returning to campus for a new academic year, we are announcing a fresh new look for ONU’s mascot, Klondike bear. I hope you’ll enjoy his new look! On the next page we describe ONU’s long association with this magnificent bear. I hope you will take time to recall the pride and excitement of this year’s commencements. In May, we had the privilege of celebrating the success of hundreds of undergraduate and law students. This year, we also celebrated the accomplishments of more than 300 past business graduates who accepted the opportunity to affiliate more closely with Ohio Northern’s College of Business Administration and exchange their liberal arts degrees for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. In the following pages you will meet some of the exceptional individuals who took part in these three commencement ceremonies and you will read the words of the commencement speakers. You will also learn about some of the exciting opportunities the future holds for Ohio Northern University.
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Ohio Northern University PRESIDENT – Kendall L. Baker VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Anne Lippert VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF ENROLLMENT Karen P. Condeni ’74 A&S VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Thomas R. Stevick VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCIAL AFFAIRS John Green VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS Alice-Kay Hilderbrand Publisher Thomas R. Stevick (t-stevick@onu.edu) Vice President for University Advancement Editor Mary A. Wilkin (m-wilkin@onu.edu) Associate Director for Communications Services Art Director Toma Williams ’96 A&S (t-williams@onu.edu) Associate Director for Art and Design Alumni Journal Editors William L. Robinson ’61 A&S (w-robinson@onu.edu) Executive Assistant to the President Ann Donnelly ’99 A&S (a-donnelly@onu.edu) Director of Alumni Affairs Danielle Murray ’01 A&S (d-murray@onu.edu) Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs Class Notes Editor Send Class Notes news via e-mail to: alumni@onu.edu Contributing Writers Mary A. Wilkin, Tim Glon, José Nogueras, Kristen Pniewski ’07, Elizabeth Fogle ’07, Michael Seem ’07 Contributing Photographers Tim Glon, José Nogueras, Mary A. Wilkin, Francis Cardullo ’06 A&S POSTMASTER Send address changes to: OHIO NORTHERN MAGAZINE AND ALUMNI JOURNAL, 525 S. Main St., Ada, Ohio, 45810-1599 OHIO NORTHERN MAGAZINE AND ALUMNI JOURNAL (USPS 404-840) is published quarterly by Ohio Northern University, 525 S. Main St., Ada, Ohio 45810-1599. (419) 772-2000. Periodicals postage paid at Ada, Ohio, and additional mailing offices. Phone: (419) 772-2000 Fax: (419) 772-2932 OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY Founded in 1871, Ohio Northern University (http://www.onu.edu), located in West Central Ohio, is a private university offering a diverse, dynamic and unique learning community, with rigorous professional programs in partnership with the arts and the sciences. Its 3,500 students study for graduate and undergraduate degrees in five colleges: Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Business Administration, Pharmacy and Law. Ohio Northern takes pride in being a student-centered, service-oriented, values-based institution.
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Born March 16, 1923, the Polar Bear was officially chosen on that date as mascot for the Ohio Northern athletic teams. The polar bear was chosen by an overwhelming vote of the student body to personify the spirit of ONU (replacing the goat). The late G. Walter Eighmy ’26 ENG, gave this eyewitness account, quoted in the December 1993 edition of the Ohio Northern Alumni Magazine: “It happened at Lehr Auditorium. President Albert Edwin Smith, Dr. Thomas J. Smull, Dr. James Otto Newton, and other members of the faculty asked the student body for suggestions to name a university mascot. After several recommendations, I remember a football player, Anthony Muto, who sat in back of me, stood up and said, ’I suggest the name of Polar Bear. It is big, strong and is all white for purity.’ After much applause it was unanimously approved.” For decades, the Ohio Northern Polar Bear appeared in many forms on uniforms, in drawings, and finally in costume – some were fearsome while others were humorous. At least once, in the 1978 yearbook, the Polar Bear was called “Pipey.” It wasn’t until its 75th year, 1998, that The Bear was officially named “Klondike.” Now at age 83, Klondike the ONU Polar Bear has undergone another makeover to continue to represent ONU in the 21st Century. Klondike’s new image is appearing on everything from athletic uniforms to polo shirts to baby onesies. The new Polar Bear embraces the same characteristics that had students in 1923 applauding. The new Klondike is described by the design committee as “regal, proud, modern, intimidating yet not frightening, and appropriate to represent both female and male athletic teams.” The new Klondike image was officially unveiled at a news conference on the first day of classes, Sept. 5, 2006. The ONU bookstore already has items with the new image available for purchase and the new image is available at www.onu.edu/news/logos for downloads. “Klondike has never looked better,” says Athletic Director Tom Simmons. “We are excited to have an image that represents the strength and tradition of Ohio Northern in such a positive way.”
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Sprague Returns to ONU as Pharmacy Dean Jon E. Sprague, Ph.D., is the new dean of Ohio Northern’s Raabe College of Pharmacy. Dr. Sprague replaces Dr. Bobby Bryant who is now dean of Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy. Dr. Sprague returns to ONU after spending two years as chair and professor in the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and department of biomedical sciences and pathobiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to that, Sprague taught at ONU as an associate professor of pharmacology in the department of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences from 1998 to 2004 and as an assistant professor of pharmacology from 1995 to 1998. From 1994 to 1995, he was at Purdue University as a visiting assistant professor of pharmacology. Dr. Kendall Baker, president of ONU, said, “We are very pleased to have Dr. Sprague return to ONU to lead our fine pharmacy college. He is an internationally recognized scholar and is highly regarded everywhere. We are genuinely excited about the outstanding leadership we know he will provide for students and faculty in our college of pharmacy.”
Dr. Sprague is one of the leading authorities on Ecstasy (MDMA) research and has written numerous articles on the subject that have been recognized worldwide. He has won numerous awards and has been honored for his work. At ONU, he was named ONU outstanding professor in 2004 and the outstanding overall professor in 2002. He is a member of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and the Council for Undergraduate Research. Dr. Anne Lippert, vice president of academic affairs, said, “We are looking forward to Dr. Sprague’s return to ONU and the Raabe College of Pharmacy. We anticipate his leadership will further strengthen an excellent program and college of the university.” Dr. Sprague received his bachelor of science from Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Mich., and his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from Purdue University. Dr. Sprague is married and has two children.
Pharmacy Exchange Student Shares Her Views on ONU
Florence is part of an exchange program that sends pharmacy students all over the world. She decided on America to help her with her English and because she wanted the experience of being in America for personal and professional reasons. The transition at Ohio Northern started with the pharmacy program and its strong similarities to her program in France. “We do all the same things and are on a six-year program. It’s made things easier to stay in the same routine.” While in America she is excited about seeing major cities such as New York or Chicago, but also is excited to see some of “real” America. Having watched American movies and television, she started admiring the Midwest. “I understand that New York or Los Angeles are iconic cities here, but I also know that America is places like Ada. I want to see it all.” When asked if she has had any bad experiences she tenses up as if she were taking a hard exam and shrugs her shoulders and quietly sighs, “You love air-conditioning here a lot more than home, that’s it.”
Similarities between the pharmacy program in her native country of France and the program at the Raabe College of Pharmacy is one reason 23-year-old Florence Gressier chose Ohio Northern for a monthlong exchange visit to the United States. Fitting right in the Ada community with her girl-next-door looks, the tall blond is a native of Navomme, France; a small town outside Montpelier where she attends the University of Montpelier, majoring in pharmacy. Florence was two weeks into her month-long stay at ONU working with Dr. Sathyanarayana Murthy, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, when she said, “I’m happy to be in Ada. It is a small city, but a very nice city.”
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She was quick to point out how much she enjoys the campus at Ohio Northern. “My university is only a few buildings, there are no dorms or anything. Here there are lakes and trees and I find it very beautiful here.”
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Baumgartner is Dean of Engineering Technologies Group and as the project element manager of the robotic sample acquisition and processing hardware for the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory mission. Dr. Baumgartner also served on the team responsible for the design, development and operation of the highly successful Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. In addition, he has held a visiting lecturer position at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Baumgartner said, “I am deeply honored to have been selected as the dean of the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at ONU. I look forward to working with the students, staff, faculty and administration as we strive to build upon ONU’s many achievements in the development of an excellent engineering education program.” He has been invited to speak on a number of occasions about the Mars Exploration Rovers and has been widely published in numerous journals and articles in the area of robotics and control. Dr. Baumgartner and his wife, Annmarie, have three children, Megan, 13, Luke, 10, and Emma, 7.
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Eric T. Baumgartner, Ph.D., has been named dean of the T.J. Smull College of Engineering. Baumgartner replaces Dr. Jonathan Smalley who served as interim dean for the past year. Dr. Baumgartner comes to ONU from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., where he has held a number of technical and management positions since joining JPL in 1996. He received his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame and earned his master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Kendall Baker, president of ONU, said, “Dr. Baumgartner is an excellent choice to lead the engineering program at the university. He not only brings excellent leadership abilities but a wealth of knowledge that will benefit both faculty and students.” At JPL, Dr. Baumgartner served as the supervisor of the Mechanical and Robotic
Concrete Canoe Team Honored at National Competition Ohio Northern’s concrete canoe team received the American Concrete Institute Award for Excellence in Design at the National Concrete Canoe Competition, June 15-17, in Stillwater, Okla. The design award recognizes the team for innovative use of basic design principles for unconventional applications. The ONU team was recognized for their unique design and construction techniques using prestressing steel to strengthen their canoe. Ohio Northern University qualified for nationals for the first time in history by finishing second in the regional competition hosted by ONU in April. Overall, ONU finished 13 of the 23 teams at nationals and out of 170 teams competing in the various regional competitions. The 2006 ONU concrete canoe, American Pride, weighed in at 187 pounds and had a length of 21.5 feet. The co-captains of this year’s concrete canoe team were Craig Phillips of North Fairfield, Ohio, and Benjamin Rowland of Defiance, Ohio, both 2006 graduates in civil engineering.
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Stevick Named Vice President for Advancement Thomas R. Stevick has been named Ohio Northern’s vice president for university advancement. Stevick most recently served as interim vice president for advancement and executive director of the Eastern Michigan University Foundation. ONU President Kendall Baker said, “We welcome Mr. Stevick to ONU and we are excited about him leading the advancement office. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience that will help us move forward in achieving the goals the university has set for the future, as well as maintaining the high standards already established at ONU.” Stevick received his bachelor’s degree from Fairmont State College, Fairmont, W. Va., and his master’s of public administration from West Virginia University. In 1990, he received his juris doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. After working in the private sector from 1981 to 1996, Stevick worked from 1996 to 1999 as a senior major gift officer for the University of Michigan Law School. From 1999 to 2002, he served as director of development for the Arizona State University College of Law. From 2002 to 2005, he was executive director of development for the Eastern Michigan University Foundation. He has been involved in managing college development programs and has led several successful capital campaigns. He has been active in professional organizations, such as Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the National Committee on Planned Giving. Stevick has been married for 25 years to his wife Grace and has two children, James and Andrew. 6
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Eleven graduating business students successfully completed capstone projects with Cooper Tire and Rubber Company of Findlay, Ohio. The students, all part of Prof. Randall Ewing’s Advanced Ma rk e t i n g C l a s s , worked on quarterlong marketing projects dealing with Cooper Tire executives listen to market analysis reports from product analysis, ONU’s business students. competitor analysis and retail pricing. The projects came to a climax with a presentation on May 16 to Cooper Tire executives including vice presidents and managers. Students taking part in the project were Amy Warren, Perry, Ohio; Kevin Trockley, Brighton, Mich.; Albert Previte, Ada, Ohio; Elizabeth Zaccaro, Brunswick, Ohio; Lisa VanSuch, Campbell, Ohio; Abby Myers, Canfield, Ohio; Maggie Gerber, Kidron, Ohio; Laura Hess, Kettering, Ohio; Brian Magee, North Canton, Ohio; Brandon McGuire, Elida, Ohio; and Ashley Myers, Harrod, Ohio. Speaking for Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, Jim Keller, vice president, marketing, said, “The Ohio Northern students did an outstanding job. We gave them three difficult assignments all of which had real world marketing impacts on our business. The commitment and research the three teams put into the projects gave us at Cooper Tire valuable inputs as we move forward in a highly competitive tire industry.” Team members include, front from left, Lisa VanSuch, Prof. Ewing explained the Elizabeth Zaccaro and Amy Warren; back, Albert Preproject provides the students vite and Kevin Trockley. with real life experience. He said, “the projects were designed to provide the students a true corporate experience with a company assigned task, weekly meetings with management, hard deadlines, and a presentation to management including direct questioning and assessment. I am very grateful to Cooper Tire and Rubber Company for providing such a valuable experience to these students.” Waiting to present their findings are, from left, Brandon McGuire, Brian Magee, Ashley Myers, Laura Hess, Maggie Gerber and Abby Myers. OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE AND ALUMNI JOURNAL
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Twelve lawyers from transitional and emerging democracies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are spending the next year in Ada as the first students in the ONU Pettit College of Law LL.M. program. They will be learning how democracy works through a highly structured course of study plus field work to see local, area and state government in action. The Democratic Governance and Rule of Law LL.M. program is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State and involves young lawyers from Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The year-long program for lawyers active in government service or public sector work in their home countries, asks them to make a two-year commitment to continue that work after they complete their LL.M. studies. Howard N. Fenton, professor of law and director for the LL.M. program, explains that the program targets these lawyers because they have fewer opportunities to study abroad, but have the greatest opportunity to promote law reform in their home countries. The LL.M. program is designed to teach skills that can build a strong legal framework for democracy in their home countries. Fenton has spent more than 10 years in transitional democracies dealing with legal and governmental reform, most recently as chief of party for the U.S. Agency for International Development Rule of Law project in Tbilisi, Georgia. He believes Ada and Ohio Northern offer an ideal setting for an international program. He points out that local and state government in Ohio offers case studies on a scale close to what students experience in their home countries, and the quiet rural setting encourages students to focus on their studies.
He is joined in ONU’s LL.M. program by an assistant director, Steve Larrabee, and two new faculty members, Professors Elena Helmer and Jared Levinson, who in addition to teaching will provide personal and professional support as advisors to the 12 students. Larrabee joined the law school in July of 2006, having previously been regional director of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He has both a J.D. and MBA from George Washington University. Students will have the opportunity to observe grassroots democracy at work in local government, courts, community groups, bar associations and nongovernmental organizations.
rights consultant in Uzbekistan, who received his LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University. The College of Law’s library has expanded its foreign and comparative materials to provide access to the research resources LL.M. students will need. To help the LL.M. students acclimate to life at ONU, the LL.M. students live in the same university apartment complex with J.D. students and each has a peer advisor, a second or third-year law student with an international background and interests. Funding by the U.S. State Department allows ONU to offer full scholarships, travel, accommodations, board and stipends to the LL.M. students. The grant was secured through the State LL.M. (Legum Magister) Master of Laws Department’s Bureau of Educational Cultural • Internationally-recognized postgraduate law degree Affairs with the assistance • Usually one-year full-term program of U.S. Senator Mike • Higher academic degree comparable to MBA DeWine’s office. DeWine • Offers study in specialized area of law such as tax is a 1972 graduate of the law or international law Pettit College of Law. The program targeted young lawyers in The core elements of the LL.M. program, however, are Central Asia and Eastern Europe for its first year. seven new courses dealing with issues in transitional The Middle East and Africa will be added recruiting democracies, including legal issues in transitional targets in the future. Students are recruited through democracies, competitiveness and corruption, cooperation with U.S. embassies and the U.S. and a rule of law seminar that requires a 25-page Agency for International Development and nonresearch paper on a critical area of legal reform in the governmental agencies such as the American Bar participant’s home country. Association Central European and Eurasian Law To implement the LL.M. program, two visiting initiative, the National Democratic Institute and faculty members have joined the College of Law: the International Republican Institute. The addition of the LL.M. program will also Elena Helmer, former professor and deputy dean of the St. Petersburg Institute of law, St. Petersburg, benefit the College of Law’s J.D. students, a limited Russia, who holds an LL.M. from Yale and has taught number of whom will be able to enroll in the new comparative law and law reform; and Jared Levinson, classes and participate in the specialized weekend a former Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia and human seminars.
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Construction Races Toward Academic Year Major construction projects on the Ohio Northern campus were in high gear this summer, racing to meet the deadline of providing housing and educational space to students on opening day. The Hakes-Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Education Center, connected to the RobertsonEvans Pharmacy Building, offers state-of-the-art educational facilities with a 250-seat tiered classroom/auditorium with projection screens and SMART board technology, two large flexible classrooms which can be divided into smaller meeting areas, eight faculty offices and eight research laboratories. Groundbreaking for the project was held in May 2005. Construction to provide new and updated living facilities for ONU students stayed on schedule and on budget during the summer, SUMMER 2006
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Master’s Class Encourages Students Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel visited the ONU campus and worked with four theatre, musical theatre and music students in a workshop style master’s class. He was assisted by coach-accompanist MaryMitchell Campbell, a faculty member of The Juilliard School. Kirsten Osbun-Manley, ONU’s resident artist in music, selected the following four students to perform for Creel: Lindsay Naiman, communication arts/BFA in music theatre and criminal justice from Findlay, Ohio; Kenley Monson, communication arts/BFA in music theatre from Columbus, Ohio; Glenn Stanton, communication arts/BFA in music theatre from Troy, Ohio; and Christine Wenning music performance and communication arts/ BFA in music theatre, St. Marys, Ohio. Osbun-Manley’s connection to Creel stems from the actor’s roots in Findlay, Ohio. Through family contact, she knew Creel would be in the vicinity of ONU. In between visiting with friends and family, and a performance at an alumni concert, Creel agreed to work with a few students on singing techniques and performance character. Each student prepared one song to perform prior to meeting Creel. On the day of the master’s class, he talked for almost an hour about breaking into Broadway and the connections needed to succeed in a music career. Students and professors filled the Freed Center for Performing Arts to listen to Creel’s advice. The four students then sang their songs in front of him and the full
house of spectators. To Naiman, Creel said to be true to her character as well as to herself. Stanton was told to use his physicality to support his singing. Each student was given something different to focus on to make their singing even better. When asked about the experience, Naiman said that “Gavin was incredibly encouraging to us students Gavin Creel, center, poses with ONU students. and our dreams. It was refreshing to have someone on the outside come through Northern will help them along in and believe in us as much as our professors.” the way. Naiman’s college accomplishments -- she recently When asked if the musical theater placed second in the Musical Theatre Category department would try to bring more in the Buckeye Chapter of NATS (National performers to ONU to do these types of Association of Teachers of Singing) Student classes, Osbun-Manley said, “We are already Auditions -- were validated through her short working on getting more professionals for interaction with Gavin. “This experience justifies next year, and we would like for Gavin to my BA,” said Naiman. return some day as well.” The workshop was a success for the performers The master’s class taught students as well as for the spectators. Gavin’s interest in the like Naiman to be confident in themselves students at ONU grew through the interaction, and to use the networking through ONU. and he even commented on the exceptional caliber Unlike other lecturers the musical theater of students and faculty at ONU. Not only was he department has had, “Gavin brought a pleased with the students, but he was impressed new light and new energy to the hopes and by the facilities on campus. Gavin told students dreams of ONU students,” Naiman said. “I that college was only a stepping stone into the know my professors believe in me, and now, business, but that the connections they gain so do people already in the business.”
Leadership Project Helps Children Students in the Children’s Developmental Center of Lima, Inc., had some extra fun and learning this summer, thanks to a servicelearning project by Ohio Northern senior Meghan Frazer. At the organization’s annual picnic, each child received an ageappropriate activities packet to use during the summer break. The packets, each containing an activity booklet, book, bubbles, play dough, crayons, chalk and homemade bean bags with suggested games, is the result of a service learning project taken on by Frazer, a senior in communication arts from Middletown, Ohio. The packets were made possible by donations from Lima area businesses and support from ONU’s History and Political Science Department. The Children’s Developmental Center offers therapy and developmental assistance to special needs children from birth to school age.
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ONU’s Theater Department’s Fourth International Play Festival followed up a successful run in March by taking the show on the road to San Luis Potosi, May 25-31. Eighteen Ohio Northern students and faculty members traveled to San Luis Potosi, in the heart of Mexico, to work with the El Rinoceronte Enamorado Theater Company. Laura Lucas, a theater/Spanish major from Minerva, Ohio, and assistant director for the festival, said, “San Luis was amazing because we were in the heart of Mexico, not just a tourist spot or some resort.” This year’s international play festival featured South America with plays from Venezuela and Argentina. Established playwrights Gustavo Ott and Adrianna Genta were commissioned to write the plays. The two plays are very different in subject matter and style. Genta’s “Shattered Stories,” set in an Argentine prison is realistic, while Ott’s, “120 Lives a Minute,” set on an airplane, is abstract. According to Lucas, there was a little extra pressure in the San Lu i s p e r f o r m a n c e s , “I think there was a little nervousness and excitement taking these plays to Mexico. Taking these plays that are foreign to us to the people they were written for upped the stakes a little bit. Some of the actors were afraid of not pronouncing the Spanish words in the script correctly.” Otto Minera of Mexico returned to ONU to direct the plays. In 2004, Otto served as director of the festival with plays from Chile, Mexico, and Cuba. Lucas said that, “Working with Otto again was great. His first time here I was acting. As assistant director I learned a lot. He is such an artist and instilled this faith in everybody involved.” All those involved in this year’s festival came back to ONU after finals week for a quick week of rehearsals and read-throughs after a near twomonth break from the original performances. Lucas commented that, “It was a lot of fun getting everybody back together again.”
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Assistant Director Alumni Affairs Danielle (Verone) Murray ’01 A&S, has been named assistant director of alumni affairs. She had been assistant director of Admissions and is a member of the Alumni Board. She is a 2001 graduate of Ohio Northern with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts and a concentration in public relations. Murray had worked as an ONU admission counselor since August 2001 and was a member of the Ohio Association of College Admissions Counselors, the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, and state organizations in New York and Pennsylvania.
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The festival consisted of two shows and post-show discussions with the audience, which consisted mostly of high school and college students. “The post-show discussions were amazing and we got an incredible response. They asked us about our interpretations of the plays and really got into political and social topics about the relationship between Latin America and the United States,” Lucas said. The ONU Theater Department was welcomed with open arms and impressed their hosts. Bryan Beckwith, a senior theater major said, “We acted very professional and they (El Rinoceronte Enamorado) told us that we were really hard workers.” Lucas added that, “This was work, not a vacation, and I was very proud of everybody’s hard work.”
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The cast of “Shattered Stories” was led by Elizabeth Orley, sophomore communication arts (musical theatre) major from Findlay, Ohio; she is joined by cast members Mary Elsey, freshman communication arts (theatre)/ literature major from Uniontown, Ohio; Heather Green, senior communication arts (musical theatre) major from Fredericktown, Ohio; and Dana Ellison, sophomore communication arts (theatre)/psychology major from Tiffin, Ohio. The cast of “120 Lives a Minute” consisted of Bryan Beckwith, junior communication arts (theatre) major from Osceola, Ind.; Sarah Portz, senior music/communication arts (theatre) major from Strongsville, Ohio; Brandon Price, senior communication arts (theatre)/psychology major from Tiffin, Ohio; Josh Fossitt, senior communication arts (musical theatre) major from Xenia, Ohio. The crew for the festival included April Carmack, graduate in international theater production from Akron, Ohio; Jake Schmidt, graduate international theater production and musical theater from Green Bay, Wis.; Bobby Porter, graduate international theater production from Massillon, Ohio; Laura Lucas, senior theater and Spanish major from Minerva, Ohio; Amber Baker, graduate international theater production from St. Paris, Ohio; Brian Caldwell, senior theater major from Wadsworth, Ohio; Joan Robbins, dramaturg for the festival, Lin Fletcher communication arts secretary, Scott Henkels, technical director, and Kathe Devault, lighting and sound director and production manager. 9
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Thank you, Dr. Baker, for that kind introduction. It is a pleasure to be here; an honor to speak. Each of us has just a small number of special days that define our lives. Today is one of those special days in the lives of so many people in this room. In my own case, our family has been connected with Ohio Northern University for over 100 years, since my grandfather’s older brother first matriculated in 1904, which makes this opportunity for me to speak today very special indeed. Robert Frost wrote a poem called “A Time to Talk.” It is a comment on our tendency to only partially pay attention to what is happening in our lives while keeping the other eye on some other effort. It is an interesting poem in part because it was written in an earlier time when society was not challenged with what we call today “continuous partial attention.” Robert Frost’s poem goes like this...
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539 degrees conferred Guest Speaker: James F. Dicke II, chairman and CEO of Crown Equipment Corporation Student Speaker: Justin Stiles, civil engineering, Bryan, Ohio Honorary Degrees: James F. Dicke II, Doctor of Business Administration Gordon K. “Mick” Acheson, Doctor of Business Administration National Anthem: Catherine J. Reinhard, music education, Fostoria, Ohio Special Music: Symphonic Band; Professor Kirsten Osbun-Manley, vocal soloist; Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw, vocalist; Toby R. Baker, narrator ONU Hymn: Andrew F. Schultz, music, Deance, Ohio Musical Benediction: Graduating Seniors in the University Singers 10
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on all the hills I haven’t hoed, and shout from where I am, “What is it?” No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, blade-end up and five feet tall, and plod: I go up to the stone wall for a friendly visit. If you will indulge me, I hope this can be our friendly visit. Congratulations! Your accomplishment today is one of life’s great milestones. It is one of those days I hope you will remember fondly. Days like today come only rarely in your life and then, in a few hours, they are gone. You have overcome many obstacles to reach today. I am mindful that I am the last obstacle to stand between you and the actual receipt of your diploma and your celebration with family and friends. I am also mindful that people usually do not remember who was their commencement speaker or what they said. They only remember if they went on too long. You are joining the alumni body of a very special place, and you are not really leaving Ohio Northern today. This university will be with you wherever you go. It is a relationship to last a lifetime. You have been fortunate to study with a great university faculty. Your professors take a back seat to no college or university in the world.
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Catch up with recent Northe rn graduates they share pla as ns for the fu ture and thou about Ohio No ghts rthern in Pos t cards from th Class of 200 e 6 in the follo wing pages. I hope you will stay in touch with them. They have a keen interest in you. Will you join me in giving your professors a round of applause? I cannot speak here today without contrasting this occasion with another spring day in 1968, 38 years ago this month as my university class received our diplomas at Trinity University in another gymnasium, not as grand as this one. Let me share a verbal picture. My parents came to graduation ceremonies that day with my widowed grandmother Dicke, and my grandma and grandpa Webster. It was a remarkable day for our family. Grandpa Webster had dropped out of school to work at the age of 14. Neither of my grandmothers had the opportunity to attend college. In their generation only about 2 percent of the population had the
’06 A&S Amanda Horvath Ohio adview Heights, nmental Hometown: Bro Science in enviro of r lo he ac B and GIS Degree: or in geography in m y, og ol bi d studies an of Colorado ted by the University cep ac en be e I’v : of science in uation nter to earn a master’s Plans after grad Ce ces ien Sc the Peace Corps; it’s h alt He at Denver into the program with g kin loo y all tu ac I’m course work at the environmental science. uld be a year doing wo ere Th m. ra og pr nal Corps, do my service, a master’s and a natio apply for the Peace d ul wo I en th d an o University of Colorad nish my master’s. fi d an ck ba e then com community and think it’s the sense of I u? yo to l ia spec d know so many What makes ONU y different things an an m so in d lve vo be in with my biology belonging. You can I hung out primarily s. est ter in al eci sp within n turn around different people all together, but you ca eld fi e th in t ou as well an Club. You get to friends, in classes as ent Senate or Newm ud St e lik g in eth som ally the professors. and get involved in re about you, especi ca le op pe d an le op care. t pe ing and they really know lots of differen rs here are just amaz sso ofe pr e th e, tru It’s really
opportunity to graduate from college. World War II had interrupted my own parents’ chances to earn a degree. My own graduation that day was a very proud day for the family. They may not have had degrees, but they were smart, well educated people. These fine people, my parents and grandparents, were and are some of my heroes. If you don’t have heroes in your life, I suggest you get some. Thinking about whom you admire, and why you admire your heroes is very empowering. It must be said 1968, when I graduated, was a difficult time in America. Shortly after our graduation, Robert Kennedy was killed. Shortly before our graduation Martin Luther King was killed. There had been riots in the country. The Vietnam War was hugely controversial. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in the spring of our senior year, he would not seek re-election. Our graduating class got a letter that graduation day from President Johnson. At the time, I recall thinking his words sounded like standard political rhetoric, perhaps not even written by the president himself. Today, as I read them, his words seem very personal and poignant. Let me read to you President Johnson’s words. Today they seem to me like a piece of history frozen in time. The words sound so much like the man to me, they should not be read with an Ohio accent, but here goes. President Johnson writes: “Few moments equal the joy, the satisfaction, and the fulfillment of graduation. It is a personal and permanent victory, an honor to last a lifetime. To each of you I extend my sincere congratulations.
