FLIGHT
SCHOOL
Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Cannon ‘87
From the President
The University of Findlay salutes our country’s military veterans who have unselfishly provided us the freedom to pursue productive lives of meaning and joy. We acknowledge that all of us who work, teach, and learn on our campus owe a debt of gratitude to veterans for the independence that allows us to follow our calling. Our university has been repeatedly recognized for its outstanding service to U.S. veterans and active military members and their families. Along with providing additional educational support to ensure academic success, the University also honored veterans who are alumni and friends of the institution with an expanded Veterans Day celebration this November. Our service to and acknowledgement of them are tokens of our appreciation for the brave call to duty they have fulfilled.
This FindlayMag issue is continuing this tradition of recognition by including three veteran-focused features that highlight the sacrifices these individuals made and the lessons they learned along the way. Our cover story spotlights retired Lt. Col. Kathleen Cannon '87, whose U.S. Army service has taken her from the cockpit of Black Hawks to diplomatic discussions in China. Chaplain (Brigadier General) Kenneth “Ed” Brandt ’81, while adhering to his Christian faith, tells of how he has counseled thousands of soldiers through loss and other traumas while guiding others along their military chaplaincy careers. Lt. Col. Harold Brown, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, and a recent recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from UF, relays his experience as a German POW during World War II.
Also, please make sure you do not miss a few other stories covered in this edition: one about a different type of veteran, a student-athlete who successfully battled cancer; the Service Spotlight featuring our busy and innovative Center for Career and Professional Development; and narratives about some of our generous donors who also play an integral role in making students’ higher education dreams come true.
Sincerely,
Katherine Fell, Ph.D. President
Vol. 106, No. 1, Fall 2019
FindlayMag is published by the University of Findlay. It is mailed free of charge to alumni, parents, and friends of the University twice each year.
President Katherine Fell, Ph.D.
Vice President for University Advancement
Marcia Sloan Latta, Ed.D.
Editor Joy Brown M'19
Art Director Irene Martin
Staff Writers
Joy Brown M'19
Jack Barger '01 Krystan Krucki
Contributing Writer Kyle Nierman M’15
Staff Photographer Anne Risser Lee
Contributing Photographer Amy DePuy
Multimedia
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Ben Walton ’04, M'14
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Service Spotlight
Center for Career and Professional Development
Gone are the days of buying fancy resumé paper! University of Findlay students and alumni might not often realize that, upon graduation, they need to be prepared not just for landing a job, but also to be armed with the skills to navigate the entire employment experience. This is where UF’s Center for Career and Professional Development comes in.
The center (CCPD) provides students and alumni with valuable knowledge, services, and resources to instill confidence when networking with professionals, interviewing, and landing an internship or employment. “We do a lot of the connecting,” said Brad Hammer '03, M'13, Director of Career and Professional Development. “We put events together, we post jobs, we create networking opportunities where students can connect with employers, and then the students usually take it from there.”
Among the more unique and interesting perks that the center offers to students and alumni are the Career Closet and professional head shots. The former, which rents suits for up to a week for $5, has proven to be invaluable for those who don’t want to spend a lot for an outfit they might use sparingly. “A lot of times students only need them for interviews or presentations,” explained Susan Eiserle, CCPD’s administrative assistant and Career Closet manager.
Eiserle is also in charge of taking photos for professional social media profiles and other career needs. She said the CCPD has photo booths at career fairs and other events. “I had a pharmacy student tell me at one time that she had a professional photo taken for $40! We take them free of charge for students and alumni,” said Eiserle.
Alexis Binder, CCPD assistant director, said that, while all universities certainly want their graduates to find employment, UF reaches beyond that goal. “We’ve shifted to the idea of trying to empower our students with skills and knowledge to be able to navigate the whole employment experience, because people change jobs all the time now,” she said. “You might not like your first job. Then what? We want you to be able to see all of the possible scenarios on your own.”
The CCPD, which also includes client services specialist Katrina Shull, and professional development counselor Cindy Strathman, collectively want students and alumni to know that the sooner they start considering a life after graduation, the better, and even encourages students to begin as soon as their freshman year. “Actively engaging in career development earlier prevents that ‘I’m about to graduate’ or ‘I’ve graduated and don’t know what to do’ moment of panic,” Hammer said. “We’re here for you early and for the duration of your career. We can definitely help make it easier.”
Brad Hammer '03, M'13, Director of Career and Professional Development
Around Campus
WORK WISDOM
Four regional business leaders from Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, and AR Marketing offered valuable professional advice for students during a panel discussion about “How to Stand Out in Your Internship/ Job” in October.
CREATIVE COMMERCE
A panel discussion on “The Arts: Their Impact on the Brain, Heart, and Bottom Line” was offered for the first Fridays at Findlay leadership series breakfast of the fall semester. Ohio Arts Council Executive Director Donna Collins participated.
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Media literacy was the topic of a Sept. 30 Richard E. Wilkin Event Series lecture by communication professor Diana Montague, Ph.D. She addressed issues precipitated by the rapid pace of emerging internet technology, such as “deep fake” dissemination.
PRAYERFUL PROSE
Award-winning children’s book author and poet Nikki Grimes visited as part of the Freed Contemporary Christian Lecture Series. She discussed how her work is “an act of prayer, an act of worship” intended for religious and secular audiences.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
The Black Student Union celebrated its 50th anniversary during Homecoming and Family Weekend with a black tie dance and an open house at the Buford Center for Diversity and Service featuring photos and other memorabilia.
LEAPING LIZARDS
The Herpetology Club observed National Reptile Appreciation Day on Oct. 21 with a public event in the Davis Street Building that allowed attendees to meet a variety of “educational animals” from Arrowhead Reptile Rescue based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
by Sarah Ruhl
MYTHICAL MAGIC
Theatre students reimagined the fabled Greek tragedy “Eurydice” during four Homecoming and Family Weekend performances. The play addressed the myth of Orpheus through the eyes of the ill-fated heroine, who dies on her wedding day and reunites with her father.
PROMISES KEPT
On Sept. 28 at the Griffith Memorial Arch, more than 80 friends and family were in attendance for UF’s inaugural vows renewal ceremony for “Findlay Faithfuls” – past and present University of Findlay/Findlay College couples who met while students and went on to get married.
GREEN GOALS
The Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Program hosted the 2019 Ohio Student Sustainability Leaders Conference on Oct. 5. This studentrun event marked the first time the annual conference was held at UF. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Laurie Stevenson was the keynote speaker.
BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH
The College of Pharmacy earned worldwide attention in August for collaborative faculty and student brain cancer research. Their compound shows initial promise in targeting and eradicating glioblastoma cells and other brain diseases.
POTTER AT THE PLANETARIUM
In partnership with the Findlay-Hancock County Public Library as part of its HancockREAD literacy program, a Harry Potter-themed presentation for all ages was offered at UF’s Newhard Planetarium.
Veterans Day
By hosting multiple events, the University of Findlay observed Veterans Day 2019 like never before. Three celebrations were offered for the campus and public on Nov. 11 to honor our country’s heroes. These events provided ample opportunity to give thanks and to learn more about military might and bravery.
MOVIE NIGHT
PRAYER SERVICE
UF’s Campus Ministries led a prayer at the flag pole in front of Old Main. Sentiments focused on offering thanks and supporting current military members and their families.
For more information about the K9s for Warriors organization, visit k9sforwarriors.org
A screening of the Emmy and Telly Award-winning documentary, “A New Leash on Life: The K-9s for Warriors Story” was held in Winebrenner Building’s TLB Auditorium. The film about how the Florida-based K9s for Warriors organization provides service dogs to post 9-11 military veterans features Cpt. Louis Belluomini and his service dog, Star; Belluomini is a regional paramedic. He, along with UF students, faculty, and staff, recently helped to raise $15,000 to sponsor a K9s for Warriors dog for a veteran in need.
Belluomini and Star, along with U.S. military veterans Adam LeGrange and Shilo Schluterman and their dogs who are also featured in the film, were on hand to answer questions.
Evening events were organized by UF’s Student Activities Board and co-hosted by the Wellness Program.
AFTERNOON CEREMONY
The University’s traditional annual observance was again held at the Center for Student Life’s Veterans Honor Wall. The ceremony’s special guest speaker was Kyle Dresbach, Pharm.D. ’14, U.S. Air Force Pharmacy Officer in Charge.
Tuskegee Airman and World War II veteran Harold Brown, a German POW survivor, received an honorary doctorate from the University.
A reading of Veterans Honor Wall names followed the program.
Visit newsroom.findlay. edu/tag/veteran for more stories about University of Findlay Veterans.
Ways to Give Back
• Student Activities Board and Wellness Program members are raising money to fund a second service dog for a U.S. veteran. With generous support from many Hancock County organizations, this fundraising effort is on its way toward reaching its goal! Anyone interested in donating online may visit support.k9sforwarriors.org
• Names are continuously being accepted for UF’s Veterans Honor Wall, which recognizes military service members and veterans who attended UF/Findlay College. The Class of 1966 sponsored the wall, which includes more than 600 names. To submit a name, visit www.findlay.edu/ HonoringourVeterans. For more information, contact the Wolfe Center for Alumni, Parents, and Friends, at 419-434-4516 or at alumni@findlay.edu.
More on Harold Brown on pg. 22
FLIGHT
Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Cannon ‘87
SCHOOL
Alumna and U.S. Army Servicewoman Shares Advice on How to Soar After Stumbling
By Joy Brown M’19
Photography by Amy DePuy
By definition, the word “failure” does not apply to retired Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Cannon ‘87. Her career has been distinguished by groundbreaking and gutsy military service marked by Black Hawk missions, her status as one of the few female U.S. Army aviation commanders, and intricate foreign diplomacy work in and outside of combat zones. And yet, at a pivotal career point that should’ve been cause for celebration, Cannon said she didn’t feel like she’d succeeded.
“As I stood at this crossroad, it was so dark,” Cannon admitted during her graduate commencement speech at the University of Findlay in May 2019. “I felt alone and defeated.”
While embarking on a different professional mission for the Army that would take her to the other side of the world, where nearly everything seemed otherworldly, Cannon would initially carry those feelings of inadequacy with her. It would take more time and introspection for her to recognize the common thread of connection that she said is essential for us all to embrace if we wish to live lives that are of value to ourselves and to others.
“This is what I learned: Know yourself and bring others with you,” Cannon, a Legion of Merit award recipient and a 2019 UF Distinguished Alumna, told UF graduates. She emphasized that each challenge-induced reinvention requires self-awareness and outside help. “What is important to you? What do you admire about yourself? What needs work? Then lift your sights outward. What help do you need? Is it encouragement, a shove in the right direction, a shoulder to cry on, or maybe a glimpse of a new possibility? What are your strengths? What can you offer? Then, overcome your inertia or doubt and take action. These relationships you foster will help carry the burden, sometimes your load, sometimes another’s,” she said.
Of course, such wisdom didn’t come easy. Cannon’s life, much of it lived from a standpoint of stubborn independence cultivated within challenging settings at home and abroad, illustrates how she reached this conclusion, and why she hopes others benefit from it.
The Upstate New York native’s love of horses brought her to then Findlay College. She was impressed by the fact that “every student rode at least one horse every day,” and by the large farm that houses hundreds of horses. She decided to double major in equestrian studies and business. But the road to commencement wasn’t smooth. Her strong work ethic, others’ generosity, and academic offerings that stoked curiosity were key factors that guided her to graduation.
With her two brothers also starting college, Cannon’s family finances were limited, so, it was up to her to find additional ways to help pay for tuition, room, and board. “I had worked and
but ROTC turned out to be my only real option,” she said.
In addition, “the kindness and caring of everyone at Findlay who were at first strangers” helped her immensely, Cannon said. Those interactions provided a firm social foundation that has since influenced her personal and professional endeavors at home and throughout the world. She hasn’t forgotten how so many people at UF helped her financially-strapped, farfrom-home self in so many ways.
saved in high school, had generous scholarships and aid, and worked several jobs at a time in my first two years at Findlay,” she explained. “But I realized if I didn’t get one more scholarship, I just couldn’t afford to return for my junior year.” Her solution: enrolling in the Army’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, which covered her tuition and enabled her to become commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. “I literally knew nothing about the Army,
During the 1980s, phone calls were expensive, and travelling was too, Cannon pointed out; keeping in touch with family therefore meant monthly calls, if that, and a single trip home during Christmas break. Others took note. “One classmate invited me home for Thanksgiving freshman year,” she said. “Another gave me one of her old down jackets when she saw me wearing so many layers at the barn. The nurse always had a caring ear. A professor helped me earn some extra money babysitting and the campus maintenance supervisor let me ticket cars in 15-minute blocks for some of my work study,” she recalled. “As I later traveled the world, I believe this helped me not to fear strangers and the unknown, but to expect the best from people.”
Also unexpected at the time was the love of learning Cannon developed while at Findlay. She admitted that, although she did well
with her high school studies, she found them “tedious.” “Studying new areas and subjects at Findlay was engaging,” she said, and would give her enough confidence to eventually master Chinese, get a master’s degree from Harvard University, and return to graduate school to pursue a second career in finance.
Cannon had intended to land a job in the equine industry. Instead, military flight school beckoned. From there, she served in a battalion in the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany, led a Black Hawk assault helicopter platoon there, and served in an air traffic control battalion in South Korea. During Desert Shield, she deployed a Black Hawk platoon to Cyprus. Once Desert Storm commenced, “we had to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Beirut,” she said. At Fort Carson, Colorado, she commanded a Black Hawk assault helicopter company in the 4th Infantry Division. Subsequent jobs entailed helicopter maintenance company work at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and flying VIP’s on the east coast.
Cannon loved the variety, challenges, and different environments involved with flying. She flew over the Alps, Rockies, California desert, and the Mediterranean Ocean. She described her experiences in poetic terms. “I’ve flown in snow and clouds of dust, and blacked out on moonless nights skimming through the trees with night vision goggles. We inserted troops by parachute, ropes, and even jumping into water. We’d sling load HUMMVs, cannons, and fuel bladders, you name it. There was always something new. That responsibility, knowing my soldiers’ lives were literally my responsibility, was terrifying, but it was also incredibly meaningful and rewarding,” she said.
Flying is inherently risky, even outside of combat, and particularly during training flights. To that end, Cannon faced her fair share of difficult moments. She had an engine catch fire. Once, she came just inches away of striking a wire and crashing into a river. “That potential wire strike was the most scared I have ever been,” she acknowledged.
In combat, she said she was mostly “too busy” to be afraid. “To a certain extent, the Army trains you through repetition how to respond and and work together when everything goes wrong." So, you intuitively fall back on that and get to work,” she explained. “However, rocket and mortar fire did make me angry,” she said. In Iraq, a rocket landed about 25 meters away from the portable toilet she was using. She’d be damned, she thought, if she was going to die covered in blue toilet water and raw sewage. “It turns out this is a common fear among soldiers; no one wants to go out that way,” she quipped.
The work was challenging in other ways, particularly in ways that specifically targeted her gender.
“It wasn’t just that I didn’t have any role models. I was clearly serving in ‘this man’s Army.’ When it was time for me to get a promised Black Hawk helicopter platoon at my first duty station, I heard through the grapevine that it was going to another lieutenant,” Cannon said in her commencement speech. She was told the brigade commander “didn’t want a female in that job. I left his office infuriated. In the end I did get that platoon, but I knew every day that my boss had fought to keep me out,” she said. Her female contemporaries also experienced discrimination.
Other problems complicated matters. Cannon said that while she loved flying and leading troops for the Army, her marriage was falling apart and would soon end, and her company would deactivate due to a planned troop drawdown. The era that involved flying Black Hawks and being a platoon leader and commander was ending. What’s more, she despised her boss.
Flight School, 1988
Flying in Hong Kong, 2008
Hong Kong Flight Crew, 2008
“One dark night in the desert we stood chest-to-chest, him towering over me, ordering me to change my tactics because that wasn’t the way he had done it. I felt the overpowering urge to haul off and hit him. I literally made a fist. Instead I growled, ‘yes, sir’ and stomped off,” she admitted.
Therefore, Cannon’s decisions to go to the Defense League Institute to learn Mandarin Chinese, earn a master’s degree in East Asian studies at Harvard, and then live and work in Asia, were bittersweet. The new possibilities excited her, but “it also felt like quitting. Like I failed. Like I was slinking away from my responsibility to lead and serve soldiers,” she maintained. She considered leaving the military altogether. Instead, she served in a different way, as an Army Foreign Area Officer (FAO), again pursuing fascinating work that appealed to her intellect and curiosity. Her work in China involved advising on strategic issues for the Department of Defense, serving as a Chinese military analyst, and as an Army attaché in Hong Kong. While an FAO, she also served two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan at Task Force and NATO headquarters
Prior to this she hadn’t even known anything about China, other than what she saw during a trip from Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The country seemed “so strange, part time capsule, part alien planet,” she said. “Living and working there seemed like it would be the ultimate adventure.”
Cannon credits her grit and perseverance to her upbringing. The brutal New York cold, “doing hard labor on a dairy farm as a teenager,” and her family’s expectations of her were transformative. “I think the (family’s) expectation was always that I would succeed, despite obstacles and difficulties that came up. Failure didn’t
seem to be an option,” she said.
Although she wonders what might’ve happened, Cannon doesn’t regret not staying the aviation course. What she does regret: isolating herself, including from other women. “We were living and working in a man’s world and I internalized the ideal soldier as a brave, strong, square-jawed man,” she said. “...I struggled alone to prove I was just as good, or better than, the men. I was afraid that identifying too much with female soldiers would project weakness. And I missed out on opportunities to draw from their strength and see us all succeed. “I wish I hadn’t tried to go it alone so often...,” she concluded “When I felt inadequate I didn’t see that I had anything to offer someone else. I didn’t see myself as a mentor, or as a champion of someone else. I wish I had put myself out there more and encouraged others to learn from me, including my mistakes.”
