2005 Fall Edition

Toledo The University of

FALL 2005

ALUMNI MAGAZINE

A season of sin

contents

fore words

Fall 2005 | Volume 53, Number 1

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s our Alumni Association continues to improve its outreach, I’d like to thank my predecessors, past presidents, board members and staff for how far the organization has traveled. You can take pride in the current calendar of 144 events, including 63 chapter events across the country. That’s up from a total of 112 events last year and more than double the 63 functions that were held two years ago. Our new free state-of-the-art online alumni directory allows our graduates to stay in touch with friends and former classmates, to post job openings and resumes, register for events and even sign up to be a student mentor. In the first 45 days, more than 1,000 alumni registered to use the system — and the Alumni Association added more than 700 new members, with a total now topping 13,000.

Our alumni demographics are changing. More and more of our students are coming to our beautiful campus from outside the Toledo area and returning home after graduation, while many others are taking their knowledge and skills around the world, distributing our brand. Although our commitment to our local alumni base will never change, we will broaden our alumni outreach. Therefore, I’ve asked Alumni Association board members to travel, at their own expense, to visit with groups outside Ohio.

State budget constraints are having a serious impact on the association’s finances. The organization has been very fiscally responsible and continues to do more with less. One area of notable growth is the college affiliates, which receive support from Alumni Association membership dues.

Another area of growth has been in scholarships, 27 of which are awarded annually through the Alumni Association and its affiliates. While this number has almost doubled in two years, we haven’t been able to keep up with requests. To address this, I’m asking our alumni to increase the number and dollar amount of our scholarships, which average $1,000.

Another goal is increasing our engagement with students via the Student Alumni Association, which now has more than 600 dues-paying members.

Because of the outstanding cooperation between your Alumni Association and the UT Office of Development, we have been able to move the University and its mission forward. I ask all our graduates to join in this effort as we make our alma mater and its Alumni Association all that they can be. I’m looking forward to seeing you in the coming year.

Birdel F. Jackson III P.E. ’68 President

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

EDITOR

PRESIDENT

Vicki Kroll ’88

Birdel F. Jackson ’68

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Brian DeBenedictis Deanna Woolf ’05

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

DESIGNER

SECRETARY

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Walter “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

TREASURER

Constance D. Zouhary ’81

PAST PRESIDENT

Theodore T. Hahn ’65, ’67

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

ONE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Jon R. Dvorak M.D. ’80 Marc D. Folk* ’98 Lynn Hutt ’95 Jay Pearson** ’91 Stacey Scharf* ’89, ’98 Robert J. Schlembach ’49 Janet Schroeder ’89 Suzanne Wambold PhD, RN, RDC* ’85, ’91, ’02

TWO-YEAR TRUSTEES

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

THREE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Janet Eppard ’83 Patrick J. Flynn ’93, ’98 George E. Robinson II ’02 Mark A. Urrutia ’88

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Meghan Fox (appointed by Student Alumni Association) *Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Barbara Berebitsky ’91

James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79

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Meredith Thiede Terry Fell Bill Hartough Dan Miller ’99

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

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

DIRECTOR, ALUMNI PROGRAMMING Eric Slough ’95

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Ansley Abrams ’92 Renee Elliott ’96

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OUTREACH COORDINATOR Brian Weinblatt ’02, ’04

Recent Awards Communicator Awards — Award of Distinction for writing; Honorable Mention for design 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 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

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14

cover story Stage of life

features Rocketeers Erin’s daughters

other

2 traditional & un 8 research 22 class notes 29 book reviews

on the cover: Passion in Desdemona.

Photo by Terry Fell

federal or state law.

RECYCLED PAPER

contents

fore words

Fall 2005 | Volume 53, Number 1

A

s our Alumni Association continues to improve its outreach, I’d like to thank my predecessors, past presidents, board members and staff for how far the organization has traveled. You can take pride in the current calendar of 144 events, including 63 chapter events across the country. That’s up from a total of 112 events last year and more than double the 63 functions that were held two years ago. Our new free state-of-the-art online alumni directory allows our graduates to stay in touch with friends and former classmates, to post job openings and resumes, register for events and even sign up to be a student mentor. In the first 45 days, more than 1,000 alumni registered to use the system — and the Alumni Association added more than 700 new members, with a total now topping 13,000.

Our alumni demographics are changing. More and more of our students are coming to our beautiful campus from outside the Toledo area and returning home after graduation, while many others are taking their knowledge and skills around the world, distributing our brand. Although our commitment to our local alumni base will never change, we will broaden our alumni outreach. Therefore, I’ve asked Alumni Association board members to travel, at their own expense, to visit with groups outside Ohio.

State budget constraints are having a serious impact on the association’s finances. The organization has been very fiscally responsible and continues to do more with less. One area of notable growth is the college affiliates, which receive support from Alumni Association membership dues.

Another area of growth has been in scholarships, 27 of which are awarded annually through the Alumni Association and its affiliates. While this number has almost doubled in two years, we haven’t been able to keep up with requests. To address this, I’m asking our alumni to increase the number and dollar amount of our scholarships, which average $1,000.

Another goal is increasing our engagement with students via the Student Alumni Association, which now has more than 600 dues-paying members.

Because of the outstanding cooperation between your Alumni Association and the UT Office of Development, we have been able to move the University and its mission forward. I ask all our graduates to join in this effort as we make our alma mater and its Alumni Association all that they can be. I’m looking forward to seeing you in the coming year.

Birdel F. Jackson III P.E. ’68 President

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

EDITOR

PRESIDENT

Vicki Kroll ’88

Birdel F. Jackson ’68

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Cynthia Nowak ’78, ’80

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Brian DeBenedictis Deanna Woolf ’05

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

DESIGNER

SECRETARY

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Walter “Chip” Carstensen ’72, ’74

TREASURER

Constance D. Zouhary ’81

PAST PRESIDENT

Theodore T. Hahn ’65, ’67

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan Saevig ’84, ’89

ONE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Jon R. Dvorak M.D. ’80 Marc D. Folk* ’98 Lynn Hutt ’95 Jay Pearson** ’91 Stacey Scharf* ’89, ’98 Robert J. Schlembach ’49 Janet Schroeder ’89 Suzanne Wambold PhD, RN, RDC* ’85, ’91, ’02

TWO-YEAR TRUSTEES

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

THREE-YEAR TRUSTEES

Janet Eppard ’83 Patrick J. Flynn ’93, ’98 George E. Robinson II ’02 Mark A. Urrutia ’88

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Meghan Fox (appointed by Student Alumni Association) *Appointed by the affiliate committee ** Chapter representative

4

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Barbara Berebitsky ’91

James W. White Jr. ’76, ’79

6

Meredith Thiede Terry Fell Bill Hartough Dan Miller ’99

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

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

DIRECTOR, ALUMNI PROGRAMMING Eric Slough ’95

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Ansley Abrams ’92 Renee Elliott ’96

14

OUTREACH COORDINATOR Brian Weinblatt ’02, ’04

Recent Awards Communicator Awards — Award of Distinction for writing; Honorable Mention for design 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 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

10 12

14

cover story Stage of life

features Rocketeers Erin’s daughters

other

2 traditional & un 8 research 22 class notes 29 book reviews

on the cover: Passion in Desdemona.

Photo by Terry Fell

federal or state law.

RECYCLED PAPER

Toledo: traditional & un

Words, words, words — uttered magic, says Tom Robbins

Faces, places, spaces of UT: longtime photographer packs up the lenses

Saving the chimes of their lives

F Not all expression is verbal during Robbins’ lecture.

A

uthor Tom Robbins is often searching for the perfect sentence.

“The perfect sentence, if there is such a thing, would be both vivid and mysterious, accessible and unpredictable at the same time. Whether it shakes out like a wrinkled bed sheet or barrels ahead like a locomotive, it has to have rhythm,” he said via a phone interview from his home near Seattle. “When the subject meets the verb, the verb should yell, ‘Surprise!’”

The writer known for his witty wordplay and enlightening fiction delivered the 16th annual Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture in April: “Language Is Not the Frosting, It’s the Cake.”

“Language is my coach,” he said. “As a writer, language is my manager, it’s my mistress, it’s my guru. It’s very difficult to separate words from image, but I do believe generally that language itself is more important than the objects or ideas it represents, especially for the novelist

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

or poet because their jobs are to employ words not to communicate but rather to reveal. So words have color, contour, texture and weight, and these attributes are critically important in the construction of good sentences.”

Robbins has put together some great sentences over the years. He has written eight novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976), Still Life With Woodpecker (1980), Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (2000) and Villa Incognito (2003).

The native of Blowing Rock, N.C., attended Washington and Lee University, graduated with honors from a professional school of art, drama and music in Virginia, and did graduate work in Far Eastern philosophy at the University of Washington.

His sense of humor came naturally.

“Humor is just part of who I am, it’s part of my worldview, it’s the backbone of my philosophy,” he said. “I don’t believe there is any wisdom without humor.”

His fans would agree. And what does Robbins want his readers to take away from his works? “When they finish one of my books, I would like them to feel the way they might feel after they leave a Fellini film or a Grateful Dead concert, which is to say that they’ve encountered a life force in a large and unpredictable manner, and as a result, their sense of wonder has been awakened and they are more aware of the possibilities of everything in life.”

— Vicki L. Kroll, Office of Marketing and Communications

rom the waning days of the municipal Toledo University to graduation ceremonies for The University of Toledo Class of 2005 — if something big happened on campus between 1965 and 2005, chances are that UT photographer Bill Hartough showed up to cover it. On May 31, the University’s best known behindthe-camera presence officially retired, leaving both an impressive legacy and some formidable all-weather shoes to fill. The pictures, though, best tell the story, and these personal favorites of the photographer were part of a spring exhibit of his work.

Bill: the man behind the camera; preview of The Nutcracker performance at Doermann Theater

Red Skelton; Simon and Garfunkel in concert, Memorial Field House, 1968 www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

Raising funds for original chimes, c. 1940 The University of Toledo Tower gone silent, its chimes only a memory? Unthinkable — yet entirely possible, given the current state of the Tower’s aging musical system. “With the advent of digital technology, the analog tapes for UT’s carillon system are becoming more expensive to produce,” says Mark Walker, the UT staffer who has acted as the carillon’s “curator” for many years. “The machinery also has power amp problems, and the mechanism is in danger soon of losing technical support by the manufacturer.”

As the story spreads, alumni are responding.

For Bob Ossege (A/S ’57), who grew up hearing the chimes from his Old Orchard home adjacent to the University, the response was in the form of a $50,000 charitable gift annuity. He established the fund specifically to cover repair, upkeep and tape production costs for the analog system that houses the Tower carillon’s time-marking chimes and repertoire of popular music. “It helps a cause close to my heart and it provides a very

generous tax deduction,” he says.

Weldon Yost (Eng ’43) of Norman, Okla., has more hands-on memories of the music: He played the carillon on Sunday afternoons as part of his scholarship arrangements with Dr. Cornelius Brenninger of the electrical engineering department. “It was the summer of 1940, and I remember playing ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ and ‘Rock of Ages’” he recalls. “I’d look out the openings in the Tower and see cars parked along the side streets abutting Bancroft. I wondered if they were waiting for me to play.” (Brenninger, who supervised the carillon’s installation and operation, played a mean keyboard himself, performing at the New York World’s Fair of 1939.) Reading about the chimes’ possible future, Yost was moved to write a check for the Carillon Fund, an ongoing maintenance and upgrade resource.

Alumni and UT friends interested in the fund can find more information by calling the Office of Institutional Advancement at 419.530.2603.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Toledo: traditional & un

Words, words, words — uttered magic, says Tom Robbins

Faces, places, spaces of UT: longtime photographer packs up the lenses

Saving the chimes of their lives

F Not all expression is verbal during Robbins’ lecture.

A

uthor Tom Robbins is often searching for the perfect sentence.

“The perfect sentence, if there is such a thing, would be both vivid and mysterious, accessible and unpredictable at the same time. Whether it shakes out like a wrinkled bed sheet or barrels ahead like a locomotive, it has to have rhythm,” he said via a phone interview from his home near Seattle. “When the subject meets the verb, the verb should yell, ‘Surprise!’”

The writer known for his witty wordplay and enlightening fiction delivered the 16th annual Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture in April: “Language Is Not the Frosting, It’s the Cake.”

“Language is my coach,” he said. “As a writer, language is my manager, it’s my mistress, it’s my guru. It’s very difficult to separate words from image, but I do believe generally that language itself is more important than the objects or ideas it represents, especially for the novelist

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

or poet because their jobs are to employ words not to communicate but rather to reveal. So words have color, contour, texture and weight, and these attributes are critically important in the construction of good sentences.”

Robbins has put together some great sentences over the years. He has written eight novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976), Still Life With Woodpecker (1980), Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (2000) and Villa Incognito (2003).

The native of Blowing Rock, N.C., attended Washington and Lee University, graduated with honors from a professional school of art, drama and music in Virginia, and did graduate work in Far Eastern philosophy at the University of Washington.

His sense of humor came naturally.

“Humor is just part of who I am, it’s part of my worldview, it’s the backbone of my philosophy,” he said. “I don’t believe there is any wisdom without humor.”

His fans would agree. And what does Robbins want his readers to take away from his works? “When they finish one of my books, I would like them to feel the way they might feel after they leave a Fellini film or a Grateful Dead concert, which is to say that they’ve encountered a life force in a large and unpredictable manner, and as a result, their sense of wonder has been awakened and they are more aware of the possibilities of everything in life.”

— Vicki L. Kroll, Office of Marketing and Communications

rom the waning days of the municipal Toledo University to graduation ceremonies for The University of Toledo Class of 2005 — if something big happened on campus between 1965 and 2005, chances are that UT photographer Bill Hartough showed up to cover it. On May 31, the University’s best known behindthe-camera presence officially retired, leaving both an impressive legacy and some formidable all-weather shoes to fill. The pictures, though, best tell the story, and these personal favorites of the photographer were part of a spring exhibit of his work.

Bill: the man behind the camera; preview of The Nutcracker performance at Doermann Theater

Red Skelton; Simon and Garfunkel in concert, Memorial Field House, 1968 www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

Raising funds for original chimes, c. 1940 The University of Toledo Tower gone silent, its chimes only a memory? Unthinkable — yet entirely possible, given the current state of the Tower’s aging musical system. “With the advent of digital technology, the analog tapes for UT’s carillon system are becoming more expensive to produce,” says Mark Walker, the UT staffer who has acted as the carillon’s “curator” for many years. “The machinery also has power amp problems, and the mechanism is in danger soon of losing technical support by the manufacturer.”

As the story spreads, alumni are responding.

For Bob Ossege (A/S ’57), who grew up hearing the chimes from his Old Orchard home adjacent to the University, the response was in the form of a $50,000 charitable gift annuity. He established the fund specifically to cover repair, upkeep and tape production costs for the analog system that houses the Tower carillon’s time-marking chimes and repertoire of popular music. “It helps a cause close to my heart and it provides a very

generous tax deduction,” he says.

Weldon Yost (Eng ’43) of Norman, Okla., has more hands-on memories of the music: He played the carillon on Sunday afternoons as part of his scholarship arrangements with Dr. Cornelius Brenninger of the electrical engineering department. “It was the summer of 1940, and I remember playing ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ and ‘Rock of Ages’” he recalls. “I’d look out the openings in the Tower and see cars parked along the side streets abutting Bancroft. I wondered if they were waiting for me to play.” (Brenninger, who supervised the carillon’s installation and operation, played a mean keyboard himself, performing at the New York World’s Fair of 1939.) Reading about the chimes’ possible future, Yost was moved to write a check for the Carillon Fund, an ongoing maintenance and upgrade resource.

Alumni and UT friends interested in the fund can find more information by calling the Office of Institutional Advancement at 419.530.2603.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Toledo: traditional & un

“An incredible story” with football highlights

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avid Thomas’ middle name is not “Adversity.” But it might as well be. The University of Toledo senior linebacker is only twenty-two years old, but has faced enough adversity in his life for someone three times his age.

Thomas is the fourth oldest of fifteen siblings who grew up in inner-city Detroit.

He has eight brothers and six sisters.

With one exception, however, they are all basically strangers to him. At only seven months old, Thomas and one of his older brothers, Leo, were given up by their mother and adopted by his grandmother, Sallie Fenderson. He and his brother remained in Detroit, living on the city’s East Side, but they did not see their other siblings growing up.

“We were never really around them,” Thomas says. “There was a distance between us, even though we were all in the inner city. My brother and I never had the relationship most people have with their other brothers and sisters. It was basically just him and I.” With the guidance and support of both his grandmother and aunts, Felicia and Ann Fenderson, Thomas grew up to be quite an athlete, excelling in sports, especially football. He played running back at Kettering High School and earned all-state honors as a senior. He was ranked No. 53 on the Detroit News “Blue Chip” list, made the Detroit Free Press’ Top 50 list, and was recruited by a number of high-profile schools such as Nebraska and Michigan State.

But there was a small problem.

Thomas’ GPA was not high enough to allow him to be eligible to play as a freshman. Other schools backed off, but The University of Toledo and thenassistant coach Tom Amstutz decided to take a chance on him.

“Coach Amstutz recruited me very hard and was always around,” Thomas says. “He came up to Detroit quite a bit

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Motor City Bowl 2004: Thomas (No. 8) about to pounce.

to see me and let me know how much he wanted me to come to UT. After talking it over with my grandmother, we decided since it was only an hour from home, UT was a good fit.”

Thomas enrolled at UT in the fall of 2001 but found it difficult to sit on the sidelines during his freshman year due to academic restrictions. “It was hard to sit out my first year,” Thomas says. “I had to work very hard both in the classroom and on the field to ensure myself an opportunity to become a contributing player.”

Thomas’ chance to play finally came in 2002, though he only saw action on special teams and spot duty on defense.

The Rockets were loaded at inside linebacker with All-MAC performers Tom Ward and David Gardner. Thomas slowly improved, making twenty-seven tackles in thirteen games.

With the graduation of Ward and Gardner, Thomas had high hopes to step in as a starter in 2003. But once again

Thomas was forced to bide his time as two players, Brock Dodrill and Anthony Jordan, were moved from other positions and named the team’s starting inside linebackers. Despite not being listed as the starter, Thomas did not get down on himself because he knew he would still get his chance to play.

“People face adversity every day in their lives,” Thomas says. “Even though I was not starting, I knew I was going to get an opportunity to contribute. I remember saying to myself, I know these times are difficult, but times are difficult for everyone. I need to stand up tall and be strong.”

Thomas did get a chance to play in 2003 but unfortunately not for long. After making a career-high six tackles in the season opener at UNLV, Thomas’ season abruptly ended when he broke his arm in the third game of the season at Marshall.

To make matters worse, following surgery to repair his broken arm he got an infection that required more surgery. www.toledoalumni.org

Thomas became frustrated at the thought of missing his second season in three years. Not knowing what to do, he turned to his grandmother and to Coach Amstutz for support. “When I got out of the hospital, I talked with my grandmother and she told me that adversity only makes a person stronger and that this was just another test for me in life,” Thomas says. “I also talked with Coach Amstutz and he told me to get ready mentally and physically for next season. I needed to get in the weight room and get stronger and faster.”

Thomas took the advice and stayed in Toledo over the summer, lifting weights and working to get into top shape. His hard work and patience were rewarded last season. He became one of Toledo’s top players, finishing third on the team with ninety-one tackles and leading the Rockets to a MAC Championship. He led the team with nine tackles in Toledo’s 35-27 win over Miami in the MAC Championship Game.

Thomas’ breakout season also featured a triumphant return to his hometown, as the Rockets played both the MAC Championship Game and the Motor City Bowl at Ford Field in Detroit. Both of Detroit’s daily newspapers published articles about Thomas’ rise from his difficult beginnings. One even featured a front-page photo of Thomas with his two aunts. (Thomas’ grandmother is too frail to journey far from home.)

“It’s an incredible story, really,” Amstutz says. “He came from the East Side of Detroit and has had no advantages in his life other than his own hard work.

He’s had every reason for his life not to go well. But through his own determination and the support of his grandmother, he has been able to overcome a lot of obstacles. He has decided to make something special with his life.”

— Brian DeBenedictis, athletic media relations

www.toledoalumni.org

2005 outstanding teachers

Elaine Miller, associate professor of mathematics (at UT since 1984); Edward J. Stelnicki, lecturer in mathematics (with UT for 11 years); James Tierney, professor of law (joined faculty in 1988).

Take your show on the road — at a special price!

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or UT alumni whose future includes moving or relocation, here’s good news on making the process less stressful. The UT Alumni Association is partnering with Stevens Worldwide Van Lines to offer “preferential treatment” for alums. Stevens, now celebrating 100 years in business, is the University’s official moving company, which means that UT alumni will receive special pricing, including up to 65 percent discounts on interstate relocation. Stevens offers complete relocation services, from packing to storage, as well as discounts on packing supplies, access to relocation information such as moving tips and timelines, and VIP service every step of the way.

Preferential treatment for University of Toledo alumni also includes a dedicated move counselor to handle all the details, discounted valuation, home protection, top-rated drivers and crews, and choice pickup and delivery dates.

For more information or to schedule a free estimate, contact Norma McCoy at Stevens Worldwide Van Lines — 800.537.7511 or mccoy@stevensworldwide. com, and tell her you are a member of The University of Toledo Alumni Association.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Toledo: traditional & un

“An incredible story” with football highlights

D

avid Thomas’ middle name is not “Adversity.” But it might as well be. The University of Toledo senior linebacker is only twenty-two years old, but has faced enough adversity in his life for someone three times his age.

Thomas is the fourth oldest of fifteen siblings who grew up in inner-city Detroit.

He has eight brothers and six sisters.

With one exception, however, they are all basically strangers to him. At only seven months old, Thomas and one of his older brothers, Leo, were given up by their mother and adopted by his grandmother, Sallie Fenderson. He and his brother remained in Detroit, living on the city’s East Side, but they did not see their other siblings growing up.

“We were never really around them,” Thomas says. “There was a distance between us, even though we were all in the inner city. My brother and I never had the relationship most people have with their other brothers and sisters. It was basically just him and I.” With the guidance and support of both his grandmother and aunts, Felicia and Ann Fenderson, Thomas grew up to be quite an athlete, excelling in sports, especially football. He played running back at Kettering High School and earned all-state honors as a senior. He was ranked No. 53 on the Detroit News “Blue Chip” list, made the Detroit Free Press’ Top 50 list, and was recruited by a number of high-profile schools such as Nebraska and Michigan State.

But there was a small problem.

Thomas’ GPA was not high enough to allow him to be eligible to play as a freshman. Other schools backed off, but The University of Toledo and thenassistant coach Tom Amstutz decided to take a chance on him.

“Coach Amstutz recruited me very hard and was always around,” Thomas says. “He came up to Detroit quite a bit

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Motor City Bowl 2004: Thomas (No. 8) about to pounce.

to see me and let me know how much he wanted me to come to UT. After talking it over with my grandmother, we decided since it was only an hour from home, UT was a good fit.”

