Alumni, Campus Reps Honored for Success, Service The Alumni Association’s Alumni Awards ceremony recognized a dozen alumni March 30 for their career successes, while honoring faculty and staff members along with a current student for strengthening institute initiatives. This year’s award winners, by category, were:
HONOR ALUMNI AWARD
LIFETIME CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AND INSTITUTE SERVICE
100 Years of Army ROTC on Parade The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps’ Wabash Battalion is celebrating its 100-year anniversary with a year full of events that started Feb. 16 with a military ball honoring alumnus/ retired major general James (Jim) K. Gilman (BIO ENG, 1974), and the unveiling of a special monument covered by dog tags embossed with the names of ROTC cadet graduates.
Past battalion members can add their names to the memorial list by contacting Lt. Col. Matthew Miller at miller8@rose-hulman.edu. The battalion also commissioned the image above in which campus photographer Bryan Cantwell merged photographs of past and current cadets parading in front of Moench Hall on campus.
Noel Takes President’s Gavel Kelly (Sullivan) Noel (EE, 2002) is set to begin her two-year term as president of the Alumni Association on July 1. She replaces Gregory (Greg) M. Gotwald (CHE, 2001). Noel
Noel is senior vice president of facilities with Aurora Heath Care, a not-for-profit health care provider and network of medical professionals serving Wisconsin and northern Illinois. She was among this year’s Milwaukee 40 Under 40 class for making a major impact on the community. (See Class Notes in this issue)
In other officer news, Kedar D. Murthy (CHE, 1984) has been elected to serve a two-year term as vice president of the association. He has recently become chief commercial officer of Boston Materials, a carbon fiber and advanced composite materials company in Boston, Mass. Meanwhile, the following alumni have been selected to serve two-year terms on the AA Board of Directors, starting July 1: Mark A. Renholzberger (CHE, 1982), master production scheduler with Vertellus Specialties in Indianapolis; Jason B. Carlyle (CS/MA 1998), executive director of technology with J.P. Morgan Chase & Company in Chicago; Allison P. Bowman-Rogers (EE, 2014), an engineering specialist with the Ford Motor Company in Louisville, Ky.; and Dieter J. Schultz (CE, 2016, MSEMGT 2017), an engineer with ExxonMobil Corporation in Houston, Texas.
Chris A. Mack (PH/CHEM/EE/CHE, 1982), co-founder/chief technology officer of Fractilia in Austin, Texas Benjamin Studevent (AO, 1991), a physics and history teacher in Louisville, Ky. John N. Voyles Jr. (ME, 1976), retired vice president with Louisville Gas & Electric/Kentucky Utilities Energy Services
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TAKING NOTE
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD DISTINCTIVE CAREER SUCCESS
Charles S. Elmore (CHEM, 1991), head of isotope chemistry with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Sweden James S. Freudenberg (MA/PH, 1978), professor at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Richard C. Haut (ME, 1974), retired founder of Haut Energy Solutions and Technologies in Texas James P. Young (EE, 1977), an industry expert in radio frequency integrated circuits design
DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD SUCCESS WITHIN FIRST 10 YEARS AFTER GRADUATION
Ranjana Chandramouli (CHE, 2014), process engineer with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Ind. Amanda (Mandie) E. Gehring (CHEM/PH, 2008), team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico Garrett Koetter (ME, 2013), regional site supplier technical assistance engineer with Ford Motor Company in Louisville, Ky. Chris M. Wlezien (ME, 2010), associate product design engineering director with McKinsey & Company in Chicago, Ill.
COLLEGIAN ROSE AWARD ALUMNI RHIT FACULTY & STAFF MEMBERS
Papa to be BOT Representative Jeffrey (Jeff) L. Papa (ECON, 1993) has been selected to represent alumni on the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees. His two-year term of office will begin July 1, 2019. Papa is the chief of staff/general counsel for the Indiana State Senate after being a partner at Barnes & Thornburg, where his legal practice focused on immigration, higher education and government relations matters. He is president
Richard E. Stamper (ME, 1985), professor of mechanical engineering and engineering management
of the Youth Enhancement Training Initiative, Inc., an orphanage in Nepal.
HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD
For his career and humanitarian efforts, Papa received the Alumni Association’s Honor Alumni Award in 2013. Papa replaces Charles (Chuck) L. Sigman (CHE, 1980), whose will complete his term early this summer.
HONORING FACULTY & STAFF FOR SERVICE TO ALUMNI/INSTITUTE Rebecca B. DeVasher, associate professor of chemistry Dale H. Long, executive editor of Echoes alumni magazine and director of media relations Papa
RACHEL M. ROMAS STUDENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARD
MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THIS STUDENT ORGANIZATION
Assistant Director Ready to Help
Madeline R. Wagner, a senior biomedical engineering major
Katie Hoffmann is a new member of the Office of Alumni Relations, serving as assistant director. She will be leading the alumni awards program and working with alumni volunteers throughout the country to help them stay involved with the institute. Hoffmann spent 10 years in elementary education before taking a few years off to help raise her son. She has a master’s degree in human resources management.
SAVE THE DATES FOR HOMECOMING 2019
OCTOBER 4-5
See profiles of all award winners at www.rose-hulman.edu/AlumniAwards2019
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