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by Carole Gieseke

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525,600 minutes

ow do you measure a year in the life? It’s a question I’ve thought about a lot lately. In “Seasons of Love,” an iconic song from the musical RENT, the 525,600 minutes in a year can be measured in daylights, midnights, laughter, cups of coffee…and love. Sometimes, life is too damn short. We forget what an amazing gift we have when we’re mindlessly living our busy, healthy lives. And then we’re forced to remember. Iowans – and the world – remembered last summer with the abduction and murder of Mollie Tibbetts. The University of Iowa student disappeared July 18; her body was found Aug. 21 in a corn field near Brooklyn, Iowa. She was 20 years old. And then, less than a month later, we remembered again. It seemed impossible, but Cyclone golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead Sept. 17 on the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames. She was Iowa State’s 2018 Female Athlete of the Year, and now she was gone. She was 22 years old. This was a year that started with the shooting of students at a Parkland, Fla., high school. Seventeen dead. And as I write this, funerals are being held in Pittsburgh for the victims of another mass killing. This one was at the Tree of Life synagogue. Eleven dead. Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan. Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure a life of a woman or a man? “Celia’s gone, but her memory and legacy are things a random act of killing can’t destroy,” wrote Des Moines Register columnist Randy Peterson.

*Lyrics from RENT, “Seasons of Love” by Jonathan Larson

“Cel was happy every day that she was there,” Celia’s mother told ISU golf coach Christie Martens. “If we had this to decide all over again, we would still send her to Iowa State.” How do you measure Celia Barquin Arozamena’s life? In smiles? In hugs? In golf balls hit long and straight? In friendships? In love? Celia touched so many people. Her death shook Cyclone nation to its core. “Losing a student-athlete is like losing a child,” Iowa State athletics director Jamie Pollard said. How do you measure a year in a life? In truths that she learned… or the way that she died? Let’s celebrate Remember a year in a life of friends.* Celia’s death is a tragedy, but her life was so full, so joyous, so positive. Remember that, and remember her. 

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Philadelphia stories Cyclones are everywhere! Meet three who reside in one of America’s most historic cities.

FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

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To serve. To lead. To excel. The installation celebration of Iowa State’s sixteenth president, Wendy Wintersteen

Celia Barquin Arozamena was ready to play through Standout golfer’s death has shaken Iowa State to its core

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Distinguished Awards announcement

Getting Started Letters to the Editor Around Campus Cyclones Everywhere Newsmakers, Cyclone stories, Association news, alumni events & more 46 Calendar

Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary The 2017-18 ISU Alumni Association Annual Report

President Wendy Wintersteen reacts to a speaker’s comments during her Sept. 21, 2018 installation ceremony. Seated at left is ISU President Emeritus Gregory Geoffroy, who introduced Wintersteen. Photo by Jim Heemstra

On the Cover: From her home in Philadelphia, physician Lauren Hughes (’02 zoology & Spanish) has launched a personal crusade to become a more engaged and informed citizen. Photo by Jim Heemstra

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Thanks for the article about the Sullivan girls (“The Sullivan girls: Celebrating a 47-year friendship,” Cyclone Stories, fall 2018). I dated a Sullivan girl a few years earlier than them; she graduated in ’73. But it generated many nice memories of using the foyer and telephone to call her for our date. That was still in the days of house mothers, phone calls, and being back before the doors were locked. My daughters had none of those experiences from either Northwestern or Wisconsin-Madison. I think it’s too bad. But thanks for the memories. Russell King (A)

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FEAT How did this unassuming 29-year-old financial analyst shatter a transAmerican ultrarunning record that had stood for more than three decades? One step at a time.

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owa State’s fall 2018 enrollment is 34,992, the fourth-largest in school history but down 2.8 percent from the 35,993 enrolled for the 20172018 academic year. The numbers reflect national trends, including an overall decline in international and transfer student enrollment. More students are coming to Iowa State directly from high school, officials said. This year’s enrollment includes record diversity at Iowa State. U.S. multicultural and international enrollment is 8,554 this year, which is 24.5 percent of the student body. Iowa State’s entering freshman class boasts the highest-ever high school GPA for an incoming ISU class: 3.64. More than a quarter of ISU’s Class of 2022 students were ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. “I’m delighted to introduce such a highly qualified class to the exceptional student experience, teaching, and research that we offer at Iowa State,” President Wendy Wintersteen (L)(PhD ’88 entomology) said. “I know they will thrive, learn, and grow in ways that will change our world for the better.”

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Forever True, for Iowa State reaches goal, increases target

owa State’s Forever True, For Iowa State comprehensive fundraising campaign, which was originally set to run through June 2020 with a goal of $1.1 billion, has already crossed the finish line. Officials announced Oct. 12 that the campaign reached $1.1 billion a full two years earlier than it had anticipated. So, the challenge has been officially stepped up: Forever True, For Iowa State

will continue until June 30, 2021 with a new fundraising target: $1.5 billion. “When Iowa State University alumni and friends set their sights on a goal, they stop at nothing to achieve it. This has truly been the case for the Forever True campaign,” ISU President Wendy Wintersteen (L)(PhD ’88 entomology) said. “The momentum and energy our Cyclone family has created through its generosity has

led to unprecedented success. While we’ve met our campaign goal, our work is not yet done, because there are still needs to be met, and ideals and aspirations to champion.” The Forever True, For Iowa State campaign was officially launched in September 2016. For more information, visit forevertrueisu.com.

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InBrief ■ Robison

named endowed agriculture dean Daniel J. Robison has been named the next endowed dean of Iowa State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and director of the Iowa Agricultural Daniel J. Robison and Home Economics Experiment Station. Robison, dean of the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, and director of the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, will begin his tenure by March 31, 2019. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, and his doctorate in entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined WVU

in 2012 after serving as associate dean for research in the North Carolina State University College of Natural Resources. “Everyone – whether you live down the street or halfway around the world – benefits from the work led by the faculty, staff, and students of Iowa State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,” Robison said. “It’s a great honor to be selected to lead the college, and I look forward to working with the talented team here to address the local and global challenges of agricultural production, food safety, security and nutrition, natural resources management, and underlying life sciences.” ■ Cyclones sweep Big 12 cross country championships The Iowa State men’s and women’s cross country squads hosted the 2018 Big 12 Championship in Ames Oct. 26 and delivered a sweep, earning team and individual titles on both the men’s and women’s sides. For the women, it was Iowa State’s third-straight team title and its seventh in the last eight seasons. Sophomore Cailie Logue won the individual crown, becoming the first Cyclone woman to earn the league crown since 2015. The Cyclone men were paced

by junior Edwin Kurgat, who became Iowa State’s first-ever Big 12 individual champion and helped the Cyclones edge out second-place Oklahoma State by eight points in the team race. The victory marked Iowa State’s second-straight Big 12 men’s crown. ■ Rajala to retire from engineering dean post Sarah Rajala (A), ISU’s James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering since 2013, has announced she will retire at the end of the 2018-19 Sarah Rajala academic year. A national search for her replacement is underway and is being led by Luis Rico-Gutierrez (A), dean of the College of Design, and Gary Mirka, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering.

cool things you should KNOW and SHARE about ISU

1: Iowa State is being green. The Princeton Review

jobs in Ames and generate $10 million in private investment.

recently ranked Iowa State 41st on its list of the nation’s 50 most environmentally responsible “green” colleges and universities. It was the only Iowa institution on the list.

4: Iowa State is in the money. Money magazine, that is.

2: Iowa State is doing business in Des Moines. Iowa State’s

Ivy College of Business professional MBA program has been voted “Best MBA in Des Moines” in the Des Moines Business Record’s 2018 “Best of Des Moines” edition. This was the first year the program, which started in 1999, achieved “best of” status in the poll. 3: Iowa State Research Park is growing. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in September that it will award $1.7 million to ISU Research Park to make critical infrastructure improvements that will ultimately create 450

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The publication recently named the best school in every U.S. state, and Iowa State came out on top in Iowa. The magazine cited ISU’s strong graduation rates, average alumni earnings, and welcoming environment in its analysis. 5: Iowa State is well-designed. DesignIntelligence

Quarterly has once again ranked ISU design programs among the nation’s top 25. For 2018-2019, the publication ranked ISU’s undergraduate landscape architecture program eighth, undergraduate interior design 18th, and undergraduate architecture 23rd in the U.S. It also ranked ISU’s grad program in landscape architecture 21st nationally.

President Wendy Wintersteen addresses the crowd in Stephens Auditorium during her Sept. 21, 2018 installation. The audience gave Wintersteen two standing ovations during the ceremony.

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TO SERVE. TO LEAD. TO EXCEL. The installation celebration of Iowa State’s sixteenth president, Wendy Wintersteen BY CAROLE GIESEKE  PHOTOS BY JIM HEEMSTRA

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“I am very honored and humbled to stand before you today as the 16th president of Iowa State University – and as a proud graduate of this extraordinary institution.” – WENDY WINTERSTEEN

eople from across campus and across the state of Iowa heaped praise on Wendy Wintersteen during her official installation as Iowa State University’s 16th president on Sept. 21. ¶ “President Wintersteen is exactly the right person to be at the helm of Iowa State at this time in its history,” ISU President Emeritus Gregory Geoffroy (L)(’13 honorary) said in his introductory remarks. ¶ “I met Dr. Wintersteen 17 years ago,” Geoffroy said. “The more I interacted with her, the more it became very clear to me that she had a number of truly special leadership talents... I was delighted but not at all surprised when she was selected to be Iowa State’s 16th president.” ¶ Michael Richards, president of the Iowa Board of Regents, said, “The day I announced that Dr. Wintersteen would be Iowa State’s 16th president and its first woman president will always be a highlight of my own presidency as well as for many of my fellow regents.” ¶ The installation ceremony, held in Stephens Auditorium, was highlighted with musical performances by Simon Estes (’97 honorary), the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Artist in Residence and professor of music at Iowa State; the ISU Wind Ensemble, including a ABOUT 16TH ISU PRESIDENT WENDY WINTERSTEEN: Wendy Wintersteen (L) (PhD entomology) became the 16th president – and first female president – of Iowa State University on Nov. 20, 2017, after a nationwide search and a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. Wintersteen has served Iowa State for nearly 40 years as an integrated pest manager for ISU Extension, a professor of entomology, the endowed dean of the College of Agriculture of Life Sciences, and director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.