Thomas enrolled at UT in the fall of 2001 but found it difficult to sit on the sidelines during his freshman year due to academic restrictions. “It was hard to sit out my first year,” Thomas says. “I had to work very hard both in the classroom and on the field to ensure myself an opportunity to become a contributing player.”

Thomas’ chance to play finally came in 2002, though he only saw action on special teams and spot duty on defense.

The Rockets were loaded at inside linebacker with All-MAC performers Tom Ward and David Gardner. Thomas slowly improved, making twenty-seven tackles in thirteen games.

With the graduation of Ward and Gardner, Thomas had high hopes to step in as a starter in 2003. But once again

Thomas was forced to bide his time as two players, Brock Dodrill and Anthony Jordan, were moved from other positions and named the team’s starting inside linebackers. Despite not being listed as the starter, Thomas did not get down on himself because he knew he would still get his chance to play.

“People face adversity every day in their lives,” Thomas says. “Even though I was not starting, I knew I was going to get an opportunity to contribute. I remember saying to myself, I know these times are difficult, but times are difficult for everyone. I need to stand up tall and be strong.”

Thomas did get a chance to play in 2003 but unfortunately not for long. After making a career-high six tackles in the season opener at UNLV, Thomas’ season abruptly ended when he broke his arm in the third game of the season at Marshall.

To make matters worse, following surgery to repair his broken arm he got an infection that required more surgery. www.toledoalumni.org

Thomas became frustrated at the thought of missing his second season in three years. Not knowing what to do, he turned to his grandmother and to Coach Amstutz for support. “When I got out of the hospital, I talked with my grandmother and she told me that adversity only makes a person stronger and that this was just another test for me in life,” Thomas says. “I also talked with Coach Amstutz and he told me to get ready mentally and physically for next season. I needed to get in the weight room and get stronger and faster.”

Thomas took the advice and stayed in Toledo over the summer, lifting weights and working to get into top shape. His hard work and patience were rewarded last season. He became one of Toledo’s top players, finishing third on the team with ninety-one tackles and leading the Rockets to a MAC Championship. He led the team with nine tackles in Toledo’s 35-27 win over Miami in the MAC Championship Game.

Thomas’ breakout season also featured a triumphant return to his hometown, as the Rockets played both the MAC Championship Game and the Motor City Bowl at Ford Field in Detroit. Both of Detroit’s daily newspapers published articles about Thomas’ rise from his difficult beginnings. One even featured a front-page photo of Thomas with his two aunts. (Thomas’ grandmother is too frail to journey far from home.)

“It’s an incredible story, really,” Amstutz says. “He came from the East Side of Detroit and has had no advantages in his life other than his own hard work.

He’s had every reason for his life not to go well. But through his own determination and the support of his grandmother, he has been able to overcome a lot of obstacles. He has decided to make something special with his life.”

— Brian DeBenedictis, athletic media relations

www.toledoalumni.org

2005 outstanding teachers

Elaine Miller, associate professor of mathematics (at UT since 1984); Edward J. Stelnicki, lecturer in mathematics (with UT for 11 years); James Tierney, professor of law (joined faculty in 1988).

Take your show on the road — at a special price!

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or UT alumni whose future includes moving or relocation, here’s good news on making the process less stressful. The UT Alumni Association is partnering with Stevens Worldwide Van Lines to offer “preferential treatment” for alums. Stevens, now celebrating 100 years in business, is the University’s official moving company, which means that UT alumni will receive special pricing, including up to 65 percent discounts on interstate relocation. Stevens offers complete relocation services, from packing to storage, as well as discounts on packing supplies, access to relocation information such as moving tips and timelines, and VIP service every step of the way.

Preferential treatment for University of Toledo alumni also includes a dedicated move counselor to handle all the details, discounted valuation, home protection, top-rated drivers and crews, and choice pickup and delivery dates.

For more information or to schedule a free estimate, contact Norma McCoy at Stevens Worldwide Van Lines — 800.537.7511 or mccoy@stevensworldwide. com, and tell her you are a member of The University of Toledo Alumni Association.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Toledo: traditional & un

On the intersection of party and engagement

Quarter-century of women who learned power of education

T

his is for all the people who think that “UT Alumni Association” means “tailgate, Homecoming, class reunions.” Think again. Try “community engagement, national outreach, mission partners.”

Plus tailgate, Homecoming, class reunions — and at least a hundred more.

“The fact is, our Alumni Association is an irreplaceable partner in the University’s mission,” says Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional advancement. “The organization is a rallying point for public goodwill. More than that, it’s staffed by dedicated people who genuinely love UT and love serving its alumni. You can’t fake something like that, and you can’t buy the kind of positive vibes that the association staff creates among the alumni.”

Those positive vibes can show up as get-togethers that range from formal dinners at the homes of generous alumni hosts to kick-back football watch parties at neighborhood restaurants, to political forums and debates, and alumni college programs. With more than thirty chapters nationwide and ten college and special interest affiliates, when the Alumni Association plans an event, they can aim with precision. The newest group on the block, the natural sciences and mathematics affiliate, was launched in the spring.

“Sometimes an event is more than an event,” Snyder notes. “It can be the University’s best chance to engage a whole new set of people who until now haven’t thought about how deeply they feel attached to UT, even after they’ve graduated and moved five hundred miles away.

“And in these settings, it’s comfortable to mix pleasure with the business of supporting a modern university.”

Whether it’s an intimate theatre soiree or a people-packer like Art on the Mall,

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

S

What's your Alumni Association?

It’s committed alums, nationwide.

every association event is an opportunity, says Dan Saevig, Alumni Association associate vice president: “We’re in the business of giving our alums a good time, but we’re also educating them about what their membership in the association can do for UT and for others. Just for starters, we sponsor scholarships for the next generation of students — twentyseven this past year — we sponsor continuing education programming, we host political debates and we maintain an online directory for alumni to stay in touch with each other.

“Above all, we keep UT visible in a world where everything else is competing for our alums’ attention.”

As part of its engagement efforts, the Alumni Association recently expanded its mailing of Toledo Alumni Magazine, which now goes to all alumni three times a year.

You can help support the association’s part in the UT mission by becoming a member. Visit www.toledoalumni.org for information.

It’s good times coast to coast.

It’s scholarships. And more!

www.toledoalumni.org

ince 1978, the Catharine S. Eberly Center has been selling hope to women in trouble. Now in an effort to raise crucial funds, they’re selling bricks — and selling the importance of hope to a wider audience.

To be more precise, though, the Center for Women sells women on themselves, says Jill Nussel, member of the center’s board: “The whole concept here is to empower women through education, to put them on the road to self-sufficiency.”

Sally Doren, a therapist with a private practice in Bowling Green, Ohio, traveled that road. She’s one of more than six thousand women who were helped through the center’s Project Succeed, which offers assistance ranging from counseling to scholarships to career development. “I had gone through a very painful divorce and was at a crossroads,” she says. “I finally hit bottom. That’s when I found the center. They gave me gentle encouragement, which was what I needed. I went to school and earned my bachelor’s degree at UT in what I love: art and psychology. My mother became ill, and I moved back to Bowling Green to care for her while I worked on my master’s degree in guidance and counseling.”

Now a volunteer teacher at the center who recently spoke before the Ohio Senate on behalf of the Eberly Center, she says, “I’m very passionate about how much it’s needed in this community.”

The center originally grew out of a similar passionate belief on the parts of William S. Eberly (Bus ’43) and his first wife, Catharine (“Katy”) Sloan Eberly (A/S ’44). The first female member of UT’s board of trustees, Katy led the campus and community in the creation of the Center for Women. When she died in 1979, William established an endowment in her name that funded the center’s www.toledoalumni.org

programs for decades. (It was at this time that the center’s name changed as a tribute to Katy.) At William’s own death in 2004, a gift in his will went toward making Project Succeed economically selfsufficient. (Given the numbers of women in need of Project Succeed’s assistance, however, a great deal more funding is necessary, even with the continued support of the Eberly family. Hence the bricks, which will pave the Center for Women Legacy Courtyard. Information on the project is at www.provost.utoledo. edu/eberly or at 419.530.8570.)

As impressive as Project Succeed is, though, it’s only one part of the Eberly Center’s expanding mission, says Dr. Pat Murphy, the center’s director. “We offer brown bag seminars, a computer lab and domestic violence support groups. Right now we’re working with the community and our faculty to create an Arabic/English brochure addressing domestic violence issues by citing the Koran. We’re seeing these issues emerging in the Muslim community, and there’s some confusion whether the Koran allows violence toward women. Of course it doesn’t.”

Such a global view is nothing new, says Murphy. “The center is home base for many women who come to the area from Bahrain, Lebanon, Guatemala, Hungary and Afghanistan.“ At the same time, she notes, “We’ve been engaged in the community from our beginnings.

The center was created as a partnership between more than fifty women’s groups in the community and on campus.”

Of the women who come to the Eberly Center, she says, “What we see now is underemployment: women who work, but can’t make a living wage, or who work part time with no health benefits.

“All the research shows that if you educate women, you also educate their children. If one person goes to college in a family, others follow. We’ve been here for a generation, and we need to renew our commitment to the next generation.”

From her first-person perspective, Sally Doren provides the last word: “These are women who want to alter the cycle of welfare and dependence so that it doesn’t affect their children. The Eberly Center gives them that chance.”

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Toledo: traditional & un

On the intersection of party and engagement

Quarter-century of women who learned power of education

T

his is for all the people who think that “UT Alumni Association” means “tailgate, Homecoming, class reunions.” Think again. Try “community engagement, national outreach, mission partners.”

Plus tailgate, Homecoming, class reunions — and at least a hundred more.

“The fact is, our Alumni Association is an irreplaceable partner in the University’s mission,” says Vern Snyder, vice president for institutional advancement. “The organization is a rallying point for public goodwill. More than that, it’s staffed by dedicated people who genuinely love UT and love serving its alumni. You can’t fake something like that, and you can’t buy the kind of positive vibes that the association staff creates among the alumni.”

Those positive vibes can show up as get-togethers that range from formal dinners at the homes of generous alumni hosts to kick-back football watch parties at neighborhood restaurants, to political forums and debates, and alumni college programs. With more than thirty chapters nationwide and ten college and special interest affiliates, when the Alumni Association plans an event, they can aim with precision. The newest group on the block, the natural sciences and mathematics affiliate, was launched in the spring.

“Sometimes an event is more than an event,” Snyder notes. “It can be the University’s best chance to engage a whole new set of people who until now haven’t thought about how deeply they feel attached to UT, even after they’ve graduated and moved five hundred miles away.

“And in these settings, it’s comfortable to mix pleasure with the business of supporting a modern university.”

Whether it’s an intimate theatre soiree or a people-packer like Art on the Mall,

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

S

What's your Alumni Association?

It’s committed alums, nationwide.

every association event is an opportunity, says Dan Saevig, Alumni Association associate vice president: “We’re in the business of giving our alums a good time, but we’re also educating them about what their membership in the association can do for UT and for others. Just for starters, we sponsor scholarships for the next generation of students — twentyseven this past year — we sponsor continuing education programming, we host political debates and we maintain an online directory for alumni to stay in touch with each other.

“Above all, we keep UT visible in a world where everything else is competing for our alums’ attention.”

As part of its engagement efforts, the Alumni Association recently expanded its mailing of Toledo Alumni Magazine, which now goes to all alumni three times a year.

You can help support the association’s part in the UT mission by becoming a member. Visit www.toledoalumni.org for information.

It’s good times coast to coast.

It’s scholarships. And more!

www.toledoalumni.org

ince 1978, the Catharine S. Eberly Center has been selling hope to women in trouble. Now in an effort to raise crucial funds, they’re selling bricks — and selling the importance of hope to a wider audience.

To be more precise, though, the Center for Women sells women on themselves, says Jill Nussel, member of the center’s board: “The whole concept here is to empower women through education, to put them on the road to self-sufficiency.”

Sally Doren, a therapist with a private practice in Bowling Green, Ohio, traveled that road. She’s one of more than six thousand women who were helped through the center’s Project Succeed, which offers assistance ranging from counseling to scholarships to career development. “I had gone through a very painful divorce and was at a crossroads,” she says. “I finally hit bottom. That’s when I found the center. They gave me gentle encouragement, which was what I needed. I went to school and earned my bachelor’s degree at UT in what I love: art and psychology. My mother became ill, and I moved back to Bowling Green to care for her while I worked on my master’s degree in guidance and counseling.”

Now a volunteer teacher at the center who recently spoke before the Ohio Senate on behalf of the Eberly Center, she says, “I’m very passionate about how much it’s needed in this community.”

The center originally grew out of a similar passionate belief on the parts of William S. Eberly (Bus ’43) and his first wife, Catharine (“Katy”) Sloan Eberly (A/S ’44). The first female member of UT’s board of trustees, Katy led the campus and community in the creation of the Center for Women. When she died in 1979, William established an endowment in her name that funded the center’s www.toledoalumni.org

programs for decades. (It was at this time that the center’s name changed as a tribute to Katy.) At William’s own death in 2004, a gift in his will went toward making Project Succeed economically selfsufficient. (Given the numbers of women in need of Project Succeed’s assistance, however, a great deal more funding is necessary, even with the continued support of the Eberly family. Hence the bricks, which will pave the Center for Women Legacy Courtyard. Information on the project is at www.provost.utoledo. edu/eberly or at 419.530.8570.)

As impressive as Project Succeed is, though, it’s only one part of the Eberly Center’s expanding mission, says Dr. Pat Murphy, the center’s director. “We offer brown bag seminars, a computer lab and domestic violence support groups. Right now we’re working with the community and our faculty to create an Arabic/English brochure addressing domestic violence issues by citing the Koran. We’re seeing these issues emerging in the Muslim community, and there’s some confusion whether the Koran allows violence toward women. Of course it doesn’t.”

Such a global view is nothing new, says Murphy. “The center is home base for many women who come to the area from Bahrain, Lebanon, Guatemala, Hungary and Afghanistan.“ At the same time, she notes, “We’ve been engaged in the community from our beginnings.

The center was created as a partnership between more than fifty women’s groups in the community and on campus.”

Of the women who come to the Eberly Center, she says, “What we see now is underemployment: women who work, but can’t make a living wage, or who work part time with no health benefits.

“All the research shows that if you educate women, you also educate their children. If one person goes to college in a family, others follow. We’ve been here for a generation, and we need to renew our commitment to the next generation.”

From her first-person perspective, Sally Doren provides the last word: “These are women who want to alter the cycle of welfare and dependence so that it doesn’t affect their children. The Eberly Center gives them that chance.”

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

UT research on the edge Something fishy Is that delightfully crunchy entree at the fireman’s fish fry really the Great Lakes yellow perch it’s advertised as being? A Minneapolis news station contacted UT’s Lake Erie Research

Healing sick brains

and Education Center to get the answer. Researchers there were glad to help out, but the Minnesota reporters apparently

Canavan’s disease is a rare,

didn’t understand that ideally, the testing should be done on

devastating genetic disorder that becomes apparent in newborns within the first few months of life. Babies become less responsive to stimuli and less able to

The research results are in, and they carry good news for science instruction at Toledo Public Schools (TPS). The research analyzes a

frozen fish fillets — instead, the Lake Erie Center received a tidy package of breaded, deep-fried fillets straight from a diner’s

Not all research is conducted in the labs or among the stacks.

At the College of Engineering, a highly mobile research project spanned every department for two days this spring. That’s when a group of engineering alumni and stakeholders were on campus to inspect the college and offer advice to Dean Nagi Naganathan on the institution’s future. Also present for face-to-face research

coordinate their movements. Communication is usually very

six-year project that used TPS (rated an “at risk” school district by

plate. To the research team’s surprise, acceptable DNA samples

difficult if not impossible for children with Canavan’s, and if

the state of Ohio) as the setting for a collaborative partnership

still existed once the breading was scraped off. The ultimate

from five major universities, to meet with administrators, faculty,

they survive to their full life expectancy — three to 10 years

between the school district and the Colleges of Education of The

conclusion? About half the restaurants and eating venues in

staff and students. The research included extensive talks on the

— they’re increasingly cut off from the world by blindness,

University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. TAPESTRIES

question were in fact selling frozen European perch, a close

college’s proposed center for advanced materials, a proposal

— the Toledo Area Partnership in Education/Support Teachers as

relative of Great Lakes perch, but a separate species. Devotees

paralysis and seizures.

With a five-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, UT researchers are studying the human brain enzyme that has been shown to be at the core of Canavan’s. In a

Resources to Improve Elementary Science — used a comprehensive, systematic approach to improve science education. Through the now-completed program, nearly 1,000 elementary classroom teachers — some 72 percent of the district’s total — received more

of fishy cuisine can take heart from the researchers’ observation that even a discriminating palate would probably be unable to tell the difference.

were the Visiting Academic Advisory Council, made up of deans

partly based on the existing grants supporting the college’s advanced materials research, and recent faculty hires. Shown here are Kent Fuchs (dean, Cornell University), Vijay Dhir (dean, University of California at Los Angeles), Bud Baeslack (dean, Ohio State University), Norman Nitschke (retired CEO, Glasstech Inc.), Naganathan, Steve Director (dean, University of Michigan) and

normal brain, scientists believe, a natural compound called N-

than 100 hours of development in science content, pedagogy and

acetylaspartate acid (NAA) is instrumental in building myelin,

assessment. In addition, more than 20,000 students, 100 school

Abundant hydrogen-based electrical power might be another

the membrane that forms a protective coating around every

administrators and hundreds of parents and community members

step closer to reality, thanks to UT researchers. And landfill

nerve in the brain and spinal cord, ensuring that nerve impulses

were included in the program’s reach.

neighbors will thank them for it as well. A research program in

Robert Savinell (dean, Case Western Reserve University).

Eye candy

Recent follow-up research — which won the Christa McAullife

UT’s College of Engineering is examining how to generate the

Award from the American Association of State Colleges and

highly desirable but relatively rare hydrogen from waste products

Individuals suffering from diabetes mellitus must monitor

Universities — points toward TAPESTRIES’ success. According to

of the steel industry. “Mill-scale,” a brittle coating formed on

their blood glucose levels on a daily basis — five times a day,

the research, the more involved school administrators and teachers

newly manufactured steel surfaces, has to be stripped off before

in fact, is what the American Diabetes Association recom-

were in TAPESTRIES, the greater the improvement in their students’

the steel is useable; currently, some 80 percent of the iron oxide

mends. By procedures currently available, that usually

performances on the science portion of state proficiency tests.

scale ends up in landfills. UT researchers successfully reduced the

Specifically, sixth-grade science proficiency scores improved at

scale to elemental iron, which proves the feasibility of recycling

means five daily ouchies, lancing a finger for a blood sample.

works. With that knowledge, the researchers hope to come closer to understanding the relationship between the enzyme

schools heavily involved in TAPESTRIES, compared with those only

the waste into hydrogen on a laboratory scale — another step

and the mutated gene — paving the way to a possible cure.

minimally involved. Students' achievement differed significantly

toward large-scale hydrogen production.

are properly transmitted from one part of the body to another.

The defective gene that causes Canavan’s prevents an enzyme, aspartoacyclase, from breaking NAA down into the building blocks needed by the brain.

The UT team is targeting that enzyme to identify how it

between schools showing the lowest and highest proportion of

Researchers at The University of Toledo are developing an instrument capable of measuring glucose levels by passing a low-power laser beam through the anterior chamber of the eye.

teachers’ professional development hours devoted to the program.

One day, it’s hoped, this easy and painless method of glucose

Cumulatively speaking, TAPESTRIES-trained teachers are linked to

measurement will take some of the sting out of diabetes.

higher levels of student achievement.

The research is being showcased in a National Science Teachers Association publication on exemplary practices.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

UT research on the edge Something fishy Is that delightfully crunchy entree at the fireman’s fish fry really the Great Lakes yellow perch it’s advertised as being? A Minneapolis news station contacted UT’s Lake Erie Research

Healing sick brains

and Education Center to get the answer. Researchers there were glad to help out, but the Minnesota reporters apparently

Canavan’s disease is a rare,

didn’t understand that ideally, the testing should be done on

devastating genetic disorder that becomes apparent in newborns within the first few months of life. Babies become less responsive to stimuli and less able to

The research results are in, and they carry good news for science instruction at Toledo Public Schools (TPS). The research analyzes a

frozen fish fillets — instead, the Lake Erie Center received a tidy package of breaded, deep-fried fillets straight from a diner’s

Not all research is conducted in the labs or among the stacks.

At the College of Engineering, a highly mobile research project spanned every department for two days this spring. That’s when a group of engineering alumni and stakeholders were on campus to inspect the college and offer advice to Dean Nagi Naganathan on the institution’s future. Also present for face-to-face research

coordinate their movements. Communication is usually very

six-year project that used TPS (rated an “at risk” school district by

plate. To the research team’s surprise, acceptable DNA samples

difficult if not impossible for children with Canavan’s, and if

the state of Ohio) as the setting for a collaborative partnership

still existed once the breading was scraped off. The ultimate

from five major universities, to meet with administrators, faculty,

they survive to their full life expectancy — three to 10 years

between the school district and the Colleges of Education of The

conclusion? About half the restaurants and eating venues in

staff and students. The research included extensive talks on the

— they’re increasingly cut off from the world by blindness,

University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. TAPESTRIES

question were in fact selling frozen European perch, a close

college’s proposed center for advanced materials, a proposal

— the Toledo Area Partnership in Education/Support Teachers as

relative of Great Lakes perch, but a separate species. Devotees

paralysis and seizures.

With a five-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, UT researchers are studying the human brain enzyme that has been shown to be at the core of Canavan’s. In a

Resources to Improve Elementary Science — used a comprehensive, systematic approach to improve science education. Through the now-completed program, nearly 1,000 elementary classroom teachers — some 72 percent of the district’s total — received more

of fishy cuisine can take heart from the researchers’ observation that even a discriminating palate would probably be unable to tell the difference.

were the Visiting Academic Advisory Council, made up of deans

partly based on the existing grants supporting the college’s advanced materials research, and recent faculty hires. Shown here are Kent Fuchs (dean, Cornell University), Vijay Dhir (dean, University of California at Los Angeles), Bud Baeslack (dean, Ohio State University), Norman Nitschke (retired CEO, Glasstech Inc.), Naganathan, Steve Director (dean, University of Michigan) and

normal brain, scientists believe, a natural compound called N-

than 100 hours of development in science content, pedagogy and

acetylaspartate acid (NAA) is instrumental in building myelin,

assessment. In addition, more than 20,000 students, 100 school

Abundant hydrogen-based electrical power might be another

the membrane that forms a protective coating around every

administrators and hundreds of parents and community members

step closer to reality, thanks to UT researchers. And landfill

nerve in the brain and spinal cord, ensuring that nerve impulses

were included in the program’s reach.

neighbors will thank them for it as well. A research program in

Robert Savinell (dean, Case Western Reserve University).

