The Magazine of the University of Indianapolis Winter 2013

What’s your vision? Student Kaitlyn Braunig is poised to share her ideas at a Vision 2030 conversation in November. She was among the many students, alumni, and others who took part in one of the strategic planning exercises. Pages 4–7.

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Table of Contents 4 8 18 21 President’s forum Scholarly pursuits Work ethic survives ‘Who Do You When Rob Manuel arrived Securing research grants, surgery, heartbreak Think You Are?’ in July, he resolved not to presenting at international UIndy junior Daniel Daudu In a bid to help the campus impose his own vision, but conferences, and publishing of Nigeria is glad to be back community think critically rather to listen to what the articles are all in a day’s on the basketball court, about their identities, UIndy UIndy community had to work for our faculty. applying the work ethic he and Ancestry.com have say. What do you think we Here’s a small sample learned so well from the formed a partnership that is might be in 18 years or so? of their activities. example of his parents. a first in higher education. 5 16 20 22 Strategic planning Something to Let the games begin UM news service process under way shoot for to teach kids shadows student Higher education is in a Gus Chikamba ’03 and his A creative new classroom & president state of flux, and universities wife, Madeline, are serious management system built on The United Methodist News must be prepared to face the about bringing basketball to role-playing is a hit with the Service is shadowing two changes ahead. UIndy has Africa, starting with their kids—and with the teachers newbies as each navigates launched a strategic plan- home country of Zimbabwe. who are finding that students his first year on campus. ning effort that will set a But it’s not just for the sake are motivated, working hard, Freshman Andy Wegg and course for both the short of sport: it’s to help kids and turning in homework new president Rob Manuel term and the long term. And gain confidence and hope. instead of blaming the dog. are featured. we want to hear from you.

On the cover The Vision 2030 sessions include lively conversations and lots of note-taking on the tablecloths. Well, paper tablecloths. Pages 5–7.

2 PORTICO winter 2013 Ambitious goal Alumni Association Board of Directors Too often on the African 2012–13 Stephen Arthur ’76 continent, recreational Amy Johnson Burton ’94, resources are meager. In President-Elect Zimbabwe, for example, the Wendy Walker Grant ’96 Nikki Grotenhuis Reed ’07 few existing basketball courts Andy Hammond ’06 are in disrepair or are owned Tim Harris ’02 by a school, and a single court Dawn Hay ’10 Kent Holaday ’92 may be shared by as many Philip Jackson ’94 as 1,000 people. Gus and Fenrick James ’04 Madeline Chikamba have Mike Kenworthy ’09 Wendy Pitts Knapp ’00 made it their goal to bring Clance LaTurner ’01 the sport—and a message of David Myers ’95 Juan Paz ’95 ’96 ’99, President hope—to the entire continent, Anita Kolkmeier Samuel ’98 with their native Zimbabwe Ryan Scott ’01 as the starting point. Page 16. Greg Seiter ’89 Tom Shively ’01 Michael Shurn ’71 Mike Solari ’07 Amber Harrison Stearns ’95 Mary Massing Sturm ’84 ’90 Mary Surma ’13, Student Alumni Association President 24 28 Kelly Thompson ’02 Greyhound update Homecoming 2012 Nick Williams ’10 The football team wins in A golf cart parade, inflatable The magazine of the its first-ever DII postseason carnival, and live music were University of Indianapolis appearance, then heads to some of the highlights from Nondiscriminatory Colorado for its next foe. this year’s Homecoming Jen Huber ’07, Editor Policies Assistant Director celebration. Plus, an exciting The University of Indianapolis Publications 26 Greyhound victory topped does not discriminate on the off the weekend! ‘Being there was R. Peter Noot ’77 ’84 basis of race, color, gender, age, University Editor awesome’ religion, ethnic or national Director, Publications origin, marital status, sexual Remember swimmer Dalton 30 orientation, or gender identity Herendeen from the last Crowe and Roberts Jeannine Allen ’10 and expression irrespective of issue of Portico? After halls dedicated Art Director whether the status is legally competing in London’s Homecoming saw the Mary Atteberry ’07 protected. The University Paralympic Games, he’s dedication of two residence Vice President complies with the looking forward to Rio. halls—one new, and one Communications & Marketing Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and with a new name honoring the Americans with Disabilities two high-achieving alumni. Scott Hall 27 Director Act. This policy applies to History exhibit Media Relations applicants and employees and features UIndy 32 to all aspects of employment. The history of UIndy is now Class notes part of Destination Indiana News of your fellow alumni, at the Indiana Historical upcoming alumni events, Please send correspondence Society downtown. and tips on year-end giving. and address changes to the Office of Alumni Relations, [email protected]. www.uindy.edu 3 President’s forum What’s your vision? Help us plan UIndy’s future

Even before I officially began my tenure in July, and every day since, I’ve been listening to you and other stakeholders share views about our University, and I’ve been asking questions about what makes this institution unique. What aspects of the University of Indianapolis should we be committed to maintaining? What must change as we go forward? And, considering the level of competition and other challenges we will face in the near future, what can we do better than virtually any other institution in the world?

I’m still listening. In October we launched a strategic planning process for UIndy that is predicated on getting input and participation from our alumni, students, faculty and staff, community leaders, and other stakeholders through a process we’re calling “Vision 2030.” These on- and off-campus sessions challenge us to envision what the University may look like in eighteen years—which is far enough away that we’ll be less likely to feel bound by any current constraints, yet near enough that we’re not tempted to think in terms of jetpacks and flying cars. I’ve been delighted at the level of participation. It’s been a joy to see the activity in the meeting rooms, the paper “tablecloths” filling with ideas at every event.

Meanwhile, even as the Vision 2030 conversations are taking place, four campus task forces are addressing more immediate concerns surrounding use of space on campus, technology and online education, academic and campus life, and communications as it relates to strengthening our institutional brand. The task forces are co-chaired by Cabinet members and deans and include appointees representing all key stakeholders. Each task force will produce specific recommendations in early spring.

These recommendations and the themes that emerge from the Vision 2030 conversations will be channeled to a UIndy Planning Commission that will include my Cabinet, the deans, and members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Once the reports from Vision 2030 and the task forces come in, the Planning Commission will process this information, recommend budget priorities for 2012–13, and prioritize fundraising opportunities.

I hope you’ll join the conversation. Join us at the next alumni Vision 2030 conversation January 15, or comment online at http://uindy.edu/strategic-plan. I look forward to hearing from you!

Rob Manuel

4 PORTICO winter 2013 Join the conversation! What’s your vision? Strategic planning under way

Help us plan UIndy’s future Children who are born this year will be college- short-term and long-term future. (Another Vision The timeline for UIndy’s age 18 years from now. They will have grown up 2030 session is set for January 15; join us!) in a time that is immersed in the demands of Meanwhile, campus task forces are addressing strategic planning process, technology, expects instant results, and wants more immediate concerns: use of space on campus, found below, shows the more produced with less. And universities will technology and online education, academic and feel the effects of these new realities. campus life, and communications and branding. early recommendations UIndy is developing a new strategic plan to Early next semester, the task force recom- anticipate the inevitable changes ahead. President mendations and the key themes from the Vision going to the Planning Robert Manuel, who began his tenure in July, has 2030 conversations will be channeled to the Plan- Commission in early launched an inclusive strategic planning process ning Commission—which includes the president, that began with a series of conversations with Cabinet, and the executive committee of the spring. The process alumni, students, faculty and staff, parents, Faculty Senate—who will make recommendations trustees, and the broader community. for budgeting and fundraising priorities. involves all constituents Dubbed Vision 2030, these sessions will lead See pages 6 & 7 for more on the strategic of the University. to new budgetVision and fundraising priorities & forPlanning the planning process Timeline and Vision 2030 conversations. 2012–13

OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY

Faculty/Staff UIndy 2030 Students/Parents Draft Alumni/Board

Vision 2030 Community Diversity Budget 2012–2013

UIndy Cabinet Leadership Finance Planning President Commission Board Advancement Development

Planning Commission Planning Priorities Competition Space Technology/Online Education Campus/Intellectual Life Deferred Task Forces Task Communication Quality

Prioritized List of School/ Center

Mission Initiatives Schools/Deans

Incubator Community Faculty Donors

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Since October, UIndy alumni, students, parents, faculty and staff, and community leaders have been engaged in “Vision 2030” conversations about how the University should look and operate in the year 2030. The strategic planning process is also aimed at developing short-term goals and plans for the University. Dr. Terry Schindler of the School of Business is leading the series of 20 lively conversations, which began in October with more than 50 alumni participating. Attendees are invited to write their thoughts and sketches directly onto paper “tablecloths” as they identify features of UIndy that should be preserved and areas that could be improved. The resulting collective vision will guide the University in both short-term and long-term planning and budgeting. Learn more about Vision 2030 and the strategic plan on the president’s home page, www.uindy.edu/president.

Join the conversation: January 15 You still have an opportunity to join us for an alumni Vision 2030 conversation! The session is January 15, 2013, 5:30–7:30 p.m., at Weber Grill Downtown, 10 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis IN 46204. To attend, call the Alumni Office at (317) 788-3205. If you can’t attend but want to share ideas, write [email protected] or visit http://uindy.edu/strategic-plan.