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“It’s a real treat for me to be back at Iowa State, a place that is so very special for me. I’ve enjoyed seeing the many changes that have occurred since I left, like the growth in the research park, the Campustown redevelopment, the changes in and around Jack Trice Stadium, several new buildings, and, of course, especially that big new dormitory next to Buchanan Hall. It’s also good to see the many, many things that so characterize Iowa State that have not changed: Central campus, the Campanile, Lake LaVerne, and especially the university’s exceptionally strong focus on students and on providing them a top-quality education.” – ISU PRESIDENT EMERITUS GREGORY GEOFFROY

premier performance of “To Serve” composed by Michael Golemo (L), ISU director of bands and professor of music; and the Iowa State Singers. Wintersteen’s installation address touched on Iowa State’s past and her personal “ISU adventure,” and it ultimately outlined her priorities as the university’s top leader. The following are highlights of her installation address, “To Serve. To Lead. To Excel.” To read the entire address, view the installation video, and more, go to www.president. iastate.edu/about/history/installations/ wintersteen. I am very honored and humbled to stand before you today as the 16th president of Iowa State University – and as a proud graduate of this extraordinary institution – with one of our nation’s most beautiful campuses. It is so wonderful to see so many family members, friends and colleagues in the audience along with our students, faculty and staff. I deeply appreciate your support, prayers, and good wishes. Seeing all of you reminds me how blessed I am to be raised in the Midwest by supportive parents who knew the profound impact of education and hard work – and who encouraged me to follow my dreams. A year ago when I was applying for this position, I introduced myself to the search committee in my application letter by mentioning the university-wide campaign led by the ISU Foundation, Forever True, For Iowa State. I wrote, “As a dean, proud alumnus, and donor, the idea of ‘Forever True’ touches me very deeply, since it clearly expresses my

38-year relationship with this university and underlies my reason for applying. If selected as president, the Cyclone faithful will immediately know that this is someone who is not passing through, but is, like them, ‘Forever True.’” As president, I promise to serve this great university so that it may reach its highest potential and academic excellence. With the assistance of my great administrative team, the deans, our excellent faculty and staff, our caring and supportive alumni and donors, I pledge to lead this university forward to becoming the best land-grant university in the nation. Working together, we will continue to excel – we will excel in our world-class science and research, we will excel in the classrooms and hands-on teaching labs, we will excel in the arts and humanities, and we will excel in our land-grant mission to support the people and economic vitality of this state. ISU: Welcoming and inclusive Next year on my birthday, ISU will celebrate 150 years since the very first presidential inaugural celebration on March 17, 1869. In that first inaugural ceremony, the president of the Board of Trustees, B.F. Gue, stated: “It is one of the chief aims of this College to break down the barriers which belong to the darker ages of the past, and open these doors to any of God’s people, whether high or low in social circles, rich or poor, white or black, man or woman.” Being welcoming and inclusive is built into the DNA of this university from its founding moments. As president, I will work to serve this ideal, and strive

“Congratulations on becoming the first woman president of Iowa State University – only 160 years in the making.” - Kim Reynolds, governor, State of Iowa

“In the time that we have worked together, I have recognized the passion you have for improving the student experience and reminding us that students are the heart of this university.” - Julian Neely, Student Government president “I feel nothing less than pride that we have a leader in building a community… here’s to building this vision together.” - Norin Yasin Chaudhry, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate “I’m honored to bring you greetings on behalf of more than 260,000 alumni of Iowa State University… Without question, there is tremendous support for your leadership.” - Lawrence Cunningham, chair of the ISU Alumni Association Board of Directors Greetings were also offered from Peter Martin, president of the Faculty Senate; Stacy Renfro, president of the Professional and Scientific Council; and Jean McMaken, president of AFSCME Local 96.

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“People just like President Wintersteen… Her disarming smile…immediately puts people at ease.” – ISU PRESIDENT EMERITUS GREGORY GEOFFROY

to make ISU set the standard among the land-grant universities as a leader in creating a welcoming and inclusive environment – where anyone who is willing to work hard can achieve their full potential. As a proud alumna and this university’s first female president, I represent the active expression of that ideal of inclusiveness. I intend to nurture this ideal and energize it for all those who come after me. It is one of my top priorities.

President Wendy Wintersteen receives the chain of office from ISU President Emeritus Gregory Geoffroy; chair of the Presidential Installation Planning Committee, Olivia M.A. Madison; and Michael Richards, president of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.

“A year ago, when I was applying for this position, I introduced myself to the search committee in my application letter by mentioning the university-wide campaign led by the ISU Foundation, Forever True, For Iowa State. I wrote, ‘As a dean, proud alumnus, and donor, the idea of ‘Forever True’ touches me very deeply, since it clearly expresses my 38-year relationship with this university and underlies my reason for applying. If selected as president, the Cyclone faithful will immediately know that this is someone who is not passing through, but is, like them, ‘Forever True.’” – WENDY WINTERSTEEN

An exciting time One reason this is an exciting time to serve as the president of Iowa State is the tremendous engagement and support of the university’s alumni and friends. It’s rewarding to hear from so many alumni who feel their education here literally transformed the direction of their lives – and they give back to ensure the same opportunity for future generations. Last year, nearly 36,000 alumni and friends supported ISU! Can you imagine? 36,000! The impact of their giving is seen in every corner of this beautiful campus, sustaining the university’s land-grant mission of teaching, research, extension, and service. Innovation and entrepreneurism As president, I have made it a priority that our students, faculty, and staff know that Iowa State University is a campus that encourages innovation and supports entrepreneurs. In fact, I want a spirit of entrepreneurism to be a significant part of the Iowa State brand – one of the special things that sets us apart. I intend to establish a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem where innovating is built into the curriculum… and where innovations and entrepreneurial ideas come from our students,

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“President Wintersteen, you are – and you have been for a long time – one of us.” – ISU FACULTY SENATE PRESIDENT PETER MARTIN

faculty, and staff, and that they receive support to move those ideas forward. The student experience and faculty and staff excellence As ISU reaches for greater heights, I will reward and recognize the excellence of our teachers and the success they achieve in the classroom… We must continue to make the student-centered experience a priority for every college. We must increase the number of students who can take advantage of high-impact learning experiences and support our students who wish to study abroad. It is an exciting time to be the president of Iowa State University. But it is also a challenging time. Even though our resources seem limited and ISU offers one of the lowest tuition rates in the nation, my administrative team and I continue to work to offer an incredible educational opportunity by strategically pruning away less fruitful efforts, and investing in more fruitful ones. In a word, we will serve, lead, and ultimately excel by constantly innovating. My passion for Iowa State continues after these 39 years because I know how it transformed me. I believe in the future of Iowa State University – in the potential of our students, the excellence of our researchers, the transformative power of our educators, and the strategic commitment and dedication of our staff. Together, we can build upon our great historic land-grant foundation and make Iowa, our nation, and this world a better place for future generations. 

Newly installed President Wendy Wintersteen greeted faculty, staff, alumni, students, friends, and family after the official ceremony. She is, above, with Brad Freihoefer, director of the ISU Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, and, at right, with her husband, Robert Waggoner, and friend Amy Jo Myers.

The ISU Alumni Association presented President Wintersteen with a commemorative book listing the names of approximately 53,000 ISUAA members. ISUAA Board of Directors President Lawrence Cunningham said, “Our alumni family is delighted to welcome one of our own to take on the grand challenges of leading our alma mater.”

“Being Being welcoming and inclusive is built into the DNA of this university from its founding moments. As president, I will work to serve this ideal, and strive to make ISU set the standard among the land-grant universities as a leader in creating a welcoming and inclusive environment – where anyone who is willing to work hard can achieve their full potential. As a proud alumna and this university’s first female president, I represent the active expression of that ideal of inclusiveness.” – WENDY WINTERSTEEN

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SOMEWHERE ALONG THE NINTH HOLE, IN A TOWN THAT WAS RECENTLY RANKED ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES IN IOWA, CELIA

CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA

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Standout golfer’s death has shaken Iowa State to its core BY ELIZABETH MERRILL

he year’s second-to-last outing for the Metro Seniors golf group was scheduled for Sept. 17, on a course just outside the morning madness of Iowa State’s campus. Summer’s grip would loosen soon, giving way to the bitter, unforgiving winds of central Iowa; but on this Monday, the temperature would top 90 degrees. Harley Thornton, a retired fighter pilot, pulled in to Coldwater Golf Links, took in the fair skies and knew it would be a good day for golf. He didn't realize that he had parked right next to her car. Celia Barquin Arozamena got up early to squeeze in a morning round before school, and when she spotted Coldwater general manager Barrett Randall in the clubhouse, she wrapped him in a hug. Barquin was notorious for her hugs. Rooming with her on road trips at Iowa State was never a good idea if you weren’t a morning person. She’d jump on their beds, waking them from their sleep, and dole out hugs. “Super bubbly,” M.J. Kamin, one of her former roommates, said. “Always happy. Always.” Every day was a good day for Barquin. When the weather turned bad and the team

was covered in parkas, it was always easy to spot her at Coldwater. She was the one dancing on the tee box. Barquin had much to smile about last week. She had just booked her flight to attend the second stage of LPGA qualifying school next month in Florida, drawing one step closer to her dream of taking care of her family in Spain. In a few days, Iowa State was going to honor her before the Cyclones’ football game for being the school’s 2018 female athlete of the year. Because of her hectic schedule, Randall hadn’t seen Barquin much lately, but they quickly launched into smiles and laughter. “I just told her how proud we are,” Randall said, "and how much fun it’s been following along with all the success she’s been having this summer. I just remember telling her to go out and have a great time and I’d see her at the end of the turn. “I never saw her again.” Somewhere along the ninth hole, in a town that was recently ranked one of the safest cities in Iowa, Barquin disappeared on the morning of Sept. 17. Her body was found in a pond near the hole. Police determined she had been assaulted and stabbed in the upper torso, head and neck.

