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LINDENWOOD Connecting to Alumni and Friends In this issue: Spring 2018 Pg. Pg. Pg. Six Metro East Pg. Pg. One Roar Hensley and MFA alumna named police leaders Griffin goes on initiative USA win Gold poet laureate hold Lindenwood South American launched to 4 in Olympics 5 for Cupertino 8 degrees 12 bike odyssey 16 benefit athletics Cohen goes from Bean Counter to Bean Roaster Pg. 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE REAL EXPERIENCE. REAL SUCCESS. This is an exciting time at Lindenwood advanced studies not just able to get jobs We’ve launched a new section on our website University. On Jan. 1, the university but to get their chosen jobs, not merely able devoted to the new strategic plan. There, implemented a new strategic plan that was to contribute as well prepared workers but you can read more about it and watch a a year and a half in the making and involved also as thoroughly educated citizens. series of videos on the components of the the university’s entire senior leadership plan. Check it out at www.lindenwood.edu/ structure along with alumni, faculty, staff, Additionally, the plan is divided into five about/leadership/strategic-plan. and students. The result is a new vision key themes: Differentiate Academic to support our entrepreneurial spirit. Programs, Build Innovative Programs, We hope you enjoy this edition of Optimize Resources, Deliver High-Quality Lindenwood. As always, it is filled with The process resulted in a new mission Experiences, and Redesign Branding and interesting and inspiring stories about your statement: “Real experience. Real success. Marketing. Through these foci, we will alma mater and your fellow alumni. Enhancing lives through quality education build our reputation in high-demand areas, Here’s wishing you a very pleasant spring, and professional preparatory experiences,” develop programs to allow students to and as always, be sure to keep in touch. as well as a statement of values, including obtain a bachelor’s-plus-master’s in less integrity, dedication, excellence, creativity, time while increasing internship and Sincerely, and community, each of which is elaborated experiential learning opportunities, optimize upon on the mission page of our website, and develop our workforce and facilities, www.lindenwood.edu. create an unparalleled student experience from admissions through graduation, This new mission strikes at the heart of and develop a new branding and Lindenwood’s overriding goal—to send marketing strategy to better tell the MICHAEL D. SHONROCK, Ph.D. System President, Lindenwood University our students out into the workforce and/or story of Lindenwood. Real Experience. Real Success. Enhancing lives through Approved by Board of Trustees LINDENWOOD quality education and professional preparatory experiences. Nov. 10, 2017 COPY EDITORS, WRITERS, AND OFFICE OF EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHERS DEVELOPMENT .............................. .............................. .............................. Christopher Duggan Jennifer Ferguson Lennon Mueller Dan Grigg Jennifer Ferguson Bryan Stone (’16) (’00, ’12) Vice President for Director of Alumni Associate Rachel Johnson Daniel Newton (’09) Development & Relations and Development Officer (’04, ’10) Alumni Relations Special Events, Scott Wuerz (’07) Belleville April Kernan (’16) Bailey E. Kinney Phil Vida Kate O’Neal Administrative Nathan Payne Charlie Mager (’07, ’08) Assistant for Brian Vorce Assistant Vice Director of Development Chuck McPherson President for Development Don Adams Jr. Development & John Creer Alumni Relations Mark Bohr Consultant Director of Michelle Giessman Development (’16) Director of Kassandra Linzmeier ON THE COVER Alumni Relations Associate ................................. Development Officer Peter Cohen (’98) is the owner of St. Louis-based Stringbean Coffee LINDENWOOD is published by the offices of Marketing and Communications and Development at Lindenwood University. Lindenwood is mailed free of charge to Lindenwood alumni. Story ideas are welcome and should be forwarded to Director of Alumni Relations, Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301 or via email at [email protected]. CHANGE OF ADDRESS notifications should be sent to the Office of Alumni Relations at the address above. The Alumni Office telephone number is 636.949.4975. Lindenwood University ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT LINDENWOOD Spring 2018 CAMPUS NEWS Peter Cohen with his locomotive-shaped coffee ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT bean roaster at his business, Stringbean Coffee. MBA ALUMNUS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT GOES FROM BEAN COUNTER TO BEAN ROASTER by CHUCK MCPHERSON LINDENWOOD SPORTS Peter Cohen (’98) is having “I thought, ‘Maybe I could do it better,’” “Folks would ask, ‘Why would you roast fun. Cohen owns Stringbean he said. “I got a very small roaster