Pence receives Kennedy courage award
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence ’81 was presented with the 2025 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award May 4 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
The Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, presented annually by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, is presented to public servants for making a courageous decision of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences. Pence, who served as vice president under President Donald Trump from 2017-21, was honored for his efforts to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in 2021.
The award was presented by Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg.
Hanoverians in attendance at the ceremony included Kurt Jacoby ’79, Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74, Tim McGeath ’84, Tom Roberts ’78, Jay Steger ’81 and Mike Stevens ’79
(l-r) Tom Roberts, Antoinette Lynn, Karen Pence, Caroline Kennedy, Mike Pence, Tim McGeath, Jay Steger, Anne Steger, Elaine Kops-Bedel, Terri Stevens, Mike Stevens, Dani Jacoby and Kurt Jacoby
(l-r) Kurt Jacoby, Karen Pence, Mike Pence, Elaine Kops-Bedel and Dani Jacoby
(l-r) Jack Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy, Mike Pence and Karen Pence
Commencement192nd
Hanover celebrated its 192nd Commencement May 24 with the conferral of bachelor’s degrees to the Class of 2025.
Two hundred twenty-three students walked across the stage at the Point, including 30 legacy students whose parents or other close family members attended the College. More than 47 percent of the senior class — 107 students — graduated with honors. Thirty-one students achieved high honors (magna cum laude) and 29 completed their degrees with highest honors (summa cum laude).
Katherine Bettner ’25 delivered the senior address. Jeff Studds ’77, president of the Alumni Leadership Council, welcomed the Class of 2025 into the Hanover Alumni Association. Raj Sharma ’25 (Long Citation), Lexi Traylor ’25 (Crowe Citation), Annalise Bassett ’25 (Sullivan Award) and Ethan Geraci ’25 (Sullivan Award) were recognized as Hanover’s top senior award recipients.
“They say ’people make the place,’ and looking back at the last four years, I know that’s true. It wasn’t just the campus or the classes, it was the everyday moments with friends that made this place feel like home. I’ll always be thankful to have
been part of such a special community at Hanover.”
–Kate Bettner ’25, Class of 2025 address
88th-Annual Honors Convocation
The academic, creative and community achievements of Hanover’s students and faculty were acknowledged during the 88th-annual Honors Convocation, held April 10 in Fitzgibbon Recital Hall.
Nearly 50 students were recognized during the hour-long program, highlighted by seniors Raj Sharma ’25, Lexi Traylor ’25, Annalise Bassett ’25 and Ethan Geraci ’25 Top faculty honors were presented to Steven Newman and Beatrice Marovich.
Sharma, a psychology major, received the Henry C. Long Citation for Scholarship and General Excellence. Traylor, a double major in English and communication, earned the John Finley Crowe Citation for Scholarship and General Excellence and the Alpha Lambda Delta Award. She was also presented with the Distinguished Award in Communication, Dorothy S. Bucks Award in English and Aubra Jade Hiland Award for Creative Writing.
Bassett, a political science major, and Geraci, a double major in environmental geology and English, each received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which is presented annually to recognize outstanding service to the campus community and the community at large.
Geraci also received the Dorothy S. Bucks Award in English and Distinguished Award in Geology. Newman and Marovich were honored with Hanover’s top awards for teaching and scholarly activities.
Newman, assistant professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, was presented with the Arthur and Ilene Baynham Outstanding Teaching Award. Newman, who joined the College’s faculty in 2021, teaches courses in physiology, anatomy and medical imaging and serves as director of both Hanover’s health and movement studies program and the anatomy laboratory.
Marovich, assistant professor of theological studies and department chair, received the Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. She joined the College’s faculty in 2016 and focuses her research and writing on living, dying and dreaming in an animal body.
The creation of the Bill Tereshko Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising was announced during the ceremony. The honor, established through a gift by Andy Gigante ’91, will be presented for the first time during the 2026 Honors Convocation.
Year-end celebration salutes faculty and staff service to campus community
Hanover faculty and staff members were recognized for their service to the campus community during an employee celebration May 12 in the Withrow Activities Center. The gathering included a salute to retiring faculty and staff members and the acknowledgement of 51 employee service milestones ranging from five to 40 years.
The recognition event was capped by the presentation of the Totten Award for Outstanding Service. Recipients of this year’s honor include Kate Johnson, professor of philosophy; Katy Lowe Schneider ’93, associate provost for student success; Jennifer Sterk, administrative coordinator for academic affairs; and Jim Watts, women’s soccer coach. Launched in 2007, the Totten Award recognizes service to the campus community above and beyond normal job responsibilities. The honor pays tribute to Stanley Totten, professor emeritus of geology, who taught at Hanover for 40 years and has served as an educator, mentor and volunteer since 1962.
Raj Sharma and Lexi Traylor
Ethan Geraci and Annalise Bassett
Steven Newman and Beatrice Marovich
Totten Award recipients include (l-r) Jennifer Sterk, Kate Johnson, Katy Lowe Schneider and Jim Watts
Bringle receives Fulbright Specialist Award
This spring, Robert Gordon Bringle ’69 received a Fulbright Specialist Award from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
The Fulbright Award is the third for Bringle, who will lecture and conduct research at Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal, as part of a project to institutionalize community service learning. He is one of more than 400 U.S. citizens selected annually based on academic and professional achievement to share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program.
Bringle, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis, has been a member of the university’s faculty since 1974 and served as executive director of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Service and Learning from 19942012. He previously received a Fulbright grant to help the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam institutionalize service learning in 2017 and a Global Fulbright Scholars grant to support the institutionalization of service learning at Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore), Universidad Antonoma de Madrid (Spain) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam during 2018-19.
Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange initiative. The program, which operates in more than 160 countries, is funded through an annual appropriation made by Congress and participating governments, host institutions, corporations and foundations around the world.
