Hanoverian - Summer 2018

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Mandy Kendall Boyers ’93 embraces unique hobby with international scope and a greater purpose

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Jacie Hubbard Minnick ’14 pursues quest to create systematic changes to aid troubled youth

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Wayne Perry retires after legendary 39-year coaching career

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A restored piece of campus history was unveiled prior to the finale of the Hanover College Concert Band’s annual spring concert. The “big bass drum,” as it is popularly known, was brought back to life after more than two months’ work by Max Freiberger ’21 and Brandon Bush ’21.

The drum, used by the College’s band in the 1940s, will be rolled out for each rousing performance of the fight song, “Hanover, We’re for You,” as a tribute to past and present band members.

COMMENCEMENT Hanover’s Class of 2018 received diplomas during the College’s 185th Commencement, held May 26 at the Point. The 235-member class featured 41 scholars who graduated with honors, including 14 with high honors (magna cum laude) and 10 with highest honors (summa cum laude).

Cara Hoskins ’18, a communication

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major and recipient of the Henry C. Long Citation, served as the class speaker. President Lake Lambert, capping his third year at Hanover, delivered the commencement address.

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Lambert offered, “Ask yourself what you fear. My purpose is not to make you anxious. I want, instead, to remind you that there was a reason why we sought to challenge you here.” He continued, “We were trying to teach you to be stronger, to be more confident, to persevere and to be more courageous. It is our hope

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that this courage will be brave yet not foolish, faithful but not fanatical, determined but open-minded, confident yet humble.”

Retiring faculty members Miryam Criado, Celia Dollmeyer and José Manuel Reyes were acknowledged during the ceremony. Each a professor of Spanish, the trio collectively totaled more than 60 years of service to the College.

Rev. L. John Gable ’78, senior pastor at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, delivered the baccalaureate sermon. The traditional service was conducted May 25 in Fitzgibbon Recital Hall, Lynn Center for Fine Arts.

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Gage ascends to strategy and enrollment post Christopher Gage, Ph.D., has been appointed vice president for strategy and enrollment. He ascends to the position after working in a variety of roles at Hanover since joining the College’s admission staff in 2005.

Since January 2016, Gage has been the special assistant to the president for strategic initiatives and external relationships. He also served five months as Hanover’s interim vice president for enrollment management starting in November 2017.

Prior to his cabinet-level position, Gage worked in the office of admission for 12 years, including stints as dean (2011-16), director (2009-11), associate director (200709) and assistant director (2005-07).

Phillips to oversee engineering program Jeffrey Phillips, Ph.D., a mechanical engineer and former National Science Foundation Fellow, has been named director of Hanover’s engineering program. He is a recognized expert in carbon dioxide capture and storage, and has substantial experience in the electric power, oil and gas, petrochemical and waste-to-energy industries.

Phillips comes to the College after serving as a senior project manager at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent, nonprofit organization for public interest energy and environmental research.

In addition to his work with EPRI, he has also served as an adjunct instructor of engineering at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and as a guest lecturer in energy-related engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Lehigh University and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Igbo to direct multicultural affairs Rosemarie Igbo has joined the campus community as director of multicultural affairs.

She came to Hanover after serving as director of the Bennett College Center for Global Studies and its intensive English program.

Igbo, who is fluent in four languages, was educated in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Nigeria and Canada. She has more than 20 years of experience in global multicultural education, diversity and engagement.

She previously served as assistant coordinator of the global studies program at the University of Mary, protocol officer for the embassy of Nigeria to the Holy See (Vatican City, Italy) and a food security officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Jones earns national education scholarship

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Cambria Jones ’20 has been selected the

recipient of the American Association for Employment in Education’s Janice S. Jones Scholarship. The cash award supports emerging educators who have demonstrated promise and commitment.

Jones, from Fullerton, Calif., is a mathematics and Spanish double major and is completing Hanover’s secondary education certification program. She recently studied abroad in Spain and plans to teach math and Spanish to middle-schoolers.

The American Association for Employment in Education promotes professional standards and practices in teacher preparation and job recruitment. The scholarship is designed to address a national shortage of candidates preparing for careers in certain teaching fields.

Todd, Susott among Indiana’s “next generation” Brooke Todd ’20 and Cecilia Susott ’21 have earned scholarships as

members of the second class of Next Generation Hoosier Educators.

Created by the State of Indiana, the scholarship program provides funds to help future Hoosier teachers pay for college.

Todd and Susott will each receive $7,500 annually toward their college education for committing to teach in Indiana for at least five years following graduation. The Hanover students, chosen by factors including academic performance, were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants from 231 Indiana high schools.

To qualify, students must graduate in the top 20 percent of their high school class or earn a top 20th percentile score on the SAT or ACT. Recipients must also maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average and complete 30 credit hours per year to continue in the program.

Brooke Todd (left) and Cecilia Susott

Nuckols receives state-wide volunteer service award Sierra Nuckols ’18 has been selected the recipient of the 2018 College Career Center Consortium’s Paul W. Gabonay Volunteer Service Award. The cash award recognizes an undergraduate student who best exemplifies the qualities of integrity, commitment to serving those in need and dedication to fostering the growth and gifts of others.

Nuckols, an anthropology major and social-justice advocate from Indianapolis, Ind., launched her Community Food Box Project in August 2016 after returning from a 10-day excursion to South Africa. Her program, which places donated food in unused newspaper distribution boxes in food deserts for people in need, has expanded throughout her hometown.

The College Career Center Consortium, launched in 1978, works to connect employers with high-quality candidates from the organization’s 13 Indiana colleges and universities.

Keith Roberts, professor emeritus of sociology (1991-2012), published “Meaning Making with Malignancy: A Theologically Trained Sociologist Reflects on Living Meaningfully with Cancer.”

The collection of essays delves into how to make sense of the experience of, and coping with, a life-threatening disease.

Roberts, who was diagnosed with stagefour esophageal cancer in November 2016, began a routine of writing updates to friends and family every two weeks

while receiving chemotherapy at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. His essays, some informed by philosophical or theological analyses and others through a sociological lens, provide a deep examination of the cancer journey and living a life of meaning and purpose with a cancer diagnosis.

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Roberts’ book ponders making sense of a life-threatening disease

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FACILITIES STUDY REVEALS PATH TO BRIGHT FUTURE

An all-encompassing assessment of the College’s facilities has produced a large inventory of projects aimed to greatly enhance the educational, housing and extra-curricular experiences for future generations of Hanover students.

The in-depth study yielded a comprehensive list of existing and long-term needs totaling more than $36 million. Many of these endeavors will be completed through the calculated use of annually available resources such as budgeted funds, Greek escrow accounts, laboratory fees, parking fees and vendors. Some essentials, however, must be achieved through annual giving, grants, long- and short-term loans and a capital campaign.

The improvements started in the spring with the completion of a $1.6 million effort to replace the storm drainage systems throughout a large portion of campus. The installation provides a key early step toward future renovations of Katharine Parker, Donner and Ide residence halls.

In addition, the College’s newly launched food-service relationship with Parkhurst Dining will jump-start a $1 million transformation of the main dining room and Underground in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center.

Slated for completion by summer’s end, these improvements will provide an upgrade to offerings and availability for an on-the-go student body.

The $1 million transformation of the J. Graham Brown Campus Center’s main dining room and Underground is slated for completion by summer’s end. [Renderings courtesy of Parkhurst Dining]

Additional short-term improvements will include a significant upgrade to wireless connectivity capabilities on campus, as well as an architectural plan to support new programs, such as engineering, and an eventual doctor of physical therapy program.

Long-term projects, equaling more than $26 million of the total cost, will significantly benefit the student experience. These endeavors include such essentials as the renovation of the first-year residence halls, which will correspond to the needs and expectations of today’s student body, extensive refurbishments of Parker Auditorium and Science Hall, and resurfacing of the track and artificial turf surfaces at Alumni Stadium.

The facilities study, spurred by Hanover 2020: Clear Vision, the College’s strategic plan, was conducted during a two-year period by consultants, employees and members of the Board of Trustees.

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Parkhurst Dining to provide campus food service

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Parkhurst Dining has been selected to manage Hanover’s food service and catering operations.

expanded dining hours and more formats for feedback at two dining areas in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center.

A division of the Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Parkhurst specializes in college and university food services and corporate dining. Committed to sustainability, Parkhurst has been a pioneer in the farm-to-table movement since 2002 when it developed its FarmSource® program.

The program partners with family-owned farms and regional growers for produce and meat. More than 20 percent of food served by Parkhurst is sourced locally.

Renovation projects will breathe new life into Hanover’s main dining room and alternate dining space, The Underground.

The partnership will provide the campus community an increase in menu options, greater accessibility to dining facilities,

The main dining room, which seats nearly 300, will feature a stone-hearth oven, cooking-demonstration-equipped action station and breakfast nook. The Underground will include two new dining options for the fall 2018 semester: Cinco Cantina and Firehouse Grille. The space will also feature On the Go!, a newly built Starbucks We Proudly Serve café, and enhanced seating and decor.

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Capitalizing on Hanover’s natural environment, the launch of the Outdoor Wilderness Leadership (OWL) program presents a bevy of recreational activities and exceptional leadership opportunities for the campus community.

While still in its infancy, OWL is a threephase initiative that will ultimately incorporate the College’s existing hiking trail system and prime location near the Ohio River with outdoor gear rentals, a low-ropes course and kayak/canoe rentals with an abundance of educational and leadership possibilities.

The first phase, started last fall, features a gear-rental program and student-led outdoor adventure trips. Members of the student body now have the ability to affordably access tents, sleeping pads, backpacks, headlamps, outdoor cooking supplies and other miscellaneous camping and hiking tools. Equipment is available to meet the needs of groups as large as 24 people.

Student-led camping trips have been held in nearby Clifty Falls State Park, as well as Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park. The first months of the program also included a canoe trip on southern Indiana’s Driftwood River and a whitewater rafting trip on West Virginia’s New River.

OWL’s potential impact and reach beyond campus were elevated through an important donation by Mike ’77 and Judy Zeddies, which allows the second phase of the program to reach fruition.

Through the Zeddies’ generosity, a lowropes challenge course will be constructed on Hanover’s 0.83-mile Upper Bluff Trail.

Slated for an August 2019 completion, this course will provide the campus community,

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As the low-ropes course becomes a reality, students will learn skills as trained facilitators who are equipped to aid activities and workshops designed to increase participants’ team-building, problem-solving, communication and leadership skills.

The proposed waterfront pursuits have the ability to provide leadership opportunities and skills related to such topics as an introduction to water safety, beginners’ kayaking/canoeing classes, environmental stewardship, river dynamics, advanced navigation and universal river signals.

The third segment, yet to be funded, is proposed for implementation at the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year.

The phase features the availability of kayak and canoe rentals, which would allow members of the campus community to access the river informally or as part of courses or guided activities.

Leadership opportunities for students, a key aspect of this endeavor, are both plentiful and varied.

In an effort to support the current studentled camping and water-based excursions, 14 students and two staff members participated in a 16-hour wilderness first aid training program last fall. The group learned how to provide effective first aid treatments for

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Cassidy Coates (left) and Scarlett Hartlage

Coates, Hartlage earn Orr Fellowships Cassidy Coates ’18 and Scarlett Hartlage ’18 have each been selected to receive an Orr

Fellowship. The post-graduate experience is designed to provide a set of unique skills and knowledge to develop the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Coates and Hartlage, who were selected from a pool of more than 1,200 candidates, will each work in sales at Emplify, an

Indianapolis-area software company which helps generate employee analytics that enable leaders to make data-driven decisions to improve engagement for their organizations.

