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A publication for alumni & friends of indiana university south Bend | Spring/Summer 2011

a message from the chancellor Dear Friends, Part of the role of Indiana University South Bend is to prepare students in the School of Education to become teachers. Another role of IU South Bend is to help the community.

When you can combine those two roles you have accomplished something special. In this issue of Foundations, you will read how IU South Bend education majors are helping children in need at a local public school. The Coquillard Collaborative Education Initiative is a shining example of how a public partnership can and should work to address a community need.

You will also read about how our students are learning, growing and having fun as they move toward earning their degrees at IU South Bend. Joel Bazzell has been a witness to history during his internship at the Indiana Statehouse. Jeff Carrier is fine-tuning his skills as a stand-up comedian as he studies for his degree in business. And three students are part of a new league sport in South Bend that has women bonding, jamming, and skating as a team.

The campus is looking ahead to the inaugural season of varsity women’s volleyball at IU South Bend. Coach Jamie Ashmore talks about her team, her job as coach and the exciting road ahead. We also look back to remember some wonderful people who left their mark on this campus.

As chancellor, I am proud of the achievements of the students, faculty, staff and alumni of IU South Bend. And I appreciate the generosity of benefactors who help make these achievements possible.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Foundations and I thank you for your support of IU South Bend.

Sincerely,

Administration & Staff Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs & University Advancement Ilene Sheffer Director of Alumni Affairs Jeanie Metzger, BS’74 Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs Kelly Miller, MSW’13 Director of Communications & Marketing Ken Baierl, MLS’09 Writer & Editor Kathy Borlik, BA’79 Art Direction, Production & Design Tiffany Goehring, BFA’04 Photography Kathy Borlik, Matt Cashore, Sara Lowe, Joe Raymond, Chris Meyer IU South Bend Alumni Association Board Members President Philip Mark, BA’84 Vice President Margaret J. Ridenour, AS’99, BS’01, MPA’05 Secretary Christine Pochert Ringle, MSBA’86, MBA’88 Treasurer Kris M. Langel, BS’03 Past President Durleen Braasch, BGS’83 At Large Members Francois Bayingana, MS’95 Shawn Todd, MBA’10 Division & School Representatives Vince Sgambelluri, BS’07, Business Perla Hernandez, AS’04, Dental Hygiene Alma Powell, BS’70, MS’72, Education Kasi Bolden, BGS’94, MS’01, General Studies Laura Midkiff, MLS’10, Liberal Arts Norma Napoli, BSN’95, Nursing Ex officio Members *Chad Crabtree, BA’98 *Chris Craft, BS’89 *Larry Lentych, BS’69 *Linda McDougal, MPA’84 *Doreen Pienkowski, AS’99 *Lucky Reznik, MSBA’75 *Mary Beth Ryan, BGS’99 *Ex officio members representing non-academic constituencies.

Una Mae Reck | Chancellor

Student Alumni Representative Roxanne Sirhan

FOUNDATIONS is published twice a year by the Office of Communications & Marketing at Indiana University South Bend. It is distributed to alumni and friends of the university. Please send comments, class notes, and story ideas to Kathy Borlik at kborlik@iusb.edu.

FRONT COVER: Emily Corpe teaching at Coquillard Primary Center.

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Jamie Ashmore Breaking New Ground

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A Laugh Riot

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Making a Difference at Cocquillard School

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From Business Major to Video Game Designer

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Wanted: Women with Skates

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Jamie Ashmore Breaking New Ground text Kathy Borlik // photography Joe Raymond

There is much to do in a year but Jamie Ashmore is ready for the challenge. She is breaking new ground. She is the first volleyball coach at IU South Bend as the campus enters another sport on the intercollegiate varsity level. The Titans will start playing this fall as a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) independent team. The first match is against Purdue Calumet on Aug. 25.

Ashmore is a graduate of LaPorte High School and Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich. In 2004 at Grand Valley, she led the school to its first ever NCAA Division II national championship.

She grew up in the sport. Her father, Rick Ashmore, is the founder of the Dunes Volleyball Club in Rolling Prairie. Dunes’ players have gone on to college careers at West Point and Indiana State.

The move back to South Bend came at the right time in Ashmore’s early career. She graduated from Grand Valley with a degree in sports management in 2005. She was living in Grand Rapids and working at a volleyball academy. Her father heard about the job opening in South Bend. “It is a perfect fit for me,” she said. “I grew up in the area and I know there is a lot of talent here. It is a fantastic place. It’s great for recruiting.”

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The first year, she said, is a learning experience and she expects the team will do well. It is interesting to begin a program. “I’m nervous and excited. I took this job as a challenge.”

In early March Ashmore had open tryouts for the team. She watched as a dozen young women showed her they could dig, set and spike. She saw some promising players to add to a list of signed players. Volleyball needs six players and two subs. Most teams have 10 to 12 on the squad.

Ashmore’s signed players are from Riley, Mishawaka, Washington, Nappanee and Elkhart high schools. A few play club ball now and others played varsity ball in high school.

The team will have activities during the summer to become acquainted and to think like a team. “Now it is just a matter of bonding,” she said.

Ashmore is teaching a physical education class which is a great chance to get to know people and the university a little better. “It is a blast. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t coach, because it is in my blood.”

sports news+ Satori Stahl, a standout senior guard from Elkhart Central High School, will play basketball for the Titans.

Nichole Sly of Niles will be playing at IU South Bend. She received the Michigan all-area Player of the Year from the South Bend Tribune for the second consecutive season, in addition to being named a Class A honorable mention all-state selection.

Men’s basketball players Kyle Heatherly, of Mishawaka and Alanzo Bass, of Indianapolis were named to the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Second Team.

The men’s season ended with an 11-20 record and the women’s team was 21-9 Women’s players senior forwards Brooke Daugherty of Terre Haute and Katie Hacker of Indianapolis, have both been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. For both, it marks the second consecutive year that they have received this honor. In order to be nominated by an institution’s head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved at least junior academic status.

Hacker led three Titans named to the AllCCAC teams, marking the third consecutive season that she received the honor. She was joined on the all-conference squads by Kimmie Hummer of South Bend and Lizzie Stapke of Highland, Ind., who were honored as second-team selections.

