Ohio Today Winter 2018

winter 2018 GOODWILL

for ALUMNI and FRIENDS of OHIO UNIVERSITY

PRESIDENT ’ S MESSAGE

Discovery of goodwill Dear OHIO Alumni, Ruthie and I are so excited to have recently joined the Bobcat Family!

The highlight of my summer was getting to know the campus, interacting with students, and connecting with some of you in person through my travels across the state and the country. The stories you have shared on what it means to be a graduate of this great institution, and the goodwill you have shown in return, will guide me as I work to elevate the name of Ohio University nationally and internationally.

Part of that work entails the discovery of what makes Ohio University unique, like OHIO’s Global Health Initiative, which promotes an understanding of the health issues facing underserved communities in the U.S. and abroad, and sharing it with the world.

Looking in our own backyard, the Appalachian region has higher instances of food insecurity and a lack of access to health education compared to the national average. The College of Arts & Sciences Food Studies program is working to address these issues by focusing on food systems research.

OHIO POINTS of PRIDE FROM PRESIDENT M. DUANE NELLIS OHIO’s King Air delivered 1,500 pounds

of Hurricane Maria relief to aid Puerto Rican residents, an effort coordinated

by OHIO faculty, staff, students, and the local community

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued the 2017 Encouraging Environmental

Excellence Award to Ohio University ABOVE: The OHIO and Athens communities loaded up Ohio University’s King Air with 1,500 pounds of donated relief items for survivors of Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria. Photo by L auren Dickey, BSVC ’15, MA ’18 OPPOSITE: Ohio University Board of Trustees member Dell Robinson, BSPE ’88, (LEFT) and President M. Duane Nellis talk with a student in Baker University Center. Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02

Ohio University paleontologists discovered a

new species of an extinct meat-eating mammal Expedia, Inc. recognized Ohio University

Engaging our students in service learning, through experiential education, study abroad opportunities, and academic volunteering, is another way to broaden our reach within a community in need.

The Patton College of Education’s Stevens Literacy Center is helping local elementary students become life-long readers and learners.

I feel energized for a new chapter in Ohio University’s storied 213-year history, and I hope you, too, feel that same energy. We all have the abilities to enact real change and influence lives. I look forward to the promise of tomorrow and to embarking upon this journey with you.

M. Duane Nellis President

as one of the most beautiful college campuses in America

Ohio University and the City of Athens were named among the country’s safest places for college students by the

National Council for Home Safety and Security U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard rates OHIO among the top for

access and affordability

OHIO faculty and alumni joined space policy experts in publishing Global Space Governance: An International Study, a groundbreaking effort aimed at

establishing a global governence framework for peaceful and sustainable space exploration Ohio University Eastern Campus

celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017 OHIO alumnus joins the cast of

Saturday Night Live

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I feel that whatever is here with us is also a traveler in time. All equally ready for extinction or rebirth.

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MARY MANUSOS —from Printed works Mary Manusos, professor emerita of art, launched her solo exhibit “States of Being” in September in Athens.

Select pieces appear above. She also was honored by School of Art + Design faculty, students, and alumni.

Visit ohiotoday.org to view additional work by Manusos.

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Studying food

OHIO attracts people who “do.” Its Global Health Initiative lets student “doers” collaborate for global good.

The College of Arts & Sciences groups required undergraduate gen ed classes into popular subjects. Like food.

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Reading well

Running to remember

The Patton College of Education’s literacy center turns early readers into life-long learners.

A faculty member runs a marathon—literally—in memory of a student philanthropist.

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One on one

Still more

OHIO basketball teams teach some hardwood hustle to Athens area kids.

United Campus Ministry has nourished thousands since 1993.

D E PA R T M E N T S

03 From the editor 04 Letters to the editor 05 Green scenes

OHIO stories in photos + words

38 OHIO time machine 20 Calendar

Photo by Nick Bolin, BSVC ’18

40 Bobcat tracks

Class notes, Bobcat sightings, Future Bobcats

50 In memoriam 56 Last word 38 From the 1968 Athena. Photo courtesy of

the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections

Professor Geoff Dabelko reveals what’s on the inside of this expert on security and the environment.

ohiotoday.org

Visit our website for exclusive content and multimedia related to stories in this issue. You’ll watch a video about students and kindness. Also online: the ohiotoday radio podcast, featuring reflections on the writing process by OHIO’s Writer’s Harvest artists.

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ON THE COVER Jack Demain, a specialized studies major, works at the Plant Biology Learning Gardens on West State Street, where student-grown produce is harvested.

Alexandria Polanosky, BSVC ’17 Photo on gatefold by Daniel King , MFA ’15

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines goodwill as “a friendly attitude in which you wish that good things happen to people.”

While Bobcats embrace this spirit of goodwill, they also act on it. On these pages, you’ll find Bobcats participating in, contributing to, and creating goodwill at OHIO and around the globe.

—Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91

OHIO hosted “The Monument Quilt” event in October, a traveling exhibit that serves as a public healing space for survivors of sexual assault.

The work, displayed in Peden Stadium, is made of thousands of individual quilt squares that tell the survivor’s story. Photo by Evan Leonard, BSVC ’18

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L E T T E R S TO T H E E D I TO R

Linking up on the links

I participated in a golf tournament for Executive Women’s Golf Association in Cape Charles, Virginia, in September. While sitting in a golf cart with my teammate we were having a “get acquainted” conservation which led to “Where did you go to school?” I mentioned Ohio University and my partner, Christy McCauley (MSRSS ’13), said, “No way, so did I!” Two alumnae meeting up in this mid-south area are rarer than they are in Ohio.

Christy and I did enjoy our golfing time together but the OU connection really made our weekend complete.—Jean Ann Abbott, BFA ’59, Troy, North Carolina (The letters that follow respond to the question posed in the spring 2017 issue of ohiotoday: Creativity is everywhere at OHIO. How, where, when did you encounter it?”—Editor)

Making art and memories

Looking through some old items from an art history class I took at OU between 1952 and 1954, I found three remnants that I kept from my class. One is a clothes pattern for a hand puppet I made. The second is a large packet of notes about colors and art in general that I took during the class. The third is the most enduring part of the class that I will always remember. It is a linoleum block that I carved with a knife. I printed the block’s modernistic pattern repeatedly on two large pieces of fabric with black ink. It was used as curtains in my parents’ house in Sioux City,

Behind the images Mr. Souza, This OU graduate thanks you for your work—and artistry—with my favorite President since Abraham Lincoln.

—Alfred B. Sullivan, BS ’56

Former Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and former OHIO faculty Pete Souza (RIGHT) signs Kaitlin Owens’, BSVC ’17, copy of Souza’s first book, The Rise of Barack Obama. Photo by Jorge Castillo-Casto, MA ’18

Iowa, for years. When they died, I brought them to my home… one panel hangs lengthwise in my entryway. What a vivid memory!

—Nancy F. Wilson Orcutt, BSED ’54, Corvallis, Oregon

My BFA BFF

I first encountered creativity at OU when one of my best friends moved across the hall my sophomore year in Boyd Hall.

She was an art major, has a BFA from OU, and is still teaching and creating wonderful art. We had the pleasure of returning to campus in October 2016 and visited our old haunts! I was also among the journalism students who created

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the first editions of Athens magazine in the early 1970’s. What a great experience!—Anne King Whaples, BSJ ’72, Cambridge, Maryland

All of OHIO

I am continually pleased and so proud of the diversity displayed in OUr publications! Having images that represent all of the OHIO family is so critical to promote diversity and foster an atmosphere of inclusion. I have a degree from another institution whose images do not reflect its enrollment. With OU, I continue to be engaged and contribute my time, talent, and treasure. Keep up the good work!!! —Constance “Connie” Lawson-Davis, BSED ’67, Cleveland, Ohio

Aw, shucks!

I just wanted to say thanks for my most recent copy! I just got it and the new format looks beautiful!

—Elizabeth Alessio Hosfeld, BSJ ’00, Ashland, Ohio

Very nice reinvention of ohiotoday.

The summer 2017 issue may be the best ever—certainly the most stylish and professionally produced. Congratulations.

—Cable Neuhaus, BSJ ’69, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida WRITE TO US. ohiotoday welcomes comments from readers. We reserve the right to edit for grammar, space, clarity, and civility. Send letters by e-mail to ohiotoday@ohio.edu or by mail to Ohio University, ohiotoday, 213 McKee House, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.

We regret that we cannot publish all messages in print or online.

OHIO’s American Association of University Women Chapter turned up the tech at its Tech Savvy event in 2017. Sixththrough ninth-grade girls collaborate on STEM-related activities throughout the day.

Photo by Lori Bauer

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Lighting the path During his October 18 Inaugural address, Ohio University’s 21st president, M. Duane Nellis, a geographer, mapped his vision for OHIO’s future—inviting faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to join him on the journey.

A poem by OHIO Lancaster Campus Professor of English Scott Minar, BGS ’78, MA ’81, PHD ’85, commemorated the moment.

Learn more about President Nellis’ leadership and vision for OHIO— “Charting a New Direction in Redefining 21st Century Public Higher Education”— in the spring 2018 issue of ohiotoday.

The Lamp Carrier I’ve been thinking about the geography of learning And how that map has no edges— Is defined only by the sight of the learner.

It is a heart, of course, a beating wing Over the high plains of someone’s thought.

I imagined once a place in Robert Frost’s world Or Emily Dickinson’s where the thin line Of a person’s life might arrive here— In words and teaching that arc like Distant lightning on the horizon of what we may become.

It was, as my teacher put it, Only marvelous ...

That singing about fences and trains and good neighbors,

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Something to build on there in libraries

And lead too: Religio Doctrina Civilitas, Prae

Late at night. A map may expand or reduce

Omnibus Virtus—

But it must be followed, as one protohuman

Religion, Learning, Civility; Above All, Virtue

Led another down a forest trail

Which is just another way of saying the word love

Long ago. These students grow

After all and in the beginning. Let us inaugurate

And must be replaced as we are moved

This in our hearts and carry it here and outward

By winds across our fields of light,

For everyone, as the sea carries its child, the waves,

Turned out to a world as a kite is lifted

And the wind carries all of us eventually

And held against a gust that might raise it.

In a pride of flying autumn leaves, the invisible

Another way to say this is that the Lamp Carrier

Future too, finally back to the ground

Is needed. He or she agrees to bear us

It came from, where sunlight illuminates

Though the light marks him or her as well

A nature we can only praise in its wondrous direction,

For all to see. And every day is a challenge

Where the river is going, where the clouds go.

