John A. Wallace was a 2013 recipient of an Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant. The grant allowed him to travel to Antarctica for two weeks to study climate change and biology. He is critical care district manager with Cook Medical. He and his wife, Lisa Hamilton Wallace ’06, live in Indianapolis.
2005
David A. Egger and Diana Cox (Butler University) were married June 2, 2013, in the gardens of Musee Rodin in Paris, France. David is a lead marketing manager with AT&T. He serves as chapter adviser to Sigma Alpha Epsilon at DePauw. Diana is a grants and database administrator with The Julian Center. They live in Indianapolis. David’s email address is davidegger@me.com. (See photo.) Nicholas D. Gaffney is an associate with Evansville, Ind., law firm of Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders, LLP. He specializes in tax law, estate and gift tax planning, and business succession planning. Dr. Peter G. Hogg won the USA Track & Field 100-mile trail running national championship, July 2013, at the Burning River 100 in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. He surpassed all former records at the seventh annual race. Peter is an orthopaedic surgery resident at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. (See photo.) James M. McQuiston defended his dissertation, “Social capital in the production gap: social networking services and their transformative role in civic engagement,” May 2013. He earned his doctoral degree in political science, August 2013. He is teaching at Kent State University. His email address is editor@neufutur.com. Peter E. Ohs and his wife, Andrea L. Sisson, were listed in the 16th edition of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. They were cited for their experimental documentary, I Send You This Place, a memoir and a work of travel journalism. N. Evan Shook and his wife, Lauren, announce the birth of their daughter, Fiona Warren, Dec. 20, 2012.
2006
David C. Bausman is program manager for policy and regulatory affairs with the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. Daniel P. Bretscher and Kathryn L. Gernand ’08 were married Dec. 29, 2012, in Greencastle, Ind. (See photo on page 46.) Peter H. Curts is teaching pastor at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Floyd County, Ind. Peter serves on the Strategic Planning Committee for the Indiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Alexander B. Penning and Allison Baccich ’07 were married Oct. 15, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (See photo.) Philip A. Schuman ’06, James R. Kuehl ’62 and Philip N. Eskew Jr. ’63 and guest Brian Laver won the 13th Annual Wabash/DePauw Alumni Golf Outing at Knollwood Country Club in Granger, Ind., Aug. 1, 2013. (See photo on page 39.)
2007
Allison Baccich and Alexander B. Penning ’06 were married Oct. 15, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (See photo.) Courtney E. Fischer is a freelance reporter for WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. Peter J. Lazaroff was among the St. Louis Business Journal’s “30 Under 30.” He is a chartered financial analyst at Acropolis Investment Management as well as founder of the firm’s blog and editor of its newsletter. Kendall R. Schumacher graduated, June 2013, from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine. He plans to practice general dentistry in east-central Florida.
2008
Kathryn L. Gernand and Daniel P. Bretscher ’06 were married Dec. 29, 2012, in Greencastle, Ind. (See photo.) Alicia Keck Wilson graduated with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic
Allison Baccich ’07 and Alexander B. Penning ’06 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Brett A. Bohlander ’06, Laura Page Bohlander ’06, Anthony M. Williams ’05, Kaitlin E. Thomure ’08, Meghan E. Murphy ’07, Kristyn Currier Klear ’06, Lowell M. Huffman ’06, Christian L. Cullen ’06, Bryan D. Cuculich ’05, Lindsay Tato Cuculich ’05, Jonathan C. Bostrom ’06, Jennifer Jessen Bostrom ’07, Lesley Sisler Welch ’07, Michael R. Klear ’06, Matthew R. Kapfhammer ’05, Andrew D. Gagle ’05, Sean M. Teska ’08, Sarah K. Gagle ’07, Scott T. Sadowski ’06, Andrew S. La Casse ’08, Melissa Walpole Mattingly ’07, Courtney E. Fischer ’07, Keith A. Schonberger ’07, Elizabeth Hecker Hartman ’07, Christopher C. D. Sprehe ’07, David J. Wildt ’06, David M. Araiza ’07, Brian S. Gooch ’06, Christopher H. Thiele ’06, William H. Metzinger IV ’06, Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07, Kyle P. McGrath ’05, Emily Waterman Teska ’07, Mark A. Gonzales ’06, Zachary C. Harris ’06, Katie Lewis Murphy ’04, Rebecca J. Gaines ’07, Karyn A. Keenan ’08, Forrest R. Johnson ’07, Kathryn Deppe Truka ’07 and Anne Sturgis Parish ’07.
JOHN R. CHITTUM ’08 received a FulbrightHayes Grant to study in Stockholm, Sweden, during the 2013-14 academic year. His research will include interviewing Swedish death metal bands about political ideologies in their music. He will use the research to write a full-length political opera to be finished by June 2014, and he will present a world premiere of his piece, All Things are Not Equal, in Buffalo, N.Y., June 3-9, 2014. He will present new research in the field of analysis of interactive multimedia at the Electroacoustic Musical Studies conference in Lisbon, Portugal. John’s first opera, Cake, will be performed by Intimate Opera of Indianapolis, Nov. 29-30 and Dec. 6-7, 2013. His second opera, Till Coffee Do Us Part, was produced by Black House Collective and the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance in Kansas City, Mo. John is University of Missouri Kansas City’s Chancellor’s Research Fellow for 2012-13 as well as a Kansas City Kansas Community College adjunct lecturer of music and audio engineering.
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