6 PORTICO winter 2013 http://uindy.edu/strategic-plan http://uindy.edu/strategic-plan Vision 2030: be heard Task forces at work, too

While the Vision 2030 conversations have continued apace, four task forces are busy addressing more immediate concerns surrounding the use of space on campus, technology and online education, academic and campus life, and communications as it relates to strengthening UIndy’s institutional brand and visual identity. The four task forces are co-chaired by Cabinet members and deans and include appointees representing all key stakeholders. Each task force will produce specific recommendations. The task force recommendations and the themes that emerge from the Vision 2030 conversations will be channeled to a new UIndy Planning Commission, chaired by President Manuel, which includes his Cabinet, the deans, and members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. In preparation for its work after the task force recommendations are submitted, the Planning Commission will begin meeting soon to build its base of knowledge regarding higher education leadership, advancement, and finance. Once the reports from Vision 2030 and the task forces are in, the Planning Commission will process the information and set priorities, align planning with budgeting for 2012–13, create a short-term roadmap, and identify fundraising opportunities for the longer term. The chart below indicates the structure of the Vision 2030 conversations, task forces, and Planning Commission.

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Chair: President Monthly Meetings Deans Tie Planning to Budget Cabinet Prioritize Initiatives Faculty Senate Executive Committee Communicate Work 2030 Vision

Vision Communications Intellectual (Campus) Space Technology/Online 2030 Task Force Life Task Force Task Force Education Task Force

Faculty Deans Deans Deans Deans Staff Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Students Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Alumni Staff Staff Staff Staff Community Students Students Students Students Parents Alumni Alumni Alumni Alumni

Meetings as scheduled. (See Timeline, page 5)

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A look at UIndy faculty scholarship, faculty/student research collaborations, international connections, and community impact. For the most up-to-date news about the University, visit www.uindy.edu/news/.

Art & Design from seven high schools around the state at a new schools workshop and has been in contact with more than 12 Hands across the water additional schools interested in pursuing CELL’s endorsement In June Marilyn McElwain presented “Service Learning in for the model. The Early College model offers first-generation the Arts: Reciprocity of Community Collaboration” at the college-goers, minorities, and socioeconomically disadvan- International Conference of Visual and Performing Arts in taged students the opportunity to earn college credit con- Athens, Greece. currently with their high school diploma, thus bridging the gap between secondary and postsecondary education. Athletic Training Center for Aging & Community Top honors Connie Pumpelly was inducted into the Indiana Athletic Nursing home initiative shaping up Trainers Association Hall of Fame on October 28. She joins UIndy’s Center for Aging & Community, known for its work head athletic trainer Ned Shannon, who was inducted in 2011. on nursing-home healthcare initiatives, has a key role in an Indiana University-led project that just received a multi- Center of Excellence in million-dollar federal grant. Leadership of Learning CAC Executive Director Ellen Miller serves on the project team for OPTIMISTIC, which stands for Optimizing Education not tapped out Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality and Improving CELL hosted its eighth annual Indiana Education Trans- Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care. In a four-year formation conference November 13–14 at the Indiana effort, IU and Regenstrief Institute clinician-researchers will Convention Center. “Indiana’s Future: Advancing Change work with 19 central Indiana nursing facilities to improve Through Action & Accountability” brought together leading care, reduce hospitalizations, and increase access to palliative experts to Indiana in order to promote education transfor- care for long-term nursing facility residents. mation aimed at increasing student achievement. Hundreds CAC will coordinate all training for participating nurses of educators, business and community leaders, and policy- and nursing home personnel. Also, Anne Thomas, dean of makers engaged in discussion on how Indiana can improve UIndy’s School of Nursing, will co-chair the OPTIMISTIC educational opportunities throughout the state. advisory board. After the first full-year of implementation of TAP: Indiana is one of seven states where such pilot projects The System for Teacher & Student Advancement, a year-one are being funded by the federal Centers for Medicare and evaluation report indicated strong results. The 44 Indiana Medicaid Services. According to the project announcement, TAP schools outperformed comparison schools in several 45 percent of hospitalizations of people receiving Medicare or areas including English/language arts and math. The report Medicaid nursing facility services could be avoided. The cost mentioned that the progress observed in Indiana schools of these unnecessary transfers and hospitalizations was was remarkable in just the first year with the system. estimated between $7 billion and $8 billion in 2011. CELL administers TAP as a partnership with the Indiana Department of Education. The system aims to increase Communication student performance through teacher evaluation and advancement, professional development, and performance- International accolades based compensation. In April Jeanne Criswell served as a peer reviewer for In September CELL was awarded $800,000 from Lilly scholarly papers submitted to the Cultural and Critical Endowment Inc. to partner with the Indiana Education Studies Division of Association for Education in Journalism Roundtable in order to align educational opportunity with and Mass Communication. In August she served as the economic and workforce development across Indiana. The discussant for four papers at the AEJMC national conference work involves the establishment of the Indiana Education in Chicago. In November Criswell served as organizer, and Workforce Innovation Network. moderator, and presenter for the “Hitting the Wall: Student CELL continues to expand the Early College High Media Access Issues at Private Universities” panel at the School model across Indiana. CELL hosted representatives Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers National

8 PORTICO winter 2013 College Media Convention in Chicago. Three editors for The site includes artist studios, a theater, an art gallery, the Reflector and the Reflector Online—Kaley Belakovich, and a painting studio, as well as office and classroom space. editor-in-chief; Anna Wieseman, managing editor; and The ongoing programming at Wheeler includes free art classes James Figy, news editor—also attended the conference. for local children and a range of events and activities in In July Wieseman participated in the Management partnership with community groups and arts organizations. Seminar for College Newspaper Editors in Athens, Ga., Under Foulkrod, CPC has added a full-time community and Figy participated in the Watchdog Journalism seminar outreach coordinator at the Wheeler, Matthew Williams, at the Indianapolis Star in May. whose efforts have included organizing film screenings and Rebecca Deemer ’97 presented a research paper and regular monthly arts and entertainment events in conjunction a pedagogical poster at the Public Relations Society of with the city’s First Friday gallery walk. America’s International Conference in October. The paper, The new funding will help the center broaden its impact “An Evaluative Measure for Outputs in Student-Run Public through more art classes and new community collaborations. Relations Courses and Applied Firms,” was one of only ten accepted internationally by PRSA’s Educators Academy. English The poster, which shares a professional development assignment created for the Applied Public Relations Course Writing for the global market at UIndy, was one of only 16 accepted and was co-presented Michael Milam and Dean JiXian Pang of the Foreign by student Christi Larimer. Language School at China’s Ningbo Institute of Technology (with which the University enjoys an accredited partnership) Community Programs Center recently published Business Writing for the Global Market with the Higher Education Press, Beijing.

History & Political Science Indiana’s hidden history In September A. James Fuller presented his paper “‘Indiana shows signs of prosperity and power she never knew before:’ The Growth of Capitalism and Government in Civil War Indiana,” at the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Civil War Study Group at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill. In June he presented his paper “‘The State Was Honeycombed with Secret Societies:’ Governor Oliver P. Morton, Resistance, and Treason in Civil War Indiana,” at the biennial meeting of the Society of Civil War Historians, in Lexington, Ky. Fuller also chaired and commented for a session on “Establishing Authority and Pursuing Power in the Early Republic” at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society Growing thanks to grants for Historians of the Early American Republic, in Baltimore, Through Indiana Campus Compact, Marianna Foulkrod Md., in July. He also published four book reviews in scholarly ’01 ’04 has been awarded the Community Service Director journals between May and September 2012. Engagement grant for “A Journey Continues: Service- Learning in Cyprus.” The grant will support an international service-learning trip to Cyprus, a partnership with Commu- Institutional Research & Grants nity Programs Center, Social Work, and School of Business. UIndy’s Community Programs Center will be able Where soul meets body expand its programming at the Wheeler Arts Community Greg E. Manship earned re-certification as an Institutional (photo) thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Allen Whitehill Review Board Professional by completing over 30 hours of Clowes Charitable Foundation. continuing education in human research protections. The CPC, which supports UIndy’s service-learning courses credential is awarded by the Council for Certification of IRB and volunteer activities, also directs community outreach Professionals, in association with the professional organization efforts at the Wheeler building, a former factory in the city’s Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research, and is valid Fountain Square neighborhood that was rehabilitated in for three years. Manship also recently assumed the role of partnership with Southeast Neighborhood Development Inc. Human Protections Administrator. The HPA is a component of UIndy’s Federalwide Assurance with the federal Depart-

