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Kelly A. ConwAy ’99Storytelling through glass

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A long, cold, snowy winter in Greencastle couldn't dampen the playful spirit of DePauw's students, who took a break from their studies to put a smiling face on the season right outside East College.

stAff Christopher J. Wellsvice president for communications and strategic [email protected]

Larry G. Anderson senior editor [email protected]

Kelly A. Graves director of publications [email protected]

Donna Grooms class notes editor [email protected]

Larry G. Ligget University photographer [email protected]

Steven J. Setchell ’96 associate vice president for alumni engagement [email protected]

Contributors: Bob Handelman, Sarah McAdams, Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe

DePauw Alumni Association Officers

Brent E. St. John ’89, president

Donald M. Phelan ’79, vice president

Gilbert D. Standley ’82, secretary

12 22 28thriveKelly A. Conway ’99: Glass Through History

thinKCreating the 21st-Century Musician

liveWhat Students Did Last Summer

DepArtments 4 News

8 Recent Words

30 Development and Alumni Engagement

38 Class Notes

Cover photo by Echard Wheeler. Photos on pages 12-19 by Gary Hodges.

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lettersRobert J. Thomas, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science, taught the first computer science course on a DePauw computer in 1963 and led computer science education at the University until his retirement in 1991. To recognize the 50th anniversary of the first computer science course, in the fall issue we invited alumni to share the experiences they had in the early computer science classes, how that technology affected their lives and careers, and how it has grown over the years. We received several letters, including from at least one alumnus who was actually in that first class, and don’t have enough space for all of them in this issue. We will print additional letters in the summer issue. – Editor

Saved by a computer courSe?I took Introduction to Digital Computers during fall semester 1963. We learned to program input and output on keypunched cards (where there were often hanging chads). On graduation from DePauw, I accepted a trainee position with the Delco-Remy Division of General Motors in manufacturing supervision. I quickly became disillusioned by the labor union strife and did not want to be arguing with the union while trying to supervise in a plant.

Luckily, I heard that Delco-Remy was giving a computer logic test to a few employees, and they permitted me to sit for the test. I tested well enough to be selected to attend a Honeywell computer programming class, and I began programming and providing systems analysis on the Honeywell 1800. I was told this was the largest computer in the world at the time. There were two Honeywell 1800s in the country – one at Delco-Remy and one at the Pentagon.

After 11 months of work, I

entered graduate school to obtain a M.B.A. degree at Bowling Green State University. I wanted to work in commercial banking. I figured all the good jobs in the computer field were already taken by people only five to 10 years older than me!

Drafted into the Army after graduate school in 1967, I was not looking forward to Vietnam. By luck, and due to my programming and systems work, I was selected to attend Advanced Individual Training in the Adjutant General Corps in computer programming and machine operations. Next, I was selected to stay in the school at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis and taught for the remainder of my military commitment.

I strongly believe that the original computer course I received at DePauw and the additional training and work experience at General Motors may have saved my life.

Finally, during the initial part of my banking career, a senior officer of the bank asked if I knew how to run software on a computer in order to handle some “state of the art” corporate financial analysis. I assured him that I did. This opportunity enabled me to analyze some major corporate credit situations for our largest customers, which greatly enhanced my 32-year banking career.David A. Beery ’64 Hinsdale, Ill.

computer powerProfessor [Robert] Thomas’ computer science class was very beneficial and probably the single most important course I took while at DePauw. I went on to University of Michigan and earned a M.S.E. degree in computer science and telecommunications.

Working in satellite telecommuni-cations engineering for more than 30 years, virtually every project involved aspects of computer science and software development. My largest and best-known project was development of the DIRECTV infrastructure that went into operation in 1994 and today broadcasts satellite television to more than 20 million homes. This system has hundreds of computers at its broad-casting centers and, effectively, a very powerful computer providing the image and sound to each customer television. (Godwin was inventor or co-inventor on 19 patents, and he is one of three managers for DIRECTV who received an Emmy Award for technical achieve-ment in satellite broadcasting.)

Now retired, I remain active technically by helping our son, Mark, with his software-as-a-service business. This business uses wireless, GPS, Internet and smartphone technologies to provide near-optimal real-time management of vehicle fleets. As a retirement hobby, I’m a docent at the Getty Villa Museum, a facility focused on ancient Mediterranean cultures. My DPU courses in world history and Greek philosophy are now being put to good use in interpretive tours for visitors.

Thank you, DePauw, and thank you, Professor Thomas. John “Jack” P. Godwin ’67 Los Angeles

career courSeI came to DePauw in 1962. I intended to major in chemistry (subsequently switched to economics) and minor in mathematics. I was in that first computer science course offered by DePauw. I was a fan of logic and George Boole, curious about computers and, of

I sometimes get questions from alumni and supporters of our University about whether we can continue to offer a liberal arts education in a 21st-century world. There is an anxiety out there that the kind of education that has served DePauw alumni so well for so long may be replaced by something somehow more practically of-the-times, and yet somehow lesser.

Much of this concern may be driven by the national discussion about collegiate education today, which is squarely focused on outcomes. This is a perfectly reasonable focus, but we too often hear the argument that a liberal arts education is somehow different from, or incompatible with, the necessary preparation for impressive student outcomes. This odd argument flies in the face of generation after generation of American success in leveraging the strengths of a liberal arts education to produce leaders for every realm of human endeavor. At times, some liberal arts colleges have themselves inadvertently fed this conversation, by too energetically arguing that what they provide is not mere job preparation. It is certainly the case that colleges like DePauw can boast of more than preparing graduates for a first job, but this does not mean that we should (or could) set aside the clear and pressing need to deliver on the promises we make when we speak about connecting a liberal arts education to life’s work.

DePauw continues to be a national leader in the effort to connect our form of education to the 21st-century world facing our graduates, and I am extraordinarily proud of the efforts we are making in this area, from the Hubbard Center for Student Engagement, to our new collaborative program with the Kelley School of Business, to our stellar Honor Scholar and Fellows programs. In particular, the Management and Media Fellows programs will welcome new leaders this fall, and this will offer us an opportunity to build on their existing strengths with new ideas and initiatives. All of these programs are the focus of new investments, including external funding, and this is as it should be. These programs offer our students a crucial framework for connecting their classroom learning with the world they will face when they emerge from college. (An example of this can be seen in the feature on student internships in this issue.)

But none of this requires that we abandon the many strengths DePauw has always enjoyed as a top liberal arts college. The finest, and most enduring, colleges do not only seek to keep up with the latest trends, but also build upon lessons and accomplishments of the past. For many generations, DePauw has graduated alumni whose intelligence, benevolence and effective enthusiasm for making the world a better place are the finest possible argument for a liberal arts education. These graduates also demonstrated the unlimited successes for which this kind of education is the best preparation.

We will continue to look ahead while making the best possible use of our traditions, our history and the strengths of our form of education.

Brian W. Casey President

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course, I could get the credits in math. I remember we worked on an IBM

model 1620 computer that was housed in the basement of the administration building. Today there are orders of magnitude of more computer power in our phones than were in that 1620.

In 1966 I was recruited by Dow Chemical, which at that time was staffing up its computer organization. During 32 years at Dow Information Systems, I traveled and lived all over the world and formed many lasting relationships, all while doing challenging work I loved.

It really all started with Professor Thomas at DePauw. James R. Myers ’66 Cheboygan, Mich.

early computer courSeI graduated from DePauw in June 1961 and took what must have been the first computer science course ever offered by Professor [Robert] Thomas. I took it in either my junior or senior year. The course was probably listed as a math seminar or special topics course, but it was all computer stuff – hexadecimal number systems, Harvard Charts, ILLIAC machine language coding and such. We learned a lot about the ILLIAC computer since Thomas studied at University of Illinois. I also remember taking our field trip to Rose Poly (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) in Terre Haute, so we could see if our programs worked on a real computer.

The summer of my graduation, I worked on computer programs with statisticians at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before beginning my Ph.D. work that fall.

After 53 or so years, I am still using

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6 Graduating DePauw seniors were offered and accepted highly competitive Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial

Fellowships, which are designed to help new graduates break into the professional world through paid positions with Indiana’s most dynamic, high-growth companies. Previously, the largest number of Orr Fellows in a DePauw graduating class was four.

“it’s important that we make sure that the lessons of leadership JfK and my father exemplified are not lost.”MArtin LUtHer KinG iii, speaking at DePauw on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. gave a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture on Nov. 21 in East College’s Meharry Hall, near where his father, the famous civil rights leader, addressed an audience in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church in 1960.

there’s An App for thAtDePauw juniors Rajat Kumar and Tao Qian, both computer science majors and Information Technology Associates, were part of a team that won first place in the Microsoft/Facebook Hackathon challenge.

The 24-hour contest, organized by Facebook and Microsoft, took place at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Contestants, who included college students and full-time software developers, used Microsoft and Facebook technologies to develop new and unique application ideas, program working demonstrations and pitch them to the judges.

Kumar and Qian’s team created a mobile application called Aracle, which allows users to ask their friends questions anonymously via Facebook.

GOInG GlOBalDePauw students spread around the world during Winter Term 2014 in January as they participated in Winter Term in Service projects and faculty-led trips. In addition to projects in the United States, students traveled, studied and performed community service in Bonaire, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Senegal, Thailand and The Galapagos.

58monon Bell telecast parties held around the country when DePauw played Wabash College in football for the 120th time on nov. 16.

11 DePauw teams ranked in the top 25 in their respective sports at

some point this year.

There is a lot in the news these days about books and libraries. You don’t have to look far to see stories about the burgeoning Internet, book-less libraries, eBooks and the often-asked question, “Do we still need libraries?”

The answer is, of course, yes. True, books are used somewhat less than they once were. But they are still used. (DePauw circulates 75,000 books and other materials each year.) And for a liberal arts curriculum like DePauw’s, they are still necessary. Research is about finding the best resources to use, not just the most convenient ones. That said, we work to make all resources as easily accessible as we can for our students and faculty, and often that means shifting to electronic forms of information.

The most dramatic change for libraries and our users in the past 20 years is the shift from resource ownership to access. The measure of a good library is no longer just the number of books on our shelves or items in our collections, but our capacity to teach and to connect students with appropriate resources from around the world.

Toward this goal, DePauw’s libraries today offer a wealth of online databases, serving up millions of articles to our students and faculty. We digitize hundreds of thousands of photographs, newspapers, documents and more to enhance access to our archival collections – not just for students and faculty, but also for our community and the world at large.

Today we are offered untold riches of information with just a few keystrokes. The key is mastering how to evaluate the information we find, and then using it to further our own understanding and to create new knowledge. That’s where librarians come in. Familiarity with a tool is not the same as facility with the tool, and DePauw students every day enhance their classroom education by learning how to make sense of research materials with the help of librarians.

The DePauw University Libraries serve our students and faculty with a full spectrum of resources. Access to the best knowledge and information available is critical for high-quality teaching, learning and research, and librarians are here to help. Whether the resources that visitors need are paper or digital, librarians continue to teach the skills necessary for research and lifelong learning at DePauw, as they have done since the earliest days of the University.

Rick E. Provine, director of libraries


A Continuing neeD for librAries AnD librAriAnsRick E. Provine

180 New trees have been planted on depauw’s campus as part of projects associated

with the university’s campus master plan. at least 115 more trees will be planted.

Business PartnersDePauw University and Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business received a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to launch a new program called The Liberal Arts in the New Economy. Beginning in fall 2014, DePauw students will have an opportunity to augment the strengths of their liberal arts coursework with educational programs from Kelley School, one of the nation’s most respected business schools. The new collaboration will include DePauw Winter Term programs offered by the Kelley School, real-world internship experiences and specialized support to help students secure related job opportunities upon graduation from DePauw.

49 The number of Academic All-America awards DePauw student-

athletes have earned since the program’s inception in 1952.


“Actually, one of the biggest influences in how stevens leads was a course he took during his sophomore year at Depauw.”BOStOn GLOBe, writing about the leadership style of Brad Stevens ’99, who is in his first season of leading the NBA’s Boston Celtics after a successful coaching career at Butler University.

3 number of DePauw students who received awards from the U.S. Department of State’s

Gilman International Scholarship Program in order to study abroad and participate in international internships during the spring 2014 semester. The students are in France, India and Spain.

how many students does it take to put on a play?During Winter Term in January, 44 students participated in direct production of Achilles/Achilles’ Son, a new play written by Sean Graney, Nancy Shelly Schaenen ’51 Visiting Scholar at The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics. An additional 12 students were involved in script development workshops last spring.

Staged by DePauw Theatre, the production combined music, food and debate with seven Greek tragedies based on the Trojan War. Timothy A. Good, associate professor of communication and theatre, directed the students.

100 Mendenhall Lectures held at DePauw since 1913 after the Reverend Doctor Marmaduke H. Mendenhall provided an endowment to enable the university to bring to campus “persons of high and wide repute, of broad and varied scholarship” to address issues related to

the academic dialogue concerning Christianity.

58Consecutive wins for the DePauw women’s basketball team after

the Tigers opened the season with 24 straight victories. It was the third longest winning streak in NCAA Division III women’s basketball history and fifth longest on all levels of NCAA women’s basketball play.

Fulbright leaderFor the third consecutive year and seventh time in the last eight years, DePauw is among American colleges that produce the most Fulbright Scholars, according to the list of top producers of 2013-14 Fulbright U.S. Students released by the U.S. Department of State. Five DePauw graduates received Fulbright Awards to study and live abroad for the current academic year, and a total of 17 DePauw students applied for the prestigious grants.

In addition, three DePauw alumni received Fulbright Awards for 2012-13.


“perhaps the best story in all of college basketball.”WtWO-tV in Terre Haute, Ind., in a Jan. 10 story about the DePauw women’s basketball team, the defending NCAA Division III national champions and number-one ranked team this season, who – as of that date – had won 47 consecutive games and 66 straight regular season contests.

computers daily. I am currently working on a revision of my book, Time Series Analysis, which makes heavy use of the open source computer language named simply R.Jonathan D. Cryer ’61 Professor emeritus, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

baSIc dIffereNceI did not take computer science classes in the ’60s, but I did take one BASIC programming class in the early ’70s while pursuing an art major. I ended up going back to school a few years later to get a Master’s in Management Information Systems degree and worked 25 years in high tech – most of it involving software development at Hewlett-Packard. So, yes, that single class made a HUGE difference in my life.Nancy Shafer Near ’76 Cupertino, Calif.

He weNt dIgItalI arrived at DePauw in fall 1966 wanting to major in chemical engineering. By the second semester of my sophomore year, I had discovered anthropology and changed majors. Second semester of my junior year I took Introduction to Folklore, which was taught by a team of DPU faculty. Dr. [Robert] Thomas and his wife were two of the faculty in that class.

Fall semester of my senior year, Dr. Thomas offered, for the first time, an Introduction to Digital Computers for Non-Math Majors. The computer program we used was SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic

Language). It was developed to analyze languages and was widely taught in U.S. universities in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

The final exam was a language analysis problem. After I turned in three different solutions, Dr. Thomas told me that with the first solution I had earned my A in the course. My reply was, “No, I earned my Pass.” since I took the course as a Pass/Fail. Dr. Thomas just shook his head and turned away. The next semester, Dr. Thomas was going to miss teaching one of his introductory classes for non-math majors, and he asked me to fill in for him. I spent four or five days preparing for that 45-minute class.

This was my introduction to computers. I continued to learn computer program languages in graduate school at Florida State University, University of Tennessee and University of Florida.

The computer background helped me obtain a job with the National Park Service, Southeast Archeological Center as an archeologist managing the center’s archeological site file information and assisting in the computer cataloging of archeological collections from National Parks in the Southeast United States. I served on development teams for creating a National Park Service-wide Archeological Sites Information Management System program (ASIMS) and regional standards for cataloging archeological collections in the Southeast United States.

All made possible from the first Introduction to Digital Computer class at DePauw in 1969.Robert C. Wilson, ’70 Crawfordville, Fla.

LetteRS continued from page 3. “in the time that i have lived and have grown up, radicalism was so central to my daily existence that the absence of it becomes quite glaring. And we live in a time when i think radical thought is more necessary than ever.”HArrY BeLAFOnte, legendary entertainer and social activist, in the Johnson-Wright Lecture in Conflict Studies to Honor Russell J. Compton on Feb. 12.


