2003 Spring Edition

Toledo The University of

Alumni Magazine Spring 2003

UT’s strategic plan: OUR FUTURE on the board

The University of Toledo Alumni Association Officers and Trustees

from your associate vice president of Alumni Relations

President Robert A. Robinson ’74

Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again.

In December, I was given the opportunity — for which I am very grateful — to return to our alma mater and its Alumni Association. Nearly four years have passed since I left the University to join the Home Builders Association of Greater Toledo. The HBA’s members were wonderful and our organization enjoyed a period of phenomenal growth, but anyone who knows me knows that my heart has always been and will always be at 2801 West Bancroft Street.

My parents went to school here, as did my sister and I. It’s wonderful to think back on those days that were spent on campus as a child, a student, and later, as an employee. Throughout our lives, we seem to know when things feel right. This feels right. The nine years spent in the Alumni Office, first as an assistant director and later as director, were some of the most enjoyable moments in life. To be able to work, interact, laugh and cry with people who are committed to this institution and to the support of higher education is a privilege.

The return home comes with the understanding that things have changed in the past four years. After a period of turmoil, the University is again moving in the right direction under the leadership of President Dan Johnson and a board of trustees committed to involving our community in the process of shared governance. Although the clouds of financial uncertainty are swirling across the country, this University and its Alumni Association will survive and again thrive because of your pride and commitment to higher education.

Our campus is beautiful. Walking back to the Driscoll Alumni Center recently after an evening meeting, I looked up and saw the Tower. It was hard not to be struck by its elegance and strength. It then occurred to me that the symbol of our school is our heritage, representing all who came before us and all of those who will follow. And as I turned away, I couldn’t help but think how great it was to be home again.

I hope that you’ll come home often.

First Vice President Karen L. Fraker ’84 Second Vice President Theodore T. Hahn ’65, ’67 Secretary Barbara Berebitsky ’91 Treasurer Mark Stutler ’79 Past President Patricia Scharf ’56, ’62, ’75 Associate Vice President Dan Saevig ’84, ’89 One-Year Trustees Margaret Allen ’78, ’91 Darren H. Anderson** ’00 John W. Fleitz ’91, ’96 Mary-Ella Holst ’59 Lori A. Johnston ’83 Robert J. Schlembach* ’49 Two-Year Trustees Michelle L. Amato ’97 Norman A. Bell Sr. ’76, ’88 Gregg A. Dodd* ’96 Birdel F. Jackson** ’68 Maria M. Villagomez ’73 Rodney B. Walton** ’83 Three-Year Trustees Romualdo Brown ’92 James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79 Sally M. Wisner* ’89 Connie Zouhary ’81 Student Representative Alaina Giangiuli (appointed by Student Alumni Association) *Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

Dear fellow alum and other friends:

Sincerely yours,

Dan Saevig ’84, ’89 Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations

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cover story the mission, the vision............ page 16

feature changing destinies FEATURE

museum piece......................... page 10 save the children .................... page 12 tales of T-town........................ page 24

others UT news ................................. page 2 development........................... page 4 alumni news ........................... page 6

grisly history FEATURE

Volume 50, Number 3 SPRING 2003 Editor Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80 Contributing Writers Guy Beeman Kimyette Finley Paul Helgren Tom Waniewski ’78 Designer Liz Allen Photographers Bill Hartough Toledo Alumni is published three times a year in Fall, Winter and Spring by The University of Toledo Office of Alumni Relations.

Associate Vice President/Publisher Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

sports ...................................... page 8

Director, Alumni Programming Jeff Huffman ’89

chapter news........................... page 9

Assistant Director Eric Slough, ’95

class notes .............................. page 26

Outreach Coordinator Brian Weinblatt ’02

Toledo miscellany .................. page 33 walls & bridges MISCELLANY

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special State of University ................. page 22 on the cover: “It’s our move.” Photo by Jimages.

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Telephone 419.530.ALUM (2586) or 800.235.6766.

Fax 419.530.4994.

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Passion for truth lives on in brother’s tribute

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arl Joseph never completed his degree at The University of Toledo. First his political convictions and then World War II led him to drop out of school. But at the time of his death as a G.I. during the D-Day landings, the intensity of his beliefs had already impressed many people, including University President Philip Nash.

The wartime correspondence between the two men, described in an article that appeared in the Spring 2001 issue of Toledo Alumni Magazine, made clear how important books had always been to Carl. In fact, while serving in Italy with the U.S. Army, he took the time to purchase books that he sent back to Toledo as donations to the University’s library.

Nearly 60 years later, Albert Joseph (A/S ’50) chose his older brother’s love of books as the basis of a $200,000 estate-plan gift to UT’s Carlson Library.

“Carl was fascinated by books,” Joseph said. “I remember him always walking down the street, whistling loudly, with a pile of books under his arm.”

The plan allows library administrators to choose the books, which include history, sociology, labor history, political theory — titles representing the interests that Carl Joseph held.

Albert Joseph, who lives near Chicago, made the connection between books and actions when he said, “I hope that these books will reach students who care enough to research issues. Showing bravery the way Carl did, making the right decisions, standing up for what is right — they’re all based on having the most complete information.”

Dr. John Gaboury, dean of libraries, was excited by the potential the gift has for attracting similar gifts from others who want to see Carlson Library’s holdings expand. “There’s a special connection between The University of Toledo and members of the community. Even those who have become somewhat disenfranchised want the best for UT. Mr. Joseph’s gift represents a tribute from one family member to another, and it also shows that someone thinks the 2 TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003

Personal history. Bookplate from first Carl Joseph memorial collection. New collection will be similarly inscribed.

library is a pretty important part of the community. We hope that this will be a cornerstone of our development efforts, and attract other donors who might be interested in our other holdings: our special collections and our new art gallery on the fifth floor, for instance.” Potential donors interested in similar memorials can contact Gaboury at 419.530.2326.

Barbara Floyd, director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, noted that Albert’s gift was actually the second tribute to Carl made to the library. “After his death in 1944, several hundred people gave money to buy books in his memory. Many of these books, as well as the books Carl bought for the library, are still in the general collection.”

Not all of the many tributes over the years involved books. In the case of Carl Joseph Cieslikowski, the name of his father’s best friend was Carl Joseph’s legacy. As the younger Cieslikowski said during a telephone interview, “I was always aware that I was named after a man who had died in action, but I never had the opportunity to talk to my dad,

Zeny, about him, because my dad died so young.”

Although he grew up in Toledo, Carl Joseph Cieslikowski eventually moved to California. At his retirement, he and his wife made a three-month trip across the country that included a stop in his hometown, where he still had relatives. “Somehow, at my cousin’s house, Carl Joseph’s name came up and I wondered aloud if his family was still in Toledo,” Cieslikowski said. As it turned out, they were. Within days, members of the two families met at the home of Carl’s brother, Richard. “There had always been something in me that hankered to get at the roots of the man I was named after. During the course of our talk about Carl, things got so emotional that at one point everyone began crying, and we were literally sobbing for what seemed to be 10 or 15 minutes.

“It was one of the best moments, one of the most emotional days of my life, just learning about the person whose name I carried.” Cieslikowski, whose background is law enforcement, found many parallels between his life and that of the first Carl, including military service, work with labor unions, a passion for social causes, and a strong belief in higher education. They both even ran for public office.

“It’s hard to explain and I don’t want to sound too cosmic, but I think, looking back at his life, and looking back at my life, and what good friends he and my dad were — sometimes I feel he’s walked with me. And now after meeting with the family — well, the more I know about him, the prouder I am to be named after him.” 

Erratum: In the Winter 2003 issue, we incorrectly identified the UT alumnus who was honored during Homecoming by the College of Engineering’s M.I.M.E. department. He is in fact Dr. Gerald Jakubowski. We apologize for the mistake.

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Groundbreaking. Backed by some of the accessories of the trade, Toledo Mayor Jack Ford speaks at dedication of UT's construction training program.

Constructing pool of local talent from ground up

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he University’s newest foray into construction isn’t a residence hall or an addition to the Student Union. It’s taking place in the classroom, and it’s already been called by Ohio Governor Bob Taft “a model of cooperation that will be replicated around Ohio and the nation.” It’s also garnered a pledge of $1.34 million in state funds.

For a program that was inaugurated in January, all this is pretty splashy stuff.

But the Capacity-Building Program in Construction is only beginning to show its potential, promised Kenneth Dobson, UT director of economic development and adjunct associate professor for University College. “I’m incredibly excited as to how far this project can go,” he said.

“We’re on the cutting edge of introducing to the national consciousness a different way of doing things.

“The program is a market-driven approach to developing contractors and subcontractors in the state to make up for a shortage of both. It gives entrepreneurs the knowledge base to increase production and productivity. Politically, it’s called affirmative action because it targets

disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs), but it doesn’t deal with quotas or set asides.”

The majority of individuals enrolled in the program are longtime owners of small construction businesses; others are experienced in construction but not owners. And some are students who as yet have no experience in construction.

In fact, Gov. Taft’s $1.34 million pledge is earmarked for expanding this last group, by way of making the construction industry more attractive to students, many of whom are unaware of how lucrative an income it can afford. “We will be working with Toledo Public Schools to market the potential of the construction industry for students as either a variety of or alternative to a four-year college degree,” Dobson said.

Program participants learn all the basics necessary to be a successful contractor. “They’re taken through the steps of how to prepare a bid, how to estimate costs, how to make money on a project,” Dobson said.

Dobson, who took the lead in developing the project and based the model

partly out of his experiences as executive vice president of the Port Authority of Kansas City, also noted that UT is excellently positioned to answer Gov. Taft’s call for innovations in construction technologies, and for training in existing technologies. “Just as one example, someone who operated an earth mover — a bulldozer — in 1998 would not be able to do the same now because the vehicle has become digitized. Micro-processing systems have been added to the dozer; in fact, they’ve merged with the mechanical systems. This is high technology that requires training. The University can provide it, and at the same time, our academic departments can innovate in the exploding field of ‘smart construction.’”

Partners in the community include large area construction companies and the Associated General Contractors of Northwest Ohio. Since the former will be hiring contractors, it was only logical to involve them in the training process as co-teachers. As Dobson put it, “When contracts are being awarded, there are no excuses about not hiring these minority- and women-owned contractors, because we have identified them and the construction companies have helped train them.” Onsite mentoring is also part of the model.

“All this is coalition-building,” Dobson said. “And it places the University at the center, so that companies see us as a resource for the future.”

In fact, one of world’s largest construction firms is Turner Construction Co., whose online university offers nine courses in construction. Thanks to Turner’s Jim Mitnick and Thomas Manahan of Toledo’s The Lathrop Co., the company waived tuition fees for students who have come out of the UT program, to the tune of $1 million.

The program utilizes 5,500 square feet of space at Scott Park campus that includes a lab with 15 computers and the latest software in the field.

“We expect companies coming out of program to gross between $150,000 and $500,000 a year in the first two or three years,” Dobson said. “As the program’s principles say, ‘Learn to earn, know to grow, and see it, believe it and achieve it.’” 

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Teacher, mentor, friend to be honored

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or a long time, anyone who attended a UT graduation saw Art Black (A/S ’41, MS ’48).

The University of Toledo professor of chemistry carried the University mace during commencement ceremonies for more than 20 years. It was an honor paid by UT to one of its most dedicated faculty members and proudest alums. Now, three years after his death, the department of chemistry is hoping to bestow another honor: the Arthur H. Black Professor or Chair of Chemistry.

Dr. Jon Kirchoff, associate chair of the chemistry department, noted that Black’s reputation, built in the course of a 60-year career at the University, “was that of one of those rare people universally liked and respected.” The lifelong Toledoan who taught chemistry for 50 years also served the University as an administrator, actively supported the UT Alumni Association (which awarded him the Blue T in 1977), and was a faculty adviser to two fraternities.

He had wide sympathies and lived for a wider community. Although Black was a renowned raconteur much in demand for his talks on UT, on scientific advances, and even on graphology, his actions matched his convictions and his quick wit. Dr. Lance Thompson, professor emeritus of chemistry, recalled his own 1958 hiring as the University’s first black faculty member. “When they asked who would consider this black guy as an office partner, Art’s was the only hand that went up.

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Leading man. Black at head of commencement procession.

ence in Chicago — during that period when race relations were tumultuous — we entered the hotel together and the clerk looked at our reservations. He said to Art, ‘Dr. Thompson?’ ‘No, I’m Black,’ Art answered.”

“I couldn’t get over the number of men at the funeral home who said to me, ‘Art was my best friend,’” recalled his widow, Virginia.

Black and his wife created the Art and Virginia Black Scholarship in chemistry and the Arthur H. Black Award for students in analytical chemistry. The department of chemistry now hopes that by raising the necessary $1 million for a professorship or the $2 million for an endowed chair in Black’s name, the already internationally recognized department will enter its next stage of growth.

“Enrollment in chemistry has steadily increased, as chemistry courses are critical components of many UT programs,” Kirchoff said. “Establishing an endowed professorship is one strategy that will allow the department to address the

enrollment growth, plus the University will benefit from the additional high level activities in teaching, research and service.”

The department’s goal is to raise the funds within three to five years.

Those interested in assisting can contact Mary Morrison, director of development in the office of institutional advancement, at 419.530.4134.

Black, a strong proponent of science’s importance in a changing world, said in a 1983 interview, “I think the role of higher education is changing. There is an attempt to integrate new programs in all areas to fit the needs of society. If not, we don’t make progress in the arts, engineering or business. Scientifically trained people will be getting involved in political life as members of their community, state and nation; they must lend their expertise to people dealing with social problems.” 

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Campaign set to launch UT’s future, improve here and now

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ll strong projects begin with a well-defined concept, and The University of Toledo’s new capital campaign is no exception.

Campaign planners have kept as their inspiration President Daniel Johnson’s view of the University’s future. (See article on Page 22 for a glimpse of that vision.) In fact, a phrase Johnson used in a speech to the UT community provided the cue for the campaign’s theme: “The future…a vision of promise.”

