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The Magazine of Wittenberg University Summer 2013

Out of This World NASA Intern Kim Lykens ’14 shows the power of student-faculty research

summer 2013 i Wittenberg Magazine is published three times a year by Wittenberg University, Office of University Communications.

Editor Director of University Communications Karen Saatkamp Gerboth ’93

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Director of News Services and Sports Information Ryan Maurer

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Class Notes Editor Charyl Castillo

Contributors Kate Causbie ’14 Phyllis Eberts ’00 Tom Stafford ’76 Richard M. Wittig ’48

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On the cover: Thanks to the collaborative research opportunities at Wittenberg and the prestigious Noyce Scholarship program, Kim Lykens ’14 is making Wittenberg known at NASA. ii Wittenberg Magazine Summit, N.J.-native Silas Newcomb ’14 regularly cruises around campus on his Vurtego, an extreme pogo stick. Newcomb showed off his skills during the 2013 Pogopalooza competition in New York City’s Times Square, July 26-28. Photo by Erin Pence ’04

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18 Reaching New Heights Wittenberg looks to create a sustainable financial model and deliver on its promise of providing a first-rate liberal arts education for the 21st century.

21 Distinguished Teacher Associate Professor of Business Wendy Gradwohl takes each day in stride as she brings out the best in students and colleagues.

24 Out of this World Learn how Wittenberg’s tradition of excellence in student-faculty research and two elite scholarship programs are launching the career of one NASA intern.

Departments 4 Editor’s Note 5 Around Myers Hollow 12 Campus Notes 14 Witt World 15 Tiger Sports 30 Alumni World 51 Calendar of Events 52 Reflections

Assistant Professor of History Darlene Brooks Hedstrom offered a special Maymester program titled “Archaeological Field Methods.” The class provided students with the chance to “dig into history.” Visit www.wittenberg.edu/archaeologydig to learn about the project and view a special video. Photo by Erin Pence ’04

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Board of Directors dito E e y husband and I have three girls. Our twins are six h

Mr. David E. Baines ’69 t Naples, Fla. m years old, and our oldest is nine. A few weeks ago, o M we enrolled them in a Vacation Bible School program

Mr. Wesley C. Bates ’70 Fr r Marco Island, Fla. at a nearby Lutheran church, and one of the songs they

Mr. David L. Boyle ’69 lette learned struck a chord with me as I prepared to write this Greenwich, Conn. letter. The song’s title was “Stand Strong,” and while I do Mr. Glenn C. Christenson ’71 not regularly consult VBS songs in my writing, I couldn’t Henderson, Nev. help but think about Wittenberg and the year that was as I listened to the lyrics. Mrs. Jennifer Sauer Cooperider ’81 In 2012-13, the university experienced its share of challenges, and yet, by Sylvania, Ohio standing strong, standing together and embracing our mission, Wittenberg The Rev. Jonathan L. Eilert ’93 Loveland, Ohio managed to take significant steps on several fronts to position itself for even greater success. The Rev. Bradley A. Gee Farmington, Mich. Longtime Springfield News-Sun reporter Tom Stafford ’76 followed much of

Mr. James J. Henson ’75 the university’s progress thanks to President Laurie M. Joyner’s commitment to Columbus, Ohio open and honest communication, and I am pleased to have Tom’s voice in this Dr. Elizabeth A. Hunter ’69 issue. His story begins on page 18. Fairfield, Ohio In addition, this issue shines a light on the high-impact practice of student- Mrs. Alicia Sweet Hupp ’82 faculty research through the eyes of NASA intern Kim Lykens ’14 and on Springfield, Ohio teaching excellence through the work of award-winning professors Wendy Mr. Douglas E. Kentfield ’78 Garden City, NY Gradwohl and Dan Fleisch. To listen to them speak is inspiring, but to see them live out Wittenberg’s mission is life-changing. Check out their stories beginning The Rev. Dr. Marcus C. Lohrmann Sylvania, Ohio on page 21.

Dr. Wendall R. Lutz ’66 And speaking of changing, our alumni magazine will also experience a Tucson, Ariz. change this fall, complete with a fresh new look, more dynamic content, and Mr. John P. McDaniel ’64 more student, faculty and alumni success stories. An online issue will also be Highland, Md. debuting, and I look forward to hearing your feedback on the final result. Mrs. Sarah Hagen McWilliams ’88 Yes, there are changes underway, but the core of Wittenberg remains. As Millboro, Va. President Joyner stated in her recent blog post for Inside Higher Education: Mr. Frederick B. Mitchell ’69 Chicago, Ill. “Keeping our eyes focused on students as the center of the educational

Mr. Thomas J. Murray enterprise is worthy of our best team effort.” Columbus, Ohio Thanks for reading, and I hope you can feel the positive energy as we head

Dr. Michael A. Senich ’74 into the new semester. Midland, Texas My best, Mr. Lewis W. Shaw II ’66 Dallas, Texas

Mr. Rick H. Sterling ’69 Lafayette, Colo.

Mr. Martin J. Uhle ’85 Karen L. Gerboth ’93 Rocky River, Ohio Editor Mr. James R. Wymer '77 Westlake, Ohio

Mrs. Dona D. Young Cincinnati, Ohio

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Princeton Review Recognizes Faculty Accessibility and Green Initiatives ittenberg has been name to two elite lists by the Princeton while another said faculty members “are WReview. Earlier this month, the university earned the No. always willing to meet up and discuss 4 spot for “Most Accessible Professors” in the 2014 Best 378 anything that is on our minds.” Colleges Guide’s Top 20 list. Colleges ranked below Wittenberg The Princeton Review also on this list include Grinnell, Swarthmore, Centre, Hamilton, named Wittenberg one of the most Reed, and Beloit. environmentally responsible colleges In its profile on Wittenberg, The Princeton Review writes in the United States and Canada in that “almost every Wittenberg student speaks glowingly the recently released edition of The of their professors, for both their teaching abilities and their Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges. caring nature.” Wittenberg students surveyed for the book are The entry highlights pledges made by the university quoted directly, including one who says that the professors “do administration to reduce electricity consumption by 20 percent a great job of creating a dialogue in the classroom with students by the year 2020 as part of a wider sustainability initiative. To and between students that extends beyond the classroom.” do this, Wittenberg is pursuing LEED certification for all new A different student commented that Wittenberg professors construction and renovations, which started with the re-opening “treat us more like peers instead of people younger than they are,” of Blair Hall in August 2010. n

Fulbright Tradition Continues at Wittenberg Craig Osterbrock ’13 and Amy Stamon ’13 are the latest in a of Madrid, where she will begin her teaching assignment at an long line of Wittenberg students, alumni and professors to merit area high school. opportunities to study, teach or conduct research through the Through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Osterbrock and prestigious Fulbright Program. Osterbrock, an English major Stamon “will meet, work, live with and learn from the people and Spanish minor, will teach in Brazil, while Stamon, a double of the host country, sharing daily experiences,” according to its major in English and Spanish, will teach in Spain. website. “The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom and ’04 ’04 e c c field home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain n n e e P n n i an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they r r E E i P e do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.” On the faculty side, Lauren Shapiro Crane, associate professor Osterbrock Stamon of psychology, has also earned a Fulbright to continue her groundbreaking research in India during the 2013-14 school year. Osterbrock is one of 120 American students selected to serve In the last 13 years, Wittenberg faculty members have received as English Teaching Assistants (ETA), working closely with 17 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards, a tradition of excellence that Brazilian English language graduate students at one of the 59 The Chronicle of Higher Education has recognized, naming the federal universities in the South American nation. Stamon will university one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Scholars pass her light on to others in the historic Spanish capital city among bachelor degree-granting institutions. n

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The Wittenberg University Board of Wittenberg is evident in his continuing s r

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M its newest member on July 1, 2013. Baines third-floor lounge of Thomas Library is

was elected to a three-year term on the named in memory of his parents, Elliot

ound board during its annual spring meeting. and Martha Baines, and he continues to

Ar Prior to his retirement, Baines served support the Baines Family Scholarship. as a senior vice president with U.S. Established in 2011, the scholarship Aviation Underwriters Inc. in New benefits junior and senior students York, N.Y. A scholar-athlete, economics majoring in one of the sciences. n major and member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Baines, whose brother Barry also graduated from Wittenberg, served in the U.S. Navy from 1969-1974 as a Naval Flight Officer on the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Baines’ longstanding connection to

N SF Continues to Invest In Professor’s Research An experimental physicist with research interests in the area of complex (dusty) plasma physics, Jeremiah Williams, assistant professor of physics, is not only expanding opportunities for collaborative research with students, he is also showing the power of the liberal arts within the scientific community. To date, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Williams more than $330,000 to his research efforts, Last Lecture an amount that increased by $66,330 in June, thanks to yet another NSF award. Retiring Professors Honored Aimee Maruyama, director of corporate, foundation and government relations, who also helps secure funding for academic research and select projects, notes that Williams’ or more than 30 years, Kent and Mimi significant funding is a bit of an anomaly in the liberal arts. FDixon, professors of English, inspired “Most liberal arts science faculty do not receive the type of research-related funding creativity and critical thinking in their students. that Williams has secured over time,” she said. “The fact that the NSF continues to The longest-serving professors in the English invest reflects its confidence in Williams’ work.” department, the Dixons retired in May, along Williams’s current research involves analyzing the transport and the thermal with David Mason, professor of biology, and properties of a weakly coupled dusty plasma. n Rochelle Millen, professor of religion. Together, they leave behind a legacy that will forever be Church Relations Director Retires part of the Wittenberg story. An accomplished writer, who taught courses For more than a decade, Bob White, director of in creative writing and literature, Kent church relations, has played a critical role in shaping Dixon has published in all genres, earning the lives of students and in ensuring that the best numerous awards and recognitions for his and brightest find their way to Wittenberg. He work. In addition to several translations has worked passionately to preserve and advance available online, his short stories have appeared the university’s mission and Lutheran heritage, in journals such as Tri-Quarterly, The and he has traveled annually to support the world- Iowa Review, Shenandoah, The Georgia renowned Wittenberg Choir. Review, Carolina Quarterly, Gettysburg Additionally, White founded the Peer Helpers Review and The Antioch Review. The program at Wittenberg, an organization of Graphic Canon, a three-volume, 1,500- about 20 students who help their peers work page collection, includes Kent and his through problems involving such things as son Kevin Dixon, who collaborated on relationships, school, stress, racial issues or parents’ a translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which divorce. serves as the first segment of the publication. The university honored White with a special Mimi Dixon, who founded the university’s ’04

c tribute in April, which included announcing the

n Writer’s Workshop (now Writing Center), has e

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6 Wittenberg Magazine Junior Earns Prestigious International Scholarships As the semester concluded, Connor extensive studies in 13 essential foreign Ryan ’15 knew exactly where he would languages. An East Asian Studies major spend his three-month break, thanks and economics minor, Ryan is spending to a fully funded Critical Language eight weeks at Xiamen (Amoy) University Scholarship (CLS) from the United States in a program designed to hold students Department of State for intensive study to a language pledge that encourages the in China. extensive use of Chinese. The CLS finances a select number When Ryan finishes his studies over the of U.S. students who wish to explore summer, he will continue his academic pursuits in China during the 2013- 14 school year as a recipient of the ’04 c

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r (NSEP) David L. Boren Scholarship for E i P e International Study. Ryan will attend the Central Nationalities University of China in Beijing thanks to a scholarship program that provides “unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important ’04 e c

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Alumnus Receives Wittenberg Medal of Honor ith a distinguished record of success in the field of law during a career spanning by colleagues. Her teaching has focused on Wmore than six decades, the Hon. William A. McClain ’34 received a standing women in literature, Shakespeare, world ovation at the 2013 Honors literature and advanced writing, among other Convocation, where he earned ’04 c n areas. In 2005, she earned the William Allen the Wittenberg Medal of Honor. e n r prize for her essay “Waiting: Theme and Given to those individuals who E i P e Variations.” have consistently inspired students, With a specialization in cancer research, alumni and the entire Wittenberg Mason regularly collaborated with students on family with their loyalty of service, various cancer research projects using electron uncompromising support of the microscopy, immuno-detection and DNA university’s mission and values, evaluation. The 1986 recipient of the Alumni and commitment to preserving Association Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Wittenberg experience for Mason earned the Ohio Professor of the Year generations, the Wittenberg Medal award and served as the George L. Greenawalt of Honor proved yet another first Chair in Biology. for McClain. Millen taught courses on Jewish Tradition, The first African American History of Anti-semitism, Judaism in the to become a member of the Modern World, and Women and Religion. Cincinnati Bar Association and Repeatedly recognized for her scholarship, the Cincinnati Lawyers Club, to including with grants from the Lilly Foundation serve as the Hamilton County and National Endowment for the Humanities, Common Pleas Court judge and Millen has also served in leadership roles at to serve as solicitor for the City conferences and on a number of journals, of Cincinnati, McClain has also including as co-editor of New Perspectives on taught law to young minds at two universities. the Holocaust. Recipient of the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor and several other awards, Hear the Dixons, Mason and Millen in their McClain, now 100 years old, continues to inspire colleagues, students, peers, friends own words at www.wittenberg.edu/lastlecture. n and acquaintances to use their own lives to make a difference. n

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Called “an awesome app” by one reviewer The app, which helps musicians play in s r

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downloads earlier this year. testing in the field of intonation by Kazez, n ound A top-10 music app in 15 countries who is also an accomplished cellist.

Ar and a top-25 music app in more than 40 countries, InTune is a collaborative effort led by Professor of Music Daniel Kazez, with Peiqian Li ’13 from Changchun, ’04

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Gift Creates New Summer Music Academy Thanks to the generosity of Ruth Kunkel Bayley ’42, Wittenberg’s Center for Music Development now offers a new opportunity for talented musicians. The Bayley Summer Music Academy allows middle school-aged students to participate in a weeklong program of string and voice instruction. Bayley’s gift is also ensuring that young musicians in the Springfield area can take lessons, regardless of their financial circumstances. “I’d like to think that this academy was in honor of my deceased husband, Bob, as he too was a student at the Wittenberg School of Music,” Bayley said. Throughout their life together, Bob and Ruth Bayley invested significantly in their alma mater, including leadership-level support for the renovation of the former Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house into the Bayley Alumni House, an endowed scholarship that has benefited dozens of Wittenberg students, and the renovation of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center lobby, which is now known as Legends Lobby. n

Liberal Arts in Action Campus Celebrates Academic Excellence

or four days in April, the university Fcommunity came together to actualize Wittenberg’s mission during the first-ever Liberal Arts in Action: A Celebration of Learning. The event included more than 130 student-led panel sessions, posters, presentations, and performances. “Providing a day for our students to discuss their interdisciplinary settings, share Wittenberg’s unique experiential learning opportunities and highlight their artistic pursuits aligns beautifully with the university’s mission and commitment to creating lifelong learners,” said Catherine Waggoner, professor of communication and co-chair of the planning ’04 c

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Following a challenge by Jim Welch, Board Chair David L. Boyle ’69, funded an estimated cost of $3,750 per project. M y

associate professor of biology and several more student research projects this Board members have since pledged to e r s

department chair, during a board summer, with the goal of increasing the make similar contributions during the Hollow presentation, individual board members, number of funded summer projects by next five years to continue the momentum led by President Laurie M. Joyner and nine over the next five years. established. In 2008, 27 summer research projects This summer’s student research projects were submitted for approval and funding, have focused on testing new glazes, the but only 17 could be funded through Volcker Disinflation Plan and the work the university. A year later, 31 were of Wittenberg Series-sponsored award- submitted but only 16 could be funded. winning photojournalist Ron Haviv in Because student research enhances the Balkans, among other projects in student success, several board members several disciplines. n stepped up to fund a summer project at

N ew Initiatives Unites Arts and “Craft” Committed to creating innovative Led by Assistant Professor of Art solutions to ensure student success, the Crispin Prebys, Craft “delivers its clients Office of the Provost recently announced smart, imaginative solutions to their a new initiative that highlights the power design, marketing and communication of partnerships. Known as Craft: A challenges.” Design Collaborative, the student-run Clients to date have included graphic design firm was “founded with Wittenberg’s Writing Center, Covenant the creative vision that business and Children’s Academy in downtown education can come together and make Springfield and the provost office- something great,” according to the sponsored Optional June Orientation collaborative’s Facebook page. program on campus. n ’04 e c n e P n i r E ’04

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campus-wide celebration a reality.” Kicking off the celebration was the annual Leadership Awards ceremony, which recognized the co-curricular achievement in the areas of campus programming, student organizations, Fraternity & Sorority Life, intercultural awareness and other areas that contribute to the vibrant university community. Students then presented their research, discussed their internships and study-abroad experiences, highlighted their academic accomplishments and showed off their creative side through of series of theatrical and musical performances, as well as a number of demonstrations. In total, more than 200 students participated in the inaugural event. n

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President Laurie M. Joyner joins honorary degree recipients, from left, Fritz Ermarth ’61, Michael Ermarth ’65 and Commencement Keynote Speaker Matthew Shay ’84.

