OTTERBEIN • COLLEGE

Fall, 2006

Ground Zero photography by Joel Meyerowitz “When I made my way home to New York several days later (after 9/11), the first thing I did was go downtown. Standing in the crowds at the perimeter five blocks north of the zone, I raised my camera simply to see what could be seen and was reminded by a police officer that I was standing in a crime scene and no photographs were allowed, so I left. Yet, within a few blocks the echo of that reminder turned into consciousness and I saw what I had to do. To me, no photographs meant no history. I decided at that moment that I would find my way in and make an archive for the City of New York.”

~ Joel Meyerowitz (story on page 12) Features C ontents Otterbein’s Fiscal 2006 Report 7 A recap of the previous fiscal year for VOLUME 79 • NUMBER 4 the College. Fall 2006 Inside the Forbidden City 12 Joel Meyerowitz photographed Ground Zero extensively in the days following 9/11. Now his exhibit is coming to Otterbein.

Speech & Theatre Turns 100 18 For 100 years, the Otterbein Theatre program has been producing memorable productions. Regulars

College News 2 • Dept. of Art has a New Home ~ 2 • New Residence Hall for Sophomores ~ 4 President of the College • Brent DeVore H’86 • Phonathon gets a Permanent Home ~ 5 Vice President for Institutional Advancement • Rick Dorman • Good News about IRAs ~ 5 Director of Alumni Relations • Becky Fickel Smith ’81 • Otterbein again Ranked High Academically ~ 6 Executive Director of Mktg. & Communications • Jennifer Slager Pearce ’87 Editor/Designer • Roger Routson Classnotes 22 Asst. Editor/Communications Coordinator • Jenny Hill ’05 • Profile: This alumnus went digital Photographer • Ed Syguda a long time ago ~ 23 Email: Classnotes and Milestones: [email protected] • Profile: Alumna walking “on air” Editor: [email protected] with dream job ~ 31

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Cover photo “North Wall” © Joel Meyerowitz /Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery/NY. See story and more photos on page 12. 1 C OLLEGE N EWS

compiled by Jenny Hill

On Sept. 14, the ribbon was cut on the new Leslie H. and Ethyl Rose Miller Gallery, located at 33 Collegeview Rd., which now houses the College’s Department of Art.

Open House Features Ribbon Cutting of New Miller Gallery Department of Art Has New Home

he Otterbein College Department of Art has officially throughout the year for the entire campus to experience, Tmoved into its new home at 33 Collegeview Rd. in West - including Inside the Forbidden City , an exhibition of Ground erville. An open house was held on Sept. 14 to introduce the Zero by photographer Joel Meyerowitz (see page 12). new facilities to the public and present The Leslie H. and The Miller Gallery provides a superb exhibition space Ethyl Rose Miller Gallery. for nationally and regionally known professional artists. In Approximately 115 art majors now use 19,500 square addition, senior art majors present two-person exhibitions in feet of the building. Renovations cost $1.1 million for the the gallery throughout the spring term. A sophisticated light - Department of Art, and additional space in the building is ing grid and large windows will help light the exhibitions. still under renovation which will be used by the Department In addition to the new gallery, the building features of Communication beginning in fall 2007. numerous specialized classrooms and studios. In addition to the art majors, education majors are tak - The printmaking studio is designed for intaglio and ing art methods courses in the new building, and many non- relief printmaking process. The studio includes two intaglio art students also are enrolled in art history and studio courses presses including a new press with a large bed of 30 x 50 offered by the department. The Leslie H. and Ethyl Rose inches. A separate work room allows for the etching of cop - Miller Gallery, located in the building, will feature exhibitions per and zinc plates.

2 Photos from top left: Guests at the dedication of Miller Gallery examine some of the works from Nicholas Hill’s exhibit, The Tokyo & Kyoto Portfolios . Depart - ment Chair Nicholas Hill, center, greets guests at the Art Department’s open house. Helen Spears, Art Department Professor Joanne Stichweh ’67 and Kelly McAdams Reichert ’92 assisted in the ribbon cutting ceremonies for the Miller Gallery.

The art history classroom has the tablets and two computer stations standard technology including slide dedicated to scanning and printing. projectors, VCR, DVD, Internet and Both labs include wide format inkjet projection capabilities. printers allowing students to create The expansive drawing studio has large pieces of art work. These spa - flexible spaces for large scale drawings. cious labs also include track lighting The drawing course sequence offers along critique walls. and two track-lighted critique walls. In fundamental observational drawing, The photography area offers addition, three Macintosh computers figure drawing and contemporary course work in traditional film-based outfitted with inkjet printers and film drawing options. processes, 19th century non-silver scanners will be used by students in the Visual Communications I and processes and digital photography. beginning digital, advanced color and Package Design will be taught in studio The new large darkroom facility black and white photography classes, 126. The facility includes individual includes two separate film processing and will also serve those students drawing stations for composing hand rooms and an alternative process lab engaged in independent study or typography, a large flat surface that that can also be used for advanced advanced studio hours in photography. doubles as a construction and assembly studio or independent study hours by A 3-D studio enables art educa - area for packaging concepts and a con - individual students. This lab is tion laboratory activities and classes ference table to discuss creative strate - equipped with one enlarger station, in three dimensional design and gies and critique concepts. UV light source vacuum table for old sculpture. Studio 122 will provide space for processes and a large stainless steel The ceramics studio offers a wide teaching 2-D design. This facility sink. The spacious main darkroom variety of opportunities in the field of includes movable work stations, cri - includes eight individual enlarging ceramic art. The glaze and clay tique area and storage for student stations and a long stainless steel pho - kitchen features a professional series projects. tographic print developing sink in the solder mixer as well as the materials Macintosh computer graphics center of the lab, allowing students and equipment to create a wide variety labs, located in adjoining rooms A103 efficient access from either side. of clays and glazes. Electric and and A104, primarily serve the areas of The lecture component of pho - down-draft gas kilns, as well as a natur - computer art, photography and visual tography course work is taught pri - al gas raku kiln, give students the communications. Each smart technol - marily in the critique/clean space, opportunity to explore a range of kiln- ogy equipped lab has Internet access located directly across from the dark - firing environments and techniques. and includes a computerized digital room facility. This multi-function The open, spacious classroom studio projection instructor station, 16 indi - space is equipped with folding chairs, provides sufficient space to create vidual computer stations, drawing work tables, large projection screen sculptural and vessel-form ceramic

3 pieces using both hand-building and for both education majors who will or stands on its own and can be seen wheel-thrown techniques. become classroom teachers and for art from several points of view. Here stu - A painting studio is subdivided majors who plan to teach art in an dents will be able to explore forming into 15 semi-private work spaces. A experimental laboratory. Students can art in sculpture materials like wood, unique feature is that each student has develop their own art making skills as wire, and plaster. In the spring term his or her individual studio for the they put together teaching samples sculpture students will cast work in entire term; this feature, while com - they will use in student teaching. resin, rubber and glass. mon in graduate schools, is unusual at This experimental laboratory is In all, the new space promises to the undergraduate level. designed for work in three dimensions, promote creative and exciting work by Art education courses are offered which is work that exists ‘in the round’ Otterbein students.

New Residence Hall Designed for Sophomores Otterbein College has added a new home for students to campus this fall. Known as The Suites, the new residence hall is located in the heart of the campus north of the Campus Center and east of Memorial Stadium. The new residence hall is a $9.7 million, three-story, suite-style build - ing that houses 174 students. The residence hall features kitchen facili - ties, a computer lab and a laundry room. The entire building is air-con - ditioned. Students have semi-private bathrooms, with a maximum of four students to a bathroom. There are also 12 single rooms in the building with private bathrooms. The build - ing features a modern floor plan for the needs of today’s students. According to Vice President for Student Affairs Bob Gatti, “This is the first residence hall specifically designed for sophomore students. It p h gives us the opportunity to focus on o t o the sophomore experience and pro - s b y vides an outstanding option for sec - A m y

ond year students,” he said, adding, F e l l “The addition of 174 beds gets the e r ’ 0

college closer to our strategic goal for 7 housing at least 60 percent of our stu - dents on campus.”

The Suites, the new residence hall opened this fall, features semi-private bathrooms, with a maximum of four students to a bathroom.

4 Phonathon Students Get a Room of their Own

Otterbein’s student Phonathon “The great thing about the space is The new space ties in with the callers began work Sept. 17 in a room that it is a permanent home for the overall atmosphere of the Campus completely renovated to accommodate program” said Annie Boehm, assistant Center. The room features a large table a modern call center. director of the Annual Fund. “Before, for meetings or homework; students The room, which is in the base - we had to set up shop in a meeting feel welcome even when they are not ment of the Campus Center, features room in Roush Hall, putting up all the calling for the Annual Fund. “It’s great 10 calling stations. equipment, and three hours later we’d to finally have a place the student be tearing it down.” callers can settle into and be produc - tive,” Boehm said.

Above : Returning phonathon caller Trevor Fruth ’06 works with new caller Ashley Gregg ’10. Right: Student phonaton callers pose on the Towers plaza. Good News about Your IRA Every Donation Helps! For your convenience we have Congress passed the Pension • Gifts to foundations or donor- included an Annual Fund reply enve - Protection Act in August that will advised funds are not allowed. lope in this issue of Towers. Please allow, for the first time, donors to roll As with any gift to Otterbein use this envelope to mail in your Annu - over funds in their IRAs directly to College, you may designate al Fund gift and/or pledge payment. charity. The law expires December your IRA gift for a specific The Annual Fund provides necessary 31, 2007, so this is a great time to take purpose. dollars to help Otterbein: advantage of this temporary measure, Any amount rolled over to chari - passed to encourage charitable giving. ty will NOT be added to your income • renovate buildings Some basic rules to qualify: for the year, so your tax bracket for • finance student activities • The donor must be age 70 1/2 social security payments will not be • buy and upgrade technology or older at the time of the gift. affected, and you do not have to • provide faculty development • Rollovers of up to $100,000 worry about itemizing deductions. A opportunities per year are allowed, without rollover to charity will count toward • purchase library books tax penalty, and any gift your mandatory annual distribution • provide student scholarships amount will count toward as well. your mandatory distribution The custodian of your account To learn more about the Annual for the year. can supply you with the necessary Fund visit our website at www.otter - • The rollover cannot be used to paperwork. For more information, bein.edu/giving/annual_fund.asp or purchase charitable gift annu - contact Carolyn Williams in Planned call Jennifer Westbrook ’01, director ities, be placed in an income Giving toll-free at 888-614-2600 or of Annual Giving, at (614) 823-1948 generating trust, or otherwise 614-823-1400. or [email protected] for addi - generate income for you, the As always, thank you for sup - tional information or to learn how you donor. It must be available to porting your alma mater.
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5 U. S. News and World Report’s 2007 Guide to America’s Best Colleges Once Again, Otterbein Highly Ranked

In the U.S. News and World in Ohio, reflecting Otterbein’s reputa - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Report’s 2007 Guide to America’s Best tion for providing personal attention North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebras - Colleges , Otterbein College is ranked to its students. ka, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri for this seventh among the Midwest’s 107 According to the guide, Compre - honor. The rankings are based on 15 Comprehensive Colleges. hensive Colleges are “institutions that measures of “academic excellence,” This year, Otterbein ranked first focus on undergraduate education which fall into seven categories, with in its assessment by peer colleges and offer a range of degree programs peer assessment being the most among the 15 Ohio colleges in its cat - in the liberal arts, which account for important. Other categories include egory and second in the Midwest. fewer than half of their bachelor’s retention rates, faculty resources, stu - In addition, Otterbein had the degrees, and in professional fields dent selectivity, financial resources, second highest average graduation such as business, nursing and educa - graduation rate performances and rate among Ohio colleges in its cate - tion.” alumni giving rates. For a more gory and eighth in the Midwest. Its Otterbein competed with 107 detailed report, visit student to faculty ratio was the lowest colleges from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, www.usnews.com. Volleyballers Net Team Academic Award Otterbein’s Women’s Volleyball Team, for the sixth straight year, earned the Game Plan/AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2005-06 academic year. The award, initiated in 1993 by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), honors college and high school teams that display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. The Otterbein team, under eighth-year head coach Sharon Sexton, achieved a 3.659 average for the year, including a 3.637 while in season last fall. Thirteen women played volleyball for Otterbein in 2005-06. Forty-four teams from NCAA Division III made the list. “The Game Plan/AVCA Team Academic Award is what being a student-athlete is all about. The AVCA is privileged to once again be able to award these schools for their excellence in the classroom,” AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer said. “We congrat - ulate the student-athletes, coaches and school personnel for achieving this honor and upholding the delicate balance between academics and athletics.” Golfers on a Roll in the Classroom The Otterbein College men’s and women’s golf programs have been ranked in the top 25 across all NCAA divisions by Golf Digest in its “Academic First” rankings, which appear in Golf Digest ’s September 2006 issue. The men’s golf program was ranked 14th while the women’s program checked in at 22. Golf Digest rated 772 men’s and 500 women’s college golf programs across the coun - try based upon academics, player growth, scoring average, climate and coaches and facilities. “It’s a great compliment to Otterbein College to have both our men’s and women’s golf programs recognized for their academic achievement,” said Thomas Stein, Otterbein vice president for enrollment. “We strive as an institution to blend ath - letics and extra-curricular activities into the academic program.” The academics section received a 58 percent weight and was based on the figures from U.S. News and World Report’s Guide to America’s Best Colleges . The team-adjusted scoring average weighted 14 percent and included the last four seasons. In that time, the Cardinal men’s and women’s teams each won four Ohio Athletic Conference championships. For more information about the ranking and to see the survey, visit www.golfdi - gest.com/collegeguide/.

