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The Dorm Dudes, pictured left-to-right, are Kaden Poorman, Richie Delaney, Shane Rue, Ellison Morel, Ty Mast, Zach Balo, Ryan Kern, Caleb Kepler, Grayson Hay and Joe Beck.
Daneé Pinckney, a 2019 M.Ed. alumna, selected 2025 Ohio Teacher of
Ashland University awarded $2.4 million grant from Lilly Endowment
3 AU history professor appearing on series of History’s Greatest Mysteries episodes 3 Recently discovered Peace Pole now installed at center of AU main campus
3 Heidi (Bench ’02) Meyer a national winner of Shine a Light on Anti-Semitism Civic Courage Award 3 Bob and Jan Archer donate $1 million to Ashland Center for Nonviolence
Mental health advocate Sarah Watson earns national Outstanding Peer Educator Award 3 New safety services director is an accomplished alumna and author
3 Four Eagles Named Academic All-Americans All Teams Finish with 3.0 GPAs 3 Fall Sports Wrap-up
3 Football Makes History During 2024 Championship Season
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
“Don’t take yourself too seriously!” This spring, I have been reminded of this life lesson over and over at campus events celebrating the achievements of our students and young alumni. At the ASHPY awards, for example, we honored student-athletes for their successes on the field and in the classroom, as well as for light-hearted triumphs such as Best Hair and Cutest Couple. At AU, there is a joyful spirit at work.
Ashland’s spirit takes on many forms. One is an entrepreneurial spirit that alumnus Zach Balo and Dorm Dudes are living out, having built a game-changing sports memorabilia business that has hit $10 million in sales in just its second full year. At the Burton D. Morgan Lecture, Zach joined AU parent and collectible expert Jim Grant to discuss how to balance personal drive and team building while managing a growing international business.
I have felt an undeniable espirit de corps meeting with faculty and staff at Founders Hall, chatting with students walking to classes, catching up with alumni over coffee at the new Lyceum. The spirit is in the air as fans proudly cheer on our championship athletic teams and in the peaceful quiet at the end of a hymn in the weekly chapel service at the Seminary. And, it is in the room as future physician assistants develop their skills at the state-of-the-art Simulation Center at the Dwight Schar College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Mansfield.
It is a spirit of freedom, a spirit of optimism, a spirit of faith, a spirit of inquiry and opportunity. This spirit is lived out by our students in the classroom, labs, library and study spaces, by our faculty through their mentorship and scholarly research, by our staff in their tireless support and by our tens of thousands of alumni who are leading, serving and working in their communities every day.
Speaking of community, numerous COBE faculty members and hundreds of students over a quarter of a century have worked together to develop the Eagle Investment Group into one of the largest student-run investment portfolios in the country.
Our educational spirit can be seen in alumnae like Daneé Pinckney and Heidi (Bench ’02) Meyer who have won statewide and national recognition for the impact they are making in high school classrooms.
And, maybe the most important, a spirit of perseverance. Sarah Watson has turned a tragedy—her father’s suicide—into a life calling of mental health awareness. In January, she was recognized for her efforts with a national honor. She used this personal achievement as an opportunity to draw attention to serving others in their time of need.
We hope you are inspired by these stories about the undeniable Ashland spirit in this edition of Accent magazine.
Go Eagles!
Jon Parrish Peede President
Ashland University and Ashland Theological Seminary
Dorm Dudes
Much More Than a Fun Name
There’s “The Kernal,” Ryan Kern,” and “Bubba,” Grayson Hay, as well as “Richie D,” Richie Delaney.
There is also “Sugar Shane,” Shane Rue; “Ty the Creator,” Ty Mast; and, of course, “Bossman,” Zach Balo.
Even the official name of their live-selling sports memorabilia business, Dorm Dudes, sounds like a fun nickname.
With most of the “Dorm Dudes” graduating this spring from Ashland University, is a new business name needed?
“I think we can continue with that name,” said Balo, who started the business from his AU dorm room about two years ago. “It’s a brand that’s recognizable.
“I would hate to change it,” added the senior accounting and finance double major. “I think people know, especially our regulars, that it started in college.”