Lambert receives honorary degree from Ivy Tech Madison
Hanover President Lake Lambert was presented with an honorary degree during Ivy Tech Community College - Madison’s commencement. The ceremony was held May 10 in Florence, Ind. Lambert received an honorary Associate of Science in College and Community Service in recognition of his leadership and commitment to higher education and community collaboration. He was lauded for his efforts with new program development and investments in campus facilities and infrastructure.
He was also saluted for community-centered collaborations such as the $30 million “Jefferson Together” initiative and, in particular, transformative programs with Ivy Tech - Madison. These endeavors include the Pell Promise, Hanover-Ivy Tech nursing partnership and support for the community college’s veterinary nursing program.
The honor was bestowed by Ivy Tech Chancellor Amanda Allen Harsin ’06, Rebecca Rahschulte, Ivy Tech vice president for academic affairs, and Kay Stokes, Ivy Tech vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Sipe named exceptional alumni educator
Roberta Fahey Sipe ’74 was selected the Hanover Educator Preparation Program’s exceptional alumni educator of the year. She was honored May 22 during the professional educator induction ceremony in the Ogle Center.
Sipe, who majored in physical education and health education while at Hanover, taught and coached for 29 years at South Decatur (Ind.), Plymouth (Ind.), Eldon (Ohio) and Benton Central (Ind.) junior and senior high schools before ending her career at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Ind.). Following her 2013 retirement, she continued to teach elementary and secondary school physical education methods classes at the University of Indianapolis and supervised all physical education student teachers for eight years.
In 2007, Sipe was named the Indiana, Midwest and national elementary physical education teacher of the year by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The honor provided an opportunity for her to travel across the U.S. teaching best practices at state and local conferences. She also served as a member of the Indiana Society for Health and Physical Educators, including many years as Elementary Council chair.
(l-r) Quinten Hizey, Michael Sipe, Roberta Sipe, Dustin Bailey and Cheryl Torline
(l-r) Rebecca Rahschulte, Chancellor Amanda Allen Harsin, President Lake Lambert and Kay Stokes
Retirees leave lasting mark on Hanover’s campus
Eight members of Hanover’s faculty and staff announced their retirements in recent months. The group combined for more than 170 years of service to the College community.
MICHAEL “MAC” MCMAHON retired in December 2024 after working as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician (HVAC) for the physical plant staff since 2008. A 2010 recipient of the Stanley Totten Award for Outstanding Service, McMahon served the U.S. Navy as a boiler technician during the Vietnam War. Before coming to the College, he was an assistant store manager at Mr. Hardware in Hanover, Ind., and a maintenance technician for Dominion Realty in Austin, Ind.
JOYCE FLANAGAN began her campus duties in September 2014 as coordinator of the Gladish Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2017, she became director of the Health Sciences Program to support students pursuing careers in health and healthcare-related fields. Before coming to Hanover, she worked as an academic support specialist at Tiffin University and was a voice instructor at the Joyce Mathern Voice Studio in Findlay, Ohio.
LYNN NICHOLS HALL ’82, vice president for athletics, previously taught physical education and coached volleyball and basketball at Salem (Ind.) High School before returning to campus in September 1987. She began her Hanover tenure as an instructor of physical education, head volleyball coach and assistant women’s basketball coach. She led the volleyball program to 217 wins from 1987-98. She also served as intramural director in the early 1990s and started the women’s golf team in 1993. Hall, a 2024 Totten Award winner, was named acting director of athletics in May 1998 and became the College’s first female administrator with oversight of all intercollegiate sports in September 1999.
JEFFREY PHILLIPS, PH.D., associate professor of engineering and Montgomery Professor in Engineering, joined the campus community in June 2018 as the first director of the engineering program and assistant professor of engineering. A 2024 Totten Award honoree, Phillips is a former National Science Foundation Fellow and previously worked as a senior project manager at Electric Power Research Institute and vice president at Fern Engineering, Inc. He has also served as an adjunct instructor at
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and as a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Lehigh University and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Professor of History J. MICHAEL RALEY, PH.D., started his tenure at Hanover August 2013 as assistant professor of history. He was named the 2022 recipient of the College’s Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity and also earned a Totten Award that year. Prior to joining Hanover’s faculty, he served as visiting instructor at Alma College, visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University and taught at Northeastern Illinois University. Before turning to academia, he was a professional symphony musician with the Louisville Orchestra.
BRYANT STAMFORD, PH.D., professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, came to Hanover in August 2005 as professor and chair of the newly created exercise science program. Widely known for his long-running syndicated column, “The Body Shop,” Stamford joined the College’s faculty after working at the University of Louisville from 1973-2005, serving as chair of the health and sport sciences department, director of the Health Promotion Center, assistant dean of the graduate school and director of the exercise physiology program.
BILL TERESHKO, professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, started his 40-year career at Hanover in September 1985 when he arrived as an instructor of physical education and assistant coach with the football and track and field teams. He was defensive coordinator of the football squad from 1987-2007 and coached the men’s golf team from 1991-99. Tereshko, a 2024 Totten Award winner, became director of the Hanover Wellness Program and assistant professor of exercise science in 2008. Before coming to the College, he was an admission counselor and assistant football coach at Muskingum College.
HEYO VAN ITEN, PH.D., professor of geology, joined the College faculty in September 1995 as an assistant professor of geology. A renowned paleontologist, Van Iten has led many Hanover students on off-campus spring term trips and worked as an influential research associate at the Cincinnati Museum Center. He previously taught at Carleton College and Gustavus Adolphus College.
Lorenzi, Martin and Rhodehamel join board of trustees
Greg Lorenzi ’99, Wendy Martin ’95 and William Rhodehamel have been elected to Hanover’s Board of Trustees. Each person’s four-year term began July 1.
Lorenzi serves as senior vice president at SMS Holdings in Nashville, Tenn. He has been with the company for more than two decades and currently oversees its financial planning and analysis, legal and risk management functions, insurance, strategic planning and charitable initiatives.
