2006 Fall Edition by The University of Toledo Alumni Association

Toledo The University of

Fall 2006

ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Faces

of the

new UT

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elcome to the new University of Toledo and your new University of Toledo Alumni Association!

This issue of Toledo Alumni Magazine celebrates the faces behind the exciting changes happening at our alma mater and favorite institution of higher education. If you are a graduate of The University of Toledo, the Medical College of Ohio or most recently, the Medical University of Ohio, you have become part of a new family … the alumni and friend base of the new University of Toledo and its Alumni Association. The Alumni Association is new as well. We’re proud to welcome the graduates of the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to the fold. Those three groups will now operate as affiliates of the UT Alumni Association. They will continue all of the activities and outreach that graduates of those colleges have come to know and love. In addition, they will expand their ability to connect with alumni around the world within the Alumni Association’s growing chapter structure. The Alumni Association’s Board of Trustees has been expanded to welcome our newest alums into the fold, too. Our alumni base now totals more than 110,000, and we feel that the expanded organization is well positioned to respond to the needs of all of our alumni and friends. You’ll soon notice other changes within our organization. With an international chapter structure now in place, we’ll be asking alumni from around the world to help us attract the best and brightest students so that they may enjoy the wonderful experience that the new University of Toledo can offer. Recruitment is vital to the success and growth of our campus and your success is a story that needs to be shared with potential traditional and non-traditional students alike. Watch for more information in the months ahead as we work with the new University administration to help grow the expanded University of Toledo that we know and love. I look forward to working with you in the year ahead. Thanks for all you do to make the new University of Toledo a great place to be!

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES PRESIDENT

Barbara Berebitsky ’91

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Jon R. Dvorak MD ’80

SECRETARY

Walter “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

TREASURER

Constance D. Zouhary ’81

PAST PRESIDENT

Birdel F. Jackson ’68

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

ONE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Bea Daniels* ’91, ’01 David D. Dobrzykowski ’95, ’99 Gary J. Corrigan PhD ’70, ’77 Dana Fitzsimmons** ’76 Susan Gilmore ’89, ’89, ’93 Donald L. Warner ’74, ’76

TWO-YEAR TRUSTEES

Nuore Alo** ’01 Janet Eppard ’83 Patrick J. Flynn ’93, ’98 Robin Oberle* ’97 Renee Ott MSN* ’00 George E. Robinson II ’02 Dan Silvers* ’02 Elizabeth “Betsy” Steinhauer OTR/L* ’97 Mark A. Urrutia ’88 Robin Whitney ’86*

THREE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Craig G. Burkhart MD ’83 Stephen Bazeley MD ’74 Randall King MD ’81 Jay Pearson ’91 Janet Schroeder ’89 Paul L. Toth Jr. ’88, ’01

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Barbara Berebitsky ‘91 President The University of Toledo Alumni Association

Adam Scharf (appointed by Student Alumni Association) *Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

contents EDITOR

Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Vicki Kroll ’88

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CONTRIBUTING WRITER Deanna Woolf ’05

DESIGNER

Meredith Thiede

PHOTOGRAPHER Daniel Miller ’99

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

DIRECTOR, ALUMNI PROGRAMMING Eric Slough ’95

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Ansley Abrams ’92 Renee Elliott ’96

OUTREACH COORDINATOR Brian Weinblatt ’02, ’04

Recent Awards American Inhouse Design Award: Spring 2005 issue APEX Award of Excellence: Four-color publication

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Toledo Alumni, Office of Alumni Relations, Driscoll Alumni Center, Mail Stop 301 The University of Toledo Toledo, OH 43606-3395

Telephone 419.530.ALUM (2586) or 800.235.6766 Fax 419.530.4994 The University of Toledo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in education, employment, memberships and contracts, and no differentiation will be made based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or the presence of a disability. The University will take affirmative action as required by federal or state law.

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From Goddard Field to USA Today

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Christine Brennan in Goddard Field, one of her childhood stomping grounds during the days when the boys actually asked to have her on their baseball teams: “Out on this field, we were Al Kaline, we were Mickey Mantle.”

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he louder I cheered, the more the team won. The Rockets never, ever disappointed me. They never let me down. They always rewarded my devotion with more victories, with more happiness. How often can a fan say that about a sports team?” If the fan is Christine Brennan, awardwinning sports columnist, commentator and author of a work (Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating) named by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 sports books of all time, the “how often” is long since moot. A fan since her childhood as an Old Orchard tomboy during the days when quarterback Chuck Ealey dazzled the crowds, USA Today columnist Brennan still wears “Go Rockets!” on her sleeve. Anyone needing proof should check out her latest book, Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports, published in May by Scribner. Along with recollections of Toledo during the pre-Title IX ’60s and ’70s, Brennan fills her biography/family tribute with UT places and events that resonate like the Tower clock chimes. Brennan is pleased with the result: “It’s the first-ever father-daughter sports memoir by a sports writer. I hope that it touches all those millions of girls and women who played sports with their dads — no one’s really written that story.” And Northwestern alumna though she is, Brennan showed her Blue and Gold colors when she agreed to donate a portion of the proceeds from her book sales (read a review on Page 49) to the UT Alumni Association. She also established the Jim and Betty Brennan “Best Seat In The House” Scholarship, to be awarded, based on financial need and strong academic performance, to a student who is the first member of his or her family to go to college. www.toledoalumni.org

Outstanding teachers

Dr. Tom Barden, director of the Honors Program and professor of English. He began teaching at the University in 1976 and was named director of the Honors Program in February. Dr. Zeljko Cuckovic, professor of mathematics. He has been at UT since 1994. Dr. Lisa Pescara-Kovach, assistant professor of foundations of education. She began teaching at UT in 1999.

Erratum. In the Spring 2006 piece on

northwest Ohio’s coolest professors, we assigned the wrong first name to Dr. David Jex (A/S ’73), UT professor of music theory and composition. We hope he’ll forgive us for our false note!

Très excellent! Dean Kopan OD and Tony Armstrong MD were two of the 228 friends and supporters who in May attended the 5th annual Evening of Excellence, sponsored by the Hylant Group and held at the Sylvania Country Club. The black-tie event (with calla lily boutonnieres provided) raised $118,500 for the Frank S. McCullough MD Scholarship Fund at the Medical University of Ohio Foundation, which will match the amount. Reaching the overall $1 million goal is planned for 2007.

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Free the art! Visitors to the UT Main Campus have been enjoying close encounters with new sculptures that call UT home until next spring. Some 60 Midwest artists submitted their work for consideration; an art jury chose nine. The works of steel, concrete, black Swedish granite and aluminum can be found in front of University Hall, in Centennial Mall, adjacent to Snyder Memorial, near the Driscoll Alumni Center and next to the Center for Performing Arts. Three are:

Drang by John Sauvé

Windswept by Robert Garcia (Ed ’70)

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Institution by Jason Arbogast (A/S ’99)

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Surgery center is sharp new addition

he University’s technological edge is being sharpened further with the September dedication of The George Isaac Minimally Invasive Surgical Center, a state-of-the-art outpatient surgery and procedure center. Its 30,000 square feet includes four operating rooms, four medical procedure rooms and 22 multiple-purpose rooms, offering flexibility and technology that mark it as a regional contender. “The center offers the most advanced surgical equipment available today. That allows for minimally invasive operations, providing for faster recovery and a more positive experience for the patient,” says Charles Lehnert, director of physical plant. Patients who enter the facility on the north end of the Health Science Campus’ Dowling Hall will find both the latest technology and strong consideration for patient comfort and safety. “The center was designed to maximize efficiency, safety and patient convenience,” says Mask Chastang, UMC vice president and executive director. That includes an easily www.toledoalumni.org

accessible center-only entrance, valet parking, a mobile surgical platform for safe patient transport and a staff solely dedicated to outpatient care — care and scheduling won’t be affected by inpatient or trauma care needs. The center’s i-Suite® Operating Room includes a centralized control system — unique in northwest Ohio — that can send real-time video to a remote location, allowing medical residents and students in another building to watch a procedure live. There’s another leading-edge aspect to the center. As Lehnert explains, the advanced surgical procedures that are available use a minimally invasive approach — small incisions and only a few stitches to close. For patients, that means less pain, faster recovery and fewer complications. “This is a patient-centered design, starting from the moment they are received by the valet attendant, to the last minute they are in the center,” Lehnert says. “It’s all about the patient.”

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Carillon recovers its voice

ension hovered in the air of a tiny room on the sixth floor of University Hall, but the delicate operation performed there in late May was successful — and marked the return of chimes to the UHall Tower. Thanks to a charitable gift annuity from Bob Ossege (A/S ’57) and a donation from the President’s Office, the UT carillon system — officially named the Ossege-Snyder carillon, the latter name honoring Walter and Grace Snyder, who in the 1930s were generous donors for the first carillon — is again striking the hour and half-hour, plus providing popular tunes And say good-bye to the limitations of pre-programmed music. The digital sound marks a vast improvement as well, says Mark Walker, UT computer graphics design artist and unofficial carillon curator. “They took cast bells, put them in a chamber and recorded them. You’ll be able to hear the nuances of the clappers.” Walker is also keeper of carillon stories, such as The Cuckoo Conspiracy of 1975, when a group of engineering students built an assembly of an audio amplifier, relays and a tape recording of a cuckoo clock. They gained access to the UHall telephone switch room and established an “answer-only” number, allowing them to “make the call, hold the cassette recorder to the handset, press the play button and that’s all she wrote,” Walker says. At Commencement 1975, he says, “the cuckoo was unleashed; loud and clear she sang. People freaked out … campus police could be seen scrambling into University Hall, coming out with a large cache of dummy equipment.” Meanwhile, on the roof of the old engineering building the conspirators drank in the spectacle. It was some time before they were identified and reprimanded, but as Walker notes, “they did not get tossed out. The complexity of the project did have great engineering merit.”

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All in the mood for a melody. Walker at keyboard; manufacturer’s technician watches. www.toledoalumni.org

Picture perfect. It was an emotional moment for family and friends of Edward C. Schmakel (Ed ’39, MEd ’68) when his portrait — commissioned by the Alumni Association Board and painted by artist Leslie Adams — was unveiled in a place of honor in the Driscoll Alumni Center reception room that bears his name. Ed, who was UT’s director of alumni relations for 20 years, died in September 2005.

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Alumni Association becomes two-fer. The Alumni Association’s annual meeting in May offered double the excitement this year: a formal merger with the Medical University of Ohio’s three associations representing doctors, nurses and health sciences, which will become affiliates under the UT umbrella. The alumni board grew by four members (all MUO alums) and a one-year membership in the UT Alumni Association is being extended to all MUO grads. In all, more than 13,000 new members joined the mix. UT alumni can expect bigger numbers, greater diversity and more good times in the 200 events scheduled worldwide for the upcoming year. Back home, the podium at the annual meeting was hoppin’ as usual: At top, Birdel Jackson, outgoing association president, passes the gavel of office to Barbara Berebitsky; below, check those reactions from Dan and Elaine Johnson to the thank-you gift of hand-blown glass bookends from the Alumni Association.

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hether you’re moving across town or cross-country, Stevens Worldwide Van Lines is proud to offer UT alumni added preferential treatment through Stevens’ University Move Center (UMC). Stevens’ UMC offers UT alums single source contact throughout their move, with move coordinators who pay close attention to every step along the way, ensuring enhanced services at every point. Within 24 hours of the initial contact, a move coordinator will be assigned and making contact. Personal attention throughout the move is the rule while Stevens’ UMC move coordinator handles each phase of the relocation. From the premove survey to final delivery, every detail is covered, including advice and timely updates on the relocation process. For more information or to schedule a free estimate, contact the University Move Center at 800.796.9988 or by e-mail at universitymoves@stevensworldwide.com.

Student loans? Consolidate! Student loan consolidation is still available from the UT Alumni Association/Nelnet team. Qualifying borrowers who choose to

New UT finds visual identity to reflect history and future

he new University of Toledo will be

education. Rendered in our familiar colors and

riding on a crest of change, thanks to

combined with our founding date, it exhibits

the efforts of some 8,000 students,

the depth of UT’s history.”

faculty, staff and alumni whose input played a

Because the logo was created by UT

large role in determining the University’s new

graphic designers, the project saved UT tens

logo. Following surveys of these groups, UT

of thousands of dollars, notes Lawrence J.

President Lloyd Jacobs selected the logo shown

Burns, vice president for enrollment services,

here to represent the new institution. The blue

marketing and communications and president

and gold is an old friend; the three gold leaves

of the Medical University of Ohio Foundation:

represent UT’s devotion to discovery, education

“We have a great deal of talent working at this

and service. And of course, 1872 is the year of

University, and it was quickly determined that

the University’s founding.

there was no need to [use] an outside agency

John Adams, director of marketing, guided the logo’s creation, which was not without its

to create something at a level our graphic designers could exceed.”

controversy. “Some people didn’t understand

The new logo will be a visual focal point in

the meaning of the three leaves, but an

the UT brand, Adams says. “However, there are

explanation cleared that up,” he says. “As for

no plans to change the Rocket logo used by UT

the crest, it’s an icon with long ties to higher

Athletics,” he adds.