This AU student-run business, which, in its first year, was streaming 18 to 20 hours a day to about 25,000 people daily, shipping about 500 packages a day and had sales of more than $3 million, keeps growing by leaps and bounds, now up to 40,000 viewers a day between all its accounts, shipping twice as many packages a day (around 1,000) and had sales of $10 million in the past year.
Not only did the Dorm Dudes add a larger building on campus over the summer to the one they were streaming in, they also bought a van to travel to special streaming events they do in Nashville, Tennessee, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where several celebrities have helped them with their live selling online (TikTok, Instagram, WhatNot and Fanatics Live).
Just this month, they moved to a bigger building in downtown Ashland.
While they have done several live-selling events in Nashville with nationally syndicated radio show host Bobby Bones, who became a big fan of their streaming, they have just recently added ones with sports celebrities in Florida
looking BAck At 25 yeArs of Eagle Investment Group
With 2025 being the 25th year of Ashland University’s Eagle Investment Group (EIG), here are 25 things you should know about it:?
2It is a two-semester class, not a club. Most of the students are business majors, particularly in finance.
2The class is mostly seniors. That’s mainly because two prerequisites are needed: an introductory finance investment course and a portfolio management class.
2Students invest real money. What started as a $250,000 fund from the university, doubled by 2008 with more donations from AU and dividends from investments, is now around $2 million to $2.2 million. It is part of the university’s $80 million endowment. EIG follows the investment policy developed by the students and adopted by AU’s Board of Trustees. “As dean, I wouldn’t want it any other way,” said Dan Fox, dean of AU’s College of Business and Economics. “We want our students to have real accountability that will be similar to what they experience when they leave here.”
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Tom Harvey, a retired AU business professor and longtime banker before teaching, started EIG. Harvey said Lucille Ford, who had been involved with AU for many years, particularly COBE, asked him if his students would like to manage some money and she convinced the university’s Board of Trustees to start them off with the $250,000 seed amount. “It was really different in terms of other classes that were held around the university,” Harvey said. “It became a place where the students loved to come and talk about the market. I never put anything in the portfolio or took anything out of it. It was all the students’ work. The thing just took off by itself.” When he established it, Harvey said he never thought it would last for 25 years.
2Terry Rumker was another key EIG instructor. Because he worked at Fidelity Investments before teaching at AU, Rumker said Harvey asked him to help develop EIG and eventually taught the class for a few years. “When we first developed it, the idea was to have a unique experience for our students,” Rumker said. “When they walked out of AU, they wouldn’t question their skill sets. That was the goal for them: to manage money so they could hit the ground running when they graduated.” 5 4 3 2 1
Award Winners
The Ashland University Alumni Association Awards Dinner took place on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in the John C. Myers Convocation Center. This annual event honored outstanding alumni and friends who exemplify the values and mission of Ashland University through their personal and professional achievements. Family and friends enjoyed a delightful dinner, reconnected with fellow Eagles and were inspired by the stories of our exceptional award recipients.
Christopher Triner ’91, ’01
M.Ed.
Professor Raymond W. Bixler Award
Jon Qualls ’05
Special Achievement Award
Jay Pappas ’72
Richard D. Leidy Award
Rick Ewing
Dr. Glenn L. Clayton Award
Lorie Diehm Meister Honorary Alumna Award
Donald Jakeway ’70 Outstanding Alumnus Award
Logan Rex ’18 Young Alumnus Award
Do you know a graduate or friend of the university who is deserving of an alumni award? Please complete a nomination form by visiting www. ashland.edu and clicking on the Alumni link.
RECENTLY DISCOVERED PEACE POLE
Ann Lindower Eagle ’62 and John Lersch ’79 returned for a celebration of the AU campus’ first Peace Pole. The gift is credited to the late Rev. Phil Lersch ’58 and Jean Lindower Lersch ’55.
NOW INSTALLED AT CENTER OF AU MAIN CAMPUS
A Peace Pole – an internationally-recognized marker that represents love, peace and harmony – was installed and unveiled during the fall semester at Ashland University. There are an estimated 250,000 Peace Poles across the U.S., serving as powerful symbols that each display the timeless message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in a variety of languages.
