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READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP ...... WINTER 2016-17 Winter 2016-17 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 1 I Grace, joy and a sense of humor are ever-present in the colorful art of Brother Cletus Behlmann, S.M., including those he created of UD’s campus like this watercolor which hangs in Kennedy Union. We pray that his welcome to heaven was similarly radiant. Behlmann, director of the St. Mary’s University Art Center & Studio Workshop, died July 12, 2016.

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. I COMMENTARY by ERIC F. SPINA Faith in our future hen University of Dayton students left ments, spark private support at higher levels — and for fall break, faculty and staff played move the University to a new level of excellence. At the with Legos and took a stroll through end of our strategic visioning process, everyone needs virtual reality. to feel they’ve been heard. But they weren’t playing. They were That’s why I’m crisscrossing the country — from dreaming together about the University’s Dayton to Chicago, New York to Los Angeles — to talk Wfuture and using creative ways to express their hopes to alumni about their dreams for their alma mater. I’m and dreams. encouraged by the level of engagement and the wealth One group constructed a monorail that would run of creative ideas. (See story, Page 49.) between the center of campus and River Campus. An- I’d love to hear your thoughts about the core values Eric F. Spina other built an urban farm in a reclaimed factory as of UD that resonate with you. What differentiates a UD President, an experiential learning space. Using virtual reality, education? What areas of excellence will we be known University of Dayton others walked through a classroom of the future and for in two decades? What are those areas in which we considered ways they might revolutionize teaching by fall short, and how do we tackle the issues of affordabil- supplementing their lectures with engaging, immersive ity, accessibility and diversity so that students from all experiences. socio-economic walks of life feel welcome and supported? This was the scene on campus on “Visioning Day,” Thousands have already weighed in, and you can, a series of opportunities for faculty and staff to think too, at udayton.edu/VisionUD. seriously about our future. Join me at an upcoming alumni gathering for a dia- I am asking the University of Dayton community logue about our future. Tap into weekly online conver- and our alumni to think big, even audaciously, as we cre- sations as we grapple with questions about the growing ate a strategic vision together. We’re a great university influence of digital educational technologies and the with a collaborative spirit, but we would be a shadow of significant trends in American society that will shape who we are today if, throughout history, we had not had the curriculum of the future. Read my fall faculty and big aspirations and adapted and changed for the times. staff address, where I candidly lay out the challenges And, quite frankly, we are better than we know we and invite all who love the University of Dayton to help are. We are better than others know of us. shape our aspirational vision. Here’s our collective challenge: We must look hon- We teach our students to adapt and change in a estly at our strengths, weaknesses and the challenges changing world, still true to the urgings of Blessed ahead of us. As we gaze 20 years into the future, we need William Joseph Chaminade. to develop a few powerful, transformational ideas that Today, we embrace that same challenge — with will provide strategic direction, help prioritize invest- imagination and faith in our future.

President: Eric F. Spina Staff Contributors: Jessica Barga, Website: magazine.udayton.edu Blog: udquickly.udayton.edu Thomas M. Columbus, Tommy Cooper, Email: [email protected] Twitter: twitter.com/daymag Vice President for Marketing and Michael Dunekacke, Michaela Eames, Send class notes to: Facebook: facebook.udayton.edu Communications: Gina Gray, Mike Kurtz, Shannon [email protected] Molly Wilson Shelton Miller, Brian Mills, Meagan Records changes only to: Pant, Jeaneen Parsons, Teri Rizvi, [email protected] Editor Emeritus: Thomas M. Columbus Shawn Robinson, Cilla Shindell or 888-253-2383 Editor: Michelle Tedford Student Staff: Merani Cosme, Danielle Managing Editor: Gita Balakrishnan Damon, Kristin Davis, Erin Frey, Art Director: Frank Pauer Joey Gardner III, Bridget Lally, Photographer: Larry Burgess Courtney Mocklow ......

University of Dayton Magazine (Winter 2016-17, Vol. 9, No. 2, ISSN 2152-3673) is published quarterly by the University of Dayton, University Communications, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-1303. Periodicals postage paid at Dayton, Ohio. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to University of Dayton Magazine, Records Office, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-7051.

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Reading this article has inspired our current team to ask ourselves, “What could be?” — Henri Beaudoin ’17

Have thoughts about what HISTORY OF COMMUNI- an environment on campus ground. I guess being in the you read this issue? TY AT LINCOLN HILL where each person is called Navy has made me a bit more to the table as full and equal safety conscious than I used SEND YOUR LETTERS TO: Your autumn University University of Dayton Magazine of Dayton Magazine concern- members of the UD commu- to be because the picture just 300 College Park ing the Lincoln Hill Gardens nity. That is indeed a charism made me cringe. Please let the Dayton, OH 45469-1303 [“Grow On”] brought back of the Marianist movement. workers and volunteers know EMAIL US AT: memories of my youth. I was I look forward to great things that this is unsafe. (I am sure [email protected] born one block away on St. from this action. they probably already know.) TWEET TO: Paul Avenue in 1932 and lived BOB BUTTS ’99 I would also recommend @daymag in the east end of Dayton. My DAYTON screening your pictures a lit- memories include sledding tle better to ensure that little Please include your city and down Lincoln Hill, playing SAFETY CONCERNS things like this don’t make it state. Indicate whether you basketball in Lincoln gym, I love reading my Univer- into print. wish your email address printed. playing baseball and other sity of Dayton Magazine, and SCOTT M. BIRKEMEIER ’09 Letters should not exceed 300 sports at Lincoln and the St. it is great to hear about what MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA words. University of Dayton is going on around the uni- Magazine may edit for clarity Mary’s playground (Twin versity and the community, SPREADING ICE and brevity. Not all letters Towers), and attending grade are printed because of space. school at St. Mary’s and high especially since I am usually My thanks to you for writ- Opinions expressed are those school at Chaminade. so far away. My magazine goes ing and including an article on of the letter writers and not BILL FORTENER ’58 to my original home in Ohio the early days of UD varsity ice necessarily of this publication FAIRBORN, OHIO and, since I am in the military, hockey in the Autumn 2016 is- nor the University of Dayton. [email protected] my parents then forward it to sue [“Powder-blue Jerseys and wherever I am. Currently I am Dental Plates”]. Next year will WHAT A GIFT stationed in Monterey, Cali- be the 60th year of a continu- As a member of Dignity/ fornia, and attending the Na- ous hockey program at UD. Dayton’s Living Beatitudes val Postgraduate School to get Your timing could not have Community, I recall that it was a master’s degree in mechani- been better. not too long ago that LGBT cal engineering. Tom Frericks and I did people were not welcome to I have a comment about not foresee the influence UD meet and gather on Catholic the Autumn 2016 issue. On would have on spawning ice Church property. It is especial- Page 27 there is picture in the hockey within the state of ly heartening to read of Laura bottom left corner of the page Ohio. Through our efforts Gentner [“Take a Break With that shows a man standing and that of the players who Laura Gentner ’06,” Autumn on a chair swinging a sledge- felt privileged to represent 2016] and the desire to create hammer to put stakes in the the school, fledgling programs

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I at Ohio State, Bowling Green, Miami (of Ohio) and Ohio University led to the es- tablishment of varsity and club programs THANKS FOR SERVING throughout the lower Midwest states. My wife, Pat, and I returned from a The initial commitment that the school three-week trip to the Northwest on Sept. made to provide the program for play- 22, 2016, where we visited four national ers and ice hockey fans influenced many parks: Rainier, Lewis and Clark, Crater students to enroll and be part of the UD Lake, and Mount Hood. We thanked rang- family. These are fond memories for more ers at the parks; the parks are well main- than 1,000 players to date and growing. tained and the rangers were just super Thanks for including them in the wonder- pleasant and helpful. ful publication. Waiting for us was the UD Maga- WALT DEANNA ’62 zine with the article “Wild for America’s NORTH PORT, FLORIDA Greatest Idea” listing alumni who serve at National Parks. I’m happy to see that INSPIRED BY EXCELLENCE UD alumni work at national parks, and The article “Powder-blue Jerseys and we just want to let them know that they Dental Plates” [Autumn 2016] by Doug should be proud. The parks are beautiful Harris talked about the previous success of and the rangers play a major part in mak- the University of Dayton hockey team and ing the experience positive for visitors. the commitment and passion the players Thanks for serving. and coaches put into the game. Reading this ED WEPPRECHT ’68 article has inspired our current team to ask BOLIVIA, NORTH CAROLINA ourselves, “What could be?” The passion for the game of hockey and organization is still evident and something the team wants to re-establish. Students and coaches still another school. On Page 18 an article titled is destined for enlargement and framing in commit themselves to find the success that “7 Metal Songs You Must Have” [Autumn my office. was previously held in this organization. 2016] listed some songs by metal groups. KEVIN MONAHAN ’00 Since the team stopped competing at the When I was in college, I was a big fan of one SAVOY, ILLINOIS NCAA level, the organization has struggled of the many Christian metal groups. We can to reach the success it once had at the club stand out as Christians. Our choices are re- A VERY SPECIAL PLACE level due to funding. The student-athletes, ally not that limited. We do not need to pro- The University of Dayton has always coaches and alumni wanted to make the mote the worldly views and values. We are encouraged and nurtured friendships and University of Dayton community aware flooded with that by the major media and service to others. I grew up at UD and value of our team and ask for support. The team many other sources. We need to be vigilant not only what I learned but who I shared plays at Kettering Recreation Center on in showing Christ’s light and his values in those experiences with. Our group, The weekends and posts updates to Twitter every way that we can. Dayton Nine, love getting together and re- @Dayton_Hockey and on Facebook at UD JEFF SCHINDLER ’91 membering. Kudos to 321 [“Life lessons Hockey. We also want to graciously ask the BEAVERCREEK, OHIO from a single bathroom,” Autumn 2016]. University of Dayton community to con- TERRY DUFFEY CARLTON sider donating to the team. Thank you for PRESIDENTIAL PICTURES POSTED TO UDQUICKLY As usual, you have delivered an out- the consideration, and Go Flyers! PARKS LOVE HENRI BEAUDOIN ’17 standing issue [Autumn 2016]. I particular- Loved @daymag article on the alumni DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS ly loved the photo of the three presidents [email protected] featured on Page 4 [“Gratitude”]. I am a who worked for @NatlParkService. Before Editor’s note: Donations can be made at black sheep of a Notre Dame family, and it I started working at UD I spent 2 summers givenow.udayton.edu. Under “fund” click reminds me working at @PerrysVIPM “search for another fund” and type in “ice of the at- @DTHOMAS2003 hockey.” tached pic- POSTED TO TWITTER ture of three CORRECTION PROMOTE GOD AND ONLY GOD Notre Dame On Page 57 of Class Notes in the autumn As a Christian and a Catholic, I am presidents. magazine, we incorrectly noted the town bothered when I see the secular world Your photo where Deborah Verderame ’89 lives. While penetrating a good institution in any way. might be an she is a founding partner with the law firm of As a Catholic university, we should stand interesting comparison between the per- Pearlman & Miranda in Bloomfield, New Jer- out as a shining example, rather than just be sonalities of the universities. Your picture sey, she resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Samantha Erin Dooley @samrothka @erindooley34 Deciding on University of Dayton for graduate school was probably one of the best decisions I made for Can it really be that 20 years my education thus far in my life ago I was a freshman at @univofdayton? I may not be in Ohio any more, but part Kelli Kurtz @kkurtzbhs of my heart is. #IheartUD Taja @tajacheers_ 30 yrs ago I drove to MarycrestDiningHall #visitUD My first college @univofdayton to visit @marycrestfood visit and I’m in love already my boyfriend. Today Just a friendly reminder that you are currently eating dinner (or should we are moving our be) at a NATIONALLY FIRST PLACE kayla dickerson first born into Found- @kayla_13_x RANKED dining hall. Ya, it’s chill. ers. #flyerfamily Emma Buss OMG the University of Dayton #howdidthishappen @emmahbuss liked my tweet! My day Go Flyers is made

Jonzey Anna R @rK_Jonzey @AnnaTusRich It’s cool to see my city trending “…and may your porch always be too small about the future of the students at our university! #Dayton2020 to hold all of your friends!” @univofdayton

daytonprezspina Angela Hage @MsHagePHHS All the Spinas say a big “thanks” to the @udaytonvb Just spent my Sunday walking around my alma mater. team for the great T-shirts! My hope for all my students is to find a place they love as much as I love @univofdayton

Brett Slaughenhaupt Gregory T. Hyland @brettslaug @hylandgt Reason No. 12047492 why Chatted with fellow Loretta @DaytonFlyers tonight. being a student employee @GoodSKGirl Clear @univofdayton is Three words that mean at @univofdayton rocks: always in our hearts … so much to me. At free shirts galore! The @UDaytonAlumni @univofdayton visioning assoc keeps it top of session. Samn Stan-Lee mind! @sam_stanley This past weekend I learned TheGalley Eric F. Spina University of Dayton is a game @GalleyCafe @DaytonPrezSpina changer, cousin vinnys is my Why does she love The 1 yr ago today, Karen & I arrived at UD for new favorite pizza place, and Galley? Friendships, I’m obsessed w sushi the 1st time for interview. 3 days later we left fun, and ice cream! thinking this might be it. Today we are home. #GalleyLove

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I “You are the ones that will bear both the privilege and the burden of being Americans.” —FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, ON CAMPUS OCT. 17 TO DISCUSS POLITICS AND THE ELECTION

Serving those who “It’s humbling. served And Among the Best Colleges for Veterans More than 90 students are using their military benefits to inspiring.” study at the University this fall, an increase of about 45 percent —PRESIDENT ERIC SPINA ON THE SELFLESS- from a year ago. This fall, these students learned they study at NESS OF UD STUDENTS, FROM HIS REFLECTION one of the Best Colleges for Veterans, according to the U.S. News & World ON HIS FIRST 100 DAYS: BIT.LY/UDM_100DAYS Report Best Colleges 2017 guidebook, which names top-ranked schools CONVERSATION PIECES that help make pursuing a college education more affordable. Veterans Services staff at UD provide personalized tuition and educational plans, accommodate military personnel absent because of service requirements, and designate a point of contact to provide academic and financial advice. “Soul is a unit that There are other advantages. Said Ashley Marolo, a 26-year-old junior majoring in dietetics who served as a paratrooper, “We can connect measures an throughout the day or get our families together. Having the veterans animated lifespan.” group makes me feel more connected.” —JUNIOR SAMANTHA MAYNE, WHOSE UD ...... COLLABORATION ACCELERATOR TEAM IDENTI- FIED TIME, FEAR, SOUL AND EFFICIENCY AS “GEMS” OF HUMAN CONNECTIVITY

“You can’t leave love out of it.” More visible —ARTIST TOM WHITAKER, TALKING IN presence SALYERSVILLE, KENTUCKY, TO UD STUDENTS DURING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UD SUMMER APPALACHIA PROGRAM

Public safety is making its presence on campus more visible through initiatives to emphasize relationship building and community policing. The most immediately evident change is the continuously lit red and blue “We are lights atop each cruiser to allow anyone in the student neighborhood to see them from blocks away. “Students and parents are asking for more providing leaders visibility of public safety on campus,” said Rodney Chatman, executive for the nation.” director of public safety. Public safety will also staff a substation at 461 —MAJ. JEFFREY ROSENBERG, ROTC Kiefaber St. during select times of the week and during high-activity DEPARTMENT CHAIR, ABOUT THE 100-YEAR periods. Other initiatives address training, recruitment, diversity, HISTORY OF THE FIGHTING FLYERS, UD’S procedure reviews and increased interactions through a citizen policy U.S. ARMY ROTC PROGRAM academy and regular meetings with students. Chatman has also made himself more accessible; follow him on Twitter @UDChiefChatman.

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I ...... Stations of . . . . the cross . . . . Forged from metal, the . . . . stations of the cross now . . . Big love installed in the Chapel of . . . . Always in our hearts, Big the Immaculate Conception . . have been a labor of love . . Steve is now at the heart of . . for artist Michael Bendele. . . Red Scare’s Flyer pride. The . . student spirit organization For each, he started with . . a flat piece of metal, then . . designed this year’s shirt . . hammered and worked the . in homage to No. 5 Steve . . metal until an image arose . McElvene, the red-shirt sopho- . . . more men’s basketball center to draw us into the reality . . of the suffering of Christ. . . who died May 12 at his home . . Bendele said each station . . in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from . . hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. focuses on a central image . . and action — the tension in . . The No. 5 Flying “D,” designed . . Jesus’ bound hands when . by Patty Minardi Borgman ’93, . . he is condemned to death, . is the shirt’s focus, said junior . . . Claire Fischer, Red Scare or the hand of Veronica . . reaching out to wipe Jesus’ . . president: “He was a big part . . face. The bold images allow . . of the Dayton community, and . . the way it is displayed keeps the congregation to view all . . 14 from any vantage point and in context with one another. Bendele — a Delphos, Ohio, artist — . . . . also considered vantage point when making the stations for the Marycrest Residence Complex . . . chapel in 2008; those stations, set in the floor, depict what one might see in the ground had they . walked alongside Jesus as he took his steps toward death and everlasting life......

Ending book deserts theconsciousconnect.org Thanks to Karlos Marshall ’15, Miami Valley children will receive the gift of reading this season from an unlikely place — local barber shops and hair salons. Marshall founded The Conscious Connect in 2015 to mobilize neighborhoods around . . . urban education and literacy. This fall, he teamed with the . . . University Libraries diversity and inclusion committee to col- . . . . him at the center of it.” lect 1,500 books that are relevant to children in urban . . Red Scare wore their shirts communities. The nonprofit then distributes . . . . Nov. 11 at the season opener, them to barber shops and hair salons, . . . . which included a ceremony which offer the books free to neighbor- . . with McElvene’s family on hood children who lack access to quality, . . . . court surrounded by the team affordable and relevant books. “Too often . . . and at the center of cheers the materials that children are required . . . . and tears from all the Flyer to read do not connect with and relate to . . Faithful. their experiences,” said Marshall, aca- . . . . demic development coordinator at UD’s . . . . IACT and a graduate of the higher . . education administration master’s . . . . program. Among the books rec- . . . ommended for donation is The . . . . Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, a . . favorite of Marshall’s 7-year-old . . . . son, Tremere. . .

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JOIN US No secrets here HALF-LIFE OF FREEDOM n 7 p.m. Jan. 24 The 2017 Princeton Review guide on Amer- Jelani Cobb, Columbia ica’s best colleges tells the world what students University faculty member are already cheering about, that UD is: and New Yorker staff writer, speaks on race and justice Everyone Plays in America as part of the UD No. 1 Intramural Sports Speaker Series and Annual MLK Commemorative Talk. Free in Kennedy Union ballroom. Happiest Students No. 3 MVP JAZZ QUARTET n 8 p.m. Feb. 16 Their Students Love ArtsLIVE presents an all-star These Colleges quartet tribute to the late, No. 5 great jazz composers and pianists James Williams and Best Quality Mulgrew Miller. of Life No. 8 SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE AND UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA Students n 3 p.m. Feb. 19 No. 14 Most Engaged University students perform in Boll Theatre with Patrick in Community Service Reynolds conducting. Free. Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the 2017 ENMITY OF THE PEOPLE trepreneurship Studies, the 11th consecutive year n 8 p.m. Feb. 24 – 25 edition of The Best 381 Colleges. UpLift Physical Theatre and The University of Dayton is highlighted as for a top-25 ranking. Zoot Theatre Co. reimagine one of the Colleges That Create Futures, Colleges “The University of Dayton’s outstanding aca- Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An That Pay You Back and Green Colleges. It ranks demics are the chief reason we chose it for this Enemy of the People in the in the top 20 for Impact Schools and Top Intern- book, and we strongly recommend it to appli- Fitz Hall Black Box Theatre. ship Opportunities. In November, UD was named cants,” says Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur maga- senior vice president and the book’s publisher REFLECTION: CITIZENS OF zine as No. 15 in Undergraduate Schools for En- and author. THE WORLD n March 7 – April 4 ...... The 12th annual art installation highlights students’ Building our reputation reflections of the world in With a focus on building the University’s national reputation, UD announced in which we live. Free in the October that it is elevating the role of marketing and communications, naming Molly ArtStreet White Box Gallery. Wilson to the new role of vice president for marketing and communications. The new division includes the Media Production Group, media relations, marketing and com- More events and ticket informa- munications, including the University of Dayton Magazine. tion at udayton.edu/calendar. The new division will develop overarching, integrated strategies for building the University’s reputation, including elevating the quality of its academics, scholarship and research and impact of programs. Wilson “It’s an honor to help tell the stories of the inspiring people, programs and research that are making a profound impact on our society,” said Wilson, who earned a master’s in higher education administration from UD in 2008.