Eye candy

Recent follow-up research — which won the Christa McAullife

UT’s College of Engineering is examining how to generate the

Award from the American Association of State Colleges and

highly desirable but relatively rare hydrogen from waste products

Individuals suffering from diabetes mellitus must monitor

Universities — points toward TAPESTRIES’ success. According to

of the steel industry. “Mill-scale,” a brittle coating formed on

their blood glucose levels on a daily basis — five times a day,

the research, the more involved school administrators and teachers

newly manufactured steel surfaces, has to be stripped off before

in fact, is what the American Diabetes Association recom-

were in TAPESTRIES, the greater the improvement in their students’

the steel is useable; currently, some 80 percent of the iron oxide

mends. By procedures currently available, that usually

performances on the science portion of state proficiency tests.

scale ends up in landfills. UT researchers successfully reduced the

Specifically, sixth-grade science proficiency scores improved at

scale to elemental iron, which proves the feasibility of recycling

means five daily ouchies, lancing a finger for a blood sample.

works. With that knowledge, the researchers hope to come closer to understanding the relationship between the enzyme

schools heavily involved in TAPESTRIES, compared with those only

the waste into hydrogen on a laboratory scale — another step

and the mutated gene — paving the way to a possible cure.

minimally involved. Students' achievement differed significantly

toward large-scale hydrogen production.

are properly transmitted from one part of the body to another.

The defective gene that causes Canavan’s prevents an enzyme, aspartoacyclase, from breaking NAA down into the building blocks needed by the brain.

The UT team is targeting that enzyme to identify how it

between schools showing the lowest and highest proportion of

Researchers at The University of Toledo are developing an instrument capable of measuring glucose levels by passing a low-power laser beam through the anterior chamber of the eye.

teachers’ professional development hours devoted to the program.

One day, it’s hoped, this easy and painless method of glucose

Cumulatively speaking, TAPESTRIES-trained teachers are linked to

measurement will take some of the sting out of diabetes.

higher levels of student achievement.

The research is being showcased in a National Science Teachers Association publication on exemplary practices.

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

Courtesy of NASA/STScl

PROPELLED to succeed

REAL-LIFE ROCKET MEN: ALUMS WHO GRADUATED FROM THE HOME OF THE ROCKETS TO THE HUM OF ROCKETRY!

Dr. Lonnie Reid (MEng ’74, PhD ’90), Cleveland. 32-year NASA veteran; retired from NASA’s Glenn Research Center as division chief of the Internal Fluid Mechanics Division; in 1998, founded AP Solutions, provider of design and computational analysis for propulsion systems.

He says, “I was with NASA at an incredible time, from 1961 to 1993. And at the same time as all the achievements in space exploration, we were building the ground floor of today’s technology.

People identified what needed to be done, then developed the tools to do it. Always, as new tools become available, you can attack problems at a more fundamental level, which you weren’t able to do before.”

Computational analysis is one such tool. The AP Solutions team uses computer simulations to analyze the

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performance of turbo-machinery, such as components of advanced gas turbine engines in aircraft, ships and power plants, for clients that include Honeywell, Siemens-Westinghouse, General Electric and NASA. Technology transfer is the name of the game, Reid says. “We take technology that NASA has developed and paid for, and transfer it to private sector, helping companies to get their jobs to market faster.

Ultimately, they’re delivering a better product.”

Given a lifetime in a field that has redefined so many limits of technology, Reid seems well qualified to prognosticate on what the next “final frontier” might be.

His prediction: “Aviation; high-speed civil transport. That means flying from New York to California in two hours rather than six.” www.toledoalumni.org

In April, Dr. Robert Dempsey (MS ’87, PhD ’91) joined the elite Houston NASA team that needs no introduction beyond “This is Mission Control.” As one of nine members of the Flight Director Class of 2005, he’s now responsible for manned space missions, a job that only 58 individuals have held since America’s space program began.

No novice to the field, Dempsey was a resident astronomer on the Hubble Space Telescope. A seven-year veteran of flight control with the International Space Station, he joined NASA in 2003 as a communications and tracking officer with the project. A near-disaster on the space station, he says, helped him land his current job.

“The station is entirely computerized,” he explains. “You can’t switch on a light without going to a computer and entering a command. Of the three central command and control computers, two are redundant. The odds that all three would fail are astronomical, so we were caught by surprise when yes, all three failed.”

The lead network officer at the time,

www.toledoalumni.org

Dempsey worked 20-hour days for more than a week, nursing the computer system back to health “so that now it’s better than it was in the beginning.”

Intense schedules are the rule during his current training period. He says, “It’s like drinking water from a fire hose! We have 700 hours of training in the classroom, plus we have to do many hours learning the ropes from trained flight directors. It reminds me of graduate school at UT — it doesn’t seem as though things can get harder, but they always find a way to do it.”

Not that he’s looking for an easier job. “I’m never reluctant to go to work in the morning. I love what I do and I do what I love.

“It’s a fun job — hard and grueling, but exciting and rewarding. I just got strapped into a space shuttle mock-up, wearing a flight suit, to understand what it’s like for the crew. And I got to land the shuttle simulator.

“Pretty cool job when you have to do stuff like that!”

Mark Pieczynski (Bus ’80), San Clemente, Calif., is program director for the Delta II rocket program with Boeing Launch Services, an arm of The Boeing Company.

“When you launch a rocket with a satellite attached, you’ve got one chance to get it right,” he says. “You either have a passion for this business or you don’t.”

Pieczynski has the passion, although he admits that “I never planned on running a rocket program. I moved to California to help McDonald-Douglass negotiate major labor union contracts. I decided that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life, so I began working on their rocket program, and I fell in love with it.”

He has overseen launches for NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense. If you’ve ever snapped open a cell phone or tapped into a weather forecast, chances are you’re relying on a satellite launched by Pieczynski’s team. Extraterrestrial-wise, they also sent up NASA’s Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2, which first brought to humans ears natural sounds of the Red Planet.

He gives high praise to his team of experts, the “flight mechanics” who make the fiery birds take wing. “All these people are darn smart. I’m not one of the smart ones!

“It’s pretty amazing. When you put a satellite in orbit, it’s like you’re standing in California and you want to shoot a bullet out of a rifle to have it land in a certain intersection in New York City.”

Will he ever become jaded? Not a chance, Pieczynski says: “I don’t know how many launches I’ve been at, but when that countdown begins, I still get very emotional. At t-minus two, I do my 15-second prayer.

“You sit there and think about all the issues you’ve worked on over the months, and once it leaves the pad, there’s nothing more you can do.”

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Courtesy of NASA/STScl

PROPELLED to succeed

REAL-LIFE ROCKET MEN: ALUMS WHO GRADUATED FROM THE HOME OF THE ROCKETS TO THE HUM OF ROCKETRY!

Dr. Lonnie Reid (MEng ’74, PhD ’90), Cleveland. 32-year NASA veteran; retired from NASA’s Glenn Research Center as division chief of the Internal Fluid Mechanics Division; in 1998, founded AP Solutions, provider of design and computational analysis for propulsion systems.

He says, “I was with NASA at an incredible time, from 1961 to 1993. And at the same time as all the achievements in space exploration, we were building the ground floor of today’s technology.

People identified what needed to be done, then developed the tools to do it. Always, as new tools become available, you can attack problems at a more fundamental level, which you weren’t able to do before.”

Computational analysis is one such tool. The AP Solutions team uses computer simulations to analyze the

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performance of turbo-machinery, such as components of advanced gas turbine engines in aircraft, ships and power plants, for clients that include Honeywell, Siemens-Westinghouse, General Electric and NASA. Technology transfer is the name of the game, Reid says. “We take technology that NASA has developed and paid for, and transfer it to private sector, helping companies to get their jobs to market faster.

Ultimately, they’re delivering a better product.”

Given a lifetime in a field that has redefined so many limits of technology, Reid seems well qualified to prognosticate on what the next “final frontier” might be.

His prediction: “Aviation; high-speed civil transport. That means flying from New York to California in two hours rather than six.” www.toledoalumni.org

In April, Dr. Robert Dempsey (MS ’87, PhD ’91) joined the elite Houston NASA team that needs no introduction beyond “This is Mission Control.” As one of nine members of the Flight Director Class of 2005, he’s now responsible for manned space missions, a job that only 58 individuals have held since America’s space program began.

No novice to the field, Dempsey was a resident astronomer on the Hubble Space Telescope. A seven-year veteran of flight control with the International Space Station, he joined NASA in 2003 as a communications and tracking officer with the project. A near-disaster on the space station, he says, helped him land his current job.

“The station is entirely computerized,” he explains. “You can’t switch on a light without going to a computer and entering a command. Of the three central command and control computers, two are redundant. The odds that all three would fail are astronomical, so we were caught by surprise when yes, all three failed.”

The lead network officer at the time,

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Dempsey worked 20-hour days for more than a week, nursing the computer system back to health “so that now it’s better than it was in the beginning.”

Intense schedules are the rule during his current training period. He says, “It’s like drinking water from a fire hose! We have 700 hours of training in the classroom, plus we have to do many hours learning the ropes from trained flight directors. It reminds me of graduate school at UT — it doesn’t seem as though things can get harder, but they always find a way to do it.”

Not that he’s looking for an easier job. “I’m never reluctant to go to work in the morning. I love what I do and I do what I love.

“It’s a fun job — hard and grueling, but exciting and rewarding. I just got strapped into a space shuttle mock-up, wearing a flight suit, to understand what it’s like for the crew. And I got to land the shuttle simulator.

“Pretty cool job when you have to do stuff like that!”

Mark Pieczynski (Bus ’80), San Clemente, Calif., is program director for the Delta II rocket program with Boeing Launch Services, an arm of The Boeing Company.

“When you launch a rocket with a satellite attached, you’ve got one chance to get it right,” he says. “You either have a passion for this business or you don’t.”

Pieczynski has the passion, although he admits that “I never planned on running a rocket program. I moved to California to help McDonald-Douglass negotiate major labor union contracts. I decided that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life, so I began working on their rocket program, and I fell in love with it.”

He has overseen launches for NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense. If you’ve ever snapped open a cell phone or tapped into a weather forecast, chances are you’re relying on a satellite launched by Pieczynski’s team. Extraterrestrial-wise, they also sent up NASA’s Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2, which first brought to humans ears natural sounds of the Red Planet.

He gives high praise to his team of experts, the “flight mechanics” who make the fiery birds take wing. “All these people are darn smart. I’m not one of the smart ones!

“It’s pretty amazing. When you put a satellite in orbit, it’s like you’re standing in California and you want to shoot a bullet out of a rifle to have it land in a certain intersection in New York City.”

Will he ever become jaded? Not a chance, Pieczynski says: “I don’t know how many launches I’ve been at, but when that countdown begins, I still get very emotional. At t-minus two, I do my 15-second prayer.

“You sit there and think about all the issues you’ve worked on over the months, and once it leaves the pad, there’s nothing more you can do.”

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laboring for justice

Elizabeth Flynn addressing workers’ rally, 1913.

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history of the American labor movement without the story of Irish immigrants and their descendants would be a bogus one. From the very beginnings of America’s labor struggles, they were at the forefront. However, the role of Irish women within that movement, with rare exceptions (as with Mother Jones and Elizabeth Flynn), has been largely ignored.

Irish women entered the workforce in large numbers because poverty made it a necessity. Many were the sole providers for themselves and their families. Irish women refused to conform to Victorian stereotypes of women as weak, decorative, passive and dependent. On the job, they refused to tolerate the harsh conditions of the factory and mill. Before the suffragettes marched for the vote, Irish women invaded the streets to aggressively fight for decent wages and working conditions for themselves and others. Like Irish men, they were not about to let bullies push them around in America as often happened under British colonial rule in Ireland. America meant a new way of life.

Almost all the early women leaders in the Knights of Labor and later the American Federation of Labor were of Irish background. The Daughters of St. Crispin, the only nationally organized women’s trade union of the 19th century, was also heavily Irish. Leonora Barry, Elizabeth Rodgers, Leonora O’Reilly, Kate Mullaney, Dora Sullivan, Agnes Nestor, Mary Kenny, Julia O’Conner and “Mother (Mary Harris) Jones” were among the early pioneers of the labor movement.

In 1913, Agnes Nestor of the International Glove Workers was the first woman elected to the presidency of an international www.toledoalumni.org

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Flynn, far right, with children of striking textile workers, 1912.

New York, led by Ellen Tracey, Mary Carey and Lizzie Wilson, secretly organized an assembly of the Knights of Labor and led a strike against wage cuts that involved twenty-five hundred women. Their initiative encouraged the formation of more than a hundred other women’s assemblies of the Knights of Labor. In the Chicago meat packing plants of the early 1900s, Maggie Condon and Hannah O’Day formed one of the first unions to admit African Americans.

Irish women have a long history as labor organizers, strikers and agitators in every region of the country and in a variety of industries. Their influence was felt from the carpet workers in New York to the textile mills of New England to the glove workers in Chicago and among the prominent activists in the strong labor town of San Francisco. They played a powerful part in the advance of American labor. In April 1919, Julia O’Connor led a successful telephone workers strike that paralyzed communication in New England, a strike that defied male trade union authority, including that of Samuel Gompers of the AFL. What accounts for the powerful

Tamiment Library, New York University; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Photographs

Irish American women::

union. Mary Kenny O’Sullivan, AFL organizer, was appointed inspector for the Massachusetts Board of Labor. In 1886, Leonora Barry was appointed the first factory inspector for the Knights Labor and spearheaded a factory inspection law in Pennsylvania, while Kate Mullaney of Troy, New York, organized the collar laundry industry. Leonora O’Reilly, an organizer in the New York garment trade, was co-founder with Mary Kenny O’Sullivan and Mary McDowell of the Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.

Seeing the causes of labor and of women’s rights as inseparable, she was very concerned about class division among women. O’Reilly was also a founding member of the NAACP in 1909.

Mother Jones from County Cork overcame much personal hardship, including the loss of her husband and four children to yellow fever, to join the Knights of Labor. She later became an organizer for the United Mine Workers.

Her grandfather was hanged in Ireland as a rebel, while her father fled the country under fear of arrest for political activity.

She became an agitator of great skill who inspired workers and exasperated the barons of industry as well as the judicial system. She once told a judge who criticized her unladylike behavior, “God created women, but the Rockefellers created ladies.” It was said that there was no danger too great for her to face. Even Elizabeth Gurley Flynn feared her biting tongue.

Flynn, the firebrand orator and organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), was feared from the textile mills of Lawrence, Mass., to the lumber camps of Montana. She was arrested many times for union activity beginning at the age of sixteen in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was prosecuted for conspiracy in 1909 at Spokane, Wash. Flynn was associated with every important labor radical of the day, including “Big Bill” Haywood, Vincent St. John, Carlo Tresca, Joe Hill, Joe Ettor, Eugene Debs and Marie Equi. A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920, she was expelled in 1940 for membership in the Communist Party, in violation of the ACLU’s own principles. She became known to workers as the “Rebel Girl” about whom songs and poems were written. Theodore Dreiser wrote in 1906 that Flynn was “an East Side Joan of Arc.” In 1884, carpet workers in Yonkers,

Collection

by Dr. Seamus Metress, professor of anthropology

impact of Irish women in the early labor movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? First, Irish women, unlike those from other immigrant groups, migrated to the United States alone and in greater numbers than did men. Such a situation promoted self-sufficiency and decisionmaking. Among the Irish, it was more socially acceptable for women to be employed than it was among other immigrant groups. Women were highly valued for their economic potential and even marriage was often viewed as an economic pact that should not be entered into lightly. Late marriage and non-marriage were common and not considered deviant among the American Irish. Thus, family obligations did not compete with commitment to union activities. For women, the role of a labor organizer or leader may have filled the same career opportunity as politics did for Irish men. Political careers for women did not open until much later. Finally, Irish culture, contrary to myth, allowed women to be assertive and in general to defy the standards of respectable behavior for women in this era.

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Tamiment Library, New York University; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Photographs Collection

laboring for justice

Elizabeth Flynn addressing workers’ rally, 1913.

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history of the American labor movement without the story of Irish immigrants and their descendants would be a bogus one. From the very beginnings of America’s labor struggles, they were at the forefront. However, the role of Irish women within that movement, with rare exceptions (as with Mother Jones and Elizabeth Flynn), has been largely ignored.

Irish women entered the workforce in large numbers because poverty made it a necessity. Many were the sole providers for themselves and their families. Irish women refused to conform to Victorian stereotypes of women as weak, decorative, passive and dependent. On the job, they refused to tolerate the harsh conditions of the factory and mill. Before the suffragettes marched for the vote, Irish women invaded the streets to aggressively fight for decent wages and working conditions for themselves and others. Like Irish men, they were not about to let bullies push them around in America as often happened under British colonial rule in Ireland. America meant a new way of life.

Almost all the early women leaders in the Knights of Labor and later the American Federation of Labor were of Irish background. The Daughters of St. Crispin, the only nationally organized women’s trade union of the 19th century, was also heavily Irish. Leonora Barry, Elizabeth Rodgers, Leonora O’Reilly, Kate Mullaney, Dora Sullivan, Agnes Nestor, Mary Kenny, Julia O’Conner and “Mother (Mary Harris) Jones” were among the early pioneers of the labor movement.

In 1913, Agnes Nestor of the International Glove Workers was the first woman elected to the presidency of an international www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

Flynn, far right, with children of striking textile workers, 1912.

New York, led by Ellen Tracey, Mary Carey and Lizzie Wilson, secretly organized an assembly of the Knights of Labor and led a strike against wage cuts that involved twenty-five hundred women. Their initiative encouraged the formation of more than a hundred other women’s assemblies of the Knights of Labor. In the Chicago meat packing plants of the early 1900s, Maggie Condon and Hannah O’Day formed one of the first unions to admit African Americans.

Irish women have a long history as labor organizers, strikers and agitators in every region of the country and in a variety of industries. Their influence was felt from the carpet workers in New York to the textile mills of New England to the glove workers in Chicago and among the prominent activists in the strong labor town of San Francisco. They played a powerful part in the advance of American labor. In April 1919, Julia O’Connor led a successful telephone workers strike that paralyzed communication in New England, a strike that defied male trade union authority, including that of Samuel Gompers of the AFL. What accounts for the powerful

Tamiment Library, New York University; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Photographs

Irish American women::

union. Mary Kenny O’Sullivan, AFL organizer, was appointed inspector for the Massachusetts Board of Labor. In 1886, Leonora Barry was appointed the first factory inspector for the Knights Labor and spearheaded a factory inspection law in Pennsylvania, while Kate Mullaney of Troy, New York, organized the collar laundry industry. Leonora O’Reilly, an organizer in the New York garment trade, was co-founder with Mary Kenny O’Sullivan and Mary McDowell of the Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.

Seeing the causes of labor and of women’s rights as inseparable, she was very concerned about class division among women. O’Reilly was also a founding member of the NAACP in 1909.

Mother Jones from County Cork overcame much personal hardship, including the loss of her husband and four children to yellow fever, to join the Knights of Labor. She later became an organizer for the United Mine Workers.

Her grandfather was hanged in Ireland as a rebel, while her father fled the country under fear of arrest for political activity.

She became an agitator of great skill who inspired workers and exasperated the barons of industry as well as the judicial system. She once told a judge who criticized her unladylike behavior, “God created women, but the Rockefellers created ladies.” It was said that there was no danger too great for her to face. Even Elizabeth Gurley Flynn feared her biting tongue.

Flynn, the firebrand orator and organizer for the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), was feared from the textile mills of Lawrence, Mass., to the lumber camps of Montana. She was arrested many times for union activity beginning at the age of sixteen in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was prosecuted for conspiracy in 1909 at Spokane, Wash. Flynn was associated with every important labor radical of the day, including “Big Bill” Haywood, Vincent St. John, Carlo Tresca, Joe Hill, Joe Ettor, Eugene Debs and Marie Equi. A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920, she was expelled in 1940 for membership in the Communist Party, in violation of the ACLU’s own principles. She became known to workers as the “Rebel Girl” about whom songs and poems were written. Theodore Dreiser wrote in 1906 that Flynn was “an East Side Joan of Arc.” In 1884, carpet workers in Yonkers,

Collection

by Dr. Seamus Metress, professor of anthropology

impact of Irish women in the early labor movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? First, Irish women, unlike those from other immigrant groups, migrated to the United States alone and in greater numbers than did men. Such a situation promoted self-sufficiency and decisionmaking. Among the Irish, it was more socially acceptable for women to be employed than it was among other immigrant groups. Women were highly valued for their economic potential and even marriage was often viewed as an economic pact that should not be entered into lightly. Late marriage and non-marriage were common and not considered deviant among the American Irish. Thus, family obligations did not compete with commitment to union activities. For women, the role of a labor organizer or leader may have filled the same career opportunity as politics did for Irish men. Political careers for women did not open until much later. Finally, Irish culture, contrary to myth, allowed women to be assertive and in general to defy the standards of respectable behavior for women in this era.

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A season of sin Envy, lust, pride and greed: Untamed theatrical carnivores swept

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audiences, actors and crews on an eight-month thrill ride. Celebrating its 40-year mark, the department of theatre & film crafted a season

Summary Nebbish working in Skid Row flower shop inadvertently brings extraterrestrial maneating flora to national celebrity, loses girl of his dreams to plant’s hellish appetite.

With music!

that proved the savvy adage: Deadly sins — great theatre!

“There are always times when we ask ourselves, why are we doing this? Musicals take a lot of hard work, and they’re expensive; we need good audiences to make a profit. But they’re essential to our community outreach.”

— Sue Ott Rowlands, professor of theatre and producer of play

Backstage The Audrey puppets are in various sizes and rented from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. They also become ripe from previous uses. “The odor builds up inside.

We use a special costume deodorizer called Fabreeze. We Fabreeze the heck out of those puppets.”

— James Hill, professor of theatre and production designer

What the critics said “...hilarious and expertly performed production that’s perfect for a night out.”

— Jason Webber, Toledo City Paper “...so engaging that even when a bit of scenery was stubborn, the delay was greeted with good will, not groans.”

— Nanciann Cherry, The Blade

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A season of sin Envy, lust, pride and greed: Untamed theatrical carnivores swept

Little Shop of Horrors

audiences, actors and crews on an eight-month thrill ride. Celebrating its 40-year mark, the department of theatre & film crafted a season

Summary Nebbish working in Skid Row flower shop inadvertently brings extraterrestrial maneating flora to national celebrity, loses girl of his dreams to plant’s hellish appetite.

With music!

that proved the savvy adage: Deadly sins — great theatre!

“There are always times when we ask ourselves, why are we doing this? Musicals take a lot of hard work, and they’re expensive; we need good audiences to make a profit. But they’re essential to our community outreach.”

— Sue Ott Rowlands, professor of theatre and producer of play

Backstage The Audrey puppets are in various sizes and rented from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. They also become ripe from previous uses. “The odor builds up inside.

We use a special costume deodorizer called Fabreeze. We Fabreeze the heck out of those puppets.”

— James Hill, professor of theatre and production designer

What the critics said “...hilarious and expertly performed production that’s perfect for a night out.”