MARTIN J. NAPARSTECK, M.A. ’74, with Michelle CardullaMrs. Mark Twain: The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens 1845 -1904(mcfarland – ISbN: 978-0786472611)

In his seventh book, marty Naparsteck provides the first book-length biography of olivia langdon clemens, mark twain’s wife. livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. raised in the wealthiest family in elmira, N.y., she married the man destined to become the best known american in the world. She befriended the literary elite of america and europe, traveled the globe and dined with royalty. yet her life was filled with tragedy. Her son was born prematurely and died when he was 19 months old. Her oldest daughter died of spinal meningitis at 24. Her youngest daughter was an epileptic. Her husband’s bad investments drove the family into bankruptcy. Her frail health kept her bedridden for years at a time. yet through all this, she and her husband shared a family life filled with love and tenderness. Naparsteck is a full-time freelance writer.

DR. KENRAD E. NELSON ’54 and Carolyn Masters Williams, editorsInfectious Disease Epidemiology, third edition(Jones and bartlett learning Inc. – ISbN: 978-1449683795)

Now in its third edition, this comprehensive volume is recognized as the most authoritative review of the epidemiology of infectious disease. divided into five sections that cover methods in infectious disease epidemiology, airborne transmission, diarrheal diseases, blood and body fluid as a reservoir of infectious diseases, vectorborne and parasite disease, the book includes state-of-the-art information about methodological issues, pathogenesis and comprehensive reviews of virtually all known infectious diseases. all 28 chapters are updated with significant new information. the book includes a detailed description of the epidemiologic characteristics of many infectious diseases and provides a detailed description of methods that scientists use to describe the important epidemiologic features of infectious diseases. dr. Kenrad Nelson is a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins university School of public Health.

DAN L. HENDRICKS ’70The Last Days of His Father’s Kingdom: The End of Islam in Spain(outskirts press – ISbN: 978-1478724919)

The Last Days of His Father’s Kingdom is a sweeping historical saga with deep emotional currents. the book recalls a time when Islam was the world’s great and progressive civilization; when the moors ruled Spain and their kingdom – called andalusia – spread across present-day Spain; when glittering cities such as cordoba and granada teemed with economic vitality, sponsored world-class scientific research, and boasted universities of distinguished scholars and learning. writing under the pen name of chloe canterbury, dan Hendricks begins the story in 1491, when the Spanish seizure of andalusia is in its final stages. through the eyes of mysterium tremendum, a renowned Sufi mystic from baghdad, we witness not only the tragic end of andalusia but also the citizens’ courageous attempt to hold on to their beloved home. Hendricks is vice president for university advancement and executive director of the university of North alabama foundation. He also wrote tobee and the amazing bird choir.

J. PETER KONKLE ’70 On Bolton Flats – An Irish Insurrection in Vermont’s North Woods(createSpace – ISbN: 9781493574346)

Set in New england’s North woods, the forces of unbridled industry, human tragedy and re-awakened passion converge in this story of the immigrant experience in 1846. based on a true story and including characters taken from the pages of history, peter Konkle’s first historical novel follows 200 Irish families fleeing the great potato famine journey from their inhospitable homeland to the frontier of the young and industrious united States of america. Instead of finding salvation, they become feed for the insatiable appetite of corporations pushing the tentacles of civilization into the frontier. tension between those who take advantage of unrestrained commerce and those who answer to a higher power comes to a head when the forces of nature and the ambitions of mankind clash. Konkle has lectured on “the bolton war” at university of vermont and vermont State colleges. He plans to travel to Ireland this spring for book signings and to give lectures.

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WILLIAM THOMPSON ONG ’52The View from Walden Park (ri publishing – ISbN: 978-0-985558369)

william thompson “tom” ong previously wrote a trilogy of thrillers that features an investigative reporter named Kate conway. In his fourth thriller, The View from Walden Park, ong departs from the Kate conway series to tell the story of a visiting newspaper reporter who accidentally discovers the secret love affair between the city’s leading architect and a movie star who left years earlier to marry into royalty. when the princess returns, the affair is rekindled, blazing with a beauty and resolve that threatens the international establishment. but the city has a weird and fearful side, and lurking in its shadows is the wedding cake Killer, who doesn’t appreciate anyone violating the marriage oath. before becoming a novelist, ong worked for advertising agencies in New york and his own agency in philadelphia.

PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON ’80Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era(New york university press – ISbN: 978-0814723845)

during the progessive era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar, uniforms and automobiles, fresh converts and devoted protégés. across america, entrepreneurial women founded churches, denominations, religious training schools, rescue homes, rescue missions and evangelistic organizations. these intrepid women have gone largely unrecognized, although their efforts to build institutions in the service of evangelism marked a seismic shift in american christianity. In her sixth book, priscilla pope-levison examines the unpublished letters, diaries, sermons and yearbooks of two dozen of the pioneering women to share their personal tribulations and public achievements. pope-levison is a professor of theology and assistant director of women’s studies at Seattle pacific university.

Thomas D. Clareson and JOSEPH L. SANDERS ’62The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction(mcfarland & company – ISbN: 978-0786474981)

part of the critical explorations in Science fiction and fantasy series, The Heritage of Heinlein surveys the writing of robert a. Heinlein, generally recognized as america’s leading science fiction writer of the 20th century. this is the first detailed critical examination of Heinlein’s entire career. thomas clareson and Joseph Sanders cover Heinlein’s career chronologically, examining each piece of fiction (and selected nonfiction) to see how it reflects the writer’s concerns and how well it succeeds. the aim is to look clearly at the strengths and weaknesses of the writings that have inspired generations of readers and writers. clareson, professor of english at college of wooster, began the project shortly before his death. Sanders, professor emeritus of english at lakeland community college, accepted the request of clareson’s widow to take over the unfinished draft. It is Sanders’ sixth book.

PAT UNGER PERNICANO ’76Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories(routledge – ISbN: 978-0415726917)

Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their caregivers. the therapy stories are designed for accompaniments to evidence-based treatment approaches and provide the foundation for psychoeducation and intervention with the older elementary-aged child or early pre-teen. the psychoeducational material in the guides, written at a third- to fourth-grade reading level, may be used within any trauma-informed therapy model in the therapy office or sent home for follow-up. each therapy story illustrates trauma concepts, guides trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring work, and illuminates caregiver blind spots. pat pernicano is a psychologist with personal counseling Services and associate professor and clinical faculty at Spalding university.

KEVIN M. WALTMAN ’95NEXT(cinco puntos press – ISbN: 978-1935955641)

NEXT is the third young-adult novel by Kevin waltman, himself a former high school player in Indiana, where basketball is king for kids like the book’s protagonist, derrick bowen. a 6-foot-3 freshman and lightning quick, bowen wants to start at point guard for marion High, but senior Nick Starks has that nailed down. besides, the coach is old school, and he thinks bowen needs to work on his game, shot and attitude. that means bench time. and that’s when Hamilton academy, the elite school in the suburbs, comes sniffing around; they want d-bow for the next three years. bowen’s mom wants no part of that. but his father needs a job, and uncle Kid, who is a bitter ex-star at marion High, has his own plans. there’s a pretty girl and a best friend in the mix, plus plenty of basketball action and suspense. waltman writes young-adult novels and short stories, realistic fiction for adults and slipstream. He teaches writing and literature at university of alabama.


AMY KOSSACK SORRELLS ’94How Sweet the Sound( david c. cook – ISbN: 978-1434705440)

this is the first novel by amy Sorrells, winner of the 2012 women of faith writing contest and two-time american christian fiction writers genesis award semifinalist. from a distance, the Harlans appear to be the perfect Southern family. wealth and local fame mask the drama and dysfunction swirling through their family line. but as the summer heats up, a flood of long-hidden secrets surface. devastation from a rape followed by the murder of two family members brings three generations of the Harlans together on their pecan plantation in bay Spring, ala. chief among them is anniston, who, by the time she turned 13, thought she’d seen it all. but as her heart awakens to the possibility of love, she begins to deal with her loneliness and grief. It is a coming-of-age tale inspired by the story of tamar in 2 Samuel 13. a registered nurse for a large hospital and writer, Sorrells lives in central Indiana.

DOUGLAS A. SMITH ’68Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy(white pine mountain – ISbN: 978-0-986070808)

In the midst of a successful business career, douglas Smith received life-altering news that set him on an entirely new journey to understand what leads to truly joyful, meaningful living. In other words, what leads to happiness. through research and study, he began to understand what the most joyful people have in common is a set of skills that enable them to remember the past with peace, anticipate the future with confidence, and live in the present with joy and exuberance. In Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy, Smith recounts, with insight and humor, his journey to better understand and practice the skills of happiness, with the goal of helping others on their own paths to joyful, meaningful living. a teacher, consultant, lecturer and coach to business leaders nationally, Smith has for many years taught a course, the Skills of Happiness, during depauw’s winter term. depauw awarded Smith an honorary doctor of business administration degree in 2008.

REPARATIONdepauw alumni, students and faculty are collaborating on a motion picture.

In greencastle this summer, depauw professor of communication and theatre Steve timm and Kyle p. Ham ’94 will complete a long-term project, an indie film based on a play by timm. titled Reparation, the feature film will be shot as a collaboration between professional cast and crew and many depauw alumni, student interns, faculty and greencastle community members.

Reparation is a psychological thriller that swirls like a funnel cloud around bob Stevens, a small-town farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. when a mysterious stranger shows up claiming to have been his best friend in the air force police, bob’s peaceful existence begins to unravel as bob, his family and his old friend all struggle to unlock the truth.

depauw students and alumni will have the opportunity to learn from, contribute toward and even inspire production of the film.

for updates on the status of the project, go to the facebook page (reparation the movie). If you’d like to be a part of the project, reach out to Steve and Kyle directly at [email protected].

Say Hello to the doe-eyed gaze of a

zebrafish larva. captured by professor of biology Henning Schneider with a fluorescent microscope, this portrait was taken when the fish was just 5-days-old and smaller than a fruit fly.

Zebrafish larva don’t normally glow red and green; that’s the result of the fluorescent proteins used to stain specific parts of the fish. So, you’re not really seeing the zebrafish. you’re seeing inside it. that big red thing in the middle of its face? Its brain.

Schneider uses zebrafish to study the neurological effects of nicotine. there’s no shortage of cigarette smokers, but he can’t just round people up and start poking around inside their heads. Instead, he and his biology department colleague associate professor pascal lafontant, who studies heart regeneration, use the small fish – about 30,000 of them in any given

year. while zebrafish may not be warm-blooded or walk on dry land, their brains and hearts are very similar to ours, making them a common and inexpensive animal model in biological research.

“all nerve cells work the same,” Schneider explains. “we just have more of them.”

using a fluorescent microscope, Schneider can illuminate areas of interest in bright colors, leaving everything else in the black void. Inside the microscope, intense light excites fluorescent proteins in the sample – either added by staining or genetic modification or naturally present – which react by glowing. the microscope’s optics filter out the original light source so only the colorfully fluorescing parts remain to photograph.

It takes a little extra work to get a good shot, however. the raw, unedited image captured by the microscope is a bright blob, like a city skyline on a foggy night. using software that costs nearly as much as the microscope itself (think of it like

photoshop for biologists), Schneider coaxes out the details. the final result is a picture like this one, giving Schneider a clear view of neurological processes and anatomical structures that would otherwise be invisible. In the larva above, dopamine neurons are marked in green, while receptors for serotonin are marked in red. clearly there is a lot of each in the head of a zebrafish. and in yours, too.

Schneider says having access to a fluorescent microscope is critical to his research. without it, he couldn’t capture images and he couldn’t publish. but he’s not the only beneficiary of high-tech equipment.

“our primary goal is to give students experience with state-of-the-art methods so they are ready for graduate programs,” Schneider says. “learning to ‘drive’ the microscope takes time, but it’s part of the training. and it’s fun to work with. you can get lost in it.”




by Larry G. Anderson

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The beauty and power of glass is still celebrated, however, at places like the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., home to some of the world’s premier authorities on glass. As curator of American glass there, Kelly A. Conway ’99 has a leading role in telling the story of how this country created a revolution in the look, manufacture and uses of glass.

Strolling past rows of gleaming display cases, Conway enthusiastically notes that each object has an important story to tell.

refleCting eArly AmeriCA“Glass was America’s first industrial experiment,” Conway says. “The English colonists who landed in Jamestown, Va., attempted to establish a glass house in 1608. That attempt failed, as did the colony. They tried again between 1621

and 1624, and again, they were not successful. The first sustainable glass factories in America did not take hold until midway through the 18th century.”

The early colonists actually weren’t supposed to develop a domestic industry because Britain saw its American colonies as a market for British goods. But in spite of that, market demand in the colonies spurred the need for basic utilitarian glass, especially bottles, windows and some tableware. However, English and European glass styles strongly influenced American glass into the 19th century.

As early as the 1740s, glass was instrumental in sparking Benjamin Franklin’s interest in electricity, according to Ian Simmonds, a full-time scholar-dealer who sells to museums and private collectors. “Franklin used glass tubes, charged with static electricity from being rubbed with buckskin, to explore and demonstrate the latest

discoveries of natural philosophers,” he says. “Although Franklin’s first tubes were imported from London, by 1755 he was using tubes made at the glassworks of Caspar and Richard Wistar in southern New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia.”

One of the most important American pieces in the Corning Museum’s collection, Conway points out, is a rather ordinary-looking green glass bottle bearing a seal with the initials RW. “The RW stands for Richard Wistar, son of Caspar, who established a brass

As recently as two centuries ago, glass sometimes rivaled gold and silver in value. but what once was exclusive to royalty is now ubiquitous, ref lecting sweeping cultural, industrial and societal changes.


button-making trade in Philadelphia and ventured into glassmaking in 1739 when he established the Wistarburgh Glassworks,” she says. “The successful company lasted until the beginning of the American Revolution, and it manufactured primarily bottles and windows. Bottles were a very important product in America, used for storage, transportation and serving of any kind of beverage, mostly alcoholic beverages.”

The Industrial Revolution and America’s development of pressed glass molds in the 19th century marked a turning point in the affordability and availability of glass to the general public as well as in the variety of uses. The number of glass manufacturers skyrocketed, and so did their products.

form AnD funCtion“The dominant theme in American glass of the 19th century was the Industrial Revolution and rise of mass production and consumption. American manufacturers were leaders in both cost reduction and production in quantity,

with innovations in glass pressing and mechanized cutting,”

Simmonds says. “A side effect of improved mass production was a

stylistic race between the makers of luxury, cut and engraved glass and

those seeking to manufacture close approximations of fashionable glass

using molds at a fraction of the cost.”The American mechanized press could

produce the shape, size and design of glass all in one process. American pressed glass became so popular that glassmakers in Britain and continental Europe quickly adopted the technology. Initially, pressed and molded glass was valued as being higher style than the earlier hand-blown glass, but less so than the finest

cut glass. The American style of glass

was now being emulated abroad.“The growth of the middle class in

America created a market for mass-produced glass, but it also led to shifts in consumer taste and habits,” Conway says. “One of the fun things about my job is researching the development of the transportation, lighting, food and beverage industries in America. There are fascinating objects in the museum’s collection that are interconnected with those histories.”

For example, a widely held misconception is that colored glass was more valued than colorless glass. “In the museum, you see the glass out of context,” she explains. “You have to imagine the contents of the glass tableware. A clear glass bowl enabled people to show off the contents within. If they could afford expensive, high-quality food and beverages, they wanted to show their economic and social

position to family and guests.”The prevalence of glass in America

struck Simmonds when he moved to this country from England. “In England, home to an enormous pottery business, we rarely used glass as tableware. It seems to me that glass is much more visible in America.”

style AnD prestigeCut and engraved glass varies considerably in the quality, quantity and difficulty of its decoration. A true connoisseur would have as readily noticed an extraordinary wine glass as the extraordinary wine that it contained, according to Simmonds. Americans seeking extra distinction could have their glass monogrammed, and in the 1850s, some even had family crests engraved on their tableware.

“Like other decorative arts, glass has long stood at the center of our everyday,


domestic life and has naturally lent itself to artful design and display. Its history sheds light on how it was made, how it

was used, and who could afford it and when – as well as the evolution

of taste, both public and private,” says Jefferson Harrison, chief curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.

Conway served as curator of glass at the Chrysler Museum prior to joining the Corning Museum of Glass in September. “Most people know nothing of how glass is made. Through our Perry Glass Studio, Kelly brought the magic of glassmaking to thousands of visitors,” Harrison adds. “Kelly researched and interpreted virtually every national school of glass artists during her tenure at the Chrysler Museum. A large part of the Chrysler’s permanent collection is devoted to American glass, from the colonial period to the present, and she brought a new order and coherence to our interpretations of that material.”