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I Christmas in Malawi

They each carry an offering — a goat, a gourd, a drum or a bunch of Art at the Catholic Mua Mission in Malawi. Maroon, who founded the bananas balanced on the head — to celebrate the birth of Jesus. These nongovernmental organization Determined to Develop in Malawi, vis- hand-carved figures, which traveled from Malawi to the University of ited campus in October to talk with students and present the crèche to Dayton, are part of a massive, intricate, 29-piece Nativity featuring na- President Eric Spina, to whose presidency Maroon dedicated the art- tive African woods. Baby Jesus measures 10 inches long and is carved work. The crèche, photographed as displayed on an 8-foot table, will from the tawny wood of the Mdima tree, while an 18-inch figure offering greet guests to the president’s residence this holiday season. More a basket of nuts is made of the reddish Blugamu wood. Matt Maroon crèches can be viewed as part of the annual At the Manager Marian

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I Feeding efficiency How can a food pantry serve more cli- The food pantry made changes rec- CEO Laura Roesch. ents while dealing with limited resources ommended by the students. They moved The project was part of an experien- and volunteers? Three University of Day- shelves to improve the flow and added ex- tial learning program and competition for ton students studied operations at the tra shopping carts to cut down on waiting operations and supply seniors. The team Choice Food Pantry at Catholic Social times. won first place among 14 groups. They Services of the Miami Valley to provide The pantry also implemented color- say it was a meaningful experience and a solutions. coded tracking slips, which indicates good fit for the University’s Catholic and Operations and supply management whether someone will be shopping for Marianist mission. majors Erin Mohney, Lauren O’Connor and fresh produce only or groceries and fresh “This gave me an opportunity to apply Daniel Wolfe applied theories they learned produce. my operations knowledge and see what a in class to the real challenges facing the “It’s a better process for the client difference it could make,” said O’Connor, pantry — which serves nearly 16,000 people because it’s quicker for them, and it’s who began working at Ace Hardware in the Dayton region every year, almost a also a clear indication to the volunteer headquarters after graduation. third of them for the first time. what they’re here for,” said food pantry —Meagan Pant 60 years, $2 billion The numbers are remarkable the quality of life for everyone,” — 60 years since the founding of said Allan Crasto, UD Research the UD Research Institute and Institute director. more than $2 billion in univer- Sponsored research at UD sitywide sponsored research. totaled $117.6 million in fiscal year But what’s most significant is 2016 — nearly 20 percent above what those years and dollars have the previous year and the highest accomplished: annual total on record. UDRI re- n Powering the Mars rover searchers perform approximately n Protecting pilots 90 percent of total sponsored n Shielding the space research at the University, with shuttles faculty sponsored research n Serving crime victims comprising the remainder. n Regenerating cells Over six decades, UDRI has n Growing energy emerged as a globally recognized independence leader in the fields of advanced “What motivates our re- materials, structures, aerospace searchers, and our organization as systems and propulsion, mechan- a whole, is the belief that the work ical systems, and human factors. we do here is going to improve It has recently gained attention

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I Cool patent Two University of Dayton cility opened on UD’s cycle between ice formation and researchers are part of a team property in late 2015. ice harvest modes, which pres- of researchers at The Helix In- The team tested ents a modeling challenge, re- novation Center that has devel- its ice machine com- searchers said. The model devel- oped an ice machine simulator puter simulator within oped at The Helix simulates this designed to help achieve the 5 percent accuracy of standard a doctoral student in the lab, cycle plus calculates changes in U.S. Department of Energy’s 500-pound capacity ice ma- created and assembled physics- the system because of machine target of reducing energy in ice chines operating under various based models of components capacity and environmental machines by 10-15 percent by room air and water inlet tem- within the ice machine. conditions. “Cubers,” as they are 2018. peratures. “Within the simulation, we known in the industry, produce This is the first patent appli- Dave Myszka, co-director of can quickly change components anywhere between 50 pounds cation by Emerson for research the University of Dayton Design and evaluate the resulting per- to 2 tons of ice per day for performed at The Helix, the of Innovative Machines Labo- formance,” Myszka said. restaurants, hotels, convenience 40,000-square-foot research fa- ratory, and Haithem Murgham, Ice machines continually stores and hospitals.

for its excellence in sensors $10,200 initial contract and alternative energies. 1949 from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base “We develop innovative technical solutions,” Crasto UDRI founded with 20 said. “More simply put, we 1956 sponsored projects solve problems — whether it’s totaling $1 million by developing new materials or technologies, finding the best way to put new technologies No. 1 in into service, or both.” UDRI sponsored Such innovation has 1 engineer No. 1 in ing research- Department attracted private and public 1 of Defense No. 2 in among Catho federally funding, including state part- lic universities sponsored - 2 sponsored No. 9 among nerships to develop new tech- research in private, compre Ohio materials nologies, said John Leland, 9 hensive research- research vice president for research at cumulative nationally universities for IN GOOD COMPANY total sponsored UD and executive director of 1986 revenues surpass research without the Research Institute. $25 million Top 5 federally sponsored materials research programsmedical schools “Our initiatives created jobs, fostered collaborations awarded its largest Penn State, University Park and Hershey among businesses, attracted Medical Center $49.31M businesses to the area and 2015 contract, $99 million over fostered start-up tech compa- five years, by the Air nies in the Dayton region and Force Materiel Command University of Dayton throughout the state,” Leland said. “We were able to support $30.23M UDRI employs 515 MIT $19.31M the revival of Ohio industry 2016 on campus and at and support the growth and five other locations vibrancy of the local communi- Princeton $18.6M ty — an initiative driven by the University’s Marianist values.” SUNY Polytechnic $18.33M

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Julie Jung ’88, Kathy Grogan Alaina Maguire Schools ’94 writes, Crippen ’88 and Phil Crippen ’86 “Karen Forziati Bressler ’94 (right) read UD Magazine in Costa Brava, and I were reading our UD Magazine Spain , in front of the castle of Be- at Barefoot Landing in Myrtle Beach, gur. Julie writes, “Kathy and I were S.C., on a family vacation. We fell housemates at UD, but we first met right into step of UD days where we in the fourth grade during recess. lived together for all four years. We Here we are, celebrating the Flyers had a great week and spent much time and 41 years of friendship.” reminiscing about UD, inspiring some future Flyers among the kids!” Mackenzie Hoops Pater ’09 and Jeffrey Pater ’08 were at the summit Kara Esler ’14 and her boyfriend, of Mount Rainier in Washington in Brian Conneighton ’15, enjoyed their June 2016 celebrating three years vacation to Prague and Vienna and of marriage. Mackenzie told us that brought along their UD Magazine for “the guide said only vitals and essen- the memorable trip. She writes, tials should be taken to the top — “The trip was amazing, and both places of course we snuck in the have incredible history. I have never UD Magazine.” taken a trip like this before and I can- not wait to go back to explore some Loretta Good ’97, writes, “I read more. I got to travel and learn so much my University of Dayton Magazine with my very best friend.” in Chicago at the 87th national convention of Sigma Kappa Sorority. Father Patrick McDaid, S.M. ’95, During a themed event, you were to brought his UD Magazine along to represent your favorite sports team. help celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s I had on Flyer attire from my hat to Basilica at the Altar of St. Thomas my flip-flops. Go UD!” for the Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Kathryn Gardocki Sokol ’14 writes, Tom Rock ’88 with his fiancé, Terry “My husband, Adam Sokol ’14, and I Cosentino, read the UD Magazine in recently took a honeymoon cruise to Amsterdam in July. Tom and Terry Alaska . The glacier and moun- UNIVERSITY DAYTON OF MAGAZINE were on a Rhine Valley riverboat cruise tains behind us are just one of the and visited Prague, Czech Republic, amazing views of scenery we got to Germany and Amsterdam. experience on our trip. It was truly unforgettable!” Beth Montgomery Meyer ’84 had the UD Magazine with her to share with Lisa Smith ’86 writes, “We attended family: “Three generations of my son and daughter’s graduation UD Flyers at the Foltz Family Reunion from the Devil Pups 10-day leader- on Virginia Beach .” Back row left ship course at Marine Corps Base to right: current student Adam Camp Pendleton . So grateful to Briscoe, Beth, Frank Masterson ’64, the men and women who serve our Jim Briscoe ’90. Front row: country and defend our freedom. Go Jeanne Foltz Blacker ’58, Leslie Foltz Flyers! God bless America! Oorah!” Masterson ’64. This picture includes her sister Susan DeWillie Costa ’78, second Jeff Morlan ’85 reads UD Magazine from the left. at the peak of Beartooth Pass in Wyoming , elevation 10,947 feet. Owen Kilbane ’69 enjoys reading “We accompanied four other the University of Dayton Magazine couples on our annual motorcycle outside Michael Lynott’s pub while adventure in late June. Stops included on a recent trip to Achill Island, Deadwood, South Dakota, Devil’s County Mayo, Ireland . Lynott’s is Tower in Wyoming, Red Lodge, Mon- known for being the smallest pub tana, and Yellowstone National Park.

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I At home in Dayton It’s never too late to reinvent your life. Just ask Karen language classes. “I wanted to be a math teacher for deaf Spina, who’s living out the advice she gives her own children: students,” she says. “Find your passion and follow it.” Instead, she became a software engineer who eventually In her early days at the University of Dayton, she’s taken a “fell into teaching math” at her children’s school when a teacher highly visible role in her husband’s presidency as they forge a unexpectedly went on medical leave. path together at a dizzying pace. Spina, who says her family is the most important part of her The couple has crisscrossed the country, from Chicago to Los Angeles, to meet alumni. They’ve shared dinners at Marianist student communities, kayaked with the president’s em- issaries on the Great Miami River, opened up the president’s residence for gatherings, joined stu- dents, faculty and alumni at the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass in the chapel, cheered on the Flyer football team and socialized at faculty receptions. “I was ready for the next chapter in our lives. Even Eric says I’m reborn,” says Spina, who juggled a 22-year career as a software engineer with raising two children, both now at Skidmore College. Her athletic rebirth began thanks to her children, who expressed an interest in learning the martial arts. Karen, at 42, earned her black belt in karate. At 43, she completed an IronGirl triathalon — swimming a mile, biking 20 miles and finishing with a 5K run. Today, she runs 4 or 5 miles daily, enjoys yoga and Pilates, and, even as the days grow cooler, meets friends for water-treading work- outs in a neighbor’s backyard pool. It was here that she learned life, met her husband through her brother, Ed, who taught with about the “Scarecrow Row” display at Oakwood’s annual Family him in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department Fall Festival. She invited students to the house, cooked brunch at Syracuse University. and worked with them to create a jaunty Rudy Flyer scarecrow, “I met Eric when visiting my brother but got to know him complete with a pump- better when my brother asked us both to be godparents for kin in his arm, for the ‘The students are his son. One weekend we babysat together, then Eric asked exhibit. my brother for permission to ask me out,” she recounts. “I “It was so much engaging, the knew on the first date I wanted to marry him. We planned to fun. Both of our kids community and go to dinner, a play and a jazz club, but ended up talking for are great artists, and hours over dinner. Eric’s mother was an University programs “He’s the complete package — a good person who’s kind art teacher. I always are fantastic, and the and a wonderful listener.” had an artist’s closet campus is gorgeous. The couple found the University of Dayton to be the full of supplies because complete package, too. I love to create,” she It just felt right.’ “It’s the first place he interviewed once determining he says. would consider a presidency, and we said, ‘This is it,’” Spina And, at heart, she’s a teacher, too. The youngest of four says. “The Marianists are so warm and welcoming. The stu- children, she earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from dents are engaging, the community and University programs Rutgers University. In graduate school at the University of are fantastic, and the campus is gorgeous. It just felt right.” Rochester, she studied computer science but also took sign —Teri Rizvi

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I Moral courage

n May 2016, eight undergrad- headphones and held out microphones, asking uate students began collect- 33 strangers to expose their souls and speak on ing, archiving and publicizing issues of race and place, reality and hope. These instances of moral courage voices add depth and texture to the headlines — standing up on behalf of and protests that followed the police shooting others in danger, regardless of death of Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014. the risk in doing so. The place In partnership with PROOF, a nonprofit ad- was Ferguson, Missouri. vocating visual storytelling for human rights For months before, stu- and peacebuilding, and led by assistant pro- dents had trained and re- fessor of human rights Joel R. Pruce, the proj- searched with whom they ect continues to bear witness. At a September should speak and what they campus forum, the students presented their should ask. It was not easy. Some activists were work alongside stories of protest from Ayotzi- known only by their Twitter handles. Others did napa, the college in Guerrero, Mexico, where 43 their work with little fanfare — the librarian who students disappeared. An exhibit of Ferguson taught students when the schools closed, the photographs and testimony, Ferguson Voices: Ipeacekeeper who on the streets mediated between Disrupting the Frame, will be on display Jan. 17 residents and officers. Jimmie Briggs, a journalist – Feb. 3 in the Roesch Library first floor gallery, with St. Louis and Ferguson roots, helped stu- before traveling to other exhibit sites in Dayton, dents make the connections and develop the rela- St. Louis and Ferguson. For more voices, in- tionships needed to capture the testimonies. cluding those of the student participants, visit When they arrived, the students put on www.facebook.com/moralcourageproject/.

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I Emily Davis Community advocate, third-generation Ferguson resident I have learned so much in the last 20 months, like stuff ... I just didn’t under- stand from being white, from growing up white, from being raised white that I didn’t understand. A lot of it has to do with dialogues and conver- sations that took place at protests, which in- Marty Casey spired me to do more Founder, Show Me Arts Academy research on my own, I told my husband, “Oh, I’m ’bout to go over there.” He said, “No, to look things up, to you don’t need to go.” I said, “Yes I do need to go over there because, read things, whether I if this was my baby, I would want someone to come over and be there was comfortable with for me.” He was like, “You don’t even know her. You don’t know them. it or not comfortable You’ll get hurt.” I said, “And that’s what’s wrong with us now.” We feel with it or whatever like because it’s not personal, since I don’t know the person that I can’t — there were things have compassion for the person. I said, “As long as we continue to op- that I needed to erate in that manner and not just simply take the time out to embrace listen to. ... So those somebody in a bad situation, we’ll never figure out what’s going on.” sort of relationships But we were weeks into it. I found myself feeling empowered. really inspired me.

Greg Casem Veteran officer, Ferguson Police Department You gotta remember

I’ve been here 27 years, Photos: AMANDA DEE ’16 so I’m a grandpa here. And the protesters don’t have to like me. But I tell our officers, you treat people fairly, and they’ll treat you fairly. [People] would tell me problems, whether in their own home or out- side of their home, be- cause they felt comfort- able. I would want you to talk to me. I don’t want kids to be scared of me. Those parents that Darren Seals say you better watch it Anti-violence advocate, union autoworker or he’ll take you to jail, I kind of like tell people all the time, if you wasn’t here when that hurts me ’cause I it happened, you kinda missed out on a great opportunity, ’cause don’t want a kid to feel on TV, it looked like a warzone. ... It was like 98 percent family that he can’t approach reunion, 2 percent riot. ... And everybody getting along. I seen me. I want families to enemies, I seen cats that I had beef with growin’ up, and they seen approach me because me, like bro, bro, come give me a hug. I’m like, that’s what’s up. It there are problems that only lasted about two weeks, but it still felt good while it happened. we can’t see. Editor’s note: Seals was murdered Sept. 6, 2016

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I A tree for Father Burns ASK A MARIANIST Near the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, a honey lo- cust tree stands in honor of Father Norbert Burns, S.M. ’45. It’s Distinctive fitting — a tree may be the only thing on campus with roots quite What’s at the heart of being a Marianist? as enduring as his. We asked that of Father William J. Meyer, S.M., provin- The former religious studies profes- cial assistant for religious life of the Marianist Province of the sor has taught more than 27,000 stu- United States. dents, most in his popular Christian marriage course. Burns also spent 45 The distinctive trait at the heart of anyone or anything years providing marriage counseling in which is “Marianist” is probably the combination of two charac- his office until midnight. teristics: zeal and mission. Look at the dynamic statue of Blessed “I believe in practicing in my class William Joseph Chaminade, founder of the Marianist Family, what I teach, so I greeted my students which graces the plaza behind UD’s Kennedy Union to notice at the door as they came in and hugged that Blessed Father Chaminade is represented as filled with a them at the end of class if they let me,” zealous energy, a person definitely on a mission. (See statue at Burns said from his home on Sawmill bit.ly/UDM_Chaminade_statue.) Road. From where did this concern for “zeal and mission” in the “I’ve had such a great life and have Marianist tradition emanate? In founding the Marianist Fam- done exactly what I wanted to do,” said Burns, who the Univer- ily — the first lay groups of the Sodality of Bordeaux (1800), the sity honored with the tree planting. “The tree is a symbol of life, Marianist sisters (the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, 1816) and of the embrace of God and creation. Since I had spent my whole the Marianist brothers and priests (the Society of Mary, 1817), preaching life in oneness, it just seemed that the tree was the Blessed William Joseph took inspiration from the Rule of Saint best symbol of all that.” Benedict. In what many refer to the crowning chapter of his —Courtney Mocklow ’17 Rule, Benedict speaks of the importance of “good zeal.” Like Saint Benedict, Blessed Father Chaminade liked the word “zeal” — a powerful word that is used in the Scriptures. And there is Cracking diversity’s code something about Benedict and Chaminade that is zealous. As I “Every organism has to control the use of their genes, and look at the UD statue of Chaminade, I see energy, a fire burning the mechanisms to regulate them are somewhat finite,” said within, the fire of the Holy Spirit — the good zeal of God’s grace. Tom Williams, evolutionary developmental biologist. Marianists encourage one another and others they encoun- The associate professor of biology is using the lessons of the ter using our saintly founder’s words: “The essential is the in- fruit fly to understand the evolution of “genetic switches.” This terior.” If we pay attention to the interior life of God’s graceful fall, he received a four-year, $839,000 grant from the National promptings, the direction of the Holy Spirit Science Foundation, which will help support a laboratory staff will help each of us do our part to bear that includes two doctoral students and eight undergraduates. Jesus, as Mary did, to a waiting world. Lessons learned from fruit flies could help speed up similar Blessed Father Chaminade believed studies on the significance of switch sequences in humans, he that we could best be attentive to said. this presence and movement of God Under his previous funding, Williams developed an investi- within by being part of a community, gative model using color patterns on the abdomens of fruit flies religious and lay, as mission-driven to study the ways in which DNA sequences function to switch members of the Church. Chaminade genes. believed that all Marianists and in- deed all baptized members of the Church are in a per- manent mission of Going green with daymag responding with Keep up with your Flyer friends and news while go- zeal to this grace ing green by subscribing to the digital UD Magazine. of bringing about Those wishing to stop receiving the print issue can in- the Kingdom of stead be emailed a reminder four times a year when the Jesus. digital edition is available to be read, either online or via the magazine’s app for mobile and tablet. To go green, email your name, address and email to [email protected].

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Records smashed Women’s soccer wins A-10 championship, beating No. 1 seed 7-0 The women soccer Flyers lost 3-2, ending their season at Flyers beat No. 1 seed 9-10-3 overall. Saint Joseph’s 7-0 in “I could see the team getting better,” KEN JANCEF the Nov. 6 Atlantic 10 said Tucker of the games leading up to Conference Tournament the tournament, “but then something title game. UD has won just clicked for them. The tournament a league-record 10 A-10 was as good a three-game stretch as championships (1996, we’ve ever had.” 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, The end of any season, Tucker said, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, brings with it a total shift. “You’ve been 2016). going 200 miles per hour,” he said. The first title, in 1996, “You’re on the field every day.” and this year’s were won This year, with retire- in Rhode Island. Mike ment, the shift is perma- Tucker, who retired at the end of this nent. He said he won’t season, was head coach for all 10 titles. miss the sleepless nights, The seven Flyer goals set the A-10 an occupational hazard tournament record for goals in a single of coaching.

match. @flyer_images instagram: – “I will miss,” he said, “Soccer is an imperfect game,” Tuck- “the players, the coaches, er said. “This one was as close to perfect the interactions.” as any Flyer game I’ve seen.” He talked of the play- The Flyers were not scored on in ERIK SCHELKUN ers as a father might talk the tournament, defeating Saint Louis of his children. 2-0 in the quarterfinals and George “It’s hard,” he said. Washington 3-0 in the semifinals. “But you just have to let Goalkeeper Kaelyn Johns broke the Head coach Mike Tucker is introduced before his last home game them grow up. Let them A-10 tournament record for individual at UD’s Baujan FIeld. make mistakes. But you shutouts. give them the information hoping they don’t. The best days for Junior Alexis Kiehl broke the tournament record for points (12) me are when alums come through the door. Makes you feel you’ve and goals scored (5). Senior Libby Leedom tied the A-10 champion- been doing something pretty good.” ship single game record for points (7). He also observed that coaches tend to dwell more on the agony Kiehl and Leedom each had a goal and an assist in the Flyers’ of defeat than the joy of victory. But that 7-0 championship win NCAA tournament game in Columbus against Ohio State, but the will bring him joy for many years...... Klesse gift aids soccer Bill Klesse ’68 majored in chemical engineering. His wife, Margie ’68, in chemistry. She was a Flyerette; he, a four-year starter, co-captain and two-time MVP of the Flyer men’s soccer team. Now, their names appear next to Fitz Hall on the Margie and Bill Klesse Soccer Complex, which gives UD, according to men’s coach Dennis Currier, “one of the best practice facilities in Division I soccer.” Women’s coach Mike Tucker compares the complex to some teams’ playing venues and envisions visiting teams seeing it and saying, “This is a practice facility?” The men’s and women’s fields gain a new entrance to the facility, covered benches and seating, as well as wind shields with signage to increase privacy and decrease traffic noise. Other upgrades include new goals, additional storage and an area of artificial turf between the fields for specialized instruction.