To use it right, to follow

Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02

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New OHIO faculty took a break during their August 21 orientation to take in a moment in history. They viewed the first solar eclipse visible around the entire continuous United States since 1918.

Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02

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Whether exposing elementary students to new techniques, hosting public workshops, or returning to OHIO to engage with art majors, alumni printmakers create community through art. Visiting artist Carrie Lingscheit, MFA ’10, (ABOVE) co-produced a piece (OPPOSITE PAGE) with student artists in September for the School of Art + Design’s Alumni INKAHOOTS, a three-day series of printmaking demonstrations and talks. Photos by Connie Wolfe, MFA ’05

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First-gen: the first to attend Between growing up in Southeast Ohio and being on the Athens campus to visit her mom’s workplace in Chubb Hall, Chais Michael always knew she wanted to attend Ohio University.

Soon after applying in 2014, she got a postcard in the mail. It read, “Join OHIO First Scholars.”

“It never clicked in my mind until that moment that I was going to be the first one in my family to go to college,” Michael said.

Launched in 2014, the OHIO First Scholars program supports first-generation students, defined by the University as students with no parent/guardian who has earned a bachelor’s degree.

Higher education institutions have taken note of “first-gens,” who constitute nearly 50 percent of all university students (U.S. Department of Education, 2010).

Chais Michael, LEFT, with mentor and OHIO staff Mitzi Trentacoste, MA ’17.

Photo by Corey Cale, BSVC ’19

“I’m proud to be first-gen. It’s finding those connections and support and realizing there are others like you.”

–Chais Michael, BSCFS ’19

On six of OHIO’s eight campuses, they represent at least 30 percent of the undergraduate student body.

OHIO First Scholars Program Director Angela Lash, herself a first-gen, says these students contribute to OHIO’s diverse culture.

THE RISE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1974: 10.2

Public and Private Institutions (1944-2017) Since the passing of the G.I. Bill in 1944, college enrollment has increased by 1600%.

1944: 1.2

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G.I Bill passed

Opened doors to college education for WWII veterans.

1946: 1.7

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Almost half of enrolled students were veterans under provisions of the G.I. Bill.

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enrolled students

1965: 5.9

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Higher Education Act passed 1954: 2.4

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A broad federal policy agenda for higher education is established.

Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka

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Enrollment declines by 175K between 1975-1976, the first drop since 1951.

1970: 8.6

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Equal Educational Opportunities Act passed Requires schools to remove barriers to equal student participation.

1961: 4.1

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More than four million students are enrolled in higher education.

Graphics & layout by Chance Brinkman-Sull, BSVC ’17, MA ’19 Sources: The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education

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Department of Education created

Public universities enroll three times as many as private institutions.

1976: 11

Supreme Court rules that “separate but equal” educational facilities are unconstitutional.

1979: 11.6

FIRST-GEN BY CAMPUS The percentage of 2017 OHIO undergraduate students who self-identify as first-gen.*

50.7%

First-Gen Students

54.3%

50.6%

Zanesville 3,098

Eastern 2,208

Lancaster 4,242

Did not self-identify

57.5%

31.3%

Chillicothe 3,746

50.1%

*Excludes online enrollment

Athens

Total number of students:

19,923

Source: OHIO Office of Institutional Research

Southern

They attend college understanding how their degree could serve their families and communities.

Now a junior studying child and family studies, Michael, BSCFS ’19, has joined studentrun service organizations and was selected to the Presidential Leadership Society, a new student leadership experience formed by OHIO President M. Duane Nellis.

Most of all, Michael says being first-gen offers a way to connect to her fellow Scholars.

“I’m proud to be first-gen,” she says. “It’s [about] finding those connections and support and realizing there are others like you.”

4,280 “As an institution First Scholars’ that’s committed to access services like free tutoring and and diversity, I think first-gen a popular mentoring program, students play a large role in the where first-gen students are social fabric of our institution,” paired with OHIO faculty— –Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18 says Lash, BSED ’04, MED ’10. many of them first-gen students Lash says these students bring themselves—mitigate the 2011: 21 M The Federal Reserve specific strengths to campus, challenges.

Bank of New York but many struggle with finding a A first-gen strength is reports that total student-loan debt sense of belonging and integrating a tendency to be strong will top $1 trillion by year’s end. academically and socially. OHIO advocates for education:

20.4 million

1984: 12.2

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1990: 13.8

The National Institute of Education releases “Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education.”

1999: 14.8

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Americans with Disabilities Act passed Provides more protection for those with disabilities enrolled in higher education.

1991:

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The Gates Foundation pledges $1 billion to help low-income, minority students attend college.

2006: 7.8

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Roughly 2,200 people sign up for the first massive open online course, taught at the University of Manitoba.

2003: 16.6

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OHIO changed the definition of first-gen to include students with Gratz v. Bollinger Supreme Court sets new standards no parent/guardian who has earned a bachelor’s degree. regarding affirmative action in undergraduate admissions.

More than 60% of high school graduates enroll in college.

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Average tuition, room, and board for all private institutions tops $10k.

OHIO FIRST-GEN AT A GLANCE FIRST GEN? ME TOO!

The “First Gen? Me Too!” campaign raises awareness about this group of students and faculty with special t-shirts, posters, and more.

Many OHIO faculty identify as first-gen.

OHIO began tracking self-identifying first-gen students in 2010.

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One in three first-year OHIO students on the Athens Campus identifies as first-gen.

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“The Wall That Heals,” a half-scale replica of the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Memorial, arrived in September and brought the OHIO and regional community together to support and commemorate Vietnam War veterans. Photos by Emily Matthews, BSVC ’18

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Zanesville Campus nursing students gain goodwill while helping to fend off the flu.

Students practice on each other before they administer flu shots to about 3,000 community members, a collaboration with the Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department.

Photo by Ty Wright, BFA ’02, MA ’12

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Teaching to all The Latin universitas means “a whole.” Ohio University’s central mission is “the intellectual and personal development of its students”— all students. OHIO’s Office of Instructional Innovation’s (OII) Teaching with a Global Perspective Faculty Learning Community (FLC) supports faculty in the quest to teach for the benefit of the “whole.” Participants emerge with more inclusive curricula and tools to increase inclass participation.

Biological sciences instructor Ian Klein, BSPE ’12, MSPEX ’15, has traveled abroad and coached international student athletes. Still, he says, the FLC taught him to teach with a global mindset.

One student, who tested well but never spoke in class, needed only Klein’s reassurance.

“When prompted, because she knew it was okay, she offered valuable insight to the topic we were discussing. I’m better able to connect and communicate with students because of the FLC.”

Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02

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“The Faculty Learning Community taught me I must be open to changing my mind.

I must not look at students as from one cloth.”

Associate professor of English Talinn Phillips, MA ’02, PHD ’08—who co-facilitates the FLC with Director of the English Language Improvement Program Dawn Bikowski, MA ’01, PHD ’08—illustrates the effort’s impact with a sample assignment revised to be more inclusive.

“Students may be asked to critique a new government policy. That’s easy for a white culture, but not for international students,” she explains.

“Faculty learn to create assignments that have many entry points to make them more accessible.”

International faculty also gain insight. Tehran, Iran native Sheida Shirvani, professor of communication studies at OHIO’s Zanesville Campus, says the FLC crystalized her understanding of students from rural backgrounds, many of whom are first in their families to attend university. “[The FLC] taught me I must be open to changing my mind,” Shirvani says. “I must not look at students as from one cloth.”

—Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91

Got you covered What would you do for a fellow Bobcat? Joshua Kill, BS ’18, literally offered the shirt off his back.

The College of Business’ Annual Darren Butler Sports Business Forum joins sports administration students with recruiters from top sports industry employers. After the first round at the 2016 event, Gerard Farley, BS ’16, believing he hadn’t landed an interview, went home and changed clothes for class.

He soon received a text saying his name was called for an interview. He sped to Baker Center in a panic: He had an interview with the Dallas Cowboys sales team.

Farley was “fully ready” to interview in his T-shirt and gym shorts, but Annie Brackley, sports administration instructor and event coordinator, intervened.

“She stood up and said, ‘All right Bobcats, who wants to lend this man their suit?’” Farley said.

Kill immediately stepped up. While he didn’t know Farley well, Kill’s interview was scheduled for later in the day, so he decided to help.

“Gerard and I had a class together last year. I had known him briefly, but nothing more than a conversation or two,” Kill said. “I know this sounds a bit corny, but Bobcats look out for Bobcats, and I know if I had been in Gerard’s situation, someone would have helped me out.”

Farley went on to have “the best interview of my life,” but when he went to thank Kill, “…he was nowhere to be found.”

Word of Kill’s good deed had reached Cowboys Senior Account Executive Nick Tombrella, BSSP ’13.

“He was really excited to hear about it,” Kill said, “and wanted me to do the interview as I was dressed,” in Farley’s college casual attire. “I addressed it (with Tombrella) as soon as I walked up, and apologized immediately. He said to not worry about it, that it was that kind of action that shows the kind of teamwork they were looking for with the Cowboys.”

Kill obtained a spring 2017 sales internship with the Cowboys. Farley is currently an inside sales associate with the Milwaukee Bucks.

“Josh applied what we are constantly preaching to our students,” Brackley said. “Bobcats help Bobcats, and the students have to be willing and ready to pay it forward.” –Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18

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calendar For upcoming OHIO Alumni events, go online to ohiotoday.org/calendar

Feb. 24

Mar. 23

Apr. 14 & 28

Alumni College in Florida

Celebrate Women

Baseball with Bobcats

Accompanied by Ohio University’s 21st president, M. Duane Nellis, we’re bringing this beloved University tradition to Sarasota!

Ohio University’s Lancaster Campus hosts this annual event, which draws together hundreds of women from various sectors.

Join Bobcats Apr. 14 to watch the Florida Marlins and Apr. 28 to watch the Tampa Bay Rays.

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The OHIO Marching 110 rocked it with Chicago’s, “25 or 6 to 4” at the 2017 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 2017 “The most exciting band in the land” celebrated 50 years of bringing its signature style to audiences everywhere. Visit ohiotoday.org for more coverage of the Marching 110’s performance in New York City.

Photo by Nick Bolin, BSVC ’18

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On The Green Weekend

Alumni Leaders Conference

It’s our favorite annual tradition during our favorite season: spring! Return to celebrate OHIO academics and the arts in Appalachia.

Volunteers from around the country are invited to campus for a day of leadership training and networking with fellow alumni.

Women’s Leadership Symposium

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Alumni from both OHIO and OSU are invited to this women’s conference.

