UCM Magazine VOL. 15, NO. 3

速 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI MAGAZINE

VO L . 1 5 , N O. 3

WHEN YOU MESS UP, ADMIT IT, AND LOOK APPROPRIATELY SAD

CONTENTS In this UCM Magazine, we introduce more illustrations than we’ve ever used before, thanks to the creative abilities of Associate Professor of Art and Design David Babcock.

Please let us know what you think of these – and what you would like to see in future issues. Email us at ucmmagazine@ucmo.edu or call 660-543-4545.

COVE R STORY

2

THE CORPORATE APOLOGY George Washington and the cherry tree is an iconic story that parents often use to tell their children about the value of honesty. As it turns out, this well-known legend is a fabrication, manufactured by a biographer to give America’s first president greater public credence. How words shape reputations have been the focus of research by James Cicon, an assistant professor in the Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies.

S ECT I O N S

14 CLASS NOTES 14 AWARDS & HONORS 15 IN MEMORIAM

FIND US ONLINE AT UCMO.EDU/UCMMAGAZINE

FE AT URE S

6

A MESSAGE OF HOPE “Poverty does not mean the inability to succeed – it means a family doesn’t have money. We were poor, but my family gave me hope, and I had a dream.”

10 AND THE WINNER IS?

Not quite an Oscar, Golden Globe or Emmy, but Rosie Swanson will take being named the 2015 Kennedy Center American College National Costume Designer of the Year.

12

FROM RUSSIA WITH GRIT Nontraditional student Nellie Enneking will graduate in May with plans to become a teacher, never forgetting that when she left her homeland, the Soviet Union, she was labeled a traitor. Nourished by scholarships, the English Spanish major is intent on public service “in the richest way possible.”

P R ES I D ENT ’S M ES S AG E

Investment, Success Add Value to a UCM Degree MAGAZINE Vol . 15 No. 3, Winte r 2 0 1 6

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Dalene Abner ’09 DESIGNER

Julie Babcock PHOTOGRAPHER

Bryan Tebbenkamp ’03

Published by Alumni Relations and Development. © 2016 by University of Central Missouri.

All rights reserved.

Find us online: ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine Contact the editor at ucmmagazine@ucmo.edu or 660-543-4545. Submit your address updates online to ucmo.edu/mynewaddress, by email to alumni@ucmo.edu or telephone, 660-543-8000 or toll-free, 1-866-752-7257.

UCM Magazine (USPS 019-888) is published quarterly by the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Printed by Lane Press, 87 Meadowland Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403. Periodicals postage paid at Warrensburg, MO, and additional offices.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to UCM

Magazine, Smiser Alumni Center, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093.

To view the University of Central Missouri’s Nondiscrimination/Equal Opportunity Statement, visit ucmo.edu/nondiscrimination.

P

roviding a college education that is truly focused on student success requires a tremendous investment, both in the people who are going to work with students on a daily basis and in the facilities where learning and living come together to make the University of Central Missouri an exceptional choice for our students. This spring semester, we have much to look forward to as we begin a $12 million-plus renovation of the W.C. Morris Science Building. Aided by state funding, it will provide the kinds of classrooms and labs that are consistent with an institution that has a statewide mission in professional applied science and technology, and a focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

We’re also continuing to invest in our residence halls this year, providing much-needed upgrades to enhance bathroom and dining facilities; expanding parking facilities on the west side of campus; and adding numerous new academic programs to meet state and national needs. These are just a few measures we are undertaking to create and maintain the type of environment that nurtures and contributes to a campus that promotes learning to a greater degree, which leads to successful students and future alumni.

The university’s tradition of success is illustrated by a number of stories in this issue of UCM Magazine. Among them, you will learn about James Cicon, new member of the business faculty whose research analyzing corporate behavior appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Alumnus Cynthia Johnson shares her heart-warming and inspirational story of hope, and student Rosie Swanson, provides insight into being named the nation’s best college costume designer last year.

As a Learning to a Greater Degree community, we all share in celebrating the positive growth of this institution and the success of those whose great work contributes to the exceptional value of a UCM degree.

