GROVE CITY COLLEGE ALUMNI MAGAZINE Fall 2013
Science and Technology Grove City College continues to make a commitment in a big way INNOVATION
“These facilities are most adequate and are better than those found in many universities. They stand as a challenge to the science faculty to put into their work even greater effort than ever before. To the student body they represent an opportunity seldom combined with the other advantages to be found at Grove City.” — Dr. George C. Southworth, Class of 1914
Southworth’s words at the dedication of Science Hall, now Rockwell Hall, in 1931 could be applied today to Grove City College’s new science, technology, engineering and mathematics building, STEM Hall. Southworth, who is profiled in this issue, recalled his undergraduate days at the College as a time when his professors “pushed their overcrowded laboratories into dismal cellars and dusty coal bins in a vain attempt to provide for an ever increasing student body.”
MOMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Grove City College Community,
announced to you in late August that this, STEM Hall. While our usual policy is to dedicate my 11th year as our President, will be my last. a building debt free, the challenges of the last IAnd so, I have one short-term goal and that five economic years also created more favorable is completing and meeting the challenges and conditions for building – construction material opportunities of this final year. costs and professional fees were down due to less This year we kicked off with a freshman class construction work available, and interest rates for of 648 and total student body size of 2,491 – just borrowing were extremely low. After considering about where we hoped to be. The same cannot be these factors carefully, along with known cash and said for many colleges around us and across the raised pledges in hand plus gifts expected, our nation as the student secondary education base is Trustees decided to borrow to finish the building. shrinking and federal and state monies are being We believe we saved money by doing so but we drastically reduced. (The latter, of course, doesn’t still have about $10 million to raise during the last bother us as we take no federal or state monies.) two years of the Campaign to pay off the remaining The most exciting early event in our school year loan on the building, so there are a number of was the formal dedication of our new STEM Hall. great naming opportunities still available. It is a jewel (no pun intended) and a jaw dropper The next need (and this one always persists to see and experience. It adds almost 70,000 and is important) relates to scholarship aid for our square feet of state-of-the-art space to our science, students (need-based and merit-based). A gift to engineering and math venues. Inside the magazine this area helps a student, plus is part of the capital you will see an extensive story on the building. campaign. You will also see that the new STEM is actually Finally, one can consider a gift to what we call “STEM I” as we intend to build a “STEM II” to the Swezey Fund. Many of us more “senior” alums replace Rockwell. When STEM II is completed (its remember Dr. Bill Swezey as a remarkable leader building will be part of a future capital campaign), of science and a fine gentleman. The fund, named all science, engineering and math departments will for him, and the monies in it are used to support a be under one dramatic roof and we will determine robust student-faculty research effort. other uses for Hoyt Hall. Grove City College continues to be one of Also, you will see stories of alumni engaged the finest schools in the nation – a college of the in scientific and engineering pursuits. Their liberal arts, the sciences and engineering, and that’s engagement at deep and successful levels, of a menu that makes us strong and vital in today’s course, began in part with their years of study at world of higher education. We will continue along our College. It was the academic enrichment of this path of excellence and that is a promise. their individual passions that sent them off into the world. Finally, I close by highlighting specific support that we all can bring to the science, engineering and math area. The first two are directly related to our ongoing capital campaign – Grove City Richard G. Jewell ’67 Matters: A Campaign for Grove City College. President We still need gifts to complete paying for our new
4 | www.gcc.edu the G ¯e D U N K Fall 2013 contents Science and Technology We turn our focus on science and technology in this edition of The GeDUNK. Since its founding, Grove City College has had a focus on technical and scientific education. At the dawn of the 21st century, Grove City College is demonstrating its continued commitment to the field with the opening of STEM Hall, the College’s ambitious, $39.5 million science, technology, engineering and mathematics building.
F E A T U R E S
The Wow Factor Returning the Favor The Right Stuff Grove City College’s new George Southworth graduated Elizabeth Michael ’10 isn’t just science, technology, 100 years ago and made pushing the envelope when 30 36 YOUTUBE LOGO40 SPECS engineering and mathematics building is easy history with his inventions but it was his it comes to materials science, she’s trying to on the eyes, but built for innovation. humanity that changed the life of EmmanuelPRINT bend onit. light backgrounds on dark backgrounds Tzouanakis ’63. standard standard main red gradient bottom PMS 1795C PMS 1815C C0 M96 Y90 K2 C13 M96 Y81 K54 D E P A R T M E N T S white black check us out on: WHITE BLACK no gradients no gradients C0 M0 Y0 K0 C100 M100 Y100 K100 8 | Grove City Matters Learn about the College’s capital campaign facebook.com/GroveCityCollege
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The GēDUNK, a magazine published three times a year for alumni and friends of Grove City College, highlights campus news, student features and alumni achievements. Named after the on-campus gathering place / snack bar for students since the early 1950s, the word Gedunk made its way into the Grove City College vernacular when Korean War Navy veterans returned to campus, bringing the term with them. The name stuck. For decades, the Grove City SFI-00225 College Gedunk has been the place to come together to share news and ideas, and this magazine strives to do the same.
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EDITORIAL BOARD Jeffrey Prokovich ’89 Vice President for Advancement Melissa (Trifaro ’96) MacLeod Senior Director of Alumni and College Relations Dear Alumni and Friends, Mary Gray DelBuono Senior Director of Marketing and Communications ur Homecoming 2013 celebration, which drew a record number of alumni, friends, parents and students to share and celebrate Grove City College, reminded me of the EDITORIAL STAFF importance of remembering the past, celebrating today and looking to the future. Nick Hildebrand O Managing Editor We remembered 100 years of history with the Adelphikos fraternity. We celebrated together and enjoyed what is Grove City College today with an amazing leader in President Dick Jewell Janice (Zinsner ’87) Inman ’67. And, we looked to the future as we toured STEM Hall. It is a building that fits in so well Associate Editor, Class Notes, In Memory, Babies on campus but, on closer inspection, reminds us of what we have to look forward to with the
modern opportunities it presents for our students. Brad Isles I thank so many of our alumni and friends who helped support this project. I hope that one Associate Editor day soon, we can begin the second building that will be attached to this building to allow all these disciplines to work and educate in one modern facility. Ross Wyszomierski These are exciting times at Grove City College! I feel honored to be able to be a part of them. Associate Editor, Upfront This issue of the magazine will allow you to take a closer look at the STEM building. It sure is something to see! If you haven’t yet been to campus to see this building, I encourage you to try to ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE make a stop to campus whenever your travels take you to our area. Along with this feature on the Tricia Corey Megan Krimmel ’08 newest addition to campus, we’ve also taken the time to share a couple of stories of alumni whose Charlene (Griffin ’83) Shaw lives have been and continue to be impacted by science and technology. While they may have Jami Darlington graduated at very different times, their stories developed in the same place – right here on the
campus of Grove City College. SPORTS INFORMATION I hope we’ll see many of you as we travel the country this year with President and Mrs. Jewell. Ryan Briggs ’01 In the more than 10 years that Dr. Jewell has served our campus, I know our alumni have seen Robert Audia positive change. We look forward to honoring his time on campus with you. You may check online at alumni.gcc.edu/events for a full schedule of programs and events. More information will DESIGN be coming to you soon. Justin Harbaugh Now, go get that cup of coffee to enjoy this issue of the GēDUNK! Designer
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Gerald Bullock ’92, President John Mackie ’00, Vice President
Cover photograph by Hector Corante
Photographers: Hector Corante; Tom Davidson; Brad Isles, Matthew Lester; Tiffany Wolfe
Student photographers: Elisabeth Anderson ’14; Nathan Bergey ’16; Sarah Logie ’16; Melissa (Trifaro ’96) MacLeod Kirsten Malenke ’15; Brittany Peachey ’14 Senior Director of Alumni and College Relations
P.S. More than 1,500 people have our 2013 Shirt. A portion of these
proceeds will go to student scholarship. We’ll be reaching out to you Grove City College soon for ideas for our 2014 Shirt. Show your Grove City College pride 100 Campus Drive by buying a shirt at alumni.gcc.edu/theshirt. I certainly appreciate Grove City, PA 16127 your support. 724.458.2300 888.GCC.GRAD www.gcc.edu [email protected] 6 | www.gcc.edu the G ¯e D U N K Alumni Travel Program
JULY 28 - JUNE 22-25, 2014 AUG. 5, 2014 CRAIG, COLORADO SCOTLAND, UK SOMBRERO RANCH From glacial lakes to rugged highlands, Grow your leadership skills and training on Scotland’s landscape sets the scene for adventure. one of the largest horse ranches in the country, The tour group will visit seaside towns, ancient where you will work with and learn from your castles and see the history of an ancient people. equine partners and function as an active member of the team.
SEPT. 13-21, 2014 FLAVORS OF APRIL 15-23, 2014 NORTHERN ITALY NORMANDY, FRANCE 70th Anniversary of D-Day Travel to where passion for local foods and cuisine rivals the famous love story from Visit one of the great symbols of America’s Verona. Try cheeses from Parma, balsamics Grove City College bravery on the beaches and cliffs of Normandy. 100 Campus Drive from Modena and risotto from the Veronese You’ll see first-hand the history of those days Grove City, PA 16127 plain and join the celebration! 724.458.2300 when D-Day changed the course of World War II 888.GCC.GRAD for the Allies. www.gcc.edu Visit alumni.gcc.edu/travel [email protected] for more information $70,000,000$70,000,000 over seventy million dollars!
Grove City Matters: A Campaign to Advance Grove City College is poised for its final and closing phase because of alumni and friends like you. You are helping to shift ideas from dreams to realities through your gifts to Grove City College. Thank you.
ecause of you, more than $70 million has been raised, While STEM Hall is now open and providing students Bpushing us past the $69 million high-water mark set a first-class learning environment, we still need to by the College’s previous capital campaign. Seventy million complete the funding for the project. Scholarships have dollars represents 78 percent of the current campaign’s $90 grown to record levels, but students of today need them million goal. With your new or continued support, you are more than ever and we are compelled to establish more. helping to successfully complete this campaign. Our closing The exchange of ideas through the College’s Center for date is June 30, 2015, and we are confident that together, Vision & Values and the can-do spirit of future leaders we can share this accomplishment. through the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation are Your generosity has made it possible for Grove City also important elements of this campaign and distinctive College to complete two major building projects – STEM highlights in the educational experience offered at Grove Hall, the College’s new science, technology, engineering City College. These projects and programs are built and and mathematics building, which is profiled later in these sustained with your help. pages, and Rathburn Hall, which has become a hub for It is clear from the number at the top of this page how campus Christian activities. You have also established our alumni and friends value the unique qualities of Grove more than 90 scholarships, raising the vital effect of City College. It is a special institution, committed – for scholarship aid to $19.8 million for students. Your gifts 138 years – to a simple mission: To provide an excellent provide current and future Grovers with needed financial education in a Christian environment at an affordable support and encouragement to succeed academically and price. This is a priceless pursuit and we thank you for your grow spiritually. support.
To contribute to Grove City Matters: A Campaign to Advance Grove City College, see the envelope in this issue of The GeDUNK.
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scholarships Facilities goal: $30,000,000 $40,000,000 66% of overall goal
Facilities goal: $40,000,000 Unrestricted Giving $10,000,000 stem hall goal: $35,000,000 Vision & Values 85.1% of overall goal $5,000,000
Entrepreneurship & Innovation $5,000,000 rathburn hall goal: $5,000,000 Scholarships $30,000,000 100% of overall goal
* This campus facility was dedicated in Fall 2012 thanks to your generosity. Progress Unrestricted gifts As of Sept. 30, 2013, Grove City Matters has raised 77.97 goal: $10,000,000 percent of our $90 million goal. That means, because of the 100% of overall goal generosity of alumni and friends like you, we are $70,172,145 closer to ensuring the future and continued growth of Grove Vision & Values City College. If you have any questions or would like to know goal: $5,000,000 43.55% of overall goal more about Grove City Matters: A Campaign to Advance Grove City College, please visit grovecitymatters.com or contact the College’s development office at 866-FUNDGCC (866-386-3422) Entrepreneurship & Innovation goal: $5,000,000 or by email at [email protected]. 28.31% of overall goal
MAKE A DONATION visit www.grovecitymatters.com Figures reported 9/30/2013.
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News about the College, alumni, upfront students, campus, faculty and sports
Grove City College President Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67 receives a hug from a colleague outside Harbison Chapel after he announced his retirement at this year’s opening convocation. Jewell plans departure fter a decade on the job, Grove City Christian activities building (Rathburn Hall) This year marks Jewell’s 50th anniversary ACollege President Richard G. Jewell ’67 and Colonial Hall apartments. He also oversaw at Grove City College. He arrived as a will be stepping down at the end of the 2013- renovations and expansions of the Carnegie freshman in 1963 and distinguished himself 14 academic year. Alumni Center and two dining facilities. in many areas during his student years. He Jewell, 68, announced his impending During Jewell’s presidency, a total of 39 new was president of the Student Government retirement at this year’s opening convocation faculty members were added to assist in Association, a champion diver, editor of The in September, saying it was time for a Collegian, Omicron Delta Kappa’s Man of the changing of the guard in Crawford Hall. expanding the number of academic programs Year, and a scholar, graduating cum laude in “It is time to pass the baton to the next and the overall pedagogy of the College. political science. leader and for me to move on from this place Jewell, as president, completed in 2006 He went on to earn a Juris Doctorate that I love, knowing that together we have the College’s Change and Commitment campaign, for which he previously served degree from the University of Michigan School made a difference in the lives of our students as alumni co-chair. It raised more than $68 of Law and served in the United States Army and graduates. As I have said many times, million on a goal of $60 million. In 2009 he from 1969-1971. He enjoyed a successful this has been the opportunity of my lifetime,” launched Grove City Matters: A Campaign for career as an attorney and businessman before Jewell said. assuming the presidency of the College. The surprise announcement prompted a Grove City College, which has raised more standing ovation from the students, faculty than $70 million of its $90 million goal. Jewell also served for many years as a and staff assembled, a sign of the regard and Chair of the Board of Trustees David R. trustee of Grove City College. He was the respect he’s engendered since taking office in Rathburn ’79 hailed Jewell as a leader with youngest trustee ever in the history of the 2003. “great integrity, intellect and heart.” College when he joined the board at age 29. Under his leadership the College has “The board and I are truly grateful for While Jewell’s future plans are still a work increased enrollment by 10 percent and added Dick’s strategic leadership of the College,” in progress, those who know him are certain several major buildings to its 174-acre campus. Rathburn said. “No one has a love for Grove that he won’t go quietly into that good night. Among them are the new science, technology, City College greater than Dick Jewell. We “I don’t look to see him completely engineering and mathematics building (STEM wish him years of happiness and success as he retired,” his twin brother Paul told The Allied Hall), which opened for classes this fall, a transitions to this next phase of his life.” News. “It’s not the way he’s wired.”
