2008 Winter Edition by The University of Toledo Alumni Association

Toledo The University of

Winter 2008

ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Improving the Human Condition î&#x192; 2007 UT Foundation Annual Report inside

contents

fore words

think we’ll all agree that the human condition can always stand improvement. But it’s one thing to grumble about the things we feel need improving, another to get moving and do something. UT is moving and doing. Improving the human condition is written into UT’s mission statement, and it’s happening daily all over every UT campus. Maybe you haven’t thought of it in those terms before, but it’s what we do. We’re finding ways to change the world around us, creating opportunities for our students, our patients and our community. And that’s exactly the point: improving the human condition is UT’s business, what we do every day of the week; the stories in this issue are only a sampling. At the same time, we’re excited about seeing more students who want to become part of our family. Our 2007-2008 academic year began with impressive increases. They include: full-time undergraduates swelling UT’s total student population by 2.2 percent; a 13.5 percent increase in the number of direct-from-high-school students entering UT, representing the largest freshman class in UT history; an upward showing in minority students — a 20 percent increase in Latino students and 25 percent in African-American students in the combined categories of direct-from-high-school, adult and transfer students; new freshmen honor students increasing by 10 percent for a total of 856; and a 22 percent increase in new adult students. Given the numbers, it’s good that UT’s student housing capacity is up, with 3,917 beds available and a nearly full occupancy rate. Long term, UT’s enrollment team is working toward an overall undergraduate population of 20,000. That means aggressive, creative recruiting, financial incentives and calling on our alumni, who have shown themselves to be wonderful ambassadors for UT. Add Enrollment Services’ strong leadership and the combined resources of University Marketing and Communications under a single division and you have one heck of a team. Do all these efforts improve the human condition? You bet! Getting the word out is crucial to the UT mission. Students are obviously onto something special here at UT; with their help, we’ll continue to make improvements that mean better lives for more people here, there and around the world. Celebrate the mission!

Lawrence J. Burns Vice President, Enrollment, Marketing and Communications

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

PRESIDENT

Vicki Kroll ’88

James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Jon R. Dvorak MD ’80, ’83, ’86

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Walter “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

SECRETARY

David D. Dobrzykowski ’95, ’99

TREASURER

Constance D. Zouhary ’81

PAST PRESIDENT

Barbara Berebitsky ’91

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

ONE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Noure Alo** ’01 Janet Eppard ’83, ’86 Patrick J. Flynn ’93, ’98 Renee Ott MSN* ’00, ’03 George E. Robinson II ’02 Dan Silvers* ’02 Elizabeth “Betsy” Steinhauer OTR/L* ’97, ’06 Mark A. Urrutia ’88 Robin Whitney ’86*

TWO-YEAR TRUSTEES

Stephen Bazeley MD ’74 Craig G. Burkhart MD ’75, ’83 Eddie Cole ’47, ’51 Dana Fitzsimmons** ’76 Randall King MD ’81 Robin Oberle* ’97 Jay Pearson ’91 Janet Schroeder ’89 Paul L. Toth Jr. ’88, ’01

THREE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Pete Casey ’67, ’73 Jeff Joyce ’85 Rick Longenecker ’86, ’88 Don Warner ’76

Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chuck Ealey ’72 Paul Helgren Matt Lockwood Jim Nowak ’78 Sherry Stanfa-Stanley ’83 Jim Winkler ’86 Deanna Woolf ’05

DESIGNER Liz Allen

PHOTOGRAPHERS Jack Meade Daniel Miller ’99

Toledo Alumni is published three times a year in Fall, Winter and Spring by The University of Toledo Office of Alumni Association and the Office of University Communications.

VICE PRESIDENT, ENROLLMENT, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS/ PUBLISHER Lawrence J. Burns

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT/ PUBLISHER Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

DIRECTOR, ALUMNI PROGRAMMING Ansley Abrams ’92

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Brian Weinblatt ’02, ’04

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Elizabeth Schurrer

OUTREACH COORDINATOR Marcus Sneed ’07

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR Diane Wisniewski

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Hillary Earp (appointed by Student Alumni Association)

RECENT AWARDS Pride of CASE V Awards Best Alumni/Institution Magazine, Bronze Award Crystal Awards Writing: “Artists of the Edible”

*Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

SEND CHANGE OF ADDRESS INFORMATION TO:

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

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others traditional & un research class notes book reviews 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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Lawrence J. Burns Vice President, Enrollment, Marketing and Communications

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

PRESIDENT

Vicki Kroll ’88

James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Jon R. Dvorak MD ’80, ’83, ’86

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Walter “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

SECRETARY

David D. Dobrzykowski ’95, ’99

TREASURER

Constance D. Zouhary ’81

PAST PRESIDENT

Barbara Berebitsky ’91

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

ONE-YEAR TRUSTEES

TWO-YEAR TRUSTEES

THREE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Pete Casey ’67, ’73 Jeff Joyce ’85 Rick Longenecker ’86, ’88 Don Warner ’76

Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

WINTER 2008 | Volume 55, Number 2

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chuck Ealey ’72 Paul Helgren Matt Lockwood Jim Nowak ’78 Sherry Stanfa-Stanley ’83 Jim Winkler ’86 Deanna Woolf ’05

DESIGNER Liz Allen

PHOTOGRAPHERS Jack Meade Daniel Miller ’99

Toledo Alumni is published three times a year in Fall, Winter and Spring by The University of Toledo Office of Alumni Association and the Office of University Communications.

VICE PRESIDENT, ENROLLMENT, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS/ PUBLISHER Lawrence J. Burns

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT/ PUBLISHER Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

DIRECTOR, ALUMNI PROGRAMMING Ansley Abrams ’92

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Brian Weinblatt ’02, ’04

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Elizabeth Schurrer

OUTREACH COORDINATOR Marcus Sneed ’07

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR Diane Wisniewski

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Hillary Earp (appointed by Student Alumni Association)

RECENT AWARDS Pride of CASE V Awards Best Alumni/Institution Magazine, Bronze Award Crystal Awards Writing: “Artists of the Edible”

*Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

SEND CHANGE OF ADDRESS INFORMATION TO:

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

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cover story O the humanity

features Sickos Autism unlocked MS MD Tea smarty

Boutique chic Hands-on health This land is your land

special Homecoming 2007

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Toledo: traditional & un

Field House will remember veterans

Scoring against breast cancer

he Memorial Field House renovations

for our veterans, our community and most

will fill important needs for both

importantly, our students.” The University is requesting the

future and past generations. The

project will include a Veterans’ Plaza with

assistance of veterans’ organizations and

plaques recognizing individual veterans

individuals throughout the region to offset

and organizations, and flagpoles flying the

the costs of construction of the plaza. “We

colors of the United States, Ohio and UT. “In

are asking each organization or individual to

the workaday world that surrounds each

consider a gift or pledge of $1,000,” Snyder

of us, there are few places and little time to

says. “These gifts will be acknowledged on

remember those who have served our country

separate plaques and the donors may choose

and paid for the freedoms we all enjoy,” says

the words to memorialize a group of veterans,

Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional

loved ones or all of those who served.”

advancement. “The University of Toledo

Veterans’ Plaza will stand as just such a place

419.530.4249.

To make a gift, contact Snyder at — Matt Lockwood

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niversity of Toledo Head Football Coach Tom Amstutz is used to teaching the game of football, but this past summer in the Glass Bowl, his pupils had higher-pitched voices and wore a lot of pink. Amstutz and members of the Rockets coaching staff put on a football clinic — Touchdown for the Cure — for 65 women, with all proceeds going to support the Northwest Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The event was designed to teach women about football fundamentals while providing some preseason fun: an elegant tailgate, a guided tour of the athletic complex, limited edition T-shirts and a ticket voucher for Toledo’s game against Northern Illinois. Participants, a number of whom were cancer survivors, were also given the latest information on best health practices. The event was the idea of Amstutz’s wife, Beth, a registered nurse and health teacher at Sylvania Franciscan Academy. “Other football programs have done this type of event, sometimes with the money going directly back into their program, sometimes to a community agency,” she says. “I thought that since it was a football clinic for women, it made sense to donate the money to Komen for the Cure.” Not all the women were football neophytes. Anita Jacobs, a 10-year cancer survivor who also lends her abilities to Race for the Cure, said, “I’m a huge football fan. I may end up telling Coach Amstutz what to do.” And Elizabeth Smotherman, a Health Science Campus employee attending with her sister, Deborah Tucker, said, “We’ve been coming to games since we turned 6, so this is great.” When the action moved on to the Glass Bowl field, coaches explained their individual responsibilities and demonstrated suiting up to play. A referee de-mystified top penalties, and some of the more venturesome women got their

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hands on the pigskin. Beth Amstutz was one of them, musing afterward, “There’s more connection than you might think — in football and in cancer, there’s a struggle and a fight to win!”

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Field House will remember veterans

Scoring against breast cancer

he Memorial Field House renovations

for our veterans, our community and most

will fill important needs for both

importantly, our students.” The University is requesting the

future and past generations. The

project will include a Veterans’ Plaza with

assistance of veterans’ organizations and

plaques recognizing individual veterans

individuals throughout the region to offset

and organizations, and flagpoles flying the

the costs of construction of the plaza. “We

colors of the United States, Ohio and UT. “In

are asking each organization or individual to

the workaday world that surrounds each

consider a gift or pledge of $1,000,” Snyder

of us, there are few places and little time to

says. “These gifts will be acknowledged on

remember those who have served our country

separate plaques and the donors may choose

and paid for the freedoms we all enjoy,” says

the words to memorialize a group of veterans,

Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional

loved ones or all of those who served.”

advancement. “The University of Toledo

Veterans’ Plaza will stand as just such a place

419.530.4249.

To make a gift, contact Snyder at — Matt Lockwood

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Is that 10 ways to win, Coach?

hands on the pigskin. Beth Amstutz was one of them, musing afterward, “There’s more connection than you might think — in football and in cancer, there’s a struggle and a fight to win!”

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Falcon update

he UT peregrines went three for three. The triplet offspring — Skyler, Chayton and Swoop —

of resident falcons Belle and Allen successfully left the nest by the end of the summer, likely joining the yearly peregrine migration down south. Many peregrines travel as far as Central America before returning north in the spring. However, given the territorial nature of peregrines,

Enlightened. Students attending the Enrichment Institute sponsored by the African-American

the three young UT falcons will probably

Student Enrichment Initiatives Office participated in a rites of passage ceremony where

not be making their homes anywhere

upperclassmen volunteers who serve as peer leaders light candles for freshmen. “The peer

near Toledo.

leaders pass on light — and knowledge,” said Martino Harmon, then-director of African-

Belle and Allen seem to be planning

American student enrichment initiatives. “It’s symbolic of cooperation, unity and a shared goal

to winter over again at UT, feasting on

or experience. Basically, it is a passing of the torch.”

pigeon pie, and falcon fans are hoping they’ll raise more chicks this year. In the meantime, YouTube features one of the 2007 juveniles swaying (to the Rockets fight song?) at: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YTTXbll_6aE.

See how we grow. For alumni who don’t often visit UT’s Main Campus and Health Science Campus, these aerial photographs provide a Rocket’s-eye view. On Main Campus (lower photo), Rocket Hall is in the left foreground, with residence halls The Crossings and Ottawa House East and West to the right. Further in the background are International House, McComas Village, Parks Tower, the Glass Bowl and the Recreation Center, with the more familiar landmarks

Erratum

Our Fall 2007 issue included an Art on the Mall photo with a young art collector who was incorrectly identified. He’s Liam England; his mother, also misidentified, is Kimberlie (Norris) England (Bus ’95). Thanks to Kathleen Norris (Ed ’67, MEd ’71), Liam’s grandmother, for setting us straight.

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Transglobal campuses. President Lloyd Jacobs and Yanshan University President Liu Hongmin reveal the new plaque to mark the opening of Yanshan University Toledo College in August. Officials from UT and Yanshan University, located in Qinhuangdao, China, signed a deal in 2006 to form reciprocal campuses at each institution. Master teachers from Yanshan University began teaching beginner and intermediate Chinese language classes in the fall, the courses also covering Chinese culture, history, business and etiquette.

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beyond. On the Health Science Campus, the view is over the Hilton and Dana Conference Center to the Ruppert Health Center and Kobacker Center. Next is the renovated Dowling Hall, the Health Education and Block Health Science Buildings, the Center for Creative Education and the Collier Building, with the UT Medical Center and Mulford Library in the background. You may note the unusual number of open parking spaces; the shots were taken on a Saturday game day, which also explains the cars on Main Campus.

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Falcon update

he UT peregrines went three for three. The triplet offspring — Skyler, Chayton and Swoop —

Enlightened. Students attending the Enrichment Institute sponsored by the African-American

the three young UT falcons will probably

Student Enrichment Initiatives Office participated in a rites of passage ceremony where

not be making their homes anywhere

upperclassmen volunteers who serve as peer leaders light candles for freshmen. “The peer

near Toledo.

leaders pass on light — and knowledge,” said Martino Harmon, then-director of African-

Belle and Allen seem to be planning

American student enrichment initiatives. “It’s symbolic of cooperation, unity and a shared goal

to winter over again at UT, feasting on

or experience. Basically, it is a passing of the torch.”

Erratum

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Grant challenges donors to think big UT’s College of Business is nearly $1 million closer to funding a new business center, thanks to a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich. The $900,000 grant is targeted for construction of the Savage & Associates Complex for Business Learning and Engagement. Ground was broken on Oct. 4 for the 54,000Proposed John and Lillian Neff Trading Room square-foot building, expected to open by fall 2009. the first ‘green buildings’ among public UT is the only Ohio organization universities in Ohio.” Plans include a among 82 nonprofit organizations rooftop garden, an energy-efficient use of nationwide that received funding from glass and recycled construction materials. the recent round of Kresge grants. The complex will house 10 classrooms, Ellen Ingram, UT director of corporate/ five action-learning labs for hands-on foundation relations, who spearheaded experience, and a 40-seat boardroom to this two-year grant proposal process, says accommodate conferences and events for Kresge considers an organization’s UT and the business community. “Our finances, diversity, relationship with the goal is to provide an environment where community and vision for the project. students, faculty and business members Kresge noted UT’s plans to make the learn from each other,” says Thomas new business building environmentally Gutteridge PhD, dean of the College of friendly, she says: “They looked favorably Business Administration. at our efforts to make the complex one of He says the Kresge grant requires UT

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Science and Technology Corridor hits ground running

to raise funds from other private sources, noting that the prestige of the grant should help attract additional support for the $15.4 million project. The complex originated with a $1 million gift from Savage & Associates. Fittingly, October also saw UT’s College of Business included in the 2008 edition of Best 290 Business Schools, published that month by The Princeton Review. — Sherry Stanfa-Stanley, UT Foundation

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warm morning in August, a sunbaked field on the UT Health Science Campus, and a crowd of dignitaries and well-wishers. All converged for the groundbreaking of the Science and Technology Corridor. Thanks to a $1,952,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, combined with matching funds, ground was broken for the construction of new roads and infrastructure, including sewers and lights, in the south perimeter of the Corridor. The mission of The University of Toledo Science and Technology Corridor — located between UT’s Main, Health Science and Scott Park campuses — is to improve, diversify and transform the regional economy, working collaboratively with the northwest Ohio business and economic community. “In addition to teaching and research, the role of universities is becoming more and more about helping communities compete in the economy,” says UT President Lloyd Jacobs MD. “The Science and Technology Corridor is where The University of Toledo offers opportunities to the community.” The Corridor is recruiting businesses that align with research efforts at the University. Scientists and researchers are encouraged to commercialize their findings by setting up businesses in one of UT’s incubators. They can contact Mary Jo Waldock, special assistant to the president for economic development, at 419.530.3279.

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President Jacobs and U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur at groundbreaking

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President Jacobs and U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur at groundbreaking

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Rocket Wireless carrier family grows

Army MEDEVAC commander honored at Rockets game

lumni who use Rocket Wireless for their phone needs have even more choices this year: Alltel and

AT&T are now in the lineup, joining Sprint and Verizon. More than 2,500 customers have service with Rocket Wireless. Why?

• personalized customer service

deals under $30 per month

• no sales tax, no monthly service

fees after sign-up

• no termination fee for switching

over your old plans

• most services available even if you

don’t live in Toledo

• all the latest phones, all the

popular features, and change your plan and features without changing your contract

• all proceeds benefit UT and the

Alumni Association So why wait? Switch your service or sign up for new service with Rocket Wireless, owned and operated by The University of Toledo. For more details, visit rocketwireless.utoledo.edu or call 419.530.4812.

Join the drive to Induct Chuck!

Mitchell

he Rockets opened their 2007 season hailing a hero with a gridiron pedigree: former Rocket footballer Lt. Col. Bob Mitchell (A/S ’82), who was chosen as the 12th Man and received a standing ovation from the stands during halftime. As a battalion commander in Iraq between 2004 and 2006, Mitchell led the 36th Medical Evacuation Battalion, which evacuated more than 39,000 U.S. and Coalition forces in 2005. “A majority of the patients survive their devastating battlefield injuries because of the elaborate and effective evacuation and hospitalization system employed by our armed forces,” Mitchell notes. “In fact, U.S. and Coalition forces have experienced the lowest died-of-wounds rate in the history of warfare.” He wrote in later to say, “I was honored to have the opportunity to command over 1,000 soldiers during our combat tour in Iraq and I’m here to say that I was successful for one reason: I had the opportunity to earn a degree from The University of Toledo while playing NCAA college football and it was during this time that I developed leadership skills that would prove so valuable in the future. It certainly prepared me for the awesome challenge of leading and caring for our nation’s finest. The standing ovation that I received from not only the UT fans but the Purdue fans as well brought tears to my eyes. There is no award or promotion the Army could confer upon me that could top the honors I received on Saturday night. Thank you, University of Toledo and the great citizens of Toledo, for giving me this incredible honor.”