Collin Daniel Richards, a homeless man who was camped in a wooded area near the course, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Harley Thornton’s foursome was the first group to notice something was wrong. They found Barquin’s Iowa State golf bag on the fairway and became more alarmed when they saw tees strewn about and her cellphone abandoned. They had met her on the fourth hole earlier that morning and had a friendly visit. Though Barquin was using a pushcart, they could immediately tell she would be much quicker and invited her to play through. They watched her step up to the men’s tees and hit an impressive drive to the fairway. Thornton figures they were probably the last people to talk to Barquin. When he got in his car to go to the police department and give a statement, he noticed that the car next to him was covered in police tape. His voice cracked when he talked Wednesday because he had a cold. Though he’s 80, Thornton said he rarely catches colds, but the stress of the week got to him. He can’t stop thinking about the 22-yearold, who was killed five months after she qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open, and WINTER 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

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about a week and a half after she received her Big 12 championship ring. He’s not alone. Barquin’s death has affected even the highest reaches of golf globally, and in France, Ryder Cup players on both sides wore yellow ribbons in her honor. Golfers who played with her were certain Barquin was going to be a star, not only because of her accuracy and confidence, but because of her effervescent personality. There was an innocence that drew people to her. When Barquin found out she would be honored as ISU’s athlete of the year, she could barely contain herself. “Do I get to be on the football field and be recognized in front of all those people?” she asked ISU senior associate athletic director Steve Malchow. “Is my picture going to be on the big board?” Barquin’s picture was on the video board Saturday during a moment of silence before the Iowa State-Akron game, and her award was unclaimed. “She was just beyond one in a million,” Thornton said. “I think of her as a special gift to the world.” By virtue of even owning a parka, Iowa State coach Christie Martens was at a significant disadvantage in recruiting Barquin, a highly regarded young golfer in her hometown of Puente San Miguel, Spain. Barquin’s coaches told her that if she was going to play college golf in the United States, she would need to pick a school in the South or the West. Barquin politely gave her the “I’ll keep it in mind” line, which, in recruitspeak, is pretty much a no. A strong season by Barquin in Spain didn’t help Martens’ cause. More schools wanted her. But Martens was undaunted. She visited Barquin’s hometown, which Martens describes as “the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen in your life, the Pyrenees mountains meeting the sea.” How would Ames possibly live up to that? She headed to France to watch Barquin play in the Grand Prix de Chiberta and walked the course with the golfer’s mother, who wasn’t fluent in English. Leaning on four years of high school Spanish, Martens talked about Iowa State’s academics and the school’s VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG WINTER 2019

biggest asset – the people. Martens told her that Celia wouldn’t be just another player: She’d be family. Martens' husband, Bobby, accompanied her on the trip. He would later tell people that he didn’t know Christie could speak Spanish, and then all of a sudden she and MaA’ngeles Arozamena were engrossed in a conversation. “[Barquin’s] mom thought she was speaking English,” Martens said of the encounter. “I thought I was speaking Spanish.” At 5 o'clock the next morning, Barquin emailed Martens: “I want to come to Iowa State.” The coach was so excited she yelled, “Oh my gosh!” in her hotel room despite the early hour. Barquin was the biggest recruit Martens has ever landed in her 13 years at Iowa State. Barquin didn’t exactly wow her future teammates on a recruiting visit to Ames. Her dad, Marcos Barquin Gonzalez, accompanied her. The big-time recruit stood just 5-foot-2 and didn’t look like much when she arrived at Iowa State’s practice facility in street clothes. She borrowed a club, hit a drive and chunked it. Prima Thammaraks, a senior from Thailand, was underwhelmed. “I’m looking at Coach like, ‘Are you sure about this one?’” Thammaraks said. Thammaraks handed her a putter, and Barquin sank a long uphill shot, which Thammaraks said was from about 45 feet away. Barquin wore the expression of a person who expected to make it all along. She seemed so mature. Most recruits walk in wanting people to think they’re good, Thammaraks said. Barquin didn’t care about that. She knew she was good. Barquin arrived on campus a couple of weeks late in the fall of 2014 because she was competing in the Junior Olympics in China. When she got to the dorm, one of her fellow recruits told another, “She’s here and she’s small.” Barquin might not have been able to drive the ball far, but she could sure hit it straight. “She would hit every single fairway,” Martens said. She was the fastest golfer the coach ever met. Her pre-shot routine lasted about three seconds. She was so sure of herself that she didn’t want to

overthink anything. Her English wasn’t great that first semester, but she was a fast learner. She wanted to be an engineer and was deciding which focus to take when an adviser told her to avoid civil engineering because it was the hardest and wouldn’t bode well with her travel schedule. “OK, great. Thanks,” she told the adviser. “I’ll be a civil engineer.” Her confidence never came across as ego. It couldn’t, not when she would tell people she was “going to win you no matter what.” One of her best friends was Kamin, the only American on the team. They were roommates for two years. They’d throw down balls on the grass, put themselves in difficult situations and sometimes Kamin would say, “I don’t think I can do that shot” – and Barquin would walk down, throw the ball down in the same spot and hit a perfect shot. “She was extremely motivating for me in terms of golf,” Kamin said. “She had the best attitude you could have on the golf course. She was invincible. She was going out there to birdie every hole. There was no fear in her game.” Their group chat during senior year was called, “Put a Big 12 Ring on It.” Barquin was the one who came up with the name. She was sitting at a banquet once when she noticed track and field star Jhoanmy Luque sporting a Big 12 championship ring. She asked Luque how she got the ring, and the answer was something to the effect, of umm, I won it. Barquin had never seen one before. A few weeks later in Dallas, Barquin was in contention for the Big 12 individual title. She had always talked about winning a tournament in college, and now she was in her final weeks of eligibility and time was running out. Kamin, who wasn’t playing, tried everything to pump her up. When they were younger, they’d do this thing in practice called star jumps in which they would leap in the air and yell, “I’m a star!” Kamin decided to do it again around the 16th hole in Dallas, but since this was a tournament, she would just mouth the words as she jumped. Barquin hit the trees on the 17th hole, but like many 15

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“When goodbyes are hard, it means the time has been good.” CHRISTIE MARTENS other moments, she didn’t get rattled. She claimed a three-shot victory. A few weeks later, at a sectional qualifier, Barquin shot a blistering 66 in the final round of a sectional to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open. Her friends back home stopped following her online earlier in the day, when she shot 6-over in her first 18 holes. They figured she was done. Barquin nonchalantly texted Kamin to tell her she had qualified and put an “LOL” at the end. “She basically won everything,” said golfer Fatima Fernandez Cano, a longtime friend. “It really had been her year.” Collin Daniel Richards also was 22. He grew up in Coon Rapids, Iowa, about 70 miles southwest of Coldwater Links, and court records reveal a long history of violence. When he was 18, he was arrested on charges of domestic abuse and pleaded guilty. He once admitted to being high on drugs and stealing a pickup truck; in another incident, he shoplifted and threatened to shoot up the store. While Richards was shuffling from prison to a shelter this past summer in Ames, Barquin was preparing for the European Ladies’ Amateur Championship in late July, which she won in Slovakia. Though her eligibility was exhausted this past spring, she returned to Ames for the fall semester so she could finish her degree. A few days before Sept. 17, Richards, according to a criminal complaint, was walking on a trail path near the golf course when he told an acquaintance that he had an urge to rape and kill a woman. Richards made his initial court appearance the day after the murder, and Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said that the crime is believed to be a random act of violence. Richards was being held at the Story County Jail on a $5 million bond and was awaiting a preliminary hearing on Friday. The Iowa State women’s golf team was competing at a meet in Ann Arbor, Mich., when Martens heard the news. A university plane that was in Florida while the men’s basketball coaches were on a recruiting trip was sent to Michigan to pick up the golf team. Kamin, who graduated in May and now is VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG WINTER 2019

employed in Denver, was just about to leave work when Martens called to tell her about Barquin. “My first reaction was, ‘How do they know? They don't know for sure that’s her,’” Kamin said. “It was a lot of disbelief. I just didn’t understand.” Kamin was the last one left at work, and she sat down and waited and worried. She scoured social media to see if anything had been posted. The team was on the plane by then, so she couldn’t call them. She called Christie Martens with Celia Barquin Arozamena

her mother in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Are they sure?” she asked her mom. Kamin headed back to Iowa, because she couldn’t stay in Denver, not when her family was hurting. She went to Barquin’s apartment and saw her written schedule that she had posted on the wall, the goals that would never be met. Barquin had recently decided to make her Catholic faith a bigger part of her life. She would go to Thursday mass at St. Thomas Aquinas and was beginning to prepare for confirmation. She had a serious boyfriend named Carlos Negrin Bolanos. Martens said the couple had been best friends for about three years before they finally started dating. In one of their last long conversations – they talked every day – Barquin told her coach that she was happy that it would take another year to graduate, because she knew how hard it would be to say goodbye to Ames. “When goodbyes are hard,” Martens

said, “it means the time has been good.” The Symetra Tour is the minor leagues of women’s golf. It’s not particularly glamorous or lucrative. One afternoon, you’re playing in Prattville, Ala., and a few hours later, you’re driving through the night in a beat-up car to get to the next event in Orlando. Barquin probably would have been on track to live that life next summer. The pay would have been low and the days long. And she would have loved it. The summer was long and rainy, and the greens weren’t always in great condition. A few of the women on the tour were recently complaining among themselves about the grind, and then they heard about Barquin’s death, and they felt horrible. “After what happened to Celia, we’re like, ‘You know what? This is a wake-up call. Why are you complaining? Celia would never complain about this,’” Thammaraks said. “And we shouldn’t. We’re doing what we love. We’re lucky to be living the life we’re living.” Barquin was having the year of her life. That’s why she was out on the course at Coldwater on that warm Monday morning. Not because she was a loner, as one media outlet suggested when they talked to Martens about why she played by herself that day. Barquin was there because she knew how close she was, to her degree, her LPGA card, and her dream. She was unafraid. It was Ames, Iowa, and she was swinging a golf club in the serenity of the tallgrass and trees. She shouldn’t have had any reason to be afraid.  Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. com and ESPN The Magazine. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. This story was originally published Sept. 28 on espnW, a global multiplatform brand dedicated to engaging and inspiring women through sports.

