Marietta (Fall 2010)

Fall 2010

The Magazin e o f M a r i e t t a C o l l e g e

IN TIMES OF CONFLICT Wars leave lasting memories on campus ALSO: Strategic Plan Focuses on quality | Alumna interns with NCAA

PETER FINGER

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Night Life As more years separate you from the daily life you once had on campus, it’s times such as these that burn the brightest in our collective memories of Marietta.

From quiet conversations about what the future may bring, to sidesplitting laughter that waters the eyes, these are moments that solidify friendships and make us want to go back to the dawn of our college years.

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DR. JEAN A. SCOTT

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n often-quoted conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland describes the importance of planning. Alice begins the exchange: “ ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.” By committing itself to a culture of planning, Marietta College has ensured that it will choose its own destiny and direction, not proceed aimlessly, accepting whatever future comes its way.

In May 2010 the Marietta College Board of Trustees approved Focused on Distinction, a Plan for Marietta College 2010-2015, the College’s third five-year plan since 2000. Over the past decade, the College has achieved the underlying goals of the first two plans, enrollment growth and enhanced quality and retention. We have now set a clear direction for the next five years. The overarching goal of Focused on Distinction, stated simply, is—by 2015, the position of Marietta College among American colleges and universities will be enhanced to reflect both its excellence and its distinctiveness. Seven goals provide the framework for the College’s move in this direction, and you will hear more about all of them in future messages.

For the moment, I invite you to consider three fundamental aspects of our new plan.

First, Marietta College is strong enough to define its own destiny. Recent growth in enrollment, programs and facilities has positioned us to choose from a variety of possible paths. We have made strategic decisions to emphasize quality, to build those programs that prepare students to address some of the most pressing problems of the twenty-first century, to continue as a primarily residential college while allowing for pedagogical innovations driven by new technologies, and to recognize the graduate programs as integral to the College’s mission and identity. Focused on Distinction is a plan appropriate to a mature and self-confident institution.

Second, Focused on Distinction emphasizes academic and co-curricular programs. The past decade has seen a much-needed building boom at Marietta College, the creation of environments for learning that compete with the very best. While we will continue to attend to the physical plant, begin-

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ning with the building of a new residence hall to accommodate growth and the renovation of Don Drumm Stadium, for the next five years we will focus more of our energies on the educational experience that takes place inside our buildings.

We have chosen four areas of emphasis that are interdisciplinary and distinctive—international relations with an emphasis on China, energy and protection of the environment, health and wellness, and leadership. We know that every faculty member here can contribute to the development of the College’s distinctive strength in one or more of these areas. We believe that through these signature programs we can offer every graduate, regardless of major, a unique perspective on the world and tools with which to address the problems of society. Additionally, by emphasizing experiential education such as study abroad, internships, and undergraduate research and creative endeavors, we will provide opportunities for students to translate what they have learned in the classroom into other settings, deepening their understanding and enhancing their résumés.

Third, Marietta College has made a strong commitment to its people.

Alumni speak fondly of the faculty and staff members who challenged, mentored and inspired them, and who became lifelong friends. Today’s faculty and staff uphold this tradition of excellence and accessibility in teaching at Marietta College, and they are essential to the College’s plans to move to new levels of distinction. We have set a goal to increase the compensation of faculty to the 50th percentile of their peer group and staff by a comparable percentage so that the College can continue to attract and retain the people who make the educational experience here special. Focused on Distinction recognizes that the time has come to secure the distinctiveness of the College by supporting its most important resource—its people—appropriately.

Marietta College has chosen its direction and charted its course. Unlike Alice, we care very much where we are going, and we will be thoughtful about how we get there. We are moving forward with purpose and confidence.

The Magazine of Marietta College

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Inside this issue 16 Stories of courage

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Since the Civil War, military conflicts have beckoned many members of the Marietta College family into battle. With a new wave of veterans returning to Marietta for an education after serving in the Middle East, Marietta, The Magazine of Marietta College pays tribute to the brave men and women who valiantly aided their country in the nine wars that have involved the United States since the College received its charter.

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EDITORS Tom Perry and Gi Smith DESIGNER AND ILLUSTRATOR Ryan Zundell PHOTOGRAPHERS Zachary Andrews, Mitch Casey, Anja Curwen, Grace Engard, Peter Finger, Colin Gatland, Tom Perry, Jennifer Rohrig, Marcia Stubbeman, Kurt Stepnitz, John Todd CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Nicholas Gehlfuss, Alison Matas, Dan May

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PROVOST Dr. Rita Smith Kipp VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Lori Lewis ASSOC. VP, ALUMNI & COLLEGE RELATIONS Hub Burton

CLASS NOTES Cheryl Canaday

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26 | DEVELOPMENTS News from our Advancement Office

29 | THE LONG BLUE LINE

Alumni and campus news

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PRESIDENT Dr. Jean A. Scott

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M A R I E T TA The Magazine of Marietta College is published twice a year by the Office of Alumni and College Relations. The magazine serves its readers by providing information about the activities of Marietta College alumni, students, faculty and staff through the publication of accurate and balanced content that informs and stimulates intellectual discussion.

Text, photographs, and artwork may not be reprinted without written permission of the Associate Vice President for Alumni and College Relations at Marietta.

CONTA C T U S Send address changes, letters to the editor, and class notes to Marietta Magazine, 215 Fifth Street, Marietta, OH 45750-4004. Fax: 740-376-4509; Phone: 740-376-4709; 1-800-274-4704. Email: alumni@marietta.edu COVER ART AND FEATURE DESIGNS BY ALIX NORTHRUP, ULLMAN DESIGN

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Pat Tagge ’14 and Tonya Carlile ’14 peruse the selections outside of Gilman Hall during the annual two-day poster sale.

The Sigma Kappa team of Brittany Myers ’12, Michelle Finney ’12 and Jessica Herron ’13 compete in a watermelon eating contest as part of the annual Lambda Chi Alpha Watermelon Bust fund-raiser.

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s documents go, strategic plans often rank with household appliance owner’s manuals and fine print on your cable TV contract.

Difficult to read and challenging to understand, these products of an organization’s leadership often fail to engage their audience(s) and frequently enjoy a fast track to the literal or figurative dusty shelf.

Not so for Focus on Distinction: A Plan for Marietta College 2010-2015.

HUB BURTON Far from just the predictable S.W.O.T. analysis, your alma mater’s most recent strategic planning initiative has produced something more than another introspective white paper or pie-in-the-sky wish list. Focus on Distinction continues the College’s tradition of thoughtful and realistic visioning for the future by fundamentally acknowledging ongoing progress and momentum and setting clear goals and objectives to move forward toward a position of true distinction.

This is particularly good news for alumni. Why? Linger over the plan for just a moment. It’s less than 20 pages; short by most standards. For those already reaching for the CliffsNotes, be comforted that the fundamental ele4

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ments are in bold type and much of what is proposed comes from familiar sources of strength and existing points of pride.

Spending more than a moment with this highly readable outline for the future reveals why alumni benefit from even a quick skim. Pioneers will celebrate the description of their College’s accomplishments and be heartened by the results of the institution’s 175-year check-up. More than that, however, the ambitious yet achievable agenda for the next five years will enhance not just the reputation of the College, but the value of a Marietta degree in the process.

With investment and buy-in from the complete College community that value added can and will become apparent in a job interview, a casual conversation by the pool or even during a life-altering discussion with a guidance counselor.

Focus on Distinction may never compete with Catcher in the Rye for the top of anyone’s summer reading list or displace The Pillars of the Earth as a book club selection, but it just may be the best 20-minute read you’ve had in a very long time.

To read Focus on Distinction: A Plan for Marietta College 2010-2015 visit: www.marietta.edu/magazine/strategic_plan/

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Rachel Baughman ’12 cracks a smile while being “painted” during the Paint a Sigma Kappa Masterpiece fundraiser. The event is part of the sorority’s fundraiser for its national philanthropy efforts.

Steven ’85 and Jessie Smith of Zanesville enjoy the food provided at the special tailgate for former Marietta College football players at the home opener against Muskingum.

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DEAR EDITORS, What are the odds? There I was last week sitting in the front row about a half-hour before a bluegrass performance in the North Carolina mountains. To kill time, I was reading the Marietta magazine article about Steven Moore winning the Winfield, Kan., national banjo competition—and who should sit down in front of me preparing to play but a guy named Steve Lewis, who also won the banjo contest at Winfield, but about a dozen years ago. Steve said he chose the same winner’s banjo that Steven Moore selected.

If you bump into Steven Moore, give him a challenge. Steve Lewis has also won a Wayne Henderson guitar at the annual Wayne Henderson festival (that’s coming up in a couple of weeks).

Interesting article. Interesting magazine.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Because Marietta Magazine seeks to present a wide diversity of subject matter and content, some views presented in the publication may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or those official policies maintained by Marietta College.

Letters commenting on the material or topics presented in the magazine are encouraged and are available for publication unless the author specifically asks that they do not appear in public print.

Published letters may be edited for style, length and clarity.

E-MAIL: mariettamagazine@marietta.edu FAX: 740-376-4509 MAIL: Editor, Marietta Magazine, Office of Alumni and College Relations, 215 Fifth Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750-4004 SAVE THE DATE

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ssistant professor Lori Smith has a special affinity for the war protest music of the 1960s. It makes her think of her brother.

“I remember being a kid and how my parents were worried about him being drafted (in the Vietnam War),” Smith says, “so I know that conversation, that tension that went on in the house about my brother.” Though her brother was not drafted, Smith says he served in the National Guard while in college and that many of his high school friends were called to serve.

Smith gets to talk about this era in detail in her First Year Experience course, the History of Rock ’n’ Roll, which is now in its second year.

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The course evolved from the introductory Mass Media class, which covers the history of a variety of mediums. One week is always devoted to music, and Smith could tell it was generally her students’ favorite topic.

She mentioned this to Dr. Suzanne Walker, Assistant Dean for First Year Experience and Advising, during a discussion about FYE courses.

Shortly after, the History of Rock ’n’ Roll class was born.

