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Legislation recognized Northwest’s ‘living museum of trees’ s a child, I would spend hours playing arboretum passed, even if, regretfully, we A near a big old sycamore tree by the creek, could get no funding. It was at that time in so I guess I could say I have always been a “tree 1993 that Northwest and its scenic grounds hugger.” Accordingly, in the early 1990s when officially became the Missouri Arboretum. President Hubbard asked me, as one of my first I think most Northwest alumni and assignments as his executive assistant, to get friends would agree that we have one of the Northwest designated as the state arboretum, most beautiful campuses in the state with I was pleased but a bit overwhelmed. There an incredible number of species of trees was much to do before the legislation could be that are a great resource for students, area introduced – inventory and assess the trees on schoolchildren and anyone who visits the campus, establish committees to determine the Northwest campus. I am proud about what direction and scope of the arboretum, visit other was accomplished on behalf of our campus arboretums to formulate ideas of what we wanted and arboretum. and identify legislators to introduce and carry the With the devastation from the bill. December ice storm, 79 trees were lost Luckily, one of the best comprehensive and hundreds more were damaged. Please arboretum networks could be found in nearby consider supporting the arboretum to rebuild the Dr. Annelle Weymuth, former Nebraska. Dr. Hubbard had come from a collection. A gift of $300 to Northwest will com- assistant to the president and self-proclaimed “tree hugger,” presidency there, so he knew the importance of memorate a tree for its lifetime. After my father was instrumental in establishing having a living museum of trees. died, I commemorated a tulip poplar tree – one Northwest’s campus as the Mis- It took several years before we were ready to of his favorites. When my husband, Rick, and souri Arboretum. In their retirement, introduce the legislation. However, Northwest I retired, we gave money for additional trees to she and her husband, Dr. Rick Weymuth, professor emeritus of was extremely fortunate to have the expertise be planted. Think of giving a tree for a birthday, music, continued fulfilling their provided by Lezlee Johnson, one of only a few anniversary, graduation, or just because it’s good passion for nature during a trip to foresters in this area of the country. She was for the environment. This is a gift that really the National Botanical Gardens of first a member of the Arboretum Committee makes a visible difference. Australia. and would later become the director of the Sincerely, arboretum. In addition, we were fortunate to have many other dedicated people, such as then- grounds director Randy Willis and horticulturist Syd Weybrew, sharing their expert opinions. Annelle Weymuth I was so proud when the legislation for the Former Executive Assistant to the President

The mission of the Northwest Northwest Foundation Inc. William Gram ’52, Rancho Dick Thomson, Maryville Neil Elliott, Lynn Ruhl, Alumni Magazine is to foster ’07-’08 Board of Directors Palos Verdes, Calif. Deb Tripp ’92, ’96, Development Officer/Athletics Executive Assistant [email protected] connections between alumni, President John Grispon ’87, St. Louis Coppell, Texas [email protected] friends and Northwest Jim Blackford ’72, Maryville Ray Hischke ’66, Jason White ’91, Maryville Polly Parsons Howard ’00, Lori McLemore Steiner ’85, Missouri State University. The Woodlands, Texas Richard “Dick” Wiles ’71, Development Officer/Booth Finance Officer Vice President The offices of University Jim Joy ’57, Rogers, Ark. Jefferson City College of Business and [email protected] Mike Faust ’74, Omaha, Neb. Advancement and University Joyce Kerber ’60, Ron Woolsey ’74, ’78, Professional Studies Anna Bradshaw Summa ’01, Relations strive to inform Immediate Past President Lee’s Summit Grain Valley [email protected] Database Specialist Jodie Mackintosh ’77, [email protected] readers of the accom- Chuck Place ’72, Albany Ex-Officio Directors Laurie Drummond Long ’92, Omaha, Neb. plishments of Northwest’s Mary Asbell ’69, B.D. Owens ’59 Development Officer/Donor Steve Sutton ’71, Jerry Moyer ’76, ’78, alumni, friends, faculty, Lubbock, Texas President Emeritus, Relations Director of Alumni Relations Titusville, Fla. [email protected] [email protected] students and administration Jim Ballinger* ’67, Weatherby Clearwater, Fla. Helen Mutz ’50, Maryville and to positively position the Lake Mitzi Craft Lutz ’91, Brenda Untiedt ’00, Kenny Petersen ’66, Dean L. Hubbard University in the hearts of its Holly Murphy-Barstow ’81, Advancement Alumni Relations Specialist Omaha, Neb. University President [email protected] many constituents to increase Omaha, Neb. Communications Specialist William C. Price ’60, Orrie Covert [email protected] public and private support. Shoba Brown ’71, Maryville Andrea Kearns Wagner ’00, Mark Burnsides ’79, Maryville Cincinnati, Ohio Executive Director Teresa Macias ’97, ’05, Development Officer/College Jim Redd ’66, Leawood, Kan. Tom Carneal, Maryville Advancement Staff Development Officer/College of Education and Human Dan Runde ’81, Platte City Rick Carter, Maryville Orrie Covert, of Arts and Sciences Services/Corporate and Mark Doll ’80, Tim Sullivan ’75, Vice President [email protected] Foundation Relations Urbandale, Iowa [email protected] Council Bluffs, Iowa [email protected] Peggy Purdy, Jason Garst ’93, Watson Ron Taylor ’79, Waukee, Iowa Accounting Specialist Kay Thomas ’71, [email protected] Blue Springs *deceased

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I remember when ... remember Home- One of my earliest Northwest memories I comings at North- occurred Dec. 1, 1984. This was my third west. Homecoming birthday, and there was nothing I wanted more was always special, even (except perhaps a Cabbage Patch Doll) than to after graduating and have Bobby Bearcat attend my birthday party. residing in Maryville Needless to say, when Bobby showed up at for many years. The the door I was thrilled. I went running to give whole experience was Bobby a huge hug and to inspect the gifts he had unlike any that could brought. Soon I was lifted into the furry arms ever be experienced at of my personal hero, although I was in for a big larger schools. surprise. For the first time in my short life I was The most memo- face to face with Bobby Bearcat, and able to take rable Homecoming in his costume from a much closer vantage point. was in 1981 when I (Remember, at the age of 3, I thought Bobby Sporting green beanies as a sign was in charge of building a float. The float theme was a real bearcat). of their freshman status, students obediently rolled up a pant leg and was Snoopy and the Red Baron, with Bobby From where I sat in Bobby’s arms, I was able carried a freshman girl on Walkout playing the role of Snoopy. I remember on the day to see through the mesh screen covering his Day in the late 1950s. Walkout Day of the parade the float had a major malfunction mouth and recognize a human face looking back signaled the end of having to wear in the animation, and we all came together to put at me. I let out a sharp scream and began to cry. the beanies, which were abolished in 1962. the pieces together and make the float work with Bobby quickly put me down, and I went what we had. The float won first place, and we running to my mom. She asked, “What’s wrong? were amazed, considering the happenstance. It’s Bobby, you love Bobby.” I quickly retorted, BEARCAT ROAR Whenever I need an uplift, I think back to my “But Mommy, Bobby ate somebody!” With this “Bearcat Roar” gives you the days at Northwest. I tell the people I now work exclamation my parents, Bobby and all the party opportunity to share your with some of my college experiences, and they are guests began to laugh hysterically. Northwest memories or stories with amazed that one can get so much in four years. Quickly, Bobby knelt down and removed the other alumni and friends. Todd Schuler ’82 costume’s head, revealing the college-age guy Please submit remembrances inside. He explained that Bobby was a costume along with your name, year of lthough my college diploma doesn’t read mascot, kind of like dressing up for Halloween. graduation, address and telephone Northwest, I’ve always considered myself Relief came over me as I realized that I would number to Mitzi Lutz, editor, A Northwest Alumni Magazine, to be a true Bearcat. I grew up in Maryville, next not be a man-eating bearcat’s next victim, and I Alumni House, Maryville, MO door to the old Sigma Tau Gamma house, and my could go on to enjoy my birthday party in safety! 64468-6001 or by e-mail to dad, David Howell ’73, is a proud supporter of Meagan Howell [email protected]. his alma mater.

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1958 1968 1978 1988 1998 Classes for the fall semes- Northwest dress codes are Northwest’s new all- Dr. Shaila Aery, Missouri’s The Bearcat football team ter are $5 per credit hour. relaxed, and women are weather track is named for commissioner of higher defeats Carson-Newman With fees, textbooks and allowed to wear slacks in 1930s track star Herschel education, suggests clos- College 24-6 in the NCAA room and board included, the library. The curfew for Neil. Transitions: A Hun- ing Northwest. State Sen. Division II National Cham- a semester’s total tuition women is extended, and dred Years of Northwest Pat Danner says, “Read my pionship game in Florence, is about $243. Transi- open housing for junior and lips: Northwest Missouri Ala. Transitions: A Hundred tions: A Hundred Years of senior women is available. Bobby Bearcat gets a State University will not Years of Northwest Northwest Transitions: A Hundred fellow mascot, Roberta close.” Aery eventually Years of Northwest Bearkitten. Transitions: drops her plan. Transi- A Hundred Years of tions: A Hundred Years of Northwest Northwest

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Northwest, Center of Innovation tenants sign MOU Hubbard named site administrator at orthwest has signed memorandums of products while making significant, positive envi- Kansas City Center Nunderstanding with two companies to ronmental reductions in both solid waste and air Dr. Melody Hubbard, for- occupy the Northwest Center for Innovation emissions. Their process catalytically “cracks” the merly an assistant professor and Entrepreneurship. The Center is designed to polymeric materials in rubber back to oil and gas of communication, theatre comprise a high-technology business incubator and recovers the remaining solid materials in a and languages at Northwest, along with the University’s Graduate Applied manner that retains their reactivity and useful- is now assistant director of Research Center. ness in rubber products. The consequence of this outreach, The first MOU was signed with Carbolytic process is to return all materials – oil, gas and serving as Materials Co., LLC, a St. Louis company that reinforcing carbon – to their original state, thus the on-site manufactures a substance known as ApexCM™ achieving the ultimate goal of recycling end-of- administra- from shredded tires. CMC will use the incubator life rubber products. tor for the as a headquarters for its R&D efforts, while the Shortly after the MOU was signed with University’s research center will support academic programs Carbolytic Materials Co., a second tenant for Kansas City that emphasize related science and technology. the facility was secured. For competitive reasons, Center in “CMC’s decision to partner with Northwest the company has requested that its identity and Liberty. represents a significant step forward in making specific business field be kept confidential at Housed in a four-story the northwest Missouri region and the University this time. This company is expected to begin office building owned by a center for a broad range of technologies that operations in the Center by the end of this year, the Liberty Public School will ultimately sustain the environment and Hubbard said. The addition of this company District, the center offers improve our quality of life,” said Northwest will result in the creation of about 25 new jobs graduate courses and degree President Dr. Dean L. Hubbard. and additional management positions, Hubbard programs in business and CMC recovers materials from used rubber said. n education. Established in early 2006, the center is the University’s One-room schoolhouse bell memorial honors Brown first permanent off-campus riends of the late educator and lawmaker academic facility. Northwest FEverett Brown ’37 gathered near the west opened a similar center in entrance of Brown Education Hall to dedicate a downtown St. Joseph in fall memorial honoring the longtime state representa- 2007. tive who committed his life to serving young Hubbard, who assumed people and the citizens of northwest Missouri. her duties on Jan. 2, The memorial is a timber-framed structure, supervises all building and resembling the shape of a one-room schoolhouse, office operations, including containing the bell from the former Marietta personnel, marketing, advise- School in Holt County where Brown taught as a ment and recruiting. She also young man during the 1930s. serves as a liaison between Donated to Northwest by Brown’s widow, Northwest and students, Shoba Mansukhani Brown ’71, the bell was rung faculty, school districts, three times during the ceremony, once for each businesses and organizations decade of Brown’s service to the University. throughout the Kansas City Before winning election in 1976 to the Mis- area. souri House of Representatives, Brown spent 30 For more informa- years in leadership roles at Northwest. He wore tion about the Northwest virtually every administrative hat at the Univer- Kansas City Center, call (816) sity, working variously as director of admissions, 736-6600, e-mail nwkc@ Shoba Mansukhani Brown ’71 (left) was among the financial aid, news and information, career nwmissouri.edu or visit www. dignitaries who rang the bell in recognition of her late placement, alumni relations and extension. n nwmissouri.edu/kc/. n husband’s service to the University.

