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for ALUMNI and FRIENDS of OHIO UNIVERSITY
P R E S I D EN T ’ S M E S S AG E
Keep practicing Dear OHIO Alumni, Life is full of wins and losses. Between the highs and the lows exist times where no one is watching and no one is cheering. It is within these hours where true growth and improvement occur. This is where practice can lead to mastery. At Ohio University, our students engage in daily practice toward becoming skilled professionals and better citizens. In this issue you’ll read about Bobcats practicing the art of making their ideas come to life—and learning from their mistakes— in the new CoLab at Alden Library; how to be an engaged community citizen through the Center
for Campus & Community Engagement; how to safely advocate for others in high-risk situations as Better Bystanders; and in practicing the English language in OHIO’s OPIE program. OHIO encourages its campuses and community members to take part in challenging yet civil dialogue that tests one’s pre-conceived notions. This type of practice teaches life skills useful for when it seems some people have stopped practicing civility. The Open OHIO effort on the Athens Campus provided space for community members to practice such difficult dialogues.
Bobcat Beacons of Excellence FROM PRESIDENT M. DUANE NELLIS OHIO welcomed the Class of 2022, one of
our most diverse and academically talented classes in history. Dr. Nellis launched the Presidential [LEFT] Almost from day one, first-year students learn what it means to become part of the Bobcat Nation. After the official welcome ceremony at the Convo, first-years stride up Richland Avenue Bridge toward their passage through The Alumni Gateway. [ABOVE] President M. Duane Nellis personally welcomes first-years by shaking the hand of everyone who poses for the class photo at Peden Stadium. Photos by Ty Wright, BFA ’02, MA ’13
College life is filled with trial and error. It is a time to break boundaries you may not have been aware existed. It is practice for entering the world and starting a career. But none of us leaves commencement, with degrees in hand, as an expert in our respective field. We must commit to practice daily. Practicing effectively means setting goals and achieving them. If we are doing it right, we never finish practicing and we never stop improving. So, roll up your sleeves and get to it.
Commission on the Status of Women, aimed at ensuring there is an inclusive climate for women at OHIO.
Construction began on a new, 69,000-
square-foot, state-of-the-art chemistry building, and the Perry and Sandy Sook Academic Center at Peden Stadium was completed.
OHIO was awarded the 2018 Higher
Education Excellence in Diversity
(HEED) award for our efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion.
Scripps College’s PRSSA and SPJ chapters were named best in the nation. Distinguished Professor of molecular biology
John Kopchick was honored by the Endocrine Society with one of its prestigious 2019 Laureate Awards, M. Duane Nellis President
considered one of the top honors in the field of endocrinology. OHIO alumnus and educator Joseph
Carter Corbin, PHD 1889, was inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame in September 2018.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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THE DALAI LAMA A Tibetan monk from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, India, destroys the Peace Mandala created in October in Baker Center during the effort's final ceremony. Monks spent five days creating the mandala. Learn more on page 24 and on ohiotoday.org.
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Meditate on peace
A new day
Mandala made at OHIO
Heritage College’s new training for future physicians
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Empowered
Give and get
K-12 students learn by asking, then trying
Bobcats and community connect
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Rising up
Still more
Bobcats have each other’s backs
OHIO in pictures
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OHIO stories in photos + words
22 Calendar 37 Ohio University Press Featured book
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40 Joan Mace [LEFT] began at OHIO in 1946 as a flight instructor. Photo courtesy of the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections
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Class notes, Bobcat sightings, Future Bobcats, Alumni authors
52 In memoriam 56 Last word
Professor Eddith Dashiell speaks out.
14 Students create in the new CoLab.
Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel , BSVC ’02
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Visit ohiotoday.org for multimedia related to stories in this issue. Listen to Ohio Today radio’s two new podcast episodes about practice. Are all the hours we spend practicing really worth it?
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ON THE COVER Melinda Tsapatsaris, BSED ’98, heads Westland School in Los Angeles, where teachers practice the democratic method to learning. Page 32. Photo by Kyle Grillot, BSVC ’12
Photo on gatefold by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
For years, Rudy Rott has practiced hitting baseballs hurtling toward him every single day. OHIO Baseball’s first base player does it to make mistakes and to learn from them, knowing what it takes to one day realize the vision he holds for himself. Rudy’s story is among many in this issue and on ohiotoday.org about Bobcats practicing—in clinical labs, art studios, K-12 classrooms, and on the stage— where mistakes are made, learning happens, and visions are realized.
Theater performance senior Haley Reese Calhoun [BELOW LEFT] practices soccer drills with Debs Brereton, formerly with OHIO Women’s Soccer, in preparation for her role as #25 in OHIO’s fall 2018 production of The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe. Photo by Sydney Honaker, BFA ’19
—Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91
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Candid connection Scott Marriott, BS ’93 (LEFT), read about Denver-based glass artist Kit Karbler, BFA ’76, in Ohio Today’s summer 2018 issue and stopped by Karbler’s Blake Street Glass studio while traveling. Both are Bobcats and Sandusky (Ohio) Bluestreak natives.
We survived!
Thank you so much for putting this together. The picture brought back many memories of OU and the floods (summer 2018 issue). The personal comments were so true about the “happenings” on campus. Kudos to you and your staff for a great read. —Sandy
Thank you both for sharing your OHIO flood memories with Ohio Today! —Editor.) FYI—There were floods almost every other year long before 1964. I remember one when you could not get out of Athens. —James Warburton, BBA ’63
Debicki, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
I was living in Perkins Hall during the ’68 flood and have spotted some inaccurate pictures in your latest publication. Your map of the [1968] flood area seems correct, however, the photo of Parks Hall [page 06] is not Parks at all. It is either Boyd or Irvine. —Ed Russell, BARCH ’72 BFA ’72 (Indeed, Ohio Today agrees with you, Ed. The photo strongly suggests a depiction of Boyd Hall and the floodwaters surrounding it, and its location in 1968 is accurately placed on the map (page 07). The anecdote that accompanies the photo about Parks Hall is a wonderful memory from alumnus William Patterson.
Spring’s sweet memories
The spring 2018 edition of Ohio Today is the most perfect reminiscence of my four wonderful years at OU. Give me a New York boy with a midwestern education and you have the best of both worlds—true. My success in life is attributed to the good oldfashioned people, of all walks of life, I experienced at OU. Most importantly, saying “Hello” to every passerby walking the Green. —Bernard Bushell, BA ’58
Finding friends
I began working as a microbiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital in April. I immediately felt welcome
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as an older co-worker, Richard Hepler (BS ’79), saw my OU lanyard with my ID on it and said, “You went to OU, too?” I love finding fellow alumni all over! Missing OU every day! —Carrie Bauske, BS ’07
Errata
On page 4 of the spring 2018 issue, Associate Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication Maung Gyi’s name is misspelled. On pages 14 and 15 in the summer 2018 issue, Heather Chrisler, MFA ’12, is photographed portraying Mary in Chicago-based First Folio Theatre’s spring 2018 production of Mary’s Wedding. We regret the errors. WRITE TO US. Ohio Today welcomes comments from readers. We reserve the right to edit for grammar, space, clarity, and civility. Send letters by email to ohiotoday@ohio.edu or by mail to Ohio University, Ohio Today, 112 McKee House, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701. We regret that we cannot publish all messages received in print or online.
Mastering OHIO For international students, there is more to learning English than just mastering the language. Just ask Ohio University Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) Director Gerry Krzic. “A lot of people assume this is only for learning English, but it’s actually very different, in a sense that our students are learning English for very high-level academic purposes,” Krzic says. OHIO’s OPIE has more than 50 years under its belt and has provided its services to thousands of international students and professionals. The program takes a two-pronged approach: intensive English language training in the classroom—where active participation in class discussions is expected—and opportunities for students to practice their newly minted language skills at home and while out in the community.
OPIE students go on shopping trips, visit local schools, take nature hikes, go to movie nights, and even visit pumpkin patches in the fall. “OPIE helped smooth my transition from Oman to the USA,” says junior biological sciences major Hams Kashoob. “It helped me to get settled away from the stress of the academic classes.” This year, 80 full-time students and students from Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Japan are engaged with OPIE, perfecting their English skills—and learning OHIO’s culture ways—every day. — Nick Claussen, BSJ ’92 OPIE-enrolled undergraduate students interested in continuing their education workshop about how to apply to graduate schools. Dalal Lafi M. Alamri [RIGHT] of Saudi Arabia listens as Andrea Arriaga [LEFT] of Chile asks questions. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
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You’re never too old to practice your dragon roar! The Ohio University Chillicothe Campus Child Development and Family Service Center held a Family Fun Night event centered on storytelling, where young ones practiced listening—and reacting—to the dramatic retelling of a story. The regularly-scheduled Family Fun Nights are a collaboration between the Center and regional and national partners. Photo by Sijie Yuan, MA ’20
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OHIO opens up To participate in the Open OHIO project at the Athens Campus’s Baker Center, you have to agree to the following, handed to you on a small slip of paper: “Be fully engaged. Agree to listen. Agree to share. Be open to new perspectives. Simple agreements. Powerful outcomes.” You are then seated at a table with strangers where you practice listening to what others have to say about issues facing our rapidly changing world, penning the topics discussed and your reflections about them
on large pieces of provided paper. Open OHIO’s goal is to identify and dialogue about the issues that polarize us, says founder and coordinator Sarah Davis, associate professor at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs. “There’s a fear of speaking up, and we must have a place to practice overcoming conflict face to face.” Notes from the participants inform a multidisciplinary campus and community-wide art installation launching later this year.