AU’s first such Peace Pole was erected in an appropriate location – outside Bixlar Hall, where the Ashland Center for Nonviolence is housed.
“The idea of these poles is (a) standing vigil in silent prayer for peace on earth,” said Peter Slade, Ph.D., professor of religion, during a dedication ceremony. “The reason this pole is outside the Ashland Center for Nonviolence is that the ACN is placed here— the center of Ashland University—to remind the students, the community and the Brethren church that we need to think, speak and act, according to our traditions, in a spirit of peace.”
Dorothy Stratton, a former professor of social work at AU and wife of the late John Stratton, one of the founders of ACN, was also on hand and added that the pole represents three specific qualities to her.
“Peace poles… (are) aspirational. It’s the way we want things to be. We want peace and we hope for peace, so it’s an aspirational statement to have one here,” she explained. “Second, they’re intentional. We intend to behave and just completely live in a way that promotes peaceful living and relationships. And third, they’re hopeful. Just the fact that so many different languages are represented. Think about it, every language has words for the
concept of peacefulness. That should make us hopeful in these times where there’s so much conflict.”
Interestingly, this “new” Peace Pole’s exact origins are a bit of a mystery. It was discovered in storage by an employee in the facilities department, but is believed to have been gifted to the university when Fred Finks served as president of the university (2006-14).
The late Rev. Phil Lersch, who graduated from the Ashland Theological Seminary in 1958, and his wife, Jean (Lindower ’55) Lersch, are credited with the gift.
“I think some publicity about the establishment of the ACN got the attention of Phil Lersch who was in Florida. Phil got in touch with my husband, John, and was very happy such a center was being established here at AU,” Stratton recalled. “(Phil) was very interested in … the peace focus of his denomination.”
John Lersch ’79, who majored in science and physical education when attending AU, confirmed that a Peace Pole was exactly the type of philanthropy his father, a full-time minister throughout his career, would get behind.
“(Dad) played some football (here). He was known as a pretty intense competitor, but in his preaching career, he was just as passionate,” remarked Lersch. “From the pulpit and from a lot of writing and articles and correspondence with groups like this, and even the way he conducted himself with the neighborhood kids … just his whole life was always about peace.”
HEIDI (BENCH ’02) MEYER A NATIONAL WINNER OF
SHINE A LIGHT ON ANTI-SEMITISM CIVIC COURAGE AWARD
A Holocaust class that Heidi (Bench ’02) Meyer took at Ashland University 25 years ago put her on the path to an impressive honor.
It was recently revealed that Meyer, a teacher at Elmwood High School in northwest Ohio since 2008, was one of two high school educators from across the country selected for a 2024 Shine
A Light on Anti-Semitism Civic Courage Award by the Jewish Education Project. There were 19 total winners in various categories, ranging from educators and students to content creators and game developers.
The Civic Courage Award recognizes those “who take bold action to combat dangerous trends” and “whether through education, activism or creative expression, recipients … are lighting the way forward at a time when standing against hate has never been more crucial,” according to the award announcement.
Specific to Meyer, it read “Heidi’s unwavering commitment to combating ignorance with knowledge and fostering empathy exemplifies her passion for creating a more inclusive and compassionate school environment.”
Meyer was first moved deeply by the atrocities of the Holocaust during the AU course taught by the late David Rausch, Ph.D. She
labeled it a “springboard” and now makes it an annual goal to expose a new generation of students to the Holocaust. She does so via a number of teaching methods, some inspired by Rausch.
“Dr. Dave was just really good. He knew how to make connections. He showed us documentaries. He just knew how to connect with content,” explained Meyer. “I just loved him as a professor and the Holocaust course that he taught … it opened up my eyes.”
Today, Meyer, who earned both a bachelor’s degree and an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from AU, is the one who provides engaging lessons. She has her students’ full attention on topics in AP American history, world history and AP U.S. government, but when it comes to the Holocaust, she goes above and beyond.
