DePauw Magazine Spring 2019

DePauw M A G A Z I N E

Spring 2019

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Rectors: Changing Lives, an Institution, the World / Developing the Well-Rounded Person / A Chicken-or-Egg Debate / and more

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF RECTOR SCHOLARS

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THE BO(U)LDER QUESTION

by Glen Kuecker Wildfires, drought, hurricanes and flooding are devastating the United States and the world, the result, scientists say, of global climate change. A recent White House report said climate change poses a major threat to the nation and a United Nations report said the world has only 12 years to act to stop irreversible damage to the Earth’s atmosphere. History professor Kuecker is working on a project about how humanity will weather the perfect storm of 21stcentury crises, including climate change. We asked him:

What can individuals do to halt degradation of the planet?

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s the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns, the planetary system faces radical disruptions. Your question is an indicator of the immensity of the challenge before us as well as the fallacies lurking within our systems of thought.

Climate change is a “wicked problem,” which means the way the challenge is constituted prevents it from having a solution. It defies the modern epistemic that assumes problems have solutions that are knowable through reason. That way of thinking also premises that the sovereign individual is driven to optimal choices by rational self-interest. While that premise has served many well, it may not be appropriate for addressing the wicked problems before us. Individualism assumes that somehow a global population of nearly 8 billion people will exercise rational choice in a way that “solves” climate change. Pretending that is possible, the correct choice needs to be arrived at now, a time demand too extreme for our

circumstances.

If we pass these hurdles, the individual will still need to accept radical change on a voluntary basis. History suggests that the path of voluntary radical change is an exception, not the rule to human behavior.

Consider the likely prospect of people immediately and voluntarily enacting one of two possible paths forward. One path is decarbonizing the economy, a measure that would be expensive, disruptive and technologically challenging. The other path is dematerialization of the economy, which could create a sustainable circular economy, but would entail the end of capitalism. Is the individual willing and able to accept the sacrifice, risk and disruption needed for either path? How does a global system scale from the individual voluntarily opting for one of the paths to having nearly 8 billion people make the same rational choice?

Most likely, individual action will pick only the low-hanging fruit, while delaying the need for urgent action. With further delay, the climate crisis will deepen and

merge with other systemic crises, such as energy transition, food and water insecurity and ecological degradation.

In this scenario, the process of systemic collapse is the midwife of change, one that trumps individual rational choice and, with it, our destiny.

There are, of course, many wild cards in the prognosis for individual action, some of which can generate a collapseless transition. The prudent course, however, is for individual action that prepares for deepening systemic crises.

The most interesting wild card is artificial intelligence, which now shows the potential for being a disruptive gamechanger. The rational choice of algorithms will displace human agency, a shift so big that it will fundamentally alter what it means to be human. That change will be upon us sooner than most realize, within the lifetime of DePauw’s current first-year class, but it is not certain if the transition to a post-human world happens before the climate clock takes its last tick.

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STAFF Mary Dieter Managing editor marydieter@depauw.edu 765-658-4286 Kelly A. Graves Creative director kgraves@depauw.edu Timothy Sofranko Photographer timothysofranko@depauw.edu Donna Grooms Gold Nuggets editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Contributor: Kate Robertson

The Bo(u)lder Question

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DePauw Digest

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Book Nook

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Letters to the Editor

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Rectors: Changing Lives, Changing an Institution, Changing the World

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1,000 Words’ Worth

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Winning a Rector

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About the Rector Scholarship

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Developing the Well-Rounded Person

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A Chicken-or-Egg Debate

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Gold Nuggets

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First Person

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Old Gold

Leaders the World Needs

ON THE COVER: Four of DePauw’s most prominent Rector scholars: They are, clockwise starting at top left, Erin O’Brien ’96; Lee Hamilton ’52; Joe Allen ’59; and Ferid Murad ’58. Design by John Berry, assistant professor of art and art history.

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DEPAUW DIGEST Restructuring for DePauw’s Future A recent comparison of DePauw’s workforce with those at peer institutions around the country showed that DePauw had at least 125 more staff members than schools of similar size and several dozen more faculty. After extensive review of the benchmark data, the Board of Trustees announced in February that it would eliminate 56 full-time administrative and staff positions and 15 part-time positions as of June 30. It also will implement a voluntary retirement plan for faculty members.

“For DePauw to build on its nearly 200-year legacy of preparing highly successful graduates, we must first strengthen our financial sustainability and then aggressively invest in our campus, people and DePauw University ranks seventh among programs,” President D. Mark McCoy said. “This was the nation’s four-year baccalaureate an incredibly difficult decision but a necessary one for colleges for the number of students DePauw’s future. We chose to do this from a position of strength so that we could best care for our affected who receive academic credit for employees.” studying abroad, according to the To provide a lengthy transition time and substantial 2018 Open Doors® Report on separation packages for affected employees, who may remain at DePauw through June 30, the board approved a minimum International Educational of six months of pay and retained outplacement services to assist Exchange. them.

The restructuring is expected to result in $6.5 million in annual savings.

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For Study Abroad

And the Award Goes to …

“Clemency,” a film written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu ’07, was awarded the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s dramatic competition Feb. 2. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chukwu, who was an English (writing) major at DePauw, is the first black woman to win what the newspaper called “the festival’s biggest prize.”

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Your Input = Best of Show As we noted in the last issue, your responses to our survey informed the redesign we implemented with the fall issue of DePauw Magazine. Our partnership paid off: on March 1 Higher Education Marketing Report named our magazine “Best of Show” for external publications and awarded it a gold award. More than 1,000 schools submitted more than 2,200 entries, resulting in “Best of Show” winners in 15 categories, 324 gold awards, 203 silver awards and 143 bronze awards. We couldn’t have done it without you!

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In this issue where we celebrate the Rector Scholars, the names of recipients appear in gold.

Honoring John Carter’s Legacy Alumni and friends are honoring the legacy of John Carter, the late women’s soccer coach, by establishing the John Carter Endowed Fund. This initiative, led

by Sara Sabin Alger ’98 and Sarah Wagoner ’96, pays tribute to Carter’s coaching career and contributions to DePauw’s student-athletes.

During 24 seasons as head coach, Carter led the Tigers to a 255-156-24 record, collected six conference championships and coached seven teams that earned spots in the NCAA Division III Championship. He died in 2017.

Women’s soccer alumnae and friends will gather for a special weekend Sept. 2729 to remember Carter and celebrate the generous gifts made in his memory. To learn more about supporting the John Carter Endowed Fund, contact Erica Riley at ericariley@depauw.edu or 765-658-4255.

Getting a Closer Look DePauw science students will be using powerful imaging equipment typically found at major research institutions thanks to a gift from an alumnus’s foundation.

The Buehler Biomedical Imaging Center, which will house several powerful light and electron microscopes, has been established in the F.W. Olin Biological Sciences Building, thanks to a grant from the Buehler Family Foundation. A.C. Buehler III ’78 leads the foundation, which invests in projects related to health care.

The imaging center will focus on regeneration biology; the biology of inflammation; wound healing and repair; and the neuroscience of behavior and addiction, areas in which DePauw has expertise.

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students participated in 15 off-campus winter-term courses in January.

The Battle Against Hate College presidents across Indiana, led by DePauw President D. Mark McCoy, have joined the battle against hate.

The Indiana General Assembly is considering legislation that would allow a judge to impose a harsher sentence on someone convicted of harming another person if the perpetrator were motivated by hate.

A list of victims’ characteristics – disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity – was removed from the original bill. Indiana is one of only five states that does not have a hate-crime law. The 2019 session will run through April 30.

McCoy was the principal author of an open letter signed last August by him and 23 other Indiana college presidents encouraging the legislature to enact a hate-crimes law. He testified in October before a legislative committee that was studying the concept, saying “the absence of a hate-crimes bill in Indiana speaks more loudly than any of us would like.” And in December he urged DePauw faculty and staff members, as well as college presidents, to join the Indiana Forward coalition, which is promoting the legislation.

8 years and counting For the eighth consecutive year, DePauw is listed as a national leader in producing student Fulbright winners.

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BOOK NOOK Readers always are eager for ideas of what to pick up next. So we’re asking alumni, faculty and friends, as well as DePauw President D. Mark McCoy, to make recommendations. If you’d like to share yours, send it to marydieter@depauw.edu.

The President’s Bookshelf

What We’re Reading

by D Mark McCoy

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by Wallace J Nichols

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I’m rereading Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet.” It’s in my travel bag now and, whenever I can, I pull it out and read a few pages. When my daughters were young, I read it to them as a bedtime story. It’s the book that I have gifted most and, when I am done with this one, I’ll pass it along, all bent, marked and underlined, as I have with the others. Eventually I’ll have given everyone I know a copy.

I feel fortunate to have encountered these letters early in life and to have taken their candid advice to heart – perhaps because they supported how and what I already felt and believed. My work as a scientist and author has always come from deep within, despite being told seven times that I was committing “career suicide.” I’ve leaned on Rilke’s letters each time.

Nichols, a marine biologist, is a voracious reader whose house is filled with an eclectic collection that includes classics, field guides and applied neuroscience.

The Book Nook features notable, professionally published books written by DePauw alumni and faculty. Self-published books will be referred to the Gold Nuggets section.

Joan Corliss Bartel ’72 “Office Soft Skills: Working with North Americans”

Connie Campbell Berry ’67 “A Dream of Death”

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Kathleen Fine-Dare ’74 “The Andean World”

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The most impactful book I am reading is “Building the Intentional University, Minerva and the Future of Higher Education,” edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson. The forward alone, by former U.S. Sen. and university president Bob Kerrey, is worth the investment in the book.

While I do not agree with its every supposition, this work is incredibly thought-provoking. We have big work before us in higher education and I look forward to DePauw leading the way.

McCoy, who reads four or five books at a time, blames his Kindle, which “can contribute to that bad habit like hardbound books never would.”

LETTERS

DePauw M A G A Z I N E

Fall 2018

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: The Storytellers / The High-Flyin’ Class of ’92 / Practitioner or Consumer? Pulliam Center Prepares Students / and many new features

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TO THE EDITOR: Wow! I am BLOWN away by the fertile turf you plowed to create the DePauw mag feature on Pulliam.

THAT is how to tell our story. THAT is precisely how DePauw and its liberal arts curriculum (with cocurricular experiential education) have created grads with such diverse, fascinating and successful careers. I hope those kinds of stories begin redefining the Pulliam Center’s story. With those examples and others, PCCM and Media Fellows are slam-dunk sells.

– Dick Johnson ’76, anchor/ reporter, NBC5 Chicago I just finished thoroughly reading the fall issue. This is a magazine I’m proud to put out and thrilled to read and learn from. … Please keep up the excellent and meaty work!

– Vera Ferris Dowell ’60 For the first time in years (and there have been many as I graduated in 1964!) I read the DePauw magazine

from cover to cover. The format is so clean, uncomplicated and beautiful. AND well written. … Keep the wonderful issues coming.

– Nancy Lyon Miller ’64 I’ve just received the fall 2018 edition of DePauw Magazine and found it totally engaging. You are telling the stories of graduates in a compelling fashion, and you make it easy for the reader to access those stories.

– JOHN THORNBURG ’76, vice president for area representatives, TMF, Dallas I loved the magazine this time!!!!!!

Great job!!!! In all ways!!!!! Thank you for this excellent issue!!!

– Lynn Belknap Metcalf ’67 I am a DPU alum and simply wanted to congratulate you on your very fine work in the latest issue of the DePauw Magazine. The look feels greatly improved since I last read it. Also, I particularly loved The Storytellers section. I am in fact still close friends to this day with Shibani Bathija, from our English Composition courses together, and it made me very happy to see her work featured in it.

– Mark Bransfield ’90 I really enjoyed the fall 2018 issue with the design changes – it was easy to peruse and the journalism theme was so interesting. I read the magazine cover-to-cover. … I was disappointed to see little information

given on the background of the authors and topics of the books written by alumni and faculty. I always found interesting topics there when it was a two-page spread. … Overall, the magazine looks great and was chock-full of interesting features.

– Deborah Hutchins P’20, Ph.D. ELS I’m a recent DePauw graduate, and I just read the latest edition of DePauw’s Magazine. I just wanted to say that I devoured every story you wrote. You’re a great writer and storyteller!

– Clifford Chi ’18, junior staff writer, HubSpot, Boston I love the newly redesigned issue of DePauw Magazine. It is clean, engaging and very informative. Congratulations! I have been in the publishing industry most of my career and know redesigns are never easy. … One thought: If you aren’t already doing it, is it possible to print on recycled paper? Striving for a sustainability should be all our goal.

– Carl Mehlhope ’79 Editor’s note: We appreciate Mr. Mehlhope’s interest in sustainability.

The stock on which this issue is printed has 10 percent recycled content. It is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as having come from a properly maintained and managed forest and is made using 100 percent Green-e© electricity. It is transported by a certified SmartWay transport partner.

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PATHWAYS

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RECTORS: Changing Lives, Changing an Institution, Changing the World

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he was the kind of cover girl for which universities drool.

Attractive, sure, when she graced the cover of DePauw Magazine 25 years ago. But that wasn’t the point. ERIN O’BRIEN was an academic superstar who had been courted by any number of undergraduate institutions but who chose to attend DePauw University.

A Rector Scholarship “sealed the deal for me,” she says.

To be sure, winning a full ride to DePauw was a big deal for O’Brien when she was a high schooler and prospective science major. But it was only later that she realized just how big a deal it was.

Indeed, the Rector Scholarship program, celebrating its centennial this year, has been a transformational program for individuals, for an institution, for the world.

O’Brien, a 1996 graduate, is one of more than 4,000 people to win a Rector over the century since Edward and Lucy Rowland Rector established an endowment to attract bright students to DePauw.

The scholarship has played a role in the success stories of and the enormous contributions to the world made

by DePauw graduates such as O’Brien, who is a rhinologist at one of the leading medical facilities in the country; astronaut and physicist JOSEPH P. ALLEN IV ’59; former U.S. REP. LEE HAMILTON ’52, an expert on international affairs who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and Nobel Prize winner FERID MURAD ’58, a physician and Ph.D. pharmacologist whose work has saved the lives of premature babies and cancer and heart patients and inspired 160,000 publications that build on his discoveries.

It paved the way for DOUGLAS HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER ’89 to become a Rhodes Scholar and a lawyer who successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that gays should be allowed to marry; for ANNE NICHOLS ’33 and JAMES JOHNSON ’36 to become physicians and open a family clinic in Greencastle; for BILL RASMUSSEN ’54 to found ESPN; for MICHAEL AKINBOLA ’09 to earn a doctorate and work as assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist for the Super Bowl LIII champion New England Patriots football team; and for SAMANTHA ANDERSON ’14 to study for her doctorate in biochemistry.