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A healthy perspective Ohio University has a culture of doing.

Bobcats don’t like to sit on the sidelines— they’d rather go out into the world, see for themselves, and figure out if they can make a difference. OHIO’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) gives students a way to turn this hunger to do good into acts of goodwill.

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OPPOSITE PAGE: Zaya Gillogly, ABSW ’17, and a Paraguayan friend test each other’s strength during GHI’s May 2017 trip to Paraguay.

Photo by Kerri Shaw Riddle, AB ’96, MSW ’04 TOP: OHIO student Elena Kaiser, BSN ’17, is led by health care professionals in Botswana at a clinic during GHI’s June 2016 trip to the African country. Photo by Gillian Ice BOTTOM: Hanna Smith, BSCSD ’17, leads a yoga session at PAWEBatu Adult Day Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the May 2017 GHI trip. Photo by Brooke Hallowell

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The GHI was launched in 2012 by the College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP) and the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, with input from the Center for International Studies. It invites all OHIO students, no matter the discipline, to explore real-world experiences from a global health perspective through courses, certificates, master’s degrees, service learning trips, research, internships, medical rotations, and study abroad.

“It’s been very exciting,” says Gillian Ice, professor and director of Global Health. “[The college] has been very open to innovation in creating new opportunities to provide our students with transformative educational experiences.”

Professionals trained to address today’s global health issues— like the rise in human migration, recent pandemics (avian influenza, HIV, SARS), and the health concerns of underserved immigrants—are needed more than ever. The GHI believes health care providers, at home and abroad, must become educated about and adept at serving different cultures, populations, and health systems. Students interested in health and medicine, the environment, international development, health education, international relief work, and biology are a natural fit for the initiative. But students in any academic area can benefit from a deepening of their understanding of other environments and cultures from a global health perspective.

TOP: Team Tranquilo, winners of the 2016 GHI Competition, traveled to Paraguay to help build homes. (LEFT TO RIGHT) Fithi Embaye, Ellen Haile, Brenna Innocenzi, and Abyssinia Young. Photo by L auren Dickey, BSVC ’15, MA ’18 BOTTOM: Team Tranquilo pitches its “bottle brick” solution. The “bricks” are made by filling plastic bottles with nonbiodegradable trash. Photo courtesy of Kerri Shaw Riddle, AB ’96, MSW ’04

“All disciplines intersect with health,” says Ice, “whether they study economics, political science, or documentary film. It’s all connected.”

Get ready, get set: goodwill

Since Bobcats are doers, GHI created the Global Health Case Competition in 2014. Four students from at least two colleges and four majors compete

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in teams to develop possible solutions to a country-specific, GHI-identified health case. The winning team travels to the case location and researches the feasibility of its proposed solution. By being in the selected country and engaging firsthand with the people, students and faculty spread goodwill by working with a local community to solve a health problem. In

the process, they gain a deeper understanding of the culture’s diversity and its health issues.

“One of the most important things students learn during this process,” says Meredith Gartin, CHSP visiting assistant professor and faculty director of the competition, “is that if you just keep trying to talk and communicate and be open to people, you’ll eventually find that common ground, and that’s a lesson you can take with you wherever you go, no matter what you want to do.”

The 2016 case competition focused on the negative impact of

climate change on a community in Paraguay. Increased rains, low-quality housing, and poor infrastructure resulted in 100,000 displaced people and serious health risks in the region. The 2016 case winners, Fithi Embaye, MA ’13, MSW ’17 (social work), political science student Ellen Haile, Brenna Innocenzi, BSPE ’17 (exercise physiology), and communications studies student Abyssinia Young proposed to improve both environmental and health conditions by repurposing trash into “bottle bricks.” Made by filling plastic bottles with nonbiodegradable trash, “bottle

bricks” are sturdy enough to be used in the construction of sustainable housing.

“It’s an incredible opportunity to not only learn about another culture, but also to learn about yourself,” says Innocenzi.

Ice agrees: “It’s amazing. In as little as a few weeks, we see students undergo a transformation. Their perspectives on health and the world are forever changed. As a faculty member, it’s a privilege to be a part of such a meaningful experience.”

—Tracey Palmer

OHIO students and volunteers from TECHO, a nonprofit in Paraguay, team up to carry a panel wall that will become part of a home.

Photo by Serena Verweire, CFS ’18

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Food for thought FOOD STUDIES ENTERS THE ACADEMY

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Rachel McDonald, a Food Studies Market Intern, works at the Plant Biology Learning Gardens on West State Street.

Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02

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Jack Demain stands at a table in the basement of United Campus Ministry and begins chopping a head of green cabbage, which he then massages in front of an attentive audience of about two dozen people, mostly Ohio University students. They’ve come to this presentation on fermented foods to learn how to make sauerkraut, part of a collaboration between the Athens Vegan Cooking Workshop and the student group Food Matters at Ohio University.

The participants pepper Demain, BSS ’18, with questions: What would this pair well with? Do you add any other spices besides salt?

Does it get more nutritious if you leave it to ferment longer? The level of engagement is one that professors dream of, yet there is no professor in sight. Faculty are more of a back story tonight.

“I took Art Trese’s sustainable agriculture (course). It changed my life,” Demain says. He’s not exaggerating. The class led Demain to an internship on a farm in Alaska, a capstone course in Cuba studying sustainable agriculture, and a specialized studies major titled “Sustainable approaches to food production.”

Sustainable Agriculture is a course within the Food Studies theme in the College of Arts and Sciences. The college made the move in 2014 to group courses around thematic subject areas—in this case, food—so students could dive deep into a subject area that appeals to them while also completing their required general education classes.

Food Studies students can take courses like Geography of Hunger and Food Security, Before the Sickle and Plow: Archaeology of Foraging Societies, and Thomas Jefferson: Gardener and Gastronome.

“Once I realized the environmental degradation, the working conditions, the animal cruelty, the health costs (of food production), it was like I couldn’t turn back,” Demain says “I had to grow food in Customers seeking local greens peruse the produce during a Friday sale at the Plant Biology Learning Gardens.

Proceeds support Food Studies summer internships, a capstone course for the Food and Society Certificate.

Photo by Alexandria Polanosky, BSVC ’17

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OHIO and Athens community members fill their plates at a United Campus Ministry Vegan Cooking Night event in Athens. Photo by Alexandria Polanosky, BSVC ’17

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Arthur Trese, associate professor of environmental and plant biology, MIDDLE, talks to student producegrowers after a harvest at the Plant Biology Learning Gardens. Photo by

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the right way.” He now tends a plot at an Athens community garden and in his front yard. He teaches his fellow students how to grow and prepare their own food. Demain’s long-term goal is to start a farm near Athens.

Tonight’s participants begin cooking a meal. It includes potatoes, onions, and garlic from the Plant Biology Learning Gardens near campus—the same gardens from Demain’s life-changing Sustainable Agriculture class.

Serving up a food ecosystem Athens was a hub of the local foods movement decades before “locavore” became the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in 2007.

The wildly popular Athens Farmers Market has been going strong since the 1970s, and restaurants have been purchasing ingredients from local farmers since the popular Athens restaurant Casa Nueva and Cantina took that step in the 1980s.

“I think Athens and Ohio University are perhaps the best places in the country for undergraduates to study food,” says Theresa Moran, director of the Food Studies theme. Locally grown food in markets and restaurants are joined by foodcentered local nonprofit organizations to create a food ecosystem that serves everyone, Moran says.

For example, Athens’ Community Food Initiatives runs community gardens, saves seeds, collects fresh produce to share with local food banks, and teaches food entrepreneurship skills to kids.

“Food has been devalued as a subject of scholarly research in part because it’s omnipresent for most people in developed countries,” Moran says.

But, she argues, food touches every academic discipline, from public health to medieval studies to war and peace. This is why the Food Studies theme was able to launch with existing courses in the catalog.

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The informal mission statement of Food Studies is a question: Where does your food come from?

“It’s inculcating lifelong skills and lifelong knowledge,” Moran says. “What is the impact on my body, my community, my environment… and how do I make those choices to align with what I believe in?” In summer 2017, Food Matters faculty participated in a Tour de Farm so new faculty members could take in local farms, processors, restaurants, and brewers.

Many Food Studies theme students—with majors as diverse as nutrition, sociology, and photojournalism—go on to earn a 20-credithour Food and Society certificate. The certificate’s capstone course has an internship option. Students intern at nonprofits like Rural Action, which runs a produce auction, and the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, which houses a commercial kitchen. Both support the regional food ecosystem. Interns can apply for a stipend to offset living a​ nd travel costs—with stipend funding coming from produce sales from the Plant Biology Learning Gardens.

“I think Athens and Ohio University are perhaps the best places in the country for undergraduates to study food.”

Assistant Professor and Food Studies Theme Director Theresa Moran mixes with Food Matters Club members at an interactive archaeology workshop.

Photo by Alexandria Polanosky, BSVC ’17

Sowing seeds of change As participants in tonight’s Vegan Cooking Workshop prepare potato pancakes and chocolate cake, laughter is interspersed with dialogue about topics like what’s considered “local food” and if a sustainable food system can exist inside a framework of capitalism. Food Matters at Ohio University president and Food Studies theme student assistant Joy Kostansek, BA ’18, announces upcoming Food Studies theme-endorsed programs: a visit to the Athens Campus from an organic farmer and author, and a sustainabilitythemed film at Athens’ Athena Cinema.

“We’re trying to appeal to everyone,” Kostansek says, referring to the variety of programming.

“Because everybody eats.”

—Mary Reed, BSJ ’90, MA ’93

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The power of a shared story “It is powerful to share a story,” said self-recognized ambassador for literacy Julie Francis. “Reading a story aloud takes people on a journey together.”

In the summer of 2017, the Helen M. Robinson Center for Reading, housed in the Stevens Literacy Center, reopened after The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education’s remodeling project was completed in January. It welcomed back the community, children, and Ohio University students to create more memories through reading.

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The center, now in its 20th year of serving K-12 students, and its students are literacy ambassadors, transforming children struggling with reading into lifelong lovers of books and stories. Starting as a six-week program with 10 families, the center has grown rapidly. The success of its 2017 summer program and camp led to 30 ambassadors and 30 families being served in fall 2017.

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“My student ran in and told me that she has been looking forward to this all week,” said Patton College junior Krista Reiff, who, with other ambassadors, develops lesson plans and curriculums for their students. “I look forward to our time together all week as well. I get a chance to make a difference, but I also get to put what I’ve learned in the classroom into practice.”

