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a publication of butler university The J.J. Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium, completed in 1954.

NORRIS PLAZA Norris Plaza was built with a donation from Indiana State Representative Fern Norris in memory of her son Dr. Max S. Norris ’42. Max Norris served as Chair of the Butler Board of Trustees from 1978–1985 and

“The ultimate benefactors of your generosity are the students who have staked their future on the quality of the instruction offered by [our] faculty members.”

Alumni Association President Raymond A. Bagley ’47 on the goal of the 1966–1967 Alumni Fund.

As printed in the Butler Alumnus, Fall 1966

The Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall, dedicated in 1928.

in 1985 was awarded the Butler Medal by the Alumni Association for his efforts to promote the University.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

5 SHAPING BUTLER’S FUTURE Dr. Brooke Barnett named new Provost

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BEYOND GRATEFUL

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CALLING ALL BULLDOGS

Butler community gathers to celebrate campaign success Day of Giving: Small gifts, big returns 11

MILESTONES OF SUCCESS

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LEVINSON FAMILY HALL

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WELCOME HOME

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TO DANCE IS TO LIVE

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IT MEANS SO MUCH

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

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ALL ABOUT IMPACT

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SISTER ACT

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MEETING THE NEED

A look back at a memorable era

Butler’s newest building gets a name

Sigma Gamma Rho sorority celebrates 100 years JCA alumni come together to honor its faculty Psychology’s Woodruff award supports future researchers

Butler family turns pain into a purpose

Sara Marshall ’06 focuses on the domino effect Heather ’97 and Stacy ’00 Hodge pay it forward Jarod Wilson ’08 helps others take the next step 31 SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY Course requirement reaffirms University’s founding principles 32 THE POWER OF ALTRUISM Weidner Scholarship recognizes student advocacy

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IN MEMORIUM

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THE PRESIDENT IMAGINATION. INNOVATION. INSPIRATION. These themes were the focus of my remarks on April 23, when we gathered in Hinkle Fieldhouse to celebrate the successful conclusion of Butler Beyond: The Campaign for Butler University. At our celebration, Beyond Grateful, I announced that 34,804 donors had collectively contributed more than $263.5 million to the Campaign and that the new sciences expansion building connecting Gallahue Hall to the Holcomb Building has been permanently named Levinson Family Hall in honor of a $10 million commitment to the project from Frank ’75 and Kristin Levinson.

Over the past decade, I have invited you to imagine the possibilities for Butler University. Today, I invite you to imagine even greater possibilities. Imagine advancing Butler’s mission through improvements to the perimeter and gateways to campus, where we have opportunities to enhance our world-class educational, athletic, and arts programs, while preserving buildings that house the memories of generations of alumni and current students: Hinkle Fieldhouse, Jordan Hall, Atherton Union, Irwin Library, Clowes Hall, and ResCo; expand access to new educational programs beyond the traditional undergraduate residential campus; and provide new opportunities to maintain and further improve the quality and affordability of a Butler education for all deserving students. These and other innovations will strengthen Butler as we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education and the changing needs of learners, while maintaining the academic mission that makes our University special.

At the April 23 celebration, I also highlighted some of the ways our community members have served as an inspiration to us all by personifying The Butler Way—throughout the Campaign, throughout the pandemic, and throughout their lives. I cited the extraordinary work of our faculty and staff, who have tirelessly committed their talent, adaptability, and generosity to Butler; our students and alumni, who affirm the value of a Butler education every day; our trustees, whose giving to the Campaign has reached nearly $56 million and whose service and wisdom has brought Butler to this point; our community organizations, which have invested in Butler’s vision, mission, and people; and the Campaign donors—Andre and Julia Lacy, the Levinson Family, and Bill ’51 and Joanne Dugan—who have honored our institution through the school and buildings that bear their names.

In this issue of Butler Magazine, we feature many stories about philanthropy. As you read them, please know how grateful I am, on behalf of the University, for all the ways you are helping to make an impact in the lives of our students and in the communities we serve. I simply could not be more proud of all the people who make Butler a truly great institution of higher learning.

Best regards,

James Danko

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IRWIN LIBRARY The Irwin family has been prominent in the affairs of Butler University since Benjamin Irwin was listed as an organizer on the charter granted in 1850. The University has since seen a long line of directors and chancellors from the family, and Butler was able to complete construction of the Library in 1963 thanks to two sizable gifts donated by the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller foundation.

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SHAPING BUTLER’S

FUTURE.

By Rachel Stotts

On March 15, President James Danko announced that Dr. Brooke Barnett, who has served as Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since April 2021, would continue in the role. She follows Kate Morris who is now President at St. Lawrence University.

In his announcement, President Danko acknowledged that it became clear to him in the search process that the best person for the job was the person who was already doing it. “Her proven leadership talent, her depth and breadth of experience, the high esteem in which she is already held at Butler, and her agile approach to complex decision-making make her uniquely positioned to advance the seven strategic priorities of Butler Beyond,” he said of Barnett.

Barnett, who served as Dean of the College of Communication prior to her time as Interim Provost, joined Butler in 2018, after serving for 18 years at Elon University. “It was a joy to recruit Brooke to Butler several years ago to become Dean of the College of Communication,” says Morris. “Brooke is dedicated to Butler’s mission, provides thoughtful and steady leadership, and will be a great partner to President Jim Danko.”

Barnett is enthusiastic about continuing in her work as Provost. “Butler’s founding of radical access speaks to my personal and professional values and leadership philosophy. I welcome the chance to help further strengthen our robust approach to undergraduate and graduate education and organizational excellence.”

In addition, the dual role of faculty and staff advocate and senior administrator makes the Provost a challenging and rewarding position for Barnett. “In all my work, I seek to build a trusting, equitable, diverse, fair, and supportive community. These are my core values and ones that resonate with Butler’s origins and current aspirations,” she expressed. “As an institution, we are on the cusp of many exciting things, and I am excited to be part of creating that future by continuing as Provost.”

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On April 23, 2022 the Butler community gathered in Hinkle Fieldhouse to

celebrate the success of Butler Beyond: The Campaign for Butler University, which officially concluded May 31. Along with announcing the naming of Levinson Family Hall, President Danko revealed that donors had contributed more than $263.5 million to the campaign, exceeding the original $250 million goal. Gifts to the Butler Beyond campaign are advancing the University’s mission through new and enhanced campus infrastructure, an expanded scholarship endowment, and access to transformational new experiential learning opportunities and degree pathways for current and future Butler students.

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Natalie Evans ‘11, a former recipient of the John Davies Family Endowed Scholarship, shared words of appreciation.

Butler’s Freshly Brewed and Out of the Dawg House

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CALLING all BULLDOGS On February 23–24, Butler celebrated its seventh annual Day of Giving, an event inviting members of the Butler community to support various University initiatives through a philanthropic gift of any size. Day of Giving began in 2016 with 710 gifts equaling $119,867 and has grown each year in participants and amount raised. This year, 1,909 donors from across the Butler community contributed more than $588,800 to causes ranging from student scholarships to the live mascot program.

“One of the truly special aspects of Day of Giving is that donors get to see the collective impact of their gifts. Gifts of any size add up quickly when the Butler community comes together on behalf of our students.”

–Jonathan Purvis, Vice President for Advancement

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Why I give...

YOUNG ALUMNI

“I have experienced the transformative value of a Butler University education.

I give back to Butler to support its efforts to make that education a reality for even more students. That’s The Butler Way.” –Trey Meehan ’14

FAMILIES

“For us, we feel it’s important to get involved and support the institutions that are prepping our kids for their successful future. As parents we hear and see a different perspective. In this ever-changing world we need to stay ahead and demonstrate to our kids the need to support, get involved, and give back.”

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“I have been a part of the Butler community as an employee for 10 years, and I love Butler. I have seen the difference our University makes in the lives of our students, alumni, and Indianapolis community at-large, especially through the work of the College of Education. I am so proud to be a Bulldog.”

-Chasadee Minton, Program Coordinator for Web Development and Marketing, College of Education

-Ricky and Lisa Jusino, parents of Tatiana Jusino ’26, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

FACULTY “I give to Butler because I believe in the role we play in the lives of young people. We work alongside our students to provide the tools, experiences, and opportunities to grow into their potential both academically and personally.

