The Magazine of Wittenberg University Summer 2011

Breaking a Silence on Domestic Violence Wittenberg Magazine is published three times a year by Wittenberg University, Office of University Communications.

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18 Distinguished Teacher Rob Baker, professor of political science, wins top faculty prize.

20 GA2ME On New scholar-athlete-focused program redefines Division III athletics.

22 Breaking a Silence Alumnae turn domestic violence tragedy into action.

Departments 4 From the President 5 Around Myers Hollow 12 Campus Notes 14 Education 15 Witt World 16 Tiger Sports 26 Alumni World 47 Calendar of Events 48 Reflections

Calm after the storm Photo by Erin Pence ’04

summer 2011 3 improvement throughout Erickson’s tenure and now outperform all of Wittenberg’s peer comparison groups. Erickson also initiated a new program around myers that engages more than 100 faculty and aroundmyershollow hollow staff annually to assist new students aroundmyershollow as they move into their residence halls on the first day of college. A “student- focused” president, Erickson lived in a student residence for several days after arriving at Wittenberg, and Princeton Review has described him as an “engaged President Mark Erickson president” in its annual publication. Undergraduate Student Recruitment: This year, applications to Wittenberg To Step Down In 2012 topped more than 6,100, the highest number in Wittenberg’s history. As a Dr. Mark H. Erickson, president of Wittenberg University result, the incoming class looks to be since 2005, has announced that he plans to step down one of the largest and strongest classes in at the conclusion of his seventh year. recent memory with greater geographic diversity and academic quality. Last “ ne of the greatest challenges and in the country. Under his leadership, year, the university enrolled its largest O opportunities a president and the faculty this year ranked #1 in the incoming class of African American Board of Directors must face is knowing nation in the liberal arts category for students, and it appears on track to when to pass the baton of leadership,” most Fulbright Fellows, and ranked match that number again this year. Erickson said. “After a great deal of #11 in the country for Best Classroom New admission initiatives also launched contemplation and discussions with Experience and #15 for Faculty Get under Erickson’s leadership included trusted and thoughtful members of the High Marks by the Princeton Review. an enhanced focus on transfer students, campus community, I believe that time Physics Professor Dan Fleisch was also international recruitment, and the has come. By making this announcement named the 2010 Ohio Professor of the addition of admission counselors in the now, the Board of Directors has Year. President Erickson often reminds Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. appropriate time to conduct a national visitors that Wittenberg has won more Campus Enhancements & Restoration: search for the next president, and we “Ohio Professors of the Year” awards than The campus also received a major “face can ensure that the current momentum any other four-year college in the state. lift” during the Erickson era. In addition at Wittenberg continues.” Numerous innovative and inter- to razing South and Hanley Halls, and “Mark Erickson has brought disciplinary academic programs were building New Hall, Wittenberg also outstanding leadership, strategic vision, also established during Erickson’s acquired the Springfield Museum of unbridled energy and impeccable tenure, including a new entrepreneurship Art facility near campus, renovated Blair integrity to the role of president,” said program that features student-run Hall, Recitation Hall, Commencement Steve Buchenroth ’70, chair of the businesses, a Mellon/U.S. Department Hollow and the Student Center, Wittenberg Board of Directors. “His of State-funded Languages Across the enhanced technology and added a new passion for Wittenberg and commitment Curriculum initiative, a Screenwriters boiler plant. to our mission is unwavering. Simply put, Institute, an East Asian Institute, new Regional Partnerships: Erickson is Wittenberg is a much better place today majors in international relations and credited with creating a strong bond than it was six years ago when Mark financial economics, and minors in between Wittenberg and the City of arrived. We have been blessed to have sports management and neuroscience to Springfield, Clark County and the someone of Mark’s caliber and ability name a few. An investment fund was also regional business community. On lead Wittenberg.” created to seed programs and activities the Board for both the Springfield During Erickson’s tenure, Wittenberg that flow from Wittenberg’s strategic Chamber of Commerce and the Dayton has made significant progress in many plan including several mentioned above. Development Coalition, Erickson areas, including: Student Life: Wittenberg’s scores has created a vision that blurs the line Academics: A tireless cheerleader on the National Survey of Student between Wittenberg and the community, for the Wittenberg faculty, Erickson Engagement (NSSE), which measure engaging students and faculty in the has often stated that he would put the student engagement and satisfaction, community, and inviting the community Wittenberg faculty up against any faculty have made steady and significant to partner with Wittenberg. He has also

4 Wittenberg Magazine worked tirelessly with state and federal governments to make the region a better place to live, work and learn, all the while strengthening the university and spurring regional economic development. The development of Wittenberg’s Center for Civic & Urban Engagement is the most visible manifestation of the university’s commitment to community service, civic engagement and economic partnership with the local and regional community. In recognition of his service, Erickson was named “Leader of the Year” this spring by Leadership Clark County. ’04

Sustainability: Erickson has also been a strong e c e

supporter of Wittenberg’s sustainability efforts. During P i his tenure, Wittenberg dedicated Clark County’s first Ern LEED-certified building (Blair Hall), instituted a campus-wide recycling program, opened a farmer’s market and an Eco-House, and developed a strong Passing The Baton and vibrant grassroots Green Wittenberg program. He eing the president of Wittenberg has not been just a also established an investment fund to fuel sustainability job for me; it has been a calling. For the past six years, I initiatives proposed by faculty/student research B have thrown my heart and my soul into this position, and I teams with cost savings reinvested in future have loved every minute of it. I have felt so blessed to work sustainability projects. This past fall, Erickson signed with you, our alumni and friends, our remarkable staff and the President’s Climate Commitment as a culmination of these efforts. faculty, and our extraordinary students who make me Alumni Outreach: During his tenure, Wittenberg’s proud every day. award-winning, nationally recognized “Witt Nation Together, we have accomplished much during the Tour” engaged or re-engaged thousands of alumni, last six years, and I look forward to working with you to and Wittenberg has raised more than $40M since accomplish even more in the year ahead. Please know that 2007, including two endowed chairs and significant I plan to approach my final year with all the same energy investments in the campus infrastructure. During the and enthusiasm I have brought to prior years. Wittenberg same timeframe, Wittenberg has also garnered more deserves nothing less. than $5.8M in government support. As I begin my final year and you commence the International Engagement: One of President Erickson’s search for my successor, Wittenberg’s 14th president, frequent refrains has always been: “Bring the World please remember the words I first stated in my inaugural to Wittenberg and Wittenberg to the World.” Under address in 2005, “Nothing but the best is good enough his leadership, the number of visiting Fulbright for Wittenberg.” This has been my mantra for the last six scholars, faculty Fulbrights and student Fulbrights all years, and it must continue to be yours, too, because our increased. Wittenberg also established the Wittenberg students deserve nothing less. in Wittenberg program and the East Asian Institute, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming partnered with the Springfield Rotary to expand its my family and me into the Wittenberg family. Please know service to orphans in Lesotho, developed several direct that this decision to step down was not one I came to easily. exchanges with foreign universities and broadened its Lin and I love Wittenberg, and this university will always Russian program to include Eurasia. Erickson also serves hold a special place in our hearts. We have been honored on the Board of IES Abroad, a preeminent study-abroad to work here. This is an amazing place, a place that truly organization. makes a difference in the lives of our students and in the Prior to Wittenberg, Erickson served as the vice larger world in which we live. president for administrative and government affairs at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and top adviser With my deepest gratitude and fond regards, to Lehigh’s president. Erickson earned his A.B. in American history from Princeton University, his Ed.M. from Harvard University and his Ed.D. in educational leadership from Lehigh University where he received the Matthew W. Gaffney Award for academic excellence. He also completed additional study in world religions and Mark H. Erickson pastoral care at Harvard Divinity School. n President

summer 2011 5 Duncan Named New University Provost Christopher M. Duncan, dean of the leading Wittenberg forward. I am truly ’04 e c n

e McAnulty College and Graduate School excited about welcoming Chris, his wife, P n i of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University, and three children to the Wittenberg Er Pittsburgh, Pa., has been named the new family, and confident that as our chief provost at Wittenberg. Duncan began academic officer, he will successfully his new responsibilities on July 1. guide Wittenberg’s strategic vision and As Wittenberg’s second highest- positively shape our collective future.” ranking official and its new chief A 1987 graduate of the University of academic officer, Duncan will provide Michigan, with a B.A. in philosophy intellectual vision and leadership for the and political science, Duncan went on entire academic program. to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in political “Chris’ commitment to Wittenberg’s science with a focus in political theory mission, his outstanding people skills, from Wayne State University. n strategic vision, and understanding of the liberal arts inspired all those who interviewed him,” said President Mark H. Erickson. “He is a wonderfully engaging person and will be a great partner in

Alumnus’ Annual Gift Supports Experiential Learning Recognizing the gift of a life-changing the promotion of health and the extension education he received from Wittenberg, of the influence of religion. Louis Meyer Brown ’01, from Chicago, “In my studies at Wittenberg, the Ill., has committed $100,000 over history and psychology departments 10 years in annual support for the had a meaningful impact on me and university’s psychology and history how I looked at the world,” Brown said. departments. “Both departments deserve praise for the Brown, vice president of wealth education and dedication they provide management at Morgan Stanley Smith to their students,” he continued. “I look Barney LLC in Chicago, worked with forward to seeing the departments and the his family’s foundation, the C. Louis university grow from the relationship with International Expertise Meyer Foundation, to provide the gift, the C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation.” Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence Program which will be split evenly between the The annual gift helps extend Connects Cultures two departments. Founded in 1946, opportunities for experiential learning for the foundation seeks to further public students in each department, including welfare through the relief of poverty and field trips, attendance at conferences and edicated to preparing students for suffering, the advancement of education, conference presentations. n Dglobal citizenship, Wittenberg regularly finds ways to bring the world to its campus, Distinguished Alumnus And Judge Visits Campus including inviting international professors into the classroom through its Fulbright Scholar-in- Judge William A. McClain ’34, one of the most Residence program. respected attorneys in the nation, returned to his alma Initiated by Keith Doubt, professor of mater, April 1, to visit with students in the McClain sociology and department chair, the program Black Culture House, renamed in his honor in 2004. recently welcomed Thea de Wet, head of the In addition to talking with students about their University of Johannesburg’s Department hometowns and how Concerned Black Students (CBS) of Anthropology and Development Studies. formed, McClain also encouraged those present. During her residency, de Wet taught an urban “He told us that we can accomplish anything if we anthropology class on India, Brazil and South really want it and try hard enough,” said Jumar Guy Africa, specifically focusing on the structure of ’11, former CBS president. “He was the first African three cities: Mumbai, India, Rio, Brazil, and ’04 e

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i in Medicine. An assistant professor of nuclear physics from Purdue. Ern Music Professor Performs At Carnegie Hall Sharing her love of music both in the classroom and on the stage, Assistant Professor of Music Jessica McCormack sets an example for her voice students as she performs throughout the United States, Canada and abroad, including a recent residency and performance at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. Invited to sing during the Festival Anniversary Chorus performance of the Berlioz Requiem at Carnegie Hall, McCormack also was in residence for a week prior in preparation for the performance. In addition, McCormack recently performed a recital as part of the Sanctuary Series at High Street Methodist Church, a guest artist performance at Central Michigan University, and on campus appearances with guest artists Elliot Figg, harpsichordist, and Alan August, tenor. She was also recently elected as the Secretary- Treasurer of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Ohio State Chapter. n

R estored Blair Hall Earns Gold Status Committed to reducing Wet explained, affected their organization, its energy consumption separating by race in Johannesburg and by by 20 percent by 2020, class in Rio and Mumbai. Wittenberg recently learned Prior to de Wet, the program welcomed that the newly restored Tseli Mapetla from Lesotho, who discussed Blair Hall, home to gender and cultural studies, and Nina Wittenberg’s nationally Vodopivec from Slovenia, whose primary recognized education research focuses on industrial workers in program, has earned the socialism and postsocialism, memory and Leadership in Energy & gender studies, organization of labor and Environmental Design intercultural communication. (LEED) Gold recognition. The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence An internationally known green building certification system developed by the U.S. Program is funded by the U.S. Department Green Building Council, LEED provides third-party verification that a building or of State and managed by the Council community was designed and built using green-focused strategies. Blair Hall is the of International Exchange of Scholars, a first LEED-certified building in Clark County. subsidiary of the New York-based Institute for “Receiving gold status clearly reflects our ongoing commitment to sustainability,” International Education. n said President Mark Erickson. “It also sets the standard for future capital projects on our campus.” n

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On May 14, 387 members of the class of 2011 celebrated their accomplishments and life-changing journeys during Wittenberg’s 166th Commencement Exercises. Three distinguished guests were also recognized with honorary degrees. They included keynote speaker Livestrong President and CEO Doug Ulman, philanthropist and board member emeritus Susan Hirt Hagen ’57, and local business leader and board member emeritus Fred R. Leventhal.

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Holl advancement at Wittenberg. Geiger even greater success in the future.” s r

e began his new duties July 1. With more than 15 years of external “I am humbled that Dr. Erickson, affairs experience, including campaign My the Board of Directors and the search management, fundraising, alumni und committee have chosen me to lead relations and executive management,

Aro Wittenberg in this important work,” Geiger oversaw all fundraising and Geiger said. “Building on the strong alumni relations efforts for Ohio State’s traditions and relationships between College of Arts & Sciences. Prior to the university and its alumni, friends Ohio State, Geiger served as the vice and the Springfield community is an president for development at the Florida Jim Geiger, senior director of awesome responsibility. I am eager to State University Foundation, before development and alumni relations at The begin partnering with the Wittenberg serving as vice president for institutional Ohio State University, has been named family to build an advancement program, advancement at Capital University. n the new vice president for university which will position the university for

Estate Gift Supports Scholarships As a public school teacher and principal, included a $300,000 gift to her alma Diane Thall Arthur ’59 devoted her mater. The gift will establish an endowed life to making a difference in children’s scholarship fund, says Rick Stenberg, lives. With her passion and enthusiasm executive director of planned giving. for drama, Arthur left her mark with col- “The impact of Diane’s generosity leagues and students in the theatre arena. will affect the futures of our students Following her passing in December, for years to come by providing the Arthur’s legacy will continue to make additional assistance needed to allow a difference for countless Wittenberg many students to acquire a Wittenberg students thanks to her estate, which education,” he said. n

First-Ever Chief Marketing Officer Named Service In El Salvador With more than 20 years of senior marketing communications ’04 e

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e leadership in both non-profit and corporate settings, Mark P Helping Others i Sullivan will now lead Wittenberg’s strategic marketing efforts Ern as the university’s first-ever chief marketing & communications officer. ourteen Wittenberg University students Sullivan, who began his new duties July 1, previously served Fheaded south, well beyond the sandy as the director of strategic marketing & communications at beaches of Florida, to spend spring break The Pingry School in Martinsville, N.J., an independent, K-12 helping to build a new community of homes co-educational, college preparatory day school founded in in El Salvador. The students, along with 1861. Prior to joining The Pingry School, Sullivan served as the two parent leaders and Matevia Endowed director of communications for the College of Saint Elizabeth University Pastor Rachel Tune, traveled with in Convent Station, N.J. Thrivent Builds Worldwide, a partnership of In addition to his higher education expertise, Sullivan also Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Habitat brings extensive corporate experience to the post, having served for Humanity International. The homes will as the senior global manager for marketing communications for the Agfa Division be part of the Getsemaní community in the of Bayer Pharmaceutical Corporation in Ridgefield Park, N.J. and with several district of Ahuachapán, which will ultimately advertising/public relations agencies. consist of approximately 100 earthquake- “With its long history of excellence, intellectual engagement, outstanding academics, resistant homes built by Habitat El Salvador. talented faculty and exceptional students, I look forward to being a part of the Thrivent has committed to build 15 homes Wittenberg community and to expanding its national and global reputation even in 2011. more,” Sullivan said. “It was a lot of physical labor, and we were In his new position, Sullivan will provide leadership for university-wide marketing, worn out at the end of every day,” said Mikaela including public relations and brand strategy, while also enhancing the university’s image Ruppert ’13 from Pierce, Neb. “But you felt in ways that are consistent with Wittenberg’s mission and strategic plan. n