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ment of Health and Human Services, whereby UIndy agrees Music to conduct in accord with federal regulations all research involving human subjects. On September 19, Manship pre- Music to her ears sented “Living with Faith, Dealing with Loss: Nursing and Senior music education major Abby Means received the Spirituality & Religion at the End of Life” at the annual Indiana Society for General Music/Indiana Music Education Community Health Network Nursing Research Symposium. Association Gary S. Meek General Music Scholarship at their fall workshop in October. This Honorary Scholarship is Kinesiology awarded annually to a music education major planning to teach elementary or junior high/middle school general music Practicing what they preach who exhibits high scholastic and musical ability. Lisa Hicks, Heidi Hancher-Rauch, and student Kaitlin Casselman published “Using Partnerships to Promote Health Philosophy & Religion and Physical Education” in the September issue of Journal of Physical Education Recreation and Dance. Rekindling hope Mindy Hartman-Mayol published the second edition of In October Peter Murphy presented “Teaching Ethics to her book Wellness: The Total Package. the Righteous Mind” at the Society for Ethics Across the Matthew Beekley In May , Hartman-Mayol, and student Curriculum at Grand Valley State University and “Justified Renee Zeltwanger ’12 presented their poster “Do Kinesiology Belief from Unjustified Belief” at the Society for Exact Majors Practice What They Preach?” at the American College Philosophy at Ohio State University. of Sports Medicine annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. Lang Brownlee received a Teacher Scholarship, awarded by the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center Krannert School of Physical Therapy in Terre Haute, Ind., enabling him to travel to Poland in July. The week-long travel experience was based in Krakow and Success in the real world included trips to the Auschwitz I and the Auschwitz-Birkenau In July Kathy Martin ’90 ’03 participated in the American concentration camps for interpretative tours, led by Auschwitz Physical Therapy Association Section on Pediatrics’ first survivor Eva Kor. The group also visited the Plaszow camp Education Summit. This was a select group of pediatric PT and the Oskar Schindler factory in the Krakow area. faculty and clinicians with a task of identifying best practices Brownlee will employ these experiences in the upcoming (content and pedagogy) for teaching pediatric physical Spring Term course Holocaust and Hope: Jewish and therapy. She presented the recommendations of this group Christian Responses. at the annual Section on Pediatrics Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., in September. Physics & Earth-Space Sciences In August Stephanie Combs ’99 presented “Scapulo- humeral Kinematics in Individuals with Upper Extremity Impairment from Chronic Stroke” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics in Gainesville, Fla. Along with Margaret Finley and several other authors, she published “A Comparison of ‘Less Affected Limb’ Reaching Kinematics in Individuals with Chronic Stroke and Healthy Age-Matched Controls” in Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics. She and Finley also published “User perceptions of gaming interventions for improving upper extremity motor function in persons with chronic stroke” in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. Clyde Killian and Karl Knapp (School of Business) presented their research “A Predictive Model of College Trash to treasure Graduate Success” at the Lilly Conference on College Last spring Chris Moore ’04 coauthored “A Preliminary Teaching at Miami University in November. This research Assessment of Using a White Light Confocal Imaging Profiler establishes a model that identifies the key environmental for Cut Mark Analysis” with Christopher Schmidt elements at universities that lead to greater financial success (Anthropology) and Randall Leifheit. Over the summer of graduates. Moore took two graduate students and three undergrads to Sapelo Island, Ga., to continue Mission period investigations there. The group investigated a Guale Indian trash pile and

10 PORTICO winter 2013 found a group of nearly complete (reconstructable) Guale School of Education pots. In October Moore attended an invited workshop on Fort Ancient culture research held at the SunWatch Indian Village and Archaeological Park in Dayton, Ohio.

School of Business One-year MBA program debuts The area’s only one-year MBA offers a new option for students seeking a Master of Business Administration degree. UIndy’s School of Business—which already offers evening, Saturday, and off-campus MBA options—is rolling out the only full- time, daytime, one-year MBA program in the Indianapolis area, aimed at undergraduates seeking to boost their job prospects and starting salaries with just one additional year More than a game of study; international students seeking an efficient route to In November John Somers and Lynn Wheeler presented a U.S. business credential; and graduates with degrees in “Digital Window: An Alternate Reality Game for Leadership non-business fields, such as arts or health care, who plan to Preparation Programs” and “vLeader: A Simulation for start their own businesses. Leadership Preparation Programs.” John Somers chaired the Students will take four to five courses per term over three session “Theoretical and Methodological Lens for the Study terms, from August to August each year, for a total of 42 of Educational Leadership” at the national University Council credit hours. The classes, led by faculty with industry experi- for Educational Administration conference in Denver, Colo. ence, will meet on campus from 8 to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday. The tuition includes the cost of a laptop School of Nursing and required software, as well as the cost of international travel for an independent study course on global business Not just for dummies issues. The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation In June Kathy Hetzler and Becca Cartledge ’06 presented Council for Business Schools and Programs. “How the Sim Lab Was Won!” at the International Nursing More information on UIndy’s one-year MBA is available Simulation/Learning Resources Centers Conference in San at (317) 788-6206 or mba.uindy.edu. Antonio. They shared the School of Nursing’s process of Darrell Bowman received the Presentation Excellence designing and coordinating the new Simulation Learning Award for his presentation of “A Comparison of Electronic Center, which employs sophisticated mannequins as teaching Data Interchange and Web-Based Extranets” at the Academic tools. In September Hetzler presented “Developing Nurse Business World International Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Leaders through Mentoring in the Mission Field” at the In November Deidre Pettinga, Rachel Smith, and Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International Sheela Yadav presented “Assessing Students’ Impressions Leadership Forum, detailing experiences Cartledge, Hetzler, of the Effectiveness of Business Program Curriculum Comp- and 16 others had on a service-learning mission trip to the onents on Their Career Preparedness” at the 2012 Lilly Dominican Republic in 2011. Cartledge and Hetzler led International Conference on College Teaching—Evidence- another service-learning mission to Ecuador in May. The 12 Based Learning and Teaching. Pettinga is on sabbatical students and nursing alumni cared for more than 500 people completing applied projects at Willow Marketing, an in health care clinics, provided assessments in an inner-city Indianapolis-based strategic marketing firm, which will day care, toured area hospitals, and visited a nursing school. enhance UIndy’s marketing curriculum. Based on Pettinga’s Connie Wilson has been named the RN-BSN Program recently completed doctoral dissertation in August, Lambert Director in the School of Nursing and was elected to the Academic Publishing in Saarbrücken, Germany, has pub- Board of Governors for the National League of Nursing. lished her manuscript “Media, Vengeance and Litigation: On October 3, the Promoting Healthy Communities Exploring the Relationship Between Plaintiff Attorney Adver- Course at Hendricks Regional Hospital concluded with tising and Attitudes Toward Personal Injury Lawsuits.” She presentations of five group projects. The nurses enrolled in also consulted with the Indiana Conference of the United the course were asked to conduct a Health Promotion Methodist Church on a research project to analyze the results Intervention with their population of choice. In addition to of the implementation of the Imagine Indiana Campaign the intervention, the nurses were asked to write a scholarly and presented the results at the Church’s 2012 Conference paper related to the need for health promotion in this area in Indianapolis in June. including levels of prevention. The groups included research

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on West Nile virus prevention; teaching good hand hygiene to Association Conference for her design of a piece of adaptive preschool children at Hendricks County Head Start Program; equipment to assist with lower body dressing. providing flu vaccinations in Brownsburg; teaching hand hygiene and cough etiquette to children in Greencastle; and School of Psychological Sciences working on fall prevention with the elderly at the Hendricks County Senior Center. Thinking it through David L. Downing, student Aimee Dershowitz ’10, and School of Occupational Therapy Bryn Higgins ’11 had “Inclusion of Psychoanalytical Thought in Doctoral Programs of Psychology” published in the summer Not crying over cursive 2012 Division Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum. Kristi Hape is partnering with the Southeast Neighborhood Doctoral candidate Jay Hamm was honored at the recent School of Excellence charter school in Fountain Square in American Psychological Association Annual Convention in coordination with a University Summer Research Grant. The Florida as the Outstanding Student of APA’s Psychologists in first graders are working with her student research group to Public Service Division. The award includes a cash prize and participate in writing activities. One classroom is continuing is given to those who have made outstanding contributions to with the standard handwriting curriculum; a second is public service through research, teaching, program develop- implementing the Handwriting Without Tears® classroom ment, and/or clinical practice. Hamm was nominated for acti- curriculum. The research group, composed of second-year vities including research on correctional employees’ attitudes Master of Occupational Therapy students, is supporting the toward inmates and on intervention options for veterans with implementation of the curriculum with once-a-week review mental health issues. Hamm also received the convention’s sessions using the multisensory strategies designed by the Outstanding Student Research award in the Criminal Justice curriculum author. Pre-testing has been completed; post- Section for research into the effectiveness of correctional testing will occur in early June. This project is also supporting diversion programs for offenders whose crimes were related the building of a connection between the Fountain Square to mental illness or other special circumstances. Community and the Sutphin Center for Clinical Care at Fountain Square where children and families who are under- Social Sciences insured or uninsured can access occupational therapy services. Beth Ann Walker ’01 was the primary author of the Cohabiting preferences paper “Development of a Fall Prevention Protocol for Repli- Amanda Miller had her article “Cohabiting Men’s Preferences cation in a Virtual Environment,” published in Advances in for and Perceived Roles in Determining the Outcomes of Aging Research in August. Walker was co-author of the paper Unexpected Pregnancies” published in the September 2012 “How In-Home Technologies Mediate Caregiving Relation- issue of Sociological Forum. Her coauthored paper “We’re Very ships in Later Life,” which was accepted for publication by Careful: The Fertility Desires and Behaviors of Cohabiting the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. She Couples” was presented by her coauthor, Sharon Sassler of received the People’s Choice Award at the Maddak Awards Cornell University, at this summer’s American Sociological and was recognized at the American Occupational Therapy Association annual meeting.

Prof testifies in half-century-old murder case

Dr. Krista Latham, assistant professor of Biology and Anthropology, lent her expertise this fall to a disturbing but interesting murder case in northern Illinois. Jack McCullough, 72, of Seattle was arrested just last year in the 1957 abduction and death of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in the town of Sycamore, west of Chicago. The case is said to be one of the oldest homicides in the nation to be brought to trial. Latham’s examination of the victim’s exhumed body at UIndy’s Archeology & Forensics Laboratory showed evidence of stabbing, a previously unknown fact that apparently conflicted with some witness statements. Her testimony was covered by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Dekalb Daily Chronicle, among many other outlets. The Chicago Tribune has more background on the historic case, which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/bcoobfc.