And, coming at a time when DePauw’s academics were shaky and its male enrollment was struggling, the Rectors’ gift ensured the university would become a premier institution known for its rigorous academics.

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uring her first year at DePauw, O’Brien, already interested in science, started thinking that perhaps she’d like to become a physician.

Graduating without debt made it less intimidating to look out of state at the best schools in the country, she says, and she landed at one, the University of Pittsburgh.

O’Brien had spent four years in DePauw’s Science Research Fellows Program, which enabled her to do research in her first year, an opportunity

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rarely equaled at most undergraduate institutions. In her senior year, she spent a semester at a laboratory affiliated with Harvard Medical School, working under DePauw alumnus DR. W. ALLAN WALKER ’59, also a Rector scholar.

“I think that had a big impact on my getting into a good medical school,” she says. “Honestly, I even think that helped me when I applied for residency (at University of Iowa), seeing that I had research experience since I was an undergrad.”

She knew early on that she wanted

to perform surgery, and rotations in medical school persuaded her to choose otolaryngology. “I thought the anatomy and the diseases were the most fascinating in the head and neck,” she says. She took extra training to specialize as a rhinologist who treats sinus diseases and works with neurosurgeons to remove brain tumors through the nose.

O’Brien also wanted to continue research. She has spent about 10 percent of her time doing it but that time soon will double, thanks to a contribution from a

ERIN O’BRIEN 1996: Graduates from DePauw.

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grateful patient.

She went to work for Mayo Clinic in 2012, drawn by its team approach to patients. Her DePauw education comes in handy, she says, because “I have to be able to communicate well. I work with other people and, starting that early in college, where you’re in small classes and having discussions and working with your professors, that’s just a great way to learn and it’s a good way to learn about working in teams.”

On a road trip maybe 15 years after

graduation, O’Brien told her husband, a Big 10 graduate, that she wanted to stop

by Greencastle to visit her professors. He incredulously asked how she expected them to remember her.

“Of course they’re going to know who I am,” she recalls telling him.

“For sure I remember Erin,” says biology professor Wade Hazel, eight years hence. “She was in one of those early cohorts of Science Research Fellows and is one of my favorite all-time students.”

2000: Earns an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

2000: Interns in general surgery at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh.

2001-07: Serves a residency at the University of Iowa.

2008: Serves a rhinology and chemosensory fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

2012-present: Works at Mayo Clinic.

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is father JOSEPH P. ALLEN III ’30; his mother Harriet Taylor Allen ’28; his paternal grandparents; an aunt; and two cousins had attended DePauw before him. His brother DAVID T. ALLEN ’61; two cousins, BLANCHE HESTER WICKE ’67 and F. ALLEN HESTER ’69; and a nephew would follow.

It was no surprise, then, that JOE ALLEN ’59 would choose DePauw, from where his future wife, Bonnie Jo Darling ’61, also graduated.

The surprise would come much later, in the form of an unexpected, but stellar, career.

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Allen came to DePauw with plans to become a physics professor, and that’s the pathway he followed. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University and taught there for several years and for a year in Germany as a Fulbright scholar.

He was working in the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Washington when a newspaper advertisement caught his eye.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was looking for astronauts, an occupation that he says he couldn’t have contemplated as a DePauw student; it had just come into existence the year of his graduation.

He applied and in August 1967 NASA chose 11 men, including Allen, for its second group of scientist-astronauts. Allen learned to fly and served in earthbound mission control for the Apollo 15 lunar landing in 1971 and, a year later, for Apollo 17, the last mission to land men on the moon. He then took several administrative positions for NASA, including assistant administrator for legislative affairs in Washington D.C., before returning to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1981 to support Columbia on the first space shuttle mission.

He was tapped in 1982 to be a mission

JOSEPH P. “JOE” ALLEN IV 1959: Graduates from DePauw.

1959-60: Teaches in Germany as a Fulbright scholar.

1961 and 1965: Earns a master’s degree, then a doctorate in physics from Yale University.

1963-67: Works as a guest research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory; a staff physicist at the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale; and a research associate at the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington.

1967-85: Becomes a scientistastronaut at NASA; works as NASA assistant administrator for legislative affairs and later as director of astronaut training and operations; serves as mission controller for Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 and for the first test flight of the space shuttle.

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specialist aboard Columbia, from where he and the other mission specialist deployed two commercial communications satellites.

He flew again two years later as a mission specialist aboard Discovery. He and commander Dale Gardner deployed two more satellites and flew in space using untethered, Buck Rogers-style jetpacks to wrangle two wayward satellites the size of a Volkswagen Beetle – though they felt weightless – and stow them aboard the shuttle.

“I’m extremely lucky,” Allen says. “It was quite a dangerous job.” In fact, the jetpack was deemed too risky after that flight and never used again.

Allen left NASA in 1985 to become chief executive officer of Space Industries International Inc. and later chairman of Veridian Corp. In 2005, a year after he retired, he was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame and received the Old Gold Goblet from DePauw.

“DePauw changed my life forever, for the better,” he says. “It gave me a wellrounded education. I could deal with anything. I took physics but physics is really about solving problems and the liberal arts are about solving problems.

If you can solve problems, you can do virtually anything. And that’s what DePauw did for me.”

November 1982: Flies in space as a mission specialist on Columbia for the first fully operational flight of the shuttle transportation system.

November 1984: Uses an untethered jetpack to retrieve a stranded satellite as a mission specialist on Discovery.

1985-2004: Works as CEO of Space Industries International Inc. and chairman for Veridian Corp. and the nonprofit Challenger Center for Space Science Education.

2005: Is inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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LEE HAMILTON ’52 (Photo: Tim Sofranko)

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ou might call LEE HAMILTON ’52 a late bloomer.

He listened when his parents told him to follow his brother the Rev. RICHARD HAMILTON ’49 to DePauw, though, he says, “my chief interest in life at that time was basketball.” So he starred on DePauw’s basketball team and pursued a degree in history, but recalls attending commencement ceremonies and “not having the slightest idea of what I wanted to do.” He spent a year in Europe traveling and “studying. That’s a euphemism.”

He came home to attend law school at Indiana University in Bloomington and then spent a few years practicing law in Chicago before moving to Columbus, Ind., to practice county-seat law.

“I decided I didn’t have the passion

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or the enthusiasm for law that I should have,” he says. “I was more interested in international affairs. I asked myself, how could I impact policy? Policy was my interest, not politics.” He ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory swept Democrats into office across the country.

Hamilton represented southeastern Indiana for 34 years, gaining a global reputation for his copious knowledge and measured approach. He served, among other positions, as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees.

Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, whose acumen in foreign affairs is equally renowned, says “some of the most important and satisfying days I enjoyed” in

the Senate were working with Hamilton.

“Both of us often had strong viewpoints about foreign policy and the importance of legislation that might provide timely United States leadership in potentially dangerous international disputes,” says Lugar, a Republican. “We were able to obtain bipartisan and bicameral results that we believe made a significant difference in Congress for peace and security.”

Hamilton’s public service continued after his retirement from Congress, when he served on numerous ad hoc commissions, including the 9/11 Commission; the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century; the Iraq Study Group; the Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain

LEE HAMILTON 1952: Having been a basketball standout, graduates from DePauw.

1952-53: Attends Goethe University in Germany and travels across Europe, sparking his interest in international affairs.

1953-56: Attends law school at Indiana University.

1956-1960: Practices law in Chicago.

Security Issues at Los Alamos; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.

He also worked more than 10 years as director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He founded and directed the Center on Congress at Indiana University and continues to work six days a week (though he owns up to long lunch periods) at IU as a senior adviser to its Center on Representative Government, a distinguished scholar in the School of Global and International Studies and a professor of practice in the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

In 2015, President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

the country’s highest civilian award.

Neither he nor his brother, the retired pastor of North United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, could have attended DePauw had they not won Rector scholarships, Hamilton says. He figures he would have gone somewhere – he was heavily recruited for his athletic prowess – but DePauw was the right choice, he says.

“DePauw opened up a whole new world to me,” he says. “I had been very much focused on Evansville and athletics and the things that high school students are focused on, I guess. Nothing exceptional about my career – not up until that time. DePauw just opened new vistas for me. A very good faculty. I enjoyed the student body and my peers. It was a real, genuine community.”

1960-1964: Practices law in Columbus, Ind. Elected to Congress in November 1964.

1965-98: Serves as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

1999-2010: Works as director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

1999-present: Works in various capacities at Indiana University.

Leads numerous commissions.

2015: Is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

by President Obama.

2018: Has his name and that of former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar added to IU’s School of Global and International Studies.

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FERID MURAD ’58

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is father, Jabir Murat Ejupi, was an Albanian shepherd dubbed “John Murad” when he passed through Ellis Island in 1913. His mother, Henrietta, 17, ran away from home to marry a man 22 years her senior. Together they raised three boys in a four-room apartment behind John’s Restaurant, their Whiting, Ind., business.

And their eldest son, who washed dishes, waited tables and managed the cash register, would grow up to be a physician and Ph.D. pharmacologist who would win the Nobel Prize for his far-reaching contributions to medical science.

FERID MURAD ’58 knew from the time he was 12 that he wanted to be a doctor. He also wanted an extensive education “so I wouldn’t have to work as hard as my parents,” he wrote in an autobiography for the Nobel Foundation.

The first two wishes came true; the third one, not so much.

At age 82 – 20 years after winning the Nobel – he is still working, he says, so he may “work with talented people, talented trainees, talented professors.” He is motivated to continue research “to answer questions that have never been answered before.” His life’s work – the study of nitric oxide’s function as a hormone that signals certain activities in the body – has had a profound effect on medicine.

In the 32 years since his discovery, other scientists have published about 160,000 papers about the effects of nitric oxide on the cardiovascular, nervous, reproductive, musculoskeletal and immunological systems, all based on

Murad’s foundational work. By his count, he has trained 150 fellows, physician scientists and doctoral students, including several future university department chairs working around the world and two university presidents. One trainee, in a 2016 essay, called Murad “the consummate mentor” whose “gift was to see something that everyone else had seen … and then to doggedly pursue the underlying biology to define previously unknown molecular mechanisms (that) proved to be paradigmshifting and field-opening.”

A Rector Scholarship launched Murad’s career. His family couldn’t afford college, so he considered military academies and other universities offering scholarships to ease the financial burden.

A high school teacher who had graduated from DePauw suggested he take a look.

“The combination of good science

training plus the liberal arts training was appealing,” Murad says.

He conducted undergrad research with biology professor Forst Fuller ’38, who encouraged Murad – who by then was contemplating next steps – to consider the M.D./Ph.D. program Western Reserve University (now Case-Western) had just created. Thus began what was, by his own accounting, an exceptionally long period – 12 years after graduation from DePauw – during which he earned his doctoral degrees and trained in clinical medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and in research and clinical medicine at the National Institutes of Health. He was first in his class every year in medical and graduate school.

Over the ensuing years, Murad has had a series of university and privatesector positions that have enabled him

to conduct research, teach and practice medicine. A year before winning the Nobel, he joined the University of Texas-Houston to be the first chairman of its combined science department; he later moved first to George Washington University and then Stanford University, where he works now.

As a Nobel laureate, Murad has been swamped with invitations from around the world. He received so many from elementary and high schools that he simplified his research in a video aimed at children. He has visited 80 countries and has met about 15 presidents, kings, queens and other leaders, including Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. And yet, one of the most memorable events, he wrote in his Nobel bio, brought him back home to Indiana, where he was grand marshal of the Whiting July 4 parade.

FERID MURAD 1958: Graduates from DePauw.

1965: Earns an M.D./Ph.D. in pharmacology from then-Western Reserve University 1965-67: Serves internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1967-70: Works as a clinical associate in the Heart Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

1970-81: Develops a clinical pharmacology division at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

1981-88: Works as chief of medicine at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, a Stanford University-affiliated facility. Serves two years as acting chairman of medicine.

1988-1993: Works as vice president at Abbott Laboratories.

1993-1997: Founds and runs a biotech company, Molecular Geriatrics Corp.

1997-2011: Serves as the first chairman of University of Texas-Houston’s new combined basic science department. Later takes on a second role as director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine.

1998: Wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine.

2011-16: Teaches and conducts research at George Washington University.

2016-present: Returns to Stanford to teach and conduct research.

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1,000 WORDS’ WORTH Excuse our decision to add words to a perfectly lovely Google Earth image of the DePauw campus that might normally speak for itself. We couldn’t resist annotating this with DePauw’s many Rector-related facilities and the people for whom they were named.

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SHIDZUO IIKUBO GALLERY Shidzuo Iikubo ’23

HOLTON QUADRANGLE Philip and Ruth Clark Holton, both ’29

HOOVER HALL ROOMS: Daseke – Don Daseke ’61 Darnall – Robert J. Darnall ’60 Wallace-Stewart Faculty Club – James B. Stewart ’73.

STEWART PLAZA James G. Stewart ’64

JUDSON AND JOYCE GREEN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Judson ’74 and Joyce Taglauer ’75 Green

LONGDEN HALL Henry B. Longden, first director of the Rector Scholarship Foundation

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Captured by Beth Wilkerson, Geographic Information Systems specialist for Faculty Instructional Technology Support.

HARTMAN HOUSE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP Grover L. Hartman ’35

RECTOR VILLAGE Seven residence halls, including: Warne Hall – Richard Warne ’54 Holmberg Hall – Ronald Holmberg ’54 Strasma Hall – Norman Strasma ’55

UBBEN QUADRANGLE Timothy Ubben ’58

LUCY ROWLAND HALL Wife of Edward Rector.

ROBERT C. MCDERMOND CENTER FOR MANAGEMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Robert C. McDermond ’31 EUGENE S. PULLIAM CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MEDIA Eugene S. Pulliam ’35

ADDITIONAL CAMPUS LOCATIONS: BARTLETT REFLECTION CENTER DePauw Nature Park Jim and Sue Bartelsmeyer Bartlett, both ’66

MANNING ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD STATION DePauw Nature Park Thomas Manning ’40 and George A. Manning ’11

HOLLENSTEINER TRACK James A. Hollensteiner ’53

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Winning a Rector Scholarship …

1926

GEN. DAVID SHOUP

22nd commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for bravery as a Marine fighting on Tarawa in World War II.

