DePauw Magazine Winter 2013

Winter 2013

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MARY BURNHAM CURTIS ’84 CSI Wildlife: Solving cases at world’s largest wildlife crime lab PAGE 10

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During a Winter Term project in January, sophomore Kunkyong “Koko” Lee conducted anthropological research through photojournalism in Madagascar. She worked with a medical NGO and researched different tribes in Madagascar, their cultures, customs and taboos in order to help the NGO better understand how to approach the tribes. In Morondava, Madagascar, which is famous for its baobab forest, Lee saw baobab trees for the first time. Finding the experience so breathtaking, she drew on her photographic skills to express her excitement in this image.

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30 Alumni and Advancement 38 Class Notes Cover photo and photos on pages 10-19

by Jim Chamberlain.

Christopher J. Wells vice president for communications and strategic initiatives christopherwells@depauw.edu

Jennifer Clarkson Soster ’88 executive director of alumni relations jsoster@depauw.edu

Larry G. Anderson senior editor landersn@depauw.edu

Contributors: Cheney C. Hagerup ’15, Kunkyong “Koko” Lee ’15, Sarah McAdams, Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe

Kelly A. Graves director of publications kgraves@depauw.edu Donna Grooms class notes editor dgrooms@depauw.edu Larry G. Ligget University photographer larryligget@depauw.edu

DePauw Alumni Association Officers Marcus R. Veatch ’75, president Brent E. St. John ’89, vice president Gilbert D. Stanley ’82, secretary

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letters RECALLING DAVE BRUBECK’S VISIT Editor: Pianist and composer Dave Brubeck’s recent death recalls his only DePauw appearance in concert. It was on a weeknight in April 1955 at Bowman Gym. I was fortunate to attend, accompanied by my recent wife, Carol Hershberger Hebel ’55.

Just before his performance, we witnessed Dave and his quartet members petting a stray dog at the front steps of Bowman!

The capacity crowd was treated to an outstanding performance by this jazz legend and his musicians. They included Paul Desmond on sax, Joe Dodge on drums and Bob Bates on double bass. They were on a series of college concerts, following several hit LP record albums: Jazz Goes To College and Brubeck Time. They were reported to have visited as many as 90 colleges in four months! The tours were suggested

by Dave’s wife, Iola.

Brubeck was on the cover of Time magazine in 1954. He was the first musician since Louis Armstrong some years earlier. Dave had served in the U.S. Army during World War II, under General George S. Patton in Europe. In 1943 Dave created one of the first U.S. armed forces racially integrated bands.

We students and other attendees were really fortunate to be able to hear and see the Brubeck Quartet in action. They soon became even more famous; Brubeck also became well known as a composer.

I was fortunate to take black-andwhite photos of performers at the concert.

I used a darkroom in the Student Union Building to make 5x7 enlargements.

Richard H. Hebel ’55 New Palestine, Ind.

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WHAT DEPAUW MEANS TO ME TODAY EDITOR’S NOTE: Upon learning that the daughter of one of her lifelong friends had visited the campus as a prospective student, Laurie Hinson Kohrs ’87 wrote the following letter to her.

Dear (Student): I don’t think you have any idea how much it means to me that you are looking at DePauw. I wanted to be a fly on the wall when you were there for your campus visit – to see your face as you drove through Greencastle and then came upon the oasis of that campus.

I loved receiving your photos in front of Pi Phi. I sent them to some of my sorority sisters, who have heard about my friendship with your mom over all these years since your mom and I met at camp in seventh grade.

I read the 175th Anniversary

professor from Chile taught the class in Spanish – he spoke in Spanish while he was teaching Portuguese. That was a tad confusing, to say the least. But it showed how he tailored the class to stretch the students even more.

My Winter Terms were immeasurable experiences; I could create practically any Winter Term I wanted, not to mention my semester abroad at the University of Barcelona. Who would have known a little place in the middle of Indiana could offer those opportunities?

But what I treasure most are my friendships. My sorority sisters are my friends for life. If you live with and grow emotionally with someone from ages 18 to 21 – study and walk to classes with them, cry on their shoulders, share secrets with them, be each other’s bridesmaids and share baby announcements, and then travel to their homes around the

“I thank DePauw for creating my love of learning.”

LAURIE HINSON KOHRS ’87, NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOUTH AFRICA

Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Vernon Jordan ’57 in the summer issue of DePauw Magazine (page 37), and I immediately thought about sharing it with you. I want to share my resounding “yes” to what Mr. Jordan says about the importance of really “learning.”

I grew to love learning at DePauw.

Before that, I just memorized things for the test. My high school didn’t offer very much inspiration for learning, but DePauw did. I had small classes in which we called the professors by their first names and had Christmas parties at their homes. My largest class was Intro to Econ, and it had a whopping class size of less than 40 students. That was considered big! We had about 11 students in my Portuguese class, and most of us were Spanish majors, so the

world as you near 50 years old – that’s a lifelong journey together. I know the lack of cultural offerings in Greencastle is a concern of yours, but one main aspect I found invaluable about what DePauw has to offer is the people and relationships you develop because you don’t have big-city offerings. During my four years at DePauw, it wasn’t about the “stuff.” I discovered that true treasures in life are not found in the facades of buildings, or in the restaurant offerings, or in the season’s line-up at the Symphony Centre. I found amazing treasures in the friendships that I developed.

I went back to DePauw this past June for my 25th reunion, and it was worth traveling across the world. I carried these friendships with me from Dallas to Greencastle to Chicago to my current

home in South Africa. I thank DePauw for creating my love of learning. I’m so proud to be part of its story.

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Laurie Hinson Kohrs ’87 Nottingham Road, South Africa ALUMNI RECALL INTERNATIONAL STUDY In the fall issue of DePauw Magazine, we invited alumni to tell us about their international study experiences. We’re now sharing some of those experiences. Because of space limitations we are cannot print all the letters in this issue, so we will print more letters on this topic in the summer issue. – Editor IT STARTED IN 1959 I was a participant in DePauw’s first semester-abroad program, spending the spring of 1959 in Zell am See, Austria, under the leadership of Professor [of English] Fred Bergmann.

I entered the program as a callow, unsophisticated Midwestern youth.

I emerged from it as a callow, unsophisticated Midwestern youth with a burning desire to learn about other cultures.

Since then, I lived in Japan for two years and in England for three. I led undergraduate study tours to Korea, China and England. My family hosted foreignexchange students from Colombia, Malaysia, England and China, and our children worked and studied abroad.

DePauw opened a door for me. I value international experience for what it has taught me about humanity and my place in it.

Only 15 of us went to Zell am See in 1959. It’s good to see that more and more students are taking advantage of the opportunities DePauw offers.

John W. Slater III ’60 Webster, N.C. Letters continued on page 28.

President Brian W. Casey

I’ve written, previously, in these pages that colleges and universities are always changing.

They are either getting stronger or getting weaker. They never remain static.

It was with this sentiment in mind that we – nearly three years ago – outlined a plan for DePauw’s future. In October 2010, the Board of Trustees considered, and endorsed, DePauw 2020: The Plan for DePauw. It was a first articulation, a statement that DePauw could and should be a truly national, residential liberal arts college and school of music of the very first order. It reaffirmed our core commitment to those elements that form the heart of the DePauw experience: a strong and challenging academic program, combined with an array of vibrant social experiences that prepare our students as leaders equipped to lead lives of purpose and extraordinary accomplishment. Moreover, it was based on the belief that the answer to DePauw’s particular challenges is to become a more excellent institution, an even finer version of DePauw.

At the time DePauw 2020 was endorsed, the Board of Trustees also endorsed the Campus Master Plan, a complement to DePauw 2020 that established a framework for improvements to the campus. At the time of this writing, the University has made significant strides in addressing the highest priorities of both DePauw 2020 and the Campus Master Plan. Funding for an improved dining hall, student union, entrance sequence and athletic facilities has been received, and work is completed, underway or to begin shortly on these projects. In short, the physical improvements to DePauw endorsed in October 2010 are coming to fruition.

The University has also begun the process of improving its admission position.

Changes to the materials used in the admission process, relocation of the admission office to the Emison Building and new approaches to the awarding of scholarships have already been implemented.

On the academic and student life front, we have seen significant changes in the curriculum, improvements in the rigor and intensity of the School of Music, and emergence of a Center for Student Engagement, a center designed to better connect the many experiences beyond the classroom, with a particular focus on connections between the academic program and career and life preparation.

The nation as a whole must tackle the very large issue of how it can best educate its rising generations. The way DePauw can best participate in these conversations and in the strengthening of American higher education is to become the strongest version of itself it can be in the current context, and for future generations.

In a period when higher education faces many significant challenges, it has been deeply encouraging to me to realize how committed DePauw’s alumni and friends are to this vision, and to maintaining the best qualities of a DePauw residential liberal arts education for students in the years yet to come.

I want to take this opportunity to once again thank all of you who contribute to keeping DePauw moving forward with strength and vigor. I look forward to continuing this work with you.

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ranks among the nation’s baccalaureate institutions in the number of students who studied abroad, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.

LOOKING BACK/LOOKING FORWARD “Looking Back/Looking Forward: Richard Peeler and His Students,” an exhibition featuring works by the legendary DePauw art professor and his students, opened Feb. 12 in the Richard E. Peeler Art Center. Shown at the opening reception, from left, are Meredith K. Brickell, assistant professor of art and art history; Marj Peeler; and Bing Davis ’59. The exhibition will continue through Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 10.

BILL LYNCH RETURNS TO DEPAUW Bill Lynch, a veteran football coach of 33 seasons, including 18 as head coach – one of which was at DePauw in 2004 – has returned to lead the Tigers’ program. Most recently the associate athletic director for development at his alma mater, Butler University, Lynch has directed programs at Butler, Ball State University, DePauw and Indiana University.

Lynch left DePauw in January 2005 to become associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Indiana University, where he joined longtime friend and head coach Terry Hoeppner. The interim head coach for two games during the 2006 season, Lynch was named the head coach in June 2007 just days before coach Hoeppner passed away after battling cancer. Lynch directed Indiana to a 7-6 record in 2007 and a berth to the Insight Bowl. The only head coach in Indiana history to guide his team to a bowl game in his first season, Lynch was the fourth coach in the program’s history to lead a team to a postseason game. The seven victories in his debut season were the second most for a first-year Hoosiers head coach.

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“Bill is well known and respected in Indiana and the Midwest and understands the long, rich tradition of the DePauw football program.”

STEVIE BAKER-WATSON, DePauw’s director

of athletics and recreational sports, when announcing that Bill Lynch, former Big 10 coach at Indiana University and head coach at Ball State, Butler and DePauw universities, would return to DePauw as head football coach, effective Jan. 2.

GRAND FINALIST Tenor Lucas A. Wassmer, a senior voice student in the School of Music and economics major in the College of Liberal Arts, was named a finalist in the prestigious 2013 Grand Concours de Chant competition, which is sponsored by the Franco-American Vocal Academy.

DIRECTORS’ CUP STANDINGS With three teams earning qualification into their respective NCAA Fall Championships, DePauw was ranked 30th in the Division III Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings. The field hockey team advanced to the national semifinals for the first time in school history, while the men’s soccer team advanced to the second round and women’s soccer team bowed out after the first round.

PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS The letters of Matthew Simpson, the University’s first president, have come back to DePauw, thanks to a gift by Dr. William M. Dugan Jr. ’60 and his family.

The collection was written to Simpson from 1838 through the 1840s.

Simpson was elected the first president of Indiana Asbury University (later renamed DePauw University) on Feb. 7, 1839, and led the institution until July 1848.

He was a confidant of Abraham Lincoln, and was called upon by Lincoln’s widow to deliver the funeral oration at Lincoln’s funeral in Springfield, Ill.

TRANSFORMING STUDENTS' LIVES Raj Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning

This is an exciting time at DePauw with many important changes. Among them is the Kathryn Fortune Hubbard Center for Student Engagement, which will be created through a $5 million grant provided by Kathy ’74 and Al Hubbard. I joined the University as inaugural dean only a few months ago, and we are quickly transforming the office in a way that will provide students with experiential opportunities that help them establish a habit of contributing to and learning from their community.

The Hubbard Center is the first of its kind among liberal arts colleges in the United States and will lead the conversation about how applied learning opportunities can be a transformative learning experience. Such experiences create new knowledge and provide a student with vital information to build a personal strategic direction. We will do this by providing advisers or life coaches that help students explore options and help them make connections to their vocation-life calling. We will provide stimulating opportunities that include study-abroad programs, access to internship opportunities, research opportunities, Winter Term courses, service trips and community service.

Another way to ensure success of the Hubbard Center and students will be to engage alumni. Current students will be paired with alumni in the students’ first year. The hope is that these mentor relationships will continue long after students graduate from DePauw. This program relies on one of DePauw’s major strengths: alumni that have lifelong connections with DePauw and in turn have the desire to “pay it forward” to the next generation of students.

Many institutions of higher learning leave the outcomes of a college education to chance, but DePauw is challenging that notion. The Hubbard Center will define outcomes for each class year that will build on each other so that by the time a student graduates, he/she will not only be versed, but also will have multiple choices.

As we plan for this exciting future, we are still working hard to support our current students. Here are just a few highlights: • Pre-professional exam preparation – We are offering a reduced price MCAT course and adding series of programs to help students think about the medical school process.

• Senior Jump Start – Communicating with members of the Class of 2013 about important opportunities they might want to explore before graduation day.

• Alumni and student conversations – Interesting discussions with alumni and students about topics involving work-life balance.

• Summer internship – A pilot initiative to underwrite summer internship experiences in the nonprofit, start-up, technology sector.

• Sophomore experience programming – Creating a series of workshops for students to think about major selection, future life calling, digital networking, and tools that enhance student reflection and thinking about big life questions.

Rajesh N. B Bellani R j hN ll i Dean of experiential learning and career planning

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“It was a delightful concert.”

JOHN BRIGGS, registrar at Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral, where the DePauw Chamber

Symphony presented a Winter Term concert. The DePauw ensemble, which featured 35 students and two faculty members, also visited Stonehenge, Bath and Stratford-on-Avon.

HERE’S TO YOU, OLD DEPAUW The DePauw School of Music has established a new recording label, DePauw University Recording, and the label’s first recording recognizes the 175th anniversary of the University’s founding. The commemorative CD, Songs of Old DePauw, is first in the label’s catalog, and it features 21 tracks of music conducted and arranged by Gregory Ristow, director of choral activities, and sung by the 20-member DePauw Chamber Singers.

The CD, which costs $10, can be purchased from the DePauw Music Office, Room 1124, Green Center for the Performing Arts, 605 S. College Ave., Greencastle, IN 46135.

Ethics and the Environment Theme of the sixth annual Undergraduate Ethics Symposium sponsored by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics from April 11-13, 2013.

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WHERE IN THE WORLD? DePauw students are participating in off-campus study in more than 20 countries during the spring semester, including: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, France, Italy, Japan, Jordan, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and the United States of America.

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Senior Henry K. Dambanemuya, a citizen of Zimbabwe, is one of seven U.S. college students selected as a 2012-13 Jewish World Watch Fellow, a program for students committed to bringing awareness to and preventing mass atrocities. Among his accomplishments, Dambanemuya created DePauw’s Conflict-Free Campus Initiative, which led the University to pass a resolution that gives preference to electronics suppliers who are vigilant in excluding conflict minerals from their products.

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Number of DePauw student-athletes earning all-North Coast Athletic Conference honors in the fall, including 11 on the first team.

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The final place for senior Noah Droddy at the NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country Championships.

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The field hockey team’s school-record number of wins this season.

UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER ONE RANKING Finishing the regular season 28-0, the DePauw women’s basketball team was ranked number one in NCAA Division III for an unprecedented 13 straight weeks

by D3hoops.com and 12 in the USA Today Sports/ESPN Division III Coaches’ Poll.

Since the beginning of the 1995-96 season, DePauw’s 438 wins rank third in Division III, and its .852 winning percentage is second.

BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME Women’s basketball coach Kris Huffman has earned the St. Vincent Health Silver Medal Award and will be among 11 women inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on April 27, 2013. The Silver Medal Award is presented each year to a living person based upon outstanding contributions to Indiana high school basketball in a capacity other than as an Indiana high school basketball player or coach.

“Journalism is not dead,”

legendary journalist Carl Bernstein told an audience at DePauw, 40 years after he and Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward won a Pulitzer Prize for their investigative reporting that uncovered the Watergate scandal. Bernstein discussed “The State of Our Information” in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture to a packed house in Meharry Hall on Feb. 13.

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LYNN M. CAMERON ’87 God’s Calling: How a Cheap Cell Phone and a Homeless Teen Transformed My Life and My Faith (WestBow Press – ISBN: 978-1-4497-8222-1) Lynn M. Cameron ’87 recounts his spiritual journey during the past two years in this, his first book.

He felt he was originally called to join a Catholic religious order, but then he met a homeless teen and began to have dinner with him weekly in order to serve as a mentor.

Mysteriously, Cameron’s cell phone began to ring with a message tone each night with no message or number given. He discovered that the signals pertained to the teenager when it foreshadowed the teen’s mother’s death. During the next few months, the signals continued and were used to obtain advice that eventually led the author to loan the teen money to purchase a condo for him and his expectant girlfriend. Although the teen’s life was filled with personal challenges, he was the epitome of generosity and unconditional love, and became an inspiration for the author. Cameron was active in Chaplain’s Council at DePauw and has served as a mentor for youth for 25 years.

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ROBERT D. HISRICH ’66 and Amr Al-Dabbagh Governpreneurship: Establishing a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit in Government (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited – ISBN: 978-1-78195-228-3 In his 30th book, Robert D. Hisrich ’66 challenges the traditional view that entrepreneurship is exclusively a private-sector concern and presents a compelling argument for increased focus on entrepreneurship in public-sector organizations. In a time when government funds are being reduced and its services increasingly questioned, fostering an entrepreneurial spirit within the government becomes a vital concern.

The authors outline a number of innovative strategies designed to help public-sector managers undertake their public mission while developing an entrepreneurial culture within their organization. Featuring forewords by former U.S. president Bill Clinton and former Malaysian prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, as well as case studies of entrepreneurship in action, the book breaks new ground in a rapidly growing field. Hisrich is the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and director of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

MARTIN J. NAPARSTECK ’74 Sex and Manifest Destiny: The Urge That Drove Americans Westward (McFarland & Company – ISBN: 978-0786466542) The sixth book by Martin J. Naparsteck ’74, Sex and Manifest Destiny is a scholarly study of the role sex played in America’s expansion westward across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. It is the first book-length study to examine topics, such as Thomas Jefferson’s interest in the sex lives of American Indians, white fears of Indians raping white women, Christian missionary beliefs that Native American sexual practices needed to be altered in order to save Indian souls, and the desire of Mormons to practice polygamy, as factors contributing to what is known as Manifest Destiny.

Naparsteck is a novelist, short story writer, journalist and essayist; he writes full time and lives in Rochester, N.Y. Naparsteck’s previous book examined the life of novelist Richard Yates, and he is co-writing a biography of Mark Twain’s wife.

Jerry L. Ross with JOHN B. NORBERG ’70 Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer (Purdue University Press – ISBN: 978-1557536310) From his childhood in rural Indiana, looking up at the stars, Jerry L. Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he achieved that goal and became the most-launched astronaut in history with a career that spanned the entire U.S. Space Shuttle program. Ross charted a path to NASA after overcoming many setbacks – from failing to qualify for Air Force pilot training because of “bad” eyesight, to an initial failure to be selected into the astronaut program. A majority of the book is an insider’s account of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, including the unforgettable experience of launch, delights of weightless living and challenges of constructing the International Space Station. During seven spaceflights, Ross spent 1,393 hours in space, including 58 hours and 18 minutes on nine space walks.