Martin is the director of commercial analytics at Agios Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on cellular metabolism and therapies for rare diseases. She previously worked as the director of market insights at Nestle’ Health Science, vice president for research strategy at Adelphi Research Global and in market research leadership positions at Eli Lilly and Company. Rhodehamel has worked as the president and chief executive officer at Hendricks County (Ind.) Community Foundation since 2012. He previously owned and operated Hoosier Orchid Company for two decades and has additional experience in the aerospace, entertainment and private club industries.
Greg Lorenzi
Wendy Martin
William Rhodehamel
Berg appointed associate provost
Bartell Berg, Ph.D., has been hired as associate provost for undergraduate studies. He will oversee undergraduate academic operations, coordinate program reviews, lead assessment and accreditation efforts and contribute to faculty development.
Berg, who will begin his duties August 1, comes to Hanover after 15 years at the University of Southern Indiana, where he has served as assistant and associate professor of German and director of core assessment. He also served as a visiting faculty member at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, in 2019 and was a visiting assistant professor at Murray State University in 2009-10.
Berg, a Fulbright Scholar, earned doctoral and master’s degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. He conducted his dissertation research at the University of Salzburg. He received a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University.
Aguilar ascends to top occupational therapy post
Gayla Aguilar, Ph.D., has been appointed director of Hanover’s Doctor of Occupational Therapy program. She joined Hanover’s staff in 2022 as director of fieldwork education and became director of curriculum in 2024.
Aguilar, a licensed occupational therapist, is a specialist in sensory integration/processing and autism spectrum disorder. She has prior work experience in inpatient and outpatient adult rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, home health and school-based therapy. Her research interests include health and wellness, compassion fatigue, pain management and sensory processing disorder.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy at the University of Texas Health Science Center and a Doctor of Occupational Therapy at the Rocky Mountain University of Health Sciences. She also holds a master’s degree in health psychology and a doctorate in psychology from Walden University.
Boehme named director of Duggan Library
Andrea Boehme ’08, Ph.D., has joined Hanover’s staff as director of the Duggan Library. She began her campus duties July 1.
A member of the American Library Association, Boehme returned to the College after serving as director of access services at Bowling Green State University since 2016. She previously worked for five years at Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library, including three years as circulation manager.
Boehme, who was a student assistant in the Duggan Library during her time at Hanover, received a bachelor's degree in English in 2008. She later earned a master’s degree in education technology at Indiana State and a doctorate in higher education leadership at Indiana University.
Schemmel to lead engineering program
John Schemmel, Ph.D., has been selected the director of Hanover’s engineering program. He will begin his duties in August.
A civil engineer, Schemmel has more than 30 years of experience as an educator, administrator and researcher. He is a specialist in structural and materials engineering with research focus on concrete and related products. He previously served as an instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Bruce and Gloria Ingram Endowed Chair in Engineering at Texas State University, professor at Valparaiso University, department head at South Dakota State University, and professor and associate dean of academic affairs at Arkansas University. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute and a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials.
Schemmel holds three civil engineering degrees, including a doctoral degree from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree from Lehigh University. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kops-Bedel’s endowed funds mark firsts for athletic, math programs
A financial donation by Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 has designated five funds that direct key support to Hanover’s mathematics, softball and volleyball programs, including the first endowed coaching positions in the College’s athletic department history.
The Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 Endowed Coach for Women’s Softball and the Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 Endowed Coach for Women’s Volleyball were created as the first endowed positions in Hanover’s athletic department. The funding contributes budget enhancement for both the softball and volleyball programs to help with the hiring of assistant coaches and interns, resources for professional development and any additional needs with team management.
Two related funds, the Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 Fund for Women’s Softball and the Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 Fund for Women’s Volleyball, provide additional budget support for these programs. The donation will help purchase team uniforms and equipment, plus allow for team-building activities and cover travel expenses associated with participation in special tournaments.
Along with the groundbreaking athletic contributions, Kops-Bedel and her husband, Eric Bedel, established the Elaine Kops-Bedel ’74 and Eric Bedel Endowed Professor in Mathematics. The permanently restricted fund will underwrite the salary and benefits of a still-to-be-selected professor, as well as provide an allowance for professional development and student programming.
Kops-Bedel, chair of the Hanover Board of Trustees, was a mathematics major and played both softball and volleyball during her years as a student at the College. She has served as a member of Hanover’s board since 1987 and was elected chair in 2022. A certified financial planner (R) practitioner, she has served as president and chief executive officer of Bedel Financial Consulting Inc. since she founded the firm in 1989. She was appointed by former Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb ’90 as the first secretary and chief executive officer of the Indiana Destination Development Corporation and served in that position from 2019-25. Prior to the appointment, she served the State of Indiana as president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation from 2017-19.
Eleutherian College gift supports archaeology efforts
Hanover’s classical studies students received support for their archaeological efforts through a gift from local preservationist Jan Vetrhus on behalf of the historic Eleutherian College (HEC).
Eleutherian College, founded in 1848 in nearby Lancaster, Ind., operated with a mission to educate all students, regardless of race or gender, until the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. A teachers college existed on the site through the 1870s and 1880s. A township school operated on the grounds from 1888-1939. The three-story stone building was used for storage until 1991, when it was purchased by Historic Eleutherian College Inc. with the goal of restoring the edifice while researching and preserving HEC’s history and legacy.
Vetrhus, who serves as president of the HEC board, created the Historic Eleutherian College Expendable Fund for Archaeology to provide Hanover’s students with the latest tools and technology for archaeological and related research. The College’s classical studies students conduct fieldwork at the site, gaining valuable hands-on experience while continuing to make discoveries about its history.
The financial resources, administered by the College’s classical studies department, will support the purchase equipment, software or other educational tools related to fieldwork.
Jan Vetrhus
Pattersons expand support of business program
Vance Patterson ’72 and his wife, Mary Jo Cody Patterson ’75, have furthered their multimillion-dollar support of Hanover’s business program as the College’s state-of-the-art Center for Business and Entrepreneurship nears completion in the lower level of Parker Auditorium.