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Foundation approves new Alumni Center lans for a new Alumni Center are moving Blackford cited the formation of the Foundation Pforward. The new 18,500 square-foot, two- in 1971, the acquisition of the current Alumni story facility, which House in 1980 and the completion of the first Northwest Foundation major capital campaign in 2006. officials say is a priority “I believe the decision that we make, as we due to significant consider this investment in our future, will like- growth in the form of wise carry with it the title of a defining moment in rising levels of donor the history of the Northwest Foundation and for support and alumni the stakeholders for which we exist to support,” involvement, will Blackford said. include meeting rooms, Last fall, the Foundation Board approved offices and a large $4.9 million for the total Alumni Center project. conference room that Funding is being sought through a $14.75 million Northwest alum Greg Seifert ’92 can be divided into smaller rooms. The center will bond issue that encompasses multiple projects of Creal, Clark and Seifert in St. be located on the corner of College Avenue and including the remodeling of Valk Hall, an addition Joseph is the architect for the new Alumni Center, which is currently in North Munn Avenue, directly west of the current to the Performing Arts Center and new lights and the final design phase. Alumni House, which will continue to be used synthetic turf at Bearcat Stadium. for small gatherings. “Unless specified by the donor, funds donated This spring, members of the Northwest to the Northwest Foundation will not be used to Foundation and Northwest Alumni Association fund this project,” said Orrie Covert, executive boards of directors discussed plans and reviewed director of the Northwest Foundation, “and the architectural renderings for the new center. financing of the Alumni Center will not override In his opening remarks during the joint board University projects or take away from scholarships meeting, Jim Blackford ’72, president of the for Northwest students.” Northwest Foundation, reflected on the many Groundbreaking for the facility could be this defining moments in the Foundation’s history. summer with the grand opening in late 2009. n

Bobby Bearcat is alive and well fter some initial confusion last fall regarding Dr. Bob Boerigter, director of athletics, said A the status of the Bobby Bearcat mascot, the Bobby caricature is being used less and less, Northwest’s athletics department is proud to but it is not illegal to use it, and his department report that Bobby is alive and well. The follow- has continued to approve its use on campus when ing is a summation of facts to help clarify the appropriate. University’s planned use of the Bobby Bearcat “We recognize that some groups have a strong mascot and image: preference for it and as a result we do not forbid them from using it,” Boerigter said. “Our local n Northwest has been in the process of phasing out the caricature, or cartoon, version of vendors carry little merchandise with the cartoon Bobby Bearcat for several years. Bobby on it because it has not sold well. Gar- ments with the paw logo have been very popular n Instead of using the cartoon image of Bobby and most all of our requests for use of our logos Bearcat on promotional publications, the have been for the paw. Both the paw and the University will use photographs of Bobby caricature are registered trademarks, which allow Bearcat. us the protection we need to make sure they are n The “live” Bobby Bearcat mascot will used appropriately.” n ® continue to make appearances at Northwest athletic events and is not being phased out.

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Hydroponic lettuce project leaves the dirt behind Best wishes The following members of o who says farmers need the Northwest faculty soon dirt? Certainly not a group S will be retiring. Now is your of agriculture students at chance to contact them and Northwest who participated wish them well. in an experiment involving hydroponically grown lettuce. Richard Alsup Hydroponics is a method Cross Country / Track Coach (660) 562-1327 of growing plants using min- [email protected] eral nutrient solutions instead Retirement: May 30 of soil. When the required nutrients are introduced into a Debbie Clark Head Teacher / plant’s water supply artificially, Horace Mann soil is no longer required for Family and Consumer the plants to thrive. Sciences Rego Jones, instructor of (660) 562-1237 [email protected] horticulture, said the primary Northwest agriculture students have been growing Retirement: May 5 purpose for cultivating a half-dozen varieties hydroponic lettuce and endive in a University green- of lettuce and endive in a greenhouse on the house in order to determine the impact of organic Dr. Richard Frucht Northwest campus is to study the effects of an compost. Hydroponics is a method of growing plants in Professor and Chairman a nutrient solution so that no soil is required. of History/Humanities/ organic plant compost, which was introduced Philosophy/Political into a portion of the study plot. Science The “plot,” however, is actually a series of long and greenhouse heaters and refracted sunlight (660) 562-1214 plastic pipes with holes drilled in them. Indi- kept the temperature at around 40 degrees. [email protected] Retirement: Aug. 1 vidual plants, sprouted from seeds last fall, have As a result, full, leafy plants exploded from the been inserted in the holes, their roots covered pipes in an array of shades and textures. Dr. Suzanne Frucht with small plastic cones. “This certainly has commercial applications,” Associate Professor of A nutrient solution, in the form of clear Jones said of growing plants in a soilless environ- Biology ment. “There are all the issues surrounding E. (660) 562-1256 liquid, was pumped repeatedly through the pipes, [email protected] which incline slightly and allow the solution to coli and so forth, but here you have roots that are Retirement: Aug. 4 flow back out into holding tanks. Artificial lamps not exposed to any kind of contaminant. There provided extra light at the end of short fall days, are no pests, no rain and no dust.” n Dr. Michael Graham Professor of Educational Leadership (660) 562-1541 Northwest musicians ‘cross the pond’ to London [email protected] Retirement: Aug. 1 Members of the Northwest marching band, wind sym- phony and jazz ensemble showcased their talents to a Dr. Patricia Lucido worldwide audience during the 2008 London New Year’s Professor of Chemistry / Physics Day Parade and Gala Concert Festival in London. More (660) 562-1605 than a million spectators lined the parade route through [email protected] the city streets of London as millions more watched the Retirement: Aug. 1 event that was broadcast on more than 500 television Dr. Frances Shipley stations throughout the world. Graduate Dean and While the Northwest students and their entourage Chairwoman of Family were overseas, they had the opportunity do some sight- and Consumer Sciences seeing as well, visiting well-known landmarks such as St. (660) 562-1145 / 1168 [email protected] Paul’s Cathedral, Big Ben, Westminster Abby, London Retirement: June 30 Eye, Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. n

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(Top) The ice storm was too much for this Siberian elm, which was removed by a professional tree service Northwest hired to assist with the cleanup. (Left) Because of the danger of falling limbs and trees, Northwest personnel blocked many of the walkways through campus immediately following the storm. (Above) As pictured on the magazine’s cover, this green ash was cut down after standing for 59 years just south of the Administration Building.

10 SPRING 2008 NORTHWEST ALUMNI MAGAZINE Written by Mitzi Lutz • Photographs by Darren Whitley �ecoverin�Design by�rom Melinda Kelsey

December 10, 2007. It was this day that Northwest was dealt a devas- tating blow as a tremendous ice storm struck the entire region. Coated with more thannature’s an inch of ice, the smallest saplings to the largest century- old trees bowed to the ground. Branches, unable to withstand the weight, snapped, taking with them wrathpower lines and anything else in their path. Thousands were without heat or electricity, and schools were closed – even Northwest, and it was finals week! However, our Northwest family is rallying together to make the best of this challenging situation, determined that our beautiful campus will one day be better than ever.

By mid January, classes at Northwest “The trees are an integral part of Northwest,” he were back in full swing following the winter said. “The campus is grieving, but we must look to the break, and life on campus has returned to future. This campus and this arboretum will be better normal, with one noticeable exception. A than it ever was.” walk through campus tells the entire story. During the days and months following the disaster, Before the storm, there were 1,300 trees Northwest looked to two of its own to not only pro- on campus, from saplings to towering vide guidance for dealing with the storm’s immediate oaks and evergreens. Ice damage forced the removal effects, but also to create a plan for the future. Leading of 79 trees. Another 430 trees had to be pruned, some the way were Lezlee Johnson ’86 (master’s), a forester so severely that they will probably not survive. More by trade who is the University’s associate director of than 40 percent of the trees on Northwest’s campus, environmental services, and Adam Stone ’01, a former which is designated the Missouri Arboretum, have been groundskeeper and ornamentalist, who now serves as damaged. Northwest’s horticulturist and arborist. Immediately after Trees have always been an important part of both the storm, their full-time staff, student employees and a the Northwest landscape and its institutional culture, tree service company secured the campus. and Northwest President Dr. Dean L. Hubbard echoed “It was important to clear the major pedestrian the thoughts of many when he addressed University routes. We knew that students would eventually need employees shortly after the storm. to move throughout campus, so we put caution tape

NORTHWEST ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 11 around a lot of the hazardous trees and blocked off arborists and plant biologists new insights into pruning about every main artery to campus,” Stone said. “We and other techniques used to save damaged trees. The had to make safe pathways through this forest of limbs key, she said, is to prune broken limbs in front of an that were dangling overhead.” undamaged branch. This helps the tree send its energy Johnson, who also serves into strong limbs and away from weak sprouts and as the Missouri Arboretum increases the tree’s chance for survival. The hardest director, and Stone agreed Being prepared for the devastation still didn’t make it “ they had never seen a storm any easier to accept. part was seeing my like the one that paralyzed “The hardest part was seeing my 12 years of work at 12 years of work at much of the Midwest. Fortu- Northwest destroyed in a 24-hour period,” Stone said. nately, they were trained for “We prune trees, we plan our landscape around them, Northwest destroyed such an event. we do everything we can for years to make them look “I had just been to a hazard- right, and now they’re just gone.” in a 24-hour ous tree seminar a few months Virtually every tree on campus suffered at least some before our storm hit where storm damage, Johnson said. Species faring the worst period. a gentleman who had been included silver maples, green ashes, hackberries, river Adam” Stone ’01 through Hurricane Andrew was birches and pin oaks. horticulturist, arborist talking about how to retrain “In my opinion, the toughest tree to lose was the and save trees,” Stone said. “I Kentucky coffee tree near the Administration Building,” sure didn’t think I’d be using Johnson said. “It’s a really neat tree, and it’s rarely this information so soon, but having this knowledge was subject to storm damage. But this storm was just too invaluable.” much for it.” Johnson said recent natural disasters have given An Arboretum Committee has been charged with

In 1905, one of the first duties of the Board of Regents tion Building was positioned in a direct line with the Gaunt �was to acquire histor� a site for the new�esson Fifth District Normal House, and the route, often referred to as “the long walk,” School – now Northwest. The Board purchased the Thomas was lined with hundreds of trees. Many of the trees date to Gaunt property, a 21-acre nursery that also featured an groundskeeper J.R. Brink, who planted 300 trees a year start- outbuilding, which eventually housed a few classes, and a ing in 1915. Today, Northwest is the home of the Missouri handsome Georgian house that, with repair, would be the Arboretum, a state designation given by the Legislature to residence for every Northwest president. The Administra- the campus tree stand, which comprises 125 varieties.

12 SPRING 2008 NORTHWEST ALUMNI MAGAZINE (From left) Nearly 80 trees throughout campus, including planning and implementing the reforestation effort. this hackberry tree, were so severely damaged they “The face of campus has really changed, and it’s had to be removed. going to look different for quite awhile,” Johnson said. Professionals from Elkhorn, Neb., assisted Northwest’s “We’re a lot more open now, and there are more grassy environmental services department in pruning 430 trees. areas, but there will also be more room to plant lots of Twigs, bark and other small debris from the ice storm covered trees. We’ll continue to plant trees every year, and our campus well into the spring. However, 33 student volunteers rolled up their sleeves and pitched in during a series of three campus will continue to be a living laboratory for our March work days to rake the central part of campus. students and visitors.” A tree planting on Arbor Day gives Lezlee Johnson the oppor- With a $50,000 deductible and many other expenses tunity to visit with Horace Mann Lab School students about that will not be covered by insurance, state or federal the importance of trees and proper planting techniques. assistance, financial support is being sought from the (Below) Although the appearance of campus has changed University community. Northwest alumni, faculty, staff, since this photograph was taken last summer, the University’s students and friends have already shown their generos- tree stand will soon be restored to its once-splendid beauty. ity by purchasing more than 275 trees. Many of these trees were planted during a campus ceremony on April 18. The event also honored employees who worked to are doing that – they’re coming out and helping with keep the campus open and safe during and after the the clean-up efforts, they’re supporting the Arboretum, storm. The remainder of the commemorated trees will they’re getting involved. For someone like me who is pas- be planted during the next few years. sionate about trees and nature, it’s absolutely wonderful “We can only mourn what we lost for so long, and to see the Northwest community rally around something it’s time to pick up and move on,” Johnson said. “Folks that is such an important part of our campus.” n

g �reate a �e ac�. With a gift of $300, you can commemorate a tree on the Northwest campus. Your gift will cover the cost of the tree, its planting� andommemorate maintenance for the tree’s a lifetime. tree. In addi- tion, your name or the name of a friend or loved one will be included on a plaque next to the tree. To commemorate a tree, visit www.nwmissouri.edu/alumni/tree.htm or call (660) 562-1248.