Conceptualization gave way to active planning. Some two dozen University and community leaders are now pooling their talents to serve on the campaign planning committee. Members are carefully studying UT’s strategic plan (covered at length beginning on Page 16) to give direction and focus to the upcoming fund-raising effort. “The capital campaign uses the strategic plan as its foundation,” said Vern Snyder, vice president of institutional advancement. “Actually, it will do more than that — the campaign will actively support the University strategic plan. For example, funds from the capital campaign will provide fiscal support for the upgrades necessary to an active and growing campus.

“Additionally, endowments flow from a capital campaign. Endowed chairs and professorships help attract top-flight faculty and students to UT.” Likewise, the long range facilities master plan, which looks 10 years into the future to project the physical development of the campus, takes its cue from the strategic plan and anticipated resources, according to Daniel Klett, director of Facilities Planning. He continued, “The capital campaign will provide the resources to implement some of the campus improvements proposed in the long range facilities master plan. Those could include property acquisition or redistribution, new buildings, additions and renovations, landscape and site development, and utility infrastructure improvements.”

Snyder pointed out that with state funding for higher education being reduced dramatically — more multi-million-dollar cuts came in the spring— some portion of the monies necessary to continue to improve the University must

come from sources outside UT’s operating budget. “Now more than ever, private support is critical for the University to meet its plans and goals.”

To set those goals and determine the direction for the campaign, the planning committee, by working closely with the objectives of the University’s strategic plan, will first identify campaign priorities.

“That means pinpointing the needs within each major unit of the University — from academics to scholarships to building maintenance to campus improvements,” Snyder said. “The strategic plan will provide critical direction at this juncture.”

Once these priorities are approved

by President Johnson, the committee will enlist the help of UT’s Office of Institutional Advancement. The two groups will hammer out a Campaign Case for Support, which will also go to Johnson for approval.

The committee’s recommendation to the president for the dollar goal of the campaign will be based on a feasibility study conducted by Ketchum Inc., a national fund-raising consultation firm.

The study, now completed, gathered input from community leaders and current and prospective donors to help the committee decide on a realistic goal. “Given today’s economic climate, this is a crucial consideration,” Snyder noted.

The vision thing. “In accepting this vision of the future, we accept the added responsibility…to mount and carry out an effective, successful and visionary capital campaign,” Johnson told UT audience in January.

“The success of the $52 million UT 40 Campaign is something we can build on to meet the challenges and the opportunities of the new century,” he finished. “We’re ready to take The University of Toledo to the next level in its ability to serve our students and our community.” 

Giving voice to UT spirit. Dennis Sheaffer, vice president and general manager of telecommunications company Alltel, is well dressed for any UT sport, which is understandable. Mike Karabin, senior associate director of intercollegiate athletics, said, “Alltel has been one of our most consistent sponsors and corporate friends of Athletics. That’s been for the long haul, through thick and thin.” They’ve also been front and center with tickets and advertising, and helped bring other companies onboard to support UT Athletics, as well as being longtime Glass Bowl suite owners. Another major UT sports fan, Dan Saevig, associate vice president for alumni relations, said, “People like Dennis are as much super-fans as our noisiest supporters in the Rocket Fanatics section.”

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship winners announced

Ring’s the thing

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he University of Toledo is instituting a one-class-ring program to enable students and alumni to purchase a ring that will reflect their time at UT. “Over the years, a wide variety of ordinary customized class rings have been available,” said Dan Saevig, associate vice president for Alumni Relations. “This ring, in contrast, will symbolically capture the essence of the University and will

Poised for success. Left to right, Henderson, Dr. Johnson, Cole, Sanders and Seay.

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hree University of Toledo students, recipients of the University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship, were awarded $1,500 to help further their studies.

The recipients were recognized at the scholarship’s annual benefit dinner in January. The guest speaker was Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Bennett College, one of two historically black colleges for women in the United States.

The one-year scholarships are awarded to qualified students based on GPA, extracurricular activities, civic and community service and professional goals.

The recipients are: • Karen E. Henderson, Toledo, a junior in the College of Health and Human Services. Deciding to return to college after 20 years, she earned her associate’s degree in mental health, and recently began working on her bachelor’s degree in social work. Her community service activities include membership in AmeriCorps, the Family House Shelter Residential Programming Committee, volunteering at Helping Hands of St. Louis, and serving as a basic needs and outreach worker at Toledo’s Friendly Center.

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• Jamaal K. Sanders, Warrensville Heights, Ohio, a senior information systems major in the College of Business Administration. He’s the president of the UT chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Black Student Union external affairs director, and the financial affairs coordinator of the Student African American Brotherhood. His community service activities include participating in Big Brothers of America, serving as an usher board community outreach leader at his church, and organizing a group of students to pass out literature and provide rides for voters in Toledo.

• Nancy P. Seay, Toledo, a sophomore majoring in adolescent education and history in the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences.

She is a graduate of the Northwest Ohio Practical Nurse Training Center and the Outreach Bible Training School. Seay also received a certificate from the American Red Cross in AIDS/HIV education. She serves on the board of directors for Rahab House Ministries in Toledo, has volunteered with the AmeriCorps/VISTA programs, and has served as a nurse and health teacher in Gambia, West Africa.  — Kimyette Finley, public relations department

forever link our students and alumni across the country and around the world. Alums may be in an airport, on a job interview or at a board meeting and notice the rings of other UT graduates. No matter when you attended The University of Toledo, there will be a certain bond now for those individuals who wear the ‘official’ UT class ring.”

A committee made up of students, alumni and administrators narrowed the ring choices down to the three shown, which were then voted on by students and alumni via the Web. The winning ring will be unveiled on Oct. 11 during the Homecoming game against Eastern Michigan. 

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Making a career out of it

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niversity of Toledo sophomore Brian Fisher is planning ahead.

Even though he has two more years until he graduates from the College of Business, he is planting seeds now for his future career. Brian was one of more than 100 students who connected with UT alumni during the Rocket2Rocket career networking reception in February.

“I wanted to meet face to face with alumni, get my name out there, and have conversations with some interesting people,” Fisher said.

The event, sponsored by the Student Alumni Association (SAA) and Career Services, was a free, casual forum for students to meet with alumni representing various professions about career options, college advice, and to network with a possible future employer. “This is a great opportunity for students to talk with people that work in the real world. They gain something that is not in the textbooks,” noted Constance D. Zouhary ’81, executive vice president of Buckenmeyer & King CPAs. Not only does Rocket2Rocket connect students to alumni, but it is also a strategic instrument to recruit active alumni members as students. UT alum Rob Robinson ’74, CEO of CWS Advis-

Trading futures. Amid a crowd of students and professionals, Jim Findlay, ’48, chairman of Findlay Business Partners Ltd., shares advice.

ers Ltd., pointed out, “The benefits are two-fold. Students gain the personal business connections so they are not one of 2,500 resumes, while the University and Alumni Association benefit by getting students involved in alumni activities so they may further be active as alumni.”

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get a jump-start on their careers.

Rocket2Rocket gave the students this opportunity. “There was tremendous twoway communication and interaction among students and alumni,” said Derek Rush, SAA vice president for special events.  — Guy Beeman, vice president, communications, SAA

Spring Commencement - Business College Breakfast Reception Annual Meeting - Sylvania Country Club University College Affiliate Mud Hens Game

JUNE Faces behind the hot dogs. Tony Packo Jr. and Jeff Hart, director of food production, stop running one of company forklifts long enough to receive a plaque of appreciation from Jeff Huffman, then interim executive director of alumni relations, on behalf of the Alumni Association. “Tony and his family have supported UT alumni events for years,” Huffman said. “People know that it’s going to be a good party when the Tony Packo hot dogs arrive.” The landmark Toledo restaurant has been an integral part of the city’s folklore for many years.

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UT Retirees day trip to Titanic Exhibit in Detroit Golden Alumni Society Dinner at Inverness UT Retirees Annual Dinner at Inverness Club

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Art on the Mall Benefit Party Art on the Mall

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Varsity T Hall of Famers

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he University of Toledo’s Varsity T Hall of Fame inducted seven new members into its ranks in January. Entering the ranks of UT’s sports greats are: Dr. Don Baker, football (1961-1963). From 1961-63, Baker lettered in football under coaches Clive Rush and Frank Lauterbur. He played five different positions (fullback, halfback, defensive back, guard and defensive middle guard).

In his final season, he had 33 tackles. He served as an assistant football coach at UT with the undefeated MAC champion teams from 1969 and 1970. Currently a Toledo physician and Baker lifelong supporter of UT athletics, Baker is a past member of the UT Foundation Board, a member of the President’s Club and a sponsor of the Baker Scholarship Fund.

Bill Fennelly, women’s basketball coach (19881995). Fennelly put women’s basketball on the map at UT, leading the Rockets to three NCAA Tournament berths and three WNIT berths in seven seasons. He was a two-time MAC Coach of the Year and was named the District IV Coach of the Year in 1990-91. Fennelly’s record at UT was 166-53, at the time the most wins in school history. His teams were even more impressive in the MAC with a 94-24 record. Under his guidance, the Rockets won 31 straight home games. He has Fennelly since built a highly successful program at Iowa State.

Byron Harris, men’s track and field (1981-1984).

One of the greatest sprinters in UT history, Harris was an All-American in the 60-yard dash in 1983, as well as a twotime MAC and CCC champion in the 60-yard dash. As a junior, he was an NCAA qualifier, an NCAA All-American and a MAC champion in the 100-meter dash. As a senior, he became UT’s record holder in the 100-meter dash (10.30) and MAC champion in the 400-meter relay (40.96). He still owns the second fastest 200-meter time of any UT athlete (21.01) and the fastest indoors 55-meter time (6.13). Harris is in his 18th year as a teacher in the Toledo Public Schools.

Andy McCollum, football (1989-1992). McCollum Harris was an All-MAC offensive lineman who became an even bigger success following his playing days as a Rocket.

An offensive guard, McCollum received first team All-MAC honors his junior and senior seasons (1991-1992). He was also on the Academic All-MAC team all four years he played for the Rockets and was a member of the 1990 MAC co-championship team that finished 9-2. McCollum was an undrafted signee with the New Orleans Saints after his UT career ended.

He later was traded to the St. Louis Rams, where he started in two Super Bowls (2000 and 2002) at center.

Reyna Smith, women’s swimming and diving (1993-1997). The most dominating female diver in the history McCollum of the Mid-American Conference, Smith was four-time MAC Diver of the Year (1994-97) and was named NCAA All-American in the three-meter in 1995. The seven-time MAC Champion is the MAC and UT recordholder on the three-meter board (493.60) and the UT recordholder in the onemeter (417.90). Smith is a licensed chiropractor and an avid supporter of the UT swimming and diving program.

Craig Thames, men’s basketball (1992-96). Thames was one of the most 8 TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003

prolific scorers in UT basketball history.

He set the UT record for points in one season as a senior with 699 in 1995-96.

He averaged 21.8 points that year, the last Rocket to average more than 20 points a game.

His best scoring game was 37 points against Central Michigan in his senior season. Thames is UT’s all-time leader with 207 career steals and holds the singleSmith season record with 82 steals in 1995-96. He also is UT’s all-time leader with 3,947 minutes played and is third in career three-pointers with 139.

Thames made second-team AllMAC as a sophoThames more in 1993-94, and first-team AllMAC in 1994-95 and 1995-96.

Jerry Wager, wrestling, (19561959). Wager was a champion wrestler at UT in the 1950s, as well as a boxer and football player.

Wager He was an alternate for the U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Team in 1956 before moving on to become an accomplished wrestler at UT. He won the MAC wrestling title in 1957 and finished runner-up in 1958. As a sophomore, Wager was an Interstate Intercollegiate Individual Invitational (4-I) Champion and a runner-up in the Golden Glove boxing competition. After a period of coaching at UT, he went on to coach the USA World Wrestling Team, where his team won seven consecutive World Championships. The retired probation officer has been a FILA referee and judge since 1962.  — Paul Helgren, athletic media relations office

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Parties and feasts are all big on fun

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on’t be fooled by the relative size of the photographs; every time UT chapter alumni get together — whether it’s for a pre-game brunch, a formal evening soiree or an afternoon barbeque with Tony Packo hot dogs — the enjoyment factor is life-sized. This time, the emphasis is on the South and the West, but the Alumni Association reminds all chapter presidents to send in photographs and reports on alumni events. (And for those enthusiastic photographers who have gone digital, we remind you that cameras need to provide pictures which are at least 300 dpi [dots per inch] to be printed in Toledo Alumni Magazine.)

Waiting for the appetizers. A gathering of the Gold Coast chapter in Boca Raton, Fla., was rarin’ to begin the celebration. Standing, left to right, Lt. Col. Philip and Bea Woolaver, Marvin Krutchik. Seated, Peg and Keno Hatfield, Elaine Krutchik.

Florida blooms. Fort Myers sunshine crew Nancy Gilbert, Molly and Tom Schnell, Homer Gilbert.

Two generations. In Orlando, Fla., Kirk and Bernadine Kirkpatrick (far right and far left) shared a table with their daughter, Terry Rentner.

Semi-serious moment. Looking for all the world like subjects of a formal portrait, Phoenix revelers stop long enough for a Rembrandt moment. Left to right, Mary Morrison, Roland Hansen, UT Athletic Director Mike O’Brien, party hosts Jackie and Chuck Sullivan, and Lorraine and Garry Hansen.

Cheers! A warm Orlando hello from Dave Lentz and Denise Logan.

Almost P (for Packo) hour. A Tony Packo party in Clearwater, Fla., brought together Jennifer and Robert Dennis, and Chuck and Geri Yeager for some of that one-of-a-kind Toledo comestible.

Special guests. Elaine and Dr. Dan Johnson also enjoyed the hospitality of the Sullivans at their Arizona home.

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Peaceful days

of studies mixed with smiles, and a

Reliving history.

gruesome death on the frontier They seem

worlds apart,

but they’re all

familiar history to UT alumna

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“Burning at the stake is universally regarded as among the most terrible tortures that human cruelty can inflict.