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Cline Fortner McInnis Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Chemistry of Geology and of Art Environmental Science FACULT

Julie H. Aylsworth, assistant professor during the annual convention of the from the National Endowment for the of sport management, presented a paper Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso Humanities, one as primary author and titled “The Location of Minor League University, April 8-10. In addition to her one in collaboration with alumna Sarah Baseball Franchises: A Major League discussion of Bach’s use of dance rhythms Courlas Pollock ’07. The first awards a Marketing Strategy” at the fall 2012 in organ pieces, she also presented the collection of library materials on Islam, meeting of Atlantic Marketing Association symbolism both in “Bach’s Fugue in Eb and the second takes five of the books in Williamsburg, Va. Major (the Trinity Fugue)” and his chorale in the collection as a focus for particular preludes on “These are the Holy Ten attention and related programming. Edward M. Charney, associate professor Commandments.” of art, presented a solo exhibition of his Brandon Jones, associate professor of landscape work titled “Fluffy, Not Stuffy,” Sarah Fortner, assistant professor of music, presented a session titled “The at the Halley Gallery, Springfield Center geology and environmental science, and Compositional DNA of Verne Reynolds’ for the Arts at Wittenberg University, April collaborators at Virginia Tech and Santa Scenes Trilogy” at the National Conference 3-June 2. Rosa Community College were awarded an of the College Band Directors National NSF InTeGrate grant to develop a module Association at the University of North Howard Choy, associate professor of on the subject of Sustainable Agriculture Carolina, Greensboro. foreign languages and literature, has as a Context for Developing Earth Systems published “Linguistic Identity in Fruit Douglas K. Lehman, associate professor Thinking. The team will work to create Chan’s 1997 Trilogy” in World Cinema and and director of Thomas Library, was and assess a module that excites students to the Visual Arts. He also presented an invited elected to a three-year term for the position learn geoscience by placing it in the context keynote address titled “Mo Yan and Gao of ACRL Councilor, where he will serve on of important societal issues. Fortner’s Xingjian in World Literature: Foreignness the American Library Association (ALA) proposal was lauded by reviewers as being As Chinese, Chineseness As Foreign,” Council representing the Association of “among the best at demonstrating the at the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature College and Research Libraries (ACRL). potential for effective use of geoscience Celebration Roundtable, Chinese Institute He will also serve on the ACRL Board data or models, incorporating strategies for and Department of Modern Languages of Directors and Executive Committee promoting understanding of the methods & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, during his term. of geoscience, developing geoscience Canada, in March. literacy and supporting interdisciplinary In conjunction with the new, and now Kristin Cline, associate professor problem solving.” biennial international photography festival of chemistry, accompanied two in Cincinnati, “Fotofocus,” Daniel J. Randy Green, executive director of students, Jonathan Price, ’13 and Tom McInnis, assistant professor of art, and financial aid, has been named president of Mori ’13, to Pittcon in Philadelphia students Lauren Houser ’13, Ashley Berg the state financial aid association. to present their collaborative research ’13, Carey Keny ’13, Martin Lukk ’14, results, March 20. The presentation was Ken Irwin, reference librarian and Kate Causbie ’14, Henry Kempker ’15 and titled “Electrografting, Spontaneous associate professor, recently presented on Eileen Collins ’14 attended the Midwest Grafting and Solvent-Free Modification of his open-source software project, Weeding Society for Photographic Education’s Carbon Electrodes Using Aryldiazonium Helper, during a poster session at the Conference at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel. Tosylates.” Innovative Users Group annual meeting McInnis also conducted his own four- in San Francisco, April 24-26. The tool person panel during the conference titled Trudy Faber, university organist and helps libraries manage information and “Teaching Digital Photographic Media: professor emerita of music, presented two decisions for managing library collections. Challenges and Solutions.” Additionally, lecture/recitals on “Bach and the Dance” Irwin also helped secure two grants this fall, McInnis will have a solo show at

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Otterbein University and participate in a Engineering Geology, and Ritter’s co-authors Brian Yontz, assistant professor of three-person show at the Dayton Visual included Kelly Shaw ’11, Aaron Evelsizor education, published an article titled “A Arts Center in 2014. McInnis’ work was ’10, Katie Minter ’12, Chad Rigsby ’11 and Three-Year Journey: Lessons Learned published this past spring in The Photo Kristen Shearer ’12. from Integrating Teacher Preparation and Review and in the yearly juried PhotoPlace Urban Studies,” in the Fall 2012 Association Pam Schindler, professor emerita of Open 2012. His work was also selected of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for business, has published the 12th edition for the Carnegie Regional Photography Teacher Education Journal. Yontz also of Business Research Methods. Exhibition in Covington, Ky. published “Continuing the Conversation: Brian Shelburne, associate professor of Stewardship of our Nation’s Schools” in Alisa Mizikar, associate professor and mathematics and computer science, along the spring 2013 National Network for reference librarian, was recently elected to with several other Wittenberg math faculty Education Renewal Journal, and he was the position of Public Relations/Outreach and students, attended the spring meeting recently elected to a three-year term on Coordinator for the Academic Library of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical the National Council for Accreditation Association of Ohio. Association of America, April 5-6, at of Teacher Education’s (NCATE) Board David Nibert, professor of sociology, Denison University. At the meeting, of Examiners. had his new book, Animal Oppression Shelburne presented a contributed talk Bin Yu, professor of political science, has and Human Violence: Domesecration, titled “Pi to 10,000 Digits.” Additionally, published two articles, “Pivots to Eurasia Capitalism and Global Conflict, released in Shelburne serves as the treasurer for the and Africa, Xi’s Style” in Comparative May by Columbia University Press. Ohio Section. Connections, and “Westernism and Terry Otten, professor emeritus of English, Suzanne Smailes, associate professor/head China’s Foreign Policy: Predicaments and had a double entry in the Fall 2012 issue of technical services, was recently elected Prospects,” in Foreign Affairs Observer. He of The Arthur Miller Journal. One was to a position on the Board of Directors of also presented at two conferences. The an abbreviated commentary on the the Academic Library Association of Ohio. first was in the United Kingdom, where importance of The Crucible on the occasion he discussed “NATO Cooperation with Matthew J. Smith, professor of of its 75th birthday. The other was a full- the Asia-Pacific Region: What Potential communication, recently learned that his length essay titled “The Legacy of Arthur Role for Engagement with China and the book, Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories Miller,” which Otten based on an English People’s Liberation Army?” The second and Methods, earned the 2013 Southwest/ department colloquium he presented a few was titled “Misjudging the Rise of Asia— Texas Popular Culture and American years ago during a visit to campus. Assessing what international relations got Culture Association’s Peter C. Rollins Book wrong and how Princeton responded,” Don Reed, professor of philosophy, has Award in the category of Sequential Art/ where Yu discussed “IR Theories in the published “A simile of moral motivation,” Comics and Animation Studies. 1980s and the Case of the Beijing-Moscow- in the Handbook on Moral Motivation: Associate Professors of Physics Paul Washington Triangle.” He also gave an Theories, Models, Applications. Voytas and Elizabeth George attended invited talk titled “US-China Relations,” John Ritter, professor of geology, collab- the April 2013 meeting of the American to the Guangdong Research Institute orated with several recent graduates on an Physical Society in Denver, Colo., where for International Strategies, Guangzhou, article titled “Assessing stream restoration they also presented. Voytas discussed China, in March. Yu has been appointed potential of recreational enhancements on “Determination of the ground state a visiting scholar at the Army War College an urban stream, Springfield, Ohio.” It was branching ratio in 14O to 14N beta decay,” for the 2013-14 academic year. n published in a special edition of the while George discussed “The shape of the Geological Society of America Reviews in 66Ga ground state beta decay spectrum.”

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Coming Home Again Kiser Mansion Connects to Wittenberg Alumnus reams become reality one step at a and balustrades with a monumental Sullivan said, “and I enjoyed her company Dtime. For one Wittenberg alumnus, front gabled pediment projection.” The and her friendship. She proved to be an the opportunity to realize a childhood property also includes a gazebo, atrium, excellent resource on town history as well passion set him on a course that resulted fountain, carriage house, barn, water as the Kiser family.” in his owning another alumnus’ summer tower and pump house. Sullivan knew he lacked the time to home. “I walked by the place every day on research the property for listing on the Both natives of St. Paris, Ohio, both my way to school,” said Sullivan, who NR, so he hired graduate student Ashley alumni of Wittenberg, both with careers works as a radiation safety officer at Ann King Nittle, who used the project for her in Chicago and both with an interest & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital thesis. The Kiser Mansion was named in architecture, John W. Kiser, class of in Chicago. “I would dream that it was to the NR in 2012 for its architectural 1884, and Glenn P. Sullivan, class of 1985, mine.” significance and the historical importance found their worlds intersecting at the Years passed before a family member of the Kiser family to the St. Paris Kiser Mansion. called Sullivan when a story about the community. Built 100 years ago by Kiser and his mansion’s sale appeared in the local paper. Kiser died three years after the mansion wife, the mansion, nicknamed “Garden Sullivan quickly made arrangements to was completed and left an estate worth Glow” for its luxurious landscaped see the property and within moments of approximately $8 million. He built his gardens, is described in the National visiting became completely captivated. He fortune with the Chandler Robbins Register of Historical Places (NR) as made an offer that included permitting Sewing Machine Company, the Monarch “classical revival style, characterized by a the current owner, Emma Lou Rust, to Bicycle Company, the Phoenix Horseshoe symmetrical façade, 14 classical columns, live there as long as she was able. Company and the Cincinnati Horseshoe elaborate door surrounds, cornices “It seemed like the right thing to do,” and Iron Company. Much of the Kiser family’s wealth was given to the town of Saint Paris, including the library and the land that became Kiser Lake State Park. The Kiser Mansion Facebook page appeared in May and advises, “I’m getting a facelift with a new roof, paint and gutters. It is going to be my 100th birthday this year!” n – Phyllis Eberts ’00 s e v rchi n A n o i s n a M s e is v K ER rchi n A n o i s n a M is K ER

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Men’s Golf Finishes 13th In NCAA Division III Tournament Fla., May 14-17. tourney titles earned the Tigers The Tigers finished 45 their fourth consecutive victory strokes behind national in the NCAC Championship champion Texas-Tyler. Any Series, led by Alex Andrews ’15, disappointment stems from who captured both the Dick the team’s collective struggles Gordin Award as the NCAC on the final day, as Wittenberg Player of the Year and the dropped five spots in the Bob Nye Award as the NCAC standings. Championship Series medalist. The NCAA Division III Roope capped his sixth Tournament appearance was season leading the Red & Wittenberg’s fourth straight White with his fourth straight and the 19th in program NCAC Coach of the Year history (in addition to a berth award. In addition, Roope in the 1974 College Division picked up his first Great Lakes Tournament). The Tigers, Region Coach of the Year hen your goal is to win a was anything short of another ranked No. 12 nationally in the honor, in recognition of his Wnational championship, smashing success. final national poll, advanced work with the Tiger women’s anything less can seem “Once we step back and after winning the North Coast team, which ranked 14th in the somewhat unsatisfying. After realize all we’ve accomplished, Athletic Conference (NCAC) final national poll. The Tigers his Tiger men’s golf team placed we will be proud of this season,” championship for the fourth were the highest ranked team 13th in the NCAA Division III Roope said immediately after straight year. left out of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, Head Coach Jeff his team completed its final Wittenberg finished first in Division III Women’s Golf Roope was quick to dispel the round at the Sandestin Beach six of its 12 tournaments in the Tournament. n notion that the 2012-13 season and Golf Resort in Destin, 2012-13 season. The final two – Ryan Maurer

Wittenberg Welcomes New Women’s Soccer Head Coach Matt Fannon has been selected as Wittenberg’s new women’s soccer head coach, replacing Kwame Lloyd, who resigned in February to take the same position at Salisbury University. A native of York, England, Fannon comes to Wittenberg after one year as an assistant coach at the University of Wyoming. He previously spent two seasons as an assistant men’s coach at Regis University in Denver, Colo. Fannon played collegiately at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W.Va. He earned first-team all- conference and all-region honors in both of his seasons with the Senators, while helping the team to a 17-5 finish in 2008. Fannon earned his bachelor of science in physical education from Davis & Elkins in 2008, and he has begun work on his master’s degree in sports psychology. The Tiger women’s soccer program has posted winning records in seven of the last eight years, including a 2012 campaign that featured the Tigers’ second North Coast Athletic Conference regular season title. Overall, Wittenberg finished 11-5-3 in 2012 after a 4-0 loss to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament.n –Ryan Maurer

summer 2013 15 ts r Tiger Volleyball Preps For Season With Trip To Spain po r S r For the fourth time in the last 10 years, “The team made the most of every ige

T Wittenberg Volleyball Head Coach waking moment in Spain,” said Labrador, Paco Labrador led his nationally ranked who has a 323-46 record in 10 years squad on an offseason training trip to his at the helm of the program, including ancestral home of Spain. a phenomenal 122-2 mark in North Eleven current Tiger players, Labrador, Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) assistant coach Amy Cox ’10, certified regular season play. “They really absorbed athletic trainer Molly Hopkins and student the culture and approached each new assistant coach Evan Amstutz ’13 made the experience with an open mind. most of a 2013 excursion that spanned 13 “The competition was tough, and I days in May and June. The Tigers played feel like each player emerged from this five matches against semi-pro teams, a club experience knowing more about our athletes to experience a different culture. team and the Spanish junior national team, collective strengths and where we need to “Last fall, we had a lot of freshmen who while also taking part in a wide variety of focus our attention leading up to next fall.” saw extensive playing time,” said Labrador, educational opportunities and cultural The team hosted Junior Olympic who has five starters returning in 2013 after experiences. tournaments and clinics during the the Tigers finished 27-5 a year ago. “They The travel group was exposed to different spring semester to raise money for the have matured during the spring, and this kinds of food, customs and traditions, in trip, which has become a tradition during is a great way to cap the non-traditional addition to sightseeing trips to such sites as Labrador’s run as Wittenberg’s head season and create momentum for the El Prado Museum in Madrid, the Roman coach. He says the opportunity to study upcoming 2013 season. This is the ultimate Cathedral in Toledo and the famous and compete abroad builds team unity, road trip, and hopefully it will bring our Alcazar of Segovia. Labrador’s father, who provides valuable playing experience team closer together while giving them resides in Spain, led the group on some of against top-level competition, and provides an opportunity to continue to improve.” n the tours. an invaluable opportunity for student- –Ryan Maurer

1983 Men’s Basketball Team Strengthens Bonds During 30-Year Reunion years, Timm decided to organize a reunion of the men’s basketball team that finished second in the nation in 1983. The result was a well-attended campus event in January 2013 that turned out to be more than a stroll down memory lane. “After Mark’s funeral, there were a lot of emails going back and forth between a bunch of 50-year-old guys sharing how much we love each other,” said Timm, who is now director of corporate partnerships with the Greater Columbus Sports Commission. “It was the first time that I could ever recall those types of feelings being spoken and written. I have had the privilege to serve as a student manager for both football and basketball, and I treasure those experiences even more now than I did 30 years ago.” One of the highlights of the event was a video recorded by former Tiger head coach Larry Hunter, who was unable to attend due to his coaching commitments at Western Carolina University. He spoke about his memories of the 1983 team and its unlikely run to the NCAA Division III Tournament national championship game. The reunion continued during the current men’s basketball team’s game against Oberlin. During halftime, the 1983 squad was saluted by the Tiger fans. It took the passing of a beloved former teammate to make Brian However, it isn’t about wins and losses – in 1983 or in 2013. Timm ’83 realize what he was missing – and how he could make “The highlight of the reunion for me was seeing all of the smiling up for lost time. faces – the kind of genuine, over-powering smile that you just can’t Following the sudden passing of Mark Barren ’83 in 2011, control,” Timm said. “The joy of seeing teammates that I hadn’t Timm began to reflect on the friendships that were such a seen in nearly 30 years was overwhelming. Every time I stuck out significant part of his Wittenberg experience. A student manager my hand for a handshake, I was greeted with a bear hug instead. for the men’s basketball and football teams during his collegiate It was really special.” n –Ryan Maurer

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Mike Senich ’72 and Wendell Lutz ’66 like to take to the t s courts between meetings with the Wittenberg University Board of Directors. However, they had grown concerned by the deteriorating condition of the Albright Tennis Complex. Hall Of Honor 2013 Named Rather than sit idly by, Jeanette Baier Gould ’91, Jeff Brown ’92, Scott Copeland ’86, Senich, a 1992 Wittenberg Eby Day ’85 and Eleanor Roller ’50 (left to right, above) will Athletics Hall of Honor be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Honor during 2013 inductee, and Lutz resolved to Homecoming Weekend ceremonies, Oct. 11-13. do something about it. With Baier Gould set the standard for field hockey goalkeepers at help from the university’s Wittenberg, setting school records for saves in a career and season. Office of Advancement, they She earned all-region honors three times in her career, in addition embarked on a fundraising to a first-team selection in lacrosse in 1991. After Wittenberg campaign, sending out joined the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) in 1989, personal notes and following Baier Gould earned All-NCAC honors twice in field hockey and up with phone calls in hopes of raising money to re-surface the 12 once in lacrosse. courts and buy new nets and windscreens for the complex. Brown is one of the finest hitters in Tiger baseball history, a first The campaign did not raise nearly enough money to cover the baseman who led all three NCAA divisions with a .500 batting costs associated with the improvements, but Senich and Lutz average in 1992. He earned first-team All-NCAC, NCAC Player were not deterred. They made large enough donations to fund the of the Year, first-team all-region and first-team All-America honors restoration of the complex, which was completed in time for the that season. Brown still owns the best career batting average in start of the 2012-13 school year. program history, and he ranks second in career home runs and Go to www.wittenbergtigers.com to read the complete story, seventh in RBIs. including comments from Lutz and Senich and additional Copeland is among the most successful golfers in Wittenberg information about how other alumni can get involved. n history, one of a select few student-athletes in university history to compete in the NCAA Division III Tournament four straight years. Copeland earned two All- America awards, and he led the Tigers to Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) team titles in 1985 and 1986. Copeland earned three All-OAC awards, including medalist honors in 1986. Day led the Tiger women’s tennis team to a four-year record of 36-4, two state championships and two OAC titles. Individually, Day piled up 44 singles wins, which stood as the school record for 20 years, a .936 winning percentage, second- best in program history, and qualified Wittenberg Student-Athletes Extend Partnership With Special Olympics for the NCAA Division III Tournaments A modest reward for winning an online contest in the fall became the financial twice. foundation for a fun event in the spring as Wittenberg University’s Student-Athlete Roller, who passed away in 2003, played Advisory Committee (SAAC) hosted its first-ever Special Olympics Field Day. Members four years of field hockey and basketball at of Wittenberg’s women’s basketball, women’s soccer, and men’s swimming and diving Wittenberg. She served as president of the teams led the Field Day festivities, which were made possible by $500 from the NCAA earned through the NCAA Division III Special Olympics Spotlight Poll, an online story- Women’s Athletic Association, and she telling initiative (http://www.ncaa.org/D3SpecialOlympics) in September 2012. A story was a charter member of Phi Delta Pi, the that ran on Wittenberg’s website won first place, earning the cash award to be used physical education honorary. Roller went for future Special Olympics activities. The Field Day event capped the second year of a on to teach physical education for more fruitful partnership between Wittenberg SAAC and Clark County Special Olympics. than 35 years. n

Brian Agler ’80 To Be Tiger Football Tiger Student-Athletes Sports Inducted Into Ohio Earns Preseason Attend NCAA Career in Shorts Basketball Hall of Fame Accolades Sports Forum summer 2013 17 Read more at www.wittenbergtigers.com Read more at www.wittenberg.edu/athletics Reaching New Heights Committed to open, honest and transparent communication, President Laurie M. Joyner invited Tom Stafford of the Springfield News-Sun to follow Wittenberg during the 2012-13 academic year as the university looks to create a sustainable financial model and deliver on the promise of providing a first-rate liberal arts education for the 21st century. The following, which ran on May 6, 2013, appeared as part of a series of Stafford’s stories. Story by Tom Stafford ’76. Photos by Erin Pence ’04. Sidebar by Karen Gerboth ’93.