In addition to reading resources—some from the same book that she was first introduced to in Rausch’s class—and showing documentaries with actual footage of the Holocaust, Meyer welcomes in diverse community speakers to educate students, coordinates visits with Holocaust survivor families and leads field trips to a number of Holocaust museums.
Meyer, citing Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, remarked, “When you listen to a witness, you become a witness, and that’s been my motto in teaching. We try to make connections for these kids to make it personal because if you don’t make it personal it means nothing. It’s just history.”
BOB AND JAN ARCHER DONATE $1 MILLION TO ASHLAND CENTER
The Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University marked its 20th anniversary in 2024, and now thanks to the generosity of Bob and Jan Archer, the center’s long-term future has been secured. The Archers have donated $1 million to establish the Janet L. Archer Ashland Center for Nonviolence Endowed Fund.
Jan Archer has been a supporter of ACN since its inception and is delighted to establish this fund, which will support the center’s director.
“My involvement with the Nonviolence Center goes back to its beginning. Before the country went to war in Iraq, I joined several citizens from both the university and the community in peaceful protests. When war was declared, our group asked ‘what can we do?’” she explained. “The answer was to start ACN. I am pleased at how the program has grown. We hope that our gift can help continue the program far into the future because we need to learn alternatives to violence (in) our society.”
FOR NONVIOLENCE
ACN seeks a world in which human conflict at all levels can be resolved without resorting to violence and in which social justice can be realized. The center promotes alternatives to violence and supports efforts to create a more just, inclusive and caring community.
Craig Hovey, Ph.D., the current director of ACN and a professor of religion, expressed gratitude for the Archers’ support.
“Thanks to the Archers, there’s going to be meaningful and consistent leadership for ACN into the future. That’s really the whole idea,” Hovey said. “The faculty member directing ACN, in perpetuity, will be able to devote more time and energy to promoting peace.”
Hovey expects to develop more influential conferences and events, increase grant writing and expand programming for AU students and the community. “The fund will allow us to do more and bigger things. That’s the reality,” he said.
Sarah Watson, president of the AU Student Wellness Team, was recognized nationally for her impressive series of initiatives that are raising mental health awareness on campus.
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE SARAH WATSON EARNS
NATIONAL OUTSTANDING PEER EDUCATOR AWARD
Sarah Watson, a junior at Ashland University, earned national recognition for her powerful and relentless work on mental health awareness, as she was selected for the Outstanding Peer Educator Award at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ (NASPA) Peer Education Conference, held in Boston on Jan. 18.
“Sarah is absolutely phenomenal and richly deserving of this special honor,” said Janel Molnar, director of recreation and wellness at AU. “She has truly taken a terrible tragedy and has made it her mission to make sure each person in the AU community and beyond knows they are valued and there is help available.”
Since joining the AU campus in the fall of 2022, Watson has developed a series of mental health initiatives, first focusing her efforts within the athletic department. A member of the Eagles’ women’s soccer team, she bravely shared the personal story of her father’s suicide while emphasizing the importance of mental health with her coaches, teammates and other student-athletes. Her message of “it’s OK to not be OK” resonated.
Watson then felt called to make a larger impact and steer mental health initiatives throughout campus. As a sophomore, she became the AU Wellness Intern and initiated the Student Wellness Team, a group that has grown to 16 peer educators who are all striving to promote wellness initiatives across campus.
Today, Watson serves as president of the Student Wellness Team, and in that role, focuses on wellness education, assists with the development of all student wellness programs for the university and themes for each awareness month. She also is a member of Eagle Well and the Mental Health Task Force, university-wide committees
composed of students, faculty and staff.
Molnar noted that due primarily to Watson’s efforts, “currently, 64% of our campus has been impacted by a wellness program throughout their college experience.”
In addition, Watson facilitates a number of QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) sessions throughout the year for both students and faculty/staff and she has been a keynote speaker for the Suicide Prevention & Awareness Walk, coordinated by the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County.
During the fall of 2024, Watson spoke at the dedication of AU’s new suicide awareness bench, which was donated from Josh’s Benches for Awareness organization. She also chose the inscription for the bench, “Stay another day, keep going,” a phrase that Watson introduced to Ashland and now “campus is using as (its) own,” according to Molnar.