But the Delaware chiefs had prepared for the brave Crawford an agony more intense and protracted than that of the licking flames, they roasted him alive! The fires were placed at a distance of some fifteen feet from the stake and within that dreadful circle for three and a half hours he suffered an almost inconceivable physical torment, which death would have terminated in onetenth part the time if the fagots had been piled close around him.”

— from “History of Washington County, Pennsylvania,” edited by Boyd Crumrine, 1882 Even the most dedicated Ohio booster would have a hard time working up enthusiasm over a nondescript creekbottom in Wyandot County. On the sort of cold December morning that makes the frozen grass crunch like broken glass underfoot, even the few crows working the small triangle of land seem bored. It’s hard to

imagine anything more dramatic for the setting than a stray cow wandering down the adjacent State Route 199.

However, Christie Raber (MA ’03), director of the Wyandot County Historical Society, knows better. She unrolled the story at the society’s museum in Upper Sandusky, sitting at the kitchen table that serves as her office work area: “In 1782, just a year before the Revolutionary War ended, an American militia headed by Col. William Crawford engaged the British and their Delaware allies.

Crawford was captured and later burned at the stake by the Delaware.” Hard by the very spot where the jaded-looking crows were hoping to scrounge a lunch, in fact.

Raber noted that although the precise location is unknown, contemporary accounts place the execution at a piece of slightly elevated ground in the creek bottom, now a short distance northeast of the village of Crawford. The military engagement that led to Crawford’s capture happened three miles north of Upper Sandusky, the Americans taking cover in a copse of trees still called Battle Island. Crawford’s militiamen were forced to retreat in the face of a superior force; Crawford evaded his British opponents but was taken prisoner by a contingent of Delaware and Shawnee.

It just goes to prove that history is alive and compelling in Wyandot County. The museum in Upper Sandusky is the 1853 mansion of the city’s prominent mercantile family, the Beerys. A grandson of Isaac and Leefe (Fowler) Beery donated the 11-room home to the historical society in 1961. Today, it houses a collection of artifacts that range from a two-horned non-stereo gramophone to Indian arrowheads and stone tools to Victorian toys to a stuffed armadillo. Raber frowned slightly at the last: “I’m not crazy about stuffed animals in general, because my own area of

expertise isn’t natural history, but the kids who come to the museum love all our animals.”

Attracting the next generation, sometimes identified as being history-challenged, to the museum remains one of Raber’s prime concerns.

“That’s something that all historical societies have struggled with. Children are your future — you have to start an interest in history early. I think that local history is the best way to do it. Young kids find the abstract concepts of American history too broad, not easy to visualize. With local history, they can go somewhere nearby and say, ‘Right here on this spot...’ It gives them a better grasp of time and place.”

In 1999, the society initiated a history program especially for kindergarten through the sixth grade. “It’s been very successful; we’ve had as many as 50 kids from all over the county participate. It’s been about everything from WWII to children’s lives in the 19th century.”

Another very popular effort was “Indian Village — 1790,” a collaboration between several agencies.

“There are so many misconceptions about Indian life,” Raber said. “And sometimes in other living-history events, Indian tribes are just sort of thrown in along with everyone else, and a definite timeline is lacking. We had almost 30 Eastern Woodland Indian reenactors covering every aspect of culture in 1790. Our goal was to educate people about what a typical Indian village in the Sandusky Plain would have looked like at that specific time. It was a teaching situation, with special lectures and demonstrations every hour.” In addition, some visitors had a chance to take part in a nighttime program, escorted by lantern-light to five campfires to “eavesdrop” on conversations between the villagers.

Raber explained, “The Wyandot Indian nation represented the last tribe to leave

Ohio. They were relocated in 1843 to Kansas City. From 1818 until that time, they had lived on a reservation. Some of the structures they built are still standing — there’s the 1824 mission church and Indian Mill, which was rebuilt after the Civil War when the original 1820 structure, given to the Wyandot as part of a treaty, burned down.”

The lives of area’s European-descended settlers are reflected in many of the museum’s holdings. Most of the pieces have been donated from residents of Wyandot and adjacent counties. “It’s become a sort of repository of family artifacts, which keeps a lot of people coming back every year to see greatuncle’s rocker or grandma’s butter churn. It’s almost like a shrine for some people, and they sometimes get upset if things that they came to see aren’t out. But we try to rotate the displays, both for variety and to preserve what we have.”

Is Raber successful at interesting the familial pilgrims in a wider view of history? She laughed, “Sometimes I am, sometimes I’m not — but I try.

“It’s a natural human tendency to want to see reflections of ourselves in what we’re trying to understand. It’s my job to help people to connect with history, and family heirlooms aren’t a bad place to start. Having a piece of themselves here at the museum is a kind of immortality, in a way.”

Working for a historical society founded in 1929 — and initially housed in the county courthouse — doesn’t prevent Raber Raber with museum’s hottest piece of memorabilia: reproduction of 19th-c. painting depicting Col. Crawford’s execution.

from moving traditions into the 21st century. “I don’t want people to think of us as a curiosity, as a musty place where you can’t touch anything, where there are all kinds of rules and regulations.” With her professional training in history, she credits her strong emphasis on educating the public to “having a husband and two parents who are teachers. I guess I come to it via osmosis.”

And the public’s view of Col. Crawford, whose military officer’s sword may or may not reside at the museum? (The artifact, supposedly broken into three pieces by Crawford himself upon capture to avoid the dishonor of being executed with it, remains unauthenticated, despite strong local legend in its favor.) “He’s still a big hero out here. Wyandot County has so many monuments to Col. Crawford, and he wasn’t even from this county — he was only here for a couple of days!”

Information about the Wyandot County Museum and its twin facility, the McCutchen Overland Inn, can be found on the historical society’s Web site: wyandotonline.com/wchs.  TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003 11

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Rich Carr (A/S ’79, Law ’83) sits in his office and quietly tells a story. Many stories. He doesn’t have to raise his voice for emphasis; the narratives provide their own. They’re stories about young girls abandoned by their familes and trying to survive on the streets.

Girls sold into prostitution or held as sex slaves to bring their families money. Stories of six-year-olds put to work scavenging through a steaming, stinking garbage dump as high as a two-story building, their lungs already wheezing like ancient concertinas as the children scramble through the toxic residue of a metropolitan society.

The stories are set in Guatemala, some 350 miles south of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The repeating motif of economic and social dead ends is tragically familiar to people who regularly follow Central America. As for many other Americans, Carr noted, “They don’t realize that this is happening in a place so close to our own borders.”

Until 1993, Carr was one of those Americans. That was the year he traveled to Guatemala City, a capital of three million, to adopt a child — one of thousands of orphans who otherwise would be living in airless huts adjacent to the city’s dump and destined to spend their lives up to their knees and waists in rotting refuse. “Long after I came back, I couldn’t get the image of the dump out of my mind,” he said.

At the time, Carr was president of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Maumee, Ohio, and president of the local Rotary Club — positions, he decided, ideally suited to organizing volunteers. “Ten people from each group went down. A Rotary Club in Guatemala had started a home for abused girls, and Dr. Hector Ramirez, who lives in Toledo but was born in Guatemala, made the necessary contacts for us to start a second home. The Maumee 12 TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003

[“No child should have to spend a day in a place like that”]

Views of neighborhoods in need.

Rotary raised $80,000 for the project.

“We felt that even if we couldn’t change the society that the girls lived in, we could make a difference. Some of the girls were 12 or 13 and had never been in school in their lives. We try to give them hope. And they have dreams. One wants to become an elementary school teacher, another one wants to be an accountant, a third one is working toward becoming a bilingual secretary by learning English at the home. If they can get educated, they can get jobs in Guatemala and they can survive, possibly breaking some of the cycles of abuse.”

The home that makes such dreams possible is one of several in Guatemala run by Fundaninas, a nonprofit organization that acts as the legal guardian to the girls who come to live at the homes. In addition to complete medical and dental care, the girls receive psychological counseling to help them deal with the trauma of the abuse and exploitation that brought them to Fundaninas. Catholic sisters of various orders manage the homes (the home sponsored by St. Paul’s is run by Grey Nuns), and special teachers provide education from primary to tenth grade, with vocational training a part of the curriculum.

Carr noted that the home with ties to Toledo represents a study in bureaucratic cooperation. “The land for the two homes was donated by the Guatemalan government, financial operations are overseen by mainly women Rotarians from the city, members of St. Paul’s sponsor the girls and the church raises operating funds. It’s an awesome combination of church, government and private sector working together.”

The home represents only a part of the overall local effort to change lives. Carr offered a statistic: “When we first went down to Guatemala City, mortality for children living near the dump was 30 percent in their first two years of life. The Rotary Club and St. Paul’s started a program where children can attend a nursery until they’re six years old, and receive milk and formula. The mortality rate is down to a single digit now.

“We have 350 children in the nursery, but we’re going to

expand that because the government changed the law so that children aren’t permitted to work in the dump until they’re nine. But no child should have to spend a day in a place like that.”All the children working in the dump, Carr said, have upper respiratory infections: “You put your hand on their chests and you can feel the rattle. The nursery has medical equipment to treat them, and every time we go down, we take new clothes for them, because theirs are naturally dirty. We try to keep track of each child from year to year, but…” His voice trailed off, then he continued, “10,000 people live in immediate area of dump. 6,000 of them are children.

They scavenge for recyclables to sell.

They live in wood-and-tin shacks with dirt floors. If you take a single-car garage in America, you could fit three of their homes in it.”

Repeated trips to the city — Carr has made seven so far — create a familiarity with the dump that somehow never allows it to become less appalling. “It’s an odd thing to watch the garbage trucks arrive at the dump. This is in a city of three million people, so the trucks come constantly — and the people at the dump just dive in as soon as the trucks unload. Each person has a particular area that he or she works.

“One thing we found is that the people at the dump created their own informal system of government. All the leaders are women. That seems to be something that happens in places with extreme poverty — the men turn to alcohol and the women take over making decisions, not by choice but because someone has to do it.

“I watched one woman for four days while she was working in the middle of a big pile of cardboard boxes. She had four children; the youngest was an infant that she would breast-feed right there in the dump while the buzzards circled around, and the pigs and the rats. The other kids were playing alongside, and when a vulture would land, I swear it was bigger than the oldest child — but the kids were oblivious to it. It was just part of their life."

The picture may be a discouraging one, but Carr said that the project keeps its eyes on individual victories. One way of securing such victories is through sponsorships. “It costs $600 to take care of a girl’s needs for an entire year.

But what’s more important than the money is that the sponsoring families and the girls write back and forth. The contact and encouragement are important. The girl that I sponsor was 11 years old when I met her. She had been at the home for only three days after being taken out of her family, where she was sexually abused. Now she’s 16 and one of the leaders at the home. She gets all A’s and B’s

in school, and her potential is virtually unlimited.”

The home in Mazatenango, with a capacity for 50 girls, now holds 33, from every region of Guatemala.

“Each one of them is sponsored,” Carr said. “And each one has a story. One little girl is from a seaport, where she worked selling the fish her family caught. Her parents would beat her if she didn’t sell them all. She was in a hospital when Fundaninas came for her.

“There’s no welfare system in Guatemala. We had a case where a woman’s husband left her, so she remarried quickly, just to have a household income to support her and her four children. To make sure he wouldn’t leave her the way her first husband did, she would bring her oldest daughter in to him for sex. We got the girl out, and now she seems to be doing very well —but who knows what the long-term psychological scars will be like?

“We go down there for a week and make their world wonderful, but there’s still a lot of pain inside. That’s why we’ve got social workers and psychologists to help them every day.”

He was quick to downplay any sense that what he was doing was exceptional, emphasizing that he was just one of many people committed to the project: “Here I’d never been out of the United States until I was 35 years old.

You’re never too old or young to help.” In fact, both legal assistant Judy Kwaitkowski and secretary Monica Hamilton of the law office of Balk, Hess & Miller, where Carr works, take part. “We work on the Guatemalan project out of the office every day of the year. Sometimes it’s just for an hour or so, but we’re is involved because we want to be.” All three travel to the home each year.

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Some of the nursery program‘s children

[“Here I’d never been out of the United States until I was 35 years old.

You’re never too old or young to help.”]

Carr, left, with his son, Dan, and Aaron Albright, volunteers who give their time to help create better futures for Guatamala's children.

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help of Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s office to create similar girls’ homes in Vietnam. Carr is also involved with a children’s hospital in Moscow, a project that brought former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachov to Toledo in November. Carr took the meeting in stride, expressing a wish that language barriers hadn't prevented him from speaking more easily with a man who “seemed very down-to-earth, very genuine.”

What made his heart pound more were the newest developments for Guatemala. “The McComb, Ohio, Rotary Club donated a school bus to Servants’ Heart, a program that teaches adults a trade so that they don’t have to work in dump. They

also send children to school, and the bus will enable them to get the 60 enrolled kids there.

“The very next day, Whitehouse, Ohio, donated their heavy rescue squad, with only 18,000 miles on it, to the girls’ home in Mazatenango. They need an ambulance because pedestrians and bicycle-riders often get hit by cars.”

Donations covered airfare for the drivers of the vehicles.

During the same week, gifts of more than a dozen computers were called in, which could be transported southward in the vehicles. Another individual wrote a check for $5,000 to help build a recreation area at the girls’ home. “Not one of these things was solicited, and all this happened in the space of a week,” Carr said incredulously.

One more story. Carr remembered a young girl, small enough to cuddle in the lap of a Toledo woman during the entire time that the other girls were performing a songand-dancefest for their visitors.

The girl was unable to participate because she had been born with a congenital defect that prevented the muscles in her

eyelids from functioning. “She couldn’t open her eyes, but she knew the words to every one of the songs,” he said.

“My goal was to get her to the United States for surgery. An organization called International Services of Hope ended up paying for her flight. A local doctor at Toledo Hospital donated his services, and the hospital did the same.

The woman who had held the girl in her lap was a registered nurse and licensed foster parent, and she and her family cared for the girl in their home following surgery. They took a graft from the girl’s thigh and put it in her eyelids, and now she can open her eyes.