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…continued from page 11 “The time is past when our national interests could be served by a few who elected to make the country’s affairs their own. The complexity of our age and the particular burden history has thrust upon us -- to preserve freedom where it exists and to foster it where it does not -- demand every American hand and every American heart. The greatest responsibility falls to those who have the most to give. “I cannot tell you the extent of America’s influence in shaping the new order of world affairs- though I believe it will be great. “I cannot measure our national ability to abolish ignorance and sickness and injustice whenever these ancient enemies degrade humanitythough I believe it is limitless. “I cannot predict that America’s future will match and exceed the brilliance of her pastthough I believe it will. The answers will not come in my lifetime, but in the future - your future. I am confident that you who have proved your ability to achieve, to endure and to win, will serve that future with distinction.” Lyndon B. Johnson The day I graduated, I made the mistake of thinking the future would be difficult just like the difficult times we had just experienced. Thankfully that was not true for our country and for much of my career. Today, however, we are facing new difficult times. The war on
Chet Kaczor ’06 PH N.Y. Hometown: Lockport, . D Degree: Pharm.
Toby Baker ’06 A&S Hometown: Laramie, Wy. Degrees: Bachelor of Art in jour nalism, with a minor in broadcasting, Universi ty of Wyoming: Master of Art in creative writing, University of North Dakota; and Bachelor of Fine Art in stud io art, ONU.
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Plans after graduation: Make art! What makes ONU special to you? It was here that I finally mustered the courage to pursue my “dream degree” of earning a B.F.A. degree in art. What a trek it has been! I have learned to do things I had never even dreamed about--all beca use of this incredible university in the Village of Ada. How fortunate I was to study with the very best faculty and, after five years, to receive my coveted B.F.A. degree from my husband! What a delicious moment to savor! I’m proud to be a Polar Bear and to always have the statu s of “ONU alumna, 2006!”
terror and the threats of mass destruction present challenges unlike any we have faced in the past. I am not sure precisely how, but let me suggest your future will be very different from what you may be expecting as you graduate today. Life has a way of giving us what we do not imagine we will face. It is my turn to say I am confident you will serve that future with distinction. We know so much more about almost every field of knowledge today then we knew even a year ago. A week does not pass without new information. Just a few weeks ago a fossil of the so-called “missing link” was found, an animal with both gills and lungs. It could breathe on land and
mil ’06 PH, took a n: My fiancé, Jessica Ha tio ua re. ad gr r te af s an Pl rans Administration) the , W. Va. at the VA (Vete ton Huntington area. ng the nti in Hu re sto in a ncy at ide ger res pharmacy mana the be I’ll . Aid e Rit th So, I’ve signed on wi armacy. So much in like the business side of ph lly rea I t bu acy arm ph of oning of health care costs. I like the clinical side – trying to slow the ballo t cos by ven dri is e car health d delivering the highest t while still developing an tan por im lly rea t’s tha For me munity pharmacy. That’s it be in hospitals or com er eth wh e car nt tie pa quality us my attention. really where I want to foc n to the college of you? The direct admissio to l cia spe U ON s ke n. I really, really like What ma is is an excellent institutio Th nt. rta po im y ver is corps of professors and pharmacy couldn’t ask for a better you d an acy arm ph of e the colleg cation I received here. am thankful for the edu ely nit es defi I ff. sta d an faculty d a myriad of experienc one, in the classroom, ha on e on s, ve. ng eti siti po me ely in I’ve sat been extrem jority of experiences have and the overwhelming ma
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in the water. We have a newly discovered planet about the same size as Pluto, so new it is not yet named. When I graduated from college there were no computers or word processors in the dormitories. There was no Internet, 911 emergency line, cell phones, or hand held calculators. I could go on. Transistor radios and 8-track tapes represented the latest technology. I do not say this to suggest we lived in an earlier, simpler time, though that is true. I am proud to say my generation invented most of the new advances. What I do want you to think about is the accelerating pace of change, and how out of date today will seem very shortly. It is important to continue our educations every day. Yet, the demands of multi-tasking are here as well driving out some of the actual experience of carefully considering important matters. It is as if we are being asked to do two or more things at once all day, every day. We have learned much about the limits of government in the last 38 years, and today we can offer some tentative reactions to the observations raised by President Johnson in his letter. They are answers for today, however. Your generation will now make the next paragraph of history. Government efforts are still important to our fundamental freedoms, and to protect us from those who would prey upon society. The United States is performing an unprecedented role for good in the world. It now also looks as if private initiatives, the global economy, free trade and the free flow of information will play more expanded roles in spreading democracy, and raising the standard of living around the world.
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Justin Stiles ’06 ENG Hometown: Bryan Ohio Degree: Bachelor of Sc ience in civil engineering with concentration in the coop program and the hon ors program. Plans after graduation: I’ll be working for Marathon Petroleum Company in Findlay, Ohio. I’ll be an engineer in the marketing and transportation engineering I picture myself as practicing division. engineering, as a profession al engineer. I’d like to get my professional engineering lice nse, and practice for severa l years and then would like master’s in civil engineerin to obtain a g. Then I picture myself goi ng back to school to get a Ph an engineering educator wit .D . to become h the ultimate goal of being a vice president of academic ultimately president of Ohio aff airs, and Northern University. What makes ONU specia l to you? There are a lot of special things about Ohio not just here being an engine Northern. I’m er. I’m here being a student, here being a person, a friend a leader, a follower. I’m on , a mentor, my way to becoming a profess ional, but I also enjoy attend ball games, waving the flag ing the footat the football games, being there for the football team, for the athletics programs, bei being there ng involved in several musica l groups. I got to be involved I had a lot of spiritual growth in music. here. Northern does a really good job supporting students’ needs in that area. I got to experience a lot of the student development side, the dent side, working with car resieer services, working with the leadership team. There’s no place at No rthern I wasn’t able to be inv olved, to feel connected. I really got plugge d into a lots of different are as and really felt connected to all the peo ple here. I definitely picture myself as being an involved alumnus. I really love this university. I can’t pic ture myself not being involv ed.
Ohio Northern University Commencement Address Justin Stiles Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr. Robert Smith, Members of the Board of Trustees, President Baker, Mr. James Dicke, our esteemed guest speaker, other distinguished guests, faculty, staff, administration, family, friends, and the
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Wherever people can have a voice, dictatorships, and the practices degrading human beings are in full retreat. Wherever people have economic freedom, they have a growing voice. It is the end of a 100-year-old debate about whether central planning and totalitarianism would economically pull ahead of a free enterprise “incentive” society, and democracy. So much for the efficiency of central planning! It has been relegated to the scrap heap of history. Around the world, whenever they are given a chance to be heard, voters are calling for more democratic, simpler, leaner, and less intrusive government. It is a fascinating, exciting and challenging future. If I can leave you with one observation, it would be this. We spend too much time as passive observers and too little time as active participants in our own lives. The cell phones, the text messaging, the video cameras and the bombardment of information can become too much of a preoccupation, driving out the actual experience of living today, of actually experiencing our own life. The real camera is here in your head. If you are going to remember today, or any day for that matter, it must be given your full attention, and not just be part of a couple of things you are trying to do simultaneously. I would like to challenge you to really savor what is going on around you today. Make all of today a lasting memory in your life. Cherish this easy moment. The here and now is the real thing. This is a special day. In a few hours today will be over and it will not come again. There is a quote from the great South African hero Nelson Mandela who was speaking of his own “Long Walk to Freedom,” yet his words can easily be applied to a triumphant graduation day like today. It captures the spirit of this being a day to savor and a day of revelation. I want to share his words with you. I want to charge you to pay attention to his “discovery.” He said, “I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger for my long walk is not yet ended.” Thank you for our little visit. Please do one final thing for me. Today, and in the years ahead, please thank your families and friends for the sacrifices, not just financial sacrifices, they have made to bring you to this day. Believe me, those sacrifices have been gladly made, but they have been very real. So, in conclusion, would you please stand and turn around and join me in giving your families and friends a round of applause?
Class of 2006 – it is my pleasure to address you today, at the 135th commencement of Ohio Northern University. Today, we celebrate the end of our four-, five-, or sixyear tenure at Ohio Northern University, and we gaze toward our bright futures, a horizon which was once unfathomable. Hours and hours spent studying calculus, physics, psychology, art, music, biology, economics, western civilization, interpersonal communication, physiology, organic chemistry, cardiology, international finance, and concrete are finally over. We have leapt, stumbled, and fallen over all of the academic hurdles that our professors set up for us and are now about to receive our degrees. Eager, scared, tearful, anxious, grateful, ecstatic – a mix of emotions swirl within us as we ready ourselves to leave this university as educated and degreed professionals. For much of our lives, we have dreamed of this day, and now, at last, it has arrived. Are we ready to enter the community and the world? Are we ready to positively contribute to the world around us? Are we capable of making a difference? The answer to these Continued on page 14… 13
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…continued from page 13 questions is undoubtedly, “Yes!” For 134 years prior, students have graduated from this university and enjoyed much success, and our class will be no different. Each year, the class of graduates has grown in talent and ability, and our class is certainly no exception. Members of our class have been a part of accomplishing incredible feats. Together, we have: won prestigious national scholarships, gained acceptance to some of the top graduate schools in the nation, secured positions with premier corporations, performed at the highest national and state competitions, earned accolades at national and regional conferences, won awards in music and the arts, traveled and studied abroad in places like Spain, France, Scotland, China, and Kenya, and advanced to national and regional tournaments in many sports. We have accomplished the unthinkable several times in several arenas during our time here, and I believe we will continue doing so throughout our lives. Our collegiate experience has been one of transformation. Remember when we first moved to Northern? We had just graduated high school. Some of us thought we were at the top of our game. The world was ours for the taking. We were cocky, boisterous, and not afraid to let our parents know that we were hot stuff. And then, our parents reminded us how cool they were by taking our car keys and allowances away. Now we realize those were little lessons in humility and
S Annie Baldwin ’06 BU , Ohio on int Cl Hometown: Port ration ce in Business Administ ien Sc of Degree: Bachelor irlpool corporate : I accepted a job offer at Wh Plans after graduation rbor, Mich. After l be in St. Joseph-Benton Ha be anywhere in headquarters. Training wil they have a need. So I could ere wh on ing end dep ed, that, we are relocat g brand representative. America. I’ll be a marketin at I thought l to you? As opposed to wh What makes ONU specia having munity, knowing everyone, at first, I like the smaller com t in bigger, w the teachers. I know tha smaller classes, getting to kno orite things ldn’t do that. Some of my fav lecture type settings, you cou . In business opportunity to know people about ONU are getting the to choose up projects and you don’t get classes, you do so many gro , you’re not ally in the capstone project who is in your group. Especi that so n major. They purposely do even with people in your ow pletely difng with people who have com you’ve got the feel for worki to approach a problem. ferent viewpoints as to how
appreciation, and we thank you for that! Some of us were horrified of the notion of being in college, and it took every ounce of encouragement that our parents possessed to get us to leave for college and stay there. Again, parents, we thank you for that. Some of us were ready for college and embraced it. After a couple of weeks or months, we missed home. Parents, thank you for missing us back, even though you may have shouted for joy once we were out of the house. What a difference being at Northern has made in our lives! Now, we are ready once more to blast off to another part of our lives, but we leave here
William H Humphries, IV ’06 A&S Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa. Degree: Bachelor of Science in chemistry Bachelor’s in musical performance Plans after graduation: I am first going to be going to the Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., to run some laser spectroscopy experiments. Then in the fall, I will be going to Georgia Institute of Technology to pursue a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. I plan to do research into either the optical properties of nanoparticles or a new type of surface chemistry. What makes ONU special to you? ONU is a unique school because of its people. The typical type of person who comes to ONU wants to excel but is also interested in the social aspects of life. I also think that ONU is unique because of its ability to be detached from urban life while still being full of opportunity. Being from a major city, when I came here I was very worried about moving to a rural setting. However, once I got here and met people, I was glad to be in a place where I as a student could be separated from the hassles of big city life while still enjoying a plethora of social and extracurricular options ONU has to offer. 14
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changed people. We have experienced and learned so much from this university. The cafeteria staff has taught us about good nutrition – salads, cheeseburgers, bagels, and chocolate chip cookies are a balanced diet, right? Resident assistants taught us that living in a crammed hallway with 30 other students can actually be fun. The black swan has taught us lessons in self defense. From the chapel staff, we have learned the importance of spiritual growth and balance. Waiting in line to use the elliptical machine or treadmill has made us value patience and physical wellness. Our beloved professors have instilled in us knowledge of our future professions, a sense of how our professions work and relate to society, the ability to think critically, creatively, and independently, and the significance of life-long learning. Membership in student organizations has taught us about teamwork, leadership, and responsibility. Service projects taught us about benevolence, humanitarianism, and community. By attending performances and shows at the Freed Center, Presser Hall, and Wilson Art Center, we deepened our understanding and appreciation of music and the arts and how they affect our lives. Through our interactions with fellow students, we learned about loyalty, honesty, compromise, conflict, and camaraderie. We have learned to love and be loved through our friendships and relationships. Tragedies, including seeing some of our friends, faculty, and staff lose
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transformation is essential to meeting the needs of current and future students. As we prepare to depart Ohio Northern University, it is like leaving home again. I would say that for most of us, Northern has indeed become our home. It is here we have begun our personal transformation into the men and women we were meant to be. It is here we formed our deepest friendships. As alumni, Northern will always be a home for us. We have grown fond of this university, and we are passionate about it. Let each of us carry that passion and that pride with us wherever we go. Having passion for our future families and our future careers will make our lives so much richer and rewarding. Remember the excitation we felt when we displayed outstanding academic performance in a class or on a project? Recall October of 2005, when, in perhaps one of our class’s signature performances, our football team accomplished the unthinkable by defeating Mount Union College, ending their streak of 110 regular season wins and their 99 Ohio Athletic Conference wins. Remember the immense feeling of spirit, pride, and passion we felt either at the game or when we heard about this monumental victory? Let us take that spirit with us wherever we are. No, you will not always be able to paint your face and hair and run around with a giant flag to display your spirit and pride, but each of us can still radiate enthusiasm in our relationships and our careers. Put your best paw forward, Polar Bears! Class of 2006, let us take with us the lessons we learned from Northern and use them well as we leave this place. We need to seize the
opportunities around us that transform us and grant each of us personal and community success, just as we have done at Northern. Be grateful for our collegiate experience here. We are extremely fortunate to have received this college education, so treat it as a precious gift to be used for all of its worth. Remember to show gratitude to the faculty that gave us the knowledge we now possess, but use it, for knowledge not applied goes stale and does not help anyone. Remember to thank the staff members that greeted us and served us with a smile. Remember to thank the families who supported us in our journey through Northern. Thank you, Ohio Northern University, for the experiences we have shared and for the treasured memories we now have. Let us all go forth from this university, ready to humbly serve others with our extraordinary and unique talents. As you walk away from your alma mater: May the sun shine gently on your face. May the rain fall soft upon your fields. May the wind be at your back. May the road rise to meet you. May the Lord hold you in the hollow of his hand. Until we meet again.
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their lives while we were here, taught us what it really means to cherish the people we have around us while we do have them around us. At times, college has been excruciatingly difficult, and through that struggle we have developed perseverance and resilience. The words of Martin Luther aid me in describing personal transformation: This life, we now live and will continue to live after we graduate from ONU, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness; not health, but healing; not rest, but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not finished but it is continuing. This is not the end but it is the road; all does not gleam in glory but all is being purified. The essence of our characters has been transformed since we first entered Northern, and we are leaving this university changed people, and I think changed for the better. Let us all continue to grow and change in exciting ways as we part with Northern, and always strive toward a path that will keep us acting with the highest integrity. Northern and the Village of Ada have also undergone major transformation in our short time here. Huber Memorial came tumbling down before our eyes. Some of us took philosophy and religion classes in the Young Building, which has since been demolished. Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express, or “Taco Hut,” became just a Taco Bell. One of our most prized and celebrated restaurants, Hardee’s, sadly closed its doors this year, leaving hundreds of us without our spicy chicken sandwiches. We have witnessed the expansion of Dukes Memorial, the construction of new campus village apartment housing, the addition of the Burgett wing of the English Chapel, the renovation of Lehr Memorial, and the new face of the cafeteria in McIntosh Center. Transformation continues for current and future Northern students, as additional campus village apartments and the affinity village are being constructed, Lima Hall is being refashioned, and the Hakes-Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Education Center is being built. The west end of campus has changed in a major way, due to the addition of the DialRoberson Stadium. And on the east end of campus, we were extremely fortunate to witness the construction and completion of James F. Dicke Hall, the state-of-the-art building housing the College of Business Administration. Mr. Dicke, we thank you for the tremendous generosity that your family has bestowed upon our university, so that we could have such a magnificent facility. We need also to be thankful that our university recognizes that
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Michael Hylton ’06 ENG Hometown: Alderson, W.Va. hanical engineering Degree: Bachelor of Science in mec for Virginia Tech to get my Plans after graduation: I’m headed probably have a graduate research master’s in mechanical engineering and like the --some of the wind tunnel stuff. I really assistantship in the field of turbo dynamics g into the field of turbo field of fluid dynamics. The reason I’m goin ably look at heat transfer dynamics, is I like airplane design. I’ll prob to do something with off the turbine blades in airplanes. I’d like field. that in g aircraft-- design, engines, somethin of the things that really What makes ONU special to you? One is. There’s so many it ll sma surprised me, that I like now, is how can get involved in. you that clubs and organizations and activities I had no idea comp. ershi lead There are so many opportunities for involved in and to get ld wou I ing in how many clubs or activities rises me. surp just it , look back now on how much I’ve done
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111 degrees conferred Guest Speaker: Kenneth W. Gideon, Partner in the Washington, D.C. ofce of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP Student Speaker: Michael Mario Michetti, Medina, Ohio. Honorary Degree: Kenneth W. Gideon, Doctor of Laws Invocation: Michael J. Palumbo National Anthem and Musical Benediction: Leah Erin Bumbalough Spoken Benediction: Bonnie L. Wolf
Kenneth W. Gideon Graduates, President Baker, Dean Crago, members of the faculty, parents, spouses, families, and friends of graduates Congratulations not only to today’s graduates but also to all of you in today’s audience who gave them the encouragement, instruction and support to undertake and succeed in the study of law. My wife taught high school to put me through law school many years ago, so I particularly want to recognize and congratulate the spouses, partners, and significant others who have done the same for graduates in today’s class. Let’s give everyone who helped our graduates achieve the right to 16
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be here today a round of applause for a job well done! And now, because it’s Mother’s Day, I think the mothers who are here today also deserve a round of applause. Happy Mother’s Day! It is a particular privilege for a tax lawyer like me to come to the university that gave our country Laurence Neal Woodworm. Larry went on from Ohio Northern to become the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the United States Congress for many years and then became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy under President Carter. Larry made the tax laws he worked on better by combining a strong instinct for good tax policy with an appreciation for what was politically possible. Perhaps one of you will take up his work. You could not have a finer role model. Graduation speeches are always a challenge - they must be brief, they should appeal to a diverse audience, they’re better if they are occasionally humorous, and they’re best if they also inspire. I promise at least to be brief. I’m going to reminisce a bit about my own legal career, focusing on the changes that I have witnessed, then do a bit of crystal-ball gazing about the even more dramatic changes today’s graduates will, I believe, encounter in their careers. My primary theme today is that change in the way we practice law, in the law itself, and in our profession - and rapid change at that - is not only inevitable - it should be embraced as an opportunity.
Let’s start with the mundane: the technology of legal practice. While I was a law student in 1970, I participated in a testing program called the “0 Bar Long Project” sponsored by an Ohio company named Mead Data. Using oldfashioned, green teletype machines with yellow paper rolls as the input/output device, Mead instructors first gave a group of law students (of which I was one) a short course in computer search logic. Then each of us queried a database of Ohio appellate cases to see if we could find cases by computer to answer legal questions posed by the instructors. A couple of years later, I persuaded my Texas law firm that we should sign up for Mead’s new LEXIS service - which had some Texas cases in its database - but not nearly all of them - and which cost the then incredible sum of about $150/hour - higher than most associate billing rates at that time. For our whole law firm of about 150 lawyers, we had one terminal which we kept locked up in the law library. Today, as you all know, LEXIS/NEXIS databases include virtually the whole body of American case and statute law, much of the commentary on that law, and even foreign law. Moreover, there are a whole raft of competitors: Westlaw, RIA, and many more. You can access them from your laptop anywhere you can get an Internet connection. Indeed, they are so prevalent and so easy to access that the space devoted to traditional law libraries - that is, rooms with law books in them - has shrunk dramatically in
Loughlin ’06 L Ann Marie (Hardman) Mc , Ohio Hometown: Westerville Miami, Fla. of ty rsi ive Un Undergrad: Degree: J.D. rk for Judge Robert J. : I’m going to Nevada to wo clerkship. My dream job Plans after graduation in Las Vegas. It’s a one-year ge jud e rat gist ma l era fed a Johnston. He’s lly like California. ational law in a firm. I rea would be working in intern and staff make U? I think that the faculty What’s special about ON ten an amazing ool. Not only because I’ve got Ohio Northern a unique sch as ts individuals. I ulty cares about the studen education here, but the fac e faculty members school makes it unique. Th think the small size of the nk that really at a lot of schools I don’t thi know you by name, whereas happens. not just one or hout the entire three years, Here they know you throug of them. two faculty members, but all had a lot of Northern is concerned, I’ve I think also, as far as Ohio at other had rily e that I wouldn’t have necessa FTA amazing opportunities her NA a on d with Dr. Howard Fenton schools. For example, I worke s. C. and watch oral argument case and I got to travel to D.
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the desk with names, snail mail addresses, and phone numbers on the cards - not an electronic file of e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers. There were no cell-phones or blackberries. Overnight delivery was achieved by taking a package to the airport, putting it on a particular plane, which someone had to meet at the other end. More than once as a young associate, I flew with SEC filings to Washington when timely filing was vital. Since the emergence of FedEx and other overnight carriers, that doesn’t happen anymore. The law office of tomorrow may not be a physical location at all - you’ll carry it all with you - your calendar, your files, your law library - in your laptop or something smaller. While I think that core interactions in our profession - trial, making deals, settling disputes - will generally continue to require face-to- face interaction in the same room, it is simply a fact that while legal practice still requires the exercise of creativity and intellectual skill, it no longer requires that a lawyer sit in a law office to do it. We are already seeing a growth in flexible hours and work from remote locations, including homes. This has obvious and positive implications for families with young children - or folks, like one of our firm’s counsel, who want to work in Idaho. And even litigation is changing: most courts accept and many require electronic filings, courts have “digital” courtrooms to assist in electronic presentation of evidence, and the trial transcript is created on an almost “on line” basis and is instantly available to the court and counsel. A video conference trial with the
participants in different places is already technologically possible. All of this creates opportunities for those who can harness the new technology to enhance their practice - and demands that today’s new lawyers know not only the law but also the technology of legal practice. And these musings are only about technological change we can already anticipate. There will be others, perhaps more significant than these, that we do not even envision today. But as pervasive as the changes in the technology of legal practice have been, the truly major changes over my career have been in the law itself and in our profession. When I was a third-year associate, Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (known everafter as “ERISA”). If you were a tax associate of my vintage, you spent the fall of 1974 amending pension and profit-sharing plans to comply with ERISA. But more importantly, since then a whole new specialty, “benefits practice,” has emerged. Pension plans have evolved from largely unfunded employer promises that could disappear if the employee changed jobs or the employer went bankrupt to portable 401(k) plans or IRAs in which the employee controls investment and risk. Good benefits lawyers must know not only tax law and labor law but also how plans invest, how those investments can be managed, and much more.
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law firms - and I suspect that there are similar pressures at law schools as well. Like Johnny Carson - my definition of when someone is “old” is both flexible and personally unattainable - old people are those who are 15 years older than I am. But I am old enough that neither the electronic legal databases nor the Internet were part of legal practice when I began in 1971. To perform legal research when I started, you physically went to the library, searched digests and citators (which were big, bound books with lots of paperback “supplements”), and read cases in law books. Back then, we composed letters, agreements, and briefs by speaking into dictation machines, and our secretaries transcribed them on typewriters that had no memory capability whatsoever. If you changed a comma in a letter, your secretary usually had to re-type the whole thing. (And if you had the temerity to ask for a re-type for a comma or even a typo that you could have corrected in the prior draft, you faced your secretary’s wrath for the balance of the day.) However, if it was a briefer contract, with the aid of the then new Xerox machines, a skillful secretary could save most of the work by a process called “cut” and “paste.” This had nothing to do with computer icons: The edited text was literally cut out with scissors and the replacement text was pasted in with glue or transparent tape. The truly skillful could do this so well that the reader couldn’t tell it was a “cut and paste” job after it went through the copier. As you might imagine, there was a premium on getting it right the first time - and the modern practice of a 23rd draft would have led secretaries back then to riot. Changes in what we now call “word processing” came more incrementally over my career - first there were MT/ST machines that stored the text on paper tape. When the paper tore - as it often did - you were in trouble. Then came “mag cards,” followed by System 6, followed by the Wang System. But all these systems required well-trained operators - which left out virtually all the lawyers. Then WordPerfect and Word appeared - and, wonder of wonders, the lawyers could actually edit - if not initially create - their own documents themselves. A footnote on all this - back in 1971, a file was something kept in a manila cardboard folder. It is reassuring to me that the computer folks still call the virtual storage divisions on our computers “folders” and use icons that look like old fashioned file folders and that we still “cut” and “paste” documents, even if only electronically. Again when I began, a rolodex was a round reel of cards that you or your secretary kept on
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Erin Simone ’06 PH Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio Degree: Pharm. D. Plans after graduation : I’m going to Memphis, Ten n., and I have a general pharmacy practic e residency, in the Regional Medical Center, Memphis. Once I finish the residency, I’m looking into a second-year residency specializing in inf ectious disease with an empha sis on HIV. I expect to end up in an am bulatory clinic, working wit h doctors, nurses and working with HI V patients. What makes ONU specia l to you? The people of Oh io Northern are what make it for me. I met my best friends here, so I have a lot of happy memories associated with this place. The profess ors are wonderful. In pharmacy if you hav e a question on anything you ’re welcome to come to their office. They’r e so willing to help. I did sur vey research with Dr. Shields in pharm acy. We looked at dietary sup plement uses. I did the research project and presented a poster at a nation al pharmacy meeting in Florid a. The people are what ma ke it here.