— Jason Webber, Toledo City Paper “...so engaging that even when a bit of scenery was stubborn, the delay was greeted with good will, not groans.”

— Nanciann Cherry, The Blade

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“Shakespeare asks questions about leadership, gullibility, conscience and duping the masses. All those things are still around today.”

— Kirby Wahl, then-professor of theatre at UT and Richard III lead actor

Richard III Summary Perpendicularly challenged youngest son of dysfunctional York family clan engineers vast game of “Survivor: Rose Wars,” ends up voted off island permanently.

Challenges A sprawling cast and intricate 15th-century history that screams for Cliff Notes. On the other hand, the plot includes murder, seduction and attempted incest, and stars the greatest villain ever to limp across a stage.

Sets and costumes They were the work of Jaroslav Malina, the Prague-born designer, painter, printmaker and teacher with more than 400 creative productions to his credit.

During a three-week residency at UT, he attended rehearsals and assisted faculty with lectures. At the suggestion that his use of long red curtains could symbolize the bloodiness of the play, his eyes almost imperceptibly crinkled: “That’s good; may I use it the next time I give a talk?”

He continued in the same impish vein, “When I read what the critics say one of my productions mean, I’m usually surprised.”

Leading up to his arrival, the department hosted an exhibit of contemporary Czech theatre design (above, right).

During the seeming chaos of technical rehearsal Sue: “I think the first tech is always about figuring out where the actors belong, and when. The battle happens every night at 6:15. Once we get a routine, it will go more smoothly. Me, I’m trying to watch about fifty things at one time.”

Young actors between scenes “The best part has been the battle scenes, but it’s something just getting up in front of everyone. This is my first play.”

“I’m completely burned. This is hard work.”

“This costume makes me look like one of Santa’s elves!”

Some final directions from the director “Actors, be sure you use bathrooms prior to performance. If you must use them during, use the backstairs route so any audience members in the hall don’t see you in costume.”

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“Shakespeare asks questions about leadership, gullibility, conscience and duping the masses. All those things are still around today.”

— Kirby Wahl, then-professor of theatre at UT and Richard III lead actor

Richard III Summary Perpendicularly challenged youngest son of dysfunctional York family clan engineers vast game of “Survivor: Rose Wars,” ends up voted off island permanently.

Challenges A sprawling cast and intricate 15th-century history that screams for Cliff Notes. On the other hand, the plot includes murder, seduction and attempted incest, and stars the greatest villain ever to limp across a stage.

Sets and costumes They were the work of Jaroslav Malina, the Prague-born designer, painter, printmaker and teacher with more than 400 creative productions to his credit.

During a three-week residency at UT, he attended rehearsals and assisted faculty with lectures. At the suggestion that his use of long red curtains could symbolize the bloodiness of the play, his eyes almost imperceptibly crinkled: “That’s good; may I use it the next time I give a talk?”

He continued in the same impish vein, “When I read what the critics say one of my productions mean, I’m usually surprised.”

Leading up to his arrival, the department hosted an exhibit of contemporary Czech theatre design (above, right).

During the seeming chaos of technical rehearsal Sue: “I think the first tech is always about figuring out where the actors belong, and when. The battle happens every night at 6:15. Once we get a routine, it will go more smoothly. Me, I’m trying to watch about fifty things at one time.”

Young actors between scenes “The best part has been the battle scenes, but it’s something just getting up in front of everyone. This is my first play.”

“I’m completely burned. This is hard work.”

“This costume makes me look like one of Santa’s elves!”

Some final directions from the director “Actors, be sure you use bathrooms prior to performance. If you must use them during, use the backstairs route so any audience members in the hall don’t see you in costume.”

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Summary Think comedy; think physical. Four performers and one rugby match of a script do a maul on the Bard. Romeo pursues a drag Juliet who out-Britneys Britney Spears with balcony gyrations, Macbeth is delivered in Scots accents that roll R’s from here to Loch Lomond, and Hamlet gets pared down to one minute — then it’s done backwards!

What the critics said

“It’s a wacky, witty but sometimes uneven

students need to understand that this

Auditions They’re like improv with an audience of one — nobody heckles, but the pressure is on for energy, personality and precision. Senior Seth Shaffer, below, faces the moment of truth in front of director Kirby Wahl. The verdict came in later: Seth was in.

(He’s Romeo, at right.)

riff on the Bard’s canon, featuring four

is in part what theatre is all about, but

talented actors in about a zillion roles

we’re not condoning this as part of

(and often in drag).”

their everyday language.”

— Lauri Donahue, Independent Collegian

— sixth-grade teacher at same performance

Actor Grant Walker “Comedy is all about timing. If you don’t have comedic timing, it’s really killing to try to do it.”

boring.”

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“Although some parts... work better than

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for sixth-,

others, the laughter comes thick and fast

seventh- and eighth-graders. I think it’s

as the frenetic cast mangles dialogue,

appropriate for adults, but at our school,

condenses the action and changes plots

we don’t allow students to use the sort

to suit their needs at the moment.”

of language you see here.

— Nanciann Cherry

“I’m sure we’ll do some type of instruction when we get back. Our

“It’s really funny. It’s not what we thought it was going to be. We thought it was going to be really, really, really — four sixth-graders at student matinee

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Summary Think comedy; think physical. Four performers and one rugby match of a script do a maul on the Bard. Romeo pursues a drag Juliet who out-Britneys Britney Spears with balcony gyrations, Macbeth is delivered in Scots accents that roll R’s from here to Loch Lomond, and Hamlet gets pared down to one minute — then it’s done backwards!

What the critics said

“It’s a wacky, witty but sometimes uneven

students need to understand that this

Auditions They’re like improv with an audience of one — nobody heckles, but the pressure is on for energy, personality and precision. Senior Seth Shaffer, below, faces the moment of truth in front of director Kirby Wahl. The verdict came in later: Seth was in.

(He’s Romeo, at right.)

riff on the Bard’s canon, featuring four

is in part what theatre is all about, but

talented actors in about a zillion roles

we’re not condoning this as part of

(and often in drag).”

their everyday language.”

— Lauri Donahue, Independent Collegian

— sixth-grade teacher at same performance

Actor Grant Walker “Comedy is all about timing. If you don’t have comedic timing, it’s really killing to try to do it.”

boring.”

www.toledoalumni.org

“Although some parts... work better than

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for sixth-,

others, the laughter comes thick and fast

seventh- and eighth-graders. I think it’s

as the frenetic cast mangles dialogue,

appropriate for adults, but at our school,

condenses the action and changes plots

we don’t allow students to use the sort

to suit their needs at the moment.”

of language you see here.

— Nanciann Cherry

“I’m sure we’ll do some type of instruction when we get back. Our

“It’s really funny. It’s not what we thought it was going to be. We thought it was going to be really, really, really — four sixth-graders at student matinee

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Bernie Coyne Summary A Hamlet riff in which Young Fortinbras, who’s left to mop up after the carnage at Elsinore, decides to apply a corporate takeover model to the kingless kingdom.

He rethinks his aggressive stance when he’s visited by six randy and/or riled-up ghosts.

Innovations The melancholy Dane trapped in a portable TV! Along with such creative anachronisms, Fortinbras delivers sexy comedy and plenty of satiric zings on the crimes, lies and misdemeanors at the highest levels of political power.

What the critics said “...it is a biting commentary on politics and power. It is also extremely funny.”

— Nanciann Cherry “The audience can tell it’s in for a good time as soon as Pete Cross (Fortinbras)... enters in an oversized, powder blue tuxedo ornamented with Boy Scout regalia (the brilliant costumes are by Holly Monsos).”

— Lauri Donahue

Sample dialogue Fortinbras: “I used to tell the truth all the time. People would get incredibly disappointed. I’d say, ‘But that’s what really happened.’ I was so unpopular. Then I thought, ‘Wait a minute — I’m a prince.

And someday, a king.’ And it’s far more important for a king to be popular than to recount a bunch of random events the way they actually happened. You see what I’m saying? If the truth distances me from my people, then how can it be the truth?”

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Director Stephen Berwind, thenassistant professor of UT theatre: “The play is about the female characters from Shakespeare’s Othello sharing stories of men as sexual partners. As the cast became more comfortable with each other, they began to do an amount of the same, many of them centering on what’s wrong with men.

I can’t share the stories in a public magazine, though.”

Fortinbras

Scott Nyitray

D esdemona

Past & future: mulling the next landmark anniversary Bernie Coyne, professor emeritus of theatre and one of the department’s founders: “We were told that Toledo would never stand for performances on Sundays. But we did them, and we filled the theatre. We were told, ‘You can’t put black people on stage in white roles’; we did, and we packed the house. People called us one of the most experimental theatre departments in the country. We did Romeo and Juliet in a giant beehive, with the audience sitting in the hive.

“If theatre isn’t dangerous, you’re a watch fob. Did you ever hear of a conservative artist? That’s someone who’s just doing schlock.”

Chuck Vicinus, professor emeritus of theatre: “ I was hired in 1978 when Julian Olf was chairman. Within two weeks he told me that we had to have a summer theatre. We created Summerstage, which was probably one of the best things that happened to the department. You could go from Center Theatre to Studio Theatre after the show and have coffee or wine, along with more entertainment.

“Summerstage ran for four or five years and it marked sort of a golden era, at least for me, even though it was a killer to do. [Professor of theatre and designer] Bill Smith was cranking out five shows a season and didn’t compromise on quality.

“But Summerstage became the thing to do in Toledo — and the department had a reputation for being the best theatre department in the state system.”

The curtain is already going up on the 2005 – 2006 season: “Conflict, Courage and Compassion: Our World on Stage and Film.” For information, call the department at 419.530.2202.

Sue Ott Rowlands: “We’ve had lots of really good response to our international initiatives and to our Shakespeare season.

In fact, I wish we were doing another one!

“The ongoing challenge is to translate positive feedback to student head count.

We have so many students of film that we can barely house and equip them. On the theatre side, we have a strong professional faculty, we’re aggressive in getting students placed after graduation, and we continue to stress study abroad. We do community outreach via international initiatives, the summer musical and student matinees, which we restarted this year. But our building is a challenge; it’s an older facility, and that makes it harder to recruit students.

“We’ll keep building collaborations with the community and beyond.”

And a final thought from the up-andcoming generation Scott Nyitray, sophomore in theatre, who was preparing for the role of Mortimer in the summer musical, The Fantasticks: “I transferred to UT from Marietta College because I liked the professional experience of the professors, and the small size of the program means that it’s more about students than about professors trying to advance themselves.

The professors here want to make the experience fun.

“Live theatre is always going to be around. I like watching movies, but you can see a movie a hundred times and it’s the same every time. You see a live production twice and it’s different each time. Watching live performances is something you grow into.

“I always tell people that there’s a big difference between being famous and being great.”

Anniversary soiree & reunion Alums Ray Wohl (performing a one-man version of The Wizard of Oz) and Sylvia Carter were just two of the seasoned performers who threw themselves and their talents into a sizzling cabaret show at the department’s 40th anniversary celebration in May. www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

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Bernie Coyne Summary A Hamlet riff in which Young Fortinbras, who’s left to mop up after the carnage at Elsinore, decides to apply a corporate takeover model to the kingless kingdom.

He rethinks his aggressive stance when he’s visited by six randy and/or riled-up ghosts.

Innovations The melancholy Dane trapped in a portable TV! Along with such creative anachronisms, Fortinbras delivers sexy comedy and plenty of satiric zings on the crimes, lies and misdemeanors at the highest levels of political power.

What the critics said “...it is a biting commentary on politics and power. It is also extremely funny.”

— Nanciann Cherry “The audience can tell it’s in for a good time as soon as Pete Cross (Fortinbras)... enters in an oversized, powder blue tuxedo ornamented with Boy Scout regalia (the brilliant costumes are by Holly Monsos).”

— Lauri Donahue

Sample dialogue Fortinbras: “I used to tell the truth all the time. People would get incredibly disappointed. I’d say, ‘But that’s what really happened.’ I was so unpopular. Then I thought, ‘Wait a minute — I’m a prince.

And someday, a king.’ And it’s far more important for a king to be popular than to recount a bunch of random events the way they actually happened. You see what I’m saying? If the truth distances me from my people, then how can it be the truth?”

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Sue Ott Rowlands

Director Stephen Berwind, thenassistant professor of UT theatre: “The play is about the female characters from Shakespeare’s Othello sharing stories of men as sexual partners. As the cast became more comfortable with each other, they began to do an amount of the same, many of them centering on what’s wrong with men.

I can’t share the stories in a public magazine, though.”

Fortinbras

Scott Nyitray

D esdemona

Past & future: mulling the next landmark anniversary Bernie Coyne, professor emeritus of theatre and one of the department’s founders: “We were told that Toledo would never stand for performances on Sundays. But we did them, and we filled the theatre. We were told, ‘You can’t put black people on stage in white roles’; we did, and we packed the house. People called us one of the most experimental theatre departments in the country. We did Romeo and Juliet in a giant beehive, with the audience sitting in the hive.

“If theatre isn’t dangerous, you’re a watch fob. Did you ever hear of a conservative artist? That’s someone who’s just doing schlock.”

Chuck Vicinus, professor emeritus of theatre: “ I was hired in 1978 when Julian Olf was chairman. Within two weeks he told me that we had to have a summer theatre. We created Summerstage, which was probably one of the best things that happened to the department. You could go from Center Theatre to Studio Theatre after the show and have coffee or wine, along with more entertainment.

“Summerstage ran for four or five years and it marked sort of a golden era, at least for me, even though it was a killer to do. [Professor of theatre and designer] Bill Smith was cranking out five shows a season and didn’t compromise on quality.

“But Summerstage became the thing to do in Toledo — and the department had a reputation for being the best theatre department in the state system.”

The curtain is already going up on the 2005 – 2006 season: “Conflict, Courage and Compassion: Our World on Stage and Film.” For information, call the department at 419.530.2202.

Sue Ott Rowlands: “We’ve had lots of really good response to our international initiatives and to our Shakespeare season.

In fact, I wish we were doing another one!

“The ongoing challenge is to translate positive feedback to student head count.

We have so many students of film that we can barely house and equip them. On the theatre side, we have a strong professional faculty, we’re aggressive in getting students placed after graduation, and we continue to stress study abroad. We do community outreach via international initiatives, the summer musical and student matinees, which we restarted this year. But our building is a challenge; it’s an older facility, and that makes it harder to recruit students.

“We’ll keep building collaborations with the community and beyond.”

And a final thought from the up-andcoming generation Scott Nyitray, sophomore in theatre, who was preparing for the role of Mortimer in the summer musical, The Fantasticks: “I transferred to UT from Marietta College because I liked the professional experience of the professors, and the small size of the program means that it’s more about students than about professors trying to advance themselves.

The professors here want to make the experience fun.

“Live theatre is always going to be around. I like watching movies, but you can see a movie a hundred times and it’s the same every time. You see a live production twice and it’s different each time. Watching live performances is something you grow into.

“I always tell people that there’s a big difference between being famous and being great.”

Anniversary soiree & reunion Alums Ray Wohl (performing a one-man version of The Wizard of Oz) and Sylvia Carter were just two of the seasoned performers who threw themselves and their talents into a sizzling cabaret show at the department’s 40th anniversary celebration in May. www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

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’20s

William Kander (Pharm ’33) moved to Bethany Lutheran Village in Centerville, Ohio.

Dr. Fred O. Hartman (A/S ’37), Worthington, Ohio, was recognized by the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences with a Meritorious Service Award for more than 50 years as a teacher, scholar, mentor and researcher in their department of horticulture and with the fruit/ vegetable industry.

Comfort, food in aisles of alumna’s business Douglass R. (Pharm ’54) and Vera V. Sloan (Ed ’88), Sylvania, celebrated their 50th anniversary in January, following up the festivities with a trip to Hawaii.

Donald F. Spear (Bus ’55, MBA ’56), Green Valley, Ariz., an amateur photographer for nearly 50 years, has had a number of local exhibits of his work. The latest, “Photography in Our Digital Age,” ran last fall and marked his enthusiastic entry into digital photography. Some of his work can be viewed at gvcameraclub.org/.

Jim Hale (Pharm ’56) retired for about six weeks, then decided that he “felt naked not working as a pharmacist,” so began practicing at Oakley’s Pharmacy in Defiance, Ohio, for about 10 hours a month.

’40s Hartman ’37

’40s

Eli Abramson M.D. (A/S ’49), Toledo physician, was honored with the Silver Circle Award by the Toledo Community Jewish Foundation and the United Jewish Council of Greater Toledo for his many years of community service.

’50s

George W. Green (Bus ’50, MBA ’51), Dearborn, Mich., wrote an article, “Train ’em in a Truck,” that appeared in Old Time Trucks Magazine, plus two more articles for The Paper & Advertising Collector and Antiques & Auctions News. He was also the keynote speaker at the three-day annual meeting in May of the Perrysburg, Ohio, members of the Packard Club, dedicated to the classic auto.

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William F. “Fred” Dais (Ed ’64, MEd ’69, Ed Spec ’77), director of field experiences at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., was appointed as the representative for higher education on the Tennessee Education Association’s Instruction and Professional Development Committee.

of educational psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of School Psychologists. He served 18 years as a school psychologist for Port Clinton (Ohio) City Schools, then joined the Miami faculty in 1990, serving as a department chair for six years.

Norman Rubinoff (MBA ’67) was appointed chairman of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation. He is a member of the law firm of Spengler, Nathanson, Heyman, McCarthy & Durfee.

Jessica R. Baron (A/S ’68), East Walnut Hills, Ohio, was named director of programs for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

She is the founder of the marketing firm Prime Time Communications Inc., and of your-time.com, an online baby boomer health-andlifestyle community.

Dr. Alex Thomas (A/S ’66, MEd ’72, PhD ’77), professor

’70s

Mark Camp (A/S ’70, MS ’72), associate professor of earth, ecological and environmental sciences at The University of Toledo, was elected president of the Ohio Academy of Sciences for a one-year term.

Dale Fallat (Law ’70), a 37-year veteran of The Andersons and one of the founders of Arrowhead Park, was named a 2004 Hometown Hero by the Maumee Chamber of Commerce.

Jim Granecki (Pharm ’70, Law ’76) now lives in Prescott, Ariz., working as a pharmacist for Safeway Food & Drug, after retiring from the Medical University of Ohio.

Charles D. Beard (MEd ’72), who spent 35 years in middleschool and elementary education, most recently as principal of Napoleon (Ohio) Middle School, accepted the position of chairman of the middle childhood education department at Lourdes College in Sylvania.

Lee D. Wunschel (Bus ’72, MBA ’74), a partner with the

Dr. John Geisler (MEd ’66, PhD ’68), Kalamazoo, Mich., retired from Western Michigan University, where he had been a faculty member in counseling education and psychology since 1976.

David Moore (Pharm ’66), Toledo, sold Crary Drug in Temperance, Mich., to Tim Kirk (Pharm ’95).

Jerome Phillips (Ed ’66), attorney with Wittenberg, Phillips, Levy & Nusbaum, was elected chairman of the Phillip Wasserstrom Family Supporting Organization of the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation.

Center near Lake Erie in Danbury Township.

Baron ’68 Nathan Kugelman (Pharm ’68) is manager of the employee and out-patient pharmacy the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

David Brinkel (Pharm ’69), Hilton, N.Y., joined Eckerds Pharmacy in April.

Milton R. Pommeranz (Eng ’69), director of civil engineering for Brunkhorst Engineering Consultants Inc. in Port Clinton, Ohio, was named to the board of directors for Monsoon Lagoon Water Park and Family Fun

LublinSussman Group in Toledo, was elected to the board of directors of the American Institute of CPAs at their annual meeting in Florida.

Sister Marianne Longo (MEd ’73), who served for 16 years as director of Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Fremont, Ohio, became the center’s spiritual director. She also worked for 30 years in teaching and administration for grade schools in Ohio and Tennessee.

Roger Nagel (Law ’73), Fulton County (Ohio) Prosecutor, is assisted by his son, Eric Nagel (Law ’01), who was appointed by Roger’s predecessor. Since Roger www.toledoalumni.org

raised the issue with the Ohio Ethics Commission and received an “all-clear-and-above-board” reply, he and Eric may be the only father-son prosecuting team in the state.

University School of Pharmacy in Savannah, the Georgia city where she and her husband, Douglas (Pharm ’78), live.

Kevin McQuade (Ed ’75, MEd ’89, Ed Spec ’97), whose career

position of vice president, preconstruction services, at The Douglas Co.

in education spanned the jobs of teacher, coach, principal and superintendent in Swanton Local Schools, retired in the spring.

At his retirement party, he was honored with two commendations from the state legislature.

Dr. Hans Schmalzried (UTCTC ’75, Ed ’78, MEd ’82, PhD ’90) accepted an associate professorship with Bowling Green State University, teaching public health.

Carole L. (Keeler) Sendi (Ed ’75, MEd ’01), a teacher at Ottawa Hills Elementary School, received the Howard M. Baker Master Educator award from the Lucas County Educational Service Center in May, honoring her for professional dedication and innovation. She and her husband, David (Univ Coll ’75), live in Sylvania with their three children.

Jim Buchanan (Eng ’79, MBA ’84). Perrysburg, accepted the

Nicholas R. Santilli (A/S ’79, MEd ’82) was appointed director of planning and assessment at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, where he has been a member of the psychology department faculty since 1989. The new position came after his service as a Fellow of the American Council on Education, a leadership development program he completed under the mentorship of Dr. Dan Johnson, president of The University of Toledo.

’80s

Tim Colligan (Pharm ’80) was named pharmacy director for SummaCare Inc., an Akron-based health insurer serving 18 counties in northeastern Ohio.

Tom Deckelman (Bus ’76, MBA ’82), professor of

Lynda Malone (UTCTC ’80) is chief operating officer

business technologies at Owens Community College, received the Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, Region 4. He has been on the Owens faculty since 1985.

Jeffrey L. Robinson (Law ’76), Wauseon, Ohio, was appointed to the Fulton County Western Court

by Gov. Bob Taft. A partner with the law firm of Barber, Kaper, Stamm & Robinson, he also served as special counsel to the state attorney general and as law director for the city of Wauseon.

of Warren Fire Equipment Inc., a fire protection company headquartered in Warren and Dayton.

Sally (Pederi) Huston (Pharm ’78) accepted a position as assistant professor at South

www.toledoalumni.org

Nancy Yunker (UTCTC ’80, A/S ’83) is president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Northwestern Ohio. She began working for the Toledo-based organization in 1980, serving as interim president/CEO since 2004.

Dr. Raymond Goldberg (PhD ’81) was named associate dean for the School of Professional Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland.

On the SUNY faculty since 1977, he had served as interim associate dean for two years.

“H

ello, can I help you?” “Is today your husband’s day off?”

“Hello, I didn’t recognize you from behind.”“How are you?” Her words ring out above the clamor of the kitchen and the street sounds that drift in through the open front door. Revathi Chillapalli (MA ’83) smiles and greets the customers, asking after each patron. “If you deal with people on a personal level, they’ll become your friends, too,” she explains.

