3 alumni join MU board of trustees

Leaders in public administration, education and medicine have joined the Manchester University Board of Trustees. They are all Manchester graduates, with deep family ties to the institution.

Dustin Brown works in Washington D.C. in the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.

For the past four administrations, beginning in 2001, he has been the senior career executive responsible for improving the federal government’s results and performance. He also has responsibilities for helping to set the President’s Management Agenda, improving the public’s experience with government services, strengthening the federal workforce and increasing the use of evidence in decision-making.

For the past five years he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs in its Washington, D.C., center.

Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manchester, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, and holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

“I am proud that two of my great grandparents went to Manchester College, two of my grandparents actually met at Manchester. My mother went to Manchester (Judi Miller ’70 Brown), and I met my wife (Heidi Howiler ‘98 Brown) at Manchester. I also grew up in the town of North Manchester where my parents owned the Studio for years.”

Aaron L. Fetrow became president of Heritage Hall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in July 2021. Heritage Hall is a P12 independent school.

His Manchester connections also run long and deep. His wife is Jodi Pippenger ’95 Fetrow. His parents, Lonnie R. Lutz ’76 and Dr. Regan Richardson ’77 Fetrow Lutz

Brock, are also alumni . His stepmother, uncle, and his wife’s parents, sister and brother all graduated from Manchester.

“Manchester provided numerous members of our family and all our classmates with exposure to the liberal arts,” he said. “In addition, the lessons all of us learned inside and outside of the classroom reflect Manchester’s mission to produce graduates ‘who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives.’”

A former employment law attorney with the Indianabased law firm Baker & Daniels, he earned his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2003, a master’s degree in history from Truman State University in 1997 and a bachelor’s degree in history from Manchester.

Vice-chair of the Manchester Bold $45 million fundraising campaign, Har riet A Hamer, M.D., is staff anesthesiologist member of South East Anesthesiologists doing business as Midwest Anesthesia Consultants, working out of Beacon Memorial Hospital South Bend, and surrounding clinics, since 1991.

Her education background, including degrees held, includes Snider High School in Fort Wayne, 1976; Bachelor of Arts in biology- chemistry from Manchester, 1980; medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, 1984; transitional internship at Memorial Hospital South Bend, 19841985; emergency medicine residency, Louisiana State University, 1985-1987; anesthesiology residency, Indiana University, 1987-1990; and Indiana University South Bend, public health certificate, 1998.

Hamer is currently a volunteer with the Fischoff Chamber Music Board of Directors Executive Committee; Fundraising Committee “Planting for the Future” at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford.

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A vehicle driven by Aaron V. Maley, 37, Converse, struck a deer on State Road 218, west of America Road at 7:56 a.m. Jan. 21. Damage was estimated at between $2,501 and $5,000.

A vehicle driven by Jacob R. Banter, 22, North Manchester, went into a ditch on County Road 500 E, south of County Road 900 N, after Banter lost control on slick roadway at 5:35 a.m. Jan. 26. The vehicle struck a Frontier utility pole, snapping it in half. Damage was estimated at between $5,001 and $10,000. He was issued a summons for having no financial responsibility.

A vehicle driven by Jerald D. Love, 61, Marion, struck a deer on State Road 15, south of State Road 218 at 5:16 a.m. Jan. 24. Damage was estimated at between $5,001 and $10,000.

A vehicle driven by Levi S. Wright, 31, Wabash, struck a guardrail on East Salamonie Dam Road, south of Salamonie Dam Road, at 2:24 p.m. Jan. 22. Damage was estimated at between $2,501 and $5,000.

A vehicle driven by Logan E. Fingerle, 18, Roann, ran off the road on State Road 114, west of Country Road 1200 N, after Fingerle braked and slid on ice at 7:44 a.m. Jan. 23.