12 PORTICO winter 2013 UIndy website wins international notice

The University of Indianapolis website, www.uindy.edu, has won another major award for the new look and structure unveiled last year. Local marketing and design firm Rare Bird, which created the site in collaboration with UIndy’s departments of Communications & Marketing and Information Systems, has received an Outstanding Website designation in the international Web Marketing Association’s 2012 WebAward competition. Now in its 16th year, the program is the world’s longest-running annual website competition, evaluating thousands of entries in 96 industries and setting standards of excellence in website development. This is not the first recognition for the site, which claimed Best Overall Website and Best Home Page in the 2011 EduStyle Higher-Ed web awards. To read more about the honors, visit http://tinyurl.com/aa8abaz.

Nursing, St. Francis build on partnership

As U.S. demand for primary healthcare services exceeds capacity, the University of Indianapolis and Franciscan St. Francis Health are expanding their educational partnership to help nurses advance their careers and become family nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners can counteract the growing shortage of primary care physicians by providing such services as the initial evaluation of patients, ongoing care for chronic diseases, and preventive screenings and immunizations. In August 2013, under the new agreement, UIndy’s School of Nursing will begin offering Master of Science courses with the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty at a Franciscan St. Francis education facility near its Indianapolis hospital at 8111 South Emerson Avenue. Nurses with bachelor’s degrees will enter the program in cohorts of 12 to 15, meet for evening classes and clinical experiences designed to fit their work schedules, and emerge three years later with an advanced degree. Franciscan St. Francis will provide tuition reimbursement for nurses from its Indianapolis, Mooresville, and Carmel hospitals and from its physician practices in the area. According to projections, Franciscan St. Francis needs to add more than 100 nurse practitioners to its system by 2016 to meet the demand for primary care. “We are so happy to be partnering once again with the University of Indianapolis to provide our nurses the educational opportunity to continue their Franciscan ministry in an advance practice role,” said Susan McRoberts, regional vice president and chief nursing officer for Franciscan St. Francis Health. The new program is the third master’s degree partnership between the two organizations, joining two ongoing programs that focus on nursing education and health systems leadership. Anne Thomas, dean of UIndy’s School of Nursing, praised Franciscan St. Francis for its progressive approach to the issue. “The graduates of this new partnership will provide high-quality primary care services in a system that is a team-based, interdisciplinary, and patient-centered,” Thomas said. “This is another example of St. Francis moving forward in a rapidly changing healthcare environment and creatively meeting patient needs through academic partnerships.” UIndy also provides bachelor’s degree programs in nursing for Franciscan St. Francis and Hendricks Regional Health, as well as associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees for IU Health.

www.uindy.edu 13 Scholarly pursuits PT prof leads international conference

Associate Professor James Bellew of the Krannert School of Physical Therapy returned from Brazil in October, having presided over a three-day international conference on physical rehabilitation. Dr. Bellew delivered a keynote speech and lined up expert colleagues from around the world to present at the Ibramed International Scientific Meeting in Amparo, São Paulo. The annual event focuses on the use of electrophysical equipment and techniques—such as laser therapy, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation—to complement standard approaches to physical rehabilitation. Such methods are widely used in many parts of the world, and they hold particular interest for Bellew, co-author of the fifth edition of the textbook Modalities for Therapeutic Intervention. But in the United States, Bellew said, electrophysical agents remain outside the mainstream because of regulatory issues, poor research, and gaps in insurance coverage, among other factors. “In some ways, we’re handcuffed,” said Bellew, who also presented at last year’s Ibramed conference. “You would not see this kind of conference in the United States, but South America has an incredible thirst for knowledge on this issue.”

President adds communications to Cabinet

UIndy staffer and alumna Mary Wade Atteberry ’07 has been promoted to vice president for Communications & Marketing, officially centralizing those functions under the University’s top administration. Atteberry joined UIndy in 2002 and has served since 2007 as executive director of the Office of Communications & Marketing. In her new capacity, which was effective Sept. 1, she reports directly to University President Robert Manuel and serves on his Cabinet. The Westfield resident worked previously as community relations director for Westfield Washington Schools and as a reporter, copy editor, and assistant city editor at the Indianapolis Star. Atteberry holds an MBA from UIndy and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University. She is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America and serves as vice president and board member of the Indianapolis Public Relations Society.

Athletic director promoted to vice president

Dr. Sue Willey has been named vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Indianapolis. Willey is a 1975 graduate of UIndy and has spent her career at the University as a coach, faculty member, and administrator. She has served as director of athletics since 2003 and has earned national and regional honors, including 2010 Under Armour Division II Central Region Athletic Director of the Year and 2005 National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators Division II Administrator of the Year. UIndy President Robert Manuel announced Willey’s new title in August in recognition of her dedication to the University and her local and national work in intercollegiate sports. “I’m very appreciative of this recognition, not just for myself, but for our entire department,” Willey said. “This is a promotion that I feel recognizes UIndy Athletics as a whole for everything we’ve been able to accomplish on the playing field, in the classroom, and in the community.” During Willey’s tenure, the Greyhounds have emerged as one of the top overall athletic programs in NCAA Division II, with teams regularly qualifying for postseason play and contending for regional championships. In four of the past five seasons, UIndy has been the highest-ranked athletic program in Indiana across all divisions and the National Association of Inter- collegiate Athletics in the Directors’ Cup standings. As a student-athlete, Willey earned 19 varsity letters and 11 MVP awards and was named Female Athlete of the Year from 1972 through 1975. She coached for 23 years in five sports and was inducted into the UIndy Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Indiana University.

14 PORTICO winter 2013

UIndy showcases successful young alumni

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At UIndy, we’re proud of our alumni, which is why they TheJob. Security.perfect pitch. are front and center in our most comprehensive advertising campaign to date. The University is employing television, JoelBrian Zawacki Marris Director of Corporate Sales radio, print, digital ads and billboards to illustrate how a &Project Marketing, Manager, IndianapolisIngersoll Rand Indians UIndy education provides the foundation for a life of SecurityTechnologies. Degree: purpose. The campaign theme is “Inspired. For the rest BachelorDegree: of Science, SportsBachelor Management of Science, Entrepreneurship of your life.” Proudest Business Moment: Doubling departmental revenue, The campaign was launched in mid-October 2011 “ whichI face businessresulted inchallenges fan-friendly improvements to Victory Field. and features three faces of UIndy: Nichole Wilson ’02 ’06, every day that I’m better prepared to handle because Director of Rehab and Sports Medicine of Community “ Myof my professors experiences got meat UIndy.” to Health Network; Dennis Reinbold ’83, co-owner of Dreyer believe I can do anything. And just as in sports, that’s & Reinbold Racing; and Kelly Campbell ’06, co-founder of the foundation for success.” the Village Experience trade and travel business. This fall, the campaign is focusing more specifically on young alumni who have been successful in a short period of time. Featured are Joel Zawacki ’06, director of corporate sales and marketing for the Indianapolis Indians; Brian Marris ’11, project manager for Ingersoll Rand; and Nikki Reed ’06, on-air personality for WZPL radio. Joe Solari, marketing director for UIndy, explains that the intent of the campaign is to build on the brand of personal attention and real-world experience that students receive, increase the positive reputation of the University, Inspired. For the rest of your life. and raise awareness about the institution. Inspired. For the rest of your life. To learn more these alumni, visit uindy.edu/inspired.

www.uindy.edu 15 Giving kids something to shoot for

G ood things may come to those who wait, but “The kids so often hear the message that if Gus Chikamba ’03 isn’t taking any chances. they get AIDS or HIV, they will die,” explains Gus. Gus and his wife, Madeline, moved to the “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could tell them a positive U.S. from Zimbabwe in 2000. They started taking message instead?” graduate classes at the University of Indianapolis, he in the MBA program and she in the School of Starting with the youngest Occupational Therapy. They have two children, Using their own finances, the Chikambas founded and Gus would often take his son to the gym with Africa Outreach USA Foundation, a nonprofit him in the evening as he shot hoops after class. organization dedicated to using basketball to Gus had developed a passion for the game at change lives. They began to feel that they could age 14, played in high school and college, and change society, starting with its youngest citizens. even won a gold and silver medal for Zimbabwe “It’s hard to change an adult mindset,” Gus in an international tournament. Gus and his wife, says. “But if we can help a kid to develop a passion But now, at the age of 30, Gus was finally Madeline, in Zimbabwe for sports, then the parents start to support him or getting to do something he had never done in her, thereby buying into the change process.” this past spring. his entire life: own his very own basketball. And in many communities in Africa, boys are Sports of all kinds are very popular in Africa, valued, while girls are simply counted, says Gus. with soccer leading the way. Finding the equip- Madeline agrees. Africa Outreach USA ment and space to play these sports, however, can “In order for girls to become part of the be challenging. As a boy growing up in Zimbabwe, is collecting new or gently leadership in developing countries,” she says, Gus and his friends would kick around plastic “girls must be given a platform that allows them used sporting gear. To balls that didn’t even bounce. It was not uncom- to develop self esteem that boys enjoy. Sport mon to see a single basketball or soccer ball being make a donation, call is a good starting point to correct the social shared by two dozen kids or more. misconceptions depriving girls of equal (317) 371-8656 to arrange When Gus and Madeline began to watch their opportunities like going to school, leadership, own children embrace sports and could see them pickup. For information: and having equal participation.” developing a passion for playing, they began to The Chikambas began to talk to people in www.africaoutreachusa.org realize that thousands of disadvantaged kids— and around the Indianapolis community, including especially those in Zimbabwe—could also develop [email protected] churches, schools, and corporations. They took a passion for sports if they only had the chance and donations of gently used sports gear, sneakers, and resources. “Kids are the same wherever you go, and uniforms. Former Indiana Pacers coach Jim sport is the same wherever you go,” explains Gus. O’Brien and his wife, Sharon, gave financial The Chikambas wanted to make a difference donations to Africa Outreach USA, and the Pacers in their home country and saw a window of Foundation, Valley Mills Christian Church, and opportunity to use sport as motivation. They the University of Indianapolis helped to organize a wondered if sport could be used as a behavior donation of more than 100 new basketballs. modification tool, too, to help keep kids away “This is a unique opportunity for us to make from drugs and alcohol, fight the gender an impact outside of the country,” says Quinn imbalance often seen in the country, and Buckner, vice president of Communications for encourage kids to stay in school. Pacers Sports & Entertainment. “Basketball can be And most importantly, they wanted to used to teach life skills, and you learn about use sport as a chance to educate kids about HIV discipline, teamwork, and sacrifice as you play.” and AIDS, an ongoing problem in Africa.