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Welcome to “Cyclones Everywhere,” an occasional feature that introduces you to, well, Cyclones everywhere! Iowa State alumni are nearly 260,000 strong, living in all 50 states and around the world – a family united by the Cardinal & Gold. In this issue, you’ll meet three Cyclones who reside in one of America’s most historic cities. By Carole Gieseke • Photos by Jim Heemstra

One woman’s challenge to be a better citizen

Physician Lauren Hughes stays true to her Iowa 4-H roots Lauren Hughes woke up the day after the 2016 election with one overwhelming goal: to become a more engaged and informed citizen. She had already put aside full-time medical practice for a position in public health as deputy secretary for health innovation at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where she works daily to improve the health of citizens in the state. Her epiphany was to do more, and do it every day. “When you think about all the roles and titles we have in our lives, both personally and professionally, a core foundational one that I need to fulfill every single day is being an engaged and informed citizen. And I realized I hadn’t been doing that,” she said. So she started keeping track, and she kept herself accountable by posting on social media. Some days she performed small, random acts of kindness, like giving food to a homeless man, returning a stranger’s dropped umbrella, or helping an elderly couple get their luggage down the stairs at the subway station. She marched for women’s rights and gun control, donated money to causes she feels passionate about, and mentored younger co-workers. She sent handwritten notes to colleagues receiving unexpected medical news, sent school supplies to an orphanage in Venezuela, and helped a friend move into a new apartment. Sometimes, she said, it can be something as simple as striking up a conversation, especially while traveling, or with someone from whom she has a

differing viewpoint. And she has made it a point to educate herself on diverse topics and worldviews. Case in point: Hughes (L) was selected as one of 59 members of the 2018 class of Presidential Leadership Scholars, an opportunity for early- to mid-career professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds to learn leadership lessons from recent U.S. presidents or those who served in their administrations. “It was an incredible opportunity,” she said. “Whether it was the didactic classroom discussions, our off-therecord conversations with the presidents themselves, or from talking with my new classmates, I had so many opportunities to have my worldview completely imploded. Expanded. Changed. In all the best of ways. “It was refreshing. I left the program much, much more hopeful because I know my classmates are out there every single day doing phenomenal work to make a difference in their worlds,” she continued. “But also … I was able to partake in several examples of having very constructive dialogue with people I didn’t agree with and learn to engage in civic discourse and to do so in a very respectful, non-threatening way.” Hughes, who grew up in Searsboro, Iowa, graduated from Iowa State in 2002 with degrees in zoology & Spanish. She attended George Washington University, receiving an MPH in health policy in 2007, followed by a 2009 MD at the University of Iowa. She has lived in Washington, D.C., serving as the national president of the American Medical

Student Association; in Seattle for a three-year family medicine residency; and in Ann Arbor from 2013-2015 while working on a master’s in health services research at the University of Michigan. She has been in her current position since 2015. As deputy secretary for health innovation at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, she works on a variety of issues related to the primary care workforce in the state. She is leading the effort to become an accredited department of public health, works on issues related to the opioid/ heroin epidemic, and is implementing a Pennsylvania Rural Health Model – a first-of-its-kind-in-the-nation health care delivery model designed to provide greater financial stability to rural hospitals and a pathway to transform care to better meet community health needs. Her days are full – especially when she makes the five-hour round-trip commute from Philadelphia to Harrisburg. But on days when she fails to meet her selfimposed citizenship challenge, she doesn’t beat herself up about it. “If you miss one day, guess what? Tomorrow’s another opportunity,” she said. And she offers this advice for others who may want to take on their own citizenship challenge: “Take a look at your community and at what matters most to you. Start local, and remember that little things matter. I firmly believe that a series of small events, if we collectively work to do them, will make a tremendous difference.” 

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Lauren Hughes in her Philadelphia neighborhood: “When I think about growing up in Iowa and my 4-H days, civic engagement is such a key component.”

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Preserving a prison’s past Sally Elk spends her days behind bars at one of Philadelphia’s most popular tourist attractions

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Sally Elk, president and CEO of Eastern State Penitentiary.

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Built in 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary has been stabilized as a “preserved ruin.” Some sections of the prison are not accessible to visitors but may be viewed through locked gates.

America’s most historic prison – Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary – is headed by an Iowa State grad who maintains that every day is a new adventure. Originally from Storm Lake, Iowa, Sara Jane (Sally) Elk graduated from Iowa State in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. She went on to earn a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. It was her work on the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the city’s historic preservation agency, that led her to becoming involved in 1986 in lobbying 22

to preserve the crumbling penitentiary, which had been closed since 1971. “The state had been trying to close it since 1920 because it was built for solitary confinement,” Elk explained. “Plus, there was a riot here in the ’60s that sort of gave the state pause because it was right in the middle of an urban neighborhood.” At that time, there was talk of demolition, talk of developing the site for retail or housing. But the building had been placed on the register of historic places, so it came to the attention of the Historical Commission. The facility was in bad shape. Water

had leaked in from above and pooled up from below, causing destruction of building materials – peeling paint, rotting wood – and encouraging the growth of invasive weeds. “It was like an urban forest,” Elk said. “It was a big mess.” Before opening the penitentiary as a museum in 1994, a team of preservationists, architects, and engineers spent several years looking at the building’s stability and safety. It was determined that if they could stop the decay at that point, it was viable. The process is called “preserved WINTER 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

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America’s most historic prison Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, it was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of prisoners. Its vaulted sky-lit cells once held many of America’s most notorious criminals, including Al Capone. The museum is located at 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia and is open seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. An entrance fee is charged. For more information, visit easternstate.org.

ruin,” and Elk said it’s actually really complicated. “We’ve stabilized the building,” she explained. “We’ve tried to keep what’s left intact. There are a variety of different methods of accomplishing it depending on the building materials. Every time we go into a new space we have to decide [the process].” The result is truly stunning. Eight cellblocks are open to the public, each filled with eerie, streaming light, peeling paint, and crumbling cell floors. Most cells were left as they were found, with rusted metal furniture tossed aside, VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG WINTER 2019

abandoned toilets, and ghostly barber chairs. Elk has been directly employed by Eastern State Penitentiary since 1999 and is currently the president and CEO. Her role is primarily to manage fundraising and capital improvements – including a planned multi-million-dollar visitor center. Others on her team work directly with marketing the museum to visitors – some 270,000 a year – and promoting events like the annual “Terror Behind the Walls” fundraiser, one of the country’s largest and most popular haunted houses. The prison has been used as a

backdrop for four feature films, has been visited by dozens of teams of paranormal investigators, and currently houses exhibits that interpret the legacy of American criminal justice reform and the inequality in today’s prison system. “My job has never been boring,” Elk said. “It’s been a learning curve the whole way. I wasn’t trained as a museum person. I was trained as a historic preservationist. But this is a very inspiring place.” 

Philadelphia Stories Emily Batista holds one of her favorite photos of herself and her husband, David.

Life after David

Emily Batista knows she’ll get by with a little help from her friends It was a Beatles celebration of the highest order: a chance to invite friends and family to a special “When I’m Sixty Four”-themed birthday party. Emily (Johnson) Batista (L)(’75 German) had always been a Beatles fan. Bucking the tradition of celebrating milestone birthdays that end in “0” and “5,” she planned to pull out all the stops for her 64th with music and decorations from the Fab Four. It was also the last time that many friends and family would see Emily’s husband of 38 years before his death from a rare form of cancer. A chance meeting

When Emily met David Batista, she had graduated with a master of library science from the University of Illinois and had started her career as a public librarian. David had just finished law school and was studying for the bar exam. They met serendipitously, through a mutual-ish friend, in Champaign, Ill. It was not love at first sight. But it was darn close. There was pizza…and pinball…and then, once they started talking, they just didn’t stop. They found themselves holding hands the next morning at a pancake restaurant. She was 24; he was 28. It was 1978. “I remember we were hugging, and he said, ‘I just have to pinch myself; I can’t believe I met you.’ And it was a mutual feeling. I thought, ‘I can’t believe I met somebody that I hit it off with so quickly.’” They got married the next year. Compulsion to collect

Emily’s and David’s careers and pursuits of higher education were like a choreographed dance: They went to grad school. He got a job in St. Paul, Minn.; she followed him there and eventually found a job she loved. He got a job offer from the University of Pennsylvania, and she found a job in Philadelphia. Emily got a new position with more responsibility; David got a job at Rutgers University; she got another promotion; he got tenure. 24

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”The first thing I really noticed about David was how enthusiastic and knowledgeable he was about a lot of different things. He couldn’t wait to share what he knew about something, and he knew a lot. He was incredibly well read; he just absorbed facts. He was also really nice, really polite, really thoughtful, attentive to other people’s needs. And funny! He was incredibly witty. He made me laugh.” – EMILY BATISTA

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Philadelphia Stories Emily Batista has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1984. She loves living in the city, with its theatre and restaurants and professional sports.