Joining you in service,

Charles Ambrose PR ESI DE N T

University of Central Missouri Magazine

1

WHEN YOU MESS UP, ADMIT IT, AND LOOK APPROPRIATELY SAD

BY DA L E N E A B N E R I L LU S T R AT I O N S BY DAV I D B A B CO C K

2

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

E O R G E WA S H I N G T O N A N D T H E C H E R R Y T R E E is an iconic story that parents often use to tell their children about the value of honesty. As it turns out, this well-known legend is a fabrication, manufactured by a biographer to give America’s first president greater public credence. How words shape reputations have been the focus of research by James Cicon, an assistant professor in the Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies. He uses advanced computer methodologies to analyze the writing and expressions of investors, management, analysts and others that he then applies to existing models of corporate market behavior. His work has caught the attention of the media and he has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal and CNN. His research appears in the highest ranked journals in his discipline, including the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Business Venturing. Practitioners also follow his work, which has been featured in periodicals such as Information Week and the CFA Digest.

University of Central Missouri Magazine

3

FROM THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE ARTICLE, THE INITIAL SAMPLE COLLECTED 8,658 PRESS RELEASES FROM 1993-2009 WITH HEADLINES CONTAINING THE WORDS:

ADMIT, ALIBI, APOLOGY, APOLOGIZE, EXCUSE, BLUNDER, FORGIVE, GUILT, LAMENT, MISTAKE, REGRET, REMORSE, SORRY, BLAME, CULPABLE, INNOCENT AND WRONG.

4

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

“Much of my research is guided by the fundamental idea that people often, unintentionally, reveal useful information by the way they speak and express themselves,” he said. “These nuances are often more informative than the literal meaning of the words.”

Cicon began his career of analyzing people while conducting espionage for the U.S. Army during the Cold War era.

He worked in counter intelligence and electronics warfare and participated in live missions against the USSR. He then spent 14 years at Hewlett Packard, one of the largest companies in the world, where he worked his way up from design engineer in research and development to senior staff engineer, serving key roles in such projects as the Kodak/HP photo-kiosk joint venture.

His life is not all statistics and analyses, though. He served as an incident captain coordinating hundreds of volunteers who helped people recover from Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey, New York, Staten Island and Long Island.

Building upon his undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from Brigham Young University, he finished three degrees from the University of Missouri: an MBA in finance, a JD in intellectual property law and a PhD in finance. All that led to his research fascination with words and corporate behavior.

“I was a computer engineer for many years, then I earned a law degree and PhD in finance. This type of research is a natural for someone with those qualifications,” he said.

In one such project, Cicon and collaborators from other universities looked at hundreds of press releases and corporate initial public offering (IPO) documents.

They found that words can often be used to camouflage, confuse and detract from the truth in items such as quarterly profit statements, organizational meetings and business policies.

The results are mixed: With entrepreneurs, confusion can lead to higher priced shares. Yet, with corporations, honesty and responsibility may save the day.

“We found that IPO founders can unethically transfer wealth from naïve investors to themselves, while companies that blame poor performance on external factors such as the government, competitors,

labor unions or the economy, often decline financially,” Cicon said. “On the flipside, companies taking responsibility for missed earnings stabilize quickly and improve their financial performance, though both groups were equally likely to fire their CEOs.” One of their studies is titled “Poor Performance and the Value of Corporate Honesty” published in the Journal of Corporate Finance. The research analyzed companies that publicly apologized for messing up, said Don Chance, the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of MBA Studies at Louisiana State University, who authored

James Cicon found his research interest in words and corporate behavior a natural extension of his computer engineering, counter intelligence, finance and law backgrounds.

the report with Cicon and Stephen Ferris, senior associate dean at the MU Trulaske College of Business.

They searched for words like “apologize” and “regret” in press releases of publicly traded companies and then analyzed their financial outcomes. They did the same with “bad economy.”

“We didn’t find companies are any different in terms of public images,” said Chance. “We did find that when a company admits its fault, they tell you what they did wrong, but when they blame elsewhere, they are vague about what the problem is.”

Companies admitting mistakes used words like “bad acquisition strategy,” “accounting errors” and “manager mistakes.” They

5

The Elements of a Complete Apology 4

TAKING

2

AN OFFER OF 1

AN EXPLICIT

“ I’M SORRY.”

REPAIR.

AN

OFFER TO MAKE IT

HERE’S WHERE YOU

THIS IS WHERE YOU

RESPONSIBILITY.

3

EXPLANATION. EXPLAIN HOW THE

LINGUISTS

PERSON, SUCH AS

MISTAKE HAPPENED.