Chillapalli and her husband, Siva, own and operate Deepam India Deli and Food Market in Sylvania. Whether she’s behind the counter or in the store’s kitchen, Chillapalli’s business strategy centers on people.

After 10 years running a Michigan Futurekids franchise, which taught computer literacy skills to teachers, Chillapalli and her husband decided to try a new business venture. “We are the kind of people who just can’t keep quiet,” she says. “We thought it was time that Toledo tasted what healthy Indian food was like.”

They chose a spot in a Central Avenue strip mall, waiting six months for the move. “We really wanted this location,” she explains, citing the close proximity of the Hindu temple and Indian residents. Her husband worked with wholesalers while Revathi selected dishes to make. “We are a team,” she says. “He comes up with an idea and I execute it.”

Chillapalli made interactions with customers a top priority when the market opened a year ago. “This is not just a grocery store or a deli — we talk a lot to the people that come in,” she says.

“We have people ask us for recipes and we make suggestions. We have people tell us, ‘This is the first store that takes an interest in me.’

People are comfortable here.”

Her sociology degree has been an asset, she says: “I try to understand why a person is behaving a certain way and how to deal with their needs.”

With understanding comes responsiveness. The store’s cooking classes, for instance, were added by customer request.

It’s usually 12 hours a day and seven days a week for Chillapalli. “I think this is my first time sitting down all day,” she says during the interview. “I’ve learned that you must be prepared at all times and that you can’t depend on other people for everything.”

She washes the dishes, cleans the store and stocks shelves in addition to cooking. “I try to do as much as possible.”

But one thing that she hasn’t done is cook for her family outside of the store. “After cooking all day, I just bring some food home,” she says with a smile.

— Deanna Woolf, Office of Marketing and Communications

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’20s

William Kander (Pharm ’33) moved to Bethany Lutheran Village in Centerville, Ohio.

Dr. Fred O. Hartman (A/S ’37), Worthington, Ohio, was recognized by the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences with a Meritorious Service Award for more than 50 years as a teacher, scholar, mentor and researcher in their department of horticulture and with the fruit/ vegetable industry.

Comfort, food in aisles of alumna’s business Douglass R. (Pharm ’54) and Vera V. Sloan (Ed ’88), Sylvania, celebrated their 50th anniversary in January, following up the festivities with a trip to Hawaii.

Donald F. Spear (Bus ’55, MBA ’56), Green Valley, Ariz., an amateur photographer for nearly 50 years, has had a number of local exhibits of his work. The latest, “Photography in Our Digital Age,” ran last fall and marked his enthusiastic entry into digital photography. Some of his work can be viewed at gvcameraclub.org/.

Jim Hale (Pharm ’56) retired for about six weeks, then decided that he “felt naked not working as a pharmacist,” so began practicing at Oakley’s Pharmacy in Defiance, Ohio, for about 10 hours a month.

’40s Hartman ’37

’40s

Eli Abramson M.D. (A/S ’49), Toledo physician, was honored with the Silver Circle Award by the Toledo Community Jewish Foundation and the United Jewish Council of Greater Toledo for his many years of community service.

’50s

George W. Green (Bus ’50, MBA ’51), Dearborn, Mich., wrote an article, “Train ’em in a Truck,” that appeared in Old Time Trucks Magazine, plus two more articles for The Paper & Advertising Collector and Antiques & Auctions News. He was also the keynote speaker at the three-day annual meeting in May of the Perrysburg, Ohio, members of the Packard Club, dedicated to the classic auto.

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William F. “Fred” Dais (Ed ’64, MEd ’69, Ed Spec ’77), director of field experiences at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., was appointed as the representative for higher education on the Tennessee Education Association’s Instruction and Professional Development Committee.

of educational psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of School Psychologists. He served 18 years as a school psychologist for Port Clinton (Ohio) City Schools, then joined the Miami faculty in 1990, serving as a department chair for six years.

Norman Rubinoff (MBA ’67) was appointed chairman of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation. He is a member of the law firm of Spengler, Nathanson, Heyman, McCarthy & Durfee.

Jessica R. Baron (A/S ’68), East Walnut Hills, Ohio, was named director of programs for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

She is the founder of the marketing firm Prime Time Communications Inc., and of your-time.com, an online baby boomer health-andlifestyle community.

Dr. Alex Thomas (A/S ’66, MEd ’72, PhD ’77), professor

’70s

Mark Camp (A/S ’70, MS ’72), associate professor of earth, ecological and environmental sciences at The University of Toledo, was elected president of the Ohio Academy of Sciences for a one-year term.

Dale Fallat (Law ’70), a 37-year veteran of The Andersons and one of the founders of Arrowhead Park, was named a 2004 Hometown Hero by the Maumee Chamber of Commerce.

Jim Granecki (Pharm ’70, Law ’76) now lives in Prescott, Ariz., working as a pharmacist for Safeway Food & Drug, after retiring from the Medical University of Ohio.

Charles D. Beard (MEd ’72), who spent 35 years in middleschool and elementary education, most recently as principal of Napoleon (Ohio) Middle School, accepted the position of chairman of the middle childhood education department at Lourdes College in Sylvania.

Lee D. Wunschel (Bus ’72, MBA ’74), a partner with the

Dr. John Geisler (MEd ’66, PhD ’68), Kalamazoo, Mich., retired from Western Michigan University, where he had been a faculty member in counseling education and psychology since 1976.

David Moore (Pharm ’66), Toledo, sold Crary Drug in Temperance, Mich., to Tim Kirk (Pharm ’95).

Jerome Phillips (Ed ’66), attorney with Wittenberg, Phillips, Levy & Nusbaum, was elected chairman of the Phillip Wasserstrom Family Supporting Organization of the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation.

Center near Lake Erie in Danbury Township.

Baron ’68 Nathan Kugelman (Pharm ’68) is manager of the employee and out-patient pharmacy the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

David Brinkel (Pharm ’69), Hilton, N.Y., joined Eckerds Pharmacy in April.

Milton R. Pommeranz (Eng ’69), director of civil engineering for Brunkhorst Engineering Consultants Inc. in Port Clinton, Ohio, was named to the board of directors for Monsoon Lagoon Water Park and Family Fun

LublinSussman Group in Toledo, was elected to the board of directors of the American Institute of CPAs at their annual meeting in Florida.

Sister Marianne Longo (MEd ’73), who served for 16 years as director of Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Fremont, Ohio, became the center’s spiritual director. She also worked for 30 years in teaching and administration for grade schools in Ohio and Tennessee.

Roger Nagel (Law ’73), Fulton County (Ohio) Prosecutor, is assisted by his son, Eric Nagel (Law ’01), who was appointed by Roger’s predecessor. Since Roger www.toledoalumni.org

raised the issue with the Ohio Ethics Commission and received an “all-clear-and-above-board” reply, he and Eric may be the only father-son prosecuting team in the state.

University School of Pharmacy in Savannah, the Georgia city where she and her husband, Douglas (Pharm ’78), live.

Kevin McQuade (Ed ’75, MEd ’89, Ed Spec ’97), whose career

position of vice president, preconstruction services, at The Douglas Co.

in education spanned the jobs of teacher, coach, principal and superintendent in Swanton Local Schools, retired in the spring.

At his retirement party, he was honored with two commendations from the state legislature.

Dr. Hans Schmalzried (UTCTC ’75, Ed ’78, MEd ’82, PhD ’90) accepted an associate professorship with Bowling Green State University, teaching public health.

Carole L. (Keeler) Sendi (Ed ’75, MEd ’01), a teacher at Ottawa Hills Elementary School, received the Howard M. Baker Master Educator award from the Lucas County Educational Service Center in May, honoring her for professional dedication and innovation. She and her husband, David (Univ Coll ’75), live in Sylvania with their three children.

Jim Buchanan (Eng ’79, MBA ’84). Perrysburg, accepted the

Nicholas R. Santilli (A/S ’79, MEd ’82) was appointed director of planning and assessment at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, where he has been a member of the psychology department faculty since 1989. The new position came after his service as a Fellow of the American Council on Education, a leadership development program he completed under the mentorship of Dr. Dan Johnson, president of The University of Toledo.

’80s

Tim Colligan (Pharm ’80) was named pharmacy director for SummaCare Inc., an Akron-based health insurer serving 18 counties in northeastern Ohio.

Tom Deckelman (Bus ’76, MBA ’82), professor of

Lynda Malone (UTCTC ’80) is chief operating officer

business technologies at Owens Community College, received the Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, Region 4. He has been on the Owens faculty since 1985.

Jeffrey L. Robinson (Law ’76), Wauseon, Ohio, was appointed to the Fulton County Western Court

by Gov. Bob Taft. A partner with the law firm of Barber, Kaper, Stamm & Robinson, he also served as special counsel to the state attorney general and as law director for the city of Wauseon.

of Warren Fire Equipment Inc., a fire protection company headquartered in Warren and Dayton.

Sally (Pederi) Huston (Pharm ’78) accepted a position as assistant professor at South

www.toledoalumni.org

Nancy Yunker (UTCTC ’80, A/S ’83) is president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Northwestern Ohio. She began working for the Toledo-based organization in 1980, serving as interim president/CEO since 2004.

Dr. Raymond Goldberg (PhD ’81) was named associate dean for the School of Professional Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland.

On the SUNY faculty since 1977, he had served as interim associate dean for two years.

“H

ello, can I help you?” “Is today your husband’s day off?”

“Hello, I didn’t recognize you from behind.”“How are you?” Her words ring out above the clamor of the kitchen and the street sounds that drift in through the open front door. Revathi Chillapalli (MA ’83) smiles and greets the customers, asking after each patron. “If you deal with people on a personal level, they’ll become your friends, too,” she explains.

Chillapalli and her husband, Siva, own and operate Deepam India Deli and Food Market in Sylvania. Whether she’s behind the counter or in the store’s kitchen, Chillapalli’s business strategy centers on people.

After 10 years running a Michigan Futurekids franchise, which taught computer literacy skills to teachers, Chillapalli and her husband decided to try a new business venture. “We are the kind of people who just can’t keep quiet,” she says. “We thought it was time that Toledo tasted what healthy Indian food was like.”

They chose a spot in a Central Avenue strip mall, waiting six months for the move. “We really wanted this location,” she explains, citing the close proximity of the Hindu temple and Indian residents. Her husband worked with wholesalers while Revathi selected dishes to make. “We are a team,” she says. “He comes up with an idea and I execute it.”

Chillapalli made interactions with customers a top priority when the market opened a year ago. “This is not just a grocery store or a deli — we talk a lot to the people that come in,” she says.

“We have people ask us for recipes and we make suggestions. We have people tell us, ‘This is the first store that takes an interest in me.’

People are comfortable here.”

Her sociology degree has been an asset, she says: “I try to understand why a person is behaving a certain way and how to deal with their needs.”

With understanding comes responsiveness. The store’s cooking classes, for instance, were added by customer request.

It’s usually 12 hours a day and seven days a week for Chillapalli. “I think this is my first time sitting down all day,” she says during the interview. “I’ve learned that you must be prepared at all times and that you can’t depend on other people for everything.”

She washes the dishes, cleans the store and stocks shelves in addition to cooking. “I try to do as much as possible.”

But one thing that she hasn’t done is cook for her family outside of the store. “After cooking all day, I just bring some food home,” she says with a smile.

— Deanna Woolf, Office of Marketing and Communications

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

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Gary Conny (Law ’85), manager of casualty claims training and recruiting for Nationwide Insurance Co., was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Ohio.

He also serves on the school’s board of trustees and as chairman of their alumni association.

Goldberg ’81

Trumbull ’82

Helldobler ’83

Michael W. Hoffman (Law ’81) established an Atlanta law

Dr. Richard Helldobler (Bus ’83), dean of the College of Liberal

Denise A. Randall (MBA ’83)

firm, Hoffman & Associates LLC, in 1991, which now has four attorneys (including Joseph B. Nagel [Law ’98]), three accountants and several support staff. Michael and his wife, Lynne, have four children, all of whom, he notes, “went to MAC schools.”

Don Trumbull (Ed ’82), Oregon, was promoted to branch manager of the Walbridge office of Exchange Bank.

Arts at the California University of Pennsylvania, was named an ACE Fellow for the 2005-06 academic year, one of 40 Fellows selected this year in the annual competition that identifies and prepares promising senior faculty and administrators for administrative positions of higher authority.

John A. Kendzel (Bus ’85)

joined the Ann Arbor, Mich., office of Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, returning to the area after 20 years in the high-tech field. As a member of the New Enterprise Forum and the Great Lakes Angels, she also helps to support new business and entrepreneurs.

Patty Lucas (Univ Coll ’84) was hired by First Federal Bank as vice president of commercial banking for the Findlay and Hancock County (Ohio) area.

joined FirstMerit Bank as senior vice president, commercial banking team leader.

Dr. Jenn Park (MEd ’85, PhD ’94) was hired as vice president/ senior research consultant by Directions Research Inc., a Cincinnati-based marketing research firm, working out of Sylvania.

Beth Charvat (Bus ’86) was promoted to deposit services officer with Signature Bank N.A. in Toledo.

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named branch manager of the Sandusky/Perkins, Ohio, office of U.S. Bank.

Dr. Amy Jo Stringer (Ed ’87) earned a doctoral degree in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Mark A. Cisek (Bus ’88), Toledo, joined FirstMerit Bank as assistant vice president, commercial banking.

David A. Disbrow (Univ Coll ’88), senior vice president of operations with Doctors Hospital in Worthington, Ohio, advanced to Fellow status in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bruce Johnson (Univ Coll ’88, MEd ’96) joined WNWO-TV Ch. 24 as an account executive.

Robert Loeb (MBA ’88) was promoted to senior vice president with the McDonald Financial Group of KeyBank in Toledo. He has been with the group since 1990.

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o see the intricately detailed paintings of Chuck Shapler (Eng ’57, MEng ’65), you might think that he mixes liberal if metaphoric amounts of blood and sweat with his paint.

Not so, says the retired professional engineer and surveyor now living in Florida: “I love painting; it’s therapeutic. I just put my mind out of gear and away I go.”

Zen and the Art of Watercolors? Not quite. As he notes, “I always enjoyed the drafting associated with my early engineering experience. Now I use that experience to prepare very detailed drawings for the watercolor. In fact, I probably enjoy the drawing more because I have complete control over it. Watercolor consistently has a mind of its own.”

And there’s more taste for movement than for contemplation in Shapler’s psyche. Take the experimental wood-and-fabric biplanes that he built and flies.

“That began when I was racing go-carts. I was really enjoying it and got good at it, so I came home one day and said to my wife that either I would buy a racing car or take flying lessons. She said to take flying lessons.” He’s been a private pilot since 1966. (His wife [the late Marjorie Besse Shapler], he notes, watched him building one of his biplanes and told him, “There’s no need to put a seat in there for me, thanks.”)

However, he doesn’t sweat the flying, either. “It’s similar to what attracted me to painting.

Flying’s a great way to cleanse your mind. After work I’d go out for about an hour and shoot landings [take off, stay in a flight pattern

“Tranquility”

“Oak Grove School”

and land]. That’s where the skill comes in: takeoffs and landings.

The rest of the time you’re just up in the air, cruising.”

He’s still active in the air, using his regular trips to Toledo to fly an open-cockpit biplane he stores on a Michigan airfield. And he took his watercolors — which have won numerous awards and have been displayed at galleries nationwide — to a new level when he successfully sold them to greeting card giant American

Greetings: “I sent off a packet of 15 home-printed cards. They said that they’d take all of them.”

Some of the original paintings now hang in the company’s corporate offices; others could reach a wider audience — possibly via airmail.

However, Shapler has the final pun when he says of his paintings, “It was all a stroke of luck, I think.”

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

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Flying true on a wing and a paintbrush

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Gary Conny (Law ’85), manager of casualty claims training and recruiting for Nationwide Insurance Co., was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Ohio.

He also serves on the school’s board of trustees and as chairman of their alumni association.

Goldberg ’81

Trumbull ’82

Helldobler ’83

Michael W. Hoffman (Law ’81) established an Atlanta law

Dr. Richard Helldobler (Bus ’83), dean of the College of Liberal

Denise A. Randall (MBA ’83)

firm, Hoffman & Associates LLC, in 1991, which now has four attorneys (including Joseph B. Nagel [Law ’98]), three accountants and several support staff. Michael and his wife, Lynne, have four children, all of whom, he notes, “went to MAC schools.”

Don Trumbull (Ed ’82), Oregon, was promoted to branch manager of the Walbridge office of Exchange Bank.

Arts at the California University of Pennsylvania, was named an ACE Fellow for the 2005-06 academic year, one of 40 Fellows selected this year in the annual competition that identifies and prepares promising senior faculty and administrators for administrative positions of higher authority.

John A. Kendzel (Bus ’85)

joined the Ann Arbor, Mich., office of Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, returning to the area after 20 years in the high-tech field. As a member of the New Enterprise Forum and the Great Lakes Angels, she also helps to support new business and entrepreneurs.

Patty Lucas (Univ Coll ’84) was hired by First Federal Bank as vice president of commercial banking for the Findlay and Hancock County (Ohio) area.

joined FirstMerit Bank as senior vice president, commercial banking team leader.

Dr. Jenn Park (MEd ’85, PhD ’94) was hired as vice president/ senior research consultant by Directions Research Inc., a Cincinnati-based marketing research firm, working out of Sylvania.

Beth Charvat (Bus ’86) was promoted to deposit services officer with Signature Bank N.A. in Toledo.

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named branch manager of the Sandusky/Perkins, Ohio, office of U.S. Bank.

Dr. Amy Jo Stringer (Ed ’87) earned a doctoral degree in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Mark A. Cisek (Bus ’88), Toledo, joined FirstMerit Bank as assistant vice president, commercial banking.

David A. Disbrow (Univ Coll ’88), senior vice president of operations with Doctors Hospital in Worthington, Ohio, advanced to Fellow status in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bruce Johnson (Univ Coll ’88, MEd ’96) joined WNWO-TV Ch. 24 as an account executive.

Robert Loeb (MBA ’88) was promoted to senior vice president with the McDonald Financial Group of KeyBank in Toledo. He has been with the group since 1990.

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o see the intricately detailed paintings of Chuck Shapler (Eng ’57, MEng ’65), you might think that he mixes liberal if metaphoric amounts of blood and sweat with his paint.

Not so, says the retired professional engineer and surveyor now living in Florida: “I love painting; it’s therapeutic. I just put my mind out of gear and away I go.”

Zen and the Art of Watercolors? Not quite. As he notes, “I always enjoyed the drafting associated with my early engineering experience. Now I use that experience to prepare very detailed drawings for the watercolor. In fact, I probably enjoy the drawing more because I have complete control over it. Watercolor consistently has a mind of its own.”

And there’s more taste for movement than for contemplation in Shapler’s psyche. Take the experimental wood-and-fabric biplanes that he built and flies.

“That began when I was racing go-carts. I was really enjoying it and got good at it, so I came home one day and said to my wife that either I would buy a racing car or take flying lessons. She said to take flying lessons.” He’s been a private pilot since 1966. (His wife [the late Marjorie Besse Shapler], he notes, watched him building one of his biplanes and told him, “There’s no need to put a seat in there for me, thanks.”)

However, he doesn’t sweat the flying, either. “It’s similar to what attracted me to painting.

Flying’s a great way to cleanse your mind. After work I’d go out for about an hour and shoot landings [take off, stay in a flight pattern

“Tranquility”

“Oak Grove School”

and land]. That’s where the skill comes in: takeoffs and landings.

The rest of the time you’re just up in the air, cruising.”

He’s still active in the air, using his regular trips to Toledo to fly an open-cockpit biplane he stores on a Michigan airfield. And he took his watercolors — which have won numerous awards and have been displayed at galleries nationwide — to a new level when he successfully sold them to greeting card giant American

Greetings: “I sent off a packet of 15 home-printed cards. They said that they’d take all of them.”

Some of the original paintings now hang in the company’s corporate offices; others could reach a wider audience — possibly via airmail.

However, Shapler has the final pun when he says of his paintings, “It was all a stroke of luck, I think.”

Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

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Kirk (Bus ’88, MBA ’93, Law ’98) and Sara (Stahl) Yosick (Pharm ’90), Bryan, Ohio, announce the birth of their son, Cory William, in February.

He joins big brothers, A.J. and Brandon.

Tom (Bus ’89) and Kathy

(Bruggeman) Bierley (Ed ’90, MEd ’96), Perrysburg, announce the birth of their daughter, Faith Lee, in March. Tom works in regional sales for U.S. Filter in Findlay, and Kathy is a 5th grade teacher at Ft. Meigs Elementary School in Perrysburg.

Loren P. Brown (Bus ’89), Perrysburg, is vice president and chief financial officer for Holy Cross Children’s Services. He and his wife, Stacey, have two children.

Suzette (Habowski) Gendjar (Pharm ’89) and her husband, Ken, announce the birth of their daughter, Kayla Renee, in November. The family lives in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Alumna fired up about high-flying job

’90s

Tony Bassett (Ed ’90) teamed with Yarko Kuk (A/S ’91) to form Village Voice Publishing Ltd., and became the new publishers and editors of The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills, the village’s monthly newspaper.

Dan Grube (UTCTC ’90, Univ Coll ’92) was appointed commercial/agricultural lender by the State Bank and Trust Co. in Defiance, Ohio. He joined the bank in 2002.

Lisa M. Kirchner (A/S ’90, MA ’93), who had acted as interim dean of students and director of residence life at Tiffin University since 2004, was named dean and director at the Ohio institution.

She is also a senior lecturer in the department of English and communication.

Mark Zakrzewski (A/S ’89, MS ’93), a certified professional geologist with the Midwest engineering firm of Hull & Associates Inc., was named a shareholder in the Dublin, Ohio, headquartered firm. He has been with the company for 14 years and manages two of their Ohio offices.

Kirchner ’90, ’93 Sharon Mastroianni (Ed Spec ’90), director of the EHOVE Career Center in Milan, Ohio, was honored for her contributions to local business with the Athena Award at the Norwalk Area Chamber of Commerce annual banquet in March.

John P. Dilworth (Bus ’91) was

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Amy J. (Soldwish) (Ed ’91) and Aaron Konoff (Ed ’92) announce the birth of their second child, Alex Richard, in January.

He joins big sister, Alison, and the family in Las Vegas.

Timothy Kuhlman (Law ’91) was appointed to the Toledo Municipal Court for a term that began in February.

Bruce Brown (MEd ’92) was hired as principal of the Ayersville (Ohio) Middle School.

Dr. Jodi (Lambdin) Devine (Bus ’92) accepted a new position

president and retail district executive for the National City Bank’s south Toledo market.

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Fontana, Calif., works as an adviser for area pastors.