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ittenberg Uni- also motivate a Wittenberg “I have confidence in the not only boost enrollment by versity’s Board community trying to stay true people who will be doing this attracting more international of Directors this to its liberal arts tradition as work,” he said. “I think there’s students but address the serious wweekend approved it moves toward a curriculum an expectation, and I think educational question of “how a plan to cut $4.5 million that offers more career- there’s a faith, that they’re we’re going to educate for from the budget in the next oriented programs needed to going to accomplish some very global citizenship.” four years. balance its budget. significant things.” At the same time, the The spending cuts were The cuts leave $2.5 million He said the speed at which university is trying to find out worked out over a difficult 10 more in red ink for the the university moved to create how to build on its strengths. months in which Wittenberg university to find over the a program to help registered One of those area has been East President Laurie M. Joyner next four years from one of nurses get their bachelor of Asian Studies, a program some arrived on campus and sounded two sources: cuts to its current science in nursing shows what think the university should the alarm about a $7 million staff and programing or new can be done. have exploited and grown into budget problem, which some income from programs it The program’s director the kind of so-called “signature sensed was looming but caught already has started to develop, was hired April 1, “and from program” — one that would others flat-footed. among them a bachelor of that day, we proposed a new help to advance its reputation. And at a time when the trend nursing completion program. curriculum and degree, and Joyner said such a program is to judge college outcomes by Peter Hanson, head it was approved by the faculty could be built by adding graduates’ incomes, Joyner of the Educational Policy April 30,” Hanson said. high-profile field studies or sat in her office last week, Committee, which struggled “It’s a 29-day turnaround,” semesters abroad and co- entertaining another notion. through the cutting process in said Hanson. “I’ve never seen curricular programs, related “I’ve never known anybody the past year, said the next year such a thing.” activities on campus related to who thinks (he or she) is living still is likely to be difficult but The program will start in the programs. a meaningful life who isn’t not as grim. the fall. Joyner also said the uni- successful,” Joyner said. “I think it’s going to be one Joyner hopes the innovation versity might build a program Her view that the current of change, when we’re going to committee can help the of “social entrepreneurship” emphasis is “too much on start to begin to see the effects university’s parts connect in a by merging lessons taught the career piece and not as of the cuts,” he said. “But one way that can make a stronger in the business school with much on the meaningful life” thing that will be different whole. Wittenberg’s goal for students may furrow brows outside is that Laurie (Joyner) has “We have our admissions to find a vocation or calling and the university. But it may constituted an innovation people working on a compre- reach out in service to others. committee” filled with people hensive internationalization That could link, of course, to “charged to think outside the plan,” she said, one that would the university’s community box.” service program.

summer 2013 19 Her brainstorming includes “If we don’t organize our the possibility of parlaying institutions in ways that work 2012-13 Achievements the strength of Wittenberg’s for them, we don’t maximize ❡ Will welcome 580 students this fall, an increase of 50 science programs to build true potential,” she said. Doing students compared to last year, thanks to an “all-hands- the first part of a physician’s that “is what families are on-deck approach.” assistant program in which demanding,” she said. ❡ Worked collaboratively across campus to reduce students would spend their first Again, the proposal serves three years at Wittenberg and two purposes: Getting students expenses, and by May, presented and the Board perhaps two at another school more involved in the whole approved $4.5 million in budget reductions over the for their practicums. college experience is not only next four years. Joyner also talked about the more true to the idea of the ❡ Established Innovation Task Force to brainstorm need to change Wittenberg’s liberal arts education, it also ways to generate additional revenue by leveraging the administrative structure so it is a way to address one of the university’s current resources and assets. can help students coordinate university’s chronic problems: ❡ Established Integrated Budget and Planning their classroom and out-of- students who leave Wittenberg Committee to explicitly link planning, budgeting, and class activities in ways that before graduation, taking their assessment by identifying institutional priorities that are makes their educations more tuition money with them. meaningful. “Ultimately, I think what a likely to inform the work of the Board as well as become “We talk about educating liberal arts education is about is key components of the comprehensive campaign. the whole person,” she said, but helping students figure out who ❡ Approved new programs, including a BA completion need to develop an integrated they are and what they value program in criminology/criminal justice, the first-ever approach to deliver on that, and what their responsibilities Maymester program (an intensive three-week summer “a four-year developmental are to others,” Joyner said. term), and a major in sport management. A new BSN approach to each student.” She and Wittenberg and degree-completion program is also awaiting approval Although she said the hoping to persuade enough by the Ohio Board of Regents and the Higher Learning most motivated and directed people that this remains the Commission. Wittenberg students take foundation of the successful ❡ advantage of international career that goes with a Began process of creating a new, fully integrated study, internships, community meaningful life and is worth student success model. service and other offerings, the $47,766 tuition and costs – Karen Gerboth ’93 some others do not. projected for the 2013-14 school year. n

20 Wittenberg Magazine Distinguished Associate Professor of Business Wendy Gradwohl takes each day in stride as she brings out the best in her TeacherBy Karen Gerboth ’93. Portrait by Erin Pence ’04. students and colleagues. summer 2013 21 henever a friend “Knowing that “The model Wendy offers for our or family member students is powerful,” said colleague Tom needed to bounce you can influence Kaplan, Ness Chair in Entrepreneurship off an idea or work and chair of the business department. through an issue, students’ learning “Without her leadership, I cannot Wendy Gradwohl proved very see how we would have managed the proved to be the forward movement we have seen in the point person for powerful to me.” recent past. Her unmatched humility such conversations. Perhaps it was her would allow someone who is not paying Wreassuring words, welcoming smile, desire says. “I’m not an extrovert, but in that class, sufficient attention to undervalue her many to help or her genuine approachability that I found myself come alive.” contributions to Wittenberg.” drew people to her. Either way, her innate Through the sharing of knowledge, Described as a true servant leader who ability to offer counsel at the right time and Gradwohl also began to see the meaningful is unafraid to talk openly about her faith, place prompted her early on to consider relationships that develop between Gradwohl has often wondered whether psychology as a possible career. professors and their students. Additionally, she is making a difference. Clearly she is, A self-described “straight A over- she started to understand the path being if her latest recognition – the 2013 Alumni achiever,” Gradwohl soon headed to paved for her and went on to teach Association Award for Distinguished northwest Ohio to attend college at some more classes before completing her Teaching – is any indication. Bowling Green State University, where program in Industrial/Organizational Referencing the sentiments shared by her she quickly immersed herself in her Psychology. By graduation, Auburn nominators, Alumni Board member Eric studies and sought out the best mentors University came calling, and she found Rusnak ’00, who presented the award during to guide her chosen path. Once ensconced herself smack dab in Alabama, where the university’s Honors Convocation, April in the undergraduate program, however, another set of Tigers ruled. 12, noted that Gradwohl is “the glue that Gradwohl found herself gravitating toward “I worked with master- and doctoral- keeps the business department together. psychology applied to organizations or level students there, and I made lifelong She is a teacher, mentor and friend. She en- workplace behavior. Her self-discipline friendships,” she says. “I still keep in touch courages students to develop their strengths with staying fit also began to show itself in with some of my former students there.” and to capitalize on them. She’s tough on her her growing interest with sport psychology. students, but her students appreciate her all “I began to align myself with specific et, the large class sizes and the more for it.” professors at Bowling Green,” she says. the pressure to publish “William Balzer and Dale Klopfer both took time away from had a huge impact on my future career as her first love – teaching they believed in me and encouraged me students. throughout my studies.” “I prayed a lot about it, Diploma now in hand, Gradwohl and the Lord directed me returned to eastern Ohio to earn her to think about another master’s degree and Ph.D. at the University Yavenue,” she says, and that avenue led to of Akron with every intention of entering Wittenberg. the industry post-graduation. But, as “Deciding to join the Department the saying goes, “When you plan, God of Business at Wittenberg was the best laughs,” and so it was for Gradwohl, who professional decision I have ever made,” was assigned to teach a Pysch 100 class she said. “The department is a special place, as a teaching assistant her second year of one of collegiality and cross-collaboration, graduate school. where we work together for the common “Being in front of that class and knowing good of our students and each other.” that you can influence these students’ During her tenure as chair, Gradwohl learning proved very powerful to me,” she changed the name of the department from management back to business, worked with different constituencies to get the new “Listening to music business curriculum approved (a process that colleague John Fenimore had started when you run only prior to her becoming chair), and recruited gets you so far. You new faculty. Given that much of her time was spent on the business curriculum, she must rely on drive is grateful to Fenimore and fellow colleague Wayne Maurer for taking the lead in and inner strength.” launching the new major in accounting.

22 Wittenberg Magazine In the words of one student nominator, “Little did I know that she would become my lifelong mentor. She has guided me through tough times and was always willing to lend an ear when needed…. She has a way of capturing her students’ attention and inspiring us. She is truly a model citizen and someone I only hope to live up to.” Listening to Rusnak’s presentation, Gradwohl couldn’t help but be overwhelmed as she believes that her ability to teach is a gift from God, and, therefore, it must be used in service to others. Challenges come. Opportunities arise. Decisions are made, and each time Gradwohl’s faith remains constant, helping her to grow and inspire others in unspoken ways. “When something this special happens, Wendy’s World it humbles you and reminds you that no man (or woman) is an island,” she says. Hometown “You don’t get to where you are in life all on N orton, Ohio your own. For me, I owe everything to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose grace Degrees and mercy abound daily; loving parents B.S. Bowling Green State University, 1991 who support me every step of the way; friends and mentors who care about my M.A. The University of Akron, 1993 well-being; and students who challenge me Ph.D. The University of Akron, 1997 and enrich my life.” It’s that perspective that guides her Courses Taught teaching style as well. Applied Business “In my leading and managing class, for Business Research Methods example, we spend a lot of time talking Human Resource Management about person-job and person-organization fit,” she says. “In my opinion, there are few Leading and Managing EffectiveO rganizations things that bring greater joy than using your gifts and talents to serve others and Other Awards/Memberships enjoying the people who are working Member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) alongside you.” Member of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) A longtime runner, who has finished Member of Springfield Human Resources Management Association (SHRMA) four marathons and seven half-marathons 2011 Witt Woman of the Year Award in five states, Gradwohl also knows Serves as Wittenberg’s Female Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAC/NCAA. that anything worth doing takes time, discipline and commitment. “Listening to music when you run only Personal Interests gets you so far,” she says. “You must rely on Avid runner who has completed four marathons and wants to run a half marathon in drive and inner strength, and you need to all 50 states. grab on to something. For me, that’s God.” Enjoys traveling and has had the opportunity to visit Africa, China, Italy, Japan, South It’s why Gradwohl takes each day in Korea and Spain. life in stride, hoping to do the best for her Recently participated in faith-based mission trip to Swaziland students and for Wittenberg. “I often tell students that sometimes R esearch Interests things don’t work out as you think they Emotion regulation within team settings should, and you may not see the whole Transformational leadership within sports teams picture, but God is in the details. You can Management education trust that.” n

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Learn how Wittenberg’s tradition of excellence in student-faculty research and two elite scholarship programs are launching the career of one NASA intern and shining the light on the power of the liberal arts.

24 Wittenberg Magazine If Kimberly Lykens ’14 can’t inspire an inner- city high school student to love science and pursue the liberal arts, chances are slim that anyone else can. Teaching is in her blood. Her mom taught high school for 35 years, and Lykens embraced her mom’s passion for education. “Teaching offers you the opportunity to be creative in how you teach a subject,” says the Columbus, Ohio, native. “I just love science and teaching, as well as working with students and young people.” Little did Lykens know IDER that those two interests – E N

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converge to make Wittenberg EMIL CH history. A biology major and education minor, Lykens she was also eligible, thanks to learned her sophomore year Wittenberg, for a prestigious “It’s been amazing.” about the Robert Noyce summer internship at Pacific Lykens also receives continual professional Teacher Scholarship program. Northwest Laboratory in In 2011, Wittenberg became Richland, Wash., which she development in the program. one of only two private liberal pursued in 2012. arts institutions to receive a $1 “While there, I learned have the opportunity to work Lykens decided to apply and million grant from the highly about this program called in a “National Laboratory, checked NASA as a possible competitive program funded STAR, which stands for NASA research Center, location for her internship. by the National Science STEM [Science, Technology, NOAA Laboratory or a private Four months later, she learned Foundation. The scholarship Engineering, Math] Teacher industry research setting, that she had been accepted to pays full tuition for upper- and Researcher,” she says. alongside a research mentor the program, but not just any class students pursuing A nine-week summer and [at a pay of] $500/week,” location. Lykens landed an science and education with research internship for according to the program’s internship with a major NASA the stipulation that they teach “aspiring science and website. “Participants work Research Center in Pasadena, for four years in a Title I school mathematics teachers” at the full-time on a group or Calif. post graduation – two years for middle or high-school level, independent research project, “I called Professor Fleisch, every one year of scholarship the program is also highly and participate in weekly who encouraged my love of funding. competitive, typically drawing education workshops focused astronomy, and told him,” she Once accepted into the its interns from prestigious on exploring the nature of recalls. “He couldn’t believe Noyce Scholarship Program, universities. Students science and transferring [their] it. He told me I had to do it.” Lykens quickly learned that interested in the program experience to the classroom.” “When she told me, my

summer 2013 25 jaw dropped,” remembers Dan Fleisch, professor of physics. “Not only was she going to NASA, she was going to be working in the Jet Propulsion Lab. It was absolutely incredible.” Now at NASA, Lykens often still finds herself in awe, working side-by- side with top researchers in the field and with fellow interns from Harvard and Cornell, among other top-tier research institutions. “We’re selected by individual mentors, and my mentor is in the Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group (BPPG),” Lykens explains. The BPPG at JPL is the NASA center for planetary protection research, and im- plementation of planetary protection on spaceflight projects such as Mars Exploration Rovers, Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory and future life detection and sample return missions. The goal of planetary protection is to prevent con- tamination of extraterrestrial bodies with terrestrial biota, and protecting the Earth from potential threats posed by returned extraterrestrial samples. The project she supports, along with many engineers, scientists and interns: ensure Lykens’ mentor is Fei Chen, an expert in biochemistry and pharmaceutical science from the California Institute of Technology. “She has been a wonderful mentor,” says Lykens, adding that Chen has been working at JPL for more than 10 years. IDER

26 Wittenberg Magazine E N S Y EMIL CH “Being out here, no one knows Wittenberg mentor at NASA is far Lykens participated in this really well or the liberal arts. more meaningful because past spring with Fleisch’s we collaborate together, just astronomy class (see sidebar) like I have done with my helped her understand how “I’m changing that.” professors at Wittenberg. If I NASA actually works. The hadn’t had the collaborative project continues to impress research opportunities I’ve had her colleagues out west, as well. the integrity of the sample NASA employees also opens at Wittenberg and was just “Dr. Fleisch kept collected in a returnable cache doors for future employment. memorizing straight facts that connecting our near space for the Mars 2020 mission. As she evaluates the someone tells me, I wouldn’t project to NASA as he broke More specifically, when the be able to create and conduct us into teams and assigned experience so far, rover lands on Mars and experiments in the way I am each team a specific part of the drills down into the rock, however, she has at NASA.” project,” Lykens says. “Because the container used to hold noticed that many To show what she means of my participation in that the sample cannot in any way of her fellow interns even more, Lykens recalls project right before I went to interfere with the scientifically clearly haven’t had the conversations with other Pasadena, my experience at valued composition of the the real collaborative interns and how they are NASA has been so much more sample. student-faculty research amazed by the professor-led rewarding as it gave my work “The cache might be opportunities she has study sessions and student- more purpose and meaning.” returned to Earth after many professor research projects at Her NASA experience also had at Wittenberg. years sitting on Mars, so Wittenberg. continues to make her love we need to ensure that any “All of my classes in biology, “Most students only the liberal arts even more, potential molecular evidence chemistry and astronomy see their professors during which she is inspiring others of life, such as amino acids, really prepared me to be right lecture periods,” Lykens says. to consider. could be preserved throughout there with the Ivy League “That doesn’t happen with “Being out here, no one that period of time,” she says. interns,” Lykens says. “At Wittenberg professors.” knows Wittenberg really “It’s been amazing,” adds the same time, I have found Indeed it doesn’t. In fact, well or the liberal arts. I’m Lykens, who also receives that the research with my the near space project that changing that.” n continual professional development in the program. IDER E

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Control, seen a ton of cool Y labs, and heard from speakers EMIL CH who worked on the Viking and Curiosity Missions,” she says. And the opportunities provided through STAR don’t end there. Lykens can intern for up to three summers with the program and has the chance to receive funding to present her research at a top aerospace conference in Montana. Her ability to network with highly respected

While at NASA, Lykens has heard from speakers who worked on the Curiosity Mission, and she had the chance to view the model rover from that mission.

summer 2013 27 Near Space Launch Reflects Excellence in Collaborative Research By Karen Gerboth ’93. Photos by Erin Pence ’04 and Kate Causbie ’14.

also learned how to handle the Go-Pro camera, effectively communicate the project’s purpose, and document the entire process with precision. “Our goal of launching a balloon into near space and collecting data as we go involved many different parts leading up to the big event,” said Fleisch and the students, who were eventually grouped accordingly into Lift and Launch, Tracking and Communication, Payload and Airframe, Flight Path and Recovery, Power and Thermal, Imaging, Science, and Documentation teams. By mid-April, the teams set out to conduct a test launch. “After a little uncertainty due to weather and wind and then a few attempts until our payload (the container of data-gathering gadgets) was just the right weight, we had a successful test launch. And it only got stuck in a tree once,” The balloon quickly descended after it popped at an noted the students on the special blog established specifically astonishing 99,225 feet. for the project. As the launch day of May 2 arrived, students asked last-minute Dan Fleisch, professor of physics, knows questions, and conversations ensued as anticipation grew. By a thing or two about exciting the life of 10 a.m., final preparations began with 11 a.m. slated for liftoff. the mind. The 2010 Ohio Professor of the Surrounded by project fans physically and virtually through social media, the team gathered together to start the Year has been doing just that for decades countdown. Within seconds of liftoff, the scene resembled in the industry and in his classes. This Storm Chasers as Fleisch and the students scurried to vans to spring, the award-winning educator took track the balloon’s every move. his intellectual curiosity and ability to Traveling along back roads and farm fields for nearly two motivate another step further. hours, the teams engaged fans on Facebook and the class’ blog, as well as a local reporter who joined in some of the Believing fully in the high-impact practice of student-faculty day’s fun. collaborative research, Fleisch and his spring astronomy class students spent a semester preparing to conduct a near Within just 12 minutes of liftoff, tracking data showed the space launch. Spanning all majors, the students collaborated balloon had soared to 10,000 feet, then 27,000, 40,000, 70,000, continuously as they prepared to send a six-foot-wide balloon all the way to a final reading of 99,225 feet – nearly 40,000 complete with 3.6-pound payload to a predicted 60,000 feet more than predicted – before “POP.” Within seconds the above the Earth’s surface. balloon takes the fast track back to Earth. Clearly all systems were “a go” as the team tracked the balloon For the two months leading up to the launch, they studied to its landing place, a mere 20 minutes from Springfield in every facet of the project, making adjustments to the payload the town of St. Paris. Original predictions indicated that the weight as needed and ensuring that the power wasn’t flight path would end in West Virginia, but contrasting wind compromised as the temperatures shifted in flight. They patterns kept the balloon close to home.

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Adrenalin at maximum, the students log every moment of the hunt on the project’s blog: 1:02 PM The balloon has landed, or should we say, has lake- ed. It dropped into the lake! 1:03 PM No more data seem to be transmitting, but the Go Pro camera may still be okay. 1:04 PM On Kiser Lake Road, headed towards lake. 1:05 PM Report of data still alive from other car! 1:05 PM Arrive at lake, and begin to ask people if they saw anything land. 1:12 PM Waiting for spot update. If last two locations are the same, then we know where it is. 1:13 PM We’re thinking it is not IN the water, since that spot signal is still sending data. The other data may have cut out before because of low altitude. 1:20 PM Parked at a rough road, walking from here. 1:29 PM WE SEE IT!!! Across a field, in a tree. NOT IN A LAKE! And see they did. Described by local media as “spectacular” and “awesome,” the footage the students captured from the balloon’s near space adventure proved both exciting and powerful, but what they learned will last a lifetime. Kim Lykens ’14 said the project “This project is a perfect example of the difference Wittenberg made her NASA internship makes in the life of its students,” Fleisch said. “Here you even more meaningful. have students of all different majors and backgrounds coming together with a shared interest in astronomy, setting an intense schedule for the project, working in teams, collaborating, and just enjoying learning at every level. This is the power of the liberal arts. ” Cherry Xiao ’16 from Chengdu, China, who helped solder the electric board, called the event “the best experience of the year,” adding that completing the project in two months was most rewarding as was working with Fleisch. “He guided us to try everything new,” Xiao said. “Without him, we could not have accomplished this project. We all love him.”

See the video at www.wittenberg.edu/nearspace.

