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out things as their friends went up to receive middle of the second floor. Today, it is on theirs, just as they had done in the past. the first floor just past the student entrance Taking a tour of the school after the 50- staircase. Now, it is moving again. This time “I am the light of the world. Whoever Year Golden Diploma event, these alumni we are building a chapel. It will be added follows me will not walk in darkness marveled at the changes: the addition of to the front of the school at the student but will have the light of life.” a theater – unheard of in 1965; the iPad entrance. It will eventually have stained glass – John 8:12 technology used in our classrooms, the windows and a bell tower. large gym, the science labs… and no home The building changes. The teachers come Fifty years ago the Class of 1965 economics? Things have definitely changed. and go. The students graduate and move on graduated from Providence High School. In Not only was there no Home Ec room, the to college. One thing that doesn’t change is April they came back to receive their Golden typing class had vanished, Apple TVs were our faith. It is ever-present. It is in all we do. Diploma. Stories of their days here were the norm and blackboards had become As we look forward to beginning another funny, interesting and enlightening. Some white. And, sadly, no more nuns. Oh how we school year, pray for us as we do for you, had not been back in 50 years and didn’t miss them. that the Class of 2065 will look back on recognize the school because it had changed Another change is the location of the our time and know that we kept the light of so much. chapel. Early graduates remember it on the Christ alive and shining bright at Providence. They spoke about the teachers they had second floor opposite Room 200. Some and how they loved one subject or another. remember it in “East Egypt,” as it was In Christ, I remain faithfully, Some talked about a coach who had inspired affectionately labeled, on the far end of them. As they looked at their photos in the the old convent building. Some remember Joan M. Hurley yearbook, they laughed at the hairstyles and it more recently in the “old” library in the talked about the songs that were popular in their era. They joked with each other about their nicknames and what pranks they played. They cheered for each other as they accepted their Golden Diploma and called Principal’s Letter Dr. Mindy (Lankert) Ernstberger ‘74, Ed.D.

As I write this, we’ve Deanery schools by the Popcorn Players just celebrated the and Providence Singers, in the fall show commencement Midsummer Jersey, and in the spring musical ceremony for our 61st graduating class. This Seussical. On the field, our student-athletes PROVIDENCE group represents the continuing tradition have won multiple post-season titles, of excellence at Providence. These 113 new including a repeat state championship in alumni earned more than $7.2 million in volleyball, a regional championship in boys’ college scholarships, and 99 percent plan to soccer and girls’ basketball, and a sectional Table of Contents pursue higher education thus far. Seventy-five championship in girls’ soccer and softball. percent of the graduates earned an Indiana Several athletes advanced as individuals into Always a Pioneer...... 3 Honors Diploma – the highest percentage the state tournament in cross country, boys’ of any school in the area. Even more tennis, girls’ tennis, girls’ golf, track, and For Love of the Game...... 6-11 meaningful, this group contributed nearly wrestling. It’s been a good year. 10,000 hours in community service during Yet even as we reflect on the Golden Reunion Spotlight: Kathy Kruer...... 13 their time here. We expect this Class of 2015 accomplishments of the past year, it’s time to to do great things. prepare for a new one. Our 2015-2016 school Class Notes...... 14 Our students as a whole, not just our year will begin in a few short weeks, with seniors, continue to strive to do their best. school beginning on July 29 due to the recent Their efforts – and those of our faculty move to a balanced calendar. We expect and staff – have been rewarded by being more great things out of this new group of designated an Indiana Four-Star School seniors as well as all our returning and new Design/Layout for three years in a row. Outside the students. We continue to improve our House classroom, our students are involved in a Leadership Program, and we continue to ’98 number of extra-curricular activities as well expect the best from each of our students. as community leadership opportunities, We thank our parents, alumni and friends such as Leadership Southern Indiana’s for their continued support of our students, [email protected] NEXGEN program, the Congress of faculty, staff and school, for we could not Future Medical Leaders, the Richard G. be as successful without the help from each Lugar Academy Symposium for Tomorrow’s of them. Finally, we continue to give thanks Managing Editor/Writer Leaders, and Hoosier Girls State. Our Fine to our Blessed Mother Mary, for it is her Arts Department showcased our students’ spirit, blessing, and patronage that is the true Christa (Payne) Hoyland ’84 talent in several concerts and visits to the foundation of our Providence education. [email protected] 2 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School Always a Pioneer

When the first Providence class graduated in 1955, there weren’t as many career options for women. As one alumna put it, a young woman typically had to choose between getting married or going into nursing, teaching or secretarial work. In 1955, a dozen young women chose to pursue a career in the nursing field, and half of them attended Nazareth College (now Spalding University) with training at St. Joseph Infirmary in the three-year diploma program to become registered nurses. Coincidentally, many of them went to work in the medical-surgery department at area hospitals. Others chose the bachelor’s degree track, while some took training in related areas. Here is a look at a few. Margaret (Boesing) Stubblefield Received her three-year diploma from the old St. Anthony Hospital Mary Ann (Weber) Owens Mary Ann (Smith) Sanders and worked as an RN for about 40 years in various hospitals, Died in 1985. Classmates said she including St. Anthony, Jewish (in surgery), St. Louis Veterans Died in 2012. She worked 35 years as married a doctor and moved to an RN at Clark Memorial Hospital. Hospital (in the blood bank) and the old Deaconess Hospital (in Irvington, Ky. the gastroenterology unit). Nursing initially wasn’t her first career choice, but once she started taking classes, she enjoyed it. “I liked the JoAnn (Cottingham) interchange with the patients,” she said. “I like people. They helped Leuthart me as much as I helped them.” Married Jack Leuthart ’55 (dec.) Maria (Berbet) Carney after graduating from Nazareth Received her bachelor’s degree and worked as an RN for 48 in laboratory medicine from years at Clark County (now Nazareth College and later Memorial) Hospital in surgery received her Specialist in Blood and as a nurse manager for her Bank certification from the last 25 years, all while raising American Association of four children: John III ’77 Blood Banks. She worked as (dec.), Robert ’79, Marc ’80 and a laboratory technician for David ’85. She retired from 35 years, most of it at the old full-time work in 2003 but then St. Joseph’s Infirmary (now served as a per diem nurse for Audubon Hospital) as the several years. “I felt like I was blood bank supervisor. “It’s where I was supposed to be,” very challenging work,” she she said. “It was just a feeling said. “You cross match blood of caring for people.” for a person, and you have their life in your hands.”

Ruth (Banet) Watson Worked 25 years as an RN at Floyd Memorial Hospital, retiring in Sheila (Best) Payton 1990. She primarily worked part Received her bachelor’s degree in time in the med-surge unit for 25 nursing from Nazareth College. She is years, retiring in 1990. Working a retired nurse and once worked for the part time allowed her to work while old Hospice of Southern Indiana (now raising her family. Hosparus).

