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‘Serving the Metro’ Meet Alumni’s New Team 4 Being a metropolitan university is more than location. It’s about 18 New Director Dave Lewis and crew are busy bringing new ideas connecting community and students, for the good of both. and efforts to Central’s Alumni Association.

Complete the Dream Outfitting Students 7 UCO Athletics races to the finish of its first capital campaign, 20 Assistant Professor Katrina Lacher, Ph.D., uses a simple toolbox kicking off with a $10 million gift. to help students visualize what they need for the future.

Connect to Central Our Place 8 What is it that people believe about UCO? Research shows 22 Provost John Barthell, Ph.D., tells how his time in Turkey has there are many ways people ‘Connect to Central.’ helped him realize the power of ‘place,’ including here at UCO.

Stepping Up to Challenges Death, Dying Class Revealing 10 Paralympian Jeremy Campbell shares what makes him not just a 26 Central’s Gary Steward, Ph.D., for 15 years has taught an great athlete, but a great role model for Central students. intersession class that has been enlightening to him as well.

Books: Sparking Passion Meet First Luminaries 14 History of Music professor Ted Honea, Ph.D., shares his 32 UCO’s 125th celebration included the creation of the Luminary knowledge as well as his comprehensive manuscript collection. Society with 125 named to its inaugural group.

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Univ0017_UCO 2016 Old North Ad March Issue .indd 1 2/12/16 4:25 PM HEADER FROM THE PRESIDENT Meeting the Challenges, Staying the Course

Welcome to 2016 from UCO! The winter weeks have been mild here in Edmond. They are matched by the up- beat tempo of university life. We often say there is no time at UCO more engaged than the fall, except for the spring. As many of you in Oklahoma know, our state is confronting near-historic financial challenges, fueled in part by the dramatic drop in energy prices and in the corre- sponding state revenues. All public higher education, UCO included, has been directly impacted. Beginning last July, we began the academic year with a 3.5 percent reduction in state support. Since, there have been four ad- ditional reductions due to state-declared revenue failures and a drop in oil/gas prices. We are planning for FY 17 (2016-17) fully expecting our state support will be further reduced. For us, these reductions amount to millions of dollars. highlighted in the coming months, but reduction in state assistance, UCO is fol- About 15 years ago, UCO received first among them is the renaissance of Old lowing its path of responsible fiscal manage- about 60 percent of its operating budget North. Shuttered about 15 years ago for ment and innovative planning and creat- from the state. Today, that state support is safety reasons, this symbol of UCO and ing for the future to serve as Oklahoma’s less than 25 percent. This protracted with- Oklahoma higher education will re-open in metropolitan university. drawal of state funding for higher education fall 2016 as a multipurpose epicenter of our This Old North issue is a rich selection has corresponded to an increase in UCO’s university. It will offer faculty offices; inti- of information and articles depicting some enrollment that’s unequaled in the state. mate, high-impact classrooms; operational of the vitality here that is rooted in focused These realities have created fresh challenges offices; and conference rooms. Described scholarship; diligent, collaborative effort; for the personalized, quality learning experi- by our facilities leadership as “building a and realistic optimism. We embrace John F. ence for which we have been recognized. ship in a bottle,” restoration will prepare Kennedy’s declaration that we are ideal- Some institutions have decided to this original Oklahoma Territorial Normal ists with no illusions. We believe that we take actions that will limit their capaci- School for many decades of meaningful are one of the positive partners engaged in ties to serve our citizens and the state. We service, thus extending the vision of the creating Oklahoma’s future. are using innovative approaches to meet original founders and builders of our “ca- When the dust has settled, UCO will be our responsibilities as the public regional thedral of learning on the plains.” on course, living its belief in the power of university serving the Oklahoma City metro Some major projects underway or ap- learning, leading and serving. and Oklahoma. proved include the backstage facility annex In any season, please know that you are In the midst of these downturns in state to historic Mitchell Hall and the Interdis- always welcome here. support, UCO has not dampened its entre- ciplinary STEM (Science, Technology, En- preneurial and collaborative spirit. There are gineering and Mathematics) Research and significant projects underway which com- Training Center. The Sports Performance menced prior to the state revenue shortfalls Center at the north end of the football or are financially sustained by resources stadium is viable thanks in large part to the from select fees and/or highly appreciated generous investments by alumnus Chad Don Betz philanthropic support. Richison and an anonymous former UCO President Several of these initiatives will be football player. In the midst of the described

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When UCO leaders say that Central is Oklahoma’s metropolitan university, ‘Serving they’re not talking about geography. A metropolitan university in academia the Metro,’ means something more than location. Central is a member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan What It Means Universities, serving more than 50 metropolitan regions.

By Gypsy Hogan “We will accomplish this objective Members include both private and Publications Editor through building intentional partnerships University Relations with business, industry, government, non- public institutions, but all have several profits and educational institutions,” UCO things in common, as listed on the Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett’s President Don Betz said in the plan’s release. recent recognition of UCO spread like “These partnerships will enable us to draw organization’s website: a welcomed warm front across a campus upon the exceptional talent of our faculty, enamored with sunlight. staff and students to collectively address • A mission that includes teaching, “At the higher ed level, I want to take critical issues and opportunities.” research and public service; a moment to mention our ever-growing Over the last eight years, multiple part- relationship with UCO,” Mayor Cornett nerships have come to fruition, involving said at his annual State of the City address all areas of the university. And those efforts • A responsiveness to respective on Jan. 13 before 1,600 people at the Cox continue. community needs while striving for Convention Center. However, last year the university’s steady national excellence; “President Betz and his staff are continu- movement forward seemed to find a new ing their commitment to Oklahoma City. momentum, solidly placing it and its people You probably know about ACM, the School amongst “thought leaders planning and • An understanding that mutually of Rock that they offer downtown. You may participating in the future of this develop- beneficial partnerships are a tool for be less aware of their new boathouse and ing ‘City State,’” Provost John Barthell told accomplishing strategic goals; jazz lab on the river and their new down- those gathered for the university’s recent the university celebrated its 125th anniver- Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett at his 2016 State of the City address included town MBA program. We are also working annual spring forum in January. sary. In commemorating its founding in comments about UCO’s commitment to the metropolitan area. • A commitment to supporting an together with the Brookings Institution on How does a metropolitan university go 1890, a UCO@125 Distinguished Speaker improving our Innovation District. None of about developing its role? Series was planned. First on campus was an ‘ah-ha’ moment to us as we focused on Katz to the Oklahoma City Chamber, educated citizenry and workforce for these are small endeavors.” One description: Intentionally, by be- Bruce Katz, co-author of the The Metropoli- how we might serve the metro to develop which inked an 18-month Innovation Dis- their respective state and region; And none happened overnight, he ing flexible and responding to opportuni- tan Revolution, vice president for the Brook- its economy, communities and neighbor- trict development proposal. That proposal might have added. ties that present themselves, taking each ings Institution and founding director of hoods. The work of Bruce Katz and Jennifer seeks to create for the first time a blueprint • A goal of having a diverse student Starting in 2008, UCO developed an project and asking how can this further our its Metropolitan Policy Program. His book, Bradley provided that roadmap to us,” said of how the city’s business sector plans to intentional goal of becoming the state’s only mission. The role varies, whether as the made available across campus for book Mark Kinders, Ed.D., UCO vice president grow so that UCO and other city partners body that is reflective of the metropolitan university — academia code “thought leader” to develop new concepts, study groups, looks at the innovative things of Public Affairs. provide meaningful support and assistance. demographic characteristics of the words for wanting to look for ways to build the “change agent” to restructure processes, cities across America have done to reinvent In 2014, Kinders talked informally Katz further has accepted a role on relationships that would strengthen the the “facilitator” to gather varied stakehold- themselves as thriving communities. with Mayor Cornett and then met with the President Betz’s Council of Advisors and region; and, university and its students, as well as those ers to explore new ideas or as the “agenda Even earlier, in 2014, President Betz Brookings Institution to promote the idea has shared insights from his research to help in the larger community. setter” to map out a deliberate course of circulated The Metropolitan Revolution of a partnership. “The immediate response guide UCO’s continuing efforts to expand • The desire to serve as an intellectual That goal and the commitment to its action to address a metro opportunity or to his cabinet members, and through his was ‘no,’” Kinders said. its role in the metro. and creative resource for the success intensified in 2013 when the uni- challenge. leadership, UCO made a concerted effort to However, UCO persisted, leading to The rationale for UCO was simple as versity developed its seven-year plan, Vision An example of UCO as thought leader explore how to realize its concepts. Katz’s 2015 campus presentation to com- it seeks to assist city and state leaders to metropolitan region. 2020. and facilitator was realized last year when “The Metropolitan Revolution presented munity leaders and eventually connecting expand the state’s economic base. In 2016,

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The university’s work to strengthen its mission as a metropolitan university has taken many forms, both on and off campus. University leaders work to connect the interests of UCO students with those of the community, creating opportunities for all. • With classes starting in January 2015, UCO Downtown now serves the Oklahoma City metro through prepared graduates, innovative programs and partnerships that contribute to the area’s continued growth. Enrollment and interest in the new location has exceeded expectations. So, the variety of class offerings has been expanded to include the master’s in Business Administration program, as well as degrees in Professional Science and Business Analytics. In addition, UCO Downtown and the UCO Center for eLearning and Connected Environments work with area businesses to offer non-credit, continuing education or customized classes to meet specific needs. More at downtown.uco.edu. Author Bruce Katz spoke at UCO in January, paving the way for Central to • In spring 2015, UCO opened its new CHK|Central Boathouse on the Oklahoma connect Oklahoma City with the author River. The boathouse is not only home to the university’s Women’s Rowing and the Brookings Institution. team, but it also offers space for music performances, art exhibits and public the volatile price of oil hovering at $30 — gatherings. creating a $1.3 billion state budget gap — • UCO in 2015 refocused its Small Business Development Center. Still located in By Reagan Hamlin proved the merits of the initiative. Okla- One Santa Fe Plaza, it’s now part of UCO’s Customized Education department, Assistant Vice President for Development homa City and the state identify five major emphasizing customized education, business consulting and business industry clusters as driving the economy. incubators to strengthen economic opportunities. UCO Athletics launched its Complete the Dream campaign The Innovation District will emphasize • The university expanded its partnership with the Greater Oklahoma City in November with a record-setting gift from alumnus and former expanding two of them — life sciences Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, helping families prepare for college student athlete Chad Richison (BA ’93), founder and CEO of and aerospace. However, the concept of opportunities as well as receive needed training for business development. Oklahoma City-based Paycom Software Inc. an innovation district is to create “colli- • UCO’s Latino Faculty and Staff Association has become a model for other Richison recently pledged $10 million to UCO Athletics as part sion points” by providing amenities and colleges and universities looking for ways to better connect and serve the of its $15 million Complete the Dream campaign. His gift is the attractions that will bring bright entrepre- growing Hispanic community. single largest donation in university history and among the largest neurs together in new ways. The creative ever received by an NCAA Division II institution. • UCO’s Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM@UCO) has continued to find entrepreneurs will “collide,” producing new “It’s truly an honor to be able to give this type of gift,” said ways to support community efforts while providing students with performance products, services or conceptual approaches Richison at the press conference announcing the donation. opportunities and music business training. The program has received to issues that will drive the future of the city “I came here in 1989 as a student athlete, and while my athletic and state — and the needed diversification international attention while helping grow the Oklahoma music scene. career was short lived, the relationships I made have lasted forever. of their economies. • UCO’s main campus in Edmond continues to be a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic I’m very hopeful the contribution I’ve made today has the intended “The future of our university and the training site. affect.” Oklahoma City metro are intrinsically con- • The university has been recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education as Just three months later, a former Central football player made nected. We thrive together,” President Betz “A Great Place to Work For” for seven years and has been listed twice in the an anonymous $1 million donation to the campaign, the third larg- From left, UCO President Don Betz, Central supporter Chad said. Top 10 Large School Honor Roll. est gift in UCO Athletics’ history. Richison and UCO Director of Athletics Joe Muller support the Even better, UCO students benefit. • An August agreement between UCO and Oklahoma City University has officials The Complete the Dream campaign is the first comprehensive announcement of Richison’s $10 million gift. “Our students learn the value of seeking athletic facilities campaign for Central. of both exploring partnerships between the two schools academic programs, to the importance UCO holds in the hearts of our alumni,” UCO solutions and contributing to the com- Planned facilities include a north end zone complex, an indoor such as Central’s master of Public Administration and OCU’s juris doctorate Director for Athletics Joe Muller said. munity through these partnerships, taking practice facility, a new softball stadium and major renovations to program. “Chad Richison’s incredible lead gift, coupled with another those lessons with them as they graduate other sport facilities. • The Carnegie Foundation named UCO to an elite “Community Engagement” record-breaking gift, is a game-changer for UCO athletics. Thanks and become productive citizens, ideally UCO President Don Betz said the campaign will provide the classification, and the university was named a Veteran Friendly institution by to generous alumni, we will soon transform our dream into reality right here in the OKC metro,” he said. resources for UCO student athletes to be the best students and Military Times. and provide resources for UCO athletic programs never seen before As Mayor Cornett said in his annual athletes they can be. at this institution.” address, “Nothing contributes more to add- • Ranked No. 4 in the nation on the Forbes “My Top College” listing, UCO Funds from the Richison gift are earmarked for athletics facility To make a gift to the Complete the Dream campaign, visit ing to our workforce than investments in also has been named to the Top Tier of Public Regional Universities in the upgrades to benefit all Central student athletes. centralconnection.org/completethedream. education.” West by U.S. News & World Report and designated a U.S. EPA Green Power “To have achieved 80 percent of our $15 million fundraising For information on UCO Athletics, visit bronchosports.com. Good words to remember. Conference Champion for energy efficiency. goal just months into the Complete The Dream campaign speaks