1936

ARTHUR BURKS

Engineer who contributed to the design of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic computers.

1933

DR. ANNE NICHOLS

One of the first female Rectors; partnered with another physician to found Johnson Nichols Health Clinic in Greencastle.

1949

THOMAS BARNETT

YMCA leader who founded a day camp to teach African-American children to take pride in their African heritage instead of shame for their ancestors’ enslavement.

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1957 … “allowed me to study in America, which planted the roots for me to grow as a human being through exposure to another culture. Two aspects were significant for me: first, the importance of having an understanding of religion, i.e., the existence of something greater than oneself, which leads to humbleness, kindness, friendliness and an understanding of others, all of which is inclusive to human goodness. Second, just ‘survival’ … I learned to set a goal, persevere and accomplish my objectives.”

HIROTSUGU “CHUCK” IIKUBO

International businessman and author of 17 books on decision-making and problem-solving who initiated a project to foster friendly relations between the United States and Japan.

1954 … enabled him to be the first of his family to attend college and prevented him from being drafted into the Korean War (though he later served two years in the U.S. Air Force). “As I reflect on that time (over 68 years ago), I appreciate the richness of the liberal arts education I received at DePauw that otherwise would not have been available to me.”

BILL RASMUSSEN

Semi-retired founder of ESPN; called “a guy whose idea gave birth to, arguably, the most successful media story of our time.” Working on a project to share each hometown’s greatest source of pride with the rest of the country and the world.

1968 … “opened my mind to the wonders of the arts, philosophy, religion, science as well as earning an appreciation of my chosen areas of study – economics and accounting. It also gave me an added incentive to work hard as I was learning to become more disciplined and focus more on my education and less on the obvious diversions of college life. I also came to appreciate the value of it in advancing my career.

W.R. “RICK” VAN BOKKELEN

Retired senior hospital administrator, including president of the 729bed Christian Hospital in St. Louis; former Navy commander who served two tours off the coast of Vietnam.

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Winning a Rector Scholarship …

1976 … “set the stage for everything else that followed. … Most in my profession attend business schools, not liberal arts schools. The broader perspective from a liberal arts education, including the focus on developing analytical and problem-solving skills, gave me a clear advantage addressing the oftenchallenging issues important to my firm and clients.”

1974 … made college possible just a year after his father was one of 41 people killed in an explosion in Richmond, Ind., and caused him to be “infected with the travel bug” after a semester of studying in Athens.

He volunteered for the Peace Corps and “learned to teach by making every mistake a beginning teacher could make.”

KIM TRIMBLE

Professor of teacher education at California State University, Dominguez Hills; winner of three Fulbright scholarships to teach university-level English teachers in Turkey.

DOUG RUUD

Retired senior partner at KPMG LLP, one of the “Big Four” accounting firms.

1989 … “allowed me to take a less well-paying job at the Department of Justice, Civil Appellate staff, which in turn led to a position with the Solicitor General’s office, representing the United States before the Supreme Court. … The scholarship has influenced my trajectory.

On reflection, I believe I thrived in the smaller, liberal arts environment of DePauw far more than I would have done in the larger, more intimidating Ivy League schools. The close relationships with faculty I formed at DePauw were, without question, also critical to my obtaining the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.”

DOUGLAS HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER

Leader of Ropes & Gray’s appellate and Supreme Court practice since 2010 after a decade with the federal government. Has argued 16 times before the Supreme Court, including the 2015 landmark marriage-equality case, Obergefell v. Hodges.

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1992 and 1994 … caused Phyllis to turn down a full-tuition scholarship at another institution in favor of joining the Management Fellows Program at DePauw and enabled Dave to play on DePauw’s 1990 basketball team, which lost the Division III national championship by a point. “Most important,” Phyllis says, their decisions to attend DePauw led them to each other and their “biggest accomplishment” – their two sons.

DAVID ’92 AND PHYLLIS BARKMAN ’94 FERRELL

Dave is a teacher and coach at Lebanon (Ind.) High School.

Phyllis is the chief commercial services officer at Eli Lilly and Co.

2009 … provided “access to a special opportunity to study at DePauw University – but it has also been an incredible investment. The university’s willingness to take a chance and make an investment in my future has continued the process of creating great opportunities. It gave me the confidence to shoot for the stars with my goals – both academically and professionally. I have been blessed with the awesome opportunity to work a career that represents the perfect intersection of my skills, my interests, my passion and what I believe to be my higher calling.”

MICHAEL AKINBOLA

Assistant athletic trainer and doctorate-level physical therapist for the Super Bowl LIII champion New England Patriots.

2014 … enabled her “to pay off my remaining college debt within four years of graduating on a graduate student’s stipend. Additionally, it provided me with a network of peers who have achieved many great things since graduating.”

SAMANTHA ANDERSON

Doctoral candidate in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Has published two scientific papers and plans to apply, upon graduation, for the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellowship to work in the State Department on science diplomacy.

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Winning a Rector Scholarship …

2021 … “was also a big draw to DePauw outside of just the financial assistance as it provides unique networking and educational opportunities that we’ve been able to take advantage of during our time at DePauw.”

SARAH AND SAMANTHA SHAPARD

DePauw sophomores and twins from Aurora, Colo. Sarah (left) plans to create an interdisciplinary major combining theatre, creative writing and communication to prepare her to “explore my passions for playwriting, acting, directing and promotional work.” Samantha is interested in creative writing, especially playwriting; “I would love to be someone who is able to make an impact on the world in some way, and I feel that writing is a way for me to do that,” she says.

About the Rector Scholarship More than 4,000 high-achieving students have been able to study at DePauw University over the century since Edward and Lucy Rowland Rector established the Rector Scholarships.

Rector, whose family couldn’t afford to send him to college, attended law school as an adult and began to share his wealth with DePauw at the behest of his friend Roy O. West, a Chicago attorney and 1890 DePauw graduate. Edward and Lucy ultimately gave $3.8 million to DePauw, financing construction of dormitories and a gymnasium and supporting a teachers’ pension fund and loans for needy students.

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demonstrate the value of the Rectors’ “investments in humanity.”

At the time the scholarship was established, the Rectors provided funds to pay for 100 full-tuition scholarships a year for male students, a stipulation intended to boost male enrollment that had waned during World War I. Women were eligible for scholarships only if they achieved the highest grade point average in their DePauw class. That changed in 1982, when the Board of Trustees voted to remove the men-only restriction.

As tuition has crept up over the years, the Rectors’ endowment has been unable to match their vision; fewer scholarships have been awarded. The Rector Centennial Committee, made up of former Rector scholars, has set a goal to raise $14 million.

That would bring the endowment to $40 million, enough to extend full-tuition

scholarships to 10 students a year for the next 100 years.

If you want to contribute to the Rector Scholarship Endowment Fund, visit www.depauw.edu/alumni/giving/rector100/.

To make the Rector Scholarship Fund part of your estate plan, contact Eric D. Motycka, director of legacy and estate planning, at 765-658-4216 or ericmotycka@depauw.edu.

DePauw will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Rectors’ gift May 10-11 with conversations with former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton ’52 and DePauw President D. Mark McCoy; Rector student research presentations; and campus walking tours.

If you wish to attend, RSVP by May 1 at 877-658-2586, Rector100@depauw.edu or www.depauw.edu/rector100/.

Editor’s note: The names of all Rector scholars in this issue of DePauw Magazine are emblazoned in gold.

DID YOU KNOW? 19% of the current student body are legacy students.

43% of students referred by alumni enroll at DePauw.

For generations, the university has enrolled some of its most promising students with the help of DePauw alumni and friends.

If you know a promising student who would excel on DePauw’s campus, complete a referral form at the address below.

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WELL-CENTERED

Developing the Well-Rounded Person Three centers cause students to focus outside themselves

By Sarah McAdams

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oises Lopez Soltero ’21 has found “a safe place to explore new

ideas and challenge my current beliefs” at the Hartman Center for Civic Engagement.

The Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and

Inclusion is “a place of comfort for me,” says Tahj Dosso ’21.

And Liam Byrnes ’19 considers the Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student

Engagement “a phenomenal resource to students.”

Of the eight centers that are integral to DePauw University’s cocurricular offerings

and its Gold Commitment, these three centers directly speak to the university’s mission

to prepare its graduates to “support and create positive change in their communities and the world.” They exist to encourage, enable and empower students to explore who they are and who they want to be, on the DePauw campus and in the world.

“To develop leaders the world needs, a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, produced

and delivered by world-class faculty, is the first step,” President D. Mark McCoy says. “Experiential learning then provides the laboratory to implement these concepts and skills. These three centers provide the experience, the cultural agility and the empathy necessary to be a leader in the 21st century. When combined with the other centers and our powerful classroom experiences, they provide our students a one-of-a-kind education.”

The Gold Commitment guarantees that any student who meets

curricular and cocurricular requirements will be employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation; otherwise, the university will

help the graduate find a job or offer a tuition-free term to shore up his/her

skills. Much of the cocurricular programming is developed by DePauw’s eight

centers. This is the third in a series of magazine issues that focus on the centers.

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Hartman Center for Civic Engagement

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tudents exploring ways to be engaged with their community in meaningful and thoughtful ways are encouraged by the Hartman Center to consider “three vantage points – service, social justice and spiritual life,” says the Rev. Kate Smanik, the center’s director.

The first vantage point – service – involves students who volunteer, for example, to befriend an elderly person or play with preschool children; tutor Cloverdale kids or clean cages at the Humane Society of Putnam County; mentor middle and high school students or engage children, newborn to age 5, at Tots’ Time. Each service site taps a student who is particularly driven to serve as coordinator. Many of the coordinators are Bonner Scholars, a service-based, competitive scholarship program that “is constantly pushing

students to ask questions about what it means to be of service in community,” Smanik says.

Muhammad Khan ’22 had adopted that vantage point. He is a Stone Scholar, a program for those who are committed to service, and wants to engage with the Greencastle community. “The program has been a rewarding opportunity for me, as it promotes mutual growth of community and self,” he says. “Through our meetings, I’ve learned how to address difficult topics and to have uncomfortable conversations without offending others.”

The second vantage point – social justice – involves those who engage with the Compton Center for Peace and Justice.

Students may apply to become Compton interns, who work on the Compton Connection radio show, social media and an online magazine and plan a Peace Camp each fall. Compton interns hosted their first Justice Week last spring and are considering expanding this year’s event to Justice Month, with additional programs.

“One of the things I want to work with them on in the coming years is to think more about our local community and the incredible change agents and activists and how they build those relationships,” Smanik said.

The third vantage point – spiritual life – does not strike some as civic engagement, Smanik says, “but so much of the incredible

Lower left: Moises Lopez Soltero ’21. Above: Muhammad Khan ’22.

Left: The Rev. Kate Smanik.

(Photos: Tim Sofranko)

work that’s done in communities is done by religious groups. What we want students to think about is: What do I believe about the world? What shapes those beliefs and then how do I go out into the world and live that out in meaningful ways?”

Smanik says the Hartman Center’s programming complements DePauw’s liberal arts experience, enabling students to develop themselves as “a whole person and come out of DePauw as a complete package – not just somebody an employer wants but somebody community members want. …

“DePauw has this incredible history of that work. So we’re building on a long legacy that I think our alumni exemplify, and that’s really fun.”

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Justin and Darrianne Christian Center for Diversity and Inclusion

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he Center for Diversity and Inclusion has had a powerful impact on Tahj Dosso, he says, and has inspired his desire to expand the center’s reach to more students and “to have a stronger purpose and presence on DePauw’s campus.”

The center’s goal is to create a meaningful and inclusive community at DePauw, says Matt Abtahi, its assistant

Above: Tahj Dosso ’21.

Right: Matt Abtahi.

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director. It has done just that for Dosso, a computer science major who credits the center’s staff members – specifically, Abtahi and Tamika Smith, interim director of Multicultural Students Services – with creating a welcoming atmosphere at DePauw.

Dosso holds executive positions on both the African Student Association and the Brotherhood Council, which are among more than 20 student groups affiliated with the CDI, based on their work to celebrate and educate the campus community on “matters of identity,” Abtahi says. Each group typically produces two programs a month for the campus community, rendering them “a robust resource for our campus as it relates to cultural competence,” he says.

In addition to its student group affiliations, the center is home to DePauw’s Multicultural Student Services, International Student Services, LGBTQIA+ Student Services and support for students participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. In the coming months, the center will be taking a lead role with the university’s Bias Intervention Response Team.

“We see ourselves as a root system that’s intertwined with everything,” Abtahi says. “And so a lot of our work has been in collaboration with campus partners to find different ways to infuse a more inclusive mindset in the ways in which we provide experiences for students.”

To inspire reflection and conversation about inclusion and diversity, the center

supplies training modules to campus groups and “heavily rel(ies) on the great work of our faculty, because we know it’s the indepth coursework where deep reflection really happens,” he says.

It also sponsors programs, such as the Multicultural Student Services’ Connections Mentors. The program couples with the traditional DePauw mentor program for first-year students, but specifically domestic students of color, to foster “frank conversations about how to navigate an institution, understand resources at DePauw and build community,” Abtahi says.

An assessment of Connections Mentors last year showed students most appreciated the sense of community and connection it afforded them.

“When we talk to our students about why they chose DePauw and why they choose to stay at DePauw,” Abtahi says, “the answer is always because they love the people here. So we want to be sure we continue providing those moments where students are connecting.”

Jazmine Kerr ’21 is a member of advisory boards for Multicultural Student Services and LGBTQIA+ Student Services. “I like to be involved to make the planning more meaningful and helpful for students,” she says. Her hope is that the center will be used more as a community space in the future.

The center’s activities, Abtahi says, align seamlessly with the goals of DePauw’s Gold Commitment. “In every one of the categories of the commitment,” he says, “there’s a mention of global engagement, inclusive practice or diverse populations.”

The university is conducting a national search for a chief diversity officer, who will double as the executive director of the center.

Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement

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ePauw students looking for assistance in locating internships, off-campus study opportunities and career development advice know the Hubbard Center.

Or at least that’s the goal of the center’s staff: to make sure that students see planning for post-DePauw opportunities as a four-year experience “rather than as a second-semester-senior-year experience,” says David Berque, associate vice president for student academic life, dean of academic life and executive director of the center.

“Career preparation is something we encourage all students to do early and often through the Hubbard Center,” he says.

The center offers far more than typical career counseling, however. Hubbard seeks to develop the whole person, and that means exposing students to unusual experiences.

“As the world becomes more globally interconnected, having students experience other geographic locations and cultures can really help them in not only their personal growth but also in career discernment,” Berque says. “We always look to alumni to help us provide opportunities for students.