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N ew Staff Member Joins Alumni Relations Call for Nominations The Office of Alumni Relations Now is the time to nominate a is pleased to welcome Sarah Kelly candidate to receive an honorary as the new associate director of degree or the Medal of Honor alumni relations. Kelly is a 2011 from Wittenberg. graduate of Ohio University with An honorary degree is presented to: a B.A. in communication studies, • Prominent persons associated with leading liberal arts colleges; and she comes to Wittenberg from Marietta College, where • Prominent corporate and social leaders; she served as assistant director of • Prominent scholars whose research relates to a program alumni relations. emphasis at Wittenberg or whose scholarship contributes to the While at Marietta, Kelly welfare of humankind; developed the college’s Regional • Persons who have contributed significantly to the arts, Association and Young Alumni human welfare and scholarship or who have made noteworthy Network Programs. She also achievements in other fields; and/or served as co-advisor of the • Wittenberg alumni who have made significant contributions. Student Alumni Association A Medal of Honor is awarded to: (SAA) and helped SAA increase membership in the SAA from • Persons who have contributed significantly to Wittenberg’s 10 to 35. mission; and/or A tour guide at her alma mater for four years, Kelly also holds • Persons who have provided extraordinary service to Wittenberg a certificate in Global Leadership and was a four-year member of over a long period. the highly selective Student Alumni Board, where she served as president and philanthropy chair. Kelly can be reached at kellys@ Please send your nominations no later than Sept. 1 to Ty Buckman, associate provost for undergraduate affairs, at wittenberg.edu or by phone at 937-327-7424. n [email protected] or by mail to Recitation Hall, Wittenberg University, Box 720, Springfield, OH 45501. Alumni Travel Opportunities Abound In keeping with its commitment to creating global citizens, Save the Date Wittenberg annually offers international excursions through 3 Aug. 23 – Westcott House, Springfield Chapter its Alumni Association and Office of Alumni and Parent Aug. 24 Engagement. In May, a trip to the Gardens of London, England, 3 – Cookout in Buffalo, N.Y. featuring the Centennial Chelsea Flower Show, kicked off 3 Aug. 25 – Rochester Red Wings Baseball Game the summer, while a rare opportunity to Rediscover Cuba will 3 Sept. 7 – Wittenberg-Butler tailgate, Indianapolis, Ind. headline the fall travel lineup, Oct. 20-28. Looking into 2014, 3 Sept. 14 – Rochester Alumni Chapter Service Event Costa Rica and a tour of South Pacific Wonders top the list 3 Sept. 18 – Columbus, Ohio, Chapter Launch, Grandview Café of international travel opportunities at Wittenberg. 3 Sept. 21 – Cleveland Indians Game, Cleveland, Ohio To learn more, visit www.wittenberg.edu/alumni. n 3 Sept. 21 – Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Event 3 Oct. 19 – Wittenberg-Wooster tailgate, Springfield Chapter 3 Oct. 27 – Great Lakes Brewery Tour, Cleveland Chapter 3 Nov. 1-3 – Witt at Williamsburg, Washington D.C. Chapter 3 Nov. 9 – Symphony Night, Springfield Chapter 3 Nov. 13 – Cincinnati Alumni Chapter Networking Event Register for the above events at www.wittenberg.edu/alumni. 30 Wittenberg Magazine A lu m ni W o r Homecoming 2013 ld Come Back and Celebrate Our Points of Pride Homecoming, Oct. 11-13

Get in the Game – Join the Reunion Giving Challenge! Wittenberg is starting a new tradition during this year’s PO Box 720, Springfield, OH 45501. Gifts received between Homecoming, Oct. 10-13! Reunion classes are challenged July 1, 2012 and October 4, 2013 count toward the challenge. to increase class giving participation by 20.13%. The class Check out the standings as of June 5th and see how your class with the highest percentage of donor participation will win measures up! and be honored with special recognition at the reunion reception during Homecoming. The class of 1978 is in the lead! Which class will it be? Check in often to see the results at www.wittenberg.edu/ Show your Tiger pride and help your class move up the homecoming. Best of luck! leaderboard with a gift of $5 or more!

Make a gift online immediately at www.wittenberg.edu/ reuniongiving or mail your check to Wittenberg University,

Standings as of June 5, by class year 1973 11.95% 1983 7.55% 1993 4.42% 2003 5.77% 1978 12.24% 1988 8.04% 1998 6.77% 2008 3.43%

Florida Indianapolis Chicago Special Alumni Events N ew Alumni Chapters Launched Chicago, Ill. – Alumni reunited as they connected with President With Tigers living across the United States and around the world, Laurie M. Joyner, Feb. 28. the Wittenberg Alumni Association is excited to continue to Florida – Spring break offered alumni engagement activities launch several chapters to show its Tiger pride. Our chapters that throughout the Sunshine State, March 4-10. launched in 2012-2013 are Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Rochester and Washington DC. Cleveland, Ohio – Accepted students took time to meet with area For the next year (July 1-June 30), the university looks to alumni, current students, faculty and staff during a special event launch chapters in Cleveland, Ohio (East and West); New York in their honor, March 16. The event was one of several special City, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Seattle, Wash.; and Toledo, Ohio. accepted student receptions. Please visit www.wittenberg.edu/alumni to see what is happening Rochester, N.Y. – Alumni spent time reminiscing and reflecting in your area and to become more involved. Denver, Texas and during a special gathering in Rochester, May 22. California are slated for year three, and the Alumni Association can’t wait. n

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’55 | home. Both are also active at department of sociology at The Bethesda on the Bay Lutheran Ohio State University after Winberg Chai, Laramie, Wyo., Church in Bay Village, Ohio. more than 30 years of teaching has retired after 25 years as at Clemson University, Furman professor of political science ’65 | University and Greenville at the University of Wyoming. College in South Carolina, and M. Earl Chadwick serves as He was awarded emeritus Capital University in Ohio. status. Winberg is president the chapter president of the of Wang Yu-fa Foundation, Montgomery County Chapter Pamela Cline Novak, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The of the Ohio Genealogical Fountain Hills, Ariz., is foundation donates funds to Society. Additional president of Spirit Education build village libraries in rural memberships include the Foundation, which provides China and sponsors educational Wyandot Tracers and the scholarships for very poor conferences in the U.S. First Families of Wyandot young women in Coatepeque, County, Ohio. He is also ▲ M. Earl Chadwick ’65 Guatemala. The city of ’60 | active in planning three family Coatepeque has honored Pam reunions and the microfilming completed his career in data as a “Distinguished Friend of Kenneth L. Grimes is the of 20 volumes of a genealogy processing, including 13 years Coatepeque.” author of The Other Side of collection at Bowling Green at the Supreme Court of Ohio Yesterday, a time travel novel, State University. where he provided technical ’68 | and 150 years of stories from support, especially to the Camptown, Kentucky. Kenn, a John I. and Donna Skaggs John L. Engelhardt, Overland circuit courts throughout the retired minister, splits his time Crossman have retired and Park, Kan., retired from his state. Donna retired from the between Louisville, Ky., and live in Westerville, Ohio. John position as chief life and Lower Northern Michigan, health actuary of the National where he officiates weddings. Association of Insurance Commissioners. J. William and Helene Ettlinger Pearch ’61, celebrated their 50th wedding ’69 | anniversary at their home in Charles V. Painter, Centerville, Lacey, Wash. Ohio, is the head boys and girls tennis coach at Beavercreek ’62 | High School. Selected as the Midwest USPTA High School Jerry J. and Diane McMillan Coach of the Year, he was also Karp celebrated 50 years of nominated as the National marriage in August 2012. They High School Coach of the Year. live in Avon, Ohio, where Additionally, he was selected they are retired educators. as the GWOC Coach of the Jerry continues to tutor math Year and registered a coaching and does yard and home milestone with his 600th career improvements. Diane tutors at Bethesda Child Care Center ◀ Pamela Cline Novak ’65 and gives piano lessons in their earns "Distinguished Friend of Coatepeque" award.

32 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES win. Charlie’s career record of 616-297 places him among the top 20 active coaches in Ohio. ’70 Richard H. Valier is a semi- retired architect living in Glenside, Pa. ’72 Stephen J. and Nancy Archer Poppoon ’73 live in San Antonio, Texas. Steve finances and develops multifamily ▲ Charles V. Painter ’69 properties. A longtime soccer Walter P. Kendig ’49 player and fan, he is the author College, Pa. In addition, he has Lives Life of Service of Hail to the Chiefs. taught numerous workshops from Bezalel Academy in Israel Walter P. Kendig could be called “Mr. Wittenberg” because of ’75 | to Haystack in Maine and has pots in major museums. his lifelong love of the university. Although Kendig began classes Amy Campbell is the executive at Wittenberg in 1941, he had to postpone his education in order director of campus services and to serve his country in the U.S. Army during World War II. After planning in university services ’79 | the war, he returned to Wittenberg to complete his education. at Princeton University in New Arthur T. Townsend, Rock Active and engaged in several organizations, including Varsity Jersey. Hill, S.C., has published his W, having played varsity basketball and baseball, Kendig served first book,Time’s Up! The story two years as president of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, as president ’76 | of my death and learning what it means to live. of the education fraternity, Kappa Phi Kappa, and as a member During his career, Robert of both the Shifters and Blue Key. Being selected for Skull and L. Moseley has been a Chain stood out in particular. sports journalist for various ’80 | “He is especially proud of being chosen for Skull and Chain as newspapers and magazines. He Graeme J. and Alison only two people are selected each year,” said his daughter Sandy has written his first novel,Out Reinhardt Lockwood ’81 live Kendig Bowen ’76. of Bounds, a young adult sports in Orlando, Fla. Alison’s novel, Inspired by his own education, Kendig went on to teach mystery set in Illinois. The Arsonist’s Last Words, has math and coach basketball at Phillipsburg High School before Gail Christensen Palminteri, been published by Mansfield beginning a career with International Harvester (Navistar). He Franklin Lakes, N.J., has House Books. married his college sweetheart, Carol Elliott ’49, and settled retired as a vice president from in Springfield after working with International Harvester in Goldman Sachs. She was ’81 | Emeryville, Calif., and Ft. Wayne, Ind., as well as the company’s awarded a 100-ton master’s Timothy E. and Hilary Springfield operation, from which he retired as manager of human captain’s license by the U.S. Knapp Kremchek ’82 live resources following a career that spanned 30 years. Coast Guard. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tim is Kendig’s own philanthropic work with his fraternity at the medical director with the Wittenberg led him to a lifetime of service for numerous civic, ’77 | Cincinnati Reds Baseball Team educational and community organizations, including his alma Sue Robinson Schneider and team orthopedic physician mater, where he served as president of the Wittenberg Alumni has moved to Ephrata, Pa., for Wittenberg’s athletic Association and assisted with fund raising throughout the years. following her retirement after program. The Reds have been In addition, he was president of Mental Health Services and 34 years of teaching music in awarded the 2012 Martin- Monahan Award for the best the Urban League, and he served. on the board of Community New York and Ohio. In June medical staff in baseball. Hospital, Planned Parenthood and Clark County Historical 2012, she received the Music Society. He was also a Trustee with Covenant Presbyterian Educator of the Year award Church. for instrumental music from ’82 | “Wittenberg provided him with the foundation for living a the Rochester Philharmonic Janis R. Worley, Hudson, Orchestra. life centered on service to others,” his daughter said. “Today, my Ohio, is a member of the parents still live in Springfield, where my dad enjoys attending Christopher P. Staley is a board of trustees of the Ronald Wittenberg sporting events, golfing and, according to my mom, professor of ceramic arts at McDonald House, Akron, Penn State University, State Ohio. any sport with a ball.” n

summer 2013 33 ’84 | Wedding Album Leila Trepanier Bussie and her husband, Joe, announce the CLASS NOTES CLASS adoption of Eva Michelle, born on March 26, 2011. They live in West Chicago, Ill. ’85 | Kristin E. Graef is an associate adjunct professor at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Mich. She teaches western humanities and composition while pursuing secondary education certification in English and Erin M. Meredith ’09 and LukasE. Treu were married Dec. learning disabilities. She also 31, 2011. They live in Streetsboro, Ohio. works for Lake Michigan Academy and conducts college prep workshops for high school seniors. ’86 | Jerry L. Metzker, Oakland, Calif., was the dramaturg for the play, Fighting Mac, which ran at the Thick House in San Francisco, Calif. Francisco J. Sanchez and Elizabeth A. Rini ’87 live in Ann Arbor, Mich. Cisco received the Ford Motor Company Product Development June 2012 Ainsley J. Rechel ’08 married Cory Kovanda on June 9, 2012. Program Management They live in Salisbury, N.C. Achievement Award for work that shortened the process of sourcing suppliers for the $500,000,000 expansion of the Fusion to the Flat Rock Assembly Plant.

Kelley F. Herde and Jacob A. Kerger ’10 were married on May 27, 2012. They live in Louisville, Ky.

▲ Kristin E. Graef ’85

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◀ Witt alumni have been busy writing – and being published. CLASS NOTES ’88 | Thomas R. and Salena McKenzie Day ’97 live in Reston, Va. Tom is a business relationship manager with Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr, a law firm with headquarters in Boston, Mass., and Washington, D.C. ’89 | ’04

e William D. Edwards, n e Cleveland, Ohio, is an attorney ▲ William D. Edwards ’89

Erinc P practicing with Ulmer & Berne LLP. He was selected for Anne Felker Osovski ’90 inclusion in The Best Lawyers in U.S. Army Special Forces. He Turns Love of Fitness Into Work-Out App America 2013. has volunteered to spend a year in Afghanistan training, Ever the entrepreneur, Anne Felker Osovski has never shied ’90 | advising and mentoring Afghan away from trying something new. A speech/English major at National Security Forces. Lori Zimmerman Black, Wittenberg, Osovski started in sales with IBM after graduation Urbana, Ohio, is a teacher at and later purchased and ran a bed and breakfast. Her business Graham Middle School. In ’91 | savvy and entrepreneurial spirit have since led her to connect her 2011, she achieved “master Kris V. Hazard, Bethesda, Md., passion for fitness with popular technology. teacher status,” which denotes is the author of Hazard of the “After working in a ‘big box’ gym setting for 10 years, I went off a teacher who demonstrates Game: The Dangers of Over- on my own and opened a Personal Training Studio called FIT with excellence inside and outside Parenting in Sport and Life. a former work colleague,” Osovski said. “We rent our gym space to of the classroom through Lisa A. Rodenburg married four personal trainers who run their businesses out of our facility. I consistent leadership and Paul Michael in May 2011. wanted to diversify my revenue stream, so I decided to develop two focused collaboration to They live in Bridgewater, apps, Workout in a Bag and Workout in a Bag for Kids.” maximize student learning. N.J. Lisa is an associate Osovski’s efforts are making headlines in her hometown of Gregory J. Reck and his wife, professor in the department Rochester, N.Y., where the local television station, YNN, featured Maile, were married Aug. 6, of environmental sciences her. Reviews of the app have also earned it a five-star rating on 2011. Greg has been promoted and center for environmental iTunes. to lieutenant colonel in the prediction at Rutgers University. The idea for the Workout in a Bag app stemmed from a training session where she asked her clients to pick out an exercise from a brown paper bag. “The class went so fast. Oh my gosh, we worked so hard. I thought that’d be great if I could package that,” Osovski told YNN. From there, development began, and today the app allows users to select their own level of comfort and length of time. It then randomly selects one of 80 exercises to do wherever and whenever. “I love to help people help themselves,” Osovski said. “My business is very results-oriented, and it is so exciting to see people reach their fitness goals.” Helping children enjoy exercise also inspired Osovski to create a similar app for kids. “My daughters who are seven and 11 years old helped me develop the kids app, and it was so much fun having them work right alongside me,” she said, adding that that has been the biggest reward so far. “It is also great to see my apps downloaded all over the world from Ireland to Kenya to India. I find that to be so cool!”n ▲ Last fall, David Perko '88 and Robert Tack Jr. '88 competed in the – Karen Gerboth ’93 Cranberry Trifest in Lakeville, Mass.

summer 2013 35 Wedding Album Peter R. Tyksinski and his wife, Mari, announce the birth of Teo Otto on June 5, 2012. Peter is a foreign attorney with CLASS NOTES CLASS Momo-o & Namba, Tokyo, Japan. ’92 | On Jan. 1, 2012, David R. Bruce was appointed a federal administrative law judge and assigned to the Social Security Administration in Valparaiso, Ind. ’93 | Lisa Clark O’Neill, Canton, Ga., is the author of the novel Danielle G. Ribeiro ’06 married Brandon A. Nesbitt on April 16, 2011. They live in John’s Island, S.C. Serendipity. ’94 | Jessica S. Hoane married Anthony Holman in 2009. Their daughter, Willow, was born in October 2010. They live in North Carolina, where Jessica is with Charles River Laboratories Pathology Associates. Robert B. Lazorchick graduated from the Customs and Border Protection Academy in Glynco, Ga., in September 2011. He is an officer with Customs and Border Protection on Saipan Maureen E. “Mo” Walsh ’09 married Daniel R. Buchan on July 28, 2012. They live in Hilliard, Ohio. in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. ’95 | Linda Keller Taggart, Pleasantown, Calif., is director of social media and writes a blog for the Compassion Tea Co., an online tea store which donates its after-tax profits to save lives by sending medicines and medical supplies to rural parts of Africa. ’96 | Tracy L. Clements, Boston, Mass., is a producer at CBS radio for various sports talk and Jessica L. Bruce ’10 married Joseph Malagisi on Sept. 15, 2012. They live in Powell, Ohio.

36 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES CLASS public affairs programs on 98.5 The Sports Hub. Erika L. McWhorter, Dayton, Ohio, announces the birth of Solae Renee. ’97 | Jeffrey I. MacMillan married Julie Rankin on June 18, 2011. They live in Toledo, Ohio. ’98 | Theodore H. Pastor is a research chief at Honda ▲ Gregory J. Reck ’90 and wife, Research and Development in Maile C hris Bowers ’99 Raymond, Ohio. Builds Successful Teams 2011. They live in Los Angeles, Calif. As director of player personnel for the Northwestern University ’99 | Football program, Chris Bowers has helped the Wildcats assemble Deborah Cassell has been two of the most highly rated recruiting classes in program history. hired as deputy editor for the ’01 | His instincts, relationships and experience have also helped him University of Illinois Alumni Kimberly Copeland Bader manage a successful career in college football for more than a decade. Association. She writes and and her husband, Greg, edits for Illinois Alumni, “I have been blessed to work with a special group of coaches and welcomed their second daughter, UIC Alumni Magazine and staff during my career,” Bowers said. “The relationships with my Emma Claire, on Oct. 30, 2010. UIS Alumni Magazine, and They live in Gahanna, Ohio. colleagues and the young men I’ve had the opportunity to coach and oversees the association's social Emily Upperman Junker and recruit are the most rewarding parts of my profession.” media program. Cassell is her husband, Jeff, announce His second time with the Wildcats, having previously served also president of the Chicago the birth of Dominic Michael as a recruiting assistant (2003-04), assistant director of football chapter of the American in February 2011. They live in operations (2004-05) and a defensive graduate assistant in 2005 Association of Business Dayton, Ohio. and 2006, Bowers has taken his liberal arts background and built Publication Editors. a college football resume that attracts attention. In addition to Ryan H. and Sarah Rose Ozar Adam B. DeiCas, San Diego, live in North Canton, Ohio. working at Defiance College as defensive coordinator and recruiting Calif., is serving with the Ryan is the associate director coordinator, he also worked at the Div. II Concord University as U.S. Navy as a surface warfare of internships within the defensive coordinator. officer aboard theUSS Warrior experiential learning team in During his first run at Northwestern, Bowers was part of a deployed to Bahrain. recruiting team that “signed one of the most highly touted recruiting APEX at the College of Wooster. classes in program history, a group that featured seven players that ’00 | Amber L. Sherman, Chandler, went on to play at the professional level – including Tyrell Sutton, Ariz., is an integrated supply Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Mike Kafka and Corey Wootton,” noted his bio. chain supervisor with and her husband, Michael, “Like a lot of professions, football is a people business. The ability Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, announce the birth of Harry to communicate is paramount,” said Bowers, who majored in history Ariz. A major with the Marine Theodore Hissrich on Jan. 5, and served as a student coaching assistant for the Wittenberg football Corps Reserves, she is the program. “You have to be able to take in information, think critically battalion S-4 logistics officer, and communicate in order to be successful. My extensive involvement 5th Battalion, 14th Marines, Seal Beach, Calif. in campus organizations at Wittenberg proved to be really helpful. I was the rush chairman in my fraternity, and as someone who heads up recruiting on a full-time basis, I’m really the ‘rush chair’ of ’02 | Northwestern football.” Amanda E. Johnson and Bowers is also grateful to the mentors who have inspired him. her husband, Justin Irwin, “The late Randy Walker who hired me at Northwestern in 2003, announced the birth of a son, Dan Simrell, former University of Toledo and Findlay head coach, Landon, in April 2011. They who gave me a start and supported me along the way, and of course, live in Tucson, Ariz. Pat Fitzgerald, who is the consummate mentor, have all made me Debra E. Lenarz is teaching realize that nothing is more important and more rewarding than ▲ Nathan P. Henderson ’03 first grade with the Rocky River celebraties his graduation. strong relationships with people who are important to you.” n – Karen Gerboth ’93 summer 2013 37 School District in Rocky River, They live in Bellefontaine, Matthew E. and Nicole Kelly L. Riedel married Ohio. Ohio. Norcia Koppitch announce William J. “BJ” Hamilton on Mary Woodruff Swain and Kimberly Knowle married the birth of Lyla Claire on Nov. 19, 2011. They announce Feb. 29, 2012. They live in the birth of Hope Eryn on CLASS NOTES CLASS her husband, Sean, welcomed Stephen Zeller on Aug. 18, the birth of Brady William on 2012. They live in Sedalia, Mo. Westerville, Ohio. Sept. 8, 2012. They live in Nov. 17, 2012. They live in Pickerington, Ohio. Li’l Tigers ’03 | Jace Oliver, son of Jennifer Bethany J. Dourson Hansen, Birt Johnson ’03 and Cincinnati, Ohio, married Andrew David J. Hansen on Nov. 20, 2010. Bethany is an executive Calvin Paton, son of Nathan assistant in the admission office P. Henderson ’03 and at Cincinnati State Technical Rachel Westendor and Community College. Avery Lynn, daughter of Nathan P. Henderson married Thomas J. ’04 and Nina Rachel Westendorf on July 11, Jace Johnson, 11-30-2010 Calvin Henderson, 4-25-11 Kuhar Fox ’04 2009. On April 25, 2011, they Dominic Michael, son of welcomed a son, Calvin Paton, Emily Upperman Junker into their family. They live ’01 and Jeff in Centerville, Ohio. Nathan Solae Renee, daughter of earned a master of science Erika L. McWhorter ’96 degree in early childhood education from the University Teo Otto, daughter of Peter of Dayton on May 5, 2012. R. Tyksinski ’90 and Mari Jennifer Birt Johnson, Harry Theodore, son of Kettering, Ohio, and her Lauren Schmidt Hissrich husband, Andrew, announce ’00 and Michael the birth of Jace Oliver. Kiefer, son of Anna Hanke Avery Fox, 5-22-2012 Dominic Junker, 2-1-2011 Brian C. and Erin Gallagher McClurg ’05 and Brett Kuhn ’04 announce the birth Eva Michelle, daughter of of Madelyn Grace on March 27, Leila Trepanier Bussie ’84 2012. They live in Springfield, and Joe Ohio, where Brian is the assistant superintendent for the Clark-Shawnee Local School District. Ashley J. Tipple is a recruiter with Glade Run Lutheran Services, which focuses on providing solutions to individuals and families Solae McWhorter Teo Tyksinski, 6-5-12 through lifelong learning. Ashley lives in Pittsburgh, Pa. ’04 | Thomas J. and Nina Kuhar Fox announce the birth of their daughter, Avery Lynn on May 22, 2012. They live in Fort Mill, S.C. Matthew A. and Kathryn “Katie” Buchenroth Gallaway announce the birth of Anne Harry Hissrich, 1-5-2011 Kiefer McClurg, 1-25-13 Eva Bassie, 3-26-2011 Elizabeth on Nov. 25, 2011.