CALL THIS AN

“I’M SO SORRY I

BUT IT’S IMPORTANT

“ILLOCUTIONARY

SPILLED ON YOUR

TO NOTE THAT A

FORCE INDICATING

SUIT. CAN I PAY FOR

COMPLETE APOLOGY

DEVICE.”

THE DRY CLEANING?”

ALSO INCLUDES…

performance begins to improve, and when they do not, they continue to do poorly,” Cicon said. “Our findings indicate that companies can gain a value premium for being honest, accepting blame and disclosing specific information. Investors will accept a forthright

recognition of an honest mistake expecting corrective actions are likely to follow. On the other hand, when firms explain a negative event due to external factors, company leaders can appear powerless and dishonest to shareholders.”

The three identified several factors behind corporate finger-pointing, including arrogance, pride, fear of litigation and the inability of company leaders to see their own shortcomings. Of the companies that blamed external factors, 44 percent replaced their CEOs, compared to 32 percent who accepted responsibility.

While words in press releases comprised one study, another looked at individual sentences and words in IPO documents.

Cicon, who wrote the study’s computer algorithms, noted that how a document is written “can posture your company eventually in the IPO offering as something that it’s not.”

Working with David F. Benson and James C. Brau, faculty at Brigham Young University, and again with Ferris, the authors analyzed industry jargon, words with multiple meanings or many syllables

EXPLANATION JUST SOUNDS LIKE AN EXCUSE. 5

UP TO THE OTHER

investigated the problem deeply and corrected it, leading stakeholders to believe in their transparency and accountability.

From this research, the message was loud and clear: When you mess up, admit it. And look appropriately sad.

“When companies honestly accept blame, their market

WITHOUT THIS, AN

A PROMISE OF

FORBEARANCE,

SUCH AS “I PROMISE IT WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN.”

and lengthy sentences to determine a “camouflage measure.” To understand these documents, Cicon said, readers needed 19 years of schooling or the equivalent of a master’s degree. Documents full of obfuscating language required even more.

His research interest into what he calls corporate “camouflage” words has broad application. Among the papers he’s currently writing is one that investigates managers’ short sells based on analysts’ misperception of firm value. Another analyzes whether a manager’s facial expressions reveal truth or untruth.

He noted, “One of the most obvious directions for future research is the nature, prevalence and effects of inauthentic entrepreneurial narratives. By that I mean, how far do entrepreneurs take poetic elaboration to tell their story. Is it poetic license or misrepresentation of the truth and just lies?”

In all the research, the bottom line seems to emphasize one consistent lesson, the same one George Washington supposedly learned when he was six years old and his father gave him an ax for his birthday. n

University of Central Missouri Magazine

5

A MESSAGE OF

by Mike Greife

“

P

OVERTY DO E S N OT M E A N T H E I NA B I L I T Y TO SUCCEED – IT MEANS A FAMILY DOESN’T HAVE M O N E Y. W E W E R E PO O R , BU T M Y

FAMILY GAVE M E H O PE , A N D I H A D A DR E A M . ”

Cynthia “Mama J” Johnson walked onto the stage in UCM’s Elliott Student Union ballroom, singing a hymn that introduced her topic for the evening – hope and triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. By the end of the evening, those attending UCM’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Scholarship Dinner had been introduced to the people who gave her the faith, encouragement and skills to realize her dreams.

Born, raised and educated in Warrensburg, Johnson received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from UCM before completing her doctoral degree.

6

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

However, the journey from her childhood to a career as a teacher, administrator, consultant and wellknown public speaker wasn’t easy.

Raised in a close-knit family with the security of love and faith, she started school with a severe stutter and a learning disability.

“I entered kindergarten being told what I couldn’t do for the first time in my young life,” she said. “I was told I couldn’t succeed.” Placed in special classes, she lived in fear of having to read aloud, struggling in special reading classes in elementary school through ninth grade.

HOPE

DO YOU BELIEVE?

Cynthia Johnson is known as “Mama J� for helping her students believe they can achieve their dreams.

University of Central Missouri Magazine

7

“ I TOLD HIM I COULDN’T BECAUSE OF MY STUTTER, BUT HE BELIEVED I COULD, AND I DID. HE TOOK A LITTLE GIRL WHO COULDN’T SPEAK

“When I was in grade school, I began writing ‘Yes I Can’ at the top of all my papers. That was a message to me, and I still do it today.”

SO ANYONE COULD UNDERSTAND HER, AND HE BELIEVED IN ME.”