And we have an employer relations team who is there to cultivate those relationships and opportunities for our students both for internships and mentoring for full-time work.”

Internships sometimes lead to fulltime job offers; they often help students identify what they do and don’t want in their careers. “It’s better to make a mistake in choosing a three-week, winterterm internship or a 10-week summer internship,” Berque says, “to find out what you don’t like to help you better articulate

what you do like.”

The center, which already was an important stop on any DePauw student’s pathway to graduation, became significantly more important this academic year, the first for the university’s Gold Commitment. One of the commitment’s requirements is for first-year students to attend introductory sessions during orientation week to learn about Hubbard’s programs and services.

“It was a very successful program, and we saw all but 15 students in that first week,” Berque says.

First-year students also create profiles in Handshake, a tool that matches them with internship and job opportunities.

They are expected to seek resumé reviews and attend at least one fair to learn about off-campus study and career or entrepreneurial options.

In addition, the center offers students the chance to get advice or referrals from peers trained to help them through the Coquillette Peer Advisers program, which was created in 2013 with support from 1982 graduates Kenneth and Carrie Melind Coquillette.

Peer consultant Liam Byrnes, for example, answers general questions, reviews resumés and cover letters and assists Nicole Burts ’13, the pre-law adviser and Coquillette peer coordinator.

“Part of my duties include helping run a free monthly legal clinic at the Putnam County courthouse, where DePauw

Above: Liam Byrnes ’19.

Left: Dave Berque.

students seek legal advice and network with attorneys from Indianapolis and Bloomington,” Byrnes says.

He helped teach a winter-term course in which students interested in attending law school prepared their applications and got an idea of what a legal career might look like. A highlight of the experience was a visit to the Indiana Supreme Court, where the students listened to two oral arguments and met the five justices, he says.

“The Hubbard Center can be a phenomenal resource to students,” Byrnes says, “but what a student gets out of it depends on how much they invest in the opportunities and in the staff it has to offer.”

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A CHICKENOR-EGG DEBATE: Does DePauw attract ’woke’ students? Or does the university awaken them?

By Mary Dieter

Some students come to DePauw University with a strong social conscience, an abiding desire to do good and the selfpossession it takes to make a difference.

Others thoughtfully apply lessons learned in the classroom and in cocurricular experiences; take inspiration from professors, alumni and fellow students; and open their eyes, minds and hearts as they develop into well-rounded leaders the world needs.

So which is it? Does DePauw attract socially conscious students or does it encourage, enable and empower young people to emerge as the people they want to be?

Both. These six DePauw alumni, whose life work is intended to benefit others, demonstrate how.

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(Photo: Tim Sofranko)

GUIDING YOUNG MEN OF COLOR “I come from a single parent who taught me at an early age that life is full of sacrifices and you can’t really leave a mark without adding value to the community, to the world,” says Kareem Edwards ’07, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., and came to DePauw as a Posse scholar, a development program for young leaders. “There is nothing like helping someone develop and become better in terms of a self-gift.”

Edwards, who earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, joined Google as an account executive last April after more than two years with Kraft Heinz, where he oversaw, from concept to shelf, the launch of Just Crack an Egg, an instant breakfast product. He is so committed to providing professional support to others, especially

young African-American men, that he was listed by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of “20 in Their 20s” who demonstrate, Crain’s says, “confidence in their own abilities, commitment to social causes and civic issues, entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to embrace change.” His former employer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, likewise recognized him for volunteerism.

While at DePauw, he spent winter terms in service in Brazil and Cameroon.

As a volunteer through the Bonner Scholar program, he encouraged leadership and camaraderie while teaching step dancing to juveniles at the Plainfield Correctional Facility and coaching basketball at Greencastle Middle School.

He is the Chicago chapter president

of Suit Dreams, a nonprofit founded by his fraternity brother, Jerrell Horton ’09, to provide professional attire and personal mentoring to graduating high school seniors of color. He also is a co-founder with Jourdan Sutton ’05, a DePauw alumnus and Michigan classmate, of Next Wave in Business, an organization that places black and Latinx students in internships with top companies.

“I feel privileged because many, many people from my neighborhood would never have the opportunity to work at the Googles of the world, go to business school, attend DePauw and so forth,” Edwards says. “So privilege and gratitude come to mind a lot to help the next generation of people.”

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EMPOWERING THE POOR Having spent her entire junior year of college in Chile, LISA KUHN ’98 had to face the music: There was no way she could complete the requirements for her major in piano. So she switched to an applied music minor and, with a good bit of Spanish mastered, majored in romance languages and Latin American relations, an interdisciplinary major she created.

Not only was the switch practical, it enabled her to pursue a new dream. As a child growing up three miles outside tiny Waldron, Ind., population 804, she was always scouring the library to expand her world with stories about other cultures.

And while in Chile, she enrolled at Catholic University to learn “how Latin Americans saw their political, economic and social history” rather than relying on North American interpretations.

So began an evolution during which Kuhn, who has a master’s degree from Georgetown University, considered democratization and human rights work,

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then shifted to microfinance, “which fit my criteria for wanting to create systemic change and opportunities for people to reach their potential.” More recently, she has sharpened her focus to advance women’s business goals and demolish barriers to their economic and social empowerment.

Microfinance seeks to help poor people become self-sufficient by providing loans to those who otherwise would be unable to get them. Kuhn’s work to empower women, battle hunger, make health care and education accessible and effect social business strategies has taken her not only to Latin America but also Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.

She left her most recent post – executive director of the Foundation for Sustainable Development – late last year and is in “exploration mode,” looking for a

new way to use market-based approaches to address social problems. “That seems to be my specialty, if you will: creating ways of combining the best of both,” she says.

Kuhn, who was a Rector scholar, credits DePauw and its “volunteer ethos” for giving her “a foundation and a direction.”

She volunteered through the Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement, participated in multicultural events and spent a winter term in service in Nicaragua, experiences that “give you an opportunity to release a little bit from your own identity and focus on the needs of others.”

DePauw, she says, “really very profoundly shaped my awareness of my role in society, the privilege that I have, and solidified my calling to find a way to use my privilege (and) my talent to serve others.”

MAKING VOTES COUNT Surely Chelsey Tyler Hall ’13 can be excused if she’s stinging a little.

Stacey Abrams, for whom Hall has been a close governmental and political aide for five years, lost her bid for Georgia governor in November by only 55,000 votes out of 3.9 million cast. The race pitted Abrams against the sitting secretary of state, the Georgia official who controls elections and who has been accused of voter suppression.

“If we had a fair election, Stacey Abrams would be the first AfricanAmerican woman to be governor in our United States history,” says Hall, who grew up in a Detroit household where politics were frequently discussed. Politics deeply interested her, but she became disillusioned when Kwame Kilpatrick, whom her parents had strongly supported for Detroit mayor, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.

It wasn’t long, however, until she was

reinvigorated by Barack Obama’s candidacy, which enabled her to cast her first vote ever for the first African American chosen as a major party’s presidential nominee. “I just knew deep in my soul that my vote counted for him and that my vote helped move our country forward,” she says.

When she started at DePauw, Hall figured she would go to law school someday.

An internship with a Greencastle law firm dissuaded her, though the folks there, she says, are her “second family.” A class with political science professor Bruce Stinebrickner “sparked something in me” and Hall found herself studying as much political philosophy and theory as she could.

She worked briefly for a friend’s nonprofit after graduation and then was hired as a legislative aide by the Georgia House Democratic caucus. She lucked into an amazing assignment: aide to the minority leader, Abrams, who she says “is

Chelsey Tyler Hall (c) met President Obama when he went to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. (Photo by Michael Schwarz.)

probably the smartest person I have ever met. And I met President Obama.”

Hall’s belief that her vote for Obama counted haunts her these days; she feels as if the Abrams campaign promised voters theirs would too, only to let them down. So her first post-election job is with Abrams’ new organization, Fair Fight Action, formed to guard the integrity of Georgia’s elections.

Despite Abrams’ urging her to run for office someday, Hall says she doesn’t have the appropriate temperament; she’s too outspoken.

“Right now, it is my job to uplift women and women of color who want to run for office or who are elected officials,” she says. “This is the best way that I know how to effect positive change. And that’s all I want to do – just be a part and help us move forward. I’m not great at math; I’m not great at science. So this is what I’m going to do.”

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SPARKING CONVERSATIONS TO CREATE CHANGE He grew up in Indianapolis and went to one of the biggest high schools in the state with people from “the full range of socioeconomic backgrounds (and) demographic backgrounds, and was lucky enough,” says David Dietz ’11, “to grow up making friends with folks from different backgrounds.”

Though he was “struck by how many of my peers were struggling to figure out what their future would entail,” he says he “never had a super coherent political philosophy.”

“She just talked about the power of our generation of young folks speaking out for the values we believe in, creating an inclusive society where everybody has an opportunity to succeed,” he says. “…

I just was extremely inspired and in that moment decided to volunteer.” A few weeks later, during the first week of winter term, he went to Iowa to organize for that state’s caucuses; he spent the rest of the term in Nevada, organizing for its primary.

When he returned to Greencastle, he volunteered through the election, helping

That changed abruptly in his first semester at DePauw, when he heard a talk by Bess Evans ’07, who returned to the university to speak to participants in the Media Fellows Program about her experiences working as an organizer for then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign.

Obama become the first Democrat in 44 years to win Indiana.

A year and half later, in the spring of his junior year, Dietz interned in the White House social office, where he worked for first lady Michelle Obama.

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Obamas’ events, during his senior year.

In between travels to such places as New Delhi and Hawaii, “I did my fair share of makeup assignments and reading on the road, but I was in large part able to continue working for the administration while I was in school my senior year.”

After graduation, he went back to politics, working at Obama’s re-election headquarters in Chicago through the election, and then he returned to the White House, where – among other things – he served as the president’s liaison to athletes, leagues and teams. In August 2015, he joined the NBA’s social responsibility team, helping to manage NBA Voices, “our effort to use the power of conversation and the game of basketball to demonstrate the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion and get conversations started in the community about our shared responsibilities to create change.”

Dietz credits his parents for emphasizing reading and challenging him to develop his own points of view. And he credits DePauw for nurturing that.

“That’s what really makes liberal arts special,” he says. “… It’s pairing those light-bulb moments with really strong professional-development opportunities and the chance to get into the real world and try your hands at different fields and on different issues and create mentors who can help you figure out what to do with your passion. I’m a little bit of a poster boy for that when it comes to DePauw because that was definitely my experience.”

David Dietz (r) escorts Houston Rocket James Harden, the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in 2018, to an NBA-sponsored Community Conversation in February 2018. (submitted photo)

INVESTING FOR SOCIAL IMPACT Even as a teenager, Aunnie Patton Power ’07 – influenced by her “ethically and morally very strong” parents – was interested in international affairs. “I was always very much taught to have a compassion for those around me,” she says.

She was so driven that she proposed and was permitted to create an international political economy major at DePauw. Her study of policy and the variety of her experiences at DePauw, especially a winter-term trip to Cameroon where she witnessed “the imperative to change,” is what “really pushed me into the truly global work.”

Upon graduation, Patton Power, who was a management fellow, went into banking. “To be honest, in that time period, the people who were the smartest and brightest went into banking and so it just felt like the place,” she says. She handled mergers and acquisitions and worked “ridiculously hard” as she built a foundation that would benefit her down the road.

She spent a rare lunch break in a Chicago park, reading “Creating a World Without Poverty” by Muhammad Yunus, which is about building businesses that combat poverty. “I was in the midst of a couple of deals at that time” – major deals that had an unscrupulous tinge to them, she says – “… and I just realized that these were not the types of businesses that I wanted to be working with. And so I just made the decision. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do but I wanted to figure it out.”

She quit her job and embarked on a 14-month trip on which “I got to see a lot of the world that we live in and it wasn’t the type of world that I wanted to live in,” she says. “I see the value of financial markets and I really believe in the value

of capital and so, for me, it’s very much about redirecting capital and changing the financial system to work for everyone, not just for a few people.”

That’s the concept behind “impact investing,” which “is about seeking out investments that make positive social environmental impacts alongside a financial return,” she says. The term was so new at the time, late 2010, that she had trouble finding an employer who offered such a job; she finally landed one in India.

These days, she is based in South Africa, from where she runs a global enterprise. Through her organization

Intelligent Impact, she lectures and consults around the world about impact investing and explores how to harness artificial intelligence to use in innovative finance.

She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and an adviser to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. And she commutes eight or nine times a year to the University of Oxford in England, where she is an associate fellow at the Saïd Business School and the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

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ENCOURAGING HOOSIERS TO THINK, READ AND TALK She served a fellowship in the Indiana governor’s office and an internship with a congresswoman, managed finances for a political campaign and worked eight years in the Indianapolis mayor’s office.

She even passed out flyers promoting her grandfather’s candidacy for county commissioner when she was five.

But Keira Amstutz ’91 has found contentment away from the grind of politics and government in her job as the executive director of the Indiana Humanities Council.

“I’m so grateful for my time in public service but one of the things I have recognized is, for those of us who do get bitten by the bug, you can’t stay in too long. Getting in and out is helpful because I think you lose perspective. It’s just so intense,” she says. “… This job now is unbelievably rewarding, challenging, creative, interesting.

It’s just been the joy of my professional career and somewhat unexpected. I didn’t even know that humanities organizations existed, so I don’t know how this could have been a career plan.”

She studied political science at DePauw and spent a semester at American University, when she interned for U.S. Rep. Jill Long Thompson. The congresswoman had won a special election in 1989 that was triggered by the ascendency of Dan Quayle ’69 to the vice presidency (then-Rep. Dan Coats was appointed to Quayle’s vacated Senate seat). With the regular election looming, Amstutz spent the summer and the first semester of her senior year working for Long Thompson’s re-election, taking

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She spent the next year in a fellowship in Gov. Evan Bayh’s office, surrounded by lawyers, and came to appreciate “the way they thought, the kinds of questions that came up and the things that we needed to know how to process and think through.

That, I think, pushed me in direction of law school.”

After graduation, she worked for a boutique litigation firm until she got a call from one of those lawyers in Bayh’s office.

Bart Peterson was mounting a campaign for Indianapolis mayor; would she be finance director?

She took the job and Peterson won, leading her to work eight years as assistant deputy mayor; administrator of cultural development; and chief counsel and policy director.

After Peterson’s unexpected loss in 2007,

Amstutz landed at the humanities council, a nonprofit organization that creates programs and provides grants and toolkits so communities, schools, organizations and institutions may act on them.