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BY JEREMIAH BONSU ’17 ERIK SCHELKUN In 2013, my freshman year at Dayton, I went to our gym, the RecPlex, every day. I’m talking every single day. Classes were done? Off to the Rec. Friday night? Rec. Saturday morning? Rec. I probably spent more time hooping than I spent in my dorm room. I think When Jeremiah Bonsu (No. 14) wrote this essay, he had not played a second for the Flyers. other kids noticed. But not like, “Oh, With 46.4 seconds left in Dayton’s opening game against Austin Peay, he entered the game that kid’s really good at basketball.” Nah, to loud cheers. it was more like, “Oh, that Jeremiah kid 10 minutes were up he blew his whistle to an off-court incident. That left us with down the hall? He’s a weirdo. He never and called me to the sideline. I could only seven scholarship players. goes out.” tell by the tone of his voice that I hadn’t I was sitting on the bench with a ball I remember spending my first Hal- made it. in my lap after practice one day when Bill loween on campus alone in the Rec, where “I love your heart, Jeremiah,” he said, Comar, Dayton’s director of basketball the only sounds in the whole place were “but all the spots on the team are filled. operations, sat down next to me. my bouncing basketball and my sneakers We do have one opening on the bench “Hey, Bonsu, I’ve got a question for screeching on the waxed hardwood floor. for a team manager. Is there any chance you.” All the hours I spent there — I kept you would want to fill that role?” My heart skipped a beat, but I didn’t telling myself they’d be worth it. If there I was sad, but getting a spot at the say anything. was one thing I had learned, it was that I end of the bench sounded like the next “You know the situation we’re in with should never give up. And after freshman best thing to actually making the team. losing all these bodies. How would you year was over, I went back home and con- “Yeah, I’ll gladly do that.” like to be …” tinued to work hard in the gym. Before I left he gave me one piece of “Yes!” I was determined to get a chance to advice. We both laughed. play on a D-I squad, and I was going to “Always bring your basketball shoes “You didn’t let me finish!” do anything to make to practice,” he said. “You’ll “Yes! Yes! Yes!” that a possibility. At If there was want to be ready to impress I was going to be a walk-on for the the beginning of my someone.” Dayton Flyers. sophomore year, a few one thing I had He was right. At practices, I haven’t played a single second yet. days after dropping off learned, it was the coaches would play me in But I know my time will come. It always my résumé and cover scrimmages. I’d get right up has. It’s just a matter of how much effort letter at Dayton’s ath- that I should into a starter’s face, call out I put into the game. letic department, I re- never give up. picks and do all sorts of little I want to be a coach. And not just ceived an email from things to show my attention any coach — I want to lead a top-tier D-I a graduate assistant that said I would get to detail. After practice ended, I’d stick program. Trust me, I’m going to be put- a 10-minute tryout. It didn’t sound like around to clean up and then shoot around ting in the work to achieve this dream. I much, but I was intent on making the for an hour or more. don’t know any other way. most of it. Early on in the 2014–15 season, some- At the tryout, I ran around some thing crazy happened. Three players suf- See The Players’ Tribune at bit.ly/ cones, put up a few shots and showed the fered season-ending injuries, and two UDM_Bonsu for the original, longer ver- graduate assistant my handle. When my more were dismissed from the team due sion of Bonsu’s essay.

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I Hard knocks Susan Davies has seen up-close the impact of concussions on children — on a student’s ability to learn and on educators unequipped to address the brain’s measured healing. The UD associate professor is now educating others to create a community of care that helps students return to learn.

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ince the school year began, ing the school-based supports and services “You’re not going to put someone with a 14 students had visited they needed in order to be successful.” broken leg back in PE class, so likewise, if you Kim LaScola’s office at Davies is working to change that para- have a child who’s coming back to school — Hudson Middle School digm. During the October session sponsored and they can come back to school if they have near Akron, Ohio, with by the Ohio Department of Health, she of- symptoms — but they’re still experiencing concussions — heads fered school-based professionals and health headaches or light sensitivity and things like banged in football games care providers training they can take back to that, you shouldn’t be making them do a half or knocked around during their schools, districts and regions — “train- day of standardized testing and then go to a classroom horseplay. And ing the trainers,” she says, who will then pep rally,” Davies said. it was just October. multiply the impact of her sessions. School-based professionals with educa- As the school nurse Even though students might look fine tion and health care backgrounds, like LaSco- and a registered nurse at from a physical standpoint, debilitating ef- la, understand this. So did most of the 40-plus Akron Children’s Hospital, LaScola under- fects such as fatigue, concentration difficul- educators, psychologists, Ohio State Support stands the protocol for recognizing traumat- ties and memory problems can linger well Team members, physical trainers, injury pre- ic brain injury and developing post-injury after the initial hit. The Centers for Disease vention coordinators and others assembled at progress plans for her students. She says her Control and Prevention estimated that in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources word alone, however, often isn’t enough to 2010, approximately 2.5 million emergency complex to hear Davies’ presentation. It was Sconvince teachers that recovering students room visits, hospitalizations or deaths were up to them, however, to bring that informa- might require additional academic assistance associated with traumatic brain injuries. tion back to their schools, their communi- when they return to the classroom. About 75 percent were concussions — mild ties and their Ohio Department of Education “I need a doctor’s order that says Joey traumatic brain injuries that occur due to regions to develop a team-based model to can’t take this test,” she said with exaspera- bumps or blows to the head or body that cause ensure their students could safely and effec- tion to a group of colleagues from Akron the head to move rapidly back and forth. tively return to the classroom. Children’s Hospital, all of whom traveled Despite its medical designation as “mild,” to Columbus one October afternoon for a Davies stresses that a concussion diagnosis COMMUNITY OF CARE training session on managing concussions that includes the word “traumatic” indicates Damien was an eighth-grade boy who in school settings. the seriousness of the injury, especially con- was in a car accident that resulted in a bro- Such stories are familiar to the session’s sidering the frequency in which they occur. ken leg, numerous cuts and abrasions, and a presenter, Susan Davies, an associate profes- Close to 250,000 children in 2009 were treat- concussion. His family, teachers and medical sor of counselor education and human ser- ed in U.S. hospitals for sports and recreation- providers tended to focus first and foremost vices in the School of Education and Health related injuries that included a concussion on his visible injuries. However, Damien Sciences. In her two decades of experience as diagnosis. was also struggling with concussion symp- a school psychologist, she has seen the conse- “It’s really a public health issue,” said toms that made the transition back to school quences of concussions left unaddressed. She Davies, the founder and coordinator of the particularly difficult. The night before he is now using her faculty research to educate National Association of School Psycholo- returned to school, it took Damien several those who work in schools with students — as gists Traumatic Brain Injury Interest Group. hours to fall asleep. He had a terrible head- well as the parents and students themselves In 2016, she won the University’s Faculty ache and was filled with anxiety about what — to identify injuries, acknowledge their Award in Scholarship from the UD Alumni to say to people and how to catch up on all the myriad impacts and create a community of Association. schoolwork he had missed. care to help the students return to learn. “If we respond appropriately and we set “Damien” isn’t a real student, and his full When Davies worked in the Oak Hills Lo- those appropriate academic and environ- “story” is one of the case studies Davies pres- cal School District in suburban Cincinnati mental adjustments in place as soon as stu- ents at training sessions and uses for analy- and the Cincinnati Public Schools as a school dents return to school, they can recover quite sis in her book, Managing Concussions in psychologist during a five-year period, she saw quickly. On the other hand, if students come Schools: A Guide to Recognition, Response, the adverse effects of traumatic brain injury back to an educational environment that is and Leadership. Readers and participants among her students’ ability to learn. They ex- not understanding their unique needs, it can are asked to discuss the warning signs stu- perienced persistent learning and behavioral really do some physical damage and prolong dents exhibit that indicate the need for educa- difficulties after sustaining a brain injury, she their recovery.” tional adjustments and the issues school staff said, but “because educators weren’t often Davies often uses what she calls the should recognize and respond to in such cases. well-trained in identifying and understanding broken-leg analogy to make her point even All of the examples presented could easily brain injuries, these students were not receiv- more clear. be composites of scenarios school staff face on

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I ‘My strategy with schools for concussion cases is helping them understand that if they have the right sort of supports and adjustments to the workload and academic environments in place, those kids can get better in a few days or weeks.’ —Susan Davies

a regular basis, including Davies during her “One of the girls I evaluated had been hit for the concussion is the first step. That’s career as a school psychologist. by a car when she was 2,” Davies said. “Ev- taking place more often thanks to increased “During my first year, I had a couple of eryone was very excited when she recovered, awareness of the danger of brain injury and cases where the students were presenting but when she started school, some of the re- the need for a quick response although nearly with unusual profiles, unusual patterns of percussions only became evident when she 33 percent of concussions in athletes go un- strengths and weaknesses,” she said. “Af- needed to sustain attention for longer periods reported, according to a paper in the Clinical ter delving a little deeper into their medical of time and engage in more complex social Journal of Sport Medicine. histories and some other things I’d learned situations. She actually presented as a typi- What follows is just as critical, which is in my own training, I’d learned they’d had cal student who had a traumatic brain injury, why Davies developed a concussion team previous traumatic brain injuries that weren’t but because it had happened in preschool, it model to ensure students’ return to educa- revisited in their educational evaluations that really wasn’t on our school’s radar.” tional settings happen as safely as possible happened before I came on the scene.” When Davies began pursuing a doctorate without long-term damage. Teachers kept flagging those children for in school psychology, she said she “made it One person is designated as the concus- potential learning disabilities or cognitive her mission” to use her dissertation research sion team leader, or central communicator. delays, but they weren’t qualifying for special to help teams of school professionals bet- This person could be a school nurse, school educational services, Davies said. After all, ter understand brain injuries and how they psychologist, counselor or administrator. the children had recovered physically. They could present in different ways. There were He or she is responsible for receiving the in- seemed just fine. emotional, social and behavioral issues that jury reports and managing the documented A more detailed parent interview revealed often manifested, in addition to academic return-to-learn process everyone else will past incidences of traumatic brain injury that difficulties. follow. hadn’t been reported to the school system. Immediate identification and treatment The student (or parent, for a younger

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I child) should clearly communicate her symp- col exist in all 50 states for student athletes, Ideally, the student would be getting toms, educational struggles and concerns, and and school-based and recreational coaches enough rest and sleep following the injury, the parent should help the child adhere to the receive concussion recognition and manage- and limit physical and cognitive activity dur- plan while submitting any medical notes or in- ment training. Parents also receive that proto- ing that period. While students usually get structions to the school. Academic team mem- col when signing up their children for sports. physical rest, Davies stresses the impor- bers should follow guidelines for recommend- While athletic personnel play an impor- tance of resting the brain, a step more likely ed academic adjustments to excuse a student tant role in Davies’ concussion team model, to be neglected in the process. Schoolwork from a test or allow a student to opt out of she says traumatic brain injury is more likely and technology access should be limited. activities that require extensive computer or to occur in more routine settings. General rec- Students who stay home from school should tablet use, for example, as light sensitivity of- reational activities, playground injuries and avoid extensive computer, video game, televi- ten follows traumatic brain injury. bicycle accidents are leading causes of con- sion and smartphone use. Such activities can School psychologists, counselors and cussion, especially among younger children. prolong the healing process and even exacer- speech language pathologists can work as Abuse at home is also a culprit. bate symptoms, she said. consultants for more complicated cases and “You can’t forget about these kids who’ve Easier said than done, said some of the at- help create the plans that include explana- fallen, been in fights or been in car accidents,” tendees in Columbus. tions for certain academic adjustments. The she said. “Concussions aren’t just a sports “It’s a constant fight,” said LaScola, noting medical team members provide the diagno- thing.” that tablets and other handheld devices are sis and management of the injuries, while a LaScola, the Hudson Middle School nurse, frequently a requirement in the classroom. school nurse can monitor in-school symp- has even seen students who sustained con- Resistance often comes from students and toms and help evaluate whether or not a stu- cussions from plain old “horsing around” and other members who should be key parts of dent should stay in school or receive academic bumping heads, hitting their heads on walls the team model. adjustments. or crashing into bleachers Returning to school should be a gradual Athletic team during a game in physical process, going from partial day attendance members would man- ‘If you do the right education class. to full-day attendance with some academic age the student’s re- things, concussion This is why Davies adjustments (limited tests and homework), turn to the practice and symptoms will get wants all school staff and full-day attendance with no academic limi- playing field. educational personnel to be tations and only physical limitations, and For the plan to un- better. If you don’t, aware of the importance of finally, full school participation, including fold successfully, all students can have recognizing and respond- extracurriculars. team members have ing to concussions — young “If you do the right things, concussion to maintain consistent protracted recovery children are at high risk. The symptoms will get better,” Davies said. “If you communication, using and, should they underdevelopment of the don’t, students can have protracted recovery the concussion team sustain a second younger brain and a physi- and, should they sustain a second concus- leader as a focal point. cal stature that makes young sion before the first has resolved, that’s really “My strategy with concussion before children’s heads and brains when we see the potential for more perma- schools for concussion the first has proportionally larger than nent impairment. We really want to create cases is helping them the rest of their bodies make that community of care around the students.” understand that if they resolved, that’s them more susceptible to have the right supports really when we see brain injury compared to SPREADING THE WORD and adjustments to the the potential for adults, Davies said. Develop- The attendees at the Ohio Department workload and academic ing motor skills and mobility of Health workshop didn’t doubt the value environments in place, more permanent also contribute to that risk. of Davies’ presentation and the team model those kids can get bet- impairment.’ But making the link approach to helping their students return ter in a few days or between a child’s fall from successfully to academic and extracurricular weeks,” Davies said. “Occasionally you’ll have the monkey bars and her lack of atten- activity. Assembling the team, however, was kids who’ll have persisting problems beyond a tion in a kindergarten class doesn’t often more of a struggle. couple of months, but that’s not as common.” happen in a school setting, to that child’s “This isn’t a priority for a lot of teach- detriment. ers,” said Megan Trowbridge, a state support HIDDEN TRAUMA “In comparison to students who sustain team member specializing in assistive Although managing traumatic brain in- severe brain injuries, students who sustain technology. She attended with Erin Oleen, jury in school settings has been Davies’ area of concussions aren’t necessarily going to be ex- another state support team specialist in ac- research for more than 10 years, she’s seen an periencing prolonged, severe academic and commodations, modifications and alter- uptick in interest during the last five with the behavioral issues,” Davies said. “They’re not nate assessment. They serve Region 14, a national attention on sports-related concus- likely going to qualify for special education, mostly rural area of Southern Ohio between sions, particularly among football and soccer but schools need to know what to do with Columbus and Cincinnati. (Ohio’s schools are players. Laws requiring return-to-play proto- them, too.” divided into 16 regions.)

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I Trowbridge and slept a lot, reported Oleen said they share Tips for parents and Tips for school constant headaches information with guardians professionals and had weak aca- schools in their re- demic performance. n n gions but still have If your child suffers an injury, watch Be aware of symptoms of a con- “Really nothing trouble emphasiz- for signs of concussion. These can in- cussion, both those that occur shortly was sinking in,” she ing the importance clude appearing dazed or confused, ex- following the injury and those that can said. of the team model hibiting behavior or personality changes, impact learning days to years later.* The young man’s n for helping students or repeating questions.* Educate yourself about the team mother was his ad- n recover from brain If your child is diagnosed with a approach to care and learn how it works vocate, calling to injury. For their area, concussion, submit medical instructions in your school. wake him up and n the distance between and doctor’s notes to the school in a As a concussion team member, explaining his situ- schools and medical timely manner. help facilitate communications between ation to professors, n centers hamper the For students requiring a return- the parents, students, other team mem- but Davies worked communication pro- to-learn plan, request a concussion team bers and medical providers to ensure to get him a graduate cess, and a lack of re- approach. adherence to the adjustments required student “coach” who n sources also presents Work with the concussion team to help to students heal. could help him learn leader to ensure necessary adjustments hurdles. to self-advocate. are being made. Become an advocate for *For a complete list, visit the Cen- Because it’s im- “I can’t imag- your child’s plan. ters for Disease Control and Prevention possible for Davies ine being an 18- or n Be vigilant about adhering to the at www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/ to make site visits to 19-year-old college plan at home, including limiting screen symptoms.html. all interested com- student and getting a time. munities, she hopes brain injury, because to train as many one of the effects of State Support Team a brain injury is im- members as possible so they can then lead bike helmets and are taught to properly fit paired self-awareness and impaired judg- the training sessions for their regions. She’s them. ment,” Davies said. “When you are still just also created online trainings through the “Preschoolers are mobile, but their gross a couple of years fresh out of your parents’ Ohio Department of Health project, and motor skills aren’t fully developed yet,” house and you’re living away from home and a University of Dayton graduate student, Hundley said, mentioning why she targeted you have a roommate, how can you take care Maria Tedesco, is completing her gradu- children ages 3-5. “They’re also at that ex- of that?” ate research on the effectiveness of online ploratory stage where they want to move She’s also taught one of her graduate training programs. around a lot.” students to conduct trainings for resident Tedesco is studying the efficacy of an -on All of which create a perfect brew for ac- assistants at UD and workers at RecPlex to line training that Davies developed, which cidents leading to brain injury. develop skills in concussion recognition and integrates information from existing pro- Hundley scheduled four training ses- response, and help the broader campus com- grams, including the Centers for Disease sions during the fall and hopes to run more munity — including disabilities services of- Control’s Heads Up program and Columbus’ during the spring semester before she gradu- fices and students in general — gain greater Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Concus- ates. Hundley is in her third and final year understanding of brain injury. sion Clinic Resources for Education, and of the education specialist program at UD “I do a lot of training of the trainers, be- piloted the training in nine Ohio schools. and hopes to go into the field of school cause they’re the ones who have the cred- She gathered background information psychology. ibility in their school buildings,” Davies about participants’ role in their schools and Davies’ model can be applied to any edu- says. “Those parents and teachers and their past concussion training and experience. cational setting, even as different challenges school don’t know me, but if I can train their The assessment included questions relat- emerge with older students in high school trusted school psychologist or their school ed to concussion knowledge, recognition and college. nurse to go in and help set up a concussion and response, and Tedesco is completing They’re old enough to describe their management team, it’s kind of an efficient data collection to determine the training’s symptoms and learn to advocate for them- way of outreach.” effectiveness. selves, she said, but actually doing so is a dif- The 40-plus attendees at Davies’ Octo- Another of Davies’ graduate assistants, ferent story. In her first year at UD, Davies ber training were a start. So were the par- Allie Hundley, is completing trainings in encountered a student who experienced ents who picked up a helmet from one of low-income settings. She received a grant multiple concussions in high school and Hundley’s sessions and the educators who from the Ohio Injury Prevention Program to an accident while at college. Although he completed one of Tedesco’s online training conduct sessions with parents of preschool- looked fine and seemed fine, he was experi- modules. Each one is contributing to the ers in Head Start programs to recognize and encing some “pretty serious” ramifications community of care, becoming part of the respond to head injuries. All parents receive from those head injuries, Davies said. He team to help students return to learn. UD

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I AN RUDYThe MakingO F Icon

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I ©2016 Classic Cool – The Esther Parsons Caniff Estate. All rights reserved. Courtesy Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University.

Above, Milton Caniff’s initial concept for the University’s D-Bird. Right, the mascot (in a slightly altered version) on a 1972 basketball program cover.

n the early 1980s, at a nearly sold-out UD concept into English by 1881. Arena, a barnstormer crouched in one of the The term was often applied to live ani- seating sections, trying to hide his big head mals that U.S. sports teams brought to games among the crowd. Attached by a long rope to intimidate opponents and entertain fans. tied to the Arena roof rafters, he leapt up and The University of Dayton had its own live- soared across the basketball court, cape flow- stock, such as a chicken who once appeared ing behind while fans laughed and pointed at at a soccer game. In 1956, the Flyer News in- the silly, but daring, mascot who brings them terviewed Pedro the Donkey, which the writ- By Ryan Wilker ’16 so much joy. er described as having “large, dreamy, brown For more than 35 years, Rudy Flyer has eyes” and a red and blue blanket with the captured the hearts of fans. The friendly, letter “D.” “I hope to be on the Flyers’ team muscular mascot leads cheers at games, gives for many years to come,” Pedro was quoted high-fives to fans and takes photos with chil- as saying. dren and alumni — all while fostering and But Pedro’s days — and those of live ani- supporting the University’s commitment to mal mascots everywhere — were numbered Flyer community. after the popular embrace of the Muppets, But Rudy didn’t fly out of thin air. The those plush, sarcastic creations of puppeteer beloved mascot was born at a basketball Jim Henson. game Dec. 1, 1980, after years of spirit-filled, According to the federation, teams in sometimes four-legged predecessors. The the late 1960s started creating Muppet-like history of Rudy is a story that involves those mascots that were friendly with fans and who helped conceive him, as well as the Flyer good at helping teams with marketing and Faithful who have cheered beside and sup- public relations efforts. ported him along the way. Up until the early 1970s, the University The making of this modern Flyer icon of Dayton didn’t have an official mascot. In began in France in 1880 with the opera La 1972, Gene Schill, the director of athletic IMascotte, composed by Edmond Audran. public relations and promotions, sent a letter According to the International University to world-renowned cartoonist Milton Caniff. Sports Federation, the popularity of the op- In his letter, Schill wrote, “To the best of era hastened the translation of the word and our knowledge, UD is the only college or uni-

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Above, D.W. Biggs’ drawing of Rudy, which was used to create the first costume, shown at right before Rudy got his name.

versity in the country with the nickname of while the aggressive attitude of the bird div- consolation game. ‘Flyers,’ and it has been a source of irritation ing out of the sun on its prey reflects the com- UD’s band director and cheerleading to the Department of Athletics that we have petitive spirit of the various athletic teams. adviser took note and invited Cengeri to try not had an official mascot or logo for use on “Topping it all is the flashing light re- out for the cheerleading squad. decals, tee shirts, letterheads, etc.” minding the viewer that learning is the main “I was terrible,” Cengeri recalled. “I had Ohio born and Dayton raised, Caniff had issue of any university function. The partici- all kinds of spirit, but I couldn’t do the lifts.” become famous for creating the comic strips pants in sports are there for an education. As The team kept Cengeri from potentially Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. When an antenna, the symbol indicates that these dropping fellow cheerleaders by having him asked to draw UD’s mascot, Caniff inked the athletes are in touch … they are with it!” entertain fans with mannequins and other D-Bird — part bird, part plane to help repre- Dayton Daily News sports writer Hal skits. sent the Flyers nickname while also paying McCoy called it “a weird little creature” Around this time, the band director ap- tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the when it debuted on a football program in proached Athletic Director Tom Frericks ’53 inventors of powered flight. fall 1972. But the D-Bird had huge wings at- about getting a mascot costume, said Rory Caniff described the D-Bird to Schill in tached to his back and two stubby legs, giving Falato ’77. a letter, now housed at the Billy Ireland it a form with no hope of translating into a “Tom Frericks was intent on building up Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State human-inhabited costume. the basketball program,” said Falato, director University. of athletic and arena promotions at the time. “The drawing shows a winged-goggled- By the late 1970s, UD was ready to try “He understood the benefits not just for beaked-helmeted creature, carrying on its again, and this time it wanted a walking, the athletic department but the University head a flashing, beacon-like device and bran- cheering mascot. as a whole.” dishing four menacing legs each wearing a First, UD identified the person who Frericks knew a competitive basketball different kind of shoe (football, basketball, would inhabit the costume. Ric Cengeri ’81 team would attract students, and Rudy be- track and baseball),” Caniff wrote. “The blue was an enthusiastic management major with came part of refining the Flyer sports brand. helmet bears the U. of D. major letter in red. a passion for basketball. He was discovered “We started selling Flyer merchandise at The bird’s bill and legs are also in the school’s at the 1979-80 AIAW Women’s Basketball games,” Falato said. “There were blue cry- traditional red color. National Championship, hosted at the Are- ing towels and kids’ dribble-pass-and-shoot “The wings represent the Wright Flyer na. While waiting for the Flyers to take the contests at halftime. Get people involved. aircraft which gave the teams their nickname court, Cengeri cheered on William Penn, Fill the seats. Make it family friendly. It’s not of Flyers. The shoes symbolize the major later helping rally the William Penn fans just a game, it’s an event.” sports in which the University participates to push their team to win in the overtime The athletic department hired south-