John B. Norberg ’70 is an experienced journalist and author of five other books, including Wings of Their Dreams about the role of aviation’s pioneers and trailblazers in the history of flight and space.

A Broadway assist for DePauw Theatre

DAVID CRYER ’58

“They bring so much experience to the table.

I had to push myself to be a better actor, and I’ve become a better actor because of it.”

DAVID R. KUNKEL ’13

As part of DePauw’s 175th Anniversary celebration, Broadway veteran David Cryer ’58 returned to campus last fall to play Deputy Governor Danforth in the DePauw Theatre production of The Crucible. Cryer’s wife, choreographer and actress Britt Swanson, joined him on stage to play the part of Rebecca Nurse. They hadn’t had a chance to work together in a play for 35 years.

“We were, you could safely say, thrilled to have this opportunity,” Cryer says.

“It was a great experience,” says director M. Susan Anthony, Alice Braden Professor of Communication and Theatre. “He and the students joined together every day for line runs for two hours minimum, and he worked more with Britt in the afternoon. They were part of the warm-ups every night and were a joy in rehearsal. “ David R. Kunkel ’13, who played John Proctor, felt it was his best performance and the best show he’s been a part of. He says working alongside the veteran actors made him raise the bar. “It was great to see their professionalism – the determination to always improve your work, be on time and ready to go,” Kunkel says.

“They bring so much experience to the table. I had to push myself to be a better actor, and I’ve become a better actor because of it. As someone who wants to go into the field, it’s encouraging to know that I can keep up with them.”

Cryer said he liked having a few older actors sprinkled throughout the cast, including Larry G. Sutton, emeritus professor of communication and theatre; Jack D. Sutton, scene shop foreman; and local actor Jack Randall Earles. “It gave the play a kind of authenticity. We were certainly impressed with what’s going on at DePauw. We would love to come back and be part of it again.”

Life and science are wild in

FORENSIC PARK

by Larry G. Anderson

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Mary Burnham Curtis ’84 and her colleagues at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory don’t have a television show based on their work … yet. But if they ever do, it could be titled CSI Wildlife.

Like the stars of the popular CSI television series that focuses on crimes against humans, the wildlife forensic scientists based in Ashland, Ore., investigate dead bodies washed up on shore; identify victims and perpetrators based on examination of sometimes the slimmest of physical evidence, almost routinely developing new forensic techniques in the process; assist national law enforcement officers; testify in court; and coordinate international investigations with INTERPOL and more.

They are the real deal. In fact, researchers for the TV series often contact the scientists to determine what scenarios will make their plots more realistic. For example: Is it possible to prove a victim was bitten by a bear rather than a dog?

Curtis, senior forensic scientist and head of the lab’s genetics team, and 16 fellow scientists conduct their investigations at the only full-service

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wildlife crime laboratory in the world, and their work often seems to border on wizardry. In one case, Curtis connected illegal fishing/caviar harvesting to human criminals by recovering DNA from rocks on a river bank where white sturgeon had been dragged. When confronted with the burgeoning online illegal trade in sea turtle leather, she developed a process to extract DNA from manufactured boots to identify the

Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic and Fish Health Laboratory and president of the Society for Wildlife Forensic Science (SWFS). “They are on the cutting edge of many new procedures and protocols that are then adopted by other wildlife laboratories around the world.”

Like the televised CSI shows, the bad guys rarely get away. Unlike television, where CSIs deal with only the human

Wildlife forensic scientists are at the forefront of domestic and global investigative initiatives targeted at wildlife crime, and the detection, identification, and prevention of national security and public health threats. protected turtle species used – a feat that was previously thought to be impossible.

“A lot of the work that Mary Curtis and her colleagues do in Ashland is not performed anywhere else in the world,” says Dee Dee Hawk, director of the

species, wildlife forensic scientists must be able to reliably distinguish thousands of animal species that often have small differences in DNA, appearance or native range.

The wildlife forensic scientists differ

from their TV counterparts in another significant way. “They (CSI shows) combine three types of people: the forensic scientist, who normally is in the laboratory; crime scene investigator, who normally is a technician; and then a detective, a sworn officer who is armed and hunts down the bad guys,” says Kenneth Goddard, director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. Goddard was a police crime-scene investigator for 12 years before switching to wildlife work. “The TV shows make an interesting twist in that they put the technicians in the laboratory instead, and forensic scientists in the field.”

Goddard’s professional background and his part-time sideline as a fiction writer make him a prime resource to sound out possible plots for the TV series and provide expert advice about wildlife forensics. If a CSI Wildlife show ever becomes a reality, he will insist it reflect how his colleagues really do their work.

“On any given day, I may have staff working on anything from a poaching case involving elk or deer; an illegal trade case involving violations of the Lacey Act (illegal interstate transfer of wildlife); an endangered species violation, such as sea turtle harvesting; an import/export trade violation, such as elephant ivory, rhino horn and caviar; or identifying any of the many illegal animal parts traded on the black market,” Curtis says.

The prevalence of illegal wildlife trade in the United States and around the world – with an estimated value of $53 billion annually – threatens the wellbeing of many endangered species, but the practice is not well known among the general public. “It’s everywhere, but it’s like a silent crime because the

only time you tend to see it is in the weird news when someone is smuggling snakes or birds taped to their body or something like that,” says Laurel Neme, a wildlife conservationist and author of Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species. “Actually, it is the third largest black market crime in the world, after drug trafficking and human trafficking.”

Identifying crimes against wildlife can sometimes be even more complex than prosecuting them, based on the laws that apply to various species in various regions. For example, it’s legal to possess a turkey feather, but not an owl feather. A shawl made from a cashmere goat is legal; one made from a Tibetan antelope is not. Antique elephant ivory is legal, but owning more recent ivory might not be legal, depending on when

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MARY BURNHAM CURTIS ’84 Major: Zoology DePauw activities • Little 500 women’s race: rider for Lucy Rowland Hall and Delta Gamma sorority, Race Steering Committee and Race Rules chair • Delta Gamma sorority: member, Anchor Classic Bike Race Steering Committee, sportswear chair, pledge trainer • The DePauw, circulation manager Further education • M.S. (biology: fish ecology), University of Michigan • Ph.D. (biology: evolutionary biology), University of Michigan Previous positions • Aquarist assistant, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago • Statistical technician, Unisys Corporation, Plymouth, Mich.

• Fisheries research biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fisheries Research Center – Great Lakes, Ann Arbor, Mich.

• Fisheries research biologist, National Biological Service, Great Lakes Science Center • Research fisheries biologist, U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division, Great Lakes Science Center Favorite DePauw memory • “One of my favorite times was Winter Term 1983. I spent Winter Term on campus working with the late Michael Johnson [professor of zoology] on a project to identify pollen species in bee stomachs and pollen sacs. It was part science, part art and part statistics, and I had a blast working on it. I think it was that project that convinced me to pursue a research career rather than pre-med or academia.”

Favorite DePauw professors • “James Gammon [professor emeritus of biology], my major adviser, introduced me to a lifelong love of fish and fisheries; John Eigenbrodt [late professor emeritus of philosophy and religion] taught THE BEST religion course (New Testament) that I ever took; and Vic DeCarlo [professor of physics and astronomy] took the time to bring me up to the ‘aha’ moment when physics really began to click.”

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The Ashland, Ore., lab has the world’s largest collection of frozen wildlife tissues. legislation was passed and the region from which it was obtained.

The United States is considered second only to China as a top market for illicit animal products. People often don’t realize they are supporting illegal wildlife trade when they purchase animal items such as products made from migratory bird feathers, nativeforest rosewood for musical instruments, and religious icons, jewelry and frames made from turtle shells.

SWFS president Hawk says, “People in this country are some of the major buyers of live, imported, threatened and endangered species from around the world. Having that market available is what drives the illegal activity of poachers and traffickers in other countries.”

GLOBAL SECURITY AT STAKE A wildlife forensic scientist’s first step is to determine that a crime against a protected animal has actually been committed. That’s particularly crucial, for example, when criminals have tried to substitute pig, cow or even human gallbladders for the more valued bear gallbladders in the black market for animal parts that humans believe have medicinal properties. Or when lowerquality Coho salmon is substituted for higher-priced Chinook salmon. That’s when Curtis’ DNA analysis of species is effective. In one case, she distinguished between salmon species taken from two Alaskan rivers, the Yukon and Copper,

with salmon caught legally in one river and illegally in the other.

“That’s why Mary Curtis’ work in particular is important,” Neme says.

“Smugglers are becoming more and more sophisticated, because with wildlife trade you have very high profits and fairly low risk of getting caught. For the amount of effort, what you see, especially with products such as rhino horn, tiger bone and elephant ivory, is organized networks getting more and more involved because the drug-trafficking penalties are so much higher.”

Speaking at the Partnership Meeting on Wildlife Trafficking on Nov. 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton noted that illegal wildlife trafficking is so lucrative that terrorist groups are getting into the business to finance their activities. “Over the past few years, wildlife trafficking has become more organized, more lucrative, more widespread and more dangerous than ever before,” she said. “Many of us are here because protecting wildlife is a matter of protecting our planet’s natural beauty. But it is also a national security issue, and an economic security issue that is critical to each and every country represented here.”

Clinton called for the creation of a global system of regional wildlife enforcement networks to focus on illicit wildlife trade, which she said rivals the illegal arms trade in size. She pledged financial and other support from the State Department to help thwart criminal and terrorist organizations, which often use devastatingly effective modern weapons and other tools for mass slaughter of animals to harvest their parts.

The National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory and the wildlife

forensic scientists will have a key role in that effort. The seriousness of their work is obvious when you arrive at the secured laboratory in the wooded mountains of southern Oregon and encounter three interconnected stone circles in front of the government building. The rings represent the three things that forensic scientists work to link together: suspect, victim and crime scene, explains Goddard, who designed the laboratory in 1986.

Their stated mission is also serious: “Wildlife forensic scientists are at the forefront of domestic and global investigative initiatives targeted at wildlife crime, and the detection, identification, and prevention of national security and public health threats.”

At first glance, the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory appears similar to a typical human CSI laboratory. It includes five units: Criminalistics (ballistics, chemistry and fingerprinting), Evidence (receipt and initial examination of materials), Genetics (DNA analysis and species origin), Morphology (species identification by features), Pathology (cause of death, natural or suspicious) and Toxicology (testing for poisons).

Goddard says the lab receives evidence and cases from USFWS special agents and wildlife inspectors, all 50 state fish and game agencies, as well as many of the 177 nations that signed the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) treaty.

Stroll through the lab, and you quickly get a sense that routine is not the norm here. Pass windows of the Pathology unit, and you might see an autopsy underway on an eagle or monkey. Hallway cases display an

astounding array of ways in which animal parts can be processed: soup cans, hides, feather ties, carvings, bottles of bear bile and other elixirs, boots, clothing, ivory carvings, skeletons, piles of tusks and horns. Drawers and cabinets are full of various animal parts used for analysis and comparison. Walk past sophisticated equipment such as Polymerase Chain Reaction instruments

Stroll through the lab, and you quickly get a sense that routine is not the norm here. and genetic analyzers – both used in DNA sequencing – and you find the world’s largest collection of frozen wildlife tissues, which are used to help identify evidence specimens from around the world.

Or take a walk on the wild side in a separate facility dubbed Forensic Park, which is filled with a dizzying variety of stuffed exotic animals, mounted trophy heads, skeletons, animal hides, shells, bones and more accumulated over time and from various places. In addition to lab resources, Forensic Park allows the scientists to extract hairs and DNA samples for comparison with and identification of animal evidence in current cases.

NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW TECHNIQUES The scientists sometimes have to draw on ingenuity to find elusive evidence needed to pursue crimes against animals – or even to determine whether or not a crime has been committed. Consider the Case of the Online Boots.

Investigators monitoring animal products offered on the Internet discovered a large number of processed turtle-leather boots being auctioned on

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eBay. They needed to know if the boots were made from protected turtle species or not, and that presented a problem.

“Turtle skins are exposed to bleaching agents, preservation chemicals like formaldehyde and others that are enzyme inhibitors, as well as chemicals such as chromium and dyes used in the leathering process,” Curtis explains. “A lot of the processing destroys the DNA or breaks it up, but there’s still some in the skins.

“I set out to extract enough DNA to use Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), but there’s a lower limit to how much DNA you need for a successful reaction; the trick is to get past the enzyme inhibitors so you can use PCR to amplify the portion of the DNA that gives you the species information. On large pieces of tanned and leathered skins, we were fairly successful in getting the DNA. It’s more difficult when you have only a small amount of material to

Internet has further increased stress on animal populations and especially endangered species. “Online trading has had a big impact on international trade in wildlife products,” Curtis says.

“Where you used to have to travel to a specific country to get some items, the Internet makes them available at your fingertips. Unfortunately, it also opens up people to fraud and illegal markets at the same time.” The Internet also accelerates exponentially the speed at which animal species can be affected. After a cyberrumor spread a few years ago that rhino horn could cure cancer, the number of rhinos killed worldwide tripled.

Another lab case involved bear bile, which is widely consumed for medicinal purposes by people throughout Southeast Asia and can bring as much as $1,000 a gram. The bear gallbladders from which it is made are visually indistinguishable from the same organ

“It’s more difficult when you have only a small amount of material to work with, such as a boot or shoe that must be returned to the owner if we determine an endangered species was not used in its manufacture.” work with, such as a boot or shoe that must be returned to the owner if we determine an endangered species was not used in its manufacture.”

Curtis figured out how to take a sufficient sample from crafted items in a non-destructive way. She then used extraction techniques to obtain enough DNA to be able to identify the species source of leather used to make the boots.

It turned out that the boots offered for sale online were, in fact, made from the skins of endangered sea turtles, and the sellers were arrested and prosecuted.

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in other animals, especially pigs. It didn’t take enterprising criminals long to discover they could buy common gallbladders from pigs and other animals and substitute them for the much pricier bear organ. The challenge was to find a way to identify specifically bile from bears in cases under investigation.

Edgard Espinoza, deputy director of the lab and vice president of the Society for Wildlife Forensic Science, developed a new chemical analysis to solve the problem. “As with all our cases, I had to collect reference materials, which in this case meant more than 20 gallbladders

from bears, and I also needed them from other species that can be confused with bear,” he said. “Although we’re developing the technique for bear, we have to study sheep, cow and any other animal that has a gallbladder, including humans by the way, because there are records that gallbladders have been removed from human bodies for the trade.”

Espinoza explains what he discovered: “In the bear world, what makes them unique is a particular structure in an amino acid. Once you know the structures, you can use chemical instruments to find that structure.”

Fans of the CSI TV shows might think the bear bile/gallbladder story sounds familiar, and they’d be correct.

The lab scientists explained bear bile versus pig bile and the large amounts of money involved to New York detectives investigating a real-life homicide of a criminal fraudulently selling the pig product as bear bile. When TV show researchers called, lab director Goddard suggested they do a show about the bear bile trade, and a CSI episode was born.

Human crimes occasionally cross paths with animal evidence. Wildlife forensic scientists might examine pet hairs or feathers taken from a suspect’s clothing in order to tie the suspect to the scene of a homicide or other criminal activity. Or they might test suspected animal blood on a poacher’s clothing, only to determine it is human blood, instead.

In one unfortunate case, two men were hunting a bear, and one of them shot it. While they tracked the wounded animal, the bear managed to come up behind one of the hunters and began to maul him, at which point the other hunter shot the bear again and killed his fellow hunter as well. “We tested the bullet and found that it had both bear and human DNA on it, which supported

WILDLIFE FORENSICS AT WORK A few examples: • In the luggage of a passenger arriving at JFK airport from West Africa, inspectors find the butchered carcasses of eight monkeys – potential sources of AIDS-related diseases and other critical threats to public health.

• A U.S. Virgin Islands company is sentenced for knowingly trading in falsely labeled, protected black coral valued at more than $2.17 million.

• DNA from pet hairs provides additional evidence in a human serial murder case.

• Federal wildlife investigators disrupt a multimillion-dollar black market caviar operation directed by international organized crime syndicates.

• Wyoming Game and Fish Department breaks up a ring of poachers who killed more than 30 elk, denying hunting opportunities to licensed and ethical hunters.

• Operation Central, a 2004-10 undercover investigation of unlawful international trafficking in sea turtle parts and products, led to prison sentences for seven defendants.

It remains the largest-ever probe of illegal commercial exploitation of highly endangered sea turtles.

• Terrorist groups in Africa are financing their purchases of weapons and operations by selling tusks and horns of slaughtered elephants and rhinoceroses.

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) special agents discover a half-million pounds of fraudulently labeled seafood destined for U.S. markets – a potential threat to public health and consumer confidence.

• Veterinary forensic scientists at University of California Davis assist in bringing down brutal dog-fighting rings around the country through establishment of canine DNA databases.

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$53 billion Estimated annual value of illegal traffic in protected wildlife, fisheries and timber trade, which decimates wild populations and funds illegal activities.

3,000 Pairs of turtle-leather boots examined in a single case by the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory to determine whether they were made from legally protected species.

177 Member countries in CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

668 Rhinoceroses poached for their horns in South Africa last year.

17 Wildlife forensic scientists at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Ore.

53,000 Samples in the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory’s collection of frozen animal tissues – the world’s largest.

5 Legally protected Tibetan antelopes killed to harvest enough undercoat to make one illegal shawl.

300 Rotting walrus carcasses washed up on the Alaskan shoreline after being shot and having their heads removed for the ivory tusks.

700 Approximate number of U.S. and international wildlife crime cases investigated annually by the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory.

RIGHT: Mary Burnham Curtis ’84 in the wildlife resource area called Forensic Park.

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the man’s story that the bullet went through the bear and killed his buddy,” Curtis says. “Sad, but at least he wasn’t charged with murder.”

ENSURING PROFESSIONALISM Because of increased expectations of the relatively new field of wildlife forensics and intersections with human crimes, organized efforts are underway to establish professional standards for best practices and ethics for the wide variety of expertise the field encompasses. This is more important than ever as wildlife forensic scientists are being called upon to testify in court cases, where their scientific results must be able to stand up to the rigorous demands of trial evidence.

Deputy lab director Espinoza helped organize the Society for Wildlife Forensic Science (SWFS) in 2009, and the first meeting of leading international scientists was held at the Oregon lab.

Curtis plunged headlong into its efforts in 2011 when the SWFS sponsored the Scientific Working Group for Wildlife Forensic Science (SWGWILD).

“SWGWILD is charged with developing a set of official Standards and Guidelines by which wildlife forensic science will be conducted,” Curtis explains. “This includes details about evidence handling, chain of custody, reporting requirements, training requirements, etc. The intent is that laboratories doing wildlife forensic analyses will commit to following the standards, and legal entities can look to the standards as a way of evaluating the analyses they request and the credentials of their expert witnesses.”

The National Academy of Sciences in 2009 published a report that was highly critical of the state of human forensic science in the United States. It focused on

several high-profile cases involving misuse or misapplication of forensic analyses and perceived misconduct by some forensic labs. The process and outcome of the very public O.J. Simpson trial also spotlighted problems with forensic science. The handwriting was on the wall.

“With the additional attention being drawn to the field of forensic science,” Curtis says, “it became clear that the wildlife forensic community needed to be proactive in addressing any deficiencies we saw in our field, or risk being swept up under the blanket of human forensic science.”

international laboratories. Proficiency testing will be required in the certification program that SWFS will launch later this year. Curtis has also led a team of scientists to Southeast Asia and China to work with international wildlife law enforcement organizations and wildlife forensic genetics laboratories.