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…continued from page 17 The growth of the Internet has revolutionized intellectual property law - how do you enforce a copyright in an electronic world where music and text can exist without any physical embodiment in a CD, DVD or book? How do you tax e-commerce and how do you audit e-transactions? These are new legal challenges that have emerged recently and arise directly from new technology. Not all legal change involves expansion, however. The de-regulation movement has resulted in the disappearance of legal specialties: there no longer is a Civil Aeronautics Board or an Interstate Commerce Commission - and those lawyers who practiced before those bodies are now doing something else. The same thing has more recently happened in state utility regulation. Some change comes from new interpretations of very old laws. The Constitution speaks of patents but until very recently no one had attempted to patent a tax planning strategy. The Patent Office has now granted a few patents on such strategies. But is this really what the founders had in mind, and is it good public policy? This debate is just the beginning.
Bonnie Wolf ’06 L Undergraduate: University of Sou th Carolina Hometown: Severna Park, Marylan d Degree: J.D. Plans after graduation: I’ll be work ing for Frost Brown Todd in Columbus. They do general practice and I’ll be in the litigation department. It will be civil defense work . My husband (Matthew Wolf, also a 2006 law graduate) will be working in the Ohio Atto rney General’s Office. We do love Columbus and have lots of friends there. What makes ONU special to you? I really like the environment with the faculty, a small community with in the law school and the open door policy. I can just go and visit with my professor and don’t have to make an appointment or schedule a time to meet with them. I can just stop by whenever I needed to. And all the opportunities I was provided in law school. I came into law school thinking I would just concentrate on academics. It is definitely a challenging experience from the very beginning. Wha t is nice is that they provide you so many opportunities to be part of organizations, to take leadership roles and be part of fun social even ts.
Globalization is changing what lawyers do and need to know. If you asked who the international tax lawyers were in even the largest law firms two decades ago, you would likely get an answer such as “Well, we all do that when we need to.” Now everyone is scrambling to make
Jack Skinner ’06 ENG Hometown: Toledo, Ohio trical engineering Degree: Bachelor of Science in elec g back home to Toledo to work over the Plans after graduation: I’ll be goin . ding Vanderbilt University to do my Ph.D summer, but after that I’m going to be atten k thin I e. whil a e quit for ested in that field in biomedical engineering. I’ve been inter ing. I will probably g a lot of stuff with multi- modality imag doin ing, imag l I’ll be focusing on biomedica east Tennessee. in the pharmacy program and she is from stay in the South since my girlfriend is a P4 would say the people – the people What makes ONU special to you? I ation here is excellent and you are make ONU. No doubt the quality of educ to grad school. The people who are prepared to go out into the workforce or ially those I’ve seen in the engineering here truly care about their students espec students. I have a couple of professors college. The doors are always open to the basis, not just about engineering but that I sit down to talk with on a regular about what’s going on in my life. e it and I think Ohio Northern College is really all about what you mak to the fullest. You come to an really allows you to utilize your education tips. If you want a well-rounded nger fi environment where everything’s at your a place to be. It’s a good place to education, then I think this definitely is ing a lot about yourself with an spend the time when you’re going to be learn about you. atmosphere where people genuinely care
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sure they have identified specialists - and the demand for lawyers who can function in a cross-border environment, not just in my field of taxation, but in law in general, can only grow. Indeed, we may be coming full circle: mergers and acquisitions so frequently involve a cross-border component that all lawyers who participate must understand the demands of dealing with more than one sovereign country and more than one country’s laws as modified by yet another body of law: treaties. For you graduates, the need to think globally - even if you believe your practice will be very traditional and local - is already a necessity; the will you draw may cover assets abroad, the defendant your client wants to sue may be owned by a foreign corporation, your clients may operate businesses in or make sales to other countries. The way we accomplish one of our most basic functions as lawyers - dispute resolution - is changing daily. You have no doubt heard the new buzz words “alternative dispute resolution” or “ADR.” That umbrella term covers a whole range of techniques: mediation, arbitration, consultation. All of these changes are driven by the facts that formal litigation is expensive and slow. Disputants are increasingly willing to use other processes that promise fair resolution accomplished faster and cheaper. Interestingly, this trend has not diminished legal practice, but rather has expanded and
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have been eligible for the deduction. Ruth and Marty took the case to the Tenth Circuit and won the first of the gender discrimination cases, Moritz v. Commissioner, 469 F.2d 466 (10th Cir. 1972), in which Ruth made her reputation as an outstanding appellate advocate before being called to the bench. The story illustrates my theme of the inevitability of, and the opportunity arising from, change in the law as only a true story can: a young woman assisted by her tax lawyer husband -I particularly like that part - changed the tax law to achieve justice for a man denied equal tax treatment because of his gender, using a classic tool of our profession – an appellate brief and argument. Your career in the years to come can advance justice, too, by assisting in the maintenance of the critical tension in our profession: The law must be stable so that it can be the reliable base of rules within which free citizens can order their affairs as they choose - but it must change and evolve to accommodate new perceptions of justice, new ways of doing business, and new participants in our profession. I am delighted that you will be coming to the bar to join in that task. Welcome and congratulations!
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changed it. The mediators and arbitrators are almost always lawyers who have learned to function in these new forums by training and experience. The parties are often represented by lawyers - but some of the tactics of old fashioned litigators can be counterproductive in these new processes. There will still be plenty of traditional litigation in the courts - but I think the litigators of tomorrow will have to understand and use ADR far more frequently than in the past. The identity of lawyers themselves is changing. My law school thought it was at the forefront in 1971 - and it was - when 20 percent of my classmates were women. There were a few women who were law firm partners and heads of important government agencies in 1971 - but not many. Now law school graduating classes include dramatically more women, and more women than ever are partners in law firms. Two women served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue for most of the decade of the 1990s, and women now regularly assume demanding positions of leadership in government and in our economy generally. Our profession is truly open to talent without regard to gender, and that is a large change that has occurred within the span of my career. We still have a way to go in achieving minority participation in the profession - but the direction of change is obvious, positive, and inevitable. You graduates will help us achieve that objective. We cannot be in the profession of justice unless we try to do and live justice ourselves. Last weekend, it was my privilege to watch my friend and mentor, Professor Martin Ginsburg of the Georgetown Law Center, receive the ABA Section of Taxation Distinguished Service Award. Let me close by borrowing a true story he told last week. Marty’s wife, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has, as he put it, “a good job in Washington.” But at an earlier time, he was practicing tax law in New York, and she was a law professor. A Tax Court decision denying a dependent care deduction to an unmarried, traveling salesman who was his aged mother’s sole support came to Marty and Ruth’s attention. As the Internal Revenue Code then read, had the salesman been a woman, a divorced or widowed man, or almost anything other than a single male, he would
Michael Mario Michetti During the last few days, I have been in search of inspiration for this speech. I looked high and low, with little success, until I was inexplicably drawn to Room 129 of the law school, the Celebrezze Moot Court Room. I sat down in that now familiar room, and finally realized that almost everyone here has been in that room at one point or another during the past three years. Continued on page 20…
Courtney Blakely ’06 BUS Hometown: St. Jo hns, Mich. Degree: Bachelo r of Science in B usiness Administra with second major tion in French and in ho nors program Plans after grad uation: I start a job with Whirlpool. It’s nity, because I’m in a really unique oppo a program called Whi rturl World. It’s a train ally live in a house ne in g experience for seven ar the corporation he weeks and you actuadquarters in St. Jos appliances. You get to eph, Mich., which is learn how to use the fi lle d with Whirlpool ap pli an After the seventh we ces for seven weeks. ek, they assign you to some city in the Unite d States where you ha stores that sell Whirlp ve about 40-50 ool appliances. You ha ve to visit and teach how to sell your prod the salespeople ucts. What makes ONU special to you? It’s the community envir feel. Even if you’re ta onment you really king a class where yo u don’t know anyone someone who’s friendl , you always find y to you, someone yo u can make a bond One of the most fun with. groups I was in was the Asian American It interested me beca Student Union. use I did live in Asia when I was younger. family lived in Sout (Her military h Korea for two years. ) This was the group’s really had a lot of fu first year and I n. Being able to inter act with the group – here is great. I think a little diversity other places if I woul d try to join such a gr be questions. But he oup there would re everyone’s really op en to it.
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…continued from page 19 For the Class of 2006, it’s a room with history. First, it’s a place where we started the journey that culminates today – by attending either a Legal Scholars Day or law school orientation. We sat in that room, in a group of people we didn’t realize would become some of our closest friends, and met members of the administration and faculty for the first time. I remember hearing about how hard we would have to work to succeed, about the importance of professionalism, and the demands of the career path we have chosen. I’m sure that I’m not the only student in this room who was nervous about writing that first case brief during orientation – How little we knew about how second nature that practice was about to become! In that room we’ve had events and receptions, we’ve listened to amazing speakers, we’ve met visitors from other countries, and we’ve met new recruits to the law school. We’ve sweated through six semesters of examinations in that room, and we’ve seen sights that we may never want to see again – such as the Mr. ONU pageant during our second year (and I’m not saying anything else about that)! It’s a room that has, for all rights and purposes, permeated the last three years of our lives. It is also a room that many of our family and friends have visited, either when we
visited campus for the first time three years ago, through attending a reception or event, or by providing support to a competitor in one of our many Moot Court competitions. Professors and administrators have taught classes, debated, socialized, and supported the student body in that room. At college coffee’s on Thursdays, the college has come together to drink gallons of free coffee (the life blood of a law student) and eat breakfast in that room, and we have shared many successes there. Even if you haven’t been in the room, through the many stories that come home with law students, I’m sure that everyone feels like they have been there. Since we all have some connection to that room, I presume that we’ve also all looked around and noticed the sayings on the back wall. If you are a student, maybe it was during a “what’s going on moment” in class, or maybe it was during one of those moments during an exam where we look around the room frantically, hoping that divine intervention will bring us a sign of the answer we need! For parents and friends, maybe it came during your first visit, when you wondered what your loved one was getting into, or during a moot court competition when you thought that you couldn’t endure listening to one more impassioned legal argument about some obscure nuance of the small claims court or other such topic. No matter when it was that we have seen the quotes, the simple fact that they make a perfect summary of the last three years remains:
’06 A&S Dan Waddell leville, Pa. el Hometown: B chemistry, r of Science in lo he ac B e: re Deg rtified try Society Ce is em Ch an ic er Am in Atlanta, rted aduation: I’ll be gr r te af lled Marist. I sta ns la P atholic school ca C e me. at r iv fo t pr n’ a as at w it Ga., teaching t into it I realized go I n dI he an w t t en bu m y rt depa off in pharmac so I got into that ry out ist ab em ng ch e hi yt th er d ere and ev th I really enjoye n tio ua sit d e faculty an istry department. really enjoyed th tored for the chem tu so al d an TA istry camp for it. I’ve been a camp and a chem ch ur ch a helping at d ke joy teaching and And I’ve wor en ly al re st ju I ed kids. middle school ag uch as I do. e chemistry as m lik people come to rtculty in all depa to you? The fa l ia istry ec em sp ch e NU th O with What makes e most experience th ve ha e I’v ly ments, but real y’re wonderful. department. The
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Know Thyself – Socrates The first quote on the wall is “know thyself ” by Socrates, and seems to be the most fitting for this achievement. Over the past three years, we have learned a ton of information – an amount that I’m sure none of us thought was possible before we did it. One day, I tried to estimate just how many pages that we had to read and study during a year – and came to the conclusion that over the past three years, we’ve read over 12,500 pages, not including study aids or research for our papers, etc. - which seems to me to be quite a testament to the work ethic and the academic achievement that this degree represents. Through those studies, we learned not only about law, but also learned about our individual values and beliefs, about the structure of society, about the formulation of public policy, and the effect of law on real people, by being pushed by our professors to understand how the law shapes the world that we live in. We didn’t just learn this from our classes, but also by our daily interactions with our classmates and other members of the university community. We learned to support each other, to help each other, and that we could overcome our fears by pulling together as a class.
Control Thyself – Cicero The second quote on that wall is “Control Thyself ” by Cicero. This is a lesson that I think we all sometimes thought was slow in coming, after one of the interminable e-mail wars that law students use to vent their frustrations and sharpen their newly acquired debating skills. However, I’m sure that we have learned control, in two different ways. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of control is the ability to control our own desires – which is the ability to make personal sacrifices. We have had to learn to not go to the Regal Beagle as often as we would like, or to go to Easton or Polaris to go shopping as much as we would like, or to not watch Boston Legal as much as we would like, so that we could achieve our dreams. Our demanding schedules taught us the value of “deferred compensation” and delayed benefits! However, we also learned control from watching the examples of others who sacrificed to allow us to succeed. Our families have sacrificed to support us and give us the opportunity to be here. I’m sure that I speak for the entire class of 2006 when I say thank you to our families, but especially to all of the mothers who are with us
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Maggie Schodows ki ’06 PH Hometown: Toledo , Ohio Degree: Pharm.D .
Plans after grad uation: I have a res idency at Physicians Ohio. I was really in Inc. in Lima, terested in this residen cy. It was the only on for, and you can teach e I applied at Ohio Northern on e day a week, workin drug information cen g in the ter, helping with profe ssional pharmacy cla I’m getting married sses. I really like that this summer to Josh aspect. Wolf who got his Ph arm.D. here last yea works at hospital in r. H e Ft. Wayne, Ind. I lik e to teach. My goal wo be to come back to O uld hio Northern to teach or work in an ambu tory care setting. laWhat makes ONU special to you? I like all the opportuni had. I did research. ties I’ve I was able to get invo lved in some organiza --just tons of opportu tions nities. This feels like home. I had a really good tim e at ONU. I have a of pharmacy and I m good career because et my husband here. If it wasn’t for this pla I don’t know what I’d ce, be doing, and I woul dn’t be getting marrie We always say we’ll d! have to send our kids here. Both his grand graduated from here. parents
Give Thyself - Jesus The last quote on the wall tells us to give ourselves. Like I mentioned above, many people have given so that we could sit here today. However, throughout the last three years, we also gave to each other. During our tenure, we started a flag football tradition that started with one game, and is now a multiple game extravaganza during the fall semester. We also started the Mr. ONU pageant, which I am sure some of us would like to forget. We gave of ourselves to make outstanding student organizations, and we supported each other throughout law school – making friends that we will never forget!
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today, celebrating Mother’s Day by celebrating our accomplishments. Let’s take a moment to give all of the mothers a round of applause to show our thanks! We also watched our professors and administrators sacrifice their personal time to support us – from advising our student organizations and participating in our extracurricular events, to purchasing countless items from all of the sales in the informal lounge and being supportive mentors for our personal and professional lives. They gave us support and time during each semester, and we would not be here without their sacrifices. We also benefited from the sacrifices of alumni and friends whose gifts gave us a wonderful environment to study in, by renovating various areas of the law school, and supporting us through funding scholarships and extra-curricular opportunities.
We came together as a class time and time again, giving to each other whenever there was need – and this is what makes ONU a special place, a place that we will be proud to call our alma mater. We came together to remember the classmate who we lost before we received our degrees, and we came together to give back to future classes through a very generous class gift. From examples, but also from our character, we have learned to give.
As we go forward from today, with the memories of the past three years, if we can continue to do what we started here – to continue to know ourselves, to continue to control ourselves, and to continue to give of ourselves, we would hopefully fulfill each of the dreams that we hold deep in our hearts, and to make each person who gave to us proud to know that they participated in the success of the class of 2006. Continued on page 22…
Laura Sudhoff ’’06 BUS Hometown: Minster, Ohio Degree: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, accounting Plans after graduation: I’ll be working in the accounting department at Precision Strip in Minster, Ohio. I wanted to move toward home, but I didn’t expect it to be my hometown! They’re a good size corporation. They have about nine locations. What makes ONU special to you? I think it’s the friendliness of everyone from faculty to students and staff members. Everyone takes the time to get to know your name and to get to know you as a person. I’ve never felt like a number. And along with the personal interaction, there’s a lot more opportunities because I think people are more likely to get you involved in things or to recommend you if they know you personally and they trust you more and I felt there was a lot more opportunities.
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Ohio Northern University Business Degree Ceremony May 19, 2006 314 degrees conferred Guest Speaker: Robert Smith, chairman of the ONU Board of Trustees and 1975 graduate This special commencement ceremony was held for business alumni who graduated prior to 1978 and wished to receive a degree conferred under the ONU College of Business Administration. More than 150 ONU alumni took part in the ceremony where they received the new Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree that unites them with the College of Business Administration. Prior to 1978, ONU students studied business in various majors within the arts and sciences college including economics, accounting, business administration and marketing. In 1978, the ONU College of Business was ofcially created.
Robert C. Smith On behalf of my classmates, I would like to thank President Baker and the rest of the Administration, Dean Fenton and The College of Business Administration faculty for tonight’s festivities and for granting a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration to us. I would like to also dedicate my remarks to two outstanding professors who were teaching when many of us were undergraduates. These two individuals actually represent the best and worst of my decisions while a student here are Ohio Northern.
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h ’06 BUS Robert C. Smit diz, Ohio Science Hometown: Ca w Bachelor of no S & A 5 ’7 1 CENT 1 Degree: ation tr is in dm A ss in Busine to get a job in in ion: I was able n headquartered After graduat with a corporatio nt years. ta n ve un se co t ac rs fi e an ing for th ov industry as m t ou ith w e . That’s advanc sferred four times Pittsburgh and to an tr as w I , od ri year pe Then in a sevenlevel. n you get to this he w s en what happ ern shown The genuine conc ? u yo to l ia ized, when NU spec changes I’ve real What makes O e th of ne O g. s, ell bein e my office hour for your future w ould say “here ar w as just lty w cu fa at , th rn ; at he peating th re I was at Not st ju e er w ey th about thought ere very genuine w come see me,” I ey th at th ce up on ofarned sin ger to take them a courtesy. I’ve le ea e ar s nt de stu y, many that. Now man telephone calls. mail exchanges, e, ns fice visitatio
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Roger Young represents the best of my decisions because I had changed majors after my freshman year to business with a concentration in accounting. I would like to commend Roger for his willingness to educate us about business, as well as teach us about accounting. The second individual represents my biggest ONU regret and that is Professor Roger Goldberg. My regret is that I did not take his course because some of my friends here indicated his courses were too demanding. I was on a path to graduate a quarter early, and sorting out some of the classes that were more demanding versus others was a way to help make sure that my extra course load didn’t get overwhelming. Fortunately, many of my friends and fellow alums didn’t shy away from his classes and continue to sing his praises for the skills he demonstrated for teaching economics. I did learn from my mistake; when I went to graduate school I did choose the more demanding professors. And just an FYI, Roger, I think you’d be pleased to know that I did name my firstborn son Adam Smith. I would like both Roger Young and Roger Goldberg to stand and be recognized. Much time has passed since each of us attended our respective ONU graduations. We have aged, and so has ONU. I have observed, however, that age has not burdened, impeded, or encumbered either ONU or us, as graduates. Rather, it has made us better. What, really, did our ONU education provide us? Personally, as an ONU student, I saw my education as one- dimensional. I’d venture to say that many of you did too. The purpose of my education, I thought, was simply to provide me with the facts and knowledge that I needed to get a job. I remember in the immediate years after graduation, developing a sense of cynicism that resulted from reflecting upon some of the more bizarre contemporaries of mine here in the classroom, in my fraternity, and yes, even some professors. It also seemed that I was judging the quality of my job as the fair reflection of the quality of the education I’d received. Today, however, I realize that the facts I learned and the knowledge I gained about business were merely necessary by-products of my education. Perhaps Albert Einstein best captured this idea when he said: “Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” To measure the true value of our college education, we must assess how we developed as human beings during our college years. What did we learn about ourselves? About the world around us? And about how we all fit together? How did venturing outside of our own cocoons, our small safe havens, mold us? Our experiences at ONU
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— academically, socially, spiritually — shaped our thoughts, our values, and the way we interact with others, all of which would become the compass for the subsequent choices we would make and for the future people we would become. Who we are today is due, at least in part, to the education we received and experienced at ONU. The purpose of a college education, then, is not just to prepare us for a job; trade schools do that. The true purpose of a college education is to shape us as people and prepare us for life. Perhaps this is why we become better with age. We’ve learned a lot more about ourselves, other people, and the world in which we live. Certainly, the magnitude of the world’s problems can be daunting, and we’ve endured our share of personal difficulties, estranged relationships, failure, illness, and death. But while we are so different now than we were at 21, we are also so much the same. Our spirits still soar; our zest for life is still powerful. Our true essence, which first emerged so many years ago, continues to bob and weave its way through the experiences of life. We’ve become better with age, not because we haven’t had struggles, but because our essence, individually and as an institution, has grown stronger with each new experience. We’ve developed the courage to make the decisions and to do the things necessary to remain in tact, to maintain our values. One of my high school teachers used to say that if you know your values, decision-making is easy. ONU’s value, the essence of ONU that remains consistent through each new generation of students, is its “Christian Care and Concern.” One example of a decision that was made in order to maintain ONU’s values concerns onSUMMER 2006
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campus housing. Within the next two years, the oldest student housing on campus will be the apartments that were completed in 2001. In the late 90s, we found ourselves with a growing enrollment and more students moving to offcampus housing because of limited capacity here on campus and “dated” dorm rooms. We concluded that our student housing was not consistent with the affluent lifestyles that many students had grown accustomed in their own homes. We realized that if we did not change the nature of our student housing, it could lead to a dramatic change to the students’ experience on our campus. These issues brought us to the appropriate conclusion to add significant numbers of apartments to our campus housing, as well as the major renovation of all of our dorm rooms, converting them to a suite concept. Another example is the beautiful facility that now houses our CBA. The business education at ONU has changed, and yet it remains the same. During the late 90s and early 2000s, the College of Business pursued and was able to obtain the distinctive accreditation from the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. As the college aspired to higher quality education, we realized that the facilities that housed the education we are providing had become obsolete, and we needed to face the need of this new facility in order to maintain the same “Christian Care and Concern” for students. Much time has passed. We have all aged, and yet we’ve remained the same. Classic homeostasis. ONU is still a student-centered institution, just more reflective of 21st century life. We are still young college students at heart, just more experienced. Samuel Ullman said this about youth:
What it Means to be Young Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means the predominance of courage over timidity, of adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
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Joyce (Schweitzer ) Brown ’06 BUS Hometown: Wapak oneta, Ohio, now UNITED STATES Columbus, Ohio Degree: ’78 A& POSTAGE S now Bachelor of Science in Busines s Administration After graduation: I worked for the Ohi o Department of Pu blic 1 CENT 1 Welfare, got my CPA and worked for Mou nt Carmel Health, Columbus. I worked as budget su pervisor and budget tor and did consultin direcg for Mount Carmel’ s parent company. I finance manager for was Gates McDonald an d then director of fina for Ohio Health’s em nce ployed physician grou p. Currently I am pr manager for Ohio H actice ealth’s employed anest hesiolog y group. What makes ONU special to you? It’s the one-on-one atten The professors know tion. if you are going to cla ss or not. It was easy involved. I was presi to get dent of Delta Zeta sor ority and I learned a of leadership skills. It’s lot really a close-knit co mmunity. Living he Columbus, I appreci re in ate that.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair—these bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike for what-next, and the joy of the game of living. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt: as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. As chairman of the Board at Ohio Northern, I can say that ONU is not an institution of doubt, fear, or despair. Rather, ONU is an institution of faith, self-confidence, and hope. And in so many of you whom I’ve had the privilege to know, I also see faith, self-confidence, and hope. Hope that ONU will continue to evolve, to meet the needs of its students, and to prepare its students for the wonderful adventure we call life. Hope that we as human beings will continue to evolve to become the people God calls us to be. Thank you for coming back to ONU. Your presence gives this learning institution significance. Likewise, may your visit rejuvenate your spirit. May you feel at home. May you often ponder and always rejoice in who you were as an ONU student, who you are now, and who you are yet to become.
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Gasoline Prices… Drive… Don’t Drink!
BY A. F. ALHAJJI, PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS I. What’s up with gasoline prices? The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in the U.S. has increased by about 90 percent since the beginning of 2004. Several factors have contributed to this increase: 1. Crude oil prices: As a rule of thumb, every $1 increase in the price of a barrel of crude oil raises gasoline prices by 2.4 cents per gallon. The price of West Texas Intermediate, one of the benchmark crudes, increased from about $34 per barrel in the beginning of May 2004, to more than $77 per barrel around the middle of July 2006. Statistical analysis, however, indicates that, in the long run, changes in crude oil prices explain about 80 percent of the change in gasoline prices. This percentage declines during periods of refinery outages. It has also been lower during the recent switch from an MTBE blend to an ethanol blend. For example, in recent months changes in crude oil prices explain only 33 percent of the changes in gasoline prices. The change in percentages means that the switch from an MTBE blend to an ethanol blend might explain about 50 percent of the increase in gasoline prices during that period. It is worth noting that the eruption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon caused a sudden increase in gasoline and oil prices around the middle of July. Traders thought that the risk of interruption of oil supplies had increased, which justified higher prices. Despite the fact that neither Israel nor
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Lebanon export any oil and no oil shipments pass through either country to world markets, traders feared that the conflict might spread to the rest of the Middle East, especially given Iran’s support of Hezbollah. If the conflict between Israel and Lebanon increased the risk of interruption of oil supplies in the Middle East, how much of that was related to the use of the term “Middle East” by the media and various politicians? The media have reduced the Middle East, which consists of more than 30 countries, to some its smallest states: Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine. The media bombard us with statements such as “conflict in the Middle East,” “War in the Middle East,” and “Instability in the Middle East,” despite the fact that the conflict is limited to Israel and its smallest neighbors, none of which produce any oil. People associate the “Middle East” with oil. Has the U.S. media influenced some oil traders? If the media had not mentioned the “Middle East” and focused instead on “Lebanon” and “Israel,” oil and gasoline prices would not have increased to record levels. It took a few days for some traders to realize the reality of the conflict. As a result, the perception of risk decreased and oil prices decreased drastically, by more than $6 per barrel. In a sense, we have paid the price of our stereotyping and generalizations at the pump. 2. Refinery Outages: Planned and unplanned refinery outages cause gasoline shortages and increase market jitters. The years 2005 and 2006 witnessed record refinery outages on technical and natural factors.
Technical factors include mechanical failures, electric problems, fires, explosions, and human errors. Five main reasons have caused the increase in technical-related refinery outages: aging refineries, expansion of old refineries to meet growing demand, continues modification of refineries to meet new environmental regulations, modifications to meet the increasing viscosity of crude oil, and increasing refinery utilization as gasoline prices increased. Natural factors relate mainly to the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico that destroyed units at various refineries in the region. Hurricane Katrina flooded some refineries in New Orleans while Hurricane Rita destroyed parts of various refineries in Louisiana and Texas. Maintenance of old refineries started taking longer than expected because of various technical complications. We also experienced delays in getting some of the flooded refineries back into service. In fact, the oil industry has a very limited experience in cleaning up large refineries that have been flooded. 3. Government Regulations Data indicate that despite the strong relationship between crude oil prices and gasoline prices, government environmental regulations have contributed to a permanent increase in gasoline prices. For example, the average price of gasoline shifted up permanently by about 30 cents per gallon when new federal environmental regulations came into effect in 2000. We have also seen another permanent increase by another
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The Role of Ethanol The switch from MTBE to ethanol increased gasoline prices in several ways. Some of the increase is permanent and is related to the higher cost of ethanol relative to MTBE. Studies estimate the increase to be between 0.3 and 5 cents per gallon. However, the same studies expect this cost to decline over time. Logistics and lack of sufficient infrastructure have caused a temporary price increase, which could be as high as 25 cents per gallon. The existing MTBE infrastructure cannot be used to transport ethanol. Ethanol’s affinity for water prevents companies from shipping it in existing pipelines. Ethanol has to trucked and blended close to the point of distribution of gasoline. Why have Americans increased their demand for gasoline despite higher prices? The chief reason since March is the switch to ethanol, which has also contributed to higher crude oil prices. For each gallon of ethanol-blended gasoline, we need more gasoline than before. In other words, the percentage of gasoline in a gallon of MTBE-blended gasoline is less than a gallon of ethanol-blended gasoline. Also, an MTBE-blended gasoline will enable you to drive a greater distance than an ethanol-blended gasoline, which also increases the demand for gasoline.