For students, their work as literacy ambassadors also reinforces their connection to the Athens community.

“I’m working with a second-grader now, and it is meaningful to me, because my second-grade teacher was the person who instilled my love for reading,” said Patton College senior Autumn Pack.

“I have that opportunity to share that now as a teacher. Reading changed my life, and it can change [the lives of] my students.”

The Robinson Center for Reading is a warm, welcoming space where technology works handin-hand with well-loved books and children’s and teachers’ imaginations.

“We call the [Helen M. Robinson Center for Reading] ‘Aunt Helen’s Tree House’ because we want children to look forward to coming here,” said Francis, PHD ’07 and director of the Robinson Center. “We hear them excitedly saying that they’re going to the tree house. We’re embracing our region, opening our doors, and sharing good stories.”

—Colleen Kiphart

Fostering hope Two new books from Ohio University Press peer into the complexities of foster care in Appalachia. In a tangled system overwhelmed by an influx of children whose parents are addicted to opioids, reasons for hope can be scarce. But Deborah Gold’s memoir, Counting Down, and Wendy Welch’s journalistic take, Fall or Fly, offer unvarnished accounts of that most sustaining of human qualities: goodwill.

Gold and her husband first fostered a toddler, Michael, now a teenager. Although they only officially fostered him for half a year, the Golds’ relationship with Michael, his siblings, and his extended biological family remains.

For Gold, “Goodwill is at the root of our story,” one that began when the children’s mother allowed the Golds to remain in Michael’s and his siblings’ lives after reunification.

“She would say, ‘After the kids come back, I want you to stay part of their lives—he’s had so many losses, I don’t want him to have one more,’” Gold says.

Gold’s Counting Down shows us how grief and renewal are part of foster care. Importantly, the book includes poems and essays by Michael. “In child welfare, adult voices dominate. I wanted to include [Michael’s writing] because he speaks for a lot of kids,” Gold says. “It gives a voice that you don’t usually hear.”

Welch, a former reporter who works in health care, says goodwill starts with setting aside preconceptions and savior complexes. “You don’t need to be a saint, a superhero, or wealthy. You just need to be compassionate and teachable.’”

Welch’s Fall or Fly recounts the stories of those who did and didn’t take that to heart—but all contributed to the macro view found in the book: that love, compassion, money, and fear intermingle in the system charged with protecting our nation’s greatest asset.

—Samara Rafert is the publicist for Ohio University Press.

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Goodness compounds

Haden DeRoberts, BSS ’16, always looked for the goodness in others, but he did more than find that good—he multiplied it, leaving a wake of positivity and inspiration that still reverberates within the communities he touched.

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OPPOSITE PAGE: Antonuccio posted this photo at mile 24 on Instagram, writing, “Overcome with emotion at the welcome from Haden’s family.” Photo courtesy of MarathonFoto RIGHT: Also on Antonuccio’s Instagram: “Mile 14 in Queens. Let’s do this!” Photo by Jason Old

“Haden never really understood his effect on people.”

But to his mom, Janet—and all those who met him—Haden DeRoberts’ zeal for life did have an effect on people, including his adviser, Josh Antonuccio.

“Certain students stick with you in terms of the presence they bring—the way they can change the tenor of the room that they’re in, the way they can change the attitude of a situation,” says Antonuccio, a lecturer in the Scripps College of Communication.

DeRoberts was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in October 2011, just seven weeks into his freshman year. A bone marrow transplant the following spring returned him to health and sparked in him a desire to use his story for good.

He poured his kinetic energy into the “Got Swabbed?” bone marrow donation campaign organized by Hillel at Ohio University, a Jewish life center, becoming its spokesperson and inspiring more than 9,000 Bobcats to register as donors, leading to more than 200 matches and 30 lifesaving donations since 2009.

Kevin Feinberg, BBA ’17, who worked as a Got Swabbed? student intern, was matched to a recipient through the campaign. Before he decided to donate, he turned to DeRoberts.

“I got to talk to Haden about his experience, what it was like, and the importance of having donors. So, I said that I would do it,” he says.

In 2016, DeRoberts’ health declined. Determined, he finished his specialized studies degree between and during hospital stays. That December, Antonuccio and other OHIO faculty and staff visited DeRoberts in hospice to award his degree.

He passed away two days later.

“He was just a good human, and he valued other good humans, and just always wanted to find the good in people,” Janet DeRoberts, BBA ’85, MBA ’86, says.

In November, Antonuccio, BSVC ’96, MED ’17, ran the New York City Marathon in DeRoberts’ honor, raising $37,800 for cancer research. DeRoberts, and his story, were with him every mile.

“It’s not about me. It’s not about the marathon,” Antonuccio explains. “It’s about his story and trying to use his story to do good.”

—Peter Shooner, associate director of content, Advancement Communication and Marketing, editor, ohiowomen

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Team players They’re best known for scoring on the court, but OHIO basketball teams are also shooting to make a difference in Athens.

handling, passing, shooting, and layups, then they scrimmaged under the watchful eye of the student athletes.

The OHIO men’s and women’s basketball teams visited the Athens Community Center (ACC) in October for an afternoon of fun with the kids in ACC After School, an engagement program for local K-6th grade students.

At least one student athlete from every team has volunteered at the ACC, Troyer said. The ACC looks forward to continuing the partnership.

“The college students themselves are getting experience working with our kids, and our kids get the wonderful experience of the activities and the teachings and the special programming,” said Boone Troyer, BSS ’08, MSRSS ’13, the former ACC children’s program specialist.

OHIO Athletics is one of many OHIO partners that work with ACC After School. From September to May, an athletic team comes to the ACC to host an activity. For the basketball players’ stint, they planned a series of small-group stations for the kids to practice ball

“It’s a strong connection for our community and our kids to have access to the athletes.

For them to be able to give a player a high five, to throw them a ball, to have oneon-one attention—that’s a lifelong impact.”

Women’s basketball team volunteer coordinator Kendall Jessing, BFA ’19, said the afternoon was spent happily giving back to Athens.

“Athens has given us so much, and it only makes sense for us to give back,” she said. “Getting involved with the kids is a great place to start.”

—Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18

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Up, up, and put it away! An after-school student gets a lift from Jason Carter, a forward on the OHIO Men’s Basketball team. Photo by Patrick

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These photos from the 1968 Athena yearbook show OHIO students and employees supporting striking workers.

Photos courtesy of the M ahn Center for Archives & Special Collections

This year marks the golden anniversary of OHIO’s 1968 graduates. That year university students around the globe voiced their unhappiness with geopolitical realities through protests on campus, demanding to be heard as the world seemed to descend in chaos. With the 1967 “Summer of Love� a distant memory, heated debate reigned on college campuses in 1968. Their united voices spoke out against issues like social injustice, the U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, and the so-called elite establishment.

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Class notes

1962

Charles Christine, BSED ’62, MED ’64, retired after 43 years of teaching and serving as a principal. He served for 36 years in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Charles and his wife, Dorothy, MED ’64, reside in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Impact DOCS Merit Prize.

1970

Paul L. Hubbard, BSED ’65, recently had a conference room at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, named in his honor.

Mary E. Hausch, BSJ ’70, received the Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission’s annual Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation for Career Achievement in May 2017. Hausch also was presented with the 2017 Distinguished Nevadan Award by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas at the university’s commencement in May.

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1965

James Ragan, MA ’67, PHD ’71, is the subject of the Arina Films documentary Flowers and Roots. He is the recipient of the Remi Platinum Award at the 49th Houston International Film Festival and the 2017

1968

Ralph Rogers, Jr., BSEE ’71, MSIS ’83, was selected by the Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO) as one of 32 provosts and chief academic officers to participate in the ACAO Digital Fellows

Jerry Peppers, BBA ’68, was named a Lifetime Achiever by Marquis Who’s Who. Peppers recently retired as a partner in a New York City-based international law firm.

He has served on several boards, including the Ohio University Foundation. He resides in Scarsdale, New York.

Program. Rogers has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, since 2013.

1972

Roger Gundlach, BMA ’72, has been inducted into the Carrier Hall of Fame by the Carrier Corporation. The award recognizes Gundlach’s contribution and service to the HVAC industry, his customers, and community.

1973

Don Benson, AB ’73, retired in June 2017, after nearly 22 years with the Voice of America, the U.S. government’s radio broadcast in Washington, D.C. He previously worked for the Associated Press and for WSAZ-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. He resides in Maryland.

1974

Dale Leslie, MED ’74, had his personal papers archived at the University of Michigan (UM) Historical Library

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at the Ann Arbor Campus. The archive includes more than 20 digitally recorded local programs of notable UM faculty and staff as well as local citizens.

1975

Larry Patrick, PHD ’75, was awarded the Ward Quall Leadership Award by the Broadcasters Foundation of America in recognition of his contributions to the broadcast industry and his humanitarian work. He is president of Patrick Communications, an investment banking and brokerage firm serving radio and television stations.

Dale Shields, BFA ’75, MFA ’95, received a 2017 Stephen Sondheim Award for Teaching. The award solicits nominations from individuals and recognizes educators who have made a difference in their lives.

1976

Thomas E. Day, BSCE ’76, retired as a city engineer from the City of Chillicothe, Ohio. He previously worked at the former

MeadWestvaco Corporation in Chillicothe.

Kenneth Dixon, BSJ ’76, and two other journalists recently won the 2017 Theodore Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for “Inside the political fundraising game,” published in the Connecticut Post in 2016. Dixon has been the State Capitol reporter for the Connecticut Post and Hearst Connecticut Media since 1994.

Owen Keller, BSED ’76, was

recently inducted into the Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. Keller pioneered the Athletic Training educational program during his 30-year career at Ohio Northern University.

1977

William Christy, MM ’77, retired from a 31-year career of teaching, the final 21 years at OHIO’s Zanesville Campus. He taught film history and analysis, art history, and several music courses.

1978

Mark Brunswick, BSJ ’78, received in March the Military

Reporters and Editors Association’s 2015-2016 Joe Galloway Award for a series he co-authored about veterans and prescription pain killers. He is a staff writer at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Betsy Hammer, BMUS ’78, played the role of “television network executive” in Adam Sandler’s new movie Sandy Wexler.

Hammer is an associate producer of Bang! The Bert Berns Story, a music documentary about the late songwriter, producer, and record label chief Bert Berns.

Timothy C. Tilton, BS ’78, retired after 35 years of practicing dentistry in Marietta, Ohio.

1979

Roy Bentley, BGS ’79, MA ’81, was named by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his book of poems, “Walking with Eve in the Loved City.” The book will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in spring 2018.