38 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES Springfield, Ohio, where in the Granville Exempted Kelly works at Northwestern School District in Ohio. Elementary School. Sarah M. Breitfeller, Doug A. and Braeden Colley Richlands, N.C., is teaching Schantz live in Springfield, fourth and fifth grades at Ohio. Braedan is a Title I Summersille Elementary School teacher with the Northwestern in Jacksonville, N.C. School District. David M. Herzog married Kaitlin P. Hiscar married April Lydon on June 8, 2012. Trip Schneck on May 12, 2012. They live in London, England. They live in Washington, D.C. David performed this summer at the Merry-Go-Round ’05 | Playhouse in Auburn, N.Y. Natalie F. Metz, Cincinnati, Lisa Nicholls Reed, Caldwell, Ohio, has married Steven Idaho, is an independent sales Julie Albaugh ’01 Carpenter. director with Mary Kay Inc. Makes Weddings Work Anna Hanke McClurg, Danielle G. Ribeiro married Hunterdon, Ind., and her Brandon A. Nesbitt on April 16, Owner of Wedding Market and Wedding Market Online, and husband, Brett, announce the 2011. They live in John’s Island, co-producer of Ohio Weddings, a television program that provides birth of their sons, Kodiak S.C. Danielle is pursuing information from leading wedding experts, Julie Albaugh is Richard on May 20, 2011, and her master’s degree in health embracing technology at every turn in her career. Kiefer William on Jan. 25, administration at the Medical From her first TwitterChat, Albaugh was impressed with the 2013. University of South Carolina. response. “We interested followers in the UK,” she said. “I was more Carrie Kinnaman Miller than pleased with the results.” received her Ph.D. in physical ’07 | Earlier this year, Albaugh hosted a Twitter chat #WeddingMarket chemistry from the University Jena Buchhop Campbell, in Beverly Hills, Calif., featuring Los Angeles as a wedding of Notre Dame in 2010. She is Rockport, Texas, successfully destination. Held on the rooftop of the Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive, an assistant professor at Azusa defended her doctoral the event included a live audience and wedding professionals Renee Pacific University in California. dissertation on Aug. 16, 2012, Strauss, Kevin Lee and Harmony Walton. Amber D. Sibley and Stefan earning a Ph.D. in marine Additionally, Albaugh, who owns www.SpringfieldBrides. M. Voss were married on Oct. science from the University com, recently promoted A Spring Bridal Event, which was held on 6, 2012. They live in Kettering, of Texas at Austin. She is now Wittenberg’s campus and featured Weaver Chapel as a wedding site Ohio. Amber is the assistant a postdoctoral fellow at the via a video presentation. Her work has also landed her on national TV. director for student life at the university, living in Rockport, A longtime fan of Marie Osmond, Albaugh attended The Marie University of Dayton. Texas. Show, escorted to and from in a Rolls Royce. Her transportation Dana M. Wilkinson, Tamara L. Kasper married caught the eye of the show’s producer who inquired about her visit Bloomington, Ind., is a storm Michael London on Jan. 21, and eventually invited her to participate in the program’s upcoming water 2012. They reside in Cleveland, bridal show. Ohio. “I discussed interesting honeymoon ideas, and I even helped with inspector with the Monroe County Public Works Dept. Catherine Hall Redifer, the wedding details for the wedding show using Ohio-based wedding Yakima, Wash., is a PT companies,” she said. “Cake designer Jan Kish Albaugh La Petite In May 2012, Kari M. Wilson instructor in the basic skills Fleur of Columbus actually flew her wedding cake to Los Angeles received her Ph.D. from division with the Yakima Valley for that show.” Purdue University. She is an Community College. Watching trends develop and work their way from the coasts assistant professor of mass Kathryn A. Jablonowski to Ohio are also interesting to Albaugh. “It takes trends from the communication at Indiana University, South Bend, Ind. married Brian Shindeldecker coasts approximately two years to become practice for Ohio brides,” on Aug. 14, 2010. They live in Albaugh said, “but it’s not uncommon for an Ohio vendor to use a Ann Arbor, Mich. technique or practice years before it becomes a trend on the coasts.” ’06 | Albaugh’s work has not gone unrecognized. International Carrie L. Jones married ’08 | social media leader TwitterGrader.com has ranked Albaugh No. Andrew Bell on July 16, 2011. 1 for wedding searches for #followfriday, and a collaboration with Carrie is pursuing her master’s Ainsley J. Rechel married videographer Andy Owens for MSNBC resulted in a feature story degree in administration at Cory Kovanda on June 9, 2012. They live in Salisbury, from Julie’s @weddingmarket Twitter account. Moreover, her weekly Ashland University. She is N.C., where Ainsley is a special Twitter chat for #WeddingMarket landed at No. 3 of the top 10 social an intervention specialist at education teacher and tennis media influencers in the wedding industry by Wed Biz Media. n Granville Intermediate School – Phyllis Eberts’ 00 summer 2013 39 Wedding Album CLASS NOTES CLASS

Bethany J. Dourson '03 married David J. Hansen on Nov. 20, 2010. The couple lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

▲ Erin H. McBride '09

coach at East Rowan High book, Young Profashionable: A School. User Manual for the Real World, Hannah L. Thevenow has was published in the summer married Ryan D. Richardson. of 2012. Sara is pursuing a graduate certificate in copyediting from the University ’09 | of California, San Diego. Maureen E. “Mo” Walsh and After completing her M.A. Daniel R. Buchan were married in student affairs in higher Theresa K. Liszkay '10 and Phillip C. Zarobell ’10 were July 28, 2012. They live in married July 28, 2012. They live in Gahanna, Ohio. education at Wright State Hilliard, Ohio. Mo is a public University in June 2012, relations coordinator at Wilt Jessica D. “Roxie” Patton Public Relations, Springfield, began working as the program Ohio. Dan is in medical school coordinator of the LGBTQ at Ohio University, Athens, Center at Kent State University. Ohio. Also a public speaker, she Stephanie C. Harland, makes presentations on the Bedford, Ohio, married Scott topics of bullying, body image Jowers on May 19, 2012. and being an ally at institutions Stephanie is a background across the country. She was analyst with Corporate a presenter for the American Screening Services. College Personnel Association’s Erin H. McBride, Westlake, 2012 national conference. Ohio, is an associate in the Erin Gorman Rinto graduated business department with from Indiana University Ulmer & Berne LLP. with a dual master’s degree Sara B. McKinniss is the in history and library science marketing and public relations in December 2011. In April manager at ODW Logistics 2012, she began a position Hannah L. Thevenow '08 married Ryan D. Richardson on in Columbus, Ohio. Her first as an assistant professor Sept. 28, 2012. The couple lives in Cordova, Tenn.

40 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES and undergraduate learning and is a research assistant at the librarian at the University of University of Michigan. Nevada at Las Vegas. Erin M. Meredith and Lukas ’11 | E. Treu were married Dec. 31, Hayley F. Brown, Lakewood, 2011. They live in Streetsboro, Ohio, is a customer service Ohio. Erin teaches in Parma, representative with Progressive Ohio. Lukas is a writer in Insurance, Mayfield Village, public relations/marketing. Ohio. She is pursuing her Emily E. Daniels and Ryan M. master of arts degree in Weiss ’08 were married July 15, teaching-early childhood 2012. They live in Pittsburgh, education and special Pa. education-mild/moderate intervention specialist. ’10 | Kelsey B. Casey is pursuing Sarah Gearhart ’06 Lydia M. Kisley, Houston, her master’s degree in nursing at DePaul University, Chicago, Covers High School Sports for USA TODAY Texas, received an NSF graduate fellowship and passed Ill. Seeing her first feature appear inUSA TODAY ’s sports section her qualifying exam at Rice Samuel E. Clement is account will always hold a meaningful place in Sarah Gearhart’s heart. University. manager, business development The story followed a high school wrestler from a Liberian refugee Jessica L. Bruce married with Clear Channel camp, and the chance to tell his story, and so many others, inspires Joseph Malagisi on Sept. 15, Communications, Premiere Gearhart as a senior producer for USA TODAY High School 2012. They live in Powell, Networks, Chicago, Ill. Sports online. Ohio. Jessica is a personal Christopher T. Culkin, “I absolutely love interviewing people. Everyone is original in lines underwriter with Grange Novi, Mich., is an their own way,” Gearhart said. “I’m fortunate to be exposed to Insurance. environmental monitor with many personalities. You learn a lot about people and about yourself.” Brian R. Mann, Galveston, JHP Pharmaceuticals. He is In her current position, Gearhart writes features and athlete Texas, is pursuing graduate pursuing his master’s degree profiles. She also edits and creates video content. studies at the University of in life sciences at Oakland “My greatest passion is also my biggest challenge – writing,” Texas Medical Branch. In University, Rochester, Mich. she said. “Sometimes it seems like I’m piecing together a puzzle the experimental pathology Heather M. DeSantis, Dublin, while blindfolded.” department, he is conducting Ohio, is an account coordinator Even before coming to Wittenberg, Gearhart knew she research on the pathogenesis with RMD Advertising, wanted to pursue writing, but her college experiences shaped that and molecular epidemiology of Columbus, Ohio. trajectory, including two writing-centered internships and serving West Nile virus. Christopher M. Gipson is on the student newspaper. A week after graduation, she headed to Robert W. “Bobby” Ritzi youth director/travel team Cleveland to work as an assistant editor for STACK Magazine, a III, Las Vegas, Nev., is a media coach with Team One Lacrosse start-up at the time. planner/buyer at R&R Partners. Club, Niles, Ill. “It was quite the perfect role as the emphasis was on sports Mittra “Tara” Sharif, Big Bear, Jumar D. Guy is a sales performance,” said Gearhart, who was a competitive runner in Calif., is a recruiter with Lab representative with Vantage cross country and track in high school and college. Support, a scientific staffing Point Consulting, Columbus, While at STACK, Gearhart “pitched stories, interviewed, wrote company. She assists scientists Ohio. articles and proofed copy. I eventually started directing video and engineers in finding new Margaret Curtis Herbert shoots, which afforded me the opportunity to travel around the job opportunities. is a community service country and interview professional athletes, including Adrian Andrew G. Steele, Chicago, representative with Trilogy Peterson, Troy Polamalu, Larry Fitzgerald, Dwyane Wade Ill., is with South-Southwest Health Services, Lawrenceburg, and Ryan Howard.” Suburban United Way. Ind. After five years with the company, including a promotion to Amanda K. Marenchin and Sheila P. Herlihy works associate editor, Gearhart transitioned to USA TODAY High Steven G. Wolgast ’08 were with incarcerated women School Sports and moved to New York City. Eventually, she wants married Aug. 13, 2011. They and immigrants in a program to combine her love of running with her writing. live in Ann Arbor, Mich., with a focus on of faith and “I ran my first marathon when I was a junior at Wittenberg, and where Amanda is a sales and social justice with Franciscan ever since I’ve completed seven other marathons, including the customer care representative Volunteers Ministries, Boston Marathon twice,” she said. “I hope to write an inspirational at Shar Products Co. Steven is Wilmington, Del. book about runners in the future, and I hope to never stop pursuing his Ph.D. in physics running.” n – Karen Gerboth ’93 summer 2013 41 Wedding Album representative with U.S. Representative Bill Johnson in Ironton, Ohio.

CLASS NOTES CLASS Adam T. Schick, Bloomington, Ind., is the membership coordinator at the Columbia Club. Nicole A. Williams is pursuing his master’s degree in life sciences at Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Alyssa A. Wolf is pursuing his J.D. at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids, Mich. ’12 | In June 2012, Anna G. Henry completed her first marathon, the Mayor’s Marathon in Anchorage, Alaska. Lauren M. Henry, Urbana, Kimberly Knowle '04 married Stephen Zeller on Aug. 18, 2012. The couple lives in Sedalia, Mo. Ohio, is a high school math teacher with the Northwestern School District in Springfield, Ingrid E. Holda is living and with AmeriCorps Vista. Phill is Ohio. She is pursuing her Ohio. working in Strongsville, Ohio. working in Cincinnati, Ohio. master’s degree in reading/ Victoria J. Parker, Harsewinkel, Katherine A. Hueter, Justin R. Lorko, Fairview Park, special education at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga. Germany, is working in Columbus, Ohio, teaches ninth Ohio, is pursuing a master’s corporate communications at grade English at Hilliard Darby degree in education/school Christina R. Pennock, Claas GmbH, a world leader in High School. counseling. Centerville, Ohio, is an the production of agricultural Matthew P. and Stephanie Adam C. Matthews is executive assistant with machinery and aeronautical and Springer Ison ’11 live in pursuing his master’s degree in Reynolds and Reynolds, Dayton, industrial machinery technology. Ohio. Springfield, Ohio. Stephanie is humanities in the department Miranda L. Sagle is an a mortgage loan originator at of history at Western Michigan Jenna L. Rymer is teaching intervention specialist with the Security National Bank. University Graduate College, English in Santiago, Chile. Northwestern School District in Kelley F. Herde and Jacob Kalamazoo, Mich. Alexander F. Scharfetter, Springfield, Ohio. A. Kerger ’10 were married Kimberly A. Mowrey, North Chillicothe, Ohio, is a field on May 27, 2012. They live in Bethesda, Md., is a marketing Louisville, Ky. analyst with Vocus Marketing Samuel J. Kinney is living and Software. working in Natick, Mass. Maggie D. Muir, Canton, Benjamin J. Koester, Ashburn, Ohio, teaches first grade at Va., is a financial analyst with Imagine Charter, Cleveland, Comstock Homebuilding, Ohio. Reston, Va. Trenton H. Nutter, St. Louis Elizabeth M. Lamont is a Park, Minn., is a branch volunteer coordinator with manager with Stanley Steemer, AmeriCorps at Niagara St. Eden Prairie, Minn. RiverKeeper, Buffalo, N.Y. Bret A. Nye is pursuing Theresa K. Liszkay and graduate studies in creative Phillip C. Zarobell ’10 were writing-fiction at Miami married July 28, 2012. They University, Oxford, Ohio. live in Gahanna, Ohio. Theresa Amy M. Packer teaches fourth is serving as a corps member grade at Trinity Lutheran Church and School, Toledo, ▲ Reid Jayme '91 and Alina Larson '91 recently reunited in Clearwater, Fla.

