Monmouth College Magazine - Fall 2020

VOL 35 | NO 2 | FALL 2020

HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE

Photos by Duane Bonifer

For photos of some of our graduates celebrating Commencement at home, visit:

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monmouthcollege.edu/class-of-2020

The shuttering of campus in March due to the pandemic moved Commencement exercises from Wallace Hall Plaza to the internet.

To help ease their pain from having to watch online on home, graduates were mailed a virtual Commencement gift box. Its contents included a tartan stole, graduation tassel, alumni pin and a festive mylar balloon. Diplomas arrived in the mail soon after.

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PRESIDENT Dr. Clarence R. Wyatt BOARD OF TRUSTEES

4 COLLEGE IN THE AGE OF COVID Monmouth faculty, staff and students pull out all stops to remain safe during the current health crisis.

18 SURVIVING THE 1918 PANDEMIC More than a century ago, a strict quarantine locked down the Monmouth campus.

26 STAYING AFLOAT Competitive swimming helps Parkland shooting survivor rise above tragedy.

32 HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS A listing of the alumni, friends, students, businesses and organizations that supported Monmouth College in 2019–20.

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Mark Kopinski ’79, Chairman Dr. Ralph Velazquez Jr. ’79, Vice Chairman Douglas R. Carlson ’66 Daniel Cotter ’88 Robert Dahl Rod Davies ’74 Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 William J. Goldsborough ’65 Kevin Goodwin ’80 Augustin Hart III ’68 Mahendran Jawaharlal ’86 F. Austin Jones John Kemp ’82 The Rev. Robert C. McConnell ’72 Michael B. McCulley, Esq. ’70 J. Alex McGehee ’81 Gary Melvin Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 Gail Simpson Owen ’74 J. Hunter Peacock J. Stanley Pepper ’76 Anthony J. Perzigian ’66 Dennis M. Plummer ’73 Anita Ridge ’88 Susan Romaine The Hon. John J. Scotillo ’72 Dr. Carlos F. Smith ’90 Sherman Smith ’72 Nancy L. Snowden Mark E. Taylor ’78 Dwight Tierney ’69 Beth Bowdoin Tyre ’96 Jean Peters Witty ’88 Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 ALUMNI BOARD REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Andrew Kerr ’73 Jerri Picha ’75 Roy Sye ’13 ALUMNI BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Andrew Kerr ’73, President Sean Maher ’73, Vice President Evelina Lipecka ’06, Secretary Paula Rundell Brooks ’07, Member at Large EDITORIAL BOARD Duane Bonifer Associate Vice President for Communications and Marketing Kristen English Vice President for Enrollment Management Hannah Maher Vice President for Development and College Relations Barry McNamara Associate Director of College Communications Jeffrey D. Rankin College Editor and Historian

MON MOU TH COLLEGE MAGA ZIN E VOL. 35 | NO. 2 EDITOR AND DESIGNER Jeffrey D. Rankin ASSOCIATE EDITOR Barry McNamara

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INTRODUCING A NEW MONMOUTHCOLLEGE.EDU Rich interactive experience tells the Monmouth story in a fresh visual format

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onmouth College launched a new mobile-friendly website on Sept. 1.

More than a year in development, the website was created in collaboration with White Whale, a design, strategy and technology firm that specializes in partnering with liberal arts colleges to produce websites. The cost of the website was funded entirely by a gift to the College.

The focus of the new website is to help prospective students and their family members discover Monmouth and its academic programs.

One way the new site does that is by featuring more videos and photos that show off Monmouth people, programs and campus. The new website also shares more stories about the College’s faculty and alumni, who every day demonstrate why it’s great to be a Scot.

Another feature of the new website is a series of digital cards that provide a glimpse of the

College’s unique characteristics and features, such as the Educational Garden & Farm, Monmouth in Mérida, the Center for Civic and Social Change, and the Rural Education Initiative.

The website also provides a future home for Monmouth College Magazine, which will go beyond a PDF and include additional features from stories.

The creation of the new website was a true community effort. The website’s main committee included an 11-member team representing every part of the College, and all members of the Monmouth community were invited to contribute to it.

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Launched in September, Monmouth’s redesigned website puts new focus on helping prospective students discover the breadth of the Monmouth experience, in a format that is friendly to all digital devices.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

RISING TO MEET THE CHALLENGE IS WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE

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he period since mid-march has been among

the more challenging and rewarding in the history of Monmouth College. Since the covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, our College’s faculty and staff have done an amazing job working with our students to help them first through the crazy remainder of spring and then to enable them to continue their educations into the fall.

Many worked hard to bring another good class of new students to the campus, and many went above and beyond to prepare for students’ return to campus and to make the environment as safe as we possibly could. They showed a level of dedication, creativity, good humor and grace that one comes to expect from a member of the Monmouth community. They remained focused on the two greatest gifts we can give each other this fall—each other’s health and a semester together on campus.

To be sure, it was a hard spring and summer. As is the case at institutions across the country, Monmouth faced structural issues that were made even more pressing by the challenge of the covid-19 pandemic. Like those other institutions, we had to make difficult decisions regarding budgets and personnel.

Hard as these decisions were, they were also necessary. For generations, Monmouth’s mission has been to change for the better the arc of young people’s lives. Financial stability is necessary for that mission to continue. We have to think not only of the Monmouth of today, but the Monmouth of five, 10, 50 years from now. The College has been through difficult times before, with fewer assets to work with than it has now.

As has been the case throughout the College’s history, our focus is and should be on our students. We have long prided ourselves on being the place of the “long runway,” and that

mission is more important than it’s ever been. As we move forward, we need to see our work even more through the eyes of our students. What is it that they need and want to prepare for the next stages of their lives? What is it that society wants of, values in, them?

Fortunately, we have the answers. The fundamental skills and ways of thinking that society and the economy desperately want are the heart of the Monmouth experience—intellectual curiosity, seeing the world from multiple perspectives, communicating with clarity and grace, commitment to serving communities, among others. Those are the timeless values of the liberal arts experience.

Let us make them even more the centerpiece of our experience, across all disciplines and in all aspects of campus life. Let us demonstrate and celebrate their worth and power to prospective students and those who will hire them, who will ask them to serve their communities. And let us ensure that our experience can serve students who will pursue their undergraduate educations along a variety of paths.

Even in, especially in, this most difficult of times, we continue to work together—administration, staff, faculty and trustees—to ensure that we continue to serve our students as they need us to serve them. The institutions that can do these things are the ones that will fulfill their missions most effectively and that will survive and thrive. I am confident that with the people who serve and love this institution, Monmouth will be in that number.

Dr. Clarence R. Wyatt President

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By Barry McNamara

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he show must go on.

Usually reserved for the world of entertainment, that sentiment has been adopted this fall by the entire Monmouth College community, which was eager to respond differently to the COVID-19

pandemic than it was forced to last spring, when students were told to stay home after spring break and the rest of the semester was conducted completely online.

The sentiment also applies quite literally to the College’s theatre department, which had to cancel an April performance of The Revolutionists, directed by professor Vanessa Campagna, as part of the shutdown. FusionFest VII was held Sept. 19 as scheduled, but it was moved from the Fusion Theatre to the Wallace Hall Plaza and audience members sat safely social distanced from one another.

“This time, we’re not doing the hiatus,” said Campagna of staging FusionFest VII, Donning face masks, students of biology professor Eric Engstrom take advantage of late-summer weather to attend class in one of 22 designated outdoor classroom areas.

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To facilitate social distancing, this year’s FusionFest, in which students wrote and performed plays within a 24-hour period, was moved from the downtown Fusion Theatre to a stage erected in front of Wallace Hall.

persist. Let’s keep everybody safe, let’s work within all the health protocols, but let’s also still produce and let this fuel us to reimagine things and stretch—and revamp, as need be.”

Dean Mark Willhardt said that type of response is typical of what he’s seen during the fall semester.

“Even though the pandemic has turned upside-down most of what we understand as ‘college,’ our faculty and students have responded with flexibility, positivity and success,” he said. “Zoom has become the means for office hours and the site of smallgroup work. And we continue to adjust our teaching, and our learning, as the situations change and we learn more about what works and what doesn’t.”

English professor Marlo Belschner, DEAN MARK WILLHARDT acknowledging the hurdles that she and her faculty colleagues have had to face over the past several months, said, “It’s less than ideal and it doesn’t fully provide what Monmouth College does, but there have been a few silver linings.”

One of those silver linings has been regular appearances

by Shakespeare on the College’s JumboTron at April Zorn Memorial Stadium. This fall, Belschner is showing a series of four films on the giant scoreboard, including Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

“The students bring their blankets and snacks and spread

“…our faculty and students have responded with flexibility, positivity and success.”

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out,” she said. “That’s been super cool.”

Movies were also scheduled at Zorn Stadium on the four Fridays in September and three Fridays in October, sponsored by the Association for Student Activity Programming (ASAP).

Rain forced one of the September screenings inside.

Weather must also be taken into consideration by the dozens of faculty members using the College’s 22 outdoor classrooms, the vast majority of which were created this fall.

“When classroom spaces got tight, we moved to tents,” said Willhardt. “As we lose tents to the changing seasons, we will move to larger indoor venues.”

Belschner holds one of her three classes in a large tent outside the Mellinger Teaching and Learning Center, and the others in a new outdoor space by the Huff Athletic Center.

“It’s tough,” she said of competing with other outdoor sounds, including wind, cicadas, trains and sirens. To combat the noise, she wears a headset to amplify her voice to her inperson students, as well as a second headset to communicate with her students who are learning remotely.

There is also a new look for the many students who use the Huff Athletic Center, including daily temperature checks for Fighting Scots athletes.

“It was an adjustment for them at first, but after the rollout on Week 1, it’s gone pretty well,” said head athletic trainer Bob Foster. “We also ask them if they’ve had any symptoms.

That’s in addition to the Symptom Tracking that the College emails each morning. It’s another opportunity to head off transmission.”

Temperature checks are also part of the new protocol at

the Huff Center’s Trotter Fitness Complex, as is a complete one-hour shutdown of the facility each afternoon for deep cleaning and disinfectant fogging.

“The entire campus has been very understanding,” said strength and conditioning coach Brian Woodard. “We are limiting non-campus contact, which means no family members in Trotter—just students, faculty and staff.”

While Woodard is the person in charge of the fitness complex, he’s quick to credit others—especially his student-worker staff—with keeping Trotter open and functioning.

“The student staff has been very diligent with their cleaning routine,” he said. “They spend 20 to 25 minutes every hour making sure every point of contact is being cleaned and vacuumed. It’s not a glamorous job, but it’s very important and they’ve embraced the task. That, as much as anything, has kept the facility safe to use.”

Of course, the professionals have also been diligent in their efforts to keep the campus community as safe as possible. Director of Facilities Management Sarah Young praised her team’s efforts to start the school year.

“The hours we have put forth in social distancing efforts and putting in place initiatives that will help stop the spread of the virus are countless,” she said. “Every individual on the maintenance staff works daily in some manner to Associate Vice do their part. We do a daily deep clean President of Student Life in each academic building classroom, Michelle Merritt bathroom, and high-touch area and ’87 performs surface. Our staff removed a great a temperature number of desks and tables in each check of a classroom to aid in social distancing. vehicle occupant during move-in Those are just a few examples of what day in August. they’re doing, in addition to their regular duties.”

Whether it’s wearing a face covering, following new College policies or keeping an area clean, the campus community is embodying another well-known sentiment: It takes a village.

Belschner said she’s seen that in action, with her older students taking it upon themselves to look out for firstyear students, who have not yet had a typical Monmouth experience and have found it harder to meet people.

“They seem to be holding up—they’re resilient,” said Belschner of her students. “We’re all looking forward to the day when this is not our experience.”

Head athletic trainer Bob Foster takes the temperature of each athlete who checks in at the Huff Athletic Center.

Among the improvisations for health safety was the employment of a bookstore window for dispensing textbooks.

Always a festive affair, sorority bid day had a decidedly different look this fall.

April Zorn Memorial Stadium has become a popular venue for students to safely watch movies on the JumboTron screen.

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A NEIGHBORLY GESTURE

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Peters introduces himself to Joyce Redlich, one of the fraternity’s new neighbors on East Boston Avenue.

ealizing that it might not be every homeowner’s dream to have a college fraternity move in next door, the men of the Illinois Gamma chapter of Phi Delta Theta at Monmouth College decided to be proactive.

The chapter purchased and delivered gift baskets to the two neighbors in the 1000 block of East Boston Avenue whose backyards border its new Porter Hall residence in the College’s Founders Village.

Previously, the chapter lived in the College’s Fraternity Complex, which is not adjacent to any private residences.

“We know the neighbors might not be thrilled that a fraternity is moving in next door,” said chapter president Bryan Peters ’22. “We just wanted them to know that if they ever need anything—like having their yards mowed, or their leaves raked, or furniture moved—that we’re here and we’re ready to help out any way we can.”

Peters dropped the first basket off at the home of Joyce and Joe Redlich.

“We should be giving you a basket,” said Joyce, upon receiving the laundry basket that contained chocolates, pretzels, a

STILL STANDING STRONG A continuing commitment to academic excellence has helped Monmouth College maintain its status as a vibrant national liberal arts college.

Monmouth is ranked No. 127 in the “National Liberal Arts Colleges” category in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges, released in September. Since 2013, Monmouth has risen almost 50 spots.

“We all know that no single set of rankings provides the true measure of an institution’s strength or the impact it has on young people, but it is gratifying that the power and quality of a Monmouth College education is affirmed by national publications and our peers,” said President Clarence R. Wyatt.

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tablecloth and a card that introduced the new fraternity neighbors and detailed the ways the men of the chapter could help out with chores.

Peters said the good-neighbor policy came about during the fraternity’s first meeting of the new academic year.

“It all started on our first day here when we had a chapter meeting,” he said. “One of our members looked out and said, ‘Oh, cool, one of our new neighbors has a trampoline.’ That just sparked an idea that we are neighbors and that we should be building a connection and trying to do some neighborly things.”

Student Laureate Doner is congratulated by President Wyatt.

DONER NAMED STUDENT LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS’ LINCOLN ACADEMY Joe Doner ’21 has been selected as Monmouth College’s 2020 Student Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.

Each fall, one outstanding senior from each of the four-year degree-granting institutions of higher learning in Illinois is awarded the Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award and becomes a Student Laureate of the academy. Monmouth’s Laureate traditionally addresses the senior class during Commencement exercises.

A French and international studies major with a minor in environmental studies, Doner is a Stockdale Fellow, attended a Fulbright institute in Scotland, is president and founder of Monmouth College Democrats, and has been active in Students for Environmental Awareness, Rotaract and Intercultural Life. The Arlington Heights, Ill., resident is also an Eagle Scout.

College radio fills unique programming niche Monmouth College’s student-run WPFS-FM celebrated World College Radio Day on Oct. 2.

“College Radio Day tries to unite college radio stations, not just in the United States but across the world, to put in focus what most college radio stations see as their primary mission: the support of GOBLE music and programming that otherwise wouldn’t be on commercial stations because they’re not popular enough or viable enough,” said communications studies lecturer Chris Goble, who has served as radio adviser since 2004.

Goble said that college radio gives students a valuable cocurricular experience while exposing listeners to programming they might not hear on commercial or even public radio stations.

“A good number of low-power FMs, like our station, are student-run stations, as are stations that are streaming or

online and not broadcast, but really have the same mission—a place where students can go and really learn how to do radio and get the chance to be on the air and a place where you can do programming that no one else does because it’s just not financially viable,” he said.

In 2015, the College used College Radio Day to help launch its new FM broadcast capabilities and officially transition to the station’s new call letters—WPFS, short for “Proud Fighting Scots.” The station broadcasts locally at 105.9 and on the web at monmouthcollege.edu/wpfs.

“In our current (pandemic) situation, a number of our students are doing podcasts, where they’re creating their show at home,” Goble said. “We have shows that range from one exclusively on musicals to students who pick different genres of music. We have students who do total talk shows on sports or other subjects. We’ve had students do an all-bagpipe show, which is pretty Monmouth-appropriate. We’ve had a show all in Spanish.”

Mini-classes offer taste of Monmouth experience to prospective students

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uring the past summer, prospective students got a taste of the Monmouth College educational experience through a series of online miniclasses.

The students could choose as many classes as they liked from among 15 offerings, ranging from “Tools for a Successful Interview” with business and economics professor Julie Rothbardt to “Introduction to the Strange Ideas of the Quantum World,” taught by physics professor Chris Fasano.

“The classes were a huge hit,” said Vice President for Enrollment Management Kristen English.

“In total, 316 students from 19 states plus Puerto Rice signed on for a class. Many attended multiple classes, including two students who tied for the record at 12 mini-classes each.”

One of the most popular

offerings was “Conspiracy Theories in American Society,” taught by political science professor Andre Audette.

Audette drew a large response by promising to address such sensational ideas as the U.S. government killed President John F. Kennedy and 5G causes covid-19.

The class concluded with a discussion of whether or not conspiracy theories are helpful or harmful for society.

Most of the classes had the majority of students stay the entire period and often 15-30 minutes longer to continue asking questions or have discussions.

The series is continuing this fall with topics including Japanese shipwrecks, using science modeling to predict covid-19 cases, and the fluid dynamics of sports.

It’s been quite a year for Gail Simpson Owen ’74, the national president of Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, which was founded at Monmouth in 1870. Some of the events leading up to the 150th anniversary of the organization on Oct. 13, 2020, were impacted by the pandemic, including the Founders Day celebration itself. Owen recently visited the Monmouth home of Kappa founder Minnie Stewart to record a welcome to precede a virtual Founders Day celebration that was streamed over the internet.

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Officer called on Fighting Scot bravery in saving life

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Maggie Semington ’01 was honored as Officer of the Year for her lifesaving actions.

ormer Monmouth athlete Maggie Semington ’01 was fast on the track, and that attribute was instrumental in a life-saving act that recently earned her the Galesburg (Ill.) Area Crime Stoppers Officer of the Year for 2019.

Presented this fall to the 15-year veteran of the Galesburg Police Department, the award was given for Semington’s handling of a February 2019 incident. Responding to a suicidal subject on the Interstate 74 bridge, Semington sprang into action, quickly wrapping her arms around the subject and pulling them from the ledge of the interstate and out of danger.

The GPD release says “Officer Semington risked her own safety. …Her heroic actions not only saved this person’s life, but prevented injury to the drivers below.”

A four-time Midwest Conference track champion who’s

also the sixth-fastest Fighting Scot woman in the 200-meter hurdles, Semington credits the lessons learned at Monmouth and on the track with giving her key law enforcement tools.

“At the time, I knew I had to be quick and forceful,” explained Semington. “I use some of my training from college in physical tasks at work. The love of track and field has kept me running, and working out is an important part of my life that I’ve continued (after college).”

Semington, who majored in accounting and business administration, became the first woman to receive the Officer of the Year award, an honor not lost on the Galesburg native.

“To be the first woman named the Officer of the Year means a lot to me,” she said. “I feel I have proven I can do the job just as well as any of my male counterparts. Being on the Scots’ track team showed me if you care about what you’re doing and you work harder, you can achieve your dreams. The best part of my job isn’t receiving awards and recognition, it’s helping others and seeing families get better, people get better and preventing bad things from happening to others.”

Six decades later, college roommates now connect on Zoom

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n the fall of 1959, eight Monmouth College freshmen took up residence in McMichael Hall and began a lifelong friendship.

In 2003, after having dispersed to eight different states, the former college roommates became roommates again, when they dubbed themselves “the Kool Dames” and began traveling the country together annually.

Over the ensuing years the 1963 graduates—Daryl Gillespie Beadle (Minnesota), Donna Bullard Colado (Florida), Ann Stewart Cragg (Colorado), Shirl Service Culbert (Alabama), Carol Clark Dotseth (Iowa), Jean Rasmusen Droste (Ohio), Hallie Simpson Lemon (Illinois) and Sharon Irvine Lopatka (California)—have had fun learning the history and culture of 17 different cities and regions from the Oregon coast to Savannah, from New York to St. Simon’s Island.

No longer the youngest Scots, they are among Monmouth’s oldest alums and in the high-risk category during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their planned 2020 cruise was canceled, so they used text and email to stay connected and support each other during the pandemic.

In May, from all eight states and across four time zones, the Dames started to Zoom. They reminisce and discuss the changed world from different perspectives and points of view. They worry about their families: Sharon’s daughter,

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Dotseth, Cragg, Lopatka, Colado, Lemon, Droste, Culbert and Beadle share their latest news in a “Kool Dames” Zoom session in August.

a COVID-19 survivor; Carol’s daughter, a surgeon, and her granddaughter, a nurse working on a covid-19 floor. They discuss what is being lost in the shift to online education for their grandchildren, how they will miss the experiences the Dames enjoyed on campus and the unique bond they created.

They worry, too, about Monmouth College, its faculty and staff, and for the future Scots who may not have as many opportunities to form friendships such as theirs that have lasted for more than six decades.

NEWSMAKERS

SIMMONS TO PUBLISH BOOK ON ANCIENT DEMAGOGUERY Bob Simmons, professor of classics, has

signed a contract with international publisher Bloomsbury Press to publish Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Eu- SIMMONS ripides, and Xenophon. Simmons says that while primarily scholarly, the book will have considerable relevance to a general audience. The product of 17 years of research, it has a planned June 2022 release.

BALL FINISHES UNDERGRAD RESEARCH PROJECT Savannah Ball ’21, a mathematics and economics major, participated in a selective National Science Foundation project through the University of Arizona.

The 10-week Research Experience for BALL Undergraduates (REU) project focused on adaptive cruise control in automobiles, a process which allows a vehicle to automatically adjust its speed to maintain a safe distance from vehicles ahead. While most previous studies of the technology examined highway traffic, Ball’s team studied parking lot and neighborhood speeds of 18 miles per hour or lower.

NIERENBERG RECEIVES 2020 JULIA CHILD AWARD Danielle Nierenberg ’95, president and co-founder of Food Tank, is the 2020 recipient of the Julia Child Award. Created by The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts in 2015, the award NIERENBERG is given to an individual who has made a profound and significant difference in the way America cooks, eats and drinks. A non-profit organization, Food Tank focuses on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Nierenberg, who speaks at more than 100 events per year around the world, conducts extensive on-the-ground research, meeting with farmers, scientists, policymakers, journalists and others involved in alleviating hunger.

VANDERPOOL AUTHORS NOVELLAS IN LATIN LANGUAGE Emma Vanderpool ’17, who is in her first year of teaching Latin at Springfield (Mass.) Honors Academy, has authored five novellas in Latin, with another two on the way later this fall. Published by VANDERPOOL Bolchazy-Carducci, a company that specializes in Latin teaching publications, Vanderpool said her novellas are a response to “a shift in teaching Latin to comprehensible input,” which is understandable language input that is just one step beyond the student’s current level. Vanderpool earned her master’s degree in 2019 from the University of Massachusetts and was also a recipient of its Distinguished Teaching Award.

HAGEN’S BOOK TO EXAMINE EARLY ENVIRONMENTAL IDEAS Adrienne Hagen, assistant professor of classics, has signed a contract with Routledge for a book titled Nature and the Environment in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook. It is scheduled to HAGEN be published in 2023. Hagen, who joined the faculty in 2018, teaches a course on “Nature and the Environment in Antiquity.” Hagen said many of the available texts on the topic tend to focus on physical practices, such as deforestation and mining. She’s sought to explore more about “what people were thinking about nature and the environment and how connected people felt with the natural world.”

AUDETTE HONORED WITH NATIONAL ADVISER AWARD Andre Audette, assistant professor of political science, is one of four recipients of the national chapter adviser award from Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political honor society. Founded in 2002, AUDETTE Monmouth’s Alpha Alpha Iota chapter is one of nearly 700 nationwide. Audette holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame.

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FACULTY PROFILE

For generations of students, the liberal arts were ‘elementary’ to their dear Watson

By Barry McNamara

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nglish professor Craig Watson has retired from teaching, but his impact on Monmouth College will be felt for decades to come—by the generations of students he educated and inspired; by the College’s curriculum, which he helped to shape; and even by the land around Monmouth itself, which Watson helped transform, over the past decade, into an educational garden and a market farm.

His longtime faculty colleague Steve Buban summarized those impacts as part of a video tribute to Watson, which was created in lieu of the College’s traditional retirement ceremony for faculty and staff.

Buban spoke of the development of Monmouth’s garden and farm—which Watson continues to help oversee—as well as his “life-altering” impact on students and his advocacy for the liberal arts.

Toward the latter end, Watson was instrumental in developing a freshman seminar course, which eventually became “Introduction to Liberal Arts,” as well as the College’s Honors Program for select students.

“A question on the Monmouth’s Honors Program application years ago, which now appears as an interview question on Scholarship Day, goes something like this,” said Watson. “ ‘When have you experienced joy and wonder in learning something new or doing something with your intelligence that was so powerful time seemed to fly by? What has that experience told you about yourself and your future?’ ”

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Said Watson, “I have found over time that many students respond to this question with enthusiasm, gratitude and … relief. A luminous possibility of living opens before them: finding out what they passionately love to learn and learn to do may lead to a vocation, to life’s work. I have had all that, and in saying goodbye to 34 classes of seniors, my best wish for them at graduation has ever been what I first said when they matriculated: ‘Find what you love to do and then find how to make a living at it.’”

One of those graduating seniors was Alex Holt ’12 of Chicago, who imagined himself on an entirely different track at Monmouth—a track focused solely on material success—until he took an honors course from Watson and ultimately changed his major.

“I realized that what I really wanted was to spend not just college but my life asking real questions, important questions like ’What does it mean to have a self, and be a citizen, right now, in this moment?’” said Holt in his video message to Watson. “Those are the questions that define me to this day, and I would not be the person or the professional or the partner that I am without having you as a role model to show me just how satisfying it is to live a passionate life of the mind.”

“You were a foundational figure in my life,” said an emotional Eric Seaman ’05 of Georgetown, Texas, who also recalled Watson singing the praises of a liberal arts degree. “I’m in

single field,” he said. “For me, the best conversations about curriculum and pedagogy, among colleagues and students alike, have always been about human resourcefulness and general education—about developing analytical and synthetic skills to solve complex problems, yes, but also about learning to make ethical judgments in ambiguous circumstances, and aesthetic judgments about what is beautiful and worth celebrating in an ’examined life.’ Of course, for me, teaching literature and writing have been the happiest and the darkest places to go for that excitement. The most profound.”

Jess Bybee ’14 of Chicago recalled one of those profound moments that literature created, when Watson stopped mid-lecture to recite “A Postcard from the Volcano” by Wallace Stevens.

“He closed his eyes and delivered it— brilliantly—and then when he opened his eyes, we were all crying,” she said.

“That’s what I will always remember about Dr. Watson. He can always hold a room and he can always make you cry. Most of the time it’s from beautiful poetry. Sometimes it’s because he’s a tough grader. I’ve cried for both reasons.”

Lindsey Gates-Markel ’06 of Urbana, Ill., recalled a moment when Watson shared the memory of finding one of his childhood journals full of lessons and revelations.

“All of these lessons and revelations … he could have sworn he had just arrived at in adult life,” said Gates-Markel. “The lesson of that story being that we are always relearning the same lessons, the same stories. The same themes will pop up throughout our lives, and we should expect that. Knowing to expect that has been a major guiding force in my life. I really do think about that story all the time.”

Watson said that, more recently, the Monmouth College Educational Garden and Market Farm, “as sites of multidisciplinary study, have taught me and dozens of others problem solving and appreciation in the context of citizenship—thinking globally and acting locally about climate change and growing food.

“Blessedly, tempus fugit in such pursuits.”

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Find what you love to do and then find how to make a living at it.”

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IT. Every day, I write, and every day people pay me to use the skills you taught me. I’m forever grateful.”

Watson elaborated on Holt’s and Seaman’s sentiments.

“The liberal arts educate generalists, amateurs and lifelong learners who are at least as interested in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies as in terminal degrees in any

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Celebrating the Class of 2020 Much to the disappointment of the 280 graduating seniors, the covid-19 crisis forced them to experience Commencement Weekend remotely from their homes, as a virtual Senior Banquet and Commencement were streamed over the internet.

In lieu of our traditional Commencement coverage, we celebrate the achievements of the entire Class of 2020 with profiles of six representative members.

Stories by

Barry McNamara

THE POWER OF MENTORING Chandler Claudé has paid it forward. Coming to Monmouth College in 2016 as a first-generation college student, Claudé did not have an easy time of it at first. But thanks to the help of an older student, Claudé graduated in May with a degree in accounting and a minor in French.

Claudé has also helped other students succeed in college by serving as an Associated Colleges of Illinois Peer Mentor.

The program matches at-risk freshmen with trained peer mentors recruited from the sophomore, junior and senior classes who faced similar challenges during their first year of college.

“When I got to Monmouth, I faced many struggles, not fully understanding simple things like emotional intelligence, how to write an email to a professor, or how to develop effective time-management skills,” Claudé said in a speech that was shown at a virtual benefit reception for the Associated Colleges of Illinois.

A turning point for Claudé in his college career occurred in the Monmouth dining hall a couple months into his first semester.

“I found a friend in the caf, and we instantly clicked,” he said. “He took me under his wing and gave me great tools for succeeding in college. He wasn’t a first-gen himself, but he understood my struggles due to not having the right mentors.”

In addition to finding a friend, Claudé had found an academic role model.

“We did homework together a lot. He would text me to tell me to come to the library to get a study session in,” he said.

“Simple gestures like that really go a long way in my eyes because someone is looking out for me and I appreciate it.”

Claudé soon saw tangible results.

“My first semester, I was able to get a 3.3 gpa, and I remember I was on Cloud Nine,” he said. “That was the highest I had ever received in my life. The hard work and accountability my newfound mentor gave me really started this.”

Claudé, who plans to find a job in accounting and study for the CPA exam, was already motivated to do well in college thanks to a very special person in his life. Finding a mentor

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was the missing piece he needed to make that person proud.

“The biggest motivator for me going to college was my mom,” he said. “She always stressed education. She had to drop out of school due to having my oldest sister. That was always her biggest regret for years, and seeing that always

The Class of motivated me to continue my education.”

Claudé knows his mother didn’t have an easy time of it, raising six children.

“My mom worked three jobs to put me through high school,” he said. “Most days I didn’t see her because she would work all week from around 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. I always felt the best way for me to repay my mother was to get my degree because she had sacrificed so much for me.”

Claudé is pleased that, along the way, he was an influence on Monmouth students who have followed him.

“I became a peer mentor because I have learned so much about life and school and I felt that I needed to pass it on

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to another first-gen student,” he said. “I wanted to be a cheerleader for someone because that’s what I needed during my freshman year. Having someone hold me accountable for study and goals was important. Anyone that knows me knows that I love helping people because it brings me joy.”

Part of that joy comes from the transformations that Claudé has witnessed.

“A lot of them were shy in my first few meetings with them, but now I have a great friendship with each of my mentees,” he said “I earned their trust by sharing my story and letting them know I want to see them succeed, whether in athletics or band or, more importantly, in the classroom.”

A CLASSROOM OF HER OWN When Mackenzie Fletcher graduated in May, she was already looking forward to returning to the classroom—as a third-grade teacher.

“I’ve always wanted to be a teacher,” said Fletcher, who is teaching in Abingdon, Ill., after having graduated cum laude with a degree in elementary education. “Growing up, I would sit my siblings down around a table and pretend that I was the teacher. My dad was on the school board where we lived (Newark, Ill.), and he would bring home old chalkboards” that she used as part of the simulation.

That simulation got very real during Fletcher’s time at Monmouth.

“I remember taking that first ‘Foundations of Education’ class,” she said. “As I was taking it, I thought, ‘Yep, this is what I want to do.’ Then in the upper-level classes as we got out into the schools and worked with kids, I remember that I would kind of stress out the night before, trying to put together the perfect lesson plan. But then the next day, actually doing the lesson with the kids, all that stress got put away and I just really enjoyed what I was doing.”

All along, Fletcher has envisioned working with either second- or third-graders.

“They’re at that age where they still really, really love school,” she said. “They’re more independent than younger students, and they can hold a conversation and joke and express themselves.”

“I know it might be a little scary at first to have my own classroom, but I’m excited to experience that,” she said. “I think of myself as a lifelong learner, and I’m looking forward to continuing to learn about my field and how I can grow and adjust for the future.”

At Monmouth, Fletcher experienced growth both within and beyond the classroom, as a member of the highly competitive Stockdale Fellows, as president of her Pi Beta Phi

chapter and as a performer on the College’s dance team, the Red Hot Scots.

Also a member of Kappa Delta Pi, the international education honor society, Fletcher studied abroad in Northern Ireland the fall semester of her junior year.

Through the Stockdale Fellows program, Fletcher traveled to Washington, D.C., and Grafton, Ill., on alternative spring break trips and also had plenty of opportunities to talk about leadership and what makes a good leader.

Now Fletcher’s leadership will be put to the test as she challenges her third-graders to aspire to an education and a career as rewarding as her own.

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CHEMISTRY MAJOR TO ACCOUNTANT Add Jacob Wenokur to the ever-expanding list of those who appreciate the liberal arts education that Monmouth College provides.

Wenokur came to Monmouth as a lacrosse-playing chemistry major, and he left with a degree in accounting and a position with Lauterbach & Amen LLP in Naperville, Ill., 20 minutes from his suburban home in Geneva.

And home is the place from which Wenokur has already started at Lauterbach & Amen. He began his fulltime position as an audit associate in May, working remotely until stay-at-home orders required by the covid-19 pandemic were relaxed in Illinois.

“I’ll be going to clients and helping with audits,” said Wenokur.

“The idea is to be able to take as much of the workload as possible off of our auditors.”

Both Wenokur and the College have a previous connection to the suburban accounting firm. Nathan Gaskill ’04 is a partner there, and Wenokur has interned with the firm twice, working there all of last summer and on his most recent Christmas break.

The move to accounting represented a major academic shift for Wenokur, and he feels fortunate to have discovered his new vocation.

“I was a chemistry major at first, and I really liked the basic

chemistry course I took as a freshman,” said Wenokur. “But I didn’t think I wanted to go on and get a master’s or a Ph.D., so I started taking a lot of economics classes and was going to major in that. One of the requirements for econ was to take 203 (‘Financial Accounting’), and I realized I like that a lot. That’s when Professor (Judy) Peterson recommended that I switch majors.”

Peterson said Wenokur stood out as a student.

“Jacob was an outstanding lab assistant, tutor and assistant with our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program,” said Peterson. “I cherished his ability to always be calm amidst any chaos around him. … This will bode him well at an accounting firm, where there are often many tasks fighting for attention.”

What originally drew Wenokur to Monmouth was the opportunity to be on the ground floor of the Fighting Scots’ new lacrosse program. He started 13 games his freshman year.

Wenokur also held a pair of offices with his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and he has been a member of a pair of honor societies—Mortar Board and Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society in business, management and administration.

When the pandemic hit, Wenokur had already taken most of his accounting classes, and being back in Geneva helped him start his post-Monmouth career a few weeks early.

A PASSION FOR RESEARCH Last spring, Caitlyn Allen put off the opportunity to walk across the platform at Monmouth College’s Commencement until she’d officially met graduation requirements in December.

In particular, Allen cited former psychology professor Tara The covid-19 pandemic dashed those plans, but Allen is now busy in Springfield, Mo., studying for her master’s degree in clinical psychology at Missouri State University.

At Monmouth, Allen successfully balanced academics with athletics, earning All-Midwest Conference honors in cross country at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 conference meets and breaking the school’s 10-kilometer record in track.

“I knew that every time she put her shoes on that she was going to give 100 percent,” said cross country coach Jon Welty. “I knew I never had to worry about her. I could give her instruction for a race or practice and she would execute it perfectly.”

When it came to Allen’s post-Monmouth academic plans, the College’s psychology faculty helped set her on the right course.

“They helped me gain the confidence to pursue going to graduate school,” said Allen, who plans to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology after earning her master’s degree.

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McCoy for the influence she had on her education.

“I didn’t know that much about the research end of things, she said, “but she opened the doors for me, and I found I enjoyed it a lot.”

Allen’s capstone research experience involved narrative identity in relation to non-suicidal self-injury.

“Caitlyn is very bright and has a great work ethic,” said psychology professor Joan Wertz. “She’s driven, and once she sets her sights on a goal, she works toward it persistently. She is also just really pleasant and nice to work with, and I believe she’ll make a great clinical psychologist.”

Allen recalls not being “entirely sure” which area of psychology to pursue in her early days of studying the discipline.

“Then I took a class in abnormal psychology, and I knew that’s the direction I wanted to head,” she said. “I knew I wanted to have a clinical psychology role. I knew I wanted to do something with mental health.”

Allen hopes her graduate studies lead her to working at a “research-oriented institution, where I can find a balance between teaching and research.”

PANDEMIC-INSPIRED CAREER PATH A biology major with a minor in chemistry, Ben Nelson had a decision to make as his post-Monmouth College future came into sharper focus.

That decision, fueled in some ways by the covid-19 pandemic, will keep Nelson in the scientific realm but steer him in a different direction than the “hard sciences” he’s studied for the past four years.

Nelson has been accepted into Tufts University’s graduate program in public health, where he’ll focus on biostatistics and epidemiology, the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

“My grandfather worked in public health with the state of Illinois, so it’s always been in the back of my mind,” said Nelson.

Public health got pushed to the front of Nelson’s mind during the current pandemic.

“Due to the pandemic, I was at home and not lost in the magic of being on campus,” he said of the last two months of his final semester at Monmouth. “Being at home and having a lot of time to think, I really got to buckling down and deciding for sure what I wanted to do.”

Part of the magic of campus was Nelson’s involvement with the men’s fraternity Zeta Beta Tau. He held several offices in the chapter, including president, and was named the College’s 2019 Greek Man of the Year.

Completing his master’s degree will take two years, and the first semester has been moved online because of the pandemic.

“I’ve always been interested in statistics—it was my favorite part of math,” said Nelson. “The opportunity to understand and apply statistics is a good marriage for me between hard science and social science.”

At the end of two years, Nelson envisions pursuing “pharmaceutical settings, looking into how different markers affect different populations. That’s a track that I’d be interested in.”

Asked if covid-19 will still dominate the public health discussion in 2022, Nelson replied, “I would really hope not. It’s hard to say for sure, but I feel a strong vaccine is on the way in the next year. It’s important to stay vigilant in the meantime.”

Looking ahead, Nelson hopes to be part of the solution for issues relating to public health.

“There’s a lot of misinformation out there,” he said. “I want to become part of the next generation of leaders in public health.”

TEACHING FULFILLS ASPIRATION For Josh Gross, Monmouth College helped him find his calling. “I came to Monmouth as a pretty shy kid, but my professors really pushed me to interact, to share ideas, to make connections,” said Gross, who has accepted a position as an elementary school physical education teacher in central Illinois.

Gross said he found his vocation at Monmouth after arriving as a freshman with a few ideas.

“Some of the things I was thinking about were physical therapy, athletic training and even becoming a police officer. I finally decided that what I wanted to do was to make an impact on kids’ lives, so that morphed into me taking a lot of classes in educational studies, and I’m very happy with my decision.”

In addition to the course work in his major, Gross was strongly influenced by his work in the field.

“My student-teacher experience was really cool,” he said.

“It was (at Galesburg’s Steele Elementary School) with Katy Vaccarello Flatt ’09. Working with her in that diverse setting really helped make me the teacher I am today.”

Educational studies professor Michelle Holschuh Simmons had Gross in four classes during his junior and senior years.

“Josh had already earned a reputation in our department for being an excellent addition to any class,” she said. “My impressions were confirmed with every interaction I have had

with Josh for the last two years. In person and in writing, Josh consistently communicates professionally and comports himself with confidence.”

Like Vaccarello before him, Gross competed on the Fighting Scots’ track team. Having away meets almost every weekend of the spring semester required good time-management skills, and Gross was up to the challenge.

“Josh impresses everyone he encounters with his organization, his work ethic and his dedication to tasks,” said Simmons.

Having had his final semester interrupted by covid-19, Gross missed not only a Commencement ceremony but also the opportunity to simply chill in his dorm and talk to his roommate.

“We would just talk and share ideas about anything,” he said.

“Conversations like that have been a really great part of my Monmouth experience—to share ideas and not be judged and to be respectful of others’ opinions.”

That happened in the classroom, as well.

“I really learned to think about things in a different way,” said Gross. “I think that’s what I’m going to miss most about my time at Monmouth—the connections I made with professors.”

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MONMOUTHIANA The largest outbreak of the Spanish flu on the Monmouth College campus in 1918 was among male students who were members of Student Army Training Corps.

The cadets were housed in Woodbine Cottage, a large house that stood across Broadway from Wallace Hall.

The unit posed for this panoramic photo on Nov. 29, 1918, eight weeks after it was formed.

Virus forced campus-wide quarantine in 1918

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college ca mpus is not u nlik e a cruise ship —

a diverse population occupying a confined space where community members socialize, eat and sleep together for an extended period of

By Jeff Rankin time. It’s perhaps not College Historian surprising, then, that earlier this year many colleges borrowed from the emergency measures adopted aboard cruise ships in sketching out plans for keeping covid-19 at bay.

That’s also what Monmouth College did in 1918 when it instituted a quarantine after the world was rocked by the H1N1 pandemic known as Spanish influenza. The plan worked—for a while.

The circumstances leading up to the quarantine were complex, which is understandable considering the complexity of the world situation at the time. In early 1918, Germany had launched massive new offensives against the Allies, and U-boats were appearing in U.S. waters. With a growing need for recruits, the War Department established the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) at colleges throughout the United States, enabling male students to receive military training while pursuing their college studies so they could be pre-

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pared for active Army service. In exchange, they received room, board, clothing and a monthly stipend.

Monmouth College was one of 525 institutions joining the effort, and during that summer President T. H. McMichael selected seven students to attend a special 60-day training camp at Fort Sheridan near Chicago. Returning to campus, the trainees assisted a commanding officer in training the Monmouth SATC unit, which was organized on Oct. 1, 1918.

Meanwhile, a strain of the H1N1 virus that had caused 48 soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, to die from pneumonia earlier that year had made its way to the battlefields of Europe, where it not only spread but mutated into a deadlier virus. By September, as infected soldiers returned to the U.S., the general public became infected, and mass deaths from pneumonia began occurring in cities around Oct. 1, just as Monmouth’s SATC unit was organized.

Woodbine Cottage, a college-owned former residence directly across Broadway from Wallace Hall, was converted to “The Barracks,” with 60 cadets living in the house, 20 cadets sleeping in the barn behind the building and the remainder housed in the College’s old gymnasium.

Each day following reveille, the men

attended classes during the morning and early afternoon, before spending the rest of the afternoon in drilling. After dinner, two hours were spent studying, followed by taps.

Although no cases of Spanish flu had yet been diagnosed in the Monmouth community, Dr. Adelma G. Patton, a Monmouth College trustee who served as physical fitness coordinator for the SATC, was concerned—both about the health of the cadets and of the women students living in McMichael Home, the College’s only dormitory. He prepared a hospital room in the barracks and on Oct. 7 he spoke to the dormitory women about how to avoid catching the flu.

The following day, the seriousness of the flu began to hit home, as a student named Ruth McConnell, who had earlier applied to enter the Army Training School for Nurses, was ordered by the Surgeon General to report to Camp Grant near Rockford or Camp Custer in Michigan to care for influenza victims.

On Oct. 15, although no cases had yet appeared on campus, Monmouth College was placed under strict quarantine. Dormitory women were to be confined to the campus and SATC cadets to the barracks when not at drill. Dr. Patton announced

that any students leaving the city would be forbidden to return to campus until the quarantine was lifted, and that students living in town should remain at home if a member of their family became sick.

The ban also extended to the athletic field.

Following the opening football game against Augustana, the remainder of the football season was canceled.

The seriousness of the situation really hit home when a popular student named Ralph Ferguson, who had entered the service Sept.

1, succumbed to the flu at Chicago’s Armour Technology Institute, where he was a sergeant drilling recruits. President McMichael spoke at his funeral at Monmouth’s First Presbyterian Church and many students attended. The SATC unit acted as guard of honor at the gravesite and fired a salute.

A few days later, Dr. Paul Martin, a Monmouth graduate treating patients at

Two of the nurses assigned to monitor the health of McMichael Hall residents stand in front of the women’s dormitory in the fall of 1918.

Given the worsening conditions, President McMichael ordered college classes suspended indefinitely, with the hope that they could resume after the new year.

Camp Custer, died from the flu. Because of the quarantine, Monmouth students were not allowed to attend his funeral, but held a memorial service in front of Wallace Hall at the same hour.

Lillian Ferguson, the widow of Ralph Ferguson, whom she had married just months before he contracted influenza, was appointed nurse in charge of McMichael Hall. She was assisted by three students who worked as nurses’ assistants in a Chicago hospital the previous summer.

Ten Monmouth College graduates who were teaching at schools in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana that had closed due to influenza returned to Monmouth on Oct. 22.

The nation rejoiced on Nov. 11 with the signing of the armistice, and the following day the College celebrated by cautiously lifting the ban requiring college women who lived in town to stay off campus. As no cases of the flu had yet surfaced, they were asked to judiciously decide if it was safe for them to resume their studies.

College life began to return to normalcy.

The women students resumed their work making Red Cross comfort kits for soldiers and plans were made for the Thanksgiving break. Because “town” women had missed so much school, they (and the faculty) would be given only Thanksgiving Day as a vacation, while the dormitory women would be given a three-day holiday to return home.