Three area high school students have made commitments to the IU South Bend volleyball program for its first year. Christina Miller (South Bend Washington), Bethany Brewer (Northwood High School) and Cassie Uitdenhowen (Elkhart Memorial) will be playing as the programs kicks off in the fall of 2011.

A fourth player, Chloe McCotter, a standout setter from Grand Rapids Community College, will continue her academic and volleyball career here.

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Student-athlete: Christina Miller High School: South Bend Washington Position: Outside Hitter Major: Business Administration

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Student-athlete: Cassie Uitdenhowen High School: Elkhart Memorial Position: Right side hitter Major: Secondary Education

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Student-athlete: Bethany Brewer High School: Northwood, Nappanee Position: Defensive Specialist Major: Nursing

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Student-athlete: Chloe McCotter High School: Lakeview, Battle Creek, Mich.

Position: Setter Major: Communications

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text Dina Harris IU South Bend has a very charitable staff and faculty. The 2010 Campus Campaign began in February 2010 with a goal of raising $49,713.

Because of the generosity of those who work on the campus, the goal was exceeded by more than 55 percent and $77,454 was raised.

Emeriti professors stepped up and gave $29,238. This amount came from 40 percent of the retired faculty.

The campus family could make a gift to support an area or program of one’s choosing and 100 percent of all gifts stay on campus to benefit departments, programs, and scholarships.

Why is the Campus Campaign so important?

Gifts from faculty and staff provide funding for important initiatives and scholarships on the IU South Bend campus, and are an endorsement of the university, announcing to alumni, friends, businesses, and community that IU South Bend is worthy of support and that support starts with “us.”

The theme for the 2011 Campus Campaign was “Engage. Support. Grow.” It began on Feb. 14.

Faculty and staff were told: Give any amount to any account.

The goal for 2011: $85,000.

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Former South Bend residents David A. and Jeanette Bloss received the Chancellor’s Medal on Oct. 21. David Bloss graduated from IU South Bend with a degree in business in 1973. He went on to work for Price Waterhouse and then five other firms across the country, ending up as chairman, president and CEO of CIRCOR International, which designs and manufactures valves.

Jeanette Bloss also grew up in South Bend and graduated from Marian High School, Mishawaka, in 1970. They married two months after her graduation. She later graduated with a degree in journalism from Sam Houston State University in Texas.

They have contributed to the remodeling of the Administration Building and the School of Business and Economics and have endowed the Bloss-Halasi Family Scholarship for accounting, business, business administration, manufacturing, marketing or psychology students who live in St. Joseph County. Mr. Bloss also serves on the Chancellor’s Advisory Board.

South Bend residents Dorene and Jerry Hammes received the Cornerstone Award from the Indiana University Foundation. The foundation honored volunteer leaders for their key roles in service and philanthropy to the university.

The Cornerstone Award recognizes individuals who have been instrumental in the philanthropic success of a specific Indiana University campaign initiative for a campus, program or school.

Continuing their work for IU South Bend from 2007, the Hammes’ set their sights on making a difference through support of education. The couple provided direction and leadership in the creation of the Hammes Information Commons and later the Dorene Dwyer Hammes Media Commons and Café. Both areas are in the Schurz Library.

Out For Blood

text Kathy Borlik // Photo provided by IU Bloomington The 14th annual IU Blood Donor Challenge last fall exceeded all expectations. And IU South Bend was a big part of the drive. The IU South Bend Alumni Association, the IUSB Student Nurses Association and IUSB Student Alumni Association gathered 115 units of blood.

The IU South Bend campus groups won the constituent society prize for the drive. The total amount of blood was 3,824 units throughout the IU system. The blood potentially saved nearly 11,300 lives.

The IU Alumni Association challenged its chapters, constituent societies, and student organizations to compete against other. Everyone was out for blood, in a good sense.

The winning groups were invited to the Iowa-IU football game on Nov. 6 for tailgate party, walk on the football field and recognition ceremony.

The Blood Donor Challenge began in 1997 as a friendly competition between the IU and Purdue alumni associations and as a way to encourage Indiana residents to donate blood.

Purdue decided to end the challenge in 2008. The IUAA continued the challenge by making it a competition among its alumni groups.

Aleah Wilburn, president of the nurses association; Brenda Mark, secretary of the nurses association; Phil Mark, BA’84, president of the IU South Bend Alumni Association; and Kelly Miller, assistant alumni director and IUSB Student Alumni Association advisor, display a banner that marks the importance of the blood drive.

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second career takes alumnae into classroom text anne mcgraw // photography kathy borlik Cindi Baumgartner is the Learning Disability Association of America 2010 Indiana Teacher of the Year. Nominated by a former student, Baumgartner is a special education teacher at South Bend’s LaSalle Academy, serving students in the fifth through the eighth grades. LaSalle Academy is a public school with competitive admission criteria.

Baumgartner’s students have IQs that are above average. However, they also have learning disabilities such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder.

A lifelong area resident, Baumgartner graduated from IU South Bend in 2006. She returned to the university following an 18-year career as a coder in a local medical practice. Baumgartner describes her six-year effort to earn her degree as exhilarating, but grueling. In addition to a full-time job, she was raising two young children. This combination of responsibilities led to many late nights of academic work.

“It was worth the effort though. I love teaching,” she said during her classroom preparation time on a snowy February morning. In the classroom, there are inspirational messages everywhere, such as a sign that declares “Excuse limit: Zero.”

Using creative, individualized methods, Baumgartner teaches her students to be accountable for their work. Personal responsibility reigns.

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Baumgartner credits the faculty in the IU South Bend School of Education for awakening within her a passion for special education.

She loves the challenge of figuring out each student’s needs and corresponding strategies that will compensate and motivate the student.

“I work with students who are very capable, yet they have special needs that may interfere with their academic performance, unless addressed.” Her philosophy is proactive support of individual student need. She develops strategies for student success before failure enters the picture. “Each child comes to me with unique challenges,” Baumgartner said. She also designs an individualized reward system that may range from extra reading or computer time to a McDonald’s Happy Meal.

When asked to cite a student who illustrates the positive impact of her classroom, Baumgartner smiles and mentions a former student who predicted that he was headed for jail. That was the message he received all his life. Following a year in Baumgartner’s classroom, the same young man envisioned himself ultimately as a NASA technician.

Cindi Baumgartner’s second career has just begun and she has already made an impact on the future.