Dance instructor Nathan Andary [LEFT] and student Sami Scholl, BC ’20, perform Open OHIO-inspired pieces. Photos by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
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The Patton College of Education’s coaching education students don’t learn how to coach using the command methodology, where players simply execute the coach’s orders at practice and in game play. Instead, these future coaches learn the athlete-centered way, where “athletes have a voice and are fully invested as a player and how a team works,” says David Carr, associate professor and coordinator of Coaching Education. Coaching lecturer Ashley Allanson [RIGHT] works with students from his Psychology of Coaching master's class at Ping Center. Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02
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Zach Hadley, BS ’19, practices what he’ll do with his future degree in urban planning and sustainability. Here, Zach hosts a meeting at the Athens City Pool on behalf of his internship host, the City of Athens Mayor’s office. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
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Practiced persistence Two years ago, Zach Hadley was lost. The bright geography sophomore, making the grade with a high GPA, didn’t know where to start to land his first internship.
Schaum explains. “We’re encouraging students to engage fully in [the internship search] process, set action steps, and really take their future into their own hands.”
“I had zero direction. Do I just mail resumes to people? Do I email CEOs? I had no clue how to do this,” Hadley says. “I was super embarrassed … because that’s such an important thing to know. I know how to graph a parabola, but I don’t know how to find a job.”
Hadley applied to more than 200 internships over that winter break. He heard back from just one employer who interviewed him and then later offered him the job. Hadley admits the process was defeating at first but recognizes how his hard work paid off.
Not finding answers in the classroom, Hadley visited OHIO’s Career and Leadership Development Center (CLDC), where Assistant Director Kacey Schaum reviewed his resume and assessed his communication skills through a mock interview.
Today, he’s working in the City of Athens Mayor’s office, his third internship in two years—a feat he credits to those first steps into the CLDC.
Her conclusion? Hadley’s engaging personality made him a great interviewee, but he needed to learn how to build a resume, cover letter, and strategy to find the right internship. With no prior work experience to list, Hadley and Schaum knew the task ahead would be difficult. Hadley went to CLDC workshops, spoke with professors, and kept meeting with Schaum, who encouraged his progress. But putting these new skills into practice was still up to him. “We’re [about] more than just looking at resumes or cover letters or doing a practice interview,”
“It’s all a process. Now that I have those connections and some networking, some experience and deliverables, I’m much more adept at finding internships,” he says. “It’s kind of like pushing a boulder. You just need to get it started.” Launched in 2012, the impact of OHIO’s CLDC is broad. It won the 2018 National Excellence Award for Career Services Excellence from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Last year it logged more than 20,000 touchpoints with students, 7,000 of whom received the kind of coaching that let Hadley create the map to navigate his own career success. — Peter Shooner
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On October 18, a space dedicated to helping ideas blossom opened for business. Called the CoLab and nestled in Alden Library’s third floor, the hub unites students from all backgrounds, giving them a space to practice collaboration and innovation with one another and with OHIO faculty and staff. Photo (RIGHT) by Hannah Ruhoff BSVC ’20. Photo
(ABOVE) by Max Catalano, BSVC ’20
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ARE STUDENT ARTISTS & STUDENT ATHLETES MORE ALIKE THAN THEY ARE DIFFERENT
when seen through the lens of the word “practice”? Both theater performance major Lauryn Glenn and OHIO Baseball’s Rudy Rott say yes. “When I first came here...I really wasn’t confident in my craft. Since I’ve been here, I’m so much more confident as a person, as Lauryn, but I’m also confident in my work,” Lauryn says.
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Daily practice produces an inner peace for Rudy. “You’re training every single day, you’re relaxed, you go out there, you have fun with it. ...You gotta play the game like that to be your best, I think,” he says. Lauryn and Rudy talk with Ohio Today radio about the meaning of "practice" in a new podcast episode, "Got that Swing." Listen at ohiotoday.org/radio. Photos by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
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Eat this way, not that way. Forever. Can healthier eating habits practiced over time give us a better chance at a longer life? An OHIO researcher answers this and offers tips on eats to enjoy and bites to bypass. Common sense tells us a diet of Doritos and donuts is not a long-term diet solution for living a long, healthy life. Mercedes Sotos-Prieto would agree. An expert in her field, the College of Health Sciences and Professions assistant professor of food and nutrition science contributed to one of the few studies that looks at the relationship between changes in diet quality over time and the risk of death. The findings, published in the July 2017 New England Journal of Medicine, showed that an improved diet over a span of 12 years was consistently associated with a decreased risk of death. “We…observed that changes in overall dietary patterns have been associated with a decrease in mortality rates by about 8 to 17 percent,” she says. Sotos-Prieto says the key to improve overall health is to avoid restrictive fad diets and choose
a healthy dietary pattern you can follow for the rest of your life. “The most important thing to keep in mind when we think about diet is that we don’t have to focus on isolated foods or nutrients,” Sotos-Prieto says. “A diet has different components, so, focusing on the overall dietary patterns is a better approach than focusing on specific foods.” A healthy dietary pattern includes eating whole grains, fruits and vegetables, fish, nuts, and legumes, Sotos-Prieto says. Stay away from processed foods, red meats, refined oils and grains, and added sugar, she warns. “As long as it includes these types of foods, you are going to have health benefits,” she says. “So, because there is no one size that fits all [diet], people have to choose based on their cultural and food preference. The key is that once you adhere to that kind of diet, you can keep it forever.” — Haley Rischar, BSJ ’20
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Watch a "how to" video about eating this and not that on ohiotoday.org. Illustration by Kyle Lindner, BFA ’17
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Finding the perfect partner to practice medicine with can start with a dog. Two-time Bobcats H. Kurtis Biggs, BA ’92, HCOM ’96 (LEFT), and Brian Wallace, BS ’04, HCOM ’08, didn't cross paths until one day in Massillon, Ohio, where Wallace, who was with his Great Dane, Achilles, met Biggs. The rest, as they say, is history. Biggs, founder of The Joint Replacement Institute in Naples, Florida, is an expert in hip and knee replacement while Wallace works with patients with sports injuries. And yes, both are not only Bobcat fans, but Browns fans, too. Photo by Richard Wilson, BSVC ’90
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The band Duo Unprepared collaborated with the Athena Cinema in September 2018 to accompany a screening of Charlie Chaplain’s classic Modern Times. The band's musicians, OHIO professors André Gribou (pianos) and Roger Braun (percussion), create a tight weave of improvised sonic bliss. Photo by Riley Perone, BSVC ’18
calendar For more upcoming OHIO Alumni events, visit ohiotoday.org/calendar
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Celebrate Women
Don Felder concert
Cruise-In at the Convo
Ohio University’s Lancaster Campus hosts this annual event, which draws hundreds of women from Ohio and beyond.
Renowned former lead guitarist of The Eagles Don Felder performs in Athens as part of the Performing Arts & Concert Series.
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Classic cars, trucks, and motorcycles are on display at this annual, family fun event.
June 5-July 3 “Under the Elms” Summer Concert Series A signature summer event in Athens, this free concert is held Wednesdays on College Green and showcases local and university talents.
Sept. 12-15 Black Alumni Reunion Weekend This signature weekend is open to all alumni and celebrates black alumni’s ties to OHIO.
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Oct. 7-12 Homecoming An annual tradition that beckons Bobcats back to Athens’ bricks to cherish, commemorate, and celebrate the Bobcat nation.
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THE MAKING OF A
MANDALA “It’s not about the destination, but the journey.” This is the case with making mandalas, a Buddhist religious practice. Mandala means “circle” in Sanskrit and creating a mandala is a way of bringing positive energy into the world. Tibetan monks from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, India, visited OHIO’s Athens Campus in October. In six days, they created an intricate Peace Mandala made with bright, jewel-toned sand, applied into the circle design with specialty tools. Then, on the sixth day, in an instant, they destroyed it. Mandalas vary in meaning. The Peace Mandala created at OHIO promoted discussion and cultural exchange. The monks’ visit was sponsored by OHIO’s Comparative Religion Club, the Friends of India Endowment, and the Gawande Speaker Series in Indian Religion and Philosophy. Associate Professor of Religion and the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy Brian Collins says a sand mandala ceremony illustrates the “impermanence of all things,” and that mandalas, in general, allow Tibetan monks to focus their meditation on a physical object.