16 PORTICO winter 2013 In April 2012 the Chikamba family traveled to For Madeline, the best part about their Zimbabwe to host the first Jack Ramsay Grassroots foundation is being able to see the children Basketball Development Clinic, named for the smile and just be kids. NBA Hall of Fame coach and the 1986–87 Pacers “My dream for Africa Outreach USA is to coach. When they first met Dr. Ramsay in 2009, change lives, one kid at a time,” she says. “I want he told them that their foundation was taking the to give kids hope and let them know that the world right approach toward sustainable basketball cares about each and every one of them. I want development and game awareness in Africa. Africa Outreach USA to provide a platform where So with a shoestring budget of $1,500, Africa kids in Africa can go to and feel safe and escape Outreach USA partnered with Hoops 4 Hope their life struggles while enjoying the Zimbabwe and local coaches to host three gift of sport. I want them to be loved.” basketball clinics in two cities, each with an average attendance of about 200 kids. It takes a village During each six-hour clinic, kids practiced In addition to hosting basketball clinics, Africa fundamentals, learned basic drills, and Outreach USA is using an innovative concept scrimmaged. Many of the kids came barefoot, developed by DeWolf to construct low-cost, high- never having owned a pair of sneakers. impact, multipurpose basketball courts. The “It was heartbreaking to see that during the concept engages the locals to contribute labor and scrimmages, the kids from ages 9 to 18 had to share at least 20,000 “Village Bricks” used as the found- one set of uniforms,” says Gus. “They’d take off the ation of the court. Africa Outreach USA steps in shirt dripping with sweat and pass it on to the next to contribute the rest of the materials for the court. kid, who’d throw it on and race onto the court.” “When the community contributes toward At the end of the day, kids were given juice building the court,” says Gus, “they develop a and bread and then split into age groups to take sense of pride and ownership needed to care for it. part in a discussion about the dangers of HIV/ It’s not a handout, but a way for the community AIDS and how to stay safe. to help with the project.” “AIDS has really taken a toll in the sub- Africa Outreach USA is already working on Saharan region,” Gus explains. “Kids are having plans for a second set of clinics in Zimbabwe in to raise other kids because their parents have died. 2013. In the meantime, they are gathering enough It’d be neat if kids can just be kids again and be new or used sporting equipment to ship a 40-foot able to do what they do best—have fun and be container to Zimbabwe next spring. able to play sports.” Using Zimbabwe as a model, Africa Outreach Ted DeWolf, a missionary from Massachu- USA hopes to one day to be able to ship containers setts who moved to Zimbabwe in the 1960s, is a full of sporting goods to every country in Africa member of the steering committee for Africa and to spur the development of basketball all over Outreach USA. He shared his passion for the continent. basketball by helping out at the clinics. “The people surrounding us have given us “If kids are involved in sports, then they support, ideas, and resources,” says Gus. “When get to feel pride and learn about healthy pride,” you change someone’s life, it’s priceless. We want he says. “It’s crucial to our female athletes to be to empower kids, enlighten them, give them hope. in a sport where they can be seen as equals. “And with God’s help, anything is possible.” The basketball court becomes a very healthy —Jen Huber ’07 atmosphere, and I’m passionate about what basketball can do for our country.”

www.uindy.edu 17 Work ethic survives surgery, heartbreak

Over the past two summers, UIndy men’s basket- Forced to sit out ball head coach Stan Gouard didn’t have to look “It was a tremendous blow to me and an even into Nicoson Hall when he got to his office in the bigger blow to him because he’d worked so hard,” morning and heard the ball bouncing. He already Gouard said. knew who was there. It was Daniel Daudu. “When I had the injury, it was mind-blowing,” It had been 603 days between games by the Daudu said. “I felt so bad. I felt so down.” time Daudu finally took the court again this fall. “When he came in, it was emotional for both In the meantime, he has been tested emotionally, of us,” Gouard said. “I hate to see kids go through mentally, and physically. But he remains unbroken. what he went through, to work so hard to get ‘Coach gave me confidence’ better and then in the blink of an eye, your career Daniel’s Facebook page is in jeopardy. March 12, 2011, when the Greyhounds took the “We talked about learning from the sidelines includes this photo of him floor against eventual national champ Bellarmine, and becoming even more of a student of the game.” (middle, back row) at home marked UIndy’s return to the NCAA tournament Daudu became a de facto coach for UIndy— in Nigeria with his family. after a six-year absence. Daudu started his 14th and wore dapper suits on the sidelines that would game of his freshman season, playing a team-high often make him the best-dressed man in the arena. 34 minutes on the way to nine points and career While he was unable to help his team physically, highs of seven assists and five rebounds in the he absorbed the game from a mental perspective. 84-70 defeat. “It might have been a blessing for him to get “That game, I remember Coach gave me con- hurt. Now he sees the game from a different fidence,” Daudu said. “He told me, ‘I want you to perspective because he had that chance to sit on do whatever your mind tells you to do with this the sidelines and watch like a coach,” Gouard ball.’ It was one of the best games of my life.” explained. “Sometimes before I would go into the A breakout campaign seemed to be ahead locker room at halftime, I could hear Daniel for the native of Lagos, Nigeria. He was firmly addressing the team.” established as a starter, and more shots and oppor- “I learned a lot sitting on the bench and tunities in the backcourt would be available with listening to the coaches, especially about decision- the graduation of All-American Darius Adams. making,” Daudu said. “I knew I had the mindset to “After the season, Coach Gouard talked to not take things for granted, but it went to another me about staying here for the summer,” Daudu level sitting on the bench. It’s a blessing every day to said. “He told me he had gone through the tapes. step on that court and play basketball.” ‘You can score whenever you want to score. I just Daudu was back to running by December, don’t know why you don’t score.’ and once the calendar turned, the doctors cleared “So I was going to put in the work that Daudu to return to practice activity. summer. I remember I just missed three days of While he didn’t return to the active lineup, workouts, and that was because of class.” Daudu’s presence in practice helped, and UIndy But as the season approached, Daudu went on to one of its best seasons, with 20 wins experienced pain in his right knee. He received and its second-ever NCAA tournament victory. treatment and began preseason conditioning with Daudu doubled down on the work, remaining in the team when school started. But the pain Indianapolis again during the offseason to improve worsened, and surgery was required. his game and take classes toward graduation. “Daniel is a proud young man,” Gouard said. “He believes in his craft. He knows hard work pays off in the long run. I can’t take credit for

18 PORTICO winter 2013 that. It doesn’t take much motivation for Daniel. Back to work I think that comes from his mom, his dad, and his After Nigeria, Daudu was immediately back in brothers instilling that in him as a young man.” Nicoson Hall, displaying the work ethic that’s While always in constant communication been his calling card since day one at UIndy. with his family through the wonders of modern “He’s going to help us a whole lot,” Gouard technology, Daudu hadn’t seen any of his said. “I foresee him being one of the greats to immediate family in person since the day he left come through UIndy because he works as hard Nigeria in December 2008. as any guy I’ve coached. “It was tough for me. I was a momma’s boy “He has a motor that not too many guys his and it was tough for her,” Daudu said about the size have. He understands that hard work pays off.” decision to pursue his dreams in the United States. “We grew up with that mindset,” Daudu The thing that “She told me, ‘If that is what you want to do with says. “We didn’t have much growing up. There ‘ your life, go chase your dream.’ were so many sacrifices my parents made. My never went “For me it was really tough leaving home. I mom didn’t go to college; she went to hand- was 18 and had traveled a lot to Europe and all working school. She had a salon and would do away was his over Africa, but it wasn’t the long road where I was head upon head and come back at night and make going to leave for years without coming back. I and sew clothes. That was how much she would hard work. didn’t know it was going to be four years, because put in to see that her children had a good life. My I thought that the next year I was going to go back dad was a cop and is super, super hard-working. His hard work to play for the national team. When I came over “Coming from a home and seeing that kind here the schedule wasn’t the same. I had to is oftentimes of strength, plus nine kids—and it wasn’t just us. change. I had to adapt. It took years to finally get My house would have 20 to 25 people and my cleared by the NCAA and come to college.” better than mom would feed them like they were her own. “Seeing her doing all this made us realize the other Mother’s illness that if this woman can do this, we can do it. She Throughout his time in the U.S. (in prep school got sick early in life and still did that. If she can guys’ talent and at UIndy), Daudu kept to himself about how go through those pains, I have no excuse. People sick his mother was back home. look at me over here and think ‘This boy must be ’ “She’d had partial paralysis. She could only obsessed or something,’ but it’s in here, [and] that ­—Coach Stan Gouard make some certain sounds that only a child close lady is the backbone.” to his mother can understand. She could listen Nigeria is a country where many people and hear everything you’re saying and she’ll make struggle, and Daudu was able to return home and that sound that you understand. Most of the realize the position he is in as a motivator for the sounds she made to me were to not stress. ‘I’m next generation of children. going to be fine. You just need to do what you “If I can do this coming out of this crazy have to do. I’m right there.’ That’s what she always neighborhood, anybody can. There were so many said to us growing up. ‘Wherever you go, just kids around, and they just want to hear what you know I’m right there with you.’” have to tell them. I had to share with them and His mother passed away on April 27. Daniel make them realize that anybody can do this. returned to Nigeria for the funeral and spent a “Nothing in this world should be able to stop month getting reacquainted with his family. you. The more successful I’m able to become, the “I get so lonely at times I have to go sit down. more people I can pull off the street back home. I’ve asked myself so many questions. I know she That alone is one motivation for me.” supported me and wanted this for me, but was it In the end, however, when it’s back to the gym worth it leaving home to come here for four years with just a basketball, sometimes without even without seeing the most important person in my turning the lights on, he knows he is not alone. life? And now she’s gone and I won’t see her for “Nobody believed. The one person who told the rest of my life?” me to ‘do whatever you want to do’ was my mom. He imagines asking her that question. “When “I need to do this for my mom. That woman I ask myself if it was worth it, I try to think how is my life and she did so much for me. I need to do she is going to react. If I asked her in passing, this for her.” —Matt Holmes ‘Mom, was it worth it for me to leave you for four years?’ Then I see that smile on her face and it’s okay. And I live with that the majority of the time.”