Wayne R. Nault (Univ Coll ’90), Oregon, was named vice

Zakrzewski ’89, ’93

Mike McDaniel (Eng ’93)

The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Crawford (Univ Coll ’92),

Myron Pakush (Eng ’89) began his new job as deputy director of the Ohio Department of Transportation District 5, a sevencounty area in the central part of the state. He has been with ODOT since 1989.

chosen to participate in the Coalition for Allied Health Leadership program, sponsored by several national organizations to provide leadership for coming generations in healthcare. She has been with Owens for 24 years.

hired as mortgage loan officer for Fifth Third Bank, working out of their downtown Toledo offices. He has been in the lending field for 15 years.

as associate director of academic affairs for the Honors Program at Bowling Green State University.

Jeff (Pharm ’92) and Carla Pindel (Pharm ’94), Mansfield, Ohio, announce the birth of their daughter, Ashley Elizabeth, in April. She joins older brothers, Noah and Brandon, and her parents, both of whom work in Ashland, “Jeff on the retail side, Carla on the hospital side.”

John A. Begg (Bus ’93) accepted the position of North American logistics manager with Lear Corp., the world’s largest automotive interior systems supplier, working at their Southfield, Mich., facility.

Catherine Ford (Univ Coll ’93), chairwoman of medical imaging technologies at Owens Community College, was among 30 U.S. healthcare professionals

is vice president of systems, components and accessories services for Aviation Aftermarket Services, a Honeywell aerospace company with headquarters in Phoenix, and 16 plants worldwide.

Dirk Ward (Bus ’93, MBA ’02) was hired as director of operations at FMT Inc., a global manufacturer of custom-engineered cleaning systems, headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.

Chad C. Niese (A/S ’94, Law ’97), Ottawa, Ohio, was appointed to the Putnam County Court by Gov. Bob Taft. The attorney with the firm of Niese, Hermiller & Schierloh was also solicitor for the villages of Hamler and New Bavaria.

Hope E. Rader McClellan (MEd ’94, Ed Spec ’01), Delta, Ohio, achieved National Board Certification, the highest credential in the teaching profession. She teaches students with visual impairments in the Toledo Public Schools.

Kara Rees (Pharm ’94) and her husband, Brian, Broadview Heights, Ohio, announce the birth of their son, Dylan Christopher, in January.

Amy L. Butler (A/S ’95, Law ’02) joined the Business Litigation Group of Toledo law firm Roetzel & Andress as an associate.

Patrick B. Cavanaugh (UTCTC ’95, Law ’99) also joined Roetzel & Andress as an associate in the Business Litigation Group.

Deborah Eamoe (MEd ’95) was appointed vice president of human resources for Union Institute & University, an www.toledoalumni.org

accredited distance-learning university with academic centers in four states.

Bill Kovach (MEd ’95) was promoted to operations manager with Advanced Health Orthopedic, Sport and Spine Rehabilitation in Sandusky, Ohio. The licensed athletic trainer provides sports medicine coverage for the Huron School District.

Brenda J. Oyer (MEd ’95), Archbold, Ohio, is the new superintendent of the Fulton County Board of Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities.

Eric Slough (A/S ’95) married Heather Reeves (A/S ’00) in August. Eric is director of alumni programming at UT’s Office of Alumni Relations, and Heather is assistant director of annual giving at UT’s Office of Institutional Advancement. They live in Toledo.

Dr. Edward Szabo (A/S ’95, A/S ’96) is the new owner and practitioner at Perrysburg Podiatry.

Kara Yokum (MBA ’95) was promoted to senior vice president for KeyBank’s McDonald Financial Group in Toledo.

Tina M. Bain (Bus ’96), Sylvania, joined FirstMerit Bank as vice president, treasury management and public funds.

Brent Beard (Bus ’96), Napoleon, Ohio, who has worked for the State Bank and Trust Co. since 1999, was promoted to vice president, controller.

Renee Elliott (A/S ’96), assistant director with the UT Office of Alumni Relations, was named to the board of directors of Prevent Ohio Blindness, the state’s only voluntary nonprofit health organization dedicated to preserving sight.

Annette (Dieringer) Hendrickson (A/S ’96) and www.toledoalumni.org

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n 1988, Amy Kazmier (Ed ’89) returned to Yellowstone National Park for another summer internship. For one month, she was a backcountry ranger volunteer, handing out hiking permits and clearing and cutting trails.

Then the wild fires started.

“They had a ‘let burn policy.’

There wasn’t much in the way of initial attack, they let fires burn,” she says. “It became so catastrophic because of so many years of fuel buildup in the park — the lodge poles were so close together and there were many years of drought. The fires just took off.”

Flames engulfed more than a million acres of the greater Yellowstone area, according to the National Park Service. The fires crossed the borders of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to burn another 18 million acres.

Park workers received a crash course in firefighting. “We learned the basics of firefighting with tools, how to properly use the tools, how to properly fight fire. And we learned the basics of fire behavior, which is related to weather patterns,” Kazmier says.

Just like a wind gust can change the direction of fire, Kazmier’s career path was altered by that summer. She finished classes in Toledo and, consumed by fire, made it her profession.

She’s fought wildfires and ignited prescribed fires in the Everglades National Park in Florida, cut down hazardous trees as a member of a chainsaw brigade at Yellowstone, learned to drive a large off-road fire engine for the Forest Service in South Carolina, dug lots of handline

with the Redmond Interagency Hotshot Crew in Redmond, Ore., and worked on an engine in Deschutes National Forest in Bend, Ore., where some sparks flew.

“I met my husband in 1995 when I started at Deschutes. I was an assistant engine foreman and he was foreman,” Kazmier says. “We’d sometimes work together on fires and worked well together.”

In 1997, she spotted a job listing for a helitack rappel crew.

“That’s where you fly in a helicopter and the pilot hovers near the fire and ropes are dropped and you get to slide down a rope with all your gear and equipment ready to fight the fire,” Kazmier explains.

“That was a blast. That was in

Northeast Oregon in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in an area called Eagle Cap Wilderness. It was a gorgeous mountainous area, and that’s when I knew helicopters were going to be my next thing.”

These days she’s an assistant helitack manager in Prineville, Ore., in the Ochoco National Forest, home to deep canyons, dense pine stands and high desert terrain. “We have a small helicopter to initial attack fires. We call into dispatch with a size-up and request additional resources if needed,” she says.

“Every day I get to fly — that’s just a bonus. What a vantage point. I get to fly at work. You have to love that!”

— Vicki L. Kroll Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

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Kirk (Bus ’88, MBA ’93, Law ’98) and Sara (Stahl) Yosick (Pharm ’90), Bryan, Ohio, announce the birth of their son, Cory William, in February.

He joins big brothers, A.J. and Brandon.

Tom (Bus ’89) and Kathy

(Bruggeman) Bierley (Ed ’90, MEd ’96), Perrysburg, announce the birth of their daughter, Faith Lee, in March. Tom works in regional sales for U.S. Filter in Findlay, and Kathy is a 5th grade teacher at Ft. Meigs Elementary School in Perrysburg.

Loren P. Brown (Bus ’89), Perrysburg, is vice president and chief financial officer for Holy Cross Children’s Services. He and his wife, Stacey, have two children.

Suzette (Habowski) Gendjar (Pharm ’89) and her husband, Ken, announce the birth of their daughter, Kayla Renee, in November. The family lives in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Alumna fired up about high-flying job

’90s

Tony Bassett (Ed ’90) teamed with Yarko Kuk (A/S ’91) to form Village Voice Publishing Ltd., and became the new publishers and editors of The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills, the village’s monthly newspaper.

Dan Grube (UTCTC ’90, Univ Coll ’92) was appointed commercial/agricultural lender by the State Bank and Trust Co. in Defiance, Ohio. He joined the bank in 2002.

Lisa M. Kirchner (A/S ’90, MA ’93), who had acted as interim dean of students and director of residence life at Tiffin University since 2004, was named dean and director at the Ohio institution.

She is also a senior lecturer in the department of English and communication.

Mark Zakrzewski (A/S ’89, MS ’93), a certified professional geologist with the Midwest engineering firm of Hull & Associates Inc., was named a shareholder in the Dublin, Ohio, headquartered firm. He has been with the company for 14 years and manages two of their Ohio offices.

Kirchner ’90, ’93 Sharon Mastroianni (Ed Spec ’90), director of the EHOVE Career Center in Milan, Ohio, was honored for her contributions to local business with the Athena Award at the Norwalk Area Chamber of Commerce annual banquet in March.

John P. Dilworth (Bus ’91) was

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Amy J. (Soldwish) (Ed ’91) and Aaron Konoff (Ed ’92) announce the birth of their second child, Alex Richard, in January.

He joins big sister, Alison, and the family in Las Vegas.

Timothy Kuhlman (Law ’91) was appointed to the Toledo Municipal Court for a term that began in February.

Bruce Brown (MEd ’92) was hired as principal of the Ayersville (Ohio) Middle School.

Dr. Jodi (Lambdin) Devine (Bus ’92) accepted a new position

president and retail district executive for the National City Bank’s south Toledo market.

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Dilworth ’91

Fontana, Calif., works as an adviser for area pastors.

Wayne R. Nault (Univ Coll ’90), Oregon, was named vice

Zakrzewski ’89, ’93

Mike McDaniel (Eng ’93)

The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Crawford (Univ Coll ’92),

Myron Pakush (Eng ’89) began his new job as deputy director of the Ohio Department of Transportation District 5, a sevencounty area in the central part of the state. He has been with ODOT since 1989.

chosen to participate in the Coalition for Allied Health Leadership program, sponsored by several national organizations to provide leadership for coming generations in healthcare. She has been with Owens for 24 years.

hired as mortgage loan officer for Fifth Third Bank, working out of their downtown Toledo offices. He has been in the lending field for 15 years.

as associate director of academic affairs for the Honors Program at Bowling Green State University.

Jeff (Pharm ’92) and Carla Pindel (Pharm ’94), Mansfield, Ohio, announce the birth of their daughter, Ashley Elizabeth, in April. She joins older brothers, Noah and Brandon, and her parents, both of whom work in Ashland, “Jeff on the retail side, Carla on the hospital side.”

John A. Begg (Bus ’93) accepted the position of North American logistics manager with Lear Corp., the world’s largest automotive interior systems supplier, working at their Southfield, Mich., facility.

Catherine Ford (Univ Coll ’93), chairwoman of medical imaging technologies at Owens Community College, was among 30 U.S. healthcare professionals

is vice president of systems, components and accessories services for Aviation Aftermarket Services, a Honeywell aerospace company with headquarters in Phoenix, and 16 plants worldwide.

Dirk Ward (Bus ’93, MBA ’02) was hired as director of operations at FMT Inc., a global manufacturer of custom-engineered cleaning systems, headquartered in Findlay, Ohio.

Chad C. Niese (A/S ’94, Law ’97), Ottawa, Ohio, was appointed to the Putnam County Court by Gov. Bob Taft. The attorney with the firm of Niese, Hermiller & Schierloh was also solicitor for the villages of Hamler and New Bavaria.

Hope E. Rader McClellan (MEd ’94, Ed Spec ’01), Delta, Ohio, achieved National Board Certification, the highest credential in the teaching profession. She teaches students with visual impairments in the Toledo Public Schools.

Kara Rees (Pharm ’94) and her husband, Brian, Broadview Heights, Ohio, announce the birth of their son, Dylan Christopher, in January.

Amy L. Butler (A/S ’95, Law ’02) joined the Business Litigation Group of Toledo law firm Roetzel & Andress as an associate.

Patrick B. Cavanaugh (UTCTC ’95, Law ’99) also joined Roetzel & Andress as an associate in the Business Litigation Group.

Deborah Eamoe (MEd ’95) was appointed vice president of human resources for Union Institute & University, an www.toledoalumni.org

accredited distance-learning university with academic centers in four states.

Bill Kovach (MEd ’95) was promoted to operations manager with Advanced Health Orthopedic, Sport and Spine Rehabilitation in Sandusky, Ohio. The licensed athletic trainer provides sports medicine coverage for the Huron School District.

Brenda J. Oyer (MEd ’95), Archbold, Ohio, is the new superintendent of the Fulton County Board of Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities.

Eric Slough (A/S ’95) married Heather Reeves (A/S ’00) in August. Eric is director of alumni programming at UT’s Office of Alumni Relations, and Heather is assistant director of annual giving at UT’s Office of Institutional Advancement. They live in Toledo.

Dr. Edward Szabo (A/S ’95, A/S ’96) is the new owner and practitioner at Perrysburg Podiatry.

Kara Yokum (MBA ’95) was promoted to senior vice president for KeyBank’s McDonald Financial Group in Toledo.

Tina M. Bain (Bus ’96), Sylvania, joined FirstMerit Bank as vice president, treasury management and public funds.

Brent Beard (Bus ’96), Napoleon, Ohio, who has worked for the State Bank and Trust Co. since 1999, was promoted to vice president, controller.

Renee Elliott (A/S ’96), assistant director with the UT Office of Alumni Relations, was named to the board of directors of Prevent Ohio Blindness, the state’s only voluntary nonprofit health organization dedicated to preserving sight.

Annette (Dieringer) Hendrickson (A/S ’96) and www.toledoalumni.org

I

n 1988, Amy Kazmier (Ed ’89) returned to Yellowstone National Park for another summer internship. For one month, she was a backcountry ranger volunteer, handing out hiking permits and clearing and cutting trails.

Then the wild fires started.

“They had a ‘let burn policy.’

There wasn’t much in the way of initial attack, they let fires burn,” she says. “It became so catastrophic because of so many years of fuel buildup in the park — the lodge poles were so close together and there were many years of drought. The fires just took off.”

Flames engulfed more than a million acres of the greater Yellowstone area, according to the National Park Service. The fires crossed the borders of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to burn another 18 million acres.

Park workers received a crash course in firefighting. “We learned the basics of firefighting with tools, how to properly use the tools, how to properly fight fire. And we learned the basics of fire behavior, which is related to weather patterns,” Kazmier says.

Just like a wind gust can change the direction of fire, Kazmier’s career path was altered by that summer. She finished classes in Toledo and, consumed by fire, made it her profession.

She’s fought wildfires and ignited prescribed fires in the Everglades National Park in Florida, cut down hazardous trees as a member of a chainsaw brigade at Yellowstone, learned to drive a large off-road fire engine for the Forest Service in South Carolina, dug lots of handline

with the Redmond Interagency Hotshot Crew in Redmond, Ore., and worked on an engine in Deschutes National Forest in Bend, Ore., where some sparks flew.

“I met my husband in 1995 when I started at Deschutes. I was an assistant engine foreman and he was foreman,” Kazmier says. “We’d sometimes work together on fires and worked well together.”

In 1997, she spotted a job listing for a helitack rappel crew.

“That’s where you fly in a helicopter and the pilot hovers near the fire and ropes are dropped and you get to slide down a rope with all your gear and equipment ready to fight the fire,” Kazmier explains.

“That was a blast. That was in

Northeast Oregon in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in an area called Eagle Cap Wilderness. It was a gorgeous mountainous area, and that’s when I knew helicopters were going to be my next thing.”

These days she’s an assistant helitack manager in Prineville, Ore., in the Ochoco National Forest, home to deep canyons, dense pine stands and high desert terrain. “We have a small helicopter to initial attack fires. We call into dispatch with a size-up and request additional resources if needed,” she says.

“Every day I get to fly — that’s just a bonus. What a vantage point. I get to fly at work. You have to love that!”

— Vicki L. Kroll Toledo Alumni Magazine | Fall 2005

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biblio-files

Charlie Chaplin: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi) Edited by Kevin J. Hayes (A/S ’81, MEd ’83) her husband, Mike, announce the birth of their daughter, Madelyne Rae, in February. Annette is the laboratory manager at Hudson Medical Group in Atlanta.

Ty A. Otto (Bus ’96), of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank, was promoted to assistant cashier/commercial loan officer.

William H. Rains (UTCTC ’96, Univ Coll ’99) became safety service director for the city of Fostoria, Ohio, in June.

Rose Mock Scott (Univ Coll ’96, Law ’99), an assistant prosecuting attorney with the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, received a 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award from Penta Career Center in Perrysburg.

Roseann M. (Jagla) Halliday (Ed ’97), Findlay, Ohio, completed her ninth year of teaching science at Fostoria Middle School. She and her husband, Vincent, have three children.

Karmen Lee (Bus ’97) relocated to the Washington, D.C., area to accept the position of online marketing manager for the National Wildlife Federation.

Susan C. (Grebb) (A/S ’97) and Brian Lorenz (A/S ’96), Hilliard, Ohio, announce the birth of triplets Annaliese, Elisabeth and Charlotte in May. Big brother, Henry, is reportedly thrilled.

Katherine Lycourt (Univ Coll ’97) was hired by Huntington

Brad A. Thomas (Eng ’97), Circleville, Ohio, a research engineer at Battelle, received his Professional Engineering license in April.

Dr. Sean Royer (Pharm ’98, PharmD ’00) married Sunny McKinley (Pharm ’03) in July.

They live in Toledo and both work for Meijer Pharmacy.

Cheryl Spieth (Eng ’98), who passed the Securities Series 7 exam, joined the investment staff of Baumgartner Financial Services in Bryan, Ohio.

Megan Copp (MBA ’99, Pharm ’01) married Iyad Fakih (Eng ’99) in May. They live in Okemos, Mich., where Megan is a pharmacist at Ingham Regional Medical Center and Iyad works as a mechanical engineer for FASCO Motors Group.

Nathan (Eng ’97, MEng ’98) and Kim (Titkemeier) Newlove (Pharm ’01), Toledo,

joined Busch Chiropractic Center in Fort Wayne, Ind. Jason Cross (Ed ’01) was hired as head football coach

by Crestview High School, Van Wert, Ohio.

Adam Landon (Law ’01) joined the firm of Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston as an associate in their Mount Vernon, Ohio, office.

her husband, Massimo, announce the birth of their daughter, Domenica Rose, in October. She joins brother, Nicolas, and the family in Webster, N.Y.

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master’s degree in organizational management from Spring Arbor University, and the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification through the Human Resources Certification Institute.

She’s employed as a human resources representative with the Lucas County Board of MR/DD.

Dr. Michael L. Bauer (A/S ’01)

Adam Stienecker (Eng ’01)

Feick ’02, ’03; Eckhart ’02, ’03 Kierstin Joost (Bus ’02) joined First Federal Bank in Defiance as a retail lending officer.

Jeff Osthimer (Univ CollA ’02, Univ Coll ’03), who teaches computer networking technology at Whitmer High School in Toledo, received an Outstanding Alumnus and Teacher Award in the 2005 Ohio Career Technical and Adult Education Awards, one of 22 individuals across the state honored.

Adam Niese (MEd ’02, Ed Spec ’03) became assistant

James F. Schaller II (A/S ’00, Law ’03) was appointed to

Dundee, Mich., announce the birth of their son, Collin, in February.

Dr. Christine Pietrantoni (Pharm ’97, PharmD ’99) and

Carolyn S. Chapman (Univ Coll ’02), Holland, earned a

’00s

Bank as office manager for the McCord-Central branch in Sylvania Township.

announce the birth of their son, Derrick, in April.

was promoted to commercial banking officer with Fifth Third Bank, Toledo.

became the new owner of Gromoll Drug Store in Sebring, Ohio.

Kevin (Eng ’00, MEng ’04) and Christine (Kawsky) Wickenheiser (Eng ’01),

as Chaplin being self-consciously “deep” when he said during a 1931 interview, “I first thought of ‘Charlie’ in terms of satire. His indescribable trousers represented in my mind a revolt from convention, his moustache the vanity of man, his hat and cane attempts to be dignified, and his boots the impediments that were always in his way”? Could be; the six decades of interviews in Hayes’ book show an actor/director yearning to be an auteur before the term existed in Hollywood.

They also display a melancholy idealist and a reluctant scrapper. (A public interview during the early days of McCarthyism is almost painful to read as the press savages Chaplin for his supposed lack of patriotism.) Is Chaplin significant today? If a wholly unscientific poll taken in my office is any indication, few people have seen a complete Chaplin film or are able to reliably identify him. Never mind; for those of us who love the Tramp’s kinetic slapstick grace in The Rink or cry when nasty orphanage officials separate him from Jackie Coogan in The Kid, this book is a reminder that all screen comedians owe a big debt to the little fellow with the improbable gait and the baggy trousers.

— C.N.

Jeremy J. Zeisloft (MBA ’01)

Ray Poorbaugh (Pharm ’99)

serve as a part-time magistrate in Perrysburg Municipal Court. He also practices law with the Toledo firm of Shindler, Neff, Holmes, Schlageter & Mohler LLP.

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announce the birth of their son, Noah William, in April. Adam is working on his engineering doctoral degree at UT. Andy Thomas (Bus ’01), Toledo, joined Nemecek Insurance and Financial Services, working out of the agency’s Oregon office.

Chapman ’02 Matthew Cummings (A/S ’02) earned his master’s degree in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. He and his wife, Tracy, welcomed their first child, Owen, last June.

Lisa J. Eckhart (Eng ’02, MBA ’03) married Adam M. Feick (Eng ’02, MBA ’03) in May. Lisa is a product development engineer with Advanced Composites Inc., and Adam is a staff engineer at KTH Parts Inc. They live in Piqua, Ohio.

The Narcissist’s Daughter (Simon & Schuster) Craig Holden (A/S ’83)

principal at Central Middle School in Napoleon, Ohio.

Stephanie Sabyan (A/S ’02), Amelia, Ohio, married Keith Ridel M.D. in June. She’s currently working on her doctorate in psychology.

S

yd Redding got his street smarts growing up in Toledo’s old south side and his medical degree from The University of Toledo. Neither is much help when he decides to punish a wealthy Ottawa Hills couple who have humiliated him; in spite of enjoying some pretty spectacular sex in the process, Syd goes from cocky to confused to accessory to murder. Holden’s usual noirish crime beat gets a bit more psychologically complex and a whole lot sexier this time around, and readers should be prepared for some rough trade. Set in Toledo in the late ’70s, the novel’s constant references to landmarks like Ottawa Park, the High Level Bridge and St. Vincent’s Hospital are fun for us natives; the over-the-top plot seems to ask to be taken in the same spirit, despite the heart-of-darkness trappings.

— C.N.

Steven R. Volz (Eng ’02, MBA ’04, MEng ’04) was named corporate impact engineer for NISCO, a joint venture between Nishikawa Rubber and Cooper Standard.

Brad J. Mantel (Law ’03), Arlington, Va., is a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., working for the assistant secretary for policy.

He served as an associate counsel for the Presidential Inauguration Committee.

Beth Schwiefert (Bus ’05) was promoted to human resources manager of Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water-park resort in Sandusky, Ohio.

Toledo: The 19th Century (Arcadia Publishing) Barbara Floyd (A/S ’80, MA ’82, MPA ’89), director of UT’s Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections

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icture munching on your favorite snack. When it’s gone, you want more. That’s the experience delivered by this book; chock full of photos and fine accompanying prose, it paints a picture of Toledo in the 1800s. Among the remarkable nuggets is the prediction of Jessup Scott, city father and scholar, who said that Toledo would be “the future great city of the world” because of its location on waterways, rail lines and roads. He said that Toledo would be larger than New York by 1900 and larger than any other city in the world by 2000.