42 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES I n Memoriam ’34 | with the Colgate Co. for 25 years Kenilworth Garden Club and the Florence Matticks Bowen, before beginning his career in the Glen View Club. ’30 | Roseville, Calif., died Jan. 8, 2012. show and theater business. He Edwin R. Shepard, formerly of Formerly of Dayton, Ohio, Rose was a producer/director/musical Indianapolis, Ind., and Dunedin, Mitterholzer Notz died March ’35 | director of many well-known plays Fla., died Sept. 10, 2011, in 8, 2013, in Charleston, S.C. Wayne E. Crotty, Cincinnati, and musicals for 20 years and Bainbridge Island, Wash. In She retired as a medical records Ohio, died May 23, 2011. He appeared as an actor and singer in 1942, he joined Eli Lilly & Co., coordinator at Children’s Medical was the founder and former chief shows on television and Broadway. Indianapolis, Ind., retiring as Center in Dayton, Ohio. She will executive officer and chair of the He founded Creative Productions, a research adviser in 1981. His be remembered for her life-long board of Tex Style Inc. A member a theater company. In later years, memberships included Delta dedication to progressive causes. of St. James of the Valley Catholic he was honored with an award for Sigma Phi fraternity, the American Church and Alpha Tau Omega his theater work with the disabled. Association for the Advancement ’31 | fraternity, he was inducted into the Robert L. Bowsher, formerly of of Science, the American Chemical Albert H. Keck Jr. ’59H, Lockland High School Athletic Cincinnati, Ohio, and Naples, Society and the Federation of Hickory, N.C., died July 13, 2012. Hall of Fame in 2000. A former Fla. died Dec. 29, 2012, in Baton American Scientists. At the time of his death, he was member of the Alumni Board at Rouge, La. During World War Gertrude Bane Dayton the oldest pastor on the roster of Wittenberg, he funded the Wayne II, he was an officer in the U.S. the North Carolina Synod of the Worthington, former resident of Crotty Scholarship. Navy’s Armed Guard, in charge Ormond Beach, Fla., passed away Evangelical Lutheran Church of the armaments on armed in America. He served St. John’s ’36 | Aug. 21, 2012, in Gainesville, transport vessels. He served on Ga. Her career included acting Lutheran Church, Sterling, Ill., Paul L. Bell, Sylvania, Ohio, the oil tanker, the Gulf Pride, and as vice president of Howard Emmanuel Lutheran, Lincolnton, died July 15, 2012. A member of participated in the first successful Dayton Hotels from 1941-69 and N.C., and St. Andrew’s Lutheran, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church convoy to Murmansk, Russia. A as a partner in Howard Dayton Hickory, N.C., which named and Dorm League, he served as sales representative for Container Enterprises from 1970-87. She him pastor emeritus in 1976. He a captain attached to the 380th Corporation of America, he retired served on eight International also taught practical theology, Squadron of the 451st bomb group after 30 years in 1977 as the Executive Service Corps homiletics and liturgics at the with the U.S. Army Air Force in general manager. He enjoyed golf, assignments in Panama, Mexico, Lutheran Theological Southern Egypt, North Africa and Italy travel, reading and sports. the Philippines and Ghana from Seminary, Columbia, S.C. After during World War II. A physician, Lucille Wickham Lanning, 1970-78. Her memberships his retirement, he supplied at 75 he specialized in diseases of the formerly of Carey, Ohio, and included First United Methodist different congregations. He was a chest. He practiced medicine in Melbourne, Fla., died Oct. 21, Church, Alpha Delta Pi sorority, member and secretary of the board Toledo, Ohio, and held medical 2012, in Greer, S.C. Her career 20th Century Study Club and of trustees of Chicago Lutheran staff appointments at Toledo, included serving as a teacher with Gainesville Symphony Society. Seminary and Lenoir-Rhyne Mercy, Flower, St. Vincent, St. the Arlington Board of Education, She was listed in Who’s Who College. He was a recipient of Charles and Riverside Hospitals. as a secretary with a county agent, of American Women, and Two the Distinguished Service Award A pioneer in his field, he founded as a substitute teacher with the Thousand Women of Achievement. of the Lenoir-Rhyne Alumni pulmonary function laboratories at Defiance Board of Education and She served as trustee emeritus Association and the Trustee Award the Toledo, Flower and St. Luke’s as a bookkeeper with Lanning of Embry Riddle Aeronautical and was named trustee emeritus Hospitals. He also established Motor Sales. She was a member of University and received of the Lenoir-Rhyne Board. A the cardiac perfusion team for Grace United Methodist Church, the “Champions of Higher delegate to six conventions of open heart surgery at the Toledo Alpha Delta Pi sorority and the Independent Education” award the United Lutheran Church in Hospital in the 1950s, directing Fortnightly Club. in Florida from the Independent America and five conventions of the program for more than 25 Universities of Florida. She the Lutheran Church in America, years. Laura Distelhorst Siegfried, Cleveland, Ohio, passed away Sept. founded and chaired Harvesting he did preaching missions in Mary Miley Briarty Merchant, 9, 2012. As a young woman, she History of Daytona Beach area 52 congregations in 11 states. Detroit, Mich., died Oct. was a marathon swimmer and an City Island Library. In addition, Additional memberships with 16, 2012. She enjoyed a long accomplished ballroom dancer. She she was president of the Daytona the Lutheran Church in America career in personnel and human retired in 1980 from her position as Beach Library Board from 1969- included the Commission on resources work in Detroit for an elementary school teacher and 71 and 1976-1978 and in 1990 Worship, the Commission on Allstate Insurance and BC/BS of staff development coordinator with received the Outstanding Citizen the Ministry and the Board of Michigan. She was honored with the Southwestern School District. Award from the Florida Library Publication. A member of Phi a lifetime achievement award in She received an Outstanding Association and the Florida Library Kappa Psi fraternity, he was recognition of three decades of Teacher Award during her tenure. Friends and Trustees Award in honored with the doctor of service in the human resources Her memberships included Alpha 1981. divinity degree by Wittenberg in profession by the International Xi Delta sorority and Delta Kappa 1959. Association of Personnel Women. Gamma education honorary. She ’39 | Her memberships included St. Marie Summers Harlan, Grosse ’33 | enjoyed reading, gardening, baking Paul American Lutheran Church Pointe, Mich., died Dec. 29, MaryLynn Wineland Klopfer, and playing bridge. formerly of Pleasant Hill, Ohio, in Dearborn and the Women’s 2012. A member of Alpha Delta and New Port Richey, Fla., died Economic Club and Zonta Club ’38 | Pi sorority, she was a homemaker in New Iberia, La., on Sept. 6, of Detroit. Rachel Bosart Morris, formerly who volunteered in school and 2012. She taught school and of Kenilworth, Ill., and Boynton church activities. was an owner of Klopfer’s Super ’36 | Beach, Fla., passed away Dec. Ruth Bauer Stonebrook, Dover, 26, 2011, in Wilmette, Ill. In Ohio, died Nov. 11, 2012. She Value Market. Her memberships Walter L. Born passed away Oct. Kenilworth, she was active with taught third and fourth grades at included the Cornerstone Cowboy 16, 2012, at his home in Aberdeen, the Kenilworth Union Church, Washington Elementary School in Church and Alpha Delta Pi N.J. He was an industrial engineer sorority. Kappa Alpha Theta Alumni, the Findlay, Ohio. An active member

summer 2013 43 of First United Church of Christ During World War II, he served the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Tuscarawas, Allen and Marion at New Philadelphia, she served as with the U.S. Army. He was Compensation, retiring in 1987. County Schools before moving its organist, pianist and first female an administrator at hospitals A volunteer income tax aide for to Elyria in 1954. She taught elder. Additional memberships in Springfield, Lancaster and AARP, he was a member of First for a total of 34 years, the last CLASS NOTES CLASS included the New Philadelphia Pomeroy, Ohio. An avid tennis Lutheran Church and Phi Kappa 22 at Elyria High School, from College Club and various civic player and golfer, he became a Psi fraternity. He was pastor which she retired in 1978. Her organizations. She enjoyed reading, life master of duplicate bridge master of Shelby Masonic Lodge memberships included Emmanuel knitting, gardening and playing and was a member of the Grand #350 F&AM, past president of Lutheran Church, Kappa Delta bridge. Slam Bridge Club. He was also Shelby Shrine Club and member sorority and the Lorain County a member of the First Baptist of Al Koran Shrine in Cleveland, and Ohio Retired Teachers ’40 | Church of Springfield. Scottish Rite Valley of Columbus Associations. Hildegarde McPherson and Shelby Chapter R.A.M. #178. Harrington of Jackson, Miss., ’41 | Formerly of Ohio, Charles J. ’44 | died Feb. 28, 2013. A former E. Dale Click ’44S, Moorpark, Miller Jr. passed away Dec. Genevieve “Sally” McClellan teacher of Spanish, she studied Calif., died Feb. 17, 2013. As a 10, 2012, at his home in Bonita LaRue, Danvers, Mass., died French cooking in New York, dedicated Lutheran pastor, he Springs, Fla. He served in the Nov. 13, 2012. A member of N.Y., and began teaching cooking served St. Andrew’s Lutheran radiology division of Brown Alpha Xi Delta sorority, she was a in various cities and states. Her Church, San Mateo, Calif., The General Hospital in Dayton, homemaker. memberships included First National Church in New York, Ohio, for two years before Austin F. Shell ’45S, Columbia, Presbyterian Church, Gamma Phi N.Y., First Lutheran Church, Los being certified by the American S.C., died Jan. 16, 2013. He Beta sorority, P.E.O. Sisterhood Angeles, Calif., Luther Memorial Board of Radiology in 1950. His was ordained by the Ohio and many philanthropic Church, Erie, Pa., Good Shepherd professional positions included Synod of the Lutheran Church organizations. Lutheran Church, Fresno, Calif. attending radiologist at Cincinnati of America in 1945 and served Elwood V. Jensen, Cincinnati, and First Lutheran Church, General Hospital, director and five parishes. He was assistant Ohio, died Dec. 16, 2012. A Dayton, Ohio. Following his chief of radiology at Akron pastor of Lutheran Rural Parish, member of Alpha Tau Omega retirement in 1983, he served as a General Medical Center, director Crawford County, Ohio; pastor fraternity, he climbed the supply pastor and interim minister of radiology for St. Thomas of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Matterhorn in 1946, the same at Holy Shepherd Lutheran Hospital Medical Center in Akron, Mansfield, Ohio; mission founder year he spent as a Guggenheim Church, Chatsworth, Calif. For Ohio, and attending radiologist and pastor of Christ Lutheran Fellow at the Federal Institute of three decades, he was a chaplain at Wadsworth-Rittman and Lodi Church, Athens, Ohio; and interim Technology in Zurich. In 1947, he on cruise ships. An active member Community Hospital in Ohio. pastor of the Lutheran Church joined the faculty at the University of the Rotary Club, he was a He was instructor in radiology of the Epiphany, St. Matthews, of Chicago, where he carried out prolific author and an avid golfer. at the University of Cincinnati S.C. In 1965, he became professor his breakthrough research that He received the Distinguished and clinical professor of radiology of pastoral care at Lutheran involved endocrine disorders Alumnus Award in 2011 from at the Northeast Ohio Medical Theological Southern Seminary, and the ways in which hormones Trinity Lutheran Seminary, University where he was the Columbia, S.C., teaching for influence heart disease and cancer. Columbus, Ohio. initial director of undergraduate 24 years as professor of pastoral In 1951, he became a member radiology. A member of numerous care and director of contextual of the Ben May Laboratory ’42 | education. He retired as professor Myrtle Raabe Thompson, professional organizations, he for Cancer Research. He was emeritus of pastoral care on Temecula, Calif., passed away served as president of the Cleveland appointed director in 1969, retiring July 31, 1989. He later served Aug. 24, 2012. She volunteered and Ohio State Radiological in 1990. He served as worldwide for several years as humanities in her community as a member Societies and was chief of staff at research director of the Ludwig adjunct instructor at Midlands of the Women’s Club, sponsor Akron General Medical Center. Institute for Cancer Research, was Technical College, Columbia, S.C. for Dorland Mountain Colony, The recipient of several awards a Fogarty Scholar at the National A member of Dorm League, he substitute teacher and founding and honors for his excellence in Institutes of Health, scholar-in- loved auctions, antiques, music and member of Hope Lutheran his profession, he was a member residence at Cornell Medical whistling. Church. She was also a member of Fairlawn United Community College, Alexander vonHumboldt Church. Betty Davidson Smith, Marion, visiting professor at the University of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She Martha Miley Rajala, Dayton, S.D., passed away Sept. 10, 2012. A of Hamburg, and Nobel visiting enjoyed traveling, reading, Ohio, died Oct. 14, 2012. A member of Emmanuel Presbyterian professor at the Karolinski working crossword puzzles, devoted elementary school teacher, Church and Delta Zeta sorority, Institute in Stockholm. Moreover, playing bridge and nature. she served schools for many years she retired from the Marion Public Jensen was a visiting professor in ’43 | in Cicero, Ind., and Plain City Schools before beginning to work the department of cell biology, Robert R. Daugherty, Shelby, and Miamisburg, Ohio. She was at Farmers State Bank. neurobiology and anatomy at the Ohio, died July 24, 2012. During a faithful member of St. Jacob University of Cincinnati Medical World War II, he served with Lutheran Church in Miamisburg, ’45 | Center for Molecular Studies. the U.S. Army in the European Ohio, and an accomplished Lynette Dopler Aey, Norwich, Internationally known as the Theatre. From 1950-68, he owned violinist who performed with a Conn., died Jan. 22, 2013. Her “Father of the Nuclear Receptor and operated the Shelby Hatchery. professional quartet in Cleveland, career as a dietitian began at the Field,” he garnered several scientific He served two terms as president Ohio. In later years, she enjoyed Harkness Private Pavillion within prizes including the 2002 Brinker of North Central Ohio Egg and her hobby of oil painting. the CP Medical Center. After International Award from the Poultry Cooperative and was a moving to Norwich, she served Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Carol M. Roser, Elyria, Ohio, as chief dietitian at the Norwich past director of the Ohio Poultry died Jan. 17, 2013. She taught Foundation and the 2004 Lasker Association. From 1964-70, he State Hospital. In 1966, she joined Award for basic medical research. at the Department of Defense the science department faculty at served two terms as Shelby city Dependent Schools in Japan Walter K. Stewart, Pembroke Norwich Free Academy, teaching councilman for the Second Ward. and Germany and also in the Pines, Fla., died Jan. 30, 2012. He was also an auditor with earth science and health education

44 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES and serving as drug education Assoc., the Clark County Advisory of Canal Fulton, law director for and New York, N.Y. In 1979, he coordinator for 21 years. Among Board to the Police Chief, the the Village of Navarre, recorder retired from the YMCA to begin her many honors, she received the Ohio Education Assoc., and the of Stark County and judge of a non-profit organization that Best Geology Teacher Award in Republican Party. Other interests the Massillon Municipal Court. evolved into Global Exchange in 1977 and was appointed to the included hunting, fishing and After retirement, he served as an Xenia, Ohio. There he developed a Connecticut Commission on Drug golfing. active retired visiting judge. His vaccine delivery system that could and Alcohol Abuse in 1981. An Sallie Jones Lumadue, formerly of memberships included Trinity prevent problems he had seen editor for NASA publications, she Shelby, Ohio, died Aug. 7, 2012, in United Church of Christ, Alpha in many areas of the developing was the author of several papers Huntsburg, Ohio. She retired as an Tau Omega fraternity and a host world. This development became in her field. Her memberships elementary music teacher with the of professional, civic and fraternal Thermal Systems International included Park Congregational Shelby City Schools. Following her organizations. and VacuPanel, applying high tech Church, Kappa Delta sorority, the retirement she was a parish worker insulation and other materials to Fortnightly Study Club, “Mary with First Lutheran Church. ’49 | keep vaccines and medications Jones” Art Class, Embroidery Her memberships included the Wilbur W. “Jack” Carr, viable. That company is now Guild of America, Mohegan Lutheran Church and Kappa Delta Springfield, Ohio, passed away C-Safe in Moraine, Ohio. He was Chapter of AARP, Retired sorority. Nov. 7, 2012. During World a member of Faith Community Teachers of Connecticut, Center War II, he served with the U.S. United Methodist Church. Donald L. Lunda, formerly of Army. He retired from Frigidaire/ for Learning in Retirement, NL William A. Monaghan, Jacksonville, Fla., died Oct. 21, General Motors after 34 years County Retired Teachers, National Springfield, Ohio, died Aug. 6, 2012, in Ballwin, Mo. During as a credit analyst. A long-time Button Club, Women’s City Club 2012. During World War II, he World War II, he served as a member of the Institute of Divine and Lyman Allyn Museum and served as a sergeant with the U.S. lieutenant with the U.S. Navy Metaphysical Research, he was a Art Classes. Army Air Corps in the Philippine on the USS Barnwell and USS competitive mall walker. Andree Wood Williams, Towson, Rockridge. Following his discharge Islands. His career included Md., died Jan. 30, 2013. She from active service in 1946, he Harold L. Figley ’53S of working at Cooper Industries and taught drama and public speaking remained in the reserves until Englewood, Ohio, died Oct. 13, Robbins & Myers in Springfield, at Roland Park Country School, 1956. His career in human 2012. A Lutheran pastor, he served Ohio, before moving to Quincy, Baltimore, Md., before retiring resources with General Electric congregations at Messiah Lutheran Ill., to join the Gardner Denver to Bethany Beach, Del. She had took him to Buffalo, N.Y., Church and St. Paul Lutheran, Division of Cooper Industries. volunteered for many years at the Philadelphia, Pa., Chicago, Ill., Dayton, Ohio, Holy Trinity His memberships included St. Johns Hopkins Hospital Carry-On and Jacksonville, Fla. Following his Lutheran Church, Englewood, Raphael Catholic Church, St. Shop and was an avid gardener. retirement, he served as a volunteer Ohio, and First Lutheran Church Teresa Catholic Church and Delta An international traveler, she was a with Ronald McDonald Charities, in Donnelsville, Ohio. He retired Sigma Phi fraternity. He was past member of the Episcopal Church Hospice of Northeast Florida, the in 1993. He was a member of Phi grand knight of the Knights of of the Good Shepherd and Alpha Justice Coalition of Jacksonville, Mu Delta fraternity. Columbus #624 and past president Xi Delta sorority. the Ecumenical Services Council Harriet Fitch Haynes, Rockport, and executive secretary of the Irish Jane Wagner Wilson, formerly of and Volunteer Jacksonville. He was Texas, passed away on Dec. 5, Fellowship Society of Springfield. Williamson, W.Va., and Daytona a member of South Jacksonville 2012. Her memberships included John L. Moore, Centerville, Ohio, Beach, Fla., died Aug. 8, 2012, Presbyterian Church and Phi Mu Holy Cross Lutheran Church passed away on March 8, 2013. in Pikeville, Ky. A former school Delta fraternity. and Alpha Xi Delta sorority. A He was a distinguished veteran teacher, she was a homemaker and homemaker, she enjoyed cooking, of World War II, serving with the worked in her husband’s optometry ’48 | baking and reading mystery novels. U.S. Army European Theater of practice. Her memberships Eugene E. Fellmeth, Canal Elizabeth Fisher Jenkinson, Operations, where he received included First Presbyterian Church Fulton, Ohio, died March 18, formerly of Bay City, Mich., died two Purple Hearts. He was also and Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She 2013. During World War II, July 22, 2012, in Traverse City, awarded a Silver Star in 1945. was active in church, civic and he served with the U.S. Army Mich. A member of Alpha Xi Delta He was employed with the U.S. social organizations and had a Air Force as a tail gunner on a sorority, she was an elementary Air Force, retiring from Wright passion for music. B-17 based in England. He was teacher for many years in Bay City, Patterson Air Force Base Materiel shot down on his 13th mission Mich. Following her retirement, Command after 35 years of service. over Hamburg, Germany, and ’47 | she moved to Traverse City, Mich., Robert D. Ruhlin, VanWert, Marvin L. Carey, Springfield, became a prisoner of war. On where she owned and operated Ohio, died Aug. 9, 2012. He Ohio, died March 18, 2013. April 29, 1945, he was liberated the Waterland Motel and the owned and operated the ABC During World War II, he served by General George S. Patton Restwood Motel. She enjoyed Heating and Plumbing Co. until as a specialist A first class with and the 14th Armored Division. painting, cooking and reading. retiring in 2003. His memberships the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. His He was awarded an Air Medal, included Calvary Evangelical career in education began as a POW Medal, Purple Heart, Unit B. Keith Meyer, Xenia, Ohio, Church, Lambda Chi Alpha teacher with the Springfield City Presidential Citation and Good died March 5, 2013. After fraternity, the Masonic Lodge and Schools. He retired after serving as Conduct Medal for his time in serving as a radio instructor the Elks Lodge. principal at Snowhill Elementary the military. From 1949-1950, he with the U.S. Army Air Force and Simon Kenton Elementary played professional baseball with during World War II, he began James J. Seitz of Lexington, Ohio, Schools. For many years, he was the Portsmouth Athletics, a farm his long career with the Young passed away Feb. 27, 2013. During the summer director of sandlot club of the Philadelphia Athletics. Men’s Christian Association as World War II, he served with the baseball for Springfield and He became a practicing lawyer director of youth programs in 563rd signal air warning battalion Clark County. He was an active from 1951 until his retirement in Springfield, Ohio. He continued of the U.S. Army during the battle member of the First Church of 1996. During his time practicing his work with the YMCA in of Normandy and the campaigns the Nazarene, the Clark County law, he was a prosecutor for the Xenia, Ohio, Morristown, N.J., of northern France, Ardennes, Wittenberg Alumni Assoc., the Massillon Municipal Court, law Taiwan, Bangkok, Singapore, Rhineland and central Europe. Clark County Mental Health director and mayor for the Village Pakistan, South Korea, Vietnam He was a manager and salesman