“I believe that people make the trip to Guatemala for a reason — this is one of the times when you find out the reason.” 

Web site: www.geocities.com/cross016/ index.html.

Note: More information on St. Paul’s project in Guatemala can be found on the church’s

G Guatamala’s future

uatemala statistics Population in 2000 (July 2001 est.): 12,974,361 Population in 2020 (projected): 17,639,000 Total population growth: 282,348 (3.1 percent) Population doubling time: 22.6 years Total births: 364,201 Birth rate: 39.6 births per 1000 persons Total deaths: 81,853 Death rate: 8.9 deaths per 1000 persons Homes adjacent to dump.

Fertility rate: 5.6 children born per woman Infant mortality: 45 per 1000 live births (one of Central America’s highest) Population under age 15: 4,221,000 (45.9 percent) Population over age 65: 267,000 (2.9 percent) The country is heavily rural, with approximately 51.9 percent of the male labor force engaged in agriculture. By international standards it is a middle-income country, but social stratification is highly pronounced, with income and wealth very unevenly distributed. In December 1996, Guatemala put an end to almost three decades of civil war and armed conflict when the government and the National Guatemalan Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord.

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strategic plan

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might say that the process of creating a strategic plan is a UT TIGHTENS You lot like chess. For one thing, every piece starts out as a possible For another, winning the game usually means hard-nosed STANDARDS, king. choices and at least a few sacrificed knights. The University of has invested time, money and mind-muscle to come up YET KEEPS Toledo with a plan that’s both tactical and practical, capitalizing on strengths while reinvigorating what can be improved.

BOARD UT’s However, no one who serves on the University’s strategic plancommittee regards his or her contributions as a game, and OPEN TO ALL ning analogies can only go so far to explain what UT’s strategic plan mean to students and their families, to faculty and to staff.

STUDENTS will To do that, members of the committee (see next page) have pro-

vided responses to frequently asked questions, offered here to help engage alumni and friends of the University as this pivotal document begins to be implemented. The entire plan, along with further details, can be viewed at web00.utad.utoledo.edu/ publicinfo/Strategic_Planning/.  WHY DOES UT NEED A STRATEGIC PLAN? Johnson: Every large organization needs a plan to help guide its decisions and budget priorities. This is especially true of public higher education and The University of Toledo. In these times of increasing competition, declining state funding and growing demands on the University, we need a strategic plan to provide the sense of direction and guidelines for major decisions.

Sheehan: Because of many factors. State funding for higher education is diminishing, forcing us to be more “planful” in all areas. Strategic planning helps us identify where we want to be five to 10 years from now and what we need to do to get there.

Goodridge: We need a way to guide budget decisions. Although it’s not a blueprint or a road map, the plan will be used for setting the tone, the philosophy of where UT is going for the next several years. It’s a mechanism by which we can make fiscal decisions.  WHO’S CREATING THE PLAN? ARE ALL CONSTITUENTS REPRESENTED? Goodridge: The planning committee has 30 members, more than half of them faculty. We wanted to represent research, undergraduate and graduate education, most of the individual colleges, the unions — some people are wearing two or three hats doing this. Also represented are students, alumni, the board of trustees, staff and administrators.

Martyn: Once we got our thinking straight, we were encouraged to take our ideas back to our own constituencies and talk with them. That’s been very helpful in developing a consensus.

Jenkins: One thing I never realized is how students come and go all the time, but faculty are here year after year. They’re the ones who see how things actually operate in regard to the learning that goes on, so I was glad to see how many faculty are on the committee.  DID THE COMMITTEE HAVE ANY SURPRISES WHEN MEMBERS BEGAN THE RESEARCH NECESSARY FOR CREATING THE PLAN? Bopp: For me, the surprise was in some of the statistics we saw about student success and student preparation. It was a watershed moment when we learned that the need for remediation was not limited to urban public high schools in the state; in fact, the student-preparation problems that we grapple with are found in suburban school districts and in rural school districts — in essentially identical percentages.

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Goodridge: The surprises seem to lie in the information on the academic preparedness of our students. It came as a real shock to many people — they knew that we are an open-admissions university, but they didn’t realize what that means in application.

Frankly, I was rather surprised myself.  WHAT HAS COME OUT OF MEETINGS THUS FAR? Martyn: We started with a mission statement and fundamental values… When we brainstormed, we were divided into groups — task forces — which met with others in the University who were most knowledgeable about the particular topic we’d been assigned. From that came the six areas addressed by the strategic plan.

But the committee also mixed participants so that we didn’t remain within our task forces of particular expertise. When we realized we needed information we didn’t have, Rob Sheehan would find it for us. The result is that the administration is now much more knowledgeable about these subjects than any previous administration.

The process of the committee vetting these six areas took a very long time. After we finished each of the six areas, we asked ourselves if they made sense as a whole, and we then reviewed everything again. The next step is harder yet — prioritizing these aims.

Komuniecki: We’ve got 29 strategies, all of which are meritorious to one degree or other, and we have to decide how to prioritize them. I don’t know how we’ll deal with the fiscal realities of state funding; it may turn out that we have a leaky dike with 12 holes in it, and the strategic plan may tell us which three to plug first.

McQuade: What I like most about it overall is that it’s not just a lot of platitudes — there are very specific, achievable goals that are well thought out.

Johnson: I am pleased by the progress I see taking place in the development of the University’s strategic plan. It is important for the campus and community to review the draft and offer their views as we work to finish the document.

In a real sense, we will integrate planning into the fabric of the University’s administrative and academic processes. The world in which we operate today is changing so rapidly that we, and all of higher education, must be engaged in the continuous review of our progress toward goals, priorities, and our methods of achieving them.  THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF TALK LOCALLY ABOUT POSSIBLE “SELECTIVE ADMISSIONS” AT UT THAT WOULD SHUT OUT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE UNPREPARED FOR COLLEGE. IS THIS PART OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN? Sheehan: We actively debated the issue of selective admissions for all of Fall 2002 and we decided that UT needed to encourage better-prepared students to come to UT, without shutting the door on any students. Our discussions focused heavily on the current lack of preparedness of direct-from-high-school students who are coming to us from almost every school district in the state. We now see too few students taking three or more years of high school math (Algebra 2 and beyond). We also see students coming to us without basic composition and comprehension skills. Right now this represents about 40 percent of students entering directly from high school. That is, approximately 1,300 students each year enter UT under-prepared for collegelevel coursework. These students struggle when they come to 18 TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003

THE PARTICIPANTS any university, as they must simultaneously take remedial coursework plus college-level courses to maintain their status as full-time students.

The strategic plan calls for greater awareness of the high school coursework necessary for success in college.

The plan also calls for the creation of a “portal of entry”— a term we are still working hard to define and put into operation — for under-prepared students. In an ideal world, every student entering UT directly from high school will have taken a core curriculum and a college entrance exam while still in high school.

Robinson: Let’s define the issue. Some have bandied about a pristine selectivity model that would turn us into an Ivy. Many of us would not be here — I would not be here — if the University used that type of model. Institutions like The University of Toledo are the ones that provide real education in this country.

UT and the other “come one, come all” universities take students and educate them to the same level as those selective admissions schools do. So who is performing the real education? UT takes people who may not be ready for a college education and turns them into productive members of society fully capable of successfully going up against the best schools in the country.

However, UT’s open enrollment had come down to the level of no preparation at all by high school students.

What sense does that make?

Komuniecki: If you’re going to have classes where 33 percent of entering freshmen flunk out because they’re not prepared, you’re not doing a favor to those students who really want to work hard. It’s

Dr. Alan Goodridge, provost and vice president for academic affairs

Dr. Daniel Johnson, president of The University of Toledo

The Hon. Richard McQuade, member of board of trustees, The University of Toledo

Dr. Bernard Bopp, professor of astronomy, director of Center for Teaching & Learning

Andrew “Mick” Dier, public safety officer, campus police

Heidi Jenkins, senior in UT College of Business Administration

Dr. Richard Komuniecki, Distinguished University Professor of Biology

Susan Martyn, professor of law

Rob Robinson, UT alumnus and president, CEO of Corporate Wealth Strategies

Robert Sheehan, vice provost for academic assessment and strategic planning

incumbent on all of us to make sure that everyone has access to an education, but we have a limited, finite resource that needs to be allocated wisely.

Bopp: I guess that it’s a matter of fairness. It’s not fair to admit students into the full-blown programs of the University for whom the probability of success in college is very small. We certainly don’t turn our backs on those students; we pour ourselves into addressing the need for remediation before students are fully admitted into the academic programs.

Dier: At first, I wasn’t a proponent of what’s sometimes called selective admissions, but when it was shown how one piece of the strategic plan is to address how to prepare kids for college while they’re still in high school, I was for it — because that’s what education is about: the opportunity combined with the responsibility of the student and the parents as far as preparation.

Martyn: “Selective admissions” overall is an unfortunate phrase used nationwide. We are an open admissions institution, by law and by practice — but what we seek to do is to be better at that.

Goodridge: We’ve tried to steer away from that term … What we would substitute would be “admissions standards.” What we plan is to ask students to do two things: they must take a college core in high school, defined as the state defines it; and they take, as an indication of their intention to go to college, the ACT or the SAT exam. We won’t use scores on those tests in the admissions process, but what we will do is use them as guides to where students can be given additional help, in math or reading or sciences.

McQuade: The University can introduce itself right into the high schools and say to students, “We want you and we will take you as long as you take this regimen of academic preparedness.”  WHAT WILL THE STRATEGIC PLAN MEAN FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERING THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATIONS? Sheehan: It will mean even greater chances of success at UT. It will mean that first-year students will feel welcomed and part of a cohort of students, all of whom we want to return in their second year. It will mean state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories. It will mean that students know, while in high school, the coursework they need to take to succeed in college.

Jenkins: I think that most high school students don’t appreciate how important it is to come prepared for college. They view high school as a transition period, and college as something they strive for, but they think that once they get there, teachers will start at whatever level they’re at. It’s up to educators to get students up to the required level.  HOW WILL NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS (THAT IS, ADULTS WHO ENTER UT SOME YEARS AFTER THEY HAVE COMPLETED HIGH SCHOOL, OR WHO HAVE ATTENDED COLLEGE PREVIOUSLY) BE AFFECTED? Bopp: When we talked about the possibility of requiring people to take an ACT or SAT test before attending the University, we never talked about non-traditional students in this context. We didn’t think that it would be fair, and wouldn’t address the probable reasons they were coming back to school.

Goodridge: What will happen in the long term, though, is that they’ll find other students in their classes will be better prepared, giving the non-traditional students a better experience.

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 IS INVOLVEMENT FOR THE GREATER COMMUNITY WRITTEN INTO THE PLAN? Dier: Do we need an outreach to the community? There’s no question about it. Is it included in the plan? Most definitely.

Dr. Johnson’s vision on that is very clear — and we’re all on the same page on that.

Martyn: Dr. Johnson has reached out to other educational institutions like Bowling Green, Owens [Community College] and the Medical College of Ohio. His thinking is that we’re all in this together, that we all have a stake in the community, that we can all do a better job. We can pool our strengths as well.

Goodridge: We’ve had open forums for the community, we’ve asked for feedback. This article itself is part of the effort.  WHAT’S THE TIMELINE INVOLVED? Johnson: The strategic planning process is organized into phases. The first phase began in the spring of 2001 and focused on the gathering of data needed for understanding the context of our plan. A large number of individuals working through a committee structure were responsible for this activity.

Phase two, the actual planning process, operates under the supervision of the provost, and is being carried out by a strategic planning committee consisting of representatives from the administration, faculty, staff, community members and students. Every effort is being made to ensure that all University constituents have an opportunity to participate in the development and/or review of the proposed plan.

Goodridge: The comment period ran until Feb. 28; the committee began developing the process of deciding priorities; implementation committees will be created by end of spring semester. We’ll begin implementing some recommendations by fall semester.  20 TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003

DRIVEN BY A DESIRE TO INCREASE STUDENT SUCCESS, THE PLAN FLOWS OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY’S MISSION STATEMENT The University of Toledo, a student-

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centered public metropolitan research university, integrates learning, discovery and engagement, enabling students to achieve their potential in an environment that embraces and celebrates human diversity, respect for individuals and freedom of expression. The University strives for excellence in its service to all constituents and commits itself to the intellectual, cultural and economic development of our community, state, nation and the world.

SIX STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES, SIX AREAS OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE  Foster, assess and enhance an academic learning environment that maximizes student learning.  Create a quality learning community outside classrooms, laboratories and studios that enables students to achieve their potential for success in a diverse and global environment.  Invigorate and enhance research and post-baccalaureate education. Build upon existing strengths, increase the level of external funding; form strong alliances with neighboring institutions; improve the quality of entering graduate students; retain outstanding faculty; increase undergraduate involvement in research.  Promote mutual respect, understanding and diversity among students, faculty and staff.  Significantly increase the level of outreach and engagement.

Outreach and engagement activities should be mutually beneficial to the University and the community. They should provide research and learning opportunities for our students and faculty as well as benefits for the community.  Unleash human potential and foster excellence in faculty, staff and administrator performance.

A STUDENT-CENTERED UNIVERSITY Strategies under consideration include:  Increased residential housing options for UT students  Development of a first-year experience program for undergraduates  Peer counseling programs  Expanded and enhanced internships, honors, technology, writing and advising programs  Research experience for undergraduates  Partnerships with school districts to prepare students for college while they’re still in high school OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT Partnership with:  City and regional organizations  Local school districts  Businesses and technology  Cultural repositories UNIVERSITY FUNDRAISING & ADVANCEMENT ACTIVITIES  Increased opportunities for alumni involvement  Weekend mini-courses for alumni connected with special events  Increased scholarship funding  Opportunities for funding special projects or memorials  Launching of new capital campaign (See story on Page 4 for how the campaign directly supports UT’s strategic plan.)

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The future OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO:

a vision of promise

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS GIVEN BY UT PRESIDENT DANIEL JOHNSON IN JANUARY

he University of Toledo is truly entering a new era, an era of great challenges.