“The history of rock ‘n’ roll is a significant component of the study of Mass Media history. Teaching it from a mass media perspective allows students to make cross discipline connections and to view a familiar topic through a new lens. This combination makes it a perfect course for introducing first year students to college level academics,” Walker says.

> ALUMNI The two decades examined most heavily in the course are the 1950s and 1960s, concentrating on the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement. “It’s a class about music, but it’s more than that,” Smith says.

“We look at music several different ways. We look at it socially, economically, culturally, those type of things.”

And because Smith’s experience with music is largely personal, she tailors her homework to allow for individual creativity and interpretation.

“One of my assignments is, ‘If you had to put together a soundtrack of your life, what songs would you pick?’ ” One of Smith’s students, Patrick Tegge ’14, appreciates this freedom.

“Everyone’s connected to music,” he says, “(but) we all have different bands we prefer.”

When compiling his personal soundtrack, selecting one of his musical selections was simple. He knew he had to include the Eagle’s hit “Take it Easy” because the message of the song speaks to him. “I get too focused on the actual what we need to do and not step back and take some time,” Tegge says, “so it’s sort of like a learning aspect for me.”

Aside from completing the assignment, Smith also asks her students to share their reasons for choosing certain songs. “Part of FYE is getting to know each other, and so I try to make it musical,” Smith says.

Even beyond these projects, students in Smith’s class have the opportunity to bond on a deeper level than they might in a typical Marietta College course because the class is a component of a residential learning community experience. Students in the course live on the same dormitory floors and also take Communication Fundamentals together.

Consequently, a sense of camaraderie is inherent.

“There is a completely different dynamic to the classroom,” Smith says. “You can tell you have a group of students who all know each other.”

What helps further forge these relationships are the excursions the group takes, as Smith strives to incorporate social events outside of class.

Last year, students watched “Across the Universe” together and went to the movie theater to see Michael Jackson’s “This is It.” Perhaps the most exciting trip of the semester, however, is when Smith takes the students to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland so they can explore history for themselves. Last year, the venture was funded by a $500 Hartel grant which provided a package deal for the students—they received lunch, got a discount at the gift store and participated in a scavenger hunt.

The money was awarded for the purpose of helping with freshmen retention. Of the 18 students Smith had in 2009, she knows 16 are still here. “I understand that they’re all really good friends,” she says.

From the sound of it, this year’s class is experiencing the same results.

“A lot of us get along really well,” Tegge says. “It’s always nice to know that somebody’s there to help you if you have any problems.”

And, for Smith, round two of the course is proving to be equally entertaining. “It was fun,” she says. “I’m having fun again.”

Alumnus retires from Transportation Safety Board D O B R A N E T S K I ’ S W O R K H AS CONTRIBUTED TO N AT I O N A L R A I LWAY S A F E TY

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d Dobranetski ’64 always kept two travel bags packed at all times—one in his office and one in his home.

“I had to be ready to leave in two hours’ notice,” he says.

“Some days, I’d call my wife in the afternoon and tell her I was in Montana or some other state and that I’d see her in a week.”

The impetus behind his last-minute travels was his job as the chief of major railroad investigations for the National Transportation Safety Board. Earlier this year, he retired from the job in which he investigated more than 50 major railroad accidents, including last year’s deadly Washington, D.C., metro crash that killed nine people. He will appear in an episode of Modern Marvels on the Discovery Channel later this year, offering his expertise on how and why that crash occurred.

For 25 years Dobranetski pieced together the causes of terrible train crashes. “But we also have helped make transportation much safer for people. I’ve made between 60 and 70 safety recommendations during my career,” he says.

Before working for the NTSB, he worked for 20 years in the railroad industry in western Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Gaithersburg, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C. He is the father of two adult children.

Dobranetski came to Marietta College in 1960 from his childhood hometown of Rayland, Ohio. He was in the preengineering program. After his sophomore year, he transferred to Ohio Northern to study civil engineering. He earned a graduate degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University.

At the time this article was written, Dobranetski was looking forward to his first visit to campus since the 1960s.

“When I was a student at Marietta, I was in the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity—which no longer exists there. We will be celebrating our 150th anniversary at the end of October.”

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T R U E S C H O L A R Interning at Michigan State University, Ashley Parker ’12 got the opportunity to work in the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, and by the summer’s end she had written abstracts on Molybdenum, Rhodium, Rubidium and Strontium.

By summer’s end, she wrote abstracts on Molybdenum, Rubidium, Rhodium and Strontium.

Thoennessen says Parker proved to be an excellent choice for the program and her work will be published in a scientific journal.

But Parker’s work wasn’t confined to one task.

She also participated in an experiment involving the Modular Neutron Detector Array (MoNA), which is “a large area, high efficiency neutron detector designed for neutrons stemming from breakup reactions of fast rare isotope beams,” according to the project’s description. Around the clock for five days, Parker and others worked shifts in the data acquisition room.

Dr. Dennis Kuhl, Rickey Associate Professor of Physics at Marietta, earned his doctorate degree in surface physics from Michigan State and also

wrote a letter of recommendation for Parker to earn a spot in the REU program.

“The openings are competitive, and usually only go to students between their junior and senior years,” Kuhl says. “Ashley was very fortunate to be selected between her sophomore and junior years. I’ve had Ashley in a number of classes, starting with General Physics, and she has always been a very bright, hard-working and enthusiastic student. She has never wavered in her dedication to pursue an education in physics, and I think these qualities served her very well this past summer.”

Once Parker was accepted into the program, she and the other REU interns learned that having the program was also a recruitment tool for the graduate school. She also learned that MSU, which operates NSCL with funding by NSF, ob-

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ickey Scholar Ashley Parker ’12 describes her passion for physics similarly to how a painter might describe the inspiration behind a particular art form.

“I knew when I was a senior in high school that this was what I wanted to study. I first took physics during the first half of my junior year. The second half I took AP physics. I love physics because it explains everything,” she says. “I don’t think I could study anything else because I’d always be thinking about physics.”

A full-time internship at Michigan State University this summer further solidified her desire to become a research physicist.

In addition to earning a stipend, her work produced a first-author publication for four isotopes. “I was assigned certain elements for which I had to find the oldest published article regarding each isotope of that element. I then verified that this article conveyed correct data on the half-life or gamma ray energies of the given isotope and that it was correctly identified,” she says.

The opportunity to work in the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at MSU came about through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which is operated through the National Science Foundation.

Parker was one of 14 undergraduate students nationally selected for the REU at MSU. “There were 300 applications for this program,” says her internship advisor, Dr. Michael Thoennessen, who is a professor at MSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Associate Director of the NSCL. “The (NSF) project was designed to bring in about 15 bright undergraduate students from small colleges to work with individual research groups.

It gives them an opportunity to see what research is like.”

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tained funding last December by the U.S. Department of Energy for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a major new accelerator facility. The addition will make Michigan State one of the top nuclear physics research facilities in the world. In the short term, NSCL will add the capability of reaccelerating radioactive beams with ReA3 comes online.

“I still have two years of Marietta College left,” she says. “I plan to attend graduate school, definitely— most likely in nuclear physics at MSU due to the ReA3 beam, which is currently under construction (and) which will make the NSCL a world research leader for five to 10 years. Perfect timing. If I am a graduate student there working with that beam, there is a good chance I would be assisting in the discovery of new isotopes or revealing new insights into the structure of the nucleus.”

The experience of working at the superconducting lab and putting in full shifts has allowed Parker to understand that much of a researcher’s work involves analyzing data on a computer. In order to do the research, she had to learn two computer languages— LATEX and ROOT. Though the work was tedious and challenging, it is also allowing a verified point of reference to physicists who are conducting research on isotopes and trying to discover and document other ones.

“I came out of this internship with a real appreciation and dedication to learn all that I can about physics at Marietta and to work harder in math because it’s the language of physics,” Parker says. “Marietta has an excellent undergraduate program. There are four professors in the physics department, which is unheard of in a college this size. And the professors all come from the best physics colleges in the nation.”

In addition to completing her studies at Marietta, Parker’s next step is to pursue another REU but one that focuses on a different branch of physics.

“I’d really like to go to Berkeley,” she says. “They have the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Now is the time for me to learn about the various areas of physics so I can discover which specialty is most fitted to my skills. The more experiences I have now, the better informed I’ll be for the future.”

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n a balmy August afternoon, Amber Vance ’12 met with a group of fellow students, staff and faculty to talk about the life—and “afterlife”—of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman whose unwitting cellular donation just before her death in 1951 continues to result in some of the greatest medical advances in history.

Rebecca Skloot’s novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is the first book chosen for the campus’ Common Reading Program. The reading initiative is designed to give the entire campus community a shared intellectual experience through the reading and subsequent discussion of a book that focuses on one contemporary issue. This year, that issue is health and wellness.

Lacks was terminally ill from cervical cancer when her doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a sample of her cervix and gave it to a husband and wife medical research team, who found that her cells, identified as HeLa, did not die after dividing. Since the discovery in late 1951, her cells have been used to find successful cancer treatments, the polio vaccine and other medical breakthroughs. The crux of the controversy is that Lacks’ surviving family members contend that no one knew the sample had been taken or that research on them would be conducted for decades.

For Vance, who will be headed to medical school when she graduates, the book’s most salient point is how much research has been conducted without consent. “The biggest fact that jumped out to me in the book was how many tissue samples and samples of people they have just in labs,” Vance says. “I’m not really comfortable with working with something that’s been taken without the patient’s knowledge.”

Marietta’s Provost, Dr. Rita Smith Kipp, is especially pleased with the faculty and staff’s participation. “It was totally voluntary, we did not supply the books for people, and given that, I’m very happy with how many faculty and staff took the opportunity to show up. From everything I heard, every one of them enjoyed the discussion immensely and said we need to do this more often,” Kipp says.

Chemistry professor Debbie Egolf, who helped facilitate the dialogue, hopes the novel would force students to consider the moral choice isn’t always clear. “Things aren’t all black and white in terms of what’s right and what’s wrong,” she says. “There are shades of gray, and there are lots of questions to consider.”