6 A Look Back and a Look Ahead: 2005-2006 Report Message from the President

Each fall, I look back at our accomplishments and look ahead to impractical, but there are variations on that our future. Recently I have been reflecting on the “health” of theme that can work for Otterbein. Personal Otterbein as we move through the 2006-07 academic year, interaction with those from other cultures and I’ve concluded that our “health” is very good to excellent. hastens understanding and acceptance, Let me cite five reasons: and understanding and acceptance of oth - ers is something our world needs greatly. 1. OUR LOCATION Let us begin with our students. A few years ago I happened upon a history of the College written in the 1870’s that stated “Otterbein is located in West - 4. A STRONG ACADEMIC PROGRAM erville, 12 miles from the known sins of Columbus.” Those GROUNDED IN THE LIBERAL ARTS “sins” may or may not have arrived, but Columbus came knock - The strength of our academic program continues to be val - ing two or more decades ago. No one could have predicted idated including recent reviews by the North Central Associa - that 159 years after our founding, central Ohio would become tion, the Ohio Board of Regents, the University Senate of the an education destination for students. While the competition for United Methodist Church, discipline specific accrediting teams students will increase, I am confident that we will meet the chal - and national surveys. The most recent acknowledgment of the lenges by capitalizing on new program opportunities to meet excellence was our number one ranking in Ohio and number our goals for incremental, qualitative growth in both full and part two ranking overall of 107 comparable colleges in the peer time undergraduate and graduate student enrollments. assessment/academic excellence category of the US News and World Report annual survey. The excellence of the acade - 2. OUR HISTORY OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY mic program is the first mark of a substantive educational insti - Otterbein has operated with balanced budgets for 55 con - tution and our dedication to that is unwavering. secutive years while at the same time adding academic and co- curricular programs, funding additional faculty and staff posi - 5. THE QUALITY AND COMMITMENT OF MEMBERS tions and renovating and constructing new facilities across the OF THE OTTERBEIN COMMUNITY (TRUSTEES, campus. This commitment to financial responsibility will be ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF AND FRIENDS) TO OUR tested over the next few years as we work to meet the funding MISSION challenges of several new projects, most important of which is While we do not and should not march lockstep agreeing a much needed, long anticipated multimillion dollar addition and on all issues, there is no doubt in my mind that we all share a renovation to the science facility. common foundational goal—to provide the best possible envi - ronment for substantive teaching and learning to occur. During 3. AN ONGOING COMMITMENT TO STRATEGIC the coming year we need to find more opportunities for both PLANNING formal and informal conversations about the future of the Col - Our last official strategic plan was entitled Vision 2005. It lege. I personally look forward to those conversations and wel - has served us well and this is the year to lay the groundwork for come your thoughts on the appropriate formats. developing a new multi-year strategic plan involving all con - stituencies of the College. As we look to new opportunities, I Thanks for all you do to make Otterbein a great place. Your encourage us to: (1) continue our commitment to diversity continuing support is vital to our future success. across the College in the broadest definition of that term and (2) increase our focus on global learning across the curriculum. Cordially, A required quarter abroad experience for all students may be C. Brent DeVore

September ’05 Academic Year in Review 17th – Otterbein’s Memorial Foot - The academic year of 2005-2006 was a year of progress, change ball Stadium is rededicated. and growth. New facilities were purchased and erected; new staff came on board while others retired; and accolades about the Col - 26th – Dr. Alan Lightman, physi - lege poured in by the dozens. Professors taught; students learned; cist and MIT professor, keynotes and many graduated to follow their passions and make their mark. for the Science Lecture Series. Included is a synopsis of events and news items that were shared in the Tan and Cardinal, @Otterbein (the on campus e-newsletter), 29th – The College is selected reported in the news media, and highlighted in Towers magazine. out of a pool of 100 applicants to be one of 14 institutions nationally to take part in the Association of

7 Fiscal Year 2006: July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006

2.5%

Enrollment 12.0%

Freshmen 630 Transfer students 77 15.0% Masters program 370 20.0% Continuing Studies 457 Returning upperclassmen 1560 and special admissions Total Enrollment: 3,094 50.5%

Cost of an Otterbein Education $28, 986 Traditional students Tuition $22,518 # students from Ohio 2068 Room $2,994 # of students out of state 190 Board $3,474 # of international students 38

* 91% of our full-time students receive some type of financial aid

American Colleges and Universi - Otterbein Col - Olympic Equestrian ter Relief Fund toward Katrina ties project, “Shared Futures: lege Associate Bruce Mandeville joins relief efforts, the proceeds from General Education and Global Professor of the Department of the College’s opening football Learning.” Psychology, Equine Science. game against Defiance on Sept. 3. Noam Robert “Moe” Agler , who Shpancer, receives the second Otterbein College’s Support Staff October ’05 coached the Otterbein football place Rockower Award for Council raises over $3,256 for 22nd – The “O” Club celebrates team from 1955 to 1965 and excellence in opinion writing the American Red Cross Disaster its 50th anniversary. then again from 1970-1974, from the American Jewish Press Relief Fund, and the Cardinals passes away at the age of 81. Association. football team presents a check for An investigation about the status $1,534 to the Red Cross Disas - of a distance learning program

8 Operating Revenue 1%

Tuition & Fees $36,394,335 12% Private Gifts & Grants $967,559 Government Grants $1,502,093 14% Auxiliary Expenses $7,573,314 3% Organized Activities $470,565 Related to Instruction 2% 68% Other $6,466,234

Total Unrestricted Revenues: $53,374,100 2% Operating Expenses

Instruction $22,810,171 18% Academic Support $3,155,692 15% Student Services $6,892,759 10% Public Service $940,210 7% Institutional Support $8,466,244 Auxiliary Enterprises $4,843,278 48% Total Unrestricted Expenses: $47,108,354

Endowment & Similar Funds: $75,490,000 Endowed funds may be restricted for specific purposes. Endowment Earnings support scholarships, awards, program funding, research, faculty development and capital projects.

that took place November ’05 Learning Commission of the Coalition for the Homeless during between 1996 to 2nd – The College North Central Association of Col - the Sleep Out for the Homeless, 2002 in the state of Senate approves a leges and Schools, good through sponsored by Otterbein College Florida concludes new College logo. 2015. The college has as part of Homelessness with a written report received this accreditation Awareness Week. and action steps. 5th – The Otterbein since 1913. New policy and procedures, as women’s soccer team wins its 12th – The Otterbein foot - well as staff adjustments, are second-straight OAC Tournament. 10th – Sleeping in tents ball team, finishing at 7-3, advised by the investigators and on the north lawn of Towers Hall, posts its first winning season implemented by the College 9th – Otterbein receives continu - 11 students raise awareness and since 1999, and only second Board and Administrators. ing accreditation from the Higher $1,300 for the Columbus since 1982.

9 The Otterbein women’s soccer 19th – Otterbein College cele - Candidate and Unit Assess pro - and Dance debuts 42nd Street team advances into the Round of brates the life and accomplish - ject. in The Fritsche Theatre at Cowan 16 of the NCAA Division III Tour - ments of Martin Luther King Jr. Hall. nament and concludes its season with presentations from students, Kate , Otterbein’s first feminist with a school record of 20-1-1. the Otterbein College Gospel ‘zine is created by students with 23rd – Three students are Choir and this year’s key note support from the Women’s Stud - named receipients of the Vernon Dr. Susan Millsap, Chair of the speaker, Dr. Kristal Brent Zooks. ies Program. L. Pack Fellowship. Awards are Communications made to students pur - Department, is February ’06 Otterbein Alumna and suing community ser - awarded the Ohio 16th – Otterbein College Board Trustee Peggy M. vice programs and Forensic Associa - of Trustees unanimously approves Ruhlin ’79 is chosen projects. tion’s Educator of the proposal of building a new to be inducted into the the Year Award. equine science facility on the for - Ohio Foundation of 25th – Center for mer Kilgore property site. Independent Colleges Community Engage - Dr. Glenna Jack - Hall of Excellence. ment hosts 2nd Annu - son, professor of Director of Residence Life Tracy al Poetry Reading religion and phi - Benner receives a Distinguished Otterbein President, through the Creative losophy, and Dr. Simon Service Award. C. Brent DeVore is elected Vice Literacy Alliance among Otter - Lawrance, who specializes in Chair for Investment on the bein, JPMorgan Chase and studying wild mountain gorillas, Junior music major Kyle Williams Board of Directors for the Coun - Genoa Middle School. take nine Senior Year Experience receives the Undergraduate Stu - cil of Independent Colleges. students to Rwanda for three dent Leader Award at the Ohio 25th – Nursing Department weeks in November-December, Association of Student Personnel April ’06 earns accreditation through the culminating in a four-day sight Administrators/Ohio College Per - 13th – Otterbein ranks in the Top Commission on Collegiate Nurs - seeing safari in Kenya. While sonnel Association. 10 of Comprehensive Colleges ing Education (CCNE) through there, students go gorilla in the Midwest according to U.S. 2016 for both its bachelor’s and trekking; work in orphanages March ’06 News and World Report . Ranks master’s degree programs. with children left homeless by the 2-6 – A Senior Year Experience number one in peer assessment. genocide, as well as in churches, class raises $600 to bring to The Otterbein baseball team and schools; and participate in Courtright Memorial Library three 23rd – The Otterbein women’s wins its second-straight OAC projects dealing with environ - large panels of the AIDS Memori - golf team wins fourth-straight Tournament and finishes second mental issues, HIV/AIDS, educa - al Quilt. Founded in 1987, The OAC championship. at the NCAA Division III Mideast tion, women’s rights and more. AIDS Memorial Quilt is the Regional. largest ongoing community arts 28th – The Otterbein men’s golf December ’05 project in the world. team wins ninth-straight OAC June ’06 1st – Otterbein championship. 11th – Otterbein College cele - receives a grant of Spring Towers brates the successful completion $193,000 from the announces the pur - Professor of Music Gary Tirey of 653 degrees – 538 under - National Science chase of a building retires after 38 years of service. graduate and 115 graduate. Foundation to fund a on 33 Collegeview His enthusiasm and vision had a project titled NUE: Road tremendous impact Nanotechnology intend - on the Department Education. Also receives a grant ed to house the of Music. of $92,897 from the U.S. Depart - departments of Art ment of Education to fund the and Communica - Otterbein College second year of TQE: Teacher tion. Starving Artists Quality Enhancement Partnership. hosts the first The College receives another The College Reject Show, an off- grant of $65,000 from the Ohio receives a grant of $113,000 campus exhibition for artwork Department of Education to sup - from the National Science Foun - rejected by the College’s Ninth port Reading First - Ohio. Colum - dation (NSF) for its Integrative Annual Juried Student Art Exhibi - bus Public Schools enters into the Studies Sophomore Science Ini - tion. second year of collaboration with tiative. Also receives $114,621 Otterbein and Big Brothers Big from the Ohio Board of Regents May ’06 Sisters with a $12,000 grant . to fund year two of a program 11th – The Otterbein men’s golf titled Cognitively Guided team finishes in a tie for sixth January ’06 Instruction (CGI). The college place at the NCAA Division III 12th – The Tan & Cardinal goes receives another $10,000 from Championship. online. the Ohio Department of Educa - tion for year two of the Teacher 18th – Department of Theatre

10 WESTERVILLE , O HIO FOUNDED IN 1847 Board of Trustees Alumni Council Sadie Bartholomew ’07 Janet Tressler Davis ’82 Ramsey Coates David Gault ’69 Michael H. Cochran ’66 Annie Gaunt ’86 C. Brent DeVore H’86 Eddie Harrell ’94 Michael E. Ducey ’70 James Heinisch ’53 William L. Evans ’56 Gary Hoyle ’79 Judith Gebhart ’61 Michael Huston ’86 Mary F. Hall ’64 Steven Johnston ’82 James Heinisch ’53 Jane Leiby ’73 John T. Huston ’57 Colette Masterson ’05 Robert Keep ’08 Jean Weixel Reynolds ’77 Erwin K. Kerr H’02 Marsha Rice Scanlin ’74 John E. King ’68 Tamara Staley ’96 Jeffrey S. Lehman Margaret Lloyd Trent ’65 William E. LeMay ’48 Kent Witt ’75 Angela D. Lewis Jane Melhorn Witt ’75 John W. Magaw ’57 Thomas C. Morrison ’63 Becky Fickel Smith ’81, Director of Alumni Relations Jane W. Oman H’96 [email protected] Alison Prindle Bonnie L. Robinson, Asst. Director of Alumni Relations Paul Reiner ’68 [email protected] Peggy M. Ruhlin ’79 Laurie Draper, Secretary Wolfgang R. Schmitt ’66 [email protected] Kent Stuckey ’79 614-823-1650 Mark R. Thresher ’78 1-888-614-2600

Executive Committee Institutional Mission Chairman of the Board: Thomas C. Morrison The mission of Otterbein College is to educate the whole Vice Chairman: Mark R. Thresher person in a context that fosters the development of Vice Chairman: John E. King humane values. Otterbein College is a private, church- Secretary: Jane W. Oman related, four-year coeducational college that sponsors tra - Assistant Secretary: William L. Evans ditional and continuing education programs of liberal arts President of the College: C. Brent DeVore and professional education at Baccalaureate and Master’s levels. Our commitment is to the liberal arts as the broad Cabinet base of all learning. President of the College: C. Brent DeVore V.P. for Institutional Advancement: Richard H. Dorman V.P. for Student Affairs: Robert M. Gatti V.P. for Academic Affairs: Abíódún Gòkè-Paríolá V.P. for Business Affairs: David L. Mead V.P. for Enrollment: Thomas H. Stein www.otterbein.edu

11 “To me, no photographs meant no history.”