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By Adrienne Nobles CentralAssistant Vice President for University Relations By reading this issue of Old North, you are connecting with the University of Central Oklahoma. It’s also probably fair to say that you’ve connected with the university in many different ways. You earned your degree here. You made lifelong friends, found a mentor or got an internship that put your career on track. Maybe you’ve taught generations of Bronchos. There are countless ways to connect to the university.

That makes the university’s new branding initiative a natural Because the message and images are well researched and progression. With the theme Connect to Central, the university aims tested, the Connect to Central initiative allows the university to actively engage its many audiences with authentic messages that to use its resources wisely when communicating with audi- capture the Central spirit. ences. Above: Will Rogers “Connect to Central is as flexible as it is meaningful to what we “We are confident that as UCO grows and continues World Airport, do each day at the university. The connections students make here — to emerge as Oklahoma’s metropolitan university, this and the opportunities they provide — are at the heart of the Central is a positive step forward . . . a way for us to tell our Oklahoma City. experience,” said Charlie Johnson, vice president for University Rela- story that connects to our students, faculty, staff Far left: Campus tions. and the community,” Johnson added. Connect to Central is the result of an 18-month market research This spring, you will see and hear the pole banners. and creative conceptualizing process. The university worked with launch of the campaign throughout the TWG Plus, a higher education marketing firm, to conduct focus OKC metro on billboards, print and on- Middle left: Second groups and phone and online surveys with students, parents, alumni, line ads, traditional and digital radio and Street campus faculty, staff and community members. That research helped uncover campus signage. But Johnson said the entrance. valuable perceptions of the university and, ultimately, the develop- best promotion is a personal story of ment of Connect to Central. connection told by the one who Near left: Ads in Each group surveyed spoke of the personal experience they found experienced it. The Oklahoman, at Central. They praised the value of a Central degree — both in “We hope Connect Oklahoma Gazette, terms of investment and in preparedness. They liked the opportuni- to Central inspires our ties provided both on campus and throughout the Oklahoma City students, alumni, faculty, Edmond Life & metro. staff and friends to be- Leisure. That research also led to the development of five key phrases — come enthusiastic or attributes — you’ll hear used as a part of the Connect to Central brand ambassadors Bottom left: Nigh initiative: a personal experience, a creative and innovative spirit, who share how University Center unmatched value, strong connections, and confident and ready. These their Central elevators. attributes resonated with most of the respondents in our research, experience has representing qualities about Central that are largely believed to be shaped their Bottom right: true. lives.” Digital billboard on Broadway Extension. 8 OLD NORTH • SPRING 2016 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 9 HEADER SteppingHEADER Up To Challenges

By Kayla Piha Student Intern, University Relations

Jeremy Campbell, who trains at Central, has made headlines for more than a decade as a world-class athlete. From record-setting Paralympic efforts to his most recent race to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, there seems to be nothing this fierce competitor can’t handle. However, his success often has been anything but easy.

Photos courtesy of Joe Kusumoto Photography

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Campbell’s unusual journey began Aug. he’s also extremely profound … introspec- 19, 1987, when he was born with a rare Paralympic athlete Jeremy Campbell in October in tive, maybe even to his detriment,” Caleb birth deficiency, fibular hemimelia. The Qatar captured his second F44 men’s discus throw world Campbell said. UCO, Enjoying Official Training Site Status championship while setting a new world record. He’s shown condition forced his parents to make the here at the 2012 London Paralympics where he won his Being in the public eye, always feel- UCO is one of 18 organizations designated as a training site for Paralympic and decision to amputate his right leg from the ing the need to be “on” for the cameras second gold medal. Olympic athletes. knee down shortly after his first birthday. and projecting an outgoing personality are Nonetheless, he was steered toward sometimes difficult for the self-described The university hosts the men’s and women’s national sitting volleyball teams, sports, growing up with two older brothers introvert. Sometimes the misconceptions as well as Paralympic archer Russell Wolfe and Paralympic track and field athlete and a father who’s a former bull rider. With of others get to him — such as people one brother who would later play profes- thinking the Paralympics are more about Jeremy Campbell. sional football and the other a tough bull participation than competition, he said. Campbell said that he likes living and training at the UCO campus because it rider, quitting was not a family option. Nodding to his older brother’s descrip- Campbell’s older brother, Caleb, who tion, the younger Campbell agreed that, yes, reminds him of his small town roots in Perryton, Texas. He travels to the official played for the Detroit Lions, said he he can be his own biggest obstacle. training center in Chula Vista, California, as an event nears, but likes returning to remembers his brother’s incredible deter- Over the years, however, Campbell said mination, recalling a time when they were he has found good ways to overcome him- Edmond for a more relaxed, individual effort. youngsters at the city pool in Perryton, self. He relies on his family, his friends and UCO’s route to becoming a Paralympic and Olympic training site began in 2000 Texas. Brother Jeremy could swim, but not his faith to push forward. while wearing his prosthetic leg. “I strongly believe that whether you when UCO’s Katrina Shaklee co-founded the Endeavor Games. The nationally rec- “So he would just hop everywhere,” were born with a birth deficiency or com- ognized competition has been held on the Central campus every year since. Caleb Campbell said. “I just remember pletely normal, you have a purpose and a Shaklee, herself diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, had a passion for helping thinking, ‘What is going through his mind? story to tell, and I’m here to help in any way Humiliation?’ Whether it was or wasn’t, he possible,” Jeremy Campbell has written on people with disabilities. She and co-founder Robbie Robertson, a local advertis- always had resolve and did his best.” his website. ing agency owner, saw the need for a multi-sport event for athletes with physical Jeremy Campbell competed in high His brother said he believes that’s the school football, baseball and basketball, real Jeremy Campbell. disabilities. even playing his senior year as a starting “My brother has a great call in his life, Today, the Endeavor event offers 12 sports for athletes who have ranged in age linebacker and wide receiver. the call of God on his heart. He’s selfless,” Early challenges, however, included the Caleb Campbell said. from preschoolers to seniors. Competitors come from all over the nation, as well young athlete walking away from his first For now, the Paralympian lives in Ed- as other countries, with U.S. veterans being as much as a third of participants. track meet. Why? Someone asked what his mond on a semi-permanent basis, traveling disability was. when training for competitions. He has “In my head, I don’t have a disability,” been a part of Central’s Paralympic Resident Campbell later explained. Athlete Program since 2005, often working In 2003, at age 16, Jeremy was intro- out in the UCO Wellness Center when not duced to the Paralympics and the F44 pen- on the road. He also has competed in and tathlon events for amputee athletes. Since, helped with the Endeavor Games, co-found- he has won three Paralympic gold medals ed by Central’s Katrina Shaklee in 2000. and set two world records. His website, as Campbell’s foreseeable goals include of early February, showed that he has visited crossing from the Paralympic competitions 16 countries and traveled 92,803 miles. to the able-bodied Olympics, continuing to Not bad. move forward without becoming compla- Like everything, however, there’s a price. cent and to enjoy the blessings he has, he And Campbell’s honest enough to admit that said. there have been times when he wondered As for life after the games, “I have in- about the cost. While his friends seemed to klings of God’s plans,” but nothing has been be living the fun life at college, he said he officially decided, he said. wondered what he might be missing. Step- ping up to challenges, avoiding temptations Right: The start of the Endeavor Games and committing to his chosen path have not in 2000 on the UCO campus led to always been easy, he said. UCO becoming a training site for both “My brother is extremely goofy but Paralympic and Olympic competitors.

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By Angela Morris Staff Writer College of Fine Arts and Design

Question everything. Think independently. Research to create new knowledge. These are the philosophies espoused by great thinkers from Plato and Emerson to Einstein and Neil Armstrong.

To put these philosophies into practice within the UCO School of Music, students need access to the great music literature of the past. Such extensive music collections can be found at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; Yale University Library in Connecti- cut; Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York — or the office of Central professor of Music History, Ted Honea, Ph.D.

Right, Music History professor Ted Honea, Ph.D., with one of his older texts.