They never thought they’d stay on the East Coast more than five years. Emily was eager to move back to the Midwest, where she had family. Buy a house, have kids, maybe get a dog. But they liked their jobs and kept getting new opportunities. Years went by, and they just stayed. They bought a townhome in Ardmore, a Philadelphia suburb, and then a house in Broomall. And they never did end up having kids. David liked staying at home. Emily loved to travel and entertain and go out. In Broomall, she joined a skating club and a quilting club and a chorus. David spent his time reading, doing research…and collecting. David was a collector. That’s a nice way of putting it. Actually, he was a hoarder. 26

It just sort of happened over time, Emily said. “I had always just thought we had different standards of neatness and that it was a continuum we had disagreements about,” she said. “It became a source of contention. I got to a point where I couldn’t relax at home; I would come home [after a long commute] and I just couldn’t stand the sight of it, and I didn’t know what to do. I tried for years and years myself to keep the public areas uncluttered, and I just got overwhelmed. It was starting to affect me physically, and my doctor advised me several times, ‘You might really need your own place.’ And I just kept rejecting that idea. I thought, ‘Well, I can’t possibly. How could I move out on David? He needs me. We love

being together.’ I reached a breaking point when I realized, ‘You know what? I’m 57 years old, and look at my house. I can’t live like this forever.’” Emily loved David, but she could no longer live with him, surrounded by so much stuff. In 2013, she found an apartment in Philadelphia’s city center, a half-hour walk from work or a 10-minute bus or trolley ride. It’s right across the street from a train station. “I knew right away that this was a good move,” she said. “I mean, I felt so much lighter. I felt so much better.” She loved living in the city, hosting her quilt guild and her mystery book club and having brunches. She and David continued to talk several times a day; sometimes they’d go out to dinner in the WINTER 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

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“One of my motivators is David’s faith in me. He used to say that I could do anything, and I believe he really meant that. I would like to think he would be proud of how I am handling things, getting the necessary things done, even while I feel such sadness at missing him. He wanted, more than anything, for me to be happy. And so I will honor him by doing my best to be happy, to carry on, to remember everything wonderful about our life together, to keep going. I think he would like that.” – EMILY’S JUNE 7 FACEBOOK POST

city, but then he’d catch a train and go home to the suburbs. She tried to assure him that she was not leaving the marriage, not leaving him. She just had to create a new living situation for herself. She always hoped that her decision to move would motivate him to clean up the house. But it didn’t happen. The diagnosis

David retired the first of April 2017. A month later, he began to have problems with his vision, so he went to see an ophthalmologist. After running tests, the doctor sent him to a specialist, who ran more tests, including an MRI. At 2:30 the next morning, David called Emily with the news: It was cancer. VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG WINTER 2019

Doctors had found tumors in his brain, in his lymph nodes, in his lungs, and in his bones. “We knew it was bad, right from that day,” she said. What followed was a year of heightened senses: a year of savoring each day, of appreciating the good times, and working together through the disease’s cruel progression. His diagnosis was “cancer-unknown primary,” and that made it harder to treat. The most effective cancer treatments are aimed at the first tumor. Although David didn’t have any symptoms at first, his prognosis was very poor. “It was pretty grim,” Emily said. “It was all about managing the quality of life for the life you have left. Nobody ever made

any kind of prediction about how many months that might be. But from what I had read, it was pretty short. So we knew early on that this was not a case where after three years of treatment you’d be done. You’d survive it. It was more, ‘You’re going to have treatment for the rest of your life, and the rest of your life will probably be less than a year.’” They started chemotherapy. After several months, David became weaker and had frequent falls. He moved in to Emily’s apartment, got a cane, and then a walker. Emily considered retiring, because she knew she could not care for David and work full time, but her boss allowed her to work from home so that she could stay connected to her projects. 27

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“That made it very easy to take care of David and make David my priority,” she said. “And it was good, because we got to spend a lot of quality time together. Even though it might not seem like quality time, there were a lot of good days. Especially that first summer, we would leave the treatment and go find someplace to eat. We also had a lot of time to just sit with our arms around each other and just sort of be together without having to talk, without having to do anything, without having to go anywhere. We just got to cuddle a lot. It was comforting to him, and it was comforting to me. And we got to say how much we loved each other every day.” Gone too soon

It was a good year in a lot of ways, Emily said. But David was getting weaker and weaker, and by spring he was feeling frustrated. They decided to begin home

healthcare so he didn’t have to go to the clinic for treatment. Emily thought he would be more comfortable at their home in Broomall, where he could look out into the yard and watch the birds and foxes and deer. She contacted a cleaning company that specialized in hoarding situations and, with David’s approval, hired them to clean out enough of the house that nurses and therapists could come in and out and to bring in a hospital bed. The company was scheduled to start on May 31, 2018. On May 30, David began a new immunotherapy treatment. Emily had booked a hotel room so they would be close to the house when the cleaning company arrived the next morning. But after David’s treatment, he fell in the hotel room and hit his head. Hard. He told Emily he was okay, and she helped him into bed. But later that night he fell

again, and she could not get him up. A hotel worker came to help, but it was clear David was not okay. Emily called for an ambulance. At the hospital, a head CT showed that David had suffered a massive brain bleed. “By the time the neurosurgeon told me he didn’t think surgery was going to be a good option, I think he was already brain dead,” Emily said. “His eyes were open, but he was not responding. I just stayed with him until he stopped breathing.” Digging out

The next morning, still in shock from David’s sudden death, Emily and a friend met with the cleaning crew. Now the project was no longer a cleanup to move IN; it was a total clean OUT. The scope of the work had changed. Because Emily was not moving back into the house. It took them two days to clean the first floor, and then they started on the

A Beatlesthemed lamp lights the desk where Emily Batista often sits to post updates on social media.

“Clothing that is usable has been donated, a lot of papers have been shredded or tossed, old and outdated exercise equipment has been removed, and everything has been sorted and organized so that I can go through boxes … to see what to keep or trash or donate. I’ve picked up the death certificates, started notifying businesses, took the leftover meds and used and unused syringes to the clinic for safe disposal, donated the leftover Ensures to the infusion center there, talked to the health insurance and benefits folks, been to the bank, arranged for the power lift recliner to be picked up. I still have a long list, but a little progress every day.” – EMILY’S JUNE 7 FACEBOOK POST

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WHEN YOU’RE A CYCLONE, YOU’RE NEVER REALLY FAR FROM HOME.

basement. They removed all the trash; all the food from the fridge, pantry, cupboards, basement shelving, and freezer; all the empty boxes, all the moldy/mildewed boxes, all the clothes beyond hope, all the VHS recordings of TV shows; all the obvious junk. They took donations away every day, including clothes, shoes, kitchen items, dishes, books, and games. They filled up two dumpsters and half-filled another. After the cleaning company finished its work, Emily hired an old friend who had a business helping older people downsize to move into assisted living. She had connections with auction houses, flea markets, and charities. “She was just incredible,” Emily said. “It made a process that could have been almost impossible to tackle almost painless.” But, even so, Emily spent every night and every weekend at the house last summer, going through David’s “miscellaneous” boxes, searching for the treasures among the trash. All told, they found 1,300 fountain pens and 388 cameras – David’s largest collections. He had also collected fossils, clocks, pocket watches, books, drawings, photographs, and a lot more. Some items were sold at auction; others were donated to people who would enjoy them. She set aside the things that were most special to David, and to her. Emily was able to sell the house “as-is” to a company that specializes in remodeling homes. They closed on the house Aug. 14. Staying connected

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out their home, Emily relied on social media as a lifeline. “I knew there would be so many people who would want to know how David was doing,” she said. “I thought I would be exhausted trying to answer phone calls and emails.” So she made regular posts to a closed group on Facebook – about 200 friends, co-workers, and family members. It became a way for Emily not only to share with people on Facebook what was happening with David, but it also became a simple way for her to document his treatment. “My goal was to be informative but also to be positive. I didn’t dwell on the negative things; I always tried to find the good things that day – if we’d eaten somewhere we really liked or if we’d watched a movie that we liked. I tried to focus on the quality of time that we were spending together, show that I was grateful for what a good medical team we had. I loved writing these entries. It was hard sometimes to write when things hadn’t gone well, but I usually wrote it when the worst was over… I was never really in despair.” Facebook also became a way for Emily to ask for help. One day, she mentioned that she needed to move some furniture in the house, and five people showed up, including a woman she hardly knew. Friends came when they knew David was in the hospital; they stayed with her after he died; they came on the weekends when she was sorting through the mess. “All I had to do was pick up the phone or send out a Facebook appeal. People would show up,” she said. Following David’s death, Emily’s writing on social media took a new turn:

She told their love story – how they met, fell in love, and got married. She accompanied those posts with old photos of their life together. She says she loves telling the stories, and people tell her that they love to read them. Life after David

In late September, Emily gathered friends and family for a celebration of David’s life. Soon she plans to move from her onebedroom rented apartment into a twobedroom apartment in the building next door that she hopes to buy – something that feels a bit more permanent. For now, she’s still working full time, but she knows once she decides to retire, she’ll stay very busy, because she has “a million hobbies.” She says she’ll travel; go to baseball games, concerts, and theatre; spend more time sewing and entertaining friends. David’s illness, and his hoarding, were tough on Emily, but she is resilient – and grateful. “I’ve been lucky. Because I didn’t just get married, but I met a person who was a really wonderful person and a wonderful husband,” she said. “We told each other all the time that we were so lucky that we met each other, so lucky that we had all this time together. We had been married a long time, and we had a good life.” When he was sick, David never wanted anyone to feel sorry for him, Emily said. He wanted to celebrate each day, to have a laugh, and find something fun to do. “[Memories of David are] still a joy for me,” she said. “I’m sad, but I’m not miserable. I wish David were here to share things with me… but when I start to feel sorry for myself I instantly remember that I have a lot of friends. And they’re true friends.”  29

2019 Distinguished Awards Celebration The following alumni and friends will receive Iowa State University’s highest awards administered by the ISU Alumni Association and the ISU Foundation. The ceremony will take place on campus April 26, 2019. Cyclones everywhere are invited to campus to share in these recognitions.

Awards administered by the Iowa State University Alumni Association

Awards administered by the Iowa State University Foundation

Distinguished Alumni Award

Order of the Knoll Campanile Award

Gary Griswold**

Dana and Martha Robes**

’67 chemical engineering Consultant/retired president and chief intellectual property counsel at 3M Hudson, Wis.

Dana:

’67 dairy science Retired owner, DRWC Martha: ’15 honorary Homemaker Round Pond, Maine and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands

DeRionne Pollard** ’93 English, MS ’95 President of Montgomery College Rockville, Md.