FInosidre bthe idden City Joel Meyerowitz was the only photographer allowed unimpeded access to Ground Zero. Now his exhibit is coming to Otterbein.

by Jenny Hill tterbein College is memorializing ville. A reception and gallery walk will Trade Center Archive now numbers Othe tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, with follow in the Miller Gallery. For infor - more than 8,000 images and will be its 2006-07 Signature Series. mation, contact 614-823-1792. available for research, exhibition, and As part of the Series, Otterbein is Joel Meyerowitz is an award-win - publication at museums in New York honored to bring renowned photogra - ning photographer whose work has and Washington, DC. pher Joel Meyerowitz and his exhibi - appeared in over 350 exhibitions in Being the only photographer tion of art from Ground Zero to its museums and galleries around the who was granted unimpeded access Westerville campus in January. For world. He was born in New York in to Ground Zero after Sept. 13, 2001, nearly nine months after Sept. 11, 1938. He began photographing in The Ohio State University graduate 2001, Meyerowitz, the only photogra - 1962. Meyerowitz reflects meditatively on pher permitted unimpeded access after As an early advocate of color pho - the work and workers there, systemat - the event, documented the site that tography (mid-60s), Meyerowitz was ically documenting the painful res - became known as Ground Zero and instrumental in changing the attitude cue, recovery, demolition and excava - now presents his work as a stunning toward the use of color photography tion. exhibition of the momentous and from one of resistance to nearly uni - His color photos, presented in a moving tragedy in recent American versal acceptance. His first book, Cape 30 inch x 40 inch format, succinctly history, Inside the Forbidden City . Light , is considered a classic work of convey the magnitude of the destruc - The exhibition will run Jan. 2- color photography and has sold more tion and loss and the heroic nature of Feb. 16, 2007, in the Leslie H. and than 100,000 copies during its 25-year the response. The exhibit serves as a Ethyl Rose Miller Gallery of the Otter - life. He is the author of 14 other stunning reminder to audiences of the bein College Art and Communication books, including Bystander: The Histo - true dimensions of the attack and the Building, 33 Collegeview Rd., Wester - ry of Street Photography and Tuscany: response – to visually relate the cata - ville. The gallery will be open 8 a.m.- Inside the Light . strophic destruction of the 9/11 4 p.m. M-F, and 1p.m. - 4 p.m. on the Within a few days of the 9/11 attacks and the physical and human weekends. Admission is free. In addi - attacks on the World Trade Center in dimensions of the recovery effort. tion, Meyerowitz will hold a public New York, Meyerowitz began to create Meyerowitz was invited to repre - lecture about his work at 8 p.m. on an archive of the destruction and sent the United States at the 8th Venice Jan. 24, 2007, in The Fritsche Theatre recovery at Ground Zero and the Biennale for Architecture with his at Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., Wester - immediate neighborhood. The World photographs from the World Trade

12 Nov. 8, 2001. Smoke Rising Through Sunlight

All photos © Joel Meyerowitz /Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery/NY.

13 Oct. 8, 2001. A Memorial

14 Oct. 24, 2001. Welder Wounded by Exploded Bullets Oct. 28, 2001. Injured Fireman at Memorial Service

Center Archives. In September 2002, scene and no photographs were he exhibited 73 images – some as large allowed, so I left. Yet, within a few as 22 feet – in lower Manhattan. The blocks the echo of that reminder show that was exhibited in Venice is turned into consciousness and I saw currently touring the United States. what I had to do. To me, no pho - “It is a privilege to Meyerowitz is a Guggenheim fel - tographs meant no history. I decided low and a recipient of both the NEA at that moment that I would find my work at Ground Zero. and NEH awards. His work is in the way in and make an archive for the collection of the Museum of Modern City of New York. Everyone who works Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and “It is a privilege to work at many others. Ground Zero. Everyone who works In Meyerowitz’s own words: “In there has been transformed by the there has been the moments after the collapse of the spirituality of the place. The cama - Twin Towers I was overcome by a deep raderie among the workers in the zone transformed by the impulse to help, to save, to soothe, but, reminds me of the stories we’ve heard being far away, there was nothing I about the World Wars, where men and could do. When I made my way home women are thrown together by a com - spirituality of the to New York several days later the first mon cause, share tragedies and victo - thing I did was go downtown. Stand - ries, and are forever bound to one place.” ing in the crowds at the perimeter five another by their effort. My task is to blocks north of the zone, I raised my make a photographic record of the camera simply to see what could be aftermath: the awesome spectacle of seen and was reminded by a police destruction; the reverence for the officer that I was standing in a crime dead; the steadfast, painstaking effort

15 Oct. 7, 2001. An Autumn Afternoon

of recovery; the life of those whose act became such a heart-wrenching symbol Discussions regarding the photog - of salvation has embedded itself of the events, which are both narrated raphy and music will be integrated into deeply into the consciousness of all of and sung. Adams received the 2003 the classrooms throughout the year. us in America and around the world.” Pulitzer Prize in music for the piece. The Signature Series was created to The Signature Series will also fea - John Adams describes his work, bring national and international talent ture a presentation of the musical written for the New York Philharmon - to Otterbein to share their experiences piece On the Transmigration of Souls by ic in commemoration of those who with Otterbein students, faculty and John Adams at 8 p.m. on Feb. 6, 2007, died in the tragedy of Sept. 11 as “a staff and the general public. The last in The Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall, musical space for reflection and Series featured a visit to campus by crit - 30 S. Grove St., Westerville. remembrance, of meditation on an ically acclaimed independent film On the Transmigration of Souls , for unanswerable question. … On the director Gus Van Sant, who directed orchestra, chorus, children’s choir and Transmigration of Souls is a memorial Finding Forrester and Good Will Hunt - pre-recorded tape is a composition by to a great city.” ing among many others.
composer John Adams commissioned by The New York Philharmonic and For more info about... Lincoln Center’s Great Performers and The exhibit: http://911exhibit.com/ an anonymous New York family shortly Joel Meyerowitz: http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/ after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It is John Adams: http://www.earbox.com/ notable for containing texts from the The Signature Series ~ http://www.otterbein.edu/academics/special_programs.asp countless missing person signs that

16 Oct. 26, 2001. The North Wall

17 As You Like It – 1907

Blue or Gray – 1928

The Rainmaker – 1958 The Prodigal Son – 1937 See photos of Alumni Theatre Gatherings, page 39 18 Otterbein Theatre: 1906-2006 Otterbein College’s 100-year-old Department of Theatre and Dance began as the Otterbein Col - lege Department of Public Speaking as approved by the Board of Trustees in the fall of 1906. That spring the Class of 1907 produced the first fully staged play at Otterbein, Shakespeare’s As You Like It . Seven years later the first theatre classes, Dramatic Technique and Dramatic Presentation, were added to the course catalogue.

Dr. John Franklin Smith ’1910 took charge of the department in the fall of 1927. Over the course of the next 23 years he directed 83 plays. Plays were staged in several locations across Westerville, including the Alum Creek Park band shell, the Otterbein Alumni Gymnasium and the Westerville High School auditorium. In 1951 Cowan Hall was built and Moliere’s The Miser became the first production staged there.

In 1958, Dr. Charles Dodrill was hired to supervise the theatre side of the Speech and Theatre Department. Over the course of the next 33 years he molded the department into a world-class the - atre training program. In 1962, Dr. Dodrill established the guest artist program. This program has included such well-known talent as Hans Conreid, Ed Begley, Brock Peters, Kim Hunter, Arnold Moss and Pat Hingle. The first Children’s Theatre production was also in 1962, an adaptation of The Emperor’s New Clothes .

Another innovation, now in its 40th year, was the addition of a Summer Theatre series in 1967. In 1973, the senior internship program was created to give students first-hand experience in the pro - fessional world of theatre.

Today, under the direction of Dr. John Stefano, the Department of Theatre and Dance continues to innovate and equip students with the skills to succeed in the competitive world of acting and design.

Once a year, senior students have the opportunity to audition for a place with the Otterbein College Senior Showcase. They travel to New York City to audition for more than 150 casting directors and agents, including those from ABC, Johnson-Liff Casting, and Fox TV. Following the audition, the students have the opportunity to schedule personal interviews and follow-up auditions with the various agencies or to submit their headshots and résumés for future consideration.

Because of this venue for seniors to showcase their talents, many have obtained work with agencies, companies and tours such as The National Shake - speare Company, The Denver Theatre Center, the national tours of Cats , Oliver and Cabaret , and with the soap opera, Guiding Light .

Otterbein’s Department of Theatre and Dance has graduated such noted actors as Broadway favorite Dee Hoty ’74 and the late movie actor David Graf ’72 . Recently, Mandy Bruno ’04 was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her role in Guiding Light , Billoah Greene ’01 received top billing in the independent film Preaching to the Choir and Sam Jaeger ’99 appeared in the gripping opening scene of Lucky Number Slevin .

Midsummer’s Night Dream – 1948 19 Pajama Game – 1962

My Fair Lady – 1970 The Boyfriend – 1965 J.B. – 1963

Alice in Wonderland – 1980 Wizard of Oz – 1974

Nunsense – 1992 West Side Story – 1985 (Otterbein Summer Theatre) 20 Pippin – 1994 Big River – 1993

Six Degrees of Separation – 1995

Kiss Me Kate – 2003

Ginger – 2000

Jesus Christ, Superstar – 2005

2004 Showcase 42nd Street – 2006 21 presents workshops on C lass Notes painting, collage, color and creativity throughout the United States and Canada. Compiled by Mary Kay Riemenschneider Beougher ’85. Sub - mit information for Class Notes and Milestones to Classnotes, 1956 Office of Advancement Resources, Otterbein College, Wester - John Bullis and his wife, ville, Ohio, 43081 or email: [email protected] Carole Kreider Bullis ’56 , will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on 1928 reserves. Allen then trav - 1955 Nov. 10, 2006. Celebrating eled to New Zealand where with them will be children, Frances Hinds Titus cele - he spoke at a solar energy Bob Arledge competed in Doug Bullis ’81, Craig brated her 100th birthday conference at Otaga Uni - the Ohio Senior Olympics Bullis ’83 and his wife on Aug. 7, 2006. versity in Dunedin, and held in Canton, OH this Paula Raymond Bullis ’83, then in Canberra and Ade - summer. He competed in and Tim Bullis ’90 and his 1942 laide in Australia. In May the 70-74 year old age wife Kelly Bullis. They will 2006, he gave the com - group and won the pole also be joined by their Paul Shartle is a retired mencement address at the vault event. seven grandchildren. music teacher and princi - International School in pal with Kettering Local Basel, Switzerland. Shirley Corkwell Beam Schools where he served was named “Senior Citizen Reunion Year! for 35 years. He is also ’57 gave the of the Year” by the John - Alumni Wkd. retired after 44 years as a Mabel Sizer Rose invocation at the Bellville stown American Legion June 8-10, 2007 band director for the Ket - Alumni Dinner held in Bel - Post 254 in Johnstown, tering Civic Band in Ketter - lville, OH. She was a music OH. Shirley manages the ing, OH. 1957 teacher at Bellville High Mary E. Babcock Library School. and has been employed for Bob Henn is the author of 1943 over 30 years in the Newark Wildflowers of Ohio , which Warren “Ernie” Erns - 1952 Public Library system. is a full-color 200-page berger was interviewed for field guide. He recently competed the article entitled “Parents Donald Myers Nita Shannon Leland pre - presented a slide show and in the Ohio Senior Once Petitioned to Ban sented “Choose to be Cre - hike highlighting the sea - Olympics held in Canton, ‘Violent’ Football” which ative” at Book & Co. in son’s wildflowers in April OH this summer. He com - ran in the Westerville News Kettering, OH. She also 2006 at Darke County peted in the 75-79 year old and Public Opinion . In the autographed her book, The Parks’ Shawnee Prairie Pre - age group and won in the article, he described what it New Creative Artist . Nita is serve Nature Center. Bob is race categories of 400 was like to play high school the author of four best-sell - a professor emeritus in the meters, 800 meters, and sports in the 1930s. ing books of art instruction biology department of Sin - 1500 meters. He placed and teaches watercolor clair Community College 1944 2nd in the triple jump and classes at Hithergreen Cen - pole vault events. ter in Kettering. She also Allen Bartlett received the M. King Hubbert Award Oops... from the Association for In the last issue of Towers, in the artwork displayed from the the Study of Peak Oil - Class of 1956’s Otterbein Reverberations exhibit at Alumni USA at the group’s annual Weekend, we erroneously attributed the wooden nativity meeting in Denver, CO, in figures to “Irving” Bence. John Wells ’48 was the creator Nov. 2005. He received the of the carved nativity figures. Irvin Bence ’56 is also a award for his lecture on the woodworker and carver, and the cross shown at right, which arithmetic of steady growth hangs in the United Methodist Church of the Master, is an and its effects on petrole - example of his work. Sorry for the mixup! um consumption and

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This ’75 Alumnus has been “Digital” for a Long Time by Amy Feller ’07 As a holder of 20 patents for Texas Instruments prod - Bruce has published or presented in over 50 technical ucts and methods, you might say Bruce Flinchbaugh ’75 forums including journals, industry trade magazines and knows his gadgets. In the past 25 years, he has distin - conferences. Currently, he represents TI on an external advi - guished himself in the field of higher technology, particu - sory board at OSU, and on the Industrial Liaison Committee larly in digital video and image processing. of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He graduated with honors in 1975 from Otterbein More than a dozen of TI employees have been recruited and College and received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. mentored by Bruce. This includes the supervision of MIT During the summer of 1974, he worked for (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Argonne National Laboratory in the sub - the University of Illinois master’s thesis pro - urbs of Chicago. This experience gave him jects at TI, as well as over 25 other graduate the support to continue on and receive his students working as TI R&D summer OSU-CSE Ph.D. in 1980. interns over the past 24 years. He has pro - Bruce is now a TI (Texas Instruments) gressively been promoted within the TI com - Fellow, and manages the Video and Image pany for many years now, climbing the lad - Processing Branch of the DSP R&D Center der of success by working hard and func - at Texas Instruments in Dallas. As a research tioning well with others. manager, some of his responsibilities Bruce said that his liberal arts back - include video and image processing projects ground from Otterbein has really helped for TI businesses with programmable digital him keep a broad perspective on things at signal processor (DSP) products for digital work. It is especially helpful, he said, cameras, cellular phones and other digital because most of the people that he works imaging and video systems. with were engineer majors at state schools. Since joining TI in 1982, Bruce and his Also, his study abroad to England while he research teams have enabled TI products for diverse digital was at Otterbein helped him establish more of a worldly signal processing applications. His early contributions perspective. were methods for the automatic interpretation of three- Bruce was an active member in Lambda Gamma dimensional seismic data for oil exploration. This led to the Epsilon, also known as Kings fraternity. In his free time, development of a TI geophysical workstation and a Bruce liked to play the guitar and write songs. He was also method that split the concrete complexity of geophysical in the traveling campus group called Semblance that went data processing in production. to church camps and other student groups to sing and per - “It’s good to work with very smart people…I learn form. He said he had some of his best times in college play - something new everyday,” he said. ing his guitar and hanging out with his fraternity brothers. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Bruce began direct - Many have recognized Bruce for his achievements ing his research toward automatic target recognition tech - throughout the years. Some awards and honors include: nology projects for defense applications concerning prob - Distinguished Alumnus, The Ohio State University College lems in independent video surveillance for security pur - of Engineering, 2003; TI Fellow, Texas Instruments, 2002; poses. Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Texas Instru - In the early 1990s, his team prepared the development ments, 1998; ACM Recognition of Service Award, 1993; of a real-time autonomous video-monitoring prototype Senior Member of Technical Staff, Texas Instruments, 1986; that could track people and map out their positions. By the University Fellow, The Ohio State University, 1975; Otter - mid-90s, this system had come to be recognized and bein Scholar, Otterbein College, 1971. earned TI a sole-source award for autonomous video sur - Since this will be his 25th year working with TI, it’s a veillance research. In 1998, his area office developed a good thing that Bruce enjoys what he does. He said, “I stand alone network camera prototype of the system, with always followed my nose,” and it has led him to find some - software employed entirely on a single Digital Signal thing that truly interests him and never gets old. With the Processor (DSP), which contributed to the structure of the constant changes in technology he said he is glad that he is TI business unit for digital camera processors that are in able to touch so many lives with the products that he and production today. his company produce.

