Inside: • Studio M Adds a New Dimension • Chancellor’S Letter to Alumni
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Inside: • Studio M adds a new dimension • Chancellor’s letter to alumni • Theatre schedule FALL 2007 • VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 1 Director’s Letter We’ve made our mark Dear Fellow Alumni: Contents 1 Alumni Profile We did it. We’ve names of more alumni wanting to leave a made our mark on our unique mark on the plaza. 5 Class Notes campus for life. Soon, Now, we’re adding one more item to our 12 Studio M the center of our plaza—a beautiful fountain. You can see an The new specialized campus will be known artist’s concept of the fountain on page 23 computer lab creates a as “Alumni Plaza.” of this magazine. It will be a “flat” fountain virtual world of possibilities. It all started with that allows kids of all ages to run through it 20 Giving Options campus growth, and to cool off and play. The sprays of water will you’ve all had a hand in that, first as active be arranged in a pattern similar to our current 21 Theatre Schedule students, and then as active grads. As our IPFW logo. Lights will change from white campus grew, it grew around a beautiful to blue and to a combination of both as water plaza filled with trees, flowers, picnic tables, shoots in steady streams and intermittent spurts. Inside back cover: umbrellas, and lots of new students. With the addition of this fountain, Chancellor’s Letter As the new millennium approached, the Chancellor Michael Wartell has agreed to IPFW has become university created the Alumni Millennium name our central campus plaza “Alumni Plaza.” instrumental in the region’s Walk, made of bricks purchased by alumni If you want to be a part of the excitement, prosperity by sharing its resources with the and bearing their names and graduation then be sure and send back the enclosed form broader community to dates. The walk was relocated to the plaza, on page 23. Join us Oct. 9 for the Mastodon create endless possibilities. and today it winds itself around trees and Roast and the unveiling of Alumni Plaza. With benches, each area identified with a more than 45,000 graduates of IPFW, our decade marker. strength is beginning to show on campus! In 2004, during the 40th-anniversary celebration of our campus, we unveiled the life-size bronze mastodon statue on Sincerely, the pedestal in the plaza, funded by STAR Financial. Our statue has become the focal point of campus and the scene for many fun photos. Around the bronze mastodon statue are Jennifer R. Bosk ’87, ’01 engraved mastodon footprints carrying the Director of Alumni Relations © 2007 IPFW Alumni Association Published by IPFW University Relations and Communications Executive Director of University Relations and Communications: Irene Walters Director of Alumni Relations: Jennifer Bosk Produced by The Nichols Company On the cover: John Ladd (B.A. 2006) is coordinator of Studio M, a new offering on campus. IP23 Alumni Profile IPFW Alumni • Fall 2007 Pepa’s back on his home turf of Puerto Rico now, and he’s still a professional Island impresario volleyball player. But he’s also taken on several other roles: entrepreneur, promoter, and sports analyst, and television IPFW volleyball All-American host, producer, and reporter. “I wear a lot of hats—I like Felipe “Pepa” Ralat is the man to stay busy,” Pepa says. Five years ago, Pepa founded with the plan in sunny San Juan. 7 Sports Productions, with a mission to “revolutionize Volleydon fans remember f your idea of doing business the sports-entertainment Felipe (B.A. ’99)—you can Iis clinking champagne market in Puerto Rico.” Pepa’s call him “Pepa”—as a standout flutes with Yankee shortstop company promotes a variety on the IPFW team that Derek Jeter and actress of big-time events, including advanced to two NCAA Final Jessica Biel to welcome in professional volleyball and Fours back in the early ’90s. a new year, step right into golf tournaments. In fact, Pepa was named a second- Felipe Ralat’s office. That is, 7 Sports Productions is team All-American his junior however, if you don’t mind currently gearing up to year. After his senior year, the cool blue waters, warm help facilitate a PGA tour Pepa packed up his kit Caribbean breezes, and hot event in 2008. bag and joined the pro- salsa music of San Juan, Pepa’s face is a familiar volleyball circuit. Puerto Rico. one on Puerto Rican television as well. He’s in his third year as co-host and producer of NBA Jam Puerto Rico, a weekly show featuring Pepa with Deion Sanders (above) and highlights, news, stats, and Shaquille O’Neal. Just as a point of reference, Pepa stands in at 6' 7''. up-close-and-personal looks at the lives of the league’s top