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Science museum honors Warren and Rita Shuck Florida couple who spent their childhood in A northwest Missouri were honored for their generous support of Northwest during a dedica- tion ceremony for the Warren S. and Rita Peck Shuck Museum of Life Sciences. The museum is located on the third floor of St. Louis couple Northwest’s Garrett-Strong Science Building. establishes art Opened in 2006, the museum was established by scholarship Northwest’s Department of Biological Sciences. A St. Louis couple has The Shucks, who live in Destin, Fla., said they established a scholarship at are honored by the opportunity to leave a lasting Northwest for students major- legacy on the Northwest campus. ing in art. Dorothy Myers Rice Warren Shuck was raised in St. Joseph, and Northwest President Dr. Dean L. Hubbard (center) is ’46 and her husband, Donald, Rita Shuck grew up on the Peck family farm near joined by members of the Shuck family and University donated $49,000 toward an officials during the museum dedication. DeKalb. The couple was drawn to assist North- endowed scholarship. west when they learned they share the University’s “Our main goal is to help Likewise, it was the Shucks’ recognition of the commitment to multicultural understanding. someone go to Northwest importance of higher education, and of the study They also believe that establishing the Warren who otherwise would find of science in particular, that led to the museum S. and Rita Peck Shuck Scholarship is an ideal it impossible without a being named in their honor. way to ensure that family, friends and future little help,” Dorothy said. “I’m “It is Mr. and Mrs. Shuck’s wish that everyone students feel at home on the Northwest campus happy to be fortunate enough who visits the museum will find inspiration – a positive experience shared by Rita Shuck’s to do this for future students.” from the past to benefit our society and future parents, Oliver and Virginia Peck, who attended Dorothy, who received her discoveries,” said Northwest President Dr. Dean Northwest. n degree in art with a minor in L. Hubbard. music, is originally from the Bethany area. As a Northwest student, she received a Scholarship memorializes longtime professor one-year art scholarship in new scholarship at Northwest is endowed at $10,000 and will addition to a music scholar- A was recently established in be awarded to a student who has ship. memory of George Barratt ’54, declared a major in the Department The Rices were married in professor emeritus of mathematics. of Mathematics and Statistics with 1959 and both taught at Rolla Barratt, who retired in 1988 after first preference to a math education High School before transfer- teaching at Northwest for 25 years, major. ring to Normandy High School was a recipient of the University’s “Attracting motivated students in in the St. Louis area, where Distinguished Educator Award. He conjunction with a high retention Dorothy retired from teaching died in January 2007. The Barratt’s rate is a priority at Northwest,” art. three children are Northwest gradu- said Dr. Russ Euler, professor of For more information ates: Robert Barratt ’69, Calvin math and statistics. “The George about the Donald and Dorothy Barratt ’76 and Joyce Barratt Turner ’80. W. Barratt Math Scholarship, along with other Myers Rice Scholarship “His entire family attended Northwest,” said available scholarships, will enable the Depart- or other opportunities to his wife, Marjory. “They were all mathemati- ment of Mathematics and Statistics to retain support Northwest, contact cians and would even gather for holidays and do talented students. The scholarships provide a the Northwest Foundation at math all day. Math was his field, and he wanted financial basis for students to establish career [email protected] or a scholarship to help other kids get a good math goals. I am delighted that Mr. Barratt’s dedication (660) 562-1248. n education.” to Northwest will be perpetuated through his The George W. Barratt Math Scholarship scholarships.” n

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Grant assists students in pursuing ‘American dream’ hrough hard work and determination, T anyone can achieve the American dream – at least that’s the foundation on which many Americans stand. While there are potential roadblocks along the way, Northwest is determined to remove at least Retired teacher one of those barriers, and, as a result, students to contribute who choose to further their education in order to $10,000 annually grasp the American Dream can do so without a Janet Dinkel ’58 under- crippling financial burden. stands what it’s like for college Freshmen Monica Taylor and Alex Wray Because of the American Dream Grant, Sherry Wray students trying to work their are recipients of the University’s pioneering and her son, Alex, are both students at Northwest. way through school. As an needs-based financial aid initiative, the American Devereux Taylor. “I even told Monica to read it to undergraduate from Green- Dream Grant. According to Del Morley, director me! Monica asked what this meant, and I told her, field, Iowa, she, too, worked of financial assistance, more than 840 students ‘it means you can now go to Northwest!’” many jobs on and off campus have benefitted from the American Dream Grant Like her mother, Monica was in disbelief. before receiving her degree in since the program’s inception in 2004. The “I started crying,” Monica said. “I might not elementary education. There- number of awards given each year is determined have been able to go to college if it wasn’t for this.” fore, when Dinkel learned by University funding and donor support. Sherry Wray and her son, Alex, are two more about Northwest’s unique Students who come from families with people whose financial burdens have been lifted American Dream Grant, she incomes of $30,000 or less and who meet because of the American Dream Grant. knew it was something she Northwest’s admissions criteria are eligible. The Sherry, a divorced mother who has been wanted to support. grant pays virtually all college expenses during a battling cancer since 2003, has been working two “I feel that everyone who student’s first two years at Northwest, including jobs to put herself through school at Northwest. really wants to attend college tuition, room, board, books and the use of a When it came time for Alex to go to college, she should have the opportunity,” laptop computer. The student contribution is was willing to drop out to allow her son to pursue she said. “In this day and age, $1,000 per semester, which can be earned by his dreams. Because of the American Dream it is much harder for young working a few hours each week on campus. Grant, both mother and son are proud Bearcats. people starting out, as costs Monica, a studio art major from Mount Ayr, “This grant took the hardship off of me trying are so much higher, and any Iowa, is one of six children. Her parents knew to figure out how to finance Alex’s college educa- type of help they can obtain is that financing an education for their three young- tion,” Sherry said. “This way, we are both able to of great value.” est children stay on track with our education. The entire idea Dinkel made her first gift of would be a of the American Dream Grant is the start of some- $10,000 to Northwest and the struggle. thing good … that someone has faith in these American Dream Grant last “When students who come from lower-income families. fall. She believes so strongly in we received When alumni give to the American Dream grant this initiative that she intends the letter that it’s like they’re saying to the student, ‘we want you to contribute at least $10,000 said Monica to carry on this tradition.’” annually to the fund. was going to Alex wasn’t aware of the grant until he received After graduating from get the Amer- notification that he was eligible. Northwest, Dinkel moved ican Dream “I didn’t find the American Dream Grant. to Keokuk, Iowa, to teach Grant, I It found me – thankfully,” Alex said. “When I kindergarten. This opportunity couldn’t graduate I’m going to remember that someone turned into a 41-year teaching Monica Taylor would like to pursue believe it,” provided the money for me to go to college. I career in the Keokuk School a career in photography. She also said her want to do the same for others. Although I can’t has an interest in dance and teaches District, where she retired in mother, pay the exact people back, I will at least give back gymnastics to children in Northwest’s 1999. n Kip Kittens Movement Program. Mary Ellen so Northwest can help others like me.” n

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Olive DeLuce paintings New resource for charitable gift donated to Northwest planning orthwest’s Department of Art has accepted Northwest has created Na gift of four paintings, valued at $9,400, a new, easy-to-navigate created by longtime Professor of Art Olive Web site to help alumni and DeLuce in the late 1930s. friends dream a little – about Mounted in gilt frames, the oil-on-board Northwest’s future and theirs. waterscapes were purchased by Ruth Kramer The planned giving Web Myers ’33. Myers’ son, Dr. George Myers of site provides visitors many Dr. George Myers (right) of Hilton Head, S.C., inherited Hilton Head, S.C., inherited the paintings and this painting and three similar artworks from his mother, giving options from which donated them to the University through the a 1933 Northwest alumna, and donated them to the to choose – strategies that Northwest Foundation. University. He is joined by Teresa Macias ’97, ’05, a enhance a donor’s personal Olive DeLuce, who died in 1970, joined the development officer for the College of Arts and Sciences; well being, as well as Dr. Kim Spradling, chairman of the art department; and Northwest faculty in 1915 and was instrumental University Archivist Cathy Miller Palmer ’80, ’01. Northwest. in developing the fledgling fine arts department, The interactive Build Your serving as its chairwoman until her retirement Roderick Carroll given by the class of 1965, Gift planner answers a few in 1955. Active in both campus and community adorns the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building’s basic questions and guides affairs, DeLuce played a key role in establishing main staircase. donors through the process the University’s permanent art collection. DeLuce’s dream of establishing a space where of narrowing down their DeLuce helped the graduating class of 1939 the University’s growing collection could be choices. If donors already obtain a print titled “Cradling Wheat” from displayed was realized soon after her death, when have gift options in mind, famed Kansas City painter Thomas Hart Benton. the DeLuce Gallery was established near the front they can compare gifts to A similar acquisition, a large mosaic by Jan entrance of the building named in her honor. n see how their choices match up or request specific infor- mation on a planning option. Houston gift funds theatre sound system upgrade There’s a gift calculator, erformances in Northwest’s Mary Linn personnel and students. sample bequest language, Auditorium have never sounded so good. At Shawn Wake ’92, the Performing Arts Center’s a quiz to test your planned P least not for a long time. The sound system in the technical director and performance facilities man- giving knowledge, articles Performing Arts Center’s auditorium has been in ager, said the gift also allowed the department to for planned giving advisers, dire need of repair and upgrades, and a $10,000 purchase a wireless headset system. donor testimonials and much gift from Maryville resident Ron Houston has Houston, a former member of the Northwest more. made these improvements possible. Foundation Board of Directors, is president of For more information A portion of Houston’s gift was used to hire an the J.L. Houston Company in Hopkins, where about planned giving and audio engineer to troubleshoot the sound system he has been employed since 1967. He attended leaving a lasting legacy at in the 24-year-old, frequently-used facility that Northwest from 1960 to 1963 before transferring Northwest, visit the new Web seats 1,100. Following the engineer’s recom- to the University of Missouri-Columbia to receive site at www.nwmissouri. mendation, Northwest purchased four new floor a degree in industrial engineering. In addition edu/alumni/giving/ monitors, a new equalizer and two new compres- to his involvement at Northwest, Houston is plannedgifts.htm. n sor/limiters. In addition, the high frequency active with the Maryville Industrial Development diaphragm was replaced in the center speaker Corporation and the Steel Tank Institute. n cluster of the theatre. For more information about supporting Northwest Randy Wolf ’90, a vice president at Vista or the Department of Communication, Theatre Productions, returned to his alma mater to install and Languages, contact Teresa Macias at the sound system and accompanying computer [email protected] or (660) 562-1248. software. He also provided training for Northwest

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Mühsam’s life, artwork reflects Native Americanculture ike many young boys, Armin Mühsam, seven reservations nearby,” Mühsam said. “My L associate professor of art, grew up fascinated plan was to paint Cheyennes and Crows ‘on with a fictional character in his favorite author’s site,’ but I soon decided that this would be just novels. His interest in this character, and by another form of colonialism.” extension the Native American culture, shaped Early in his profes- his life in many ways, and continues to be a part sion, Mühsam’s paintings of who he is today. often featured human Mühsam was born in Transylvania, part of figures; however, his modern day Romania. As a young child, he experience of the vast recalls reading Western-themed dime novels at his open spaces in Montana grandfather’s house. To pull him away from these and knowledge of Native “trashy” reads, Mühsam’s father introduced him American history led to the German author Karl May, whose books him to depict human feature a character named Winnetou, a fictional intervention with the Apache chief. natural environment. “May’s books shaped my Native American “The artificial image. These books were extremely popular in environment of machines Germany,” Mühsam said. “I began reading all and concrete mixed in of them thinking they taught me all I needed to with the natural beauty know about Native Americans.” of the land shape society’s views and, ultimately, Northwest’s annual powwow in Although May is virtually unknown in the how they feel about something,” Mühsam said. Bearcat Arena is the ideal venue for Armin Mühsam to observe the United States, Mühsam said he was once the “My art attempts to visualize this by showing Native American culture that he most popular author in Germany. “To Germans, landscapes ‘populated’ with basic man-made often depicts in his artwork. Winnetou used to be like Paul Bunyan, Abe elements. It often describes humanity, without Lincoln and Elvis rolled into one.” depicting specific people.” However, when Mühsam discovered that After graduate school, Mühsam, whose paint- what was presented as fact in May’s books was ings are showcased internationally, began teaching just as clichéd as the dime novels, he set out to at Northwest in 2000. He also was a member of learn the facts about Native American history. the team that organized the University’s first pow- His friends and family thought his interest in the wow in 2004, an event that has become a popular subject matter was simply a passing infatuation, annual tradition at Northwest. but it wasn’t. In fact, Mühsam’s love and respect “I saw my first powwow in Canada when I was for Native American culture formed many of the 14. It blew me away,” Mühsam said. “It exempli- decisions fied the vitality of a living culture whose resilience in his life, should make Americans pause and think.” including The culture has indeed made a lasting impres- his pursuit sion on Mühsam, whose life has been guided by a of higher subject that started as a boyhood interest. education. “Native Americans are a minority like no “I chose other minority,” he said, “because they were the to go to continent’s majority population for millennia. graduate They know this land like no one else, and we school at should look to their vast experience in all matters Montana regarding our interactions with the natural world. State My studies of several Native American cultures “Badger Wahwasuck Singing and because have certainly influenced the way I view myself Drumming,” Marker/Watercolor, 2007 there are and my own culture in this context.” n

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MISSION: The Northwest Alumni Association fosters lifelong relationships through initiatives and opportunities that advance the University and its Alumni, future alumni and friends.

Northwest Alumni Association 2007-2008 Board of Directors President Tim Sullivan ’75, Urbandale, Iowa

Vice President Neil Neumeyer ’98, Kansas City

Past President Kay Thomas ’71, Blue Springs Alumni Programs 1957 Golden Years reunion Mike Zech ’86, Maryville Members of the Class of 1957 and their spouses returned to campus Homecoming weekend for their 50-year Membership Committee Chairperson class reunion. With 52 attendees, this was the largest group to return for the Golden Years Class Reunion in many Steve Moss ’87, Columbia years. During the reunion, honorees enjoyed a campus and community bus tour, a luncheon, the annual flag-raising ceremony at the International Flag Plaza, a Homecoming social, the Homecoming parade, a pregame barbeque and Chapters Committee Chairperson the Bearcat football game. Attendees from the Class of 1957 included (front row) Mickey Mallen, Curtis Thomas, Jackie Lionberger Damiani ’71, ’76, Nancy Rainey Hamilton, Nancy Kariger Eide, Kaye Ferguson Bishop, Pat Adams Maher, Sherri Heath Reeves, Edmond, Okla. Delores Moore Collins, Sue Wright Owens, Frank Garey, Floyd Davis, (back row) Henry Elliott, Richard Phillips, Members Charles Adair, Jim Bishop, Gweldon Long, Lester Wooten, Millard Haning, Fred Maher, Walter Arms, Victor Cromer, Cindy Tjeerdsma Akehurst ’01, Stan Stewart, Arthur Buckingham and Loren Putney. n Kansas City Amy Willits Harlin ’95, Kansas City Allen Kearns ’62, Omaha, Neb. Vic Kretzschmar ’70, ’71, Hemple Larry Maiorano ’69, ’74, Lenexa, Kan. Paula Northup Miller ’95, Mound City Mark Pickerel ’76, St. Joseph Nicole Bankus Porterfield ’91, St. Louis Dave Snider ’80, ’83, Olathe, Kan. John Van Cleave ’73, ’89, Maryville Hal Wilmarth ’69, Maryville Mel Young ’67, ’73, Lincoln, Neb.