Nancy (Kraus) Sharrer Janice (Lanham) Niehaus Worked for 30 years as an RN at Died in 1999. She worked as a various places, including the old St. nurse’s aide at Clark Memorial Edward’s in New Albany and the Hospital. old Silvercrest Sanitorium before spending the last 22 years of her career in the med-surge unit at Sharon Zimmerman Methodist Hospital. (She also took Died in 2013. She was a retired a 13-year break to raise her late certified nurse anesthetist living in daughter, Margaret Sharrer ’85) Hartsville, S.C. Originally, she wanted to become a nun but discerned the religious life wasn’t her calling. Nursing was. “I liked taking care of people and see- Nazareth College classmates ing people get well and go home,” (three-year diploma recipients) she said. “I liked the TLC (nurses gave then). It was a wonderful Betty (Davis) Libs: Others in nursing or experience.” Worked as an RN at the old St. Joseph Infirmary for five years and then Floyd Memorial Hospital, retiring in 1997. She married Richard Libs ’60 and primarily related fields worked part-time in surgery while she raised her family, which includes Michael Libs ’89. She enjoyed working in surgery “because I got to see first hand what it’s all about when people are being operated on,” she said. She also enjoyed talking with the patients before their procedure. “Surgery is not for everyone, but I did like it.” Providence Junior-Senior High School | The Vision 3 Your Gift Really Does Matter By: Tony Perito, Vice President of Advancement

It’s another summer of campus A major gift by one of our enhancements at Providence! alumni, coupled with contributed Work on six tennis courts at the front of services and matching funds, has campus will provide true home courts for enabled construction to begin for both boys’ and girls’ teams, thanks to the a new chapel addition that will support and dedication of several alumni, distinctively establish our Catholic parents, and friends. The courts are scheduled identity in the center of the to be completed when the boys’ team opens building. These physical plant improvements are the most visible evidence of our donors’ generosity. Less obvious, but equally as important, is the support we receive for student financial assistance through ASAP (Annual activities. To encourage all classes to get on Student Assistance Program), the board, an anonymous donor has set up a Gala Dinner & Auction, the Pioneer program of matching challenges for classes Golf Scramble, and the growing just getting started and for those who have contributions to class endowment reached a plateau in the class giving. If you funds. The gifts to these programs are interested in learning more about this, its season in mid-August. Also, the softball make a real difference in a family’s decision to contact Tony Perito in the Advancement and tennis programs will share a new attend Providence. Office at [email protected] or call restroom and concession building for which During the past five years, many classes 812-945-3350. parents, alumni, and friends of the school have launched efforts to build their class On behalf of all those who benefit from helped raise funds. endowment fund as part of the class reunion your contributions to our school, thank you!

Long-time Staff Members Say Goodbye Photo by Lifetouch Photo by Lifetouch Vicky Edelen worked and was chairperson of the Performing Scott Lutgring taught in a variety of roles at Arts Department for many years. This past theology for four Providence over the last school year, he served as student support years, primarily to 16 years. She began facilitator in the Guidance Office. Durham sophomores. He also working here when has had a significant impact on thousands has served the school in her daughter, Maggie of alumni with his leadership of the senior a variety of capacities, (Edelen) Banet ’02, retreat program and involvement with the including as Theology was a sophomore performing arts. Department chairman and continued to for two years, faculty work in the office even after son Shawn Debbie (Sparks) sponsor of the House of Truth for two years Edelen graduated in 2005. She has served Marshall ’84 has been and After Prom faculty sponsor for two years. as administrative assistant in the Guidance on staff at Providence He also handled parking lot supervision after Office, Dean’s Office and Main Office, and for 10 years, starting in school, was an assistant football coach for for the last nine years has worked at the 2005 as administrative one year and was a member of the Student front desk. Edelen said it’s difficult to leave assistant to the Life & Mission Committee for several years. Providence, but she is looking forward to caring president when her son In the fall, he will attend the University for her soon-to-be-born grandchild. Justin ’06 was a senior of Dallas to pursue a master’s degree in and son Nathan ’09 was humanities with a concentration in English. Photo by Lifetouch Dale Durham (Hon. a freshman. (Her daughter, Taylor, graduated ’06) served Providence in 2013). She worked in the President’s Sarah Workman - English two in various ways for Office for seven years before transitioning years nearly 40 years. He to the Advancement Office as director of began working retreats special events and constituency management, while a college student for which she has successfully organized and became a theology important fundraising events, including the teacher here in 1978. annual Gala Dinner & Auction, Pioneer Stephanie (Anderson) LaMaster In 1980, he started Golf Scramble and ASAP Dinner. Marshall ’91 - science one year the campus ministry program and was its is leaving at the end of August to devote coordinator through the end of last school more time to her family, in particular her first year. He was director of 22 spring musicals grandchild born in June. 4 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School Girls Track: Rising junior Bayley Spring Wade qualified for the IHSAA state track meet in the 800 meter run by placing second at regional and at sectional, helping the team to a fourth place finish. Also competing at regional were sectional champ rising sophomore Morgan SPORTS Day in the 100 meter hurdles, who HIGHLIGHTS also competed in the 300 meter hurdles; sectional champ rising junior Sarah Welsh in the high jump; and the 1600 meter relay team of Morgan, Bayley, and Softball: Won its fourth rising seniors Alyson Bass and 2A sectional title in a row by Anna Wingate. beating No. 2 ranked Henryville and Clarksville. Lillian Hughes ’15 named to the Indiana Coaches of Girls Boys Track: Rising junior Micah Sports Association North/ Oberhausen qualified for the South All-State game and to IHSAA state track meet in the long Second Team All-State. jump by placing second at regional and first at sectional. The team placed seventh at sectional with Keaton Spitler ’15 qualifying for regional in the 400 meter run and rising junior Luke Schroering in the 800 meter Baseball: Advanced to the sectional run. Keaton and Nathan semi-final, with a 20-8 record for the Shumate ’15 were named to season. Jacob Quinkert ’15 nominated Indiana Association of Track and Cross to the Indiana High School Baseball Country Coaches Academic All-State. Coaches Association Academic All-State.

Girls Tennis: No. 1 doubles team of rising senior Boys Golf: Placed Maryann Fitzpatrick and second at the Providence rising junior Heidi Popson Sectional and advanced IHSAA Individual Sectional as a team to regional. Doubles Champs and named Indiana High School Tennis Coaches Association All-District for District 8 and honorable mention at All-State.