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Having amassed a private collection of Examining magnified script UCO Music History professor Ted Honea has combined a love of history and music more than 800 volumes of primary and in old texts gives clues to the secondary sources — which stands at more printing method — and the with a love of acquiring original texts about music, feeding a passion that benefits his than 60 linear feet — his collection of possible mistakes. primary music literature is on par with, and students and their research efforts. Following are five of his most valued books. even exceeds some, of the most prominent institutions in the nation. music the educational philosophy of the extremely influential “Ted Honea’s collection is thoughtfully Remarques curieuses sur l’art de bien chanter (1) By Bénigne de Bacilly, Paris, 1668 turn-of-the-century pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. conceived,” said Donald Krummel, Ph.D., This is judged the most important book in the history of Nine copies are held in U.S. libraries, only five of those by professor emeritus of library science at the French vocal performance practice and one of the most universities, including Harvard and Yale. Few of these libraries University of Illinois. “These titles form important in the history of performance practice in general. also own the later supplemental volume of choral music. an ideal nucleus for a seminar collection, Only Pier Francesco Tosi’s Observations on the Florid Song is Pestalozzi’s method was studied by Lowell Mason and utilized classroom use, research for performers and considered to exceed it in importance for vocal performance. when he founded America’s first public school music program scholars.” Only 31 copies are known worldwide, including six in the in Boston in 1837. Honea’s love for collecting primary and United States, three in universities. secondary sources started during his 20-year Traité Général d’Instrumentation (5) tenure at the Sibley Music Library in New that of the University of North Texas and “But I didn’t collect all these books just Observations on the Florid Song (2) By G. Kastner, Paris, 1837 By Pier Francesco Tosi, London, 1742 Kastner’s book is the first complete book on orchestration in York, one of the foremost music libraries exceed the collection of the University of so they could sit on a shelf,” said Honea. “I Tosi’s book, originally in Italian, is considered the most the history of music and was a field essentially new to music in the world. There, Honea created the Oklahoma. “When I started collecting, I collected them so they could be used.” important source on vocal performance practice of all time. in the early 19th century. It anticipates Berlioz’s famous book, conservation program and later became was still ignorant and interested in only a He currently utilizes his collection in This is the first edition of the first English translation. There which often depends upon it, by several years and, though head of the rare books department, work small area. But the more I learned, the more undergraduate- and graduate-level courses are 21 known copies with eight in U.S. libraries. This English shorter, often contains important but obscure information that garnered him a biography entry in the my interests grew,” Honea said. “My three in research method and practice, cycles of edition is actually more rare than the Italian edition of 1723 that Berlioz omits. There are eight copies of this first edition Oxford Grove Music Dictionary. He held areas of interest began intersecting the more music education history and performance and more often cited than the Italian original. worldwide, with four in the United States. his position at Sibley until returning to I researched and led me down new paths.” practice. His collection also has birthed Oklahoma in 1998. Today, according to standard research projects among his students. Grand Album du Chasseur avec Texte Musique “While I was working at Sibley and bibliographies in the field, Honea owns “If you want to really formulate a prob- et Dessins (3) 1 completing my doctorate, the more I read, 60-100 percent of the major literary lem that answers a question that has never By N. Tellier, Paris, 1848 4 the more books I wanted to buy, and the sources in the theoretical fields of general been answered, you can’t just read what This book represents a “last gasp” of a dying more books I bought, the more I wanted to performance practice, pre-1600 Italian someone else said on the topic; you have to culture. It is a complete guide to the hunt, but gives largest place to a method and repertoire read, and so on and so on,” Honea said. vocal performance, ornamentation and dive directly into the topic itself,” he said. for hunting horn. It also includes lithographs Based on his studies, Honea began thorough-bass. He also owns 46-71 percent Honea’s primary sources have sparked of the various animals, their distinctive searching for sources on music theory, of the complete bibliographic sources in student projects to rediscover forgotten tracks and the horn calls associated with 2 music education and music performance, a the performance related fields (pre-1800) music inspired by the abolitionist move- each. For the sake of completion, there quest that would lead his collection of pre- in general keyboard, voice, strings, winds, ment, argue various pedagogical systems are also a glossary of hunting terms 1800 literary imprints on music to match pitch and tuning, and temperament. within the tradition of music education and and a brief guide to dispute misinformation in modern litera- veterinary medicine ture regarding the musical qualities and for the dogs. Only 3 Today’s interest in historical mechanical nature of historical instruments, two other copies are performance increases the need among others. known, both in the for new editions of original British Library. musical compositions. “And the more these students conduct research, the more they want to read, and the more they read, the more they want to Gesangbildung- delve into research,” Honea said. “It’s an ex- slehre nach Pestalozzischen citing cycle that has sparked such a passion Grundsätzen 5 in my students — and continues to keep pädagogisch my passion alive as well.” begründet (4) Keeping this cycle alive indefinitely is By Michael the generosity of Honea, who has agreed to Traugott Pfeiffer donate his prestigious book collection in its and Hans Georg entirety to UCO. Nägeli, Zurich, 1810. “That way, students will have access to With the supplement it forever.” Chorgesangschule (1821) This book represents the first attempt to apply to

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“It has been exciting Mission: The UCO Alumni Association fosters relationships to get to know many among alumni and friends, while advocating for the benefit of Meet the New Team of our alumni again, the university, supporting students and creating “Bronchos for Life.” especially our lifetime Laura Wolf (BS ’13) members, who recently became the sometimes know this Alumni Association’s university better than communications coordinator. anyone else.” Wolf graduated from – Dave Lewis UCO in 2013 with a Alumni Association Director bachelor’s degree in Brand Communications. lifetime members, who sometimes know this university better than anyone else. That Her new role includes all is why one of my top priorities has always communications and event been to ensure they still see value in their lifetime investment.” management for alumni. Lewis already has implemented several She may be reached new events for the association, including “Alumni Mix and Mingles” across Edmond at 405-974-3553 or lwolf2@ and the metro area. uco.edu. He also is excited about expanding the alumni board to include volunteer commit- Megan Gatlin is now tees to help with chapter establishment and the Alumni Association’s Dave Lewis brings humor and large events like homecoming. enthusiasm to his new role as director Lewis hopes to capitalize on this mo- member services of the UCO Alumni Association. mentum and see local chapters come to life coordinator. Gatlin in Tulsa and Dallas. Lewis also has refocused on the associa- graduated from Western tion’s Legacy Scholarship for incoming stu- Kentucky University with ringing a background in development Southern Nazarene University and a tion. The move will allow for an expanded dents. “Our Alumni Association President a bachelor’s degree in Band ministry, Dave Lewis has returned master’s degree from Garrett-Evangelical outreach of communication and engage- Jeff Carel challenged the board to make to UCO as the new director for the UCO Theological Seminary. He also has served ment, ensuring all alumni stay connected to legacy scholarships a priority in 2016,” Interdisciplinary Studies Alumni Association. various community organizations, including the resources and benefits available to them. Lewis said. “The board responded by ap- with an emphasis in Lewis was development manager for spending time both as a staff member and These include access to Career Services and proving what amounts to a 400 percent Education. UCO Athletics from 2011-14 before leav- volunteer with Young Life. a discounted Wellness Center membership. increase in Legacy Scholarship spending. It ing to serve full time in the ministry. He’s a past board member with Fam- Lewis’ priority for 2016 is reorganizing is a great time to be a legacy at UCO.” She is managing member His previous experience includes more ily Promise of Shawnee, the Oklahoma the benefit structure for alumni. What was once a one-time scholarship than 20 years at various churches including Council of Churches and the University of “Making the move to a non-dues is now a four-year scholarship for legacy services and accounting Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago; Central Oklahoma Foundation. based membership program allowed us to recipients. The board also added four legacy for the Alumni Association. First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, Lewis will continue to lead the efforts re-evaluate our offerings to alumni and get scholarships for those studying for a master’s Virginia; United Presbyterian Church of for the UCO Alumni Association as it valuable feedback on the programs and degree. She may be reached Shawnee, Oklahoma; and, most recently, transitions to a non-dues based membership services they want to see,” Lewis said. To stay up to date with alumni events at 405-974-2771 or Christ Community Church of Edmond. program, meaning all 80,000 alumni are “It has been exciting to get to know and news, be sure to update your informa- [email protected]. Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree from now considered members of the associa- many of our alumni again, especially our tion at centralconnection.org/updateinfo.

18 OLD NORTH • SPRING 2016 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 19 And still others — there are always one or two — look hungry. With students coming from varied educational backgrounds (“Maybe she brought us snacks.”) and possessing a wide range of writing skills, all of my students I leave the toolbox at the front of the room as we start. It start with writing effective topic and thesis sentences. Within the sits ominously on the desk as students introduce themselves. It first month, students are writing introductory paragraphs. By the continues to sit there as I preview some of the topics we will cover end of the semester, after several drafts, students turn in a research during the semester. Finally, there is dismay and a few audible sighs paper. It is with the cultivation of this third tool that students also when I open the box to reveal that it is empty. No hammer? No employ and learn how to master the first two. As students craft monkey wrench? Not even any cookies? outlines, build analytical frameworks and piece together narratives, The toolbox is empty because this is “Day One.” I challenge they revisit and revise their research questions. Engaging writing as a my students to dedicate this course, as well as all of their university process, we conduct writing workshops and peer review sessions. classes, to collecting and mastering tools. My goal as a teacher is As one freshman turned in her final paper, she revealed, “I to help them fill their intellectual toolbox with tools that will help almost dropped this class back in August. I saw on the syllabus that them develop their full potential as scholars and citizens. we had to write a big paper, and I never had to write more than a What kind of tools? paragraph in high school. But I did it!” First, in a dynamic, digital world that seems to be full of quick As a teacher, I aim to help students learn to think, speak and and easy answers, students need to learn how to ask interesting and write clearly, thoughtfully and analytically. I believe that the most important questions. efficient and effective way for me to help students learn is to help There are oodles of answers out there. Succeeding in the future them gather and master useful tools. requires asking better questions. I encourage students to move By encouraging students to learn how to ask interesting beyond the who and when queries and spend more time pondering questions, how to research potential answers, and how to put it into the why and how. Why did World War I start? What were the writing, I hope to instill a lifelong love of learning and a curiosity short- and long-term causes of the Great War? Why is it called the about our shared past. “Great War” anyway? How did the war affect women, both at home On the final day of the semester, I bring the toolbox back to and abroad? How did the war affect African-Americans? What is the class. Some students snicker, as if they are now “in” on a special legacy of this conflict? inside joke. Others roll their eyes, still skeptical about these Outfitting As students learn how to ask these questions about our past, “imaginary” tools. they often become more interested and intellectually engaged in I open the toolbox and take out their edited final papers and . their present. As they ask probing questions about previous eras, . . a sleeve of cookies. There’s room enough in “The Box” for our they are motivated to ask pressing questions about the world today. intellectual tools and a mid-morning snack. Last semester, one of my students walked into class, head buried in a copy of The New York Times, and asked, “Can we talk about Student what’s going on in the Middle East? I have some questions about how it relates to what we just learned about World War I.” Secondly, students often learn most effectively by doing. Thus, the second tool is about research. As students learn how to look for the answers to their vital questions, they establish a foundation for lifelong learning and curiosity. Toolboxes We cultivate tools that help us determine the By Katrina Lacher, Ph.D. origin and significance of primary sources. We Assistant Professor of History sharpen these tools as we critically evaluate secondary sources. Together, we construct One Central professor shares her trick for getting her students to visualize new tools for and critique arguments about the past. learning — a process that just might apply to any number of life quests. Her essay first Though students are often overwhelmed as they walk into their first library appeared in UCO’s Transformative Teacher-Scholar journal, produced by the university’s instructional session, by the end of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Transformative Learning. semester, with research “tools” in hand, they can successfully navigate a university library. n the first day of the semester, I walk into class with a bright all the while never taking their gaze off the toolbox. Thirdly, students need to write in Ored toolbox. Some students look worried. (“Am I in the right class?”) order to truly process and understand their The ambient noise of students chatting and tapping on their Others look curious and intrigued. (“What’s in the box?”) questions and the potential answers that they phones diminishes, and forty sets of eyeballs focus on “The Box.” Some look relieved. (“Maybe this means there won’t be a uncover. So, I have students write scaffolded Often I see one student lean into another and whisper something, PowerPoint!”) essays.

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OurThe following is an adaptedPlace version of Provost John Barthell’s address to UCO’s 2016 spring forum on Jan. 26, when he shared personal reasons why he has come to honor the idea and power of ‘Place.’