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More than gift of a lifetime — a gift to many lives

ith one remarkable gift, the legacy of the Herb family will extend many generations. Judith (Ed ’61, MEd ’64) and Marvin Herb (Bus ’62, MBA ’64) and their sons, Thomas and Jon, made a gift of $15 million to fund numerous scholarships in the College of Education, as well as to support educational assessment efforts and research initiatives in the college. To break it down by the numbers, it’s $8 million for scholarships, $4.25 million for educational research, and $2.75 million to support an electronic system for assessment and development. “But numbers don’t tell the whole of this amazing story,” said Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional advancement. “The Herb family’s truly generous spirit will make a positive difference in a multitude of lives.” As other members of the University community noted when the gift was publicly announced in May, the difference will be transformational. Then-President Dan Johnson said, “This gift will provide tremendous support to our students and faculty, while preserving the Herb family legacy at UT. Words cannot describe the deep impact this gift will have.” Dr. Thomas Switzer, dean of the college, added, “This gift sets a framework for the future of the college. Future generations of educators will benefit from the Herbs’ philanthropy.” For their part, the Herbs have downplayed their own efforts — instead, they put the emphasis on the importance of teachers. “A teacher affects eternity,” Marvin Herb said while addressing UT’s spring graduating class. “A teacher teaches for 25, 30 or 40 years. How many

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Crowd went wild. Judith and Marvin Herb receive visual thanks of College of Education from Marilyn Sheperd, associate vice president for development.

students do they teach every year? How many students go out into the world? They really do affect eternity.” Judith Herb, a former teacher who has been honored with the naming of the Judith Herb College of Education, was equally direct about where the significance lies: “The University of Toledo’s

mission, especially that of the College of Education, was at the heart of our decision to make this pledge. “Marvin, our sons and I believe deeply in the power of education. If we can help to make a difference in the lives of some future educators, we are proud to do so.”

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Still jumping at 75 years

University Medical Center in top 100

At the celebration of its 75th anniversary —

t’s an estimable list. University Medical

where the College of Business Administration

Center (UMC) was named one of the

announced a $1 million donation from the

nation’s top 100 most improved hospital

Lowell Skilliter estate to the Rodger Skilliter

performers by Solucient, an independent

Scholarship Fund — guests received a living

benchmarking company; this year’s list

token of the college’s growth. Seed packets of

appears in the May 1 edition of Modern

the popular violets known as Johnny-jump-

Healthcare Magazine.

ups were given to well-wishers with the

Recognized for developing consistent,

specimens might appear in a future issue of Toledo Alumni Magazine. We can dig that.

promise that their photos of blooming

effective performance improvement at a rate faster than that of other United States hospitals between 2000 and 2004, UMC is in excellent company; others on the list include Emory University Hospital, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. The most improved designation “recognizes a management team and board that are able to instill an organization-wide culture of performance,” says Solucient spokesman Jean Chenoweth.

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UT research on the edge

Fighting fire with higher power You already know the fate of the Native people who appear

Life or death in the slow lane Although they’ve been called cancers in slow motion, carcinoid tumors can kill — in fact, this rare, slowgrowing form of cancer (occuring in almost any part of the body) is often most deadly precisely because of its

in Prophets of the Great Spirit by UT researcher Alfred Cave PhD. Combined effects of European colonization wiped out an estimated 90 percent of American Indian populations across the continent. But the Indians — including the Eastern peoples covered in Cave’s book — fought back. Perhaps the most unique strategy for resisting the incursion of European culture was ideology; tribal visionaries created religious

sleepy pace. Symptoms are subtle or non-existent, of-

movements to unite their people and preserve their own

ten misdiagnosed until the cancer has spread. Because

cultures. That spiritual warfare propels Cave’s latest published

of its rarity, though, carcinoid cancer receives relatively

research.

little research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That’s what makes a $850,000 grant from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation so important to UT researcher David Giovannucci PhD. His lab will test a hypothesis centering on calcium ions and

Although the Indian prophets came from different groups and cultures, they preached two things in common: the restoration and preservation of traditional ways, and authority from a Great Spirit who would punish both Indians and whites if his message wasn’t taken to heart. Cave’s research brings to life many familiar figures,

their possible link to controlling cell growth and death

including Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his prophet brother

in carcinoid tumors. The study will use state-of-the-art

Tenskwatawa, along with their ultimate nemesis William

equipment, housed in the Advanced Microscopy and

Henry Harrison. The book also limns the lesser known like

Imaging Center.

Beata, the Munsee witch finder who warned the Delaware that “an apocalypse was coming, a storm that would destroy all the world.” And Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, although he admitted that his people could learn useful skills from their neighbors the Quakers, was contemptuous of their grey-clad capitalism. In fact, Cave’s research uncovers a thought held in common by many of the Native prophets: Hell, they said, was the eternal abode of the greedy.

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The sludge report Our millions of toilet flushes can mean a whole lotta sludge. In the process of removing contaminants so that water meets federal purity standards, wastewater

Studying killer mutations

treatment plants end up with biosolids — or sewage sludge — that must be disposed of via landfill, incinerator or agricultural application. While topping farm fields with

Cystic fibrosis (CF) literally takes its victims’ breath

recycled sludge has been practiced for decades, recent

away, clogging their lungs with a thick mucus that

concerns have arisen about pathogens, heavy metals and

prevents proper breathing. The cause: mutations in

nutrients in the sludge that can enter waterways and the

a gene that controls the body’s production of a saltand-fluid-transporting protein. That defective protein means a fluid imbalance and resultant lung damage or infection, both potentially fatal. A two-year grant

atmosphere. Collaborative researchers to the rescue! Work between both UT campuses and Bowling Green State University is tackling the mucky situation — measuring the amount of pathogens in the sludge, spatially studying sludge data via a Geographic Information Systems

from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is enabling UT

(GIS) database, compiling results of a health survey, and

researcher Xiaodong Wang PhD to study the still-

exploring the potential of satellite technology to identify

mysterious mutations, shared by more than 90 percent

illegal sludge dumping. At the same time, the research

of cystic fibrosis patients. New insights and novel

opens doors for green companies to invest in northwest

testing methods developed by the research team allow

Ohio and its scientific know-how.

concentration on cellular incubation temperatures; the research could mean future treatments that allow CF sufferers to breathe easier.

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Feature presentation

Form and Function: defining the body beautiful by Cynthia Nowak

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Photo by Carl Santoro

Sharper edge. Antell, at right, under the skin.

e has a Park Avenue office in New York City. He’s gotten face time with a king (though he can’t reveal the name), a president (ditto) and more luminaries of Hollywood and Broadway than you can shake a stitch at — yet Dr. Darrick E. Antell (MD ’81) retains plenty of what he calls “my Ohio folksiness.” What’s the trick? No trick at all, says the plastic surgeon who’s made Top Doctors lists in Town & Country, Vogue and New York magazines. “I’m just sort of an oldworld guy. I have conservative tastes, and I do safe, conservative plastic surgery.” In a world seemingly addicted to glitz, being a conservative physician — even with a glam specialty — doesn’t explain Antell’s appearances on NBC’s Today and other television news shows, or being interviewed by the New York

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Times and the Wall Street Journal. His explanation — offered with that characteristically Ohio diffidence — is simple: “I think my entire life has been a series of fortunate accidents.” If that’s true, maybe it was an early genetic randomness that started Antell on the road to medical prominence. He was, he says, one of those meticulous kids: “My mother said that as a child I would walk into a room and begin rearranging things. Even now, I organize my neckties by category. I’ve always liked putting things into some sort of order, which is what I find appealing about plastic surgery.” He adds, “Plastic surgeons have a saying: Form and function are related. That is, if it looks good, it’ll probably work well.” In other words, seek the good fit. Antell found his when he was studying Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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dental surgery at Case Western Reserve University. “One of the faculty was Dr. Clifford Kiehn, who had both dental and medical degrees. I started following him around, as he seemed to really enjoy what he did.” It was another fortunate accident — Kiehn had studied in England under Sir Harold Gillies, a pioneer in the field of plastic surgery, and had plenty to say about the history of plastic surgery. “People tend to forget its origins in two world wars, in reconstructive techniques for soldiers’ injuries,” Antell says. “Also, many founders of plastic surgery held both dental and medical degrees, allowing them the expertise to rebuild jaws and faces.” It fit, and Antell was ready to commit; his medical muse led him to the then-Medical College of Ohio and his MD. Remembering Kiehn, his plans were to apply his dental and medical degrees to reconstructive plastic surgery, “treating burns and fixing problems like cleft palate. I was still concentrating on reconstructive while doing my general surgery at Stanford University.” (It was

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at Stanford, incidentally, that he met his wife, Elizabeth, who was starting her PhD in genetics at the California university. She went on to earn her MD from Cornell; they now have five children.) But his subsequent training at New York Hospital, part of Cornell University’s program, took him in another direction: cosmetic surgery. “I had very mixed feelings about staying in New York, but rather than ask my wife to transfer schools yet again, I thought we could stay here for a year,” he says. “One year became two, and now it’s been more than 20.” And yes, a New York practice has brought him both prominence and some prominent patients. He downplays both: “You get a little star-struck, but it passes.” He does mention actress Shirley MacLaine, who once brought a third party: “She came to the pre-op consultation, to the surgery and to all post-op consultations. It was fun to have her here. People in the reception area were peeking over their magazines, pretending not to look. “But really, the bulk of the practice www.toledoalumni.org

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is just nice ladies from the tri-state area. And about 15 percent men.” When those patients come to Antell for any of the surgical specialties he performs in his fully certified on-site operating room, they find a down-toearth attitude. “The producer from Extreme Makeover came here three years ago and signed our guest book. We had a nice talk. I told him that for safety reasons I believe in shorter surgeries with fewer complications. “If there’s one message I can get out there, it’s this: Plastic surgery should whisper, not scream. “I hear about Michael Jackson’s nose all the time, but that’s excessive. When you have cosmetic surgery, your friends should say, ‘You look good — have you been on vacation?’ rather than snap their fingers and say, ‘ Face lift!’” But don’t think that Antell’s career is all cosmetic. His reputation as a researcher adds to his visibility. Particularly notable is his landmark study on identical twins, which led him in 1997 to the annual Twins Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, where he photographed hundreds of identical twins. “I was documenting the environment’s effect on the skin, and I was surprised to see the differences in appearance between twins. They were due to health factors: smoking, sun exposure and stress, all of which can accelerate the aging process. “No one had done this kind of study before, and the pictures I took of two sisters — Gay and Gwyn — with dramatic differences in appearance are still being used internationally by other physicians and specialists,” he says. The resulting paper was published in The Annals of Plastic Surgery. Another area that keeps his edge sharp is philanthropy. He’s worked for Interplast and Operation Smile, which provide free reconstructive surgery to people in developing countries. He recalls his first day in the mountains of Ecuador: “We had more than 80 patients show up. These were people who had literally walked for days to get to the hospital. We could operate on only a limited number because of time constraints, but we would literally operate from dawn until dusk, then get up the next day and do it again. “It’s very rewarding to see how you improve lives. We worked on cleft lips, did hand surgery — and

pinned back the ears of the mayor’s teenage daughter to placate the local politicians.” He’s also a medical consultant in plastic surgery to the United Nations, and treated victims of the 2003 bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Obviously, his career has been far more than cosmetic nips and tucks, but he squarely faces comments about the possible vanity of cosmetic surgery patients: “Vanity takes things to excess, but in plastic surgery, we’re talking about two categories: reconstructive, for people who don’t look normal and want to; and aesthetic, where someone wants to look even better. It’s nice to say that we shouldn’t judge people on appearance, but people do. They want to look as good as they possibly can; it does give them an edge in society.” Just remember to keep it simple and safe, he repeats — then adds a joke born of seeing 20-plus years of results: “We plastic surgeons call it surgical psychiatry. We can take more years off the couch in an hour than they can in five years of therapy.” Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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new UT by Cynthia Nowak

New scientific studies showing how well young babies recognize faces shouldn’t surprise us. Our brains seem to be wired for “face time.” As we introduce the new University of Toledo, we know that no single face can represent the variety and vibrancy of the new institution. But as you go eye-to-eye with some of our students, staff and faculty, you’ll see the strengths that are shaping the futures of our UT family.

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The students:

UT’s past, present and future

No glass ceilings for this hammerthrower! Quite the combination of skills Betsy juggles — a glassblower and an Olympic-style weight lifter who’s adept at the hammer throw. “My mom works for Life Flight, and she met a fireman who throws the hammer,” she says. “Because I was into weight lifting, he told me that I should try the hammer. I’m OK at it; it’s more of a stress reliever than anything.” The weighty athletics and her blown-glass vases and jewelry are far from being the sum of her achievements. Betsy the student shines at the College of Engineering, where she also serves on the Engineering Council. “I couldn’t decide between being an engineer, a lawyer or a doctor,” she says. “Bioengineering offered all three.” Her plans for the future still include law school, where she’d like to specialize in intellectual properties. Serving a two-semester co-op internship at Owens-Illinois Inc., she still found the time to participate in a focus group on UT marketing strategies, an experience that intensified her excitement about the UT/MUO merger: “Dean Nagy [Naganathan] says things at our council meetings that make me believe we’ll really develop into an even higher-echelon school.” Her enthusiasm sparks a message for UT President Lloyd Jacobs as well: “This is a great university and a hidden treasure. That’s true even though we have open enrollment; everyone can come in, but the people who come out are the finest. “You’ve got so much potential in your hands — choose your endeavors wisely. UT can become an elite university!”