The quality of conversation has encouraged Kipp to assign another common reading next year. For her, the activity proved the importance of broader collegiate discussion. “I think it shows us the value of at least having some ideas that a lot of people can talk about across departmental and disciplinary boundaries,” Kipp says. “So often our intellectual conversations are within our classes or our major, and this really brought people together across those boundaries.”

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att Heinzman ’12 is preparing to study for a semester in China this spring.

It will be the third time the International Business and Asian Studies major has spent an extended period of time overseas. His interest in China began during his freshman year, when he chose to room with two international students from China.

“When you go to another country and are immersed within the culture, you start to learn how they think,” Heinzman says. “So as leaders in the next generation of business, we are able to think about ideas and try to solve problems from not only an American perspective, but an international perspective as well. We will be able to approach problems from different angles and have a better understanding of why a certain country is doing something different.

Going abroad really affected the way I think about problems and come up with new ideas.”

Internationalization, particularly emphasizing the potential of China, is one of the four niche programs that Marietta College will endeavor to develop as signature programs as part of the 2010-15 strategic plan, Focused on Distinction.

Approved by the Board of Trustees in May of this year, the new plan serves as a touchstone for the College for the next five years.

“This plan calls for a focus on programs and on people,” says Marietta President Dr. Jean Scott. “Over the last 10 years a lot of what we have accomplished has been done by building the physical infrastructure of the College, which needed to be done.”

Through this construction, which includes Legacy Library, Dyson Baudo Recreation Center, McCoy Hall, Rickey Science Center, Anderson Hancock Planetarium, Beiser Field Station, and the acquisition and renovation of the Physiciant Assistant Building renovations to Fayerweather, Erwin and Mills halls, Marietta has been able to grow in physical size. This was the type of growth that was intended during the Higher Ground plan and is a point of pride for Dr. Scott.

The new plan is a call to action to develop the quality of the programs and invest in the people that make up the spirit of the College.

“I think it is time to be sure that the programs that take place on this campus and the people who are providing those programs are being supported,” Dr. Scott says. “I hear faculty say, ‘Does it ever

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Last fall, during the start of Marietta’s 175th anniversary of receiving its charter, a group of faculty, administrators and students began developing Focused on Distinction, outlining seven specific short-term goals for the College.

Vision 2020, which was crafted in 2007, is a set of ambitions based on what makes Marietta distinct. The new strategic plan moves Marietta forward toward reaching Vision 2020’s aspirations.

“Focused on Distinction pushes forward in all of those areas. We’re trying to develop programs that are very distinctive—that will be what people think oft when they think about Marietta College,” Scott says.

The goals include: developing the four niche programs—leadership, internationalization with a focus on China, health and wellness, and energy and the environment—into signature programs; supporting experiential education and teaching innovations; attracting and retaining quality faculty and staff; emphasizing the ideals that make Marietta a residential college by better supporting athletics and student life programs; building a residence hall; and developing the basis of the next comprehensive campaign to support the long-term strength of the College.

The plan also includes a revised mission statement and core values. Technology, a former core value, was folded into the value “World of Work” and Financial Planning, while still fundamental to the success of the College, was removed from the core values which describe the educational tenets of the College.

“The strategic planning committee said if we can’t do everything on our list, the three things in this plan we think we have to do are the international emphasis, the attention to salaries, and building a residence hall so we can grow,” she says. “We will do a lot more than that, but those things are at the top of our list.”

Dr. Janet Bland, Associate Professor of English, served on the committee. As an educator, she appreciates how the past strategic plans—Higher Ground (2004-10) and To Thrive in the Floodplain (2000-05)—have facilitated an environment that enhances the teaching and learning experience.

“Bricks and mortar do indeed matter,” Bland says. “No one wants to teach a class without adequate facilities. But what President Scott is alluding to is the clear institutional priority (from her office down) to support the people inside those buildings…

We’re a small liberal arts college—the value-added element of the education that we offer is the relationships that students can have with their professors. We educate on a very human level, and it certainly makes me happy to see that ‘human factor’ priority clearly articulated in the strategic plan.”

Bland says during the sessions that the committee met, the group continuously asked themselves what they wanted the

College to look like and what they want students to have gained from Marietta when they graduate.

“This plan (is) very student-centered—in terms of why we get together and make these plans in the first place,” Bland says. “If it’s not about the students, who are the primary reason we are here, what would be the point of making plans?”

Another major emphasis is on experiential education, which entails the study abroad program, internships, investigative studies (or undergraduate research and creative endeavors), and service learning.

Heinzman reiterates the need for more students to pursue an international experience during their college years.

“As Americans, when we’re young we are taught to respect every culture in the world but we grow up thinking that America is the best country to live in and that we are the most powerful country,” Heinzman says. “If we as leaders of the new globalized world do not have any international experience, how are we going to be able to work with and communicate with other countries? Now that most every country depends on each other for some form of good or service, we need to be able to cooperate with all people of different cultures and different countries.”

One of the most reassuring reactions to the new plan is that so many members of campus are talking about it, says Student Senate President Josh Maxwell ’11, who served on the planning committee. “The student body is definitely being conscious of the strategic plan by looking at how the things that we do impact or work with the plan.”

As a McDonough Scholar, Maxwell thinks the program is on the right path to becoming a signature program. “If you look at the McDonough Web site, you see that the site is not solely the Leadership Program. The site showcases the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business and that the Leadership Program is one aspect of the center that involves 70 students.”

When asked why he took such an interest in serving on the committee, Maxwell says the success of the College directly impacts his success.

“I worry about the future of the College five years from now—10 years from now—because the reputation of my Marietta College degree, the quality of my degree is only as good as the reputation of Marietta College,” Maxwell says. “So 10 years down the road if Marietta College collapses, no one’s going to care that I had an undergraduate degree from this great liberal arts college. The more prestigious, the more successful Marietta College becomes the more successful and the more prestigious my degree gets viewed by any potential employer.”

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ever one to squander a day away with free time, Ryan Eschbaugh ’07 stopped by campus early one morning this summer ready to talk about medical school.

“I slept a long time last night, which is pretty odd these days,” he says as his hands cup a gourmet coffee, and then takes a sip. “I’m so used to having a coffee every morning now that I wanted to have one.”

Between his rigorous schedule as a third-year medical school student at Ohio University, studying and volunteering once a month at a homeless shelter, Eschbaugh is a man on the go, much like he was as an athletic training major and Pioneer shortstop at Marietta College.

“Medical school is really doable if you want it. The level of difficulty is not through the roof, but the amount of material is a lot,” he says. “Don’t get me wrong, we’re busy every day.

I’m not saying med school is easy. But I didn’t have time to sit around and do nothing at Marietta. Playing sports was definitely an advantage, but I also had classes that helped my confidence. I was well ahead of many of my classmates in anatomy because of my experiences in Athletic Training and Dr. Kevin Pate’s Organic Chemistry class was one of the best I’ve ever had.”

Marietta has a long tradition of working closely with students who want to pursue a pre-professional program, such as medical, dental, veterinary, or optometry school. Rather than have a pre-med major, Marietta offers majors in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry or Athletic Training to prepare students for the gamut of professional schools. Each of these programs have success stories, but Pate says the College has seen the most success with Biochemistry and Biology majors matriculating to medical school.

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For students who prefer to major in other areas but who still want to attend a professional school, faculty advise them to take specific prerequisite science courses that are required by the professional schools they would like to attend. Because these requirements vary from school-to-school, Marietta offers designated faculty members who help students prepare the for the process of getting into a quality program as well as finding success in their education at this stage.

“My door is always open, so students will drop by all the time to talk—or they’ll send emails,” says Dr. Pate, who guides many students through the process. “I also have every pre-med student for at least one full year of class (Organic Chemistry) and sometimes for more if I taught them General Chemistry or an advanced chemistry course. We typically have a large meeting in the fall, and during the school year we have occasional talks and visits from medical schools.”

The campus also offers the Health Science Professionals Club, a Career Center and the Rounds Program, which puts students in contact with doctors, medical school admission counselors and others who can offer advice on preparing for medical school. Dr. Todd Myers ’91, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and is a local OB/GYN, coordinates the Rounds Program.

Being a pre-med advisor for the past 35 years, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Dr. Robert Walker has seen significant changes in the dynamic of the pre-professional program at Marietta.

“When I first arrived at Marietta, there were very few women who were applying to medical school. Now I think about half of our applicants are women,” Walker says. “Another big change at Marietta is the number of options our pre-med students

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have for a choice of a major. It used to be that most of our pre-med students majored in Biology or Chemistry. But with the addition of the Biochemistry major in the 1970s and then majors in Sports Medicine/ Athletic Training in later years, our pre-med students now have many more choices in selecting a major.”

Dr. Dave McShaffrey, Professor of Biology, says he can’t remember the last time a qualified student majoring in Biochemistry or Biology didn’t get accepted.

“I think the success is due to a number of factors—hard work on the part of the students, good basic science instruction across the curriculum, and a liberal arts program that produces students who not only know the science but can clearly communicate their knowledge in speaking and writing,” McShaffrey says.

While Eschbaugh chose the Athletic Training major, current Marietta student Frank Cikach ’11 opted for Biochemistry and Athletic Training, which requires four clinical rotations: lower extremity intensive, upper extremity intensive, equipment intensive and general medicine.

“With the general medicine rotation we can place students at Marietta Memorial and Selby hospital emergency rooms to gain experience,” says Sam Crowther, Director of Marietta College’s Athletic Training Program. “We hope that the students get involved not so much with the trauma of the emergency room, but with patient interaction learning about non-orthopedic conditions (eye, ear, abdominal, heart, lung) they would not normally see at the college setting.”

Cikach praises the College’s Career Center for providing him guidance. “They have helped me through the pre-med process, and the med-

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ical school application process. I was fortunate enough to get a test-prep scholarship through the Career Center and through the good graces of Dr. Richard Krause ’47. The scholarship goes toward a Kaplan prep course, which is quite expensive, but almost a necessary part of MCAT preparation.”

By working on two majors, Cikach has positioned himself well as he begins applying for medical school.