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Riot text Ken Baierl

Jeff Carrier is a business major, economics minor, creative writing minor, and a laugh riot. The junior says having four older brothers and dealing with bullies growing up helped him hone his ability to make people laugh. “I figured if I could make bullies laugh, it would help me,” he said.

Last year he turned his wit into a serious hobby. He began writing jokes and going to a weekly local amateur comedians’ workshop. He knew that going from cracking one-liners to performing was a big step. ”I knew my friends thought I was funny, but would people who don’t know me think I’m funny,” he wondered. The answer was “yes.”

Last fall the South Bend resident debuted his act at an Open Mic Night on campus. “I killed,” he said. He was then asked to emcee some Titan Productions events. His big break came when Director of Student Life Sam Centellas asked him to audition to be the opening act for popular professional comedian Roy Wood Jr. who appeared in at the campus auditorium in January. He got the job and then he got nervous. “I made sure I had my act memorized so no matter what happened I could get through it.”

As part of the job, Carrier got to serve as Wood’s escort when he arrived on campus. They went to Arby’s for a quick dinner before the show and the conversation there helped settle his nerves.

“He (Wood) was super-encouraging, super-nice and superhelpful,” Carrier said.

When the big moment arrived Centellas introduced him to the 300 people in the audience and he went into his routine. “After the first few jokes the crowd starting warming up. By the third joke I thought - this isn’t going to be bad. Everything after that I don’t remember.”

Wood followed him on-stage and complimented him as he started his act. Since the show, Carrier has been recognized on campus as “Hey, that’s the funny guy.” He writes down ideas for jokes when they come to him and is working on the timing and organization of his material with his workshop colleagues. He has done one other public performance but says school always comes first. He has no intention of doing standup comedy as a profession but after graduation he will be the funniest data analyst around.

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Making a Difference at Coquillard School text kathy borlik // Photography Matt Cashore

Thirty-nine IU South Bend education majors spent the spring semester changing lives at the west side school. They worked one-on-one with 80 third and fourth graders who needed help in math and reading. The program is called the Coquillard Collaborative Education Initiative.

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Ben Domonkos with pupils and teacher Ron Kocsis observes.

It is an unconventional classroom at Coquillard Primary Center. It is, in fact, a hallway lined with lockers and artwork. No desks but a lot of floor. Several times per week, this hallway is dotted with pupils and IU South Bend education majors.

They gather in their little bit of real estate to work in groups. At the far corner a threesome works on multiplication. Others focus on story problems and others on synonyms. They use flashcards, illustrations, notes, and a large quantity of patience. The education majors hand out stickers and hugs when things go right.

The IU South Bend education students are getting an enormous taste of what it means to be teachers. And the primary school pupils are receiving the needed one-on-one attention that makes learning possible.

Everyone benefits.

Coquillard principal Bill Soderberg likes to say there is a whole lot of learning going on here. He loves every minute of the exchanges as he walks into classrooms to listen in on the process.

Michael Horvath, former dean of the School of Education, said learning issues are dealt with on the spot. The small group environment “is the way it should be. This is exciting to watch.”

Thirty-nine IU South Bend education majors spent the spring semester changing lives at the west side school by working one-on-one with 80 third- and fourth-grade pupils who need a boost in math and reading. The program is called the Coquillard Collaborative Education Initiative.

The partnership began in the fall of 2010 when Bryon Scoggin, a fourth grade teacher at Coquillard and an IU South Bend graduate, studied new research on small group instruction and discussed the possibility with the IU South Bend School of Education. In small groups elementary pupils can’t run and hide. Their strengths as well as their weakness are easy to find, Scoggin said.

The discussion led to implementation and in the fall of 2010, 23 education majors spent two days a week at Coquillard. After their small tutoring sessions, the IU South Bend students were taught onsite by education lecturer Marilyn Nash and senior lecturer Diane Youngs.

The afternoon sessions are built around a science club with lecturer Connie Sprague.

Nash and Youngs said the impact is immediate on both sets of learners.

They can see how their students perform and can adjust for it. With the course work embedded in the field, the college instructors have to tailor their class work to what was being taught at Cocquillard. Both professors said it would be difficult to return exclusively to the college setting again now that they’ve been at the grade school.

Soderberg said the fall group set the bar high. The pupils loved their “IUSB buddies and there were plenty of tears at the end of the semester.

The education majors learned about the love of teaching first hand.”

Soderberg said one of the Coquillard pupils said he liked the mentors because “ ‘they believed in me.’ That is a powerful statement from a kid who probably doesn’t get too much support.”

The school, which is on the west side off Lincolnway West and near the South Bend Regional Airport, was once in a thriving neighborhood of neat homes, retail shops and manufacturing. Two shopping centers closed, the neighborhood has changed and jobs are gone. The school has a 70 percent student poverty rate.

The ISTEP scores were 27 percent in 2008-09 and 43 percent in 09-10.

The goal for this year was 58 percent. Scoggin said confidently that all the data says they will be there.

In addition to the staff of both IU South Bend and Coquillard, others have rallied around the program. The South Bend Tribune and the local television stations have reported on the progress. The professors have been invited to workshops to give presentations at conferences.

The program has also been supported with $2,300 from the IU South Bend Strategic Initiatives Award and $5,500 from donors and an anonymous foundation.

After one college class, the IU South Bend students head back into the hallways and find their pupils. There seems to be constant movement.

Pupils find their way from the regular classroom to the tutoring sessions. The education majors carry their teaching materials in tote bags and boxes from room to hallway.

From math to reading, they now pore over stories and pupils answer questions. “Why was the soldier there? Who baked the cake? Why are the children sad?” Sometimes the answers are wrong but the mentors take their time and explain the story again. Then the light bulb may come on.

Ben Domonkos of South Bend said working with a few students is very productive. He sees that he is making an impact on their lives by connecting with children who may have no role models or come from home where education is not an important issue.

Lashawdra Gates of Elkhart calls the experience “life changing” and affirms her desire to teach. And as an African-American student, she sees the impact she is making as a positive role model. “From the start, I could see that I was making a difference.”

IU South Bend students said this field training was scary but it quickly evolved into the best learning experience. Kara Miller of Goshen said being in the classroom is different than learning theories. “You realize that they grasp (a concept) and it makes sense to them. That’s rewarding. And you remember why you love teaching.”