Professionally, Cannon is also facing the unknown yet again. She is back in school studying finance to become a Certified Financial Planner and launch her own business. “Though I often chaffed working under someone
“I’ve flown in snow and clouds of dust, and blacked out on moonless nights skimming through the trees with night vision goggles. We inserted troops by parachute, ropes, and even jumping into water. We’d sling load HUMMVs, cannons, and fuel bladders, you name it. There was always something new. That responsibility, knowing my soldiers’ lives were literally my responsibility, was terrifying, but it was also incredibly meaningful and rewarding.”
else, I never viewed myself as a solo entrepreneur, so this is both exciting and a bit terrifying,” she said.
What she fears the most, however, is failure, which she acknowledged “is strange. I have failed, stumbled and fallen so many times and come back for the better, you’d think I’d be over it by now. I guess the fear of failure motivates me to do better, be better,” she said.
These days, Cannon finds herself coming full circle, pursuing goals that she set while at UF. “I’m really enjoying being (literally) back in the saddle again,” she said. “I have three horses at home right now and have been competing in three-day eventing. I qualified for the national championships this year, which was a blast, and placed both individually and in team competition. And, I have just moved to training level, so everything is bigger, faster, more complex, and even more fun,” she said.
To that end, Cannon is now fully embracing the philosophy of connection that she spent so many years struggling to recognize. “I value honesty, kindness, persistence, service and sacrifice,” she concluded. Those who impress her are individuals who are willing to share their mistakes, struggles, and successes while mentoring others. “That inspires me to do the same and be a better person,” she concluded. “It’s important to me to be the kind of person I can be proud of and help improve the lives of those around me.”
Alumnus Travels The World As U.S. Army Chaplain
By Krystan Krucki | Photography by Anne Risser Lee
From age 12, Chaplain (Brigadier General) Kenneth "Ed" Brandt
’81 felt a calling to serve in the church. Only decades later did he realize the calling was more specific: it was a calling to be a military chaplain. Now as the Chief Chaplain for the Army National Guard and National Guard Bureau Joint Chaplain, he has worked in all 50 states, three territories, District of Columbia, and countries around the world to provide armed forces with the support that can be found through faith.
Deployed in 2008, Brandt worked with American troops on the ground as they faced unimaginable struggles. Oftentimes, he would listen to and guide soldiers who had experienced a traumatic event. “In military chaplaincy, you’re dealing with life and death issues,” he said. “I work on helping them reframe their thoughts and think through how to attack their issues, and helping them through any spiritual issues or conflicts they may be having.”
After completing his tour, Brandt remained in the military in various roles, providing military leadership with guidance and working to expand the mission of chaplaincy around the world.
With his days of serving in a theater abroad behind him, Brandt now travels overseas as Chief Chaplain for the Army National Guard to work with foreign countries as part of an international network of military chaplains. In this role, he leads worship and says prayers at events but does not believe in proselytizing the service members he meets. Rather, his goal is to create a framework that is general in nature but brings out the best in humanity. To that end, he works with other chaplains for Muslims, Catholics, and Jews all over the world to ensure spiritual support for those who serve.
Each American state, territory, and District of Columbia are part of a state partnership program. Through these partnerships, leaders in the military
chaplaincies have the opportunity to work together to generate new ideas and support one another. In some cases, they even work together to build a military chaplaincy program from the ground up, as did Brandt with Ohio’s partner country of Serbia in 2014. He went to the country and met with military leaders and spiritual leaders of various faiths to celebrate a program and partnership that will go on to help thousands of people in Serbia’s military forces.
Brandt’s Serbia experiences have emphasized to him how similar people around the world are, but how different life experiences can be. “We all have the same basic needs, the need to be validated, to have rites of passage, to be forgiven and redeemed,” he said. “The thing that makes us different is our cultural background, how we understand things.” Brandt finds the structure provided by the military beneficial to this type of spiritual outreach. He believes that working with leadership to solve issues and make decisions is a good model of teamwork and collegiality, which helps make hard decisions easier. “It doesn’t matter where a fellow chaplain is from, the theological language is spoken across national boundaries,” he pointed out.
As he helps others explore and strengthen their spirituality, Brandt learns more about himself and his role every day. “When you’re dealing with people from all walks of life, from all age groups, you need to know who you are,” he said. “As my role became more defined, I had a well of experience to draw from, and it had more of an impact on people to whom I was speaking.”
Brandt nurtured the calling he felt at a young age at the University of Findlay, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in religion, philosophy, and Christian education. He started his path on a campus grounded in Christian faith and grew through his education. Because of this, he has been able to help people around the world by connecting through faith.
Tough Tuskegee
Lt. Col. Harold H. Brown Awarded Honorary Doctorate at University of Findlay
By Jack Barger ‘01 | Photography by Anne Risser Lee
Much of this story was adapted from the book “Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman,” written by Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner, and published by University Alabama Press in 2017.
WORKING TOWARD GOALS UNDER VARIOUS
types of adversity is something that college students across the globe are familiar with. It’s no different at University of Findlay, where meeting due dates, studying for many hours, and making their way through social life are all things that students manage on their way to a degree and a meaningful life and productive career.
The challenges Lt. Col. Harold Brown faced during his early life and military career, however, were far different. For his bravery, Brown, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, was presented with an honorary doctorate from UF at the 2019 Veterans Day ceremony on campus.
“We are deeply pleased to have conferred an honorary doctorate upon Harold Brown,” said University of Findlay President Katherine Fell, Ph.D. “As a Tuskegee Airman, he demonstrated unparalleled bravery and dedication to our country, and we
thank him for his sacrifices and service.”
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. The men flew more than 15,000 missions in Europe and North Africa during World War II, and were awarded many Distinguished Flying Crosses. Their heroism encouraged the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces.
At age 16, and while a junior in high school, Brown was able to save $35 – a lot of money in 1941 – to take flying lessons. “My mother went berserk,” he said. “She thought I threw the money away.” His dad, he continued, came to his defense, explaining to his mother that it was Harold’s money that he worked hard for, and that he should be able to spend it how he wanted. He began the lessons, and “the kids used to tease me and call me Lindbergh,” he said. “They said ‘they won’t even let you wash a plane,’ but I told them that by the time I’m ready, everything will have changed. And that’s precisely what happened.” The lessons turned out to be priceless, as they inevitably helped him in earning a shot as a military pilot during World War II.
As a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, Brown flew many missions, but the one that he remembers most clearly is one that caused him to come faceto-face with his own mortality. He was shot down at low altitude on a mission during the war, and had to eject. “I was up in that chute all by myself. Twentyyears old, in Germany, looking like this,” he said. He was captured by some Germans upon landing and taken to a village where, he recollected, “it was very clear what their intentions were. I knew I was going to die that day. I couldn’t see a way out.” But from somewhere among the throngs of people surrounding them came a constable who stepped in front of Brown, put a round in his rifle, and saved him from certain death. “We barricaded ourselves in a pub down the road, and when it was clear, he took me to another village and turned me over.”
In 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen, as a group, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest and most distinguished civilian award. The U.S. Congress gives this medal to individuals or groups for exceptional service to our country. The courage and insight that came from the Tuskegee experience carried on for Brown after the United States was liberated from the war and he returned
stateside. As a Tuskegee, he said, he had a choice to remain in the military, and, since his goal had always been to be a military pilot, he decided to do just that. “I was also highly motivated,” he said. “I was determined I was not going to be second best. I was, and am, goal-driven. The military has a very clearly defined hierarchy of rank, so my plan was always to be moving up.”
Brown’s military tenure included a significant role with Strategic Air Command, flying in 20 types of aircraft, and spanned over two decades in the service. Upon retiring from the military, he took up a career in higher education, and as he spent much of his prior career as a military pilot instructor and a few years as an electronics instructor in the Air Force Training Command Navigator School, he said that the transition was “fairly easy.” He continued his involvement in higher education with Columbus Area Technical School/Columbus Tech, Clark Technical College, and Gaston College.
In a life that has been filled with setting and achieving goals, Brown has been continuously striving to better himself. Now, at the age of 95, Brown, who along with his wife Dr. Marsha Bordner, has made presentations at over 100 venues, has achieved yet another from UF. Referencing a previous presentation at the University, Brown said that one of the couple’s favorite venues is Findlay. “It is so easy to see why Findlay is soaring under Dr. Fell’s tutelage. Our event was overflowing with people who care about history and military service. The feeling of patriotism in that auditorium was palpable. Receiving this honorary doctorate is the icing on the cake,” he said. Brown, in the book he co-wrote with his wife titled "Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman," said that, in these golden years of his life, he has been struck by one consistent theme, one that can be of help to college students and others alike: constantly setting goals for oneself. “As soon as I had successfully achieved one goal, I would immediately set another one, which again would require meaningful effort, plain old-fashioned hard work, and flat out stubbornness to refuse anything less than a successful outcome. For whatever traits that have been instilled in me by my parents,” he said, “there was always the idea that failure was not an option.”
“They said ‘they won’t even let you wash a plane,’ but I told them that by the time I’m ready, everything will have changed. And that’s precisely what happened.”
History
Findlay was founded through a joint partnership between the Churches of God, General Conference and the City of Findlay with the goal of providing Christ-centered higher education to the community and Church of God members.
Findlay At A Glance
Located in the number one micropolitan community in the United States, the City of Findlay in Northwest Ohio is rich with a robust job market and strong alumni network.
Our calling is to cultivate the potential within each student through academic excellence, transformative experiences, and a supportive community that is grounded in Christian faith.
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Carla A. Reinhart
Nick L. Reinhart
Jack W. and Judith W. Ridge
Sodexo
Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates
TLB Foundation, Inc.
Billy J. '96 and Brenda S. Watterson
The Watterson Family Foundation
Trustees' Council
$25,000 - $99,999
American Endowment Foundation
Marla R. Barnaba
John M. and Pamela K. (Moses) '78 Beall
Chuck and Dee Dee Bills
Leah H. Buchanan*
Henry Cole
College First Church of God
Joseph V. and Judith M. Conda
Clifford C. and Maureen Cook
Hugh B. D'Andrade
Frederick H. and Holly T. Davidorf
Paul T. and Jane M. Davis
Earthwise Sorbents
Donna M. Ewing
The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation
Dennis J. Friedman
J. Michael and Judith M. Greer
Shiv K. Gupta*
Cheryl E. Harness
Lawrence Hohman
Duane E. and Kathleen E. Jebbett
Elissa L. Kramer
Nirmal S. '74 and Princy N. Kumar
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
MC Reinhart Inc.
McNair Farm LLC
Dick McNair
Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
Christopher E. and Dina Ostrander
Mari R. Otto
Matthew Reinhart
Year Aug. 1, 2018 - July 31, 2019
Daniel S. Blain and Miriam E. Rosenberg
Ruby Rosenberg
Barney E. Saltzberg
Gene and Elaine Stevens
Samuel F. and Martha G. Stott
Donald E. Tate II
Elizabeth Thatcher
Toledo Community Foundation
George M. and Shirlee J. Whitson
Tamara P. Wiggs
President's Leadership Circle
$10,000 - $24,999
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Robert L. and Lorene L. (King) '61 Ashby
ASIANetwork
BP Amoco Corporation
BP-Husky Refining LLC
Angela S. Brown '92
David C. Brown '90
C & D Bills Ltd.
A.R. '66 and Mary Ann Charnes
Roger and Katherine R. Fell
Darin E. and Pamela Fields
First Federal Bank of the Midwest
Graystone Consulting
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Michael E. Harrington and Anne R. Pramaggiore
Trudi P. and John P. Hatter, Jr.
Jerl Machine, Inc
Key Private Bank
KeyBank National Association
Vincent Kirsh
Mary L. Klein
David Y. Lai and Amy H. Lin
Michael H. '88 and Anne A. (Harrington) '89 Mallett
Marathon - Matching Gift Program
Marathon Classic
Marathon Petroleum Corp Employees Political Action Committee
Bill O. and Gail L. Miller
James P. and Gale K. Mix
Harold J. and Peggy L. Moore
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC
Timothy H. '77 and Melinda K. Nesler
Nutrien Ltd.
Ohio Logistics
Nathalie J. (Zuberbuhler) Osmun '70
Procter & Gamble Co.-Corporate Contributions & Comm Relation
Reineke Ford Lincoln, Inc.
William P. and Megan S. Rooney
Paul F. and Kristine Smith
Bradley A. Spraw '07, '08
Whirlpool Corporation / Findlay Operations
Barton A.* and Josephine A.* (Stough) '29 Wilson
Deans' Council
$5,000 - $9,999
ACI Construction Company, Inc.
Alexandria's Gastropub
Michele A. Andrade
Armand Baltazar
Norma K. Bibler
Dennis E. and Janice M. Bishop
Blanchard Valley Health System
Linda L. Boyd
Sherri Garner Brumbaugh and Jerry D. Brumbaugh, Jr.
Bry-Pie, Inc. DBA Dominos Pizza
Don R. and Judith Carter
The Council of Independent Colleges
CVS Corporation
Robert A. and Valerie K. Deane
Arthur J. and Sandra S. Diederich
Doepker Group, Inc.
Jeff and Sherry Doepker
Michael Drennan
Brian and Jennifer Edler
Hobart* and Lottie* Faulkner
Ferguson Farms, Inc.
First Federal Bank
H. Fort Flowers Foundation
Garner Trucking, Inc.
Justin '07 and Jamie Gladieux
Hylant Group
INOK Investments, LLC
Doris J. Kimble
Doris and Floyd Kimble Foundation
Richard C. and Sabrina K. Kirk
Marian S. Lowe '97 and Ashley A.Wise
Karen S. and L. Don Manley II
John S. and Barbara E. (Eakin) '63 Meyers
Carlton and Carol Mittermaier
Robert M. '57 and Catherine M. Pritts
Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
William H. '73 and Judy M. (Markle) '89 Reist
Brant K. '00 and Jaymie Rhoad
William E. and Donna L. Ruse
Hugh T. and Elizabeth J. Sauer
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Gregory J. Kurasz and P. Rae TaylorKurasz
Time Staffing, Inc.
Valicor Environmental Services, LLC
Vaughn Industries, LLC
Walgreens Company
Steve G. and Emily Walton
James E. Wiedie
Wisne Charitable Foundation
Alan L. and Kathryn L. Wisne
Charles J. Younger
Scholars' Circle
$2,500 - $4,999
Alfagreen Supreme
C. Richard and Linda D. Beckett
Blanchard Valley Veterinary Clinic
Bliss Corporation
Patricia A. Bookwalter
Marcia J. Brown*
Thomas J. '98 and Debra Brungard
Ronald C. Cable '64
Nondace N. Campbell
Julie A. Christiansen
Coughlin Automotive Group
CVS Health Foundation
Pamela Dalton
Dave's Running Shop, Inc.
James J. and Wendy S. Davidson
DNC Hydraulics, LLC
Drury Inn & Suites - Findlay
Dunne Manning Exxon Mobil
Eastman & Smith Ltd.
ERA Geyer-Noakes Realty Group, Inc.
Charles A. '92, '06 and Belinda D. (Roberts) '02 Ernst
Paul W. and Linda Feasel
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Findlay Rotary Foundation Inc.
Findlay-Hancock County Economic Development
Friends Office Products
Anthony W. and Joanne C. Fuller
Regina R. Garner
Anthony T. '00 and Mary Jo Geise
Jack F. and Susan K. Grove
Madison L. Hallas '12
Hancock Federal Credit Union
Hancock Hotel
William G. '67 and Bette Heidlebaugh
Philip J. Johnson
Paul M. and Cheryl L. Kalmbach
Kolleen Kirk
Kris A. and Shannon Klepper
LaRiche Chevrolet-Cadillac
LaRiche Family of Dealerships
John LaRiche
Tom Lichtenheld and Jan M. Miller
Brian Lies
Loop Abroad, LLC
Philip W. '01, '05 and Patricia L. '08
Lucas
Anthony R. Marini
David A. McGuire '54
Wendell G. and Florence Minor
David L. '67 and Edith J. Morris
Gary D. and Greta D. Noakes
Jacquelyn S. and Richard W. Norton, Jr. Ohio Education Association Ohio Environmental Service Industries
Sarah and C. Paul Palmer IV
Milton E. and Carol D. Peters
David A. '75 and Pamela A. (Bright) '75 Reist Rowmark, LLC.
L. Jack '66 and Ann L. (Colburn) '65 Ruscilli
Yuri Salzman
Russel W. '56 and Harriet A.* (Varano) '57 Sanders
Madeleine Schneider* Schwab Charitable Fund
Karen E. Shedlauskas
Jerry L. '69 and Debra W. Smith
Ronald R. '60 and Susan K. Souply
Jim C. and Karen L. (Van Nice) '72 Spurgat
S. Duane Stratton
Melinda P. and Edward J. Taylor, Jr.
Ron J. '04 and Christine E. Tulley
John S. and Joyce Wallach
Edith K. Wannemacher
Jack D. '65 and G. Jeanne (Williams) '66 Wasbro
Adam Watkins
John W. and Victoria B. Weddle
Larry G. White* '59
Whitson Properties
Paul M. '91 and Cynthia K. Whitson
Brian L. '84 and Teresa L. Young
Richard P. and Karen Zunkiewicz
President's Council
$1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous
Ada Technologies, Inc.
Vivian C. And Winzer R. Andrews, Sr.