23 and a full-time volunteer at Shirley Hamilton Lud - 1962 School in New Jersey after Aullwood Audubon Nature mann taught high school teaching Air Force Junior Center and Farm in Day - for many years in Cincin - Lynn Sherman retired ROTC for 20 years. This is ton, OH. nati, OH. She is currently from Celina Insurance his second retirement. Pre - working part-time for the Group in Clarksburg, West viously, he retired from the 1961 EPA’s Emergency Response Virginia after more than 42 Air Force in 1986 after 20 Team. Shirley has been years of service. years of service. Bob plans Allen Gress is currently married for 42 years, has to enjoy his long awaited marketing his novel, Duel five children and four 1966 retirement on the golf in the Parking Deck , and grandchildren with a fifth course and helping with has scheduled numerous Stephen Bretz was hit by a on its way. the Habitat for Humanity book signings around car in December 2005 Foundation. northeast Ohio in the sum - while working for the For - mer. He is starting his sec - Beth Hanning Sherman est Park Fire Department received a liver transplant in Reunion Year! ond term as president of in Forest Park, OH. He has ’67 February 2006 after suffer - Alumni Wkd. the Louisville Rotary Club undergone four surgeries ing from congenital polycys - June 8-10, 2007 while still writing part-time and should be walking by tic liver disease. She is feel - for the Louisville Herald in early fall of 2006. ing extremely well and back 1967 Louisville, OH. to enjoying activities such as Rev. Rebecca Clark was Tina McCune Watman playing the hammered dul - held a solo art show bene - Alice Heft Hoover is using received and confirmed cimer, folkharp, and related the music training she into the Fellowship of the fitting area animal rescue instruments. She and her acquired at Otterbein in Episcopal Church on April organizations at David husband, , also her current position as Lynn ’62 8, 2006 by Bishop Kenneth Myers Gallery in Wester - enjoy biking and gardening. associate organist for The L. Price, Jr. of the Diocese ville, OH. She took up Presbyterian Church of of Southern Ohio. She is a painting after retiring as an has Coshocton, OH. The Rev. Duane Slade member of St. George’s administrator at UCLA’s returned to pastor one of church has a wonderful Episcopal Church in Day - School of Medicine in the churches he once Taylor and Boody Tracker ton, OH. 2004. served after retiring as a pipe organ in the sanctuary United Methodist minister. and a Bunn Minich pipe Rev. Edward Clarke and 1968 After a 10-year absence, he organ in the chapel. Since his wife, Elizabeth, cele - returned to Centennial Fred Wolfe received the retiring from teaching in brated their 45th wedding United Methodist Church 2006 Distinguished Alum - 2001, Alice has developed anniversary on July 1, 2006. in Johnstown, PA. Previ - nus Award from the Clay - first person portrayals of ously, he had served as mont Foundation in 23 historical and Biblical David Holl ’s future plans band director in Windham, Uhrichsville, OH. The women. She does her own after retirement from OH, and Bedford, OH, as award honors a person research, develops the sto - Otterbein College include executive director of Camp who has dedicated his life ries, and makes the cos - travel, volunteer work, and Allegheny Camping and or career to the service of tumes. She has performed beekeeping. Retreat Center and as a humanity. Fred is retired for many schools, church minister in residence for 21 as superintendent of the groups, and social clubs. Lt. Col. John Robert years. Franklin County Educa - “Bob” Wardle retired tional Service Center in Rev. Richard Hoover was from Piscataway High has a in parish ministry for 31 Myra Kilgore Wetzel wonderful new son-in-law, years. For the past 11 Bill Watts ’68 received the Dinsmore Dave Volz, who is an engi - years, he has worked at Award for his employment with neer with Disney World in Historic Roscoe Village in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Florida. He and her daugh - Coshocton, OH where he Akron, OH. This is the company’s ter, Jan, were married last serves as historic inter - most prestigious technical award. He year in his hometown of preter, printer, and por - is recognized in Goodyear and Sacramento, CA. trays Dr. Maro Johnson in throughout the industry as one of the the first person. He per - world’s foremost experts on rubber Reunion Year! forms many first person mixing. He has also received 15 ’62 Alumni Wkd. portrayals with his wife, patents, six trade secrets and was the recipient of the June 8-10, 2007 Alice Heft Hoover ’61 . Goodyear Spirit Award in 1988 and 2002.

24 Columbus, OH after 36 Stan Hughes retired after Leslie Roraback Ray is a Mary Eschbach Cunnyng - years in public education. 30 years in education. reading specialist for the ham and her Most recently, he served as East Syracuse Minoa husband/partner, Russ 1970 athletic director at Avon School District in East Meeker, have recently High School in Avon, OH. Syracuse, NY. established a two-part Ray Mowery retired from Prior to that, he was the business that includes resi - Canal Winchester Schools athletic director at Mid - will be dential energy alternatives in 2005 after 35 years in Cynthia Spriggs view High School. Stan has traveling with her church consulting and environ - education. This past year, been named Lorain County group to teach English to mentally appropriate deco - he taught at St. Mary Athletic Director of the Hungarian children. The rating services. school in Lancaster, OH. Year twice, and Lorain group will be staying at a County Conference Track camp outside of Budapest. Julie Johnson recently 1971 Coach of the Year. He has This will be her second trip completed 22 years of Gerald Lang is actively also received the State Con - to Budapest. teaching physical educa - enjoying his Model A tributor Award from the tion. For the past three Fords. He also plays the Ohio Track Officials Asso - Reunion Year! years, she has also been the theater organ for tours at a ciation, and was inducted ’77 Alumni Wkd. athletic director for one of restored theater in Mans - into this year’s Lorain June 8-10, 2007 the Columbus Diocese field, OH. County Football Coaches schools where she teaches. Hall of Fame. He and his 1977 Julie received the Buckeye Polly Talbott finally wife, Gayle Bixler Hughes Daniel Hawk is a professor Best Award - Gold Level opened her cooking school, ’75 , have five sons. of Old Testament and which is given by the A La Carte Culinary Ser - Hebrew at Ashland Theo - American Cancer Society. vices. She is the proud 1976 logical Seminary in Ash - owner of a recreational land, OH. He was recently Rev. Elaine Clinger Sturtz Rev. Jamison Brunk is cooking school and culi - will be publishing her third beginning his 19th year a guest speaker at Ashland nary service center in Lyn - devotional book entitled serving three United First United Methodist brook, NY. The Final Dance of Life . It Methodist Churches in Church. will be available at local Owsley County, KY, with Rev. Walter Weaver has Christian bookstores later the Red Bird Missionary 1979 returned to pastor at East this year. Conference. He has been Rochester/Bayard United Gary Hoyle is the presi - the head cross country Methodist Churches in dent and chief executive of Reunion Year! coach at a local high school East Rochester, OH. Peach’s Rise & Dine ’82 Alumni Wkd. for the past 14 years where Restaurants based in June 8-10, 2007 he also started a track pro - Jerry West teaches media Bradenton, FL. The com - gram and has served as the technology and Spanish at pany is expanding into 1982 head coach for 11 years. Columbus, OH. It will be Wynford High School in Janet Tressler Davis is the the first location outside of Bucyrus, OH. He has been president of the Westerville Deborah Venable Duncan Florida for the small break - teaching school for 32 years Area Chamber of Com - was elected Fellow by the fast-and-lunch dining and also coaches swimming. merce in Westerville, OH. the American Academy of chain but the company has He has taken over 500 stu - She recently received her Family Practice in 2006. awarded a development dents to Spain and Mexico second re-certification as She is a primary care physi - agreement for at least 50 in more than 17 trips. an accredited professional cian at the Fenton Medical more restaurants across at the annual meeting of Center in Fenton, MI. Ohio. ’72 Reunion Year! the Chamber of Com - Alumni Wkd. merce. Tom McKelvey is the presi - June 8-10, 2007 1981 dent of McKelvey & Associ - 1974 ates, Inc. in Louisville, KY. Cathy Walker Allison has Kathy Butts Urban has a He is a sales manufacturing accepted a new position at five year old daughter, Lau - Dee Hoty starred as Lady representative for several Pickerington Local Schools rel Rose, who is 18 months Emma Fairfax in Dr. Dolit - packaging related manu - teaching work and family in remission (no evidence tle , which played at the facturers. life at Pickerington Central of disease) of Wilms Palace Theatre in Cleve - High School in Pickering - Tumor. Laurel’s left kidney land, OH. Cleveland was ton, OH. and cancerous tumor were the ninth stop of the tour.

25 removed six days after her 1988 1991 1993 third birthday. Jolene Thompson is the Aisling “Ash” Reynolds Scott Buchwalter was dec - 1983 executive director of the Babbitt and her husband, orated with the Meritori - Ohio Municipal Electric Geoff, reside in Galloway, ous Service Medal. He is Les Epstein was appointed Association and vice presi - OH. She is the publica - an Air National Guard executive director for dent of government and tions editor of OhioHealth Master Sergeant assigned Opera Roanoke in Virginia. member relations for and her husband is a to the 121st Air Refueling This follows seven years as American Municipal chemist with Roxanne Labs Wing in Columbus, OH. executive director for the Power-Ohio in Columbus, in Columbus, OH. The medal is awarded to a Children’s Theatre of Win - OH. She was the featured member of the U.S. Armed ston-Salem. Working as a speaker at the first “Women Ben Hodges has co-edited Forces who distinguishes director and writer, he in Business...Stories of Suc - The Commercial Theater themselves by either out - recently staged productions cess” quarterly luncheon, Institute Guide to Producing standing achievement or of The Miracle Worker and sponsored by Meigs Coun - Plays & Musicals , including meritorious service to the Seussical for the Paramount ty Chamber of Commerce. contributions from 27 United States in noncom - Theatre in North Carolina. industry professionals who bat situations. He has also published 1989 have combined Tonys poetry in journals such as numbering in the hun - 1994 Christopher Clapp won a the Nisqually Delta Review dreds. Ben continues to Midwestern Regional Larry Gifford is program and Blind Man’s Rainbow . edit the annual Theatre Emmy in July 2006 for the director for 710 ESPN He resides in the Blue World publication, execu - set design of Guardian Stu - radio station in Los Ange - Ridge Mountains with his tive produces the annual dios production of the chil - les, CA. He was a 2005 wife, Nancy; daughter, Theatre World Awards for dren’s television show Tay - inductee into the Wester - Sarah; and their two cats. Broadway and Off-Broad - lor’s Attic . The Emmy rec - ville North Alumni Hall of way debuts, and serves as ognizes outstanding work Fame that was recognized David Graham is the executive director of The in the field of television in May 2006. communications manager Learning Theatre which is and is awarded by the Ohio at the Ohio Police and Fire a nonprofit organization Valley Chapter of the Tacci Smith was promoted Pension Fund in Colum - dedicated to incorporating National Academy of Tele - to assistant dean of stu - bus, OH. theatre into the develop - vision Arts and Sciences. dents/director of student 1984 Christopher is the presi - dent and owner of C & C Jennifer Morgan Flory ’95 has been Rick Goodrich was the Scene Shop which operates appointed artistic director and con - Ohio coach for the annual out of the Vern Riffe Cen - ductor of the Choral Society of Middle Rudy Mumley OVAC ter in Columbus, OH. Georgia as well as director of music at (Ohio Valley Athletic Con - First Presbyterian Church in ference) All-Star Charity Kelly Eikleberry is the Milledgeville, GA. Jennifer also con - Football Classic on July 23, director of residence life at tinues to serve as director of choral 2006. He is a teacher and Washington and Jefferson activities and is an assistant professor football coach at Cam - College in Washington, PA. of music at Georgia College & State bridge High School in She has been in the higher University in Millegeville, GA. Cambridge, OH. education field for over 15 years working with greek ment and lives of autistic 1987 life, residence life, educa - activities at Kenyon College and learning disabled chil - tional programming, health in Gambier, OH. Robert Fritz is a computer dren. help desk specialist with services, and student con - Management Science Asso - duct. Kelly is just 30 min - 1996 utes south of Pittsburgh and 1992 ciates in Pittsburgh, PA. Jennifer Mancz Seaman is thrilled to be closer to her Mary Randle performs for He is also the webmaster is a clinical counselor at family and hometown of the Shadowbox Cabaret at for Western Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital in Shadyside, OH. Easton Town Center in Mensa Columbus, OH. She and Columbus, OH. Most her husband, Eric, reside in recently, she played “Judge Washington Court House, Judy” in Freak Show 2006 . OH.