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Before a mandala is created, an opening ceremony sanctifies the area it will inhabit and invites positive energy into the space. The monks then begin from the circle’s center and work outward, harnessing this physical movement to focus their meditation. A completed mandala can exist intact for any amount of time before it is destroyed and its positive energy is released into the world. “You think about when they started doing this practice, there was no photography,” Collins says. “Imagine doing one of those over a period of weeks and then destroying it totally with no record of it ever having been done.” Tashi Kyil monk Lobsang Jamyang enjoys the focus mandala making provides. “For me, this is the best meditation because you really have to concentrate on what you are doing,” he says. The Tashi Kyil monks also demonstrated cooking techniques and led a yoga class as part of their visit. “There’s the [Buddhist] philosophy, but more [than that,] they just want to show what Tibetan culture is for themselves and for others,” Collins says. —By Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18, and Natalie Colarossi, BSJ ’19
WORLD PEACE SAND MANDALA Created in honor of the Dalai Lama’s 2007 visit to the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana, Arjia Rinpoche’s Peace Mandala was blessed by His Holiness, who encouraged its use for introducing mandala sand paintings to Western audiences.
Earth
Water
Outer Ring: The four Primary Colors of Buddhism, which protect the mandala
Fire
“In Buddhism, everything is connected.”
Air
–Mary Pattison, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center Lotus flower: represents purification
White conch: announces the glory of Buddha Endless knot: symbolizes interdependence
Vase of treasure: denotes prosperity
Golden fish: signifies good fortune
Ring 3: Eight Auspicious Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism
Precious umbrella: represents protection from suffering Dharma wheel: represents the Buddha’s doctrine
Victory banner: symbolizes triumph over obstacles
Buddhism (Dharma Wheel)
Native American
Judaism (Star of David)
Islam (Crescent
Ring 2: Symbols of different religions
Sikh (Khanda)
& Star)
Hinduism (Ohm)
Christianity (Cross) Jainism (Hand with a Wheel)
Center: The Four Perfect Friends
• Buddhism’s primary colors also represent the changing seasons and the different humors (fluids) in the body. • The mandala’s circular shape symbolizes unity and wholeness.
Taoism (Yin & Yang)
Shinto (Tori/Gate)
(Quadrant)
Each symbol in the design has multiple meanings, representing the interconnectedness of all things:
In the story of the Four Perfect Friends, the elephant, monkey, rabbit, and bird competed to see who was greatest. The story’s lesson? We each have different talents and can live harmoniously.
OHIO giving
OHIO Peace Mandala Diameter: 4 ft
Avg. Height–Male: 5’9”
Kalachakra Mandala* Diameter: 21.3 ft *created in China’s Gansu province G raphics by J essica Koynock , BSVC ’19 Photos by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17
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Power to the patients: HCOM’s new curriculum for physicians of the future Care for medical patients is changing: The one-doctor-knows-all approach is being replaced by the team approach. OHIO’s Heritage College has responded by training its students to embrace the power of team-based practice.
Future physicians peer into the practice of pediatric care at the Athens Campus pediatric OMM lab. Photo by Rich-Joseph Facun, BSVC ’01
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[TOP] HCOM’s Cleveland Campus partners with the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic and students train throughout the clinic’s enterprise. [BOTTOM] Students lean into an anatomy lesson. Photos by RichJoseph Facun, BSVC ’01
IT’S MONDAY MORNING, and the entire firstyear class at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is meeting a new patient. Spread out over three campuses in Ohio and connected by videoconference, more than 260 medical students—the first to be trained in the college’s innovative new Pathways to Health and Wellness Curriculum—are starting their week as they do routinely on Mondays: diving into the simulated patient case on which their learning activities for the week will build. They’ve just finished a quiz to assess how well they’ve mastered assigned material—readings, PowerPoints, recorded lectures—assigned in preparation for this week’s topic. After taking the exam individually, they take it again in a standing eight-student cohort who collaborate on lab and learning activities, mirroring the way modern health professionals increasingly work in teams. This week’s patient is visiting the doctor for a wellness check-up. A Heritage College faculty member assigns each group a question for the fictitious patient to answer. Another faculty member takes the role of the patient, answering students’ questions about diet, exercise, and more. The class is alive with interaction, as students chime in from their microphone-equipped stations. As the patient answers questions, students suggest further follow-up questions.
In the coming week, all the specialized material the students learn, from biochemistry to gross anatomy to social factors affecting health, will be woven into their understanding of this patient’s case. Welcome to “Osteopathic Approach to Patient Care 1 – Wellness,” the only fall semester class on the first-year academic schedule. A course on acute illness follows in the second semester; the secondyear curriculum will feature courses on chronic illness, then return to wellness. The new curriculum, launched in fall 2018, represents one seamless arc, following patients through stages of sickness and healing. The Pathways to Health and Wellness Curriculum (PHWC) demonstrates what medical training of the future looks like: Training organized around detailed patient cases, delivered to and absorbed in teams, and designed to present information in a way the physician will use it. It abandons auditorium lectures for a “flipped classroom,” in which students prepare outside class for interactive, team-based exercises in the learning space. Information coming from formerly discrete disciplines has been merged into a holistic, practice-centric way, offered by faculty from disciplines relevant to the case.
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“We are given cases with patients’ names, their whole history, their whole medical background,” says first-year student William Naber. “Together we take the material we learned that week and apply it to the case. And we help each other understand things that we didn’t understand about the case. That’s why the teamwork keeps coming back in over and over.” Jody Gerome, DO ’05, associate dean for curriculum, says the PHWC continues the longstanding Heritage College practice of putting students into health care spaces like clinics and hospitals from their early days, yet now it replicates such practice venues in the classroom. This ensures that “the way that students are introduced to major concepts is through the lens of a patient experience,” she says. “The faculty build the content that they’re teaching together, as a team, and then deliver it as a team. Students
are then working in teams to synthesize the information.” Dr. Ken Johnson, the College’s executive dean and OHIO’s chief medical affairs officer, says the PHWC is integral to the school’s mission. “It teaches students in a way that research has shown they learn best, and that prepares them for the new realities of health care in the 21st century,” he says. “The doctors we train in it are going to come out of medical school already proficient at working on a modern health care team—with the patient at its center.” — James Phillips, BSJ ’88 BELOW: HCOM students practice Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) in the OMM lab at the Athens Campus. Photo by Marlena Sloss , MA ’19. RIGHT: With the launch of HCOM’s Dublin Campus, central Ohio-based students seeking an osteopathic medical degree call it their home campus. Photo by Ty Wright, BFA ’02, MA ’13
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Educator and leader Melinda Tsapatsaris puts progressive pedagogy into practice at Westland School in Los Angeles, California, where students and teachers are partners in the democratic act of learning.
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How to live, be, & lead Twenty years into her career as an educator, alumna Melinda Tsapatsaris still finds practice a key to her, well, practice. “I like that we never think we have it down, that practice means repetition and reflection and revising for the next time—how to meet children’s needs in the most reflective way,” she says. It’s no wonder Tsapatsaris, BSED ’98, uses the words “reflection” and “reflective.” As a member of a student cohort in The Patton College of Education’s award-winning Creating Active and Reflective Educators (CARE) program, she uses its principles as head of school (akin to superintendent) at the independent K-12 school she leads. “The CARE program was totally authentic in that it modeled how its students should live, be, and lead in schools,” Tsapatsaris says. “The program emphasized project-based learning, reflection, grappling, Socratic methods, democratic practices, critical and creative thinking, multicultural practice, and relationship building.”
Westland School’s teachers and head of school Melinda Tsapatsaris [LEFT] practice progressive pedagogy at the Los Angeles, California, school, where students and teachers are united in the democratic act of learning. Photo by Kyle Grillot, BSVC ’12
While at OHIO, Tsapatsaris recalls a time when an instructor demonstrated what it means to practice democracy in the classroom. The instructor asked the class to share the grade they felt they deserved on an assignment. “This self-reflection, this idea of empowering the student, takes out that hierarchical model,” Tsapatsaris says. Putting knowledge into practice
Students call teachers by their first names at Westland School, a school that champions inquiry-based, experiential learning. When she observes a classroom at Westland, Tsapatsaris says, she’s looking to see that the students are the ones working hardest, not the teacher, who is “there giving them counsel,” she says. Tsapatsaris says CARE taught her the importance of continuously cultivating a sense of community in schools, a lesson she learned as a member of a threeyear-long OHIO student cohort placed in Athens County’s rural Federal Hocking School District. “You have to build a really connected community to get to the place where you’re taking big intellectual risks,” she says. “Learning is a social act.” — Mary Reed, BSJ ’90, MA ’93
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Thank you for your service Getting the Athens Halloween Block Party started last fall was the 7th Annual Honey for the Heart Giant Puppet Parade, a family-friendly event that takes over Court Street before the sun sets, featuring some can’t-miss creations like a giant honey-eating bear and super-sized bumblebees.
arts center that empowers artists with developmental differences.