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There is a deep sadness and yet an ines- before the demolition and construction What has made THIS Place so different capable beauty to it — where the offspring began, to see some of the original support from others is that we made this Place on of former enemies pass by one another beams and witness the pencil marks of those our OWN volition and NOT by accident. Our Place without malice and somehow, together, side who created the foundation of our institu- Our university ancestors brought this By John Barthell, Ph.D. by side, commemorate the end of a war tion’s history, literally as well as figuratively. Place forth from the red soils of central Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the sacrifices of their ancestors. It is a They are among those who helped to define Oklahoma and raised a PUBLIC institution crack in time, where the walls between these THIS Place. of higher education, intending to establish Today, as we emerge from the celebra- nations fell instead of rose — at least in that I still try to imagine those architectural a stream of societal improvements for all tion of Central’s 125th year, I want to focus Place. founders and wonder if one of those frag- generations to come — indeed, to provide on one of our UCO pillars — Place, this We have such Places in our own coun- ments of commentary or calculation might an access to opportunity where few had Place, our Place. try, including in Oklahoma City, as we have been made by one of the countless existed before. To start, let’s ask, why do we care about all know. These are Places where we listen faces you can see among the many images of This is OUR Place. Place? To what end? Why do we perk up carefully for the past and the lessons they that time in our university archives, includ- In the months ahead, this will be our when we meet someone from the same bring us. ing during the construction of Old North strength. While our generational promise Last October I read an essay by noted when these builders of Place took time to will be challenged by the circumstances hometown or, important to our consider- John Barthell by UCO Provost Photos provided ation here, the same educational institution? Provost Barthell’s colleague John Hranitz, Ph.D., holds a historical photo of the An- columnist Paul Greenberg entitled “A Sense pose for the camera, whether perhaps after a ahead, we will not recede from our public I will leave these specific questions to zac beach area during World War I. In the background is the view visitors see today. of Place.” He wrote: window was just framed, or during a respite mission. We will stand up for those before the philosophers and scientists who pursue It’s more than just a matter of locale. It in- that, apparently, regularly included baseball us and for those to follow who also will pay them, but I would like to share a personal times. Hundreds of thousands were killed or ble in droves to visit the beaches, alongside cludes all the memories that have accumulated games in and around the construction site. forward to produce an educational system experience that has impressed on me the wounded, often engaged in assaults between Turkish citizens with the same goal, some there — like so many geological layers. Soon these written fragments from for which we can all be proud. strength of a sense of Place. enemy trenches as close as 10 yards. The there for the first and perhaps only time of This Place, our Central, fortunately the past will be sealed away again into the We WILL fulfill the PROMISE of this During the last decade, I have repeat- ferocity of these battles still captures our their lives. offers more joyful memories of so many new walls of an old, but proud, building. PLACE. edly returned to the same piece of shoreline imagination today, most recently in a movie While among them, I have watched whose hard work and dreams prepared a However, they will remain there for us on the northwestern coast of Turkey, to a called “The Water Diviner,” released just grown men my age, three generations new future for them, their families and their to remember: evidence for our “Sense of certain place called Anzac Cove. ANZAC last year. removed from the war, stand speechless communities. Their time here is a part of Place.” Note: Provost Barthell and student research- is an acronym for the Australian and New I’ve seen the evidence of the conflict still before dissolving into tears. Perhaps, I this Place. Secure in this historical foundation, our ers have traveled to Turkey for the last 10 Zealand Army Corps, the soldiers who led there today — collapsed trenches, pieces of have thought, they are reminiscing about As we look at our campus today, Old institution continues to grow and change. years with funding from the National Science the Allies in a land invasion into the Otto- barbed wire, ammunition clips and other a revered, then-17-year-old, brother of a North, our iconic building, the founda- As we explore the extension of ourselves Foundation for his ongoing research on bees. man Empire in April of 1915, an invasion remains. great-grandfather who never had the chance tional layer of our institutional memory, is into the nexus of the evolving Oklahoma While a biologist, he also is known for his that ended 100 years ago this very year. Each year, thousands of New Zealanders to yield the contemporaries — cousins and beginning its renaissance into the 21st Cen- City metropolitan area, we remain rooted in writing talent, which he credits to his parents, This was one of the most difficult and Australians travel thousands of miles uncles and aunts — who would have helped tury. It is having its skeleton reassembled where we came from: a Place that began in both English majors with his father teaching World War I military campaigns, a series to see this site for themselves, knowing that to contour and comfort their own thoughts and refitted — a luxury I wish we all had. Edmond in 1890 and that is embodied in community college classes. of battles over a 10-month period on the this “Place” has something special to share about that time, that place. This process has provided rare opportuni- the Cathedral on the Plains that our UCO Gallipoli Peninsula of the Dardanelles, or with them and about them. I have for years As you first arrive at the Cove there is ties to look into the past. I had a chance, president so eloquently speaks of. the Hellespont as it was known in ancient watched weary but wide-eyed people assem- a monument with a quote attributed to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a commander who fought there and later became the first president of the new Republic of Turkey. It encapsulates the feeling of that Place better than any other commentary I know: Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our The moving words of war commander Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, later first president of sons as well. Watching generations removed travel incredible distances to remember those who fought and died at Anzac Cove, Provost John Bar- the new Republic of Turkey, greet those who arrive to the memorialized area. That is Place. thell shares how the power of ‘Place’ — both there and at Central — has become powerfully impressed upon him.

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most of us endure in modern social life. Traditional funeral rituals were crafted Death, Dying Class Reveals Changes during a time when social life was much different. Before and during colonial times, By Gary Steward Jr., Ph.D. of the ceremony, a Harley was pushed down sonalized ritual is driven by several factors. the loss of a member impacted the commu- UCO Associate Vice President for the aisle and parked in front of the casket. First, the reality of global and multicultural nity in some measurable way. Not only did Institutional Effectiveness That was accompanied by the informality communities in most large urban centers has the ritual acknowledge the loss of a member, of family photos, videos and, as part of the worked its way into the final ritual, the fu- but it reminded the living that the commu- service’s ending, the roar of a Harley blazing neral. Diversity in life translates into diversity nity would survive the loss. Also, the ritual Editor’s Note: Gary Steward has taught into the sunset. He concluded the story by in death. Second, and more theoretical, is the framed death within a sacred rather than a for the last 15 years an intersession class at saying, “You never know what people want idea that as our deaths have less communal secular context. Today, our deaths — unless UCO on death and dying. He regularly has or how they want to be remembered.” impact and meaning, personalized rituals we are a super-celebrity or popular politi- about 50 students sign up for the two weeks I believe this trend toward a more per- may be a reaction to the anonymity that of 4½-hour-long night classes between fall cian with global recognition — are hardly and spring semesters. Previously a professor of acknowledged by the larger community, if sociology and dean of the College of Liberal at all. While a grief-stricken time for family Arts, Steward’s own interest in the topic was and friends, the larger community is not sparked by a course he took in the early 1990s, impacted. In a sense, the funeral is the dece- followed a few years later with the unexpected dent’s last opportunity to mean something Funeral Service Chair John Fritch, Ph.D., displays a photo of his department’s first death of his father. in a faceless, anonymous existence. Regard- graduates, Class of 1966. The department will graduate about 25 this year. less of the cause, I suspect the current trend ne of the most profound subjects at toward a more personalized or individualized Othe close of the 20th century and the ritual will increase. Student Take-Aways Vary beginning of the 21st century is death. We I’m also struck by the similarities that re- John Fritch was working on his doctorate degree at Oklahoma State University have witnessed profound changes in atti- main. For much of the 20th century, “death tudes, beliefs and practices related to funeral discourse” was considered impolite in polite when he took UCO’s intersession class on death and dying. society. When forced to discuss the issue, rituals. For example, students in my courses That’s when he met Gary Steward, Ph.D., class professor and Central’s associate in the early 2000s embraced a traditional many gravitated toward avoidance or denial. burial funeral. Over the past couple of years, While there has been a great deal of prog- vice president for Institutional Effectiveness. most students have indicated a preference ress over the past 40 years, especially within “I got into the doctorate program with hopes of teaching in higher ed,” Fritch for cremation. In fact, the numbers are higher education, I am always surprised by nearly inverted. In addition, several students the reticence of students to openly discuss said. “Gary Steward made it more real — observing him in class, how he taught are planning for a green burial, sometimes death. Admittedly, after two intensive weeks — and he solidified what a great place and what a great career was possible here referred to as a natural burial, where the body of studying death, students feel more at ease is wrapped and placed in biodegradable ma- with the topic. at UCO.” terial. This option was not even considered Outside the classroom, a social change Today, Fritch is finishing his fourth year as chair of Central’s Funeral Service by students 15 years ago. bubbling to the surface is the emergence department, the oldest and one of only four in the U.S. offering a bachelor’s degree Another significant change is the trend of Death Cafés, promoted by British Web toward the individualized funeral ritual. designer Jon Underwood. He founded death- in Funeral Service. Since Fritch’s arrival, enrollment has doubled to more than 180. For much of the 1900s, the funeral ritual cafe.com in 2011, proposing small gatherings As for Steward’s intersession class, Fritch recommends it for students of all was relatively similar within major cultural of people who share tea and cake and discuss categories, such as religion, race/ethnicity death. majors. “Everyone is interested whether they admit it or not,” he said. and social class. Although there were regional His website in mid-February reported Jackie Spomer took the class in December as she finished her first semester differences, one could predict with precision almost 2,800 of these informal gatherings the chronology of a local funeral. However, held in 33 countries. A recent posting from toward a master’s degree in Adult Education. “I lost my dad in 2010, so I was Des Moines, Iowa, said the group had begun surveys and research reveal dramatic changes curious … I thought it might help me cope better,” she said. And it did. over the past 30 to 40 years. Consumers by talking about how David Bowie’s death want a more personalized ritual, tailored to plans affected his loved ones and family and “Before, when people would ask me how he died, I’d just say stroke,” she said. their preferences. Many families today want “who’s the funeral for anyway.” Participants “Now, I can say he was an alcoholic who didn’t take care of himself and had a the ritual to reflect the life of the deceased. have said their take-away is not so much Not long ago, a funeral home director shared about how we die, but how we live. stroke. I feel OK to share my story.” with me such a service. 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1971 — University at Last Central may have turned 125 last year, but 2016 marks the New Campus Clinic 45th anniversary of Central State College becoming Central The OU Physicians Health and Wellness Clinic State University. Legislative champion C.H. Spearman twice at UCO opened Jan. 11 in the UCO Wellness got the name-change bill passed through the legislature, Center, offering comprehensive primary care only to have it vetoed both times by Republican Gov. Dewey to students, faculty, staff and the community. Bartlett. Legislation finally was passed and then signed by Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Democratic Gov. David Hall on April 13, 1971. In 1991, the clinic services include immunizations, annual name would be changed again to the University of Central wellness exams, sports physicals and the Oklahoma, the sixth name change in what started in 1890 as treatment of general illnesses and injuries. the Territorial Normal School of Oklahoma. Primary provider is Robin Presley, a physician assistant previously at OU Physicians Canyon Park clinic. For appointments, call 405-974-3161.