Along the way, I have been able to do the same.”

-Anne Wilson, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

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BILL AND JOANNE DUGAN HALL “Giving back is The Butler Way, and this seemed like the right thing to do.”

—Bill Dugan ’51 at the August 2021 dedication of Bill

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and Joanne Dugan Hall, in honor of their generous gift.

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MILESTONES OF SUCCESS On October 5, 2019 in Clowes Memorial Hall, the Butler Beyond strategic direction was unveiled to the public along with the $250 million Butler Beyond comprehensive fundraising campaign to support the University’s vision. Since then, despite the unexpected challenges of a global pandemic, the University has made significant progress toward its goals thanks to overwhelming support from Butler donors. Here’s a look back on this memorable era in Butler history.

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OCTOBER 2020

In keeping with its founding values and ongoing efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, the University establishes a Hub for Black Affairs and Community Engagement in partnership with Professor of Political Science Dr. Terri Jett as Faculty Director.

FEBRUARY 2020

Blue IV takes over mascot duties from Blue III (Trip) with a passing of the collar ceremony at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

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Butler and Ivy Tech establish statewide transfer agreements for students pursuing degrees in business, art & design, and education.

SUMMER 2021

Butler receives a $1 million grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation to fund renovations and upgrades to Clowes Memorial Hall.

Butler University switches to remote learning for the remainder of the spring semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

FALL 2021

BUTLER GIVING CIRCLE WE’RE ALL IN

JUNE 2020

The Butler Giving Circle awards its inaugural community grant.

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Thanks to recent enhancements to Hinkle Fieldhouse made possible by donor gifts, Butler University is selected to serve as a host site for the men’s 2021 NCAA March Madness® tournament held entirely in the state of Indiana.

Bill and Joanne Dugan Hall, which houses the Andre B. Lacy School of Business and the Office of Career and Professional Success, is named in honor of a significant gift from Bill Dugan ’51.

SUMMER 2021

The new 44,000-squarefoot Sciences Expansion building opens as Phase I of a $100 million investment in the University’s sciences facilities.

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AUGUST 2021

With the help of nearly $13 million in grant funding from Lilly Endowment, Inc. through its initiative Charting the Future for Indiana Colleges and Universities, Butler establishes Butler Ventures as the home for three interconnected new units: the Butler Beyond Transformation Lab, the Division of Professional Studies, and the Education Venture Network.

SEPTEMBER 2021

For the fourth consecutive year, Butler University is named the No. 1 Regional University in the Midwest, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings.

FALL 2021

The Butler Latinx Alumni Association is established, joining the existing Black Alumni Association and the LGBT Alumni Association, as the newest Butler identity community.

FALL 2021

The University develops 10 additional three-year degree tracks, bringing the total number of programs to 40, allowing students to complete their degrees in three years.

FEBRUARY 2022

The Butler Beyond campaign surpasses its $250 million goal thanks to gifts from more than 34,600 donors.

FALL 2021

Butler welcomes the most diverse incoming class in its history, with 21 percent selfidentifying as students of color and 18 percent stating they are the first in their family to attend college.

FEBRUARY 2022

Butler confers the inaugural Ovid Butler Founder’s Award to Sigma Gamma Rho International Sorority, Inc. during their centennial year; subsequently announces Sigma Gamma Rho’s seven founders will posthumously receive honorary degrees during Butler’s Commencement Exercises on May 6.

BY THE NUMBERS

Total donors to campaign:

34,804 First-time donors since start of campaign:

13,509 Number of new endowed scholarships established during campaign:

DECEMBER 2021

The University begins construction on The Park, a 7,500-square-foot learning laboratory in the Sunset Avenue Parking Garage dedicated to esports and technology slated to open in fall 2022.

JANUARY 2022

Butler launches two new online master’s degree programs, a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Data Analytics, and re-launches the Master of Science in Strategic Communication in collaboration with online program manager Noodle Partners.

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The new sciences expansion building linking Gallahue Hall to the Holcomb Building is named Levinson Family Hall in honor of a $10 million gift from Frank ’75 and Kristin Levinson.

$77,505,358 Commitments to Butler’s endowment:

$95,400,735 Total amount raised in campaign:

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The newest building on campus officially has a name. On April 23, Butler President Jim Danko announced that the new 44,000-square-foot sciences expansion building connecting Gallahue Hall to the Holcomb Building will be permanently named Levinson Family Hall in honor of a $10 million gift from Frank ’75 and Kristin Levinson.

“This gift is not about me but is a testament to all those who invested in me and my education including my family and a number of excellent Butler faculty members,” Frank Levinson says. “I want to support Butler and I realize sometimes it is helpful for others to see people step forward to give. This expansion and renovation project will have a profound impact on generations of Butler students, and I am proud to be able to help provide the kind of quality facilities Butler students and faculty deserve.”

Frank Levinson grew up in Indianapolis and earned his undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics from Butler in 1975. He went on to earn a master’s degree and PhD in Astronomy from the University of Virginia, and in 2006 received an honorary doctorate from Butler.

the educational opportunities we are able to offer our students in nearly all the sciences disciplines. I am overjoyed to see this renovation and expansion finally coming to life. Levinson Family Hall is a fitting name for a building Frank was so instrumental in making a reality.”

Indeed, anyone who has been associated with the sciences curriculum at Butler University over the past 15 years has been touched by Levinson’s generosity.

In 2008, he made a significant gift that allowed Butler to join the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of universities with remote access to telescopes in some of the darkest locations in the world. Away from city lights, these locations are roughly 100 times darker than the Indianapolis night sky, allowing Butler students at all levels and majors the opportunity to participate in original research astronomy and explore parts of the sky that would not otherwise be visible from Indianapolis.

Levinson’s previous donations also allowed Butler to purchase its first supercomputer and to establish a partnership with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, which includes a student internship Frank and Kristin Levison program. Levinson’s philanthropy has also supported ongoing updates to the The Levinson family has Holcomb Observatory and support for students and a long history with Butler and with one of its most faculty attending or presenting research at national iconic buildings. Frank’s mother, Winifred Levinson, scientific conferences. earned her Bachelor of Arts in French from Butler in 1951, and his brother, Carl, earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics in 1978. Frank’s father, Alan “Buzz” Levinson, earned a Master of Science in Education from Butler in 1953, during which time he helped install and align the telescope at Holcomb Observatory.

As a child, Frank would sometimes tag along with his father as he worked at the Observatory, igniting an early interest in science and astronomy. Years later, as an undergraduate student, Frank was entrusted with access to the Observatory to conduct his own research and saw the need for ongoing maintenance and upkeep of the behemoth instrument, an insight that would later inform his philanthropic giving.

“Frank Levinson’s gifts to the sciences at Butler University have been absolutely transformative,” says Travis Ryan, Associate Provost and Professor of Biological Sciences. “His gifts have greatly expanded

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The Levinsons now reside in the San Francisco Bay area where Frank works as an entrepreneur and investor with several venture capital firms committed to the growth and adoption of renewable energy generation and resources and energy efficient technologies. Together, Frank and Kristin hope their philanthropy will inspire the next generation to be curious and never stop searching for new and better solutions to the challenges facing the world.

“Frank and Kristin Levinson are incredible champions for the sciences at Butler University,” President Danko says. “The generous gift they have provided reflects a deep commitment to Butler students and faculty, and to the education of future leaders in science, innovation, business, and technology. I am profoundly grateful to Frank and Kristin for their generosity and investment in our University.”

“Levinson Family Hall is a fitting name for a building Frank was so instrumental in making a reality.”

–Travis Ryan, Associate Provost and Professor of Biological Sciences

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Members of Sigma Gamma Rho L-R, Khalilah A. Shabazz, International Grand Anti-Grammateus (Secretary), Rasheeda S. Liberty, International Grand Basileus (President) and Karin Sarratt,

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Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Celebrates its Centennial Anniversary

By Mark Apple Throughout 2022, Butler University is honoring Sigma Gamma Rho (SGRho) sorority on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The historically Black sorority was founded on Butler’s campus by seven educators on November 12, 1922. Of the nation’s four historically Black sororities, Sigma Gamma Rho is the only one that was founded at a predominantly white institution.