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Search for a new President is underway Meet the Search Committee By David R. Rathburn ’79; Chair, Grove City College Board of Trustees The College’s presidential search t is hard to believe that a school in existence for more than 138 years has committee is made up of seven members of the Board of Trustees, only had to replace its President eight times. I two faculty members and two Over the years the process has changed. It used to be that the Board representatives of the administration. of Trustees chairman exercised direct authority to interview and select the next leader of our College. Under the able leadership of Paul Sticht ’39, the Dr. Michelle (Young ’83) Clauss, Faculty. fifth chairman of the Board, the process was formalized to establish a Search Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She’s been with the College since 1991. Committee as well as to seek input from the various constituencies of the College, resulting in the selection of Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67 as our eighth Dr. James G. Dixon III, Faculty. Chair of the Department of English. He’s been with the President. College since 1976. For the current search, we added two faculty members and two members of the Dr. F. Stanley Keehlwetter, Administration. administration to a contingent of seven Board members. At our first meeting on Oct. 17, the Dean of the Chapel. He’s been with the committee selected CarterBaldwin Executive Search to serve as the professional consulting firm. College since 1999. Price Harding, a partner in the firm, will assist the committee through this all-important process. Jack Kopnisky ’78, Trustee. President and CEO, We expect the search will take six to seven months. Thanks to Dr. Jewell’s gracious advance Provident Bank. He joined the board in 2008. notice of his retirement at the end of the academic year, naming a President-elect in the spring David Lascell, LLD ’06, Trustee Emeritus. will allow plenty of time for an appropriate transition. Partner, Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP. He We will keep you posted along the way as there is information to report. Today we ask that represented the College in its landmark you both pray for all the members of the committee as well as begin thinking about whether or Supreme Court case. He joined the board in not you know someone that might serve Grove City College well as its ninth President. 1996 and became an emeritus trustee in 2006. Dawn (Jurewicz ’90) Owens, Trustee. Our 11 committee members represent the following characteristics: Health care executive and former CEO of OptumHealth, a UnitedHealth Group company • Alumni from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s • The lawyer that argued the Grove City in Minnesota. She joined the board in 2008 • Seven alumni in all College case before the Supreme Court and was an Alumni Achievement Award recipient in the field of business in 2005. • Four Alumni Achievement Award • Three business owners David Porter ’88, Trustee. Shareholder, recipients • The longest-serving department chair in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a national • Four former varsity athletes (one with a the college law firm based in Pittsburgh. He joined the Varsity G from GCC) • Five current or former CEOs/Presidents board in 2006. • A leader from our current fine arts • Three members that have spent most David R. Rathburn ’79, Chair of the Board of Trustees. CEO, US Joiner LLC. He’s been programs of their professional life in Higher a member of the board since 1992 and was • A scientist Education elected chair in 2003. He received the Alumni • Five local community members Achievement Award in 2001. He serves as • An engineer chair of the Search Committee. • Five different states • A Presbyterian preacher and two William C. Stewart ’61, Trustee. Retired CEO of Presbyterian ruling elders Armstrong Cable Services. He joined the board in 2004 and won the Alumni Achievement Award in the field of business in 1995. Betty L. Tallerico, Administration. Assistant to the President. She has been with the College since 1991. Charlotte A. Zuschlag ’73, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees. President and CEO of ESB Financial Corp. in Ellwood City, Pa. She joined the board in 2002, and received the Alumni Achievement Award in the field of banking in 1994.
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omecoming Weekend 2013 boasted record crowds, warm summer-like Hweather and countless College memories relived as alumni flocked back to campus. It was a wonderful weekend of friendship and festivity. Time often stood still as alumni and current students crossed paths on campus. On-campus activities included the traditional football game in which the Wolverines beat rival Westminster, a Broadway musical-themed parade through campus and town, and breakfasts for alumni and families at more than a dozen locations on campus. The Quad took on a festival atmosphere with live music by Junction PA (a band formed on campus in the 1970s that’s still rocking today), a children’s play area, photo booths, organization tents and picnic-style lunches. “It’s always meaningful to me to see generations of people celebrating the common bond of their time here,” reflected Senior Director of Alumni and College Relations Melissa (Trifaro ’96) MacLeod. “I can honestly say that more than ever before it really felt like a celebration of family coming home.”
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3,975 Greatest number of miles traveled by an alum: Michelle (Fekety ’03) Hoffmann from Bleialf, Germany.
9 Age, in days, of the youngest alumni child: Cecelia Rose Schiavone, daughter of Liesl (VanHaute ’10) and Matt ’09 Schiavone.
203 Number of guests in attendance for the largest class reunion – Class of 2008.
72 Number of tents raised across the 174-acre College campus.
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3,680 Combined number of hamburgers and hotdogs served.
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Adelphikos 100th anniversary
More than 300 members of the Adelphikos fraternity gathered at the Four Points Sheraton in Mars, Pa., over Homecoming weekend to celebrate a century of brotherhood.
Mens soccer 75th Anniversary
Established in 1938, long before anyone’s mom got involved, the Grove City Men’s Varsity Soccer Team marked 75 years of matches with a special Homecoming reception in Rathburn Hall’s Morledge Great Room.
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Nu Lambda Phi 90th anniversary
Nearly 150 Nu Lambda Phi brothers reminisced over dinner as they celebrated the fraternity’s 90th anniversary during Homecoming weekend at the Pittsburgh Marriott North in Cranberry Township.
outing club 75th Anniversary
Members of the Grove City College Outing Club celebrated its 75th anniversary at a reception in Franklin over Homecoming weekend.
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Team USA at six Olympic Games. In addition, he is a consultant to the U.S. Navy SEALs on issues related to combat performance at high altitude. Wilber has authored two books and written more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and several book chapters in the areas of sports medicine and sport science. He was recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and currently serves as chair of its Olympic and Paralympic Sports Medicine Committee. He holds a masters in history from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and earned his masters and Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Florida State University. He is dedicated to the promotion of optimal cardiac health. He lives in Colorado Springs. Distinguished Service Award winner Dayton’s family ties to the College run deep. John B. Merlette ’68, Anne (Harker ’60) Dayton, Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Merchant ’80 and Dr. Randall L. Wilbur ’76 She is the daughter of the College’s fourth are pictured at the alumni awards dinner at Carnegie Alumni Center. president, Dr. J. Stanley Harker ’25, and the Four win alumni honors granddaughter of former Dean of the College rove City College presented its 2013 Jack master’s degree in management from Troy State Alva J. Calderwood. She has stayed closely GKennedy Memorial Alumni Achievement University and a master’s degree in national connected with the College, working in many and Distinguished Service awards Friday, resource management from the Industrial capacities during 14 years on the Alumni Oct. 4, during Homecoming weekend. The College of the Armed Forces. He and his wife, Council. She led her class reunion committee, Achievement Awards recognize alumni who Susan (Bell ’80), have a grown daughter. and entertained and housed students in her have made significant contributions to their Merlette, a mechanical and aerospace home, including many from overseas. chosen fields and society. The Distinguished engineer, specializes in designing and She is a retired public school teacher and Service Award is given for outstanding service fabricating advanced composite structures Slippery Rock University English professor. to the College. using carbon fiber-reinforced materials. He She and her husband, Dr. David Dayton ’60, Achievement awards went to Maj. Gen. was the first to design a graphite golf club shaft are the owners of Slovak Folk Crafts store in Kenneth D. Merchant ’80, John B. Merlette and to patent a graphite bicycle wheel. He also Grove City. She also is active in the Grove City Sr. ’68 and Dr. Randall L. Wilber ’76. Anne designed and fabricated advanced composite community and her church. (Harker ’60) Dayton received the Distinguished satellite and other aerospace components for Service Award. NASA and the Department of Defense. Modern The Grove City Merchant serves as director of global Boeing commercial aircraft utilize advanced College Alumni reach programs for the Office of the Assistant composite parts he designed. In 1983, he Association Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition. started his own business and with two partners established the Based out of Washington, D.C., he is supplied the orthotic and prosthetic industry Achievement responsible for airlift, air refueling, training and with advanced composite Springlite devices Award program special operations programs. During the course that aid victims of leg amputations and foot in 1964. The of his military career, he’s served as Air Staff injuries. awards were later named Program element monitor for the Advanced Merlette and his wife, “Red,” live in in honor Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile and as Bigfork, Mont., in a home they designed and and memory of longtime Director of executive officer to the commander of Pacific that was selected as one of the 10 best homes Alumni Relations and Career Services Air Forces. Prior to his current assignment, he of 2010 by Timber Home Living magazine. The Jack Kennedy ’37, who had an indelible was the program executive officer for weapons Merlettes have five children. impact on the lives and futures of at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Wilber is a senior sport physiologist at thousands of Grovers. The awardees are Merchant has earned a number of service the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado selected each spring by a committee of awards for his military achievements and has a Springs, Colo. He has been a staff member of the Alumni Association.
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Bullock named new Alumni Council President New alumni council members ew Alumni Council president Gerald scholarship and other programs and is always he following alumni were nominated and NBullock ’92 is what you’d expect: A reaching out to other alumni to chat about Taccepted positions on the Alumni Council. hard working family man trying to make a all the good things happening on campus Their terms began July 1, 2013: difference. and ways for Grove City College to grow and P. Scott Duesterdick, Esq. Bullock, a history major, continue to lead in the future. ’76 is is vice president of returned to his native substantive policy with Virginia after graduation AYO Company, LP. He and from Grove City College What’s the new Alumni Association his wife, Tracey, live in and indulged his lifelong president really like? We thought we’d upstate New York and have passion for the subject by dig a bit more to give readers a more three children. settling in Williamsburg, personal look, so we asked him to finish one of the most historic towns in America. five random sentences. James Evans, Ph.D. ’70 Bullock pursued a career that would keep My absolute favorite meal is … is vice president and dean him in that colonial-era environment, going country style steak, mashed potatoes of student affairs at the to work at the College of William & Mary, and chocolate cake. University of Pittsburgh, where he currently serves as regional director The greatest joy in my life is … my Bradford. He and his wife, of university development and major gifts. family, especially my wife, Tammy, Lisa, live in Bradford, Pa. Bullock is happy to be at one of the oldest one-year-old Ella and my three schools in the country, walking the same halls nephews. Joann (Tresham ’64) as the likes of Thomas Jefferson and James If I could hang out with one famous Mehaffeyand her Monroe. In an interesting side note, Bullock person for one day, living or dead, it husband, Trustee Bill shares a talent with our third president – he would be … a fellow Virginian, Chief Mehaffey ’64, live in plays the violin. Justice John Marshall, in whose home Pittsburgh and keep very While the past fascinates him, it’s the I served as a tour guide during summer busy with their three present that he is most passionate about due breaks in high school and college. grown children and to his wife, Tammy, and their daughter, Ella Something I wish more people knew grandchildren. Catherine. In between home and work, Bullock about my alma mater is … the quality Marlene (Otto ’59) enjoys golf, softball and the opportunity to of the students and faculty, from the Morrell divides her time meet and engage with fellow Grovers. lifelong friendships made on campus to between the Pittsburgh Bullock has served on the alumni council the networking opportunities that arise area and Bonita Springs, for many years, is a former alumni member of daily (even where I live) to connect and Fla., and enjoys visiting the Board of Trustees and helps the College promote Grove City College. her three children and arrange Virginia event venues. He supports grandchildren. Jana Volante, Esq. ’07 is a litigation associate with Fox Rothchild, LLP in Pittsburgh. The Harvard Law School graduate lives in Moon Township, Pa.
Members of the 2013 Grove City College Alumni Council together during their fall meeting during Homecoming weekend.
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Alumni posed for a group photo during the summer picnic event at Glenmore Country Club in Brian Gongaware ’92 and John Holt ’84 share the Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 25. latest news at the Financial Networking Mixer, June 12 in Cranberry, Pa.
Kennywood’s Music Express ride was a blur of speed and thrills for alumni families on Grove College President Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67 greets alumni at a tailgaiting City College Day, July 26. event before the Sept. 21 night game at Thorn Field.
Volunteers lend a hand at a service event for Impact Thrift Stores in Jarrett ’09 and Karen (Bennett ’09) Skorup opened their home to Michigan alumni and Philadelphia, June 15. incoming freshmen, Sept. 12.
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Upcoming Alumni & Friends Events 2013 December 2-6 Carnegie Christmas Concerts Grove City College December 7 Alumni and Friends Santa Breakfast Grove City College December 14 Sight and Sound Theater “Miracle of Christmas” Lancaster, Pa. 2014 January 11 President Jewell Farewell Tour Home of Jody Mathie ’77 Denver, Colo. January 11 Twelfth Night Alumni Party Mickleton, N.J. January 31 Bill and Julie (DeTorre ’81) Kramer hosted a Grover Gathering at their home in Minnesota, Aug. 11. President Jewell Farewell Tour Home of Bill Seanor ’63 Dallas, Tex. February 7 Showcasing the Classics – Pittsburgh Symphony Pittsburgh March 1 President Jewell Farewell Tour Home of Bob Wickerham ’68 Naples, Fla. March 8 President Jewell Farewell Tour Hosted by Ed ’78 and Lynn ’78 Breen New Hope, Pa. Remember to bookmark alumni.gcc.edu/events for more dates and info on registering.
Alumni enjoyed lunch and a tour of historic Camden Yards in Baltimore, June 23.
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Graham settles in as provost rove City College’s new Provost and Vice GPresident for Academic Affairs Dr. Robert Graham has spent his first few months on the job getting to know people, the history and traditions of the College and learning “the lay of the land.” That’s not to say the 49-year-old veteran college administrator didn’t already have a pretty good grip on the College’s culture when he sought out the job as its chief academic officer. “The school has an excellent reputation,” he said. “Grove City’s Christian mission is a foundational point along with rigorous academics. The students are among the brightest I’ve encountered and the school has a true commitment to Christian faith.” The Broadway hit “Les Miserables” was staged in October on campus by Grove City College students under the direction of Dr. James G. Dixon, chair of the Department of English. All five performances of the show were sold out. That dovetails nicely with one of Graham’s “passions,” the concept of service learning, which he hopes to make a bigger part of the College high in rankings academic mix on campus. rove City College continues to rack up for information about college finances. “Basically, it’s integrating service into what Gaccolades and cement its reputation as Grove City was ranked near the top of a list students are doing in the classroom,” he said, one of the nation’s best small private liberal of the most affordable Pennsylvania colleges offering the example of accounting students arts colleges. and universities with the biggest returns providing free income tax help to those who may Nationwide rankings released this fall on investment – specifically an additional need, but can’t afford, professional assistance. by the usual suspects – U.S. News and World $600,000 earned on average. A Grove City “It’s a service to the community and Report, Princeton Review and Forbes – turned a College degree leads to “consistent payoff in deepens the learning,” Graham said. positive light on the College while newcomers the workplace,” AC Online noted. Graham comes to the College from to the rankings business took a more focused • The number one school in America for Waynesburg University, where he was most look and discovered some strengths that the homeschoolers by SuperScholar.org. Grove recently provost and previously served as dean “big boys” may not see. City is “uniformly excellent academically, of undergraduate studies. This year, Grove City was included in U.S. maintains its theological heritage without A native of the Bahamas, where his parents News’ annual list of the Best National Liberal being dogmatic, and stresses interesting social were missionaries, Graham says he’s “mostly” Arts Colleges, Princeton Review’s “The 378 and political distinctives, such as the Austrian from Ohio but now calls Grove City home. Best Colleges 2014” guide and featured on approach to free-market economics.” The He and his wife, Cheryl, have a 16-year-old national, regional and private college listings homeschool movement is growing rapidly and daughter, Corinne. in Forbes’ yearly review of America’s Top homeschooled students already make up 15 Graham holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Colleges. percent of the College’s student body. the University of Cincinnati, a master’s In recent years, new players have entered • A Christian College of Distinction, by degree in gerontological studies from Miami the college ranking game and niche sources Colleges of Distinction. The College excels University, Oxford, Ohio, and a bachelor of of information about higher education have with “engaged students, great teaching, arts degree in sociology from Lee University, found new prominence online. The criteria by vibrant communities and successful Cleveland, Tenn., where he was a professor which they measure a school is different and outcomes,” according to the rankings. Colleges of sociology and chair of that university’s more focused. of Distinction describe schools that take a Department of Behavioral and Social On that front, the College was recognized holistic approach to admissions decisions, Sciences. Before that he was research analyst this fall as: consistently excel in providing undergraduate and research associate at the University of • A great return on investment by education and have a truly national Cincinnati. Affordable Colleges, an online clearinghouse reputation.