that coffee under a disco ball?’” and I would Coffee Company, a coffee didn’t come with instructions, and I bought respond, ‘Well, why wouldn’t I roast coffee wholesaler in St. Louis, Mo. some beans. I started with really expensive under a disco ball?’” he said. Fair Trade organic beans, so you don’t want to screw up a whole lot. The first batch I Cohen said that Stringbean is a labor of One look around the Stringbean Coffee did was inside and the smoke alarms went love and a combination of his interests, Company headquarters gives you a glimpse off and dogs were howling, and then it which include music and coffee. Cohen into Cohen’s life. A wall full of guitars. became more of an outside sport. It then plays bass guitar, collects music, and used A neon sign. A ‘50s-style diner booth. moved to my garage, so I would roast at to review music with around 200 published Cohen’s journey to becoming a 10, 11 o’clock at night, and I came out articles to his credit. He still uses his ALUMNI EVENTS full-time coffee roaster is like no other. with a roast called Midnight Run.” Lindenwood education regularly. Cohen worked in the banking industry for 14 years and earned an MBA from “I use my MBA more now as an Lindenwood University in 1998. “I just want to have independent, self-employed coffee roaster than I did as a commercial banker,” “I liked the campus,” Cohen said. “A few fun doing what I’m doing, and I’ve Cohen said. “I handle billing, marketing, of my friends went to Lindenwood and bookkeeping, collections, play guitar, and were faculty, and I had been to some of accomplished that.” drink coffee. I do roasting, help with the events and was able to see the campus Peter Cohen bagging and distribution. I was a bean AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS grow. It’s such a pretty campus and has counter before I became a bean cooker, continued to blow me away with their He started Stringbean Coffee Company but I’m still a bean counter.” success and growth.” in May 2011, and after an eight-month Cohen said the Stringbean mission overlap of banking and roasting, he said While still working at the bank, Cohen, statement is to educate, motivate, and goodbye to the corporate grind and focused who loves coffee, began roasting coffee as entertain as many people as possible on Stringbean in October. a hobby in his garage in March 2011. in an honest and ethical manner and The Stringbean roasting room features a have fun doing it. 25-pound San Franciscan roaster, built “I just want to have fun doing especially for him, that resembles a train what I’m doing,” he said, “and I’ve engine, a wall full of framed vinyl records, accomplished that.” and the original disco ball used from 1972 & NOTES ALUMNI NEWS to 1978 on the television show Soul Train. 3 Lindenwood University ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Nicole Hensley after the U.S. women’s hockey team was presented its gold medals at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. USA, HENSLEY WIN GOLD IN WOMEN’S HOCKEY The United States women’s Olympic hockey team and goalie Nicole Hensley, who graduated from Lindenwood in 2016, won a thrilling gold medal hockey game early in the morning (CST) on Feb. 22 against Canada in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 3-2 win makes Hensley the first Olympic gold medalist among Lindenwood’s students and alumni. Alumna Laia Pons won bronze in the 2012 games for Spain in synchronized swimming before she was a student at Lindenwood, and sled hockey player Josh Pauls has won gold in the Paralympics and captained the gold medal-winning U.S. sled hockey team in the Paralympics in South Korea in March. In addition to women’s hockey, Lindenwood students and alumni have participated in the Olympics in shooting, track and field, and synchronized swimming. “ It was definitely Hensley, who joined the U.S. women’s hockey team in 2017, was in goal against the right place for Canada when the team won the World Championship in the fall, and in the me to be…to Olympics, she started the game against the Olympic Athletes from Russia on grow as a Feb. 13, recording a 5-0 shutout and stopping 13 shots on goal. goaltender.” The next day, Feb. 14, Hensley told KSDK TV’s Rene Knott in Pyeongchang Nicole Hensley, that Lindenwood helped make her the competitor she is. During her career time at Lindenwood at Lindenwood, she stopped more than 4,000 shots and won the NCAA’s Top 10 Award, which is given to the top 10 NCAA athletes in any sport at any level. “It was definitely the right place for me to be…to grow as a goaltender,” Hensley told Knott. Canada had won gold in women’s hockey the four prior Olympics, defeating the U.S. in the final game three times, including a heartbreaking come-from-behind win in Sochi, Russia, four years ago. This time, the U.S. team returned the favor after falling behind 2-1 in the second period and tying the game at 2-2 in the third period, which was the score at the end of regulation.