“I’ve gotten to learn about in-depth aspects of sports medicine, and I’ve been taught how to apply what I learn in the classroom to real world situations. I think that being an Athletic Training major has really supplemented my pre-medical experience,” Cikach says.

Cikach says he has benefitted greatly from both majors, and adds the part of the Athletic Training program he appreciates the most is the contact he has with patients. “Every semester that I was in the AT program I got to have hands on contact with athletes. It was very much like a doctor-patient relationship. When meeting with an injured athlete, I got to evaluate them much like a doctor evaluates a sick patient. That kind of early contact and experience diagnosing injuries will pay dividends down the road in medical school.”

Eschbaugh agrees. “I did a medical mission to El Salvador and I volunteer with an organization called Good Works in Athens, but nothing prepared me more for working and listening to a patient than my time in Athletic Training. There are many students who are great with the science part of medicine, but they have a lot to learn when it comes to listening to patients. Marietta helped me there a lot.”

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dwin Keyes was born to be a teacher.

As a teenager growing up in Morgan County, Ohio, he thrived on teaching the younger children in the township. He attended Marietta College until his junior year, married a local woman and had a son, who bore his name. He moved his family north and founded the Tupperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plains Seminary, which educated young men and women for careers in teaching.

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But by summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end Keyes, a deeply patriotic man, volunteered to take a path that took him from his beloved family and career to fight in the Civil War. Since 1835, when Marietta College was chartered, the United States has been involved in nine major military conflicts. From the American Civil War and Spanish-American War in the 19th century, to the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm in the 20th century, and now with Operation Iraqi Freedom and the War on Terror, members of the Marietta College community have consistently raised their hands when the nation has called for service.

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oday, as a new wave of veterans come home from war and begin their education at Marietta, the College reflects on the level of patriotism that generations of students have displayed during the many national crises.

With every battle, a new thread was added to the fabric of the country and this campus. Though the College has letters and news articles about the experiences that Long Blue Liners faced on the battlefields, they barely scratch the surface in explaining the great sacrifices each made in service to America.

On Aug. 12, 1862, Capt. Edwin Keyes signed up to fight for the Union Army. He returned to Marietta to lead Company B of the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with some of his seminary students serving under his command.

In January 1863, a few months before Marietta College bestowed on him an honorary Master of Arts degree, Keyes penned a letter to his father:

I meet with the sorest trials and endure the keenest temptations.

But through all these my Savior sustains me. Indeed, I feel while leaning on his powerful arm, that nothing can harm me. These are my feelings in scenes of danger…I know not but sorer trials are in store for me. My country may demand the poor offering of my life, and my dear wife and darling boy be left without their earthly stay and support. But if the bitter cup must be drained, trusting in my Savior, I hope to be sustained as life is laid upon the altar.

Less than two years later, Keyes was shot multiple times and was taken prisoner by the soldiers in the Confederate Army. He died on July 19, 1864, in Lynchburg, Va., surrounded by his captors.

Before the close of the 19th century, a small group of Marietta College alumni were engaged in another conflict: the Spanish-American War. “The Spanish American War aroused some interest among the students although they were naturally not so stirred as an earlier generation had been by the Civil War and as a later generation was to be by the World War,” writes the late Arthur Beach in A Pioneer College: The Story of Marietta.

A copy of the October 1898 publication Our War Boys lists 19 men serving in the war, including Capt. Verne Bovie, Class of 1890, who served in Company C of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the two captains of the 7th who “refused to drill his men until they were better fed.”

Twenty years later, at the outset of World War I, the student publication The Rank and File announced that 200 Marietta College students had committed to the war. The Oct. 12, 1918 piece announced:

According to schedule at 11 o’clock, Tuesday morning, October 1, Lieutenant Wallis W. Webber, Commanding Officer of the S.A.T.C. of Marietta College, declared the institution to be an armypost [sic] and with the induction of approximately two hundred men into the service, the college once more demonstrated its fitness to rise to an emergency in the country’s need.

In addition to many of the students leaving to fight in the war, another battle was being waged on campus—one against the Spanish influenza, which at one point caused the campus to be quarantined. Three weeks after declaring the College an Army post, 19-year-old Cadet officer Max Gorham Williams died of pneumonia at a local hospital.

Located outside of Gilman Hall, the War Dead Plaque lists the names of Marietta College men who died during the Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. During WWI, eight Marietta College students died in battle. Williams is not listed on the War Dead Plaque on campus. The largest number of casualties is attributed to World War II, in which 35 men died fighting.

Before World War II, the College had 430 students. From 1943-44, there were fewer than 200 men and women enrolled.

Esther Gravenkemper Stowe ’44 was one of the students who left Marietta early because of the war. Recently, she donated three boxes of personal letters to Special Collections from her late husband James, an Ohio University student who enlisted in the U.S. Army.

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She met her future husband while dancing in the Wakefield Hotel in 1942. He had written her a business letter asking that she consider going on a date with him. “He provided three references,” she says. “I responded in German: Dear Sir, If you ever figure out what this letter says then yes I’ll go out with you.”

The two were married in June of 1943 and Mrs. Stowe left Marietta.

When her husband returned from the war and her children were further grown, she resumed classes at Marietta. Though she technically graduated in 1960, she is still listed with the class of 1944.

“Back in my day, we wrote letters,” Stowe says. “I lived for them every single day. We were at war, I was expecting our first child and he was in another part of the world fighting. There was nothing like getting a letter in the mail. You poured your heart out in a letter.”

Mrs. Stowe came to Marietta in 1940. She recalls when most of the men left to fight and when the campus became a training base. She lived in Dorothy Webster Hall until a group of Air Force cadets needed the space for bunking.

“The soldier boys moved us into the college president’s house and Dean (Merrill) Patterson’s house,” she says. “Before the cadets took over our dorm, my roommates and I scoured through the city looking for empty beer and booze bottles. We filled one of the closets up to the very top with empty bottles. I’m sure they were quite surprised when they opened the door—but it really gave us a laugh to think about what was going through their minds about Marietta girls and what they had to do to get rid of all those bottles.”

After the war, a massive influx of returning veterans led the College to take drastic measures to accommodate the hundreds of new students in need of housing. Some men slept in the gymnasium. Other veterans who returned married with children needed special housing as well.

Housing included mobile homes, military-type barracks, a U.S. Coast Guard floating dormitory on the Muskingum River and nearby privately owned homes.

Dr. Stanley Katz ’49 had spend much of his military service sleeping in tight quarters so he opted to rent a room near campus rather than bunking with a hundred or so students in the gym.

“When I turned 18, you had a choice of being drafted or enlisting,” Katz says. “I enlisted in the Army Air Corps. After 2½ years of training, I graduated navigation school and bombardier school.” By late 1944 Lt. Flight Officer Stanley Katz had flown 22 bombing missions with the 2nd Air Division over Germany. Of his time overseas, he notes that his commanding officer in England was the late actor Jimmy Stewart, whom he grew to greatly admire.

“I got out in 1945 and I was anxious to go to college,” Katz says. “I

went through a counseling service in New York. I told them I wanted to go someplace quiet and small. They told me about Marietta College.”

During his time at Marietta, he met his wife Sylvia Skolnick Katz ’49 and studied biology. “I met her in Pittsburgh,” Katz says. “I was staying at the William Penn Hotel to spend a long weekend with a friend when I get this call from the front desk asking me to come down.”

Five young women were waiting for him. They were students at Marietta College.

“They had taken a bus from Marietta to Pittsburgh and they wanted me to give them a ride back. I told them I had one condition—the striking girl with auburn hair had to ride up front next to me,” Katz says.

“On Sept. 7, we celebrated our 63rd wedding anniversary.”

It wasn’t long after the WWII veterans got settled into life back in America before the rumblings of war once again called for soldiers. The Korean War first drew 65 students from campus to fight and eventually called 57 more men to serve. Enrollment dropped to 580 full-time students in the spring of 1952.

One of the most memorable soldiers from that era is Col. Dean Hess ’41, whose book Battle Hymn was made into a Hollywood movie.

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that Hess helped to support during and after the war.

The ordained minister and Air Force pilot included memories of Marietta in his book, particularly paying tribute to President Harry Eversull:

The officials of the College remained extraordinarily kind and considerate in helping me. Dr. Harry K. Eversull, the president, used to call me in to ask how I was doing. Did I have a job that would see me through? Was there any way in which he could help me develop a work-and-study program? One of my professors, a particularly strict disciplinarian, rescheduled an exam for me one morning when he saw that my head was nodding. To these people I shall always be grateful.”

Unlike the previous wars in the 20th century, the Vietnam War drew a mix of supporters and dissenters, though veterans like Marine Sgt. Bill White ’78 don’t recall much protest during his time at Marietta.

After studying at Ohio University for three semesters, Bill White knew he wasn’t ready to be a college student. Wanting to drastically change

Nyro and quoted the composer in his final paper:

I love my country as it dies/ In war and pain before my eyes./ I walk the streets where disrespect has been,/ The sins of politics, the politics of sin,/ The heartlessness that darkens my soul/ On Christmas.

White earned an A in the class.

He says he left the war the moment he stepped off the plane in Columbus and reunited with his parents. He still views the country and people of Vietnam with great regard and hopes to return one day.

Aside from the long-standing Cold War that stretched through decades of America’s history, the country remained relatively peaceful until the end of 1990 when troops were sent to a tiny country in the Persian Gulf to oust invading Iraqi forces. A little more than a decade later, the U.S. would again be in the Middle East.

This time, America was fighting two wars.

After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. and its allies embarked on a mission to pursue the extremists who were responsible. Two

“When I got back, I was ready for college,” he says. One of his first classes was Bill Hartel’s course on the Vietnam War in the summer of 1971. Initially, White didn’t believe that Hartel had a clue as to what was happening in Southeast Asia. “It turned out that he had a lot of clues.” his environment, the Marietta native decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps and commit four years of his life to serve his country.

In three years he attended Marine boot camp, trained for the infantry at Camp Pendleton, completed aviation school in Memphis and was stationed in North Carolina at the Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF) New River, Camp Lejeune. In December of 1969, he was promoted to sergeant and shipped out to Da Nang Air Base in the northernmost province in South Vietnam to serve with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.