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II. Why Haven’t Higher Oil Prices Reduced Gasoline Consumption? Two reasons prevent Americans from changing their driving habits. First, gasoline is still cheap. Second, opportunity cost favors the continued use of gasoline. There are few benefits, if any, in switching from an SUV to a small car.
a. Gasoline is still cheap…Even at $3 a Gallon!
Even at $3 per gallon, gasoline is still among the cheapest liquids Americans use on daily basis. Gasoline is still cheaper than bottled water, soft drinks, power drinks, beer, and all alcoholic beverages.
4. Political Factors The U.S. imports gasoline from Venezuela. Since the election of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela in 1998, U.S. gasoline supplies have become vulnerable to strained relations between the two countries. The Venezuelan leadership has threatened several times to cut off oil and gasoline exports to the U.S. It is worth noting that PDVSA, the state-owned oil company of the government of Venezuela, owns Citgo, which owns several refineries and many gas stations in the U.S.
— Relative to other states As of July 14, the average price of regular unleaded in Ohio was $2.90 per gallon. Only 20 states have cheaper gasoline than Ohio. The price in 15 states was above $3 per gallon, with California and Hawaii at the top of the list. However, only 15 states had lower gasoline prices than Ohio last year. Immediately after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, gasoline prices in Ohio were the 8th lowest in the nation. The main reason for such a blessing is that Ohio switched completely to ethanol-blended gasoline in July, just before the hurricanes. This switch isolated Ohio’s gasoline market: if Ohio experiences shortages, the only states that have similar gasoline are New York, Massachusetts, and California. As gasoline prices skyrocketed in the Gulf Coast region after the hurricanes destroyed the refineries in the region, traders and refiners found it profitable to ship gasoline from other states to Texas and Louisiana. Since Ohio’s gasoline was unique and did not match the blend used in these states, they were not able to ship it. Gasoline prices increased almost nationwide, but not in Ohio.
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30 cents per gallon since 2004 when some states banned the additive MTBE and replaced it with ethanol. Another permanent increase took place in recent months when several other states shifted from the MTBE blend to the ethanol blend. Government regulations have created a “boutique” fuel market where different U.S. cities use different types of gasoline. These regulations have also increased prices and caused regional price spikes. A shortage in one area cannot be eliminated by shipping gasoline from other areas. The quality of the gasoline is different. With regional shortages, gasoline prices have nowhere to go but up. Higher gasoline prices attract gasoline imports, which reached record levels in recent weeks. Free markets ensure that imports will cover shortages. But government regulations and specifications have prevented such imports from substantially reducing the shortages in the U.S. Most foreign gasoline does not fit the requirements set by the federal government. The federal government was forced to remove most of these restrictions after Hurricane Katrina. While gasoline imports would reduce current prices, they will not bring prices down to their previous levels because of cost of transportation and the risk associated with it.
— Relative to other countries Gasoline prices in the U.S. are at least $3 cheaper than most countries in Europe. As of mid July, gasoline prices per gallon were $6.34 in France, $6.56 in Germany, $6.59 in Italy, $6.67 in the UK, $6.76 in Belgium, and $7.28 in the Netherlands. However, we should be careful making such a comparison. Prices would have been at least 25 percent less if it were not for the depreciation of the dollar in recent years. In addition, prices might look even higher in some European countries once we consider income. Continued on page 26…
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— Relative to Past Prices Adjusted for inflation, current oil and gasoline prices are still lower than what we paid in the early 1980s. In fact, in today’s money, even when oil prices reached a record of more than $78 per barrel, we are still about $13 short of the 1981 record high in real terms. — Relative to Income U.S. real per capita income has increased continuously in the last three decades. At the same time, real oil and gasoline prices have decreased. Since 1981, real per capita income has increased by 58 percent while oil prices are still lower than that of 1981 by about 15 percent and gasoline prices are lower by about 7 percent! Another way of looking at this is to answer the question: how many barrels of oil can the income of an average American buy? Between 1979 and 1981, per capita income bought 334 barrels of oil. Now, even with record prices, it buys more than 500 barrels! — Relative to Buying Behavior How many people do you know who count their change after buying a can of Pepsi or Coke at a gas station? Do consumers realize that the price of that can increased from 59 cents to 89 cents? A 30-cent increase for 12 ounces, or $1.60 a gallon? Why haven’t consumers noticed such an increase, while they notice an increase of few cents in the price of a gallon of gasoline? The fact is that gasoline is the only commodity in the U.S. that has its price posted for everyone to see, even children and people who cannot drive. This posting makes people aware of price changes on a daily basis. Even at $3 per gallon, gasoline is still among the cheapest liquids Americans use on daily basis. Gasoline is still cheaper than bottled water, soft drinks, power drinks, beer, and all alcoholic beverages. For example, the price of a gallon of Pepsi or Coke is $8.10, and a gallon of Minute Maid Lemonade is $7.61. Admittedly, the comparison might not be entirely apt, but it does tell us something about the buying behavior of consumers.
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b. Opportunity Cost Assume that you have an SUV that goes 15 miles per gallon (mpg) and you want to reduce your spending on gasoline by selling it and buying a sedan that gets 25 mpg. Does it make sense to exchange your SUV for a sedan? Let’s look at the numbers. Assume you drive 15,000 miles per year. At $3 a gallon, you need to spend $3,000 on gasoline if you keep the SUV and only $1,800 if you buy the sedan. Driving the sedan will save you $1,200 per year, but you lose all the privileges and safety of the SUV. This comparison is not complete until we consider the cost of gasoline when it was “cheap.” The difference in the cost of gasoline between a large car and a small car when the gasoline price was $1.40 per gallon was $560 per year. Now subtract this amount from the current difference, $1,200, we end up with only $640 per year. Who among us will give up all the privileges of his or her SUV to save only $640 per year? If you drive less than 15,000 miles per year, the saving in a switching from a large car to a smaller one becomes lower. For example, if you drive 12,000 miles per year, your saving is only $400 per year. The good news is that gasoline prices have not been around $3 per gallon since the beginning of the year. The average price in the U.S. since the beginning of the year for regular unleaded is $2.59 ($2.58 in Ohio). At this average, the savings in switching from a large car to small car is only about $440 per year. Admittedly, this saving is per year…every year, potentially a large sum of money if oil prices stay high for a long time. Most experts believe that oil prices will start declining in 2007. If gasoline prices settle at around $2 per gallon, the difference in the cost of gasoline between a large car and a small car will be around $800. Now compare that to the period when gasoline was around $1.40 per gallon. The difference is only $240 per year. Why switch to a smaller car? That is not all. A family of four or more will not even look at the disparity in gasoline costs given family size relative to car size. Getting rid of your SUV and buying a smaller car takes time, and time is money. Several reports show that auto manufacturers have given large rebates on SUVs since 2004. These rebates cover the cost of gasoline for about two to three years. If we consider only the increase in gasoline prices, the rebates cover the increase in gasoline prices for almost the life of the vehicle.
Hybrid cars might save gasoline, but they will not save you money. The average price of a hybrid is higher than a similar car with a combustion engine by a few thousand dollars. While they are still new and experimental, the value of hybrids depreciates substantially, especially when the five-year warranty on the batteries expires. The batteries are very expensive at this time. However, experts expect their price to decline in the next few years.
Conclusion Higher gasoline prices have not changed the driving behavior of Americans. This lack of responsiveness has nothing to do with the American “culture” as some people believe. It is pure economics. Americans can afford to pay the higher price. Gasoline is still cheap -- cheaper than bottled water and soft drinks, which led to the title of this article: Drive… Don’t Drink! In addition, the benefits of switching from a larger car to a smaller car are very limited. Some people propose increasing taxes on gasoline to force people to change their behavior, drive less, and pollute less. They cite the example of European countries where gasoline prices are a little less than $7 per gallon. These taxes will have a minor effect if income continues to increase. Well, if they want us to be like Europe, let us be like Europe: • • •
I do not mind paying $7 per gallon if I get free education…just like in Europe. I do not mind paying $7 per gallon if I get free health services and medication…just like in Europe. I also do not mind paying $7 per gallon if I can drive 150 miles per hour on an autobahn.
But high gasoline taxes, free education, and free health care come with a catch: low economic growth and high unemployment. This will explain why European gasoline taxes were effective in lowering gasoline consumption: lower income. Now you choose.
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Drug Information, A Guide for Pharmacists
Ohio University Press, Nov. 1, 2006 Paperback: 208 pages, $24.95 ISBN: 0821416944
Third Edition
Victor Streib
ONU law professor Victor Streib’s new book explores Ohio’s experience with the death penalty for women and reflects on what this experience reveals about the death penalty for women throughout the nation. Streib’s analysis of two centuries of Ohio death penalty legislation and adjudication reveals no obvious exclusion of women or even any recognition of an issue of sex bias. In this respect, Ohio’s justice system exemplifies the subtle and insidious nature of this cultural disparity. Streib provides detailed descriptions of the cases of the four women actually executed by Ohio since its founding and of the cases of the 10 women sentenced to death in Ohio in the current death penalty era (1973–2005). Some of these cases had a profound impact on death penalty law, but most were routine and drew little attention. A generation later, reversals and commutations have left only one woman on Ohio’s death row. Although Streib focuses specifically on Ohio, the underlying premise is that Ohio is, in many ways, a typical death penalty state. The Fairer Death provides insight into our national experience, provoking questions about the rationale for the death penalty and the many disparities in its administration.
Baldwin’s Ohio Practice Tort Law First Edition Christopher M. Ernst and contributing authors Thomson West, 2005, Hardcover with CD, 486 pages, $221 ISBN: 0-8322-1064-1 Vernon Traster, ONU professor of law, is author of chapter 7, “Insurance Bad Faith in Ohio.” His work is part of this treatise that thoroughly reviews tort law in Ohio. It presents easy access to a clear and concise interpretation. More recent developments in tort litigation are also addressed. Traster currently teaches insurance, insurance bad faith litigation seminar, torts and trial advocacy.
Case Studies in Political Sociology First Edition Sunil Kukreja, editor New Delhi, Bagchee Publishers, 2006 Hardcover, 200 pages, $26.00 Keith F. Durkin, Ph.D., chair of ONU’s department of psychology and sociology, is co-author with Dr. Stan Weeber and Dr. Billy Turner of McNeese State University, of the chapter “Positive Intelligence and Media Reduction of Ambiguity: The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden” in this text.
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BookReport
The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio
Patrick M. Malone Karen L. Kier John Stanovich McGraw-Hill, 2006 Paper Bound, 768 pages, $49.95 ISBN: 0071437916 This well-known guide teaches pharmacists and pharmacy students how to more effectively and efficiently research, interpret, utilize, organize and distribute drug information. Karen (Hillegass) Kier, Ph.D. ’82 PH, is professor of clinical pharmacy at ONU, director of the non-traditional doctor of pharmacy program and director of the Drug Information Center. John Stanovich ’74 PH, is assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at ONU, director of pharmacy outreach and assistant dean.
Prentice Hall Nurse’s Drug Guide 2007 Billie A. Wilson, Loyola University of New Orleans Margaret Shannon Kelly L. Shields, Ohio Northern University Carolyn L. Stang Prentice Hall, May 3, 2006 Paper Bound with disk, 1,832 pages, $37.95 ISBN: 0-13-222336-8 A standard resource for nurses, this unique book provides safe, effective, current and accurate drug administration information in a quickly accessible format. Comprehensive and complete, all drugs are listed alphabetically by generic names for quick referral, with an index that includes both generic and trade names. An easy-to-use dosage information disk is included to provide nurses with monographys of the most commonly prescribed and dispensed drugs and prototype drugs. Kelly Shields, Pharm. D., is assistant professor of pharmacy practice at ONU and assistant director of Drug Information.
Outbreak: Cases in Real-World Microbiology Rodney P. Anderson
ASM Press, May 30, 2006 Paperback, 318 pages, 4-color illustrations, index. $49.95 ISBN: 1-55581-366-6 Dr. Anderson, professor of biological sciences at ONU, has written a fascinating new textbook targeting introductory microbiology instructors and students. Generously illustrated with color photographs, the book integrates headlinemaking disease outbreaks into the microbiology coursework and is the first work of its kind to utilize material that directly impacts college-age students. Unique in its presentation, Outbreak is designed to offer instructors the flexibility to use the book effectively in a number of ways, while providing students with the critical content they need. A total of 96 classroom-tested case studies cover the topics of microbiology, including basic microbiology concepts, medical microbiology, bioterrorism, environmental microbiology, and industrial microbiology. The case studies cover a wide variety of subject areas including general, medical, environmental and industrial microbiology and integrate current outbreaks from news headlines into the classroom for added relevance. 27
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Faculty Lounge Anne Lippert, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs, has been named to a two-year term on the Ohio Educator Standards Board for the Ohio Department of Education. The Educator Standards Board is made up of 21 members including teachers from elementary, middle and secondary schools, school administrators and three representatives of higher education, plus the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents and the chairpersons of the education committees of the Ohio House and Senate. The board develops and recommends to the state board of education standards for teachers, school principals and for professional development. Dr. Lippert received her bachelor’s degree from Holy Names, her master’s from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She has been with Ohio Northern since 1971 as vice president of academic affairs and professor of French.
Dr. Anne Lippert Rosemary “Rosie” Williams, resident artist and lecturer in music, has been honored by both regional and national organizations. At the national convention of the American League of Pen Women, she was awarded third prize in the large ensemble/band/orchestra for her composition “March Brillante.” The piece was written for the May 2000 commencement, the first for Dr. Kendall Baker as president. She was also awarded The Topeka Sunflower Award, recognizing her four entries “for musical excellence and attainment as well as a positive attitude.” In addition, the MiddleWest District of the Ohio Music Teachers Association voted Williams “Teacher of the Year.”
Rosie Williams John K. Estell, Ph.D., chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, is the winner of the 2005 Merl K. Miller Award from the Computers in Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The annual award is presented for the outstanding Computers in Education Journal paper on teaching/instructional methods published in the Journal during the calendar year. Dr. Estell received the award for his paper entitled, “Teaching Graphical User Interfaces and Event Handling through Games,” which appeared in the July-September 2005 issue of the Journal.
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Linda L. Lehman, visiting assistant to the director of the Center for Teacher Education, has been honored by the Bath Education Association with the creation of the Linda L. Lehman Award. The annual award will honor a teacher who has made valuable contributions to the school and exemplified excellence in teaching. “The award was certainly a surprise!” says Lehman. “I taught at Bath Elementary for 19 years and since this came from former colleagues that I cared about and respected, it meant a great deal to me.”
Linda L. Lehman
Michael Romanowski, Ph.D., professor of education, visited Afghanistan where he served as principle speaker at the Convocation of University Presidents of Afghanistan and the Convocation of University Deans of Afghanistan. Dr. Romanowski presented lectures titled “Forming and Performing Afghanistan’s Philosophy of Education for the 21st Century” and “A Philosophy of Education That Leads to Effective Teaching.” While in Afghanistan he also facilitated workshops with university presidents and deans on a variety of educational topics such as educating educators. His trip was provided by Cooperative Studies and funded by UNESCO.
Michael H. Romanowski
David R. Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of geography, organized and chaired a session on “Geographical Information Systems and Sustainable Information Society” at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. The summit was endorsed by the U.N. General Assembly and was attended by nearly 50 heads of state and vice-presidents, 197 ministers, vice ministers and deputy ministers from 174 countries as well as high-level representatives from international organizations and the private and civil sectors. Objectives of the summit included finding solutions and reaching agreements on Internet governance, financing mechanisms, and implementation of agreements reached in Geneva and Tunis meetings. He also presented a paper titled “The Digital Divide and Geographic Information Systems: The Availability and Accessibility of GIS Technology to the Global Community.” David R. Smith
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Polar Bear Report
Faces from the Field The Faces from the Field is designed to acknowledge some of the unsung heroes of ONU athletic teams. These young men and women contribute greatly to their team’s successes, but often times are not given the “All-Star” credit they deserve.
Baseball Tom Yeager
Men’s Golf Wes Immler
Softball Jessica Headings
Women’s Golf Ashley Raderstorf
Yeager, a senior from Clearfield, Pa., was a four-year letterman and two-year starter at catcher for the Polar Bears. This season, Yeager, a team captain, was second on the squad with three home runs and 16 RBI. He scored 21 runs, had 35 RBI and played in 89 games in his four seasons at ONU.
Headings, an outfielder from West Liberty, Ohio, ended her career as a two-time Academic All-OAC honoree. Headings was fourth on the team with a .315 batting average this season. Serving as team captain, she was third on the squad with three home runs, seven doubles and 22 runs scored, was second with 20 RBI and was tied for team-high honors with two triples.
Men’s Tennis Klint McEnery
McEnery, a senior from Columbus, Ohio, was a three-time All-Conference player and four-year letterman for the Polar Bears. He is the 11th member of ONU’s 100-Win Club, ending his four-year career with an overall record of 105-27. He was 17-4 in doubles, 13-5 in singles this season.
Women’s Tennis Ashley Jones
Jones, a senior from West Chester, Ohio, ended her career as a four-time All-Conference honoree. She is ONU’s all-time wins leader with a career mark of 147-61. She is also ONU’s all-time singles leader with an 80-25 mark and ranks second in doubles wins at 67-36.
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Immler, a senior from Lorain, Ohio, led the Polar Bears in scoring this season with an 80.1 stroke average. He was named Academic All-OAC this season and was the medalist of the annual ONU Invitational this spring.
Raderstorf, a junior from Royal Center, Ind., was second on the team with an 89.2 scoring average this season. She is a three-year letter winner. In 46 career rounds, Raderstorf has an average of 92.52 strokes per round.
Men’s Track Brad Schroeder
Schroeder, a senior from Shelby, Ohio, ended his career as a four-year letterman in track and field and cross country. He set an ONU record in the 5,000meters outdoors and is a two-time OAC Champion in the event. In all, he earned All-OAC honors six times during his career. He is also a three-time All-OAC and three-time All-Region honoree and holds the ONU senior record with a 24:50 clocking.
Women’s Track Lisa Lindquist
Lindquist, a senior from Moon Township, Pa, is a four-year letterwinner in track and field. Lindquist has placed at the OAC Championships in the long jump and triple jump a total of four times in the past two seasons, finishing as high as fifth in the triple jump at the 2006 OAC Indoor Championships.
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Women’s Soccer
September 2-3 ONU CLASSIC 2 STEVENS TECH. (N.J.) 3 p.m. 3 CARNEGIE MELLON (Pa.) 1:30 p.m. 7 MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH 5 p.m. 11 at Defiance 4 p.m. 13 WITTENBERG 5 p.m. 16 CENTRE (Ky.) 11 a.m. 19 at Anderson (Ind.) 5 p.m. 22 at Cedarville 7 p.m. 26 at Ohio Wesleyan 7 p.m. 30 JOHN CARROLL* 2 p.m. October 3 at Heidelberg* 4 p.m. 7 MARIETTA* 3 p.m. 11 OTTERBEIN* 4 p.m. 14 at Muskingum* 2 p.m. 17 WILMINGTON* 4 p.m. 21 at Mount Union* 1 p.m. 25 at Baldwin-Wallace* 7 p.m. 28 CAPITAL* Noon 31 OAC Tourna.m.ent Semis TBA November 4 OAC Tourna.m.ent Finals TBA 10-11 NCAA III Regionals TBA
Cross Country
September 2 at Tiffin Invitational 6 p.m. 9 at Hanover (Ind.) Invitational 9:30 a.m. 16 at Calvin (Mich.) Select Meet 10 a.m. 22 at Wilmington Pre-National 4:30 p.m. 30 at Geneseo St. (NY) Invit. 10:30 a.m. October 6 All-Ohio Cha.m.pionships at Ohio Wesleyan Noon 14 Falcon Invitational at BGSU 10:45 a.m. 28 OAC Cha.m.pionships at Heidelberg 11 a.m. November 11 NCAA III Regionals at Hanover (Ind.) TBA 18 NCAA III Cha.m.pionships at Wilmington TBA
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Men’s Soccer
September 2 at Transylvania (Ky.) 2 p.m. 3 at Georgetown (Ky.) Noon 6 DENISON 5 p.m. 8-9 ONU-ADIDAS CLASSIC 8 HANOVER (Ind.) 5 p.m. 9 TRI-STATE (Ind.) 3 p.m. 12 DEFIANCE 3 p.m. 15-16 OAC-MIAA SHOOTOUT 15 KALA.m.AZOO (Mich.) 5 p.m. 16 ALBION (Mich.) 3:30 p.m. 20 at Anderson (Ind.) 4 p.m. 23 at Manchester (Ind.) 2 p.m. 27 at Ohio Wesleyan 7:30 p.m. 30 at John Carroll* 2 p.m. October 4 HEIDELBERG* 4 p.m. 7 MARIETTA* 1 p.m. 10 at Otterbein* 4 p.m. 14 MUSKINGUM* 1 p.m. 18 at Wilmington* 7 p.m. 21 MOUNT UNION* 2 p.m. 24 BALDWIN-WALLACE* 3 p.m. 28 at Capital* 3:30 p.m. November 1, 4 OAC Tourna.m.ent TBA 10-11 NCAA III Regionals TBA
Volleyball
September 1-2 ONU INVITATIONAL 3p.m./9 a.m. 5 BLUFFTON 7 p.m. 8-9 at Washington (Mo.) Invitational 12 DEFIANCE 6:30 p.m. 15-16 at Wittenberg Invitational 19 DENISON 7 p.m. 22 at Marietta* 7 p.m. 26 JOHN CARROLL* 7:30 p.m. 29-30 at Mount St. Joseph Invitational October 3 OTTERBEIN* 7 p.m. 7 MOUNT UNION* 1 p.m. 10 at Baldwin-Wallace* 7 p.m. 13-14 at Southwestern (Tex.) Invitational 17 at Heidelberg* 7 p.m. 21 at Capital* 1 p.m. 24 WILMINGTON* 7 p.m. 26 at Muskingum* 7 p.m. 31 OAC Tourna.m.ent Qtrs. 7 p.m.
Polar Bear Report
2006 Fall Sports Schedules November 3-4 OAC Tourna.m.ent Semis/Finals TBA 9-11 NCAA III Regionals TBA 16-18 NCAA III Finals TBA
Varsity Football
September 9 at Millikin (Ill.) 2 p.m.# 16 MUSKINGUM* 1:30 p.m. 23 at John Carroll* 2 p.m. 30 OTTERBEIN* 1:30 p.m. October 7 at Mount Union* 1:30 p.m. 14 CAPITAL* (HC) 1:30 p.m. 21 MARIETTA* 1:30 p.m. 28 at Baldwin-Wallace* 1:30 p.m. November 4 at Heidelberg* 1:30 p.m. 11 WILMINGTON* 1 p.m. *OAC Game #1 p.m. CDT
Freshman Football
September 4 HEIDELBERG 11 at Thomas More (Ky.) 18 ADRIAN (Mich.) 25 at Bluffton October 2 HARMONY PREP 9 WOOSTER 16 at Ashland 23 at Adrian (Mich.) 30 BLUFFTON November 6 at Heidelberg
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*OAC HOME MATCHES IN BOLD
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Polar Bear Report
2006 Spring Sports Update Baseball (6-33)
The Ohio Northern baseball team posted a 6-33 mark and finished 10th in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 1-17 record under first-year head coach Justin Bergman. Junior utility/pitcher Josh Conkey (McDonald/Youngstown Ursuline) earned AllOAC and Academic All-OAC honors, leading the team with a .376 average. Conkey also led the squad with 47 hits, 28 runs scored, 29 RBI, four home runs, three triples and a .568 slugging percentage.
Men’s Golf
The Ohio Northern men’s golf team, under the direction of first-year head coach Anthony Gholson, posted a sixth place showing at the 2006 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships this spring. Sophomore Wes Immler (Lorain/Amherst Steele) led the Polar Bears in scoring with an 80.11 average. He earned medalist honors at the ONU Invitational, winning the tournament with a 7777-154.
Women’s Golf
The Lady Polar Bear golf team finished fifth at the Ohio Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Championships this spring under fourthyear head coach Stacey Hairston. Sophomore Meagan Brennan (Mason/ Mount Notre Dame) earned All-Conference honors for the second consecutive year with a third place finish at the OACs. She also set school records for 18 holes with a 76, 36 holes with a 161 and single-season scoring with an 86.80 average. The Lady Polar Bears also set a singleseason team scoring record with an average of 363.5, four strokes better that last year’s record-breaking effort of 367.4.
Men’s Tennis (17-5)
The Polar Bear men’s tennis team won the OAC regular season title with a 9-0 league record and finished 17-5 overall under first-year head coach Glenn Scheutzow. Sophomore Micah Scott (Reynoldsburg) was named the OAC Player of the Year. Freshman Ryan Paul (West Milton/MiltonUnion) was a First Team All-OAC pick, while senior Klint McEnery (Columbus/Bishop
Softball (16-18)
The Polar Bear softball team went 16-18 overall and finished fifth in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 9-9 record under third-year head coach Annette Hunt-Shepherd. Senior outfielder Jessica Headings (Bellefontaine/West Liberty Salem) was named Academic All-Conference and sophomore third baseman Lynda Thomas (Magnolia/Sandy Valley) was named AllOAC. Sophomore Jenny Plunket (Tallmadge) led the Polar Bears in batting with a .385 average.
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Women’s Outdoor Track & Field (38-14) Men’s Outdoor Track & Field (45-7)
Watterson) and freshman Chris Dohner (Englewood/Northmont) were Honorable Mention All-OAC honorees. Senior Ben Boyer (Raleigh, N.C./Leesville Road) became the 10th member of ONU’s 100Win Club, finishing his four-year career with a 110-55 record, putting him tied for sixth on all-time at Ohio Northern. McEnery became the 11th member of ONU’s 100-Win Club this season. He finished his career with a 105-27 combined record, putting him ninth on the program’s all-time list.
Women’s Tennis (24-4)
The Lady Polar Bears went 24-4 and were OAC regular season champions for the third consecutive year under fifth-year head coach Scott Wills. Sophomore Kaitlyn Macdonald (Warsaw, Ind.) and sophomore Bridget Larson (Hudson) were both All-Conference and Academic AllOAC honorees. Senior Ashley Jones (West Chester/Lakota West) and sophomore Courtney Anderson (Amherst/Steele) were also named AllConference. Sophomore Ashley Yontz (Springfield/ Shawnee) was named Academic All-Conference. Jones became ONU’s all-time career singles and overall wins leader. In her four years at Ohio Northern, Jones won 80 singles matches and 147 matches overall, going 80-25 in singles, 67-36 in doubles and 14761 overall.
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The Polar Bears finished second in the OAC and were 45-7 overall under ninth-year head coach Brian Cole. Senior Brad Schroeder (Shelby) won the OAC title in the 5,000 meters for the second consecutive year. Sophomore Ryan Robertson (Pickerington/Central) earned All-America honors with a sixth place finish in the long jump at the NCAA Championships. Freshman Jimmy O’Brien (Pemberville/ Eastwood) won the 800 and anchored the winning 4x800 relay team, setting records in both. He qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 800. O’Brien, seniors Mark Bierkan (Cincinnati/ Colerain) and Sean Koran (Hinckley/ Highland) and freshman Eric Porter (Wauseon) won the OAC crown in the 4x800 relay. Koran was also named Academic All-OAC. The 4x100 relay team of Robertson, juniors Jon Graupmann (Fairborn) and Ryan Garry
Ninth-year head coach Brian Cole guided the Lady Polar Bears to a 38-14 overall record and a fourth place finish at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships. Junior Lauren Ernst (Fort Loramie) won her third consecutive OAC title in the 400-meter hurdles, qualifying for the NCAA Championships in the process, and was named ONU’s Female Clyde Lamb Award winner for 2005-06. Senior Sara McGinnis (Springfield/ Shawnee) earned All-America honors with a sixth place finish at the NCAA Championships in the high jump. Juniors Elizabeth DiNino (Beavercreek/ Carroll) and Darci Walthew (East Bethany, N.Y./Notre Dame) also qualified for the NCAAs. DiNino qualified in the 10,000meter run and Walthew in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Ernst, Walthew and seniors Amanda Dittmar (Valley City/Buckeye Local), Mindy Erb (Wapakoneta) and Elizabeth Terelle (Mentor) were named Academic All-OAC. McGinnis and junior Jackie Kessler (Attica/Seneca East) were named Honorable Mention Academic All-OAC. In all, 12 student-athletes were named AllOAC or Academic All-OAC.