The three-season, 35-0 record of Chuck Ealey

(Bus ’72) is still standing 37 years after the UT

“Induct Chuck.” “It’s a coordinated campaign

Rockets’ most celebrated quarterback went on to become a trailblazer for black QBs in the Canadian Football League. Yet despite multiple

Fans want to put things right — thus

to bestow an honor that’s long overdue,” says organizer Rick Longenecker (Bus ’86 MBA ’88), president of the Armature Group in New Jersey. “Chuck Ealey has never sought this, but

nominations to the College

there are many, many fans who feel he’s

Football Hall of Fame, Ealey

earned the honor.”

was excluded from the National Football Foundation’s screening process due to

The campaign’s Web site — www. inductchuck.com/ — details the effort.

what many see as a technicality.

RocketVision opens UT athletics to world

ocket fans can watch the teams — football, men’s and women’s basketball, and other UT sports — play live from anywhere in the world, thanks to RocketVision,

the exclusive online destination for live and on-demand streaming video and audio. RocketVision can be accessed through www.utrockets.com, the official UT Athletics Web site. Following its fall debut, RocketVision features live video and audio coverage of select UT

Movin’ on Stevens Worldwide Van Lines can help alumni planning a move. Stevens’ University Move Center offers UT alums single-source contact, with coordinators who ensure enhanced services at every point. For more information or to schedule a free estimate, contact the University Move Center at 800.796.9988 or by e-mail: universitymovesstevensworldwide.com.

athletic events, on-demand access to archived games, and exclusive interviews with coaches and athletes. Rocket fans can sign up for subscription packages at www.utrockets.com.

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Rocket Wireless carrier family grows

Army MEDEVAC commander honored at Rockets game

lumni who use Rocket Wireless for their phone needs have even more choices this year: Alltel and

AT&T are now in the lineup, joining Sprint and Verizon. More than 2,500 customers have service with Rocket Wireless. Why?

• personalized customer service

deals under $30 per month

• no sales tax, no monthly service

fees after sign-up

• no termination fee for switching

over your old plans

• most services available even if you

don’t live in Toledo

• all the latest phones, all the

popular features, and change your plan and features without changing your contract

• all proceeds benefit UT and the

Join the drive to Induct Chuck!

Mitchell

The three-season, 35-0 record of Chuck Ealey

(Bus ’72) is still standing 37 years after the UT

“Induct Chuck.” “It’s a coordinated campaign

Rockets’ most celebrated quarterback went on to become a trailblazer for black QBs in the Canadian Football League. Yet despite multiple

Fans want to put things right — thus

to bestow an honor that’s long overdue,” says organizer Rick Longenecker (Bus ’86 MBA ’88), president of the Armature Group in New Jersey. “Chuck Ealey has never sought this, but

nominations to the College

there are many, many fans who feel he’s

Football Hall of Fame, Ealey

earned the honor.”

was excluded from the National Football Foundation’s screening process due to

The campaign’s Web site — www. inductchuck.com/ — details the effort.

what many see as a technicality.

RocketVision opens UT athletics to world

ocket fans can watch the teams — football, men’s and women’s basketball, and other UT sports — play live from anywhere in the world, thanks to RocketVision,

athletic events, on-demand access to archived games, and exclusive interviews with coaches and athletes. Rocket fans can sign up for subscription packages at www.utrockets.com.

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UT research on the edge

Swingin’ without strain

Fishing for an autism treatment

Old golfers never die, the bumper sticker goes, they

The search for the causes of autism — the disorder that by

just putter along. They

some estimates has increased tenfold over the last 20 years —

also sometimes lose their

is going swimmingly in the toxicology lab of UT researcher Fred Williams PhD. He’s using zebrafish — a widely accepted scientific model for neurological development screening — to study a theory linking autism with exposure to heavy metals: lead, mercury, nickel, zinc and the like. The research is based on exposing the young of the small fish to combinations of metals that have been detected in children

swing. Getting it back

Old-boys networking, medieval style

social order. That’s one of the conclusions of

because their developing neurological systems are more vulnerable than those of adults.

by a research team at UT. By using hydraulic resistance, the machine —

the 600 years since English mercantile guilds

neurological systems as the fish develop into adults. So far,

children are especially susceptible to heavy metal exposure

device designed

smart marketing? Seems little has changed in staged biblical plays to validate a place in the

those of kids with autism. His work supports the view that

an exercise

Urban male professionals seeking respect via

with autism, then observing changes in the creatures’ his research shows definite changes in the fish that mimic

is the idea behind

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English

politicians, and produced and performed by male guildsmen, the plays lent weight to the idea of masculinity as defined by those social classes. Acutely aware of the social hierarchies that bound them, the guildsmen used the plays, with the religious authority they carried, to create a distinctly middle-class male identity. Though several social notches above the Willie Lomans of their day, the guildsmen would have agreed that

the Commercial Sex Industry,” has long been

on Toledo’s role as a major hub for child sex

Science and Human Service lent

of the late medieval period. Organized by civic

UT conference on “Prostitution, Sex Works and

core while it’s in a standing

of Engineering and Health

book on the Bible-themed works (mystery plays)

level prostitution, who organizes the yearly

them leave the sex trade. She’s also an expert

departments in the colleges

historical documents in England, she focused the

The nationally recognized researcher of street-

— strengthens the body

researchers from several

of English. Using interdisciplinary research with

social work, knows the mean streets very well.

an advocate for the exploited women, helping

helpful to older golfers. UT

book by Christina Fitzgerald, assistant professor

Celia Williamson PhD, associate professor of

now in the prototype phase

position, making it especially

Guild Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2007), a new

Uncovering a hidden blight

trafficking — the subject of a play produced during the 2007 conference. My Real Name: Breaking the Silence of Child Sex Trafficking in Ohio featured trafficking survivors and actors presenting true-life stories of child prostitutes.

their expertise in kinesiology

Proceeds helped sex trafficking victims obtain

and mechanical/biomedical

the services they need for recovery. “When so

engineering to the challenges

many of these women started — often against

of designing the machine, which can also be used for general exercise, physical therapy and stroke patient rehabilitation. They licensed the technology to Connecticut-based Turning Point, whose founder first approached UT with his idea. Sounds like a hole-in-one.

their will — as girls, our society needs to see that the solution requires the coordination of criminal justice, social service and health care agencies, along with churches, citizens and survivors,” Williamson says.

“Attention must be paid!”

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UT research on the edge

Swingin’ without strain

Fishing for an autism treatment

Old golfers never die, the bumper sticker goes, they

The search for the causes of autism — the disorder that by

just putter along. They

some estimates has increased tenfold over the last 20 years —

also sometimes lose their

swing. Getting it back

Old-boys networking, medieval style

social order. That’s one of the conclusions of

because their developing neurological systems are more vulnerable than those of adults.

by a research team at UT. By using hydraulic resistance, the machine —

the 600 years since English mercantile guilds

neurological systems as the fish develop into adults. So far,

children are especially susceptible to heavy metal exposure

device designed

smart marketing? Seems little has changed in staged biblical plays to validate a place in the

those of kids with autism. His work supports the view that

an exercise

Urban male professionals seeking respect via

with autism, then observing changes in the creatures’ his research shows definite changes in the fish that mimic

is the idea behind

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English

the Commercial Sex Industry,” has long been

on Toledo’s role as a major hub for child sex

Science and Human Service lent

of the late medieval period. Organized by civic

UT conference on “Prostitution, Sex Works and

core while it’s in a standing

of Engineering and Health

book on the Bible-themed works (mystery plays)

level prostitution, who organizes the yearly

them leave the sex trade. She’s also an expert

departments in the colleges

historical documents in England, she focused the

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— strengthens the body

researchers from several

of English. Using interdisciplinary research with

social work, knows the mean streets very well.

an advocate for the exploited women, helping

helpful to older golfers. UT

book by Christina Fitzgerald, assistant professor

Celia Williamson PhD, associate professor of

now in the prototype phase

position, making it especially

Guild Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2007), a new

Uncovering a hidden blight

their expertise in kinesiology

Proceeds helped sex trafficking victims obtain

and mechanical/biomedical

the services they need for recovery. “When so

engineering to the challenges

many of these women started — often against

“Attention must be paid!”

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Filmmaker Michael Moore is nothing if not a lightning rod. His latest movie, Sicko, roiled the waters of American health care. We thought it would be instructive to ask some of UT’s health care experts for their opinions — here are their reviews of the film that became available on DVD in November.

Sicko and the U.S. health care system

Socialized medicine … too good to be true? Olivia Dacre, director of UT Patient Financial Services

ichael Moore’s Sicko is a provocative, albeit one-sided discussion on the current situation of insurance coverage in our country and the comparison with nationalized systems (a.k.a. socialized medicine) elsewhere. It is an attempt to weigh in on the current debate on how to fund medical care in this country. From a political timing perspective, Mr. Moore should be commended; from an accuracy perspective, there are so many misrepresentations that the value of the movie falls by the wayside. Astute viewers will recognize the disparities and the political implications of the movie. The movie focuses on uninsured and underinsured people who must make economic decisions about their medical care. It depicts the misgivings of hospital pricing, prescription drug coverage, authorized medical services, long ER waits and so on. Mr. Moore then tries to demonstrate how these problems are covered in countries with nationalized health care. He even goes so far as to suggest that the average citizen doesn’t feel any financial squeeze through higher taxes. At least one country he uses as an example (i.e., France), is known to be financially bankrupt largely because of funding social welfare programs. Oh, and have you heard? France just closed its borders to non-French-speaking new immigrants, mostly for this very reason. Mr. Moore tries to allay health care provider concerns about diminished incomes in a socialized medicine scenario. He finds a young physician living a seemingly lavish lifestyle in downtown London (million-dollar home, luxury

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vehicle, luxury household goods). Somehow, though, his salary and lifestyle don’t seem to add up. One is left believing that he is either deeply in debt or has inherited wealth or both. There is no discussion of the reality of “brain drain” occurring in these countries as their students and ultimately their physicians emigrate to our country. No wonder that although you might really like your doctors, you have a hard time pronouncing and spelling their last names. The documentary ultimately reveals its true colors when it contrasts socialized programs in other countries. It discusses free college tuition, extended maternity leaves of absence, government-sponsored home assistance after the birth of a new

baby including cooking, cleaning, errandrunning, babysitting and so on. This is where the socialized aid becomes so oversweetened that only a fool (or true socialist) can buy it! And did I mention that France is going bankrupt? In his relocation from Flint, Michigan, to Hollywood, Mr. Moore seems to have lost perspective. But then, Hollywood has a way of doing that to people.

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Roland Skeel MD, professor of medicine and chair of institutional review board; and Kristie Dubois (A/S ’84, MES ’95), Hospice of Northwest Ohio director of home care

t is the best of times and the worst of times for health care in the United States. Not unlike Dickens’ world, those of us who are privileged, with good health care insurance and access to the best doctors and hospitals, are not found wanting when it comes to getting highquality care. We, the privileged, benefit from the host of modern marvels of the health care establishment in this country. Yet as so starkly shown by Michael Moore in his unabashedly partisan documentary www.toledoalumni.org

Sicko, too many of our citizens are denied ready access to the basics of health care owing to our failure as a country to declare that in a society as wealthy as ours, providing for health care needs must be a right as basic as elementary education. The main question in the film is not “Why can’t the United States provide health care to all of its citizens?” It is “Why do we allow the continuation of a system that enriches health care insurance companies, pharmaceutical giants and others, and denies even the most basic preventive medicine and health care to the under- and uninsured?” Our safety net has been rent and our children, our parents and our workers are falling through.

The health insurance industry reaps profits that could be used to provide health care to all. Former physicians for the industry confess how they denied health care to subscribers in order to save their company money. As asked by Sicko, “Should health care be delivered through the corporate model where the goal is not to provide service, but to save money by not providing care?” None of us should go to sleep comfortably knowing that the most common cause of personal bankruptcy is medical bills. This is tragic. Kristie recently was asked to attend a fundraiser to pay medical bills for a young girl who has a brain tumor. Running a lemonade stand to pay health care should not be part of the American free enterprise system! Sicko highlighted France as an example of a government-sponsored system that works well. On a recent trip there, our hosts regaled us with examples of what excellent care they have received as noncitizen French residents for both small and large problems. Kristie personally benefited from Canada’s universal health care while she lived there. Our police, fire, postal service and military are all run by our federal, state or local governments, and they are working. France, Canada and Cuba all provide universal health care and their citizens on average are healthier and live longer. Sicko is a polemic against our health care system, but it is effective in showing us the human side of the suffering and distress caused by our misguided failure to join the rest of the Western World, in providing equal opportunity for basic health care.

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Sicko and the U.S. health care system

Socialized medicine … too good to be true? Olivia Dacre, director of UT Patient Financial Services

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Roland Skeel MD, professor of medicine and chair of institutional review board; and Kristie Dubois (A/S ’84, MES ’95), Hospice of Northwest Ohio director of home care

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The mission of The University of Toledo is to improve the human condition; to advance knowledge through excellence in learning, discovery and engagement; and to serve as a diverse, student-centered public metropolitan research university.

Noble words. Daily follow-up. Take a look at some of the many UT people who take it to heart that our mission is to:

Advance, enhance, take a chance on

The never-ending kidney transplant You need a kidney transplant. Imagine a way

to widen your circle of potential donors beyond family and friends. That’s the vision of Michael Rees MD, associate professor of urology and medical director of UTMC’s kidney transplant program. To make it happen, he created and now directs Alliance for Paired Donation, which uses an advanced computer program to match patients and donors. It’s at that point that someone else is added to the mix: altruistic donors — individuals who give a kidney with no strings attached. And yes, such donor altruism is alive and well — as are the recipients of their generosity. The first transplant in this program was performed in July in Phoenix, garnering national attention in USA Today. The second pair of operations in this chain of transplants happened a week later at the UT Medical Center, with a crew from ABC World News with Charles Gibson at the hospital to cover it. In each instance, family members who weren’t able to donate a kidney to help their loved ones signed up to “pay it forward” by donating the organ to someone else in need. The combination of the alliance’s computer program and the altruistic donors creates the possibility of a “never-ending kidney transplant,” says Rees, who believes the program could result in an additional 3,000 to 5,000 living donor kidney transplants in the next 10 years. To date, more than 50 transplant hospitals in 17 states are participants in the alliance. The program’s Web site is www. PairedDonation.org.

humanity

Such donor altruism is alive and well — as are the recipients of their generosity.

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Noble words. Daily follow-up. Take a look at some of the many UT people who take it to heart that our mission is to:

Advance, enhance, take a chance on

The never-ending kidney transplant You need a kidney transplant. Imagine a way

humanity

Such donor altruism is alive and well — as are the recipients of their generosity.

By Cynthia Nowak, Jim Winkler and Matt Lockwood Photos by Daniel Miller

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Crafting great futures at summer camp

Squashing the Superbug

Ah, summer camp — the microscopes, the

Staphylococcus aureus is the longish name of a nasty little bug. A bacterium, more

laboratories, the complete absence of woodworking projects. That can only be the summer camp at the UT College of Pharmacy, where every year high school students explore rewarding careers that may otherwise slip past them like a lost canoe on Lake Chi-Ki-Sago. At this camp, for instance, students study zebrafish exposed to high concentrations of chemicals. Alcohol, they see, can be a toxin to living animals — including humans, where that toxicity can translate to fetal alcohol syndrome. Mercury and lead are other environmental substances whose effects students can see in the lab while hearing about possible links between the chemicals and autism or other developmental disorders. Such hands-on experiences are central. In the compounding lab, students create an anti-incontinence treatment for dogs, handling everything but the drug itself. The experience also helps them understand the ideal of a pharmacist, says Laural Seewer, director of the camp: “The ideal is to interact with patients rather than be only a dispenser of drugs. We love to catch students at this moment in their lives.” Fred Williams PhD of the Department of Pharmacology explains, “These students have indicated an interest in pharmacy. We give them an opportunity to explore the different types of things they can do with a pharmacy degree.” It’s working; ask Kacy Crook from Hilliard Davidson High School, who says, “I didn’t know there were so many choices of careers. I wanted to work in pharmacy before this, but now it’s getting solidified.” Anthony Pattin, assisting the high schoolers as a fifth-year UT pharmacy student, says, “I came through the camp myself. Compounding was always a favorite lab for me, and it’s only gotten better as the program grows and improves.” The four-day camp also includes guest speakers, informational videos, job shadowing with local pharmacists and down time at the Student Rec Center. Says Pattin, “It really gives you what you need to make your career choice.”

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The ideal is to interact with patients rather than be only a dispenser of drugs.

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precisely, leaving a long trail of illness and death. It’s one of most common infections you can pick up in a hospital. In fact, until recently, the origins of S. aureus infections almost always could be traced to hospitals. Today, though, the bug has left the building. “More and more people are showing up at hospitals already having the infection,” explains Von Sigler, assistant professor of environmental microbiology. “They’re being infected somewhere out in the community.” The bug’s done more than migrate, Sigler says: “One of the first antibiotics used against staph infections was penicillin, in the 1950s. Now fewer than 2 percent of all S. aureus are susceptible to penicillin; it’s evolved that quickly.” This is the high-mortality staph infection commonly known as the Superbug. The Bug provides a fertile research field. “We’re trying to bridge the gap between medical people and environmental people, bringing ecology into picture,” Sigler says. The project is an offshoot of an earlier one on the results of using biosolids as fertilizer. “In that study, we checked for pathogens that survive wastewater treatment,” he explains. “S. aureus was a possible biosolid component, so we came up with ways to easily detect it. Although we didn’t subsequently find it, we developed some great detection methods.” Those methods are now being used to locate S. aureus on the public surfaces of modern life: computer keyboards, ATMs, restaurant countertops. “We have a means to figure out where the organisms are in the environment. Then we’ll determine whether they can be transmitted by contact, and how long the bacteria survive. A day? A month? If it’s the latter, we can have a problem.” The Superbug is scary, Sigler admits, but its sting can be blunted. “Once we know where it’s coming from out in the community, we hope to be able to take aim and prevent its spread.”