But on the day before Thanksgiving, one of the dormitory women was diagnosed with influenza. To avoid an outbreak in McMichael Hall, President McMichael advised as many girls as possible to go home and not

return until after the holidays. About a dozen girls remained in the dorm, while many who went home contracted the flu, as did a number of the town girls.

Soon, influenza was rampant in Monmouth. The schools were forced to close and everyone on the streets wore masks. At 218 South 2nd Street, 7-year-old Ronald “Dutch” Reagan watched helplessly as his mother, Nelle, became deathly ill. She eventually recovered—some believed it was because her doctor prescribed green cheese.

Then it was Dutch’s turn to come down with a case of pneumonia. Returning to Monmouth during the presidential primary season of 1976, Reagan visited his former house and recalled those harrowing days when neighbors’ houses bore “No Admittance” quarantine signs on their doors.

Given the worsening conditions, President McMichael ordered classes suspended indefinitely, with the hope that they could resume after the new year.

In the barracks, several cadets became ill.

Some were removed to Monmouth Hospital, but those in good health were relocated to Wallace Hall. All of them were issued gauze masks, which they wore at all times except at meals.

President McMichael sent out cards two days after Christmas notifying students that classes would resume on Jan. 3, 1919.

On Dec. 19, the SATC unit was formally dissolved and the College was shuttered.

Two days after Christmas, President McMichael issued a “season’s greetings” card announcing classes would resume at 7:45 a.m. on Jan. 3.

Almost as suddenly as it had descended upon the city of Monmouth, the influenza outbreak quickly ran its course and classes resumed Jan. 3 with no new cases reported.

But tragedy struck just a week later when a freshman named Arthur Lackey, who had contracted the flu while living in the barracks, collapsed at basketball practice.

Despite attempts at artificial respiration, he never regained consciousness. Officially his death was attributed to a weak heart, but potentially the flu had also played a role.

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Senior guards Yvonne Ornelas (below) and Becca Gallis, both from California, team up against an Illnois College defender in an early-season game. Along with Arizonian Carley Turnbull, they led the 2019-20 Scots to the NCAA tournament.

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ecca Gallis and Yvonne Ornelas have seen the worst of times and the best of times as members of the Fighting Scots women’s basketball team.

When the duo from California were freshmen at Monmouth, the team won just four games, the lowest victory total since the program was just getting off the ground in the 1970s.

But each year, the shooting guard who became one of the program’s top scorers (Gallis) and the point guard who was an indispensable floor leader (Ornelas) got better and better, and their surrounding cast was augmented by more and more talent. The end result their senior season was the program’s second-ever NCAA tournament berth and a record 21 victories.

“Recruiting better players is certainly part of it,” said head coach Kyle Wilson of the turnaround from a 4–17 mark in 2017, “but more so focusing on players who want to do things the right way, who are willing to work hard every day to get better.

There’s no instant gratification. It’s been small steps, more brick-by-brick, not one big leap.”

Gallis and Ornelas, along with classmate Carley Turnbull, who transferred to Monmouth as a sophomore from Grand Canyon University, were the three seniors on the 2019–20 team. Wilson is

thrilled that the trio went out with back-to-back successful seasons.

“To see them in the position they are now is extremely rewarding for me,” he said. “I’m very proud of them for what they’ve accomplished after they took a chance on our program and took a chance on me. Yvonne and Becca joined us after a five-win season, and Carley came in after four wins.

It was a leap of faith for all three of them. There was really no reason for them to say ’Yes’ and come all the way out here from California and Arizona.”

Both Gallis—who was named the Scots’ firstever Midwest Conference Player of the Year—and Turnbull were named first team all-conference for the season. Only four Monmouth women have scored 400 points in a season twice, and two of them are Gallis and Turnbull.

Turning the corner Wilson couldn’t point to a single game or practice when he felt his team had arrived as a squad that won 40 games over the past two years.

Instead, it was a realization he had after the 2017–18 season.

“Two years ago, we only won nine games, but we were 1–7 in games that were decided by seven points or less,” he said. “I thought, ‘If we can just cut our mistakes by one or two per quarter, that would make a big difference.’ We were really close at that point. You could see we were turning the corner.”

Turning the corner and picking up some

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Forward Carley Turnbull, who transferred to Monmouth as a sophomore, finished her career as the eighthleading scorer in Monmouth history.

serious speed, it turns out, as the Scots started the following season 9–0 on their way to 19 wins and a spot in the MWC championship game, just a victory shy of the NCAA tournament.

Looking back on the Scots’ improvement, the three seniors each recalled different moments from the start of their junior season.

“For me, it was starting the season at the Aurora tournament and scoring 90 points,” said Gallis of a 92–72 opening win over the hosts. “In the two games there, we had three different players score 20 points (Gallis, Turnbull and junior Shayne Smith). That was the turning point for me.”

Turnbull cited a conference-opening win at St. Norbert, which snapped a five-game losing streak against the Green Knights, while Ornelas pointed to the final victory in the streak, which gave Lake Forest its first conference loss.

Ornelas and Gallis arrived on campus knowing they’d get the chance to contribute right away.

“I felt I could help with a turnaround,” said Ornelas, who finished fourth on the Scots’ all-time assists list.

The point guard was so valuable that Wilson kept her on the court for every minute of nearly one-fourth of the games in her career.

“It was an opportunity to be a part of building a different culture,” added Gallis, who finished her career with 1,392 points, good for third on the Scots’ all-time list.

Turnbull had firsthand experience with a program turnaround.

“I chose to go a high school (Mesa) that was in the same situation,” said the forward, whose 1,131 points as a Scot rank eighth. “We were able to flip it around there, and it’s been fun having that same kind of success here with these West Coast kids.”

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There’s no doubt I’ve improved as a coach. I have a better understanding of what buttons I can push, knowing when to push the team a little harder and when to be more empathetic.”

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without key contributions from a handful of other rotation players—shooting guard Kaitlyn Osmulski and post player Jordan Kintigh, two sophomores who round out the starting lineup—and reserves Smith, Josie Morgan and Tarae Warner.

“There’s no question that we wouldn’t be in the position we’re in without the contributions from those other players,” said Wilson. “They’ve all had their big games and big moments, whether it’s hitting a shot when we really needed it, or grabbing a big rebound. It’s really good from my perspective, because I know I can look down that bench and have somebody I can put into the game who can contribute.

From night to night, we don’t know who out of that group is really going to step up with a big game, but we know somebody will.”

Each member of the quintet averaged between six and nine points per game, and they all had moments in the spotlight, such as Warner’s game-high 19 points in a victory over Illinois College or Osmulski’s 16 in a win against Grinnell, with both triumphs avenging earlier defeats. Warner’s 19-point game started a 10-game stretch in which the 5–9 guard averaged 10 points.

Kintigh pulled down a team-best 6.6 rebounds per game and also led in field goal percentage at 55.1. Osmulski shot a

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team-high free throw percentage of 90.4, and was second on the team with 42 three-pointers and 42 steals. Morgan was third in both assists (48) and steals (32).

“We do it as a group,” said Wilson. “We do have some talented kids, but you can’t win in basketball playing 1-on-5 or 2-on-5 or 3-on-5.”

The group approach is even more important defensively.

“They understand that we just can’t outscore everybody,” he said. “Each year, the defense has gotten better. There’s been more of a mindset that we can’t take any defensive possessions off.”

Credit can go to Wilson, as well, as the fifth-year head coach continues to learn.

“There’s no doubt I’ve improved as a coach,” he said. “I

have a better understanding of what buttons I can push, knowing when to push the team a little harder and when to be more empathetic. I’ve learned to be more of a calming presence and not let the stress of a situation affect my actions.”

The Scots’ record season ended with a 91–55 loss at No. 5-ranked Wartburg in the first round of the NCAA tourney.

“It was a great experience for our kids,” said Wilson. “To only be the second team in the history of the program to get to the NCAAs was a great way to cap the season. To win the conference tournament and earn the automatic berth was something they’ll never forget. Then to go to Wartburg and get treated in a first-class manner was a great way to end the season and be rewarded for all their hard work.”

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COVID SPOILS TRIP TO INDOOR NATIONALS

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he Fighting Scots qualified three athletes for the NCAA Division III Indoor National Track and Field Championships March 13–14.

Sprinter Stone Darrow and throwers Joe Krall and Drew Thaxton made the trip to Winston-Salem, N.C., along with Monmouth’s coaches.

That was the good news. The bad news was that the meet was not held beWalking through the cause of the covid-19 pandemic.

“They took the news airports and seeing surprisingly well,” said people wearing face coach Roger Haynes a few days later.

“Walking through the masks made us airports and seerealize the situation ing people wearing face masks made us had escalated.” realize the situation had escalated. No one had expressed any Coach Roger Haynes great concern at our conference meetings a couple of weeks ago, but obviously that has changed. Our guys handled the situation well, understanding it is something detrimental to the whole country.”

The trio was hoping to compete for All-American honors, but the cancellation of the event’s athlete banquet “was an indication that something was going in a bad direction,” said Haynes.

“Then we got word there would be no fans or spectators allowed, and then finally the cancellation of the entire meet.”

Even if Darrow, Krall and Thaxton didn’t get the chance to compete, it was an experience they may never forget.

“I’m sure it was a whirlwind for

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Stone Darrow’s 60-meter dash time of 6.90 earned him a trip to nationals.

them,” said Haynes. “We had the conversation at dinner Thursday night and they handled it well. They lost an opportunity, but I think they saw the larger picture.”

Krall, who earned All-American honors at last year’s indoor meet, entered nationals with the second-ranked weight throw (64–2½).

Thaxton punched his ticket to the meet in the shot put and the weight throw, where he was ranked 10th and 17th,

respectively, with marks of 56–3∑ and 59–2√.

Darrow ran his way to the national meet with a 60-meter dash time of 6.90, which ranked him 16th heading into the meet.

A few weeks earlier, the trio had helped the Scots to their 21st consecutive Midwest Conference indoor meet title. Monmouth’s women placed second at the meet.

Haynes was named the Men’s Coach

SWIMMING

of the Year and Krall took the Men’s Outstanding Field Athlete honor as Monmouth topped runner-up St. Norbert 188.5–146.

Krall gained the top honor in the weight throw for the Scots’ seventh straight title in the event, with Thaxton placing second with his season-best throw. The day before, Thaxton won the shot put, with sophomore Andy Bird taking third.

In the meet-ending race, Darrow, junior Alex Cutright, sophomore Alexander Brock and junior Zach Vancil passed the baton in 3:26.27 to win the 4x400 relay. The win followed the Scots’ successful defense of their 4x200 relay title, with Darrow, Vancil, junior Darius Williams and senior Lucas Sondgeroth breaking the tape in 1:30.61.

Vancil added a win in the 400-meter dash in 50.22, while Williams placed first in the long jump, soaring 23–1∑.

Junior Austin Pfau was the men’s other individual winner with a triple jump of 47–0∑.

Darrow was runner-up in the 60 and placed third in the 200, while Cutright placed second in the 60-meter hurdles. Pole vaulter Reed Wilson also posted a second-place finish.

Women’s winners were sophomore Kareema Lawal in the shot put (42–4∑) and senior Aleeka Gentzler in the high jump (5–2∑).

Junior Cindy Ladner clocked a school-record 60-meter dash time of 7.83 in the prelims and equaled that time in the final to finish third. She added a runner-up finish in the long jump.

Junior Hannah McVey was second in the weight throw, while junior Kenzie Baker and senior Vanessa Caldwell placed third in the 200 and the 60-meter hurdles, respectively.

Justin Batterton ’20

MEN’S BASKETBALL The Fighting Scots got off on the right foot but then had their hopes of a third straight postseason appearance dashed by a string of injuries.

The first player to go down was preseason All-American Will Carius, who had led the Scots to a 6-0 start by averaging 27.2 points and 12.0 rebounds. His knee injury sidelined the reigning Midwest Conference Player of the Year for the rest of the season.

It took coach Todd Skrivseth’s team a few games to get used to being without their star big man, but once they got going again, the Scots rolled to a 7—2 start in MWC play. The injuries started up again, though, and at one point down the stretch, Skrivseth was without five of the top seven players in his rotation. Monmouth lost seven of its final eight to miss the playoffs by one game at 9–9 in the league and 14–11 overall.

The two survivors were senior Justin Batterton and junior D.J. Swift. Batterton earned his first All-MWC honor, scoring 13.5 points per game on 55 percent accuracy from the field. Swift’s team-high 61 three-pointers helped him average 13.5 points.

After the season, Carius announced that he would play his fifth and final season of college ball at Western Illinois University while studying for his MBA.

Junior Preston Bocchi was named the Men’s Outstanding Swimmer at the 2020 Midwest Conference Championships, where the men claimed three individual crowns to place fourth overall while the women finished sixth.

Bocchi tallied his fourth and fifth career titles to become just the fifth swimmer in Fighting Scots’ history to win five or more league titles. He opened the meet by successfully defending his title in the 50yard freestyle, winning in 20.98 seconds.

After taking the 100 backstroke crown as a freshman, Bocchi reclaimed the top spot, touching first in 51.13. He then placed second in the 200 backstroke.

“Preston was focused the entire weekend,” said coach Tom Burek. “He wanted to repeat in the 50 free and reclaim the 100 and 200 back titles. He got two of the three.”

Sophomore Kyle Jones followed Bocchi’s lead, winning his first MWC title in the 100 breaststroke in 57.89 (see page 32).

Freshman Joseph Addison finished the meet with a pair of school records—a thirdplace time of 1:57.39 in the 200 butterfly and a sixth-place time of 4:15.54 in the 400 individual medley.

Monmouth’s 800 freestyle relay team of Addison, Bocchi, senior Rik Doornenbal and sophomore Tyler Davis also set a school record, touching in 7:01.33 to take third.

“That was a record that had stood since 2011 and one I really wanted,” said Burek.

Freshmen Jaidlyn Sellers and Becca Waxberg turned in the women’s pair of topsix individual swims. Waxberg was fourth in the 200 butterfly and Sellers placed sixth in the 100 backstroke.

Preston Bocchi ’21

—Barry McNamara

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V

alentine’s Day 2018

was just like any other at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. That is, until a lone gunman opened fire in the worst high school mass shooting in U.S. history, changing Kyle Jones’s

life forever.

By Dan Nolan Sports Information Director

‘I

t was the last period of the day, about 20 minutes before the final bell, and the fire alarm went off,” said Jones, an economics major and a swimmer. “I was really suspicious. We had had a fire drill that day and it was too close to the end of the day,

so I knew something wasn’t right. A lot of my classmates had that same feeling.”

By the end of the ordeal, 17 had been killed, 17 others wounded and countless others left with deep emotional trauma. That Wednesday afternoon, Ash Wednesday at that, had started as an upbeat day.

“Everyone was in a pretty good mood with it being Valentine’s Day,” said Jones. “Because it was Valentine’s Day, it kind of took us off guard.

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something that horrible would happen at our school, or our town.

Parkland is a really safe community.”

Jones and his classmates knew the drill and headed to their designated “Safe Zone.” That’s when it became all too real.

“By the time I got out of my classroom and to the stairs, you could hear the gunshots,” he explained. “It sounded like someone was punching

on the lockers. At that point, I knew it was a shooter. You could see the tension on the faces of the security officers and we all knew it was no drill.

They (security officers) were trying to direct us, but it was like a stampede of people trying to get to the safe areas.”

Jones eventually made it to a safe classroom and, like many students, phoned family to tell them he was safe. That was a relief to his mother,

Mireille, who was at work and unaware of the situation unfolding at Stoneman Douglas until a frantic call from Kyle’s older sister, Chloe, who was away at college.

Not all the students and school personnel made it to the safe zones.

Among those killed were athletic director Chris Hixon, who ran toward the gunfire in an effort to help the students; assistant football coach and security guard Aaron Fies, killed shielding two students from the gunman; and Nicholas Dworet, Jones’s close friend and teammate on the Eagles’ swim team.

“Nick was the one who got me involved in swimming,” said Jones with a far-off look in his eyes. “He’s the one who got me motivated to swim. He guided me through swimming and taught me a lot of things.”

Fast forward to Feb. 15, 2020, two years and one day since the shooting, in the middle of Iowa some 1,500 miles from Parkland as Jones competed for his Monmouth College swim team at the Midwest Conference Swimming and Diving Championships.

Entering the 100-yard breaststroke as the seventh seed, Jones qualified for the finals and stunned everyone, including himself, when he won the conference crown with a career-best time of 57.89, two-tenths ahead of the runner-up and a mere 23-hundredths off Monmouth’s school record.

“I didn’t know I had won,” admitted Jones, whose time made him the second-fastest 100-yard breaststroker in program history. “I set goals in each swim and my goal was to be in the top three, but I don’t wear my contacts when I’m swimming and I’m pretty much blind without them, so I couldn’t see the scoreboard. I didn’t know what I did until (teammate and five-time conference champion) Preston Bocchi told me I won. I wasn’t sure I believed him and kept asking everyone, ’Did I win?’”

“I feel like Nick was there helping me somehow—I had some kind of extra energy, He knew my potential and would have had a big smile on his face.”

Yes, you won, Kyle. And you weren’t alone.

“I feel like Nick was there helping me somehow—I had some kind of extra energy,” said a somber Jones. “He was going (NCAA) Division I for swimming and never got the chance. Immediately after I realized I had won with a time I thought was unobtainable, I thought about Nick. He knew my potential and would have had a big smile on his face.

He would be so proud of what I had accomplished.”

Jones has immersed himself in campus life, and in the Midwestern winters.

He’s joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and plays in the jazz band. Also a record-setting goalie on the Scots’ water polo team, Jones keeps busy with all four of his extracurricular endeavors and credits organization as the key to keeping busy as part of his healing process from that unspeakable day.

Each day moves Jones further away from that fateful February day two years ago, but that doesn’t mean the grieving has totally subsided.

“Yeah, I’m still grieving, but it’s not a constant, everyday thing,” said Jones of the long and often painful healing

process. “It’s best to stay active and keep my mind busy. I’ll never get over it. I’ll always have that absence of closure of not being able to really say ’Goodbye’ to my friends and the others who died that day. Something that raw will never settle in my mind.”

What advice would this survivor give to others?

“Never stop holding onto the memories of those you lost,” said Jones. “Know that it’s hard, but you’ll get through this.

Appreciate the memories and all the positives you’ve shared.”

That brings us to the Kyle Jones of today: a confident, caring student-athlete who would like to find his future in some field of finance or perhaps aeronautics, knowing his past has shaped his future.

“I feel like I’ve changed emotionally since that day,” said Jones of the shooting. “That day, we experienced something unnatural. I’m probably mentally tougher in difficult situations now, but at the same time I’ve become a better, more caring person and realize just how precious life is. You’ve got to be sincere and genuine in your relationships … all the time. Life can end in an instant.”

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GODDARD’S SHORT FAREWELL Missed memories spoil final season for Monmouth’s winningest softball coach

By Barry McNamara

J

ohn Goddard, who announced his retirement prior to the start of the pandemic-shortened Fighting Scots softball season, can’t recall the details of his first-ever win at Monmouth (the Scots topped MacMurray 10–2 in 2008), but he vividly remembers a moment from the end of that season.

“We made it into the (Midwest Conference) playoffs on the very last day, and the last run we scored against Grinnell was the one that got us into the tournament,” he said. “I can still see Emily Willems scoring that run and her arms outstretched in the air.”

Most of Goddard’s reflections come through memories of eras, and even, in some cases, ERAs. Those two perspectives overlapped in 2011, in the midst of what Goddard called “the Lauren Bergstresser era.” The fleetfooted catcher, four-time All-Midwest Conference selection and two-time league Player of the Year holds the Scots’ career stolen base record (63) by a wide margin.

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went into second base standing up, even though there was a throw,” said Goddard, who was at his normal post of third base coach. “I called time-out, and I went over to her and said, ’If you ever steal second again and don’t slide, you’ll be sitting next to me on the bench.’”

Before Goddard knew it, Bergstresser had swiped another base and was standing right next to him. This time, she’d hit the dirt.

“She said, ‘Coach, I didn’t want to be sitting next to you on the bench,’” said Goddard with a smile.

One of Bergstresser’s battery mates in 2011 was Morgan Werkheiser. The freshman did not retire a batter in her first collegiate game, and her “infinity” ERA had her rattled her to the core. “(Junior pitcher) Brittany Forney took her under her wing and talked her into being a normal person again,” said Goddard. “By the time that season was finished, Morgan had gone 5–1, and she’s in our record book for having the best single-season winning percentage.”

Goddard remembers the boost his program received when two star players from nearby United High School—Sommer

Foster and Kaitlyn Winkler—transferred to Monmouth,

starting a power-hitting era for the Scots. Foster ranks fifth on the Scots’ all-time home run list with 16, helping the Scots set the program record for homers in a season with 25 in 2013 and then 31 in 2014. Monmouth’s individual leader in that department is Charlotte Park, and Goddard remembers the 2014 game when his star catcher parked four of those long balls.

“We were playing a doubleheader against Knox, and both teams were in the midst of a home run derby,” said Goddard of the Scots’ eventual 12–9, 13–7 sweep. “Charlotte had three homers in the game, and I remember walking through the dugout and the players asking ’Can she get a fourth one?’ I said, ’There’s no way in hell they’ll throw one close enough for her to hit.’ But her next time up, they threw one right down the middle, and she hit it out for her fourth homer, which tied an NCAA record.”

Another mixture of era and ERA came from 2015–18 when Goddard’s teams were led by four-time all-conference pitcher Liz Hippen. She posted 15 of the team’s record 28 wins in 2016, including a classic from the Midwest Conference playoffs that Goddard will never forget.

“We were playing Lake Forest in the winners’ game on the first day of the tournament,” said Goddard. “We were up against Lake Forest’s ace, but we were hitting very well. We kept hitting well, but Lake Forest didn’t, because of Liz. She pitched a fiveinning no-hitter, one of three she had in her career.”

Goddard and his team missed out on nearly two months of memories when the COVID-19 pandemic ended their season while they were on their annual spring break to Florida. His players had been keeping him abreast on the buzz about coronavirus on social media, but games went on as scheduled.

That began to change Thursday (March 12), and then Friday was a whole other ballgame.

“I was talking to the coach from Carroll, who I know from their days in the Midwest Conference, and then she said, ’Hang on, John, I’ve got a phone call,’” said Goddard. “She got off the phone and she didn’t say goodbye. She just turned around to her team and said ‘Pack it up. We’re leaving.’ And they just packed up and left.”

Even more abrupt was what happened to Pennsylvania’s Westminster College, the team that was supposed to play the Scots in their Florida finale that day.

“Their coach got a call, and right in the middle of their game, in the fifth inning, they stopped playing and went home,” said Goddard.

Monmouth played the first of its two regularly scheduled opponents that day, but then Goddard went into scramble mode to find a replacement for Westminster.

“I told the organizers ’You find me anybody. I don’t care who. We’ll play it,’” said Goddard.

That team turned out be Anderson University, which was just arriving to start its Florida trip. The game—which saw the first batter reach base and score the only run in a well-played 1–0 Anderson win—turned out to be the only game of the Ravens’ trip.

It also turned out to be Goddard’s finale as Monmouth’s coach.

“No, I didn’t know it would be our last game at the time,” said Goddard, who ended his Scots’ career with a

‘N

o, I didn’t know it would be our last game at the time …

We had a doubleheader the following Wednesday at Augustana. We didn’t know that we wouldn’t be playing that game—or any other games.” program-record 212 victories.

“There was still talk back then about rescheduling games. We had a doubleheader (scheduled) the following Wednesday at Augustana. We didn’t know that we wouldn’t be playing that game—or any other games—until our athletic department meeting that Monday.”

So Goddard didn’t get the opportunity to address his team as a group one final time, but his players did organize an impromptu Senior Day during their last day of games in Florida.

“The thing that sticks with me is all the players coming together to do that, knowing that I was too busy running around, trying to get us another game,” said Goddard. “They all came together with the parents and even found three bouquets of flowers. The only thing I had to do was be the emcee. In the end, it was a typical Senior Day ceremony, on a very atypical day.”

It wasn’t the way the John Goddard era of Fighting Scots softball was supposed to end, but it certainly left a mark on the retiring coach.

“I’m sorry, I get a little emotional talking about it,” he said.

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STRENGTHENING THIS PLACE WE CALL HOME

L

ast october, as i walked across campus during our homecoming celebrations, I remember coming across a group of alumnae

who proudly donned shirts with the words “Home

And while thinking of the time we’ve had and the efforts to better our skills learning how to bake sourdough bread or paint a room, I reflected on my Monmouth home. Over the years, I cannot

is where the bagpipes are.” Now that fall has arrived, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about our past Homecomings and opportunities to welcome our alumni and friends back to campus. And certainly over the past eight months I have thought a lot more about home.

Universally, as we all experienced stayat-home orders, possibly new remote work, and suddenly more time in our homes, we were truly afforded the opportunity to reflect on what we value: time spent with our families rather than on the go, newfound hobbies or old ones revived, and—dare I say—countless home DIY projects, some successful and others probably best left on the Pinterest board.

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count the times our alumni have referenced the feeling of home when they first stepped foot on campus and through their years here. Faculty and classmates became more like family. Staff and Penny “The Omelet Lady” became more like pseudo-parents. Coaches became mentors and motivators. The campus environment nurtured them with a space and experience unlike any large university.

Just like our homes’ foundations, which stand strong, Monmouth’s foundation to serve our students stands stronger than ever. The exceptional educational experience, the relationships formed with faculty and staff, the unique experience to be a part of the family continues today. But just as we want to update our homes with some new paint or fixtures, Monmouth continues to keep current in the marketplace, advancing our technology, our research opportunities, and our resources for our students and faculty.

The Light This Candle Campaign for Monmouth College is building momentum to strengthen the College’s endowment, and, in turn, is strengthening the Monmouth experience for our current and future students.

Through increased endowment for student financial aid and scholarship, faculty support and academic innovation, as well as for our livinglearning environment, the College will be even stronger and better prepared to continue its growth as a nationally ranked liberal arts college.

Every alumnus, parent or friend who has supported the campaign to date shares in our mission to provide this exceptional experience for generations to come—for our future students to feel this sense of home when they step on campus, see the Monmouth tartan or hear the sound of bagpipes.

well. We know that a strong registry of deferred gifts to the College serves us well in many ways; it is a testament to a donor’s commitment and support of the College, and allows us to ensure opportunities to steward that donor’s interests; it serves as a strong signal to foundations and granting bodies; planned gifts can also be a tax-savvy way to think about one’s heirs and how best to support those important people and causes in one’s life.

Throughout the course of this campaign, the College has been steadily cultivating a stronger culture of philanthropy. We are extremely grateful for the alumni, parents and friends who have already made the Light This Candle campaign a success. Thank you for ensuring that Monmouth College remains a place of distinction for future Fighting Scots. That the next generation has that same uniquely Monmouth experience.

Until we can welcome you home again, wishing you healthy and happy months ahead.

Hannah Maher Vice President for Development and College Relations

I am happy to report that as of this writing we have achieved 79% of our goal, or $59.2 million toward the $75 million goal in the Light This Candle campaign. As we continue to progress in the campaign, we are pleased to be building a larger register of deferred gifts to the College as FALL 2020

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onmouth College gratefully acknowledges

2019 - 2020

those who made gifts during the fiscal

Index

year of July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020.

McMichael Heritage Circle

Committed to helping our students become citizens of exceptional character and leadership, with the capacity to change society for the better, we rely on support from alumni, parents and friends to help carry out this important mission.

With your help, we are shaping a brighter future for the College and its students.

Lifetime Giving..................................................33

Planned Gifts and Bequests..........................33

Endowed Gifts.................................................. 34

Capital Gifts.......................................................36

Employee Service.............................................36

The 1853 Society................................................... 37 Restricted Gifts..................................................... 41

total donors to the annual fund

2,708

total donors

2,865

total of gifts to the annual fund

Loyal Scots Society..............................................49 Alumni Contributors........................................... 58 Current Students................................................. 69 Constituent Groups Parents............................................................... 69

$1,743.590

total of all gifts

$7,535,221

Faculty and Staff...............................................71

Friends................................................................72 Businesses and Corporations....................... 75

Estates................................................................ 75

Foundations, Scholarships, Trusts...............76

Honoraria............................................................76

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Memorial Gifts...................................................76

Organizations.................................................... 77

Alumni Board of Directors.............................. 77

Trustees (Current and Emeriti)...................... 77

Memorial Commemorations.......................... 77

HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS 2019-2020

McMichael Heritage Circle Honoring the devotion of former presidents Jackson B. McMichael and his son, Thomas H. McMichael, who together served the College 42 years,the McMichael Heritage Circle recognizes our stewards that have contributed through significant gifts or service. The Circle has five categories: lifetime giving, planned gifts and bequests, endowed gifts, capital gifts and employee service.

LIFETIME GIVING Donors with lifetime giving of $1 million or more from cash and/or planned gifts (Lifetime Giving donors are permanently acknowledged here.)

Individuals

Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell Nancy Glennie Beck ’53 and †Lawrence Beck David A. Bowers ’60 † Helen Brown ’23 † Peter H. Bunce and Gail Bunce David J. Byrnes ’72 and Elizabeth Byrnes † Keith B. Capron Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier † Dorothy Peterson Dahl ’40 and †Arthur Dahl Anaclare Frost Evans ’63 † Virginia Brazelton Flynn ’29 † Virginia Hookham Frattinger ’65 and Tom Frattinger William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Kevin M. Goodwin ’80 Joan Rezner Gundersen ’68 and Robert P. Gundersen † Ruth Lewis Harr ’23 and † Ronald E. Harr Walter S. Huff Jr. ’56 and Bonnie Lowrey Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 † Richard L. “Doc” Kieft † Harold W. Knapheide III and Ann Knapheide Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski † Dennis J. Lachel ’61 and Kathy Schuld Lachel † Petrene Lauritsen ’48 † William M. LeSuer ’42 and †B. Arlene Snow LeSuer ’42 † Karol Kluss Manley ’49 Gerald A. Marxman ’55 Michael J. McGrath ’71 and Kathryn McGrath † M. Grigsby McNeely ’36 and †George B. McNeely

† Lee L. Morgan and †Mary Morgan H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock Richard S. Pepper and Roxie Pepper † Harold A. Poling ’49 and †Marian Poling † Roger W. Rasmusen ’56 John M. Schultz and Elizabeth Schultz † George E. Trotter Jr. ’47 and †Maxine Murdy Trotter ’47 William L. Trubeck ’68 and †Judith Williams Trubeck ’69 † Donovan D. Vance ’52 and Elizabeth Davis Vance ’49 Fred Wackerle ’61 † Helen McNeel Wiener ’38 Viktoria Knapheide Wood Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke

Businesses, Organizations and Estates Anonymous Associated Colleges of Illinois Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Caterpillar Matching Gifts Program Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Illinois State Scholarship Commission Illinois Board Of Higher Education Illinois State Grant Illinois State Scholarship Commission Knapheide Manufacturing Company Knapheide Truck Equipment Murdy Foundation, Inc. New Horizons Foundation, Inc. Pattee Foundation Pepper Family Foundation Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Walter S. Huff Jr. Foundation

PLANNED GIFTS AND BEQUESTS

Documented planned gift of $10,000 or more

Individuals

Anonymous David W. Adolphson ’67 and Priscilla Trubeck Adolphson ’70 Gena Corbin Alcorn ’88 Russell S. Andrews ’68 and Linda Henley Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell Robert M. Barton ’63 David R. Bates ’63 Janet Zolan Bermann ’53 Reid K. Beveridge ’64 Richard L. Bivens ’61 and Mary Hunter Bivens ’63 Roy E. Bockler ’72 Carol West Boehme ’72 Mary Mitchell Bolton ’46 Gladys Bos Robert F. Bowen ’59 and Judith Bowen

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

David A. Bowers ’60 Margaret Bozarth ’61 Heinz J. Brisske ’71 and Ellen Arkis Brisske ’71 Gail Bunce David J. Byrnes ’72 and Elizabeth Byrnes Marion Huey Cairns ’50 Douglas R. Carlson ’66 Barbara Berge Caufield ’58 Charles C. Chappell ’69 Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 † Nancy Cleland James R. Cole ’88 Tiffany Mekshes Cole ’89 Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier E. Davis Coots ’65 and Nancy Yates Coots ’66 Charles Courtney Jr. ’57 and Bonnita McAllister Courtney ’58 Robert A. Dahl and Kasim Baihaki James L. De Young and Janet De Young Burneta Burns Donges ’49 Marcia Brink Adair ’70 and Richard Edwards † N. Daniel Engstrom ’51 Anaclare Frost Evans ’63 Edward P. Farwell ’64 Susie Swanson FitzGerald ’71 and Curtis M. FitzGerald † DeBow Freed † James D. Galbreath ’78 Barbara Whiteman Garland ’49 Kristyne Gilbert ’90 Marilyn Schlemmer Gillette ’52 William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Claire McWilliams Growden ’50 and Merle B. Growden Joan Rezner Gundersen ’68 and Robert P. Gundersen Eleanor Crow Gustafson ’63 Pamela Ball Gustafson ’77 Tina Hartwig ’68 Robert Hoherd Sally Young Hoherd ’54 Nicole Olin Hroziencik ’11 Willis M. Hubbard ’62 and Marilyn Kessinger Hubbard ’64 Linnea Hammarsten Ingold ’68 Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 Marilyn Johnston ’48 F. Addison Jones Timothy G. Keefauver ’80 and Susan Keefauver J. Stephen Kennedy ’50 Andrew D. Kerr ’73 and Pamela Kerr Darleen Scherer Knowles ’68 Leon A. Kraut ’67 and Laura Welti June Brown Kromberg ’48 Kathy Schuld Lachel

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Mc M ichael H eritage Circle ( ) continued

Vincent D. Mahoney Leland R. Marshall ’51 Phyllis Clindinin Martin ’53 Gerald A. Marxman ’55 Thomas F. Matthews ’61 and Patricia Matthews Robert H. Meneilly ’45 F. Grant Minor ’74 and Emily Johnson Minor ’76 Carol Bryden Moore ’60 James W. Nelson ’60 and Beverly (Nelson) Nelson ’61 John S. Niblock ’58 Betty Weiss Oberstar ’43 Bruce C. Ogilvie ’68 and Rebecca Reedy Ogilvie ’69 Thomas A. Oswald ’67 H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock Edward Petersen Jack W. Peterson ’53 Walter H. Pfaeffle ’60 Carolyn Phelps ’54 Jerri Picha ’75 Dennis M. Plummer ’73 H. Leonard Porter III ’67 and Mary Ellen Biciste Porter ’67 † E. Kemp Prugh ’43 † Frances Elliott Prugh ’44 † Roger W. Rasmusen ’56 Charles L. Rassieur ’60 † Juanita Winbigler Reinhard ’42 † Richard R. Reinhold ’50 Ruth Forsythe Robinson ’50 Richard A. Romine ’55 † Anne McLoskey Romine ’54 Jean Ross ’58 Mary Ryder ’72 Elsie Cory Sadler ’49 John M. Schultz and Elizabeth Schultz Mary Schwalbert ’45 Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 Dee Smith Shuff ’63 William M. Simpson ’65 and Joyce Simpson David L. Spears ’62 Karen Deen Squire ’62 John M. Stack ’65 † Forrest J. Strickler ’44 Terry N. Thorstenson and Carol Thorstenson William L. Trubeck ’68 Jane Turrel ’68 D. Jean Two ’55 Elizabeth Davis Vance ’49 Randall E. Vickroy ’76 Fred Wackerle ’61 Sandra Wallace William J. Wallace

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Karen Bush Watts ’65 and Daniel Watts Charles Thomas Weeks ’62 Larry L. Werts ’54 Carol Kemmerer Wetzel ’60 Paul L. White ’61 and Maryann White Donald G. Whiteman ’49 † Helen McNeel Wiener ’38 Payson S. Wild Jr. ’67 Gary D. Willhardt ’59 and Jeanne Willhardt J. Mark Wilson ’78 Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty Carolyn White Work ’59 and Stewart D. Work Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke

ENDOWED GIFTS Donors of $50,000+ in support of the College’s endowment for a faculty chair, professorship, student scholarship or other purpose

Individuals

Anonymous Steven Anacker Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 Sandy Coursey Axline ’82 and William T. Axline Jr. ’58 Steven A. Azuma ’66 and Elaine Baer Azuma ’67 Glenn L. Beall ’56 David A. Bowers ’60 Margaret Bozarth ’61 William Cullen Bryant IV Thomas J. Cerkez III ’68 and Mary Eyre-Cerkez Robert Cerpa and Hope Cerpa Donald W. Chamberlin ’61 and Barbara Woll Chamberlin ’61 Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier Edward DeLong Mr. and Mrs. John D. Diffenbaugh Anne Quinby Dyni ’56 Susie Swanson FitzGerald ’71 and Curtis M. FitzGerald Marie Foster Tom Frattinger † DeBow Freed William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Kevin M. Goodwin ’80 Eleanor Crow Gustafson ’63 Tina Hartwig ’68 William Heuerman and Sue Huseman James C. Hornaday ’61 William T. Irelan ’62 and Ines Irelan Roger Jacobsen Jane Jakoubek

Jean Jensen Margaret Jacoby Josephson ’53 † Charles M. Josephson ’52 Irwin E. Kirk ’53 Ann Knapheide Kenneth H. Knox ’62 and Judith Knox Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski † George J. Lewis J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee J. Allen McGehee ’55 and Annie McGehee Michael J. McGrath ’71 and Kathryn McGrath Cherry Lauder McIlvain ’47 Mary Grable McLeod ’87 and Kenneth McLeod Jerry K. Mitchell ’67 and Susan Mitchell Janet Forbes Myers ’68 and Lonn W. Myers L. Terry Oggel ’61 and Linda Oggel H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock Hugh M. Phelps ’63 and Norma Phelps Douglas B. Rankin ’79 and Tamyra Dixon Rankin ’81 Therese Worden Rankin ’00 and Jeffrey D. Rankin † Roger W. Rasmusen ’56 † Juanita Winbigler Reinhard ’42 Ralph L. Riggs ’60 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart ’57 Mary Schwind Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 Michael D. Silver and Suzanne Woll Dorothy Walker Skanderup ’50 and Dean Skanderup Randal M. Smith and Lynda Smith William W. Smith and Eleanor Slunaker Smith David P. Spalding and Marianne Spalding Doris Speer Joseph O. Svoboda ’75 and Leslie Svoboda Derek Thomas and Sara Thomas Fred Wackerle ’61 Robert L. Walker ’51 Cynthia Waltershausen ’67 and George L. Waltershausen Phyllis Holmquist Wheeler ’49 Donald G. Whiteman ’49 Ralph E. Whiteman ’52 and Martha Williams Whiteman Richard W. Whiteman ’64 and Harriet Southerlan Whiteman ’65 P. Andrew Wieland and Roxana Wieland † R. Richard Wieland II ’68 and Ann Newton Wieland ’68 Catherine Axline Williams ’50 Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty Ruth Wright Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke Gordon K. Young ’61 and Jane Corman Young ’61 Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020)

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Businesses, Organizations and Estates Anonymous Alice Grooms Estate Anchor Lumber Do-it Center Anne G. Luce Estate ARJCO Foundation Ltd. Arminta C. Sheats Estate Arthur W. Brown Estate BBW Holdings, LLC Bernice L. Fox Estate Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Charles Frederic Strong Estate Curt and Susie FitzGerald Foundation David A. Bowers IRA Donn and Beverlee J. Johnson Estate Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Edwin L. Johnson Trust Elizabeth Dean and Robert James Ardell Donor Advised Fund Elva B. Lucas Estate Eva Hanna Cleland Estate Frederick & Ann Niblock Estate Gayle Woods Estate Gibson Estate, John W. Gladys M. Morrow Estate Glen L. Pickens Estate Gordon Young IRA Greenridge Properties Hackbrush Family Trust Harr Decedents Trust Hearst Foundations Helen Dunbar Estate Helen R. Hicks Trust Estate Henry & Frances Jahn Trust J & L Freedom Foundation J & V Flynn Foundation Jacobsen Family Foundation James H. Ruble Family Trust Jane A. Graham Estate John E. Broming Estate Juanita W. Reinhard Trust Judson W. Jones Estate Kellwood Foundation Lee L. Morgan Trust Estate Len G. Everett Estate Linda R. Buch Estate Lysle H. Morrow Estate Margaret Miles Estate Marion D. Boyer Estate Murdy Foundation, Inc. Myers Family Fund N. Barr Miller Estate National Cabinet Lock Nelson T. Potter Estate Oral C. Kost Estate Pattee Foundation

STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIP “I firmly believe that giving back to your community, including educational institutions that have shaped you, is important,” said attorney Alfred Mainetti ’71, who has contributed to the Light This Candle campaign by establishing an endowed scholarship.

A partner at Mainetti & Mainetti, P.C. in Kingston, N.Y., Mainetti said: “I received scholarships as an undergraduate student, and those allowed me to complete my degree at Monmouth College and then afforded me the chance to continue my education and MAINETTI earn my law degree. Monmouth College provided me with the basis for the skills that I needed in law school—skills like critical thinking and communication.

Those are the skills that allowed me to go on to John Marshall Law School and be successful there and in my professional career as a personal injury attorney.”

Professor of art emeritus Harlow Blum and his wife, Lila Blum ’61, feel a deep, personal connection to Monmouth College, having remained in the College community following Harlow’s 40-year teaching career. “We have been able to observe the value and impact of a liberal arts education and the Monmouth experience on the lives of countless individuals,” said Lila.

Inspired by their passion for art and their longtime interest in Asia, the Blums established two scholarships­— one to encourage diversity in the student THE BLUMS body by helping assist international students to study at Monmouth, and the other to provide support for students who wish to pursue a major in art.

The Blums were able to establish these scholarships with use of their required minimum distributions through their IRA.

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Richard L. “Doc” Kieft Estate Ruth Finch Estate San Diego Foundation Sarah A. Ryder Estate Sindlinger Foundation Skanderup Family Fund Stanley Earl Chism IRA The Bebe Trust Virgil Boucher Estate Virginia B. Flynn Estate W. Jerome Hatch Living Trust Wallace B. Cleland Estate Waste Management, Inc. William M. LeSuer Estate Willis R. Boss Trust

CAPITAL GIFTS Donors of $50,000+ in support of a building, facility or other capital project

Individuals

Donna Mrkvicka Ardell ’63 Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell Nancy Glennie Beck ’53 David A. Bowers ’60 Gail Bunce David J. Byrnes ’72 and Elizabeth Byrnes Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier Mary Niblock Crawford ’61 Robert A. Dahl and Kasim Baihaki Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Donald E. Fike William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart Walter S. Huff Jr. ’56 and Bonnie Lowrey James A. Hutchinson ’64 Mahendran K. Jawaharlal ’86 Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 F. Addison Jones Louise DuBois Kasch ’48 Ann Knapheide Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski Alan V. Larson ’55 and Sally Smith Larson ’56 J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee Terry Medhurst Gary W. Melvin and Tess Melvin Daniel F. Palmer ’75 and Sheri Palmer H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock J. Stanley Pepper ’76 and Christine Pepper Richard S. Pepper and Roxie Pepper Hugh M. Phelps ’63 and Norma Phelps † Roger W. Rasmusen ’56

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Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 John M. Schultz and Elizabeth Schultz Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 Mark E. Taylor ’78 William L. Trubeck ’68 Robert D. Tucker Jr. ’65 and Judith Hodges Tucker ’65 Fred Wackerle ’61 Viktoria Knapheide Wood Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke

Businesses and Organizationss

Anonymous Arthur and Dorothy Dahl Trust Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Bruning Foundation Bunce Charitable Lead Unitrust Caterpillar Matching Gifts Program CompX International, Inc. David A. Bowers Revocable Trust Utd David Byrnes Revocable Living Trust DJB Properties LLC Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Ford Motor Company Fund Franklin H. and Ruth L. Wells Foundation Frederick H. Stanton Estate Gary W. Melvin Revocable Trust Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation Jacobsen Family Foundation John McCune Charitable Trust Knapheide Manufacturing Company Knapheide Truck Equipment Kresge Foundation Midwest Bank Murdy Foundation, Inc. New Horizons Foundation, Inc. Pattee Foundation Pepper Family Foundation R.J./D.L. Ardell Charitable Lead Trust Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Sindlinger Foundation Terry E.J. Medhurst 1993 Trust Tri-City Electric Company Virginia B. Flynn Estate Walter S. Huff Jr. Foundation William M. Slayton Estate

EMPLOYEE SERVICE Employees with 25 or more years of service

Rajkumar Ambrose George F. Arnold James E. Betts Mary Hanford Bianchi Harlow B. Blum Steven L. Buban William Burkitt ’63

Daryl B. Carr ’88 Jacquelyn Condon Michael L. Connell Kenneth L. Cramer James L. De Young Roy Dober Peter A. Gebauer Donald L. Gladfelter ’77 Terry L. Glasgow Richard L. Griffiths Eleanor Crow Gustafson ’63 Kathy Haas Farhat Haq William M. Hastings Roger D. Haynes ’82 Susan Holm J. Prescott Johnson Wanda Johnson Carolyn Kirk J. Rodney Lemon ’63 Thomas E. Lydic Beth McCoy Lee McGaan ’69 Kenneth G. McMillan William M. McNall ’81 R. Jeremy McNamara Terry L. Morris Jill Munson Karen Ogorzalek Mark S. Ogorzalek Sheri White Owen ’96 Vernon Peter Pitts Douglas B. Rankin ’79 Jeffrey D. Rankin Therese Worden Rankin ’00 Roger P. Sander ’78 Jayne Poland Schreck ’90 Joseph C. Schreck Patricia Ohler Shallenberger Thomas J. Sienkewicz Michael E. Sproston ’64 Dean St. Ledger Nancy Burke St. Ledger ’69 Carolyn Suda David Suda Judy Sullivan Mark L. Todd Marta Tucker Jacquelynn Urban William Urban William J. Wallace George L. Waltershausen Craig Watson Lyle L. Welch † Carol Whiteside Gary D. Willhardt ’59

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020)

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The 1853 Society Named to commemorate the year of Monmouth College’s founding, the 1853 Society recognizes alumni, parents, friends and organizations that make leadership annual gifts in support of the college. The society has five clubs, each representing a level of generous giving.