Upon receiving the Outstanding Peer Educator Award, Watson said, “Wellness has always been a huge passion of mine … in different ways throughout the many years of my life. I wanted to first start off by thanking God because this is His plan in my life. My father died by suicide when I was 10 years old, but it led me to serving my community and making a difference out of a tragedy. I strongly believe God didn’t put me through something like that if it wasn’t to help others.”
She continued, “Here I am today … making every day hopefully just a little bit better for everyone. Ashland has given me a second home and I’m thankful that I’m part of a university that allows me to lead student wellness and have the opportunities that I do.
Kim Mager ’91 has successfully made the transition from the Ashland Police Department to leading AU’s safety services, all while promoting a top-selling book about her work solving the 2018 case of a serial killer.
NEW SAFETY SERVICES DIRECTOR IS AN
ACCOMPLISHED ALUMNA AND AUTHOR
Ashland University’s new safety services director, Kim Mager ‘91, garnered some national attention during her first few months on the job, highlighted by a segment on 20/20, ABC’s award-winning, long-running news magazine.
To be clear, Mager’s turn in the spotlight didn’t have anything to do with her accomplishments at AU. It was due to her impressive work as a detective with the Ashland Police Department when she helped bring about the conviction of serial killer Shawn Grate in 2018.
Following her retirement from the Ashland P.D. in 2022, Mager decided to pen a book, co-authored with Lisa Pulitzer, a New York Times best-selling author of non-fiction, about her experience convicting Grate. The book, “A Hunger to Kill,” was published in July 2024 and has gone over well as she has been requested for interviews by a number of media outlets, including Fox News, and podcasters, but it just so happened to coincide with the start of her new position.
“The book was just being launched when I started here, so I didn’t do a typical book launch because I just started my new job,” Mager said. “I said ‘I have a new job and that comes first so, if you need to interview me, it has to be at night or on the weekend.’ The publisher has been very understanding about that.”
While Mager appreciates the attention her story has received and the extra book sales, the majority of her focus has been on her new team of campus officers, dispatchers and operations manager.
“We work a 24/7 operation answering the phone and doing security checks,” Mager said. “We’re even here on holidays when everyone is home. I’m impressed with how hard the people on my team work.”
Mager is leading AU’s safety services with the same persistence as when she worked to solve the Grate case. She is systematically going through every building to re-familiarize herself with campus, as a lot has changed in the three-plus decades since she studied criminal justice at AU.
“I’m trying to balance what I have to do in the office with what I have to learn about campus,” Mager explained. “I want the officers to be visible and approachable. I don’t want people’s first meeting with an officer to be because something happened. I want us to build relationships with students and staff, so they will be comfortable with us. That’s’ super important to me.”
Likewise, Mager said she feels she is in good hands working at her alma mater. And, she wants the campus she loves to feel in good hands with her and her staff.
“I’m impressed from top to bottom with the mission of the university,” remarked Mager. “It’s not just words. People are true to the mission. I’ve watched employee interactions with students where the students are embraced and lifted up. I’ve had conversations with employees as I’ve walked through the buildings and I can see it’s a shared vision.”
News
1949
James Simmermon ’49 will be celebrating his 99th birthday this March. He lives in an apartment at Longwood at Oakmont, a retirement community in Verona, Pa. A former recipient of AU’s Distinguished Service Award, Jim remains active in Rotary and participates in several groups and committees at Longwood.
1970
Robert Morton ’70 is proud to share that he retired in 2006 after a fulfilling career as a school psychologist for Fremont City Schools and as an adjunct professor in the School of Leadership and Policy Studies at Bowling Green State University. Since retiring, Robert has pursued his passion for writing and launched the Corey PearsonCIA Spymaster Short Story series. These action-packed vignettes deliver thrilling spy adventures one can enjoy in just 20-30 minutes, and he invites you to check them out on Amazon.