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west Ohio artist D.W. Biggs to draw the “It was the best,” said Cengeri, now first Rudy, who resembled a 1920s barn- a producer and announcer with Vermont stormer, a term used to describe stunt pi- Public Radio. “I’m a massive sports fan. I lots performing tricks with their planes. love the UD Flyers. To be able to attend UD sent the watercolor and ink image to every home game and some away games Stagecraft, a Cincinnati mascot design — to be right there on the floor — it was company, where owner Randy Kent brought fantastic.” the drawing to life. against Marquette, the mascot finally got Kent said he started by first sculpting the his name. The athletic department had run While Rudy rallied support for the head, then adding a giant mustache below a promotion, with fans ranging in age from Flyers, the fans began supporting their mas- the bulging nose and topping it with a leath- 4 years to Golden Flyers submitting entries cot and transforming him into a cherished er pilot cap. Next came the body, arms and of their favorite names. It was Falato’s idea. icon, said Joe Yokajty ’85, who became the feet, all covered with a flight jacket, pants, “I had the bright idea to have a name- mascot in 1982. gloves and high-top boots. the-mascot contest with a group of randomly “During my second year as the mascot, Just after the costume arrived on cam- chosen fans who would vote on the name,” Rudy started getting fan mail from some of pus, it suffered a wardrobe malfunction. The he said. He received more than 600 entries, the kids attending the UD games,” Yokajty mascot’s goggles came loose and needed to including Pontius Pilot and Freddie Flyer. said. “It was awesome.” be reattached. So the costume was sent back “It came down to Barney Barnstormer and Yokajty made sure to reward the fans to Stagecraft, and Kent said he glued the Rudy. The name Rudy reminded me more of with some antics he knew they’d love, includ- goggles back on and brought it up to Dayton a WWI German Flying Ace. But, that’s what ing the night when he got to fly. so that it could be used for the game that they picked,” Falato said. Yokajty said he was hidden in one of the night, Dec. 1, 1980, against San Francisco. Falato took to the Arena floor and made seating sections, then jumped out and flew Cengeri said he put the mascot head on, the announcement — and it sounded as if all across the basketball court with the cape on immediately smelled the glue fumes and the fans in the Arena were booing, he said. his back. became lightheaded. But he performed his “We stuck with it,” Falato said. “Here “I am still amazed that President Brother role as the mascot for the night. we are almost 40 years later, and he’s still Raymond Fitz gave the ROTC permission to The following day, the head was placed in around. I’m very proud of that, but I will tell tie me to a long rope attached to the ceiling the ticket office. Cengeri said that the fumes you I’ve never had a name contest again.” rafters. I think it was because we were both from the glue were so bad the ticketing em- Cengeri said it took fans several years engineers,” said Yokajty, now an engineer ployees evacuated the office. to embrace the name, but they warmed to based in Rochester, New York. The fumes did not discourage Cengeri, the mascot quickly, making the man in the and at the Jan. 24, 1981, basketball game costume proud. See Rudy, Page 44

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I Future Flyers With ancestors like Pedro the Donkey and the D-Bird, who knows what Rudy Flyer’s future . . . a passing lineage will look like? We do — thanks to some meteor bestows farsighted illustrators. We picked three points in superpowers time and asked them to draw a Flyers mascot for on Rudy the future. Here’s what it will look like when: DARYLL COLLINS DARYLL STEPHEN SILVER

. . . Rudy’s granddaughter, Rudy III, takes

CHAD FRYE the court . . . the Flyers play in the NCAA Tournament on Mars

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I Chuck Noll ’53 succeeded in more than football His lifes work

Chuck Noll had a childhood dream. In doing another book some years later, When he was 17, he saw it destroyed. Then MacCambridge again interviewed Rooney, he came to Dayton. who was nearing 80 and had added to his Noll’s Dayton years are part of the story achievements being the first U.S. ambas- told by Michael MacCambridge in his book sador to Ireland to visit all of the island’s Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work. MacCam- 32 counties. After a while, he heard back bridge’s journey to writing the book about from Rooney, by then Steelers chairman the coach who moved the Pittsburgh Steel- emeritus, his son Art II now heading the ers franchise from laughingstock to Super franchise. Bowl legend took some time. In research- Rooney wanted him to do a book on ing his award-winning America’s Game: Chuck Noll. The Epic Story of How Pro Football “I was interested,” MacCambridge said, Captured a Nation, he had interviewed Dan “but I told him it can’t be just about Noll Rooney, Steelers executive and son of the being a good football coach.” Cfranchise’s founder, Art Rooney. “You look into it,” Rooney said. “You’ll A few months after the book was pub- see.” lished in 2004, “I received a handwritten So MacCambridge talked to men who note from Rooney saying that it was a good played with and for Noll. He talked to Noll’s book but didn’t have enough about the family. He saw. Steelers,” said MacCambridge while visit- Three years, 300 interviews and a lot ing the University of Dayton in October for of writing later, the book on Noll has been

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES a book signing. published by the University of Pittsburgh

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I Press. It is about a successful football coach. He took her aside and quietly went over it nomic necessity. Pro football didn’t pay No other coach has won four Super Bowls with her. “From that day on,” she said, “math much in those days. As a player, Noll did con- while losing none. But it is also about a suc- was my best subject.” sider what his life’s work could be. He sold cessful man. The intelligence, the skills, the attitude insurance. He sold trucking services. He did Noll’s perspectives were broader than that Noll brought to everything in life, he substitute teaching. He studied law a bit. He football. During his life he became a photog- brought to football. And he changed the thought about medicine. rapher, a wine connoisseur, an airplane pilot. game. He didn’t like any of it much. If something interested him, he wanted to “His big contribution,” MacCambridge “I had a horrible, horrible fear of him end- become an expert on it. “He may have been,” said, “was reducing the game to its compo- ing up selling time on a truck line forever,” MacCambridge said, “the last Renaissance nents. Football was then, in terms of coaches, MacCambridge quotes Marianne as saying. man.” a cult of personality, of willpower, of over- “And I wanted him to have a passion.” Noll loved his wife, Marianne, and their blown rhetoric, ‘give 110 — no, 120 percent.’” In 1959, Noll got a call from his old room- son, Chris. And he loved his nieces and neph- Noll considered it the player’s job to mo- mate, Jim Currin ’53, who told him that ews. His sister, Rita, and her husband, Clar- tivate himself. What Noll as a coach did, Mac- former UD assistant coach Joe Quinn ’42 ence, had seven children under the age of 10 Cambridge said, was to teach players “what and others thought he would be a good can- when Clarence died suddenly. Noll became a to do, how to do it and why they should do it.” didate for Dayton’s head coaching job. After source of financial help and more. Noll kept After graduating from the University, interviewing in Dayton, he returned home to his family life private; he neither sought the Noll played for Paul Brown in Cleveland for Cleveland and Marianne waiting with dinner spotlight nor enjoyed it. But MacCambridge six years. Brown was a coach who stayed on and wine. He explained he knew he wasn’t noted that, as he was researching the book, message. One message his players heard re- going to get the job. the nieces and nephews were very clear to peatedly was that “this is just what you’re “But I do know one thing now,” he said. him about their uncle’s love and help and doing now. You have to think of what your “This is what I really want to do. I really their gratitude to him. life’s work will be.” want to coach.” One remembers struggling with algebra. Part of that advice had to do with eco- —Thomas M. Columbus

The excerpt that follows is from the part of Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work that chronicles Noll’s Dayton years; it takes him from being a 17-year-old with his spirit crushed to being a man about to try out for a football team that in every year of its existence had played in its league’s championship game — the Cleveland Browns. While at Dayton, MacCambridge said, Noll “got a sense of self, a sense of belonging, a sense of confidence.” Self, belonging, confidence What Super Bowl legend Chuck Noll ’53 learned in Dayton

Chuck Noll ’53 had a childhood dream of playing football for [Noll’s line coach at Benedictine and a 1927 Dayton grad]. the best college team in the country, Notre Dame. He tried out With his eyes fixed on his shoes, Chuck told Strosnider what as a walk-on. An epileptic, he had a seizure. That was the end of had happened. They talked for a few moments, and Strosnider his Notre Dame career. “The university,” writes Noll biographer asked him what his plan was now. Chuck didn’t have one. Michael MacCambridge, “thought it best if Chuck went home. But very soon, Strosnider did. He told Chuck to give him a few Coach [Frank] Leahy didn’t want to take the risk.” The following hours. excerpt from MacCambridge’s 2016 book, Chuck Noll: His Life’s Strosnider had played, with distinction, at the University of Work (reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Dayton, about 215 miles downstate, in southwestern Ohio. Soon, Press), describes what happened after Noll returned to his home he got on the phone with Joe Gavin, the head football coach at Day- on the east side of Cleveland. ton and also, as it happened, a college roommate of Frank Leahy. It made perfect sense. Leahy and Gavin were still close friends, There were no heart-to-heart discussions at the breakfast and at times Leahy would call Gavin on the phone and have him table the next morning. Instead, Chuck got up, showered and try a new wrinkle with his team that Leahy couldn’t risk trying dressed, and did what he’d done most days the previous four years: in practice — because of all the attention on Notre Dame — with he walked up to Woodland Avenue to grab the streetcar heading his own team. Surely Gavin would take on Chuck Noll. out to Benedictine [High School]. Gavin called Leahy to find out the story on the Noll kid. There The semester had just begun, and the school was in the early wasn’t much information: Leahy knew the kid had a seizure, and stages of earnest fall activity. Chuck went straight to the athletic Notre Dame didn’t become Notre Dame by taking on problems. department and found who he was looking for — Ab Strosnider Whatever Leahy said wasn’t enough to convince Gavin to take

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I After a few more moments on the phone, Gavin relented. Stros- nider signed off with a relieved affirmation — “You’ll see” — and then a quick goodbye. He put the phone back in its cradle and eased back into the chair. The next call was to Chuck, to tell him that he should keep his bags packed; he would be enrolling at the University of Dayton. n n n

So, on Sept. 18, 1949, Chuck Noll went to Terminal Tower and got on a train, bound for Dayton. He was met at the station by Dan Ferrazza [’51] who drove him to campus so he could watch practice. One of the other freshmen recognized him. It was Len Kestner, who was on the Catholic Universe Bulletin’s All-Catholic team with Chuck in ’48. “Hey, Chuck!,” said Kestner. “What are you doing here? I thought you were at Notre Dame.” “It’s a long story,” Chuck said. n n n

By 1949, the hometown of Orville and Wilbur Wright was a small-time city with big-time aspirations. Nation- al Cash Register, founded in 1884 and thriving in the postwar economy, was

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES right across the street from the campus, and there were several General Motors subsidiaries — Delco and Frigidaire plants among them — that were paying well for manual labor. Against this grow- ing industrial metropolis, the Univer- sity of Dayton stood out as a redoubt of Catholic learning. … It lacked the bustle of Cleveland or the mystique of Notre Dame, but it was welcoming, approachable and Catholic. It didn’t take long before Chuck felt at home. Before they’d even met him, some of Chuck Noll, an education major who was to his teammates saw Chuck one afternoon, a become one of football’s greatest teachers, took learning seriously. “His sense of urgency to get solitary figure out on the practice field, re- back to the books,” said teammate Jim Currin ’53, lentlessly ramming out at a blocking sled. “was always greater than most of the rest of us. … Later that day, [Pat] Maloney [’53] became He had that desire, always, to learn.” the first to make his acquaintance. They sat together in the narrow corridor outside the Chuck. But then, after Gavin called Strosnider back and politely athletic office and struck up a conversation. “We must have talked declined, he’d found the old Dayton alum unwavering in his insis- for about 20-25 minutes before Gavin got there,” said Maloney. “I tence on Chuck’s worthiness. Strosnider wouldn’t take no for an remember afterwards that I said, ‘Boy, what a nice guy; I really like answer. this guy. I’m glad I came to UD because it is going to be good.” He was speaking quietly at first, but soon he raised his voice, Out on the practice field, Chuck’s credentials were clear. “Right loudly enough for Father Placid [Pientek, the athletic department away, you knew he was a player,” Jim Currin [’53] said. “There business manager], sitting in another corner of the Benedictine was no question he could play the game, and he knew it. He was athletic department office, to hear one side of the conversation. smarter than all the rest of us, had blocking techniques we didn’t “Look,” Strosnider continued, more emphatic. “Joe, I tell you have yet. You could just tell.” he’s a good kid! You got to take him. If you don’t, you won’t get n n n another guy from Benedictine, I swear to God.” As threats went, it was not an idle one: Strosnider had been The freshman team was designated cannon fodder. “We just around, and he knew virtually everyone in Cleveland football. got the shit kicked out of us by the varsity,” said Maloney. “That

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I was it. No ifs, ands or buts about it.” family. The connections between those Dayton players ran deeper Eventually, though, by the end of that first season, something than mere teammates. They lived together, studied together (those changed. In 1949, many of Dayton’s starters were nearing their that studied), went out together, and drank together. … mid-20s, Second World War veterans who attended on the GI Bill. They had spent much of the previous two years giving each oth- … At first, Gavin thought the older, hardened athletes would be the er nicknames. … Chuck’s nickname was definitely bestowed dur- key to Dayton’s rise. But there was something missing in the GI Bill ing the spring intrasquad game in 1951. … Before one play, Chuck vets — a degree of abandon characteristic of the best players. Gavin made a line audible that would send him wide to block the end and found it hard to convince someone who’d survived the Battle of have Currin moving inside to catch the linebacker coming through the Bulge to whip themselves into the vacated hole. The call was made an emotional fervor for the sake of but the play broke down from the beating St. Bonaventure. start, Chuck not getting a good shot By the end of the season, as on the end and Currin missing the the freshmen grew physically and linebacker entirely. in confidence, the tide turned in Walking back to the huddle, their scrimmaging against the var- UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES both Chuck and Currin were ada- sity. “Some of them were married, mant that the other man had failed. so football wasn’t a big thing,” said “That’s your fault!” Chuck said. Currin. “So when we came in, we “You called it!” said Currin. “He were all recruits, ready to go, and was too far over!” Then, perturbed, we would have a scrimmage, and by he added, “You think you’re always the end of that year we would just right — you think you’re the Pope!” knock the snot out of them.” Teammate Joe Molloy [’54], n n n walking back to the huddle with them, overheard and echoed the sen- As sophomores, Chuck and the timent, “Yeah, you’re the Pope!” … Dayton football Class of 1953 moved Noll and fellow co-captain Ed Clemens with the Governor’s The nickname poked fun at Cup, won after topping Xavier during the 1952 season. en masse up to the varsity. … On the Chuck’s certitude, but there was field that sophomore year, Chuck also a sense in which it was a de- found a new influence. He was scriptive of the authority of his Ralph McGehee, an All-American opinions. “If there was ever a dis- under Leahy at Notre Dame, who cussion, whatever his conclusion was rehabbing an injured knee on was, end of discussion,” said Don his way to trying out for the pros. If Donoher [’54]. “Chuck’s was the Russ Alexander [who coached Noll last word, so it just became; he is on a youth team in Cleveland] had infallible.” taught Chuck the principles of le- n n n verage, and Strosnider helped him with the nuances of using his arms In the locker room [after the to shed and control opponents, COURTESY OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS 1951 season-ending 34-13 win over McGehee gave Chuck a master class Marshall], Gavin gathered his play- in the initial explosion off the line ers and announced that they had re- of scrimmage. ceived an invitation from the Salad McGehee “had the most pow- Noll (No. 65) on the sidelines next to legendary Cleveland Bowl, played in Glendale, Arizona. erful lunge out of the three-point Browns coach Paul Brown. There were real questions stance that I had ever seen or have within the administration over the seen since,” said Currin. “And he watched Chuck, because Chuck cost. … Dayton finally accepted. had a good lunge from three-point stance, and worked with Chuck. It would be the greatest moment in Dayton’s major-college foot- Between the two of them, they would break those sliding ma- ball history. They took a chartered train from Dayton, with 11 news- chines.” The facility Chuck had exhibited in the classroom — hear papermen and two train cars full of boosters along for the ride. … or read something once and he retained much of it — translated The game itself, played on Jan. 1, 1952, drew a crowd estimated to the football field as well, and by his sophomore year, Chuck was at 17,000. … Dayton fell, 26-21. already coaching his teammates. n n n n n n [In 1952] on Thanksgiving, they went down to Chattanooga for By the time he returned for training camp in the late summer their last game and were blown out, 40-7, to end a disappointing of 1951, Chuck might have felt he was coming home to his second 6-5 season.

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I Brown loved; Cleveland drafted him in the 20th round. … The standard contract for rookies was $5,000. Among the COURTESY OF THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS teaching opportunities that had been offered Chuck, one was at Holy Name High School in Cleveland, for a pay of $2,700. Of course, the odds were stacked against Chuck making the team. NFL rosters had 33 players. From one year to the next, there might be 28 or 29 holdovers, even more on a perennial con- tender like the Browns. But Brown had been told about Chuck’s technical skills. “Well, you’re big enough,” said Brown to Chuck when he visited that spring. “Let’s see if you’re brave enough.” n n n

The summer of 1953, Chuck, Currin, Maloney and [Tom] Carroll [’53], along with basketball player Chris Harris [’55], wound up renting space in the attic of an apartment on Grafton Avenue, behind the Dayton Art Institute, within easy walking distance of McKinley Park. They each paid the owner $5 a week for a mattress in the attic. … They’d found work … laying tar and working nearly dawn to dusk every weekday. It was hot, dirty work, and only the money and the friendship made it worthwhile. … When they returned to the apartment, most of them would collapse. Not Chuck. Each day, he would change into his Day- ton athletic shorts, grab his stopwatch and implore Maloney or Carroll to join him at McKinley Park a few blocks away. “Chuck, I’m tired — you go,” Carroll would protest. “You don’t have to do anything!” Chuck said. “Just come along and sit down and time me.” There, in the gathering dusk, Chuck would run 40-yard sprints, and then have Carroll time the intervals — first 60 sec- onds, then 50 seconds, then 40 seconds, down to 10-second breaks. Chuck would run until he collapsed from exhaustion. Carroll, stopwatch in hand, would sit with his back against a tree and time his friend. The sight of the other tired young men sprawled in the stifling heat of their threadbare apartment while Chuck changed into sweatpants and tennis shoes became one of the recurring motifs of that summer. Noll in his final NFL season. He retired after going 7-9 in 1991, completing “Pius [the name of the pope at the time], slow down, man,” a 23-year tenure as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. said Chris Harris one hot evening. “Gotta do it,” Chuck replied. “Gotta make this team.” As they took off their sweaty football gear in the Chattanooga n n n locker room, they each knew, to a man, it was probably the last time they’d play the sport. Though Chuck was named all-Ohio, he Noll made the team, playing six years for was undersized for a lineman and was already focused on looking Paul Brown in Cleveland before going into coach- for teaching jobs after graduation. … Only Currin, who’d earned ing himself. In 1975 he coached the Pittsburgh national attention with his receptions, was given a chance. For Steelers to the franchise’s first Super Bowl title, everyone else, it seemed, the ride was over. his first Super Bowl win of four. Nobody has won So when a man called the dorm one day in January 1953 to more. He lost none. UD inform Chuck he’d been drafted, he at first assumed it was the Army and was perplexed; he’d already been declared 4-F due to n n n his epilepsy. “No, the Browns — the Cleveland Browns,” said the reporter. Chuck Noll: His Life and Work is widely available … The Browns kept close tabs on Ohio schools, and Gavin had at booksellers including the University of Dayton recommended Noll as the sort of brainy football player that Paul Bookstore, www.udayton.edu/bookstore.