Alan A. Baker '73
Luke '68 and Jeanne M. (Helfrick) '66, '96 Bartolomeo
David D. and Karen M. (Makrides) '96 Beard
R. Tod and Mary Beckett
Joseph and Jeanny G. Belladonna
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
Molly R. Benson
John A. '62 and Joanne Berg
Don A. and Deborah A. Berlekamp
Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society
Jerry R. and Whitney Blevins
Board of Certified Safety Professionals Foundation
Timothy J. and Sandy Booher
Russel D. Branan '79
Kent and Charlotte O. (Wright) '65 Brannan
Joe and Jan Brett
William L. and Angela K. Briggs
Patricia J. (Cornely) Brown '85
Nicole M. (Hauenstein) Busey '99
Robert George and Kathleen A. '87 Cannon
Cass County Tire and Auto Service Center
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study Inc
Lynn R. Child
Churches of God, General Conference
Jerald F. Clark '66
Myron C. and Yolanda Cline
Clouse Construction Corporation
Leonard and Lynn Clouse
Coca-Cola Consolidated
Gary L. and Shirley D. (Tooman) '77 Cole
Donald E. and Brenda K. '90 Collins
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Cooper Tire & Rubber Foundation
David E. and Carolyn Copus
Country Inn & Suites
Craig A. Crotteau and Mary A. Moffitt
Jo Ann H. Davidson
Davis Farms
Ann K. DeHaven '70 and C. William '71 Barkalow, Jr.
Donald E. '66 and Marcia S. Detter
Thomas H. and Mary Beth '05, '07 Dillon
Duane D. Duffield*
Melissa Duflock '89
Rodney K. Rogers and Sandra B. Earle
Eastern Regional Churches of God Conference
Richard E. '92 and Michelle D. Egbert
David W. and Michelle Emsweller
Equine Sports Medicine & Surgery
David and Karen L. (Pettibone) '77
Eubanks
John G. Ewald
Steve Ewald
Jessamyn Falcone
Gary L. and Nancy M. Fay
Eugene A. '77, '08 and Joyce A. (Foor) '79 Fernandez
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Fifth Third Bank
Findlay Transmission Service Center, Inc.
Lance and Brenda R. '06 Finley
Five Star Maintenance & Construction
Susan E. Ford '68
Friends of Findlay
Steven P. and Suzanne Gagle
Norman J. Geer
GEM Energy, LLC
General Electric Healthcare
Jana Gessner
Matthew S. and Lindsay K. (Boehler) '15 Ginter
Aaron S. Golding '71
GSW Manufacturing, Inc.
Virginia Guarnieri
Giving by Gift Category Giving by Constituency
Institutional Financial Aid
Donors to Any Gift Designation
Frank A. and Annett H. (Hollington) Guglielmi
David A. and Marilyn J. Hackenberg
J. R. '81 and Kathy S. Haley
Chris and Mary Beth Hammond
Hancock-Wood Electric
Cooperative, Inc.
Clair R. and Saundra K. Harmon
L. Gordon and Elizabeth A. (Johnson) '69 Harriss
Philip E. and Margaret A. Havens
Charlie Hayward
John H. and Patricia A. Haywood
Heartlight Pharmacy Services
Jack G. and Candace H. '00 Hendershot
William E. and Jane E. Hillenbrand
Sara A. Hingson '92, '96
HIT Enterprises LLC
Sally S. and Richard R. Hollington, Jr.
Jay J. '77 and Soon J. Hong
Derek F. '88 and Jessica Hutchinson
Edward F. Hyland and Maxine A. Mazza-Hyland
Charles B. '70 and Patricia F. Jacobina
JJ Ventures LLC
The Japan Foundation
James R. '99 and Kendra Joaquin
Phil and Kristen K. Johnson
Robert and Cindy M. Kalkstein
Philip D. and Carolyn D. Kath
Ted W. '67 and Margaret Kehr
Jeffrey and Heather A. Kellstrom
Dan N. and M. Kathleen Kennard
Sharon J. (Sheldon) and G. Richard '54 Kern, Jr.
Michael and Melanie E. Kerns
Robert and Jenifer Keys
Margot J. Klose
Philip F. '90 and Joyce R. Kortokrax
David W. and Sue Kruse
Ronald W. and Marjorie M. Kruse
David L. Kuhl
Janice P. and John '67 Lacki, Jr.
Rikhard M. and Virginia M. Laiho
Robert Latta and Marcia Sloan Latta
Timothy J. and Brandi E. Laurita
Connie M. Leatherman
B. Luke Levers '51 and Patricia M. Smith
Michael W. Lindamood
David* and Linda (Stauffer) '64 Linton
John F. McDonald
William J. '91, '09 and Julie D. (Dean) '90 McIntosh
Jeffery A. and Tracy L. McMath
Christopher and Nicole L. Medjesky
Deborah M. Mercer
Mercy Health Partners
Thomas Metzger
Drew J. '01 and Lydia L. (Carpenter) '02 Mihalik
Larry L. and Tricia J. Miles
Cheryl D. Miller '71
Millstream Area Credit Union
Arita A. Moats
Keith A. Mohr '67
Dale Cupp and Diana M. Montague
John and Bonny Morris
Michael H. '64 and Marjorie R. Mumma
Kathy and John R. Murray, Jr.
NACDS Foundation
Bethany and Michael S. Needler, Jr.
Joseph P. and Nancy A. Nemrava
Helen Faye Newman '70
Patrick '89 and Elizabeth Nolan
Norman J. Geer Atty At Law
Allan W. and Karen A. Oneal
Devin and Debra L. Parker
Garry L. and Kathleen J. Peiffer
PepsiCo Foundation
J. Duane '59 and Judith L. Philipp
Philips
Patrick J. and Susan Pierret
Peter J. and Sarah Potosky
Eric and Amy Prigge
Trena C. '87 Reed and David L. Williamson II
J. Alec and Sandra M. Reinhardt
Rhoad Law, LLC
Harold E. '93 and Jennifer Rinehart
Douglas A. and Cynthia J. (Wolery) '81 Ritter
Carol J. Roessing
Timothy and Sharon Rooney
Edward L. and Linda K. Rosenberry
Daryl L. and Cynthia J. Rotman
Ruscilli Construction Company Inc.
S & S Management Inc.
Jeffrey K. Sailer
McKinley H. and Laura A. Sauer
Eric H. and Marlena Schaaf
Gary R. '01, '03 and Helen M. '95
Schneider
The market value of long-term investments at the University of Findlay through the fiscal year ending on July 31, 2019, was $41.1 million.
Sally H. Manahan
Ann Manley
Wallace N. Martel
Sara L. Mast '99
Edgar H. '56 and Barbara N. Maugans
George H. McAfee '96
Josh L. '01 and Erika J. Schoenberger
Philip J. '88 and Nancy J. (Heitz) '87, '90 Scott
M. Chandra and Padmini Sekar
Michael J. Shardo
Nancy L. Short
George M. '65 and Alice C. Showers
Margaret B. Slough
David M. and Jennifer C. (Capra) '91 Smith
Richard A. and Phyllis C. Smith
Robert A. '74 and Carol Smolinski
Ethel H. Snavely
Snoke Family Enterprises
Lisa J. Snyder '12, '16
Phyllis Spragg
William H. and Deanna M. (Johann) '93, '00, '07 Spraw
John Stadler
Jerry L. '53 and Patricia J. Stevenson
John S. and Anne Swearingen
Jerry W. '69 and Mary Ann Szymonowicz
Tall Timbers Industrial Park Association
Vijay '92 and Nita Talwar
Richard D. and Julie F. Teeple
Martin L. '66 and Chrystal M. Terry
Debra L. Theis
David L. Thomas*
Nathan C. and Julia A. Tice
Town & Campus
Jesse L. Tucker '63
Valfilm North America
Marc and Lisa M. (Pavlak) '86, '87 Vignerot
James W. and Christine M. Walpole
Brian '84 and Carol P. (Price) '89 Washington Waste Management
Yvonne L. Wenning '97
Jeffrey B. and Melissa J. Westmeyer
Margaret E. Wetzler '92
Eugene M. and Marjorie L. White
Ann E. Whithaus*
Thad F. and Amelia S. Whitinger
Whitson Hospitality Operations, LLC
John M. and Patricia S. Whitson
Susan M. Williams
Clarence Williamson and Marilyn S. Rowe
Rodney K. Womer and Barbara Karplus
James W. '63 and Karis S. Woodward
Dan A. and Aleta J. '88 Yates
Dennis A. '70 and Barbara Zahler
Robert J. '70 and Martha (Kirk) '71 Zavodsky
Richard and Laurie A. '16 Zydonik
Old Main Society
$500 - $999
Zoey Abbott
Patricia Abels
Abdulraheem Al-Nimer
David A. Altobelli '71
Martin J. '72 and Laureen K. Arft
Susan E. Arnold '83, '95 and Laura L. Eier
Teresa K. Ash
AssuredPartners NL, LLC
Wesley and Laura C. (Mako) '10
Aubihl
Robert Baird
Sharon H. Baker
Ball Metal Beverage Packing Division
Edwin Budlong and Celia B. '70
Barberena
Mark I. '96 and Deborah A. Barnes
Baxter Healthcare Corporation Beer Barrel, Inc.
Lindsey M. Benedict '16
William Beymer
Mark R. and Lynette M. (Hixon) '98
Biery
Biggby Coffee
Steven A. '90 and Victoria M. (Rutledge) '94 Bihn
Darren P. '01, '04 and Jennifer M. (Feller) '08 Black
James A. and Lula M. Blanks
Carol A. Bowden
Kenneth E. '81 and Jane Brandt
Bridgestone Americas
Kenneth C. and Susan M. Brooks
Brumbaugh Leasing, LLC
Donald and Mary T. Cameron
Joseph J. '68 and Elisa M. Camillone
William S. and Lael S. Carter
Peter G. and Laura L. Cassanos
Daniel Chudzinski
Churches of God Women's Ministries
Charles D. and Paula C. Clapper
Myreon K. and Elaine D. Cobb
Travis '99 and Amanda M. (Fredritz) '99 Comer
Cone Instruments
Rebecca S. Craig
Kathleen C. (Child) Crates '69
Kenneth E. '68 and K'Etta (Cook) '68 Curry
Curtis D. Dahms
Richard E. '73 and Carole Dailey
Jonathan K. '99 and Ashley S. Davis
Daniel J. '15 and Catherine M. Donovan
William and Lisa L. Donovan
Thomas D. and Ann Drake
Raeceen L. (Daugherty) '14 and Ty E. Dukehart
A. Gail Dunn* '52
Rahman H. '61 and Shirley Dyer
Eastman & Smith, Ltd.
Dorothy M. Edwards '56
Gary L. '85 and Teresa S. Egner
Suzanne W. English '09
Michael and Eunice Ernst
Wesley A. and Lori J. Ernsthausen
C. H. Forney*
Donna M. Ewald
Teresa Ewald
Rod G. and Maggie Fannin
Jon and F. Eleanor (Williams) '63 Fellers
Debra S. Fields
Findlay Family Chiropractic Clinic
Findlay Implement Co.
Findlay Rugby Football Club
Findlay-Hancock County Alliance Foundation
Findlay-Hancock County Chamber of Commerce
First National Bank
Murray B. '69 and Barbara J. Fitzgerald
Richard W. and Beth L. Flowers
Sue Ellen Folk
Fort Wayne Art League
Scott Freehafer
Matthew T. '01 and Katherine (Stirn) '01 Freeman
Velma E. and C. Eugene '61 Fries, Jr.
Don and Doyne Frommer
Jeff L. and Martha Frye
Patricia Furnas
Gateway Church
Richard C. and Barbara S. Gebhardt
Timothy J. '88 and Kristina S. (Abbey) '97 Gephart
William F. and Mary L. Gilbert
John F. '62 and Karen Kay Givens
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
R. Robert Glew '67
Granger Insurance
Jason A. '99 and Beth E. Granger
Donald S. and Martha A. (Katzer) '48 Grothe
H & O Services, LLC
Joel D. Hagy
Charles A. '86 and Julie A. Hardesty
Randy W. Harper '98
Hiegel Insurance Agency
Doug and Kelly S. Hiegel
Hitchings Insurance Agency Inc
Anthony J. and Keri Hixon
Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites
Brandon J. Hollopeter '05
Kathy S. Holloway
Hosler-Corbin Insurance Agency
Robin M. and Sara Hunziker
Impact Credit Union
International Studies Abroad
Wayne L. and Miriam E. Irwin
Douglas J. '02, '17 and Rebecca (Shell) '01 Jenkins
John W. Trafton and Sherrye L. '85 Johnson-Trafton
Jonathan K. Davis, DDS, Inc.
William and Lisa '02 Kahle-Piasecki
Crendal R. Kear '97
Lawrence M. and Jeanne H. (Wolfe) '71 Kelly
Alexandra Kemp-Thompson
Kirk D. '02, '04 and Constance A. Kern
Mary Lou Kieffer*
Misti and Martin L. Killgallon III
William C. and Susan Killgallon
Mark '92 and Suzanne Kirk
Marilyn Klingler
George G. Stossel and Vicki Knauerhase
Keith A. Knauss '89
Knueven, Schroeder & Co.
Michelle L. Koch '07 '10
John H. '73 and Robin R. Koehler
Gust G. and Susan S. Kouvaris
David P. and Gwen L. Kuenzli
Gary C. '83 and Julie A. Kuns
Landisville Church Of God
Phillip P. '75 and Carol Lawson
Jeffrey E. Lee '86 and Rob Stauffer
Keith H. Lewis '63
Tom S. and Karen E. (Ewald) '78 Long
Don L. Hanes and Marie A. Louden-Hanes
Timothy R. '68 and Diane Lynch
Benjamin and Meredith Madsen
Mainspring Solutions, LLC
Brent '91 and Meredith (Sheffler) '03, '16 Marsh
Masterson Farms LLC
Daniel J. May and Cheryl D. Cape
Raymond J. and Anita M. (O'Brien) '86 McCandless
Scott and Crista K. McNish
James F. Meacham '66
The Merck Foundation
Ruth C. (Lloyd) Mitchell '64
Nancy Moody-Russo
Timothy J. '98 and Jenny Murphy
Richard F. '69 and Linda Myers
Steven D. '03 and Janet L. Myers
Robert J. '61 and Susan L. Nichols
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
Edward Nyman
Amanda Ochsner
J. Randy and Lisa O'Dell
Ryan K. '97, '00 and Andrea M. Odendahl
The Ohio Art Company
Mark J. and Terry J. (Willems) '98 Olthouse
C. Damon Osborne
Donald R. Parker '68
Barbara J. Piper '98
Poet Biorefining
J.J. and Alissa R. (Simpson) '01
Preston
Russell T. and Royetta E. (Hopkins) '71 Pulver
Timothy D. '95 and Diane M. (Foos) '94 Puthoff
PVS Nolwood Chemicals, Inc.
Mark R. and Denise M. (Brown) '77 Ramser
Bert A.* '56 and Marlene L. '88 Rayl
Gerald R. and Janet M. Reichert
Reid Insurance Agency
Daniel F. and Wendy T. Reid
Rebecca L. Reynolds '01
Rieck Center for Habitat Studies
Jeremy J. '04 and Karen S. (Ziegman) '04 Rinehammer
Ron Spencer Real Estate, Inc.
David W. '89 and Janice S. (Stump) '90 Rosier
Betty J. (Penland) Ruhl '49
Benjamin E. '93, '95 and Lani J. (Booher) '98, '02 Sapp
Martha Schmidt
Ryan A. Schneider
Michael E. Schoenberger '83
Jerome B. and Diane M. Schroeder
Larry D. '68 and Rosario Sharp
Lisa W. Sheffer '83
Joy D. (Sayer) '04 and Charles R. '04
Shepard II
Siemens Medical Solutions, USA
Sink's Flower Shop & Greenhouse
Lawrence H. Slagel III
Wayne F. and F. Louise Smith
Andrew F. Smyth
Barry Snook '97
Robert C. '03 and Rebecca (Foos) '02 Solomon SonoSim, Inc.
Jeraco R. '09 and Karen M. Speelman
Joseph F. and Beverly A. Spencer State Bank
Richard B. States
Marvin E. '77 and Ann Stechschulte
John N. and Elaine M. (Sfaelos) '67 Steffen
Kimberly K. (Cramer) '96 and Charles F. Stumpp, Jr.
Terrier Capital and Financing Corporation
Jared C. and Beth A. (Miller) '99
Thomas
John J. Tinsman '61
Trisonics, Inc.
Jonathan T. '66 and Barbara A. (Conroy) '67 Tullis
Bernard Turner '76
Rachel Westlake and F. William '75 Uhlman III
UNC at Chapel Hill Valley View Farms
J. Eric and Lucretia A. Vandemark
Heather L. Vennekotter
Alyssa Von Drach
John M. and Patricia A. Wallach
Scott and Becky Weasel
Wells Fargo - Matching Gift Program
George H. '68 and Ellen E. (Edgar) '68 White
David K. and Carol R. Whitinger
Karen F. Wielinski
Richard E. '52 and Barbara A. (Zehender) '51 Wilkin
Grant W. and Anna M. Wilkinson
Scott C. Younger
Orange and Black Society
$250 - $499
AAA Findlay Automobile Club
AEP Ohio Power Co- Distribution
American Institute for Foreign Study
Mark R. Amsler
Micheal F. and Denise K. Anders
Mark A. '84 and Leigh Baker
William W. '68 and Donna Baker
Steven K. and Bonnie S. (Bunn) '70 Basinger
Danny N. Baughman '73
George M. '68 and Angela C. (Clark) '68 Behney
Merilee Beisner
Leon and Cynthia L. Bekier
Cris E. and Christina L. (Ryan) '10 Bell
Helen H. Bennett
Cynthia S. Beucler
Bigelow Glass, Inc.