1979
Kevin Lillie ’79 retired on Aug. 1, 2024, after 30 years serving as the treasurer/CFO of the Geneva Area City School District in Geneva, Ohio. In 2022, he received the Chuck Gossett Legislative Advocacy Award from the Ohio Association of School Business Officials for his work on the Fair School Funding Plan’s transportation work group.
1983
Helen (Armstrong ’83) Woolley recently retired from High Point Regional High School as a special education teacher of 39.5 years. Helen’s son just got married, her other son just got engaged and her daughter is in college studying nursing. Helen has been married 35 years.
1983
Todd Payne ’87 has joined Pensacola International Airport as assistant director of strategy and development. He is responsible for the airport’s air service development, marketing, communications, media relations and terminal advertising programs. Todd and his wife, Jill (Croley ’85) Payne, are in the process of moving to the Pensacola area.
1992
At the recent Ohio Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance annual convention in Sandusky on Dec. 5, 2024, Joy (Gerlach ’92) Van Horn was honored as the state’s Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year for 2024. She is in her 32nd year of teaching elementary physical education in Kenton and also teaches adapted physical education at Simon Kenton School. Joy thanks her former professors and colleagues for their professionalism and encouragement to be a successful educator.
1998
Maureen McLaughlin ’98 Ater was selected to lead ArtsinStark, Stark County’s Arts Council, as its new CEO. She will oversee the organization’s efforts to award grants, manage the Cultural Center and execute the Annual Campaign for the Arts. Ater previously served as vice president of marketing and development for Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio, general manager of The Canton Repository/GateHouse Ohio Media and vice president of marketing for United Way of Greater Stark County.
2005
Jill Gosche ’05 became the outreach coordinator for Seneca Conservation District in December 2024.
Marriages/Anniversaries and Births
1971
Diane (Honecker ’71) Bellina shared that she married Daniel Bellina.
1978
Theresa Cook White ’78 was married on June 22, 2024, to Donald Boelter in Columbus, Ohio.
In Memoriam
Walter Bixler ’48
Mary (Benninghoff ’48) Hinchcliff
Reta (Young ’49) Swain
E. (Yarger ’50) Booth-Motter
David Campbell ’51
Gordon Carlson ’50
Josephine (Sauder ’50) Miller
Richard Lowe ’51
Donald Lewis ’52
Helen (Chesrown ’53) Easterday
Charles Wilkinson ’53
Neil Woodworth ’53
John Scheffel ’54
Duane Benton ’55
Geoffrey Clay ’55
Vaughn Campbell ’56
Paul Tinkel ’56
Richard Phipps ’57
Forrest Pruner ’57
F. Duane Trout ’57
Benjamin Wetter ’57
Esther (Bauer ’57) Wilcox
LeRoy Glover ’58
Frederick Hoenicke ’58
Wilford Keil ’58
Charles Lambright ’58
Margaret (Psiaki ’59) Close
Harriet (Dohner ’59) Conrady
Judy (Watson ’N59) McCune
Paul Stineman
James Brown ’60
Donald Grabach ’60
Edgard Barreto ’61
Raymond Harvey ’61
Albert Holloway ’61
Hazel (Donelson ’61) Shay
Donna (Byerly ’61) Stauffer
Carolyn (Karl ’N62) Kaple
Gene Sellers ’62
Donna (McElvain ’63) Barrett
Frederick Burkey ’63
Elwin Rickert ’63
Janice (Bowman ’64) Barnthouse
Freeman Henry ’64
Jo Auer ’65
Richard Cobun ’65
Kit Conwell ’65
Gary Maxheimer ’65