Scroggin said he thought when this started it would be an informal arrangement. “Now in two semesters, we have affected the lives of 60 new teachers and more than 80 pupils. Those students now know that college is possible for them.”

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Deborah Todd admits that she is a little bit different from the average business graduate. She has the combination of a business/marketing brain and a creative brain, which is incredibly useful in the video games development world. She is a video game designer, writer, and producer working in the wonderful entertainment industry.

From Business Major to

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TEXT Jeanie Metzger // Photography courtesy of deborah todd She came to IU South Bend as a non-traditional student, working her way through school. She had a wonderful experience with great faculty.

Her most influential and inspirational professor was Brenda Knowles. She said Knowles was a great female role model and instilled in her the “love of learning.” Todd also has great respect for another business professor, Fred Naffziger.

After she graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in business, the road was a bit uncertain.

Todd had hoped to go on to law school but finances stood in the way. The next step was a move to California’s Silicon Valley where Todd started a job in technology at ASK Computer Systems. Later she worked in public relations and did some writing for about 10 years.

Life changed when Todd attended a conference called “Selling to Hollywood.” She came up with an idea for a movie. She talked to HannaBarbera Productions Inc. and participated in an animation writing program. From there she started her career writing Pink Panther cartoons for Saturday morning television and segued into the games industry.

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She submitted over 60 ideas before she found one that they accepted. She gave them 10-12 ideas a week. She learned the lesson of “never give up, just keep trying.”

Todd is currently a game designer and writer for a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) for children called MiniMonos, which means “little monkeys” in Spanish. A MMOG is capable of allowing hundreds of players simultaneously on the Internet.

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In this game, children play and learn about sustainability. For example, the children can build a Robot Pet from recycled parts. In the Grow game, the players can get higher yield from their strawberry field by using compost.

Todd is also a member of the Writers Guild of America, and on the New Media Council Board of the Producers Guild of America. She is the author of an algebra book and an algebra game for The Learning Company that garnered the U.S. News & World Report Top 12 Titles of the Year award.

She also wrote an astronomy book, and a games industry book Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, which was named one of the top five titles of the year by Game Developer magazine. She has been in the business now for 20 years.

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Todd holds great memories of IU South Bend. She learned to use her business degree in a creative industry. She said it is very useful when it comes to marketing or when her company talks about contracts.

Todd credits IU South Bend for her love of learning but mostly for teaching her to never give up, and to pursue her passion.

opposite page: MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) called MiniMonos, at www.minimonos.com 1. Monkey Fist is a karate game in which you advance with arm bands instead of belts 2. Group of kids (avatars) hanging out on Castle Beach, a world within the game. Avatars are monkeys that are customizable 3. Avatars within the information area where players can select different games according to the “posters” on the wall, or retrieve vital information or their avatar using icons at the bottom of the screen (i.e., map, powers, journal, etc.)

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Wanted: Women with Skates TEXT Sara “Jaynesaw” Lowe

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On a January evening, 700 people braved the bad weather to watch the first exhibition bout of the South Bend Roller Girls at the Skate America Rink in Mishawaka. Inside the packed rink, most fans sat away from the action while others dared to sit dangerously near the rail in “suicide seating.”

There was a buzz in the crowd when 10 women rolled out onto the flat track, setting up in their stance, waiting for the whistle to blow.

Spectators began cheering for their favorite derby girl. “Do it, Ginger Snapped! Get her, Fraidy Krueger!”

The whistle blew and eight skaters took off around the track. Then, two short whistle blows urged two “jammers” to take off at lightning speed after the pack. The jammers break through the pack and race each other around the track. An announcer calls the jam: “Ginger Snapped passes Candi-Land Massacre to become the lead jammer. The pack knocks Candi-Land out of bounds. Ginger Snapped passes the pack for points and calls the jam!”

Ginger Snapped is the derby alter-ego of IU South Bend psychology student Ambrosia LeFleur. LeFleur is one of several IU South Bend students who joined the South Bend Roller Girls when the league formed last year. South Bend’s team competes with other teams from around the state. The league is young and will soon be officially recognized by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

Besides the action and thrills on the track, for LeFleur derby is lifechanging. She has formed a bond with her teammates. “We watch out for each other and are friends for life. People on the league care, they are a support system and a group of girls who love you genuinely.”

LeFleur is enthusiastic about the possibilities. Since the women who play the sport run the league, she has a direct impact on the league’s success. As the head of the public relations committee, she looks for opportunities to spread the word. Perhaps even an IU South Bend Roller Derby student club.

Facebook continues to be important in their media blitz with more than 3,000 “likes” on their page.

There have been a few local stories on the growth of the team. Then, two members of the Roller Girls submitted a video on a life changing experience to Mutual of Omaha’s Aha Moment. They said they never thought there would be roller derby in this town and it has given them confidence. The spot won and it appears during popular prime time television shows throughout July.

After a year of practice, the Roller Girls have formed three teams. The travel team, “Studebreakers,” will represent the South Bend Roller Girls in away bouts, while “Bonnie Dooms” and “Lake Effect “will defend the Roller Girls here at home.

In a world of social networking, roller derby has found a fan base. A Facebook inquiry in 2010 produced 800 responses from interested women and the ball bearings began to roll.

A Derby 101 class in February brought in women who wanted to learn more about these particular skating skills. After the classes, the recruits are offered the chance to try out for the league

One year ago, LeFleur joined the league and soon recognized the benefits of doing something different. Now a favorite among her teammates, she practices three times a week, including a grueling weekly scrimmage.

As for local support, LeFleur said, “The competition starts when other city’s leagues compete against South Bend. People from area towns come together to support South Bend Roller Girls. Roller derby brings communities together and gives them something to celebrate and support.”

Genevieve Carlson and Jen Purviance also are IU South Bend students and derby participants.

So what’s next? Perhaps league members skating through Welcome Week, breaking up the jam by the activities center.

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The Euclid Quartet’s CD “Bartok String Quartets – Nos. 2, 4, 6” was reviewed in “Gramophone,” the monthly British publication devoted to classical music and jazz.

The review said “These works (by Bartok) are fiendishly difficult to pull off, given the extended techniques the Hungarian composer poured onto virtually every page … the Euclid musicians proved themselves up to the job.” The reviewer, Donald Rosenberg, said he was anticipating the next CD.