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This is the high-mortality staph infection commonly known as the Superbug.

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Crafting great futures at summer camp

Squashing the Superbug

Ah, summer camp — the microscopes, the

Staphylococcus aureus is the longish name of a nasty little bug. A bacterium, more

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The ideal is to interact with patients rather than be only a dispenser of drugs.

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This is the high-mortality staph infection commonly known as the Superbug.

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When the tide can’t be turned

Tasty choice: the new generation of hospital food It doesn’t take a tsunami to create watery devastation — but sometimes it

takes a geologist to translate the waves. As an example, consider the beach town of Cedeño in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras. When its beachfront buildings were swamped, top and bottom, by encroaching ocean waters, Donald Stierman PhD, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, happened to be in Honduras working with that nation’s emergency response agency, Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO). Although local seismologists blamed the floods on underground earthquakes, Stierman thought otherwise. “I’m not a coastal expert, but I had enough geology to read the signs,” he says. A Geographic Information System analysis of the cause pointed away from earthquakes and toward the combination of a high, spring tide and an oceanic storm. “It also explains why the beach exists,” Stierman says. “The waves come in like this every few years, pushing the sand up.” Stierman and the COPECO team were able to make practical recommendations to Cedeño’s administrators on how and where homes and businesses should be rebuilt, helping alleviate damage during subsequent confluences of tide and storm. The beach area is now largely cleared of buildings that have been relocated, improving both safety and attractiveness to tourists who bring needed money to the community.

Analysis of the cause pointed away from earthquakes and toward the combination of a high, spring tide and an oceanic storm.

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Tomato-basil soup or Oriental chicken salad followed by glazed roast pork, anyone?

It’s not quite a restaurant, but it certainly resembles room service — with a side dish of medical expertise. When it comes to patients’ meals at the UT Medical Center, choice is now the first menu item. Charles Harrison, director of food and nutrition services, explains, “The concept resembles the items you’ll find included in a hotel room menu. Patients can call and place an order, and we’ll give them what they want, when they want it. “Patients may not be hungry at set times, or have no appetite for what they find on a tray — now they have a choice.” A glossy menu covers all three meals — and yes, there are desserts. To help patients make smart choices, “heart-healthy” items are identified on the menu. “We try to keep patients within the guidelines of their diet,” Harrison says. “When patients place orders, their diet information is called up on a computer database. Items not allowed are identified so our staff can explain that it’s not permitted, and recommend an alternative. “Most patients comply, but if someone insists on a particular item, it’s provided and a dietician is notified to later talk with the patient.” The new system includes a missed-meal report generated after each dining period. “We don’t want anyone to fall through the cracks,” Harrison says. “We’ll call a patient to see if he or she missed a meal by accident or by design; we don’t let patients choose to go without too many meals.”

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“We try to keep patients within the guidelines of their diet.”

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When the tide can’t be turned

Tasty choice: the new generation of hospital food It doesn’t take a tsunami to create watery devastation — but sometimes it

Analysis of the cause pointed away from earthquakes and toward the combination of a high, spring tide and an oceanic storm.

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Tomato-basil soup or Oriental chicken salad followed by glazed roast pork, anyone?

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“We try to keep patients within the guidelines of their diet.”

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Putting teeth in lifetime health

What’s hot? Science and technology!

To ensure northwest Ohio kids receive dental care

Initiating the next generation into the mysteries of science and technology is getting easier, thanks to a

Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant awarded to UT’s College of Medicine. The five-year project is aimed at equipping junior high and high school teachers with problembased learning (PBL) techniques to help students become more interested in science. “A PBL curriculum is more demanding than traditional textbook instruction because students utilize original documents and data to engage in inquiry on the topic, thereby learning concepts in more meaningful ways,” says Dr. Robert Crissman, associate professor of neurosciences. The project involves faculty members from the Judith Herb College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Medicine and Toledo Public Schools (TPS). Some 20 TPS mathematics and science teachers from grades seven through 12 will spend the next five summers working alongside UT scientists in laboratories on Main Campus and Health Science Campus. Weekly seminars will cover scientific inquiry and how technology is applied to biomedical science, plus there’s a two-week summer PBL workshop. The teachers will present at a symposium and later develop, with the help of UT scientists, problem-based teaching tools and modules. Mentorship will include classroom visits by the teachers and their students to the scientists’ labs during the school year, helping enrich the education of minority students and demonstrating that college and a science career are real possibilities. “This is an important grant to the community as a whole,” Crissman says. “It will strengthen the ties between medical researchers and science teachers. Ultimately, their students will be better qualified to enter biomedical science fields, as well as helped to understand science in everyday life.”

from well-trained practitioners, UT’s College of Medicine established a two-year residency training program for dentists who want to specialize in treating infants, children and adolescents. Dr. Michael Nedley, assistant professor of surgery and program director, says it will help alleviate a shortage of pediatric dentists. Dental care remains the Number One unmet health care need for Ohio children, according to a recent Ohio Department of Health report, with some 23 percent of Ohio children uninsured for dental care. Tooth decay affects a young child’s ability to eat, sleep, speak and learn, Nedley notes. The accredited program, housed in the UT Medical Center Dental Services, will yearly admit two graduates from American Dental Association-accredited dental schools. The program affords two years of intense, advanced training. In addition, each pediatric resident will complete a master’s degree in biomedical sciences. Learning how to take extra time with dentist-shy kids is stressed in the curriculum, as is working with special-needs children. “It’s important for pediatric dentists to have skills that shape positive attitudes toward oral health and dentistry that will last a lifetime,” Nedley says. Noting the strong link between oral health and overall health, he adds that sensitivity is important with all patients, but essential with kids: “It is my reaction to their crying that can make or break their first visits to the office.”

“It will strengthen the ties between medical researchers and science teachers.”

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Dental care remains the Number One unmet health care need for Ohio children.

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Putting teeth in lifetime health

What’s hot? Science and technology!

To ensure northwest Ohio kids receive dental care

Initiating the next generation into the mysteries of science and technology is getting easier, thanks to a

“It will strengthen the ties between medical researchers and science teachers.”

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Dental care remains the Number One unmet health care need for Ohio children.

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Work, dignity, independence

Giving voice to the voiceless

Managers and supervisors will attest: Employees with disabilities are

among the most dependable, motivated and hard-working people on staff. That comes as no surprise to Patricia Devlin EdD, assistant professor of early childhood physical/special education and director of Project SCOUT (Securing Career Opportunities at UT), the program connecting UT jobs with a pool of able potential employees. “We seek to remove barriers,” she says of the partnership between UT and disability employment service organizations at the local, regional and state levels. The Ability Center of Greater Toledo funds a program coordinator in UT’s Human Resources Department. “That’s the key piece,” Devlin says. “The coordinator reviews resumes that might be otherwise overlooked. And the complicated state hiring process is made clear to the disabilities agencies. Rather than people getting lost in the system, we have a level playing field.” She adds, “Our outcomes have been wonderful. Through Project SCOUT, UT has employed 20 individuals with all kinds of disabilities. Several have reached union status.” Specialized training, she notes, helps employees succeed. “Pictures, for instance, can make clear to a custodial person the aspects of the job that need to be done. The pictures were so useful, in fact, that a supervisor requested them for all his workers.”

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Delivering the mail is one of the jobs handled by Laurel Volk, here with her job coach, Brenda Stuckey. “Laurel and her positive attitude have improved the human condition 150 percent in our office,” says Christine Smallman, director of college relations for the College of Engineering.

Last year, the Senior Design Project of UT’s MIME (Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering) Department in the College of Engineering produced special equipment for three employees in SCOUT. Also last year was the program’s latest expansion: a high school transition classroom located in the Judith Herb College of Education, in partnership with Penta Career Center, with intensive internship training for high school seniors with disabilities. The award-winning program, Devlin notes, “can improve the quality of life and help people toward independent living.” For more information, contact program coordinator Tony Urbina at tony.urbina@utoledo.edu.

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year’s season of the Department of Theatre and Film, says professor and chair Holly Monsos, is dedicated to “the voices that are not the most popular or trendy, those not often given the microphone.” The plays and presentations in “Voices from the Margins” were chosen, Monsos says, to examine the humanity of the often-invisible: “We hope audiences will recognize an echo of our own lives.” That echo is generated by works that include Top Dog/Underdog, a play about two African-American brothers — Lincoln and Booth — trying to trade up from life on the streets. Another is Top Girls, which brings to life women from literature, history and art, placing them in an office setting recognizable to anyone who’s ever been a worker drone. There’s even Bat Boy: the Musical. “It’s a cult favorite,” says Angela Riddel, arts promotions specialist. “Even though it’s strange, it’s of course a metaphor about being different.” Riddel adds, “Our culture seems to get fixated on the story of the day, but overlooks real people and issues that affect all of us.” The business of theatre, she says, lies in bringing both to the attention of a sometimes-jaded audience: “Theatre’s always been that place where interesting, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable ideas are laid out.”

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Top Dog/Underdog

“But there’s a difference between entertainment and art that means to move you.” As well, the 2007-08 season includes a showcase for Mike Majoros, a filmmaker whose documentaries capture voices often unheard. “In his film Rolling, for instance, he gives cameras to men in wheelchairs so the audience sees life from their perspective,” Riddel says. The power of performing arts is undeniable, Monsos says. “But there’s a difference between entertainment and art that means to move you. So much of what comes out of Hollywood is fabulous, but it’s slick; it’s not meant to make you think. “Our students are encouraged to work from their hearts. Their work then is so much more powerful. No matter what art form it is, when you’re working from your passion, it shows in everything you do.”

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Giving voice to the voiceless

Managers and supervisors will attest: Employees with disabilities are

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Top Dog/Underdog

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Frontier medicine

Stars for science

No one welcomes a hurricane, but when Mitch roared

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through Honduras in 1999, it left behind more than devastation. The Honduran medical mission organized by Richard Paat MD, clinical associate professor of medicine, became the beginning of a long-term commitment to the Central American nation. “Ours was the first medical team to arrive after Mitch,” says Paat. “When we went into [the region of] Marcovia, we found the town wiped out. We worked with the CARE, who set us up in army tents. We asked where the patients would come from; we were told, ‘From all of Marcovia.’ People walked hours in 100-degree weather to reach us.” Mitch marked the establishment of the medical mission program at the UT College of Medicine. Teams of about 30 volunteers — faculty plus medical and nursing students — have since 2001 made their headquarters at the rural mountain town of La Esperanza. This March, the College of Pharmacy, which has been providing volunteer doctoral students, will become an official part of the program. UT is fertile ground for such work. Its Medical Mission Hall of Fame, founded by fellow mission organizer Lawrence Conway PhD, honors volunteers in the field. And Students for Medical Missions is one of the most active groups on Health Science Campus. The biggest reward, though, remains the missions themselves. “Students typically tell us that this was the best part of their medical studies, the experience they’ll always remember,” Paat says. The teams have treated more than 13,000 Honduran patients to date. Students, Paat says, come back with a greater appreciation of commonalities of the world’s people. “They almost always say, ‘I received more than I gave.’” Noting that in 2007 students raised $2,500 to transport an ambulance donated by MedCorp Inc., he adds, “The goal we’re working toward is a time when medical missions are no longer necessary.”

Student on a medical mission

“People walked hours in 100-degree weather to reach us.”

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passing science grade to only 22 percent of college grads? Ritter Planetarium is working to reverse the national trend by introducing kids and adults to astronomy. “Almost 30,000 people come to the planetarium yearly,” says Nancy Morrison PhD, professor of astronomy and Ritter’s director. On any given day, school busses disgorge their riders, who file into Ritter’s lobby where they’re greeted by planetarium associate director Alex Mak or by UT student presenters from several departments and colleges — old hands at snagging the attention of wiggly kids and harried teachers. Inside the domed planetarium, a central star projector can reproduce the sky as seen from anywhere on Earth — and any time in history. For many urban kids, this is their first sight of a truly dark night sky with its dazzling stars. “We want children to see that the Milky Way is not science fiction!” Morrison says Auxiliary projectors illustrate various astronomical phenomena and events, from supernovae to the likely convergence of planets on the first Christmas. Education is the goal, Morrison says. “With the growth of school science standards, we’ve retooled the popular shows to be more in line. We try, though, to broaden the contents to cover a diversity of material that still has relevance to the standards.” Although elementary and middle schools are main users of planetarium programs, all ages are welcome at the regular public planetarium shows and public viewings through the department’s teaching telescopes. Viewing and program schedules are found online at utoledo.edu/ as/rpbo/programs/public.html.

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Alex Mack encourages budding science enthusiasts.

To increase awareness of Ritter’s educational potential, the planetarium sponsors NPR’s Stardate, a nightly astronomy radio program. And to further inspire the minds of those who visit the planetarium, a large-screen TV in the lobby displays the latest

A central star projector can reproduce the sky as seen from anywhere on Earth — and any time in history. NASA video presentations, updated weekly. “Knowing about astronomy means knowing about the origins of our planet, and its place in our galaxy and the universe,” Morrison points out.

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Frontier medicine

Stars for science

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Student on a medical mission

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Alex Mack encourages budding science enthusiasts.

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Cheaper energy, cleaner world

Scrubbing toxic algae from Lake Erie

UT could well be a hot spot at the center of a solar energy boom,

These are blooms that create one nasty bouquet — we’re talking blue-green blooms of

thanks to its years of research in a field that’s now exploding. Internationally recognized as a leader in photovoltaics (PV) — converting sunshine to electricity — UT is surging ahead in solar energy development. “Toledo could be part of a Midwest Photovoltaics Plain,” says Robert Collins PhD, UT professor of physics and NEG chair in silicate and materials science. “The PV industry is booming and the winning technologies are being decided.” Among the frontrunners are two thin film PV technologies being studied at UT. One grew out of the local glass industry and UT’s work with semiconductors by Alvin Compaan PhD, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The product uses a thin layer of cadmium telluride over a glass substrate. This “thin film” solar cell has a low production cost that makes it very attractive for large-scale utility applications, Collins explains. Another lower-cost technology drives the start-up company of Xunming Deng, UT professor of physics and astronomy. His Xunlight Corp. licenses intellectual property developed at UT — in this case, solar cells utilizing thin layers of silicon on stainless steel. “Again, because the technology’s not connected to the limited production of crystalline silicon, it creates the potential for putting PV everywhere,” Collins says. The PV efforts at UT received another boost in 2007 with an $18.6 million award from Ohio’s Third Frontier Project, establishing the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization. Bringing solar energy into the Ohio mainstream will be the focus of this project, a

Robert Collins’ home is off the energy grid, thanks to PV.

collaboration among UT, Bowling Green State University and Ohio State University. 2007 also saw UT chosen as the headquarters of the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio, the hub for 15 universities engaged in energy technologies. With a PV research budget that’s doubled and an interdisciplinary PhD program in alternative energies being developed in UT’s colleges

“The PV industry is booming and the winning technologies are being decided.”

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of Engineering and Arts and Sciences, UT is providing excellent news for local solar entrepreneurs as well as for an energy-hungry world. A clean-energy article in The Economist noted (with some surprise) Toledo’s growing prominence in the field. They may be less surprised in the future, Compaan notes: “This is about improving the environment that’s threatened by climate change. It’s also about creating jobs in America, especially in northwest Ohio.”

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the toxic algae Microcystis, which at certain times of the year cover portions of Maumee Bay and western Lake Erie. A team of researchers in UT’s Department of Environmental Sciences — Tom Bridgeman, professor of limnology; Scott Heckathorn, associate professor of ecology; Christine Mayer, assistant professor of ecology; and Von Sigler PhD, assistant professor of environmental microbiology — are working to nip the bloom in its yearly bud. “The blooms are heaviest in August and September, especially in years with higher summer rainfalls. We think they’re caused by excessive nutrients, probably phosphorus, coming from the watershed,” says Bridgeman, noting that farm runoff is one likely suspect. “We’re trying to determine ecology of blooms: why they form, when they form, what determines size, why they vary in size from year to year,” he says. “Once we understand how the blooms form, we can recommend efforts to address the runoff.” Why the concern? Aside from the mess they cause when they wash up on shore, the algae blooms can harm fish by changing water chemistry: in death, the algae falls to the lake bottom and reduces oxygen levels. But you don’t have to dine on perch or walleye to feel the effects of the blooms. With Oregon and Toledo city water intakes nearby, the municipalities must use either potassium permanganate or activated carbon to remove all traces of toxic bloom, says Christopher Taylor, chief chemist with Toledo’s Division of Water Treatment. “When the blooms are heavy, we use a truckload of the treatment every week. “Our costs go up eight to ten times during those periods, so we’re happy to work with Tom and the University as much as we do,” he says, adding that he and the researchers share their on-the-water observations of the algae blooms.

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Justin Chaffin, in his first year of environmental sciences graduate studies, lowers a Secchi disc into Lake Erie to measure water clarity. Inset: a Microcystis shake!

Algae falls to the lake bottom and reduces oxygen levels. UT enjoys a special advantage: thanks to its Lake Erie Research Center, the science team can boat into the bay, collect samples and rush them back to a lab for analysis. “We have to get them to the lab within a few hours,” Bridgeman says. “Without the Lake Erie Center, we’d be limited in what we can do.”

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Cheaper energy, cleaner world

Scrubbing toxic algae from Lake Erie

UT could well be a hot spot at the center of a solar energy boom,

These are blooms that create one nasty bouquet — we’re talking blue-green blooms of

Robert Collins’ home is off the energy grid, thanks to PV.

“The PV industry is booming and the winning technologies are being decided.”

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Justin Chaffin, in his first year of environmental sciences graduate studies, lowers a Secchi disc into Lake Erie to measure water clarity. Inset: a Microcystis shake!