NOTE: Monmouth College graduates of the last decade are offered a special membership in the 1853 Society. Membership starts at $100 and increases $100 per year until $1,000 is reached in the 10th year.

Samuel Groves CRUT Skanderup Family Fund Stanley Earl Chism IRA The Bebe Trust The Melvin Family Foundation

DAVID WALLACE CLUB $10,000 to $24,999

PRESIDENT’S CLUB $25,000 or more Individuals

Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell David A. Bowers ’60 Margaret Bozarth ’61 Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier † DeBow Freed William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee Gary W. Melvin and Tess Melvin James W. Nelson ’60 and Beverly (Nelson] Nelson’61 H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 Dorothy Walker Skanderup ’50 and Dean Skanderup William L. Trubeck ’68 Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke Gordon K. Young ’61 and Jane Corman Young ’61

Organizations and Estates

Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Clarks Fork Foundation David A. Bowers IRA DeBow Freed IRA Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Galesburg Community Foundation Gordon Young IRA Greenridge Properties Hackbrush Family Trust Harold A. Jacobs and Madeline R. Jacobs Revocable Trust J & V Flynn Foundation Lilly Endowment, Inc. Margaret C. Bozarth IRA Midwest Bank Nelson Foundation Presbytery of Great Rivers

Individuals

Steven A. Azuma ’66 and Elaine Baer Azuma ’67 Thomas E. Dickson ’67 and Kathleen Dickson Gregory H. Ellis ’73 Susie Swanson FitzGerald ’71 and Curtis M. FitzGerald F. Addison Jones Alan J. Landauer ’70 and Gail Anderson Landauer ’71 Vincent D. Mahoney Alfred B. Mainetti ’71 and Josephine Mainetti Michael B. McCulley ’70 Thomas J. McDowell and Sue McDowell Janet Forbes Myers ’68 and Lonn W. Myers L. Terry Oggel ’61 and Linda Oggel J. Hunter Peacock and Julie Peacock J. Stanley Pepper ’76 and Christine Pepper Carla Sanders ’91 Robert J. Shriner Jr. Sherman U. Smith ’72 and Diane Smith Lynn Stubblebine Joseph O. Svoboda ’75 and Leslie Svoboda Mark E. Taylor ’78 Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 and Jane Schneiter Velazquez ’81 Fred Wackerle ’61 Karen Bush Watts ’65 and Daniel Watts Ronald C. Wheeler Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer

Organizations and Estates

Anonymous Augustin S. Hart IRA Cline-Lofftus Foundation Community Foundation of the Ozarks Grants and Distributions Account Curt and Susie FitzGerald Foundation David A. Bowers Foundation Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Gail Landauer IRA George J. Lewis Trust J & L Freedom Foundation Jacobsen Family Foundation Johnson and Johnson Matching Gifts Program

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Mary Beth and R. Duncan Brown Charitable Fund Myers Family Fund The Twomey Foundation Thomas J. McDowell IRA William Trubeck IRA

QUINBY CLUB $5,000 to $9,999 Individuals

David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 Anne White Beall ’67 and James F. Beall Lila Keleher Blum ’61 and Harlow B. Blum Robert Cerpa and Hope Cerpa Charles C. Chappell ’69 Thomas S. Davis ’62 Marcia Brink Adair ’70 and Richard Edwards Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Won Yang Everett ’68 and William W. Everett Curtis C. Farr ’88 and Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 † James D. Galbreath ’78 Robert K. Garro ’65 and Linda Garro Nathan J. Gaskill ’04 and Laura Haumiller Gaskill ’06 Anita Ridge ’88 and David W. Greer F. Austin Jones and Kim Jones Andrew D. Kerr ’73 and Pamela Kerr Kenneth H. Knox ’62 and Judith Knox Patrick W. Lewis ’95 and Kristina Lewis Thomas S. Martin ’72 Robert “Cam” McConnell ’72 Mary Grable McLeod ’87 and Kenneth McLeod William G. Morgan ’64 Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 and Debra Snyderman Nahrstadt Edward F. Perry ’58 and Ellen Littler Perry ’59 Dennis M. Plummer ’73 and Carolyn Plummer Jean Hutchinson Randolph ’68 and Ross Randolph Robert G. Riley Jr. ’70 and Kay Riley Jeanne Gittings Robeson ’60 Joanne Moy ’70 and Michael R. Robinson Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 Martha Siegel William M. Simpson ’65 and Joyce Simpson Carol Veith Sorenson ’63 and Raymond E. Sorenson Dawn McRoberts Strauss ’03 William A. Turner ’93

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Beth Bowdoin Tyre ’96 Eric T. Vogt ’83 Ruth Wright Clarence R. Wyatt and Lobie Stone

Organizations and Estates

Anonymous Beall Family Charitable Gift Fund Caterpillar Matching Gifts Program David A. Bowers Revocable Trust David L. Arnold IRA Dennis Plummer Charitable Fund Ed and Ellen Perry Group Fund Exxonmobil Foundation Martha Aitchison Siegel IRA McLeod Family Gift Account MTC Communications Randolph Living Trust Riley Family Fund Robert K. Garro IRA The Benevity Community Impact Fund Donor Advised Fund The RKC Fund Vincent D. Mahoney IRA William Simpson IRA YourCause, LLC Trustee for Norfolk Southern Employees

FOUNDERS CLUB $2,500 to $4,999 Individuals Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 and Cheryl Youngren Bloomer Ronald L. Bowers and Jane Bowers John C. Carlson ’74 and Lynette Johnson Carlson ’74 G. Deeks Carroll Jr. ’62 and Bonnie Carroll John A. Courson ’64 and Marcia Courson Sanjoy Datta ’90 and Shari Kuroki Eugene R. Dawson ’63 and Jane Wilson Dawson ’64 Cassie Zelinske Day ’95 and Ben R. Day Marco T. DiGiorgio ’71 and Kristie DiGiorgio Gary L. Gilliland ’65 Donald L. Gladfelter ’77 F. William Graue Jr. ’63 and Barbara Graue Franklin K. Johnson ’76 and Michele Johnson Kathleen Johnson Frederick J. Kaskel ’67 and Phyllis Kaskel Irwin E. Kirk ’53 James R. Klusendorf ’61 and Judy Klusendorf Jamie C. Ladd ’65 Frank W. Lee III ’69 and Margaret Will Lee ’71 Sean P. Maher ’95 and Shalaine Maher Ann Michael ’67 Jeffrey D. Miller ’84

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Julia Briggerman O’Hara ’62 and Daniel O’Hara Anthony J. Perzigian ’66 and Donna Perzigian J. Stewart Peterson Jr. ’77 Lawrence K. Pickett Jr. ’67 and Carolyn Cottrell Linda Reed ’69 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart ’57 Margaret Evans Roberts ’58 and Ned C. Roberts Mary Schwalbert ’45 Robert L. Singer ’61 and Mary Jones Singer ’63 Nancy Snowden Michael E. Sproston ’64 and Donna Schliffke Sproston ’66 Danette Bagley-Thierry ’86 and Robert K. Thierry III Dwight Tierney ’69 and Dina Nathanson Guy F. Welch ’62 Donald G. Whiteman ’49 David N. Willing ’59 and Winona Willing George J. Wolcott Sarah Young Ronald A. Zagorski ’65 and Eugenia Willman Zagorski ’65

Organizations and Estates

Ann B. Michael IRA Coastwide Environmental Daniel O’Hara IRA Dwight Tierney IRA Frederick and Phyllis Kaskel IRA Jacqueline Shoemaker Estate James R. Klusendorf IRA Margaret Roberts IRA Mary L. Schwalbert Rev Trust Nancy Snowden Donor Advised Fund Reed Gift Fund Fidelity Charitable Rural Schools Collaborative, Inc. The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Abbott Laboratories YourCause, LLC Trustee for Norfolk Southern Foundation

MONMOUTH CLUB $1,000 to $2,499 Individuals

Anonymous David K. Allen ’69 Kent Armstrong and Jennifer Armstrong James W. Asplund ’54 and Wanda Asplund Brian M. Austin ’64 and Susan Austin Paul D. Babcock ’87 and Dianna Lukkasson Babcock ’88 Deanna Marchand Baele ’95 and Lyle Baele Jeffrey J. Bakker ’90 and Cynthia Dorsch G. Ronald Barshinger ’74 Robert M. Barton ’63 and Shirley Barton

David R. Bates ’63 and Susan Bates Tyler R. Baxter ’16 Brandt Beeman and Kristen English Reid K. Beveridge ’64 and Eileen Beveridge James B. Bird ’72 Bruce E. Birdsell ’69 and Serena Foote Birdsell ’70 Michael J. Blaesing ’96 and Julia Westby Blaesing ’95 Kimberly Edwards Blakely ’85 DuFresne Penrod Blume ’91 and Larry Blume Eric D. Boland ’95 and Jill Bowles Boland ’97 Lynda Pepper Bollman ’76 and Robert Bollman Kristyne Gilbert Gilbert ’90 and Charles Duane Bonifer Larry D. Brown ’65 and Janet Henning Brown ’64 Paul L. Brown ’56 Blake C. Bryan ’19 Susan Buckles ’66 Gail Bunce Otis S. Burge ’99 and Monique Burge James L. Caldwell IV ’72 and Barbara Caldwell Thomas J. Cerkez III ’68 and Mary Eyre-Cerkez Wendell B. Chestnut ’51 S. Mark Childs ’95 and Amy Bradshaw ’95 Thomas E. Colclasure ’73 and Yolette Lorquet Colclasure Nancy Guilinger Coon ’62 and Richard A. Coon E. Davis Coots ’65 and Nancy Yates Coots ’66 Mary Alexander Corrigan ’82 Charles Courtney Jr. ’57 and Bonnita McAllister Courtney ’58 Robert Crawley and Laura Hutchinson Michael D. Cryer ’99 and Christina Stob Cryer ’01 Craig A. Dahlquist ’78 Neil A. Dahlstrom ’98 and Karen Dahlstrom F. Garvin Davenport Jr. and Bernice Davenport Rodney L. Davies ’74 and Diane Minor Davies ’76 Luis De Leon Nieves and Feng Chu De Leon Nieves James L. De Young and Janet De Young Donald L. Denney ’64 and Dorene Denney Daniel W. Dickson ’89 Christopher Doner and Jennifer Doner Carol Clark Dotseth ’63 and Gregory M. Dotseth Keith J. Droste ’55 and Winona Barcon George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Rhoda Engel ’57 Gary W. Evans ’69 and Barbara Evans Lori Eyre Suzanne Snyder Fienning ’66 and Charles E. Fienning Daryl Fisher and Susan Fisher

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Frank W. Fitch ’51 Nancy Forsyth Flanders ’54 Arlene Kunde Flynn ’53 Marie Foster Daniel M. Fowler ’72 and Julia Duffy Terry F. Fruehauf ’76 Richard K. Fuller ’57 and Kathleen Fuller Robert Gamer ’60 and May Gamer Jane Jackson Garison ’52 Susan Sandner Gibson ’81 Alan R. Gieryna ’74 and Mary Ann Kelly Gieryna ’75 John Goddard Charles W. Goehl ’73 and Kim Goehl Linda Groves Claire McWilliams Growden ’50 and Merle B. Growden Robert H. Gwynn ’63 Margaret Hamil ’71 Maureen Beck Hamilton ’66 Richard F. Harrod ’07 and Mollie Williams Harrod ’07 George E. Heck Jr. ’66 and Judi Heck Jacquelyn Condon Gilbert Hennenfent and Victoria Hennenfent Corey L. Hess and Jill Hess Robert E. Hillison ’82 and Keely Hillison James C. Hornaday ’61 Robert C. Hudson III ’75 and Sarah Young Hudson ’74 Charles R. Hughes ’74 William G. Hurckes ’81 and Yvonne Mensing Hurckes ’80 James A. Hutchinson ’64 William T. Irelan ’62 and Ines Irelan David W. Jackson ’69 and Catherine Mayer Jackson ’71 Robin Jarvis ’84 Mahendran K. Jawaharlal ’86 Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 Robert C. Johnson ’59 and Marilyn Schneider Johnson ’59 Kunal Kapoor ’97 and Monica Kapoor Richard W. Karcher ’74 and Mary Karcher Daniel L. Keating ’83 and Jane Stevens Keating ’84 Kevin J. Kelley ’72 and Ronda Kelley Jane Marshall Kellogg ’72 and Buster L. Kellogg Jr. Margaret Dahlbo Kerr ’49 and William E. Kerr Frank P. Killey ’67 and Barbara Baughman Killey ’66 Glenn P. Kinder ’73 and Nancy Thompson Kinder ’73 Robert W. King Jr. and Mary King Kenneth M. Klein ’66 and Susan Latham Klein ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Erik Kocher

FACULTY SUPPORT & ACADEMIC INNOVATION Mahendran Jawaharlal ’86 of Boca Raton, Fla., has committed a $250,000 gift for technology needs and enhancements to the Light This Candle endowment campaign. A portion of the gift will support the College’s computer science department.

That department is near and dear to Jawaharlal’s heart, as he majored in computer science before going to work for the College and directing its information technology JAWAHARLAL department in the late 1980s.

“It’s important to give back,” said Jawaharlal.

“Technology has made a difference in my life, and so has Monmouth College.”

A member of the College’s Board of Trustees since 2011, Jawaharlal has linked technology and higher education throughout his career. An operating partner at Renovus Capital Partners, he oversees Lockstep, a secure managed services provider that partners with businesses in strategic IT consulting, cybersecurity and managed IT/cloud services.

Jawaharlal said the covid-19 pandemic has brought the need to better integrate technology into higher education to the forefront.

“With the pandemic, we saw a rise in asynchronous learning for content delivery, such as Zoom or Google Hangouts,” said Jawaharlal. “There are ways of deploying these technologies to make learning as similar as possible to what the students are used to experiencing. I don’t know that we’ve arrived at all the right ways of being connected with the college experience. It’s all a matter of how do you create those experiences and connections through technology? Professors who have successfully created those connections have found it easier to deliver content to their students and improve knowledge acquisition.”

Prior to joining Lockstep last March, right as the country was becoming fully immersed in the covid-19 pandemic, Jawaharlal worked with higher education to provide technology solutions, strategic consulting, student success and digital content delivery. Most recently, he was president and CEO of a strategic higher education consulting firm and with Lockstep has been providing strategic advice with Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium.

“Given his work, and the many hurdles that institutions of higher education faced this past spring, Mahendran understands the need for technology in the classroom and its availability across campus to make us not only competitive, but to keep up-to-date systems in place into the future,” said Monmouth Vice President for Development and College Relations Hannah Maher.

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Kai Nani Kraut ’93 Leon A. Kraut ’67 and Laura Welti John T. Kreitler ’70 and Elizabeth Kreitler Louis John Lawson † Suellen Lee † Timothy G. Lee ’61 Evelina Lipecka ’06 Robert L. Litchfield ’71 Pierre Loomis and Lynn Loomis Sonja Zedigian Lowry ’67 and Dennis Lowry Louise Laine Lubs ’71 and James C. Lubs Paul G. Luepke ’83 and Judi Poettgen Luepke ’83 Jeffery G. Maher and Hannah Reagor Maher Robert V. Main ’53 Richard Marshall and Ann McEntee Russell F. Marshall ’63 and Mary Bailey Marshall ’64 Scott Martin and Linda Martin Albert S. Maurer ’56 and Patricia Maurer Timothy J. McCabe ’81 and Laura McCabe Michael E. McCreight ’68 Frederick H. McDavitt ’61 Michael J. McGrath ’71 and Kathryn McGrath Stanley L. McKelvie ’64 and Sandra McKelvie Rodney J. McQueen ’62 and Diane McQueen Robert H. Meneilly ’45 James G. Mercer ’55 and Barbara Cook Mercer ’54 Michael S. Mimnaugh ’71 and Gayle Mimnaugh Jerry K. Mitchell ’67 and Susan Mitchell John I. Moore Jr. ’69 and Mary Moore Stephen H. Mortonson ’68 and Lynette Cadwell Mortonson Michelle Moy ’89 Eileen Murphy ’05 Jewel Price Nicholls ’50 Gary C. Niehaus ’74 and Paige Niehaus Frank R. Oakley ’63 Patricia Whitsitt Overbeck ’54 Timothy L. Owen ’73 and Gail Simpson Owen ’74 Edward W. Pailes Jr. ’84 and Martha Pailes Jane Temple Peacock ’63 Robert E. Pearson ’84 and Jane King Pearson ’85 Timothy S. Pecaro ’76 Lisa Pepper ’87 Richard S. Pepper and Roxie Pepper Michelle Perry ’89 Alvin T. Peterson ’60 Karen Williams Phinney ’84 Jerri Picha ’75 Christopher J. Pio ’84 and Bobbi Swarts Pio ’92

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Kathy Wolf Plath ’77 and Corey Plath Jeffrey C. Potts ’74 and Christine Odell Potts ’74 Charles L. Rassieur ’60 and Virginia Rassieur Roger K. Ray ’53 Danny C. Richards ’65 and Anna Richards Ralph L. Riggs ’60 Allison Ritscher ’94 Edith Nichols Roberts ’56 and John M. Roberts John S. Romine ’55 Robert C. Roush ’67 Melony Sacopulos Timothy A. Salier ’96 Lee E. Schaeffer Jr. ’65 and Judith Maxwell Schaeffer ’65 Michael A. Schmitz ’80 and Amy Johnson Schmitz ’88 Blair W. Schultz ’72 John Schwind John J. Scotillo ’72 Kristy Smith ’86 and Dave Scott Wendell L. Shauman ’67 and Janet Agan Shauman Charles B. Shawver ’76 Dee Smith Shuff ’63 George M. Simmons ’67 and Ruth Simmons Dean A. Sipe ’74 and Ilene Sipe Randall J. Slaboch ’76 and Marsha Spleha Slaboch ’75 Nancy Slater Michael Adin Slaughter ’60 Robert E. Slocum and Linda Perez-Slocum Carlos F. Smith ’90 and Debra Smith Byron Sondgeroth ’88 and Suzan Sondgeroth David L. Spears ’62 H. Charles Stahmer ’73 James Andrew Thomas ’05 and Kelli Wefenstette ’07 Dora Tinkham Hieu T. Tran ’98 and Angel Foutch Tran ’98 William B. Trent Jr. ’69 and Catherine Blake Trent ’70 Mark T. Tupper ’94 and Tina Tupper Peter E. Upton ’68 William Urban and Jacquelynn Urban Barbara Guyer Van Cura ’53 Janice Ruglio Van Kuiken ’03 and Kirk Van Kuiken Andries L. Vermeer ’65 Randall E. Vickroy ’76 Dennis E. Walker ’64 and Sandra Foreman Walker ’62 R. Bruce Weiman ’76 and Debbie Weiman Roger E. Well ’86 and Dana Well Joseph M. Welty ’78 and Jean Welty Carol Kemmerer Wetzel ’60 David R. Whitcomb ’72 and Dawn Darner Ralph E. Whiteman ’52 and Martha Williams Whiteman

John H. Whittaker ’13 Ann Newton Wieland ’68 † R. Richard Wieland II ’68 Jane Batten Wild ’69 Payson S. Wild Jr. ’67 Molly Wilkens ’49 Mark E. Willhardt Dennis A. Willig Jr. and Angela Willig Robert G. Winter ’53 and Mary Hollander Winter ’53 K. Scott Wiswall ’00 and Jonathan Wiswall Sandra Olson Wolff ’64 William A. Wolma ’67 and Frances White Wolma ’66 David T. Workman and Linda Workman Gordon B. Yocum ’73 and Bronwyn Yocum Amy Manning ’89 and Paul C. Ziebert Robert A. Zika ’67 and Gail Hartong Zika ’66

Organizations and Estates

Anonymous Albert H. Stahmer Foundation Inc. Alvin T. Peterson Trust Anonymous Friends Arlene C. Flynn IRA Baele Family Charitable Fund Barbara Van Cura IRA BLDD Architects, Inc Charities Aid Foundation of America State Farm Companies Foundation Disbursement Portal Chestnut Family Charitable Fund Dean and Ilene Sipe Living Trust Donald and Victoria Gladfelter Charitable Fund E. Davis Coots Susy D. Condon IRA Faith United Presbyterian Church Gail Bunce IRA Gary C. Niehaus Revocable Trust Hieu Tran DBA Insurance Agent High Peak Partners LLC James DeYoung IRA Jerry K. and Susan Mitchell Family Trust John and Mary Moore Charitable Fund John D. Schwind Living Trust Kapoor Family Fund Kevin Kelley IRA Lee & Judith Schaeffer Jr. Charitable Fund Leon A. Kraut IRA Lila Blum IRA Lorain Jewel Nicholls IRA Marlyn W. Rinehart Charitable Fund Merle B. Growden IRA Paul L. Brown IRA Peter E. Upton Charitable Fund QRSE LLC

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Ralph E. Whiteman IRA Richard S. Pepper Trust Robert C. Roush IRA Robert G. Winter and Mary Winter Trust Robert H. Gwynn IRA Robert H. Meneilly, Sr. and Shirley A. Meneilly Fund Russell Marshall IRA Security Savings Bank Shields Auto Center Southern Star Finishes, LLC Stephen Hansen Mortonson IRA The Benevity Community Impact Fund Deere & Company Thomas S. Davis Trust Tim and Susan Gibson Charitable Fund Tinkham Living Trust Vicki Hennenfent IRA Virginia Rassieur IRA Western Illinois University Wieland Family Foundation Wiswall Giving Fund YourCause, LLC Trustee for Bayer YourCause, LLC Trustee for Chevron Matching Employee Fund YourCause, LLC Trustee for Mastercard Impact Fund

R estricted Gifts In addition to supporting the annual fund, donors also designate charitable contributions for specific purposes, endowed funds and capital projects.

Capital Improvements Fund Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund DeBow Freed IRA † DeBow Freed William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Janet Forbes Myers ’68 and Lonn W. Myers Myers Family Fund

A. Dean Wright Memorial Scholarship Ruth Wright

Carol J. Boehme Scholarship for Women Carol West Boehme ’72

Admission Building Renovations Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski

Carol Veith Sorenson Scholarship Carol Veith Sorenson ’63 and Raymond E. Sorenson

Alfred B. Mainetti ’71 Endowed Scholarship Alfred B. Mainetti ’71 and Josephine Mainetti Allen and Alex McGehee Scholarship Greenridge Properties J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee Amy Workman Scholarship David T. Workman and Linda Workman Ardell Student International Travel Fund Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell Athletic Meals Curtis C. Farr ’88 and Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 ATO House Fund Anonymous Babette Buck and Fred Wackerle Endowed Scholarship Fred Wackerle ’61 Baseball Program Rusty L. Ruggles and Amber Ruggles Basketball Program Dale Hull Bell Family Business Scholarship The Benevity Community Impact Fund Deere & Company Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer Bernard A. Wiener Endowed Scholarship Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Bonnie Bondurant Alumni House Fund Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 The Bebe Trust Bowers Hall Endowed Maintenance Fund David A. Bowers ’60 David A. Bowers IRA Brad Wefenstette Prize for Social Justice James Andrew Thomas ’05 Kelli Wefenstette ’07 Business Department Brian A. Chabowski ’95 and Tiffany Ramsey Chabowski ’95

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Center for Science and Business Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Sarah Kaufman Lopez ’07 and Alejandro Lopez Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 Class of 1962 Endowed Scholarship Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell Marjorie Armstrong Brand ’62 and Roderick P. Brand G. Deeks Carroll Jr. ’62 and Bonnie Carroll Nancy Guilinger Coon ’62 and Richard A. Coon Thomas S. Davis ’62 Kenneth H. Knox ’62 and Judith Knox Larry G. Manning ’62 and Janet Pearson Manning ’62 Ola Robb Melinda Schneider Roehl ’62 and Robert Roehl Stephen Sichak Judith Lips Stoffer ’62 and Paul Stoffer The Benevity Community Impact Fund Donor Advised Fund The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Abbott Laboratories Thomas S. Davis Trust Jody Warden Guy F. Welch ’62 Larry J. Williams ’62 and Connie Husser Williams ’64 Class of 1967 Scholarship Frederick and Phyllis Kaskel IRA Frederick J. Kaskel ’67 and Phyllis Kaskel Leon A. Kraut ’67 and Laura Welti Leon A. Kraut IRA Lawrence K. Pickett Jr. ’67 and Carolyn Cottrell Wendell L. Shauman ’67 and Janet Agan Shauman YourCause, LLC Trustee for Mastercard Impact Fund Robert A. Zika ’67 and Gail Hartong Zika ’66 Class of 1970 Endowed Scholarship John T. Kreitler ’70 and Elizabeth Kreitler

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Cline-Lofftus Foundation Scholarship Cline-Lofftus Foundation Commander G.E. Boone Endowed Professorship in the Computational Sciences Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski Dallas B. and Barbara A. Irelan Scholarship William T. Irelan ’62 and Ines Irelan Dave and Julie Arnold Scholarship David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 David L. Arnold IRA Dawn McRoberts Strauss Endowed Award Dawn McRoberts Strauss ’03 Dean and Dorothy Skanderup Scholarship Dorothy Walker Skanderup ’50 and Dean Skanderup Skanderup Family Fund Department of Art Brian M. Austin ’64 and Susan Austin Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Cherry Galusha Simmons ’80 and David L. Simmons Department of Biology Victoria Bautch ’74 Jeffrey M. Dougherty ’98 and Stefanie Dougherty Susan Kauzlarich Kuster ’66 Department of Capron Classics MaryLu Belcher Bretsch ’68 and Darwin Bretsch Wortman Farm Account Department of Chemistry Stephanie Lankford Baker ’15 and Chance Baker Mark M. Goodman ’69 and Else Goodman Donald R. Paulson ’65 and Elizabeth Paulson Department of Education Betty Montgomery Kreminski ’94 and Karl Kreminski Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Gerald Palomo ’79 and Michel Palomo Ryan Tapscott ’10 and Cami Johnson Tapscott ’11 Madelyn Witt Young ’66 and John Young Department of History Robert K. Garro ’65 and Linda Garro Brooks McDaniel and Linda McDaniel Robert K. Garro IRA Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies Anonymous

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Department of Physics Jonathan K. Bruckman ’09 and Katherine Bruckman Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Frank D. Komatar ’65 Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski Hillis Skov Department of Political Economy & Commerce Gary W. Melvin and Tess Melvin Edward W. Pailes Jr. ’84 and Martha Pailes The Melvin Family Foundation Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke Department of Political Science Sara Youngs ’08 Department of Theatre Sherry Bair Amanda Balser Lila Keleher Blum ’61 and Harlow B. Blum Lenard Bolon and Wendine Bolon Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Carlson Janet Cook Michelle Damian Jackson Davis Larry R. Dew ’66 and Judith Burmeister Dew ’66 Dew Revocable Trust Lori Eyre Savannah Franklund David Geer Daniel Greising and Rebecca Greising Chris Grover Jeffrey P. Harshbarger and Cynthia Harshbarger Blake A. Hughes James P. Hughes and Mary Hughes Becky Hutton Christine Johnston Tim Kramer and Lori Walters-Kramer Petra Kuppinger Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Anne Mamary Lee McGaan ’69 Daniel J. Ott and Teresa Ott Brandon J. Ouellette ’14 and Tiffany Adams Ouellette ’14 Timothy A. Pahel Jaron T. Park ’19 Steve Pigg Craig Sheagren Robert Holschuh Simmons and Michelle Holschuh Simmons Anita Sims Kathie Skahill Irina Solonenko Arpit Srivastava and Shweta Arpit Srivastava

Tia Taylor Tatman Ann Toal ’60 Deanna Trout Carolyn Weber Ronald C. Wheeler Dennis R. Willhardt and Peggy Willhardt

De Young Theatre Arts Education Fund James L. DeYoung and Janet DeYoung James DeYoung IRA Donald Leigh Jones Music Scholarship Anonymous MaryLu Belcher Bretsch ’68 and Darwin Bretsch Wortman Farm Account Donald R. Hellison Scholarship Award Barbara Divinsky Brundage ’60 Douglas R. Spitz Scholarship Marie Foster Dr. Steven A. ’66 and Mrs. Elaine Baer ’67 Azuma Scholarship Steven A. Azuma ’66 and Elaine Baer Azuma ’67 Dr. Vincent and Betty Bollin ’57 Mahoney Teacher Education Scholarship Vincent D. Mahoney Vincent D. Mahoney IRA Endowed Fund for Faculty Support and Innovation Kevin J. Kelley ’72 and Ronda Kelley Robert G. Riley Jr. ’70 and Kay Riley Riley Family Fund Kristie Klapp Zessin ’87 and J. Bradley Zessin Environmental Studies Trips Christopher Doner and Jennifer Doner Eyler Family Scholarship James W. Eyler and Kel-Ann Eyler John R. Eyler and Fonda Eyler Robert W. King Jr. and Mary King F. Garvin and Katye L. Davenport Memorial Scholarship F. Garvin Davenport Jr. and Bernice Davenport Robert K. Garro ’65 and Linda Garro Robert K. Garro IRA Faculty Development Fund W. Jerome Hatch Trust Fighting Scots Society Traci Whyte Abbott ’83 and James Abbott Kaye Crissey Ainsworth ’63 and Gordon Ainsworth James W. Albright ’69 Gordon L. Amgott ’70 and Vicki Amgott Aramark Global Business Services Derek Archer ’97 Kathryn Argentine ’12

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Kent Armstrong and Jennifer Armstrong David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 Joel M. Auble ’65 Robert R. Ayers and Christine Ayers Deanna Marchand Baele ’95 and Lyle Baele Harold Peter Basler Jr. ’66 Conny Davinroy Beatty ’81 and Daniel P. Beatty Alan R. Betourne II ’05 and Lisa Betourne Hope Grebner Bibens ’11 and Robert Bibens Mick Birkhofer ’73 and Brenda Birkhofer Charles B. Blackman and Larena Blackman Blackman Electric Michael J. Blaesing ’96 and Julia Westby Blaesing ’95 Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 and Cheryl Youngren Bloomer Roy E. Bockler ’72 and Debbie Bockler Eric D. Boland ’95 and Jill Bowles Boland ’97 Rodney E. Bollman ’56 and Georgiana Bollman Kristyne Gilbert ’90 and Charles Duane Bonifer David C. Bratten ’96 and Kimberly Bruetsch ’97 William B. Brooks Jr. ’86 and Jani Brooks Terry P. Brown and Linda Brown Blake Christian Bryan ’19 Paul A. Bubb ’79 and Susan Bubb Evan J. Burke ’16 and Rachel Greising Burke ’14 Polly Armstrong Campbell ’52 Donald L. Campbell ’69 and Penny Campbell Brant A. Carius ’89 John C. Carlson ’74 and Lynette Johnson Carlson ’74 John L. Carter ’74 Katelynn Propes Carter ’17 Alexandra Chamberlin Charities Aid Foundation of America State Farm Companies Foundation Annabelle Clark Steven D. Clark ’88 Thomas E. Colclasure ’73 and Yolette Lorquet Colclasure Daniel A. Cotter ’88 and Ann Stites Cotter ’87 Charles Courtney Jr. ’57 and Bonnita McAllister Courtney ’58 Joel P. Cowan ’02 and Jennifer Roth Cowan ’02 Brock Dalton Crippen David S. Crooks ’69 and Foong Crooks Kathryn Cullivan Jeff S. Cutler Don Cutright and Jennifer Cutright Michael D. Danner ’91 and Julie Danner David L. Arnold IRA David Vaughan Investments Inc. Eugene R. Dawson ’63 and Jane Wilson Dawson ’64 Stephen D. Dawson ’70

A LIVING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT A recent gift to the Light This Candle endowment campaign will provide Monmouth students with a versatile and attractive new space for outdoor classes, fine arts performances and other campus events.

The Trubeck Amphitheater, which will be located behind the College’s Center for Science and Business, is the gift of William Trubeck ’68 of Long Lake, Minn., in memory of his late wife, Judy Willliams Trubeck ’69.

The facility, which will expand the existing Trubeck TRUBECK Fountain Plaza, will include a five-tier terrace wall, a new fountain and a remodeled plaza. The plaza will feature new landscaping, LED seat and stair lighting, and audiovisual and sound system capabilities. A bronze rendering of the College seal, measuring four feet in diameter, will be installed where the current fountain is located.

The design of the amphitheater is the creation of Monmouth First Lady Lobie Stone, who envisioned the concept shortly after she and President Clarence R. Wyatt arrived on campus in 2014.

Stone said the Trubeck Amphitheater will strengthen community on campus as well as serve the College’s academic needs. In addition to serving as a place for teaching and learning, Stone said she envisions the Trubeck Amphitheater to host theatrical and musical productions, various student activities, outdoor movies and other community events.

“It was such a joy for us to help Bill realize his wish to honor Judy and serve the students of his alma mater,” said Wyatt.

“When it is finished, the Trubeck Amphitheater will be a stunning addition to our campus and a great resource for our students. Bill has been a full partner in this project.”

Trubeck is the former vice chair of the College’s Board of Trustees.

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Architectural drawing of the new Trubeck Amphitheater

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Cassie Zelinske Day ’95 and Ben R. Day Gregory I. Derbak ’75 and Laura Derbak Daniel W. Dickson ’89 Dale A. Doebert and Jessica Amend Wendy Downing John D. Downs ’88 and Carrie Downs George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Lynne Talbott Dulin ’90 and Gary M. Dulin Eric G. Ealy ’86 and Joan Chatfield Ealy ’86 Jeffrey R. Earley ’76 Darrell W. Edson ’61 and Bonnie Edson Jerald D. Eiserman ’68 and M. Simpson Eiserman ’68 June Gustafson Erdmier-Salen ’52 Danny S. Evers ’18 Carl R. Fairand and Debbie Fairand Curtis C. Farr ’88 and Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 Jerry W. Farris and Linda Farris Richard E. Farthing and Susan Farthing Samuel A. Ferguson ’81 and Pamela Batson Ferguson ’81 First Lutheran Church Emily Flint ’16 Kim Fornero Peter C. Frantzen ’63 Terry F. Fruehauf ’76 Dan Gaherty and Cheryl Nation Sebastian D. Garcia Gary C. Niehaus Revocable Trust Kenneth Geiger ’53 and Sheryl Johnson Geiger ’56 Aleeka Gentzler ’20 Clarissa Gentzler Vaughn R. Gentzler ’18 David D. George ’00 and Stephanie George Christine Winkelman Glasgow ’89 and Terry L. Glasgow John Goddard Charles W. Goehl ’73 and Kim Goehl Arnold Gonzalez Jr. ’90 and Sharon Gonzalez Shane E. Gordon ’06 and Jessica Livermore Gordon ’07 David A. Grummitt ’61 and Janet Grummitt Timothy M. Haak ’80 and Christine Haak Ron Hall and Audree Hall Ronda Ehlen Hall ’85 James A. Hands Jr. ’55 Douglas D. Hardin ’72 Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart Stephen R. Hartman ’92 and Karen Hartman Thomas W. Hasson ’91 Mary Auliff Havens ’72 and John P. Havens Roger D. Haynes ’82 John W. Heaton ’76 Terry A. Henderson ’69 and Debbie Henderson

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Kevin Hermie and Cathie Hermie Robert E. Hillison ’82 and Keely Hillison John Frederick Hintz II ’19 J. Jarrod Hippen ’92 and Kristi Millar Hippen ’93 Adam G. Holder and Jennifer Holder Robin Jarvis ’84 John P. White Jr. Attorney At Law Kooten L. Johnson Robert C. Johnson ’59 and Marilyn Schneider Johnson ’59 Ryan M. Johnson ’02 Ann Jones Michael J. Jones ’99 and Miranda Jones Brian C. Jordan ’09 Michelle Merritt-Juszczyk ’89 and Don Juszczyk Philip G. Killey Jr. ’63 and Ellen Killey Colleen Fisher Kinney ’62 and Harold T. Kinney Sr. Molly McNamara Klinger ’03 and Jacob Klinger James R. Klusendorf ’61 and Judy Klusendorf Kone Inc. Ethan Scott Lafary ’15 and Erin Willhite Lafary ’15 Penny Young Lefavour ’87 Christopher J. Lemon ’80 Patrick W. Lewis ’95 and Kristina Lewis David L. Lindgren ’65 Evelina Lipecka ’06 Martin C. Luehrs ’71 and Dawn Kirk Paul G. Luepke ’83 and Judi Poettgen Luepke ’83 Jeffery G. Maher and Hannah Reagor Maher David R. Mann ’95 and Elizabeth Doty Mann ’95 Rylee Mann Timothy J. McCabe ’81 and Laura McCabe Frank J. McChristy and Mary McChristy Thomas J. McCoy ’83 Michael E. McCreight ’68 James F. McKinley Jr. ’64 and Sharon McKinley Kenneth G. McMillan Memorial Hospital Michelle Meyer Messman ’04 and Chad Messman Michael D. Danner, D.D.S. Timothy Miller and Jennifer Miller Praburaman Mohan Katherine Morrow ’03 Michelle Moy ’89 Paul K. Moye ’61 and Beverly Linnihan MTC Communications Kenneth D. Murphy ’88 Todd W. Myers ’95 and Stacy Lafferty Myers ’93 David W. Newell † Lesley Pettit Newell ’88 Gary C. Niehaus ’74 and Paige Niehaus Dan A. Nolan and Kay Nolan Mackenzie Notestein ’16

Frank R. Oakley ’63 Michael P. Oblinger ’05 and Elizabeth Ruebush Oblinger ’04 Lori O’Brien Oetting ’90 and Lance Oetting Colby M. Oleson ’91 William H. Ortman ’64 and Phyllis Ortman Kaitlyn Osmulski Sheri White Owen ’96 Earl K. Paasch ’66 and Barbara Paasch Virginia Plunkett Paton ’73 and James J. Paton Jason D. Paulsgrove ’04 and Jaclyn Paulsgrove Lazaro M. Perez and Ann Perez Michelle Perry ’89 Joseph H. Pilger ’08 and Amanda Havens Pilger ’07 Jordan Pless ’09 Thomas G. Poeltler ’70 and Gini Poeltler David P. Poirier and Christine Poirier Porter-Hay Insurance Agency Inc. Brooke Potendyk ’11 Heather Powell Prairie Vista Farm Jane Hartley Pratt Rosemary Pullen Cole R. Pyatt ’17 Karen Friedrich Pyatt ’84 and Jerry Pyatt Patrick J. Quinlan ’93 and Lesley Stone Quinlan ’94 Joshua M. Ragar ’06 and Sara Ragar Ralph E. Whiteman IRA Coleman Vern Reed ’15 and Clarissa Henby Reed ’15 Tamee Sterett Renwick ’84 Ross A. Richardson ’89 Julie Crisco Ricketts ’95 and Dudley Ricketts Nicholas T. Robertson ’22 Richard P. Rodgers ’66 and Joy Rodgers Brian J. Ross ’86 and Amber Ross Tyson B. Royer ’99 Edward J. Ryan ’71 Erhard G. Saettler Timothy A. Salier ’96 Jennifer Erickson Sanberg ’10 and Benjamin C. Sanberg Joan Nickel Sanders ’64 Peter W. Sawyer ’69 and Catherine Sawyer Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 Michael A. Schmitz ’80 and Amy Johnson Schmitz ’88 Kenneth Schneider and Vanessa Schneider Nathan P. Schroeder John J. Scotillo ’72 David K. Sebben and Erin Sebben Security Savings Bank Makayla Shaw ’20 Linda Gustafson Sheehan ’70 Thomas E. Shie and Dianna Shie

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Michael D. Silver and Suzanne Woll Robert L. Singer ’61 and Mary Jones Singer ’63 Allan W. Smith ’58 and Antoinette Smith Kaelin Sommer ’19 Blake A. Sondgeroth ’17 Byron Sondgeroth ’88 and Suzan Sondgeroth South Shore Football Camp Lauren Sperry ’20 State Farm Companies Foundation Jeffrey L. Steinberger ’69 John R. Stergulz ’66 and Ellen Stergulz Douglas L. Stickels ’75 and Leslie Stickels Haley Jones Stockton ’12 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sullivan Kevin D. Swift Joseph H. Tait ’59 and Jean Tait Donald P. Tanney ’79 and Crystal Tanney William T. Taylor and Judith Taylor Charles Temaner and Laury Temaner The Benevity Community Impact Fund Microsoft Emily Thebeau Danette Bagley-Thierry ’86 and Robert K. Thierry III Edward T. Thompson and Annette Thompson James E. Thompson ’57 George A. Tolsky and Deborah Tolsky Linda Gaikis Tomson ’88 Alison Trettin Paul Trettin and Tracy Trettin Richard B. Truog ’74 Mark T. Tupper ’94 and Tina Tupper Kevin Turner and Dawn Turner Heather Downing Turnquist ’99 and John M. Turnquist ’99 Philip D. Tweedy ’96 and Tori Tweedy Brian D. Valentini ’02 and Jaimie Gurney Valentini ’03 Craig VanMetre and Donna VanMetre Steven Ven Huizen and Dawn Ven Huizen Randall E. Vickroy ’76 Dorothy Young Voetberg ’59 and Allen Voetberg Daniel Weaver and Tracey Weaver Richard J. Webb ’57 and Maurine Webb Thomas R. Weber ’67 and Julie Weber Guy F. Welch ’62 Jonathan M. Welty ’12 Joseph M. Welty ’78 and Jean Welty John P. White Jr. ’69 Ralph E. Whiteman ’52 and Martha Williams Whiteman James T. Widdop and Constance Widdop Dennis A. Willig Jr. and Angela Willig Christopher Wilson J. Mark Wilson ’78 and Marsha Wilson Warren J. Wilson ’74 and Lucinda Dunmire Wilson ’75

Douglas F. Winebright Luke Witherell and Meredith Witherell Frank J. Wollrab ’71 Brian K. Woodard ’97 and Stephanie Fritz Woodard ’03 Clarence R. Wyatt and Lobie Stone Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer Florence M. Aitchison Scholarship Martha Aitchison Siegel IRA Martha Siegel Football Program lllinois 8-MAN Football Association Garrett W. Thiessen Memorial Scholarship Lorain Jewel Nicholls IRA Jewel Price Nicholls ’50 General Library Books Fund Walter Kretchik and Pamela Kontowicz Sonja Zedigian Lowry ’67 and Dennis Lowry Walter D. Morrill ’57 and Elaine Morrill John Richard Sayre and Mary Phillips General Scholarships Fund Anne Baker Bruce J. Birney ’69 and Donna Johnston Birney ’69 William Cox and Diana Horne Joan Rezner Gundersen ’68 and Robert P. Gundersen David L. Murray ’65 and Sandra Murray Gerald Palomo ’79 and Michel Palomo Elizabeth Patterson ’63 Brenda Robinson-Young Max Anthony Seisser ’15 Luke Witherell and Meredith Witherell Glen D. & Anita C. Rankin Memorial Scholarship Douglas B. Rankin ’79 and Tamyra Dixon Rankin ’81 Therese Worden Rankin ’00 and Jeffrey D. Rankin Golf Simulator Robert L. Singer ’61 and Mary Jones Singer ’63 Goodall-Bowers Memorial Scholarship Scott Bond and Janey Bond David A. Bowers ’60 Michael L. Bowers and Linda Bowers Ronald L. Bowers and Jane Bowers David A. Bowers Foundation Daryl Fisher and Susan Fisher Michael L. and Linda L. Bowers Revocable Trust Scott and Janey Bond Trust Gordon K. ’61 and Jane Corman ’61 Young Endowed Scholarship Gordon Young IRA

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Gordon K. Young ’61 and Jane Corman Young ’61 Hackbrush Scholarship Hackbrush Family Trust Hamilton-Jones Educational Scholarship Award Anonymous Harlan G. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Franklin K. Johnson ’76 and Michele Johnson Robin A. Johnson ’80 Harlow and Lila Blum Art Scholarship Barton Blum and Tenny Frost Lila Keleher Blum ’61 and Harlow B. Blum Harlow and Lila Blum International Student Scholarship Lila Keleher Blum ’61 and Harlow B. Blum Lila Blum IRA Heimo and Eileen Loya Memorial Scholarship Robert C. Hudson III ’75 and Sarah Young Hudson ’74 Kari Loya Mr. and Mrs. James Sandberg History Department Endowed Prize Fund Bruce C. Ogilvie ’68 and Rebecca Reedy Ogilvie ’69 William Urban and Jacquelynn Urban Homer L. Shoemaker Memorial Scholarship Marco T. DiGiorgio ’71 and Kristie DiGiorgio Jacqueline Shoemaker Estate Steven J. Shoemaker, Executor Hollis Shoemaker Yocum ’75 Hubert Deets Wray Accounting/Business Scholarship Anonymous Ira Smolensky Endowed Prize Richard F. Harrod ’07 and Mollie Williams Harrod ’07 Mohsin Masood and Farhat Haq Colleen Shaughnessy ’00 Marjorie Smolensky Janet Faulkner Memorial Scholarship Margaret Hamil ’71 Van D. Perrine ’70 and Jan Farnsworth ’71 Lynn Rosenow Seiwert ’71 and Lawrence Seiwert Jim and Bev Nelson Scholarship James W. Nelson ’60 and Beverly Nelson Nelson ’61 Nelson Foundation Joan Lewis Endowed Scholarship George J. Lewis Trust John Aitchison Scholarship Martha Aitchison Siegel IRA