summer 2013 45 for the Famous Supply Co., a sorority, Trowel and Hoe Garden A member of Delta Sigma Phi with the U.S. Navy in the South plumbing and heating company in Club and the Art and Drama Club. fraternity, he served with the U.S. Pacific. Before his retirement, he Mansfield, Ohio. He retired from A collector of fine art, she served Army Air Force from 1943-46. He was an attorney in Springfield, L&B Manufacturing, a subsidiary on the board of directors of the owned Plazibat & Associates, West Ohio, for 30 years. He was a CLASS NOTES CLASS of Famous Supply in Mount Trumbull Art Gallery. She was also Bloomfield, Mich. member of First United Methodist Vernon, Ohio. His memberships an advocate for animals. Norma Fennessy Rine, Church, Tarpon Springs, Fla. included First United Methodist Boyd Gibson, formerly of Springfield, Ohio, passed away Robert M. Beatty, Mansfield, Church, Lambda Chi Alpha Selinsgrove, Pa., passed away Nov. 7, 2012. During World War Ohio, died July 21, 2012. A fraternity and the Masonic Lodge. March 9, 2013. An ordained II, she served as a radio operator member of Phi Kappa Psi Carl E. Ziehm Jr., Mansfield, Lutheran minister, he served a with the U.S. Navy Waves. She was fraternity, he served with the U.S. Ohio, passed away March 9, 2013. congregation in Memphis, Tenn., a secretary for Hobert C. Bishop Army National Guard during the A member of Alpha Tau Omega and at Thiel College in Greenville, Contractors for 13 years and Korean War. A former artist with fraternity, he served with the U.S. Pa., before becoming a professor worked for Wheel Constructors. In the Chicago Tribune, he was a real Army Air Force during World War of religion and philosophy at 1990, she retired after 10 years of estate broker and owner of R.M. II. He was the owner/president of Susquehanna University. He service at Mercy Medical Center in Beatty Realty. Likly-Rockett Luggage Co. He retired as professor emeritus. For the accounts payable department. Richard E. Bennett of Springfield, enjoyed skiing, golfing and playing many years, he served on several Her memberships included Home bridge. Ohio, passed away Aug. 1, 2012. local human service agency boards City Chapter 258 of the Eastern He enlisted in the U.S. Navy ’50 | and assisted with a prison visitation Star and Bethel 10 Job’s Daughters. and finished a 33-year military program. His memberships William R. Charles, Sausalito, Ruth Birch Stilwell, formerly of career in the Ohio Air National included Sharon Lutheran Church, Calif., passed away Jan. 2, 2013. Troy, Ohio, passed away Oct. 2, Guard, retiring as colonel and Christ’s Lutheran Church and Phi During World War II, he served 2012, in Centerville, Ohio. She commander of the 251st combat Gamma Delta fraternity. with the U.S. Army in Hawaii. retired after teaching in Tulsa, communications group. He He owned and operated a men’s Donna Bowman Hogue of Okla., and Springfield and Troy, retired as a civilian from Wright clothing store in Palm Beach, Fla., Hamilton, Ohio, died Oct. 20, Ohio. She also volunteered at Patterson Air Force Base-AFMRL before moving to San Francisco, 2012. An elementary teacher, Bruckner Nature Center for as a chemist. His memberships Calif., where he became a real she served schools in Cincinnati, 25 years. Her memberships included Central Christian estate broker. In 1964, he moved Springfield and Middletown, included First Presbyterian Church, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, to Sausalito, Calif., where he Ohio, before retiring in 1986 from and Southminster Presbyterian HS Kissell Lodge 674 F&AM, owned the Sausalito Sweet Shop the Talawanda School District Churches, Chi Omega sorority and Scottish Rite Valley of Dayton and Restaurant and the Winship in Oxford, Ohio. A talented the Troy Current Events Club. OES Home City Chapter 258. Restaurant. In 2011, he sold seamstress, she spent most of her John B. Wright ’61 M.Ed., the restaurants and retired. An free time during her retirement Springfield, Ohio, died Dec. 31, ’52 | Jenny Lynn Alsop, formerly of enthusiastic traveler, he loved years sewing and altering clothes 2012. He was in the U.S. Navy New Jersey, passed away Nov. 5, yachting. His memberships for family and friends. She was a (Seabee) Construction Battalion 2012, at her home in Wilmington, included Christ Episcopal Church, member of Lord of Life Lutheran and served in Okinawa during N.C. After rearing her family Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Church in West Chester, Ohio. World War II. He was a music in New Jersey, she retired to the Rolls Royce Owners Club. Elwood T. Lannon, Springfield, teacher in Randolph Township Wilmington, where she enjoyed Ohio, passed away Dec. 5, 2012. A and Mad River Township at Charles S. Dibert, Medway, Ohio, combing the beaches for shells. member of Tremont City United Greenon High School, a counselor died Sept. 26, 2012. During World She was a member of Chi Omega Methodist Church, he served with at Fairmont West High School, War II, he served with the U.S. sorority. Army field artillery as a forward the U.S. Army during World War Kettering, Ohio, and Hayward observer. He received injuries in II. For his service, he was honored Junior High School, Springfield, Donald E. Fairburn Sr. died Dec. the Battle of the Bulge. Upon with three Battle Stars and a Ohio, assistant principal/ 8, 2012, in Portland, Ore. During retiring from military service as Bronze Star Award. A volunteer counselor at Springfield South World War II, he served with the a staff sergeant, he was awarded 4-H advisor, he taught school for High School and principal at U.S. Army Air Force. He retired as the Purple Heart and the Bronze many years with the Clark County Springfield South High School. manager of Holy Cross Cemetery Star Medal. He worked in the and Springfield City Schools. Following his retirement in 1982, in 1991. He was past president purchasing department at Robbins Following his retirement, he moved he was a newspaper carrier for the of the Washington Interment & Myers before working for to Hilton Head, S.C., where he Springfield News Sun. A musician Assoc. and Catholic Cemeteries Kelsey-Hayes for several years. He owned Lan-Craft Miniatures and with local dance bands, Wright of the Northwest and at one time transferred to Ledex Inc., Vandalia, Gifts. held memberships in First United served as executive secretary of the Northwest Cremation Assoc. He Ohio, retiring as the purchasing Gaylord L. O’Bryan, Sadorus, Church of Christ, Beta Theta Pi was appointed by the governor to manager after 24 years with Ill., passed away Nov. 7, 2012. fraternity, the Springfield Rotary the Washington State Cemetery the company. His memberships A member of Beta Theta Pi Club, Benevolent Protective Board on which he served for four included Enon United Methodist fraternity, he served with the U.S. Order of Elks, Masonic Order years. Additional memberships Church, Medway Lions Club, Navy in the South Pacific Theater #619 St. Andrews Lodge, Royal included Messiah Lutheran Eagles Lodge and St. Andrews during World War II. He was a Arch Masons and the Board of Church, Lambda Chi Alpha Lodge #619 F.&A.M. farmer. His memberships included Mental Health of Springfield. He fraternity, the National Catholic the Parkville United Methodist performed in many music and Mary Cassel Gibson, Warren, Cemetery Assoc., the National Church, the Sadorus Sportsman’s theater productions. Ohio, died Dec. 15, 2012. She was Cemetery Association and Club and Pesotum American president of MEG Management ’51 | Cremation Association of North Legion Post No. 580. and a board member of Jack Melvin R. Adrian, formerly of America. Gibson Construction Co. Her Robert Plazibat, formerly of Springfield, Ohio, passed away Harry L. Snyder, formerly of memberships included St. Paul Detroit, Mich., passed away Oct. 1, 2012, in Hudson, Fla. Miami, Fla., died Feb. 18, 2010, in Lutheran Church, Alpha Xi Delta June 28, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. During World War II, he served

46 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES Hendersonville, N.C. A Lutheran Convoy, Tiro, Tarleton and in 2010. He was also involved in Payne, Ohio. She worked in minister and college professor, he Bridgeport. He spent many years in the development of an on-site the art advertising department of was a World War II veteran of the at Grace Evangelical Lutheran coroner’s office in the Ashland the Arthur Anderson Co., before U.S. Army. He was a member of Church in Dover, where he retired Justice Complex. He volunteered moving to Ohio. Her passion Grace Lutheran Church. as the visitation minister in 2011. A as team physician for Ashland was painting, specializing in S. Samuel Ujiie ’55S, Long Beach, member of Dorm League, he loved College/University for 14 years oil painting. She also enjoyed Calif., passed away Jan. 16, 2013. collecting stamps and reading and was instrumental in creating watercolors, ceramics, glazes and During World War II, he served science fiction books. the sports medicine major there. teaching painting classes. Her with the U.S. Army in Japan. Marilyn Schmoman Jones, Lake In 1996, he received an award for memberships included St. Paul Following his ordination in 1955, Cable, Ohio, died June 22, 2012. his service there. His memberships United Methodist Church, Fort he served as a pastor developer Her career in education began as included Trinity Lutheran Church, Wayne Artists Club and the China by the United Lutheran Church a kindergarten teacher with the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Painters Society of Fort Wayne. in America for the integration Canton City Schools and ended in numerous professional, fraternal, She was a member of Chi Omega of Asians into existing Lutheran retirement as a first grade teacher service, philanthropic and civic sorority. Churches in northern California. at Lake Cable Elementary School organizations. Since 1962, he served as pastor of with the Jackson Local School Morris J. Jones, Middlebury, Ind., ’56 | Guy G. Miller of Springfield, Faith Lutheran Church in Long System. As an outstanding staff passed away Jan. 18, 2013. For Ohio, died Sept. 15, 2012, in Beach. member, she recently was inducted many years, he was an operations Jackson, Wyo. During the years of by the Jackson High School manager for Dometic Sales Inc. Evelyn Estridge Weiskotten 1950-52, he served as a corporal in Alumni Association to its Wall of He also owned Midwest Eastern passed away March 7, 2013, in the transportation corps with the Fame. She volunteered on several Transport and Metropolitan Real Tallahassee, Fla. Early in her life, U.S. Army at Fort Eustis, Va. He Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival Estate. During the Korean War, he she lived in Ohio, Massachusetts, was a teacher and media specialist committees and was a member was a medical corpsman with the New York, Sweden and England at Springfield High School, of St. Stephen Martyr Lutheran U.S. Navy. He was a member of before moving to Sarasota, Fla., Urbana University and Triad High Church, Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. where she lived for many years. School. Following his retirement Jackson Belden Chamber of She began her career in banking as Ellen Gregg Stolarik, University from education, he owned and Commerce and the Stark County a customer service representative Park, Md., passed away Jan. 3, operated Parkside Printing and Retired Teachers Association. at the National Bank of Sarasota. 2013. She spent her career in the Perrine & Co. Printers. His When she retired 25 years later, Donna Neda Kuklis, formerly of space industry for firms including memberships included the Ohio she was the assistant vice president Gales Ferry, Conn., passed away on Bendix, Allied Signal and OAO. Retired Teachers Assoc., American of operations at the Bank of Aug. 17, 2012, in Noank, Conn. She was proudest of her time on Amateur Press Assoc., National America. She also volunteered A registered medical technologist, the Apollo mission. A member of Amateur Press Assoc., The her services to the Guardian ad she worked at Charleroi Hospital, Alpha Xi Delta sorority, she also Fossils Inc., Champaign County Litem Program of the 12th Judicial Lawrence and Memorial Hospital excelled in needle and fiber arts. Historical Society, Clark County Circuit. A member of the Sarasota and Pequot Outpatient Treatment Historical Society, Anthony Lodge County Democratic Women’s Center. She also served as a ’55 | 455 F.&A.M., Springfield Chapter Club, she enjoyed reading, movies, registrar on election days. Her Ann Averill Bohmer, Warrenton, 48, R.A.M., Home City Chapter bird watching and attending art memberships included St. Luke Mo., passed away on Nov. 25, 258, O.E.S., and Scottish Rite exhibits. Lutheran Church, Red Cross 2012. She taught third grade for Valley of Dayton. and Seniors Helping Seniors. She many years at the Fort Greely Charles E. Rein ’59S, Loveland, ’53 | enjoyed needlework, reading, School in Alaska. Following her Colo., passed away Dec. 4, 2012. Robert E. Cain, Springfield, movies, music and traveling. retirement, she became a full- Ohio, died Nov. 19, 2012. time volunteer with the Child During his ministry as a Lutheran James S. Liggett, Columbus, He served his country with Evangelism Fellowship. Her pastor, he served in Buffalo, N.Y., Ohio, passed away Dec. 2, 2012. the U.S. Army during World memberships included Fellowship Pittsburgh, Pa., Hellertown, Pa., He was an owner of Liggett War II in Italy and during the Baptist Church and Chi Omega and El Paso, Texas. His specialty Brothers Construction Co., Korean War stateside. In 1987, sorority. was urban church planning and Arlington Court Club and Liggett he retired from the Springfield ministry. He retired after 30 years Apartments. His memberships Nancy Huddle Shaffer, City Schools following a 35-year of ordained ministry, remaining included Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Wheeling, W.Va., passed away career as a teacher and guidance in the El Paso area to assist local TriVillage Lions Club, National Jan. 16, 2013. As a young woman, counselor. He directed summer congregations. He later moved to Society to Prevent Blindness and she worked in the garment district recreation and alumni basketball Loveland, Colo., where he enjoyed Pilot Dogs Inc. and as a secretary in the zoology tournaments through Springfield reading, traveling and model department at Columbia University railroading and model building. Parks and Recreation. He was ’54 | in New York, N.Y. Later, she was active in sports his entire life, was He was a member of Lambda Chi William M. Emery, Ashland, an interior designer for Stone and Alpha fraternity. an avid walker and loved garage Ohio, passed away Jan. 21, 2013. Thomas, Wheeling, W.Va. She sales, traveling, country music, A general surgeon affiliated with had a beautiful singing voice and Earl C. Sigg, Athens, Greece, playing pool and card games. He Samaritan Hospital in Ashland, performed with an opera quartet passed away there June 25, 2012, attended First Christian Church he retired in 1998. His past and with the Parkersburg Choral after spending the bulk of his and Hillside Avenue Church of affiliations include Kettering, Society. She also directed church career in the Middle East, where he God. Bellevue, Akron General and choirs in Vienna, Williamstown established an Eaton Corportation Marlin R. Drake ’56S, formerly Akron Children’s Hospital. He and Wheeling. Her memberships joint-venture company in Turkey of Strasburg, Ohio, passed was appointed to serve as Ashland included Christ United Methodist as well as a regional sales and away Jan. 25, 2013, in Bolivar. County coroner in 1987, was Church and Chi Omega sorority. marketing organization that He ministered many Lutheran elected to the position in 1988 covered the Middle East and North Myrna Gaut Snyder, formerly of Africa for the Truck Components churches throughout Ohio and re-elected to subsequent Chicago, Ill., died July 10, 2012, including parishes in Rowsburg, terms until he retired from office Group of Eaton. Earlier he taught

summer 2013 47 chemistry and physics at Parma She also taught art and English home daycare provider. She was a United Methodist Church and the (Ohio) High School and became at Ridgemont High School and member of Reformation Lutheran Ohio Retired Teachers Association. a Lieutenant Commander in Riverdale High School. Her Church and Gamma Phi Beta Robert F. Bussabarger, the U.S. Navy, serving in the memberships included St. Paul’s sorority. Columbia, Mo., died Jan. 22, CLASS NOTES CLASS Pentagon and as Assistant Naval Lutheran Church, Mary Lenox Larry E. Miller, formerly of 2013. He served with the U.S. Attache in Turkey. He also was an Chapter #98 O.E.S., George Lewis College Corner, Ohio, died Oct. Navy as a lieutenant J.G. aboard an executive officer for the 9th Naval Behrens Chapter #504 O.E.S., and 15, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. He retired LST in the Pacific during World District before going to Vietnam. the ladies auxiliary of the Scioto from public school administration War II. After teaching art with the While at Wittenberg he edited Valley Volunteer Fire Dept. in Ohio. He was a member of St. Lansing, Mich., Public Schools and The Wittenberger, played varsity Bernard W. Thompson died Feb. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dade at Stephen F. Austin State College, basketball, and was a member of 16, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. A City, Fla. Nacogdoches, Texas, he accepted Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. member of Generations Christian Martha A. Saylor of Hamilton, a position at the University of Church and Beta Theta Pi Ohio, died Oct. 20, 1992. Early in Missouri in 1953 to teach ceramics ’57 | fraternity, he began his professional and painting. In 1961, he was Robert M. Belles ’60S, El Paso, her career, she was a dietician at a life as a teacher and coach with the awarded a Fulbright research grant Texas, died July 19, 2012. An hospital in Bronx, N.Y. Later she Springfield Board of Education to study terracotta sculpture and ordained Lutheran minister, he served as a school teacher in the and as an administrator with the temples in India. He returned to served congregations in Hurst, Cincinnati, Ohio, area. She was a Clark County Juvenile Court in India many times throughout his Texas, Wheat Ridge, Colo., member of Kappa Delta sorority. Ohio. More recently he served life producing art and exhibiting Hershey and Sutherland, Neb., as a sports announcer and in there. He co-authored an Rosewell, N.M., and El Paso, ’63 | sales management with various illustrated book, The Everyday Texas, before retiring in 1998. His Herbert Lutz of Tremont City, broadcasting companies in Arts of India. In 1987, he taught memberships included Beta Theta Ohio passed away on Dec. 5, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon and ceramics as a visiting professor an Pi fraternity and the Kiwanis 2012. During World War II, he Ohio. Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Club. A docent for the El Paso Art served with the U.S. Navy in He established the Columbia Art Museum, he served on the boards the Pacific as a lieutenant J.G. ’60 | League, where he promoted local of the El Paso Rescue Mission, the aboard the LST 942. His career H. Eldon “Cliff” Akerman ’63S, artists and exhibited his own work. Historic Preservation Commission in education began as a teacher Houston, Texas, passed away After his retirement in 1990, he and the Public Library. at Concord Township High Jan. 28, 2013. Ordained into the School. He later began teaching remained active in art and kept Robert W. Hohlmayer, formerly Lutheran Church in America (now with the Northwestern Schools in touch with many of his former of Springfield, Ohio, died Sept. ELCA) in 1963, and he served after spending several years at students. He was also a member 5, 2012, in Jewett, Ohio. For 20 congregations in Ohio and Texas Olive Branch Junior High School. of Calvary Episcopal Church, years, he was a municipal court until he retired in 2003 from Holy He was promoted to guidance Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, the bailiff in Springfield, Ohio. His Comforter Lutheran Church in counselor and continued in that University Choral Union, the memberships included St. James Kingwood. He served on Synod position until his retirement in Muleskinners and Kiwanis Club. Lutheran Church and the Duke Council and as secretary of Texas 1983. During his retirement, he Ellington Club of the UK. Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod and enjoyed providing music to his ’65 | Jeanne McGillivray Neidhart, held six interim assignments in church, Tremont City United Enobong A. Ekong, Palmdale, Springfield, Ohio, passed away Texas following his retirement. Methodist Church, gardening, Calif., died Aug. 29, 2011. He Sept. 7, 2012. A homemaker, she He traveled extensively and loved bicycle riding, advocating clean was chief resident during his attended First Christian Church. to fish. water and visiting family. residency and fellowship at She enjoyed reading and watching Ronald L. Whitaker, Athens, Boston City Hospital before Jeopardy. Ohio, died Dec. 14, 2012. His ’64 | moving to California to establish career included teaching physical Stephanie Steininger Eslinger, the cardiology department at ’59 | education at Putnam School Des Moines, Iowa, died March 15, Martin Luther King Hospital in Eleanor K. Kost, Liberty in Athens and in Lincolnwood 2013. A long career in social work Los Angeles. In 1982, he entered Township, Ohio, died Dec. 17, Illinois, supervising student led her to her most recent service at private practice in Lancaster, Calif. 2012. As a clinical dietitian, teachers, teaching graduate Broadlawns Medical Center. Her For the past 30 years he developed she worked at the Youngstown students and serving as an assistant memberships included Plymouth an exceptional reputation in Hospital Association, the Cafaro professor of the College of Health Congregational Church and Alpha interventional cardiology. At Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio, and and Human Services at Ohio Delta Pi sorority. the time of his death, he was a Shepherd of the Valley, Niles, University. After a teaching career Gary R. Jones, Leicester, N.C. member of the board of directors Ohio. She was a member of of 35 years, he retired in 2000. The passed away July 24, 2012. At one of Palmdale Regional Medical Martin Luther Church. first male president of the Black time he was director of data base Center. His memberships included Anne Wetzel Linham of Diamond Girl Scout Council, he administration with the Service the American Heart Association Bellingham, Wash., and Green was a member of Phi Mu Delta Merchandise Co., Nashville, Tenn. and the Association of Nigerian Valley, Ariz., passed away Feb. 14, fraternity, Lewis County Historical Physicians in the Americas. He Anna Haney Miller ’67M.Ed., was also a fellow of the American 2013. A former teacher, she enjoyed Society and Jonz Gentz. He was Springfield, Ohio, passed away good music, stage productions, also an avid family genealogist. College of Cardiology. Following Sept. 25, 2012. She was a retired his death, the Palmdale Regional reading, golfing and cooking. She teacher from the Springfield City was a member of Alpha Delta Pi ’62 | Medical Center’s Itensive Care Barbara Keyser Blackburn, Schools, having spent most of her Unit was dedicated to his memory. sorority. career at McKinley Elementary formerly of Toledo, Ohio, died Susan Zinck Flesner, Gettysburg, Donna Reed Spracklen, LaRue, Jan. 25, 2013, in Temperance, School. Following her retirement, Ohio, died Aug. 1, 2012. She she authored two books, Hits and Pa., died Jan. 26, 2013. An Mich. Her career included serving elementary school counselor with worked in advertising for the as a high school substitute teacher, Misses and A Place Named Darnell. Kenton Times and Marion Star. Her memberships included Central the Bermudian Springs School a daycare teacher and an infant District, she was a member of St.