To present the story of glass effectively to visitors at the Corning Museum, Conway is further studying the style and technique of glass, and especially its place in history. That comes easily to Conway, who was a history major at DePauw. She finds some of the most compelling stories not in the most ornate pieces – and the museum has many of them – but rather in the more everyday pieces.

“There are certain American glass objects that I like to talk about because they reveal how much has changed in our daily lives. One of my favorite forms to

talk about is the celery vase, of which the museum has many examples,” Conway says. “The celery vase was prominent in the mid-19th century. It’s a very tall, trumpet-shaped vase on a stem. You can imagine it being

very stately on the table.”Celery vases, which held water and

leafy celery stalks, came in many styles and could be decorated with cutting or engraving. Today celery is inexpensive and available year-round in grocery stores, but in the mid-19th century it was a luxury item and labor-intensive to grow. People who could afford to serve it wanted to show it off. An attractive clear glass vase, usually placed prominently at the center of the table, allowed them to do so.

“By the late 19th century, celery becomes easier to grow, widely available and affordable,” Conway says. “The shape of the vessel changes accordingly. It becomes a flat, broad, shallow dish and is placed at the corner of the table rather than the center. Celery is no longer the statuesque centerpiece, and it has declined as a luxury good and status symbol.”

Conway ends this story on a personal note. She remembers Thanksgiving dinners at her grandmother’s house where the relish dish, including celery, was placed on the table. It never came out any other time of the year. Many families have similar histories and can connect them to various glass objects on display in the museum.

refleCting soCietAl ChAngeGlass objects often were gifts to commemorate a major life event, such as a wedding or birthday. As a result, they became part of a family history, were well cared for and passed from one generation to the next. When the pieces make their way to the museum, they provide an extraordinary way to illustrate a story. “We get to talk about the broader socio-political issues going on in colonial America,” Conway says. “We point out the fashionable styles of the time, how consumers purchased items and how they

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from glAss City to CrystAl City American glass comprises much of the museum’s collection, given that Corning, N.Y., is inextricably tied to glassmaking as home to Corning Incorporated, a leading glass manufacturer and innovator. The community is known as the Crystal City.

Conway grew up in Toledo, Ohio, which is known as the Glass City. Toledo, too, has a long history of glassmaking in its local manufacturer, Libbey Company, and the Toledo Museum of Art has a significant collection of historical glass. Her father worked for Owens Corning Fiberglass. However, it was her first visit to the Corning Museum as a graduate student that solidified her passion for glass.

“As a place, Corning, N.Y., is not unlike Toledo, Ohio. It is a factory town whose major museum was established by the local glass industry leader,” scholar-dealer Simmonds says. “In both cases, the local glass factory was relocated from the East Coast. Libbey Glass of Toledo had earlier been the New England Glass Company of Cambridge, Mass. The Corning Glass Works was formerly located in Brooklyn.”

The Corning Museum of Glass benefits from its strategic location on the tourist route between New York City and Niagara Falls, Simmonds notes. “To entertain large groups, including many foreign

used glass. There are a lot of objects in the museum that were basic household items, yet reveal how much our daily habits have changed over time.”

One such object that Conway cites is the butter dish. The Corning Museum last year acquired a very rare, round, pressed-glass butter dish and lid made around 1830 when butter was churned by hand on the farm – usually by women. The butter was then shaped into balls rather than today’s eight-tablespoon sticks, so a round butter dish made sense. Butter factories, also called creameries, didn’t come along until the 1850s.

“As glass historians, we have to assemble a number of facts to date objects and approach research from a variety of angles. When the dairy industry started creating sticks of butter, rectangular glass dishes followed. It was a reaction to another American industry, and it illustrates that nothing was developed in isolation from the consumer,” Conway says.

By the end of the 19th century, many people were better off financially, and more glass goods were available. The market for luxury glass blossomed, particularly for the purpose of home decoration. The creation of department stores with widely circulated publications fueled consumer demand and accessibility to material goods.

At the end of the century, the leading tastemaker was Louis Comfort Tiffany. Creating an artistic empire to outfit private homes with innovative and beautiful works of leaded-glass windows, lamps and glass vessels, Tiffany’s vision marked a turning point to the modern era of glass. The Corning Museum’s collection includes some of the highly prized lamps and leaded-glass windows designed by Tiffany.

groups, the museum presents the Hot Glass Show. Few crafts have the same level of spectacle as glass blowing. At the same time, the museum remains a great center for collecting, research and scholarship.”

Steuben Glass Works, co-founded in 1903 by English chemist and designer Frederick C. Carder, was also located in Corning until it closed in 2011. A large collection of Carder’s artistic glass is now housed at the Corning Museum.

When Conway joined the museum, she replaced a curator who had cared for the American glass for more than 40 years. That is a daunting challenge by itself, but as Conway works toward her own interpretation of the collection, she faces two particular challenges: the sheer amount of glass pieces and how to tell all their stories.

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When a museum has nearly 50,000 glass objects, many of them quite old and all of them fragile, they require a great deal of care. At the Corning Museum of Glass, the responsibility for proper cleaning, storage and sometimes repair is in the steady hands of another DePauw alumnus, chief conservator Stephen P. Koob ’71.

Glass is one of the most difficult materials to restore, according to Koob. “If glass breaks, one of its idiosyncrasies is that it breaks into sometimes the tiniest chips and fragments,” he says. “Every one of those little chips and tiny pieces has a home somewhere in the reassembled object. If you’re skilled enough to put it back together the right way, you should be able to find where virtually all, or very close to all, of those pieces go.”

The museum received a gift of a rare Tiffany lamp that had broken into about 40 large pieces and hundreds of tiny bits

of glass. Koob spent months puzzling the pieces together under a microscope and reassembling them with an acrylic adhesive developed at the museum. From a heap of shards in a box, the exquisite lamp is now on display in the museum.

Koob also works on archaeological pieces, such as two medieval beakers from the time of the Crusades, the late 12th or early 13th centuries. The dark blue glasses – gilded, enameled and scratch engraved – lay in a jumbled pile in museum storage for 40 years until Koob and a former colleague were able to isolate the fragments into two distinct pieces. It took nearly a year of work for them to restore the first beaker; the second took only about three weeks. Both pieces went on display in an international show.

Largely due to the efforts of Koob, who joined the Corning Museum in 1993 after working in ceramics and glass conservation

at the Smithsonian Institution and as conservator for the Agora Excavations in Greece, the Corning Museum is an international leader in glass conservation. Corning’s program attracts students from around the world, and especially Europe, who want to work full time with glass.

“We’ve developed new techniques and new materials for working with glass, including adhesives, restoration materials and even packing and storage. We have the largest collection, the broadest collection, and the most expertise and experience in working with glass,” Koob says. “We’ve been able to teach what we’ve learned not only to the public but also to professional conservators.”

Koob also has taught a one-week course in Europe and other locations for nearly 15 years. He continues to do archaeological conservation at Samothrace in northern Greece.

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focuses on the role of glass in significant technical innovations that have occurred through time.”

And glass innovations are many. Wight notes, for example, that the field of optics wouldn’t exist without glass, because early lenses were made out of natural materials such as rock crystal, which is rare, hard to cut and difficult to manipulate into optical, curved surfaces for magnification, for example.

The development of glass lenses for microscopes and telescopes allowed for huge advances in molecular, biological and astronomical studies. In the 1800s, Corning Glass Works developed a new lens for railroad signal lanterns that led to a standardized signal system and decreased accidents. The company

also provided glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s filament light bulbs. When electric lighting took off in the 1880s, the company made so many light bulbs and railroad lenses that it scaled back on making glass vessels.

Today, glass makes fiber-optic communications possible. One of Corning’s newest innovations is the scratch- and impact-resistant Gorilla Glass used in iPhones carried by millions of people around the globe every day.

telling stories through glAssJust as glass continues to change, so does the landscape in which museums must connect with and remain relevant

“My job is to understand all aspects of the American glass collection, whether it is a history of how and why a glassworker’s descendants cared for an object over a century, whose marriage or retirement a glass commemorated, how an object illustrated technological innovation, and why these individual glass objects illustrate important changes in our society,” Conway says.

“My overall interpretive goal for the collection is just to tell these stories about our American history, help visitors connect with these objects as something meaningful and hope they find the objects relevant to their own lives.”

That helps explain why Karol Wight, Corning’s executive director and curator of ancient and Islamic glass, was interested in Conway for the position. “Kelly does very strong scholarship, and she brings the kind of expertise we need to the position of curator of American glass,” Wight says.

Conway’s experience prepared her for the new challenge. Looking after the Chrysler Museum’s entire glass collection provided her with broad knowledge of glass, not just the American kind. That fits well with the Corning Museum’s goal to enhance and expand its programs. “We want to be the world’s authority on glass,” Wight says.

Wight explains the museum’s unique role in tracing the history of glass: “We have the most comprehensive collection of glass objects from the time glass was first created as a material and formed into objects by man – from ancient Mesopotamia in the second and third millennia B.C. up to the present day. It’s our goal to have a deep collection of the history of glassmaking that goes beyond the usual vessels to include architectural glass and scientific glass. So we have an entire innovation center here that

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Kelly a. ConWay ’99

Position: Curator of American glass, Corning Museum of Glass

studies at DePauw: Major in American history, minor in classical studies

DePauw activities: Women’s golf team, Delta Zeta sorority, Panhellenic president

Further education: Master of Arts degree in history of decorative arts from Parsons School of Design + Smithsonian Associates

Previous jobs: • Curator of glass, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va.• Manager, Random Harvest Antiques and Home Furnishings, Washington, D.C. • Winter Term internship coordinator, DePauw University

outside interests: Travel, yoga, baking, civic volunteer and performing arts advocacy

Favorite DePauw professors: John T. Schlotterbeck, professor of history, was my adviser from day one at DePauw. He encouraged me to study abroad in Rome, taught me to critically evaluate statistics and helped me locate the right graduate school program. I recently came across a poignant thank-you letter written by Barbara J. Steinson, professor of history, to our 20th century U.S. History class as a reflection of and thanks for the semester. It was exceptionally memorable.

Favorite DePauw memories: I loved Winter Terms at DePauw, particularly the first one. I believe my freshman Winter Term was the first in which students were able to select their own curriculum. I chose Shakespearean Verse through Acting. I remember practicing a lot of breathing exercises and emphatic hurling of Shakespearean insults.

to people. “The leading edge of glassmaking today has much to do with public performance, prompting some to debate whether it is the studio process itself – watched by a rapt audience and perhaps accompanied by rock music – or the discrete, finished object that is the principal work of art,” Chrysler Museum curator Harrison says.

“I love watching people watching glass being made,” he adds. The Chrysler and Corning museums both feature glass-blowing demonstrations for visitors, and both offer people an opportunity to create their own glass objects – blown, fused, cast or lampworked.

The Corning Museum is building a new gallery for contemporary art in glass because the way artists are using glass now is increasingly larger in scale. “Museums are really attracted to contemporary glass,” Wight says. “They’re seeing it more in connection to other contemporary art, such as paintings and sculptures.”

Wight and Conway, like other museum curators, are working to develop new tools and take advantage of new technologies to interpret their collections. They need to understand what visitors really want to learn and how to tell the stories that answer their questions. In the case of glass, the stories vary from purely scientific to purely artistic.

“I think the good news for us is that glass is very much a part of our everyday lives. We are surrounded by glass all the time at home and at work,” Wight says. “Coming up with relevant stories to connect our visitors and our collections to their daily lives is actually a very easy task for us. All we have to do is draw direct parallels between a 17th century goblet and the wine glass you buy in a department store.”

GLASS FACTS• Glassmaking began in Mesopotamia (now

Iraq and northern Syria) just before 2000 B.C. The Corning Museum’s earliest pieces date from about 1450 B.C.

• Glassblowers work with molten glass at temperatures near 2100º F (1150º C).

• Glass can be formed in nature when sand or rocks are heated to high temperatures and then cooled rapidly. Volcanic glass is called obsidian. Glass formed when a meteorite strikes sand is called a tektite. Glass formed from a lightning strike is called a fulgurite.

• There are many recipes for making glass, but the three main ingredients are a former, flux and stabilizer. Silica (silicon dioxide) in the form of sand is a common former. Soda (sodium carbonate) and potash (potassium carbonate), both alkalis, are common fluxes, which lower the melting point. Lime (calcium carbonate) is a common stabilizer needed to make the glass strong and water resistant.

• Glassblowing began in the Roman Empire around 50 B.C.

• Glass musical instruments include the armonica developed by Ben Franklin.

• Glassmaking was America’s first industry.

• When gold chloride is added to a batch, the mixture of raw materials used to make glass, the result is a deep red glass known as gold ruby.

• In 1954 Corning scientist Donald Stookey left a piece of glass in a furnace, and it overheated. Crystals formed in the glass, causing it to be opaque and very strong – a glass-ceramic. Today, glass-ceramics are commonly used as bakeware.

• Glass used in space capsules is chemically tempered. Glass is placed in a bath of potassium salts where potassium ions replace the smaller sodium ions. This exchange makes the surface crowded, and the glass is compressed, making it very strong.

– Courtesy of Corning Museum of Glass

GRoWTH oF THE CoRNING MUSEUMSince opening in 1951, the Corning Museum of Glass has had one mission: to tell the world about glass.

Conceived as an educational institution and founded by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), the museum has never showcased the company or its products; rather it is a nonprofit institution that preserves and expands the world’s understanding of glass.

More than 60 years later, the museum’s scholarship and outreach as a collecting, exhibiting, teaching and research facility are felt around the world. It is home to the world’s largest collection of glass, containing nearly 50,000 objects representing 3,500 years of glass history. The museum and its renowned Rakow Library actively acquire materials, curate special exhibitions and conduct extensive research.

The museum has grown over the years to include several glass galleries, a hands-on Innovation Center, demonstrations of hot glassblowing, opportunities for visitors to make glass, one of the largest museum shops in the country and more. It attracts almost 400,000 visitors from around the globe annually.

Read more about the Corning Museum of Glass at www.cmog.org.



CREATING THE 21ST-CENTURY

MUSICIANBy Christopher J. Wells


While these musicians might once have depended on landing a spot in an orchestra in order to make a living, they have instead taken control of their own musical careers. PROJECT Trio sometimes works with orchestras, but their calendar is also packed with performances in smaller venues, engagement in music-education endeavors and feeding its online presence. The Trio’s YouTube channel has more than 77 million views and 85,000 regular subscribers.

During the current academic year, DePauw hosted the Fifth House Ensemble, a Chicago-based musical group committed to sharing the art of chamber music in ways that are personal, relevant and entertaining to audiences. Its residency at DePauw will culminate in a community-based tribute to the agricultural community of Putnam County with the world premiere of “Harvest,” a new composition that blends live music with other art forms (see sidebar story on page 26). Like

PROJECT Trio, Fifth House Ensemble seeks to make art music relevant to new audiences.

While some American classical music institutions are facing challenges and changes like never before, entrepreneurial ensembles like Fifth House and PROJECT Trio are having remarkable successes developing new audiences and new venues. However, despite marked changes in the environment facing music school graduates, music education across the

The DePauw University School of Music is building its reputation for bringing a new kind of musician to Greencastle. It began in fall 2012 with PRoJECT Trio, a Brooklyn-based ensemble of young artists featuring a beatboxing flautist that The New York Times called “the best in the world at what he does.” The ensemble defies audience expectations, moving easily between classical, jazz and popular music.

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nation has remained largely unchanged since before the DePauw School of Music was founded in 1884.

RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACEMusic educators can take some comfort from a recent Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) report, which showed that 90 percent of arts graduates are satisfied with their educational experiences and 76 percent would do it again. However, when graduates were asked to identify the most important career skills that their arts education had least prepared them for, one item jumped to the top: managing financial and business aspects. Graduates also indicated a gap in preparation in related skills they felt are essential to their work, including entrepreneurial skills, leadership and managing projects.

This gap has led some conservatories to create an Office for Entrepreneurship, or the like, in an attempt to develop these skills in their students while simultaneously developing them as musicians. That approach structurally separates the core education in musicianship from education in the means of crafting a career in music. To the extent that career skills are not part of the central curriculum of a school, they will always be secondary and under-emphasized, and music students may still graduate unprepared for a world in which musicians must increasingly take an active role in creating their own audiences, their own markets. This would be unfortunate, since the changes in markets for classical music make it fairly clear that if ever there was an age in which musicians need the entrepreneurial skill to create new markets, new venues and new audiences, the 21st century is it.