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Martha Siegel Kappa Kappa Gamma House Fund John C. Carlson ’74 and Lynette Johnson Carlson ’74 Sharon Avery Danner ’65 † David L. Danner ’64 Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Lynn McGaan Knox ’61 and Spencer Knox Pierre Loomis and Lynn Loomis Claudia Lawson Moss ’72 and Terry D. Moss Jane Temple Peacock ’63 Carla Sanders ’91 Karen Hornaday Memorial Scholarship James C. Hornaday ’61 Kenneth ’62 and Judith Knox Chemistry Program Fund Kenneth H. Knox ’62 and Judith Knox The Benevity Community Impact Fund Donor Advised Fund The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Abbott Laboratories Lawson Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Beal Mr. and Mrs. Loren J. Blackfelner Mary Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Keith Chase Michael L. Connell and Linda Connell Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Rebecca Fitzgerald Greg R. Gilliland ’77 and Susan Gilliland Brian P. Holland ’76 and Carrie Holland Stephen E. Holland ’73 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kileen Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Kohlmeyer Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Krulac Louis John Lawson Valerie Hickerson Lawson ’80 and Philip Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Lawson Valerie McManus Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller MPR Farms Raymond Fayhee Family Marcia Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Price Laurel Hornbaker Schoen ’73 Security Savings Bank Mr. and Mrs. Nathanial E. Sloan Jr. George D. Sprout and Peggy Sprout Donald C. Swartzbaugh ’76 Craig V. Timm Mr. and Mrs. Kent Timm Mark L. Todd and Laurie Todd Mr. and Mrs. David E. White Lee McGaan Speaker’s Showcase Prize Lee McGaan ’69

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Lobie Stone Visual Arts Scholarship Clarence R. Wyatt

Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski

Lux Center Thomas J. McDowell and Sue McDowell William M. Simpson ’65 and Joyce Simpson Thomas J. McDowell IRA William Simpson IRA

Monmouth College Campus Garden David W. Jackson ’69 and Catherine Mayer Jackson ’71 Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Joy Stephens ’88 and Jack K. Stephens Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 and Jane Schneiter Velazquez ’81 Clarence R. Wyatt and Lobie Stone

Lux Summer Theological Institute Pamela Bowman Best ’89 and Thomas Best Faith United Presbyterian Church Jeri Malone Kitchin ’00 Lux Summer Theological Institute for Youth Program Lilly Endowment, Inc. Presbytery of Great Rivers Margaret C. Bozarth Scholarship Margaret Bozarth ’61 Margaret C. Bozarth IRA Margaret Lord Music Scholarship Lawrence K. Pickett Jr. ’67 and Carolyn Cottrell YourCause, LLC Trustee for Mastercard Impact Fund Mark Taylor Endowment for Junior Faculty Development Mark E. Taylor ’78 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart Lux Center Endowment Fund Angela Baumann ’18 Robert “Cam” McConnell ’72 Marshall-Peters Science Scholarship Jane Marshall Kellogg ’72 and Buster L. Kellogg Jr. Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty Mary Beth and R. Duncan Brown Scholarship Mary Beth and R. Duncan Brown Charitable Fund Lynn Stubblebine Matilda J. Cerpa Scholarship Robert Cerpa and Hope Cerpa The RKC Fund MC Student Emergency Fund Anonymous Susy D. Condon IRA Jacquelyn Condon Mark S. Ogorzalek and Karen Ogorzalek McLeod Family Endowed Scholarship Mary Grable McLeod ’87 and Kenneth McLeod McLeod Family Gift Account Men’s Golf Team Shields Auto Center Men’s Lacrosse Team Matthew T. Clair ’05 and Jennifer Clair

Monmouth College Radio Station David R. Acheson ’63 and Constance Acheson Timothy S. Pecaro ’76 Moot Court Competition Prizes Daniel A. Cotter ’88 and Ann Stites Cotter ’87 Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 and Debra Snyderman Nahrstadt Morrill, Fox, Cleland, Kennedy and Zellers Endowed Fund for the English and Theater Departments L. Terry Oggel ’61 and Linda Oggel Mortar Board Scholarships Barbara Allen ’69 Susan Crossey Alm ’69 David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 Sara Wyant ’70 and Dennis Ary Jeffrey J. Bakker ’90 and Cynthia Dorsch Betty Beabout Boehm ’54 Margaret Bozarth ’61 Denise Karczewski ’75 and Gary M. Briddick Alex B. Brooks ’13 and Clarissa Gardner ’13 Carolyn Phelps Trust Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier L. Terry Cook ’91 and Karin Owrey Cook ’89 Cassie Zelinske Day ’95 and Ben R. Day Larry R. Dew ’66 and Judith Burmeister Dew ’66 Dew Revocable Trust Carol Clark Dotseth ’63 and Gregory M. Dotseth Barbara Ditch Drake ’61 Jane Fort Edwards ’75 and Tom Edwards Paul R. Ellefsen ’61 and Barbara Clark Ellefsen ’61 Elizabeth Kline Elsbree ’04 and Branndon Elsbree Susan Countryman Estes ’66 and Fredrick C. Estes Suzanne Snyder Fienning ’66 and Charles E. Fienning Margaret Deschwanden Foster ’52 † Richard H. Foster ’51 Cheryl Nowak Garrison ’71 and Keith Garrison Janet Hamly-Ott ’65 Mary Auliff Havens ’72 and John P. Havens

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Christopher J. Heatherly ’94 and Molly Heatherly Judy Hogfeldt ’75 Susan Bahnick Jones ’72 Brian D. Kimmel ’76 and Kathleen Clark Kimmel ’78 Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski Susan Kauzlarich Kuster ’66 Alan V. Larson ’55 and Sally Smith Larson ’56 Carla Turner Makowski ’69 and Gary G. Makowski Margaret C. Bozarth IRA James G. Mercer ’55 and Barbara Cook Mercer ’54 Virginia Haun Mittauer ’50 Marian Prugh Nichol ’52 Carlton O. Pate III ’69 and Anne Nelson Pate ’72 † Marion Danielson Peace ’49 Elspeth Barclay Peterjohn ’59 Carolyn Phelps ’54 Jerri Picha ’75 Cynthia Carman Rich ’73 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart ’57 Kenneth R. Schoenig ’88 Richard T. Smith ’64 and Nancy Munn Smith ’66 Jane Black Snyder ’52 Michael T. Stauth ’69 and Jennifer Barnes Stauth ’69 Judith Blaich Stipp ’64 Susan B. Jones Living Trust George M. Tyler ’88 Virginia Hughlett Varce ’53 and Harold Varce Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 and Jane Schneiter Velazquez ’81 Carol Anderson Vernon ’62 Joseph M. Welty ’78 and Jean Welty Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer Music Trips Ralph D. Butler † Marjorie Butler Faith United Presbyterian Church Johnson and Johnson Matching Gifts Program Michael B. McCulley ’70 Luke Allen Pratt ’18 Douglas L. Stickels ’75 and Leslie Stickels Brett D. Wolfe ’90 and Lisa Bitar Wolfe ’94 Nathan and Laura Gaskill Accounting Prize Nathan J. Gaskill ’04 and Laura Haumiller Gaskill ’06 Nelson-Weck Scholarship Marsha Dopheide Christie A. Nelson ’06 and Amanda Weck ’06 Nelson Consulting LLC Amanda M. Weck ’06 and Christie Nelson ’06

A CULTURE OF PHILANTHROPY Philanthropy is one of the most important keys to stability and growth for an institution like Monmouth. Through the Light This Candle campaign, the College is seeking to inspire greater levels of generosity and commitment, and its donors are responding.

Susie Swanson FitzGerald ’71 of Irving, Texas, and her husband, Curtis, decided to contribute to the campaign by creating an estate gift to supplement a previous gift. “We have made a deferred gift commitment to Monmouth in order to add to the endowed scholarship fund I established several years ago, for the purpose of assisting women who want a Monmouth education but THE FITZGERALDS might not have the means to attend,” Susie said.

Jerri Picha ’75 of Warrenville, Ill., was inspired to support the campaign through a trust and gifts of life insurance because of the impact the liberal arts education she received at Monmouth had on her professional career—giving her the skills to adapt to many varied business environments as well as effectively interact with individuals. “That, combined with the many wonderful memories I still have of my years at Monmouth, prompted me to want to help in some way to PICHA provide for the future of the institution,” she explained.

Picha established a faculty prize with a portion of her gift. “The prize was one way I could express my gratitude for the outstanding faculty at Monmouth,” she said. “They taught me to challenge myself, seek new perspectives, discover new opportunities and realize how to maximize my abilities.”

Peter Upton ’68 of New Providence, N.J., designated part of his estate for an unrestricted gift to the campaign.

“My family has always valued education and stressed its importance,” he explained. “My father (Vincent Upton ’32) and my mother, my brother and sisters, and my children all attended college and most of us went beyond a bachelor’s degree. Growing up, I saw my father supporting Monmouth as an alumnus. I have tried to UPTON do the same. In a few years, my grandchildren will be of college age. Seeing the ever-rising cost of education, I think alumni support is a continuing need and a responsibility of those who can afford to provide assistance.”

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Joan Wertz Off-Campus Student Opportunities Alexander M. Lindsay ’68 and Judith Lindsay Olive Barrett Memorial Scholarship Jacobsen Family Foundation Parent & Family Council Project Laura Cavanaugh ’86 Jeff S. Cutler Rolf Fredrick and Mary Fredrick Mark Martin and Ann Martin Stanley W. Simonson and Katherine Simonson Daniel Weaver and Tracey Weaver Philip J. Wheeler ’50 Memorial Prize in Literature Ronald C. Wheeler Pi Beta Phi House Fund Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 Pre-Med Immersion Program Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 and Jane Schneiter Velazquez ’81 Public Relations Prize Lee McGaan ’69 Quasi Endowment Ann B. Michael IRA Charities Aid Foundation of America, State Farm Companies Foundation Disbursement Portal George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Ann Michael ’67 Fred H. Rumney III ’64 and Leslie Williamson Rumney ’69 Quinby Family Scholarship Anne Quinby Dyni ’56 Quinby House William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Ralph and Judith Riggs Scholarship Ralph L. Riggs ’60 Ray A. Schwind Scholarship John D. Schwind Living Trust John Schwind Richard and Eloise Hutchinson Scholarship Jean Hutchinson Randolph ’68 and Ross Randolph Randolph Living Trust Robert E. Acheson Scholarship Nancy Acheson McGaan ’60 Robert H. Buchholz Scholarship J & L Freedom Foundation Joseph O. Svoboda ’75 and Leslie Svoboda

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Robert Henry Whiteman and Sara Keister Whiteman Scholarship Barbara Whiteman Garland ’49 Rural Schools Collaborative Fund Community Foundation of the Ozarks Grants and Distributions Account Galesburg Community Foundation Rural Schools Collaborative, Inc. Western Illinois University Roseanna Webster Graham Prize H. Richard Jewell ’70 and Ann Ludlow Rural Teacher Initiative Anonymous G. Deeks Carroll Jr. ’62 and Bonnie Carroll James L. De Young and Janet De Young Anne Dillibe ’67 Gary Funk Robert B. Green ’81 and Roxanne Stanley Green ’81 Johnson and Johnson Matching Gifts Program Linda Schantz Keener ’65 Louise Laine Lubs ’71 and James C. Lubs Michael B. McCulley ’70 Claudia Lawson Moss ’72 and Terry D. Moss Timothy L. Owen ’73 and Gail Simpson Owen ’74 Joanne Moy ’70 and Michael R. Robinson Jacquelyn Grier Salvato ’73 Sarah Walters Independent Beauty Consultant Michael A. Schmitz ’80 and Amy Johnson Schmitz ’88 Gregory Simpson ’87 and Gail Cook Simpson ’87 SJW Enterprises LLC Market Alley Wines Carol Veith Sorenson ’63 and Raymond E. Sorenson The Sixteenth Section Fund Sarah Twomey Walters Sarah Turner Shriner ’71 Scholarship Linda Larsen Pfaff ’71 Robert J. Shriner Jr. Senior Class Gift Morgan Abraham ’20 Gena Corbin Alcorn ’88 Kent Armstrong and Jennifer Armstrong Antonetta Axup ’18 Farida Mohammed Bature ’18 Pamela Bowman Best ’89 and Thomas Best Hope Grebner Bibens ’11 and Robert Bibens Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 and Cheryl Youngren Bloomer Charles Joseph Bonifer Kristyne Gilbert ’90 and Charles Duane Bonifer Grace Brooks Samuel P. Brooks and Sherrie Brooks

McKenzie Campbell ’20 James E. Chatfield ’52 and Thelma Chatfield Alex D. Clark and Susan Inskeep Clark Mary Alexander Corrigan ’82 Charles Courtney Jr. ’57 and Bonnita McAllister Courtney ’58 Michelle Damian Joseph Coan Botte Doner George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Jacob J. Durdan ’20 Jon D. Durdan Jr. and Julie Durdan Adam J. Edmonds ’99 Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Rachel Evans Jerry W. Farris and Linda Farris Scott A. Hamilton ’75 and Elizabeth Hamilton Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart Kellen Hinrichsen and Megan Hinrichsen Ian F. Jefferson ’20 Christine Johnston Shelby Jones ’20 Karoline Kamzic Frederick J. Kaskel ’67 and Phyllis Kaskel Jim Kinkaid and Stephanie Kinkaid Sean P. Maher ’95 and Shalaine Maher Alexander C. Martin ’20 Praburaman Mohan Sierra Nealey McKenzie Price Maeve Reilly Gregory Rothbardt and Julie Rothbardt Jordan Scherpe-Lencioni Kathryn Shipp ’13 Rachel Sitko ’20 Elizabeth Smith ’19 Blake A. Sondgeroth ’17 Byron Sondgeroth ’88 and Suzan Sondgeroth Lucas K. Sondgeroth ’20 Lauren Sperry ’20 Aleesha Sramek Hilary Hawkinson Stott ’07 and Jacob T. Stott ’09 Robert J. Strabley ’97 Kevin D. Warrington and Amy Warrington Randall K. Winbigler and Janice Winbigler Clarence R. Wyatt and Lobie Stone Linda Yelm Short-Term Study Trips Anonymous Anthony David Bryant ’18 Lori Eyre Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart Ronald C. Wheeler Sigma Phi Epsilon House Fund Thomas A. Sargent ’85 and Crystal Krug Sargent ’85 Roy J. Sye ’13 and Colleen Sinclair Sye ’13

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SOFIA Program Johnson and Johnson Matching Gifts Program Karen Bush Watts ’65 and Daniel Watts Student International Travel Fund Brian A. Chabowski ’95 and Tiffany Ramsey Chabowski ’95 Christopher Doner and Jennifer Doner Swimming and Diving Program Phillip Abraham and Dana Abraham The Coil Joan Strand Kotz ’64 Thomas and Anne Sienkewicz Fund Anonymous Tom Johnson Scholarship Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Track and Field Program Deborah Sterett ’77 Lance Q. Zedric ’83 and Ching Zedric Trubeck Amphitheater William L. Trubeck ’68 William Trubeck IRA Twomey Foundation Scholarship The Twomey Foundation Unrestricted Endowed Scholarship Fund Barbara Van Cura IRA Robert M. Barton ’63 and Shirley Barton Anne White Beall ’67 and James F. Beall Beall Family Charitable Gift Fund Amy Becker Lyndea Dew Brown ’71 and Tary L. Brown Sarah Burns James L. Caldwell IV ’72 and Barbara Caldwell Eugene R. Dawson ’63 and Jane Wilson Dawson ’64 Larry R. Dew ’66 and Judith Burmeister Dew ’66 Dew Revocable Trust Gregory H. Ellis ’73 Ruth Fredrickson Gail Landauer IRA Robert Gamer ’60 and May Gamer Gary L. Gilliland ’65 Roger J. Hawk and Mary Hawk High Peak Partners LLC Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Kramer Alan J. Landauer ’70 and Gail Anderson Landauer ’71 Russell F. Marshall ’63 and Mary Bailey Marshall ’64 Thomas S. Martin ’72 † Mary Duncan McBride ’56 Frederick H. McDavitt ’61 Michael S. Mimnaugh ’71 and Gayle Mimnaugh Gretchen Wright Moore ’64

Claudia Lawson Moss ’72 and Terry D. Moss Lynn A. Nelson ’57 Charles L. Rassieur ’60 and Virginia Rassieur Russell Marshall IRA UBS Financial Services Inc Randall J. Slaboch ’76 and Marsha Spleha Slaboch ’75 Sharon Stangenes Barbara Guyer Van Cura ’53 Virginia Rassieur IRA Eric T. Vogt ’83 Virtually Better Project Richard P. Eichin ’69 and Elizabeth Eichin James W. Eyler and Kel-Ann Eyler Douglas A. Gibb ’85 Scott A. Hamilton ’75 and Elizabeth Hamilton Alice Dunlap-Kraft ’75 and Robert Kraft Evelina Lipecka ’06 Mary Grable McLeod ’87 and Kenneth McLeod McLeod Family Gift Account Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 and Debra Snyderman Nahrstadt Kathy Wolf Plath ’77 and Corey Plath Kelly Stadter ’07 Wackerle Career and Leadership Center Endowed Fund Russell Spence and Rhonda Spence Web Page Support H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock William and Yvonne Hurckes Emergency Endowed Fund William G. Hurckes ’81 and Yvonne Mensing Hurckes ’80 William S. Daniel Scholarship in Vocal Music William S. Daniel ’72 William S. Daniel Attorney At Law Wiswell-Robeson Lecture in Agricultural History Jeanne Robeson IRA Jeanne Gittings Robeson ’60 Alice Robbins Thompson ’60 Women in Science Scholarship Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Stanley Earl Chism IRA

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Loyal Scots Society Established in 2015, the Loyal Scots Society recognizes individuals and organizations that contribute to Monmouth College in three or more consecutive fiscal years, thereby providing ongoing support to Monmouth College’s commitment to deliver a first-class academic and cocurricular educational experience to all its students.

30 OR MORE YEARS Individuals

Frank Adam III ’62 and Helen Adam Margaret Ramsdale Alford ’55 Robert J. Ardell ’62 and Elizabeth Ardell David L. Arnold ’63 and Julie Caldwell Arnold ’65 Steven A. Azuma ’66 and Elaine Baer Azuma ’67 Karen Brown Baker ’64 and Ben H. Baker Virginia Wyatt Barnard ’47 John K. Baumann ’57 and Beverly Carlson Baumann ’58 Lila Keleher Blum ’61 and Harlow B. Blum Carol West Boehme ’72 Robert F. Bowen ’59 and Judith Bowen David A. Bowers ’60 Paul L. Brown ’56 Barbara Divinsky Brundage ’60 Lucy Work Burroughs ’64 Judith Sluka Butcher ’63 Douglas S. Carolus ’65 and Joyce Carolus Thomas J. Cerkez III ’68 and Mary Eyre-Cerkez Nancy Guilinger Coon ’62 and Richard A. Coon Shirley Service Culbert ’63 Thomas S. Davis ’62 Charles D. Denniston ’54 Carl D. Diehl ’69 Margaret Flick Droppa ’58 Anne Quinby Dyni ’56 Eric G. Ealy ’86 and Joan Chatfield Ealy ’86 Rhoda Engel ’57 June Gustafson Erdmier-Salen ’52 Kellie Kohler Esters ’86 John W. Evermon ’68 Martha Muirhead Felmley ’50 Arlene Kunde Flynn ’53 William P. Ford ’76 and Margaret Romano Ford ’76 Margaret Deschwanden Foster ’52 † Richard H. Foster ’51 Terry F. Fruehauf ’76 Jane Jackson Garison ’52 Robert K. Garro ’65 and Linda Garro

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Donald L. Gladfelter ’77 Charles W. Goehl ’73 and Kim Goehl † Gordon J. Greenwood ’52 Anne Harmon ’54 Gilbert Hennenfent and Victoria Hennenfent Richard J. Henry ’58 and Cheryl Henry James K. Hoffmeister ’53 and Marcia Kern Hoffmeister ’58 Edward A. Jones ’72 Ann Hoyt Kightlinger ’70 Linda Blow Klabunde ’67 Kenneth H. Knox ’62 and Judith Knox Lynn McGaan Knox ’61 and Spencer Knox Kelly K. Kost ’83 and Holly Kost Alan V. Larson ’55 and Sally Smith Larson ’56 Merikay Waldvogel ’69 and Jerry Ledbetter Margaret Hendren Lee ’54 and William C. Lee David B. Lieb ’68 and Shirley Lieb Stephen B. Lindell ’57 Jeffrey Mar ’57 and Gloria Mar Dianne Robison Marcell ’71 Gerald A. Marxman ’55 Brooks McDaniel and Linda McDaniel Cherry Lauder McIlvain ’47 Barbara Rahn McKellar ’57 Barbara Ruettinger McQuillan ’59 and Clarence W. McQuillan T. Larry Mell ’58 and Connie Mell James G. Mercer ’55 and Barbara Cook Mercer ’54 John I. Moore Jr. ’69 and Mary Moore Bruce H. Morrison ’70 Janet Forbes Myers ’68 and Lonn W. Myers Beverly Cain Nelson ’58 Ronald E. Noton ’61 and Mary Noton L. Terry Oggel ’61 and Linda Oggel H. Safford Peacock and Betty Peacock Dennis M. Plummer ’73 and Carolyn Plummer Martha Woods Porter ’57 and Richard N. Porter Roger K. Ray ’53 Dorothy Aszman Ricketts ’83 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart ’57 Margaret Evans Roberts ’58 and Ned C. Roberts Alan P. Rogers ’71 Lee E. Schaeffer Jr. ’65 and Judith Maxwell Schaeffer ’65 Jan Weshinskey Schons ’69 and Carl R. Schons Laura Epley Selken ’84 and Ronald Ray Selken Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54 Diane Guzzi Shilton ’72 and Thomas Shilton Joseph C. Simpson ’66 and Karen Simpson Allan W. Smith ’58 and Antoinette Smith David L. Spears ’62

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Michael E. Sproston ’64 and Donna Schliffke Sproston ’66 John R. Steele ’63 Ralph E. Stephenson ’58 and Bonnie Stephenson David B. Stimpson ’66 Judith Blaich Stipp ’64 Emily Hauge ’77 and Don C. Teel William B. Trent Jr. ’69 and Catherine Blake Trent ’70 William L. Trubeck ’68 Peter E. Upton ’68 Pamela Slaughter Van Kirk ’76 and John Van Kirk Virginia Hughlett Varce ’53 and Harold Varce Neil Verigan ’54 and Helen Verigan Carol Anderson Vernon ’62 Kathleen Ford Vitali ’76 Eric T. Vogt ’83 Fred Wackerle ’61 Susan Adams Watt ’62 Donald G. Whiteman ’49 Ralph E. Whiteman ’52 and Martha Williams Whiteman Jill Petrie Whiteside ’70 and Dale Whiteside Payson S. Wild Jr. ’67 Robert A. Zika ’67 and Gail Hartong Zika ’66

Businesses and Organizations Anonymous

25-29 YEARS Individuals

James W. Asplund ’54 and Wanda Asplund Rosalie Huff Barman ’66 and Ronald Barman David R. Bates ’63 and Susan Bates Daryl B. Carr ’88 and Peggy Carr Kenneth L. Cramer Margaret Blanchard Daiker ’56 Gary L. Daniels and Mary Daniels Sandra Johnson Dobras ’61 and Victor E. Dobras Thomas B. Doyle ’64 Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Peter A. Gebauer and Janet Gebauer Gary L. Gilliland ’65 Stanley Graham ’54 Kathryn Bunting Hamrin ’56 and Robert Hamrin Jane Davis Harper ’48 Jacquelyn Condon Robert C. Hudson III ’75 and Sarah Young Hudson ’74 Elizabeth Fellowes Hunt ’74 and Ronald R. Hunt Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 F. Addison Jones Robert D. Jornlin ’61 and Lois Jornlin

Jane Marshall Kellogg ’72 and Buster L. Kellogg Jr. Leon A. Kraut ’67 and Laura Welti Mohsin Masood and Farhat Haq Robert W. McAllister ’64 Robert E. Meling and Carolyn Meling Jill Munson Lynn A. Nelson ’57 Kathleen McLaughlin Nolin ’70 and Bruce Edmund Nolin Colby M. Oleson ’91 Eric J. Ostermeier ’92 and Melanie Burns Timothy L. Owen ’73 and Gail Simpson Owen ’74 Edward F. Perry ’58 and Ellen Littler Perry ’59 Alvin T. Peterson ’60 Vernon Peter Pitts and Patricia Pitts Robert C. Roush ’67 J. David Rumbough Jr. ’65 Roger P. Sander ’78 and Elaine Sander ’98 William G. Schlobohm Jayne Poland Schreck ’90 and Joseph C. Schreck Mark Shallenberger and Patricia Ohler Shallenberger Charles B. Shawver ’76 Linda Frautschy Sherman ’63 and Robert Sherman William M. Simpson ’65 and Joyce Simpson Carol Veith Sorenson ’63 and Raymond E. Sorenson Douglas L. Stickels ’75 and Leslie Stickels Lois Kren Tashjian ’65 Mark L. Todd and Laurie Todd Marcia Smith Voors ’56 Joyce Hennenfent Walton ’53 Craig Watson and Margaret Watson Karen Bush Watts ’65 and Daniel Watts J. Mark Wilson ’78 and Marsha Wilson Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty David T. Workman and Linda Workman Richard E. Yahnke ’66 and Lee Yahnke

Businesses and Organizations Anonymous

20-24 YEARS Individuals

David W. Adolphson ’67 and Priscilla Trubeck Adolphson ’70 Gordon L. Amgott ’70 and Vicki Amgott Amy Trotter Anderson ’51 Betty Babcock Kevin S. Baldwin and Heather Henson Baldwin Marilyn Peck Bentley ’49 Michael J. Blaesing ’96 and Julia Westby Blaesing ’95

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Eric D. Boland ’95 and Jill Bowles Boland ’97 Harry C. Bollin ’63 and Melody Bollin Marjorie Bond James S. Bondurant ’57 and Kathryn Bondurant Margaret Bozarth ’61 Mary Dunstan Brekken ’60 Marilyn Clark Brownlie ’50 Gail Bunce John C. Carstens ’59 and Frieda Carstens Ann Mack Collier ’63 and John L. Collier Daniel A. Cotter ’88 and Ann Stites Cotter ’87 Charles Courtney Jr. ’57 and Bonnita McAllister Courtney ’58 Linda Soliday Currin ’61 Jon E. Dahl ’75 and Barbara Dahl Brian W. Daw and Lynn Daw Cassie Zelinske Day ’95 and Ben R. Day Donn H. Denniston ’60 Sally Fenn DeVries ’68 Larry R. Dew ’66 and Judith Burmeister Dew ’66 Carol Clark Dotseth ’63 and Gregory M. Dotseth Arijit Dutta ’97 and Shabana Gidwani Elizabeth Giffen Ewell ’64 Frank W. Fitch ’51 Susie Swanson FitzGerald ’71 and Curtis M. FitzGerald Donald S. Galitz ’56 William J. Goldsborough ’65 and Beverly Goldsborough Amy Armstrong Green ’79 and Mike Green Anita Ridge ’88 and David W. Greer Claire McWilliams Growden ’50 and Merle B. Growden Robert H. Gwynn ’63 Roger D. Haynes ’82 J. Jarrod Hippen ’92 and Kristi Millar Hippen ’93 Jane Woods Hobson ’54 James C. Hornaday ’61 Ronald J. Irion ’51 and Shirley Moser Irion ’52 Perry W. Johnson ’58 and Susan Kanter Richard A. Johnson ’70 and Lorraine Botticelli Christine Johnston Kunal Kapoor ’97 and Monica Kapoor Irwin E. Kirk ’53 Joan Strand Kotz ’64 George D. Kulhanek ’80 and Debbra Taylor Kulhanek ’81 † Suellen Lee † Timothy G. Lee ’61 Janet Link Leonard ’63 and Robert D. Leonard Jr. Eleanor Dudman Luttrell ’54 Sean P. Maher ’95 and Shalaine Maher Russell F. Marshall ’63 and Mary Bailey Marshall ’64

Patricia Volk McCoy ’59 and Robert C. McCoy R. Jeremy McNamara and Mary McNamara Rodney J. McQueen ’62 and Diane McQueen Ann Michael ’67 Walter D. Morrill ’57 and Elaine Morrill Philip A. Muntzel ’62 and Barbara Muntzel Steven K. Murmann ’80 and Rhonda Murmann Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 and Debra Snyderman Nahrstadt Sandy Newman ’68 Jewel Price Nicholls ’50 Dan A. Nolan and Kay Nolan Paula Nuckles Mr. and Mrs. Terry H. Ostermeier Trudi Peterson Karen Williams Phinney ’84 Jerri Picha ’75 Dana L. Poole and Janice Poole Ralph L. Riggs ’60 Melinda Schneider Roehl ’62 and Robert Roehl John S. Romine ’55 Warren A. Sanders ’60 and Martha Sanders John Richard Sayre and Mary Phillips Wendell L. Shauman ’67 and Janet Agan Shauman Dean A. Sipe ’74 and Ilene Sipe Randall J. Slaboch ’76 and Marsha Spleha Slaboch ’75 Carlos F. Smith ’90 and Debra Smith Richard T. Smith ’64 and Nancy Munn Smith ’66 Russell Spence and Rhonda Spence Judith Bradley Stevenson ’83 and Jeff Stevenson Neil Sillars Stewart ’51 and Elizabeth Gardner Thomas R. Weber ’67 and Julie Weber R. Bruce Weiman ’76 and Debbie Weiman Linda Cook ’77 and Oliver R. Williams George J. Wolcott

Businesses and Organizations Anonymous Friends Security Savings Bank The Twomey Foundation

15-19 YEARS Individuals

Kay Bagge Alden ’57 Julie Anell ’00 Paul D. Babcock ’87 and Dianna Lukkasson Babcock ’88 Jeffrey J. Bakker ’90 and Cynthia Dorsch Harold Peter Basler Jr. ’66 Conny Davinroy Beatty ’81 and Daniel P. Beatty Mary Beintema

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Robert H. Bischoff ’57 H. Theodore Blair ’65 Arlene Dresmal Blewitt ’60 and Dennis Blewitt Sarah Botkin ’98 Paula Danforth Bowling ’88 and Anthony Bowling Chad M. Braun and Jennifer Braun Samuel P. Brooks and Sherrie Brooks Larry D. Brown ’65 and Janet Henning Brown ’64 Terry P. Brown and Linda Brown Ralph D. Butler † Marjorie Butler G. Deeks Carroll Jr. ’62 and Bonnie Carroll William Carter and Joy Carter Martha Carwile Robert Cerpa and Hope Cerpa Kathryn Cummins Cope ’58 Simon C. Cordery and Stacy Cordery Alice Pishan Croner ’55 and Fred B. Croner Jr. Jean Bevan Curtin ’69 and Dennis E. Curtin Craig A. Dahlquist ’78 Ryan S. Danzinger ’05 John R. Darrah ’79 and Catherine Darrah B. Gertrude Davis ’50 Donald L. Denney ’64 and Dorene Denney Charles B. Doty ’59 Barbara Ditch Drake ’61 Kevin R. Eckley and Lisa Eckley Geoffrey M. Edwards ’03 and Christina Edwards Allan L. Etzbach ’65 and Daryl Etzbach Frederick A. Fletcher and Jane Taylor John R. Foster Jr. and Annjanette Foster Greg R. Gilliland ’77 and Susan Gilliland Joan Gilmour Stephen H. Goss ’74 and Karen Goss Jerry L. Greer ’62 and Judith Greer Augustin S. Hart III ’68 and Rebecca Hart David A. Hartig ’74 and Barbara Hartig Mary Conway Harvey ’58 Terry A. Henderson ’69 and Debbie Henderson Matthew M. Hendon ’99 and Heather Sechrest Hendon ’00 Ann DeCoster Holst ’82 and Thomas D. Holst John C. Hughes Sr. ’74 and Patricia Hughes † Ronald Ikan ’63 Michael Jacobs ’46 Aaron D. Jensen ’89 and Dana Jensen Robert C. Johnson ’59 and Marilyn Schneider Johnson ’59 Frederick J. Kaskel ’67 and Phyllis Kaskel Charles H. Kellner ’66 and Judith Kellner Anne Irey Kohlmeyer ’58 and Dennis K. Kohlmeyer Sonja Zedigian Lowry ’67 and Dennis Lowry Patricia Morse Lyall ’63 and H. James Lyall Carla Turner Makowski ’69 and Gary G. Makowski

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Jean Lessick Martino ’82 and Donald Martino Roger A. McCaig ’50 Michael J. McGrath ’71 and Kathryn McGrath Al McGuire and Beverly McGuire Stanley L. McKelvie ’64 and Sandra McKelvie Jeffrey D. Miller ’84 William G. Morgan ’64 Wayne K. Nelson ’77 and Mi Nelson Gary A. Neudahl ’77 and Sandra Neudahl Thomas W. Nichol ’54 and Barbara Williamson Nichol ’53 Bruce C. Ogilvie ’68 and Rebecca Reedy Ogilvie ’69 Earl K. Paasch ’66 and Barbara Paasch James E. Pilarski ’66 and Judith Anderson Pilarski ’66 Christopher J. Pio ’84 and Bobbi Swarts Pio ’92 Kathy Wolf Plath ’77 and Corey Plath C. Thomas Rezner ’64 and Sylvia Ramsey- Rezner Kimberly Furman Roolf ’80 and James Roolf Erhard G. Saettler Thomas A. Sargent ’85 and Crystal Krug Sargent ’85 George E. Schoenfeld ’50 Joseph W. Schurr ’75 and Connie Schurr John A. Sieben George M. Simmons ’67 and Ruth Simmons Jane Black Snyder ’52 James H. Sosnowski and Linda Sosnowski Roger L. Tuttle ’56 and Joyce Tuttle John P. Wayne ’67 and Linda Wayne Guy F. Welch ’62 Joan Wertz Esther White Patricia Acosta Wiedenman ’52 Ann Newton Wieland ’68 † R. Richard Wieland II ’68 Molly Wilkens ’49 Mark E. Willhardt Warren J. Wilson ’74 and Lucinda Dunmire Wilson ’75 Gordon K. Young ’61 and Jane Corman Young ’61 Lance Q. Zedric ’83 and Ching Zedric

Businesses and Organizations Anonymous Cline-Lofftus Foundation J & V Flynn Foundation

10-14 YEARS Individuals

Traci Whyte Abbott ’83 and James Abbott Roy Evert Adolphson ’69 and Joy Harvey James W. Albright ’69

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Kathryn Alexander ’75 Barbara Allen ’69 David K. Allen ’69 Michael J. Anderson ’81 and Martha Eckhard Anderson ’83 Lewis B. Arnold ’60 Vera Barnes Joyce Underwood Barnett ’59 Vittorio Barrile ’67 and Marisa Barrile G. Ronald Barshinger ’74 Victoria Bautch ’74 Anne White Beall ’67 and James F. Beall Bruce E. Birdsell ’69 and Serena Foote Birdsell ’70 Bruce J. Birney ’69 and Donna Johnston Birney ’69 Margaret Turnbull Blakey ’52 Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 and Cheryl Youngren Bloomer Betty Beabout Boehm ’54 Lenard Bolon and Wendine Bolon Scott Bond and Janey Bond Ronald L. Bowers and Jane Bowers Marjorie Armstrong Brand ’62 and Roderick P. Brand † Charles A. Brekken Denise Karczewski ’75 and Gary M. Briddick Samantha Briones ’09 JoAnn Eisenman Britton ’71 and George T. Britton III Marilyn Rogers Brodd ’51 Paula Rundell Brooks ’83 and Gerald Brooks Lyndea Dew Brown ’71 and Tary L. Brown Paul A. Bubb ’79 and Susan Bubb Susan Buckles ’66 James R. Bunn ’68 and Alice Young Bunn ’69 Debbie Roth Burke ’87 and Crescent F. Burke Barbara Bolon Bye ’64 Donald L. Campbell ’69 and Penny Campbell Raymond E. Carlstedt ’70 and Mary Denison Carlstedt ’71 Matthew T. Clair ’05 and Jennifer Clair Alex D. Clark and Susan J. Clark Frank A. Clark ’02 and Jennifer Clark William G. Coppard ’67 Lora Litchfield Corban ’81 and Kenn R. Corban Mary Alexander Corrigan ’82 Eugene R. Dawson ’63 and Jane Wilson Dawson ’64 Roger J. DeDera ’56 and Louise DeDera Ronald K. DeMien ’67 and Judy Williams DeMien ’67 James Dodge and Constance Dodge Jeffrey M. Dougherty ’98 and Stefanie Dougherty Richard M. Downard ’67 and Barbara Downard Cynthia Drea Marcia Brink Adair ’70 and Richard Edwards

John R. Elia ’70 and Andrea Hinman Elia ’70 David R. Elmer ’73 and Donna Elmer Elizabeth Kline Elsbree ’04 and Branndon Elsbree Richard E. Farthing and Susan Farthing Edward P. Farwell ’64 Robert H. Feiertag ’61 Elaine Calevas Ferat ’65 Suzanne Snyder Fienning ’66 and Charles E. Fienning James C. Free and Gladys Free Robert Gamer ’60 and May Gamer Douglas A. Gibb ’85 Susan Sandner Gibson ’81 F. William Graue Jr. ’63 and Barbara Graue Timothy R. Gray ’86 Donald D. Hadsell ’75 and Lois Hadsell Maureen Beck Hamilton ’66 Janet Hamly-Ott ’65 Mary Evans Hanson ’72 Susan Prochaska Hardie ’74 and Bradford Hardie Mary Auliff Havens ’72 and John P. Havens Lynnell Kahler Havercamp ’71 Robert J. Hehn ’65 and Karen Brunke Hehn ’65 Susan Higbee Carolyn Emons Hinton ’53 Betty Craft Hodge ’62 Martin Holland and Catherine Schell Victoria Birk Horneck ’80 Ronald R. Huff ’54 † Jane Seidel Huff ’54 James A. Hutchinson ’64 William T. Irelan ’62 and Ines Irelan Sally Platt Ivy ’59 and Jesse W. Ivy David W. Jackson ’69 and Catherine Mayer Jackson ’71 Dan B. Jaynes ’74 and Margaret Jaynes Stanley D. Jenks and Kay Jenks Dinko Jerkovich ’71 and Carolyn Duncan Jerkovich ’65 Catherine Sanborn Johnson ’72 Stephen T. Johnson ’72 and Lucy Hyde Johnson ’72 Susan Bahnick Jones ’72 John A. Kaiser ’10 Daniel L. Keating ’83 and Jane Stevens Keating ’84 Stephen D. Keithley ’72 and Cynthia Wead Keithley ’73 Lloyd W. Kinzer ’62 and Joellyn Kinzer James R. Klusendorf ’61 and Judy Klusendorf Mark S. Kopinski ’79 and Deborah Kopinski Gail Fitton Kruse ’64 and Richard H. Kruse Susan Kauzlarich Kuster ’66 Alice Higgins Lawson ’73 Kenneth D. Lister ’56 Nancy Loch

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David T. Long ’69 and Jean Walter Long ’69 Pierre Loomis and Lynn Loomis Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Louise Laine Lubs ’71 and James C. Lubs Deborah Gruenau MacVey ’69 and Wayne MacVey Jeffery G. Maher and Hannah Reagor Maher Kathryn Mainz Leland R. Marshall ’51 Phyllis Clindinin Martin ’53 Thomas S. Martin ’72 † Mary Duncan McBride ’56 Robert “Cam” McConnell ’72 Michael B. McCulley ’70 Frederick H. McDavitt ’61 George B. McEldowney and Patricia McEldowney James F. McKinley Jr. ’64 and Sharon McKinley Robert D. McLaren ’66 and Bonnie Janicek McLaren ’68 Jean Beveridge Meyers ’59 Jeffrey A. Miles ’71 and Rebecca Miles Donald K. Morton ’66 and Peggy Morton Claudia Lawson Moss ’72 and Terry D. Moss James W. Nelson ’60 and Beverly J. Nelson ’61 Marian Prugh Nichol ’52 Elizabeth Jones Oakberg ’40 Margaret Trushinski Oakley ’52 Lori O’Brien Oetting ’90 and Lance Oetting Tamara Orte ’04 and Steven J. Orte Timothy A. Pahel Edward W. Pailes Jr. ’84 and Martha Pailes William Pakosz and Patricia Pakosz Gerald Palomo ’79 and Michel Palomo Mr. and Mrs. Francis Patch Joyce Patterson † Robert G. Patton ’59 Donald R. Paulson ’65 and Elizabeth Paulson Peter L. Paulson ’75 and Julia Van Cleve Paulson ’75 † Marion Danielson Peace ’49 Charles B. Peter ’74 and Roberta Mack Peter ’76 Elspeth Barclay Peterjohn ’59 Thomas G. Poeltler ’70 and Gini Poeltler H. Leonard Porter III ’67 and Mary Ellen Biciste Porter ’67 Jeffrey C. Potts ’74 and Christine Odell Potts ’74 Stephen D. Purington ’74 and Alice Purington Linda Baughman Pushaw ’71 and James E. Pushaw Karen Friedrich Pyatt ’84 and Jerry Pyatt Ronald W. Raih ’62 and Linda Raih Jean Hutchinson Randolph ’68 and Ross Randolph Linda Reed ’69 Rebecca Chisholm Rennard ’84

Louis P. Richard ’55 and Sally Adams Ross A. Richardson ’89 Paul D. Rickey ’76 Allison Ritscher ’94 Jeanne Gittings Robeson ’60 Heather Haines Roseman ’98 and Brian Roseman Brian J. Ross ’86 and Amber Ross Fred H. Rumney III ’64 and Leslie Williamson Rumney ’69 Donald D. Sands ’60 Debra Jackowniak Scarlett ’95 Blair W. Schultz ’72 John J. Scotillo ’72 Lynn Rosenow Seiwert ’71 and Lawrence Seiwert Mr. and Mrs. P. Duane Serven Peter R. Sheets and Mary Sheets Barbara Annis Simons ’68 and William Simons Robert L. Singer ’61 and Mary Jones Singer ’63 Dorothy Walker Skanderup ’50 and Dean Skanderup Michael Adin Slaughter ’60 Nancy Thompson Smith ’74 and Rodney Smith Byron Sondgeroth ’88 and Suzan Sondgeroth James L. Spiker and Barbara Spiker Michael T. Stauth ’69 and Jennifer Barnes Stauth ’69 Robert F. Stinauer ’76 and Cheryl Stinauer Judith Lips Stoffer ’62 and Paul Stoffer Bonnie Hargis Stookey ’50 Joseph O. Svoboda ’75 and Leslie Svoboda Joseph Switzer and Marci Switzer Linda Janicek Szitta ’67 and Frank Szitta Mark E. Taylor ’78 Danette Bagley-Thierry ’86 and Robert K. Thierry III William A. Turner ’93 Lorraine Goldstein Van Akkeren ’65 E. Jay Van Cura ’69 and Joyce Van Cura Janice Ruglio Van Kuiken ’03 and Kirk Van Kuiken Craig VanMetre and Donna VanMetre Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 and Jane Schneiter Velazquez ’81 Sarah Zanger Venvertloh ’06 and Lee Venvertloh Randall E. Vickroy ’76 Don L. Voss and Brooke Voss Korine Steinke Wawrzynski ’96 and Matthew Wawrzynski Robert C. Wegner ’74 Katharine Wakolbinger Welch ’73 and John Welch Roger E. Well ’86 and Dana Well Joseph M. Welty ’78 and Jean Welty James T. Widdop and Constance Widdop John H. Wierman ’66

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Randall K. Winbigler and Janice Winbigler Frank J. Wollrab ’71 Kenneth M. Wolma ’64 and Barbara Wolma Mary Ann Smith Work ’60 Robert G. Yarde ’58 and Marilyn Yarde Gordon B. Yocum ’73 and Bronwyn Yocum Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89 and Michael Zachmeyer Ronald A. Zagorski ’65 and Eugenia Willman Zagorski ’65 William F. Zimmerman ’73 and Sheryl Brinton Zimmerman ’72

Businesses and Organizations J & L Freedom Foundation Midwest Bank

5-9 YEARS Individuals

Anonymous Gena Corbin Alcorn ’88 Gary K. Allen ’55 and Annetta Allen Bruce A. Anderson ’60 and Mary Anderson Laura Beck Anderson ’75 Sara Wyant ’70 and Dennis Ary Ann Garry ’65 and Robert Ashen Joel M. Auble ’65 Karlee Buhman Babcock ’54 and Steven W. Babcock Lisa Hime Backus ’78 Michael D. Barry and Trina Barry Robert M. Barton ’63 and Shirley Barton David B. Bates ’83 and Michele Bates Mr. and Mrs. Craig Bauer Kathleen Long Baum ’72 Theresa Gondek Bebout ’05 and Benjamin R. Bebout Katherine Dunn Becker ’14 and Cale Becker Elizabeth Thurner Belanger ’55 Richard Bell and Susan Bell Pamela Wyeth Bellm ’76 and Douglas E. Bellm Evard P. Best ’56 Pamela Bowman Best ’89 and Thomas Best Alan R. Betourne II ’05 and Lisa Betourne Hope Grebner Bibens ’11 and Robert Bibens Mick Birkhofer ’73 and Brenda Birkhofer Richard L. Bivens ’61 and Mary Hunter Bivens ’63 E. Dean Blust and Jeanne Blust Roy E. Bockler ’72 and Debbie Bockler Roger A. Boekenhauer ’61 and Jean Grove Boekenhauer ’62 Susan Barrett Boelke ’53 Rodney E. Bollman ’56 and Georgiana Bollman Kristyne Gilbert ’90 and Charles Duane Bonifer Carl A. Borine ’61 and Sharon Borine Michael L. Bowers and Linda Bowers