“Mary [Curtis] is really going to be pushing the envelope on wildlife genetics,” lab director Goddard says.

“We’re very much at the beginning of our area of science, and Mary is in charge of using one of the most powerful tools we have in the laboratory – DNA analysis.

“Mary [Curtis] is really going to be pushing the envelope on wildlife genetics. We’re very much at the beginning of our area of science, and Mary is in charge of using one of the most powerful tools we have in the laboratory – DNA analysis. How she pushes that forward is going to make a huge difference in the impact of this laboratory down the road.”

While wildlife forensic scientists are learning from the more established human CSI procedures and protocols, they resist having to adhere to the illfitting human forensics guidelines. In her area of genetics, for example, Curtis points out that human DNA forensic scientists are mainly concerned with one species (human), while wildlife forensic scientists need to be versed in many animal species – and not just genetics, but also phylogeny, taxonomy, population dynamics, behavior, ecology and more.

The need for a professional certification program was obvious. In summer 2012, Curtis became director of proficiency testing for the SWFS and took charge of wildlife proficiency testing programs for federal, state and

How she pushes that forward is going to make a huge difference in the impact of this laboratory down the road.”

SWGWILD chair Kathy Moore agrees. “The National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory is the largest and probably best-funded wildlife lab in the world, and one of a very few accredited wildlife labs. The Ashland lab as a whole is a great resource,” she says. “They have really blazed a trail for the rest of us.”

Read more about the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory at www.lab.fws.gov.

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Independent majors juggle many interests

By Christopher L. Wolfe

To friends frien and family, sophomore Hugh Huntington Dyar is just j “Hunter.” On campus, he’s known as the Unicycle Guy. That’s how Dyar was introduced to President Brian W. Casey, and if you happen to be Presiden visiting DePauw D on a warm and sunny day, there’s a good cha chance it’s how you’ll be introduced to him, too.

Dyar has assembled a collection of eight singlewheeled cycles since his godfather bought him his first as a gift. He owns a pink one, one with a 36-inch wheel an and another for “mountain unicycling,” which a cursory Wikipedia search confirms is a real thing.

He sometimes somee rides one of his unicycles to or from the Sigm Sigma Nu house or between classes. Last year as freshm h a freshman, he rode one during the Little 5 bike race, taunting the racers who “still used a training wheel” – an appea appearance that established his reputation.

Whil Dyar was practicing a unicycle act for a While high sch school talent show, a well-intentioned friend suggeste that he should also learn how to juggle, suggested reaso self-evident. He now has a collection for reasons object – some blunt, some not so blunt – that of objects spin abo above him as well. Sometimes the juggling and unicyclin combine in performances that demand a unicycling ber wide berth.

Hunter Dyar

THE ENTERTAINER Theatre + English Writing = Creative Performing Arts

But Dyar’s talents extend beyond the acrobatic. Dyar is a character, yes, but he’s an industrious one. He has written, directed and starred in plays; made short films; and designed a card game. He even wrote a collection of humor shorts, which he promotes online at HunterDyar.com.

So far he’s sold 36 copies.

Despite his broad interests – or maybe because of them – Dyar wasn’t always certain what would come after high school. “I had doubts about whether I’d go to college,” he says. “My parents told me, ‘No, you’re going. Study what you like, but you’re going.’”

Dyar took his parents up on both ends of their request, coming to DePauw determined to study what he liked. As a freshman, he enrolled in as many intro-level courses as he could schedule in search of the right academic fit, eventually narrowing his options

Talking with Dyar, you get the sense that had it not been for insistent parents – very sure of how they got where they did in life, and very sure that their son would have that chance, too – he might be honing a stand-up act in a club below street-level. For now, the freedom to match his studies to his interests has him firmly tethered to college life.

Considering his penchant for machete juggling and off-road unicycling, Dyar’s interdisciplinary major is remarkably practical.

Today’s DePauw student has a choice of more than 40 different academic majors. The selection covers most students’ interests, especially when combined with the possibility of a minor.

Nevertheless, some students choose to order off the menu. Outside of officially prescribed majors the University offers, students can create an independent major by mixing courses from multiple departments.

Many of the majors these students pursue match up with offerings found at other universities, while a few are decidedly more experimental.

The number of students who go this route is small, however. Only 15 are currently pursuing independently designed majors, and just 75 have graduated with one in the last 25 years.

The reason for such a low rate is simple: it takes a great deal of effort to create an interdisciplinary major. To clear an independent major with the registrar, a student must first create a plan of study, have representatives from the respective academic departments sign as advisers, and then have the Office of Academic Affairs approve the entire plan.

Naturally, most students remain happily unfamiliar with this route.

“I realized, not only could I do both creative writing and performance, but the combination itself would also be interesting,” to writing or performance. This, he discovered, was a false dilemma. Taking advantage of DePauw’s independent interdisciplinary major option, he combined the two into a single major he calls creative performing arts.

“I realized not only could I do both creative writing and performance, but the combination itself would also be interesting,” Dyar says. “How do you write, not just for somebody to read and enjoy, but also for somebody to then translate to a different medium? If you were to take a stand-up comedian’s jokes and write them down, they wouldn’t be as funny on paper. Writing and performance mesh to form something completely new.”

Associate Dean of Academic Life Kelley J. Hall and Dean Pedar W. Foss ultimately speak with each student serious about designing an independent major. Hall says she has fielded inquiries from fewer than a dozen students so far this year. She estimates only three will actually end up certifying their majors, but the few left standing will have a completely unique college education.

“It’s an amazing opportunity, if you can find a way to pull your interests together in a coherent way,” Hall says.

Risk vs. Reward If you were casting a college melodrama starring Dyar, junior Garth E. Synnestvedt would be a perfect candidate to play his straight-laced campus counterpart. Cleanshaven with short, dark hair, he looks in every way the natural foil to the lighthaired, light-hearted Dyar. The contrast is more than skin deep. While Dyar has gone full-bore into the creative arts, Synnestvedt’s independent neuroscience major borrows heavily from biochemistry, biology and psychology.

Synnestvedt could have chosen the neuroscience concentration offered by the biology and psychology departments, or some combination of traditional majors and minors, but neither approach, he thought, would leave time for his other interests. Like many young adults who go on to study human health, his interest in the brain came from personal experience. His grandfather, who passed away last fall, lived with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, while others close to him suffered from depression, eating disorders and severe panic attacks. He wanted to know the cause and effect, and he also had questions about how society treated mental illness. Courses in anthropology and philosophy would need to be part of his education, too.

Then there was Chinese – originally

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pitched to his father as a future-proof plan for employment when he was in middle school. “My dad asked, ‘Why Chinese?’” he remembers. “Why not German or French? I was like, ‘Well Dad, by the time I reach the job market, China will be the largest consumer nation in the world.’ I was just a kid.”

As he grew older, his interest in Chinese customs and culture during the nation’s rapid economic expansion also matured.

The combination of all these components into a single, four-year

plan sometimes intensifies Synnestvedt’s questions about his liberal arts education.

Is my knowledge too general? Will the Chinese economy continue to gain on the United States? “It feels very risky,” he says of having an independent major, “but that’s the point, I guess. It forces you to live the examined life. It’s amazing because you’re constantly making choices, but also tough in a world that wants you to be one way, to have a label, pa and to follow a certain path.” suppor Behind every Luckily, he has support. fa independent major are faculty advisers who invest in the persona personalized education of an ambitious student. P Professor of Psychology and Dean of Faculty Terri L. Bonebright first met S Synnestvedt fac when she and another faculty member interviewed him for the S Science Research Fellows Program. At the end of the interview, the two profess professors gave each other a look that said “Wow.” “W Bonebright is an expressive p person (much of loo at sudden her research looks bursts of emotion), emo but she isn’t prone to excessive positivity. O One time, an interdisci interdisciplinary advisee f not far from graduating dow with sat down Bone Bonebright to talk abo changing her about ca career plans. The s student left the

meeting a biology major.

If there’s a smarter way to go about your studies, Bonebright will level with students. When she took on Synnestvedt as an advisee, she warned him about the common drawbacks of independent majors in the sciences. He would have no departmental home, making it difficult to form the bonds with peers

“It feels very risky, but that’s the point, I guess. It forces you to live the examined life.” and professors that occur during four years of classes with familiar faces.

Courses reserved for majors wouldn’t be open to him, but he’d still be expected to demonstrate competency. Despite these obstacles, her biggest worry was that Synnestvedt himself remained sane.

“The one thing I’m always concerned about with him is that he has so many things on his plate,” Bonebright says.

“But he’s going to get every ounce of goodness he can out of all the things he’s interested in, and I’m happy to be able to support him in his educational quest.”

Outliers Last November, one of sophomore Hope S. Jordan’s advisers sent her an article about the role social scientists played during the 2012 presidential election.

Anticipating a close race, the Obama campaign had reached out for help in maximizing their candidate’s share of the

Garth E. Synnestvedt

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vote. It’s impossible to know what impact their advice had on the eventual outcome of the election, but in the days that followed, left- and right-leaning observers alike lauded the Obama campaign as one of the most effective turnout machines in American political history.

Politics, however, were peripheral to Jordan’s interest in the story. Her independent behavioral economics major – a mash-up of cognitive psychology and economics – focuses on the decisions people make and why they make them.

Behavioral economists reject the notion that humans are simply rational actors.

They say we often act irrationally, although not chaotically, by making decisions that challenge standard economic theory, even when perfect information is available to us.

“It was interesting how much thought had been put into figuring out how to motivate people to vote because it’s very hard to predict behavior,” Jordan says.

“It’s something economists try to do all the time – they put people on a nice, clean graph – but frankly, we aren’t so clear-cut.”

Consider this non sequitur: Jordan came to DePauw as a member of the Management Fellows Program, thinking that one day she might want to run a business. This January during Winter Term, she lived as a member of an Amish community. Jordan had never seen an Amish person before moving to Bremen, Ind., in the sixth grade, and she still remembers the first time a buggy passed in front of her house. The novelty eventually wore off, but Jordan, a devout Christian, remained curious about a community of people so strongly defined by religion. When she proposed the idea of living with an Amish family for a month-long independent study project, one of her advisers cautioned her about what to expect. Besides the daily chores, there wouldn’t be much to do other than

read the Bible. This would be a challenge for most students. “Not a big deal,” Jordan thought.

Adopted into a family of 10 in Nappanee, Ind., just down the road from her home in Bremen, Jordan’s month with the Amish confirmed both their work ethic and their faith. The rare times she wasn’t milking cows, chopping wood or helping to clean the seemingly endless dirty clothes and dishes that so manyy duce, her people under a single roof produce, choolhouses, host family took her to visit schoolhouses, hurch a quilting bee and, of course, church services. Life there was simple.. “You wake up, thank God for giving you another day, ne, spend do what work needs to be done,

fascination with the marketplace. But she’s also a unique person, with new interests to call her own. Choosing a major can sometimes feel like giving one up in favor of another. With an independent major flexible enough to apply to nearly any situation she might find herself in, she may never have to. “I’ve always envied people who knew exactly what they wanted to be, but I’m still trying to figure that out,” J y “That’s whyy DePauw has been Jordan says. such a great experience; it gave me the opportunity to explore.”

Hope S. Jordan

THE SEEKER Economics + Psychology = Behavioral Economics quality time with your family, praise st,” God for your blessings, and rest,” Jordan explains. And she was completely happy.

Jordan’s stay in Nappanee was the latest addition to a résuméé ast of increasing variety. During last ned year’s Winter Term, she interned at a Christian mission in als Dublin, Ireland, preparing meals for the homeless and helping to run after-school programs for children. Outside her studies, she volunteers as a mentor at a local elementary school and runs with the women’s cross country team.

Her mother, a doctor, and father, who worked in business,, bestowed upon their daughter a love for helping others and a

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Sophomores prepare for life after DePauw

By Sarah McAdams

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Since attending DePauw’s Sophomore Institute, Celia C. Kauth ’15 says she has a more focused idea of what her future will look like and what employers are looking for. “I was able to connect with alumni and develop a fresher perspective of my own goals for the year,” she says. “The Institute took place two days before the semester began, and this opportunity to grow more enthusiastic about my goals right before classes started was a great way to begin the year. “ The Sophomore Experience allows students to connect with alumni, build confidence and explore career paths. It begins with the Sophomore Institute – a new approach the University is taking to strengthen its support for students.

Nearly 100 sophomores attended the daylong Institute, “Owning Your Life Journey,” in August.

Rajesh N. Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning, explains that sophomore year is about transitions. “The first year is about environment and friendships,” he says. “The second year is about addressing the larger questions: Which major am I going to choose? What’s my life’s calling?” Bellani says the idea is to offer students a set of tools,

both practical and theoretical, to help them understand there is a process to answering the big questions.

Bellani acknowledges the benefits of alumni mentorship and is eager to build on what’s already in place. “Alumni mentorship is a signature program at DePauw and part of the University’s distinctiveness,” he says. “That signature needs to be reflected in the lives of our students. I call it lifelong connectedness – how you connect the past with the present.

“I frequently tell sophomores they should have 500 business cards of alumni and friends of DePauw before they graduate,” Bellani says. “It’s not the card that is important, but the networking that goes along with asking

for the card. This exchange is a valuable lesson in informational interviewing.”

He also advises students to think of themselves as CEOs of their own companies, and good CEOs take advice from a lot of people. They should have multiple advisers – multiple business cards.

Alumnus and DePauw parent Christopher “CJ” Johnston ’83 participated in the Sophomore Institute as both facilitator and panelist. He, Michael E. Bogers ’01 and Courtney R. Knies ’10 shared their views and experiences about “Applying Opportunities to Life’s Work.” “Our role was to discuss the connections among life, career and service,” Johnston says.

“We talked about how these things are intertwined – how one advances the

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other, brings balance to life and leads to more networking opportunities.”

Johnston is very enthusiastic about his participation in the program.

“DePauw alumni want to help and usually only need to be asked,” he says.

“Undergraduates appreciate contacts like the ones afforded in these events.”

The program also tapped the expertise of William B. Caskey ’78, CEO of Caskey Achievement Strategies, who presented a session, “Creating Your Action Plan,” at the Sophomore Institute and during the semester-long course. In addition, Corey L. Brackney ’04, Brandon A. Emkes ’01, Kaitlyn M. Johnson ’10 and Eric A. Wolfe ’04 participated on a panel during Winter Term 2013.

Wolfe, DePauw’s Greek life coordinator, says the panelists discussed their career paths and decisions they’ve made, and offered advice for students trying to find their way in the world.

“I shared my own career story, which

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included work for a national nonprofit, National 4-H Council; internship on Capitol Hill with Senator Evan Bayh’s press office; and development, grant writing and grant management work with a local nonprofit, the Putnam County Community Foundation,” Wolfe says. “In addition, I talked about my

says. “These programs are popular with students because they feel empowered and gain practical knowledge they can use right now.”

Sophomore Institute participant Taoxi Li ’15 didn’t decide on a major, or design an off-campus study plan, that day. However, she appreciated

“Students were most interested in our own stories.”

– ERIC A. WOLFE ’04 current position at DePauw and with F.C. Tucker as a realtor.”

Wolfe told students that a degree from DePauw is valuable no matter what path they take and that the alumni network is in place to help them.

“Students were most interested in our own stories,” he says.

“I’m glad DePauw has programming for sophomores to prepare them for life beyond DePauw and challenge them to make decisions that contribute to achieving their aspirations,” Wolfe

the encouragement she felt from alumni panelists. “When students are so concerned about making the right decisions to be successful, it’s good to hear encouraging words to feel more confident about the unknown future,” she says.

Erin A. Mahoney, assistant director for professional opportunities, with the assistance of Stephanie A. Hogue, internship coordinator, and Pedar W. Foss, dean of academic life, developed a Winter Term course targeting first-year and sophomore students to complement the Sophomore Institute. “Becoming My Own Career Expert” was offered during Winter Term 2012 and 2013.

“The course provokes students to think about who they are and how their interests fit into the world of work,” Mahoney says. “It’s an interactive course, so students really get to know each other.

They feel comfortable talking about their concerns and fears and are able to give and receive good, honest feedback.”

Students develop a personal identity statement, learn how to present and sell themselves, and think about how to move forward to choose a major and career field. The curriculum also includes learning how to network, build a résumé and create an online presence.

After conducting a mock informational interview with someone in their field of interest, students share what they

learned about themselves through a presentation as part of the final project.

The Winter Term course was so successful that Mahoney and Foss expanded it into a semester-long experiential course, “Sophomore Life Planning.” It was offered for the first time during the fall 2012 semester. The course takes a multi-faceted approach to the career exploration process. It offers students an opportunity to engage in individual assessment activities, interact with alumni, conduct research and build connections with people in career fields of interest.

Foss created an intensive mock networking session that many students cited positively in their final journal entries. “It’s an intensive ‘speed interviewing’ process that helps students test their pitch and practice so that it begins to become natural,” he says. “They learned from answering questions and from asking them.”

Kauth also enrolled in the semesterlong course. “‘Sophomore Life Planning’ pushed us outside of our comfort zones and encouraged us to utilize DePauw’s

resources and attend events and activities focused toward defining our career passions,” she says. “We made connections with DePauw alumni and friends. The requirements for the course – a completed LinkedIn profile, polished résumé, and attendance at various career events and networking opportunities – were

effectively for work.”

Future events include classes and workshops throughout the year that focus on career assessment, digital profiles and off-campus study opportunities. Outreach programs for first-year and sophomore students are also offered within residential communities. Mini-Sophomore Institutes

“I frequently tell sophomores they should have 500 business cards of alumni and friends of DePauw before they graduate. It’s not the card that is important, but the networking that goes along with asking for the card.”

– RAJESH N. BELLANI, dean of experiential learning and career planning developed to help us gain insight into what life after DePauw will look like.”

Her favorite aspects of the course were guest speakers and the connections she made with potential employers.

“I am seeking an internship this summer with a nonprofit organization – preferably focusing on social justice or government. The course enabled me to use my completed LinkedIn profile to make connections and search more

are offered during Winter Term for students unable to participate in August.

In 2012 Kenneth W. Coquillette and Carrie Melind Coquillette, both members of the Class of 1982, made a gift to the DePauw Annual Fund and designated it for the Center for Student EngagementSophomore Programming Fund. Read more about it in the Advancement section on page 33.

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letters (cont.)

ALUMNI RECALL INTERNATIONAL STUDY Letters continued from page 3.

EN FRANÇAIS, S’IL VOUS PLAIT Both of us spent our junior year at the Ecole de Français Moderne in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1957-58. At the time, all study abroad was loosely coordinated and encouraged by Professor Hans Grueninger of the German department.

DePauw did not really have a study abroad program, but it allowed students who wanted to do so to transfer credits from foreign universities if the appropriate DePauw academic department approved courses after they were taken. It was a risk, and only a small number of students went abroad each year.

College years are a time of important life-defining decisions. Students choose a university to attend, try out courses in different disciplines, select a major that often leads to an eventual career, and in our years we often chose a life partner.

Our year in Switzerland had a strong, even determining, influence on all of those life choices for us. During that time, we got to know each other better than we ever could have on campus, ended up falling in love over there, and got married the following year. The majors we declared during our sophomore years were changed as a result of our experience.

We acquired a good working knowledge of the French language and came to realize how important knowing a foreign language was for Americans, so we changed our majors to French.