He served his remaining year there.

“When I got back, I was ready for college,” he says. One of his first classes was Bill Hartel’s course on the Vietnam War in the summer of 1971. Initially, White didn’t believe that Hartel had a clue as to what was happening in Southeast Asia. “It turned out that he had a lot of clues.”

While Hartel supported his opinions with the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Walt Whitman, White found meaning in a lyric by the late Laura

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years later, a second Iraq War would be waged to oust Saddam Hussein and his military regime. Though combat operations have ended in Iraq, two alumni lost their lives in the conflict. In July of 2007, Army 1st Lt. Christopher Rutherford ’03 died when an explosive device was detonated near his vehicle in Balad, Iraq. Earlier that year, civilian Andrea Parhamovich ’00 was killed by insurgents during an ambush. Ironically, she interned with Bill White’s company during her senior year.

Veterans from these wars are filtering into campus to either begin or continue their education. The Post 9/11 G.I. Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program are making their college journey financially possible. These programs either pay for college entirely or pay a portion of tuition, depending on the amount of time the veteran served. Veterans can also transfer their credits to dependants. There are 13 students at Marietta who are benefiting from these programs.

Blaze Rogers ’13 arrived at Marietta College after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years. He continues to serve in the Army

National Guard. While in the Marines, he served throughout the Middle East and in Spain and Cuba. While in the National Guard, he was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months.

“I was in high school when 9/11 happened and I knew I would enlist as soon as I graduated,” he says. “I came to Marietta because I want to get a degree in history and I want to continue my military service. You have to have a degree these days if you want to get ahead.”

Currently, Jon Boyce ’14 is serving in the National Guard while majoring in environmental science and biology. He served six years of active duty in the Army and was a Rank Specialist. He is one of the people on campus trying to create a special group called Veterans Connections, which will serve as a resource for veterans on campus. “At this point, it will be a collection of information that veterans and benefit family members can use but I would like to see it grow into some-

thing more than that,” he says.

Rogers and White see their experiences in the military and during war as incredible adventures that have given them irreplaceable experiences. It also has reinforced the gratitude that they have toward the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who fought before them.

W E B S I T E For more on Tim Bennett, please visit: “It pales in comparison to what our parents did in World War II,” http://www.marietta.edu/magazine/bennett White says. “Tom Brokaw was right, that was the greatest generation. … If my experiences in Vietnam helped me appreciate what my father’s generation did, then that’s all right.”

O N T H E W E B To read more about the Yellow Ribbon program, please visit www.marietta.edu/magazine/yellowribbon

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Following his exemplary work with the USRowing International team this summer, Agnini is primed to take over his own program somewhere soon.

“A lot of people took notice of the work he did,” says Mike Teti, Cal crew coach. “The boats he coached this summer had never medaled before. He’s a coach on the rise.”

The former Pioneer rowing standout recently helped coach the United States to a pair of medals at the 2010 World Rowing Under 23 Championship in Brest, Belarus. This summer marked the third year that Agnini has been an assistant coach on the national team and his fourth appearance at a world championship event. His first experience came while he was rowing with the Heavyweight 2+ from Penn AC won the B Final at the 2007 World Rowing Championship.

“In 2008, Tim McLaren, who is now the current Olympic coach, asked me to help with the U23s and coach the Lightweight 4-,” Agnini says. “I’ve been fortunate to do that every summer since.”

Under Agnini’s guidance, the Lightweight 4- made the B Final of the World Rowing U23 Championships in both 2008 and 2009.

This season, Agnini expanded his duties and took charge of both the Lightweight 4- and Heavyweight 4-, and assisted with the Heavyweight 8+.

“I made it a point to do more homework this year on the lightweight athlete pool so I began looking at all the talent in the U.S. at different lightweight programs,” Agnini says.

Agnini’s shells were comprised of rowers representing the California-Berkeley, Columbia, U.S. Naval Academy, Princeton, Stanford, Washington and Yale. The hard work on and off the water produced positive results at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships as the Lightweight 4 won a bronze medal and the Heavyweight 4- comfortably won the B Final. The Heavyweight 8+ brought home a silver medal.

“This summer was special because we were able to work with guys from different programs who are working together with a common goal,” Agnini says. “During the collegiate season, these guys are at each other’s throats every time they race.”

Agnini, who is in his fourth season as an assistant varsity coach at Cal, admits he must adjust to coaching the national team each summer.

“During the year at Cal, our focus with the guys is mixing a high level of performance on the water and in the classroom.

Berkeley is a very competitive university and the guys on the team need to be very balanced to be able to work toward a degree and a national championship at the same time,” he says.

“During the summer, we are able to row two or three times a day, consistently. This is very necessary since we are trying to blend guys who come from different universities. They also don’t

have the stress of exams and papers, etc. It’s just row/eat/row/ eat/row/sleep and repeat.”

Agnini, who helped lead Marietta’s Heavyweight 8+ to a bronze medal at the 2002 Dad Vail Championship and won a handful of national championships as a rower with Penn AC, attributes his success as a coach to his time at Marietta College.

“Marietta gave me the chance to find out who I was,” Agnini says. “It is impossible to get lost in the crowd at Marietta, which is really why I chose it—for the caliber of the education.”

Agnini, who earned a degree in Psychology, recalls how the relationships and interactions with his professors helped him discover himself. “Dr. James O’Donnell, Dr. Mark Sibicky and Dr. Mary Barnas, to name a few, were incredibly influential during my time in Marietta and even today. I truly value everything they taught me and I really miss being in the classroom with them.”

Agnini also credits former Marietta rowing coach John Bancheri with shaping him as a rower and a person. “John taught us a lot about ourselves,” Agnini says. “He was also amazing at extracting everyone’s best out of them. He is a master at creating a chip on your shoulder. He was very instrumental in making me who I am today.”

Agnini aspires to be a head coach of a collegiate program and made the move to California to take advantage of its rowing resources. “I have been fortunate enough to learn from and work with some amazing coaches—Steve Gladstone, Tim McLaren and Mike Teti,” Agnini says. “I have also been lucky to have these men trust me enough to be extensions of them as an assistant coach.”

Teti says he’s fortunate to have someone of Agnini’s demeanor and professionalism to assist him every day.

“Luke has evolved as a coach, but not just under my leadership. He’s evolved under a lot of people,” Teti says. “He has a great knowledge of the sport and he has a great disposition with the athletes. He’s pretty even tempered. He always gets the job done. You give him a task and he’s going to do it 100 percent of the time. He’s one of those people I wish I could be like.”

He also looks forward to continuing his role as a national coach. But no matter where he ends up, Agnini is determined to promote the values that made him a Way-Weigelt Award winner.

“Rowing is about so much more than just results and medals.

Being involved with these guys at this stage in their lives is very fulfilling and allows you to be a positive force on them,” he says.

“I tell the Cal guys all the time, this is just a stage in your life.

One day, I don’t want to know you as Joe Smith the national champion, I want to know you as Joe Smith the father and husband and lawyer or doctor, etc. But being Joe Smith the national champion is great too.”

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aving a back-up plan would have been the smart move, and Katie Stumpp ’08 knows it. But what fun would that have been?

“I couldn’t let myself think I wouldn’t get this. This was really what I wanted to do and I worked hard to get it,” she says. “If there had been something else in the back of my head I might not have worked as hard for this outstanding opportunity.”

Her gamble paid off. Katie was one of only 19 selected by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) out of a pool of more than 600 applicants to be a part of the much-coveted internship class for 2010-11.

The NCAA is a semi-voluntary association of more than 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

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Her primary duties in the Eligibility Center are processing prospective student-athletes’ academic and amateurism certifications during her yearlong internship, which began June 7.

“August was our busy season as student-athletes were getting ready to report to school,” Katie says. “I am getting an unbelievable experience and meeting a lot of people in the membership.”

Growing up in Wheeling, W.Va., Katie was around intercollegiate athletics almost her entire life. Her father, Jay DeFruscio, was a successful basketball coach at Wheeling Jesuit for 18 seasons, and Katie never missed a game.

Jay moved the family to Indianapolis when he took a job as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.

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Davis ’12 is the person at the controls of Marietta College’s new video scoreboard at Don Drumm Stadium.

“As the operator I aim to be timely and punctual with the play that’s taking place during the game. I also strive to pump up the crowd by displaying animations that get the crowd involved and evoke them to cheer on the Pioneers,” she says. “I even found that the animations I showed during (the first) game prompted the crowd to start chants. There were a few times where I caught fans starting a ‘Defensive’ cheer after I displayed the defense animation on the video board.”

The new $122,000 scoreboard and video display are just a part of the $3.6 million stadium renovation that will be finished by the start of the 2011 football season. The project got the green light when the Chlapaty family committed $2.6 million in December 2009.

“The reason we added the scoreboard and video display this season was so we could keep the energy alive and show some progress toward the completion of this renovation to the historic Don Drumm Stadium,” says Larry Hiser, Director of Athletics. “I have heard nothing but positive remarks from people in the community, our fans seem to love it, and representatives from Marietta High School have been very positive.”

Installation costs were about another $20,000, but the high definition video board with white LED lights has also been a big hit with the team. The scoreboard was purchased from OES Scoreboards, while the video board came from Yesco, a company that specializes in LED products.

“Before the first game I looked into the stands and saw a lot of fans admiring the new video board. A few of the football players have told me that they really liked it,” Davis says. “I actually had one player even tell me that I should keep his photo up there longer to get him some more publicity.”

Hiser says the video board will also have an immediate impact on home track meets. The Pioneers will be able to put a virtual clock on it and they can post results almost simultaneously at the conclusion of an event.

“We can also use it for campus announcements, photos of players who made a big play and hopefully soon we’ll be able to add video from past games,” Hiser says. “This is a great addition as it provides some closure at the other end of the stadium and also allows people on Greene Street to see the score as they drive by.”

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Division III Track & Field Championships at Don Drumm Stadium.