The Pattersons have established the Endowed Fund for the Hanover College Business and Entrepreneurship Center. The newly created endowment will provide capital to help the College maintain an advanced business environment. The gift supports the future purchase of equipment, software, computer applications and upgrades, as well as training, furnishings and maintenance. Expenditures may be selected by business department faculty members with approval by the provost.
In 2022, the Pattersons made a personal commitment to renovate the entire lower level of Parker Auditorium and, ultimately, serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of the entire building. The space, scheduled for completion within weeks, will include classrooms, faculty and staff offices, conference rooms and dedicated areas for ideation, graphic design, social media and audio-visual recording studios.
Faculty offices will be relocated in time for the August 25 start of classes. A formal dedication and open house will be held during Homecoming in October.
PALNI Library Innovation Grant to fund information literacy program
Want to support Hanover’s business students?
Hanover has received a Library Innovation Grant from the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). The $5,750 award will fund a collaborative initiative to enhance library services and student success through information literacy.
“Empower Students by Empowering Faculty,” a pilot program through Hanover’s Duggan Library, will be a facultycentered summer institute aimed at embedding information literacy instruction directly into the College’s curriculum. Through a “teach the teacher” approach, library staff members will collaborate with faculty from different disciplines to design and implement strategies to help students recognize the need for information and hone their ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the information.
The initiative extends the library's impact across campus and reflects Hanover’s commitment to nurturing inquiry and preparing students for a lifetime of critical thinking and research fluency.
PALNI is a non-profit library-to-library collaboration made up of 24 private, academic libraries. The Library Innovation Grant funds initiatives that align with PALNI’s strategic priorities and promote collaboration throughout the consortium. Funded projects are supported for up to one year, with recipients expected to share outcomes and models for continued innovation.
Duke Energy Foundation grant aids engineering academy
The Duke Energy Foundation continued its partnership with Hanover’s summer engineering program, providing a $5,000 grant to support “Exploring Engineering Summer Academy,” a residential program for high school students with interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The Duke Energy Foundation has aided the academy in a variety of ways. This year’s grant funded an attendance scholarship for one student from each of Indiana’s Clark, Floyd and Harrison counties, plus a stipend for a local high school engineering teacher to serve as an adjunct instructor, and the purchase of educational supplies for all students.
This year’s edition of “Exploring Engineering Summer Academy” was held from June 8-13. Students resided on Hanover’s campus, participated in science experiments and in-depth engineering sessions and toured the Clifty Creek Power Plant and SuperATV in Madison, Ind. Additional extra-curricular activities, led by current Hanover STEM students, allowed students to explore college life.
(l-r) Mary Jo Cody Patterson, Vance Patterson and President Lake Lambert
Trucking-industry’s Baylor featured in Shoemaker Speaker Series
Cari Beth Baylor, president of Baylor Trucking Inc., was the featured guest during the presentation of the Shoemaker Speaker Series. She spoke with faculty member John Riddick ’87 during an hour-long discussion May 15 in the Science Center.
Baylor, the company’s president since 2016, serves on the board of directors of the American Trucking Association (ATA) and Indiana Motor Truck. She is a charter member of the Young Transportation Executive Council of the Truckload Carriers Association and a charter member of the Indiana Motor Truck Emerging Leaders’ group. In 2016, she was featured by “FleetOwner” magazine as one of the industry’s 12 most influential women. In 2011, she received ATA’s Mike Russell Image Award for her efforts to promote a positive national image for the trucking industry.
She is the daughter of the late Bob Baylor ’70 and Beth Baylor, who have each served as a member of the Hanover Board of Trustees.
The Shoemaker Speaker Series, an active part of the College’s expanding entrepreneurial network, was established in 2022 to feature prominent voices on business, leadership and innovation. The series is made possible through the generosity of John Shoemaker ’64 and his wife, Donna.
Koncewicz presents O’Brien Lecture, Indiana Association of Historians’ keynote
Historian, educator and author Michael Koncewicz, Ph.D., presented the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture April 5 in the Lynn Center for Fine Arts. The address, “Richard Nixon, Tom Hayden, and the Resistance of the Watergate Era,” also served as the keynote address for the 45th-annual Indiana Association of Historians’ annual conference.
Koncewicz, whose scholarship focuses on U.S. culture and politics during the 1960s and 1970s, serves as an associate director at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University (NYU). He has taught U.S. history and public history courses at NYU and Hunter College. He curated NYU’s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives’ Cold War collections and managed the archives’ Center for the United States and the Cold War and public programming. Previously, Koncewicz worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, contributing to the museum’s nonpartisan Watergate exhibit. His first book, “They Said ‘No’ to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power,” was published in 2018. He is working on an authorized biography of Hayden, the celebrity activist who straddled the line between liberal and mainstream politics.
The O’Brien Lecture is sponsored annually by Hanover’s history department and Environmental Stewardship Committee.
Celebrate our newest hall of fame members!
Hall of Fame Day - Saturday, Sept. 13
Induction Class of 2025
Mackenzie Dye Conley ’15
Kathleen “K.C.” Reynolds DeBra ’05
Gary Fricke ’77
Induction Ceremony
10:30 a.m.
Four selected to receive Hanover’s top alumni honors
J. Lee Annis Jr. ’78, Beth Maxson Monnin ’83, Karl Plank ’74 and Edwin Nartey ’15 have been selected to receive Hanover’s highest alumni honors. Annis, Monnin and Plank will be presented with the Alumni Achievement Award. Nartey will receive the Distinguished Young Alumni Award.
The presentation ceremony will be held Saturday, Oct. 18, as part of Hanover’s 98th-annual Homecoming celebration. The event is scheduled for noon at the J. Graham Brown Campus Center.
The Alumni Achievement Award has been presented annually since 1960. The honor recognizes graduates who have enhanced the reputation of the College by making significant contributions to their community, state or nation through professional service, public service and/or civic activities.
Annis, an educator, historian and author, has taught history and political science at Montgomery College for 40 years. He taught classes at each of Montgomery’s three campuses and served as the main campus’ history department chair from 2011-18.