Reflection Park Dedicated last fall, Reflection Park is northeast of the Education Building. With a Popular Campus Photo Op reflection pool and benches, the park’s centerpiece is the sculpture “Ubi Motus Last year, the City of Edmond located its newest piece of Est.” The five-panel, 8-foot-by-20-foot piece features more than 2,000 photos public art on the southern edge of the Central representing the university’s beginnings campus. It stands along 2nd Street, part of in 1890 through 2015 when Central had the legendary Route 66. Since its arrival, the its 125th celebration. “What I love about massive 18-foot statue has become a subject this piece is that it’s about all of us. It’s for photographers, who can be seen regularly about everyone who has been here snapping shots of “Touch the Clouds.” and everyone who will come after us,” The bronze piece is the work of the late President Betz said at the November internationally known sculptor Dave McGary. dedication. Part of McGary’s Warrior Series, it depicts the Miniconjou chief of the late 19th century, a cousin of the Sioux warrior, Crazy Horse. The statue was previously located outside the Houston Astrodome.

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Old North’s Renewal Interior reconstruction continues on Central’s iconic Old North, now slated for occupancy by the fall semester. Current work includes building a new steel KUCO’s Celebrating support within the existing walls. Construction crews Happy 50th birthday to Central’s KUCO, 90.1 FM, have blocked off and are using the sidewalk and one of only 26 stations nationwide that air classical parking lot area to the west as a staging area. Once music around the clock. Formerly KCSC, the station that space is released, more work will begin to create started in 1966 as a student-operated station. Today, a new west entrance onto campus. After years of it’s one of Oklahoma’s five public radio stations, a fundraising and construction starts and stops, so many member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting look forward to Old North’s return, better than ever! and Public Radio International since the mid-1980s. Visit blogs.uco.edu/central to see most recent photos KUCO also offers online streaming and repeater of work underway. stations 91.9 KBCW in McAlester and 95.9 KCSC in Woodward. For more information, visit kucofm.com.

Mitchell Hall, Expansion Underway Work has begun to nearly double the size of Mitchell Hall Theatre, Central’s historic performance venue. The 17,000-square-foot build out, designed by Elliott +Associates Architects, will include two new rehearsal spaces, dressing rooms, classrooms, a green room, a full costume shop and make-up lab, an open gallery, indoor and outdoor student Campus No Longer Divided study lounges, faculty offices, and a storm shelter for The City of Edmond has turned over to the university control more than 700 people. Fundraising and a bond issue are of Ayers Street from University Drive east to Chowning Avenue. covering the project costs, with a fall 2017 completion date. That means the north side of the campus — with student Meanwhile, performances continue in the original part of the housing, athletic facilities and the Wellness Center — is no 1926 venue. For information about how to support Mitchell longer divided from its main part to the south. The street area Hall, visit buildmitchellhall.com. “will now be reconceptualized,” President Betz said at spring forum. “We will take a tremendous, long-term view about what Ayers can be and should be.” Stay tuned for what that will mean.

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DWIGHT ADAMS (BS ‘77, WILMA ARMSTRONG million donation in his memory to UCO DAA ‘02), Ph.D., former direc- served as dean of women and Athletics — at the time, the largest gift in tor of the FBI Laboratory in organized the Association of program history. Quantico, Virginia, is director Women Students. of Central’s W. Roger Webb MURRAY BUTLER, one of the Forensic Science Institute. In first African-American under- 2003, he was named the recipient of the graduate students at Central, Presidential Rank Award as Distinguished SHERRY BEASLEY (BSEd enrolled in 1955. Executive, the highest award given in the ‘69, MS ‘82) is president of federal government. Oklahoma City’s Interior Im- ages Inc. She is a member of , an oil- JOHN ADAMS was a mem- the UCO Foundation Board of FRANK BUTTRAM ber of the Territorial Normal Trustees and served as a co- man, attended classes at School’s first graduating class chair for the Always Central campaign. In Central State Normal School. in 1897. 2012, she and her husband, Lee, donated He donated funds that helped $100,000 to establish endowed scholar- build Central’s Y-Chapel of ships in UCO’s College of Mathematics Song. and Science and the College of Education PHILIP ADAMSON (BS ‘86), and Professional Studies. JOHN H. CAGE was the first MD, MSc, FACC, is a cardiolo- director of Central’s Depart- gist and heart failure special- WILLIAM LEE BEASLEY ment of Funeral Service Edu- ist. He serves as the medical (BS ‘69, DAA ‘04), DDS, has cation, joining the university director and vice president been a generous supporter of in 1964. of medical affairs for St. Jude UCO’s College of Mathemat- Medical. ics and Science, a co-chair of is a the Always Central campaign JEREMY CAMPBELL three-time Paralympic gold ALVIN ALCORN managed and a trustee for the UCO Foundation. Central’s successful physical medalist and winner of the ESPY Best Male Athlete with expansion in the 1960s. As JIM BEAVER (BA ‘75) is a the school’s first controller, he writer, actor and Central alum- a Disability award. He trains at worked to increase the cam- nus known for his acting roles Central. pus to 200 acres and added on HBO’s “Deadwood” and , a Central more than 20 new buildings. He retired as The CW’s “Supernatural.” RUBY CANTON librarian from 1908-28, was the vice president for Administration after 23 first to teach library science years of service to the university. in Oklahoma. Ruby “opened IDA BELT was a member of the stacks,” allowing Central’s Chickasaw Gov. BILL ANOA- the Territorial Normal School’s students to browse the book- TUBBY has served as gover- first graduating class in 1897. nor of the Chickasaw Nation shelves rather than requesting books from since 1987. From 1979-87, he a catalog. served two terms as lieutenant (BA ‘75, DA governor in the administration STANLEY CASE ‘05) was an award-winning of Gov. Overton James. He has provided BILL BURCHARDT (BBA nowledge and light share an enduring connection, for knowledge creates a spark that spreads from one mind to another, anchor for CNN Radio and K support and leadership throughout the ‘05) was a creative writing Headline News. His wife, course of the Old North renovation proj- instructor at Central, the 1972 illuminating the path to a better life for both the individual and the community. As such, it is fitting that the University of Central Angela Stiepel Case, created ect. president of the Alumni Asso- the Stanley W. Case Endowed Oklahoma celebrated its 125th anniversary with the start of a new society that honors individuals whose service and contribu- ciation and served as editor of Memorial Scholarship in Mass Communi- Retired Maj. Gen. RITA Oklahoma Today for 19 years. cations in his memory. tions have lit the way to growth and prosperity for the university. ARAGON (BSEd ‘70, MEd ‘79, DAA ‘04) is the first female MARTHA BURGER (BS ‘83, was The Luminary Society honors those whose vision, energy and persistence push Central to great heights. Their acts of bravery, secretary of Military and Vet- DA ‘09) provided generous W. MAX CHAMBERS the 15th president of Central. erans’ Affairs for Oklahoma, support for the CHK|Central honor and integrity positioned Central to grow from a territorial teachers college into Oklahoma’s largest metropolitan univer- He served the university from the first female commander of Boathouse and served as a 1949-60. The library is named the Oklahoma Air National Guard, and a co-chair of the Always Central sity, giving our state’s greatest resource — its people — the opportunity to transform through education. in his honor. member of the College of Education and campaign. We are honored to welcome this inaugural class of 125 Luminaries. This celebrated community is comprised of long-time Professional Studies advocacy council. DON BURGET (MT ‘59) was a is the in- professors, educators and outstanding alumni spanning from the establishment of the Territorial Normal School of Oklahoma was Central standout in football, WEI R. CHEN COREAN ARMSTRONG terim dean of the College one of the first African-Amer- basketball and track from of Mathematics and Science in 1890 to present. We are grateful for their enduring impact — their light reflected on the face of each student who earns a ican graduate students at 1951-54. He was inducted into and director of the Center for Central. She enrolled in 1954 the UCO Athletic Hall of Fame Central degree. Interdisciplinary Biomedical to pursue a master’s degree in in 1998. Following his death in 2011, his wife, Shigeko, made a $1.5 Education and Research. The Each year we will add to this distinguished society, honoring those who light the way for generations to come. Teaching.