26 1997 American Institute for All-Ohio Athletic confer - Suzanne Twitty Swanson Learning and the Satjad - ence performer, team cap - joined the Columbus office Corey Brill played Father ham Lao Literary Project. tain and led the team in of the law firm of Jones Flynn in Seattle Rep’s pro - He is currently working on scoring his junior and Day to lead its marketing, duction of Doubt . It ran a collection of short stories senior seasons. Previously, public relations and busi - Aug. 23 - Oct. 21, 2006, in steeped in Hmong and Lao Scott was the men’s basket - ness development efforts. Seattle, WA. culture. ball coach at Jonathan She also serves as president Alder High School in Plain of the board of the Colum - Jennifer Collins earned her 1998 City, OH. bus Metropolitan Club. master’s degree in social Lindsay Deringer Adams work from the University Lisa Caudle Tullos has received her is a fourth grade teacher at Megan Theis of Missouri-Columbia. been named math, science, master’s of fine arts in Jefferson Elementary She is employed as an social studies and spelling design practice from the School in Gahanna, OH. intensive therapist for Uni - marketing manager for Department of Industrial, versity Behavioral Health SRA/McGraw-Hill in Interior and Visual Com - Andy Fisher is the new Services in Columbia, MO, Columbus, OH. munication Design from head golf professional at where she focuses on the The Ohio State University. the Dayton Country Club treatment of children’s Shantel Weinsheimer in Dayton, OH. mental health disorders. completed her Ph.D. in 2001 molecular biology and Alexandrea Wright Amy Lubker Mignogna genetics on Aug. 11, 2006, Trisha Freeman was Green has been promoted has been promoted to at Wayne State University named director of mem - to vice president of nation - senior manager of govern - School of Medicine in bership and marketing at al initiatives for Real Liv - mental affairs at the Ohio Detriot, MI. Her Ph.D. the National Ground Water ing, Inc. in Columbus, OH. Society of Certified Public work involved the identifi - Association in Westerville, Accountants in Columbus, cation of positional and OH. Rebecca Devaney Staple - OH. functional candidate genes ton received her MBA in intracranial aneurysms. Danielle Miller graduated degree from Ohio Domini - Ann Hatfield Moore She plans to continue from the Medical Universi - can University in Colum - recently earned her Dis - genetic research in the field ty of South Carolina earn - bus, OH on May 13, 2006. ability Income Associate of human birth defects. ing her master’s in health - (DIA) designation. She has care administration. She also been promoted to 1999 2000 has been chosen to partici - pate in a CEO training pro - senior account consultant Kimberly Aikens received Brian Carter was promot - gram with Pitt County with UnumProvident Cor - the Alumni Appreciation ed to assistant vice presi - Memorial Hospital in poration in Columbus, Award at the African Amer - dent at Fifth Third Bank in Greenville, NC. OH, where she has been ican Student Union’s Black Columbus, OH. working for the past six Baccalaureate Ceremony years. held May 19, 2006. This Teresa Hamilton Wagner Brad Hermen is a credit was named Wal-Mart award recognizes Otterbein analyst for JPMorgan in Teacher of the Year. She is Bryan Worra is the com - alumni who have con - Columbus, OH. He is also a first grade teacher at munications director for tributed, assisted and sup - in his fourth year as an Hawthorne Elementary the Hawthorne Area Com - ported the African Ameri - umpire for the Ohio High School in Westerville, OH. munity Council in Min - can Student Union (AASU) School Athletic Association. Teresa recently returned to neapolis, MN. He is also and the Office of Ethnic Otterbein to pursue her writing science fiction, Diversity through means of Allison Sattinger was a master’s degree. poetry and short stories. networking and communi - backup singer for Will Fer - His work has appeared in a cation. few dozen print and online rell at the ESPY awards that 2002 publications. He has lec - aired Sunday, July 16, 2006. Scott Davis will serve as Daniel Brownstein is a tured and led writing She also can be heard the men’s assistant basket - municipal/general assign - workshops at a number of singing on the new “triple ball coach for Otterbein ment reporter for The area universities and arts loaded” Pizza Hut com - College. He earned three Island Packet which is a institutions. Bryan also mercials. varisity letters in basketball daily newspaper in Hilton promotes writing and read - while a student at Otter - Head, SC. Previously, he ing through the Hmong bein. He was a two-time

27 worked as a city reporter Lisa Minken is the new Nicole “Niki” Mayer was be pursuing her doctorate for The Delaware Gazette in director of marketing and working as a case manager in the Fall of 2006. Delaware, OH and as a public relations for Opera for Dublin Counseling but producer/co-host for 610 Columbus in Columbus, has been accepted into the Adrian Schaar was serv - WTVN radio station in OH. master’s of social work ing in Iraq with the U.S. Columbus, OH. program at The Ohio State Army. He returned in Sept. Brett Peterman is an infor - University which she began 2006 and was promoted to Crystal Humphrey mation technology com - this fall. It is a full-time Sergeant in October, 2006. Dougherty received her puter specialist for the Sid - program that will take two associate degree from ney Public School System years to complete. Heather Smith is a dance Columbus State Commu - in Sidney, OH. instructor for Dance nity College in American Kristen Coffman Messen - Unlimited at Heidelberg sign language education. Kelli Weiland Rex is a heimer is an admission College in Tiffin, OH. The She is working for the graduate student at Central counselor at Otterbein Col - dance school recently pre - Hilliard City Schools as an Michigan University where lege in Westerville, OH. sented Watch Us interpreter for a fourth she is also employed as a Dance...Hear Our Hearts grade student in Hilliard, constituent relations writer. Brian Potts is the vocal Speak at the Ritz Theatre in OH. She is also a Tastefully music teacher for grades 5 Tiffin. Simple Independent Con - John Steeves is vice presi - through 12 in the sultant. Crystal began pur - dent of operations for For - Wyoming City School Dis - Valerie Accetta Thalassi - suing her master’s degree ever Green Inc. in Mt. Pleas - trict in Cincinnati, OH. nos was a workshop leader in deaf education at The ant, SC. It is the largest on learning to audition for Ohio State University this commercial landscaping Sara Yund Potts is the musical theater produc - past summer. firm in South Carolina. music teacher for grades K tions for the Columbus through 8 at Miami Valley Children’s Choir held at the Emily Stout Fitzer received 2004 Christian Academy in Broad Street Presbyterian her doctor of optometry Cincinnati, OH. Church in Columbus, OH. degree from The Ohio Sarah Armstrong Baker Valerie resides in Athens, was recently promoted to State University College of Rebecca Rossiter was Greece. agency field specialist for the Optometry in June 2006. selected to participate in a Newark Agency Field Office She is currently practicing national songwriting work - 2005 of State Farm Insurance. In in the Columbus, OH area. shop funded by the Mercer her new role with the com - Nance Brown Curtis has Foundation at Northwest - pany, she will lead 28 State accepted a teaching posi - Jeff Gibbs is playing bas - ern University. She was Farm agents from five Cen - tion at the Delaware Career ketball for the Columbus one of 16 emerging lyri - tral Ohio counties. She and Center in the ESOL (Eng - Cyclones which is in the cists/composers between her husband, Eric, also pur - lish for Speakers of Other IBL (International Basket - the ages of 18 and 30 who chased a new home in Languages) Adult Educa - ball League) East Division worked with leading son - Newark, OH which they tion Program in Delaware, located in Columbus, OH. writers/guest faculty share with their beloved OH. including Alan Bergman Bichon Frise named Martini. 2003 (“The Way We Were”), Tom Feusse was named John Bucchino (“Grate - Emily Harris Besser was Daisy Huston is a speak - CEO of The Wallick Com - ful”), and Amanda McB - recently awarded a license er/event coordinator for panies which is a real estate room (“The Rose”). She is to practice as a certified Nationwide Insurance in management and develop - currently pursuing her public accountant (CPA). Columbus, OH. ment company in Colum - master of arts in poetry She works at CPA Group in bus, OH. from Ohio University Columbus, OH. Whitney Hendershot Iles where she is also a teaching is a second grade teacher Jeremy Fryman has accept - associate in the English Katherine Schell Corchin - and soccer coach in Mel - ed the position of director Department. ski is a first grade teacher bourne, FL. of technology with the in the Westerville City Ridgedale Local School Sys - Teresa Moore Saxton School District and is Heather Channel Lee is a tem in Marion County, OH. received a degree from the working toward her mas - lab technician for Battelle University of Tennessee in ter’s degree in literacy. Memorial Institute in English Literature and will Columbus, OH.

28 Becca Zapor ’05 had two of L etters her poems, “Undercurrents” and “Indigo,” published in the 2006 edition of Spring Street which is the annual publication Alumnus Has Insight on Common Book at Columbus State Community I was interested to read in the Summer 2006 Towers that College in Columbus, OH. the 2006-2007 Common Book is The Inextinguishable Sym - phony by Martin Goldsmith. I have owned this book for several years, ever since I Dawniela Halischak is Trent Kugler has accepted heard Martin Goldsmith talking about his parents’ experi - teaching first grade at the a position as master car - ences in Nazi Germany. I am certain that the Otterbein stu - Indiana School for the Deaf penter at the Studio The - dents will find it an inspiring story. in Indianapolis, IN. atre in Washington, D.C. Of particular interest to me was the story on pages 44- 45 concerning violinist Ernst Drucker. During many of my Megan Karr Magoon is Emily Ling is a pricing ana - seasons with the Chautauqua Opera, Mr. Drucker was the the community resource lyst for Grange Insurance concertmaster of the opera orchestra and a member of the coordinator for the Envi - in Columbus, OH. Chautauqua Symphony. As a member of the Metropolitan ronmental Management Opera orchestra in New York City, Mr. Drucker had a vast Branch of the Directorate Kari Parker is a history experience playing operatic scores, and was an invaluable of Public Works at Fort teacher at Reynoldsburg leader in the pit. He played the many violin solos beautifully Bragg in North Carolina. High School in Reynolds - and we all counted ourselves lucky to work with him. burg, OH. The Drucker family lived in a house quite near the opera Justin Milam is a city plan - rehearsal building, and I can remember hearing his young ner for the City of Upper Tim Pheister passed his son, Eugene, hard at work practicing the violin. Eugene Arlington in Ohio. state nursing board test became one of the youngest violinists in the Student Sym - (NCLEX) and is working at phony. He is now the principal violinist with the famous Kaitlin Ringer Peterman is Mount Carmel East in the Emerson String Quartet, which has appeared on TV and a voice and piano instuctor Vascular Intermediate Care made many CD recordings. for 88 Keys Music Studio in Unit in Columbus, OH. Just wanted to pass this information along... Sidney, OH. Jennifer Ernst Sprang is John Lloyd ’60 (Chautauqua Opera, 1956-67) Zach Reat received the an elementary art teacher Citizen Alumni Award for Olentangy Local It was an Otterbein Love Story... from the Center for Com - Schools in Delaware, OH. James Coppock Brown ’48 , son of Thomas B. Brown munity Engagement ’18 and Cleo Coppock Brown ’19 , started at Otterbein in department at Otterbein. Amy Welsh is a member of 1940, but in 1942 enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He served the nursing faculty at for three years in the South Pacific before returning to Otter - Chantil Stull is an environ - North Central State Col - bein. While playing bridge at meal time in Cochran Hall he mental scientist for Evans, lege in Mansfield, OH. She met Mary Jo Wood ’48 , daughter of Genevieve Mullin Mechwart, Hambleton & was also inducted into Wood ’23 and Stanton B. Wood ’17 . It was love at first Tilton, Inc. (EMH&T) in Sigma Theta Tau Interna - sight! And for two years they studied, went to Pi Beta Sigma Columbus, OH. tional which is the honor and Sigma Alpha Tau activities, held hands, walked for miles, society of nursing.
and kissed in the dark doorways of Cochran Hall. Jim’s frat 2006 even performed a sweetheart serenade, directed by Bob Holly Fenner is a reporter (Bing) Crosby, on the fire escape of Cochran when they for Suburban News Publi - became engaged. cations in Columbus, OH. They had a big wedding and honeymoon and in a cou - ple of years moved to Jim’s family farm in western PA, when his dad retired. Jim worked as a chemist but also farmed the 125-acre farm in the evenings and on weekends. They had four sons. Jim died Sept. 1, 2006. Jim loved his family, the land, playing golf, and his wife very much.

Mary Jo Brown ’48 (Editor’s Note: For more information, see Milestones, page 33.)

29 D. Evan Thomas to Christina Trigg ’05 , July M ilestones 15, 2006. Melanie Kingery to Doug White, July 9, 2005. Compiled by Mary Kay Riemenschneider Beougher ’85 2003 Katherine Schell to Bran - don Corchinski, June 17, 2006.