These challenges include the governance, leadership role and management of the University in a time of domestic economic recession and international tensions; achieving our student centered mission of engagement; and responding to rapidly intensifying institutional and regional competition. This is also a period of awesome opportunities. Because of the challenges and opportunities we are currently facing, this could well be one of the most important periods in the 130-year history of our great institution.

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I want to spend my brief time with you today, not to dwell so much on the challenges. Rather, I want to speak to the very important question of how, as a metropolitan research university with enormous potential, we can bring life, direction and resources to our mission. And, notwithstanding the very challenging times in which we live — challenging for our city, state and indeed, the world — I can tell you honestly that I am excited and inspired by our potential, and confident that the future for The University of Toledo will be a future of higher quality and more focused academic programs, stronger research programs, greater engagement with our community and above all, student centered. The University recently revisited its mission in view of the needs of our community and region and our long-standing institutional commitment to contribute to the quality of life of our constituents and stakeholders. Through a participatory process that culminated in 2002, the University community articulated a clear and fresh statement of mission that was embraced and endorsed by the University board of trustees.

This clarification of the University’s mission was necessary in view of the increasing rate of social, demographic and technological change; the continuing reduction in state support; the growing needs of our community and region; the changing characteristics and needs of students and to give us a sense of focus and direction as we rise to meet our challenges and work to take advantage of our opportunities.

The University of Toledo Mission serves as the broad framework for my vision for the future of our institution. This mission reads as follows: “The University of Toledo, a student-centered public metropolitan research university, integrates learning, discovery and engagement, enabling students to achieve their highest potential in an environment that embraces and celebrates human diversity, respect for individuals and freedom of expression. The University strives for excellence in its service to all constituents, and commits itself to the intellectual, cultural and economic development of our community, state, nation and the world.”

There are really three sets of elements [to this vision]: the first set relate to our governance, leadership and management.

The second set relate to our mission. And the third set of elements contains those that reflect the competitive institutional and regional environment in which we exist.

Governance. The administration and board of trustees will be openly committed to the highest standards of conduct for our respective roles and to the University mission and will be so recognized by the University’s constituents, stakeholders and the broader community.

Leadership. I believe it is incumbent upon the University to serve as a catalyst and play a significant leadership role for our city and region in those areas where we possess the necessary expertise.

Accountability and efficiency. As a publicly supported university, we will be accountable for every dollar spent.

Engagement, collaboration, cooperation and partnerships. This will mean bringing down our internal organizational “silos” and working together to achieve institutional goals and priorities.

There are several elements of our newly approved mission that also guide our vision for the future: • Student-centered • Public • Metropolitan • Research • Integration of learning, discovery and engagement • Students achieving their highest potential

• Embrace and celebrate human diversity • Respect for individuals and freedom of expression • Strive for excellence • Service • Intellectual, cultural and economic development Technology. While we can take some pride in our progress, accelerating advances in technology raise compelling questions of how we should be integrating the learning objectives of our academic disciplines and programs with new methods and advancing technologies.

Compensation. Although this is enormously challenging with increasingly limited funding from the state and the likelihood of tuition caps, I am committed to making this issue one of our highest priorities in the years ahead.

Athletics. We must identify sources of revenue that will sustain our sports programs and complement the primary mission of the University. We must always remember that our athletes are students first and, as such, their academic success must be our priority.

Global community. I will strive to ensure that UT provides our students and faculty with opportunities to study and conduct research abroad, to learn new and different cultures, and to be informed and knowledgeable of the growing inter-connectedness of nations.

Meaningful traditions. I will work with students, faculty, staff and alumni to add to our traditions in ways that make UT an even greater university and to make the UT experience one that is positive, lasting and memorable.

This vision will guide our planning and priorities, which in turn will enable UT to not only meet the needs of our students, but also to play a major leadership role in addressing the needs of our region and community in ways that are consistent with our mission.

What do all these elements add up to? Where do we go from here? I ask our board of trustees, administration, faculty, staff and students to support this mission-based vision for the

I CAN TELL YOU HONESTLY THAT I AM EXCITED AND INSPIRED BY OUR POTENTIAL... future of The University of Toledo. This vision will guide our planning and priorities, which in turn, will enable UT to not only meet the needs of our students, but also to play a major leadership role in addressing the needs of our region and community in ways that are consistent with our mission. Moreover, this vision will guide UT to become nationally recognized as a premier metropolitan research university.

Our future as a university, if we are to be successful and competitive, will require close, constructive working relationships between the board of trustees, administration, the faculty and the staff. Our future, if we are to be successful and competitive, may also require a willingness to break with past practices, to establish priorities for academic programs, to accept even greater responsibilities, to be more even flexible and responsive to the challenges and expanding opportunities of our time.

I believe the future of Toledo and the future of our region are dependent upon what we do as a university. I am committed to the belief and very optimistic that, working together, we can make a major difference in the lives of our students, in our disciplines and professions, in our research and also in this wonderful city whose name we carry.  TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003 23

by Tom Barden

FACULTY ESSAY

The literature of everyday life

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OLKLORE COMPRISES THE UNRECORDED TRADITIONS of a people, a family, a factory work crew, a quilting group, the patrons of a sports bar, residents of an ethnic neighborhood, a computer chat group or even fighter jet pilots. What’s essential is that the group interacts over a long enough period of time to create and maintain oral and customary traditions. The genres of a group’s lore are typically slang and jargon, jokes and stories, customs and beliefs, and folk arts and crafts (including food), but it can also include traditional views and ways of thinking about things.

In The University of Toledo’s English department, An Introduction to Folklore requires students to conduct research with members of folk groups, collecting, classifying and analyzing their field-collected folklore. The material is available to future UT folklore students, to academic researchers and oral historians, and to the general public.

One particularly attractive genre is the folk narrative. Fictional folktales are perhaps the best-known type, since they include the fairy tales made so well known by the Grimm Brothers and by Disney’s animated films. But they are not the most common oral narratives in circulation. Contemporary storytellers are much more likely to tell things that they believe to be true, or things that actually happened to them.

Some of the most popular are the stories called “urban legends.” Readers may be familiar with such common ones as “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” or “The Poodle in the Microwave” that are published in folklorist Jan Brunvand’s popular paperbacks. I hope you, as alumni and friends of The University of Toledo, will enjoy these narratives and appreciate the ethnographic work of the students who left the library and ventured into “the field,” even if was only their grandmother’s kitchen, to gather them.

Barden, associate dean of humanities, recently co-edited, with Dr. John Ahern, UT professor emeritus of education, Hungarian American Toledo. Readers with stories of their own to share can contact him at the department of English: 419.530.5088.

THE FIRE TRUCK THAT COULD. This rural Ohio story was collected by John McRobbie from his grandfather for his Introduction to Folklore project in 1992: “One day, back in 1927, a fire broke out on a farm just north of Wauseon. It kept spreading and getting bigger and bigger. The Wauseon fire department couldn’t control it so they called in the Delta and Fayette fire departments to help. But they couldn’t stop it, either. It kept spreading. The owner of the property said, ‘I’ll give $40 to any fire department that can save my farm.’ That was a lot of money back then. Now about twelve miles away was the little town of Archbold, and

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when their fire department heard about the money, four volunteers jumped in their truck, a 1921 International tanker, and headed for the fire.

The old truck charged across the field and, to everyone’s surprise, never slowed down.

It just drove right into the flames, right smack dab in the middle of the fire. They got their hoses out and circled the fire from the inside — and little by little they got it under control. Cheers came from the crowd and from the other fire companies. ‘Well,’ said the farmer, ‘You did it. You put the fire out — I’ll write you out a check for $40.’ A reporter from the Toledo Blade rushed over to the Archbold fireman and said, ‘That was a great maneuver.

What are your plans for the $40?’ Well,’ said the chief, ‘The first thing we’re gonna do is get the brakes fixed on that damn truck.’”

APPLAUSE. Sharon Record collected the next story from Kaveh Chanoarabbasi, an Iranian engineering student, in the Carter Hall dorm in November 1980 at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis.

Like many Middle Eastern students in the United States at the time, Mr. Chanoarabbasi was subject to harassment by some Americans and was very homesick and upset by what was going on in his homeland.

He was grateful to find a UT student not only willing to talk to him, but eager to listen to his favorite childhood stories of the Mullah Nazradine, a renowned trickster character of Persian culture. This is one of six folk stories he gave to Ms. Record: “To understand this you have to know that whenever a speech is made in Iran, everyone has to clap at the mention of the name of the Shah. So anyway, one day the Mullah Nazradine was visiting

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happened in his village. It really did.” This is a version of an old European folk legend, “Clothing Caught in Graveyard.” Besides being found throughout Europe, it has been collected in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, and now, thanks to the UT folklore course, Ohio.

HOSTAGE TO WORK. Laurie James had worked in the Chevrolet Plant on Alexis Avenue in Toledo (now GM Powertrain) the summer before she took the folklore course, so she interviewed one of her former co-workers in April 1979 for her project. The narrative is the type sometimes referred to as a “friend-of-afriend” story, since it has too many degrees of separation to be verified: “About three years ago, a friend of my friend Roger got sick in the assembly room. He asked his foreman if he could have a pass to go home, and he refused him. About an hour later he asked again. And the foreman said no again. This time, Roger said, he didn’t go back to work. Instead, he called the Toledo Police 911. He told the dispatcher that he was being held at an Alexis Avenue location against his will. And the police actually showed up at the plant and escorted him out through the plant door and out to his car. This story floats around the plant in one form or another, and most of the people at the plant swear it really happened.”

ENTRY FEE. Immigrant and ethnic stories abound in the UT folklore archive. Patricia Buscani collected this in April 1995 from her neighbor, Ms. Anna Fabos, who immgrated to Toledo from Hungary when she was a little girl. She was in her 80s when she remembered this incident: “Each person had to show a twenty-dollar bill when they got to Ellis Island. This was to take care of their needs so that they wouldn’t have to depend on the government. Three of my father’s brothers were traveling with my mother, plus one of their friends was coming too. But they only had one twenty-dollar bill between all of them. So my mother stood in line with the twenty-dollar bill and then gave it to my brother and told him to take it to Uncle So-and-So. My uncle kept my brother with him as he went through the line.

Then he gave my brother the same twentydollar bill and said take it to Uncle So-and-So. And that’s the way they came in to America.”

WET AND WILD. This item, also from Ms. Fabos’s interview, is about a traditional custom in the ethnic Hungarian community called Birmingham in East Toledo. “There was a custom in the neighborhood of ‘sprinkling’ the women on Easter Monday.

Men would visit the houses of women and sprinkle them with water, rejuvenating them and imparting good health.

Afterwards they were invited in to finish the Easter food and have, of course, liquor. Often the sprinkling turned into dousing. My grandmother told me about her friend being dunked in a tub of water while she was wearing her Easter clothes. On Tuesday the roles reversed and it was the women’s turn to do the sprin-

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a small town in Iran. No one in the town knew how to read.

Someone had come through and put up a poster on the side of a building. The people in the town asked Mullah Nazradine to read it to them. Well, he went to the place and looked at the poster and saw that it was upside down. He told the people to hold him over the side of the wall by his feet so he would be upside down, too. So they went to the top of the building and lowered him by his feet to the level of the poster. He began reading, and, as he read, he came to the name of the Shah.

Everyone clapped, including the ones who were holding the Mullah Nazradine.”

THE DEAD ZONE. This legend was collected from Frank Langel by his grandson, folklore student Daniel Kobil, in East Toledo in March 1986.

Notice how the informant insists the story really happened. “There was this man who was a bartender, he had an apron on, you know, and all the men were drinking beer in his place and somebody made a wager and bet that they would be afraid to go and get the cross from the cemetery, from one of the graves, you know. Well, he said, ‘I’m not afraid!’ so they bet him. And he went and got the cross.

Then one guy says, ‘Now take it back. Let’s see if you’re that brave, and able to do that.’ So he left his apron on, and he went and took the cross back to the cemetery. But when he put it back he stuck it through his apron. Then he got scared to death. And he died there, that night. He thought the dead were pulling him down in to the grave. My father always told that story. He swore it happened in his village in Hungary. [The interviewer says, “Well, maybe it was traditional.”] No, no, no! It really

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George W. Green (Bus, MBA ’51), Dearborn, Mich., had an article, “One Man’s War,” published in the January issue of World War II magazine.

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Dr. Nina McClelland (A/S, MS ’63), president of McClelland Consulting Services, was reelected to a third term as chair of the board of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.

McClelland ’51, ‘63 James L. Pullella (A/S) received a letter in November from the Consul General of France in Washington, D.C., telling him that French authorities had awarded a diploma to him and to other American veterans of World War II “who liberated France and, in doing so, changed the history of the 20th century.” The retired Jeep worker and president emeritus of UAW Local 12 who taught public health for UT’s College of Pharmacy has long been a familiar sight at UT athletics games, where he sold tickets for more than 50 years.

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Gerald J. Cooper (Pharm), Toledo, is semi-retired, working part time for Rite-Aid Pharmacy. His wife, Gail (A/S ’63), has a full-time position as a sales rep with The Image Group, a Toledo ad agency.

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Justice Andy Douglas (Law), who has served on the Ohio Supreme Court since 1984, left the bench in December following mandatory retirement on his 70th birthday.

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John D. Miller (Pharm), Sherrills Ford, N.C., went on full disability retirement in July.

Dr. Charles G. Webb (Pharm) returned to the Cleveland area after several years in private medical practice in Los Angeles.

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Larry R. Dargart (UTCTC), Maumee, Ohio, retired as deputy director of administration for the Ohio Department of Transportation in Bowling Green following 37 years of service. He is now a realtor and certified appraiser with DiSalle Real Estate Co.

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William F. Dais (Ed, Ed Spec ’77), director of field experiences at CarsonNewman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., received the Tennessee Education Association’s Distinguished Higher Education Award.

Nancy A. (Cataldo) Dargart (Ed) retired from Maumee (Ohio) City Schools after 36 years as an educator, 34 of them at Fairfield Elementary School. She now works as a substitute teacher in the same school district and serves on the alumnae board of Notre Dame Academy.