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Council for the Advancement and Support JAN DOUGLAS served as Gov. MARY FALLIN (DAA MILENA GOVICH (BM ‘00) EMMA ESTILL HARBOUR, JOHN W. HOWARD, MD, of Education and the Carnegie Foundation a computer programmer at ‘99) has served as governor is known for her acting roles a professor at Central for an Edmond physician, was named him the U.S. Professor of the Year Central for 30 years. The Jan of Oklahoma since 2010. She on NBC’s Law & Order and 40 years, served as chair of elected as the Democratic for Master’s Universities in 2008. Douglas Endowed Scholar- also has been elected to the Conviction. Central’s Department of Social representative to the new ship for Computer Science Oklahoma legislature, as Okla- Sciences and coordinator of Territorial legislature and DESMOND LIM SIEW was created in her memory. homa’s lieutenant governor Indian Clubs, was the founder sponsored the bill to bring the CHOON (BBA ‘91) is a Malay- and to the U.S. House of Representatives. of the Delta Kappa Gamma society for Territorial Normal School to Edmond. sian real estate entrepreneur, served C. HUBERT GRAGG estab- outstanding women educators and the KAREN J. DOWD , MD, ranked as one of the country’s UCO for more than 27 years, lished the C. Hubert Gragg president of the state chapter of the Amer- ROBERT M. HOWARD LAUREN NELSON FARAM a surgeon and chief of staff for wealthiest. working as the women’s head (BA ‘11) was only a freshmen Endowed Scholarship. His ican Association of University Women. St. Anthony’s, was valedicto- track coach, field hockey when named Miss America support was instrumental rian of the Territorial Normal coach, senior women’s athletic 2007. After her reign, she in the construction of the (BS JAMES “MILT” HEFLIN School’s first graduating class ANTON CLASSEN donated director, assistant dean in the returned to Central and com- CHK|Central Boathouse. ‘66, DA ‘84) retired from NASA the land needed to establish in 1897. College of Education and vice president of pleted her degree. Hon. in 2013 after a 47-year career the Territorial Normal School TWYLA MASON GRAY Academic Affairs. She was the first Oklaho- (BA ‘84, DA ‘02) J.D., served in at the Johnson Space Center. ERNEST HOWELL served as campus and build Old North, man to serve as president of the American the Oklahoma House of Rep- He served as a recovery engi- head of Central’s Department the campus’ first building. Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Capt. STEVEN FARLEY, (BBA resentatives from 1980-84, was neer for eight Apollo splash- of Physics from 1920-41. Recreation and Dance. ‘77, MBA ‘80) was killed in Iraq a district judge in Oklahoma downs in the Pacific Ocean; as a flight in 2008 after a distinguished controller in Mission Control for the Space , a City for four consecutive terms RAY “DUKE” CLEMONS GERTRUDE DULAN was one 34-year military career. The Shuttle Enterprise Approach and Landing state and national champion and held a position on the College of of the first African-American Broadway and Memorial cross Tests and for the first nine Space Shuttle heavyweight wrestler with All Liberal Arts Advisory Board. ROSE JACKSON was a mem- graduate students at Central. section in Edmond is named missions; and as a flight director for 20 American honors, was a mem- ber of the Territorial Normal She enrolled in 1954 to pursue the “U.S. Navy Captain Steven L. Farley , a pioneer Space Shuttle missions, including seven as ber of the 1936 U.S. Olympic LIZZIE GRIFFIN School’s first graduating class a master’s degree in Teaching. Memorial Interchange” in his honor. widow and mother of six, the lead flight director. Team. in 1897. moved to Edmond in 1899 so (BA ‘72, DAA (BAEd ‘57), that her children could attend KATHY HENRY REBA COLLINS HALL DUNCAN is an IDA FREEMAN began her ‘78) was one of the first female Ed.D., was editor of The Vista, the Territorial Normal School. author, artist and illustrator teaching career in 1898 in a executives for McDonald’s. JOE C. JACKSON, Ed.D., a professor of journalism and More than 30 of her descen- Central’s former vice president who taught cartooning and one-room schoolhouse. She dants have attended classes on campus. later served as director of advertising design at Central was a faculty member at Cen- of Academic Affairs and dean Central’s Department of Public of students, created several for 17 years. He designed the tral in the 1930s and a pioneer was instrumen- Relations. While director, she FRED GROSZ graduate programs, improved UCO mace in 1975 and led of education in Edmond. tal in starting UCO’s master’s lobbied Oklahoma’s legislature to have the academic standards and served the procession during the inauguration of degree program in Forensic STANLEY HOIG, Ph.D., a name Central State College changed to UCO for more than 50 years. Central’s President Betz. ALVIN FREIBERGER, a Science and was a founding 22-year faculty member, was Central State University. graduate college is named in his honor. longtime faculty member, member of Central’s Emeritus a professor of Journalism. He MAMIE EALEY was one of served as dean of men and Faculty Association. He served served as director of publica- was a four- ANNA SCROGGS COYNER DAVID JAMES the first African-American was a dedicated supporter of as the chair of the Department of Chemis- tions and established two time All-American and two- was a faculty member in the graduate students at Central. Central’s ROTC. endowed scholarships. He is College of Business for more try and as president of the Faculty Senate. time national champion as a She enrolled in 1954 to pursue the author of more than 26 books on the wrestler at UCO before joining than 25 years. (BA ‘78, a master’s degree in Teaching. CAROL HAMILTON history of UCO and Oklahoma and was Central’s wrestling coaching DA ‘07) is a writer, poet and HASKELL “WOODY” inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism staff in 1982. He has been (MAEd ‘73) was storyteller who won the 1992 GADDIS Hall of Fame in 1994. named national Coach of the Year seven PHRONIA ECKES was a a Central professor who Oklahoma Book Award for her , Ph.D., times and ranks second among all college EDWARD E. DALE member of the Territorial Nor- established the photography poetry. She served as the Poet (BA ‘79) a 1909 Central graduate, BELVA HOWARD coaches at any level in national champion- mal School’s first graduating program. Laureate of Oklahoma from served as a regent for the received a master’s and doc- ships with 12 titles. class in 1897. 1995-97. Regional University System of torate from Harvard. He was Oklahoma for 27 years. ELEANOR JOHNSON, a professor of history at the Uni- DALE HAMILTON spent 44 JOHN J. “POP” GECKS Central alumna, founded The versity of Oklahoma, 1922-52. years at Central as an athlete, wrote Central’s fight song in Weekly Reader, a weekly edu- (BSEd coach and athletic director. ALBERTA EDDENS 1934 and served as the direc- cational news publication for JOHN DAVIS, a professor of ‘60), one of the first African- He earned 12 varsity letters, tor of the school’s band from GARY HOWARD, 34-year children. It was first published physics and chemistry known American undergraduate lettering four straight years in 1932-33. football coach at Central, in September 1928. The publi- as the “Wizard of Central,” students at Central, enrolled football, basketball and track began in 1968 as defensive cation merged with Scholastic in 2012 and also taught the first photog- in 1955. while earning All-Conference honors on coordinator and became head continues to serve schoolchildren 87 years raphy classes at Central. He the gridiron and winning conference titles GARLAND GODFREY was coach in 1978. Howard led after its first issue. left behind a collection of the 16th president of Central, in the 220- and 440-yard dash. Hamilton the Bronchos to a 1982 NAIA , the eighth photographs documenting Central’s early CHARLES EVANS serving from 1960-75. He di- Field House is named in his honor. National Championship. After transition- EDNA JONES served as history. president of Central (1911-16), secretary of Central’s Alumni rected expansions in academic , a ing from the NAIA to the NCAA Division II, oversaw the construction of LUCY JESTON HAMPTON Association and is the author GRACE ETHEL DERRICK programming and physical professor of history from 1910- his squads won the Lone Star Conference Evans Hall and the Old North of Sixty Years at Central: Facts served as head of the Depart- facilities as the student popula- 58, founded Central’s Labora- title in 1998 with an undefeated season fol- clock installation. and Figures of Service and ment of Biology for more than tion grew from 4,000 to more than 12,000. tory of Original Evidence and lowed by another conference champion- Friendship Through the Years, 30 years. Dozens of new structures, additions, reno- served as the school’s first ship in 1999. He is now an assistant profes- 1891–1951. vations, programs and degrees sprouted archivist. sor of Kinesiology and Health Studies. during his tenure.

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ADDIE LEE JORDAN was JUDY LOVE (MS ‘83) is the DOROTHEA MEAGHER was Gov. GEORGE NIGH, the WILLIAM J. RADKE, Ph.D., KATRINA SHAKLEE co- one of the first African-Amer- co-founder of Love’s Travel the chair of Central’s Depart- 18th president of Central joined Central’s faculty as a founded the Endeavor Games ican graduate students at Stops & Country Stores and ment of Mathematics from (1992-97), served as the gov- professor in 1975 and served at UCO in 2000 and support- Central. She enrolled in 1954 chair of the Love Family Fund. 1952-70 and dean of women ernor of Oklahoma from 1979- in a variety of roles including ed the initiative to make UCO to pursue a master’s degree in for 12 years. 87. He doubled the size of eight years as provost. He a U.S. Olympic and Paralym- Teaching. UCO’s campus and the Nigh spearheaded Central’s com- pic training site. (BA ‘58) served as University Center is named in his honor. mitment to transformative learning and (BSEd SANDRA MACKEY JOHN L. MITCH BENJAMIN KATES was an award-winning jour- secretary-treasurer of the Nor- undergraduate research and helped create SUZANNE SILVESTER ‘73) is the co-founder of Okla- nalist and author on Middle mal School Board of Regents FRANCIS CORAM OAKES, the Centre for Global Competency. donated the Melton Legacy homa City-based Midwest Eastern culture and politics. from 1892-1900. Edmond’s acting president of Central Collection to UCO’s College Wrecking Co. He and his wife Her 2002 book, The Reckon- Mitch Park is named in his in the summer of 1918, was GUY MALEAR RANKIN, a of Fine Arts and Design. Peggy were named as Cen- ing — Iraq and the Legacy of honor. a professor of English and faculty member from 1924-41, tral’s 2014 Family of the Year. Saddam Hussein, became required read- taught at Central for five helped lead the fundraiser dedicated decades. He served as head for Central’s field house and served as ing for many military officers. MARY MONFORT JOHN KESSLER 30 years of service to Central’s of the Department of English and the De- stadium, assisted in establish- JOHN WENDELL SIMMONS president of Central’s Alumni was a sports announcer for Master’s of Education in Read- partment of Foreign Language, editor of ing the campus radio station, Association from 1941-47 LUTHER WHITFIELD MARKS Central and chairman of the established Central’s De- ing program and served as The Vista and organized the school’s first served as the university’s representative to and as Edmond’s mayor from III school’s 50th anniversary partment of Physics in 1955. the program coordinator. athletic department. the Oklahoma Higher Education Alumni 1951-55. He established the Council and was a founder of the Edmond celebration. John Kessler Spirit Award for CLIFF OTTO served as head YMCA and the Edmond library. the university. EDMUND D. MURDAUGH, of the Department of Science COLEMAN SMITH, profes- for 15 years. Otto was an act- was a , fourth president of the Territo- JESSIE NEWBY RAY sor of Music at Central for 26 MINNIE MORTON KIBBY LARESSA COX McBURNEY ing president (1935) of Central professor of foreign languag- one of the original staff rial Normal School (1895- years, organized the Men’s was the first Territorial Normal for two months after President es from 1930-56 and chair of members of The Vista, gave 1901), was the coach of the Glee Club, the Old North School student to become a Malcom A. Beeson stepped the Latin Department. She the campus newspaper its baseball team, initiated the Belles Sextet and the Central teacher at a schoolhouse. down. led the fundraising effort for name. She became an award- school’s first summer term, Tunesmiths, a song and dance Central’s Y-Chapel of Song. winning author and poet. hired Normal’s first librarian and instituted troupe. He taught undergraduate and the first formal banquet in 1899. RONALD PADDACK was the graduate courses including vocal music founder and former director MILTON REYNOLDS, (BA ‘42, (BS ‘79) is methods, choral arranging and conduct- KATHRYN KUNC JONI McCLAIN of Central’s Office of Interna- founder and editor of The Ed- DAA ‘91) was a Central profes- the deputy chief medical SAUNDRA GRAGG NAIFEH ing, and choir. (BA ‘72, DAA ‘95) was the first tional Student Services. mond Sun, was an advocate sor of Art for 34 years, joining examiner at the Southwestern female mayor of Edmond. for Edmond as the site of the is the founder the faculty in 1952 and later Institute of Forensic Sciences TROY SMITH She’s now executive counsel Territorial Normal School. of Sonic Corporation. He gave becoming department chair. in Dallas. She serves as a for FKG Consulting, the state’s Central its largest unrestricted She was Central’s Teacher registered death investigator (BSEd largest public affairs firm. VIRGINIA PETERS gift in history. of the Year in 1967, Outstanding Faculty and maintains a record of scholarship with ‘57, DAA ‘80) was a standout CHAD RICHISON (BA ‘94) Woman in 1974 and 1980, and president of more than a dozen publications in peer- athlete at Central prior to is the founder, president and the Alumni Association from 1982-83. She reviewed journals. OLIVIA NASH, one of the joining the faculty. She served CEO of Oklahoma City-based first African-American under- Paycom. In 2015, he donated was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher as director of the Women’s was was graduate students at Central, $10 million to Athletics, the C.H. SPEARMAN JR. Education Hall of Fame in 2002. AUBREY McCLENDON Athletic Program, a coach a member of the Oklahoma the CEO of American Energy enrolled in 1955. largest gift in UCO history. and as chair of the Kinesiology and Health House of Representatives for Partners. His support helped PAUL R. LEHMAN (BA ’69, Science Studies Department during her CHARLES RICHMOND six years and introduced the to create the CHK|Central MEd ‘71, DAA ‘06), Ph.D., 34-year career at Central. served as dean of men in the bills to transform Central State Boathouse and develop the was Central’s first African- (BS ‘62, DAA 1940s and as an adviser to College into Central State Boathouse District on the J. GAIL NEELY American professor. He joined ‘79), MD, FACS, is a surgeon EMMA WILLMENT Central’s Student Senate. University. Oklahoma River. the Central faculty in 1982 in and professor at the Washing- PLUNKETT, a 38-year the English department. He ton University School of Medi- member of Central’s faculty, MARILYN HARRIS SHARON McCOLLAM (BS became dean of the Graduate College in cine. He created Central’s served as the chair of the SPRINGER, an award-winning ‘85, DAA ‘14) is the chief (BS ‘77, MBA 1985. Neely Excellence in Teaching Department of Health and RANDALL ROSS and best-selling author, was administrative officer and ‘81, DAA ‘12) has been a UCO Award in 1999 to encourage excellent Women’s Physical Education. a Central artist-in-residence. was the 17th chief financial officer for Best Foundation Board member BILL LILLARD teaching and to honor his parents, El Roy Along with her sister Josephine, she She is a member of both the president of Central (1975- Buy Co. for nearly 30 years. He is the and Lucile Hawker Neely. donated $1 million to the university. Oklahoma Hall of Fame and 92). During his tenure, the Plunkett Park is named in both her and her mayor of Choctaw and a mem- the Oklahoma Writer’s Hall of Fame. university celebrated its ber of the Oklahoma Account- DONNA NIGH has been first sister’s honor. centennial, changed its name ing Hall of Fame. DALE McCONATHY (BA lady of both Central (1992-97) RANDALL L. STEPHENSON from Central State University was ‘59, DAA ‘69) was a critic, and the state of Oklahoma JOSEPHINE PLUNKETT Ed.D.,has (BS ‘84, DAA ‘09) has been to the University of Central Oklahoma and an alumna and an award- KAYE SEARS, writer, editor and educator. He (1979-87), while devoting her been a professor, mentor and chairman and chief execu- expanded the campus with several new winning mathematics teacher. donated the McConathy Col- life’s work to advocating for adviser at Central for 40 years, tive officer of AT&T Inc. since classroom buildings and degree programs. Along with her sister, Emma, lection to Central’s library and those with special needs. The winning the Vanderford Teach- 2007. He was inducted into the Oklahoma she donated $1 million to the was posthumously awarded Donna Nigh Department of Advanced ing Award in 2007. She is chair Higher Education Hall of Fame in 1994. university. Plunkett Park is the Centennial Broncho Award in 1990. Professional and Special Services is named of the department of Human named in both her and her sister’s honor. in her honor. Environmental Sciences.