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Which early 1900s physics professor coached football, baseball and introduced radio to campus? BEST in Grove City Those who respond with the correct ngineering came to life Oct. 18 and 19 as 300 high- and middle-schoolers from 18 schools answer will have a chance to win Ecompeted in the Wolverine BEST robotics competition at Grove City College. “Robots are cool, kids like robots,” Dr. Michael Bright, chair of Electrical and Computer a prize! Contact the Office of Engineering Department, said. “We know that through building robots kids need to use math, Marketing and Communications at science and team building skills.” [email protected] or on Twitter For the fourth year in a row, top honors went to the team from Cornerstone Christian @GroveCtyCollege #PopQuiz. Preparatory Academy, a school founded by Brandon McCall ’08. Summer issue Pop Quiz winners! Inman named VP for enrollment ongratulations to the winners of last issue’s Pop Quiz: Sam Kepler r. John G. Inman has been appointed vice He assumed the registrar’s position in 2001. ’64, Susan Adams, Rachel (Russell president for enrollment services and Inman joined the College in 1994. Previously C D ’03) Kiehl, Karen (Bennett ’09) Skorup and registrar at Grove City College. The appointment he directed a two-year campus-wide Grace (Erickson ’62) Peters. became effective July 1. conversion to a new administrative software They correctly “The goal of system for Y2K compliance and, as director answered enrollment services is to of distributed computing, helped lead the that Grove join together the many College through six years of the Information City College departments involved with Technology Initiative – the College’s student has international recruitment. Our goal is to laptop program. study centers/programs in provide the best service to He’s a graduate of Geneva College and France and Chile (bonus information also our prospective students earned his M.B.A. and D.Sc. in information accepted: exchange partnerships in Ireland and their families during the college search systems and communications from Robert and South Korea). Thanks to all who process, as well as to ensure enrolled students Morris University. He is married to Janice participated! have a great academic experience while at (Zinsner ’87) Inman, communications project Grove City College,” Inman said. coordinator and an associate editor of the Inman has had a dual role as dean of GēDUNK magazine. enrollment services and registrar since 2008.
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Student values giving t’s easy to find Grove City College students Iwho are willing to help out someone in need. The number of service clubs on campus and mission trips organized by the College are a testament to the student body’s dedication to the Christian virtue of charity. Sacrificing a few hours a week or a few days or weeks over school breaks to help others is something that most students do as a matter of course. Junior electrical engineering major James Riel went above and beyond when he underwent surgery in Pittsburgh to donate bone marrow to a 59-year-old woman suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Riel, a member of the Adelphikos fraternity and the club rugby team, isn’t one to tout his Elizabeth Casteel ’14, vice president of the College’s chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers, explained selfless actions. the club’s race car to campus visitors during Homecoming weekend outside STEM Hall. “I don’t want to come across as some hero. I’m just your average college student who SAE puts classroom lessons to the test followed the opportunity that God provided,” he Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) “We are hoping to get the entire club he said. consists of engineering students who involved in getting the car running and Riel, 22, has been on the donor lists since T 2010, when he had the inside of his cheek work throughout the year to hone their skills helping with the manufacturing and assembly,” swabbed for match compatibility at a bone by maintaining and racing vehicles. While Casteel said. marrow drive sponsored by his high school in they primarily improve and recycle cars built According to Shipe, the biggest application Ipswich, Mass. in years past, this year the seniors of SAE of students’ engineering skills is in the design He got the call that there was a match are designing and building a new car they’re phase, though the proof is in the performance. earlier this year and on Sept. 24 he traveled calling “Baja” that will be raced in a national “Once we finish manufacturing we get to to West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh to make SAE event in Illinois. see how to evaluate our design,” Casteel said. the donation. The lengthy medical procedure “This year we are trying to build a new “We then take what is learned in the machine culminated in having hollow needles inserted frame as well as a front and rear suspension shop and take it into the fabrication phase.” into his pelvic bone to pull out the marrow. Riel acknowledged the pain and system with our main goal being to Shipe said the club is always working inconvenience associated with the process, but incorporate the drive train,” Chris Shipe ’14, against the clock. It is a big challenge to build stayed focused on the bigger picture. SAE president, said. a car in a year, but the rewards are great. “It is somewhat of an inconvenience,” Riel Elizabeth Casteel ’14, SAE vice president, “The biggest payoff is racing the car,” Shipe said soon after the procedure. “I am behind in said the club helps introduce underclassmen said. “It is a great experience to have fun with schoolwork and can’t play rugby for a while, to shop work and gives them a chance to use all of the hard work you put into building and but I would rather be inconvenienced than the tools. maintaining a car.” person who needs the care.”
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Meet the Class of 2017 The Grove City College Class of 2017 features 316 men and 332 women from 35 states and international locations. 3.72 1205 27 AVERAGE GPA AVERAGE sat AVERAGE act 28 18 Valedictorians salutatorians
32 49 95 96 Percentage of enrolled Percentage of enrolled men and women ranked men and women ranked in the top tenth of their in the top fifth of their 7 graduating class* graduating class* *of those submitting rank
Number of students active National Merit in some facet of high school Scholarship Finalists 207 student government
Number of students Number of students active in missions involved in community 311 447 service
Among freshman students, the most popular declared majors for men are engineering and computer science. The most popular majors among women are biology and education.
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Professors testify in Harrisburg pair of Grove City College professors traded Athe classroom for the hearing room when they testified before Pennsylvania State House committees this fall. Dr. Michael Coulter ’91 and Dr. Constance N. Nichols offered lawmakers their expertise on pending legislation. Coulter testified before a committee examining a raft of legislative proposals to tighten ethics rules for members of the General Assembly and other state officials. Over the last several years, Pennsylvania has been plagued by a series of public corruption cases that have raised serious concerns about abuses of power and backroom dealing. While polling is inconclusive, Coulter told the State Government Committee that a recent survey put public approval of the General Assembly at College faculty and alums help complete goose mitochondria just 33 percent. group of Grove City College alumni Center for Biotechnology Information “Now 33 percent is a much higher rate than Awho worked under the supervision of International Gene Bank and all further that of the United States Congress, but we are not biology professors Dr. Fred J. Brenner and researchers on the mitochondria of the grading on a curve,” Coulter said. Dr. Durwood B. Ray were credited for their Canada goose will cite the Grove City College That low approval speaks to the political contributions to a paper that was accepted sequence. legitimacy of the legislature’s actions, Coulter said. for publication in the International Journal The Canada goose was selected for the The ethics proposals being considered would Mitochondrial DNA. project because of an increase in resident not have prevented scandals of the recent past, The paper is a result of several years populations of the waterfowl in North but they could Coulter told lawmakers, “increase of work during which Grove City College America. “The results of this study will the sense of legitimacy with which citizens of the became the first laboratory in the world to provide a base line to compare the variations Commonwealth view their state government.” sequence the entire mitochondria of the in the mitochondrial genome in these Nichols, chair of the Department of Canada goose. populations as well as migratory geese,” Education, testified in October before the House Alumni that contributed to the sequence Brenner said. Education Committee about legislation clarifying are: Joshua C. Snyder ’04, Craig Andrew The ultimate goals of the project are to the education requirements for teachers. Mackaness ’05, Megan R. Sopher ’06, discover if goose populations in eastern and Nichols urged members to keep education Jonathan P. Huber ’05, Edward J. Disantis ’04, western North America originated from the and licensing requirements separate, arguing that Andrew J. Senecal ’04, Byron P. Vaughn ’04, same migratory populations and to determine colleges like Grove City that turn out top-quality Robert S. Desantis ’05, Page E. Tobelmann the maternal lineages of geese in different educators shouldn’t have to require aspiring ’03, Natalie M. Hecht ’01, Patrick M. Barry parts of Pennsylvania. teachers to take licensing exams administered by ’98, Matthew D. Show ’00, Leanne Hubiak Ray recently retired from active teaching for-profit companies to graduate. Speering ’97 and Christina A. Genareo ’10. but is still involved in research. She told the panel that such a requirement The College’s Canada goose mitochondria would be costly and arbitrary for many students findings have been published in the National and erode the autonomy of institutions that prepare them for the classroom.
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academic accolades
Dr. Mark Hendrickson, adjunct professor of economics, recently accepted an invitation to be a contributing editor to The Moral Liberal. The online journal is dedicated to the tenets of classical liberalism, the philosophy embraced by America’s founding generation, and includes articles on politics, education, economics, philosophy and religion.
Dr. D.J. Wagner, professor of physics, was recently elected to a two-year term as national president of the Society of Physics Students (SPS). She became involved in SPS as a sophomore at the College of William & Mary and has advised the Grove City College chapter of SPS since her arrival in 2001. She received the SPS Outstanding Chapter Adviser award for the 2009-10 academic year.
Dr. Mark Graham, associate professor of history, recently had his textbook, Ancient Empires: From Grove City College welcomes 13 new faculty members Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam, translated into rove City College added 13 new faculty members this Portuguese by Gertulio Schanoski Jr. The book, used Gfall. The new hires include three alumni, five who will be in universities in the U.S. and abroad, received a teaching STEM classes, a former acting university president and glowing review in Ancient History Bulletin: “Ancient the college’s new provost. The faculty pictured include (front row) Empires challenges the reader to think on a scale Dr. Lory Al Moakar, assistant professor of computer science; Cory that is seldom found today in academic books…[and] should assist Boatright, assistant professor of computer science; J. Christian academic readers, in general not just specialists in the ancient world, in Ola ’92, assistant professor of business; George Howley, assistant posing better questions in their own work.” professor of entrepreneurship; Dr. Lisa Hosack, assistant professor of social work; Brian Dellinger ’07, assistant professor of computer Dr. Celine T. Leon, professor of modern science and Christine Slater ’11, instructor of physical education. languages, recently completed an article length Back row: Dr. Robert Graham, provost and vice president entry for Kierkegaard’s Concepts, part of 23-volume for academic affairs; Dr. Charles Curry, associate professor of anthology exploring the Danish philosopher’s accounting; Dr. Lawrence Walker, assistant professor of electrical work. Leon’s entry is part of a comprehensive engineering; Dr. Martin Bright, associate professor of social work; survey of the conceptual terms that inform Soren Dr. James Clem, assistant professor of physics and Dr. Richard Kierkegaard’s writing that is intended to elucidate Grimm, professor of finance. the groundbreaking thinker’s work for present and future generations of scholars.
A paper Dr. Erik J. Anderson, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, wrote with past student research assistant Vern Baker ’10 and colleagues from Harvard and Drexel universities in 2011, “Bioinspiration from fish for smart material design and function,” was one of the 20 most cited articles of 2012 from the journal Smart Materials and Structures. Anderson was notified of the distinction this summer. The work describes the performance of propulsive strategies and materials inspired by fish. Anderson is currently on sabbatical at Harvard.
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Football of the 1938 inaugural season as 15-man senior class led the part of the College’s Homecoming AGrove City College football festivities. team into the 2013 season as the Sophomore midfielder Seth Wolverines looked to build on a Loew led Grove City with six goals 6-4 record in 2012. and 13 points last season and is Offensively, senior quarterback a returning First Team All-PAC Brian Pell returned after making honoree. 21 starts over his first three Senior and three-year starter seasons. Two of his top targets Dan Adams returns to anchor the returned at wide receiver in fellow Wolverine defense after earning seniors Anthony Ritchie and Khalil Second Team All-PAC accolades Ervin. Juniors Steve Maskrey and last season. Chris Burgan, Richie Sam Ivan look to replace 1,000- Kocur, Kyle Matherne and Brian yard rusher Shane Kaclik in the Wilkes all returned for their senior backfield. season. Pell, senior linebacker Ben The Wolverines are currently Manwaring and senior defensive 7-5-3 overall with a 3-1-1 record back Chris Gibbs – a 2012 in Presidents’ Athletic Conference CoSIDA Academic All-American action. – have been selected as team co- captains for the season. Women’s Soccer After starting the season 2-0, he Grove City College including the first win over Twomen’s soccer team Carnegie Mellon since 2008, returned nine seniors and 20 the Wolverines incurred pair of total letterwinners from the losses before rebounding with a 2012 squad that tied a program- 24-21 Homecoming victory over record with 16 wins, made its archrival Westminster October 5. third all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament and earned Men’s Soccer the program’s first-ever NCAA rove City College welcomed Tournament victory. Gback 14 lettermen from Senior Sam Weber, a 2012 a 2012 squad that went 8-9-2 First Team All-PAC and Second overall and 5-2-1 in the conference Team All-Great Lakes Region while facing one of the toughest performer, returns after leading schedules in the region. Eighth- the Wolverines in scoring each year head coach Mike Dreves ’97 of the past two seasons. Fellow Wolverines quarterback looked to guide the Wolverines senior Sarah Cessar earned First Brian Pell ’14 serves as team co-captain with back to the top of the conference Team All-PAC and Great Lakes linebacker Ben Manwaring and into the postseason for the Region honors in the midfield ’14 and defensive back fourth straight season. while seniors Jessica Heck, Lydia Chris Gibbs ’14. Additionally, the program Caissy and Leah Wilt all earned celebrated the 75th anniversary All-PAC laurels as part of a stingy
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Wolverine defense that posted a Women’s Cross Country 0.74 goals against average. he Grove City College Forwards Shannon Bishop, Twomen’s cross country team Becky McManus and Chelsea entered the 2013 season looking Tarolli each return as three-year to maintain its spot at the top letterwinners at forward while of the Presidents’ Athletic senior Tiffany Yost will split time Conference and earn a 25th in goal with junior Kristi Lathrop, consecutive conference title. who earned Second Team All-PAC Losing five of its top seven honors in 2012. runners to graduation, the The Wolverines are currently Wolverines returned four seniors 8-6-1 overall with a perfect 5-0 and 10 total letterwinners. Senior record in PAC action. Laurel Skorup returns after earning Second Team All-PAC Volleyball honors in 2012 while seniors he Grove City College Austin Powell and Cayla Clawson Twomen’s volleyball team will and junior Kara Cremean all look to return to the top of the have earned All-PAC Honorable conference in 2013 after posting Mention status during their a 14-17 record during the 2012 careers. Caroline McGuire ’15 looks to repeat the success of the 2012 season. season that earned her PAC Player of the Year honors. Senior outside hitter Shelby Men’s Cross Country Mander and senior libero Tara ith seven seniors and Women’s Tennis Skinner were selected as team Weleven total returning he Grove City College Grove City battled to a captains while the Wolverines also letterwinners, the Grove City Twomen’s tennis team second-place showing at the PAC return senior All-PAC Honorable College men’s cross country entered the season looking to Championships, narrowly losing Mention honorees in Ashley team look to take the Presidents’ climb higher in the Presidents’ to Westminster in a faceoff that Branch and Tierza Rangel. Athletic Conference title in Athletic Conference standings went down to the final matches. Branch has earned PAC Player of 2013. after finishing third at the Peters went on to win the the Week laurels twice this season Senior Arleigh McRae, a 2012 conference tournament in 2012. PAC title at fifth singles while while leading the Wolverines to First Team All-PAC honoree, Lauren Troxel returned as the White earned the conference a 13-11 overall record and a 6-7 returned as one of the top runners lone senior on the 2013 squad crown at sixth singles. McGuire record in PAC play thus far. in the conference while classmate while Junior Caroline McGuire and Lagerquist would team up Head coach Susan Roberts Alec Shultz looked to return from looked to repeat as PAC Player of for the first doubles title while coached her 1,000th volleyball an injury to his 2011 form, when the year after earning that title in Tetrick and Peters were victorious match at Grove City Oct. 23, he also earned First Team All-PAC 2012. Junior Leah White returned at second doubles. McGuire, 2013, when the Wolverines visited laurels. as a two-year letterwinner while Lagerquist and Tetrick were PAC Bethany. The 2013 season will Senior Mark Talbott is a two- sophomores Karolina Lagerquist, runners-up at first through third be Roberts’ final season at the time All-PAC Honorable Mention Kendra Tetrick and Samantha singles, respectively while Troxel College as she has announced her honoree while Matt Mucha and Roberts looked to assume larger and Becker finished third at third retirement, effective at the end of Randy Holcombe also return as roles. Freshmen Linnea Peters and doubles. the 2013-14 academic year. three-year letterwinners for the Julie Becker would round out the Wolverines. Wolverine lineup.