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Counting the days, embracing the chaos Dapper, collected and coming off a 30hour shift at the University Medical Center, Jake Bieszczad, soon-to-be MD, admits to “scary thoughts.” “To think that a year from now I’m going to be taking care of patients — it’s frightening, but it’s exciting because you know you’re moving on. The importance of moving forward is something I keep inside during this crazy journey.” Jake, who earned a 2003 bioengineering degree from UT, prefers top speed: “There was a big part of me that loved science, but when I was in engineering, things were too slow before you’d see the results. In medicine you watch science move at Mach 5. You’re making decisions that alter people’s outcomes.” Although he thrives on medicine’s pace and unpredictability — “Science keeps advancing, and I want to be part of the advances” — it’s the field’s humanity that resonates for him. With a likely focus in anaesthesiology and critical care, he says, “I’ll be helping the sickest patients. People think that because half your patients are on ventilators, you don’t interact with them — but to me, interaction with the family is one of the most important things I can do. It’s an incredibly confusing, disorienting environment for families.” Though stresses for physicians are enormous, he notes, “You have maintain your own life, otherwise you’ll be too tired to interact with patients. “When I share news with patients or families, I’m being welcomed into their circle. If you don’t stay a real person, you’re going to fail.”

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Racing into a lifetime dream The only thing Paul does by halves is marathons. “I ran one in Cleveland. Those 13 miles really went by! The last three were rough, but you just have to push yourself.” Pushing himself comes naturally to this high achiever with a UT degree in exercise science, whose broken leg in the 8th grade opened his eyes to physical therapy. “Ever since, this is what I’ve wanted to do — nothing could deter me. Before that, I never knew such a career existed. I saw how therapists get right in there and how people got better — how I got better myself.” In fact, PT is what makes Paul run. “As a physical therapist, it’s my job to tell people how important it is to stay healthy. By running, I get an idea of what I’m telling them,” he says. The “tough love” is still a challenge, he says, but adds, “You have to tell it like it is once in a while, or patients might not understand the severity of their situation. You can end up with a bent knee for the rest of your life if you don’t push yourself as far as you possibly can.” Patients come first, he says. “And patients who are challenging make you think on your feet; you’ve got to be able to read people in this work. If you’re not a people person, you’re in the wrong field.” Ready for the graduation he says will be his proudest moment, Paul is running full-tilt toward his future. “Patient care is where you see the effect you have on people. I’m ready to get started!”

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Kathryn Skinner

Vitalized for the prize Cookout on Memorial Day weekend? Not for Kristen. “I’ll be working Saturday and Sunday as part of acute care preceptorship, where we follow hospital nurses on their shifts,” she says, adding gamely, “It’s only a fiveweek program.” No longer neophytes, she and her classmates cram their waking hours with studies — “Sometimes it seems like the highlight of our day is eating and sleeping!” — but she wouldn’t have it any other way. One gift has been the esprit de corps: “I expected med school to be hard, but one big surprise is how close I’ve gotten to my class of about 150. We do everything we can to help each other. I thought things would be cutthroat, but it’s like we’re all in this together.” They share the fun as well. She and seven or eight regulars meet in her apartment for Sunday-night TV, dissecting Grey’s Anatomy: “We tell each other this is what life’s going to be like, even though we pick holes in the plots.” Kristen, who completed her undergraduate biology degree at UT in 2005, appreciates the down time: “It would be very easy in medical school to become cynical. We feel like we work so hard, and we get impatient with time constraints. Standing in line at a gas station, you think, ‘I could be studying now!’” At the end of every long day, though, “I just remember that I’m going to be doing what I’ve wanted to do for so long — something I’ll never get bored with.”

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Going places — but not right away She may be thrilled with her summer internships and her upcoming trip to Germany, but Kathryn is still all UT when she excitedly relates a recent trip to the top of University Hall Tower — “I mean all the way to the top!” — with the UT Ambassadors. With a major in marketing and international business, plus a minor in management, Kathryn is finding highs in both her internships: Owens-Illinois and Jeff Traudt Insurance. “I’m in corporate marketing and communications at O-I. I really love it and the people are great. But in the smaller business, I get to work with clients. In a corporate environment, it’s often just you and your computer. “I’m learning a lot — more than I ever could in a classroom. Like prioritizing. I have different departments throwing different projects with different deadlines at me. And I learned how to communicate with my bosses!” Seasoned in student activities that include Chi Omega, she’s big on communication, she says. “As a UT Ambassador, I met President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, went to their home. He was very available to students. I hope Dr. Jacobs will work with us, too.” That likely trip to Germany in 2007 will be thanks to a partnership between the College of Business Administration and the European Business School in OestrichWinkel. “I wouldn’t mind traveling for a career, but now, I plan on doing my MBA. “I’ll be here until they kick me out,” she laughs. “I love the business college and everyone I’ve encountered there.”

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’09 PharmD candidate Focus at full speed Fraternal twins Emily (older by minutes) and Alex must have hit the ground running from birth, judging by their accomplishments to date. Alex, who in addition to pursuing his pharmacy doctorate is doing minors in chemistry and business administration, is president and secretary of the Pharmacy Student Council and holds two offices in Pi Kappa Phi. Emily is a Tri-Delta and serves as vice president of the Student Council. She arrived for her photograph straight from her summer placement job; Alex had the day off but he says “I worked for 13 hours yesterday.” It could be the influence of their mother, Cynthia (Pharm ’80), that keeps them moving, they note, or www.toledoalumni.org

it might be the very competitive nature of the pharmacy program. In either case, they’re definite about advice for students considering a career in pharmacy. “If they enter the program, they’ll have to work hard — immediately,” Emily says. “In your summer placement, a lot of companies won’t even look at you if you don’t have at least a 3.0.” Alex adds, “They’ll have to work harder than their friends in other programs.” As for the merger, they like the “big on technology” look of Health Science Campus facilities, Alex says, though he looks for expansions. For her part, Emily hopes that “graduate-level pharmacy students won’t be separated from the underclassmen.” Another plus: the “down to business” atmosphere. One last question: what about kick-back time? It’s pretty much a simultaneous answer: “Biking — running — working out at the Rec Center.” Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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Portrait of the artist as a young therapist There can’t be too many students in UT’s Occupational Therapy (OT) Program holding a fine arts degree from the University of Michigan. But it’s easy to explain, Erin says: “When I finished my undergrad degree, I moved to Atlanta and worked in Ameri-Corps’ Teach for America Program. I was also working as a graphic designer while I was there. I love teaching, but I wasn’t entirely happy with either type of work. “I started taking classes when I came back and found OT. It’s the perfect choice; it’s creative, it’s got science, education, all the things I love.” OT is a misunderstood field, she says. “The focus is on occupations. That’s everything from grooming

to driving a car. OT takes those occupations and uses them therapeutically to improve function in life.” Erin’s work includes the physical and emotional sides of patients who come from all ages and backgrounds. “That means you have to be creative,” she says. “You ask, ‘What’s going to be meaningful to this patient?’ Right now I’m studying how occupational therapists can help people move through the grieving process.” Her first clinical experience — through the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden — is coming up, but Erin’s already found her center in the small, close-knit OT program at UT: “Being in school was a defining moment for me. I didn’t expect to go back after I finished my undergrad. “It needed to happen; it was important to me. It felt right; it is right.”

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One BSN, hold the preconceptions Sometimes it’s tough to be the nurse with the beard, Bashar admits. “Sometimes, older patients, especially in labor and delivery, prefer a woman nurse — which I don’t understand, because so many of the doctors that deliver the babies are men.” Despite that, he’s pumped for his profession: “My two sisters were nurses, and I like the chance to help a lot of people.” And when he says that getting his degree has been a long road, that’s literal; over the last three years he’s run up considerable mileage between Toledo and Akron, where his family and many friends are. But he’s looking for his own home in Toledo now, he says: “For my final year, I’m getting away from old friends and partying and all that good stuff.” Future good stuff is likely to be travel nursing, with a three-months-on, three-months-off schedule and hospital rotation around the world. “I have to get a year of critical care first,” he says. Asked about a message for the new UT administration, he chooses class scheduling: “Last semester I had classes scheduled for 11 hours a day, straight through. People can’t concentrate that long! Plus, a lot of students have jobs; we need to get our class schedules earlier so we can plan with our employers.” As the long road winds down, though, he can see the destination. “What would I tell somebody thinking of this career? It’s a great profession, but you’re going to work for it.”

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Screen and stethoscope No jokes about “operating theatre,” thank you — Tamika’s unusual double major is combined with a formidable focus she’s had since childhood. “I always wanted to be either a doctor or an actress,” she says. To follow the latter passion, she’ll be moving to California in the spring, where she already interned in the biz. She also used the University Studies Abroad Consortium Program to study Spanish in Costa Rica last fall (“completely awesome”) and appeared in various UT theatre productions. How long she’ll devote to establishing an acting career — preferably in movies and TV — is still an unknown, she says. “It takes time to establish yourself. You have to expect a lot of rejections. But then med school is a long process, too, and I don’t want to wait too long.” Her acting aspirations began early, perhaps on the day she joined her family’s popular musical act, the Adams Family Singers, on stage. “I ended up right at the center, because I sang the loudest,” she laughs. “I loved being on stage; I still do. And I was always the one who wanted to be a star.” She admits that some people think the stars are in her eyes, but adds, “You have to have a dream, and I don’t think I’d like to live my life always wondering if I could have made it in Hollywood. “Very few people know as early as I did what they want to be — or they don’t stick with it. Well, I’ve stuck with it.”

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Making her own traditions Asked to bring an accessory representing her life, Sheri is accompanied by three of her four children: Lucas, Alex and Sammi. (Her oldest, Melissa, was lifeguarding.) “I’m a non-traditional ‘married with children’ student,” Sheri says, adding that she should have brought along her supportive husband, Mark. She first attended UT after high school, an art student in the Honors Program. “At the end of my sophomore year I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my degree, plus I was engaged to be married and wanted a family — so that’s what I did.” Over the years she spoke with advisers about returning, but “the last two times I came back I discovered I was going to have another child, so that put my plans on hold.” As her children grew, she says, “I wanted to finish before they started heading off to college. So here I am.” Adept at juggling the kids’ ball games, piano lessons and her own homework (Latin at 11 p.m.), she appreciates her professors: “They accept the fact that if you have a child you sometimes miss class, or that some moms have to bring a child to class.” She discovered a campus organization for non-traditionals, she says. “Unfortunately, people like us are so busy that we tend not to meet outside of class.” A master’s degree is likely and she hopes to eventually teach. In the meantime, English is a joy; if “the dinner and the laundry suffer sometimes, that’s true of all our other family activities!”

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Left to right: Hall Operations Manager Mark Brooks, Custodian Frances Hills, Custodian Alberta (Bert) Allen, Custodial Worker Judy Lyons, Maintenance Journeyman Steve Krukowski, Custodial Worker Barb Hymore, Custodian Beverly Moore, Custodian Elizabeth Sadowy.

The front-liners:

a few of the often unsung folks who support UT students

Custodial team at the Crossings Hard at work behind the scenes You can tell that this is a tight group. They finish sentences for each other and punctuate each other’s comments with “That’s right” or “Don’t say that on tape!” They also share a lot of goodnatured laughter, this eight-person custodial team whose beat is the fivefloor, 626-bed residence hall that dominates the south end of Main Campus. They’ve been together, in fact, since the Crossings opened four years ago. Ask about their work and you’ll find a serious pride. When Bert Allen says, “We’re the first line of communication with the kids,” the other team members immediately concur. She continues, “The kids see us first. We get to know them from the beginning; it starts here, from Rocket Launch to the rest of the year.” www.toledoalumni.org

Beverly Moore also gets nods when she notes, “I think that sometimes the professional staff and the administrators think that they’re the only ones who run the University. That’s not true; we all make it run. It takes everyone to make the wheels go.” They help move some big wheels: The popular co-ed dorm is open 24/7 and houses both new and returning students. Is it challenging? Of course, they say, but when someone adds, “The majority of the kids are good ones,” everyone agrees, with a codicil: “But they should clean their rooms before they leave for the summer!” Mark Brooks may have the last word when he says, “I wouldn’t trade this team for the world. Every time there’s a bid meeting [where union members can “bid” for other campus jobs], I cross my fingers and whisper, ‘Stay! Stay!’” Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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director of Academic Enrichment Center, coordinator of Student Disability Services, Student Tutoring Program, assistant professor in Departments of Psychiatry and Nursing Many supporting roles Robyn Gandy’s multitude of professional hats don’t show up in her photograph; where they’re visible is in her dedication. Take her recent surgery — even during her recovery period, she’d be in her office four days out of five. She wears her invisible millinery lightly, though. “You juggle the demands as they change from month to month,” she says, her mind still on the visitor who just left her office. Skittish over an upcoming national medical boards exam, the student was one of many who show up at her door. “It’s very rewarding work,” Gandy says. “The students who come to me are in danger of failing their courses, but ultimately, 90 to 95 percent of them are successful after they’re helped with study skills or time management or receive the other services we offer.” As she notes, personal issues are sometimes at the heart of academic performance — those are addressed as well, with counseling available. Students’ needs have changed in the last few years, she says: “A lot of students have never been challenged before. This is the first time they have to study to get good grades.” A repeated reward is watching formerly struggling students walk across the graduation stage. “And I get calls all the time; I stay in contact with many of them even four or five years later. It’s kind of surprising when they tell me the impact I’ve had on their lives.” The interview winds up; it’s time for class — and another hat.

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His students love helping America’s military kids It’s not easy being a kid with one or both parents serving in the military. To make their summers special, there’s Camp Adventure. Ask Sammy Spann and he’s likely to describe the program, in which trained college students run camps for military kids, as “a mobile Walt Disney World.” UT’s Camp Adventure recruits and trains volunteer students from more than a dozen area colleges and universities, then allows them to run the camps, located at child development centers of the U.S. Department of Defense. It results in placements in North America, Asia and Europe, and it’s a huge success at UT. “We have the most males and the most diversity, and we have high enrollment, high retention — the highest returning rate of any other university,” Spann says.