More than 2,000 volunteers collaborated to make these radically gorgeous giant puppets, an effort conceived and produced by Patty Mitchell, BFA ’87. Mitchell is the founder and executive director of Passion Works Studio, an Athens-based
Who are these volunteers? Ohio University students, community members, and artists. Mitchell noted an increase in both the number and interest level of volunteers, and she points to the studio’s growing relationship with OHIO’s Center for Campus
“Our intention is to elevate the narrative and experience of Halloween [in Athens],” Mitchell says. “We hope to encourage connection, purpose, and belonging.”
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Executive director of Athensbased Passion Works, Patty Mitchell, BFA ’87, throws a knowing smile in anticipation for the Honey for the Heart parade to begin. Photo by Michael Johnson, BSVC ’19
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Fantastic images are created then parade down Court Street for the 2018 annual Honey for the Heart parade in Athens, a family-friendly event that precedes the city's annual Halloween Block Party. Photo courtesy of the Athens County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
and Community Engagement (CCCE), which acts as a bridge between students, staff, faculty, and community partners to further projects that matter. It’s where students can practice the act of civic good will. “We’re here to help build connective tissue. It’s all about contributing to the development of students as future civic leaders,” says CCCE Director Mary Nally, BA ’99, MS ’10. “We want students to be more embedded in the community, which will inform their academic experience within the context of the greater world.” One of the OHIO Strategic Pathways initiatives set by President M. Duane Nellis aims to “build a university engagement ecosystem” that will raise the economic standing and quality of life throughout Appalachia over time. The CCCE is key to meeting that goal, and as it grows students will have more opportunities to get involved beyond the bricks.
According to Nally, “C course” classes offer students a way into this ecosystem. The classes teach skills in a specific area of study and require at least 20 hours of hands-on service learning. Currently 14 C courses are offered on campus and 240 faculty members are trained to teach them. Isabelle Roberts took the C course “Media Production for the Community” in fall 2018. A media arts and studies student, Roberts helped to create a video featuring the action at the Athens Farmers Market and on Athens Beautification Day. Learning her craft while engaged with the community was a winning combination. “It’s been an interesting opportunity to learn more about the community,” says Roberts, “and a great experience for what I want to do in the real world.” — Jen Jones Donatelli, BSJ ’98
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start small They say once you learn to swim, you never forget. But getting there takes practice. In Little Otter Learns to Swim, a children’s picture book published by Ohio University Press and released last September, author Artie Knapp, AA ’04, created a story that demonstrates the value of persistence in overcoming one’s fear when learning new skills. “Watching my daughter swim made me wonder which animals, like humans, have to be taught to swim. That curiosity kickstarted my research,” Knapp says. Knapp was surprised to learn that North American river otters must learn to swim despite displaying a natural grace in the water. “Before one is graceful at anything, there will be stumbling blocks along the way. I felt that made a great premise for a children’s book.” Now that Knapp knew what story he wanted to tell, he turned to the images. He envisioned a rich river landscape emerging through the
illustrations. He reached out to internationally known wildlife artist Guy Hobbs, who created vibrant, warm, and playful images which give readers an otter’s-eye view of the dangers and wonders of the wild. Knapp’s book serves as a tribute to the species, one that had become extinct due to trapping in some areas but has rebounded in Ohio and beyond. The California-based River Otter Ecology Project contributed facts about the North American river otter for the back of the book, grounding the book as a message about conservation.
“Before one is graceful at anything, there will be stumbling blocks along the way. I felt that made a great premise for a children’s book.”
Like otters learning to swim, anyone learning to read has to start small, beginning with the ABCs before moving on to reading books. Knapp’s daughter is an avid reader of the latter. “She’s 9 now and reads Harry Potter on her own,” he says. “I love hearing her tell me about her reading adventures.” When she’s not swimming, that is. — Samara Rafert is the publicist for Ohio University Press
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Better together As a Bobcat community, we’ve been known to have each other’s backs. But in situations of sexual assault, violence, or hate, it can sometimes be unclear how to best help one another—which is why practicing bystander intervention techniques can help us to become better citizens both on and off campus. Students can do this by looking inward at their social circles, or “drinking families,” suggests Thomas Vander Ven, a sociology professor at Ohio University. In his book, Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard, Vander Ven explores how friend groups form unique social practices to take care of each other while in drinking situations. Vander Ven suggests by infusing these social systems with bystander intervention training, students can offer each other more effective support. “It’s important to give bystander training to that unit and ask, ‘What are you doing to take care of each other? How do you do it? And what can we do to improve that process?’” he says. The OHIO community has Better Bystanders, a student-led organization that offers training to students, faculty, and community members on how to safely stand up. They ask participants to practice the Four D’s of Intervention: Direct, Distract, Delegate, and Delay. “How you intervene depends on your personality, so whether an extrovert or introvert, it’s what you feel most comfortable doing,” said Anthony Ciliberto, the organization’s president. “As long as you’re intervening in some way, that’s what makes a difference,” he says. —Natalie Colarossi, BSJ ’19
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[LEFT] Joan Mace, AA ’73, BGS ’78, EMERT ’93, pictured in the foreground in 1969 with an unidentified woman, spent hours practicing her piloting skills before landing a job in 1946 as an instructor at OHIO’s airport. She would later become the first woman to chair the Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s Aviation Department. [MIDDLE] Students also were getting into the in-flight act in 1969. Flying Bobcat Alexis Piaget,
the grinning pilot at the wheel, eagerly anticipates takeoff as Robert Crows, BBA ’69, gears up to give the propeller a mighty turn and Terry Timmester, BSJ ’69, removes the wheel blocks. [RIGHT] Other Flying Bobcats wisely parked a prop plane near the old Baker University Center (now home to Scripps College of Communication) and offered rides for a “penny-a-pound.” Photos courtesy of the M ahn Archives & Special Collections
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1957
Robert W. Smith, AB ’57, director of the Coast Guard Community College, was honored with a Public Service Award from the college in June. Smith recently retired from the Marine Corps Historical Society in San Diego, California. He resides in Salem, Oregon.
1965
Richard E. Ragsdale, BBA ’65, was selected as Top Healthcare Executive of the Year for 2018 by the International Association of Top Professionals for his leadership and commitment to health care administration and entrepreneurship.
1966
Michael E. Jackson, BA ’66, was appointed to serve as chair of the Military and Veterans’ Affairs Committee in Columbus, Ohio, in August. Elected to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in 2012 and a Marine combat officer who served in the Vietnam War, Jackson received the Hank Pirowski Award in 2017 from
the Justice for Vets division of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals in recognition of his courage and perseverance in the mission to connect justice-involved veterans with benefits and treatment.
1968
David A. Gilliss, BBA ’68, has retired from teaching in the Management Department at San Jose State University in San Jose, California in 2017 after 18 years. He previously taught at the University of Phoenix, Golden Gate University, and EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University. Gilliss resides in Winona, Ohio.
1969
Alexander B. Aitken, BFA ’69, MFA ’71, retired in July from full-time teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Aitken resides in Medina, Ohio. Gail J. Grossenbaugh Rymer, BS ’69, MED ’83, PHD ’86, was inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame in May. Rymer was recognized for her advocacy
against elder abuse. She is a co-founder of the Southeast Ohio Elder Abuse Commission. She resides in Little Hocking, Ohio, with her husband Donald Rymer, MS ’68.
June. Schweizer retired in 2017 after serving for 44 years as a full-time athletics administrator at Denison University. Schweizer resides in Granville, Ohio.
Arthur W. Stellar, BSED ’69, MED ’70, PHD ’73, began as volunteer assistant editor for practitioner communications for the Journal of School Public Relations in August. Stellar will review submitted content and distribute it to the publication’s editorial board for peer review.
Rev. Maurice G. Mitchell, BSED ’72, retired in August after 42 years in the ministry to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Most recently, Mitchell retired from the Presbyterian Church in Hillsboro, Ohio, after 25 years of service. He and his wife, Debbie, reside in Wilmington, Ohio.
1971
Kenneth C. Frisch, BFA ’71, BSED ’72, MFA ’79, is one of three fundraisers named to the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) 2018 class of Distinguished Fellows. He is the first in Ohio to receive this honor and one of only nine AFP Distinguished Fellows in the world. Lynn M. Schweizer, BSED ’71, received the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators Richard A. Rasmussen Lifetime Achievement Award in
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1972
Chet B. Rogenski, BSIT ’72, and his wife, Pam Rogenski, marked their 50th wedding anniversary on July 14 and celebrated by renewing their vows in Galbreath Chapel at the Athens Campus where they met more than 50 years ago.
1973
Stuart H. Diamond, BGS ’73, joined SafePass Global, makers of the visitor management system with real-time location tracking, as a senior vice president in May. He resides in Houston, Texas.
BOBCAT SIGHTINGS OHIO alumni go on adventures hither and yon! Paul Hill, BSED ’69, sporting his Green and White OHIO pride, took in a sunny afternoon with his grandchildren last summer.