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I Rudy, from Page 36 noting that he would walk to where his who also went to Dayton, our close-knit professors were sitting. They had no idea friends from UD who are now like fam- As Rudy got older, he not only got more who was in the costume. ily or the alumni community as a whole. adventurous but also more hip. “It was something I’ll definitely remem- Even though we graduated almost 10 years “Back in 1983, Michael Jackson first ber about my college experience. Everyone ago, the Flyer spirit remains with us and is performed his Moonwalk on a TV program loves Rudy,” he said. something that we are both proud of.” celebrating the history of Motown,” Yokajty Four years ago, Rudy beefed up his im- For some, Rudy even becomes part said. “Rudy immediately taught himself the age again — taller, bigger and more mus- of the family. Collin Brown ’11 and Alison legendary move and incorporated it into his cular, said Adrienne Green ’08, director of Roell Brown ’11 named their dog Rudy. own dance routine during a Flyer basketball marketing at UD Arena. He donned a new “We are both big UD sports fans and like halftime. I swear most of the women to see Rudy motivating the crowd,” in the Arena screamed. said Collin Brown. “Rudy’s head might have been Fernando del Monte ’08 and Mol- even bigger that day.” ly Bytnar del Monte ’07 also named The head was big, yes. And hot, their furry yellow pup Rudy. “The with Yokajty losing up to 10 pounds main reason we named our dog Rudy while working football games. was to remind ourselves of where we And, well, funny-looking. met,” Fernando del Monte said. “Our “At one point Rudy’s face be- time at UD was so incredible.” came a bit worn,” Yokajty said. “I When the Arena marketing crew overheard folks saying Rudy looked discusses how to schedule Rudy, they a bit like Mr. Potato Head. That was capitalize on his fan appeal to make somewhat embarrassing for Rudy, a good time even better — includ- until the costume was sent away for ing delivering free food during game restoration that summer.” breaks. “People like to get a pizza, Fans continued to think that especially if it’s from Rudy,” Green Rudy looked like Mr. Potato Head said. throughout the 1990s. In 1997, the University decided Rudy needed to Two to four students per school grow up. year have the opportunity to be Rudy, According to a Dayton Daily and their ideal height is between News article by Bucky Albers, Rudy 5-foot-7 and 6-foot-3. If someone received a new blue pilot suit, red is not in that height range, the suit satin scarf, black boots, a black leath- becomes disproportional, and Rudy er cap and goggles. loses his powerful image, Green said. “The floppy-footed World War “I have a lot of respect for our I biplane pilot who has frolicked at students who do Rudy,” Green said. UD Arena for the past 17 years has been re- muscle suit and got a new bomber jacket, “It’s hot in there, and you can’t see anything. placed by a character who looks more like though he does dress for the occasion. But it’s fun, and people get excited to see Chuck Yeager,” Albers wrote in the article, “We get all kinds of requests, even on you.” referring to the famed test pilot who in 1947 campus,” Green said about Rudy’s appear- The love for Rudy — and Rudy’s evolu- became the first person to break the sound ances at weddings, alumni events, Christ- tion — continues. This year, Rudy will be able barrier. mas and birthday parties, and fundraisers. to be in two places at the same time; the ath- Rudy Flyer donned a red satin scarf for letic department had the costume “cloned.” More changes took place in the mid- a special occasion in 2011. “Guests were Such adaptation calls for a formal por- 2000s, Jay Nigro ’06 explained. After he be- entertained by Rudy Flyer, who made a trait. As of fall 2016, fans can purchase came Rudy in August 2004, the mascot up- surprise appearance during the reception,” Rudy’s likeness on T-shirts, key chains and graded his blue jumpsuit by adding muscles wrote Paula Veihdeffer Markley ’07 for her cut-outs. and a bomber jacket. Rudy started wearing wedding announcement in UD Magazine. Although Rudy has undergone many the basketball team’s jerseys and even the Becky Dunn Kaster ’07 and Chris Kast- changes throughout the years, one thing re- same shirt as Red Scare when rival Xavier ner ’07 couldn’t have Rudy at their wedding, mains the same: his readiness to cheer on his came to town. so they had the next best thing — a custom beloved Flyers with an army of Flyer Faithful “They pretty much let me go where I cake topper with boy and girl Rudy standing beside him. UD wanted to go,” said Nigro, who now owns beside a Lowes Street sign. Liftoff Entertainment in Dayton. “It was a “Rudy to us means family,” said Becky Michelle Tedford contributed reporting lot of fun interacting with fans,” he added, Kastner, “whether it’s our family members to this story.

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I BACK PORCH

ALUMNI IN ACTION Scholarship elevates beyond dreams POLITICAL POWERS Their last takeout meal together, Destry Fallen After she died in 2013, Destry decided to honor Keith Powers ’05 was featured ’86 and Mona Guerrier Fallen ’91 sat in the park- his wife by establishing the Mona Guerrier Fallen in City and State magazine’s ing lot between O’Reilly and Founders halls and ate Endowed Scholarship for the Office of Multicultural “Rising 40 under 40 Stars” in October. Powers currently food from the Hickory Affairs. works for former New York City in their car. “We were in their shoes,” Destry said of Council speaker Peter Valle Sr. They looked at the multicultural students. “That was Mona and at Constantinople & Vallone campus where they me 30 years ago. So, this was the right thing Consulting. met, reminiscing on all to do, to give back.” the memories they had Taylor Ruffin is appreciative of that, as FUTURE FLYER POTENTIAL created in that space she was a two-time recipient of the scholar- The San Diego Alumni Commu- decades earlier. By ship beginning in 2014. nity sent volunteers to Cathedral then, Mona’s cancer Ruffin emphasized that Mona’s scholar- Catholic High School’s college was terminal, but she ship meant far more than just monetary help. fair in Del Mar to share their was at peace. For Ruffin, meeting Mona’s family gave her a experience of what it’s like to be “We talked about personal connection to the scholarship. a Flyer. UD and how fortunate “He was so emotional and adamant on we were. People had wanting to help,” Ruffin said of Destry. “I BUILDING TOGETHER sacrificed for us, and we realized then that someone actually cared Six alumna from the Atlanta were blessed to have and he was elevating me to go beyond my Mona and Destry Fallen Alumni Community participated gone there. We always dreams.” in Habitat for Humanity efforts wanted to give back,” Destry, Mona’s husband, said. Destry hopes that the scholarship will continue in mid-October. In its fourth Mona, like Destry, was a first-generation col- to help students who are in the most financial need. year of volunteering, the group lege student. She went on to earn her law degree So far, nine students have benefited from the schol- helped paint the interior of two and became an assistant United States attorney in arship. homes and completed final Dayton. Said Destry, “Everyone does have a story. We’re touches on the exterior. “She would preach education to anyone that all sent here for a specific purpose. Those kids RUN FOR A CAUSE would listen. Mona was a proponent of education up motivate and energize me. I know Mona is smiling.” The Cincinnati Alumni Commu- until the very end,” Destry said. —Gita Balakrishnan nity held its Cincinnati Flyer 5K fundraiser for its Christmas Off Campus event. Dozens of alumni Keep on keeping on participated and the group In April 2005, Dave Ku- a 12-year-old boy at the time, raised more than $900. nicki, a 1999 radio-television who was living with spastic graduate, was at a professional quadriplegia, the most severe CHEERING SECTION crossroad. Kunicki had tried form of spastic cerebral palsy. The UD cheerleading reunion his hand at improv comedy His condition left him with vir- is scheduled for Jan. 6, 2017. and was holding a stable job in tually no control of movement Anyone interested in taking part health care, but for him, some- of his arms or legs. should contact Amy Williams at thing was missing. To help raise awareness [email protected]. And since big things usu- of people living with severe Discover more: ally happen at crossroads, so it disabilities, Wambach had de- alumnicommunity.udayton.edu happened that Kunicki ran into cided to run 1,200 miles from an old grammar school friend, Dave Kunicki ’05, (left), with members Orlando, Florida, to Chicago in of the Keep On Keeping On Foundation. Tim Wambach, and the course 30 days. Kunicki knew that he of many peoples’ lives changed Wambach shared the story of forever. his friendship with Mike Berkson, See Keeping , Page 48

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I New board leader named The University of Dayton named Chicago business executive David Yeager ’75 chair of the board of trustees. Yeager is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Hub Group Inc., one of North America’s largest transportation management companies. In 2015, Yeager chaired the University of Dayton’s presidential search committee. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital-Chicago and is a lifetime trustee of Fenwick High School in Oak Park, MY OLD HOUSE 411 Lowes Illinois. He received an MBA from the Uni- Yeager versity of Chicago in 1987 and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UD. “The best leaders model the behavior they value,” said UD President Eric Spina. “Dave Yeager brings a thoughtful, delib- erate style that I admire. He’s a strong listener who led the t had them at “new.” Lamb reunited on the porch last presidential search in a manner that met with respect from “We knew it was new, so summer to talk about the home Marianists, faculty, staff, students and alumni.” we put it down,” said Haleigh they shared their junior and se- Yeager expressed optimism for the University’s future: “I’m Lamb ’15 of the five house- nior years. honored to serve as chair during this important presidential Imates’ preference to live at 411 Said Zawistowski, “When I transition. Dr. Spina is a collaborative, visionary leader, and the Lowes St. starting in August first walked in, I said, ‘This is the board looks forward to working with him to shape the University 2013. nicest place I’m ever going to of Dayton’s future.” The yellow two-story had live.’” Lamb agreed: “I live in 750 —Cilla Shindell been built in 2012 to replace the square feet in Nashville.” 12-foot-wide, two-bedroom blue The women made 411 Lowes frame house with the same ad- a special interest house focusing Community awards dress built in 1905. The house- on faith, justice and the com- During the Alumni Lead- ton and Nashville. Boston mates were only the second oc- munity. They hosted dinners, in- ership Conference in Sep- worked for more than a cupants of the yellow house, built cluding a barbeque that brought tember, alumni relations year to re-establish a strong as one of four new green-certified the entire street together. For a recognized five alumni community. Alumni are now homes on Lowes that year. service project, they had to move communities who best dem- actively holding events with “New” meant a dishwasher, to a larger venue — RecPlex; the onstrated the mission of the a turnout of more than 60 washer, dryer, three bathrooms, women organized volunteers department. at the Rhode Island–UD five bedrooms and a closet the who measured and packaged n The Program of the basketball pregame. size of a bedroom that a friend beans, rice and other foods for Year Award was presented Nashville’s new com- asked to move into. 20,000 children in Haiti. to the Detroit Alumni Com- munity leader, Jen Pollard Visitors entered at the liv- But even a new home isn’t munity for its Wine Tasting ’85, set out to fill her lead- ing room with its tile floor and without its quirks. The electric- Scholarship Fundraiser. The ership team with enthusias- flowed into the kitchen, spacious ity would often cut out — a dark event blended the Marianist tic alumni. Nashville hosted and handicap accessible. It was shower one day, a whole-house heritage with an apprecia- events that creatively en- the entertainment floor — com- outage the next. Such adversity tion of Bordeaux wines. gaged the community. plete with karaoke machine and can bring friends together, they n The Innovative Pro- n The Community of comfy chair donated by friend said — and help make new ones. gram of the Year Award was the Year Award was pre- Jeff Messing ’15. Said Zawistowski, an eighth- presented to the Cincinnati sented to the Columbus “People called our house grade science teacher in Green- Alumni Community for their Alumni Community for their ‘Grand Central Station,’” said ville, South Carolina, “We got to Center of Science & Indus- consistent commitment Lamb, now a sixth-grade science know Gary the electrician very try service event. The Cin- to Learn. Lead. Serve. Co- teacher. well.” cinnati community brought lumbus hosted a variety of Ashley Zawistowski ’15 and —Michelle Tedford COSI to St. Frances de Sales events including a cooking School for a full day of inter- class, yoga class at a brew- ...... active science experiments. ery, a kickball league and a Suggest we take a tour of your old house. n The High Flyer Award trip to Dayton for a basket- Email us at was presented to both Bos- ball game. [email protected].

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I ...... Keeping, from Page 46 ...... had to be involved in some way. . . . “I said, ‘Tim, that’s the craziest thing . . . . I’ve ever heard and I’m going to join you . . on that trip,’” Kunicki said. . . . . Kunicki provided logistical support . . . . to Wambach — from helping him traverse . . highways and mountainous regions to . . . . booking hotels and setting up media at- . . . tention. . . . . When the pair returned to Chicago . . and realized the momentum they had . . . . generated from the run was tangible, . . . . the Keep On Keeping On Foundation . . (www.teamkoko.org) was born. The . . . . name has significance since Wambach . . . had used the phrase as a sign-off in his . . . . letters as a youth minister. . . “It wasn’t until Tim experienced . . . . what life was for Mike that he understood . . . . what keep on keeping on meant. And, . . basically no matter what adversities you . . . . face, you must keep moving forward. You . . . must keep on keeping on,” Kunicki said. . . . . The foundation reached nonprofit . . status in 2007 and has since helped more . . . . than 100 families with medical equip- . . . ment purchases, buying wheelchairs, . . . . creating campaigns to help make homes . . more handicapped accessible, paying . . . . for therapy sessions, buying specialized . . . hospital beds and assisting with out- . . . standing medical bills. . . . . Kunicki quit his full-time position . . in health care and is now the executive . . . . director of the organization running its . . . daily activities and developing strategic . . . initiatives. The inspiration he felt being . . . . part of the organization pushed him to . . earn his MBA in nonprofit management. . . . . In September, Team KOKO made . . . a pit stop on UD’s campus as the foun- . . . dation set out to recreate the original . . . . 2005 run and raise funds to help support . . their goals. Along with Kunicki, alumni . . . . Devon Vocke ’98 and Andrew Miller ’01 . . . also serve on the foundation’s board of . . . trustees. . . . . Said Kunicki, “Our mission is to help . . those with severe physical disabilities but . . . . also to inspire everybody in the commu- . . . nity to make a difference. No matter what . . . life throws at us, whether we are able- . . . bodied or in a wheelchair, to understand . . . . that we all have our handicaps, some are . . just more visible than others. Our mes- . . . . sage is, despite that, we must always work . . . for the greater good.” . . . —Gita Balakrishnan . .

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I All invited to envision UD’s future To peer into the future, you need a lens Janet, as the sun set over the Pacific Ocean. systems that infuse our society. that is wide and long. In Chicago, alumni filled seats at the Univer- All participant comments — including Enter the vision of thousands of alumni, sity Club of Chicago and raised hands to offer those from the Oct. 6 faculty and staff vision- plus that of students, faculty, staff, parents their insights. ing day and sessions with students, advisory and University trustees who have partici- Jan Vargo ’84, at the Dayton vision ses- councils and the board of trustees — are be- pated since September to help guide UD as sion, said our way forward must include a ing recorded and shared with the strategic it plans for its next quarter century. focus on our Catholic values. “That, to me, visioning committee. In late winter and early The visioning process is the construct of would be No. 1,” she said. spring, committee members will discuss and President Eric Spina and a committee headed Jessica Davis ’14 added her own questions test ideas, with Spina sharing broad results by Provost Paul Benson and Master of Pub- for UD to ponder during the Oct. 15 Dayton during his presidential installation in April. lic Administration Director Michelle Pautz. event, which was streamed on Facebook Live: Spina said important outcomes of the They are asking audiences to define the Uni- “Would love to have sustainability infuse collective visioning process will be clear pri- versity’s core values that must remain at the the identity of UD,” she commented online. orities for investment, inspiration for a fund- center of who we are and to answer this ques- “What are some ways the field can infuse not raising campaign, and an enhanced focus on tion: What are our areas of strength today, only campus operations but also every stu- national and international reputation. and what should we be known for nationally dent’s study?” “We have a history of boldly adapting for and internationally in 20 to 25 years? Audiences have discussed affordability, the times while honoring our heritage,” he “Then it’s about moving forward together diversity, additional degree programs and re- said. “I’m confident that, together, we will as a community toward these aspirations that search partnerships. They extolled the value create a compelling, lasting vision that will we’re setting,” Spina said. of Flyer Enterprises, ETHOS, the Dayton guide the University of Dayton to a future Spina and vice presidents Jen Howe and Civic Scholars and the River Stewards and filled with the possibilities we can only imag- Molly Wilson have met with alumni in Los asked that they be models for wider expe- ine today.” Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. riential learning opportunities. Father Ted To learn about future alumni vision ses- In San Diego, they gathered with alumni on Cassidy, S.M. ’60, said our faith should inform sions and participate in the question of the the patio of Richard Shanks ’79 and his wife, how students learn about and respond to the week, visit www.udayton.edu/VisionUD.

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I “Houston, we have a problem.” Well, shared experience, an ownership of our com- not for the over 600 alumni who migrated munity. And at that moment I was definitely south after graduation to this fourth-larg- one with my community.” —Mary DeBauche est and second-fastest growing U.S. city. ’90 Houston Not only does Houston attract visitors to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, but it “The student community at UD is extraor- is also where Texas Medical Center — the dinary. I attribute that to the fact that it’s a world’s largest hospital — is located, along Marianist school and students go there for with 23 Fortune 500 companies. the faith as much as the classes offered. I For Christmas off Campus 2015, the was proud to be part of that community.” Houston Alumni Community gath- —Jason Gavula ’94 ered to help pack 6,500 “backpacks,” providing children with six meals for “My senior year we had second row tick- the weekend. And, the loyal community ets in the student section for the Xavier game enjoys having a strong following for basket- — that was the most alive that I have ever seen ball game watches throughout the season. the Arena. We beat Xavier when they were ranked. That same year the team won the first What out-of-this-world experience do you NCAA Tournament game for UD since 1990. I remember having while at UD? porch for a moment. It was eerily quiet. I saw remember watching with all of my friends and “My senior year the men’s basketball team no one walking home, no one sitting out, noth- being so happy to be a Flyer. Watching the Fly- made it to the [NCAA Tournament] and the ing. And at that moment something happened ers at UD Arena is really special because the ALUMNI COMMUNITY PROFILE COMMUNITY ALUMNI whole campus was agog. I don’t remember in the game and I could hear the roars coming entire community comes together united in which game it was, but I stepped out on the from every direction. College sports is about a support of our team.” —Brad Evans ’09

Houston Alumni Graduation Classes Academic Area By the Numbers Single 186 All 1940s-2010s Arts & Sciences 199 Education & Married 404 Most 1970s with 158 Business 162 Health Sciences 90

Total Alumni 633 Flyer fusions 84 . . Engineering 157 Law 25

NowREADSEEHEARThis A WAY TO FORGIVENESS Glenn said, “By extending the written memoir form to cookbooks, Erin Dooley ’00 scrapbooks, quilts and other forms of storytelling, we found we had In spring 2015, Erin Dooley walked 550 miles across Spain on created a first-of-its-kind guide to memoir that includes rather than the Camino de Santiago, a centuries-old religious pilgrimage, excludes would-be memoirists who are not to learn and understand true forgiveness. Camera in hand, the writers.” The book is available at Amazon.com filmmaker chronicled her journey and asked others on the walk or Barnesandnoble.com. about their thoughts on forgiveness. Her 45-minute documentary called A Way to Forgiveness was completed in September. UNWRITTEN Dooley said, “I had read The Pilgrimage Unwritten is an eight-episode podcast that by Paulo Coelho while at UD and became developed when several UD alumni, along with interested in the Camino. Ultimately, others, wanted to create a script that revolved when I started freelancing and had six around current social issues. Produced by the weeks to take off, I did.” The film can be Dayton Writers Movement, the podcast aired found on Dooley’s company website: in September and reached www.dashentertainmentllc.com. listeners in 32 countries in its opening month. “Unwritten” MEMOIR YOUR WAY tackles themes of sexual vio- Joanne M. Lozar Glenn ’75 lence, mental health and LGBTQ issues. “Our goal is to attract podcast Memoirs are no longer only for writers. listeners who haven’t heard a story addressing such real-world issues; Joanne M. Lozar Glenn co-wrote Memoir alongside them, we also want listeners who care about these issues Your Way: Tell Your Story Through Writing, Recipes, Quilts, Graphic but haven’t yet broken into the audio drama world,” said Chris Burnside Novels, and More to help more people tell their stories. The book, ’09, University English professor and DWM’s executive producer. which has five other contributors, came together when the co-authors Others who participated in the project include Anna Adami ’16, Joey began sharing ideas about how people were recording pieces of their Ferber ’16, Jenna Gomes ’15, CC Hutten ’15, Grace Poppe ’16, Tavis personal history in nontraditional forms. Published in September, Taylor ’16 and current student Avery Hutto. Listen to the podcast at the book aims to help other women quickly and easily create their www.unwrittenpodcast.com. memoir, using skills in ways they may not have thought about before. —Gita Balakrishnan

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I CLASS NOTES

SEND INFORMATION FOR November 2015, my UD roommate, UD Flyer, and you will, too. UD and CLASS NOTES TO: Golden Flyers classmate and the brother I never its wonderful professors and ROTC Class Notes JIM KENNEDY ’56 (ART) lives in had, Joe Kennelly Jr. ’60, passed instructors sent me into the real University of Dayton Barrington, Ill. He writes, “I enjoy my away. My time with Joe was the world with the confidence that I 300 College Park, Dayton, OH blended family best four years of my life. Joe was would succeed in my career. After a devoted family person and a guy 45469-1303. of 19 children. I 55 years and a Hall of Fame military who always had your back. Joe and Or you may send it to also paint from career, I still volunteer many hours I had the same major and, in those teaching young men and women [email protected]. my home studio, days, only three professors taught teach watercolor how to be good soldiers, citizens and Be sure to include your name, those classes. Joe and I went to art at the local responsible parents. My generation the same classes at the same times year of graduation and major. Kaleidoscope suffered the anti-military wrath and sat next to each other during For the records office, please School of Fine Art and volunteer as caused by the unpopular Vietnam our four years at UD. I’ve never include cell phone number. an art instructor in the community. War. Father Raymond Roesch, been so close to another male in Please also include email My twin granddaughters, Jennifer S.M., and Father John Kelly, S.M., my life. After graduation, we went address, indicating whether you Baily and Ellen Baily, are juniors at were an inspiration to me, and I in different directions to support wish it to appear in Class Notes. UD. We are standing in front of my visited them every time I visited UD ourselves and our families. I was Include maiden name and former home at 1229 Alberta St., in my early military career. They always sad about that. To say I loved were great supporters of students spouse’s name (if applicable). which is now part of UD housing.” the big guy is the understatement of commissioned as second lieutenants If you’re sending information TOM STAUDENHEIMER ’58 (ACC) the century. I thank Tom Blackburn, in a great ROTC program. I am 77 about your children, please and his wife, Donna, live in Louisville, Herb Dintaman and UD for putting us and consider myself one of the include birth dates rather than Ky. He writes, “We celebrated together. If not for UD, I never would luckiest people on the planet. I had ages. The magazine does not 53 years of marriage in October. have had this wonderful friendship.” a great education, career, family and publish announcements of We have 10 living children, one RICHARD DAVIS ’62 (MED) lives am a citizen of the greatest country engagements or pregnancies. deceased son, 25 grandchildren in Fort Myers, Fla. He writes, “As a in the history of this world. Keep up and two great-grandchildren. In Photos of alumni are welcomed young man growing up in Dayton, the great legacy of UD. Go Flyers.” February 2014, I retired from my and published as space permits. I was influenced by my uncle, an job as a staff accountant at Kindred JOE “JUNIE” DE LEO ’64 (BUS) Notes may take up to two issues internist specializing in pulmonary Healthcare. Previously, I was and his wife, Sandra, live in to publish. All notes are edited medicine. So, after graduation from employed by Blue Cross Blue Shield Stamford, Conn. He writes, for style, content and length. UD, I went to Saint Louis University of Kentucky. I’m an active lector “2016 was an exciting year. In School of Medicine. At Indiana and sing in our ensemble choir at April, Sandra, my high school RECORDS UPDATES ONLY University School of Medicine, I sweetheart, and I celebrated our my parish, St. Gabriel, and serve as trained in internal medicine and Send information for records to: 50th wedding anniversary. In May, lector and Eucharistic minister at cardiology. I was influenced by Advancement Records the Cathedral of the Assumption’s the city of Stamford honored us many great doctors and realized with a proclamation marking our University of Dayton daily noon Mass.” Tom invites the importance of my teachers and anniversary and years of service to 300 College Park, Dayton, OH former classmates to contact him at mentors. I was a cardiology fellow Little League. I just completed my 45469-7051. [email protected]. and served two years in the U.S. 49th year of coaching Little League, Please remember to send JERRY HOPFENGARDNER ’59 Air Force. I have been grateful to and we spent our anniversary at address, email address and cell (EDS) lives in Greenville, N.C. He so many for my career, including the Stamford North Little League phone number. writes, “In this portion of eastern my own doctors; my wife of 54 opening day. In August, I was years, who has always supported Or you may send the information North Carolina, UD alumni probably awarded the eighth annual Nick can be counted on one hand. I’m my endeavors; my three daughters, to [email protected] or Corbo Community Service Award, one of the proud few to wear UD grandchildren, son-in-law, colleagues call 888-253-2383. given to someone who serves red and have an alumni license plate and staff; and all my patients. I have the youth of Stamford. At UD, I Be sure to indicate it is not for frame on our car. My wife of 62 always believed that the ability to be made the baseball varsity team as Class Notes. years, Winnie, and I are extremely a quality doctor starts with caring a freshman and pitched for four blessed to live in a state-of- about your patients. The practice years. I’ve been a member of the of medicine is an amazing and the-art continuing care retirement Varsity D Club since 1964. Going to unequalled profession.” community. Another resident of UD was the turning point of my life; Cypress Glen and I are pictured on CLINTON HODDER ’62 (MGT) lives everything good happened after the cover of the United Methodist in Prince George, Va. He writes, that. I played professional baseball Retirement Homes’ 2015 annual “Congratulations to the Class of in the New York Mets organization report, walking along the Tar River.” 2016. As a graduate and 30-year and retired in 1994 after working for Jerry is a UD professor emeritus veteran of the U.S. Army, I know Clairol for 30 years as manager of of education and former associate how hard it is to say goodbye, but packaging and processing. We have dean. you will always be connected to three children — Michael, Kelley, FRANK CASE ’60 (EDP) lives in the finest university in the world. I and JD and his wife, Sara — and two Miamisburg, Ohio. He writes, “In know in my heart I will always be a grandchildren, Zakary and Arianna.”