Ann ended up getting a M.A. degree in French literature, teaching high school French and college French courses as an adjunct instructor, and coordinating the on-campus affairs of Bucknell en France for a dozen years. After several years of graduate school and three years as an instructor back at DePauw, Allan earned a

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Ph.D. in Romance linguistics and became a professor of French and linguistics at Bucknell University. As a direct result of our positive experiences as undergraduates abroad, Allan created Bucknell en France, so that current students would have a similar opportunity.

We are now retired and still remain in contact with many friends we made during our junior year abroad and our several years spent in French-speaking countries. Study abroad in the ’50s was very much a road less traveled by, and indeed, for us at least, it made all the difference. Today many more students study abroad, and it still makes major, durable differences in their lives.

Ann Egbert Grundstrom ’59 Allan W. Grundstrom ’59 Lewisburg, Pa. AFRICAN STUDIES VIA EDINBURGH Fifty years ago, I left DePauw to study at the University of Edinburgh for one year. It was not part of an organized DPU study abroad program; only a few existed at that time. What an incredible experience! The scholarly work was intense and demanding, with some Scottish profs sniffing at Americans’ [They meant me.] lack of intellectual grounding. But I stuck it out and finally won grudging acceptance and discovered African history. Until then, my studies had always been Western-focused, but at Edinburgh a new exciting field opened.

At the same time, there were wonderful opportunities to explore Europe cheaply – hostels, trains, buses, hitch hiking [Those were the days!] – and to embrace new music, art, dance, plays, cuisine. It was a fantastic learning adventure.

That year changed my life. I went on to graduate work in African studies, to teach anthropology for more than 25 years, and to stay committed to

international work and research.

Beverly Bolser Brown ’64 Hillsdale, N.J. DEPAUW WAS WAITING I left for Freiburg, Germany, in summer 1994, and life has never been the same for me since.

I was entering my junior year at DePauw and enrolled in the IES Abroad Program. There were students from many colleges and universities represented in the English-taught classes. The professors and subject matter were both intriguing.

The pass-fail system allowed for a less competitive classroom environment with an emphasis on cultural exploration and travel. I met wonderful friends with whom I still remain in contact. The experience taught me what no textbook could ever do.

I learned to live with people with whom I didn’t share a language, rely on myself, take responsibility, budget my time/money, be resourceful, be patient, deal with adversity and broaden my horizons.

My world was a whole new place filled with possibility and hope and wonder. I traveled far and wide and saw the most beautiful sights. I enjoyed it so much that I enrolled at the University of Freiburg for the subsequent semester, returning to DePauw for my senior year.

I still look back on that year as one of the happiest, most interesting times in my life. I came into my own, a more flexible open-minded individual. I am so very grateful for the experience. What I had at DePauw was great, too, and it was all still there waiting for me when I returned Elizabeth Coffman Spehar ’96 Stamford, Conn.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENT As one of your [probably] oldest former students who studied abroad, I appreciate

the opportunity to reflect back on that year, 1959-60. I was an “experimental” student, the first one to attend the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. Before starting my academic year there, I had the opportunity to attend the International Youth Conference in the Bavarian Alps where I made a lot of friends whom I visited in several European countries during my year abroad.

I can say unequivocally that the year I spent abroad was the best year of my life because it was the year that I “grew up” and learned how to live responsibly.

Having virtually no rules or regulations and no hours when I had to be back in my room, I learned how to make responsible decisions and do what was right. I also had the opportunity to meet Albert Camus who spoke to our philosophy

allowing me to spend that year abroad Fran Wagner Rehm ’61 Wimauma, Fla. ON HIS OWN IN TOKYO I studied abroad at Sophia University in Tokyo from December 1971 through January 1973. I was raised in suburban St. Louis, and I’m sure that when I went to DPU, study abroad in Tokyo was the farthest thing from my mind.

I knew that I liked history and law and wanted to major in one or the other.

My first adviser, Dr. [ John] Eigenbrodt in religion, suggested that for my first semester I try a course a bit “out-of-thebox,” History of China and Japan with Professor Clifton Phillips. The course changed my life! Although I had taken world history in high school, it omitted Asia and Africa. Dr. Phillips introduced

“My world was a whole new place filled with possibility and hope and wonder. ” ELIZABETH COFFMAN SPEHAR ’96, STAMFORD, CONN.

class not long before his untimely death, and our art class visited Mont SainteVictoire, the subject of a number of Paul Cézanne’s paintings. Of course, I lived near Arles, where Vincent van Gogh lived. I made many trips that year to Italy and Spain, where my horizons were once again broadened by so many historical events and sights, and I was close enough to the French Alps to take advantage of occasional skiing expeditions.

All in all, I had more “growing experiences” in that one year than I have ever had in my life. Yes, I missed out on many experiences I would have had – if I had stayed at DePauw that year – but I certainly feel it was well worth it. I will always be grateful to DePauw for taking a chance and

me to a brand new world, to civilizations and peoples I didn’t even know had a history. His course was very challenging for a first-semester freshman. I did well in the course, and I left it with an abiding interest in China and Japan, the so-called East Asian world.

At first my primary interest was China, but in 1970 the United States had no diplomatic relations with China, and DPU taught only Japanese. During my next year, I took up the study of the Japanese language and took more courses on China.

Finally, this country boy from St. Louis was accepted into the DPU study-abroad program for Sophia University. I had never flown on an airplane, ridden on a subway or lived in a city the size of Tokyo.

What is more, the program to Sophia (a

Jesuit school) was not a real program at all – all four of us who went on that program during the early ’70s were forced to find our own accommodations and negotiate Tokyo on our own.

The courses at Sophia were not very challenging, but the great challenge was learning the Japanese language and culture. I became so fixated on the language that I ran into street signs as I was trying to read the Japanese characters. At first, I lived with a Japanese family, but eventually moved into my own apartment(s). In a word, living on my own was a great stimulus to learning the language and culture, and getting to know more about the Japanese people. By the time I left Tokyo in January 1973, I was fluent, and that spring I merited acceptance into graduate school in Japanese history at Harvard University, a mecca of sorts at that time.

I also came to my eventual academic interest, the history of Japan to 1600.

I have spent a lifetime researching, writing and teaching about this subject.

I have produced six books, including the most widely used textbook, on this topic.

In these ways, I feel certain that I have influenced countless people. Periodically, I receive email from France, Germany, China, Australia, Canada and Japan – from people wanting to know about my teaching and research.

And it all began at DPU, with Professor Clifton Phillips and that year abroad in Tokyo. It was one of the most liberating experiences of my life. As a fellow student wrote, for a short time I shed my previous identity and was free to pursue my own agenda. I can only thank Dr. Phillips and DPU for that wonderful experience, which gave me a purpose and a plan for my life.

W. Wayne Farris ’73 Honolulu, Hawaii

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R. David and Suzanne Anderson Hoover: Giving back and giving forward

ARCHITECT’S RENDERING OF THE NEW DINING HALL. R. David and Suzanne Anderson Hoover, both Class of 1967, speak with great humility about an otherwise extraordinary gift. Their recent announcement of a $25 million gift to DePauw means the creation of a new dining facility and a meaningful increase in student scholarship support.

For these two alumni, however, their gift is a simple expression of a sincere belief in their alma mater, a desire to give back and, at the same time, give forward.

“The main thrust of our giving has always been for education in some form,” Suzanne says. Since DePauw means so much to both of them, supporting the University with a major gift just made sense. “We’d like to see

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DePauw be what it’s always been, but better,” she says. And this gift will certainly help make that happen.

Nine million dollars will support the R. David and Suzanne A. Hoover Endowed Scholarship Fund for needbased financial aid. “It’s important that we level the playing field for people who may not have been so fortunate, but who have great potential,” David explains. He adds that as a DePauw student he received an $800 grant from the University, which at that time made up the difference between the cost of DePauw and the cost of a state school.

That financial assistance at a crucial time is something he never forgot.

The remainder of the gift will be used

for construction of the R. David and Suzanne A. Hoover Hall, a multipurpose dining hall to be situated just east of the Memorial Student Union Building.

“It should be a magnet in the middle of campus creating a greater source of community,” David says. “We became convinced we should be involved in meeting this major need at DePauw.”

The Hoovers met during their senior year at DePauw and were married in June 1968. Both were attracted to DePauw because of its size, reputation and exceptional educational opportunities.

They have carried the benefits of a liberal arts education throughout their lives and careers. David recalls that even as an economics major he took an astronomy class and built a telescope.

Volunteerism and philanthropy have always been an important part of the Hoovers’ lives. “Volunteerism has always been a way to do something positive for whatever community we’ve lived in,” Suzanne says. This attitude has certainly affected their work with DePauw, where David was chair of the Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010.

In adding to their endowed scholarship fund, the Hoovers hope to make an even more lasting difference than the building that will bear their name. “Building the endowment is critically important,” David says.

Pointing to the special role of a strong endowment in troubled economic times, he adds, “In higher education, you can’t have a big enough savings account these days.”

David concludes, “We want to see a strong DePauw, a University perceived to be excellent, producing students who are making a positive difference in the world.”

$20 million committed for need-based financial aid endowment Timothy H. and Sharon Williams Ubben, both members of the Class of 1958, committed a $20 million gift to the University’s endowment to provide financial aid for DePauw students.“This gift further establishes the remarkable legacy that Tim and Sharon Ubben will leave on this campus,” President Brian W. Casey said. “Their love for this University is clear, and their willingness to support its future is humbling. I cannot fully express the depth of my gratitude for all that they do, and have done, for DePauw.”

The Ubbens’ commitment is the latest in a lengthy history of gifts that have provided the foundation for the University’s significant commitment to supporting students, which began with establishment of the Rector endowment and Rector Scholars Program in 1919. Gifts such as these have made a DePauw education possible for generations of students who might not otherwise have been able to attend.

“This University has been a part of our lives for many years, and it is a privilege to be part of its future,” Tim Ubben said. “Sharon and I have always believed that the opportunity to see the impact of your gift is one of the most rewarding experiences, which is why this gift means so much to both of us.

“We have been so impressed with the many DePauw students we have come to know over the years, and we believe it is essential that we ensure that all well-qualified students have an opportunity to attend this university.”

The Ubbens have been active in the lives of their community and in supporting important causes, including their alma mater. Sharon Ubben

TIMOTHY H. AND SHARON (WILLIAMS ’58) UBBEN ’58, CENTER FRONT, WITH UBBEN ENDOWED CHAIRS AT COMMENCEMENT 2012.

served as director and president of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Auxiliary Board, trustee of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation, and mentor for the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County, Fla. Tim Ubben has served on the national board of directors of the Posse Foundation since 2004, founded Chicago Posse in 1999 and was honored as a Posse Star in 2009; as a director of the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County, Fla.; and director of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Fla. The couple’s many gifts to DePauw have established numerous endowed professorships as well as the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series,

which has brought nearly 100 programs to campus, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres, Benazir Bhutto and Tony Blair.

Tim Ubben co-chaired DePauw’s Board of Trustees from 1998-2001 and continues as an advisory trustee; he was a member of the Alumni Association Board from 1983-87 and chair from 1985-87; chaired The Campaign for DePauw: Leadership for a New Century; and was awarded DePauw’s Old Gold Goblet in 1993.

Sharon Ubben served on the Alumni Association Board from 1988-94.

In 2012 Tim and Sharon Ubben were each awarded honorary Doctor of Public Service degrees.

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Four gifts combine to make DePauw stronger, more competitive DePauw recently received four major gifts aimed at further strengthening student life, advising and athletics.

Together, the gifts will work to increase DePauw’s competitiveness as it seeks to attract the most talented and promising students available.

Allan B. and Kathryn Fortune Hubbard ’74 provided a $5 million gift to establish the Kathryn Fortune Hubbard Center for Student Engagement. The Center, to be housed in the Memorial Student Union Building, will serve as the locus for student advising on a variety of fronts: off-campus study, internships, Winter Term programs, career planning, and pre-professional and graduate school preparation.

The vision behind the Hubbards’ gift builds upon steps already taken to improve and centralize advising and cocurricular programs on campus. President Brian W. Casey said, “With their support, DePauw can be the leading national liberal arts college in connecting the central tenets of the liberal arts with cocurricular experiences in ways that equip our students to lead lives of meaning and accomplishment.”

Another $5 million gift, from Marshall W. Reavis ’84 and Amy Zino Reavis, will fund a new stadium at DePauw for soccer and lacrosse. Soccer has long been a staple of DePauw sports, and lacrosse was added last year as a new varsity-level sport for both men and women. However, a stadium that can compete with facilities at DePauw’s peer schools has long been needed for the sports. The Reavis’ gift will make that a reality.

The stadium will be located along Hanna Street, immediately south of Blackstock Stadium, and it will make DePauw a more attractive school for

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Center for Student Engagement

Lilly Center

Multi-Sport Stadium (foreground)

Hoover Dining Hall

talented students. “If an institution wishes to compete for the best student-athletes on a nationwide basis, particularly for sports like soccer and lacrosse, it must provide the resources and facilities necessary to support these popular, growing sports,” Marshall Reavis said. “Our gift will help ensure DePauw competes in this manner for decades ahead.”

A third $5 million gift from M. Scott Welch ’82 and Kimberlee A. Welch serves as the lead gift in renovating the Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center. Work at Lilly Center will include enhancements to varsity locker rooms, office space and development of a dedicated kinesiology program laboratory.

Additional proposed renovations will create multipurpose spaces for group fitness classes, a new campus entrance to the facility and a student lounge. The Lilly Center improvements will support

student health, fitness and recreation, as well as undergird athletic programming, all of which will lead toward a more competitive DePauw.

A landmark $25 million gift made

by R. David and Suzanne Anderson Hoover, both 1967 graduates, will have a tremendous impact on DePauw for years to come. With $16 million of the gift earmarked for a new dining hall and $9 million to support needbased scholarships (See related story on page 30.), the Hoovers are making an investment in DePauw that will touch the entire University and have profound effects on students to be known as Hoover Scholars. “Their love for DePauw is palpable, and their passion for its future is unmatched,” President Casey said of the Hoovers. “Their legacy on this campus will forever be one marked by a commitment to students of DePauw.”

Gift from Ken and Carrie Coquillette, both Class of 1982, to strengthen student advising

KENNETH W. AND CARRIE (MELIND ’82) COQUILLETTE ’82

DePauw’s recently established Sophomore Institute, a structured effort to give students further academic and career direction in their crucial second year, is receiving a big boost from two alumni dedicated to elevating the quality and extent of advising at DePauw.

Kenneth W. and Carrie Melind Coquillette, both 1982 graduates, understand the life-changing importance of quality advising, including mentoring. They recently committed $2 million toward enhancing student advising through the Center for Student Engagement,

with an emphasis on the Sophomore Institute and on peer-to-peer mentoring in a new program known as Coquillette Fellows.

Both Ken and Carrie left DePauw with bright futures ahead, while also realizing that their academic and career advising could have been stronger.

Ken recalls that his truest adviser was, in fact, legendary coach and athletic director Theodore “Ted” Katula. “A true mentor,” Katula was gifted at finding a student’s strengths and steering the student in the best possible direction.

Additionally, a one-time visit by DePauw parent Charles L. Grannon

of Goldman Sachs, who spoke at a senior seminar, was of immeasurable importance to Ken. In both instances, he realized how important dedicated mentoring, and the shared life experiences of friends and alumni, could be to student success.

The Coquillettes also cite the mentoring they and their children received from alumni leaders Timothy H. and Sharon Williams Ubben, both Class of 1958. (See related story on page 31.) “Mentoring never stops,” Ken says. “You’re never too young or too old.” They are especially excited about peer mentoring as a key aspect of their gift. They also hope the Sophomore Institute and opportunities like it will allow for greater alumni involvement in students’ life and career planning.

“This isn’t a luxury,” Carrie says. “It is a necessity – particularly in today’s challenging and highly competitive jobs environment. DePauw students need high-quality advising to better match their interests and skill sets with the opportunities available in the global economy.”

Expanding on that thought, Ken explains, “We want to see DePauw grow into the promise we have in our grasp.” Part of that effort is to radically strengthen student advising. “What excites us the most? I’d say the art of the possible.”

For more information about DePauw’s Sophomore Institute, read the feature story on page 24.

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DEPAUW GATEWAY OFFERS MORE FOR ALUMNI The DePauw Gateway is now live, providing a more robust experience for alumni looking to connect with each other and with current students.

Replacing the previous Alumni Gateway, the new online community makes it easier to find and connect with classmates, maintain your contact information, share your post-graduate experiences, network with current students, and register for regional and on-campus events.

You can visit the new DePauw Gateway online at gateway.depauw. edu. If you have questions about creating your account, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 877-658-2586 or email the staff at alumnioffice@depauw.edu.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND 2013 PREVIEW Save the date for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013, June 5-9. Classes celebrating a reunion are 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008. Although these classes have a milestone reunion, all alumni, family and friends are invited to Alumni Reunion Weekend.

Alumni Reunion Weekend is a perfect time for alumni to get together with classmates and relive old memories. Alumni and friends will have the opportunity to revisit the classroom, explore the campus, attend class dinners and receptions, and meet other alumni. Don’t miss out on this wonderful celebration of DePauw memories and traditions!

In March, alumni will receive more details, including an overview of weekend activities and highlights. Registration will open in mid-March, and a full schedule will be available online at that time.

For more information, including class-specific details and a tentative schedule of events, go to www.depauw.edu/alumni/events/alumni-reunion-weekend-2013 or call toll-free 877-658-2586.

ALUMNI EVENTS Although the outcome was not what we had hoped for, Tiger fans all around the country were still tuned in to cheer on the DePauw Tigers during the 2012 Monon Bell game. Sixty-four telecast parties were held around the nation as Tiger fans of all ages gathered in bars, restaurants and homes to share their DePauw pride and spirit.

175th CELEBRATION Mark your calendars for this upcoming 175th Anniversary celebration event.

April 7, 2013 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series: A Yearlong DePauw Discourse Joseph R. Flummerfelt ’58, director of choral music, New York Philharmonic and co-artistic director, Spoleto USA

ALUMNI IN BOSTON GATHERED TO CHEER ON THE TIGERS DURING THE MONON BELL GAME.

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A DePauw Story: How I Got from Here to There and Back JOHN JAKES ’53 Copyright 2012 by John Jakes. All rights reserved.

This text was written for presentation in Meharry Hall on Oct. 24, 2012, as part of the University’s 175th Anniversary celebration. When health issues forced me to cancel the trip to Greencastle, President Casey invited me to present the text in DePauw Magazine. Here it is, only slightly edited by the author. J.J.

Alex Haley of Roots fame began his speeches this way: “Let me tell you a story.”

I’ll begin the same way.

My story touches on what I believe a liberal arts education can do for you, if you’re willing to listen and learn.

However, the telling of this story is personal, avoiding those countless bromides, true but tiresome: the number of CEOs who have risen thanks to the liberal arts (a lot). Etcetera. Off we go in a different direction.

Back in the day – late autumn, 1950 – I came to the stage of Meharry Hall with some bedraggled SAEs for a performance I have completely forgotten. I have forgotten it, understandably, because – that night – peeking from offstage, I saw an Alpha Gamma Delta trio singing (I think)

“Blue Skies.” One of the singers was a delicious blonde from Danville, Illinois.

Later, in a lather at the ramshackle fraternity house on East Hanna, I sought her name, and learned it was Rachel Payne.

A senior, while I was only a sophomore; a transfer from Northwestern at that.

Undaunted, I launched my pursuit, despite the Mickey-Mouse duties of being a fraternity pledge.

Until then my career at good old DePauw had not been outstanding. I had the novel idea that you could pass required courses without studying.