The council, according to its website, “encourages Hoosiers to think, read and talk.” Last year, for example, it facilitated more than 600 locally planned programs around the state based on the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein,” a book whose themes resonate today, she says. A weekend retreat at which attendees mulled the book’s messages was held at DePauw’s Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.

The council, Amstutz says, is “constantly evolving to try to meet the needs of the state. … We identify something that’s going on, that is mattering to people at the time, and then we create our program models to align with those themes.”

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1955 Mary Johnson Edelson received a Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in February for her accomplishments and contributions to the visual arts.

1957 The Rev. Dr. Robert M. Bock in March celebrated 50 years as pastor of the First Christian Church of North Hollywood. He originally went to Hollywood to work with youths on the streets and later became senior pastor of the 600-member church, part of the Disciples of Christ denomination. His long-time interest in radio and television has led to his regular appearance on three daytime dramas and his work as a technical consultant on religious authenticity to movie and television writers and directors.

Donald L. Hamilton and his wife, Laurie Hooton Hamilton ’58 moved to 118 W. Chelsea Court, Southern Pines, N.C. 28387. Their phone number is 910-684-8425. They are proud to have given to the DePauw Annual Fund every year since 1957. In addition, they have endowed the Scott Lane Hamilton Memorial Park on the

DePauw campus and the Scott Lane Hamilton Scholarship. Don, was the first to go to college on either side of his family, followed by his brother, Stanley Hamilton ’63. These other members of Don and Laurie’s family are DePauw graduates: son Scott L. Hamilton ’81 (deceased) and daughter-in-law, Lisa Belcher Hamilton ’80; son Todd L. Hamilton ’86; son Mark B. Hamilton ’88 and daughter-in-law, Elisabeth Shorney Hamilton ’88; and Scott and Lisa’s son, Edward L. Hamilton ’12.

1958 Julia Whitney Dawson received the 2018 Cultural Arts Award for her work in art and philanthropy. Several Detroit organizations – the Cultural Council of Birmingham/Bloomfield, the Community House, the Observer and Eccentric newspapers and the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center

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Space considerations limit our ability to publish photos. Group photos will be considered if you include each person’s name (first, maiden and last), year of graduation and information about the gathering or wedding. Digital photos must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi. Submitted hard copies cannot be returned.

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Members of the Class of 1957 – fondly called “my kids” by the dean of admissions who brought them to DePauw – are asking other alumni who remember JOHN WITTICH ’44 (right) to communicate with him and honor him with a contribution to the John Wittich Endowment Scholarship.

Wittich, 97, oversaw admission and the Rector Scholarship Foundation from 1952 to 1961 and later became president of MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. He now lives in an assisted living facility in Champaign, Ill. Don Hamilton ’57 and Emily “Laurie” Hooton Hamilton ’58 are asking alumni to send messages in care of Wittich’s daughter Jane Tock, 605 S. Highland Ave., Champaign, Ill., 61821 or tockjw@gmail.com.

At its 55th reunion in 2012, the Class of 1957 renamed the scholarship fund it had established five years earlier to honor Wittich. Ten scholarships have been granted to DePauw students based on need and academic achievement.

Contributions may be sent to the John Wittich Endowed Scholarship, DePauw University Office of Development, 201 E. Seminary St., Greencastle, Ind., 46135.

– selected Julie for her successful career as a watercolor artist, author, photographer, speaker and designer.

The award cited her enthusiasm and philanthropy to improve lives in the Detroit area and around the world. She serves as a cultural arts ambassador, hosting numerous cultural events in her garden and studio, volunteering and supporting the Girl Scouts and The Community House and using her art to cheer hospitalized children. The new pediatric emergency center opened at Beaumont Hospital last summer features her paintings of animals and her signature kaleidoscopes. In her acceptance talk, she cited the fun and joy of living with creativity exploding in happy endeavors every day. Her website is www.JulieDawsonArtist.com.

1959 Carolyn Hostetter Smith was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who. She is the director and a psychotherapist at Eastern Shore Associates in Shrewsbury, Mass.

1961 Martin Biemer is the co-author of “Louisville’s Street Railways and How They Shaped the City’s Growth,” released in December.

W. Terry Umbreit was inducted into the Washington State University School of Hospitality Business Management Hall of Fame in March.

1962 The Class of ’62 nursing school graduates held a reunion in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 10-12. Those attending included Julia Asbell Hale, Carolyn Hungness Dunlap, Lynn Anderson Lee, Linda Layman Haney, Susan Birdzell Cumming, Barbara Weber Blocks, Patricia Park Gloor, Carol Olson Emens, Jill Galbraith Meider, Dorothy Sams Healy and Susan Dayton Holland.

Emilie Savage-Smith will be honored at a March 29 workshop on the history of Islamic science at St. Cross College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, where she is

of Children, Youth and Digital Media Literacy Initiatives, Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network. He was a recipient of an Industry Innovator Award, recognizing innovation and excellence in the broadcast and media technology industry.

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Members of the Class of 1965 gathered in Washington D.C. in October. Those attending included planning committee members Bronson C. Davis, Richard B. Ferrell, Sarah Roberts Houghland, Valerie Watson Hamilton, Thomas S. Porter, Mercedes M. Condy and Jeffrey E. Lortz.

a professor of the history of Islamic science. Savage-Smith, who received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw in 2014, is a fellow of the British Academy. The workshop will bring together leading experts on the history of magic, science and medicine from across the world. Nahyan Fancy, an associate professor of Middle East/ comparative history at DePauw, has been invited to participate.

1964 Nancy Lyon Miller is a retired international flight attendant who lived in San Francisco but now lives in Indianapolis and is an active member of the cooperative art gallery, CCA Gallery, in Carmel, Ind. JACK STEELE has been given the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who, which recognizes his career longevity, philanthropic endeavors and lasting contributions to society. Jack held several positions, including professor and chair of chemistry and physics, at

Albany State University in Georgia, where he spent most of his career before retiring in 2005.

1965 The class of 1965 has met yearly since its 50th reunion in 2015. This year the planning committee selected Washington D.C. as the class’s destination, where alumni reconnected Oct. 25-28. (See photo.)

Hampton S. Tonk moved to 32 Fletcher Drive, North Fort Myers, Fla. 33903.

He now has room for his 2,000-book library. He is the author of “God’s Opportunity: How God Is Reuniting His Church and Evangelizing the World,” published under his pen name, Athanasios Scott Tonk, in February 2016. His second book, “YES, LORD! A Conversion Story,” is scheduled to be published in 2019.

1966 PAUL S. SANDERS was honored by the American Medical Association

with the Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award. He worked 13 years as chief executive officer of the Minnesota Medical Association and 20 years in his current position, executive director of the North Central Medical Conference.

1968 Barbara Condy Paschal recently wrote and published a book, “Improving Balance, Improving Lives.” Barbara, who retired after 33 years as a physical therapist, worked with hundreds of patients in hospitals, clinics and homehealth settings to help them with their balance, strength and flexibility and taught classes attended by more than 1,000 people over the last 16 years. The book is available at amazon.com.

1970 James A. Yoder was selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his research contributions and his service to the oceanographic community. Jim is professor emeritus at the University of Rhode Island and dean emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He and his wife, Ellen, live in Kingston, R.I.

1971 Edward M. Greene is vice president

Joan Corliss Bartel is a contract professor of workplace communication, a free course for immigrant professionals, at Humber College in Toronto. She has been teaching in this program since 2009 and wrote a book to address the communication needs of international professionals seeking work in Canada (See Book Nook). Joan and her husband Norbert, a professor of astrophysics, ended up in Canada in 1992 after spending eight years in his country (Germany) and 12 years in Cambridge, Mass.. They have two children and two grandchildren, who live in England.

1973 R. Brooke Hollis is a professor of the practice in policy analysis and management and executive director at the Institute for Healthy Futures at Cornell University. He also is associate director of the school’s Sloan Program in health administration. He was recognized with the Cornell President’s Award for Employee Excellence for developing collaborations across several organizations with multiple colleagues and securing support and seed funding to develop a new institute.

Brooke is active in several professional associations and serves on the board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.

1975 Mark A. Filippell was featured in the “Dealmakers” online feature of Smart Business Magazine. He is the founding partner and managing director at Western Reserve Partners, which advises middle-market companies on mergers

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Jon E. Ragatz was appointed to a oneyear term on the San Diego County Grand Jury, which acts as a civilian watchdog over local government agencies and officials. He is a graduate management professor at the United States University in San Diego.

Croatian Cruise to celebrate her birthday. Michael G. Neill ’82 and Michelle Palmer Neill ’82 were on the same cruise. Holly is a DePauw trustee.

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1981

Donald S. Smith was named presidentelect for 2019 by the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. He is a member of the Riley Bennett & Egloff law firm in Indianapolis.

DePauw Sigma Alpha Epsilon classes of 1981-89 met in Chicago for a three-day celebration of their DePauw heritage. Over the weekend of Sept.

21-23, members gathered to tell stories, renew old friendships and look forward to the day when SAE returns to campus. DePauw trustee Kenneth W. Coquillette ’82 updated attendees about the university. Festivities went from the 80th floor of the Mid-America Club to the Lake Michigan beach party to the late nights at Butch McGuire’s. (See photo.)

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Charles D. Brooks was selected to serve as a mentor to the Techstars Autonomous Technology Accelerator with the U.S. Air Force. Techstars is a mentor-driven program to encourage innovation and rapid prototyping of cutting-edge products. Chuck is the principal market growth strategist for General Dynamics Mission Systems for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. He is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate applied intelligence program at Georgetown University.

Susan McNichols Cassidy is manager and co-owner of Wrangler Tech LLC, a distributor of data, security, electrical and LED lighting equipment. The WBE-certified company received the 2018 Diversity Supplier of the Year award and recognition from the University of Chicago Office of Business Diversity.

1978

N. PETER RASMUSSEN JR. is senior legal analyst at Bloomberg Law. Peter, based in Arlington, Va., covers the Securities and Exchange Commission and corporate law matters. He lives in Fredericksburg, Va., with his wife, Margaret “Peggy” Mathias Rasmussen ’80. Their daughter, Katherine A. Rasmusson, is a 2008 DePauw graduate.

Peter’s email address is prasmussen@ bloomberglaw.com.

1980 Holiday Hart McKiernan, her husband Phil and several friends went on a

the human right to science. Brian was invited to give a presentation on nondiscrimination surrounding this right.

He is a professor of sociology, law and applied social sciences at Case Western Reserve University.

1990

Amy G. Youngblood will be a keynote speaker in June at NeoCon, a commercial design conference in Chicago. Her presentation is “Commercial vs. Residential Design: How to perform both while improving your bottom line.” Amy is the founder and lead designer of Amy Youngblood Interiors in Cincinnati, which specializes in high-end residential

Michelle Palmer Neill ’82, Michael G. Neill ’82, Holiday Hart McKiernan ’80 and Philip B. McKiernan.

1984 Rebecca Neal Hancock completed her Ph.D. in nursing science at Indiana University with a study of “Qualitative Analysis of Older Adults’ Experiences with Sepsis.” She is a patient safety and quality adviser for the Patient Safety Center at the Indiana Hospital Association. A surprise celebration involved several DePauw nurses. Her email address is rhancock@IHAconnect. org.

1985 Brian K. Gran served as a discussant during a United Nations Day of Discussion in Geneva. The UN Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights held the event to focus on

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DePauw Sigma Alpha Epsilon classes of 1981-89 met in Chicago. Those attending included Dean Adams ’88, Mark D. Amman ’87, Jeffrey R. Ballentine ’86, Steve R. Battreall ’87, Denzil P. Bennett II ’85, Jeffrey J. Bowe ’85, John F. Boylan Jr. ’86, Eric K. Carlson ’85, Gordon B. Chiu ’85, Kenneth W. Coquillette ’82, Eric C. DeHaven ’84, D. Todd Dillon ’84, Peter R. Douglas ’88, Steven A. Edwards ’84, Kenneth L. Fellman ’84, Matthew R. Fischer ’82, Eric C. Frye ’85, David W. Hasenbalg ’87, Charles F. Hudson ’86, Jacob R. Jackson ’81, Robert T. Jones ’85, Kevin L. Kellam ’82, John H. Keenan IV ’88, George J. Koesterman ’84, Barry F. Krieble ’81, Nik E. Lee ’82, David C. Lombardo ’88, David G. Martyn ’84, Paul A. Melkus ’87, Charles A. Miller ’87, Robert E. Morrissey ’85, James M. Mullin ’83, Charles J. Nelson ’85, John C. Otteson ’84, John A. Perry ’85, James E. Ransdell ’84, Christopher L. Ropa ’83, Steven S. Slakis ’83, Jon D. Terpstra ’83, Bradley L. Thompson ’86, Brent R. Thompson ’89, Joseph E. Ukrop ’89, J. Brad Voelz ’87 and John E. Vinzant ’81.

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and commercial interior design. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and she is a regular expert guest on local television. She was named one of the best interior designers in Ohio by The LuxPad, a newsletter about luxury home decor. Amy’s work can be viewed at www.amyyoungblood.com.

1992 Bret Baier has signed a multi-year deal to continue as host of Fox News’ Special Report. He recently celebrated his 10th anniversary in the job with congratulations from, among others, comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel (“You know the traditional gift, specifically for you on 10 years, is ‘bear’ spray. Unless it gets confiscated, look for this in the mail.”) and golf legend Jack Nicklaus (“It seems like just yesterday I started watching it and all the sudden I’m 10 years older. Well, that’s the way it goes. It’s been a great show and a great run and we’ve enjoyed every bit of it.”)

1994 Kimberly Crampton Chambers, human resources director at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., was named personnel administrator of the year by the American Association of School Personnel Administrators Oct. 10. Kim is in her sixth year at Stevenson and her 17th year as a chief educational human resources administrator.

1998 Grant D. Talabay earned an LLM in constitutional law from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in May 2018. He completed his Juris Doctor in 2017 at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He lives in Woodstock, Ill., where he spends his time reading and writing about issues of legal and constitutional significance and serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society (Chicago lawyer chapter). His email address is gtalabay@gmail.com.

2000 SHANNON M. OLTMANN was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at the University of Kentucky. She teaches in the School of Information Science. Shannon married Bethany Bair in 2017.

2001 Brian E. Dixon is the director of public health informatics for the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. His position is a combined role with the Regenstrief Institute Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics, where he is a research scientist, and the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health, where he is an associate professor of epidemiology. Brian was a recipient of the 2018 Research Frontiers Trailblazer Award, which recognizes outstanding IUPUI researchers who show promise in becoming nationally and internationally known for their research and creative activity. Brian was inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics Nov. 4.