Ex-Officio Board Members Jim Blackford ’72, President, Northwest Foundation, Maryville Shoba Mansukhani Brown, Millard Haning ’57, Lester Wooten ’57 and Darleen Jim ’57 and Kay Ferguson ’57 Bishop, who live in Annual Giving Committee, Northwest Foundation, Maryville Wooten reminisce during the Golden Years Society Georgetown, Texas, took a lead role in encouraging Orrie Covert, Vice President for reception at the Alumni House. their classmates to attend the reunion. University Advancement Dean L. Hubbard, University President, Maryville Don’t miss this B.D. Owens, President Emeritus, Clearwater, Fla. once-in-a-lifetime Peggy Purdy, Accounting Specialist 1958. What a year! reunion. Steve Sutton ’71, Director of Alumni Relations Brenda Untiedt ’00, Alumni Relations • Elvis receives his draft notice. Golden Years Specialist • The Soviets launch Sputnik 3. Society Reunion • The Jolly Green Giant debuts on TV. Honoring the Class of 1958 AND October 17-18 YOU graduated from Northwest! Homecoming Weekend Registration information will be mailed closer to the date.

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Tourin’ Bearcats visit wine country, hit the slopes orthwest alumni and friends participating followed by lunch at Julia Child’s Kitchen. The Nin the Tourin’ Bearcats’ travel program trip also featured tours and tastings at such well- Arizona Chapter enjoyed the Colorado ski slopes during the sec- known wineries as the Robert Mondavi Winery, Chartered March 23, 2001 ond-annual Bearcat ski trip while others ventured Kendall Jackson Winery, Ravenswood Winery, President Allyn Calhoun ’82 Band Alumni Chapter to California wine country, one of the world’s J. Vineyards Winery and Homewood Winery as Chartered Sept. 8, 2001 foremost wine-producing regions. well as stops in the quaint towns of Calistoga and President Bill Williams’76 President Elect Ron Martz ’78 The January ski trip included three days of Healdsburg. Secretary Bob Rice ’00 skiing in Winter Park, Colo. Those who attended For more information about upcoming Central Iowa Chapter Chartered Aug. 1, 2002 the wine excursion visited COPIA: The Ameri- Tourin’ Bearcats’ trips, call the Office of Univer- President Nick Wallace ’00 Vice President Kim Wall ’01 can Center for Wine, Food and the Arts for a sity Advancement at (660) 562-1248 or e-mail Secretary Sarah Beggs ’04 n tour, tasting and class on wine and food pairing [email protected]. Chicago Chapter Chartered Jan. 12, 2008 President Todd Keiser ’95 Vice President Matt Borgard ’80, ’82 Secretary Karen Raniere ’97

Colorado Chapter Chartered Jan. 12, 2004 President – Vacant

Dallas Chapter Chartered June 23, 2006 President Deb Tripp ’92, ’96 Vice President Stan Swan ’70, ’76 Secretary Chris Johnson ’93, ’94

Japan Chapter Chartered July 21, 2005 President Yuki Osawa ’97 Vice President Mamiko Noda ’03 Secretary Aya Takahashi ’00

Kansas City Chapter Chartered Jan. 25, 2001 President Jennifer Smith ’86 Vice President Brian Stewart Secretary Leslie Dean ’01

Maryville Chapter Chartered Sept. 22, 2001 President Paul Wilmes ’75 Vice President John Van Cleave ’73, ’89 Secretary Jamie Long ’93, ’98

Mid-Missouri Chapter Chartered April 12, 2007 President Chrissy Beck ’02 Vice President Dave Teeter ’86 Secretary Ashlee Erwin ’04

Nebraska/Western Iowa Chartered June 5, 2003 President Joe Glab ’01 Vice President Susan Hilton ’74 Secretary Jamie Christensen ’06

St. Joseph Chapter Chartered May 20, 2002 President Doug Schmitz ’92 Vice President Dave Price ’70 Secretary Patty Roach ’71

Southern California Chapter Chartered Feb. 29, 2004 President – vacant

Southern Iowa Chapter Chartered April 1, 2006 President Dennis Bunch ’69 (From top) Following a tour, John Eiberger is given a (From top) Winter Park was the destination for this Vice President Kevin Klommhaus ’92 taste of one of Robert Mondavi’s finest wines. Brian year’s alumni ski trip. Tanner Blackford, Don Brown ’64, Secretary Karleen Stephens ’77 and Sandra Badami ’93 Quill enjoy COPIA before dining ’70, Matt VanCleave, Matt Schieber and Steve Sutton at Julia Child’s Kitchen. Mike Rogers, Charles Holm ’70, ’71 couldn’t resist the warning signs. Skiers, including Janet Holm, Mike Graham and Kathy Plummer O’Riley Tim Brechbiel ’98, Jeff Tromans, Michelle Wickersham ’71, ’86 participate in a wine and food pairing class. and Larry Wichersham ’98, enjoyed pizza and refresh- ments after a day on the slopes.

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Alumni chapter news 1. Bearcats living in the Chicago area display their new Chicago Mid-Missouri chapter’s banner. The group he Chicago Alumni and Friends Chapter he Mid-Missouri Chapter ended 2007 with met at the Downers Grove, Ill., home of Matt Borgard, who Twas charted Jan. 12. Officers are President Ta national championship watch party Dec. was elected vice president of Todd Keiser ’95, Vice President Matt Borgard 15 at Truman’s Bar in Columbia, and in January the chapter. ’80, ’82 and Secretary Karen Raniere ’97. To the chapter members cheered on the University of 2. The Mid-Missouri Chapter get involved with the Chicago Chapter, contact Missouri Tigers at a basketball game. Visit www. hosted a tailgate Sept. 15 at the Northwest Alumni Association at alumni@ midmobearcats.com for the latest chapter news MU’s first home football game n of the 2007 season. Attending nwmissouri.edu or (660) 562-1248. and events, including a barbecue on June 14, the were (from left): Dave Teeter Twilight Festival at Harpo’s on June 26 and a ’86, Scottie Rawlings, Janet happy hour at the Coliseum Bistro on July 16. In Scott Gladstone ’76, Chrissy Beck ’02, Ashlee Erwin ’04, addition, the chapter will have an end-of-summer Clint Prange ’04, ’05, Amber gathering on Aug. 2 to send local Northwest stu- Prange, Jay Davidson ’98, dents back to school. Area students and parents Anne Taylor Davidson ’97, Nancy Gassen Moss ’90, interested in Northwest also will be invited to Frank Finley and Steve Moss attend and find out more about being a Bearcat. ’87 (and the Moss and David- For more information about the Mid-Missouri son children in the front row). Chapter, contact President Chrissy Beck ’02 at 3. In December, 12 members [email protected]. n of the Southern Iowa Chapter attended the performance of the Five Browns at Northwest’s 1 Performing Arts Center: (front row) Joen Gross Brown ’69, Teri Campbell, Pat Stream, (second row) Dennis Bunch ’69, Gwen Maynes, Carolyn Brown Nelson ’73, (third row) Adam Bunch, Karen Mills Shawler ’65, Barb Fox Hannon 2 ’55, (back row) Joan Lynch Jackson ’65, Judy Bunch and Linda Wiley Pickering ’74.

4. The Mid-Missouri Chapter collected 68 pounds of food for the Central Missouri Food Bank at a happy hour at Truman’s Bar and Grill in Columbia. Chapter members participating in the event included Chrissy Beck ’02, Clint Prange ’04, ’05, Nancy 3 4 Headrick ’78, Deann Ege, Ash- lee Erwin ’04, Dustin Wasson ’03, Tina Coffelt ’01, Jennifer Van DeVyvere ’04, Michael Head ’02, ’03 (with daughter, Annabelle), Steve Yaple ’04 and Dave Teeter ’86.

5. Members of the St. Joseph Chapter gathered more than 45 pounds of canned food items for the local food bank, challenging each chapter to do that or more for each chapter’s community food bank. 5

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Central Iowa Japan 6. More than 100 Northwest embers of the Central Iowa Chapter ast October, members of the Japan Alumni alumni and friends in central Iowa attended watch parties Mparticipated in an Oktoberfest beer tasting L Chapter gathered in the Ikebukuro area in Windsor Heights and and tour of the Raccoon River Brew Co. in Des of Tokyo. They were joined by Dr. Charles Urbandale, Iowa, to cheer Moines, Iowa. In addition, the chapter’s social McAdams, dean of the College of Arts and on the Bearcat football team during its trek to the NCAA chair has revived a time-honored tradition of Sciences. Chapter President Yuki Osawa ’97 led a Division II National Champion- “Thirsty Thursday,” a chapter social on the first discussion about potential activities and encour- ship game. Thursday of each month. In January, the chapter aged the members to let her know the names and 7. Several Northwest alumni participated in the annual “Bearcats at the Bucs” addresses of other Northwest alumni currently living in Japan attended outing at the Des Moines Buccaneers hockey living in Japan. McAdams provided an update of the Japan Alumni Chapter dinner in Tokyo, including (front game. Northwest alumni and friends in central activities on Northwest’s campus and answered row) Aya Takahashi ’00, Ai Iowa are encouraged to provide their contact questions on a variety of topics. Three of the Kobayashi, Yuki Osawa ’97, information to President Nick Wallace ’00 at alumni assisted McAdams at the USA Recruit- Dr. Charles McAdams, dean of Northwest’s College of Arts n [email protected] so they can ment Fair in Tokyo two days later. and Sciences, Hitomi Nagasaki be notified of upcoming chapter events.n ’95, Akiko Sakamoto, (back row) Nobutaka Nakamura ’05, Shota Kawano, Toru Yamauchi ’99, Mamiko Noda ’03, Kasumi Sekai, Jeannette Ferguson ’00 and Rie Ogusu ’05.

8. Eight members of the Dallas Alumni Chapter, including Katie Tripp ’05 and Mercedes Ramirez Johnson ’97, sold ice cream and bottled drinks to thousands of fans at the Southern Methodist University vs. Tulane University football game as a fundraiser for the 7 chapter’s scholarship. 6 9. During the meeting of the Japan Alumni Chapter in Tokyo, Mamiko Noda ’03 and Jeannette Ferguson ’00 realized that Jeannette was an RA on the same floor where Mamiko lived her freshman year.

10. Northwest alumni, family and friends gathered at the home of Mike ’85 and Kenna Miller ’84, ’87 Johnson (center) in Greeley, Colo., to watch the Bearcats play in the Division II 9 8 National Championship game.

11. Alumni in the St. Louis area gathered for a focus group meeting to discuss chartering an alumni chapter. Those in attendance were Nicole Bankus Porterfield ’91, Dave Jespersen ’72, Sherry Skarin Jespersen ’72, Judy Stark ’95, Mark Cromley ’94, Sue Johnson Hockensmith ’72 and Dana Hockensmith.

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Williams receives first Bob GregoryAward ongtime coach for people who have been closely affiliated with L and educator Jim Northwest athletics and have made significant Williams ’70, ’73 was contributions not only to Northwest but also presented Northwest’s to their professions. Jim is the perfect choice to first Bob Gregory Award receive the initial Bob Gregory Award,” said Dr. during the Nov. 10 Bob Boerigter, director of athletics. “He was a Bearcat football game. very competent and versatile athlete as an under- The award is given graduate, he was a student of Bob Gregory’s, and to someone who has he was a lifelong educator.” emulated the life, quali- Williams was a three-sport athlete at North- ties and attributes of west, competing in football, wrestling and golf. Coach Bob Gregory at After graduation, Williams coached football, Northwest or in Bearcat guiding St. Charles High School to a 1982 state athletics. Gregory, a championship and earning Missouri 4A Football 1942 Northwest gradu- Coach of the Year honors. ate who died in 2007, In 17 years of coaching, Williams fell one win Jim Williams (right), joined by was the University’s baseball, basketball and tennis short of 100 victories in his career, finishing with Northwest Athletics Director Dr. Bob Boerigter, displays the Bob head coach and also assisted in football and track the most wins in St. Charles history. Williams Gregory Award to fans during a and field during the 1950s. and his wife, Ruth Hallquist Williams ’74, live in Northwest football game. Williams “The athletics department has been working St. Charles and have a son, Jamie, and a daughter, received the award for his involve- on the development of an appropriate honor Julie. ■ ment in and support of Northwest athletics and contributions to the teaching and coaching profession. Player Spotlight: Alicia Johnson Alicia Johnson, a sopho- Q: What’s the biggest difference between the more from Tripoli, Iowa, teams at Northwest and Iowa? led the MIAA in aces per A: I think the biggest difference is our overall game with 0.60 and was love for the game and enjoyment when it comes fifth in points per game, to games and practices. We all truly love to play averaging 4.74. Johnson, volleyball at Northwest, and that just makes who transferred from everything click so much better. the University of Iowa, Q: In the short time you’ve been at Northwest, finished the season with what’s your favorite memory? 20 double-doubles and A: There are quite a few, but if I had to choose recorded a season-high one it would be when we beat the University of 25 kills in one game. She Nebraska-Omaha this year at home. We played led the Bearcats in kills so great together, and it was so reassuring that we (483), kills per game had that in us. I think that was just a preview of (3.86) and aces (75) how far our team will go. and earned second-team All-MIAA. Q: Have you bonded with your fellow teammates? Sophomore Alicia Johnson was A: Most definitely. We learned more and more awarded Second Team All-MIAA as Q: Why did you transfer to Northwest from Iowa? about each other as the season went on, and it she recorded 20 double-doubles A: I felt that Iowa wasn’t quite the right fit for makes me happy and excited that I have two years and led the MIAA in aces per game. me, and I wasn’t enjoying volleyball. That’s when She and her teammates finished left to play with these girls. ■ the 2007 season with a 17-17 I definitely knew that a change needed to be overall record and 6-7 in the MIAA, made. the most wins since 2000.