www.uindy.edu 19 Let the games begin to teach kids

As a first-year sixth grade teacher, Ben Bertoli while learning, but they began working harder ’11 had already learned the importance of catering and participating in class more often. to each child’s individual learning ability. Recent graduate Courtny Cotten ’10 is While some are visual learners, for example, chief creative officer and graphic designer of and others are hands-on types, it is important to ClassRealm, while adjunct professor Dave provide something for each one. Bertoli wants Matthew serves as the chief technology officer. to do just that—by bringing video games into The paper version of ClassRealm was his classroom. launched to the public in August, and Bertoli A passionate gamer himself, Bertoli is the hopes to be able to launch the online version developer and CEO of ClassRealm, a platform soon. And thanks to an active ClassRealm blog for teachers to introduce games in their classrooms and Twitter account, it’s easy for users to request to promote a creative learning environment. information and keep up with all the options ClassRealm is a teaching tool that can be it offers in the classroom. customized by teachers to motivate students to turn in their homework, be attentive, and demonstrate Interactive & fun As Bertoli told wired.com in a recent interview, excellent behavior. “Gamification pushes students to perform better “I felt there isn’t enough recognition for the in class and even outside of school. good things that kids are doing,” he says. “The real reward of learning something new The classroom management system is built is the knowledge you gain, but many students on role-playing. It can be used to set certain goals don’t quite grasp that concept at a young age. and track them through time. Students earn Gamification is a way to make learning more of a points and achievements via a range of school- fun experience for students and can help teachers related tasks that can be determined by the track student data and achievements,” Bertoli says. individual teacher. “The important part is that it promotes Quest for learning learning and makes education more enjoyable for students.” Parents can track students’ progress through From top to bottom: See the blog at ClassRealm.com or follow ClassRealm, too, following their many adventures ClassRealm on Twitter (@ClassRealm). Bertoli, Matthew & online and creating personalized side quests. Cotten, the trio who “When you think about it, schools are already kind of like video games,” said Bertoli. “If you do brought video games well on tests and quizzes, you are rewarded with into the classroom— letter grades. Those who earn all A’s, never miss and didn’t get in school, or never get in trouble are usually rewarded. “Gamification takes that aspect of education trouble for it. and expands upon it.” This all began as a simple idea introduced in Bertoli’s own classroom. Teaching sixth grade at Danville Middle School in Central Indiana, he used ClassRealm as a motivation tool for his students. Not only were his students having fun

20 PORTICO winter 2013 ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Ancestry.com partnership plays key role in University Series

UIndy students, faculty, and staff are exploring their roots, thanks in part to a first-of-its-kind partnership with Ancestry.com. Through the campus Internet connection, the UIndy community has free access to the genealogy website’s 11 billion searchable documents and images, which include census records, prison logs, ship manifests, historic newspapers, and yearbook photos in addition to 40 million online family trees. The one-year agreement also includes access to Fold3, the company’s archive of military documents dating to the Revolutionary War. The vast database is a key component in this Author Bertice Berry year’s University Series of lectures and events, which carries the theme “Who Do You Think You packed Ransburg Auditorium on September 18 Are?” Students are being encouraged to explore when Berry came to speak. and think critically about their family histories Other University Series speakers so far have and personal identities. included author and family rights advocate Zach “This is about being able to make sense of Wahls, as well as UIndy’s Dr. John Langdon on yourself—past, present, and future,” said Dan October 25, discussing his historical research in Stoker, UIndy’s executive director of student Franklin County, Indiana, where a trove of public services. “In confronting the truth, you can learn records has become a mecca for genealogists. something vitally important and see the world in Upcoming events include a Martin Luther new ways.” King Jr. Day address January 21. Although Ancestry.com has partnered Delving into one’s past can lead to surprises previously with libraries and other institutions, that are not always pleasant, said Dean of this is its first such relationship in the field of Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs Michael higher education. The company is providing Cartwright, who coordinates the University Series on-campus workshops and seminars to help with Stoker. In his own family tree, for example, the UIndy community make the most of Cartwright has found a history of mental illness the technology. and institutionalization. Faculty members, particularly in disciplines The campus Counseling Center is prepared such as history, also are enthusiastic about the to assist students in the event of any troubling classroom potential of giving students easy access discoveries, or information that contradicts a to Ancestry.com’s searchable archives. family’s longtime assumptions. As a starting point for this exploration of “We live in a culture in which people are heritage, the University adopted a common reader, starved for meaning, and for stories, but some the 2009 book The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of stories are more true than others,” Cartwright Race, Memory, and Redemption by Bertice Berry. said. “We’re dealing with an explosion of infor- The African-American sociologist explored her mation that calls for critical thinking skills.” family history and found a story far more complex than the black-and-white tale of slavery and tragedy that she expected. Three-fourths of UIndy’s incoming freshmen bought the book, and hundreds of students

www.uindy.edu 21 B eing a newbie at college can be awkward enough, but imagine having that experience in front of a national audience. That’s the situation for Andy Wegg, a University of Indianapolis freshman from Winchester, Indiana, and for Robert Manuel, who is a different kind of “freshman” on the UIndy campus—the University’s new president. Both were happy to comply, however, when they were approached with a unique proposal from Joey Butler, editor of young adult content for United Methodist Communications, based in Nashville, Tennessee. United At the suggestion of the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, Butler set out to write a series of reports for the United Methodist News Service throughout the 2012–13 academic year, detailing the ups and Methodist downs of a freshman student and a first-year president at a United Methodist-related university. [The University of Indianapolis has been church-affliated since its inception in 1902. It has news been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren and Methodist churches merged.] With Manuel having just arrived in service Indianapolis in July from Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University, where he served as associate provost and dean of the School of Continuing Studies, UIndy was an apt choice. shadows “Most of us know from experience what a big culture shock it is to be a freshman on a college campus, and I imagine it’s the same for a president learning the ropes at his first school,” Butler said new in explaining the project. “I’m grateful to President Manuel for giving us a look behind the curtain, and to Andy Wegg for agreeing to be ‘stalked’ for a few months.” student, Wegg, an energetic, outgoing type who served as drum major for Winchester High School’s award-winning marching band, said he didn’t mind the scrutiny. “When I heard about the opportunity to be new a part of this story, I jumped at the chance,” said Wegg, who is attending UIndy on a United Methodist Youth Leader Scholarship. “I had no idea what to expect, but I wanted to live by the president wise words of Horace: Carpe diem.”