Butler honored SGRho February 16, when President James Danko presented the inaugural Ovid Butler Founder’s Award to SGRho. Rasheeda Liberty, Grand Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., accepted the award on behalf of the sorority. Molly Ford, Vice President of Employee Brand & Recruitment Marketing at Salesforce and a member of SGRho, delivered the Founder’s Celebration Keynote Address during the

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ceremony. The Ovid Butler Founder’s Award—which recognizes and celebrates individuals or organizations who embody Butler University’s values of innovation, excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion—is named for the University’s founder, a well-known attorney and newspaper publisher of his time, and an active supporter of the antislavery movement. In 1855, Ovid founded North Western Christian University (renamed Butler University in his honor) on the values of diversity, inclusivity, and equality. The University admitted women and people of color on an equal basis with white males, a radical stance for the time.

“I imagine that Ovid would have taken great pride in knowing that, nearly 70 years after its founding, Butler University provided the inclusive and nurturing environment that inspired seven incredibly brave Black women to found a sorority,” President Danko said.

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On May 6, Butler posthumously conferred honorary degrees upon the seven founders of SGRho during the University’s Degree Conferral Ceremony in Hinkle Fieldhouse. Rasheeda Liberty again represented SGRho during the ceremony. Dr. Khalilah Shabazz, great granddaughter of SGRho founder Vivian White Marbury ’31, provided additional remarks.

“Our Founders—all educators—were young women committed to a vision of empowering communities by uplifting women and youth,” Liberty said. “These courageous women believed that education was the key to unlocking opportunities. As we embark on our Centennial year with 100,000 members globally, we are honored to witness this historic moment where the progressive work of these powerful visionaries is being recognized

by Butler University.”

“Sigma Gamma Rho’s founding on the Butler University campus is a source of pride for all of our students, alumni, trustees, faculty, and staff,” President Danko said. “Sigma Gamma Rho’s founders were seven courageous women who overcame the barriers created by racial segregation to form an organization that has not just survived, but thrived, for 100 years. I am honored to use the occasion of Sigma Gamma Rho’s Sigma Gamma Rho Founders’ Plaza

Alpha Chapter, 1924 Centennial Celebration as a platform to recognize and applaud its founders, and all those who have followed in their footsteps.”

Butler will continue to recognize SGRho throughout the year. Most notably, the Sigma Gamma Rho Founders’ Plaza is currently under construction near Atherton Union, with an expected completion date of June 2022.

There will also be a celebration on campus on November 11, with a countdown to midnight, November 12, the date of SGRho’s founding.

July 12–17, more than 6,000 SGRho sisters and supporters will converge on Indianapolis for the official Centennial Celebration, with President Danko serving as the celebration’s honorary chairman. A week of festivities are planned, including Thee Homecoming Celebration at Butler on July 12. Other events planned for the week, many of which are open to the public, include a Day of Service, a Swim Clinic, community workshops, a concert, a Step Show, a Run/Walk, a Gala, and a Prayer and Praise Breakfast.

“As a community, Indianapolis strives to honor those who have shaped our history for the better,” Indianapolis Mayor Hogsett, MA ’87 said. “From its beginnings at Butler a century ago, Sigma Gamma Rho has been recognized internationally for its steadfast commitment to service and progress, a mission true to the seven dynamic young educators whom we celebrate today. Through this commemoration, we mark the contributions of past leaders while preparing the next generation to create their own legacy.”

For more information about the SGRho Centennial Celebration, please visit www.sgrho100.org.

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By Marc D. Allan, MFA ’18

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JORDAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS DANCE SCHOLARSHIP During a reunion in October 2017, a group of Butler Ballet alumni from the 1970s and early ’80s decided they wanted to honor one of their favorite professors, Bud Kerwin, by creating a scholarship in his name. Imagine their surprise when they found out that another alumni group had started a Bud Kerwin scholarship years earlier.

So they happily added to the fund and helped endow the Bud Kerwin Jordan College of the Arts Dance Scholarship.

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Bud Kerwin

Bud (front, center) at the Butler Ballet Alumni Reunion, October 2017

“Bud was a big, big force in driving a lot of students into their dance careers,” says Tim Hubbard, Master of Dance ’76, who helped found Indianapolis Ballet Theatre and spent 24 years with that company.

“They really took you under their wings and tried to help you,” Hubbard says. “With Bud, if you would open up as a vessel of training and technique, he would always try to push you beyond what you thought you could do or dreamt you could do.”

“Bud just had a way of getting you to express your beauty, not just hit a pose,” says Nancy Antenucci ’80, who spent her career as a choreographer, mostly in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

Antenucci, who came to Butler from Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, says she chose Butler in part because a family friend raved about the quality of the faculty.

Kerwin, who taught ballet and jazz at Butler from 1971 to 1996, died September 1, 2021. He was 86.

Kerwin is remembered for his joyous approach to life and dance. Anyone who knew him can still repeat his favorite phrase: “To live is to dance and to dance is to live.”

“Everything with Bud was a dance,” says Michelle Jarvis, who was a senior when Kerwin joined the faculty. She later taught alongside him, then became chair of the Dance Department and retired from Butler in 2021 as Associate Provost. “No matter what you were doing, it was a dance. To dance was to live and to live was to dance. That was his way of life.”

Jarvis and other alumni started the scholarship to honor Kerwin, who was part of a much-beloved faculty that included George Verdak, Peggy Dorsey, William Glenn, Martha Cornick, and Betty Gour.

Harry J. “Bud” Kerwin, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio,

on December 17, 1934. He graduated from Woodward High School in Toledo in 1954 and was inducted into the school’s Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998. His first theatrical performance, as a freshman, was alongside senior Jameel Farah, better known now as actor Jamie Farr. He was educated at the school of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and

She remembers one lesson that Kerwin imparted. He’d just taught the class a combination of steps, “and we were all pretty cocky, thinking that we hit it,” Antenucci says. “Afterwards, he looked at us and put his hands on his head and said, ‘I’m glad you all did it, but I would like you to dance as if you were dancing for the king and if he was disappointed, you would be killed.’ I never forgot that because I thought, ‘Even if you think you’re technically doing it, if your heart is not into it, you’re boring your audience.’”

Kerwin established lifelong relationships with his students and his fellow faculty members. Jarvis says students “were like family to him,” so she’s pleased that his name will carry on in perpetuity on a scholarship for a deserving dance student.

“He was very close to a lot of people,” she says, “and I think a lot of us are missing him.”

the International School in New York, taught at Woodward High School in Toledo, and directed his own school of dance and company in Toledo—the Kerwin Ballet Theater—before becoming the Artistic Director of the Columbus (Ohio) Ballet.

He joined Butler in 1971 and for nearly 20 years danced the role of Herr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker.

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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD PAVES THE WAY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS One of the hallmarks of a Butler education is its emphasis on a student-centered education. This means that students can tailor their studies, activities, and research to the subjects, ideas, and career fields that they’re really interested in. This is nowhere more evident than in the Psychology department’s Dr. Burrton Woodruff Undergraduate Research Award.

This award was established in 2005 by Psychology alumnus Stephen Stuart ’74 to honor Psychology Emeritus Dr. Burrton Woodruff. Dr. Woodruff was a beloved professor who worked at Butler for 35 years. He also served as a professor and mentor to Stuart.

“I took a number of courses taught by Dr. Woodruff,” Stuart says. “I have great memories of my relationship with him. I recall him taking his students under his wing and really being a mentor. I had a terrific experience with him and with all of my Psychology professors.”

Dr. Woodruff

It was those very relationships that inspired Stuart to establish this scholarship, which helps cover portions of Butler’s tuition for juniors and seniors majoring or minoring in Psychology.

Recipients of the scholarship must be engaged in a research project with preference given to those with approved Honors thesis projects.

“I know there are students who have to put together all sorts of elaborate scholarships and aid to even be able to get through school, so I was hoping this scholarship—whose recipients are chosen by the Psychology professors—could help alleviate some of that stress,” Stuart says.

One of the students who has received this scholarship is Abey Akinseye, a 2022 graduating Psychology and Sociology double major, minoring in Art + Design. Akinseye has always known that he wanted to study Psychology and Sociology, and chose Butler due to its emphasis on student-centered learning, mentorship, and the fact that it’s only an eight minute drive away from his family.