Paul Miller, BSED ’79, was inducted into the Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. He has served

Congratulations, Golden Bobcats!

IT HAS BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE YOUR 1968 GRADUATION FROM OHIO UNIVERSITY. We want to hear from you, 1968 graduates!

Submit a class note at ohiotoday.org/class-note/.

Your Alumni Association is celebrating you by offering free registration to our Golden class at all alumni events held during your year.

If you are interested in attending any alumni activity this year, contact Erica Lipscomb at 740.593.4304 or lipscome@ohio.edu to have your registration fee waived.

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as an athletic trainer at Ohio colleges and hospitals since 1981. He is an athletic trainer at OhioHealth and serves student athletes at Gahanna Lincoln High School in Gahanna, Ohio.

Collene Weiser, BSHE ’79, celebrates the 20th year of operation of her company, Fitness Firm, in her hometown of Canal Winchester, Ohio.

1980

Robin Wiley, MM ’80, has been named the director of human resources for the

Loveland City School District in Loveland, Ohio. Wiley retired in 2012 after 33 years as an educator and administrator in several Ohio public schools.

1981

James Rogers, BS ’81, recently was appointed as the director of Food Safety Research and Testing at Consumer Reports.

Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that evaluates the safety of consumer goods.

Rogers resides in the Washington, D.C., area.

1982

Michael Ley, AB ’82, serves with the U.S. Marine Corps at Blount Island in Jacksonville, Florida, as the antiterrorism officer and intelligence coordinator. Ley served in the Vietnam War and in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps until his first retirement in 1990.

David Phillippi, AAS ’82, BSC ’84, delivered the commencement address to the spring 2017 graduating class at the Ohio University Zanesville Campus.

Phillippi is the sales and marketing director for The PPS Group in Covington, Kentucky.

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Ahmed Dauda, BSED ’83, MED ’84, retired from government service.

He is now a farmer in the Borgu Local Government Area in Niger State, Nigeria.

Leon Harris, BSC ’83, DCOM ’99, recently joined the NBC4/ WRC-TV news team in Washington, D.C. He was the “Live Today” and “Prime News” anchor at CNN in Atlanta for 20 years.

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Reginald Young, BSC ’83, recently was awarded a 2017 Emmy Award by the Lower Great Lakes Chapter. Young was the photographer for WEWS’ award-winning coverage of protests during day two of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Kevin Clingaman, BGS ’85, was recognized as a leading registered financial adviser by the Toledo Business Journal in July, 2017. Clingaman is vice president/senior investment adviser at Huntington Wealth Advisers in the Toledo, Ohio, area.

Matthew Harrington’s, MFA ’85, play The Outside Edge of a Full Circle has been chosen for the All About Eve Festival of the Arts, presented by the New Jersey Repertory Theatre Company. The play was performed on Oct. 7, 2017.

Audry Muck, BS ’85, president of the board of the Triad National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter in North Carolina, was elected to serve on the

BOBCAT SIGHTINGS OHIO alumni go on adventures hither and yon!

Bobcats have a bucket list that extends far beyond graduation. Sarah Beasley, BA ’12, celebrated her 30th birthday by crossing off one from her list: a trip to the Grand Canyon, Bobcat style.

No view is complete without flying the Bobcat flag. These alumni and friends brought a piece of OHIO with them to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. LEFT TO RIGHT, Vinson M. Yates, BBA ’81, Pete McKeand, Sallie Evans McKeand, BSED ’84, and Teresa Jagers Yates, BBA ’84.

OHIO is always there to welcome you home. From LEFT TO RIGHT, Bob Davis, BBA ’66, Carl Anders, BBA ’66, MBA ’70, and John Barnes, BBA ’66, met in Athens in Sept. with their wives (not pictured), alumnae Nancy Detro Anders, BSED ’68, Barb Wagner Davis, BSHE ’68, and Carolyn Dill Barnes, BSHE ’66.

The long haul: Barry Backus, BSED ’07, LEFT, and his dad, Richard Backus, Jr., BSED ’75, MED ’78, celebrate the end of their seven-day, 96-mile hike of West Highland Way in Fort William, Scotland. The hike skirts the famous Loch Lomond lake and proceeds north through the wilds.

When in Rome, show your Bobcat pride! A July 2017 trip to The Eternal City’s Colosseum prompted this photo op for Marching 110 alumni, LEFT TO RIGHT, Matthew Wallace, BSC ’05, Christina Manker Wallace, BSJ ’04, Audrey “Beth” Wallace Gilcher, BSHCS ’02, MED ’03, and Beth’s husband, Nate Gilcher.

High altitudes don’t daunt this Bobcat. Dr. Robert “Bob” Kloos, DO ’91, reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in August with his wife, Anne. August is a popular time to tackle this peak, Africa’s highest.

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—Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck and Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18 Send your photos with names, grad degrees and grad years to ohiotoday@ohio.edu or to Ohio University, ohiotoday, 112 McKee House, 1 Ohio University Drive, Athens, OH 45701.

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national NOW board.

She represents NOW’s Eastern District.

report, “Shoot, Don’t Shoot,” a broadcast that puts News4Jax reporters in simulated situations faced by police.

Jeffrey North, BMUS ’85, MM ’98, retired after 32 years as a director of bands.

He spent the last 30 years as the director of bands at Logan High School in Logan, Ohio.

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Gilbert Smith, BSC ’85, works as a crime and safety analyst for news station WJXT in Starke, Florida. Smith was honored with an Emmy Award for his special

Gary Ginther, BSHE ’88, MED ’15, retired from OHIO’s Alden Library after 17 1/2 years. He is now the director of Library and Learning Resources at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California.

Michael O’Toole, BSC ’88, has been appointed

bobcatstore.ohioalumni.org All proceeds from this Rock Riffle Run Pottery mug support the Scripps College Internship Support Fund.

as The Columbus Dental Society’s new executive director. The society is a professional dental organization serving the local component of the Ohio Dental Association.

1989

Barbara Taylor Baker, BSED ’89, was recently named superintendent of schools for the Garrett County, Maryland, school system. She has served with the school system for 28 years.

James DeJoy, BSPE ’89, was named 2016 Educator of the Year by the Cincinnati Area Rotary Club. He is the athletic director at Sycamore Junior High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Jonathan Veley, BSJ ’89, is celebrating 25 years of practicing law in Newark, Ohio.

In addition, last month he released his fourth book, American Writing Instrument Trademarks 1870-1953 (self-published).

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1992

Brian Bruess, MED ’92, PHD ’95, has been appointed as president of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.

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He is the institution’s eighth president and the second alumnus to hold the title.

Louis Tomasello, BSCE ’92, has been named the 2017 Construction Engineer of the Year by the New Jersey Professional Engineers in Construction. He currently serves as Union Paving and Construction’s chief engineer in Mountainside, New Jersey.

1993

Pamela Holschuh, BSHE ’93, owner of Copper Leaf Interior Design Studio in Marietta, recently won two “Best of Houzz” awards from Houzz Inc., a platform for home renovation and design. The studio was recognized for design and service.

Alicia M. Passerin, MS ’93, PHD ’97, is a partner at the law firm Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passerin counsels clients in the life sciences, biomedical, mechanical, chemical, and software engineering fields.

1994

Gregory Korte, AB ’94, BSJ ’94, received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting from the Gerald R. Ford Organization for his reporting on President Obama’s use of pardon power. Korte is a White House correspondent for USA Today.

1996

Cy Dodson, BC ’96, directed The Ragman: A Hobo’s Story Untold in 2016. This is his second directorial effort. Dodson also owns Triumph Pictures, LLC, a video production company in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Justin Herdman, AB ’96, was appointed as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Herdman supervises the prosecution of federal crimes in the district, and his office defends the United States in civil cases and collects debts owed to the United States. The office covers 40 counties in northern Ohio.

1997

Irvin Laibson, BSS ’97, volunteers

as the CEO of EDUEntertain, Inc., a company that supports veterans.

The company has committed to helping 1 million veterans find employment by 2037.

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Jared (Jay) Lerner, BSRS ’97, MSPE ’98, has been appointed interim executive director for the Waukegan Park District in Waukegan, Illinois.

Lerner has worked at the Waukegan Park District since 1998 supporting the facility’s youth sports and recreation efforts.

The Masters Golf Tournament in Savannah | APR. 4-7 Panama Canal Cruise | APR. 6-22 Journey to South Africa APR. 8-23 Kentucky Derby | MAY 2-6 Apulia Undiscovered Italy | MAY 2-10 Southern Mississippi Riverboat Cruise | MAY 6-14 French and Italian Rivieras Cruise | MAY 9-17 European Graduation Trip | MAY 15-JUNE 1 Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords | MAY 17-25 Village Life in Dordogne | MAY 17-25 Ireland Golf Trip | JUNE 8-17

Marwin Walling, BSED ’97, has been promoted to the athletic director position for Harvey High School in Painesville, Ohio.

Walling is a 1991 graduate of the high school.

Swiss Alps & Italian Lakes | JUNE 27-JULY 6 London | JUNE 28-AUG. 3 Alaskan Coastal Cruise | AUG. 16-27 Southwest England | SEPT. 5-16 Pacific Northwest Wine Country | SEPT. 9-17 New Zealand | OCT. 6-20 Greek Isles Cruise | OCT. 13-24

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Teri Ellen Cross Davis, BSJ ’98, was awarded the 2017 Ohioana Poetry Book Award for her debut collection of poems, Haint. Founded in 1929 by Ohio First Lady Martha Kinney Cooper, the Ohioana Library Association collects, preserves, and celebrates Ohio

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literature and other creative endeavors.

Martha Rial, BFA ’98, was the featured commencement speaker at Point Park University’s spring ceremony in April in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rial won a 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees.

1999

Jeffrey Willey, BS ’99, MS ’01, participated in the Rodent Research-9 Mission project sent to the International Space Station via a SpaceX rocket in August 2017. Willey is

an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in WinstonSalem, North Carolina.

2001

Nickolas M. Garst, BSCHE ’01, is the director of product development at Profusion Industries in Marietta, Ohio. His wife, Mary Beth Held, PHD ’17, is an assistant professor of communication studies and chair of Faculty Senate at West Virginia University of Parkersburg.

2002

Erin Donaldson, BSH ’02, was recently promoted to vice president/director of operations management at Life Care Services in Des Moines, Iowa.

Donaldson oversees five senior living communities in three different states. She and her husband, Joseph Donaldson, BBA ’02, reside in Illinois.