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Bearcats return to Northwest: A program West Texas wants to emulate Florence for third Whether you’re a season ticket holder or haven’t been to a Northwest football game since consecutive year your days as a student, this column written by Greg Jaklewicz of the Amarillo Globe-News After defeating three following the playoff game against West Texas A&M is enough to make any Bearcat proud. undefeated opponents to earn a third consecutive trip to saw West Texas A&M athletic director Michael the NCAA Division II National I McBroom for only a few minutes before Championship game, the Saturday’s football game against Northwest. Bearcats once again came up His eyes reminded me of those of a kid who just short of attaining their third got separated from his parents in Toys “R” Us national football crown. The and was locked in the store overnight. Bearcats were defeated by And it wasn’t because we were briefly stuck in Valdosta State 25-20. an elevator. It was The Wow Factor. “I don’t know if words can To compare the football programs at North- describe the disappointment west, which has an enrollment of 6,500 students, With new lights and FieldTurf added this season, Bearcat that I feel for these guys,” and WT, which has about 7,500, is comparing Stadium, which includes Mel Tjeerdsma Field, is one of said Coach Mel Tjeerdsma. the nation’s most elite venues in Division II football. apples to apples. “They’ve done a great job, There is one big difference, however: North- other “Bearcats.” The visiting team knows and we’ve had a great run. west plays on campus. whose turf they’ve stepped onto. Perhaps it’s why They got beat by a very good Paw prints were painted on streets leading to Northwest has won 16 straight home games. football team.” Bearcat Stadium. A sign in front of one business Fans joined fans on the opposite side of the Northwest ended the on a nearby stadium in back-and-forth chants of “B-E-A-R” season 12-2 and became just street read: “Go and “C-A-T-S. the fourth program to appear Bearcats. Herd A four-story press box rises above the Bearcats’ in three consecutive champi- those Buffaloes field. An elevator takes media and other officials onship games. The Bearcats’ back to Texas.” to the fourth level, one stop above 10 luxury three championship losses It felt like suites. were by 3, 4 and 5 points. ■ game day. The visiting team dresses in a locker room The sound under one end of the home stands. At the other For more information about the Bearcats’ outstanding season, generated end are meeting rooms where postgame inter- including photo galleries, post- by fans and views were held. When an NCAA game is played season accolades, a media Northwest’s at WT, postgames are conducted in a tent. guide and statistics, visit band reverber- The home team dresses in spacious quarters in www.nwmissouri.edu/ ated. It sounded the activity center, and their weight room is not sports/football/index.htm. Quarterback Joel Osborn, a junior like a college the converted entrance to the from Harlan, Iowa, guided the football game. former student union building, Bearcats to their third consecutive A park as it is at WT. national championship game. behind the “They obviously have put a home stands was tailgating central. Close enough lot of thought and money into for the marching band to stop by and toot the their facilities. Every group fight song to fire up fans at their grills. that’s important ... the fans, the Speaking of firing up, a cannon was posi- teams, the media ... all were tioned at a nearby frat house. It boomed like well served,” McBroom said. 1812 after every Bearcat touchdown. Until the day comes The home side of the stadium was refurbished when facilities at WT can be in 2003, and this past summer Field Turf was dramatically upgraded, the Buffs have one way Thousands of enthusiastic fans traveled to Florence, Ala., to added. to avoid a trip to the home of the Bearcats: earn support the Bearcats at the NCAA One end zone proclaims “Northwest,” the home-field advantage. ■ Division II National Championship.

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Former Coach Gregory players reunite Bearcat basketball wrap-up at Homecoming he Northwest men’s basketball team won its Homecoming 2007 had a Tfourth MIAA tournament championship fol- special meaning for a group lowing a 57-51 win against Emporia State. It was of former Northwest student- the third time the Bearcats have won the tourna- athletes. Alumni who played ment as a No. 2 seed. After an opening round win for Bearcat Coach Bob in the NCAA South Central Regional tournament, Gregory reunited in conjunc- the men fell 73-59 to Central Oklahoma. The tion with Homecoming to men ended the season 24-8 (12-6 MIAA). Senior honor their late coach. center Matt Withers and junior forward Hunter The plans for the reunion, Henry were named second-team All-MIAA. spearheaded by Dick Phillips The Northwest women’s basketball team won ’57, had been initiated prior to three games in four days and punched its ticket Gregory’s death in June 2007. to the NCAA Division II tournament with an Gregory, a 1942 Northwest 82-58 win against Southwest Baptist in the MIAA graduate, was the University’s tournament. The Bearcats, who had to win all baseball, basketball and ten- three games to extend their season, qualified for nis head coach and assisted the tournament for the second year in a row. in football and track and field After an opening round win in the NCAA South during the 1950s. Central Regional tournament, which included During Homecoming a 40-foot bucket at the buzzer in overtime, the weekend, the group of Bearcat women were defeated by Emporia State, 11 former players and their Sophomore guard Lance Sullivan led the Bearcats in 83-71. The women finished the season 18-14 (9-9 spouses attended a Bearcat several categories this season, including assists (67), MIAA). Senior center Mandi Schumacher was free throw percentage (83 percent), steals (59) and basketball practice, enjoyed n successful three-pointers (56). awarded Second Team All-MIAA honors. Homecoming activities and were recognized at the Bearcat Zone tailgate as well as at the end of the first M-Club Hall of Fame inducts volleyball team, fiveindividuals quarter of the Bearcat football game. The former players presented Gregory’s widow, Helen, with a token of their appreciation for her husband’s dedication as a coach, men- tor and friend. n

The 1980 Northwest volleyball team still holds the Five former student-athletes were inducted into record for most wins in a season with 52. The team, Northwest’s 2007 M-Club Athletics Hall of Fame: then known as the Bearkittens, defeated Division I two-time wrestling All-American Ron “Jesse” James foes Oklahoma State, Missouri and Kansas. Inductees ’67; two-time cross country All-American Kathy Kearns present at the ceremony included (front row) LeeAnn Behounek ’98; two-time All-MIAA basketball player Rulla Jones ’82, Miriam Heilman McNally ’82, ’84, Russ Miller; All-American and MIAA MVP baseball Coach Pam Stanek, Lanita Richardson, Debra Scribner player Scott Spurgeon ’91; and consensus first team Shemwell ’83, (back row) Debbie Cone Fay ’82, All-American football player Chris Greisen ’99. Dixie Wescott ’85, ’91, Saundra Hagedorn Hess ’81, Rebecca Johnson Wigal ’82, Toni Cowen Espey ’83 and Donna Shuh Beste ’82.

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Redd inducted into Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ormer Northwest student-athlete, coach team won two national Fand athletic director Dr. Jim Redd ’66 was championships under inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame current head coach Mel during the Feb. 10 ceremonies at the hall’s Tjeerdsma. Northwest headquarters in Springfield. also won the 1997-98 Redd was a three-sport athlete in high school MIAA All-Sports Trophy but focused on football at Northwest, earning and 20 MIAA titles. All-MIAA honors in 1965 as a first-team defensive Redd retired from tackle and second-team offensive lineman. He Northwest in 2001 but served as captain for the Bearcats for three seasons. reentered higher educa- After receiving his master’s degree, Redd tion as the director of returned to Maryville in 1967 as an assistant athletics and physical under Ivan Schottel and then Gladden Dye in education at William 1971. He became head coach in 1976, earning Jewell College in Liberty MIAA Coach of the Year honors in 1979 after the following year. In 2002, he was inducted into Dr. Jim Redd ’66 (left) accepts a guiding the Bearcats to a conference title. the Northwest M-Club Hall of Fame. plaque from Executive Director Jerald Andrews during the Missouri He resigned from coaching following the 1982 Redd is the ninth person with Northwest ties Sports Hall of Fame induction season but remained at Northwest as an instruc- to be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of ceremony. Other inductees tor. From 1984 to 1985, Redd worked on his Fame. Prior inductees include: included former Kansas City Royals doctorate at Oklahoma State University, returning catcher and manager John Wathan ● Henry Iba, men’s basketball coach, 1961 and former Kansas City Chiefs to Northwest in 1986 to become an associate ● Herschel Neil, track student-athlete, 1972 defensive end Neil Smith. professor in the Department of Health, Physical ● Wilbur “Sparky” Stalcup, men’s basketball Education, Recreation and Dance. coach, 1979 He was appointed Northwest director of ● Ryland Milner, student-athlete, coach and athletics in 1993. Under his leadership, North- athletic director, 1988 west completed renovations at Bearcat Arena, ● Howard Iba, men’s basketball student-athlete, constructed new softball and soccer facilities, 1991 renovated Herschel Neil Track and reconstructed ● Wayne Winstead, women’s basketball coach, the east grandstands at Bearcat Stadium. 1994 During his tenure as AD, the Bearcat football ● Pat Harr, team physician, 2001 ● David “D.C.” Colt, athletic trainer, 2006 n Class notes 1957 coached high school girls throughout Nebraska. ing in Cincinnati, OH, Jim and Kay Ferguson basketball 36 years. They She and her husband, and is a member of the Bishop live in Indianola, IA. Don Anderson ’60, live in Northwest Foundation celebrated their 50th Lincoln, NE. Board of Directors. anniversary in August. 1961 They are retired and live Mary Adams Anderson 1960 1964 in Georgetown, TX. has released her sixth William Price Don Lentz (master’s ’74, children’s book, “Gracie and his wife, Mary Beth, specialist ’86) 1959 Gannon: Middle School received Missouri Honor is a funeral director, pre- Jerry and Beverly Myers Zero.” Her work has ap- Medals for Distinguished need salesman and notary Wetzel ◆ peared in more than 100 Service in Journalism public at Clark-Sampson celebrated their 50th periodicals. She writes from the University Funeral Home in St. anniversary on Aug. 24. stories and articles for of Missouri School of Joseph. He was a teacher They are retired teachers. adults and children and Journalism in October. and principal in the St. Beverly taught 30 years, teaches writing classes Bill is chairman/CEO of Joseph School District for and Jerry taught and at community colleges Empower MediaMarket- 40 years.

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1968 Ed Weissenbach Cascade Health Services 1971 Jackie Clark Lewin retired in in Kansas City, owned Ruthi Dunham Turner (master’s ’72) March by two of their children. is an instructor at Sand- is the executive director of 2007 as They live at Lake Viking ersville Technical College, the St. Joseph Museum. a senior near Gallatin. preparing students to She also is the co-author manager enter the workforce in of “The St. Joe Road” and in mar- 1970 manufacturing, customer Jerry Ingle ◆ “On the Winds of Des- keting service, warehousing retired from US Bank tiny: A Biographical Look from Principal Financial and distribution and after 20 years and is now at Pony Express Riders.” Group in Des Moines, supervision. She and her employed at Nodaway IA. He and his wife, Lila, husband, Eddy, live in Valley Bank in St. Joseph intend to travel, and Ed Tennille, GA. as a senior vice president will work part time as a working in the commer- marketing consultant for cial loan department. Where are you? Please help Northwest locate the following alumni from the Class of 1958. Their 50-year class reunion is in October, and we don’t want them to miss out on the fun of reuniting with fellow Bearcats.

Please send any contact information to [email protected] or call (660) 562-1248.