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A clean, green go-between

Indoor 'Green' houses

Intelligent skyscraper windows that recognize when they’re dirty and use electrolysis to zap the grime. Smart shopping carts that already

know you’ve run out of fish sauce and direct you to the correct grocery aisle. Floor coverings that alert responders when a disabled person falls out of bed. Visitors to UT’s Capacity-Building in Emerging Applied Building and Construction Technologies Program will find what sounds like tomorrow’s green construction technology — today. “We take a subject — energy and environmental sustainability — that’s very complex and make it understandable,” says Ken Dobson, director of the program. To do it, they’ve created a series of 18 walk-through, interactive modules covering the fourth floor of Scott Park Campus’ Learning Resources Center. Students from kindergarten through graduate school can have their eyes opened to the possibilities while gaining knowledge that supplements the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines of their schools. Likewise, professionals in construction and architecture, plus home and property owners, will find ways to cut energy costs, shave time from construction schedules and make a positive environmental impact.

Bio-research: first penetrate, then blitz The program couldn’t be more timely, Dobson notes. “Contrary to what we’d thought for many years, buildings — not cars, trucks or airplanes — are the main consumers of energy, accounting for about 48 percent of the world’s total consumption. “They’re also major emitters of carbon dioxide, putting 750 million metric tons into the atmosphere every year.” He adds, “Our center can serve as a central laboratory to all the other UT colleges and departments that offer related courses: geography and planning, engineering, physics, math, business administration and information technology.” The interdisciplinary program also looks outward, offering diversified energy options to companies seeking alternatives to non-renewable fossil fuels. Four Chinese delegations have already visited the center — as did local county commissioners, who were so impressed with information on sustainable materials that they implemented a new building policy. With a database of 10 million entries on energy-saving inventions, the program can provide savings at any level desired. “At the end of the day, we can design and build a structure so that it comes off the energy grid completely,” Dobson says. Contact him at 419.450.0153.

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Some diseases still raise a chill:

cancer, Alzheimer’s, disabling neurological conditions. Researchers, though, view them as complex challenges that in time will be controlled or eradicated. In UT’s Department of Biological Sciences, researchers include four assistant professors who apply their expertise to biomedical challenges. Bruce Bamber PhD uses a miniscule soil worm (C. elegans) to study neurological disorders. “A human brain has billions of neurons and trillions of connections between them, so understanding anything at that level is going to be very difficult,” he says. “But all animal life is built on very similar cellular processes, so even though worms don’t look at all like humans, the machinery used to communicate from one kind of nervous system cell to another is very recognizable in both species.” Even more micro-focused is the breast cancer research of Maria (Masha) Diakonova PhD, which centers on cell proteins called P21-activated kinases (PAKs). “This family of protein kinases has a variety of cellular functions in mammalian cells,” she says. In recent years, PAK signaling has been implicated in a number of pathways that may lead to cancer. Diakonova’s group is studying a lesserknown pathway involving the kinase JAK2 — as she says, “filling in the gap between an upstream and downstream biological event.” By inhibiting PAK or JAK2, physicians may add two cancer treatments to their arsenal. Deborah Chadee PhD is working on a group of proteins called mixed-lineage kinases, important in cell growth. “We’re trying to identify the role of a particular one, MLK3, which we believe has functions

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“A human brain has billions of neurons and trillions of connections between them.” in cellular transformation,” she explains. “MLK3 is over-expressed in several types of cancer, including ovarian and colon, and we think that MLK3 promotes aberrant cell growth.” William Taylor PhD is also attacking cancer, studying the way cells divide: “We’re all multi-cellular organisms; cells have an innate ability to divide rapidly. So how do some cells make some sort of molecular decision and stop dividing?” Speaking for many researchers, Taylor says, “In the United States, half a million people will die every year from cancer. Maybe I won’t find a cure for cancer, but if I can understand or uncover something new about how cancer cells behave, and that knowledge has an even small impact on the number of deaths, we’re talking about saving a lot of people over the years.” 

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A clean, green go-between

Indoor 'Green' houses

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Alumni who work to

improve human condition Breaking through: alumna helps autistic communicate Joanne M. Cafiero PhD (A/S ’84, MEd ’86, Ed Spec ’88, PhD ’95) believes those with autism have something to say.

“You can’t look at a child with autism and not feel compelled to help him or her unlock that communication — you just can’t,” she says. “You look at that face and you see there’s somebody in there that wants to communicate.” The researcher is looking for keys. She started a study in January to examine communication devices, from a no-tech device, which is a picture board with images and words, to a high-tech voice synthesizer like that used by physicist Stephen Hawking. “If we can teach these people that teachers have decided are unteachable to communicate with a very sophisticated device, a device that enables them to say anything that they need to say about anything at anytime, we can make a significant breakthrough in autism,” Cafiero says. “We have to believe that they have potential to be as involved in their own lives and in the lives of others to be part of the wide world.” The UT alumna has helped teachers and parents around the globe learn to educate autistic children. The former autism projects director for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education has shared her expertise through consulting in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. And she designed a graduate program for teaching students with autism at Johns Hopkins. Cafiero learned a lot from teaching in Montgomery County Schools in Rockville, Md.

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“I found through my work as a teacher, if you start to give people with autism meaningless things to do, you start to have behavioral problems,” she says. “We all need meaning in our life. We have to provide real-life instruction in real-life environments.” She recalls working with a 13-year-old boy in Rockville. “He was a student who required two people — one to stand behind his chair so he wouldn’t run away and one to deliver the instruction,” Cafiero says. “The only sounds he made were ‘ah’ and he screamed. His communication was limited to five manual signs for bathroom, cookie, cracker, floor and finished. “When I was working in that classroom, it was kind of a low period for me. I was feeling like I wasn’t getting anywhere. I didn’t quite understand the whole communication piece; I knew they needed meaningful instruction, but I had no idea I would be teaching these children to communicate.” But that’s what she did after a speech pathologist suggested she use more picture boards. “I made a picture communication board for riding the Metro in D.C. and taught the kids to use the language to ride the subway, and I made communication boards for every environment in the classroom, and I just started talking to these kids and pointing to the pictures,” Cafiero says. “Within two weeks, this young man began to have conversations with me. This was a student who on record [had an] IQ so low you couldn’t measure it. He went from using five symbols to over 30 symbols just because we provided a means for him to communicate by having picture boards everywhere. He stopped running; he stopped screaming. He eventually went on to communicate over 60 different things.” Cafiero called this method of communicating natural aided language and wrote about teaching parents to use it with their autistic children in her doctoral dissertation. “It changed his life and changed mine. His whole curriculum changed. The communication system gave me a window on his potential to learn. We got rid of those silly objectives like stringing beads, which is ridiculous for a 13-yearold boy to do. We had him using a calculator, he began filing things alphabetically, and he began counting money.” www.toledoalumni.org

“It changed his life and changed mine.” Listening to this passionate expert who has written a book, Meaningful Exchanges for People With Autism (2005), it’s hard to believe her career almost didn’t happen. “I moved to Toledo in 1976 — I was married at the time — and three years later I found myself a single mother with three young children,” Cafiero says. “I knew I needed to think about a career and be self-supporting. “People have asked me: Why did I get a second bachelor’s degree? Honestly, my self-esteem was so low at that point I didn’t think I was capable of getting a master’s degree,” she says. “But through the encouragement and support of Frances Renzi in the Music Department and education faculty Dr. Lois Hodgson, Dr. Barbaranne Benjamin and Dr. Linda Murphy, I received my PhD. The support of those women and the three little letters after your name mean a lot; I’m very grateful.” — Vicki L. Kroll Toledo Alumni Magazine | Winter 2008

Alumni who work to

improve human condition Breaking through: alumna helps autistic communicate Joanne M. Cafiero PhD (A/S ’84, MEd ’86, Ed Spec ’88, PhD ’95) believes those with autism have something to say.

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MD media maven preaches the Microsoft gospel

Microsoft operating a health care division? Who knew?

Certainly Bill Crounse MD (MED ’79) knows — after all, he’s Microsoft’s worldwide health director. “When I joined Microsoft, maybe 40 employees were focused on health care. Now there more than 600 around the world,” he says from his office in Redmond, Wash. It’s early days, though. Crounse calls Microsoft’s $1.5 billion health care component “a very tiny piece of Microsoft’s $54 billion business. But it’s growing very rapidly.” As chief MS evangelizer to the worldwide health care industry, he’s high-visibility. His blog at blogs.msdn.com/ healthblog/, for instance, carries the banner of Microsoft’s information technology (IT). “I write about how IT can dramatically improve the quality of care and the

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satisfaction of care providers and customers,” says Crouse, who spent years as a top administrator for several medical centers in the Pacific Northwest. A rare triple threat — medico, writer and TV performer — Bill grew up in Gig Harbor (greater Seattle) and took his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Puget Sound before settling on a medical career. His part-time TV job during college turned fateful. “I noticed that no teen programming was being produced,” he says. “Brash young man I was, I went to the station manager with the idea for a show along lines of the Tonight Show, with cars, fashions and music for teenagers. “They thought it was a great idea, and they put me — this kid — in charge.” He was producer and host all through college. Meanwhile, “even though I was second on the reserve list for the University of Washington Medical School, it was a year www.toledoalumni.org

with no turnover,” Bill recalls. “They told me to apply again next year. Fooey on that, I thought, and launched into a TV career for the next five years.” At 21, he was a TV news anchor. By the time he married and moved into station management, he’d hosted a game show, managed rock bands, and done film and modeling. After a promised job in Florida fell through, a friend who was a PBS station manager hired him over the phone. Destination: Toledo. The mountains-and-coast couple consulted a map. “We said, ‘Hmm, Toledo. It can’t be bad, it’s got a lake.’” Bill was at WGTE for two years as assistant general manager when he and his wife, Fran, decided that the time was right for a return to Plan A: medicine. “We didn’t want to move every third year and end up in New York or L.A.,” Bill says. Despite his initial qualms about starting medical school married and 26 years old, Bill took his medical degree at the then-MCO, did his residency in family medicine and accepted a job at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. “I was known there as a TV person, and the combination made me interesting to them,” he says. “I became the regular contact for TV stations.” At the same time, Lifetime Medical Television was launching a show called Physician’s Journal Update. They too found Crounse interesting and offered him an anchor position. He held it for eight years, commuting between Seattle and Los Angeles as the show became a global phenomenon. “I was being spoon-fed continuing education from the Who’s Who of the medical and scientific community,” he recalls. With the rise of the Internet, Crounse — a self-taught computer enthusiast — kept his eyes on the medium’s potential. He put his skills to good use when he joined Overlake Hospital Medical Center and the Overlake Venture Center as senior vice president and chief medical information officer. “At our venture center, we’d take intellectual properties from the hospital and turn them into spin-off companies, exploring cool stuff we could do with technology.” As luck would have it, Overlake’s foundation board included a number of Microsoft execs. They caught the buzz. Microsoft partnered with DoctorGoodwell.net — Crounse was a co-founder of the online project — to better connect physicians and patients, and in time extended a job offer. “I abandoned thoughts of early retirement,” says Bill.

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He’s never regretted it. His work expands the horizons of the health-care provider industry — with Microsoft technologies. “At our Executive Briefing Center in Redmond, people from all over the world can be exposed to our best thinking,” he says. “It’s been my delight to sit with ministers of health, prime ministers and captains of industry, sharing our strategies and visions.” Now in full stride, he says, “The health-care field is clamoring for IT. The need for a more transparent, more knowledge-driven health environment has never been more key. It’s a cool time to be involved in all this!” And that setting! “Microsoft is a supercharged environment with very smart, very driven people,” he says. “Even with my senior exec and physician background — man, you walk through the door here and you start all over again. It’s both intimidating and wonderful.” On the international speakers’ circuit, Crounse enjoys startling audiences with his “Five Health Care Trends That Will Shake the World and Re-Shape Your Organization.” He says, “I believe within five years, you will not be able to practice medicine in United States unless you’re fully electronic.” And of course he has a good Bill Gates story: “I first met Gates in about 1991 or so when he came in to be on a TV show. I sat down with him and said, ‘I see huge potential for information technology and health care. Tell me what Microsoft is doing in that area.’ He pretty much cut me off at the knees, saying, ‘That’s not what we do.’ “Today he would answer that question very differently.”

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Transcendental in a teapot Aaron Fisher (A/S ’99) wants to change the world — one cup of tea at a time.

“Even for people who don’t meditate, tea is awesome.”

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As an editor of The Art of Tea, a lavish magazine whose heft makes Vogue seem downright anorexic, Aaron lives in Taiwan, where tea is serious business. We’re not talking Lipton Earl Grey or raspberry-green here; the leafy quaffs Aaron writes about have vintages, like wine. Think 1992 Chung Cha Fan Tie Bing, a variety of Pu-erh — an aged tea sold in compressed cakes that can command thousands of dollars. In many ways, tea is a state of mind, one that Aaron took to like a duck to the Rongshui River. “I’m just an Asian soul, I guess,” he says. He made the switch from coffee to tea while a UT student: “I majored in anthropology, but I was studying Asian philosophy and doing Vipassana meditation, which originated in India, where I traveled for a time.” That travel’s been wide — India, Nepal, Pakistan, Hong Kong, China — following philosophy and tea. In time, the two merged. Aaron began to take tea seriously, learning its complexities from tea merchants and masters. “At a meditation course in China, I had a white tea that had been picked just a couple of weeks earlier. I was blown away!” he says. “Even for people who don’t meditate, tea is awesome,” he continues. “Meditation is intense, but with tea, there’s no philosophy; in the end, it’s just some leaves in hot water. But it does make you slow down to brew it and drink it — as long as it’s not grab and go. If you make it with skill and artistic integrity, good tea is soothing and calming and healthy.” This is a good time to introduce the concept of Qi, sometimes explained as a life force or a natural high and often associated with tea. “But it isn’t some mystical universal force like in Star Wars,” Aaron cautions. “It is the universe itself. All matter is emotion, really — energy that’s always vibrating and alive. Qi isn’t some transcendental place you go; it’s an actual physical sensation in your body, kind of tingling and flowing. “Once you have that sensitivity, you get a sense of completion, a connection to nature where you feel like nothing’s missing from any moment. That’s a really powerful sensation. “As long as you prepare your tea mindfully, all this is very natural. I think it’s a property in the leaf. Tea is an amazing plant that adapts to every environment it grows in. It’s incredibly absorbent; you can plant a camphor tree nearby and the tea leaves will taste of camphor.” www.toledoalumni.org

Tea, in fact, has flavored Aaron’s life. “Tea satisfies me on a lot of levels,” he says. He collects tea, antique teapots and teaware, and his tea-influenced art regularly appears in The Art of Tea. He’s also authored three books on tea. Ask for a summation of his philosophy and tea won’t be far behind: “Quietude is worth more than gold. A teacher of mine, Zhou Yu, has a beautiful place called Wistaria Tea House, filled with waterfalls. He’s almost like a monk, never leaves there. About fifty meters away is a major thoroughfare with cars going by all the time. He says he’ll look out a window at all the people running away from or to something. They don’t know that so close by is this silent place. “What that quietude leads to, the teachers say, is presence — Tea wares; facing page, Aaron's art being here in the moment, not worrying about past or present, just enjoying the tea. That in turns leads to clarity; a year ago, I “Joyce is a pianist and took over the administration of the thought this tea was bitter, now I notice there’s some sweetness. school. I run the business side.” That translates to being more sensitive to the rest of your life.” It makes for a full life, but he notes, “One of the first benefits What he’s learned from Yu and his philosophy of tea of meditating is that you can work harder and get tired less.” culture, Aaron says, is mindful living: “If you can carry the Not that he plans a protracted run. “In another 30 years, I principles of meditation over into brewing tea, you can carry see myself more like the guy in some of my paintings, with a them over into the act of brushing your teeth.” long beard, a house in the mountains, leaving most of the world And into service. Aaron and his wife, Joyce, run a school in behind. Taiwan called Savant, based on the principle that children “Or I could be doing what my teacher does, serving other immersed in the arts throughout their academic careers have people. I’m still a student; when I’m with guys like him, I’m greater success in school and beyond. “It’s what’s called a humbled.” Bushiban school — literally, a cram school, an after-school school — for art, music and English,” Aaron says. “We have about 85 students with classes that begin at 3 and go until 8:30. The arts help the children develop a love for school, and good students like going to school. It really is that simple.

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Transcendental in a teapot Aaron Fisher (A/S ’99) wants to change the world — one cup of tea at a time.

“Even for people who don’t meditate, tea is awesome.”

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Homecoming 2007

Hot Dog Tent Homecoming King, Carlos Gooden, and his proud mom.

The 2007 parade saw two Grand Marshals: former UT basketball stars Kim Knuth-Klaer (MAC and UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-time leading womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scorer) and Steve Mix (All-America honors as a Rocket, 13 seasons in the NBA). Both had their numbers retired in 2007.

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Rockets young and younger

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Alumni Association honorees at halftime: Sherri Ealey, with husband and Blue T Awardee Chuck Ealey, Alumni Association President Jim White, UT President Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, Alumni Association Associate Vice President Dan Saevig, Young Alum Awardee Gretchen Clark Hammond and her husband, Jonathan Hammond, and Lynn Jakubowski, wife of Gold T Awardee Dr. Gerald Jakubowski.

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Andrea David, 2007 Homecoming Queen, and Jodi Moorman, 2006 Queen

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Homecoming 2007

Hot Dog Tent Homecoming King, Carlos Gooden, and his proud mom.

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Andrea David, 2007 Homecoming Queen, and Jodi Moorman, 2006 Queen

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class notes

La Bella Via: alumna begins stylish business

’40s

named a member of the master faculty by the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, recognizing excellence as an educator and mentor. The clinical professor of proctology practices at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo.

Chattanooga, Tenn., since 1980 and remains active in their Symphony and Opera Guild as well as in the city’s Little Theatre Associates. Her volunteer activities include service for Scenic Cities and the Chickamauga Creek Greenway.

by Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) with their 2007 Founders’ Award for Excellence in Governance Leadership. His service to CHP, a nonprofit health care system serving nine states, includes 25 years on its regional board of trustees.