David Beem, former member of the Euclid Quartet and lecturer of music, recently finished his first novel, “Abyss of Chaos.” Set for publication in September 2011, the supernatural thriller tells the story of a 26-year-old cellist and his aging archeologist godfather who learn of their involvement in an ancient prophecy. For more information, visit: www.davidbeem.wordpress.com.

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Chancellor Emeritus Lester M. Wolfson returned to campus for a night to remember in November. The book “A Campus Becoming: Lester M. Wolfson and Indiana University South Bend 1964-1987,” had a grand coming-out party with more than 200 guests.

Wolfson retired in 1987 and currently lives in Utica, N.Y. He will turn 88 in September.

The book, which was published by Wolfson Press, has a section on the history of the campus written by Patrick Furlong, professor emeritus, an essay on Wolfson by Tom Vander Ven, professor emeritus, and a section containing the chancellor’s correspondence and speeches. The preface to the book was written by Walton R. Collins, longtime Wolfson assistant.

The editing was done by Ken Smith, associate professor of English and director of the Wolfson Press. The book is available at the IU South Bend bookstore.

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The WNIT documentary Kicking the Notes the Toradze Way received two regional Emmy Awards in November. Alexander Toradze, professor of music, received an Emmy as co-producer in the Outstanding Achievement for Entertainment Programming category.

The story follows Toradze from his days in Tbilisi, Georgia, though his years as a child prodigy and winning a silver medal at the Van Cliburn competition. The story continues through his defection to the U.S. and his life on the stage and with his students at the Toradze Piano Studio.

Indiana University South Bend will be the site of the 2011 Indiana Governor’s Arts Awards on Sept. 23. The 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards program will mark the third time the event has been held outside the city of Indianapolis.

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John McIntosh, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and professor of psychology, is a coeditor of the recently released book Grief After Suicide: Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. McIntosh’s co-editor is John R. Jordan, a private practice psychologist in Wellesley, Mass. The book is available on Amazon.com.

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Elizabeth Bennion, associate professor of political science, is the 2011 recipient of the Eldon F. Lundquist Award. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarly or artistic achievement and community service.

McGuire (4), April Lidinsky (5), and 4-6 Gail Gwen Mettetal (6) were recognized at the annual

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Kelcey Parker, assistant professor of English and director of the creative writing program, published a book of short stories called For Sale By Owner (Kore Press). The stories examine the pains, comforts or discomforts of family life.

student housing community building 7 The received a LEED Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council with verification by the Green Building Certification Institute.

The community building achieved LEED Silver Certification for incorporating a design and construction that reduce energy use, provide natural lighting, reduce water and incorporate a variety of other sustainable strategies.

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Photo provided by IU South Bend Office of Student Life

Indiana University Founders Day ceremonies. Mettetal, professor of educational psychology, received the Frederic Bachman Lieber Mermorial Award for teaching excellence. McGuire, associate professor of sociology, received the Syliva Bowman Award for teaching excellence. Lidinsky, assistant professor of Women’s Studies, received the W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service.

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Indiana University South Bend received final approval for an $8 million project to increase energy efficiency in heating air and lighting in its main campus buildings. The project will reduce utility and maintenance costs leading to millions of dollars in savings.

The Department of Dental Hygiene received a $2,250 grant for a Center for the Homeless Free Dental Day. The 2011 Scholarship of Engagement grant is through Indiana Campus Compact, a program supported by the Lilly Endowment Inc. The dental hygiene class of 2011 won $1,000 for a video produced for a contest sponsored by Sunstar Butler, a dental supply company. The money will be used for the students’ national boards. The video reworked the song Greased Lightning from Grease to become Go Sunstar, To view the video visit the IU South Bend You Tube site.

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Six students from Professor Monle Lee’s M415 Advertising and Marketing Management class in the School of Business participated in the CR-Z Media Challenge. For the last six

weeks, the students took a shiny new CR-Z around town and gave it a lot exposure. IU South Bend’s team was one of 10 from across the country to participate. As shown in photo, from left, C.J. Hollenkamp of Granger, Marina Sato of Mishawaka, and Justin Matthews of Elkhart made up the South Bend team. Assisting were Amanda Wells, Michael Lochmondy, and Kelsi Clark (not pictured).

Foundations featured a story in Spring 2010 on an undocumented IU South Bend student named Sam. Sam is a talented musician who grew up in the area. He did not know he wasn’t a citizen until he applied to colleges. Long Haul Productions of Three Oaks, Mich., produced four segments for National Public Radio’s Latino USA and condensed segments for All Things Considered.

“American Dreamer: Sam’s Story” won two awards the Radio Impact Award in the 2010 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition and a 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Audio Documentary from the Radio, Television and Digital News Association.

Photography Kathy Borlik

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Internship Takes Student to the Statehouse TEXT MaryJane Slaby // Photography provided Ten o’clock at night and IU South Bend student Joel Bazzell is still at the Indiana Statehouse where he’s an intern for state senators John Broden and Tim Skinner.“If my senator is here, I’m here,” Joel says.

“We’re working with one woman to help her get her health insurance reinstated,” he says. “It’s anything and everything. People call and say this is my problem, I need help.”

As the senators remained in session trying to meet deadlines to propose bills and amendments for the floor calendar, Joel and the other Statehouse staffers were stuffing envelopes, drafting letters and checking to see if the senators needed water or anything else. Once, the senators went from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. with only two 30-minute breaks, Joel says.

Joel also attends committee meetings and takes notes about environmental policies and collecting taxes from online retailers He prepares accordion folders for the senators to use when speaking about bills and proposing amendments. Keeping up with his workload makes the job less stressful, he says.

For the spring 2011 semester, Joel is living and working in Indianapolis. But he plans to graduate from IU South Bend in May 2012 with a double major in mass communication and political science as well as a minor in business administration.

“People say, ‘Joel, you’re crazy, why are you still working?’” he laughs.

“But why put off until tomorrow what you can do today? That’s counterintuitive to me.” To limit stress, all he does is look around.

“I remind myself that I work in the most beautiful building in all of Indiana, and I’m so honored.”

“I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now,” he says. “This session is one of the most interesting sessions to date. It’s a history making session.”

When he’s not working, Joel can walk to the Marion County Public Library from his apartment. Although he’s never checked out a book, he reads by the windows.“You can sit and see the whole city,” he says.