Members of the Class of 2015 committee to play college athletics: Will Andres, Allegeny College (Meadville, Pa.), men’s tennis, NCAA Division III Maddie Bivens, Lindsey Wilson College, volleyball, NAIA Vanessa Covarrubias, Ball State University, cross country (will attempt to walk on), NCAA D-I Amelia Ernstberger, Bellarmine University, dance team Thomas Gettelfinger, DePauw University, football, NCAA D-III Donald Gettelfinger, DePauw University, football, NCAA D-III Lillian Hughes, Hanover College, softball, NCAA D-III Haley Libs, Northern Kentucky University, volleyball, NCAA D-I Alyssa Jones, Parkland College, women’s soccer, NJCAA Patricia Mattingly, U.S. Naval Academy, volleyball, NCAA D-I Justin Wheatley, Franklin College, football, NCAA D-III Taylor Wilson, Stony Brook University, volleyball, NCAA D-I Providence Junior-Senior High School | The Vision 5 For Love of the Game

Home on the Sidelines Theobald Putting Down Roots at Franklin By: Jeff Taylor ’94

Photos provided by Matt Theobald ’92 of the last eight conference championships,” get to know his family as they get to know Theobald said. “We have beaten the No. 2 him on a personal level. And being in one ranked team in the nation and the No. 10 place for so long has helped him build such ranked team in the nation, both on the road. relationships with his players. We have faced the No. 1 ranked team four “The players who come back to campus years in a row during the regular season.” remember me bringing my babies in their car The team’s record while he’s been on the seats to film sessions, and now they have their coaching staff is 91-40 overall, including own babies,” he said. a 10-2 record against his college alma mater Hanover, where Pete Corrao ’72 is It’s All About Priorities an assistant coach. Theobald’s record also Personal fulfillment aside, the life of a is impressive. In his 10 years as defensive D-III offensive coordinator has its share of coordinator, the team gave up an average challenges. In NCAA Division III athletics, of 23.9 points per game. In his two years as schools cannot offer scholarships to players, offensive coordinator, the team has averaged so the challenge of recruiting is not only to 40.8 points per game. find players who are a good fit for the school and the program and to convince them that att Theobald ’92 has managed to Keeping the Family in Football Franklin is the right place for them but also achieve something that few in his Theobald may consider his team his ‘second’ to make sure that their family can afford the Mprofession can claim. Stability. family, but he knows life is really all about his tuition. For the last 12 seasons, Theobald has ‘first’ family. He and his wife, Jenn, have been And recruiting isn’t limited to the off- been an assistant football coach at Franklin able to raise their three children, Joseph, Eli, season. It goes on year round and is a huge College. The first decade of his tenure and Olivia, on a small college campus, where portion of the job. A job that is done publicly. at Franklin was spent as the defensive they have been a large part of his coaching Every success and every failure, measured coordinator, the last two years on the life all along. weekly during the season with very definitive opposite side of the ball as the offensive With the hours required of a college coach results, is on display to the world. And sports coordinator. – more than 70 a week during the season – fans and sports writers are not shy to criticize. During his time as coach, Theobald has plus the time spent on the road recruiting, When things go well, the players get the not lost his love for the game and has come it can be a challenge to be there for all the credit. When things go poorly, the coaches to think of his fellow coaches and his players, family events and life’s moments, but those get the blame. past and present, as a second family. are his priorities. Still, it’s all part of the job. A job Theobald “I love seeing guys come in as ‘ironhead’ “My family is at a lot of practices and loves. freshmen, watching them figure it all out, comes to all the games,” he said. “We try and He’d like to be a college head football walking across the stage at graduation and eat dinner together every day, even at 9:00 coach someday at the D-III level. The size of then going on to be successful husbands, at night, the Division III schools fits perfectly into the fathers, and achieve their dreams,” he said. and [I] find life Theobald wants to live. Coaching football, Theobald’s love of football dates all the myself working with young men, helping to mold way back to his days playing for his dad, sprinting out and shape them into the men they can be. All the late Joe Theobald, at St. Anthony – and of the office while being able to be home with his family. carries right through his days playing for to go see And while the dream of being a head Coach Gene Sartini (Hon. ’93) at Providence, a football coach is always there, Theobald tries to where Theobald learned many of the lessons [or] soccer keep his focus on his priorities, which he he tries to teach his players now. practice or lists, in order, “One, faith; two, family; three, Those lessons include but are not limited fall musical.” football.” to always accepting the challenge of taking Making Which should sound familiar to anyone on the ‘Big Boys.’ Coach Sartini’s practice those family who played for Coach Sartini. of scheduling Jeffersonville, New Albany, moments is “In this business it can be hard to keep and Floyd Central back to back to back has a benefit of them in that order, but I have really tried impacted how the coaches schedule at his job. And to keep in perspective that Coach Sartini Franklin. And it has paid off. it allows him to be more than just a coach to was right,” he said. “If you keep these in “In my tenure at Franklin, his players but also a mentor and role model perspective, everything will work itself out, we have won seven out as a teacher, husband and parent. His players and you will lead a great life.”

6 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School Coaches are a special breed. Good ones shape a group of individuals into a team of one heart and one mind. Even then, it can be a thankless job. Some of their players repay what they’ve learned by going on to become coaches themselves, most leading youth sports. A few Pioneers have risen to coach at the college and even professional level, including the legendary John MacLeod ’55, who led the University of Notre Dame and the Phoenix Suns. Here are a few who lead teams at the college level:

The Obvious Career Choice McBride’s Love of Basketball Drives Desire to Coach By: Jon Reiter ’93

Photos provided by Mike McBride ’91 t wasn’t Indiana. he said. “It is a very special place to be. unusual Having coached at both the collegiate and We have very quickly become a highly Ifor kids high school levels early in his career, McBride competitive basketball program in a nationally growing up said, he found the basketball court to be competitive league and will continue to grow. in Southern as effective as the classroom when it came This is an exciting time to be part of the Holy Indiana in the to stressing discipline and hard work in his Cross College community, and hopefully our 1970s, ’80s players. basketball program is a reflection of that and ’90s to “Regardless of level, competitive athletics growth and excitement.” harbor dreams is a tremendous vehicle to instill values At IUS and Tusculum, McBride became of making a in young people,” he said. “In my mind, known as a keen recruiter with not only career out of there’s no greater character or leadership an eye for basketball talent but character basketball. development lab than a gymnasium.” in the young men he tried to attract to the With legendary figures such as Steve Alford, McBride was immediately successful at programs he helped lead. As head coach, Bob Knight and Damon Bailey capturing the Tipton, winning the school’s first 2A sectional his expectations are high for his prospective imagination and acclaim of those who lived championship in more than a decade in players, but he stresses the rewards are too. in the area, it was a peak time for Hoosier 2001. In 2004, he returned home to become “To be successful here, a player must Hysteria. associate head coach at Indiana University have an intense, no nonsense approach In that respect, Mike McBride ’91 was Southeast. During his three-year span there, to the game,” he said. “There must be an like many others who grew up with him in insatiable desire to Clarksville. He first discovered the game improve, prepare, at the age of 4. His dad – his late father, practice, compete that Robert – was his first coach when he began must be evident in the playing organized basketball at St. Anthony personality of a player. of Padua Catholic School in the third grade. It is a very demanding He continued to play through grade school, atmosphere, and Providence and at Marian College, where he only those players starred and became an all-conference player that demand from and team captain. For him, there was no themselves and crave doubt what he was going to do as his playing coaching will make it.” career ended. It’s also no “I knew at a very early age, elementary coincidence that school, that I wanted to remain in basketball McBride ended up my entire life,” said McBride, who is in coaching at Holy Cross, his third season as head coach at Holy a Catholic-affiliated Cross College, an NAIA school located the school had unprecedented success, institution. He recalls his time fondly as a in South Bend adjacent to the University compiling a record of 79-22 and winning two student and athlete at St. Anthony’s, Providence of Notre Dame. “I was obsessed with the regular season and tournament titles in the and Marian. game immediately. Coaches can play a very Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. “I was very fortunate to play for some influential role, and athletics can teach so That propelled him to a five-year stint as great coaches, starting with my dad in third many valuable lessons – that, coupled with associate head coach at Tusculum College, grade. [The late] John Minta (’58) was a very my passion for basketball kept me on a an NCAA Division II college in Eastern fundamental coach I played for in junior focused, one-way track towards coaching.” Tennessee. high, and Tony Bennett (’79) was an energetic McBride graduated from Marian in coach I played for at Providence. Coach John 1996 and almost immediately hit the road Holy Cross a Familiar Environment Grimes, my coach at Marian, remains a strong in search of a coaching gig, becoming In 2013, he was handed the keys to the influence to this day,” McBride said. “My the athletic director and head basketball program at Holy Cross, becoming the third best memories as a player at Providence parallel coach at Eminence High School in central head coach in the history of the school. In my best memories overall as a student at Indiana. After three years there, he served his first season, McBride’s troops won 20 Providence – the teammates and coaches I was as an assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky games and finished 13-6 in the Chicagoland around. The support for athletics at Providence University for one season before returning Collegiate Athletic Conference – the first is outstanding. PHS is about people, back to the high school ranks as head coach conference winning record in school history. community, pride. I’m very fortunate at Tipton High School in north central “Holy Cross has its own unique identity,” to have been a part of it.”