8

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

Johnson learned to compensate for her disabilities. Her mother taught her to sing as a child to overcome her stutter. She memorized information quickly and could mimic anything she heard. But as she entered junior and senior high school, it became more difficult to compensate. Encouragement came from two Warrensburg educators who offered her opportunities to succeed.

“In the eighth grade, Mr. Ken Bell was my teacher in an English and speech course block,” she recalled. “He gave me a monologue to perform at a competition. I told him I couldn’t do it because of my stutter,” but Bell told her he thought she could.

She received the first of many first place trophies for her speaking ability.

Idolene Mazza, Johnson’s sophomore speech and drama teacher and coach, also saw potential. “They saw something in me I couldn’t see in myself,” Johnson said. “They saw the same thing in me that my parents and grandparents saw.”

During high school, others in school doubted her ability, but Johnson began to gain confidence and claim success in speech and music. After a solo performance of The Rose at her high school graduation, she entered UCM, where her mother had been a longtime employee in dining services. Before graduating, she was recognized

by Sam Cox, the debate and forensics coach, with the Podium of Honor as a member of the Talking Mules speech and debate squad for earning the Outstanding Collegiate Competitor Award.

Johnson continues to bring her message of hope to audiences by relating her own story. As she stood on the Elliott Student Union stage in January, she noted that her opening remarks were the monologue that Ken Bell had given her to perform as a frightened eighth grader. She also explained why the opportunity to speak that evening held special significance for her.

“My mother attended every one of the Freedom Scholarship Dinners, from the first one until she passed away,” Johnson said.

“She told me, ‘Maybe someday they’ll ask you to speak at one of those dinners.’ I told her I wasn’t sure Warrensburg would remember me as a keynote speaker. But here I stand tonight, three years to the day from when my mother passed away. It feels good to be home.” n

MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP This beautiful snowy scene brings to mind Robert Frost’s popular poem in which these repeated lines, “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep,” can be used to represent the idea that college is a journey affirming a path of life and fulfilling promises. Ironically, the beloved American poet never earned a formal college degree.

University of Central Missouri Magazine

9

AND THE WINNER IS? Rosie Swanson knew from her first crayon, she loved art. And in her last year of high school, she realized her love to draw and tell stories could mesh in theatre. This past year, she discovered that combination could become an allexpense paid two-week residency with the world’s leading costume designers.

N

ot quite an Oscar, Golden Globe or Emmy, but Rosie Swanson will take being named the 2015 Kennedy Center American College National Costume Designer of the Year. In addition to the prestige, the title came with a $500 honorarium and all-expense paid residency at the Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic. Her trip to the national competition in Washington, D.C. was also free. That’s a lot of traveling for a woman who before coming to Warrensburg had lived her entire life within the same square mile.

“The week in Washington has to be my favorite experience,” said the senior from Omaha, NE. “We had the privilege to work with a renowned scenic, costume and puppet designer, Skip Mercier. It was an invaluable crash course in how to pull out the most of our potential and how to survive outside educational theatre.”

Swanson won the national title with her costumes from Stowaway, a modern dance piece about the consequences of war and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. The soldier, haunted by four demonic reflections of her past, is torn apart by violent memories and internal battles. The piece was choreographed by Justin Banner for the dance show, Still/Moving, directed by Ashley Miller.

“With a budget of only $100, these costumes had to be relatively simple, yet still successfully convey their meaning within a short amount of time,” she said. “To help me further develop each horseman, L E F T: Rosie’s I assigned words to each of them that I felt summed up costume was each character and also created a visual in my mind for the inspired by costumes. These words helped my process immensely.” student This May, Swanson will complete her BFA in theatre tech choreographer, and design with a focus in costume and hair and makeup Justin Barron, design. She found the niche taking a course in stage and art student, makeup her second semester. “I wanted to create people, William Kelly’s not simply clothes, and that’s exactly what you do as a installation, IED. costume designer.”

RI G H T: The four Like all award winners, Swanson had some people to thank, horsemen were such as her mother. “My mom discovered the school [UCM] depicted as fire while she was helping me in my college search. The campus for conquest, burn was the only one that felt ‘right’ out of all the ones I’d been for war, dust as to, and I wanted to go somewhere out of state to experience famine, and smoke for death. something new. It’s turned out to be the perfect fit for me.”

10

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

ABOUT THE AWARD Rosie Swanson won first place in costume design for Stowaway, a modern dance piece that expressed the devestating consequences of war on a soldier.