As the senators worked to meet deadlines with the floor calendar, the Indiana House Democrats fled to Illinois. Joel says this caused several confused phone calls from people telling him to get back to work. He calmly told them the senators were working and offered to help when he could.

But he misses the IU South Bend campus and says he can’t wait to get back, but he also can’t wait to return to the Statehouse during his career. But getting there isn’t something he has figured out.

Joel says the senators try to respond to as many constituents as they can to show them that the senators and their staff care. Joel has even been thanked for his service when he returned phone calls.

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“There’s not one path,” he says. “There are many doors in front of me right now.”

-Slaby is a senior journalism major at IU Bloomington and native of New Carlisle

At the age of 21, Chelsea Roose has a full plate with school, work and her elected position as North Township trustee in LaPaz. She took office in January after defeating the 89-year-old incumbent who had been trustee for 39 years. With towns in the news electing 18- and 19-year-old mayors, Roose figured it was worth a try. The vote was 805 to 344.

Township Trustee starts TEXT & Photography Kathy Borlik Roose is a junior majoring in banking and finance, with a minor in economics at IU South Bend. She works part time at 1st Source Bank in Lapaz.

The last trustee, Elma Konya, had done a great job for years but her health had been prohibiting her from doing what was best for the township. “I love my community and I thought if I got elected, I could organize the office, get the records computerized because nothing was, including 100 years of cemetery records, and streamline the library card applications.”

Roose’s father is a Marshall County commissioner so there is politics in her blood.

There were a few skeptics in the traditional Democratic township when the young Republican decided to run. However the relationships she made while working at 1st Source “showed people I could do the job.” Overall she had the support.

Once she took office, she set about to organize the office and put records on the computer. “Basically, I am a very organized person” which was a great asset as she found ledgers and paperwork from the late 1800s.

senior year She is in the office about 12 hours per week. Roose meets with people who need financial assistance, or filling out library card applications. “The other trustees told me I had to develop a thick skin when dealing with someone asking for assistance. That has been difficult but there are guidelines,” she said.

For the spring semester, she took three classes. To keep her busy, Roose studied the Indiana Code and the Trustees’ Manual.

Now, the township books are up to date. When she leaves for the day, the computer records are backed up. “I don’t believe in a to do list. Those items tend to not get done. The fact the township office and 1st Source are so close makes it convenient. If there were no trees or houses in the way, I would be able to see one workplace from the other,” she said.

For the future, she wants to pursue a career in the financial industry. When she graduates, she will still have more than a year left as trustee. “I’m not quite sure I will leave politics out of my future. Will I go into large scale politics? At this time, I would say no. But I won’t say never.”

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a friendship forged on campus

Text (p.22) tom vander ven, (p.23) chuck stewart // Photography provided

Chuck Stewart and I first met at IU South Bend in my American literature classes in 1972. Although we periodically corresponded, we did not meet again for 38 years. In 2010 - in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. How did that happen?

Together with a mutual interest in preserving an old university friendship, we had the extraordinary and happy accident of perfect timing. Cyndi (my wife) and I wanted to make an East Coast driving tour from Atlanta to Maine last fall, and I learned on Facebook that Chuck and Nancy (his wife) had moved to Nova Scotia that summer. E-mails later, Chuck and I had a plan that included our ferry trip across the Bay of Fundy to rendezvous in Lunenberg.

We would be hard-pressed, Chuck and I, to persuade ourselves that our years at IU South Bend distinguish us definitively from students and faculty at any number of universities, public or private, in countless states across the country. And yet those years in South Bend matter to us as a stirring, intellectual encounter with ideas and literature, amid the boisterous, calamitous times of war, social unrest, and, yes, great hopes.

Chuck was eager to study literature, and I was eager to teach it.

One vital element of classroom life at a commuter campus is the diversity of its student body, and Chuck and I were beneficiaries of that. We talked in class across the blurred boundaries between faculty from all over the U.S. and regional students of all ages, who were labor union officers and mothers of collegeage children.

The beauty and the vulnerability of liberal arts education are that we do not clearly know where it will lead us. When I finished my undergraduate degree in 1961, IUSB’s present campus did not exist. When Chuck finished his undergraduate degree in the ’70s, his present career as an instructional designer for an e-learning company did not exist.

Neither e- nor i- anything existed in those years. Today, I’m sitting by a pool, overlooking Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, on a wireless keyboard, Bluetooth-ed to a laptop, wirelessly linked to a router and modem that deliver it across the Internet to Chuck

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Stewart’s software lair in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, and then to South Bend). And I may be a replicant that’s been programmed with Tom Vander Ven’s memories.

The beauty of liberal arts education does not lie in our confidence that “some day, ages and ages hence,” Chuck Stewart, crouched in frustration at his computer, will suddenly exclaim, “Aha, so that’s what Melville’s Bartleby was all about!”

Is the tedium of our lives merely made just a little more bearable through liberal arts?

Had I been killed by Mickey Rourke in a bar fight, or had Chuck immigrated to Ireland or Scotland, as he and his wife Nancy at one time had considered, this loop of time would not have found the symmetry it has. Virtually all teacher-student experience has the wholeness of a fireworks rocket. A course launches, its academic components flare, then scatter, shining in their separate trajectories, and burn out, briefly witnessed by those who then turn away into their own nights. I have no idea what’s happened during their post-IU South Bend years to more than about five of my 5,000 students.

Still, I think that this little chronology may offer a glimpse of many other unreported histories — of learning, of discovery, of changed lives, and even, after many decades, of convergence.

-Tom Vander Ven, San Juanillo, Costa Rica, March, 2011

Tom Vander Ven taught American Literature and creative writing at IU South Bend from 1967 until his retirement in 2001. He was chair of English for 10 years. He most recently contributed an essay to the Wolfson Press publication “A Campus Becoming” in 2010. His essay “Rhosymedre in Cochran Chapel” will appear in the Winter 2012 Andover Bulletin. He and his wife will return in September to their home in Baltimore. His e-mail is aawctv@gmail.com

I arrived at IU South Bend in 1972 after four tumultuous years on the Bloomington campus. I didn’t know quite what to expect, but what I discovered was a nurturing environment, with many teachers deeply committed to teaching. It was my good fortune to have several classes with one of its finest instructors, Professor Tom Vander Ven. One of the most memorable classes I took was Tom’s course on early 20th century American literature. After we read Sister Carrie, Tom arranged a trip to Chicago where we roamed some of the very streets that Dreiser’s heroine walked. Tom’s approach to literature was multimodal and experiential — classroom lecture, discussion and a visit to a city that inspired many great American writers.