In addition to their work, the fellows will also participate in a special curriculum that provides an executive mentorship program, extensive network and acceleration of career advancement.

Three retire from Spanish department

Bo Sims ’21 competed in the World Irish

Dancing Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, in late March.

Three members of Hanover’s Spanish department, collectively totaling more than 60 years of teaching experience, retired at the close of the 2017-18 academic year.

Sims, who recently finished his first year at Hanover, placed 20th in his age group at the international championships. He competed in both hard-shoe and softshoe rounds during the nine-day event, which features only the top one percent who advance from regional events held around the globe.

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Celia Dollmeyer, Professor, Spanish Department (1993-2018)

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Dollmeyer began her 25 years of service as an instructor of Spanish in 1993. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Moravian College and a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University.

She received a doctorate from Indiana University.

Miryam Criado, Professor, Spanish Department (1999-2018)

Criado joined the Hanover faculty in 1999 as a visiting instructor. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Spain’s University of Granada and a master’s degree from Penn State University. She received a doctoral degree from Rutgers University.

Sims competes in Irish dance world championships

Celia Dollmeyer (left), José Manuel Reyes and Miryam Criado.

José Manuel Reyes,

Professor, Spanish Department (1998-2018) Reyes began his work at Hanover in 1998 as an instructor of Spanish. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Granada and his master’s degree from the University of New Hampshire. He received a doctorate from Rutgers University.

Sims developed an interest in Irish dancing through his older sister, Chloe, and began dancing at age five. He has been involved with the Indianapolis, Ind.-based Richens-Timm Academy of Irish Dance for 14 years.

He earned a spot in the world championships with a fourth-place finish at the Mid-America Oireachtas in Chicago last November. The regional event includes thousands of dancers from 14 states.

He was slated to compete in the U.S. national championships, in Orlando, Fla., in June.

81st-annual Honors Day Cara Hoskins ’18, Immanuel Umoren ’18, Darrin Rubino and Paul Battles received top awards during the College’s 81st-annual Honors Convocation. The event was held April 12 in Fitzgibbon Recital Hall, Lynn Center for Fine Arts.

Hoskins, a communication major, earned the Henry C. Long Citation for Scholarship and General Excellence as the outstanding senior female. She also received the Distinguished Award in Communication.

Honors Day award recipients included (l-r): Darrin Rubino, Immanuel Umoren, President Lake Lambert, Cara Hoskins and Paul Battles.

Umoren, an international studies and communication major, was presented with the John Finley Crowe Citation for Scholarship and General Excellence as the outstanding senior male. He also earned the M. Anwarul Haq International Studies Award and the John B. Goodrich Prize in Oratory.

Rubino, a professor of biology, earned the Arthur and Ilene Baynham Outstanding Teaching Award. A member of the Hanover faculty since 2002, he joins Larry

Thorton, professor of history, and George Curtis, former professor of history, as three-time recipients of the honor. He also earned the Baynham Award in 2007 and 2012.

Battles, a professor of English, received the Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. He joined the College’s faculty in 1999 and teaches courses in early and medieval literature, linguistics, literary theory, and fantasy and science fiction.

The Bill ’50 and June Rogers Peace and Social Justice Speakers Forum presented Alex McNeill during an April 3 event in the Ogle Center.

McNeill, executive director of More Light Presbyterians, spoke on his experience as a transgender person navigating a faith community. He is the first openly transgender person to head a mainline Protestant organization. More Light Presbyterians strives for the full participation of LGBTQ people in society and the life, ministry and witness of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

McNeill has trained Christians to become community leaders and also campaigned for legislation to promote the Presbyterian Church’s Amendment 10A, which outlines requirements for ordained service.

His journey to ordination is chronicled in the documentary, “Out of Order.”

The forum, started through an endowed gift from the Rogers in 2013, ensures Hanover students will annually have an opportunity to learn from individuals with diverse backgrounds and experience about how to support peace and justice initiatives on campus, local and global levels.

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Rogers’ forum promotes human compassion

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Looking Back and Moving Forward hosts best-selling author

New York Times best-selling author Ishmael Beah was the guest of the student organization Looking Back and Moving Forward for a Feb. 9 presentation in Fitzgibbon Recital Hall.

As a 12-year-old, Beah was forced to fight for the Sierra Leone army against rebels during the nation’s civil war. He fought for nearly three years before gaining refuge in 1996.

His 2007 book, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” provides a glimpse into war through the eyes of a child and his struggle to regain his humanity and civility. The work, published in more than 40 languages, was named

by Time magazine as one of that year’s top-10 non-fiction books.

The event also featured a presentation by Samuel Pyle ’20, who escaped an orphanage in Sierra Leone and was ultimately adopted by a Louisville, Ky., family, along with his two siblings.

Since coming to campus, Pyle started Looking Back and Moving Forward, which aids children in Sierra Leone, and has been a member of the College’s track and field team.

Veteran performer Paul Sorvino speaks on campus Renowned entertainer Paul Sorvino discussed film noir and his lengthy career during a special appearance May 23 at the Withrow Activities Center.

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Sorvino has appeared in more than 180 films and a variety of television shows. He is best known for his portrayal of tough guys and authority figures, including roles in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film “Goodfellas” and television’s “Law & Order.”

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Sorvino began his career as a 16-year-old resort singer. He made his Broadway debut at 25 in the 1964 production of “Bajour.” He made his film debut in Carl Reiner’s 1970 comedy “Going Ape.” An accomplished stage actor, Sorvino won six awards for his performance in the Broadway production of “That Championship Season.” At age 40, the tenor made his operatic debut in “Die Fledermaus” at the Seattle Opera.

Sorvino was on campus with his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, an Emmy award-winning television host and commentator who was enrolled in a spring term course.

Class of 2018, Shoemakers partner to renovate historic overlook

John Shoemaker (left) and Bob McVay

downtown Madison, Ind., on a canoeing adventure to Louisville, Ky. The Sigma Chi brothers paddled from the Madison-Milton Bridge to Hanover Beach and, eventually, continued onward through the three bends in the Ohio River viewable from the historic overlook at the Point.

Nearly 55 years later, Shoemaker, and his wife, Donna, initiated a dollar-fordollar matching gift to support the Class of 2018’s effort to raise funds to rejuvenate the long-standing, yet deteriorating, overlook.

Sitting just feet from Hendricks Hall, the overlook was designed in the late 1930s

by Frederick Larson, considered one of the most significant figures in 20th-century collegiate architecture. He later designed Hanover’s first master plan, campus quadrangle and eight major buildings, including: Parker Auditorium, Classic Hall, Goodrich Hall, Old Science Hall, Brown Memorial Chapel, Donner Hall, Newby Hall and Lynn Hall.

The overlook, however, was Larson’s first commission at the College. Inspired by Hendricks Hall’s foundation, the architect wrote in a letter to then-President Albert Parker that the overlook’s design “echoes

Football hall of fame youth summit visits Hanover

the use of stone on Hendricks and is an organic outgrowth from the site itself.”

Through the generosity of the Shoemakers, alumni and friends, and the efforts of the senior class, the makeover is complete. The renewed overlook features nearly 22 tons of natural stone from central Indiana and 45 cubic yards of concrete, topped by the caps from the original 80-year-old wall.

[Editor’s note: Shoemaker and McVay, fueled by Pop-Tarts®, canned food and inexpensive adult beverages, reached Louisville, Ky., after a 19-hour effort. The duo returned to campus the next day - by car.]

National Football League (NFL) hall of famers Rod Woodson, Anthony Munoz, Aeneas Williams and Darrell Green were on campus June 7-8 as featured guests during Strong Youth Strong Communities’ youth summit. The free community-building event, held in the Horner Health and Recreation Center, attracted more than 150 area teenagers.

The former NFL greats shared personal stories and real-life experiences that led to success on and off the field. Breakout sessions provided avenues for youths to convey views on how to develop stronger communities, discuss important issues and examine challenges presented during school, at home or with peers.

President Lake Lambert (center) is pictured with NFL hall of famers (l-r) Aeneas Williams, Rod Woodson, Darrell Green and Damon Welch, Madison, Ind., mayor.

The summit also included a free luncheon and tailgate-style games with the hall of famers.

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In early October 1963, John Shoemaker ’64 and Bob McVay ’64 set out from

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ulture of ecovery

by Pam Platt

“Real-time” class uses community engagement to confront opioid crisis

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Lifelong inquiry, transformative learning and meaningful service are more than just key phrases about the qualities a Hanover College education inspires within its students and alumni. These aspects of Hanover’s mission are also the lifeblood of current efforts by the College and a Hanover-educated bioethicist to address what has been described as Indiana’s most important crisis, one affecting and afflicting people and places throughout the nation: the opioid crisis.

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As The Indianapolis Star reported last fall, “Opioid addiction is a public health catastrophe. More than 1 in 20 people in Indiana — that is a staggering 286,000 Hoosiers — report having engaged in nonmedical use of opioid pain relievers.

Even worse, the number of Hoosiers who have died from drug poisoning has increased 500 percent since 1999. More people now die in Indiana from drug poisoning than in car accidents.”

The startling statistics of the catastrophe’s impact on Jefferson County, where Hanover is situated, captured the attention of Kathryn Hadley, professor of sociology, and Sara Patterson, associate professor of theological studies. More than 43 percent of the county’s 32,000 residents are struggling to make ends meet with drug arrests almost tripling since 2011.

awareness about the social and structural issues surrounding addiction and to consider how to foster a culture of recovery in Jefferson County. Students and community members will present these ideas to social organizations, schools and religious groups in the area.

The professors knew this was about more than numbers and required more than classroom discussions.

Hadley and Patterson had been wanting to teach a course together and, as suggested by the news, came up with a “real-time” class that used community engagement to teach social justice issues involving a particular group of people.

Their “Confronting Poverty and Addiction in Southern Indiana” class debuted in the fall of 2017 and will be offered again in fall 2019.

In between, an associated outreach program, named Culture of Recovery Partnership (CORP), will begin. It will consist of students who have been through the course and community members who have struggled with addiction, and will build upon the relationship between school and community first explored and forged with the class. CORP’s goal is to raise

Travis Rieder ’04 graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He followed that with a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of South Carolina and a doctorate from Georgetown University. His love of research and writing had led him to the area of bioethics and he moved to do post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University.

He was married to Sadiye Amcaoglu Rieder ’04 (both former resident assistants); they had a one-and-a-halfyear-old baby; and he had bought a new motorcycle to celebrate the new job.

He was on his first ride on his new bike when he was struck by a careless driver of a large van, as he has described the beginnings of the personal catastrophe in a “Health Affairs” article. The accident shattered more than his left foot.

He remembers lying on the pavement, wondering if he would make a cookout he was looking forward to; lying on a gurney, awaiting surgery, figuring he and Sadiye would still be able to make their delayed honeymoon. He did not yet understand that his life, like his foot, had been blown apart, too.

Rieder would end up spending more than four weeks in several different hospitals. To save his foot, one of his five surgeries would be a transplant of skin, fat, muscle, vein and nerve from his thigh to his foot. And a combination of 10 doctors would legally prescribe him high doses of opioid medications with no real instruction manual containing risks and warnings. The medicines controlled his pain as he recovered, but introduced him, up close and personal, to the hell of opioid withdrawal.