Ryan Flack to Amber ’92 and Synda Sparks Kathryn Deinlein, July 8, Oldaker ’03 , Aug. 30, M arriages Bernicke ’91 . 2006. Kathryn is a current 2003. graduate student at Otter - 1966 1996 bein. Brett Peterman to Kaitlin Ringer ’05 , June 17, 2006. Jean Fuller Timberlake to Traci Sillick to Mike Kirk, Kelly Reeves to Andrew Wayne Singree, Oct. 19, Sept. 3, 2005. Uhlenhopp, July 9, 2006. Scott Rex to Kelli Weiland 2004. ’03 , July 8, 2006. Jennifer Mancz to Eric Shantel Weinsheimer to 1970 Seaman, Feb. 6, 2006. Grant Blouse, May 2005. Mark Valot to Brooke Burton ’04 , June 10, 2006. Ray Mowery to Karrie 1998 2000 Bishel, June 23, 2006. 2004 Lindsay Deringer to Brad Hermen to Kelli 1983 Shaun Adams, June 27, Mueller ’01 , Dec. 11, 2004. Patrick Desgrange to 2006. David Graham to Keri Emily Myers ’04 , Dec. 3, Seaman, May 6, 2006. Sarah James to Christo - 2005. Mark Mayers to Laurie pher Koriath, April 8, 2006. 1987 Thomas ’98 , Oct. 29, 2005. Whitney Hendershot to 2001 Jeremy Iles ’05 , July 29, Robert Fritz to Jamie 1999 2006. Longstreth, June 4, 2005. Tony Troiano to Stephanie Christopher Harr to Molly Elsea, July 22, 2006. Heather Channel to P. Bowen ’00 , July 1, 2006. 1991 Allen Lee Jr., May 20, 2006. 2002 Aisling “Ash” Reynolds to Molly Barnard to Kyle Kristen Coffman to Robert Geoff Babbitt, April 15, Mossman, May 20, 2006. Crystal Humphrey to Messenheimer, July 29, 2006. Bridesmaids includ - Matt Dougherty, May 14, 2006. ed Wendy Pietila Watson Phillip Schneider to 2005.

“Ash” Reynolds Babbit ’91 with hus - Amanda Helmrich Julca Jeremy Iles ’05 with Whitney Hendershot Iles ’04. band Geoff. ’06 with husband Jonathon.

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Alumna is Walking “On Air” with Dream Job by Amy Feller ’07 With a passion for broadcast reporting, Karen Kasler from the Ohio AP, and is a four-time winner of the AP’s ’89 has been busy making her mark in the news world Best Broadcast Writing award. since she graduated from Otterbein. A native of Lancaster, While at Otterbein, Karen was involved mostly with Ohio, Karen is now a reporter for the Statehouse News the student radio station, WOBN. She was the WOBN Bureau and Ohio’s public radio and television stations. news director in 1988, wrote for the Tan & Cardinal and In 1990, Karen joined the staff of hosted a show on WOCC called Theatre WCBE-FM in Columbus. As news in Westerville . director, she channeled WCBE’s cover - She has won awards such as: Best age to a variety of events. Some events Use of Sound – 2006, The Ohio Associ - that were covered include the local ated Press Broadcasters, Use of Sound, impact of the Gulf War, the financial Second Place – 2005, and the Ohio problems of the Columbus Public Associated Press Broadcasters. Schools and the trouble-ridden Ameri - This year, Karen was the “Less- flora exhibition in 1992. She also filed Than-Grand Marshal” for the 23rd for National Public Radio (NPR) and Annual Doo Dah Parade, which took National Native News during her time at place on July 4. The Doo Dah Parade is, WCBE. she explained, “a celebration of the In 1994, Karen was selected as a Fel - right to controversial and politically low in the Kiplinger Master’s Program incorrect free speech and a desecration for Mid-Career Journalists at The Ohio of the standard old ‘parade’ at the same State University. After receiving her time.” The parade sometimes features master’s degree, she moved to Cleveland such entries as the Marching Fidels and became the afternoon drive anchor (people dress like Fidel Castro), Beer and assignment editor for WTAM-AM. Belly Brigade, Ghandi on Roller Skates, and plenty of “There were some dark days for me in the begin - kazoos and bad taste political satire. ning…But because I love being a broadcaster, I was able About her profession, Karen says it is important to hang in there ’til I got the breaks I needed,” she said. above all to strive to be a good writer. She says that one Karen frequently reported for ABC Radio News and can practice their performance if not confident in front also co-produced a nationally distributed documentary of a camera, but if you can’t write then it is difficult to on the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, featuring present information to your audience. her interview with Homeland Security Secretary Tom “I read a lot, and write every day. And I take note of Ridge from the West Wing of the White House. writing that I think is great, and try to learn from those In March 2004, Karen joined the Statehouse News writers.” Bureau. She’s reported for NPR, Marketplace and the Karen said that the two things that have gotten her Great Lakes Radio Consortium, and is a frequent guest to this, her dream job, are hard work and networking, on ONN’s Capitol Square , WVIZ’s Ideas and WOSU- which go hand in hand. By networking and meeting as TV’s Columbus on the Record . Karen recently became a many people as possible, come more opportunities that mom with the birth of her son, Jack, late last year. Karen can land a job and/or good contacts in the future. and her family live on Columbus’ northeast side. “Once I discovered radio, there was nothing else I Karen has been honored by the Cleveland Press wanted to do,” she stated. “There are plenty of great jobs Club/Society of Professional Journalists, the Ohio Educa - outside of broadcasting, most of which pay more and tional Telecommunications Commission, and holds a have better hours. But of course they don’t have the National Headliner Award. She’s won several awards thrill of performing.”

31 Chad Olinger to Lindsey Peddicord ’05 , July 2, A dditions 2005. 1983 Jami Jones to Ryan Pat - Kim Collier and partner ton, July 8, 2006. Ellen Begley, a son, Owen Ramsey, Apr. 20, 2005. He to Brian Potts Sara Yund joins big sister, Emma, age 3. ’04 , Aug. 5, 2006. 1990 Kelley Humphries to Boone Sabine, July 22, Tim Bullis and wife Kelly, a 2006. son, Keegan Bradley, May 12, 2006. He joins brothers Teresa Moore to Matthew Jackson, 7, Carter, 5, and Saxton, Jan. 7, 2006. Mitchell, 2. Submit a “class note” about your little bundle of joy and David See to Ashley 1993 receieve an Otterbein bib. Write to Classnotes at Carver ’05 , May 6, 2006. [email protected]. Pictured is Brantley Seymour, son Carrie McDonald Cook 2005 and husband Brant, a son, of Aminda Banning Seymour ’98. Wesley Michael, Nov. 20, 1997 daughter, Sophie London, Eric Evans to Julie Shaw 2005. April 26, 2006. ’05 , July 22, 2006. Christy Borin Budreau and Lisa Postiy Muller and hus - husband, Brad ’97 , a Emily Cotton Riepenhoff John Lintz to Susanne band Ed, a son, Braden daughter, Carley Louise, and husband David ’99 , a Lynch ’05 , July 28, 2006. Matthew, Feb. 17, 2006. He Nov. 29, 2005. She joins big son, Ethan Andrew, June 12, joins big brothers Ryan, 6, brother Parker, age 3. 2006. Shelley Hlavacek to John and Eddie, 4. Robinson, May 6, 2006. Ted Busch and wife Karen, a Rebecca Devaney Staple - 1995 son, Theodore Cameron, ton and husband Preston Erin Robinson to Pablo June 21, 2006. Alyce Douce Elbert and ’98 , a daughter, Kaiya Eliza - Russo, July 29, 2006. husband Cyril, a daughter, beth, May 7, 2006. and Kelsey Lauryn, Jan. 27, 2006. Ann Hatfield Moore husband , a daugh - 2006 She joins big brother Collin Allan ’98 Kerry Kimmet Wartel and ter, Addison Marguerite, Lindsey Griffin to Brent Joseph, 3. husband Rich, a son, Asher Aug. 25, 2005. She joins big Halsey, July 14, 2006. David, March 19, 2006. brother Aidan, age 5. Katherine Smart Hughes Amanda Helmrich to and husband Dan ’95 , a Jeni Keeler Wheeler and Heather Harris Smith and Jonathan Eduardo Julca, daughter, Amelia Mae, Aug. husband Jeff, a daughter, husband Brant ’95 , a son, July 2, 2006. 18, 2005. Jamie Elaine Grace, Jan. 16, Broderick William, Nov. 18, 2006. She joins older broth - 2005. He joins big brother Mike Mosier to Michelle er Jackson, age 3. 1996 Gavyn, age 3. Moore, Aug. 19, 2006. Meg Gutches Miller and 1999 husband Roy “Tri” ’96 , a Jennifer Ernst to Rick 1998 son, Reid Alexander Gutch - Kirsten Gangestad Hicks Sprang, July 1, 2006. es, June 28, 2006. He joins Elizabeth Carder Caton and husband John ’95 , a and husband Josh, a son, big sister Claire, age 4. daughter, Lillian Marie, June Jessica Whitley to Ryan Andrew “Drew” Douglas, 20, 2006. Starns, June 24, 2006. March 7, 2006. He joins Amy Wagner Wilford and proud big sister, Violet, age husband Scott, a son, Molly Barnard Mossman 18 months. Thomas Scott, Aug. 11, and husband Kyle’ 99 , a 2006. son, George Pinkerton, Aug. Alexandrea Wright Green 1, 2006. and husband Jason ’97 , a

32 Lisa Hermon Theis and 2004 ber of the Knights Templar Otterbein, he was a member husband Shawn ’01 , a and Shrine. of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. daughter, Rachel Kay, April Jennifer Doddy Henry and 10, 2006. She joins big husband Stephen, a son, 1938 1948 brother Bradley, age 2. Connor James, July 21, 2006. Vincent Arnold passed James Brown (see letter away Aug. 22, 2006. He on page 29) passed away Kimberly Thomas-Berry was preceded in death by Sept. 1, 2006. He was a and husband Kurt, a son, eaths D his parents, Blake and Varie research chemist with Xavier Nicolas, June 29, Arnold; sister, Geraldine Pittsburgh Consolidation, 2006. 1929 Arnold; and brother, Virgil Westinghouse, B.F. Draken - Lloyd Plummer passed Arnold. He is survived by field, and Climax Molybde - Amy Voellmecke Treboni his wife, Peggy Arnold; num. He was a life mem - and husband Max, a daugh - away June 21, 2005. children, Lois Arnold ’62 , ber of Cross Creek, PA ter, Evangeline “Evie” June, Carol (Terry) Arnold Presbyterian Church and April 11, 2006. 1933 Mickey ’64 , Jane (Jeffrey was a second generation Tennie Wilson Pieper ’67) Arnold Olson ’67 , farmer on his land in Cross 2000 passed away July 1, 2006. Terry (Deborah) Arnold Creek, serving on the Cross Holly Fulton Hicks and hus - ’70 , Matthew Arnold ’76 , Creek village Grange for band Ralph, a daughter, 1934 Rick and Randy Noxon, over 50 years. He enjoyed Scarlett Lillian-Marie, July Raymond Schick passed Rhonda (John) Schulte, playing golf and greatly 13, 2006. away May 16, 2006. He is and Jim (Paulette) Noxon; loved his grandchildren. survived by his wife, sister, Lois (Marvin ’48) He was preceded in death Anne Mills Powers and Dorothy DeWitt Schick Arnold Wagner ’42 ; 23 by parents Thomas B. husband Chad, a daughter, ’38 ; two children; and sev - grandchildren, 18 great- Brown ’18 and Cleo Cop - Emalee Isabelle, Sept. 25, eral grandchildren. He was grandchildren; close friend pock Brown ’19 and 2005. a former Newark football and former basketball play - brother Robert Brown. He coach in Newark, OH. He er, Leland “Junior” Norris; is survived by wife, Mary Rusty Richards and wife was also a member of the and many extended family Jo Wood Brown ’48 ; Heidi, a son, Reiston Newark High School Ath - members. Vincent served sons, James, Thomas Michael, Feb. 23, 2006. His letic Hall of Fame. the Kettering school com - (Tammy), Peter (Stacie), twin, Raylinn Michele, munity in Ohio with dis - and Jeffrey (Christina); sis - passed away on March 5, 1935 tinction for 33 years as a ter, Barbara Castrodale 2006. teacher, coach, and admin - (Nelson); brothers, Charles Rev. Robert “Bob” istrator. (Jean) and David (Ruth); Janna Wells Stanford and Airhart passed away May and five grandchildren. husband Jeff ’98 , a son, 29, 2006. He was preceded 1940 Carson Jeffrey, Aug. 1, 2006. in death by two infant sons. Sanders Frye passed away Marjorie Fox French He is survived by his wife, May 5, 2006. He was pre - passed away Aug. 2006. 2001 Wahnita Strahm Airhart ceded in death by his wife, ’36 ; son, Robert (Judy) Janet France Frye ’48 ; Kelli Mueller Hermen and Airhart II ’66 ; daughter, 1945 mother, Florence Frye; and husband Brad ’00 , a son, Carol (Carl) Airhart Wilma Bennett Potter father, Sanders Frye Sr. Dylan Robert, June 7, 2006. Anderson ’69 ; 4 grand - passed away May 27, 2006. H’61 . He is survived by his children; and one great- son, Sanders (Katherine) Lisa Church Wengerd and granddaughter. He was a 1947 Frye; son, Steve (Nancy) husband Tim, a son, Robert United Methodist minister. Frye; daughter, Mary Anne Scott, Sept. 26, 2004. During his working life, Oren McClain passed away (Tom) Frye Lagerstrom; Bob was active on many Mar. 28, 2006. He is sur - sister, Jean Frye Elliott 2003 community boards and vived by his wife, Shirley ’44 ; sister Ann Howe; eight agencies, including trustee McClain; sons, Dana, Todd, grandchildren; two step- Tiffany Jensen Von Almen and Mark McClain; daugh - and husband , a of Otterbein College, Red grandchildren; along with Scott ’02 ter, Beverly Kellum; and son, Matthew Dean, Mar. Cross, Salvation Army and many extended family eight grandchildren. He was 31, 2006. Community Services. He members. He was a general was a Rotarian, a 32nd a retired attorney who practice physician for six degree Mason, and a mem - enjoyed tennis, reading and years and an anesthesiolo - writing novels. While at