players. Pepa’s co-host is Brenda Lee Quiñones, pro beach-volleyball player and former Miss Tourism World. Pepa doesn’t have to do a lot of research to talk knowledgeably about the lives of professional athletes. He’s one himself, of course, and big-name sports celebrities flock to 7 Sports Productions events. Just to drop a few names: Shaquille O’Neal, Shawn Marion, Jorge Posada, Javy Vazquez, Edgar Martinez, Derek Jeter, Dwight Freeney, Marcos Rivera, and Deion Sanders. The celebrities on hand also represent other entertainment genres: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Russell Simmons, continued on page 19 1 Alumni Update IPFW Alumni • Fall 2007 Upcoming events the grand opening of the Mastodon apparel will be Kristy McClain (center), A.S. ’00, Biology Alumni Getting two copies Open House Auer Performance Hall in the for sale that night. Open to participated in the YMCA’s booth at the Sept. 4 • Science Building new John and Ruth Rhinehart IPFW grads, alumni, and their annual Tapestry: A Day for Women in of your alumni Lobby and Mall • 5 to 8 p.m. Music Center. Internationally guests only when you RSVP April. Twenty-five nonprofits, along with mailings? Mix and mingle with known pianist Panayis Lyras, at 260-481-6807, or e-mail nearly 100 vendors, filled the Coliseum’s current biology students and IPFW music ensembles, and us at [email protected]. Expo Hall to promote their organizations That may be happening if faculty. Free to all biology the Fort Wayne Philharmonic to the 750 women attending the event, you received both an IU which featured keynote speaker grads! For more details and will perform a free concert to Chicago Shakespeare and a Purdue degree. Patty Duke. Now in its sixth year, to R.S.V.P., call Karen at inaugurate the building. Alumni Theater Bus Trip: We’re unable to merge of IPFW choral ensembles are Cymbeline Tapestry has raised more than $150,000 the two databases that 260-481-6305. for the Parkview Tapestry Scholarship. invited to participate in the Oct. 20 • 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. are under the direction of opening concert along with Join us for Shakespeare’s the main campuses. So, the university singers and the darkly amusing fairy tale reconciliation with her father the opportunity to interview our legislators for funding a please pass along your Fort Wayne Philharmonic about family, love, fidelity, is populated with colorful alumni who are already portion of our new Student second copy. Orchestra. Contact Todd and deception. Michael villains. The cost for alumni successful in the students’ Services/Library Complex. Pickett at 260-481-6811 or Stapleton, IPFW’s Chapman is $69 and includes bus fare, a areas of career interest or Just $10 per person includes [email protected]. To receive Distinguished Professor of matinee ticket, and Stapleton’s explore alternative careers lunch. RSVP at 260-481-6807 information on obtaining free English, is leading this bus presentation. Lunch on your in a “speed-dating” format. with your credit card. Interested in tickets and attending the trip to Chicago’s Navy Pier. own. To register by credit If you’re a professional impacting IPFW and reception, contact Susie at Stapleton, who teaches card, call 260-481-6619, or interested in sharing your Dental Hygiene 260-481-6807 or [email protected]. Shakespeare and publishes visit learn.ipfw.edu and click expertise in your field, call Alumni Luncheon its future? about his works, will give on “Course Catalog” and 260-481-6828. Nov. 10 • 11 a.m.• IPFW Join your school alumni Ninth Annual a brief lecture about the then “Travel.” Rhinehart Music Center council today! Each of our Mastodon Roast play, which is directed by Seventh Annual Calling all dental-hygiene academic units within the Oct. 9 • 5:30 to 8 p.m.• Barbara Gaines. Cymbeline, Continuing Studies Legislative Issues alumni to join us at our new university has its own Alumni Plaza king of Britain during the e-Mentoring Luncheon site for our favorite get-together. alumni council. We need Mix and mingle with your Roman occupation, becomes Oct. 30 • 6 p.m.• Walb Oct. 24 • 11:30 a.m. to Watch your College of you! Drop us a note at fellow alumni and favorite enraged when he discovers Student Union Ballroom 1 p.m.• Walb Student Health and Human Services Glenna Raber, B.S. ’75, M.S. ’78, [email protected], and the faculty members while his daughter Imogen’s marriage This is a career-focused newsletter and your alumni M.B.A. ’97, greets a new engineering Career Fair: Find Union Ballroom head of the alumni council graduate at Commencement. an intern or an munching on the free hog to the poor but worthy mentoring model designed Join our 18 northeast Indiana newsletter for more details.