When I walked into East College to take a German exam, I had stayed up all night – something new for me – foolishly hoping to cram weeks of classes into my addled head in a few hours. Dr. Hans Grueninger dolefully said, “Herr Jakes, you look like a walking caffeine pill.”

For this and other classroom accomplishments, I was placed on scholastic probation at the start of 1951. About the only things that kept me going were my short stories, selling briskly to the science fiction pulp magazines, and my pursuit of Rachel, who happened to be my lab instructor in another required course, zoology.

Zoology lab, too, was a disaster. In the spring of 1951, we got down to issues. Responding to my proposal,

which I believe took place at a dance in the darkened confines of the SAE house, Rachel said, “I’ll marry you, but I still won’t give you a passing grade in lab.”

The news of our impending marriage set Rachel’s sorority sisters to squealing their variations of a single theme: “It won’t last.” I was suspect at the Alpha Gam house because, among other things, I read, and wrote, science fiction, and made no secret of my proclamation that the U.S. would land a person on the moon by 1990.

“It won’t last …”

To date, however, Rachel and I have been married 61 and 1/2 years.

To paraphrase the late, great Henny Youngman, “Fifty-seven of those weren’t bad.”

Our parents reluctantly blessed the union, and we settled into married student housing in the old World War II Quonset huts on Olive Street.

There, sans distractions except for my gorgeous and forbearing wife, my grades settled down to a steady stream of As over the next two years. I’ve always been irked to think that, had I been more diligent as a sophomore, I might have made Phi Beta Kappa.

Ah well. I was doing well as an English composition major. In those days, the DePauw English department was chock-a-block with professors I came to revere. Edna Hayes Taylor.

Oliver Robinson. Virginia Harlow. My adviser, Fred Bergmann, whom I always credit for saving my academic bacon.

And of course, the grand old man himself, then department chairman, Raymond Pence, in whose fiction

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seminar I jauntily read my science fiction stories, just waiting for my fellow seminarians to jump all over the piece while I churlishly withheld the information that the story had already been bought, paid for and, more than likely, published in a 10-cent magazine of dubious scholarly merit.

I want to speak here of one more English department faculty member whose teaching had a profound effect on me, as so many of her colleagues did.

Her name was Ermina Mills.

She was a slender, grayhaired lady who taught an amazing range of writers during her Modern Lit course. Thomas Hardy. E.E. Cummings. T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Henrik Ibsen, and many others. What is important here is that Miss Mills opened a door to literary treasures with which I was completely unfamiliar. I went through that door and never looked back.

You see, until then, I was pretty much a child of popular culture of the day. I went to Sunday afternoon movies (two one-hour Westerns, previews, and a serial). I read pulp magazines (The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, Dime Detective), Big Little Books, and a whole range of glorious trash.

Nothing wrong with good trash, but at DePauw I learned that my mental diet was restricted to that. Miss Mills opened a door to literary wonders I’d never encountered before. Russian literature. French literature. Modern English literature. I’d never read a work of Dickens before that time. Today I put him at the top of my pantheon of great authors.

For a while, I was drunk on the novels of Emile Zola. From there I moved on to Flaubert. Whether Miss

Mills covered these geniuses I don’t recall. The point is, Miss Mills and many others at DePauw opened doors.

Whether I stepped through was up to me, but at least I had the chance.

Thus, when Rachel and I migrated to Columbus, Ohio, so that I could attempt a master’s degree in American literature at Ohio State, I was not as much of an

until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of your art and your world.”

I’m glad that speech mentioned history; somewhere along the line, I began studying that, too. My interest in the American past dates from the 1950s.

No, I never heard Dr. Crandall’s famous lecture on Gettysburg, and I’m hanged if I can tell you why. I regret that.

In 1954 I went into advertising out of financial necessity while continuing to write fiction at night.

I wrote several paperback historical novels during that time of less-than-profitable freelancing. I wrote novels about Nero’s Rome, Hannibal’s conquests, Genghis Khan’s Mongol raiders, even a Biblical novel in which Salome did her famous tap number while shedding seven veils.

An acerbic New York editor, Don Wollheim, bought several of these books from short outlines but insisted I come up with a pen name, because, to quote him, “John Jakes isn’t suitable for historical novels, it sounds like faulty plumbing.” Enter “Jay Scotland.”

Those early historicals were hasty and superficially researched, but I learned a lot from each one. I remained basically a grad student enrolling in a new course of study each time a new subject for historical fiction came along, and I’ve maintained that inquisitive attitude ever since. For that reason I’ve never kept a researcher busy, preferring to do my own searching and study, always learning something new in the process.

When the first of the Kent Family Chronicles, The Bastard, was published, I became, after 22 years, an overnight success. Life changed for me and my

“What is important here is that Miss Mills opened a door to literary treasures with which I was completely unfamiliar. I went through that door and never looked back.”

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ignoramus as I might have been.

So – a liberal arts education opens doors. Or, to put it another way – as I said when I gave the DePauw commencement address in 1995, a university like this teaches you how much you don’t know at the moment someone slaps a diploma into your hand.

To me that is the single greatest value of the liberal arts education. Not the facts you remember – the awareness of all that you don’t know but ought to find out.

I find variations on this theme many places.

While I was in the process of planning this piece, Rachel and I saw a production of John Logan’s remarkable two-hander Red. The play deals with painter Mark Rothko, and early in the play, Rothko makes this impassioned speech to his young assistant: “You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature.

Poetry. Drama. History. Archaeology.

Anthropology. Mythology. Music.

These are your tools as much as a brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist

family. Our son Mike cited one of these changes. When asked about differences in our lives “before” and “after,” he said, “Well, now we can afford to pay for new rain gutters.”

I was soon drawn into the perfidious world of book publicity. Over the years that followed arrival of The Bastard, I did 16 national book tours, each time finding some unexpected surprises and bumps along the way.

For instance, early on – for Kent novel #2, The Rebels – the publicity lady at my publisher booked me onto an afternoon TV show in New York City. The studio was on Third Avenue, north of the publisher’s office on the same street. No problem there, but the TV show wanted me to show up in Revolutionary War costume. Tight breeches – buckled shoes – lace at the throat.

Priscilla, the publicity person, said we should walk up to the studio since it was too short a distance for a cab. I blanched at the thought, assuming I’d be snickered at and pointed out on the Long March up Third. But we plunged into the noontime maelstrom of New York and, to my astonishment, even though I schlepped along in costume, no one noticed.

I mentioned this to Priscilla. She smiled. “Why are you surprised? This is New York.” The jaded hordes probably thought I had ducked out from a rehearsal of the musical “1776.”

It’s a strange and wonderful world out there when you become the flavor of the month, poorly prepared for it. Many more doors opened for me, though I never realized until later that I seldom if ever knew what lay on the other side.

Interview shows opened their doors.

Of the four or five times I appeared on “Today,” I remember most vividly the first one, because someone had warned me that Jane Pauley was a difficult interviewer. “She’ll tear you apart,” I was promised.

Before the big day, I recalled that Jane Pauley had begun as a news reader on an Indianapolis station, and that DePauw’s president at the time, Dick Rosser, had awarded her an honorary degree. So when I met her on the set, I said, “Dick Rosser said to say hello, Dr. Pauley.”

From then on I was in no danger.

The interview went swimmingly.

Doors to Hollywood studios opened.

The first three of the Kent novels were filmed as a mini-series by Universal. I looked in on production of all three, but had my 15 minutes of fame in the third one, The Seekers. The producer, who had become a friend, asked me to play a small part – seven lines. The director,

Later, when Warner’s filmed the first 12-hour mini-series of North and South, legendary producer David L. Wolper knew acting talent when he saw it. He wasn’t looking at me. He cast Rachel as Mary Todd Lincoln, to appear on the arm of Honest Abe as played by Hal Holbrook.

She did a grand job, and no matter what she may tell you, she loved sitting in a makeup chair between Morgan Fairchild and Genie Francis.

So now that I’ve concluded my story, let me sum up by saying again that I’m grateful that DePauw taught me not only what I didn’t know but inspired me to fill in the many, many blanks with reading and studying. I keep uppermost in mind the best, the truest single piece of advice about a career in the crazy world of publishing that I have ever encountered. I don’t believe the author of this splendid advice was ever taught by one of the professors I had in Greencastle, but I was certainly open to hearing and endorsing it long after I graduated.

The author of this advice was Somerset Maugham.

He said: “There are three rules for writing a novel.

Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

But please don’t spread it around.

“… I’m grateful that DePauw taught me not only what I didn’t know but inspired me to fill in the many, many blanks with reading and studying.” an elegant Brit, rolled his eyes and abdicated all responsibility.

I played in a scene with George Hamilton and the late Ross Martin.

George Hamilton murdered me, and I did a swan dive I’d rehearsed at my hotel with coaching from another DePauw graduate, Bill Hayes. I felt I did a poor job in the scene, but afterward, Ross Martin complimented me by shaking my hand and saying, “You stay out of my business, I’ll stay out of yours.”

A special thanks to these good people of New College of Florida who gave up time to help with thoughts on the liberal arts: Dr. Gordon Michalson, president Dr. Raymonda Burgman, associate provost Dr. Wendy Bashant, dean of faculty Dr. Nova Myhill, professor of English Dr. Miriam Wallace, professor of English Dr. Robert Zamsky, professor of English

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Charlotte Epple Smith celebrated her 100th birthday in October 2012. She was presented a citation from a Pennsylvania state representative at her Tel Hai Retirement Community celebration in Honey Brook, Pa.

1945

Mary Loop Doughten was named the 2012 Lucille Nussdorfer Tuscarawas (Ohio) County Woman of the Year. She has worked as a volunteer for higher education and promoted mental wellness in Tuscarawas County for more than 60 years.

1949

CLASS NOTES The class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the University current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. We will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo.

Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements: • Group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s full name (first, maiden, last), year of graduation, and background information on the gathering.

• Digital photos submitted must be high-quality jpegs of at least 300 dpi (or a file size of 1mb or higher).

Class notes can be sent to DePauw Magazine, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037. You may also submit via the DePauw Alumni Gateway, by faxing to 765-658-4625 or emailing dgrooms@depauw.edu.

Please direct questions to Larry Anderson, senior editor, at 765-658-4628 or landersn@depauw.edu.

AWARD-WINNING DePauw Magazine received two awards in the 2012 Pride of CASE V Awards Program sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District V (CASE V).

Cover feature stories in the winter and summer 2012 issues received a Gold Award in the category of Excellence in Feature Writing, Series. The winter cover feature focused on the efforts of Dr. James M. O’Brien Jr. ’91 to fight sepsis. Heather A. Hitchens ’91, executive director of the American Theatre Wing, was featured in the summer 2012 magazine. Larry G. Anderson, senior editor, wrote both feature stories.

The feature story about Dr. O’Brien and sepsis also received a Pewter Award (fourth place) in the category of Excellence in Feature Writing, Individual.

The awards were presented on Dec. 10 at the CASE V Conference in Chicago.

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Nancy Rockhill Walters is a retired professor of psychology and counseling from Central Missouri State University.

She lives in Grinnell, Iowa, and Mesa, Ariz. In Grinnell she is a member of the Foundation Board, Grinnell Regional Medical Center, docent for Sullivan Bank, regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, lay leader and certified lay speaker for the Methodist Church. While in Mesa, Nancy is an ambassador for Banner Baywood Hospital, a volunteer for the Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix), teacher and volunteer for New Day Center (Phoenix), teacher at the Living Well Institute, and works with Delta Delta Delta alumni in Scottsdale, Ariz.

1953

James K. and Beverly (Baker ’59) Baker received the 2012 James G. Simms Leadership Award at the Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) annual Circle of Leadership Celebration, November 2012. The award recognizes inspiring individuals who have generously given their time, dedication and leadership to advance IUPUC’s mission. Jim is a former member and chair of the DePauw Board of Trustees.

1955

Richard H. Hebel is retired, but he keeps active as a published freelance writer for magazines. His specialty subject area is the golden age of Hollywood, 1930-50s.

1958

Broadway star David Cryer headed the cast

of a new production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which opened at DePauw, Nov. 8, 2012.

1959

Beverly (Baker) and James K. Baker ’53 received the 2012 James G. Simms Leadership Award at the Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) annual Circle of Leadership Celebration, November 2012. The award recognizes inspiring individuals who have generously given their time, dedication and leadership to advance IUPUC’s mission.

1962

Emilie Savage-Smith was the Horizon Lecture speaker at DePauw, Oct. 23, 2012.

She is an emerita professor of the history of Islamic science at the Oriental Institute of Oxford University.

1963

Lewis F. Matuszewich received the Austin Fleming Newsletter Editor Award at the Illinois State Bar Association Annual Meeting. The award is presented in recognition of outstanding service to members of the Association, through the editing of a newsletter deemed to be of high quality and service to the members of the Bar throughout the State of Illinois. Lewis has served as the editor of The Globe, the newsletter of the International and Immigration Law Section, since 1998. He is a senior partner with the law firm of Matuszewich, Kelly & McKeever, LLP. He and his wife, Joyce Eisinger Matuszewich, live in Chicago.

(See photo.)

Jerry D. McCoy is a professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Eureka (Ill.) College, where he taught from 1977-2007.

Lewis F. Matuszewich ’63 (center)

JOHN C. ATTIG ’58 is president and founder of the Nobel Peace Laureate Project in Eugene, Ore. John became interested in the project when he read a book about historical monuments in the United States and realized that past American winners of the Nobel Peace Prize had not been recognized. His hope is to raise public awareness of their accomplishments and to inspire future generations to work for peace.

The project has two tracks, the first of which was completed in 2008. This part included a curriculum and teaching materials for elementary schools, middle schools and high schools, which are on the Web at www.nobelpeacelaureates.org. They can be downloaded at no cost for classroom use by a teacher or for research purposes by a student.

The second track of the project is construction of a Peace Park with plaques and information about the winners. The park will also provide a quiet place for contemplation. The Peace Park is under construction in Alton Baker Park in Eugene, Ore.

REV. WILLIAM M. SCHWEIN JR. ’63 and BARBARA MELUM CARNAL ’63 have written a book, The Poet & The Preacher: Writing 100 Words About 100 Words. As a result of their recent email correspondence and their mutual love of words, the two DePauw graduates renewed a friendship and discovered a challenging word game. Barb is a retired child and family counselor and wellness coach in Lexington, S.C., as well as creator of The Patchwork Family. Bill is a retired United Methodist pastor in Carmel, Ind. They look forward to meeting again at their 50th class reunion in June 2013. More information about the book is available from www.poetandpreacher.com.

Members of the 1960s Alpha Chi Omega classes attending a mini reunion included Gretchen Fletcher Reese ’63, Evelyn Whaley LaFollette ’63, D. Ellen McKinnis ’65 and Margery Miller Macey ’64. Muriel Holland MacConnell, DePauw elementary education instructor from 1957-65 and pledge trainer, also attended.

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J. MINETTE CONRAD TROSCH ’64, a family law attorney, was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the most prestigious civil award given by the governor of North Carolina, for lifetime service to CharlotteMecklenburg and the state.

A partner in the law firm of Conrad, Trosch & Kemmy, Minette was nominated for the honor by State Senator Dan Clodfelter, who cited her achievements as a teacher and community volunteer, public servant during 10 years on the Charlotte City Council, and attorney focusing on family law and domestic violence.

Minette is a dedicated participant in the Volunteer Lawyer Program in her representation of battered women and victims of domestic violence, and she serves as a leader of Women’s Commission workshops on domestic issues.

1964

Kathryn Gloin Betley was honored for her civic and volunteer work with the 2012 Indianapolis Business Journal’s Michael A. Carroll Award, which is given annually to a man or woman who has demonstrated the former deputy mayor’s qualities of determination, humility and devotion to the community. She is a member of Butler University’s board of trustees, lifetime member of the United Way board and member of the founders board of the Indianapolis Zoological Society.

1965

David L. Callies is coauthor of Development

by Agreement: A Tool Kit for Land Developers and Local Governments.

David is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at University of Hawaii at Manoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law.

1966

J. Michael McKechnie is executive director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), a nonprofit organization that promotes a greater understanding of Pacific Coast immigration. Michael is responsible for day-to-day operations of the foundation.

1967

Douglas W. Waples received the 2012 Outstanding Scientist award from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Doug lives in Evergreen, Colo. He is a consultant in petroleum exploration geochemistry for domestic and foreign companies.

Celina Insurance Group president WILLIAM W. MONTGOMERY ’72 received the George Goodall Lifetime Achievement Award in Cooperstown, N.Y., in September 2012.

The award was presented as part of the Legends of Baseball World Series. Bill and his son, Scott, were part of the championship team, the Mets. As an avid supporter of baseball and its ability to improve lives, Bill has been instrumental in leading local efforts to open access to the sport. In the early ’90s, Bill was one of the organizers for the Grand Lake Mariners, a team in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. Montgomery Field, home of the Celina Bulldogs Baseball Team, was dedicated in 2006 and largely possible because of Bill’s monetary support and guidance. He secured funding for the Wright State University Lake Campus to launch its first-ever baseball team last year.

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1969

Reita Naylor Donaldson is a realtor on Cape Cod, Mass., in the Orleans office of Kinlin Grover Real Estate. She earned the Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) Designation from the National Association of REALTORS. Reita has been a resident of Cape Cod since 1997 and entered the real estate industry in 1999. Previously, Reita was a counseling professional for 20 years in New York and later in Boston.

1970

James A. Yoder was elected a fellow of The Oceanography Society in 2012.

The Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have attained eminence in oceanography through their outstanding contributions to the field of oceanography or its applications during a substantial period of years. Jim is vice president for academic programs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass. He and his wife, Ellen, live in Falmouth, Mass.

1971

Rev. Marcia Cope Fleischman is senior pastor of Broadway Church in Kansas City, Mo. She has served on staff in various positions for 28 years. Marcia is the first female pastor in the 140-year history of the church. She is author and illustrator of two books, Angels Everywhere and Wild Woman Theology: In the Arms of Loving Mother God.

1972

Leslie Baird McDonald has written her fourth

Members of the 1972 Pi Beta Phi class met in Chicago. Those attending included Barbara Hayes Thomas, Lynn Robertson Gubernick, Carolyn Berger Parsons, Stephanie Dale Shipley, Eliza Seaman Olsen, Kristina Nelson Hesbol, Corinne Rieger Morgan, Lynn Downing Underwood, Joan Erlandson Kiburz, Kristine Krumholz Stidham, Joan Carlsen Setterlund and Carol McHugh Carlson.

book, Musings of a Horse Farm Corgi.

Leslie and her husband, Doug Froh, live at Full Cry Farm in Batavia, Ohio. Her email address is fcfarm@ aol.com.

Twelve members of the Pi Beta Phi class of 1972 met in Chicago the weekend of Sept. 21, 2012. (See photo.)

1981

Karen E. Turman was inducted into the Hamilton (Ohio) City School District’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Jan. 26, 2013.

1982

Robert O. Cathcart is senior vice president of global sales for Hansen Medical, Inc. in Mountain View, Calif.

1973

(Photo: Getty Images)

On Jan. 1, 2013, the European-American Business Council and TransAtlantic Business Dialogue merged to form the Transatlantic Business Council and appointed B. Timothy Bennett as the organization’s director-general. The 90-member company organization has offices in Washington, D.C. and Brussels.

Tim’s email address is tbennett@ transatlanticbusiness.org.

HE ACHIEVED DREAM AT TOUR DE FRANCE

1975

James D. Weddle was included in the St. Louis Business Journal listing of “Where Area Chief Executives Went to College.” Jim is a managing partner of Edward Jones.