Another Toledo factoid: The swamps that were then prevalent caused periodic outbreaks of malaria and gave rise to such unhealthy conditions that the city was tagged with the nickname “Grave of the United States.” More positively, Toledo developed the first asylum in the country built in a park-like setting, leading a national reform for better treatment of the mentally ill.

The detail in the old photos is often fascinating, inviting long looks and much reward.

Floyd’s prose is just right, expounding on the facts the photos reveal.

And I want more. What happened, for instance, to derail Scott’s prediction? We can guess at the answers, but it would be nice for them to be spelled out in text and photos.

One hopes Floyd has a sequel in the works.

— Dennis Bova, assistant news editor, The Blade

Also in print...

Legend (Trafford) Justen A. Grant (A/S ’96), In this first novel, Grant chronicles the personal odyssey of Jerry Graham and his wife, Debbie, who leave Toledo for the delights and challenges of Los Angeles, including stints in acting and law enforcement.

A World War II Era German-American Love Story Melvin R. Bielawaski (UTCTC ’53, Bus ’56), While a G.I. in Berchtesgaden, Germany, Bielawski met his future wife, Frances, a German national. In 1947, they were one of the first American/German couples to marry in Germany after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower lifted the non-fraternization regulations set in place after Germany’s defeat.

The book tells their story.

and his wife, Karen, Toledo, www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

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class notes

biblio-files

Charlie Chaplin: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi) Edited by Kevin J. Hayes (A/S ’81, MEd ’83) her husband, Mike, announce the birth of their daughter, Madelyne Rae, in February. Annette is the laboratory manager at Hudson Medical Group in Atlanta.

Ty A. Otto (Bus ’96), of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank, was promoted to assistant cashier/commercial loan officer.

William H. Rains (UTCTC ’96, Univ Coll ’99) became safety service director for the city of Fostoria, Ohio, in June.

Rose Mock Scott (Univ Coll ’96, Law ’99), an assistant prosecuting attorney with the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, received a 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award from Penta Career Center in Perrysburg.

Roseann M. (Jagla) Halliday (Ed ’97), Findlay, Ohio, completed her ninth year of teaching science at Fostoria Middle School. She and her husband, Vincent, have three children.

Karmen Lee (Bus ’97) relocated to the Washington, D.C., area to accept the position of online marketing manager for the National Wildlife Federation.

Susan C. (Grebb) (A/S ’97) and Brian Lorenz (A/S ’96), Hilliard, Ohio, announce the birth of triplets Annaliese, Elisabeth and Charlotte in May. Big brother, Henry, is reportedly thrilled.

Katherine Lycourt (Univ Coll ’97) was hired by Huntington

Brad A. Thomas (Eng ’97), Circleville, Ohio, a research engineer at Battelle, received his Professional Engineering license in April.

Dr. Sean Royer (Pharm ’98, PharmD ’00) married Sunny McKinley (Pharm ’03) in July.

They live in Toledo and both work for Meijer Pharmacy.

Cheryl Spieth (Eng ’98), who passed the Securities Series 7 exam, joined the investment staff of Baumgartner Financial Services in Bryan, Ohio.

Megan Copp (MBA ’99, Pharm ’01) married Iyad Fakih (Eng ’99) in May. They live in Okemos, Mich., where Megan is a pharmacist at Ingham Regional Medical Center and Iyad works as a mechanical engineer for FASCO Motors Group.

Nathan (Eng ’97, MEng ’98) and Kim (Titkemeier) Newlove (Pharm ’01), Toledo,

joined Busch Chiropractic Center in Fort Wayne, Ind. Jason Cross (Ed ’01) was hired as head football coach

by Crestview High School, Van Wert, Ohio.

Adam Landon (Law ’01) joined the firm of Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston as an associate in their Mount Vernon, Ohio, office.

her husband, Massimo, announce the birth of their daughter, Domenica Rose, in October. She joins brother, Nicolas, and the family in Webster, N.Y.

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master’s degree in organizational management from Spring Arbor University, and the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification through the Human Resources Certification Institute.

She’s employed as a human resources representative with the Lucas County Board of MR/DD.

Dr. Michael L. Bauer (A/S ’01)

Adam Stienecker (Eng ’01)

Feick ’02, ’03; Eckhart ’02, ’03 Kierstin Joost (Bus ’02) joined First Federal Bank in Defiance as a retail lending officer.

Jeff Osthimer (Univ CollA ’02, Univ Coll ’03), who teaches computer networking technology at Whitmer High School in Toledo, received an Outstanding Alumnus and Teacher Award in the 2005 Ohio Career Technical and Adult Education Awards, one of 22 individuals across the state honored.

Adam Niese (MEd ’02, Ed Spec ’03) became assistant

James F. Schaller II (A/S ’00, Law ’03) was appointed to

Dundee, Mich., announce the birth of their son, Collin, in February.

Dr. Christine Pietrantoni (Pharm ’97, PharmD ’99) and

Carolyn S. Chapman (Univ Coll ’02), Holland, earned a

’00s

Bank as office manager for the McCord-Central branch in Sylvania Township.

announce the birth of their son, Derrick, in April.

was promoted to commercial banking officer with Fifth Third Bank, Toledo.

became the new owner of Gromoll Drug Store in Sebring, Ohio.

Kevin (Eng ’00, MEng ’04) and Christine (Kawsky) Wickenheiser (Eng ’01),

as Chaplin being self-consciously “deep” when he said during a 1931 interview, “I first thought of ‘Charlie’ in terms of satire. His indescribable trousers represented in my mind a revolt from convention, his moustache the vanity of man, his hat and cane attempts to be dignified, and his boots the impediments that were always in his way”? Could be; the six decades of interviews in Hayes’ book show an actor/director yearning to be an auteur before the term existed in Hollywood.

They also display a melancholy idealist and a reluctant scrapper. (A public interview during the early days of McCarthyism is almost painful to read as the press savages Chaplin for his supposed lack of patriotism.) Is Chaplin significant today? If a wholly unscientific poll taken in my office is any indication, few people have seen a complete Chaplin film or are able to reliably identify him. Never mind; for those of us who love the Tramp’s kinetic slapstick grace in The Rink or cry when nasty orphanage officials separate him from Jackie Coogan in The Kid, this book is a reminder that all screen comedians owe a big debt to the little fellow with the improbable gait and the baggy trousers.

— C.N.

Jeremy J. Zeisloft (MBA ’01)

Ray Poorbaugh (Pharm ’99)

serve as a part-time magistrate in Perrysburg Municipal Court. He also practices law with the Toledo firm of Shindler, Neff, Holmes, Schlageter & Mohler LLP.

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announce the birth of their son, Noah William, in April. Adam is working on his engineering doctoral degree at UT. Andy Thomas (Bus ’01), Toledo, joined Nemecek Insurance and Financial Services, working out of the agency’s Oregon office.

Chapman ’02 Matthew Cummings (A/S ’02) earned his master’s degree in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. He and his wife, Tracy, welcomed their first child, Owen, last June.

Lisa J. Eckhart (Eng ’02, MBA ’03) married Adam M. Feick (Eng ’02, MBA ’03) in May. Lisa is a product development engineer with Advanced Composites Inc., and Adam is a staff engineer at KTH Parts Inc. They live in Piqua, Ohio.

The Narcissist’s Daughter (Simon & Schuster) Craig Holden (A/S ’83)

principal at Central Middle School in Napoleon, Ohio.

Stephanie Sabyan (A/S ’02), Amelia, Ohio, married Keith Ridel M.D. in June. She’s currently working on her doctorate in psychology.

S

yd Redding got his street smarts growing up in Toledo’s old south side and his medical degree from The University of Toledo. Neither is much help when he decides to punish a wealthy Ottawa Hills couple who have humiliated him; in spite of enjoying some pretty spectacular sex in the process, Syd goes from cocky to confused to accessory to murder. Holden’s usual noirish crime beat gets a bit more psychologically complex and a whole lot sexier this time around, and readers should be prepared for some rough trade. Set in Toledo in the late ’70s, the novel’s constant references to landmarks like Ottawa Park, the High Level Bridge and St. Vincent’s Hospital are fun for us natives; the over-the-top plot seems to ask to be taken in the same spirit, despite the heart-of-darkness trappings.

— C.N.

Steven R. Volz (Eng ’02, MBA ’04, MEng ’04) was named corporate impact engineer for NISCO, a joint venture between Nishikawa Rubber and Cooper Standard.

Brad J. Mantel (Law ’03), Arlington, Va., is a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., working for the assistant secretary for policy.

He served as an associate counsel for the Presidential Inauguration Committee.

Beth Schwiefert (Bus ’05) was promoted to human resources manager of Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water-park resort in Sandusky, Ohio.

Toledo: The 19th Century (Arcadia Publishing) Barbara Floyd (A/S ’80, MA ’82, MPA ’89), director of UT’s Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections

P

icture munching on your favorite snack. When it’s gone, you want more. That’s the experience delivered by this book; chock full of photos and fine accompanying prose, it paints a picture of Toledo in the 1800s. Among the remarkable nuggets is the prediction of Jessup Scott, city father and scholar, who said that Toledo would be “the future great city of the world” because of its location on waterways, rail lines and roads. He said that Toledo would be larger than New York by 1900 and larger than any other city in the world by 2000.

Another Toledo factoid: The swamps that were then prevalent caused periodic outbreaks of malaria and gave rise to such unhealthy conditions that the city was tagged with the nickname “Grave of the United States.” More positively, Toledo developed the first asylum in the country built in a park-like setting, leading a national reform for better treatment of the mentally ill.

The detail in the old photos is often fascinating, inviting long looks and much reward.

Floyd’s prose is just right, expounding on the facts the photos reveal.

And I want more. What happened, for instance, to derail Scott’s prediction? We can guess at the answers, but it would be nice for them to be spelled out in text and photos.

One hopes Floyd has a sequel in the works.

— Dennis Bova, assistant news editor, The Blade

Also in print...

Legend (Trafford) Justen A. Grant (A/S ’96), In this first novel, Grant chronicles the personal odyssey of Jerry Graham and his wife, Debbie, who leave Toledo for the delights and challenges of Los Angeles, including stints in acting and law enforcement.

A World War II Era German-American Love Story Melvin R. Bielawaski (UTCTC ’53, Bus ’56), While a G.I. in Berchtesgaden, Germany, Bielawski met his future wife, Frances, a German national. In 1947, they were one of the first American/German couples to marry in Germany after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower lifted the non-fraternization regulations set in place after Germany’s defeat.

The book tells their story.

and his wife, Karen, Toledo, www.toledoalumni.org

www.toledoalumni.org

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in memoriam

’20s

**Ernestine B. (Brocklebank) Spangler (A/S ’35), Bryan, Ohio, died June 17 at age 90.

Wilbur W. Lewis (Ed ’36), Mesa, Ariz., died June 15 at age 90. *David H. Mostov (Ed ’36), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., died March 29 at age 90. He lettered in UT basketball in 1934, 1935 and 1936. *Carol A. (Alexander)

Himmelhoch (A/S ’37, Law ’48), Grass Valley, Calif., died March 7 at age 90. Beta Tau Delta member.

Dorothy (Fess) Herbert (A/S ’38), Cincinnati, died May 27 at age 87. *Eugene S. Kimmel (Pharm ’39), Montpelier, Ohio, died March 12 at age 89.

Charles E. (Lyskawa) Leckway Jr. (att. 1939-1942), Toledo, died May 3 at age 87. He was on the Rockets football team for three years, lettering in 1940 and 1941.

’40s

Richard J. Friemark (att. 19401943), Toledo, died May 8 at age 83.

Robert B. Juergens (att. 19401943), Toledo, died March 22 at age 82. Phi Kappa Psi member.

June M. (Lloyd) Kutzke (Ed ’40, Law ’46, MEd ’60), Cortland, Ohio, died April 17 at age 86. Member of Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Kappa Phi. *Charles H. Bowers (Bus ’42), Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died June 1 at age 85. Phi Kappa Psi member. **Edward H. Schmidt (Bus ’42), Toledo, died March 2 at age 86. The Toledo auto dealership owner established a scholarship, endowed a professorship for sales and business marketing and founded the Edward H. Schmidt School of Professional Sales, all within the UT College of Business Administration.

He also belonged to the Tower Club and the Presidents Club, and was a charter member of

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the Jesup W. Scott Society. He was honored over the years with the University’s 12th Man designation, and with the College of Business Administration’s Million Dollar Partnership and Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. Sigma Beta Phi member.

While a student, he played on the basketball team. *Robert S. Bollin (Eng ’43), Sylvania Twp., died June 27 at age 83.

Phyllis Burton (Ed ’43), Toledo, died March 16 at age 84.

Margaret L. (Bartholomew) Beddoes (att. 1945-1948), Toledo, died April 17 at age 77.

Member of Pi Beta Phi.

Dr. Charles H. Feistkorn Sr. (Eng ’46), Roswell, Ga., died March 7 at age 81. He lettered in UT basketball in 1944, 1945 and 1946 and was twice captain of the team.

Daniel F. Knorek (att. 19471949), Rossford, died July 4 at age 79. He played on the Rockets football team. *Mary L. McKenna (A/S ’47), Toledo, died April 28 at age 80. Phi Kappa Phi member.

Rachel Steele (Ed ’47), Toledo, died March 14 at age 80.

Josephine V. (Toadvin) Bester (Ed ’48, MEd ’72), Omaha, Neb., died April 22 at age 78.

Delta Sigma Theta member.

Honored with the Philip J. Rusche Distinguished Service Award from UT’s College of Education. *Ruth Ellen (Huepenbecker) Blakeman (Pharm ’48), Lakeland, Fla., died June 28 at age 79. Alpha Chi Omega member. **George E. Flavell Sr. (Eng ’48), Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died June 2 at age 80. Phi Kappa Psi member. **Robert E. Meeker Sr. (Bus ’48), Holland, Ohio, died June 18 at age 78. A member of the Heritage Society, the Tower Club (with service as president) and the Presidents Club, he served as president of the UT Alumni Association in 1963-64 and was honored with the association’s

Blue T Award in 1993. He also served as a trustee of the UT Corporation, a forerunner of the UT Foundation, and was on the College of Business advisory board. Sigma Beta Phi member. *Joseph S. Meyer (Eng ’48), Toledo, died May 10 at age 87.

James L. Boulton (Bus ’49), New Smyrna Beach, Fla., died April 5 at age 78.

Jerry W. Draheim M.D. (A/S ’49), Sylvania, died June 22 at age 77. Sigma Beta Phi member.

Robert H. Mather Sr. (Eng ’49), Sylvania, died April 30 at age 79.

’50s

**William Bloomer (A/S ’50), Toledo, died March 22 at age 85.

Lillian (Tihlarik) Freimark (Ed ’50), Morgan Hill, Calif., died June 8 at age 78. Phi Kappa Phi member.

Stephen A. Serke (Bus ’50), Pleasant Hill, Calif., died Feb. 22 at age 81.

Daniel R. Ulrich (Eng ’50), Sylvania Twp., died June 17 at age 50.

William R. Edgar (Bus ’51), Summerfield, N.C., died May 23 at age 77.

William D. Erard (Eng ’51), Toledo, died March 7 at age 77.

Tau Beta Phi member.

Donald A. Kennedy (Bus ’51), Toledo, died June 12 at age 77. He was captain of the UT golf team.

Harry J. Stefanoff (att. 19511955), Toledo, died June 26 at age 72.

Thomas “Tim” B. Dever (Ed ’52), Toledo, died July 5 at age 87.

Merle L. Heard (Pharm ’52), Waterford, Penn., died March 20 at age 78. *Patricia C. (Snody) Schuster (Ed ’52), Sylvania, died March 20 at age 74. Kappa Delta, Delta Kappa Gamma member.

Margaret A. McCarthyAntonini (Ed ’53), Sylvania, died June 24 at age 73. Delta Delta Delta member.

George V. Mumford (Eng ’53,

MEng ’58), Ventura, Calif., died June 3 at age 83. Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi member.

Janet E. Cuff (UTCTC ’55, A/S ’59), Toledo, died March 3 at age 84.

Dr. Don E. Stathulis (att. 19551959), Toledo, died March 13 at age 67.

Kenneth S. Zielinski (att.

1955-1957), Maumee, died May 13 at age 75. *Frank H. Tuttle (Bus ’56), Toledo, died May 8 at age 71. *Judge Roger R. Weiher (Law ’56), Sylvania Twp., died June 28 at age 79. He established two scholarship funds at UT: the Evelyn Leopold Weiher Memorial Fund and the Judge Roger R. Weiher Law Scholarship.

Halloway C. Sells Jr. (A/S ’57), Lake Charles, La., died March 24 at age 71. **Ginger (Miller) Long (A/S ’58), Madison, Wis., died in June at age 68. Member of Alpha Chi Omega. *Mary F. Rensch (UTCTC ’58), Clark Lake, Mich., died April 4 at age 69.

Robert W. Scott (Law ’58), Perrysburg, died March 3 at age 77. **Clayton E. Umbles (Pharm ’58), Sylvania, died March 4 at age 69. Served as president of Kappa Alpha Psi.

Rosemary C. (Adams) Brown (Ed ’59, MEd ’65), Waterville, died April 18 at age 73.

David A. Heigel (UTCTC ’59), Temperance, Mich., died June 13.

Eugene R. Ritter (MBA ’59), Toledo, died June 9 at age 80.

George M. Hanneken (A/S ’59, MS ’62), Macedonia, Ohio, died May 10 at age 68.

James C. Vollmayer (Bus ’59), Montville Twp., N.J., died April 17 at age 85.

’60s

Ronald J. Kerr (att. 1964-1966, 1968-1970), Fremont, Ohio, died June 28 at age 58.

Carol (Emptage) Kwiatkowski (Ed ’64), Lambertville, Mich., died April 16 at age 69.

Mary L. (O’Neill) (Lindhuber) Karl (Ed ’65), El Paso, Texas, died March 20 at age 61.

Leon “Butch” Campbell (att.

1967-1971), Toledo, died April 17 at age 55. He lettered in UT football in 1968, 1970 and 1971. In 1971, he made second team allMAC as offensive guard.

Bryan H. Reamsnyder (Ed ’67, MEd ’68), Oregon, died March 24 at age 60.

Albert T. Enk (Eng ’68), Perrysburg, died March 12 at age 93.

April 12 at age 77.

Frederick Wesolowski (att.

1973-1976), Toledo, died July 3 at age 56.

Charles E. Wisniewski (A/S ’74), San Francisco, died June 6 at age 53.

Daniel J. Holmes (A/S ’75), Toledo, died March 3 at age 51.

Julie Youngpeter (Ed ’75), Findlay, Ohio, died March 16 at age 52.

Freddie L. Jordan (Ed ’76, MEd ’83), Toledo, died May 6 at age 56.

Bruce R. Walker (A/S ’76), Euclid, Ohio, died Nov. 8 at age 51.

Robert C. Flynn (Ed ’77, Ed ’80), Toledo, died March 20 at age

6 at age 57.

55. He lettered in UT football in 1968, 1969 and 1970, and served on the executive board of the Varsity T Club.

Dr. Jeannette E. (Albright) Schotter (Ed ’69, MEd ’71, PhD ’81), Toledo, died June 20

at age 49.

Alan R. Cohen (A/S ’69, MEng ’71), Kalamazoo, Mich., died May

Patrice J. (Roper) Byrne (Univ Coll ’78), Toledo, died May 24

at age 80. Kappa Delta Phi, Pi Lambda Theta member.

Jodi J. (Westerman) Cheney (UTCTC ’78, Univ Coll ’83),

William D. Wright (Law ’69),

Sylvania Twp., died April 22 at age 48.

Holland, Ohio, died March 16 at age 60.

’70s

Philippa “Penny” H. (Podolsky) Nasatir (UTCTC ’78, Law ’84), Sylvania, died

14 at age 55.

’80s

Fayma (Boren) Allman (Ed ’70, MEd ’73), Toledo, died May William T. Mattimoe (A/S ’70), Fremont, Calif., died May 16

May 8 at age 72.

*Frances L. (Reed) Deye (UTCTC ’80), Toledo, died June

at age 56.

6 at age 73.

Hilmar W. Johnson (Ed ’71, MEd ’76), McClure, Ohio, died

Mona Jackson (Ed ’80),

June 26 at age 83.

Paul F. “Butch” Hollosi (Bus ’72), Searcy, Ark., died July 1 at age 63.

Dr. Gale L. Weisman (PhD ’72), Forest, Va., died May 3 at age

Woodland Hills, Calif., died March 5 at age 84.

Debra Woodberry-Shaw (UTCTC ’81, Univ Coll ’81), Toledo, died Feb. 27 at age 46.

Timothy L. Rector (UTCTC ’81), Portland, Ore., died June 7

64. Phi Beta Kappa member.

at age 51.

Vera M. (Mysyshyn) Cready (MEd ’73), Perrysburg, died April

died April 18 at age 72.

Carl W. Mintz (Eng ’60), Ida,

4, at age 60.

Mich., died May 24 at age 76. *Gladys R. (Berning) Baker (Ed ’63), Maumee, died July 7 at age 88.

age 82.

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(UTCTC ’73), Perrysburg, died

Josephine R. (Kunz) Gioffre (Ed ’73), Toledo, died April 15 at Blandine E. Wackenheim www.toledoalumni.org

James Lyle (MEd ’82), Toledo, Joseph M. Ellis (UTCTC ’85, Univ Coll ’89), Toledo, died June 27 at age 42.

James A. Rice (MBA ’85, Pharm ’03), Sylvania Twp., died

March 8 at age 54. The recipient of more than 10 UT scholarships, including the Alumni Association’s post-graduate scholarship, he was working on his doctoral degree in pharmacy, and established the James A. Rice Memorial Scholarship for students suffering from life-threatening illnesses.

David B. Nitz (Bus ’86), Swanton, died May 12 at age 51.

Julia M.E. (Rosso) Willis (Ed ’86), Monrovia, Calif., died May 11 at age 48.

Barry L. Moyer (MEd ’88), Genoa, Ohio, died May 5 at age 60.

Brad L.S. Nagy (Eng ’89), Genoa, Ohio, died June 24 at age 41.

’90s

Edward B. Hawkins (Ed ’90), Toledo, died Feb. 26 at age 38.

While a student at UT, he worked as an athletic trainer. **Dr. Frederick A. Smith (PhD ’90), Holland, Ohio, died March 10 at age 58.

Arshad Parvez (MS ’91), Perrysburg, died April 14 at age 55.

Patrick Desser (Ed ’92), Patterson, La., died May 1 at age 41.

Cecil L. Long (UTCTC ’93), Wauseon, Ohio, died June 19 at age 40.

Terrence M. McCready (att.

1993-1995, 1999-2000), Toledo, died July 1 at age 32.

Michael C. Kieffer (UTCTC ’96), Toledo, died March 23 at age 47. *Kawannia M. Holmes (UTCTC ’99, HHS ’00, Univ Coll ’03), Toledo, died in May at age 27.