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Diana H. “Dee” Talmage (MEd), retired educator, was appointed by Gov. Bob Taft to Owens Community College’s board of trustees for a sixyear term. She is also currently serving as chairman of the scholarship committee on the board of trustees of The University of Toledo Foundation.

Al Zimmerman (MEd), Bedford, Ohio, was honored by the Aurora Schools Foundation in March at its annual Friends of the Schools dinner.

His work in product promotion for the Chysler Corp. raises funds for various charities and causes, including school foundations.

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Dr. Scott Sheperd (A/S, MEd ’75, PhD ’80), had a new book, Who’s In Charge: Attacking the Stress Myth, published by Rainbow Books Inc. in October.

William R. Winters Jr. (Bus, MBA ’69) teaches high school English with Trenton (New Jersey) Public Schools.

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Jim Lowry (Ed, MEd ’76), a 33-year veteran teacher at Maumee (Ohio) High School, received the 2002 Ohio Association of Gifted Children Teacher of the Year Award in September, a week before retiring. He taught sociology, psychology, history and government, and served on the committee that developed Maumee’s gifted students program.

Mark H. Shaffer (A/S) was promoted to managing director of Waldman & Associates, one of Philadelphia’s longest-established private detective agencies.

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Robert Cosler Jr. (Pharm) married Dr. Patricia Colaizzi in June. They live in Alexandria, Va., where Robert is a senior consultant for Cardinal Health Provider Pharmacy Services.

Joyce Gray Swin (Ed, MEd ’90), a fifth grade teacher at Wayne Trail Elementary School in Maumee, Ohio, received from Toledo’s Central Catholic High School The Order of the Celtic Cross, which recognizes those who have made a significant impact on society through achievement in professions or by community work. She has been selected as an outstanding teacher in the Maumee school system and has received the Educational Leadership Award from the Maumee Chamber of Commerce.

Steven E. Gilbert (Ed), head football coach and CBI coordinator at Tiffin (Ohio) Columbian High School, was honored as Northwest Ohio Coach of the Year for Division 2.

Lt. Col. David Kenehan (MA) is attending the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn.

Raymond Runner (A/S, Law ’76), Maumee, Ohio, joined the city prosecutor’s office. He maintains the private practice that he has had for 25 years.

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Dr. Davina M. Brown (A/S, MS ’78, PhD ’83), professor of psychology at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., was awarded the 2002 New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The award program, administered by CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education), is the only national program recognizing college and university professors for teaching excellence.

Tom Papademos (Eng) was promoted to shareholder with the Toledo architectural/engineering firm, SSOE Inc., where he has been the electrical department manager.

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Charles C. Waple (MEd), Loveland, Ohio, retired superintendent of Loveland City Schools, retired as well from Siben Cline Realtors. He now splits his time between coaching girls’ basketball and working at King’s Island Golf Course.

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Larry Katz (Pharm), Miami, accepted a position with Jackson Memorial Hospital, the major teaching facility for the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is the evening supervisor for the Ambulatory Care Center outpatient pharmacy.

Paul E. Mullenhour (Ed) was hired as a partner by the Lean Learning Center in Novi, Mich., a provider of curriculum for industries new to lean transformation. He continues to serve as a senior management consultant for the company’s affiliate, Achievement Dynamics, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Karen Wolf (Ed), Middleton Township, Ohio, opened a pet care business, Krytter Sytter, in September.

Duane Ramsay (A/S), Howell, Mich., had his first novel, Reunion in the Rockies, published by Xlibris Corp. (xlibris.com) in the fall. The former newspaper writer and communications specialist now operates his own freelance writing service, The Write Stuff.

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Robert Fotoples (Ed, MEd ’98), a fifth-grade teacher at Sherman Elementary School in Toledo, was honored by inclusion in the 2002 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

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A newsman’s life, from Volga to polka to da-da

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oel Feick has gone places since graduating with a communications degree from The University of Toledo in 1978. The Toledo native, now making a living as a reporter and anchor at WJRTTV in Flint, Mich., recently returned from a reporting assignment in Russia. Togliatti, Russia, to be exact. It’s an industrial city of 700,000 people about 600 miles east of Moscow on the Volga River.

Feick was there for a week as part of Flint’s sister city relationship with Togliatti.

Feick and his videographer, Mike McPherson, waded through a storm of red tape at the airport to claim their gear, then videotaped enough people and events to put together about a dozen stories that were edited and shown later on his station. One topical story was the new relationship that General Motors established with AvtoVaz, a Russian automaker. The first

Chevrolet to ever roll off a Russian assembly line occurred while Feick was there. His cameras caught the vehicle’s first miles as proud GM and AV officials looked on. The new Chevy Niva is a pint-sized SUV that costs about $8,000. Russian autoworkers make about $100 to $300 a month.

Feick has recorded his own personal memories about the people and events he’s covered during his career in television. “I was surprised at how warm the Russian people were,” Feick said. “They genuinely seemed fascinated with us. On the negative side, though, that country can use some landscaping. There are very few manicured lawns.

Also, the vodka consumption

surprised me. I never saw so many vodka toasts. And it was straight vodka. I kept saying, ‘Do they have any tonic in this country? How about a lime?’

After the second night, I had to cut myself off. Vodka was served at every meal, including breakfast.”

The Russian trip with all its vodka toasts was not Feick’s favorite out-of-town assignment. “I’d rank China a little higher,” Feick said.

“I guess seeing the Great Wall and other aspects of the Chinese culture was an experience I’ll never forget.”

After 19 years on Flint television, Feick has had his share of exciting interviews, too. George H.W. Bush (twice), Bill Clinton, Tim Allen, and the late polka

king Frankie Yankovich have all been face to face with Feick and his questions.

“But I still prefer telling stories about real, everyday people,” Feick said.

One of those everyday people stories hit close to home when Feick and Christine, his wife of nine years, told their own story of adopting their two-year-old son, Lucas John, as a baby. The story followed a report by Barbara Walters on ABC about the challenges of adoption. “A few days later I got a call from a viewer asking for some advice,” Feick said. “I gave him the name of the lawyer we used and explained a little about what we had to go through to adopt Lucas. I met that viewer over a year later, and he thanked me for the advice and then introduced me to his baby daughter. I think I cried that night.”

Feick’s story-telling abilities in front of a camera were brought into focus at UT in the late ’70s. “The things I learned from Dr. Rich Knecht [chairman of the communications department] stay with me to this day,” Feick said. “He’s probably the main reason I got into the television business. He encouraged me to consider radio and TV as a career and his classes were always fun.”  — Tom Waniewski ’78

Festival logo a sweet project for UT alumna

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he Maple Sugaring Festival, having enjoyed its fourth successful year at The University of Toledo’s Stranahan Arboretum in March, acquired a new visual identity when its 2003 logo was released to appear on finer coffee mugs and promotional materials areawide. Created by Lucille Smith (Ed ’65), the logo shows a pioneer woman stirring an outdoor kettle and is emblematic of the festival’s emphasis on local history. “When I attended the event last year, I was impressed by all the working exhibits and demonstrations,” Smith said. “People were showing how blacksmithing was done, how kettle corn was made, there were activities for children and of course there was the maple sugaring.

It’s easy to see that people are interested in that type of history, because the shuttle bus [to and from the event] was always full.”

Smith, who has taught art at several area schools and also worked as a religious educator, was involved in the operation of a homeless women’s shelter for more than 20 years, nine of them as co-director. She now runs a daycare center, finding “regrettably irregular opportunities to paint, but I love nature, and I love to paint trees in particular.”  TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003 27

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Devon Brown (MS) is commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, overseeing more than 9,500 employees, 26 institutions and a jurisdictional inmate population of approximately 26,000 housed in state facilities, county jails and community halfway houses.

Larry Gearhardt (Law) returned to the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) as the Columbus organization’s director of local affairs, following two years as president of AgPro Inc. The 20-year OFBF member owns a working farm in Miami County.

Michael R. Rankin (Law) joined McNees Wallace & Nurick as of counsel within the real estate group, working at the firm’s Columbus office.

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Brown ’76 Raymond Fischer (A/S, Law ’81), Bowling Green, Ohio, was elected Wood County prosecutor by the central committee of the county’s Republican Party, filling a vacated post until 2004.

Nathaniel L. Ford (UTCTC, Univ Coll ’95), a 28-year veteran of the Toledo Police Force, was appointed executive director of Citizen’s Complaint Authority in Cincinnati, an organization to ensure that serious interventions by police officers are investigated fairly and efficiently.

Stephen Mendel (Pharm), Solon, Ohio, was named regional scientific associate director for Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

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Judge Mary G. Trimboli (Law), Toledo, was elected president of the Association of Municipal/County Court Judges Inc.

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Dr. Bogomir M. Kuhar (Pharm) was assigned to the Clinical Consulting Division of AdvancePCS LLP, a pharmaceutical care consulting firm, in January. He continues to serve as executive director of Pharmacists for Life Intl, a group he helped found in 1984.

Dr. Bob Thiede (PhD), superintendent of Marion (Ohio) city schools for 11 years, was chosen to head the Pickerington school district near Columbus.

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Elaine (Stuart) Canning (Bus) was elected president of the BostwickBraun Co. She has been with the wholesale regional hardware distributor — which holds title to being Toledo’s third oldest business — for 18 years.

Patrick L. Deville (Law), vice president and general manager of Erie County Cablevision Inc. in Sandusky, Ohio, since 1985, was promoted to president of the firm in February.

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Jane Morrin (Bus) received the 2002 Woman of Achievement Award from the Zonta Club of Findlay, Ohio. She has been a computer programmer at Marathon Oil Co. for 22 years.

Daniel V. Stark (Eng) was hired as senior project manager by SSOE Inc., the Toledo-based architectural/ engineering firm.

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John H. Harris III (MEd) is the owner of Harris Health Trends Inc., a health service provider headquartered in Toledo. The company won a Crystal Award in November from the Association for Women in Communications for its Web site, and a Merit Award for one of its brochures.

Keith Price (Univ Coll) was promoted to director of corporate communications programs at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio. He and his wife, Penny, live in North Canton, Ohio, with their two daughters.

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Patrick T. Reilly (Eng), Santa Cruz, Calif., received his juris doctor in November as a member of the first graduating class of Concord University School of Law, the world’s only wholly Internet law school. The patent agent and intellectual property strategist also serves as executive director of Lighthouse Venture Forum, geared toward local business entrepreneurs.

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Stark ’80 Jill Sulewski (Univ Coll) joined the finance department of the city of Maumee, Ohio, as an administrative assistant in payroll.

Lourdes A. (Martinez) Ward (A/S, MEd ’82), executive director of Reach Out Lakota Inc., a nonprofit social service agency serving West Chester and Liberty townships in Ohio, was honored in November as one of five Women of Excellence by the Southeastern Butler County Chamber of Commerce.

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Dr. Melanie (Bailey) Mills (A/S) received an Achievement and Contribution Award for outstanding service to Eastern Illinois University, where she is a professor in the communications department.

Dr. Carol O’Shea (A/S), professor of arts and sciences at Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio, was chosen as one of 10 developmental education experts nationwide to serve on a national committee sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College.

Cathy Zellner (UTCTC) was named director of education at Rooney Clinger Murray. She has been with the Findlay, Ohio, architectural firm for 20 years.

Dr. Brent C. Nimeth (A/S) was elected president of the medical staff at Knox Community Hospital, Mount Vernon, Ohio, for a two-year term. He also serves as medical director for the Country Club Retirement Campus, The Inn at HillenVale and The Laurels of Mount Vernon, and maintains a private practice. He and his, wife, Shannon (UTCTC ’86), have three children.

Philip E. Roussey (Bus) joined the Accounting Center Ltd. in Sylvania, Ohio, as executive director and chief financial adviser.

’86

Michael Rizzo (Bus) was hired as commissioner of taxation for Maumee, Ohio. Previously, he spent 12 years with the city of Toledo.

’87

Helen Mac Murray (Law) was hired as director and area chief of national regulatory affairs for the Columbus law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter.

She was also elected to the city council of Bexley, Ohio.

Maggie Thurber (A/S) was sworn in as a Lucas County commissioner in January.

’88

Jeff Dudderar (Bus, MBA ’90), Westerville, Ohio, was hired by Huntington Bank as senior vice president/ business banking market manager.

Matthew P. Lowenstein (A/S), Penfield, N.Y., graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in November with a master of science degree in product development. He has been with the Eastman Kodak Co. for 14 years.

Patrick A. Peiffer (Bus) joined Source Great Lakes Region LLC, a consulting and investment banking firm headquartered in Maumee, Ohio, as senior associate.

’85

Jeanine Amid (Law) was appointed city attorney for Upper Arlington, Ohio, in December. She has been with the city attorney’s office since 1989.

Dr. Wallace E. Dixon Jr. (A/S) was named associate professor and chair of the department of psychology in East Tennessee State University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Jeanne (Schlembach) Niklis-Thomas (A/S) was recognized as Marketing Representative of the Year for Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice in Toledo.

Steve T. Rhodes (Univ Coll, MBA ’91) accepted the position of chief executive officer at Kosciusko Energy in Warsaw, Ind. Most recently, he was vice president of marketing and customer services with Midwest Energy.

He and his wife, Becky, have two children.

Michael Ritzenthaler (Pharm), Bay Village, Ohio, joined the staff of Parma Hospital as director of pharmacy.

Peiffer ’88

’89

Suzette Gendjar (Pharm) and her husband, Ken, announce the birth of their first child, Garrett Joseph, in September. The family lives in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Stacy (Karrick) Rudduck (Pharm) and her husband, Douglas, announce the birth of their first child, Sadie Kay, in December. Stacy manages a Kroger’s pharmacy in Columbus.