The class and the book are worthy and worthwhile milestones in Hanover’s long tradition of lifelong inquiry, transformative learning and meaningful service. But they also are significant in bursting the “Hanover Bubble,” real or imagined.

He had kept notes during his struggle, but did not think he would share what he had lived through after the accident. A conversation with a colleague, who told him he could help a lot of people if he did share, changed Rieder’s mind.

“Rather, we wanted to engage the community and learn from community members most affected by poverty and addiction. We wanted to know: ’What are the issues facing our community?

What are the questions we should be asking? What would justice look like for you in this situation?’ In this way, we think we broke out of the ’Hanover Bubble’ in more ways than one. Students, and their professors, pondered their own privileges as they engaged the community and opened themselves up to listening and hearing just how extensive and complicated the issues are.”

Now on “the other side,” and viewing a nation “saturated in opioids,” Rieder is writing a book, “In Pain in America,” scheduled to be published in 2019 by Harper Collins.

“Our course was not the traditional ’service learning,’ which has so often led to students and faculty seeing the project as coming in and ’saving’ the community from its problems,” Hadley and Patterson shared about lessons learned from the course.

Hadley and Patterson, side-by-side with their students, went to a church with a significant number of members who deal with addiction and recovery. They visited a men’s transitional house. They put real faces to voices and stories that previously had been abstract and subject to stigma and stereotypes.

Kathryn Hadley (left) and Sara Patterson

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By May 23, 2015, he had landed the job he wanted — director of the master of bioethics program at Johns Hopkins. His life was about to change, but not in any way he had imagined.

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They learned that problems were, and are, complex and that people and problems do not fit neatly into boxes; people and problems are always more than one thing. And they were challenged: Now that you know this, what are you going to do?

For one of the class participants, the answer to that question is personal and professional.

Olivia Johnson ’20 is a sociology major

who was a sophomore when she took the course. She will stay with the program as a student member of CORP. She wants to go into substance abuse counseling after graduation. “It touches everyone, no matter where you are in life,” she said.

That is something she knew from her own experience.

Johnson always knew she was adopted, but she did not know until she was in middle school, when a medical condition prompted the discussion, that her birth mother, whom she never knew and has not met, struggled with addiction and that she herself was born dependent on crack cocaine. In fact, doctors had told her adoptive mother they did not know whether Johnson would make it or ever be able to communicate as others did.

“Being born dependent has not made me any different than anyone else,” Johnson said. “I am proud to be where I am today.”

And where she wants to be tomorrow.

“Some people never seek help, even though they really want and need it,” she said.

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The class taught Johnson that she wants to be part of the help available to them.

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Likewise, in his upcoming book, Rieder will be drawing from his own life experience with his efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

Wracked by pain, nausea and other physically debilitating symptoms of withdrawal, Rieder wrote in “Health Affairs,” “I had been hit by a van and undergone five surgeries, yet the worst part of the experience was my month in withdrawal hell. How could it be that my doctor’s best tapering advice led to that experience? And how could it be that not one of my more than 10 doctors could help?”

Olivia Johnson

This time, Rieder’s scholarship includes his own harrowing withdrawal from the prescribed drugs, a passage that left him mentally and physically devastated.

Based on that experience, he thinks every doctor who prescribes such drugs must list the benefits and risks, the pros and cons, of each drug, every single time they are prescribed, and to every patient. The overlap is necessary.

Interestingly, Rieder uses some of the same language Johnson uses when talking about the people caught up in the crisis. “Doctors try to put patients in boxes,” he said. “I did not fit in a box.”

Neither do the people struggling with substance abuse who Hanover students have met through the course led by Hadley and Patterson.

Nor do the community helpers already on the ground in Jefferson County, the ones with whom Hanover is trying to create a partnership to be involved in helping their fellow Hoosiers caught up in Indiana’s public health catastrophe.

Nor does Hanover, out of the “bubble” with this class.

Hadley and Patterson observed, “We believe this project was unique to Hanover College. It came out of the collaboration between two professors who then invited community members and students to explore one of the current crises facing our county and our nation today. The students, again in conversation with community members, then developed ideas about next steps.

CORP, which is just beginning now, comes directly out of the experiences, collaborations, questions and conversations between Hanover College and its surrounding community about how we can best imagine a more just world for Jefferson County, Indiana.”

One of those students acknowledges how overwhelming the opioid crisis can seem. But walking away, disengaging, is not an answer.

Bolstered by her own life and the experiences she had in the class, Johnson said, “Small people do impossible things.

I am 5’1” and made for the impossible.”

by David Campbell

First step leads to hobby with greater purpose

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UP! PADDLES

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Mandy Kendall Boyers '93 did not know that she had found

a passion, something that would allow her to travel the world while helping breast cancer survivors recover from the physical and mental anguish they were experiencing. She was just looking to have a good time.

That was Boyers' thinking the first time she stepped into a dragon boat for a one-day festival in Burlington, Vt. The local college where Boyers worked had a team in the event and asked if she wanted to join. Her life has never been the same.

“That was my first time in a boat. I loved it so much that some of my teammates and co-workers on the team told me I should come out the next summer for the competitive team,” Boyers said. “The next summer I did. I joined the competitive team the next couple of summers and got hooked on it.”

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Today, Boyers is involved in not one, but two dragon boat teams. While she is still with her original premier team in Vermont, Dragonheart Vermont Fire, she is also a member of a team in Lansing, Mich., near where she now lives with her husband Jayson, the president of Cleary University.

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Boyers met her husband while a student at Hanover. After her graduation in 1993, the two were married. Eventually their careers brought them to Vermont.

Boyers did not consider herself the “athletic” type. While she loved to stay in shape, she never participated in any organized sport. But dragon boating made an impression.

With as many as 20 paddlers working together in the same boat, dragon boating is similar to other rowing sports, like crew. But, there are subtle differences.

“The difference with crew is that the oars are attached to the boat. In dragon boating, the oars are all independent.

The challenge is to get 20 people in a boat paddling in-sync, together, and moving forward,” Boyers said. “A normal boat has 20 paddlers in 10 rows, two in each row. You paddle on

one side, there is a drummer in the front and a steer-person in the back, who is usually the coach. So there are 22 people in the boat, in total.”

Not surprisingly, the sport requires that the paddlers be in top physical shape. Boyers and her Dragonheart Vermont Fire teammates spent most of a week on the water during a springtraining trip to Melbourne, Fla. “The boat I was in put in over a hundred thousand meters in paddling in one week,” Boyers said with a laugh. “There were two or three practices a day, plus yoga. You are on the beach at 6:30 a.m. to start. It is not easy, but it has been a really good thing for me to do to remain physically fit and having accountability to the team. But, it is a ton of fun. You get to be out on the water, to be part of a team.”

Being part of a team and the larger dragon boat community has been the most rewarding part for Boyers. Dragonheart Vermont, Boyers' club, was founded by breast cancer survivors with the goal of helping those individuals recover from their treatments. The club eventually expanded to include teams with supporters, but Dragonheart still maintains two teams for just survivors.

Although not a breast cancer survivor herself, Boyers loves being a part of the community and helping with that recovery.

“It is still an important part of dragon boating to support breast cancer survivors. They give a lot of money to different breast cancer organizations that offer support to survivors,” she said. “A lot of the money from the festival that they raise goes back to the organizations. It is an integral part of that club and always will be, which I think is fantastic.”

“One of the really great things they do at the festival in Burlington every year is a flower ceremony. It is a big part of festivals that have breast cancer survivor teams,” Boyers added.

“They take time to pause and remember those who have lost that battle and put flowers on the water to honor them. It makes me cry. It is a really moving part to remember those members of the team who have lost that battle. It's a special moment for every festival.”

Boyers will get a chance to travel this summer with her two teams. Along with competing in Chicago and Fort Wayne, Ind., with the Michigan-based squad, she is flying to Szeged, Hungary, to compete in the 11th International Dragon Boat Club Crew World Championships, July 17-22, with the Dragonheart Vermont Fire team. She cannot wait to make the trip.

“The Hungary trip is going to be amazing. My husband is going to go with me, so we get to go to Europe courtesy of dragon boating,” Boyers said.

“It is exciting. It has been a fun part of my life.”

Mandy Kendall Boyers (above in visor) is pictured below with her Dragonheart Vermont Fire teammates after an event in Montreal.

Guiding Light NETFLIX SERIES INVIGORATES QUEST FOR SYSTEMATIC CHANGE

By Andrew Faught Behind the razor wire, hope can be elusive for the 170 inmates – or “students,” as minors are called – at the maximum-security Madison (Ind.) Juvenile Correctional Facility (MJCF).

But Jacie Hubbard Minnick ’14 belies no discouragement as the psychiatric social services specialist in Netflix’s lauded documentary, “Girls Incarcerated: Young and Locked Up.” The program offers viewers an eight-episode glimpse into life at the facility, located eight miles from Hanover’s campus.

Minnick’s “kids,” as she calls them – with rap sheets bearing felony offenses that include drug possession, breaking and entering, armed robbery and aggravated assault – rely on her soothing presence in hopes of rising above their often wrenching personal histories.

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“She’s like a motherly figure to me,” 16-year-old Najwa Pollard says on camera. “Pollard,” as peers call her, is one of the program’s more affecting stories. After completing her two-year sentence for drug possession, she could not be released because no family member or guardian could claim her.

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Of Minnick, adds Heidi Lakin, incarcerated for assault charges: “She actually sits here and listens. She’s just really positive on me.”

Between the regimentation and coarseness of institutional life, Minnick is a guiding light for her students, who range between 12-18 years of age. Her job involved working with parents and a mental health team to supply the girls with educational, vocational and psychological assistance. Minnick readily deflects the girls’ praise.

“Don’t forget that you did the work,” she tells one student who attributes her personal growth to Minnick.

But her influence has its limits. In the second episode, Minnick is shown preparing to leave Madison. “To have someone come in and fill her shoes will be tough,” Superintendent John Galipeau intones.

Viewers are not told why. But fans of the program will be glad to know that Minnick left with the girls’ best interests at heart – and that she keeps in touch with some of the girls, since released, via Facebook and video chats.

After spending five and one-half years at Madison, going back to her sophomore year at Hanover, when she volunteered at MJCF, Minnick decided she could only do so much within Madison’s walls to affect change.

“At some point I realized this is a larger problem than just helping someone see their worth,” she says. “It’s systemic change that’s needed. I would work really hard with these kids and their families, but then they’d go back to their communities and our government

systems couldn’t fix problems from a place of cultural competence. It became a revolving door for the girls. That was a very common experience.”

Minnick says more needs to be done at the community level to combat bullying, something many Madison inmates experienced before being incarcerated.

Some of the girls lacked access to food, making it difficult for them to concentrate, and therefore succeed, in school, she adds.

“I hope people realize that they can be so much more proactive in these kids’ lives,” Minnick says.

Leaving Madison, she adds, was “the hardest thing to do. I feel like I’m going to cry just talking about it.”

Note: Before the documentary aired, MJCF moved its girls to Camp Summit Boot Camp in LaPorte, Ind., to create more space for adult female offenders.

In June 2017, Minnick relocated to Austin, Texas, where she works for a child welfare agency called Upbring.