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RICHARD THATCHER, a Civil AGNES WANTLAND, wife of MIAA’s 2014-15 Ken B. Jones Award for the Accounting from Central, he received his War drummer boy, was the then-football coach Charles male student-athlete of the year. ALUMNI NOTES 1980s master’s and doctorate from the University first principal and teacher of Wantland, named the UCO Greg Lower (BA ’80) joined The Chanute the Territorial Normal School Letterman’s Club the “Bron- EDGAR WAX was a math- of Oklahoma and has (1891-93). He created the chos,” giving Central its “H,” ematics professor and also 1950s Tribune in Chanute, Kansas, in November authored numerous school’s curriculum, taught its then the common spelling. head of Central’s Mathematics Gene Dougherty (BA ’58, DAA ’70) re- 2015, after 11 years with the Independence Department from 1920-48. articles in industry first classes and later served as Head of ceived the Governor’s Award from the Okla- Daily Reporter, also in Kansas. He gradu- Mathematics. CHARLES WANTLAND was publications. David homa Arts Council in December during the Central’s athletic director ated with a bachelor’s in Journalism from L. Kinney (BS ’80, ELIZABETH HILTON and first dean of men. He led , the 19th 40th Annual Governor’s Arts Awards. He Central. Richard Alltizer, Ph.D., (BS ’80) THREATT (MT ‘59) was one the school’s football team to W. ROGER WEBB BBA ’81) was named president of UCO (1997- was one of 12 individuals honored at the of the first African-American conference championships in has joined Arledge & Associates as tax direc- general counsel for graduate students at Central 1923, 1924 and 1929. 2011), oversaw great growth ceremony by Gov. Mary Fallin. tor. After graduating with his bachelor’s in the Oklahoma State and the first to graduate. She at Central, including the enrolled in 1954 to pursue a CLIFTON WARREN cre- opening of the Academy master’s in Teaching. ated Central’s Department of of Contemporary Music at 1960s Creative Studies and served UCO (ACM@UCO), the W. Roger Webb Gean B. Atkinson Oklahoma Rep. Cyndi Munson JOHN “SKIP” WAGNON as dean of the College of Forensic Science Institute, the UCO Jazz began as a Central student Liberal Arts and a professor of Lab, the UCO Wellness Center, a newly (BA ’67, MEd ’77, athletic trainer in the late English. He was inducted into renovated Wantland Stadium, the Center DAA ‘92) has been for Transformative Learning, as well as 1960s before becoming head the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of elected vice president athletic trainer in 1971. He Fame in 2001. the College of Fine Arts and Design, the became executive director UCO School of Music and the School of for the Friends of the of the Alumni Association in 1979, then in CHRIS WATSON (BA ‘15) Criminal Justice. Oklahoma History 1986 named athletic director and men’s holds the 2015 NCAA Division golf coach. Wagnon served 18 years as II 165-pound national cham- ELIZABETH WIEBE served Center. Currently golf coach, leading the Bronchos to eight pionship in wrestling. He is as chair of the Department of serving as president a three-time All-American, Nursing and oversaw the de- national tournaments. of Atkinson Advertising Associates, Atkin- the 2015 NCAA Division II velopment of Central’s nursing Wrestler of the Year and the winner of the curriculum. son is a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and is a com- missioner for the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. Honored Luminar- ies who attended the induction 1970s ceremony were, Saundra Naifeh (BA ’72, DAA ’95) now from left and clockwise, Gov. serves as executive counsel at FKG Consult- Cyndi Munson (BA ’08) became the first Asian-American female state representa- ing, a public affairs firm in Oklahoma City. and First Lady tive in Oklahoma history on Nov. 4, 2014. George and Donna She is the former mayor of Edmond. Glenna Nigh; UCO Presi- As a Democrat in a red state, Munson received nationwide attention for winning her dent Don Betz Mears (BSEd ’79) received an Honor Award greeting retired at the 88th Annual Oklahoma Association legislative seat, an uphill battle that included losing the first time she ran. In response Art professor and for Health, Physical Education, Recreation alumna Kathryn to that loss, Munson left her job as a leading organizer for the Girl Scouts of Western and Dance Convention in October 2015. Kunc, before her Oklahoma and founded a political action committee dedicated to funding female death in 2016; and She received her bachelor’s degree in Physi- honorees Saundra cal Education/Health from Central. David candidates. Five months after that first loss, Munson had the opportunity to run again Gragg Naifeh, Retired Maj. Gen. Koehn (BS ’79, MBA ’10), former assistant after the death of incumbent state Rep. David Dank. This time, she won. Rita Aragon and vice president for Administration at Central, During her time at Central, Munson was active in UCO’s American Democracy Proj- Chickasaw Gov. recently became the chief financial officer for Bill Anoatubby. ect and assisted in voter registration efforts on campus. She also is a member of Sig- St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, Okla- homa. After leaving UCO, Koehn served ma Kappa sorority. Since graduating, she has been a guest speaker at several campus as vice president for business and finance at events and served on the board of the UCO Alumni Association. Northeastern State University for five years While serving in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, she continues to work before accepting his new position. with the Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma as a strategy and compliance manager.

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Department of Education after serving 13 patient communication. He is currently Service Companies (AESC) for 2015-16. venture adviser and manager of the Seed- years as an assistant attorney general. He a law enforcement professional and agent A member of AESC since 2003, she has Step Angels, previously working as a bank received his bachelor’s degrees in Account- in charge of the Drug Diversion section of served on the Oilfield Trucking Commit- examiner in Kansas City, Missouri. Tookah ing and Business Administration from the Oklahoma Board of Narcotics. Dana tee, was the Oklahoma Chapter chairperson Sapper (BM ’14) Central. Berneta Haddox (BSEd ’82) Chambers (BSEd ’99) received an Honor and has been a member of the AESC board will join the Edmond received the Okla- Award at the 88th Annual Oklahoma Asso- of directors since 2007. Amanda Kashwer, Community Chorale homa Association for ciation for Health, Physical Education, Rec- Ph.D. (MEd ’06) has been named as faculty in April as a soloist Career and Tech- reation and Dance Convention in October at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, in Joseph Haydn’s nology Education 2015. She received her bachelor’s degree in Oklahoma. She received her master’s in “Theresienemesse” Lifetime Achieve- Physical Education/Health from Central. Education with emphasis in Kinesiology and Wolfgang ment Award last fall. from Central. Amadeus Mozart’s She has worked in 2000s “Vesperae Solennes de Confessore.” A cur- the Oklahoma Union Ann Dee McClane (BA ’04) has been 2010s rent member of the resident ensemble with School system for more than 25 years. Col. named director of marketing and client Daryn Buholt (BBA ’13) was hired at American Opera Projects and a graduate Chuck Booze (BA ’88, MA ’90) assumed relations at Spicer Rudstrom, a law firm in Schifferdecker Municipal Course as a golf student at Manhattan School of Music, command of the 189th Regiment in Janu- Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a bachelor’s pro in Joplin, Missouri. He earned his Class Sapper recently participated in “Sonic Blos- ary 2016. Booze received his commission degree in Public Relations from Central. A card from Central, one of 19 PGA- som,” an interactive performance by Lee from Central through the ROTC program, Joyce Ryel (BS ’04, MEd ’06) was elected accredited schools in the country. Kevin Mingwei at the Metropolitan Museum of and most recently was chief of staff for the Price Lang Scholarship president of the Association of Energy Moore (MBA ’14) joined i2E Inc. as a Art in New York City. Joint State Taskforce with the Oklahoma Army National Guard. Carla Manning Price Lang Consulting, an Edmond-based public relations firm created by two Cen- (BBA ’88) has been named Payne County tral graduates, has created a scholarship in honor of the company’s fifth anniversary. Artist Jason Pawley treasurer. Formerly involved with the Cush- The company’s founders, Charlie Price (BA ’95) and Emily Lang (BA ‘01), launched Jason Pawley has made his mark ing Chamber of Commerce and the Payne the strategic communications and public relations firm in 2011. They offer internal and — literally — across the Oklahoma City County Election Board, Manning received her Business degree from Central. external communications services. metro area. Pawley is the artist respon- The Price Lang Scholarship for Communications Excellence, in partnership with the sible for the creation and execution of a 1990s UCO Foundation, will award one $500 scholarship each semester to a junior or senior number of murals throughout Oklahoma LaShawn Thompson (BA ’93) now serves City, including in the 16th Street Plaza as Oklahoma City’s municipal courts ad- level student in the Mass Communication department for the next five years. ministrator. She earned a bachelor’s degree District, at VZD’s Restaurant & Bar on in Criminal Justice from Central. Brian Author, Consultant Oraynab Jwayyed North Western Avenue and on the walls Veazey (BA ’95) is leading risk management Oraynab Jwayyed (BS ‘07, MBA ‘09) consultant and founder of Tall Hill Creative Art Gallery. seminars educating Oklahoma physicians In an interview with the Oklahoma Ga- on opioid prescribing, diagnostic error and of Business Interludes LLC, was studying for her MBA at Central when she found inspiration for her best-selling book, Starting zette, Pawley credited UCO as the place Katie Saylor writes Alumni Over: A Practical Guide for Women After a Money Crisis. where he learned about consistency, col- Notes and In Memory. She is a Meant to empower women who feel financially insecure fol- or theory and how things flow together. marketing assistant for UCO’s One of his most recent pieces, “Cul- Office of University Relations. lowing a life-altering event like divorce, the book offers practical Please send notes to UCO, advice for women who want to take control of their finances. It is tivation,” can be found under the Brick- One of artist Jason Pawley’s more elaborate murals can be found at the Bricktown underpass in Oklahoma City at E.K. Gaylord and Reno. University Relations, 100 N. University, Box available for digital download on Amazon for $2.99. town underpass at E.K. Gaylord Boule- 201, Edmond, OK 73034, or email univrel@ For more information about Jwayyed, her book and Business Interludes LLC, visit vard and Reno Avenue in Oklahoma City. project to date and was finished after terrupted only by curious passersby who uco.edu with “Alumni Note” in the subject line. businessinterludes.com. That mural is Pawley’s largest public art three weeks of 10-16 hour workdays, in- stopped to ask questions.