Providence Junior-Senior High School | The Vision 7 A Lifetime of Coaching Corrao Keeps Answering the Call to Lead By: Jon Reiter ’93

Photo courtesy of HanoverPhoto courtesy College “I think early on I had the thought in Within a year, he got a call from Carter, his my head that I wasn’t good enough or big former coach, who was by then head coach at enough, but those guys (Denny, Schultz) told Dayton University. Initially, Corrao signed on me as long as I worked harder than everyone as a graduate assistant, but a few weeks after else, I’d have the opportunity to play,” Corrao accepting that gig, Carter asked if he’d be said. “That kind of kept me going, and once interested in coaching wide receivers. I got to seventh and eighth grade, I really “He (Carter) said, ‘Pete, I have all the started to realize that they were right.” confidence in the world in you - remember, Corrao had the opportunity to play for two you played tight end one spring,’” Corrao Indiana Football Hall of Fame coaches at recalled – and then in typical style, quipped, Providence: Elmer Britton, who coached at the “I did do that, but after he saw me do that he school from 1968-1971 and of course, Gene moved me right back to center.” Sartini (Hon. ’93), who succeeded Britton in He may have played best at center, but 1972 and coached until 2011, winning 268 Corrao has a true knack for understanding games and now the namesake of the field at what needs to be done by every spot on Murphy Stadium. the field. His flexibility was noticed early, “He was a guy, who really, as much as and throughout his career, he has coached ete Corrao ’72 is an expert in the realm anyone else, instilled my love of coaching,” virtually every position on the field as he of football. At age 60, he still looks the Corrao said of Britton. “He was a great guy. moved from team to team. part too. He looks fit enough to put the Great role model. Gene came in my senior Corrao coached at Dayton for one P year, and his intensity was something the team year; spent two years coaching at Eastern pads on and get into the trenches against a defensive lineman, which he did as a four-year really responded to right away, and you saw Kentucky University under Roy Kidd, where starter at center at Providence and again for that continue to keep his teams successful the Colonels won a Division I-AA Football four more years at Hanover College, where over the years.” Championship in 1979; and rejoined Carter at he’s a member of the school’s athletic hall of Corrao graduated in 1972 along with The College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, fame. Bruce Harbeson, then the Pioneers’ starting Mass., where Corrao roamed the sidelines The sport has been an integral part of his quarterback and fellow star player and co- before returning to EKU in 1984. Three life for almost 50 years – starting from the captain. The two continued their battery at years into his second stint at EKU and with time he played under Stan Denny and Joe Hanover, playing under legendary coach Rick two young children, Christina (Corrao) Schultz at Holy Family Catholic School in Carter – and where Harbeson also has a spot Tumbleson ’01 and Phil ’99, he opted away New Albany. And it still is today. For the last in the school’s hall of fame. from the grind of college coaching. (Phil several years he has served as a volunteer Once Corrao graduated from Hanover, he followed in his father’s footsteps, playing at assistant coach at Hanover, where he oversees spent a year coaching and teaching at Decatur Hanover and then becoming an assistant the defensive backs. Central High School near Indianapolis before football coach at the University of Louisville The last of his football-playing sons, accepting a job working for Johnson & for a brief time and now at Providence.) Spencer ’11, just finished his senior year Johnson in Cincinnati. He married his wife, at Hanover as a first-team all-Heartland Suzanne, and lived in northern Kentucky, but Giving Back to Providence Collegiate Athletic Conference Selection at always kept an eye out for coaching openings. By 1991, Corrao was living in New Albany running back and will be working out for professional football scouts this summer. In May, Corrao and son traveled with the Hanover football team for a 10-day cultural exchange to Ireland and Scotland, where the Panthers faced off against the East Kilbride Pirates in a cross-continental football contest. But Corrao isn’t quite ready to walk off the field, even with the ending of his son’s collegiate playing career. “I haven’t decided what I’ll do next,” Corrao said. “It’s hard to turn that switch off. More than anything else I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed watching my kids grow up with the game and seeing them be successful with it. That’s really been fun.”

A Mind for the Game Corrao showed an aptitude for the game that was noticed early. At Holy Family, he ended up playing offensive guard on the eighth grade team as a fifth grader. 8 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School and working at Neace Lukens Insurance prepared boys to someday join the Providence school. A lot of friends from his playing Agency, where he is now vice president football squad for more than 20 years. and coaching days – including Harbeson – working out of both the New Albany Still, he may be best-known to Providence often joined him in the press box, serving as and Madison offices. But he couldn’t stay football fans as the press box announcer for scoreboard operators, spotters, and anything completely away from the game. His most home football games for 25 years before that was needed. His overall knowledge of significant impact was as a youth football calling it quits after the 2013 season as his the sport resulted in him often crediting coach in the New Albany Deanery, where he youngest son, Tony ’14, graduated from the offensive linemen for key blocks on running plays – and with him, well, needling the Photos by Suzanne Corrao officials a bit from up high when he might disagree with a call that was made on the field. “It was a lot of fun announcing for all those years,” Corrao said. “It was great to be able to watch my kids play and do well, and it was a good way to support Providence football. Over that amount of time, you make a lot of friends and have a lot of good memories.” He was able to watch all three of his sons play and star for Providence from the press box and credits his wife for allowing him and his family to follow their love of the sport. “For me to coach for all of these years, it really takes having a great coach’s wife – and Suzanne is definitely that person,” he said. “She really knows the game. When my sons were playing at PHS – a lot of dads would sit near her because she could always tell them what was going on and why.”