Marc D. '99, '04 and Erika L. (Stemmer) '00, '02 Bishop
Bistro On Main
F. Alan and Jacqueline K. Blackburn
John T. and Lynn Blakeney
Blanchard Valley Chiropractic Inc.
Wilmer J. and Karen P. Blanchard
Carol Ann Bowden Revocable Trust
David H. Bowling '97
Lisa Bradley
Dennis K. '68 and Patricia E. Brandt
William A. '01 and Cyndi D. Bregel
Bristol-Myers Squibb FoundationMatching Gift Program
Robert C. '65 and Ruth F. Brown
Rick P. '79 and Marlene D. Brunswick
William B. '53 and Patricia J. Buck
David D. Busenburg '69
Judith A. Butler
Robert Butler
Marc and Lisa Cabi
John L. '73 and Nancy J. Cable
Tim '87 and Linda Carles
Gary Chamberlin
Simon '07 and Heather A. (Hochstetler) '07 Chan
Mary Cholodewitsch
Anthony A. and Cathy Z. Chudzinski
Citizens National Bank
Christopher M. and Peggy A. Cole
Christopher J. Conklin '16
Mark T. '05, '07 and Paula K. (Jackson) '06, '12 Cosiano
Scott M. '93 and Sara K. Cox
CPE Consultants, LLC
Keith A. and Barbara L. Cramer
Jeremy Cripps
Bryan H. '87 and Therese A. (Kirkhope) '87 Crissman
Linda L. and Thomas C. Croy II
Culver's of Findlay
Charles D. '97, '01 Daniels and Darla E. Lammers
Roger H. and Janet E. Darnall
Peter and Colleen T. Demczuk
Gregory J. '94, '16 and Christine M. Denecker
Don and Phyllis M. Dennison
Dermatologists of Central States, LLC
DKB Concepts
Judith L. (Stevenson) Doby '65
DonateWell
Stan K. and Lela F. Doty
Chad H. Dowell '00
Patricia and Richard W. '16 Dudley III
Eaton Corporation - Matching Gift Program
Loring F. '64 and Linda J. (Dunbar) '64 Ebersole
Brett and Annette M. (Chicoine) '93, '03 Edgington
Amanda M. Eichel '19
Donald D. Elswick '19
Emclay Enterprises, Inc.
Judith A. Epley
Brian K. Epperson '05
Dane M. '76, '97 and Diane E. '91, '99 Erford
Edward W. and Virginia L. Erner
Eliseo L. and Valerie J. Escobedo
Brett W. and Lisa M. (Hallock) '93 Evans
Erman D. Famiano '68
James L. '78 and Mary Ferguson
Dennis L. '86 and Sheila Fernandez
Baylee G. Fike
Findlay North PTO
Gerard L. '72 and Doris D. '72 Fisher
Thomas N. '77 and Cynthia B. Fitzpatrick
Danny L. '84 and Patricia E. (Slupecki) '84 Fought
Russell H. and Andrea Fury
G & J Paving, Inc.
Lynda C. Gallant '83
T. David '90 and Yolanda Garcia
David and Natalie Gdula
Sharon Gentry
Karen A. George
Ronald L. '80 and Karen S. Gephart
Thomas J. and Penny L. (Berger) '98 Gerdeman
James G. '99 and Renee Givens
Donna L. and Fred W. '61 Gohlke, Jr.
Gregory J. and Cyndy L. Goodwin
Grand Design RV LLC
Justin C. and Eve L. (Burnett) '06 Gray
Jeffrey M. and Kimberly A. (Clemons) '81 Grilliot
Guarnieri Pizzeria
Dominic R. '05, '07 and Maria C. (Farris) '05 Guarnieri
Joseph E. '10 and Amanda M. (Etnyre) '09, '10 Guidos
Donn K. and Anne-Marie Q. Hallman
Timothy A. and Pamela L. '94, '98 Hamlin
Hancock County Convention and Visitors Bureau
Brook L. '89, '91 and Julie Hanes
Bruce F. and Charlene J. '09 Hankinson
Kris E. and Lisa A. (Huffman) '84 Hansel
Paul A. '85 and Sharon D. Hartman
Karl L. Heminger
Hermiller Construction Co.
Gerald L. and Anne L.* Hermiller
Rebecca S. Herr '05
Audrey A. Hicks
Roger M. and Patsy R. Higley
Hilton Garden Inn Findlay
Gayle (Baltzell) Hindenach '93
Gary E. and Kathy S. Hirschfeld
Hixon Zuercher Capital Management
Andrew J. Hoffman '16
Holiday Inn Express
Elizabeth G. Hoople
Richard and Darla I. Hudson
Pamela K. Hughes '72
Melvin R. '64 and Gayna R. Hulbert
Gregory F. and Elizabeth T. Hull
Idea Firm LLC
James L. and Sheri L. Iliff
Thomas J. '73 and Nancy L. Jakubiec
Stan Jones
SeaHwa and Su Jung
Kathryn A. Lewis DDS LLC
Hiroaki and Sachiko '03 Kawamura
Timothy E. '89 and Donna R. Kepp
Robert E. and Nancy A. (Opperman) '03 Kidd
Nelson A. '52 and Martha J. Kittle
Hugh J. '62 and Patricia A. Kleinhenz
William H. and Kay A. Kose
Geraldine R. Lacney '75
Dana Ladd
Lady Mustang Soccer Academy
William F. '62 and Anita M. Lanning
LaRiche Toyota-Subaru, Inc.
Thomas N. and Susan M. Lause
Adam P. '06 and Michelle L. Lauth
Thomas K. Leddy
John C. and Jerry L. Lipps
Jo Ann Luce
Matthew K. '90 and Deborah M. (Ryan) '87 Mains
John A. and Denese J. Malacos
James P. and Anita J. Manning
Jeffrey C. Marsh
Martin Painting & Coating Co.
Matrix Claims Management, Inc.
Elizabeth McBride
William D. and Hope C. McCleave
Richard K. and Lynn J. McCord
Matthew and Judith M. McCrory
Fred A. '52 and Margie McCumber
Merit Energy Associates, L.P.
Michelle Metzger
Joseph J. '73 and Deborah A. Mihalik
Leslie L. '64 and Mary S. Miller
Richard L. and Lucille Kay (Howell) '69 Miller
Russell R. Miller, Jr. '84
Steven J. and Michelle M. Mlsna
Robert H. '59 and Darlene I. Montgomery
Dennis A. and Ann Moore
Morgan Stanley
Rosaline G. Morgan '71
Chris A. and Candice Moser
Charles R. Mosler
Markus M. and Julie M. Munger
Kenneth E. '98 and Kathleen M. Musselman
New York Life Insurance CompanyMatching Gift Program
Marilyn J. Nonnamaker
Richard A. and Veronica M. O'Connor
Julie H. Oestreich
The Ohio National Foundation
Ohio Valley Women's Collegiate Rugby Conference
Old Fort Bank
Virginia R. O'Malley
On the Ball Soccer Camp
Dan T. '69 and Patricia S. O'Shaughnessey
Kara K. Parker '17
James J. '65 and Janet S. Paule
Susan M. Perry
Pfizer Foundation - Matching Gifts Program
Michael P. '82 and Jamesina L. Piechuta
Thomas J. Pierson '16
Tyson L. and Elizabeth Pinion
Jeremy Pittman
Post Board Gaming, LLC
Brett J. Preston '05
George C. and Elsie L. Preston
Vernon L. '72 and Deborah L. (Lee)
Preston
Calvin E. '73 and Beverly A. Price
Tony L. '89 and Martha K. Price
Debra K. Prichard-Ebert '89, '98
Richard A. Puckett '10 and Elizabeth Babington
Cary F. and William J. '73 Pugh, Jr.
Jack A. Quisno, Jr. '85
Brianna Rabe
Arthur F. and Elizabeth J. Raker
Ryan P. '95 and Dominique M. Ray
Joesph F. and Suzanne Recker
Michael C. Reed and Colleen Benelli
Carol L. Reno
Philip and Donna E. (Murphy) '03, '06 Ridenour
Rieth-Riley Corporate
Russ and Gwynne Rife
Todd and Melinda Rings
Lifetime Giving Recognition
Founders' Society
$2,000,000 and Above
Earl W.* '48 and Gladys L.* DeLong
Philip D.* and Virginia B.* Gardner
Steven C. and Helen H. Kellogg
Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
Emerson D.* and Laura E.* Pelton
Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters
John R. H. Latchaw Society
$1,000,000 - $1,999,999
C. Richard and Linda D. Beckett
Edward E.* and Joyce* Brewer
W. Robert* and Marilyn Y.* Brewer
Churches of God, General Conference
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Thomas B. '70 and Kathleen M. Donnell
Amy M. Robinson* '85
Neal A. and Beverly J. (Fisher) '68
Robinson
Thomas S. and Mary Robinson
Joseph E. '51 and Joanne H. (Hamilton) '51 Rockwell
Janet B. Roll
Eileen F. Rucki '17
James C. '77 and Linda L. Russell
Elizabeth J. Sabel
Brian P. and Meriah L. Sage
Hedayatollah and Jeannia A. Samimi
Thomas R. '67 and Roseann (Keller) '68 Samson
Robert L. '73 and Sharon P. '73
Schmidt
Craig D. '08 and Jill M. (Beining) '09, '12 Schnipke
Greg and Cara Schuster
Stephen and Cheryl A. (Staley) '13
Seibert
Duane R. Seiling '68
Gary R. Shirley '74
James E. '82 and Margie F. (Butt) '84 Shoop
Megan M. Silver '05
James J. Simonis '63
James L.* and Barbara A. Simpson
Ryan J. '00, '07 and Marie B. (Clevenger) '00, '10 Smith
Dudley D. and Deborah S. Snyder
Jerry D. '77 and Sandra K. Snyder
Kathryn Sobczyk '12
Kimberly J. Spurgeon '93
Jamie M. and Julie A. Stall
Stan K. Doty, D.D.S.
State Farm Companies Foundation - Matching Gift Program
Jennifer S. Stefan '93, '00
Ralph and Lin S. '71 Stoudt
Robert E. '81 and Patti A. Strasbaugh
Ronald F. '91 and Tracy A. (Buschor) '91 Stupi
Kay A. Suggs '81
Ruth Corwin Endly*
The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation
Further Lane Farm LLC
Michael J.* and Robin L. Gardner
O. J.* and Georgia* Huffman
Bonnie L. and James C. Koehler, Sr.
Gordon S.* and Marilyn* Macklin
Robert A. Malcolm*
Marathon - Matching Gift Program
Marathon Oil Company, Inc.
Marjorie McGranahan* '37
Mildred F. McGranahan* '41
Robert D. '93 and Heather (Wright) '93 Sutyak
David W. '66 and Jill E. (Cobb) '66
Taber
Theodore N. '50 and Barbara J.
Taylor
Cam L. (Roberts) Taylor '67
Sonia S. Taylor
Darin '99 and Kerry S. (Doby) '14 Teeple
William K. '78 and Linda J. '79
Templeton
Kim A. and Patricia D. Thomas
Scott and Jamie Toon
Toyota Motor North AmericaMatching Gift Program
Trends! On Main
Tri State Industrial Floors, Inc.
Trip Sports, Inc.
Todd Utrup
Janice M. Wagner
Dwight L. '90 and Michele Webb
Blaine and Anne M. (Fish) '04, '16
Wells
Michael L. '91 and Linda E. (McGuire) '90, '15 Werst
Dennis L. and Linda L. (Cannon) '71
White
Andrew R. Whitis
Christopher P. and Joann L. Widman
Steven Wild
Robert C. Wilder '68
Doug Wilkins
Robert D. and Jo Ann Wilson
J. Kevin and Marsha K. Yarnell
YourCause LLC
Guofen Heather Yu
Scott K. '92 and Lisa M. Zimber
Adam C. and Amy R. Zuercher
Theresa E. Zuro
Lorne and Alice Michaels
Ohio Department of Education
W & B Realty, Ltd.
George M. and Shirlee J. Whitson
Charles J. and Mariann D.* Younger
William N. Yates Society
$500,000 - $999,999
American Electric Power Company
American Electric Power Foundation
Ameritech Ohio Foundation
Marguerite T. Armstrong*
Austin E. Knowlton Foundation
Ralph Carbone
A.R. '66 and Mary Ann Charnes
Wilbur G.* and Maxine M.* Clauss
B. L.* and Cynthia Cleary
Coca Cola Bottling Company of Ohio
Edward Dumbauld*
Matthew R. and Jennifer L. (Payne) '87 Dysinger
DeBow and Catherine M.* Freed
Vernon E.* and Regina R. Garner
John W.* and Hester P.* Grimm
Kinloch Enterprises, Inc.
Dudley* and Mary Marks* Lea
Tom Lichtenheld and Jan M. Miller
John M.* and Patricia M.* Luther
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Helen Faye Newman '70
Michael G.* and Patricia A. Oxley
Margaret M. Palmer*
Jack W. and Judith W. Ridge
Patrick W.* '58 and Sondra D.
Rooney
L. Jack '66 and Ann L. (Colburn) '65
Ruscilli
Kathleen V. Snavely*
John P. and Nancy G. Tague
Terry G. '06 and Betty A. Terhark
Time Warner Cable Business Class
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Whirlpool Foundation
Richard E. White*
Whitson Properties
Harold P.* '54 and Patricia A. Wolfe
Charles Manchester Society
$250,000 - $499,999 1525 Foundation
Lynne Avril
John M. and Pamela K. (Moses) '78 Beall
James J. Beeson*
Margot B. Biery
Dennis E. and Janice M. Bishop
Blanchard Valley Hospital
Dorothy L. Burgoon*
Charles E. Schell Foundation
Clifford C. and Maureen Cook
Frederick H. and Holly T. Davidorf
Anthony C. Edwards
Equinimity LLC
The Findlay Publishing Company
Five University Investors, Ltd.
H. Fort Flowers Foundation
Dennis E. '67 and Patricia L. Foster
Kenneth L.* and Margaret* Frost
Philip J. Gardner
Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
Shiv K.* and Elizabeth S.* Gupta
Hancor
Gary M. and Rhonda Harpst
Edwin L.* and Barbara J.* Heminger
Sally S. and Richard R. Hollington, Jr.
Duane E. and Kathleen E. Jebbett
Jane Kim
George H.* and Helen K.* Koepke
William H.* and Martha E. Draper* Lape
LaunchEquity Acquisition Partnership, LLC Advised Holdings
S. Blair Lent, Jr.*
Michael H. '88 and Anne A. (Harrington) '89 Mallett
Maumee Bay Turf Center - UBU
Sports Worldwide
Carol Nicklaus
James H.* and Jean C.* Nye
The Ohio Academic Resources Network/OSU
Sterling L.* and Meredith M.* Pfeiffer
Ted* and Gloria K. Rand
Charles E. Reed*
J. Alec and Sandra M. Reinhardt
Matthew Reinhart
Nellie Ritz*
Charles H.* and Phyllis Spragg
Jim C. and Karen L. (Van Nice) '72
Spurgat
Jerry L. '53 and Patricia J. Stevenson
TLB Foundation, Inc.
Thomas A. Watson
Billy J. '96 and Brenda S. Watterson
Kathryn L. Wenzel*
Dale E.* and Lucy M. Wilkinson
Roger Wohl
C.I. Brown Society
$100,000 - $249,999
ACI Construction Company, Inc.
Gertrude O. Anderson*
Roy V. and Marcia A. Armes
Paul V. and Linda S.* Ballinger
Bank One
Shirley J. and Richard P.* '65
Barchent, Jr.
Robert E. and Brenda V. Barkley
Mabel C. Bauer*
Elizabeth W. Bean
Berrien Community Foundation
Chuck and Dee Dee Bills
BP-Husky Refining LLC
James H.* and Peggy McGinty Brannigan
Bremer Foundation
Barbara Brenner
Lora (Wiest) Burgderfer*
James L. Child*, Jr.
James W.* and Lynn R. Child
R. M.* and Kathleen M.* Churchwell
Michael J. and Dee Cicak
Jane H. Clark
J. Allen* '36 and Elizabeth F.* (Caskey) '36 Clopper
Paul T. and Jane M. Davis
Melissa Duflock '89
Eastern Regional Churches of God Conference
Sally B. Elsea
Hobart* and Lottie* Faulkner
Fifth Third Bank
Heather M. Fortune
Gardner & Sons
Wendy Gerber
Alberto and Paola Geronimi
Ann Grifalconi
Janet A. Gunn
Catherine Haddad
Cheryl E. Harness
Michael E. Harrington and Anne R. Pramaggiore
Lowell E.* and Virginia G.* Hatfield
The Hauss-Helms Foundation, Inc.
Dorsey A.* '42 and Ann M.* Hazelton
Greer L. Hindle
Tami Hoag
Olivia Hoecker
Harold D.* and Eleanor G.* Hoopman
Huntington National Bank
Edward F. Hyland and Maxine A. Mazza-Hyland
Sharon Kane
Edwin L. Kennedy*
Mary S. Kirk*
Joseph* and Marilyn Klingler
David P. and Gwen L. Kuenzli
Thomas M.* and Marjorie E.* Lacey
Leon C. Lantz*
Jerry J.* and Carol M.* Mallett
MEPAC Match Program
Stephen R. Mariucci
Marriott Corporation
Carolyn M. Marvin*
Mazza Enthusiasts Association
August C. Mazza* '41
Emily A. McCully
Mary A. (Foster) McDaniel* '35
Larry L. and Tricia J. Miles
Wendell G. and Florence Minor
Gussie Moffitt*
Geraldine Moss* '19
National Christian Foundation
Greater Chicago
Nickolas Asset Management LLC
Ohio Board of Regents
Ohio Department of Development
Ohio Logistics
OHM Remediation Services Corp.