Beth AtkinsKoplinski, BSED ’95, and her son, Grant, are all smiles while at an international soccer tournament in San Sebastián, Spain.
In August, Stefano Holguin, BSME ’83, MS ’87 [TOP ROW, LEFT], and Larks-Erik Kolberg, BSJ ’92 [TOP ROW, THIRD FROM LEFT], organized a Bobcat Nation reunion in Oslo, Norway, and Bobcats from many nations attended. Alumni came from Norway, Iceland, Thailand, and the U.S.
From left, Priscilla Trumpeter Moss, BS ’81, Patricia Trumpeter Lovell, BS ’81, and Jennifer Hillman Barton, BS ’81, proudly hold their OHIO flag in front of Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland, while on a hiking trip in 2017. From left , Therese Montecalvo, BSC ’13, Lawrence Montecalvo, BBA ’13, Nicholas Calabrese, BSED ’14, MED ’14, Mikayla Zernic, BSC, CERT ’16, and [FAR RIGHT] Kara Kehn, BSH ’16, emit their Bobcat pride at 14,065 feet on Mt. Bierstadt in Colorado.
The rain doesn’t stop John E. Laws, BA ’78, MED ’79, from showing off his Bobcat gear while atop an extinct volcano in Iceland.
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—Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck and Haley Rischar, BSJ ’19 Send your photos with names, grad degrees and grad years to ohiotoday@ohio.edu or to Ohio University, Ohio Today, 112 McKee House, 1 Ohio University Drive, Athens, OH 45701.
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1974
Blair N. Closser, BSED ’74, retired in June from a 44-year career in education. He was a teacher and coach for 35 years in the Buckeye Local School District and an elementary and high school principal for 12 years, also serving as an assistant superintendent. He also retired from public service to the Village of Yorkville after 38 1/2 years. Glen Pellett, BARCH ’74, joined DMR Architects’ Project Management Team in September to support the firm’s extensive work with the New York City School Construction Authority. He has more than 40 years of experience managing and developing technical document preparation in the architecture and engineering industry.
1975
John P. Coyne, BBA ’75, retired at the end of 2018 after 41 years in the workforce. He has worked for Price Waterhouse, Texas Instruments, and NXP. Coyne will reside in his homes in Houston, Paris, Amsterdam,
and the Netherlands in retirement.
1977
Jon R. Smith, BSED ’77, is the first recipient of the NJCAA Region III Athletic Trainer of the Year Award for 2017-2018. Smith is the assistant director of athletics and certified athletic trainer for SUNY Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. After a 40-year career in newspaper beat coverage, as a columnist, and in corporate public relations and marketing, Roger D. Yohem, BSJ ’77, retired in 2017. For 10 years, he served as a member of the OHIO Alumni Association’s Tucson, Arizona, chapter, where he and his wife, Karin, reside.
1980
Steven W. Hughes, MED ’80, retired in May after a 40-year career as a special education teacher. Hughes resides in Apache Junction, Arizona, with his wife, Candace Hughes, MS ’88. Joel J. Redmount, BFA ’80, produced
and directed the Cranford, New Jersey, CDC Theater’s 2nd Annual Hispanic Theatre Festival main production “Bar Manolo” in July. Redmount founded the festival to provide a venue for Spanish language theater in New Jersey.
1981
Karen C. McConnell, BBA ’81, was recognized in August a one of two 2019 Phoenix-area Lawyers of the Year in their practices by The Best Lawyers in America, a publication regarded as one of the definitive guides to the country’s leading attorneys. McConnell, at Phoenixbased Ballard Spahr, LLP, received the honor for work in securities/ capital markets and leads the firm’s private equity group.
1983
Robin M. Wilson, BSJ ’83, became partner at Kaufman & Company, LLC’s Cleveland office in November. She was previously chief trial counsel, leading Cuyahoga County’s Executive Litigation Group in complex civil matters.
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1987
Andrew L. Whitenack, MM ’87, was promoted to director of Purchasing at Alfred Music in Van Nuys, California. Whitenack oversees music printing and maintains product inventory levels at the Alfred Distribution Center in upstate New York. Whitenack resides in Pasadena, California.
1988
Brian D. Speer, BFA ’88, was appointed as vice president for marketing and communications at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in June. In his new role, Speer will apply his strengths in strategic communications, brand management, integrated marketing, and digital, print, and social communications strategies.
1989
Andrew L. Brenner, BSED ’89, graduated from the University of Akron Police Academy and became a commissioned police officer with the Montville Township Police Department. Brenner also serves as associate principal at Medina High School.
Troy W. Mitchell, BSPE ’89, was honored with the Distinguished Service Award in October from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The Zanesville, Ohio, native recently retired after 31 years in sports information. He served for the last 15 years as sports information director at HSU. Mitchell earned numerous awards both on the national and state level for his media guides and fact sheets. Michell resides in Bismarck, Arkansas.
1990
Rebecca A. Butler, BSJ, CERT ’90, PHD ’16, was appointed the executive vice president at Columbus State Community College in July, where she’ll build on faculty leadership initiatives, align the college’s work with the student experience, and oversee leadership continuity. Formerly she served as the college’s senior vice president of Enrollment Management and Student Services overseeing student success efforts and the college’s enrollment goals. Butler resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Morris L. Hawk, AB ’90, CERT ’91, joined Roetzel & Andress LPA in Cleveland in August as a senior labor and employment law attorney. He focuses on employment relationships for privately owned and publicly held corporations and on commercial and construction litigation. Dawn L. Heideman, BSED ’90, was a recipient of the 2017 Jefferson Award, an award that recognizes individuals of central Ohio who do selfless acts, for her founding of Be The One, a program for at-risk students who have experienced violence, homelessness, and extreme poverty. Dawn is currently a math teacher at Walnut Ridge High School in Columbus. In May, Nick J. Jezierny, BSJ ’90, was promoted to senior corporate communications specialist at Blue Cross of Idaho. Jezierny and his wife, Dara, reside in Garden City, Idaho.
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Belinda M. Paschal, BSJ ’90, was recently named associate editor of the Troy Daily News and the Piqua Daily
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Call in Miami County, Ohio. She has worked for publications in Ohio and California, including The Hollywood Reporter. Paschal resides in Dayton, Ohio. Jill J. Strand, BSJ ’90, was recognized by Minnesota Lawyer as an “Unsung Hero” in June. The award recognizes Minnesota’s outstanding legal support professionals. Strand oversees library and knowledge information systems at Fish & Richardson, an intellectual property and litigation firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1992
Terrance L. Reimer, BFA ’92, received the 2018 Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award at Ohio University in April. The award recognized excellence in teaching through a nomination and selection process conducted entirely by undergraduate students. Reimer teaches Communication Media Arts. In September, Mitchell E. Simmons, BS ’92, MS ’93, became associate dean at the School of Science and
Technology Intelligence at the National Intelligence University (NIU). Simmons retired in 2016 after 22 years of active service. Mitchell and his wife, Kristi Simmons, BS ’92, reside in Centreville, Virginia. Jason K. Wright, AB ’92, has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Wright practices at Cleveland, Ohio-based Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA’s consumer bankruptcy group. He is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and currently serves on the association’s admissions committee.
1993
Lynn A. Lang, BSED ’93, graduated in May from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a doctoral degree in organizational leadership.
1994
Garett W. Rea, BS ’94, was elected to serve as the president of the National Association of Occupational Safety and Health Consultation Programs, an advisory board that serves OSHA consultation
programs nationwide. He is the consultation program manager for Tennessee OSHA and resides in Mt. Julien, Tennessee, with his wife, Katherine.
1995
Thomas A. Mays, BSC ’95, was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of commerce at Miami University. Mays teaches courses on small business innovation, business analytics, and e-commerce. He resides in Washington Township, Ohio, with his wife, Lynn Mays, BSHSS ’95, CERT ’95.
Fondren Church in Jackson, Mississippi. His first daughter, Hope, was born at the end of May. Lewis’ sixth CD, “Morning will come,” was released in 2018.
1997
Jason Vian, MSPE ’97, has received the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society service award for many years of volunteer service to the organization. He currently works as a clinical AT for OAA Orthopaedic Specialists in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
1996
1998
Shannon L. Lewis, BSC ’96, is now the worship pastor at
Frederick C. Fisher Jr., BBA ’98, has started a three-year term on the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) Board of Governors. He is a magistrate in the Village of Hanging Rock and the Village of Proctorville, serves on the Supreme Court of Ohio Board of Commissioners of
Stefanie “Stevie” (Soltz) BakerWatson, BSAT ’96, received the 2018 Women Leaders in College Sports NCAA Division III Administrator of the Year Award. She currently serves as the associate vice president for campus wellness and as the Theodore Katula director of athletics and recreational sports at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
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In June, Christopher Duffrin, MED ’98, PHD ’02, was named dean of the College of Education and Health Services at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.