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I KAREN GUSZKOWSKI ’66 (PSY) places on our trip exploring the and her husband, Tom, live in MARSHA HAYDEN ’72 49th state.” Milwaukee. In November 2015, MARY LEE GRACE MALOY (SOC) they received a Vatican II Award lives in Pittsburgh. She writes, “Five for Service to the Missions from Class of 1970 alumni joined me to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Military records of a Marine attend Karen and Tom, members of Marsha Hayden’s 21-year career in the military was a jour- the Old St. Mary’s Parish, helped ney for country and self. South found a mission with St. Paul the Catholic Apostle parish in Mukono, Uganda. Hayden had not decided early in life that she would join High Together, the parishes have the armed forces. Rather, she joined the military because she School completed such projects in Africa said she was “looking for a challenge.” 50th reunion in Pittsburgh: as putting a roof on the church, And she found the perfect challenge by enlisting in the Bob Maloy, Jay Campbell, Jim helping young widows become Corbett, Charles Saltzer and Rich self-sufficient, and building a high Marines in 1977. D’Alessandro.” school, nursery school and rectory. In choosing what branch to join, gender and race were of Karen writes, “On our first trip, most importance, and Hayden said that she joined the Marines NAN MCNAMARA (HST) lives in Tom and I didn’t know what would “because they didn’t have enough black females.” Sun City, Fla. She writes, “I almost happen, but there was no turning died in spring 2016 following back. It’s a reciprocal relationship, The 1972 physical education major quickly moved up the abdominal issues and infections. I a sharing, and our lives have been ranks. When she was accepted into the Warrant Officer Pro- was hospitalized five times during enriched ever since.” gram, she began realizing how much of an impact military life a 10-month period. I’m back at the was beginning to have on her. With only a 7 percent acceptance pickleball and volleyball courts, REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 rate into the program, she said she was thrilled at the “awe- though. In my age-restricted reunion.udayton.edu community, there’s always 1967 some opportunity.” someone who’s had it worse and But, her biggest success was getting promoted to major in survived.” TIM KEARNEY (ACC) and PAT 1995 — not only because it marked a career accomplishment, GILMORE KEARNEY (ACC) live in but because, as she says, “at the time, there were only five other Port Clinton, Ohio. 1971 They write, “We black female majors in the Marine Corps.” LARRY ROCHELLE (ENG) lives are on a bucket Her successes allowed Hayden the chance to travel the in Redmond, Wash. He writes, list cruise from globe, expanding both her world and personal views. “My book Jelly Balls, the 19th Rome to the Holy “The Marines incited my love of traveling,” Hayden said. “I installment in my Palmer Morel Land with stops in mystery series, is now available on Malta, Turkey and was stationed all over the world and was Amazon Kindle.” Greece and would recommend it to exposed to many different cultures in everyone. We also hope to see all places like Europe and Asia. I was REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 of our ’67 classmates at our 50th even in Saudi Arabia during the reunion.udayton.edu reunion June 9-11 in Dayton. We Gulf War and got to interact with have been blessed many times over 1972 and meeting each other at UD 50 a lot of people there. That really JEFFERSON INGRAM (EDS) lives years ago was one of them.” opened my eyes.” in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio. He Reflecting on her career, Hayden writes, “I am a professor in the 1968 is proud of her military service as University of Dayton's Department TOM MIKOS ’68 an African-American woman of Political Science. I teach a course in civil liberties and one called (IMT) JENNY and hopes her story gives GALLOWAY MIKOS American Judicial Process. ’88 (ERS) live in others like her the chance I also teach courses for the Dayton. They write, to explore their chal- Criminal Justice Studies Program “We visited the lenges and exceed their that include Criminal Law and botanical gardens own expectations. also Criminal Procedure. in Rio de Janeiro in January 2016.” My writings include books on —Courtney criminal procedure and in criminal Mocklow ’17 evidence, and I am now working 1969 on a 12th edition of Criminal Evidence.” CINDY KRYDA (MET) lives in Okatie, S.C. She writes, “I visited the Charles Bridge 1973 in Prague, one of me a lifetime achievement award the cities I visited at its 2016 annual conference in 1970 GALEN GASSON (ELE) lives in before going on a Versailles, Ohio. He writes, “I am an Dallas in July. It was presented with BOB GUTMANN (MGT) lives in Danube River cruise official SKYWARN weather spotter gratitude for my contribution to Dayton. He writes, “I traveled to in May. This trip for the National Weather Service in the field of cultic studies. Becky Alaska on a 2 ½ week cruise and was at the top of my bucket list. Wilmington, Ohio.” and I are downsizing and plan to land trip Now, on to No. 2, the Galápagos, move to California in 2017, but we with MEG HIGGINS HAYCRAFT (SOC) which I will visit with my daughter, don’t have plans to retire yet. We Nancy and her husband, Dan, live in Nicole, in August.” have three adult daughters and Gutmann, St. Helena, Calif. She writes, JOE SZIMHART (FAE-FA) and two granddaughters. I have an art Ron “Three years ago we moved from his wife, Becky, live in Birdsboro, studio at Goggleworks Art Center in Thaman Chicago to California, where Pa. He writes, “The International Reading, Pa., and my art can be seen ’71 and Joy Thaman. We enjoyed we’re surrounded by mountains Cultic Studies Association gave at www.jszimhart.com.” amazing sites, scenery, people and and vineyards in Napa Valley. I’m

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I a licensed clinical social worker REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 for a five-week summer school economics at Sinclair Community and just accepted a position with reunion.udayton.edu session with UD.” College in Dayton. After I retired, the U.S. Department of Defense Dorann and I moved to Florida, DENNY FRYMAN (MBA) and his as director of psychological health 1977 and since 2007 I’ve worked at the MARK BOBAL (CRJ) lives in wife, Dorann, live for the 63rd Regional Support Grand Floridian Resort and Spa. I Cleveland. in Saint Cloud, Fla. Command with the U.S. Army didn’t run track or cross country at He writes, He writes, “On Aug. Reserves. I cover eight states and Brookville High School in Ohio, nor “My daughter 1, I completed my three Pacific Islands, and I travel did I run in college. I ran my first Barbara ’18 and 1,000th marathon. I monthly to visit any of the 44,000 marathon in October 1978. Now, I enjoyed some retired in December U.S. Army reservists whom I serve. I’m the first North American to time together 2000 from a nearly I act as a consultant and referral complete 1,000 straight marathons, across the 30-year banking guide for military members in as I’ve completed every race I’ve big pond, career at National need of behavioral health care or started. I’m the third marathoner sightseeing in City Bank. I was also an adjunct treatment.” in North America to reach the London before she went to Ireland instructor of marketing and 1,000-marathon milestone before the age of 69. My career marathon 1974 rank is No. 4 in North America STEVE MUELLER (PSY) and CINDY DAN KREMER ’82 and No. 19 in the world. After MUELLER (ACC) live in Dayton. completing my 750th marathon, I They was featured in Sports Illustrated write, Down on the farm magazine. I believe the Lord has “With our Like many farmers, Dan Kremer wakes long before the given me this marathon quest to son Greg influence other senior athletes to Mueller sun rises. But before heading outside to tend to his 140-acre achieve amazing feats, no matter ’06, farm in Yorkshire, Ohio, he takes advantage of that first hour their age. I typically wear my daughter- to quietly reflect. favorite shirt during my marathon in-law “It’s really precious time for me,” Kremer said. After events: a UD shirt bearing the old Shannon that, however, the energetic father of six kids, who range in colors of red, white and powder Stewart Mueller ’07 and grandson blue. I am a proud UD grad.” Phillip, we traveled to Sheep age from 8 to 23, harvests grain, milks cows, collects eggs and MAURA MORAN (MTH) lives in Mountain, Alaska, to celebrate the more. His farm, E.A.T. Food for Life, sells milk, cream, butter, Sudbury, Mass. She writes, “I’ve wedding of fellow Flyer Heather cheese, yogurt and eggs as well as grass-fed beef and chicken, been selected as vice president Stewart ’07.” pizza crust, flour, bread and even cookies — all non-GMO for government relations for and organic. Kremer delivers food directly to customers, but the Institute of Electrical and 1976 E.A.T. also operates a farmhouse site off Wayne Avenue in Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA), the world’s largest technological CHRIS MEEHAN (ELE) lives in Dayton. The small, intimate setting allows Kremer to con- professional association. I’m a Melbourne, Fla. He writes, “Pope nect personally with families picking up their order. partner at Cambridge Technology Francis called “We just want to help families eat healthier,” Kremer said. Law, providing legal services in all the deacons “Food should be flavorful, locally grown and nourishing.” intellectual property, licensing of the world to He should know. Kremer is also a hemophiliac, meaning and business transactions. I’m Rome for a Jubilee active in the Boston chapters of for Deacons to his blood doesn’t clot normally, so health has always been a IEEE Women in Engineering and participate in the priority. It’s part of the reason he ditched a successful corpo- IEEE Robotics and Automation Year of Mercy. The rate career and returned to his family’s farm in 1997. Society, and I’m a member of event began May “It was definitely a calling,” Kremer said. “But it’s where the Massachusetts Technology 25 and culminated in a papal Mass Leadership Council. My home is on May 29. I vested for Mass in the my roots are and where I spent many hours working with my convenient to Boston, the beach Pope Paul VI auditorium, where father.” Farm life meant Kremer also had to call on lessons and mountains. I’m the proud Pope Francis holds his general he learned studying mechanical engineering at UD. mother of two grown-ups who audiences. It was a truly joyous are happy, healthy and well- occasion to process into St. Peter’s “It wasn’t a cakewalk for me, so I developed tremendous discipline launched: Emily Plumb and Greg Square with about 2,000 of my Gazda.” brother deacons to assist at Mass and hard work studying for Dr. with our Holy Father.” [Howard] Smith’s classes,” Kremer WILLIAM “BILL” WAXMAN (MBA) said. 1980 and his wife, Betsy, live in Vandalia, Hard work indeed. With a herd D. JEFFREY “JEFF” IRELAND Ohio. He writes, “I retired in May of 75 cattle, 10 dairy cows and 500 (LAW) lives in Oakwood, Ohio. He from Edison State Community received America’s Top layers, there’s no shortage of labor. College in Piqua, Ohio, where I was 100 Attorneys lifetime an associate professor of business It’s why when Sunday rolls around, achievement award for and program coordinator for the Kremer takes a much-needed rest. his work in competition business management, human “God designed it that and business litigation, resources and real estate programs. way,” Kremer said. as well as advertising, Betsy and I have been married 41 antitrust, employment, class years and have three adult children actions, securities, trade secrets and four granddaughters who live —Molly Blake ’96 and intellectual property law. Jeff in Kentucky, Ohio and Oregon. has tried business litigation cases We look forward to traveling and throughout the United States visiting with our grandchildren, as for more than 35 years and is a well as volunteering in the Dayton partner at Faruki Ireland & Cox in area.” Dayton.

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I REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 University of Dayton Magazine, so SCHENKEL BROWN (PSY) MARY MANZO MORRISON (MKT) reunion.udayton.edu I thought it would be fun to bring live in Dayton. They write, “We live in West Chester, Ohio. Chris it along on visited our writes, “Our 1982 our grueling youngest son Kevin, a UD CAROL BENSON (EDS) lives in endurance daughter, junior, spent Beverly Hills, Mich. She writes, “I bike race Claire five weeks of Brown, in read my University through summer session South Africa of Dayton Magazine Garrett studying in in March and near the statue of County in Rome. I then April. Claire William Shakespeare Maryland during the Gran Fondo joined him for a is a missionary in eManzana, South in the Shakespeare 2016 event. I’m happy to report tour through Rome, Florence, Africa, ministering to women Gardens in Stratford, that we all finished.” Pictured left the Cinque Terre and Venice. St. with the hope of the Gospel and a Ontario, Canada. Will to right: Tim McCormick ’81, Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum growing micro-business economic told me that he appreciates the fine Ann Marie McCormick ’81, Tim were among the amazing sites we development model. We are very writing in the magazine. I love to Gruss ’81 and Maureen McGroarty visited.” proud parents.” read about what my fellow Flyers Gruss ’82. are doing. Go UD.” DOUG MCKEOWN (CME) and his wife, Casey, live in Scarborough, 1986 J.R. “EBB” EBITT (MKT) lives in 1984 Maine. Doug JENNIFER CUSHING GERAGHTY Daphne, Ala. He writes, “Mike KATHY BOYD (MKT) lives in Peoria, writes, “My (PSS) and MICHAEL GERAGHTY ‘Jonesy’ Jones Ariz. She writes, daughter ’87 (MGT) live and I took our “Maggie Boyd ’18 Riley and I in Jackson, annual fishing trip was an au pair pose with the Tenn. They out of Pensacola this summer in University of write, “We Beach, Fla. We Barcelona. I was Dayton Magazine in the Azores. took some are waiting for lucky enough to Casey and I visited Riley, a UD vacation time the rest of the 40 visit her there and junior, while she spent a month with Tim Chambers crew to even luckier that working at a hospital on the Geraghty ’19 and Chris Broadbent get their sea legs back and make it the Tour de France was just four Portuguese island of Faial.” ’86 at Hilton Head, S.C. Now that down next time.” hours away. Because I’m an avid Tim is continuing our UD tradition, cyclist, this was a dream come MAUREEN MCGROARTY GRUSS each time a group of our UD friends true.” (COM) lives in Danville, Pa. She 1985 gets together we love to show writes, “I just received our latest TERRY BROWN (FIN) and RITA CHRIS MORRISON (MKT) and some Flyer spirit.”

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Former WVUD-FM radio broadcaster turned voice- ’86) has moved WVUD-FM Peter started working over talent Peter K. O’Connell (RTV come talents in the business, the one thing at the 50,000-watt station WVUD from the 53rd largest broadcast market (Buffalo, N.Y.) he tells them is, “You in 1982 after the station’s program to the 24th largest broadcast have to want to per- director heard him on the Univer- market (Raleigh, N.C.) — a move form voice-over like sity’s low-power station, WDCR. made largely to be closer to you want to breathe — He started at “Hitradio 100” doing family. In August 2016, O’Connell, because it takes a afternoon drive news before be- his wife Andrea and their three lot of work to be coming the evening disc jockey. children moved to Cary, N.C. noticed in this industry, - Peter owns the voice-over com to stand out. It’s not RTV A radio-television major, pany audio’connell Voice-Over just about a cool - O’Connell credits a former general Talent, producing audio for com voice.” manager for WVUD, professor and mercial and narrations for clients voice talent Jack Rang, with teach- around the world. WORLD Peter’s voice- ing him commercial performance over recordings have at UD. As he recalls, “Jack had an been heard globally, awesome voice.” Most of his early training and more media-centric including in London; came via imitation of others, listening to market. And Peter notes Seoul, South Korea; local and network broadcasts to that “the weather is a the Caribbean; Sydney; analyze how they did it. Since then, he bit more forgiving here than in Buffalo from Toronto; Delhi, India; and Buenos Aires, has had professional training from industry December to March.” Argentina. Across the United States, veterans in New York, Chicago and Peter’s voice has been heard in major mar- Los Angeles. AUDIO’CONNELL VOICE-OVER TALENT kets including New York City, Los Angeles, Peter started his company right after gradu- Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Dayton and 24TH LARGEST BROADCAST MARKET ation, doing spots for local companies. When Buffalo, New York. Peter’s move opens up his work to a larger Peter works with students who want to be- —Gita Balakrishnan