“Katie is an exceptional young woman. She was a valuable asset in her various roles within Marietta College’s Department of Athletics. The NCAA Office is lucky to have someone of her character and work ethic, and I wish her the best of luck as she continues to build her career in college athletics,” says Dan May, Marietta’s Sports Information Director.

In a short time, she has made quite an impression on her peers, as well as her supervisors. She was voted the chair of the Emerging Leaders Seminar (ELS), which is the main event the intern class collectively organizes and administers. All current interns or graduate assistants in Division I, II and III member institutions and conference offices interested in working in intercollegiate athletics have the opportunity to attend the ELS in January to gain an educational experience in intercollegiate athletics and to advance within athletics administration.

“It’s a big honor to be selected as the ELS chair by the internship class so I am very fortunate to be heading this project,” says Katie, who also plays a role in the NCAA’s regional Career Sports Forums in Long Beach, Calif., Denver, Pittsburgh and Charlottesville, Va. Peal says Katie was impressive during the interview process and has lived up to her high expectations since she began work at the NCAA offices in Indianapolis.

“For an NCAA intern, it is a great honor to be selected as the ELS Chair since this selection is by her peer group, the intern class,” Peal says. “Obviously, in this short time period Katie’s leadership skills have stood out. Katie has all the attributes that will contribute to her future success.”

Right now, Katie’s focus is on her duties with the NCAA and the next eight months. But she’s also planning for her future in athletics.

“At first I wanted to go straight into compliance, but it has many avenues. I also have an interest in being a Senior Women’s Administrator or maybe Director of Basketball Operations for a men’s team,” says Katie, who acknowledges that earning a master’s degree will also help her pursuit.

Peal is confident Katie will find success after her internship has expired because she goes beyond the ordinary or expected work.

“I always tell the interns, you get out of the intern experience what you put in it. Those who go beyond their daily tasks benefit the most. This means networking and volunteering time outside of their comfort zone and their daily routine,” Peal says. “Each day Katie is faced with a great deal of responsibility in a highpaced, high-profile collegiate environment.”

So much for needing a back-up plan.

TOM PERRY

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A D VA N C E M E N T N E W S

Getting a glimpse

NEW INTERNSHIP AWARDS PROVIDE STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES WITH FOR-PROFIT, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

PETER FINGER

L MAKING INTERNSHIPS WORK ROBERT E. EVANS INTERNSHIP: One annual award of $5,000 will be provided to a qualified student who participates in an approved internship in a for-profit organization, preferably a major national or global organization. The award may be used for expenses such as salary, relocation travel, housing, meals, related equipment purchases, and other living expenses, depending on the parameters of the internship.

THE ROBERT E. AND SALLY S. EVANS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INTERNSHIP: One annual award of $5,000 will be provided to a deserving Leadership student who is committed to spending a summer in Marietta as an intern in a nonprofit organization. The internship will involve work with children in a nonprofit organization.

The $5,000 award will be divided into two funds ($2,000 to cover living expenses and a $3,000 stipend for the intern).

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auren Yanko’s academic record at Marietta College will show that she served a summer internship in Kansas City, Mo., just before her senior year began.

But from Yanko’s perspective, her role this summer at Boehringer Ingelheim was as a valued member of the company’s Information Technology group.

It’s the type of internship experience Marietta College administrators would like to see its entire student body encounter.

“What made the internship so special was I wasn’t treated like an intern. My boss introduced me to (Information Technology) like I was part of the group and that I would be working with them, not for them,” Yanko ’11 says. “I was the only intern in IT, but I was on a team of professionals and I attended all of the meetings, I communicated with other employees at locations around the country and I was put in charge of projects. I was treated like I worked there, not like someone who was just there for the summer.”

This was the goal of Denise and Mike Salvino ’87 when they established the Robert E. Evans Internship Award last spring. They endowed the fund with a gift to honor Evans and recognize his substantial contributions to Marietta College and the McDonough Leadership Program.

Yanko, a Graphic Design major from Akron, Ohio, was the first recipient. This year the College will give out two such awards, since the widow of Evans, Sally Evans, has agreed to support a similar award called The Robert E. and Sally S. Evans Civic Engagement Internship Program.

“Lauren is a phenomenal student and was an outstanding choice to be the first person to receive the Robert E. Evans Internship Award,” says Mike Salvino, Charlotte, N.C-based, Group Chief Executive of Accenture’s Business Process Outsourcing group, “I think she has not only met our expectations, but exceeded them. I am in no doubt that Lauren has more confidence than she did before this internship and has received valuable real-world experience.”

The two awards can be viewed as bookends for students seeking financial sustenance in the world of internships, which nowadays can result in little or no salary. The award established by the Salvinos encourages students interested in a career in the for-profit sector to spend a meaningful period of time engaged in relevant experiential learning through an internship prior to graduation. Evans wanted her award to go to a student looking for a similar experience at a non-profit organization that helps children in the Marietta area.

Each program will award $5,000 annually to a summer intern from the College.

“I was honored by what Mike and Denise wanted to do for the College, but also for wanting to have the Evans name included on the award,” says Sally Evans. “I also wanted to do something, and when I met with (Assistant Vice President for Advancement) Evan Bohnen and told him what I was thinking, he

GRACE ENGARD

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REAL WO R L D If not for the Robert E. Evans Internship Award established by Denise and Mike Salvino ’87, Lauren Yanko ’11 says she would have missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime as an intern at Boehringer Ingelheim in Kansas City, Mo.

helped me come up with the Civic Engagement Internship idea. I have worked with a lot of non-profits over the years and I know how needy they are. They never have the money to hire an intern. So this just fit with what I wanted to do. I talked to my family and we all agreed that would be a great thing for the College and for Marietta.”

Dr. Gama Perruci, Dean of the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business, says this program serves as a way to recruit gifted students to consider a professional career in the nonprofit sector.

“These interns will have real-life experiences in this area, which will strengthen their résumé and prepare them for the job search following graduation,” he says. “The leaders of these nonprofit organizations also will have an opportunity to coach and mentor the interns in how to build a successful career in this sector.”

Chances are Yanko would not have been able to accept the web production internship at Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies, if not for the $5,000 stipend. Recipients can use the money to help defray expenses such as salary, relocation travel, housing and other living expenses. Yanko was required to complete an expense report accounting of how she used the money.

Salvino says he was impressed with Yanko’s internship report and hopes that both Evans internship programs (with for-profit and nonprofit organizations) lead to an even larger goal of his. “I want more

employers to know about the great students coming out of Marietta and to see that they are prepared to enter the workforce and make the kind of positive impact that Lauren did this summer.”

Yanko’s supervisor and a principle business analyst at Boehringer Ingelheim, Chris Curtiss, praised her work and believed the internship was a success “all the way around.”

Interning at Boehringer Ingelheim was a game-changer for Yanko.

The honor student admits to being a bit sheltered and even uneasy before the experience, but now she sees endless possibilities for her future.

“I was told early on at Boehringer Ingelheim that I should be ready to ‘work hard and learn a lot,’ ” says Yanko, who is studying this fall at Leiden University in the Netherlands. “I did work some 65-hour weeks.

We launched three company websites in addition to all of my other projects. … I didn’t go into this internship knowing a great deal about web design, but my background from my design classes and involvement with the McDonough Center provided me with the tools that my projects were based on. My internship was truly a learning experience, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to work for Boehringer Ingelheim this summer.”

Now that’s an internship experience.

TOM PERRY

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DEFINING MEMORIES OF COLLEGE LIFE

ZACHARY ANDREWS

A Marietta Moment

Nicholas Gehlfuss ACTOR GRAT E F U L M A R I E T TA P R O V I D E D D I R E C T I O N F O R H I S E A R LY C A R E E R S U C C E S S B I OGRAPHY Nicholas Gehlfuss ’07 majored in Theatre and recently earned a graduate degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. After moving to New York City, the Cleveland native has earned roles on Army Wives and landed a part on the MTV pilot, I Just Want My Pants Back. The episode of Army Wives (Season 4, Episode 17) can be seen on MyLifetime. com.

It didn’t shock my buddy, Francesco Nappo, when I took his challenge to “do something”—but it did make him smile.

Minutes earlier, (with no disrespect intended…and I believe no offense taken), while the group of my fellow incoming freshmen—the future class of 2007—and I waited in the auditorium for President Jean Scott to address them during one of the orientation ceremonies, Frank dared me to get up and do what I came to Marietta College to do: entertain.

On stage I went, straight-faced to the mic, and announced to the group who I was and that I was a junior, adding, “Folks, we’re about to begin, just as soon as President Jean Scott arrives,” or something to that effect.

No sooner did those words come out of my mouth, I saw a woman walking down one of the aisles, headed to the stage, smiling. I asked for the group to give her a round of applause. They did.

When President Scott got to the stage, she mentioned that she didn’t recognize me, which was unusual for her considering I was a junior and Marietta had such a small campus. Then she asked me what my major was.

Theatre.

“Good choice,” she said.

That funny little first moment we had together made such a lasting impression on me. It was the start of my life at Marietta College. I truly learned a lot about perfor-

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mance from professors like Steve Rader, David Tadlock, Dan Monek, Lisa Grande and especially Jeff Cordell.

Jeff got me thinking about graduate school, which I was all for but I knew I couldn’t afford it. He told me there were grad schools that would take me in and pay for everything. He had already mentored two of his former students down this path; after me, he was three for three.

When I gradated from Marietta, I headed off to the University of MissouriKansas City on a full-ride scholarship, graduated and then moved to New York City, a place where I had always yearned to be (but just didn’t know it until my first visit at the end of grad school). One of the things I learned about myself during graduate school was I wanted to be a great storyteller, as opposed to an entertainer. Entertainers feature themselves; storytellers feature the story.

Another thing I learned during my college and graduate years is that you get what you put into something. When you really put forth the effort, things happen.

I can attest to this because it has happened for me. I have been so fortunate in my career so far, landing parts in Army Wives and for an MTV pilot. In my line of work, this kind of good fortune doesn’t happen to everyone. I am so grateful to be where I am right now.

