OTTERBEIN • COLLEGE TOWERSWinter, 2006 From the Otterbein Galleries... A contemporary hand-formed pot with color slips by the artist S. Garcia, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Acquired by Professor Earl Hassenpflug for Otterbein College in 1979. Otterbein College has a diverse collection of art with particular strengths in works from West Africa, New Guinea, and Japan. The collection also includes contemporary American prints and drawings. Towers Magazine will be regularly illustrating examples of works in the College collection. Donors to the collection include College alumni, faculty, administrators and friends. Features ontents Students Sleep Out for the Homeless 12 C As part of Homeless Awareness Week, VOLUME 79 • NUMBER 1 several Otterbein students spent 24 hours Winter 2006 out in the cold sleeping in tents and card- board boxes. In the Wake of Katrina 14 Some alumni lived through it, and students went down to help those in need. Playing for Peace 20 An Otterbein faculty member travels to the Middle East to see if basketball can help bring peace. The House that Moe Built ~ page 4 Regulars College News 2 President of the College • Brent DeVore H’86 • Otterbein Holds Pow Wow ~ 2 Vice President for Institutional Advancement • Rick Dorman • Spirits Fly on Campus! ~3 Director of Alumni Relations • Becky Fickel Smith ’81 • The House that Moe Built ~ 4 Executive Director of Communications • Jennifer Slager Pearce ’87 • Service Group Finds New Home ~ 6 Executive Director of Planned Giving • Jack Pietila ’62 • Noted Author and Physicist Visits ~ 7 Roger Routson Editor/Designer • • Otterbein Fully Accredited ~ 7 Asst. Editor/Coordinator of News Information • Jenny Hill ’05 • Otterbein Selected for Global Learning~ 8 Photographer • Ed Syguda • Common Book Author Visits ~ 8 • Otterbein Gets a New Logo ~ 10 Email: Classnotes and Milestones,
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