Christopher E. and Dina Ostrander
Samantha Parry
Wayne A. and Linda M. Peck
Merle Peek
Jeremy L. Pemberton '96, '97
Kaaren D. Powell
Paula N. Quirarte
Ellis J. Rader*
Jane M. Rainis*
RCA
Helen O. Reimund* '26
Carla A. Reinhart
Nick L. Reinhart
Martin* and Carol L. Reno
Retirement Research Foundation
Kelly J. Robbins
Robert A. Rosenfeld
Rowmark, LLC.
William E. and Donna L. Ruse
Karen Sakas
Lillian* and John S.* Sawvel, Sr.
Joan Schroeder
Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Trust
Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust
Douglas M. Shafer*
Mitchel Slotnick
Robin T. Spowart
Helen L. (Beery) and Glenn E.* '42
Stout, Jr.
Melinda P. and Edward J. Taylor, Jr.
Maurice* and Reva M.* (Staley) '36
Terry
Toledo Community Foundation
Toledo Public Schools
Arthur R.* and Margaret P.* Tuttle
U. S. Department of Education
International Programs
United States Steel Foundation, Inc.
Vaughn Industries, LLC
Timothy and Gina M. Vaughn
Bruce Vickery
Gregory E. '03 and S. Chris '96, '98
Ward
The Watterson Family Foundation
Whirlpool Corporation / Findlay Operations
Barton A.* and Josephine A.* (Stough) '29 Wilson
Alan L. and Kathryn L. Wisne
David E. '67 and Cassie Yates
* Deceased
C.T. Fox Legacy Society
Named in honor of Charles T. Fox, Ph.D., the third president of Findlay College, the C.T. Fox Legacy Society recognizes donors who have shared their intentions to remember the University through a planned gift. For more information about leaving your legacy through a planned gift, contact Jaclyn Schalk, Ed.D., director of gift planning, at schalk@findlay.edu or 419-434-4794.
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Hiram E. Abegglen* '39
Catherine L. Achord* '28
Donald G. Alexander*
Mary L. (Long) Alge* '32
David L. Allen*
Theresa M. Anderson '72
Debra (Pees) Arce '80
Marc M. Arce
Norman C.* '29 and H. Oneita* Aungst
Joyce C. Bachmann* '73
Eva K. (Royer) Baker* '34
H. JoAnn Baker*
Ceretta H. R. Baldwin*
Marilyn Barber*
Shirley J. and Richard P.* '65 Barchent, Jr.
Robert E. Barkley
Treva Barton*
Mabel C. Bauer*
L. Richard Beard* '36
Reva C. (Coleman) Beard*
C. Richard and Linda D. Beckett
James J. Beeson*
Marjorie M. (Fleming) Berg*
Margot B. Biery
Dennis E. and Janice M. Bishop
Richard E.* and Janette M.* Bixel
Wilfred W. Black*
George E.* '36 and Elaine B.* (Bright) '35 Blackburn
Catharine M. Bowen* '29
Anna L. (Garverich) Brachendorf* '17
Judith A. (Claypool) Braun '66
Mary E. Brenner*
Edward E.* and Joyce* Brewer
W. Robert* and Marilyn Y.* Brewer
Clifford J. Brooks* '48
Estelle M. Brown*
Harry B. Brown*
Jane B. (Metz) Brown* '57
James F. and Mary A.* (Stringfellow) '82 Brucklacher
Leah H. Buchanan*
Thomas A. Buis*
Geneva J.* (Keck) '44 and Richard L.* '59 Bundy, Sr.
Lora Wiest Burgderfer*
Dorothy L. Burgoon*
Viola S. Burket*
Jane Eoff Burson*
John H. Burson
William T. Butterbaugh* '54
Ronald C. Cable '64
Fern W. (Wayne) Castile* '29
Albert Chapin*
A.R. '66 and Mary Ann Charnes
James W.* and Lynn R. Child
Ruth M. Chortie* '25
Zela I. Christ*
Michael J. Cicak
Wilbur G.* and Maxine M.* Clauss
J. Allen* '36 and Elizabeth F.* (Caskey) '36 Clopper
Donald E. and Brenda K. '90 Collins
Clifford C. Cook
George E. Countryman*
Gary L.* and Diana L. Cramer
Frederick J.* '54 and Kathleen C. (Child) '69 Crates
Sylvia Crist*
Robert E. '61 and Donna J. (Coffman) '60 Crosby
Kenneth B. Cummins*
Evelyn M. Damon* '27
Elsie M. Daubert* '46
Jo Ann H. Davidson
Paula R. Deardorff '78
Earl W. DeLong* '48
Dorothy E. (Stover) Denney* '28
James R. Didham*
Thomas B. '70 and Kathleen M. Donnell
Edward Dumbauld*
A. Gail '52* and Marilyn J. (Reames)* '65 Dunn
Chloe Elder* '25
Ruth Corwin Endly*
Helen L. (Inbody) Ensign* '38
Frank R. Erme* '52
Raymond P. Evans*
Benjamin F.* '39 and Norma Evenbeck
Robert J.* '67 and Donna M. Ewald
Donna M. Ewing
Hobart* and Lottie* Faulkner
Mary E. Faulkner*
Royce E. Fewell*
Geraldine R. Finn* '90
John C. Firmin*
Roger D. Fisher '69
Mary S. Flagg*
Earl M. Fletcher '75
Susan E. Ford '68
C. H. Forney*
Dennis E. '67 and Patricia L. Foster
Ruth H. Frederick* '60
Wilmer J. Frederick* '41
DeBow and Catherine M.* Freed
Carolyn A. Frobase
Kenneth L. Frost*
Denison E. Fuller '72
Robert E.* and Flossie* (Brandt) '22 Fuller
Kathryn J. Gambell*
Philip D.* and Virginia B.* Gardner
Richard C. and Barbara S. Gebhardt
Marguerite C. George*
Frances Gibson*
Gladys Good*
James G. Greenwood*
Mary R. Grose*
Karl Grossman
Evelyn J. (Burkey) Hamilton
Florence Hamlin*
Berneice Harlan*
John H.* and Sarah J.* Harrington
Virginia R. Harris*
Lowell E.* and Virginia G.* Hatfield
Helen C. Hawley*
Dorsey A.* '42 and Ann M.* Hazelton
Bernice M. Hellings* '17
Edwin L.* and Barbara J.* Heminger
Anthony J. Hixon
Norma M. (Packard) Hogle* '51
Lottie Holzhauser*
Dorothy M. Hoose*
John E. Hoover*
Adele Horn*
Helen Hosler*
O. J.* and Georgia* Huffman
Dale R. and Mary Hunt
Maxine A. Hyland
Randy L. Jenkins
Joseph W. Johnsick
David A. Johnson* '70
Odah H. Johnson* '38
Elizabeth E. Johnston*
Robert J. and Cynthia S. Jones
Robert Jones*
John M. Joseph*
Cora L. Katzer '48
Benjamin F. Keckler*, Jr. '52
Mildred I. Kelly* '29
Edwin L. Kennedy*
James F. Kidd '61
Mary S. Kirk*
Nelson A. '52 and Martha J. Kittle
Grant R. Kline*
John H. '73 and Robin R. Koehler
George H.* and Helen K.* Koepke
Billy C. Krugh* '50
William H. Kuck*
David P. and Gwen L. Kuenzli
Helen E. Kurt* '31
Thomas M.* and Marjorie E.*
Lacey
Elizabeth L. Lanagan*
Leon C. Lantz*
William H.* and Martha E. Draper* Lape
Mary Frances Hess Laverty*
Phillip P. '75 and Carol Lawson
Dudley* and Mary Marks* Lea
S. Blair Lent, Jr.*
B. Luke Levers '51
L. Mary Lewis '91
Darrel F. '43 and Glenna F. Linder
Ralph M. Line* '27
Samuel C. and Nancy J. Littlepage
Otta M. Litzenberg*
Shirley M. (Shrider) Lloyd* '00
Fern T. (Thomas) Ludwick* '29
Patricia M. Luther*
Martha L. (Rowe) Lutz* '53
Robert A. Malcolm*
Carolyn M. Marvin*
Donald L.* and Ruth A.* Mathews
David E.* '40 and Marie B.* Maugans
August C. Mazza* '41
Mary A. (Foster) McDaniel* '35
V. Ruth McDowell* '51
Terry M. McGann
Marjorie McGranahan* '37
Mildred F. McGranahan* '41
Justine K. McManness*
James L. and Susan L. Meier
J. Paul Mellott* '31
Mabel R. (Roberts) Mertz* '40
Carl R. '63 and Wava Meyer
Flossie Michaux*
Floyd W. Miller* '38
Sharon G. Milligan
Wendell G. Minor
Carol Mittermaier
Jasmine Moini '75
B. Michael '00 and Debra M. Momany
Larry J. Monday '75
Nancy Moody-Russo
Raymond A. Mosshart*
Bonita Moyer* '38
Gladys Moyer*
Michael H. Mumma '64
Henry W. Musser*
Larry E. '74, '05 and Sharon E. Musser
Steward E. Myers*
John W.* '49 and Dorothy E.* (Hill) '48 Neidley
Timothy H. Nesler '77
G. Norman and Jane E.* Nicholson
Gary Noblit
William M. and Martha A.* (Pound) '71 Nolan
Herbert O.* '27 and Helen* (Alexander) '28 Now
James H.* and Jean C.* Nye
Christopher E. and Dina Ostrander
Vincent C. Passaro '81
Laura E. Pelton*
Laura S. Perrott*
Robert W. Peters* '34
Joseph H. Petrella
Sterling L.* and Meredith M.* Pfeiffer
Alice C. Potter* '49
Daniel T. Powers
Wayne I. Pribble* '85
Ellis J. Rader*
Homer L. Rader*
Glen R.* and Joyce M. Rasmussen
Larry E.* and Cara C.* (Kemler) '80 Ray
Joe Ann Redfern*
Thomas L. Redman* '55
Charles E. Reed*
Treva M. (Mitchell) Reed* '25
J. Alec and Sandra M. Reinhardt
William H. '73 and Judy M. (Markle) '89 Reist
Carol L. Reno
Brant K. '00 and Jaymie Rhoad
Robert L. Rhoad*
Patsy A. (Doersam) Rice '67
Lewis R. Richardson*
Harriette S. (Smith) Ritz*
Nellie Ritz*
Jean E. Keneagy Rivera* '51
Neal A. and Beverly J. (Fisher) '68 Robinson
Michael J. Rosen
Edward L. and Linda K. Rosenberry
Gunver Ruble*
William E. Rumbold '74
L. Jack '66 and Ann L. (Colburn) '65 Ruscilli
William E. Ruse
Robert J. and Jeanne M. '87 Rustic
Betty Ruths*
Thomas R. '67 and Roseann (Keller) '68 Samson
Lillian* and John S.* Sawvel, Sr.
Maurice M.* '46 and Mary T. Sayre
Charles W. '62 and Phyllis J. (Eakin) '62 Schmidt
Martha Schmidt
Elaine H. Schoonmaker*
John C. '68 and Marjorie M. (McMahon) '63 Schott
Oscar C.* '48 and Abigail R. (Entrikin) '50 Schultz
Katy L. Schwinn*
Philip J. '88 and Nancy J. (Heitz) '87, '90 Scott
Janet J. (Carpenter) Selick '70
Douglas M. Shafer*
Ray Shontlemire*
Ruth Showers*
Clifford J. Smith and Sharon L. '72 Winkle
Frances M. (Stover) Smith* '32
Gwendoline (Wilhem) Smith* '27
Jerry L. Smith '69
Linda K. T. Smith '69
Richard A. and Phyllis C. Smith
Jere M.* and Pauline H.* Snavely
Kathleen V. Snavely*
Carolyn B. Sockrider*
Carrie Ray Sponhauer*
Charles H. Spragg*
Jim C. and Karen L. (Van Nice) '72
Spurgat
Jerrene (Ackerman) Stahl '73
James K. Steen*
David L. Steiner*
Berton B. Stevens*
Jerry L. '53 and Patricia J. Stevenson
Roberta Stober
Park I. Stoner*
Ray Stoner*
Helen L. (Beery) and Glenn E.* '42 Stout, Jr.
Florence Kling Taylor*
P. Rae Taylor-Kurasz
Maurice* and Reva M.* (Staley) '36 Terry
James H. '64 and Barbara J. (Gwara) '64 Tewell
Gary L. and Laura G. Thomas
Kenneth W. '70 and Mary Ellen P. (Pritts) '69 Thomas
Garnet Thompson* '10
Opal (Foreman) Thompson* '30
Richard Thompson*
Suzanne E. Thompson
Lester P.* '45 and Mary* Thornton
Ann M. (Knoll) Todd '87
Van A. Trout* '38
Patricia E. (Keller) Turpening '74
Margaret P. Tuttle*
Troi C. Tyner* '63
Mary Jo Urschalitz* '49
Richard R. '70 and Clarabelle VanHorn
Mary R. VanSant*
Lisa M. (Pavlak) Vignerot '86, '87
Jack C. Voller
Michael C. Walker '79, '81
Alice K. Walters*
Gregory E. '03 and S. Chris '96, '98 Ward
Jack D. '65 and G. Jeanne (Williams) '66 Wasbro
Julie J. Weber '80
Kathryn L. Wenzel*
Margaret E. Wetzler '92
Bernadette C. Whisler*
Eugene M. and Marjorie L. White
H. Dean '49 and Genevieve B.* White
Kathryn B. White*
Richard E. '52 and Barbara A. (Zehender) '51 Wilkin
Susan Wilkinson '73
Jennifer M. Williams '71
Josephine A. (Stough) Wilson* '29
Julia M. Wilson*
Alice P. Winegardner* '28
J. Louis Wolf*
Ruth (Frederick) Wonner* '48
Clair E. Woodruff* '28
David E. Yates '67
William W. '51 and Joan D.* (Ritter) '51 Yoder
Woodrow W.* '34 and Dorothy* (Traxler) '35 Zinser
Kenneth E. and Christine L. Zirkle
* Deceased
New Endowed Funds 2018-19
The following funds became fully endowed during the 2018-19 fiscal year.
American Electric Power Foundation Endowed Scholarship in STEM Education Fund
The AEP Foundation established the AEP Foundation Endowed Scholarship in STEM Education Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to students enrolled in STEM academic programs.
Billy J. and Brenda Watterson “Be the Light Christian Service Award” Endowment Fund
Established by Billy J. and Brenda Watterson, the Billy J. and Brenda Watterson “Be the Light Christian Service Award” at the University of Findlay will support students who wish to serve others abroad through their Christian faith.
Bradley Shinn Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
The friends of Bradley Shinn established the Dr. Bradley W. Shinn Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to student(s) who is/are a Doctor of Pharmacy major (5th and 6th year).
Christian Ministries Staff Support Endowment Fund
The Christian Ministries Staff Support Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay has been established through the generosity of Sally B. Elsea, friend of the University. This fund is meant to support the salaries and work of the Christian leaders at UF. Distributions may be made annually. It is understood that additions to the endowment fund can be made at any time from any source and are bound by the terms of this agreement.
Dallas Sterling, R.Ph., and Cheryl Sterling Pharmacy Scholarship Endowment Fund
Dallas and Cheryl Sterling established the Dallas Sterling, R.Ph. and Cheryl Sterling Pharmacy Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to student(s) who is/are a Doctor of Pharmacy major (5th and 6th year).
Donna M. Ewing Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund
Donna Ewing established the Donna M. Ewing Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund in support of a UF athlete enrolled in the nursing program. Scholarship awards will be made annually.
David and Karen ’77 Eubanks Nursing Endowment Fund
The David and Karen ’77 Eubanks Nursing Endowment Fund was established by the Eubanks to support the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at the University of Findlay. Distributions may be made annually. It is understood that additions to the endowment fund can be made at any time from any source and are bound by the terms of this agreement. Annual distributions will be used at the discretion of the College of Health Professions dean and the
Nursing chair to financially support the Bachelor of Science of Nursing Program.
Findlay Green Campus Initiative Scholarship Endowment Fund
In conjunction with the Give Voice to Your Values Campaign, the Findlay Green Campus Initiative Scholarship Endowment Fund (FGCI) has been established at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually. Said awards shall be made from income and/or realized appreciation determined in accordance with the University’s investment and spending policy in effect.
DeBow and Catherine Freed Academic Scholars Award Endowment Fund
Dr. DeBow Freed established the DeBow and Catherine Freed Academic Scholars Awards Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Awards will be made annually and shall be presented to the highest-ranking undergraduate student in each of the colleges, as measured by the highest cumulative grade point average (GPA) after the first semester or first term of the senior year. The GPA shall be based on at least two full years of study at the University of Findlay.
Emily Apt Geer Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
The friends and family of former faculty member Emily Apt Geer established the Emily Apt Geer Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually.
Gene and Elaine Stevens Family Oiler Basketball Scholarship Endowment Fund
Gene and Elaine Stevens established the Gene and Elaine Stevens Oiler Basketball Scholarship Endowment Fund in support of a member of the UF basketball teams. Scholarship awards will be made annually to a student(s) who is participating in the University of Findlay’s men’s or women’s basketball program.
Gary and Shirley Cole Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund
Gary and Shirley Cole established the Cole Family Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay to assist students pursuing a career in nursing. The student(s) should be admitted to the Nursing Program. Scholarship awards will be made annually.