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Gregory K. Bradley ’70 MaryLu Belcher Bretsch ’68 and Darwin Bretsch Patrick Briones and Tracy Briones William B. Brooks Jr. ’86 and Jani Brooks Joel E. Brotherton ’80 Christine Heaton Brown ’72 and Bruce Brown Rebecca Keefe Brown ’69 and Duane Albert Brown Sarah Maxwell Brown ’71 and K. Reagin Brown Sandra Bryant Steven L. Buban James R. Calhoun ’61 and Judy Calhoun Donna McLennan Campbell ’65 Amie Bastian Carey ’74 Adam B. Carlson ’04 and Michelle Flaar Carlson ’04 John C. Carlson ’74 and Lynette Johnson Carlson ’74 Nicholas E. Carlson ’08 and Krystal Carlson Thomas J. Carroll and Barbara Carroll Jeffrey M. Carver ’80 and Diane Hull Carver Glenn Catlett ’73 Megan Dochterman Catour ’01 and Nathan Catour James E. Chatfield ’52 and Thelma Chatfield Mary Chatfield S. Mark Childs ’95 and Amy Bradshaw ’95 Roland J. Chilton ’52 Stanley E. Chism ’63 and Karen Barrett Chism ’65 Carol Linquist Christensen ’56 David S. Christensen and Rebecca Christensen Annabelle Clark James Clark and Jennifer Clark Paul Clennon and Barbara Clennon Rodney L. Cook and Cathy Cook Sheri McKee Coulter ’80 and Richard P. Coulter ’82 Matthew J. Coultrip ’02 David S. Crooks ’69 and Foong Crooks Curtis L. Crum and Andrea Gillen Crum Jeffery A. Crum ’94 David W. Curd ’68 Judith Harrison Curtis ’82 and Robert L. Curtis ’79 Neil A. Dahlstrom ’98 and Karen Dahlstrom Michael D. Danner ’91 and Julie Danner Sharon Avery Danner ’65 † David L. Danner ’64 F. Garvin Davenport Jr. and Bernice Davenport Andrew R. Davis and Tammy Davis Stephen D. Dawson ’70 James L. De Young and Janet De Young Debra DeCrane

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Dennis J. Deegan ’66 Rafael C. Delgado ’05 and Kathryn Jackson ’05 Carl J. Demas ’64 and Margaret Schneider Demas ’66 Gregory I. Derbak ’75 and Laura Derbak Daniel W. Dickson ’89 Marco T. DiGiorgio ’71 and Kristie DiGiorgio Marsha Dopheide Dorothy Douglas Wendy Downing Keith J. Droste ’55 and Winona Barcon W. Brent Dugan ’94 and Marnie Steach Dugan ’95 George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Lynne Talbott Dulin ’90 and Gary M. Dulin Jeffrey R. Earley ’76 John F. Eckley ’58 Jane Fort Edwards ’75 and Tom Edwards William J. Edwards ’67 and Dawn Edwards Jerald D. Eiserman ’68 and M. Simpson Eiserman ’68 John A. Elliott ’79 and Virginia Thake Elliott ’81 James L. Elsey ’76 and Roxann Elsey Eric Engstrom Floyd Evans Jr. ’70 and Cynthia Evans Won Yang Everett ’68 and William W. Everett Trevor Ewell Silvia Fabela ’07 Stuart J. Fanning ’64 and Priscilla Bussert Fanning ’66 Curtis C. Farr ’88 and Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 Roberta Thompson Fassett ’56 Jon Ferguson and Lori Ferguson Mark A. Ferin ’84 Janet Forsythe Fishburn ’58 and Peter C. Fishburn Michael Fisher and Heather Fisher Julie Collins ’84 and Tim Fitzgibbon Sara Tyson Fitzjarrald ’06 and Bryan Fitzjarrald Emily Flint ’16 Vicki Fogle Bradley J. Foley ’95 Kim Fornero Louis A. Foster ’51 and Ruth Foster Daniel M. Fowler ’72 and Julia Duffy †DeBow Freed Joseph J. Freitag ’07 and Amy Gustaf Freitag ’07 Gregory S. Fritz ’76 James Furst † James D. Galbreath ’78 Cheryl Nowak Garrison ’71 and Keith Garrison Kathleen Trevor Garwood ’57 and Gary A. Garwood Nathan J. Gaskill ’04 and Laura Haumiller Gaskill ’06

Timothy P. Gaster Christopher J. Gavin and Lisa Gavin Clarissa Gentzler John K. Gerrity ’07 and Katie Gerrity Alan R. Gieryna ’74 and Mary Ann Kelly Gieryna ’75 Trent Gilbert and Adrienne Gilbert George E. Gillen and Mary Gillen Jack J. Glotfelty ’60 and Valerie Glotfelty John Goddard Julianna Graf ’16 Mary Martin Graham ’70 and Stephen W. Graham Jr. Jane Gramkow Robert B. Green ’81 and Roxanne Stanley Green ’81 George Greenfield Linda Groves David A. Grummitt ’61 and Janet Grummitt Joan Rezner Gundersen ’68 and Robert P. Gundersen Pamela Ball Gustafson ’77 Michelle Hall ’89 Ron Hall and Audree Hall Ronda Ehlen Hall ’85 Kimberly Hallam ’92 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hallam Sandra Tirpitz Haman ’80 and Gary Haman Margaret Hamil ’71 Scott A. Hamilton ’75 and Elizabeth Hamilton Mary Johnson Hanlin ’66 Douglas D. Hardin ’72 Carolyn Ellis Harrison ’71 and Edward H. Harrison Richard F. Harrod ’07 and Mollie Williams Harrod ’07 Stephen R. Hartman ’92 and Karen Hartman Donald Hartshorn and Mary Hartshorn Roger J. Hawk and Mary Hawk Loren Hayes ’80 Nancy Campbell Haynor ’68 and John Haynor Alice Goss Haznedl ’62 George E. Heck Jr. ’66 and Judi Heck Jennifer Heiman ’04 John G. Heitz ’68 and Judy Heitz John E. Hermann Kevin Hermie and Cathie Hermie Elaine Hubbell Herzog ’71 and Michael Herzog Corey L. Hess and Jill Hess Benjamin M. Hickerson ’05 and Allison Hickerson Robert E. Hillison ’82 and Keely Hillison Rose Hofer Brittany Cecil Holmes ’10 and Chris Holmes Rick L. Hoy ’66 Charles R. Hughes ’74 Patricia Ikan Linnea Hammarsten Ingold ’68

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Geni Saurbaugh Jacobs ’81 Virginia Jacobson ’67 Robin Jarvis ’84 Mahendran K. Jawaharlal ’86 Charles Lynn Jenks ’52 Dawn Johnson ’97 Judith Gardiner Johnson ’71 and Kevin M. Johnson Kooten L. Johnson F. Austin Jones and Kim Jones Fannetta Jones ’11 Michael J. Jones ’99 and Miranda Jones Brian C. Jordan ’09 Michelle Merritt-Juszczyk ’89 and Don Juszczyk Karoline Kamzic Nicole Kamzic ’15 Richard W. Karcher ’74 and Mary Karcher Mary Dues Kemp ’93 Andrew D. Kerr ’73 and Pamela Kerr Mr. and Mrs. John Kerr Brian D. Kimmel ’76 and Kathleen Clark Kimmel ’78 Jim Kinkaid and Stephanie Kinkaid Kent H. Kniep ’80 Kelly Simpson Knitter ’89 and Kevin Richard Knitter Peter D. Knox ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Erik Kocher Frank D. Komatar ’65 Gerald Korb and Loree Korb Michael B. Kramer ’73 and Ann Doherty Kramer ’73 John T. Kreitler ’70 and Elizabeth Kreitler Alan J. Kulczewski Gordon R. Lanning ’66 and Theresa Grozik Lanning ’68 Kristin Larson Frank W. Lee III ’69 and Margaret Will Lee ’71 Patrick W. Lewis ’95 and Kristina Lewis Cari Connell Lichtman ’94 Patricia Baird Link ’60 Evelina Lipecka ’06 David D. Long and Linda Long Amy Longenbaugh ’95 William Lotz and Stacy Ashton Lotz Janet Irey Lovdahl ’63 and H. Cecil Lovdahl Louise Chestnut Lowe ’57 Debra Blatzer ’84 and Paul Ludkey William J. Maakestad ’73 and Jean Wolf Steven D. Mahrt and Vickie Mahrt Anne Mamary Heather Fottler Mangian ’77 and John Mangian Charles S. Marshall ’68 Richard Marshall and Ann McEntee Verna Lester Marshall ’68 Richard A. Martin ’78 Andrew P. Matykiewicz ’79

Albert S. Maurer ’56 and Patricia Maurer Timothy J. McCabe ’81 and Laura McCabe Donald McClarey and Catherine McClarey Christy Ogilvie McCreary ’90 and Dallas Kraig McCreary Thomas J. McDowell and Sue McDowell J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee James J. McKeever ’97 and Heidi Kuppler McKeever ’97 Donald J. McKillip ’80 David McLaughlin ’66 and Janet Clayton McLaughlin ’66 Deena Fisher McLaughlin Jacob R. McLean ’15 and Haleigh Garrett McLean ’15 Mary Grable McLeod ’87 and Kenneth McLeod Daniel K. McMichael ’69 Michelle Meyer Messman ’04 and Chad Messman James D. Millar ’64 and Victoria Millar Janet Brownlee Miller ’61 Judy Minteer C. Dean Mitchell ’57 and Trudy Morrill Mitchell ’57 Harold G. Mitchell ’72 and Roxanne Mitchell Gretchen Wright Moore ’64 J. Anthony Morgan ’81 and Mary Morgan Pamela Marshburn Morgan ’70 Michelle Moy ’89 Peter K. Murley ’70 and Susan Holland Murley ’70 David L. Murray ’65 and Sandra Murray Charline Clay Myers ’71 and Jeffrey L. Myers Nancy Huff Myers ’63 and John M. Myers Charles F. Nelson and Julie Nelson Cheryl Conaway-Nelson ’90 and John R. Nelson Patricia McClinton Nolte ’62 and Howard Nolte Rodney Nord and Christine Nord Barry O’Brien and Mary O’Brien Mark S. Ogorzalek and Karen Ogorzalek Fiona Loomes O’Laughlin ’95 and Sean D. O’Laughlin Melissa Painter Olson ’98 and Jeffrey Olson Michael R. Osborn ’77 and Wendy Taeger Osborn ’80 Daniel J. Ott and Teresa Ott Richard L. Paasch ’67 and Lee-Ann Wells Paasch ’68 Ann Boley Parker ’73 and Thomas Parker William E. Parker ’77 Virginia Plunkett Paton ’73 and James J. Paton Elizabeth Patterson ’63 Miriam Patton Mary Wood Paul ’69 J. Hunter Peacock and Julie Peacock

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Jane Temple Peacock ’63 J. Stanley Pepper ’76 and Christine Pepper Lisa Pepper ’87 Van D. Perrine ’70 and Jan Farnsworth ’71 Michelle Perry ’89 Anthony J. Perzigian ’66 and Donna Perzigian Richard W. Peters ’58 and Patricia Peters Linda Larsen Pfaff ’71 Frederick C. Pfaffmann ’65 and Christine Pfaffmann Hugh M. Phelps ’63 and Norma Phelps Lawrence K. Pickett Jr. ’67 and Carolyn Cottrell Joseph H. Pilger ’08 and Amanda Havens Pilger ’07 David Poremba and Ann Poremba Jane Hartley Pratt Jerry E. Pruett and Joan Pruett Therese Worden Rankin ’00 and Jeffrey D. Rankin Coleman Vern Reed ’15 and Clarissa Henby Reed ’15 Jennifer Tibbie Renchen ’95 William D. Rhodenbaugh ’60 and Judith Rhodenbaugh Cynthia Carman Rich ’73 Danny C. Richards ’65 and Anna Richards Stephen L. Rider and Karen Rider Gail Riester Nicholas Rizzo Kevin R. Roberts Joanne Moy ’70 and Michael R. Robinson Richard P. Rodgers ’66 and Joy Rodgers Gary Rohrer and Berta Rohrer Victoria Wheeler Romero ’70 and Colin A. Romero Joann Rompella Carolyn Ross Jolene Rossell ’14 Gregory Rothbardt and Julie Rothbardt Warren D. Rowland ’01 and Ann Rowland Adam P. Ruble ’15 Lucille Rupe ’65 Amanda Rush ’11 Mitchell P. Russell ’98 and Julie Casteel Russell ’96 Joel A. Sage ’04 and Tara Ferruzza Sage ’04 John N. Salazar and Sarah Schoper Betty McClure Salisbury ’61 Jennifer Erickson Sanberg ’10 and Benjamin C. Sanberg Peter W. Sawyer ’69 and Catherine Sawyer Kay Smith Saxum ’56 Matthew A. Schimmelpfennig ’92 Carl J. Schmidlapp III ’65 Michael A. Schmitz ’80 and Amy Johnson Schmitz ’88 Jonathan L. Schwartz ’74 and Joyce Schwartz

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Kenneth D. Schweitzer and Debra Schweitzer Kristy Smith ’86 and Dave Scott Stephen W. Seiple ’71 and Sally Collier Seiple ’72 Max Anthony Seisser ’15 Kathryn Shipp ’13 Lori Stone Shull ’82 and Michael L. Shull Thomas W. Shunick ’71 and Nancy Shunick Robert Holschuh Simmons and Michelle Holschuh Simmons Hillis Skov Todd A. Skrivseth and Sarah Skrivseth Gregory A. Smith ’75 and Mary Smith Roger E. Smith ’60 and Sue Perrine Smith ’61 Thomas J. Snee and Julia Druckmiller Pamela Yuill Snyder ’79 and Bruce L. Snyder Joshua B. Spencer ’04 and Devon Townsend Spencer ’03 Karen Deen Squire ’62 William H. Steele ’68 Jeffrey L. Steinberger ’69 Joy Stephens ’88 and Jack K. Stephens Janet Maginn Stevenson ’66 Rosalie Easdale Stoike ’61 Peter E. Storms ’73 and Elizabeth Storms Hilary Hawkinson Stott ’07 and Jacob T. Stott ’09 Glenn A. Stout ’88 Dawn McRoberts Strauss ’03 Richard C. Streedain ’65 Roy J. Sye ’13 and Colleen Sinclair Sye ’13 Donald P. Tanney ’79 and Crystal Tanney Kelly Frericks Thannert ’05 and Marc Thannert James Andrew Thomas ’05 and Kelli Wefenstette ’07 James E. Thompson ’57 Dora Tinkham Leon Townsend ’83 Margaret Marra Treggett ’71 Kathryn Oliver Tribler ’60 Richard B. Truog ’74 Nicholas J. Tucker ’73 Charles L. Turnbough Jr. ’69 Heather Downing Turnquist ’99 and John M. Turnquist ’99 Beth Bowdoin Tyre ’96 Brian D. Valentini ’02 and Jaimie Gurney Valentini ’03 Kay Schindewolf Van Houten ’54 Andries L. Vermeer ’65 Dorothy Young Voetberg ’59 and Allen Voetberg Adam S. Volpp ’03 and Elizabeth Nendza Volpp ’03 Dennis E. Walker ’64 and Sandra Foreman Walker ’62

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Jane Martin-Watson ’70 and Robert I. Watson Jr. Kathryn Gardels Weal ’71 and Bruce W Weal Jonathan M. Welty ’12 Virginia Hopf West ’70 and Howard West M. Todd Wetterling ’93 and Vanessa Treat Wetterling ’96 David R. Whitcomb ’72 and Dawn Darner Jane Batten Wild ’69 David N. Willing ’59 and Winona Willing Douglas F. Winebright Linda Winter Charles L. Wolters ’71 Brian K. Woodard ’97 and Stephanie Fritz Woodard ’03 David Work and Frances Work Carolyn White Work ’59 and Stewart D. Work David C. Wright Clarence R. Wyatt and Lobie Stone Judy Yeast Linda Yelm Sarah Young Lynne Brown Yuchs ’82 and Steve Yuchs Steven M. Zaleski and Elizabeth Turnbull- Zaleski

Businesses and Organizations

Anonymous Bane and Shunick Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. MTC Communications Stephen L. Rider DDS Wortman Farm Account

3-4 YEARS Individuals

Victoria Adeleye ’93 Richard M. Amy ’76 and Kay Amy Carl W. Anderson ’59 and Maryellen Anderson Andrew R. Anselmi ’13 and Brooke Anderson Anselmi ’13 Derek Archer ’97 Kent Armstrong and Jennifer Armstrong Richard G. Asoian ’66 and Margaret Asoian Andre P. Audette Brian M. Austin ’64 and Susan Austin Antonetta Axup ’18 Robert R. Ayers and Christine Ayers Deanna Marchand Baele ’95 and Lyle Baele James B. Bailey ’51 and Barbara Atkinson Bailey ’52 Sherry Bair Farida Mohammed Bature ’18 Tyler R. Baxter ’16 Cindy Beadles Kayla Beadles ’17 Martha Beck

Robert Berndt Michael J. Bersell ’20 Donald R. Beveridge ’59 Daniel G. Bianucci ’66 and Joyce Bianucci Roger J. Blachek ’73 Bruce W. Block ’74 and Carolee Block DuFresne Penrod Blume ’91 and Larry Blume Paul Bocchi and Holly Bocchi Susan Boland ’92 Rachel Bold ’10 Lynda Pepper Bollman ’76 and Robert Bollman Agnes Boock David W. Bottrell ’70 Larry R. Bowden ’67 and Karen Bowden J. David Boyd ’75 and Amy Boyd Arica Brazil-Franklin ’13 Robert H. Brink ’68 Lisa Jackson Brown ’89 Sally Ahrens Brown ’59 and Max A. Brown Patrick G. Brown ’70 and Diane Brown Wade R. Brown ’07 and Abby Brown Marc E. Bruni ’76 and Mary Kistner Bruni ’76 J. Scott Brunswick ’71 and Lynn Brunswick Robert Budach and Anne Giffey Otis S. Burge ’99 and Monique Burge Kevin Caba and Emilee Renwick Douglas A. Campbell ’71 Alexis Zanis Carscadden ’06 and Jeremiah Carscadden Alexander W. Carter ’07 Katelynn Propes Carter ’17 James E. Cavanaugh ’76 and Gwendolyn Keesee Cavanaugh ’76 Laura Cavanaugh ’86 Bruce Chapman David Compton and Patricia Compton Marc D. Constant ’63 Chrysovalantis Constantinou Amanda Cox ’02 Doris Hansen Craig ’53 Robert Crawley and Laura Hutchinson Kathryn Fitzsimmons Cross ’08 Michael D. Cryer ’99 and Christina Stob Cryer ’01 Carrie Dunne Daly ’81 Michelle Damian Jason R. Dare ’99 and Stephanie Orsi Dare ’99 Sanjoy Datta ’90 and Shari Kuroki Rodney L. Davies ’74 and Diane Minor Davies ’76 E. Kyle Davis ’93 and Ashley Davis Ortez D. Davis ’04 Stanley B. Dawson ’70 and Mary Dawson Luis De Leon Nieves and Feng Chu De Leon Nieves Arturo M. De Vitalis ’50 Michael S. Deam ’76 and Karen Deam Paulino Diaz and Elvira Diaz Eric Dickens and Jennifer Pilnik Dickens

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020)

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Lee D. Dobbins ’59 and Barbara Getty Dobbins ’59 Christopher Doner and Jennifer Doner Ryan Dorow and Jessica Hawkinson-Dorow Robert W. Douglas and Alice Douglas Cole H. Downey ’17 Gregg R. Drije ’72 James Dunn and Patricia Dunn Jacob J. Durdan ’20 John P. Edmonds ’71 and Christine Zak- Edmonds Zak S. Edmonds ’08 and Nicole Mason Edmonds Robert E. Effland ’61 and Betty Effland Andrew S. Elliott ’05 and Amanda Trotter Elliott ’08 Brian Enburg and Carla Enburg Dwight R. Erskine ’67 James W. Eyler and Kel-Ann Eyler Lori Eyre Abigail Fafoglia ’95 Marcene Holverson Farley ’84 Christopher Fasano and Catherine Fasano Stephen A. Femmel ’74 Samuel A. Ferguson ’81 and Pamela Batson Ferguson ’81 Sharon Zipse Fesler ’65 and Wayne F. Fesler Anita Fillman Robert B. Firchau and Mary Firchau Lloyd H. Fish ’74 and Sharon Fish Robert P. Fitch ’58 Carl B. Forkner ’80 and Joanne Forkner Rip Fulton ’57 Douglas W. Funk ’74 Gary Funk Christine Winkelman Glasgow ’89 and Terry L. Glasgow Claudia Glover-Mayfield ’75 Audra Goach Mark M. Goodman ’69 and Else Goodman Shirley Morrow Grieme ’54 Mary Griffith ’17 Louis A. Herrin ’69 and Lori Herrin Robert A. Hiett ’50 F. David Hillis ’92 and Karen Seeman Hillis ’93 Erik C. Hoffer ’08 and Karah Goetschius Hoffer ’08 Steven Hoffman ’69 and Letitia Keating Hoffman ’72 Derek M. Huff ’11 James P. Hughes and Mary Hughes Dale Hull William G. Hurckes ’81 and Yvonne Mensing Hurckes ’80 Ian F. Jefferson ’20 Franklin K. Johnson ’76 and Michele Johnson Robin A. Johnson ’80

Justin M. Johnston ’04 and Jessica DeVore Johnston ’04 Susan Gingrich Jones ’58 and B. Rees Jones Haley Jones ’12 Tessa Jones ’18 Carrie Gawthrop Kauck ’88 Jeffrey K. Kelleher ’13 John R. Kelly ’52 Jerry L. Kinney and Kristina Kinney Kay Kersch Kirkpatrick ’68 Molly McNamara Klinger ’03 and Jacob Klinger Paul J. Kossack and Joan Kossack Anthony D. Kozelichki and Linda Kozelichki Tim Kramer and Lori Walters-Kramer Diana Hearne ’82 and Kevin Kromer Pamela Murray Kuby ’85 Ashwani Kumar Elise Kuo ’69 Petra Kuppinger Tamara La Prad Jamie C. Ladd ’65 Ethan Scott Lafary ’15 and Erin Willhite Lafary ’15 William H. Lafayette Jr. ’77 Michael J. Lafferty ’65 and Ann Murphy Lafferty ’65 Christopher J. Lemon ’80 Peter L. Leverenz ’69 and Frances Biedenstein Leverenz ’72 Anne Maloy Levin ’72 Tara Todd Lewis ’03 and Greg Lewis Maureen Smiley Liesman ’60 † Orville D. Liesman ’61 Judith Schneider Lilly ’67 Jeane Mahnic Lindeke ’64 and Loren C. Lindeke Alexander M. Lindsay ’68 and Judith Lindsay Sharon Irvine Lopatka ’63 Sarah Kaufman Lopez ’07 and Alejandro Lopez Alfred B. Mainetti ’71 and Josephine Mainetti David R. Mann ’95 and Elizabeth Doty Mann ’95 Annette Carson Manthei ’94 and Randy Manthei Eugene T. Marchuk ’71 Kristin Martin ’04 Kaylee Kurtz Mathison ’18 Thomas F. Matthews ’61 and Patricia Matthews Eric McClaughry ’89 Thomas J. McCoy ’83 Robert C. McCulloch ’61 Harold N. McDaniel ’62 and Marna McDaniel Connor S. McDonald ’19 James N. McInnes ’48 Bernard B. McKee ’59 and Judy McKee

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Dale R. McKillip ’80 Barry J. McNamara and Vicki McNamara Michael K. Meinhart ’82 and Kim Meinhart Robert H. Meneilly ’45 Megan Merritt ’05 Lyndon D. Meyer Miles Z. Miller ’08 and Laura Greenwood Miller ’10 Virginia Haun Mittauer ’50 Stephen H. Mortonson ’68 and Lynette Cadwell Mortonson Todd W. Myers ’95 Eric L. Noggle ’96 and Christy Finch Noggle ’96 Michelle Nutting ’11 Carl M. O’Connor ’19 Dean A. Oester ’78 and Dee Garretson Janice Nowlan Olson ’59 Reid Olson and Maureen Olson Vi Van Zelst Orr ’49 Russell Orwig ’84 and Beverly Orwig John Osterlund and Beth Osterlund Patricia Whitsitt Overbeck ’54 Louise Pacholik ’73 Linda Park Craig A. Patterson ’72 and Kathleen Patterson Sarah Pearce ’72 Barbara Blodgett Pearson ’70 and Michael Pearson Melissa McWhirter Peitz ’99 Lazaro M. Perez and Ann Perez Dean E. Peterson ’64 and Suzanne Peterson Melody White Peterson ’95 and Kevin Peterson Carolyn Phelps ’54 Daniel M. Pitts ’12 and Haley Mier Pitts ’12 Raymond Pollastrini and Mary Pollastrini Brooke Potendyk ’11 Joshua M. Ragar ’06 and Sara Ragar Kenneth A. Rager ’61 Douglas B. Rankin ’79 and Tamyra Dixon Rankin ’81 M. Lucas Raymond ’00 and Emily Moore Raymond ’00 Daniel L. Reid ’13 Robert Remmert ’64 and Sandra Remmert Tamee Sterett Renwick ’84 Brenda Robinson-Young Donald L. Roegge ’63 Robert H. Roggeveen ’72 George N. Ruglio and Tracey Ruglio Natasha Kemmerling Russell ’07 and Gregory Russell Jerrel R. Rutlin ’01 and Precious Kent Rutlin ’02 Harold L. Saline ’72 and Terrie Saline Jacquelyn Grier Salvato ’73

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Carla Sanders ’91 Joan Nickel Sanders ’64 Keith Schaefer Tabbi Schimmelpfennig Sharon Jirgl Schmitz ’99 Susan Rayniak Schneider ’69 Kenneth R. Schoenig ’88 Melissa Scholes ’97 Nathan P Schroeder Mary Schuch ’12 Mary Schwalbert ’45 Ankeia Scott ’09 Howard V. Scott and Donna Scott Gary L. Sears ’70 and Dianne Sears Rebekah Sell ’14 Faith Selzer Colleen Shaughnessy ’00 Thomas E. Shie and Dianna Shie Robert J. Shriner Jr. Dee Ann Shuff ’63 Mary Carlson Shull ’76 and Bob L. Shull Alex Simmons Benedict Simmons David Simmons Marc Simmons Paige Halpin Halpin Smith ’09 and Henry Smith Peter D. Smithhisler and Christina Smithhisler

Nancy Snowden Blake A. Sondgeroth ’17 Claudia Kinne Spotts ’68 and James Spotts Kelly Stadter ’07 Linda Czajka Stebbins ’71 and John Stebbins Deborah Sterett ’77 Barbara Sullivan ’75 Julie Battcher Sullivan ’12 and Charlie Sullivan John E. Swanson ’14 James A. Syrett ’58 Joseph H. Tait ’59 and Jean Tait Jeani Randall Talbott ’95 and Mark W. Talbott Paul M. Thompson ’66 and Carole Thompson Gina Tillman ’96 Tami Tisor ’86 Ann Toal ’60 Melinda Todd ’08 Philip D. Tweedy ’96 and Tori Tweedy William Urban and Jacquelynn Urban Barbara Guyer Van Cura ’53 Brinton B. Vincent ’13 Jeannette Williams Vogt ’58 Kaitlyn Washburn ’14 Frances Webb ’54 Kenneth L. Wherry ’73 Dustin W. White ’02 Jennifer White Rachel Whitlock ’14

Brian E. Wilcoxon ’07 and Kimberly Karau Wilcoxon ’06 David O. Wildermuth and Sandra Wildermuth Jane Eddy Wiley ’58 Richard A. Wilhelm ’70 and Alice Kough Wilhelm ’70 Merideth Willett ’92 Lori Willhite Kamilah Williams Elizabeth Wills ’01 Michael T. Wilmoth ’06 and Taylor Wilmoth Ruth Wilson Gary L. Wimer ’65 and Judith Wimer John Wollenburg and Deborah Wollenburg Bruce V. Work ’64 Kristie Klapp Zessin ’87 and J. Bradley Zessin

Businesses and Organizations Anonymous Amazon Smile Foundation Compton Accounting Daniel Bianucci Special Account James M. Roolf/Kimberly A. Roolf Community Account Julia A. Paulson, DMD, and Peter L. Paulson, DMD Rip Fulton Business Account Southern Star Finishes, LLC

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Mary Quon Yip

Alumni of Record: 9 Participation Rate: 11%

CLASS OF 1944

Pipers Club $1-$99

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CLASS OF 1945

Scots Club $500-$999

Alumni of Record: 9 Participation Rate: 33%

Cherry Lauder McIlvain

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Virginia Wyatt Barnard

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Robert H. Meneilly

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Jane Davis Harper James N. McInnes

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CLASS OF 1949

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Margaret Petran Dennin-Papp Rae Barker Hinton

Marilyn Peck Bentley Barbara Whiteman Garland Vi Van Zelst Orr † Marion Danielson Peace Gloria Muncy Pearson

CLASS OF 1950

Alumni of Record: 44 Participation Rate: 20%

Tartan Club $250-$499

Pipers Club $1-$99

Pipers Club $1-$99

Irene McIntyre Garabrant

CLASS OF 1947 Alumni of Record: 15 Participation Rate: 27%

Mary Schwalbert

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Michael Jacobs

Maryalys Evans Urey

CLASS OF 1948 Alumni of Record: 21 Participation Rate: 14%

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Elizabeth Jones Oakberg

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Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Donald G. Whiteman

* Claire McWilliams Growden Jewel Price Nicholls

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Scots Club $500-$999

* Margaret Dahlbo Kerr Molly Wilkens

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Elaine Rechel

Marilyn Clark Brownlie

Tartan Club $250-$499 Robert A. Hiett Roger A. McCaig

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020)

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Highlanders Club $100-$249 B. Gertrude Davis Martha Muirhead Felmley

Pipers Club $1-$99

Arturo M. De Vitalis Warren K. Lynes Virginia Haun Mittauer George E. Schoenfeld Bonnie Hargis Stookey * Roger W. Strand

CLASS OF 1951

* James E. Chatfield Roland J. Chilton Margaret Deschwanden Foster † Gordon J. Greenwood Charles Lynn Jenks * Gerald F. McDonald Jane Clark Sanderson Patricia Acosta Wiedenman

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Mary Ranney Strand

CLASS OF 1953

Alumni of Record: 48 Participation Rate: 25%

Alumni of Record: 45 Participation Rate: 40%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

David Wallace Club $10,000-

Wendell B. Chestnut Frank W. Fitch

$24,999

Scots Club $500-$999

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Charles A. Burke * Ronald J. Irion

Tartan Club $250-$499 Anonymous Marilyn Rogers Brodd Leland R. Marshall

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * James B. Bailey † Richard H. Foster * Neil Sillars Stewart

Pipers Club $1-$99

Amy Trotter Anderson * Louis A. Foster

CLASS OF 1952 Alumni of Record: 56 Participation Rate: 41%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Jane Jackson Garison Barbara Watt Johnson * Ralph E. Whiteman

Scots Club $500-$999

June Gustafson Erdmier-Salen Jeanne Jennings Ginter * Shirley Moser Irion Marian Prugh Nichol

Tartan Club $250-$499

Polly Armstrong Campbell John R. Kelly Margaret Trushinski Oakley Jane Black Snyder

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Barbara Atkinson Bailey Margaret Turnbull Blakey * Harold F. Campbell

Anonymous Irwin E. Kirk

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Arlene Kunde Flynn Robert V. Main Roger K. Ray Barbara Guyer Van Cura * Mary Hollander Winter * Robert G. Winter

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Donald R. Steiner Frances Webb

Tartan Club $250-$499

Betty Beabout Boehm * Margaret Hendren Lee * Thomas W. Nichol

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Karlee Buhman Babcock Stanley Graham Shirley Morrow Grieme Jane Woods Hobson Sally Young Hoherd Ronald R. Huff † Jane Seidel Huff Eleanor Dudman Luttrell Carolyn Phelps * Neil Verigan

Pipers Club $1-$99

Charles D. Denniston Kay Schindewolf Van Houten

CLASS OF 1955 Alumni of Record: 37 Participation Rate: 32%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Keith J. Droste * James G. Mercer John S. Romine

* Barbara Williamson Nichol Joyce Hennenfent Walton

Scots Club $500-$999

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Tartan Club $250-$499

Susan Barrett Boelke Doris Hansen Craig * Kenneth Geiger Carolyn Emons Hinton * James K. Hoffmeister Phyllis Clindinin Martin * Virginia Hughlett Varce

Pipers Club $1-$99

Shirley Schacht Ellis

* Alan V. Larson

Gerald A. Marxman * Louis P. Richard

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Gary K. Allen Elizabeth Thurner Belanger * Alice Pishan Croner Janet Jones Presley

Pipers Club $1-$99

CLASS OF 1954

Margaret Ramsdale Alford James A. Hands Jr.

Alumni of Record: 56 Participation Rate: 43%

CLASS OF 1956

Presidents Club

Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous * James W. Asplund Nancy Forsyth Flanders * Barbara Cook Mercer Patricia Whitsitt Overbeck

Scots Club $500-$999 Anne Harmon

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Alumni of Record: 64 Participation Rate: 36%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Paul L. Brown * Albert S. Maurer * Edith Nichols Roberts

Scots Club $500-$999 Evard P. Best * Rodney E. Bollman Anne Quinby Dyni * Sally Smith Larson

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Roger J. DeDera Donald S. Galitz Kay Smith Saxum

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Glenn L. Beall Carol Linquist Christensen Margaret Blanchard Daiker Louise Wright Doran * Sheryl Johnson Geiger * Kathryn Bunting Hamrin * Ronald J. Lindsay † Mary Duncan McBride * Roger L. Tuttle Marcia Smith Voors

Pipers Club $1-$99

Carolyn Copeland Cammenga Roberta Thompson Fassett Kenneth D. Lister

CLASS OF 1957 Alumni of Record: 74 Participation Rate: 34%

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 Marlyn Whitsitt Rinehart

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Charles Courtney Jr. Rhoda Engel * Richard K. Fuller

Scots Club $500-$999

Louise Chestnut Lowe

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Jeffrey Mar Lynn A. Nelson James E. Thompson

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * John K. Baumann Robert H. Bischoff * James S. Bondurant * Nancy Peters Clinnin Rip Fulton * Valerie Bergold Keys Barbara Rahn McKellar * C. Dean Mitchell * Trudy Morrill Mitchell * Walter D. Morrill * Martha Woods Porter Annette Thrift Ray * Richard J. Webb

Pipers Club $1-$99

Kay Bagge Alden * Kathleen Trevor Garwood Deborah Kerswill Keller Stephen B. Lindell

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Contributors (continued)

CLASS OF 1958 Alumni of Record: 75 Participation Rate: 36%

Joyce Underwood Barnett * Robert F. Bowen * Barbara Getty Dobbins * Lee D. Dobbins * Barbara Ruettinger McQuillan

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Margaret Evans Roberts

* Carl W. Anderson * Bernard B. McKee † Robert G. Patton * Joseph H. Tait * Carolyn White Work

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Edward F. Perry

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

* Anne Irey Kohlmeyer * T. Larry Mell

* Sally Ahrens Brown Charles B. Doty * Sally Platt Ivy * Patricia Volk McCoy Jean Beveridge Meyers Janice Nowlan Olson Elspeth Barclay Peterjohn * Dorothy Young Voetberg

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Bonnita McAllister Courtney

Scots Club $500-$999

* Janet Forsythe Fishburn * Richard W. Peters

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Beverly Carlson Baumann John F. Eckley Mary Conway Harvey * Richard J. Henry * Marcia Kern Hoffmeister * George W. Jamieson * Perry W. Johnson * Susan Gingrich Jones Daniel L. Moon Beverly Cain Nelson Marsha Miller Schierbeck * Allan W. Smith * Ralph E. Stephenson James A. Syrett Jane Eddy Wiley * Robert G. Yarde

Pipers Club $1-$99

Kathryn Cummins Cope Margaret Flick Droppa Robert P. Fitch Jeannette Williams Vogt

CLASS OF 1959 Alumni of Record: 94 Participation Rate: 29%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Ellen Littler Perry

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * David N. Willing

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Marilyn Schneider Johnson * Robert C. Johnson

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Scots Club $500-$999

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Lewis B. Arnold Karen Sundberg Finn * Jack J. Glotfelty Patricia Baird Link Nancy Acheson McGaan * William D. Rhodenbaugh Alice Robbins Thompson Ann Toal Kathryn Oliver Tribler

Pipers Club $1-$99

Anonymous Mary Dunstan Brekken * Judith Watson Brown Barbara Divinsky Brundage Donald D. Sands Susan Thompson

CLASS OF 1961 Alumni of Record: 122 Participation Rate: 36%

Presidents Club

Margaret Bozarth * Beverly Nelson Nelson * Gordon K. Young * Jane Corman Young

Barbara Oetjen Adamson Donald R. Beveridge * Terrence H. Brown * John C. Carstens Helen Roehm Stetson

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * L. Terry Oggel Fred Wackerle

CLASS OF 1960

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Alumni of Record: 104 Participation Rate: 30%

* Lila Keleher Blum

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Presidents Club

* James R. Klusendorf * Robert L. Singer

David A. Bowers * James W. Nelson

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 Jeanne Gittings Robeson

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

James C. Hornaday † Timothy G. Lee Frederick H. McDavitt

* Robert Gamer Alvin T. Peterson * Charles L. Rassieur Ralph L. Riggs Michael Adin Slaughter Carol Kemmerer Wetzel

Scots Club $500-$999

Scots Club $500-$999

Linda Soliday Currin Barbara Ditch Drake Robert H. Feiertag * Robert D. Jornlin † Orville D. Liesman * Paul K. Moye

* Richard L. Bivens * Carl A. Borine * Sandra Johnson Dobras * Sue Perrine Smith

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Roger E. Smith

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Arlene Dresmal Blewitt Donn H. Denniston Maureen Smiley Liesman * Warren A. Sanders Mary Ann Smith Work

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Bruce A. Anderson

Vira Lukasz Bodnaruk * Roger A. Boekenhauer * James R. Calhoun

* Darrell W. Edson * Barbara Clark Ellefsen * Paul R. Ellefsen * David A. Grummitt * Ronald L. Kenney * Lynn McGaan Knox * Gary L. Larson * Thomas F. Matthews Janet Brownlee Miller * Ronald E. Noton Kenneth A. Rager Betty McClure Salisbury Joan Smale Stewart * Donald J. Thompson Jane Inness Youngquist

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Robert E. Effland * Barbara Palmer Engelhardt Robert C. McCulloch Rosalie Easdale Stoike

CLASS OF 1962 Alumni of Record: 89 Participation Rate: 38%

Presidents Club * Robert J. Ardell

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 Thomas S. Davis * Kenneth H. Knox

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * G. Deeks Carroll Jr. * Julia Briggerman O’Hara Guy F. Welch

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Nancy Guilinger Coon * William T. Irelan * Rodney J. McQueen David L. Spears * Sandra Foreman Walker

Scots Club $500-$999

* Colleen Fisher Kinney * Harold N. McDaniel

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Frank Adam III * Janet Pearson Manning * Larry G. Manning Karen Deen Squire

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Jean Grove Boekenhauer * Marjorie Armstrong Brand * Judith Randall Dickinson * Jerry L. Greer Robert C. Hamilton Alice Goss Haznedl

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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* Lloyd W. Kinzer * Ronald W. Raih * Judith Lips Stoffer * Ardith Elliott Thompson Carol Anderson Vernon * Larry J. Williams

* Patricia Morse Lyall Donald L. Roegge * Linda Frautschy Sherman Kiem Tan Betty Claassen Veihman

Pipers Club $1-$99

Betty Craft Hodge * Philip A. Muntzel * Patricia McClinton Nolte * Melinda Schneider Roehl Susan Adams Watt

* David R. Acheson Marc D. Constant Kay Wissinger Henn Laura Turner Hoffman * William G. Holland Sharon Irvine Lopatka

CLASS OF 1963

CLASS OF 1964

* Nancy Garretson Benzon Joan Nickel Sanders

Alumni of Record: 126 Participation Rate: 33%

Alumni of Record: 131 Participation Rate: 35%

CLASS OF 1965

Presidents Club

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* Stanley E. Chism * Ann Mack Collier

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Pipers Club $1-$99

William G. Morgan

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

* David L. Arnold * Carol Veith Sorenson

* John A. Courson * Jane Wilson Dawson * Michael E. Sproston

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Eugene R. Dawson * F. William Graue Jr. * Mary Jones Singer

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Robert M. Barton * David R. Bates * Carol Clark Dotseth Robert H. Gwynn * Russell F. Marshall Frank R. Oakley Jane Temple Peacock Dee Smith Shuff

Scots Club $500-$999 * Mary Hunter Bivens William E. Boswell † Ronald Ikan * Janet Link Leonard * Hugh M. Phelps

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Harry C. Bollin Judith Sluka Butcher Shirley Service Culbert * Nancy Huff Myers Elizabeth Patterson John R. Steele

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Kaye Crissey Ainsworth Peter C. Frantzen * Philip G. Killey Jr. * Janet Irey Lovdahl Karin Loya

* Brian M. Austin * Reid K. Beveridge * Janet Henning Brown * Donald L. Denney James A. Hutchinson * Mary Bailey Marshall * Stanley L. McKelvie * Dennis E. Walker Sandra Olson Wolff

Scots Club $500-$999

Lucy Work Burroughs † David L. Danner Elizabeth Giffen Ewell Edward P. Farwell Joan Strand Kotz Gretchen Wright Moore * Joanne Greer Stipp Bruce V. Work

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Karen Brown Baker * James F. McKinley Jr. * Dean E. Peterson * Robert Remmert * Richard T. Smith * Peter J. Suffredini Jr.

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Barbara Bolon Bye * Carl J. Demas Thomas B. Doyle * Stuart J. Fanning * James W. Gee Jr. * Bianca Neville Hooker

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

* Gail Fitton Kruse * Jeane Mahnic Lindeke Robert W. McAllister * James D. Millar * William H. Ortman * C. Thomas Rezner * Fred H. Rumney III Judith Blaich Stipp * Connie Husser Williams * Kenneth M. Wolma Charles Youdris Jr.