the G ¯e D U N K www.gcc.edu | 27 The reaction is nearly universal. From the outside, STEM Hall, Grove the impressive structure at the heart of City College’s new science, technology, upper campus has been around for years. engineering and mathematics building, Entering STEM Hall for the first time, is a handsome construct. Its brick walls walking under the gothic archways and seem primed for the clichéd ivy covering of through the imposing wooden doors, one higher learning. expects to encounter a typical classroom Open for just a few months, the building at a small, private liberal arts building shares an architectural style school in western Pennsylvania. similar to others on campus and a first- And then it hits. time visitor could be forgiven for thinking
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is enamored of the new building, In the early 1970s, the United States’ in the number of college graduates in waxing almost philosophic about “open dominance in science, technology, the STEM fields. The number of STEM architecture” and “internal spaciousness.” engineering and mathematics was graduates has been falling since 1993. STEM, he says, is just plain inspiring. unquestioned. We were the nation that All the while the need for STEM- “There’s a ‘wow’ factor that actually put a man on the Moon. Our colleges and proficient workers was growing. The field influences how you do your job.” universities were turning out graduates accounted for less than 4 percent of the Why STEM? who would revolutionize society with U.S. workforce in 1970. By 2008 it was STEM isn’t just a catchy name for ever smaller and faster computers, nearly 7 percent and expected to grow by a new building, it’s an acronym that’s stronger and lighter materials and 18 percent by 2018. Yet nearly a quarter become a buzzword in education and increasingly efficient machines. of scientists working for U.S. companies business circles for some very good By the first decade of the 21st century, are foreign-born. reasons. (STEM stands for science, we were lagging behind. In 2009, reports They aren’t the kind of workers that technology, engineering and mathematics) indicated the U.S. trailed 26 other nations put in a day’s labor and punch out.
the G ¯e D U N K www.gcc.edu | 31 The computer scientist who knocks catching, but there’s a reason beyond off after an eight-hour stretch is rare, as aesthetics to put teachers and their students is the physicist or biologist who leaves in what’s become known as the “fishbowl.” their experiments for tomorrow or the The concept is called science in sight mathematician or mechanical engineer and it’s intended to demystify the work who will walk away from a problem that scientists at Grove City College have before it is solved. been doing for years “behind closed There’s a reason STEM jobs pay on doors” in their labs at Rockwell Hall. The average 26 percent more than other overall goal is to give those who might fields. It’s called innovation. never think twice about taking an elective Innovation is what drives the course in the sciences a chance to see what economy and it’s what business and goes on. Science is intimidating to the industry needs to grow and thrive. But uninitiated, but some of the apprehension U.S. companies can’t find the domestic may give way when a wavering student, talent they need. Business leaders have perhaps an unwitting Madame Curie, sees labeled the situation a crisis and turned peers mixing chemicals or looking into a to the nation’s educators for answers. microscope and decides to give science a STEM Hall is Grove City College’s chance. response. There are eight other labs on four levels for chemistry, biology, computer science THE ANSWER and collaborative research. Tucked out of There’s no doubt STEM Hall is a show the way, but easily accessible, are storage horse, but it’s a work horse as well, and all rooms for chemicals and equipment and the bells and whistles have a purpose. a vivarium where lab animals can be kept The central laboratories are eye and observed.
32 | www.gcc.edu the G ¯e D U N K Behind the “wall talkers” – interactive out” after class are important for students dry erase boards that double as projection who need room to work on group HANDS ON Alumni screens and cover the walls in most labs projects and for faculty who hope to use he ranks of Grove City College and some hallways – under the terrazzo STEM Hall’s unique features to change alumni who helped build STEM floors and running along the ceilings the way they teach. T Hall isn’t limited to those who wrote in STEM there’s a network of cables “We want to bust the podium a check. Some Grovers actually put and pipes that power the cutting-edge model,” Dr. Bill Birmingham, chair of the their backs into the job. technology and keep the building’s air Department of Computer Science, says. A number of College graduates clean and circulating. Birmingham tasks his students with work for or run companies that were Faculty offices are sprinkled designing applications that users will part of the team that built the new throughout the second and third both need and want. Silicon Valley science, technology, engineering and floors, arranged not by discipline but doesn’t work like a traditional classroom, mathematics building. by personal preference, which allows he says, and neither should the College’s They are: Craig Beatty ’95, Travis professors to break out of their respective computer science program. Croll ’90, Steve Hart ’90, and Randy academic venues. That decision, which The computer science labs go a long Patterson ’78, all of Renick Brothers might put a chemist in an office beside way to reaching the goal of cutting down Mechanical Contractors; Jake Burns a computer scientist, was part of a lecture time and increasing student ’05, Bill Juergens ’87, and Kyle larger STEM Hall strategy to increase activity. Steelcase workstations, which Smith ’10, all of Burns Industrial collaboration and drive innovation. allow a number of students to plug their Roofing Services; Bruce Becherer ’80 Office “suites,” save for the dean’s laptops into a large central monitor and of W.B. Becherer Modernfold, Inc.; on the third floor, are open. Outside share their work, are an innovation in John Morris ’92 of J.J. Morris & Sons; each there’s a work table that’s usually which Grove City is on the leading edge. Glenn Schaper ’81 of Sippel Steel; occupied by students. The College is one of the first places Mary White ’83 of Blinds, Etc.; Earl Those tables and the other informal they’ve been put to use. Woodward III ’86 of Woodward Inc.; workspaces salted around the building Students are making good use of and Joshua Klopsic ’07 of Ballinger. that provide space for students to “hang the screens in their down time as well,
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Birmingham says, during video game weren’t in use at the time. “The contrast College graduates to find jobs and obtain nights at STEM Hall. was profound,” he says. spots at graduate school. Busting traditional teaching paradigms The new building was really a necessity With the completion of STEM Hall, the is one thing, but Dr. Kristina (Odonish that Dudt says will help attract students College has made a $39.5 million brick ’01) Pazehoski sees a more practical and high quality teachers. “Being able to and mortar statement about its intentions advantage in STEM Hall. put your best foot forward may tip the when it comes to science education. “There’s space for students to do their balance,” he says of recruiting. “There has always been an emphasis research,” the biology professor said. But it’s hard not to come back around on science and math,” Stacy Birmingham Pazehoski spent a lot of time in Rockwell to STEM Hall’s visual impact. Dudt cites says of the College. “STEM Hall helps Hall as an undergrad and as a professor. the words of College benefactor Joseph communicate the message that this She doesn’t cast aspersions on the old N. Pew: “Make the campus beautiful for important. It’s a great recruiting tool for building, but says that students had to that, too, is an education.” students and faculty. It reinforces the “squeeze in here or squeeze in there” to “What we’ve done is realized an commitment.” get their work done. In STEM, she says, important part of our mission,” Dudt says. What’s coming next will make that “We can stretch our arms out.” THE FUTURE commitment even clearer. STEM Hall is The move to nicer digs has had a Science and engineering have always phase one of a two-phase project. STEM positive impact on her students, who been among Grove City’s biggest majors, II, as it’s being called around campus, will are working on breaking down E. coli with a third of the student body enrolled replace Rockwell Hall, which has served cultures to get disease-fighting proteins. in one or another of the Hopeman generations of students and become an “They seem to be more motivated to School’s seven majors. One of the iconic image of Grove City College over work on their projects. They’re getting a College’s many unique claims is that it’s the past 82 years. glimpse of what it will be like in the real one of the few religiously affliated schools The plan calls for razing Rockwell world,” Pazehoski says. to have ABET-accredited electrical and and building in its place a new building Biology professor Dudt started the mechanical engineering programs. that mirrors and connects to STEM Hall, semester teaching half his classes in Work is being done now to secure creating one larger home for all of the STEM Hall and half in what he now calls accreditation for the computer science Hopeman School disciplines. The plans “Old Rockwell.” Eventually he moved and biology programs. These seals of call for retaining Rockwell’s signature them all to STEM, taking over labs that approval make it easier for Grove City tower, only larger and higher. n
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Dedication day TEM Hall was formally dedicated on Sept. S19, 2013, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that brought together everyone involved in the planning, design and execution of the building project. At a cost of $39.5 million, accounting for nearly half of the money being raised under the Grove City Matters: A Campaign for Grove City College, STEM Hall is a big deal on campus and for the College’s future. With architects from Ballinger of Philadelphia, which designed the building in consultation with Hopeman School faculty, the College’s operations and information technology staffs, representatives from builder PJ Dick of Pittsburgh, administrators, faculty and other members of the campus family – including past Presidents John H. Moore (a former vice-chair of the National Science Foundation) and Charles “Does it answer the question?” S. MacKenzie – looking on, College President hat’s the criteria Peter D. Calaboyias, a Calaboyias specializes. Individual pieces were Richard G. Jewell ’67 reached into the past to Tworld-renowned sculptor, applies to the welded together to form a triangle inside a mark the occasion. specific site works of art that he’s created in circle — an effect that represents pioneering He cited speeches made 81 years ago when spaces as high profile as Altanta’s Olympic Greek mathematicians Pythagoras of the Rockwell Hall was dedicated. Then as now, Park for the 1996 games or as close to home as famous theorem and Archimedes, whose science was a priority for the College. Rockwell Grove City College, where his latest sculpture formulation of pi helped square the circle. was the first academic building on upper was installed and unveiled in October. A 20-foot upward reaching arc supports the campus and the dignitaries of the time hailed The work, “Pythagorean Pi,” stands in a pieces and draws the viewer’s attention, toward its construction in words that could be applied courtyard outside STEM Hall between Harker the heavens. today to STEM Hall. Hall and the Physical Learning Center. It was Etched into each bronze piece are scientific Jewell quoted J. Howard Pew, Class of 1900, commissioned by the College to complement symbols and images, from the double helix who led the Board of Trustees for four decades. the new science, technology, engineering and of DNA to a depiction of the space helmet- Pew noted that some at the time – like today mathematics building that opened in August. covered face of Neil Armstrong, the first man – fear the advances of science may be used to Calaboyias, who has taught art at the College on the Moon. They are meant to represent the undermine the tenets of faith. since 1995, said he wanted to create a work disciplines included in the Albert A. Hopeman “I am convinced as science carries us that conveyed a specific message “without Jr. School of Science, Engineering and nearer to the borderland of possible human giving up any of my integrity.” That meant it Mathematics. understanding, men will better realize how finite had to represent his own artistic style while The idea, Calaboyias said, is to provide are their powers, how limited their vision, how meeting the needs of the College to highlight viewers two impressions of the work. One from narrow their understanding. They will realize both the new building and the institution’s a distance, where the overall shape and size of their dependence on forces and guidance which continued commitment to the STEM the work can be appreciated. they can never understand, but in which they disciplines. “They notice the sculpture first,” he said. must repose all confidence, all hope and all “I started thinking about the school and “That’s the invitation.” faith,” Pew said. the new building,” he said. “What did I want Those who accept it will come closer, where Moore, in his keynote speech, said with STEM people who look at the work to take away?” the specific meaning of the piece becomes Hall, Grove City College can make a qualitative With “Pythagorean Pi,” Calaboyias aimed clearer. difference in the scientific field. high, attempting to symbolize the history of “The sculpture should speak back to the “What we can offer is an education rooted in scientific achievement, from the work of the viewer,” Calaboyias said. a moral and ethical environment,” Moore said. ancients to the chemists, computer scientists Calaboyias’ style isn’t abstract, a movement History is littered with tales of technological and and engineers of today, while reinforcing the in public art that he calls “elitist” and dismisses scientific advances put to evil uses, he said, but divine inspiration and guidance of God, the as the arrogance of artists. His work is large, a Grove City College trained scientist will be ultimate creator. usually in cast bronze and often incorporates equipped “to make wise decisions about the use The 14-foot-tall, 4,000 pound sculpture geometric shapes and patterns as well as more of technology.” is made of cast bronze, a material in which representational elements.
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outhworth was an engineering pioneer whose work at Bell Laboratories in the Sfirst half of the 20th century was crucial to the development of radar, microwave technology and modern telecommunications and paved the way for the invention of the transistor. His microwave towers that carried America’s telephone communications and television programs still dot the American landscape. His inventions even helped the Allies win World War II. Years after the war, as his discoveries and inventions were changing the lives of millions, Southworth took it upon himself to change the life of one man forever. From Greece to Grove City In the 1950s, Emmanuel Tzouanakis ’63 was studying English at the Greek-American Cultural Institute in Greece when he picked up a copy of Scientific American magazine that had been donated to the institute by the United States Information Service. There was a label on the magazine bearing the name and address of a Mr. Whittemore from Short Hills, N.J., with a note inviting the recipient of the magazine to write and ask anything about America. Tzouanakis wrote to Whittemore, expressing his interest in America and science. He received a prompt response from Southworth, who had seen the Returning younger man’s note and took an interest. The two began corresponding. After graduating high school, Tzouanakis worked on a U.S. Air Force base on the the island of Crete to earn money to further his education. Southworth continued to keep in contact and sent Tzouanakis information from Favor Bell Telephone Laboratories about the coming technology revolution that would merge It’s amazing what one act of kindness can lead to. Dr. George telephony and computers, Tzouanakis decided then that if he ever did go to college, he would C. Southworth, Class of 1914, and Emmanuel Tzouanakis ’63, study electrical engineering. After saving up from his job on the air were separated by generations and continents but came together base and with four years of English studies, thanks to a science magazine, a thirst for knowledge and a Tzouanakis’ dream of attending college looked like it would become a reality. Southworth common bond in Grove City College. had sent him information about Grove City College and Tzouanakis liked what he read
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about the scientist’s alma mater: it was small, The Pioneer transmit signals through a 20-foot-long economical and its Christian foundation lined Dr. George C. Southworth was born Aug. waveguide. He later recalled that the first up with his spiritual beliefs. 14, 1890, in Little Cooley, Pa., just 50 miles signal he sent was “send money,” an allusion to In the fall of 1959, Tzouanakis arrived in north of Grove City. He studied physics at the limited support his project had. the United States after a long journey across Grove City College and – in an era when the He demonstrated the waveguide to his Europe and the Atlantic. His first stop was College offered graduate degrees – earned his supervisors in 1933 and was authorized Southworth’s home in Chatham, N.J. where he master’s here. In 1918 he became an instructor to build an 875-foot-long waveguide to met his mentor for the first time. A few days at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. test the feasibility of using long guides for later he showed up at Grove City College, well there in 1923. communication. Both telephone and telegraph into the fall term. signals were successfully transmitted through Paying for school, room and board was it and in 1934 he was transferred to Bell a challenge. His parents sent a few dollars Laboratories in New Jersey to continue his when they could and he worked year-round. research. Before the advent of fiber optic Southworth also lent him money for school, cables ATT was exploring the feasibility which Tzouanakis repaid in full. He didn’t go of intercity waveguide lines based on Dr home over school breaks. Southworth’s patents. “During Thanksgiving, Christmas and “His waveguide research helped the Allies Easter when everyone had gone home, the win World War II,” Tzouanakis said. “The College kept the power and heat on in Ketler waveguide research was a quest for higher and Hopeman halls to keep me and few other frequencies and higher frequencies on radar students warm,” Tzouanakis said. lead to a better definition.” In the summers he worked as an intern During the 1920s, several inventors at Bell Labs in New Jersey and as a janitor, attempted to create devices that were intended painter and maintenance man at Pennsylvania to control the current in solid state diodes and Electric’s power plant in Erie. Dr. George C. Southworth inspects a high- convert them into triode amplifiers. When In his final year, money was very tight and definition radar antenna with a naval officer in this Southworth found that diodes would not Tzouanakis had to move out of the dorms and 1942 photo. The radar unit was developed under function as detectors at microwave frequencies rent a shack behind Buhl Library that was one his supervision. in radar applications, he turned back to the of the last remaining WWII veterans’ housing His first job was at AT&T to assist the crystal detectors used in the early days of units. “On cold wintry days the shack would editor of the “Bell Systems Technical Journal,” radio. “He was very curious and had a broad be freezing, but fortunately the warm Henry however Southworth continued to work on interest in many fields. He was persistent. If Buhl Library was just next door,” Tzouanakis his studies by researching electromagnetic he started something he wouldn’t forget it. said. waves. Years later he would pick it up,” Tzouanakis After graduation in 1963, Tzouanakis Radio waves are said to be electromagnetic said. took a job as a junior engineer at GTE (now waves because they consist of variations in His microwave crystal detector paved the Verizon.) After earning his MBA, he was able electric and magnetic fields. Electromagnetic way for Bell Telephone Labs’ invention of the to ascend the corporate ladder, eventually waves can travel through air (as in radio and transistor in 1947, for which William Bradford becoming engineering and technology labs television broadcasts) or through a vacuum. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser director. He worked to bring software driven They can also travel along an electrical wire, Brattain won the Nobel Prize in Physics in electronic switching technology out of the such as telephone lines. Southworth found a 1956. That invention made computers and laboratory and into real world network third way to transmit electromagnetic waves: the Internet technologically and economically applications. The waveguide. possible and ushered in the information age. He became a U.S. citizen in 1972. He A waveguide, essentially a hollow piece of Southworth also turned his attention to and his wife, Susan Sampson, who also metal pipe, transmitted electromagnetic waves the work of an earlier physicist, Max Plank, attended the College, have five sons and five more effectively and efficiently than through who in 1901 revolutionized the world of grandchildren. Their granddaughter, Rebecca the air or via transmission wires. physics with a theory predicting the amount Tzouanakis, is a freshman at Grove City Southworth acquired a special high- of solar energy hitting the earth and the College. frequency vacuum tube and used it to strength of each bandwidth.