George and Shirlee Whitson Endowed Choral Concert Support Fund
George and Shirlee Whitson established the George and Shirlee Whitson Endowed Choral Concert Support Fund. Distributions may be made annually and are intended to defray expenses of concerts performed by University of Findlay choral ensembles which feature University students and/or community members.
John C. and Audrice M. Hutson Scholarship Endowment Fund
Through the generosity of Mr. Hutson, and his desire to also honor his wife, the scholarship fund was renamed to the John C. and Audrice M. Hutson Scholarship Endowment Fund. Scholarship awards are to be made annually to student(s) who have a declared major in the humanities, with a concentration in the sciences.
Leah Huffman Buchanan Scholarship Endowment Fund
Leah Buchanan established the Leah Huffman Buchanan Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to a student who is a Van Buren High School graduate and who is enrolled in an approved major in an academic area of their choice. If there are no qualified candidates who have graduated from Van Buren High School, the scholarship will be awarded to a student who has graduated from Findlay High School.
Mike and Judy Tesnow Greer Scholarship Endowment Fund
The Mike and Judy Tesnow Greer Scholarship Endowment Fund was established in 2019 by Mike and Judy Tesnow Greer in memory of Ervin A. and Rosina P. Tesnow. Mr. and Mrs. Tesnow were longtime residents of Findlay, Ohio and owned and operated Hoppenberg Machine Company and T&K Manufacturing for many years. They often did free work for the University and had a strong belief in the value of education. Scholarship awards will be made annually.
College of Pharmacy Faculty Excellence Award Endowment Fund
This award recognizes faculty excellence in the areas of teaching, research, and supervision and support of students in the College of Pharmacy.
Current Endowed Funds
$1 million and Above
Emerson and Laura Pelton Scholarship
Marjorie M. McGranahan-Mildred F. McGranahan-Shafer-VanDornMcGranahan Scholarship
O. J. and Georgia Huffman Scholarship
Ruth Corwin Endly Scholarship
$500,000 - $999,999
Austin E. Knowlton Memorial Scholarship
Charles Jacobs Younger and Mariann Dana Younger Operating Endowment
Dr. Jerry J. Mallett Institute Endowment
Garnet Thompson Memorial Scholarship
H. Faye Newman '70 Nursing Operating Scholarship
Mabel Bauer Scholarship
Margaret and Paul Palmer Family Scholarship
Ritz Memorial Scholarship
Van Sweringen Memorial Scholarship
$250,000 - $499,999
AEP Foundation Endowed Scholarship in STEM Education Fund
Arden H. and Dorothy L. Burgoon Scholarship
Douglas M. Shafer Library Endowment
Dr. Jean C. Nye Spanish Scholarship
Dr. Vernon E. Garner Endowed Fund for Entrepreneurial Excellence Endowment
Samuel “Sam” Fittante Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
Duane and Kathleen Jebbett established the Samuel “Sam” Fittante Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to a student(s) who shows entrepreneurial excellence in business by starting, helping, or assisting in the development of a business.
Jeff ’76 and Ruth Seever Scholarship Endowment Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Seever established the Jeff and Ruth Seever Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to student(s) who have financial need.
Terhark Family Scholarship Endowment Fund
In conjunction with the Give Voice to Your Values Campaign, Terry ’06 and Betty Terhark established the Terhark Family Scholarship Endowment Fund at the University of Findlay. Scholarship awards will be made annually to Liberty-Benton High School, Hancock County, Ohio, graduates. Students should be well rounded and involved in extracurricular activities (i.e. work, organizations, clubs, sports, etc.).
Miller Adjunct Faculty Award (Funded by Bill and Gail Miller)
Bill O. Miller established the Miller Adjunct Faculty Award in recognition of outstanding adjunct faculty members at the University of Findlay. Awards will be made annually. Adjunct faculty may be nominated by any student, provided that the student is not currently enrolled in a course instructed by said faculty member. A letter of nomination must be submitted to the vice president for academic affairs.
Dumbauld Memorial Scholarship
Gladys L. DeLong Memorial Nursing Scholarship
Harold P. "Herk" Wolfe '54 and Patricia (Gohlke) Wolfe Center for Alumni, Parents & Friends Endowment
James J. and Marveline Beeson Scholarship
Katharine Ballard Reed Memorial Scholarship
Philip D. Gardner Football Scholarship
Tennyson Guyer Memorial Scholarship
Terhark Family Scholarship
Thomas and Kathleen Donnell
Broadway Concert Series Endowment
Thomas B. Donnell Business Leadership Award Endowment
The Whitson Family Hospitality Endowment
$100,000 - $249,999
A.R. and Mary Ann Charnes
Basketball Endowment
A.R. and Mary Ann Charnes Student Life Endowment
Ballinger Industries, Inc. Scholarship
Bernice Hellings Scholarship
Billy J. and Brenda Watterson "Be the Light Christian Service Award" Endowment
Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Computer Science Scholarship
Christian Ministries Staff Support Endowment
Dana Chair Endowment
DeBow and Catherine Freed Christian Lecture Series Endowment
Dr. Frank R. and Mary Jane Cosiano Scholarship
Dr. Patrick W. Rooney Scholarship
Edwin L. Heminger Memorial Lectureship in Business Ethics Endowment
EJ and Mildred Rader Scholarship
G.N. Nicholson Scholarship
Garver Oxley Memorial Scholarship
Gerald R. and Florence G. Collins Graduate Assistantship Scholarship
Gertrude O. Anderson Scholarship
Howard and Carolyn Marvin Scholarship
James C. and Bonnie L. Koehler Scholarship
James H. Brannigan Musical Theatre Guest Artist Endowment
Janice and Dennis Bishop Scholarship
Jesse Snavely Jr. Memorial Scholarship
John and Frances Eoff Scholarship
John and Patty Luther Mazza Museum Visiting Artist Endowment
John W. '14 and Hester (Powell '19) Grimm Scholarship
Kenneth E. Zirkle Scholarship
Kyla Wisne Memorial Choir Scholarship
Leon Charles Lantz Scholarship
Lora Wiest Burgderfer Scholarship
Lorain Hispanic/Latino Scholarship
Mary Alice (Foster '35) McDaniel Scholarship
Mary Snyder Kirk Musical Theatre Guest Artist Chair Endowment
Maurice and Reva (Staley '36) Terry Scholarship
R. M. Churchwell Scholarship
Richard E. and Jean K. Davis Scholarship
School of Pharmacy Dean's Excellence Endowment
Whirlpool Endowed SIFE Fund
$50,000 - $99,999
Active Christian Emissary (ACE) Scholarship
Ann and L. Jack Ruscilli Football Scholarship
Ann E. Bonifas Memorial Scholarship
Dr. August C. and Maxine A. Mazza Director's Discretionary Endowment
Barbara Rieck Heminger Scholarship
Billy J. '96 and Brenda Watterson Scholarship
David C. Wallach Mathematics Scholarship
David L. Allen Award for Teaching Exellence Endowment
Dean C.A. Morey Children of Alumni Scholarship
Dick Strahm Scholarship
Dr. David L. Steiner Equestrian/PreVet Scholarship
Dr. James D. '53 and Mira M. (Frost '78) Houdeshell Scholarship
Dr. John "Jack" Harrington Scholarship
Duane and Kathy Jebbett Leadership Scholarship
Emma May Gray '66 Scholarship
Florence F. Overmire Scholarship
GAR Foundation Scholarship
Grace Leonard Farrell '36 and Christina Taylor Florence '94 Scholarship
Gwen L. Kuenzli Scholarship
Harold "Herk" '54 and Patte Wolfe Basketball Endowment
Helen O. Reimund Scholarship
I.N. Heminger Scholarship
Jackson E. Betts Scholarship
Jessica and James Moses Business Scholarship
John R. '53 and Jo Ann '00 Davidson Scholarship
Josephine A. Wilson '29 Scholarship
Larry and Joann M. Miles Scholarship
Lucinda V. Peters Scholarship
Martha Draper Lape Scholarship
Mazza Supplemental Salary
McBride Faculty Development Endowment
Mike and Judy Tesnow Greer Scholarship
Mildred (Kinsinger '29) Kelly Scholarship
Nellie Ritz Scholarship
Pemberton Basketball Endowment
Professor Shiv K. Gupta Faculty Chair in the College of Business Endowment
Ralph Whisler Scholarship
Richard Lee Couchot Football Scholarship
Richard W. Corner Memorial Scholarship
Robert M. and Catherine M. Pritts Scholarship
Russel and Peg Armstrong Business Scholarship
Sharon G. Milligan-Lois Annabelle Foltz-Milligan Memorial Scholarship
Sheldon W. '36 and Florence (Kling) Taylor Memorial Scholarship
Shiv K. Gupta Business Scholarship
Theatre Department Endowment
William and Lucye Hoopes Scholarship
William and Marilyn Nonnamaker Scholarship
Wm. Max and Barbara Ann Nonnamaker Scholarship
Worth H. Kramer Scholarship
$10,000 - $49,999
Allen Clopper Scholarship
Allyson Busch '09 Western Equestrian Scholarship
Angela Brown Scholarship
Athletic Department Academic Resource Discretionary Endowment
Athletic Endowment
Barbara Eakin Meyers Acquisition Fund Endowment
Barry Alexander Memorial Theatre Scholarship
Bernice M. Hagerty Scholarship
Bob and Betty Gephart Scholarship
Betty and Russell Ruths Memorial Scholarship
Betty Caskey Clopper Scholarship
Bob and Marcia Sloan Latta Scholarship
Bob and Wanda Staley Memorial Scholarship
Bradley Shinn Memorial Scholarship
Broadway Concert Series Endowment
Buckeye Western Horse Association Scholarship
Bundy-Keck Scholarship
Business Affairs Scholarship
Byron E. "By" Morgan Jr. Scholarship
C. Paul Palmer Scholarship
C. William Barkalow Business Leadership Endowment
Caleb T. Clark Scholarship
Catharine M. Bowen Scholarship
Catherine Achord Spanish Scholarship
Charles A. Jackson Scholarship
Charles D. Daniels '97 and Darla E. Lammers, D.C., Basketball Endowment
Charles Sheets Western Equestrian Scholarship
Charles H. Spragg Golf Scholarship
Charlie '92 and Belinda '02 Ernst Basketball Endowment
Christin Kay "Chrissie" Kausrud Memorial English Equestrian Scholarship
Class of 1939 Scholarship
Class of 1942 Scholarship
Class of 1943 Scholarship
Class of 1944 Scholarship
Class of 1959 Scholarship
Class of 1959 University Archives Endowment
Class of 1960 Scholarship
Class of 1962 Scholarship
Class of '64 Scholarship
Clauss Varsity Athletic Scholarship
College of Education AYA/MA/MC Scholarship
College of Education Early Childhood Scholarship
College of Education Intervention
Specialist Scholarship
College First Church of God Scholarship
COB Advisory Board Leadership Endowment
College of Business Dean's Discretionary Endowment
College of Business Endowed Fund for Support of Non-Traditional Business Programs Endowment
College of Education Clubhouse Endowment
College of Education Harold Hoopman Student Endowment
College of Pharmacy Advisory Board Endowment
College of Pharmacy Faculty
Advancement Endowment
College of Pharmacy Faculty
Excellence Award Endowment
College of Pharmacy Founding Dean's Scholarship
Curtain Raisers Society Choral Scholarship
Curtain Raisers Society Orchestra Scholarship
Curtain Raisers Society Performing Arts Scholarship
Curtain Raisers Society Technical Theatre Production Scholarship
Cynthia A. Fishbaugh Walker
Memorial Scholarship
D. Richard and Judith L. Stephens Leadership Endowment
Dale Wilkinson Scholarship
Dallas Sterling, R.Ph., and Cheryl Sterling Pharmacy Scholarship
Dana R. Jackson, R.Ph., C.Ph., Scholarship
Daniel E. Whitinger Memorial Soccer Scholarship
Dave and Fradonna Buck Basketball Endowment
David and Karen '77 Eubanks Nursing Endowment
David J. Faiella Sports Information Scholarship
David L. '67 and Edith J. Morris Scholarship
David L. Allen Social Science Scholarship
David P. Ferguson and Karen R. Schwarzwalder Mazza Director's Discretionary Endowment
DeBow and Catherine Freed Academic Scholars Award Endowment
DeLong Oiler Promise Scholarship
Desmond V. Buford "One World, One People, One Race" Memorial Scholarship
Dietsch Family Scholarship
Don and Nellie Renninger Scholarship
Donald C. Higgins Scholarship
Donald D. Ewing Men's Basketball Scholarship
Donald Knepper Scholarship
Donald W. Hennigs Memorial Vocal Music Scholarship
Donald W. Stansloski and Patricia Romans Stansloski Scholarship
Dow U.S.A. Science Scholarship
Doyne Frommer Scholarship
Dr. Ann Whithaus Nuclear Medicine Institute Scholarship
Dr. Charles and Phyllis Spragg Basketball Endowment
Dr. Edwin S. Stefan Scholarship
Dr. Herbert O. and Helen (Alexander '28) Now Scholarship
Dr. Jean C. Nye Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Jean C. Nye Music Scholarship
Dr. Jim and Wendy Davidson Basketball Endowment
Dr. Kenneth J. Buchenroth Scholarship
Dr. Marian R. Bartch '49 Scholarship
Dr. Mary Jo and Tony Geise Family Computer Science Scholarship
Dr. Michael T. Homsher Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Michael F. & Denise K. (Reno) Anders Musical Theatre Scholarship
Dr. Michael F. Anders Vocal Music Scholarship
Dr. Paul and Jane Davis Physician Assistant Endowment
Dr. Richard W. Malcolm '55 Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Wendell W. Moyer Scholarship
Dr. Wilfred W. Black History Scholarship
Dressage Scholarship
Dudley Laser '23 and Mary (Marks '17) Lea Scholarship
Dwight '73 and Alice Miller Scholarship
Earl W. '48 DeLong COB Visiting Executive Lectureship Endowment
Ed and Melinda Taylor Men's Basketball Endowment
Edward and Mary Crosby Scholarship
Edward Lamb Foundation
Equestrian Scholarship
Elizabeth S. and Professor Shiv Kumar Gupta Award for Excellence in Teaching Endowment
Elsie Mae Daubert '46 Memorial Scholarship
Emily Apt Geer Memorial Scholarship
ESOH Scholarship
Eugene M. and Marjorie L. White Mazza Endowment
Eugene M. and Marjorie L. White Scholarship
Evelyn M. Damon '27 Scholarship
F. O. Eakin Family Scholarship
Ferguson Farm, Inc, Equestrian and Pre-Vet Scholarship
Fifth Quarter Club Endowment
Findlay Civic Band Scholarship
Findlay Green Campus Initiative Scholarship
Flowers Family Theatre Production/ Design Scholarship
Floyd C. and Stella T. Dickman Mazza Institute Librarian's Endowment
Fred and Dorothy (Dressler '19) Gatchel Scholarship
Frederick Kremer Jr. Scholarship
Gary and Shirley Cole Nursing Scholarship
Gary L. Cramer II Endowed Scholarship
Gene and Alice (Stroude '28) Winegardner Scholarship
Gene and Elaine Stevens Family Oiler Basketball Scholarship
George and Elaine Blackburn Memorial Scholarship
George and Nellie Crosby Scholarship
George and Shirlee Whitson Endowed Choral Concert Support
George E. Countryman Scholarship
George R. Lanagan Sr. Scholarship
George W. '65 and Sons Christopher and Robert Drummond Football Scholarship
Gift of Hope Hispanic Scholarship
Glenn and Helen Stout Scholarship for the Alumni Center
Glenn Stout Alumni House
Gordon and Marilyn Macklin Merit Scholarship
Great Lakes Conference Churches of God Scholarship
Greenwood-Ehr Prize in Communication Endowment
Grob Systems Inc. Scholarship
GSW Manufacturing, Inc. Study Abroad Scholarship
Gupta Business Faculty Global Studies Endowment
Harada Seeds For Growth Scholarship
Harold and Lucille Crosby Scholarship
Harold P. Wolfe College of Business Dean's Excellence Endowment
Harry M. and Mary Snyder Kirk Vocal Music Scholarship
Harry M. Kirk Memorial Scholarship
Hazel and Bert Miller Business Scholarship
Helen O. Reimund Speaker Series Endowment
Heritage Scholarship for AfricanAmerican Students Scholarship
Hospitality Management Scholarship
Hunter/Jumper Scholarship
Ida Fern Wayne '29 and Albert Castile Religious Studies Endowment
J. Paul Mellott Instrumental Music Scholarship
Jack and Jeanne Wasbro Basketball Endowment
Jack and Patricia Taylor Instrumental Music Scholarship
James "Jim" Heck Scholarship
James A. and Janet B. Miller Mazza Museum Endowment
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Weaver Preservation and Restoration Endowment
James D. and Judith L. Philipp Award of Excellence for the COE Endowment
James I. Poole '33 Scholarship
James L. Child Jr. Scholarship
James L. Thomas Memorial Scholarship
James R. Rettig Sr. Scholarship
James W. '63 and Karis S. Woodward Female Veterans' Scholarship
James W. Child Memorial Scholarship
Jane Eoff Burson Scholarship
Jane J. Tille '57 Scholarship
Janet Maule Swartz Scholarship
Janet R. January '64 Scholarship
Jason Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Jean Keneagy Rivera Scholarship
Jeff '76 and Ruth Seever Scholarship
Jeff Doepker Basketball Endowment
Jeff Seever '76 Scholarship
Jeffire Wrestling Scholarship
Jeremy L. Pemberton '96 Scholarship
Jim and Karen (Van Nice '72)
Spurgat College of Science Research Endowment
Jim and Karen (Van Nice '72)
Spurgat Music Program Endowment
Joan R. Lewis Scholarship
John '61 and Linda Weaver Business Scholarship
John R. and Barbara F. Murray Award For Outstanding Academic and Leadership Physician Assist. Award
John and Francis Crosby Schott Scholarship
John and Margaret Firmin Endowed Scholarship
John and Marge Cindric Scholarship
John C. and Audrice M. Hutson Scholarship
John L. Houston '42 Scholarship
John R. and Marion E. Van Nice
Choral Music Scholarship
John R. and Marion E. Van Nice
Instrumental Scholarship
Jonathan Binder '11 Scholarship
Joseph and Judith Conda Tales for Tots Endowment
Julie and J. Steve '69 Welton Family Scholarship