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Martha L. (Merrill) Sheets (Ed ’45) has been living in

’50s

Louis M. Thomson Jr. (A/S ’50), a member of the National

Academy of Arbitrators, was named a special magistrate by the state of Florida and its Public Employees Relations Commission. He maintains offices in Toledo and Knoxville, Tenn.

G. Thomas DO (Pharm ’51) and Dorothy Rymers (Pharm ’52), Osceola, Ind., celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in June.

James P. (Bus ’54) and Sue (Smilax) Haggerty (Ed ’56),

Toledo, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August. Robert U. Elia (Ed ’56), Glen Ellyn, Ill., served as a teacher of community college American history aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz and the U.S.S. Arleigh Burke in a program offering credited college courses to warships serving on station.

Jim “Mouse” Hale (Pharm ’56) retired after 63 years in the

drug store business, having worked as a pharmacist for Kuntz Drug (which he co-owned for years), Revco, Adams Pharmacy, Daoust’s and other pharmacies in Archbold, Paulding, Payne and Continental, Ohio. Allan Miller DO (A/S ’57) was

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Don H. Saunders (Bus ’57, MBA ’64), Oregon, was honored

’60s

Lance A. Talmage MD (Eng ’60) and his wife, Diana “Dee” (Heywood) (MEd ’65), Toledo,

celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary in June. Joe Duerringer (Eng ’61) and his wife, Marvel, Toledo, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in September. Sam A. Muller (Ed ’61), Flint, Mich., a retired teacher, took third place in a local poetry contest held as part of CreekFest, which celebrates Kearsley Creek in the state’s Oakland County.

published in April; it’s available on amazon.com. Carl Grafton PhD (Eng ’63), who taught in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Auburn University Montgomery for more than 30 years, retired as professor emeritus. With his wife, Anne Permaloff, he co-authored two books: Big Mules and Branchheads: James E. Folsom and Political Power in Alabama and Political Power in Alabama: The More Things Change... They plan to continue writing books and journal articles. Samuel B. Miles III (Bus ’66), Williamstown, N.J., organized a group of investors and raised $9 million to open a new community bank, First Bank of Williamstown. He’d previously opened the First Bank of Philadelphia and served as its president. He’s also head coach (with a 204-47 record) for the tennis team at St. Augustine Prep in Richland, N.J., which won its first state championship in 2007. Judge John Kessler (Law ’68), the longest-serving judge on Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, retired in October. He still teaches law at the University of Dayton and applied to participate in a visiting judge program.

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Dale W. Fallat (Law ’70), vice president of corporate services for The Andersons Inc., was named chairman of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors. Muller ’61 Larry Rochelle (Ed ’62, Ed Spec ’80) had his book, Ten Mile

Creek, another action novel following the adventures of tennis pro Palmer Morel (whose career he covered previously in Blue Ice),

John MacRitchie (Bus ’71, MBA ’82), Troy, vice president of

corporate banking with Fifth Third Bank, joined the foundation board of Dayton Children’s Medical Center.

Rev. James Riccitelli (A/S ’71, MA ’78) and his wife, Ruth,

celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June. They’re

serving at Bethany Community Fellowship in Sylvania.

Linda Brown-Ewing (A/S ’72), Sylvania, was promoted to community affairs vice president with Fifth Third Bank, where she’s worked since 1984.

Brown-Ewing ’72 Marcia J. Mengel (Ed ’72, MEd ’75, Law ’82), who served

as clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio and director of bar admissions, and was the first woman to hold both jobs, retired in June.

Kathryn (Ehrman) Farkas (Pharm ’74) accepted the position

of director of pharmacy at Mountain Valley Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Prescott Valley, Ariz. Her husband, Dan (Eng ’71, MBA ’85), is a principal software engineer at Wulfsberg Electronics in Prescott.

Chris Steiner (A/S ’74, Law ’77) of Bayer, Papay & Steiner Co.

LPA in Maumee, was elected as a delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church for 2008, an international policyand doctrine-setting gathering. Joe E. Kahl (Univ Coll ’76) was named director of transportation for Sylvania Public Schools. Carol Seubert Marx (A/S ’76), who runs a private law practice in Lancaster, Ohio, was elected to serve a three-year term as District 9 representative on the board of governors of the Ohio State Bar Association.

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hen it comes to fashion, Toledo lags a bit behind Paris and New York. Maybe that’s why a first visit to Bella Brie feels like a revelation. The clothes aren’t shoved together in hodge-podge racks. There is brightness and airiness to the store's interior décor. And what was that I just saw? A Lily Pulitzer sweater next to a Cynthia Rowley dress? The whole operation looks effortless, but it has taken Keri Suhy (Bus ’99) two years to get Bella Brie to this point. “You think, ‘Oh, I’ll open a cute little store.’ But I was in for a surprise,” she says. The idea for Bella Brie was born after Gabrielle and Isabella, Suhy’s twin daughters and the store’s namesakes, were born. After being a stay-at-home mom for two years (“I worked on Wall Street and staying home was much harder than that”), Suhy wanted an additional pursuit. “I’ve always been a career girl, so was trying to think of something I could do, but not lose sight of my family,” she said. “I was always interested in fashion, and I have the business background. So we came up with the boutique idea so I could stay home with the girls during the day, and then I could go in for a few hours at night.” Suhy started researching other boutiques and speaking with their owners. She also decided to use fashion merchandising interns from Bowling Green State University (only because UT doesn't have a program, she assures) to staff the store. “I have to attribute some of the success to the group of girls who work for me. They’re a great group of girls. I have the business background, but I like to learn from what they’re learning in school. And for them, it’s invaluable experience.” She then chose a location on Toledo's Talmage Road, decided on décor and secured various labels. “You don’t automatically get to carry who you want in your boutique. You have to get approved, they want to see pictures of the store, and they want to know who else you’re carrying,” she says. She and her interns also previewed designers’ collections at Market, a huge, seasonal fashion show-and-tell-and-buy in Chicago and New York for boutique owners. Since opening in May 2007, her store has been warmly received, Suhy says. “A lot of people have come in and said, ‘Thank you for bringing culture to Toledo.’” Though, she admits, some still wander in expecting “Bella Brie” to be a cheese store. Thus far, Suhy’s new business pursuit has inspired more than her customers. “Just the other day, my girls were prancing around the house in little dress-up heels, with necklaces on, talking on these fake cell phones. And they said, ‘Bye, Mommy. Me working.’ My husband

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chuckled and said, ‘They’re imitating you.’” She adds, “I’d love to eventually have them work at the store and take them to market. You know, I’ll be getting older and I’m always not going to know what the best trends are.” — Deanna Woolf

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Martha L. (Merrill) Sheets (Ed ’45) has been living in

’50s

Louis M. Thomson Jr. (A/S ’50), a member of the National

Academy of Arbitrators, was named a special magistrate by the state of Florida and its Public Employees Relations Commission. He maintains offices in Toledo and Knoxville, Tenn.

G. Thomas DO (Pharm ’51) and Dorothy Rymers (Pharm ’52), Osceola, Ind., celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in June.

James P. (Bus ’54) and Sue (Smilax) Haggerty (Ed ’56),

Jim “Mouse” Hale (Pharm ’56) retired after 63 years in the

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Don H. Saunders (Bus ’57, MBA ’64), Oregon, was honored

’60s

Lance A. Talmage MD (Eng ’60) and his wife, Diana “Dee” (Heywood) (MEd ’65), Toledo,

’70s

Creek, another action novel following the adventures of tennis pro Palmer Morel (whose career he covered previously in Blue Ice),

John MacRitchie (Bus ’71, MBA ’82), Troy, vice president of

corporate banking with Fifth Third Bank, joined the foundation board of Dayton Children’s Medical Center.

Rev. James Riccitelli (A/S ’71, MA ’78) and his wife, Ruth,

celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June. They’re

serving at Bethany Community Fellowship in Sylvania.

Linda Brown-Ewing (A/S ’72), Sylvania, was promoted to community affairs vice president with Fifth Third Bank, where she’s worked since 1984.

Brown-Ewing ’72 Marcia J. Mengel (Ed ’72, MEd ’75, Law ’82), who served

as clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio and director of bar admissions, and was the first woman to hold both jobs, retired in June.

Kathryn (Ehrman) Farkas (Pharm ’74) accepted the position

Chris Steiner (A/S ’74, Law ’77) of Bayer, Papay & Steiner Co.

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Staying connected comes naturally to PT alum David I. Roberts (Bus ’77, MBA ’83), president/CEO of

Marx ’76

Lutheran Homes Society Inc. in northwest Ohio, testified as an expert witness before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee in July on the need for affordable housing among the nation’s lowerincome citizens.

Beverly J. (Ward) Reed (Ed ’76), Moore, S.C., retired in June

after 32 years of teaching, beginning at Toledo’s Nathan Hale Elementary. The remainder of her work was with Spartanburg School District Three in South Carolina. She’s active with Wofford College and the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Roberts ’77, ’83 Patricia Rosen MD (MED ’77),

Reed ’76 Debbie E. (Zervos) Gavalas (A/S ’77) is development director

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Deborah D. (Motil) Proctor MD (A/S ’78) was promoted

to professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, where she is director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program and the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program. She and her husband, Rob, have two children: Charlie, 13, and Davey, 10.

Austin, Texas, has a toxicology consulting practice and an occupational wellness program (wellnessforworkers.com) and became a first-time grandma in March. She runs marathons and does “shifts in the emergency department to support my triathlon habit.”

for the Child Abuse Council, a nonprofit agency in Tampa, Fla. She’s also president-elect of the Suncoast Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Barry Portnoy PhD (PhD ’78)

was awarded the title of College Park Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, bestowed on distinguished scholars outside the university. He also serves as senior adviser for disease prevention of the Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health.

Kenneth R. Bertka MD (A/S ’79, Res ’86), founder and 20-year veteran of a Toledo family medicine practice, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which serves more than 90,000 physicians and medical students nationwide.

’80s

Harry R. Gensler (Law ’80)

was appointed Judge Pro Tempore by the Board of Nye County (Nevada) Commissioners.

Cynthia A. (Nabinger) Givens PhD (Pharm ’80), who earned

Rosen ’77 H. Sam Fick DDS (A/S ’78), president of the Ohio Dental Association and a practitioner for more than 30 years, received the Outstanding Businessperson Award at the 14th annual Prism Awards in May, presented by the Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce.

selected as one of nine teachers in the Toledo Diocese to receive the second annual Golden Apple Award. She’s also volunteer coordinator of the Williams County “What About Me?” Program that helps children whose parents are divorcing.

Libby Hostetler PhD (PhD ’81) retired in June after more than 35 years in education, most recently as principal of Bluffton (Ohio) Elementary. Her career included 25 years as a professor of education at Bluffton College.

Russ Hostetler MD (MED ’81), Plant City, Fla., is a medical

director with United Healthcare. He writes that he feels “semiretired as I only work 8 hours a day” in addition to working at a free clinic in Tampa. He’s writing a book about his “country doctor days,” several chapters of which appeared in The Florida Family Physician. He and his wife, Jane, aren’t far from being emptynesters, as their youngest child will soon begin college. Steven Spitler (Law ’81) joined the office of the Ohio Treasurer as northwest Ohio regional office manager. Headquartered in Toledo, he assists in implementing community outreach programs for the treasury.

her doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Florida, is the clinical pharmacy specialist at the Veterans Administration Clinic in Akron, specializing in anticoagulation and medication management.

Rebecca Masimore RN (UTCTC ’80) was named director of physician relations for Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky.

Colleen M. (Colvin) Goehler (Ed ’81), Bryan, Ohio, who

teaches grades two through four at St. Patrick School in Bryan and St. Mary’s School in Edgerton, was

orey Overmyer (HS ’04) has some special advantages in relating to his patients. Take his military service. Before he joined Northwest Ohio Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Findlay as a physical therapist (PT), he was deployed to the Middle East. “As a veteran, I can relate to other military vets,” says the PT who toted his medical books to Iraq to keep his skills fresh. “We’ve seen some Iraq war veterans, though not with injuries relating to service. Most need physical therapy because of injuries that happened after they returned back home, back into life.” Speaking of sports, he relates well there, too. “I was in football and wrestling in high school, and I did martial arts in Toledo,” he says. “It comes down to that I like working with people. It’s a steady pace here with not much down time, and each case is different. “I don’t feel that any diagnosis or age group is any more difficult or easier to work

with. Every patient has to be treated as an individual, and each plan of care must be tailored to the individual’s needs so we can address the physical impairments causing their functional limitations.” Those limitations can include everything from bed mobility to walking to throwing a baseball or running in a triathlon, he says. “The reason we’re here is to help patients achieve their goals and return to function.” Patients are treated according to a team approach, he explains, with access to physical therapists and assistants, exercise physiologists and athletic trainers. From simple table-based exercises to serious training on exercise machines and performance enhancement programs for area athletes, it’s all done on site. Corey plans to be on site as well for a long time to come, saying, “Findlay is a great town, this is an excellent facility with a great staff. You couldn’t ask for more.”

“The reason we’re here is to help patients

Spitler ’81 Edsel M. Brown Jr. (Law ’82)

achieve their goals and return to function.”

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Staying connected comes naturally to PT alum David I. Roberts (Bus ’77, MBA ’83), president/CEO of

Marx ’76

Beverly J. (Ward) Reed (Ed ’76), Moore, S.C., retired in June

Roberts ’77, ’83 Patricia Rosen MD (MED ’77),

Reed ’76 Debbie E. (Zervos) Gavalas (A/S ’77) is development director

Gavalas ’77

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Deborah D. (Motil) Proctor MD (A/S ’78) was promoted

for the Child Abuse Council, a nonprofit agency in Tampa, Fla. She’s also president-elect of the Suncoast Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Barry Portnoy PhD (PhD ’78)

’80s

Harry R. Gensler (Law ’80)

was appointed Judge Pro Tempore by the Board of Nye County (Nevada) Commissioners.

Cynthia A. (Nabinger) Givens PhD (Pharm ’80), who earned

Russ Hostetler MD (MED ’81), Plant City, Fla., is a medical

Rebecca Masimore RN (UTCTC ’80) was named director of physician relations for Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky.

Colleen M. (Colvin) Goehler (Ed ’81), Bryan, Ohio, who

teaches grades two through four at St. Patrick School in Bryan and St. Mary’s School in Edgerton, was

“The reason we’re here is to help patients

Spitler ’81 Edsel M. Brown Jr. (Law ’82)

achieve their goals and return to function.”

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dined at Beirut Restaurant or Byblos in Toledo, you know part of the reason Labib Hajjar (MBA ’83) was honored by the Northwest Ohio Restaurant Association with its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Beirut, which opened in 1975, has been serving down-home Lebanese food to thousands of patrons, including Jordan’s Queen Nor; Byblos followed in 1989. The other reason for the honor is the many years of community service — supporting St. George Orthodox Cathedral, the American Red Cross and St. Jude’s Hospital, among others — given by Hajjar, pictured on the right, who came to the United States in 1970 and became a naturalized citizen in 1980.

Research Program.

Chris Minnich (A/S ’82) was

named director of compensation for Wachovia Corp., an international financial services company that he joined in 2004.

Minnich ’82 Eric Swierczek (UTCTC ’82, Bus ’85) and his wife, Amy, Palmer Lake, Colo., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in October.

Michael G. Dodson PhD (PhD ’83), Aiken, S.C., and his

wife, Charlotte, are semi-retired, working with an agency serving developmentally disabled people. They and their daughter, Taylor, love their ”year-round outdoor climate.”

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John K. Estell PhD (Eng ’84), chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Ohio Northern University, was among those honored with the 2007 Best Paper Award from the Freshman Programs Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. He co-wrote the paper — “Tower of Straws: Reaching New Heights with Active Learning in Engineering Design for the FirstYear Curriculum” — with four colleagues.

Paul D. Suber (Eng ’84, MBA ’91), Lima, was appointed vice

president, business development by Citation Corp., which created the new position to oversee potential acquisition targets. He has been with the Michigan office of the Alabama-based manufacturing company since 2006.

Suber ’84, ’91

Garbe ’86

Tygh M. Tone (A/S ’84, Law ’87), elected as judge of the Erie

Joann (Urbaniak) Golembiewski (Univ Coll ’86)

County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court, is administrative judge of the General Division.

Mary J. (Datesman) Torchia MD (MED ’84) joined Licking

Memorial Health Professionals in Newark, Ohio, working in the Anesthesiology Department and the Pain Management Clinic of Licking Memorial Hospital. Debbie J. Papay (Law ’85) of Bayer, Papay & Steiner Co. LPA in Maumee was the keynote speaker at the 2007 commencement of Davis College. She serves on Davis’ board of directors as well as those of Lutheran Home at Toledo and Planned Pethood Inc.

Thomas L. Steinemann MD (MED ’85) received the Alumni

Service Award for 2007 from the University of Kentucky Medical Alumni Association in October. The award honors his efforts (highlighted in Toledo Alumni Magazine, Spring 2007) to protect the public from unsafe cosmetic contact lenses. William T. Garbe (Bus ’86), Sylvania Twp., was named treasury management sales manager, Commercial Division, for Fifth Third Bank, where he’s worked since 2002.

is a secretary for the North American Membrane Society, which within the UT Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department publishes Membrane Quarterly, a professional journal. She also works on Environmental Progress within the department.

Michelle Zupancic (Bus ’86, MBA ’87) was promoted to vice

president, HIV sales and marketing for Roche Laboratories in Nutley, N.J.