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He was a good man, a renowned Who would scientist and engineer. To have taken the you honor? Emmanuel Tzouanakis is time and interest to help a high school choosing to give back to the College in memory of a student across the ocean is remarkable. mentor and a school that gave him so much. There On June 29, 1942, Southworth connected act, a good deed. If you don’t follow moral are countless stories in a 9400-MHz receiver to a small parabolic principles, technology is nothing.” which scholarships and dish connected to section of waveguide and Southworth believed in giving back and directed one of his associates to aim the that’s where Tzouanakis believes he picked it professors have changed antenna toward the sun. Almost immediately up along with cherished American values. “He lives forever. You can have a small, but definite, increase in noise was was living proof of a good deed,” Tzouanakis this impact by starting detected. Southworth knew then that if said. the received energy could be measured, “When Mr Whittemore sent out that your own, or by giving Plank’s theory could be used to predict the Scientific American magazine it was analogous to the College’s general temperature of the object radiating it. to sealing a note in a bottle and casting It was a significant discovery. The first it in the ocean to see where the waves of scholarship. centimeter radio emissions from the sun fate and destiny would carry it. Had that To tell us who you would were not just detected and measured, but the magazine followed a different path, or had temperature of the sun was determined by Dr Southworth not responded to my letter, I honor, or to find out more radio. He, along with Karl Jansky, started the wouldn’t have attended Grove City College, about establishing a radio astronomy research at Bell Labs that our family in America would not exist and culminated with the Penzias-Wilson detection you wouldn’t be reading this story”. scholarship, contact: of the “Big Bang” noise of the creation of the Today, Tzouanakis is giving back to Marcus Fish ’97, universe and gave Bell Labs another Nobel the College that gave him his education Prize. The “Big Bang” noise can be heard and remembering the man that gave him Director of Planned Giving anywhere in the universe and has existed for “everything.” Tzouanakis will be establishing at 724-458-2154 or 15 billion years. the Dr. George C. Southworth ’14 Scholarship In 1963, Southworth was awarded Endowment in his honor. [email protected]. the Institute of Electrical and Electronics “He was a good man, a renowned scientist Engineers Medal of Honor for his pioneering and engineer. To have taken the time and contributions to microwave radio physics, interest to help a high school student across radio astronomy and waveguide transmission. the ocean is remarkable,” Tzouanakis said. Southworth died July 6, 1972. “That’s why I remember him. That’s why I want to memorialize him. I want the younger Returning the favor generations to know about his work and his “Fifty years ago, America was a magnet good deeds.” n that beckoned to me because it was in the forefront of science and technology,” Tzouanakis said. “It offered freedom and opportunity to everyone who worked hard. I am grateful for the opportunity the College and Dr. Southworth gave me to come to this country, get a college education and become part of this noble nation, the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world”. “Science and technology are just material things. They are nothing unless you superimpose morality on top of them and he did just that,” Tzouankakis said. “The deed he did to try and help me out was a moral
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The Elizabeth Michael ’10 is blazing a trail and pushing the scientific envelope in the world of materials science as she pursues her Ph.D. In Right the short time since her graduation from Grove City College with a degree in chemistry and a minor in math, Michael has been doing research that could alter the way we live and improve Stuff society as a whole.
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current Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University, Michael’s love for Athe sciences began and was fostered during her time at the College. She worked on a project that involved renewable energy for one of her chemistry classes and soon became fascinated with renewable and alternative energy resources. Upon graduation, Michael accepted a scholarship to do graduate work at Penn State with their University Graduate Fellowship. About a year ago, she finished her master’s degree coursework in solar cells, in which Michael helped to develop better and more environmentally-friendly techniques to process cells. Michael started her Ph.D. work at Penn State through the National Science Foundation and the Dow Chemical Company. About halfway through her program, Michael realized that she was more focused on materials science and made the progression from energy engineering to materials science Elizabeth Michael ’10, prepares a sample for examination with an X-ray diffractometer at the and engineering. Millennium Science Complex on the campus of Penn State University. Although working in the materials science Michael’s work is focused on figuring out what engineering department is 25 percent women, and engineering field has its frustrating kind of materials could be used to make those but that’s more than Michael expected and she moments and challenges, Michael loves what items and how to make them. doesn’t feel like she’s in the minority. she does and sees a reward in her work. According to Michael this involves “I’ve been impressed with how many “The biggest joy in what I do is that one identifying potential materials, depositing day this work can ultimately make someone’s women are passionate about [the field] and them in thin film form on a flexible substrate, life better, which was why I was drawn into are joining it,” Michael said. “I gained a lot of characterizing the material, and determining science in general,” she said. confidence in my field at Grove City and I do and adjusting the resulting properties of the Currently, she’s working on flexible not notice many challenges of being a woman material. She works with dielectric materials electronics. The overall goal is the in my career.” that are specifically used in transistors and development of materials and materials Michael attributes her success in her field energy storage devices that would go into the deposition techniques that could be used to the education she received at Grove City flexible electronics. to make devices like cell phones or tablet College. “I definitely had a great experience “I am now working with a lead-free computers that you could pull out of your while at Grove City,” Michael said. “It was alternative to see if it can be incorporated pocket, purse or briefcase and unfold to use a great foundation for moving forward to into thin film transistors and energy storage full-size screens or keyboards that could graduate school and my future career.” be folded back up and stowed away easily, devices,” Michael said. “I then have to “One of the most beneficial things is to Michael said. choose a material, determine and optimize figure out what balance works for you. Grove “The idea is that you could have a a way to process it, and then run a bunch of City College prepares you to balance a lot of continuous display, uninterrupted by hinges experiments to determine if it would work for aspects of your life,” she said. or sharp angles, that you could fold up and a flexible application and figure out how to put away when you are finished with it,” possibly fix the problem if it does not work.” “Grove City College has a surprising Michael said. “It has other implications, too, Michael views her overall work in amount of resources for a small school, like a flexible implant that could monitor and materials science as a process, one in which especially in the sciences. It is something to help treat certain diseases.” she has learned a lot along the way. take advantage of. The new STEM building is a Flexible electronics would require flexible As a whole there are fewer women in the great, needed addition to campus that provides transistors, batteries and circuit boards. field than men. Michael’s materials science and so many wonderful opportunities.” n
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1961 residents and businesses looking 1964 Bill McCarrier was nominated for experienced workers. Wil Shellenberger, his wife Pam, and by Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Vernon and Alice animals experienced a large landslide Corbett to serve a six-year term (McGarvey) Doutt near their home in Whidbey Island, as a trustee for Slippery Rock celebrated their Wash. The slide, which took place University. His nomination was 50th wedding late in the night of March 27, 2013, confirmed by the state senate in anniversary with made national news. Shellenberger is June. McCarrier is chairman of the a Caribbean a water commissioner in the area. KEEP IN TOUCH! Butler County commissioners and cruise. Joining them were two lives in Butler. daughters, including Brenda (Doutt 1967 We want to keep in touch ’90) Pish and husband Eugene Pish Dr. Jim Deitrick received the McCombs with you electronically! If you 1963 ’89, and four grandchildren. Vernon School of Business Excellence in have an email address, or Bob Cave has been elected was an engineering manager with Education Award and the Outstanding president of the Seniors Job Bank Westinghouse Nuclear Service and Accounting Professor award at The have recently changed your CT. This association is a job referral retired in 1994. Alice is a retired University of Texas at Austin. This address or work information, service for seniors who are looking day care center director. They live fall, he began semi-retirement after make changes through for part time work. The program in Murrysville, Pa. 36 years of full time service. alumni.gcc.edu/update. provides an easy-to-use service for Dr. Carolyn (Detjen) Rude, professor of English in Have exciting news? Submit the College of a class note for the magazine Liberal Arts and and for viewing online at Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, alumni.gcc.edu/classnote. was conferred the title of “professor emerita” by the school’s Board of Visitors. She is a fellow in two professional societies, authored and edited several books and has many Remember to let the alumni vocational honors. She joined Virginia office know that you are having Tech in 2003 and was department a “Grover Gathering!” We’d love chair for five years. to send you some fun “stuff” 1968 for your event. Dan Ferry published his second novel, Southern Celebration | Ten Tri-Sig sorority sisters, including an espionage/military thriller, Field eight from their original pledge class, reunited in Charleston, S.C., in April Piece, on Amazon Kindle. 2013. Most ladies had not seen each other since the 1970s. Marilyn (McCaughan ’65) Lehman and Diane (Weiers ’65) Spears organized the 1970 celebration. Row 1, from left: Nancy (Ridgway ’65) Vogel, Barb (Studley ’66) Dr. James Evans, Burdette and Karen (Gibbons ’65) Wade. Row 2: Lehman, Shirley (Koenig vice president ’64) Odenwald, Judy (Luckenbill ’65) Riley, Mary (Baldwin ’65) Marsh, and dean of Lynne (Graham ’65) Siefert, Sandy (Mills ’65) Russell and Spears. Grove City student affairs husbands in attendance were Ritchie Marsh ’65, Rich Riley ’65, Mark Siefert at the University ’65, George Russell ’63 and Neal Lehman ’65. of Pittsburgh
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He has worked as director of the 1980 Mercer County Domestic Relations Dr. Terri Lenox received the Sections since 1993. Distinguished Faculty Award Alan Timko, DMD, spoke at the at Westminster College’s annual meeting of the American commencement ceremonies Academy of Periodontology in May. The award is given to in Philadelphia in October. His the faculty member who has topic was "Reversal of Longstanding demonstrated intellectual vitality, Lip Paresthesia Utilizing 1064nm effective communication, the ability Nd:YAG Laser Biostimulation.” Timko to motivate or inspire compassion is a diplomate of the American Board and concern for student success. of Periodontology and practices Jack Owen recently became periodontics in Pittsburgh, where a certified minister with the he resides with his wife, Kathy, and Assemblies of God, Penn-Del two sons. He is a competitive tennis District. He continues to work ’66 ladies | Friends from the Class of 1966 met in Naples, Fla., in player, who last year earned a USTA full-time as a lawyer with Rhoades early March. Row 1, from left: Rusty (Coblentz) DuRei, Judy (Schweigert) national ranking of #51 in the Men's & Owen, LLC, in Pittsburgh and Swezey and Sue (Weed) Marcy. Row 2: Gail (Holmgren) Hunter, Sherry 55 Singles division. ministers part-time at City Reach (Mizer) Hardgrove, Pennie (Martin) Clifford, Sandy (McCracken) Gurgovits Church - Pittsburgh. and Barbara (Studley) Burdette. 1977 Pamela (Hays) Spalla accepted 1981 at Bradford, was named to the St. School in Laurel, Md., in June. a position as principal at The Steve Gilliland was named an Bonaventure University Seneca She spent 25 years there, first as American International School associate board member for Battalion U.S. Army Hall of Fame a substitute teacher then as the of Muscat, Oman. She and her Piedmont Advantage Credit Union in the spring semester 2013. Evans records secretary. husband Bob Spalla '77 relocated in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is a was recognized for his work in there for the 2013-14 school year. well-known speaker and author. establishing a ROTC cross-enrollment 1974 Walt Stefani Sally Williamson agreement between Pitt-Bradford Steve Evans was elected chair of retired from and Greg Temple and St. Bonaventure, and for serving the board of directors of the Lupus coaching the were married as the Army ROTC liaison officer at Foundation of America, Georgia Orchard Park June 1, 2013, Pitt-Bradford for more than 30 years. Chapter. He was walk chair for (N.Y.) High in Grove City. Raymond Walker was appointed to the Atlanta Walk, first to ever School men’s The couple now the new position of president and raise $500,000. In December, his varsity volleyball team after resides in Export, Pa. chief operating officer – flat rolled daughter Shea, a recent graduate 31 years. Under his direction, for Olympic Steel, Inc. He has been of Indiana University, was the team won 17 divisional with the company, which is based in recognized in Indianapolis as top championships, nine sectional “A” Cleveland, Ohio, since 1986. LFA Walk team in the country and championships and three regional Evans was recognized as volunteer New York State championships. 1971 of the year of the Indiana He also coached for the Empire William Badders began his one-year Chapter. He also serves on the State Games and founded a term as president of the National Tocqueville Cabinet of the United volleyball camp. He earned many Science Teachers Association on Way of Greater Atlanta. He retired honors and was inducted to the hall of fame | Paul Carlin June 1. An Ohio science educator, from Macy's in 2009. He and his Western New York Men’s Volleyball ’67, second from left, was inducted he has held various positions in wife, Lisa, live in Alpharetta, Ga. Hall of Fame in 2011. He and his into the inaugural Hall of Fame Class the Cleveland Metropolitan School Rick Gates was named scheduler and wife, Beth (Wilmoth) Stefani, live of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s District, most recently as director department head for Artistic Imprints in Hamburg, N.Y. and have two SeniorLAW Center in April. He is the for the Cleveland Math Science in Lower Allen Township, Pa. grown children. group’s founder. The LAW Center Partnership program. He is involved Michael Zellers meets the legal needs of limited in many professional organizations 1975 was selected income elderly in Philadelphia and and has received numerous honors, Rand Nikoloff received the 2013 by his peers for Pennsylvania. Of the five Dickinson including a Fulbright Memorial Robert S. Stewart Award, the inclusion in The Law School grads pictured, two Teacher Fund award. highest award given by the Best Lawyers are from Grove City College’s Class Domestic Relations Association of in America for of 1967: Carlin and and John 1973 Pennsylvania. His achievements 2014. He is a partner and practices Flinchbaugh, far right. Others from Sandee (Smith) Leibson retired were honored by child support product liability litigation with left: George Gould and James Young from Bond Mill Elementary workers throughout the state. Tucker Ellis LLP in Los Angeles. and Marshall Anders.