The Corrao sons played football for their father, Pete Corrao ’72, at various levels, from middle school to college. From left to right, Phil Corrao ’99, an assistant PHS football coach; Spencer Corrao ’11, a recent Hanover College graduate; Tony Corrao ’14, who attends Indiana University in Bloomington, and Pete Corrao, holding Phil’s daughter, Reagan.

Providence Junior-Senior High School | The Vision 9 Committed to Success Jewell Integral in Building Purdue Volleyball National Standing By: Alexas Gregory ’10

Photos provided by Kathy Jewell ’94 multiple NMU records, including ranking and 2013. Jewell said it was a slow process but second in all-time career digs with more than over time they built their confidence up and 1,300. turned the program into one that they can all After college, Jewell realized she still be proud of and leave a strong legacy. The wanted to compete and be a part of the program now has great community support sport. She chose to go into coaching, starting and a strong following – selling out all its at Providence as an assistant varsity coach to home matches in Belin Court. head coach Terri (Blunk) Purichia ’90 for one year. Then one day she received a phone call A Rewarding Career from Mark Rosen, her former head coach at Jewell said her favorite memories include Northern Michigan, asking her if she would the team’s 2004 upset win over No. 9 seed be interested in coaching at the collegiate Colorado State in the first round of the level. She followed up on the inquiry and in NCAA Tournament, having gone into the 2000 became an assistant coach at Central tournament unranked. In 2010 the team beat Michigan University, where she stayed for No. 1 ranked Florida to advance to the Elite 8 three seasons. for only the second time in program history, In 2003, she made the transition to the and “any win against Penn State.” D-I level as assistant coach to the Purdue Having finished her 12th season at Purdue, University women’s volleyball team and has Jewell said she is proud to be a part of the been there ever since. Her hire came at the longest serving full-staff team in the country. beginning of a new era for the program. The staff’s longevity working together allows Dave Shondell had just been named the new each to know the others’ strengths and head coach, and his brother, John Shondell, weaknesses so each knows on which areas was the other assistant coach. Their goal he or she must focus and when to allow the was to bring the program back to national other coaches to help out. The program’s prominence, since the prior two seasons success also feeds her competitive spirit. included only a handful of Big 10 conference “I’m a great competitor,” she said. “I love aking the transition from athlete to wins – and no NCAA appearance since 1990. to win and hate to lose.” coach was not what Kathy Jewell Under the leadership of the Shondells Along with her love of competition and M’94 was planning to do with her life. and Jewell, the program has gained national striving to be the best, Jewell also enjoys the She had always loved the game of volleyball prominence, earning a spot in the NCAA personal rewards of coaching. As an assistant but had never considered making a career tourney by 2004 and returning to the coach and recruiting coordinator, she has out of it until she was presented with an tournament eight more times, including the chance to build more of a personal opportunity she couldn’t refuse. advancing to the Elite Eight twice, in 2010 relationship with the women on her team. Jewell played volleyball on She also acts as a liaison with athletes the Providence varsity team all and the rest of the support staff. four years and helped the team She sees herself as both a coach win three sectional titles. She and a mentor, a role she finds most continued playing in college at fulfilling. Northern Michigan University “To see the girls come in as an outside hitter on an freshman year and how they leave athletic scholarship. The team senior year [as] mature, successful won the NCAA Division II young women…I hope I can make national championship her an impact in their lives and help freshman year and made navigate them through life a little a total of four Final Four easier,” she said. appearances, including And Jewell’s plans for the future earning a runner-up title her remain focused on Purdue. sophomore year. She herself “Right now, I really love being an earned a number of honors assistant and working with Dave and as a college player, including John [Shondell],” she said. “It’d have being team captain three years to be perfect for me to ever leave the and being named an All-Great Big 10 and Purdue. We really have Lakes Region player a great gig here. Being where I’m her last two at now and being where I started, years. And I’m appreciative of where I began. she still It’s a privilege to work amongst holds phenomenal athletes and coaches.”

10 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School Jewell Integral in Building Purdue Like Mother, Like Daughter Gaddis Raised on Volleyball By: Katie Chrisco ’14 Volleyball National Standing

Photos provided ’02 by (Zipp) Gaddis Diana iana (Zipp) Gaddis ’02 grew up choose teaching over coaching. in a gym watching her mother, “The days where I have doubted or gotten DDottie (Galligan) Zipp ’69, lead the angry about my decision – God has given me Providence volleyball team. It’s no surprise, countless interactions with students to tell then, that Gaddis learned to love the game me, this is where you are needed,” she said. and later became a coach herself. She played on Providence’s volleyball team in high school Coaching Career Only on Hold (starting a few years after her mother stopped Although Gaddis knows she made the right coaching here) and then went on to play decision for her family, she will miss coaching. at Morehead State, an NCAA Division I “My favorite part of coaching is mentoring university. the young female athletes to prepare them “I grew up with it (volleyball), played it, and for their next adventure – graduation – [and] now I’ve coached it,” she said. preparing them for life and showing them Gaddis began her coaching career in St. the love of volleyball,” she said. “What I miss Joseph, Mo., at Missouri Western University, about it is the relationships that you build where she served as the assistant coach for with the girls helping them through their two years and as the freshmen coach at college years.” nearby Central High School for one season. Gaddis enjoyed her time coaching at In 2011, she earned her first head coaching Highland because she had such a good position at Highland Community College in relationship with her team. the Kansas city of the same name. “I was also their academic advisor so they As much as she loves the sport and could come talk to me off the court,” she out what you’re doing wrong, but I also get coaching, Gaddis stepped away from the job said, adding that she started a group called very excited, and I will be your number one at the end of this past season after just four Girl Talk that centered on improving self- cheerleader.” years in order to spend more time with her esteem. “I was their parent away from home. The amount of time required of a head children, James, 4, and Emily, almost 2. If they needed to call me for anything, I coach is what ultimately led her to put her “I wanted to be a better mom,” she said of would be there for them.” coaching career on hold. College coaching is her decision. As much as she values building a year-round job, and much of her time was Gaddis chose instead to put her master’s relationships with her players, she has never devoted to recruiting players, which meant in business administration from Morehead been afraid to call them out if needed. She traveling year round too. And building the to use as an instructor. She teaches an describes her coaching style as enthusiastic, right team and depending on that team to be introductory business course as well as classes one she most likely learned from watching successful has its own stress. in finance and marketing at Highland. She her mother coach. “The hardest part was putting all of your said God pushed her in the direction to “I’m loud,” she said. “I’m going to point faith in your job security in the hands of 19-year-olds,” she said. Gaddis said she hopes to return to coaching in the future, but next time, she’ll likely choose an assistant coaching job at the college level because she would more likely be able to create that bond with the players. She prefers the college level over high school because of the commitment to the sport and quality of play she can get from players. “I like the college atmosphere because you hold them to a different standard,” she said. “It’s more about the player and being able to watch them growing into an adult. It’s the first time being on their own away from home and their parents – it’s an adjustment, and seeing that growth from the beginning of the year to the end, they are a completely different person.”