Polar Bear Report
(Eustis, Fla.) and freshman Justin Linzy (Toledo/Woodward) qualified for the NCAA Championships. Robertson won the OAC crown in the long jump qualified for the NCAAs in the long jump and the 100-meter dash. In all, 14 athletes earned All-OAC or Academic All-OAC honors.
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50 years ago – 1956 1. 2. 3. 4.
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The Kappa Psi Fraternity was named the champions in the Spring Softball Tournament. The 1956 Majorettes included: Nancy Hammond, Lee Lewis, and Barbara Cramer. The 1955-56 May Day Royalty included: King Mart Mannik, and Queen Mary Shaffer. Presidents of ONU Sororities: Phi Chi – Joanna Geist Tau Kappa Kappa – Mickey McFerron Theta Phi Delta – Barbara Yehl Dr. F. Bringle McIntosh was president of the university. The Northmen, an organized campus dance band, provided music for benefits and dances. The second annual spring Northern Players banquet was a farewell to William Allman.
40 years ago – 1966 1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7.
A slice of plain pizza was 30 cents in the cafeteria. May Day court was Marilyn Woodward, Pat Davis, Judy Cannon and Sue McMillen. Alpha Xi Delta won the pushmobile competition during the homecoming festivities. The Chaplain, Dr. Udy, and Bishop Odd Hagen of Sweden, President of the World Methodist Council, dedicated The Upper Room. This room was designed for the purpose of quiet thought, meditation and worship. Delta Sigma Phi Sweetheart Linda Martin was announced as the IFC Queen. The production of “Becket” was sold out for its last three performances. The Northern Football team ended the season with a 5-4 record.
25 years ago – 1981 1. 2. 3. 4. 8. 9.
The Lady Bears track team opened the season with a practice meet at Rio Grande. For the second year, Alpha Sigma Phi won the PMD talent show during Greek Week. Alpha Xi Delta received the Schellenbach Award, which recognized them as the second Alpha Xi Delta chapter in the nation. Sigma Phi Epsilon places first with their float and second in the pushmobile race during homecoming. Theta Chi received an outstanding service award. The men’s baseball team finished the season with a 24-14-12 record.
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10 years ago – 1996 1. The homecoming football game was played against Otterbein. 2. A country concert, titled “Theresa’s Coffeehouse”, was held in the McIntosh Ballroom. SPC served coffee along with the music. 3. Men’s rugby were Division III state champions. 4. The Men’s golf team consisted of Kevin Mowrey, Dan Crist, Jason Sisco, Rob Riley and Ben Mauch. 5. After almost 30 years at ONU, Alpha Omicron Pi was closed by their international headquarters. 6. Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Pi were the winners of the Greek Week festivities.
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2:00-6:00 p.m. Registration - McIntosh Center
4:00 p.m.
Alumni Board of Directors Meeting, McIntosh Center
4:30 p.m.
African-American Alumni Committee Meeting/ Reception, Faculty Lounge, McIntosh Center
6:30 p.m.
ONU Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Banquet, Ballroom McIntosh Center
7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration – McIntosh Center 8:00 – 9:15 a.m. Law Alumni & Friends Breakfast - Wishing Well, McIntosh Center All alumni & friends of the law college are invited to have breakfast with Dean Crago and the law faculty, as well as past deans, and professors emeritus of the law school. 8:00 a.m. Stefanie Spielman 5K Run/Walk - Pavilion behind Fraternity Circle 9:00 a.m. Jewelry-making session, McIntosh Center. Join fellow alumni to make your own piece of southwestern jewelry. Space is limited, must pre-register. 9:00 a.m. ONU Baseball Alumni Game – Wander Field Batting practice will be followed by the Home Run Derby at 9:45 a.m., with the game beginning at 10:05 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Business College Alumni Gathering. An overview of the College of Business Administration Student Mentorship program will be provided. 9:30 a.m. Education Alumni Gathering (See description) 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Your Law School in the 21st Century – Law College, 38
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Moot Court Room, Room 129 See how the ONU College of Law is meeting the challenge of the 21st century through dynamic growth in technology, placement, student excellence, the international curriculum and the LL.M. program. 10:00 a.m. Tour of Dial-Roberson Stadium 10:00 a.m. ONU Swimming Alumni meet, Pool, King Horn Center. Warm-ups, 9:15 a.m. 10:00 a.m. SBA Law Alumni Homecoming Golf Outing for Law Alumni & Friends Hawthorne Hills Golf Club 1000 Fetter Rd, Lima, Ohio 10:30 a.m. Homecoming Parade, Village of Ada 11:00 a.m. ONU Cross Country Invitational 11:00 a.m. Zeta Tau Alpha Alumni! You are invited to join all ZTA alumni and current sisters for a luncheon at our house immediately following the Homecoming parade. Join us for a tour of the house and at the football game following lunch. 11:30 a.m. Dr. Ed Williams Memorial Dedication, Presser Hall, Recital Hall 11:30 a.m. (Lunch served until 1:00 p.m.) Tailgate Party/Pre-Football Game Activities – DialRoberson Stadium. Alumni of all ages! A Ferris Wheel, the Super Slide, Scrambler, the Loop-OPlane, Helicopter and Skyfighter, food, games, and much more for your enjoyment! 12:00 Noon Law Alumni & Friends Tailgate Party – Dial-Roberson Stadium. To register or for additional information for this event call (419) 772-1980, e-mail lawalumni@onu.edu, or checkout the law alumni website at http://www.law.onu.edu/org/alumni/index.htm 1:00 p.m. Pre-game festivities Introduction of the 2006 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees. Recognition of all Athletic Hall of Fame Members. Recognition of William L. Robinson
Young Alumni Award recipient 1:30 p.m. Football game vs. Capital – Dial-Roberson Stadium Homecoming King & Queen – half-time 2:00 p.m. Hayrides through campus, beginning at the registration area north of Dial-Roberson stadium. 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer game vs. Muskingum, Soccer Field 4:00 p.m. (Immediately following the football game) “Punt, Pass, Kick” contest for children 6-12, Dial-Roberson Stadium 4:30 p.m. Class Reunion pictures will be taken by the Polar Bear at the north end of Dial Roberson stadium beginning at this time. Announcements will be made for your class year to meet at the bear. 4:30 p.m. N-Men building will be open for ONU N-Men, families, and friends before and after the game on Saturday. 5:00 p.m. Down Home Country Picnic and Class Reunion Gatherings – Dial-Roberson Stadium Join alumni, students, faculty/staff and friends for a down home meal including half chickens, watermelon, corn-on-the-cob and much more. 5:00 p.m. African-American Alumni Soul Food Dinner – DialRoberson Stadium 8:00 p.m. Homecoming Concert - Frankie Avalon, Freed Center of Performing Arts (See description) 8:00 p.m. O.A.R. in concert – King Horn Center
9:30 a.m. Sweethearts Brunch – McIntosh Center, Wishing Well 11:00 a.m. Continuing Education for pharmacy graduates, McIntosh Center, Ballroom and White Bear Inn 11:30 a.m. Greek Alumni luncheon – McIntosh Center, Activities Room
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It’s a tailgate at ONU and YOU are invited. Join alumni, students and friends for a magnificent time at the Dial-Roberson Stadium. Beginning at 11:30 a.m., Northern is offering numerous activities around the stadium, including, music, festivities, rides and much more. And of course, we’ll have plenty of food on the grill waiting for you, your family and friends!
Join us at this ceremony and banquet Friday evening as six new members are inducted into Ohio Northern’s Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees include: Kerry A. Barnett ’95 BSBA, Jennifer L. Bird Duff ’95 BSBA (Posthumously), Mark D. Gooden ’95 BSEE, Bruce E. Hays ’71 BSED, Mary A. Hockett ’92 BSBA, Robert A. Irvin ’52 BSED. All 2006 Hall of Fame inductees will be featured in the Homecoming Parade and will be announced at the Ohio Northern vs. Capital football game. All Hall of Fame inductees will have special seating at the game. Join Dr. Robert Manzer, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Dr. Tena Roepke, director of Teacher Education, along with fellow alumni and current students to watch the parade in front of the Dukes building before heading to the third floor to visit with education faculty and staff, tour the facilities and hear updates about the programs before the tailgate party. The law school invites law alumni and families to attend events planned specifically for you during Homecoming 2006. Please join us for numerous activities planned throughout Saturday, including breakfast with Dean Crago and faculty emeriti. There will be a tent at the tailgate party at the stadium for law alumni and friends. If you have any questions, please contact the law school at 419-772-1980 or lawalumni@onu.edu. We look forward to seeing you in the fall. Welcome Back Classes of ’01, ’96, ’91, ’86, ’81, ’76, ’71, ’66, ’61, ’56 and Golden Years!! Whether you come alone or bring your family, we guarantee a wonderful time for your reunion gathering. We encourage you to attend the morning activities, tailgate party, athletic events, festivities and your alma mater’s reunion celebrations at the Reunion Celebrations on Saturday evening. Pictures will be taken beginning at 4:30 p.m. at DialRoberson Stadium. And most importantly, it’s time to reunite with your classmates and friends! For continual updates on class activities and to see who’s coming back from your class, check our website at www. onualumni.com. SUMMER 2006
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Frankie Avalon. This teen idol has been serenading the world for over four decades with such hits as Beauty School Drop Out from the great 1970’s hit film GREASE and Venus. Frankie Avalon has appeared on Jackie Gleason’s TV show as well as Dick Clark’s teen dance show American Bandstand. Get your tickets as soon as they go on sale because they won’t last long. $22 The African-American Alumni committee is calling everyone back for Homecoming 2006! It’s time to renew old friendships and to meet and encourage currently enrolled students. There will be plenty of food, fun and fellowship! Call your old roommates and your circle of friends from the old days and spread the word! Did you meet at Northern? Join other ONU sweethearts at the fourth annual Sweethearts Brunch at McIntosh Center on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. before heading home. The Elzay Gallery of Art will feature exhibits from Ohio Northern’s art faculty. Exhibit and alumni reception, 6 p.m. Gallery open, Friday - Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Throughout Homecoming Weekend, we encourage you to come back to reminisce with your Greek family. You will soon be receiving information from your fraternity or sorority with their individually planned events! Also, we hope you will be able to attend the third annual All Greek Alumni Brunch on Sunday. Tours of Greek housing will be offered on Saturday.
/ The Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research was established by Stefanie and her husband, former All-Pro NFL linebacker and Ohio State standout Chris Spielman. The fund has raised nearly $2 million to be dedicated to breast cancer research at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Join us in supporting this cause on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. on ONU’s “Green Monster,” a 2 1/2 mile course on ONU’s campus. To register and for further information, visit the Homecoming site at www. onualumni.com or call 419-772-2300 with questions or to receive a registration in the mail. 100 percent of your donation will go to breast cancer research.
Information available soon! Watch onualumni.com for ticket sales or call 419–772–3549. WONB 94.9 FM will be broadcasting “LIVE From Main Street” before and during the Homecoming Parade. WONB 94.9 FM and ONU Cable 3 will host (in the Radio/ TV Studios of the PAC) an Open House for former staff members, former National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho members and former broadcast majors after the football game (4 p.m. – 5 p.m.) WONB 94.9 FM will carry the pre-game, the homecoming football game, and the half-time show LIVE. WONB and NBS are also hosting a “Dunk the DJ” booth prior to and following the ONU football game at Dial-Roberson Stadium. This is a fundraiser for Cancer Patient Services of Hancock County. (1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.) High school students interested in learning more about Ohio Northern University should make an appointment through the Admissions Office for an interview and tour of the campus. Call 419-772-2260 to make an appointment. We welcome you to encourage and to bring your son or daughter to the campus.
Phi Delta Chi, a professional pharmacy fraternity, is sponsoring a pharmacy continuing education program on Sunday, October 15, 2006. Information will be sent to all pharmacy alumni about the program. E-mail r-mccurdy@onu.edu with questions. We have a limited number of reservations at the Holidome in Lima and the Comfort Inn in Bluffton. Holiday Inn: 419-222-0004, mention code ONU for Ohio Northern Alumni special rate. Rooms will be available for reservations until 10/1/06. Comfort Inn: 419-358-6000, mention Ohio Northern Homecoming for special rate. Rooms will be available at discounted rate until 10/1/06. More listings are available at www. onualumni.com – Services and Opportunities. The registration area will be at the McIntosh Center Lounge from 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. on Friday evening and 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. A registration area will also be at the Dial-Roberson Stadium Saturday afternoon. You will need to register to receive your bracelet for meals. Please pre-register to assure that we allow enough spaces for the various programs and activities throughout the day and so that our caterer may prepare enough food for each event. Kindly return your RSVP or register online at www.onualumni.com by October 10, 2006. We welcome you to enjoy the entire weekend of the event, but cannot guarantee proper accommodations to those who do not pre-register. 39
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Jack Birns, ’41 A&S In an over-sized book, black and white photos capture compelling scenes of Chinese children, peasants and soldiers in Shanghai between 1947 to 1949 as civil war disrupts their lives and the city falls to the Communists. The images are the work of Jack Birns, a 1941 ONU graduate and Life photographer, who documented this turbulent time in “Assignment: Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution (Series in Contemporary Photography),” a book just published in 2003. Birns came to ONU as the winner of a scholarship competition and majored in English. After graduation he became a copy boy with United Press International (UPI) in Cleveland, a job much like today’s internships. He soon graduated to a $15 a week job with the UPI in Cleveland. “Remember one percent went to Social Security,” he quips. From there he went to work for the Hearst News Service with the title of assistant manager. “It was only a three-man bureau,” he remembers. Soon, news writing lost its allure and he turned to photography and newsreel work. He had loved photography since childhood and was soon a Scripps Howard photographer, covering one of the biggest Ohio news events of 1945, the wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at Malabar Farm in Mansfield. Eventually he ended up with CBS in Los Angeles and his skill as a photographer brought him to the attention of Life Magazine, which posted him to China. Still slightly amazed, he says, “Here I was, just six years out of school and going to be a Life staff photographer! I remember standing at a hotel window in China with my arm around my young wife saying ‘I’m going to cover China like its never been covered before.’ We did very well in China.” But in fact, the most populous nation in the world was not enough. With the exception of Japan, his beat included the entire Far East, from the Philippines to India to Hong Kong and Malaysia. His reports ranged from short “memos” to large photo spreads that made Life one of the most prestigious visual publications of its time. His book, which was not published until decades after the demise of Life, features never before published images of the people caught between two rival forces trying to take control of China. In the poverty, chaos and despair, there are moments of beauty and even peace. A copy of Birns’ book is available at ONU’s Heterick Library. After China fell in May, 1949, Birns was assigned to Rome for Holy Year in 1950 and spent a year in Europe. One of his assignments was the photo essay of the fabled Orient Express spy train on its route from Paris, France, to Istanbul, Turkey. The photographs took a month to shoot and were completed amid the difficulty of reporting in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Birns by now had a wife and three children, one born in Shanghai, one in Hong Kong and one in Rome. Not surprisingly, his wife had enough of life on the road and the Birns family moved back to the U.S. where he became a freelance photographer. In 1948 and 1949, Birns had more pictures and pages published than any of the other 35 photographers on Life’s staff. In 1949, he was honored by the Overseas Press Club of America. The 700 members of the club voted Birns “a correspondent in his own right,” the first time in American journalism a photographer had been so honored. Birns admits the work was a lot more difficult without the prestige of Life behind him. “We ended up in Los Angeles and opened a professional camera shop,” he says and that led to more unexpected innovation, not just in photography but also in underwater photography and lighting. In 1962, a patron asked if the shop could put together a movie camera that could photograph underwater. By luck, they had worked with a fireman who had developed an underwater housing for a 16 mm movie camera. By combining that housing with an Arriflex camera, Birns came up with the product the man wanted. He learned later that the camera was used to photograph the launch mechanism of the first underwater missiles. President Eisenhower wanted to see with his own eyes that underwater missiles could launch, before approving what became the Polaris and Poseidon projects. Later his work with underwater lighting and photography played a part in the clean up of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Small lights mounted directly to cables in a system devised by Birns’ company made it possible for engineers to see into the small tubes of the nuclear reactor for clean up and repair to be made.
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Life photographer Jack Birns is standing in front of a burning hut in the jungle of Salaregor Province Malaysia, (near Kuala Lumpur) after a battle between insurgent and British police. Right after this photo was taken by correspondesnt Roy Rowan, rebels counter attacked. Both Birns and Rowan narrowly escaped with their lives. Twenty-six rebels lost their lives in their brief but deadly firefight, July 1948. “It’s all part of an incredible life,” Birns says on reflection. It was after he retired that he began to write again and get back to his photography. An art gallery in Sonora, Calif., displayed some of his work from the Far East. The gallery director was so impressed, she contacted the School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkley and invited the dean to visit the exhibit. Birns too wrote the dean but received no response. Thee years later, he received a call from a representative of the school of journalism saying the school was creating a historical series and wanted to use his work. The university was so impressed with Birns’ images of Shanghai that they published the book “Assignment Shanghai” in October 2003. He stresses that the China he recorded was not just politicians and military. “I photographed dead baby collectors, peasants, coolies and beggars.” It was a cross section of life in China at a pivotal point in history. In 1992, Birns lost his wife and deeply mourned the loss. But life continued. “I met a very nice lady after about five years and we were married,” he says. They honeymooned in Italy and returned to Italy over the next five years, but, in what must be the greatest fear of a photographer, his eyesight began to fail. Birns has now returned to writing, this time a novel: “Shanghai Lu.” In Chinese Lu means street and the title refers to “the street of assassins.” It will be a novel based on a true story and features a western photographer. As the Communists rose to power, the U.S. backed Chiang Kai-shek against Mao Zedong. However, there were those who opposed Mao but who did not want to support Chaing. What might have happened if the U.S. backed these opponents of the Communists? I guess we are going to have to wait for the book to find out! OHIO NORTHERN NORTHERN UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE MAGAZINE AND AND ALUMNI ALUMNI JOURNAL JOURNAL OHIO
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This edition of Class Notes includes information received up to June 15, 2006. If you don’t see your information in this issue, please look for it in the next one. We encourage you to continue sending us information about what you are doing, weddings and additions to your family.
Friends
Toby McCormick, former wrestling coach at Ohio Northern, was selected to be a part of Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals, for serving as the vice president of operations at Toby’s Nose Filters, Inc. He resides in Merritt Island, FL, and can be reached at mbogeyma@bellsouth.net.
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Ruthmarie T. Wires, BSPh, is a receptionist at the Center for Dermatology in Columbus, OH, where she also resides. She can be reached at rmtwires@yahoo.com.
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David Fadley, BSEd, retired after 30 years of teaching in Upper Sandusky, OH. He currently supervises student teachers, as well as the Experiential Learning Program at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, OH. He and his wife, Virginia (Gottfried), BSEd ’68, reside in Wharton, OH and they enjoy spending time with their six grandchildren. David can be reached at sambuck@wcnet.org.
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Janet A. Thatcher-Davids, BS, has closed her private psychological practice in Cincinnati, OH, which she started in 1983. She and her husband, Delmar, reside in Canton, OH, and she plans to pursue her career in the Asheville, NC area.
Mary “Mickey” (Harrington) Hicks, BSEd, resides in Somerset, KY, with her husband John. Since 2001, she has been an active member of the local YMCA and she was the first to swim 100 miles in her swim club. She currently hopes to swim 400 miles. Mickey can be reached at mickeyluvs2sing@webtv.net. Alan Thiele, JD, was named partner at Strasberger & Price, LLP in San Antonio, TX, where his practice areas include intellectual property protection, domestic and international licensing, and intellectual capital management. He resides in Helotes, TX.
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Alan Rossi, BA, is the director of third party services at Ashland Inc. in Dublin, OH. He resides in Powell, OH.
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Paul Cibula, BSPh, is a long term care consultant pharmacist for Pharmed Institutional Pharmacy, a division of Pharmed Corp., in Westlake, OH. On April 20, 2006, he was inducted as a Lifetime Member of the Empire Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals in Medicine and Healthcare. He will be featured in the 2006-2007 “Honors Edition” of the registry to represent Westlake, OH. He resides in Valley City, OH. Jon Ferrall, BSEE, retired the Air Force as a lietuenant colonel and has since served as the chief electrical engineer for NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center in California for five years. He is now the chief electrical engineer for the U.S. West Coast Space Launch Facilities at Vandenberg AFB, CA, where he also resides. Chet Looney, BSED, has retired after 35 years as a high school teacher and head football coach with East Knox Local Schools. A “Roast” was held in his honor at which the Board of Education named the football field, “Chet Looney Stadium.” Chet and his wife, Mary Jo, reside in Danville, OH.
Calendar of Events October 6, 2006 – Henry Solomon Lehr Society Banquet October 13, 2006 – Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet October 13-15, 2006 – Homecoming Weekend December 8, 2006 – ONU Alumni Event - Holiday Spectacular - Lima, OH
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January 18, 2007 – New York City Alumni Event January 19, 2007 – Philadelphia Alumni Event February 1, 2007 – San Antonio, Texas Alumni Event February 8, 2007 – Fort Wayne, Indiana Alumni Event February 27-March 4, 2007 – Florida Alumni Events – dates TBA March 12-18, 2007 – Denver/Phoenix/California (San Diego/San Francisco) March 21, 2007 – Cincinnati Alumni Event April 11, 2007 – Chicago Alumni Event April 12, 2007 – Toledo Alumni Event April 19, 2007 – Dayton Alumni Event April 27, 2007 – Columbus Alumni Event April 29, 2007 – Cleveland Alumni Event May 2, 2007 – Senior Send-off – Lima Civic Center
Members of the ONU Pharmacy Class of 1971 at the Ohio Pharmacist Association meeting, April 21-23, at the Columbus Convention Center, include, from left, Bob Parsons, Bob Mabe, Jeff Allison, Jack Taylor, Kim (Reed) Omler, and Jim Pritchard. SUMMER 2006
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Nancy (Laufer) Wiles, ’62 A&S (BSEd) Nancy Wiles, ’62 A&S, was no wallflower during her time at Ohio Northern University, participating in basketball, cheerleading, intramurals and the social sorority Delta Zeta. That certainly did not end with graduation. Even though Wiles is now retired, she finds the time to substitute teach, show homes in the real estate market, sell graduation items for Jostens, pet-sit, and baby-sit. Yet despite her busy schedule, Wiles has spent the last 40 years as a volunteer for the Children’s International Summer Villages (CISV), an organization that brings children ages 11-18 together from all over the world to learn about each others’ cultural backgrounds. It seems as though the phrase, “Time flies when you’re having fun,” was coined just for Wiles. Wiles had been living and teaching physical education in Florida with a few of her sorority sisters for three years when she first learned of CISV. “I read an article in the paper and they needed a leader,” Wiles said. After taking her first trip to Germany in 1966 with CISV children, Wiles was hooked. “I’ve had 23 experiences,” said Wiles, referring to the number of trips she has taken children around the globe, serving as their chaperone. In her 40 years with CISV, Wiles has traveled with as many as 13 children at one time to several countries, as well as served on the organization’s staff and helped plan many programs and youth meetings. “The best part about it is making friends all around the world and appreciating the differences in people,” said Wiles. There are 22 chapters in the United States, one of which is the Ada/Findlay/Lima chapter, which was started by ONU professor Gail Boger. A typical CISV trip or village consists of many hands-on learning activities, including games, simulations, music and drama, all of which are followed with discussion and evaluation to give the children a greater understanding of the world in which they live. Child participants are evaluated beforehand at a small camp to ensure correct placement into the program. In order to judge how the children will react to different cultures’ foods, for example, children must bring a bag lunch and trade it for another child’s at the camp. “How are the kids going to eat an Indian lunch when they can’t even eat a lunch from someone in their own county?” Wiles said.
Robert Mabe, BSPh, was appointed to the board of directors of The Savings Bank. He owns and operates the Ashville Apothecary in Ashville, OH, and the Circleville Apothecary Pharmacy in Circleville, OH. He resides in Ashville, OH. Dave Walker, BSEd, the head girls’ basketball coach at Naples High School in Naples, FL, won his 500th game during the 2005-06 season. Naples made it to the state semifinals in Dave’s 27th year as the coach. He has been the only coach in the history of the girls basketball program at the school. He resides in Naples, FL.
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Jerry Hoersten, BS, is the athletic director and basketball coach for Columbus Grove High School in Columbus Grove, Ohio. He has recently been named the Division III coach of the year for girls basketball by the District 8 Coaches’ Association and the Northwest Ohio’s Sports Writers. Jerry’s high school team finished 21-3, winning a league championship, sectional championship, and a district championship.
Nancy Wiles, right, poses with a group of students who she traveled with. Overall, the tight-knit communities fostered through CISV are what keep her coming back for more. “It’s in my blood and bones,” Wiles said. “I just can’t stop!” It is not surprising that the close personal relationships Wiles has found in CISV are much like those she found in Ohio Northern. “Ohio Northern is small and you know a lot of people,” said Wiles. “I liked knowing most of the students. You’re also closer to the professors.” Wiles originally began her collegiate career at Purdue, but she soon realized that large classes and impersonal professors were not for her. “If you asked even a simple question in class [at Purdue], you were told to get a tutor,” she said. Wanting a smaller campus atmosphere in addition to a dual pharmacy and physical education major, ONU was the perfect fit. Wiles transferred to ONU in her sophomore year. “I played sports in high school and I worked at the local drugstore,” Wiles said of her two very different majors. “I just couldn’t decide!” She later left the pharmacy program to pursue her teaching career upon the advice of her professors. “I’m not scientifically inclined, so I guess it’s a good thing I switched,” Wiles said. Wise words, indeed, seeing as how the love for teaching she developed at ONU has allowed her to teach children from all around the world. 40 years and counting.
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Andra Bell, BA, the head girls’ basketball coach at Upper Sandusky High School in Upper Sandusky, OH, won her 500th game during the 2005-06 academic year. She resides in Upper Sandusky, OH. Edward Eibling, BSEE, is president of Sound Systems, Inc., a communications and technology service provider in Tiffin, OH. He resides in Tiffin, OH.
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Margaret (Yount) Olmon, BSPh, is a clinical education coordinator where she works as a consultant to the pharmacy for Pfizer, Inc. She resides in Lake Oswego, OR.
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Tom DeSantis, BSEE, retired after selling his company, IOtech, to National Instruments. IOtech and National Instruments produce PC-based measurement instruments that are marketed throughout the world. Tom can be reached at tomjdesantis@aol.com.
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On July 9, several members of the Ohio Northern family gathered in celebration of Dr. Erv Pierstorf ’s, HON PH ’53 and University trustee, surprise 90th birthday party! More than 100 of Erv’s friends honored him on this special day. Janice Newsom Geiger, BSPh, is a staff pharmacist at Four Seasons Pharmacy in Princeton, WV, where she also resides. Mike Magovac, BSPH, a pharmacist for Walmart in Norwalk, OH, and his wife, Rhonda (Steward), BA ’77, a special education teacher for Western Reserve Local Schools, reside in Norwalk, OH. The couple can be reached at rmagovac@yahoo.com.