“I’m Nigerian and there’s not a lot of discourse in non-western cultures about mental illness and understanding mental health in society. I’ve always wanted to study Psychology and

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Sociology for this reason,” Akinseye says. “Butler was the perfect fit academically, financially, and based on its location.

I’m so glad I chose to study here.”

Akinseye was chosen as a recipient of the Dr. Burrton Woodruff Undergraduate Research Award, due in part to his Honors research thesis. Entitled “Art, Race, and the Carceral System: Perceptions of Criminality in Artful Expression,” Akinseye’s thesis examines why rap music is viewed as more “criminal” than other musical genres and why juries are more likely to attribute criminal stereotypes to rappers.

He presented his thesis at the American Psychology–Law Society Conference in Denver in March, and then again at Butler’s own Undergraduate Research Conference in April.

“I’ve always been really interested in research, but was a little unsure about what my next steps would be after I graduated from Butler,” Akinseye says. “My advisor, Dr. [Fabiana] Alceste, encouraged me to apply for the scholarship during my junior year. I submitted a write-up of my thesis, and ended up getting the scholarship. It was validation that I was on the right track and that I could be a great researcher.”

Since receiving the scholarship, Akinseye says that it’s encouraged him to take his research seriously and he’s since decided to apply for very competitive doctoral programs in Psychology. He recently found out that he was accepted into his first choice program at Oakland University in Michigan. After obtaining his doctoral degree, he hopes to become a Psychology professor and inspire a new generation of students, just like his professors—and Stephen Stuart’s—did.

“Getting this scholarship was huge for me,” Akinseye says. “Not only did it help financially, but it gave me a huge confidence boost. I attribute most of my recent successes to having confidence in myself that I probably wouldn’t have had without receiving this award. It really means so much.”

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

By Katie Grieze

In 2005, J.J. ’95 and Emily ’96 DeBrosse lost their 15-week-old daughter, Catherine, to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)—an unexplained condition that affects more than 3,000 families in the United States each year.

“A downside when you lose a child is that there are no milestones,” J.J. says. “She’s not bringing home report cards. She didn’t make the school play. She’s not on the soccer team.

Everything just ends.”

Still, her memory lives on. In lieu of flowers, the DeBrosse family established the Catherine Sabrina DeBrosse Scholarship to support female athletes at Butler University.

The scholarship has been awarded to more than 15 students since it began, and J.J. and Emily are grateful for the opportunity to bring awareness to SIDS while giving back to a community that holds an important place in their hearts.

“I talk about the Butler family all the time, and I don’t throw that term around loosely, because the Butler family is my family,” says J.J., who has held several roles at his alma mater and currently serves as Director of Graduate and Professional Recruitment in the Lacy School of Business. “That was why, when it came down to how we wanted to remember Cat and make an impact through something that was such a dark moment, we immediately turned to Butler.”

The program is funded by an annual “Count It! For Cat” event in which participants gather pledges before lining up in Hinkle Fieldhouse to shoot 100 free throws. The more shots they make, the more money they raise, and all the funds go directly to the scholarship. Donors have pledged anywhere from $1 to $100 per make. Through years of gifts from donors and shooters alike, the endowment now sits at more than $700,000.

“There are so many people who have had a hand in getting the scholarship to where it’s at.

I wish I had the ability to thank all of them personally,” J.J. says. “I have been amazed by the generosity and overwhelmed with gratitude. For us to know that there are so many caring people who are touched by this and who want to make a difference, want to see something good come out of a moment of darkness—that has been a glorious surprise.”

Senior Biology major Gabby Smith first discovered Butler through the soccer program, and she fell in love with the team’s family atmosphere. She has been supported by the Catherine Sabrina DeBrosse Scholarship since her first year on campus.

“When my coach told me I had been nominated and selected, I thought it was cool that a scholarship like this supports women in sports,” Smith says. “I learned more about Cat’s story, and it just hit a spot in my heart. It’s so strong of her parents to be able to put such a hard thing that happened to them into the growth of female athletes and future students.”

All the academic and athletic scholarships Smith received have been valuable to her education, but she says knowing the story and purpose behind the Catherine Sabrina DeBrosse Scholarship has made the experience even more meaningful.

“This scholarship has pushed me to be a better person in and out of my game,” Smith says.

“It has given me the ability to earn a great degree at Butler, and I am going to use it to try to give back through medicine.”

Upon graduating in December 2022, Smith plans to attend medical school and possibly study orthopedic surgery. She has torn her own ACL twice while playing soccer, and the care she received throughout inspired her to explore the profession.

“Gabby and all the other young ladies who have received this scholarship have represented Butler incredibly well,” J.J. says. “They are just some of the brightest and most talented students. It’s amazing to see that Cat’s name lives on and is making a difference.”

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“Teaching is the only profession where you impact every other profession.” It’s a phrase Sara Marshall ’06 remembers hearing during her introduction to education class.

She was a freshman then—still unsure what exactly she wanted to do career-wise and taking exploratory classes—until that moment.

“That was profound to me, the impact that a teacher has on a student’s life,” Marshall says. “There is no greater gift. It’s that fire in your belly, like this is what I’m supposed to be doing.”

She loved seeing the “light bulb” moment appear on her students’ faces, and as a math teacher with 60 students at Pike High School, she saw that light bulb look frequently.

When she decided to join The New Teacher Project, known as TNTP, seven years later, she was in charge of coaching 60 educators on effective teaching strategies, and Marshall liked to imagine the impact that would have, if every teacher she worked with then taught another 60 students, like a domino effect.

“The impact felt even bigger,” Marshall says. “Not for me, but for the students.”

Today, as senior director of talent at The Mind Trust, Marshall works with 60 schools, increasing that reach even further. The Mind Trust is a nonprofit that works to provide students in Indianapolis access to a high quality education regardless of race or income.

“There is no greater gift.

It’s that fire in your belly, like this is what I’m supposed to be doing”

“At the core of who I am, I want to impact students in a powerful and positive way,” Marshall says.

She never imagined at Butler that she would one day work in the nonprofit field, let alone in education. But looking back at it now, Marshall can point to influencing factors that led her to where she is now. Giving back to the community has always been important. She learned this from watching her mom when she was growing up, who “coached all the sports teams, was the Girl Scout leader, –Sara Marshall ’06 the mom who volunteered at the school,” Marshall says. “She was just constantly giving of her time, of her treasures. She would feed whoever needed to be fed. She just did everything.”

When Marshall arrived at Butler as a member of the school’s volleyball team, she found opportunities to practice what she had observed from her mom. When the team traveled to Australia, players brought suitcases of school supplies and worked with Aboriginal students. The team engaged with student ‘ball kids’ during the games and volunteered often.

“We did all those things to give back and that’s just never left,” Marshall says.

In addition to her work at The Mind Trust, Marshall is a member of Butler’s Latinx Alumni Association, the College of Education Dean’s Advisory Council, and on several community-focused boards.

“I think it’s important to fill your cup outside of your job with other community endeavors where you can give back in different ways.”

In July 2022, Sara starts a new adventure as Executive Director of Teach Indy, a nonprofit with a mission to recruit, develop, recognize, and retain teachers in Indianapolis.

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Sister Act

By Cindy Dashnaw

Heather (left) and Stacy Hodge

Many sisters are close. Few, though, can credit a university with weaving the threads of their lives together so seamlessly as Heather and Stacy Hodge.

Heather ’97 and Stacy ’00 Hodge grew up in Crete, Illinois, a small town of fewer than 10,000 people just 35 miles south of Chicago. They had the best of both worlds, Heather says, “big-city thinking and small-town living. We knew everyone at school from kindergarten on up, and I wanted a college where I could branch out. Butler was the right size in the right city. And Stacy fell in love with Butler so much.”

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She certainly did. Heather had barely said goodbye when the Butler campus started becoming as familiar to Stacy as her own neighborhood. When she wasn’t with her parents on their many trips to see Heather, the high school sophomore took a train alone for weekend visits.

So when it came time for Stacy to pick a college three years later, the answer was easy.