Brendan P. Rodman is a partner in the Denver law firm of Rodman & Rodman.

2004 Amy Baumgartner Hutton is the director of enrollment research and evaluation at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Her innovative work in the strategic enrollment management profession, supporting admissions, financial aid and student success is internationally recognized.

Andrea Dawson Geyer is dean for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at

the University of Saint Francis and an associate professor of chemistry. She and her husband Robert live in Fort Wayne, Ind., with their four children, Gwendolyn, 9; Benjamin, 8; Lillian, 5; and Koralyn, 3.

(See photo, page 40.)

Rebecca L. Trowbridge and Adam Kinne were married Oct. 13 in Indianapolis. (See photo, page 40.)

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Steven N. Hatfield and Sarah L. Maher ’12 were married July 21 in Dayton, Ohio. (See photo, page 40.)

Nicholas D. Gaffney is an attorney with Bass, Berry & Sims law firm in Nashville, Tenn. He represents clients in estate planning, taxation, business planning and estate and trust administration.

Brianna M. Jewell and Lewis Berry were married Nov. 2. (See photo, page 40.)

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2006 Zachary S. Pfister is policy director for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in the Washington D.C. office.

2007 Brittany Graves Mann is vice president of incentives and locations advisers for Resource in Indianapolis. Her role includes building out the incentives practice and consulting clients nationally on obtaining discretionary tax incentives.

R. Gregory Sylvester has joined the Indianapolis office of Reminger Co. LPA, where he maintains a diverse practice.

Maggie C. Erzinger and William A. Stewart IV were married Sept. 15 in Chicago. (See photo, page 40.)

Katherine A. Janowski and Jason Woods were married Sept. 1 in Bloomington, Ind. (See photo, page 41.)

Elliott S. Ross and Sydney L. Crouch were married March 5 in St. John’s, Antigua. (See photo, page 41.)

2014 Lincoln J. Barlow and Christine F. Norris were married June 2 in Columbus, Ohio. (See photo, page 41.)

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Rachel A. Amalfitano and Jared T. McKinney were married Aug. 11 in Traverse City, Mich. (See photo, page 41.)

Dr. John L. Schomburg is a urologist and surgeon at the Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wis.

2010 Jonathan C. Batuello and Jessica Meyer were married Oct. 20 in Indianapolis.

A Greek connection College Year in Athens is seeking DePauw alumni who participated in a Mediterranean studies semester during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s and who want to celebrate at a May 30 reception in Washington D.C. To learn more, email alumni@cyathens.org.

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DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Jonathan C. Batuello ’10 and Jessica Meyer included Robert L. Bruder ’05, Scott H. Conner ’10, Ryan G. Dodd ’10, Michael P. Hledin ’12, Derek A. Redmon ’10, Andrew S. Wilson ’09, Christine Borne Weadick ’10, Andrew T. Middleton ’10 and John D. Workman ’09.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Brianna M. Jewell ’11 and Lewis Berry included Kelly Knox Deis ’11, Adam M. Gilbert ’10, Laura A. Pearce ’10, Eleanor Scruggs Watkins ’11, Siobhan M. Deis ’11, Melissa J. Yahne ’10, Catherine Hays Hall ’11 and Morgan E. Grant ’10.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Rebecca L. Trowbridge ’12 and Adam Kinne included Anna C. Garst ’09, Kacey L. Inscho ’09, Rochelle P. Coffman ’11, Amanda Lane Atteberry ’10, Ka’Lena Cuevas Jansen ’10, Lauren E. Wesley ’10, Melissa J. Yahne ’10, Lauren E. Werckenthien ’10, Ladan Nekoomaram Nowrasteh ’09, Amanda L. Giddings ’08, Laura E. Gould ’12, Alexandra C. Conner ’10, Sarah D. Myers ’12, Emily Carson Dunn ’08, Brittany McCullar Harris ’09, Megan Morgeson Webb ’09, Sara A. Martinovich ’09 and Javaneh S. Nekoomaram ’09.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Sarah L. Maher ’12 and Steven N. Hatfield ’11 included Benjamin D. Armstrong ’09, John H. Baxmeyer ’11, Stephen I. Buchholz ’13, Elisabeth H. Buehler ’11, Caitlin M. Cavanaugh ’09, Allyson Foster Danis ’83, Chase W. King ’11, Sarah Minor King ’11, Julia M. Mathews ’11, Luisa S. Myavec ’12, Caroline C. Torie ’13, Kimberly A. Trainor ’12, John H. Tschantz ’08 and Eleanor Scruggs Watkins ’11.

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DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Maggie C. Erzinger ’12 and William A. Stewart IV included Carrie Reavis Erzinger ’83, Emily Reavis Boehme ’12, Mitchell A. Reavis ’16, M. Alexandra Baer ’12, Katherine E. Butler ’12, Amy Reavis Noden ’87, Laura Cochran Reavis ’84, Thomas P. Laskey Jr. ’83, Emily Boyle Schmidt ’12, Grace L. Noden ’19, Morgan E. Busam ’12, James W. Stevenson Jr. ’82, Julie Parker Stevenson ’83, Kacy L. Wendling ’12, Patrick C. Geoghegan ’11, Alexander S. Johnson ’11, Clinton J. Bird ’12, Brianna Randall-DePauw Bolin ’12, Arianna E. Staes ’12, Margaret D. Gloyne ’12, Alexander G. Kleber ’11, Brendan J. Flores ’12, Gina M. Zerbini ’12, Betsy Baker Laskey ’83, Benjamin L. Stilwill ’11, Caroline M. McElvain ’14, Joseph D. Hessburg ’14, Anne Gibbs Nostrand ’83, Diane Chiapelas Archibald ’83, Scott C. Mason ’12, Alexander C. Grip ’12 and Grant E. Schmidt ’11. Attending but not pictured were Marshall W. Reavis IV ’84 and Henry M. Erzinger ’17.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Katherine A. Janowski ’12 and Jason Woods included Carolyn C. Latta ’12, Elaine C. Wiley ’12, Eilene R. Ladson ’12, Robert P. Janowski ’81, James M. Vann IV ’13, Kimberly A. Dickow ’13, Jean E. Rebarchak ’12, Ashlyn M. Archer ’12, Macy Ayers Bennett ’12, Meghann E. Pogue ’12, Amanda Hughes Blakeway ’12, Carol Harvey Gentry ’82, Anne Boyd Norris ’82, Zachary A. Keller ’12, Kristina M. McLane ’12, Mark E. Gentry ’82, Hugh J. Wallace ’80, Kent A. Billingsley Jr. ’80 and David S. Norris ’82.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Lincoln J. Barlow ’14 and Christine F. Norris ’14 included J. Cameron Wiethoff ’14, Ann E. Collier ’12, Paul K. Hoffmann ’12, Mark P. Jaskowiak ’14, Sean F. Brennan ’14, Andrew W. Norris ’19, Matthew P. Maloof ’12, Matthew R. Haeske ’14, J. Samuel Cheesman ’11, Jack E. Burgeson ’14, Richard J. Gryspeerdt ’14, Samuel A. Doku ’14, Joseph D. Hessburg ’14, Joseph C. Wojda ’13, Jordan B. Hoenig ’14, Katrina A. Zacha ’14, Sydney A. Wagner ’14, Sarah J. Edwards ’14, Nathan C. Smith ’12, Madeline E. Zacha ’14, J. Colin Chocola ’13, Dean A. Weaver ’13, Kathleen B. Green ’13, Clinton J. Bird ’12, Anthony P. Schwab Jr. ’13, William E. Potter ’13, Kyle A. Coronel ’14, Megan J. Morrison ’15, Jemma A. Losh ’14, Dillon J. Raidt ’14, Stuart M. Newstat ’14, Katherine E. Reichel ’14, Paige N. Fehr ’14, Molly K. Gaffney ’14, Lilian D. Ehrgott ’14, Bailey L. Anstead ’14, Kristin H. Jonason ’14, Paige J. Powers ’16, Nigelie S. M. Assee ’14, Kimberly Hinkle Norris ’87, George W. Norris ’87 and Andrew T. Hogan ’11.

DePauw alumni attending the wedding of Rachel A. Amalfitano ’16 and Jared T. McKinney ’16 included Burke T. Stanton ’16, Yazid P. Gray ’16, Julie A. Strauser ’16, Devon S. Ross ’16, Ciera B. deCourcy ’16, Scott P. Lockwood ’16, Madeline R. Schroeder ’16, Emily M. Wetoska ’16 and Cameron D. Meehan ’16.

Elliott S. Ross and Sydney L. Crouch

Save the Date

Rector Scholarship Centennial Celebration May 10-12, 2019

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GOLD NUGGETS To commemorate the Rector Scholarship’s 100th anniversary, the names of Rector scholars are noted in gold.

DePauw Magazine marks the death of alumni, faculty, staff and friends. Obituaries do not include memorial gifts.

When reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible.

Information should be sent to Alumni Records, DePauw University, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email jamahostetler@depauw.edu.

IN MEMORIAM 1942 Marsha Behse LaHue, 98, Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 12. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, a librarian and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Foster C. LaHue ’39; brothers-in-law, Charles LaHue ’28 and Roy C. LaHue ’28; a nephew, Richard F. LaHue ’58; and a niece, Judith A. LaHue ’57. Survivors include a niece, Barbara LaHue Covey ’53, and a grandniece, Chrisanne LaHue Johnson ’82.

Frances Chase Dirting, 98, Dallas, Texas, Dec. 3. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the Washington C. DePauw Society. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leland Dirting ’41.

Mary Claycombe Adney, 97, Richmond, Ind., Nov. 24. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a retired dietitian and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank B. Adney Jr. ’42, and a sister-in-law, Jean Maglott Claycombe ’47. Survivors include a son, James R. Adney ’68; a daughter, Carol Adney ’71; a brother, John R. Claycombe ’48; a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Gift Claycombe ’48; and a nephew, Richard J. Claycombe ’74.

Dorothy Draper Hawkins, 97, Aurora, Colo., January 2018. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Anne Strehlow Vance, 98, Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 24. She was a member of

Kappa Alpha Theta, a homemaker and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a daughter, Vicki Vance Stanton ’72.

JACK H. WOLF, 98, New York, Oct. 25. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association, a Rector scholar and a writer.

1944 Mary Cleary Straker, 96, Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 12. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a homemaker and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her brother, Edward W. Cleary ’41. Survivors include her husband.

Pauline Grossman Gregory, 95, Richmond, Ind., Nov. 13. She was a member of Alpha Phi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a speech therapist and administrator in a residential facility for people with developmental disabilities. She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, Irvin A. Grossman ’31; a sister, Wilma Grossman Allen ’30; and a nephew, Thomas G. Grossman ’71.

Survivors include a daughter, Nancy A. Gregory ’83; and a nephew, William A. Grossman ’67.

Alfred H. Greening Jr, 97, Williamsville, Ill., Dec. 5. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Elizabeth Johnson Davidson, 96, Stevens Point, Wis., Dec. 3. She was

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a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a librarian and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, William M. Davidson ’42.

Lois Kjellberg Hughet, 95, Oro Valley, Ariz., Feb. 8. She was a homemaker, an accomplished seamstress and a fitness buff who was at the gym first thing in the morning well into her nineties. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Keith Hughet, and a daughter, Linda Hughet Hayes ’68. She is survived by four daughters, two sons and numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Minerva Long Bobbitt, 96, Berea, Ky., June 24. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Beta Kappa, a potter, a visual artist and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her father, Fred W. Long ’04, and her husband, James R. Bobbitt ’48.

Phoebe Yeo Barta, 96, Nazareth, Pa., Dec. 8. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She was a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother, Charles W. Yeo ’40.

1946 Gloria Kimmel Robinson, 94, Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 3. She was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society. She was a homemaker and an elementary school librarian. She was preceded in death by her husband and cousins Joe R. Kimmel ’44 and Jane Kimmel Colten ’46.

M. Jean Traut Denton, 93, Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 26. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a teacher, a homemaker and community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1947 Virginia Bodell Carlson, 90, Keystone Heights, Fla., Oct. 7, 2015. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Marilyn Ferling Carrico, 94, Richmond, Ind., Nov. 25. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and retired from Verizon.

Eldon S. Wright, 94, Youngstown, Ohio, Oct. 4. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1948 Nancy Cooper Anderson, 92, Peru, Ill., Oct. 5. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a homemaker, an artist and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Marybelle Dailey Mueller, 91, Jackson, Mo., Oct. 10. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a homemaker, a retired circuit court judge and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband; her father, Ernest W. Dailey 1912; her mother, Margaret Keiper Dailey 1912; and a sister, Dorothy Dailey Reister ’47.

Joanne Moore Prullage Shafer, 92, Vincennes, Ind., Dec. 9. She was a registered X-ray technician and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

The Rev. Dr. RICHARD ADDISON THORNBURG, 91, Peabody, Mass., Oct. 22. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a Rector scholar, a former member of the DePauw Board of Trustees and a United Methodist pastor.

He received an honorary degree from DePauw in 1979. He was preceded in death by his wife and a brother, Robert W. Thornburg ’48. Survivors include a sister, Mary Thornburg Cooper ’50; a son, John D. Thornburg ’76; and a niece, Elizabeth A. Thornburg ’75.

Barbara Weinrichter Whitehead, 92, Libertyville, Ill., Nov. 28. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, W. Russell Whitehead ’48; brothers, Woodson S. Weinrichter ’50 and Ralph M. Weinrichter ’47; and sisterin-law, Ann Durham Weinrichter ’44.

Barbara Young Story, 92, Carmel, Ind., Dec. 7. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, an elementary school teacher and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Ulysses S. Young 1915, and her husband.

1949 Mildred Butler Shrontz, 91, Greer, S.C., Oct. 22. She was a homemaker and a former piano teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert J. Shrontz ’49.

Sarah Dudley Grohsmeyer, 91, Richmond, Ind., Jan. 5. She was a social work adviser and a community volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frederick A. Grohsmeyer Jr. ’48.

Joanna Heiney Farmer, 90, Decatur, Ga., Oct. 24. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a feature writer for General Motors and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Mary McLaughlin Montague, 90, Evanston, Ill., Nov. 12. She was a business owner and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1950 George D. Donaldson, 90, Lebanon, Ind., Jan. 23. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and a businessman. He was preceded in death by his father, Fred R. Donaldson 1916; his mother, Esther Coombs Donaldson 1915; his brothers, Frank C. Donaldson Sr. ’44 and John W. Donaldson ’51; and a nephew, Frederick K. Donaldson ’72. Survivors include sons William R. Donaldson ’78 and Bruce D. Donaldson ’81; a nephew, Frank C. Donaldson Jr. ’73; a great-nephew, Gregory H. Donaldson ’04; and a daughter-in-law, Catherine Slisher Donaldson ’80.