SETH TSUI ’11 BLAZES HIS oWN MUSIC CAREERSeth J. Tsui, a 2011 graduate of the DePauw School of Music, splits time between his fiancée in Oakland, Calif., and 370 miles to the south in a Los angeles recording studio/house he shares with four other musicians, composers and sound engineers.

Typically, he’s in front of a computer mixing or composing one of the projects he’s juggling at the moment. But he also might be stuck in traffic on the Oakland Bay Bridge on his way to record sound for a documentary at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters. Or at a party for the computer game StarCraft, to mingle with some game developers. He confesses that he’s not very good at the game, which wouldn’t matter if he got a composing gig out of attending the event.

Like many young music graduates, Tsui finds that he must work constantly not just to identify employment opportunities but also to create them. Despite the stresses of blazing his own career trail, Tsui knows he’s lucky: so far he has managed to make a living as a composer. Sometimes he feels like he’s on the verge of not being able to keep up, and just at that moment a new opportunity comes along. earlier this year, Tsui won a film scoring competition hosted by Cine, the nonprofit american film and television promoter, which provided some important exposure for his work.

The DePauw School of Music brought Tsui back in October 2013 as the guest composer of a piece performed live by the university Orchestra. During his time on campus, he was excited to hear about the potential for 21CM to make DePauw a leader in training musicians for the kind of life he is living. He sees this new possibility as an answer to a clear problem.

“For computer science majors, for example, a university will teach them the skills they need to work at a company like google or Microsoft,” he says. “if they decide ‘i’m going to start my own company,’ then they’re seen as extra ambitious. Musicians haven’t really had that choice.”


DePauw was something of a pioneer when it founded its School of Music. It was just the sixth such school in the United States, ahead of Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis. Today, DePauw School of Music faculty and Dean Mark McCoy are again looking to blaze a new trail. They are addressing the clear gaps in music education by developing a program, called 21st-Century Musician (21CM), aimed at producing musicians well trained for the 21st century.

THE NEW PRoFILEStudents still develop their artistry with rigor, but the pursuit of flawless technique alone has done little to generate new audiences or create careers of meaning and purpose. As a leading liberal arts college with a strong, accredited school of music, DePauw is well positioned to launch a program that could model substantive change in the art music world. 21CM builds on

DePauw’s proud history of connecting the strengths of a liberal arts education with preparation for life’s work.

To be ready for a brave new musical world, DePauw’s music students need experience in audience development, community impact, and marketing and publicity. They need applied experience as teachers as well as students. They need firsthand experience with musicians in the real world, landing gigs, managing schedules, building audiences and

impacting communities. They’ll still study music theory, music history and the work of the masters. But they’ll also have regular interaction with living composers, experience bringing new works from page to stage, and significant touring and recording experiences. And they’ll approach all of these endeavors with a flexible and entrepreneurial mindset.

In order for 21CM to provide a new paradigm for music education, the DePauw School of Music is making room for these new skills in the curriculum itself. Toward this end, faculty members are working to add courses in entrepreneurship and advocacy, and they are modifying the age-old way many traditional courses are taught.

To give students relevant teaching experience, the School of Music has launched a preparatory program and adopted the music program of a local

middle school. To provide experience in studio work and live recording, the School of Music started its own recording label and is updating DePauw’s in-house recording studios. Opportunities to work

with living composers have grown with the addition of Broadway composers, and regular national and international touring programs are serving to provide real-world touring experience to DePauw undergraduates.

The new Green Guest Artist Concert series has already brought many prominent artists to campus, including Thomas Hampson, the Canadian Brass, Bobby McFerrin and YoYo Ma – in addition to a younger

generation of 21st-century musicians, such as PROJECT Trio, VOCES 8 and Time for Three. During 2013-14, the Guest Artist Concerts were expanded to include artists-in-residence, beginning with a yearlong residency by the Fifth House Ensemble (See sidebar story on page 26).

DePauw also is showing students how to build audiences by reaching into the community. School of Music performers venture off campus to churches, senior centers, local restaurants and coffee shops in and around Greencastle. Students are shaking up the ways they present music, too, in concerts that encourage the audience to dance, lie down or sing along. Taking advantage of media vehicles for promoting music, they launched a weekly radio show and podcast, “Music for Life,” which previews upcoming performances with in-depth interviews of artists. Total ticket sales for School of Music events have doubled in two years – enviable results for any arts organization.

Greg Sandow, a music critic and composer who spent time in Greencastle working with School of Music students and faculty, called 21CM a “revolution” in music education. While at DePauw, he was struck by how seriously and realistically the faculty and administration are facing up to the challenges inherent in planning such a dramatically new paradigm.

Although a great deal of work remains for Dean Mark McCoy and his faculty colleagues in the School of Music, the results of their efforts have been extraordinary thus far. They look forward to DePauw students’ audience-building and community-engagement skills having an impact far beyond Greencastle.

As a leading liberal arts college with a strong, accredited school of music, DePauw is well positioned to launch a program that could model substantive change in the art music world.


FIFTH HoUSE ENSEMBLE BRINGS CoMMUNITY ToGETHERThe Chicago-based Fifth House ensemble is a chamber music group praised by The New York Times for its “conviction, authority and finesse.” Having pioneered the art of narrative chamber music, Fifth House’s innovative programs engage audiences through the ensemble’s connective programming and unexpected performance venues.

This year, Fifth House is in a yearlong residency at DePauw’s School of Music as part of 21CM. During four visits to greencastle, group members are leading workshops and teaching masterclasses for DePauw students. The musicians also are connecting with local community members in order to build Harvest, a concert experience celebrating the heroes and heritage of Putnam County, which will be performed on Mother’s Day, May 11, 2014.

Harvest will showcase School of Music and local musicians in concert with Fifth House and will feature many musical genres. inspiration and materials for the concert are being gathered from the Putnam County community as Fifth House members interview area residents for stories about their home. The Harvest concert will bring

together DePauw students, greencastle residents, members of the Putnam County agricultural community and more.

a full recap of the ensemble’s first visit to DePauw is available at: http://fifth-house.com/depauw-university-school-of-music-setptember-residency-visit.


a $15 million gift from Judson ’74 and Joyce (Taglauer ’75) green is launching an initiative to transform the DePauw university School of Music – one of the nation’s first – to meet the needs of students who are entering a rapidly changing music industry.

The 21st-Century Musician initiative (21CM), the first of its kind, is a complete re-imagining of the professional music school curriculum and student experience with the aim of creating flexible, entrepreneurial professionals prepared for the challenges of today’s music world.

The greens made an initial $15 million gift to the School of Music in 2007, which established the Judson and Joyce green Center for the Performing arts, the home of the School of Music.

JUDSoN AND JoYCE GREEN’S GIFT LAUNCHES 21ST-CENTURY MUSICIAN INITIATIVE

“The world of music is changing rapidly, but presents so many new opportunities for musicians and music students. The goal of 21CM is to create talented and entrepreneurial musicians who can thrive in this new musical paradigm. Much like our association with Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony, we view this gift as an opportunity to expand and sustain the role of music in civic and cultural life,” Joyce green said.

“Providing experiences that foster creativity and innovation among DePauw students in ways that bring music – in its many forms – to new audiences and new communities is one that energizes us,” Judson green added.

world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma participated in a unique two-day visit on

campus last fall that included discussions, performances with the DePauw orchestra and “pop-up” performances across campus.

“i am thrilled that Judson and Joyce are supporting the future of music in this way,” Yo-Yo Ma said. “Having spent time at DePauw, i understand the greens’ love for the university, and i think this initiative will have a profound impact on how we educate future generations of musicians.”

AbovE: from left, Joyce taglauer greeN, muSIc deaN marK mccoy aNd JudSoN greeN.


What students did last summer

eye-opening internshipsBy Sarah McAdams

The internship that Hang “Lucy” D. La ’15 completed last summer at Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy in Washington, D.C., allowed her to achieve a dream of working for a nonprofit organization with a focus on education. During that experience, La was responsible for day-to-day administrative tasks, and she learned new skills, including event planning, website maintenance, and professional and strategic uses of social media.

DePauw’s Summer Grant Internship Program made it possible for La to go to Washington. A $1 million gift from Richard S. ’76 and Janet Asp Neville to the Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement has created an endowment to provide continued support for such eye-opening student internship experiences. Managed by the Hubbard Center, the Summer Internship Grant Program demonstrates DePauw’s commitment to prepare students for lifelong learning by combining a liberal arts education and career planning with cocurricular development.

La wanted to participate in the summer program at The Fund for American Studies, which included both

an academic component and internship. “The Hubbard Center played an important role in enabling me to pursue both,” she says. “The Fund for American Studies offered me a scholarship, but it wasn’t enough to cover my living expenses, and I couldn’t afford to do the internship separately because it was unpaid. Thankfully, the stipend made it possible for me to go.”

“The combination of a very successful pilot program last summer and the Nevilles’ gift has made it easier for employers to hire our students, and we have made it easier for our students to understand the process,” says Rajesh “Raj” Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning. “What I love about the grant process is that students go out and find their passions; it’s a real job search. We just provide that extra support to make it happen.”

Richard D. Walsh ’15 worked for the Greencastle Mayor’s Office last summer to improve the city’s communications system. Walsh, who started a Web design company during his first year at DePauw, has worked with many nonprofit organizations in the community. He felt fortunate to have an opportunity to work so closely with

city employees and the Mayor’s Office, where his job was to redesign the City of Greencastle’s website and enhance email communications.

Walsh’s new and improved website is much easier to navigate, and it includes a countywide directory. “All of the content you need is on one page, and the search feature is robust,” he says. “The experience definitely added an additional layer to my professional experience.”

In an increasingly competitive job market, research confirms the values and benefits of summer internships for students’ professional and career development. Students gain real-world experiences while exploring their career options. Bellani says that it’s just as valuable for a student to discover what he or she doesn’t want to do professionally through an internship as it is to confirm what the student does want to do.

According to a recent National Association of College Employers survey, more than 65 percent of internships end with an offer of employment. And 83 percent of employers said an internship or community-based project where students apply college learning in


real-world settings is an effective way to ensure that college graduates have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in entry-level positions.

“Many recruiters who come to campus are recruiting for summer internships,” explains Erin A. Mahoney, associate director of career services. “We are preparing students for the competitive internships that take place between their junior and senior years. Employers use those summer internships as recruiting tools, and often those students come back to campus and start their senior year with a job offer.”

Bellani explains the importance of a meaningful sophomore summer internship experience: “When an internship takes place in a professional setting, with outcomes and a learning contract, the experience gives students

something to talk about during that more competitive interview process the following year.”

However, internships aren’t always financially possible for students. “Many internship opportunities are unpaid, especially if the host is a nonprofit, small business or start-up organization without funds available to offer interns a stipend or hourly wage. However, the work that the student would be exposed to is phenomenal,” says Christine L. Munn, coordinator of employer relations and internships.

Mahoney agrees. “Students have such incredible opportunities with smaller organizations because they get exposure to more areas of the business. As they demonstrate their abilities to their employers, the students take on more responsibility and come back with such

impressive skills.”But lack of financial

means to pay for living expenses for the summer could prevent some students from being able to gain this real-life experience, according to Munn. “The Summer Internship Grant Program provides financial support to cover the cost of accommodations and transportation while the student is working at an internship,” she says.

Student recipients of a summer internship grant are required to fulfill the duties established by the

internship host and write a weekly blog and final reflective piece. Their final requirement, a public presentation, is a way to share their internships with other students, faculty and staff members, as well as the donors who helped make their opportunities possible.

In addition to internships that students arrange, the University has partnerships with Putnam County nonprofits and government agencies. Internships offered by alumni and friends of the University are available to students through the TigerTracks database.

In an effort to strengthen students’ connections with alumni, students have access to the alumni directory, which allows them to contact alumni directly to inquire about internship opportunities. Munn credits these connections with alumni through the Office of Alumni Engagement for a dramatic increase in the number of internships offered to DePauw students. “I’ve never seen a base of alumni who are so willing to offer so many opportunities, and we’re truly grateful for them,” she says.

Munn is working to increase international internship opportunities in order to better direct students to internships while they’re studying abroad. “Along with all the benefits of an internship, it would also give them global economic and cultural perspectives, which is very important to employers these days,” she says.

alumni who are interested in offering internships, sharing career advice and supporting DePauw students in other ways can email Raj Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning, at [email protected]: HaNg “lucy” d. la ’15


Liberal arts colleges like DePauw promise students an intense, deliberative intellectual journey. These journeys are enriched through myriad opportunities for student engagement across a dynamic, social campus environment. The classic DePauw student is not just an exemplary scholar, but also a team captain, the student body president and a community service leader.

Founded more than 175 years ago, DePauw can trace its very roots to philanthropy. Greencastle, Ind., was the chosen site for the University because the community worked diligently to raise the $25,000 needed to convince the Methodists to establish their college in this place. Additional and future gifts continued to mark the evolution of the University, including the $600,000

given by Washington C. DePauw and his family in 1884 and resulting in the naming of the University in their honor. The year 1919 saw establishment of the Rector Scholarship Fund through a $2.5 million gift by Edward Rector, and in 1999 Ruth Clark and Philip Forbes Holton ’29 gave a total of $128 million to support students of high character with academic and leadership potential.

While these contributions are individually consequential given their size and scope, the University’s

DePauw’s Annual fundDePauw University is a place where intellectual challenge and social experiences combine to prepare students for a lifetime of leadership and achievement. This statement captures who we are and is deceptively simple.

Annual Fund program is equivalently significant given it represents the collective impact of literally thousands of alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends who choose to make gifts each year to the University. The consistent support of Annual Fund donors enables DePauw to honor its commitment to the values our community holds most dear, offering them to a new class of students each year.

Annual Fund contributions are more important than you may realize. Tuition covers only about half of the actual cost of educating and preparing a DePauw undergraduate. Fifty-three percent of DePauw students receive need-based financial assistance. Understandably and appropriately, many of the unrestricted contributions secured through the

Annual Fund program directly support financial aid for deserving DePauw students. Looking forward, it is imperative that we continue our tradition of supporting

“every class of citizen” – whether or not they have the means to pay for the full cost of this extraordinary education. Providing admission to the most qualified applicants, regardless of their financial circumstances, is one of the greatest challenges facing liberal arts institutions like DePauw today and going forward.

All gifts – regardless of size – are a statement of support for DePauw’s mission and directly impact the continued

and sustained financial viability of the University. There is literally not a corner of the campus untouched by Annual Fund support. As DePauw’s Annual Fund program exceeds $5 million each year, its impact as an unrestricted source of income is equivalent to more than $100 million in endowment. To put that in further context, DePauw’s endowment currently stands at $549 million. The donors who support the Annual Fund program at DePauw make gifts of all sizes, but their collective consequence is undeniably large.

the signiFiCanCe oF these giFts Cannot Be overstateD.Annual Fund contributions provide the margin of distinction that differentiates DePauw. It is that differentiation between a good education and a complete one that offers our students the opportunity to develop their abilities to connect their work in the classroom to the requirements of the world after graduation.

Participation in DePauw’s Annual Fund program represents your endorsement of the University’s core mission and your confidence in its capacity to meet the needs of today’s students, and its current and future alumni. We thank you for your generous and steadfast support of these ideals and a shared commitment to all those who will follow us as the next generations of DePauw alumni. There is no greater investment we can make in our collective future.

tuition covers only about half of the actual cost of educating and preparing a DePauw undergraduate.


• More than $50 million in financial assistance to students to provide access to a residential, liberal arts experience that is among the nation’s very best

• More than $30 million in academic instruction

• More than $6 million in student life support and athletics

• More than $100,000 of academic equipment to be used in high-impact learning programs

• More than $2 million in maintaining the learning and living environment at DePauw

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univeRSiTY inveSTMenTS FOR FiSCaL YeaR 2013-14 aRe POSSiBLe BeCauSe OF:

Your Annual fund Gifts Make a DifferenceDePauw university offers a residential, liberal arts experience that is among the nation's very best. Many of the key markers of this experience – low student-to-faculty ratio, high participation in off-campus study programs, unique undergraduate research opportunities and numerous other high-impact learning practices that lead to extraordinary outcomes – require significant financial investment. DePauw has a long history of investing in the student experience and making it available to talented young men and women who otherwise might not have been able to afford an education. This would not be possible without your annual Fund contributions.

During Fiscal Year 2013-14, the university will award more than $50 million of financial assistance to students and invest almost $100 million in the DePauw experience. annual Fund gifts make both investments possible.