The capstone of our visit to Nelson Algren’s City on the Make was a creative writing exercise in which the entire class— including Tom—reflected on our experience. In Tom’s classes, you were in the presence of someone who understood the power of language, of stories well told, and the necessity of making literature relevant to students’ lives. One of the other benefits of a nonresidential campus firmly rooted in the community was access to local people who could bring their life histories into the classroom. Our reading of The Great Gatsby was enriched by the presence of an elderly gentleman who was auditing the class. He had been a young man during the 1920s and could provide testimony to that frenzied decade.

returned to Bloomington for graduate school and then went on to a long career in book publishing. We’ve stayed in touch, more or less, over the past 38 years. There was the occasional letter, which often contained a new poem from Tom, and later through e-mail and social media. Our “convergence” last fall in Nova Scotia was life-affirming in a number of ways. Tom is a connection for me to that younger, hopeful, and writerly self I will always cherish.

Chuck Stewart (BA’73 in English) also has a master’s in English Literature from the University of Illinois in 1983. For 20 years he worked in various editorial publishing positions. He received a Master of Instructional Systems Technology from Bloomington in 2003. Since 2004, he is the course director and senior instructional designer for Option Six, an e-learning company from Bloomington, Ind. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. His e-mail is cstewart@contextedit.com Photo credit: (left) Chuck Stewart (right) Tom Vander Ven

As student and professor, we were not “friends,” but the relationship certainly was collegial. We developed a friendship after I left and

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Alumni Briefs P. N. Saksena

Christopher L. Craft, BS’89

Assistant Dean of the School of Business and Economics, Director of Graduate Studies and professor of accounting, received the 2011 Faculty Legacy Award from the IU South Bend Alumni Association.

of Mishawaka, received the IU Alumni Association’s President’s Award at a December banquet. The President’s Awards are the highest honor the Alumni Association bestows upon alumni volunteers.

The award recognizes full-time faculty members who have made a significant impact on the lives of students. The Alumni Association will award a $500 scholarship in Saksena’s honor.

Craft is chairman elect of the IUAA’s Board of Mangers. He is past president of the IU South Bend Alumni Association and past chairman of the campus scholarship campaign.

Mike Wargo, BGS’82

Robert Meeks

Chief operating officer of the Hospice Foundation, received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the 2010 commencement. Wargo is a community leader, businessman and a supporter of higher education.

of LaGrange received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2010. Meeks served as Indiana state senator from 1988 to 2008. As chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Meeks played a large role in helping secure funding for the IU South Bend campus to build student housing, to renovate the Education and Arts Building, and for the construction of the new IU Medical Education Center that is shared with the University of Notre Dame.

While at IU South Bend, he was an editor of the Preface, student body president and a member of the Student Alumni Council. After graduation he joined the Air Force. After his service time he stated his career at NBD Bank and Valley American Bank. Later he was vice president of Quality Dining. In 1999 he started Wargo Enterprises.

He has been active with the alumni board and the scholarship committee.

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In Memory of Professor Eileen Bender passed away on Aug. 10. She retired in May 2010 from the university after 35 years of service.

The following are two remembrances from colleagues:

Eileen Bender was one of the first

Eileen was an enthusiastic champion for junior faculty, writing exhaustively

people to befriend me when I arrived at IU South Bend; we were both members of the Women’s Studies Committee, which has since become the Women’s & Gender Studies Governing Board.

We bonded over a shared love of aboriginal fiction and funny stories, and an interest in feminist work and women’s issues.

detailed letters of support for fellowships, awards, and promotions. Her influence on the Women’s Studies Program cannot be underestimated; she was instrumental in institutionalizing the minor and the major, and was active in both the “big picture” and “tedious detail” part of program building -- and in her hands, “tedious details” became little puzzles she eagerly solved.

She always reminded me that the Trickster in Native literature is a character that challenges and provokes, but mostly reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously. I was surprised as I learned, over time, that this very nice person I shared committee work with also had great influence in her role at IU – that she was actually an Important Person who advised chancellors and vice-presidents.

But nonetheless, Eileen never took herself too seriously, never put off a chance to talk about books, to share a joke, and to reach out and encourage or advise a beginning faculty member or a new student. She had a generosity and playfulness of spirit that we all miss.

– Catherine Borshuk, associate professor of psychology and director of Women’s Studies

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What always amazed me about Eileen, besides her unflagging good humor and kindness, was that while she was a “Big Idea” person in Women’s Studies, on our campus, and throughout the whole IU system, she was also incredibly effective at the labor-intensive, detailed work that turned those big ideas into programs, events, curriculum reform, etc.

Without her, there is a terrible hole in the fabric of IU South Bend, but we owe it to her to pursue excellence with her same enthusiasm and delight. One of her sons told me that she sometimes said that her colleagues “didn’t get up to quite enough trouble.” I love that -- she was a visionary who was unafraid to disrupt expectations and break new ground -- always with a smile on her face and a glint in her eye.

– April Lidinsky, associate professor of Women’s Studies

Roland W. Chamblee, 87, DSc’06, died Sept. 23. He was a former member of the IU South Bend Chancellor’s Board of Advisors.

A World War II veteran, he first came to the community as a young physician in the early 1950s to intern at Saint Joseph’s Hospital. In the 1960s, he led numerous civil rights marches and, at one point, served simultaneously as the local president of the NAACP, Urban League, United Negro Council, Catholic Interracial Council and a migrant center. Among his many civic service contributions was work on the creation of the Chapin Street Health Center in 1986.

In his retirement, he continued to do volunteer work at the Chapin Street Clinic. In 2004, he became the medical director for the county health department.

William S. Shields, 97, died Dec. 27. He was a former member of the IU South Bend Advisory Board. He also received the School of Business and Economics E.M. Morris Achievement Award, the Herman B Wells Visionary Award and the Chancellor’s Medal. In 1998 he and his wife, Kathryn, established an endowed chair of nursing at Indiana University of South Bend.