Terry K. Donk, 90, Odessa, Texas, Nov. 18. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and an attorney. He was preceded in death by a brother, Edmund C. Donk ’46. Survivors include his wife.

Carl H. Goltermann, 91, Glen Ellyn, Ill., Oct. 17. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and a businessman. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Virginia Johnson Goltermann ’50, and a brother, Richard M. Goltermann ’50.

Survivors include his wife; a son, David S. Goltermann ’78; a granddaughter, Heidi E. Goltermann ’09; a nephew, Neil T. Goltermann ’77; and a daughterin-law, Elizabeth Gray Goltermann ’80.

Maxine Hofmann Ference, 89, Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 31. She was a member of Delta Gamma and a business owner. She was preceded in death by her husband; her father, Roland P. Hofmann ’13; and her mother, Francis Zabel Hofmann ’12.

George R. Tovey, 89, Southern Pines, N.C., Jan. 4. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a chemical engineer.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Margery Guston Tovey ’51.

1951 Charles G. Beck Jr., 91, St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 21. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and had a career with the Veterans Administration. He was preceded in death by his first wife.

Survivors include his wife.

W. Craig Chamberlin, 89, Rolling Meadows, Ill., Jan. 23. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society and retired from IBM. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Stienfenhoefer Chamberlin ’53.

Robert H. MacNaughton Jr., 89, Willoughby, Ohio, Oct. 13. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a professor emeritus of Cleveland State University. Survivors include his wife.

Lewis V. Morgan Jr., 88, Wheaton, Ill., Oct. 4. He was a member of Sigma Nu. He was an attorney, a circuit judge and a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives who served four terms.

Survivors include his wife.

Julia Rogers Malitz, 89, Laingsburg, Mich., Dec. 9. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

JACK E. COOK, 87, St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 17. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association, a Rector scholar and a research chemist. He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Russell B. Foote ’54. Survivors include his wife and a nephew, Douglas A. Cook ’94.

JOHN H. TEDFORD, 89, Frankfort, Ind., Oct. 15. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, a Rector scholar and an ophthalmologist. Survivors include his wife, Joan Lindemeyer Tedford ’51.

Charles L. Walker Jr., 89, Indianapolis, Dec. 16. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, a business owner and community volunteer. He was preceded in death by his mother, Clara Ward Walker ’27. Survivors include his wife.

The Rev. John C. Walker, 91, Silver Spring, Md., Nov. 21. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and a minister.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Beverly Pierce Walker ’51.

Carl A. Zenor, 91, Punta Gorda, Fla., Dec. 8. He retired from the U.S. Air Force after 40 years and was a social studies high school teacher. Survivors include his wife, Malinda Lynn Zenor ’54.

1952 Anna Janet Cain Ducommun, 88, Midland, Mich., Jan. 10. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, a former elementary school teacher and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Dale J. Ducommun ’50, and a sister, Nancy Cain Matheny ’56.

Donald K. Gravit, 88. Kingman, Ind., Jan. 12. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association, a printer and a freelance writer. Survivors include his wife.

1953 Donald E. Archer, 87, formerly of Venice, Fla., and Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nov. 15. He was a member of Delta Chi and the Washington C. DePauw Society. He had a career as an executive at INARCO and later as a manufacturer’s sales representative. He was preceded in death by his wife, Janet Carlisle Archer ’53.

THOMAS E. DRISCOL, 87, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Oct. 12. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a Rector scholar and a cardiologist. He was preceded in death by his father, Paul E. Driscol ’27; his mother, Elizabeth Engle Driscol ’28; and a sister, Carol Driscol Brandt ’54.

Survivors include his wife; a brother, Theodore D. Driscol ’58; a sister, Nancy Driscol Gardner ’52; and a brother-inlaw, Thomas H. Gardner ’52.

Madelyn Hatch Morris Bogue, 87, Springfield, Ill., Dec. 4. She was a member of Delta Zeta, a teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Richard A. Morris ’52, and a brother, Ozias M. Hatch ’60. Survivors include her husband, James L. Bogue ’52, and a sister, Marilyn Hatch Schmidt ’53.

Finn R. Jorstad, 89, Bergen, Norway, Nov. 28, 2017. He was a member of Sigma Nu, a business executive and a writer. Survivors include his wife.

Ronald F. Kolb, 87, Erie, Pa., Nov. 30. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and worked in sales and training.

Survivors include his wife.

Nancy Peregrine Rodgers, 87, Bellevue, Wash., Nov. 4. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband.

Ruth Pinkerton Hagadorn, 85, Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 19, 2016. She was an elementary school teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband.

Carl E. Ross, 87, Overland Park, Kan., Dec. 25. He was a member of Sigma Nu and had a career in railroad management.

He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife.

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GOLD NUGGETS JOSEPH FLUMMERFELT, 82, a 1958 graduate described by the New York Times as “the pre-eminent American choral conductor of his generation and a collaborator with some of the nation’s most renowned orchestras and maestros,” died March 1 from a stroke.

Flummerfelt was artistic director and principal conductor for 33 years at Westminster Choir College at Rider University in Princeton, N.J., retiring in 2004 after a farewell tour that brought him back to DePauw for one of his last performances. For 45 years he prepared choruses for nearly 600 performances with the New York Philharmonic. He was a co-founder of the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., was its director of choral activities for 36 years and was chorus master of the related Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, for 22 years.

Leonard Bernstein called Flummerfelt “the greatest choral conductor in the world.” The Times said Flummerfelt “played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music.” He was the subject of a 2010 book, “Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians”

by Donald Nally, also a choral conductor. Musical America, the oldest American magazine on classical music, named Flummerfelt 2004 Conductor of the Year.

A Rector scholar who grew up in Vincennes, Ind., Flummerfelt returned to his alma mater in 2005 as the Elizabeth P. Allen distinguished university professor of music. The university awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1982. In 2018, in commemoration of his 60-year class reunion, Flummerfelt established the Joseph Flummerfelt Endowed Music Scholarship through his estate.

Among his survivors are two sisters, including Carol Flummerfelt Helmling ’72; a brother, J. Kent Flummerfelt ’63; two nieces, Heather Helmling Carrick ’00 and Katherine Elyse Rappaport ’09; and a nephewin-law, James A. Carrick ’98.

Catharine Tucker Lichtenauer, 87, Indianapolis, Oct. 19. She was a member of Alpha Phi and the Washington C. DePauw Society. She was a dietitian, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert A. Lichtenauer ’53.

Survivors include a granddaughter, Kayden B. Lichtenauer ’19.

1954 Corliss D. Anderson Jr., 84, Barrington, Ill., March 12, 2016. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a real estate broker. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Donald L. Gouwens, 83, St. Charles, Mo., April 22, 2016. He was a member of the Men’s Hall Association and a clinical social worker. He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert V. Gouwens ’51, and sister-in-law, Joyce Moore Gouwens ’52. Survivors include his wife, Carol Russell Gouwens ’57.

WILLIAM F. NEVITT, 86, Noblesville, Ind., Oct 17. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a Rector scholar. He was a public school administrator. Survivors include his wife and a daughter-in-law, Laura Bilodeau Nevitt ’84.

Alice Taylor Tam Storey, 86, West Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 14. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, an elementary school teacher, a community volunteer and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Dorothy Klumpp Taylor ’29, and her first and second husbands. Survivors include a daughter, Alison Tam Frazier ’84.

Richard P. Tinkham Jr., 86, Indianapolis, Oct. 13. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an attorney.

Survivors include his wife.

JOHN T. WEISE, 85, Lafayette, Colo., Oct. 19. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a Rector scholar and an attorney.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ann O’Connell Weise ’55. Survivors include a son, Cameron R. Weise ’84; a daughter, Julia A. Weise ’88; ; a nephew,

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Steven A. Weise ’88; and a sister-in-law, Virginia Armstrong Weise ’57. His brother RICHARD H. WEISE ’57 also survived him but died three months later.

1956 CAROL CONWAY Hilton, 83, Jekyll Island, Ga., May 10. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, a Rector scholar and a professor of accounting at Ohio University. Survivors include her husband, Joseph N. Hilton ’56.

Anna L. Crampton, 84, Shelbyville, Ind., Dec. 2. She was an executive administrative assistant.

CHARLES A. KER, 84, Warsaw, Ind., Jan. 29. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, a Rector scholar, a community volunteer and a businessman. Survivors include his wife; daughters, Kristin Ker Bruton ’87 and Karen Ker Grooms ’85; and son-in-law, Thomas E. Grooms ’86.

John Opie Jr., 84, Willoughby, Ohio, Sept. 30. He retired as a distinguished professor emeritus from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Lora Watson Opie ’56. Survivors include his wife.

Carolyn Straub Knoblock, 83, Oceanside, Calif., April 20. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a teacher and a real estate investor. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Phillip A. Trissel, 84, Bettendorf, Iowa, Oct. 24. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and owner of an insurance agency.

Survivors include his wife.

1957 WALTER M. BAGOT, 83, Fishers, Ind., Jan. 21. He was a Rector scholar and a member of Phi Delta Theta and the Washington C. DePauw Society; he had a career in advertising. He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances Morrison Bagot ’31. Survivors include his wife.

Dr. G. Richard Hershberger, 83, Middleton, Wis., Oct. 19. He was a

member of Phi Kappa Psi and the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame and a family physician. He was preceded in death by his father, George M. Hershberger ’28. Survivors include his wife, Jo Petry Hershberger ’57; his son, Paul M. Hershberger ’84; his daughter, Katherine Hershberger Neuser ’88; and his sister-in-law, Georgia Petry Walmoth ’61.

RICHARD H. WEISE, 83, Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 27. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a Rector scholar and an attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia Armstrong Weise ’57; a brother, John T. Weise ’54; and a sister-in-law, Ann O’Connell Weise ’55. Survivors include a son, Steven A. Weise ’88; a niece, Julia A. Weise ’88; and a nephew, Cameron R. Weise ’84.

1958 Frances A. Haas, 82, Louisville, Ky., Dec. 3. She was a teacher, a drama coach and director at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her father, Abner F. Haas ’25, and her partner. Survivors include cousins T. Stephen Phillips ’63, Michael K. Phillips ’65 and Samuel A. Long ’66.

1959 Sarah Mead Schneider, 81, Lansing, Mich., Oct. 2. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, a homemaker, a social worker and community volunteer.

Kendall K. Slusher, 82, Tucker, Ga., Oct. 28. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and a regional employee relations manager for 3M. Survivors include his wife.

ROY T. SMITH, 82, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 12. He was a member of Sigma Chi, a Rector scholar and a pathologist.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Matthew T. Smith ’84; a daughter, Heather Smith Engel ’86; a grandson, Adam M. Smith ’16; and a daughter-inlaw, Christine Trentadue Smith ’85.

Noel Wyandt Vaughn, 79, Dayton, Ohio, June 10, 2017. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She was a university professor and an attorney. She was preceded in death by her husband; her sister, Joan Wyandt Vreeman ’51; and her brother, John O. Wyandt ’54.

1960 Avis Crowe Vermilye, 80, Taos, N.M., Dec. 10. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and the Washington C. DePauw Society; a writer; and a community volunteer.

Nancy Grant Harvey, 80, Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 11. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a community volunteer and a homemaker.

Ozias M. Hatch IV, 80, Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 21, 2017. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, a geologist and a surveyor.

Bruce Morse, 81, Oshkosh, Wis., Jan. 25. He was a member of Delta Chi and a world traveler.

Thomas N. Tegge, 85, Dixon, Ill., Nov. 29. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a high school and community college teacher. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1961 LEE A. CARLSON, 79, Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 25. He was a member of Delta Chi, a Rector scholar and a member of the Valparaiso University faculty. He was preceded in death by a brother, Roy D. Carlson ’54. Survivors include his wife, Mary Nelson Carlson ’61.

James W. Herrick, 79, Las Cruces, N.M., Nov. 20. He was a member of Sigma Chi, a retired school guidance counselor and a community volunteer.

Survivors include his wife; a brother, Charles A. Herrick ’64; a sister-in-law, Shirley Unruh Herrick ’64; and a cousin, Elizabeth Herrick LeTerneau ’61. He was preceded in death by his cousin, Barbara Herrick Hill ’59.

1962 Robert S. Atcheson, 78, Naperville, Ill., Sept. 2. He was a member of Delta Chi, a business manager and a real estate broker. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Fremon Atcheson ’62.

1963 David M. Dirks, 77, Louisville, Colo., Nov. 28. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a certified public accountant. He taught accounting and served many Colorado nonprofit organizations. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Louis H. Dirks, DePauw dean of men and professor of education from 1926-1948; his father, George H. Dirks ’29; and his mother, Vera Brizius Dirks ’30. Survivors include his wife; a sister, Mary Dirks Mitchell ’70; a nephew, David D. Mitchell ’99; and brother-in-law, Douglas D. Mitchell ’70.

Diane Lombard Kinkade, 76, Canfield, Ohio, Nov. 10. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a probation officer, co-founder of Duo-Corp and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, William G. Kinkade ’63. Survivors include a daughter, Traci Kinkade DeCapua ’89.

Karen Roessler Gray, 77, Louisville, Ky., Dec. 9. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Beta Kappa, a university professor and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Ralph Roessler ’36; and her mother, Kathryn Talbert Roessler ’35. Survivors include her husband, Robert D. Gray ’63; a brother, Richard T. Roessler ’66; a niece, Jennifer Roessler Schultz ’92; and a sister-in-law, Janet Williams Roessler ’66.

Eckardt ’31, Robert B. Brown ’41 and Rockwell C. Smith ’28; and her aunts, Frances Eckardt Smith ’28 and Mona Eckardt Darnell ’29. Survivors include a brother, William J. Eckardt ’68.

Michael A. Esoldo, 74, Miramar, Fla., July 3, 2016. He retired as a foreman from Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc.’s tubular products plant. Survivors include his wife.

1971 The Rev. Richard Plain, Cupertino, Calif., Aug. 5. He was a member of the Washington C. DePauw Society and a retired United Methodist pastor.

Survivors include his wife.

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1965 Douglas N. Buchanan, 76, Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 18. He taught chemistry at Michigan State University and analyzed metabolic diseases at the University of Michigan Hospital.