Jonathan Rich** ’77 chemistry, ’10 honorary doctorate Visiting lecturer, Cornell University; retired president/CEO, Berry Global Vero Beach, Fla.

Honorary Alumni Award Labh and Tahira Hira** Labh:

Former dean of Ivy College of Business/ retired faculty at ISU Tahira: Professor emerita/retired senior policy adviser to ISU president Bonita Springs, Fla.

Order of the Knoll Cardinal and Gold Award Warren and Beverly Madden** Warren: ’61 industrial engineering ISU senior vice president emeritus Beverly: ’60 home economics education; MS ’70 family environment Retired director of ISU Career Services Ames, Iowa

Order of the Knoll Faculty and Staff Award David and Marianne Spalding** David:

Raisbeck Endowed Dean, ISU Ivy College of Business; interim VP for economic development and business engagement Marianne: Community volunteer Ames, Iowa

Debbie Ivy Secretary/treasurer, Auto-Chlor Los Altos, Calif.

You are invited to attend

2019 Distinguished Awards Ceremony

Order of the Knoll Corporation and Foundation Award Kent Corporation Muscatine, Iowa

Friday, April 26, 2019 2 p.m. Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building Reception to follow ceremony For more information: isualum.org/dac Nominate alumni and friends for spring 2020 ISUAA awards Distinguished Alumni Award / Honorary Alumni Award nomination deadline is Aug. 1, 2019 For information, go to isualum.org/dac

** ISU Alumni Association life member Note: Only ISU degrees are listed

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FINDING THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE ORDINARY

By Lindsey Davis

“I want to know the truth, whatever it is. I’m not interested in beliefs that are cozy or satisfying; I want to believe the things that are in fact true and spend my life questioning and studying in order to determine it.” –– Tim Pennings

Pennings with his beloved companion, Elvis, a Welsh corgi who understood calculus.

ot everyone can say USA Today included an obituary about their deceased beloved canine. But Tim Pennings can. In 2001, Pennings (PhD ’87 mathematics) was introduced to a fluffy, caramel-and-white-colored Welsh corgi named Elvis, then a year old. “Elvis instantly bonded with me,” Pennings said. “I brought him home, and within an hour, I realized I needed no leash for him. He stayed by my side – for the next 12 years.” Pennings’ four-legged friend earned them both international attention after he discovered one day that Elvis “knew” calculus while on the shore of Lake Michigan. Instead of fetching the stick Pennings threw in the water by swimming straight at it, Elvis ran down the beach a bit and then plunged in a few yards before he was even with the stick. He seemed to know instinctively that doing so would get him to the stick faster. 32

Pennings, who is chair of the department of mathematics at Davenport University’s main campus in Grand Rapids, Mich., wrote an article about this revelation, and “we – mainly Elvis – became famous overnight. It began a partnership of 12 years. He loved it all,” Pennings said. Throughout their time together, the duo gave more than 200 talks at schools, conferences, and even nursing homes. Elvis was particularly useful in helping students grasp calculus through engaging, real-life problems. His tactic to fetch the stick on the Lake Michigan shore showed that advanced math has practical applications in everyday life – even for dogs. When you talk with Pennings about Elvis, it doesn’t take long to realize that their relationship was much more than that of pet and owner – it was a true companionship. “We loved to do the same things,” Pennings said. “He was in my office almost his entire life, and he

came to class with me, lying on the front desk as I lectured.” Elvis passed away in 2013 with his faithful companion by his side and hasn’t been replaced since. “I tell people that Elvis began as a dog who was my good friend, and by the time he died, he was my good friend who happened to be a dog. Can’t replace that.” Fostering a thoughtful mind

Pennings’ penchant for finding patterns in everyday life began in the ninth grade, when he realized his aptitude for math – and teaching. He’d get help from his teacher on any assigned math problem he couldn’t solve, “And then my friends would come to me, and I would explain it to them. I’d always get a little bit of a thrill seeing that spark of understanding in their eyes when they’d figure it out.” After receiving both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of North WINTER 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

Dakota, Pennings taught at the of truth, love, and beauty. Those are university for a year, confirming that three things that, as much as I can, he enjoyed teaching college-level math. I dedicate my life to.” This realization led him to Iowa State Expressing beauty is the easiest, University to pursue a doctorate. The Pennings said. He’s sung in choral sense of comradery among his peers, groups since junior high, including the and the staff and faculty who seemed Iowa State Singers, and “think[s] engagto genuinely care about the students, ing in art is the fullest way of expressing are part of what Pennings continues to and living into our humanity.” value about the university. As for his belief in truth, Pennings While a student at Iowa State, his keen quotes two ancient Greek philosophers. sense of observation manifested itself in “Socrates said that the unexamined life is a mundane object: combs. not worth living, and Aristotle said that As he was walking across central the mark of campus one day, Pennings noticed a black comb on the sidewalk, but ff kept going. On his way hows o nings s n im Pen on in a T ti c e ll home that night, it was still b co n of io it his com d e r 1984 there. Though many people y. Octobe te Dail wa Sta Io e th wouldn’t have given it a sec0 0 3 1, nd He fou his ond thought, it was peculiar during U. combs ys at IS a d t n e enough to Pennings that he stud stopped and picked it up. “Most things that people drop, they either intend to drop, like trash, or it’s valuable enough that another person will pick it up, like a dollar bill,” he mused. “A comb is, perhaps uniquely, something that is not intended to be dropped, but once it is, it stays down. So combs are like a permanent record of how many things are accidentally lost.” From that day forward, until his graduation from Iowa State five years later, Pennings collected 1,300 combs from Iowa State’s campus. He claims that doing so was an outlet that helped him maintain his sanity during his challenging coursework, and that it provided ironic humor in an otherwise intense life as a mathematics doctoral student. His favorites include a red-and-yellow Ronald McDonald comb, one attached to a switchblade, and one in the shape of a fish. To this day, Pennings keeps a jar with 700 colored combs in the corner of his office. They serve as a reminder of how he views the world; in the ordinary object everyone else chose to pass by, Pennings found meaning.

an educated mind is having the ability to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting it. Yes and yes,” he said. Even in his work in math, it’s all about breaking down a problem to solve it and find its essential truth. “I want to know the truth, whatever it is. I’m not interested in beliefs that are cozy or satisfying; I want to believe the things that are in fact true and spend my life questioning and studying in order to determine it.” And when it comes to love, Pennings possesses a deep desire to help people thrive and does so through his teaching and charitable giving to the arts and educational organizations. He also recently wrote an Iowa legislator to advocate on behalf of Iowa State, considering budget cuts by the state. Pennings was finalizing a gift to the university at the time of his letter. He wrote, “I have taught at six institutions of higher education throughout my career, but it is Iowa State that I decided I had the faith in to be a good steward of my gift. [The university] has the size to make a difference in the lives of students and via its research, and, from my memory, the place lives like I do – making the most of each dollar.” Pennings’ gift established the Peters-Johnston Math Department Excellence Fund, named in honor of two of his former Iowa State mathematics professors, Justin Peters and Elgin Johnston. “Giving to higher education is a way for me to invest in the future,” he says. “That’s why I invested money in Iowa State and encouraged Iowa legislators to do the same. I want to have a maximal impact on the present and future world, and I am grateful to Iowa State for providing me the means to make an impact during my life.” All of Pennings’ life pursuits are a piece of his innate gift. Whether in the classroom, with Elvis or collecting combs, there’s one common thread: finding meaning in the everyday and ordinary. 

The philosophy of life

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Pennings and Elvis gave more than 200 talks in their 12 years together.

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2017-2018 Year in review 289 158 251

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16,970

1,979 756

341

655

7,211

11,032 4,286

16,039 3,924 998

851

2,385

2,566 107,048

5,567

791

1,358

5,955

1,625

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5,567

2,403

1,886

2,613 140

715

2,568

1,440

925

840 503

2,852

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282

646

2,135

4,669

327

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Total ISU alumni living in the U.S.: 252,306 Alumni living outside the U.S.: 7,233 Total ISUAA members: 52,928

Traveling Cyclones • 43: Total number of ISU Alumni Associationsponsored trips • 511: Total number of ISUAA travelers • Most popular trips: Alaska, Baltic & Scandinavia, Capitals & Coastlines, Tasman Pearls, Portrait of Italy • John Walters (A), director of broadcasting for ISU athletics, hosted 40 Cyclones on the Big 12 Alaskan cruise

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS LegaCY Club HOMECOMING 2017

Fun Facts

• 1,094 children enrolled • 315 milestone birthday gifts sent

• $1,663,637 total private dollars raised to endow and fund ISU Alumni Association outreach and engagement programs • 2,077 donors gave gifts through the ISU Foundation to support the ISUAA this year

• 2,542 buttons sold • 7,495 meals served during Food on Campus • $1,440 raised for Cardinal Court scholarships through a silent auction • 1,400 Yell Like Hell participants • 900 participants in the Homecoming Parade • 500 stacks of pancakes served on central campus Friday night • 542 reunion attendees (Alumni Band, 50-year class, Greek Alumni Alliance) • 44 Cyclones honored at the 86th Honors & Awards Ceremony CARDINAL & GOLD GALA

Under the big top • Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center, Des Moines • Co-chairs Marcia (’73) & Harvey (’70, ’73) Freese and Lori (’86) & Paul (’87) Kirpes • 600 attendees • Raised $90,600 net • 11 student scholarship recipients

See you at the ISU Alumni Center • 130 university events (banquets, conferences, special events) • 89 public events (weddings, receptions, banquets, conferences, holiday parties) • 38 student events (banquets, career fairs, conferences) • 228 internal events (Cyclone Central tailgates, classes, meetings) • Total events: 485 WINTER 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2017 – JUNE 30, 2018

2017-2022 Strategic Plan GOALS AND KEY FY18 PROGRESS

Goal 1:

Goal 2:

Goal 3:

Goal 4:

Engage ISU Alumni Association members and Cyclones everywhere by tailoring efforts to their geographic location, ISU experiences, and life stages.