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1982 Presbyterian Church in Bob Snyder 1988 Janey (Christner) Layman is one Williamsburg, Va. He began in mid- was hired as Leigh (Grandizio) Boyer and her of 50 teachers profiled and June. Most recently, he was senior a professor husband, Ken, announce the birth celebrated in the new book, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in the School of Sofia Marie on May 8, 2013. She American Teacher: Heroes in the in York, Pa. of Education was welcomed home by siblings Classroom, by Katrina Fried. The at Edinboro Sonny, Cullen, Emma, Callie, Briana, book goes inside the classroom to 1983 University of Pennsylvania. He Dillon, Blaise and Tobin. experience public education first Tom Langmyer is teaching in the Department Tracey Clark Lucas was promoted hand, inspire other teachers and joined Journal of Early Childhood Education to executive director of school inspire administrators, parents and Broadcast and Reading. He also is an administration and leadership policy makers. More information Group as vice adjunct professor in the Graduate development for Frederick County at www.welcomebooks.com/ president, School of Education at Gannon (Md.) Public Schools. She previously americanteacher. news/talk University in Erie. He specializes served as their instructional director Christopher Miller accepted a programming. He is based at the in master’s degree courses in of middle schools. position with the Veterans Health Milwaukee headquarters, where school curriculum, instruction and Administration (an agency of the he will also oversee the company's assessment. Snyder retired from 1989 Bryan Kehoe earned the Certified Dept. of Veterans Affairs) in Erie, flagship station, WTMJ. Previously, the Girard, Pa., school district in Commercial Investment Member Pa. He is the supervisor of non- he served as VP/general manager 2008, after 25 years of service (CCIM) designation from the VA medical care, responsible for of WGN in Chicago for eight years. as a middle school math teacher, CCIM Institute. The designation processing all administrative and Langmyer and his wife, Mary, guidance counselor and principal, is awarded to commercial real financial issues arising from the make their home in Chicago with and as the district’s central office estate professionals. Kehoe is vice referral of a veteran to a caregiver, their two children. director of curriculum, instruction president of Busey Bank in Port facility or service outside the VA. Matthew Rugh recently retired and assessment. Charlotte, Fla. Miller spent almost six years as a following a 29-year career Kathryn (Koutoulakis) Lutz earned Dept. of Defense civilian working with the United States Secret 1984 her master of education degree in Aberdeen, Md., culminating Service. During his tenure, he Casey (Jones) Mackert joined Six from James Madison University in nearly 36 years of affiliation with was assigned to the Uniformed Disciplines NWO in Findlay, Ohio, Harrisonburg, Va., in May 2013. the Department. Division, offices in New York, as a certified business coach. She She has been teaching at the The Rev. Dr. Pittsburgh and Charleston (W.Va.), will help companies with strategic elementary level with Frederick John Morgan the Vice Presidential Protective planning and quality management. County (Va.) Public Schools for received a call Division, and the USSS Rowley 25 years. to be the new Training Center. He currently 1985 Curtis Werren senior pastor of resides in Owings, Md., with his David Jobin is now executive director was appointed Williamsburg wife, Michele, and their two sons. of the Stonewall National Museum in June as a & Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Stark County Fla. He began on June 1. He is (Ohio) Common overseeing operations, management Pleas Court and fundraising for the institution. judge. He was appointed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to replace a 1987 retiring judge. Werren assumed Dawn Doebler office in July and will run in the joined November 2014 election to retain Washington, the seat. D.C.,-based Madison Wealth 1991 Management as Sean McFeely is now leading the a senior wealth adviser. She is a children and youth ministry of the certified public accountant and a Bowery Mission in New York City. ladies lunch | Sisters of Theta Alpha Pi met this summer for lunch certified financial planner. His role includes directing Mont at the Elephant & Castle Restaurant in Grove City. Row 1, from left: Karen Leah (Steinkamp) Keller is now a Lawn Camp in the Poconos near (Anthony ’69) Henry, Carol (Johns ’69) Merritt, Pam (Tenney ’67) Mingle, partner with Cherry Bekaert LLP Bushkill, Pa., which serves over Marcia D’Arcangelo ’67 and Joann Morse ’68. Row 2: Judy (Kearins ’67) public accounting and consulting 1,100 campers from New York Wadding, Gail (Paxton ’69) Hogue, Diana (Cornell ’69) Hughes, Judy firm, headquartered in Richmond, City each summer. (Borland ’70) Augustin, Robyn (Caldwell ’70) Kiser, Sandy (Wilson ’68) Va. She will focus on federal and Carrie Riggle was promoted to Galbreath, Elaine (Morgan ’68) Rigsby and Marion (Malarkey ’67) Sparks. multi-state taxation issues. executive vice president/human
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resources for First Commonwealth and her husband, Lance Stewart 1998 Bank in Pennsylvania. She has ’92, are raising their five children Bethany (McCoy) and Richard been with the bank for 21 years. in Grove City. Lance is the site Anderson welcomed son Isaac leader at Honeywell in Franklin, Charles on Feb. 13, 2013. He 1992 Pa., manufacturer of Miller fall joins older siblings Elijah and Kimberly Bauder and David Grant protection gear. Rachel. were married in Panama City, Natalie (LaBarbara) Bosley and her Fla., on Feb. 26, 2011. Kimberly 1995 husband, Adam, are the parents of was promoted to clinical staff Melissa Bishop-Bryant and her son Grayson Adam, born July 16, supervisor at the medical clinic husband, Glenn, announce the birth 2012. Natalie teaches fourth grade in 2011. She oversees all nursing of son Simon on Jan. 1, 2013. for the Hempfield Area School and X-ray staff. She and David are Jason Davis was promoted to assistant District near Greensburg, Pa. parents to daughter Joelle Grace, professor – music at Herkimer James Donnelly was selected for born April 11, 2012. County (N.Y.) Community College. the Delaware Valley (Pa.) High Michele (Mansfield) Tysiak joined School Hall of Fame Class of Crown Castle in Canonsburg, Pa., as 1997 2013. He was an outstanding in-house counsel in January 2013. Tom Callahan was appointed athlete in both high school and president of QRC Technologies in college and is now coaching 1993 Fredericksburg, Va. The company winning football and baseball cherished friends | Tyson Brunstetter and his wife, specializes in RF test and teams at Delaware Valley High These sisters of Sigma Theta Chi’s Laura, welcomed daughter Elle on measurement products. School. Class of ’68 have maintained close Oct. 23, 2012. Jennifer (Peluso) Harrington and her Ken Enos and his wife, Heather, contact for 49 years and appreciate David Pisani was named vice husband, Bernie, welcomed daughter welcomed daughter Isabella their gift of friendship. Here, six president of Tax Americas of SES Charlotte Faith on April 24, 2013. Lynne. Isabella was born July enjoyed a reunion in September at Americom in Princeton, N.J., in Older siblings are Elijah, 10, Micah, 28, 2013, and her adoption was the lake home of Nancy (Linnert) March 2013. He and his family 8, and Sophia, 5. finalized in late August. Dickie in Wampler’s Lake, Mich. have relocated to Flemington, N.J. Laura (Shute ’97) and Jeff ’98 Roberts Jill (Miller) Slifkey and her From top, left to right: Lennie welcomed son Benjamin Douglas on husband, Gary, announce the birth (Stoner) Ruyan, Sherry (Droz) 1994 Oct. 19, 2012. He joined siblings of daughter Katharine Elizabeth Newill, Linda (Zoerb) Rosenbaum, Cristin (Kissinger) Brauchler and Celia, Stephen, Paul, Monica, Adam on April 1, 2013. Her brothers are Cathy (Reichert) Bishop, Ellen her husband, Nicholas, are the and Victoria. Cyprian, Benedict and Paschal. (Scholl) Klinginsmith, Dickie and parents of daughter Rae Marie, dog Sydney. born Nov. 28, 2012. Jennifer (Wolfe) Kennedy and her husband, Kevin, welcomed daughter Kiana Fujiko on June 9, 2013. Big sister is Kaitlyn. Rachel (VanAntwerp) and Jared ’95 Mallalieu welcomed son Simon James on Aug. 24, 2012. He joins big brothers Nathan, Luke and Samuel. Bryan Neiderhiser was selected for membership in the National Trial Lawyers Association Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is an associate at northern adventure | Marcus & Mack, P.C., in Indiana, Pa. These four 1970 classmates took Cindy (Starr) 10 friends and enjoyed a 12-day Stewart’s first land and cruise tour of Alaska two illustrated in June 2013. The ladies were books, The roommates for three years and Lamp Maker vail week | Sig Thets from the Class of 1971 met in Vail, Colo., recently sorority sisters in Theta Alpha and The Potter, for a week of R&R. Lounging at The Lodge at Vail are, row 1, from left: Doris Pi. From left: Deb Hunt, Robyn were released by Carpenter’s Son (Kemp) Lanouette, Deb Marziano, friend Albert Einstein, Barbara (Toth) (Caldwell) Kiser, Judy (Borland) Publishing on Aug. 1, 2013. Brandt and Linda (Byer) Lemmon. Row 2: Andrea (Smith) Fine, Cathy Augustin and Mary Grace (Krebs) Her third book, Our Father, will (Santaluccia) Clark, Susan (Preston) Conrad, Barb (Sherwin) Schmit and Schaap. be released Jan. 1, 2014. Cindy Janice (Troupe) Keifer.
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2, at home in Johns Creek, Ga. 2011. She has brothers Caleb, 7, Jeff Tedford and his wife, Sasha, and Tyler, 5. welcomed daughter Chloe Beth Doane Sherburne and her Elizabeth on Sept. 13, 2013. husband, Rob Sherburne, Stacy (Griffith) and Adam Weikal are welcomed daughter Isabel Janet the parents of daughter Lucy Jane, on April 20, 2013. born June 26, 2013. Rebecca (Riggle) Hall and her husband, Dan, are the parents 2001 of daughter Eliana Noelle, born Alison (Likins) Allin and her husband, March 29, 2013. Ryan, welcomed son Henry Garland Corey Nagle was named the 2014 on Jan. 11, 2013. Henry joins Bristol (Conn.) Public Schools brother Charlie. Teacher of the Year. He also was Ryan Briggs, Grove City College’s a semifinalist for the state award. sports information director, earned He is an eighth grade science honors as the 2012-13 Collegiate teacher at Chippens Hill Middle happy 60th birthdays! | Friends from the Pittsburgh area met Water Polo Association Women’s School. He is the school’s science in June 2013 to celebrate their 60th birthdays at the home of Sue (King ‘75) Division III Sports Information curriculum coordinator and mentor Gleason in Deep Creek, Md. Row 1, from left: Gayle (Shearer ‘75) Smith, Director of the Year. He won the for new teachers. He is also an JoEllen (Ferguson ‘75) Leech, Dana (Skeehan ‘75) Donahoe and Gleason. award last year as well. artist and author. Row 2: Cathy (Campbell ’76) Kemerer, Carroll (Hauck ‘75) McGowan, Cindy Phillip Crisostomo is now the Bethany (Morgan) and Cory (Kaufman ‘75) Leckenby, Carol (Gardner ‘75) Williams and Karen (Weinstein principal of Garfield East Elementary Nordman welcomed son Jonah ‘75) Hopper. School in Willingboro, N.J. He has James on May 8, 2013. He joins worked in the Willingboro School brother Noah, 3. The Nordmans The Rev. Bob Stanley is now the Grace, 10, and Ava, 8. District since 2003. reside in Wexford, Pa. associate pastor for Christian Bobby Parker and his wife, Joslyn, Dawn (Blauvelt) Detrick and Kristina (Odonish) and Bob discipleship, with a concentration welcomed son Blake Jackson on her husband, Brett, welcomed Pazehoski welcomed son Elijah in student ministries, at Stow June 13, 2013. He joins sister daughter Emma Marie on July 20, Thomas on May 29, 2013. (Ohio) Presbyterian Church. Kayla and brother Gavin. Courtney (Spoon) and Steve ’97 1999 Vago are the parents of daughter Nathan Abramson and his wife, Nina Simone, born May 2, 2013. Cailyn, announce the birth of daughter Isabella on March 20, 2000 2013. George Fohl and his wife, Katheryn, Nick Adams joined Wesley Medical announce the birth of daughter Center in Wichita, Kan., as its new Adelaide Grace on Sept. 2, 2012. vice president for marketing and Dr. Joel Getty was promoted to public relations. major in the West Virginia Air Melissa (Alkson) Busler published National Guard in May 2013 her debut novel in July 2013 as chief of optometry for the on Amazon Kindle. Vicky's 167th Airlift Wing. He resides Newsworthy Summer is a and practices near Selinsgrove, contemporary Christian young Pa., where he lives with his wife, adult novel. Jennifer (LaBella) Getty, and their Lisa (Ellis) Cline and her husband, three daughters. Todd, welcomed daughter Adilyn Allison (Wadley) Letourneau and good causes | Phi Tau Alpha brothers Ken Gritzan ’81 and Gene Sophia on Oct. 26, 2012. She her husband, Brian, welcomed Nowak ’81 and Gene’s son, Jon, rode together this year in the BP MS 150, joins big sister Ella, 2. their son, Jack Daniel, a two-day fundraising cycling ride organized by the National MS Society: Joy (Woolley) Langley and her on May 21, 2013. Jack joined his Lone Star. The ride is a 180-mile journey for MS from Houston to Austin, husband, Chris, announce the older brother, Zachary, at home in Texas. Gene has participated the last 11 years and is one of the top 300 birth of daughter Eliana Grace on Richmond, Va. fundraisers, raising more than $60,000. Jon has ridden seven years and Ken Sept. 3, 2013. Marcie (Barrett) and Solomon traveled to Texas for the last six years to join in the fun. Gene and Jon repaid Bobbi Jo (Blakely) and Chris Martin Shaffer welcomed daughter Lillian Ken by traveling to Falmouth, Mass., to run in a charity event for the Dana- welcomed son Asher Ray on Dec. Sue on June 27, 2013. She joins Farber Cancer Institute in honor of Ken’s son, Kurt. This September, they 27, 2012. Asher joins big sisters siblings Madeleine, 5, and Simeon, moved their annual run to the Pittsburgh Great Race for the same cause.
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announce the birth of daughter Scientific and Zach is the director 2012. Although he was born nine Ashlyn Brooke on June 28, 2013. of operations for Bombardier weeks early, he is growing well. She has twin brothers Ryan and Transportation. They live in Moon Kelly accepted a position as a Caleb, 4. Township. social studies teacher at Thomas Danielle (Kohler) Corn and her Michelle (Hicks) Ntampaka and her Jefferson High School in West husband, Dave, welcomed daughter husband, Bertin, welcomed son Jefferson Hill School District near Charlotte Elyse on March 19, 2013. Benjamin Bruce on June 17, 2013. Pittsburgh. She joins older sister Natalie. Jeremy Riggall and his wife, Mary, Duie Latta, Esq., Brittany (Matheny) DeVos and her welcomed daughter Aubrey Faith on was named husband, James, welcomed son April 8, 2013. to the 2013 Linus James on July 13, 2012. Emily (Johnson) Smith and her Pennsylvania Lou Falconi joined Galt Insurance husband, Patrick, are the parents Rising Stars list Group in Naples, Fla. of daughter Sylvia Marie, born May in the area of Elizabeth (Shoeneck) and James 2, 2013. Closely Held Business Law. He ’00 Hendrickson are the parents of works with MacElree Harvey, Ltd., daughter Cora Bailey, born April 25, 2004 in West Chester, Pa. 2012. Kevin Caudill Nichelle (Ginder) Lehman and her montreal museum | Michael Hopkins and his wife, Beth, joined the husband, Rod, are the parents Mattie Hanley ’08 and Elizabeth welcomed son Jacob Michael on law firm of of son Wyatt Seth, born Nov. 14, (Smith ’81) Hanley, from left, April 18, 2013. Calfee, Halter 2012. He joins sister Elliana, 2, met alumna Nona (Mellody ’59) Darren Lambert and his wife are & Griswold LLP and Noah, 4. Broes, right, while in Montreal this currently full-time RV dwellers, in Cleveland, Kristen Mann moved to Maseru, summer. The Hanleys visited with traveling from place to place to Ohio. He is an associate in the Lesotho, in October 2012 to Nona and her husband, and toured perform musical entertainment for corporate practice group. volunteer as the operations the Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s people in nursing homes or other Randy Cole earned his Ph.D. from manager at Beautiful Gate, a care Chihuly exhibit. elder care facilities. Duquesne University in May and center for abandoned, HIV/AIDS Nate Miklos is the new women’s is now an assistant professor in affected, and other vulnerable Tobey (Fast) Rogowsky and her golf coach at Youngstown (Ohio) the Department of Humanities children aged 0-5. She will stay husband, Michael, are the parents State University. at DeSales University near until October 2014. To more of Abel Hodge, born March 27, Dan Stoffer and his wife, Amber, Philadelphia. information: http://kamskates. 2013, and Ellery Worth, now 3. welcomed son Bayne on Aug. 3, Kristy (Aniskiewicz) Grove and wordpress.com/. 2012. her husband, Dan, announce the Sarah (Lenkner) and Michael ’03 2002 Elizabeth (Mihailov) and Todd birth of their son, Adam Daniel, Reese welcomed son Zachary Melissa Allen Wentworth are the parents of on Oct. 19, 2012. Michael on Aug. 11, 2013. son Tanner Owen, born June 21, Kelly (Cole) Hollis and her Ty Wise and his wife, Darci, and Andrew 2013. husband, Michael, welcomed welcomed son Levi Jackson on Light were son Declan Michael on Dec. 3, Nov. 5, 2012. married Sept. 2003 29, 2012, in Emily (Martens) Jordan and her Myersville, husband, Mark, announce the Md. The couple now resides in birth of son Benjamin Caleb on Baltimore. April 30, 2013. Megan (Wittenwyler) and Brian Rachel (Russell) Kiehl and her Beirne welcomed daughter husband, Joshua, welcomed Madalynne Anne on Nov. 4, daughter Jane Elizabeth on July 2, 2012. She joins brother Brian 2013. Sister Katherine is 2. III and sister Emma at home in Mackenzie Elon, N.C. Madden and Laura (Krolak) Bridges and her Zachary Varga husband, David, welcomed daughter were married Caroline Joy on Nov. 21, 2012. She at Duquesne joins brother Paul, 3. University in israel outreach | These Grovers participated in a Coalition for April (Lutz) Buckley and her husband, Pittsburgh on April 13, 2013. The Christian Outreach-sponsored trip to Israel in June 2013. From left: Jonathan Dennis, announce the birth of son bride and groom are Duquesne Wagner ’11; Karen (Wilenius ’70) and John McElwain ’72; Laura (Jones ’83) Joshua Luke on June 5, 2013. alumni. Mackenzie is a project and Dale Foster ’94; Amy (Richards ’85) and Ken Smith ’84; and Joann Amy (May) and Samuel Coffman manager with Thermo Fisher (Tresham ’64) and Bill Mehaffey ’64.