Pipers Club $1-$99

Alumni of Record: 144 Participation Rate: 34%

Presidents Club

* Karen Barrett Chism * William J. Goldsborough

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

* Karen Brunke Hehn * Robert J. Hehn * James H. Hooker * Carolyn Duncan Jerkovich Linda Schantz Keener Frank D. Komatar * Ann Murphy Lafferty * Michael J. Lafferty David L. Lindgren * Donald R. Paulson * Frederick C. Pfaffmann J. David Rumbough Jr. Lucille Rupe * Robb A. Ruyle Carl J. Schmidlapp III Idabelle Augspurger Wahls

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Allan L. Etzbach Wendy Muldowney Hambly Lois Kren Tashjian Lorraine Goldstein Van Akkeren * Gary L. Wimer

* Karen Bush Watts

CLASS OF 1966

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Alumni of Record: 160 Participation Rate: 31%

* Julie Caldwell Arnold * Robert K. Garro * William M. Simpson

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 Gary L. Gilliland Jamie C. Ladd * Eugenia Willman Zagorski * Ronald A. Zagorski

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Larry D. Brown * E. Davis Coots * Danny C. Richards * Judith Maxwell Schaeffer * Lee E. Schaeffer Jr. Andries L. Vermeer

Scots Club $500-$999

* Douglas S. Carolus Sharon Avery Danner Elaine Calevas Ferat * David L. Murray Richard C. Streedain

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Sharon Zipse Fesler

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Joel M. Auble * David D. Biklen H. Theodore Blair Donna McLennan Campbell * Ann Garry Janet Hamly-Ott

Presidents Club

* Richard E. Yahnke

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Steven A. Azuma

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * Anthony J. Perzigian * Donna Schliffke Sproston

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Susan Buckles * Nancy Yates Coots * Suzanne Snyder Fienning Maureen Beck Hamilton * George E. Heck Jr. * Barbara Baughman Killey * Kenneth M. Klein * Frances White Wolma * Gail Hartong Zika

Scots Club $500-$999

* Judith Burmeister Dew * Larry R. Dew * John R. Stergulz

Tartan Club $250-$499

* James E. Pilarski * Judith Anderson Pilarski * Nancy Munn Smith

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Richard G. Asoian * Rosalie Huff Barman

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Contributors (continued) Harold Peter Basler Jr. * Daniel G. Bianucci Dennis J. Deegan * Margaret Schneider Demas * Susan Countryman Estes * Priscilla Bussert Fanning * Dorothy Harris Fogel Mary Johnson Hanlin Rick L. Hoy Susan Kauzlarich Kuster Barbara Lane * Gordon R. Lanning * Robert D. McLaren * David McLaughlin * Janet Clayton McLaughlin * Donald K. Morton * Earl K. Paasch * Richard P. Rodgers * Joseph C. Simpson Janet Maginn Stevenson * Paul M. Thompson * Trudy Roberts Triner * Judith Fiene Van Horn John H. Wierman Stephen N. Wilson * Madelyn Witt Young

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Roxann Rick Holland * Charles H. Kellner David B. Stimpson

CLASS OF 1967 Alumni of Record: 146 Participation Rate: 30%

Scots Club $500-$999

* Nancy Campbell Haynor * Alexander M. Lindsay Charles S. Marshall

* David S. Crooks Charles L. Turnbough Jr. * E. Jay Van Cura * Merikay Waldvogel

Scots Club $500-$999

Tartan Club $250-$499

Tartan Club $250-$499

Anonymous * David W. Adolphson * Edith Isaacson Duncan

* MaryLu Belcher Bretsch Robert H. Brink * James R. Bunn Sally Fenn DeVries * Joan Rezner Gundersen Kay Kersch Kirkpatrick William H. Steele

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Vittorio Barrile * Judy Williams DeMien * Ronald K. DeMien * William J. Edwards Dwight R. Erskine * Kennedy Reed * Thomas R. Weber

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Larry R. Bowden William G. Coppard Anne Dillibe * Richard M. Downard * Lyle E. Fogel Jr. Beth Guyer Virginia Jacobson Linda Blow Klabunde Peter D. Knox * H. Leonard Porter III * Mary Ellen Biciste Porter John H. Smith * John P. Wayne

* Russell S. Andrews John W. Evermon * John G. Heitz Linnea Hammarsten Ingold * Theresa Grozik Lanning * David B. Lieb * Bonnie Janicek McLaren * Mary Peirce O’Brien * Bruce C. Ogilvie * Claudia Kinne Spotts

Pipers Club $1-$99

Robert H. Block Jr. David W. Curd * Jerald D. Eiserman * M. Simpson Eiserman * Eugene W. Haug Verna Lester Marshall Sandy Newman * Lee-Ann Wells Paasch * Barbara Annis Simons

Pipers Club $1-$99

Jerry D. Armstrong Judith Schneider Lilly * Richard L. Paasch * Linda Janicek Szitta

CLASS OF 1969 Alumni of Record: 199 Participation Rate: 31%

CLASS OF 1968

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

Alumni of Record: 176 Participation Rate: 23%

Presidents Club

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* Augustin S. Hart III William L. Trubeck

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

* Janet Forbes Myers

* Elaine Baer Azuma * Thomas E. Dickson * Anne White Beall

Charles C. Chappell

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

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* Won Yang Everett * Jean Hutchinson Randolph * Thomas J. Cerkez III Michael E. McCreight * Stephen H. Mortonson Peter E. Upton Ann Newton Wieland † R. Richard Wieland II

* Frank W. Lee III Linda Reed * Dwight Tierney

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Frederick J. Kaskel Ann Michael * Lawrence K. Pickett Jr. * Frank P. Killey * Susan Latham Klein * Leon A. Kraut * Sonja Zedigian Lowry * Jerry K. Mitchell Robert C. Roush * Wendell L. Shauman

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* George M. Simmons Payson S. Wild Jr. * William A. Wolma * Robert A. Zika

David K. Allen * Bruce E. Birdsell * Gary W. Evans * David W. Jackson * John I. Moore Jr. * William B. Trent Jr. Jane Batten Wild

James W. Albright * Timothy S. Boberg * Alice Young Bunn * Mark M. Goodman * Louis A. Herrin * Steven Hoffman Elise Kuo Lee McGaan Mary Wood Paul * Jane Hensleigh Reed * Jan Weshinskey Schons

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Barbara Allen Susan Crossey Alm Leonard Brokaw * Rebecca Keefe Brown Carole Riester Callahan * Donald L. Campbell Carl D. Diehl * Richard P. Eichin William L. Ellefson * Terry A. Henderson Jeffrey L. Kiner * David T. Long * Jean Walter Long * Deborah Gruenau MacVey * Rebecca Reedy Ogilvie * Carlton O. Pate III Robert T. Rogoff * Leslie Williamson Rumney * Peter W. Sawyer Susan Rayniak Schneider * Jennifer Barnes Stauth * Michael T. Stauth Jeffrey L. Steinberger * David J. Ward John P. White Jr.

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Roy Evert Adolphson * Jean Bevan Curtin * Marion McGibbon Haug * Peter L. Leverenz * Carla Turner Makowski Daniel K. McMichael * Barbara Barnhart Milnor * Sally Carmichael Wallace

Scots Club $500-$999

* Bruce J. Birney * Donna Johnston Birney * Louise Gibson Coleman

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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CLASS OF 1970 Alumni of Record: 191 Participation Rate: 27%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Alan J. Landauer Michael B. McCulley

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Marcia Brink Adair * Joanne Moy * Robert G. Riley Jr.

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Serena Foote Birdsell * John T. Kreitler * Catherine Blake Trent

Scots Club $500-$999

* Raymond E. Carlstedt * Floyd Evans Jr. * Mary Martin Graham Ann Hoyt Kightlinger * George J. Milnor Nancy Sager-Ruggles * Thomas C. Taylor * Jill Petrie Whiteside

CLASS OF 1971 Alumni of Record: 242 Participation Rate: 20%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Susie Swanson FitzGerald * Gail Anderson Landauer * Alfred B. Mainetti

* Priscilla Trubeck Adolphson * Richard A. Johnson * Kathleen McLaughlin Nolin

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Tartan Club $250-$499

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Gordon L. Amgott Pamela Marshburn Morgan Bruce H. Morrison * Victoria Wheeler Romero * Gary L. Sears David J. Shawver * David Van Esselstyn * Kathleen Brownley Van Esselstyn * Michael D. Weeks

Highlanders Club $100-$249 David W. Bottrell Gregory K. Bradley * Stanley B. Dawson Stephen D. Dawson * Andrea Hinman Elia * John R. Elia Jane Kaski Hamilton * H. Richard Jewell Sue Campbell Jones * Jane Martin-Watson * Peter K. Murley * Susan Holland Murley * Barbara Blodgett Pearson * Van D. Perrine * Thomas G. Poeltler Nancy Wiese Radosta Linda Gustafson Sheehan * Virginia Hopf West * Alice Kough Wilhelm * Richard A. Wilhelm * Carol Wilson * Sara Wyant

Pipers Club $1-$99 * Patrick G. Brown

* Marco T. DiGiorgio * Margaret Will Lee

Margaret Hamil * Catherine Mayer Jackson Robert L. Litchfield * Louise Laine Lubs * Michael J. McGrath * Michael S. Mimnaugh

Scots Club $500-$999

* Lyndea Dew Brown Douglas A. Campbell Donald E. Lindblad Frank J. Wollrab

Pipers Club $1-$99

* J. Scott Brunswick * Mary Denison Carlstedt * John P. Edmonds Lynnell Kahler Havercamp Susan Morton Lloyd * Martin C. Luehrs Eugene T. Marchuk * Maribeth Novak Mohan * Ronald St. George * Kathryn Gardels Weal

CLASS OF 1972

Alumni of Record: 208 Participation Rate: 22%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Sherman U. Smith

CLASS OF 1973 Alumni of Record: 171 Participation Rate: 25%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Andrew D. Kerr * Dennis M. Plummer

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

James B. Bird * James L. Caldwell IV * Daniel M. Fowler * Kevin J. Kelley * Jane Marshall Kellogg Blair W. Schultz John J. Scotillo * David R. Whitcomb

* Thomas E. Colclasure * Charles W. Goehl * Glenn P. Kinder * Nancy Thompson Kinder * Timothy L. Owen H. Charles Stahmer * Gordon B. Yocum

Scots Club $500-$999

Scots Club $500-$999

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Tartan Club $250-$499

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Kathleen Long Baum Marta Durland Burke Ruth Barry Hund * Frances Biedenstein Leverenz Anne Maloy Levin Sarah Pearce

Gregory H. Ellis

Thomas S. Martin Robert “Cam” McConnell

* Judith Gardiner Johnson * Lynn Rosenow Seiwert Margaret Marra Treggett * JoAnn Eisenman Britton * Sarah Maxwell Brown * Jan Farnsworth * Cheryl Nowak Garrison Gregory C. Golembe * Carolyn Ellis Harrison * Elaine Hubbell Herzog * Dinko Jerkovich Dianne Robison Marcell * Elizabeth Steffy McDonald * Jeffrey A. Miles * Charline Clay Myers Linda Larsen Pfaff * Linda Baughman Pushaw Alan P. Rogers Edward J. Ryan * Stephen W. Seiple * Thomas W. Shunick * Linda Czajka Stebbins Charles L. Wolters

Pipers Club $1-$99

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Carol West Boehme Catherine Sanborn Johnson * Lucy Hyde Johnson * Stephen T. Johnson * Harold G. Mitchell Robert H. Roggeveen

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Harold L. Saline * Sally Collier Seiple * Diane Guzzi Shilton * Sheryl Brinton Zimmerman

* Hubert A. Bernet III * Roy E. Bockler * Mary Auliff Havens * Letitia Keating Hoffman Edward A. Jones * Stephen D. Keithley * Claudia Lawson Moss

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Christine Heaton Brown William S. Daniel Gregg R. Drije Mary Evans Hanson Douglas D. Hardin * Lon J. Helton Susan Bahnick Jones * Martin L. Katz Wesley A. Morris * Anne Nelson Pate * Craig A. Patterson

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Ann Doherty Kramer * Michael B. Kramer Louise Pacholik

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Cynthia Wead Keithley * William J. Maakestad Thomas E. Roy Jacquelyn Grier Salvato Rosemary Bryce Schintzius Nicholas J. Tucker

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Roger J. Blachek Glenn Catlett * Rebecca Morgan Cooke * Anne Buckhouse Helton Gayla Smith Hiar Stephen E. Holland * Michele Spleha Katz * Ann Boley Parker * Virginia Plunkett Paton William C. Porter Jr. * Scott D. Stanton * Carol Mullen Walsh * Katharine Wakolbinger Welch Kenneth L. Wherry * William F. Zimmerman

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Pipers Club $1-$99

Mary Smallwood Armstrong * Mick Birkhofer * David R. Elmer Jane Kurtz Alice Higgins Lawson Cynthia Carman Rich Laurel Hornbaker Schoen * Peter E. Storms Delores Whitaker

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Pipers Club $1-$99

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Franklin K. Johnson

John L. Carter Judith Collins Stephen A. Femmel * Stephen H. Goss Duncan C. Harter * John C. Hughes Sr. * Jonathan L. Schwartz * Nancy Thompson Smith

* Lynda Pepper Bollman * Diane Minor Davies Terry F. Fruehauf Timothy S. Pecaro Charles B. Shawver * Randall J. Slaboch Randall E. Vickroy * R. Bruce Weiman

Scots Club $500-$999

CLASS OF 1975 Alumni of Record: 185 Participation Rate: 15%

CLASS OF 1974

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

Alumni of Record: 184 Participation Rate: 22%

* Joseph O. Svoboda

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* Mary Ann Kelly Gieryna * Robert C. Hudson III Jerri Picha * Marsha Spleha Slaboch

Nancy Speer Engquist

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * John C. Carlson * Lynette Johnson Carlson

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 G. Ronald Barshinger * Rodney L. Davies * Alan R. Gieryna * Sarah Young Hudson Charles R. Hughes * Richard W. Karcher * Gary C. Niehaus * Gail Simpson Owen * Christine Odell Potts * Jeffrey C. Potts * Dean A. Sipe

Scots Club $500-$999 * Bruce W. Block * Dan B. Jaynes Richard B. Truog * Warren J. Wilson

Tartan Club $250-$499

Victoria Bautch Douglas W. Funk * Susan Prochaska Hardie * David A. Hartig * Charles B. Peter * Stephen D. Purington

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Ann Quick Akers Elaine Callahan Amie Bastian Carey * Lloyd H. Fish * Elizabeth Fellowes Hunt Garrett C. Waecker

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Scots Club $500-$999

* Jon E. Dahl * Alice Dunlap-Kraft * Donald D. Hadsell * Gregory A. Smith * Lucinda Dunmire Wilson

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Pamela Wyeth Bellm * James L. Elsey * Brian P. Holland * Roberta Mack Peter Paul D. Rickey * Robert F. Stinauer * Pamela Slaughter Van Kirk

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Tartan Club $250-$499

Kathryn Alexander * Scott A. Hamilton Judy Hogfeldt * William C. Murschel * Julia Van Cleve Paulson * Peter L. Paulson * R. Tracy Williams

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Laura Beck Anderson * J. David Boyd * Gregory I. Derbak * Jane Fort Edwards * Joseph W. Schurr Hollis Shoemaker Yocum Claudia Glover-Mayfield * Denise Karczewski * Douglas L. Stickels Barbara Sullivan * Douglas A. Wallace

Alumni of Record: 110 Participation Rate: 15%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 Mark E. Taylor

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 † James D. Galbreath

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Craig A. Dahlquist * Joseph M. Welty

Highlanders Club $100-$249

CLASS OF 1977

* Marc E. Bruni * Mary Kistner Bruni Scott C. Estler R. David Korngruen * Mary Carlson Shull Donald C. Swartzbaugh Kathleen Ford Vitali

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Kathy Wolf Plath

Scots Club $500-$999

Pamela Ball Gustafson

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

CLASS OF 1978

Pipers Club $1-$99

Donald L. Gladfelter J. Stewart Peterson Jr.

Alumni of Record: 140 Participation Rate: 26%

* Linda Cook * Emily Hauge * Wayne K. Nelson * Gary A. Neudahl C. Bird Romano Deborah Sterett

Scots Club $500-$999

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

CLASS OF 1976

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Carol Werdin Alfrey * Richard M. Amy * Michael S. Deam Jeffrey R. Earley Gregory S. Fritz John W. Heaton * Brian D. Kimmel * Gary D. Martin

Alumni of Record: 138 Participation Rate: 13%

Pipers Club $1-$99

* J. Stanley Pepper

* Gwendolyn Keesee Cavanaugh * James E. Cavanaugh * Margaret Romano Ford * William P. Ford

Nicole Chevalier * Greg R. Gilliland William H. Lafayette Jr. * Heather Fottler Mangian * Michael R. Osborn William E. Parker Deborah Roter Rakestraw

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Lisa Hime Backus

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Dean A. Oester * Roger P. Sander Susan Smallwood Schilson * J. Mark Wilson * Terry Brooks Campbell * James B. Cooke * George K. Hess * Kathleen Clark Kimmel

Pipers Club $1-$99

Laura Feinberg Hershcopf Richard A. Martin Phyllis Millsap Renth Jane Shroba

CLASS OF 1979 Alumni of Record: 99 Participation Rate: 19%

Presidents Club * Mark S. Kopinski

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Ralph R. Velazquez Jr.

Scots Club $500-$999 * Gerald Palomo

Anonymous

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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Tartan Club $250-$499

Andrew P. Matykiewicz * Terry Burke Murschel John Davis Small II * Donald P. Tanney

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Raymond S. Bland * Paul A. Bubb * Robert L. Curtis * John R. Darrah Susan Nelson El-Eid * John A. Elliott * Amy Armstrong Green * Douglas B. Rankin

Pipers Club $1-$99

Christine Pinkston McCarrell * Mary White Opperman * Emily Vlahos Rehn * Pamela Yuill Snyder

CLASS OF 1980 Alumni of Record: 113 Participation Rate: 21%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Yvonne Mensing Hurckes * Michael A. Schmitz

Scots Club $500-$999

Victoria Birk Horneck Robin A. Johnson * Kimberly Furman Roolf

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Steven K. Murmann

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Sheri McKee Coulter Moira Dolan * Carl B. Forkner * Timothy M. Haak * Sandra Tirpitz Haman * Cathy Neese Hess Kent H. Kniep * George D. Kulhanek Christopher J. Lemon * Wendy Taeger Osborn * Cherry Galusha Simmons

Pipers Club $1-$99

Joel E. Brotherton * Jeffrey M. Carver Christine Vancura Easley Loren Hayes * Valerie Hickerson Lawson Dale R. McKillip Donald J. McKillip

CLASS OF 1981 Alumni of Record: 117 Participation Rate: 20%

Presidents Club * J. Alex McGehee

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Jane Schneiter Velazquez

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Laura Giacchetti Bartnicki * J. Mark Geeves * Karen Brock Geeves * Ann DeCoster Holst * Jean Lessick Martino Lori Kaunzinger Phillips * Lori Stone Shull * Lynne Brown Yuchs

Susan Sandner Gibson * William G. Hurckes * Timothy J. McCabe

CLASS OF 1983

Scots Club $500-$999

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* Michael J. Anderson * Harvey L. Echols Jr.

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Conny Davinroy Beatty * Lora Litchfield Corban * Robert B. Green * Roxanne Stanley Green

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Kimberly Whowell Bland Carrie Dunne Daly * Virginia Thake Elliott * Pamela Batson Ferguson * Samuel A. Ferguson * Debbra Taylor Kulhanek * William M. McNall * J. Anthony Morgan * Tamyra Dixon Rankin James R. Schaedel

Pipers Club $1-$99

Geni Saurbaugh Jacobs * Kristeen Ford Peterson

CLASS OF 1982 Alumni of Record: 104 Participation Rate: 19%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Mary Alexander Corrigan * Robert E. Hillison

Scots Club $500-$999

Scots Club $500-$999 * Jolyn Swain Ward

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Debra Blatzer * Julie Collins Mark A. Ferin * Helen Culp Lawrence * Kathleen Fries Raices Rebecca Chisholm Rennard

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Stephen M. Bloomer

Christine Baysingar Marcene Holverson Farley * Diane Soady Griffin * Russell Orwig * Karen Friedrich Pyatt Tamee Sterett Renwick * Laura Epley Selken

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

CLASS OF 1985

Alumni of Record: 119 Participation Rate: 18% Eric T. Vogt

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

* Daniel L. Keating * Judi Poettgen Luepke * Paul G. Luepke

Scots Club $500-$999

* Martha Eckhard Anderson * Paula Rundell Brooks Joel R. Hillison

Tartan Club $250-$499

Dorothy Aszman Ricketts * Jean Michael Tews

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Traci Whyte Abbott Kirk A. Holman * Kelly K. Kost Thomas J. McCoy Michael Quagliano Leon Townsend

Pipers Club $1-$99

* David B. Bates Lisa Hines Berg * Judith Bradley Stevenson * George E. Van Hagen IV * Terri Pieper Van Hagen * Lance Q. Zedric

Alumni of Record: 104 Participation Rate: 9%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Kimberly Edwards Blakely * Jane King Pearson

Scots Club $500-$999

* Crystal Krug Sargent * Thomas A. Sargent

Tartan Club $250-$499 Ronda Ehlen Hall

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Douglas A. Gibb Pamela Murray Kuby

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Patty Perkins Kenney * Sarah Head Stambaugh

CLASS OF 1986 Alumni of Record: 93 Participation Rate: 13%

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * Danette Bagley-Thierry

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* John A. Kemp

CLASS OF 1984

Tartan Club $250-$499

Alumni of Record: 122 Participation Rate: 17%

Mahendran K. Jawaharlal * Kristy Smith * Roger E. Well

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Scots Club $500-$999

Roger D. Haynes * Edward C. Tews

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Richard P. Coulter * Judith Harrison Curtis * Diana Hearne * Michael K. Meinhart * Gregory S. Phillips * Rae Jean Meier Phillips * Kristen Campbell Stanton

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Jeffrey D. Miller

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Robin Jarvis * Jane Stevens Keating * Edward W. Pailes Jr. * Robert E. Pearson Karen Williams Phinney * Christopher J. Pio

Kellie Kohler Esters

Tartan Club $250-$499 * William B. Brooks Jr. * Eric G. Ealy * Joan Chatfield Ealy * Brian J. Ross

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Highlanders Club $100-$249 Laura Cavanaugh

Pipers Club $1-$99 Timothy R. Gray Tami Tisor

CLASS OF 1987 Alumni of Record: 104 Participation Rate: 15%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Mary Grable McLeod

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Paul D. Babcock Lisa Pepper

Scots Club $500-$999 * Anonymous * Ann Stites Cotter * Kristie Klapp Zessin

Carrie Gawthrop Kauck Sandra Johnson MacMillan Kenneth D. Murphy Glenn A. Stout

Alumni of Record: 150 Participation Rate: 9%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Highlanders Club $100-$249 † Lesley Pettit Newell Kenneth R. Schoenig * Lisa Kruse Swanson * Todd K. Swanson

* Christine Beiermann Farr

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * Sanjoy Datta

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Paula Danforth Bowling * Daryl B. Carr Steven D. Clark * John D. Downs * Joy Stephens Linda Gaikis Tomson

William A. Turner

Tartan Club $250-$499

Scots Club $500-$999

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Bradley C. Nahrstadt

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Lynne Talbott Dulin $100-$249 * Lori O’Brien Oetting * Brett D. Wolfe

Jennifer Widmer

CLASS OF 1993

* Cheryl Conaway-Nelson * Jayne Poland Schreck

Alumni of Record: 117 Participation Rate: 18%

Tartan Club $250-$499

Kimberly Hallam

Scots Club $500-$999

Highlanders Club $100-$249

* Jackie Bell Zachmeyer

Pipers Club $1-$99

Alumni of Record: 146 Participation Rate: 8%

CLASS OF 1989 David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

Susan Boland * F. David Hillis * Eric J. Ostermeier Matthew A. Schimmelpfennig Merideth Willett

* Jeffrey J. Bakker * Kristyne Gilbert * Carlos F. Smith

Kelly Patch Jenkins

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* Arnold Gonzalez Jr. * Christy Ogilvie McCreary Theresa Downs Roscetti

Kai Nani Kraut

Mary Dues Kemp

Tartan Club $250-$499 * E. Kyle Davis * Kristi Millar Hippen * M. Todd Wetterling

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Victoria Adeleye * Karen Seeman Hillis * Patrick J. Quinlan

Pipers Club $1-$99

Daniel W. Dickson * Amy Manning Michelle Moy Michelle Perry

CLASS OF 1991

* Debbie Roth Burke * Denise Huntley Gaska * Richard A. Gaska * Gail Cook Simpson * Gregory Simpson David K. Taylor

Scots Club $500-$999

Carla Sanders

Brant A. Carius Ross A. Richardson

Scots Club $500-$999

Allison Ritscher * Mark T. Tupper

CLASS OF 1988

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Penny Young Lefavour * David A. Riggs Mary Mosley Stahl

Pipers Club $1-$99

Alumni of Record: 110 Participation Rate: 21%

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Jean Peters Witty

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Curtis C. Farr * Anita Ridge

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Dianna Lukkasson Babcock * Amy Johnson Schmitz * Byron Sondgeroth

Scots Club $500-$999 Gena Corbin Alcorn * Daniel A. Cotter George M. Tyler

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Tartan Club $250-$499

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Alumni of Record: 149 Participation Rate: 4%

* Aaron D. Jensen * Michelle Merritt-Juszczyk

Pipers Club $1-$99

CLASS OF 1994

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Alumni of Record: 118 Participation Rate: 9%

* Michael D. Danner

* Pamela Bowman Best Cheryl Broskow Flecksteiner * Christine Winkelman Glasgow Michelle Hall * Kelly Simpson Knitter Eric McClaughry * Elizabeth Baumann Riggs Lisa Jackson Brown * Karin Owrey Cook * Michael D. Janes * Michael W. Jones

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

* DuFresne Penrod Blume

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Dawn Taylor Jones * Stacy Lafferty Myers

Colby M. Oleson

Pipers Club $1-$99

* L. Terry Cook Thomas W. Hasson

CLASS OF 1992 Alumni of Record: 170 Participation Rate: 6%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* W. Brent Dugan Kimberly Freels Cari Connell Lichtman * Annette Carson Manthei * Lesley Stone Quinlan * Lisa Bitar Wolfe

Pipers Club $1-$99

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Jeffery A. Crum * Christopher J. Heatherly * Betty Montgomery Kreminski

Tartan Club $250-$499

CLASS OF 1995

* Bobbi Swarts Pio

* Stephen R. Hartman * J. Jarrod Hippen * Jon J. Kruse

Alumni of Record: 197 Participation Rate: 12%

Highlanders Club $100-$249

* Patrick W. Lewis Debra Jackowniak Scarlett

* Jennifer Hoekstra Bezenah

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * Cassie Zelinske Day * Sean P. Maher

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Deanna Marchand Baele * Julia Westby Blaesing * Eric D. Boland * Amy Bradshaw * S. Mark Childs

Scots Club $500-$999

Bradley J. Foley Amy Longenbaugh * Fiona Loomes O’Laughlin

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Jeani Randall Talbott

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Brian A. Chabowski * Tiffany Ramsey Chabowski * Marnie Steach Dugan Abigail Fafoglia * Melody White Peterson * Julie Crisco Ricketts

Pipers Club $1-$99

* David R. Mann * Elizabeth Doty Mann * Todd W. Myers Jennifer Tibbie Renchen

CLASS OF 1996 Alumni of Record: 133 Participation Rate: 11%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 Beth Bowdoin Tyre

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Michael J. Blaesing Timothy A. Salier

Tartan Club $250-$499

* David C. Bratten * Julie Casteel Russell Gina Tillman * Vanessa Treat Wetterling

Highlanders Club $100-$249

CLASS OF 1997 Alumni of Record: 180 Participation Rate: 7%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Jill Bowles Boland * Kunal Kapoor

Scots Club $500-$999 * Clifford K. Hastings Melissa Scholes

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Kimberly Bruetsch Dawn Johnson

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Arijit Dutta * Brian K. Woodard

Pipers Club $1-$99

Derek Archer * Heidi Kuppler McKeever * James J. McKeever Robert J. Strabley

CLASS OF 1998 Alumni of Record: 278 Participation Rate: 4%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Neil A. Dahlstrom * Hieu T. Tran

Scots Club $500-$999 * Angel Foutch Tran

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Melissa Painter Olson * Mitchell P. Russell * Elaine Sander

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Sarah Botkin * Jeffrey M. Dougherty Carey Carrier Gill Addie Dallas Hebard * Jennifer Sparks Rogers

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Heather Haines Roseman

* Margo Slack Martin * Christy Finch Noggle * Eric L. Noggle * Philip D. Tweedy * Korine Steinke Wawrzynski

CLASS OF 1999

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Otis S. Burge * Michael D. Cryer

* Melinda Mendez-McCabe Sheri White Owen

Alumni of Record: 266 Participation Rate: 6%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Tartan Club $250-$499 Tyson B. Royer

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Jason R. Dare

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

* Stephanie Orsi Dare * Eric Hardesty * Kristen Lightbody Hardesty Sharon Jirgl Schmitz * Heather Downing Turnquist * John M. Turnquist

CLASS OF 2002

Pipers Club $1-$99

Highlanders Club $100-$249

CLASS OF 2000

Pipers Club $1-$99

Adam J. Edmonds * Matthew M. Hendon * Michael J. Jones Melissa McWhirter Peitz Amy Stark Spong

Alumni of Record: 249 Participation Rate: 5%

Alumni of Record: 255 Participation Rate: 5%

Tartan Club $250-$499 Matthew J. Coultrip

* Frank A. Clark Ryan M. Johnson * Misty Saline Lerner * Precious Kent Rutlin * Brian D. Valentini Dustin W. White

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Jennifer Roth Cowan * Joel P. Cowan Amanda Cox John W. Larson Dustin R. Litwiler Brianne Blout Satorius

Highlanders Club $100-$249

CLASS OF 2003

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * K. Scott Wiswall

* Therese Worden Rankin Julie Anell Rebecca Bingle * David D. George * Emily Moore Raymond * M. Lucas Raymond

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Heather Sechrest Hendon Ann Maksymowicz Kerr Jeri Malone Kitchin * Heather Klaes Macomber Colleen Shaughnessy

CLASS OF 2001 Alumni of Record: 261 Participation Rate: 3%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Christina Stob Cryer

Scots Club $500-$999

* Bonnie Trinko Roberts * Michael P. Roberts

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Megan Sluis Parsons Elizabeth Wills

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Erica Hanlin Long * Warren D. Rowland * Jerrel R. Rutlin

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Megan Dochterman Catour

Alumni of Record: 238 Participation Rate: 7%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 Dawn McRoberts Strauss

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Janice Ruglio Van Kuiken

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Geoffrey M. Edwards

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Matthew S. Lerner Katherine Morrow Sherri-Gae Scott * Tiffany Diehl Springer * Jaimie Gurney Valentini * Stephanie Fritz Woodard

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Kristin Whitver Fouts * Jessie Taylor Joaquin * Tara Todd Lewis * Molly McNamara Klinger Rosemary Lai Sheeler * Devon Townsend Spencer * Adam S. Volpp * Elizabeth Nendza Volpp

CLASS OF 2004 Alumni of Record: 273 Participation Rate: 8%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Nathan J. Gaskill

Scots Club $500-$999 Jennifer Heiman

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Tartan Club $250-$499

* Jessica DeVore Johnston * Justin M. Johnston Kristin Martin * Jason D. Paulsgrove

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Ortez D. Davis * Elizabeth Kline Elsbree Tammy Welninski Kleckner * Michelle Meyer Messman * Joel A. Sage * Tara Ferruzza Sage

Pipers Club $1-$99

Anonymous * Adam B. Carlson * Michelle Flaar Carlson Thomus J. Eisenbraun * Elizabeth Mahrt Elver * Todd N. Hochmuth * Elizabeth Ruebush Oblinger * Tamara Orte * Joshua B. Spencer

CLASS OF 2005 Alumni of Record: 223 Participation Rate: 8%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Eileen Murphy * James Andrew Thomas

Scots Club $500-$999

* Theresa Gondek Bebout * Rafael C. Delgado * Kathryn Jackson

Tartan Club $250-$499 * Matthew T. Clair Gregory L. Monn

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Alan R. Betourne II Ryan S. Danzinger * Andrew S. Elliott * Benjamin M. Hickerson Megan Merritt

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Jerome D. Elver * Rhian Droy Lewis * Michael P. Oblinger D. Pat Raftis Troy D. Stark * Kelly Frericks Thannert

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CLASS OF 2006

CLASS OF 2008

CLASS OF 2011

Alumni of Record: 250 Participation Rate: 6%

Alumni of Record: 273 Participation Rate: 4%

Alumni of Record: 269 Participation Rate: 3%

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Tartan Club $250-$499

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Highlanders Club $100-$249

* Laura Haumiller Gaskill

Kathryn Fitzsimmons Cross

Evelina Lipecka

Scots Club $500-$999 * Christie Nelson * Joshua M. Ragar * Amanda Weck

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Cheryl Luif Biederstadt * Alexis Zanis Carscadden

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Nicholas E. Carlson * Miles Z. Miller * Joseph H. Pilger Melinda Todd Sara Youngs

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Sara Tyson Fitzjarrald * Ana Fisher Franks * Todd D. Franks * Shane E. Gordon * Shannon Healy Gross Karen Krautwurst * Sarah Zanger Venvertloh * Kimberly Karau Wilcoxon * Michael T. Wilmoth

CLASS OF 2009 Alumni of Record: 246 Participation Rate: 4%

Tartan Club $250-$499 Brian C. Jordan

Highlanders Club $100-$249

CLASS OF 2007

* Jacob T. Stott

Alumni of Record: 278 Participation Rate: 7%

Pipers Club $1-$99

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Mollie Williams Harrod * Richard F. Harrod * Kelli Wefenstette

Scots Club $500-$999 Julie Trac

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Sarah Braun * Wade R. Brown * John K. Gerrity * Sarah Kaufman Lopez * Hilary Hawkinson Stott * Corey A. White

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Zak S. Edmonds * Amanda Trotter Elliott * Erik C. Hoffer * Karah Goetschius Hoffer Megan Carlson Prueter * Megan Clennon White

Samantha Briones * Jonathan K. Bruckman * Paige Halpin Smith * Hilary Leary Martin * Crystal Myers Jordan Pless William L. Saccomando Ankeia Scott

CLASS OF 2010 Alumni of Record: 269 Participation Rate: 4%

Scots Club $500-$999 John A. Kaiser

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Alexander W. Carter Silvia Fabela * Amy Gustaf Freitag * Joseph J. Freitag * Jessica Livermore Gordon * Justin L. Martin * Amanda Havens Pilger * Natasha Kemmerling Russell Kelly Stadter * Brian E. Wilcoxon

Rachel Bold Morgan Koss * Jennifer Erickson Sanberg

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Brittany Cecil Holmes * Jonathan D. Matthews * Laura Greenwood Miller Mary Scotillo Laura Ziegler Swanson * Ryan Tapscott

* Hope Grebner Bibens Amanda Rush

Pipers Club $1-$99

Eric M. Grant Derek M. Huff Fannetta Jones Michelle Nutting Brooke Potendyk * Cami Johnson Tapscott * Kristen Wyse Wagner

CLASS OF 2012 Alumni of Record: 268 Participation Rate: 3%

Tartan Club $250-$499 Haley Jones Jonathan M. Welty

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Samantha Jagust * Daniel M. Pitts * Haley Mier Pitts

Pipers Club $1-$99

Kathryn Argentine Mary Schuch * Julie Battcher Sullivan Jennifer Wheeler

CLASS OF 2013 Alumni of Record: 284 Participation Rate: 5%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

John H. Whittaker

Scots Club $500-$999 * Colleen Sinclair Sye * Roy J. Sye

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Alex B. Brooks * Clarissa Gardner * Brittany Munson Lipinski * Peter A. Lipinski Daniel L. Reid Kathryn Shipp

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Andrew R. Anselmi * Brooke Anderson Anselmi Arica Brazil-Franklin Jeffrey K. Kelleher Brinton B. Vincent

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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CLASS OF 2014

CLASS OF 2017

Alumni of Record: 256 Participation Rate: 5%

Alumni of Record: 317 Participation Rate: 3%

Tartan Club $250-$499

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Aaron T. Bromeland

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Katherine Dunn Becker Jolene Rossell Rebekah Sell Rachel Whitlock

Pipers Club $1-$99

Emily Danger * Rachel Greising Burke Melissa O’Shea * Brandon J. Ouellette * Tiffany Adams Ouellette John E. Swanson Kaitlyn Washburn

CLASS OF 2015

Jacob P. Marx Blake A. Sondgeroth

Pipers Club $1-$99

Kayla Beadles Matthew A. Bertelsen Katelynn Propes Carter Ivan A. Cruz Cole H. Downey Mary Griffith Cole R. Pyatt

CLASS OF 2018 Alumni of Record: 289 Participation Rate: 4%

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Alumni of Record: 260 Participation Rate: 7%

Angela Baumann Danny S. Evers Tessa Jones

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Haleigh Garrett McLean * Jacob R. McLean * Clarissa Henby Reed * Coleman Vern Reed Adam P. Ruble

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Stephanie Lankford Baker Ian Alastair Bennett * Benjamin J. Eaton * Rebecca Foley Eaton Alyssa Janssen Nicole Kamzic * Erin Willhite Lafary * Ethan Scott Lafary Nicholas Wayne Olson Max Anthony Seisser Samantha Stevenson Kelly Swann

CLASS OF 2016 Alumni of Record: 275 Participation Rate: 2%

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 Tyler R. Baxter

Tartan Club $250-$499 Mackenzie Notestein

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Emily Flint

Pipers Club $1-$99 * Evan J. Burke Julianna Graf

Antonetta Axup Farida Mohammed Bature Anthony David Bryant Samuel E. Dummer Vaughn R. Gentzler Mary Luzzo Kaylee Kurtz Mathison Luke Allen Pratt Benjamin C. Stillwell

CLASS OF 2019 Alumni of Record: 195 Participation Rate: 6%

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Blake Christian Bryan

Pipers Club $1-$99

John Jeremiah Cotter Terry Lee Harris Jr. John Frederick Hintz II Connor S. McDonald Carl M. O’Connor Myles C. Olson Elizabeth Smith Kaelin Sommer Tara Sturgeon Jaron T. Park

CLASS OF 2020 Alumni of Record: 189 Participation Rate: 7%

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Lucas K. Sondgeroth

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Pipers Club $1-$99

Morgan Abraham Michael J. Bersell McKenzie Campbell McKenzie Devilder Jacob J. Durdan Aleeka Gentzler Ian F. Jefferson Shelby Jones Alexander C. Martin Makayla Shaw Rachel Sitko Lauren Sperry Allison Wade

Current Students Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Shweta Arpit Srivastava

Pipers Club $1-$99

Kensey Arlt Alison Barrington Charles Joseph Bonifer Grace Brooks Alexandra Chamberlin Brock Dalton Crippen Alexander James Cutright Conner Reese Devilder Joseph Coan Botte Doner Savannah Franklund Sebastian D. Garcia Rylee Mann * Kyle Martin Praburaman Mohan Kaitlyn Osmulski Nathan P. Schroeder Joseph E. Shie Alison Trettin Colton Dean Willhardt

Constituent Groups PARENTS OF CURRENT AND FORMER STUDENTS President’s Club $25,000 or more * Robert J. Ardell ’62 J. Alex McGehee ’81 and Liz McGehee Gary W. Melvin and Tess Melvin

Gordon K. Young ’61 and Jane Corman Young ’61

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999

F. Addison Jones Thomas J. McDowell and Sue McDowell J. Stanley Pepper ’76 and Christine Pepper Jean Peters Witty ’88 and Peter N. Witty

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Won Yang Everett ’68 and William W. Everett F. Austin Jones and Kim Jones Jean Hutchinson Randolph ’68 and Ross Randolph

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999

Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 and Cheryl Youngren Bloomer Frank W. Lee III ’69 and Margaret Will Lee ’71 Sean P. Maher ’95 and Shalaine Maher Linda Reed ’69

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

Kristyne Gilbert ’90 and Charles Duane Bonifer Mary Alexander Corrigan ’82 Luis De Leon Nieves and Feng Chu De Leon Nieves Christopher Doner and Jennifer Doner George T. Dulee Jr. and Beth Dulee Lori Eyre John Goddard Corey L. Hess and Jill Hess James C. Hornaday ’61 William G. Hurckes ’81 and Yvonne Mensing Hurckes ’80 Jane Marshall Kellogg ’72 and Buster L. Kellogg Jr. * Leon A. Kraut ’67 Scott Martin and Linda Martin Albert S. Maurer ’56 and Patricia Maurer Stanley L. McKelvie ’64 and Sandra McKelvie John I. Moore Jr. ’69 and Mary Moore Richard S. Pepper and Roxie Pepper Ralph L. Riggs ’60 John J. Scotillo ’72 Robert E. Slocum and Linda Perez-Slocum Byron Sondgeroth ’88 and Suzan Sondgeroth

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C onstituent Groups –Parents Dora Tinkham William Urban and Jacquelynn Urban Roger E. Well ’86 and Dana Well Joseph M. Welty ’78 and Jean Welty * Martha Williams Whiteman Dennis A. Willig Jr. and Angela Willig David T. Workman and Linda Workman

Scots Club $500-$999

Anonymous Joyce Underwood Barnett ’59 Evard P. Best ’56 * Rodney E. Bollman ’56 Daniel A. Cotter ’88 and Ann Stites Cotter ’87 Michael D. Danner ’91 and Julie Danner † David L. Danner ’64 and Sharon Avery Danner ’65 Anne Quinby Dyni ’56 * Frederick A. Fletcher Roger J. Hawk and Mary Hawk Victoria Birk Horneck ’80 Aaron D. Jensen ’89 and Dana Jensen * Richard A. Johnson ’70 Christine Johnston Michelle Merritt-Juszczyk ’89 and Don Juszczyk Janet Link Leonard ’63 and Robert D. Leonard Jr. Stuart McKirdy and Ellen McKirdy Cheryl Conaway-Nelson ’90 and John R. Nelson Rodney Nord and Christine Nord Anthony E Oakson and Brenda Oakson Richard W. Peters ’58 and Patricia Peters Thomas A. Sargent ’85 and Crystal Krug Sargent ’85 Jayne Poland Schreck ’90 and Joseph C. Schreck Marjorie Smolensky Jolyn Swain Ward ’84 and Richard L. Ward

Tartan Club $250-$499

James W. Albright ’69 Terry P. Brown and Linda Brown Brant A. Carius ’89 David Compton and Patricia Compton Jeff S. Cutler

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Dale A. Doebert and Jessica Amend James Dunn and Patricia Dunn Jon D. Durdan Jr. and Julie Durdan Joan Gilmour Robert B. Green ’81 and Roxanne Stanley Green ’81 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hallam Mary Auliff Havens ’72 and John P. Havens Robert A. Hiett ’50 J. Jarrod Hippen ’92 and Kristi Millar Hippen ’93 Judith Gardiner Johnson ’71 and Kevin M. Johnson Maureen Smiley Liesman ’60 † Orville D. Liesman ’61 Steven D. Mahrt and Vickie Mahrt * Brooks McDaniel Lynn A. Nelson ’57 Thomas W. Nichol ’54 and Barbara Williamson Nichol ’53 Melissa Painter Olson ’98 and Jeffrey Olson Mr. and Mrs. Francis Patch Therese Worden Rankin ’00 and Jeffrey D. Rankin Dorothy Aszman Ricketts ’83 Mitchell P. Russell ’98 and Julie Casteel Russell ’96 Jan Weshinskey Schons ’69 and Carl R. Schons Thomas E. Shie and Dianna Shie Robert Stanuch and Karen Stanuch Robert F. Stinauer ’76 and Cheryl Stinauer Donald P. Tanney ’79 and Crystal Tanney William T. Taylor and Judith Taylor Craig VanMetre and Donna VanMetre R. Tracy Williams ’75 and Cynthia Williams Linda Winter Mary Ann Smith Work ’60

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Phillip Abraham and Dana Abraham Thomas A. Appel and Jill Appel Mr. and Mrs. Craig Bauer John K. Baumann ’57 and Beverly Carlson Baumann ’58 Martha Beck * Thomas Best

Raymond S. Bland ’79 and Kimberly Whowell Bland ’81 Paul Bocchi and Holly Bocchi Patrick Briones and Tracy Briones Samuel P. Brooks and Sherrie Brooks Steven L. Buban Laura Cavanaugh ’86 James Clark and Jennifer Clark Rodney L. Cook and Cathy Cook * Robert L. Curtis ’79 Don Cutright and Jennifer Cutright Paul D. Dockins and Leann Dockins James Dodge and Constance Dodge Robert W. Douglas and Alice Douglas W. Brent Dugan ’94 and Marnie Steach Dugan ’95 Lynne Talbott Dulin ’90 and Gary M. Dulin John F. Eckley ’58 Jerry W. Farris and Linda Farris Anita Fillman Neil Finlen and Lynda Finlen Robert B. Firchau and Mary Firchau Michael Fisher and Heather Fisher Rolf Fredrick and Mary Fredrick Dan Gaherty and Cheryl Nation Kenneth Geiger ’53 and Sheryl Johnson Geiger ’56 Greg R. Gilliland ’77 and Susan Gilliland Christine Winkelman Glasgow ’89 and Terry L. Glasgow Jane Gramkow † Gordon J. Greenwood ’52 Daniel Greising and Rebecca Greising Timothy M. Haak ’80 and Christine Haak Mary Johnson Hanlin ’66 Kevin Hermie and Cathie Hermie Susan Higbee Adam G Holder and Jennifer Holder James P. Hughes and Mary Hughes Dale Hull * George W. Jamieson ’58 Stanley D. Jenks and Kay Jenks Ann Jones John J. Klein and Jana Klein

Paul J. Kossack and Joan Kossack Anthony D. Kozelichki and Linda Kozelichki Pamela Murray Kuby ’85 Gordon R. Lanning ’66 and Theresa Grozik Lanning ’68 Helen Culp Lawrence ’84 and Thomas J. Lawrence David D. Long and Linda Long Kathryn Mainz Mark Martin and Ann Martin † Mary Duncan McBride ’56 Eric McClaughry ’89 George B. McEldowney and Patricia McEldowney Barbara Rahn McKellar ’57 Robert D. McLaren ’66 and Bonnie Janicek McLaren ’68 Deena Fisher McLaughlin William M. McNall ’81 and Jane Simpson McNall Barry J. McNamara and Vicki McNamara Walter D. Morrill ’57 and Elaine Morrill Mary Peirce O’Brien ’68 and Kenneth O’Brien Lori O’Brien Oetting ’90 and Lance Oetting Bruce C. Ogilvie ’68 and Rebecca Reedy Ogilvie ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Terry H. Ostermeier William Pakosz and Patricia Pakosz Gregory S. Phillips ’82 and Rae Jean Meier Phillips ’82 Vernon Peter Pitts and Patricia Pitts Thomas G. Poeltler ’70 and Gini Poeltler David P. Poirier and Christine Poirier Raymond Pollastrini and Mary Pollastrini Dana L. Poole and Janice Poole Jerry E. Pruett and Joan Pruett Rosemary Pullen David A. Riggs ’87 and Elizabeth Baumann Riggs ’89 Gary Rohrer and Berta Rohrer Harold L. Saline ’72 and Terrie Saline Jane Clark Sanderson ’52 William G. Schlobohm David K Sebben and Erin Sebben Peter R. Sheets and Mary Sheets Stanley W. Simonson and Katherine Simonson

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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Hillis Skov Kevin D. Swift Charles Temaner and Laury Temaner Edward T. Thompson and Annette Thompson Mark L. Todd and Laurie Todd Kevin Turner and Dawn Turner Judith Fiene Van Horn ’66 and Robert J. Van Horn * Dorothy Young Voetberg ’59 Don L. Voss and Brooke Voss Daniel Weaver and Tracey Weaver David O. Wildermuth and Sandra Wildermuth Brett D. Wolfe ’90 and Lisa Bitar Wolfe ’94 John Wollenburg and Deborah Wollenburg Linda Yelm Steven M. Zaleski and Elizabeth Turnbull-Zaleski