Lead ISU alumni relations efforts across Iowa State University and nurture working relationships with other ISU entities to advance the interests of Cyclones everywhere.

Attract and retain talented staff committed to advancing the ISU Alumni Association and engaging Cyclones everywhere.

Strengthen the health of the ISU Alumni Association by diversifying financial resources.

Constituent Engagement

• Engaged alumni in greater Des Moines at 14 separate events • Offered events for Cyclones in five major metropolitan cities: Omaha, Denver, Twin Cities, Chicago, Kansas City • Launched a new LegaCY Club for children and grandchildren of ISUAA members • Expanded national discounts for members

Collaborative Partnerships

• Rolled out new, more interactive web design in January • Enhanced Alumni Relations Council on campus • Provided information and/or planning services for 9 alumni reunions • Established collaborative campus partnerships with 6 colleges and 3 university units

Internal Organization

• Executed a staff satisfaction survey • Expanded funding for professional development • Presented a staff reorganization plan • Established new Guiding Principles and Culture and Diversity Statements for the organization

Dear ISU Alumni and Friends, It’s a great time to be a Cyclone! I truly enjoyed my year of serving as chair of the ISU Alumni Association Board of Directors. Friendships were strengthened, I got to learn more about the inside workings of our organization and the university, and, most importantly, I got to give back to a place that continues to give so much to me and my family. It was an absolutely rewarding experience for me and the members of your Board. Our Association had another outstanding year! The ISU Alumni Association’s Board, Young Alumni Council, Board Associates, Student Alumni Leadership Council, club leaders, affinity groups, and staff were fueled by the knowledge, teamwork, and collaboration needed to work together efficiently toward the common vision set forth in the Association’s FY17-FY22 Strategic Plan. Highlights of the ISUAA’s achievements during FY18 included: • Completed a programs and services audit which evaluated each offering on the role it plays with the ISUAA mission, engagement, and financials • Increased engagement activities in the greater Des Moines market VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG WINTER 2019

Financial Health

• Secured $1,663,637 for the ISUAA through the Forever True, for Iowa State campaign • Grew total ISUAA membership to 52,928 • Increased Sustaining Life donations to $260,592 • Increased travel tour royalties to $188,485

Nicole Schmidt with Jeff Johnson, Talbot ISUAA endowed president & CEO

• Exceeded expectations and completed the first full year of the reinstatement of the legacy program under a new name: the LegaCY Club • Exceeded the FY18 budget projections along with adding $1.6 million to the overall Association endowment balances as part of the Forever True, For Iowa State campaign • Increased collaborative partnerships across the university campus • Revised the ISUAA’s Guiding Principles, Culture Statement, and Diversity Statement Thank you for the roles each of you play as Cyclones everywhere and for your ongoing commitment to Iowa State University and the Association. Working as a team, for Cyclones everywhere, Nicole (Bell) Schmidt ’09 constr engr, MS ’13 civil engr 2017-18 ISU Alumni Association Board of Directors Chair

 FROM THE PRESIDENT

Iowa State and diversity: What a history…and future! Iowa State University’s first vice president for diversity and inclusion, Reginald Stewart (A), says it best: “Land-grant means diversity.” Why? President Abraham Lincoln was making a bold statement to our nation in the mid1800s when he established this new type of institution that would be responsible for educating the children of the working class. Prior to the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, colleges and universities were only educating doctors, lawyers, and other professionals. And the overwhelming majority of these early students were white males. The state of Iowa embraced the need for a fully educated populous. The state of Iowa and Iowa State have made good on that vision, and the evidence should not be overlooked. Think about it: Today, the state of Iowa is 91.1% Caucasian and 49.7% male. Yet, Iowa State remains committed to diversity. In fall 2018, Iowa State’s combined U.S. multicultural and international enrollment was 8,554, or 24.5 percent of the student body – a new record. Here are additional facts about Iowa State that I want you to know:

4) George Washington Carver became Iowa State’s first African American student (1891), graduate (1894, MS 1896), and faculty member (1895).

1) We sometimes forget how radical and progressive the legislators of our so-called “flyover state” were when they stepped up and became the first state in the Union to accept the tenets of the Morrill Act. Furthermore, the Iowa legislators at the time took things a step further and declared that this new type of higher learning institution, from the start, would be open to blacks and women.

Today, the university is more diverse and more committed than ever to being a safe and welcoming place for all students, employees, and guests. This is expressed and carried out under the guidance of a student-government drafted and revived Principles of Community document. Follow this link to learn more: diversity.iastate. edu/connect/principles. Your Association is equally committed. In 2017, we adopted new culture and diversity statements. (Read them online at isualum.org/mission.) We’re also working to increase the number of alumni of color involved in the Association from 7% to 15.6% (the number of engaged alumni and friends within the majority culture) over the next two years. Why is this important?

2) Iowa State was first in the nation to offer courses in “domestic economy,” later known as home economics (1872). 3) The first graduating class (1872) consisted of 26 students – 24 men and two women.

5) Carrie Chapman Catt (class of 1880) served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was founder of the League of Women Voters, which led an army of women to convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment to allow women to vote (1920). 6) Jack Trice enrolled in 1922, becoming Iowa State’s first African American studentathlete. He died tragically in 1923 following his first major collegiate football game at the University of Minnesota. Today, ISU is home to the only NCAA Division I football stadium in the country bearing the name of an African American. 7) Dr. Fredrick D. Patterson (DVM 1923, MS 1927 veterinary pathology) established the United Negro College Fund (1944). Yes, he, too, is an Iowa Stater! 8) In 2017, Wendy Wintersteen became Iowa State’s 16th (and first-ever female) president.

All students, in one way or another, desire to see, interact with, and learn from people who look like them. This can be hard in this majority-white culture. It can be even harder for alumni. Your Association, therefore, will do its part to help Cyclones everywhere connect in ways they desire. It’s been relatively easy for us to help students and alumni connect on criteria like college, major, city, state, occupation, and company/industry. It’s harder, however, to do so by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, veteran status, etc., as these pieces of information aren’t generally gathered. The reasons for this are widely known. Such information is viewed as sensitive. Trust of how institutions will use it remains a concern for many. And not everyone cares to have such data connected to their identities. More and more, however, students and alumni are desiring to connect based on these criteria. Your Association will do its part to aid in these opportunities to facilitate deeper, richer, and needed engagement opportunities. So, over the next few years, we’ll be reaching out to Cyclones everywhere asking them to voluntarily help us further build out their constituent records. Since 1878, we’ve been in the business of working to keep Cyclones connected to each other and to Iowa State. This is our next step in enhancing that effort. Thanks for taking these steps with us. I remain yours for Iowa State and committed to serving Cyclones everywhere,

Jeff Johnson ** Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed President and CEO PhD ’14 education P.S. Here’s a link to a great historical read on the state of Iowa: publications.iowa. gov/135/1/history/7-1.html. Enjoy!

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 CA M PA I G N P R O F I L E S

‘Why I give’ ISU launched its $1.1 billion campaign, Forever True, For Iowa State, in fall 2016. For the ISU Alumni Association, the campaign will help position the Association to better serve and showcase Iowa State and Cyclones everywhere. Meet three couples who are contributing to the Alumni Association’s campaign priorities.

The tradition of awards and student leadership “We both graduated from Iowa State and were involved in student programs. We believe those programs are an important part of an Iowa State education. When we became aware of the opportunity to assist the Alumni Association’s Student Leadership Programs Endowment, it was the perfect way for us to contribute to continued student success. Another important aspect of the Alumni Association is the recognition of students, alumni, and friends who have made outstanding contributions to Iowa State. We hope our donation to the ISUAA Awards Program Endowment will help to continue that tradition.” Stan and Nancy Thompson** Stan: ’82 political science Nancy: ’81 speech communication Clive, Iowa Pledged $25,000 to the Student Leadership Programs Endowment and $25,000 to the Awards Program Endowment The ISU Alumni Association was always there “Simply stated, we love Iowa State! Iowa State has been a part of our family and lives for more than three generations. On both sides of our families, more than 16 of us have either attended or graduated from Iowa State. The university has helped shape our lives, drive our success, and strengthen our communities. As a result, we have not wavered in our desire or commitment to give back. Central to our deep commitment and

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connection to Iowa State has been the consistent and tireless work of the ISU Alumni Association. The Association has been that steady, constant friend. When our kids enrolled at Iowa State, the Association was there. When we lost our daughter, the Association was there. When we moved to Michigan, the Association was there. When we needed to know what was going on or how to stay involved, the Association was there. So, as we thought about our giving to the current Forever True campaign, we decided one area we knew we wanted to support was the Alumni Association. Membership dues alone can’t support all the ways we and others depend on the Association to provide support and connection. Like other units on campus, the Association also needs financial support. We enjoy receiving news from campus, seeing student leaders invested in, and knowing that families can continue to build their legacies at Iowa State. Plus, the Association continues to make us feel connected to and proud of Iowa State and Iowa Staters. We don’t take any of this for granted. As loyal alumni, we are honored and happy to be supporting this campaign and the Alumni Association.” Carol and Gerald Hunter** Gerald: ’53 farm operation Carol: ’58 home ec ed Holland, Mich. Contributed $50,000 split equally among the LegaCY Club Endowment, Student Leadership Programs Endowment, and VISIONS Magazine Endowment

‘An extraordinary Alumni Association’ “We made the decision to make a legacy gift to the ISUAA Clubs Endowment because of the great connections we have made through the local ISU club in Black Hawk County. Although Vicki is an Iowa grad, it is the Iowa State Alumni Association that has always had the strongest presence in the Cedar Valley. Geof was president of the Black Hawk County Club for more than a decade. He also spent the last five years on the ISUAA Board of Directors and saw the greatest impact occurring at local events, where people can connect with other alumni as friends, peers, and potential mentors. Iowa State has an extraordinary Alumni Association, and we wanted to provide some future assistance, as so many others have done, to help continue this tradition of excellence. The Alumni Association is a critical component of the university. It keeps alumni aware of those people and events that perpetuate its prominence as a great institution of higher learning and an innovative resource to Iowa and the world.” Geof and Vicki Grimes** Geof: ’69 architecture Waterloo, Iowa Pledged a gift totaling $50,000, half to the ISUAA Alumni Clubs Endowment and half to College of Design Architecture Development Fund ** Life members of the ISU Alumni Association

 HOMECOMING HOMECOMING 2018 BY THE NUMBERS

This is State! Photos by Rachel Mummey and Jim Heemstra

Homecoming 2018 is in the history books. A week of near-perfect fall weather and a big Cyclone win on the gridiron made this fall festival one to remember for Cyclones everywhere.