In the past two years, Annis was honored by Montgomery College and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. He was acknowledged by the college’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors for outstanding service in 2009.
He is the author of “Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis” and “Big Jim Eastland: The Godfather of Mississippi.”
He penned “William H. ‘Bill’ Frist, M.D.: The Doctor as Leader” for “Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Herding Cats in the Modern Era.” He is currently working on the history of Hanover, slated for completion in time for the College's 2027 bicentennial celebration.
Annis has served his community as a member of the Maryland and Montgomery County (Md.) Young Republicans, Montgomery County Redistricting Commission, and the Montgomery County (Md.) Commission on the Public Financing of Elections.
Following his Hanover graduation, Annis earned a master’s degree and doctorate at Ball State University.
He lives in Silver Spring, Md.
Monnin serves as regional vice president for the Collegiate Licensing Company, a division of Learfield IMG College. She has more than 15 years of experience in the field and, for the past six years, has led the company’s Greek licensing division.
Since graduating from Hanover, Monnin has been a volunteer for Phi Mu and served two separate terms on the sorority’s governing board, including National President (2014-18) and board chair of the Phi Mu Foundation. She previously served on Hanover’s Greek Task Force and has volunteered as a member of the Rho chapter advisory council in various positions. She currently serves as Phi Mu’s national ritual coordinator. Last year, Monnin was honored with the Outstanding Alumna Achievement for Contribution to Phi Mu Award at the organization’s biennial convention.
She resides in Minster, Ohio.
Plank, a religion scholar and poet, taught at Davidson College from 1982-2023 and retired as the J.W. Cannon Professor Emeritus of Religion. During his tenure, he earned Davidson’s Hunter Hamilton Teaching Award, Thomas Jefferson Award and the Boswell Family Fellowship.
He is the author of “Paul and the Irony of Affliction,” “Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust” and “The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest.’” He has also published works about Thomas Merton, Abraham Joshua Heschel and Hannah Arendt, among others. His literary writings have earned the Thomas Carter Prize and received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology.
Plank majored in theological studies and music at Hanover. He earned both Master of Divinity and doctoral degrees at Vanderbilt University.
He resides in Cornelius, N.C.
The Distinguished Young Alumni Award has been presented annually since 2013. The honor celebrates graduates under the age of 40 and recognizes alumni who have enhanced the reputation of the College through their outstanding professional achievements, personal accomplishments or their loyal service to their alma mater.
For the past three years, Nartey has worked as an engineering manager at Google, where he leads initiatives in Google cloud infrastructure storage organization. He also serves as a strategic advisor for Seeds of Fortune, a non-profit focused on reducing barriers to wealth creation for underserved communities, and volunteers as a career coach with Management Leadership for Tomorrow.
Prior to joining Google, Nartey worked for six years in analytics and strategy for Goldman Sachs, including almost three years as data strategy lead at Marquee, the company’s digital platform for institutional and corporate clients.
While at Hanover, Nartey studied computer science and business. He served as a member of the College’s Board of Trustees from 2020-24, where he focused on academic and institutional affairs, enrollment and student life.
Nartey lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
J. Lee Annis Jr. Beth Maxson Monnin Karl Plank Edwin Nartey
STRUCTURALLY SOUND
Engineering program thrives as next chapter begins
Seems that square peg has turned out to be a great fit!
Roll back the clock to 2016 and the announcement of the addition of engineering to Hanover’s pool of traditional liberal arts majors raised many eyebrows — both on campus and among Hanoverians. Though still in its infancy in so many ways, the program has built a sturdy foundation for its future.
The College’s two degree tracks — a Bachelor of Science in engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in engineering science — were made available to incoming students in 2017. Marissa Childs ’19 and Oliver Hollaert ’19 were the first students to complete the College’s program. This past spring, eight students earned engineering degrees.
“While I could not be certain that an engineering program at Hanover would succeed, I was confident that the graduates of such a program would do well in the ‘real world’ of engineering,” stated Jeffrey Phillips, Ph.D., who recently retired after serving as the engineering program’s first director since 2018 and the Gary and Judy Montgomery Professor of Engineering.
Students in the program’s first cohort anticipated that the engineering curriculum would eventually earn accreditation as the process played out. In 2022, Hanover’s bachelor’s degree programs received accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs.
“Achieving ABET accreditation in the shortest possible time frame was a big victory,” proclaimed Phillips. “Lots of credit goes to [professors] Leo Pantelidis and Greg Robison from the physics department for figuring out how to create a curriculum that would fit ABET’s requirements and also meet the requirements for a Hanover College degree.”
Instructor Tim Brooks, who joined the faculty in 2019, provided crucial insights during the process. “[Brooks] had a lot of experience with managing quality control systems in industry,” Phillips added. “He recognized that ABET was asking us to show that we had a robust quality control system in place to ensure continuous improvement of our program.”
Hanover’s engineering program has certainly continued to improve, building opportunities through relationships with area businesses, receiving career and financial support from alumni, and benefitting from the unique array of students in the major. Businesses in nearby communities have become key advocates. Strong community partnerships with local manufacturers, including Grote Industries, Inc., Arvin Sango, Inc., and Vehicle Service Group, LLC, provide internships. In addition, students have access to expertise, equipment and projects through a relationship with the U.S. Navy and an educational partnership with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division. Continuing support from the Duke Energy Foundation even nurtures prospective students through the summer high school engineering academy.
“We have received excellent support from local employers of engineers and also from Hanover alumni who have gone on to work in the engineering field,” said Phillips. “Many of them have served on our Engineering Advisory Board, which the ABET accreditors recognized as a strength of our program. Thanks to them, we have been able to offer tours of local manufacturers to our students, they have hosted our students for engineering internships and they have hired our graduates.”
A significant strength for Hanover’s engineering program came in 2023 with the establishment of the Spencer Family Expendable Scholarship for Students in Engineering, which Phillips noted, “has increased the quality of the students in our program.”