The organization’s mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by – much as she did in Madison – empowering children, families and communities.

Her interest in social issues started during her sophomore year, when Minnick took a class on juvenile delinquency taught by Stephanie Funk, an associate professor of sociology who retired in 2016. Funk challenged her students to get involved with local at-risk youth.

“Being the type of person that I am, I really wanted to earn my A’s,” says Minnick, who notes that she more closely learned the value of ethics during her time at Hanover. “The College is a huge piece. I had an amazing opportunity to see things from all kinds of different perspectives.”

She authored a constitution for a new student service organization called LIGHT, founded on the idea that in meeting the needs of others “with Love, Involvement, Generosity and Hope, there is always a possibility for Transformation.”

“As founder and first president of LIGHT, Jacie continually shared her insights, time and efforts to create a sustainable student service organization,” Funk says. “She shares her compassion and love with others, encouraging all of us to become our best selves.”

Minnick praised “Girls Incarcerated” for its fair treatment of the inmates. (“‘ Girls Incarcerated’ takes care to portray its subjects as human beings with intelligence, contradictions, fears, hopes and anxieties,” a review in The New Yorker reads.)

“I hope that the show is a call to action for people, making them realize that they can get involved in these kids’ lives,” Minnick says. “It was a really great opportunity for stories to be heard in a way that I, frankly, think can change the world. When you finally break through the girls’ tough exteriors, you realize how charming, intelligent and funny they are.”

But, she notes, there is a more important takeaway:

“It should not be at a maximum security prison that these girls are told that they matter. Intervention should have happened so much sooner.”

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Minnick ultimately hopes to pursue a Master of Science in leadership and change at St. Edward’s University in Austin. From there, she would like to help fix a justice system criticized in many circles for unfairly targeting racial minorities and those with a lower economic status.

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Until your better is BEST Wayne Perry retires after legendary 39-year coaching career For nearly 40 years, Wayne Perry has been the face of Hanover College. Whether as a football, golf or track coach, or an assistant professor, Perry has made his presence felt by thousands of student-athletes who have ventured onto campus.

The 2017-18 academic year marked the last for Perry at his adoptive school. A relationship that began in 1979 came to an end with a well-deserved retirement.

“It’s time. It depends on what day you ask me. Some days I have reservations and some days I know I’m ready to do it,” Perry said. “I’ve been here a long time.

My wife has been retired for close to three years, but I’m getting old. It’s time.”

It is funny that a person who most people consider synonymous with Hanover did not even attend the school.

After graduating from nearby Madison Consolidated High School, Perry attended DePauw University, graduating in 1972.

After a brief coaching career at East Central High School in the eastern part of Indiana, chance brought him to Hanover.

“He’s by far one of the best coaches and mentors that I have ever met.”

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Sam Pease ’19

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“I wasn’t really planning on coming to Hanover. I just happened to be down here on a Saturday afternoon playing basketball and coach (John) Collier saw me and said ’I have an opening, you want to do it?’

Three days later I was a Hanover Panther,” Perry said with a chuckle. “Coming back home, the opportunity was great. My mother was in ill health, so it was good timing. It’s one of those things where it’s scary, too. If you don’t have any success, you can’t go home again.”

There was never any worry about a lack of success. Named the head football coach in 1982 after serving as offensive coordinator, Perry won a state-record 174 games with nine appearances in the national playoffs and four 10-win seasons before retiring after the 2007 season. Through that span, he was named conference or district coach of the year 13 times.

“We worked pretty hard at it. Fortunately we had a lot of great players and great assistant coaches. I was fortunate that in my entire career, I’ve always had great people and players around to make it successful,” Perry said. “Thirty-nine years later I’m still here. We had a good beginning and it just kind of carried over.”

While the fans will remember the wins, the players will remember the man who helped them not only become a better athlete, but a better person.

Doug White ’93 played offensive line for Perry and his class graduated as one of the most successful in the program’s history.

He said the lessons that the coach imparted are ones that he still applies today.

“The kids he was recruiting were bluecollar kids and he made it clear that we were there for an education. Football was just something that you were going to do while you were there,” White said. “But he also made sure that the guys playing for him were passionate for the game. All the guys were very high-character. He gave a lot of responsibility to us, we make the choices. We’re grown up, we’re no longer in high school.”

The one thing that Perry instilled in all of his players was to take the sport they were playing seriously, but to also have fun.

After retiring as football coach, he took over the men’s and women’s golf teams and he brought that same philosophy to the links. His golf teams responded with 52 tournament titles, along with 50 second-place finishes, six conference championships and five national tournament appearances.

Sam Pease ’19, a current member of

the women’s golf team, said that putting the players at ease was arguably Perry’s best quality.

“He’s by far one of the best coaches and mentors that I have ever met. I think he is more than just a coach to a lot of the girls,” Pease said.

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“I think he taught us all to be humble.

I think that’s why we’ve done so well, because we’re humble and we have fun, most importantly. He loves to win, but he loves to have fun too.”

Pease’s counterpart on the men’s team, Austin Zapp ’20, said the lessons he learned from Perry go beyond the golf course.

“He’s really taught us how to handle certain situations on the golf course and off, whether it’s after hitting a bad shot or if we’ve played bad, how to handle that,” Zapp said. “One of the biggest things I respect about him is that when we’re out there, some of the coaches will get after it or yell at their players, but he doesn’t do any of that. He’s a very calm presence out there and I think that goes a long way and shows who he is as a person.”

Perry hasn’t ruled out a return to coaching but, for now, he plans on sitting back and watching his granddaughters embark on their athletic careers. He has twin granddaughters heading to college and two granddaughters in Madison.

“I’ve been so busy, it’s going to be a little scary having so much time on my hands. But I watch my wife and I think she’s busier now than when she wasn’t retired,” Perry said with a laugh.

“But I think I’m just going to relax, have fun, watch my granddaughters and see what happens.”

CAREER MILESTONES FOOTBALL

2002

1st win - 21-14 vs. Rose-Hulman

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (10-1; 6-0 HCAC)

1984

Hanover’s 1st NAIA national playoff victory - 18-17 vs.

Findlay

1988

41st win - 49-12 vs.

Campbellsville - becomes Hanover’s winningest coach

1989

Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (9-1-1; 7-0 ICAC) NAIA national playoffs

1994

Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (8-2; 5-1 ICAC)

1995

Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (10-1; 6-0 ICAC) – Hanover’s first 10win season Hanover’s 1st NCAA III national playoff game (at Mount Union)

1997

Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (10-1; 6-0 ICAC) Hanover’s 1st home NCAA III playoff game (vs. John Carroll) 100th win - 24-7 vs. North Central

150th win - 57-12 vs. Franklin

NCAA III national playoffs

2003

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (8-3; 6-0 HCAC) NCAA III national playoffs

2005

166th win - 41-35 (OT) at Mount St. Joseph – became Indiana’s winningest collegiate coach

2007

174th and final win - 24-21 vs.

Bluffton (174-88-2 career)

MEN’S GOLF 1986

Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference champions

WOMEN’S GOLF 2010-11

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Championships (17th)

2013-14

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Championships (15th)

1999

2014-15

NCAA III national playoffs

2015-16

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (10-1; 7-0 HCAC)

2000

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions (8-4; 5-1) Hanover’s 1st NCAA III playoff victory - 20-3 win at Hope

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Championships (12th) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Championships (15th)

2016-17

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Championships

PERRY’S PROVERBS

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best.”

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Nick White Allison Nash Cam Fails

McKinney, Fails and White lead men’s basketball

Nash joins scoring elite, Motter snares rebound record Allison Nash ’18 and Maleha Motter ’20 etched their names into the Hanover record books during the most recent women’s basketball season.

Wes McKinney

Cam Fails ’19, Wes McKinney ’18 and Nick White ’19 played key roles

as Hanover’s men’s basketball team collected its second consecutive set of Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season and post-season titles, as well as earning the program’s second straight berth in the NCAA Division III tournament.

Fails, the Heartland Conference player of the year, earned third-team allAmerican and first-team all-Great Lakes Region honors from D3hoops.com.

A 5-foot-11 guard, Fails averaged a career- and team-high 18.6 points per game while shooting 52.1 percent from the field, including 43.9 percent from threepoint range. He led the HCAC with 2.6 assists and 1.7 steals per game.

Fails also earned a spot in the Panthers’ 1,000-point club and has totaled 1,195 points through his three seasons.

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McKinney, the Heartland Conference player of the year as a junior, was a thirdteam all-region honoree by D3hoops.com and a first-team all-HCAC selection.

He was also a national finalist for the Jostens Trophy, annually awarded to a well-rounded top student-athlete, and the first player in program history to be named a two-time academic all-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

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A 6-foot-4 forward, McKinney set Hanover’s career record with 243 threepointers and finished sixth in school history with 1,664 career points. He averaged 16.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Panthers this season.

White, in his first season in the regular rotation, received honorable mention from the conference’s coaches. He averaged a career-best 11.4 points per game and led the squad with 5.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots per outing.

Hanover finished the 2017-18 campaign with a 22-7 overall record. The squad posted a 14-4 league mark to share the Heartland Conference’s regular-season title with Mount St. Joseph and Rose-Hulman. The Panthers defeated both the Lions (77-68) and Engineers (80-70) in Terre Haute, Ind., to win the program’s fifth HCAC post-season tournament crown.

Fails averaged 25.3 points in the two games to earn the tourney’s most outstanding player award. White logged a conference-tournament-record seven blocked shots in the victory against Mount St. Joseph.

Hanover lost to LeTourneau, 85-77, in the first round of the NCAA III national tournament in Atlanta, Ga. The appearance marked the Panthers’ eighth in the NCAA tournament.

Nash scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Panthers to an 86-75 win against Earlham, Jan. 10, 2018, and reach the 1,000-point milestone.

Motter grabbed 14 rebounds in a 69-58 victory against Earlham, Feb. 20, 2018, to surpass the school-record 289 rebounds pulled down by former standout Molly Martin ’11 during the 2007-08 season.

Nash, a three-time all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honoree, capped her career with 1,086 points to become the 13th player in school history to reach the achievement. She also ranks 11th overall with 535 career rebounds. She is the first Hanover player in the past seven years to reach the 1,000-point level.

Martin is the top scorer (1,887) and rebounder (1,091) in school history.

Motter earned first-team all-Heartland Conference and third-team all-Great Lakes Region honors. She averaged a double-double with 13.3 points and a league-best 11.1 rebounds per outing. She finished the season with a program-record 299 boards.

Hanover capped the 2017-18 campaign with an 18-9 overall record. The squad finished fourth in the HCAC with a 13-5 mark.

Maleha Motter

Zapp sets school golf marks Austin Zapp ’20 turned in a recordsetting performance at the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s four-round men’s golf championship tournament. Zapp set Hanover’s 18and 72-hole records to place fourth in the event and earn first-team allleague honors.

Jacob Hedrick

Jacob Hedrick ’19 broke a 35-year-old school record in the 5,000 meters to lead

Hanover’s track and field team in its mid-March outdoor season-opener at Rose-Hulman.

Hedrick, a two-time all-Heartland Conference honoree in cross country, posted a time of 15:04.50 to eclipse the previous mark of 15:09.31, set by former Hanover standout Joe Lake ’86 in 1983.

Lake was a two-time all-Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference honoree in both track and cross country. He competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championships in both sports and continues to hold the Panthers’ track record in the outdoor 10,000 meters (31:37.0).