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I IN MEMORIAM ALUMNI James H. “Jim” Lienesch — Aug. 29, Mary Sutthoff McLeod — Aug. 11, 2012 2016 2016 Alexandra K. “Alex” Pursel — 1936 Frank L. Lodge — Jan. 22, 2016 1974 June 20, 2016 Father Lawrence A. Mann, S.M. — Glenora J. Hammond Mercer — Nick Chandler — Aug. 10, 2016 Sept. 1, 2016 Sept. 5, 2016 John L. Durbin — Aug. 11, 2016 FRIENDS 1940 Georgianna “Georgia” Holmes Clarence E. Renk — June 10, 2016 Thomas R. Foley — July 29, 2016 Sweeney — July 30, 2016 Lee R. Taulton — Feb. 27, 2016 Vincent E. Bolling Jr. — Aug. 7, 2016; 1943 1960 1975 University benefactor, supporter of Louis A. Thacker — July 18, 2016 Richard F. Hoffman — Aug. 23, 2016 Gary B. Schaaf — July 1, 2016 Vanguard Legacy Concerts at UD. 1944 1961 1976 John M. Caraway — July 18, 2016; Bernard E. Doering — July 9, 2016 Howard R. Reams — Sept. 2, 2016 Nancy Horton Bowlus — June 23, former University staff, survived by 1948 1962 2016 wife Phyllis Burkett Caraway, Univer- Winifred Coates Davidson — July James R. Huffman — Aug. 29, 2016 James G. “Jim” Leaming Jr. — sity advancement staff. 26, 2016 Edward J. Spisak — July 1, 2016 June 11, 2016 Editha E. “Edie” Coffey — Aug. 7, 2016; Ferdinand A. Schindler — June 14, Clayton Lester “Les” Whitworth — 1977 retired University housing staff. 2016 July 16, 2016 Gregory Chernushin— June 9, 2016 Robert M. Dominy — June 15, 2016; Anna Bess McCann Stamm — 1963 Paul M. Lacouture — June 17, 2016 retired University staff, Office of July 12, 2016 James P. “Jim” Perry — Sept. 3, 2016 1979 Computing Activities. 1949 Aldo A. Rossini — Aug. 7, 2016 LeRoy J. Senegal Jr. — July 23, 2016 Martha “Marty” Ebeling — Aug. 2, Mary P. Donisi — June 11, 2016 Jerome E. Schmitz — Sept. 7, 2016 1980 2016; University benefactor. Richard H. “Dick” Lehman — Nancy A. Makley Subler — Nov. 12, Terence J. “Terry” McGlynn — Velia Perfetto Generie — May 24, Sept. 5, 2016 2015 July 18, 2016 2016; survived by daughter Julie 1950 1964 Katherine Cerutti Neubauer — Generie Dannemiller ’85, son John R. Elliott — Feb. 19, 2016 John A. Houck — March 10, 2016 Aug. 6, 2016 Joseph A. Generie ’87 and her broth- Werner J. Losh — July 6, 2016 George J. Perk Jr. — Aug. 12, 2016 1981 er, Father Anthony Perfetto, S.M. 1951 Lee B. “Leroy” Pleiman — July 1, Lynn A. Carlisle — July 9, 2016 John P. Hart — Aug. 29, 2016; survived Robert B. Beck — Aug. 17, 2016 2016 George William “Bill” Fries— by son-in-law Michael Gearhardt ’80, Jerome M. Kelble — June 28, 2016 Joseph D. “Joe” Teaff — July 29, July 22, 2016 granddaughter Rachel Gearhardt Clifford W. Westbeld — April 15, 2016 Judy Brombaugh Gerhard — Prindle ’12 and grandson-in-law 2016 1965 June 18, 2016 Daniel Prindle ’11. Thomas E. “Tom” Zimmerman — Marion G. Barga — April 6, 2016 Beth E. Plocher — Aug. 25, 2016 Laurence G. Holt — June 12, 2015; June 8, 2016 James L. “Jim” Motter — July 11, Edna M. “Edie” Brodie Reid — survived by daughter Christine Holt 1952 2016 Aug. 17, 2016 Hughes ’82. Clyde Hughes — July 22, 2016 Brother James F. Wisecaver, S.M. — Deborah L. Zechar — Aug. 24, 2016 David M. Hopkins — Sept. 4, 2016; James P. Kilbane — Aug. 6, 2016 Oct. 17, 2015 1982 retired, University of Dayton William G. “Bill” McDonald Sr. — 1966 Patrick C. “Pat” Sens — July 5, 2016 Research Institute. July 17, 2016 Judith A. Koeck Consedine — Marcia M. Zelman — Aug. 3, 2016 Thomas J. Kavanaugh III — June 27, 1954 May 13, 2016 1983 2016; survived by daughters Julie John C. Anderson — Sept. 22, 2015 Carl H. Mayer Sr. — Sept. 8, 2016 Grace E. Lambert Compston — Kavanaugh Musselman ’86 and Dorothy J. Douglas Beerck — 1967 June 10, 2016 Colleen Kavanaugh Duffy ’93 and June 28, 2016 Robert E. Beacom — July 15, 2016 Tracy L. Hart — June 12, 2016 brother James Kavanaugh ’72. Doris J. Froebe — July 23, 2016 1968 Jeanette Cook West — July 21, 2016 Catherine E. Kime — June 30, 2016; Richard F. Harding — June 18, 2016 Rose J. Guidera — June 27, 2016 1984 current student. James E. “Jim” Lorenz — Sept. 8, James A. “Jim” Morrow — Aug. 13, Christine C. “Chris” Newkold Nora M. Kuntz — June 8, 2016; retired, 2016 2016 Dobbins — Aug. 14, 2016 University Law Library; survived by 1955 1969 1985 daughter Kathy Bachey, University Joseph J. Kuntz — Aug. 20, 2016 Asta M. Dysas McNally — Aug. 27, John F. Quinn — July 13, 2016 advancement staff. 1956 2016 Quan D. Tran — Aug. 21, 2016 James W. “Mac” McSwiney — June 21, George A. Bussinger — Aug. 24, 2016 1970 1986 2016; honorary UD board of trustees James J. “Jim” Foreman — Aug. 27, Sharon J. Meyer Burkhardt — June Alexa L. Tomassetti Beilman — member. 2016 30, 2016 Sept. 2, 2016 Elaine M. Minkler — June 24, 2015; Donald J. Frericks Sr. — July 4, 2016 Stephen M. “Steve” Logan — June Susan E. Bunts Wadovsky — survived by husband Dennis Minkler James E. Rich Sr. — June 11, 2016 15, 2016 July 23, 2016 ’70. 1957 1971 1988 Paul V. Ressler — Aug. 18, 2016; Charles D. “Chuck” Conner — Kenneth B. “Ken” Hunley — Aug. 25, Mary Mohr Gecowets — July 23, former University staff, School of July 24, 2016 2016 2016 Education; survived by daughter Robert W. Dresher — July 8, 2016 Ann M. Miller — Aug. 22, 2016 1990 Lora Todd Stowe ’87. Thomas B. “Tom” Kain — July 28, 1972 Keith A. Krautwater — Aug. 16, 2016 John J. Rowe II — July 22, 2016; Uni- 2016 Robert A. “Bob” Kahle — June 22, 1993 versity professor emeritus, biology. Gertrude E. Keough — Aug. 21, 2016 2016 Erin C. Humphrey — June 19, 2016 Hans P. Tschudin — July 8, 2016; Joseph F. “Joe” Maruna — June 9, Gregory T. Lawn — Sept. 10, 2016 2000 University benefactor. 2016 Florence A. Walling — June 20, 2016 Susan Dickinson Lowrey — Aug. 23, Panagiotis A. “Takis” Tsonis — Sept. Gerald J. “Jerry” Rieger — June 5, 1973 2016 3, 2016; University biology professor 2016 Bernard P. “Bernie” Healy Jr. — 2001 and director of the TREND Center; 1959 May 25, 2016 Bonni J. Bonvillain Valeska — survived by daughters Isidora Tsonis Nancy Hazlett Donley — July 26, Geralyn M. “Gera” Hirt Jacobs — June 20, 2016 Margioras ’01 and Sol Tsonis ’16. 2016 June 22, 2016

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I JEFFREY MULLINS (POL) lives in was also there. He was an intern with Dayton. Best Lawyers my office, Plan International USA, 2017 has named him CANDICE MORTARA ’98 and we wouldn’t let him leave, so a Lawyer of the Year. now he is a full-time and much-loved Jeffrey is a partner staff member. What a tremendous in the Dayton office River lessons group of students and alumni! What of Taft Stettinius & Floating down the river, Candice Mortara experiences a bond we all had, even if the current Hollister in the area of employment students had to sit politely while law and management. peace and calm. my roommate and I discussed the Her love for the water and her exposure to the Fitz Center ‘good old days.’ I wouldn’t trade SUSAN RACEY (CRJ) lives in those times for anything. To be able Cleveland. Best Lawyers during her time at UD inspired the philosophy major to work to to meet and host this current group 2017 has named her a establish the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway. was a tremendous privilege that we Lawyer of the Year in the A nonprofit, the organization works with communities won’t soon forget.” area of litigation, trusts along the Fox and Lower Wisconsin rivers to celebrate and pre- and estates. Susan also has been recognized on serve the river’s heritage, which had once brought industry to the 2017 list of The Best Lawyers in the area due to its massive hydraulic power. 1991 America. She’s a partner at Tucker Mortara, who also received a master’s from UD in 2006, ERIC SAGUN (ECO) lives in Ellis. helped organize the grassroots initiative in 2009 and currently Columbus, Ohio. He writes, “I served as Ohio serves on its board of directors. Her interest was twofold: to be REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 Convention reunion.udayton.edu thankful for the river’s role in incentivizing industry to come to Committee 1987 the area and to recognize the river’s recreational potential. director of events “It’s a place to get out and be surrounded by nature. It for the Republican DOUG BORCHERS (ELE) lives National in Russia, Ohio. He writes, “I’m flows right through the middle of these cities and allows for an Convention president of Superior Aluminum escape that’s right in peoples’ backyard,” she said. in Cleveland. Products. My son, Zach ’14, recently Now, the parkway works with more than 70 partners to en- During the convention, I attended a married Julie Rupp ’14, and my hance programs and build capacity for historic preservation, nat- tailgate-themed event for the Ohio daughter Victoria ’16 took a teaching delegation with Ohio Secretary of job in Covington, Ohio. My daughter ural resource conservation, recreation, tourism and education. State Jon Husted ’89.” Taylor is a junior at UD, and I have Mortara recalled being the most inspired when she saw a OTTO WILD (CMT) lives in Portland, four more daughters at home, woman, paralyzed from the waist down, kayaking down the riv- Oregon. He writes, “On July 23, counting their days until they can er — a feat she could only accomplish because the parkway had members of the UD Celebration become Flyers.” Doug also received built boat launches. Show his MBA from UD in 1996. “I think it’s wonderful. The river has a way of bringing us Choir from MICHAEL GERAGHTY (MGT) and together and equalizing our abilities,” 1988-90 JENNIFER CUSHING GERAGHTY met on ’86 (PSS) live in Jackson, Tenn. Mortara said. campus for They write, “We took some vacation Mortara and her husband also an all-day time with Tim Geraghty ’19 and started a commercial business, Fox reunion. Chris Broadbent ’86 at Hilton Head, River Tours, to further attract the The day S.C. Now that Tim is continuing our included UD tradition, each time a group of public to the waters. lunch, a walk our UD friends get together we love “I think that we’re all so caught on campus, to show some Flyer spirit.” up in technology and to responding a prayer service, MAUREEN KALBAS HAMOR (MKT) to demands and people immedi- some singing and a late-night trip to lives in Western Springs, Ill. She ately,” she said. “There’s something Milano’s.” writes, “This that gets you back to the core summer, of who you are when sur- REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 our family reunion.udayton.edu — including rounded by trees and Katie Hamor water. It’s exceptionally 1992 ’19 and Aidan important to take the RACHEL PAUL MALKOWSKI (PTY) Hamor ’17 time and to recognize lives in Austin, Texas. She writes, — took a “As fellow photography majors the importance of pre- cruise to the studying under Sean Wilkinson, Baltic Sea. We shared a Flyer family serving these resources.” Lori Roberson Couchot ’92 and I moment at one of our four ports of —Gita Balakrishnan became fast friends as freshmen, call in Tallinn, Estonia.” when we lived on separate floors in Marycrest. We became roommates our sophomore year and formed 1988 Bethesda, Md. She high school a lasting JENNY GALLOWAY MIKOS (ERS) writes, “My husband, friend and friendship. and TOM MIKOS ’68 (IMT) live in Robin, and I hosted the now UD Lori and I Dayton. They write, “We visited the UD Dayton2DC group. roommate. saw each botanical gardens in Rio de Janeiro Among the students Meaghan other a in January 2016.” who participated was Lightfoot, few times the daughter of my who is in the years shortly after graduation, college roommate, also my but as life became full with children, 1990 Christine Peloquin goddaughter, careers and moves, the visits ANN HUDOCK (ENG) lives in Lightfoot ’90, and her daughter’s joined UD in the fall. Jed Gerlach ’15 eventually stopped. Thanks to social

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I media, we now have been keeping DANIEL MARTINDALE (LAW) lives to being active in Christmas on in touch more regularly. On Sept. in Hudson Falls, N.Y. He writes, “I was Campus, theater and the School of 1998 13, 2016, we saw each other for the recently elected president of the Business Administration. I am now HEATHER POOLE (PSY) lives first time in more than 20 years. Warren-Washington-Albany counties in the Dallas area and on the Dallas- in Cincinnati with her children, Lori and her husband, fellow Flyer chapter of NYSARC Inc.” Fort Worth alumni leadership team Elise, James and Tom. She writes, Dave Couchot, live in Mason, Ohio. in charge of communications. I “In mid-September, I began my Dave has been traveling to Fort REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise role as executive staff assistant Worth, Texas, for work, and Lori reunion.udayton.edu as a leader for knowledge to the office of enterprise risk joined him on one of his business 1997 management. I am proud to say, as management at the University trips. We each drove halfway of this year, we are a Flyer family: of Cincinnati. I’ve spent the past between Fort Worth and Austin to ERIN REILLY (MKT) lives in Murphy, My son is in the Class of 2020 and four years with the division of meet at a state park for a reunion Texas. She writes, “While at UD, I works with the UD men’s basketball plastic and burn surgery at the and a hike. The best part was that, was a tour guide and president of team as a freshman student University of Cincinnati College even though we hadn’t seen each Campus Connection, in addition manager. Go Flyers.” of Medicine. In addition, I have other in such a long time, it was as joined and perform with the Young if the conversation and friendship Professionals Choral Collective in never skipped a beat. Our time at Cincinnati.” UD was truly magical and very rich ASHLEY SOLOMON ’05 with experience.” Paying it forward 2000 1993 Ashley Solomon vividly recalls then-President Dan Cur- MARIA SUGAR KESSLER HARDY ran entering her house at 107 Evanston while holding her (EDE) lives in Cincinnati. She BRIGID MALONEY writes, “My husband, Chuck, and (CMT) lives in East crying roommates in her arms as they mourned the loss of I have two daughters. I earned Aurora, N.Y. She has a close friend. He sat there silently supporting Solomon and a master’s degree in education been named chair of her friends, witnessing their pain. administration from the University the health law practice Solomon said, “I think about that night and what that of Cincinnati and have found my group for the firm of true passion in the direct sales Hodgson Russ, where Brigid is a meant when I consider how important a person’s presence industry. I’m a director in the Rhode partner. can be. It’s powerful just to sit and listen and bear witness, Island-based company Wildtree, MATT ZIELSDORF (MKT) and even without saying anything at all.” which has a mission to help busy PAULETTE REILLY ZIELSDORF While at UD, Solomon continued to bear witness to oth- people get back to the dinner table with organic and natural foods. The (EDE) ’94 live in Pewaukee, Wis. ers by writing in newsletters for the Women’s Center. It organization I lead is 260 strong They write, “We dropped off our was through this opportunity that she found a passion for oldest daughter, Ellie, at Marycrest and growing daily. Many of my Hall this past August. We’re hearing stories and helping others. team members are UD alumni. In so proud that our daughter is Solomon went on to pursue both her master’s and doc- addition to earning trips to Costa continuing the UD tradition. Family toral degrees in clinical psychology. During her pre-doctoral Rica and other exotic vacation Weekend, here we come.” spots, I consistently achieve awards residency in Philadelphia, she was able to work at a hospital for top leadership development, treating patients with eating disorders. And during a fellow- personal and team sales, and more. 1994 ship, she focused on developing programs and doing research With my very busy life, I still find time for UD gatherings because PAULETTE REILLY ZIELSDORF on eating disorders. I believe that UD has earned the After serving as the director of eating disorder treatment (EDE) and MATT ZIELSDORF ’93 award as the top university in the (MKT) live in Pewaukee, Wis. They at the Insight Behavioral Health Center in Chicago, she want- country.” write, “We dropped off our oldest ed to return home to Cincinnati and make a difference locally. daughter, Ellie, at Marycrest Hall KENNETH PAXSON (POL) lives Two years ago, in 2014, Solomon opened the Eating Recovery this past August. We’re so proud in Evanston, Ill. He writes, “I have that our daughter is continuing the Center of Ohio and is currently the executive director. identical twin UD tradition. Family Weekend, here In her work, she remembers the way Curran comforted 2-year-old we come.” her roommates and attempts to make her patients feel the sons, Sam and Tommy. I am same way. Her mission is to not only give definitely feeling 1995 her patients support and guidance that they will be future Flyers, even if their mom is a GEORGE FEDERICI (ACC) lives in but, as she said, to “restore them nutritionally, physically and Marquette grad! I have even gotten Horsham, Pa. them to say, ‘Go Dayton Flyers!’ He writes, psychologically.” during games, and they love Rudy.” “My wife, Solomon said, “UD teaches Stephanie, us that we are blessed with and I took 2001 a July 2016 so many gifts and opportuni- BOB BUCK (EDA) lives in vacation to the maritime provinces ties, and it is our responsibility Cincinnati. He writes, “Brian Lyons in Canada. We visited Halifax Harbor to give back and support each ’01 and I are administrators at in Nova Scotia and from there could other.” Wilson Elementary in the Forest see Georges Island, Mass.” —Erin Frey ’18 Hills Schools on the east side BRENT KANIECKI (MKT) lives in of Cincinnati. I’m principal and Waterloo, Ill. He’s been named Brian is assistant principal. Wilson a member of Inflexion, where he Elementary was named the Ohio provides technology consulting Association of Elementary School for privately held companies and Administrators Hall of Fame School publicly traded firms. for 2016.”

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I REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 reunion.udayton.edu Can UDentify us? reunion.udayton.edu In 1992, Kennedy Union 2002 Plaza was the place to 2007 DEBBIE SCHROEDER WERTZ COLLEEN BEMENT (PSS) lives in be — and the place to (CMT)(PSS) and BILL WERTZ Cleveland. She writes, “I am the vice ’03 (CME) announce the birth be photographed by The president of business development for of Eleanor Mae (6-27-15), who Daytonian. Recognize PayBridge, a national payroll provider joins sister Audrey, 3, at home in these students? Email headquartered in Cleveland. I’ve Worthington, Ohio. Debbie is chief [email protected]. been featured twice in the Cleveland development officer for the College See more archival edition of Smart Business Magazine, of Engineering at The Ohio State giving insights on human resources University. images at ecommons solutions for the Affordable Care Act .udayton.edu. and the FLSA overtime rule change.” Colleen invites former classmates to 2003 From our last issue contact her at CBement@PayBridge. com. JENNA BUENING DINEEN (MKT) Five readers wrote in to identify Linda Chedd ’71 as the woman at and KEVIN DINEEN ’04 (MKT) the 1971 Phi Kappa Mu party in the Autumn 2016 UDentify photo. JIM ELFERS (PAM) lives in Cincinnati. announce the birth of Maddox He writes, “I just returned from Jackie Krebs Eovino ’72 remembers her (5-27-16), who joins them at home Ecuador with a group of Moeller High in Newtown, Ohio. They write, fondly: “Linda Chedd Schaftlein was School “Maddox says, ‘Go Flyers.’” from Louisville, Kentucky. She was my students BILL WERTZ (CME) and DEBBIE big sister in Kappa Chi sorority. I am who were SCHROEDER WERTZ ’02 (CMT) sorry to say that Linda is deceased participating in a (PSS) announce the birth of Eleanor (9-3-06). I was one of the bridesmaids in Mae (6-27-15), who joins sister language her wedding and will always remember Audrey, 3, at home in Worthington, and cultural immersion. The fact that Ohio. Bill is the quality manager for how many laughs and good times we Moeller is a Marianist high school and the cylinders division at Worthington had, both at UD and at all the UD–U of L basketball parties as well a big feeder to UD is an added bonus.” Industries. as the Kentucky Derby parties.” Roger Horner ’71 suggests that the BRANDON GROSS (ACC) and MEGAN men in the photo are Mike Dawson and George Kraus, while GROSS ’10 (SOC) live in Dayton. They write, “We enjoyed reading our John P. Powers ’71 identifies them as Alexander Hannigan and 2004 University of Dayton Magazine at the Michael Dawson. “Shout-out to all Phi Kappa Mu brothers and KEVIN DINEEN (MKT) and JENNA most magical place on earth, aside BUENING DINEEN ’03 (MKT) friends,” John writes. from UD — Disney World.” announce the birth of Maddox JONATHAN HERR (CME) married (5-27-16), who joins them at home LISA KOSTER ’12 (ACC) Dec. 19, 2015. in Newtown, Ohio. They write, The couple lives in Cincinnati. “Maddox says, ‘Go Flyers.’” Zach writes, “Ruby and Calvin are (SOC)(SPN) and her husband, grandchildren to Jim Cull ’68 and Ben, announce the MIKE MELZAK (MEE) and JENNY TIMOTHY PAFF (CPE) niece and nephew to Emily Cull birth of Meredith LOWE MELZAK (DEN) announce the lives in Cincinnati. He has Pajek ’08 and Zoe Marcum ’18.” Ann (6-15-16), who birth of Samuel Joseph been hired as a senior (6-20-16), who joins JESSICA FEGHALI HARDING joins them at home in capability associate with family dog Petey at (EMS) and Upper Arlington, Ohio. consulting firm 84.51°. home in Cincinnati. They her husband, She writes, “Meredith weighed write, “Samuel already PATRICK RICE (CIS) and EMILY Warren, 6 pounds, 7 ounces, and was 20 is a big Flyer fan and loves Rudy. Mike O’CONNOR RICE ’06 (PUB) announce the ¼ inches long. I work as a senior is an engineer at General Electric, announce the birth of Eamon Patrick birth of Matthew researcher at the Kirwan Institute, and Jenny is a dentist in the Clifton (8-24-16), who joins sister Elin (4-9- (3-13-16), who joins brother Quinn which is located at The Ohio State neighborhood.” 15) at home in Lynnwood, Wash. at home in Cincinnati. University.” COLLEEN MAXWELL NORDQUIST KATIE BAILEY SHADLE (ECE) and RYAN KRAMB (CME) and TIFFANY (EPT) and her husband, her husband, Jonathan, announce CLOWER 2006 Brad, announce the birth the birth of Britton KRAMB of Jack Maxwell (12-7-15), Kate (7-21-16), (ECE) live PETE KELLER (ACA)(ENT) and who joins brother in Monroe, ASHLEY LEUENBERGER KELLER who joins them at home Ford, 1, at home in Ohio. (ACA) announce the in O’Fallon, Mo. They write, “Jack Springboro, Ohio. Ryan is birth of Amelia Jo was named after his grandfather. Go Flyers.” Katie writes, “Britton was given her a researcher at LyondellBasell (5-5-16), who joins grandmother’s maiden name. She Industries. They write, “Ryan them at home in JONATHAN RADWAN (CIS) and weighed 7 pounds and was 20 ½ was the 2016 recipient of the Franklin, Ohio. They KELLY FOSTER RADWAN ’09 (EMS) inches long.” LyondellBasell Rising Star award, write, “We are loving every minute announce the birth of Jonathan given to an individual employed with our newest Flyer. Pete is CFO Thaddeus Jr. (5-4-16), who joins sister for three years or less who has for Integrated Protection Services Jovie at home in Avon Lake, Ohio. 2005 shown outstanding performance in Cincinnati. Ashley is the athletics in his or her position. Ryan was business manager for UD athletics. ZACH CULL (ELE) awarded for his contributions Go Flyers.” and his wife, 2008 to the specialty polypropylene Meredith, announce EMILY O’CONNOR RICE (PUB) and ABBY BUDIN DIPPEL (ECE) and her business in the area of product the birth of Ruby PATRICK RICE ’04 (CIS) announce husband, Bob, announce the birth and application development. We (7-27-16), who the birth of Eamon Patrick (8-24- of identical twins John Patrick and have three sons.” joins brother Calvin 16), who joins sister Elin (4-9-15) at Victor Robert (6-16-16), who join (8-2-13) at home in Louisville, Ky. CHERYL MCLAUGHLIN STAATS home in Lynnwood, Wash. them at home in Aurora, Ohio. Abby