The award, created by James Spencer ’75 and his wife, Jane Alling Spencer ’76, provides full financial support to cover tuition, room, board and books each year for two outstanding students with high financial need. The scholarship has already had a profound impact on the program and the lives of its recipients.
“The Spencer Scholarship was the most important part of my decision, the deciding factor, to attend Hanover,” acknowledged Olivia Mulholland ’27. “I loved Hanover after visiting. I loved everything about this place and how welcoming everyone was, but I left my visit knowing that without the scholarship, I wouldn’t be able to be here. The fact that I was able to receive that scholarship and come to Hanover has been life changing. And I’m so appreciative of it.”
The lure of the combination of the liberal arts and engineering, along with the generous scholarship and local ties, has helped create a notable blend of students in the program.
“We’ve had an impressive variety of students so far,” said Phillips. “We’ve had more than the typical number of students who have been commuters from the local area, and we’ve had international students from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and North America. While many have been involved in athletic teams, we also have had members of the choir and the band, and more than our share have served as [resident assistants] and as tutors at the Gladish Learning Center.”
Phillips, however, takes immense pride in the campus accomplishments of recent graduate Rio Takagi ’23, who received the John Finley Crowe Citation, Distinguished Award in Engineering, Fleming Physics Award and Edward J. Hamilton Essay Prize during the 86th-annual Honors Convocation in 2023. He proudly stated, “It showed that our program’s
students are capable of reaching the pinnacle of scholarship and ethical leadership at the College.”
Phillips also acknowledges the significance of the endowing of the department’s professorship. He declared, “The funding of the Gary and Judy Montgomery Professor of Engineering sent a firm message that our program is here to stay and has solid financial support.”
With John Schemmel, Ph.D., joining the campus community as the new director in August [see page 9], the future of Hanover’s engineering program continues to look bright. There are 41 students in the program for the coming fall term, which ranks as the sixth-largest major on campus behind only business, kinesiology and integrative physiology, biology, psychology and education. Fifteen students are on track to graduate with an engineering degree next year.
“While we had some lean years of recruiting at the beginning when we were selling more of a dream than a reality, our graduates from those years are doing well,” Phillips stated. “Now the word is getting out that employers and graduate schools want our graduates and our numbers are growing.”
While reflecting on the program’s ascending path, Phillips humbly boasted, “The past four graduating classes have had four-year graduation rates that met or exceeded those of their overall class. For the Class of 2025, 10 of the 11 students who arrived here in the fall of 2021 hoping to get an engineering degree graduated with an ABET-accredited degree in four years or less. That is a 91 percent graduation rate. I doubt any program in the country with at least 10 graduates this year can top that.”
Olivia Muholland
Tim Brooks Marissa Childs and Oliver Hollaert
Rio Takagi
Jeff Phillips
Hall of Fame to welcome Conley, DeBra and Fricke
Mackenzie Dye Conley ’15, Kathleen “K.C.” Reynolds DeBra ’05 and the late Gary Fricke ’77 have been elected to the Hanover Athletic Hall of Fame. The trio will be inducted Saturday, Sept. 13, during a morning ceremony as part of the College’s Hall of Fame Day.
A four-time all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honoree in cross country, Conley posted three top-seven finishes in the league meet. In track, she was a two-time HCAC champion in the outdoor 10,000 meters, winning titles in 2012 and 2014, and earned the conference’s 5,000-meter indoor crown in 2014 with a record-setting performance (18:14.86).
Conley, who resides in Muncie, Ind., teaches family and consumer sciences at Delta (Ind.) High School. She also coaches the school’s cross country and girls’ track and field teams. She is the daughter of Duane Dye ’81, a former track and cross country standout who was inducted into the Hanover Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018.
A two-time all-Heartland Conference honoree, DeBra ranks among the top goal scorers in Hanover’s women’s soccer history. She totaled a then-record 48 career goals from 2001-04. She set the Panthers’ singleseason mark with 14 goals as a sophomore, then followed with 21 goals during the 2003 season. That fall, she was named the College’s second HCAC player of the year (Megan Bohlander Bence ’04, 2002).
DeBra, who lives in Loveland, Ohio, is a marketing coordinator at LifeWings Partners, LLC. She has coached youth soccer, volleyball and springboard diving for two decades.
A four-year starter at offensive tackle on the football team squad, Fricke helped the Panthers post four consecutive Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference championships and set the school record with 28 straight regular-season victories. He was a second-team all-American in 1976 and earned all-district and all-league honors as a junior and senior. He also wrestled for one season — during his junior year — and helped the Panthers post a 10-2-1 overall record.
Fricke, who resided in Plainfield, Ind., worked as an environmental engineer until his 2021 retirement. He died May 20, 2024.
Becker inducted into Illinois basketball hall of fame
Former Hanover basketball standout Jennifer Skaggs Becker ’01 was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame May 3. The ceremony was held at CEFCU Arena in Normal, Ill.
After transferring to Hanover, Becker was a three-time all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honoree and two-time HCAC player of the year. She closed her four-year career as the leading scorer and rebounder in school history with 1,524 points and 773 boards. She currently ranks fourth in program history in both categories.
Becker, who was named the College’s outstanding senior female senior athlete, earned the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s 2001 Charles T. Stoner Law Scholarship Award. A summa cum laude graduate, she majored in philosophy and political science while at Hanover and attended the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She formerly served as an associate at DLA Piper, a global law firm.
Bezold becomes Hanover’s first female to win league athlete-of-the-year honor
Basketball player Grace Bezold ’25 has become the first athlete in school history to be selected the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s female athlete of the year.
Bezold, a 5-foot-10 forward, earned the Heartland Conference’s top all-around individual honor after a record-setting 2024-25 season. She set school records with 623 points and a league-best 23.1 points per game. She also led the HCAC with 9.3 rebounds per contest. She was named the conference’s player of the week five times and was recognized as the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Division III national player of the week in February.