Diana (Zipp) Gaddis ’02 lives in Hiawatha, Kan., with her husband, Andrew, and their two children, James and Emily.

Providence Junior-Senior High School | The Vision 11 ’77 Grad Enjoys the Game But Travel No Glamour in Scouting By: Christa (Payne) Hoyland ’84 Takes Its Toll to determine their worth. Then there are the showcase tournaments From his brief observation, featuring the top high school and college Snipp ranks the player players. In the fall, there are the Major according to the round League’s instructional and fall leagues as well of the draft in which he as tournaments for young amateur players. In should be selected, keeping the winter, international teams south of the in mind how much the equator are having their season. organization is allotted “You can never go home if you don’t to spend on its national want to,” he said. “There’s always somebody and international picks playing.” per round. He also signs players and negotiates with Called up Again their agents. But Snipp wants to be home. His wife, In that respect, his work Rebekah, understands his schedule and is closer to that of Clint even flies to meet him occasionally during Eastwood’s character the summer months. They met and married in Trouble with the Curve during a two-year respite from his scouting rather than the statistical career, after he left a 13-year stint with the marvels in Moneyball, two Toronto Blue Jays. He had gotten into the recent films related to real estate business, and the two co-owned a the professional baseball Century 21 business for a time. scouting industry. Snipp When the scouting director from the Reds, said statistical analysis has a former Blue Jays colleague, called to offer its place, but when he is Snipp the cross checker job, it was a difficult evaluating high school decision to return to the life of travel again, and college players, relying he said. He had had two years of “normal,” incinnati Reds fans can thank – or on his experience and instinct is more of being able to go to family events or meet blame – Mark Snipp ’77 in part for useful in determining a player’s future in the friends at the lake for the weekend. But his Cthe team’s success. As the national professional leagues. love of baseball ran too deep. cross checker for the Major League “To me, those who do it best are the guys Snipp had played baseball at Providence Baseball organization, he is responsible for who are just baseball guys,” he said. “They his senior year, his only year here, and then recommending and rating amateur players use the numbers as a tool, but it’s not what in college in Texas. After graduating from for the team’s draft picks. He also evaluates dictates who they draft or who they don’t Midwestern State University, he took a job the league’s professional players, including draft.” coaching but was lured into scouting in his recommending they be sent up from or down mid-20s, much younger than most scouts at to its farm teams, which include the Louisville Have Game, Will Travel the time, when his father, then a scout for Bats. Another reason Snipp doesn’t stay long at the California Angels, recommended him From a fan’s point of view, it’s a thankless any one game is he likely has a plane to catch for a job opening. So the chance to return to job. to make another game to see another player scouting in 2006 even with its brutal schedule “People see the results out on the field, but on another field. Sometimes he’ll drive to a was too alluring. With his wife’s blessing, he they don’t have any idea how those guys got neighboring state but just as likely, he needs was back on the circuit. there or what was done to get them there,” to be across the country or on another “The game is just something that’s in your Snipp said. “It’s not clandestine, but nobody continent. He cross checks for international blood,” he said. “You’re happy when you’re at pays a lot of attention” to his work behind players as well, visiting Australia, the a ballpark and doing this kind of stuff. The the scenes. Dominican Republic, Mexico, South Africa, travel is a bit much, and I can do without And when people do realize he’s scouting and sometimes Korea, Germany or Italy. the travel, but as far as being at the ballgame a player, they are often surprised that he “So what I basically do is I stay in a lot of and seeing talent and seeing good players we typically doesn’t stay for a whole game. With hotels, I fly in a lot of airplanes, I see a lot would like to acquire, that doesn’t ever get 30 years of experience, it doesn’t take long for of baseball ballgames, I have to do reports old.” Snipp to recognize a player is someone the on them, I have to rank them on a master Reds would want on its roster. list, and I spend a whole lot of time traveling Mark Snipp ’77 lives in the Houston area with his “I’ve done it so long, I pretty much know from one place to another,” he said. wife, Rebekah. He has an adult son and two adult when I like a guy,” he said. “I don’t have to Snipp estimates he spends 200 to 250 stepsons and six step-grandchildren. He returns to sit there and see a whole ballgame or come days a year traveling. In April and May in Louisville each summer to evaluate Louisville Bats back and see a second game. Most of them I preparation for the June draft, he might players and makes time to visit an uncle (the rest get one game with. Pitchers, I get one outing, be home one or two days. More likely, he’s of his family lives in Texas) and former Pioneer maybe three or four at bats with a hitter.” covering seven or eight states in five days. teammate Scott Oliver ’77. The players he observes have already been But his job isn’t done after the draft. In the recommended by the organization’s area summer there are Reds games to cover to scouts, so his time watching them is more evaluate players, including its farm leagues. 12 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School True Blue Kruer’s Loyalty to Providence Still StrongBy: 50 Christa Years (Payne) Hoyland Later ‘84