Qui Nguyen, MFA ’02, was among other playwrights whose fulllength play was read as part of the New York City-based Atlantic Theater Company’s Asian American Mixfest, a series of free readings in Aug.

2003

Penny Desatnik, BSJ ’03, has been promoted as vice president of Blattel Communications, a public relations and marketing agency with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles

that specializes in professional services and B2B communications.

Becky Lonardo, BSVC ’03, was recently hired as the marketing & content manager for American Prairie Reserve, a nonprofit headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.

The nonprofit’s mission is to create the largest nature reserve in the continental U.S. Kendra Van Horn, BA ’03 was promoted in May 2017 as director of Citywide Fitness at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Among other duties, Van Horn develops worksite wellness activities for more than 7,000

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FUTURE BOBCATS

Esmeralda, born Sept.

18, 2016, comes from a long line of Bobcats. Grandpa Christopher Moehring, BGS ’74, dad Michael Moehring, BS ’10, mom Tasha Moehring, and uncle Tomas Moehring, BSME ’06, can’t wait for her to join them!

These future Bobcats are double the fun. Twins Fitz Thomas, LEFT, and Blair Rose, born Dec. 7, 2016, may one day be Bobcats like mom Kelly O’Sullivan-Steigerwalt, BSED ’02. O’SullivanSteigerwalt and proud dad Thomas Steigerwalt reside in Avon Lake, Ohio.

Like father, like son.

Christofer Smith, BSC ’09, and Stephanie Smith, BSED ’11, welcomed their son Solomon James to their family and to Athens Oct. 20, 2016.

Andrew Michael Bailey, born Nov. 1, 2016, is all smiles while watching OHIO football with parents Ryan Bailey, BBA ’99, and Jessica Bailey.

Briar Augusta Sowers was only born in Feb.14 2017, but she’s already dreaming of the OHIO Bobcats. She looks like her father, Dakota Sowers, but has the outgoing personality and attitude of mom Leah Hankinson Sowers, BSHSL ’13.

A brood of future Bobcats!

LEFT TO RIGHT Gus Elliot, son of Lindsey Cabrera Rogers, BSED ’07, and Benjamin Rogers, BA ’07; Emilee Pierce, daughter of Elizabeth Verner Scheiderer, BSC ’07, and John Scheiderer, BSC ’08; Anna Belle and Cora Jane, daughters of Kristen Trainor Jones, BSED ’07, and Corey Jones; and June Patterson, daughter of Katherine Garibay Bunn, BSC ’07, and Ryan Bunn.

Gavin Hurne was born May 21, 2017, to Nick Hurne, BS ’12, and Amanda Cullum Hurne, BSN ’15. Judging from that adorable smile, he can’t wait to join his parents in the Bobcat family.

This baby Bobcat has been around OHIO since she was born. Eleanor Rose Bailey, born Jan. 27, 2016, is the daughter of OHIO Southern Retention Specialist Ashlie Decamp Bailey, BA ’12, and Daniel Bailey, BSED ’11, MSS ’17.

—Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck and Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18 Send your photos with names, grad degrees and grad years to ohiotoday@ohio.edu or to Ohio University, ohiotoday, 112 McKee House, 1 Ohio University Drive, Athens, OH 45701.

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Abigail TodhunterReid, BFA ’08, has been awarded a twoyear fellowship at the Harvard Strategic Data Project, a mission to use data in education to improve student achievement. She received her PHD in childhood studies at Rutgers UniversityCamden in 2017.

2009

Regina Beach, BSJ ’09, BSVC ’09, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award in June, 2017 to Laos in Education from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Beach will support the teaching of English at Savannakhet Teacher Training College as part of a

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Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Justin Eddy, BA ’09, joined the law firm Tucker Ellis, LLP in the firm’s Cleveland, Ohio, office. Eddy specializes in real estate law.

2010

Michael Korte, BFA ’10, was featured in Time.com in June 2017 for his musical tribute to celebrate the birthday of Prince, the late rock icon who would have turned 59 on June 7, 2017. The work is a mashup of Prince’s greatest hits and songs from the musical The Color Purple.

Brian Levin, BSC ’10, received two 2017 Lower Great Lakes Chapter Emmy Awards. The first is for “Paul Brown: Ohio’s Head Coach,” a sports documentary, and the second recognizes a sports editing reel. Levin is the senior editor and cinematographer at DH Productions in Centerville, Ohio.

2011

Joanne Schroeder, MHA ’11, became the president of Munson Healthcare’s Charlevoix Hospital in Charlevoix,

Michigan in June 2017.

Schroeder has amassed more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry.

2012

Thomas J. Brodbeck, BA ’12, was appointed in June 2017 as the assistant Montgomery County prosecuting attorney in Dayton, Ohio. He is assigned to the county’s Juvenile Division.

Kyle Dodd, BS ’12, joined Rudolph Libbe Inc. as a business development manager.

The Toledo-based company manages general contracting projects.

2013

Terri Lee Roberts, BSN ’13, was twice featured on the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.’s social media channels in 2017 in recognition of her work.

Roberts is a senior infection prevention analyst for the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

2014

Michael Hamilton, BSED ’14, participated

in Miami (Ohio) University’s Earth Expeditions global field course in Baja California, Mexico.

Hamilton teaches seventh-grade science at West Clermont Middle School in Batavia, Ohio, and is pursuing a master’s degree from Miami University’s Global Field Program.

2016

John M. Catalano, MSAA ’16, was named president-elect of the Illinois Athletic Directors Association.

His term will begin in spring 2018. Catalano is the athletic director for Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois.

2017

Michael Lorsung, MFA ’17, began his position as studio coordinator in 2017 at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The center is an art-making and critical dialogue destination for students of the arts and internationally renowned artists.

—Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91 and Darian Randolph, BSJ ’17

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Alumni Authors

Ohio University alumni publish books across subjects and genres. Here are releases within the last year.

Boys Won’t Be Boys: Empowering Boys to Live Uncommon in a Common World, guidance for parents of boys (Xulon Press), by Tim Brown, BBA ’82 • Anne Bancroft: A Life, biography (University Press of Kentucky), by Douglass Daniel, PHD ’95 • The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World, travel memoir (Sourcebooks), by Kimberly Dinan, BA ’03 • Being Christian in the Twenty-first Century, Christian guidance (Wipf and Stock), by Sam Gould, BS ’64 • Sorcery for Beginners: A Simple Help Guide to a Challenging & Arcane Art, young adult nonfiction (Inkshares, Inc.),

by Matthew Harry, BSC ’98 • Notations: The Imagined Diary of Julian of Norwich, poetry (Red Chirp Chapbooks), by Alice-Catherine Jennings, BA ’72 • The Crows of Beara, selfdiscovery novel (Ashland Creek Press), by Julie Christine Johnson, MAIA ’95 • Fever, mystery/thriller novel (CreateSpace), by David Kettlehake, BSC ’82 • Appalachia Boy: A Memoir, biography (self-published), by George Lucas, AB ’57 • Tessie Tames Her Tongue, children’s guidance (Free Spirit Publishing), by Melissa Martin, PHD ’14 • One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me!, children’s picture book (Nancy Paulsen Books), by John Micklos, Jr., BSJ ’78 • Badge 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America’s Most Decorated Cop, inspirational biography (The Kent State University Press), by Robert Sberna, BSJ ’78 • Wolves at Your Door: The Impact that Wolves have on People and Animals, wildlife guide (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform), by Earl Stahl, MS ’56 • Priceless Memories of Troop 3: The Adventures, History, and Traditions of An Iconic 100-Yearold Parkersburg, West Virginia boy Scout Troop, Boy Scout troop history (Cincinnati Book Publishing), by Ronald Taylor, BSEE ’60 —Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91

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Remembering fellow alumni

1930s

Martha (Bolton) Agler, KP ’30 W. E. Johnson, AB ’36 Nancy R. (Fouts) Johnson, KP ’38 J. B. Mayes, MD, BA ’39 June E. (Lowmiller) Murphy, AB ’39 Ella G. (Strode) Sedwick, KP ’39 Elizabeth Katherine (Fell) Tegge, BSHEC ’39

1940s

Frederic M. Krecker, AB ’40 Ashby (Coffman) Dodds, AB ’41 Opal G. (VanHoose) Morris, General ’41 Charles F. Wendelken, BSED ’41 Roscoe R. Braham Jr., BS ’42 Dorothy J. (Arnold) Gray, BSED ’42 Margaret E. (Henry) Johnson, KP ’42, BSED ’44 John E. Kahelin, BSCOM ’42 Dorothy (Edwards) Fastenau, BSJ ’43 Helen E. (McCord) Riegel, BSHEC ’43 Betty Griswold Baker, ELED ’44 Mary V. (Myers) Clark, BSHEC ’44 Asher R. Pacht, BS ’44, AB ’47, MA ’48 Jane (Wright) Wertz, AB ’44 Kathryn F. (Bernard) Harry, AB ’45 Margaret M. (Hanning) Hill, BSHEC ’45 Margaret (Helphinstine) Minard, General ’45 Elizabeth A. (Minturn) Peterson, BSED ’45 Florence (Hoffmann) Collins, General ’46 Henry W. Davis, BSCOM ’46 Arline H. (Kohn) Halfon, BSED ’46 Ruth G. (Bennett) Mayle, ELED ’46, BSED ’47

Leta M. (Nelson) Stadler, General ’46 Betty L. (Cash) Wiseman, BSS ’46 Franklin W. Downhour, BSED ’47, MED ’51 Rev. Robert C. Ellson, AB ’47 Ellis I. Fullwiler, BSCE ’47 Donald L. Hisey, SC ’47 Margaret (Cheney) Mellinger, BSHEC ’47 Willard C. Rankin, BSCOM ’47 Edward F. Wilsey Jr., BS ’47, BSCHE ’48 Joseph B. Yanity Jr., General ’47 Edgar W. Albaugh, BS ’48 Robert E. Pifer, BSJ ’48 Robert D. Shea, BSCOM ’48 Leonard M. Small, BSCOM ’48 Franklin D. Sturgeon, BSED ’48 Julius R. Bozman, BS ’49 Charles H. Evans, BSEE ’49 Richard J. Finkle, BSCOM ’49 Eloise (Griffiths) Hackworth, ELED ’49, BSED ’51 Harry B. Knecht, BSED ’49 Maurice J. Koch Jr., BSCOM ’49 William E. Mastbaum, BSCOM ’49 Boyd L. Miller, BSJ ’49 Ruth G. (Steele) Nostrant, AB ’49, MED ’77, MLS ’82 Stacey V. Phillips, BSED ’49 Bert A. Rosenbluth, BSJ ’49 David B. Squibb Jr., BSED ’49