1976

Linda H. Heuring had three short stories published. Her “Bordering on Sainthood” was published in Kestrel, Fairmont State University’s journal of literature and art. “Betty’s Branch” appeared in 42 Magazine; “One Chair Away” was published in Concho River Review, an American literary magazine based at Angelo State University in Texas.

1978

Donald S. Smith is a member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana board of directors. Don is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Riley Bennett & Egloff LLP. He represents clients in employment matters.

1979

Daniel F. Korb Jr. was named Corky Lamm Indiana Sportswriter of the Year by the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He will be recognized in Indianapolis April 13, 2013. Dan is an assistant sports editor with the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press.

Carrie Cooper Howe, who claims to be “an ordinary mother who appreciates the effort it takes to raise a family,” shares her experiences in her first book, MOTHERHOOD is NOT for babies . . . a story of dating, mating and procreating. She and her husband, Thomas J. Howe, have lived in Glen, Ellyn, Ill., for 20 years while raising three boys and a dog. She says the book is a compilation of true (ish) memories, starting with her and Tom’s first date at DePauw in 1981. The 88page paperback book is published by Windy City Publishers (ISBN: 978-1935766-65-0). (See book cover.)

1983

Robert W. Haynes is senior vice president of product introduction and licensing at VR Laboratories LLC. Edward C. Holub is a global sourcing expert with Bamko, Inc. Ed specializes in production methods and materials, including plastics, clothing, wood, glass, printing and electronics. His email address is eholub@bamko.net.

1984

David “Todd” Dillon is a senior consultant with Cejka Search based in Saint Louis.

His wife, Vicki, is district leader

As a member of the Longden Hall cycling team at DePauw, MICHAEL S. HUMPHRIES ’73 and his teammates – Phillip A. Cheeseman ’72, Mel Giess, Calvin J. Locker ’71, Paul A. Luther ’73, Dale T. Masin ’76, William D. Pullin ’71, David C. Westerholm ’71 and Thomas A. Westerholm ’75 – retired the Little 500 trophy with three consecutive wins. “The most satisfying part of the experience was the camaraderie among the cyclists from all the living units,” Humphries says. “These guys and friendships with other riders inspired me to continue racing after DePauw.”

One of Humphries’ ambitions was to compete as a cyclist in the 1980 Summer Olympics, but the United States boycotted the Moscow Games. Humphries stopped cycling to focus on job and family but never lost his love of the sport. He became a bicycle-racing enthusiast, watching pro races as the sport gained in popularity. He dreamed of traveling overseas to watch the Tour de France, the most prestigious cycling race in the world.

After putting that dream on hold for 35 years, he bought a bike, got back into racing and won the 2011 Senior National Games gold medal for the 60-65 age group at a 20K road race in Houston. This encouraged him to plan his long-delayed trip to France, which would last three weeks to watch each stage of the Tour and involve more than 1,500 miles of driving.

Humphries wanted to run along with the Tour leaders, just like other fans who donned colorful costumes. His wife, Brenda, designed a lightweight pirate outfit, and Humphries hoped his children would see him on TV on one of the four mountains the racers climbed.

“The excitement along the route is palpable and just fun to share with fans who come out to watch,” he says. “My dream started at DePauw, and I was able to fulfill it and create a lot of good memories. Now it’s my wife’s turn to plan her dream trip. I’ll just keep on cycling.”

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1985

for the Minneapolis district of JC Penney. They have a 16-year-old son, Brock. Todd’s email address is dtdrum@yahoo.com.

Diane Bredehoft of Norwalk, Conn., is first vice president of the Bank of New Canaan.

James L. and Barbara (Bradford) Weingartner graduated from Joint Military Attaché School at the Defense Intelligence Agency. They will be posted at the Embassy of the United States in Doha, Qatar.

Jim serves as senior defense official/ defense attaché. Their address is Office of Military Cooperation, Box 520, APO AE 09898.

Donna A. Heckler is a member of the board of directors of Cancer Support Community of Greater St. Louis. Donna is a global brand strategy executive at Ingersoll-Rand.

She co-authored The Truth About Creating Brands People Love.

Carol Hoopengarner Smith, chief information officer at DePauw,

DARREN R. WELLS ’87, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, was named CFO of the Year by Crain’s Cleveland Business magazine. The prestigious award recognizes the top fiscal officers of Northeast Ohio companies and organizations.

Wells, Goodyear’s chief financial officer since 2008, was selected as the winner from among candidates representing large public companies. Earlier in the year, Wells was listed among America’s top CFOs for 2012 by ExecRank.

TOR A. HOERMAN ’91, a founding member of Tor Hoerman Law LLC, runs a national defective drug and medical device litigation practice in Chicago and Edwardsville, Ill. He was listed as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Illinois for 2013 in Chicago Magazine. Tor focuses his legal efforts on mass tort litigation.

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was named a NITLE Fellow by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education.

As a NITLE Fellow, she will provide broad analysis, strategic insight, encouragement and perhaps a little provocation to the liberal arts community.

Jennett McGowan Hill is vice president and general counsel for Citizens Energy Group. She is a member of DePauw’s Alumni Board of Directors.

Stephen P. Summers ’90 Alice H. Ripley co-starred in A Civil War Christmas, December 2012, at the New York Theatre Workshop.

Alice is a Tony Award-winning actress and a singer.

litigation and patent litigation. He and his family live in Hinsdale, Ill. Brad’s email address is bgraveline@ sheppardmullin.com.

1986

1989

Michele Daily Bryant is treasurer of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. She is a partner at Kahn Dees Donovan & Kahn LLP in Evansville. She focuses on the defense and trial of medical malpractice claims.

Dana C. Hayes Jr. is group vice president of partner development for Acxioma. He leads a team focused on building strategic partnerships and distribution relationships to advance data-driven marketing and advertising globally.

Dr. Kenneth A. Krumins is among Orlando’s top doctors and a partner in the Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic.

He is a specialist in total knee replacement and a head team physician at University of Central Florida.

1987

David B. Coolidge is chief executive officer of Gearbox Holdings, Inc. Mary Beth Fisher is managing director and head of United States interest rates strategy at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, a European financial services group.

Bradley C. Graveline is a senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. He joins the firm’s intellectual property practice group, where he specializes in commercial

Jennifer Pope Baker is executive director of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.

The Women’s Fund creates options and opportunities for women and girls in central Indiana. Jennifer is a member of DePauw’s Board of Visitors.

1990

Elizabeth Byrne Hogan was appointed to serve as a circuit judge on the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, which covers the city of St. Louis.

Mary Beth McCormick Oakes was The Robert C. McDermond Center Lecture Series speaker, Oct. 23, 2012, at DePauw. Mary Beth is founder and chief executive officer of the ChoreoGroup in Indianapolis.

Susan Phillips Rozzi is director of Leadership Hendricks County (Ind.). The program is a yearlong adult community leadership program for 25 participants chosen from throughout the county.

Stephen P. Summers is associate vice president for the School of Arts and Sciences at Seminole State College of Florida. He is responsible for overseeing the college’s core academic courses and faculty in programs that help students to develop philosophical, ethical, scientific and artistic knowledge. (See photo.)

1991

Keira A. Amstutz was listed as a 2012 Woman

publication. Tamika is a shareholder with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, practicing in the Atlanta office. (See photo.)

1995

Riley Chiorando Robbins is deputy director for communications at the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

Tamika Ragland Nordstrom ’93 of Influence in the Indianapolis Business Journal. Keira works for Indiana Humanities, a not-for-profit organization that gives grants to support humanities programming throughout Indiana.

1992

Anne Hunter Williams is a member of the employment law practice group of the Nashville, Tenn., law firm of The Higgins Firm.

Marc P. Sultzer is a senior attorney with Kopka Pinkus Dolin & Eads, P.C., in Carmel, Ind. He and his wife, Trenna, have two children, Johnathan and Hope.

1993

Thomas E. Birchard, Laura L. Wally and Matthew J. Fuller attended Alicia A. Berneche’s opening night performance of Operetta’s Greatest Hits at Light Opera Works of Evanston, Ill. One reviewer called Alicia “a powerhouse soprano with quite an amazing vocal range.”

Stanford K. McCoy and his wife, Nathalie, announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Kenneth, May 27, 2012.

Stan is the assistant United States trade representative for intellectual property and innovation in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, D.C. They live in Bethesda, Md. Stan’s email address is stanfordkmccoy@yahoo.com.

Tamika Ragland Nordstrom was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America for 2013 in the area of labor and employment litigation.

She will be included in the 19th edition of The Best Lawyers in America

Nadine Farid Johnson and her husband, Brian, announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Aziza, July 2, 2012. They live in Abuja, Nigeria, where Nadine and Brian work with the United States Department of State.

1996

Chris R. Shellgren and Katherine Winter were married Oct. 20, 2012, in Nellysford, Va. They live in Wilmette, Ill. Chris’ email address is chrishell73@gmail. com. (See photo.)

CHRISTOPHER B. OLER ’95 and AMY HOUSTON OLER ’96 have created the first in a series of e-books, titled Molly and the Magic Suitcase. The inspiration for the series came from their daughter, who climbed into a suitcase as the family prepared for a vacation. “She seemed to expect that suitcase to take her somewhere, so Molly and the Magic Suitcase was born,” they explained.

Molly and her brother, Michael, are curious about the world, and they trek to faraway places using a magic suitcase. During their adventures, they learn about language, culture and cuisine, and make new friends. (ISBN: 978-0-615-76066-7)

1997

Melinda Birger Devany and her husband, Donald, announce the birth of their son, Liam Edward, Nov. 29, 2012.

Liam joins brother Ethan Ford, 8, and sister Anna Marguerite, 2. Melinda is a music teacher at Madison Elementary School and Pleasant Lane Elementary School in Lombard, Ill. Her email address is deva75@sbcglobal.net.

M. Margaret “Maggie” McAlister Ruiz and her husband, Stephen, announce the birth of their son, Julian Douglas, Dec. 16, 2012. They live in Los Angeles. Maggie is a freelance writer. Her email address is maggiemcalister7@gmail.com.

W. Hunter Wolbach and his wife, Hillary, announce the birth of their daughter, Emily Tiernan, Oct. 3, 2012. Emily joins sister Katie, 2, at their home in Kansas City, Mo. Hunter is vice president of investments for UBS Financial Services. His email address is h.w.wolbach@ubs.com.

1998

Andrew “Drew” K. Powell appeared in two television shows, “NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service” and “Modern Family” in November 2012.

Chris R. Shellgren ’96 and Katherine Winter wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Christopher F. Rueger ’96, Bryan J. Murray ’96, Bradley B. Shellgren ’98 (best man), Brent E. Breithaupt ’96, Brian W. Rymer ’97 and David S. Wheeler ’96.

Alexandra (Rafferty) and Daniel L. Tilghman III announce the birth of their son, Daniel Lee Tilghman IV, Oct. 16, 2012. Daniel joins sister Annie, 4.

1999

John A. and Susan (Bender) Price announce the birth of their son, Mitchell Thomas, Nov. 7, 2012. Mitchell joins sister Maddie, 2, at their home in Powell, Ohio. Susan is an attorney with Ice Miller LLP. John is a marketing director for ScottsMiracleGro Company. John’s email address is johnprice25@hotmail. com. Susan’s email address is susanbender@hotmail.com.

2000

Richard S. Kebrdle is a partner with the law firm of White & Case in Miami. He works in the global financial restructuring and solvency practice representing distressed investors and funds in domestic and cross-border cases.

Kate Murray Wickhem was a guest speaker, Oct. 11, 2012, as part of DePauw’s Psychology Speakers Series.

Kate is a postdoctoral fellow in the San Diego State University/University of California San Diego Cancer Center Comprehensive Partnership.

Alicia “Nikki” Warner Davis has been a photographer in Evansville, Ind., for nine years. She was recipient of her second Integrity Torch Award

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and third mention from the Tri-State Better Business Bureau. The winners of the Torch Awards competition demonstrate ethics and integrity in the marketplace and leadership in the community.

2001

Rachel E. Atterberry is a partner with the law firm of Freeborn & Peters LLP in Chicago. She focuses her practice on employment and business litigation.

Aarti A. Bajaj ’03 and Jeffrey Judd

Suzanne M. Barnes ’03 and Stephane Letang. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Jane Becker Howard ’03, Marisa Myers Bernstein ’03, Peter M. Bernstein ’03, Erin M. Toth ’03, Alyssa L. Klein ’03, Andrew P. McGovern ’03, Anastasia S. Argoe ’03, Jennifer Watts Barrie ’03, Sean M. Barrie ’03, Bethany Bailey Abercrombie ’03, Jessica Schaab Egloff ’03, Amanda Miller Luciano ’03, Caroline A. Philipchuck ’03, Erin Fuzzell Lower ’01 and Lee Anne McKelvey ’05.

Kaeley Lynch Ritterskamp and her husband, Spencer, announce the birth of their son, Cooper William, July 7, 2012. Kaeley is owner of a floral design business, Sweet Pea Floral Design. Spencer is a medical sales representative for Covidien. They live in Carmel, Ind. Kaeley’s email address is kaeley@sweetpeafloral.org.

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Micah E. Ling gave the keynote address at WordFest 2012: Wabash Valley Creative Writing Symposium, Dec. 1, 2012, in Terre Haute, Ind. Micah is a member of the English department at Fordham University in Manhattan.

Michael A. Nees was a guest speaker, Oct. 26, 2012, as part of DePauw’s Psychology Speakers Series.

Julie Wood Russell is founder of Bon Appeteat, a line of printed nursing covers and matching burp cloths.

Her company sells online and in baby boutique markets internationally. Julie lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband Craig, and son, Evan.

2002

2004

Michelle Hahn Peer and her husband, Jonathan, announce the birth of their son, Bennett William, Oct. 3, 2012. Michelle and Jonathan work in college ministry with The Navigators at Clemson University. Michelle’s email address is michelleannhahn@gmail.com.

Tiffany A. Schiffner was a guest speaker, Nov. 15, 2012, as part of DePauw’s Psychology Speakers Series.

Tiffany is a member of a group private practice for assessment and testing for disability services as well as an adjunct faculty member at Rollins College, University of Central Florida and The University of the Rockies.

Casey L. Brackney ’04 and David M. Trogden ’04 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Michelle Canak Williams ’05, Brian S. Williams ’06, Patrick J. McGrew ’04 (best man), Jaclyn Blackwell McGrew ’05, Kelly M. Timmons ’05 (bridesmaid), Corey L. Brackney ’04 (maid of honor), Stefanie Chambers Turchyn ’04, Kelli Smith Davis ’04, Stephanie Bewley Kress ’05, Katy Quirk Teats ’05, Connie Shim Middleton ’08, Charles M. Middleton ’05, Laurel Danner Marley ’04, Lauren Conlon Rosner ’05, Joseph S. Szynal ’07, Douglas S. Peer ’07, Andrea M. Johnson ’06, Lauren M. McLean ’06, Ashley G. Piper ’07, Rose Shingledecker ’04, Abigail Huffer Diener ’04 (bridesmaid), Joshua A. Greulich ’04, Laura D. Clark ’04 (bridesmaid), Patricia Cooksey Riveire ’04, Rachael Henry DeLeon ’02, Torrey J. Teats ’03, Eric J. Fruth ’02, Evan M. Moore ’05, Robert L. Bruder ’05 (groomsman), Deborah Bushouse Thenen ’04, Andrew B. Rosner ’05, Erik C. Albers ’01, Jeffrey S. Cochran ’03, Peter G. Hogg ’05, Laura V. Benjamin ’06, Katrina Malhotra ’05 (bridesmaid), Ian M. Stone ’05, Matthew L. DeLeon ’02, Matthew S. Mooney ’05, Brandon A. Emkes ’01, Keith A. Marshall ’05, Daniel J. Kress ’05, Joseph W. Porter ’05, Jason C. Pease ’05, Colin P. O’Flaherty ’04 (groomsman), Kyle Jump ’05, Craig P. S. Snyder ’04 (groomsman), Daniel B. Matuszewski ’04 (groomsman), Ashlee Nisley Walsh ’04, Brian E. Power ’03 (groomsman), David J. Benson ’05 and Gabrielle Peek Benson ’05.

Meghann Huels Dials was named a Woman to Watch by The Indianapolis Star. She is a channel sales manager for ExactTarget and runs The Sussy Project, an organization she founded in 2011 that surprises a deserving recipient with a small gift. A sussy is a gift given for no reason–because you thought of someone and wanted to make them smile.

2003

Aarti A. Bajaj and Jeff rey Judd (University of Kansas) were married June 2, 2012, in Schaumburg, Ill. Aarti is a research associate at University of MissouriKansas City. Jeff is an investment analyst at Lockton Companies. They live in Kansas City, Mo. Aarti’s email address is aartibajajphd2011@gmail. com. (See photo.)

Suzanne M. Barnes and Stephane Letang were married Oct. 13, 2012, in Worcester, Mass. They live in Chicago. Suzanne’s email address is suzb1881@yahoo.com. (See photo.)

Casey L. Brackney and David M. Trogden were married Oct. 27, 2012, in Indianapolis. Casey’s email address is caseybrackney@gmail.com. (See photo.)

Michael W. Langellier is president and chief executive officer of TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative. Michael was cofounder of MyJibe, a personal finance and banking software company.

Wesley J. Molyneaux is boys’ soccer coach, as well as a science teacher, at New Trier High School in suburban Chicago.

Victoria Klaubo Patrick is account director for Walker Sands, a public relations agency for B2B and technology companies, headquartered in Chicago.

Kelli J. Smith and Paxton Davis (Indiana University) were married Aug. 31, 2012, in Fishers, Ind. They live in Indianapolis. Kelli is a member of DePauw’s Alumni Board of Directors. Her email address is kelli. smith.davis@gmail.com. (See photo.)

Jonathan R. Taylor is a 2012 Indianapolis Five Star Wealth Manager.

Heather E. Byars ’06 and Bryce Willems

William “Will” T. Reiners IV ’06 and Elizabeth Stockdale

He is a registered representative of Brunette and Associates.

Nicely ’06 and Brooke Hartings Uebelhor ’05. (See photo.)

Kirstyn M. Wentzel recently opened K. Marie’s Pastries and Catering, serving the Kansas City metro area.

Kirstyn’s email address is kwentzel@ gmail.com. Her web page is kmariespastries.com.

Helen T. Carlson and Brenton A. Shultz were married Oct. 20, 2012, in Katy, Texas. Helen’s email address is helen.shultz@gmail.com. Brenton’s email address is brentonshultz@ gmail.com. (See photo on page 46.)

2005

Sarah Myers Bryan passed the Indiana state board of nursing exam. She is a registered nurse for Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

Sarah and her husband, Blake M. Bryan ’05, live on the west side of Indianapolis. Sarah’s email address is sarah.r.bryan@gmail.com.

Ryan M. Sipe and Brooke Augustin were married Aug. 11, 2012, in Indianapolis. Ryan is Indiana director of sales, on-premise, for Southern Wine & Spirits. Brooke is vice president of sales and leasing for Alliance Commercial Brokerage.

Ryan’s email address is ryansipe@ gmail.com. (See photo.)

Lindsey R. Ciochina was The Robert C. McDermond Center Lecture Series’ speaker, Oct. 11, 2012, at DePauw. She is managing director of recruitment, learning and development for Teach For America.

2006

Elizabeth A. Bryant and Brandon C. Perry ’07 were married June 1, 2012, in Indianapolis. Liz’s email address is perry.liz.b@gmail.com. (See photo.)