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Marcia Hearn, BA, was promoted to regional marketing director for Otterbein Retirement Living Communities in Lebanon, OH. John Kruse, JD, is a financial consultant for Financial Legacy Group in Cincinnati, OH. John works with family business owners and near-retirees. He and his wife, Julie, reside in Hamilton, OH.
Craig Pierson, BSME, was appointed to serve as vice president of operations for Marathon Pipe Line, LLC, a wholly owned company of Marathon Petroleum, LLC. He resides in Bowling Green, OH. Stephen R. Serraino, BA/BSBA, is the general counsel for MAQ Group, Inc., a real estate investment and development company based in Boca Raton, FL, where he also resides. On May 19, 2006, he participated
in the Ohio Northern College of Business Administration conferred degree commencement ceremony. He can be reached at serrainolaw@hotmail.com.
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A dear friend to Dr. Pierstorf, Vern Hakes ’33 PH, ’76 DS (seated), joined in the celebration and the surprise of Dr. Pierstorf ’s birthday memory.
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Charles Overly, BSPh, is a staff pharmacist for Walgreens in Lima, OH, where he also resides.
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Dr. Baker poses with Nadine Edwards and Dr. Elfreda Rusher ’38 A&S, who stopped for a quick visit.
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Wesley Newhouse, BA, has started a law firm called Newhouse, Prophater & Lechter, LLC that will focus on labor and employment law. He resides in Upper Arlington, OH.
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Raymond Merk, BSBA, and his wife, Linda (Bell), BA ’82, have a son, Ryan, who will begin his freshman year at Ohio Northern as a chemistry major in the fall of 2006. The Merk family resides in Seven Hills, OH, and can be reached at merkkrem@yahoo.com.
Raymond K. Shultz, BA, is the middle school guidance counselor for Eaton Middle School in Eaton, OH. He and his family reside in West Carrollton, OH. John Smith, BA, was promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army on March 1, 2006. John is an academy professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and can be reached at jsmith31@hvc.rr.com.
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Robert Cooper, BSPh, is a podiatrist for the Center for Foot and Ankle Care in Cincinnati, OH, where he leads a 12 doctor group. He and his family reside in Cincinnati, OH, and he can be reached at BCOOPPACK@aol.com. Bambi Couch-Page, JD, is the assistant prosecuting attorney for the Richland County Prosecutor’s Office. She resides in Lexington, OH.
Holly (Riedel) Cronau, BSPh, received the Distinguished Educator Award in 2005 from the OSU College of Medicine. She has also been promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at OSU. She can be reached at Holly. cronau@osumc.edu. Holly and her husband, Jeff, reside in Powell, OH. Linda (Bell) Merk, BA ’82, and her husband Raymond Merk, BSBA ’81, have a son, Ryan, who will begin his freshman year at Ohio Northern as a chemistry major in the fall of 2006. The Merk family resides in Seven Hills, OH, and can be reached at merkkrem@yahoo.com. Lori Ann Skillman, BA, is a claims/ litigation analyst for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, OH. She resides in Broadview Heights, OH. Wayne Williams, BSPh, is the owner of Hursh Bellville Drug in Bellville, OH. He resides in Lexington, OH.
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Susan Meyer, BSPh, joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy as associate dean for education after a 16-year career with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where she was most recently senior vice president. Susan resides in Wexford, PA. Timothy Williams, JD, was appointed to a district judge position in Clark County, NV. He resides in Henderson, NV.
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Danny Bubp, JD, was presented with the 2005 Ohio AMVETS Legislative Award on February 18. He was also re-elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for House District 88. Danny resides in West Union, OH. John Hughes, BSPh/BA, was appointed a Fellow of the American College of Physicians on April 8, 2006. The entire Hughes family was present at this special event. The Hughes family resides in Lima, OH. Julie Kiggins, BSPh, is the staff pharmacist for Delphos Discount Drugs/Okuley’s Pharmacy in Delphos, OH. Julie resides in Van Wert, OH. Andrew Morton, BSEE, is a shareholder with the intellectual property law firm of Renner Kenner in Akron, OH. He resides in Wadsworth, OH. Theodore Rose, BA, is a senior program analyst for Robbins-Gioia, at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. His wife, Lee (Stanisloski), BA ’86, is the director of Christian education, as well as the Faith Community Preschool at Faith Community United Methodist Church. The Rose family resides in Xenia, OH, and can be reached at tlmjrose@aol.com. Omer Waddles, JD, is a managing director for Leeds Equity Partners, a firm that manages a private equity fund that invests in education and information services companies. He and his wife, Shelley, reside in Carmel, IN.
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Nominate an ONU Alum for the 2007 Athletic Hall of Fame! The Athletic Hall of Fame honors Ohio Northern University men and women who have distinguished themselves in the field of athletics by virtue of their performance on athletic teams representing the university, or by meritorious efforts on behalf of athletics either as an undergraduate or in years after leaving the university.
They will be honored at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, at Ohio Northern University. Go to: www.onualumni.com or call 419-772-2727
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James Hornstein, JD, joined Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Santa Monica, CA, as counsel. He will also continue as vice president and general counsel to Moldex, a hearing and respiratory healthcare business. SUMMER 2006
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David A. Cunningham, BSEE, is president of Lenel Systems International, a division of UTC Fire & Security located in Pittsford, NY. His company is a leading provider of integrated physical software and solutions. He and his family reside in Pittsford, NY.
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Christy (Machin) Brudzinski, BSPh, and Daniel Brudzinski were married on May 27, 2006. Christy is employed as a registered pharmacist with K-Mart in Fremont, OH and Dan is a self-employed attorney at law. The couple resides in Fremont, OH, and can be reached at cmachin@woh. rr.com.
Michael Hutchinson, BS, is a pilot for ASTAR Air Cargo in Wilmington, OH. He and his family reside in Lebanon, OH. Michelle Kaye, BSBA, has been promoted to director of practice at Battelle & Battelle in Dayton, OH, where she also resides. LeAnn (Moore) Lehwald, BS/BA, has finished her pediatric neurology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She has joined the faculty of East Tennessee State University College of Medicine in Johnson City, TN, as an assistant professor of pediatric neurology. She and her family reside in Gray, TN. Ross Lenhardt, JD, is an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh, PA. He and his wife, Alisa (Bowe) Lenhardt, BA ’89, reside in Sewickley, PA. Douglas Tilden, BSBA, is a vice president and the capital markets operations leader for GE Consumer Finance in Stamford, CT. He resides in Eastchester, NY.
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Holly (Daughtery) Gleason ’05 A&S, Thomas F. Bryant ’66 L, Richard M. Rogers ’66 A&S/’72 L, Stephen R. Shaw ’75 L, and Tonya Hunter ’02 A&S/’05 L, heard cases that were argued for the Third District Court of Appeals on March 28, 2006 at Ohio Northern University.
Brett Mason, BSEE, is a regional finalist for a 2006-07 White House Fellowship; the nation’s most prestigious program for leadership and public service. As one of only 106 regional finalists, he will be interviewed in April by a citizen panel, and could potentially be named a national finalist in June. Brett resides in Fairfax, VA. Lee (Stanisloski) Rose, BA, is the director of Christian education, as well as the Faith Community Preschool at Faith Community United Methodist Church. Her husband, Theodore Rose, BA ’84, is a senior program analyst for Robbins-Gioia, at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The Rose family resides in Xenia, OH, and can be reached at tlmjrose@aol.com.
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Tage Haase, BS, and Melody (Carter) Haase, BA ’91, reside in Bowling Green, OH, and can be reached at haase13@bellsouth.net.
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Ellen (Bolander) Booker, BSBA, was married to George Booker on September 4, 2005. She resides in Parsippany, NJ with her husband and can be reached at bookerellen@yahoo.com. Todd Cook, JD, is a partner at the Columbus office of Wagenfield Levine, a multi-state insurance defense practice. He resides in New Albany, OH. Amy (Maki) Genszler, BA, works as a cashier and in the office of Sentry Foods in Hartford, WI. She resides in West Bend, WI, and can be reached at acgenszler@sbcglobal.net. Darin King, BA, and DeAnna (Schubach), were married November 25, 2005. Darin is a major account representative for Columbia Gas. The couple resides in Tiffin, OH. Erick Young, BS, is a senior principal scientist in medicinal chemistry for the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. He resides in Danbury, CT.
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Matthew Budash, JD, is a senior partner for Budash and Welch, Attorneys at Law in Indiana, PA, where he and his wife, Deborah, reside. He can be reached at mtb@budashandwelch.com. Michael Chow, BSEE, is the chief electrical engineer at Larsen Engineering, Inc. in Columbus, OH. His wife, Heidi (Woebkenberg), BS ’96, is the specialty pharmacist at Medco. The couple welcomed their first baby girl, Lillian Long-Li, on April 5, 2006. The Chow family resides in Dublin, OH.
Kirk Hiner, BS, along with Jim Jividen, BA ’92, JD ’95, has written a play titled “Spoon Millionaires,” which premiered at Lima Playfair 2006, August 10-12. Michelle Moody, BSPh, is the director of pharmacy at St. Cloud Regional Medical Center. She resides in Orlando, FL. Greg Phillips, BSME, is a senior mechanical engineer for Valero Energy Corp. in Lima, OH. His wife, Danice (Byers), BSPh ’93, is a staff pharmacist at St. Rita’s Medical Center. The couple resides in Elida, OH. Gina Staley-Burley, JD, was elected clerk of the common pleas court for Allen County, OH, and took office in January 2005. She resides in Bluffton, OH, and can be reached at ginastaley@hotmail.com. Desra Wortman, BA, is a ninth and eleventh grade English and language arts teacher at Lawrence County High School in Louisa, KY. She resides in Ashland, KY.
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Jerry Bey, BSBA, was promoted to vice president for Second National Bank in Greenville, OH. He resides in Versailles, OH. Robert Cobb, BSBA, is a product support and education representative for SPECTRUM Human Resource Systems Corp. in Denver, CO, where he also resides. Scott Elsass, BS, is the owner of The Finishing Touch!, a handyman service based out of Mooresville, NC. He resides in Davidson, NC. Nick Fini, BSCE, is the COO for Earth Healers in Lakewood, OH. He resides in Hinckley, OH. Todd Kildow, JD, is a partner/ member of Phillips, Gardill, Kaiser & Altmeyer, PLLC in Wheeling, WV. He resides in Bethesda, OH and can be reached at toddkildow@pgka.com.
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Check Out the Alumni Award! Did you know that children of alumni may be eligible to receive a $7,500 gift award to attend ONU? For more information call the Ofce of Financial Aid at (419) 772-2272 or e-mail: nancial-aid@onu.edu.
Danice (Byers), BSPh ’93, is a staff pharmacist at St. Rita’s Medical Center. Her husband, Greg Phillips, BSME ’92, is a senior mechanical engineer for Valero Energy Corp. in Lima, OH. The couple resides in Elida, OH. Jennifer (Smith) Stachler, BSCE, is a project engineer in the area of land development for The City of Delaware, OH. She and her family reside in Radnor, OH. Kimberly Wyss, JD, joined the defense litigation firm Marshall, Dennehy, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in its Akron office as a shareholder. In 2005, she was selected as a “Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine’s Super Lawyers edition. She resides in North Canton, OH.
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Cadie (Chambers) Brechbuhler, BSPh, is a staff pharmacist for Medical Arts Pharmacy in Anchorage, AK, where she also resides. Keith Buck, BSCE ’94, is the vice president of site engineering for Major Engineering & Land Surveying. His wife, Heather (Vannette), BS ’99, is a resource planner for Christopher B. Burker Engineering, Ltd. in Indianapolis, IN. The couple resides in Indianapolis, IN. Ryan Frederick, BSPh, is a pharmacist for Walgreens in Ft. Wayne, IN, where he and his family also reside. Holly (Welch) Rader, BSPh, is a pharmacist for Medco Health Solutions in Fairfield, OH. She and her family reside in Camden, OH and she can be reached at olivia898@earthlink.net. Christa (Davidson) Steiner, BA, is a promotions specialist for Promohits! Ltd. in Bluffton, OH, where she also resides.
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Eric Durbin, BSPh, is a pharmacy manager for Buehler’s Food Markets. He resides in Sugarcreek, OH. Rebecca Johnson, BSEE, received her MBA in technology management in November 2005 from the University of Phoenix. Rebecca resides in Lilburn, GA. Keenan Leichty, BSBA, is the head football coach at Tiffin Calvert High School in Tiffin, OH. Allison (Bower) Stinger, BA, is the Director of Capital/Major Gifts for the Phoenixville Area YMCA in West Norriton, PA. She resides in Phoenixville, PA, with her husband, James. John Walls, JD, is the general counsel for SM&P Utility Resources, Inc. in Carmel, IN, where he also resides.
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Heidi (Woebkenberg) Chow, BS, is the specialty pharmacist at Medco. Her husband, Michael, BSEE ’92, is the chief electrical engineer at Larsen Engineering, Inc. in Columbus, OH. The couple welcomed their first baby girl, Lillian Long-Li on April 5, 2006. The Chow family resides in Dublin, OH. Timothy Dersch, BA, and Kelley (Stinehelfer) were married on January 28, 2006. Tim is currently serving in the Naval Reserve. The couple resides in Blacklick, OH. Scott Jacobson, BSEE, and Deanna (Trella) were married on March, 1, 2006 in Maui, Hawaii. Scott is an electrical engineer at Matrix Technologies in Maumee, OH. The couple resides in Perrysburg, OH. Tyler Koschnick, BS, was awarded the Weed Science Society of America “Outstanding Graduate Students Award” sponsored by the Dupont Chemical Company. He received a master’s degree in 2003 and a Ph.D. in 2005 in agronomy from the University of Florida. He resides in Gainesville, FL.
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Schalet “Shelli” Jackson, ’01 A&S
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Shelli Jackson (second row, far right) stands with her music students on a recent visit to Ohio Northern’s campus.
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Schalet “Shelli” (Cox) Jackson ’01A&S, is one of only six music teachers in the U.S. to receive the 2006 Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Award. The award, along with $10,000, honors music teachers who best emulate the character and dedication of “Mr. Holland” as portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1995 hit movie. Unlike many Ohio Northern University students who change their major multiple times, Jackson knew she had wanted to be a music teacher since elementary school. “I’d known since I was in fourth grade,” Jackson said. It was then she picked up a clarinet for the first time and joined the Lima City Schools’ band program. Her love for music and performing only continued to grow from there, later earning her a spot in the Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps, a world-renowned youth organization that has performed around the world. After a year and a half with the Ohio-based ensemble, college was on the horizon for Jackson, as were some important financial decisions. “Marching drum corps was so expensive and I couldn’t afford to keep doing it,” Jackson said, “but I loved the discipline part. So I thought, ‘Why not get paid to do that?’” For Jackson, serving in the United States Army seemed like the perfect solution. “I was in the Army active duty for five years to get money for college,” Jackson said. “It gave me a better appreciation on how hard it is to go to school. I think I needed the military to get ready for college.” Once her service in the Army had ended, she arrived at ONU in the spring quarter of her freshman year, ready to pursue her dream of becoming a music teacher. Not surprisingly, Jackson’s fondest ONU memories involve creating mischief in the music department with her fellow students. “I must have been crazy; I was the classic band nerd,” said Jackson, recalling times where the Presser Hall “lounge lizards” would hide each other’s instruments and use music stands as catapults. Jackson also became the first female member of ONU’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national band honorary. While at ONU, Jackson had the opportunity to student teach at Marimor School in Lima, Ohio, which provides special education for children with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Upon graduation, Jackson was offered the position of music teacher at Marimor School, where she has taught for the last five years in the last non-essential department. At Marimor School, Jackson is in charge of numerous student music ensembles. The Marvelous Maestros Bell Choir, that began at Marimor School in 1974, holds auditions and trains its members with hand chimes and bells that are color-coded by different musical pitches. Jackson also uses this technique with the CanTasia Steel Drum Band to teach the students hand-eye coordination. The Dance Troupe is a third group that Jackson teaches, giving students the opportunity to perform unique routines like square dancing and May pole dancing. Each student Jackson leads in the music groups is responsible for playing their assigned instrument or performing their dance routine without assistance. Under Jackson’s direction, the Marimor School music groups have performed in many northwestern Ohio venues, including ONU for the 2006 Unite for Awareness Week. “A lot of people don’t give these students enough credit,” Jackson said. In early 2006, however, The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation decided that it was Jackson who had gone long enough without receiving her due recognition.
Jackson received a phone call from the foundation’s representative Bill Harvey, informing her that his last visit to Marimor School had not been to check up on the steel drums Jackson had purchased with recently received grant money. Instead, Harvey, who is also the vice president and co-owner of Buddy Rogers Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, called to deliver even better news. Jackson was one of six teachers in the United States to receive The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Award, which is given to music teachers who go above and beyond their classroom duties to inspire students with a love of music in creative ways. “When I got the phone call, I was really scared,” Jackson said. Fearing that it was a practical joke from one of her fellow teachers, she kept her award a secret until she received the official letter in the mail a week later. Jackson was invited to a reception at Carnegie Hall in New York City to accept the prestigious honor and $10,000 award. However, due to a few obstacles and unforeseen circumstances at Marimor School, Jackson was not sure she would have the time to travel to New York to be recognized. Marimor School administration finally made the decision to let Jackson go to New York City two days before the reception. When Jackson arrived at Carnegie Hall, all of the struggles she faced to get there became worth it. “They made us feel like we were the stars,” said Jackson. Though the star of the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, Richard Dreyfuss, was away on his honeymoon and could not attend the reception, news personality Jane Pauley was on hand to present the awards to Jackson and the other six recipients. “I got seven hugs out of her!” Jackson said. Overall, Jackson says receiving the award was a very positive experience, not only for her but for her students and Marimor School as well. “It’s given the music department more of a community awareness,” she said. Recalling how her experiences at ONU prepared her for the career she has today, Jackson attributes much of her success to her music professors. “I really do value the dedication that the instructors had for my personal needs,” Jackson said. “If I went to another school, I don’t think I would have finished.” Among the professors Jackson remembers, she says that Dr. Margaret Zank’s summer of musical theory, Dr. Charles Bates’ life lessons and Dr. Denise D’Arca’s “endless red pen” all played a large part in making her the music teacher she is today. However, she says that two special professors will always remain close to her heart. “If it wasn’t for Rosie or Ed (Williams), I never would have graduated,” she said. “If I could even be a fraction of what those two souls have been, I would be happy.” When Jackson looks back on the long, sometimes difficult journey it took to fulfill her dream of becoming a music teacher, she explains it very simply. “Everyone has a role that they have to play.” 47 47
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Karl Mechner, BSME, is a project manager for Stryker in Freiburg, Germany. Stryker is a market leader in orthopedic implants and medical equipment. Karl lives in the historical town of Staufen, Germany with his wife, Stephanie, and son, Maximilian. Michael Neighbor, BSBA, was promoted to distribution manager for the specialty chemical company’s composite polymers division of Ashland, Inc. He resides in Westerville, OH. William R.S. Steuk, JD, was sworn in as the Huron Municipal Court Judge on July 19, 2006. He and his family reside in Huron, OH. Raymond Sykola, BSPh, is a private practice physician at Southeast Anesthesia in Charlotte, NC. He completed medical school at Wake Forest University in 2001, and completed his anesthesia residency at Baptist Hospital in 2005. Raymond resides in Denver, NC. Randy Trimpey, BS, is a physician for the Bowling Green Clinic at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH, where he and his wife Chris (Linn), BA ’96, and their three daughters also reside. Julia Zahler, BSME, was promoted to senior project engineer at CTS Automotive in Elkhart, IN. She works in the accelerator pedal group, which makes electronic accelerator pedals for many major auto manufacturers worldwide. She resides in Elkhart, IN.
Nichole Elsner, BA, received a masters of education in school counseling from Wright State University on June 10, 2006. She resides in Fairborn, OH. Renee (Trusz) Hiner, BSPh, is a clinical staff pharmacist for Metrohealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. She and her family reside in Strongsville, OH, and she can be reached at Bhin9778@aol.com. Erin Kincaid, BS, is the plant superintendent of Textileather Corporation in Toledo, OH. He resides in Perrysburg, OH and can be reached at ekincaid@buckeyeexpress.com. Kevin McGlumphy, BSCE, is a technical service manager for the Eastern Region of SemMaterials, LP, the largest provider of asphalt products in the United States and Mexico. He resides in Richmond Hill, GA. Tara (Rowe) McKenna, BSPh, and her husband, Brent McKenna, BSEE ’04, now reside in Buckeye, AZ. Brian Pohl, BS, teaches technology education, and coaches football and track at Wellington Junior High School. He is also a raft guide during the summer months at Rocky Mountain Adventures. He resides in Wellington, OH. Douglas Slotta, BS, is a postdoctoral fellow for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He and his family reside in Rockville, MD.
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Dan Bayliss, BS, is the exercise physiologist for the University of Virginia Renal Services. Dan has been on a speaking tour promoting the benefits of exercise for dialysis patients across the country. He is the only full-time exercise physiologist hired by a dialysis unit in the country. He resides in Charlottesville, VA.
Erin (Iesulauro) Barker, BSCE, and Kevin Barker, were married September 24, 2005. Erin is pursuing her doctorate in structural engineering at Cornell University. The couple resides in Los Alamos, NM. Todd Below, BSME, was promoted to tire engineering manager for Cooper Tire & Rubber’s plant in Albany, GA. He resides in Leesburg, GA.
ONU alums embarked on a fun trip to Mexico in December 2005. Top row: Josh Heitmeyer ’99 ENG, Renee (Pothast) Heitmeyer ’01 PH, Julie (Kalbfleisch) Patterson ’98 BUS and Jason Patterson ’99 A&S. Bottom row: Susie (Schatzke) Martin ’99 BUS, Tony Martin, Amy (Peters) Dumbaugh ’99 A&S and John Dumbaugh. 48
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Becky Hiester ’65 A&S, and her granddaughters enjoy the new DialRoberson Stadium facilities. Jen (Fazio) Campbell, BA, and Bill Campbell, were married October 1, 2005. Jen is a health and physical education teacher at West Cary Middle School in Cary, NC. The couple resides in Raleigh, NC. Julie Clor, BS, is a senior research associate for Guava Technologies in Hayward, CA. She resides in Walnut Creek, CA. Jason Hiett, PharmD, has been certified in pharmacotherapy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties and he is a critical care clinical pharmacist for the Cincinnati VA Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH. He and his wife, Katherine (Murray), PharmD ’00, reside in Mason, OH. Summer James, BS, has completed her OB/GYN residency at the Akron General Medical Center. She is pursuing a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. She resides in Texas City, TX. Shannon (Harper) King, BS, is an auditor for Ayers Suites in Diamond Bar, CA, where she also resides. Shelley (Geurink) Kiwala, BSCE, and Richard Kiwala, were married on October 8, 2005. Shelley is a bridge engineer for Osborn Engineering Co., in The Kiwalas reside in Brunswick, OH. Edward Orel, BSBA, is the administrator for ophthalmic research at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. He resides in Cleveland Heights, OH. Kristie (Spangenburg) Ravert, JD, is an associate attorney for Moore & Alphin, PLLC. She specializes in the area of commercial and residential real estate. She and her family reside in Wendell, NC. Stephanie Shrider, BSPh, is the Pharmacist In Charge at CVS in Marietta, OH. She resides in Williamstown, WV.
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Michael Barnett, BSPh, is an attorney for Marathon Petroleum Co., LLC in Findlay, OH. He resides in Perrysburg, OH. Heather (Vannette) Buck, BS, is a resource planner for Christopher B. Burker Engineering, Ltd. in Indianapolis, IN. Her husband, Keith Buck, BSCE ’94, is the vice president of site engineering for Major Engineering & Land Surveying. The couple resides in Indianapolis, IN. Justin Ewing, BS, and Kara Lacey were married September 3, 2005. Justin is a system performance consultant for Verizon Wireless. The couple resides in Charlotte, NC. Melanie (Olwin) Forrer, BS, is the head softball coach for Wayne Trace High School in Haviland, OH. Her team co-won the Green Meadows Conference in 2006. She and her family reside in Payne, OH, and she can be reached at forrer15@yahoo.com. Matt Holmes, BSPh, and Melissa (Fox), were married October 14, 2005. Matt is a pharmacist working as a clinical account executive for Medco Health Solutions in Livonia, MI. The couple resides in Novi, MI. Scott Jacobson, BSEE, is a process engineer for Matrix Technologies in Maumee, OH. He resides in Perrysburg, OH. Rikki (Dauer) Myers, BA ’99, was recently promoted to store manager for Walgreens in Concord, NC, as well as received her Pharmacy Technician National Certification in 2004. Her husband, Greg Myers, BSPh ’00, is a district pharmacy supervisor for Walgreens, Charlotte South District. He has also been named an associate professor for Wingate University in Monroe, NC, and supervises the Walgreens Charlotte Districts Internship program. The couple resides in Charlotte, NC, and can be reached at gramyers@carolina.rr.com. Keith Rydell, BA, is the principal at Vantage Career Center in Van Wert, OH. He resides in Delphos, OH and can be reached at ksrydell@earthlink.net.
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Tribute to 37 Years of Legacy Dr. Edwin Williams, music professor and chair of the department of music, passed away on July 14, 2005. From the time he joined Ohio Northern faculty in 1973, Williams dreamed of an alumni jazz band, a group of alumni that would return to perform together as they had as undergraduates. That dream became a reality in 1991 when the Freed Center for the Performing Arts opened. For the past 16 years, the alumni jazz band has taken to the Freed Center stage to celebrate the joy and freedom of jazz. On February 11, 2006, the annual performance was a tribute to teacher, mentor, and friend Ed Williams. 37 of his former students returned to Ada, OH, from as far away as California and New York. The alumni performed 17 of Williams’ favorite pieces. The opening was a flamboyant arrangement of “Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.” followed by tunes like “Georgia On My Mind.” “McArthur Park,” and “Brass Machine.” Throughout the concert, soloists took the spotlight showcasing the talents of jazz musicians who had grown under Williams’ leadership. In one special moment, Williams’ wife Rosemary “Rosie,” resident artist and lecturer in music, requested that Vernon Neeley sing with the band on “My Funny Valentine.” The tribute concert ended with a bang as “Wind Machine,” showcased all the talents nurtured over the years by Williams. More than a night of memorable music, this year’s concert was a celebration of a man who touched the hearts and minds of students, faculty and the community. Proceeds from the concert went to the Edwin Williams Memorial Scholarship. In the words of Vernon Neeley, “He was our strength, and his spirit will warm our hearts forever.”
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David Carpenter, BSCE, is a civil engineer for Borne Engineering in Westminster, CO. He and his wife, Mary (Stamm), BM ’04, reside in Northglenn, CO. John L. Cassidy, BSBA, received his Master of Business Administration on May 13, 2006, from Ohio Dominican University. He is the controller at Grummer Wholesale, Inc. in Heath, OH. He and his family reside in Newark, OH. Sarah (Walthall) Chambers, BSBA, is a replenishment analyst for Chiquita Fresh North America based in Cincinnati, OH. She resides in Wixom, MI. Michael Cox, PharmD, was named senior clinical trial specialist with Amgen, Inc. In this position, he will be writing, managing and coordinating international clinical trials in oncology therapeutics. He resides in Thousand Oaks, CA. Jay Fordyce, BSPh, was recently named chief pharmacist for Discount Drugmart in Shelby, OH, where he also resides. Katherine (Murray) Hiett, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist for the Cincinnati VA Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH. She and her husband, Jason, PharmD ’98, reside in Mason, OH. Kristine Kuhlman, BA, works in programming for NBC Universal. She resides in North Hollywood, CA. Kelly (Kemski) Miller, BSPh, and Matt Miller were married October 15, 2005. Kelly is a pharmacist with Eckerd in Charlotte, NC, where the couple also resides. Rachel (Mumaw) Mitchell, BA, was married to Kyln Mitchell on April 15, 2006 in Las Vegas. Rachel is currently studying education at Wittenberg University. The couple resides in Springfield, OH. Greg Myers, BSPh, is a District Pharmacy Supervisor for Walgreens, Charlotte South District. He has also been named an Associate Professor for Wingate University in Monroe, NC, and he supervises the Walgreens Charlotte Districts Internship program. His wife, Rikki (Dauer) Myers, BA ’99, was recently promoted to store manager for Walgreens in Concord, NC, as well as received her pharmacy technician national certification in 2004. The couple resides in Charlotte, NC, and can be reached at gramyers@carolina. rr.com. Kelly (Underwood) Nienberg, BA, was married to Thomas Nienberg on February 11, 2006. The couple resides in Glandorf, OH.