Jerald Baker Berniece Roach Dowell Charles Hood Robert Merkle Charlene Olson Stout Mildred Melvin Barker Shirley Denny Dunster Richard Horton Roger Miller Daniel Sullivan Rex Boyer Duane Edwards Ronald Hunt Donald Norton Jamie Tankersley Beverly Fletchall Bricker Marian Fitzgerald Judith Jeffries Richard Olson Wendell Tate Margurete Costin Raymond Forret Sidney Jones Robert Oren Elsie Smallwood Tharp Campbell James Foster Charles Kidd Lawrence Paxton Joye Hardcastle Tobin Carl Carmichael Edward Fuller Jack Little Lyle Ratashak Nadean Henning Underwood Beth Van Houten Margaret O’Connor Gray Gwenda Looker Ervin Ristau Judy Cross Vane Chappell Mary Griffin Bob Lynch Lyle Rogers Charlene Steiner Walker Harry Clark William Hanson Kent Maffitt Albert Schrupp Paul Wells Phyllis Cox Marilyn Comer Henry Sharon Reimer Majors Richard Severson Jo Ann Beeson Werley Jack Crawford Flesher Walter Maris Albert Smith Robert Wilson William Crawford Carroll Henson Peggy McHarg Billy Sparrow Mildred Keean Wurster M.B. Deshazer Edwin Hill Monty McVicker Edith Steele Richard Young

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1972 1978 Administrator of the Stu Osterthun ◆ Rick and Joy Brown (’71) Anthony Leffert Year at the 75th annual is director of public Nielsen was ap- conference for the Speech information and marketing have taken early retire- pointed and Theatre Associa- at Southeast Community ment after teaching 35 by tion of Missouri for his College in Lincoln, NE. and 36 years, respectively. Colorado overwhelming support of He previously was the They both taught 31 Gov. Bill speech and theatre. marketing specialist at years at Marcus-Meriden- Ritter Bill OLIVER Northwest. Cleghorn. They now to the is the general manager substitute teach. Their State Local Government 1985 at KETR Radio at Texas Leslie Galbreath ◆ daughter, JODI NIELSEN ’99, Limited Gaming Impact A&M University-Com- earned an Ed.D. in is a magazine editor in Advisory Committee. merce. Arizona. educational leadership and He is a trial lawyer in the Barbara Tiffin Woolsey policy analysis from the Keep in touch (specialist ’81) ◆ Denver-based law firm University of Missouri- 1973 completed her Ed.D. in As life changes, your class- Richard Miller of Robinson Waters & Columbia. She is director educa- mates and friends want to has had his eighth book O’Dorisio, P.C. He is a of Northwest’s Talent tional know. Tell us what has been published, “Lincoln and former federal prosecutor Development Center. and deputy special counsel leader- going on in your life by using His World: The Early STACY GRIGGS ◆ to the attorney general. ship and the enclosed envelope, by e- Years, Birth to Illinois and his wife, Jennifer, and Legislature.” This is the policy mail at alumni@nwmissouri. 1979 analysis 9-year-old daughter live in first in a multi-volume Lore McManus Solo Bixby, OK, and recently edu or online at www. series. He was a KXCV from the is principal and vice University of Missouri- earned their Black Belts in nwmissouri.edu/alumni/ broadcaster and is using president karate. Stacy is director of magazine/classnotes.htm. public radio scripting Columbia in May 2006. of public She is a special education sales operations at Dayco techniques in writing his rela- Products, LLC, and says You also may submit a Lincoln books. He lives in coordinator in the Blue tions at Springs School District. hello to his Phi Sig bud- photograph. Please include a Kansas City. Strategic dies, especially Cheese and She and her husband, Ron self-addressed envelope for Bob Sweeney America Take Down. (master’s ’83) ◆ WOOLSEY ’74, ’78, enjoy at- the photo to be returned, or in Des is the tending football games in Moines, IA. She has been 1987 e-mail it, in high resolution, assistant Maryville. Jim Mozena re-elected to the World- to [email protected]. princi- and his wife, Rachel, com Public Relations 1983 (Photographs with children or pal/ath- announce the birth of Group Board of Directors. Sara Gann ◆ pets will not be accepted.) letic Andrew James on May Worldcom is the largest works with the Interna- director 16, 2007. They live in St. international public rela- tional Food and Commer- at Atlan- Louis. tions network. She lives in cial Workers for World tic (IA) High School. He Clive, IA. Bank. As a volunteer, 1988 was selected the 2006- she is involved in urban Dave Benscoter 2007 Iowa High School 1980 forestry. PAUL MARTIN ◆ is a product manager at Athletic Director of the linda Martin Lavely Year. is a waste technical special- HDR Architecture Inc. is an administrative He started as a mechanical ist with the Idaho National assistant for the Omaha 1976 Laboratory in Idaho Falls, draftsman in 1988, CARY Hiltgen Presbyterian Seminary ID. He previously was advanced to a mechanical is vice president of De- Foundation. She lives in with the Rock Flats design technician and fense Research Institute, Omaha, NE. Environmental Technology currently works in the IT the nation’s largest orga- Terry Mills department. He would Site in Denver, CO, for (master’s ’95) ◆ nization of civil defense like to hear from friends 23 years. He and his wife, is general manager of attorneys. from Phillips Hall at Sulinda, live in Rigby, ID. Wagner Industries Inc. [email protected]. 1977 in North Kansas City. 1981 Barb Potter Shaw He previously worked for Angela Johnson Roger Kelley is an administrative assis- is a coordinating analyst (master’s ’87) Guys Foods and Pepsi. He with the Federal Reserve is the director of fine lives in Liberty with his tant at Arena Pharmaceu- Bank of Kansas City. arts in the Liberty Public wife, Cissy, and daughter, ticals. She moved to San Her husband, Troy, died School District. He was Sydney. Diego, CA, in March 2007 in October. She lives in named the Missouri after several years working Lenexa, KS. with lobbying firms in Washington, D.C.

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Star-struck alum works alongside the housewives of Wisteria Lane orking in Hollywood on one of television’s Leung, who admits to being star-struck, was Wmost popular shows is an aspiration that amazed at the time and preparation spent on set many people seek but few actually achieve. But for design for each episode. In the theater, Leung Panela Leung ’04, her dream of working in Tinsel would spend weeks working on set details. In Town became a reality. television, she said the set goes up in a matter of Leung, a freelance days. set designer, was work- It became a routine for Leung to wake up early, ing in the University of arrive on the set, attend concept meetings and be Missouri-Kansas City amongst celebrities. Not only did she see the cast Theater Department when of the show, but Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford opportunity knocked on and other well-known actors and actresses were her door. Tom Walsh, the filming outside her office window. Emmy-winning production “I felt like a movie star,” Leung said, “because designer for television’s I had free reign to wander all around Universal “Desperate Housewives,” Studios. It was quite an experience. I learned a was conducting a workshop lot but also discovered how much more I need to at UMKC. Leung attended, learn about the industry.” and at the conclusion of Leung also learned many of the set “secrets” of the workshop was asked by the show’s Wisteria Lane. Walsh to accompany him “Of course all of the houses are nothing more to Los Angeles for a three- than facades,” she said, “but it’s funny that one Panela Leung, a set designer, takes week internship on the set of them is the old ‘Leave it to Beaver’ house and time to stop and smell the (fake) of the popular TV show. another is the old ‘Adams Family’ home.” flowers on the set of “Desperate “I was so excited about the opportunity,” Currently Leung is studying scenic painting in Housewives” during her three-week Leung said. “Most people go to Los Angeles on a New York and hopes to return to Los Angeles in internship. whim, but I was able to go with a purpose and a the summer. Her next goal: working on the next place.” Harry Potter movie. n

1988 MO. He has been with of the Boy Scouts of 1992 DOUG BAKER the company for eight America. Sara is working Curtis Landherr ◆ is senior vice president at years. He lives in Paris, toward a master’s degree is an assistant general KRC Research in Wash- MO. His children are in education and substi- counsel at Garmin in ington, D.C. Cole, 14, Zane, 12, and tute teaches. Olathe, KS. Steve Savard Drew, 8. Keith mabon Todd and Lesley McCrary was the honorary is working at a correc- Strever chairperson for Second 1990 tional facility in Lincoln, live in Keller, TX, with Stephanie wynne Grier Wind-St. Louis’s 2007 NE. their daughters, Madison, and her husband, Mike, Marlee and Ella. Lesley Lung Walk, an event that announce the birth of Eric (master’s ’92) and raises funds to improve Michelle McKnight (’93, ’97) walked 60 miles in the Patrick James on May KELLAR ◆ the quality of life for Dallas/Fort Worth Three- 15, 2007. He joins Will, live in Pella, IA, with lung transplant recipients Day Breast Cancer Walk 8. They live in Leawood, their children, Molly, 10, and their families. He is in honor of her North- KS. and Jay, 2. Eric teaches the radio voice of the St. west college roommate Duane and Sara and coaches at Eddyville and best friend, Meredith Louis Rams and KMOV- McClelland (’94) Havard Blakesburg High School, Foster Petrick ’93, who TV sports director. live in Erie, PA, with their and Michelle is the was diagnosed with breast two children, Garrett 1989 director of counseling cancer in 2006. Todd Lockhart and Dylan. Duane is the services at Central College is general manager of executive director for the in Pella. Dawn Foods in Mexico, French Creek Council

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1993 Robert and Meghan Anthony Robinson Center. Her husband, Cavalier (’98, ’02) SHEIL ◆ (MASTER’s) sutton moutray mccrea Aaron, is a service adviser is a member of the Kansas announce the birth of will serve at Granger Motors. They City Police Department. William Francis on Nov. as prin- live in Granger, IA. 14. He joins Lauren, 13, cipal of Her daughter is a political Philip Capps science student at the Jonathan, 11, and Ella, Ritenour is a master control University of Missouri- 3. Rob is an engineer for High operator at KRCG-13 in Columbia. Bonded Lightning Protec- School Jefferson City. tion, and Meghan teaches effective Meredith Foster Petrick Jennifer Booth ◆ pre-kindergarten and July 1. He is currently an and her husband, has returned to work coaches junior high cross assistant principal at Pat- Christian, and daugh- as an auditor for the country at St. Joseph’s tonville High School. ter, Campbell, 3, live in Chicago Department of Catholic School. They DOUG SWINK Lincoln, NE. Revenue. live in Stuart, FL. is the registrar at the Rob Rush SHawn Vehe Fisher University of Missouri- and Tara Rowland were and her husband, Quinn, 1995 Kansas City. Contact him married in June 2007 on jeremy gump announce the birth of at [email protected]. Galveston Island, TX. is vice president of human Reese Marie on Dec. 28. Rob teaches speech in resources and administra- Tina Brackett Wood She joins Abby and the Comal Independent tive serves for Daimler is assistant director of new Kaelyn, both 3. Shawn School District. He is Sales and Financial Ser- student and family pro- is a crime analyst for the also the head boys soccer vices in Detroit, MI. grams at Drexel College Omaha Police Depart- in Philadelphia, PA. coach at Canyon High Richard (master’s ’96) ment. and Kristina Eastep (’96) Becky Wynne Schommer School. They live in New John hopper Jr. Hansen ◆ Braunfels, TX. and her husband, Mike, is working at the Metro live in Gretna, NE. announce the birth of Disability Commission of Richard is the human 1994 Meah Grace on Oct. Louisville, KY. CHAD BRINTON resources manager at 25. She joins Anna, 4, (master’s ’00) Melissa Clark Miller ConAgra Foods. and Katy, 2. Becky is a is the assistant principal (master’s ’02) Brian Hesse stay-at-home mom, and at Park Hill High School and her husband, Mi- and his wife, Holly, an- Mike is a district manager and will be an assistant chael, announce the birth nounce the adoption of for US Bank. They live in principal at the new of Nicholas Michael on Jaxon on Nov. 17. Brian Nashville, TN. Staley High School in April 5, 2007. He joins is a global account man- Blake, 6, and Katie, 3. Kansas City North. He ager at Ryerson Inc. in 1996 was a teacher at Park Hill DENISE HOPF ACKERLUND Melissa is a stay-at-home Chicago. After teaching mom, and Michael is vice for three years before music for 10 years, Holly is a psychology assistant at becoming an assistant the Woodward Resource president of Spirit/Miller. is now a full-time mom. They live in St. Joseph. principal for the past four. They live in the north- Jeni Gathercole Rector west suburbs of Chicago. is a copywriter at The Kevin Kooi ◆ Integer Group in Des is a principal in the North Moines, IA. She has Kansas City School worked in corporate com- District. He and his wife, munications for 13 years. Laura, have two children, Jeni and her husband, Kennedy and Keagan. Todd, and daughters, They live in Kearney. Jana and Joy, live in Altoona, IA. Contact her Northwest, originally known at [email protected]. as the Fifth District Normal Mike and Carmen Wendler School, developed an Schaefer agricultural program very live in Ottawa, KS. Mike early, and the farm was is a buyer at Kalmar located northwest of the Industry, and Carmen is present-day Administration the assistant principal and Building. Construction of the barn took place in the late athletic director at Ottawa teens or early ’20s. Middle School.