At season’s end, Bezold was named the Heartland Conference’s player of the year and earned all-American recognition from D3hoops.com (third team) and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (honorable mention). She was also a finalist for the Josten Trophy, denoting the NCAA Division III national player of the year, and participated in the NCAA Division III Women's Collegiate All-Star Game in March.
Bezold is now one of three Hanover athletes to earn the HCAC’s athlete-of-the-year honor, which was first presented in 2014. She joins former basketball standouts Cam Fails ’19 (2019) and Wes McKinney ’18 (2017) as recipients.
Mackenzie Dye Conley
Kathleen Reynolds DeBra
Gary Fricke
(l-r) Molly Totten Jones, Jennifer Skaggs Becker and John Jones
Record-setting athletes pace award winners
Record-setting standouts
Jessie Stenger ’25 and Ethan Weston ’25 earned awards as Hanover’s most outstanding senior athletes. The accolades, first presented in 1926, were among many honors presented during the athletic department’s annual year-end ceremony, held May 21 in Collier Arena.
Stenger is the most decorated athlete in Hanover’s track and field history. She also competed as a fouryear member of the College’s volleyball squad.
A four-time all-American thrower, Stenger was a five-time national qualifier and made appearances at three outdoor national championship meets (2022-25) and one NCAA III indoor finale. She stands as the first athlete in Hanover history to achieve all-American honors in two events at a single championship. She also earned five Heartland Collegiate Athletics Conference outdoor titles.
Stenger earned second-team all-American honors with a 14th-place finish in the shot put at the 2025 indoor championship. At the 2024 outdoor national meet, she posted a fifth-place finish in the shot put to earn all-American status and claimed second-team all-American honors with a 16th-place finish in the discus. She was also an all-American in the outdoor discus in 2022, finishing eighth overall.
She posted five Heartland Conference outdoor championships through the 2022-24 seasons. She won the 2024 HCAC titles in both the discus (43.32 meters / 142 feet, one inch) and shot put (13.88 meters / 45 feet, 6.5 inches). She earned the discus title in 2023 (43.62 meters / 143 feet, 1.3 inches). She also earned two league crowns in 2022, winning the discus (44.30 meters / 145 feet, four inches) and shot put (13.60 meters / 44 feet, 7.5 inches).
Stenger, a double major in chemistry and secondary education, capped her career as Hanover’s record-holder in the outdoor discus (45.7 meters / 149 feet, 11 inches) and shot put (14.54 meters / 47 feet, 8.5 inches). She also holds the school mark in the indoor shot put (13.51 meters / 44 feet, 3.8 inches).
Dues first to be named HCLC’s top defensive player
Weston, an engineering major, was a two-time academic all-American, five-time first-team allHeartland Conference honoree in cross country and a four-time all-HCAC award winner with the track and field team.
He tallied the fastest time in Hanover’s cross country history during the 2024 season, posting a time of 24:49 at Wilmington College’s Jenna Strong Classic to break a 44-year-old record (Duane Dye ’81, 25:01) and become the first athlete in school history to eclipse the 25-minute mark in an eight-kilometer race. He placed in the top 11 in the Heartland Conference meet five times, including a second-place finish as a senior.
Weston stands as the only runner in school history to rank among the top 10 times in cross country and seven track events. He was the Indiana Division III champion in the 10,000 kilometers during the 2022 season (31:43.39). He turned in a school-record time of 8:39.85 in the indoor 3,000-meter race at Indiana State University’s 2025 John Gartland Invitational (Jacob Hedrick ’19, 8:46.04).
The Mildred E. Lemen Mental Attitude Award was presented to Mallorie Fultz ’25, an all-Heartland Conference infielder on Hanover’s softball team. Reid Douglas ’25, a two-time first-team all-HCAC catcher on the baseball squad, received the Bill Griffin Mental Attitude Award. Katherine Benter ’25, a four-time all-league honoree for the basketball program, received the Lexi Riggles Teammate of the Year Award.
Hanover’s women’s soccer team earned the Dean’s Award, which recognizes the squad with the highest grade-point average (GPA). The 35-member team, coached by Jim Watts, collectively achieved a 3.687 GPA.
The men’s cross country team, guided by Brady Wells ’83, won the Faculty Athletic Representative Award for the largest increase in GPA from one academic year through the next. The team, with 11 athletes, posted a 3.256 combined grade-point average, marking a 0.401 improvement from the previous year.
Defender Scott Dues ’25 has been named the Heartland Collegiate Lacrosse Conference’s defensive player of the year. He is the first player in the Hanover program’s 15-year history to earn the award.
Dues, a four-time all-HCLC selection, earned first-team all-conference honors for the third consecutive year. In 13 starts for the Panthers, he tallied 42 ground balls and 35 caused turnovers with seven goals and five assists. He collected 17 ground balls, 10 caused turnovers, two goals and an assist in four league matches.
Hanover, under second-year head coach Angelo Butturi ’16, finished 11-4 overall. The squad placed second in the Heartland Conference standings with a 3-1 mark and advanced to the HCLC’s championship contest for the third time in the past five seasons.
Ethan Weston
Jessie Stenger
Bensouda named Heartland Conference’s top newcomer, sprinter
Brandon Bensouda ’28 was recognized as the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s top newcomer and sprinter of the year following the league’s championship meet, held April 25-26 in Berea, Ky.
Bensouda collected Heartland Conference titles in the 100- and 200-meter dashes to become the first male athlete in school history to be named the HCAC’s top sprinter. He posted the top qualifying time in the 100-meter dash with a league and schoolrecord time of 10.54 seconds. He later won the event in 10.76 seconds. He posted a school-best time of 21.84 seconds to win the conference’s 200-meter dash crown.
Bensouda is Hanover’s first male athlete to earn the Heartland Conference’s newcomer of the year honor since 2013. That spring, Nick Jaeger ’16 won the high jump title by two inches with a 1.93-meter leap (six feet, four inches).
Earlier in the season, Bensouda set the Panthers’ school mark in the 100-meter dash, running 10.76 seconds to place third at the Indiana DIII Championships in Greencastle, Ind. The previous school record in the event was set at the 2024 Heartland Conference championship by Layden Adair ’26, who finished sixth in 10.81 seconds.