Spann was a Camp Adventure student volunteer while a freshman at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. “My experience working with young children was so positive that I changed my major to education,” he says. He earned a master’s degree in special education at the University of Northern Iowa; he’s working on his PhD at UT. In all, he’s been with the program for 13 years, the last four at UT, placing more than 500 students here. He has almost total recall of those students. “I’ve seen some ’grow up’ in the program and become sort of superheroes. Other students find their life direction through participating in the program. And the other side of the coin are all the children who are helped by the program.” Typically, he downplays his own contributions: “I’m just a face, just a billboard — the students who come back year after year are the actual groundskeepers, the ambassadors of the program.”

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Down on the farm with UT's new First Couple Meeting with Lloyd and Ola Jacobs isn’t turning out to be your average presidential-couple interview. For one thing, the flock of chickens is especially vocal this morning. Then there’s the single sheep off to our left — every third sentence seems to earn a plaintive “Baa!” It’s not a commentary on my questions or the Jacobs’ answers. “Her sister died, and she’s very lonely,” Ola explains. As should be obvious by now, Lloyd and Ola are sharing the part of their lives centered on the 100-yearold Michigan farm they’ve owned and worked for nearly 30 years. Arriving at the farm via a series of unpaved roads, the photographer and I are slightly disoriented as to our exact location. Lloyd agrees: “It’s never been easy to give simple directions. I tell people that we’re west of Milan, north of Britten, south of Saline.” In addition to the chickens and the sorrowing sheep, the Jacobs still raise cattle on their 65-acre spread, though they’ve reduced the size of the herd since Lloyd’s new job became a looming reality. More to the point, they also raised their two sons there, moving to the farm from Dearborn because “a farm seemed like a good place for children to grow up,” Ola says.

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Their sons are grown, but the farm still rings with kids’ voices. Ola regularly watches some of their extended family; today it’s greatniece Kennedy (who offers by way of introduction, “I’m six years old and I’m not afraid of the chickens”) and nephews Christopher (who whispers a lot because he was told earlier not to interrupt when the other grownups would arrive) and Ryan, a mellow baby who snoozes during much of the interview. Lloyd eyes the 15 acres of hay adjacent to where we’re sitting with our iced teas and lemonades. “It’s bothering me that there’s still hay standing here this late in the season,” he says. “It should be in the barn by now.” As soon as we leave, that’s exactly what he’ll do. They both know how unexpected all this is — and will be — for anyone who thinks of university First Families more in terms of Ralph Lauren suits than the jeans and denim shirt Lloyd is wearing. “We’re both more dressed up today than we’d normally be on the farm,” Ola says. “I wouldn’t let him wear his usual farm clothes.” “We’re simple people,” Lloyd says when pressed for a descriptor. “There’s the role I play in Toledo, the role that people tend to see me in — but really, we’re simple people.” Ola adds, “We’ve lived privately for many years, but I guess I want people to know that we are country people who really like Toledo and are very happy about Lloyd’s new position. But if anyone’s looking for the stereotype of what presidents and their wives look like — it isn’t us.” Naturally, some details — like the copy of Thomas Mann’s Freud, Goethe, Wagner that Lloyd was reading while waiting for our arrival — speak of a more complex simplicity. But somewhere among the lilting birdsong and the pungent tang of the cattle pen, between the tips on growing heirloom tomatoes and skunk-proofing a henhouse, you feel the essential rightness of the Jacobs’ self-description.

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The collectors:

not-so-secret passions of some of our UT family

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No skimps on the Barbie Physician — mother of two (Baby Three on the way) — unrepentant Barbie addict. “When I was little, I loved Barbies, but my family was rather poor and I didn’t have many of them,” Jennifer says. “I was in medical school when my husband bought me a medical Barbie. That’s when it all came back and I started collecting.” Many of her young patients think that her hobby is pretty cool, she says. “Barbie sometimes gets a bad rap, but she is versatile; she can be anything you want her to be. She’s been a lot of things, including a very successful woman! And she’s good for kids’ imaginations.”

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director, Catharine S. Eberly Center for Woman Fabric of space and time Zimbabwe; Beirut; Guatemala; India and Portland, Oregon: just a few points of origin for Pat's fabric art collection. However, the threads stretch far back in history, she says: “Needlework and quilting are traditionally produced for utilitarian purposes by women who many times lacked the self-esteem to see their work as art.” She recommends a 1980 book by Judy Chicago — Embroidering Our Heritage: Dinner Party Needlework. “I’m exploring Judy’s hypothesis that women’s needlework is a global cultural experience,” says Murphy, who was working at the University of California when she helped organize the project the book chronicles. It’s no coincidence that the Eberly Center has hosted several exhibits of women’s fabric art, but you won’t find works by Pat, who says, “I’m not an artist that way — though I once won third prize in 4-H for apron making.” www.toledoalumni.org

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Beauty with a nib This surgeon has some favorite instruments that aren’t bladed metal; however, they can be used incisively. “In medical school, my father-in-law gave me a very nice pen,” Blair says. “It was functional art — the pen put something out-of-the-ordinary into the mechanics of writing.” Today, he catalogues his collection. “Any hobby is a gentle form of madness,” deadpans Blair, an investor in Bexley Pen Co., founded by collectors and enthusiasts. Patients present him with pens as well. He holds up one such gift, a pen that belonged to a patient’s father, a physician who escaped Germany during WWII. “I used this pen to write an essay on its story, submitted it to Pen World International Magazine, and won an all-expenses-paid trip to England.” The (signed) bottom line, he says, is that pens are lovely anachronisms: “Because pens no longer have to be purely functional, they can focus on being beautiful. I think that people want something that can give their lives a sense of beauty, art and creativity.”

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Tom Amstutz

head football coach Hooked on fishing lures Walking into his self-professed “man cave,” Tom Amstutz proclaims, “Some of these lures are so rare you will never see them again.” The antique fishing lures are everywhere — on shelves, propped on yellowed original boxes, mounted in cases on the wall. Many date from 1880 to 1925 and are hand-carved and painted. Tom traces his love of lures to childhood. “I remember catching my first northern pike when I was nine years old,” he says. Tom began officially collecting lures after meeting Clarence Zauhn, former president of the National Fishing Lures Collectors Club, in the 1980s. Zauhn gave Amstutz his Bonafide Minnow, one of six known and Tom's favorite lure. Another standout in the collection is the first patented jointed minnow lure made by the K & K Manufacturing Co. of Toledo. But fishing lures aren’t the coach's only menagerie. “I also collect championship trophies, rings and watches,” he says. — Deanna Woolf

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Everything old is new again for antique-dealing alum

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t’s on a short but chic street in the toney Cleveland ’burb of Rocky River. Some 50 feet — as the foccacia flies — from an elegant Italian eatery stands Mitchell Sotka, the gallery. Sotka (Univ Coll ’92) the person stands inside, surrounded by the classic, the exquisite, the quirky and the plain fun. Which may describe his personality as well — and why his artfully artless collection of antiques is so inviting. “We try to make people comfortable as soon as they walk in the door,” Sotka says. “People can pick up a gift for $38 or an armoire for $3,800.” But antiques wasn’t Sotka’s first career choice; his UT degree was in long-term health-care administration. “At the time, UT was one of only three schools offering the degree. I worked in the field after graduation, but I gradually realized that it wasn’t the best fit. ” Taking some time off put

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things in perspective, and the idea of antiques kept coming back. To learn the business, he found jobs with Cleveland galleries and worked for an auction house. “But if I were to open my own shop, how would I make it fresh, introduce antiques to a younger crowd? You can’t be your grandparents’ antique store!” He was fortunate in his timing; thanks in part to eBay, Antiques Roadshow and the home remodeling craze, vintage was suddenly hot. He launched the business, which is now in its second location. “People come here looking for interesting, eclectic pieces — not necessarily for the history, but for what an item says about them,” he says. The flip side of the antiques boom, though, shows up in the clients for whom he sells family possessions on consignment. Set up by online research for unrealistic expectations, he says, “people can get glossy-

eyed and dangerous. They have high prices on their minds.” They often get an education in reality. With another set of clients, though, “my own education totally paid off in learning how to work with the elderly who are selling off their pieces. You need to be sensitive with people in their late seventies and early eighties who are physically downsizing. They see their lives being chipped away. I’ve lost out on deals because I won’t be a pushy antiques dealer, but I’d rather lose out on money than make the process difficult for older clients.” Although he doesn’t plan to grow old himself in the business — “I’m 37 and moving heavy furniture eventually takes its toll,” he laughs — he finds his work to be evergreen. “Things come and go; we’re only the caretakers of these pieces. It’s a thrill to find an object you love and pass it on to a person who’s also thrilled.”

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Class Notes expand with more classy and notable alums

ollowing the merger of two great institutions, we have two big welcomes. First, to our alumni of the former Medical University of

Ohio (and the former Medical College of Ohio) — thanks for sharing your news, and we look forward to hearing from more of you in the future. Second, a universal welcome to our expanded Class Notes. You’ll see some new features, like special sections for wedding and birth announcements; more may be on the way in future issues. Although we’re excited to be growing, we still have to contend with those pesky physical limits found in any publication. Therefore, some alumni may notice a slight trimming of the notes sent in. Keep those notes coming — but please, share your news that’s happened within the last 12 months. That will allow us to include as many alumni as possible. Sending in your news remains easy — mail the “What in the world” form (Page 40) to the address given, or go to the Alumni Association Web page (www.toledoalumni.org/). Under the Membership menu, you’ll find “Submit your class note.” You’ll need to register, which will provide you with other cool features, including ways to stay connected with your fellow alums. And let us know what you think of this or any feature of Toledo Alumni Magazine. The more we hear from you, the better we can become. Editor Cynthia No*wak can always be reached at cnowak@ utnet.utoledo.edu or by calling 419.530.8956.

Because we’ve added alumni from the Health Science Campus,

we thought that a brief glossary of abbreviations used to designate earned degrees might come in handy. You’ll find your degrees listed according to the college or colleges you attended; our newest additions are: HS: College of Health Sciences (all degrees are graduate level) GS: College of Graduate Studies MED: College of Medicine NRS: College of Nursing (NRSG for graduate degree) Res: Residency

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Richard W. Breck MD (A/S ’40), Wallingford, Conn., wrote in with a hello for his fellow alumni of 1936-1941. His 1995 retirement with daily part-time practice of geriatric medicine at a local nursing home reached the status of “finally and completely retired” in October 2005.

Betty Ruth (Muntz) Raygor (Ed ’44), St. Paul, Minn., is serving on several boards, including those of the University of Minnesota Retirees, and the university’s Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle. An active volunteer, she writes to say that her life now includes eight great-grandchildren, good health and being “in denial that I am in my 80s.” Joan L. (Pross) Kelly (Ed ’49), Washington, D.C., since retirement has served on the boards of the Foreign Student Service Council and the Foreign Student House. The author of two books on Japan, she organized the publication of another, Tokyo Memoirs, focusing on expatriates who lived in Japan between December 1941 and 1955. She appears in the book herself, having taught at the American School in Japan and having been a newspaper columnist for the Mainichi Times.

Bob Carson (Ed ’51, MEd ’60) and his wife, Billie Lou, Sylvania, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in June. Bob is retired following a 46-year career in education and youth counseling. Carl Roth (MBA ’55) and his wife, Evelyn, Toledo, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in June. Now retired, Carl had careers in civil service and education.

Andre L. Delbecq (Bus ’58) received the David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award in June from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, honoring lifetime achievements in education. He is the J. Thomas and Kathleen L. McCarthy University Professor in the Leavy School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Larry “Tex” Hughes PhD (Ed ’56, MEd ’59), Houston, professor emeritus at the University of Houston, coauthored The Principal: Creative Leadership for Excellence in Schools, published by Allyn & Bacon and now in its sixth edition. It’s his 17th book, which since its publication in Chinese has been used in training programs for Chinese school administrators.

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George W. Green (Bus ’50, MBA ’51) and his wife, Pauline, Dearborn, Mich., celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in March. Always the faithful writer, George did three articles, “A Shocking Interest in Spark Plugs,” for Vintage Truck magazine, “Exhibit Trains and Cars” for the National Railway Bulletin and a retrospective of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for Paper & Advertising Collectors Marketplace.

Hughes ’56, ’59 Linda B. (Johnsen) Oberhausen (Ed ’59), Falmouth, Maine, retired after a 43-year teaching career, wrote in to say that she’s still teaching two days a week and holds certification in both interior design and substance abuse counseling. Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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Larry Rochelle (Ed ’62, Ed Spec ’80) won an Eppie Poetry Award for his book, Ghostly Embers, in the 2006 Electronically Published Internet Connection competition.

Award in April from the UT Law Alumni Association. The award recognizes a practicing lawyer whose reputation, professional achievement and community involvement make him a role model for those in the legal field.

Janice Carson PhD (A/S ’65, PhD ’04) has been an assistant

president of Habitat for Humanity of Portage County. Retired from National City Bank, he’s been active with Habitat since 2005 and chairs its Development Committee.

Paul Kimmelman PhD (Ed ’67, MEd ’72, PhD ’77), senior advisor in the Office of the CEO at Learning Point Associates in Naperville, Ill., and adjunct instructor at Argosy University in Chicago and Schaumberg, Ill., had his second book, Implementing NCLB: Creating a Knowledge Framework to Support School Improvement, published by Corwin Press.