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I is a fourth-grade teacher in Chagrin KIMBERLY FLUEGEMANN JEROME lives in Columbus, Ohio. She writes, sisters and look forward to attending Falls, Ohio. ’11 (CEE) announce the birth of Liam “I earned a master’s degree in UD reunions. I treasure my UD Michael (7-4-16), who joins them integrated marketing communications relationships and experiences.” from Northwestern University. I have at home in Englewood, Ohio. They KEVIN LACEY (LAW) lives in Fairfax, recently been employed by L Brands 2009 write, “Liam is already a member of Va. He writes, “After spending four at Bath & Body Works as the senior the Flyer Faithful.” years as a Commonwealth of Virginia analyst of brand and digital marketing. magistrate, I have accepted a position ANNIE SUGAR KESSLER (PUB) I still get together with my Chi Omega with the adjudications division of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Washington, D.C.” JONATHAN DEKAR ’11 ADAM KESSELEM (RTV-CMM) 2011 married DANA RACCO (ERL) June 18, 2016. They write, “We met during Robotic inspiration our sophomore year and have been During Jonathan Dekar’s freshman year, a woman ap- together ever since. Many Flyers proached the School of Engineering with a question: Could attended the wedding, and the DJ called us to the floor to the tune something be done to improve mealtimes for her daughter, ‘Party in the USA,’ a Dayton2Daytona whose disability limited her motion and required a caregiver’s favorite.” The couple lives in assistance? KRISTIN DORMISH (CEE) married Strongsville, Ohio. This wasn’t the engineering major’s first exposure to this Jake Holland May 28, 2016, in problem. Through his grandfather’s diagnosis with a degen- Akron, Ohio. She writes, “Flyers in erative disease, he had witnessed the challenges that indepen- attendance included Jeffrey Dormish ’75, Brian Dormish ’79, Stephen dent eating posed for some individuals. Dormish ’09 and members of the “It was a basic human need gone unfulfilled — you have Rho Rho Rho fraternity. Many of my to eat to stay alive,” Dekar said. “This wasn’t just another former teammates from the varsity engineering project, getting food from point A to point B. I women’s rowing team were also in MARYJO PIRAGES (ENG)(POL) attendance. Go Flyers.” The couple wanted it to be emotionally empowering and inspiring.” married Nathan Reynolds April 30, lives in Akron, Ohio. 2016, in Rockford, Ill., where the Through four years of technical coursework, prototyping KIMBERLY FLUEGEMANN JEROME couple lives. She writes, “UD alumni in and researching the market, Obi was born. (CEE) and MICHAEL the wedding included Kelsey Faulkner, Obi is a tabletop device with an automated spoon, robotic JEROME ’10 (MEE) Laura Simons Kamcza, Andrea Lutter, arm and a four-course compartmentalized plate that moves announce the birth of John Pirages, Katie Leech Theby, Sara Liam Michael (7-4-16), Stuckey, Michelle Wintering Griffin and with practiced precision. who joins them at home Allison Swan Woods.” After graduation, Dekar shifted his full attention into mak- in Englewood, Ohio. They write, KELLY FOSTER RADWAN (EMS) ing this product, learning additional skills in finance manage- “Liam is already a member of the and JONATHAN RADWAN ’07 (CIS) ment and regulatory compliance. Flyer Faithful.” announce the birth of “An engineering education is a ‘license to learn,’ and with MICHAEL RIEDL (CPE)(ELE) lives Jonathan Thaddeus Jr. an engineering mindset you can learn to do just about any- in Waltham, Mass. He writes, “I (5-4-16), who joins sister thing. It’s a toolkit,” he said. earned a master’s Jovie at home in Avon Formally launched in July 2016, Obi has already garnered of science in Lake, Ohio. Kelly has electrical computer been hired as a sales and operations accolades, becoming a finalist in the 2016 International Design engineering in planning analyst with the Perrigo Co. Excellence Awards. Obi won a 2016 R&D magazine invention December 2015 in Allegan, Mich. excellence award. and a doctorate in The engineering entrepreneur feels confident in the mis- electrical and computer engineering in August 2015, both from The 2010 sion his company has undertaken — to Ohio State University. I recently GRACE STRZELCYK BILLS (POL) and continually improve the quality of life accepted a position with MIT Lincoln BRENT BILLS ’11 (CME) through exciting and usable consum- Laboratory in Lexington, Mass.” announce the birth of er robotics. REUNION WEEKEND June 9-11, 2017 Brynn Terry (7-8-16), Dekar said he feels others who joins them at home reunion.udayton.edu should never let fear of failure dis- in Naperville, Ill. They 2012 write, “We’re already working on suade them from trying something teaching Brynn to say ‘Go Flyers.’” difficult. He said, “Failure is an op- LISA KOSTER (ACC) married JONATHAN MEGAN GROSS tion, fear is not. College allows you HERR ’07 (CME) (SOC) and to broaden your mind and explore, Dec. 19, 2015. The BRANDON GROSS and when you find what drives you, couple lives in ’07 (ACC) live in you become the work you do.” Cincinnati. Dayton. They write, “We enjoyed reading —Madalyn Beban ’18 our University of 2013 Dayton Magazine MARIO DE LA ROSA (FIN)(MKT) at the most magical married STEPHANIE LEFELD place on earth, aside from UD — (SPN)(VAR) May 14, 2016, at Disney World.” the Chapel of the Immaculate MICHAEL JEROME (MEE) and Conception. They write, “Alumni

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I in the wedding included Trent 2016, in Columbus, Ohio, where the Muhlenkamp ’13, Anna Hedley ’14, couple lives. They write, “We both Abigail de la Rosa ’13, Brad Lefeld work for Honda in Marysville, Ohio. ’12, Alex Winner ’14, Michelle Griffin Eight alumni were in the wedding Winner ’05, Peter Moreland ’07, party, as well as current student Alfred Lefeld ’82, Wesley Kahlig ’13, Kristina DePaola 18.” Victoria Winner Moreland ’07, Caleb Muhlenkamp ’15, Jonathan Winner ’05 and Joseph Thomas ’13. UD runs deep 2015 in our families. We were ecstatic with Rock. Paper. Twitters. NATALIE ERDY (MUS) lives in how the renovated chapel looked, and Columbus, Ohio. She writes, “I had fun it made us feel as if we were getting camping in Indiana with Josh Parker married someplace truly special. We It’s never been easier to share your news with Flyers afar. ’17, Abby honeymooned in Hawaii.” The couple Whether you chisel, scribble or tweet the diary of your life, Klemm lives in Dayton. take a moment to send a class note. ’15, Abigail Sander MATTHEW HENRY (GEN) married From first job to retirement, graduation to graduate degree, ’15, Becky LAUREN SCOTT (EMS) June 18, 2016, babies to grandchildren, if it’s important to you, in Dayton. They write, “Several alumni it’s important to us. Welch ’14, were in the wedding party and many Adam Hayslett ’14, David Middleton ’14 Send rocks and paper to more came as guests to celebrate. and David Buckholdt ’15.” Class Notes, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-1303 We’ve been together since junior GABRIELLE MATTES (TSL) lives Emails to [email protected] year.” The couple lives in Vandalia, in Palatine, Ill. He writes, “I’ve been Ohio. Tweets to @daymag teaching English to high school Pictures (and sculptures) always welcome. students in Toledo, Spain, for the past year. My mom, Mary Gonella Mattes ’81, visited for to have a huge Flyer turnout at Holy Week to see our wedding.” The couple lives in 2014 one of the most Milwaukee. traditional and cultural Easter celebrations around STEPHANIE LEFELD (SPN)(VAR) ERIC SCHLUETER (OPS) married the world. We couldn’t help but sit on married MARIO DE LA ROSA (FIN) ABBY SPAETH (ELE) April 16, 2016, a bench with our University of Dayton (MKT) May 14, 2016, at the Chapel at the Chapel of the Immaculate Magazine in hand in Gaudí’s Grotto of the Immaculate Conception. Conception. They write, “We met at and think we were back on a porch They write, “Alumni in the wedding Kennedy Union and paid tribute to at UD.” included Trent Muhlenkamp ’13, our alma mater while riding a trolley Anna Hedley ’14, Abigail de la Rosa around campus before and after the ALYSSA DEPAOLA (MEE) married ’13, Brad Lefeld ’12, Alex Winner ’14, wedding. The campus was gorgeous DANIEL WINLAND (MEE) Aug. 6, Michelle Griffin Winner ’05, Peter with all the tulips.” The couple lives in 2016, in Columbus, Ohio, where the 2016 Moreland ’07, Alfred Lefeld ’82, Hamilton, Ohio. couple lives. They write, “We both ELIZABETH CLARKE (REL) lives in Wesley Kahlig ’13, Victoria Winner work for Honda in Marysville, Ohio. Pearland, Texas. She writes, “While I Moreland ’07, Caleb Muhlenkamp Eight alumni were in the wedding was still a student during the summer ’15, Jonathan Winner ’05 and Joseph party, as well as current student of 2015, I traveled with Campus Thomas ’13. UD runs deep in our Kristina DePaola ’18.” Ministry as a families. We were ecstatic with how participant on the renovated chapel looked, and it one of their made us feel as if we were getting crosscultural married someplace truly special. We immersion honeymooned in Hawaii.” The couple LAUREN SCOTT (EMS) married trips to Tikal, lives in Dayton. MATTHEW HENRY (GEN) June 18, Guatemala. We immersed ourselves 2016, in Dayton. They write, “Several in the culture of Guatemala, staying alumni were in the wedding party with host families while learning KATHRYN GARDOCKI (EMS) married and many more came as guests to Spanish at a local language school. ADAM SOKOL (CME) July 30, 2016, celebrate. We’ve been together The language study on this trip was at St. John’s Church in Middletown, since junior year.” The couple lives in intensive, involving one-on-one study, Ohio. They write, “We’ve dated since Vandalia, Ohio. for approximately five hours a day. our freshman year, and 40 alumni Weekend excursions included trips KERRY MARTENS (ECE) married ABBY SPAETH (ELE) married ERIC attended our wedding. We live in to natural spas, volcanoes and the ANDY SCHLATER (CMM) July 30, SCHLUETER (OPS) April 16, 2016, Dayton and regularly visit UD for beach. This experience offered a 2016, in Cleveland. They write, “We at the Chapel of the Immaculate walks around campus, as well as great combination of immersion and met at UD and have siblings who Conception. for basketball and football games. education, while students reflected are current students: Joe Schlater They write, Kathryn is a junior high school teacher on the differences between culture, ’16, Connor Martens ’17 and Abigail “We met at St. John XXIII, a Catholic school in religion and politics of Guatemala and Schlater ’19. We also have parents at Kennedy Middletown, and Adam is a process the United States.” who are alumni: Andy’s parents, Karen Union and engineer in Dayton.” Fridl Schlater ’82 and Jim Schlater paid tribute JONATHAN PURICELLI OLIVIA ULLERY (ENG)(WGS) lives ’83, and Kerry’s dad, Dave Martens to our alma (POL) lives in Webster in Toledo, Ohio. She has been named ’80. Andy proposed outside the mater while riding a trolley around Groves, Mo. He has been head rowing coach at Notre Dame Chapel of the Immaculate Conception campus before and after the wedding. selected as a Coro Fellow, Academy in Toledo. during Family Weekend in September The campus was gorgeous with all the an intensive, full-time 2015. UD will always be a huge part tulips.” The couple lives in Hamilton, DANIEL WINLAND (MEE) married public affairs program administered of our lives. We were very blessed Ohio. ALYSSA DEPAOLA (MEE) Aug. 6, by FOCUS St. Louis.

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Feels like winning On the Edge of Simplicity

By Brandon Paluch, S.M. ’06 our-year-old Chloe came from Nairobi, Kenya, to St. Louis for the ceremony. She had come with her family to witness her uncle, Broth- Fer Michael Chiuri, S.M., profess his perpet- ual vows, as I also was doing. Some of our fellow Marianists had come from Hawaii; they placed beautiful leis around the necks of Mike and me. Chloe was impressed. After the vows, Chloe and her family continued their journey to our community in Los Angeles. After her initial exploration of the house, she found some Play-Doh in my room (a sentimental gift from a UD grad) that she wanted to play with, so she asked if she could. Like a good Marianist, I thought of Mary, so I said, “Yes.” Seeing she had something, Mike asked, “Did you ask if you could play with that?” “Yes!” Chloe exclaimed, as she contin- ued playing. “Who did you ask?” “The other one!” “Who?” “The other one!” Leslie Gleim ’99 “The other who?” www.facebook.com/LeslieGleimPhotography “The other winner!” Chloe assumed that the Hawaiian leis around our necks were signs of victory. Sometimes it feels like that, like win- ning. It was that way when I first stepped study at UD and be inspired by the Marian- trust and generosity. I give thanks, too, be- foot on this campus and knew it was home, ists I met but also by students, friends and cause God is still calling people to Marianist unaware that for me that feeling was a vo- colleagues. religious life as sisters, brothers and priests. cational call in seed form, the gentle, per- We thank God for calling each of us, not Some, like me, may have just stumbled sistent voices of Jesus and Mary. Perhaps from a distance and in general, but intimate- onto this campus thinking about nothing coming to UD has been that way for you, too ly, personally and specifically. God calls most more than going to college. Others have ex- — a gift beyond price, an undeserved vic- to marriage and the beauty of family life. I perienced an enticing, perhaps unsettling, tory to be welcomed into this community stand in awe before the selfless sacrifices of stirring of God in their heart. Still others of love where friendships are forged, gifts parents and am so grateful for those saying may be waiting for your invitation or en- are realized, and passions are enflamed and yes to a faith-filled marriage. I thank God for couragement in order to have the courage equipped for transformation in our world. the labor and love of committed single peo- to take the next step. And how God has blessed me not only to ple who witness to the Gospel with a radical I think it’s safe to say we are all winners. The unsung heroes of college life

By Emily Keane ’16 clock above the door. Students hurriedly fin- rustle of books collected and crescendo of wo floors up, hidden in the halls of ish last paragraphs while professors passion- voices begin. Here, in a 132-year-old build- St. Joe’s, you can hear minds rac- ately discuss the election season or Thomas ing, minds are expanding, opinions develop- ing. They’re thinking, analyzing, Hobbes or the role of a member of Congress. ing, lives changing. writing. You can hear pencils tap- There are young minds starving to learn. As There is a familiar repetitiveness in the Tping and witness eyes glued to the broken the nearby chapel bells clang, the chaotic everyday; but amidst lectures and grading

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I and casual conversations, there is passion. you: become friends with your professors. and inspirational professor, adviser, mentor Heated debates. Eyes being opened for I wish someone had told me this as a fresh- and friend. Though I was often an unwant- the first time. The spirit of learning floats man. Find a mentor who will challenge you ed guest, he always answered my questions through the halls and beckons students and truly care. Amidst the parties and clubs and taught me so much during those office- to grab it and hold on tight. Professors are and the unceasing, exhausting balancing-act hour chats. He helped me become a better here, eager and will- that is college, it’s hard student and helped me understand myself. ing to teach beyond to focus on academics He expanded my worldview and taught me borders. Genuine and My teachers, when you have 23,056 much more than how to analyze an election kind in nature, they ardent about their other things on your or the complexities of the presidency. He are ready to challenge plate. challenged me, motivated me, and taught me those students thirst- work, honest and But this is why about politics and life. I will always be grate- ing for knowledge. knowledgeable, and you’re here. Your men- ful for the lessons and advice. I only hope They take them under tors are invaluable to that the impact on future students will be as their wings and trans- incredibly qualified, your learning experi- bright and magnificent as his bowties. form their lives. challenged and shaped ence. They can inspire Thank you to all the wonderful profes- There are some and motivate you, help sors who taught me knowledge, supported self-interested pro- me throughout my advance your career, me, helped me understand the world and fessors across the undergraduate career. and most of all, they can encouraged me. You all shaped and formed country just trying to teach you. They’ll show me through your classes, conversations and elevate their careers. you the intricacies of constant support. I believe that teaching is Students exist to buy their books and keep a specific subject or help you find your pas- a thankless job but an essential and noble their paychecks coming. Others don’t even sion. They’ll slip in things you never thought profession. The reason we can achieve any- bother to learn their students’ names, let you’d learn and along the way, they’ll teach thing is because of our teachers who first alone meet with them. They’re there to get you about life. The scholars that annoy you guide us. Thanks to the giants who paved the ahead and do their scholarly work. Teach- with pop quizzes and papers due on a Sunday way and showed me what I might become. ing, rather than the primary role, is a neces- are worth getting to know. Because they’ll sary evil, a rung in their ladder to get to the change the way you learn, the way you think Emily Keane is now applying lessons top. Students become collateral damage in a and maybe even your life. learned in St. Joe’s as a secondary educa- professor’s self-promotion. A special thanks to my greatest teacher, tion English teacher in the Peace Corps in But “educate” means “leads forth.” Dan Birdsong of the political science depart- Ukraine where she will be working for the Professors are meant to teach, engage ment, who is a truly passionate, admirable next two years. and guide students. At the very least, they should recognize faces. But the best teach- ers don’t just stop there. The truly great Walking through Warsaw teachers walk with their students, stretch- ing their intellect and pushing their limits. By Charles Wolan ’53 When we arrived there, I was surprised They learn with their students and find joy n 2003 when I visited Poland, as I walked to see all the memorials and the beautiful in the journey. around the city of Warsaw, I would see parks. As I was walking around the Ghetto, This is what the great men and women on almost every corner a small shrine of it began to rain. There I was, stranded with- do in the freezing rooms of St. Joseph Hall. flowers and burning candles. out an umbrella or raincoat. When I ran for The material can be dense and the lectures IThese were reminders of the people that shelter, a man approached me who hap- boring, but these professors gave me pas- have been shot and killed on that corner. pened to speak English. He was a Jew vis- sion and purpose when I had none. My One might have a marker reading, “At this iting the Ghetto where he once had friends teachers, ardent about their work, honest place 21 people were shot by Nazis,” and as and relatives confined in 1943. As I was and knowledgeable, and incredibly quali- you approached another, the marker might about to leave, the man took off his raincoat fied, challenged and shaped me throughout read, “120 people were shot at this place,” and gave it to me. my undergraduate career. They not only and so on. “Please take this raincoat,” he said. mentored me but cared deeply. Their heart- One morning as I was walking through “This is the least I can do for you since I re- felt sincerity permeates everything they do, Warsaw, I was very interested in knowing call what you Americans did to free us Jew- and it’s these great teachers that constantly more about the Warsaw Ghetto. As I came ish people during those depressing years kept me going. upon a taxi, I asked the driver in German here in the Ghetto and in Europe.” To anyone still in college, be it bright- if the Ghetto was within walking distance As we parted, I held back tears. We said eyed beginners, bleary learners unsure of from where we were. He said he thought it goodbye, never to see each other again. To why they’re here, exhausted students who was too far to walk. So I asked him if he could this day, I keep the raincoat as a reminder feel like giving up or seniors finishing up drive me there. He obliged, and we were off that Jesus was also a Jew. their college career, here is my advice to to the Ghetto. Who was this man?

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I Stories that teach Less than a week after I heard associate and elbow pain after surgery,” she wrote. “Not professor Susan Davies speak to educators a single MD taking care of me mentioned this about traumatic brain injuries in children, risk at all. Your article helped me figure out teachers from my 1-year-old son’s child care that I needed to seek a lymphedema special- center called me at my office. ist. Thank you.” Kyle had fallen while toddling across the The writer’s son, a UD grad, had sent her mobile infant playground and hit his head on the Autumn 2015 article featuring associate concrete. He seemed fine, they said, but they professor of physical therapy Mary Fisher

PARTING WORDS PARTING were calling as part of their automatic notifi- and her work helping breast cancer survivors cation process following such injuries. manage elbow and shoulder pain common af- They called again 10 minutes later. ter surgery. By sharing our faculty’s research Emergency medical technicians were on in these pages, we not only showcase the the way and a parent needed to come im- high-level work taking place at the University, mediately. Kyle now seemed “lethargic” and we present their practical, real-world solu- appeared sleepy, potential signs of a loss of tions to a broader audience outside the lab or consciousness. classroom. I panicked. Then I started thinking of That includes the letter writer, who’s get- what I learned from Davies’ books and train- ting the treatment she needs for her post-can- ing session about concussion recognition re- cer condition. And me, who knew what to do sponse, preparing to put her tips into action to when my son got hurt that day in late October. help our son heal. (See story, Page 26.) The doctors at Dayton Children’s Hos- As an editor in the Division of Marketing pital checked Kyle for signs of concussion and Communications, I have the opportunity and cleared him with little more than a nasty to meet thoughtful, intelligent faculty like bruise on his forehead — no need to assemble Davies who recognize and identify issues a concussion team at his child care center. they see in their fields of work and take ac- But I took comfort in knowing that if I did, I tion. It’s research for the common good, in- have access to the best minds working to solve formation shared that helps everyday citizens such challenges. And you do, too. advocate for themselves and others. I was reminded of this when, one year af- ter its original publication in the University of Dayton Magazine, a reader thanked us for publishing an article on the importance of Shannon Shelton Miller physical therapy for breast cancer survivors. Contributing Editor, “Last year, shortly after I had surgery for University of Dayton Magazine Stage II breast cancer, I had terrible cording [email protected]

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I CONNECTIONS Sustainable footprint A record-setting gift from George Hanley ’77 and Amanda Hanley founded UD’s Hanley Sustainability Institute in 2014. Along with its partners across campus and in the community, HSI has forged a path toward sustainability. Here are a few of its steps in the last two years.

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I A SMALL GIFT CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. Our community is strongest when we stand together. Because when we each contribute our time, talents and gifts, it adds up in a big way. How?

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In 2015 and 2016, 50 alumni Buy a UD license plate? The scholarship also receives and friends supported the Proceeds are donated to this $40,000 annually from a scholarship. Their gifts ranged fund -- $XXX in fact. corporation that believes in the from $5 to $1,018. power of a UD education.

THE RESULT? A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF UD STUDENTS.

In 2015-16, 19 students received In 2016-17, 20 students received $66,250 in scholarships. $77,375 in scholarships.

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Winter 2016-17 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 65 A top-tier national Catholic research university I University of Dayton Office of University Communications 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-1303 TIME TIME LAPSE

Chaminade Hall (center), built in 1905, was barely as old as some of the players on the field in this 1922 photo of football practice. The 6-3 season began with a 59-0 rout of Cedarville, of which The Daytonian wrote, “The battle proved to the student body that they had a real team to yell for.” Thirty years later, when student Chuck Noll stepped with his squad onto what would become known as Baujan Field, fans were still yelling. Read more about the Super Bowl- winning coach’s Dayton days on Page 39.

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