tennis matches and boys’ Construction & Excavating Inc. after 23 basketball games – and years as an executive assistant. Norman has well beyond. They simply worked at the company 24 years, first as enjoy Pioneer sports, chief financial officer and more recently as Kruer said, and want personal bookkeeper to the owners, Victor to support the young ’72 and Jeannie (Schmidt ’72) Unruh and players. their sons, Travis ’95 and Chad ’97. Prior to They also support working at MAC, Kathy was a bookkeeper at regional college teams. several small local companies and in the trust They are Bellarmine department at the old Citizen’s Fidelity Bank University men’s in Jeffersonville. basketball season ticket The Kruers have supported their parish, holders in part because Sacred Heart in Jeffersonville, by volunteering they want to support in various ways. As a couple, they handled the Norman’s alma mater money for the parish’s festival and were co- but also because they chairs of its former bingo fundraisers. Kathy enjoy the team’s style was a long-time coach, leading girls’ kickball, of play, Kathy said. volleyball and basketball. And they are Indiana Kathy also was on the St. Elizabeth athy (Howell) Kruer ’65 may be University football season ticket holders – Catholic Charities council for nine years and Providence’s biggest fan. She and and hope every season that this will be the was co-chair of its annual gala with her sister, Kher husband, Norman ’63, are in team’s breakthrough season. Jeanne (Howell) Schmidt ’67, for much of the stands for as many Providence football, The Kruers also never miss their three that time. basketball and volleyball games they can grandsons’ games. This spring, that meant As a family, the Kruers support the make. Her loyalty to the Pioneer sports attending games for six different teams, Kentucky-Southeast Indiana chapter of program is so strong that even a physically since each boy not only played Little League the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, an debilitating condition couldn’t keep her from baseball but was on a competitive traveling organization dear to them not only because cheering on the volleyball team at its state team as well. Sometimes, each has to go to of Kathy’s diagnosis but because the championship game last fall. a different grandson’s immune-mediated In early October 2014, Kruer began to game, but the couple is disease has impacted suffer weakness in her legs as well as other committed to cheering Norman’s family problems and was originally diagnosed with them on everywhere they as well. Two of his having suffered a stroke. A specialist soon play. sisters have MS, determined she instead was undergoing an Kathy’s love for sports and one of his exacerbation of multiple sclerosis, a condition began in her youth, even brothers died from with which she was first diagnosed in 1991 if she was “born ten complications from but had kept in check with medication and years too soon for girls’ sports,” she said. At the disease. Kathy participates in the Walk: exercise. She began physical therapy and Providence, she played intramural basketball MS every year, and Brad rides in the annual the upcoming state tournament was her because an official team was about a decade Bike MS event. Kathy was a chairperson inspiration to work to regain her strength. away from being formed. She did play varsity of the annual walk for several years, and “I said (to her physical therapists), ‘You tennis and run track. Her senior year, she Norman was on the chapter’s board for have to get me out of here; I’ve got a date to played field hockey. In the summer, she nearly 20 years. be in Muncie next Saturday,’” Kruer said. played softball in a Jeffersonville city league The Kruers also have volunteered at And she made that date, with her husband while she was in high school and even a few Providence for many years. They worked in and son Brad ’93, himself a physical therapist, years afterward – and her team advanced to the money room when Providence held its to watch over her. Kruer has followed the World Series in 1967. spring festival and were board members on Providence volleyball and other sports for “Norman knew he had to go to the the Alumni Association at various times. The decades and couldn’t imagine not witnessing ballpark if he wanted to see me,” she said. couple’s commitment to the school and its the team’s repeat state title game. sports program earned them the designation “We really, really like Providence volleyball,” Couple Cheers, Works, Gives Together of Outstanding Alumni in 2010. For the she said. “I knew they were going to win the The Kruers met not at the ballpark but while Kruers, giving back to their community championship, and I wanted to be there to participating in activities in the old Young and alma mater is a source of joy but also a see it.” Catholic Adults organization, when Norman necessity. was a junior at Bellarmine and she was “We believe in Providence,” Kathy said. “We Forever Fans studying automated accounting at Spencerian want to make sure it’s there for those three The Kruers have been in the Providence stands College. They married in 1968. boys” who are now in second, third and sixth as a couple since well before Brad was born. In addition to watching ballgames together, grade at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Their devotion continued into his high school the couple has worked and volunteered years here as they cheered on all his boys’ together. Kathy recently retired from MAC