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SATURDAY GOLF | Epsilon Pi brothers spent time golfing on a July FRIENDS OF GLADYS | Several Class of 2000 friends gathered at Saturday at the Grove City Country Club. From left: Jeff Cass ’89, Chris Deep Creek, Md., in August to reconnect and remember Grove City resident DeMaio ’87, Tom Tuchnowski ’87, Kris Lightcap ’89, Doug Manges ’87, Kirk Gladys Osborne who died in December at age 99. The former students Fennell ’88, Mike Veres ’87 and Greg Duriez ’89. befriended Mrs. Osborne while Christmas caroling with Round Table and Crown and Sceptre honoraries and kept in touch since then. From left: 2005 2006 Nicole Flower, Andrew Flower, Lyndsay (Rhodes) Davies, Jennifer Covert, Julie (Covert) Kumpar, Matthew Kumpar, Cory Hames, Devon (Ritter) Hames, Talia (Barnes) Bunting and her Amy (Fillar) and Geoffrey Ford Christian Buckingham, Sean Waters and Benjamin Lathrop. husband, Joe, are the parents of announce the birth of son Jacob son Marston Atticus, born April Alan on Jan. 7, 2013. 18, 2013. Janelle (Wilkie) and Tyler Garman Mallory Sampson Jennifer (Thompson) and Chris Kelcie (Rodina) Conroy and her are the parents of son Daniel and Adam ’07 Borders welcomed son Ethan husband, Kevin, announce the Philip, born April 23, 2013, and Schreffler were Daniel on Feb. 27, 2013. birth of son Joseph Christopher daughter Heidi Grace, 2. married May Anna (Levenstein) and Nathaniel on July 22, 2013. Brett LoVellette, 25, 2013 in ’04 Carr welcomed son Seth Aaron Dr. Jeffrey Fowler finished his Esq., and Meadville, Pa. on June 29, 2013. chief medical resident year at Jessica They now make their home in Rebecca Flynn the Cleveland Clinic and was Kamugira were Pittsburgh. and Chris selected as a cardiology fellow married on July Angela (Delo) and Nicholas ’05 Ciesielski were at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital 27, 2013, in Starosta announce the birth of married Aug. in Pittsburgh. He started July 1. Kampala, Uganda. They reside in daughter Evangeline Clemency on 4, 2012, in Dr. Josh Ridley was the June Singapore. June 4, 2013. Ronceverte, commencement speaker at Tara (Andre) and Ian Moffatt Jessica (Seifert) and Todd ’06 Trulick W.Va. Rebecca is a data analyst Bradford (Pa.) Area High welcomed son Evan Bruce on July announce the birth of daughter for the Department of Justice in School, his alma mater. He is 29, 2013. Lilia Erin on Aug. 13, 2013. Arlington, Va. Chris is a chemical currently an assistant professor Maggie (Sell) Shepler and her Sarah Watts and engineer for ExxonMobil in of physics at Murray State husband, Richard, welcomed son David Best were Fairfax. They reside in Springfield. University in Kentucky. Liam Paul on Feb. 28, 2013. married June Rachel (Mitrea) Fobes and her Mindy (Diehl) and Jeff ’03 Dr. Stephanie (Genareo) Traud 23, 2013, in husband, David, welcomed son Schwab announce the birth of completed her family medicine Chicago, where Conor Lee on June 2, 2012. twin daughters, Hazel Betty residency at Saint Vincent they now reside. Joanna Hart and and June Eleanor, on March 6, Hospital in Erie, Pa., in June. She Sarah works at Mark Smith ’07 2013. is currently practicing at Great Sidley Austin LLP and David works were married Becca (Ware) Simpson and her Lakes Family Medicine, a Saint at The Moody Church. April 13, 2013, husband, Ross, announce the Vincent affiliate, and resides in in Pittsburgh. birth of son Rowan Frederick on Erie with her husband, Jason 2008 Mark is a payroll Aug. 15, 2013. Traud. Gretchen Ames analyst for Bayer Corporation and Amber (Gilson) and Daniel ’04 and Shaun Joanna owns her own gluten- Solomon welcomed son Luke, 2007 Malik were free cookie business and health born Feb. 24, 2013. Russ Relic was the subject of a July married July coaching practice. The couple Kate (Pulley) Stotz and her feature story in the New Castle 7, 2012, in resides in Bridgeville. husband, Luke, are the parents News (Pa.) on his move to Turkey Richmond, Va. Karolin (Heitz) Kennedy and her of daughter Morgan Jane, born last year. He is teaching in Adana, They now live in Denver, Colo. husband, Ryan, are the parents of Nov. 1, 2012. Turkey. son Jacob Blair, born Sept. 2, 2013.
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grover beach | Some eastern grads traveled west to visit friends in August and enjoyed this fire at Grover Beach, Calif. From left are: Natalie good hike | Kyle Latham ’12, right, and Tyler Ewing ’12, left, Youngquist ’10, Lauren Zientek ’10, Tina Horvath ’10 and Rachel Martinez completed a summer 2013 through-hike of the Appalachian Trail – a 2,186 ’10. All the ladies are New Jersey natives; Youngquist and Zientek traveled to mile-long trail from Georgia to Maine. The men began the journey on March visit Martinez and Horvath, now California residents. 14 and finished on July 29.
Carolyn (Bolls) Kinkaid and her Whitney is an ESL instructor at 2012. She recently accepted the Brittany (Hayward) and Kevin husband, Adam, announce the birth Hope International University technology teacher position at Hoffman are the parents of twins, of their son William Matthew on and John is finishing his Ph.D. Hayes Elementary in Kennesaw, Ga. Caleb Elliot and Nathanael Feb. 15, 2013. in clinical psychology at Biola Beth (Snyder) and Chad ’07 Morley Joshua, born Aug. 7, 2013. Megan Lang and University. They now reside in announce the birth of daughter Sean Sullivan is now a fellow Tyler Foxwell LaHabra, Calif. Amana Rose on June 13, 2013. with Automation Alley’s Adams were married Bethany (Chapman) and Josh ’10 Meredith (Bolling) and Jordan Entrepreneur Fellowship Program Dec. 28, 2011. Mayo announce the birth of son ’08 Obaker welcomed daughter in Michigan. The fellowship allows They currently Ezra Wallis on March 21, 2012. Deborah Ruth on May 2, 2013. recent college graduates to engage reside in Amy Ritter and Liesl (VanHaute) and Matthew ’09 with startups at the management Pittsburgh. Jacob Knox ’10 Schiavone announce the birth of level in entrepreneurial Tricia (Palmer) and Adam ’06 Ludwig were married daughter Cecilia Rosa on Sept. experiences. He has been placed welcomed daughter Josie Cope on June 23, 2012, 25, 2013. with TOGGLED lighting technology Jan. 7, 2013. in Pittsburgh. Tyler Thompson and his wife, company based in Troy, Mich. Heather (Shaw) Luebben and her They currently Kayla, announce the birth of husband, Justin, welcomed daughter reside in Boston, Mass., where daughter Ellie Grace on March 2012 Virginia Jane on Dec. 28, 2012. Amy is teaching eighth grade math 19, 2013. Caitlin Friihauf Rebekah (Johnson) and Andrew Miller in the Shrewsbury School District Dominic Versace was hired as a and Adam are the parents of son Benjamin and Jacob is in his final year at computer instructor for Cambria- Swanson were Thomas, born April 29, 2013. Tufts Veterinary School. Rowe Business College in married June Erin (Barton) and Jared Niehenke Johnstown, Pa. 2, 2012. Adam welcomed daughter Clara Mae on 2010 Hannah Yang, a Peace Corps is working at April 4, 2013. Becky (Seifert) Capeci and her volunteer in Ethiopia, ran in Honda R&D Americas as a design Kimberly (Barron) and Ben Read husband, Andrew, welcomed son TigrayTrek282, a 282-kilometer engineer and Caitlin is a preschool announce the birth of daughter Caleb Joseph on March 7, 2013. eight-day run in the northern teacher at The Goddard School. Charlotte Grace on Aug. 14, 2013. Kelsey Drefs and desert region of the country. She They live in Dublin, Ohio. Mandie (Becker) and Benjamin Stahl Kyle Houser joined four other Peace Corps Michael Swanson is working with the welcomed son Jesse Gresham on were married volunteers in early November run Coalition for Christian Outreach in Oct. 18, 2012. July 14, 2012, to raise awareness and funds for State College, Pa. He is partnered Joshua Trojak and his wife, Debra, in Harbison health and education issues. with Calvary Baptist Church. welcomed son Judson Turner on Chapel. Kelsey Autumn Todd and Sept. 5, 2012. is a corporate event planner and 2011 Josh Kern ’13 executive assistant at ABC Supply. Alena Bartolai will be going on an were married 2009 Kyle also works for ABC Supply 11-month mission trip called The June 27, 2013. Whitney Fairchild where is training to be a branch World Race. Leaving in January They now live and John Siefke manager. The Housers reside in 2014, her team will be traveling in Grove City. were married Kyle’s hometown of Perkasie, Pa. to 11 countries throughout Josh is a co-owner/founder of in Apple Valley, Megan Grayburn completed her Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe BuzzBurrito, a mobile marketing Calif., on master of education degree to work with local churches and company. Autumn is working as a Aug. 3, 2013. from Berry College in December ministries. photographer and food writer.
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Dr. Richard C. McCloskey ’36 Helen (Davis) Hobbs ’42 died Dr. William M. McKinley ’46 died died Oct. 7, 2013. He practiced June 25, 2013. Before moving June 4, 2013. He practiced obstetrics and gynecology at St. to New Hampshire, she taught general surgery in his hometown Francis, Magee Women’s and in Pennsylvania, Texas and New of Brookville, Pa., for 50 years. The Grove City College Alumni St. Clair Memorial hospitals in York. She volunteered at the He served on local school boards Association places a book in Pennsylvania. He served in the historical society and library in and the town council, and helped Henry Buhl Library in memory Army during World War II, and Hampton, N.H. Surviving are restore several historical buildings. of each alumnus for whom the was an avid golfer and pilot. nieces, nephews and friends. He served with the Army in World War II and with the Air Force Alumni Office receives written Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth, four children, two-stepchildren, Sally (Kingston) Joiner ’44 died during the Korean War. Surviving notification of death, including 16 grandchildren and 17 great- June 27, 2013. She taught are his wife, Marie, three children a copy of the obituary. This grandchildren. business and lived in Upper St. and six grandchildren. pays tribute to the lives Clair, Pa. She was a busy member of deceased alumni while Ferne (Cozad) Sticht ’38 died June of her church, the PEO Sisterhood Lois (Landon) Bovard ’47 died benefitting current and 8, 2013. She made her home in and the Pastoral Care Team at Sept. 11, 2013. She lived in Friendship Village. Surviving are Hampstead, N.C., and was future students. Winston-Salem, N.C., and was a longtime resident of North Palm her husband, Ray; three children, interested in genealogy, poetry, Beach, Fla. She was married to including Nancy (Joiner ’71) gardening and her church. To notify the Alumni the late J. Paul Sticht ’39, Grove Reinert; seven grandchildren, two Survivors include a son and three Office of the passing City College Trustee for 40 years great-grandchildren and a sister. granddaughters. of a loved one, please and Board chair from 1998 to 2003. She enjoyed antiques, Alvin J. “A.J.” Schell Jr. ’44 died Oct. Patricia (Phillips) McDowell ’47 send an obituary to design and painting. Survivors 1, 2013. An Air Force veteran of died Sept. 30, 2013. She was [email protected]. include two sons and their World War II, he lived in Grove City living in Columbus, Ohio, and is families. and served his church, the hospital survived by three daughters, a and Boy Scouts. He spent his brother, grandchildren and great- Ruth (McCune) Stewart ’39 died career with the W.M. Bashlin Co., grandchildren. July 18, 2013. She lived in now Bashlin Industries. He was Glenshaw and Pittsburgh, Pa., an avid outdoorsman. Surviving Sylvia (Peden) Story ’48 died before moving to Florida in 1990. are four children and a grandson. March 30, 2013. She was a Surviving are son Bruce Stewart Memorial gifts may be made to retired bookkeeper living in Tulsa, ’71, a daughter, brother Frederick Grove City College. Okla. McCune ’51 and other Grove City College relatives. Martha “Pat” (Nelson) Bonidy Wilson Amon ’49 died June ’46 died June 22, 2013. The 16, 2013. He lived in New Jane (Colcord) Pizor ’39 died Nov. Greensburg, Pa., resident was a Wilmington, Pa., and had worked 22, 2012. Survivors include hospital volunteer and avid bridge for ITT Reznor. A World War II children Peter Pizor ’68 and player. Earlier, she worked as a legal Navy veteran, he was a sports Thomas Pizor ’75. secretary for her husband’s practice. enthusiast. Survivors include Surviving are a nephew and niece. three children; seven siblings, Jean (Burton) Mills ’40 died June including Thomas Amon ’54; 20, 2013. She lived in New Carl G. Mayes ’46 died April 24, 10 grandchildren; 18 great- Castle, Pa., enjoyed gardening 2013. The Navy veteran lived grandchildren and a great-great and her animals. Surviving in Frederick, Pa. Surviving are granddaughter. are six children, a sister, his wife, Joy, three children, two nine grandchildren, 22 great- stepchildren, three grandchildren Mildred (Adams) Beerbower ’49 grandchildren and two great-great- and two great-grandchildren. died July 10, 2013. She and grandchildren. her husband founded Beerbower