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Kristi Sweeney Lael Brynn in September. 1998 Lurinda Turner is professor of sport She joins Chase Bryant, Erin Campbell Hudson ◆ has joined the Northwest management at Xavier 3. Mick is a manager in is the outreach planning faculty as an instructor in University in Cincinnati, the Strategic Planning and resource development agriculture. OH. She received her Department at St. John’s director for West Central doctoral degree in 2003 Mercy Hospital, and Eve Community Action in 2000 Justin and Jennifer from the University of is a physician assistant at Harlan, IA. Brannen (’01) Dammann New Mexico. the Chester Clinic. They announce the birth of Lisa Tummel live in Waterloo, IL. 1999 Travis and Jennifer Frisk Jillian Marie on July 21. is an English teacher in Stacy Vandeginste (’04) Jaques Justin and Jennifer farm the Canton City Schools krewson are the owners of near Clarinda, IA, and and her husband, Brian, in Canton, OH. She Enchanted Learning live in Essex, IA. announce the birth of earned a master’s degree Childcare in St. Joseph Erica Monjaraz Daniel Alexander Davis on Aug. in reading from Kent where Jennifer also serves and her husband, Ryan, 11. They live in Kansas State University in May. as director. announce the birth of City. She has three children, Jeff Lukens Jacob Ryan on July 31. Jacob, 12, Cecilia, 2, Jeremy Riedell and Megan Levine were Erica is a hair stylist/col- and his wife, Jessica, an- and Georgia, 1, and was married Sept. 1 and live orist at Thomas Joseph nounce the birth of their expecting her fourth child in Southington, CT. Jeff Studio I in San Diego, adopted son, Andrew in February. graduated from Andover CA. Daniel is a regional Joseph, on Sept. 26. Newton Theological sales director at Barden 1997 Jeremy is a Web coordina- School in May 2007 with Circulation. Kelsey Bredensteiner Blu tor at Pioneer Hi-Bred (master’s ’03) a master’s in divinity and Allison McClain International Inc. and her husband, Tommy is seeking ordination in (master’s ’02) Dull Dow, announce the birth Tausha Caton Taylor and her husband, Greg, (master’s ’05) the United Church of of River Stanley Dow on announce the birth of is a senior counselor for Christ. June 20. Kelsey is a teach- Josiah Gregory on Oct. 8. Missouri Vocational Re- Jodi Nielsen er in the Tarkio School He joins Josie, 3. Allison habilitation in St. Joseph. is a magazine editor at District, and Tommy is Sunshine Media in Scott- is a homemaker, and Marc and Kim Law (’98) Greg is a captain with owner of Dow Construc- Vasquez sdale, AZ. the Kansas City Police tion and Roofing. They announce the adoption of SUSAN SHEETS Department. live in Tarkio. Jakob Marcus on Sept. 5. is a major in the U.S. Air Mick and Eve Mechanic He was born Aug. 9. Force. She is stationed at Megan Foster Edwards Hoover Tinker Air Force Base in and her husband, Ben, announce the birth of Oklahoma. announce the birth of

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Hadley authors book on ill-fated B-29 mission regory Hadley ’87, professor eventually opened up. They need Gof American cultural studies to get this out of their bodies, and at Niigata University of Interna- I was a ‘safe’ person to them.” tional and Information Studies in Written in narrative form, Japan, is the author of the recently “Field of Spears” draws on published book “Field of Spears: recently declassified documents The Last Mission of the Jordan and previously unpublished Crew.” photographs while describing Hadley spent three years the capture and lynching of B-29 researching and writing the story crew members by Japanese civil- of an ill-fated B-29 crew shot ians and the horrific experiences down over Niigata, Japan, in of the survivors. July 1945. His research included In addition, Hadley explores personal interviews with both the tepid efforts of war crimes eyewitnesses and the relatives of villagers who investigators after the war and studies the effect of lived in the countryside near where the plane the incident on both the American survivors and The Culture of Quality is the went down. He also spoke with members of the Japanese villagers, who where all largely forgotten name given to Northwest’s American flight crew who survived the crash and a by their governments. continuous quality improvement harrowing internment as prisoners of war. “By writing this book, I wanted to show program. As the first institution Hadley, who completed the book in June what happens to ordinary people in times of of higher education to practice 2007, said people were initially reluctant to share war. Everyone was reluctant to talk, but they all this form of management, their experiences with him. wanted to be heard,” Hadley said. “At the same Northwest has strengthened “I didn’t look like them,” he said “I was born time, everyone had something to add to this story all aspects of undergraduate in the United States and I look more like the but also something shameful to hide.” and graduate education and people they captured. However, I explained to “Field of Spears” reached the top of the enriched campus living. This them that I had lived in Japan for 15 years, I Amazon.com best-seller list in the Oral History innovative program, which spoke Japanese and I had a Japanese wife. They category. n remains unique among the nation’s colleges and universi- ties, was introduced to the Avery Clare on Sept. 24. Kyle Hansen Kristin Schmaljohn Little Sarah Thomas Megan is an eighth-grade is employed at Hertz and her husband, Nathan, and Jose Cepeda were University by President Dr. teacher at Antioch Middle Farm Management in announce the birth of married Oct. 21, 2006. Dean L. Hubbard when he School in the North Kan- Nevada, IA. He previ- John Russell on April 24, She ran her sixth and became Northwest’s ninth pres- sas City School District. ously was assistant vice 2007. Kristin is a stay-at- seventh marathons last ident in 1984. Since that time, Ben is employed at Uhlig president for Peoples home mom, and Nathan fall in Minneapolis and the University has received Trust & Savings Bank in is an electronics instructor New York City. She ran LLC in Overland Park, state, national and international KS. They live in Kansas Jefferson, IA. for the U.S. Coast Guard. the NYC marathon for recognition as both a pioneer City. Nicole Fuller Knowles They live in Petaluma, Team Hole in the Wall, and practitioner of quality. n NEAL GRAY (master’s) and her husband, Ryan, CA. which supports Hole in has joined Gertsema live in Treynor, IA. Nicole AMY WEEKLY RAPP the Wall Gang Camp for Wealth Services as a is an RN in the Neonatal (master’s ‘02) children with cancer and Raymond James financial Intensive Care Unit at the and her husband, Jacob, other life-threatening service wealth associate in Nebraska Medical Center. announce the birth of illnesses. She is a music St. Joseph. He previously She also is a member Nolan Michael. Amy teacher at St. John’s Epis- worked in sales at Brown of the Treynor Fire and teaches in the Smithville copal School and lives in Manschreck and human Rescue squad. Ryan is a School District, and Jacob Columbia, MD. resources management at body shop technician at teaches in the Liberty Gray Manufacturing. He Kenworth of Omaha. School District. They live is a registered state invest- in Liberty. ment adviser.

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Burton Taylor Kimberly Burkemper Scott Graf Bryon Rankin is a media relations man- and Shawn Pinto were was named the North is president and CEO ager at Shook, Hardy & mar- Carolina Radio Journalist of Dynamic Cleaning Bacon working to support ried of the Year by the Radio Systems Inc., which he the public relations needs Nov. Television News Directors founded in 2005. He lives of the firm’s nine of- 25 in Association of the Caro- in Miramar Beach, FL. fices in the United States, Old linas. He is a host and Donovan spears London and Geneva. He Mon- reporter for WFAE Public is employed with the previously was a govern- roe. Kimberly is a physi- Radio in Charlotte, NC. Kansas City Fire Depart- ment relations director/ cian assistant specializing Christopher Harper ment. lobbyist for the University in surgical oncology at is a personal security Justin Tyler ◆ of Missouri System. He Georgia Breast Care. specialist with the office and Julie Jacobusse were lives in Kansas City. Shawn is a physician as- of the chief information married sistant specializing in gen- officer for the FBI in Aug. 2001 eral surgery at Advanced Washington, D.C. George (master’s ’02) and 24 in Julee Paltani (’99) Booth Surgical Group. They live Joy McCallister Leawood, announce the birth of An- in Atlanta, GA. is a fifth-grade teacher in KS. thony George on Aug. 26. Carrie Cleland Nevada, MO. Justin He joins Sebastian, 3, and and Jason Fishner were Katie Phillips Novak is a fire- Dominic, 1. George is a married Oct. 7. Carrie welcomed a daughter, fighter/paramedic for the finance director for Supe- earned a master’s in higher Maggie, in August. Katie City of Lenexa, KS, Fire rior Chevrolet in Shawnee education administration is a labor relations attor- Department. Julie is a Mission, KS, and Julee last year from SUNY Al- ney for Union Pacific in personal banker at Hill- is a stay-at-home mom. bany. They live and work Omaha, NE. crest Bank in Overland They live in Raymore. in upstate New York. Park, KS. They live in Platte City. Barbecue buddies succeed at ‘Blowin’ Smoke’ here is no secret sauce that Smoke, has competed throughout the Midwest TP.J. Amys ’92 uses when his grilling chicken, pork ribs, pork shoulder and beef barbecue team enters a competition. brisket on a 7-foot-long custom-built pit. But, It’s all in the rub. sticking with tradition, the team also puts their A special blend of seasonings has original Weber kettle grill that started it all to contributed to Amys and his cooking good use. comrades winning plenty of prize Preparing for each barbecue competition is a money as well as a unique cooker lot more time consuming than “cookin’ with gas.” they fondly refer to as “The Big “It takes a full day before the event to prepare Green Egg.” for any barbecue competition,” Amys said. “We Ten years ago, while sharing stories usually show up on a Friday afternoon to start of their individual grilling successes, trimming and seasoning the meat with our home- Amys’ father-in-law encouraged him, made rubs. We hang out until about 10 o’clock, his dad, Pete Amys, and his friend Jeff and then we start putting the larger pieces of meat Thompson ’92 to enter a barbecue on the smoker.” competition he was organizing. The Amys said the barbecue competitions have men took him up on the offer, and become a family affair. After bragging to each other about their grilling successes, Jeff they have been serving up the barbecue ever since. “It’s something that we can all do and enjoy Thompson, Pete Amys and P.J. “It started out strictly for fun because we didn’t together,” he said. “My wife, Chris (Pavalis ’98), Amys decided to join forces to have high expectations for ourselves. We were usually turns in our entries to the judges so we create Omaha’s Blowin’ Smoke showing up with little Weber kettle grills,” Amys can start to prepare for the next entry. The overall barbecue team. said. “Then, after we started winning some prize support and encouragement from our wives and money, our expectations changed quite a bit.” friends are always a big help.” n Amys and his barbecue team, Omaha’s Blowin’

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10 things I learned about living in the dorms Always take the trash out and do the dishes or met some of my closest friends that way. 1 you will get fruit flies. Heather Lucy, senior Elizabeth Nunn, sophomore I learned to appreciate my dorm and its Do your laundry often or you will find 7 memories because they may mark it for 2 yourself in the basement laundry room for demolition the following year. I will always hours upon hours. remember you Hudson Hall. Jessica Nance, sophomore Seth Euler, senior The true meaning of dorm is Dirty Old What I have learned from living in the 3 Room of Mine. This holds true for even the 8 dorms is that it’s a great way to meet neatest of neat freaks come finals week. people. Don’t just hide in your room. Keep Michelle Richardson, senior your door open. If you’re going to throw a party, make sure Katie Warman, sophomore 4 you’re quiet. Make friends with the R.A.’s. I learned that the furniture, especially You’ll get in less trouble if you do. 9 your bed and closet, are very hard to When she lived in the dorms, Brice Ball, senior move by yourself. Try to get a strong man to help Jessica Nance, who now lives in I’ve learned not to leave laundry hanging in and a really good soft hammer to fix your bed. the apartments on campus, learned Beth Oates, senior the importance of doing laundry as 5 the hallway to dry because people will steal often as possible. your Victoria’s Secret underwear. I learned choosing to live with someone Tracie Giaccetti, junior 10 random is better than living with a close A good way to make friends is by getting in friend. Not only do you get to meet people who 6 one of those moving bins and having some- live on your floor, you get to meet people on your one push you around from door to door meeting buddy’s floor. new people. I did that my freshman year, and I Alex Gore, junior

2002 Crest Ridge School in Conrad Woolsey Jason Daunter Zach Boman Kansas City. He plans to com- was a production assistant and his wife announce pursue a master’s degree pleted on his first Broadway the birth of a son. Zach in political science from his Ph.D. show, “Cyrano de Berger- teaches in the North Kan- the University of Mis- in health ac,” starring Kevin Kline sas City School District. souri-Kansas City. educa- and Jennifer Garner. Heidi Floersch Kristin Watson Wear tion/ Lindsay Geier ◆ and Anthony Vondra and promo- and Ty Pechek were were her tion with an emphasis in married Nov. 17 and live mar- hus- sport psychology at the in Pueblo, CO. Lindsay ried band, University of Missouri- is an MBA director at Sept. James, Columbia. He is an Colorado State Univer- 28 an- assistant professor in the sity-Pueblo, and Ty is a in nounce the birth of psychology department dentist. Omaha, NE. Heidi is in Lillian on May 21, 2007. at Lincoln University in Leslie Lober marketing for the Vail Kristin is a program Jefferson City. and Mike Smith were Resorts Development manager at Sprint, and married July 23 in 2003 Company, and Anthony James works at Chrysler Daniel Ayala Gatlinburg, TN. Leslie is is a dentist. They live in Financial. They live in is associate director of employed at Smith Broth- Dillon, CO. Overland Park, KS. U.S. university relations ers Farm and Logging, Zach smith ◆ for Golden Key Interna- and Mike is the co-owner coaches football and tional Honor Society in of Smith Brothers Farm teaches social studies at Atlanta, GA. and Logging.