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business and eventually retired from Traffic (MBA ’75) died Sept. 23, 2015. He retired Novelist Connie Poole-Wesala IN MEMORY and Lighting in 2010. Jerry Lee Geyer as a major from the U.S. Air Force, later Connie Poole-Wesala (BA ’67) has written her debut 1950s (BSEd ’67) died Oct. working as a federal employee at Kelly Air novel, The House on 4th Street. The book is based on Aurilla Reeder (BS ’54) died Nov. 4, 2015. 16, 2015. He received Force Base before becoming vice president at his bachelor’s degree TEAM Integrated Engineering Inc. He was a home she owned while residing in Edmond. The A longtime resident of Chandler, Oklahoma, she worked in the public school system for from Central in 1967 active in his church and volunteered in his story follows 39-year-old Karen Johnston returning several years, teaching business education and was a resident of community. L. Myles Smith (BS ’77) died to her childhood home and discovering a trunk and later working as a guidance counselor. Bristow, Oklahoma, October 5, 2015. Upon graduating from filled with historical items and journals, chronicling She was honored as Lincoln County Teacher at the time of his Central in 1977, he opened his own firm, L. death. Myles Smith & Co. PC in 1978. Helen O. events like World War II, the Oklahoma Land Run, of the Year, president of Lincoln County Teachers and a recipient of the UCO Alumni Bindseil (MEd ’79) died Oct. 17, 2015. A the Vietnam War and more. Association’s “Central Family of the Year” 1970 resident of Lawton, Oklahoma, at the time Poole-Wesala, a retired educator, is a member of Sigma award. Sue Toll (BSEd ’55) died Oct. 6, Mary “Jerry” Rupert (BA ’70) died Sept. of her death, she received her master’s in Sasha Ferguson Kappa sorority at Central. She is a native of Enid, Oklahoma, and currently resides in 2015. She was an avid traveler, needlepointer 24, 2015. She worked in the Army as a cadet Secondary and Vocational Education from and reader. After graduating from Central, nurse during World War II before marry- Central, graduating summa cum laude. Sasha Ferguson (MS ’12) recently be- Gilbert, Arizona. she was a teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before ing her husband in June 1947. She worked For more information about Poole-Wesala and her books, visit conniewesala.com. came head athletic trainer at the College tutoring underprivileged students in Chi- as a school nurse in Oklahoma City while 1980s of the Bahamas, soon to be the Univer- cago. Harlis Wayne raising six children, graduating from Central Tony Williams (BA ’84) died Oct. 23, 2015. in 1970 with a degree in English Literature. Receiving his bachelor’s in Journalism from sity of the Bahamas. Police Chief Steven Cox Merryman (BA ’56, MT ’60) died Oct. Willard C. Pitts (MEd ’70) died Oct. 17, Central, he was elected outstanding journal- She is responsible for the prevention, Steven Cox (BA ’13) has been named police chief of the 8, 2015, in Talihina, 2015. A longtime educator, he was one of the ism graduate by the Society of Professional treatment and rehabilitation of injuries for Nichols Hills Police Department. Oklahoma. He was a first African American professors at Central, Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. An editor-in- helping create the first certified journalism chief for The Vista, Central’s student newspa- all the college’s student athletes with men While Cox was enrolled in a UCO administration of crimi- high school principal and basketball coach education degree-granting program in Okla- per, Williams later served as a reporter, radio and women’s teams for basketball, soccer, nal justice course in 1998, adjunct faculty instructor and then- for 34 years, and was homa. Pitts supported many professional personality and speechwriter. Marilyn Marie volleyball, and field and track. Nichols Hills Police Chief Richard Mask encouraged Cox to ap- inducted in the Oklahoma Basketball Hall and civic organizations throughout his life, Sellars (MEd ’86) died Aug. 13, 2015. After Last summer, Ferguson served as the ply for an open patrol officer position in Nichols Hills. Cox has of Fame and the National Basketball Hall of including the Oklahoma Association of Jour- graduating from Central with a master’s nalism Directors, Oklahoma City Council of in Vocational Education, she taught busi- athletic trainer for the Bahamas Women’s been with the department since, serving as a deputy chief for four years before being Fame. He retired in 1990. Jerry Wisdom (BSEd ’57) died Aug. 21, 2015. After serving Teachers of English and Oklahoma School ness classes in various school districts before National Basketball Team. The team won sworn in as police chief on Jan. 12 following Chief Mask’s retirement. in the Navy, he worked for a pharmaceutical Public Relations Association. Ronnie Lee becoming an administrative assistant in the Leaving school to work as a police officer full time and raise a family, Cox credits a gold medal in Tortola, British Virgin Is- company. Eisenhour (BS ’72) died Nov. 9, 2015. He Department of Human Services. Scott Miles lands. his family and Chief Mask for his return to Central, graduating with a bachelor’s in served as mayor of Blanchard, Oklahoma, (BBA ’87) died July 8, 2015. He enjoyed for eight years, a volunteer firefighter for 30 golfing, spending time with friends and fam- Sasha graduated from Central with a General Studies in 2013. Cox works with another Central alumnus, Casey Nix (BA ‘04, 1960s Naomi J. Horn years, and was owner and director of Eisen- ily in Edmond and his dog, Maddi. David master’s in Athletic Training. In May 2012, MA ‘12), who recently was promoted to deputy chief. Cox’s wife Kristin (BS ‘15) is also Capshaw (BSEd ’60) hour Funeral Home. Robert Bohuslavicky Hestand (BS ’87) died July 6, 2015. He was she became board certified through the a UCO graduate, although the two met when she worked for Nichols Hills police. died Oct. 7, 2015. (BS ’72) died Jan. 3, 2016. A member of a longtime resident of Oklahoma, served in National Athletic Trainers’ Association. She was a longtime the U.S. Army for two years, he obtained the U.S. Army during the Korean War and Old North (USPS 098-220) is published twice a year by the University of Central his bachelor’s in Accounting before starting opened a property management company Oklahoma, University Relations and the Alumni Association, 100 North University educator and retired While at Central as a graduate as- Old North Staff Drive, Edmond, OK 73034-5209. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Old North, Alumni Association of the in 1999 from Dunbar his career at Tinker Air Force Base, retiring in Elk City. He is survived by his wife of 62 UCO President Don Betz University of Central Oklahoma, 100 North University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034- sistant, she worked with the men’s bas- 5209. Periodicals postage paid at Edmond (ISSN number 1063-6447). as the deputy of finance at Fort Sill Army years, Pat. Kenneth Aaron Simmons (MEd Vice President, University Relations In compliance with Title VI and Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, High School in Fort Executive Order 11246 as amended, Title IX of The Education Amendments of ketball and football teams as well as Charles Johnson 1972, Sections 503 and 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Worth. Jeffery Little- Base. Reuben Ray “Pete” Riley (BSEd ’72) ’87) died Jan. 11, 2016. He was a certified Disabilities Act of 1990, The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, The Civil Editor Gypsy Hogan (BA ’74) Rights Act of 1991, and other Federal Laws and Regulations, University of Central field (BS ’66) died Oct. 15, 2015, of cancer. died Dec. 31, 2015, of cancer. After serving public accountant and worked as an auditor the women’s volleyball team. She also Craig Beuchaw (BA ’92) Oklahoma does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, Art Director age, religion, handicap, disability, status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices in the Navy during the Vietnam War, he for the IRS before retiring as a director of Daniel Smith or procedures; this includes but is not limited to admissions, employment, financial After graduating with a degree in Accounting worked with the U.S. Olympic men and Photographic Services aid, and educational services. (BA ’77, MEd ’93) This publication, printed by Southwestern Stationery, Oklahoma City, OK, is is- attended Central and received his degree in Allegiance Credit Union. sued by University of Central Oklahoma as authorized by Title 70 OS 1981, Section from Central, he worked as a civilian auditor Wendy Lackmeyer 3903. 5,800 copies have been prepared or distributed at a cost of $5,294. 3/2016 women’s rowing teams. Alumni Records for the Air Force, had a private accounting Safety Education. Robert Rosas Castorena

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1990s Kathryn Kerr Kunc James Edward Glaze (MEd ’91) died Sept. Kathryn Kerr Kunc (BA ’42, DAA ‘91) died Feb. 14, 2016. 3, 2015, of cancer. He coached basketball, She was proud of being a part of Central from the time she football and baseball, and taught civics, Oklahoma history and physical education began kindergarten classes in 1928 in Old North through classes in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He then being named an inaugural member of the UCO Luminary served as director of federal programs and Society in 2015. After finishing college at Central in 1942, assistant superintendent. He was named superintendent of Chickasha Public Schools she returned to campus 10 years later to teach. Later, in 2005, retiring after the 2013-14 school Kunc would serve as Art Department chair for 15 years, year. He was active in his church and the before retiring with 34 years as a professor of Art. After Chickasha community. Jana Sue Black (BS retirement, she continued to teach and be active on campus. She was honored as ’92) died Oct. 30, 2015. A longtime resident of Yukon, Oklahoma, she worked with the Central’s Teacher of the Year in 1967, named Outstanding Faculty Woman in 1974 and Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association 1980, and served as president of the alumni association from 1982-83. She was inducted for many years. Joselene Cabrera Chandler into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2002, and she was named a UCO (BBA ’92, MEd ’00) died Oct. 9, 2015. Distinguished Alumni in 1991. Her family requested memorials in her honor be made to Born in the Philippines, she graduated from Central in 1992, returning to graduate with the UCO Foundation and earmarked for the Old North Restoration Project. her master’s in 2000. She was a school coun- selor and active in the McLoud community. Nikita Prabhakar Nakal 2000s Nikita Prabhakar Nakal was pursuing her Master of Jennifer McLaughlin (BA ’00) died Jan. Business Administration at UCO when she died after 16, 2016. She served as the director of being hit by a car at the Oklahoma State University (OSU) professional development at the Oklahoma Guests attending the UCO@125 Gala homecoming parade on Oct. 24, 2015, in Stillwater. She Coalition Against Domestic Violence ended the evening with fireworks viewed was one of four victims. Nakal earned her Bachelor of and Sexual Assault, was a member of the from the upper north terrace of the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Domestic Commerce degree from Mumbai University in Mumbai, Nigh University Center. The event was Violence Fatality Review Board, and was a India, and was pursuing a degree to be a financial trainer and mentor at the Oklahoma Victim the finale of the university’s year-long analyst. Professors remember Nakal as a student who Assistance Academy. She received the Gene celebration of its founding in 1890. McBride Community Service Award and loved to smile. Donna Carlon, Ph.D., one of Nakal’s professors in UCO’s College of a Governor’s commendation for her work Business, said Nakal had a smile that would “light up your day.” Nakal’s passion for Staff Photo by Lauren Bieri with sexual assault victims. learning went beyond the classroom — Carlon added that Nakal wanted to immerse Former Faculty herself in the culture of Oklahoma and the U.S. and learn as much as she could about Nancy Jane Hellwege died Dec. 16, 2015. A her new home. Two memorial services were held for Nakal in October on Central’s teacher and director at the Childhood Devel- campus. An additional service was hosted by OSU’s Indian Student Association in opment Center in Edmond, Hellwege was a Stillwater. Following Nakal’s death, the UCO College of Business established a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction from 1991-98. Charles Alex- scholarship in her honor through the UCO Foundation. It is reserved for students ander Simmons Jr. (BA ’80, MEd ’81) died pursuing an MBA at UCO and will be open for application in fall 2016, with preference Nov. 5, 2015. A professor of Mass Commu- given to international students. For more information or to donate to the fund, visit nication at Central, he retired in 2007. centralconnection.org/NakalFund.

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