DePauW magazine: Please tell us a little about yourself, your background with DePauw and your responsibilities as National Annual Giving Chair.

anDy rieth: I’m a native Hoosier and found my way to DePauw through the Methodist Church, my parents’ recommendation and a Rector Scholarship. After DePauw, I received a M.B.A. degree from Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and joined Eli Lilly and Company. I met my wife while I was a sales rep in Florida – only to learn we had grown up eight miles apart in northern Indiana! My career roles have included sales, marketing, business development, strategic planning, government affairs, human resources, brand management and investor relations. My DePauw liberal arts experience turned out to be the perfect preparation for that diverse array of responsibilities.

We have two daughters in their 20s. I enjoy singing and playing guitar (I was a Collegian while at DePauw). I am a very slow half-marathoner and lifelong Green Bay Packers fan.

My involvement with DePauw began upon graduation, as I was nominated by the student body to serve as a trustee. I had the privilege of serving with truly great men and women with an incredible devotion to DePauw. I remember how impressed I was, as a rookie trustee, that these eminently successful people were sincerely interested in what the student trustees had to say. That tradition continues to this day. No matter where they’re from, or how long ago they graduated, there is an instant

A Conversation with Andy Rieth ’80, National Annual Giving Chaircamaraderie that is magnificent – and a whole lot of fun!

As National Annual Giving Chair, I’m honored to lead the effort to encourage regular, yearly giving to support DePauw’s programs and mission. My primary goal is to expand regular participation in our Annual Giving programs. Today, about 30 percent of DePauw alumni give to these programs. Can you imagine what could be accomplished if that figure grew to 35 or 40 percent? Participation is the key. I’m actually more interested in boosting participation rates than individual donor amounts.

Dm: What inspired you to become National Annual Giving Chair?

ar: There are many good causes to support. Religious organizations, various civic groups or other community outreach programs are all worthy of your time and resources. But I can think of no better cause than to ensure a DePauw education is available to the broadest possible number of talented and exceptional students. I am inspired by the incredible students I meet at DePauw and the countless DePauw alumni who have given so much to DePauw and to society.

Dm: What moved you to begin donating to the Annual Fund, and why do you think doing so is important?

ar: It started with our Senior Gift Drive in 1980. As a Rector Scholar, it really hit home that I had benefited from the gifts of those who came before me. It never occurred to me not to give back to the extent I could; it is just what one does. My parents

were also instrumental in instilling the importance of philanthropy.

Dm: Why do you find that supporting the Annual Fund is rewarding, and how would you encourage others to contribute and get involved?

ar: Supporting DePauw through annual giving is such a rewarding experience! You know that the “product” you’re supporting is high quality and has the potential to make a significant impact. Supporting scholarships and other academic programs provides a tremendous “return on investment” and can make the difference between whether a deserving student comes to DePauw or has to choose elsewhere.

For recent graduates, start giving regularly at whatever amount you can afford. If you’re an Indiana resident, ordering that DePauw license plate contributes $25 to DePauw. Other ways to give include participating in recruiting activities, recommending outstanding high school students to


DePauw (start early; don’t wait until they’re seniors), hosting students for Winter Term, being a career counselor, hosting a student internship at work – there are so many ways to get involved. Just call the Admission Office or Career Center to ask, “How can I help?”

Dm: What is the most satisfying project you’ve seen come to fruition while you’ve been National Annual Giving Chair?

ar: I’m a big fan of D. Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music, and the incredibly exciting and innovative things he’s doing to create the 21st-Century Musician Initiative. While DePauw’s School of Music is one of the oldest in the nation, he is finding new ways to bring together the central Indiana community, College of Liberal Arts students, and School of Music students in novel ways with other world-class musicians and ensembles to create exciting career and artistic opportunities. This is truly distinctive and differentiates DePauw dramatically from other conservatories and schools of music.

Dm: What do you like best about serving as National Annual Giving Chair?

ar: I get to continually witness the incredible passion and loyalty of DePauw alumni from around the world. I am awestruck by the potential we have to attract and develop students who will become servant-leaders for generations to come.

New App Now Available to facilitate Alumni NetworkingDePauw alumni now have a new platform for navigating the alumni network. The University is launching the DePauw Alumni App by EverTrue for accessing the alumni directory and mapping alumni by professional, social and other attributes.

“The DePauw Alumni App is our latest step to connect alumni to one another and to DePauw, and to facilitate career and professional development across our strong network,” said Brent E. St. John ’89, president of the DePauw University Alumni Association.

Powered by EverTrue, the new DePauw Alumni App enables users to: • Search the alumni directory by name,

class year, location or company • View search results on a map, including a

“nearby” function to find alumni near you • Integrate contact information with LinkedIn • Stay connected with DePauw’s Facebook,

Twitter and YouTube accounts • Quickly access the calendar of upcoming

alumni eventsThe application is compatible with iPhone, iPad

and Android devices. It may be downloaded through the QR code at right or by searching for “EverTrue” in the Apple App Store and Google Play. It is also available through www.depauw.edu/alumni.

The DePauw Alumni App is accessible only to alumni and members of the campus community. The app’s directory profiles display name, class year, major, business title and email address.

If alumni wish for business title and email address to be unavailable, they may opt out by contacting the Office of Alumni Engagement at [email protected] or 877-658-2586.

LiCENsE PLAtEDid you know that if you’re an Indiana resident, you can get a special DePauw University license plate for your vehicle, and $25 of the $40 total cost goes toward the Annual Fund? Visit www.depauw.edu/alumni/resources/depauw-license-plate/ to find out more.

William Charles bennettWhen did you graduate? 1974

When did you first begin donating? 1986

What moved you to donate? I was invited back to campus as a speaker.

What would you like to see DePauw do with your gifts? Advance diversity.

What about DePauw makes it deserving of your donation? I am a proud DePauw grad. DePauw helped me a lot.

how would you encourage others to donate? By acknowledging their successes and recognizing themselves as DePauw grads.

Why do you think donating to the annual Fund is important? Students don’t really understand how a university is financed. As a student, I thought my tuition paid the bills. I now know how far from the truth that is. The long-term success of your alma mater and its reputation is directly tied to alumni

giving, which in turn enhances the value of the DePauw degree for all.

Kyle and Kelly HawkinsWhen did you graduate? Kyle: 2007/Kelly: 2008

When did you first begin donating? We started donating as a married couple in 2009. But each of us started individually during our Senior Gift Drive.

What moved you to donate? Both of us were raised to be charitable and give back. It’s been instilled in us by our parents to give to things we’re passionate about, and DePauw is one of those things. We both owe so much to the school and what it has given us, so it’s only natural to give back so that future DePauw students can have the same experiences we did. Kyle’s involvement on the Board of Trustees made him realize just how much the University relies on the Annual Fund to help the annual budget.

What would you like to see DePauw do with your gifts? We love giving to the

University through the Annual Fund in order to help fund scholarships. But we purposely give unrestricted gifts to allow the University to make the decision. Ultimately, down the road, we’d love to be able to give enough to earmark donations to start a scholarship trust that provides scholarships to legacy students.

What about DePauw makes it deserving of your donation? We loved our time at DePauw. It’s a great school. Pretty much everything we have in our lives, we owe to DePauw. It made us who we are. We met there, Kyle got his job through DePauw connections and we even got our beagle, Stella, while Kyle was a senior at DePauw. We want to help preserve the institution that gave us such great memories. In 17 years, we hope our one-year-old daughter will be making the trip down to Greencastle as well. We donated on her behalf before she was a year old, and we’re hoping that when she’s 75, she can say she’s donated for 75 years!

how would you encourage others to donate? The biggest thing we can say is that everyone needs to first realize that DePauw doesn’t print money. It does take a lot of money to run the University and provide all of the experiences DePauw does. The University relies heavily on charitable contributions from loyal alumni since tuition only covers a portion of the actual cost of a DePauw education. Secondly, realize that every little bit helps. While your contribution by itself may not make a huge impact on the University’s budget, when you


WHY WE GIVE

for a few years thereafter. Very simply, I had a great DePauw experience, and there was no way that I could have attended DePauw without the merit- and need-based scholarships that I received. Even right out of college, with limited income, I believed that I owed a little something back to DePauw and to its donors as a thank-you. I also believed that future students should have the same or better opportunities as those afforded to me. My beliefs are the same today, and that’s why I give to DePauw every year.

What would you like to see DePauw do with your gifts? I ask for my gifts to go toward scholarship availability.

how would you encourage others to donate? I would especially encourage young graduates to make a first donation. There is always something from one’s DePauw experience that is meaningful, and even the most modest gift can advance the University’s goals and provide opportunities to others.

dedication to their students and the education process at the highest level.

how would you encourage others to donate? I would encourage them to think back on their experiences and realize that they more than likely were not there or in the position to be there without the help of someone else.

Why do you think donating to the annual Fund is important? The Alumni Board member in me would say that tuition doesn’t cover all the expenses associated with running an institution, and the Annual Fund is the way to shore up the gaps – plus move the institution forward in a strategic planning cycle. It is the one way that, without sending a student there, we’re able to help financially support the endeavors of the student body currently enrolled.

Christopher “Chris” P. feltsWhen did you graduate? 1991

When did you first begin donating? 1991-92 campaign

What moved you to donate? I was my fraternity’s Annual Fund Class Agent for my first year out of DePauw and

combine it with thousands of other alumni donors, those donations do have a huge impact. Lastly, donations aren’t just about money. Give your time, too! There are plenty of ways to get involved through the Alumni Association. Whether it’s helping recruit new students, going back to campus for events or attending your local alumni chapter’s social/networking events, there’s always something going on that can help you reconnect with the University and see old friends – and make new ones.

Why do you think donating to the annual Fund is important? We look at scholarships we received from the University almost as no-interest college loans. We want to pay that back during the rest of our lives. It may take us 70 years, but we want to do it. Also, think of how much campus has changed since you graduated. It may be two years, 10 years or 40 years, but what a change there has been. How was all of that accomplished? Through loyal alumni donors who want to give back to the University. The Annual Fund is the breeding ground for those loyal donors.

Michael E. bogersWhen did you graduate? 2001

When did you first begin donating? 2001

What moved you to donate? My experience at DePauw.

What would you like to see DePauw do with your gifts? Provide an opportunity for students to come to what I perceive to be one of the best institutions in the country, even if they have financial difficulty accomplishing that goal.

What about DePauw makes it deserving of your donation? Their



Annual fund scholar olivia C. flores ’14It’s been a year since I realized that I could truly pursue my biggest dreams. My financial circumstances had taught me to believe that my dreams cost too much and were as good as impossible. In the fall of my junior year, though, I saw a poster from DePauw University’s Off-Campus Study Office that insisted otherwise.

I met with the dedicated members of this office and completed an application to study abroad for the spring of 2013 in addition to applying for other outside scholarships. I received a generous national scholarship called the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, yet it only covered half of my projected expenses. By applying for off-campus study through DePauw, I was also considered for financial aid and very fortunately received the Susan J. Wohlers Annual Fund Scholarship for International Study. It was because of this award that I realized, just a month and a half before the start of my abroad program, that I could officially afford my dream to study abroad.

I could not have been a student at the Universidad del Salvador in the beautifully diverse city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, without this fund. Moments like the ones I experienced gazing over a glacier, horseback riding in the mountains and simply walking the streets of that amazing city taught me that I cannot limit myself to just

experiencing opportunities that fall in my lap – I have to realize that I can and should fight for them. I learned to speak my father’s language, to seek those wonderful moments and ultimately to live my life the way I dreamed it could be. My semester abroad was the catalyst to so much more, and I am continually learning more and more about how grateful I am for the people who invested in me. I am indebted to the generous alumni who have had an influence on my life. Without the opportunity this scholarship provided, I would simply be lost in my dreams rather than living them.

Allen ChallengeA new tradition was established at DePauw in May 2011 with the first event of its kind, the Meeker Challenge. That year, all Annual Fund gifts made during a 24-hour period by DePauw’s Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) were matched one-to-one by a generous gift from Lis Meeker ’78. The challenge resonated well with young alumni and was repeated on February 29, 2012. This second iteration of the Meeker Challenge earned DePauw the District V Gold Award for “Best Annual Giving Program” from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

The third annual challenge on November 15, 2012, featured a new sponsor and a new moniker. The Allen Challenge was made possible by Betty Pfeffer Allen ’56 and her husband Bob, who offered to match all Annual Fund gifts made by GOLD alumni up to $50,000. The challenge officially began at 12 a.m. and concluded at 11:59 p.m., with impressive results. During that time, GOLD alumni raised $30,490 from 541 alumni donors.

“The Allen Challenge has become a mainstay of our Annual Giving program here at DePauw,” says Lindsay B. Carter, former director of annual giving. “The Allen Challenge is so successful because while GOLD alumni often mention that they cannot contribute large sums of money, they clearly understand the importance of participation, and they appreciate the opportunity to double their impact on DePauw through matching funds made available by Betty and Bob Allen.” The Allen Challenge has inspired GOLD alumni to lead the way in terms of alumni participation. In 2012-13, GOLD alumni participation reached 33.7 percent compared to 28.6 percent participation from alumni at large.


Mogck ChallengeThe first-ever Kellen Mogck Challenge took place at DePauw this fall, thanks to the generosity of the Kellen D. Mogck Foundation. Kellen Mogck was a first-year student at DePauw in February 2004 when he was tragically killed in a car accident while returning to campus from ROTC training at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. A gifted athlete, Kellen was both a wide receiver and kick returner for the DePauw football team.

“Kellen’s parents, Doug and Kim Mogck, and sister, Ali Mogck ’17, were looking for a way to both honor Kellen’s memory and make an impact on the football team that he was so proud to be a part of,” says Blake LeClair, associate director of annual giving. In partnership with the Kellen D. Mogck Foundation, the Mogck family challenged DePauw football alumni by offering to match all gifts designated to the football program by way of the Tiger Club throughout the duration of the 2013 football season, up to a total of $10,000.

“The response from our football alumni and parents was amazing,” says LeClair. “From the start of the season on Sept. 7 through the Monon Bell game on Nov. 13, the Tiger Club received gifts totaling $20,110. We set out hoping to raise $10,000 to meet the challenge that the Mogck family issued, so to raise twice that amount in such a short time was staggering.” Altogether, the Kellen Mogck Challenge resulted in $30,000 for DePauw athletics, half of which directly benefits the football team. Says LeClair, “These are dollars that the football team will use to enhance their program and grow stronger. We are grateful to the Mogck family and the Kellen D. Mogck Foundation for this wonderful idea. ”

alumni reunion Weekend June 4-8, 2014

Registration available March 17 at www.depauw.edu/alumni

Reconnect with DePauw and classmates

Engage professors in Alumni College sessions

Celebrate the recipients of the old Gold Goblet and Young Alumni Award

Michael L. Smith ’70old Gold Goblet

Jonathan V. Fortt ’98Young Alumni Award

1956 J. Richard Emens and his wife, Bea, were

commencement speakers at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Dec. 14, 2013. They are cofounders of the Conway Center for Family Business at ODU. Dick is a partner in Emens & Wolper law firm, and he practices in the areas of business planning, oil and gas law and natural resources law. James M. Lent Jr. and his wife, Lee, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, Aug. 10, 2013. They have two children and five grandchildren.

1958 Eight members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity,

representing classes 1958-60, met for lunch and remembrances, Sept. 26, 2013, in Columbus, Ind. (See photo.)

1961 Elisabeth “Lisa” Harper Hartung and husband, Ken,

moved to a continuing care retirement community, May 2013. Their address is 1711 Wateredge Drive, Naples, FL 34110. Lisa’s email address is [email protected].

Frank W. Lincoln, retired Illinois Circuit Judge, has been recalled to active judicial duty by the Illinois Supreme Court for a term beginning Jan. 2, 2014 and ending Dec. 1, 2014. He served as Circuit Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit and Presiding Judge of Douglas County, Ill., from 1984-2006. Frank is married and has four children, including Elizabeth Lincoln Reed ’93.

George P. Mitru was inducted into the Mercer County (Pa.) Hall of Fame, Jan. 8, 2014. George excelled in football, basketball and baseball in high school, and he played football and baseball at DePauw.