Pipers Club $1-$99

Wayne T. Addison and Suellen Addison Betty Babcock Casey A. Ball William K Barrington and Jean Barrington Michael D. Barry and Trina Barry Cindy Beadles Richard Bell and Susan Bell * Nancy Garretson Benzon ’64 * Mary Hanford Bianchi Charles B. Blackman and Larena Blackman E. Dean Blust and Jeanne Blust Lenard Bolon and Wendine Bolon Sandra Bryant Debbie Roth Burke ’87 and Crescent F. Burke Karen Butler Ann Callaway Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Carlson Thomas J. Carroll and Barbara Carroll William Carter and Joy Carter * Diane Hull Carver Martha Carwile Ildefonso Cervantes Lagunas Jason Chamberlin and Andra Chamberlin David S. Christensen and Rebecca Christensen Paul Clennon and Barbara Clennon Michael L. Connell and Linda Connell

* Gary L. Daniels Arturo M. De Vitalis ’50 Paulino Diaz and Elvira Diaz Cynthia Drea Timothy A. Dycus and Bridget Dycus Kevin R. Eckley and Lisa Eckley John P. Edmonds ’71 and Christine Zak-Edmonds Jerald D. Eiserman ’68 and M. Simpson Eiserman ’68 Brian Enburg and Carla Enburg Carl R. Fairand and Debbie Fairand Thomas D. Ferguson and Amy Dickenson-Ferguson Vicki Fogle Jill Franklund Clarissa Gentzler George E. Gillen and Mary Gillen Matt O. Gillen and Jevanie Gillen Mary Martin Graham ’70 and Stephen W. Graham Jr. Ron Hall and Audree Hall Jeffrey P. Harshbarger and Cynthia Harshbarger Donald Hartshorn and Mary Hartshorn Dennis R. Hermosillo and Lisa Hermosillo Fabian Herrera and Dorys Almeida Herrera Kevin Hickey and Joanne Hickey Aimee Holmes Blake A. Hughes John C. Hughes Sr. ’74 and Patricia Hughes Mary Beth Incorvati Rebecca Jordan Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kelleher William L. Kelly and Susan Kelly Mr. and Mrs. John Kerr Gerald Korb and Loree Korb Mr. and Mrs. James Kotleba Peter Koupas and Georgia Koupas * Betty Montgomery Kreminski ’94 Alice Higgins Lawson ’73 Valerie Hickerson Lawson ’80 and Philip Lawson Peter L. Leverenz ’69 and Frances Biedenstein Leverenz ’72 Brian D. Logan and Brenda Logan Michael Mainz David R. Mann ’95 and Elizabeth Doty Mann ’95 Kathleen Markland Mohsin Masood and Farhat Haq

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Frank J. McChristy and Mary McChristy Donald McClarey and Catherine McClarey Al McGuire and Beverly McGuire Lyndon D. Meyer D. Kevin Miller and Dana Miller Doug Miller and Deborah Miller Glen Misek and Laurel Kilpatrick Beth Moorehouse Bradley Nelson and Jennifer Nelson Charles F. Nelson and Julie Nelson Michael L. Nelson and Sheila Nelson Donald Nutting and Paula Nutting Barry O’Brien and Mary O’Brien Reid Olson and Maureen Olson Russell Orwig ’84 and Beverly Orwig Sheri White Owen ’96 Lazaro M. Perez and Ann Perez David Poremba and Ann Poremba Karen Friedrich Pyatt ’84 and Jerry Pyatt Stephen L. Rider and Karen Rider Gail Riester Brenda Robinson-Young C. Bird Romano ’77 Carolyn Ross Rusty L. Ruggles and Amber Ruggles George N. Ruglio and Tracey Ruglio Kenneth Schneider and Vanessa Schneider Kenneth D. Schweitzer and Debra Schweitzer Howard V. Scott and Donna Scott Faith Selzer Mr. and Mrs. P. Duane Serven Mark Shallenberger and Patricia Ohler Shallenberger Gregory Simpson ’87 and Gail Cook Simpson ’87 Peter D. Smithhisler and Christina Smithhisler James H. Sosnowski and Linda Sosnowski George D. Sprout and Peggy Sprout Susanne Testin Gregory J. Thoele Therese Thoele George A. Tolsky and Deborah Tolsky Anthony K. Tramil and Diana Tramil

Lowell Trammell and Karen Trammell Paul Trettin and Tracy Trettin Steven Ven Huizen and Dawn Ven Huizen James T. Widdop and Constance Widdop Lori Willhite Carl Williams and Lana Williams Ed Williams and Alice Williams Wayne Williams Sr. and Kenya Williams Randall K. Winbigler and Janice Winbigler Luke Witherell and Meredith Witherell Judy Yeast

FACULTY AND STAFF Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * Clarence R. Wyatt

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 Sarah Young

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499

* Jennifer Armstrong * Michael J. Blaesing ’96 * Charles Duane Bonifer * Robert Crawley * Kristen English * Kristyne Gilbert ’90 * Mollie Williams Harrod ’07 * Laura Hutchinson * Hannah Reagor Maher * Bobbi Swarts Pio ’92 Melony Sacopulos * Thomas J. Sienkewicz * William Urban Mark E. Willhardt

Scots Club $500-$999

Gena Corbin Alcorn ’88 * Chad M. Braun * Jennifer Braun * Dana Jensen Robin A. Johnson ’80 Christine Johnston * Michelle Merritt-Juszczyk ’89 Laura Moore * Thomas A. Sargent ’85 * Jayne Poland Schreck ’90 * Joseph C. Schreck

Tartan Club $250-$499 Sherry Bair Marjorie Bond Wendy Downing * Lori Ferguson Ronda Ehlen Hall ’85

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C onstituent Groups –Faculty and Staff (continued) Roger D. Haynes ’82 Sarah Henderson * Kristi Millar Hippen ’93 * Jessica DeVore Johnston ’04 Brian C. Jordan ’09 * Dan A. Nolan * Karen Ogorzalek * Mark S. Ogorzalek * Jeffrey Olson * Daniel J. Ott * Teresa Ott Timothy A. Pahel McKenzie Price * Jeffrey D. Rankin * Therese Worden Rankin ’00 * Mitchell P. Russell ’98 * Michelle Holschuh Simmons * Robert Holschuh Simmons * Jeani Randall Talbott ’95 * Lori Walters-Kramer Jonathan M. Welty ’12 Joan Wertz

Highlanders Club $100-$249 Andre P. Audette * Kevin S. Baldwin Mary Beintema * Alan R. Betourne II ’05 * Sherrie Brooks Steven L. Buban * Susan Inskeep Clark * Rodney L. Cook Kenneth L. Cramer * Andrea Gillen Crum * Andrew R. Davis * Marnie Steach Dugan ’95 * Lynne Talbott Dulin ’90 Danny S. Evers ’18 * Heather Fisher * Anne Giffey * Greg R. Gilliland ’77 Kooten Johnson Ashwani Kumar Tamara La Prad Jialin Li * Stacy Ashton Lotz Kathryn Mainz Anne Mamary Deena Fisher McLaughlin * Jacob R. McLean ’15 * William M. McNall ’81

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* Barry J. McNamara * Lori O’Brien Oetting ’90 Trudi Peterson * Dana L. Poole * Douglas B. Rankin ’79 * Julie Rothbardt * Jennifer Erickson Sanberg ’10 Keith Schaefer * Todd A. Skrivseth * Shweta Arpit Srivastava * Heather Downing Turnquist ’99 * Craig Watson * Brian K. Woodard ’97 Linda Yelm

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Trina Barry Cindy Beadles * Jeanne Blust * Wendine Bolon Agnes Boock Tim Bridge * Michelle Flaar Carlson ’04 * Nicholas E. Carlson ’08 * Daryl B. Carr ’88 Martha Carwile * Michael L. Connell * Mindy Damewood Michelle Damian * Lynn Daw Debra DeCrane * Jennifer Pilnik Dickens Marsha Dopheide * Lisa Eckley Eric Engstrom Rachel Evans * Christopher Fasano * John R. Foster Jr. * Joseph J. Freitag ’07 Timothy P. Gaster * Jevanie Gillen Audra Goach * Sharon Gonzalez Julianna Graf ’16 * Farhat Haq * Jessica Hawkinson-Dorow Brooke Heiser * Megan Hinrichsen * Kristina Kinney Elizabeth Kopping Petra Kuppinger * Erin Lafary Lafary ’15 * Tara Todd Lewis ’03 Carolyn Liesen Nancy Loch * Kyle Martin Brock A McNinch Hayleigh Miller Jill Munson

Paula Nuckles Sheri White Owen ’96 * Emilee Renwick Nicholas Rizzo Kevin R. Roberts Bradley Rowe * John N. Salazar Jordan Scherpe-Lencioni * Howard V. Scott * Patricia Ohler Shallenberger Kirby Stockwell * Marci Switzer Emily Thebeau * Amy Warrington Christopher Wilson David C. Wright * Janis Wunderlich

FRIENDS President’s Club $25,000 or more * Elizabeth Ardell * John L. Collier † DeBow Freed * Beverly Goldsborough * Rebecca Hart * Deborah Kopinski * Liz McGehee * Betty Peacock * Dean Skanderup * Lee Yahnke

David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 * Kathleen Dickson * Curtis M. FitzGerald Vincent D. Mahoney * Josephine Mainetti Thomas J. and Sue McDowell * Lonn W. Myers * Linda Oggel J. Hunter and Julie Peacock Robert J. Shriner Jr. * Diane Smith Lynn Stubblebine * Leslie Svoboda * Daniel Watts Ronald C. Wheeler * Peter N. Witty * Michael Zachmeyer

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999 * James F. Beall * Harlow B. Blum Robert and Hope Cerpa * Richard Edwards * Linda Garro * David W. Greer * Pamela Kerr * Judith Knox * Kristina Lewis * Kenneth McLeod

* Debra Snyderman Nahrstadt * Carolyn Plummer * Kay Riley * Michael R. Robinson Martha Siegel * Joyce Simpson * Raymond E. Sorenson * Lobie Stone Ruth Wright

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 Ronald L. and Jane Bowers * Bonnie Carroll * Carolyn Cottrell * Marcia Courson * Ben R. Day * Kristie DiGiorgio * Barbara Graue Kathleen Johnson * Michele Johnson * Phyllis Kaskel * Judy Klusendorf * Shari Kuroki * Shalaine Maher * Dina Nathanson * Daniel O’Hara * Donna Perzigian * Ned C. Roberts Nancy Snowden * Robert K. Thierry III * Winona Willing George J. Wolcott

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Anonymous * Kent Armstrong * Wanda Asplund * Susan Austin * Lyle Baele * Winona Barcon * Shirley Barton * Susan Bates * Brandt Beeman * Eileen Beveridge * Larry Blume * Robert Bollman Gail Bunce * Monique Burge * Barbara Caldwell * Yolette Lorquet Colclasure * Richard A. Coon * Karen Dahlstrom * Dawn Darner F. Garvin Jr. and Bernice Davenport James L. and Janet De Young * Dorene Denney * Cynthia Dorsch * Gregory M. Dotseth * Julia Duffy * Barbara Evans

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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* Mary Eyre-Cerkez * Charles E. Fienning Daryl and Susan Fisher Marie Foster * Kathleen Fuller * May Gamer * Kim Goehl Linda Groves * Merle B. Growden * Judi Heck Jacquelyn Condon Gilbert and Victoria Hennenfent * Keely Hillison * Ines Irelan * Monica Kapoor * Mary Karcher * Ronda Kelley * William E. Kerr Robert W. Jr. and Mary King Mr. and Mrs. Erik Kocher * Elizabeth Kreitler Louis John Lawson † Suellen Lee Pierre and Lynn Loomis * Dennis Lowry * James C. Lubs * Jeffery G. Maher * Laura McCabe * Ann McEntee * Kathryn McGrath * Diane McQueen * Gayle Mimnaugh * Susan Mitchell * Lynette Cadwell Mortonson * Paige Niehaus * Martha Pailes * Corey Plath * Virginia Rassieur * Anna Richards * John M. Roberts John Schwind * Dave Scott * Janet Agan Shauman * Ruth Simmons * Ilene Sipe Nancy Slater * Debra Smith * Tina Tupper * Kirk Van Kuiken * Debbie Weiman * Laura Welti * Jonathan Wiswall * Bronwyn Yocum * Paul C. Ziebert

Scots Club $500-$999

* Benjamin R. Bebout Nancy Blew * Carolee Block * Georgiana Bollman Scott and Janey Bond

* Sharon Borine * Lorraine Botticelli * Judith Bowen * Gerald Brooks * Tary L. Brown * Joyce Carolus * Melvin Coleman Simon C. and Stacy Cordery Christopher Cox and Katherine Young William Cox and Diana Horne * Foong Crooks Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D’Agostino * Barbara Dahl * Julie Danner * Victor E. Dobras * William Duncan Trevor Ewell * Peter C. Fishburn Nancy Fritz Susan Fritz Christopher J. and Lisa Gavin Peter A. and Janet Gebauer * Lois Hadsell * John Haynor * Ron Hoppe-Hastings Patricia Ikan * Margaret Jaynes * Reese Kemp * Harold T. Kinney Sr. * Millicent Knight * Robert Kraft * Jerry Ledbetter * Judith Lindsay Kenneth W. Livermore Kathleen Lowe-Arthur Kari Loya * Marna McDaniel R. Jeremy and Mary McNamara * Clarence W. McQuillan Robert E. and Carolyn Meling * Roxanne Mitchell * Sandra Murray * John R. Nelson * Bruce Edmund Nolin * Sean D. O’Laughlin * Beth Owens * Michel Palomo * Norma Phelps Jane Hartley Pratt * Sara Ragar * James Roolf Mr. and Mrs. James Sandberg John Richard Sayre and Mary Phillips Stephen Sichak * Mary Smith * Deila Steiner * Ellen Stergulz * James Stipp

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

* Jane Taylor * Joyce Van Cura * Richard L. Ward Ruth Wilson * J. Bradley Zessin

Tartan Club $250-$499

* Helen Adam * Sally Adams * Vicki Amgott * Maryellen Anderson Anne Baker * Ben H. Baker Vera Barnes * Marisa Barrile * Daniel P. Beatty * Douglas E. Bellm * Dennis Blewitt * Debbie Bockler * Melody Bollin Michael L. and Linda Bowers * Darwin Bretsch * Jani Brooks Ralph D. and †Marjorie Butler Bruce Chapman Mary Chatfield * Jennifer Clair * Kenn R. Corban Paula Cramer * Ashley Davis * Louise DeDera * Christina Edwards * Dawn Edwards * Roxann Elsey * Jon Ferguson * Wayne F. Fesler Kim Fornero * Dee Garretson * Else Goodman * Robert P. Gundersen * Elizabeth Hamilton * Bradford Hardie * Barbara Hartig * Karen Hartman * Lori Herrin Rose Hofer * Carrie Holland * Lois Jornlin * Dennis K. Kohlmeyer * Tim Kramer * Jodi Kruse * William C. Lee * Beverly Linnihan * Gloria Mar * Linda McDaniel * Judy McKee * Sharon McKinley * Connie Mell * Terry D. Moss * Rhonda Murmann * John M. Myers

* Kay Nolan * Jeanette Novarina * Nathan J. Parsons Miriam Patton * Jaclyn Paulsgrove * Suzanne Peterson * Roxanne Pulitzer * Alice Purington Ursula Reinhold * Sandra Remmert * Colin A. Romero * Patricia Root * Amber Ross * Martha Sanders * Dianne Sears * Lawrence Seiwert Michael D. Silver and Suzanne Woll * Joan Suffredini * Jean Tait * Mark W. Talbott * John Van Kirk Sarah Twomey Walters * Julie Weber * Patricia Weeks Esther White * Marsha Wilson * Jean Wolf * Stewart D. Work

Highlanders Club $100-$249

Anonymous * James Abbott * Gordon Ainsworth * Daniel A. Alfrey * Annetta Allen * Kay Amy Linda Anderson * Mary Anderson * Dennis Ary * Robert Ashen * Margaret Asoian Robert R. and Christine Ayers * Steven W. Babcock * Heather Henson Baldwin * Ronald Barman * Cale Becker * Lisa Betourne * Todd L. Bezenah * Joyce Bianucci * Robert Bibens * Michael Biederstadt Susan Blaesing Barton Blum and Tenny Frost * Kathryn Bondurant Andrew R. and Mary Boster * Karen Bowden * Amy Boyd * Roderick P. Brand * George T. Britton III * Samuel P. Brooks

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C onstituent Groups –Friends * Abby Brown * Bruce Brown * Duane Albert Brown * K. Reagin Brown * Max A. Brown Mark W. Brownlee * Susan Bubb * Robert Budach * Melanie Burns * Judy Calhoun * Len V. Campbell * Patricia Campbell * Penny Campbell * Blanche Capilos * Jeremiah Carscadden * Thelma Chatfield Paul Cheffers * Alex D. Clark David Reid Clark * Jennifer Clark * Patrick E. Clinnin * Fred B. Croner Jr. * Curtis L. Crum * Catherine Darrah * Tammy Davis * Mary Dawson * Karen Deam * Laura Derbak * Robert G. Dickinson * Stefanie Dougherty Dorothy Douglas * Barbara Downard * Gary M. Dulin * Nicole Mason Edmonds * Bonnie Edson * Tom Edwards * Elizabeth Eichin * Branndon Elsbree * Fredrick C. Estes James W. and Kel-Ann Eyler John R. and Fonda Eyler * Sharon Fish * Tim Fitzgibbon * John Foley * Joanne Forkner James C. and Gladys Free Gary Funk * Elizabeth Gardner * Keith Garrison * Patricia Gee * Stephanie George * Katie Gerrity * Shabana Gidwani Trent and Adrienne Gilbert * Valerie Glotfelty * Mike Green * Judith Greer * Janet Grummitt

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* Gary Haman * Robert Hamrin * Edward H. Harrison * Judy Heitz * Debbie Henderson * Linda Henley * Cheryl Henry John E. Hermann * Michael Herzog * Allison Hickerson Martin Holland and Catherine Schell * Ronald R. Hunt * Jesse W. Ivy * Jo Jamieson * B. Rees Jones * Susan Kanter * Nancy Kenney * William D. Keys * Ellen Killey * Joellyn Kinzer * Kevin Richard Knitter * Spencer Knox * Holly Kost Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Kramer Walter Kretchik and Pamela Kontowicz * Kevin Kromer * Richard H. Kruse Alan J. Kulczewski * Winnie Larson Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Lawson * Shirley Lieb * Loren C. Lindeke * Carol Lindsay * David Long * Alejandro Lopez * William Lotz * H. Cecil Lovdahl * Paul Ludkey * Ann Ludlow * H. James Lyall * Wayne MacVey * John Mangian * Randy Manthei * David Martin * Janet Martin * Patricia Matthews * Robert C. McCoy * James L. McDonald * Norma McDonald Kenneth G. McMillan * Kim Meinhart * Chad Messman * Rebecca Miles * Victoria Millar Judy Minteer * Mary Morgan

* Peggy Morton * Charles A. Mullen * Jeffrey L. Myers David W. Newell * Mary Noton * Lance Oetting * Phyllis Ortman John and Beth Osterlund * Barbara Paasch * Thomas Parker * James J. Paton Joyce Patterson * Kathleen Patterson * Elizabeth Paulson * Michael Pearson * Kevin Peterson * Christine Pfaffmann * Janice Poole * Richard N. Porter Barbara Provus * James E. Pushaw * Jose Raices * Linda Raih * Sylvia Ramsey-Rezner * Judith Rhodenbaugh * Dudley Ricketts * Joy Rodgers * Todd W. Rogers * Gregory Rothbardt * Ann Rowland * Mary Ruyle Erhard G. Saettler * Benjamin C. Sanberg * Catherine Sawyer Tabbi Schimmelpfennig * Connie Schurr * Robert Sherman * Thomas Shilton * Nancy Shunick John A. Sieben * David L. Simmons * Karen Simpson Kathie Skahill * Sarah Skrivseth * Antoinette Smith Thomas J. Snee and Julia Druckmiller James L. and Barbara Spiker * James Spotts * Chad Springer * Arpit Srivastava Sharon Stangenes * John Stebbins * Bonnie Stephenson * Paul Stoffer * Carole Thompson Craig V. Timm Mr. and Mrs. Kent Timm * Joyce Tuttle * Tori Tweedy * Harold Varce

* Helen Verigan * Allen Voetberg * Stephen L. Walsh * Susan Ward * Margaret Watson * Robert I. Watson Jr. * Matthew Wawrzynski * Linda Wayne * Maurine Webb * John Welch * Howard West Jennifer White * Barbara Wolma David and Frances Work * Marilyn Yarde * John Young

Pipers Club $1-$99

* Constance Acheson Wayne I. Anderson * Chance Baker Amanda Balser * Michael D. Barry * Bill Bartnicki * Michele Bates Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Beal Amy Becker * Richard R. Benzon Robert Berndt * Robert Bianchi * Brenda Birkhofer Mr. and Mrs. Loren J. Blackfelner * Jeanne Blust Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bogatz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bosgraaf * Anthony Bowling Mary Bradley † Charles A. Brekken * Gary M. Briddick * Diane Brown * Katherine Bruckman * Lynn Brunswick * Justin Burke Sarah Burns * Kevin Caba * Krystal Carlson * Peggy Carr * Frieda Carstens * Nathan Catour Mr. and Mrs. Keith Chase Annabelle Clark Chrysovalantis Constantinou Janet Cook Kathryn Cullivan * Dennis E. Curtin * Jason R. Damewood * Mary Daniels Jackson Davis * Brian W. Daw * Eric Dickens * Ryan Dorow

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

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* Carrie Downs * Betty Effland Sue Eklund * Donna Elmer * Robert Engelhardt * Daryl Etzbach * Cynthia Evans Richard E. and Susan Farthing * Catherine Fasano Rebecca Fitzgerald * Bryan Fitzjarrald * Annjanette Foster * Ruth Foster * Michael Fouts Ruth Fredrickson James Furst * Gary A. Garwood David Geer * Karen Goss * John B. Griffin * Dan Gross Chris Grover * Joy Harvey * Molly Heatherly David Henebry * Kellen Hinrichsen * Haley Munson Hochmuth * Chris Holmes * Thomas D. Holst Michael and Susan Hufford Becky Hutton * Lisa Janes * Simon Joaquin * Miranda Jones Artemaeus Julien Karoline Kamzic * Judith Kellner Joseph Kennedy * James E. Kenney Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kileen Jan Kiley Jim and Stephanie Kinkaid * Jerry L. Kinney * Dawn Kirk * Jacob Klinger Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Kohlmeyer * Karl Kreminski Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Krulac Kristin Larson * Greg Lewis * Neil Lewis * Mark Macomber * Gary G. Makowski * Caitlin Martin * Donald Martino * Melissa Matthews * Ron McCabe * Dallas Kraig McCreary Valerie McManus David D. Metzger

Ruth Metzger Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller Timothy and Jennifer Miller * James J. Mohan * Barbara Muntzel Sierra Nealey * Mi Nelson * Sandra Neudahl * Howard Nolte * Jon Opperman * Steven J. Orte * Beverly Orwig * Paul Scott Page Linda Park Marcia Parrish * Quentin J. Peterson Steve Pigg Heather Powell Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Price * Mark Rehn Maeve Reilly Ola Robb * Robert Roehl Joann Rompella * Brian Roseman * Gregory Russell * Sarah Schoper * Joyce Schwartz * Ronald Ray Selken * Mark Shallenberger Craig Sheagren * Bob L. Shull * Michael L. Shull Alex Simmons Benedict Simmons David Simmons Marc Simmons Patricia Simmons * William Simons Anita Sims Mr. and Mrs. Nathanial E. Sloan Jr. John D. Smallwood * Henry Smith * Rodney Smith * Bruce L. Snyder Irina Solonenko Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Sparks Russell and Rhonda Spence Aleesha Sramek * Barbara St. George * Ronald J. Stambaugh * Jack K. Stephens * Jeff Stevenson * Leslie Stickels * Elizabeth Storms * Charlie Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sullivan * Joseph Switzer * Frank Szitta Tala Tabishat

Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Tamima Tabishat Tia Taylor Tatman Jeff Taviner * Carole Taylor * Don C. Teel * Marc Thannert Deanna Trout Susan Van Kirk Marilyn Vaughn * Lee Venvertloh * Craig E. Wagner Jane Walker Jody Warden * Kevin D. Warrington * Bruce W. Weal Carolyn Weber Mr. and Mrs. David E. White * Dale Whiteside Dennis R. and Peggy Willhardt * Oliver R. Williams * Taylor Wilmoth * Judith Wimer Douglas F. Winebright Winfield Ye * Steve Yuchs * Ching Zedric

BUSINESSES AND CORPORATIONS Anonymous Aramark Global Business Services ASLON Group Atty. Wesley A. Morris Office Account Bane and Shunick Blackman Electric, Charles Blackman BLDD Architects, Inc Caterpillar Matching Gifts Program Charities Aid Foundation of America State Farm Companies Foundation Disbursement Portal Coastwide Environmental Compton Accounting David Vaughan Investments Inc. Dominion Energy Foundation E. Davis Coots Exxonmobil Foundation First Lutheran Church Greenridge Properties Harvey L. Echols, M.D. Hieu Tran DBA Insurance Agent High Peak Partners LLC ITW Corporate Disbursement John P. White Jr. Attorney At Law Johnson and Johnson Matching Gifts Program

Julia A. Paulson, DMD, and Peter L. Paulson, DMD Kone Inc. Law Offices of Robert E. Hillison Memorial Hospital Michael D. Danner, D.D.S. MidAmerican Energy Foundation Midwest Bank MPR Farms MTC Communications Neil Sillars Stewart, MD Nelson Consulting LLC Network for Good - CDW Corporation Matching Gifts Porter-Hay Insurance Agency Inc. Prairie Vista Farm QRSE LLC Rip Fulton Business Account Sarah Walters Independent Beauty Consultant Security Savings Bank Shields Auto Center SJW Enterprises LLC Market Alley Wines Southern Star Finishes, LLC Spengler Design & Construction, Inc. State Farm Companies Foundation Stephen L. Rider DDS The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Deere & Company The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Microsoft The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Abbott Laboratories The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Google William S. Daniel Attorney At Law Wortman Farm Account Wyndemere Senior Care LLC YourCause, LLC Trustee Abbvie Employee Engag Fund YourCause, LLC Trustee for Bayer YourCause, LLC Trustee for Chevron Matching Employee Fund YourCause, LLC Trustee for Mastercard Impact Fund YourCause, LLC Trustee for Monsanto YourCause, LLC Trustee for Norfolk Southern Foundation YourCause, LLC Trustee for Robert Half

ESTATES Bernie and Helen Wiener Charitable Fund Forrest & Harriet Strickler Trust

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C onstituent Groups –E states (continued) George J. Lewis Trust Janice R. Gundersen Trust Hackbrush Family Trust Harold A. Jacobs and Madeline R. Jacobs Revocable Trust Jacqueline Shoemaker Estate Janice Gundersen Estate Samuel Groves CRUT W. Jerome Hatch Trust

FOUNDATIONS, SCHOLARSHIPS, TRUSTS & DONOR ADVISED FUNDS Anonymous 2013 Luttrell Family Trust Albert H. Stahmer Foundation Inc. Alvin T. Peterson Trust Ann B. Michael IRA Anne Harmon IRA Arlene C. Flynn IRA Augustin S. Hart IRA B. Gertrude Davis Trust Baele Family Charitable Fund Barbara Van Cura IRA Beall Family Charitable Gift Fund Block Family Giving Fund Carolyn Phelps Trust Chestnut Family Charitable Fund Cline-Lofftus Foundation Community Foundation of the Ozarks Grants and Distributions Account Curt and Susie FitzGerald Foundation D’Agostino Morgan Stanley Gift Fund Daniel O’Hara IRA David A. Bowers Foundation David A. Bowers IRA David A. Bowers Revocable Trust David B. Stimpson & Linda S. Stimpson Trust David L. Arnold IRA David M. and Sally Devries Family Charitable Fund Dean and Ilene Sipe Living Trust DeBow Freed IRA Dennis E. and L. Jean Curtin Fund Dennis Plummer Charitable Fund Denniston Revocable Trust Dew Revocable Trust Donald and Victoria Gladfelter Charitable Fund Dwight Tierney IRA

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E. Jay Van Cura MD Charitable Fund Ed and Ellen Perry Group Fund Edward Arthur Mellinger Educational Foundation, Inc. Susy D. Condon IRA Esther M. White Trust Frank Adam III Revocable Living Trust Frederick and Phyllis Kaskel IRA Gail Bunce IRA Gail Landauer IRA Galesburg Community Foundation Gary and Mary Anne Daniels Trust Gary C. Niehaus Revocable Trust Gordon Young IRA Greg and Mary Ellen Smith Giving Account J & L Freedom Foundation J & V Flynn Foundation Jackson Family Trust Charitable Fund Jacobsen Family Foundation James & Judith Calhoun Trust James DeYoung IRA James R. Klusendorf IRA Jan M. Schons Trust Jane Kaski Hamilton Trust Jeanne Robeson IRA Jerry K. and Susan Mitchell Family Trust Jerry Ledbetter IRA John A. Sieben Living Trust John and Mary Moore Charitable Fund John D. Schwind Living Trust John Hermann Trust Kapoor Family Fund Karl K. Taylor IRA Kennedy J. Reed IRA Kevin Kelley IRA Lee & Judith Schaeffer Jr. Charitable Fund Leon A. Kraut IRA Lila Blum IRA Lilly Endowment, Inc. Linda Klabunde Trust Lorain Jewel Nicholls IRA Margaret C. Bozarth IRA Margaret Oakley Trust Margaret Roberts IRA Marlyn W. Rinehart Charitable Fund Martha Aitchison Siegel IRA Mary A. Anderson and Bruce A. Anderson Trust

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Harlow B. Blum David A. Bowers ’60 Fonda Eyler John R. Eyler Kenneth C. Gould ’53 Emma Hildebrand ’20 Hannah Reagor Maher Terry Burke Murschel ’79 William C. Murschel ’75

MEMORIAL GIFTS

Paul M. Barnes ’36 Luther Bowers Marjorie Bowers Robert H. Buchholz Arlyn Verploeg Cox ’49 Jane Robb Davis ’62 Arthur L. Davison ’58 Clairus M. Dew ’38 Robert W. Eyler ’40 Doris Robinson Eyler ’41 Thomas E. Flanders ’54 Peter A. Frantzen ’35 Alice Patton Frantzen ’31 Roger J. Fritz ’50 Kathryn Goddard Fritz ’50 Shirley Edwards Furst ’54 James D. Galbreath ’78 Shirley Leiner Greenfield ’45 Paul N. Holbrook ’54 Ronald Ikan ’63 Susan McDougall Kennedy ’52 John M. Kriegsman ’62 Dennis R. Lavigne ’67 John B. Lawson ’47 Joan Garrison Lewis ’53

* JOINT GIFT {spouse listed elsewhere} † DECEASED {from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020}

HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS 2019-2020

Mervyn H. Loya ’62 Mary Duncan McBride ’56 James J. Mock ’65 Allen C. Morrill Terry R. Park ’62 Grace Gawthrop Peterson ’22 Channing L. Pratt ’51 Juanita Winbigler Reinhard ’42 Anne McLoskey Romine ’54 John M. Slater II ’70 Mary Uhler Smith ’41 Mary Work Theis ’42 Willis R. Tribler Carol Dettman Wolcott ’63 Minna Fricke Work ’33 J. Richard Work ’43 Raymond P. Work ’33 Evelyn Beattie Work ’39 Robert M. Work Jr. ’32

ORGANIZATIONS Faith United Presbyterian Church Illinois 8-MAN Football Association Presbytery of Great Rivers Rural Schools Collaborative, Inc. South Shore Football Camp

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Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * Danette Bagley-Thierry ’86 * John C. Carlson ’74 * Eugene R. Dawson ’63 * Sean P. Maher ’95

Monmouth Club $1,000-$2,499 * Deanna Marchand Baele ’95 Tyler R. Baxter ’16 Mary Alexander Corrigan ’82 Craig A. Dahlquist ’78 Evelina Lipecka ’06 * Stanley L. McKelvie ’64 Michelle Moy ’89 Michelle Perry ’89 Jerri Picha ’75 * Christopher J. Pio ’84 * Byron Sondgeroth ’88 * Mark T. Tupper ’94 * Janice J. Van Kuiken ’03

Scots Club $500-$999

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Tartan Club $250-$499 * Roy E. Bockler ’72 Paul D. Rickey ’76

Highlanders Club $100-$249 * Hope Grebner Bibens ’11 * Wade R. Brown ’07 * Gregory I. Derbak ’75 * Zak S. Edmonds ’08 * Benjamin M. Hickerson ’05 Rachel Whitlock ’14

Pipers Club $1-$99

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David Wallace Club $10,000-$24,999 Michael B. McCulley ’70 * J. Hunter Peacock * J. Stanley Pepper ’76 * Sherman U. Smith ’72 Mark E. Taylor ’78 * Ralph R. Velazquez Jr. ’79 Fred Wackerle ’61 * Jean Peters Witty ’88 * Jackie Bell Zachmeyer ’89

Quinby Club $5,000-$9,999

Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 * Christine Beiermann Farr ’90 * F. Austin Jones Robert “Cam” McConnell ’72 * Bradley C. Nahrstadt ’89 * Dennis M. Plummer ’73 * Anita Ridge ’88 * William M. Simpson ’65 Beth Bowdoin Tyre ’96 Clarence R. Wyatt

Founders Club $2,500-$4,999 * John A. Courson ’64 * Anthony J. Perzigian ’66 Nancy Snowden * Dwight Tierney ’69

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Report reflects gifts received between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020

Barbara Watt Johnson ’52 * Gail Simpson Owen ’74 John J. Scotillo ’72 * Carlos F. Smith ’90 * Ralph E. Whiteman ’52

Scots Club $500-$999 * Daniel A. Cotter ’88 * John A. Kemp ’82

Tartan Club $250-$499

Gerald A. Marxman ’55

Memorial Commemoration Alumni, parents, and friends who died during the last fiscal year for whom gifts to Monmouth College were made in their memory are listed here, along with those who contributed to memorials.

Arthur L. Davison ’58 Robert L. Singer ’61 and Mary Jones Singer ’63 Clairus M. Dew ’38 Amy Becker Lyndea Dew Brown ’71 and Tary L. Brown Sarah Burns Larry R. Dew ’66 and Judith Burmeister Dew ’66 Dew Revocable Trust Ruth Fredrickson William L. Kelly and Susan Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Kramer Lynn A. Nelson ’57 Sharon Stangenes Kathryn Goddard Fritz ’50 Anonymous Nancy Fritz Susan Fritz Donald G. Whiteman ’49 James D. Galbreath ’78 Mary Smallwood Armstrong ’73 Susan Smallwood Schilson ’78 John D. Smallwood Paul N. Holbrook ’54 Wyndemere Senior Care LLC Ronald Ikan ’63 Michael E. Sproston ’64 and Donna Schliffke Sproston ’66 John B. Lawson ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Beal Mr. and Mrs. Loren J. Blackfelner Mary Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Keith Chase Michael L. Connell and Linda Connell Nancy Speer Engquist ’74 Rebecca Fitzgerald Greg R. Gilliland ’77 and Susan Gilliland Brian P. Holland ’76 and Carrie Holland

Stephen E. Holland ’73 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kileen Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Kohlmeyer Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Krulac Louis John Lawson Valerie Hickerson Lawson ’80 and Philip Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Lawson Valerie McManus Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller MPR Farms Raymond Fayhee Family Marcia Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Price Laurel Hornbaker Schoen ’73 Security Savings Bank Mr. and Mrs. Nathanial E. Sloan Jr. George D. Sprout and Peggy Sprout Donald C. Swartzbaugh ’76 Craig V. Timm Mr. and Mrs. Kent Timm Mark L. Todd and Laurie Todd Mr. and Mrs. David E. White Mervyn H. Loya ’62 Laura Turner Hoffman ’63 Mr. and Mrs. James Sandberg Mary Duncan McBride ’56 Jeanne Gittings Robeson ’60 James J. Mock ’65 David D. Biklen ’65 and Blanche Capilos Sue Eklund Robb A. Ruyle ’65 and Mary Ruyle Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sullivan Juanita Winbigler Reinhard ’42 Dorothy Walker Skanderup ’50 and Dean Skanderup Anne McLoskey Romine ’54 Jeanne Gittings Robeson ’60

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IN THE SCOTLIGHT

FANETTA JONES ’11 High school English teacher driven by higher calling

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annetta jones is doing what she can.

The 2011 Monmouth College graduate was already doing a lot in her role as an English teacher at King College Prep High School on the south side of Chicago.

But with a global pandemic changing the way she educates her students, followed by the Black Lives Matters marches and rallies, Jones was called to an even higher level of action.

One of her projects, serving as editor and a contributor to the book You Do What You Can: Black Expression in the Current Uprising, chronicles “how our people are feeling right now,” she said. Available on Amazon.com as an ebook and paperback, You Do What You Can is set up much like Monmouth’s literary arts magazine, Coil—to which Jones was a contributor as a student—featuring poems, artwork, essays and photographs.

Jones was asked how she is feeling right now.

“I am feeling exhausted, truthfully,” she replied. “When you’re told about another life lost, another individual unjustly treated or killed, it takes a toll on the psyche, on the spirit as a whole. But knowing that I’m part of the effort to help people keeps me going.

I want to do what’s right and serve in the way I can.”

That service is also highlighted by an initiative Jones helped start for neighbors in need. She started it with her friend and Knox College alumnus Jordan Lanfair, whom she met through an Associated Colleges of the Midwest diversity initiative, and who, like her, is a participant in the state’s Golden Apple program.

Another Monmouth graduate and Golden Apple participant who is involved in the initiative is Edy Ramirez ’13.

“One of the big things I’ve been doing in light of all the unrest

and challenge, both because of the quarantine and the rioting in light of George Floyd, has been working to start a #FeedThePeople initiative,” she said.

The community effort, which started with making sandwiches for those in need, has grown as contributions and donations have poured in. Two Chicagoland restaurants—Urban Grill and Ms. B’s Kitchen—have either donated meals or provided them at a reduced rate.

“We’re providing food for people in the community to combat food apartheid or food deserts,” said Jones. “A lot of communities have been hit hard, with some of the businesses being vandalized during the riots or closed for precaution. We’ve added non-perishables like diapers and hygiene products, just getting whatever it is that’s needed to the community.”

Prior to the shutdown caused by the covid-19 pandemic, Jones was co-coach of her high school’s poetry slam team, which competes in the nation’s largest youth poetry competition, Louder Than A Bomb. At Monmouth, she led a similar group, Sulci.

“I was involved in pretty much everything, other than Greek life and sports,” she said. “I was a Scot Ambassador, I was in the chorus, I was in honor societies and I was in the Coalition for Ethnic Awareness (which is now called Umoja). My ability to be involved in so many different things and with so many different people prepared me to give back today in a variety of means.”

She hopes to still be involved with Monmouth.

“I’m hopeful that with all the changes and how people are being enlightened that my connections to Monmouth can continue,” she said. “There’s already a network called MINA—the Monmouth Intercultural Network of Alumni. I hope they reach out to us.”

“…knowing that I’m part of the effort to help people keeps me going. I want to do what’s right and serve in the way I can.”

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2020 alumni impact awards

Shaddock, Gerdes honored with College’s

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wo Monmouth College trustees emeriti—Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock ’54

and Larry Gerdes—are this year’s inductees into the Hall of Achievement, the highest honor bestowed upon those connected with the College.

Inductees are traditionally recognized at a campus ceremony during Homecoming weekend. But with most of this year’s on-campus Homecoming events canceled because of the covid-19 pandemic, Shaddock and Gerdes were honored in a virtual, recorded event that was streamed online Oct. 9.

Shaddock, who was inducted for her pioneering efforts in the field of educational television, has been a loyal supporter of her alma mater, serving as longtime chair of the Board’s Academic Affairs Committee and offering financial support for such projects as the Hewes Library renovation, the establishment of a scholarship and the purchase of a new home for her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Most recognizably, she and her husband purchased The Manor on the corner of South 6th Street and East Broadway before returning it to the College, where it today is known as the Bonnie Bondurant Alumni House.

After a few years of teaching in California, she had the opportunity to venture professionally into educational television, a medium which was just getting off the ground. Using lessons learned from Monmouth biology classes as a foundation, her program taught science to third- and fourth-grade students.

From there, Shaddock became involved in communications and ultimately was called to the state capital by California’s superintendent of public instruction to draft legislation that brought funding for educational technology—including computers—into classrooms.

After serving as deputy director of the California Public Broadcasting Commission, Shadock co-founded Oliver/Asselin and ran it for 12 years. The company produced educational television programming for such clients as PBS, Encyclopedia Britannica and the U.S. Department of Education.

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A partner with Gerdes Huff Investments in Atlanta, Gerdes is a former member of the College’s Board of Trustees Executive Committee.

Gerdes was introduced to Monmouth through trustee Walter Huff ’56, who has been his boss, mentor and now business partner of more than 40 years.

Gerdes grew up on a small farm in Walnut, Ill., and was the first member of his family to go to college, enrolling in the agriculture school of the University of Illinois.

An aspiring entrepreneur, he started two different businesses and worked four jobs while still an undergraduate.

Armed with a master’s degree in busi-

Riggses named Monmouth’s Family of the Year Three generations of the Riggs family have attended Monmouth College, and members of each generation found their “sweetheart” on campus, marrying a Monmouth student.

That long legacy, as well as the support they’ve given Monmouth through the years, has earned the Riggses the 2020 Family of the Year honor.

The family’s connection to Monmouth began in 1956 when Ralph Riggs ’60 enrolled as a freshman. Soon after, he met and fell in love with classmate Judy Irelan. Judy’s brother, Bill Irelan ’62, was also a Monmouth graduate.

One of Ralph and Judy’s children, David Riggs, is a 1987 Monmouth graduate. David is married to 1989 alumna Beth Baumann Riggs, the daughter of the Rev. John ’57 and Beverly Carlson Baumann ’58. The family’s third generation at Monmouth was the couple’s daughter, Rebecca Riggs ’13, who met her future husband, Josh McEwen ’11, on campus.

They have also honored the family legacy with endowed scholarships in both Ralph and Judy’s name, and Bill Irelan has also endowed a scholarship. Irelan served on the College’s Board of Trustees from 1993 through 2013.

top award ness from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Gerdes took a position as a loan officer at a small bank in Peoria, Ill. His fortunes took an unexpected turn when the bank president asked him to evaluate the business plan of a friend.

That friend—Huff —soon became Gerdes’s friend and lifelong business partner.

Huff’s vision was to computerize record-keeping for the health services industry. Gerdes helped Huff secure the company’s first $1 million loan and then subsequent larger ones. Impressed by Gerdes’s financial strengths, Huff asked Gerdes to become chief financial officer of the company, named HBO & Co., for Huff and his partners, Bruce Barrington and Richard Owens.

When Huff’s two partners decided to retire, Huff and Gerdes moved the company to Atlanta. By then it had evolved into a patient information system. It went public in 1981, and 10 years later Gerdes and Huff left HBO to form Gerdes Huff Investments. HBO was eventually sold to McKesson.

Huff and Gerdes turned their attention to investing in startup companies, the most notable being a medical transcription service company called Transcend Services that they grew from seven to 3,500 employees. Gerdes served as CEO of the company for 17 years before it was sold to rival Nuance in 2012.

Gerdes was also co-general partner of Sandhill Financial Co. and Teton Ventures with Don Lucas, a noted venture capitalist in Menlo Park, Calif. From 1983–2019, those partnerships invested in 59 startups, several of which grew to over $1 billion in revenues. More than 20 became public companies.

Gerdes then became CEO of Pursuant Health, focusing his attention on health data kiosks measuring biometrics such as blood pressure and body mass that can now be found in the entire chain of 4,600 Walmart stores. Additionally, these kiosks collect Health Risk Assessment Data for major healthcare insurance companies.

Gerdes currently serves on the board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, having been its lead director from 2017–20, and he also chairs that board’s finance committee.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD Col. Stephen Bloomer ’83 was presented with the 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Award.

During his nearly 30-year tenure in the United States Armed Forces, Bloomer served in several leadership positions, culminating in his appointment as chief of staff for the Iowa Army National Guard.

Following retirement, Bloomer decided to begin a second career serving organizations he considered worthy and close to his heart, the first of which was Monmouth College, where he became a development officer in 2007.

In less than two years, Bloomer’s leadership and management abilities earned him promotion to a director position, where he developed the College’s major gifts strategy. He was named vice president for development and college relations in 2014, overseeing fundraising in sup-

port of the College’s strategic plan and campus master plan.

Bloomer left Monmouth in 2017 to provide his skills to another organization in need: Phi Delta Theta, which is headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. He currently serves the international fraternity as its senior vice president. Although major gift programs are in their infancy with organizations such as Phi Delt, Bloomer helped close out a $12.7 million campaign two years ahead of schedule.

Since joining Phi Delta Theta, Bloomer has hired and trained a new major gifts team and led it on another successful venture, surpassing a campaign launch goal of $3 million from 30 donors and securing a $1 million gift, something that has only happened a handful of times in fundraising for Greek organizations.

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DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD For his 27 years as an admissions counselor at Monmouth College, Peter Pitts of Aurora, Ill., is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Service Award.

Over the course of four decades in admissions, much of which was spent at Monmouth, Pitts helped more than 2,000 students go to college.

For Pitts, who retired from the College last year, those students were like an extended family of children whose accomplishments he followed

proudly, long after they graduated. In particular, he worked with students from underserved populations. The percentage of minority students enrolled at Monmouth quadrupled during his time, thanks to a College-wide effort.

Following his retirement, Pitts has remained active in the admissions field, working as an independent consultant and publishing a memoir about his more than 40 years working as a college admissions counselor, After Breakfast I Change Lives.