With a budget of only $100, the costumes had to be simple yet complex to convey the meaning of the four apocalyptic horsemen.

AS A COSTUME I WANT TO PEOPLE, NOT SIM

DESIGNER, CREATE PLY CLOTHES. University of Central Missouri Magazine

11

“ Having experienced social injustice, subjugation and discrimination, I have a particular admiration for authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Hugo, Balzac, Dickens, Wolf, James, Hemingway, Márquez, and Unamuno.”

– Nellie Enneking

12

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

FROM RUSSIA WITH GRIT Nourished by Scholarships, English Spanish Major Intent on Public Service ‘in the Richest Way Possible’

N

ontraditional student Nellie Enneking will graduate in May with plans to become a teacher, never forgetting that when she left her homeland, the Soviet Union, she was labeled a traitor.

In 1980, U.S. and Soviet relations were tense. Russia invaded Afghanistan and in retaliation, America boycotted the Olympics. Enneking was 22 years old, studying for a bachelor’s degree in geodesy and married to an American. Her life changed dramatically when the U.S. pulled government contracts, including one with Occidental Petroleum Company who employed her husband.

“Leaving the country in 1980 was complicated by political events. My education records were confiscated, and they demanded I surrender my birth certificate.

They said my country gave me my education free, and I had no right to reap the benefits of it in another country.

It didn’t matter if you were important or not, they just didn’t want anyone to leave.”

Thirty years later following a divorce, those “lost” education records became a factor when Enneking decided to return to college to finish her degree. She had homeschooled her three children and worked 24 years for a public library. She had to start over again.

“When I became single and unable to retrieve my transcripts from Russia, I began from the beginning at UCM,” she said. It took determination. “My goal as a student is to learn, exhausting all the potential that is allowed me in my practical life. By actively participating in class, I make visible my passion for learning, respect for educational establishments and professors, work ethic and high standards. I enjoy

igniting the learning atmosphere in a classroom.”

Appreciation is a two-way street between Enneking and her professors. She recalls one in particular, Gail Crump, who she had for a class in world literature before he retired. “He would get so excited that he would giggle, and I remember thinking, ‘How does a person teach for so many years and not lose his enthusiasm!’”

Enneking has Crump to thank for another aspect of her education. This semester, she received several scholarships funded through private gifts to the UCM Foundation, including some that Crump, who taught on campus for 42 years, helped to build into permanent endowments.

Two of the scholarships are named for his colleagues, the late Catherine Titus, chair of the English and literature department, and the late Renee Betz, director of the women’s studies program. By making the scholarships into endowments, his gifts ensured that annual awards will always be possible from the two scholarships to benefit students.

“Scholarships nourished me through,” said Enneking. “I wasn’t aware that I could apply for them and not affect my Pell Grants. This semester, I took seven courses, almost double my normal academic load. These scholarships came in handy to cover the cost of my classes.”

When she completes her degree this semester, Enneking said her goal is to “apply all my student experience to public service in the richest way possible.

I believe that my experience with diverse cultures and socio-political structures will make me a useful guide and instructor in the increasingly diverse environment of U.S. schools.” n

University of Central Missouri Magazine

13

C L AS S NO T E S

1960–1969 Charlotte (Bernboom) Hackman ’67 recently published a book titled The Strength to Let Go under the pen name Jo Henry. It is available on amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and iUniverse Book Store among others. It is a story of love and hope as her son overcame his addiction to heroin with the help of a special young lady.

1970–1979 Gary D. Dusenberg ’78, a state trooper and Vietnam veteran from Blue Springs, MO, has been appointed to the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole by Gov. Jay Nixon. The board weighs thousands of cases each year for inmates in prison and many more people who are supervised in their communities.

1980–1989 Douglas Schaeffler ’86 began his law enforcement career after graduating and in 1988 was hired as a patrol officer by the Richmond Heights, MO, police department. He later attended the University of Missouri St. Louis where he received a master’s degree in criminal justice and criminology in 1998. In 2014 he graduated from the FBI National Academy. He serves as an adjunct professor with the St. Louis University criminal justice department, and in December, he was appointed assistant chief of police for Richmond Heights.

Beth Tranter ’86, associate vice president for research planning at Virginia Tech, has been tapped to provide leadership for innovation and entrepreneurship programs at the university.

this summer. He is working at Common Good Natural Living in Marshall, MO. His wife, Lisa, works at the Marshall Habilitation Center and is pursuing a psychology degree at State Fair Community College.