Jeffrey L. Davis PhD (A/S ’68), Bayville, N.Y., retired from the New York City Department of Education and is now working as a consultant, lecturing nationwide on how to prevent youth violence. Gary Babel (Bus ’69) is retired after 35 years as a corporate director of transportation for various Fortune 100 companies. He relocated to “the sunny Southwest” and has found a new vocation teaching business courses at the University of Phoenix. Cary R. Cooper (Law ’69), Maumee, a founding partner of the law firm of Cooper & Walinski, received the 2006 Distinguished Toledo Lawyer

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became a lifetime member of Mensa, the high-IQ society. He is working on a feature-length documentary about the movie industry.

Jack Mattimore (MEd ’72, Ed Spec ’73), who coached girls’ and boys’ teams at Toledo’s Whitmer High School for 17 years, was inducted into the 2006 District 7 Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in March.

professor of social work at UT since 1987, and continues her research, presentations and seminars on the topic of fatherhood and, she writes, “why we need fathers.”

Richard Rowley (MBA ’66), Aurora, Ohio, was elected

Ken Close (Bus ’72),Toledo,

David A. Sleet PhD (PhD ’73),

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Katherine A. (Wilson) Douglas (Ed ’71, UTCTC ’76), Berkey, Ohio, had her seventh book, Secrets of Serenity, a collection of devotionals for women, published by Barbour, and was a speaker at the 2006 Northwest Ohio Christian Writers Seminar.

Duluth, Ga., Centers for Disease Control associate director for science, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, was profiled in the August edition of Monitor on Psychology, a publication of the American Psychological Association. The piece centered on his work in linking behavioral science to injury prevention. He co-edited a book, Handbook for Injury and Violence Prevention, due to be published in September by Springer.

Daniel S. Farkas (Eng ’71, MBA ’85) accepted the position of principal software engineer with Wulfsberg Electronics in Prescott, Ariz. A 30-year veteran of Toledo’s Owens-Illinois Inc., he retired in 2000 and had been working for two other firms, one in Toledo and one in Colorado. Now living in Prescott Valley, he does music ministry for local parishes. He and his wife, Kathy (Ehrman) (Pharm ’74), have three adult daughters. John Velker (A/S ’71), director of the Camp Foster Substance Abuse Counseling Center, part of Marine Corps Community Services in Okinawa, Japan, was honored by GEICO with a 2005 Public Service Award in April, one of five federal employees recognized for outstanding contributions to community health and safety.

Jakubowski ’74, ’76, ’78 Daniel R. Walch (A/S ’74, MEng ’80), a senior associate and project engineer with Toledo architectural firm SSOE Inc., was named the 2006 Engineer of the Year by the Toledo Society of Professional Engineers. The Sylvania resident has been with SSOE since 1990.

Walch ’74, ’80 Diane C. (Wilhelm) Clasen (A/S ’75), Mason, Ohio, is a judge

Sleet ’73 Gerald S. Jakubowski PhD (Eng ’74, MEng ’76, PhD ’78) assumed the presidency of RoseHulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., in July. The 30year veteran of higher education was most recently vice president of Arizona State University and provost of their Polytechnic campus in Mesa.

for America in Bloom, a national nonprofit organization that fosters community beautification and improvement. So far, 2006 has seen her judging at the international level in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Ralph Roach MD (MED ’75) is working as an oncologist in Columbus and Chillicothe, and was recertified in hospice and palliative medicine. In his free time he goes biking, hiking and does volunteer mission trips with his Methodist church. E-mail Ralph at rroach@mooh.com. Philip Sloane MD (MED ’75), Elizabeth and Oscar Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine, is in his 27th www.toledoalumni.org

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ichelle (Micki) TaylorSmith (MSN ’98) is still catching up after one of those technological disasters we all dread. “My BlackBerry® crashed last Thursday and it was awful!” she says. Vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital, she’s in the middle of a typical day — overseeing all areas where nursing care is provided, which covers just about the entire hospital. “I also oversee any areas that nursing care overlaps,” she says, adding that she carries directreport responsibility for the emergency department and surgery. Thus the necessity of the BlackBerry®, something she admits she initially resisted but now relies on. Still, a non-technological prop carries her through even the crashes: “A good attitude — that’s really the key. A good attitude lets you find

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your rewards in different ways.” She’s the first to admit that the 285-bed hospital on Detroit’s downtown east side is complex enough to give her attitude a daily workout. “We’re both a teaching institution and a communitybased hospital,” she says. “Fullservice care is what characterizes us — cardiovascular to OB-GYN to podiatry.” With 390 nurses and a staff of more than 400 (including some 350 physicians), St. John, TaylorSmith says, “works to be the hospital where physicians want to admit, associates want to work and patients want to be admitted.” Twice-yearly hospital-wide surveys set priorities and define the action plans to make the goal a reality. Those surveys, she says, might show that “physicians want to find certain equipment in the various units — patients want warm food — associates want to

offer their input on patient-care decisions.” Her job, she says, is to help make it all happen. “I went into health care wanting to serve. Earlier in my career, I served more in direct patient care. That since developed into a different methodology of service — administratively. Thanks to mentoring, experience and opportunity, I can serve as an advocate for patients, nurses, associates and physicians. Coming from the nursing side, for instance, I know what strong physiciannurse relationships can bring to the patient experience.” With or without electronic notebooks, it’s collaborations that power the hospital’s beating heart. As Taylor-Smith says, “We all wear different hats and different titles, but at the end of the day, it’s all about the care we provide.”

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year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He coedited two textbooks, Essentials of Family Medicine and Primary Care Geriatrics. His favorite professional role is organizing the musical entertainment for “An Evening with Friends” at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society.

Sloane ’75 Nathanael Ford (UTCTC ’76, Univ Coll ’95), who retired as deputy chief of police with the Toledo Police Department in

2001, was hired as a consultant by Sylvania Township.

James E. Funk (Univ Coll ’76), Maumee, was appointed executive director of Read for Literacy Inc., a Toledo agency providing adult literacy education through a program of trained volunteer tutors.

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Medical Center. She also works with her Methodist church to provide parenting skills to teen moms. Contact Jane by e-mail at manyblessings@adelphia.net.

Paulette Gillig PhD (MED ’77), professor of psychiatry at Wright State University in Dayton and board examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, co-edited a book, Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill, Homeless Person. She is also the series editor of “Psychotherapy Rounds” for Psychiatry, a professional journal. She and her husband, Douglas Fairobent PhD, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June.

Benedict Messana MD (MED ’77) is an adjunct faculty

Jane Roach MD (MED ’76), a five-year survivor of breast cancer, moved from the suburbs of Columbus to the hills of southern Ohio and is working as a full-time pediatrician for Adena Regional

member at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., teaching human anatomy. He writes that it has been a wonderful career change.

Clinical Professor Emeritus of the Department of Surgery at his 1996 retirement from teaching and medical practice, continues to organize medical missions to his native Peru. Founder of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Program in the Hospital Dos de Mayo in Lima, Peru, he and his wife work full time in humanitarian work and teach new cardiothoracic surgeons in coordination with his alma mater, San Fernando Medical School.

Darlene A. O’Brien (A/S ’77) was appointed judge of the Washtenaw County Probate Court in Ann Arbor, Mich., by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Prior to her appointment, she practiced law for 24 years and was a founding member of O’Brien & O’Brien PLC.

Efrain Montesinos MD, PhD (Res ’77), named MUO

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Jay E. Nussel (Ed ’78, MEd ’82) joined Manchester College in northern Indiana as executive director of development. Previously, he had a 20-year career with the investment firm of Smith Barney.

Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge in Grand Rapids, Mich., was reappointed to the State Bar District C Character and Fitness Committee by the board of commissioners.

Sylvania Twp., was promoted to vice president of Fifth Third Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Department.

Nussel ’78, ’82 Carol A. Schwartz (Ed ’78, MEd ’87) was hired by

was promoted to captain in the Ohio Military Reserve (OHMR.) Chief of Individual Training in the G3 Plans, Operations & Training Headquarters Detachment, he has served since 2001. He works for Toledo’s Buckeye CableSystem as senior creative services producer, and won a Gold Level Image Award in April from the Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association for “Dragon Deeds,” a commercial he produced.

Northwest State Community College, Archbold, Ohio, as distance learning coordinator. James Berthold (Ed ’79) was honored by the Lorain County (Ohio) Joint Vocational School board of education, which named a scholarship in his honor. The longtime educator and former board member lives in Amherst, Ohio.

Jay Margolis PhD (Pharm ’79) earned a doctor of pharmacy degree from Shenandoah University in May. He works as health outcomes research manager for HealthCore Inc. in Wilmington, Del., and lives in Bala Cynwyd, Penn., with his wife, Marya, and their three sons.

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Susan Ezzone (NRS ’82) is at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University as an advanced practice nurse in blood and marrow stem cell transplant, rotating between inpatient and outpatient care.

director of the Ohio State University School of Allied Medical Professions. The 15-year OSU faculty member had been serving as interim director.

Jerome J. Straub (Bus ’77),

James M. Nowak (A/S ’78)

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Deborah Larsen PhD (MEd ’82), Dublin, Ohio, was named

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named a senior vice president at BSA LifeStructures. He has been with the Indianapolis-based architectural design firm since 1986 and became a principal in 1994. Albert J. Engel III (Law ’80), a shareholder at the law firm of

Engel ’80 Robert L. Head PhD (MBA ’80), president of Urbana University since 2001, was elected president of the Ohio College Association board of directors.

Debi Sampsel (A/S ’80, UTCTC ’81) was hired as executive director of the Nursing Institute of West Central Ohio, located at Wright State University in Dayton.

Linda L. Jennings (A/S ’81, Law ’88), a partner with the Toledo law firm of Jennings & Jennings, was appointed to the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas for a term that began in May.

Susan Blaser MD (MED ’82) is a pediatric neuroradiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. This is her 16th year in “the snowy north,” she writes, and she’d love to hear from her classmates via e-mail: susan. blaser@sickkids.ca.

Bill Clegg MD (MED ’82) helped start an emergency medicine residency in Kalamazoo, Mich., a branch of Michigan State University, where he was the medical director of its ER from 1995 to 2001. He’s the founder and first coach of the Portage, Mich., men’s high school water polo team. He is married to Denise

Paul Longenecker (NRS ’82) accepted the position of assistant professor in leadership studies with the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at Lourdes College in Sylvania. He looks forward to reconnecting with people that he knows in Toledo; contact him at plongenecker@ixp. net.

Robert May MD (MED ’82) completed two years of service as president of the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC), the organization responsible for the credentials of respiratory therapists nationwide. He has represented the American Society of Anesthesiologists for the NBRC since 1995. Robert can be e-mailed at bombay@buckeye-express.com.

Ardenia Jones Terry PhD (MBA ’82), associate vice president for UT Student Services, was honored with a YWCA Milestones Award in March, representing high achievement in social services.

Mary Jo A. (Bellner) Swartzberg (UTCTC ’83, Univ Coll ’85, MLS ’89 GS ’06) graduated from the former Medical University of Ohio in June with a certificate in contemporary gerontological practice. She is director of the Public and Community Psychiatry Program at UT’s Health Science Campus. Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

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Swarzberg ’83, ’85, ’89, ’06 Brenda VanDress (NRS ’83) is working as team nurse after holding various administrative and clinical positions. She’s a mother of two and also has a home-based business, The Body Shop at Home (www. thebodyshopathome.com/web/ brenda2). Brenda’s e-mail is skincarefun2000@yahoo.com.

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Griffith ’85

H. Arthur McCulloch MD (MED ’84) was named president-

Shawn Taylor MD (MED ’85)

elect of the North Carolina Medical Board. He also serves as president on the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists and is a member of the House of Delegates of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

John K. Estell PhD (Eng ’84), professor of computer engineering and computer science at Ohio Northern University, where he is also chair of the Electrical/ Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, won the 2006 Best Paper Award from the Design in Engineering Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. He co-wrote the paper — “Using Rubrics for the Assessment of Senior Design Projects” — with Juliet Hurtig PhD. He also won the 2005 Merl K. Miller Award, presented by the Computers in Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, for the year’s outstanding instructional methods paper: “Teaching Graphical User Interfaces and Event Handling Through Games.” William A. Life (MBA ’84) was promoted to senior vice president of Fifth Third Bank’s Commercial Credit Department. He has been with the Toledo bank since 2001.

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created and is now the director of the International Adoption Clinic at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington. Contact Shawn at shawn.taylor@uky.edu. Russell Austin (Law ’86), Dublin, was named senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Battelle Memorial Institute, an international science and technology management organization headquartered in Columbus.

Nancy Paserk (Pharm ’86) and her husband, Mitch, moved into their new home in Gilbert, Ariz., where Nancy is a pharmacy manager for Walgreens. They have two daughters.

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Laurie Rosenblatt MD (MED ’86) was promoted to assistant

Tucker Self PhD (Ed Spec ’84, PhD ’86), Unionville, Ohio,

professor at Harvard Medical School, where she has worked for the past seven years. She is involved in qualitative research exploring clinicians’ barriers and facilitators, and speaks with patients and families about imminent death. In her free time she writes poetry, which has been published in JAMA, Academic Medicine, The Bellevue Literary Review and other journals. Laurie_Rosenblatt@dfci.harvard. edu or larosenbl@yahoo.com.

assistant professor of education at Ashland University, was granted tenure. He has been at Ashland since 2000.

Gerald M. Griffith (Law ’85) joined the international law firm of Jones Day as a partner in their health-care practice, working from the firm’s Chicago office.