Long before then, their parents had fallen in love with Butler, too. They had joined the Butler Family Council and stayed actively involved until both daughters had graduated. They forged relationships with University administrative staff, even surprising Heather once with dinner at the President’s house and roping the Dean of Students into playing an April Fools’ joke on Stacy.

“We always said that if Dad ever went missing, we knew where he’d be. He’d be on campus,” Heather says. Stacy agrees. “Our parents gave us so many incredible values and tools to become successful in life, and they led by demonstration.”

The family’s values that had shaped the sisters’ lives as children seemed to naturally intertwine with Butler life.

“Our parents raised us to be very independent individuals. We were critical thinkers, we knew how to be on teams, and we all gave back to the community through civic involvement.

We learned how to ask questions and seek answers to make a change. All those things led us to Butler, which then led us to so many opportunities,” Heather says.

Their parents weren’t the only ones who jumped in with both feet to give back through Butler.

Heather volunteered as a first-year when the College of Education needed a host for its scholarship weekend. Like so many interactions with Butler, this one turned into a lifelong relationship.

“I hosted a student who wound up coming to Butler for her first year. Now she’s one of our best friends. It’s just fun to think about the sort of chance decisions or scenarios we were put in at Butler that led to relationships like this,” Heather says.

As a Butler student, Heather took classes because they interested her and she loved to learn, she says, not necessarily because they fulfilled a degree requirement. She changed majors several times and earned a bachelor’s degree in History.

Her first job was with the Indiana Senate.

Stacy changed majors only once, from Voice to Public and Corporate Communications. For her first job, she briefly worked as an Education Program Assistant for a dot.com.

When the industry began to decline, she saw an opportunity to change career paths.

“I switched over to nonprofits and fell into a position with the American Hospital Association. That’s what really launched my career, and I loved it,” Stacy says. “I love what associations do to support their industries and provide the opportunity to continue learning.”

She now works for a company that runs the nonprofit National Restaurant Association’s annual education and trade show, which supports people in all segments of food service, including hospital and college campus dining. She develops all of the professional education that takes place at the show.

The love of education they imbibed from their parents would come into full bloom for both Hodge sisters at Butler and influence the course of their careers.

Heather is in her 21st year with YMCA USA, the national office supporting 2,700 YMCAs around the country. As Senior Director of Community Health, she helps local YMCAs educate adults about evidence-based lifestyle changes that can manage and prevent chronic disease. She’s played a key role in significant projects, such as one that resulted in a new benefit coverage by Medicare, and explored many avenues to help nonprofits improve the health of communities and individuals.

Heather’s first engagement with the YMCA as an organization was at Butler, just another example of the University’s unsuspected positive influences.

“I loved all the opportunities to be engaged at Butler, and I loved supporting people in the Butler community,” Heather says.

For two people who weren’t sure of their future when they enrolled, Heather and Stacy Hodge have created lives worth emulating—lives influenced in so many positive ways by their Butler experience.

“Butler is truly our second home. It means the world to us. I’m sorry; I’m getting a little choked up,” Stacy says. “I think our time at Butler has carried over to so many other aspects of our lives. It wasn’t only through our upbringing with our parents but also through Butler that we learned the whole sense of giving back in some way, large or small, and that what you put out in the world, you get back tenfold.”

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Trauma does not define a person. Nor does a stereotype, says Butler grad Jarod Wilson ’08, especially one based on an assumption of debilitating trauma. However, Wilson sees certain young people— those who have spent time in foster care—being denied jobs every day because of a hiring manager’s preconceived and negative ideas about them.

He wants to change that dynamic. Last fall, he joined the nonprofit Foster Success as its first-ever Senior Director of Education and Workforce Readiness.

“Many young people in foster care have had trauma, but they aren’t defined by that trauma. They grow with and through the trauma,” Wilson says. “We like to say that so many of them learn and kind of fail forward.”

Wilson dedicates his days to helping others because he knows that one individual can transform lives and communities. So can a university, he says, because Butler certainly transformed him.

Wilson’s upbringing instilled empathy in a boy who would grow up to become committed to a philanthropic life. He grew up in Rockville, Indiana, a small town of about 2,800 residents. His family wasn’t quite middle class; their household income was low enough to qualify him to become a 21st Century Scholar, a program that provides college funds to low-income students.

After graduating high school as one of just 70 seniors, Wilson applied to 15 universities.

“The big schools didn’t feel right. I was afraid I’d get lost in the shuffle.

I went to the Butler campus and knew it’s where I wanted to be.”

He pursued a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and minors in French and Peace Studies. He sang in Jordan Jazz and the Butler Chorale, and he embarked on years of volunteer work through service-learning and Butler’s Student Involvement office. He also took advantage of Butler’s study abroad program, spending a summer in France.

The acceptance and support he felt at Butler allowed him to become the person he was supposed to be, he says, and gave him the courage to take one of the biggest steps of his life.

“Helping me to think larger than myself was huge. From a personal level, the friends and supportive faculty and staff there helped me become who I am as an adult. I started to come out when I was at Butler,” he says. “I came to understand who I was as a human.”

Being around other people who were out and proud made Butler feel like home, Wilson says. “They became as much my family as my biological family. Finding that second family makes you feel validated.”

All these Butler-based interactions—finding support as an LGBTQ+ student, making lifelong friends through music, giving back to the community through on- and off-campus volunteer opportunities— led Wilson to another turning point in his life.

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“I realized I loved education and working with young people, especially ages 16 to 25. It’s a time when you’re thinking about what your next step in life will be,” he says.

Wilson sought a master’s in higher education and student affairs at IUPUI before taking a full-time position there as coordinator of community service and civic engagement. Ever the volunteer himself, he created opportunities for student volunteers to improve their communities. He then managed volunteer outreach and engagement for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana while earning a certificate in nonprofit/public/organizational management at IUPUI. His next stop, which he says built on his Butler education and led him to his current position, was at the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE). He directed postsecondary outreach and engagement statewide.

“It’s through the ICHE that I really got involved in transition education periods (high school to college, college to career),” says Wilson.

Foster Success is the only Indiana non-profit organization supporting 14- to 26-year-olds transitioning out of foster care through financial empowerment, educational success, workforce readiness, and youth engagement. Wilson heads up Workforce Readiness, a program designed to prepare young people who have been in foster care for college or a job.

At the macro level, he is improving communities by educating the public through exposure to these young people. He’s also forestalling generations of homelessness, poverty, and other societal ills that stem from adults without education, hope, or means.

At the micro level, he uses a two-pronged approach: He provides the developmental assets that young people in foster care missed out on—social competencies, positive identity, constructive use of time, etc. But he also does something so time-intensive that no other agency in Indiana does it: He meets personally with employers to educate them about working with young people.

In finding these potential employers, he often turns to other Butler alumni.

“Indianapolis is the littlest big city in the world. I’ve made so many connections with people. If I have a young person who needs help finding a job, I know a Butler grad who can help us find one or make an introduction.”

Wilson sees himself at Foster Success and in Indianapolis for a long time to come.

“My trajectory hasn’t been what I expected when I entered Butler, but it’s probably better than what it would’ve been without what Butler gave me and who I was able to become because of my time there.”

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EIDSON-DUCKWALL RECITAL HALL Ruth K. Duckwall Williams ’39 named this 140-seat recital hall in honor of her parents, Paul Duckwall and Iva Eidson Duckwall, a faculty member of the Jordan Conservatory of Music (now Jordan College of the Arts).

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall was dedicated in December 2004.

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All students at Butler University are required to complete at least one course focused on themes of diversity, equality, and inclusivity. Since 2018, a year-long faculty fellowship program has been working to help ensure that this experience is more than just a box to check.

Butler recently established the Social Justice and Diversity (SJD) requirement as part of its Core Curriculum. These courses reaffirm the University’s founding principles by exposing students to critical scholarship on the root causes of marginalization and inequity, as well as an understanding of how to counter it. To make these classes even more meaningful, Butler’s Center for Faith and Vocation (CFV) collaborated with Career and Professional Success (CaPS), the SJD Requirement Director and committee, and the Office of the Provost to create the SJD Vocation Fellowship—a program designed to help Butler faculty infuse vocational reflection into SJD courses.