48 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES James Lutheran Church and served November 1969, he was awarded ’71 | in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, for many years on the advisory an honorary doctor of science at Patricia Castella Bredbeck, Michigan and Florida. Most board of Adams County Children the inauguration of Wittenberg’s formerly of Springfield, Ohio, died recently he was a time-share sales and Youth Services. Her interests 10th president, Dr. G. Kenneth June 29, 2012, in Sun City Center, representative at Coconut Mallory included bicycling, traveling, Andeen. Upon leaving the space Fla. She taught for 21 years with Resort, Key West, Fla., and teaching Tai Chi and playing the program, Armstrong traveled and the Springfield City Schools. Tamarack Club at Holiday Valley, Native American flute. gave speeches but avoided the Ellicottville, N.Y. A Jehovah’s spotlight. For a time, he was an Louann Rebbin Shaw, a Witness, he loved gardening. ’66 | associate NASA administrator homemaker from Medway, Ohio, John R. Berg, Westerville, Ohio, for aeronautics. He returned to passed away Oct. 2, 2012. ’74 | died July 11, 2012. A member of Ohio as a professor of aeronautical Linda Gillie Winter of Westfield, Jane B. Johnsen, Amanda, Augsburg Lutheran Church and engineering at the University of N.J., died Nov. 5, 2012. She Ohio, passed away Jan. 31, 2013. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, he Cincinnati, owned a farm near worked for the Kemper Insurance She was an assistant professor of touched many lives during his Lebanon, Ohio, and served as a Co., in Summit, N.J., for education at the Ohio University careers in theatre, broadcasting director for several corporations. several years before becoming a Lancaster Campus. In addition to teaching and publishing and law. He was a veteran of the Cynthia J. Bolbach, Arlington, homemaker. She was involved in research, she made presentations Vietnam War and a retired Grange Va., died Dec. 12, 2012. She various community and family on topics ranging from television Insurance attorney. was an attorney and the former activities. Her memberships production and viewing to editor of Media Law Reporter included the Presbyterian Church, ’67 | computers and technology to before serving as executive vice Alpha Xi Delta sorority, the David K. Shadwick, Columbus, the Association of Educational president of Bloomberg Bureau Rake and Hoe Garden Club, Ohio, passed away Dec. 21, 2012. Communications and Technology, of National Affairs. She retired an investment club and a book A member of Advent Lutheran American Educational Research in January 2012 after 40 years club. She enjoyed vacationing in Church, Solon, Ohio, he was a Assoc., the National Survey of with the organization. An elder at Cape Cod, the Outer Banks and sales representative with AFLAC. Student Engagement Authors the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Del. He enjoyed cooking, attending Symposium and other groups. She Arlington, she was elected in 2010 orchestra concerts and watching also took the lead in a mentoring/ to a two-year term as moderator ’72 | sports. partnership role with education of the General Assembly of the Ronald L. Sortman, Dayton, majors and the Lancaster City Presbyterian Church, the highest Ohio, passed away March 6, ’68 | Schools and served on many officer in the denomination. 2013. A retired systems engineer Lawrence A. Cook, Lorain, with International Business campus committees, including the Ohio, passed away Jan. 6, 2013. Craig L. Weber, Canton, Ohio, Machines, he was a statistician to scholarship committee, advising, He was a teacher in the North died Aug. 5, 2012. A member of the Wittenberg Football Team for computers and technology and Olmsted School District and St. Peter Catholic Church, Lambda more than 40 years in addition women in technology and science coached hockey and high jumping. Chi Alpha fraternity and the to his work with the Wittenberg committees. In 2003, she was His memberships included First Marine Corps League Def #277, he Fund. His memberships included named Professor of the Year. Evangelical Lutheran Church served with the U.S. Marine Corps Grace Lutheran Church and the Larry “Joe” Norman, Springfield, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Reserve for six years and the U.S. I.B.M. Retirees Club. Ohio, died Sept. 7, 2012. He He enjoyed creative writing and National Guard for 16 years. He worked at Robbins & Myers and reading and was an avid sports fan. retired from the Timken Co. ’73 | retired from Henry Technologies, Jeffrey B. Kehnle, Medina, Edgar C. Winkler, Sarasota, Russell R. Nelson, Wickliffe, Chicago, Ill. His memberships Ohio, passed away Oct. 20, 2012. Fla., passed away on July 9, 2012. Ohio, passed away Jan. 7, 2013. included High Street United A Lutheran pastor, he served He was the founder and CEO of A member of Pi Kappa Alpha Methodist Church, the Springfield congregations in Wilmington Hospitality Development Corp., a fraternity, he at one time was Jaycees, Northridge Lions Club and Hinckley, Ohio. He was also developer of worldwide resorts and a conservation worker at the and the Springfield Kiwanis Club. the iterim auditor with Medina hotels. He was a member of Grace Cleveland Lakefront State Park. A volunteer at the American Red County and the city service Baptist Church. Gary D. Sherman, Tulsa, Okla., Cross and Clark County Literacy director with the City of Medina. passed away Nov. 2, 2012. Center, he hiked about a third of He retired from FirstMerit Bank. ’70 A member of Phi Kappa Psi the Appalachian Trail over the He enjoyed volunteering in his Marcia Mader Caravella of fraternity, he served as a pastor to years. community. Norcross, Ga., and Troy, Ohio, Lutheran churches in Indiana and passed away June 28, 2012. She Pittsburgh, Pa., before converting ’75 | ’69 | taught with the Fulton County to Catholicism in 1982. He moved David W. Massie, Mansfield, Neil A. Armstrong, Cincinnati, School System and later spent 20 to Tulsa where he received Catholic Ohio, died Dec. 12, 2012. A Ohio, died Aug. 25, 2012. A years as an administrative assistant ordination and served many psychiatrist, he had a private combat pilot for the U.S. Navy with the Smith Gambrell & different parishes. He worked practice in Mansfield and was on during the Korean War, he flew Russell Law Firm in Atlanta, Ga. with others to start Byzantine the staff at Richland Hospital. 78 combat missions. In 1955, Her memberships included First and Maronite Rite Catholic He also held a pilot’s license he received an aeronautical Lutheran Church and Alpha Delta communities. His final calling was and served as an F.A.A. medical engineering degree from Purdue Pi sorority. to serve as a chaplain at St. John examiner. A member of Phi University. He was an aeronautical Joy Phillips Glatz, formerly of Medical Center. Mu Delta fraternity, he enjoyed research pilot with NASA before Chicago, Ill., and Dallas, Texas, Christopher J. Smith, Ripley, watching sports, boating, skiing, being selected as an astronaut in died June 4, 2013, in Delray Beach, hiking, fine dining, listening to 1962. After serving on numerous N.Y., passed away on April 17, Fla. A member of Gamma Phi Beta 2012. A member of Alpha Tau music and vacationing with his missions, he was the spacecraft sorority and an animal lover, she at family. commander of Apollo 11 and Omega fraternity, he served with one time was a senior underwriter the U.S. Army. He sold new and the first man to set foot on with CNA Insurance, Chicago. the moon on July 20, 1969. In used cars for more than 21 years

summer 2013 49 Ellen Winkhouse Pechawer, Paul L. Mizer, Maria Stein, Ohio, Charles T. Witmer, Tallahassee, Church continued as a member Springfield, Ohio, passed away died Dec. 3, 2011. He was a band Fla., passed away Aug. 2, 2012. on the U.S.A. committee for the Aug. 9, 2012. She taught special director for eight years at Miami Early in his music career, he was Lutheran World Federation as education with the Fairborn and East High School before relocating based in New York, N.Y., pursuing chair of the national committee

CLASS NOTES CLASS Springfield City Schools, was to Marion Local High School. a solo vocal career in classical of the American Lutheran a physical education teacher, His memberships included St. music, performing with many Church. For 29 years he pastored gymnastics and cheerleading coach John the Baptist Catholic Church companies across the United congregations in Sandusky and in the Springfield City Schools and and the American Music Guild of States. After moving to Florida, he Cleveland, Ohio, and in Detroit, coached cheerleading at Catholic Organists. focused on church music as music Mich. An honorary doctor of Central High School. She retired Stephen J. B. Rich died Aug. 23, director at Centenary Methodist divinity was conferred upon him with more than 20 years as a path 2012 at his home in Beaufort, S.C. Church in Quincy and headed by Wittenberg in 1989. Following coordinator with the Clark County He was an accomplished musician the music ministry for Grace his retirement in 1995, he devoted Board of MRDD. She was a who taught at Wade Hampton Lutheran Church as the organist his energies to planned giving and member of Kappa Delta sorority. Academy and Battery Creek and choirmaster. A member of development for Lutheran Social Jeffrey M. Postman, New High School. His abilities with the American Guild of Organists, Services of Michigan. Haven, Conn., died July 15, 2012. woodwind and brass instruments he served as music director and Before his recent retirement, he facilitated his work as a technician conductor of a women’s chamber ’96 | Naomi Seim Linnell, Hastings, worked for SNET/ATT for more and inspector with Fred Gretsch choir, as conductor and tenor Minn., passed away Jan. 21, 2013. than 33 years. His life’s passions Enterprises in the United States, soloist with the Tallahassee Bach She taught English literature at included long-distance swimming, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Parley, and taught private voice several schools in California, photography, sailing, biking, Germany. He toured much of the lessons. Minnesota, South Dakota and hiking and camping. He was a Midwest and Canada with the Iowa. For many years, she was the member of Congregation Mishkan Buddy Young Orchestra and Show. ’82 | Jacqueline Egerton Schlueter, assistant director of the division Israel and Phi Gamma Delta He also performed professionally Baltimore, Md., died Aug. 22, of college and university services fraternity. for a number of local orchestras, 2012. She was a teacher, volunteer in higher education for the combos and ensembles. A member and homemaker who had a passion Evangelical Lutheran Church in ’76 | of Fred Nimmer’s Swingtime for craftwork. Her memberships America. She worked as liaison Glenn E. DeMott of Upper Orchestra for 24 years, he also was included New Hope Lutheran with ELCA college/university Arlington, Ohio, died Feb. 25, the founder of the Original Port Church and Gamma Phi Beta boards and provided leadership 2013. For many years, he was a Royal Sound Dixieland Jazz Band sorority. development among women of captain of a charter boat in Depoe and a regular performer at Cheryl’s ethnic cultures. She worked with Bay in Oregon before moving to Le Cabaret on Hilton Head. Columbus, Ohio, where he began ’84 | foreign projects, including the UN Cheryl Fackler Hug, Menlo his long career in pharmaceutical ’80 | Nairobi Conference on the Decade Park, Calif., passed away Feb. 17, sales. An avid sportsman, he was Scott R. Benson, Charlotte, N.C., for Women. She participated in the 2013. A member of Alpha Delta Pi also a member of the Ohio Valley died July 21, 2012. A member World Federation Consultation on sorority, her career as an attorney Springer Spaniel Club and was of Christ Episcopal Church and Peace Studies in France. She was a began in Washington, D.C., with very active in the Community Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, he former member of the World Wide Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Garden Program. worked for five years with the Women Task force and a number She moved to Belarus where Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., of professional associations, Rebecca Conlon McCauley, she assisted in the development New York, N.Y. In 1985 he moved including the National Association formerly of Noblesville, Ind., of the Belarus constitution to Charlotte, N.C., where he of Women Deans and Councilors passed away Jan. 17, 2013, at and helped establish a public worked at Interstate/Johnson Lane and the National Women’s Studies her home in Fishers, Ind. A law library. In Menlo Park and and First Union National Bank’s Association. An honorary doctor homemaker, she had taught first Geneva, Switzerland, she was vice Capital Markets Group. He was of humane letters was conferred on and fifth grades with the Decatur president, deputy general counsel active in the athletics department her by Wittenberg University. Township Schools and had worked and chief integrity and compliance at his children’s school, Charlotte for the Delta Faucet Co. She was a officer with Sun Microsystems. Country Day School. ’03 | member of Chi Omega sorority. She later served as a vice president Christopher S. Greer, Toledo, Catherine Sperring Garcia, of and associate general counsel with Ohio, died July 17, 2012. An Eagle ’77 | Miami, Fla., passed away Nov. 10, Hewlett Packard. Scout, he was a sales associate in William S. Coulter, Liberty 2012. A member of Gamma Phi his family’s business, Builder’s Hill, Texas, died Jan. 19, 2013. Beta sorority, she was a paralegal ’89 | Steel. He was a fan of Virginia A member of Phi Mu Delta who worked in the mortgage and Reginald H. Holle, Okemos, Tech and Michigan football. fraternity, he was a CPA and an insurance industries. Mich., died April 5, 2012. He auditor for Price Waterhouse. Elizabeth Slaymaker Sievers, was bishop of the Michigan ’08 | He later worked at NCR Corp., Gaithersburg, Md., passed away District of the American Lutheran Rachel C. Ianni, Springfield, Dayton, Ohio, and was a top July 24, 2012. Her career included Church and of the North/West Ohio, died Jan. 1, 2013, in the recruiter at Source Finance in Los cartography and technical writing Lower Michigan Synod of the Galapagos Islands. She volunteered Angeles, Calif. After moving to before she became a park naturalist Evangelical Lutheran Church in a year with AmeriCorps doing Texas, he owned a small ranch and at Hidden Oaks Nature Center in America. He was a member of conservation work in Nevada. several businesses. Annandale, Va. She also owned the board of regents at Capital Later she worked at the Indiana Leota Warren Faulkner, formerly and operated the Brain and Body University before serving as chair Dunes National Forest, Chicago of Urbana, Ohio, died Nov. 24, Center Yoga Studio in Crystal and also served as a member of Public Schools and the Field 2008, in Springfield, Ohio. After City, Va. She was a member of the board of directors at both Museum of Chicago. She was a 31 years of service to W.W. Purdy Unity Church of Gaithersburg. Lutheran Northwestern Seminary, member of St. Teresa Catholic Lawnview School, she retired in St. Paul, Minn., and Wittenberg. Church. 1985 as a special education teacher. His contributions to the Lutheran

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August 22-25 New Student Days 26 Fall Semester Begins September 11 Wittenberg Series Event: Opening Convocation – 11 a.m., Weaver Chapel 26 Dr. Allen J. Koppenhaver Literary Lecture with Author Caryl Phillips – 7:30 p.m., Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center 27-29 Family Weekend Caryl Phillips, Sept. 26 October 10-13 Homecoming Weekend 17 Wittenberg Series Event: Fred R. Leventhal Family Endowed Lecture with Dave Barry – 7:30 p.m., Pam Evans Smith Arena, HPERC 21-22 Fall Break 27 Wittenberg Series Event: Festival Choral Eucharist for Reformation – 7:30 p.m., Weaver Chapel (Pre-service music at 7 p.m.) 29 Wittenberg Series Event: Kenneth H. Sauer Luther Symposium with Dr. Stephen Haynes – 7:30 p.m., Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center Dave Barry, Oct. 17 November 14 Wittenberg Series Event: The William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture with Eric Foner – 7:30 p.m., Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center 27-29 Thanksgiving Holiday December 9 32nd Annual Community Messiah Sing – 7:30 p.m., Weaver Chapel 13 Wittenberg Series Event: Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas – 7:30 p.m., Weaver Chapel (Pre-service music at 7 p.m.)

Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 10-13 21 Winter Break Begins

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A Real Homecoming Alumnus Looks Back on Life at Wittenberg

ost colleges have a homecoming I volunteered a couple of times. Once, Mcelebration, usually on a weekend I “played” a trumpet and a French horn in the fall. The alumni are invited back another time. So with uniform on and to campus where various activities are instrument in hand, we then went to the planned, which certainly include a football field and practiced making a dinner and a football game. It is a festive large “W” formation. occasion where people renew friendships Whenever the band played, we put the and enjoy a good time. horn to our lips and moved our fingers The fall of 1942, right after America up and down the keys. Fortunately, there entered the fighting of WWII, was a were enough musicians still present so much more bleak time. The male ranks that a melody could actually be heard. of students were depleting rapidly as Eventually the men living in Myers men were called into the service. I was Wittig on brief leave before being sent to Hall had to move out. The U.S. Army Europe to join the Third Infantry Division, attending Wittenberg at that time. Air Corps took over the building for its at that time fighting in Italy As the male population thinned, Air Cadets. We were scattered among somehow enough men were found to the various fraternity houses. I was sent amongst other things, provided assistance form a football team. There were not to live in the Delta Sig house on Foun- for attending college. enough men to fill up the band, though. tain Avenue next to Fourth Lutheran On June 6, 1946, I showed up at On a Saturday morning of a home game, Church [now Good Shepherd]. I ate at Recitation Hall at Wittenberg to register someone would go to the men’s dorm the Beta house on Woodlawn Avenue. for classes. What an amazing sight. The and ask for volunteers to fill the ranks. Most of the men hoped of at least having sidewalk in front of the building was You did not have to know how to play an time to finish the school term before filled with men who were also waiting to instrument. If you were interested, you being called up to join the military. register for classes. So many of the people would go to the field house, where you The school term was over in June, but you had known back in 1942 were there. would be fitted with a uniform and come May, every last one of us was called Everyone had a story of where he had handed an instrument. into active service. The faculty had an spent the last several years. emergency meeting and decided that as It was so great being back with so long as you had a passing grade during many former friends ready to start where the term, you would pass the course we had left off some years ago. It was without finishing the few remaining fortunate that so many of us did return. weeks or taking a final exam. So we This was a real homecoming. n left the campus and joined our various – Richard M. Wittig ’48 military units and went off to fight a war. Richard M. Wittig married Janice Sowers So here we are, several years later. The ’46 on May 1, 1946, and both returned to war was over in 1945. The government Wittenberg a month later so Richard could came up with the G.I. Bill, which, finish classes. Their son, Douglas, followed in their footsteps, graduating in 1972, and later Richard and Jan Wittig’s first home, a marrying Beverly Trout, class of 1976, and trailer next to the track in Wittenberg Stadium their grandson Eric just graduated in May.

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