1950s

Frances F. (Malone) Henderson, BSED ’50, MED ’54 Janet L. (Ingerham) Jensen, AB ’50 Nancy B. (Barrett) Jones, AB ’50 Ann C. (Jones) Kleinhans, BSED ’50 Robert H. Loop, BSAE ’50 Suzanne G. Miller, General ’50 Earl D. Mollison, AB ’50 Dale H. Ranft, BSCOM ’50

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Jean Betz Schwartz, BSJ ’50 Alma (Bateman) Shields, General ’50 Homer L. Stocker, BSCOM ’50 George R. Webster, BSME ’50 Sally J. (Ferraro) Bobel, General ’51 Alice B. (Broughton) Crown, BS ’51 Walter M. Glick, BFA ’51 Donald R. Van Horn, BSCOM ’51 Kenneth M. Barnes, BS ’52 James E. Barron, BFA ’52 Marilyn L. (Kullman) Barron, General ’52 Sheldon K. Burtner, BSEE ’52 Robert C. Cappel, BFA ’52 Ruth E. (Hornback) Dodridge, BSED ’52 Mary Estelle (Bentz) Ehret, BSED ’52 Joanne (Thornton) Grossmann, AA ’52 Marilyn B. Hamelman, BSED ’52 Robert W. Moorman, BS ’52, MS ’53 Mary (McColl) Teachout, BSED ’52 Charles L. Welton, BFA ’52 Elizabeth (Llewellyn) Wright, BSED ’52 Richard H. Cottrell, MED ’53 Martha J. (Betts) Fick, BSED ’53 Helen E. (Cunningham) Hannah, General ’53 Jack M. Kinney, BSED ’53 Elwood Sparks, BSED ’53 Karl E. Bishop, BSCOM ’54 Mary E. (Hogan) Bundy, BSHEC ’54, BSED ’55 Charlotte J. (Sanders) Curie, General ’54 Doris M. (Kinick) Dixon, General ’54 Joseph A. Eachus, BSED ’54, MED ’61 Edward H. Gross, BSCOM ’54

Martha A. (Luchtenberg) McGreevy, BSED ’54 Robert J. Scott, BSEE ’54 Richard P. Seiple, General ’54 Harry D. Semple, AB ’54 Richard R. Wilson, General ’54 Virginia M. Branson, MA ’55, PHD ’61 Nancy M. (Hedges) Call, BSED ’55 John C. Dunn, BSEE ’55 Robert A. Hillenbrand, BFA ’55 Anna H. (Yakshevich) Milby, BSED ’55 Betty J. (Groah) Norvell, MFA ’55 Edgar L. Rohrer, BFA ’55 Lance H. Sams, BSED ’55 Phyllis (McInturf) Brown, BSHEC ’56 Kenneth W. Bundy, BSED ’56 Nancy J. (Warren) Clemons, BSHEC ’56 Martin A. Cohn, BSCOM ’56 Donald W. Haddad, BFA ’56, MFA ’58 Lt. Col. (RET) Robert A. Lawson, BSCOM ’56 Donald I. Miller, BFA ’56 Roger L. Shepherd, BSME ’56 Gladys (Leshko) Shimek, BSED ’56 Marilyn B. (Lukso) Singley, BSED ’56 James H. Smith, BSEE ’56 William R. Stoos, BSCE ’56 Loretta (Schultis) Camp, BSED ’57 Dennis D. Dorogi, BFA ’57, MFA ’60 Joseph A. Fletcher, BSCE ’57 John W. Fuller, BSED ’57 Patricia A. (Dostal) Galbreath, AB ’57 Richard F. Kiebler, BSED ’57 Walter F. Manske, BSCOM ’57 Robert G. Robinson, BSCOM ’57 Ben G. Singley, BSCOM ’57 Norman D. Smart, BSED ’57

Daniel R. Stricker, General ’57 Thomas H. Teepen, BSJ ’57 John J. Warriner, BSCOM ’57 Patricia A. (Miller) Woolf, BFA ’57 Josephine (Hartshorne) Butler, BSED ’58 Allen Chin, BSME ’58 Randolph G. Coleman, BSCOM ’58 Glen Dieringer, BSED ’58 James A. Dusini, BSCOM ’58 Noah V. Garris, BSED ’58, MED ’59 Stanley C. Maschino, BSCOM ’58 John F. Masterson Jr., BSED ’58 Rita M. (Najonen) Petras, BSED ’58 John E. Sadler, BSAE ’58 Richard D. Smith, AB ’58 David A. Staver, BFA ’58 George K. Strode, BSJ ’58 Cecille (Pittenger) Brooks, BSED ’59 Joseph W. DiStefano, BSCOM ’59 Janet L. (Deem) Everson, AA ’59 Justine (Wojtkiewicz) Gauthier, BSCOM ’59 Robert F. McCarty, BSEE ’59 Larry J. Miller, BSCOM ’59 Jane Phillips, BSED ’59 R. Scott Stratton, BSME ’59 Meta M. (Clark) Wutrich, BSED ’59

1960s

Gerald A. Griffin, BSCOM ’60 Julie (Scarfo) Groux, MED ’60 Sherman I. Hauser, BSED ’60 Tom T. Hinkle, BS ’60 Donald L. Linkenbach, BSJ ’60 Richard E. Mayhew, BSED ’60 Norma E. (Anderson) McKinley, BSED ’60 Finley L. Ryan Jr., BS ’60 Theodore H. Yaple, BFA ’60 Donald T. Becker, BSCOM ’61 William F. Essman, BSCOM ’61

In memoriam

Sondra C. (Okin) Gill, BSJ ’61 Ronald J. Hay, BSCE ’61 Patricia M. (Hrynak) Kowalski, BSED ’61 Richard R. Thompson, BSJ ’61 Roger E. Ailes, BFA ’62, LLD ’89 James W. Kane, BSJ ’62 Robert S. Long, BSJ ’62 Howard W. Mansell, BSME ’62 Ray E. McGrath, BFA ’62 Joseph D. McKay, MED ’62 Barbara J. (Wise) Murray, AB ’62 Susan M. Noonan, AB ’62 Luther W. Sanders, MA ’62 Donna L. (Rife) Smallridge, BSED ’62 Mary J. (Embree) Stehmeyer, BSED ’62 Keith E. Steinman, BSED ’62 Marcia A. (Jones) Wallace, BSED ’62 Mary L. Wallace, BSED ’62 George H. Williams, BSCOM ’62 Richard H. Williams, BSCOM ’62 Paul H. Busby, BSED ’63 Lowell E. Dickason, BFA ’63 Betty L. Dickey, MBA ’63 David A. Dluzynski, BBA ’63 Jeffrey H. Marple, General ’63 Herbert P. Schmitt, MBA ’63 Paul W. (Ritchie) Becker, MS ’64, PHD ’67 Larry N. Froelich, BSJ ’64 Donna J. (Ice) George, BSED ’64 E. William Gourd, MFA ’64 Marshall L. Grant Jr., AB ’64 Jana Kathryn (Whitt) Litreal, BSED ’64 Joseph A. Lopez, BSED ’64 James F. Lorentz Jr., BBA ’64 Larry E. Reynolds, BBA ’64, MLS ’84 Terrence R. Tobey, BBA ’64 John A. Brennan, MS ’65

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Joseph D. Burris Jr., BSED ’65, MED ’66 James L. Filson, BSCHE ’65 Robert E. Geiger, MS ’65 William G. Heller, BSED ’65 Ernest R. Miklavic, BBA ’65 Martha May Newsom, MA ’65 James R. O’Connell, BSIT ’65 Richard K. Penn, BBA ’65 Judith (Dunlap) Boyd, BSED ’66 Howard N. French, BBA ’66 Christopher E. Hite, BBA ’66 Darryl K. Kenning, BBA ’66 Pearl H. Liang-Wei, BFA ’66 Linda (Hoffman) Newell, AB ’66 Susan (Solfisburg) Davis, BSED ’67 James R. Dorna, BBA ’67 Les J. Flynn, BSED ’67 John D. Fraley, BSCHE ’67 Michael V. Haley, BSED ’67 Gary A. Mauller, MED ’67 Lorine W. Neely Jr., BSED ’67 Hon. Richard S. Sheward, BBA ’67 Robert J. Smith, MED ’67 Sara L. (Gilfillen) Alley, BSED ’68 Robert B. Edwards, BSED ’68 Patricia C. (O’Doherty) Horsley, BSED ’68 Donald N. Kondik, BBA ’68 Betty (Cooper) Lindsley, BSED ’68 Marsha M. (Moore) Moore, BSJ ’68 Norman A. Paderewski, BSIT ’68 Dan D. Rauske, BBA ’68 Robert T. Sauers, BBA ’68 Willis J. Sommer Jr., MA ’68 William D. Sycks, AB ’68 Nicola L. (Warren) Calkin, BSED ’69 David O. Cunningham, BSJ ’69 Douglas W. Faris III, BBA ’69 Kenneth E. Gruss, BARCH ’69 Gregory A. McGinness, BSJ ’69

Jane A. (Strayer) Monroe, BSHEC ’69 Robert G. Robinson Jr., BSJ ’69 James P. Shannon Jr., BARCH ’69 Theodore M. York, BSC ’69

1970s

Kristine R. (Kulesza) Barger, BSED ’70 Barbara Pugh Daniel, MA ’70 Harold G. Harper, MFA ’70 Wilm (Hochberg) Heath, BSED ’70 John W. Huebsch Jr., MED ’70 Glenn A. Jeter, BSED ’70 Edwin Kelly, BSED ’70 Kenneth A. Long, BSED ’70 Michael J. Miller, BSED ’70 George S. Rivoli, MED ’70 Eric B. Sager, PHD ’70 Carolyn S. Whitener, MFA ’70 Mathew J. Wilson, MA ’70 Burton S. Bogart, MBA ’71 Susan I. Ellis, AB ’71 James R. Lilienthal, MA ’71 William B. Mason, MBA ’71 Susan D. (French) Ninow, BSED ’71 James A. Read, BSJ ’71 Norman A. Shamis, BGS ’71 Gregory A. Sikorski, AB ’71 Cheryl L. (Workman) Speidel, BSED ’71 Lawrence D. Weitzel, BBA ’71 Harriet C. Arnold, BSED ’72 Elizabeth A. Belford-Horan, BSED ’72, MED ’74, PHD ’76 Richard A. Clark, BSED ’72 Arthur A. Dillon, BBA ’72 Allen S. Kraps, BS ’72 James R. Miller, BSEE ’72 David J. Pokorny, PHD ’72 Carolyn L. (Gambill) Rhoads, BSED ’72 Mark L. Schaad, BFA ’72