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2012 on a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. ollo Pankhurst plans to extend his groundbreaking research on the growing engagement of the Russian Orthodox Church in European affairs and related issues w of religion and churches in European-Russian Federation relations while in Estonia. “It is a great opportunity for me, personally,” Pankhurst said. “Thanks to the Fulbright, I will have access to public records and persons directly involved in church and political affairs in Europe and Russia who will provide information for my research.” A noted author and recipient of several prestigious grants, Pankhurst will also teach in Estonia, the location for which will be determined later this summer. n

Progressive Computer Science Program Earns Praise After submitting what one National for sharing our work with colleagues Science Foundation review hailed nationwide and for learning more of their as a “dream proposal,” Wittenberg’s efforts. This means excellent national computer science program has received exposure of Wittenberg as a leader in more funding and recognition after computer science education.” being named an “Early Adopter” of the As part of the collaborative effort NSF/Technical Committee on Parallel between Brian Shelburne, associate pro- Processing (NSF/TCPP) Curriculum fessor of computer science, Kyle Burke, Initiative on Parallel and Distributed assistant professor of computer science, Computing. Eric Stahlberg with the National Cancer “This work ties together strongly Institute, and Melissa Smith with Clemson with our ongoing efforts in the NSF University, Bogaerts recently gave a Accelerators to Applications grant,” said presentation and shared a poster at the Steve Bogaerts, assistant professor of First NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel computer science. “As early adopters, and Distributed Computing Education we will have additional venues both in Anchorage, Alaska, in May. n

Best-Selling Author Headlines Koppenhaver Lecture really good about what you were doing to help these families.” Recipient of the 2007 Book Sense Book The trip was led by Bonnie and Joe Reilly, of the Year Award and numerous other parents of trip participant Sarah Reilly ’13 recognitions, Sara Gruen, author of Water from Dublin, Ohio. Bonnie and Joe had for Elephants, was the featured speaker at already taken three trips with Thrivent Builds the inaugural Dr. Allen J. Koppenhaver to El Salvador helping to build a similar Literary Lecture, April 7. The event, community in Santa Ana known as Villa presented through the support of the Esperanza. But they had never traveled with Ellen, Lloyd, Margaret, and Lanty Smith a group of college students. For them, it was Endowed Fund for Wittenberg, served as exciting to watch how the experience changed the final event of the 2010-11 Wittenberg the students. Series, and included a special reflection “The person that left to go on this trip is by Lanty Smith ’64 and a tribute video to not the same one that came back,” Joe said. Koppenhaver, a distinguished professor of “It was truly a privilege to take this group of English who passed away in 1993. outstanding young people,” added Bonnie Prior to her lecture, Gruen was awarded Reilly. “I have hope for humanity because of an honorary doctor of literature following ’04

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Choy Dawson Hinson Assistant Professor Professor of Health, Professor of English of Languages Fitness and Sport FACU

Associate Professors of Languages Tim Affairs’” at the Hong Kong University Mimi Dixon, professor of English, Bennett, Leanne Wierenga, Tim of Science and Technology. He also has completed a children’s novel titled Wilkerson, Fernando Blanco and presented a paper titled “Writing Breast Alexander’s Book. Ruth Hoff participated in the College Cancer: Therapeutic Narratives by Associate Professor of Art Scott Roundtable Discussion: “Creating Trans- Women Writers” at the joint conference Dooley exhibited his ceramic art in and-Interdisciplinary Foreign Language of the Association for Asian Studies & the following juried venues during and Cultural Literacy Options: A New International Convention of Asia Scholars. the spring semester: The Shoulders Approach to Foreign Languages Across In addition, his article, “Toward a Poetic We Stand On, Nancy Markoe Gallery, the Curriculum” at the Ohio Foreign Minimalism of Violence: On Tang St. Pete, Fla.; Fired, Manifest Gallery, Language Association Conference, April Shu-wing’s Titus Andronicus 2.0,” was Cincinnati, Ohio; Best Of 2011, Ohio 7-9, in Columbus, Ohio. published in the Asian Theatre Journal. Craft Museum (Postcard Award for For the last four years, as part of a Kristin Cline, professor of chemistry, Excellence), Columbus, Ohio, and Damn $5-million-dollar research grant at presented a poster at the Pittsburgh Right I Got the Blues, Mudfire Clayworks The Ohio State University, Kathryn Conference on Analytical Chemistry and and Gallery, Decatur, Ga. Calabrese, associate professor of Applied Spectroscopy titled “The Effect Trudy Faber, professor emeritus of music, education, has worked with OSU and of Glassy Carbon Surface Pretreatments gave a lecture/recital titled “Bach and the the Ohio Department of Education on the Electrografting and Spontaneous Dance” at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, to design and deliver professional Grafting of Aryl Groups” on March Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 18 with development to early childhood educators 14 in Atlanta, Ga. Kline’s co-authors assistance from Brad Hall ’05, who played across the state, including completing a were Raymond C. Dudek, assistant Minuet by Rameau. Faber also performed redesign of the Preschool Literacy CORE professor of chemistry, Christa Snyder ’11, a full recital on a Dobson organ at Lake Curriculum in 2008. The work has since Sarah Watson ’12 and Ashley Zkiab ’12. City Union Church in Lake City, June 19, led to a new design that incorporates Steve Dawson, professor of health, fitness where Sylvia Fogart Streufert ’81 assisted information on English language and sport, and head men’s soccer coach, with the organ registrations. learners and children with special needs. coached the Team Ohio FC U-17 and The new title, “Intentional Teaching: Associate Professors of Physics Elizabeth U-18 soccer teams to the Ohio South Youth Language & Literacy Development for George and Paul Voytas, along with Soccer Association State Championship. All Young Children,” will begin statewide colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Both teams represented Ohio South implementation in August. have published an article in the journal at the June 24-29 Midwest Regional Physical Review C, which reports the results Shelley W. Chan, associate professor Championships in Appleton, Wis. of a new high-precision measurement of of languages, has authored the book A Kent Dixon, professor of English, has the half-life of the radioactive isotope Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional placed a Cuba travel piece in the online Gallium-66. World of Mo Yan. She has also written British enterprise, American Tropics, several articles, translations and a Jonathan “Randy” Green, director resulting from a 2001 trip to Havana with conference paper this year. of financial aid, presented a session on faculty colleagues. Dixon also produced a interpreting financial aid letters to about Howard Choy, associate professor of short memoir, Telling Our Stories, and he 100 members of the National College languages, presented an invited lecture continues to review submissions for Freak Access Network, which seeks to “build, on “Cinematic Clinic: Narrative Therapy Lightning, a collection of short shorts he is strengthen, and empower communities of the Postcolonial Heroes in ‘Internal co-editing.

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committed to college access and success Rochelle Millen, professor of religion, Community College in Kirtland, Ohio, so that all students, especially those presented the lecture “Spiritual Sisters: on May 6-7. Smith discussed graphic underrepresented in postsecondary Reflections on Women and Religion” at storytelling as communication at both education, can achieve their educational Goucher College’s sixth annual Myra events. dreams.” Green has also been named chair Berman Kurtz ’66 Seminar, March 21. Andy Tune, pastor to the university, of OASFAA’s Regulatory-Federal Issues Millen discussed the creation story in presented a lecture titled “In God’s Committee for 2011-2012. Genesis and its implications for women – Image? Science, Religion, and Our and men – across contemporary Western In April, D. Scot Hinson, associate Understanding of the Human” last fall as religious cultures. professor of English, presented a paper part of the Fall Academy of Religion at the titled “‘Down here, you’re on your Adam Parker, associate professor of College of Wooster. own’: The Coen Brothers and Western mathematics, coauthored a paper with Molly Wood, associate professor of history, Neo-Noir” as part of a panel on “Hard- Susannah Engdahl ’13 titled “Peano was elected vice-president/president-elect boiled and Noir in Literature and Film: on Wronskians – A Translation” in the of the Ohio Academy of History. She Narrative Consumption and Generic Mathematical Association of America was also appointed to the Teaching Transformation” at the Popular Culture/ (MAA) journal Convergence: Loci. This Committee of the Society of Historians American Culture Association Annual paper resulted from Wittenberg’s Culture of American Foreign Relations. In March, International Conference, in San Antonio, and Languages Across the Curriculum she also presented a paper on her current Texas. program, which enables students to obtain research, the admission of women into language credit by adding a project with Ken Irwin, associate professor and the U.S. Foreign Service in the 1920s, at a significant language component to a reference librarian, made three the Organization of American Historians course. presentations at the national meeting of Annual Meeting. the Association of College and Research Brian J. Shelburne, associate professor of Michael Zaleha, associate professor Libraries in Philadelphia in March. Irwin mathematics and computer science, has of geology, presented two papers at presented on library applications of the published an article titled “Archimedes the Geological Society of America jQuery Web scripting language and on and the Parabola” in the April edition annual meeting in Denver. The first, the techniques for developing library of the MAA Math Horizons. The article coauthored with Cody Parsell ’11, was interfaces usable from mobile devices. examined a famous proof by Archimedes titled “Exceptional bedding-surface showing the area under a parabola was Ralph Lenz, professor of geography, exposure of shallow-marine carbonate equal to 4/3rds the area of the inscribed presented a paper titled “Ethnic Attitudes sand waves (dunes) in the Cedarville triangle – a result easily proved today with in Northeast Thailand” at the 2011 Dolomite, Silurian, west-central Ohio, the calculus, which lay almost 2000 years annual meeting of the Association of USA: new insights into mid-continent in Archimedes future. American Geographers in Seattle in April. deposition during the Silurian.” The Matthew J. Smith, professor of second, coauthored with Kathryn Drago After passing a certification examination, communication, was a featured speaker ’11, was a poster titled “Resolving gravel Kathryn McKee, university physician, at the inaugural “Communication Week” point-bar, overbank, and glaciofluvial has become certified to practice addiction at Youngstown State University on April deposits using electrical resistivity ground medicine by the American Board of 22, and a presenter at the Graphic & Novel imaging (ERGI), Mad River, west-central Addiction Medicine. Adaptations Film Festival at Lakeland Ohio, USA.”

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East Asian Excursion New Study-Abroad Option Enhances Global Understanding to Business Chinese “There aren’t many places that can rival and Hong Kong the fast-paced and colorful lifestyle of Culture” and “Global Hong Kong, and we had a whole month Business in China,” to explore just about every aspect of along with field trips to this booming metropolis,” said Haley local companies, towns, Beckett ’14 from Norwalk, Ohio. “This economic institutions trip was a perfect way to experience a and historical/cul- foreign culture while feeling close to tural sites, defined the home in the company of my classmates students’ experience, from Witt.” along with lectures As part of the experience, students Choy

d r and seminars by expert worked in groups to complete business owa

H speakers from different site journals graded on the quality of economic and cultural of writing and organization. Each te r institutions. student also completed a graded Cou SY Chan, Choy and business report with an observation of uilding on Wittenberg’s strategic Khayat also created an interactive Chinese economy and globalization, an Bgoal of infusing the curriculum learning environment by adopting analysis about doing business in China with international perspective, the East a content-based and task-oriented and recommendations for American Asian Institute has collaborated with approach, which emphasized both managers who want to conduct business the Department of Business to offer knowledge and accuracy, and allowed in China. Additionally, each group was an annual Global Business Immersion students to experience a steady expansion assigned one case or theme to present to program in Hong Kong. Designed as of their Chinese language skills. The the class followed by a Q&A session with part of a broader global citizenship program carried six semester credit hours. students asking the questions to ensure program, which offers a range of courses, “The Hong Kong summer program class participation. experiences and experiential learning has been one of the best experiences of “Hong Kong was an eye-opening opportunities, this new study abroad my life and will forever have an impact,” experience. Besides being a trade center option allowed 14 students to engage said Erica Cartharn ’13 from Crete, Ill. in Asia, it is surrounded by some of fully in Hong Kong’s culture and “My time in Hong Kong has allowed the most beautiful land in the world,” business world, May 15-June 12. me to gain a better understanding and said Lane Craig ’13 from Pataskala, Upon their arrival, the students appreciation for the Chinese culture.” Ohio. “The opportunities that are checked in at Youth Square in Hong Kong From helping students understand the available in the Wittenberg program are with Associate Professor of Languages issues faced by international businesses, second to none; from meeting successful Shelley Chan, Assistant Professor of as well as global ethics, cultural diversity Wittenberg alums to having a Q&A with Languages Howard Choy and Visiting and how best to enter international the head economist of Hang Seng Bank, Assistant Professor of Business Imane markets, the program also sensitized you get to learn from those who have the Khayat to begin the month-long program. participants to the challenges American experience and are successful, something Topic courses including “Introduction enterprises may encounter when a textbook can never provide.” n conducting business in China. –Phyllis Eberts ’00

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Lifelong Learning Alumni College Extends Classroom Experience he year was 1934 when Professor H.J. lectures on “Ohio as a Vacationland” continued coordinating annual Alumni TArnold first helped to launch Alumni followed by a lecture and discussion on Colleges until 2002. College during Commencement week journalism. “I went to the first modern alumni activities. The ambitious program No additional references to an Alumni college in 1998 primarily because Dr. required returning alumni to attend College could be located up to and Hartje, my advisor and U.S history 20 classroom lectures taught by their during the tenure of President Emeritus professor was one of the presenters,” Vern former professors during a two-day William A. Kinnison (1975-1995). Sponseller ’58 said. “I had a wonderful timeframe. An address by President Rees “I don’t recall if we used the phrase time and went home and told my wife Edgar Tulloss and a lecture by Dean of ‘alumni college,’ but we did have such (not a Wittenberger) that she had to go the College Charles G. Shatzer were events for alumni in connection with next time. We have been to all those scheduled during chapel periods. Alumni Weekend, Homecoming or since that time except two and even In 1939, a Torch article announced similar occasions, which brought brought our daughter Laura Sponseller the speakers for the Fourth Alumni alumni to campus,” Kinnison said. ’95 to one of them.” College, which was pared down “We also brought alumni back to make From 2002 until 2008, no Alumni considerably from the inaugural year. presentations to undergraduates about Colleges were held, but Barb Mackey, The program included an illustrated their experiences in getting oriented in assistant director of alumni relations, lecture on “Touring in Pennsylvania the world of work.” re-established the program upon her Dutchland,” a panel discussion, “Is Gil Belles ’62 attended the first arrival in advancement. The first year for Business Progress Being Retarded by modern alumni college program in 1998 the lifelong learning program included Centralization of Authority?” and developed by Kristy Kohl McCready classroom experiences in the summer a roundtable discussion on home ’01H, director of development and college program and an alumni travel economics. A second day offered constituency relations. McCready option to China during the Winter Olympics. For the next three years Alumni ives h c

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s with distinguished professors speaking r in June and a program at the Chautauqua unive InstitutionITY in western New York State in August. Alumni College programs have also taken place in Sarasota, Fla., “The one that stands out most was three years ago [as it was designed around] a specific theme based on water,” Sponseller said. “We learned to fly fish, waded with hip boots in the river, hiked Clifton Gorge and watched A River Runs Through It. It was also a joy this year to see Dr. Hartje back again in great form.” n –Phyllis Eberts ’00

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Hall Of Honor Class Announced A Spring Break Trip To Remember Tom Atchison ’82 says he simply made a connection, putting Wittenberg men’s and women’s golf head coach Jeff Roope in touch with his friend, Stuart Cavcey, a golf club manager in Hilton Head, SC. Roope and his student- athletes would say Atchison did much more. Julien Lazarus ’99, left, Danielle Rogers Good ’93, Steve Hanneman ’70, former coach Dick By reaching out to Roope, Fahrney and Keith Ayers ’60 will be inducted during Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 21-23. Atchison started the ball rolling toward a perfect spring eith Ayers ’60, former coach Dick Fahrney, indoor and three outdoor) during his collegiate break training trip for the KSteve Hanneman ’70, Julien Lazarus ’99 and track and field career. Hanneman earned team Tiger teams. Less than two Danielle Rogers Good ’93 have been selected to MVP honors in 1970 after serving as a team months later, the men won a join 189 other Wittenberg greats in the Athletics captain during his senior season. He lost just second straight North Coast Hall of Honor. Induction will take place during two regular season high hurdles races, and Athletic Conference (NCAC) st Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 21-23. he was a member of a school-record 440-yard championship en route to 21 Ayers was the Tigers’ pitching ace between relay team. place in the NCAA Division 1957 and 1960, during which time he posted a The 1997 North Coast Athletic Conference III Tournament, while the 21-3 career record and led the Tigers to four-year (NCAC) Male Swimmer of the Year, Lazarus women finished second in the records of 43-9 overall and 40-7 in the Ohio won conference championships in the 100-yard NCAC. Both teams finished Athletic Conference. Ayers was also a member breaststroke four straight years and the 200-yard the 2010-11 season ranked in of the first-ever All-OAC team in 1960. breaststroke three years in a row. Nationally, the top 20 nationally. Fahrney made his mark at Wittenberg as a Lazarus earned a program-best 11 All-America Cavcey, whose daughter coach in three different sports between 1967 honors. He placed second nationally in both Amanda is a member of and 1976. He coached the offensive line for breaststroke events at the 1998 NCAA Division Wittenberg’s class of 2012, the football team, helping the Tigers to three III Championship meet, the best finish ever for arranged for Tiger student- national championships and a 74-14-2 record a Wittenberg swimmer – male or female. athletes to stay with club while coaching six first-team All-OAC linemen. Rogers Good is the women’s basketball members to help keep trip In lacrosse, he started the varsity program in program’s record-holder for season rebounds costs down and took care 1968 and guided the Tigers to a 40-39 record (303), season blocked shots (37), career of arranging tee times for while coaching 22 all-region honorees and two rebounds (1,078) and career blocked shots the teams to play practice All-Americans. Fahrney then led the Tiger (122). A three-time All-NCAC honoree, Rogers rounds. His efforts allowed baseball team to an 11-5 record in 1976. Good also is one of just seven players to finish Roope to focus on his team’s Hanneman won two OAC outdoor hurdles her career with more than 1,000 points. n preparations for the stretch titles and earned four All-OAC awards (one – Ryan Maurer

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Men’s Lacrosse Enjoys Stellar Season r S p Wittenberg men’s lacrosse put together the best season in program history or in 2011, opening the season with 11 straight wins en route to a 14-2 overall ts record. Wittenberg finished in a three-way tie for first place in the NCAC and earned a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament for a second straight year. The Tigers hosted and won its first-ever national tournament game before bowing out against sixth-ranked Dickinson. The next day, the team’s 11 graduating seniors, including Wittenberg’s first-ever NCAC Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Year Mark DeOliveira (pictured), received

’04 their diplomas in a special ceremony hosted by President Mark H. Erickson. For e c

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A Spring Break Trip To Remember Pam Evans Smith ’82 Inducted Into Hall of Fame run of the long college golf For the fifth time in the six-year life of the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame & Museum, Wittenberg season. was recognized in its prestigious ranks. Legendary late basketball coach and athletics administrator Atchison, who qualified Pam Evans Smith ’82 was among 19 players, coaches and officials, in addition to six teams, from for the NCAA Division III around the state honored at the 2011 induction dinner and ceremony, May 21. Tournament four straight Smith’s selection places her with Don Henderson ’54, Frank Shannon ’40, Eldon Miller ’62, years, went on to make Al Thrasher ’64 and Ray Mears, who coached the Tigers from 1956-62. In addition, the 1961 some news of his own in Wittenberg men’s basketball team, which captured the university’s first national championship June. The head professional in any sport, and the 1977 national championship men’s basketball at Congress Lake Golf team were both inducted in 2006 as part of the inaugural Club in Hartville, Ohio, Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame & Museum Atchison qualified for the induction class. Senior PGA Championship, “I can think of no one finer and more finishing 104th after missing deserving than Coach,” said Sarah qualification for the PGA Jurewicz ’98, who succeeded Smith as Championship by one shot an the head coach of the Tiger women’s agonizing four times before basketball team after finishing her his 50th birthday. playing career 10 years earlier as the Atchison, who was inducted program’s all-time leading scorer. “She into Wittenberg’s Athletics was a gift to my life, as I know she was Hall of Honor in 2005, said he to so many others during her amazing is thrilled to see Wittenberg’s career.” recent success on the links, Smith, a 1999 Wittenberg University and he credits Roope with Athletics Hall of Honor inductee, keeping alumni connected. earned North Coast Athletic Conference Prospective student-athletes (NCAC) Coach of The Year honors seven who have visited with Roope times during her 21-year career at the helm have told Atchison that of the Tiger women’s basketball program. Wittenberg’s program is as She compiled a 401-170 career record, along “classy, sharp and organized the way leading the Tigers to eight NCAA Division III as any Division I program.” Tournament appearances, twelve 20-win seasons and 11 NCAC He hopes the affordable, regular season championships. productive spring break trip Smith, who served as associate director of athletics and senior to Hilton Head will be an woman administrator, also enjoyed a record-breaking career as a annual event. n player in the Wittenberg Red & White. She passed away in June – Ryan Maurer 2007 following a lengthy battle with cancer. n – Ryan Maurer

Sports Golfer Jordan Eddie Vallery ’11 Lacrosse standouts Shorts Millice ’12 earns top impresses at pro break new ground academic awards day, all-star game for program summer 2011 17 Read more at www.wittenberg.edu/athletics Read more at www.wittenberg.edu/athletics With his constant engagement in humanities, Baker specifically requested From music news of the day – he even debated his that one classroom be designed to neighbor friend at the age of 8 over his resemble a legislative chamber or city to city family’s political preference during the council forum in order to enhance the management, 1968 presidential election – Baker soon simulations he conducts in two of his found himself gravitating away from classes. Rob Baker, music and toward politics, specifically Baker also started engaging students at the local level. in the concept of bureaucracy. professor of “I had worked on the campaign of a “One of my greatest delights is to hook friend who was a Boy Scout leader, and students into the notion that in spite of political science, I enjoyed that,” he recalls. its problems, bureaucracy can actually inspires students A few years later while an be a force for progressive change, and to undergraduate at Central Methodist open their minds to the role and power to pursue public College, Baker found himself presented of it,” he says. with a unique opportunity in city In addition, Baker, along with his administration management. His senior year, the city colleague Jeff Ankrom, professor of of Slater, Mo., current population 1,926, economics, started the first-ever local and help make offered him a paid internship. government internship program to government “As a 22-year-old thrown into city change a trend he was seeing. management, I saw the benefits of that “There was and continues to be a better. experience,” Baker says. “It helped me generational crisis in local government to learn to negotiate issues and find as more people retire and fewer young by Karen Saatkamp Gerboth ’93 solutions.” people pursue the field,” he said. portrait by Erin Pence ’04 That experience, combined with Following the local program’s success, later work as Slater’s official acting city Baker worked with the International As a middle school student growing up in manager and a teaching assistantship City/County Management Association southeast Missouri, Rob Baker watched while in graduate school, forced Baker (ICMA) to bring the program under the news with an intensity that proved to re-evaluate his life goals. its wings. The first ICMA Local in sharp contrast to his peers. The news, “As I examined it all, I decided to enter Government Management Program he discovered, always seemed to show the Ph.D. program and go full-time took place in 2005, and Baker and people making important decisions, and into academia,” he says. The decision Ankrom continue to play leadership roles for Baker, that realization ignited a love included selling his prized trombone and in the eight-week program, which took of politics. turning down the official city manager place in Amery, Wisc., this year. “Nothing happens in the world without position in Slater. Consisting of an internship component politics,” he says. “Successful people Now in his 25th year at Wittenberg, and a class/seminar component, the understand that politics affects every Baker has never looked back on his program places students as interns in a place, every arena.” decision to teach, nor has his gratitude host local government department where Baker’s remarkable ability to help waned with respect to having the chance they are given one or more projects to his students understand and appreciate to teach at Wittenberg. complete by the end of the program. this fact, and then go out and play an “The political science program at Previous locations include River Falls, active role in public administration and Wittenberg provides a wonderful well- Wisc., Meredith, N.H., and Fernandina politics clearly captured the attention rounded experience for students, giving Beach, Fla. of colleagues, alumni and students who them an advantage in graduate schools Add to his teaching and hands-on field recently nominated him for Wittenberg’s and in the workplace,” Baker says. “We experiences with his students Baker’s top faculty prize, the Alumni Association also try to do different things in the own return to the trombone – for his Award for Distinguished Teaching, classroom.” 50th birthday his wife bought him a which he received in April. For Baker, John Dewey’s quote, “We trombone so that, in the words of his Established in 1960, the award learn best by doing,” has influenced his high school choir teacher, he “would recognizes superior classroom teaching own style of teaching. never let music out of his life” – and the at Wittenberg, a field Baker had actually “Hands-on learning helps students see well-rounded approach to living clearly not planned to pursue in college. how it all works as active participants in defines Baker as much as it does his “I was a music major at first, having the process,” he says. students. played the trombone for years,” he says. With that in mind, when the university “I love it here.” n “I just couldn’t write music well enough built Hollenbeck Hall, which houses the to make a living at it.” political science department and all the

18 Wittenberg Magazine Bio

Hometown: Bonne Terre, Mo.

Education: B.A., Central Methodist College (1982) M.A., University of Missouri (1984) Ph.D., University of Missouri (1987) Joined Wittenberg in 1987

Additional Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching (1990) Central Methodist College Young Alumni Award (1994) Outstanding Service to Springfield Award (2004)

Books: Readings on American Subnational Government The Lanahan Readings in State and Local Government

Fun Facts: Plays in Wittenberg’s Distinguished jazz band Sings in Springfield Symphony Chorale Enjoys Good Reads website Te a c h e r Loves golf

summer 2011 19 Seeking the perfect 2 balance between academics and athletics, Wittenberg GAWittenberg scholar-athletes have long had forceME that developed the Tiger GA2ME Plan. On has launched the only the upper hand on opponents, as evidenced “Even though I knew that I was going to be NCAA Division III- by the university’s well-known reputation a member of the women’s basketball team, I endorsed program as a small college athletics powerhouse and wanted more out of my college experience. the overflowing trophy cases throughout the I got that at Wittenberg. of its kind, the Tiger Health, Physical Education and Recreation “Still, there is clearly more that we can GA2ME Plan – a Center. Now, the university wants to do to develop each student to his or her extend its athletic reputation even more by fullest potential. The Tiger GA2ME Plan is move that not only formalizing its commitment to enriching the next step in committing ourselves as a keeps the competitive and preparing scholar-athletes for victories university to the development of the whole on the playing field, in the classroom and person.” edge alive for a in an increasingly global community after Not coincidentally, Jurewicz is one of graduation. four Tiger coaches leading her team abroad lifetime, but also “Wittenberg’s strategic plan, Distinctively this year, as NCAA regulations permit positions Wittenberg Wittenberg: A Vision for Excellence, called once every three years. She is taking the for the development of the model program Tiger women’s basketball team to Italy in scholar-athletes for for Division III athletics with a focus on August, combining playing opportunities future success. great academics and great athletics,” said against quality European competition with President Mark H. Erickson. “This is that exposure to a different culture as well as by Ryan Maurer model program.” participation in a community service project. “Wittenberg has been committed to The three other Tiger teams heading abroad wholeness of mind, body and spirit since its in search of cultural, team-bonding and founding more than 160 years ago,” added additional training opportunities include Director of Athletics and Recreation Garnett women’s soccer, which will spend two weeks Purnell. “The Tiger GA2ME Plan affirms in The Netherlands, Belgium and France that commitment by ensuring that student- in August, men’s soccer, which will travel athletes have access to the tools they need to to England in August, and men’s basketball, succeed while in college and in life.” which will head to Canada during fall break With an equal emphasis on the scholar in October. and the athlete, the Tiger GA2ME Plan Along with the global aspect, Purnell has is based on four initiatives: the creation also led efforts in recent years to enhance of Global education opportunities (G); the academic support system that surrounds aiding of professional development via a Wittenberg scholar-athletes, and grade unique, university-wide Academic support reports in recent years indicate extraordinary

r network while competing at the highest success in that area. Still, he knows that 2

emeye level of NCAA Division III Athletics (A ); more can be done to identify students in k c i E i providing connections to alumni Mentors need of extra assistance, to help incoming od J (M); and encouraging personal Engagement scholar-athletes adjust to the rigors of college and growth through character-building academics, and to point scholar-athletes in service projects and campus activities (E). the right professional directions despite their “I was attracted to Wittenberg as a scholar- hectic playing and practice schedules. athlete by the opportunity to join a vibrant That is where perhaps the most unique college campus community that offered aspect of the Tiger GA2ME Plan is

’04 more than just the opportunity to shoot the introduced. Assistant Director of Athletics e c 2

e basketball and study for exams,” recalled for the Tiger GA ME Plan Ali Teopas has P i

Ern Women’s Basketball Head Coach Sarah been working tirelessly to connect scholar- Jurewicz ’98, who was a member of the task athletes with alumni mentors, who can

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GA ME Onact as guides through the early part of the academic and athletic process. ! Alumni mentors are asked to follow the careers of the scholar-athletes, keeping ’04 e

in touch with them as often as possible c e

to provide support, a sympathetic ear or P i perhaps even a voice of reason. In turn, the Ern network of Wittenberg alumni making connections after graduation hopefully will grow more active and more diverse. Before scholar-athletes have their day in Commencement Hollow, however, they must first complete the university- mandated community service requirement. Since being a Wittenberg scholar-athlete is privilege, more must be expected, so teams are encouraged to participate in meaningful service projects and campus activities. In recent months, for example, the Tiger softball team adopted an elementary school class to act as mentors to the children, the women’s soccer team visited children stricken with serious illnesses at Dayton Children’s Hospital, and the men’s and ’04

women’s tennis teams have hosted free e c n e

clinics to introduce young people to the P n i

sport and encourage physical fitness. Those Er are just a few examples of Wittenberg scholar-athletes and coaches extending their influence in the community. “Implementing the Tiger GA2ME Plan has been a fantastic experience, and I am pleased to see our scholar athletes making an impact in the community, traveling the globe and preparing themselves for life after college,” r emeye k

Teopas said. “This program encapsulates c i E the best of NCAA Division III and college i od athletics in general, and I am eager to see the J impact it makes on Wittenberg University and its outstanding scholar athletes.” It all adds up to the kind of plan that doesn’t just win games, it scores in life as well. n

To become a mentor or learn more about the Tiger GA2ME Plan, go to: www.wittenberg.edu/gameplan

summer 2011 21 Breaking a Silence on Domestic Violence

There is one ecky Patterson ’91 was an we never dreamed of it as something any of us stereotype of English major with an education would ever experience,” she notes. “I developed what a woman minor. She was kind, smart and this program to break down those misconceptions experiencing domestic abuse funny. She was a teacher, a and help college women understand that anyone, looks like: maybe writer, an artist, a mother of from any walk of life can find themselves in an you think she two – and she was a victim of abusive situation.” is uneducated, domestic violence. Because it But DeZarn does not want young women to be maybe you think she is weak or was her husband’s first and last discouraged by what they learn – she wants them lacks confidence, act of physical violence, her to walk away empowered. maybe you think friends and family could not have conceived of her “This is about prevention. I want them to see she is poor. Most life ending this way. the behavior that leads up to violence, and I want likely, you don’t think she could “If any of us had known what we know now, we them to understand that it is something that they be your friend. would have carried her out of that house,” says can learn to avoid in their lives.” Becky’s best friend and fellow Gamma Phi Beta While she has presented the program in her By Gabrielle sister, Bethany Porter Kennedy ’91. home state of Georgia at Emory University, she Antoniadis Mourning her death, her friends discovered that wants to refine it and create a standard program just as there are stereotypes about who is in abusive that can be presented to colleges across the relationships, there are also misconceptions about country by anyone interested enough in starting what constitutes intimate partner abuse. They the conversation about intimate partner abuse. learned that often – as was the case with Becky “This was my response to Becky’s death,” – violence is not immediately part of the picture. DeZarn says. “I was not an expert in this field, but An abusive relationship frequently begins with a in life we are often faced with the choice of doing pattern of controlling or demeaning behavior of something imperfectly or doing nothing at all. I one partner to another. had to do something.” Now some of Becky’s friends and family are Another Gamma Phi Beta sister and classmate, taking steps to turn the tragedy of her death into Amy Krosnosky Demchak ’92, was also moved something that might change or save another to do something after Becky’s death. With person’s life. two young daughters of her own, she turned “That is what Becky would want,” Kennedy says. her attention first to elementary-age students. “She would want to help other women.” Working with parent volunteers at her daughter’s After Becky’s death, Christine Updegraff school in Terre Haute, Ind., she hopes to build on DeZarn ’87 found herself having open an existing program where fifth graders travel to conversations with women that, she says, “we Indianapolis to the Ruth Lily Education Center unfortunately never had until tragedy had already for classes on reproductive health. (The Ruth struck.” It motivated her to create an awareness Lily Center provides age-appropriate instruction program specifically designed for college women. on health topics ranging from nutrition to She says she remembers that in college, she was violence prevention to peer pressure.) She and certainly “aware” of the issue of domestic violence, her daughter’s class teacher will evaluate a course but for she and most of her friends, that was on healthy relationships and then build a case something that happened to “other women.” to include it when the class travels to the Lily “Some of us even volunteered at shelters, but Education Center. If Demchak receives approval

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and funding for the new course for the 2011-2012 academic year, she will forge ahead and begin Resources working with her other daughter’s middle school. If you believe you or someone you “I have 10 and 7 year-old daughters, but this know is in an emotionally, physically or was not an issue that was on my radar before,” she sexually abusive relationship, please says. “I am absolutely doing this because of what call the National Domestic Violence happened to Becky.” Hotline (NDVH): 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE). The NDVH provides anonymous and Sparking Conversations on Campus confidential help and provides crisis But what about today’s students? What kinds intervention, information and referrals of discussions about the relationships between to victims of domestic violence, men and women or women’s issues are happening perpetrators, friends and families. on campus? It turns out there are quite a few Locally, Project Woman is a domestic opportunities to explore these complex topics. violence and sexual assault prevention If you have ever walked through the student and intervention program serving center in October, for example, and seen T-shirts Clark, Champaign and Logan counties hung throughout the building, you have seen in Ohio. Their 24-hour crisis line is: continued next page... 1-800-634-9893. Project Woman also operates a 16-bed shelter. summer 2011 23 the Clothesline Project – a joint project of the specifically on violence against women. For Wittenberg Womyn’s Center and Project Woman, Zajac, the very different events were effective and a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention moving in their own ways. and intervention agency located in Springfield. “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” challenged men to (The Clothesline Project started in 1990 in literally step into a pair of women’s shoes in order Massachusetts as a vehicle for women affected by to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual violence to express their emotions by decorating assault. More than 100 Wittenberg fraternity or writing on a shirt.) men participated, many of them donning heels, Meredith Zajac ’13 has been excited to see platform shoes and strappy sandals to express activities on campus that provide opportunities their support. Zajac thinks that this light-hearted for women and men to better understand women’s approach to a deeply troubling topic brought issues. She is a member of the Confidence more men into a conversation that they might Coalition, which launched at Wittenberg in never have had or thought about having. February 2010. Begun in 2009 by the Kappa “For change to happen, we have to educate men Delta Sorority, the Confidence Coalition is a too,” she says. “This was one way to do that.” national alliance of organizations and companies “Take Back the Night,” which Zajac helped committed to promoting self-esteem and plan and organize, included a speaker from confidence among girls and women. Brought Project Woman and the opportunity for women to Wittenberg by Esther Mast ’10 last year, to share their experiences of abuse. Afterwards, Wittenberg was the first college to become a the group of nearly 120 participated in a walk member of the national Confidence Coalition. and candlelight vigil on campus. With deans, This year, what started as a week of awareness faculty, staff and students, as well as members of activities has grown to a full month (during the Springfield community attending, the event Women’s History Month) of events. was powerful proof of how the issue crosses all “Since Esther started the Coalition last year, it lines and touches people from every community. has just taken off,” Zajac says. “What is appealing “I saw the spirit of Wittenberg come out – the about the Coalition events is that each highlights support and trust in that group was an amazing a different aspect of being a women – it’s all about thing to witness,” Zajac says. the whole woman.” It is not necessarily a surprise to hear that But, given the national domestic violence Wittenberg students are creating campus events statistics (see box, page x), drawing attention and organizations like the Confidence Coalition to that issue is clearly an important part of – it is, after all, part of the Wittenberg mission to the Coalition’s work. Of the several outreach develop “wholeness of person” and to challenge activities it sponsored this year, two focused students to “…lead personal, professional and

“This is about prevention. I want them to see the behavior that leads up to violence, and I want them to understand that it is something that they can learn to avoid in their lives.”

24 Wittenberg Magazine civic lives of creativity, service, compassion and integrity.” With leading experts in women’s history and gender studies and a Womyn’s What is Domestic Center dedicated to raising awareness of women’s issues, Wittenberg has a history of Violence? engaging students, faculty and community Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any members in meaningful dialogues relevant to relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over women. an intimate partner. Recently, that became a topic for the Center Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This for Civic & Urban Engagement at Wittenberg. includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, When the Advisory Council of the newly created hurt, humiliate, blame, injure or wound someone. Read more about Women’s Partnership Funds at the Springfield the warning signs of abuse at: http://www.thehotline.org/get- Foundation wanted a complete picture of the educated/what-is-domestic-violence/. state of women in Clark County, the Center Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual was there to help. It recruited Wittenberg orientation, religion, gender or socioeconomic background. It can student Maranda Moore ’10 to conduct happen to couples who are married, living together or who are dating. research comparing Clark County women to (Adapted from the National Domestic Violence Hotline) national and state statistics in the areas of safety, education, childcare, healthcare and financial The Face of Domestic Violence stability. According to a 2008 study by the Centers for Disease Control and The completed report, “The Status of Clark Prevention, about 1⁄4 of all women in the U.S. report that they have County Women,” provides valuable baseline experienced domestic violence. research that will guide the future work of the On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands Women’s Partnership Funds. The Women’s or boyfriends in this country every day.1 Partnership Funds aims to address the “root Nearly 7.8 million women have been raped by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.2 causes” of women’s problems by establishing an In Clark County, Ohio, 10.4 per 1,000 women experience intimate endowment fund that will build a permanent partner violence, the highest rate in Ohio.3 source of funds for local programs that already address some of the biggest challenges facing 1 Bureau of Justice Statistics (Feb. 2003). Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001. women in the community. 2 Extrapolated from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) and U.S. Census population. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2003). Costs of “Some of the Clark County statistics from Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. Atlanta, GA. the report, particularly domestic violence 3 “Status of Clark County Women,” 2010, The Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. and teen pregnancy, just jump off the page,” says Stephanie McCuistion, administrative

“This is about prevention. I want them to see the behavior that leads up to violence, and I want them to understand that it is something that they can learn to avoid in their lives.”

director of the Center (see box, above). contemplate the truth about domestic violence, McCuistion, who is herself a member of the but in knowledge and understanding lies hope Advisory Council of Women’s Partnership Funds, for change – and prevention. says that Center will continue to play a vital role as On May 1, 2011, Becky’s parents, children, they decide where to channel funds in the future. family and friends gathered at the Gamma Phi “The Center is well-suited to helping harness Beta house at Wittenberg to pay tribute to her and Wittenberg resources to better understand establish a memorial bench, plaque and perennial women’s issues here in Clark County. That garden in her memory. Kennedy led the service. information will help the Women’s Partnership “I try to make sense of this tragedy, and there is Funds make informed decisions about how to no sense,” she said. help women,” she says. “I am so proud to be part Her emotions still raw, Kennedy herself is of both organizations as we work together to build searching for her own way to raise awareness, a stronger community.” but still finds the issue difficult to talk about: On the heels of the tragedy of Becky Patterson’s “My hope is that Becky’s story will help another death, the varied efforts of the Wittenberg woman understand the warning signs of domestic community – its alumnae, students, faculty and abuse. Then she might have a better chance of staff – seem even more urgent. It is painful to walking away before it is too late.” n

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Witt Nation Welcomes New Students During 2011 Tour New E-Newsletter Keeps n keeping with the friendly, engaging “It made sense to use Witt Nation to Alumni Connected Ienvironment at Wittenberg, the welcome students as the philosophy In an effort to keep Wittenberg alumni 2011 Witt Nation tour will personally behind Witt Nation has always been to informed of campus events, faculty welcome incoming students from around connect with Wittenberg alumni and accomplishments, student successes, the country and close to home. The tour, share the Wittenberg story,” said Linda strategic initiatives and new faces in which kicked off July 5 and concludes Beals ’87, director of alumni relations. the Wittenberg family, the Office of Aug. 14, will include a number of “We are thrilled to be partnering with Alumni Relations has started a monthly receptions hosted by Wittenberg alumni admission in this unique way to ensure to welcome new students and their that our incoming students see firsthand parents to the Wittenberg community the power of the Wittenberg experience.” prior to the start To follow this year’s tour, another of classes in new website has been developed, which August. includes all the stops and information on participating. Visit www.wittenberg. edu/wittnation to see where the Witt Nation roadies will travel on the 2011 Tour. n

First All-Greek Reunion Set For 2012 Knowing the power of affinities among Wittenberg alumni, the Office of Alumni Relations is planning the e-newsletter, which is sent to all alumni first-ever All-Greek Reunion June 21-24, 2012. All for whom the university has an email sororities and fraternities will be invited to return address. to campus to participate in what Linda Beals ’87, “We want our alumni to want to engage director of alumni relations, calls “an event to with Wittenberg in new and fun ways remember” in 2012. each year,” said Linda Beals ’87, director For more information, or if you would like to of alumni relations. “This e-newsletter is assist in the planning efforts, call Beals at (937) just another way to achieve that as well as 327-6374 or e-mail her at lbeals@wittenberg. allow our alumni to connect with fellow edu. n alumni at the same time.” n

26 Wittenberg Magazine 2011 Alumni Book Club Alumni College, May 18-21 Summer Selections Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award recipients recently provided their top summer reads. They include: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, recommended by Rob Baker, political science Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, recommended by Charles Chatfield, history More than a dozen alumni Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende, returned to campus, May 18- recommended by Trudy Faber, music 21, to enjoy Alumni College. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Participants included (in group Goodheart, recommended by Robert photo, top left)Gil Belles ’62, Hartje, history Wayne Fanta ’61, Chuck ’62 and Joan Ramsdale Hofelich Dancer by Colum McCann, ’62, Barbara Zaugg Joudrey recommended by George Hudson, ’72, Dave ’59 and Marge political science Nimmer Markowich ’59, Gary The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, Schreckengost, Bob ’68 and recommended by Jim Huffman, history Peggy Diggs Simons ’68, Vern ’58 and Barbara Sponseller, Karen Other suggested reading by faculty and Zaugg ’68 and Olga Otte ’71. staff can be found online under alumni and friends.

50th-Class of 1961 40th-Class of 1971 30th-Class of 1981 25th-Class of 1986 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th - Young Alumni Reunion

Homecoming 2011 October 20 – 23

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’43 | at the annual exhibition ’59 | Fla. She is living in Royal sponsored by the Iowa Palm Beach, Fla. Charles L. Bushey, Lake John M. Chowning, Palo Water Color Society. Oswego, Ore., currently Alto, Calif., an American holds first place for his composer and musician, ’61 | Edith Kellar Mahaney Class Reunion, Homecoming/ age group in Master is a professor at Stanford retired as executive director Reunion Weekend 2011 Swimming’s national annual of the Sullivan Munce Art University, who invented contest of “How Far Can Center, Zionsville, Ind. The FM synthesis. ’62 | You Swim in One Hour.” center’s gallery space was ’60 | A. Gilbert Belles, a retired dedicated and named for faculty member from ’51 | Carole Trautwein her in tribute to her efforts Western Illinois University, Charles R. Kellar is a Williams retired in 2009 to preserve and cultivate the Macomb, Ill., is a recipient resident of The Retreat at from her position as director arts during her tenure. A of its 2010 honorary alumni The Lakes at Litchfield, a of human resources at collection of her paintings award. retirement community in were exhibited there in the Fountainview, a senior living Pawleys Island, S.C. Chuck, fall of 2010. facility in West Palm Beach, whose career included sketching designs for American Greetings, was one of two artists featured in an art show at the retirement community. ’52 | Janet Hart Heinicke, Indianola, Iowa, attended the 30th triennial conference of the International Federation of University Women, where she served as program convener (chair) of Women Graduates-USA. As chair she coordinated a survey dealing with issues that are the program priorities for the organization. Her painting, Untended Grape Vines, will be displayed Three champions and “one hacker” met on the Albright Tennis Complex at Wittenberg for a little tennis and a lot of reminiscing. They included: John Schwemlein ’69, Roger Beach ’65, Mike Senich ’72 and Wendell Lutz ’66.

28 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES on the board of advisors of of Southern Indiana, JPB Enterprises, a private Evansville, Ind. investment and strategic business services company. ’71 | Class Reunion, Homecoming/ ’65 | Reunion Weekend 2011 Gary L. Yoder retired as principal of Utica High ’72 | School in Ohio. He now Arthur G. Meyer is the lives in Sanford, N.C. general counsel and senior vice president of corporate ’67 | and regulatory affairs with Jan J. Younger is professor the Dayton Power and Light emeritus of communication Co. in Ohio. and theatre arts and was associate dean of the honors ’75 | program at Heidelberg Daniel L. Rimstidt is Manny Lamarre ’09 visited with colleagues David Gogol ’73 and University, Tiffin, Ohio. He president of Strategic Energy Rob Ehrich ’99 at B&D Consulting in Washington D.C., where he has published numerous interned. Resolutions Inc., Loveland, articles, written two plays Ohio. and lectured in the United The upper east concourse of ’64 | States and the United Stephen A. and Robyn the renovated University of Kingdom on the topic of Koch Schumaker‚ 77 John P. McDaniel, Michigan football stadium presidential humor. In live in Springfield, Ohio. Highland, Md., is chief in Ann Arbor, Mich., has 2010, he presented the Stephen is deputy attorney executive officer of the been named in honor of Community of Scholars general for law enforcement Hickory Ridge Group, retired athletic director, lecture, “Political Humor: A with the Ohio Attorney a private healthcare William C. Martin. Significant Part of Lincoln’s General’s Office. advisory and development Greatness” at the University organization. He also serves

Bob Rohde ’67, Stanley Dice, Cora Dice, Patti Briner ’79 and Mary Kay Gramly Rohde ’67 met in Lancaster, Pa., during Patti’s annual spring trip to visit the Dices, former Wittenberg professors.

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Amy Tatman ’90

CLASS NOTES CLASS married Daniel Robins on Nov. 7, 2008. The couple lives in Chicago, Ill.

Jonathan Newcomer ’05 married Amanda Reinstadtler on July 10, 2010 at Greystone Fields in Gibsonia, Pa. The couple lives in Ocoee, Fla.

30 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES ’76 | legal profession and are dedicated to serving their Mark S. Algren, Lawrence, communities. Kan., is the director of the Applied English Center at the Richard W. and Debbie University of Kansas. Heintz Pretorius are living in the Dayton, Ohio, Brian Aschenbrenner, area. Richard is chair of Dayton, Ohio, goes by the department of family Brian Brenner in his career medicine at the Wright performing tributes to Elvis State University’s Boonshoft Presley and Wayne Newton. School of Medicine. Michael D. Capellas is the chief executive officer ’82 | of Acadia Enterprises LLC, J. Ronald and Jenny Linda Stuntz ’76 Dallas, Texas, and leader Grooms Menning live in North Sutton, N.H. Ron is Leads in Energy and Environmental Law of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. senior vice president, Asia Recognized as one of the “leading energy lawyers in the nation” by Pacific with The Timken Co. the Legal Times in 2005, Linda Stuntz has never shied away from a ’77 | challenge. As the founding partner of the Washington, D.C.-based David W. and Nancy ’83 | law firm of Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, Stuntz has a long history of Beitman Hertzog live in Michael L. Essex, legal work in the area of energy and environmental regulation, Champaign, Ill. Nancy is Chesterfield, Mo., is including service to the nation as deputy secretary of the United director of the Robinson managing director of equity States Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush. Center for Young Scholars at capital markets origination She held that and other senior policy positions at the department the University of Washington with BB&T Capital between 1989 and 1993, playing a principal role in the enactment of in Seattle. Markets. the Energy Policy Act of 1992. “I’ve been fortunate to work in government with leaders who cared ’79 | Jennifer Kraft Hunter, London, Ohio, is a self- about the right policy and tried to make the politics work for that,” Eugene B. Lewis is an employed CPA, serving both Stuntz said. “I’ve also been fortunate to work with clients who are attorney with Chester, the public and private sector. innovators and who have included me as a member of their teams for Willcox & Saxbe LLP, the long term, rather than merely a hired gun.” Columbus, Ohio. He is Andrew S. Linn is president Stuntz, who helped to develop the Clean Air Act Amendments of included in the 2011 edition of Inside-Out Homecare 1990, was also active in the implementation of amendments pertaining of The Best Lawyers in LLC, Alpharetta, Ga. to acid rain and alternative fuels programs. Additionally, she has America. worked extensively on potential global climate change and energy- ’85 | related measures to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. ’80 | Former mayor of East After graduating with honors from Wittenberg and then earning Brian M. Agler, head Aurora, N.Y., David J. her law degree with honors from Harvard in 1979, Stuntz became an coach of the Seattle DiPietro is seeking the associate minority counsel and minority counsel to the Energy and Storm Basketball Team in 59th state senate seat. He Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington, is the recipient is the owner and operator 1981-87. of the 2010 WNBA Coach of of Sparkle Cleaners, a dry More recently, Stuntz has served on numerous boards of directors, the Year Award. He lives in cleaning business with three including Wittenberg’s, and she served as chair of the Electricity Westerville, Ohio. plants. Advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Energy in 2008 and 2009. Richard A. Dove, Dublin, Glenn P. Sullivan is a “My work in energy and environmental law has always been Ohio, the assistant radiation safety officer interesting to me,” Stuntz said. “As I’ve told my own kids, no job that administrative director for at Children’s Memorial you are paid to do will ever be fun 100 percent of the time, but you the Supreme Court of Ohio, Hospital, Chicago, Ill. need to find something that engages your interest, that makes you is a fellow of the Ohio State want to do your best work, and allows you to work with people who Bar Foundation. Membership share those views,” she said. “I’ve been able to work in a field that I’m in the foundation is an honor extended to those who adhere passionate about.” n – Karen Gerboth ’93 to the highest ideals of the

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Michelle Fritz ’04

CLASS NOTES CLASS married Ryan Lusmann on Dec. 20, 2009. The couple lives in Algonquin, Ill.

Heather House ’03 married Stephen Loas on July 25, 2009. The couple lives in Worthington, Ohio.

32 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES ’86 | Kevin W. and Laura Silvestri Wieland ’93 live Class Reunion, Homecoming/ in Cherry Hill, N.J. Kevin Reunion Weekend 2011 is the general manager of Ensinger Cast Nylon, ’90 | Grenloch, N.J. Laura has Cynthia Wetzel Lentol published her first children’s is an actress and model book, The Magic Igloo. living in Canton, Mass. She appears in the movie ’96 | Company Men and in an Class Reunion, Homecoming/ episode of the ABC medical Reunion Weekend 2011 drama Body of Proof. Some of her other acting credits Margaret “Molly” F. include appearances in Clowes, Westerville, Perk Robins ’52 movies Ghosts of Girlfriends Ohio, is pursuing post- Past, The Departed and baccalaureate certification Takes Development to New Levels in the television show in the paralegal studies After a tremendous collegiate career as a Wittenberg scholar- Providence. Cindy has program at Columbus athlete, Hugh “Perk” Robins thought his future was in professional worked in commercials State Community College. baseball. Following a two-year stint in the U.S. Army Medical for Ocean Spray, Dunkin She works at Greenfield Corps, he signed a professional contract with the Cincinnati Reds in Donuts, Subway and Papa Products. 1954. Geno’s. Her print work Assigned to the Reds’ minor league affiliate at Colonial Heights- includes advertisements ’97 | Petersburg, Va., Robins dream was cut short by a knee injury after with Reebok, Macy’s and In June 2010, James E. Pampers, and she has done batting .389 in his first 12 professional games. Well-prepared for life Brock III married Lindsay after athletics by Wittenberg baseball and basketball coach Howard voice-overs for Foxwoods, F. Grow. They live in “Red” Maurer, a new door opened for Robins in what he calls “the the 99 Restaurant, Arby’s Coldwater, Mich. James friend-raising business.” and U.S. Cellular. is a vice president with Mentored by Wittenberg President Emeritus Clarence Stoughton, Middleton Moldings. University Relations Vice President Emerson Reck and Planned ’91 | Giving Director Roland C. Matthies, Robins began his career in Robb D. and Cinnamon Sara M. Grohl is director of higher education as assistant director of admission and then as alumni Moore Van Putte live emerging regulatory issues secretary at Wittenberg. In 1967 he became director of development in O’Fallon, Ill. Robb, with the Financial Industry at Ball State University and later executive vice president of the Ball associate professor of biology Regulatory Authority, State University Foundation before moving to the University of at McKendree University Washington, D.C. Georgia (UGA). in Lebanon, Ill., chairs the Jean E. Pretz is an This spring Robins, who was inducted into Wittenberg’s Athletics science and mathematics associate professor in the Hall of Honor in 1986 in recognition of his prowess in both basketball division, teaches biology and department of psychology and baseball, was presented the 2011 Friend of UGA Award for honors courses and advises at Elizabethtown College in his contributions as vice president for development and university its Sigma Zeta science Pennsylvania. relations from 1973-1989 at the institution. honor society. He was Most people would have been content with a career that won the awarded the Harvey C. and United States Steel Foundation National Award for Alumni Giving Winifred Pitt Professorship ’98 | at three different universities, but not Robins. In 1989 he accepted in Biology. Cinnamon is an In 2009, James T. Nation the challenge to build a nationally recognized advancement program associate professor of biology graduated from the Ross for Georgia Southern University. Upon accomplishing this final goal, at Southwestern Illinois University School of Robins retired as vice president from Georgia Southern in 1998. College, Belleville, Ill. Veterinary Medicine, North “Few people attain greatness, but we all can associate ourselves with Brunswick, N.J. something that is great,” said Robins, who now resides in Statesboro, ’92 | Stacia A. Rastauskas Ga., with his wife of 58 years, Mary Lou Rutz Robins ’54. “I have Patrick M. Deering, married Stephen Bretherton been privileged to serve four great institutions, and all of this was Batavia, Ill., is with on June 30, 2010. They live made possible by the education, experiences and relationships that Recorded Books, Prince in Falls Church, Va. Wittenberg provided.” n Frederick, Md. – Ryan Maurer

summer 2011 33 ’99 | Joel S. Hoffman is vice president of transaction CLASS NOTES CLASS advisory with UGL Equis, Chicago, Ill.

J. Robert Linkhart Jr., Springfield, Ohio, teaches biology at Kenton Ridge High School. He is also in his 10th year as an assistant football coach at Wittenberg. ’00 | Jennifer Schwabauer DiMascio has graduated from the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Brunswick, N.J.

Trish Felker Wade ’83, Anne Felker Osovski ’90 and Liz Felker Farmer ’80, daughters of Mary Anne Sky N. and Christina Felker ’53, gathered together at their brother John’s change of command in the United States Coast Guard. Heine Schelle ’01 welcomed Reed Ara and Maisie Annabelle on Li’l Tigers April 7, 2010. They live in Indianapolis, Ind. Anna Elisabeth, daughter of Brady ’06 and Allison ’01 | Hogan ’06 Class Reunion, Homecoming/ Reunion Weekend 2011 Nicole C. Manley works in the drug chemistry section with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Raleigh, N.C.

Danielle B. Paglino Anna Hogan, 4-21-10 married Stephen A. Belin on Oct. 24, 2009. They Cora, daughter of announce the birth of their Elizabeth Hines Kienle son, Jackson Lammot, on ’04 and husband Brien Aug. 23, 2010. Danielle and her family live in Louisville, Colo.

In May 2010, Victoria A. Parisi completed her Ph.D. in microbiology with a concentration in petroleum microbiology and oil spills at the University Cora Kienle, 7-13-10

34 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES of Oklahoma. She is a Kevin M. and Carrie postdoctoral researcher Warvel Longley ’04 live at Harvard University, in Brookville, Ohio. Carrie, Cambridge, Mass. who was selected for the Emerging Artists: Ohio ’02 | Connections exhibition in Chad S. and Karen 2010, received her master of Pinkerton Mossing live fine arts degree in ceramics in Troy, Ohio. Chad is in 2009 from Indiana the head boys’ basketball University, Bloomington, coach at Northeastern High Ind. An exhibit of her works School, Springfield, Ohio. of ceramic and mixed media sculptures was featured in Paula Hauser O’Brien the Ann Miller Gallery at and her husband, John, Wittenberg in fall 2010. Paul H. McConnell ’87 announce the births of Robert John on Jan. 8, Shawn P. Martin is with Remains Committed To Public Service 2008, and Thomas Michael the Cincinnati Ventilating Lt. Col. Paul H. McConnell ’87 (above left) has seen many sides of war. on Sept. 24, 2009. They live Co., Florence, Ky. As a U.S. Marine, he served as an infantry officer for four years and was in Columbus, Ind. part of a team that liberated Kuwait City in Operation Desert Storm. Kari Grimme O’Diam, After returning from action, he went to law school, but found he couldn’t Michael J. Pickarski, West Alexandria, Ohio, is stay away from the Marines. Galloway, Ohio, served as a teacher at National Trail “What I thought would be a four-year commitment turned into 14 the head linesman at the Elementary School. years,” he says. Division III football state Santina Onorini Vanzant He worked for the Marines as defense counsel, prosecutor and trial championship game in is with the Union Savings judge, and even presided over two U.S. Army Abu Ghraib cases while November. Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio. with the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary. Though he returned to civilian life to become an assistant U.S. Karamagi Rujumba is attorney for Connecticut, he remained in the Reserves. Eventually, with the Pittsburgh History ’04 | he seized an opportunity to go to Afghanistan as part of Stability and Landmarks Foundation Valerie Fidder Doersen and Operations Section, a team responsible for helping Afghans rebuild in Pennsylvania. her husband, Christopher, their war-torn country. announce the birth of a Matthew E. Stewart is a There, as Operations Officer for Regional Command Southwest, son, Charlie, on June 30, senior scientist with Nano- McConnell oversaw work to create new infrastructure to enable Afghans 2010. They live in Mayfield to successfully run these institutions on their own. His team helped Terra Inc., Cambridge, Village, Ohio. establish cell phone coverage, cleaned canals and improved irrigation, Mass. distributed wheat seeds to replace poppy production, and trained and Michelle M. Fritz married mentored Afghan civil sector employees, among other duties. ’03 | Ryan Lusmann on Dec. “The Afghans were enthusiastic and supportive of our presence,” he After recovering from acute 20, 2009. They live in said. “And they were grateful for the security we provided and to have myelogenous leukemia, Algonquin, Ill. the schools open again after the Taliban had shut them down for years.” Nathan R. Hawkins is In August 2009, Elizabeth McConnell said he was surprised at how relatively peaceful many of the resuming his work toward A. Hines married Brian locations were in Helmand Province. In less than a year, he said, “there his master’s degree in Kienle. They announce the was no evidence of the Taliban in the center of the district, hundreds of environmental science at birth of their daughter Cora small schools were open, and people were voting in elections.” Stephen F. Austin State in July 2010. Liz works for Journeying to a war-torn region is not everyone’s way of making a University in Nacogdoches, the City of Thornton, Colo. difference – the hardest part was being away from his wife and two Texas. children – but for McConnell, public service is a deep calling. He Nicole M. Norcia is with Heather L. House married believes Wittenberg encouraged him to push his boundaries in this way Reminger Attorneys at Law, by encouraging personal exploration. Stephen Loas on July Columbus, Ohio. “Wittenberg was an opportunity to develop intellectually, emotionally 25, 2009. They live in and spiritually. This opportunity, along with the successes and failures I Worthington, Ohio. Matthew T. and Jaime realized while at Wittenberg, is the foundation for what led me into the Palumbo Simon live in Marine Corps – and ultimately toward a career in public service.” n Bellefontaine, Ohio, where – Gabrielle Antoniadis

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Claire Dickman ’08

CLASS NOTES CLASS married Rob Linkhart ’99 on June 5, 2010 at Weaver Chapel. The couple lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Stacy Rastauskas ’98 married Stephen Bretherton on June 30, 2010 on Tilghman Island, Md. The couple lives in Falls Church, Va.

36 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES Matt is an advisor with Hill Ashley Lands Eick, New & Hamilton Insurance. He Philadelphia, Ohio, is also volunteers with many the sports director at community and industry the Tuscarawas County organizations. Y.M.C.A. ’05 | Christyn C. Hegele married Hans Koschmann Aaron A. Davis, Baltimore, on June 28, 2008. Md., works in HIV/ AIDS prevention with the Jonathan D. Newcomer, Maryland Dept. of Health. Ocoee, Fla., married Amanda Reinstadtler on July 10, 2010.

Wendy Storch Paskoff ’91 Leads Coldwater Creek’s E-Commerce Line Li’l Tigers For Wendy Storch Paskoff, art has always played an integral role in Paige Christine, her life, although she never considered it as a career until Wittenberg. daughter of Trevor ’07 “As a student, I really wanted to take an art history class, but there and Mary Workman were never any openings,” she said. “Finally, I approached the professor Armstrong ’07 to inquire about it. She indicated that it was a class required by art majors and, therefore, it filled quickly. On a whim I declared art as my major, took the class and loved it.” From then on, Paskoff found numerous outlets for her creativity and interest in the field, including serving as a student designer for Wittenberg, followed by a post-graduate job at a large Michigan-based Scarlett Southard, 1-29-10 printing company. Those experiences then led her to a Columbus-based public relations firm where she was charged with building a small creative services department. With the advent of the Internet a few years later, Paskoff knew she needed to be in that world, so she accepted a designer position with American Online and eventually moved her way up. By 2006, Sandpoint, Idaho-based Coldwater Creek came calling, and Paskoff Paige Armstrong, 6-18-20 accepted a position with its e-commerce group. Jackson Lammot, son “I currently art direct all the creative that is on the Web for of Danielle Paglino Coldwater Creek and manage a team of designers,” she said. “My Belin ’01 and husband group’s responsibilities include everything from e-mails, to site Stephen updates, to online advertising creative. In addition to directing design I’m included in a lot of meetings with executives and get to see firsthand how the e-commerce projects intersect with the tri-channel business of catalog, retail and Web.” Looking back, Paskoff insists that Wittenberg’s educational approach made the difference in her success. “My graphic design teacher made a comment to our senior class as we started putting our portfolios together: ‘Don’t be intimidated, employers are going to want you. Students from a liberal arts education are well rounded and intellectually flexible. You are a wanted commodity.’ He couldn’t have been more right. Every step in my career path has been a new and challenging opportunity because I just wanted to learn a new art form, a new technology or simply have a new adventure.” n – Karen Gerboth ’93 Jackson Belin, 8-23-10

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CLASS NOTES CLASS ’05 married Hans Koschmann on June 28, announce the birth of Paige 2008. The couple lives in on June 18, 2010. They live Lee’s Summit, Mo. in Seville, Ohio. Katherine E. Barrett married Michael W. Brewer on July 17, 2010. They live in Powell, Ohio. Katherine is a candidate for juris doctor at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio.

Colleen Keppel ’07 Jamie L. Bockelman, a married Brandon Flayler registered nurse at the in Weaver Chapel on Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, is Oct. 17, 2009. The pursuing a master’s degree couple resides in Athens, in nursing at Case Western Ohio. Reserve University. Jena Bucchop Campbell, Port Aransas, Texas, is a graduate research assistant while pursuing her Ph.D. in marine science at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the recipient of the Walter B. Jones Memorial Award for excellence in coastal and marine graduate study bestowed by the NOAA in June 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Colleen C. Keppel and Brandon Flayler were married on Oct. 17, 2009. They live in Athens, Ohio.

Kevin R. Magley, Great Falls, Va., is a senior actuarial associate in pricing Ruth E. White is an ’06 | Ellen R. Peterson is a and product management account specialist II, client postdoctoral associate with the Geico Corp., Class Reunion, Homecoming/ services, policy service in the mathematical Washington, D.C. Reunion Weekend 2011 with Aflac Worldwide sciences department at Mark A. O’Brien is the Headquarters, Columbus, Carnegie Mellon University, Brady J. and Allison author of a children’s story Ga. Pittsburgh, Pa. Hogan Hively announce titled The Robot about a the birth of Anna Elizabeth lonely robot looking for love. on April 21, 2010. They live It was written under the pen in Bexley, Ohio. name of Mark Allen. He lives in Shavertown, Pa.

38 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES ’08 | Li’l Tigers Claire M. Dickman and Reed and Maisie, son and John R. Linkhart Jr. ’99 daughter of Sky ’00 and were married June 5, 2010. Christina Heine Schelle They live in Cleveland, ’09 Ohio.

Robert C. Moore is project development editor of the academic and professional group with Cengage Learning/Custom Solutions, Mason, Ohio.

Stephanie M. Simiola, East Haven, Conn., married Reed Ara and Maisie Annabelle, 4-7-10 Christopher Dinnen on March 28, 2009. Stephanie Robert John and Thomas is a research coordinator Michael, sons of Paula for the department of Hauser O’Brien ’02 and psychiatry at Yale University, husband John New Haven, Conn. ’09 | Blake E. Birner, Chesterfield, Mo., is a financial advisor with the Cornerstone Financial Group, St. Louis, Mo.

Brittani A. Sterling married William Gholson on April 26, 2010. Robert, 2-8-08, and Michael O’Brien, 9-24-09 ’10 | Charlie, son of Valerie Class Reunion, Homecoming/ Fidder Doersen ’04 and Reunion Weekend 2011 husband Christopher Emily M. Ellermann is an English teaching assistant at the Lycee la Martiniere Duchere High School in Lyon, France.

Robert W. Ritzi III is an assistant media planner/ buyer at Fahlgren in Columbus, Ohio.

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summer 2011 39 In Memoriam First Presbyterian Church, Katherine Link Smith of Nov. 23, 2010. A dedicated the Muskingum County Springfield, Ohio, passed teacher, she held positions at ’28 | Community Foundation, the away Oct. 5, 2010. She was the Elizabeth Township and David E. Detrick, formerly Beaux Arts Club, the Pioneer a former owner of Guild Lostcreek Township Schools in of Dayton, Ohio, died May and Historical Society, and the Galleries in Urbana, Ohio. Miami County and Graham 12, 2010, in Naples, Fla. He All Around Club. Her memberships included South in Champaign County retired from his position as St. Teresa Catholic Church, before ending her 35 years chair of the board with Gem ’37 | Gamma Phi Beta sorority and in education at the New Savings Association, now Helen Culp Kildow, Sky Terrace Guild of Mercy Carlisle-Bethel School District National City Corp., after Roseville, Ohio, passed away Hospital Women’s Auxiliary. in Clark County. Following 48 years of employment. His Oct. 22, 2007. She retired as She dedicated many years to her retirement, she enjoyed community activities included an elementary school teacher the Springfield Symphony traveling and spent many serving on the boards of with the Franklin Local School Orchestra, promoting summers in Fort Myers, Fla. Sinclair Community College, District. Her memberships fundraisers, developing Her memberships included the Oakwood Schools, Dayton included St. Paul’s United the Children’s Symphony Cove Springs Church, the Metropolitan Y.M.C.A. and Methodist Church, the Program, serving as president, Farm Bureau Council and Miami Valley Hospital. He Roseville City Council, vice president and trustee of several retired teachers was a member of Naples the Progress Club, WSCS, the board of directors. She was organizations. United Church of Christ, Phi Republican Club, Eastern recognized as emeritus trustee. Star, American Legion Ladies John E. Smith, La Porte, Gamma Delta fraternity, The Jane Folkerth Stuart, San Ind., passed away Sept. 21, 49 Club and Riverview Lodge Auxiliary Post No. 71 and Pythian Sisters. A co-founder Diego, Calif., died March 2, 2010. During World War No. 717 F.&A.M. Ancient & 2010. She taught four years in II, he served as a captain Accepted Scottish Rite Lodge. of the Roseville Historical Society, she volunteered at Ohio before moving to San in the U.S. Army with the Secrest Auditorium, Christ Diego, where she taught at British 8th Army in Africa. ’33 | Euclid, Chollas, Horace Mann A businessman, he owned John B. “Jack” Wilbirt, Table and at the Welcome Center of Zanesville. and Pacific Beach Junior High Smith Heating, John E. Smith formerly of Akron, Ohio, and Schools for 27 years, retiring Furniture and Hoosier Realty. Port Richey, Fla., died June 22, ’38 | in 1982. She was a member His memberships included La 2009, in St. Petersburg, Fla. of Good Shepherd Lutheran Porte Presbyterian Church, A member of King of Kings Charles J. Ballard of Flint, Mich., and Sun City West, Church. First Christian Church, Dorm Lutheran Church and Beta League, V.F.W. No. 1130, Theta Pi fraternity, he retired Ariz., died July 10, 2006. During World War II, he ’40 | American Legion Post No. 83, in 1976 from his position as John W. Hallauer died July La Porte Lions Club, Hunt an appraiser with the Federal served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Navy. He worked for two 10, 2010, in Wauseon, Ohio. Club, and Shoe and Slipper Housing Administration, He taught at The Ohio State Dance Club. He was past Cleveland, Ohio. He enjoyed years for the Robertson Steel and Iron Co., Springfield, University, Columbus, Ohio, president of La Porte County golf, bridge and ballroom before going to the University Realtors Assoc., founder of La dancing. Ohio, before joining American Airlines from where he of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Porte Multiple Listing Assoc. ’35 | retired after 35 years as a For more than 20 years, he was and past president of the sales manager. Following his head of its theatre department American Tuberculosis Assoc. Esther Norman Dix, formerly until his retirement in 1973. retirement he was with Ken Lavonne Waggoner Tiffany of Zanesville, Ohio, died He spent 15 seasons as an Meade Realty in Arizona. died Aug. 23, 2010, in Palm Oct. 23, 2010, in Winchester, actor and director with the Bay, Fla. A member of Alpha Va. She taught elementary Nutmeg Summer Theatre ’39 | Xi Delta sorority, she was a students and many teachers in Connecticut. Following Louise Loveless Bradley, real estate sales representative in workshops at Zanesville his retirement, he was an formerly of Mechanicsburg, for 20 years in the Cincinnati, area colleges during her actor-director at the Toledo Ohio, died May 4, 2010, in Ohio, area before her 38 years as an educator. Repertoire Theatre. He was She was named a Jennings her home in Urbana, Ohio. retirement to Florida. She taught for 26 years at a member of the Christian Scholar for outstanding and Disciples of Christ Church. creative teaching. After her Mechanicsburg Elementary ’41 | retirement, she worked as a School. An avid Ohio State Louise Klinger Knepper, Edwin E. Goddard, receptionist and school tour University football fan, she was Cincinnati, Ohio, died Sept. Johnstown, Pa., died May 18, guide at the Zanesville Art a member of Mechanicsburg 1, 1981. At one time she was 2010. He was employed as a Center and as a volunteer United Methodist Church and a teacher at Emerson Junior personnel director at HRM, at Bethesda Hospital. Her the Caroline Chapter No. 39 High School, Dayton, Ohio. as a director at Penn Traffic Order of the Eastern Star. and at the Somerset County memberships included Grace Josephine Drake Resler, Area Agency on Aging and United Methodist Church, Sidney, Ohio, passed away

40 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES Administration of Children traveling, playing golf and ’44 | education and youth work and Youth Services. A World decorating for the Christmas with the Ohio Synod and Janet Nichols Robinson, War II U.S. Navy veteran, holiday. director of development for Toledo, Ohio, passed away he was a member of St. Hamma School of Theology Betty Todd Trost passed away Sept. 11, 2010. She worked David’s Lutheran Church, at Wittenberg and Trinity Feb. 4, 2008, in Rochester as a dietitian while living in the 4-H Development Fund, Lutheran Seminary at Capital Hills, Mich. A member of New Jersey and Connecticut, Conemaugh Township Rotary University. Following his the First Church of Christ serving as the head of the Club, Conemaugh Lions Club retirement he was a visitation Scientists and Alpha Xi Delta department of dietetics and Goodwill Industries. pastor at St. John’s Lutheran sorority, she volunteered at at Bridgeport Hospital. A Church, Oak Harbor, Ohio. Evelyn Oelrick Kabat, the Christian Science Reading member of Delta Zeta sorority, Wittenberg bestowed an formerly of Lyndhurst, Ohio, Room for many years. As she loved spending time in the honorary doctorate on him in passed away Nov. 7, 2010, an ardent gardener, she also Adirondack Mountains and 1973. in Meadville, Pa. She was an enjoyed volunteering in the on Jekyll Island. Her interests administrative assistant in the House and Gardens Auxiliary included weaving, needlework, Dorothy Manfull Reed, pupil services department of at Cranbrook, Bloomfield bicycling, canoeing, Salinas, Calif., died Oct. the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Hills, Mich. She was an swimming, hiking and golfing. 30, 2010. A homemaker, she Board of Education for 20 accomplished tennis player enjoyed playing tennis and Margaret “Peg” Robinson years. An active member who won many tournaments bridge, traveling throughout Wilt, Cleveland, Ohio, died of Lyndhurst Community in Ohio, California and the United States, reading and Oct. 25, 2010. Pursuing her Presbyterian Church, she Michigan. cooking. She was a member of commitment to healthcare, founded East Side Ministries, Junior League. she was the evening supervisor dedicated to bringing the ’43 | of nursing at the University gospel to mentally challenged Alvie A. Bentley, formerly of ’46 | Hospitals of Cleveland for persons. She enjoyed sewing, Miamisburg, Ohio, died Aug. Mary “Chris” Huffman more than 20 years and traveling and golf. 17, 2010, in Springfield, Ohio. Maurice, Warren, Ohio, died director of nursing at the A World War II veteran, he July 3, 2010. She taught her Margaret Wagner House. ’42 | retired in 1979 after 25 years entire career at East Junior Later, she became the school June Bower Fuller, formerly teaching social studies, health High School with the Warren nurse for the University of Midland, Mich., died and physical education and Schools. An avid traveler, she School. An avid traveler, she March 8, 2010, in Sparks, Nev. coaching basketball with the had hosted 49 high school learned tai chi and reflexology She retired as a secretary with West Carrollton Schools. exchange students and teachers in Beijing, China, while on Dow Chemical USA in May from 26 countries and five Betty Dils Horne, formerly a grant from the Eisenhower 1994. continents. Her memberships of Washington, D.C., and Foundation. During her included St. Paul’s Lutheran Margit Blochova Heskett of Ellerton, Ohio, passed away travels, she also distributed Church, Chi Omega sorority, Bowling Green, Ohio, passed April 18, 2010, in her home in nettle pointed crosses and Y.W.C.A., Someplace Safe, away Aug. 13, 2010. During Melbourne, Fla. A member of United States Flags that she Green Thumb Garden World War II, she served as an Salem Evangelical Lutheran created and swam in all of Club, Trumbull County occupational therapist with the Church, she taught at schools the world’s oceans. She was a Retired Teachers, Ohio U.S. Army. She taught at the in Ohio, California, Oregon, member of Messiah Lutheran Retired Teachers, Monday public and parochial schools Washington, D.C., Maryland, Church and Kappa Delta Afternoon Club, Fortnightly in Springfield, Ohio, with the Colorado and Guatemala She sorority. Book Study Club, Trumbull Fairborn City Schools and at was one of 10 alumni who County Historical Society, Antioch College, Wittenberg continued a round robin letter ’45 | Warren Republican Women’s University and Bowling Green begun upon their graduation Richard W. Powell ’73H, Association, Warren Civic State University. She wrote two from Wittenberg. a member of Phi Gamma Music Association, Upton books, Margit’s Red Book and Delta fraternity and a former Jane McCroba Kirkpatrick Association, National Packard A Personal Memoir. member of Wittenberg’s died Nov. 15, 2008, at her Museum Association, AAUW, board of directors, died Aug. Barbara Fritsche MacKinnon home in Clyde, N.C. She was Trumbull Art Guild, Trumbull 29, 2010, in Toledo, Ohio. died in her home in Toledo, a member of Alpha Delta Pi County Educational Service Ordained as a Lutheran pastor Ohio, on Aug. 10, 2010. A sorority. Center, Trumbull Mobile member of Hope Lutheran in the Evangelical Lutheran Hazel Evans Nation, Meals and the Red Cross. Church, she was employed Church in America in 1945, Columbus, Ohio, died Feb. Jeanne Harris Simpson, at Willis-Overland Jeep he served as pastor of Trinity 18, 2002. A homemaker, she Tacoma, Wash., passed away during World War II. As a Lutheran Church, Brookville, was one of 10 alumni who June 16, 2009. A homemaker, homemaker, she excelled in Ohio, and Hope Lutheran continued a round robin letter she dedicated her life to her sewing, entertaining, cooking Church, Toledo, Ohio. He begun upon their graduation 12 children and opened her and gardening. She enjoyed was director of Christian from Wittenberg.

summer 2011 41 home to foster children for Katherine Keen Rook away Oct. 31, 2010. During memberships included Faith in more than 45 years. She was a died July 17, 2010, in World War II, he served as a Christ Lutheran Church, the member of St. Martin of Tours Ashland, Ohio. A member corporal with the U.S. Army Exchange Club, the Jaycees,

CLASS NOTES CLASS Catholic Church. of the Lutheran Church, she Air Corps in the Pacific. He the American Legion, V.F.W. worked as an accountant’s retired as a senior principal and a life member of the ’47 | assistant with John A. Souder, appraiser from the department BPOE No. 132 Lodge where R. Henry Campbell, Marble, Accounting, and as a secretary of equalization and assessment he was a past exulted ruler and Pa., passed away July 11, with the Starkey Glass Co. with the State of New trustee. 2010. A member of Lambda York after 35 years. His Mary E. Grant, Cleveland, Chi Alpha fraternity and ’49 | memberships included Christ Ohio, passed away Sept. 25, the Masonic Temple, he was Joseph C. Brucker, Our Emmanuel Lutheran 2000. For more than 36 years, responsible for a chemical Springfield, Ohio, died Oct. Church, Phi Mu Delta she had served as a teacher warfare platoon with the U.S. 26, 2010. He served with fraternity, Veterans of Foreign with the Cleveland Public Army in the Pacific during the U.S. Army Air Corps as Wars, American Legion Post Schools. World War II. He taught a B-25 tail gunner during 42, and Sons of the American math and science, and coached World War II. An attorney Revolution. He was a trumpet Howard W. Grote, Winston- boys’ basketball for six years for 58 years, he worked in the player, conductor and Salem, N.C., passed away at Urbana High School Springfield City Solicitor’s concertmaster with the Ghent May 12, 2010. A navigator in Ohio, before becoming office and was assistant Clark Band and founding member with the U.S. Army Air Corps Champaign County Schools‚ County prosecutor for 26 years and leader of the Bavarian during World War II, he flew superintendent. Later, he was before retiring. He was an avid Pretzels, an authentic German 15 missions over Germany. principal at Greenon High fisherman and a member of St. music band. Following his He was also a veteran of the School before assuming the Teresa Catholic Church and Pi retirement, he became an Korean War. Before retiring position of superintendent of Kappa Alpha fraternity. avid gardener and pursued his from Reeves Brothers in Clark County Schools. He Cornelius, N.C., he was Shirley Vail Grimes, hobby in genealogy research. retired in 1976 to buy and employed by B.F. Goodrich Springfield, Ohio, died May remodel homes, play golf and in Akron, Ohio. He was an 3, 2010. After many years ’50 | enjoy needlework. John Bartos, Redlands, active member of Parkway of service, she retired as an Calif., died Aug. 15, 2010. A Presbyterian Church. George M. Parr Jr. died Nov. executive secretary from U.S. Navy veteran, he was an 21, 2007, in his home at Seven Robbins & Myers Inc. Her Albert E. Hollowell Jr. of ordained American Baptist Lakes, N.C. During World memberships included Chi Dacula, Ga., passed way minister. He served on several War II, he served with the U.S. Omega sorority and the Ladies July 10, 2010. A member of city and state boards in Army Air Corps. He retired Auxiliary at Community Lawrenceville Presbyterian missions, provided leadership from the General Electric lamp Hospital. Church and Phi Mu Delta to local clergy groups, division after working there for fraternity, he was a World Joyce Weiser Leichman, ministered to needy, migrant 34 years. War II U.S. Navy veteran. formerly of Hamilton, Ohio, workers and prison inmates, He devoted 35 years of passed away on Nov. 13, ’48 | was interim chaplain at UCLA, service as an executive with 2010, in Springboro, Ohio. Nancy Bristle Manos, and was a pastor to those in the Y.M.C.A. in Columbus, A member of Delta Zeta Arlington Heights, Ill., died hospitals, nursing homes and Ohio, Indianapolis, Ind., sorority, she taught physical May 29, 2010. She taught numerous churches. Naperville, Ill., and Atlanta, education at Fairmont High first grade for 25 years with Jack H. Engle, formerly of Ga. In retirement, he enjoyed School, Dayton, Ohio, before an open classroom approach Bellefontaine, Ohio, died traveling and managing an becoming a physical therapist at Greenbrier and Olive- June 6, 2010, in Springfield, antique business. at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Mary Stitt Schools with the Ohio. During World War II, Ohio. In 2003, she was Julianne Myer Meyer, Arlington Heights District 25. he served with the U.S. Army inducted into the Wittenberg Old Mission, Mich., died After retiring, she served as a Air Corps as a nose gunner Athletic Hall of Honor. Oct. 13, 2010. She taught literacy tutor for children in and bombardier in a B-24. school in New Philadelphia, Chicago, as well as teaching Reta Riecken Lashley Wilson He flew 22 missions in the Silver Spring, Md., Quito, English as a second language of Kettering, Ohio, passed European, North African and Ecuador, Saigon, Vietnam, to adults. For more than away Oct. 17, 2010. An artist, Italian campaigns. He was Buenos Aires, Argentina and 25 years she was an active she was a member of Alpha a superintendent of taxation in the Canal Zone. She was member of First United Xi Delta sorority and Ladies for the City of Bellefontaine acknowledged as a master Methodist Church serving in Auxiliary V.F.W. Post No. and was a branch manager/ teacher in Argentina, and many capacities, including 9927. She was also a volunteer vice president with the she served on the board of participating in missions in with Cox Arboretum. Bellefontaine National Bank directors for the National the United States as well as in Herman W. Witthoft, and Huntington National Museum of Panama. Chile and Senegal. Putnam Valley, N.Y., passed Bank. He retired in 1988. His

42 Wittenberg Magazine CLASS NOTES Following her retirement, she analyst from Wright Patterson ’52 | ’53 | moved to Old Mission, Mich., Air Force Base. Donald E. Edwards, of Lloyd C. Dunne, Collinsville, where she became active in Louis W. Fritz, formerly of Millcreek Township, Pa., Ill., died Nov. 28, 2008. the Congregational Church Ashland, Ohio, died June 20, passed away Oct. 6, 2010. During the Korean War, he and the Old Mission Women’s 2010, in Bonita Springs, Fla. During the Korean War, he served with the U.S. Army. Club. She was also associated A member of First Baptist served with the U.S. Marine A retired school teacher with the Peninsula Township Church and Alpha Tau Corps. He taught at Gridley from Collinsville Unit 10, government for a number Omega fraternity, he served Middle School with the he coached football and of years and volunteered as a captain in the U.S. Air Erie School District for 38 taught in Ohio and Illinois at Munson Hospital. She Force during the Korean years until his retirement for more than 35 years. He played an important part in Conflict. He owned the Lou in 1992. His memberships was inducted into the Illinois the establishment of the Old Fritz Cadillac-Buick dealership included New Hope High School football Coaches Mission Peninsula Historical in Ashland, Ohio, before Presbyterian Church, Phi Hall of Fame in 2006. His Society and wrote several becoming the first director Mu Delta fraternity, Tyrian memberships included Lord’s books on the history of the of economic development for Commonwealth Lodge 362 Lutheran Church, Pi Kappa area. She was instrumental in Cuyahoga County. He was F&AM and Scottish Rite Alpha fraternity. the saving and reconstruction also an adjunct professor at Consistory Valley of Erie. of a log home, which is on the Marian Danekind Hanson Ashland University. For his State Register of Historic Sites. Jack A. Ludwig, Lenoir, died April 1, 2001, in Fort outstanding contributions to N.C., passed away May 17, Lauderdale, Fla. A member of Florence Means Mitchell, the economic development 2008. During World War II, Alpha Xi Delta sorority, she East Liberty, Ohio, died May of the State of Ohio, he was he served with the U.S. Army was at one time a personnel 21, 2009. She was a member of appointed by the governor to in Italy. He retired as a senior representative with Midwest Gamma Phi Beta sorority. the Executive Order of the vice president of Broyhill Technical Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio Commodores. Barbara Nuss String, Pepper Furniture after designing some Ohio. Pike, Ohio, died Oct. 20, Kenneth E. Johnson, Huron, of the most popular furniture 2010. A homemaker, she had a Ohio, died May 26, 2010. collections and accumulating ’54 | passion for travel, which took Owner of Pet’s Own Stores many sales awards. His Robert W. Hilty‚ 57S, Huron, her to all 50 states and most in Parma and Cleveland, memberships included First Ohio, died Oct. 29, 2010. He major countries around the he was known for breeding Presbyterian Church and the served 20 years as a minister world. She was a member of special colors of parakeets and St. Andrews Masonic Lodge at Holy Trinity Lutheran St. Christopher’s-by-the-River canaries. His memberships from where he was awarded Church, Massillon, Messiah Episcopal Church and Chi included Phi Mu Delta his 33rd degree designation. Lutheran Church, Lyndhurst, Omega sorority. fraternity, the American He received the Order of and Redeemer Lutheran Legion and the Huron Eagles the Long Leaf Pine award in Church, Elyria, Ohio. In ’51 | Club. He enjoyed raising 1977 for his contributions 1979, he began pursuing his An active member of First dogs, gardening, swimming, to his community and was love of painting and by 1983 Christian Church, Dottie boating, fishing and classical commissioned as a Kentucky he was named “Artist of the Shough Chandler of music. Colonel for his strength of Year” by Ducks Unlimited. Springfield, Ohio, died May His art has been carried in Emma Cocklin Schreck, character, leadership and 28, 2010. Her career as an 200 galleries across the United formerly of Goshen, Ind., died dedication to the welfare of elementary school teacher States. He also taught painting Sept. 14, 2010, in Seattle, others. began at Boone Station and at Bowling Green State Wash. During World War II, Shirley Gilbert Wolff, Emerson before she became University-Firelands College, she served with the U.S. Army Newcomerstown, Ohio, died principal at McGuffy and Huron, Ohio, and gave private Nurse Corps in England. As Nov. 4, 2010. A devoted Navy Snyder Park. As a reading lessons at Sand Hill Studio, his the wife of a Lutheran pastor, wife for 26 years, she was specialist, she initiated the home studio for 25 years. He she lived in Indiana, Illinois active with the Officers Wives Federal Reading System was a member of Lambda Chi and Kentucky. She chaired League, Red Cross and Toys at Frey Elementary School Alpha fraternity. a women’s self-help group for Tots. Following retirement before finishing her career at in Terre Haute, served in she remained active as a Ruth Searl Leuby of Lima, Kenwood Elementary School. literacy programs in Kokomo member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Ohio, died Sept. 22, 2010. A Carolyn Snook Combs, and tutored elementary Church, Delta Zeta sorority professional home economist, Springfield, Ohio, died Aug. school children in reading in and the Lions Club. She was she was a member of St. Paul 11, 2008. A member of the Goshen. She volunteered at the also a volunteer at nursing Evangelical Lutheran Church Lutheran Church, she retired Lutheran Church and loved to homes. and Alpha Delta Pi sorority. with more than 30 years of travel and participate in Elder She had been a substitute service as a supervisory budget Hostel trips. teacher, a volunteer at the

summer 2011 43 Y.W.C.A. and co-chair of Meet as a psychiatric social worker Pentathlon horses for the 1968 Lutheran Church, Alpha Xi and Greet at Kendal. at Fort Knox Kentucky from American Olympic team. His Delta sorority, Columbus Life 1955-57. He retired as regional memberships included Christ Underwriters, the Columbus Thomas L. MacAdam

CLASS NOTES CLASS supervisor after 35 years with Church, Hamilton-Wenham, Chapter of CLU, the Upper passed away Oct. 9, 2008, in the Nassau County Recreation Mass., Grace Episcopal Arlington Chamber of Pahrump, Nev. A Lutheran and Parks, East Meadow, N.Y. Church, Lawrence, Mass., Commerce and the Assistance minister for more than 50 He also retired from South St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, League of Greater Columbus. years, he served two churches Oaks Hospital. Santa Fe, N.M., and Delta A lover of nature, she spent in Manchester and Cambridge, Sigma Phi fraternity. many weeks in the Arctic Ohio, before joining the U.S. ’56 | studying the plants, animals Navy in 1969. He served as D. Randall Fisher, London, ’59 | and climate change. She also a chaplain in West Pac on England, died March 25, 2010. Noel C. Huston died Oct. traveled extensively in Alaska. the USS Juneau and the USS A member of Lambda Chi 25, 2010, at her residence Sacramento. He retired from Christian J. Boehlefeld of Alpha fraternity, he was at one in Elida, Ohio. Her career the military in 1989 and was Davis, Ill., died May 9, 2010. a time the deputy head tutor at included working in the called to serve as pastor at member of St. Mary Catholic Speedwriting LTD. In 1999, bacteriology laboratory at the Christ the King Lutheran Church and Beta Theta Pi he was named a Freeman of Cleveland Clinic, and teaching Church in Goldendale, Wash., fraternity, he was a teacher. the City of London. with the Cridersville School retiring in May 1997. Moving He taught and coached District and the Elyria Board to Nevada where he could play Thomas R. Garrison, athletics in Ohio and with the of Education from where golf year round and volunteer Mansfield, Ohio, passed Durand Community Schools. she retired in 1992. She also with the No to Abuse Program away Nov. 17, 2010. He He coached boys and girls owned a printing company and the Kiwanis Club, he was taught biology and history varsity basketball, advised for 14 years. A member of again called to serve five years at Mansfield Senior High academic bowl teams, as well Gamma Phi Beta sorority, as pastor for Saved by Grace School for several years before as CLOWNS and Prep and she volunteered with the Red Lutheran Church. He was a working in the family business, Kids Care programs. After his Cross. member of Lambda Chi Alpha Richland Electric. He retired retirement from Durand High fraternity. as a journeyman electrician ’60 | School in 2001, he remained and vice president. His Allen L. Harshbarger died active as a substitute teacher. ’55 | memberships included Holy Nov. 2, 2010, in Springfield, James T. Dove, Springfield, Charles E. Buchy, Cincinnati, Trinity Lutheran Church, Ohio. He was employed Ill., passed away Nov. 7, 2010. Ohio, passed away Aug. 29, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity with Ohio Bell Telephone A cardiologist, he founded 2010. He spent a 30-year and I.B.E.W. Local No. 688. Co., in Dayton, Ohio, and was president emeritus career as a chemistry and He enjoyed boating, fishing before transferring to AT&T of Prairie Cardiovascular physics teacher at Madeira and playing darts. Headquarters in New Jersey. Consultants. A nationally High School. Following his After retiring, he moved to known leader in health retirement from teaching, ’58 | Sarasota, Fla., and worked care, he was president of he worked as an analytical Dennis D. O’Keefe, Santa for GTE in Tampa as well as the American College of chemist for 12 years at Procter Fe, N.M., died Nov. 16, 2010. working with a START-UP Cardiology and a clinical and Gamble. He served as A medical doctor, he was business program with the professor of medicine, division trustee and chair of the board board certified in emergency University of South Florida. of cardiology at Southern for the Dayton Masonic medicine, and general and His hobbies included radio Illinois University School Learning Center for Children. colon/rectal surgery. He control model airplanes, of Medicine. He received His memberships included was a fellow and conducted photography and golf. numerous honors from Boy Good Shepherd Lutheran cardiorespiratory research Scouts and the Springfield Church, Phi Mu Delta at Massachusetts General ’61 | Hospital for many years. Rotary Club. In 1992, the fraternity, Greenville Masonic Anita Forbeck Smetters Before moving to New Mexico, Illinois chapter of the America Lodge, the Valley of Dayton Blazek, formerly of Upper he was an emergency room College of Physicians named Ancient and Accepted Scottish Arlington, Ohio, passed away doctor at Lawrence General him Outstanding Clinician Rite, and the Antioch Temple Sept. 11, 2010, in Marysville, Hospital and several other Laureate. The conference Shrine. He was coroneted an Ohio. A medical technologist, hospitals in the Massachusetts center at the Prairie Heart honorary 33rd degree Mason she managed several hospital and New Hampshire area. Institute is named for him. In in 2000. laboratories in Ohio. She During the Vietnam War, 2001, he established the Dove Louis C. Reiss Jr., Wantagh, founded and was president of he served as a major with the Scholarship at Wittenberg. N.Y., died Oct. 6, 2010. A Key Financial Services Inc., U.S. Army in San Antonio, In 2008, he received an member of Christ Lutheran a life and health insurance Texas, teaching Green Berets Alumni Citation Award from Church and Dorm League, agency for 25 years. Her emergency field care. An avid Wittenberg. Recently he he served with the U.S. Army memberships included Advent horseman, he trained Olympic was named the 2010 State