Faculty, staff & friends

Robert J. Affeldt, Albuquerque, N.M., died June 7 at age 83.

Professor of law at UT from 1958 to 1968, he taught labor law and civil rights, and served as acting dean for a time. In 1968, he was appointed by President Richard Nixon as director of conciliation

with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

He resigned from the post in 1970, citing the administration’s policies, which he said were “encouraging and perpetuating racial discrimination in housing, employment and education,” and returned to the UT faculty for several more years.

Dr. Douglas V. Austin (Law ’78), Toledo, died July 4 at age 67. Hired in 1969 by the College of Business Administration as associate professor and chairman of the finance department, he held the position until 1982 (and again in 1985-86). He retired in 1989 as professor emeritus but continued to teach until his health no longer allowed. A nationally recognized speaker in the banking industry, he more than once provided testimony in hearings by federal commissions and committees in Washington, D.C. At UT, he served on the Faculty Senate, the Graduate Council, on various committees and as director of the Financial Institutions Academy of the Business Research Center.

In April, the college honored his lifetime achievements with a luncheon that included members of the business community.

Esther A. Burke, Toledo, who worked at UT for 16 years, died May 22 at age 87. She joined the staff in 1971 as a UT Police radio dispatcher and retired as a clerical specialist in Parking Services.

James A. Diroff, Lambertville, Mich., a part-time instructor in the engineering technology department since 2001, died April 16 at age 57.

Donald G. Flickinger (Univ Coll ’03), Toledo, died March 31 at age 97. In 1966, he was hired as assistant equipment manager in Athletics and became a buyer in the purchasing department one year later. He retired from the University in 1972. He became UT’s oldest graduate in 2003.

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’20s

**Ernestine B. (Brocklebank) Spangler (A/S ’35), Bryan, Ohio, died June 17 at age 90.

Wilbur W. Lewis (Ed ’36), Mesa, Ariz., died June 15 at age 90. *David H. Mostov (Ed ’36), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., died March 29 at age 90. He lettered in UT basketball in 1934, 1935 and 1936. *Carol A. (Alexander)

Himmelhoch (A/S ’37, Law ’48), Grass Valley, Calif., died March 7 at age 90. Beta Tau Delta member.

Dorothy (Fess) Herbert (A/S ’38), Cincinnati, died May 27 at age 87. *Eugene S. Kimmel (Pharm ’39), Montpelier, Ohio, died March 12 at age 89.

Charles E. (Lyskawa) Leckway Jr. (att. 1939-1942), Toledo, died May 3 at age 87. He was on the Rockets football team for three years, lettering in 1940 and 1941.

’40s

Richard J. Friemark (att. 19401943), Toledo, died May 8 at age 83.

Robert B. Juergens (att. 19401943), Toledo, died March 22 at age 82. Phi Kappa Psi member.

June M. (Lloyd) Kutzke (Ed ’40, Law ’46, MEd ’60), Cortland, Ohio, died April 17 at age 86. Member of Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Kappa Phi. *Charles H. Bowers (Bus ’42), Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died June 1 at age 85. Phi Kappa Psi member. **Edward H. Schmidt (Bus ’42), Toledo, died March 2 at age 86. The Toledo auto dealership owner established a scholarship, endowed a professorship for sales and business marketing and founded the Edward H. Schmidt School of Professional Sales, all within the UT College of Business Administration.

He also belonged to the Tower Club and the Presidents Club, and was a charter member of

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the Jesup W. Scott Society. He was honored over the years with the University’s 12th Man designation, and with the College of Business Administration’s Million Dollar Partnership and Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. Sigma Beta Phi member.

While a student, he played on the basketball team. *Robert S. Bollin (Eng ’43), Sylvania Twp., died June 27 at age 83.

Phyllis Burton (Ed ’43), Toledo, died March 16 at age 84.

Margaret L. (Bartholomew) Beddoes (att. 1945-1948), Toledo, died April 17 at age 77.

Member of Pi Beta Phi.

Dr. Charles H. Feistkorn Sr. (Eng ’46), Roswell, Ga., died March 7 at age 81. He lettered in UT basketball in 1944, 1945 and 1946 and was twice captain of the team.

Daniel F. Knorek (att. 19471949), Rossford, died July 4 at age 79. He played on the Rockets football team. *Mary L. McKenna (A/S ’47), Toledo, died April 28 at age 80. Phi Kappa Phi member.

Rachel Steele (Ed ’47), Toledo, died March 14 at age 80.

Josephine V. (Toadvin) Bester (Ed ’48, MEd ’72), Omaha, Neb., died April 22 at age 78.

Delta Sigma Theta member.

Honored with the Philip J. Rusche Distinguished Service Award from UT’s College of Education. *Ruth Ellen (Huepenbecker) Blakeman (Pharm ’48), Lakeland, Fla., died June 28 at age 79. Alpha Chi Omega member. **George E. Flavell Sr. (Eng ’48), Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died June 2 at age 80. Phi Kappa Psi member. **Robert E. Meeker Sr. (Bus ’48), Holland, Ohio, died June 18 at age 78. A member of the Heritage Society, the Tower Club (with service as president) and the Presidents Club, he served as president of the UT Alumni Association in 1963-64 and was honored with the association’s

Blue T Award in 1993. He also served as a trustee of the UT Corporation, a forerunner of the UT Foundation, and was on the College of Business advisory board. Sigma Beta Phi member. *Joseph S. Meyer (Eng ’48), Toledo, died May 10 at age 87.

James L. Boulton (Bus ’49), New Smyrna Beach, Fla., died April 5 at age 78.

Jerry W. Draheim M.D. (A/S ’49), Sylvania, died June 22 at age 77. Sigma Beta Phi member.

Robert H. Mather Sr. (Eng ’49), Sylvania, died April 30 at age 79.

’50s

**William Bloomer (A/S ’50), Toledo, died March 22 at age 85.

Lillian (Tihlarik) Freimark (Ed ’50), Morgan Hill, Calif., died June 8 at age 78. Phi Kappa Phi member.

Stephen A. Serke (Bus ’50), Pleasant Hill, Calif., died Feb. 22 at age 81.

Daniel R. Ulrich (Eng ’50), Sylvania Twp., died June 17 at age 50.

William R. Edgar (Bus ’51), Summerfield, N.C., died May 23 at age 77.

William D. Erard (Eng ’51), Toledo, died March 7 at age 77.

Tau Beta Phi member.

Donald A. Kennedy (Bus ’51), Toledo, died June 12 at age 77. He was captain of the UT golf team.

Harry J. Stefanoff (att. 19511955), Toledo, died June 26 at age 72.

Thomas “Tim” B. Dever (Ed ’52), Toledo, died July 5 at age 87.

Merle L. Heard (Pharm ’52), Waterford, Penn., died March 20 at age 78. *Patricia C. (Snody) Schuster (Ed ’52), Sylvania, died March 20 at age 74. Kappa Delta, Delta Kappa Gamma member.

Margaret A. McCarthyAntonini (Ed ’53), Sylvania, died June 24 at age 73. Delta Delta Delta member.

George V. Mumford (Eng ’53,

MEng ’58), Ventura, Calif., died June 3 at age 83. Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi member.

Janet E. Cuff (UTCTC ’55, A/S ’59), Toledo, died March 3 at age 84.

Dr. Don E. Stathulis (att. 19551959), Toledo, died March 13 at age 67.

Kenneth S. Zielinski (att.

1955-1957), Maumee, died May 13 at age 75. *Frank H. Tuttle (Bus ’56), Toledo, died May 8 at age 71. *Judge Roger R. Weiher (Law ’56), Sylvania Twp., died June 28 at age 79. He established two scholarship funds at UT: the Evelyn Leopold Weiher Memorial Fund and the Judge Roger R. Weiher Law Scholarship.

Halloway C. Sells Jr. (A/S ’57), Lake Charles, La., died March 24 at age 71. **Ginger (Miller) Long (A/S ’58), Madison, Wis., died in June at age 68. Member of Alpha Chi Omega. *Mary F. Rensch (UTCTC ’58), Clark Lake, Mich., died April 4 at age 69.

Robert W. Scott (Law ’58), Perrysburg, died March 3 at age 77. **Clayton E. Umbles (Pharm ’58), Sylvania, died March 4 at age 69. Served as president of Kappa Alpha Psi.

Rosemary C. (Adams) Brown (Ed ’59, MEd ’65), Waterville, died April 18 at age 73.

David A. Heigel (UTCTC ’59), Temperance, Mich., died June 13.

Eugene R. Ritter (MBA ’59), Toledo, died June 9 at age 80.

George M. Hanneken (A/S ’59, MS ’62), Macedonia, Ohio, died May 10 at age 68.

James C. Vollmayer (Bus ’59), Montville Twp., N.J., died April 17 at age 85.

’60s

Ronald J. Kerr (att. 1964-1966, 1968-1970), Fremont, Ohio, died June 28 at age 58.

Carol (Emptage) Kwiatkowski (Ed ’64), Lambertville, Mich., died April 16 at age 69.

Mary L. (O’Neill) (Lindhuber) Karl (Ed ’65), El Paso, Texas, died March 20 at age 61.

Leon “Butch” Campbell (att.

1967-1971), Toledo, died April 17 at age 55. He lettered in UT football in 1968, 1970 and 1971. In 1971, he made second team allMAC as offensive guard.

Bryan H. Reamsnyder (Ed ’67, MEd ’68), Oregon, died March 24 at age 60.

Albert T. Enk (Eng ’68), Perrysburg, died March 12 at age 93.

April 12 at age 77.

Frederick Wesolowski (att.

1973-1976), Toledo, died July 3 at age 56.

Charles E. Wisniewski (A/S ’74), San Francisco, died June 6 at age 53.

Daniel J. Holmes (A/S ’75), Toledo, died March 3 at age 51.

Julie Youngpeter (Ed ’75), Findlay, Ohio, died March 16 at age 52.

Freddie L. Jordan (Ed ’76, MEd ’83), Toledo, died May 6 at age 56.

Bruce R. Walker (A/S ’76), Euclid, Ohio, died Nov. 8 at age 51.

Robert C. Flynn (Ed ’77, Ed ’80), Toledo, died March 20 at age

6 at age 57.

55. He lettered in UT football in 1968, 1969 and 1970, and served on the executive board of the Varsity T Club.

Dr. Jeannette E. (Albright) Schotter (Ed ’69, MEd ’71, PhD ’81), Toledo, died June 20

at age 49.

Alan R. Cohen (A/S ’69, MEng ’71), Kalamazoo, Mich., died May

Patrice J. (Roper) Byrne (Univ Coll ’78), Toledo, died May 24

at age 80. Kappa Delta Phi, Pi Lambda Theta member.

Jodi J. (Westerman) Cheney (UTCTC ’78, Univ Coll ’83),

William D. Wright (Law ’69),

Sylvania Twp., died April 22 at age 48.

Holland, Ohio, died March 16 at age 60.

’70s

Philippa “Penny” H. (Podolsky) Nasatir (UTCTC ’78, Law ’84), Sylvania, died

14 at age 55.

’80s

Fayma (Boren) Allman (Ed ’70, MEd ’73), Toledo, died May William T. Mattimoe (A/S ’70), Fremont, Calif., died May 16

May 8 at age 72.

*Frances L. (Reed) Deye (UTCTC ’80), Toledo, died June

at age 56.

6 at age 73.

Hilmar W. Johnson (Ed ’71, MEd ’76), McClure, Ohio, died

Mona Jackson (Ed ’80),

June 26 at age 83.

Paul F. “Butch” Hollosi (Bus ’72), Searcy, Ark., died July 1 at age 63.

Dr. Gale L. Weisman (PhD ’72), Forest, Va., died May 3 at age

Woodland Hills, Calif., died March 5 at age 84.

Debra Woodberry-Shaw (UTCTC ’81, Univ Coll ’81), Toledo, died Feb. 27 at age 46.

Timothy L. Rector (UTCTC ’81), Portland, Ore., died June 7

64. Phi Beta Kappa member.

at age 51.

Vera M. (Mysyshyn) Cready (MEd ’73), Perrysburg, died April

died April 18 at age 72.

Carl W. Mintz (Eng ’60), Ida,

4, at age 60.

Mich., died May 24 at age 76. *Gladys R. (Berning) Baker (Ed ’63), Maumee, died July 7 at age 88.

age 82.

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Josephine R. (Kunz) Gioffre (Ed ’73), Toledo, died April 15 at Blandine E. Wackenheim www.toledoalumni.org

James Lyle (MEd ’82), Toledo, Joseph M. Ellis (UTCTC ’85, Univ Coll ’89), Toledo, died June 27 at age 42.

James A. Rice (MBA ’85, Pharm ’03), Sylvania Twp., died

March 8 at age 54. The recipient of more than 10 UT scholarships, including the Alumni Association’s post-graduate scholarship, he was working on his doctoral degree in pharmacy, and established the James A. Rice Memorial Scholarship for students suffering from life-threatening illnesses.

David B. Nitz (Bus ’86), Swanton, died May 12 at age 51.

Julia M.E. (Rosso) Willis (Ed ’86), Monrovia, Calif., died May 11 at age 48.

Barry L. Moyer (MEd ’88), Genoa, Ohio, died May 5 at age 60.

Brad L.S. Nagy (Eng ’89), Genoa, Ohio, died June 24 at age 41.

’90s

Edward B. Hawkins (Ed ’90), Toledo, died Feb. 26 at age 38.

While a student at UT, he worked as an athletic trainer. **Dr. Frederick A. Smith (PhD ’90), Holland, Ohio, died March 10 at age 58.

Arshad Parvez (MS ’91), Perrysburg, died April 14 at age 55.

Patrick Desser (Ed ’92), Patterson, La., died May 1 at age 41.

Cecil L. Long (UTCTC ’93), Wauseon, Ohio, died June 19 at age 40.

Terrence M. McCready (att.

1993-1995, 1999-2000), Toledo, died July 1 at age 32.

Michael C. Kieffer (UTCTC ’96), Toledo, died March 23 at age 47. *Kawannia M. Holmes (UTCTC ’99, HHS ’00, Univ Coll ’03), Toledo, died in May at age 27.

Faculty, staff & friends

Robert J. Affeldt, Albuquerque, N.M., died June 7 at age 83.

Professor of law at UT from 1958 to 1968, he taught labor law and civil rights, and served as acting dean for a time. In 1968, he was appointed by President Richard Nixon as director of conciliation

with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

He resigned from the post in 1970, citing the administration’s policies, which he said were “encouraging and perpetuating racial discrimination in housing, employment and education,” and returned to the UT faculty for several more years.

Dr. Douglas V. Austin (Law ’78), Toledo, died July 4 at age 67. Hired in 1969 by the College of Business Administration as associate professor and chairman of the finance department, he held the position until 1982 (and again in 1985-86). He retired in 1989 as professor emeritus but continued to teach until his health no longer allowed. A nationally recognized speaker in the banking industry, he more than once provided testimony in hearings by federal commissions and committees in Washington, D.C. At UT, he served on the Faculty Senate, the Graduate Council, on various committees and as director of the Financial Institutions Academy of the Business Research Center.

In April, the college honored his lifetime achievements with a luncheon that included members of the business community.

Esther A. Burke, Toledo, who worked at UT for 16 years, died May 22 at age 87. She joined the staff in 1971 as a UT Police radio dispatcher and retired as a clerical specialist in Parking Services.

James A. Diroff, Lambertville, Mich., a part-time instructor in the engineering technology department since 2001, died April 16 at age 57.

Donald G. Flickinger (Univ Coll ’03), Toledo, died March 31 at age 97. In 1966, he was hired as assistant equipment manager in Athletics and became a buyer in the purchasing department one year later. He retired from the University in 1972. He became UT’s oldest graduate in 2003.

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Parting shot Recipes for memories Let’s run up The stairs

George L. Heath, Toledo, died May 22 at age 81. In 1947, he joined UT as an instructor in the College of Engineering. He was promoted to assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1951 and associate professor in 1956. His service to the University included various committees and a period as acting chairman of the department. He was made professor emeritus in 1984, retiring in 1997.

Ethel G. Kimberlain, Waterville, a secretary in the College of Business Administration from 1993 to 2000, died March 10 at age 56.

Dr. Frederick L. Kitterle, Sycamore, Ill., a faculty member in the psychology department for 20 years, died May 3 at age 62. He was named an assistant professor of psychology at UT in 1972, was promoted to associate professor in 1976, and to professor in 1979. An expert in the field of visual perception, Kitterle took a yearlong leave of absence from the University in 1978 to serve as associate director of the Sensory Physiology and Perception Program in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. The experimental psychologist served as chair of the department from 1985 to 1992, when he left the University.

Darryl A. Kroggel (Ed ’64, MEd ’69), Toledo, a lecturer in the mathematics department, died May 9 at age 63. He joined the faculty as a part-time instructor in 1986 and became a lecturer in 2002.

Jill Ellen (Welch) Lee (UTCTC ’73, Univ Coll ’89, MEd ’91), Broken Arrow, Okla., who worked at UT from 1991 to 1997, died March 24 at age 54. She was hired as a counselor for the UTCTC Student Services, later working as a coordinator for the Professional Experience Program and Scott Park Career Services.

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Dr. Joseph Marcus (Ed ’68, MEd ’69, PhD ’79), Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who taught engineering technology at UT for 11 years, died June 5 at age 90. He joined the faculty as an instructor in 1967 and retired in 1978 as assistant professor, receiving the emeritus designation. **Howard L. Ness Sr. (Bus ’42, Law ’49), Toledo, died March 13 at age 84. He joined UT as an instructor in 1946, and in 1956, while maintaining a private law practice, became professor of accounting and business law, then chairman of the accounting department in 1962. He retired as professor emeritus in 1985. He served as president of the Alumni Association in 1954-55. While a UT student, he acted as business manager for the Collegian, and held memberships in Alpha Phi Gamma, Chi Beta Chi and Pi Kappa Delta.

David M. Pawlicki, Sylvania, died June 26 at age 97. His 44-year career with the University began when he was hired in 1928 as an engineer in the maintenance department. Holding several superintendent-level positions through the years, he retired in 1972 as assistant to the director of the physical plant.

Melvia A. Scott, Toledo, died April 1 at age 76. She worked in the College of Business Administration from 1974 to 1982, leaving UT as a library media assistant.

Dr. Edward Shapiro (A/S ’42), Glen Ellyn, Ill., died March 11 at age 84. His teaching career at UT began in 1967, when he joined the faculty of the College of Business Administration as professor of economics. During his years on the UT faculty he wrote a textbook, Macroeconomic Analysis, that went into two editions and became an international bestseller, setting the standard for macroeconomics. A member of UT’s Presidents Club, Endowment Benefactors, Jesup Scott Society and Heritage Society, he established the Edward Shapiro Fund for English Composition

As children

in 1989, and the Edward Shapiro Economics Scholarship Fund in 2002. He was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi. He retired from UT in 1991.

John D. Willey, Toledo, retired associate publisher of The Blade who was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1972 by UT, died July 9 at age 88.

Bearing angels Not anguish On our backs Let’s laugh in The hallways While the echo

* Member of the UT Alumni Association

Is boogying

** Lifetime member

The rhythms Of the walls Let’s sense new Dimensions of Freedom in The contours Of butterfly Wings. We’ll Bookmark The daylight With memos To chill it In cellars For good

— Anastasia Mirzoyants, UT graduate student

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in memoriam

Parting shot Recipes for memories Let’s run up The stairs

George L. Heath, Toledo, died May 22 at age 81. In 1947, he joined UT as an instructor in the College of Engineering. He was promoted to assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1951 and associate professor in 1956. His service to the University included various committees and a period as acting chairman of the department. He was made professor emeritus in 1984, retiring in 1997.

Ethel G. Kimberlain, Waterville, a secretary in the College of Business Administration from 1993 to 2000, died March 10 at age 56.

Dr. Frederick L. Kitterle, Sycamore, Ill., a faculty member in the psychology department for 20 years, died May 3 at age 62. He was named an assistant professor of psychology at UT in 1972, was promoted to associate professor in 1976, and to professor in 1979. An expert in the field of visual perception, Kitterle took a yearlong leave of absence from the University in 1978 to serve as associate director of the Sensory Physiology and Perception Program in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. The experimental psychologist served as chair of the department from 1985 to 1992, when he left the University.

Darryl A. Kroggel (Ed ’64, MEd ’69), Toledo, a lecturer in the mathematics department, died May 9 at age 63. He joined the faculty as a part-time instructor in 1986 and became a lecturer in 2002.

Jill Ellen (Welch) Lee (UTCTC ’73, Univ Coll ’89, MEd ’91), Broken Arrow, Okla., who worked at UT from 1991 to 1997, died March 24 at age 54. She was hired as a counselor for the UTCTC Student Services, later working as a coordinator for the Professional Experience Program and Scott Park Career Services.

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Dr. Joseph Marcus (Ed ’68, MEd ’69, PhD ’79), Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who taught engineering technology at UT for 11 years, died June 5 at age 90. He joined the faculty as an instructor in 1967 and retired in 1978 as assistant professor, receiving the emeritus designation. **Howard L. Ness Sr. (Bus ’42, Law ’49), Toledo, died March 13 at age 84. He joined UT as an instructor in 1946, and in 1956, while maintaining a private law practice, became professor of accounting and business law, then chairman of the accounting department in 1962. He retired as professor emeritus in 1985. He served as president of the Alumni Association in 1954-55. While a UT student, he acted as business manager for the Collegian, and held memberships in Alpha Phi Gamma, Chi Beta Chi and Pi Kappa Delta.

David M. Pawlicki, Sylvania, died June 26 at age 97. His 44-year career with the University began when he was hired in 1928 as an engineer in the maintenance department. Holding several superintendent-level positions through the years, he retired in 1972 as assistant to the director of the physical plant.

Melvia A. Scott, Toledo, died April 1 at age 76. She worked in the College of Business Administration from 1974 to 1982, leaving UT as a library media assistant.

Dr. Edward Shapiro (A/S ’42), Glen Ellyn, Ill., died March 11 at age 84. His teaching career at UT began in 1967, when he joined the faculty of the College of Business Administration as professor of economics. During his years on the UT faculty he wrote a textbook, Macroeconomic Analysis, that went into two editions and became an international bestseller, setting the standard for macroeconomics. A member of UT’s Presidents Club, Endowment Benefactors, Jesup Scott Society and Heritage Society, he established the Edward Shapiro Fund for English Composition

As children

in 1989, and the Edward Shapiro Economics Scholarship Fund in 2002. He was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi. He retired from UT in 1991.

John D. Willey, Toledo, retired associate publisher of The Blade who was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1972 by UT, died July 9 at age 88.

Bearing angels Not anguish On our backs Let’s laugh in The hallways While the echo

* Member of the UT Alumni Association

Is boogying

** Lifetime member

The rhythms Of the walls Let’s sense new Dimensions of Freedom in The contours Of butterfly Wings. We’ll Bookmark The daylight With memos To chill it In cellars For good

— Anastasia Mirzoyants, UT graduate student

Photo by Dan Miller www.toledoalumni.org

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