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CLASS NOTES

SPRING 2011

Robert Buono, BA’80, Fine Arts, has had his artwork featured in a new coffee table book titled Century Walk: Art Imitating History.

Randall Foster, BS’81, Business, is the district president for Keybank.

Janet E. Moss, BA’83, Psychology, is a certified mentalhealth counselor who works for the state of Massachusetts.

Cheryl Heim Little, BA’85, Political Science, served on the Indiana Commission for Higher Education from 1996 to 2003 — the last two years as chairwoman. She received a Sagamore of the Wabash from Gov. Frank O’Bannon in 2003, and was a recipient of IU South Bend’s Chancellor’s Medal in 2003, and an IUSB Distinguished Alumna Award in 2010.

’70s Michael D. Wesolowski, BA’71, Biology, Psychology/English, is a Ph.D., a board certified behavior analyst. He has been the area behavior analyst for the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities in Miami, Fla., for more than 20 years.

Lisa Shaffer, BA’89, Political Science, is the assistant dean of Student Services and Enrollment Management at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. She also is an adjunct lecturer teaching both in the school and the government departments.

Shant Markarian Jr., MLS’89, Liberal Studies, is the senior vice president for Lee Hecht Harrison, and manage business development in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Jacklyn Wilson, MS’73, Education, is an account manager at The Nielsen Company in Rockport, Ind.

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Linda Mills, MS’73, Special Education, residing in Michigan City, is a traveling substitute teacher in special education classrooms. She is pursuing photography as a hobby and is writing a memoir for her children.

Tom Labuzienski, MBA’90, Management/Administration, started a new restaurant Cafelicious in Plymouth, the website FinditLocal411.com, an online business directory, and a new full service advertising agency Ad Lab Solutions Inc.

Cheryl Torok Fleming, MS’79, Education, is serving as assistant dean for Teaching and Learning for Indiana Wesleyan University-College of Adult and Professional Studies. In addition, she teaches classes for adult students, online and onsite, in the areas of Business and Leadership, Education, and Liberal Arts. She has three academic books in print, and is working on the fourth.

Edward Szymczak aka Steven San Edward, AGS’92, General Studies, is an oil and acrylics artist. He composes music and has had several compositions copyrighted. He has published three books titled, Queens and KnavesLadies and Clowns, Spirited Inspirations in Clouds Across My Mind, and Heaven or at Minds Open Door.

Dennis Rossow, BA’79, Communication Arts, is the director of Human Resources at Comcast for the Chicago Region, located in Schaumburg, Ill. Current projects include management coaching, employee incentive programs, and organizational development work for two major departments.

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Mark Kurowski, BA’92, Political Science, was recently named the director of University Ministry at Benedictine University, Lisle, Ill. Deron Gerber, BS’94, Business, was recently elected president of Gerber Outerwear in Mishawaka.

’90s (continued) Cathy Alwine, BS’98, Health Services Management, is the director of development for Reins of Life and is an adjunct lecturer at IU South Bend.

Chad Crabtree, BA’98, is an admissions counselor with IU South Bend. Crabtree is a founding member and secretary for the Young Professionals Council of the Elkhart Chamber of Commerce. He serves on the board of directors for the Humane Society of Elkhart County and is a guest lecturer at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. Crabtree is running for the Council-at-Large seat for Elkhart City.

Darin Dahms, BA’98, Theatre, will be directing a play for Theatre of Note in Los Angeles and will be writing a one-man show in 2011.

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Saulo Delgado, BA07, Political Science, is a second year law student at IU School of Law, Indianapolis, and received a Baker & Daniels’ 2001 diversity scholarship. He spent his 2010 summer as a law clerk at the Indiana Court of Appeals and working under the guidance of Judge Cale Bradford. He also interned at the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society. He was president of the IU South Bend men’s soccer club for two years.

Teresa Santos, BA’09, Fine Arts, has accepted an invitation from Fabian Goncalves Borrega, exhibit coordinator of the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American State in Washington, D.C., to curate an exhibit in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Angela Brothers, BS’09, Dental Hygiene, currently works part time at different locations of Pediatric Dental Hygiene Practices in the surrounding Indianapolis area.

Daniel Martinez, BS’10, Business, is currently working with AT&T as a sales consultant at a retail location in Elkhart.

Brian Alwine, BS’00, Business, recently received the Emerging Leaders Award from the Indiana CPA Society.

Paul Guillaume, BA’10, Photography, through a documentary portrait photography project, he participated in the May 2010 dedication of the Engman Natatorium, South Bend.

Ryan G. Milligan, BS’01, Business, is an associate in the law firm Baker & Daniels’ South Bend office. He is a member of the firm’s business litigation group and focuses his practice on business and commercial disputes, creditor rights, and tort litigation.

Tamar Mikeladze, MM’10, Piano, has been awarded a fellowship to the University of Michigan to continue her studies in piano. Mikeladze is a member of the Toradze Piano Studio.

LaTonia Ferguson, MPA’02, Public Affairs, is a career counselor of Diversity Career Programs at Notre Dame.

Jason Coffman, BS’05, Business, is a registered representative at John Hancock Financial Network.

Ron Chupp, MSW’05, became a licensed clinical social worker in 2009 and a clinical addictions counselor in 2010.

He was recently elected president of the Indiana Association of Addiction Professionals. He also is an adjunct professor in the addiction program at Indiana Wesleyan University. He works as an addiction counselor in LaGrange and serves as the clinical director for New Day Treatment Center, a residential addiction treatment program in Goshen.

Adrian Lark, GS’10, General Studies, is a leasing consultant for The Addison Apartments on Main.

Adam Gerstbauer, AS’10, Business, currently has joined the customer service staff at Dec-O-Art in Elkhart.

Melissa Wise, MPA’10, is director of Communications and Marketing at the Women’s College at the University of Denver.

She lives in Henderson, Colo.

Joe Barilich, BA’06, Fine Arts, recently had his video art installation The Spider become part of the exhibition Perform Install 3 in the Warner Gallery of the South Bend Museum of Art.

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“The 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards will be a great town and gown opportunity for South Bend to showcase our status as the regional arts destination for northern Indiana.”

-Rob DeCleene, executive director of the South Bend Visitors and Convention Bureau

Governor’s Arts Award Friday, September 23

Save the date for a banquet, concert and reception // Sponsored by IU South Bend and the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC)