DEPAUW MAGAZINE NEW TRADITIONS AT DEPAUW SUMMER 2008 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 2008 COMMENCEMENT and ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND Community Leadership Award Recipients ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: DEPAUW DISCOURSE, OLD GOLD WEEKEND and MONON BELL PREVIEWS NEW COPYD COME TO A message from President Brian W. Casey EDITOR’S NOTE: Brian W. Casey became DePauw’s 19th The DePauws are where students know each other, president on July 1, 2008. His inauguration will be cel- where faculty members know the students, and where ebrated on Friday, Oct. 10, during Old Gold Weekend. students work in smaller classrooms and laboratories built just for them. Here they encounter timeless questions and One of the great joys of becoming DePauw University’s explore ageless subjects. president has been meeting DePauw alumni. From the We are challenged to maintain this. The way DePauw moment the presidential search committee completed its teaches and organizes students is expensive, labor intensive work in the spring and since I officially began my duties and often tough to explain to the world. DePauw, however, (Photo: Alex Turco ’10) (Photo: Alex Turco July 1, hundreds of DePauw alumni have welcomed me has stayed this difficult course. and wished me well. These greetings have been both embracing and energizing. Finally, I have come to understand and appreciate the DePauw I have been doing a great deal of listening and learning about the F“type.” DePauw is one of those rare places that attracts and educates University since the search process began, and I want to offer you a students who have multiple talents. The classic DePauw student was sense of DePauw that I gained during the last few months. As I told not just at the top of the high school class, but was likely a valedictorian alumni during Alumni Reunion Weekend in June, it is time for me to who was also a team captain, student body president or community share with you what I now know about DePauw as well as some early service leader. DePauw students are social and welcoming, open to each thoughts on what I see for us moving forward. other and to the world. Because of this, Greek chapters have thrived here. DePauw students have a sense of joy for life and curiosity about First – and as a historian, this is important to me – DePauw is a themselves, each other and the world. Fplace with a deep sense of its own past. For nearly 175 years, DePauw I assure you, as I begin my service at DePauw, that I will continue has been an important part of the landscape of American higher to ask whether we are doing all we can to make the strongest possible education. The walls on the first floor ofE ast College are filled with DePauw. No institution stays at the same level for long; colleges and portraits of past presidents, board chairmen, faculty members and universities are dynamic communities that do not arrive at a place with deans. You can feel DePauw’s history in that building. I welcome that: a certain reputation and stay there. All are either improving themselves The past informs us, enriches us and offers perspective. It is a source – striving to be more dynamic, more rich, more challenging – or are of wisdom. DePauw can and should draw on its long past and great becoming less so. DePauw’s trustees have asked me to lead us on the traditions. first path. Perhaps this is the most important thing I can say to alumni: I ask Second, this is an institution that embraces and defends the idea you to choose that for DePauw as well. Together, we must continue to Sof a liberal arts education. This is a tough challenge. Of approximately strengthen DePauw and provide students with an even more meaningful 4,000 institutions of higher education in this country, only about and life-changing experience. 200 are true residential liberal arts colleges. I am here to tell you that So please continue to send me your thoughts. Gather as groups of these institutions committed to a liberal arts education are vital to alumni. Talk about what we can and should be. In the coming months, this nation. I will visit as many alumni groups as I can to listen to you and ask you I came to DePauw from Harvard, another great university. My questions. I will demand much from me and you to ensure DePauw’s experience there serves as a constant reminder that despite Harvard’s rightful place among the truly great colleges and universities. and Northwestern’s and Stanford’s billions of endowment dollars, large numbers of faculty members and impressive science facilities, their approach is not the only way. It is the DePauws that provide that first Brian W. Casey intense learning community for college students and an education President grounded in the notion of the liberal arts. DEPAUW MAGAZINE CONTENTS SUMMER 2008 • VolUME 72 • No. 1 STAFF ON THE COVER: DEPAUW Larry G. Anderson, editor University Marshal Mary P. Dixon, professor MAGAZINE Dian D. Phillips, art director-designer, director of publications Donna Grooms, class notes editor of economics and management, and Assistant Kelly A. Graves, designer, assistant director of publications University Marshal Frederick M. Soster, Ernest NEW TRADITIONS Richard Fields, University photographer AT DEPAUW Larry G. Ligget, editorial assistant R. Smith Professor of Geosciences and professor Jennifer Clarkson Soster ’88, executive director of alumni relations of geosciences, led this fall’s incoming new stu- Lisa Hollander, vice president for development and alumni relations dents through a receiving line of cheering faculty SUMMER 2008 DePauw Alumni Association Officers INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 2008 COMMENCEMENT and members on the way to the opening convocation ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND Lisa Henderson Bennett ’93, president Community Leadership Award Recipients ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Janet L. Johns ’85, vice president DEPAUW DISCOURSE, on Saturday, Aug. 23, in Kresge Auditorium OLD GOLD WEEKEND and Stephen N. Combs ’87, secretary MONON BELL PREVIEWS of the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the DEPAUW ContactS Performing Arts. Six hundred and twenty-five Admission new students joined the DePauw community Stefanie D. Niles, vice president for admission and financial aid 765-658-4108 this fall. See story on page 8. [email protected] Alumni Relations Jennifer Clarkson Soster ’88, executive director 765-658-4208 NEWS OF THE UNIVERSITY [email protected] 2 Annual Fund John R. Kuka, director Graduates told to engage each other and the world. Honorary degree recipients cite 765-658-4211 [email protected] DePauw’s impact on their lives. Inauguration scheduled Oct. 10 for Brian W. Casey. Athletics S. Page Cotton Jr. ’71, director Entering class includes the largest-ever number of international students. Professor 765-658-4938 [email protected] of Music Stanley Irwin dies following auto accident. DePauw Discourse 2008: Career Services Center Thomas R. Cath ’76, director America’s Role in the World. Cultural anthropologist to serve as Nancy Schaenen 765-658-4280 [email protected] Visiting Scholar. 2008 Faculty Recognition Awards. News briefs. Faculty briefs. Class Notes Donna Grooms 765-658-4625 (fax) [email protected] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DePauw Magazine Larry G. Anderson, editor 15 P.O. Box 37 Russell Compton’s inspiration. More about Raymond Pence. Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 765-658-4628 765-658-4625 (fax) [email protected] www.depauw.edu/pa/magazine RECENT WORDS Development and Alumni Relations 16 Lisa Hollander, vice president Baughman ’48. Csicsery-Ronay. Dickerson. Gifford ’71. Jones ’83. Kuecker. Mer- 765-658-4036 [email protected] back. Schmidt ’90. Savage-Smith ’62. Sheridan ’59. Spears ’78. Wann ’71. Financial Aid Joanne Haymaker, associate director 765-658-4030 ALUMNI PROGRAMS [email protected] 19 Media Relations Ken Owen ’82, executive director Greetings from the Alumni Association and Bartlett Alumni House. 2008 Com- 765-658-4634 [email protected] munity Leadership Award recipients. Alumni Reunion Weekend 2008 photos. Registrar’s Office (transcripts) Kenneth J. Kirkpatrick, registrar Regional alumni event photos. Alumni Bike Race. Alumni represent DePauw at 765-658-4000 [email protected] college fairs. Monon Bell telecast parties. New Alumni Gateway. Sports Information Bill Wagner, director 765-658-4630 CLASS NOTES Hotline (scores) 765-658-4636 33 [email protected] www.depauw.edu/ath/ DEPAUW PROFILE Web site Jason C. Shore 765-658-4533 Her DePauw experience has defined the life and career of Joyce Foster [email protected] www.depauw.edu Larson ’53 Printed by Mignone Communications Inc., Huntington, Ind. www.depauw.edu/pa/magazine News of the University DePauw’s 169th commencement Graduates told to engage each other and the world Speakers at DePauw’s 169th commencement urged 598 graduating students to continue to engage each other and the world. In her address on the East College lawn on Sunday, May 18, Deborah Bial, founder and Spresident of the Posse Foundation, challenged the graduates to continue “working together, listening to one another, debating like you’ve done in class at DePauw. Learning from each other, and collaborating to make the best possible future for us all. The most powerful forms of leadership are those that bring voices together, hearts together, minds together and then most importantly actions together for the greater good. If we care about each other’s causes, and pool our resources; if we care about each other’s problems, we have much more chance to build greater prosperity for all.” “You are about to walk “What will you do as a collective?” Bial asked the graduates. “What will motivate you to do across this stage and into good things? How will you care? Did you ever have a moment when your whole heart went out the world.