Heather E. Byars and Bryce Willems were married May 25, 2012, in Morganfield, Ky. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Charlene D. Becker ’06, Dorothea E. Brown ’06, Catherine E. Calabro ’06, Whitney E. Miller-Brengle ’06, Laura B. Schafer ’06, Eileen M. Wiedbrauk ’06, Rochelle D. Immel ’06, Leslie K. Moore ’06, Sarah Hartley Olsen ’06, Kathryn Dyall

William “Will” T. Reiners IV and Elizabeth Stockdale were married June 2, 2012, in Middleburg, Va. They live in Houston. Will is an assistant administrator at Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital and also is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at Rice University.

Elizabeth is a history teacher at the Emery-Weiner School. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Bryce S. Lynn ’07 and Elizabeth A. Ginther ’09. (See photo.)

Kelli J. Smith ’04 and Paxton Davis wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Patricia Cooksey Riveire ’04, Corey L. Brackney ’04, Casey Brackney Trogden ’04, Catherine M. Hays ’11, Rose Shingledecker ’04, Abigail Huffer Diener ’04, Stefanie Chambers Turchyn ’04, Jenna Dahman Downey ’06, Ashley G. Piper ’07, Alexia Beally Wissel ’06, Lauren M. McLean ’06, David M. Trogden ’04, Laura D. Clark ’04 and Krista M. Brucker ’04.

Ryan M. Sipe ’05 and Brooke Augustin wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Mark R. Alson ’05 (best man), Kyle P. McGrath ’05 (groomsman), Bryan D. Cuculich ’05 (groomsman), Anthony M. Williams ’05 (groomsman), Andrew D. Gagle ’05 (usher), Clayton T. Ludlow ’05 (usher), Kevin J. McAteer ’06 (usher), Christopher B. Consolo ’05, Robin Ebert Ludlow ’05, Eric T. Mattingly ’06, Melissa Walpole Mattingly ’07, Jordan A. Dillon ’05, Danielle Dravet McGrath ’07, Lowell M. Huffman ’06, Matthew R. Kapfhammer ’05, Patrick J. Mitchell ’06, Thomas J. Pruzin ’05, Trent C. Waltz ’05 and Maegan Rooke Waltz ’05.

2007

Kathryn D. Brus and Jeremy A. Alland ’08 were married May 2012. (See photo on page 46.)

Sherise L. Denny and Derrick Deardorff were married in Warsaw, Ind., July 21, 2012. They live in Chicago. Sherise is a physician’s assistant in infectious disease in Chicago. Her email address is sherise. deardorff@gmail.com. (See photo on page 46.)

Elizabeth A. Bryant ’06 and Brandon C. Perry ’07 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Paul T. Raskin ’06, Christopher J. White ’11, Stoyan M. Panov ’05, Nicholas A. Early ’07, Nathaniel L. Day ’07, Franklin C. Aba-Onu ’07, Jeyson H. Florez ’07, Clinton D. Schroer ’05, Matthew J. Ehinger ’06, Lesley Rasp Raskin ’06, Rachel A. Hilgendorf ’11, Lauren B. Mandelbaum ’06 and Jill M. Koehlinger ’05.

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Katie Goforth Gentry is a member of Lafayette Surgical Clinic, a Unity Healthcare Partner in Lafayette, Ind. She focuses her practice on general surgery.

Helen T. Carlson ’06 and Brenton A. Shultz ’06 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Chad T. Bennett ’07, Stacy Wells Bennett ’06, William B. Coulter ’06, Sara A. Meyer ’06, Douglas J. Elsbeck ’06, Peter C. Burns ’06, Kerri P. Angel ’06, Meghan E. DeFreeuw ’06, Kristyn Currier Klear ’06, Matthew J. Ehinger ’06, Jill C. Adamson ’06, Daniel P. Butler ’06, Peter A. Taschenberger ’06, Marian J. McLaughlin ’07, Anthony J. Borgmann ’06, Zachary S. Pfister ’06, Sarah A. Wurzburg ’06, Peter J. Makielski ’06, Katie Jaskierski Maley ’06, Christopher C. Reams ’06, Christina A. Leavy ’06, Sarah A. Miller ’06, Mark A. Hultz ’06, Elizabeth A. Lewis ’06, Kathryn Brus Alland ’06 and Jeremy A. Alland ’08. Attending but not pictured was Theodore G. Shultz ’69.

Mary E. McKnight, a teacher at Lexington Traditional Magnet School, is among six Kentucky educators chosen for the New Science Teacher Academy, organized by the National Science Teachers Association. The 244 teachers chosen nationwide will participate in a yearlong professional development program.

Colin P. Milligan is communications director for United States Representative Cheri Bustos, representing Illinois’ 17th congressional district.

Brandon C. Perry and Elizabeth A. Bryant ’06 were married June 1, 2012, in Indianapolis. (See photo on page 45.)

Kathryn D. Brus ’07 and Jeremy A. Alland ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Brenton A. Shultz ’06, Timothy G. Kirkpatrick ’08, John H. Tschantz ’08, John M. Buchta ’08, Joseph G. Baker ’08, Adam R. Ford ’08, Jesse L. Groh ’08, Jill E. Schneider ’08, Katherine Bremer Doran ’06, Christopher A. Doran ’06, Helen Carlson Shultz ’06, Kristen A. Mitchell ’10, Benjamin W. Baenen ’08, Kyle D. Kenney ’10, Jessie A. Searles ’10, Margaret P. McDermott ’07, Maureen K. Mohan ’07 (bridesmaid) and Davis Federspiel Meyer ’07 (bridesmaid).

Jason A. Spilbeler earned the right to use the Charter Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in September 2012. He is an associate investment specialist with J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Indianapolis. He lives in downtown Indianapolis with his wife, Anne Stephens Spilbeler ’08. Jason’s email address is jason.spilbeler@ gmail.com.

Kyle J. Thompson and Chelsea Israel ’09 were married Sept. 1, 2012, in Indianapolis. (See photo on page 48.)

Megan L. Walton is an optometrist with Indiana’s Plainfield Eye Care.

Kelsey J. Warsinske is senior associate of custom insight for dunnhumbyUSA, in the Cincinnati office. She is responsible for analyzing customer purchase behavior to deliver unique, data-driven insights for retail clients.

Kate L. Ziegelgruber and William Magee (Ohio State) were married Oct. 20, 2012, in Corbin, Ky. Kate’s email address is kate.magee12@ gmail.com. (See photo on page 48.)

2009

Alexander P. Breitinger and Ann K. Schunicht were married Sept. 8, 2012, in LaPorte, Ind. They live in Sarasota, Fla. Alex manages a commodity futures brokerage firm. Annie is a health law attorney. (See photo on page 48.)

Joshua T. Busch is an associate with the Fort Wayne, Ind., law office of Faegre Baker Daniels. He is a member of the firm’s product liability litigation group.

2008

Andrew D. Kehr and Jacqueline M. Betsch ’08 were married May 19, 2012. They live in Pittsburgh, Pa. Andrew is pursuing a doctoral degree in biology at Carnegie-Mellon University. Jackie is an adjunct biology faculty member at local universities. (See photo.)

Jacqueline M. Betsch and Andrew D. Kehr ’09 were married May 19, 2012.

They live in Pittsburgh, Pa. Jackie is an adjunct biology faculty member at local universities. Andrew is pursuing a doctoral degree in biology at CarnegieMellon University. (See photo.)

Ashley E. Day and Christopher X. Daly were married Aug. 25, 2012, in

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Margaux S. DeMoss and Jack Reilly were married Oct. 27, 2012, in Lexington, Ky. Margaux’s email address is margaux.reilly@gmail.com.

(See photo.)

Anne F. Sturgis and R. Christopher Parish were married Aug. 4, 2012, in Ephraim, Wis. They live in Chicago.

Annie works in marketing for the Art Institute of Chicago and runs Annie Sturgis Photography. Christopher is a manager at Top Hat Monocle. Annie’s email address is anniefoxparish@ gmail.com. (See photo.)

Jeremy A. Alland and Kathryn D. Brus ’07 were married May 2012. (See photo.)

Sherise L. Denny ’07 and Derrick Deardorff wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Mary Stroh Sabo ’07, Gwen M. Haehl ’08, Megan Weinheimer McGriff ’07, Jillian Barr Krein ’08, Amanda Rosenbaum Zanchelli ’07, Jennifer Wingstrom Mains ’04, Chad S. Arnold ’06, Jennifer Zeser Arnold ’06, Kathryn Knight Randolph ’07, Gretchen J. Haehl ’08, Caitlin McGonigal Alerding ’07, Patrick O. Sabo ’07, Hannah K. Cheesman ’09, Todd J. Capes ’07, Loren C. Sloan ’09, Jerilyn M. Kremer ’07, Jeffrey P. Zanchelli ’07, Rachel Grimmer Bassick ’07, E. Webb “Brad” Bassick V ’07 and Amie Humerickhouse Allen ’05.

Flossmoor, Ill. They live in Chicago.

(See photo.)

Chelsea Israel and Kyle J. Thompson ’08 were married Sept. 1, 2012, in Indianapolis. (See photo on page 48.)

Ann Schunicht Breitinger is a member of the business and health care practice groups at the law firm of Blalock Walters in Bradenton, Fla. Ann was elected to the board of

directors of We Care Manatee, Inc., founded to address the increasing need of uninsured residents to be seen and treated by a medical specialist by providing a link to primary and specialty physicians who volunteer their time and donate free medical services. Ann received a J.D. degree from Saint Louis University School of Law as well as a certificate of concentration in health law.

Ann’s email address is abreitinger@ blalockwalters.com. (See photo on page 48.)

2010

Sarah G. Baker and Philip Bradley were married Nov. 18, 2012, in Indianapolis. They live in Colchester, Vt. (See photo on page 48.)

Elizabeth D. Elliott received the 2012 Rising Star Award from The Chicago Interactive Marketing Association.

She was recognized for demonstrating impressive contributions to digital marketing and delivering meaningful experiences for her P&G client in 2012. Elizabeth oversees mobile for some of P&G’s largest brands. She serves on the board of the Chicago chapter of Women in Wireless, an

organization that promotes and develops female leaders in mobile and digital media.

Carl E. Frank is a resident artist with the Florentine Opera Company’s 2012-13 Studio Program in Milwaukee. The Studio Artists sing supporting and comprimario roles during each of the Florentine Opera’s main stage performances.

Rebecca M. Murphy and Matthew Bosker were married April 14, 2012, in Grand Rapids, Mich., where the couple lives. (See photo on page 48.)

2011

Jacqueline M. Betsch ’08 and Andrew D. Kehr ’09 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Daniel C. Stauffer ’09, Jeffrey J. Dobrik ’07, Stephanie Beneker Dobrik ’08, Michelle Sollman Sharp ’08, Alicia Keck Wilson ’08, Ian S. Boyd ’10, Erik A. Larson ’10, Kelsey A. Lee ’10 and Peter E. Schamber ’10.

Christine E. DiGangi and Matthew L. Welch were married Oct. 13, 2012, in Elmhurst, Ill. Christine and Matt met while working on the student newspaper at DePauw. Christine is communications coordinator for the Society of Professional Journalists.

Matt is an IFC coordinator for the North-American Interfraternity Conference. They live in Indianapolis.

(See photo on page 48.)

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Ashley E. Day ’08 and Christopher X. Daly ’08 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Elizabeth Nelson Hanzelin ’86, Claire E. Johnson ’08, Kari Kieper Serak ’08, Stephen X. Daly ’80, Candace Johnson Daly ’81, Sally Bergin Day ’81, Henry J. Guzzo ’97, Moira K. Vahey ’08, Andrea M. Dres ’07, Kristin Oyler Maguire ’08, Kerry A. Cragin ’08, Tory W. Key ’08, Anne C. Cawley ’08, Daniel A. Moon ’08, Marjorie E. Weigel ’08, John E. Pantos Jr. ’08, Allison W. Burns ’08, Sara E. McMahon ’08, Rachel E. Walsh ’08, Margaux DeMoss Reilly ’08, Karyn A. Keenan ’08, Emily L. Wightman ’08, Kathryn M. Roth ’08, Andrew W. Mac Donald ’08, Scott F. Sauer ’08, Anne S. Gavin ’08, Eric A. Kitchell ’09, Jonathan C. Batuello ’10, Brock J. Sishc ’08, Jeff H. Heise ’80 and Jeffrey L. Hodge ’80.

Anne F. Sturgis ’07 and Christopher Parish wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Bess M. Browning ’07, Allison Baccich Penning ’07, Elizabeth Hecker Hartman ’07, Kayce M. Thompson ’07 (bridesmaid), Jane K. Knoche ’08, Mollyanne M. Thomas ’07 (bridesmaid), Victoria R. Greising ’07, Kathryn Deppe Truka ’07 (bridesmaid), Lesley Sisler Welch ’07, Alexander B. Penning ’06, Michael T. Motch ’07, Keith A. Schonberger ’07, Courtney E. Fischer ’07 (bridesmaid), Meghan E. Murphy ’07 and Haley A. Schultheis ’07.

Margaux S. DeMoss ’08 and Jack Reilly wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Marjorie E. Weigel ’08, Kristin Oyler Maguire ’08, Michael J. Beauchamp ’76, Cassie M. Abraham ’08, Kathryn J. Davis ’08, Anne C. Cawley ’08, Elizabeth S. Ackermann ’08, Christopher X. Daly ’08, Jeffrey M. Tienes ’08, Stephanie Wong Coleman ’05, Matthew W. DeMoss ’04 (brother of the bride), Claire E. Johnson ’08, Rachel E. Walsh ’08, Kerry A. Cragin ’08, Karyn A. Keenan ’08, Ashley Day Daly ’08, Andrew W. DeMoss ’02 (brother of the bride), Aaron M. Ertel ’01, Ashley Sorenson Sprengnether ’08 (matron of honor), Michael T. Sprengnether Jr. ’08, Kari Kieper Serak ’08 and Allison W. Burns ’08. Attending but not pictured was Daniel A. Hegeman ’72.

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Kyle J. Thompson ’08 and Chelsea Israel ’09 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Charles X. Yang ’08, Andrew W. Breck ’06, Lindsay M. Merwin ’10, Eric H. Wudtke ’09, Natalie L. Ciambrone ’09 (bridesmaid), Jillian M. Strandness ’09 (bridesmaid), Marina R. Nicholson ’10, Kerry A. Hobson ’11, Erin Ponto Brown ’08, Elizabeth A. Ginther ’09, Matthew C. Pustay ’09 (groomsman), Laura B. Sahm ’09, Justin D. Weiner ’09 and Michael C. Ross ’09. Attending but not pictured were Michael G. Stout Jr. ’09 and Laura A. Brown ’11.

Kate L. Ziegelgruber ’08 and William Magee wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included William C. Zola ’08, Catherine M. Pechiney ’09, Sonja G. Bugvilionis ’08, Jordan M. Blain ’08, Martha Hardy Ellsworth ’08, Katharine A. Rasmussen ’08, Emily M. Michalec ’08, Audrey L. Porritt ’08, Amanda J. Faulkenberg ’13 and Jess M. Roberson ’11.

Alexander P. Breitinger ’09 and Ann K. Schunicht ’09 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Justin T. Bull ’09 (reader), Kristopher D. Schmelzer ’12, Katie E. Schmelzer ’09, Sarah McCord Moreau ’09, Shelby M. Davidson ’09, Andrew J. Williams ’08, Jordan M. Blain ’08, Katherine A. Rasmussen ’08, William Z. King ’08, Joseph C. Owen ’08, Meredith Kohr Owen ’09, Amanda S. Doherty ’09, Allison C. Rusie ’09, Laura E. Robinson ’09, Jessica L. Curry ’09, Kelly N. Marchant ’09, Ashley E. Lytle ’09, Chloie Favinger Calby ’09, Matthew E. Calby ’09, Emily C. J. Brown ’11, Michael G. Metroka ’08, Jeffrey M. Tienes ’08, Allison W. Burns ’08, Cody A. Ladd ’09, Ryan D. Wheeler ’09, Steven A. Norak ’09, Karl R. Koehler ’08, Elizabeth L. Tobin ’09, Carolyn E. Mueller ’09 (bridesmaid), Kristen A. Martin ’09, Joy A. Collins ’09, Michael C. Ross ’09, Daniel L. Harrison ’09, Abigail E. Rocap ’09, Linda N. Johnson ’09 (bridesmaid), Lauren A. Hill ’08, Jaymi E. Edwards ’09, Jac A. Cooper Jr. ’08 (groomsman), William C. Zola ’08 (usher), Blake A. Nelson ’09, Raija M. G. Bushnell ’09 (bridesmaid), Sarah G. Beatty ’09, Kristen A. Irgens ’09 and Lisa M. Jaskierski ’09.

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Sarah G. Baker ’10 and Philip Bradley wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Anajah L. Roberts ’10, Courtney R. Knies ’10 (maid of honor), Rebecca Murphy Bosker ’10 and Jennifer M. Violi ’10. Attending but not pictured was Alexandra M. Daniels ’10.

Rebecca M. Murphy ’10 and Matthew Bosker wedding party. DePauw alumni attending included Alexandra M. Daniels ’10, Susan Wilson Keener ’81, Jennifer M. Violi ’10, Courtney R. Knies ’10 (maid of honor) and Sarah Baker Bradley ’10.

Christine E. DiGangi ’11 and Matthew L. Welch ’11 wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Aaron M. Gotway ’05, Ryan E. Edelen ’11, Margaret A. Distler ’13, Ashley N. Oliver ’11, Lian R. Weinstein ’13, Kaitlin F. Klose ’13, Tyler A. Archer ’11, Colby E. Mueller ’11, Hallie M. Moberg ’11, Nicholas A. Johnson ’11, Leslie G. Gaber ’11, Ellen C. Kobe ’13, Christine Walker Archer ’11, Avery M. Archer ’11, Samantha T. March ’12, Matthew W. Cecil ’12, Andrew S. Porter ’10, William A. Calderwood ’14, Alexander N. Curry ’12, Andrew P. Maddocks ’11, Diana M. Edmundson ’11, Matthew P. Hellmann ’13, Samuel A. Weigley ’11, Chase G. Hall ’13, Caitlin B. McNeil ’11, Bryan H. Lesswing ’10, Aaron B. Dicker ’10, Charles X. Yang ’08, Gerard J. Pannekoek ’11, Kevin W. Bunge ’10, Kevin D. Milne ’11, Garth K. Anderson ’09, Matthew T. K. Brauer ’11 and Tyler G. James ’11. Attending but not pictured were Philip G. Heyde ’72, David A. Bohmer ’69 and Kaliope C. Geldis ’09.

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IN MEMORIAM

1935

Betty Eldridge Tatge ’35, Jan. 14, 2013, Colorado Springs, Colo., at the age of 99. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.

1936

Vera May Knauer Kierstead Farber ’36, Nov. 23, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 99. She was a member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, retired music teacher and author of children’s novels. She was preceded in death by first husband, Roger H. Kierstead ’36; sisters, Elizabeth Knauer Smith ’39 and Frances L. Knauer ’30; brother, George Knauer ’46; and brother-in-law, Alan R. Smith ’37. Survivors include her husband, Robert H. Farber ’35.

Meredith Watts ’36, Jan. 9, 2013, of Bozeman, Mont., at the age of 97.

He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, lawyer and mathematics professor. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Willard K. Youngblood ’36, Oct. 22, 2012, of Stratford, Conn., at the age of 97. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Rector Scholar and retired corporate purchasing executive for General Electric Company. Survivors include his wife and sister, Helen Youngblood Cope ’40.