Tim Yenrick (Ed ’87, MEd ’99), Rossford, received the Tiffany Award for Employee Excellence in Management from the Great Lakes Service Area of the American Red Cross, recognizing his outstanding work as executive director of the Red Cross’ greater Toledo area chapter since 2004. Marty Fagans (Ed ’88) was appointed chief operations officer for Champaign Residential Services Inc., an individualized services provider for special-needs people in eight Ohio counties. He previously worked with the Anne Grady Corp. in Lucas County. Scott Knapp (Ed ’88) graduated in May from Philadelphia Biblical University with a master’s degree in Christian counseling. He and his family — Shari Lynn and their children, David and Matthew — are returning to the Toledo area following Scott’s new administrative position with LHS Family and Youth Services. www.toledoalumni.org

ou might call Marie (TenBroeck) Holscher (A/S ’41) a real estate undeveloper. Her 176-year-old house sits on a primo piece of property near Cincinnati, but rather than looking for a profit, she’s preserving the land for Ohio’s future. It was her local handyman, Marie says, who made her think about the future of the property. “He was leaving one day and said, ‘You know, someday this place will be bulldozed. The subdivisions are coming this way.’” Marie, who’d raised her two children on the farm after her husband, Carlos, died in 1957, says she was horrified at the idea; she began researching the subject of easements. Others were happy to help with the details. The state became involved, as did a former director of the Cincinnati Preservation Association. “He helped with the steps necessary for having property nominated to the National Register,” Marie says. Her attorney son, who holds a deep attachment to the house, also assisted in guiding her through the fine print of the process. The donated easement to the Ohio Department of Agriculture means that the house and 42-acre farm will retain its rural character. Marie still lives in the 1832 Federal-style home, and the farmer who rents her fields continues to raise soybeans and corn. Under the easement terms, Marie can sell the property or leave it to her children or grandchildren, but the land must be used for agriculture. “I feel it’s important that we don’t lose all

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our farmland to development,” she says. “When my husband and I bought the house, we had no idea that he would die after only seven years here,” she adds. “Carlos and I enjoyed all of it so immensely that I thought it would go on forever, and now in a way it will.” After the death of her husband, Marie was determined that their children would continue to grow up on the farm. “It was important to me to keep them in an environment where they were happy, but continuing my earlier hospital work wasn’t feasible. “Fortuitously, the principal of a nearby grade school was looking for a third-grade teacher.” She got the job, eventually

earning a master’s degree in education. Along the way, the property sustained her — and often entertained her. “It’s a very wellloved home with only four owners since 1832,” she says of the residence now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Aaron Fagin House, after its first owner. “It takes me back to the beginnings of Ohio’s history.” The house even has a secret room where freedombound slaves could hide. Early on, Marie took an interest in the Fagin family history. “Around 1960, a very elderly Miss Fagin visited us with her brother. They asked to see the house and I was delighted to do so. When I showed them the master bedroom, Miss Fagin

turned to her brother and said, ‘Do you remember when Aunt Hat was laid out in here?’ “I loved that! Sometimes when I go to bed at night, I think of Aunt Hat. Such a comforting thought — I’m not the first here, and if I die here I won’t be the last.” More information on agricultural easements can be found at www.ohioagriculture. gov/farmland.

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Research Program.

Chris Minnich (A/S ’82) was

named director of compensation for Wachovia Corp., an international financial services company that he joined in 2004.

Minnich ’82 Eric Swierczek (UTCTC ’82, Bus ’85) and his wife, Amy, Palmer Lake, Colo., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in October.

Michael G. Dodson PhD (PhD ’83), Aiken, S.C., and his

wife, Charlotte, are semi-retired, working with an agency serving developmentally disabled people. They and their daughter, Taylor, love their ”year-round outdoor climate.”

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Paul D. Suber (Eng ’84, MBA ’91), Lima, was appointed vice

Suber ’84, ’91

Garbe ’86

Tygh M. Tone (A/S ’84, Law ’87), elected as judge of the Erie

Joann (Urbaniak) Golembiewski (Univ Coll ’86)

County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court, is administrative judge of the General Division.

Mary J. (Datesman) Torchia MD (MED ’84) joined Licking

Thomas L. Steinemann MD (MED ’85) received the Alumni

Michelle Zupancic (Bus ’86, MBA ’87) was promoted to vice

president, HIV sales and marketing for Roche Laboratories in Nutley, N.J.

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Laurie A. (Brown) Pattin (Bus ’88), Temperance, Mich., is regional manager of financial applications for Mercy Health Partners. She and her husband have two sons “and continue to support the Rockets.”

Greg Steinkerchner (Pharm ’88) was promoted to regional supervisor with Discount Drug Mart in Medina, Ohio.

Andrew J. Langenderfer (UTCTC ’89, Eng ’93) was

promoted to northwest Ohio regional leader for Tetra Tech, a global engineering consulting firm. He lives in Perrysburg with his wife and two children.

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Jeffrey Austen MD (MED ’90)

joined the staff of Southeastern Med in Zanesville, Ohio. The board-certified physician will continue to offer services at Nephrology Consultants of Southeastern Ohio Inc. Jeff Alt (UTCTC ’91) released a 10-year anniversary edition of A Walk for Sunshine (reviewed in our Fall 2000 issue), a book that both chronicled his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail hike to raise

Peeps. Monte Ezratty (MD ’80), second from left and next to strangely familiar silver-haired gentleman, is a practicing internist with a private ambulatory care center in the Bronx, New York City. He lives in Chappaqua and writes, “I’m including a photo of my three closest Chappaqua buddies, all of whom will be attending this year’s Thanksgiving party at The Spaghetti Factory.” Watch the Alfredo sauce, Bill. funds for Sunshine Inc. of Northwest Ohio and inspired family and friends to establish a yearly local walk. The September walk was the latest in the series that raised more than $125,000 to benefit the Sunshine residents with disabilities, including Jeff’s

County Sheriff’s Office.

Timothy K. Oser (Pharm ’91),

Waterville, was promoted to director of Omnicare Clinical Intervention Center of Perrysburg. Jerold C. Higbea (Eng ’92) was promoted to senior manufacturing engineer with GM Powertrain in Defiance. Eric J. Plinke (Law ’92) joined the Columbus office of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs LLP as a shareholder focusing on health law for corporate and individual clients.

Desiree (Rensch) Drumm (Ed ’95) was hired as a special

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education teacher with Utica (Ohio) High School.

Sandra (Huth) Grosko (Law ’91), Pickerington, Ohio, was

named interim clerk of the Ohio Supreme Court; she continues to serve as case management counsel. Amy Harrell (UTCTC ’91) was named a detective with the Ottawa

Kimberlie K. England (Bus ’95) was promoted to principal at Plinke ’92 Jerry Wise (Bus ’92), Clyde,

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Ohio, was named executive vice president of the Fremont Federal Credit Union. Mark A. Bollinger (A/S ’93), who teaches advanced placement social studies at River Valley High School in Caledonia, Ohio, was named 2007 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year for Marion County, Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference and District 11, having led the team to a league, a sectional and a district championship while racking up a 19-4 record and the school’s first “Sweet 16” appearance in 32 years.

David Parrett MD (MED ’94)

took over the practice of Francis Stevens MD in West Union, Ohio, specializing in adult medicine with emphasis on geriatric care.

Juan Rivera MD (A/S ’94, MED ’98), Winter Haven, Fla.,

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was elected for a two-year term to the Board of Directors of Bond Clinic PA, one of the largest

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multispecialty clinics in central Florida, where he works as an internist. Eric Tayfel (Bus ’94) formed a partnership in the Cleveland-area law firm of Brelo & Tayfel, focusing on injury litigation and disability claims. He and his wife, Jill, live in Brecksville with their twin daughters, Lindsay and Madison. Scott Buddelmeyer (Ed ’95), head athletic trainer for Defiance Clinic, took on an additional job as director of the Southern Henry County Ambulance District in Hamler, Ohio.

Findley Davies Inc., a human resources consulting firm based in Ohio and North Carolina. National practice leader of their Communication Solutions consulting practice in Toledo, she’s been with the firm since 1998. Jeffrey H. Kass (Law ’95) was elected partner in the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale LLP, based in St. Louis, Mo., with national and international offices. He’s practicing primarily in intellectual property and commercial litigation.

A ‘pond rose’ by any other name

he name of Walter Pagels (Eng ’48) will be floating around long after he’s gone — literally. Retired as an engineer from California’s Teledyne Ryan Electronics, where he was renowned for his ability to communicate the complexities of Doppler radar, Pagels has long shared another scientific interest: waterlilies. A co-founder and first president of the International Water Lily Society, he’s traveled the world (“Australia’s the best! There are only a few botanists there, so you have the whole country to explore,” he says) to locate uncatalogued varieties of waterlilies and other aquatic plants. “I became interested in biology and botany when I collected tadpoles as a kid back in Toledo,” he says. “All the sciences fascinated me, but thanks to the Navy training I received during World War II, I went with engineering as a career.” The botanical allure remained; over the years, he filled ponds on his property and in San Diego County with aquatic plants, eventually introducing more than 30 aquatic cultivars into the commercial trade. Until handing it over to his daughter, he ran an aquatic plant business. All this is more than enough to ensure a certain immortality, but perhaps the biggest kick, he says, was when Nymphaea “Walter Pagels” was chosen Waterlily of the Year 2006 in Germany. He laughs, “The only problem is that no one seems to be sure if it’s pink or white — sometimes it’s one, sometimes the other.” Whatever — color Walter Pagels delighted.

Tricia (Bender) Kettlehake MD (MED ’95), who’s in private

pharmacy in Tiffin, where she lives with her husband, Keith, and their sons, Grant and Drew.

practice in med-peds, lives in San Diego, Calif., with her husband, Dan, and their three children, Emma, Benjamin and Caroline. E-mail at kettlehake@cox.net.

Robert Shindell (Ed ’95)

accepted the position of associate vice president for recruitment and admissions at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he had been director of their Career Management Center in the Rawls College of Business.

Abbey Mortemore (A/S ’95)

joined the office of Ohio’s treasurer as northwest Ohio regional outreach director. She’s headquartered in Toledo and responsible for implementing the region’s community outreach programs for the treasury.

Mortemore ’95 Kristy A. (Fatzinger) Reinbolt (Pharm ’95) changed jobs after 12 years in a hospital pharmacy; she now works for a Wal-Mart

Thomas C. Sodeman MD (MED ’95), associate professor

and chief of the Division of Hepatology at The UT College of

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Greg Steinkerchner (Pharm ’88) was promoted to regional supervisor with Discount Drug Mart in Medina, Ohio.

Andrew J. Langenderfer (UTCTC ’89, Eng ’93) was

promoted to northwest Ohio regional leader for Tetra Tech, a global engineering consulting firm. He lives in Perrysburg with his wife and two children.

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Jeffrey Austen MD (MED ’90)

County Sheriff’s Office.

Timothy K. Oser (Pharm ’91),

Desiree (Rensch) Drumm (Ed ’95) was hired as a special

brother. Info at jeffalt.com/media.asp.

education teacher with Utica (Ohio) High School.

Sandra (Huth) Grosko (Law ’91), Pickerington, Ohio, was

named interim clerk of the Ohio Supreme Court; she continues to serve as case management counsel. Amy Harrell (UTCTC ’91) was named a detective with the Ottawa

Kimberlie K. England (Bus ’95) was promoted to principal at Plinke ’92 Jerry Wise (Bus ’92), Clyde,

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Juan Rivera MD (A/S ’94, MED ’98), Winter Haven, Fla.,

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was elected for a two-year term to the Board of Directors of Bond Clinic PA, one of the largest

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Tricia (Bender) Kettlehake MD (MED ’95), who’s in private

pharmacy in Tiffin, where she lives with her husband, Keith, and their sons, Grant and Drew.

practice in med-peds, lives in San Diego, Calif., with her husband, Dan, and their three children, Emma, Benjamin and Caroline. E-mail at kettlehake@cox.net.

Robert Shindell (Ed ’95)

Abbey Mortemore (A/S ’95)

Mortemore ’95 Kristy A. (Fatzinger) Reinbolt (Pharm ’95) changed jobs after 12 years in a hospital pharmacy; she now works for a Wal-Mart

Thomas C. Sodeman MD (MED ’95), associate professor

and chief of the Division of Hepatology at The UT College of

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Medicine, spent three months in the summer and fall on active duty in the U.S. Army.

Brian W. Schmidt (Univ Coll ’96), Mansfield, director of sales

for Schmidt Security Pro, was named to the Board of Directors of the Ohio Electronic Life Safety & Security Association.

Rodney Theis (UTCTC ’96, Univ Coll ’98) was promoted to

lieutenant in the UT Police Department in April.

Steven Zieber MD (A/S ’96, MED ’00) is a radiologist serving

with the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. He and his wife, Lori, have three children: Regan, Elise and Ross. E-mail: slzieber@cox.net.

Amy E. Campbell (A/S ’97)

received the 2007 Frank Anthony Award for Creative Non-fiction given by New England Writers. Her story, “Seven,” will be published in The Anthology of New England Writers 2008. Amy is a reporter and freelance writer living in Blissfield, Mich., with her husband, Robert Holman (Ed ’93), and their daughter, Rosalie.

Justin M. Croniser (A/S ’97)

joined the law firm of Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP, which has offices in Ohio and Florida, as an associate in the Cleveland office.

Beth Besecker MD (A/S ’98, MED ’01) joined the Division of

Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center. She lives in Grove City. Amanda Clancy (Bus ’98) was appointed to the newly-created position of human resource manager with KS Associates Inc., a civil engineering and land surveying firm in Elyria, Ohio.

Clancy ’98 Dee Haman (Univ Coll ’98, HS ’00) and her husband, Steve P. Haman MD (MED ’00, Res ’06) are living in Lima, where

Steve, who completed a fellowship with the Florida Othopaedic Institute in conjunction with Tampa General Hospital, is a partner in the Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio. They have a son, Hayden. E-mail is dee@haman.org. Kurt Hilvers (Eng ’98) was promoted to senior manufacturing engineer at GM Powertrain in Defiance. He and his wife, Christine, have two children: Chloe, 2, and Jake, seven months. law firm of Brouse McDowell, was recognized by Cincinnati Magazine as a 2007 Ohio Super Lawyer: Rising Star, an outstanding lawyer under the age of 40. It’s a designation held by only 5 percent of Ohio lawyers.

Laura M. (Duffy) Crank (A/S ’99, MA ’01) earned her doctorate

in rural sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in May and is a visiting adjunct instructor at Northeastern Illinois University. Her husband, Richard L. Crank Jr. DO (A/S ’00), is an orthopedic surgery resident at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, Ill. They live in Chicago. appointed health commissioner of the Henry County Health Department in Napoleon, where

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Alex J. Gerken (Bus ’00) was promoted to manager of the Business Banking Group at Fifth Third Bank, responsible for commercial accounts in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. He’s been with Fifth Third since 2001.

Hans A. Nilges (A/S ’98, Law ’01), an associate with the Akron

Becky S. (Earlie) Kille (HHS ’99, MPH ’99), Holland, was

she previously had been a health educator, then director of health education and promotion. Dana Lawrence (Bus ’99) was promoted to vice president and chief credit officer of the Union Bank Co. in Fostoria. Kareem Wilson (Eng ’99) was promoted to senior manufacturing engineer with GM Powertrain, Defiance, leading the development and implementation of the Precision Sand Project.

Gerken ’00 Catherine Carrigan MD (MED ’01, Res ’03), a certified

physician nutrition specialist who is board certified in bariatric medicine, is medical director of bariatric medicine at Bariatric Solutions Weight Loss/Surgery Center in Findlay, part of the Blanchard Valley Hospital System.

Andrew Duker MD (MED ’01) joined the Neuroscience

Institute at the University of Cincinnati and University Hospital as assistant professor of neurology. He’s a specialist in Parkinson’s disease.

Kevin Raduege MD (MED ’01), after completing his

Marriages

Amy Aton (NRS ’93, A/S ’94) married Jason Way (Eng ’04) in July. They’ve relocated to Nashville, Tenn., where Jason is an energy engineer for Siemens Corp. and Amy practices as a certified registered nurse anesthetist with Anesthesia Medical Group PC. Joseph G. Adams (UTCTC ’96, Eng ’97, Eng ’99) married Angela M. Pendleton (HHS ’03) in June. He’s a construction administrator with The Collaborative Inc. in Toledo and she’s employed at Spitler, Huffman and Newlove LLP in Bowling Green. Cheryl L. McClintock (Ed ’97, HHSM ’00) married Nicholas Osting in May. They live in Lima, Ohio. Joseph L. Schroeder (Bus ’97) married Kimberly Langhals in July. They live in Glandorf, Ohio. Jason J. Crow (A/S ’98) married Glenda Hall in June. They live in Pensacola, Fla., where Jason works in the business office of the North Florida Surgery Center. Victoria H. Stegura (A/S ’00) married Brent Schantz in April. They live in the Cleveland area, where Victoria is an account exec for AT&T. Mark Mabus MD (Pharm ’01, MED ’05) married Julie Norton (HS ’05) in August. Mark is a family medicine resident physician with Mercy Health Partners in Toledo, and Julie is an occupational therapist with Community Hospitals & Wellness Centers in Montpelier. They live in Holland. Marc A. Shapiro MD (MED ’01, Res ’06) married Jessica Fuhrer in Philadelphia. They live in the www.toledoalumni.org

Cleveland area, where Marc is an oncologist at The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. Allison Tyndall (A/S ’02) married Jason Locke (A/S ’03, Ed ’03) in December, 2006. They live in Chicago, where Jason teaches history at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School and Allison is a full-time staff member and adjunct instructor at DePaul University. Megan A. Chojnacki (HS ’03) married Scott A. Storck MD (MED ’05) in August. They live in Indianapolis, where Megan is a physical therapist for Community Hospital and Scott is completing his ophthalmology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. Melissa L. MacNail (A/S ’03) married Abraham Hoellrich in June. They live in Columbus; Melissa is an intervention specialist with the Mechanicsburg School District. Amy Shumaker (HHSM ’03) married Thomas Wenker MD (MED ’05) in August. They live in Royal Oak, Mich. Amy is a lead physical therapist for an outpatient PT clinic in Troy; Tom is doing his dermatology residency at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. Jenny Smith (Bus ’03) married Brian Gerken in May. They live in Maumee; Jenny is a territory manager for Century Equipment. Laura Cordonnier (Ed ’04) married Nick Daehnke (A/S ’04) in June in Minster, Ohio. Laura is a substitue teacher and Nick is a technical writer. Brent Dippman (A/S ’04) married Shawna Jan (Ed ’05) in July. They’re www.toledoalumni.org

living in the Toledo area. Jennifer Hoegler (A/S ’04, Ed ’04) married Tom Garnes (Eng ’05) in May. They live in Broadview Heights, Ohio, where Jennifer is a math instructor at Cuyahoga Community College and Tom is a software developer for Merge Healthcare. Travis P. Irvan (HHS ’04, HS ’06) married Ann Poulton in July. They live in Columbus; Travis is an epidemiologist for Delaware County.