Robert Sands (MBA) was hired as chief financial officer for BostwickBraun Co., a Toledo-based industrial supplier with distribution centers in Ohio and Indiana.

class Dr. Pamela J. Schlembach (Univ Coll), following the completion of her residency in radiation oncology at the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has accepted a position as director and clinical specialist for M.D. Anderson Outreach Cancer Clinic in Brazosport, Texas. Her husband, Charles (Pharm ’78, MPharm ’89) is a staff pharmacist at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

David W. Pettee Sr. (Univ Coll, MEd ’92) had a book, Folks, Will You Please Be Seated, published by PublishAmerica. A critique of education based on his experiences as an educator, the book is available at PublishAmerica.com. The regional sales director for Target Expediting lives in Toledo with his wife, Jeannine, and three sons, David, Daniel and Andrew.

Mary Jo (Mimi) Tarini (Law), who practices with the Toledo law firm of Eastman & Smith Ltd., was certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law.

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’92

Ty S. Mahaffey (A/S, Law ’02) passed the Ohio State Bar Examination and was sworn in to practice law at a November ceremony in Columbus.

Peter J. Rashid (Law) was elected a member of the national intellectual property firm of Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Rashid ’92 Schlembach ’89 Ryan Stechschulte (UTCTC) was hired as treasurer for the Lima School District. He had previously held the same position for Ottawa Hills schools, near Toledo.

’90

Tom Dudte (Bus) joined Sunset Cash Advance in Marion, Ohio, as district manager to oversee operations at all seven Ohio branches.

Daniel McMann Jr. (Bus, MBA ’92) was appointed an international tax partner in the Troy, Mich., office of BDO Seidman LLP.

Tarini ’90 Dr. Kevin R. Zupancic (Pharm), Parma, Ohio, received a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Florida. He works in the cardiac and intensive care units at Parma Community General Hospital.

Dr. Jerome E. Webster (MEd, PhD ’02) was named dean of students at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich. Prior to the position, he was dean of student support services at Terra Community College in Fremont, Ohio.

’91

Dr. Ronald Miller (A/S) joined Wood County Medical Associates in Bowling Green, Ohio, practicing internal medicine.

Webster ’92, '02

’93

Julie R. Lewis (Law) married John Herrmann in August. They live in Cincinnati.

Lynn (Adamcek) Lowery (Pharm) and her husband, Brad, announce the birth of their second son, Jacob Steven, in May 2002. He joins brother, Spencer, and the family in Toledo.

David (Univ Coll) Sluss and his wife, Kristen, Waterville, Ohio, announce the birth of their son, Gavin Nathanial, in December. David is a financial advisor with American Express Financial Advisors.

Dr. Valerie Smith (Ed, MEd ’95), a graduate of the Wright State University School of Medicine, joined the CMH Regional Health System Family Practice Residency Program, a joint venture between Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Ohio, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

’94

Rich Cartwright (A/S) graduated from Lima Tech Police Academy in September with the highest score in his class.

Kevin L. Gray (UTCTC), West Unity, Ohio, was promoted to assistant vice president for the National Bank of Montpelier’s Bryan banking office.

Michael A. Warkall (Law) joined the firm of Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co. LPA in New Philadelphia, Ohio, as an associate.

Julie Werkman (MEd) was honored as Outstanding Art Teacher of the Northwest Region by the Ohio Art Education Association in November.

The 25-year veteran of Perrysburg (Ohio) Schools has received numerous awards for her teaching and is a practicing artist.

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’95

Dr. Michelle Binekey-Riley (A/S, MEd ’97) received a doctor of medicine degree from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in December, when she was named the outstanding 2002 graduating student from the Center of Osteopathic Research and education at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. She is performing her internship at St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake, Ohio.

Cassie Bridinger (Univ Coll) was the scenic artist, designer and stage manager for “Lumberjacks in Love,” presented from January through April at Ms. Rose’s Dinner Theater in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Catherine Sager-Bohnert (MEd), who earned an MA in special ministries from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in May 2002, was hired by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to teach adult basic education and GED studies at the Toledo Correctional Institution.

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’96

Eileen Christoffers (MEd, Ed Spec ’01), a special-education teacher at Indian Hills Elementary in Rossford, Ohio, achieved certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Renee Elliott (A/S) was hired as manager of membership development for The Employers’ Association, a Sylvania, Ohio, resource center for regional employers. She was also elected as vice president of West Toledo Rotary.

’97

Steve Baden (Univ Coll), mayor of Hamler, Ohio, was selected by the Henry County Republican Party Central Committee in December to fill the post of county commissioner left vacant following a resignation. The term runs until Nov. 2004.

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notes Ammar Salameh (MEng), a bridge design engineer with Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment Inc., a consulting engineering firm based in Livonia, Mich., received his professional engineering license from the state of Michigan.

Baden ’97 Libbey W. Call Best (Law) was made a partner at the Toledo law firm of Cooper and Walinski.

Brian S. Gorrell (Bus, Law ’02) joined the Paulding, Ohio, firm of Cook, Troth & Burkard Ltd. as an associate.

Andrew Hart (A/S, Law ’01) was admitted to the Ohio Bar Association in December. He works for the Lucas County Public Defender’s Office.

’98

Debra A. (Puckrin) (Pharm) and Kevin D. Canino (Bus), Sandusky, Ohio, announce the birth of their first child, Emma Jean, in September.

Elizabeth A. Fox (A/S, Law ’02) passed the Ohio State Bar Examination and was sworn in during a special session of the Ohio Supreme Court in December. She practices law with the Columbus firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. Ryan Gephart (Ed) became a certified strength and conditioning specialist following national certification. He works at Rombach Health Center and Clinton Memorial Hospital, both in Wilmington, Ohio.

Scott Russell (UTCTC) was hired as an officer by the Maumee (Ohio) Police Division.

Faith Yingling (MEd), an injury prevention specialist at Toledo Children’s Hospital, was named a SAFE KIDS safety advocate by the Greater Toledo SAFE KIDS Coalition, part of a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injuries.

’99

Joshua Bills (Law) joined the Columbus law office of Lane, Alton & Horst LLC. Heather (Kuhlman) Cox (Bus) was named director of marketing and public relations for Liberty National Bank in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Ellen Grachek (A/S, Law ’02) was appointed to Toledo City Council in January, representing District 5. She is also a law clerk with Allotta & Farley Co. LPA. Ben M. Herrick (Ed), airman 1st class with the Air National Guard, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in January.

Salameh ’99

’00

Courtney Bowers (Bus) was promoted to database analyst with the Celina Insurance Group in Celina, Ohio.

Dr. Jim Perry (PhD), assistant chairman of mathematics, life and natural sciences at Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio, was chosen as president of the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges for the 2003-04 academic year.

Carolyn E. Smallman (A/S) married Jeffrey Seaver in December. Carolyn works at Toledo’s Kellermeyer and Associates, where she was promoted to sales and marketing coordinator in March.

’01

Jeremy Gutierrez (Law), Perrysburg, Ohio, joined KeyBank as a vice president/relationship manager in the bank’s small business department.

’02

Janet Ballard (MEd), an instructor of licensed practical nursing at EHOVE Career Center in Milan, Ohio, was named president of the health division of the Ohio Association of Customized Training Specialists.

Todd M. Burger (Law) was hired by the legal firm Dinsmore & Shohl LLP to practice in their Cincinnati office.

Gerald S. Ferenchik (Law) passed the Florida Bar Examination and was hired as a judicial law clerk in Tallahassee.

Mark A. Imwalle (Law) joined the Cincinnati law firm of Rice & Diedrichs as an associate.

Paul A. Lambrecht (Univ Coll) was named education facilitator for the Chrysler Machining Plant in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Andrew J. Seaborn (A/S) was hired as a consumer safety officer/field inspector with the Food and Drug Administration in Burlington, Vt. Todd Seufer (Bus) married Elizabeth Pecek in September. The couple live in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Erin Strausbaugh (Law) joined the Defiance, Ohio, law firm of her father, Jeffrey Strausbaugh, as an associate.

Paul Subrata (Bus) formed an international import business with his father in Indonesia and opened a store, Java Design USA, in Toledo’s North Towne Square to sell modern and classic handcrafted furniture. The company already had branch locations throughout Indonesia and in Australia.

Todd Wolfrum (Law) joined the firm of Van Arsdel & Gilmore in Celina, Ohio.

Now in hardcover!

Those readers familiar with George W. Green (Bus, MBA ’51), both from his many entries in the Class Notes section and from the article that appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of the magazine, won’t be surprised to read that with the many, many articles about offbeat corners of history to his credit, he can now claim a full-length book on much the same subject. Special Use Vehicles (McFarland & Co., 2003) chronicles the unique, the specialized and the just plain silly in motor vehicles, from German “amphicars” that sported 1950s fins and floated in water, to John Paul II’s Popemobile, to the Zippo Green the lighter car.  collector

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’30s

Corrine Limoges (A/S ’30), Aurora, Ill., died Dec. 7 at age 94.

Louis “Oxie” Axonovitz, Toledo, who attended UT from 1931 to 1933, died Dec. 16 at age 89.

Ellen (Decker) Stone, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, who attended UT from 1933 to 1935, died Nov. 11 at age 87.

Virginia V. (Vizneau) Ganch (Ed ’34), Cleveland, died Feb. 4 at age 90.

Kathryn (Langenderfer) Guyars (Ed ’34), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Dec. 3 at age 89. She was a member of Beta Tau. Virginia R. Smith (Ed ’35), Toledo, died Feb. 26 at age 89. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Phi and Delta Kappa Gamma.

Virginia I. (Hinds) Greene (Ed ’36), Toledo, died Dec. 11 at age 88. A member of the women’s basketball team at UT, she also played field hockey at the University.

Glen J. Lehr (Eng ’36), Oregon, Ohio, died Nov. 16 at age 88.

Dorothy (Bolin) Richardson (A/S ’36), Toledo, died Feb. 27 at age 88. She was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Paul W. Buehler, Toledo, who attended UT from 1938 to 1940, and from 1946 to 1947, died Feb. 5 at age 82.

Dr. Myron Fink (A/S ’38), Ottawa Hills, Ohio, died Jan. 27 at age 85. He was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Frank G. Nichter (A/S ’38), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Feb. 12 at age 88.

Thelma K. (Kehrer) MacRitchie (A/S ’39), Maumee, Ohio, died Dec. 26 at age 85. She was a life-time member of the UT Alumni Association.

’40s

James Barnes (Ed ’40, MEd ’54), Oregon, Ohio, died Dec. 17 at age 89.

William E. Kerschner, Sylvania Township, Ohio, who attented UT in 1940 and from 1946 to 1948, died Dec. 1 at age 80.

Joanne (Klauser) Bisbee (A/S ’40), Broomall, Penn., died Jan. 11 at age 84.

Thomas P. Searle (Pharm ’40), Toledo, died Dec. 15 at age 86. He was a member of the UT Alumni Association.

Martha (Fleming) Banta (A/S ’41), Northridge, Calif., died Nov. 11 at age 83.

Lorraine (Hanson) Herrel (Bus ’41), Maumee, Ohio, died Jan. 30 at age 83.

Henry F. “Bud” Knecht (Eng ’42), Port Clinton, Ohio, died Nov. 12 at age 83. He was a member of the UT Alumni Association.

Dorothy A. Mell (Ed ’42), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Dec. 7 at age 82. She was a member of Psi Chi Phi and Delta Delta Delta.

Emil Seman (Pharm ’42), Rossford, Ohio, died Dec. 5 at age 81. He was a member of the UT Alumni Association.

Philip C. Wood (Eng ’42), Toledo, died Jan. 27 at age 82. He was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Herbert C. Heinlein (Pharm ’43), Maumee, Ohio, died Nov. 25 at age 81.

memoriam

George E. Hotz (A/S ’45), Toledo, died Feb. 4 at age 80. He was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Minerva (Sullivan) Miller, Bellevue, Ohio, who attended UT from 1945 to 1947, died Feb. 1 at age 80.

Constance R. Tonjes (A/S ’45), Fort Myers, Fla., died Dec. 29 at age 78.

She was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Katharine (Lehman) Buettner (A/S ’46), Medford, Ore., died Nov. 29 at age 77. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta.

Phillip R. Cochran, Sylvania Township, Ohio, who attended UT from 1946 to 1949, from 1950 to 1955, and from 1962 to 1964, died Feb. 12 at age 75.

Richard E. Kinsel (Ed ’46, MEd ’58), Holland, Ohio, died Dec. 15 at age 81.

Robert H. Wale (Bus ’46, Ed ’49), Portland, Maine, died Jan. 4 at age 81.

He was one of the founding members of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

James E. Nightingale (Ed ’47), Sandusky, Ohio, died Jan. 26 at age 81.

Ralph E. Siemens (A/S ’47), Toledo, died Nov. 3 at age 80. He was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

James V. Lattin (Bus ’48), Toledo, died Feb. 9 at age 79. He was a member of Chi Beta Chi. Rolland “Rollie” Daschner Jr. (Bus ’49), Toledo, died Jan. 9 at age 80.

He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Patricia A. Kennedy (Ed ’49, MEd ’69), Moscow, Idaho, died Feb. 23 at age 75.

She taught theatre at UT in the 1980s.

’50s

Gerald Brookenthal (Pharm ’50), Cincinnati, died Nov. 5 at age 73. He was a member of the UT Alumni Association.

Joanne E. (Birkenkamp) Finucan (Ed ’50), Anaheim, Calif., died Jan. 4 at age 74. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Charles H. McCann (Eng ’50), Toledo, died Dec. 30 at age 77.

James Osborne (Pharm ’50), Wauseon, Ohio, died Dec. 15 at age 82.

Harold B. Rawson (Eng ’50), Florham Park, N.J., died Dec. 11 at age 77.

Donald D. Clark (Ed ’51, MEd ’58), Toledo, died Nov. 17 at age 75.

Dale A. Fox, Tontogany, Ohio, who attended UT from 1951 to 1953, died Dec. 28 at age 70.

Jack W. Hoffman (Bus ’51), Marblehead, Ohio, died Dec. 8 at age 82.

Richard D. Humphreys (Eng ’51), Toledo, died Feb. 16 at age 73.

Edward R. Johansen (Ed ’51), Toledo, died Feb. 4 at age 78.

Raymond S. Metzger Jr. (Law ’52), Lexington, Ky., died Dec. 5 at age 83.