Carrie (Carr) Robbins, BA, and Tony Robbins were married March 13, 2004. Carrie is a consumer sales consultant at Verizon Wireless. The couple resides in Marion, OH. Bonnie (Wasil) Sarnoff, BA, is an instructor of French and developmental English at Limestone College in Gaffney, Alumni and friends gathered on April 22, 2006, to celebrate the wedding of Sarah (Gfell) Fries, SC. She resides in PharmD ’03, and Aaron Fries, BA ’03. Greer, SC. First row (L-R): Alison (Oakley) Barkman ’01 A&S, Alissa (Scott) Hammersmith ’01 A&S, Kim (Speedy) Marcia Braun ’01 A&S, Tracey Tite PH ’02, Sarah (Gfell) Fries PH ’03, Aaron Fries ’03 A&S, Stocker, BSPh, Holly (Creitz) Cole ’03 PH, Morgan Cole ’03 PH. and Jonathan Stocker were married Second row (L-R): Shannon (Nunley) Nagel ’02 PH, Katie Taylor ’03 PH, Hannah (KanuckSeptember 10, 2005. el) Creager ’05 A&S, Sarah (Wollf ) Haynes ’03 A&S, Sarah Mitchell ’04 A&S, Coach Jeff Coleman Kim is the pharmacy ’90 A&S. manager for Giant Third row (L-R): Kristen Deaton ’01 A&S, Scott Hammersmith ’01 A&S, John Dumbaugh, Eagle in Tallmadge, Amy (Peters) Dumbaugh ’99 A&S, Nicole Harger ’03 PH, Bernadette Clark ’03 PH, Kevin Tiell OH. The couple ’04 ENG, Kent Creager ’04 A&S. resides in Cuyahoga Fourth row: (L-R): Jeff Gleason ’95 PH, Coach Joe Campoli, Kendra Bailey ’04 A&S, Jim Falls, OH. Jeremy Thornton, Conrad ’04 BUS, Coach David Cox, Michael Haynes ’05 A&S, Sam Mikolajewski ’04 ENG, Lee BM, and Amanda Creager ’03 A&S, Aaron Kalizewski ’02 A&S, Chad Bostelman ’05 A&S. (Rudloff) were married February 11, resides in St. Petersburg, FL. M. Emily McCulla, BS, graduated 2006. Jeremy is an Jason Magyar, BS, is a quality control in May 2006 with a masters of attorney with Finnegan-Henderson specialist for Genest, Inc. in Saco, ME. His education from Bowling Green State in Washington, DC., where the wife, Amanda (Vancura), BS ’02, is a University. She is now working as couple also resides. medical student at the University of New a fourth-grade special education Rebecca (Curry) Whalen, BA, England. The couple resides in Saco, ME. teacher for Riverdale Local Schools. was married to Shawn Whalen and Tracy Mallard, BSBA, is the sales She resides in Bluffton, OH. is now the lead health advisor at manager for The Madison Hotel in Danielle (Verone) Murray, BA, is Harris HealthTrends in Toledo, OH Washington, DC. She resides in Arlington, the new assistant director of alumni where the couple also resides. VA. affairs at Ohio Northern University. Anna Mann, BA, is a psychology intern She is the former assistant director of at The Hawthorne Center in Northville, MI. admissions. She and her husband, Joshua De Renzo, JD, was She resides in Novi, MI. Cory, BSBA ’01, reside in Findlay, promoted to vice president Sarah (Blue) Pence, BSBA, and OH. of Greene & Cooper P.S.C in Anthony Pence were married July 15, Emily (Linhart) Randolph, BA, Louisville, KY, where he and his 2006. Sarah is a staffing executive for and Chad Randolph were married wife, Amy (Blount) De Renzo, Robert Half International in Dayton, OH. June 25, 2005. The couple resides in JD ’01, reside. Amy opened her The couple resides in Fairborn, OH. Salem, OH. own practice concentrating in the Kellie S. Rath, BS, graduated from Gail Stitt, PharmD, is a pharmacy areas of criminal and family law. the University of Cincinnati, College manager for Walgreens in Cleveland, Wayne Fryback, BSBA, is of Medicine and is now an OB/GYN OH. She resides in Lakewood, OH. an insurance premium auditor resident physician at University Hospital in Craig Swallow, BSBA, is a for Overland Solutions, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH, where she also resides. manager at KPMG in Harrisburg, Lauderdale Lakes, FL. He resides Scott Strano, BS, is the owner of Strano PA. His wife, Nicole (Stidinger), in West Palm Beach, FL. Construction Co. in South Euclid, OH. He BS ’01, is continuing her internal Bruce Hammond, BA, is resides in Lyndhurst, OH. medicine residency at Penn State/ the director of alumni relations Angela (Dunn) Ward, BS, received her Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in for Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, master of arts degree in teaching from Hershey, PA. The couple resides in based in Indianapolis, IN. He Marshall University in December 2005. Harrisburg, PA. had previously been the assistant She resides in Clarksburg, WV. Ivan Tornes, BSME/BS, received director of alumni affairs at Ohio Craig Wolgamuth, BSCE, was his Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio Northern University. He resides in promoted to an engineer II in the State University on March 19, 2006. Novi, MI. environmental department at the D.C. He is a research scientist at Battelle Michelle (Howell) Griffin, Cook Nuclear Power Plant in Bridgman, Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH. BSBA, and Mark Griffin were MI. The plant is owned by AEP. Craig married August 20, 2005. Michelle resides in St. Joseph, MI. is an accountant for American Tisha (Friebel) Chrobak, Matthew Zimmerman, Pharm D, Electric Power in Columbus, OH, BA, and Nick Chrobak, were is the clinical pharmacist at Froedtert where the couple also resides. married October 8, 2005. Tisha Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Nicole Lloyd, BSPh, is a staff is a kindergarten teacher for WI. He resides in Wauwatosa, WI. pharmacist at Wal-Mart in Frisco, Transfiguration Catholic School. She CO. She resides in Dillon, CO.
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ONU Alumni B.E.A.R.S. Program Update! In the summer of 2005, a partnership was formed between the Office of Admissions and the Office of Alumni Affairs. A committee was formed to promote the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. program. The Alumni B.E.A.R.S. (Building Energetic Alumni Resources for Students) program is an opportunity for alumni, friends and parents of the university to assist the Office of Admissions with recruitment efforts. The committee decided to take the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. program “on the road” to nationally spread the good word about the program at the 2006 Alumni Events. Danielle (Verone) Murray, ’01 A&S, coordinator of the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. program, met with interested alumni before each of the 13 Alumni Events. There was a promising attendance at the “pre-event” sessions and a considerable interest throughout the course of each individual event. During the pre-event sessions, participants were given an overview of the program including a background, mission statement and list of activities. Following an in-depth description of each activity was given and a question and answer session followed. Participants completed membership forms. Murray spoke to each audience during the Alumni Events to encourage them to join the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. program in any way possible. Murray also shared her own college search experiences with the audience and explained how she would have not heard about Ohio Northern, had it not been for the referral by a Northern alumnus. At each event, Murray brought Bear Ambassadors (admissions office student workers) with her to share how Northern alumni affected their journey toward Ohio Northern. Currently, plans are being made to utilize many of the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. members in the specific areas of activity. The program activities include personal letter writing, submitting alumni referral cards and scholarship day interviewing. College fair representation and The Adopt-A-Scholar program are still in its beginning stages. If you are interested in joining this very worthwhile program, please feel free to contact Danielle Murray at d-murray@onu.edu. (Note: Murray served the admissions office for five years as a counselor and most recently, joined the Office of Alumni Affairs as the assistant director.)
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Rose Endreola ’04 A&S, Jennifer Jordan ’05 ENG, Jennifer (Szajnowsky) Brosemer ’04 A&S, and Charles Brosemer ’03 A&S, joined the Alumni B.E.A.R.S. program at the Cleveland Alumni Event. SUMMER 2006
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Ken Cooper, BSECE, was promoted to director of field operations for Skylink, Ltd. in Findlay, OH, where he also resides. Sarah (Gfell) Fries, PharmD, and Aaron Fries, BA ’03, were married on April 22, 2006. Sarah is a pharmacy manager for Walgreens in Lakewood, OH, and Aaron is a financial services professional for Mass Mutual Financial Group in Norwalk, OH. The couple resides in Huron, OH. Tami Harter, BSPh, is a staff pharmacist at Sam’s Club Pharmacy in North Charleston, SC. She resides in Goose Creek, SC. Ryan Haynam, BSME, and wife Alayna (Blakely) Haynam, BSCE ’03, were married on April 29, 2006. The couple now resides in Milford Center, OH. Sonja Huseman, BSBA, is a tax planning specialist for Hantz Tax & Businee in Woodhaven, MI. She resides in Canton, MI. Tamara Kelly, BSPh, is a pharmacist for Walgreens in Daytona Beach, FL. She resides in Sanford, FL. Ronald Krosky, BSEE, BS, recently graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law and passed the U.S. Patent Trademark Office Bar Exam. He resides in Lakewood, OH. Justin Lehman, BS, is an assistant athletic trainer and lecturer in the Human Performance and Sport Sciences Department at Ohio Northern University. He resides in Ada, OH.
Jennifer (Schoen) Linkous, BA, and Andrew Linkous, were married on June 7, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV. Jennifer is a third-grade teacher at Chandler Creek Elementary School in Greer, SC, where she also resides. Jennifer can be reached at jenschoen206@yahoo.com. Shelly (Wagner) Maag, BA, is a kindergarten teacher for the Marysville Schools in Marysville, OH, where she also resides. Joseph Onderak, BS, and Carol (Salyers) Onderak, BA ’03, were married on June 17, 2006. Carol also recently graduated from Tiffin University with a master’s degree in Criminal Justice. Julie Przeszlo, BSEd, is a missionary for Youth With A Mission-Denver, in Arvada, CO. Troy Snider, A&S, and Melissa (Husson) Snider, BSPh ’05, were married in July of 2006. They reside in Hilliard, OH. Stephanie Spirer, BA, graduated from William & Mary School of Law in May, winning the Ewell Award and the Thurgood Marshall Award for exhibiting the ideals of distinguished public service exemplified by Justice Marshall. Stephanie is an associate attorney for Baker & Daniels, LLP in Indianapolis, IN where she also resides. Alison (Dutro) Yeager, BFA, and Christopher Yeager, BA ’03, were married March 17, 2006. Alison is in marketing for Dexxon Digital Storage, and Christopher is a third-year law student at The Ohio State University. The couple resides in Columbus, OH. Evan Yurkovich, BS, is an environmental technician for Altamont Environmental in Asheville, NC, where he also resides.
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Allison Baird, BSBA, is an international account manager for Henkel Consumer Adhesive in Avon, OH. She resides in Lakewood, OH. Julia Buchanan, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist at AnMed Health Center in Anderson, SC. She resides in Easley, SC. Amanda Baughman, BSBA, is a plant accountant for Associated Hygienic Products in Marion, OH. She resides in Kenton, OH. Alexander Boroff, BA, and Emily LK (Fleming) Boroff, PharmD ’05, were married on June 3, 2006. Emily is a staff pharmacist for Rite Aid Pharmacy in Fostoria, OH. Alexander is a reporter for The Fostoria Focus. They reside in Tiffin, OH. Mary (Stamm) Carpenter, BM, is a vocal music director at Scott Carpenter Middle School in Denver, CO. She and her husband, David, BSCE ’00, reside in Northglenn, CO. Joseph Catera, PharmD, is a pharmacy manager for Walgreens in Holmes Beach, FL. He resides in Riverview, FL, and can be reached at drcatera@yahoo.com.
Several ONU alums gathered on September 10, 2005 to celebrate the wedding of Stephanie (Bear) Mangus, ’05 A&S, and Jesse Mangus. Back Row (L-R): Dr. Steve Iseman, Mrs. Sue Iseman, Jennifer Hibbs, a current pharmacy student, Kelly Darby, a current pharmacy student, Nichole (Weitz) Tebbe ’05 A&S, Jesse Mangus, Stephanie (Bear) Mangus ’05 A&S, Chris Yeager ’03 A&S, Stephanie Zaugg, a current pharmacy student, Justine Ruble, a current pharmacy student, Dr. Kim Broedel-Zaugg, Tiffany Grubb ’06 A&S, Sarah Marker, a current pharmacy student and Alison (Dutro) Yeager ’03 A&S. Front Row (L-R): Justin Stiles ’06 ENG, Lora Deeds ’04 A&S, Hope Bailey, a current pharmacy student, Justine Wisniewski, a current pharmacy student, Katie (Clouse) Gudorf ’06 A&S and Teri Oxender, a current arts and sciences student. Mark Clausing, BA, and Ashley (Horner) Clausing, BS ’05, were married September 3, 2005. Mark is a math teacher at Stebbins High School. The couple resides in Fairborn, OH. Jacob Clemens, BA, is the coordinator of second year residence education at Case Western Reserve University. Jacob resides in Cleveland, OH. JoDee (Kane) DeMond, BSPh, and Justin DeMond, were married on September 10, 2005. JoDee is a pharmacist for Kroger Pharmacy in Fremont, OH. The couple resides in Bowling Green, OH. Katie Dietrich, BS, received her master’s degree in physical education with a concentration in athletic training from the University of South Carolina in May 2006. She resides in Powhatan Pt., OH. David Kline, BSME, and his wife, Laura (Winters), PharmD ’05, were married on May 27, 2006. David is an Engineer I at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, OH. Laura is a pharmacist at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. The couple resides in Powell, OH. Erica (Sawyer) Levitt, PharmD, and Trevor Levitt, were married on June 10, 2006 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Erica is pursuing a Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, MI, where she also resides. Schavon Morgan, JD, is an assistant public defender for the Cattaraugus Count Public Defender’s Office in Olean, NY. She resides in Westons Mills, NY.
Mark Robson, BS, and wife Megan (Fish) Robson, BSBA ’05, were married on March 18, 2006. Mark is a teacher and coach at Maumee Valley Country Day School. The couple resides in Findlay, OH. Brent Rollins, BSPh, is a pharmacist for Eckerd Pharmacy in Watkinsville, GA. He is also working on his Ph.D. in pharmacy administration at the University of Georgia, in Athens, GA, where he and his wife, Deanna, also reside. Elizabeth Staley, BS, received her MS in nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in May, and is a fitness instructor for Riverside Patriot’s Colony at Williamsburg in Williamsburg, VA. She resides in Newport News, VA. Chad Swint, BSECE, and Kassandra (Munoz) were married September 12, 2005. Chad is a software engineer for AVISTA Inc. in Platteville, WI, where the couple also resides. Nick Vidovich, BSECE, was promoted to software engineer in the electronics and aviation systems department at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH, where he also resides. Scott R. White, BS, is a web developer for Fulton Homes in Tempe, AZ, where he also resides. Thomas Wible, BA, is the Director of Chapter Services for Delta Sigma Phi. He resides in Indianapolis, IN. Jessica Wilson, BS, is the Camp Dodge projects coordinator for Appalachian Mountain Club, a nonprofit environmental organization in Gorham, NH. She resides in Glen, NH.
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Theresa (Ellerbrock) Anderson, BM, and Logan Anderson, a fifth-year ONU pharmacy student, were married on June 24, 2006. Theresa is the middle school band director and assistant high school band director at Delphos City Schools in Delphos, OH. The Andersons reside in Delphos, OH. Carolyn Beil, PharmD, is a pharmacist for Walgreens in Cleveland, OH. She resides in Westlake, OH. Emily LK (Fleming) Boroff, PharmD, and Alexander Boroff, BA ’04, were married on June 3, 2006. Emily is a staff pharmacist for Rite Aid Pharmacy in Fostoria, OH. Alexander is a reporter for the Fostoria Focus. They reside in Tiffin, OH. Ashley (Horner) Clausing, BS, and Mark Clausing, BA ’04, were married September 3, 2005. Mark is a math teacher at Stebbins High School. The couple resides in Fairborn, OH. Kellie (Thirion) Cleland, Pharm D, and Jason Cleland, PharmD ’05, were married on September 24, 2005. Kellie is a pharmacy manager and Jason is a pharmacists, both for Rite Aid. The couple resides in Champion, OH. SUMMER 2006
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Gregory Decker, BM, is a graduate teaching assistant at Florida State University. He resides in Tallahassee, FL. Emily Edgerton, BFA, is a case worker for Franklin County, Ohio Child Support Enforcement in Columbus, OH. She resides in Pickerington, OH. Sarah (Vowell) Hewson, BA, and John Hewson were married on May 28, 2006 and they reside in Parker, CO. Kristin Hubbard, BA, is a teacher for Washington County Headstart in Springdale, AR, where she also resides. Laura (Winters) Kline, PharmD, and her husband, David, BSME ’04, were married on May 27, 2006. Laura is a pharmacist at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. David is an Engineer I at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, OH. The couple resides in Powell, OH. Stephanie (Bear) Mangus, BA, and Jesse Mangus, were married on September 10, 2005 at the Shawnee Lodge & Resort in Friendship, OH. She is the executive staff assistant for the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. The couple resides in Batavia, OH.
Rachael Mathes, BA, is a retail marketing specialist for Grubb & Ellis/Adena Realty Advisors, LLC in Columbus, OH, where she also resides. Adrienne Poland, BA, is a marketing consultant for WLIO-TV in Lima, OH. She resides in Ada, OH. Lauren Seitz, BFA, works for Stow City Schools and resides in Solon, OH. Rachel Simon, BA, is the catering coordinator for the Fourwinds Resort & Marina in Bloomington, IN, where she also resides. Afton Smith, BS, is the clinical laboratory technologist in cytogenetics for The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Afton resides in Dublin, OH. Robert Storm, BA, is the Logan County Recorder in Bellefontaine,OH where he also resides. Adam Walko, BSBA, is an account executive at ComDoc, Inc. in Broadview Heights, OH. He resides in Cuyahoga Heights, OH. Jesse Wershing, BSME, and Jessica (Cook) were married November 12, 2005. Jesse is employed at Crown Equipment Corporation in New Bremen, OH, where the couple also resides.
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Ashley Bauman, BA, is a second grade teacher at Allen East Primary in Lafayette, OH. Rachel Kantosky, BS/BM, is a summer intern for Mortar Board, Inc., in Columbus, OH. She will pursue a master’s degree in health administration at The Ohio State University in the fall of 2006. Nicholas Mitchell, BM, is the choir director and assistant band director at Columbus Grove Local School in Columbus Grove, OH. He resides in Findlay, OH. Nicole Pierson, BA, is a research investigator for Acxiom Information Security Systems in Independence, OH. She resides in Strongsville, OH. Charles S. Wlodyka, BSEE, is a construction documents specialist for WD Partners in Dublin, OH. He resides in Columbus, OH, and can be reached at cwlodyka@gmail.com.
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Alumni Events 2006 Indianapolis
Akron Taylor Osbun ’06 A&S, visits with Roy Stype ’78 ENG, and his wife Melanie at the Akron Alumni Event.
Jim Spahr ’58 PH, and his wife, Bette Jeanne (Weintz) ’57 A&S, visit with Vincent “Leo” Kavanaugh ’57 PH, at the Indianapolis Area Alumni Event.
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Phyllis (Leininger) Snyder ’63 A&S, and her husband, George ’53 ENG, visit with Emory Hall ’56 PH, and his wife, Ruth.
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Dan Dumbauld ’67 A&S, and his wife, Becky, visit with Ken Block, executive director of development.
Bruce Hammond ’01 A&S, visits with Kristina (Moon) Mattmuller ’02 A&S, her husband, Jon ’02 A&S, Julie (Seeger) Baron ’04 PH, and her husband Jeff Baron ’02 A&S.
Susan Smith, Bob Smith ’70 BUS, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Helen Campbell, Donald Campbell, university trustee, Judy (Jacobs) Mifsud ’70 A&S, and Oscar Mifsud ’70 BUS, university trustee, visit at the Ritz Carlton Christopher Stone ’01 A&S, and his in Cleveland. wife, Amanda (Fisher) Stone ’01 PH, anxiously await their new little baby girl, Miranda Chestoria, at the Cleveland Alumni Event.
Don Beal ’63 A&S, and his wife, Ann (Melkerson) ’61 A&S, visit with Walter ’61 A&S, and Jean Armes at the Columbus Alumni Event.
Rebecca Indovina ’05 A&S, Nicholas Sivik, Lisa Liles ’05 A&S, and James Ker visit at the Cleveland Alumni Event.
Saundra Huston ’58 A&S, Beverly (Hopkins) Hitt ’57 A&S, and Nancy Reed ’63 A&S, reminisce at the Columbus Alumni Event.
Matt Mottice ’04 ENG, Josh Brass ’01 A&S, Jessica Gibson, Matt Cupp ’02 A&S, and Jesse Stout ’03 ENG, visit at the Columbus Area Alumni Event.
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Cheri Mason ’86 A&S, and her husband Brett, ’86 ENG, brought prospective student, Virginia Harrod to the Washington D.C. event. Virginia will be attending Ohio Northern University in the fall.
Bryan Van Sweringen ’74 A&S, and his wife visit with friends at the Washington D.C. event.
Carla Willis, director of law advancement, visits with, from left Alexis Cobb ’04 A&S, Stephen Puskas ’92 ENG, and Robert Fall ’80 L, at the Pittsburgh Alumni Event.
Christopher Dolfi ’01 PH, and Nate Reese ’01 PH, reminisce about their Delta Sigma Phi days at ONU.
Matt Mullin ’03 A&S, Rose Previte ’03 A&S, visit with Director of Law Advancement, Carla Willis and First Lady Toby Baker ’06 A&S.
Phil Denbleyker and friend visit with Brian ’01 PH, and Rebecca Roman ’01 PH, while talking to Bev Hayden at the Lemont Restaurant in Pittsburgh.
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Raleigh
Dan Lindsay ’73 A&S, and his wife, Gwenn ’74 A&S, visit with George Pais ’73 ENG, and his wife, Marybeth, while showing off their Northern pride in Atlanta.
Kristen (Hoffman) ’98 A&S, and Keith Richeson ’98 ENG, visit with friends, Chris Batdorf ’97 ENG, and Dan Fuccella ’67 ENG, and sweethearts, his wife, Wendy, Tara Drouhard ’00 A&S, and Matt Ken ’43 A&S, and “Petey” Shoemaker ’43 Banks ’03 PharmD, and his wife, Carrie (Bernhard) ’02 A&S, enjoy the Raleigh event. PH, at the Washington Duke Inn in North Carolina.
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Charles Bethel ’55 PH, visits with First Lady Toby Baker ’06 A&S.
Julia Buchanan ’04 PH, Kristen Stoner ’05 A&S, and Sheryl Kuzmick ’03 PH, visit at Maggiano’s in Atlanta.
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Colleen (Morrow) Haines, BSPh, and her husband Douglas, BS, a son, Connor Thomas, March 21, 2006. The Haines family resides in Centerville, OH. David Hirshberg, JD, and his wife Beth (Beachy), BSPh ’96, a son, Matthew David, August 24, 2005. Matthew joins sister, Ann, 2. The Hirshberg family resides in Plain City, OH. Jana (Cavanaugh) Lucas, BA, and her husband Joe, a son, Casey Louis, April 14, 2006. Casey joins his brothers, Riley, 5, and Bryan, 3. Chris McCurdy, BSPh, and his wife Nancy, a son, Sean Thomas, February 28, 2006. Sean joins brother, Robert, 4. The McCurdy family resides in Oxford, MS.
Steve Rigdon, BSPH, and his wife Jane, a son, Nicholas Steven, August 5, 2005. Nicholas joins sister, Cassandra, 10, and brothers Brandon, 9, and Logan, 7. The Rigdon family resides in Leo, IN.
Lillian Chow, the daughter of Michael ’92 ENG, and Heidi (Woebkenberg) Chow ’96 A&S, was born April 5, 2006.
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Scott Kaye, BA, and his wife Carrie, a daughter, Lilly LaVera, May 7, 2006. Lilly joins her sister Ivee, 9, and brother, Max 1.
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Susan Hayes, BA, and her husband Stephen Mitchell, a daughter, Sarah Alice Mitchell, April 10, 2006. Alice joins her big brother, Spencer, 7. The family resides in Powell, OH.
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Drew Nitzschke is the son of Mark Nitzschke ’99 PH, and his wife, Amy. He was born October 30, 2005.
Scott Allen, BSCE, and his wife Charlotte, a son, Ryan Sawyer Leon, May 8, 2006. The Allen family resides in Mundelein, IL. Deanna (Barber) Chappie, BA, and her husband Daniel, a daughter, Malina Marie, May 25, 2005. The Chappie family resides in Houston, OH.
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Matthew Budash, JD, and his wife Deborah, a son, Steven Paul, April 19, 2005. The Budash family resides in Indiana, PA. Michael Chow, BSEE and his wife Heidi (Woebkenberg), BS ’96, a daughter, Lillian Long-Li, April 5, 2006. The Chow family resides in Dublin, OH. Kirk Hiner, BS, and his wife Tieraney, a son, Samuel Gordon, March 8, 2006. The Hiner family resides in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.
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Lisa (Elder) Caton, BA, and her husband, Christopher, a daughter, Emma Louise, June 200, 2005. The Caton family resides in Junction City, OH.
’94 Jackson Brown, son of Megan (Carse) Brown ’05 A&S, and Matt ’05 A&S, was born on February 24, 2006.
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Michele (Gauze) Anderson, BS, and her husband, Scott, a son, Cater James, November 3, 2005. The Anderson family resides in Canton, OH. Kevin Blackburn, BSPh, and his wife Shelley (Lynch), BSPh ’96, a daughter, Audrey Nicole, January 28, 2006. Audrey joins sister, Emma, 5, and brother, Owen, 2. The Blackburn family resides in Bellbrook, OH. Dean Durliat, BSBA, and his wife Laura, a daughter, Anna Louise, April 21, 2006. The Durliat family resides in Findlay, OH.
Shelley (Lynch) Blackburn, BSPh, and her husband Kevin, BSPh ’94, a daughter, Audrey Nicole, January 28, 2006. Audrey joins sister, Emma, 5, and brother, Owen, 2. The Blackburn family resides in Bellbrook, OH. Joseph Bradac, BSPh, and his wife Rebecca (Stone), BSPh ’98, a son, Joseph III, February 27, 2006. The Bradac family resides in Prospect, OH, and Rebecca can be reached at rlbradac03@hotmail.com. Heidi (Woebkenberg) Chow, BS, and her husband Michael Chow, BSEE ’92, a daughter, Lillian Long-Li, April 5, 2006. The Chow family resides in Dublin, OH.
Ryan Clement, EE, and his wife Susanna, a son, Maximilian (Max) John, February 6, 2006. The Clement family resides in State College, PA. Janette (Fowler) Goldstein, BA, and her husband Derek, a daughter, Hannah, June 1, 2006. The Goldstein family resides in Findlay, OH. Shelley (Drury) Gossard, BA, and her husband Douglas, twins, Hunter Lewis and Painter Thomas, November 18, 2005. The Gossard family resides in Lima, OH. Beth (Beachy) Hirshberg, BSPh, and her husband David, JD ’94, a son, Matthew David, August 24, 2005. Matthew joins sister, Ann, 2. The Hirshberg family resides in Plain City, OH. Holly (Scranton) Sims, BS, and her husband Kevin, twins, Brooklyn Renae and Carson Scott, January 18, 2006. They join big sister, Marissa, 2. The Sims family resides in Ney, OH.