Gerald P. Sakura is coauthor, with the current World Chess Federation champion Stan Vaughan, of a book titled Chess Versus Ritalin … Check Mate, the first in their series, You Don’t Have to be a Rocket Scientist … tm. Gerald and Vaughan established the Chess Athletes Family Foundation, which has the motto “a family that competes together … grows together.” Their mission is: “To combat childhood

CLASS nOteSThe class notes section of DePauw Magazine allows DePauw alumni to keep their classmates and the university current on their careers, activities and whereabouts. Class notes printed in DePauw Magazine will also be included in the online version of the magazine. we will publish as many photos as possible, but due to space limitations and reproduction-quality requirements, we are not able to publish every photo. Photos cannot be returned. To have your photo considered for publication, it must meet these requirements:• group photos of alumni gatherings, including weddings, will be considered. Please include everyone’s

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AWARD WiNNERfor the second consecutive year, DePauw Magazine was recognized for feature writing in the 2013 pride of caSe v awards program sponsored by the council for advancement and Support of education district v (caSe v).

cover feature stories about depauw alumni in the winter and summer 2013 issues received a bronze award in the category of excellence in feature writing, Series. the winter issue focused on mary burnham curtis ’84 and her work solving cases at the world’s largest wildlife crime lab. the summer issue cover story, titled “can machines write?,” featured Nathan d. Nichols ’05.

the award was presented on dec. 16 at the caSe v conference in chicago.


Christian writer living in North Fort Myers, Fla. He and his wife, Sandi, have two grown sons. Scott founded eight companies during his career and retired in 2008 as chief executive officer of Affiliated Educational Consultants in Chicago. He speaks several languages, including German, Italian, French and Spanish. Scott’s email address is [email protected].

1968 Paul D. Smith has worked with governments in

Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica and St. Lucia on small business development.

1969 Jeffery J. Bowden is senior banking adviser with

Illinois Bankers Association.

Theodore “Tim” M. Solso is chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Company. He is a former member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

1970 Robert G. Hughes is chief executive of the Missouri

Foundation for Health, which awards $50 million in annual grants. He is making health care for children a major focus of Missouri’s largest health care foundation.

Michael L. Smith is among the 2014 Laureates of the Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame, which honors outstanding men and women who have made significant contributions to the corporate and civic community. Mike is retired executive vice president and chief financial officer of Anthem, Inc. He is a member of DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

1972 Dr. James W. Gesler is an orthopedic surgeon. He

is marking his 30-year anniversary at Wooster Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center in Ohio.

1973 Robert P. Kinsell retired after 25 years of

teaching from Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art in Nacogdoches, Texas. A scholarship in his honor was established by SFA Friends of the Visual Arts board.

1974 Elisa A. Turner is a member of the newly

formed curatorial advisory board of the Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design (MOAD). She is an award-winning art critic, blogger, journalist and lab instructor in the college prep writing lab of Miami Dade College. Elisa is Miami correspondent for ARTnews magazine, based in New York, as well as columnist for Art Circuits, a print and online guide to the arts in Miami.

1975 Mark A. Filippell is chairman of Ohio

Broadcast Educational Media Commission, an independent agency created to advance education and accelerate the learning of Ohio citizens through public educational broadcasting services. Mark is managing director of Western Reserve Partners LLC, a Cleveland boutique investment banking firm. (See photo.)

Dr. Frank P. Lloyd Jr., a longtime American Cancer Society volunteer, was awarded the 2013 St. George Medal, the highest distinction for volunteer service presented by the Cancer Society. Frank has served more than 23 years as an active volunteer at the local, state and national level. He currently serves as vice president of Lakeshore Division board of directors. Frank is president of Center for Surgical Science and Trauma, Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis; founder and medical director of Cascade Metrix, Inc., Indianapolis; and coroner of Marion County (Ind.).

1976 Darlene Montgomery Ryan and retired Major

Lionel “Stormy” Boudreaux were married Aug. 20, 2013, in Honolulu. Darlene is executive director of TECH Fort Worth, a technology business incubator. Stormy works for Lockheed Martin Aerospace.

1977 Barbara Kingsolver, best-selling novelist, is among

Grist’s Climate Champions of 2013.

1978 Cheryl Shaw Archer was appointed to the

Ohio State Board of Optometry by the governor of Ohio. She is an optometrist in Bowling Green.

Eight members of Phi Kappa Psi met in Columbus, Ind. Those attending included D. Reed Scism ’58, Donald V. Elshoff ’59, James B. Life ’58, Daniel L. Henderson ’58, Fred G. Augspurger ’58, Thomas A. Theobald ’59, Philip L. Houston ’60 and Howard N. Greenlee Jr. ’58.

James D. Birch ’64 and John W. owen ’64 in London, England.

Mark A. Filippell ’75

obesity and to increase math and science scores of high school students through the new inter-generational hybrid sport of Battle Field Chess.”

1962 George C. Thornton III received the inaugural

Recreator of the Year award presented by the city of Fort Collins, Colo. The award honors an individual, family or group that embodies the Recreation Department’s mission to promote health, well-being, personal growth and life enrichment. George is professor emeritus of psychology at Colorado State University.

1963 James P. Menighan attended his 54th

consecutive Monon Bell game, Nov. 16, 2013. He played football at DePauw during his student days from 1959-62. Warren E. Magnuson ’62, who has attended most of the Monon Bell games, accompanied him.

1964 James D. Birch and John W. Owen reunited

in London, England, during the International Triathlon Union Triathlon World Championships. James was a member of the United States Olympic distance team. John lives and teaches at a London-based university. (See photo.)

1965 Ralph T. Jones announced that he would not

seek reelection as a Selectman in Belmont, Mass., where he has served for 25 years in town-wide elected and appointed offices. He was a member of and chaired three town institutions: the Warrant Committee, School Committee and Board of Selectmen. He is the only citizen who has served as chair of all three institutions. In 1983 Ralph co-founded The Cadmus Group, Inc., a research and consulting firm.

Hampton “Scott” S. Tonk is a


Cheryl is a volunteer for the Realeyes classroom initiative, Vision USA, InfantSee, iSee in-school eye exams, and participated in the Volunteer Optometric Service to Humanity eye care mission in Ukraine.

1979 Andrew F. Brooks is a member of the board of

directors of Conexus Indiana. He is president of Brooks Construction Company.

Charles D. Brooks is recipient of a Government Security News 2013 Homeland Security award. He is vice president and client executive for Department of Homeland Security at Xerox Corporation, and he served as first director of legislative affairs for the science and technology directorate at Department of Homeland Security. His email address is [email protected].

William J. Roess was named chief operating officer for Technical Assurance, Inc., a building enclosure consulting, forensic engineering and comprehensive asset management services company.

1980 Robert S. Apatoff, president and chief

executive officer of FTD Companies, Inc., rang the opening bell, Nov. 4, 2013, at NASDAQ stock market in Times Square to launch the day of trading.

Elizabeth “Beth” Wolfe Bull is Dallas Business Journal’s CFO of the Year in the nonprofit segment. Beth is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Communities Foundation of Texas.

1983 Laura Demaree Shinall is president of Syndicate

Sales Inc., a family floral hardgoods supplier in Kokomo, Ind.

H. Andrew Henrikson is superintendent of Mundelein (Ill.) Elementary School District 75.

1984 Lorraine Dunn Martin was featured in Profiles

in Diversity Journal among the 2014 Women Worth Watching. She is vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Corporation’s F-35 Lightning II program.

Thomas A. Noonan was inducted into Benedictine University’s newly formed Athletics Hall of Fame in October. Tom has been involved in the Springfield, Ill., soccer community in various positions. He is assistant vice president and senior financial adviser at Merrill Lynch as well as founder of CoachThis.com.

1985 DePauw Class of 1985 Kappa Alpha Theta

sorority sisters gathered to celebrate their milestone birthdays in Gruene, Texas, October 2013. (See photo.)

Douglas L. Dell is senior vice president and manager of KeyBank’s commercial banking group for the state of Colorado. Previously, he was named Outstanding CPA in Community Service for 2012 by the Indiana CPA Society. (See photo.)

Rev. Deborah L. Grohman is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Ontario Center, N.Y. She teaches clarinet at Hochstein School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.

Ben L. Pauley is executive vice president of client relations for Zenith American Solutions, an administrator for health care and pension benefits for Taft-Hartley Labor Unions.

Alice H. Ripley, star of Next to Normal, will star in the new independent film Sugar!. The film will feature original music by Alice.

1986 Laura Clymer joined the Tucson, Ariz., law firm

of Brian Clymer as an associate. Laura graduated from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2013.

Gregory D. Gordon is vice president and commercial loan officer for Ameriana Bank in New Castle, Ind.

Albert L. Lilly III is instructor of trumpet at Marian University in Indianapolis. He is also a member of the faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University, as well as assistant director of bands at Monrovia (Ind.) High School, where he works with Brian C. Willett ’94. Albert continues as music caption head with Central States Judges Association.

Janet hayes PhilliPs ’78, clinical assistant professor at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, was inducted into the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows for the National League for Nursing. She has taught nursing for 14 years in clinical, didactic, laboratory and online settings. She is director for the Indiana University School of Nursing RN to BSN degree completion program and has been a primary investigator for a national study on innovations in curriculum design. She received a distinguished teaching award from the Board of Trustees of Indiana University for her leadership in the RN-BSN Capstone courses. She consults with universities and health care organizations regarding assessment, implementation and evaluation of educational programs through her company, Phillips Nursing Consultants. Her email address is [email protected].

Mini reunion of the 1985 Kappa Alpha Thetas. Those attending included Renee Predmore Wynn, Betsy Stelle Morgan, Melissa Frick oakley, Cathy McCracken German, Elizabeth Hanahan Wortman, Jane Lancaster Fitzpatrick, Amy Karbach Mark, Kathryn Mitchell Huskin, Lorelei Ward McDermott, Bonnie Lindrooth Masterman, Jane Carpenter Frech and Carol Payne Wagner.

Douglas L. Dell ’85 Joanne “Jodi” Royer Barnard ’86

1993 Cynthia Callender Dungey is director of the

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Jeff M. Kreutz is senior vice president of products for Findly. He leads development of innovative cloud-based talent acquisition solutions.

1994 Stephanie Beck Klein is vice president of brokerage

services for Chicago real estate firm @properties.

Jean Gileno Lloyd is director of communications for Indiana Apartment Association (IAA). Jean’s email address is [email protected].

Kyle P. Ham and DePauw Professor of Communication and Theatre Steve Timm will shoot their independent feature film, Reparation, in Greencastle, Ind., during summer 2014. They are partnering with DePauw to provide a number of student internships for the movie. Follow the project on Facebook (Reparation The Movie), or contact Kyle at [email protected], if you are interested in participating. Kyle participated in the Summer Alumni Service Trip to El Salvador in July 2013. Other DePauw alumni participating in the reunion trip included Ivan J. M. Villasboa ’93, Carolyn R. Thatcher ’07, Elta M. Marquez ’95, Susan Steele Marquez ’67 and Andrea “Annie” W. John ’01.

Christopher W. Naylor is assistant executive director of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council.

1995 Jason A. Asbury and David Smith were married

in New York City, Aug. 10, 2013. Jason’s email address is [email protected]. (See photo.)

James C. Giesen, assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, is recipient of the Francis B. Simkins Award presented by the Southern Historical Association, the third-largest organization for professional historians in the United States. The award recognizes the best first book by an author in the field of U.S. southern history. He was

recognized for his 2011 book, Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth and Power in the American South. Jim heads Mississippi State University’s Center for the History of Agriculture, Science and the Environment of the South. He is also executive secretary of the Agricultural History Society.

Alisa Torres DiLorenzo and her husband, Tony, have the top-rated marriage podcast on iTunes, the ONE Extraordinary Marriage show. They reach a worldwide audience weekly. Their website is www.oneextraordinarymarriage.com.

1996 Stephanie Jones Cegielski is vice president of public

relations for New York City-based Public Relations Society of America. Stephanie’s email address is [email protected].

Mary E. Mitchell is assistant pastor at New Growth In Christ as well as executive director of Omni Prep Academy in Memphis, Tenn.

1997 Andrea R. Gregovich’s translation of Belarusian

punk writer Vladimir Kozlov’s short story, “Politics,” appeared in the Best European Fiction 2014 anthology. Her translations of Kozlov’s stories have previously appeared in AGNI Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 3:AM Magazine and the Tin House anthology Rasskazy.

Amy M. O’Donnell founded Magic Maker Solutions LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based boutique firm specializing in organization, operational efficiency and multi-level project management for home and business. Amy is a member of National Association of Professional Organizers. She is a member of the DePauw Alumni Association D.C. Regional Board. Her website is www.magicmakersolutions.com.

1998 Alexandra Rafferty Tilghman is partner in

the law firm of Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis. She represents

Michael A. Moffatt rejoined the Indianapolis law firm of Littler Mendelson P.C., an employment and labor law firm representing management.

Joanne “Jodi” Royer Barnard is president of El Camino Hospital Foundation, the Hospital of Silicon Valley. Jodi’s email address is [email protected]. (See photo.)

1987 Jennifer Bay-Williams was elected to the National

Council of Teachers of Mathematics board of directors. Jennifer is a professor at University of Louisville.

Elizabeth Rydell Bejarano is dental director of Midwest Dental Support Center in Mondovi, Wis.

1989 Jodi Green Stockton is director of White Pine

District Library in Stanton, Mich. She worked at Danville Public Library in Indiana for 16 years, serving as manager of youth services for 11 years. She and her husband, Dan, master scheduler and senior buyer for Stahlin Enclosures in Belding, Mich., have relocated to the Grand Rapids area. Jodi would enjoy hearing from her classmates at [email protected].

Dana C. Riess is a member of the board of directors for The Association for Operations Management (APICS), global leader and premier source of knowledge in supply chain and operations management. In 2013 she was APICS board officer, serving as treasurer. Dana is controller at Abb Vie, Inc., in North Chicago.

Scott B. Ullem is chief financial officer and corporate vice president at Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, a leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring.

1991 Ingrid Wilder Hayes is vice president for enrollment

management at Spelman College in Atlanta.

1992 Steven C. Earnhart is partner with the law firm

of Thrasher Buschmann & Voelkel, P.C. in Indianapolis.


Jason A. Asbury ’95 and David Smith wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Elin Raun-Royer ’04, Blake C. Royer ’05, Shannon Whitt Smith ’95, Ryan K. Smith ’95, Matthew D. Dellinger ’97, Katy L. Keck ’77, David L. Carns ’95, James B. Stewart Jr. ’73 and Matthew J. Henning ’97.

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Her research focuses on urban water projects and training engineering students in the collaborative design process. She was featured as one of Purdue’s 5 Students Who Move the World Forward.

Jennifer E. Vance, president and co-founder of Indianapolis-based LeadJen, returned to campus, Nov. 7, 2013, to present a Robert C. McDermond Lecture. She was awarded the Robert C. McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship during the program.

2001 Felicia L. Bell is business development manager at

Concorde Career Institute in Tampa, Fla. She received a master’s degree from Indiana State University in human resource development and training, December 2013. Felicia has two children: Spencer III, 11, and Caleb, 10.

Beth Frazer Kriech, a teacher with Indianapolis Public Schools, was named 2013 Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Middle School PE Teacher of the Year. She also was named 2014 Midwest District of The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Middle School PE Teacher of the Year. She will compete for the 2014 AAHPERD National Middle School PE Teacher of the Year in April in St Louis. Beth’s email address is [email protected].

Erin Fuzzell Lower and her husband, Rob, announce the birth of their son, Larson Douglas, Aug. 23, 2013.

Larson joins brother Jackson, 2, at their home in Westfield, Ind. Erin’s email address is [email protected].

Andrea W. John returned in August 2013 from her first DePauw Summer Alumni Service Trip in El Salvador, organized by Ivan J. M. Villasboa ’93. Andrea says she had an amazing time living and working in the rural community of Las Delicias, where DePauw first began serving 20 years ago.

Adam F. Sandy is chief business development officer of Ride Entertainment Group (REG).

2002 Abigail L. Tonsing won a first-place award from

Hoosier State Press Association. She was awarded top prize for Best News Coverage with No Deadline Pressure in the division of daily newspapers. Abby is a reporter for the Bloomington (Ind.) Herald-Times.

2003 Brooke Barbee and Bryan Kallenbaugh were married

April 20, 2013, in Dana Point, Calif. Brooke’s email address is [email protected]. (See photo.)

Justin J. Jordan won the first-place Web Series Jury Award at the 2013 Hollywood Black Film Festival for his Web series, Mommy Uncensored. Justin directed, shot and edited the program.

Marc D. Pfleging is partner with the Indianapolis law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. Marc focuses on real estate and land use law, counseling on development, acquisitions, leasing, financing, land use planning and zoning. (See photo.)