Along with Hedrick’s mark, an additional 10 school records were established during 2018 indoor and outdoor seasons, including:

Heaven Bigelow Eve Galbreath Reece Hunter Alex Maldeny Darrell Payne Andrew Strong Ethan Monnin Joe Sheryak Jacob Sofronko Erin Trimpe Erin Trimpe Hayden Veach Hayden Veach

Indoor High Jump Javelin 4x100-meter Relay

5-feet, 2.25-inches (1.58 meters) tied record 120.0-feet (36.59 meters) 43.02 seconds

Indoor Pole Vault Heptathlon Weight Throw Indoor Pole Vault Outdoor Pole Vault Indoor 800 meters Indoor Mile

14-feet, 3.25-inches (4.35 meters) 4,340 points 51-feet, 8.5-inches (15.76 meters) 11-feet, 9.0-inches (3.58 meters) 12-feet, 2.50-inches (3.72 meters) 1:59.53 4:27.67

Zapp finished with a 72-hole total of 291 (77-73-68-73), which eclipsed the Panthers’ record (296) previously set by Johnny Vidal ’17 at the 2017 conference tournament. Zapp also fired a third-round 68 to match Vidal’s 2015 18-hole record.

As a team, Hanover placed third in the HCAC tournament with a four-round 1,217 (306-307-298-306). The team score was the squad’s lowest in the past five years and just three strokes shy of tying its 2013 record (1,214).

The event was played April 28-29 at The Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis and May 5-6 at Eagle Rock Golf Club in Defiance, Ohio.

Echelbarger joins Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Marty Echelbarger ’67 was inducted into the Indiana Basketball

Hall of Fame in March.

Echelbarger, who played at Hanover under former head coach John Collier from 1963-67, coached basketball for 35 years in the Hoosier State, including stops at Southwestern (Shelby), Owen Valley, Brebeuf Jesuit, Princeton, Frankfort and Heritage Hills high schools.

He led his teams to nine sectional titles, 14 conference championships, a pair of Marion County (Ind.) titles and a collection of seven county and holiday tournament championships.

He also posted a 20-win season at four different schools and coached four Indiana all-stars.

Marty Echelbarger (left) is pictured with Steve Witty, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame president

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Hedrick breaks 35-year-old track record

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Lichtfuss selected ORLC’s coach of the year Head coach Skip Lichtfuss was named the Ohio River Lacrosse Conference’s men’s coach of the year after guiding the Panthers to a program-best seven league victories and 7-3 ORLC mark this spring.

Under Lichtfuss, Hanover’s 2018 squad finished 7-10 overall, posting a four-win improvement from the 2017 campaign.

The Panthers also secured the team’s third berth in the ORLC post-season tourney in the past four seasons.

A 1993 U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, Lichtfuss has led Hanover to a 47-80 record in eight seasons since starting the school’s program in 2011. He was also named the conference’s coach of the year in 2016 after leading the Panthers to a 5-2 league record.

After the season, Lichtfuss accepted an offer to become the director of national teams and high performance for U.S. Lacrosse, the sport’s national governing body.

McKinney, Shroyer earn top athletic awards Wes McKinney ’18 and Abby Shroyer ’18

were acknowledged as the most outstanding male and female senior athletes, respectively, during the athletic department’s May 23 awards ceremony.

A four-year standout for the basketball squad, McKinney was a three-time allHeartland Collegiate Athletic Conference selection. He was named the HCAC newcomer of the year as a freshman. As a junior, he was the league’s player of the year and a fourth-team all-American. He finished sixth in school history with 1,664 career points and set the Panthers’ career record with 243 three-pointers.

McKinney is the first player in program history to be named a two-time academic all-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America. As a senior, he was a finalist for the Jostens Trophy, which is presented to the nation’s top well-rounded men’s basketball student-athlete.

Shroyer was a four-year juggernaut for Hanover’s soccer and lacrosse teams.

On the soccer field, she was a four-time first-team all-Heartland Conference selection and the league’s three-time defensive player of the year. A four-time all-region pick, she also earned third-team all-American honors as a sophomore.

As a senior, Shroyer was honored by the United Soccer Coaches as both an NCAA Division III scholar all-American and a North/Central Region all-academic honoree. She was second-team academic all-region as a junior.

Shroyer keyed Hanover’s lacrosse squad as a four-time all-Ohio River Lacrosse Conference selection and three-time firstteam choice. She ranks first in program history in career groundballs (207) and career caused turnovers (103), while sitting second in career draw controls (193).

She also holds school single-season records for groundballs (59), caused turnovers (31) and draw controls (80).

The Mildred E. Lemen Mental Attitude Award was presented to BayLee Mitchell ’18, a four-year member of the basketball program. Will Bridgeman ’18, who played for the soccer team for four years, received the Bill Griffin Mental Attitude Award.

Hanover’s volleyball squad earned the Dean’s Award, which recognizes the team with the highest grade-point average (GPA) through the academic year. Guided by head coach Peter Preocanin, the 16 athletes on the squad combined to earn a 3.31 GPA. For the second year in a row, the women’s basketball team received the Faculty Athletic Representative Award, which is presented to the Hanover squad with the best cumulative grade-point average improvement from one year to the next. Under the watch of head coach John Jones, the 18-member team posted a cumulative 3.13 GPA, marking a 0.183-point increase from last year.

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Abby Shroyer BayLee Mitchell

Netters record first NCAA tourney victory, tie win mark

Hanover, which lost to Webster in the 2015 national tournament, opened the clash with wins in all three doubles matches. Alana Feeley ’18 and Caroline Millard ’20 held on for an 8-6 victory at No. 1, while Cami Jones ’20 and Haley Parker ’21 posted an 8-3 win at No. 2. Susie Winterheimer ’19 and Meghan Farrell ’20 cruised to an 8-1 triumph at No. 3 to complete the doubles sweep.

Feeley and Addison Laker ’21 earned singles wins to seal the Panthers’ team victory and advance in the 49-team field.

Hanover, guided by first-year head coach Eric LaRue, lost to top-ranked Emory, 5-0, in the second round to close the season with a 16-6 record. The 16 victories match the school’s singleseason record, which was initially established in 2015 (16-4) and equaled in 2017 (16-7).

The Panthers’ berth in the NCAA tournament marked the program’s fourth appearance in the past five seasons.

Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 Induction Ceremony 10:30 a.m. - Horner Center Football vs. Rose-Hulman 2 p.m. - Alumni Stadium

The induction class includes: Frank Jean ’43 Duane Dye ’81 Mandy Newton Bennett ’96 Tarrik Wilson ’00

Get Your Limited-Edition Hanover College Playing Cards

Designed by students for alumni. All proceeds will support software and hardware purchases to maintain the Smaardyk Design Lab in the Lynn Center for Fine Arts.

To order, visit hanover.edu/playingcards or mail a check and the number of decks you would like to HC Cards, 517 Ball Dr., Hanover, IN 47243.

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Hanover’s women’s tennis squad made history in May by becoming the first team in program history to earn a victory in the NCAA Division III national tournament. The Panthers blanked Webster (Mo.), 5-0, in opening-round action in Sewanee, Tenn.

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A Charitable and Gift Planning Guide of The 1827 Society Summer 2018

Greetings from the Office of Advancement!

Graduation and spring term (my favorite time of the year) have recently appeared in the rearview mirror. However, this reflection provides a chance to pause and appreciate the many unique opportunities afforded Hanover students. Not only do our scholars have transformative experiences on campus, the generosity of alumni and friends provides an expanded exploration of subjects by traveling locally, regionally and globally.

In the last issue of the Legacy newsletter, I talked about the importance of scholarships as part of the College’s strategic plan, Hanover 2020 Clear Vision. The following page continues the discussion about scholarships and their importance to Hanover and its students.

In the past six months, I have been quite humbled by new and renewed support provided to the College. Scholarships are a proven, tangible opportunity for everyone to help our students, whether by rewarding top scholars, making higher education possible for a deserving student or providing an off-campus experience.

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The two most popular scholarships are endowed and annual/ expendable scholarships. Endowed scholarships have a base of $25,000 and awards are provided indefinitely with a portion of the earned interest. Annual/expendable scholarships rely on a donor’s gift each year and are awarded based on the fund’s available balance. These scholarships are often used to help students with immediate, unforeseen financial need.

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In addition to the scholarships, the Impact Hanover Fund supports the Hanover Grant. This important grant, which relies on unrestricted annual donations, provides need-based financial assistance to nearly 40 percent of the student body.

While recent tax reforms have generated many questions about the impact on donors, including the creation or support of scholarships, this is still a great time to be charitable! Gifts to Hanover can be made in many ways, including cash, appreciated stocks, individual retirement accounts and properties, to name a few. Some gifts may not only provide a charitable gift benefit, but may also help lower your taxable income.

While I continue to learn about how tax changes will affect the College’s supporters, I have summarized the impacts of reform online (hanover.edu/plannedgiving). I am also happy to discuss popular giving options in detail.

You are always welcome to contact me directly by phone or email. If your travels should bring you through southeastern Indiana, please stop in and say hello.

Sincerely,

Kevin H. Berry ’90 Senior Director of Individual Philanthropy 517 Ball Drive Hanover, IN 47243 Phone: 812-866-6813 Email: berry@hanover.edu

Scholarships: Essential to pursuit of a Hanover education

The College’s strategic plan, Hanover 2020 Clear Vision, places great emphasis on the creation and continued support of these funds. More than 98 percent of Hanover’s students receive financial aid. This underscores the reality that scholarships are a vital resource for students now and into the future.

Endowed scholarships provide financial awards indefinitely by using a percentage of earned interest. Annual/expendable scholarships are dependent on yearly gifts with awards based on the fund’s available balance. In addition, the Impact Hanover Fund - through the Hanover Grant - annually delivers need-based aid to more than 400 students through unrestricted donations.

The generosity of donors such as Mildred Lemen ’52, Mark ’74 and Cheri Griffith Nichols ’74, and Gunnar Crowell ’07 displays the role of scholarships in the lives of today’s students.

Endowed Scholarship Mildred Lemen ’52 has worked for more than 60 years to promote the growth and quality of women’s intercollegiate athletics.

Through the years she excelled as a hallof-fame multi-sport athlete, coach and professor. Today, she continues to make a difference in the lives of student-athletes through her establishment of the Mildred Lemen Off-Campus Study Scholarship Fund.

Annual/Expendable Scholarship College students are particularly vulnerable to sudden changes in financial need. Each year, members of the campus community are stricken by tragedies such as a parent or guardian’s death, illness, injury or loss of employment.

After hearing stories about students in dire need of financial support to remain at the College, Mark Nichols ’74, and his wife, Cheri Griffith Nichols ’74, created the Nichols’ Expendable Scholarship Fund.

The fund – established in 2016 – provides scholarships that bridge the gap to cover a student’s expenses after an unexpected or untimely change in financial circumstances.

This year alone, the Nichols’ scholarship fund allowed six students to receive enough support to remain enrolled at Hanover and continue work toward their degree. The scholarships, which vary in amount by individual, provided the students with the ability to continue to study, compete, perform and create lifelong memories.

Impact Hanover Fund/Hanover Grant Gifts of all sizes to the Impact Hanover Fund provide the foundation for the Hanover Grant, which serves as a key financial aid element for many of the College’s students. Each year, more than 400 students receive need-based aid through the Hanover Grant. This support – nearly $2 million per year - is essential for the College to attract the brightest students, many with high potential and limited means.