I was talking to my dad about this at the beginning of summer and he said I should reach out to Marietta College and let them know how I’m doing. I sent President Scott an email.

When you go off into the professional world—and this is especially true for performers—you hear a lot of “Don’t forget about us little people.” But when I was graduating from Marietta, Jean Scott didn’t say that. I can’t remember her exact words but I do remember the sincerity in her voice when she wished for me the best.

If the objective of being a teacher is to get your students to where they can find success and happiness in a specific profession, then I think the most rewarding thing for a professor or a college would be to know that a student has taken the education provided and is now able to do what he really wanted to do in life.

And I’m having a blast doing it.

NICK GEHLFUSS ’07

Send us a description of your experience.

E-MAIL: mariettamagazine@marietta.edu

MAIL: Editor, Marietta Magazine, Office of Alumni and College Relations, 215 Fifth Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750

T H E L O N G B L UE LINE > CLASS NOTES

> SURPRISE!

Barbara Perry Fitzgerald ’73, Elizabeth (Beth) Thompson Miller ’73, Barbara Poehlmann Moyer ’72 and Barbara L. Trainer ’74 (all Alpha Sigma Taus) celebrated the surprise 30th wedding anniversary of Beth and Bruce A. Miller ’70 (Delta Tau Delta) and re-enacted a photo from their wedding. Also, helping to celebrate the occasion were Bonita Merchant Miller ’73, Richard E. Miller ’74 (Delta Tau Delta), Eric W. Gough ’74 and Kheuavanh “Ting” Vongsouthi Gough ’75.

> BEST OF SHOW

Victor D. Powell ’62 attended the Leesburg, Va., horse races this spring where he acquired the Old English riding hat. Earlier his 1989 Jaguar convertible won “Best of Show” at the British Automobile Contest in Lewes, Del.

Howard A. Linn ’41 (Delta Upsilon) enjoys following the achievements of his granddaughter, Katie Perry, as she competes in women’s soccer at the national level.

Leila Ruby Epstein ’45 and her husband Morton are proud of their growing family of grandchildren. Leila and Morton are now spending part of the year in their home in Cleveland, Ohio, and several months each year in Israel with a daughter and son-in-law residing there.

Jimmy E. Bauer ’56 was recently the first person inducted into the Wynford High School Hall of Fame in Bucyrus, Ohio. Jimmy is a retired Wynford High School teacher and coach. He started the school’s boys’ basketball program in 1963. Jim compiled a 197-74 record in the 13 years he coached.

Robert J. Blendon ’64 (Delta Upsilon) was named Senior Associate Dean

for Policy Translation and Leadership Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bob is overseeing the creation of a Harvard Health Forum, which will research and facilitate the improvement of public health programs and policies. The forum will be modeled on the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at Harvard.

David L. Huffman ’66 serves as pastor for three churches in Ironton, Ohio (St. Joseph, St. Lawrence O’Toole, and St. Mary) and also the Catholic schools in Ironton (St. Joseph High School and St. Lawrence Elementary School).

Susan Forbes McClelland ’71 (Alpha Xi Delta) retired from the Columbus City (Ohio) School system after 36 years of teaching elementary and middle school. Susan most recently taught gifted and talented students at Dominion Middle School. In 2007, she was honored with the Teacher of the Year Award.

Norman R. Rose ’73 (Lambda Chi Alpha) is taking a year’s leave from working on a Ph.D. in History at Case Western Reserve University to serve as a prison advisor in Iraq. He is currently working at the Rusafa prison complex in Baghdad.

Michael J. Good ’75 (Alpha Sigma Phi) recently retired after 35 years of teaching American History at Brookville High School (Ohio). He also officiated football for 24 years and coached football, golf and wrestling, for which he was honored by being inducted into the Miami Valley Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Mike hopes to be able to spend more time traveling.

Maria Currier Santoferraro ’85 (Alpha Xi Delta) recently formed MariaMedia LLC, which provides freelance writing, web design, and marketing consulting services. Maria recently initiated a discussion group on PioneerNet, the online Marietta College alumni community, with the purpose of facilitating Marietta College’s women sharing advice, fellowship and support.

> NEW HOST

Barbara Garneau Kelley ’81 is the deputy executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America and the editor-in-chief of Hearing Loss Magazine. She is the host of a new video series on hearing loss produced by the HLAA. She notes that 59,000 veterans have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with hearing-loss related injuries. Barbara lives in Great Falls, Va., with her husband Bill, and 11-year-old son Patrick.

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T H E L O N G B L UE LINE > CLASS NOTES

> N E W LY W E D S

> ALUMNI NOTE

Ann Parks Foraker Nicely ’03 and MCM’05 (Sigma Kappa) and Lucas Warren Nicely were married May 1, 2010, at the First Congregational Church in Marietta, Ohio, followed by a reception at the Parkersburg Country Club. Marietta College alumni participating in the wedding ceremony were: father of the bride Daniel G. Foraker ’73 (Alpha Tau Omega), maid of honor Margaret K. Foraker ’08, bridesmaids Amanda R. Burtt ’02 (Sigma Kappa) and Rachel Heldman Cheng ’05, and groomsman Daniel “Jay” Foraker ’01 (Alpha Tau Omega). Also, joining in the wedding celebration were T. Chase Graham ’07 (Delta Upsilon), Christopher C. Bennon ’99 (Alpha Tau Omega), Scott A. Buchwald ’00 (Alpha Tau Omega), Matthew J. Macatol ’97, Timothy J. Binegar ’00, Chelsea J. White MCM’08, Christopher J. Cheng ’06 (Delta Upsilon), Jacquelyn Elwell Brook ’04 (Alpha Xi Delta), Allen J. “Bo” Meagle ’96, and James P. Reed ’51.

James J. Tracy ’79 ALUMNUS EXCITED T O J O I N C O L L E G E ’ S B O A R D O F TRUSTEES AS MCAA R E P R E S E N TAT I V E

A proven leader in the financial industry, James J. Tracy ’79 is the newest member of Marietta College’s Board of Trustees. Tracy was recently elected to serve a four-year term as an Alumni Association Trustee.

Tracy earned his undergraduate degree in Management and Accounting in 1979. His time at Marietta College was distinguished by his recognition as an All American baseball player and four-year letterman.

Currently, he serves as the Director of The Consulting Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He is responsible for running the firm’s Managed Account Solutions business, as well as its Investment Advisory and Institutional Consulting businesses. Consulting Group is responsible for more than $400 billion in Managed Account Solutions. He has been with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its legacy firms for more than 22 years.

He also serves as the Chairman of MMI (Managed Money Institute), and participates on multiple boards that focus on Philanthropic Giving and Donor Advised Funds. In addition, Tracy continues to volunteer his time in fundraising efforts for Special Olympics, and other notable charitable causes.

Tracy lives in Powell, Ohio, with his wife Joey. He has two children, a daughter Lauren (22) and a son J.J. (8).

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> NEW PIONEER

Jonathan M. ’91 (Delta Upsilon) and Cheryl Johnson Stout ’95 (Alpha Xi Delta), along with big brothers Wade (6) and Whit (3) welcomed their third son Wyatt Rees on April 11, 2010. Wyatt was christened on Sept.

25, a date shared by the 11th wedding anniversary of Jon and Cher and the birthday of Wyatt’s godmother Susan MacKenty Brady ’94 (Alpha Xi Delta). Jon is employed as a cabinetmaker at Oceanic Ventures and Cher recently established Beachstone Counseling, a private psychotherapeutic practice, and continues to consult for Delaware Guidance Services. They live in Riverdale, Del.

T H E L O N G B L UE LINE > CLASS NOTES

Scott A. Taylor ’85 recently accepted the position of quality supervisor at Talecris Plasma Resources in Columbus, Ohio. Scott also welcomed his first grandchild LaKenzie La’Ree Nou into the family on May 11, 2010.

Mary C. Cantlin ’86 and Mindy M. Girten are incredibly happy to announce their legal marriage on July 17, 2010, in Eastman, N.H., made possible after a 22-year wait for the legalizing of same-sex marriage by the state of New Hampshire. Several Marietta College classmates and friends attended the celebration.

in Environmental Social Science from Arizona State University. She completed her Master’s in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University in 2009.

Rebecca J. Holzworth ’10 has accepted a position as a math teacher with Maricopa High School in Maricopa, Ariz.

Emily A. Mattson ’10 has been hired as a marketing account coordinator by Bandy Carroll Hellige, an Indianapolis advertising and public relations agency.

> C YBER RECONNECT

Molly E. Riddle ’02 (Alpha Xi Delta) and David V. Rose ’01 were married on Sept. 4, 2009. Dave and Molly dated for four years in college, but then went their separate ways until reconnecting six years later via MySpace. Also, on March 4, 2010, Dave and Molly welcomed a baby boy, MacAllister Michael David Rose. He joins his big sister Isabella (4).

In May Molly and David celebrated their marriage with friends and family at the Marietta College Gathering Place.

David B. Ball ’89 was recently hired as the Director of Communications for Capital University School of Law in Columbus, Ohio.

Wiona Altic Porath ’92 (Sigma Sigma Sigma) of Tecumseh, Mich., received the Outstanding Adviser Award for 2010 from the University of Toledo for excellence in academic advising.

Wiona currently works in the bioengineering department at the University of Toledo.

Jason E. Weber ’07 received his Master’s of Arts in Theatre from Emerson College this past August. He was also a finalist for Emerson’s Rod Parker Playwriting Award.

Sotiria C. Anagnostou ’08 is living in Scottsdale, Ariz., pursuing a Ph.D.

> BEACH WEDDING

Jessica Craig McDaniel and Chad M. McDaniel, both ’08, were married January 9, 2010, on Indian Shores Beach, Florida. Marietta College classmates joining in the celebration were Ellen R. Doolittle ’07, Paige A. William ’08, Jaymi L. Stephens ’07, Paige G. Burton ’07, AmiDemebie D. Casis ’08, Jessica, Craig, Sean W. CallahanDinish ’07, Clay H. Ream ’10, Jason D. Vrable ’07 and James C. Schumacher ’09.