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she produces, edits and handles the Morgan got her start by selling her baked 1960 1975 camera. goods out of her family’s restaurant, Robert Kleehamer was a recipient Robert Gilland Jr. retired from Ann’s by the River, also in Jeffersonville. of a “One” Award given out by One JPMorgan Chase Bank as SVP of retail 1998 Southern Indiana. One Southern Indiana operations. He is now financial director Luke Fitzgerald and his wife, Megan members are selected to one of seven at Farmer Automotive Group. He resides Leah (Stephens) Ott is now the mortgage loan originator at Centra Credit (Himmelhaver) ’03, welcomed a baby categories. Robert is senior vice president in New Albany. boy, Sam, in February. of business development of River Valley Union in Jeffersonville. Financial Bank and won in the Kevin 1985 2002 Rachel Geiger graduated from Hammersmith Community Leader Gary Popp recently received the St. Bellarmine’s Accelerated Nursing category. John Bosco award for his years of Tiffany (Woolems) Smith has started her own business, Blessings in a program and received her bachelor’s in commitment to coaching in the New nursing. 1969 Albany Deanery. Blanket. She makes custom, made-to- order, personalized, tie-knot, fleece or The late Mike Naville was the first microfiber blankets and wooden custom Michelle Morris welcomed her recipient of the St. Elizabeth Catholic Rosie (Block) Shannon is now a career daughter, Avery Bryland Charities “Spirit of Hope” award at the coach at the University of Louisville. name letters and sells them on Etsy. com. She is a stay-at-home mom living Dietsche, in November organization’s annual Giving Hope- 2014. Avery was 7 pounds, in Johnson City, Tenn., and recently Changing Lives Gala in April. Mike was 1988 4 ounces and 22 inches the original maternity home’s first board received her certificate in medical Dr. Joe Voelker in December earned transcription. long. president, leading the organization for his Ph.D. in educational leadership four years. Mike continued to play an from Indiana State University. He is an Megan Resch was sworn important role in adoption placements assistant principal at Floyd Central High 2003 in to the Indiana State Bar on May 19 and recruiting local leaders to support the School and lives in Jeffersonville with Dr. Ashley Ostrader Ernstberger and admitted by motion to the Kentucky organization for years. his family. received her doctorate of veterinary Bar. medicine from 1971 Purdue University. 1989 Ashley and her 2008 Donna Kent Blunk is a private investigator at husband, have Jordan Gilland is now a pre-field (Gerdeman) Jon, Tracy Leonard Special Investigations moved to Greenfield, marketing representative at Caterpillar Shaibley is a Unit. Inc. in Peoria, Ill. representative for Ind., where Ashley has taken a position the 24th district Ronald Rauck Jr. has accepted a new A team of three from in the Indiana at a small animal position as Eastern regional manager – practice called New Indiana University Maurer House of Liquid Ink Division at Toyo Ink America. School of Law, including Representatives. Palestine Veterinary Clinic in New Palestine, Ind. Matthew Leist, claimed Before joining 1991 one of the top four places the legislature in Beth Roberts received a promotion to out of 84 teams in the December 2014, Donna was a substitute 2004 sixth annual LawMeets nationwide case dean of the School of Health Sciences at Nicholas Moore is now a long-term teacher for many years with Carmel Clay Midway College in Midway, Ky. competition. Schools. intern in the global customer service and bailment operations department Christina (Aloisio) Layton is now Zach Payne is now a client support 1972 at Sazerac Co. Nicholas also is a agent at ZirMed. a secondary English content and contributing writer and photographer Barbara Popp and Beth Wardlaw curriculum specialist with Indianapolis with Southern Indiana Living Magazine. (former PHS math, health and PE Public Schools. She and her husband Jake Vissing teacher) and their real estate business, reside in Noblesville. graduated cum Popp Wardlaw & Associates, recently 2005 laude from the merged with Schuler Bauer Real Estate Shane Cody and Katie Toupin ex-’07 Indiana University 1993 and their band, Houndmouth, played to Robert H. Services. is now a compensation Brian Fisher a sold-out crowd at The Brown Theatre McKinney School program guru at Humana. Joe Tinius retired June 30 as in Louisville in March to celebrate the of Law in May. superintendent of the Bowling Green release of their second album, Little Neon While at the IU Independent School District. Joe 1994 Limelight. McKinney School has been with the district since 1977, Sara Fowdy is now the certification of Law, Jake serving as a teacher, coach, principal program manager at the International Sarah (Evans) McCoy got married in served as a note development editor on and district administrator. He has been Association of Business Communicators. May. Sarah and her husband, Matt, live in the Indiana Law Review. His student note superintendent since 2005. He said he She also is dean of library services at Sellersburg. “Preserving Liberty While Increasing looks forward to spending time with his Daymar Colleges Group. Safety: Why Indiana Should Outlaw family. Max McCrite is now deputy prosecutor Sobriety Checkpoints” was selected for 1995 with the Clark County Prosecuting publication in Volume 48 of the Indiana 1973 Casey Hornung and his wife, Jill, were Attorney office. Law Review, which was published in May Joanie (Biesel) Sutherlin Brown got featured in the News & Tribune after 2015. Jake resides in Indianapolis and is married in December and is now co- purchasing Mom and Pops Cone Corner Chelsea (Powell) Becht married Curtis engaged to Megan Brinkworth ’08. owner of Sutherlin Trucking. in New Albany earlier this year from in 2009. Chelsea earned her master’s Casey’s uncle, Bob Hornung ’67. Bob degree in 2011 in occupational therapy Alexandria Wallace is now a virtual owned and operated the establishment from the University of Indianapolis. The assistant with Zirtual. Previously, she was 1974 for 29 years, and the property has been in couple recently moved to Georgetown, an account coordinator with Deckel & , Diane Fischer the Hornung family for 100 years. Casey and Chelsea is working locally as a Moneypenny Exhibits. founder and president purchased the property to keep it in the registered occupational therapist. of L & D Mail Masters, family and is keeping the original menu. 2009 was a recipient of a Casey also is a New Albany firefighter. Brad Rogers was promoted to territory One Southern Indiana Emily Mae Back graduated from The couple lives in New Albany with manager with Applied Medical in North Kentucky Community and Technical “One” Award in the their two young children. Carolina. Kevin Hammersmith College system with an associate’s Community Leader degree in applied science and surgical category. She also recently received the 1996 2007 technology. Emily will be working in the Mail Technology Award at the 2015 Beth Edwards started her own Morgan Coomer opened her own operating room at Norton Brownsboro National Postal Forum. company, Beth Edwards Media, where bakery shop, Sweets by Morgan, last Hospital. October in downtown Jeffersonville. 14 The Vision | Providence Junior-Senior High School Memorial and Class Endowment Totals Honorary Gifts As of June 5, 2015 Kristina Boisseau is now a contact agent at The Learning House. Gifts received between March 14, 2015, Year...... Contribution Katie Knear graduated from Indiana University and June 5, 2015 Class of 1955...... 2,665 Southeast with a bachelor’s in physical geography Class of 1956*...... 7,801 and human geography. Class of 1957*...... 12,469 In Memory of Todd Ray Denison Class of 1958*...... 24,021 Todd Denison Memorial Foundation Chelsea Koebel is now an associate instructor Class of 1959*...... 10,155 Class of 1960*...... 21,555 of optometry at IU Bloomington. She is a In Memory of Thomas Hamm ’60 graduate student in the IU Bloomington School Robert ’60 & Deena Kleehamer Class of 1961*...... 13,625 of Optometry. Class of 1962*...... 8,999 In Memory of Richard Heavrin ’61 Class of 1963* ...... 5,470 Dr. Kevin Mooney graduated in May from David ’65 & Katie Heavrin Class of 1964...... 2,415 Bellarmine University with a doctorate in physical Class of 1965*...... 8,550 therapy and received the Richard H. Swigart In Memory of Martin Hecker, Sr. ’57 Class of 1966*...... 5,050 Award for Academic Excellence. Kevin will Class of 1957 Class of 1967*...... 5,050 begin working in August as a physical therapist at Class of 1969*...... 14,288 Results Physiotherapy in New Albany. In Memory of Edward Keith Class of 1970 ...... 1,990 Norman Lankert Class of 1971 ...... 370 Whitney Popp graduated from Purdue University Class of 1972 ...... 3,600 In Memory of Leoda Richart Class of 1974...... 1,208 in December 2014 with degrees in occupational Rita Richart ’59 health science and environmental health science Class of 1977*...... 6,000 Class of 1978 ...... 1,685 and with minors in biology and sociology. During In Memory of Frank Spitznagel, Jr. Whitney’s last semester at Purdue, she served Norman Lankert Class of 1979*...... 11,526 as an executive board member (along with her Class of 1980*...... 5,000 sister, Candace ’09) of the philanthropy Purdue In Memory of Brandon Tevis ex-’16 Class of 1981*...... 6,250 University Dance Marathon and helped raise Becky Meredith Class of 1982*...... 26,908 more than $1 million for the Riley Hospital for Class of 1983*...... 5,325 Children in Indianapolis. Whitney also is the In Memory of John Terry Wilson, Sr. Class of 1984...... 2,610 Providence Dance Team assistant coach. She works Michael (Hon. ’08) & Judy (Hon. ’92) Douglas Class of 1986 ...... 1,050 as an environmental engineer for Clariant Corp. Class of 1988...... 2,650 in Louisville. Class of 1989 ...... 400 Class of 1991 ...... 2,000 Class of 1992 ...... 2,900 2010 Class of 1993 ...... 289 Katie Flanagan graduated from Spalding Class of 1994*...... 5,737 University with a bachelor’s in health science in Class of 1995*...... 6,204 occupational therapy. She is a PRN occupational Since the last publication of The Vision, the Class of 1999...... 1,700 therapist at Rehabcare Therapy. In Memoriam Advancement Office has received word of the Class of 2003* ...... 5,000 following deaths: Class of 2005*...... 6,000 Courtney Murphy received a promotion and is Class of 2008* ...... 5,165 now the architectural and contract sales manager Carolyn (Smith) Biggs ’66 Class of 2011*...... 5,000 at Armstrong World Industries in Sacramento, Ca. Class of 2012*...... 5,000 Previously, she was an inside sales specialist. Kathleen (Jacobi) Bodman ’59 Class of 2013 ...... 65 Martin Hecker Sr. ’57 Class of 2014...... 3,172 2011 Daniel “Danny” Mudd ’56 Class of 2015...... 2,500 Christian Betz graduated from the University Class of 2017 ...... 50 of Louisville with a bachelor’s in marketing Robert Schneider ’55 and a minor in entrepreneurship. He is a sales Kenneth J. Smith Sr. ex’62 Total...... $269,467 representative with Verizon. Sharon Zimmerman ’55 *Denotes permanent endowment, with minimum $5,000 balance. Emily Brier graduated from IU Bloomington Don’t see your class listed? No asterisk by your class total? in May with a bachelor’s degree in apparel If a loved one, friend, or classmate has passed For a limited time, an anonymous donor will match the merchandising. 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