ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Chris Miskel ’96 was recently named President and Chief Executive Officer of the health care organization Versiti Inc. In his new role, Miskel will provide leadership for Versiti and its four affiliates: BloodCenter of Wisconsin, headquartered in Milwaukee; Indiana Blood Center, headquartered in Indianapolis; Heartland Blood Centers, headquartered in Chicago; and Michigan Blood, headquartered in Grand Rapids. Miskel previously worked at Baxter International/Shire (2013-2016), where he was head of Global Immunology, and Eli Lilly and Co. (1996-2013), where he served as general for Lilly Australia and New Zealand. Miskel graduate from Butler with a degree in Business Administration and later earned his MBA fro Harvard Business School. He was a member of the Butler Men’s Basketball team and is married to Nicole (Fort) Miskel ’98, a past Butler cheerleader. The Miskels make their home in Vernon Hill, Illinois and are the proud parents of three future Bulldogs.
In Memoriam Samuel Arnett ’33 Elizabeth (Yoder) Forry ’34 Kenneth Woolling ’39 Montrew (Goetz) Dunham ’41 Boynton Moore ’41 Elinor (Randall) Beaman ’42 George Blare ’42 Jane (Goodlet) Watson ’42 James Ellerbrook ’43 Evelyn (Hammer) Tearnan ’43 Margaret (Liehr) Atkins ’47 MS ’53 Mary (Quill) Judd ’47 MS ’54 Frederick Kautzman ’47 Walter Manifold ’47 Clarence Clarkson ’48 Jack Hanna ’48 Donald Martin ’48 Collene (Phillips) Ray ’48 Robert Terrican ’48 Herod Toon ’48 Betty (Harper) Bond ’50 Rolan Bradley ’50 John Dalzell ’50 Mary Ann Davis-Bergoch ’50 John Ellis ’50 Lamar Ferguson ’50 Jack Gilbert ’50 Charles Pope ’50 Albert Rodriguez ’50 Mary (Hite) Best ’51 Richard Clifton ’51 Virginia (Irrgang) Cooney ’51 Judith (Burk) Engle ’51 Ruth (Jordan) Hiatt ’51 Ellen (Cox) Pruitt ’51
George Spradling ’51 Shirley (Klinge) Wood ’51 Bill Barnes ’52 Thomas Bauer ’52 Lynn Chanley ’52 Nancy (Osborne) Cole ’52 Patricia (Berry) Crossland ’52 Velmir Gurgevich ’52 Sue (Schell) Henderson ’52 Suzanne (Magennis) Hinkle ’52 Norma (Statton) Klinger ’52 Frank Klinkose ’52 Ann (Montgomery) Rein ’52 Charles Trotter ’52 Lloyd Bennett ’53 MS ’53 Herbert Darrah ’53 Robert Decker ’53 Martha (Book) Powell ’53 Cora (Lane) Smith ’53 John Suh ’53 Phyllis Epperson ’54 Casey Heckman ’54 Phyllis (Smith) Kingery ’54 John McCardle ’54 William Tresslar ’54 James Hill ’55 Theodore Schurdell ’55 Tomeen (Garrett) Seidensticker ’55 Richard Sink ’56 Richard Conwell ’57 Donald Daily ’57 MS ’57 Louis Grady ’57 Leo Mahoney ’57 Ronald McMullen ’58 Claude Midgley ’58 Bonnie (May) Moos ’58 MS ’58 Margaret (Dunn) Orth ’59
Sandra (Pennock) Harrell ’60 Bernard Head ’60 MS ’60 Charlene (Jackson) Johnson ’60 Carl Kakasuleff ’60 John Van Vactor ’60 MS ’64 Larry Wilson ’60 Stephen Appleton ’61 Janet (Clark) Decker ’61 MS ’61 Donald Ridgeway ’61 Linda Brandt ’62 Richard Morr ’62 John Light ’64 James Moore ’64 MS ’64 Gregory Armstrong ’65 Robert Bayt ’65 Robert Bengtson ’65 James Bunch ’65 Stephen Main ’65 Garry Donna ’66 Earl Gannon ’66 Deborah Casey ’67 Sue (Inskeep) Garceau ’67 MS ’67 Josephine Gottemoeller ’67 MS ’67 Norman Meyer ’67 Charles Barker ’68 MBA ’68 Gary Hollandbeck ’68 MM ’68 Max Stierwalt ’68 Richard Fackler ’70 Carole (Miller) Hon ’70 Sharon (Whitmire) Johnston ’70 Robert Callon ’71 Margaret (Stewart) Howard ’71 MS ’71 Deloris McDonald ’71 Joan Saxon ’71 Joan Burgin ’72 MS ’72 George Elliott ’72 MS ’72
Rebecca Richardson ’72 Mary Arnold ’73 MS ’73 James Ayres ’73 MS ’81 Gary Bingham ’73 Sara Bond-Stieb ’73 David Holt ’73 Paul Kenworthy ’73 MS ’73 James O’Toole ’74 MBA ’74 Sara (Kent) Reid ’74 MM ’74 Gayle (Sylvester) Feeney ’75 Mary (Stich) McConahay ’75 MS ’75 Nancy Highley ’77 Marcia (Huston) Cardwell ’78 MS ’78 Deborah (Crouch) Combs ’78 MS ’83 David McGrath ’78 MS ’78 Mary (Davisson) Sanderson ’80 Kevin Burris ’82 Michael Page ’82 Suzanne (Faeth) Smith ’82 Elizabeth Stiles-Knight ’82 Christy Stossmeister ’82 Craig Miles ’83 Pamela (Beck) Schmoll ’84 Daniel Reardon ’91 MBA ’91 William Diener ’92 MA ’92 Sharalie Harcourt ’92 MS ’92 Ruth Hostetler ’96 MS ’96 Derrick Lefebvre ’96 Levon Mathews ’96 MBA ’96 Holly (Fricks) Yoakum ’98 Amy Meyers ’99 Thomas Thornton ’03 Jacquelyn (Kleine) Watts ’07 Kobi Walden ’08
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