2000–2011 Matt Berger ’00 is co-hosting a new two-hour live sports radio talk show, The Hardline, which debuted Jan. 4 on 590 KFNS in St. Louis. Berger, a veteran of the #STNFL twitter scene, is also well-known as a local sports talk radio host with The Sports Junkies on KFNS Saturday mornings and with Howard Balzer for 590’s Pro Football on Sundays.

Claudia Stapley ’01, ’03 recently celebrated her 10th anniversary at Unbound, where she is a team coordinator. Unbound is a Kansas City-based humanitarian organization working with more than 300,000 families in 20 countries to alleviate poverty.

Jeffrey Kimball ’03 has earned a Ph.D. from the College of Engineering and Computing at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Southwest Baptist University.

Brian Turner ’05 has accepted a position as an associate faculty member at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, teaching multimedia journalism.

1990–1999

Jason Munsch ’06 was named head coach of Florida Tech Track & Field. As the new coach, Munsch will be responsible for all recruiting, fundraising and compliance for the track and field program in addition to managing all day-to-day operations.

Kelly Melies ’98, ’02 celebrated his third wedding anniversary

Patrick J. Woods ’08, has been promoted to assistant director of

14

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, MO. He is being assigned as the patrol’s chief information security officer overseeing its cybersecurity section.

Awards & Honors William Healey ’70 was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the University of West Florida in January. He also was inducted into the 2015 Gulf Coast Regional Volleyball Hall of Fame. Healey has worked at the university for 43 years and currently provides leadership and oversight for recreation and sports services developments. He has been an athletic facility strategic planning member, master plan consultant and NCAA self-study reviewer. He serves on the board of the West Florida Waves Volleyball Club and is proprietor of Williams Healey Consulting, LLC. He has held a variety of roles within the sports industry, including board member and president for Pensacola Sports Association and trainer for New Games Foundation, devoting his time and service to volleyball clubs at the regional and national levels. He has served Pensacola volleyball clubs for more than three decades, an unprecedented accomplishment in the region.

Mark Rosewell ’78, ’80, Maryville, MO, was inducted into the United States Tennis Association Missouri Valley Hall of Fame. He was inducted at a ceremony Dec. 5 in Overland Park, KS. Rosewell has coached tennis at Northwest Missouri State since 1984. He reached the historic 1,000 win milestone on April 13, 2015, as the men’s team beat Washburn in Topeka, KS. During his 33 years as a tennis coach, he has compiled 1,013 career victories, 24 MIAA regular season titles (12 men,

12 women), 7 MIAA Tournament titles (6 men, 1 women) and 34 NCAA Tournament appearances (18 men, 16 women). He started his coaching career at UCM, compiling 22 victories in two seasons before taking the job at Northwest. In his career, he has coached 136 MIAA champions and 82 first-team All-MIAA performers.

Gregg Williams ’87 was inducted into the Class of 2016 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. In his 25th season as a coach in the National Football League, he currently is in his second season as defensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams. His NFL career includes three years as a head coach and 14 seasons as a defensive coordinator. He has presided over five separate top five total defenses during his career: the Tennessee Titans (No. 1 in total defense in 2000); Buffalo Bills (No. 3 in 2011, No. 2 in 2003), Washington Redskins (No. 3 in 2005); and the New Orleans Saints (No. 4 in 2010). Williams coached in New Orleans from 2009-2011. He helped the Saints win the Super Bowl in January 2010 and captured two division titles (2009, 2011). Williams has never forgotten his roots, as The Gregg Williams Foundation has raised millions of dollars for youths in his hometown, Excelsior Springs, MO. Freddy Allison ’00, senior superintendent at McCownGordon Construction, was named the 2015 Superintendent of the Year by the American Subcontractors Association of Kansas City, a nonprofit trade association that focuses on advocacy, leadership, networking and education for construction subcontractors and suppliers. Allison supervised construction of the $42-million The Crossing — South at Holden, a mixed use residential and retail facility that opened on campus in 2015.