> ALUMNI NOTE

Michael ‘Moon’ Mullen ’82 Michael “Moon” M. Mullen ’82 and his band have released a CD titled Moon Over…. Michael Moon Mullen & Friends Almost Live at The Mayor’s Jubilee. The recording is part of a fundraising effort to support the transformation of the historic Armory, built by the Ohio National Guard in Downtown Marietta (Ohio) in 1914, into a community activities hub and visitors’ center, while also preserving it as a permanent legacy to veterans. Through the collaborative efforts of many community partners and volunteers, $3.5 million have been raised for this project since Mike became mayor of Marietta in 2004. The CD includes live tracks of the band’s performances at the Mayor’s Jubilee Community Concert Series on the steps of the Armory. Also featured on lead guitar and vocals is former Marietta College faculty member and alumnus, Sherman H. Koons ’71 (Delta Tau Delta).

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T H E L O N G B L UE LINE > IN MEMORIAM

IN

MEMORIAM

> 1930s

Vincent R. Brown ’49 of New Matamoras, Ohio (9/22/1010).

Joe R. Lewis ’56 of Petroleum, W.Va. (8/25/2010).

> 1940s

Ray W. Wenzel ’49 of McMurray, Pa. (2/25/2010).

David D. McKenna ’57 of Marietta, Ohio (8/1/2010).

Kathryn Gilbert Thorne ’43 of Albuquerque, N.M. (3/26/2010).

> 1950s

Howard A. Buckley ’59 of Marietta, Ohio (8/16/2010).

Claire M. McArdle ’72 of Scituate, Mass. (9/15/1010).

> 1960s

Madeline Schmucker Scott Thoss ’72 of Mansfield, Ohio (7/2/2010) Survivors include her son, Jeffrey M. Scott ’78.

Josephine Hayman Cotterman ’38 of Parkersburg, W.Va. (8/25/2010).

Phoebia Black Doak ’44 (Sigma Kappa) of Marietta, Ohio (9/7/2010).

Sylvia Drake Paige ’44 (Sigma Kappa) of Windham, Maine (9/18/2010).

Survivors include her son David B. Paige ’76 (Delta Upsilon), daughter Beverly Paige Dobson ’71 (Chi Omega) and granddaughter Heather L. Paige ’08 (Sigma Kappa).

Harry K. Lown ’48 (Alpha Sigma Phi) of Batavia, N.Y. (4/7/2010). Survivors include his wife, Patricia Pape Lown ’47 (Chi Omega).

Carl B. Mercer ’50 (Lambda Chi Alpha) of South Charleston, W.Va. (8/19/2010).

Jessie Rose Wilkinson ’50 (Alpha Xi Delta) of Mansfield, Ohio (9/18/2010).

She is survived by her husband William N. Wilkinson ’49 (Delta Upsilon).

Arthur M. Dudley ’53 (Delta Upsilon) of Basking Ridge, N.J. (8/6/2010).

Norma Miele Nelson ’53 (Alpha Xi Delta) of North Branford, Conn.

(6/7/2010).

MCAA’s Award Winning Class of 2010 Alumni Admission Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Robert E. Sharp ’67

John Crawford ’65 Alumni Association Community Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole E. Jackson ’10 MCAA Liz Tribett Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Irene Neu Jones ’44 Outstanding Young Alumna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea S. Parhamovich ’00

Amy K. Templeman ’00 Outstanding Young Alumnus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael F. Templeman ’00 Distinguished Alumna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Robinson Doughty ’75 Distinguished Alumnus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John W. Fantuzzo ’74 Hall of Honor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilbur L. Schramm ’28

Paul F. Spear ’64

Do you know of a fellow Pioneer deserving of recognition by the Alumni Association?

Visit www.marietta.edu/Alumni/awards/nominate_an_alum.html

It’s what you can do today!

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David H. Buss ’62 of Winston-Salem, N.C. (8/26/2010).

James O. Casto ’62 of Parkersburg, W.Va. (7/26/2010).

Lynne Bradley Turdin ’63 (Sigma Sigma Sigma) of Wallingford, Conn.

(8/22/2010).

Carl F. Knirk ’66 (Lambda Chi Alpha) of Seattle, Wash. (5/29/2010).

Katherine Lewis Matheny ’68 of Pinellas Park, Fla. (7/11/2010).

Survivors include her daughter, Maria K. Matheny ’91 (Alpha Xi Delta).

> 1970s

> 1980s Allan M. Goldblatt ’85 of Commack, N.Y. (12/30/2009).

> 1990s Marilyn A. Meeks ’94 of Marietta, Ohio (7/10/2010).

Incoming freshman spends summer restoring historic tower

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eith Schwendeman ’14 (shown right) spent a lot of time in Erwin Hall this summer.

The freshman petroleum engineering major wasn’t taking a class in the historic building; he was working alongside his father Kim and a work crew to restore the most recognized symbol on Marietta College’s campus.

In June, his family’s company J.A. Schwendeman & Sons, which is based in Lowell, Ohio, began working on the tower atop Erwin Hall to bring its appearance back to its original splendor.

“My very first day, me and two other workers a couple years older than me had to carry hundreds of boards up four flights of stairs,” Keith says. “We also had to carry a lot of sheets of AZEK (plastic siding) and more than 300, 12-foot concrete boards.”

The last major work done to the tower occurred in the 1970s and was also done by J.A. Schwendeman & Sons. “I worked with my father on that job,” says Kim, who took over the company’s operations with his brother and cousin after his father and uncle decided to retire.

“With help from (Special Collections Associate) Linda Showalter, we were able to identify the architectural detail that was removed or covered up when Erwin Tower was re-sided with aluminum and vinyl in the 1970s.” says Physical Plant Director Fred Smith. “J. A Schwendeman and Sons’ proposal provided state-of-the art low maintenance materials that they milled and custom cut to re-construct the exterior features and cover the original visual appearance.”

The 2010 work was completed in August before fall semester began.

In addition to the tower work, Erwin Hall’s steps on the Fourth Street side of the building were replaced and the interior was renovated to afford more space to the undergraduate and graduate Education Department.

R E N O VAT I O N To learn more about the interior renovation, please

visit www.marietta.edu/magazine/erwinrenovation.

GI SMITH

M ARIETTA COLLEGE BO A R D O F T R U S T E E S Chair T. Grant Callery ’68

Vice Chair Secretary Barbara A. Perry Fitzgerald ’73 William H. Donnelly ’70

Penelope E. (Penny) Adams ’72 Anna (Ann) Bowser Bailey ’87 Mark F. Bradley Robert M. (Bob) Brucken ’56 Christine L. (Chris) Fry Burns ’66 Joseph A. (Joe) Chlapaty Patricia G. (Pat) Curtain ’69 George W. Fenton Douglas M. (Doug) Griebel ’74 Nancy Putnam Hollister John B. Langel ’70 C. Brent McCoy C. Brent McCurdy ’68 Marilyn L. Moon John R. Murphy ’63

A L U M N I A S S O C I ATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Treasurer Dan Bryant

J. Roger Porter ’66 Leonard M. (Randy) Randolph, Jr. ’65 Cynthia A. (Cindy) Reece ’78 Ronald E. (Ron) Rinard ’72 Donald G. (Don) Ritter ’81 Toni M. Robinson-Smith Charlene C. Samples ’77 Frank M. Schossler ’86 Jean A. Scott Edgar L. Smith, Jr. Donald W. (Don) Strickland ’66 James J. Tracy ’79 Dale L. Wartluft ’63 Patricia A. (Pat) Loreno Willis ’70

Chair Jodell Ascenzi Raymond ’84 Vice Chair Teresa Gilliam Petras ’88 Alumni Trustees C. Brent McCurdy ’68 John R. Murphy ’63 J. Roger Porter ’66 Frank M. Schossler ’86 James J. Tracy ’79

Melissa Schultz Bennett ’91 James P. Brady ’92 Lori Oslin Cook ’82 Mark S. Fazzina ’83 David E. Harmon ’54 Paula King Pitasky ’96 Jason C. Rebrook ’96 Jeffrey J. Stafford ’83 Sharon Bayless Thomas ’78 Matthew B. Weekley ’81 Jonathan D. Wendell ’70 Zhou Zhou ’02 Tracy L. Zuckett ’96

GIVE TODAY TO THE

MARIETTA COLLE G E C O N TA C T S President Dr. Jean Scott | 740-376-4701

Vice President for Advancement Lori Lewis | 740-376-4711

Assoc. VP, Alumni & College Relations Hub Burton | 740-376-4709

Provost Dr. Rita Smith Kipp | 740-376-4741

Assistant VP, Advancement Evan Bohnen | 740-376-4446

Director of Donor Relations Linda Stroh | 740-376-4451

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SETH WOLFSON

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Seth Wolfson ’05 PHOTOGRAPHER’S NON-PROFIT INSPIRES ARTISTS TO UNITE FOR PEACE

> “My experience with Artists 4 Israel has truly been phenomenal. We strive to educate the artists about Israel’s freedoms, liberties and beautiful artistic culture. We take them into the communities and let them meet the people who live with the potential of being bombed at any moment. This inspires them to use their unique talents to educate their community about what they have learned. I am honored to be one of the founders of this program. I spend almost every waking moment doing something to make Artists 4 Israel be stronger and better … to make a difference in someone’s life.”

B I O G R A P H Y: Chances are Seth Wolfson ’05 thought his days and

nights would be filled with photo shoots in exotic locations. For a few years he did just that as the creative director for a NASCAR team. Though the experience was valuable and one he wouldn’t trade, Wolfson knew he wanted to do something more. So in 2008 he helped form Artists 4 Israel, a non-profit organization that organizes a community of creative individuals to work together in an ongoing project to express Israel’s right to exist in peace and security. He also had a solo photography exhibition at the Unique Gallery in Fairfield, N.J., that opened in September. It featured images from his recent trip to the border of the Gaza Strip with a team of artists and Israeli activists. As an embedded photographer, Wolfson captured the artists’ attempt to fight terrorism with art, as they painted murals of hope on bomb shelters. To learn more about Seth and his work, visit www.marietta.edu/magazine/sethwolfson