“At Butler, we see vocation as discovering a life of meaning, purpose, and contribution,” says CFV Director Daniel Meyers. “It’s the idea that you might know what you want to do, but you don’t know where you want to do it, or with whom, or in what way.

The SJD curriculum is a beautiful place to explore contexts of how you want to make a difference.”

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About five years ago, around the same time that Butler began developing SJD courses, the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) introduced a grant to support college and university recipients in expanding vocational exploration across campus. Meyers and other University leaders—including CaPS Director Gary Beaulieu and former SJD Director Dr. Robin Turner—saw an opportunity to support SJD’s growth while including vocational elements right from the start.

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“We don’t need to force a connection between the NetVUE grant and the SJD,” says Courtney Mohler, Associate Theatre Professor and Faculty Director for the SJD Vocation Fellowship. “It’s a natural fit for students to be thinking critically about topics such as poverty, racism, homophobia, hunger, or social injustice, while also wondering how they fit into it all and how they can do something to help.”

“The SJD Vocation Fellowship creates a space for participants to gather across disciplines and learn from one another,” Meyers says. “It helps faculty think creatively about how to translate the content and ideas of a course in ways that help students see why they care. We now have a variety of SJD courses across Butler’s curriculum that challenge students to connect the subject matter to their own lives.”

“My hope is that students gain a sensitivity toward and awareness of issues of inequality, oppression, and power as they affect our everyday lives,” says Dr. Sarah Painitz, Associate Professor and German Program Director. “I think it is always important for students to make real-life connections with the material we cover in the classroom—perhaps more so with these issues than many others.”

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By Ashley Hutson

Gianna Bucaro, a first-year Butler student from Bloomingdale, Illinois, is the recipient of the 2022–2023 John Henry Weidner Endowed Scholarship for Altruism in recognition of her commitment to disability rights, children’s health, and volunteerism.

Bucaro, an Exploratory major on Butler’s Pre-Pharmacy track, is recognized for her advocacy for people with disabilities. Bucaro is involved in multiple service organizations. Hear the Cheers Foundation, which raises money for children with hearing impairments to offset the cost of bilateral hearing aids, is particularly important to Bucaro as a student with a hearing impairment.

“Insurance does not cover the expensive costs of hearing aids, and if a hearing loss is not treated properly, then you can ultimately lose your hearing altogether,” Bucaro says. “Each hearing aid costs approximately $5,000 and must be replaced every four to five years. This hits so close to home for me, so I have started two fundraisers back home raising money for this foundation at both my middle school and high school.”

William Ervin, a member of the John Henry Weidner Foundation, recently remarked that students who win the Weidner Endowed Scholarship for Altruism typically embark upon a lifelong journey of altruism beginning in their youth and continue their journey throughout college. This is particularly true for Bucaro, who still participates in community events in the Chicago area, such as Feed My Starving Children and Meals on Wheels.

Bucaro’s plan to pursue a career in pediatric pharmacy was inspired by an ethos of service to the community, particularly to children. As Bucaro wrote in her scholarship application, “When learning about all Butler has to offer and thinking about what I want to do, I chose a path where I felt I would be happiest and able to help others. I am very interested in becoming a pediatric pharmacist because of my love for helping others and children. I absolutely adore kids and always knew that, no matter what, I wanted to be in an environment that allowed me to be near and/or work with them. Now, I know pharmacists don’t necessarily work directly with children, but while studying to become a pediatric pharmacist, I’m hoping to work in a children’s hospital because I know myself well enough to know that I will go above and beyond to form my own bond with these kids.” Bucaro’s service activities and future career demonstrate her firm commitment to children’s health and disability rights.

The Student Sociology & Criminology Association annually selects the recipient of the John Henry Weidner Endowed Scholarship for Altruism. The Weidner award is named for John Weidner, a Dutch citizen and Seventh Day Adventist who, during World War II, saved the lives of about 1,000 British and American downed airmen, Jews, Dutch, Belgians, and French fleeing Nazi persecution. Weidner was honored by five governments after the war and by the Holocaust Museum at its opening in 1993. After he died in Los Angeles For recapNaomi, of thestarted weekend’s events,for honoring the altruistic spirit. Butler University’s chapter in 1994, hisawidow, a foundation visit butler.edu/magazine of the John Henry Weidner Foundation for Altruism is managed by the Student Sociology & Criminology Association and made possible through the continued generosity of the Weidner Foundation.

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Kara Greenup-Post ’86 has received (2) the Education Specialist in Vocal Music degree from Auburn University.

John R. Van Winkle ’66 a full-time Mediator since 1995, was named as the sole Indiana member of the Master Mediator Panel of the American Arbitration Association. The national panel handles complex commercial and construction disputes.

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Frank Jozsa ’71 authored two books: Modern American Football: Drivers of Change in the Professional Game” and Modern Basketball: Drivers of Change in the Professional Game.

Michelle Jarvis ’73, MA ’76 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022May 2026.

Paul Freeman ’77, MBA ’82 retired executive vice president of the Indiana Bankers Association, was named a Distinguished Hoosier

by Gov. Eric J. Holcomb on Oct. 12, 2021. Freeman retired from the IBA in September 2021 after 34 years of service.

Rich Van Wyk ’77 retired from WTHR Channel 13 after 44+ year career in television journalism and was awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Eric Holcomb.

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Nancy Sweet ’88 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022-May 2026.

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Angela Harrison ’90 was named the 2022 Walk to Cure Arthritis National Adult Honoree for the Arthritis Foundation.

She has lived with arthritis since the age of three-and-a-half and is active with the Arthritis Foundation, including Vice Chair of the Local Arthritis Leadership Board, and as a Connect Group Facilitator and advocate.

Denise (Brumfield) Glesing ’91 has joined a national Medicare organization, Bloom Insurance and Advise Insurance, as Vice President, Communications & Engagment.

Deb (Ringer) McFatridge ’91 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022May 2026.

Darin Smith ’91 celebrated the grand opening of Oasis Senior Advisors, which serves seniors and families in the Carmel, IN area. Darin serves as owner and Certified Senior Advisor.

Aleea Perry ’96 was promoted in August 2021 to tenured Associate Professor of Political Sciene at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, located in Indiana, PA. Linda Broadfoot ’98 accepted the role as Chief Executive Officer of Second Helpings, an Indianapolis nonprofit committed to transforming lives through the power of food.

Kim (Roudebush) Kenneson ’80 was named a Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator of the Year in Tennessee for her work in bringing Holocaust education to her region and school and for organizing the Northeast Tennessee Holocaust Education Council. She was recognized by the Tennessee General Assembly.

Craig Longardner, MBA ’85 was named the 2021 Person of the Year by the North American Rail Shippers Association at their annual conference in Chicago, Illinois.

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Leonard Clark ’88 accepted the position of Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech to teach Sports Communication in the Sports Media and Analytics program.

Karen (Miller) Holt ’98 was promoted to Global Director, Continuous Improvement at Vertiv.

Trena (Goble) Roudebush ’98 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022May 2026.

Delia (Askew) Harris ’99 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022-May 2026.

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Melanie Carter ’01, a recently elevated partner at Blank Rome LLP, was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a 2021 recipient of the Best of the Bar award for her work in business litigation. Melanie is based in Philadelphia and works with local, national, and multinational clients.

Melissa Tichenor ’03 has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer at Kittle Property Group.

Lindsay Martin ’05 joined the DePaul staff in September 2021 as the Associate Athletic Director for Merchandise & Licensing at the Lincoln Park campus.

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Taylor Stuckert ’05 was named to the Wilmington College Board of Trustees in April 2021.

Aaron Wright ’05 joined the national office of Marcum LLP as an audit partner after three years in the Division of Enforcement and Investigations at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

Aaron is based in DC. Aaron will also serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022May 2026.

Tony Barnes’07 has been promoted to principal in consulting services at Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm with offices around the world. He has been with the firm for over 13 years and is based out of the Indianapolis North office.

Chris Beaman ‘12 has accepted the position of Corporate Relations Advisor for the Sigma Foundation for Nursing. Sigma Nursing (formerly Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere and is the second-largest nursing organization in the world with approximately 135,000 active members.

Claire Rutledge ’12 accepted the role as Director of Community Relations and Business Solutions at Sycamore Services, Inc., responsible for communications and development for thousands of Hoosiers with disabilities served in 27 counties.