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Northwest alum talks travel as Orbitz spokesperson eanenne Diefendorf ’98 has the inside scoop Good Morning America Radio, Wall Street Jwhen it comes to travel. And as the Orbitz Journal Radio, CBS Radio Network and local Travel Insider, when she talks, people television affiliates in major markets across the listen. country such as New York, Chicago and Washing- Diefendorf, who also serves as ton, D.C. She has made appearances on national the Orbitz senior manager for public television shows including Fox News Channel’s relations and company spokesperson, Fox & Friends, The Rachael Ray Show and The said becoming a travel expert was Weather Channel. In addition, her advice and tips something she stumbled on. have been sought and quoted in the Wall Street After graduation, Diefendorf Journal and The New York Times. worked at Edelman Public Relations “My appearance on Rachel Ray’s show really Worldwide in Chicago before joining stands out,” Diefendorf said. “That was a unique the Orbitz team. During her time at and exciting experience because it was a live studio the PR agency, she interacted with audience, and it was a really fun atmosphere.” many online travel and technology At Orbitz, Diefendorf, who lives in Chicago, clients through whom she gained spends much of her time “conducting research” expertise in the field. It wasn’t long – in other words, traveling. Fortunately it’s a job before she parlayed that experience responsibility she thoroughly enjoys. Jeanenne Diefendorf uses her public relations skills and travel into a new career in the travel industry. “It’s the nature of the business. I travel at least expertise to serve as the company Diefendorf regularly appears as a travel expert once a week,” she said. “It’s nice because I’ve been spokesperson for Orbitz, a leading on broadcast outlets including MSNBC, ESPN, to some great destinations.” n online travel company.

TREVOR and Jessica Miesner assistant football coach. He senior benefits specialist at Cody and Joanne Burkert (’03, ’04) McGINNIS then moved to Winnetonka Lincoln Financial Group, (’99, ’06) Snapp were as an assistant principal and Bodie owns Dostal’s live in Queens Village, mar- and was named activities Construction. They live in NY. Cody is director of ried coordinator in 2000. South Bend, NE. publications at Molloy Col- June lege, and Joanne is assistant Matthew Rose Kodi (master’s ’04) and 9 in graduated from the Uni- Amanda Schmuck (’04) director of admissions at Calfee Coon versity of Missouri-Kansas the New York College of announce the birth of Rapids, IA. Trevor is a City Law School, passed Podiatric Medicine. Their Noah Robert on Aug. 7. loan officer at Wells Fargo the bar and is in private daughter, Sylvia, was born Kodi is a fund account- Financial, and Jessica is a practice in Kansas City. in May 2007. senior underwriter at Allied ing analyst at Fidelity Stacy Therriault Amanda Shaffer Insurance. They live in Investments, and Amanda and Terry Mykins were is a case manager for the Johnston, IA. is a paralegal. They live in Nebraska Department of married Aug. 4 in Kansas Bedford, TX. Mark Mundell (specialist) City. Amanda is obtain- Corrections. is the activities coordinator Jered Weber ing elementary education 2004 and assistant principal at certification from Avila ian Dunlap is the Sioux County assis- Winnetonka High School University, and Terry is is chief of staff for State tant prosecutor in Orange and will be an assistant employed at Overland Park Sen. Wes Shoemyer. City, IA. principal at the new Staley Jeep. They live in Overland Jennifer Cooper Jensen William Spiking and Stella Wolfe (’06) High School in Kansas Park, KS. and her husband, Brandon, City North. Mark’s primary were married Sept. 29 in Abby Simpson announce the birth of role will be overseeing all Lee’s Summit. William is is working in the Missouri Kolton William on Nov. athletic and extracurricular a GIS specialist at Tetra Attorney General’s office in 12. Jennifer is in loan activities at Staley High. He Tech EM Inc. in Kansas Kansas City. operations at Nodaway taught science at Oak Park City, and Stella is a claim Amy West Valley Bank, and Brandon High School from 1986 representative at State Farm and Bodie Dostal were is self-employed in home to 1992 and also served as Insurance in Independence. married June 22. Amy is a construction. They live in head wrestling coach and Maryville.

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Jeanenne Diefendorf shares her knowledge on how to travel hassle-free.

If you can’t risk losing the contents of your Don’t just label the outside of your bag. 1 checked baggage, mail items to your destination 5 Include a card with your name and address instead. Make sure to insure the contents, and use a inside in case the outside tag gets torn off. trackable service such as FedEx or UPS. Hotel weekend packages are a best kept E-mail yourself. Before you go, always e-mail 6 secret. People often are amazed at what kind 2 yourself a copy of all the important informa- of a deal they can get by staying over a weekend tion such as airline numbers, credit card phone in cities like New York, San Francisco or Chicago. numbers, passport and drivers license numbers. That Downtown might be for business Monday through way if your documents or wallet are lost or stolen, all Friday, but on the weekend these hotels are cater- you need to do is log on to access all your details. ing to the leisure crowd. These are hotels that are Check alternate airports. You can score on normally full of business travelers but have good 3 almost every front – parking, rental cars, availability during the weekend. traffic to and from, nearby hotels – and save both For parents, while you can’t bring the bed- time and money. 7 room with you, be sure to bring along some Flexible travelers almost always save more. of the comforting items that will help your child 4 If traveling to leisure destinations, midweek relax and feel at home. Consider some of your child’s packages are typically cheaper. Look for Tuesday or easy-to-pack items: pillow, favorite stuffed animal Wednesday departures. and books for bedtime stories. n

2005 ashley littlejohn in Kansas City. Brett at Central High School in Lina Barber has entered law school at is a financial analyst at the Omaha Public School Bookmark it is entering a master’s the University of Kansas. Hallmark Cards, and System. Ryan is an inven- program in human Sammy panettiere Collette teaches health in tory specialist at Hy-Vee. Visit Northwest resources management at is a staff assistant for U.S. the North Kansas City They live in Omaha, NE. on the Web at Tarleton State University Sen. Christopher Bond. School District. They live Suzie Schuckman www.nwmissouri.edu in Killeen, TX. He works out of the in Kansas City. is a pursuing a master’s Bret (master’s ’07) and Kansas City office. Lydia Dombrowski degree in English from Kristi Girard Deardorff Jordan Orscheln is pursuing a master’s Northwest. announce the birth of has returned from teach- degree in counseling and Brody Everett on Oct. 10. ing in China and lives in therapy at Bellevue Uni- 2007 Jamie Campbell Bret is a direct support Hudson, FL. versity in Omaha, NE. coordinator at Mosaic, is pursuing a master’s Jason Greene degree at the University of and Kristi is a vocational 2006 is a social studies teacher rehabilitation counselor at Ross Crouch and Natalie Missouri-St. Louis. Blanchard in the Raytown School Emily Heidbreder Stricklett and Associates. District and is pursu- were married Oct. 13 in is a first-year student at They live in Omaha, NE. ing a master’s degree in North Kansas City. Ross St. Louis Law School. Philip and Randa is a bank examiner at the political science from the Brunkhorst (’04, ’05) Doty Jonathan Lowrey University of Missouri- were married Nov. 17 Federal Reserve Bank in is employed with Phi Kansas City. in Fayette. Philip is the Kansas City, and Natalie Sigma Kappa national Patrick Hunt agriculture instructor in is a student progress rep- fraternity. resentative at Grantham is an investigator at Baty, the Northeast Nodaway Aubre Morin University in Kansas City. Holm & Numrich P.C. in School District, and and Gregory Biermann Kansas City. Randa is an ag busi- Brett Clemens and were married June 2 Collette McQuillen (’07) Michelle Marquis ness specialist with the in Craig. Aubre works were and Ryan Vulgamott University of Missouri at MFA, and Greg is mar- were married June 15, Extension. They live in employed at Hiawatha ried 2007, in Columbus, NE. Maryville. Implement. June 1 Michelle is a math teacher

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In Memoriam Gladys Miller Baker ’40 Alina Bostic ’01 Richard Dempsey ’41 Billy Groom ’55, ’60 89, died in October in 30, died Oct. 8 in Kansas 87, died April 2, 2007, died Oct. 1 in Raytown. Grand Rapids, MI. She City. in San Antonio, TX. He He retired in 1990 as an was a physical education Kenneth Clower ’70 served in the Army for elementary principal in teacher at Central High 59, died Sept. 26 in St. more than 31 years and the Kansas City School School in St. Joseph from Joseph. He worked at was an administrator of District. 1952 until her retirement Friskies Pet Care in St. nursing homes in Texas TIMOTHY HARTNETT ’80 in 1978. Joseph for more than 30 for more than 20 years. died Dec. 15. Veronica Rose Fisher years. Eugene French ’48 DONALD HARVEY ’56 Barmann John cracraft ’60 84, died July 18 in 88, died Feb. 28, 2007, 99, died Jan. 8 in 77, died Aug. 25 in Huntsville, AL. He was in Independence. He was Maryville. She taught Bayonet Point, FL. He a retired Air Force officer an ordained minister in in one-room schools in taught industrial arts in with 23 years of service. the Community of Christ Buchanan County. Melcer, IA, for four years He also was a juvenile Church. Irma LEHMAN Beuerman ’68 and was with the Marion counselor for the Mobile Daniel Higdon ’70 died Aug. 2. She retired Independent School County Juvenile Court. (master’s) in 1990 from Montana District for 27 years, 13 as Madeleine Mongold 65, died Nov. 11. He spent Tech. She and her hus- an industrial arts teacher Gillis ’60, ’90 20 years teaching and band operated a chemical and then as director of 69, died Oct. 9 in Mound coaching boys basketball consulting business for 14 buildings and grounds. City. She spent 35 years and track. He was a finan- years before their retire- He retired in 1991. of her 42-year teaching cial planner and training ment in 2004. career in the Mound City consultant at the Principal School District. Financial Group. You can make a difference — The Northwest Annual Fund — Your gift to the Northwest Annual Fund helps recruit and retain the finest faculty.

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Frances Inscho Panora High School for James Mullin ’60 Elaine Thompson Piel ’49 Let us know Hirtler ’49 42 years. 69, died Feb. 7 in West 80, died Aug. 29. She 87, died Dec. 9 in St. If you learn of the death of a Mary JO McGee ’39 Des Moines, IA. He re- taught from 1945 to Northwest graduate, please Joseph. She taught 35 90, died Sept. 23 in Lee’s tired as a mortgage banker 1954 at the Jones Branch, submit in writing or via years in the Agency and Summit. She taught for from Norwest Mortgage. Swallow, Swinford St. Joseph school districts. 40 years and retired from Alma Murrell Oldfield ’55 and Lincoln schools in news clipping the name of William F. Humphrey ’57 the Kansas City School died Aug. 30 in Jackson, Nodaway County and the deceased (and maiden 72, died Dec. 4 in Clear- District in 1978. MS. was a homemaker. name, if appropriate), mont. He and his brother Damon Owen ’00 Robert McQuerry ’67 Berniece Laughlin year(s) of graduation from ran Clearmont Oil and 67, died Aug. 18 in Cam- 30, died Oct. 13 in Kan- Wohlford ’45, ’72 Cafe and Humphrey sas City after a four-year 87, died Dec. 20 in Northwest, date of death, eron. He was a teacher, age, city of death, city of Hardware. counselor and school battle with cancer. He was Maryville. She taught residence and a brief listing Clara Allen Lucht ’43 administrator for 37 years a project manager at MJ elementary school for 27 85, died May 25 in in Missouri. Harden/GE Energy. years in the Maryville of accomplishments. In Panora, IA. She taught at R-II School District. addition, submit your rela- tionship to the deceased and your daytime telephone Former president Dr. Robert Foster dies at 90 number to the Office r. Robert P. Foster, Northwest’s seventh of University Advance- Dpresident, died March 10 at his home in ment, 800 University Dr., Kansas City. He was 90. Maryville, MO 64468-6001, Foster served as University president from fax to (660) 562-1990 or 1964 until his retirement in 1977, when he was e-mail alumni@nwmissouri. named president emeritus. His wife, Virginia edu. No pictures please. Mutz Foster, survives of the home. The couple Submissions may be edited lived in Maryville following Foster’s retirement for length and clarity. until moving to Kansas City about two years ago. Foster attended public schools in Warrens- burg and what is now the University of Central Missouri, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1939. He was a teacher, coach and high school principal at During his years as president, Foster led efforts Carrollton High School from 1939 until 1942. to expand the campus by acquiring land and At the beginning of World War II, Foster was building new facilities. He was instrumental in working on a master’s degree at the University of Share your favorite securing nearly $15 million for capital improve- Missouri-Columbia but left to join the U.S. Navy. Dr. Foster story today. ments and in the creation of the Northwest He served from 1941 until 1945 in the North E-mail your remembrance Foundation. Atlantic and Caribbean theaters of operation, of Dr. Foster to alumni@ Construction projects completed during rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. nwmissouri.edu. Several Foster’s administration included the Garrett- After the war, the Fosters moved to Maryville, of the submissions will be Strong Science Building; the Olive DeLuce Fine where they purchased the E.L Townsend Grocery included in the next issue of Arts Building; four high-rise residence halls; a Co., which Foster operated until 1948, when he the Northwest Alumni Maga- major expansion of the J.W. Jones Student Union, was named registrar and director of admissions at zine. Others will be posted the Donald N. Valk Building and the Memorial Northwest. He resumed his studies and completed at www.nwmissouri. Bell Tower. his master’s in education in 1951. edu/alumni, the Northwest One of Foster’s most significant achievements Foster served as registrar at Northwest from Web site for alumni and at Northwest was his leading role in securing 1948 to 1959 and received his doctorate in educa- friends. funding for the establishment of KXCV/KRNW tion from the University of Missouri-Columbia in radio, the University’s 100,000-watt public radio 1960. He was Northwest’s dean of administration station. from 1959 until his appointment as president in In 1981, the University’s Robert P. Foster 1964. Aquatic Center was named in his honor. n

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