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Luke Jenkins, son of Mandy Jenkins, BSEE ’10, and Josh Jenkins, BSEE ’09, is “ready, set, go” to rep his parents’ alma mater.
Lila [LEFT] and Max Scott, born January 2018, giggle for their parents, Caroline Scott, BA ’00, and Gary Scott. The twins join 11-year-old brother, Everett, in the Scott family.
Charlotte Rae Heilman was an instant Bobcat sensation with her OHIO-themed newborn photo shoot. Proud parents are Zachary Heilman, BSSPS ’10, and Katelyn Heilman, BSSPS ’11. Skylar Stephen Jacobs, born June 2017, flaunts his Bobcat pride! Proud parents are Jason Jacobs, BSED ’13, and Lara Maue Jacobs, BBA ’12.
—Compiled by Editor Kelee Garrison Riesbeck and Haley Rischar, BSJ ’19 Send your photos with names, grad degrees and grad years to ohiotoday@ ohio.edu or Ohio University, Ohio Today, 112 McKee House, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.
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Sally Neidhard, BSJ ’09, and John Silvestro, BSJ ’09, are excited to be Bobcat parents after the birth of their daughter, Julia Neidhard Silvestro, in May 2018.
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Character and Fitness, is a trustee of the Clark County Law Library Board, and is partner at McCown & Fisher, LPA in Ironton, Ohio. Tiece Ruffin, BSED ’98, MED ’99, PHD ’05, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and grant to Ghana, West Africa, and a Regional Africa Travel Program grant to Malawi. She is currently an associate professor of education at the University of North Carolina Asheville.
1999
In December 2017, Greg E. Carlin, BBA ’99, MBA ’00, opened Play: CLE in Cleveland, the largest indoor adventure park in Ohio. Carlin is Play: CLE’s founder and CEO and also is a venture partner at JumpStart, Inc., also in Cleveland In 2017 Derek J. Dusthimer, BSSE ’99, won his fourth career Lumberjack World Championship at the Webster County Woodchopping
Festival in Webster Springs, West Virginia. Dusthimer placed first in the ax throw championship for the second consecutive year and placed 10th in the two-man crosscut sawing competition. Dusthimer resides in Kilbourne, Ohio. Carlton E. McLellan, BA ’99, is now the senior adviser of new program development at Global Ties. He was recently the proposal manager for companies with successful bids to be the U.S. Department of State’s official implementing partner for the USA Pavilion at the World Expo 2020. Karla R. Wludyga, BSJ ’99, is now senior management consultant at PRADCO, a development and management company in Cleveland.
2000 Warm up with The Bobcat Store.
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In July, Desirae Matherly Martin, MA ’00, PHD ’04, was named chair of the newly formed English and Fine Arts Department at Tusculum University in Greenville, Tennessee. Martin has taught a wide range of literary
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nonfiction, journalism, literature, and composition courses while at Tusculum and has continued to publish essays at national and international conferences.
2001
Joseph R. Anderl, BBA ’01, and Eli W. Alban, BSIT ’02, members of the band The 1984 Draft, released their latest record, “Makes Good Choices,” in August. The band is signed with Poptek Records in Dayton, Ohio. Jeffrey L. Blevins, PHD ’01, has been named editor of the Democratic Communiqué. Blevins is an associate professor and head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. Nicole L. Griffin, BA ’01, MPA ’03, received a Distinguished Awards in Teaching Short-Term grant to Botswana in May from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Griffin participated as part of the program’s 2018-2019 cohort.
2003
Kimberly Pratt, AB ’03, MA ’03, is currently a sponsored projects officer at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, working with principal investigators in the cancer center as well as on the hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant division. She is a Certified Research Administrator and also serves on the board of the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Research Administrators International as immediate past president. She resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Steve, and son, Henry. Nicole L. Rife, BSJ ’03, became director of education engagement at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June. Rife previously managed the COSI on Wheels Outreach Program at COSI in Columbus, Ohio. Joshua D. Singer, BSED ’03, received the 2018 Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award for outstanding performance by a D.C. government employee.
Singer is a community garden specialist for the Department of Parks and Recreation in Washington, D.C.
2004
After nine years of working as an officer for the California Highway Patrol, Michael P. Zimmer, BSA ’04, was selected as a pilot for the patrol’s Air Operations Department and currently patrols the San Francisco Bay area piloting a GIPPS Aero Airvan.
2006
2019 TOURS April 27-May 6 • Celtic Lands May 1-5 • The Kentucky Derby May 9-17 • Greece—Athens & Poros May 15-June 6 • Essential Europe— Graduation & Young Alumni Tour May 29-June 6 • Cruising the Riverias and Islands of France, Italy, and Spain
In 2017 Isabel Huber Planton, BA ’06, CERT ’06, was appointed as the public services librarian at the Lilly Library, the rare books and special collections library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Her husband, Benjamin E. Planton, BA ’04, is the infant toddler outcome specialist with Early Learning Indiana, a state-wide nonprofit. The couple reside in Bloomington, Indiana.
2008
June 14-24 • Arctic Expedition Under the Midnight Sun June 18-27 • Oceania Cruise—Gaelic Glory July 16-26 • Oceania Cruise— Glacial Adventures of Alaska July 26-Aug. 3 • Poland—Krakow Aug. 2-11 • The Majestic Great Lakes Aug. 7-11 • Costa Rica Eco Explorer Sept. 20-27 • Historic Hotels of New England Oct. 11-22 • Albuquerque Balloon Festival & U.S. National Parks Oct. 26-Nov. 2 • The Northern Lights of Finland Oct. 27-Nov 4 • Oceania Cruise— Majestic Vistas, Venice to Rome Nov. 27-Dec. 5 • Holiday Markets Cruise— The Festive Rhine River
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Florida Super Lawyers and the publication’s “Rising Stars” list across the United States. Maskow is an associate at McGlinchey Stafford PLLC in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, focusing on business litigation and intellectual property.
2009
Matthew T. Crawford, BA ’09, joined the Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. in April in the firm’s labor and employment department in Dayton, Ohio. Crawford focuses on labor relations, employment litigation, and counseling employers on workplace matters.
2010
Bethany D. Kink Clark, BSSPS ’10, and Cory P. Clark, BSC ’10, were married in September 2014. Bethany graduated with her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2012 and is now a director of an outpatient physical therapy clinic. Cory is currently an underwriter for Ally Bank. The couple reside in St. Augustine, Florida.
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Kelly I. Myers, BA ’10, a captain in the U.S. Air Force, embarked on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan in November 2018. Myers has been stationed in Mildenhall, England, and Travis AFB, in California.
2011
Nina L. Cesare, AB-SOC ’11, is a postdoctoral student at Boston University. Cesare earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, in sociology with a focus in statistics and internet data research methods. Alexandra M. Borsuk Hasenohr, BSHCS ’11 was presented with the “25 Under 35” Award from Saint Joseph Academy located in Cleveland. The award acknowledges alumnae who have gone above and beyond in both personal and professional endeavors since their graduation.
2012
Andrew H. Howell, BSSPS ’12, was promoted to pro scout for the Miami Dolphins.
Howell performs advance scouting of opponents, evaluates professional players at all levels, and monitors personnel moves throughout the NFL.
on Aging in May. In addition, Knighton’s dissertation study was the major article for the June 2018 issue of the American Journal for Infection Control.
Sandra D. Pittman Brown, BSS ’12, presented at Imagining America’s National Gathering, an annual gathering of public scholars, artists, students, designers, and cultural organizers who address the nation’s most critical issues, in October 2018. Pittman Brown resides in Decatur, Illinois.
Abigail G. Millar, BSC ’13, and Maureen E. Wolf, BSCFS ’13, were presented with the “25 Under 35” Award from Saint Joseph Academy located in Cleveland. The award acknowledges alumnae who have gone above and beyond in both personal and professional endeavors since their graduation.
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Alissa E. Huston, BSCFS ’13, received her master of public health degree from George Washington University in September 2018. She works for the Immune Deficiency Foundation in Towson, Maryland, as a program manager. Shanina C. Knighton, BSN ’13, was recognized by the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University for receiving the 2018 Innovative Research on Aging Award from Mather LifeWays Institute
In summer 2018, Michael G. Hamilton, BSED ’14, participated in Miami University’s Earth Expeditions global field course in Hawaii focusing on community engagement aimed at sustaining ecological and social health in Hawaii. Hamilton is a seventhgrade science teacher at West Clermont Middle School and resides in Batavia, Ohio.