44 Wittenberg Magazine Journal-Register First Citizen Omega sorority, the Women’s ’64 | Elsie Roeandt McDermott, Bible Study Truth Project, Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif., for his contributions to the Roberta “Bobbie” Robson Brookshire Neighborhood passed away Oct. 21, 2010. A community. He was a member Brennan passed away July Assoc. and the Hamilton member of Gamma Phi Beta of Beta Theta Pi fraternity 8, 2010. She retired in 1995 County Republican Party. sorority, she worked as a school and the Wittenberg Board of as assistant to the operations She also served as vice social worker in Michigan, at Directors. manager with the Eastman precinct committee person for a children’s hospital in Texas Robert E. Garlough, Kodak Co., Oak Brook,Ill. Brookshire No. 1. and as a medical social worker Fairborn, Ohio, passed away Her retirement in Naperville, in California. She retired from Oct. 19, 2010. A teacher for Ill., Savannah, Ga., and ’62 | St. Mary’s Hospital in Long 12 years with the Shawnee Dublin, Ohio, included Jessie Thompson Freis, Beach, Calif., where she had Local and Bethel Local School pursuing her love of golf, Orinda, Calif., died June 26, worked for more than 20 years. travel, art, food and wine. Districts in Springfield, Ohio, 2010. At one time she was a Her memberships included St. Marsha Young Randall of he concluded his career as a teacher with the public schools Brigid of Kildare Church and Sun City Center, Fla., died meter reader with the City of in San Francisco, Calif., and various art leagues. Aug. 25, 2010. Formerly of Springfield in 1996. He was an editor with the Wadsworth Ohio, she taught with the also a bookkeeper for 21 years Publishing Co., Belmont, John W. McCoy, formerly Columbus City Schools and with Beardshaw General Tire Calif. of Troy, Ohio, died Aug. the Greenon Local School Co. 26, 2010, in Surfside Beach, Gerhardt E. “Gay” Mengers, District. She retired as director Mary Swaney Huff, Apache S.C. From 1953-55, he was a Alliance, Ohio, died Aug. 11, of the Clark County Literacy Junction, Ariz., died Dec. first lieutenant with the U.S. 2008. Ordained as a Lutheran Coalition in Springfield. Her 10, 2007. During her career, Army at Fort Knox, Ky., and minister in 1962, he served memberships included Bethel she taught at the Springfield Fort Sill, Okla. He taught numerous parishes in Ohio, Lutheran Church and Kappa City Schools in Ohio and the and coached baseball and including Good Shepherd in Delta sorority. basketball at Miami East High Apache Junction and Superior West Milton, Mt. Moriah in School and served as principal Public Schools in Arizona. Berlin Center and St. John’s ’67 | of Staunton Elementary, She was a member of the in Covington. He retired in Karyne Lather Carey, before becoming assistant Church of Christ, Delta Kappa 1994 from Calvary Lutheran Mansfield, Ohio, passed away superintendent for the Troy Gamma sorority and numerous Church in Chillicothe. In July 20, 2010. She retired in City Schools. His memberships professional organizations. retirement, he served as May 1997 after 30 years as included Trinity Presbyterian James W. McDorman interim minister at Emmanuel an English teacher with the Church, the Lions Club and ’65S, Boardman, Ohio, died in New Philadelphia, Grace Mansfield Madison Schools. Heron Point Golf Club. June 30, 2010. A member of in Steubenville, Israel in Paris, From 1997-99, she taught Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Honteros in Youngstown and ’66 | English at the Institute of Trinity in Carrollton. Technology and Business in he served with the National David E. Cressman, formerly Nakhodka, Russia, as a Peace Guard. He recently celebrated of Camarillo, Calif., died Nov. ’63 | Corps volunteer. She was a the 45th anniversary of his 13, 2010, in Thousand Oaks, Ellen Danzeisen Jackson member of the First English ordination into the Lutheran Calif. An electrical engineer, of Whitehouse, Ohio, and Lutheran Church. ministry. His parishes included he worked at Industrial Leesburg, Fla., died Feb. 17, Iglesia Lutheran Cristo Rey, Nucleonics and Intec Corp., Earl M. Heskett, Springfield, 2010. She worked for Buckeye San Nicolas, Argentina, and before going to Teradyne Ohio, passed away Sept. 9, Cable System, Toledo, Ohio, Salem Ellerton Lutheran Corp. in 1979. He retired from 2010. During World War II, for 30 years, retiring in 2002 Church, Miamisburg, First there as a product manager he was a fireman first class as director of marketing Lutheran Church, Plymouth, of the VLSI and memory test with the U.S. Navy in the and programming. She was Zion Reedsburg Lutheran divisions in 2000. An active Philippines. He was a chemist president of the Ohio CTAM Church, Wooster, St. Mark’s member of Holy Trinity at the Ohio Steel Foundry chapter and the first recipient Lutheran Church, New Lutheran Church, he enjoyed before becoming a teacher, of the Great Lakes Cable Carlisle, Emmanuel Lutheran living on a ranch with his coach, bus driver and principal Regional Marketing Award Church, Georgetown, and horses. at Rockway Elementary School in 2003. She served on the Good Hope Lutheran Church, from 1957-72. He then became advisory board of the National Ferd E. Gaulke III passed North Lima, Ohio. principal of Reid Elementary Ovarian Cancer Coalition of away at his home in Bay School until his retirement in Laurel Leopold Spicer, northwest Ohio/southwest Village, Ohio, on Nov. 1, 1986. He continued to serve Carmel, Ind., died Sept. 3, Michigan. Her memberships 2010. At one time he was a the Clark County Education 2010. She was a partner with included First Baptist Church district manager with SBC. Office until he retired again Carey Spicer & Associates and Maumee Valley T-Bird A member of Beta Theta Pi in 1996. His memberships in the golf industry. Her Club. fraternity, he was an avid golfer included Northridge and memberships included and baseball and football fan. College Park Church, Chi

summer 2011 45 Columbus Avenue United the Bridge” in Foster’s Sunday he enjoyed performing with a Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a Methodist Churches, Citizen, the Nashua Telegraph, barber shop quartet and a bell member of the High Street the Springfield Emmaus the Concord Monitor and choir. United Methodist Church. Community, Clark County Claremont Eagle Times. For Allan M. Radinsky, Ross, Pa., James S. Johnson, Oak Ridge, Retired Teachers Assoc. and his service, he received the died Jan. 29, 2009. A member Tenn., passed away Sept. 9, the Y.M.C.A. Joseph D. Vaughn Award of St. Alexander Nevsky 2010. He was a member of Phi in 2000 from the New Mary Evelyn Bean Lough, Church and Alpha Tau Omega Kappa Psi fraternity. Hampshire State Committee formerly of Dayton, Ohio, died fraternity, he was a mental on Aging. Sept. 7, 2008, in Lakeland, health services professional. ’79 | Fla. A middle school teacher ’70 | He founded and was chief Douglas F. Brown, a former for 25 years, she most recently behavior analyst of Just Life employee of Bank One, died Catherine Uhl Byrne taught at Pasco Middle School Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 23, 2009, at his home in passed away May 16, in Dade City, Fla. She attended Columbus, Ohio. 2010, at her home in Fort Ann Wayson Locher, Christ Lutheran Church and Collins, Colo. She taught formerly of Sylvania, Ohio, Henry A. Carter, formerly was a member of the National elementary music and English died June 6, 2010, in Portland, of Fairborn, Ohio, died Dec. Education Association. as a second language at Ore. A clinical nurse specialist, 26, 2005, in Warsaw, Ind. He ’68 | Oakwood Elementary and she cared for those impacted retired from the U.S. Air Force Harris Bilingual Schools by HIV. She opened the first after 29 years of service. Nancy Brush Killoran, Eagle in Fort Collins, Frankfurt grant-funded HIV testing River, Alaska, passed away William P. Fisher died May International School in clinic in northwest Ohio Nov. 10, 2010. Her career 27, 2010, in Philadelphia, Pa., Germany and the American in 1985 and coordinated included working as a writer where he was most recently a Embassy School in New Delhi, the Ryan White Program for the Anchorage Times, legal assistant with Drinker, India. Her memberships at the University of Toledo followed by a position in public Biddle & Reath LLP. included Plymouth Medical Center in 2000. For relations at the University Congregational UCC and her decades-long career as of Alaska at Anchorage. ’91 | Gamma Phi Beta sorority. a pioneer in HIV care, she She retired as marketing Rebecca Patterson Bibart, was recognized with several director for Anchorage Public Westbourgh, Mass., died ’71 | awards, including the Ohio Transportation. A member of Nov. 18, 2010. A member of James D. Brower passed away Department of Health AIDS Holy Spirit Episcopal Church Gamma Phi Beta sorority, she at his home in Oregon, Ohio, Service Award, the Ruppert and Alpha Delta Pi sorority, taught English at El Camino on Sept. 10, 2010. He was Scholarship for Academic she dedicated a significant High School, San Francisco, a manager with the Oregon Excellence, the University amount of her time to other Calif., and at Quakertown Banquet Room for more than of Toledo Distinguished organizations. High School and Sauderton 14 years and was more recently, Achievement in Nursing - High School in Pennsylvania. ’69 | a substitute teacher with the Outstanding Alumni Award Most recently she was a yoga Oregon City Schools. He Richard I. Learned, and other awards for health instructor at the Westborough enjoyed singing, sailing and Meredith, N.H., died Aug. education. She was a member Tennis and Swim Club and traveling. His memberships 25, 2010. During World of Delta Gamma sorority. served as an assistant at the included First St. Mark’s War II, he served with the Westborough Public Library. Church, Delta Sigma Phi U.S. Navy Medical Corps. ’74 | She was an avid reader and fraternity, Toledo Sailing Club, Debra Brennan Nemetz, A Lutheran minister, he enjoyed the outdoors. Bavarian Sports Club, Oregon formerly of Harrisburg, Pa., served parishes in Elmont, Community Theater, Oregon- passed away in her home N.Y., and Woonsocket, R.I., ’95 | Jerusalem Historical Society, in Chatham, N.J., on June before moving in 1981 to Devon M. Ratchford, Mason Paragon Lodge No. 28, 2010. In Pennsylvania, Laconia, N.H., to develop Thornville, Ohio, died Sept. 0788 Scottish Rite and various she taught at a private the congregation of Good 3, 2010. A member of Broad other civic projects. kindergarten and worked Shepherd Lutheran Church. Street Presbyterian Church and at several interesting shops. Following his retirement as Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, ’72 | After moving to New Jersey, pastor emeritus, he was active he was a physician assistant John M. Kepner Jr., Shasta she volunteered at the Great in many areas of elder services, with the Diley Medical Group Lake, Calif., died Sept. 23, Swamp Outdoor Education including the Belknap County in Pickerington, Ohio. 2007. A U.S. Marine Corps Center. She loved camping, Area Committee on Aging, veteran, he retired from hiking and leading her Brian H. Sampson, Lancaster, Service Link and the New Gateway Unified School daughter’s Girl Scout troop. Ohio, passed away Oct. 22, Hampshire Mental Health District after more than 20 2010. He was a member of Commission. He served as a years of service as a school bus ’78 | First United Methodist Church voice for senior citizens in his mechanic. An active member Candace C. Bean died May and a teacher and coach at newspaper column “Under of St. James Lutheran Church, 10, 2005, in her home in Lancaster High School.

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July 6-10 V olleyball Camps

11-15 Boys’ Soccer Camp

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25 Student Involvement Fair

31 Wittenberg Series Event – 11 a.m. Weaver Chapel, Opening Convocation, New Wittenberg Provost Christopher M. Duncan ’04 e c n e P n i r E September Wittenberg Series, Opening Convocation, Aug. 31 23-25 Family Weekend ’04 c

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October 10 Wittenberg Series Event – 7:30 p.m. TBD, Kinnison Lecture, Ronald Grigor Suny

17-18 Fall Break

21-23 Homecoming Weekend

0 2 Wittenberg Series Event – 7:30 p.m. Second City, TBD

30 Wittenberg Series Event – 7:30 p.m. Weaver Chapel, Festival Choral Eucharist for Reformation Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 21-23

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his summer marks the 50th anniversary Our accommodations ranged from a majestic old world pipe organ. Tof a “defining moment” in my life as a nunnery in Venice, which had locks on Our final four concerts were in Berlin, student. From June 8 to July 23, 1961, I the shower rooms, to swanky mansions of two in the American West sector, and two toured eight countries in central Europe prominent citizens. Six nights in a row we in the Soviet controlled East. The dramatic (and the East sector of Berlin) with the 65 had the exact same church supper menu in real-world finale to our otherwise fantasy voices of the Wittenberg Choir on its first six different cities. experience was learning three weeks after international tour. At one point, one of our sopranos we returned home that on August 13, a Like me, many of the choir members became ill in Brig, Switzerland. Chaperone wall rose overnight dividing Berlin and boarded a plane for the first time. Like and “nurse” Margret Kommel, voice putting the Marienkirche, our concert me, most of us also counted Canada and professor, stayed with her at a hospital. venue, off limits for 30 years. Mexico as our “international” experience. They both missed all of northern Italy, My participation in the first European All of us worked hard for 18 months raising rejoining us in Liege, Austria. Jack Hinkle choir tour as a squeaky first tenor the money for our individual expenses and for ’62 and I stayed overnight with the widow summer before my senior year infected me the choir tour treasury. of the brewmeister of the Ulmer Munster with a travel bug and equipped me to accept Our official name back then was the brewery overlooking the Cathedral in international travel as a highly desirable Wittenberg A Capella Choir. We had Ulm. Almost every day we performed and educational necessity. I eagerly no pianos, organs, drums, guitars, or impromptu and informal concerts in town accepted the invitation of the Director of even pitch pipes. There were always two squares, attracting huge crowds and often International Studies at Western Illinois choir members who had perfect pitch free lunches. University to lead academic study tours to who quietly prepared us for each number. My most spine-tingling concerts were Europe and Latin America for 10 summers. Our choir had a national reputation from in the largest and grandest cathedrals in Over the years I was able to revisit almost performing weekly on the Protestant Hour every country (England, the Netherlands, every city and church introduced to me radio program, from our annual regional Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the first time with two busloads of singing tours and from our record albums. Austria, and Germany). We nicknamed choir mates. I’ve added 30 more countries Any student, regardless of major, could this the Church Tour of Europe. On to the eight we toured, but I see them all audition with then choir director Dr. L. many occasions, Dr. Miller would get through the eyes of a Wittenberg student. David Miller. These sweat-provoking trials permission to play something on a n – A. Gilbert “Gil” Belles ’62 were rigorous and highly competitive, and following one’s selection, the choir would rehearse six days a week in the largest classroom in pungent, odoriferous Koch Hall and its chemistry labs. Every spring we would then take a 10-day tour to various regions of the country, singing concerts in host churches whose members fed and housed us. But those tours hardly prepared us for the intimidating prospect of spending six-and- a-half weeks singing in eight countries and living out of one suitcase.

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Teaching Excellence Ed Hasecke ’97, associate professor of political science, and John Fenimore, adjunct assistant professor of business, earn recognition from faculty peers.

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