Philip Alvarado (Ed ’53, MEd ’58), Westerville, Ohio, died Dec. 20 at age 79.

Reuel R. Reinbolt (Eng ’53), Maumee, Ohio, died Nov. 29 at age 72.

John W. Rupp (Pharm ’54), Columbus, died Nov. 1 at age 75.

Mary L. (Johnson) Brower (MEd ’55), Toledo, died Jan. 8 at age 82. She was a member of Phi Delta Kappa.

Judge Walter J. Krasniewski (Law ’55), Oak Harbor, Ohio, died Dec. 26 at age 73. He was a member of the UT Alumni Association.

John P. Gaffney, Sebring, Fla., who attended UT from 1956 to 1958 and in the 1960s, died Nov. 10 at age 64.

Dr. Larry E. Grisvard (A/S ’56), St. Louis, died Nov. 14 at age 68.

He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Esther M. Lankenau (MEd ’56), Toledo, died Jan. 4 at age 77.

Harold R. Bryant, Dallas, who attended UT from 1959 to 1963, died Jan. 12 at age 64.

Patricia Newbold (A/S ’59), Toledo, died Dec. 24 at age 66.

Paul E. Work (Law ’59), Tucson, Ariz., died Nov. 29 at age 76.

’60s

Lawrence F. Hoyt, Columbus, who attended UT from 1960 to 1969, died Jan. 10 at age 61.

Mildred B. (Bailey) Moran, Toledo, who attended UT from 1960 to 1964, died Jan. 15 at age 82.

Charles E. West Jr. (MEd ’61), Oregon, Ohio, died Jan. 17 at age 80.

Karen L. (Phillips) Osterberg (Pharm ’62), Wadsworth, Ohio, died Jan. 31 at age 63.

Helen E. (Wenzlau) Rawling (Ed ’63, MEd ’66), Sylvania, Ohio, died Feb. 27 at age 88.

Jeanette K. (Kniss) Everhart (Ed ’64, MEd ’71), Toledo, died Feb. 13 at age 87.

Dorothy R. (Powell) Glassman (Ed ’64, MEd ’80), Toledo, died Nov. 3 at age 80.

Ray M. Goetschius (MEd ’64), Lakeside, Ohio, died Jan. 21 at age 81.

Terry L. Maurer (A/S ’64), Maumee, Ohio, died Dec. 21 at age 61.

Dennis E. Shouldice, Toledo, who attended UT from 1964 to 1965 and in 1968, died Nov. 23 at age 55.

Daniel Grabarkiewicz Jr. (Ed ’65), Temperance, Mich., died Nov. 16 at age 59.

Marilyn S. (Schoonmaker) Ryan (Ed ’65, MEd ’72), Toledo, died Nov. 9 at age 78.

Marsh R. Howard Jr. (Bus ’66), Bradenton, Fla., died Oct. 26 at age 62.

Varnia M. Redding (Ed ’68, MEd ’71, Ed Spec ’75), Toledo, died Feb. 6 at age 78. She was a member of Zeta Phi Beta and a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

’70s

Brian P. Coss, Toledo, who attended UT from 1970 to 1972, died Feb. 8 at age 58.

Margaret M. (Smith) Filiere (MEd ’70), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Jan. 22 at age 78.

Dr. Daniel A. Piloseno Sr. (PhD ’70), Tampa, Fla., died Feb. 4 at age 88.

Kurt Bergman (UTCTC ’72, A/S ’74, MPA ’75), Toledo, died Jan. 25 at age 62.

The retired Toledo police officer taught sociology and gerontology at UT from 1985 to 1991 and assisted in the development of UT’s police administration degree.

James E. Hoagland, Toledo, who attended UT from 1972 to 1975, died Jan. 26 at age 49.

Jack D. Hutchisson (UTCTC ’72), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Jan. 11 at age 78.

John D.H. Lowden III (Bus ’72), Dallas, died Jan. 10 at age 54.

John Pappas (UTCTC ’72), Toledo, died Jan. 26 at age 51.

David W. Saelzler (A/S ’72), Seaside, Calif., died Nov. 10 at age 56.

Patricia A. (Maurer) Couturier (Ed ’73, MEd ’80), Toledo, died Dec. 15 at age 51. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Dr. Carolyn S. (Brause) George (PhD ’73), Toledo, died Nov. 10 at age 81. She was a lifetime member of the UT Alumni Association.

Sister M. Felice Gorney (MBA ’73), Sylvania, Ohio, died Jan. 18 at age 74.

Arthur F. Cole (UTCTC ’76), Sylvania, Ohio, died Dec. 14 at age 77.

Elizabeth J. Johnson (UTCTC ’76), Toledo, died Nov. 20 at age 83.

Sarah A. MacLean (MEd ’76), Ottawa Hills, Ohio, died Feb. 1 at age 64. She was a member of the UT Alumni Association and of Kappa Kappa Gamma, from whom she received a Loyalty Award in 1996.

Michael J. McManus (UTCTC ’76, Univ Coll ’78), Toledo, died Dec. 10 at age 57.

Alan R. Moore (Ed Spec ’76), Defiance, Ohio, died Nov. 13 at age 72.

He was an honorary member of Phi Kappa Phi. Shawn F. Bell, Toledo, who attended UT from 1977 to 1981, died Feb. 3 at age 43.

Sister Elaine Marie Baca (UTCTC ’78), Sylvania, Ohio, died Feb. 13 at age 53.

Stella M. (Durkovic) Pelker, Toledo, who attended UT from 1978 until 1987, died Jan. 27 at age 75.

Mary K. Bryce (Ed ’79), Montpelier, Ohio, died Dec. 6 at age 46.

’80s

Myra L. (Ezekiel) Arrington (UTCTC ’80), Akron, Ohio, died Nov. 9 at age 45. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Gertrude M. (Rejent) Extejt (Ed ’80), Ottawa Hills, Ohio, died Jan. 24 at age 83.

James R. Thornbury (UTCTC ’80, Law ’95), Ottawa Hills, Ohio, who was a lecturer in the UT College of Law since 1997, died Jan. 27 at age 44. Remembered by local attorney and friend Rick Kerger as “someone born to be a lawyer,” he entered law after working in law enforcement and banking. “There were very few people in the country as smart in commercial law as Jim was,” Kerger recalled. The enthusiastic UT lecturer on secured transactions was a member of the TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003 31

In UT Presidents Club, and a scholarship fund in his name has been established through the UT Foundation.

Alice Featherstone Scott (Univ Coll ’81), Toledo, died Dec. 26 at age 86. She was a mem-ber of Psi Chi Phi. Susan K. (McLaughlin) Bain (Ed ’84, MEd ’89), Sylvania, Ohio, died Jan. 23 at age 49.

Bonnie L. (Niederhauser) Johnson (UTCTC ’84), Toledo, died Dec. 8 at age 65.

Barry Sonnenberg (Bus ’86), Lambertville, Mich., died Nov. 18 at age 39. He lettered in UT basketball from 1982 to 1985, and ranks second in most blocks in a game (8) and fourth in career blocks (66).

Eric D. Siemens (UTCTC ’87), Toledo, died Dec. 4 at age 55.

’90s

Amy M. (Myers) Kendzierski (UTCTC ’91), Toledo, died Nov. 10 at age 33.

Carla Nagel (UTCTC ’91, Eng ’97), Perrysburg, Ohio, died Feb. 18 at age 41.

Bill Trawford (Bus ’93), Toledo, died Jan. 23 at age 43.

James “Jamie” C. Gilmore (A/S ’95), Bradenton, Fla., died Nov. 6 at age 33.

Mary F. (Gayton) Quinn (UTCTC ’96), Toledo, died Nov. 6 at age 67.

memoriam

Kenneth T. Kazmierczak (A/S ’97), Toledo, died Jan. 18 at age 51.

Kelly Keefe, Toledo, who attended UT from 1998 to 2002, died Dec. 31 at age 43.

Stanley E. Conti (Ed ’99), Toledo, died Nov. 24 at age 44.

’00s

Patrick J. Foley, Toledo, who had been attending UT since 2002, died Feb. 26 at age 50.

Dustin Frye, Toledo, who had been attending UT since 2001, died Jan. 11 at age 22.

Spencer A. Biesiada (Eng ’02), Toledo, died Feb. 1 at age 23.

Friends, faculty & staff

James Burbridge, Princess Anne, Md., who worked in Intercollegiate Athletics for three years, died Nov. 18 at age 51.

He joined UT in 1988 as an academic adviser and in 1990 became an assistant men’s basketball coach.

Robert L. Churchill, Toledo, classroom services technician in Audio-Visual Services, died Nov. 19 at age 34. He began working at UT as an audio-visual repair worker in 2000.

Dr. David C. Colony (MA ’00), Toledo, died Feb. 15 at age 78. The former chairman (1972-79) of the department of civil engineering began his teaching career at UT in 1963 as an assistant professor.

Professor emeritus since 1989, he retired from teaching in 1994. He was named a University Outstanding Teacher in 1971 and Outstanding Engineering Educator in Ohio in 1972.

Hudell Jeffries, Toledo, who worked at the University for 26 years, died Feb. 24 at age 66. He was a groundskeeper 2 at the Scott Park campus, retiring in 1998.

Phyllis A. Jewell, Toledo, who was a part-time cashier in the Bursar’s Office from 1984 until her retirement in 1997, died Feb. 12 at age 70.

Harvey A. Maertin Jr., Petersburg, Mich., professor emeritus of manufacturing administration, died Nov. 14 at age 85. Maertin joined the University in 1960 as an assistant professor. One year later, he was named director of the MBA Program, a position he held for 14 years. In 1969, he was promoted to associate professor. He served on the University’s Graduate Council, Residence Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee, among others, and retired from the University in 1977.

Lois (Molden) Russel, Mission Hills, Kan., died Nov. 28 at age 92. The widow of Dr. John H. Russel, professor emeritus in the College of Education, she was an English instructor at UT from 1965 to 1972.

John W. Seery, Oregon, Ohio, who worked at UT from 1972 to 1978, leaving as a groundskeeper, died Dec. 14 at age 76.

Donald G. Sullivan, Alexandria, Va., who received an honorary doctor of science degree in 1960, died Feb. 27 at age 90.

Dr. E-(Emma)Jane (Johanson) Taoka (PhD ’72, MEd ’80), Toledo, died Jan. 25 at age 92. Professor of mathematics at UT from 1962 to 1980, she represented UT at international conferences in 1966 and 1971, and was named a University Outstanding Teacher in 1975. She retired as professor emerita, and at the time of her death was married to Dr. George Taoka, professor emeritus of international business.

It’s a family affair!

The entire family can get involved when you’re a member of The University of Toledo Alumni Association. Your membership supports events and programs that unite the generations and give even more of a shine to UT. Homecoming — Art on the Mall — student scholarships.

They wouldn’t be possible without our members.

Gather your own Alpha group together and join or renew today — be a part of the family that never gets old. Call 419.530.2586 or 800.235.6766.

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IT’S A BUSINESS WORLD AFTER ALL Dr. Clint Longenecker (Bus ’77, MBA ’78), Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Management, and Dr. Jack Simonetti, professor emeritus of management and adjunct professor of executive education at the University of Michigan, give some idea of the enthusiasm with which the world business community has embraced their book, Getting Results. Published in 2001 by Jossey-Bass, the book — an Amazon.com “hot list” pick at Christmas — is already in its third printing and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish and Danish. The secret of their success? “The big selling point is that it’s not about us,” Simonetti said. “We had companies define their high performers, and we interviewed more than 2,000 of these people for their secrets to getting positive results.” “People don’t want nonsense,” Longenecker added. “With the world economy as flat as it is right now, companies don’t have the time or the resources for luxury training. Managers now need new and more costeffective ways of doing things. They need results.” If sales and e-mails are any indication, Getting Results continues to get them — positive feedback continues to arrive at the authors’ mailboxes from all over the world. “Our own students from China, from Korea — they’re taking copies of the book back when they go home. You can’t buy publicity for UT like that,” said Longenecker, who credits his former teacher Simonetti for “teaching me much of what I know about business.”

WEATHER ON THE OUTWARD WALL Shan Chen, then a student in the College of Business Administration’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program, bundled up in UT colors for a family trip to the Great Wall of China. Chen, his wife, Lally Lai, and their son, Jin, a student at Riverview (Mich.)

Community High School, visited China this past winter. “We thought it was important for Jin to see the Great Wall,” Chen said. The trip included visits to two home towns and two sets of parents. “We especially wanted to attend my father’s 73rd birthday celebration on December 26,” Chen said. “My father really liked the jacket I wore on the Great Wall. He now has that jacket, and tells others what the English letters ‘Toledo’ mean.”

Chen, who had returned to school after years of building a family and a career, finished his EMBA degree in March. He said of his time at the University, “The experience is forever. I feel very lucky to have had a chance to study at UT.”

RAISING UT FLAG PRIOR TO RAISING HOMES Getting ready to roll with Habitat for Humanity, members of the Columbus chapter of the Alumni Association take a moment to unfurl their UT pride. Left to right, Ashley Habel, her father Rich Habel (Bus ’73), Jay Pearson (Bus ’91), Carrie Brockmeyer (A/S ’97, MEd ’00), Natasha Jones-McDougle (A/S ’86, MEd ’90) and Habitat volunteer coordinator Dave Gladieux pose at the start of a day that included delivering shingles and putting the first walls up on two houses as a special alumni project. Pearson, who organized the gathering, hoped that “This will be the first of many. I think that other Columbus alumni will be just as thrilled as we were to see the families who will be living in the homes get excited when those walls go up.” With some 2,000 UT alumni in the greater Columbus area, the potential seems terrific. Interested alums can contact Pearson via jpearson@sitedesigns.com.

TOLEDO Alumni Magazine / Spring 2003 33

The Blade and Huntington Bank present The Eleventh Annual University of Toledo Alumni Association Outdoor Juried Art Fair

Art on the Mall Sunday July 27, 2003 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Driscoll Alumni Center

Toledo, Ohio

43606-3395