22 PORTICO winter 2013 The United Methodist

News Service will compare

the experiences of UIndy

freshman Andy Wegg

(center) and its new

president, Robert Manuel

(right) and shadow them

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Butler, accompanied by UMNS photographer When he learned about Threshold, an optional colleague Mike DuBose, first visited the UIndy UIndy program that precedes the start of classes campus in late August during the annual and introduces incoming freshmen to spiritual life Welcome Week for new students. He plans to stay on campus, he was the very first to sign up. in touch with Wegg and Manuel as he posts a As a teen, he was already active in church- series of periodic updates that will be viewable related mission trips and as a community most easily at www.umc.org. The stories and volunteer, often working with children. He plans related materials also will be available for use by to maintain those interests at UIndy, where local UMC publications through UMNS. “Education for Service” is the longtime motto and Manuel, the University’s ninth president, service projects are built into the curriculum of sees the project as an opportunity to reach an many courses. important audience with an inside perspective “During these next four years here, I’m going on the moments, large and small, that make up to discover the person God wants me to become,” a rewarding year in higher education. Wegg said. “He’ll put me through victories, “I’m very happy to share our story with a defeats, happiness and sadness, but no matter the United Methodist readership,” he said. “I’ve also circumstance, I will glorify God.” —Scott Hall enjoyed getting to know Andy, who is giving me a valuable window into a new student’s experience Reprinted with permission of the September/October on campus.” 2012 issue of Together, the newspaper of the Wegg, who is plunging into campus life Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. with both feet, expects to give Butler plenty to write about during an eventful first year at UIndy. “When I found out I was accepted, I told UIndy on Facebook to prepare itself,” he said with a laugh. When I found out I was accepted, The youngest of four children in a family that ‘ belongs to Winchester First United Methodist I told UIndy on Facebook to Church, Wegg is majoring in vocal performance and also studying religion at the 5,500-enrollment prepare itself university that also graduated his older sister. ­—Freshman Andy Wegg,’ Winchester, Indiana

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Football The Hounds also dominated the After notching their first-ever nine- recently released All-GLVC list. Fourteen win season and winning the inaugural UIndy players garnered all-conference Great Lakes Valley Conference football accolades, including a league-best 13 championship on Nov. 10, the cherry first-team honorees. In addition, three on the top came when the Greyhounds Hounds picked up major year-end (10-2, 8-0 Great Lakes Valley) secured awards from the GLVC, as wide receiver their first-ever NCAA Division II playoff Mar’quone Edmonds was named the Brenden Williams & Joe Bell berth when the pairings were announced GLVC Offensive Player of the Year, by the NCAA Division II Football placekicker Scott Miller the Special Committee on Nov. 11. Teams Player of the Year, and Bob The nationally ranked No. 18 Bartolomeo the Coach of the Year. Greyhounds’ 31-24 win at Urbana helped Edmonds has rewritten the record secure the No. 4 seed in the Super Region book for wide receivers at UIndy, as his #4 playoffs, where they defeated eighth- 93 catches for 1,272 yards and 17 touch- ranked and fifth-seeded Midwestern downs are all individual single-season State (9-2, 7-1 Lone Star) 31-14 on Nov. school records. 17. At press time, UIndy was preparing His accomplishments this season to travel to the country’s No. 1-ranked have also established him as the top Vince Maida, Mark Strong & Jovone Jordan team, the top-seeded and undefeated receiver in school history, with career Colorado State-Pueblo ThunderWolves records of 250 receptions, 3,211 yards, (11-0, 7-0 Rocky Mountain Athletic) for and 41 touchdowns. Edmonds is only a second-round match-up on Nov. 24. two touchdowns behind UIndy Athletics School records continued to fall Hall of Famer Dick Nyers ’56, whose as, one week after reaching nine wins record of 43 total touchdowns has for the first time in school history, the stood since 1955. Greyhounds picked up their 10th win One of the Hounds’ All-GLVC First in front of a beyond-capacity crowd of Team members was Klay Fiechter. The 6,300-plus at Key Stadium. junior running back/return man was also Indianapolis, which has not lost to named one of 24 candidates for the 2012 Volleyball coach Jody Rogers a D-II team since the season opener Harlon Hill Award, awarded annually to August 30, is making its first postseason the country’s top D-II player. appearance since joining Division II in Fiechter is the sixth UIndy football 1979. Its only other NCAA playoff berth player to be named a Hill candidate, came in 1975 when the team competed including teammate and 2011 candidate as a Division III squad. Chris Mills. With his touchdown against Just six teams from each of the Midwestern State, Fiechter moved all nation’s four regions advanced to the alone into second at UIndy with his 28th 2012 NCAA D-II Championships. career rushing TD, and he is third all- The Division II playoffs continue every time with 32 career total touchdowns. Saturday until the national champion is Mills, the All-GLVC First Team Kristina Kerrigan (courtesy of Brian Drumm) crowned in Florence, Ala., Dec. 15. quarterback, has helped UIndy set school The win over Urbana on Nov. 10 records for points (454, 37.8 ppg) and ended a championship drought for the touchdowns (60). The junior has football team that has lasted since the completed 226-of-335 passes this season Greyhounds won the Heartland for 2,849 yards and 26 touchdowns as Collegiate Conference in 1981. he became UIndy’s career leader in passing touchdowns (64).

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Volleyball The next round will be played in Jamaica later this year, the first time that any national The No. 19 UIndy volleyball team once again team at any level in Puerto Rico has been able ranks as one of the top teams in the nation and to advance in World Cup qualifying. Strain’s the region as the Greyhounds earned the top seed performance for the U20 team also earned him a and right to host the NCAA Division II Volleyball call-up to the senior national team when it played Championship Midwest Regional, Nov. 29–Dec. Spain on August 15. Coming up 1 on campus at the Ruth Lilly Center. “Being a member of this team has allowed The Greyhounds (27-7, 15-3 GLVC) are me to get closer to my roots by immersing me in making their sixth straight NCAA Tournament Pack-the-House the Puerto Rican culture.” Strains says. “I also Night appearance and the seventh in school history. This take immense pride in representing Puerto Rico January 26 is the second time UIndy has hosted the regional, and celebrating my heritage.” after they hosted and won in 2009 on the way to vs. Bellarmine the only Elite Eight appearance in school history. Senior outside hitter Kristina Kerrigan was Basketball Florida Golf Outing named Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Both the men’s and women’s squads have released February 6–8 Year and became only the second GLVC Player of their schedules for the 2012–13 campaign, fea- Ft. Lauderdale the Year in school history after setter Beth Robbins turing four games against Division I competition. in 2008. She also earned first team all-conference The men headed north to Hinkle Fieldhouse for Hall of Fame honors for the third year in a row to join assistant an exhibition game against Butler on Nov. 3, Ceremony coach Kyleigh Gerlach (2007–09) and Shaun losing 47-63. The women played a pair of close February 23 McAllister (2002–04) as the only three-time exhibitions at Dayton on Nov. 1, losing to Wright vs. Wisconsin-Parkside First Team All-GLVC players in school history. State 57-66, then traveling to Cincinnati Nov. 3 Sophomore setter Meghan Binkerd was also to play Xavier, also losing 51-67. Later in the Senior Buffet named All-GLVC First Team, while senior libero season, UIndy women’s basketball will play a final April 2013 Amy Oldenburg and junior middle blocker exhibition against traditional Division I power Primo Banquet & Brittany Anglemyer made the All-GLVC East Green Bay on Nov. 30. Conference Center Division Team. The home schedule for the men features Head coach Jody Rogers made history of her six consecutive games at Nicoson Hall to open Greyhound Club own this season when she picked up career win No. the season and started with a 79-64 win over long- Golf Outing 400 on Oct. 30 with a 3-1 victory at Saint Joseph’s. time local rival Franklin on Nov. 10. Prior to the June 28 Rogers has led the team to 14 consecutive 22- men’s game, the women opened their regular Otter Creek Golf Course win seasons, seven NCAA tournaments, three season with a 79-48 win against Lake Superior Columbus, Ind. GLVC titles, and a berth in the Elite Eight, and State from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate won 2009 AVCA National Coach of the Year Athletic Conference. Nicoson honors. In November, Rogers went to Massachu- The women return the leading scorer in the Golf Outing setts to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at her Great Lakes Valley Conference from last season in July 25 alma mater, Newton North High School. senior guard Kristin Turner (Seymour, Ind.) and Dye’s Walk Golf Course the all-time leading shot blocker in school history Greenwood, Ind. Men’s Soccer (and GLVC outdoor track high jump runner-up) in senior center Sydney Weinert (Fort Wayne). Invitational Freshman Reid Strain (Fox River Grove, Ill.) The men have a host of new faces, including Golf Classic has made an immediate impact on the UIndy three Division I transfers who will be making August 16 program. He ranks among the top 10 players in their on-court debuts in Tyrae Robinson (Gary, Purgatory Golf Course NCAA Divison II with 12 goals this season after Ind.) from Ball State, James Hollowell Noblesville, Ind. a hat trick against Illinois Springfield (Oct. 7). (Indianapolis, Ind.) from Eastern Illinois and Strain’s potential as an impact newcomer was Jared Grady (Durham, N.C.) from Delaware evident before the season when he was selected to State. The Greyhounds also return second-leading play internationally on Puerto Rico’s Under-20 scorer and former professional baseball player For the latest athletics national team. He scored goals against Barbados Reece Cheatham (Indianapolis) from last season. news, visit http:// and Bermuda to help Puerto Rico advance in —Matt Holmes, Assistant Athletic Director, World Cup qualifying. Media Relations athletics.uindy.edu.