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Alan D. Sturdevant, MED ’72, PHD ’79 Robert E. Tevlin, BSED ’72 Carol A. Vice, BSED ’72 James T. Bletner, MED ’73 Thomas W. Chapman, BSJ ’73 Jean L. Houghton, BSED ’73 Roberta R. (Kendig) John, BSED ’73 Sandra S. (O’Bannion) Pappas, BSED ’73, MED ’96 Anthony L. Perry, BSED ’73, MED ’81 Anna M. Prince, MS ’73, PHD ’82 David A. Sparks, BSCHE ’73 John M. Camuso, BSED ’74 Reid A. Davies, BBA ’74 Michael L. King, MED ’74 Jean B. Lester, BSED ’74 Katherine G. (Antonucci) Mitzel, BSED ’74 Kathleen J. (Fiser) Shackelford, MA ’74 Mary J. (Redmond) Smith, BSED ’74, MED ’78 Nancy Thirkield, BSED ’74, MED ’76 Sharon C. Tubb, BSED ’74 Wendell W. Williams, BSIT ’74 Janet (Lubov) Arnold, AAS ’75, BGS ’75 Lawrence E. Brown, BSJ ’75 Richard H. Perlmutter, BSED ’75 Betty L. (Flowers) Peters, BSJ ’75 James P. Ridenour, BSED ’75 Gary B. Smith, AB ’75 Beverly (Lewis) Gage, AAS ’76 Ken N. Howard, BBA ’76 Patricia (Parsons) Light, MS ’76 James Keith Palmer, BSIT ’76, MED ’09 Dennis W. Seinhart, BS ’76 Glenna V. Turner, MA ’77 Karen M. (Accardi) White, BFA ’77 David B. Foster, BBA ’78

David M. Kayser, BMUS ’78 Beverly Kraft Reed, BSN ’78 Alan E. Wagner, BBA ’78 James W. Asher, BSED ’79 Thomas P. Carney, BS ’79 Paul P. Cook, AA ’79 James G. England, BSCHE ’79 Keith D. Havens, BSCHE ’79 Carol B. Liston, BSED ’79 Kay Bloss Michael, MA ’79 Louis Szalontai, MBA ’79 Robert M. Wolodkiewicz, BBA ’79

1980s

David L. Burgert, BS ’80 Susan (Bloomer) Kanne, AB ’80 Craig R. O’Hare, BBA ’80, BBA ’84 Joan (Taylor) Peake, BS ’80 Roberta M. (Shupe) Wasem, AAS ’80 Gregory Wasil, BSJ ’80 Mark G. Eddy, MBA ’81 Thomas A. Fratino, BSEE ’81 Mona J. (Shroyer) Myers, BSN ’81 Cheri Ann Rassas, MA ’82 Susan Renee St. Clair, BSC ’82 Martha S. (Holtz) Visnic, BSN ’82 Michael John Barrett, BBA ’83 Andrew F. Clark, MAIA ’83 Michael R. Deal, BSC ’83 Virgil Jack Fields, BGS ’83 Ursula C. Lanning, MA ’83 Lori Ann (Tetlow) Witchey, BSED ’83 June A. (Bell) Worstall, BSN ’83 Michael C. Matter, MBA ’84 Todd A. Spring, BS ’84 Michael A. Helfferich, DO ’85 Lisa Anne (Shank) Merriman, BSC ’85 Ada J. (McBride) Parsons, MED ’85 Harriette M. Springer, General ’85

Robert P. Carretto, BS ’86 Ricky Dale Lawhun, BBA ’86 Bryce A. Morrison, AB ’86 Amy E. Rossie-Ashbaugh, BFA ’86, MA ’01 Rose N. Nardi, MBA ’87 Robin Carole Chalmers, BSC ’88 Kateryn B. (Gillen) Foss, BS ’88, DO ’94 Richard M. Paykoff, BBA ’88 Constance Elizabeth (Warnock) Hansen, BFA ’89 Roberta S. Gilmore Scherer, BSN ’89 Diana D. Greene Harris, AAB ’89 Michael E. Lawson, BSED ’89

1990s

Carolyn R. (Metzger) Fowler, AB ’90, BS ’90, MS ’92 T. Allen Richmond, BMUS ’90 C. Christopher Carbol, BSED ’91 Charles C. Hayes, MA ’91 Patricia Ruth (Deutsch) Molnar, BGS ’91 Christopher W. Schaeffer, MBA ’91 Matthew Patrick Coiner, BSC ’92 Timothy Eugene Crouch, DO ’92 Shane Michael Williams, BS ’92 Carolyn Montgomery Boyer, AS ’93 Gregory E. Rice, BSJ ’93 David Esman Tramer, BSC ’93 Debra L. (Dobbins) Alexander, AIS ’94, BSS ’00 Vickie R. (Caldwell) Emerson, BSS ’94 Bruce C. Misselwitz, MAPA ’94 Robert M. Harris, AIS ’95 William A. McAllister Jr., AA ’95, BSS ’99 Beth Christine (Trumbull) Cox, BS ’97 Mariellen Dolder Goode, BSN ’98

In memoriam

2000s

Marjorie Heyman, MSS ’00 Craig Joseph Muhlenkamp, BBA ’00 Rachel J. (Toothman) Nesbitt, BSC ’00 Joanna Rae Schaub, BSS ’00 Matt Scott Granzow, BBA ’01 Kathy Dawn Maybriar, BSC ’01 Joanne Risacher, PHD ’01 Daniel G. Davis, MBA ’02 Laura L. (Jasovsky) Rodriguez, BFA ’02 Russell Wayne Jeffers, AAB ’03 Gary L. Bergstrand, MSRSS ’04 Mark Allen Leppla, BA ’04 Matthew Allen Raike, BSC ’05 Drew McMillan Ferguson, BSRS ’06 John C. Holmes, BSC ’06 Adam Joseph Dalesandry, AA ’07, BSS ’11 Sean Patrick MacNicol, BS ’09 Mitchell L. Morsillo, BSS ’09

2010s

Chandra M. Bell, PHD ’10 Janice Lee Blackburn, MHA ’13 Vincent Anthony Carlotta, BA ’13 Bradley Allan Hawley, BSJ ’13 David James Nabel, BA ’13 Jordan Quinn Miller, BA ’16 Benjamin Alan Barber, BSN ’17 Brooke Noelle Fenton, BS ’17

Faculty/Staff

Margret A. Appel, Camarillo, Calif., professor emerita of psychology (1971-2007), College of Arts and Sciences, Nov. 8, 2016.

Connie S. Bighouse, Zaleski, Ohio, former account clerk (1991-2006), Finance and Administration, May 23.

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Adm. (RET) Robert D. Borchard, Guysville, Ohio, former associate professor of art, College of Fine Arts, May 10.

William H. Creighton Jr., Athens, Ohio, professor emeritus of industrial technology, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, Apr. 30.

Robert F. Dakin, Athens, Ohio, director emeritus of the Ohio Program for Intensive English (OPIE), College of Arts and Sciences, May 4.

Gifford B. Doxsee, Athens, Ohio, professor emeritus of history and former director of African Studies (1958-1994), College of Arts and Sciences, July 16.

Richard D. Koshel, Tucson, Ariz., former professor of physics and associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Aug. 8.

Paul R. MacCombs, The Plains, Ohio, former computer operator, Information and Technology, May 17.

Mary S. Marks, Athens, Ohio, former cook (1998-2016), Dining Services, Apr. 4.

Clyde McNeish Jr., Zanesville, Ohio, former maintenance repair worker (1975-2006), Ohio University Zanesville, May 24.

Allen Myers, St. Louis, Mo., professor emeritus of higher education administration, The Patton College of Education, July 7.

Keith Nyland, Waynesville, Mo., former history instructor, College of Arts and Sciences, Mar. 31.

Florajean Soult, Martins Ferry, Ohio, former library assistant, University Libraries, June 6.

Mary Nelle Stahl, Columbus, Ohio, retired librarian, University Libraries, Oct. 17, 2016.

Janice Lynn Steele, Athens, Ohio, former cook (1988-2011), Dining Services, June 27.

—Compiled by Jennifer Shutt Bowie, BSJ ’94, MS ’99, based on information received by the University’s Office of Advancement Services prior to Sept. 1, 2017.

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Geoffrey Dabelko is a renowned expert on security and the environment. He researches and draws connections between the environment, health, population, conflict, and security for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars. Professor, director of environmental studies, and associate dean at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Dabelko teaches courses on natural resources, conflict, and peacebuilding and environmental leadership. But he doesn’t do this work of global good only from his office at The Ridges. His love for adventure takes him to the Balkans, California, Washington, D.C., and beyond. ohiotoday asked Dabelko via email questions about the man behind the scholar. An excerpt from the Q&A follows. Find the complete Q&A on ohiotoday.org. —Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91

What would you do if you were invisible for a day? I’d sit next to a watering hole in the Serengeti during the great migration.

If you could choose your own nickname, what would it be? While I didn’t choose it, I’d have to say “Prof.” It is my trail name, given to me by friends in Kosovo during our Balkans Environmental Peacebuilding study abroad program. Prof is their way to acknowledge the informality of the trail, yet show respect to the old professor who tries hard to keep up on the steep trails of the Accursed Mountains.

What’s your favorite thing about one of your grandparents? Curiosity to travel, even when it isn’t easy. The three I knew well all had it.

WINTER 2018 G O O D W I L L

Ohio University students Emma Altomonte, left, Abby Osborn, and Sarah Daniels serve free meals at United Campus Ministry, a nonprofit that supports spiritual growth, community service, and social justice for the OHIO and Athens communities. Since 1993, thousands of Athens community members and OHIO students, faculty, and staff have provided more than 100,000 free meals to those in need. —Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02, OHIO photography supervisor at University Communications and Marketing

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In January 2018, the Jefferson Hall Marketplace—a retail operation within the Culinary Services program— will serve OHIO students and the Athens Community by accepting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the USDA’s largest program to combat domestic hunger, to buy products.

This effort is among many by OHIO and its Culinary Services unit to mitigate food insecurity on campus and in the region, one of Ohio’s poorest. Visit ohiotoday.org to learn more about OHIO’s efforts to eradicate food insecurity. Photo by Sarah Holm, BSVC ’18