Medical professional alumni and their families joined current DePauw students in Ecuador on a 2014 Winter Term in Service trip organized through Timmy Global Health. Alumni on the trip included Allison “Ali” Van Dam-Hovey ’03, a palliative and hospice registered nurse in Los Angeles; Dr. Glenn R. Silcott Jr. ’65, a retired vascular surgeon living in Glendale, Calif; and Dr. Sharon Fulton Hoover ’83, an ophthalmologist living in Zionsville, Ind. The students and alumni participated in a medical brigade bringing basic healthcare to eight remote villages in the Amazon Basin. Ali’s email address is [email protected]. (See photo.)

2004 Shawn N. and Abbie (Raderstorf ’05) Bush

announce the birth of their son, Simon Neal, April 26, 2013. They live in Columbus, Ind. Shawn’s email address is [email protected]. Abbie’s email address is [email protected].

Michael W. Langellier is president and chief executive officer for TechPoint, a state of Indiana initiative providing education and networking programs, government advocacy and economic-development initiatives within the technology sector.

Amanda Link Krenson is an associate with the estate planning practice group at Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP in Indianapolis. Her email address is [email protected].

Carly Szentesy Brandenburg is an attorney with Eichhorn & Eichhorn, LLP in Hammond, Ind. She was

underwriters, financial institutions, and municipal and nonprofit borrowers in public debt offerings and private placement transactions. Ali and her husband, Daniel Lee Tilghman III, have two children: Annie, 5, and Daniel, 1.

William F. Vandover earned a Ph.D. degree in higher education policy and administration at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, May 2013. He and his wife, Stephanie, announce the birth of their son, Leo Henry, Jan. 9, 2013. Leo joins sister Milena, 5.

1999 Benjamin T. Feden and his wife, Jennifer,

announce the birth of their son, Matthew, Oct. 17, 2013. Ben’s email address is [email protected].

Michael J. Hays is partner at Tuesley Hall Konopa, LLP in South Bend, Ind. He practices in the areas of general business, commercial litigation and employment law.

Jonathan R. Secrest was named a 2014 Ohio Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine. Jonathan is partner at Roetzel & Andress, LPA, in Columbus. (See photo.)

2000 Brian R. Garrison is partner with the

Indianapolis law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. He practices in the areas of counseling and representing management in labor relations and employment matters. (See photo.)

Lindsey B. Payne is a doctoral student in ecological sciences and engineering at Purdue University.


Jonathan R. Secrest ’99 Brian R. Garrison ’00 Marc D. Pfleging ’03 Ryan J. Fenstermaker ’05

nominated by her firm for the 20 Under 40 honor because of her commitment to excellence in her career and involvement in the local community.

2005 Jonathan B. Bailor is author of The Calorie

Myth: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better. Jonathan is a nutrition and exercise expert and former personal trainer. He previously wrote The Smarter Science of Slim: What the Actual Experts Have Proven About Weight Loss, Dieting, & Exercise.

Ryan J. Fenstermaker is vice president at 1st Source Bank in South Bend, Ind. He is a board member of United Way and co-founder and board member of Michiana Runners Association. (See photo.)

Elizabeth A. McDaniel is vice president for Blue Crane Creative LLC, a Cincinnati agency that produces creative copy for fundraising agencies and direct marketing companies nationwide. (See photo.)

Abbie (Raderstorf ) and Shawn N. Bush ’04 announce the birth of their son, Simon Neal, April 26, 2013. They live in Columbus, Ind. Abbie’s email address is [email protected]. Shawn’s email address is [email protected].

William C. Riley and Sarah E. Summers ’08 announce the birth of their son, Arthur Cole, July 12, 2013. They live in State College, Pa. Bill is a lecturer in the English department at Pennsylvania State University. His email address is williamcriley@

gmail.com. Sarah is a doctoral degree candidate in rhetoric and composition at Pennsylvania State University.

JaMarcus L. Shephard is wide receivers coach at Western Kentucky University.

2006 Eric T. and Melissa (Walpole ’07) Mattingly

announce the birth of their daughter, Elliette Louise, Aug. 18, 2013. Elliette joins brother Parker, 2, at their home in Indianapolis.

McKenna A. Smith and David Serowka were married July 12, 2013, in Crystal Lake, Ill. McKenna is a Lighthouse Award-winning teacher and team leader at Algonquin Middle School in Des Plaines, Ill., and she is pursuing a second master’s degree in education. David is personal trainer and rehabilitation specialist at Webb and Barrington Fitness Centers and pursuing a degree in kinesiology at Northern Illinois University. McKenna’s email address is [email protected]. (See photo.)

2007 James M. Holmes has joined international

investment bank Houlihan Lokey as vice president in the industrials group.

Derick E. Lawrence is cross country head coach at Trinity University in San Antonio. He was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association South/Southeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year for the second straight time. He was also named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’s


Brooke Barbee ’03 and Bryan Kallenbaugh wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Amanda Miller Luciano ’03 (bridesmaid), Kari B. Koeper ’02, Suzanne Barnes Letang ’03, Eric D. Aasen ’02, Jessica Schaab Egloff ’03, Jennifer Nielsen Kane ’02, Jennifer Crum Balmos ’01, Trisha J. Starner ’03, Jane Becker Howard ’03, Peter M. Bernstein ’03, Marisa Myers Bernstein ’03, Kathryn Rudolph Diekhoff ’03, Anastasia S. Argoe ’03, Bethany Bailey Abercrombie ’03, Sean M. Barrie ’03, Jennifer Watts Barrie ’03 and Alyssa M. Hackett ’02.

DePauw alumni and families on 2014 Winter Term in Service trip in Ecuador. Those attending included Pehr Hovey, Allison “Ali” Van Dam- Hovey ’03, Glenn R. Silcott Jr. ’65, David E. Hoover, John D. Hoover ’14, Madeline C. Hoover, Sharon Fulton Hoover ’83 and Elizabeth “Ellie” M. Hoover ’16.

Elizabeth A. McDaniel ’05

McKenna A. Smith ’06 and David Serowka wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included Adrienne E. Rines ’06 and John J. Stewart ’05.

Leslie A. Saxman ’07

and Women’s Coach of the Year for the second straight season.

Aundrea N. Patton, Social Finance Fellow at University of Cape Town and cofounder of a social finance consulting firm, Insight Capital Partners, was a guest speaker at DePauw, Nov. 18, 2013. The title of her talk was “From I-banking in Chicago to Impact Investing in Cape Town: Following the Path Less Traveled.”

Leslie A. Saxman is communications interactive specialist for Indiana Hospital Association. (See photo, page 43.)

Kyle S. Smitley is co-founder of Detroit Achievement Academy, a free public charter school that uses the culturally and historically rich landscape of Detroit as inspiration for a project-based learning experience for its students. Kyle is founder of barley & birch, an organic clothing line for children. She was featured on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Nov. 1, 2013.

Melissa (Walpole) and Eric T. Mattingly ’06 announce the birth of their daughter, Elliette Louise, Aug. 18, 2013. Elliette joins brother Parker, 2, at their home in Indianapolis.

2008 Sarah E. Summers and William C. Riley ’05

announce the birth of their son, Arthur Cole, July 12, 2013. They live in State College, Pa. Sarah is a doctoral degree candidate in rhetoric and composition at The Pennsylvania State University. Bill is a lecturer in the English department. Bill’s email address is [email protected].

Rachel E. Walsh was selected a member of the Professional Convention Management Association’s inaugural class for

its 20 in their Twenties program, which is designed to engage young professionals in the meetings industry by recognizing emerging leaders.

2009 Amy E. Koester is a member of the awards

committee for the John Newbery Medal, which is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children for the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year. Amy works for Missouri’s St. Charles City-County Library District. She wrote the cover story, “Full STEAM Ahead: Injecting Art and Creativity into STEM,” for the School Library Journal, October 2013.

Susan S. Stallings and Andrew Strobel (Indiana University) were married June 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. They live in Carmel, Ind. Susan is a second-grade teacher. Andrew is an attorney. (See photo.)

2010 Courtney R. Knies is executive director of

Mentors for Youth in Dubois County, Ind.

Mary “Molly” H. Nolden is special projects coordinator for Willow Marketing in Indianapolis.

Eric R. Jenkins is assistant prosecutor in Van Buren County, Mich. Eric earned a law degree from Michigan State University College of Law.

2012 Nathan D. Sprenkel signed a pro contract with

Indy Eleven, the North American Soccer League expansion team. The team will begin play in April 2014.

2013 Michael J. Appelgate is assistant sports editor of

the Holland (Mich.) Sentinel.


sarah l. Carlson ’08 was selected as Hope Street Group 2014 National Teacher Fellow. She is one of 13 educators nationwide invited to participate in this fellowship program and is this year’s representative from Utah. The program provides fellows with rigorous training, opportunity to network with teachers across the country and participation in national conversations. Sarah is a science teacher at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. In addition to her teaching, she has been recognized for pioneering the innovative use of “flipped” classrooms in Utah.

Susan S. Stallings ’09 and Andrew Strobel wedding party. DePauw alumni attending the wedding included John R. Stallings III ’09, Abigail Garrison Stallings ’10, Sarah Mickes Jacobs ’08, Kara Kreikemeier Labedz ’08, Maribeth A. Kupstas ’09, Sallie B. Crawford ’09, Christina M. Giordano ’09, Abraham J. Winkle ’08, Anna K. Hodge ’09, Elyse C. Fenneman ’09 and Mark L. Labedz ’06.

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in MeMOriAM 1936 Marjorie Hayn

Corrington, Sept. 27, 2013, of Barrington, Ill. She had a career in banking and was past president of National Association of Banking Women. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1937 Mary Longpre Scott, July 28, 2013, of Hinsdale,

Ill., at the age of 98. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first husband and second husband, John R. Scott ’40.

Wendell K. Simpson, March 18, 2013, of York Beach, Maine, at the age of 97. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar, attorney and retired vice president of American Counsel of Life Insurance. Survivors include his wife; son, Stewart K. Simpson ’78; and daughter, Karen Simpson Young ’68.

1938 Harold K. Downey, July 1, 2012, of Kettering,

Ohio, at the age of 96. He was a Rector Scholar and manufacturing representative for IBM. He was preceded in death by his wife. Willard C. Lacy, Dec. 7, 2013, of Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 97. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and professor emeritus of geology. He was preceded in death by his wife and brother, Irving B. Lacy ’41.

1939 Jayne Dreyer Klein, May 14, 2013, of Atlanta, at

the age of 95. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

include her sister, Susanna Shelly Hennum ’50, and sister-in-law, Marjorie Horn Shelly ’49.

Jane Stevens Illich, Oct. 1, 2013, of Libertyville, Ill., at the age of 93. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her daughter, Helen Illich Towner ’71.

Gloria Tomlinson Bulger, Dec. 13, 2013, of Fishers, Ind., at the age of 92. She was a homemaker and realtor. She was preceded in death by her first and her second husbands.

1943 P. Richardson Gale, Oct. 5, 2013, of Ewing, N.J., at

the age of 91. He was a member of Delta Chi, Rector Scholar and retired newspaperman. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Beth Heuring Christensen, Jan. 7, 2014, in Corona del Mar, Calif., at the age of 91. She was a member of Alpha Phi, Phi Beta Kappa and lifetime partner of The Washington C. DePauw Society. She was preceded in death by her mother, Hortense Hale Patton, Class of 1913; step-father, Randolph Patton, Class of 1912; and husband, John W. Christensen ’35, former DePauw trustee. Survivors include her stepson, William J. Christensen ’62.

Martha Ketcham Stafford, Nov. 1, 2013, of Ann Arbor, Mich., at the age of 92. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, retired employee of Kellogg Company of Battle Creek and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.

Roger J. Rogers, Sept. 28, 2013, of Gordonsville, Va., at the age of 92. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, journalist and regional publications officer for the southeast regional office of the National Park Service. Survivors include his wife.

Eugene Schobinger Jr., Dec. 29, 2013, of Port Angeles, Wash., at the age of 92, from lymphoma. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and owner of Red Rocker Antiques & Art. Survivors include his wife.

DePauw Magazine marks the passing of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of DePauw university. Obituaries in DePauw Magazine do not include memorial gifts. when reporting deaths, please provide as much information as possible: name of the deceased, class year, fraternity/sorority/ living unit, occupation and DePauw-related activities and relatives. newspaper obituaries are very helpful. information should be sent to alumni Records, DePauw university, Charter House, P.O. Box 37, greencastle, in 46135-0037. You may also fax us the information at 765-658-4172 or email [email protected].

1940 Barbara Conser Barrett, Aug. 28, 2013, of

Escanaba, Mich., at the age of 93. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, homemaker and retired city librarian. She was preceded in death by her husband, Luther M. Barrett ’40.

Harold J. Cook, Oct. 10, 2013, of Mishawaka, Ind., at the age of 95. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Rector Scholar and attorney. He was preceded in death by his wife.

William F. Welch, Nov. 24, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 95, of complications from a stroke. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, fellow lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society, Rector Scholar and senior partner in the law firm of McHale, Cook & Welch, later known as Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP. He practiced in the areas of corporate banking and public utility law. He was former president of DePauw’s Alumni Association Board of Directors and lifetime trustee of DePauw. The University honored him with an Alumni Citation in 1970, Old Gold Goblet in 1993 and honorary degree in 2007. He was the 1940 class speaker at his 50th reunion. He was preceded in death by his sister, Carolyn Welch Callaway ’49. Survivors include his wife and son, Brian W. Welch ’73.

1941 William F. Christopher, July 14, 2013, of Walnut

Creek, Calif., at the age of 94. He was a member of Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar, consultant for productivity improvements and management, author and owner of a literary agency. He was preceded in death by his wife. Survivors include his son, John C. Christopher ’69.

Herbert M. Johnson, Nov. 17, 2013, of Peoria, Ill., at the age of 95. He retired from the United States Air Force as lieutenant colonel. Survivors include his wife.

Margaret Jolly Dunton, Dec. 11, 2013, of Hingham, Mass., at the age of 93, from pneumonia. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired music teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward A. Dunton ’39. Survivors include her brother, John W. Jolly ’44.

Wayne May, Oct. 31, 2013, of Kennett Square, Pa., at the age of 94. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Rector Scholar and retired textile research chemist from DuPont. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marion Wrege May ’43. Survivors include his daughter, Marietta May Willman ’68, and granddaughter, Alys M. Willman ’96.

Mary McDonald Stragand, Oct. 14, 2013, of Richmond, Ind., at the age of 94. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, teacher and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her son, Peter M. Stragand ’74.

1942 Dr. Frank B. Adney Jr., Nov. 15, 2013, of

Richmond, Ind., at the age of 93. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Rector Scholar, member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired physician. Survivors include his wife, Mary Alice Claycombe Adney ’42; son, James R. Adney ’68; and daughter, Carol Adney ’71.

Helen Porter Ayres, Oct. 20, 2013, in Anderson, Ind., at the age of 92. She retired as supervisor in the circulation department at Ball State University Library. She was preceded in death by her husband; sister, Frances Porter Minnick ’43; and brother-in-law, M. Dick Minnick ’44.

Geneva Shelly Carpenter, Jan. 6, 2013, of Port Charlotte, Fla., at the age of 92. She was a high school guidance counselor. She was preceded in death by her husband and brother, William L. Shelly ’47. Survivors


1944 Leah Elliott Wittich, Jan. 29, 2014, in Champaign,

Ill., at the age of 91. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, John J. Wittich ’44, former director of admission at DePauw, and daughter, Karen Wittich Zvonar ’69.

Dr. James W. Weatherholt, Sept. 20, 2013, of Santa Cruz, Calif., at the age of 93. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and associate clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Service. He was preceded in death by his brother, Howard L. Weatherholt ’50. Survivors include his wife.

1945 Alice Hobart Horne, Jan. 13, 2014, of Tucson, Ariz.,

at the age of 90. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired librarian. Survivors include her husband, William M. Horne Jr. ’42.

Dr. Gerald F. Ward, Dec. 4, 2013, of Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 90. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Rector Scholar and retired urologist. He was preceded in death by his wife.

1946 Jane Kimmel Colten, Nov. 12, 2013, of

Frankfort, Ky., at the age of 89. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, A. Thomas Colten ’45.

Patricia Randall Ross, Jan. 5, 2014, of Port Huron, Mich., at the age of 89. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, homemaker and volunteer. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Etta Wilkinson Grusenmeyer, Oct. 19, 2013, of Cincinnati, at the age of 89. She was owner of, and teacher at, an art studio, the Katie Glen. She was preceded in death by her husband.

1947 Elizabeth Jeschke Montgomery, Oct. 11,

2013, of Asheville, N.C., at the age of 88. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, high school and college swim coach, and homemaker.