Gunnar Crowell ’07, a former football player and member of Phi Delta Theta, takes advantage of the College’s recurring gift program to support the Impact Hanover Fund on a quarterly basis. He has been giving back to the College for the past three years.

Created in 2008, Lemen started the scholarship to provide students who major in health and movement studies and/or kinesiology and integrative physiology with financial support to participate in an international or off-campus learning experience.

Through Lemen’s generosity and foresight, Julia Miller ’18, BayLee Mitchell ’18 and Zoe Ray ’18 (l-r) were able to represent Hanover’s athletic program at this spring’s Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s convention in Columbus, Ohio. Held in conjunction with the NCAA Division I Final Four, the four-day event provided the students with topical and educational sessions, as well as career and networking opportunities.

Crowell’s generosity helps support outstanding scholars such as Andrew Knecht ’20, a legacy student and 2017-18 Hanover Grant recipient. Knecht, who studied in Spain during the recent spring term, is an active member of Lambda Chi Alpha and the recipient of the 2018 Richard L. Conklin Award in Physics.

hanover.edu/giving

Charitable Gift Annuity - H A N O V E R C O L L E G E News to note: The American Council on Gift Annuities recently announced that payout rates on any new gift annuities increased effective July 1, 2018. This is the first increase since January 2012. For anyone who has ever considered a charitable gift annuity, please contact the Office of Advancement or visit our website (hanover. edu/giving) mid-summer for our new rates. Remember, a charitable gift annuity can provide a guaranteed stream of income for your life, while also offering some tax-saving advantages.

Gift of property Charitable Gift Annuity Donor

Income tax deduction fixed payments

Remainder to Hanover

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Educational experiences, meaningful relationships and the physical beauty of campus are often the first things stated when current students and alumni discuss their time at Hanover.

Scholarships, in most cases, have played an essential role in making these memories possible.

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Alumni Achievement Awards and Distinguished Young Alumni Awards were presented to seven Hanover graduates during a May 5 ceremony in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. The honors, presented annually, recognize Hanoverians who have distinguished themselves in their profession and through service to their community or the College.

Seven presented with alumni achievement awards

Dr. David Henderson ’69, Marabeth Ice Levett ’71, Jon Miller ’97 and Richard Nicholas III ’72 each received the Alumni Achievement Award.

Bryan Gabriel ’06, Jared Smith ’08 and Jesika Kuzuoka Young ’08 were each presented with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award.

Pictured (l-r) are Jon Miller, Marabeth Ice Levett, President Lake Lambert, Richard Nicholas III and Dr. David Henderson.

Henderson, who resides in Silver Spring,

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Md., is deputy director for clinical care at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology in America (SHEA).

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Henderson’s primary research interests probe occupational risks for, and prevention of, the transmission of bloodborne pathogens in the healthcare setting and the epidemiology and prevention of healthcareassociated transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms.

He has received seven NIH Director’s Awards and two Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Distinguished Service Awards. In 2010, to honor his career contributions to epidemiology, Henderson was selected as the SHEA Lecturer for the 5th International Decennial Conference on Nosocomial Infections.

Levett has been an active member of the

Columbus and Culver, Ind., communities for more than 40 years, donating her energy to civic, social and educational organizations.

Levett served as co-chair for Hanover’s “Live Our Loyalty” campaign, which secured more than $50 million in cash, pledges and planned-gift commitments from 2009-14. She was co-leader of Concerned Citizens of Marshall County, which opposed and won a ban on commercial wind farms in that county.

She has been a member of the Lake Maxinkuckee Association Board and president of its environmental fund board.

Levett has given her time to a number of Columbus-area organizations, such as Bartholomew County Historical Society, Columbus Cotillion, Columbus Culture Club, Columbus Magazine Club, Treasure Hunter’s Antique Club and P.E.O., a philanthropic educational organization for women.

Miller recently completed his 10th season

as Hanover’s men’s basketball coach.

He has guided the Panthers to a 172-97 overall record, including back-to-back 20-win seasons.

Under Miller, Hanover’s squads have also earned two consecutive Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regularseason and post-season titles, as well as two straight berths in the NCAA III tournament.

Smith is an award-winning trial lawyer at McCoy, Hiestand & Smith, PLC, in Louisville, Ky.

In 2017, Kentucky Monthly named Smith a top lawyer and rising star. He was recipient of the American Association for Justice’s New Lawyers Division Excellence Award in 2016-17 and, in 2015, was recognized as the Kentucky Justice Association’s outstanding board member.

Smith was included in the National Trial Lawyers “Top 40 Under 40” from 201517. He was tabbed one of the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys’ “Top 10 Under 40” in 2016.

The Panthers’ 2016-17 campaign proved to be one of the best in school history.

The team advanced to the College’s first NCAA III tournament Elite Eight and finished with a 26-4 overall mark.

Through the last eight seasons, Miller’s squad has registered the highest victory total of any team in the conference (10539). Hanover is the only HCAC program to qualify for the league’s post-season tournament in each of the last nine years.

Nicholas served in a variety of positions during a 27-year career with the CocaCola Company.

His roles with Coca-Cola included service as chief economist for hedging sugar purchases, manager of purchasing operations, manager of strategic planning, vice president Burger King account team-worldwide, senior vice president Coca-Cola-Japan, president Coca-ColaKorea and Micronesia, president and chief executive officer Coca-Cola-India and senior vice president McDonald’s account team-international.

Prior to his tenure at Coca-Cola, Nicholas, who now resides in Roswell, Ga., worked as a commodity economist for Clayton Brokerage and as agricultural economist-

in-charge of hedging sugar, coffee and cocoa purchases for The Pillsbury Company.

Before graduate school, he joined the Peace Corps and worked for the Ministry of Economic Development in Botswana.

He also served the British government in India, Angola and Rhodesia.

Gabriel, who lives in Nashville, Ind., is the founder and chief executive officer of Mainstream Fiber Networks, which focuses on providing affordable fiber optic broadband and telecommunications services to unserved and under-served communities in Indiana.

The growing operation, with more than 200 miles of cable, serves rural area schools, governments and communities in four south-central Indiana counties.

In addition to his corporate efforts, Gabriel served as a trustee in Washington (Ind.) Township from 2008-12 and supports education programs centered around technology. He is currently a member of the Brown County (Ind.) Schools S.T.E.M Community Leadership Advisory Board (science, technology, engineering, math) and Hanover’s Engineering Advisory Board, as well as the Phi Delta Theta fraternity housing board.

Young, formerly vice president and

commercial banking officer for MainSource Bank’s Kentucky/Southern Indiana market, is co-owner of Women Who Wine for a Cause, which raises awareness for womenand children-based organizations and connects professional women.

She also serves as president of the National Association of Women Business Owners Kentucky/Southern Indiana Chapter and, in 2016, earned NAWBO’s EPIC Award for supporting partner of the year. In addition, she was highlighted as the 2018 “woman to watch” by BizWomen and, in 2017, was included in Louisville (Ky.) Business First’s feature, “Forty under 40.”

Young, who resides in Floyds Knobs, Ind., is involved with Greater Louisville Inc., Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Women’s Foundation of Southern Indiana and a contributing writer to Millennial Mom Magazine.

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Pictured (l-r) are Jared Smith, Jesika Kuzuoka Young, President Lake Lambert and Bryan Gabriel.

A state delegate to the American Association for Justice, he was one of 16 individuals selected to participate in its 2017 leadership academy. He also serves as a district vice president on the Kentucky Justice Association’s board of governors.

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1943 LORENE EAKINS HODELL, 97, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died Feb. 17, 2018 1949 MARY MARGARET MILLS MOORHEAD CLEGG, 90, of Madison, Ind., died April 21, 2018 1950 RICHARD “BUD” CLYDE STURM, 91, of Greenwood, Ind., died Nov. 21, 2017 1951 BERNICE LORENE WERBE RUSK HINDMAN, 87, of Shelbyville, Ind., died Nov. 18, 2017 1951 REV. WILLIAM H. MCGREGOR, 88, of Dover, N.H., died Feb. 4, 2018 1951 MARY JEAN HORNER ORTALE, 88, of Nashville, Tenn., died March 22, 2018 1951 JAMES H. RUTHERFORD, 91, of Kennewick, Wash., died Feb. 10, 2018 1952 BARBARA ELLEN JOHNSON JENKINS, 87, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died March 28, 2018 1953 GEORGE WILLIAM HALEY, 90, of Lafayette, Ind., died Feb. 24, 2018 1954 JAMES STANLEY BRISCOE, 85, of Kokomo, Ind., died Jan. 3, 2018 1954 DOROTHY “DOTTIE” LOUISE CRAIN DEMAREE, 85, of Madison, Ind., died Dec. 7, 2017 1955 LAMONT BOYD “MONTE” FORSYTH, 84, of Evansville, Ind., died Nov. 3, 2017 1955 LORA LEE MCCOY, 85, of Chadds Ford, Pa., died April 8, 2017

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1958 MARY JO STEARNS THOMAS, 81, of North Vernon, Ind., died Nov. 19, 2017

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1959 RONALD L. DAVIS, 80, of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., died Nov. 4, 2017 1959 BETTY G. NAY GAFFNEY, 93, of Deputy, Ind., died Nov. 21, 2017 1959 JANE KORB SHAW, 80, of Carmel, Ind., died August 17, 2017 1960 PAUL EDWARD BARKMAN, 79, of Matthews, N.C., died Nov. 28, 2017 1960 RICHARD A. EDWARDS, 79, of Owasco, N.Y., died Oct. 9, 2017

1961 ROBERTA JEWEL TILFORD CORD, 91, St. Petersburg, Fla., died March 26, 2018 1961 PETER ALAN NORMAN, 76, of Harrisburg, N.C., died Oct. 3, 2016

2008 JOEL PATRICK PFLUM, 32, of Georgetown, Ky., died March 20, 2018

CARL KENNETH BENHASE, 88, of Loveland, Ohio, died Feb. 8, 2018 (former football coach)

1961 CELIA ROBERTS, 78, of Paonia, Colo., died Jan. 21, 2018 1961 GEORGIANNE KRAUS WRIGHT, 78, of Bloomington, Ill., died Jan. 26, 2018 1962 EDWARD ALBERT DAVIS JR., 77, of Northbrook, Ill., died March 4, 2018 1962 BETH SHANNON GRIMM, 78, of Columbus, Ind., died March 29, 2018 1963 REV. WALLACE BULLARD GUERRANT SR., 77, of Winchester, Ind., died Feb. 16, 2018 1965 DR. FRANK E. CUMMINS, 74, of Brookfield, Wis., died Dec. 18, 2017 1965 MICHAEL KEEFE JONES, 75, of Greensboro, N.C., died Dec. 6, 2017 1966 HON. STEPHEN MILLS JESSUP, 74, of Kokomo, Ind., died Feb. 16, 2018 1967 LAURA ELIZABETH GALE URE, 71, of Lexington, Ky., died Jan. 24, 2018 1970 KAREN LEE GLASER COLE, 67, of Mooreland, Ind., died Nov. 4, 2017 1971 REV. THOMAS DUANE YORK, 68, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died March 9, 2018 1975 LYNNE BURTON, 64, of Charleston, S.C., died April 11, 2018 1976 ROBERT BRUCE HARBESON, 63, of New Albany, Ind., died Nov. 28, 2017 1977 CATHY ANN LARSON, 62, of Indianapolis, Ind., died Feb. 19, 2018 1978 LISA JENKINS WILSON, 61, of Brookville, Ind., died Nov. 7, 2017 1983 JENNIFER HUNTER VISSING, 57, of Louisville, Ky., died Jan. 18, 2018 1987 MATTHEW SCOTT BOYD, 52, of Churubusco, Ind., died Feb. 21, 2018 1988 SCHUYLER J. CULVER, 52, of Greenwood, Ind., died April 20, 2018

RICHARD LOUIS CONKLIN, PH.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics Richard Louis “Dick” Conklin, Ph.D., 94, died March 7, 2018, in Hanover, Ind. Conklin taught physics at Hanover from 1957-89 and earned the Baynham Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1973 and 1979. He later served as interim vice president for academic affairs from 1994-95.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Ila Hahn Conklin; daughter, Bonnie Conklin; daughter, Nancy Conklin and her partner, Mike Mason; son, Paul Conklin, and his wife, Becky Marty; son Scott Conklin, and his wife, Heidi; grandchildren Hannah Marty, Li Conklin, Christopher Conklin, Alexander Conklin and Bartholomew Conklin; brother, Edward Conklin, and his wife, Mary; and brother, David Conklin.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Aline Bartholomew Conklin and Paul Conklin, and his sister, Janis Nakaoka.