August. Clayton works for OwensIllinois and Victoria is completing her nursing degree at UT; they live in Maumee. Gerald D. Gehret (Bus ’07) married Meghan Francis in June. He works for Knox Machinery, she’s attending UT. Jill M. Yost PhD (PhD ’07) married Matthew Stuckey in June. They live in Gahanna, Ohio; Jill is an occupational therapist at Edgewood Manor, Westerville.

Births

Irvan ’04, ’06 Manda Jess (HHS ’05) married Jason Nofziger (Eng ’05) in August. They live in Newark, Ohio. Erin N. Kwiatkowski (Ed ’05) married Charles Popovich in June. Erin teaches 7th-grade math at Springfield (Twp., Ohio) Middle School. Elliott Rogers (Eng ’05) married Lacey Rust (Eng ’06) in June. They live in Kenton, Ohio. Kimberly M. Spearing (Ed ’05) married Kent Humrichouser in May. Kimberly works for Stark County (Ohio) Educational Service Center. Carlyn R. Whitmore (Eng ’05) married Michael O’Reilly in June. She’s a civil engineer for Sarasota County, Fla. Eric J. Williams (Bus ’05) married Abigail Devol in August. Clayton W. Converse (Eng ’07) married Victoria Swiatek in

Steve Zuchowski MD (MED ’94) and his wife, Tamara, share news of the birth of their daughter, Liliana. Steve is psychiatry clerkship director at the University of Nevada at Reno, where he also practices forensic psychiatry. Patricia L. Teach MD (MED ’95) and her husband, Brian Miller, welcomed their daughter, Amelia Brianne, in May 2006. She joins big brother, Justin, and the family in Hilliard, Ohio, where Patricia works for Northwest Ob/Gyn Associates Inc. Annette R. (Dieringer) Hendrickson (A/S ’96) and her husband, Michael, announce the birth of their second daughter, Règin Reid, in May. She joins sister, Madelyne, and the family in Smyrna, Ga. Charlotte K. (Tripp) Moss (Pharm ’97) and her husband, Dave, announce the arrival of their first son, Roman Matthew, in April. Charlotte is a staff pharmacist at Giant Pharmacy in Bloomsburg, Pa.

Julie R. (Manrow) (Bus ’97) and Rob A. Thomas (Bus ’98), Toledo, welcomed twin boys, Adam James and Charlie Michael, in August. Iyad (Eng ’99) and Megan (Copp) Fakih (MBA ’00, Pharm ’01), Okemos, Mich., announce the birth of their daughter, Annabelle, in September. Kristina M. (Mellon) Hooper (Ed ’00) and her husband, Rob, announce the birth of their daughter, Ayden Elizabeth, in March. She joins big brother, Blaine, and the family in Hilliard, Ohio. Jennifer (Woycitzky) Malik (Ed ’00) and her husband, Christopher, welcomed their daughter, Helena Joy, into the world in December 2006. They live in North Royalton, Ohio. Laura O. (Kramer) Metz (Ed ’00) and her husband, Tait, had girl/ boy twins in March: Ava Olivia and Owen Alexander. They join 3-year-old brother, Jack, and the family in Findlay. Sara E. (Manion) (Univ Coll ’00, MHHS ’05) and Jason M. Sweet (A/S ’04), Toledo, share the news of their first child, Broderick Michael (“Brode”), born in May.

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Medicine, spent three months in the summer and fall on active duty in the U.S. Army.

Brian W. Schmidt (Univ Coll ’96), Mansfield, director of sales

for Schmidt Security Pro, was named to the Board of Directors of the Ohio Electronic Life Safety & Security Association.

Rodney Theis (UTCTC ’96, Univ Coll ’98) was promoted to

lieutenant in the UT Police Department in April.

Steven Zieber MD (A/S ’96, MED ’00) is a radiologist serving

with the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. He and his wife, Lori, have three children: Regan, Elise and Ross. E-mail: slzieber@cox.net.

Amy E. Campbell (A/S ’97)

Justin M. Croniser (A/S ’97)

joined the law firm of Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP, which has offices in Ohio and Florida, as an associate in the Cleveland office.

Beth Besecker MD (A/S ’98, MED ’01) joined the Division of

Clancy ’98 Dee Haman (Univ Coll ’98, HS ’00) and her husband, Steve P. Haman MD (MED ’00, Res ’06) are living in Lima, where

Laura M. (Duffy) Crank (A/S ’99, MA ’01) earned her doctorate

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Hans A. Nilges (A/S ’98, Law ’01), an associate with the Akron

Becky S. (Earlie) Kille (HHS ’99, MPH ’99), Holland, was

Gerken ’00 Catherine Carrigan MD (MED ’01, Res ’03), a certified

Andrew Duker MD (MED ’01) joined the Neuroscience

Institute at the University of Cincinnati and University Hospital as assistant professor of neurology. He’s a specialist in Parkinson’s disease.

Kevin Raduege MD (MED ’01), after completing his

Marriages

Births

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Four-engine Rockets. Spring

commencement was a UT family affair for the Schafer family of Fort Loramie, Ohio. Left to right are Kara M. Schafer MD (A/S ’03), Kristen M. Schafer (HS ’07), father Randy S. Schafer (Ed ’75) and Kelly R. Schafer Rindler (Bus ’99). Though mom Kathleen J. Schafer isn’t an alum, she writes, “The University of Toledo has been a great experience for our entire family. We all enjoy functions at the University and continue to support the Rockets.” Their license plate, incidentally, reads “UT X 4.”

residency and a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is working on the staff of St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, doing cardiothoracic anesthesiology.

Abdi Tinwalla MD (MED ’01), following his residency at

Rush University and a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Rochester, is working for the state of Illinois, treating sex offenders under the Illinois Act, as well as practicing in the Cook County Jail and the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.

doctorate in clinical psychology at Xavier University and her internship at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and took a postdoctoral position at the University of Cincinnati’s Central Clinic and at a private practice in neighboring Mariemont. Dan D. Silvers (Bus ’02), a client executive with Brooks Insurance, Toledo, was named Outstanding Young Alumnus with UT’s College of Business Administration in October.

Meredith Blaine (A/S ’02, MEd ’05) joined the Division of

Student Affairs at Eastern Michigan University as assistant director of student judicial services. She and her husband, Tom (Eng ’03), a process engineer with Anderson Development Co. in Adrian, Mich., are back in the area after living in Baton Rouge, La., where Meredith was a financial aid counselor at Louisiana State University.

Stephanie V. (Sabyan) Ridel PhD (A/S ’02) completed her

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Silvers ’02 Stephen L. Thompson (MEd ’02) was named superintendent of Chagrin Falls (Ohio) Schools in June. Dwight Fertig (MEd ’03) was named principal of the new Fort

Miami Elementary School in Maumee.

William S. Nunemaker (Bus ’03) is senior mortgage consultant with Wyndham Capital Mortgage Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., where he lives with his wife, Tyler (Smith); they married in June.

Kori A. Bagrowski (Law ’04, MS ’05) joined the Washington,

D.C., office of law firm Fish & Richardson as an associate in its litigation group.

Angie (Davis) Kohler (A/S ’04), who works for Erie Huron

Ottawa County Education Service Center, serves the Willard (Ohio) City School District as high school psychologist.

Michael S. McCartney MD (MED ’04) completed his family

medicine residency at the University of Michigan and began a fellowship in sports medicine at Ohio State University.

Jason M. Winterhalter MD (MED ’04), after completing his

residency in family practice at Columbus’ Riverside Methodist Hospital, joined Cherry Westgate Family Practice in Newark.

Brent M. Schlegel (Bus ’05)

was elected executive vice president of the Toledo chapter of APICS, the Association for Operations Management. David Stieber (Ed ’05), having finished his second year of teaching English in France, accepted a position in Chicago Public Schools as a 9th-grade teacher in language arts and social studies. Mary A. Wasserman (Ed ’05), Toledo, is teaching in area schools and was promoted to job coaching.

Wasserman ’05 Erin Dahlinghaus MD (MED ’06), in the second year of her

residency at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children near Washington, D.C., took part in a weeklong medical mission to Honduras in June. Brice S. Fries (Bus ’06) joined Payne, Nickles & Co. as a staff accountant in the company’s Sandusky office.

Shannon M. Buck (Univ Coll ’07) was hired as director of marketing and admissions at Darlington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Toledo.

Christy A. Prince (Law ’07)

joined the Columbus law offices of Kegler, Brown, Hill and Ritter as an associate focusing on employment law.

Band of brothers. A salute to siblings Capt. Christopher (A/S ’04) and 2nd Lt. Patrick (A/S ’07) McComb. In the fall, Christopher (a Bronze Star recipient) was serving his second tour of duty in Iraq with 1-71 CAV, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), and Patrick was being trained in Military Intelligence. Both are distinguished graduates of Airborne School, Fort Benning, Ga.

Whiskey and Tonic Midnight Ink, 2007 Nina Wright (Univ Coll ’79, MEd ’83, MA ’88)

his reader bellies up to the bar for the third installment in the Whiskey Mattimoe series and leaves with a happy buzz. It’s the annual Miss Blossom pageant in Magnet Springs, but instead of a local beauty stealing the crown, it’s Whiskey’s dog, Abra. Soon after, the former Miss Blossom is found dead and the current winner is hospitalized. It’s up to Whiskey and her friends to track down the missing dog and discover who has it in for the Miss Blossoms. Wright’s humorous and quirky style is entertaining. This series and its characters seem to grow better with age, just like whiskey. — Deanna Woolf ’05

The Two-Minute Drill: Lessons for Rapid Organizational Improvement Jossey-Bass, 2007 Clinton O. Longenecker PhD (Bus ’77, MBA ’78) and Timothy C. Stansfield PhD (MBA ’88, PhD ’97, MA ’05) (co-authors)

s a former quarterback and now a manager, I found the analogies right on. While most people have never played quarterback in football, they have been involved in something that they needed to achieve in a very short period of time. In a two-minute drill, there is the constant adjusting to the changing circumstances all around. The authors clearly relate the business leadership and the activity that happens for a quarterback in a two-minute drill into an understandable relationship. Well done. — Chuck Ealey ’72

2nd Humorous Beat – Actual Funny Police Stories Plain Text, 2007 Bob Morrissey (Ed ’76)

here is a certain, crude cadence in the language of the street. Officer Morrissey uses it, wisely but unvarnished, to illuminate these stories drawn from his more than 30 years as a street cop. Morrissey’s stories are a collection of studies in human nature — sometimes funny, periodically nearly unbelievable, tragic and even touching, but the underlying message is one of learning to cope. While today’s popular police TV programs and movies whirl around fast chases and slick, rich crooks, Morrissey’s straightforward story-telling style convinces the reader that these stories reflect the coarse reality of police work. As with his first collection of Humorous Beat stories, these anecdotes demonstrate how reality sometimes seems too farfetched to make good fiction. — Jim Nowak ’78

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Four-engine Rockets. Spring

residency and a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is working on the staff of St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, doing cardiothoracic anesthesiology.

Abdi Tinwalla MD (MED ’01), following his residency at

Meredith Blaine (A/S ’02, MEd ’05) joined the Division of

Stephanie V. (Sabyan) Ridel PhD (A/S ’02) completed her

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Silvers ’02 Stephen L. Thompson (MEd ’02) was named superintendent of Chagrin Falls (Ohio) Schools in June. Dwight Fertig (MEd ’03) was named principal of the new Fort

Miami Elementary School in Maumee.

William S. Nunemaker (Bus ’03) is senior mortgage consultant with Wyndham Capital Mortgage Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., where he lives with his wife, Tyler (Smith); they married in June.

Kori A. Bagrowski (Law ’04, MS ’05) joined the Washington,

D.C., office of law firm Fish & Richardson as an associate in its litigation group.

Angie (Davis) Kohler (A/S ’04), who works for Erie Huron

Ottawa County Education Service Center, serves the Willard (Ohio) City School District as high school psychologist.

Michael S. McCartney MD (MED ’04) completed his family

medicine residency at the University of Michigan and began a fellowship in sports medicine at Ohio State University.

Jason M. Winterhalter MD (MED ’04), after completing his

residency in family practice at Columbus’ Riverside Methodist Hospital, joined Cherry Westgate Family Practice in Newark.

Brent M. Schlegel (Bus ’05)

Wasserman ’05 Erin Dahlinghaus MD (MED ’06), in the second year of her

Shannon M. Buck (Univ Coll ’07) was hired as director of marketing and admissions at Darlington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Toledo.

Christy A. Prince (Law ’07)

joined the Columbus law offices of Kegler, Brown, Hill and Ritter as an associate focusing on employment law.

Whiskey and Tonic Midnight Ink, 2007 Nina Wright (Univ Coll ’79, MEd ’83, MA ’88)

2nd Humorous Beat – Actual Funny Police Stories Plain Text, 2007 Bob Morrissey (Ed ’76)

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’20s

Dorothy Geiger (Ed ’25), Toledo, June 15 at 106.

’30s

Josephine (Hauman) Merickel (Ed ’31), Galveston, Texas, July 21 at 96. Pi Beta Phi member and president of Women’s Athletic Association, receiving Varsity T Award. Dorothy J. (Miller) Duvendack (Ed ’32), Toledo, Oct. 20 at 97. Student president of Psi Chi Phi (Delta Delta Delta), Women’s Athletic Association and InterSorority Council. Imogene (Underwood) Seeger (Ed ’34), Toledo, Aug. 27 at 95. *Frances L. (Lanker) Simon (Ed ’34, MEd ’62), Toledo, Oct. 4 at 94. A Delta Kappa Gamma, Kappa Delta member, she was as a student elected president of the Women’s Athletic Association. *Ruth N.L. Allen (Ed ’35), Laguna Hills, Calif., Sept. 20 at 93. Delta Kappa Gamma, Samagama President’s Club member. Elaine (Taylor) Willinger, Maumee, att. 1936-1939, Sept. 27 at 89. Lt. Col. Robert J. Byrne, Cheyenne, Wyo., att. 1939-1941, Sept. 2 at 86.

’40s

John “Jack” O. Evans, Sylvania, att. 1940s, July 6 at 82. *Richard W. Breck MD (A/S ’40), Wallingford, Conn., July 30 at 89. **Clifford H. Hanf (Bus ’40), Toledo, Sept. 12 at 90. *Nelle L. (Sipe) Larson (Ed ’40), Toledo, Sept. 10 at 88. Alpha Delta Kappa member. Robert G. Snyder, Toledo, att. 1940s-1950s, June 11 at 81. Edwin A. Alexander (Eng ’41), Toledo, Oct. 20 at 89. Paul M. McLaughlin (Eng ’41), Toledo, Aug. 7 at 88. **Dorothy J. (Andrews) Whitehead (UTCTC ’41), West Chester, Pa., Oct. 2 at 88. Howard V. Ferguson (Pharm ’42), Canton, Ohio, June 18 at 89. **Frank J. Bartell (Bus ’43), Holland, Oct. 10 at 86. Emma A. Kubli (A/S ’43), Montague, Calif. Ralph K. McBee (Eng ’43), Toledo, July 5 at 86. Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu member. Suzanne M. Moan (Ed ’43), Toledo, June 15 at 85. Psi Chi Phi member.

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Betty Leu (Pollauf) Crawford, Ida, Mich., att. 1940s-1960s, Aug. 24 at 79. Roger P. King (Eng ’46), Waterville, June 20 at 83. Doris M. (Hansen) Kopfman (Ed ’46), Toledo, June 30 at 81. **Frank L. Baird (A/S ’47, Law ’50), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., July 24 at 84. Glenn Metzger, Waterville, att. 1947-1952, July 4 at 77. *Anthony G. Pizza (A/S ’47, Law ’50), Holland, June 19 at 85. A member of Sigma Beta Phi and the Varsity T Club, he founded a scholarship in his name at the College of Law. Peter J. Toth, Northwood, att. 1947-1951, July 1 at 86. Mary M. (Mahoney) Hawkins (A/S ’48, Ed ’51), Naples, Fla., June 26 at 81. Robert C. Knisely Sr. (Eng ’48), Sylvania, Aug. 5 at 82. Tau Beta Pi member. **Patricia A. (Durling) Meeker (Bus ’48), Holland, Aug. 1 at 80. *Norman J. Steusloff (Pharm ’48), Jackson, Mich., July 29 at 85. Phi Kappa Chi member. *Elizabeth (Douglas) (Bleckner) Wagner DE (Ed ’49, Ed Spec ’74, DE ’81), Waterville, Aug. 21 at 79.

’50s

Maybern E. “Red” Mathews (Bus ’50), Sylvania Twp., Aug. 10 at 82. Martin L. Ferguson Jr. (Eng ’51), Canton, Ohio, July 24 at 93. John F. Love Sr., Toledo, att. 1951-1953, Sept. 1 at 84. *Franklin ”Jim” Payne (Eng ’51, MEng ’58), Los Alamitos, Calif., Sept. 13 at 81. Thomas K. Coulter (Eng ’52), Englewood, Fla., Feb. 8, 2007 at 77. Sally A. (Watson) Crocker (Ed ’52), Waterville, Sept. 27 at 77. Pi Beta Phi member. Richard Gerst (Bus ’52), Temperance, Mich., July 17 at 76. Russell D. Sackman, Toledo, att. 1952-1954, June 17. Daniel R. Droz (Ed ’53, MEd ’64), Monroe, Mich., Sept. 23 at 76. Shirley J. Judy (Ed ’53 MEd ’74), Toledo, July 5 at 75. Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Delta Pi member. Willard F. Schmidt, Beaumont, Calif., att. 1950s, Sept. 17 at 73. Phi Kappa Psi member. Scott C. Roberson (A/S ’57, MEd ’84), Toledo, Sept. 2 at 73. As a graduate assistant, he taught electronics at the former UT Community and Technical

College. Michael W. Goode, Toledo, att. 1958-1964, Oct. 2 at 66. Wilma M. Taylor, Denver, att. 1958-1961, June 7 at 66. Delta Sigma Theta member. Donald B. Gore (MEng ’59), Swanton, Sept. 23 at 81. **Harriet E. (Coy) Koch (Ed ’59), Toledo, Sept. 8 at 87. James T. Rowan (Bus ’59), Burbank, Calif., July 16 at 72.