I N M EM OR I AM

1940-1949

1960-1969

1980-1989

Former Students

Mary R. Googe ’43 Idella M. Paul ’44

Merle W. Fink ’63 Michael G. Lee ’63 Carolyn “Cary” Ditton-Johnson ’65 Argyl D. Rivers ’65 Johnnie H. Beard ’66 Robert L. Powell ’67

Daniel E. Sullivan ’83 Richard T. Lincoln ’84 John C. Adlich ’88 Bruce A. Hadley ’88

1970-1979

Morris J. Simpson ’00

Hugh G. Carr Catherine A. Galatas Susan C. Hasse Mitchell L. Homburg Harriett L. Horn Becki S. McQuitty John S. Moddrell John W. Stahr

Thomas D. Stahlman ’72 David W. Terryberry ’72 Roger A. Estes ’73 Fred “Alan” Hartmann ’73 Charles R. Sartain ’73 James T. Burnett ’75 William R. Stevens ’75 Nancy J. Huggins ’79

2010-2019

College High

Robert L. Peak ’13 Shilah L. Mann ’14

Jane Reynolds ’36

1950-1959 Robert C. Carrel ’51 Betty R. Mann ’51 Joe R. Smith ’51 Shirley L. Bowers ’52 Janet L. Gardner ’53 Robert P. Hawley ’55 Clarence A. Hyde ’56 Sandra K. Schafer ’57 William L. Schnabel ’57 Frederick “Gene” Hampton ’58

Mike Carter Myron K. “Mike” Carter, 77, professor emeritus of health education, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, at Country Club Care Center.

He was born Aug. 20, 1938, in Grandview, IA, the son of Kenneth E. and Alice Daily Carter. He attended public school in Wapello and Monticello, IA. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa, a master’s from then Central Missouri State College and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He married SueAnn Hovde in 1963.

During his 52 years of teaching at UCM, Carter helped to establish the university’s health and fitness degree programs. Early in his career, he also coached wrestling and gymnastics and was an assistant football coach.

He was an adviser to the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He served on the Missouri Boys State athletic staff, was a member of the Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce, the Military Affairs Committee, and the Whiteman AFB Community Council.

In 2013, through gifts to the UCM Foundation, he established the Mike Carter Award for Exceptional Service to the University, Community and Military at UCM. In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Matthew (wife, Sharri) and Marc (wife, Andrea), all of Warrensburg; four

2000-2009

grandchildren; one brother, Ken (wife, Bonnie) of Altoona, IA; six nephews and two nieces. His parents and a sister, Sharon Ann, preceded him in death.

Memorials are suggested to the Mike Carter Endowment for Military Students or the UCM Athletic Training Department, UCM Foundation, Smiser Alumni Center, Warrensburg, MO 64093 or online at ucmo.edu/giveonline.

Dorothy E. Culp Dorothy Elizabeth (Farley) Culp, a 1940 Central Missouri alumna, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, at Western Missouri Medical Center.

She was born March 31, 1920, in Green Ridge to William Earl and Myrtle L. (Purchase) Farley. She graduated from Green Ridge High School in 1938 and obtained her teaching certificate from Central Missouri State Teachers College.

She taught school at La Monte and was magistrate and probate division clerk for Johnson County for 19 years. In 1941, she married Clarence Ross Culp, who preceded her in death.

Survivors include sons John (wife, Cathy) of Warrensburg, and Ron (wife, Linda) of Overland Park; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two stepgrandsons; two stepgreat-granddaughters; a nephew; and a sister, Geneva Ulmer (husband, Russell)

Friends Richard E. Duggan Andrew M. Giuliani Roger L. Mitchell

of Houston, TX. Memorials are suggested to UCM Athletics, UCM Foundation, Smiser Alumni Center, Warrensburg, MO 64093 or online at ucmo.edu/giveonline.

Carl B. Foster Carl Burton Foster, 93, director emeritus of public relations, died Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, at Western Missouri Medical Center.

He was born Feb. 16, 1922, the son of Maurice V. and Hazel Foster of La Porte, IN. Following graduation in 1940 from La Porte High School, he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Indiana University.

He served as editor of the IU Daily Student newspaper and was among the first class of Ernie Pyle Scholars. The award, named for the famed war correspondent and IU alumnus, was established just after World War II and continues to be presented to select journalism majors. He also met his wife-to-be Jean Buroker at IU, and they married in 1949.

Foster was the university’s first public relations director, a post he held from 19671986. He developed the small news bureau operation that was in place when he arrived

University of Central Missouri Magazine

15

IN M E MO R I A M

into a public relations support unit for the entire campus.

He also was responsible for the direction of a total communications program between all university constituents, both on and off campus.

That includes the PR office, news bureau, photographic services, exhibits, advertising, public broadcast stations KCMW-FM and KMOSTV, and publications, including the Muleskinner newspaper and Rhetor yearbook.