Katie Pederson ’13 released a full-length album, “Limitless,” on Earth Day, April 22. She is a Nashville-based pop-piano songwriter and her sophomore LP follows 4 singles as sneak previews that have been named as finalists in multiple songwriting competitions.

Brady Ripperger ’13 was promoted from Director of Fair Housing Programs to Deputy Director of Administration & Advocacy at the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI). He has been with the FHCCI since December 2013.

Jojo Gentry ’15 was hired by Bar Communications as Director of Strategic Communications.

Tabitha Webster ’15 accepted the role of Marketing Account Manager with Brookdale Senior Living Solutions.

Craig Fisher ’16 will serve as a Director on the Butler University Alumni Association Board from June 2022-May 2026.

Pat Petrus ’18 is proud to announce the release of “Sextet,” a collection of six short stories about family ties, tesseracts, trauma, and tornadoes.

Matthew Byzet ’07 was promoted to partner at Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes, P.A. He has been working in the firm’s Charleston, South Carolina office since August 2014, focusing his practice on construction and civil litigation. Matt earned his Juris Doctorate from Charleston School of Law and was named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2021.

Sheryl Selvey ’09 opened a vintage/antique store in Indianapolis (SoBro) called The Corner Bazaar. The store specializes in mid-century furniture, vintage clothing, high-end records, and a huge assortment of home furnishings.

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Hailey Hammons ’20 now works as an Associate Dolphin Trainer at Orlando’s Discovery Cove, part of the SeaWorld Company.

Christopher Herron ’11 accepted the position of Pediatric Cardiology Interventional Fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Olivia Ingle ’12 was hired as a Marketing Coordinator at Hafer, an architecture, engineering and design firm.

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WEDDINGS Jennifer (Thompson) Rogalski ’04 and Paul Rogalski on January 23, 2021. (1) Dr. Jennifer Gillingham ’06 and David Hanley on September 26, 2020.

Samantha (Minnette) Vaal ’11 and Lucas Vaal on October 6, 2018.

Robert Koteff ’12 and Faith (Griffaw) Koteff on August 7, 2021. (2) Jacqueline Goodwin ’14 and Kevin Shaw on July 22, 2022.

Alaina Ploski ’14 and Matt Wilson on October 02, 2021. (3)

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NEW ARRIVALS Haley (Hileman) Carwile ’10 and Major Matthew Carwile ’07; welcomed Logan Andrew Carwile on August 16, 2021. (1) Samantha (Minnette) Vaal ’11 and Lucas Vaal; welcomed a baby on January 30, 2021. (2) 36

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Jessie (O’Neal) King ’14 and Bennett King on August 14, 2021. (4)

Daryl Barnes ’17 and Adam VocalinoSzymanski on June 5, 2021. (9)

Emily Damian ’15 and Matthew Siler ’13 on October 3, 2021.

Hannah (Hartzell) Woodhouse ’17 and Nicholas Woodhouse on September 26, 2021. (10)

Gregg Husa ’15, MPACC ’16 and Ellen Plew on September 25, 2021.

Anastasia Luc ’15, MS ’19 and Thomas Petersen ’15 on October 2, 2021. (5) Kimberly Van Wyk ’15 and Daniel Dewar’13 on September 5, 2021. (6) Mary Kate (Daniels) Moskal ’16 and Blake Moskal ’16 on June 12, 2021. (7) Lauren (Tieman) Porres ’16 and Nestor Porres ’16 on October 30, 2021. (8)

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Aaron Marshall ’18 and Jordan Finch ’19 on April 10, 2022. (11) Hannah (Shelton) Davis ’19 and Troy “Blake” Davis ’19 on July 3, 2019. (12) Natalie (Jacobs) Hall ’19 and Nathaniel Hall ’18 on August 14, 2021. (13) Morgan Kohler ’21 and Alex Stark ’20 on October 17, 2021. (14)

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Brittany (Foerg) Wentz ’13 and Scott Wentz ’11; welcomed Julian on September 26, 2021.

Ashley (Torres) Walter ’14 and Tanner Walter ’14; welcomed Jack Walter on July 7, 2021. (4)

Morgan (Scheid) Clarkson’14, MPAS ’18 and Taylor Clarkson’13; welcomed Raegan Lee Clarkson on November 29, 2021. (3)

Hannah (Fritcher) Butler ’16 and Kendal Butler; welcomed Brooks Ryan Butler on August 13, 2020. (5)

IN MEMORIAM Rose (Myers) Fleischner ’41 Ruth (Cure) Alexander ’42 Carol (Howe) Clifton ’44 Patricia (McGuire) Poire ’44 Laura (Hart) Stroud ’45 Walter Tinsley Iris (Snyder) Cline ’46 Wylma (Hensley) Kasberg Dorothy (Masters) Haskins ’47 Kermit Hathaway ’47 Harry LeBien ’47 Mary (Pumphrey) Lucas ’47 Marjorie (McConnell) Peschau Thomas Scanlan ’47 Nick Smyrnis ’47 Margaret (Rankin) York ’47, MS ’56 Martha (Markland) Graves Helen (Knox) Karst ’48, MS ’59 Betty Keough ’48 Gloria (Poe) Poore ’48, MS ’74 Oscar Davis ’49 Beverly (Swanson) Etherington ’49 Wilbur Gearhart ’49 Richard Gohn ’49, MM ’62 Margaret Wilson, MS ’49 Carl Burris ’50 Marilyn (Conner) Huckleberry ’50 Paul Johnson ’50 Hugh Leeman ’50 Marjorie McClure Bielawski ’50 Emily (Smith) Stahl ’50 William Sylvester ’50, MS ’61 Marie (McMillan) Ault ’51 Thomas Doyle Polly Grabow Glen Harper ’51 Charles Hodson ’51 Marilyn Hotz ’51, MS ’59 Bruce Laetsch ’51, MA ’60 Robert Logue ’51 Mary (Kolker) Maxwell ’51 Virginia (Jones) Moorman ’51 Walter Reinacker Martha (Wells) Chapman James Drummond ’52 Cleo (Besterman) Ellis Roy Minatel ’52 James O’Nan ’52 Robert Robison Robert Ross ’52 Wilma (Beck) Stout ’52 Beverly (Grob) Swope ’52, MS ’65 Keith Weber Bernard Wiles ’52 Peggy (Day) Albertson ’53, ’55, MM ’76

John Butler ’53 Travis Kidd Helen Maurer, MM ’53 Jack Mayhugh ’53 Ronald Bird G.L. Booher ’54 Richard Campbell ’54 Harold Gordon ’54 Robert Hanna Arlene (Hendricks) Peightal ’54 Diana (Garceau) Scamman ’54 Sylvia Schmidt ’54 Georganna (Horine) Tresslar ’54 William Byrum ’55 Jayne (Blackwell) Neary ’55 Marcia (Tipton) Wolfe Carl Dunker ’56, MA ’57 Rosemary (Englert) Gatewood ’56 Clifton Peightal ’56 Mary (Swartz) Pennington ’56 Kenton Rawlinson ’56 Margot (Moetus) Ruusma Robert Gossman ’57 William Hinshaw ’57 Verne Johnson ’57 Grace (Goodwin) Miller ’57 Sandra Orbison ’57 Phyllis (McRoberts) West, MS ’57 Delinda (Reeves) Caldwell ’58, MS ’63 Kathryn (Winnefeld) Cochrane ’58 Ralph Hughes ’58 Karen Moore Connie (Aughe) Rohrabaugh Robert Sexton, MS ’58 Marguerite (Bohne) Bramblett ’59 Barbara (Collins) Gamble, MS ’59 Howard Krakovitz ’59 Tai Shin ’59 Sue Swenson Conway ’59 Thomas Taylor ’59 Cynthia (Hanson) White ’59, MS ’72 David Wright ’59 Charles Yeager ’59 Orville Bose ’60 Robert Doyal ’60, MS ’64 Richard Elliott ’60 Gordon Harde ’60 David Konzelmann ’60 George McKinney ’60, MS ’65 William Reed ’60 Wayne Shaw ’60, MS ’63 Betty (Murray) Smith ’60 Sidney Weedman ’60 Nonie (Hartnett) White ’60 Rachel Woods ’60 James Zinkan Seth Lewis ’61