Julie Christiansen Mazza Museum Endowment
Keck Family Memorial Scholarship
Keith '67 and Joyce Mohr Scholarship
Student Involvement Scholarship
Kenneth and Laurie Vaupel Family Basketball Endowment
Kenneth and Susan Brooks Family Scholarship
Kenneth B. Cummins Mathematics Scholarship
Kenneth Williams '29 Scholarship
Kern Family UF Archives Endowment
Koehler Equestrian Scholarship
Kuenzli/Harada International Student Scholarship
Larry '63 and Ruth McDougle Scholarship
Leah Buchanan Mazza Library Endowment
Leah Huffman Buchanan Scholarship
Leslie '35 and Eva '34 (Royer) Baker Scholarship
LGBT Program Initiatives Endowment
Lorene King Ashby Scholarship
Lori Kloman and Clarence Williamson NMI Scholarship
Luke and Jeanne Bartolomeo Faculty Development Endowment
Mac and Billie McDowell Memorial Scholarship
Mains/Stupi Basketball Endowment
Majors James A. and Joan E. Sayer Service Scholarship
Marie G. Sweitzer Scholarship
Marvin "Monty" Monroe '42 Scholarship
Meiring-Peck Scholarship
Michael B. and Sara F. Dolmayer '54 Western Equestrian Scholarship
Michael H. '88 and Anne A. '89 (Harrington) Mallett Basketball Endowment
Michael W. Murphy Scholarship
Minnie Perkins-Basar Memorial Music Scholarship
Mrs. C.I. Brown Scholarship
Ms. Elizabeth (Betty Johnson) Harriss '69 Scholarship
Multicultural Master's Degree Scholarship
Myrtle Deming Mazza Museum Endowment
Nathalie J. Osmun Scholarship
Nellie Fox Hutson Scholarship
Norma Dirmeyer Bibler Scholarship
Nuclear Medicine Institute Scholarship
Office of Development Educational Assistance Scholarship
Oiler Heritage Basketball Endowment
Owens-Illinois Plastic Products Division Scholarship
P. Michael Lancaster '83 Memorial Scholarship
Pam Hyland Scholarship
Patricia A. March Scholarship
Paula and John Wolper Hospitality Management Scholarship
Pharmacy Camp Alumni - P5/P6 Scholarship
Pharmacy Camp Enthusiast Scholarship
Pharmacy Camp Scholarship
Pharmacy Student Travel Scholarship
Phil '90 and Joyce Kortokrax Basketball Endowment
Philip B. and Peggy Crosby Scholarship
Philip S. Willis Scholarship
Physical Plant Endowed Book
Professor Harold Newhard
Memorial Scholarship
Ralph H. '42 and Betty B. '39 Edie Scholarship
Ralph L. Kuss Scholarship
Ralph Marlowe Line '27 Scholarship
Ralph W. Gunnett, Sr. & Sons Scholarship
Rich and Phyllis Smith Endowment for the Humanities Endowment
Richard 'Dick' Crawfis Scholarship
The Richard L. and Geneva J. (Keck) Bundy Equestrian Scholarship
Richard and Patricia Dudley Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Science Research Endowment
Richard E. & Barbara A. Wilkin Scholarship
Richard L. '69 and Linda Crowder Scholarship
Richard L. Bundy Sr. '59, Geneva J. (Keck) Bundy '44, and Melissa M. (Bundy) Crowl '01 Scholarship
Robert J. and Janice L. Montague Service Scholarship
Robert W. Brennan Western Equestrian Scholarship
Robert W. Peters Endowment
Roberta Stober Instrumental Music Scholarship
ROKI AMERICA Company, Ltd. Scholarship
Ronald and Doris Niekamp Basketball Endowment
Ronald and Marjorie Kruse Children's Educational Programming Endowment
Ronald C. Cable '64 Instrumental Music Scholarship
Ronald C. Cable Scholarship
Royal and Rosamond Kear Scholarship
Royal Kear and Doyne Frommer Mazza Museum Graduate Assistant Endowment
Samuel "Sam" Fittante Memorial Scholarship
Samuel F. Reist Scholarship
Sandra "Sandy" Sauer Memorial International Travel Scholarship
Sgt. Robin Vincent Fell Scholarship
Sharon Everett College of Health Professions Endowment
Sharon Milligan Faculty Excellence Award Endowment
Shirley M. Lloyd Scholarship
Six Disciplines Entrepreneurial Excellence Scholarship
Smith-Emlich Academic Support Center Discretionary Endowment
Stefan Psychology Scholarship
Stella LaRue Scholarship
Steven J. Klein '95 Memorial PreVeterinary Scholarship
Stober Book Scholarship
Student Leader Scholarship
Susan E. Ford Scholarship
Technology Management Scholarship
International Center Endowed Scholarship
The University of Findlay Horse Club Scholarship
Theta Chi Fraternity Scholarship
Thomas M. Pees Memorial Scholarship
Thomas, Kelly '03 and Kirstie '13 Ernst Family Scholarship
Tim Trask Scholarship
Timothy H. '77 and Melinda K. Nesler Scholarship
Tony and Joanne Fuller Basketball Endowment
Tony Pitts Football Scholarship
Town & Campus Scholarship
Travis '99 and Amanda Comer '99 Scholarship
Troy Berry '92 Scholarship
The University of Findlay Athletic Department Golf Program Scholarship
UF Bookstore Book Fund
Endowment
University of Findlay Scouting Scholarship
Valicor Environmental Services, LLC Scholarship
Vanda Nichols - AAUW Scholarship
Varsity 'F' Endowment
Velva Spencer Memorial Nursing Scholarship
Vicki '05 and Phil McClurkin Theatre Scholarship
Walter L. Whithaus Scholarship
Ward Family Scholarship
Warner-Capra Scholarship
Wayne E. Baltzell Hospitality Scholarship
Whirlpool Foundation for Women and Minorities Scholarship
William '91 and Dr. Julie '90
McIntosh Scholarship
William A. Barton Scholarship
William C. and Betty L. DeWitt Scholarship
William J. Butler Scholarship
William J. Jutte Memorial Scholarship
William W. Beall Golf Scholarship
Women's Christian Service Council Scholarship
Zahler and Associates Scholarships Endowment
Zahler Family Scholarship
Reports for 2018-19 prepared by
Jennifer Dykes
Dane Erford
Funds in Development
In addition to the funds that have achieved the University’s funding threshold, the following accounts have been established but had not been fully funded by July 31, 2019.
Admiral Edward L. Feightner Leadership Scholarship
Angela S. Brown Campus Ministries Program Endowment
Animal Science Department Scholarship
Annabell F., Earl and Jennifer M. Williams '71 Scholarship
Athletic Training Scholarship
Bair Family Scholarship
Barry, Cobb, and King Scholarship
Benjamin L. Levers and Patricia M. Smith Scholarship
Bob and Jeanne '89 Rustic Scholarship
Bradley Spraw '07, '08 Global Learning Scholarship Endowment
Byard-Mercer Pharmacy Scholarship
C. Richard Beckett Pre-Veterinary Scholarship
C.P. Voller Scholarship
COLA Faculty Development Endowment Campus Ministry Endowment
Carl Meyer '63 Scholarship
Chemistry Scholarship
College of Business Faculty Development Endowment
College of Education Program Endowment
Computer Science ACM Horizons Award
Don and Brenda '90 Collins Scholarship
Donna M. Ewing Nursing Scholarship
Donna M. Ewing Women's Basketball Scholarship
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Stevenson College of Science Research Endowment
Dr. C. Michael and Melanie Kerns Scholarship
Dr. Eugene K. Eakin Scholarship
Dr. Robert J. Ewald Performing Arts Scholarship
Earl M. Fletcher '75 Scholarship
Echo Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship
DeBow and Catherine Freed Endowment for Support of Teaching Speech and Support of the Arts
Gary L. and Laura G. Thomas Psychology Scholarship
Gary L. and Laura G. Thomas Biology Scholarship
Gebhardt Memorial for English Faculty Development Endowment
Jack '65 and Jeanne '66 Wasbro Business Scholarship
Jack '65 and Jeanne '66 Wasbro Education Scholarship
James M. Schmidt Mathematics Scholarship
Joseph and Marilyn (Kempsell) Klingler Business Scholarship
Joseph and Marilyn (Kempsell) Klingler Instrumental Music Scholarship
Joseph and Marilyn (Kempsell) Klingler Music Program Endowment
Justin Gladieux '07 Scholarship
Katherine L. and Roy R. Schwinn Scholarship
Kristen L. Slater Outstanding Western Equestrian Student Award Endowment
Larry G. White Scholarship
Louise and Florence Burkey - Evelyn Hamilton Scholarship Endowment
Margaret E. Wetzler '92 Endowment
Marguerite Platt Winkle Memorial Educational Programming Endowment
Math Horizons
Mazza Enthusiasts Past Chair Endowment
Michael J. Rosen Mazza Museum Traveling Exhibit Endowment
Nancy Erme Scholarship
Nancy Moody-Russo Physician Assistant Program Endowment
Natalie L. Powelson Horsemanship School Endowment
Pamela M. Hixon Memorial Nursing Scholarship
Paula Deardorff '78 Art Acquisition Endowment
Rice-Root Scholarship
R.C. Gebhardt Essay Award
Robert T. Bradley Memorial Award Endowment
Sigma Kappa Sorority Scholarship
Theta Tau Chapter of Delta Zeta Sorority Award
Thomas Robert '67 and Roseann (Keller '68) Samson Scholarship
Tibetan Student Scholarship
UF Graduate Research and Scholarship Committee Endowment
William G. '67, Bette, and Mark Heidlebaugh Scholarship
William Rumbold WLFC/Findlay Media Network Scholarship Endowment
Worstell Family Endowment
University of Findlay Board of Trustees 2018-19*
A. R. Charnes '66, Chair
Christopher E. Ostrander, Vice Chair
Katherine Fell, Ph.D.,
Member by virtue of office without vote
Pamela K.M. Beall, '78
Tod Beckett
Chuck Bills
Sherri L. Garner Brumbaugh
Lynn R. Child
Clifford C. Cook
Craig A. Crotteau
Melissa Duflock '89
J. Lance Finley
Michael E. Harrington
John H. Haywood
Karl L. Heminger
Duane E. Jebbett
Dan N. Kennard
Kolleen Kirk
Philip F. Kortokrax '90
L. Don Manley
Timothy H. Nesler '77
C. Paul Palmer IV
William H. Reist '73
Brant K. Rhoad '00
Edward L. Rosenberry
Philip J. Scott '88
Jennifer C. Smith '91
Lisa M. Vignerot '86, '97
Brian Washington '84
Billy J. Watterson '96
Brian L. Young '84
*As of October 2019
Board of Counselors
The University of Findlay Board of Counselors includes alumni, parents, and friends of the University who are committed to the growth and development of the University and its mission. They offer insights to University leadership based on their career perspectives from a variety of fields and act as valuable partners for the institution.
Vivian C. Andrews
Winzer R. Andrews
Karen M. Beard '96
Molly R. Benson
Angela K. Briggs
Cheryl M. Buckland
Kathleen A. Cannon '87
Joseph V. Conda
Charles D. Daniels '97, '01
Annett H. Guglielmi
Derek F. Hutchinson '88
Paul M. Kalmbach
David L. Kuhl
Elaine E. Little
Rick R. Little '88
Michael H. Mallett '88
Michael S. Needler
Richard W. Norton
Mark A. Pitts '85
J. Alec Reinhardt
Sandra M. Reinhardt
Joy E. Romero '99
Ray A. Romero '00
Jeffrey K. Sailer
Kimberly K. Stumpp '96
Terry G. Terhark '06
Donor Impact
"Regularly thanking our nation’s military veterans and active service members for their sacrifices is essential, but it’s also important to recognize their lifelong giving philosophy. So many graciously give of their time, knowledge, and earnings to ensure that University of Findlay students can earn their degrees and go on to serve in myriad ways themselves. Therefore, we thank you, U.S. veterans, military personnel, and families, for your enormous generosity!"
Findlay Fund Has RecordBreaking Year
Great things are continuing to happen for our students thanks to The President’s Leadership Society and other Findlay Fund givers! This fund has the distinction of having the greatest impact at UF because it assists in so many areas. Funds are used for necessities that range from classroom technology upgrades to supporting research initiatives and vital student wellness services.
Just a few of the many successes that have come for UF in 2018-19 with the help of a record-setting year for unrestricted funds are:
A BUILDING PROJECT - The Mazza Museum is preparing to break ground on a new 4,000-squarefoot addition to the Mazza Museum. The Conda STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics/medicine) Education Center will blend the art of picture books with hard science for children of all ages.
AN ANIMAL STUDIES PARTNERSHIP - The University solidified its collaboration with Loop Abroad, the top veterinary study abroad program in the country, by being named the school of record for the organization. As part of the partnership, Findlay students and students from any other university who participate in the program will earn college credit for their study abroad experience with Loop from UF.
Marcia Sloan Latta, Ed.D. Vice President for University Advancement
youThank for Serving!
A BIG EQUESTRIAN WIN - Once again, the talent of our equestrian riders and coaches put the national spotlight on the University this past spring. For the second consecutive year, the IHSA Western team was the American Quarter Horse Association national champion. This win marks the seventh National Championship for the IHSA Western Team.
MORE GIVING - The success of the University’s spring 2019 Day of Giving was record breaking. UF more than doubled its goal of 250 donations in a 24hour period on March 20 and 21 by receiving 584 gifts totaling $100,565.
To become a Findlay Fund giver, visit give.findlay.edu, contact the Annual Giving Office at 1-800-472-9502, or email thefindlayfund@findlay.edu.
AEP Foundation and UF Partner to Provide New Scholarships
For many years, the University of Findlay and American Electric Power have enjoyed a collaborative relationship that has helped countless students earn their degrees. Most recently, three scholarships between the AEP Foundation and UF were created that will provide much-needed aid to students pursuing rewarding, serviceoriented careers. The AEP Foundation contributed $500,000.
The scholarships include:
• The American Electric Power Foundation Endowed Scholarship in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math/medicine) Education Fund, which will go to a student who is enrolled in accounting or finance or any programs in the College of Health Professions, College of Pharmacy or College of Sciences;
• The American Electric Power Foundation Findlay Forward Scholarship for Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability, which will impact eight to 15 students annually over five years; and
• The Business Affiliates Scholarship program provides critical financial support to UF students with financial need who either graduated from a Hancock County high school or who are currently employed by a Hancock County business.
According to Karen George, UF’s senior director of advancement, all three scholarships will have immense benefits to the students who receive them.
“The Business Affiliates scholarship has already had an immediate impact,” George explained. “We’ve overshot our goal, and have been able to add on four additional scholarships. It’s just fantastic. We’re so fortunate to create these possibilities together.”
Fundraising Efforts Receive International Accolades
University Advancement recently had an additional, and rather atypical, reason to thank all of its outstanding donors: personnel received the highly competitive 2019 Educational Fundraising Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). This international recognition, which represents a first for UF, reflects hard-earned efforts that resonated with many; more than 5,000 were eligible, and only 44 other institutions were Most Improved Fundraising Program Award winners.
A blind review of institutional data voluntarily submitted to CASE during the past three years was used to pinpoint and celebrate exemplary development programs. UF was specifically lauded for its program growth in areas such as major and planned gift increases, donor growth, alumni giving participation, and increased alumni and volunteer engagement. Tailored fundraising ideas aimed at cultivating a greater culture of giving have focused on meaningful interaction, individualistic endeavors, and fun activities.
“The support and involvement we have received in recent years to provide educational opportunities for our students, as well as support for other areas such as athletics, the arts, and even our animal population, has been phenomenal,” said Marcia Latta, Ed.D., vice president for University Advancement. “We are truly blessed to have such strong campus-wide backing, along with increased donor engagement from near and far.”
Successful UF fundraising initiatives have included:
• Major gift fundraising, which saw overall cash donations increase by 68%, and a 13% increase in UF’s endowment market value;
• Planned giving, in which the average gift size increased by 44%;
• Day of Giving, featuring the 2019 “Oiler Up, Give Back” campaign raised $100,565 (far surpassing $28,698 raised in 2018) and collected 584 gifts during a 24-hour period in March.
• 100% Oilers, the annual faculty and staff giving campaign that included 86.7% participation during 2017-18; and
• Graduating Class Gift Program, which garnered 247 financial gifts, handed out 225 cords to wear during commencement, and raised $5,077.
ADDISON GRAHAM
Kyle Nierman M’15
Making the leap from high school to college athletics often proves to be a difficult task and requires toughness and determination. For University of Findlay freshman soccer player Addison Graham, those qualities were instilled at a young age, and with much more on the line than playing time.
At the age of nine, Addison "Addie," a Perrysburg, Ohio native, visited the dermatologist to have a spot on her upper arm examined. After a painful biopsy, during which Addie says, “I was tough and did not cry at all,” doctors called the Grahams and asked them to return to the office to share the results.