Survivors include her husband, Wayne S. Montgomery ’46.

Richard A. Kerr, Nov. 17, 2013, of La Quinta, Calif., at the age of 90. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, Rector Scholar and president of Fairfield Corporation. Survivors include his wife.

Lois Rautenberg Matheson, Jan. 1, 2014, in Kirkwood, Wash., at the age of 88. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Beta Kappa and homemaker. Survivors include her husband.

Jane Rinehart Scanlon, May 19, 2013, of Atlanta, at the age of 87. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Robert I. Sattler, Oct. 5, 2013, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., at the age of 87. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, businessman and engineer. Survivors include his wife.

Dr. John B. Scofield III, Jan. 30, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 87. He was a clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry at Indiana University Medical School. He was preceded in death by his mother, Gertrude Clapper Scofield ’22. Survivors include his wife; son, John B. Scofield IV ’72; and daughter-in-law, Christina Brogren Scofield ’73.

1948 James S. Cummings, March 15, 2013, of

Howe, Ind., at the age of 88. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and retired employee of Illinois Bell Corporation. Survivors include his wife and daughter, Abigail Cummings Koppel ’79.

Margery Hall Hughes, July 1, 2013, of Tustin, Calif. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Allan B. Hughes ’48.

Bette Johnston Boothby, Oct. 3, 2013, of Chicago, at the age of 87. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta, homemaker and community volunteer. Survivors include her husband and daughter, Laurie Boothby Eichelman ’89.

John C. Lewis, Sept. 14, 2013, of San Anselmo, Calif., at the age of 88, from congestive heart failure. He was a member of Sigma Nu, artist and musician.

Patricia Stutz Goyer, Oct. 11, 2013, of Chandler, Ariz., at the age of 87. She was a member of Delta Zeta, teacher and homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Robert S. Goyer ’48.

Rev. Robert W. Thornburg, Dec. 29, 2013, in Estero, Fla., at the age of 85. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, Rector Scholar, dean emeritus of Boston University and recipient of an honorary degree from DePauw. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Elizabeth A. Thornburg ’75; sister, Mary Thornburg Cooper ’50; brother, Richard A. Thornburg ’48; and nephew, John D. Thornburg ’76.

1949 Stanley E. Allured, Dec. 15, 2013, of Wheaton, Ill.,

at the age of 88. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and editor, publisher, president and owner of Allured Publishing Corporation. Survivors include his wife, Betty Mercer Allured ’48, and daughter, Jean E. Allured ’73.

Helen Gans Rains, Oct. 20, 2013, of Madison, Ind., at the age of 86. She was a member of Alpha Phi and retired elementary school teacher. She was preceded in death by her brother, Jack Gans ’43.

Priscilla Griswold Bethel, Dec. 24, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Beta Kappa and social studies middle school teacher. Survivors include her husband, James E. Bethel ’49.

Howard M. Knotts, Dec. 8, 2011, of Anderson, Ind., at the age of 85. He retired from Delco Remy Division of General Motors. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Alan C. Levinson, Aug. 3, 2013, of Indianapolis, at the age of 87, from complications of a fall. He was a member of Sigma Nu and president of Harry Levinson’s men’s clothing stores. He was preceded in death

by his wife and daughter, Mary A. Levinson ’76.

John S. Murray, Dec. 26, 2013, of Murrells Inlet, S.C., at the age of 86. He was a retired hospital social worker. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Frederick L. Proffitt, Nov. 9, 2013, of Westernport, Md., at the age of 86. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and section leader in quality control for Westvaco Corporation. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Dan L. Rains, Sept. 16, 2013, of San Antonio, at the age of 88. He was a member of Sigma Nu, Rector Scholar and retired vice president of customer service from American Security Life Insurance Company.

Arthur W. Wesselhoff, Dec. 14, 2013, of Deerfield, Ill., at the age of 88. He was owner of Wesselhoff & Associates and Deerfield True Value Hardware. Survivors include his wife.

1950 Daniel M. Bash, Sept. 1, 2013, of Vancouver,

Wash., at the age of 84. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar, retired vice president of Sunbeam Appliance Company, and founder and former president of Suburban Bank & Trust of Elmhurst, Ill. Survivors include his wife.

Dr. Thomas J. Covey, Sept. 15, 2013, of Bradenton, Fla., at the age of 85. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, Rector Scholar and pediatrician in Valparaiso, Ind., for 40 years. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Lahue Covey ’53.

Carol Emerson Pfaender Stonecliffe, Dec. 22, 2013, in Maitland, Fla., at the age of 85. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her first and second husbands.

1951 Anne Dutelle Martenson, Nov. 22, 2013, of

Swarthmore, Pa., at the age of 84. She was a homemaker and real estate manager. She was preceded in death by her husband.

R. Eric Falk, Nov. 4, 2013, of Cincinnati, at the age of 86. He was a


member of Delta Chi and worked in public relations for GE Jet Engines. Survivors include his wife and sister, Ruth Falk Redel ’58.

Evelyn Hartford Horton, Oct. 30, 2013, of Palm Harbor, Fla., at the age of 84. She was a member of Alpha Phi, homemaker and social worker. Survivors include her husband and son, Robert C. Horton ’80.

Anne Keeney Ruedig, Sept. 16, 2013, of Deerfield, Ill., at the age of 84. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Walter E. Keeney ’16. Survivors include her husband and son, Bruce K. Ruedig ’78.

1952 Carolyn Blakemore, Dec. 19, 2013, in New

York City, at the age of 81. She was a member of Alpha Phi and retired editor from Doubleday. She was preceded in death by her mother, Nell Meyers Blakemore, Class of 1914. Survivors include her sister, Barbara Blakemore ’46.

Sheila Griffith Nolin, June 13, 2012, of Carmel, Ind., at the age of 81. She was a homemaker and retired elementary school teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Harmon O. Pritchard Jr., Oct. 14, 2013, of Winchester, Va., at the age of 83. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and retired senior vice president of marketing for Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Survivors include his wife.

Frederick N. Ropkey Jr., Nov. 7, 2013, of Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 84. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and president of Ropkey Graphics. Survivors include his wife; son, Frederick N. Ropkey III ’77; and daughter-in-law, Najmeh Sadri Ropkey ’80.

Jack B. Tykal, Sept. 24, 2013, of Salt Lake City, at the age of 83. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, retired special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and author. Survivors include his wife, Helen Gibson Tykal ’52, and brother, Richard L. Tykal ’54.

1953 Janet Carlisle Archer, Oct. 25, 2013, of Venice, Fla.,

at the age of 81. She had worked in management for the federal government and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her father, Milford E. Carlisle ’20; mother, Eleanor Swartz Carlisle ’20; husband, Donald E. Archer ’53; and brother, George E. Carlisle ’53. Survivors include her niece, Anne Carlisle Gatts ’79.

George A. Nauman, Feb. 13, 2012, of Wilmette, Ill., at the age of 80. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta, former analyst for Abbott Laboratories and controller for American Academy of Pediatrics.

1954 Henry J. Hoenes Jr., Oct. 30, 2013, in Spring,

Texas, at the age of 81. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar, member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and retired chemist from PPG Industries. Survivors include his wife, Donna Payne Hoenes ’54.

1955 Robert G. Ward, Sept. 22, 2013, of Indianapolis, at

the age of 80. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, Rector Scholar and retired from Indiana National Bank. Survivors include his wife.

1956 Gary L. Firestone, Nov. 21, 2013, of Carmel, Ind.,

at the age of 79. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and worked at College Life Insurance Company. Survivors include his wife.

Max R. Murphy, Oct. 30, 2013, of Holland, Mich., at the age of 79. He was a member of Delta Chi, Rector Scholar and attorney.

Larry N. Tibbetts, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Antonio, of cancer. He was a member of Delta Chi, Rector Scholar and retired major general of the United States Air Force. Survivors include his wife.

1957 Don M. Dixon, Dec. 17, 2013, of Battle Creek,

Mich., at the age of 78. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Rector Scholar, Episcopal priest and process

server for Calhoun County (Mich.) courts.

Frank D. Kaiser, June 22, 2013, of St. Petersburg, Fla., at the age of 77. He was a member of Delta Upsilon, journalist for Kaiser Communications Inc., and creator of suddenly.senior.com. Survivors include his wife.

Carl H. Rinne III, Dec. 11, 2013, of Ann Arbor, Mich., at the age of 77. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and professor at University of Michigan. Survivors include his wife.

1958 Frank E. H. Estes, Sept. 22, 2013, in Oxford, Fla.,

at the age of 77. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and nursing home administrator in Michigan City, Ind. Survivors include his wife, Jacquelyn Snyder Estes ’58.

O. Dene Knight, Dec. 29, 2013, in Belleville, Ill., at the age of 77. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and public school administrator. Survivors include his wife.

T. Leroy Peyton, Oct. 9, 2013, of Dyer, Ind., at the age of 77. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, elementary school teacher and athletic director. Survivors include his wife, Carol Bruno Peyton ’58.

1959 Dean K. Arnold, Nov. 11, 2013, of Pendleton,

Ind., at the age of 76. He had a career in the field of continuing care retirement and health care development and management. Survivors include his wife.

Janice Twigg Waldron, Nov. 11, 2013, in Hayesville, N.C., at the age of 76. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include her companion.

Gerald L. Wingate, Dec. 25, 2013, of Saline, Mich., at the age of 79. He was a member of Sigma Nu and retired production control manager from Ford Motor Company. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Ohley Wingate ’60.

1960 Garey W. Coonen, Dec. 16, 2013, of Bowling

Green, Ohio, at the age of 75. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and sales manager for data processing equipment. He was preceded in death by his brother, Richard D. Coonen ’47. Survivors include his wife, Gayle Hibberd Coonen ’60.

Rev. Brenda Enmeier Stiers, Nov. 10, 2013, in Boulder, Colo., at the age of 74, of sepsis. She was a member of Delta Gamma and minister for United Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband, Thomas L. Stiers ’60, and daughter, Gretchen A. Stiers ’84.

1961 Daniel S. Kalk, Sept. 28, 2013, of Enfield, Conn., at

the age of 75. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and retired library director.

1962 Arden R. Chilcote, Sept. 14, 2013, of Franklin, Ind.,

at the age of 73. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association, Rector Scholar and retired executive director of Legislative Services Agency for the State of Indiana. Survivors include his wife, Carol Helms Chilcote ’64.

Alan J. Hutchinson, Feb. 4, 2013, of Lincolnshire, Ill., at the age of 72. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and self-employed accountant. Survivors include his wife.

Robert C. Nordvall, Jan. 2, 2014, in Pistoia, Italy, at the age of 73. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa and retired administrator at Gettysburg College.

1963 Jane Erdmann Smail, Nov. 21, 2013, in Mount

Vernon, Ohio, at the age of 72. She was retired adjunct instructor of piano at Kenyon College. Survivors include her husband, J. Kenneth Smail ’60.

John C. Murphy, Nov. 17, 2012, of Old Lyme, Conn., at the age of 73. He was a member of Men’s Hall Association and self-employed architect. Survivors include his wife, Marcia Hirth Murphy ’64; brother, Richard D. Murphy ’54; and sister-in law, Dorothy Bieber Murphy ’55.


1967 Dr. Robert C. Palmer, Sept. 1, 2013, of San Luis

Obispo, Calif., at the age of 68. He was a member of Sigma Chi and psychiatrist. Survivors include his wife.

1968 Robert F. Stayman, Oct. 28, 2013, of Evansville,

Ind., at the age of 67. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and attorney. Survivors include his companion.

Lynne Weidner McMurtry, Feb. 15, 2012, of Denver, at the age of 65. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and former designer for William Ohs Showrooms Inc. Survivors include her husband.

1970 Robert C. Oliver Jr., Jan. 12, 2014, of Winchester,

Ind., at the age of 65. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and attorney. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert C. Oliver Sr. ’35. Survivors include his wife, Beverly Steinhagen Oliver ’70.

1973 Linda Nohacs Farquhar, Nov. 28, 2013, of Huber

Heights, Ohio, at the age of 63. She retired as librarian from Hickam Air Force Base Library. She was preceded in death by her husband, John H. Farquhar ’72.

Sally Spohr Hawthorne, Nov. 1, 2013, of Lancaster, Pa., at the age of 62. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and taught at Art Institute of York, Pa., where she was director of faculty development. Survivors include her husband, Lee B. Hawthorne III ’71.

1974 Norma Stanger Stwalley, Dec. 30, 2013, in

Winter Haven, Fla., at the age of 71. She taught home economics for 15 years in Indiana and retired from Pennsylvania Department of Education. Survivors include her husband.

1975 Martha H. Wahoski, Dec. 19, 2013, of Evansville,

Ind., at the age of 60. She had worked for Wilson Jones and National Office Products in Alexandria, Va.

1976 Carroll J. McCardle, Jan. 3, 2014, of Plainfield,

Ind., at the age of 66. He was an elementary school teacher and business owner. Survivors include his wife.

Steven K. Robison, Oct. 7, 2013, of Seymour, Ind., at the age of 59. He was an attorney, writer, and presenter at conferences and continuing education seminars on disability law.

1979 William L. White, Feb. 10, 2013, of Winfield, Ill.,

at the age of 55. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. Survivors include his wife.

1980 Dr. Mark G. Tagett, Dec. 12, 2013, of Portage,

Mich., at the age of 55. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and general and vascular surgeon. Survivors include his wife and father, John P. Tagett ’55.

1986 Robert G. James, Dec. 6, 2013, of Fishers, Ind., at

the age of 50. He was a member of Sigma Chi and attorney.

1991 Lisa Richardson Catron, Dec. 13, 2013, of

McKinney, Texas, at the age of 44. She was a member of Delta Zeta, Phi Beta Kappa and treasury analyst. Survivors include her husband.

2011 Christopher P. Alonzi. Dec. 10, 2013, of Glenview, Ill.,

at the age of 25, from leukemia. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and student at Dominican University.

facultyFredrick L. Bergmann, Dec. 28, 2013, of Peoria, Ariz., at the age of 97. He became a DePauw faculty member in 1940 and taught for 44 years, chairing the English Department for 22 of those years. He was DePauw’s oldest retired professor. He served as special assistant to DePauw’s president in 1977. He published 12 books. He was instrumental in creating DePauw’s overseas studies programs in Freiburg, Budapest and Athens. Survivors include his wife; son, John F. Bergmann ’73; and daughter, Juliann Bergmann ’68.

Richard D. Mabry, Nov. 22, 2013, of Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of 85, of congenital heart failure. He was a newspaper editor and journalist. He was the first director of the Center for Contemporary Media at DePauw, and later, editor of Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Keith M. Opdahl, Dec. 31, 2013, in Indianapolis, at the age of 79, from complications following surgery. He was professor emeritus of English at DePauw and taught for 26 years, retiring from full-time teaching in 1992. He received several faculty development grants for literary research as well as teaching awards. In 1990 he was awarded DePauw’s first Jane Cooling Brady Chair of American Literature. Survivors include his wife, Martha Donovan Opdahl, DePauw’s art gallery director and University curator from 1987-98.

friendsMarileen B. Allen, Sept. 30, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 88. She had been employed at DePauw.

Alice “Sally” E. Cradick, Oct. 20, 2013, of Cloverdale, Ind., at the age of 91. She was a cook at one of the sorority houses at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Joan R. Gambs, Sept. 24, 2013, of Noblesville, Ind., at the age of 90. She managed the Delta Gamma sorority house at DePauw.

Audrey M. May, Oct. 12, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 87. She was a cook at Pi Beta Phi sorority at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Wayne Moore, Nov. 24, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 83. He worked in grounds maintenance for DePauw. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Linda S. Phillips, Nov. 30, 2013, of Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 72. She had worked in food services at DePauw. Survivors include her husband.

Janice A. Smith, Oct. 23, 2013, in Blanchard, Okla., at the age of 73. She had worked at DePauw. She was preceded in death by her first husband. Survivors include her husband.

Ruth C. Tomlinson, Dec. 29, 2013, of Ankeny, Iowa, at the age of 89. She served as assistant registrar at DePauw. Survivors include her husband.

Billie L. Wood, Dec. 20, 2013, of Indianapolis. She was a charter lifetime member of The Washington C. DePauw Society and community leader. She served on the boards of directors of Butler University, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, local Boy Scouts of America Crossroads of America Council, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and was a Life Governor of the Riley Children’s Foundation. Survivors include her husband, Richard D. Wood ’48, a member of the DePauw Board of Trustees.

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