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Dates: Oct. 20-27 New this year: Family Festival and Cyclone Sweethearts 43 members of the class of 1968 attended their 50-year reunion 1 member of the class of 1943 celebrated his 75th anniversary 46 awards given at the 87th annual Honors & Awards ceremony 265 meals served at the Cyclone Central tailgate before Saturday’s game 850 pints of blood donated during Homecoming blood drive 4,000 Homecoming buttons sold 42,000 Homecoming live-stream views

The Blue Sky Family Festival, following the annual 4K Run, featured inflatables, games, pizza, and face painting.

Around 3,000 people viewed the annual Homecoming parade, held on Sunday, Oct. 21 in downtown Ames. This year’s parade drew 63 entries and a total of 950 participants.

Diane Patton (L)(’68 home ec ed) joined more than 40 members of her class for the 50-Year Gold Medal Ceremony and reunion in the ISU Alumni Center during Homecoming weekend.

Eating pancakes at midnight on central campus is a Homecoming tradition.

Nearly 1,300 students participated in the annual Yell Like Hell competition. Final performances were held during Friday night’s Homecoming Pep Rally.

Debbie and Jerry (’53 indust admin) Ivy (L) attended the 87th annual Honors & Awards ceremony on Friday, Oct. 26.

The Cyclones won the homecoming football game 40-31 over Texas Tech.

Cardinal Court finalists participated in the Homecoming Pep Rally on Friday night, Oct. 26. More than 50 students applied for Cardinal Court. Winners were ISU seniors Tyler Carlson and Derek Doeing.

The first-ever Cyclone Sweethearts, Allison (’06 early childhood ed) and Adam (’04 aero engr) Kempers of Indianapolis, Ind., were featured on stage at the Homecoming pep rally Oct. 26. They also led Mass Campaniling at midnight. Read their love story at isualum.org/cyclonesweethearts. Seventy couples entered the Cyclone Sweethearts competition.

Mark your calendars NOW! Homecoming 2019 is Oct. 20-26

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Alumni Honors  Chet Boruff (L)(’76 farm operation), of Moline, Ill., has been honored as a recipient of the prestigious “Torch of Leadership” award from the Alumni Association of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation. Boruff grew up in Illinois, working on his family farm. He worked for the Production Credit Association, was executive director of Novecta, and assisted local banks and ag lenders as a credit analyst expert. He served as Illinois’ deputy secretary of agriculture until 1999. He is currently the CEO of the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and still actively farms in the Quad City area.  Susie Meade (PhD ’01 education), superintendent of the Winterset Community School District, has been named the 2018-19 Iowa Superintendent of the Year by the School Administrators of Iowa. Prior to leading the Winterset district beginning in 2012, she was an assistant superintendent at Ankeny Community Schools. She began her career

as a secondary home economics teacher in Faribault, Minn.  Brian Meyer (L)(’83 journ/mass comm) has received the national ACE Professional Award from the Association of Communications Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, the highest honor presented by the association. Meyer is director of communications for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State and has been with the college since 1990.  Trudy Huskamp Peterson (L)(’67 history/speech/English) received the 2018 Emmett Leahy Award for excellence in records and information management in a ceremony at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Peterson is an archival consultant and certified archivist. She spent 24 years with the U.S. National Archives, including two years as acting archivist of the United States. After retiring from the U.S. government, she was the founding executive director of the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary, and then the director of Archives and Records

Advocate for inclusion

uring Homecoming 2018, the College of Human Sciences honored an alumna whose advocacy for inclusion in higher education spans years, universities, and populations. Lissa Stapleton Fontana, Calif. (PhD ’14 higher ed), an assistant professor at #CyclonesEverywhere California State University, Northridge, is a national award-winning scholar on the topic of deaf students of color in higher education. Her advocacy has touched many corners of society, including co-curating the exhibit “Justice Can’t Wait: Deaf People of Color Seeking Change Through the Arts” in 2016 and creating a student scholarship program in South Africa called “From Apartheid to Today: Black Deaf Activism, Education, and Culture.” She is also a proud co-founder of Iowa State’s thriving ISU Womxn of Colour Network.

LISSA STAPLETON

Management for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Top Jobs  Aaron L. Todd (L)(’05 comm & regional planning), chief strategy officer of the Iowa Primary Care Association, will become the chief executive officer effective June 30, 2019. He leads business, communications, and advocacy strategy with a focus on positioning Iowa’s health centers as safety net providers of choice and recognized innovators in community health. Previously, Todd worked for the Iowa Legislature, leading research and negotiations on health and human services policy and budget decisions on behalf of the Senate Majority, including Medicaid expansion and the redesign of Iowa’s county-based mental health and disability services system.

Alumni Bookshelf  E. Thomas Strom (L)(PhD ’64 chemistry) recently published his fourth co-edited book on the history of chemistry. It was published online last October, and the hard copy from Oxford University Press was published in summer 2018. The book is titled The Posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Volume 1: Correcting the Errors and Oversights of the Nobel Prize Committee.  Paul Ruby (L)(’85 hotel & rest mgmt) has published a book titled Creating Guests for Life: Lessons Learned and Rules to Follow for Improved Service, a must-read for anyone in the service industry. Written in a light, conversational style, Ruby offers lessons from his many years in the hospitality industry, such as “Attentive service is appreciated, and sometimes throwing in a pool table doesn’t hurt” and “If guests are coming in for a special reason, find out what the occasion is. And if it is for a ‘last supper,’ put them in the back room.”

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 EVENTS

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Corny event attracts 300+ Cyclones

More than 300 alumni and friends had an aMAZEing evening at Geisler Farms during the ISU Alumni Association’s second-annual “Find the Wine” Corn Maze event on Oct. 4. The event featured fall fun with a corn maze and other on-site activities, networking with fellow Cyclones, prize drawings and giveaways, wine tasting from La Vida Loca and Jasper Wineries, and a barbecue dinner. Geisler Farms, an ISU alumni-owned business located just east of Ankeny, was the perfect backdrop for this festive, Cyclone-casual evening in the country. The event was sponsored by Iowa Corn.

BET ON A GREAT EVENING AT THE 2019  2019 Cardinal & Gold Gala  Friday, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.  Prairie Meadows Casino & Hotel Go to isualum.org/gala2019 to reserve your spot today or contact Chelsea Trowbridge, ctrow@iastate.edu, (515) 294-2584. Table of 10: $1,000 ($750 young professional rate) Individual: $100 ($75 young professional)

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Don’t miss out on casino games, food & drink, live & silent auctions, and plenty of Cyclone fun! Book your hotel room now: Contact Prairie Meadows for a special rate through Feb. 1. To book, call (515) 957-3000 & reference Cardinal & Gold Gala or go to prairiemeadows.com and use group code 02152019CAR

Thank you to our 2019 co-chairs! Julie (’88) and Jay (’89) Jacobi Sara and Kent (’78) Johnson

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Calendar  Cyclones Everywhere:

Des Moines

Feb. 15: Cardinal & Gold Gala, Prairie Meadows

• Holiday Markets, Dec. 11-19, 2019:

Celebrate centuries-old traditions on a Rhine River cruise to holiday markets in France, Germany, and Switzerland. • Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Passion Play, June 2-12, 2020: Explore the northern Alps, Munich, Innsbruck, and Salzburg, and watch a performance of the Passion Play. To see where in the world Cyclones are going in 2019-2020, go to isualum.org/travel. (Trips are filling up fast, so don’t delay. Book today!)

 At the ISU Alumni Center

 Lifelong learning

Feb. 14-15: ISUAA Board of Directors winter meeting April 18: Young Alumni Council spring meeting

Jan. 15: Winter OLLI at ISU classes begin Feb. 21: OLLI at ISU spring open house March 25: Spring OLLI at ISU classes begin

 On campus &

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around Ames

Feb. 11-15: Liberal Arts & Sciences Week

 Cyclone Athletics March 8-11: Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament, Oklahoma City March 13-16: Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, Kansas City For all Cyclone sports schedules, go to www.cyclones.com

 Alumni travel See the world with the Traveling Cyclones! The ISU Alumni Association is sponsoring nearly 50 trips from which to choose in 2019, both domestic and international. Here are two examples, plus a sneak peek at a popular 2020 trip.

• Normandy: 75th Anniversary of D-Day,

Sept. 21-29, 2019: Discover the essence of Normandy as well as its pivotal role in history, with visits to Mont-Saint-Michel, Omaha and Utah beaches, and the American Cemetery.

Feb. 6: College of Ag & Life Sciences Spring Career Day Feb. 12: Spring Engineering Career Fair Feb. 13: Spring Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair

 Arts and entertainment Jan. 31: Kinky Boots, Stephens Feb. 4: Cirque Mechanics, Stephens Feb. 14: The King’s Singers, Stephens March 28: The Sound of Music, Stephens March 29: San Francisco Symphony, Stephens April 27: RENT, Stephens

 Awards Feb. 15: Homecoming 2019 awards nomination deadline April 26: Distinguished Awards Celebration For criteria and to submit a nomination for ISUAA awards: isualum.org/awards

 Find more events online Campus Calendar: http://event.iastate.edu/ ISU Alumni Association: isualum.org/calendar Cyclone Athletics: cyclones.com Reiman Gardens: reimangardens.com Iowa State Center: center.iastate.edu University Museums: museums.iastate.edu Lectures: lectures.iastate.edu/

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