is so important, protect the places that do care of their students.

For me, the power of an Otterbein Degree is generational connections — I have Freeman, Eschbach, and Sewell Otterbein families from the 1900s to the present! Those connections have given me the power to promote Otterbein to the world.

KAREN FREEMAN SEWELL ’79 Coordinated a national effort for recognition of America’s marching band directors in the 2022 Rose Bowl Parade to honor her late husband and Otterbein alumnus, Mike Sewell ’79.

I attained enhanced critical thinking, emotional intelligence, increased financial stability, and career advancement as a respected leader in my field. My Otterbein degree prepared me for a world where understanding how to apply a multidisciplinary perspective is a valued asset.

ICILDA WATKINS DICKERSON ’88

Otterbein helped me become comfortable with being uncomfortable. This allowed me to think of things I would have never thought of and to try things I would have never tried.

Healthcare Policy Strategist, Adjunct

of

Otterbein Alumni Council

Professor at Franklin University and Central Michigan University, Immediate Past Chair

2007

Barack Obama becomes America’s first Black president.

2008

Otterbein is one of four universities in the nation to receive the Presidential Award for Volunteer Service.

In 2009, Kathy Krendl is named the 20th and the first female president of Otterbein University.

RICHARD FETTER ’73, PH.D. Co-founder of Tillery Capital, Former Dean of the Lacy School of Business, Associate Professor of Marketing at Butler University

In 2010, Otterbein College becomes Otterbein University . . . again.

First 10 students enroll in Otterbein’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program — the first doctorate degree program at Otterbein since 1895.

2011