Scott Sandstrom (A/S ’86) won a Gold Level Image Award from the Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association in April for “Dragon Deeds,” a television commercial he directed

for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. He works for Buckeye CableSystem in Toledo as senior editor. Debra M. Nazar (Law ’87), an attorney with Boies Schiller & Flexner in New York City, wrote in to note that she and her husband, James Villa, also an attorney, will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in September, having marked their 10th sailing Long Island Sound on their Albin Vega yacht, Discovery. She added that both are “working the usual New York lawyer schedule with no imminent retirement.”

Gary Zammit PhD (PhD ’87), clinical associate professor of psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, was recognized by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the role of Clinilabs Inc. in making New York a leader in the biotechnology industry. Clinilabs, of which Zammit is president and CEO, provides drug development services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The mayor made his remarks at the May opening of the company’s new Manhattan clinical trials facility.

Nicholas V. Landry DO (A/S ’88) opened a new osteopathic medicine practice in Wellston, Ohio, adding to his existing office in Gallipolis. Ryan Brant (A/S ’89) was promoted to sports director at WKEF-WRGT-TV, Dayton’s respective ABC and Fox affiliates. He joined the stations in 1999. Loren P. Brown (Bus ’89), Perrysburg, received his MBA from the University of Notre Dame in May 2005, graduating cum laude. Vice president and CFO for Holy Cross Children’s Services in Clinton, Mich., he and his wife, Stacey, have two children.

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Mark Lukens MD (MED ’89) is practicing interventional radiology in High Point, N.C. He is married, with two girls and one boy. His e-mail is mlluk2@aol.com.

David Margolin MD (MED ’89) and Jeanne RademacherMargolin MD (MED ’89) moved to Cleveland after graduation and did their residencies at University Hospitals, David in general surgery and Jeanne in pediatrics. They spent a year in New Orleans while David did his fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Ochsner Clinic and then moved to Detroit and back to New Orleans three years ago. David is at the Ochsner Clinic, where he’s head of colon and rectal research. Jeanne is working part time in general pediatrics. They have two children, Elizabeth and Eric. Since Hurricane Katrina, they have had a rough year, David living in the hospital and Jeanne in Cincinnati for a while. While some parts of New Orleans are returning to normal, they write, but large parts are still a disaster. They hope life fully returns to the city they love.

Gabriel Obi MD (MED ’89) is practicing internal medicine for Kaiser Permanente. He was elected to the board of directors at the Ohio Permanente Medical Group. E-mail Gabriel at obi00@ sbcglobal.net.

Tim Rosengarten (MBA ’89) joined Swagelok Co., a developer and manufacturer of fluid system component technology, as director of their fitting services group, responsible for general industrial manufacturing.

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Kevin D. Clark (Bus ’90) was promoted to vice president of sales with Dexter-Russell Inc. He has been with the company — the nation’s oldest and largest manufacturer of professional cutlery — since 1999. He and his wife, Beth, and their three children live in Sturbridge, Mass.

lthough the photo makes it look as though UT Head Football Coach Tom Amstutz has gotten a new assistant, it’s really Jackie Freed (Ed ’58) of Lakeland, Fla., who met the coach at a March alumni gathering in the Sunshine State. As the event happened to coincide with her birthday, she joked to her husband that perhaps the coach

would let her wear his whistle for the occasion. As she tells it, “Well, my husband very boldly went up to him and asked. The coach’s reply was ‘I just happen to have it in my pocket.’” As yet, she reports no irresistible urge to toot out the UT Fight Song on a kazoo while she and husband Chuck faithfully follow the Rockets.

Clark ’90 Bradley Osborne MD (MED ’90) works for the Cincinnati Weight Loss Center performing the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band procedure. His e-mail is Brad.Osborne@thelapband.com.

Kayleen Weinman Clute (NRSG ’91) is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Glen Burnie, Md., with a specialty in complementary and alternative medicine. Kayleen can be e-mailed at kayleenwc@ aol.com.

Miami, Orlando and Tampa. He’s also an avid underwater photographer, with a Web site at www.underworldphotography. com.

Doug Kahle (Bus ’91, Law ’94) left a Florida law firm and joined with two partners to start their own firm, Schwed Patten Kahle LLP, with offices in Palm Beach,

Patricia Lange-Otsuka (NRSG ’91) was promoted to interim dean of nursing at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Previously, she was associate professor of nursing, associate dean of nursing for administration, Graduate Nursing Program chair, chair of the HPU Faculty Assembly and associate dean of nursing.

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Charles Goddard MD (MED ’92) took a position with the

Lange-Otsuka ’91 Brad Lucas MD (MED ’91) received his MBA in health-care administration from Baldwin Wallace College in January. His email is rblucas@adelphia.net.

Keith Paley MD (MED ’91) relocated to join a Mayo Health System multi-specialty group in Owatonna, Maine, after 10 years in private general surgery practice in upstate New York. E-mail Keith at paley.keith@mayo.edu.

Katherine (Felaris) Pattay (MEd ’91), Perrysburg, retired from education in July after 38 years of service.

Rev. Thomas E. Crawford (Univ Coll ’92), Fontana, Calif., retired Michigan correctional officer at the federal level, finds time to act as a pastoral adviser.

Anthony DiFilippo (HS ’92) owns four private practice offices in the Cleveland area. He’s working on his doctoral degree in physical therapy (PT) while working part time in the PT Program at Cleveland State University. He was appointed state legislative chair of the Ohio Physical Therapy Association after more than 10 years’ service at the regional level. His e-mail is anthdifilippo@comcast.net. Kimberly Douglas (Ed ’92), a reading resource teacher at Englewood (Fla.) Elementary School, was recognized by the school for her dedication to education during the county’s Teacher Appreciation Week in May. She has been with the school since 1994.

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return engagement set for next spring.

Emergency Physicians Medical Group (EPMG) of Ann Arbor, Mich., working in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital in Wyandotte. His wife, Mini

Gregory Page (Law ’95)

Bansal Goddard MED (Res ’95), is in a private practice

Clinical Excellence Award for Nursing at The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University.

with physical medicine and rehabilitation in Riverview, Mich. They can be reached at charles. goddard@comcast.net.

Keith Neundorfer (A/S ’92) joined Directions Research Inc. of Cincinnati as senior research analyst.

Brad D. Lookingbill PhD (MA ’93, PhD ’95), associate professor of history at Columbia College, Missouri, had his second book, War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners, published in May by University of Oklahoma Press.

became a shareholder in the Dayton law firm of Pickrel, Schaeffer & Ebeling Co. LPA.

Jill Schimmoeller (NRS ’95) was honored with the 2006

Carrie L. (Smith) Stowers (A/S ’95), Las Vegas, a statecertified environmental manager, launched Stowers Stormwater Compliance, an environmental regulations compliance firm. Prior to starting the business, she held principal oversight of her county’s water quality program. She and her husband, Kirk, have one child, Charlotte.

Mike Rosendaul (Eng ’93) signed on as executive chef for Carson’s Steak House, a new Sylvania restaurant. Kevin Neel (NRS ’94) accepted the position of director at the Surgical Center for Excellence, a new, freestanding facility focusing on outpatient endoscopy and interventional radiology. Kevin lives in Roanoke, Va., with his wife, Rita, and three teenage children.

Daniel P. Burke PhD (Ed ’95, MEd ’97), Columbus, completed his doctoral degree in educational administration at Ohio University, presenting his dissertation research at the 2006 national conference of the American Education Researchers’ Association. Betsy Miller (Pharm ’95), a staff pharmacist at The Pharm, Toledo, traveled to New York City’s Carnegie Hall to perform as a member of the choir of Blessed Sacrament Church. The choir has a

Sean McNeeley MD (MED ’96) lives in Fairview Park, Ohio, with his wife, Jennifer, and their four children. (They’re expecting their fifth in August.) He sold his solo practice two years ago and now works full time at Brunswick Immediate Care Center. Sean would love to get e-mails at Sean@ McNeeleyFamily.com. Alfin Vicencio MD (MED ’96), an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital in New York City, is a Parker B. Frances fellow in lung research. He is also doing research on the neonatal lung development and injury. He is married to Rose Anne Mallon.

Tony Carone (Univ Coll ’97), Streetsboro, Ohio, was inducted into the Swanton High School Athletic Hall of Fame for his achievements in football, wrestling, baseball and track. Mark Clutter (HS ’98) is serving in Iraq as a combat physician assistant with U.S. Army Special Forces.

Shawn D. McGee (Eng ’98, MEng ’01), Toledo, a project

Pamela Darbyshire (NRS ’96) moved to Miawaw, Japan,

manager and associate at Hull & Associates Inc., a Midwest engineering firm, was named the 2006 Young Engineer of the Year by the Toledo Society of Professional Engineers.

in March to work as flight commander of a small in-patient multi-service unit on a fighter base that houses U.S. Army and Navy facilities as well as those run by the Japanese. She writes that navigating her way around is challenging because there are no street signs. Pamela can be contacted at usafrnped_1999@ yahoo.com.

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Chad E. McKenzie PhD (Pharm ’96) was promoted to lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He is stationed in Sigonella, Sicily, as department head of the base pharmacy.

Andrew E. Morgan (Eng ’98) was named a principal of Austin Associates LLC. He joined the Toledo-based investment banking and consulting firm in 2001 as www.toledoalumni.org

vice president for operations and product development in the company’s Financial Management Division.

cancer treatment and also made patient rounds. He has been working closely with the MUO Foundation to raise funds for the Dr. Barry Richardson Scholarship. He completed residency training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and is in his last year of fellowship training.

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Morgon ’98 Randall Schlievert MD (MED ’98) is an assistant professor of pediatrics and the director of the Child Abuse Program at UT’s Health Science Campus. He wrote an article, “Evaluating the Prepubertal Child for Sexual Abuse: A Primer,” for the March issue of Family Practice Recertification.

Donald J. Dietrich (MBA ’99) was promoted to vice president with the business banking group of Fifth Third Bank, Toledo, which he joined in 2005.

graduated from the University of Findlay in May with a master of business administration (MBA) degree. Her long-term goal is to move into health-care administration.

Daniel Kambel (Univ Coll ’99) was hired as sports information director with Texas A&M University: Commerce. He was also honored as one of 10 inaugural members inducted into the Columbus State Sport and Exercise Studies Alumni Hall of Fame; he took his degree there in 1996.

Greg Rawski PhD (MBA ’99, PhD ’05), assistant professor of management at the University of Evansville in Indiana, received the 2006 Governor’s Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders, honoring achievement in several categories of leadership.

Shiromi G. Thuraiaiyah (HHS ’99) is working in Belize City, Belize, as a legal assistant for the law firm of Glenn D. Godfrey & Co. LLP.

Dietrich ’99 Cory Dunn PhD (A/S ’99) earned his doctoral degree in cell biology from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in April. He’s now a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York City.

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Nicole N. Crase PhD (Pharm ’00, PharmD ’02) is a pharmacist at Family Health, a community health center in Greenville, Ohio, for whom she is developing an anticoagulation clinic and a doctoral student rotation program.

Michael Homsher PhD (PhD ’00), associate professor of environmental, safety and health management at the University of Findlay, was honored for teaching

Marriages

Thomas B. Boutall (Law ’91), Lakewood. Ohio, married Anna M. Kokkas (formerly of Samos Island, Greece) in June. Lindsay B. Sutton (Bus ’02) married Jason Kennedy in April 2005. She is a client service representative with VisionMark Inc., a donor recognition specialty firm in Sidney, Ohio. Krystal L. Miller PhD (Pharm ’03, PharmD ’05) married Nicholas Hoffman in April. She works for CVS Pharmacy in West Chester, Penn. Colin Waid (Eng ’04) married Abby Hinkle (Bus ’05) in March. Colin is a process control engineer with The Rovisys Co., and Abby is attending the University of Findlay while working as a financial analyst for Key Bank. They live in Streetsboro, Ohio. Meredith A. Thomas (A/S ’05) married Matthew LaGorga in May. They live in Elyria; Meredith works for Bank of America.

Births

Richard Berkey (Eng ’93) and his wife, Tiffany, of Mattawan, Mich., announce the birth of their second child, Gage Johannes, in February. Faith Koschmann MD (MED ’98) and her husband, James Domst MD, welcomed their third son, Lachan, in April 2005. Faith and James work together at Mt. Angel Family Medicine, in Mt. Angel, Ore., providing comprehensive family care. E-mail Faith at jedomst@ charter.net.

David (MD ’00) and ’00 Michelle (Cadmus) Bodie (HS ’00) announce the birth of their first child, Nora, in December. David is working in a four-person family medicine office in Port Clinton. Brett (Bus ’01) and Abigail (Good) Fry (Eng ’02), Westerville, Ohio, announce the birth of their daughter, Isabel Lee, in May.

Isabelle Lee Amy (MED ’01) and Mark Miller MD (MED ’01) announce the birth of their second child. Mark is a staff anesthesiologist in a group in Richmond, Va., and Amy completed her residency at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in January 2005. Their email is cmfrtblynmb@mac.com. Anna Sliwinski-Kertesz (HS ’02) and her husband, Matthew, announce the birth of their daughter, Zoe Kathryn, in April. She arrived six weeks early but now is happy and healthy. Anna can be contacted at annakate27@ yahoo.com.

Zoe Kathryn

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excellence by being named the first honorary faculty chair in the College of Sciences.

Amy Levine MD (MED ’00) and Jason Levine MD (MED ’00) have two children, Grace and Aaron. Amy completed a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at the University of Mississippi and is working with Toledo Radiological Associates as a musculoskeletal radiologist. Jason joined UT as an assistant professor in orthopaedic surgery.