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YOUNG ALUMNUS AWARD Zak Edmonds ’08 of West Peoria, Ill., was presented with this year’s Distinguished Young Alumnus award.

Edmonds followed his father, Jay Edmonds ’71, uncle Chris Edmonds ’74 and brother Adam Edmonds ’99 to Monmouth, a school he said he knew he was destined to attend “since about second grade.”

His devotion to his alma mater has included taking a position on the Alumni Board. While serving as a member of its Alumni Engagement Committee, Edmonds helped establish the

“Tartan Talks” webinar series.

Edmonds worked for the national office of his Monmouth fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega; at CEFCU credit union in Peoria, Ill.; and in the insurance field before his current position as a business development specialist for OSF HealthCare in Peoria, where he helped expand the employer relations team from two workers 10.

Among his professional accomplishments, he has helped OSF Holy Family and Monmouth College become more aligned by formalizing an internship program that benefits Monmouth students.

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HATCH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Stacy Lotz, a 25-year veteran of Monmouth’s department of art, received the 2020 Hatch Award for Excellence in teaching.

While attending a community college, Lotz took ceramics under future Monmouth College art professor Cheryl Meeker, who a decade later hired her for a position at Monmouth that even-

tually led to Lotz becoming her successor.

A first-generation college student, Lotz feels a special connection to students who share a similar background. After completing her A.A., Lotz earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Eastern Illinois University and her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Sally Smith Larson 5135 Davantry Dr. Dunwoody, GA 30338-4554 larsar@bellsouth.net

Nancy Van Natta Wherry 1920 Highwood Ave. Pekin, IL 61554 njwherry@gmail.com

Deeks Carroll 12433 Steamboat Springs Dr. Mokena, IL 60448-1639 deekscarroll@yahoo.com

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Susan Kauzlarich Kuster 1863 Township Rd. 2850N Seaton, IL 61476-9608 susan.kuster@gmail.com

Nick Tucker 429 Linden Ave. Apt. 1-W Wilmette, IL 60091 njtuckersr@gmail.com

Gail Simpson Owen 14 Oak Ridge Point Morton, IL 61550 gowen@itv-3.com

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Kathleen Clark Kimmel 347 Blackhawk Dr. Hopewell, IL 61565-9457 kckcat@gmail.com

Paula Rundell Brooks 1702 Aster Ln. Godfrey, IL 62035-5612 dogpau2@charter.net

Chris Pio 4262 Maple Dr. Galesburg, IL 61401 pio5@grics.net

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For more information about becoming a class agent, contact: Jordan Scherpe-Lencioni Associate Director of Alumni Engagement 309-2457-2318 jscherpe-lencioni@monmouthcollege.edu

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ALUMNI NEWS WE WELCOME NEWS AND PHOTOS related to your career, awards, reunions or travel with your Monmouth College friends, and any other information of interest to your classmates or alumni. We also welcome announcements and photos of alumni weddings and births, as well as alumni obituaries.

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Janet Lois Gotthart Camp of Sunnyvale, Calif., has been active since 1983 in a free hot lunch program administered by her church. She writes that even though it is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, many people are struggling with food insecurity, especially during the pandemic. Instead of serving meals, the volunteers for Our Daily Bread are now packaging containers for diners to take with them.

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Tom Cheetham of Palm Desert, Calif., enjoys the weather, pool and family.

Louise Mount Gerber has moved from California to Minnesota to be with and assist her family.

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Carl Demas of San Diego retired in 2008 as president of Sunshine Supply Co. Inc. in San Diego. He and his wife, Margaret Schneider Demas ’62, are the parents of two sons.

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Dr. Rick Kaskel of Mamaroneck, N.Y., was part of the covid-19 response team for Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, charged with converting the children’s hospital to an adult care and treatment center during the covid crisis. The medical center’s doctors and staff were featured on a CBS documentary titled Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Lines.

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William Daniel ’72 (left) presents his Sig Ep fraternity brother Bob Litchfield ’71 with a paddle at Daniel’s 70th birthday party in St. Louis in July.

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The Rev. Cam McConnell of Manhattan, Kansas, came out of retirement for three months this spring to preach virtually for a Presbyterian church in Wamego, Kansas, that had no pastor. He pre-recorded sermons from his kitchen counter to play on YouTube, and also prepared daily devotions for the congregation and his family.

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Robin Waldron Pemberton of Indianapolis stays active riding her horse. She and husband, Greg Pemberton ’75, lived on a farmette where she kept horses for 31 years, but upon his retirement they traded their five acres for a fivebedroom house and she now boards her horse five minutes away.

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Dave Boyd lives on a 1,200-acre production farm and camp/ conference center in London, Ohio, for which his wife, Amy, is executive director. The former tennis pro still plays tennis at least twice a week.

Toni Barrett and her husband, a retired classics professor at Howard University, live in a resort community near Rehoboth Beach, Del. A retired educator, she spent 19 years as a teacher and 21 years as an administrator in New Jersey and Maryland. She recently traveled to Austria with the National Philharmonic Chorale to sing at the Salzburg Mozart Festival.

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Kristin Lees Huntley and her husband have lived at 3,200 feet on the side of a mountain in the Blue Ridge range of North Carolina for the past 30 years. They enjoy kayaking as they work toward partial retirement.

Dianne Randall Cooper of Cambridge, Iowa, writes that rather than taking early retirement at 62, she went back to school for a 10-week course in medical office coding and billing, and now does patient registrataion at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines.

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She also works out at a local gym six or seven days a week, and always makes the monthly list of top gym rats.

Drs. Pete and Julie Van Cleve Paulson of Mount Zion, Ill., continue to divide their time between their dental practice and their family, which includes three children and eight grandchildren.

Judy Bersted Andrews of Monmouth is staying active in retirement—biking, walking, swimming and playing golf. She and her husband have been blessed with 17 grandchildren, which also keeps her active.

Jerri Picha of Warrenville, Ill. serves as president of her local public library district, as vice president of her homeowners’ association, and as a member of the Monmouth College Alumni Board of Directors, for which she is a representative to the Board of Trustees. Since retirement in 2017, she has traveled extensively, including a recent visit to Cuba and sailing through the Panama Canal.

Greg Pemberton of Indianapolis is retired after a 34-year partnership in the regional law firm of Ice Miller LLP and now serves on seveal non-profit boards of directors. For fun, he works out with a trainer and plays electric bass with his church’s praise band.

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The Rev. Bill Pyatt retired in June after 42 years of ministry in the United Methodist Church, most recently in Bethalto, Ill. He and his wife have purchased a new home in Godfrey, Ill., the town in which he grew up.

Bill Murschel is enjoying retirement after a 40-year career in corporate communications. He and his wife, Terry Burke Murschel ’79, have relocated from Ohio to Wheaton, Ill., and have three grandsons.

Scott Hamilton of Vernon Hills, Ill., has spent 15 years as a substitute teacher in local high schools, where he hopes that some of his past experiences in journalism and state government may prove inspirational to young people. His wife works as a civilian employee at nearby Great Lakes Naval Station.

Alice Dunlap-Kraft of Chicago, an avid gardener, has been taking classes in botanical illustration using watercolor, pen and ink, and colored pencil. She also attends two monthly book discussion groups.

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Linda Nelson of Chatsworth, Calif., has retired after 35 years as a school psychologist in Los Angeles. She sings in her church choir and serves as a religious education teacher. In her spare time, she is an avid reader in two book clubs and is learning to be an environmental activist.

Greg Derbak of Schaumburg, Ill., is retired from a career in education as a teacher, coach and administrator. He is in his 16th year as a member of the Monmouth College Alumni Board of Directors.

Judy Hogfeldt of Homer Glen, Ill., remains active in retirement, having written and performed in several plays, performing in ballroom dancing showcase events and traveling between the homes of a daughter in New York and a daughter and grandson in Los Angeles. She also remains in contact with Alice Dunlap-Kraft through a monthly book club.

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Linda Cook of Davenport, Iowa, has started a new job as a digital content producer/multimedia journalist at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Ill. She covers breaking news and produces features, video, photos and film reviews for ourquadcities. com.

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Chris Amy of Toronto, Ontario, is senior emergency preparedness coordinator for the International Rescue Committee, which is based in New York City.

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Kate Francis has moved back to Arizona, where on July 1 she began a position as chief development officer for the Phoenix Symphony. Francis was formerly the vice president of development for the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis.

Earlier in her career, she had served as a director of development for the Arizona Opera.

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From left, 1978 classmates Wendy Johansen, Peggy Cain, Barb Clement Alexy and Kathleen Brian Kimmel enjoyed a last hurrah in Mazatlán, Mexico, in March before the pandemic made them housebound.

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Josh Oakley has added a second coaching assignment to his work leading the men’s soccer program at Spring Arbor (Mich.) University. Oakley will also coach the new Lansing Common Football Club, which competes in the Midwest Premier League. Last year with Spring Arbor, Oakley was named Crossroads League Coach of the Year after guiding the Cougars to a 16–3–2 mark and a second-round berth in the NAIA tournament.

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Nicole Taflinger Bussan is a K-5 art teacher in Bloomington, Ill. In an effort to showcase more diversity in her discipline, Bussan has authored four books in her “A Little Art History” series through KDP on Amazon. “I wanted to create a series that I, and other art teachers, might be able to use in their teaching, while creating a more inclusive curriculum,” she said of the series, which also fulfills her dream of publishing a children’s book. Her first title, A Little Mud from the Nile, tells the story of a young ancient Egyptian girl who uses silt from the Nile to make clay pots.

Sarah Crummy Wolek of Arlington Heights, Ill., has been promoted to technical director of the Agricultural Solutions R&D division at Stepan Company. Her group develops new materials to improve the performance of crop protection and plant health products.

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Kenneth Spranger has been named assistant professor at Traughber Junior High School in Oswego, Ill. Spranger most recently served as building principal at Wells Elementary School in East Moline, Ill. He began working in education in 2006 and has been in administration since 2013, including four years as an elementary school principal in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Geoff Edwards of Maryville, Ill., has been named director of retention and student succeess at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, following a national search. Edwards, who most recently served as associate vice president for student engagement and innovation at the University of Evansville (Ind.), will have director oversight of general academic advising and learning support services, including testing services, tutoring and the delivery of academic developmental courses. He holds a doctorate in higher education and organizational change from Benedictine (Ill.) University.

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Katie Stitt Barreto has been featured in Chicago Agent Magazine for the fourth consecutive year on its “Who’s Who in Real Estate” list.

Chris Knoepke, an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Colorado, recently received a K23 career development award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Kelly Winfrey Seaman of Georgetown, Texas, received the Secondary Teacher of the Year honor for her district. Seaman teaches English, theatre and speech.

2009

Heidi Hartshorn Milner of Rockton, Ill., was one of five area Golden Apple teacher award recipients in 2020. Golden Apple recipients are recognized for making a difference in their communities through their commitment to educational excellence. She teaches kindergarten in Roscoe, Ill.

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Hope Grebner Bibens of Des Moines, Iowa, was promoted by Drake University to associate professor of librarianship. She also serves as university and political papers archivist. Bibens has also been appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds to serve on the Iowa State Historical Records Advisory Board.

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Mallory Misener Higgs of Peoria, Ill., earned her master’s degree in social work from Aurora (Ill.) University. She is starting a position this fall as social worker for Dunlap (Ill.) Elementary School.

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Matt Hammer of Lanark, Ill., is director of pharmacy at CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Ill. Mitch Tanney has taken a position as vice president of strategy and operations at Telemetry Sports in Indianapolis. Founded in 2012 from an idea to improve scouting efficiency for college baseball coaches, Telemetry has evolved to change the way sports organizations consume data and make decisions.

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He was supposed to swim at the state championships in March, but COVID-19 put an end to those plans.

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RYAN ADOLPHSON

Brother of

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MADELINE BLAESING

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LOREN BERBERICH Son of Michael Berberich ’94

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Daughter of Stephanie Owen Sepich ’99

Brother of Conner Sharp ’20

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JOHN STECK

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IN HIS OWN WORDS

A funeral director responds to the covid-19 crisis Greg Young ’68 is the owner of a funeral home in Highland Park, N.J., that serves primarily the Asian Indian community. At the beginning of the covid-19 crisis in the New York metropolitan area in April, he was at his home in Sarasota, Fla. Out of an abundance of caution, his staff would not allow him to physically return to the business, so he supervised remotely during the peak of the pandemic. Six months later, he looks back on the experience.

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was recently put on retainer as an expert witness for a law firm handling covid-19 abuses by funeral directors. While there were many horrific cases chronicled in the New York newspapers, there was enormous pressure put on funeral directors in a 10-mile corridor on either side of the Hudson River paralleling NYC and extending south in New Jersey for another 10 miles.

Almost all of my fellow professionals handled families with compassion and grace while experiencing workloads that took a heavy personal toll on us all. I was in Florida and held a team meeting with my staff of five full-timers at the outset.

We developed protocols to keep us, and the families we serve, safe. We invented ways to satisfy their needs while observing the rules passed on to us by the state. I took the phone every night for 31 days and seldom had a full night’s sleep.

The staff worked 14-hour days and I made it mandatory that they take their normal days off. You can imagine the psychological pressure of dealing with grief, compounded by having to tell our families we were limited in what we could do. Some funeral homes closed their doors for a few days in order to rest staff—probably a prudent decision.

My funeral home treated 42 covid-19 cases, that we know of, during the month of April.

This was on top of our normal workload. Of my 42 cases, the median age was 83, and virtually all those who died had at least one underlying health condition.

I was in the heart of it. Medical examiners were overwhelmed, as were the hospitals in that corridor, while hospitals only miles away had available space. Because of the spike in deaths, hospitals, nursing homes and medical examiners wanted the deceased removed as soon as possi-

Greg Young and his life partner, Gina Stamatis, visit a Hindu temple near his funeral home in Highland Park, N.J. His business caters largely to Hindu families, and the COVID-19 crisis placed special demands on his staff in helping them observe the necessary funeral rites that must be performed prior to a cremation.

ble. Refrigerated tractor trailers were parked at hospitals and medical examiners’ offices. New Jersey arranged for several refrigerated buildings to be made available to funeral directors for temporary storage of the deceased.

Our biggest problem was the ability to either cremate or bury in a timely fashion. Imagine getting a call at 2 in the morning from a person begging us to come to New York to remove a loved one from a nursing home or house because no local funeral home would or could. We took care of New York as long as we could, but by Week 3 we could no longer do it, as our local people were becoming overwhelmed.

We were fortunate to have three professional firms contracted for nighttime removals. Only once did I have all three say they could not go back out and had to sleep. Many part-timers quit over covid-19 concerns. Cremations stretched out 10 days to three weeks, requiring funeral directors to care for the remains during that period of time.

New Jersey mandated that there could be no more than 10 people at a gathering, regardless of the size of the facility, and that the casket had to be closed. We manufactured a casket with a glass panel and we immediately hired a professional videographer/photographer who would stream ceremonies real time and provide the family with permanent pictures. We made the professional decision to chemically embalm every body to provide temporary preservation until we could cremate or bury, and to keep the deceased in our possession in our building. We owed it to our families.

We are now back to normal … somewhat. The state still mandates no more than 25 percent occupancy. We still limit contact with the deceased, which is difficult to do when dealing with Asian Indian families. Crematories are back to normal. These horrific conditions really were limited to the geographical area I have described in New Jersey and New York.

My staff would not let me return to New Jersey. In retrospect, that was a blessing for my staff and the families we served. Because I took the phones every night, they were able to divorce themselves from the horrific scene for at least a few hours. My experience allowed me to offer as much compassion as possible while balancing the reality of how much service we were allowed to provide. I know that speaking to the owner gave those seeking help a great deal of comfort.

We do not use an answering service. When people need a funeral director they want answers, not a return phone call.

As of this writing, the death rate from all causes in New Jersey is lower than the equivalent month the previous four years. We will never know with 100-percent accuracy what the death rate from covid-19 was, so the only way to know if it has been stopped is to look at the total death rate from all causes.

Whatever the future of the pandemic, funeral professionals will continue to do what we have always done—take the burden of logistics off of families’ shoulders so that they can mourn as they see fit while providing them with the comfort of knowing they are getting the best possible advice and compassionate service.

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WEDDINGS

2009 Monica Miller and Nick Ragusa

November 22, 2019 2010 Kelly Winter and Patrick Fitzpatrick

May 29, 2020 2013 Rachel Schumaker and

Stephen Corban

June 29, 2019 2016 Julianna Graf and Jon Welty ’12

June 5, 2020 2018 Mallory Misener and Alec Higgs

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RACHEL SCHUMAKER ’13 AND STEPHEN CORBAN

MALLORY MISENER ’18 AND ALEC HIGGS ’18

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JULIANNA GRAF ’16 AND JON WELTY ’12

MONICA MILLER ’09 AND NICK RAGUSA

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BIRTHS

HALEY LYN RAMIREZ (WITH SISTER ELLA)

BEAU CHARLES TRONE

ADAM JAMES ELLIOTT (WITH SIBLINGS ALEC AND AUDREY)

2007 Chelsea Brandt Ekstedt and Adam

a son, Theodore Eldon

June 4, 2020 2008 Amanda Trotter Elliott and Andrew ’05

a son, Adam James

April 10, 2020 2009 Maggie Scudella Ramirez and Randall

a daughter, Haley Lyn

June 3, 2019 2010

Whitney Maher Breweur and Kevin ’11 a daughter, Kali Michele April 16, 2017 twin son and daughter, Reid Everett and Ryane Elyse December 12, 2018

Jen Koerner Trone and Matt a son, Beau Charles February 4, 2020

MOLLY MARIE CONNERLY (WITH SISTER CHARLOTTE)

REID EVERETT, KALI MICHELLE AND RYANE ELYSE BREWEUR

2011 Hope Grebner Bibens ’11 and Robert

a daughter, Hattie Lou

August 18, 2020 2013 Lindsay Franey Johnson and David ’14

a son, Samuel Benjamin

January 30, 2020

Emily Evans Connerly and Danny ’11 a daughter, Molly Marie February 3, 2020

Sioban Stahl Goddard and CJ ’14 a son, Cillian Oisin June 10, 2020 SAMUEL BENJAMIN JOHNSON

CILLIAN OISIN GODDARD

HATTIE LOU BIBENS

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J oyce L i l l i m a n K n oxStevens, 101, of Silvis, Ill., died Aug. 9, 2020. She completed her education degree later in life in 1965. After her first year at Monmouth, she began teaching near Cable, Ill. She retired from the Sherrard (Ill.) school district in 1980.

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T h e R ev. D r. R o b e r t Kempes Sr., 99, of Warrington, Pa., died Feb. 29, 2020. He graduated with a degree in English, then received his doctor of ministry degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Kempes started his ministry in Milwaukee, then worked for the United Presbyterian Church’s Program Agency from 1952–86.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary Scott Kempes ’43.

1944

Juliana Kemp White, of Marietta, Ga., died Sept. 7, 2019. A biology major and a member of Pi Beta Phi, she was preceded in death by her husband, James White ’42.

1946

Melba Richmond Davilla, 95, of Denver, Iowa, died May 9, 2020. She graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. She was owner and president of Davilla Farms Ltd. Survivors include a daughter, Roberta Davilla Robbins ’77.

Jean Phelps Edwards, 95, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, died Feb. 7, 2020. A biology major, she had a career in medicine, working at Minneapolis General Hospital, as a medical technologist at Mahaska Hospital in Oskaloosa, at the University of Iowa and at Iowa’s Mercy Clinic.

1947

Gloria Vogt Lechleitner, 94, of Bradenton, Fla., died Jan. 22, 2020. A member of Pi Beta Phi, her love of fashion landed her various jobs in retail. She went to Europe in the 1950s and eventually made the continent her home, settling in Luzern, Switzerland, and working in the tourism industry as a guide.

She moved to Bradenton in 2006 to be nearer her brother.

Nancy Huffnagle Stears, 94, of Holland, Mich., died March 18, 2020. She graduated with a degree in biology and was a member of

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Kappa Kappa Gamma. Stears was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years.

1948

Jeanne Martin Daykin, 93, of Peoria, Ill., died March 13, 2020. She majored in business and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. She was part of the original staff at WLPO radio in LaSalle, Ill. In 1965, she and her husband moved to Belgium, where they restored a 16th century farmhouse. Daykin led tours in Europe and around the world and also adapted dialogue for foreign films and animated series to be dubbed into English.

Charlotte Tibbetts Gaut, 94, of Williamsburg, Va., died June 9, 2020. She attended Monmouth briefly before completing a psychology degree at Colorado College, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She and her husband, who predeceased her, ultimately settled in Williamsburg because of their keen interest in history.

Jean Ericson Greener, 93, of Missoula, Mont., died April 19, 2020. She graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of Kappa Delta. Greener taught second grade in Crystal Lake, Ill., for 19 years.

Verne Strantz, 92, of Kelowna, B.C., died March 23, 2020. A member of Theta Chi, he graduated with a degree in geology and then earned his master’s degree from Iowa State University. He volunteered for military service in the Philippines with the 29th Topographic Battalion and then worked for the Texaco Exploration Company in Calgary. Strantz, who became a Canadian citizen in 1967, also worked in Canada for Canadian Homestead Oils Ltd. and Kerr-McGee.

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Martha Meeks Quinn, 91, of Birmingham, Ala., died Nov. 11, 2019. A successful retailer, she served her community for 65 years.

Erma Norris Smallwood, 92, of Monmouth, died Feb. 11, 2020. She graduated with a degree in English after attending Iowa State University for her first two years

of college. Smallwood taught second grade in Monmouth before starting her family. Years later, she earned a master’s degree from Western Illinois University to teach special education.

She taught adult education at Monmouth’s Achievement Industries and also owned and managed Norris Deer Crest Farms in neighboring Henderson County. She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Bill Smallwood ’52. Survivors include daughters Mary Smallwood Armstrong ’73 and Susan Smallwood Schilson ’78.

Phyllis Holmquist Wheeler, 92, of Monmouth, died Aug. 17, 2000. She graduated with a degree in mathematics and taught the subject for many years at Monmouth High School. She was preceded in death by her husband, Phil Wheeler ’50. Survivors include a daughter, Barbara Wheeler Byrne ’77, and a granddaughter, Megan Byrne Gillen ’16.

1950

Martha Bovard Campbell, 92, of Grove City, Pa., died Feb. 3, 2020. She graduated with a degree in biology and was a member of Kappa Delta.

Survivors include a sister, Carolyn Bovard Callaway ’53.

Frances Drayson McCoy, 91, died May 8, 2020. She studied elementary education and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. McCoy, who also attended National College in Chicago, worked as a stewardess for United Airlines and was a school librarian in Worthington, Ohio, for almost 20 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, James McCoy ’52.

1951

Edith Erickson Bucco, 90, of Fort Collins, Colo., died April 5, 2020. She graduated with a degree in English and, after serving as a YWCA program director in Kansas City and Chicago, taught English at Taos High School in New Mexico and at two colleges, Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. She gained a reputation in Colorado as a local historian.

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Evelyn Beck Hamstra, 90, of Austin, Texas, died July 22, 2020. She graduated with a degree in psychology and later earned a master’s degree in the subject from Ball State University. The wife of a career Air Force officer, she made a home in 10 states and three foreign countries. In 1976, she established roots in Austin, where she retired from Austin State Hospital Community Services.

Lois Gradous Myers of Arlington Heights, Ill., died Feb. 6, 2020. She graduated with a degree in art and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta.

Duane Slater, 91, of Springfield, Ill., died Feb. 10, 2020. He served in the Marine Corps before graduating from Monmouth with a degree in business. A member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, he had a lifelong career in the lumber industry, including operating Truss-Slater in Virden, Ill., with his son.

1952

Gordon Greenwood, 90, of Slidell, La., died March 20, 2020. He started college at the University of Illinois before graduating from Monmouth with a degree in business. Following graduation, he served in the Army during the Korean War, attaining the rank of technical sergeant. Greenwood worked for General Electric in Illinois before moving to Denver, Colo., where he was hired as an accountant by Shell Oil. He worked for the company until his retirement in 1990.

John Shields, 89, of Fort Collins, Colo., died Aug. 22, 2020. A stint in the Army in Korea interrupted his time at Monmouth, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. After he returned to the U.S., Shields completed his undergraduate degree at Colorado State University. After working as a geologist, he began a long career as a field underwriter for Mutual of New York.

1953

D o n a l d B e r g g r e n, 88, of Madison, Wis., died July 26, 2020. He graduated with a degree in economics and business administration. Berggren served in the military from 1954–56 before attending graduate school at the University of Illinois. His career was in banking, culminating with 22 years with National Boulevard Bank, located in the Wrigley Building in Chicago. A

film aficionado, his passions included sharing anecdotes of his adventures in Chicago, including the many movie houses he visited. Survivors include a daughter, Andrea Berggren ’91.

Dr. Marianne Whowell Fayos, 88, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died March 2, 2020, after a battle with Alzheimer’s. In three years, the member of Alpha Xi Delta completed her studies in biology before becoming one of only four women admitted to Northwestern Medical School in Chicago in 1952. After a residency in Seattle, she and her husband settled in Ann Arbor, where Fayos practiced anesthesiology.

Janet Gillis Hansen of Blaine, Wash., died in January 2020. She graduated with a degree in music and was married for several years to Richard Hansen ’51.

1954

A r t h u r Benedetto, 86, of Jackson, Mich., died Jan. 17, 2020. He graduated with degrees in English and history and was a member of the football and baseball teams, the Octopus Club and Sigma Phi Epsilon. His baseball career also included a stint in the minor leagues with the Baltimore Orioles. Benedetto was a respected attorney, providing guidance on family law matters. He was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Joan Bayliss Benedetto ’55.

Barbara Dixson Guest, 89, of Rochelle, Ill., died July 4, 2020. She graduated with a degree in business administration and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Guest followed her parents, Joseph’ 27 and Elizabeth Dixson ’28 to Monmouth. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Susan Dixson Smith ’54. A Monmouth native, Guest spent all but the first few months of her marriage living in Rochelle.

Jane Seidel Huff of Georgetown, Texas, died Feb. 5, 2020. She graduated with a degree in English and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Nancy Hansen Smith of Emeryville, Calif., died Dec. 21, 2019. She graduated with a degree in elementary education and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Smith ’54.

1955

Dee Hofbauer Leppin, 86, of Austin, Texas, died June 12, 2020. She graduated with a degree in psychology and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. Leppin met her husband while working at her first post-college job at Liberty Mutual Insurance. An accomplished and prolific painter, she also worked as a framer for the LaGrange Art League. Leppin lived in Hinsdale, Ill., for 44 years before moving to Texas in 2017.

1956

Carolyn Kistler Boggs, 85, of Walnut Creek, Calif., died Feb. 5, 2020. She completed her home economics degree at Iowa State University, then earned a teaching certificate from Wheaton College. After raising her family, she returned to teaching, managed her husband’s business and worked for Charles Schwab.

Betty Duncan McBride, 86, of Monmouth died April 12, 2020. She started college at Monmouth, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi, before graduating from Chadron State College in Nebraska. She also earned a master’s degree from Truman State University in Missouri. McBride was an award-winning first-grade teacher in Canton, Mo., before serving as a high school and college guidance counselor, most recently in Galesburg, Ill. In that role, and in her daily life, she was served well by her goal of always finding the good in everyone and helping them feel good about themselves. She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years. Survivors include daughters Julie McBride ’77 and Amy McBride Basic ’81.

Jane Frederick Uhle, 85, of Tucson, Ariz., died April 16, 2020. She majored in elementary education and was a first grade and preschool teacher, living in seven states before she and her late husband of 62 years, Ronald Uhle ’56, settled in Tucson in 1994.

1957

Katherine Huff Alstedt, 84, of Bloomington, Ill., died June 26, 2020. She studied English and was a member of Kappa Delta, the swim team and two synchronized swimming teams.

Alstedt worked for a number of years as a swimming instructor at the Galesburg Municipal Pool before starting a 21-year career at Hope Head Start, retiring in 2002. Survivors include a brother, Jim Huff ’85.

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Dr. William Greene, 82, of Tucson, Ariz., died July 6, 2019. He graduated with a degree in psychology and was a member of the track team and Alpha Tau Omega. A retired optometrist, Greene graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry in 1960.

Audrey Veit Hands, 84, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Sept. 6, 2019. She graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of the synchronized swim team and Pi Beta Phi. Survivors include her husband, James Hands Jr. ’55.

John McLaughlin, 84, of Galesburg, Ill., died May 30, 2019. He graduated with a degree in business administration and worked in business for many years until his retirement. Survivors include a sister, Grace McLaughlin Jones ’51.

Roy Palmer, 85, of West Richland, Wash., died Sept. 17, 2019. He served in the Army in Germany from 1959-63, then completed his undergraduate degree in industrial arts at Western Illinois University. He worked at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in radiation controls until his retirement in 1994.

1958

Art Davison, 83, of Carlsbad, Calif., died Jan. 1, 2020. He graduated with a degree in physics and was a member of the football and wrestling teams, the Octopus Club and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Davison earned a master’s degree in physics from Purdue University and spent nearly 40 years in the business of scientific instrumentation, where he was respected in his field as an inventor, innovator and executive.

Robert Patton, 81, of Mequon, Wis., died Feb. 19, 2020. He graduated with a degree in chemistry and was a member of the football and wrestling teams, the Octopus Club and Theta Chi. After receiving a master’s degree from Northern Michigan University, he accepted a teaching job at Homestead High School in Mequon, where he worked for more than 30 years, also coaching and refereeing in addition to being one of the first computer science teachers, developing computer education programs throughout Wisconsin.

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Dr. Timothy Lee ’61 Dr. Timothy Lee, 80, a pioneer in the field of medical ultrasound and a member of the Monmouth College Hall of Achievement, died March 1, 2020, of a heart attack.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1939 to parents of native and Chinese heritage, Lee left home at the age of 12 and attended the Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan.

Inspired by his father, who was educated in the United States, Lee came to Monmouth College in 1958 with the vague intention of becoming a medical doctor. He quickly found a home in the chemistry department, where he was embraced by the staff, and soon turned his professional sights toward chemistry.

An honor student who could speak seven languages, he was active in extracurricular activities, teaching judo at the YMCA, learning precision rifle shooting and attending the Presbyterian Church. As a junior, he won the Iowa-Illinois Undergraduate Award for Best Paper Published in Chemistry. He graduated magna cum laude, majoring in chemistry and minoring in biology, physics and mathematics.

With the aid of a scholarship, Lee attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1965–69, he served as an intern and resident in radiology in the Chicago area. He entered the Army Medical Corps in 1969, serving in Korea as a radiologist, when he accepted a cardiology fellowship at the University of Oregon.

Lee’s research soon led him into the developing science of ultrasonography, and during the next four years he became one of the world’s leading authorities on ultrasound, conducting research, lecturing and publishing dozens of important articles.

In 1977, Lee accepted a faculty positon at the University of Utah Medical School, where he served as professor of radiology and director of the ultrasound section. He was the recipient of Monmouth College’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1986, before retiring in 1997. He was inducted into the College’s Hall of Achievement in 2001.

Lee is survived by his wife, Suellen, and two adult children.

1960

John Brewer, 81, of Evanston, Ill., died March 15, 2020. A physics major, he was on the cross country and swim teams and was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. Brewer worked in insurance administration for 30 years at Washington National Insurance in Evanston before pursuing a career in insurance consulting.

Shirley Thurlwell Freund, 82, of Sun City West, Ariz., died Jan. 27, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Lynn Mrkvicka Thygesen, 81, of Boulder, Colo., died April 21, 2020, of COVID-19.

She graduated with a degree in English and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. In 1973, she and her husband settled in Boulder, where Thygesen worked in sales and marketing for Concepts restaurants before opening her own establishment, Lookout Inn.

1961

O r v i l l e Liesman, 81, of The Villages, Fla., died July 20, 2020. He came to Monmouth from Lincoln Community College. Liesman graduated with a degree in business

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and was member of the football and basketball teams and Alpha Tau Omega. He began his career as a teacher and coach in the Illinois communities of Astoria and Galva before working with insurance and financial services companies for the rest of his career. Liesman was also actively involved in his church in several leadership roles. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Maureen Smiley Liesman ’60, and a daughter, Laura Liesman ’92.

1962

Roger Larson, 79, of Berwick, Ill., died May 22, 2020.

He studied chemistry. A member of the Air National Guard, Larson sold seed corn for Sieben.

1964

Dr. David Danner, 78, of Pekin, Ill., died July 17, 2020.

He graduated with a degree in biology and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1968, he graduated from the Washington University School of Dentistry in St. Louis. For the next three years, he served as a dentist in the Army, attaining the rank of captain. Upon leaving the service in 1971, he founded a dental practice in Pekin, where he worked for 30 years, including a decade with his son, Dr. Michael Danner ’91, who survives. Other survivors include his wife of 55 years, Sharon Avery Danner ’65, a sister, Sally Danner Bergeson ’67, a daughter, Sarah Danner Masters ’93, and a granddaughter, Abbie Danner ’19.

1965

Carl Harner of Boyertown, Pa., died Dec. 28, 2017. He graduated with a degree in economics.

James Mock, 77, of Minneapolis, Minn., a former Monmouth College trustee, died May 6, 2020, after a 10-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

A three-sport athlete in football, baseball and track, Mock majored in biology and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Octopus Club. He earned a Ph.D. in agronomy and plant science from Iowa State University, where he was on the faculty for eight years. In 1978, he accepted the position of director of research at Northrup King Seed Company. He was also president of Hybritech Wheat Company in Wichita, Kansas, and started his own company, Crop Verify, before retiring in 2004. Mock was also the founder of the Agri-Business Council of Wichita. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Sharon Wehrs Mock ’65.

Marilynn Russell, 77, of Elkhorn, Wis., died June 19, 2020. She graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She and her husband operated Big 11 Furniture in Waukegan, Ill., for many years. In partnership with family members, the couple was also involved in several businesses in nearby DeKalb, Ill. After moving to Marco Island, Fla., in 1995, she worked at a local bookstore and a local gift shop. Survivors include a brother, David Russell ’61.

1966

Dorothy Behringer, 87, of Galesburg, Ill., died Nov. 26, 2019. A non-traditional student, she graduated with a degree in physical education, then taught for 10 years, most of that time at ROVA High School in Oneida, Ill. She later worked in marketing for the Eddy Corp. in Fla., and for Riverbend Golf Course. She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Charles Behringer ’63.

1967

William Taylor, 75, of Kewanee, Ill., died Feb. 4, 2020, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s.

He graduated with a degree in biology and was a member of the football and wrestling teams and Tau Kappa Epsilon. He was inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame after going 59-7 during his Fighting Scots wrestling career. Taylor is also in the hall of fame at Kewanee High School, where he was a teacher and coach.

1968

Mary Ann Clark, 94, of Columbus, Ind., died May 14, 2020. She studied secondary education and later obtained a master’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University. Clark was already a teacher prior to studying at Monmouth, with stops in Hamilton, Ill., Eureka, Ill., and Gary, Ind., over 25 years before beginning nearly four decades teaching music and choir for the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Columbus. The city honored her with Mary Clark Day in 2018 for her dedication and service to the community.

R. Richard Wieland II, 75, of South Barrington, Ill., a former Monmouth College trustee, died April 24, 2020. An accounting major, he earned his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and spent much of his career as a CFO for

companies in the life sciences field, helping private companies go public. A former member of the Alumni Board of Directors, he was a trustee from 1992–98. As a child, he served as a model for the baby on the label of Gerber baby food. Survivors include his wife, Ann Newton Wieland ’68.

1969

Kathleen Webb, 74, of Naples, Fla., died July 21, 2020.

She graduated with a degree in Spanish before completing her master’s degree in counseling at the University of Arizona.

She was a high school counselor in Naples, Fla., for 38 years, retiring in 2011.

1970

Barry Berlin, 71, died April 19, 2020. He attended Monmouth for a year before graduating from Nasson College in Maine with a degree in business and marketing. He later added a degree in hotel beverage and food management from the University of New Hampshire and a degree from the University of Vienna in Austria. He traveled the U.S. while working for companies including Sheraton, Marriott and Hyatt.

1972

Patricia Lydiard Barga of San Tan Valley, Ariz., died earlier this year. She graduated with a degree in English and was a member of Kappa Delta. Survivors include a brother, Norm Lydiard ’75.

Max “Buzz” Galbraith, 70, of Roseville, Ill., died June 19, 2020. He graduated with a degree in art, having also studied at Western Illinois University. He hauled road rock for 40 years through the trucking business he bought from his father and also was a talented woodworker.

1975

William Gustafson, 67, of Galesburg, Ill., died July 7, 2020. He studied biology and worked as a carman on the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad for many years, retiring in 2010.

Dennis Hamma, 66, of Nauvoo, Ill., died June 17, 2020. He studied mathematics and was a member of the golf team. Hamma worked at the Sheaffer Pen Company in Fort Madison, Iowa, at Sioux Tools in Sioux City, Iowa, and as a corrections officer at the Georgia Detention Center in Blairsville.

1980

Robert Venard Jr., 62, of Oquawka, Ill., died Feb. 10, 2020. He graduated with a degree in sociology and was a systems administrator for Bristol Meyers Squibb in Princeton, N.J.

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Roger Rasmusen ’56 Roger Rasmusen, former chair of the Monmouth College Board of Trustees, died May 23, 2020, at Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., following a bout with cancer. He was 86.

When he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics from Monmouth College, it was already apparent he was destined for a successful career.

He had served as president of the student body, M Club and his sophomore class, and was a member of Blue Key, Sigma Omicron Mu and Phi Eta Mu. He was vice president and historian of Theta Chi fraternity, which named him Outstanding Senior.

Also a gifted athlete who would be inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame in 1990, Rasmusen was captain of the basketball team, was two-time conference champion in the pole vault and lettered in football.

After Monmouth, Rasmusen entered Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA, then accepted a direct commission as a first lieutenant in the Army Finance Corps. Following a twomonth course in its finance school, he served for three years in Italy as manager of the Accounting Section.

Upon discharge, Rasmusen joined International Harvester Co., which sent him to the University of Illinois for a crash accounting course that allowed him to pass the CPA exam. He was then enrolled in a two-year training program at vari-

1982

Linda Glascock Beguelin of Joy, Ill., died March 19, 2020. She graduated with a degree in elementary education and was a preschool and early childhood education teacher for 34 years, primarily in the Westmer School District. She retired in 2016 from the Mercer County

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ous sales and manufacturing locations, following which he was sent to France, where he served as vice president of Harvester’s French subsidiary and became fluent in French.

In 1966, Rasmusen left Harvester to become director of international operations for DeKalb AgResearch Inc., following in the footsteps of his father, who had served as a DeKalb vice president, setting up its dealer sales force and planning its program in corn research.

Rasmusen, who spent three months a year overseas in the position, later had manager of investment planning added to his title. He eventually became vice president of finance and treasurer for DeKalb AgResearch.

In 1969, Monmouth College recognized him with its prestigious Young Alumnus Award. In 1974, he was elected to the College’s Board of Trustees and began serving on its Executive Committee the following year.

Rasmusen was named CFO of Baxter International in 1979, retiring from the company in 1982. During the next several years, he devoted most of his attention to his duties as a Monmouth College trustee, and volunteering for a local hospice organization in Florida and a charitable organization in the Chicago area serving the mentally ill.

Elected chair of the Board of Trustees in 1990, Rasmusen turned his attention to launching the most ambitious capital

School District. She is survived by her husband, Robert Beguelin ’78.

1988

Lesley Pettit Newell, 54, of Ashland, Ill., died March 9, 2020. She graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of the track and tennis teams. Newell was president of the Cass County Board of Health for 13 years and was also active in farm management and as a substitute teacher.

campaign in Monmouth history, the $25 million Forward to the 20th Century, in 1991.

Rasmusen also presided over a difficult retrenchment period for the College in 1992, in which the department of geology was eliminated, along with several other significant financial cuts. He retired as chair in 1995, but remained active on the Executive Committee until his retirement from the Board. He was presented with Monmouth College’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2000 and the following year made a gift of $1 million to Monmouth’s Toward a New Horizon campaign.

In later years, Rasmusen worked as a private investment management consultant.

He is survived by his wife, Jan, his daughter, Karen, and three granddaughters. Also surviving is a sister, Jean Rasmusen Droste ’63.

1991

Missy Dutton Bennett, 51, of Rozetta, Ill., died March 28, 2020. A member of Kappa Delta, she graduated with a degree in English and speech communication and theater arts. She was an English teacher at Monmouth High School before devoting herself to raising

her 10 children and to serving in ministry alongside her husband, Jim Bennett ’98, who survives.

1992

Dr. Brian Lantman, 50, of Chattanooga, Tenn., died July 24, 2020. He graduated with a degree in psychology and was a member of the track team and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Lantman also graduated from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis. During his time as a graduate student and as an optometrist, he provided countless hours of volunteer service and free eye exams for the homeless.

Word has also been received of the following deaths: Patricia Anable Wendel ’59 of Tucson, Ariz., died April 4, 2020.

Mary Hanzlik McDonald ’63 of Palm Harbor, Fla., died Sept. 15, 2019.

Former faculty and staff: Howard Gongwer, who taught speech and theatre from 1950–56, died April 8, 2020, in Richmond, Ind. He was 97. Gongwer moved to Richmond in 1956 and remained there for the rest of his career, teaching at Earlham College and the Eastern Indiana Center, which became Indiana University East.

John R. Foxen, former chair and professor of speech and theater arts, died Nov. 14, 2019, in Williamsport, Md. A sonar operator during World War II, he earned his bachelor’s degree on the G.I. Bill. He received his master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Before coming to Monmouth, Foxen taught

forensics, theatre and speech at colleges in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa and Indiana. He received a Ford Foundation grant for post-doctoral study of Japanese language, culture and history and spent time at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied Japanese theater (Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku). Foxen taught at Monmouth from 1970 to 1974. He later was an associate provost at Hofstra University and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Alfred University before retiring in 1987.

Foxen’s wife, Mary Foxen ’73, died in 1994.

His children, Rebecca Foxen Jones and Matthew Foxen, who attended Monmouth as special students, survive him.

Dennis Hunter, 74, of Gladstone, Ill., the heating plant operator at Monmouth for 18 years, died July 5, 5020.

Carol Whiteside, 75, of Monmouth, who served as secretary to the academic dean and then to several academic departments in Wallace Hall, died June 24, 2020.

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Tartan Talks: Energy in Rural Communities

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Sippin’ with the Scots: Wine Edition

Professor Craig Vivian & Sarah Walters, Market Alley Wines

Nov 21

Wellness and the Holidays

Patrick Thompson ’14, Head Trainer, Anytime Fitness

Tartan Talks: Career Transitions and Staying Positive

Nick Tucker ’73 & Emily Bouchard ’05

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Suzie and Byron Sondgeroth ’88

aving sent at least one son off to Monmouth to have been a part of the Monmouth family for many College each of the past seven years, you could years and had confidence that if a return to campus life assume we were well prepared to do so again this were possible, the administration and staff would make it year. But this is 2020 and there is a pandemic. happen.

The 2019–20 academic year did not end in a traditional President Clarence R. Wyatt and Dean Mark Willhardt shared updates with parents and were available via a manner. We understand the severity of the situation, but virtual parent town hall. Coaches and student-athletes when school was shut down so suddenly in the spring, it met via Zoom to ensure the intentions and expectations was definitely a low for our family. were clearly communicated. Still, it was with guarded Our middle son spent the final months of his senior year optimism that we loaded up and made that studying from home. No daily interactions familiar trip on move-in day in August. with the campus staff, his friends or track Adapting to the ‘new The move-in experience was executed in teammates. That Monmouth experience normal’ meant including true Noble Scot fashion, which never fails to was gone and there was nothing we wanted impress, from the temperature checkpoint more than to get that back for our youngest back-to-school basics to the complimentary Monmouth spirit son. Yet, we had every reason to question such as hand sanitizer face masks. Seeing the outdoor classroom what the 2020-21 academic year would and disinfectant wipes, settings and feeling the energy of students bring. reiterating with our back on campus gave us great hope for the In many ways the preparation was the reopening of campus. At least for now, stusame as in past years. Sports physical. sophomore these dents are back residing on campus, learning Dental appointment. Trip to Target. products work only if and engaging. Modified athletic team pracRepacking the pile of dorm “necessities” actually used. tices and dining options are possible. For all neglected in the corner of the basement of these opportunities, we are grateful. since the abrupt return home in March.

The biggest challenge for us has been the absence of socAdapting to the “new normal” meant including backcer games this fall. We, like many parents, enjoy watching to-school basics such as hand sanitizer and disinfectant our student-athlete compete and having the opportunity to wipes, reiterating with our sophomore these products visit briefly with him and his teammates after a game before work only if actually used. Plenty of face masks were heading home. We miss sitting on the hill and catching a packed, and the importance of washing those masks football game. It has been way too long since last hearing was discussed as well. the sound of bagpipes, but we know time will pass and those A year ago, these conversations would have been met traditions will return. With everyone working together, we with an eye roll at best, but this is 2020. We shared the hope to make it through this fall and move toward even same goal of not just getting back to campus but doing more normalcy in the spring semester. what it takes to remain on campus. Thankfully, our son seemed motivated and willing to do his part. Five months The Sondgeroths, of Mapleton, Ill., are members of the at home was too much for him.

Monmouth College Parent & Family Council. They We also discussed the reality that, despite Monmouth’s are the parents of Blake ’17, Lucas ’20 and Reid ’23, a best-laid plans and efforts, maintaining the on-campus experience might not be viable this fall. We are fortunate current sophomore.

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