Conklin was born Dec. 9, 1923, in Rockford, Ill. A Rockford High School graduate, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1944.

He joined the Army and worked as junior scientist on the Manhattan Project. After two years of service, he returned to school and completed a master’s degree from Illinois in 1949 and a doctorate in physics at the University of Colorado in 1957.

MEMORIAL WALL AND GARDEN EMERSON BRADFORD HOUCK Trustee Emeritus Emerson Bradford Houck, 83, died Jan. 25, 2018, in Boca Grande, Fla. Houck, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind., served as an executive at Eli Lilly & Company for 35 years and was a member of the Hanover Board of Trustees from 1985-2007.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Elizabeth Delaplane Houck and Marshall Bradford Houck, and his sister, Judy Heidenreich.

Houck was born July 29, 1934, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. and graduated from Oak Park (Ill.) High School in 1952. He earned a mechanical engineering degree at Dartmouth College in 1956 and a Master of Science in engineering and business administration from Dartmouth’s Tuck Thayer School in 1958.

In 1995, members of the Class of 1967 conceived the idea of a memorial wall located on Hanover’s campus. Envisioning a place where the names of Hanover friends and alumni could be remembered, this landmark would also provide a lasting way to enhance the College’s beauty. The result was the Memorial Wall and Garden, located near the president’s home. Adjacent to the wall is a garden area that encircles the historic Baldridge Columns.

A Hanover alumnus/a or friend can be honored with their name on the wall for a gift of $500, which provides for the engraving, as well as maintenance of the garden and wall area.

For more information, contact Miranda Bailey Maxwell '01 at 812.866.7034 or maxwellm@hanover.edu.

Join alumni and current undergraduates to celebrate 150 years of brotherhood at Hanover College. The weekend will include on-campus events, featuring an open house, bonfire and historical marker dedication, as well as an off-campus celebration at the Livery Stable in Madison, Ind. This event is only for Phi Delta Theta Indiana Epsilon members, alumni and their guests.

150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2-3, 2018 RSVP at hanover.edu/PhiDeltaTheta150

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He is survived by his wife, Jane Hanna Houck; daughter, Elizabeth Houck Warnock; sons Joseph Houck and Douglas Houck; grandchildren Jane Warnock, Marshall Warnock, Emerson W. Houck, Hanna Houck and Morgen Houck; sister, Marcia Houck Williams, and her husband, Donald Williams; and brother-in-law Thomas Heidenreich. In addition, he had seven nieces and nephews.

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lass Note

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Plattners

John Finley Crowe Society welcomes new members

MAIL Hanoverian 517 Ball Drive Hanover, IN 47243

DAN ABRELL ’86 and his wife, KARIN, DENNY PLATTNER ’84, and JIM ’65 and JULIE IRWIN RICHTER ’65 have each earned membership in the John Finley Crowe Society. Named after the College’s founder, this cumulative-giving society recognizes supporters who have donated $100,000 or more during their lifetime.

The Abrells’ generosity as champions of the Panther Club has provided life-changing opportunities to student-athletes. The couple has also provided much-needed support to the Impact Hanover Fund for students who would not have been able to attend the College without financial assistance.

The Denny Plattner Study Abroad Memorial Scholarship was established in 1995. Since its

Richters

creation, the scholarship has aided more than 150 Hanover students. In 2017, the Plattners ensured Denny’s legacy would continue by endowing the scholarship.

The Richters have loyally supported the College and its students for more than 50 years through gifts of their time, energy and resources. Their most recent gift is dedicated to enhancing support services for students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties.

These individuals were recognized during the annual President’s Gala in February.

The John Finley Crowe Society currently includes more than 200 alumni and friends. Members are featured on plaques in the west lounge of the J. Graham Brown Campus Center.

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LLOYD “BARNEY” SCOTT ’51 was inducted into the Seymour (Ind.) High School Hall of Fame in December. “Barney,” who died in 2013, served as Seymour’s boys’ basketball coach for 13 seasons and was also the school’s athletic director. His basketball teams posted a 233-91 record and won nine sectionals and five regionals. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Hanover Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.

1954 Former high school coach REX WELLS ’54 and his 1957-58 Springs Valley (Ind.) High School basketball team are featured in the book, “The Valley Boys.” The book, published earlier this year, shares the true story of a newly consolidated school system’s basketball team’s historic season and eventual impact on two rival communities.

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MARTY ECHELBARGER ’67 was inducted into Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in March. Marty coached basketball for 35 years, including stops at Southwestern (Shelby), Owen Valley, Brebeuf Jesuit, Princeton, Frankfort and Heritage Hills high schools.

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TO DISCUSS A PLANNED GIFT contact Kevin Berry ’90 at 800-213-2179, ext. 6813 or berry@hanover.edu

ROBERT G. BRINGLE ’69 has received a second Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. During the 2018-19 academic year, Bob will lecture and conduct research related to institutionalizing community service learning at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, Universidad Antonoma de Madrid in Spain and Vrije Universidad in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

He serves as professor emeritus of psychology and philanthropic studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

SARAH HOWARD JENKINS ’69 was inducted into the University of Kentucky College of Law Hall of Fame. Sarah is the Charles C. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law.

1970 DAVID COOKE ’70 graduated May 12 with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design. After selling his design business, David decided to do post-graduate studies, stating, “It is never too late to learn more!”

In March, GEORGE L. SEAY JR. ’70 was appointed deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources, Energy and Environment.

George was formerly an executive advisor in the Public Protection Cabinet, deputy general counsel of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and a member of the natural resources and environmental service team for Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP in Lexington, Ky. STEPHEN SHIELDS ’70 has been appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission. Steve, a partner at the Memphis law firm of Jackson, Shields, Yeiser & Holt, is also a founding member of the Mid-South Community Justice and Mediation Center.

Each year since 1980, BILL DOHN ’73 has supplied mint to Churchill Downs from his 10-acre Dohn & Dohn Gardens in Kentucky. Bill’s efforts provide essential flavoring for the more than 120,000 mint juleps served during the two days of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby.

This spring, JAYNE DEAN HARMON ’73 joined the Custom Homes Group, a division of Carolina One New Homes in Charleston, S.C. Jayne has lived in Charleston for the past 16 years. She has more than 30 years of experience in the home-building industry.

In May, DR. THOM MAYER ’73 served as keynote speaker at the Anderson (Ind.) Noon Exchange Club’s celebration of the 50th year of its Red Haven Memorial Award. In 1969, Mayer was the inaugural recipient of the honor, which recognizes Morgan County’s top student-athlete who combines the highest levels of athletic excellence, academic achievement and community leadership.

1974 RAY BLACK JR. ’74 was named a Sagamore of the Wabash in April. The honor is the highest bestowed by the Indiana governor. Ray has served as director of the Lide White Memorial Boys & Girls Club Family & Community Center in Madison, Ind., since 1984.

During the winter, ELAINE KOPS-BEDEL ’74 was featured in Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s cover story about innovation and technology. Elaine serves as president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

KARL PLANK ’74 published “BOSS: Rewriting Rilke.” The work includes a series of micro-monologues that reimagine portions of Rilke’s “Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.” Karl serves as the J.W. Cannon professor of religious studies at Davidson College.

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WALLACE “ACE” YAKEY JR. ’75 retired from Lilly Endowment June 30. Ace joined the staff in 1997 as program director in community development and, in 2012, was elected vice president for community development. He previously served as president of the Indianapolis Economic Development Corp.

KAREN BRASHABER ’83 was elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the Rush County (Ind.) Community Foundation. A mathematics teacher for Rush County Schools, Karen is also active with the Center Christian Church, Rushville Public Library, Rush County Community Choir and Rush County Junior Leaders Advisory Board.

1977 JOHN TRIMBLE ’77 was elected a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel in December. The organization is comprised of more than 300 experienced and recognized lawyers involved in coverage and extracontractual matters. John is a partner at the Indianapolis law firm Lewis Wagner, LLP.

1980 PAUL STUTZMAN ’80 received the Bryant Mather Award from the American Society for Testing Materials International’s committee on cement. The honor was presented for his contributions to the development of standards related to quantitative analysis of portland cement and his work on compositional analysis. Paul is a physical scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He previously served as a geologist for Reservoirs Inc.

JOANN BROUILLETTE ’83 was elected second vice chairman of the National Grain and Feed Associations in March during the organization’s 122nd-annual convention in Scottsdale, Ariz. JoAnn is managing partner and president of Demeter LP, a privately owned agricultural industry business in Fowler, Ind. KIPLY SHOBE DREW ’83 was appointed chief policy officer at Indiana University in the spring. Kiply, who served in the office of the vice president and general counsel for nearly 25 years, will oversee the development of policies and that procedures and practices ensure all university policies are understandable, readily accessible and adopted through transparent procedures.

1982 JUDY SWITZER WHITE ’82 was selected the Hanover College Exceptional Educator of the Year in the spring. Judy taught second-graders at Southwestern Elementary School for 20 years and has taught music at the Hanover school for the past 15 years.

She has also been an active member of the College’s Education Advisory Board for more than 12 years and served as an adjunct instructor for Hanover’s elementary education students.

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1983 In the past year, MARK DUNNING ’83 attended many Sigma Chi International Fraternity events, including the reinstallation of the Alpha Chapter at Miami (Ohio) University, rededication of the founding site at Oxford, Ohio, and the 81st Grand Chapter at Providence, R.I. He also was appointed to serve as warden of the Benjamin Piatt Runkle Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery by the 70th Grand Consul. He also endowed the Hon. Walter Lowrie Fisher 1883 Scholars Award, which is administered by the Sigma Chi Foundation.

RON STARKS ’83 was appointed vice president of Sandler Training in Chattanooga, Tenn., in January. Ron is a nationally known business coach and has spent nearly two decades mentoring entrepreneurs and business owners across the U.S.

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RONALD WOODS ’92 completed the Transition to Teaching program at Taylor University in December and later earned his teacher’s license.