Elizabeth K. Christoff (Bus ’01) graduated from the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University in Ada. Joseph Gerweck (Eng ’01), an electrical engineer in the Automotive Facilities Division of Toledo architectural firm SSOE, became a certified LEED™ accredited professional, cementing his ability to promote integrated green building solutions.

Gerweck ’01 Kevin Raduege MD (MED ’01) completed his American Board of Anesthesiology certification and is doing his cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship. He returned to Toledo to work at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center as a staff anesthesiologist.

Carrie Soder MD (MED ’01) is in private practice with Professionals for Women’s Health in Columbus. Contact Carrie at csoder@columbus.rr.com. David Boilard (HS ’02), a

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medical librarian on the Health Science Campus, is finishing his second year as chair of the board of directors for COMPASS (Comprehensive Addiction Systems Services) in Toledo.

Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, where she is the chief of geriatrics. Her e-mail: drfwyatt@yahoo.com.

Jim M. Renner (Bus ’02)

residency at the University of Michigan in June. She is staying there to do a three-year fellowship in pediatric cardiology.

is pursuing a career in sports marketing. Following a training course with Game Face Executive Academy in Portland, Ore., he relocated to Las Vegas to accept an account executive position with the Las Vegas Wranglers hockey team.

Todd Sheridan MD (MED ’02) is finishing his residency in pathology at Johns Hopkins. He will be there for a one-year fellowship in surgical pathology followed by one in genitourinary pathology. Todd can be reached at tsherid1@jhmi.edu. Julie Stausmire (NRSG ’02), a clinical nurse specialist for Mercy Health Partners’ Family Medicine and Transitional Year Residency Programs in Toledo, received an honorable mention at the 2006 ACGME Annual Conference in Kissimmee, Fla., for her poster presentation, “Redesigning the Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Integrating Clinical Practice, Quality Improvement and the ACGME Competencies.” The poster also received a secondplace award at the AHME 2006 Spring Educational Institute in Chicago. She co-authored an article, “Asymptomatic Penile Rash,” in American Family Physician, and a second article, “Traction Folliculitis: An Underreported Entity,” which has been accepted for publication by the journal Cutis. Her e-mail is Julie_Stausmire@mhsnr.org.

Felicie Wyatt MD (MED ’02) graduated in June from Madigan Army Medical Center and the Veteran’s Affairs of Puget Sound Geriatric Fellowship Program. She was reassigned in July to William

Kathryn Nardell MD (MED ’03) finished her pediatric

Patricia Raimer MD (MED ’03) completed her pediatric residency in June at the University of Michigan and is staying to do a three-year pediatric critical care fellowship.

Scott E. Sefcik PhD (Pharm ’03, PharmD ’05) graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Karin Trimble (Bus ’03) accepted the position of buyer/ planner with Integrated Logistics Solutions, a supply chain management services provider based in Euclid, Ohio. Romelle Weeden (HHS ’03), U.S. Navy seaman, was assigned to an amphibious assault ship, the U.S.S. Peleliu, and deployed to the Persian Gulf.

Lori (Speta) Giguere (Pharm ’04) was named pharmacy manager with Walgreens. She and her husband, Sean (HHS ’03), live in Strongsville, Ohio. Ryan E. Ratermann (Bus ’04), an investment representative with Edward Jones in Piqua, Ohio, was elected to three boards of directors: the Rehabilitation Center for Neurological Development, the Lehman Catholic High School Alumni Association and the Piqua Kiwanas Club. Corrie DeCapua (A/S ’05), Harrisburg, Pa., a technical writer with Electronic Data Systems, is working on her master’s degree in training and development at Penn State’s Capitol City campus in

Middletown.

Janaki Earla (HS ’05), after completing his master’s in diagnostic radiology and his preliminary medical residency at MUO, continued in internal medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital at Yale University School of Medicine. He and his wife have two sons, and his e-mail is ejrprasad@yahoo.com. Theresa Jones (HS ’05) won second place in a national studentwriting contest sponsored by the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA). She was honored in May at the PAEA semiannual meeting where she presented her research. Brent Schlegel (Bus ’05) was the keynote speaker at the annual Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society induction ceremony, hosted at Northwest State Community College, where he completed an associates’s degree in 2005. He works for automotive systems supplier Tenneco Inc. in Monroe, Mich., as a materials planner.

Andrew C. Spitler (Law ’05, MBA ’05) joined the Bowling Green law firm of Spitler, Huffman, Yoon & Newlove LLP. Benjamin J. Tran (Eng ’05), Fairborn, Ohio, is a project engineer for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He’s working on his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Wright State University.

Tran ’05

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Rocket Telecom rings true

ometimes, NO is the word you want to hear. For instance, when you use Rocket Wireless for your cellular needs, there’s NO sales tax and NO additional monthly service fees. If you’re already using another cellular provider, you can switch over to Rocket Wireless and start saving right now — NO termination fees, either. Owned and operated by UT’s Rocket Telecom, Rocket Wireless has plans starting at $23.50 per month, with NO credit checks and NO deposits. There’s a service plan to fit every alum, student and UT employee, using either Sprint or Verizon. Check telecom.utoledo.edu for the full story. Say YES and call Rocket Wireless: 419.530.7998.

Tawfiq Al-Dholi (MBA ’06, MSA ’06) was appointed CFO of the Yemen International Telecommunications Co. (Teleyemen), where he had previously worked as its international business executive. The new position forced him to turn down a Fulbright Fellowship in Switzerland, offered to him by the United Nations. He’s the first UT student to earn a master of science in accounting.

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biblio-files

Troubadour: Bing Crosby and the Invention of Pop Singing (The International Club Crosby, 2005) Norman Wolfe (A/S ’50)

n affectionate biography of the man who began his profession as one of Two Boys and a Piano and went on to become the age’s archetypical crooner, one of our few luminaries instantly identifiable by one name: Bing. Wolfe makes no bones about his Der Bingle partisanship, and he has few kind words for the revisionists — including Crosby’s oldest son — who portrayed the singer as distant and cold. The book, though, turns out to be a good read that covers, along with Crosby’s life, a century of America. Scrappy Irish families, the sweat-stained vaudeville circuit, raucous speakeasies and incestuous Hollywood — all helped create Bing Crosby, and Wolfe’s book is richer for their inclusion. The Bing found in his bio may not be a profound man, or even terribly likeable, but he becomes understandable and very human.

Duty Free Murder (Xulon Press, 2005) Lori Sandys Lapierre (A/S ’96)

Kindness Kills (Pleasant Word, 2005) Duncan Othen (Univ Coll ’75)

— Deanna Woolf

— Peter Wicks ’01

veryone needs a vacation, but mystery writer Elsa Michaels Mercy just can’t seem to get away from murder and intrigue on her second honeymoon. Elsa and husband Ran settle in for what they think will be a relaxing Caribbean cruise. But as the body count rises and thefts occur, the ship’s crew begs for Elsa to get involved — and the naturally curious writer can’t help but start sleuthing. Lapierre’s heroine is infused with Christian values and has a stable marriage — an interesting departure from page-turner conventions. But that shouldn’t be confused with a dull read — Lapierre packs in enough details so that readers feel as if they are on the cruise with Elsa and her husband.

n his novel, Othen uses a cleverly constructed mystery as opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of our nation’s homeless population. Set in the chilly streets of Chicago, this thriller follows a young ex-cop in his pursuit of redemption. He figures if he can find the Homeless Slasher and bring him to justice, his dark past may be forgiven, or at least he might forgive himself. Along the way, he gets involved with an emotionally guarded social worker who’s married to her job. Othen’s characters have an intense darkness that compels the reader to turn each page. This quality and the attention to social issues make Kindness Kills a worthwhile read for mystery fans.

— C.N.

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Bleedership: Biblical First-Aid for Leaders (Tate Press, 2005) Jim Lange (Bus ’85)

urely you’ve met I.M. Boss. Perhaps you’ve had the unfortunate experience of working for I.M. Boss. I.M. Boss is in charge and don’t you forget it. In case you do, I.M. Boss will be there to remind you of why you were put on this earth. What’s the best way to describe I.M. Boss? This “leader” is a walking oxymoron and some might say emphasis should be placed on one half of that word. Lange, a former basketball player at UT, empathetically explores why people follow some and not others, comparing and contrasting the “style” of the I.M. Boss that he worked for (not with) to Jesus and the Scripture. There are lessons to be learned in both examples. — Dan Saevig, executive director, UT Alumni Association

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Best Seat in the House: A Father, a Daughter, a Journey Through Sports (Scribner, 2006) Christine Brennan

Using Medical Terminology: A Practical Approach (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005) Judi L. Nath PhD (PhD ’00)

— Dan Saevig

— Martin Ohlinger PharmD, assistant professor of pharmacy practice

hristine Brennan’s travels take her around the world, but the heart of the award-winning USA Today columnist is, and will always be, at home in Toledo. The University of Toledo is mentioned prominently in Brennan’s latest book as she weaves memories of growing up across the street from campus, playing in the shadow of the University Hall Clock Tower, and attending UT football and basketball games with her dad, Jim. Whether it was in Memorial Field House or the Glass Bowl, Christine always had the best seat in the house, next to a father who cultivated and encouraged passion and individuality in each of his children. You’ll laugh and cry reading this love story, sitting in the best seat in the house with one of the best writers of our time.

r. Nath’s book introduces the reader to medical terminology and provides an understanding of its practical use. Although the book may appear to be geared toward a career in medical transcription, all future health-care professionals would benefit from this book, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists and others. The approach is to immerse the student in medical terminology — just as one might learn a foreign language. Instead of relying on memorization, this “worktext” incorporates the use of terminology in context. To further enhance the real-world approach, the book includes career profiles, case studies and actual reports. A CD-ROM is included.

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’30s

*Mae (Beckwith) Jackson (A/S ’30), Toledo, died March 19 at age

97. As a student she was a reporter for The Campus Collegian. John M. Blank, Toledo, att. 19311933, 1940, died March 9 at age 93.

Marian E. (DeWeese) Fisher (A/S ’31), Ludington, Mich., died March 21 at age 99.

Alice R. Woodard (Ed ’32),

Toledo, died May 1 at age 96. Chi Omega member. Maurice Kline, Toledo, att. 19331939, died June 6 at age 92. Iota Nu member.

**Janet (Boyer) (Van Wormer) Benfer, Toledo, att. 1934 to 1935, died March 28 at age 90.

Laura Miriam (Rahrig) Conner (A/S ’35), Toledo, died

June 1 at age 93. Psi Chi Phi (Delta Delta Delta) member.

**Dorothy L. (Woolford) (Vogel) Beerman (Ed ’36),

Maumee, died March 31 at age 91. Psi Chi Phi member.

died March 23 at age 81. Chi Omega member.

Kathleen (Klewer) Sturtz (A/S ’46, Ed ’47), Traverse City, Mich., died May 10 at age 82. Delta Delta Delta member.

Jane C. (White) Young (A/S ’46), Fairfax County, Va., died March 18 at age 82.

Frank J. Hardesty (Bus ’47),

Columbus, died May 10 at age 86.

Dorothy (Longthorne) Krupp,

Toledo, att. 1947-1949, died March 26 at age 76. Delta Delta Delta member. Richard C. Fisher (A/S ’48), Toledo, died March 21 at age 85. As a student, he was a violinist with the University Orchestra. Merl A. Klenk, Sylvania, att. 1948-1950, died March 11 at age 81. Harry W. Day (Law ’49), Toledo, died June 10 at age 84. James E. Wood, Toledo, att. 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, died March 4 at age 86.

Will Collins (Ed ’57, MEd ’59), Bellefontaine, Ohio, died April 1 at age 71.

Richard Washek (Ed ’57, MEd ’65), Rossford, died April 2 at age 75.

**James Thompson (Pharm ’58), Toledo, died May 8 at age 69.

A recipient of Ohio Pharmacy’s Bowl of Hygiea Award, he also received a Distinguished Alumnus award in 1996 from the UT College of Pharmacy. Sigma Alpha Epsilon member. *Robert Falter (Bus ’59), Marblehead, Ohio, died April 25 at age 70. Sigma Alpha Epsilon member; chapter president. Member of the Presidents Club and the Rocket Fund.

*Mary Ann (Kramer) Pentz (Ed ’59), Minerva, Ohio, died Nov. 28 at age 68.

’50s

Maurice S. Alexander (Bus ’39), Findlay, died March 16 at

June 28 at age 78.

’60s

Patricia E. (Gorsuch) Borton (A/S ’51), Toledo, died May 22 at

*William M. Jones (Ed ’39),

age 80.

Naples, Fla., died April 23 at age 68.

age 90.

Los Angeles, died April 9 at age 92. Robert J. Widmer Sr., Granville, Ohio, att. 1939-1941, died May 1 at age 84.

Rhea Ritz (Ed ’50), Toledo, died

John A. Deindoerfer III (Eng ’51), Toledo, died May 20 at age 78.

**Mary (Miller) Gregorek (Ed ’51), Menifee, Calif., died March 4 at age 76.

’40s

*Richard Craig (Ed ’40),

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., died April 3 at age 90. **Ruth M. (Steele) Rex, Toledo, att. 1940-1943, died March 16 at age 82. Beta Tau Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa member. Suzanne E. Schroeder (Ed ’42), Columbus, died May 11 at age 85. Elected May Queen as a student.

*Paul F. Baehren MD (A/S ’43), Toledo, died March 5 at age 84.

Peter G. Manton, Toledo, att.

1945-1948, died April 14 at age 78. Joan Crist (Ed ’46), Sylvania, Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006

Hanover, Pa., died May 1 at age 75. **Albert J. Ball (Bus ’57), Findlay, died April 9 at age 76.