33 gist for 25 years. His father, 1952 Society for Animal Protec - olyn Ross; sons, Scott, Sam, Sanders Frye Sr., was the tion of which she served as and David Ross; sister, business manager for Marjorie “Margie” secretary. Upon her retire - Donna Canan; and five Otterbein from 1947 until Abbott Denham passed ment she moved full-time grandchildren. He was a 1965. away Aug. 29, 2006. She to her one hundred acre speech and drama teacher was preceded in death by farm in the Berkshires. She as well as an athletic coach 1949 her parents, Lloyd ’22 and kept very active with her in Cleveland and Spring - Aline Abbott; and infant gardens, the local historical field, OH. He had been an Ernestine Jones Ham - grandchildren Luke and society, theatre groups, the actor and was the former mond passed away May 4, Emma Denham. She is library, and church to co-owner and director of 2006. She is survived by survived by her husband, which she gave much of the Down Right Theater in her husband, Dr. John Robbins Hampton Den - her time and resources. Duluth, GA. Prior to his Hammond ’48 ; son, ham; sons, Alan “Tad” She leaves behind her retirement in 1998, he Dwight Hammond ’73 ; (LuLu) Denham and brother, Kenneth served as the director of the daughter, Heather Ham - Robert “Bob” Denham; sis - Knobloch, nephews, nieces, Evening Program for the mond VanFossen; 3 grand - ter, Lois (Jim ’51) Abbott and many good friends. Art Institute in Atlanta, daughters and one great- Yost ‘52 ; 3 grandchildren; GA. granddaughter. She was a and many extended family retired teacher from Upper 1956 members. Drusie Scott passed away Arlington City Schools in Josephine Laub Pomeroy May 7, 2006. Upper Arlington, OH. 1954 passed away May 6, 2006. M. Susan Whitaker James Huelf passed away Carol Knobloch passed 1958 passed away July 31, 2006. Mar. 29, 2006. away Dec. 26, 2005 at her home in Stephentown, NY. Judith Lovejoy Foote She was preceded in death passed away Aug. 21, 2006. by her parents, Wilbur and Maybelle Hudson Tierney While at Otterbein, Carol She is survived by her hus - Ella Marie Whitaker; and passed away Feb. 4, 2006. was an active member of Epsilon Kappa Tau (Arbu - band, Wendell Foote ’60 ; sister, Wilberta Ann “Bill” 1950 tus)sorority and the Art daughter, Lauren Foote Chamberlain. She is sur - Club under the direction of Christensen; son, David vived by sister, Barbara Ethel Mutchler passed Mrs. Lillian Frank with Foote; and many extended (Bill) Young; and many away Nov. 24, 2005. whom she worked with family members. extended family members very closely. Her working including niece, Christine C. Donald Rhoads passed career was at the Conde’ 1960 Whitaker Warner ’91 . away Sept. 3, 2006. Susan had been a teacher in Nast Publications in New Dennis Gustin passed away York City where she the Fremont Public Schools July 6, 2006. He is survived in Ohio and was the head 1951 worked with several titles. by his sons, Edward and She worked as art editor of counselor for the Girl Wayne Wallace passed Anthony; daughters, Scouts at Stoneybrook. She away in June 2006. He had Vogue under the famous Angela and Denise; Alexander Liberman and received her master’s been a member of Sigma stepchildren, April, Donna degree from George Delta Phi (Sphinx) frater - then did work with the and Brandon; four grand - House & Garden magazines Williams College in social nity while at Otterbein. children; and brother, work and retired from and the House & Garden Larry Gustin. While at Guide issues. Later in her DuPage County Hospital in Marilyn McGervey Otterbein, Dennis was Illinois. Watkins passed away May career, she was put in active in musical produc - 28, 2006. She was preceded charge of color correction tions, played baseball and 1963 in death by her parents, of the major magazines of was a very active member Walter and Esther McGer - Condé Nast Publications of Zeta Phi fraternity. Gordon Gregg passed vey; and husband, J.M. before they went to print. away July 11, 2006. He is Watkins. She is survived by In this capacity, she did 1962 survived by his children, her brother, Walter McGer - much traveling for the Gregory, David and Raymond “Ray” Ross vey; and a niece and several company. Carol loved Heather; and granddaugh - passed away Aug. 17, 2006. nephews. African wildlife and made ter, Estelle Naomi Gregg. many trips to Africa to do He was preceded in death He had been active in the photographic safaris and by his parents, Don and entertainment industry worked with the African Millie Chase Ross. He is most of his life and most survived by his wife, Car -

34 recently was the producer 1967 1969 1992 and director for the Tangle - foot Troupe in Columbus, Linda Budde Shreve Nancy Lorenz Fisher Daniel Olien passed away OH. passed away June 9, 2006. passed away Sept. 30, 2005. July 13, 2006. He was pre - She was preceded in death ceded in death by his Linda McVay Will passed by her father, Paul Budde. 1973 father, Raymond Olien. He She is survived by her is survived by his wife, away June 30, 2006. She is Deborah McKinniss Sted - mother, Josephine Budde; Brenda Pullin Olien; son, survived by her husband, man passed away July 8, son, Brian Shreve; and Jon Olien; mother, Ellen Richard Will; daughter, 2005, after an 8-year battle brother, Jay Budde. Churness Olien; sister, Elisa Christina Koppin; daugh - with breast cancer. She is (Rob) Thomas; sister, Jenna ter, Allison Antolik; and 4 survived by her husband, 1968 (Ted) Harris; and many grandchildren. She was Lindsay Stedman ’73 . extended family members. retired from a teaching Thomas Crane passed Prior to 1996, he coached career in California and away May 23, 2006 after a 1978 track and cross country at Ohio. long battle with multiple Michael “Mickey” Burns Granville High School in sclerosis. He is survived by passed away Aug. 17, 2006. Granville, OH. From 1996 1966 his parents, Herman He is survived by his until 2006, he taught and “Tom” (Mina Marie) Rev. Larry Motz passed fiancé, Cynthia Parisi; chil - coached at New London Crane ’64 ; his wife, Karla away April 9, 2006. He was dren, Kelly and Charley High School in New Lon - Brum Crane; son, Ben preceded in death by his Burns; brother, Patrick don, OH. (Leah) Crane; daughter, parents, Clayton and Eve - (Mary Ellen) Burns; broth - Eve (Bob) Kruger; son, lyn Motz; and his great- er, Martin (Donna)Burns; Nathan Crane; sister, 1996 nephew, Brian O’Shell. He sister, Peggy Skinder; sister Susan (Bill ’68) Crane Annemarie McGovern is survived by his brother, Mary Kay (Frank) Burns Pasters ’71 ; two grand - Whisler passed away June Ronald (Edna) Motz; and Incandela ’79 ; brother, Ed children; and many extend - 12, 2006. She is survived many extended family Burns; and many extended ed family members. Tom by her husband, Allan members. He was the rec - family members. tor of St. James Church in was a physicist at Los Whisler; children, Aran and Zanesville, OH. From 1966 Alamos National Laborato - 1988 Ellie Whisler; mother, Ellen to 1992, he was an English ry in Los Alamos, NM. He Priess; sister, Coleen teacher. was an avid bicyclist and Jan Erickson Trimble (Priscilla) McGovern; enjoyed hiking, camping, passed away July 15, 2006. brother, Jim (Maureen) photography and travel. McGovern ’86; brother, Joe Priess; and brother Mike (Lisa) Priess.

Haven’t seen old Otterbein friends for awhile? Catch up with your fellow alumni at www.otterbein.edu/alumni.

35 I nvesting in Otterbein

compiled by Lori E. Green

Class Gift Enables Nursing Trip to Alaska

Summer ended for eight senior nursing students, along vices including hospice and oncology care, home care visits with three faculty members, with a mission trip to Alaska. and a community educational program. Students routinely They began their journey in Anchorage, visiting the Alaskan saw 20 clinic patients daily in addition to patients seen in the Heritage Center, before heading to Glenallen in the interior urgent and emergency room visits. of Alaska. The trip was made possible by a gift from the Two students traveled from Glenallen to Valdez, a fish - Class of 2006. ing town in Prince William Sound. There, they worked with Six students remained at the Cross Roads Medical Cen - the public health nurse in an outpatient clinic providing ter, a mission-based clinic in Glenallen that serves about public health services to the school, hospital and clinic 3,000 residents in an area roughly the size of Ohio. Cross employees. Some days more than 100 school employees Roads provides services for a clinic, urgent care, emergency were examined by nursing students, and approximately 30 room and overnight hospital. It also offers outpatient ser - patients were seen during the five-day period.

We’d the C like t lass o o expr sion f 2006 ess ou progr for th r heart Al ams, s eir sup felt ap aska. pecifi port o precia A team cally t f the tion t and th of e o our S medic o ree fa ight un umm al mis prov culty m dergr er 200 - ide he embe aduate 6 trip mu althca rs had nurs to nities re to t the o ing stu n servic he nat pportu dents allen ed by ive Am nity to and th Cross erican help work e heal roads /Alask ed at t thcare Medic an co pan he prim system al Cen m- ied co ary ca in Va ter in an mmun re clin ldez. Gle- d adm ity hea ics, th Stude I inister lthcar e hos nts t was ed req e prov pital, a a won uired iders i ccom derful immu nto the - As exper nizatio hom be you k ience ns in t es in Col now, for eve he sch m lege is the Nu ryone ools. edic comm rsing involv al miss itted Depa ed. supp ion im to ser rtment ort, w mersi vice le of Ot Senior nursing student Sara Brehm gives a Ala e wer on exp arning ter- skan e able erienc throu TB test to a member of the Valdez commu - p comm to don e. Th gh the ort. W unities ate th rough e loo . Tha ese se your nity. She enjoyed her experience, noting you e k forw nk you rvices mbark ard to for yo to the "They were so warm, and eager to share on yo hearin ur fina ur nu g from ncial stories of the people who live in town. We S rsing c each sup- incere areers of you got to talking about how different the cul - ly, . as ture is, especially from a public health Barb ara Sc standpoint. I just could not have asked for Ma haffne rjorie r, Cha the people to be more warm and caring Vogt, A ir ssocia te Pro towards me. I feel like I really made a fessor difference!"

36 The 10-day trip provided five days for immersion in the diversity into health care delivery, and the development of a Glenallen and Valdez clinics. The objectives of the trip were sense of service within a professional career. to enhance understanding of culture and its impact on Other trips scheduled this year include the Nightingale health care practice, to provide an opportunity for students trip to England in December and a medical mission immer - to deliver culturally competent health care, and to promote sion experience to Nuevo Progresso, Mexico in January 2007. an understanding of remote health care as a comparison The Nursing faculty hope to organize a return trip to Red with similar services in Ohio. Bird Mission located in the hills of Appalachia in Kentucky These kinds of opportunities help provide nursing stu - in the summer of 2007. A return trip to Alaska is being con - dents with life-long learning, methods of incorporating sidered for summer 2007.
Recent Grant Awards to Otterbein College

The National Science Foundation awarded $57,641 Gilbert. This continuing initiative, a collaborative among to Chemistry Professor Dr. Dean Johnston for his project Otterbein College, Columbus Public Schools (CPS), Project Visual-Spatial Learning . This project features web-based GRAD, I Know I Can and Westerville City Schools, will materials to help students and faculty visualize and teach 3- enable 10 Otterbein students to be involved in a variety of dimensional molecular symmetry. The software will dis - service programs with a focus on urban youth mentoring. play and animate symmetry elements and operations in Six Otterbein students will serve as college club coordina - ways that cannot be achieved with physical models. Otter - tors in three urban CPS middle schools. Four Otterbein bein will collaborate with seven other institutions of higher students who are community service scholars (TEAM learning that also will implement the web-based materials members), will participate in youth mentoring service pro - in their coursework and assess results. grams in both CPS and Westerville City schools. Fellows John Kengla of the Center for Community Engagement will serve as capacity-builders for each site: recruiting vol - was awarded $35,500 by The Columbus Foundation , unteers, designing program activities, and mentoring ele - through the Neva J. Collins, and J. Ray and Lillian W. Waller mentary and young middle school students contemplating funds, for the Ubuntu Mentoring Program . This multi-tiered a future in higher education. mentoring initiative will help to develop urban middle The Presser Foundation has awarded $4,200 to Music school students’ capacity to improve their academic poten - Professor Dr. Craig Johnson and Otterbein’s Department of tial. Throughout the 2006-2007 academic year, Otterbein Music. This award provides funding for scholarships for and Linden-McKinley High School students will mentor stu - students majoring in music and is awarded based on artis - dents participating in 8th Grade College Clubs, 6th Grade tic potential. Apprentice College Clubs and a mentoring course. The Nationwide Foundation has given $4,000 for The The Revaluation of the Mussels of the Little Miami River George H. Dunlap Scholarship . This scholarship was estab - System project received $15,746 from the Ohio Depart - lished by Nationwide in honor of Mr. Dunlap H’91, who ment of Natural Resources and $2500 from Little Miami served as chairman of Nationwide Insurance and was Presi - Incorporated . Through these awards, Dr. Michael Hog - dent of the Otterbein Board of Trustees for 15 years. Schol - garth of the Department of Life Sciences will study the arships are awarded to students majoring in Business mussel fauna of the Little Miami River system in areas that Administration and/or Social Sciences. represent the most diverse species of mussels in terms of Dr. Karen Robinson of the Department of Education species richness and number of individuals. received $3,500 from The Institute for Library & Informa - The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges tion Literacy Education for Learning More about Our Con - awarded $10,000 to Education Professor Dr. Patti Albaugh stitution: An Information Literacy Collaboration between Pre- for Building the Momentum: Expanding Smartboard Men - Service Teachers and Fourth and Fifth Graders . This project tor Groups and Refining the Research . This project will will enable Otterbein College students enrolled in the Mid - strategically deploy electronic Smartboard technology dle Childhood Teacher Education Program to become more across campus and within diverse departments. Smart - aware of information literacy efforts in the K-12 arena, and board Mentor Groups will train and support faculty new to to experience first-hand the value of collaboration between the technology, and help to development and implement teachers and school library media specialists. classroom lessons in multiple courses of study. Dual The Legacy Fund of the Columbus Foundation research analysis will assess the experience of implementing awarded English Professor Dr. Susan Ashworth $500 for the the technology for the first time and study the impact of GLBT Awareness Workshop . This project will develop sustained use of Smartboard technology. workshops for Otterbein faculty to help address issues and Increasing their support, the Ohio Campus Compact obstacles that GLBT students face on campus, nurture awarded $10,000 for the Center for Community Engage - respect and dialogue across borders of sexual difference in ment’s program Otterbein Club Fellows 2006: A Service the classroom, and respond more effectively to sexually Learning Initiative , under the direction of Director Melissa prejudicial comments in the classroom.