“I knew as soon as the doctor’s office called and asked us to come in that it was serious,” said Addie’s mother, Beth. “It was one of the scariest moments of our lives. I begged the nurse to let me know what the diagnosis was because I wanted to be able to be calm for Addie and (father) Ian.”
What the doctor shared was that the spot was malignant fibrous histiosarcoma of the upper arm. According to the National Cancer Institute, the disease is a type of cancer that forms in soft tissue and can occur anywhere in the body, but is commonly found in arms and legs. It is much more common in adults than in children.
“My parents explained the diagnosis to me and my brothers and I seemed to really understand,” Addie said. “I went to my classroom with my mom and she was going to try to explain my cancer to them. I held her hand and said, ‘Mom, I will tell them,’ and explained it perfectly.”
“She handled it extremely well,” said Beth. “She was never scared or down.”
Now that the Grahams had a diagnosis, it was time for treatment to begin. After appointments at Toledo Children’s Hospital and at the University of Michigan Mott’s Children’s Hospital, it was determined that surgery would be needed.
Addie went under the knife to have the sarcoma removed but, since malignant fibrous histiosarcoma is so rare in children, it has not been widely researched, and it was determined that she would need another surgery to remove even more of the surrounding tissue.
This string of events seems anything but easy, especially at the age of nine, but that’s exactly the verbiage Addie used to describe her ordeal.
“Luckily for me, the type of cancer I had was easily treated,” Addie remarked. “My attitude was always very positive, just worrying about getting treated.”
Naturally, after a mass of tissue is removed from an arm, the spot needs to be stitched so that it can heal properly. However, these stitches meant time on the sideline for Addie, who was learning to love the game of soccer. But, as Addie recalls, even those stitches couldn’t stop her.
The Oilers were the winners of the 201819 Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) President’s Cup, which is awarded to the institution that maintains the highest winning percentage across all sports in an academic year.
Out of UF’s 602 studentathletes in 2018-19, 112 were named allconference and 13 were named conference Athlete of the Year in their respective sport.
Oilers’ student-athletes had an academic success rate of 88% last school year, which is 22 points above the national average. Also, 211 student-athletes finished the year with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher, the most in the country in NCAA Division II.
The fall 2019 season has been distinguished by the men’s and women’s golf programs. Combined, they’d won five of the seven tournaments completed as of Oct. 8. Also in October, the women’s team was ranked sixth in the country, which represents the highest ranking in UF program history.
“I had a big soccer game just a few days after my surgery. I played in the game because it meant so much to me. Soccer was my outlet and a good distraction from what was going on,” she said.
Addie’s mom, Beth, commented, “Our family and the soccer community became our support system and a distraction for Addie. She was determined to get back to soccer as soon as possible and her philosophy was she didn’t need her arm for soccer, just her feet.”
Enter the University of Findlay and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Make-A-Wish, a foundation that grants wishes to children battling serious illness, reached out to the Grahams after hearing about Addie. The family was reluctant at first, but accepted the offer when they realized how much fun it could be for their daughter.
In their first year of partnering with Make-A-Wish, the University of Findlay Athletic Department, led by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), was paired with the Grahams to help raise money for Addie’s wish, which was to go to Disney World and Universal Studios.
On Jan. 12, 2013, Addie was on campus at Findlay in Croy Gymnasium where a packed house helped raise a portion of the money that would make her wish come true. Addie remembers that day very clearly.
“I have always loved Coach Jimmy (who previously coached club soccer in the Perrysburg area) growing up and I knew he would make me a better player and help me grow as a person,” she said.
Addie’s father Ian, a goalkeeper coach at Findlay, says there was no pressure put on his daughter.
“Addie fell in love with Findlay and made the choice on her own. Make-A-Wish made her really want to come, but Jimmy’s coaching style was also a big part of her decision.”
On the subject of coaching his daughter, Ian said, “I have the best seat in the house as a dad to watch her play for the next four years. The battles she has had at a young age helped mold her into who she is today. Adds has a spark inside her, a strong drive and work ethic that will make her successful in anything she does on the field, classroom, and life.”
“I came with some of my closest friends. They (the student-athletes) made me feel very special,” she said.
Her mother added, “The student-athletes were nothing short of amazing.”
After returning to have X-rays taken every six months for the next five years, and just once a year since then, Addie is cancer free and has been excelling at the game of soccer.
When it came time to be recruited, Addie, who led Perrysburg to a state runner-up finish in 2017 and scored more than 70 goals in her career, had many schools knocking on her door. But one school stood alone.
“Findlay has always been close to my heart because of me coming when I was a Make-A-Wish child,” Addie said. But it was her relationship with women’s soccer coach Jimmy Walker that may have tipped the scale even further.
“As a parent, a diagnosis of cancer for one of your children is heartbreaking. We are extremely lucky that Addie had two surgeries and is now clear,” Beth said. “No one is promised tomorrow.”
While she is now cancer free, Addie does not forget or take lightly everything she endured as a child.
“Hearing the word ‘cancer’ makes my stomach drop every time. Beating cancer has taught me never to take life for granted and has taught me to be so mentally and physically tough. Going through that at such a young age made me grow up fast,” she said
That growth has been visible, especially on the field. Now a regular in the lineup for the very school she visited as a young child, Addie helped Findlay to an undefeated start to the season. "The news gets even better: in November, the women's soccer team had won the Great Midwest Athletic Conference regular season championship, which represented their first conference title since joining the NCAA, and earned its first NCAA Division II playoff berth in school history."
“Addie has always had to be tough and aggressive as a player as she does not possess huge size,” said Findlay head coach Jimmy Walker. “But what she lacks in height she more than makes up for in desire.”
“Findlay has always been close to my heart because of me coming when I was a Make-A-Wish child,”
Addie
said.
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Class Notes
1980s
Matthew Miller ’86 of Houston, Texas is a therapist at Free Indeed Therapy in Houston.
Dr. Trena Reed, D.P.M. ’87 of Findlay, Ohio, owner of T.C. Reed DPM LLC, is a physician and surgeon.
Nathan Ankerman M’89 of Delphos, Ohio is a field agent for the Knights of Columbus based in New Haven, Connecticut.
1990s
Kevin Fourman M’93 of Bucyrus, Ohio has been named Crestline High School principal in Crestline, Ohio.
Lynne (Clevenger) Lyon ’97 of Lewis Center, Ohio has been named deputy director at the Ohio Department of Medicaid in Columbus, Ohio.
2000s
Candice Kinn ’01 of Springfield, Virginia, has been named a senior manager at Deloitte in Arlington, Virginia.
Kathryn Patterson ’05 of Findlay, Ohio is a Youth For Christ campus life director for Van Buren School District in Van Buren, Ohio.
Jessica VanHook, D.V.M. ’05 of Lakewood, Colorado, has been named deputy district manager for the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service in Lakewood.
Robert Moore ’05 of Perrysburg, Ohio was one of only 40 in the country to be chosen by the National Safety Council as a 2019 Rising Star of Safety. He is currently the EHS lead at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in Perrysburg.
Christopher Harben M’09 of Wauseon, Ohio is an assistant teaching professor at Penn State Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania.
2010s
Prakashkumar (Dasharathlal) Patel M’11 of Surat in Gujarat, India, has been named CEO of New Indian Education and Research Society in Surat.
Sierra (Heaton) Dyer ’15 of LaRue, Ohio is a marketing officer for Richwood Marketing in Richwood, Ohio.
Lucas Recker ’16 of Findlay, Ohio is an MRP Controller for Grob Systems Inc. in Bluffton, Ohio.
Madelaine (McBride) Pope ’17 of Winchester, Kentucky, is a Ph.D. in English candidate at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
Logan Bosely ’19 of Upatoi, Georgia works in operational support for the U.S. Army Warrior Training Center in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Class notes for this issue were received by Oct. 10, 2019.
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Marriages & Births
Marriages
1 Dr. Christopher Harben M’09 and Betsy (Wenger) Harben were married on June 8, 2019. They reside in Wauseon, Ohio.
2 Erin (Murphy) Howard ’11, M ’13 and Evan Howard were married on Aug. 17, 2019. They reside in Westerville, Ohio.
Jessica (Wiesner) Lahey DPT ’11 and Nathan A. Lahey ’10, M’11 were married on June 22, 2019. They reside in Stow, Ohio.
Births and Adoptions
3 Emily (Geiser) Studer ’08, M’11 and Steven Studer of North Baltimore, Ohio welcomed their son, Calvin Jared Studer, on Dec. 4, 2018.
Nicole Milligan ’07 and Burnett Smith of Kittanning, Pennsylvania welcomed their son, Maxwell Albert Smith, on June 25, 2019.
4 Nichole (Hal) Mattingly ’15 and Bryan Mattingly ’18 of Findlay welcomed their son, Mason James Mattingly, on June 18, 2019.
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5 Stacey (Endicott) Raspitzi ’02, M’05 and Paul Raspitzi of Saint Petersburg, Florida, welcomed their daughter, Olivia Rose Raspitzi on June 3, 2019.
6 Ellen (Gore) Thacker Pharm.D. ’16 and Cody Thacker ’16 of Evansville, Indiana welcomed their son, Lewis Patrick Thacker, on April 18, 2019.
Kimberly (Hooven) Demay ’12, M’18 and Raymond Demay of Hilliard, Ohio welcomed their son, Ryan Demay, on June 13, 2019.
Class notes for this issue were received by Oct. 10, 2019.
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and Friends events!
Date Event
Dec. 6 - 8 UF Weekend at Kalahari Sandusky, OH
Dec. 8 Pharmacy Conference Las Vegas, NV
Jan. 3, 2020 Diagnostic Services Ceremony
Feb. 1, 2020 Athletic Hall of Fame
Feb. 10, 2020 Tampa Alumni Reception The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, St. Petersburg, FL
Feb. 12, 2020 COE Reception Columbus, OH
Feb. 12, 2020 Winter College Pelican Isle Yacht Club, Naples, FL
Feb. 21, 2020 Pre-Vet Alumni Reception Columbus, OH
Mar. 20, 2020 OHSAA Boy’s Basketball Brunch Columbus, OH
April 14, 21, 28 Lifelong Learning Connections
May 2, 2020 Commencement & Commencement Brunch
In Memory
1940s
Lorine C. Oman ’40
1950s
Frances J. Weith ’59
Friends
Michael D. Rowland
Joyce E. Albert
Carol A. Augsburger
Shirley J. Bernhardt
Claudine Cervenka
1960s
Thomas H. Pleiman ’60
Karen A. (Brubaker) Snyder ’61
Diana E. Hough ’66
Merril B. Mirsky ’69
1980s
Viola L. (Pressnell) Hochstettler ’81
1990s
Gregg J. McClurg ’91
Michael H. Schlereth ’92
2000s
Steven J. Caldwell ‘01
John Herd ’01
Ray F. Franks
William E. Gunther
Douglas D. Hudson
Mary Lou Kieffer
Terrence McClanahan
Norman R. Meyers
Louis C. Mihaly
Kathryn A. Otte
Rosalinda W. Paul
Denny R. Powell
Bobbie J. Roberts
Maurice J. Sabbe
Veronica Sanders
The following passages were shared with the University of Findlay for publication
Rosita (Arredondo) Harper ’69, M’07 of Findlay, Ohio died Aug. 1, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in accounting and Spanish, and two master’s degrees, including in education. Rosita was an assistant professor of English as an international language at the University. She began her career at UF in 1996, and continued to teach part time through 2016. She was also the Language Laboratory manager for several years. During her retirement, she served as a substitute teacher at Blanchard Valley School in Findlay. Rosita was an active parishioner of Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, and was secretary of the International Women’s Club. She was involved in 50 North, and belonged to Findlay Rocks, a rock-painting club that hides decorated rocks for others to find.
Robert G. Dunbar ’52 of Mount Blanchard, Ohio, died June 5, 2019 in Arlington, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science in social science/history. A U.S. Navy veteran, he was aboard the first ship entering Japan at Tokyo Bay after the country’s surrender. He taught at Kenton High School for 26 years and at Harpster for five years. He also coached baseball, football, track, and basketball; started the Little League Program in Mount Blanchard; and had served on Mount Blanchard Village Council.
Dorothy E. (Ambrose) Hippensteel ’66 of Findlay, Ohio, died May 10, 2019 in Lima, Ohio. She earned a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. She retired as a fourthgrade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School
in Findlay. Ms. Hippensteel was a docent for more than 10 years for University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum, and volunteered at the City Mission in Findlay.
Dal G. Lawrence ’54 of Sylvania, Ohio, died on May 14, 2019 in Perrysburg, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science in sociology and history, and was named a UF Distinguished Alumnus in 1992. Mr. Lawrence, who taught world and American history and government, was a union leader who helped develop the nationally-recognized and modeled The Toledo Plan. He also wrote monthly columns about public education in The (Toledo) Blade, and authored the book, “Don't You Want to Be a Professional?”
Pete Mudre ’56 of Galena, Ohio, died June 21, 2019. He earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and health and physical education. Pete was a highly decorated and recordsetting college athlete who played football, baseball, and track for UF’s Oiler teams. He worked for many years in Ohio as a teacher, coach, and athletic director, and in 1989 was ranked fourth nationally in 55-and-over tennis doubles.
Robert D. Swisher ’50 of Palm Harbor, Florida died March 16, 2019 in Palm Harbor. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in commerce, and lettered four years at UF playing football. His junior year, the team, labeled “The Iron Men,” led the nation in defense, with 790 total rushing yards against them. Bob was a staff sergeant in the Ohio National Guard for seven years. He coached football in Urbana, Ohio, and at UF was director of admissions and assistant to the president. He also worked for Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and Spangler Candy Company, was a bookkeeper, and was a choir director and accomplished soloist.
Richard L. Wink ’52 of Mansfield, Ohio died on July 18, 2019. He was a UF Distinguished Alumnus who earned a Bachelor of Arts in music and French. He served in the U.S. Army for a year in Korea as a combat engineer. He taught music in public schools, was a retired Ohio State University, Mansfield campus music professor, and served for more than 20 years in administrative leadership roles. Mr. Wink was the founding director of the
Mansfield Symphony Chorus and served for 34 years as Chancel Choir Director at Mansfield's First Congregational Church. He also co-authored two editions of "An Invitation to Listening" with Lois Williams; "An Invitation to the Gallery," co-authored with Dick Phipps; and wrote "The McGraw Hill Museum Goers Guide.”
Dr. James Miller, M.D. died Sept. 30, 2019. He was in family practice with Dr. Ed Davis and served a term as chief of staff at Blanchard Valley Hospital. After closing his practice, he worked at Physicians Plus Urgent Care and at the University of Findlay Cosiano Health Center. Dr. Miller was honored as Distinguished Physician of the Year in 2010, and chaired the American Heart Association in 1976.
Kathleen C. Evans died July 28, 2019 in Bonita Springs. She and her husband, University of Findlay alumnus David Evans ’72, were generous UF supporters. Kate held marketing and public relations leadership positions at Blanchard Valley Hospital and The Ohio Bank, and was senior vice president for Bank of America and US Trust Wealth Management. She also served two terms on Findlay City Council, including as council president in 1992, and had been a United Way of Hancock County president.
Daniel M. Snyder 30, 2019. Dan and his wife, former University of Findlay employee Barb (McCrory) Snyder, were generous UF supporters. Dan was a practicing attorney in Findlay for 52 years with the firm Snyder, Alge, and Welch. He was a past president of the Findlay/Hancock County Bar Association and served 33.5 years in the Ohio Army National Guard before being honorably discharged as a full Colonel.
Class notes for this issue were received by Oct. 10, 2019.
SAVE THE DATE! Feb. 12, 2020 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Pelican Isle Yacht Club 410 Dockside Dr. Naples, FL 34110
The University of Findlay’s seventh annual Winter College will feature several presentations, including:
· "The Impact of Art in Alzheimer’s Patients" by Dr. Lindsey Buddelmeyer, University of Findlay assistant professor in Occupational Therapy
· "Current Trends in Animal Research & its Impact on Your Health" by Jennifer C. Smith D.V.M., Bioresources Department director for Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan and UF Trustee
Additional information and registration coming soon!
For more information and other events in the area, visit www.findlay.edu/events.
End Notes
"I am thankful to all of our active military members and veterans for their service. As the brother of two veterans who were deployed to Iraq, I have some understanding of what the families of veterans may go through while their loved ones are away. I appreciate all the sacrifice the men and women of our military make on a daily basis for our country. May God bless you and keep you all."
Go Oilers!
DeMya T. Wimberly ’94, President Alumni Association Board of Governors
Alumni Association Board of Governors 2019-20
Officers
President DeMya Wimberly '94
Vice President
Nicole (Hauenstein) Busey '99
Past President
Kelly (Zink) Ernst '03
Elected Representatives (3 year terms)
Ann (DeHaven) Barkalow ’70
Suzzette Boyd ‘97
Kenneth "Ed" Brandt '81
Preston Eberlyn ’15
Tom Jakubiec ‘73
Mike Kantner ’04 M’06
Jennia Knestrick ’94
Forrest Miller ’17
Kathy Myers M’09
Dean Plott ’93
Alissa (Simpson) Preston '01
Jennifer (Reinhart) Schoenberger ’99
Teresa (McIntosh) Steed ‘92
Brian Treece ’01 MAE ’02
Margaret Wetzler '92
Student Representatives (2 year appointments)
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Brooke Von Hoffmann
College of Business
Nathan Russell
College of Education
Zarina Dillon
College of Health Professions
Kelsey Gerken
College of Pharmacy
Alyssa Maier
College of Science
Tristan Meyer
SGA President
Olunife Akinmolav
U.A.A. President
Mercedes Snyder
From the 1993 Findlay College Argus
1992 NAIA Division II Football Champions