Judith (Mooers) Pearson ’61, MS ’69 Edward Roche ’61, MS ’63 Gary Russell ’61 Byron Trefts ’61 James Blythe ’62 John Boarman ’62 Stephen Dysert ’62 Vivian (Isham) Lashbrook, MS ’62 Marilyn (Engstrom) Leoni ’62 Philip Long ’62 Elizabeth (Crall) Mawhinney ’62 William McLin ’62 Donna Tuttle Patricia (Cavosie) Fisher ’63 Ruth Hogsett, MS ’63 David Jordan ’63 Mary (Fliess) Kimball ’63, MA ’75 Michael Morgan ’63 Mary (Blubaugh) Nelson, MS ’63, MA ’85 Barbara (Lofquist) Pedersen ’63, MS ’79 Carolyn (McKeighan) Sims, MS ’63 Rose (Feeney) Tilley Alice Walton, MS ’63 Felson Bowman ’64 Judith (Long) Brown ’64 Millard Francis, MS ’64 Nancy (Wachter) Howard ’64 John Lord ’64 Jimmie Ray, MS ’64 Barbara (Merritt) Stauch ’64, MA ’67 Annetta (Ogle) Stone, MS ’64 Bill Welch ’64 Robert Welling, MM ’64 Olive (Monroe) Williams, MS ’64 Stephen Zimmerman ’64 Barbara (Bogue) Anderson, MS ’65 Betty Beene, MS ’65 Elizabeth (Hatler) Chapman Francis Newton, MBA ’65 Hope (Carroll) Robinson, MS ’65 Tim Swegman, MS ’65 Carlene (Allen) Hall ’66 Joan (Long) Henderson ’66 Katharine (Winter) Henneberry ’66 Ruth Keno, MS ’66 Delbert Kistler, MS ’66 Patricia (Dunifon) Lovaas ’66 Larry Phares, MS ’66 Joan (Bulen) Pratt, MS ’66 Roger Wallace ’66 Phyllis (Rumple) Black, MS ’67 Pat Cashen ’67 Joann (Kinzie) Draughon, MS ’67 Elizabeth (Gillie) Ebanks, MS ’67 Phillip Frye ’67 Charles George ’67 Harold Knueven, MA ’67

INCLUDE YOUR NEWS IN THE NEXT CLASS ACTS Your fellow alumni are interested in your professional accomplishments, including a job change, a promotion, or retirement; community and volunteer activities; a recent marriage or addition to your family; or any other news you would like to share.

Submit your updates at butler.edu/classacts.

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Kathleen (Craig) Schreiner ’67 Wanda (Milner) Winburn, MS ’67 Richard Antrim, MBA ’68 Wilfred Beck, MBA ’68 Donald Crane ’68 Sherry (Leak) Duncan, MS ’68 David Dyar ’68 Clyde Fields, MBA ’68 Bernard Rosner ’68 Gunnar Vanags ’68 Marsha (Mott) Carter Wanda (Owens) Gifford-Reid ’69 Warren Gray ’69 Robert Igney ’69 Thomas Johnson, MS ’69 Patrick Kress ’69 Judith (Wall) Kuth ’69 Daniel Tooker ’69 David Boyle, MS ’70 Rosemary (Cabell) Chandler, MS ’70 Gale Helft, MS ’70 Paul Jason ’70 Robert Joss, MS ’70 Kara Kercheval, MS ’70 Robert Konzelman ’70, MS ’72 Doris (Osborn) Le Fave ’70 Joseph Pearson ’70 William Pillow, MBA ’70 Judith (Jeffries) Shore ’70 Larry Thompson ’70 Nancy (Abney) Alexander, MS ’71 David Gerkensmeyer, MS ’71 Frank Lee, MS ’71 John Michael, MS ’71 Vincent Mulford ’71 Mary Prohl, MS ’71 William Van Arsdol, MS ’71 Richard Wrennick ’71 Paul Goodwin, MBA ’72 Robert Hatter ’72 Mark Helms ’72 Susan Keene, MS ’72 Kent LeBeau ’72 Irene (Pence-Glover) Pearsall, MS ’72 Wilma (Walker) Rutherford, MS ’72

Carol (Scozzafava) Burns, MS ’73 Terry Curry ’73 Evelyn (Delay) Majors, MS ’73 Robin (Hallstein) Osborn ’73 Robert Scott ’73, MS ’85 Simone Smiljanic ’73 Ralph Wray, MBA ’73 Sheila (Persinger) Baker, MS ’74 Byron Batteiger ’74 Mary (Piatt) Bowen, MS ’74 Marjorie Fadely, MS ’74 James Forester, MS ’74 Patricia (Moore) Larison, MS ’74 Donald Rockey ’74 Jay Varga ’74 Mark Corbett ’75 Michael McGuire, MS ’75 Ann Newton, MA ’75 Richard Reahard, MBA ’75 Stephen Roach ’75 Patricia (Merlau) Trout, MS ’75 Gregory Urbanski ’75 Jessica (Lawrence) Welch, MS ’75 Joyce Borne, MA ’76 John Guggenheim ’76 Roger Hayden ’76 Frank Wood, MS ’76 Daniel Couch, MBA ’77 Brenda (Snapp) Flynn ’77, MS ’81 Joyce Landis, MS ’77 Connie (Carpenter) Lawrence, MS ’77 Steven Marchino ’77 Ruth Williams, MS ’77 Gregory Barnes Burke Edwards ’78 Diana Laybold, MS ’78 James Parks ’78 Deborah Spaulding, MM ’78 Barbara (Mann) Williams-Satterfield, MS ’78 Mark Lawrence, MS ’79 Marge (Guy) Potts, MS ’79 Scott Read ’79 Melody (Beres) Rose ’79 Rick Long, MBA ’80

Nancy (Haffey) Pryor, MM ’80 Joseph Schmit, MS ’80 Marilyn Campbell ’81 Donald Leach, MS ’81 Kristine Phillips ’81 David Alvarez ’82 Christena Johnson ’82 Shirley Despot, MS ’83 Frances Marcum, MS ’83 Teresa (Corbin) VonTobel ’83 Cathy (Adams) Steele, MS ’84 Vicki (Gianakos) Griesel ’85 Paul McQuiston, MBA ’85 William Himebaugh ’86 Kenwyn Dapo John McCalley Carrie Reinking, MS ’88 Marcia Semones, MS ’89 Eric van Straten Jeffrey Colton, MBA ’90 Wendy (Barth) Servies ’90 Stacey Shuck, MM ’90 Paula (Rominger) Lewis Daniel Mathis, MS ’92 Diane Nelson-Roberts, MS ’92 Julie (Hornung) Martin, MS ’93 Emily (Walter) Shoppy ’93 Arnold Mickens ’95 Randy Noak Stacey Collins ’98 Sandra Ciraci, MS ’01 Amy (Low) Flores ’03 Maurice Whittemore, MM ’05 Todd Kaufmann, MM ’06 Tayler Helgason ’17 Spencer Lough ’17 Diamond Thomas ’17 Betty Perry ’21

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OCTOBER 21–23, 2022

Return to campus for all of your favorite Homecoming activities and some special celebrations!

The weekend will include: • Alumni Recognition Ceremony • Tailgating and Family Fun at Hinkle Fieldhouse • The Bulldog Beauty Contest • Butler Football Game • The Butler Theatre Department 75th Anniversary Celebration

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SPRING 2022 PRESIDENT, BUTLER UNIVERSITY

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Being the Butler Bulldog has a lot of perks. I have seen and done some pretty remarkable things in the last two years. While I am eternally grateful for my time paw-trolling the hallowed halls of Hinkle Fieldhouse, strolling through Times Square, and serving as Mayor of March, my proudest moments involve the generosity of our Butler community.

Each year, I have the opportunity to deliver full-tuition scholarships to deserving high school seniors. It’s truly magical to witness the spark (and usually the tears) that come to these students’ eyes when they realize that their dreams of being #ButlerBound are now, suddenly, attainable.

These moments are not possible without you and the continued generosity of the Butler community. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to deliver this kind of life-changing news.

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