1967 Karen Coburn Gottschall, 73, Mason, Ohio, Jan. 25. She was a member of Delta Gamma, a pastoral minister and a homemaker.

1968 PHILIP A. POWELL, 72, Springfield, Va., Jan. 23. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa and a Rector scholar. He retired from the U.S. Air Force and worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Survivors include his wife and a sister, Catharine L. Powell ’64.

1969 Ben A. Rich, 71, Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 29. He was an attorney, a university emeritus professor and the author of books and scholarly articles.

Survivors include his wife.

Thomas W. Michel, 71, Auburn, N.Y., Oct. 15. He was a member of Sigma Nu and employed in medical sales. Survivors include his wife, Bonnie Alderfer Michel ’75, and a sister, Patricia Michel Taylor ’72.

1974 Ruth Barnes Kunath, 66, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 13. She was a member of Alpha Phi and worked in the biotech industry and as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Lee B. Hawthorne 1903. Survivors include a son, Spencer H. B. Kunath ’07.

GARY L. KLOTZ, 66, Indianapolis, Dec. 16. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, a Rector scholar and an attorney. Survivors include his wife.

Emily Simer Braun, 67, Hamilton, Ohio, Dec. 13. She was a singer, actress, public speaker, on-camera interviewer and a community volunteer. Survivors include a brother, Timothy S. Simer ’76, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ogilvie Simer ’77.

1975 Joseph W. LeFevre, 66, Oswego, N.Y., Jan. 10. He was a member of Sigma Nu and a chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Survivors include his wife.

1964

1970

Joan Eckardt Watts, 76, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, a vocational rehabilitation counselor and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands; her father, Wilbert J. Eckardt ’38; her mother, Jane Brown Eckardt ’38; her uncles, Lisgar B.

Robert F. Prewitt, 70, Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 2018. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and former president and chief executive officer of Dana Communications. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph S. Prewitt ’42; his mother, Charlotte Feaman Prewitt ’42; and a brother, Michael D. Prewitt ’66.

Alfred P. Page III, 86, Greencastle, Ind., Dec. 10. He was a chiropractor, an instructor for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and a fire department safety instructor. Survivors include his wife and a grandson, Matthew G. Barwise ’07.

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GOLD NUGGETS DR. G. RICHARD LOCKE III, 57, a 1983 graduate and a member of the DePauw Board of Trustees, died Jan. 10 from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy.

He was a Mayo Clinic physician internationally known for his work in the epidemiology of functional gastrointestinal disorders and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

At DePauw, Locke was a Rector scholar who won the Walker Cup and a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. He was president of the Academic Council and a four-year letterman and captain of the golf team. He graduated from Harvard Medical School 1987. In addition to practicing and teaching at Mayo, he served on the Clinical Practice Quality Oversight Committee and the executive committee of Mayo’s professionalism and bioethics program. The G. Richard Locke III Endowed Prize for Pre-Medical Excellence Scholarship is awarded each spring to the DePauw student who holds the highest grade point average and will attend medical school. The fund was established in honor of Locke by his fellow trustees and friends.

Survivors include his wife; two children, including G. Richard “Chip” Locke IV ’15; his mother, Judith Blang Locke ’58; his brothers, Dr. Jonathan T. Locke ’85, Dr. Mark D. Locke ’87 and James M. Locke ’89; his nieces, Anna K. Locke ’15 and Elaine S. Locke ’18; his nephews, John D. Locke ’18, James C. Locke ’20 and Mark H. Locke ’22; his uncle John Curtis Blang ’64; and his cousins, J. David Blang ’92 and Nancy R. Blang ’95. He was predeceased by his father, Dr. G. Richard Locke ’58.

Locke donated his brain tissue to the Mayo Brain Bank for research into his rare disease.

1976

1995

Carol J. Buechler, 64, Fairborn, Ohio, Nov. 21. She was a musician and a computer consultant.

Timothy W. Hall, 45, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 11. He was a member of Sigma Chi and a solutions architect.

1977

Michael S. Wallace, 46, Wayne, Pa., Dec. 19. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a businessman. Survivors include his wife; a sister, Barbara Wallace Rumsey ’88; a brother, Timothy H. Wallace ’90; a nephew, William N. Wallace ’17; and a brother-in-law, Todd C. Rumsey ’87.

Lee Early Ritz, 63, Flowery Branch, Ga., Oct. 23. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, an attorney and an insurance customer service representative.

1980 Susan C. Nichols, 61, Mason, Ohio, Nov. 5. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and had a career in logistics operations. Survivors include a brother, Christopher A. Nichols’ 85, and a sister, Beverly Nichols Perdue ’74.

1982 Catharine Curtis Van Duzer, 58, Northbrook, Ill., Jan. 14. She was a member of Alpha Phi, a nurse, a flight attendant and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband and a son, Gregory C. Van Duzer ’11.

1987 Steven L. Blakely, 53, Danville, Ind., Dec. 4. He was a member of Delta Chi and a partner at Acton & Snyder LLP. Survivors include his wife.

1989 Jeffrey R. Markley, 51, Oklahoma City, Sept. 23. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and chief global solutions officer at Simitri Group International.

Survivors include his wife.

1991 Stephanie L. Hunter, 50, Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 29. She was a teacher and worked with children. Survivors include her mother, Marilynn Ballard Sturgeon ’63, and sisters Shelley M. Hunter ’88 and Susan Hunter Soares ’96.

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FACULTY Eugene P. Schwartz, 85, Greencastle, Jan. 29. He was a retired professor of chemistry at DePauw University, where he taught for 35 years. He joined the DePauw faculty in 1962, having just completed a year of research at Moscow State University. In 1976, he took a leave to serve as a resident faculty member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where he supervised 34 students, including five from DePauw, taught a course in thermodynamics and conducted research. The next year, he was a visiting chemistry professor at the University of Wales, where he also conducted research. Back at DePauw in 1979, he and Robert Calvert, a political science professor, taught the first Honor Scholars seminar; Schwartz later led the program. He also was a member of the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning. He retired in 1997.

Robert Orr Weiss, 92, Greencastle, Jan. 31. He was professor emeritus of communication after teaching at DePauw for 42 years. Weiss directed DePauw’s debate program for 41 years and, in 1962, his four-member team won the nationally televised GE College Bowl championship. He was the author of “Public Argument,” a 1995 book about debate theory, and numerous journal articles and was co-editor of “Current Criticism, a 1971 compilation of 21 essays analyzing the public speaking styles of national figures. Weiss was president of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, a national collegiate

honor society in forensics, and secretarytreasurer of the American Forensics Association. The National Educational Debate Association awarded him its “outstanding scholarly contribution” award; Pi Kappa Delta gave him the E.R. Nichols Award for outstanding contributions to forensics; and the National Communication Association gave him its Presidential Award. He and Ann, his wife of 67 years, won the Hobgood Distinguished Service to Communication Centers Award in 2008.

Dr. Weiss served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He earned an undergraduate degree from Albion College and master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, including Virginia “Ginger” Weiss Danz ’91; two sons; four grandchildren; and a greatgranddaughter.

FRIEND Valeta S. May, 71, Greencastle, Dec. 6.

She retired from GTE and later from DePauw.

FIRST PERSON

with Alexander Komives Alexander Komives is a nuclear physicist, an associate professor and a distant relative of Copernicus whose lifelong passion for astronomy inspired his work in physics. He also is the self-styled “lesser poet of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.” We asked him why he writes poetry, something seemingly removed from his day job.

Says Komives: “I want to approach beauty, as revealed to me through physics, with words that will allow others to experience the same sense of awe.”

(Photo: Tim Sofranko)

ADAGIO FOR A GOOD LIFE How to live a good life as revealed to me by an ancient astronomer in a dream which at one time was accompanied by lavishly engraved Illustrations that have now been lost but I mention them nonetheless.

I Every morning I read a poem carefully wrapping the words in the thoughts of my mind and inscribing them into the life rhythm of my heart.

II I sing the warmth of a waking sunbeam with pen and paper in a mathematical Kyrie invoking abstract feverish fantasms from a kingdom of chimerical geometric constructions to lay bare the hard substance of immortal hope shimmering in the first light of day.

III I consult the stoic sundial in my backyard

and the revolving astrolabe hanging on my bedroom wall to insure the hard-won art of listening to the sky is not forgotten and is instead kept gently folded in a pocket of my memory amongst a menagerie of other precious souvenirs: the diamond ring of a total solar eclipse, a walk in the woods surrounded by a snowstorm’s silence rivaled only by the magnificence of the moment eternal balanced upon the Instant of Creation.

IV I wade through a sea of accidental smiles pretending some at least are addressed to me, but it is only when I send a few of my own with sincerest intent to strangers, who return the gesture, that I truly know I am not alone.

V I breathe deeply the lazy drift, drift, drift of time’s journey to nowhen in particular with my cat stretched across my lap,

her quaking purrs suffusing the room with a feather tendrilled atmosphere of cinnamon scented contentment like the slow movement following a sumptuous holiday feast.

We each wear our tailored thoughts from separate but parallel spheres of life connecting at that shared green gate of Friendship and Trust across which paw meets hand and I can begin to understand what it is to be cat and she to be human.

VI On cloudless nights I bathe in a shower of stellar luminescence straight from the edge of heaven, its mystery, the bread and wine of Poetry and Science, soaking into my ephemeral flesh and penetrating my veins until my body sublimates into the slowly turning firmament.

Finis

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OLD GOLD

1905 Alum: DePauw’s ’Gone with the Wind’ Connection

H

e was born in east central Illinois and grew up in Greencastle, Ind. But Wilbur Kurtz, DePauw University Class of 1905, was seduced by the South, where he fed his curiosity about the Confederacy and parlayed it into a remarkable career.

He was a trained watercolorist and muralist, having studied painting at DePauw (tuition: $19) and later the Art Institute in Chicago, and also made architectural renderings and drew illustrations for newspapers and magazines. His paintings are on display across the South and have sold for up to $30,000 – posthumously, of course – says Joey Seguin, a retired computer programmer who is writing a biography of Kurtz.

But it was his work as an amateur historian that drew Kurtz south and ultimately led to a modicum of fame.

Intrigued to interview participants in the Great Locomotive Chase, when Union volunteers commandeered a Confederate train and took it northward with Confederate soldiers in hot pursuit, he found two loves: his future wife, who was the daughter of one of his interview subjects, and the South.

In 1934, Kurtz was tapped by the Public Works of Art Project, part of the New Deal, to select artists and assign them

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work. “He combined his love of art and his love of history when he could,” Seguin says, so his assignment – to restore “The Battle of Atlanta” cyclorama and add a diorama to it – was ideal.

The cyclorama – originally 49 feet tall and 371 feet long – was painted in Milwaukee in 1885 and in 1888 was displayed, among other places, at the Indianapolis Cyclorama on Market Street between Illinois and Capital streets before arriving in 1892 in Atlanta.

In mid-2015, preparation began to move the painting from its home since 1921 and to restore it, including adding back seven feet that had been lopped off the top to fit the short building. A curator at the Atlanta History Center (its new home, which opened in February) asked Seguin, a volunteer, to research Kurtz’s work. Seguin says he learned from dozens of journals Kurtz kept for nearly 70 years that he was “a man of great moral

character” whose “work ethic we’ll never see surpassed.”

In 1938, David O. Selznick hired Kurtz, who happened to know author Margaret Mitchell, as a technical adviser for the filming of “Gone with the Wind” in California, where Kurtz fastidiously insisted that a Hollywood backlot simply wouldn’t do as a stand-in for Atlanta.

“Georgia has red clay,” Seguin says.

“They were trying to use fields out in California, which looked nothing like Georgia. So Kurtz had his son go out and dig up a box of Georgia red clay – not just anywhere, but from Jonesboro, where Tara was supposed to have been – and had it sent to California. ...

“Close was never good enough for him.

Everything was exact.”

Kurtz was technical adviser in 1946 for “Song of the South” and, in 1957, “The Great Locomotive Chase.” He died in 1967 at age 85.

LEADERS THE WORLD NEEDS

Alums Teach American Culture, Democracy in Ancestors’ Land

W

hen Joe Vosicky was little, “my dad’s idea of a bedtime story was telling me how Czechoslovakia was created in 1918.”

David Tykvart’s maternal grandfather, meanwhile, regaled David with stories about life in Czechoslovakia under communism.

Those connections with the Central European country, which seesawed between democracy and authoritarian rule throughout much of the 20th century, spawned a yearning in each of the DePauw graduates – Vosicky in 1971 and Tykvart in 2013 – to help his ancestors’ land shore up its democratic institutions.

They also prompted the men, both of whom live in suburban Chicago, to seek Fulbright scholarships that enabled them to teach in the Czech Republic, a coincidence they discovered at a huge Fulbright reunion in 2016.

“DePauw was probably the best represented school at Fulbright at this meeting,” Vosicky says.

Czechoslovakia boasted the world’s fifth-largest gross national product when Hitler invaded in 1939. After World War

II, Soviet forces occupied the country as it gradually liberalized but cracked down in 1968, when the Soviets and four other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded. Czechoslovakia remained under communist rule until the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1989. In 1993, the country split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Vosicky, a graduate of John Marshall Law School, went to then-Czechoslovakia in 1992 with an American Bar Association program aimed at helping the country emerge from communist rule. Later, he was among the founders of an exchange program, now 26 years old, that brought law students from Mazeryk University in Brno to Chicago to study law for a semester; four exchange students have lived with Vosicky’s family. Then, in 2002, Vosicky won a senior scholar’s grant from the Fulbright Program to teach contracts and introduction to U.S. law and ethics at Masaryk.

He has been back to the Czech Republic about 30 times and is admitted to the bar in Prague; each spring for the past eight years, he has taught for a week at Masaryk.

Tykvart, meanwhile, visited Czech Republic as a child but regretted not fully experiencing the culture. He was intrigued by the country that his parents had escaped in the late 1980s and that had imprisoned his paternal grandfather, a political dissident, for a decade.

As a DePauw senior, Tykvart won a Fulbright scholarship that enabled him to teach in a Brno high school after graduation. He went on to Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which arranged for a summer internship at the U.S. embassy in Bosnia and led to a three-year stint as an asylum officer with the Department of Homeland Security, for which he is now an analyst.

He envisions a future in international relations and credits DePauw with awakening his desire to share American ways with his ancestral home.

“It was something very special,” he says, to explain “how our culture is a melting pot of cultures, (about) our appreciation for democracy and our values, and where they come from – and to bring that all back to a place where my parents had left.”

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