Nettie (Flaum) Schwartz (A/S ’37), Toledo, died March 8 at age 91.

William P. Lunbeck (Ed ’56),

*William C. Bryant (Bus ’52), Toledo, died March 6 at age 87.

Robert C. Lugibihl (Eng ’53), Toledo, died June 17 at age 78. Edward C. Kaintz, Toledo, att. 1954-1957, 1970s, died June 5 at age 70.

Margaret A. Canfield (Ed ’55), Perrysburg, died April 16 at age 73.

Elizabeth B. (Brown) Walbolt (MEd ’55), Springfield, Ill., died April 1 at age 95.

Lawrence Greeley (Ed ’56),

Ottawa Lake, Mich., died March 14 at age 72. Thomas B. Holzer (Bus ’56), Naples, Fla., died May 19 at age 76. Lettered in football in 1954.

**Gerald Aller (Pharm ’60), Bertha “Bert” Kolb (Ed ’60), Holland, died May 10 at age 88.

Edward V. Schad (Ed ’60, MEd ’72), Maumee, died April 9 at age 85.

*Sarah A. (Mersereau) Coley (Ed ’61, MEd ’89), Holland, died

May 1 at age 67. Alpha Omicron Pi member. Terrance J. Evans, Williamsport, Pa., att. 1961-1965, died April 28 at age 63. Kenneth D. Johnson (Eng ’61), Anacortes, Wash., died March 10 at age 69.

William H. Wells (Ed ’61, MEd ’70), Toledo, died June 19

at age 69. Member of the Rockets football team from 1959 to 1961. Kappa Alpha Psi member.

Gisela R. (Hertweck) Bleckner (A/S ’63), Sylvania, died June 23 at age 81.

Vera B. (Seiler) Phebus (MEd ’64), Ottawa Lake, Mich., died www.toledoalumni.org

May 13 at age 87.

May 11 at age 81.

Dennis J. Periat (UTCTC ’65, UTCTC ’67), McArthur, Ohio,

*Carol J. (Selman) Johnson Hampton (UTCTC ’77, Univ Coll ’89), Toledo, died March 14

died June 10 at age 63.

Gerald (Jerry) Poorbaugh (Pharm ’65), Sebring, Ohio, died Sept. 30, 2005 at age 62. Theta Chi member, Blue Key member, Collegian sports editor and Student Senate member.

Stephanie (Mahin) Grill (Ed ’66, MEd ’72), Toledo, died

June 7 at age 78. Kappa Delta Pi member. Gerald L. Fye (Bus ’67), Toledo, died May 4 at age 63. Kenneth D. Porter (MEd ’67), Fremont, died May 3 at age 70. Robert R. Beale (UTCTC ’69), Toledo, died May 10 at age 61. Jeannette M. Dewey (Ed ’69), Oregon, died May 12 at age 85.

at age 62.

Eugene L. Mickens (UTCTC ’78), Temperance, Mich., died June 1 at age 68.

’80s

*Todd W. Collier (Bus ’80),

Toledo, died March 10 at age 50.

Joann Dannibale (UTCTC ’80), Toledo, died March 10 at age 72.

Eugene Hill (Univ Coll ’80), Seymour, Ind., died June 4 at age 56.

J. Douglas Cloer (Univ Coll ’81), Defiance, died June 17 at age 56.

’70s

Kathleen A. (Fiser) Deis (UTCTC ’70), Perrysburg, died March 12 at age 55.

David J. Frueauf Sr. (Bus ’70),

Chapin, S.C., died May 9 at age 63. Janet (Roth) Becker (A/S ’71), Marietta, Ohio, died May 5 at age 56.

Joseph J. Mauri PhD (PhD ’71), Inverness, Fla., died Feb. 21 at age 72.

James H. McGreevy (UTCTC ’71), Trotwood, Ohio, died May 26 at age 57.

Geoffrey L. Muntz (Ed ’71), Greeley, Colo., died March 3 at age 57.

Donald F. Noga (MEng ’71),

Middlebury Heights, Ohio, died Feb. 10 at age 63.

Kenneth F. Cherry (Eng ’72, A/S ’80), Toledo, died May 3 at age 56.

**Jan P. Mills (Ed ’74),

Scottsdale, Ariz., died March 27 at age 57. Wilson Felix MD (MD ’75), Toledo, a cardiologist specializing in heart catheterizations, died May 17 at age 57. His career spanned nearly 30 years.

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Mary Jo (Christ) Spohn (Ed ’81), Sylvania, died June 27 at age 50.

Lucian J. Wojciechowski (UTCTC ’82, Univ Coll ’88),

Palm Springs, Calif., died March 16 at age 51.

*Jeffery S. “Butch,” “Buck” Rhodes (Eng ’83), Toledo, died

June 20 at age 47. Alpha Phi Alpha member.

Suzanne (Mitchell) Tekler (UTCTC ’84), Pinellas Park, Fla., died May 7 at age 47.

’90s

Brian K. VanVorce, Pemberville, Ohio, att. 1990-1996, died Feb. 10 at age 34.

Kevin R. Bishop (UTCTC ’92, Univ Coll ’95, MEd ’01), Toledo, died Nov. 12 at age 34. Alpha Phi Alpha member.

Robert J. Wood (UTCTC ’92, Univ Coll ’98), Toledo, died Nov. 16 at age 49.

’00s

Harold E. Pirtle (Law ’90),

Ypsilanti, Mich., died March 11 at age 57.

Mary E. (Butler) Reid

(UTCTC ’90), Toledo, died April 5 at age 52.

Russell M. Weller, Toledo, att. 1991-2005, died May 8 at age 83.

Floyd H. Asbury (Univ Coll ’94), Erie, Mich., died April 3 at age 74.

Ronald W. Baronas (UTCTC ’94), Toledo, died April 20 at age 66.

Kirstie D. Williams (A/S ’94, Ed ’94), Ann Arbor, Mich., died

March 10 at age 37. Dorreon Floyd, Toledo, att. 1996-2002, died May 31 at age 32. Rena’ J. Barton (UTCTC ’97), Toledo, died April 7 at age 46.

’00s

Heather A. Sutton (Ed ’00),

Sylvania, died May 12 at age 29. Andrew Brown, Toledo, att. 2003-2006, died June 3 at age 21. Michelle Mielecki, Toledo, att. 2004-2006, died June 3 at age 21.

Faculty, Staff & Friends

Terry Q. Barber, Crown City,

Ohio, died April 11 at age 62. He worked at MUO from 1984 to 2003, retiring as a master plumber in the Maintenance Department. David R. Cheney PhD, Toledo, who taught in the English Department for 25 years, died June 18 at age 84. He joined the UT faculty in 1965 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1967. He served as a graduate adviser, director of graduate studies and chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, helping to establish a doctoral program in English. He was a noted scholar on Leigh Hunt, English essayist and writer. Cheney retired from the University in 1990. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi member.

**Lucille B. Emch (A/S ’30, MA ’39), Toledo, professor

emeritus of library administration who worked at UT for 50 years and helped establish the Canaday Center for Special Collections, died March 13 at age 96. Her

career at the University library started when she was hired as an undergraduate in 1929. The commencement ceremony for her graduating class of 1930 coincided with the cornerstone laying of University Hall. That same year, she was named assistant to the librarian. In 1939, she became associate librarian. Emch was appointed associate director of rare books, special collections and archives in 1970. She also taught library science classes from 1946 to 1971 before the University established the Library and Information Services Department. She retired in 1979 and was named professor emeritus of library administration. When she retired, the Canaday Center was under construction. Emch helped secure funding for the center from Doreen Canaday Spitzer, who wanted to honor her father, the Toledo businessman who served as president of the Friends of The University of Toledo Libraries for 39 years. Emch used knowledge from several of her trips to major European libraries to assist with the design of the Canaday Center, which houses rare books, manuscripts and UT archives. Member of Friends of the UT Libraries, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Phi Mu and Delta Kappa Gamma. Dr. David Hoch, Sylvania, whose 36 years at UT included more than a decade as director of The University of Toledo Honors Program, died March 21 at age 65. At UT since 1969 when he was hired as assistant professor of English, he taught classes on the American Transcendentalists and Asian influences on world literature. He became associate professor in 1974 and was named an Outstanding Teacher in 1979. He served as chair of the English Department from 1985 to 1992, when he accepted the position of director of the UT Honors Program. In that role, he was instrumental in doubling the number of honors students as well as in tightening the relationship between the program and admissions. His incorporation of service learning into the program went beyond initiating the innovation; he often did the community volunteer work alongside his students. As director, Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2006 51

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he oversaw the creation of the honors residence hall and the building of the program’s Sullivan Hall. His retirement in 2005 was followed later that year by a standing-room-only celebration of his life.

president. In 1995, he received the Distinguished Health Educator award from the Ohio Public Health Association. Member of Pi Gamma Mu and Pi Delphi Phi honorary societies.

Chidambaraswamy “Swamy” Jayanthi PhD, Bloomington, Ill.,

Toledo, economic development coordinator through University College from 2000 to 2001, died June 20 at age 47. Ernest D. Stickles, Toledo, an assistant air quality technician in UT’s Maintenance Services from 1990 to 1995, died May 13 at age 73.

who taught in UT’s Department of Mathematics, died June 25 at age 78. He was hired as an assistant professor in 1966 and was promoted to professor in 1969. Handling undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral classes, he retired from UT in the early 1990s. In 2002, he established the Saraswathi Jayanthi Memorial Scholarship fund in honor of his wife. Dr. Mary J. Keenan (PhD ’80), Sylvania, died April 25 at age 71. She was an associate professor in MUO’s School of Nursing for more than 20 years, retiring in 1997. Jean E. Kern, Toledo, who worked at UT from 1971 until 1983, when she retired as a clerk in the Payroll Office., died March 16 at age 87. Thomas G. Klever MD, Toledo, died May 31 at age 75. He held a volunteer faculty appointment as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College/University of Ohio from 1971 to 2004. Mary B. Lauterbur, Toledo, wife of Frank Lauterbur, former UT football coach and athletic director, died April 27 at age 77. Marjorie A. Messinger, Toledo, who worked as an administrator in MUO’s Surgery Department from 1985 to 1993, died April 23 at age 79. ** James Pullella (A/S ’51), Sylvania, who taught in UT’s College of Pharmacy for nearly 20 years, died March 3 at age 84. Hired in 1982 as an adjunct assistant professor of public health, he became an adjunct associate professor in 1989, retiring in 2000. His wideranging community service included nearly 15 years as a board member of the Economic Opportunity Planning Association of Greater Toledo, including service as treasurer and vice

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Jeffery S. Rhodes (Eng ’83),

Lucille Christine (Lay) Swearingen, Lambertville,

Mich., who worked in UT’s Financial Aid Office from 1970 to her retirement in 1981, died March 6 at age 85.

Richard Barnes VanLandingham Jr. (Eng ’66),

Rossford, who worked at UT from 1982 to 1994, died May 21 at age 63. Hired as director of the Physical Plant, he was manager of special projects in Public Safety and Plant Operations when he left the University. Tau Beta Pi member; named a distinguished military cadet in the ROTC Program. Wilbur F. Wistinghausen, Oak Harbor, Ohio, died April 8 at age 91. A central member of the group that created UT’s Stranahan Arboretum, he used his background as a farmer and floriculturist to help choose the specimen trees and lay out the design of the 47-acre site. Renowned as a personable raconteur, he worked as the arboretum’s foreman from 1965 to 1980, during which time he also designed and built a waterwheel, popular with local news photographers, between the site’s two ponds. * Member of the UT Alumni Association ** Lifetime member

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Lens, life, lyric

Deep Beauty Beauty comes so easy to the young Then fades like a shadow Scattered by the morning light. Your body knows its own splendor With a beauty deep and firm Standing steadfast against The onslaught of years. The curve of your side still circles my heart With hips round and gentle, Your white face yet radiant And your thick hair soft and full. The pain of you The tenderness and the cruelty Is worth more Than all the pleasures combined. The deep beauty of you Somehow makes time meaningless. Each day you are not quite the same Nor are you completely different. My love continues onward Deep and gentle as the sea. My soul is now no less stirred by the sight of you Than the moment our eyes first met For even at the end of days You will still spark desire And your deep beauty Like truth itself Will never fadeâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Blair Grubb MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics

2006 Toledo Football Schedule Thur. Sat. Fri. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Tue. Tue. Tue.

Aug. 31 Sept. 9 Sept. 15 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 7 Nov. 14 Nov. 21

at Iowa State at Western Michigan* KANSAS (ESPN2) MCNEESE STATE at Pittsburgh C. MICHIGAN* Homecoming at Kent State* at Eastern Michigan* AKRON* at Northern Illinois* (ESPN2) BALL ST.* (ESPN2) BGSU* (ESPN2)

Ames, IA 7:00 (CT) Kalamazoo, MI 7:00 GLASS BOWL 8:00 GLASS BOWL 7:00 Pittsburgh, PA TBA GLASS BOWL 7:00 Kent, OH 4:00 Ypsilanti, MI 4:00 GLASS BOWL 7:00 DeKalb, IL 6:30 (CT) GLASS BOWL 7:00 GLASS BOWL 7:00

All times listed are site times and subject to change *Mid-American Conference Game

Seasonal and single game tickets call 419.530.GOLD or www.utrockets.com for more information

Listen to the Rockets on WSPD (1370 AM) Driscoll Alumni Center 2801 W. Bancroft St. Toledo, Ohio 43606-3395