Adair had also previously held the Panthers’ 200-meter record. He posted a time of 22.07 seconds to place fifth in the event at the 2024 HCAC meet.
Hanover totaled 117 points to finish third among 10 schools at the 2025 Heartland Conference championship.
Wilmoth first to compete at NCAA III outdoor nationals
Thrower Tommy Wilmoth ’27 became the first male athlete in Hanover’s track and field history to represent the program at the NCAA Division III outdoor track and field championships. He competed in the shot put May 23 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Wilmoth, who was seeded 19th entering the competition, finished 19th among 22 athletes in the field. He posted his best effort, a 15.93-meter heave (52 feet, 3.25 inches), on the last of his three attempts.
He is the College’s first male athlete to qualify for a national track and field championship in more than 30 years. Former distance standout Mike Rivera ’94 finished 16th out of 28 runners in the steeplechase at the 1992 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championships in Vancouver, Canada.
Wilmoth earned the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference title April 25 with a 15.19-meter heave (49 feet, 10 inches). He qualified for the NCAA meet with a personal-best of 16.59-meter effort (54 feet, 5.1 inches) at Indiana University’s Billy Hayes Invitational May 9 in Bloomington, Ind.
Wilmoth is the Panthers’ indoor shot put record-holder, posting a 14.92-meter throw (48 feet, 11.05 inches) during the 2024 season. The late Sam Moneyhun ’66 holds the College’s outdoor record, which continues as the second-longest standing mark in program history. Moneyhun posted a 16.61-meter toss (54 feet, six inches) during the 1965 season.
100-meter relay record set during outdoor season
Layden Adair ’26, Jayden Enderle ’27, Blaine Ison ’28 and Anthony Lloyd ’26 combined to establish a new school record in the 4x100-meter relay during the outdoor track and field season.
The foursome set the Panthers’ record in the event at the Friday Night Lights Meet April 18 in Terre Haute, Ind. The quartet covered the one-lap event in 42.02 seconds. The effort eclipsed the previous mark of 42.56 seconds set by Kornell Dash ’20, Sam Jackson ’22, Reece Hunter ’21 and Darrell Payne ’19 at Indiana University’s 2019 Billy Hayes Invitational.
Hanoverian Eternal is available on Hanover’s alumni website. Information about the passing of members of the College community, including alumni, faculty, staff and trustees, are regularly updated online along with links to obituaries, when available. our.hanover.edu/eternal
1951 RICHARD MILLER PARK, 94, of Franklin, Ind., died Dec. 30, 2024
1951 JULIA ANNE BEEBE WHITCOMBE, 93, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., died Sept. 3, 2023
1954 GILLIAN “GIGI” GETTY POLK DUNN, 92, of Louisville, Ky., died April 12, 2025
1955 NELLIE A. WARDWELL FRAILEY, 91, of Fairview, Mich., died April 27, 2025
1956 PATRICIA MOORMAN MILLER CAMPBELL, 90, of Durham, N.H., died April 2, 2025
1957 KENT ELGIN THOMPSON, PH.D., 85, of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, died August 13, 2021
1959 BARBARA B. BOEHM SNYDER, 88, of Vincennes, Ind., died May 17, 2025
1959 JANICE MAE HARDY STANLEY, 88, of Lexington, Ind., died June 14, 2025
1963 GERALD JOHN KAMMAN, 86, of Amelia Island, Fla., died May 1, 2025
1963 NANCY BINGHAM MANDLOVE, PH.D., 84, of Spartanburg, S.C., died May 11, 2025
1964 BONNIE ANN MINER POOLE, 83, of Naperville, Ill., died April 11, 2025
1964 GARY C. SCHEIDT, 83, of Bear Creek, N.C., died April 25, 2025
1967 CAROL ANN BERGLUND KINDER, 80, of Wheaton, Ill., died June 10, 2025
1968 SUSAN FRANCES THOMPSON, 79, of Charleston, W.Va., died May 27, 2025
1969 ISABEL JEAN RASMUSSEN MAXWELL, 78, of New Albany, Ind., died April 17, 2025
1974 JAMES DAVID PYLES, 74, of Dallas, died August 22, 2024
1975 SHARON ANNE “SHERRY” MASON, 66, of Whitestown, Ind., died Feb. 9, 2020
1979 MICHAEL R. “WHITEY” ROY BAUMAN, 68, of Jonesboro, Ga., died April 30, 2025
1980 EMILY F. WOODWARD HERNANDEZ, 66, of Encinitas, Calif., died Jan. 19, 2025
1981 TRINA JERENE ELSWICK VERNON, 66, of Scottsburg, Ind., died April 27, 2025
1995 KRISTIN ANDRIOT WATSON BERLES, 52, of Alpena, Mich., died May 29, 2025
The Hanover College Memorial Wall and Garden endures as a lasting tribute to cherished family members, friends, classmates, faculty and staff members. The limestone memorial, established in 1995, is located near the president’s home and stretches between the Baldridge Columns - marking the original entrance to the College - and a beautiful view of the Ohio River winding into the distance.
Honor your treasured Hanoverians by having their name engraved on Hanover’s Memorial Wall. Your gift of $500 includes the cost of engraving and maintenance of the wall and adjacent garden area. For information about the Memorial Wall and Garden, contact Miranda Bailey Maxwell ’01 at 812.866.7034 or maxwellm@hanover.edu
hanover.edu/memorialopportunities
Not many things are better than a fall weekend on Hanover’s campus! Homecoming 2025 will be an awesome opportunity to connect with family, friends, classmates and faculty members — maybe even stroll around the Point or watch the Panthers in action! This year’s celebration will feature an expanded Hanoverfest, milestone reunions for the classes of 1975, 2000 and 2015, dedication of Parker Auditorium’s new business and entrepreneurship center, presentation of Alumni Achievement and Distinguished Young Alumni awards, athletic contests and so much more. All events are subject to change.