’60s

Ronald E. “Inky” Davis (Bus ’60), Middleton Twp., Ohio, July 21 at 73. **John A. Maraldo (Eng ’60), Detroit, July 9 at 69. Sandra (Free) Robeson (Ed ’60), Toledo, Oct. 18 at 69. Donald R. Shanteau (Bus ’60), Holland, Aug. 16 at 75. Alpha Sigma Phi member. **Wolfgang W. Bode (Eng ’61), Sylvania, Aug. 27 at 79. Joe Damrauer (Ed ’61), Waterville, June 13 at 68. UT tennis team member. James W. Haden (Bus ’62), La Grange, Calif., Jan. 21, 2007 at 72. Alpha Sigma Phi member. *Tom A. Kelly (Bus ’62), Toledo, Aug. 18 at 67. A member of the UT basketball team, he lettered in UT baseball 1959-1962. Varsity T Club member. Terry G. Semones (Ed ’62, MEd ’67), Monroe, Mich., July 18 at 68. George W. “Bill” Nicholson (Bus ’64), Toledo, Oct. 11 at 67. Sigma Alpha Epsilon member. Sharon J. (Heshley) Heuschele PhD (Ed ’65, MEd ’69, PhD ’72), Toledo, July 28 at 71. Raymond L. Huffman (MEd ’65), Maumee, June 20 at 79. Frederick W. Felzer (Bus ’66), Toledo, June 20 at 74. Joseph F. Straka (Bus ’66, MEd ’81), Toledo, July 24 at 63. UT baseball player. Kathryn E. (Miley) Rinderknecht (MA ’67), Upper Sandusky, July 7 at 89. Steven C. Trabbic (Bus ’68), Upper Marlboro, Md., Oct. 10 at 62. George R. Bullock (MEd ’69), Sun City Center, Fla., June 16 at 75. Richard J. Diehn (UTCTC ’69), Toledo, Sept. 18 at 89. Thomas J. Herbert, Toledo, att. 1960s-1970s, July 21 at 55. Wilma J. (Heuerman) Wallington, Holland, att. 1969-1975, July 28 at 72.

’70s

Frederick M. Brown (MEd ’70, Ed Spec ’86), Toledo, July 11 at 73. Joyce A. (Cochran) Snyder (Ed ’70), Toledo, Aug. 22 at 73. Roger L. Steiner, Maumee, att. 1970-1972, June 30 at 55. David T. Buchanan, San Luis Obispo, Calif., att. 1971-1975, July 12 at 53. Robert J. Burton (UTCTC ’71, Univ Coll ’79, MBA ’83), Sylvania, Aug. 25 at 57. Ann. L. (Taylor) (Koback) Hart (UTCTC ’71), Charleston, W.V., Oct. 4 at 69. Gale J. Shindeldecker (Ed ’71), Jenera, Ohio, Sept. 29 at 83. Theodore Gersz (Law ’72), Toledo, Aug. 26 at 61. Mary Beth (Mougey) Gunzenhaeuser (Ed ’73), Cincinnati, July 7 at 55. Jerry Keane (Bus ’73), Mission Viejo, Calif., July 2 at 59. Dennis J. Blank (A/S ’74), Toledo, June 24 at 55. Suzanne M. Goss, Sylvania, att. 1974-1976, Oct. 8 at 61. William M. Keran (Ed ’74, MEd ’84), Sylvania, Aug. 3 at 60. Michael D. Reed Sr. (Bus ’74, Law ’78), Sylvania, July 30 at 61. Nicolette (Stober) Capezzuto (Univ Coll ’75), Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 24 at 57. Warren T. Felber, Catawba Island, Ohio, att. 1976-1978, June 22 at 52. James R. Sieren (UTCTC ’78), Toledo, Sept. 30 at 59.

’80s

Helen C. Kahl RN (MEd ’80), Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 10 at 82. *Karl E. Miller MD (MED ’80), Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 21 at 52. Professor of family medicine at the University of Tennessee. Lynn B. (Hurst) Rupp (Ed ’80, Law ’84), Toledo, July 8 at 66. Raspal S. Bhumbra MD (Res ’82), Toledo, Oct. 14 at 62. Jeffrey M. VanKirk (Eng ’85), Petersburg, Mich., Sept. 3 at 45. John G. McDonagh (Bus ’87), Maumee, July 17 at 54. John A. Resch, Sylvania, att. 1980s-1990s, Aug. 3 at 38.

’90s

Kenneth E. Jones Jr., Toledo, att. 1991-1994, July 29 at 34. Kerry A. Thornsberry, Maumee, att. 1991-1997, Aug. 14 at 34. Kent M. Brown, Toledo, att. 1992-2000, Oct. 16 at 34. www.toledoalumni.org

Karen S. (Born) Lockwood (Ed ’93), Britton, Mich., July 12 at 50. Charles E. Haynes (UTCTC ’94), Toledo, July 21 at 55. Thomas H. Cowles (Univ Coll ’95, A/S ’95), Toledo, Sept. 27 at 58. Richard Creque (Bus ’95, MBA ’99), Maumee, Sept. 6 at 46. **William C. Outland (Univ Coll ’97), Toledo, July 31 at 68. An enthusiastic volunteer for many alumni events, he also served on the University College Alumni Affiliate Steering Committee. Paul T. “Tom” Tresize (Univ Coll ’97), Sylvania, Sept 8 at 61. Karen D. Knight-Graves (UTCTC ’99), Jackson, Miss., Sept. 2 at 42.

’00s

Sandra L. Nelson-Tolnai (HHS ’01), Toledo, Sept. 10 at 41. *Dennis “Dewey” R. Iffland (MEd ’04), Williston, Ohio, June 29 at 38. Theta Xi member. Christian J. Walton (Univ Coll ’04), Sheffield Lake, Ohio, July 8 at 37. Taurean A. Ross (Univ CollA ’06), Cleveland, July 7 at 24. Timothy S. Allison, Troy, Ohio, a senior pursuing an individualized programs degree in University College, Aug. 1 at 20.

Faculty, Staff & Friends

Fernando Arias MD, PhD, Maumee, died Aug. 7 at 73. He had been a professor of obstetrics & gynecology in the College of Medicine since 2004. Marian L. Baidel, Toledo, died Aug. 14 at 62. She was a secretary in the former Community and Technical College from 1967 to 1969 and in the College of Business Administration from 1973 to 1979. William K. Bottorff PhD, Toledo, professor in the Department of English from 1968 to 1992, died Oct. 15 at 76. A much-published creative writer of poems and short stories, he served as director of the American Studies Program and as adviser for undergraduate writing majors. He retired as professor emeritus. Helen A. Brimacombe, Toledo, an account clerk in the Alumni Relations Office from 1980 to 1984, died Oct. 11 at 89. She attended UT from 1936 to 1941. James P. Byers PhD (MEng ’90, PhD ’94), Toledo, UT associate professor of pharmacology, died www.toledoalumni.org

Sept. 27 at 46. He joined UT’s College of Pharmacy in 1999. As a student, Byers worked with Ron Fournier PhD, UT professor of bioengineering, on two University patents related to turning biomass into fuels. Mamie J. Calhoun, Toledo, died Sept. 27 at 70. She joined the former MCO as a custodial worker in 1994, retiring in 2006. Donald B. Campbell MD, Toledo, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the former MCO/MUO from 1988 to 2006, died Sept. 21 at 71. Margie Ceravolo, Toledo, a Main Campus cafeteria worker for more than 20 years, died Sept. 15 77. James G. Coss (A/S ’98, MA ’03), Toledo, died July 4 at 41. Named the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Student in 1998, he joined UT in 2002 as a research technician in the Department of Geography and Planning, where he also worked as a teaching assistant while finishing his master’s degree. In 2005, he joined the Lake Erie Center as communications coordinator. John “Jack” Dyer, Sylvania, former instructor in the Department of Communications, died Oct. 12 at 79. Joe P. Elmers (A/S ’68), Millbury, Ohio, assistant professor of engineering technology, died Aug. 14 at 64. He was a parttime instructor before joining the faculty full time in 1983. Diane I. Fonseca, Toledo, a custodial worker for the former MCO from 1984 to 1992, died June 21 at 43. George B. Gilmore PhD, Sylvania, professor emeritus of exercise science and physical education, died Aug. 18 at 80. He joined the faculty in 1966, becoming an associate professor in 1977. Gilmore helped develop UT’s National Youth Sports Program and served as adviser for the Gymnastics and Tumbling Club and the Badminton Club. Verna L. Glick, Toledo, who worked as a clerk and assistant at UT’s library from 1963 to 1981, died Sept. 22 at 90. Betty Gorman, Toledo, a member of the UT Medical Center’s Satellites Auxiliary Group, died June 17 at 71. Ray L. Huffman (Ed ’61, MEd ’65), Maumee, professor emeritus of technical science and mathematics,

died June 20 at 79. He joined the faculty of the former Community and Technical College in 1964, then the Technical Science and Mathematics Department in 1978. The first faculty member from UTCTC to serve as chair of the Faculty Senate, he retired in 1986. Charles H. Klippel MD, Paxton, Mass., died Oct. 11 at 87. He was a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the former MCO from 1971 to 1987, subsequently volunteering in the Department of Surgery as a clinical professor for 10 years. Franklin (Bud) R. Koontz Jr. PhD (PhD ’91), Toledo, died Aug. 27 at 68. His first UT position was in 1968 as instructor in theatre and speech, and producer/director with University Television. In 1978, he was named associate director of University Television Services, then in 1980 joined the former College of Education and Allied Professions as professor of technological media. He retired in 2004 as professor of educational technology. Rev. Mike Madden, Toledo, a chaplain at the former MCO, died Aug. 13 at 70. Lawrence J. Miller, Oregon, who taught many UT students in sculpture classes at the Toledo Museum of Art, died Sept. 6 at age 68. Alice L. Mills, Perrysburg, died Sept. 30 at 84. She worked as a clerk, then a secretary, in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1965 to 1969 and returned to UT as a typist from 1981 to 1986 in the College of Education. Janet I. Navarre, Toledo, who volunteered in the Pastoral Care Office at the University Medical Center for seven years, died Sept. 8 at 74. C. Joseph Sass Jr. (Bus ’64, MBA ’69), Toledo, who taught in the College of Business Administration 28 years, died Oct. 13 at 66. He joined UT in 1969 as an adjunct assistant professor of operations analysis, and after several promotions became professor in 1988, in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. He served as department chair and wrote several computer language textbooks. He retired from UT in 1997 as professor emeritus. Jason Sheehan MD, a secondyear radiology resident at the UT

Medical Center, died July 15 at 32. The native of Windsor, Ontario, earned a doctor of medicine degree in 2003 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. William J. Sheehan, Glen Ellyn, Ill., who served as executive in residence at UT’s College of Business Administration from 1985 to 1990, died Oct. 17 at 87. Gerald P. Sherman PhD, Charleston, S.C., a faculty member in the UT College of Pharmacy for 29 years, died July 12 at 67. He came to UT as an associate professor of pharmacology in 1978 and played an integral role in the development of the Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences Program and served as director of undergraduate studies in the College of Pharmacy, as well as chair of the Pharmacology Department. He retired in 2007 as professor emeritus. Phillip A. Sinclair, Holland, Ohio, professor emeritus of business technologies, died Sept. 5 at 93. He joined the UT faculty of the former Community and Technical College in 1967. A pioneer in the development of instructional television, he received UT’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 1973 and was among faculty selected by the People’s Republic of China to participate in its 1982 scientific exchange program. He retired in 1984. *John W. Smotherman, Maumee, a longtime financial supporter of Rockets Athletics, died July 24 at 68. Always to be found at UT sporting events, he was a member of the Rocket Club. **Wilma (Heuerman) Wallington, Holland, att. 1969-1976, a part-time assistant clerk in the Registrar’s Office from 1993 to 2002, died July 28 at 72. * Member of the UT Alumni Association ** Lifetime member

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in memoriam

’20s

Dorothy Geiger (Ed ’25), Toledo, June 15 at 106.

’30s

’40s

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in memoriam

’50s

’60s

’70s

’80s

’90s

Kenneth E. Jones Jr., Toledo, att. 1991-1994, July 29 at 34. Kerry A. Thornsberry, Maumee, att. 1991-1997, Aug. 14 at 34. Kent M. Brown, Toledo, att. 1992-2000, Oct. 16 at 34. www.toledoalumni.org

’00s

Faculty, Staff & Friends

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Lens, life, lyric We’ve got the seasons covered!

Rimy April trills — billows — Blows

Lowering

Tornado —

Hey!

It’s May Bee-buzzing in breezy grass

Columbia Cathedral Peak vest in charcoal heather; Adidas ClimaWarm microfleece half-zip jacket.

Asters, valley lilies, darling buds etc. Under a gibbous moonJunehighnoon view

For full descriptions of the complete UT line, visit www.university-promotions.com

Parched July

Dust and

August of furnace air shaken,

slightly stirred

September breeze, cover knees

To wallow in October gusto: Crayola foliage, nose bouquet, supermarket pumpkins, holidays loom, shop, cook, brood coming home to roost, too soon, no room! Oh for a pause from mounds, duty, assumptions, January and nothing done but runrunrun, caught the flu feeling ill looking out the window — Chill.

Photo by Daniel Miller

— C.N.

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www.toledoalumni.org

Lens, life, lyric We’ve got the seasons covered!

Rimy April trills — billows — Blows

Lowering

Tornado —

Hey!

It’s May Bee-buzzing in breezy grass

Columbia Cathedral Peak vest in charcoal heather; Adidas ClimaWarm microfleece half-zip jacket.

Asters, valley lilies, darling buds etc. Under a gibbous moonJunehighnoon view

For full descriptions of the complete UT line, visit www.university-promotions.com

Parched July

Dust and

August of furnace air shaken,

slightly stirred

September breeze, cover knees

Photo by Daniel Miller

— C.N.

And we’re already stocking great spring merchandise, too! 52

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www.toledoalumni.org

For Tickets call 419.530.GOLD www.utrockets.com

2007-08 toledo BASKETBALL schedule women’s

Men’s DAY

DATE

OPPONENT

LOCATION

TIME

Sun. Sun. Wed. Sat. Tues. Sat. Wed. Sat. Wed. Sun. Wed. Sun. Wed. Sat. Sat. Tues. Sun. Wed.

Jan. 6 Jan. 13 Jan. 16 Jan. 19 Jan. 22 Jan. 26 Jan. 30 Feb. 2 Feb. 6 Feb. 10 Feb. 13 Feb. 17 Feb. 20 Feb. 23 Mar. 1 Mar. 4 Mar. 9 Mar. 12-15

BALL STATE* at Northern Illinois* CENTRAL MICHIGAN* at Western Michigan* at Eastern Michigan* BUFFALO* (DH) at Akron* KENT STATE* (DH) at Miami* at Bowling Green* OHIO* at Ball State* NORTHERN ILLINOIS* BracketBuster Game WESTERN MICHIGAN* EASTERN MICHIGAN* at Central Michigan* MAC Tournament

SAVAGE HALL 2:00 p.m. DeKalb, IL 2:00 p.m. (CT) SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo, MI 2:00 p.m. Ypsilanti, MI 7:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. Akron, OH 7:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL NOON Oxford, OH TBA Bowling Green, OH 2:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. Muncie, IN 2:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL TBA SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. SAVAGE HALL 7:00 p.m. Mt. Pleasant, MI 2:00 p.m. Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loans Arena)

DAY

DATE

OPPONENT

LOCATION

Fri. Jan. 4 at Memphis Memphis, TN Wed. Jan. 9 CENTRAL MICHIGAN* SAVAGE HALL Sat. Jan. 12 at Eastern Michigan* Ypsilanti, MI Tues. Jan. 15 WESTERN MICHIGAN* SAVAGE HALL Sat. Jan. 19 BALL STATE* SAVAGE HALL Wed. Jan. 23 at Northern Illinois* DeKalb, IL Sat. Jan. 26 AKRON* (DH) SAVAGE HALL Wed. Jan. 30 at Kent State* Kent, OH Sat. Feb. 2 BOWLING GREEN* (DH) SAVAGE HALL Sat. Feb. 9 at Buffalo* Buffalo, NY Wed. Feb. 13 at Ohio* Athens, OH Sat. Feb. 16 MIAMI* SAVAGE HALL Tues. Feb. 19 at Ball State* Muncie, IN Sat. Feb. 23 NORTHERN ILLINOIS* SAVAGE HALL Wed. Feb. 27 EASTERN MICHIGAN* SAVAGE HALL Sat. Mar. 1 at Central Michigan* Mount Pleasant, MI Wed. Mar. 5 at Western Michigan* Kalamazoo, MI Sun.-Sat. Mar. 9-15 MAC Tournament Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loan Arena) Home games in gold ALL TIMES LISTED ARE SITE TIMES Schedule subject to change * Mid-American Conference Game Listen to the Rockets on WSPD 1370 AM (Men’s) and WCWA 1230 AM (Women’s) (DH) doubleheader - one ticket good for both the men’s & women’s games

Driscoll Alumni Center 2801 W. Bancroft St. Toledo, Ohio 43606-3395

TIME 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. TBA 7:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.