1940

Arthur F. Gardner ’40, Jan. 4, 2013, in Costa Mesa, Calif., at the age of 93. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar, DePauw Alumni Citation recipient in 1973 and retired pilot for Western Airlines. He was preceded in death by his son, Arthur F. Gardner Jr. ’66.

1941

Bettye Shoop Lott ’41, Dec. 16, 2012, in Peoria, Ill., at the age of 93. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, retired assistant dean of women at Shimer College in Mt. Carroll, Ill., and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert W. Lott ’42. Survivors include her daughter, Pamela Lott Paige ’66, and son-in-law, Frederick O. Paige ’66.

1942

Dr. Lawrence R. Buckley ’42, Sept. 28, 2012, of Scottsbluff, Neb., at the age of 92. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Rector Scholar, and physician and surgeon. Survivors include his wife.

Richard P. Howell Jr. ’42, Nov. 29, 2012, of Carmel Valley, Calif., at the age of 92. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, financial systems analyst and business consultant. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Janet Webster Lynch ’42, Oct. 30, 2012, of Wauwatosa, Wis., at the age of 92. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and sister, Joyce Webster Cramer ’42.

1943

Arthur G. Allard Jr. ’43, Dec. 8, 2012, of Chesterfield, Mo., at the age of 89. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar, former member of DePauw’s Alumni Board of Directors and retired district manager for Procter & Gamble. He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert E. Allard ’49. Survivors include his wife, Shirley Andrew Allard ’43; son, David T. Allard ’68; and granddaughter, Libby S. Allard ’08.

Phyllis Craig Sheperd ’43, Dec. 22, 2012, of Grand Rapids, Mich., at the age of 91. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jordan M. Sheperd ’43.

Barbara Feallock Burkhardt ’46, Nov. 18, 2012, of Asheville, N.C., at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and an occupational therapist. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Elizabeth Rice Sido ’43, Nov. 27, 2012, of Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 92. She was a member of Delta Zeta, certified medical technologist and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gregor Sido Jr. ’43.

Dr. Charles Oldfield ’46, Dec. 29, 2012, of La Grange, Ill., at the age of 87. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Survivors include his daughter, Jane K. Oldfield ’76.

1944

Jane Hedgcock Holt ’44, Oct. 10, 2012, of Indianapolis. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, secretary at Wabash College and administrative assistant at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her son, Steven A. Holt ’70; granddaughter, Amy Holt Pache ’96; and grandsons, James F. Holt ’00 and Steven A. Holt Jr. ’11.

Mary Vermillion Wolf ’44, Jan. 11, 2013, of Greenfield, Ind., at the age of 91. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and former teacher in the Greenfield, Ind., school system and at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1945

Robert D. Barendsen ’45, Nov. 13, 2012, in Silver Spring, Md., at the age of 89. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and retired specialist on countries in the Far East from the United States Department of Education. Survivors include his wife.

Marjorie Winslow ’45, Nov. 30, 2012, in Duxbury, Mass., at the age of 89.

She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, writer, editor, publisher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a brother, Walton W. Shreeve ’43.

1946

Jacqueline Arnold Lang ’46, March 5, 2012, of Kenilworth, Ill., at the age of 88. She was a member of Delta Zeta, teacher and designer of needlepoint, and owner of La Mariposa Needlepoint.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

Arlyn Theiss Johnson ’46, Nov. 12, 2012, of Glendale, Ohio, at the age of 88. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1947

Patricia Duncan Route ’47, Dec. 21, 2012, in Osceola, Wis., at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

Dorothy Hammond Taber ’47, Dec. 7, 2012, in Bloomington, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a piano teacher and farmer. She was preceded in death by her father, J. Clem Hammond Class of 1911, and mother, Addie Fribley Hammond Class of 1914. Survivors include her husband.

Sara “Sally” Lowden Holmes ’47, Oct. 3, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 87. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her son, David L. Holmes ’77. Survivors include her husband, John C. Holmes ’48; daughter, M. Kathy Holmes Emison ’72; son-in-law, James W. Emison ’71; and granddaughters, M. Karyn Emison Uptain ’98 and Elizabeth Emison Cochrane ’00.

Samuel C. Walker Jr. ’47, Jan. 14, 2013, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 88. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and president of Walker Bag Company in Louisville. He was preceded in death by his first wife and sister, Janet Walker Tangeman ’56. Survivors include his wife and son, C. Reid Walker ’75.

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Willis W. Ward ’47, Nov. 3, 2012, in Dallas, at the age of 89. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and retired marketing researcher. He was preceded in death by his wife and sisters, Ruth Ward Freehafer ’30 and Hazel Ward Puterbaugh ’33.

Survivors include his nieces, Ann Freehafer Andersen ’58 and Lucy Freehafer Wold ’60.

Barbara Welliver Howe ’47, Nov. 1, 2012, of Monroe, Ohio, at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

1948

Beulah Bull Wilson ’48, Dec. 26, 2012, of Powell, Ohio, at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Patricia Crothers Lindquist ’48, Dec. 29, 2012, in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the age of 87, from cancer. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Carolyn Irelan Watson ’48, Jan. 7, 2013, of Antwerp, Ohio, at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, elementary school teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Survivors include her daughter, Christine Watson Feichter ’77.

Richard D. Light ’48, Dec. 15, 2012, in Miami, at the age of 86.

He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and founder of several companies.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Thompson Light ’48, and sister, Jean Light Jamison ’40. Survivors include his daughter, Marcia Light Fidler ’71.

Frances Pirkle Welch ’48, June 4, 2012, of Rockville, Ind., at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Russell C. Savage ’48, Dec. 14, 2012, of Anderson, Ind., at the age of 87.

He was a member of Sigma Nu and an engineer for General Motors. He

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was preceded in death by his wife.

1949

Dr. Robert W. Brown ’49, Dec. 23, 2012, of San Francisco, at the age of 84, from leukemia. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Rector Scholar, physician in private practice, attorney and senior aviation medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Survivors include his wife.

Lewis S. Haber ’49, Nov. 23, 2012, of South Bend, Ind., at the age of 87.

He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Rector Scholar, and reporter and editor for the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois Fassnacht Haber ’49, and sister, Margaret A. Haber ’47. Survivors include his sister, Joan Haber Busch ’49.

W. Kennith Hollis ’49, Jan. 4, 2013, of Whitestown, Ind., at the age of 91.

He was a member of Sigma Chi, vice president of College Life Insurance and president of College Park Credit Corporation. Survivors include his daughter, Shelley Hollis Leinicke ’71, and son-in-law, Steven Y. Leinicke ’71.

John D. Hull ’49, Dec. 27, 2012, in Marco Island, Fla., at the age of 84.

He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and an executive for Procter & Gamble Distributing Company.

Survivors include his wife, Arlene Reemer Hull ’50; son, David A. Hull ’77; and daughter, Rebecca Hull Gorman ’79.

Oscar F. Yanson ’49, Oct. 24, 2012, of Naples, Fla., at the age of 86. He was a member of Sigma Chi and retired real estate developer. Survivors include his wife, Julia Countryman Yanson ’50; son, Christopher P. Yanson ’72; daughter, Julie Yanson Boswell ’77; brother, Peter Yanson ’45; brother-in-law, Charles A. Countryman ’58; and sister-in-law, Karen Countryman ’72.

1950

Lewis J. Bodi ’50, Nov. 4, 2012, of Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 87, a casualty of Hurricane Sandy. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar, and he retired as provost and vice president of academic affairs from

York College in New York. Survivors include his wife, Sara Lord Bodi ’49.

Barbara Jones Lowe ’50, Dec. 20, 2012, of Sheboygan, Wis., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald L. Lowe ’50.

James M. Jordan ’50, Oct. 30, 2012, of Houston, at the age of 84. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and marketing manager for Gulf Oil Company. He was preceded in death by his mother, Hilda Whitezel Jordan ’21. Survivors include his wife, Mary Johnson Jordan ’52.

June Lydrickson Long ’50, Nov. 1, 2012, of Houston, at the age of 84. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband.

Robert O. Patton ’50, Nov. 27, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 85.

He was a retired shop technician for IBM Corporation. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Alfred Piquette ’50, Nov. 4, 2012, of Akron, Ohio, at the age of 88. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and worked in sales and marketing for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for 38 years. Survivors include his wife, Cyndalu Stivers Piquette ’49.

Domenico Sella ’50, March 8, 2012, of Madison, Wis., at the age of 85. He was a professor emeritus of history at University of Wisconsin.

He was preceded in death by his wife.

1951

Virginia Cordill Norris ’51, Dec. 31, 2012, of Indianapolis, at the age of 82. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, homemaker and retired secretary for the Town of Westfield, Ind. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Virginia McNeil Becker ’51, April 16, 2011, in Springfield, Ill., at the age of 81. She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her first husband. Survivors include her husband.

Calvin C. Perkins ’51, Nov. 4, 2012,

of Wilderville, Ore., at the age of 82.

He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Rector Scholar, retired United States Air Force communication specialist and county assessor.

Survivors include his wife.

Anthony T. Petullo ’51, Nov. 19, 2012, of Louisville, Ky., at the age of 86. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, geologist and economic analyst. Survivors include his wife.

1953

Jean Alsworth Breheny ’53, November 2011, of Claremont, Calif. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and taught at University of Arizona and University of New Mexico. She was preceded in death by her brother, Philip L. Alsworth ’54. Survivors include her husband.

William F. McCain Jr. ’53, July 31, 2012, of Apalachin, N.Y., at the age of 80. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and retired as vice president of management from Honeywell Information Systems. He was preceded in death by his first wife. Survivors include his wife.

Sarah Wynne Tolbert ’53, Jan. 10, 2013, of Logansport, Ind., at the age of 81. She was a member of Delta Gamma, homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband.

1954

Sue Barthelmeh Eckstein ’54, Sept. 11, 2012, in Silver Spring, Md., at the age of 79, of breast cancer. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, retired CIA intelligence officer and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband and sister, Kay Barthelmeh Voorhees ’57.

E. Bowen Kerrihard ’54, Dec. 26, 2012, in Mishawaka, Ind., at the age of 81. He retired as proprietor of Quill Communications Services.

Survivors include his daughter, Erin Kerrihard Duffy ’90.

1955

John F. Graff ’55, June 5, 2010, of Loudon, Tenn., at the age of 76. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and health insurance broker. Survivors include his wife.

1956

1962

Sue Bartlett Davie ’56, Dec. 9, 2012, of Cincinnati. She was a member of Delta Zeta, retired kindergarten teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her mother, Helen Cox Bartlett ’24. Survivors include her husband.

James D. Graham ’62, Sept. 25, 2012, of Saint Louis, at the age of 72. He was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired United States Air Force colonel.

Survivors include his wife, Carol Fisher Graham ’63.

John W. Hake ’56, Oct. 9, 2012, of Delray Beach, Fla., at the age of 77.

He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and business owner.

Thomas T. Hicks ’62, Nov. 18, 2012, of Glenview, Ill., at the age of 72.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and publisher’s representative.

Survivors include his wife; son, Brian T. Hicks ’00; and daughter-in-law, Sara Warren Hicks ’00.

1957

Barbara Detchon Taylor ’57, Jan. 4, 2013, of Atlanta, at the age of 78. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker.

Ada Hine Aucamp ’57, Sept. 27, 2012, of Palm City, Fla., at the age of 76. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, retired director of college guidance and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

Susannah H. Lippman ’57, Dec. 11, 2010, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, at the age of 75. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and president of Alphasonics International.

1958

Rev. A. Oliver Vannorsdall ’58, Dec. 15, 2012, of New Bern, N.C., at the age of 75. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and Episcopal priest.

1959

G. Jayne Kuebler Lund ’59, Oct. 3, 2012, of Plano, Texas, at the age of 75. She was a member of Alpha Phi, real estate broker and small business owner.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard F. Lund ’58.

Dr. Myrna Magnuson Trowbridge ’59, Oct. 18, 2012, of Valparaiso, Ind., at the age of 74, from pancreatic cancer. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and physician.

1961

Dr. Frederic Y. W. Ing ’61, Sept. 29, 2012, in Portland, Ore., at the age of 73. He was a physician in private practice.

Survivors include his wife.

John F. McKay ’62, Aug. 25, 2012, in Laramie, Wyo., at the age of 72.

He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and spent his professional life as a chemist for Western Research Institute in Laramie. He wrote and edited a number of books and papers and remained passionate about scientific topics throughout his retirement. He was a lifelong member of the Laramie International Rotary Club and served as club president. Survivors include his former wife, Susan Richardson McKay ’64, and their two daughters, Julie and Sharon; niece, Carter E. McKay ’13; and his companion, Anne Worthey.

1963

Michael J. Fitzharris ’63, Sept. 27, 2012, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the age of 72, from cancer. He was a member of Sigma Nu and worked in the insurance business. Survivors include his wife.

1964

Averill C. Colby III ’64, Oct. 5, 2012, in Valparaiso, Ind., at the age of 70.

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, banker and financial adviser.

Survivors include his wife.

Ruth Gordon Hastie ’64, Sept. 24, 2012, of Ann Arbor, Mich., at the age of 70, from a stroke. She was a member of Alpha Phi, former DePauw Alumni Board of Directors member and served in a variety of positions at University of Michigan.

Survivors include her husband, K. Larry Hastie ’64, and son, Brock E. Hastie ’92.

James W. Wright ’64, Oct. 10, 2012,

in Newport Beach, Calif., at the age of 70. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and technical writer for Toshiba American Medical Systems. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Rebecca Wright Krausser ’02; and sister, Rebecca Wright von Tucher ’61. His daughters are compiling a book of stories about their father. If you have a story about Jim to contribute, please send it to storiesofjim@gmail.com.

Richmond, Ind., at the age of 45.

He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and manager of new business development at Holland Colours Americas.

1966

2004

John C. Barber ’66, Dec. 4, 2012, of Crown Point, Ind., at the age of 68. He was a member of Sigma Chi, teacher, band director, and past president and co-owner of an insurance agency.

Survivors include his wife, June Scott Barber ’69.

1994

Eric R. Mies ’94, Oct. 11, 2012, in Cancun, Mexico, in an accident, at the age of 41. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and partner at Rolta/Tusc in Chicago.

Survivors include his wife.

Megan M. Racz ’04, Sept. 26, 2012, at the age of 30. She was a member of Delta Gamma and worked in several service positions and women’s philanthropy.

Survivors include her father, Stacy S. Racz ’74; mother, Lyn Seehausen Racz ’75; and sister, Cameron Racz Evans ’06.

1967

Michael Thomasson ’67, Nov. 15, 2012, of Columbus, Ind., at the age of 67, from an automobile accident. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Rector Scholar and attorney. Survivors include his wife.

1971

Max G. Messman ’71, Nov. 5, 2012, of Tacoma, Wash., at the age of 62. He was an attorney and worked in a series of legal and public service positions. Survivors include his wife.

1973

Martin R. Kean ’73, Sept.

14, 2011, of Colorado Springs, Colo., at the age of 60. He was a member of Delta Chi and Russian linguist for the United States Army. He was preceded in death by his father, William R. Kean ’50, and his mother, Janet Gough Kean ’50.

1979

Michael B. Higley ’79, Dec. 5, 2012, of Glenview, Ill., at the age of 55. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar and vice president of Merrill Lynch. Survivors include his wife.

1983

Marketa “Martee” Mitchell Lollar ’83, Oct. 18, 2012, in Boston, at the age of 51.

She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

1990

James R. Oakley Jr. ’90, Jan. 9, 2013, of

Friends Catherine A. Bean, Jan. 15, 2013, in Greencastle, Ind., of Alzheimer’s disease. She was a former employee of Roy O. West Library.

Virginia H. Callender, Nov. 9, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 91.

She was a secretary in the Education Department at DePauw for 32 years. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include a daughter, Jerry Callender Chavis ’64.

Russell A. Foxx, Nov. 18, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 77. He worked at DePauw in the maintenance and plumbing department for 45 years. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Sandra Foxx Rissler ’78; and grandson, Chad M. Foxx ’02.

Richard A. “Rick” Fulford, Jan. 23, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 53. He was a grounds superintendent for DePauw for 30 years. Survivors include his wife.

Wanda M. Hamm, Nov. 24, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 83.

She was a beautician and homemaker, and had worked at the DePauw Student Union. She was preceded in death by her husband.

James E. Hoover, Aug. 26, 2012,

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of Indianapolis, at the age of 84.

He was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and past member of DePauw’s Board of Visitors. He retired as director of systems security from Eli Lilly.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Katharine Cox Hoover ’51. Survivors include his wife and daughters, Cynthia Hoover ’81 and Anne E. Hoover ’76.

Marvin K. Long, Jan. 20, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 88.

He was owner of Marvin’s restaurant near the DePauw campus since 1972. Although well known for his

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garlic cheeseburgers and fries, his interaction with DePauw students kept alumni returning to the campus eatery long after graduation. His famous “Marvin Delivers Anywhere” signs appeared in many places at alumni get-togethers across the United States and abroad. Survivors include his wife and daughter, Melanie Long Gibbs ’84.

Marjorie Vickous Owens, Nov. 17, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a receptionist at DePauw for more than 23 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

Dolores J. Pierce, Dec. 11, 2012, of Belle Union, Ind., at the age of 82.

She worked as a cook in sorority and fraternity houses at DePauw.

Survivors include her husband.

Arlie R. Scaggs, Dec. 4, 2012, of Avon, Ind., at the age of 91.

He worked in the maintenance department at DePauw, retiring in 1996. Survivors include his wife.

R. Marjorie Showalter, Dec. 26, 2012, of Atlanta, at the age of 93.

She was a lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society.

She was preceded in death by her

husband, Robert K. Showalter ’38.

Charlotte F. Stewart, Sept. 20, 2012, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 68.

She was a cook for Delta Gamma sorority at DePauw. Survivors include her husband.

Marian R. White, Dec. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis, at the age of 93.

She was a cook at DePauw and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

our donors

Dr. Kimberly S. Bass ’83, left, has volunteered with SEE (Surgical Eye Expeditions) International since 2009.

A VISIONARY DONOR DR. KIMBERLY S. BASS ’83 likes the idea of being a role model.

“I think it’s important for all of us to take a look at our life, to see how we got to be the people we are and have the values we have,” she said. “Being a role model is a way to wake up other people to self assess.”

Kim and her husband, Dr. Benjamin Gulli, have been regular donors to DePauw since soon after she graduated. In 2012 they took the next step: they contacted the Planned Giving Office and informed the staff that they have included DePauw in their estate planning, in addition to their annual gift. “We like the idea of making a gift that will have a lasting impact on the University,” she said.

“I’m at the point in my life where I feel so fortunate that I want to give back and share what I have,” she said. Trained as an ophthalmologist, Kim left her private practice several years ago to devote herself to mission work in Central and South America. She and her fellow volunteer physicians perform a non-surgical cataract procedure that is saving the eyesight of hundreds of people who can’t otherwise afford the treatment.

“DePauw is where I learned who I was, where I began to think about the bigger picture and to really grow up,” Kim said. “For Ben and me, our planned gift and annual contributions are more of a ‘thank you’ to those who helped us get where we are in life.”

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING Lisa Maxwell-Frieden, J.D., director of gift planning 300 E. Seminary St., P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 Phone: 765-658-4216 Toll-free 800-446-5298 lisafrieden@depauw.edu depauw.plannedgifts.org

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“DePauw University has cultivated our imaginations, lengthened our perspectives, sobered our judgment, refined our taste, broadened our sympathies, given us direction and purpose, and enabled us to become the people we want to be.”

– THE HONORABLE LEE H. HAMILTON ’52, speaking at the 2012 Indiana Society of Chicago Dinner