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Alumni Authors
Ohio University alumni publish books across myriad subjects and genres. Here are some recent releases. Don’t Read This Book, humor (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform), by Michael Blauvelt, BSJ ’01, BA ’01 • Phinally!: The Phillies, the Royals and the 1980 Baseball Season That Almost Wasn’t, baseball history (McFarland Publishing), by Jonathan Daniel, BSC ’90 • The Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Juices and Smoothies, health recipes (Independently published), by Kevin Finn, BS ’02 • Public Relations Student Playbook: Excel In Class and At Work, public relations (Independently published), by Tom Hagley, BSJ ’64, MS ’68 • Writing Winning Proposals: PR Cases, 3rd Edition, textbook (Cognella Academic Publishing), by Rebecca Gilliland and Tom Hagley, BSJ ’64, MS ’68 • The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric, Appalachian rhetoric (West Virginia University Press), by Amanda Hayes, BA, CERT ’04, MA ’06, PHD ’15 • Cloud of Witnesses, young adult fiction (Golden Alley Press), by Jane Feeback Hertenstein, BSED ’82 • New Erotica for Feminists, feminist satire (Plume), by Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, BSS ’02, Fiona Taylor, and Carrie Wittmer• Evergreen Dreaming: Trail Tales of an Aging Hiker, memoir (Longitudes Press), by Peter Kurtz, BSJ ’81 • Corn-Fed: Cul-de-sacs, Keg Stands, and Coming of Age in the Midwest, memoir (Thought Catalog Books), by Melanie LaForce, BA ’00 • Ghostographs: An Album, photography (Rose Metal Press), by Maria Romasco Moore, BSS ’10 • Johannesburg: Path of the Wicked, architecture (Mnyandu Publishing), by Lindokhule Mnyandu, MFA ’14 • Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, maritime history (Wayne State University Press), by Roger Pellett, MBA ’72
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Veneta E. (Wilson) Thropp, ELED ’35 Anne E. (Wagner) Spang, ’39
1940s
Kay C. (Carnes) Nathan, AB ’41, MA ’45 Ruth O. (Ormsby) Cunningham, BSJ ’42 Dale W. Collins, BSEE ’43 Ernest J. Hannahs, BSCOM ’43 Verna M. (Fulmer) Schivley, ELED ’43 Shirley K. (Knight) Gunyou, BS ’44 Gladys C. (Pickens) Meredith, BSHEC ’44 Margaret R. (Cunningham) Shaughnessy, BSED ’45 Helen R. (Davisson) Wilkerson, AB ’45 Worley E. Berisford, BSED ’46 Carolyn C. (Curl) Ellson, BSED ’47 James G. Howcroft, AB ’47 Thomas G. Andrian, BSEE ’48 Donald H. Coe, BFA ’48 Helene C. (Spaldo) Manzione, AB ’48 Chester D. Mitchell, BSCOM ’48 Cruse W. Moss, BSIE ’48, Honorary LLD ’85 Ruth E. (Hall) Raber, BS ’48 Joan L. (Elswit) Schweitz, AB ’48 Eugene Starn, BSJ ’48 Jeanne R. (Rapp) Umbenhour, BSED ’48 Herbert N. Johnston, BS ’49 Margaret E. (Cooksey) Neiman, BSED ’49 Charles M. Ramsey, BS ’49 Adele R. (Rappaport) Rosen, BSJ ’49 William B. Wolfe, BSED ’49, MED ’60
1950s
Norma J. (Ewing) Dutt, AA ’50 Henry A. Hilston, BSAGR ’50 Dorothy J. (Miller) Horn, BSED ’50 William F. Newman, BSCOM ’50 Ralph E. Shoemaker, BSED ’50 Gerald E. Stump, BSCOM ’50 James L. Walsh, BFA ’50 Joanne (Bailey) Baxter, ELED ’51, BSED ’69 Richard L. Burns, AB ’51 Walter G. Duer, BSME ’51 Richard T. Hibbard, BSIE ’51 Betty K. (Kahn) Lavender, AB ’51 Nancy J. (Bertelsen) Pridham, BSHEC ’51 Carol M. Herb, BSJ ’52, MS ’57 Dale W. Koch, BSCHE ’52 Mary J. (Lemieux) Koster, AA ’52 Agnes C. (McLeod) Levin, BSED ’52 Marian (Pollina) Manuele, BFA ’52, MA ’53 William C. Prain, BSCOM ’52 Barbara (Leiner) Claster, AB ’53 William D. Fleming, AB ’53 Bill Jones, BSCOM ’53 Venera T. (Thomovsky) Livingston, BSCOM ’53 Daryl W. Wakins, Jr. BSCE ’53 Claude H. Westfall, AB ’53 Thomas K. Wilson, BS ’53, MS ’55 Virginia J. (Wetherell) Beasley, AB ’54, MA ’56 Nolene (Koch) Kelley, BS ’54 William T. Coon, AB ’55 Harvey L. Dunlap, BSAGR ’55 Harriett L. (Sapp) Kovach, BSED ’55 Norma B. (Bennett) Sargent, BSED ’55 Charles W. Darling, MA ’56 Robert L. LaFollette, AB ’56 Dave Lundberg, BSED ’56, MED ’57 Jack D. Pierson, BSED ’56, MFA ’57
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Ronald N. Roberts, BSME ’56, MBA ’67 Patricia J. (Macormac) Simmons, BSED ’56 Richard E. Westbrook, BFA ’56 Peery V. Elswick, BFA ’57, MED ’68 Donald L. Fleeger, BFA ’57 Larry L. Gatrell, BSED ’57 Margaret (Sergent) Musgrove, BS ’57 Ruth A. (MacDonald) Schaefer, BSED ’57 Richard T. Boehm, BSCOM ’58 Jack J. Graeff, BFA ’58 Charles H. Nicklas, BSCOM ’58 Peter J. Thompson, BFA ’58 Patricia A. (Muldoon) Varga, BSED ’58 Mila S. (Stark) Woods, BSED ’58 Catherine L. (Moore) Brandau, BSED ’59 Duane E. Emerson, BSCOM ’59 Raymond S. Griesheimer, BSED ’59 Marlene (Herr) Herr-Lutz, MFA ’59 John T. Jayne, BSCOM ’59 Cullen S. Johnson, AB ’59 Janice (Lange) McDiarmid, BSJ ’59 James C. Thompson, AB ’59
1960s
Kenneth W. Baker, BSCOM ’60 Richard H. Feagler, AB ’60 J. R. Frisbee, BSCE ’60 John T. Gosling, BS ’60 Loren E. Lonberger, BSED ’60, MED ’66 John J. Muslovski, BSED ’60 Gilbert P. Polansky, BSCOM ’60 Arlene D. (Lusko) Radio, BSED ’60 Ruth A. (Deemer) Sammons, BSED ’60 Charles R. Bramlish, BSED ’61
William W. Davidson, BSCE ’61, MSCE ’63 Frank M. Gerlach, BSIT ’61 James S. Gibson, MFA ’61 Leslie A. Gritton, BS ’61 Marilyn K. (Lowe) Holliday, BS ’61 Allen L. Jefferis, BSEE ’61 Karen K. (Keller) Kilcoyne, AB ’61 Thomas L. Kumpf, BS ’61 Robert M. Ladavac, BSCOM ’61 John T. Moyer, AB ’61 Joseph R. Corby, BSCE ’62 Richard B. Hartman, BS ’62 John T. Jenkins, BSCOM ’62, MBA ’83 Kevin M. Lyons, BS ’62 Doris H. (Holt) McCain, BSED ’62 Cleora J. (Smith) Roberts, AB ’62 Clayton T. Vaughan, Jr., BSED ’62 Judith C. (Weber) Williams, AB ’62 Charles R. Woodlee, BSEE ’62 Janice A. (Bradley) Zenisek, BSED ’62 John R. Barkley, MS ’63, PHD ’66 Dominic J. Chieffo, BBA ’63 Cathy M. (Castner) Curry, BSED ’63 Jack E. Razor, MED ’63 James R. Shaw, MA ’63 Nancy J. (Blake) Thompson, BSED ’63 James F. Tufts, BSED ’63 Joanna M. (Meade) Weaver, BSED ’63 Wilbur O. Fox, BBA ’64 June (Curtin) Newberry- Frowine, BSED ’64 William D. Brooks, PHD ’65 Marcia L. (Merrill) Fox, BSED ’65 Donelda J. Godfrey, BBA ’65 James R. Lawson, BSED ’65 Carol D. (Detro) Schee, BSED ’65 Edwin S. Wertz, BSED ’65 Nancy H. (Hallock) Young, BSHEC ’65
William E. Borden, BSJ ’66 John P. McGinty, AB ’66 Carl E. Morris, BSED ’66 Patricia A. (Flannery) Fenimore, BSED ’67 Marilyn K. (White) Gallagher, BSED ’67 Jerry L. Kohler, BBA ’67 Michael C. Koscho, BS ’67 Robert P. Radzyminski, AB ’67 Barbara H. Smith, BSED ’67 J. D. Stewart, MFA ’67 Rudolph R. Rousseau, AB ’68 James H. Stebel, BBA ’68 Marcia E. (Willson) Willson- Schirber, BSED ’68 Judith A. (Lynch) Angell, AB ’69 Leo H. Antons, BSJ ’69 Richard L. Baker, BSED ’69 Ronald C. Bates, PHD ’69 Barbara C. Fifer, AB ’69 Harry L. Kollias, BS ’69 Audrey M. Malone, BSED ’69 Renee (Pierce) Pierce-Conrad, BSED ’69 Thomas J. Sauer, AB ’69 Barry Souder, BSC ’69
1970s
Robert G. Allbritten, PHD ’70 Nora C. Horsley, BSED ’70 George T. Jenkins, BS ’70 Alesia Stone, BSED ’70 Kathleen M. (Stevens) Bennington, BSED ’71 Van G. Booth, MED ’71 Michael K. Hunter, BS ’71 Susan J. Jack, BSED ’71 James R. Burroughs, BSED ’72 Christina H. (Randolph) Carroll, BSED ’72 Jerry R. Lovett, BSJ ’72 Barbara (Fialkowski) McMillen, MA ’72, PHD ’76 Karen H. Triplett, BSED ’72 Naomi J. (Monaghan) Wilson, BSED ’72, MED ’91
In memoriam