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Joy (Heselton) Danison, BA, and her husband Douglas, a daughter, Naomi Caitlyn, December 26, 2005. The Danison family resides in Indianapolis, IN. Erin Kincaid, BS, and his wife Amy, a daughter, Ava Katherine, September 25, 2005. The Kincaid family resides in Perrysburg, OH, and Erin can be reached at ekincaid@buckeye-express. com. Arlene (Lasko) Allison, BA, and her husband Scott, a daughter, Jillian Rae, May 1, 2006. Jillian joins brother, Robbie, 5 and sister, Grace, 3. The couple resides in Ada, OH. Wendi (Woodruff) Messner, BSEE, and her husband Ron, a son, Tanner Wade, December 16, 2005. The Messners reside in Shreve, OH. Lisa (Landis) Mitchel, BSPh, and her husband Bradley, BSPh, a daughter, Emily Marie, April 4, 2005. The Mitchel family resides in Sandusky, OH. Rochelle (Yingling) Walters, BSPh, and her husband Robb, a daughter, Moreyna Genevieve, March 13, 2006. Moreyna joins sisters Aeryn, 4, and Karstyn, 1. The Walters family resides in Canton, OH.
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Michael Barnett, BSPh, and his wife Rachel (Kahlenberg), BS ’00, a daughter, Elizabeth Mae, December 28, 2005. The Barnett family resides in Perrysburg, OH. Laura (Langhals) Eickholt, BSPh, and her husband Ryan, a daughter, Emerson Joy, July 2005. The couple resides in Upper Arlington, OH. Amber (Miller) Macerelli, BA ’99, and her husband Matthew, a daughter, Ella Grace, April 18, 2006. The Macerelli family resides in Manassas, VA. Megan (Matyas) Rice, BSPh, and her husband Brian, BS ’99, a son, Brady David, April 12, 2006. The Rice family resides in North Royalton, Ohio. Matthew Smith, BSME, and his wife Katie, a daughter, Emma, March 7, 2006. The Smith family resides in Sarasota, FL.
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Rachel (Kahlenberg) Barnett, BS, and her husband Michael, BSPh ’99, a daughter, Elizabeth Mae, December 28, 2005. The Barnett family resides in Perrysburg, OH. John Bell, BSBA, and his wife Megan, a daughter, Catherine Grace, August 30, 2004. The Bell family resides in Spencerville, OH. Jay Fordyce, BS, and his wife Allison, a son, William Cooper, October 18, 2005. The couple resides in Shelby, OH. Leslie (Kremer) Hartman, PharmD, and her husband William, a son, Cory William, October 18, 2005. The Hartman family resides in Oak Harbor, OH. Jennie (Miller) Hefner, BS, and her husband Jason, a daughter, Natalie LeeAnn, April 21, 2006. Natalie joins her brother, Jonathan Michael, 3. Christian Oblinger, PharmD, and his wife Angela, a daughter, Kaitlyn, November 15, 2005. The Oblinger family resides in Farmersville, OH. Jaime (Mason) Strahm, BS, and her husband Jack, BSME ’01, a daughter, Abby Lynn, January 24, 2006. Abby joins sister, Alyssa Grace, 2. The Strahm family resides in Marysville, OH.
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Matt Bowman, BS, and his wife Amy, a son, Miles Patrick, December 14, 2005. Matt is a plant manager for BBI, Inc., in Sidney, OH. The Bowman family resides in Wapakoneta, OH. Adam Caskey, BSCE, and his wife Tracy, a son, Fred Jered, March 13, 2006. The Caskey family resides in Knoxville, TN. Monica (Ramsey) Humphrey, BFA, and her husband Don, BFA ’01, a son, Gabriel Quinn, January 20, 2006. The Humphrey family resides in Fishers, IN. Kate (Botnick) Rauschkolb, BA, and her husband Eric, a son, Benjamin, October 15, 2005. Benjamin joins brother, Ethan, 2. The Rauschkolb family resides in Stow, OH. Jack Strahm, BSME, and his wife Jaime (Mason), BS ’00, a daughter, Abby Lynn, January 24, 2006. Abby joins sister, Alyssa Grace, 2. The Strahm family resides in Marysville, OH.
DeeAnna (Barcroft) Vaughn, PharmD, and her husband Jim, BS ’98, a daughter, Claire Elizabeth, April 22, 2006. Claire joins her brother, Ethan, 20 months. The family resides in Lodi, OH.
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Lori (Wickstrom) Shinton, BSPh, and her husband Bill, PharmD ’03, a son, Alex William, December 9, 2005. The Shinton family resides in West Chester, OH. Stephanie (Meller) Williams, BS, and her husband, Doug, a daughter, Katelyn Ruth, January 4, 2006. The Williams family resides in Sylvania, OH Michael Woodruff, BSEE, and his wife Jessica, a son, Andrew Michael, March 15, 2006. The Woodruff family resides in Findlay, OH.
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Rebecca (Stone) Bradac, BSPh, and her husband Joseph, BSPh ’96, a son, Joseph III, February 27, 2006. The Bradac family resides in Prospect, OH, and Rebecca can be reached at rlbradac03@hotmail.com. Amy (McNally) Darnold, BSPh, and her husband Wayne, a son, Cole Andrew, April 6, 2006. Cole joins brothers Eric, 4, and Jeremy, 2. The Darnold family resides in Parkersburg, WV, and Amy can be reached at darnold1212@yahoo.com Lisa (Pelter) Goldfuss, BSPh, and her husband Charles, a daughter, Emily Marie, December 29, 2005. The Goldfuss family resides in Nevada, OH. Josie (Rutan) Hicks, BSBA, and her husband, Brandon, a daughter, Allison Nicole, April 15, 2006. Allison joins sister, Lauren Joan, 2. The Hicks family resides in Piqua, OH and can be reached at br_josie@yahoo.com. Natalie O’Neil, BA, and her husband Erik, BSME ’95, a son, Kavan Michael, March 3, 2006. The O’Neil family resides in Powell, OH. Marty Stammen, BSPh, and his wife Jaymi, a daughter, Brynn Katherine, April 14, 2006. The Stammen family resides in Ft. Recovery, OH. Jim Vaughn, BS, and his wife DeeAnna (Barcroft), PharmD ’01, a daughter, Claire Elizabeth, April 22, 2006. Claire joins her brother, Ethan, 20 months. The family resides in Lodi, OH.
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William Chaney, the son of Kristine (Sherburne) Chaney ’99 A&S, and her husband, Mark ’97 A&S, was born November 20, 2005.
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Matt Boone, BS, and his wife Jennifer, a daughter, Kaitlyn Taylor, May 13, 2006. The Boone family resides in Minot, ND. Bree (Gronneberg) Langemo, JD, and her husband Steve, a daughter, Elizabeth, January 26, 2006. Chad Pollock, BA, and his wife Augusta, a son, Greyson, March 18, 2006. The Pollock family resides in Van Wert, OH. Bill Shinton, PharmD, and his wife Lori (Wickstrom), BSPh ’02, a son, Alex William, December 9, 2005. The Shinton family resides in West Chester, OH.
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Megan (Carse) Brown, BSBA, and her husband, Matt, BSBA ’05, a son, Jackson McCafferty Carse, February 24, 2006. The Brown family resides in Columbus, OH. Wayne Leiss, PharmD, and his wife Angela, a daughter, Abigail Marie, November 15, 2005. The Leiss family resides in Fletcher, OH.
Allison Nicole, the daughter of Josie (Rutan) Hicks ’98 BUS, and her husband, Brandon, was born April 15, 2006.
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Mollie Frankart, BS, and her husband Aaron, a daughter, Shana Jo, October 11, 2005. The Frankart family resides in Findlay, OH.
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Helen Davis, Ada, OH, April 27, 2006. Helen earned a bachelor of arts in music education at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Since 1991, she has been the box office manager and arts information officer at Ohio Northern’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Helen was also the owner of The Station House Restaurant in Ada, worked at WIMA/WIMT in Lima, and was an elementary music teacher. She is survived by her husband, Duane. Dale Krejci, Cleveland, OH, December 25, 2005. Dale served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, and was a Lieutenant for the North Royalton Police Deptartment since 1973. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Cheryl, and two children, Judith Miller and James, ’00 BA. Fred Peel, Los Gatos, GA, November 10, 2005. Fred graduated from Harvard College in 1939 and Harvard Law School in 1942. During World War II, he served as captain in the Office of Strategic Services. Fred then went on to work for the U.S. Government, ultimately as Staff Attorney of the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Fred later became a professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where he was named Altheimer Distinguished Professor. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn (Osovitz) Peel. Dr. Edwin “Doc” Rodabaugh, Ada, OH, May 26, 2006. Ed earned his degree from The Ohio State School of Veterinary Medicine, where he was named class valedictorian. He practiced veterinary medicine in Ada for 43 years and was a member of the Ada School Board for 12 years, serving as president for 8 years. Not only was Ed the only life member of the Ada Kiwanis Club, but he also served on the Dola Elevator Board and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Ada, where he served on the trustee and sessions boards. He is survived by his wife, Hazel. Carole Siekerman, Lima, OH, March 25, 2006. Carole was a homemaker and formerly worked as the family news editor for the Ada Herald and in the Communication Skills Center at ONU. She was a member of the Riley Creek Baptist Church, and served on the board of directors for the Ada Public Library. She is also the wife of former Ohio Northern Public Information Director Monty Siekerman, who survives.
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Coreda (Ellis) Parcell, A&S, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, December 11, 2004. Coreda was a homemaker and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Boca Raton, FL. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul, BSME ’29.
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Lois Coffey, AA, Ottawa Lake, MI, March 22, 2001. Ruth (Slattery) Tossey, AA, Van Wert, OH, October 10, 2003. Ruth was a retired school teacher in the RidgeLincolnview School District in Ohio. She was a member of the St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, and the Van Wert Retired Teachers Association. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger.
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Edna (Buehler) Albaugh, BA, Dennison, OH, February 25, 2006. Edna was a former teacher in the Elida and Ada, OH Public Schools. She was active in Grange for 50 years at the national, state and local levels. In addition, she was a Sunday School teacher at Roxford United Methodist Church in Dennison, OH. She was preceded in death by her husband, David. Arvilla (Pratt) Dixon, JD, San Marcos, CA, January 2, 2006.
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James Johnson, BSCE, Pataskala, OH, August 24, 2004. James was a retired superintendent of Garwick & Ross, Inc. He was a lifelong member of the Kirkersville United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Ocie. Frances Jones, BSEd, Tampa, FL, February 24, 2006. Frances taught for 30 years in the Ohio public school system, mainly at Ada Elementary. She was also a member of the Ada Methodist Church.
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Eleanor Candea, AA, Warren, OH, February 12, 2006. Eleanor was a retired teacher in the Niles City Schools and a former co-owner of Recovery Drug in Warren, OH, until the mid1980s. She was a member of St. Mary’s Church.
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Burke Neville, AA, Bluffton, OH, March 10, 2006. Burke was an office manager and plant manager for Neal Machine Corp. in Lima, OH, from 19461989. He was also a board member and chairman of the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marjorie.
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Rayda (Converse) Bailey, BSEd, Melbourne, FL, June 18, 2004. Rayda was a retired school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas. Clayton Kritzler, BA, Kenton, OH, April 26, 2006. Clayton taught school for 35 years and was a principal for 25 years. He also was a member of the First Reformed United Church of Christ and served on the board of health for seven years. Clayton was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army in the 159th Infantry for four years. Joseph Reif, BSED, Charlotte, NC, April 18, 2006. Joseph was retired from Standard Oil Company in Ohio. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy. William Yount, BA, Southern Pines, NC, February 11, 2006. William was the former owner of Asphalt Driveway, Inc., in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, he owned a farm, and was an avid horticulturalist. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy.
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Ruth (Bauman) Lambert, BSEd, Toledo, OH, March 31, 2006. Ruth was a retired school teacher and apartment manager. While at ONU, she played basketball, volleyball and soccer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy, JD ’37. Albert Vertino, BSCE, Buffalo, NY, April 10, 2006. Albert was a retired civil engineer who worked with the Army Corps of Engineers. He was a member of Esprit de Corps, an Army Corps of Engineers retiree social group, and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. Albert is survived by his wife, Kathryn (Civello) Vertino.
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William Rae, BSPh, Phoenix, AZ, April 13, 2006. William was a life member of the Elks Lodge #55, Eastern Pharmaceutical Association, and a past member of the Youngstown Country Club.
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Carl Winegardner, BSEd, Wapakoneta, OH, March 11, 2006. Carl was a retired music teacher in the Mifflin and Lakeview public schools. In addition, he worked as a photostatic technician at the Lima, OH Army Tank Plant, and was an inspector at Westinghouse.
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Robert Buchanan, BA, December 13, 2005.
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Martha (Parker) Orndorff, BSPh, Tavares, FL, January 22, 2006. Martha was a retired pharmacist from Bay Pharmacy in Tavares, FL. She was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, and was an avid bowler. She is survived by her husband, Robert, BSPh ’42.
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John Trump, JD, Columbus, OH, Sept. 1, 2005. John retired from Home Magnetics, was a longtime member of the Market Street Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Shawnee Country Club in Lima. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Naomi. Warren Widner, BSEd, Marysville, OH, March 14, 2006. Warren was a teacher, coach and principal for Marysville High School from 19451965 and from 1970-1978. He was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in 1998. Warren was also a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, receiving the Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars, and five combat medals. While at ONU, Warren was a member of the football and basketball teams. He was preceded in death by his wife, Polly.
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Cecilia Maddox, BSEd, Delray Beach, FL, January 11, 2006. Cecilia was a Real Estate Broker for Cecilia Maddox, Real Estate. She was preceded in death by her husband, John, BSPh ’44.
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Robert Rady, JD, Cleveland, OH, March 12, 2006. Robert administered the Republic Steel Corporation’s workers’ compensation program for 30 years, retiring in 1982. During his career, he oversaw cases in nine states. He was a veteran of World War II, and saw combat in Europe after the D-Day invasion. In addition, he was an avid golfer, and until age 85, he walked 18-hole rounds. He is survived by his wife, Virginia (Byroads), BA ’43.
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Charles “Bud” Mustine, BS, Settlers Point, SC, April 28, 2006. Charles was a World War II U.S. Naval aviator and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross two times. He was also the co-founder of Mark & Mustine Real Estate in Ohio. Charles was an active, committed civic leader. He is survived by his wife, Anna (Howard) Mustine.
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IN MEMORY …
Dr. Oscar G. Darlington Jr., who served as the dean of liberal arts at Ohio Northern until his retirement in 1976, died May 31 at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton, Ohio. He was 97. Born in Downington, Pennsylvania, he would go on to receive his master’s in art and history from Penn State and a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of PA. He served as academic dean at three schools including the Regional Council for International Education centered at the University of Pittsburgh, the Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico and, finally, finding a home at Ohio Northern. Darlington was an author of many books and was a longtime member of Niles Rotary Club, the Past District Governor of Rotary International District 6600 in Northwest Ohio, Rotary Foundation, was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow, served three years as zone leader for Gideon International and established new Gideon Camps in
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Eric Olson, BSCE, Clinton Township, MI, January 3, 2005. Eric is survived by his wife, Jane, and children Eric and Kate. James Uber, BSME, Pleasant Ride, MI, June 30, 2003. James was an associate for Cross & Trecker Corporations in Birmingham, MI. He is survived by his wife, Becky.
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Martha Adams, BA, St. Marys, OH, March 31, 2006. Mary belonged to the Wayne Street United Methodist Church in Saint Marys and was a longtime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She enjoyed reading and doing needlework. Her husband, Harry preceded her in death. Daryl Allen, BSPh, Sarasota, FL, February 16, 2006. Daryl retired as a clinical consultant pharmacist at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. In addition, he was a medic in the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving in Okinawa, Japan. He was a 50-year member of Sarasota Masonic Lodge 147, a life member of the Scottish Rite, and a 50-year member of Sahib Temple. Warren Sheets, JD, Gallipolis, OH, February 19, 2006. Warren practiced law in Gallia County, OH, for 55 years, including for three terms as the county prosecutor. Prior to that, he served as a private first class in the U.S. Army during World War II, in which he was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star after being severely wounded. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis (Williamson), BSEd ’50.
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Donald Alspach, BSPh, Marion, OH, April 14, 2006. Don was a pharmacist for 52 years, practicing at Hurst Drug Store in Ashland, OH. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict, serving in the 8055th M.A.S.H. unit. He was active in the Marion County Historical Society, serving as its president in 2002-03, and enjoyed gardening, woodworking, and photography. He is survived by his wife, Deborah, JD ’88. Edward Kostecka, BA, Tiltonsville, OH, April 3, 2006. Roy McCurdy, BA, Salesville, OH, April 8, 2006. Roy retired from D.E.S.C. as a division chief of management support office. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, having served during World War II in the Pacific Campaign. He was a member of the Senecaville United Methodist Church, and enjoyed woodworking, fishing and gardening. Orville Sonnett, BSCE, Seattle, WA, February 3, 2006. Orville worked for the Boeing Company for 30 years. In addition, he is a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II in both the European and Pacific Theatres. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret.
Geauga County and East Liverpool. He served as secretary, president, and chaplain of the Trumbull County Gideon Camp. Darlington served as elder in three Presbyterian churches in Hemstead, Long Island, New York, Plattsburgh, New York, and San German, Puerto Rico. He is survived by nine children, Helen Sclazi of Lima, Ohio, Dawn Tallman of Warren, Ohio, Mahlon Darlington of Ames, Iowa, Phoebe Reed of Lima, Ohio, Lynette DePaoli of Verona, Italy, Pastor Gerbert Darlington of Lima, Ohio, Eunice Hutson of Macomb, Illinois, Emily Jane Hoover of Bend, Oregon, Bernice Brady of Saugerties, New York: 17 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Miriam H. Wilson; sister, Mary Elizabeth Armstrong; brother, Joseph Parke Darlington and a grandson, Trent Hutson.
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Glenn Parsons, JD, North Baltimore, OH, February 22, 2006. Glenn was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. In addition, he was a former mayor of North Baltimore, OH, and practiced law in Wood County for 18 years, serving as the assistant county prosecutor and probate juvenile judge. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marilyn.
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Gerlald Boltz, BA, JD ’55, Santa Monica, GA, May 10, 2006. Gerald was a partner in the Santa Monica, CA, office of Bryan Cave, where he practiced for 12 years. His national practice was devoted to federal and state securities law regulatory matters. He served as the treasurer of the alumni organization and was on the board of trustees for the Pettit College of Law for Ohio Northern. Before going into private practice, Gerald was a highly regarded Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Division official who held several senior positions during his 20-year career at the agency. He is survived by his wife, Janet. Earl Maurer, LLB, Columbus, OH, April 29, 2005. Earl was a retired practicing attorney and also was active in Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Columbus, OH. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy.
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Charles McGraw, BSEd, Virginia Beach, VA, May 8, 2006. Charles was the second son of the late Herbert Dwight “Doc” Mcgraw and Edna Mcgraw of Beckley, WV. He was also a fan of Virginia Tech football. Charles is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Howard McGraw of Virginia Beach.
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Richard Ellis, BSPh, Zanesville, OH, January 3, 2006. Dick was a retired owner of Ellis Pharmacy in Duncan Falls, OH, and worked as a part-time pharmacist for CVS. In addition, he enjoyed treasure hunting and playing golf. He is survived by his wife, Jane.
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Glenn Ernsberger, BSEE, Melbourne, FL, March 7, 2006. Glenn was a senior engineer for Sun Nuclear Corporation, and was a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Suntree, FL. He enjoyed woodworking, reading, sailing and gospel singing. He was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity while at ONU. He is survived by his wife, Miriam. Shirley (Moore) Macurdy, BSPh, Lafayette, CO, March 5, 2006. Shirley was a retired relief pharmacist at many of the privately-owned pharmacies in the Natrona Heights, CO area. She enjoyed traveling and the outdoors. She is survived by her husband, Tom, BA ’56, LLB ’58.
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Patricia Smith, BSED, Sebring, FL, May 9, 2006. Patricia was extremely instrumental in establishing the Tanglewood Community Church in Florida where she played the piano and organ. She loved to cook, travel and attend gospel music concerts. She is survived by her husband, Harold, BA ’59.
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James Cramer, BA, Tucson, AZ, March 15, 2006. James was a U.S. Navy veteran, joining in 1952. He worked at the University of Arizona until he retired in 1995. He is survived by his wife, Sharon. Louis Szabo, BSEE, Westlake, OH, April 30, 2006. Louis was employed as an electrical engineer for Reliance Electric in Lorain and retired after 40 years. He was also a veteran of the Air Force.
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Mary Jane Roberts, BSEd, Tiffin, OH, May 15, 2006. Mary Jane was a retired third grade teacher. After retiring, she tutored and was a substitute teacher with 51 years dedicated to education. Mary Jane was also a member of Retired Teachers Association, Tiffin Emblem Club, and Melmore Mothers Club.
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Roger Stauffer, MA, Celina, OH, November 26, 2005. In 1959, Roger joined the faculty at Ohio Northern and taught in the business education department in the Brown Building. He became in the Sigma Pi Fraternity and served as faculty advisor for several years. In 1961, Roger began the ONU evening division classes in Celina. He later became the resident director of the Western Ohio Education Foundation with all classes and instructors being provided by Ohio Northern. 60
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Former First Lady of Ohio Northern Martha Elizabeth (Roberts) Meyer died on Thursday, March 23, 2006, at age 94. Meyer was born in Soddy, Tenn., on Sept. 21, 1911, and graduated from Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, Tenn., in 1929. She earned bachelor of arts and master of science degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1933 and 1934 respectively. During her teaching career, Mrs. Meyer taught at the Isaac Litton High School and the Cavert Junior High School in Nashville; Sweet Briar College and St. Anne’s School for Girls in Virginia; the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; and Stockton Junior College in Stockton, Calif.
Beatrice (Cochran) Stauffer, BSEd, Celina, OH, March 13, 2006. Beatrice was a retired school teacher and homemaker, and was a member of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Celina, OH, where she was also a Sunday school teacher. In addition, she was the member of the Ohio and Mercer County Retired Teachers Associations, and was a volunteer with the Family Crises Network in Mercer County, OH. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger.
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Dan Miller, BSEd, Wapakoneta, OH, February 20, 2006. Dan was a farmer and taught music at St. Joseph Catholic High School in Wapakoneta, OH, as well as Sisterville, WV. He was an accomplished musician, having played in the Lima Area Concert Band, the Auglaize County Concert Band, and in the pit band for the Waynesfield-Goshen school musicals.
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Madeline Rodeheffer, BSEd, Celina, OH, May 11, 2005. Madeline is a retired teacher from New Knoxville Local Schools. She was also a member of the Auglaize County Retired Teachers Association, state and national teachers’ associations, the New Knoxville Joint Township District Memorial Hospital Guild, Music Club, Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. She was a life member of the Auglaize County and New Knoxville Historical Societies. She also served on the Foundation Board at St. Mary’s Hospital.
On April 6, 1935, Martha Roberts married Samuel L. Meyer. Dr. Meyer, who preceded Martha in death in June of 2000, retired as president of Ohio Northern University in 1977. Meyer is survived by two sons: Samuel L. Meyer, III, of Pleasanton, Calif., and James Barton Meyer, of Franklin, Ind., their wives, a niece, and four grandchildren. Mrs. Meyer was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board and the American Association of University Women. She had been an active member in the P.E.O. Sisterhood since her initiation in 1959 while living in Stockton, Calif. A private memorial service was held in Fayette, Mo., where her ashes were interred next to her husband.
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Carol (Walter) Whiteley, BS, Medicine Lodge, KS, January 17, 2006. Carol graduated from Wichita State University with a master’s degree in special education, and spent 45 years as a special education teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack.
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James H. McCloskey, BA, Columbus, OH, October 27, 2005. James was a former member of the American Motorcycle Association. He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth (Tyler) Lewis and Barbara Susan McCloskely.
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Mary Wallace, BA, Russells Point, OH, May 3, 2006. Mary was a retired teacher. She was also a member of the Logan County Retired Teachers Association, State Teachers Retirement Association and Indian Lake Historical Society. She married Don Wallace, who preceded her in death in 2000.
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David Mathewson, BA, Wilmington, DE, February 16, 2006. David worked for several years as assistant branch manager for Wilmington Trust Co. He enjoyed music and had a love of history and religion. While at ONU, he was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth.
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H. Thompson Duff, JD, St. Pete Beach, FL, December 20, 2005. He was a certified public accountant and an Army Air Corps Veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife, Joanne.
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Alan McKelvey, BSPH, Dayton, OH, April 18, 2006. Alan was a pharmacist for Wright State University and worked part time as a pharmacist for Walgreens. He was a member of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee for United Healthcare Ohio, and an externship site preceptor for Ohio Northern, University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University. Alan also was a published author on the subject of pharmacology. Alan was named Pharmacist of the Year at the Miami Valley Pharmacy Association in 1986 and won the Presidential Award of Excellence at Wright State University. He is survived by his wife, Linda.
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Laurie Kretz, BA, Lima, OH, May 20, 2006. Laurie was an associate at St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima, OH.
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William L. Robinson Young Alumni Award The William L. Robinson Young Alumni Award, established on May 29, 2004, was created to honor and recognize 45 years of influencing Ohio Northern University students and to ensure that this legacy continues throughout the next 45 years. The annual recipient demonstrates passion and loyalty toward their profession, community, and alma mater, Ohio Northern University. • The alumna/alumnus must have graduated within the last 15 years from Ohio Northern University. • The individual may represent any college of the university, graduate or undergraduate. • One female and one male may be selected per year. • The selected individuals will be chosen by the selection committee and honored at ONU’s Homecoming. • Any person affiliated with ONU may nominate the individual by sending a letter of reference and any available information (i.e. resume) on the individual, along with the nomination form which may be found at www.onualumni.com/ awards.html, or it will be mailed to the nominator by calling 1-866-ONU-ALUM.
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Class of 1956
Front, from left: Joseph Bodkin ’56 A&S, Nancy (Finnical) Beckert ’56 PH, Nancy (Moeller) Stinard ’56 PH, Mary (Shaffer) Remick ’56 A&S, Gene Willeke ’56 ENG Middle: Robert Cavendish ’56 PH, Emory Hall ’56 PH, Norman Riggs ’56 PH, Harvey Presser ’56 PH, Bill Stinard ’56 PH Top: William Haines ’50 EN, Norman Rex ’56 A&S, Carroll Smith
Golden Years
Front: Robert DeWitt ’49 A&S Middle: Anne (Schmelzer) Mahaffey ’51 A&S, Maralyn (Little) Wiechart ’50 PH, Joy (Kline) Dahill ’50 A&S, Nellie (Balyeat) Hoghe ’39 A&S / BUS, Peg Bloker, Rondalee (Ricketts) Derry ’50 A&S, Hazel (Hoxter) Cover ’51 A&S, Waneta (Ransbottom) Manos ’50 BUS Top: Katherine (Waggoner) Northrop ’52 PH, William Hanes, Ed Bahmer ’51 ENG, Tony Caltagirone ’50 A&S, Don Bloker ’50 PH, Bill Derry ’50 PH, Bill Brinkmeyer ’50 A&S
Alumni Weekend 2006 The Class of 1956 and many other alumni and friends returned for Alumni Weekend to reminisce with former classmates, roommates and friends while enjoying horse and carriage rides through Northern’s beautiful campus, listening to Alumni College programs, making jewelry, attending reunion celebrations and much more. The Distinguished Alumni Awards banquet honored four individuals on Saturday evening with a dinner, banquet and music under the stars on campus.
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