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Jewelers in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Nancy (Carter) Young ’49 died business, Rickards Real Estate, Helen (Duncan) Armstrong ’53 died and she taught at the high school Jan. 25, 2013. She lived in in Doylestown, Pa. He was an June 3, 2013. She taught for for 20 years. She loved animals. Saint Clairsville, Ohio, was accomplished musician with his more than 20 years at Glassboro Survivors include two children, a homemaker, volunteer at clarinet. Survivors include four (N.J.) High School and was three grandchildren and a brother. Oglebay Institute and former children, grandchildren and two department head of special Ohio state president of the great-grandchildren. education. She was once honored Harry J. Davis Jr. ’49 died July 16, Questers. Survivors include a as New Jersey’s Teacher of the 2013. He lived in Warminster, son, two grandsons, four great- James A. Aiken ’51 died June Year. She loved music and played Pa., and spent his career with grandchildren and a sister. 29, 2013. A World War II Navy the organ and piano at local BP and Comcast. He was a Navy veteran, he worked as a manager churches. Surviving are three sons veteran of World War II. Surviving William H. Allen for U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh. and four grandchildren. Memorial are his wife, Beryl (Fox ’49) Jr. ’50 died June He lived in Leesburg, Fla., for gifts may be made to Grove City Davis, three children and eight 19, 2013. He 17 years and was a golfer. A College. grandchildren worked in Grove daughter survives, in addition City College’s to two grandchildren, five great- Nancy (Pillow) Bonnell ’53 died Raymond L. Fels ’49 died May athletic grandchildren and a sister. April 28, 2012. Survivors include 14, 2013. A World War II Navy department from 1954-88, son Gregg Bonnell ’82. veteran, he lived in Erie, Pa. He instructing bowling, supervising Edith (Dufford ) Morgan ’51 died owned and operated his own the bowling alley and coaching May 9, 2013. She lived in Cabot, The Rev. Dr. Mary (Dill) Matz ’53 consulting, public relations and golf. He operated the scoreboard Pa., and volunteered as a church died July 30, 2013. She was lobbying firm. He played piano for basketball and football and librarian for 37 years. Surviving the first woman to become an and was an avid runner. Surviving received the College’s Athletic are her husband, Howard; three ordained minister within the are his wife, Joan, two sons and Heritage Award in 2012. He was children, including Joanne Moravian Church in America, grandchildren. a World War II Navy veteran, a (Morgan ’82) Lewis and two undertook parish leadership and golfer and active church member. grandchildren. was vice president of the National Edward S. Miller ’49 died July Surviving are his wife, Audrey; two Council of Churches. She was 1, 2013. An Army veteran, he daughters, including Sharyn (Allen Dr. Samuel B. McCarter ’52 died active in the Lehigh Valley, Pa., spent his career with the FBI. He ’86) Case, four grandchildren and June 3, 2013. A Marine Corps community. Grove City College held positions across the country a great-granddaughter. veteran, he was head radiologist awarded her a Jack Kennedy in leadership roles regarding at Oil City (Pa.) Hospital and Memorial Alumni Achievement intelligence and investigations. Jane (Whatton) Moser ’50 died served that community for 31 Award in the Field of Religion in Upon retirement, he was active in July 17, 2013. A music lover, the years. He enjoyed hunting and 1995. Surviving are her husband, his community and church in the Grove City resident played piano golfing. Survivors include his Bill, two sons, a brother and four Fairfax, Va., area. Survivors include and organ, sang in the church wife, Kathy; a brother; three grandchildren. his wife, Patricia (Clark ’48) Miller, choir and liked sewing. Survivors daughters, including Pamela three children and their families. include her husband, John Moser McCarter ’80; a daughter-in- Donald A. Stabler ’53 died Sept. ’53; three children, including Debi law; two stepsons and nine 5, 2013. A Korean War veteran, Wesley R. Moraz ’49 died Sept. (Moser ’76) Beers and Jean (Moser grandchildren. he taught English and Spanish in 19, 2013. He was a resident ’77) Padden; six grandchildren; West Mifflin (Pa.) schools during of Minnetonka, Minn., and Las six great-grandchildren and many Robert A. Mircheff Sr. ’52 died Aug. the 1960s and 70s. He was an Vegas, Nev. A World War II Army Grove City College relatives. 21, 2013. He served 21 years avid Pittsburgh Pirates fan and veteran, he had been plant as a naval officer – many in civil bridge player. manager at Fayette Tubular Lyle H. Rickards Jr. ’50 died May service. Later, he spent time on Products and retired as purchasing 6, 2013. He served with the his family farm in Washington. He John R. Elliott ’54 died Aug. 20, director for LaChoy. Surviving are Navy, staying on as a reservist. lived in Seabeck, Wash., enjoyed 2013. He taught, then served a son and a daughter, Donna Moraz He worked in sales for several traveling and boating. Surviving as a guidance counselor for 22 ’79. Memorial gifts may be made companies, then real estate, are his wife, Billie, three children years in New York state schools. to Grove City College. reviving his father’s Philadelphia and two grandchildren. He was a veteran of the Army and
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its military police. He lived in He was a reader, runner and Richard M. Larry eight years as a golf coach. She Westfield, N.Y., supported regional Pittsburgh sports fan. Surviving ’60, Grove City served on church session and artists and enjoyed gardening. are two children and three College trustee enjoyed travel. Survivors include Surviving are a sister, nieces and grandchildren. emeritus, a son, two grandchildren and two nephews. died July 6, siblings. George G. Sevart Jr. ’57 died 2013. He Earl R. “Red” Woodward Jr. ’54 died July 5, 2013.In his career, he was past president and trustee William W. Allen ’64 died Sept. May 18, 2013. A mechanical worked with Bethlehem Steel, of Pittsburgh’s Sarah Scaife 24, 2012. He retired as a engineer, he founded Woodward, the Allentown (Pa.) Hospital and Foundation and on the board of chemical engineer from Dow Inc., in Mars, Pa. He lived in Allentown School District. He directors for the Federal Home Corning, Elizabethtown, Ky., Mars, was a Mason and VFW was an Army veteran, Mason and Loan of Pittsburgh. He served where he resided. He served member. Survivors include his church trustee. Surviving are his on the College’s Alumni Council, there with Communicare and wife, Marian; three children, wife, Ruth, four children and eight the Change & Commitment Greenspace. Surviving are his including Clayton Woodward grandchildren. Campaign steering committee wife, Darlene, two sons, a sister ’82 and Earl Woodward ’86; and received the Jack Kennedy and two grandchildren. eight grandchildren; 10 great- Albert C. Barch ’58 died July 29, Alumni Achievement Award in grandchildren and three siblings. 2013. The Marine veteran of the the field of business in 1983. A The Rev. Keith E. Mong ’64 Korean War lived in Brackenridge, Marine Corps veteran, he enjoyed died Aug. 27, 2013. He was a Richard A. Wright ’54 died May 20, Pa., and was retired after 40 years fishing, target shooting and many minister with the Evangelical 2013. He was a senior project with Allegheny Ludlum Steel. civic, educational and religious Congregational Church, serving engineer with Gulf Research in He enjoyed community theater, activities. Surviving are his wife, churches in Ohio, Pennsylvania Harmarville, Pa., then co-founded travel and was a stained-glass Lois, daughters Elizabeth (Larry and Illinois for 46 years. Also a Saxon Research Systems with two craftsman. Surviving are four ’82) Lackner and Susan (Larry ’89) writer and a poet, he was involved friends. He lived in Valencia, Pa., siblings, nieces and nephews. Kraus; three grandchildren and a in Christian camping ministry. built a camp in Marshburg, Pa. sister. Survivors include three daughters, and liked to sing. Survivors include Keith B. Smith ’59 died May 1, fourteen grandchildren and a his wife, Janet, a daughter, two 2013. The Army veteran lived in R. Thomas McAnallen ’61 died great-grandchild. grandchildren and a brother. Valois, N.Y., and was assistant June 10, 2013. The mechanical treasurer at Shepard-Niles in engineer retired from Thomas J. Paul Stewart ’64 died June 9, James D. Cummins ’57 died Aug. Montour Falls for 34 years. Steel Strip Co. of Warren, Ohio. 2013. He lived in Greensburg, 13, 2013. An Army veteran, he He was an active community He was a Marine Corps veteran, Pa., and was retired from worked for Eastern Gas and Fuel. volunteer and avid golfer. a Master Mason and church Mounsour Medical Center. He He later became vice president Survivors include his wife, Sally treasurer. Survivors include his was a Navy veteran, a trap and a consultant for Coastal Coal Jo; two children; twin brother wife, Emogene, two sons, two shooter and train enthusiast. Sales. He retired to Naples, Fla. Kenneth Smith ’59; a sister and stepdaughters, six grandchildren Surviving are his wife, His interests included Pittsburgh seven grandchildren. and a great-grandson. Alycefaye, a daughter and two sports and golf. Surviving are grandchildren. his wife, Patricia (Condon ’56) James N. Stokes ’59 died May 4, Peter S. DiMaggio ’63 died June Cummins, two children, three 2013. He served in the Army, 30, 2013. A resident of Freeport, Michael DeRita ’65 died Sept. grandchildren and a half-brother. and remained at Fort Knox, Ky., Fla., he is survived by his wife, 15, 2013. An Air Force veteran, Memorial gifts may be made to to work for the 269th Ordinance Gwendolyn, three children, eight he worked in sales for Bekins Grove City College. Battalion. He loved big band grandchildren and two siblings. and United van lines. He music. He lived in Warren, Pa. learned to ballroom dance in Donn M. Ruddock ’57 died Sept. Janet (Simpson) Preston ’63 died the late 1990s and became a 3, 2013. A Navy veteran, he then William H. Wardle ’59 died April 5, July 17, 2013. She lived in East dance host aboard cruise ships. served 22 years in the Air Force, 2011. He was living in Pinellas Brady, Pa., where she taught Survivors include two sons, two where he retired as a colonel Park, Fla. Survivors include for 33 years with the Armstrong granddaughters, his father and and worked as a judge advocate. daughter Elizabeth (Wardle ’89) Zuk. County School District, including two siblings.
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Justin G. Modic ’66 died June 8, Surviving are his wife, Kathleen, Joseph H. Magnotta ’91 died Jan. 2013. He had a long career with his mother, two children, two 26, 2012. U.S. Steel, followed by work with grandchildren and three siblings. McKees Rocks Forging. He lived Julianne (Doyle) Bentley ’92 died in Pittsburgh and belonged to the Cynthia (Thomson) Bennett ’79 July 21, 2013. She lived in VFW and Salvation Army. Survivors died June 17, 2013. A CPA, she Wellsville, N.Y., and had worked include his wife, Darlene, three worked with Community Progress for Wellsville Manor and Sterilator stepchildren, a sister and seven Council as fiscal administrator Co. She enjoyed arts and painting. grandchildren. for Head Start programs of York Survivors include her parents, County, Pa. She helped many three sons and three siblings. Thomas D. Flagmeier ’67 died children, and hosted and placed May 27, 2013. He lived in San exchange students. Survivors Dr. David E. Milhous ’00 died Antonio, Texas. He was active include her husband, William, Oct. 4, 2013. He lived in duty Air Force for nine years, her parents, two children, three Uniontown, Ohio, and worked as a and completed a 40-year service stepchildren, grandchildren and licensed pharmacist in Ohio and career at Brooks City Base as a two siblings. Pennsylvania. Survivors include supervisory contracting specialist. his wife, Heidi, four daughters, Survivors include his wife, Vangie, Lisa (Smith ’81) Ierino died Oct. parents, a grandmother and a two children, two stepchildren, a 12, 2013. She lived in Cranberry brother. brother and three grandchildren. Township, Pa., and worked as a speech and language therapist friends The Rev. Dr. Robert C. Peterson at the ACLD Tillotson School in Helen Gilmore, ’72 died Sept. 4, 2013. A Pittsburgh. She enjoyed tennis retired head Presbyterian pastor, he lived in and golf and was an accomplished resident of Butler, Pa., and served churches cook. Survivors include her North Hall, in Western Pennsylvania. He husband, Nick; her mother; two died Oct. 7, was chaplain for the Meridian children and two stepchildren; 2013. She Volunteer Fire Co., a Kiwanian, and three brothers, including Gary guided freshman women in North enjoyed Pittsburgh sports and bird Smith ’72 and Neil Smith ’77. for 13 years until retirement in watching. Survivors include his 1986. She lived in Grove City and wife, Karen, and a son. Carol (Laird) Watterson ’82 died belonged to several church groups. Sept. 23, 2013. She lived Surviving are four daughters, six David R. Byers ’75 died July 27, in Pittsburgh. Surviving are grandchildren and seven great- 2013. He worked at Pullman her husband, Greg Watterson grandchildren. Memorial gifts can Standard until 1980, moved ’81; three children, including be made to Grove City College. to Florida, then worked for Katrina Watterson ’06 and Britaini the Darden Corp. He enjoyed Watterson ’09; her mother and four fishing, cooking and flea markets. siblings. Survivors include his wife, Cindy, his father, two children and two Beckysue (Tomb) Moose ’83 died brothers. May 25, 2013. She served as a captain in the Air Force and Howard W. Sankey Jr. ’76 died owned Classic Celebrations May 21, 2013. He worked in wedding planning company. She the insurance field in the Dallas, lived in Manassas, Va. Survivors Texas, area, and recently lived include her husband, Bill, a son, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was a her parents and brother Kevin tennis player and golf enthusiast. Tomb ’88.
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CONGRATULATIONS NEW PARENTS!
Grayson Adam Bosley Rowan William Brunk Oliver Davies Grove City College welcomes your new bundle Born 7-16-12 Born 6-11-12 Born 6-20-12 Natalie (LaBarbara ’98) and Elizabeth (Poston ’10) and Erin (Osterman ’99) and of joy. We want to send your newborn a Grove Adam Bosley Nathan ’09 Brunk Brian Davies City College T-shirt. So between the feedings and late-night lullabies, be sure to send the Alumni Relations Office your child’s name and date of birth. Shirts are available only in infant size.
Due to the popularity of the Alumni Babies feature, photos will be limited to babies under the age of 3 in Grove City College shirts only. Digital photos must be high resolution, 300 dpi. Please do not embed photos in the body of Emma Marie Detrick Alana Joy Dixon Abigail Hope and an email message, but rather attach a high- Born 7-20-11 Born 4-3-13 Naomi Joy Dummermuth Dawn (Blauvelt ’01) and Abby (Johnson ’08) and Born 5-4-12 resolution image. Submit photos at alumni.gcc. Brett Detrick Caleb Dixon Becky (Rees ’97) and edu/babyshirt or email to [email protected]. Matt Dummermuth You can also mail pictures to: Alumni Relations Office, Alumni Babies, 100 Campus Drive, Grove City, Pa., 16127.
Shields Lee Fowler Alex Pierce Grissom Micah Nathaniel and Born 12-6-11 Born 3-9-12 Eliana Noelle Hall Megan (Smith ’05) and Laura (Werking ’98) and Born 9-9-10 and 3-29-13 Lindon Fowler Brian Grissom Rebecca (Riggle ’01) and Dan Hall
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Cora Bailey Hendrickson Jeremiah Lane Hinton Elliana Grace and Caleb Henderson Leitch Karley Elizabeth Lucas Born 4-25-12 Born 8-22-12 Wyatt Seth Lehman Born 1-6-13 Born 7-13-11 Beth (Schoeneck ’02) and Elizabeth and Born 12-19-10 and 11-14-12 Jennifer (Coles ’03) and Amy (Barron ’05) and James ’00 Hendrickson Randall ’04 Hinton Nichelle (Ginder ’04) and Aaron ’03 Leitch Andy ’05 Lucas Rodney Lehman
Owen Joseph O’Donnell Andrew Roberts and Gianna Shaffer Ryan Gregory Shelhamer Michael Joseph Sinnott Born 11-18-12 Lucy Kathryn Price Born 4-15-11 Born 3-27-12 Born 11-30-11 Andrea (Jeffries ’06) and Born 10-18-12 and 3-5-11 Gina (Goldinger ’98) and Amy (Parrish ’97) and Rebecca (Bopp ’05) and Joe ’06 O’Donnell Christine (Rummel ’05) and Edward Shaffer Kirk ’97 Shelhamer Joseph Sinnott Evan Price
Katharine Elizabeth Slifkey Evangeline Clemency Starosta Bayne Daniel Stoffer Dekker Thomas Stutzman Noah John Utley Born 4-1-13 Born 6-4-13 Born 8-3-12 Born 3-15-13 Born 2-17-12 Jill (Miller ’98) and Gary Slifkey Angela (Delo ’07) and Amber and Dan ’02 Stoffer Natalie (Gallagher ’00) and Anna (Greve ’09) and Nicholas ’05 Starosta Lynn Stutzman Danial ’09 Utley
Joseph Lee Vernon Xavier Alexander Vuchak Tessa Ann Weikal Levi Jackson Wise Born 7-9-12 Born 5-4-12 Born 2-13-11 Born 11-5-12 Amy (Bacher ’02) and Kathryn (Grafinger ’03) and Stacy (Griffith ’00) and Darcy and Ty ’04 Wise Cory ’03 Vernon Kyle Vuchak Adam ’00 Weikal
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The shape of things that were. Students toil in a laboratory at Rockwell Hall in this vintage photo from the College’s archives. The old-school approach to science stands in stark contrast to what goes on today in STEM Hall.