Barbara (Lamson ’65) Miller
Naomi (Soliday ’N65) Stahl
Carol (Snyder ’N65) Thompson
William Dorsey ’66
Elizabeth (Mullin ’67) Waser
Dennis Cannon ’68
Kwok Chui ’68
Mary (Giffels ’68) Halter
Rita (Slabaugh ’68) Moore
Eloise Paxton ’68
Paul Skeeles ’68
Barbara (Kenestrick ’69) Arter
Arthur Blocksidge ’69
Donald Britcher ’69
Patrick Harris ’69
Paul Johnson ’69
Janis Peery ’69
Carolyn Rudy ’69
Evelyn (Hassinger ’69) Schneider
Byrl Shaver ’69
Eilene (Jesson ’70) Bates
Mary Ellen (Edick ’70) Hargrove
Val Harris ’70
Douglas Hartman ’70
Paul Imke ’70
Michael Jackson ’70
Ellen McEwen ’70
John Meyer ’70
David Prieur ’70
Jimmy Williams ’70
Mona (Wissinger ’71) Dunlap
Jon Varner ’71
Shirley Williams ’71
Allen Greenaway ’72
Raymond Huber ’72
Joel Kelsey ’72
Roger Kreps ’72
Ruth (Wolf ’72) Miller
James Moore ’72
Alison (George) Roepke ’72 ’G87
John Slaybaugh ’72
Merle (Reisling ’73) Fenske
Baird Hanes ’73
John McKinley ’73
Ray Nissen ’73
Robert Robertson ’73
Michael Roetzer ’73
Janice (Gibson ’N73) Smith
Judd Griffith ’74
Jane (Frey ’74) Parr
Sheila Starkey ’74
Deborah Willhelm ’74
Michael Raschen ’75
Edwin Hissa ’76
Thomas Keelor ’76
Doyle Morris ’76
Wallace Pealer ’76
Fred Vanderhoff ’78
Michael Boyd ’G79
Hugh Barnard ’G80
Lucia (Fabrizi ’80) Greene
Bosie Miliner ’81
Richard Zimmerly ’G81
Timothy Miller ’G82
Sam Rittenour ’82
David Tome ’82
James Zoda ’82
Thomas Krol ’84
Marvin Beauford ’85
Marion Altman ’86
Betty Hughes ’86
Beverly (Wallen ’G87) Essman
Sharon Obrecht ’G87
Betty Smith ’G87
Amy (Bobyarchick ’87) Singleton
Nancy (Dickey ’G88) Becker
Robert Crowley ’S88
Emma Huskins ’88
Paula (Moser ’S88) Longabaugh
Daniel Miller ’G88
Robert Salter ’88
Sandra (Rhinemiller ’G89) Jones
Gloria Yoh ’G90
Thomas Gilliotti ’G91
James Sellers ’G91
Haven Shelton ’G91
Jack Sickafoose ’G91
Amanda (Jackson ’N91) Simon
John James ’G92
Donita (Hughes ’92) Switzer
Jeffrey Starkey ’S92
David Tolson ’92
Jane Brown ’N94
Michele Ganslein ’94
Jorge Gomez ’G94
William Schwan ’S95
Rebecca (Young ’G96) Blackstone
JoAnn (Slevin ’G96) Marcinkoski
Richard Martinek ’96
Mary (Hoffman ’G96) Meikle
Barbara (Holko ’G96) Thomas
Sonja Bender ’S97
Stephanie (Roper ’97) Smith
Stephanie (Fry ’98) Clark
Steven Workman ’G98
Constance (Meyer ’G99) Bunn
Marilyn Frantz ’G00
Craig Redmond ’G02
Conrad Hempel ’S03
Robert Bilbrey ’G04
Monica Gillen ’04
Donna Bluhm ’S06
Shanna (Roper ’06) Stoffer
Dennis Barber ’G12
Jessica Winston ’12
Philip Blair ’S14
Elizabeth Byfield ’S14
Curtis Wellington ’G15
Michael Bisenius ’G22
G – Graduate degree
N – Nursing degree
S – Seminary
Ashland University’s Future Eagles Legacy Program, which recruits and recognizes children, step-children and grandchildren of Ashland alumni, is recognized as one of the top programs of its kind in the country. Initiated in the 1980s, our Legacy Program has grown to where it now boasts more than 250 legacy students on campus!
When children, step-children or grandchildren apply to Ashland University, they will receive a $1,000 Legacy Scholarship, and this grant is renewable by maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
The office of Alumni and Admissions wishes to have a lifelong relationship with your family. We look forward to congratulating legacies on exciting milestones in their lives. Legacies are recognized at birth and again on their 5th, 12th, 16th and 17th birthdays.