37 A lumni N otes

compiled by Becky Smith and Bonnie Robinson

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And it’s a great way to stay connected with your alma mater. To access the Directory, go to All information contained within the Otterbein Alumni Online Directory www.otterbein.edu/alumni and click on “online directory.” remains the property of Otterbein College and is provided on a secure serv - Log on by entering your username and password, printed er which is only accessible to Otterbein alumni with a password. The direc - tory information is for individual use only; it may not be retransmitted or on your mailing address on this Towers magazine. published for any reason. Mass communications will only be approved to If you have questions, or need assistance, please con - support the mission of Otterbein College and from Otterbein-affiliated orga - tact the Office of Alumni Relations at 1-888-614-2600 or nizations and alumni constituent groups in support of approved activities. 614-823-1650, or by email at [email protected] . Sale or other distribution of this information is prohibited by College policy. Alumni E-Newsletter Gets New Name The Otterbein College Alumni e-Newsletter has a new events and links to other Otterbein publications. name, thanks to Nancy Everett Hafer ’75 . She submitted Alumni who do not currently receive the Cardinal Con - the winning entry to the newsletter naming contest. Her nection are encouraged to update their e-mail addresses on the entry, Cardinal Connection , was chosen by the Alumni Coun - online directory or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 614- cil members and debuted in the September edition of the 823-1650, 1-888-614-2600 or at [email protected]. newsletter. Cardinal Connection is e-mailed bimonthly to all Archived editions of Cardinal Connection as well as Towers can alumni. It provides timely information about the College, be accessed on the “Publications” page of the alumni website at photos from recent alumni events, information on upcoming www.otterbein.edu/alumni .

38 Theatre Alumni Kick Off Centennial Year....

Theatre alumni kicked off their celebratory centennial year rehearsal of Company . John Cain ’76 and Sue Ann Kocks with a number of get-togethers over Labor Day weekend. Cunliffe ’76 at Pam Hill’s gathering. Carter Lewis ’73, Clockwise from top left: Dee Hoty ’74, Beth Sharp ’77, Shel - Pamela Erb Melville ’73 and Kent Blocher ’79 apparently are ley Russell ’73, and Becky Holford ’73 at a party hosted by not taking their golf game very seriously. Petie Dodrill, Dean Pam Hill ’75. Alumni gather in front of Cowan; the group Van Sant ’H70, and Fred Thayer give an historical perspec - had a tour of the renovated Cowan and saw a concert tive in the Campus Center Theatre. Save the Date for AlumMatters Register online for these events at www.otterbein.edu/alumni click “Events/Registration”

Nov 18 Otterbein Alumni Club of Atlanta gathering for March 28 Backpacking Basics, Dayton, OH (see page 42) the OSU/Michigan Game, American Pie, 5840 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs GA, north of I-285 (404) 255-7571; April 13/14 Intro to Backpacking – Overnight contact Alicia Caudill Colburn ’95 at [email protected] April 20 Alumni Council Meeting

Dec 3 Japan alumni gathering during Lyle ’64 and Meg May 20 Spring Musical Brunch – Hello Dolly ’68 Barkhymer ’s visit to Japan. Email Hiro ’93 and Akiki Suzuki ’95 at [email protected] for more June 4 Zero Year Reunion for the Class of 2007 information June 9 – 11 Alumni Weekend June 21 – 24 New York City Alumni Trip 2007 June 24 June Bug Jamboree Jan 19 Alumni Council Meeting Jan 26 Cardinal Career Network Luncheon Aug 5 – 9 Summer Send Offs Aug 31 Cross Country Alumni Meet Feb 9 OMEA Alumni Reception, Columbus, OH Feb 15 – 18 Cardinal Migration ’07 – Savannah, GA Sept 14 – 21 Otterbein/Ireland Alumni Trip

March 3 Ft. Myers Alumni Gathering Oct 13 Homecoming ’07 March 21 Backpacking Basics, Otterbein Campus Oct 20 Otterbein – Circleville Alumni Gathering, Center (see page 42) Circleville, OH

39 OTTER2BEI0N H . s e g a p e s e h t o t s o t o h p d e t u b i r t n o c a d u g y S d E & n o s t u o R r e g o R , 7 0 ’ r e l l e F y m A

Above left: Grand Marshal Joel Riley ’86 with his son, Justin, gets ready to lead the Homecoming parade. Above: The band, Morning Round, consisting of Otterbein alumni and current students, performs outside the Rike near the entrance to the Clements Recreation Center. * For more Homecoming photos, go to www.otterbein.edu/alumni

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They’ve been to see the balloon man! All of these girls are daughters of 1996 graduates. Photo submitted by Stacie Kish Collins ’96.

Homecoming King Dominic DePompei and Queen Lacey Speck presided over the festivities.

Though the day was a brilliantly beauti - ful fall day, many activities took place in the Clements Center, “under the big top,” such as the very popular balloon man (right) and the zoo animals (above) such as this armadillo. Many dance teams also performed.

41 Otterbein Alumni Headed to

Tour the Canadian Rockies for the first five Alask a! days of this Arctic Adventure to Calgary, Lake Louise, Banff, Kamloops and Vancouver. We’ll travel by motor coach from Calgary International Airport to Banff to see views of Bow Falls, Surprise Corner, the Hoodoos, and Sulphur Mountain. We will depart Banff by train car to Kamloops, the gateway to British Columbia's interior, seeing Yoho National Park and Glacier National Park. Heading to Vancouver we will travel along the Thompson River to Fraser Canyon. After a day in Vancouver, our luxurious cruise will depart for eight days to get a close-up look at our gorgeous 49th state. See massive glaciers, eagles, wildlife and marine animals. Even if you've cruised Alaska in the past, this itinerary includes visiting the new, exciting Icy Strait Point. You'll also cruise the Inside Passage, Hubbard Glacier, and visit Skagway and Juneau. Optional activities include flying in a helicopter to a glacier, riding a train over White Horse Pass in Skagway, salmon fish - ing, visiting a totem pole park, and much more. Price has yet to be set by the cruise company along with the exact travel dates. There will be a three to five month window to sign-up in early spring ’07. A deposit to secure your place on the tour and cruise or cruise only is $250 per person which is fully refundable until 71 days prior to departure. Are you interested in learning more? Contact Becky Smith ’81 at 614-823-1650/ 1-888-614-2600 at [email protected] or Juanita Rusk ’60 at 614-882-1864 at [email protected]

Get Outside, Get Involved, Get Active!

Get outside and appreciate nature while connect - Backpacking Basics • Weds., March 28, 6 pm, $5, ing with Otterbein alumni and friends. Partnering Otterbein College Campus Center - or - Weds., March 21, with Brent Anslinger ’98 and Five Rivers Outdoors, 6 pm, $5, Cox Arboretum & Gardens MetroPark, Dayton, OH the outdoor adventure initiative of Five Rivers Introduction to Backpacking • Overnight (Children MetroParks, we are creating outdoor excitement to ages 14 and older are welcome), Fri./Sat., April 13 &14, attract the novice and the thrill-seeking expert. 6 pm Friday-Noon Saturday, $10, Germantown MetroPark Five Rivers Outdoors teaches the skills you need (in Montgomery Co., SW of Dayton) while providing the necessary equipment to get Kayaking Quickstart • you started. You’ll meet new people and be able to (Children ages 14 and older are check out the region’s great outdoor resources. welcome), Tues., May 29, Reservations required. Register online at 5:30-8:30 pm, $50, Whitewater www.otterbein.edu/alumni , click ‘events/ Warehouse, Dayton, OH registration’ or call 1-888-614-2600 or 614-823-1650.

42 Big Apple Explorer June 21–24, 2007 (more details at www.otterbein.edu/alumni, click “travel” or call for a brochure, 1-888-614-2600 or 614-823-1650) Young Alumni Trip to NYC

Prices start at $640/pp* • 4 days/3 nights to New York City • Custom Itinerary especially prepared for Otterbein Young Alumni

Three nights accommodations in double occupancy rooms in mid-Manhattan’s West Side, 725 10th Avenue (singles and triples may be be available at additional cost) • Continental breakfast for 3 days • Evening meal at hotel or local restaurant for 2 nights • 3 day subway pass • Admis - sions and Sightseeing tour of New York City, Liberty/Ellis Island ferry, Empire State Building, walking tour of 5th Avenue, Central Park • Services of experienced Contiki Tour Manager • Air-conditioned coach and driver for sightseeing tour • All state and local taxes

*Price based on a maximum of 45 - 50 passengers. You are responsible for securing your own air and ground transportation to and from the hotel. Contiki Holidays can assist you with your air, ground transportation and travel insurance needs.

Ireland is Calling! Sept. 14 – 22, 2007

Ireland is a country unlike anywhere else in the world, a land of constantly changing colors, magnificent and var - ied landscapes, a land of folklore and legend. Experience Established 1733...elegant, romantic, mysterious the colorful Camelot-like town of Killarney, and Kilken - ny, one of Ireland’s loveliest medieval cities. Enjoy the Call immediately to reserve your room! spectacular scenery of the Dingle Peninsula; visit historic Blarney Castle and Dublin, Ireland’s capital, and tour the famous Waterford Crystal Factory. Discover this beauti - ful land where a hundred thousand welcomes await you. Price: $1799.00 (Includes Airfare from Detroit)

For more information on any of these trips, call 1-888-614-2600 or www.otterbein.edu/alumni DoubleTree Hotel Historic Savannah 1-912-790-7000 • Special Otterbein rate of 43 $129/night plus taxes Recent Alumni Gatherings

From Cow to Cone The Buddy Holly Story

On September 2 Central Ohio alumni and their children Akron alumni enjoyed an evening at the Carousel Dinner The - attended Moo School in Centerburg, OH to learn about life atre on August 19. Pat McRoberts ’88 starred as Buddy Holly on the farm at Hatfield 7, the dairy farm owned by Lee in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story . Pictured are Polly Moore Hatfield ’93. The day concluded with an ice cream social at ’88, Pat McRoberts ’88, Dennis Moore ’88, and John Gadd ’89. Velvet Ice Cream. Picnic with the Pops

Columbus alumni relaxed under the stars and listened to “Big Bad Voodoo Daddy” on July 15 at Picnic with the Pops. Front Row: Bonnie Robinson, Jean Weixel Reynolds ’77, Kimberly Mae Lowe ’02, James Lowe, Becky Fickle Smith ’81. Middle Row: Bud Yoest ’53, Anne Decker, Alison Schmidt ’06, Blanche Geho Conarroe ’65, Judy James Weaver ’67, Tina Lilly Villanueva ’93, Mario Villanueva-Garcia, Megan Bosh Cawley ’99. Last Row: Paul Davis ’06, Carl Weaver ’67, LeAnn Unverzagt Conard ’80, and Steven Cawley ’98.

Atlanta Gathering

Atlanta area alumni gathered at the home of Chuck and Lisa Castle ’83 on Aug. 26. Pictured are Lisa Trochelman Castle ’83, Gary Bonneau ’84, Tiffany Collins ’05, Mei-Li Thomas ’05, Chuck Castle ’83, Jason Ahrens ’96, Jennifer Morgan Flory ’95, Alicia Caudill Colburn ’95, and Andrea Kesterke ’00 Want More? * For more alumni photos, go to www.otterbein.edu/alumni

44 ’96 Alumni Come Together

Old friends from the class of ’96 got together recently on Tina Ciampa, Diane Martin McGuire, Amanda Gischler Homecoming night. The friends gathered at Bar Louie in and Tania Krachmaloch Smiley. Right: Phil Steele, Mark Easton. Left: Stacie Kish Collins, Renee DeLozier Jordan, Buckingham, Kris Gossett, Chris Smiley and Russ Beitzel. Nominate an Alumna(us)for the Otterbein Awards! Otterbein Alumnni Awards Nominations for 2007 deadline: December 4, 2006 Time is running out to send in your nominations for Mail nomination and materials to: Office of Alumni Relations next year’s Otterbein Alumni Awards. Deadline is December • Laurie Draper • Otterbein College • One Otterbein College • 4, so hurry and send in your nomination! Westerville, OH 43081 • 614-823-1650 or 1-888-614-2600 Distinguished Alumni Award 2007 Alumni Award Nomination Form The Distinguished Alumni Award represents the most presti - gious award presented by the Otterbein College Alumni Name of Nominee:______Association. This award honors graduates who have Class year (if known): ______achieved prominence in their chosen career and have made significant contributions to their profession and community. Address:______City:______St:____ Zip:______Special Achievement Award The Special Achievement Award recognizes excellence and Phone: ( )______high professional achievement by an individual in his or her Email: ______field of endeavor and have significantly enhanced their pro - fession and/or the organization. Award you think is most appropriate for nominee:  Distinguished Alumni  Special Achievement Service to Otterbein Award  Service to Otterbein  Alumni Community Service This award recognizes outstanding individuals who have  Honorary Alumni freely and unselfishly given their time, talents, and services for the betterment of Otterbein College. Nominated by: ______Class year: ______Alumni Community Service Award This new award honors an alumna/us who has exemplified Phone: ( )______the College’s philosophy of concern and responsible com - Email: ______mitment to society. * Don’t forget to send a statement of 50 words or more listing Honorary Alumni Award the reasons this individual should be considered for the The Honorary Alumni honors those individuals, who, award along with a vita and/or resume. Specific examples of though not graduates of Otterbein College, have demon - service or achievement for the specific award are highly rec - strated outstanding interest, commitment and involvement ommended. Nomination forms are also available at in its life and activities. www.otterbein.edu/alumni/awards/index/asp . Towers Otterbein College One Otterbein College Westerville, OH 43081

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