Foster developed and implemented many special events and programs and chaired the university’s year-long centennial celebration in 1971. He helped organize and coordinate the legislative campaign by the five regional state universities resulting in the institution’s change from college to university status. In 1975, he and his team developed Project 1000, which established the need for a permanent student recruitment office.

In 1977, Foster secured a major equipment grant and directed the creation and development of KMOSTV, the only university-owned public television station in Missouri. He also directed the proposal effort that resulted in a federal grant increasing the power for radio station KCMW-FM from 25,000 to 100,000 watts.

Foster served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radioman with Torpedo Boat Squadrons Two and Nine in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea campaigns, including six months under John F. Kennedy on PT-109.

Foster was an avid supporter of the university and its athletic teams, as well as being an active participant in community organizations and projects. He spearheaded a countywide campaign to secure funding to build a new public library and chaired public relations activities in support of Warrensburg’s sesquicentennial celebration.

In addition to his wife, survivors include his son, Mark (wife, Sherry) of Phoenix, AZ; daughters Mary Beth Foster, Louisville, KY, and Marsha Foster-

16

Vol. 15, No. 3 | ucmo.edu/ucmmagazine

Langhorne, Fort Lee, N.J.; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, an older sister, Bessie, and a younger brother, David.

Memorials are suggested to the Foster/ Inglish PR Prize Fund, UCM Foundation, Smiser Alumni Center, Warrensburg, MO 64093 or online at ucmo.edu/giveonline.

Carla Maltas

Carla Jo Maltas, Ph.D., professor of music education, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Wichita, KS. She was born April 25, 1962, in Des Moines, IA, to Carl and Corinne Lamb Maltas. She taught music education at Central Missouri and Ball State University and vocal and general music in Nebraska.

In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education, she held a master’s certificate in Orff-Schulwerk and a Ph.D. in Kodaly music education. She chaired the university’s Essig Committee and was researching more about this unique collection of musical instruments.

She had articles appearing in the Music Educator’s Journal, Orff Echo, Southern Journal of Music Education and other state education publications.

Maltas was a founding board member of the Great Plains Orff chapter and served on state committees and boards for the American Choral Directors Association, National Association of Music Educators and National Education Association. She was serving as the state adviser for the Collegiate Music Educator’s National Conference.

She is survived by a brother, William (wife, Ranelle); sister, Karen MaltasMoore (husband, Jim); nieces and nephews; a great-niece; and many friends and colleagues.

Memorials are suggested to the Carla Maltas Music Education Scholarship through the UCM Foundation, Smiser Alumni Center, Warrensburg, MO 64093 or online at ucmo.edu/giveonline.

USING YOUR

INVESTMENTS FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH

MAXIMIZE SATISFACTION FROM YOUR ASSETS

Are you looking for ways to minimize taxes and maximize not just your monetary gain but the

OVERALL SATISFACTION

you receive from your assets?

Learn more at ucmo.edu/plannedgiving or call Joy Mistele at 660-543-8000.

$1.1

U N D AT I O N S C H O L A R S H I P S UCM FO

MILLION THANKS TO YOU!

T

hanks to your generosity, we awarded more than $1 million in scholarships to students this fiscal year. Hundreds of Foundation scholarships are available to students in every university department.

Statistics show these students perform better in the classroom and graduate at a higher rate.

You are building the future of our country and world, thanks to your financial support of our mission to create greater learning opportunities for our students…and we sincerely appreciate you.

Learn more about all the ways that you can provide opportunities for students at ucmo.edu/foundation.

EMAIL:

giving@ucmo.edu

PHONE:

660-543-8000

TOLLFREE:

866-752-7257

University of Central Missouri Magazine

17

P.O. BOX 8 0 0 WA RRE N SB U R G , M O 6 4093- 5 038

Stay connected with us through your favorite social media platform at ucmo.edu/social

WHERE ARE YOU? FINDING A COLLEGE CLASSMATE ISN’T ALWAYS EASY, EVEN WITH TODAY’S SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS. WE KNOW!

Try maintaining a database with current contact information on UCM’s 90,000 alumni throughout the world.

If you have moved, changed your home or business email or mobile phone number, let us know.

The form is online and takes only a few seconds. It’s easier than a game of hide and seek, blindfolded.

U P DATE YO U R CO NTAC T I N FO R M ATI O N AT U CM O. E D U/M YA D D R E S S