Martha L. (Belcher) Daugherty, BSED ’73 Stephen R. Eddy, BSC ’73 Sandra (Ault) Gasperini, BBA ’73 Steven L. Meeker, AB ’73 Shirley L. Raber, BSED ’73 Steven S. Wylie, BBA ’73 Hazel L. (McGrath) Cline, AAS ’74 David H. Dutch, AB ’74 Michael A. Esposito, BGS ’74 David H. Stevens, BSCHE ’74 Nelson B. Kauffman, PHD ’75 Michael E. Samuels, BSED ’75 James J. Staley, BSED ’75 Carol A. (Sparks) Chandler, BSED ’76 Eric J. Coon, BGS ’76 Kayte R. (Spitler) Dieterich, BSJ ’76 Janet A. (Taggart) Harris, BSED ’76 Wayman R. Smith, AA ’76, BSJ ’77 Karen E. (Shoemaker) Armstrong, BSED ’77 Raymond L. Frye, BSJ ’77 Stanley W. Saunders, BGS ’77 Randall E. Stark, BSJ ’78 Nedra Soltow, AB ’79 David Wirl, BBA ’79
1980s
Cheryl L. (Remy) Carmon, BSED ’80 John M. Mullins, BBA ’80 Wendy K. Schirtzinger, AB ’82 James J. Armour, MBA ’83 Lisa A. (Goldstayn) Burns, AB ’83 Donald O. DeVault, AA ’83 Kathleen P. Flynn, BSC ’84 Mahadzir b. Datuk-Lokman, BBA ’84 Fred J. Steiner, BSC ’85 Ronald E. Emery, AIS ’86 James N. Scruggs, AAS ’87, BSEE ’91, MS ’95
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Donald S. Ferryman, MBA ’88 Brenda L. (McDermott) Bennett, BSED ’89
1990s
James R. Curry, BSEE ’90 Jacqulyn J. Jardine, BS ’90, MED ’03 Kerry L. Beach, AAS ’91, BSN ’01 William L. Hitt, AA ’91 Heather P. Dare, BBA ’92 Michael D. Ginder, BS ’92 Todd E. Bradford, BSIT ’93 Scott A. Ardner, BSME ’95 Christine (Dominici) Danza, BSC ’95 Cathy H. Denney, BSN ’95 John R. Hamilton, BSC ’95 Christopher D. Osborn, DO ’96
2000s
Angelo G. Annarino, BSS ’00 Christyl A. Boger, MFA ’00 Michael F. McAleer, MFA ’00 Michael A. Pride, AA ’01, BSS ’02 Elizabeth M. Whitten, BA ’01 Vernon R. Prince, BA ’02, MED ’04
Candice B. Flaugher, DO ’04 Warren G. Locke, BSJ ’08
2010s
Aaron M. Rieck, BBA ’10 Kevin T. Strang, BS ’13 Michaela D. Elson, BSED ’15 Mitchell A. Simmons, AAS ’15, BCJ ’16 Rocky Messer, AAS ’16, BSN ’18 Lisa A. Adams, MHA ’18
Faculty/Staff
Joesph E. Essman, BSEE ’57, MS ’61, EMERT ’96, Athens, Ohio, associate dean, professor, engineering, Aug. 31 Judith M. (Clune) Gibbons, AS ’94, Ashland, Kentucky, records management assistant, Ohio University Southern Campus, June 20 Ellery Golos, EMERT ’88, Elmira, New York, founding director of Honors Tutorial College, Jan. 12, 2019
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Larry E. Hunter, BSED ’71, MED ’73, Athens, Ohio, head men's basketball coach, Ohio University Athens Campus, May 4 Henrietta W. Keyser, Huntington, West Virginia, general administrator, Ohio University Southern Campus, Aug. 25 Okey J. Napier, Huntington, West Virginia, adjunct faculty, sociology, Ohio University Southern Campus, July 17 Regina Ginger Weade, BSHEC ’70, EMERT ’18, Columbus, Ohio, professor, teacher education, Ohio University Athens Campus, June 30 — Compiled by Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91. Includes alumni who passed away between May 1 and August 31, 2018. Information provided by the University’ s Office of Advancement Services.
MISSION STATEMENT Ohio Today informs, celebrates, and engages alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of Ohio University. Editor, Director of Content, Advancement Communication and Marketing Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91 Art Director Sarah McDowell, BFA ’02 Contributors Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17 Athens County Convention and Visitors Bureau Alaina Bartel Max Catalano, BSVC ’20 Natalie Colarossi, BSJ ’19 Nick Claussen, BSJ ’92 Jen Jones Donatelli, BSJ ’98 Amber Epling, BSJ ’04 Rich-Joseph Facun, BSVC ’01 Zoe Graham, BBA, CERT ’14 John Grimwade Kyle Grillot, BSVC ’12 Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18 Sydney Honaker, BFA ’19 Madeleine Hordinski, BSVC ’20 Michael Johnson, BSVC ’19 Jessica Koynock, BSVC ’19 Kyle Lindner, BFA ’17 Tom McGrath Ohio University Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections Riley Perone, BSVC ’18 James Phillips, BSJ ’88 Samara Rafert Mary Reed, BSJ ’90, MA ’93 Haley Rischar, BSJ ’20 Hannah Ruhoff, BSVC ’20 Peter Shooner Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02 Marlena Sloss, MA ’19 Christofer Smith, BSC ’09
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Ohio Today is published three times a year. Its digital companion is ohiotoday.org. Both are produced by University Advancement, with funding from The Ohio University Foundation. Views expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the staff or University policies. Editorial office address: Ohio Today, 112 McKee House, Ohio University, 1 Ohio University Drive, Athens, OH 45701. Send questions, comments, ideas, and submissions (such as Class notes, photos of future Bobcats, and information about books by Bobcats) to the above address, via email to ohiotoday@ohio.edu, or call Ohio Today at 740.593.1891. Make address changes at ohio.edu/alumni or via Ohio University, Advancement Services, 1 Ohio University Drive, 168 WUSOC, Athens, OH 45701. Send details for the “In memoriam” column to the latter or via email to advinfo@ohio.edu. The OHIO switchboard is 740.593.1000.
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On being heard Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Communication Law Eddith Dashiell has been a change agent throughout her career in media. She was the first African American reporter hired at WGNS-AM in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was a radio and part-time television producer before she joined the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism faculty in 1992. Ohio Today spoke with Dashiell about her career in journalism and about views on politics, life, and humanity. An excerpt of the interview follows.
You’ve published myriad papers on many topics. Which one reflects your proudest achievement? Why? My fourthgrade Halloween spelling paper. Each week we had a list of spelling words and a spelling test. My fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Palmer said that we should write a story using all of the spelling words from the list. So, I wrote a story. I don’t remember what I wrote about, but Mrs. Palmer told me that I wrote very well...and that’s when I decided that I wanted to be a reporter.
I would like to spend one day, just a 24-hour period, being a member of the Klan, so I can try to understand how they live and what they’re faced with that would justify their bigoted beliefs.
If you could be anyone else for just one day, who would it be?
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What trait do you like most about yourself? I can stay calm in the tensest situations. I can try to think rationally through a crisis and stay low-key and think through answers in my head before I open my mouth. My goal isn’t to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I do want to be heard.
Ohio University Lecturer Lori Esposito, MA ’04, created the meditative practice of evaporation walking in 2012 as a means for grief rehabilitation. “Grieving is a process of growth and profound awakening. I walk with evaporating water as a part of my creative practice and hope to inspire survivors to discover their own rehabilitative practices. The mundane act of walking is not a mode of escape, but rather an act of connecting to place and time,” Esposito said. —Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02, OHIO photography supervisor at
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The Francis Fuller Training Center at OHIO’s Gordon Bush Airport is where you’ll often find students working toward their private and commercial pilot licenses. They must complete hundreds of hours of in-flight practice to receive their degrees. Read our photo essay about these future Bobcat pilots at ohiotoday.org. Photo by Max Catalano, BSVC ’20