Tina Payne ’94 received the President’s Award for Health and Life Sciences Global Business from Battelle Memorial Institute in April as part of their annual Achievement Awards ceremony held at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, OH. The award recognizes her outstanding contribution to a global business unit or corporate function. Rayna Moellendick ’95 is a project manager of real estate for Bath and Body Works. She is also completing her first term as a township trustee in Fairfield County/Pleasant Township, OH. reunion year Homecoming 2012
Veronica Knox ’97 has been promoted to clinical project manager in the cardiovascular
Nikki Davis Dunbar ’99 completed her master’s degree in social work at The Ohio State University and is currently working as an individual therapist
at CCI, Inc. in Marysville, OH and as a post-adoption therapist at the United Methodist Children’s Home in Worthington, OH.
Melinda S. Phinney, MD ’85 has established the Melinda S. Phinney Fund for Pre-Medical Experiences for Students. The daughter of former longtime professor Dr. George Phinney and Donnalea Phinney ’75, Mindy created the fund to assist students seeking clinical premedical experiences.
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and metabolic therapeutic delivery unit at Quintiles Transnational located in Durham, NC. With more than 22,000 employees in 60 countries, Quintiles is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical services provider offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions.
Kim Aikens ’99 is a financial analyst in commercial operations at Abbott Nutrition in Columbus, OH. She provides analytical support for pricing strategy decisions for a sales force who then negotiates with nursing homes, home-health agencies and hospitals in the northeast region of the country. Aikens also serves as a career coach and teaches classes in Microsoft Excel at the Vineyard Church in Columbus.
Scott Lacy ’93 – English
“African Sky” is the Limit for this Volunteer in Mali when he’s not teaching. His organization has supported hundreds of projects, including a mothers and daughters summit held last January. “We held this conference not to teach them things, but so they could teach each other and teach us ways that we can better support rural women who are trying to improve their lives and their children’s lives. It was a raging success.” His biggest project yet is the new “10 Schools 1000 Lives,” which is raising money to build ten schools. “We have a new plan for building schools, which is much more sustainable,” he noted. A recipient of Otterbein’s inaugural 2011 Young Alumni Award for Global and Intercultural Engagement, Lacy said, “I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I have two countries, two communities, that I fell in love with — two lives that I wouldn’t trade for anything.” O tte r b e in To w e r s | Fa ll 2 011 |
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Scott Lacy ’93 started African Sky, a nonprofit organization serving farm families in Mali, to pay off a debt. Two trips to Mali, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, then later as a researcher completing a doctorate degree in anthropology, left him feeling that “no matter what I was giving to them, I was still getting more in return. I went to help and they helped me more than I did them. I’m indebted.” A Browns fan, Lacy had started a fan club in Mali — Bougouni Browns Backers — and taught the local children how to play football. To raise funds for the local school, his sister designed a special Browns Backers T-shirt, which they sold in the United States. In three months, they had made $10,000. “With all this money, we had the opportunity to do more,” he noted. “Rather than putting in a pump, we built a new school. Within six months of selling shirts, my family and I were witnessing the groundbreaking of the first school.” With that success in mind, Lacy created African Sky in 2004. Since then, the organization has raised $250,000. “We have no employees, no office, no salaries — just volunteerism. It’s really remarkable.” An English major at Otterbein and now an assistant professor of anthropology at Fairfield University in Connecticut, Lacy resides