1994 ALICIA LYNCH STEVENS ’94 was hired to lead customer success initiatives at StratusLIVE, a provider of cloudbased, customer relationship and donor management software for nonprofit organizations. Alicia previously served the United Way of Greater Cincinnati for 19 years.

1995 DAVID WILLIAMSON ’95 joined the Cincinnati, Ohio, law firm Marshall Dennehey as special counsel in the casualty department. David, an experienced civil litigator and trial lawyer, focuses a portion of his practice on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, as well as personal injury cases, transportation litigation and other general liability matters.

JEAN MILLER KOPF ’86 was appointed to the Rushville, Ind., Board of Zoning Appeals by the city’s mayor. Jean has worked at Benjamin Rush Middle School for 25 years as an at-risk student professional. She has previously served on the local coordination council for Safe and Drug Free Schools and the Rushville Public Library Board.

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KURT KEMBLE ’90 became the Culver, Ind., postmaster in January. He previously served as a supervisor at the Plymouth, Ind., post office.

1992 TRAVIS HAIRE ’92 was named chancellor at Ivy Tech Community College’s Sellersburg, Ind., campus in February. Travis formerly served Greater Clark County (Ind.) Schools as deputy superintendent, interim superintendent and assistant superintendent for leadership.

He started his career as a high school social studies teacher and adult education instructor before being named assistant principal for student development at New Albany (Ind.) High School in 1998.

In February, TARA EVANS ’99 received the Leticia Campodonico Award from the Indiana Association of College Admission Counselors. The honor is presented to an individual who has encouraged and supported under-represented and under-served students in their transition from high school to college. Tara joined the Franklin College admissions office last August after nine years at Purdue University.

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1988 MARY OVERPECK CORBIN ’88 was honored as Shorter University’s 2018 staff member of the year. Mary, who serves as assistant to the associate provost/dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for her positive influence on students and the campus community.

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1996 BEN HABEGGER ’96 started the law firm Outsourced General Counsel, LLC. Based in Indianapolis, Ind., Outsourced General Counsel enables business owners to integrate legal review and strategy into their daily decision-making.

REBECCA MINNICK ’96 was named executive director of the Louisville (Ky.) Nature Center.

1998 IAN MOSCHENROSS ’98 completed his first year teaching as a professor of music at Central College in Pella, Iowa.

Ian majored in music at Hanover before earning masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [This information was incorrectly reported in the Winter 2017 Hanoverian.]

KYLE OTTING ’00 has been appointed chief executive officer at 48forty, the largest pallet management services company in North America. Kyle previously served as vice president with CHEP Recycled Pallet Solutions, as well as general manager and director with IFCO Pallet Management Services.

2010 ZACH SIEG ’10 and AMBER DEVER ’12 eloped to Horseshoe Bend in Page, Ariz., in March 2017. Following their elopement, Zach and Amber celebrated their marriage with a formal reception in Indianapolis. The bridal party included: LESLIE MANUEL WISEMAN ’12, MEGAN PRIEST ’12, CATHERINE FREELAND ’12, HEATHER WASHBURN ’12, ELISABETH CAIRNS ’12, MATT SIEG ’12, JOSEPH VORMOHR ’10, RICH GIORDANO ’10 and PATRIC MORRISON ’10. Many other Hanoverians were in attendance!

RYAN CUMMINGS ’01 and his wife, Charla, welcomed their first child last fall. Lila Grace Cummings was born August 2, 2017.

2002 JESS DENGER ’02 was elected the 2018 worshipful master of the Excelsior Masonic Lodge #41 in LaPorte, Ind. Jess is the 124th worshipful master for Excelsior #41, which was chartered in 1838.

2003 KELLY ROTH ’03 was appointed the new principal at Bright (Ind.) Elementary School. Kelly most recently served as assistant principal at North Dearborn (Ind.) Elementary School and was also the school corporation’s gifted coordinator.

TOMMY DENNIS ’05 joined the Mooresville (Ind.) High School Athletics Hall of Fame in February. In high school, Tommy was two-time all-conference selection for Mooresville’s football and basketball teams. At Hanover, he was a three-time all-conference honoree for the basketball squad and helped the Panthers post four league titles and the highest four-year winning percentage in school history (86.8%). Tommy and his wife, JILL METZGER DENNIS ’04, have three children, Brianna, Wayne and Kellen.

2005 MARIE TRIJO ’05 and her husband, Matthew Bush, welcomed a son, Oscar Eliot Bush, Nov. 21, 2017. Marie works as an attorney for Allstate and the family resides in Evanston, Ill.

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In the spring, SCOTT POWER ’04 was hired as defensive coordinator at Texas A&M University-Commerce, which won the 2017 NCAA Division II national title. Before joining the Lions’ staff, Scott served two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Central Washington University and had successful stints as an assistant at Marian University and Wartburg College.

DR. CASSIE MORRIS LOTHERY ’09 graduated from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in May. As a recipient of the U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship, Cassie had served as a second lieutenant in the Individual Ready Reserve for three years. She now serves as a captain on active duty in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. Her duties include the care and treatment of military working dogs and privately owned pets on base, as well as the monitoring, inspection and protection of the soldiers’ food supply.

2005 EVA JANSEN BROMFIELD ’05 and her husband, Courtney Bromfield, welcomed their first child, Marcus Levi Bromfield, Feb. 1, 2018. Eva graduated from medical school in June 2017 and is currently working as a surgical resident in Amsterdam.

SAM POLLOM ’10 has been promoted to vice president, director of operations and compliance of WealthSouth, a division of Farmers National Bank of Danville (Ky.).

2011 HANNAH E. CLORE ’11 married Dan Nitzken, Sept. 29, 2017, in Louisville, Ky., at Farmington Historic Home.

Hanoverians at the celebration included: STEPHANIE BENNETT ’11, CECILIA WEIHE HERRMAN ’11, CHRISTINE KUO ’11, ABBY NASH MCCLISH ’11, JULIA LEGA MILLER ’11, ALYSSA LY PAPPANO ’11 and GRETCHEN HITZE SHELMON ’11.

2010 MERA KATHRYN CORLETT ’10 and Kartik Kamat were married April 28 in Louisville, Ky. Mera’s mother, Rev. Mera Cossey Corlett, officiated the ceremony.

JIMMY GIROT ’11 launched Fall Creek Fitness in January. The medical fitness company is located in Fishers, Ind.

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SHERRY PENNINGTON MUELLER ’11 and her husband, Zack, welcomed a son, Charley, Nov. 18, 2017. The family resides in Covington, Ky.

WHITNEY HELTON ’11 earned the Gladys Bell Graduate Fellowship from Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society. The award is designated to offset the expenses of pursuing a graduate or professional studies. Whitney is working on an advanced degree in food science and human nutrition.

2012 KRISTA PHILLIPS DENNE ’12 was ordained as Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), March 18, 2018. Krista currently serves as ministerial resident at First Presbyterian Church in Clarksville, Ark. KAYLA GREEN GUNTER ’12 and BRIAN GUNTER ’13 welcomed a son, Benjamin William Gunter, Nov. 28, 2017.

He weighed seven pounds, six ounces and was 20 inches long. The family resides in Louisville, Ky. JARED REVLETT ’12 began work as public information officer for Owensboro (Ky.) Public Schools in December.

In May, DR. OLIVIA SWAIN TYLER ’12 graduated from the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. Olivia is practicing at the East Shelbyville (Ky.) Animal Clinic.

OLIVIA MICHELE SELM ’12 and ROB WOHLSCHLAEGER ’13 were married December 30, 2017, at the Country Club of Indianapolis. CAM GINDER ’13 officiated the ceremony.

2013 BECKY ROBERTS ’13 and RYAN OLIVER ’13 were married Sept. 2, 2017, in Covington, Ky.

2014 GRACIE TAYLOR ’14 directed the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Glengarry Glen Ross” during its nine-day run in May at The Bard’s Town Theatre in Louisville, Ky. Gracie also founded and runs “Sketchy Stuff,” a monthly sketchcomedy show at Kaiju, and works with Louisville Championship Arm Wrestling.

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AMANDA MCCAULEY ’15 and JUSTIN MAGAW ’15 were married Sept. 9, 2017, in New Albany, Ind. Hanoverians in the wedding party included RYAN HAHN ’15, MEAGAN DAVENPORT BRUNNER ’16, WILL SWEET ’15, COTY JOHNSON WALDEN ’15, TRAFTON HOLDER ’15 and MEGAN ROBINSON ’15.

During 2018, ASHLEY WALKER ’14 is running a five-kilometer race each month to benefit a local charity or national medical foundation. Already this year, she has ran such races to aid a police officer killed in the line of duty, as well as support research for neurofibromatosis and brain cancer and provide medical supplies for Guatemala.

2015 BRIAHNA CHAMBERS ’15 is a lead instructor with Tech901, a Memphis, Tenn.-based non-profit organization with a charter to train individuals for information technology jobs and to increase the city’s technology job base.

Vibrant art by BRIANNA HARLAN ’15 adorned the Kentucky Center for the Arts during April and May. The installation, “Oasis,” was commissioned by Kentucky’s annual multi-faith celebration, Festival of Faiths. The work was inspired by Brianna’s “attempt to meld radical vulnerability with social justice.” Her earlier effort, “The Divided States of Americans,” will be on display in Louisville, Ky., Metro Hall through January 2019.

DAQUISHA JONES ’15 works as a writer and activist in Philadelphia. Daquisha recently worked with gender-nonconforming New York artist Ariel Mahler to develop the web series “Bad Ally,” which is based on the formation of an unlikely friendship.

2016 QUINCY ROBINSON ’16 is a licensed real estate broker with Brown County Real Estate in Nashville, Ind. Quincy is also a certified personal trainer and owner of Q’s Bikes.

Strengthen Hanover College’s prosperity as a member of the newly launched Hanover Alumni Recruitment Team

HART capitalizes on the experience, reach and energy of Hanoverians to connect with prospective and legacy students on a national and global level. Through this initiative, dedicated alumni assist the College’s Office of Admission with student referrals, participation at high school and college fairs, and as host/sponsors of regional receptions.

Learn more or apply for membership at hanover.edu/HART. For further details, contact Aimée Rust-Scheuermann ’96, senior associate director of admission, at rust@hanover.edu or 812-866-7016.

CAREER HELP

Facing a life-changing issue such as loss of employment, relocation or dissatisfaction with your current job? The Levett Career Center provides a full range of free employmentrelated services for Hanover alumni.

MIRIAM CAHILL ’17 began her second adventure with the Peace Corps in early June. For the next two years, she will serve as an elementary English teacher in Comoros, an island nation off Africa’s east coast. Miriam previously served in Burkina Faso, but was ultimately redirected after a mandatory evacuation due to conflict in the West African country.

Whether you graduated within the past five years or 50 years ago, the Career Center offers an array of options such as networking tips and leads, résumé critiques, mock interviews and support for online job searches. The tools also include assessments to help discover your true interests and strengths, résumé and cover letter guides, and a resource library.

For information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@hanover.edu or 812-866-7127.

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NONPROFIT US POSTAGE PAID INDIANAPOLIS IN PERMIT NO. 9059 517 Ball Drive Hanover, IN 47243 www.hanover.edu

HOMECOMING 2018 This year, the class years ending in three and eight will return to campus to relive precious memories of their Hanover days.

No matter what year you graduated, join us for this special celebration!

OCT. 5- 6

Registration begins in July 2018

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