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Greyhound swimmer Dalton Herendeen returned interferences,” Kinkead said. “His later events from his adventure in the 2012 London Paralym- were better than his earlier events. He matured pic Games on September 10 and was welcomed tenfold in those eight days.” Follow-up home by friends and teammates. Both Herendeen and Kinkead came away As reported in the A sophomore physical therapy major, with both valuable character-building and racing Herendeen was chosen to represent Team experiences (not to mention suitcases full of USA Fall 2012 Portico, USA in this year’s Paralympics and swam five team gear). Both are certain that these experiences UIndy sophomore individual events. will play a major role as Herendeen continues to “Just being there was awesome. Olympic build his career. freestyle/backstroke Village and all the noise, meeting people from all “I really think that this is going to be a swimmer Dalton over the world and building relationships with steppingstone, not only for his next three years Herendeen, whose them, it was a great experience,” Herendeen said. with us, but for his Paralympics and his next trip, While Herendeen was disappointed that he when he goes out to Rio,” Kinkead said. lower left leg was did not medal, he said that he plans to build on The coach also said that he believes amputated for medical this trip in his future with the Greyhounds. Herendeen has a real opportunity to medal in UIndy head swimming coach Gary Kinkead the next Paralympics. reasons when he was an believes that the Paralympics have helped to Herendeen said that he will continue to work infant, secured a spot mature Herendeen as an athlete. hard in his remaining years at UIndy and that he on the U.S. men’s team “I think what it does is it gives him a lot of looks forward to what the future has for him at confidence in what he’s doing,” Kinkead said. Rio de Janeiro in 2016. at the London 2012 “Going there, I think he realized how fortunate he Back in the United States, Herendeen and the Paralympic Games. was to be in a position 99 percent of athletes don’t rest of the USA Olympic and Paralympic athletes For a refresher about get to be in.” traveled to Washington, D.C., to visit the White Herendeen stayed in contact with Kinkead House. On Sept. 13, Herendeen and the other Dalton’s quest to reach during his time in London. He informed his athletes met President Barack Obama. London, visit http:// coach about the atmosphere at the pool— Kinkead is proud to see his student-athlete something that was unlike anything Herendeen gaining recognition for himself and the University. portico.uindy. had ever encountered. “He’s a great ambassador for us [the swim edu/2012/08/24/ “Walking out to a crowd of 18,000 people team], he’s a great ambassador for the University, making-a-splash/. gave me chills. Being there was definitely an and he’s always been a positive influence,” unreal experience,” Herendeen said. Kinkead said. Kinkead is certain that those feelings will Kinkead said that Herendeen is still excited build the young athlete into someone even better. by the many new memories he has made—and “It’s going to help him be able to understand that his career has only just begun. that he has to be calm before races, that he has to —Scott Mitchell, September 26, 2012. stay within himself and not focus on outside Reprinted with permission of the Reflector.

26 PORTICO winter 2013 Indiana Historical Society exhibit features 110 years of UIndy history

The history of the University of Indianapolis is now a part of Destination Indiana, an interactive visitor experience at the Indiana Historical Society’s downtown headquarters. The Destination Indiana exhibition features an array of touchscreens that allow visitors to explore points of interest around the state and take self-guided journeys through time with historic photos, documents, and accompanying text. The UIndy story, developed by the University’s Communications & Marketing team with the Frederick D. Hill Archives, can be found through a name-search function. The installation includes stories from each of Indiana’s 92 counties, with information about major industries, ethnic groups, social trends, geographic features, everyday life, and major historical events, such as Hoosiers’ involvement in the Civil War. The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center is located on the Central Canal at 450 W. Ohio St. Its key exhibits are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Admission ranges from $7 for adults to free for children 4 and younger.

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28 PORTICO winter 2013 Homecoming 2012

Homecoming 2012 at UIndy, October 6–7, brought big wins all around, not the least of which was the Greyhounds’ 56-0 rout of visiting St. Joseph’s on Saturday night. UIndy went on to capture the conference title a few weeks later. Festivities this year included the Greyhound Village, which featured games, snacks, an inflatable obstacle course, carnival fun, and classic hits as performed in a pre-game concert by the Flying Toasters. An increasingly popular UIndy tradition continued Saturday afternoon with the annual Homecoming Golf Cart Parade, a whimsical affair featuring 32 lavishly decorated floats representing residence halls and student organizations. The carts toured campus and even traveled Hanna Avenue for a stretch. Campus groups and organizations competed for cash prizes, decorating their carts according to a “Hounds Around the World” theme. Cheerleaders and the mascot, Indy, led the parade, with President Manuel as the grand marshal. Be here next year!

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A poignant interlude amid the October 6 Homecoming Another guest at the event was New York-based activities was the rededication of the former New Hall author-historian Claude Johnson, founder of the sports dormitory as Ray & George Crowe Hall, honoring two licensing firm and basketball history website Black Fives. UIndy alumni who went on to become barrier-breaking He read excerpts from his interviews with George Crowe, figures in the history of American sport. who was Indiana’s first Mr. Basketball, a three-sport Attending the afternoon ceremony were many mem- standout at Indiana Central, a member of the storied bers of the Crowe family, including Stephanie Crowe ’11, New York Rens barnstorming basketball team, and later great-niece of the two honorees. Also present were several an infielder for the Boston Braves, the Cincinnati Reds, former players of coach Ray Crowe ’38, who famously and the St. Louis Cardinals. George Crowe died in 1971. led the Crispus Attucks High School team to two state Ray Crowe’s Crispus Attucks basketball squad was championships in the 1950s as he began a long career the first African-American team in the nation to claim in public service. a state title, launching the career of NBA Hall of Famer “More than athletes, he taught us how to be great Oscar Robertson. citizens, help other people,” said former Attucks star and “When Attucks won the championship, I was among basketball great Hallie Bryant, who went on to spend nearly the crowd at the bonfires,” recalled UIndy Trustee William three decades with the Harlem Globetrotters. Kiesel ’63, who led the effort to rename the residence hall Ray’s son Lloyd Crowe noted that Ray and his younger in honor of the Crowes. brother, George Crowe ’43, spoke highly of their years at Ray later served two terms in the Indiana House of the University, then known as Indiana Central. He recalled Representatives, led the Indianapolis parks department, how former coach Harry Good helped his father find work served on the City-County Council, and served 18 years after graduation. on UIndy’s Board of Trustees. He died in 2003. “I think one of the major lessons he learned here was to be loyal to his players, both on and off the court,” said Lloyd, a deputy chief with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Photo: Members of the extended Crowe family pause for a Police Department. commemorative photo during the dedication festivities.

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R oberts H all D edication Overheard: September 25, 2012

“We stand here today in front of Roberts Hall, named for business manager. He held those positions for three years— the first president of this university, who also was one of its from 1905, when the University opened its doors to students, founders. J. T. Roberts was a minister in the Evangelical until 1908. United Brethren Church, which chartered this institution “Ironically, this is not the first residence on campus to be in 1902 as Indiana Central University. named Roberts Hall. The original was President Roberts’s own “As a seminary graduate who also had bachelor’s and house, which the university rented in 1913 to accommodate a master’s degrees from Hartsville College, the Reverend growing enrollment.Those rooms rented for 80 cents a week Roberts brought academic credibility and religious conviction during its first year, and meals cost $2.50. Per week. to the presidency. As Dr. Fred Hill’s history of the University “The early days of the University were a time of noted, J. T. Roberts was driven by a deep and abiding considerable struggle, especially in terms of debt. President conviction regarding the need to keep United Brethren youth Roberts described his presidency as the ‘hardest work of my away from those state schools and schools of other churches, life.’ But the University weathered those storms and many which he believed drove these impressionable young people others. This fall we again have a record number of students away from their native faith. on campus, and again have met the challenge. “Despite his strong feelings about the purpose and value “As we, too, work to serve a growing student body—as of a United Brethren institution, and his role in founding our forebears did 100 years ago—it is only fitting we again Indiana Central, Reverend Roberts was surprised to be turn to our first president, naming this seventh residence selected as the fledgling university’s first president and Roberts Hall in his honor.” —Robert Wingerter ’76

Roberts Hall, located on the south side of Hanna Avenue, has an initial capacity of 170 and offers semi-private bathrooms, a small fitness center, and other features designed to appeal to upperclassmen. Amid ongoing efforts to enhance the vitality of campus life, the University’s residential population has grown 50 percent in just 10 years. Total enrollment this fall was a record 5,432.

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Your Alumni granddaughter, Shannon. grandchildren; and five Relations Office 1930s Survivors include sons great-grandchildren. She Mary Faye Scull Stauth Natalie Cummings Denny, John, and Mark, lived in Terre Haute, Ind. ’32 died August 30. She Director five grandchildren, and was a retired school six great-grandchildren. Helen Ramsey Riggs Alison Hernandez ’09 teacher at Elizabeth She lived in Corydon. ’35 died September 18. Assistant Director Elementary in Corydon, Survivors include sons Ind. She was preceded in Versie Jolliff Ault ’35 Thomas and David, four Jenny Pettit ’11 death by her husband, passed away August 10. grandchildren, and six Brittney Gilsdorf ’13 Carl; daughter, Francis; She is survived by her great-grandchildren. She Ashley Keihn ’13 two brothers, Jordan and husband, Wilbur; lived in Ft. Myers, Fla. Hannah Greig ’16 David; sister, Velda; and daughter, Kay; son-in- Contributors, Class Notes law, Harold; four

32 PORTICO winter 2013 1940s World War II. He was a Louis and Dave; sister-in- ’57; children, Donna, project superintendent law, Helen; and four Diane, Ronald, and Mark Braford ’40 died for Geupel-DeMars, then grandchildren. She was Richard; brothers, John on September 11. He is a general superintendent preceded in death by her and Robert Todd ’44; survived by his wife, for Ellis Construction, husband, Marion sister-in-law, Ardith Mabel Mitchell Braford and retired as owner of Burleson ’53, and her Kitterman Todd ’66; ’41 ; son, Mark; daughters, Kenny Barker Con- brother, George. A retired nine grandchildren; and Barbara and Ann; six struction. He is survived Indianapolis Public two great-grandchildren. grandchildren; and sister, by his wife, Gayle; sons, Schools teacher, she lived He lived in Sarasota, Fla. Margaret. He was Andy and Monty; brother, in Raleigh N.C. preceded in death by his Dwight; three grand- brother, Ralph; brother- children; and one great Max Moore ’52 died 1960s Loran Mitchell in-law, granddaughter. He lived May 21. He was a retired Sam Young ’64 is an ’44 ; and sister-in-law, in Plainfield, Ind.OFassistant IN principal from ordained minister of Emma Zieder Mitchell Columbus EastD High the Christian Church, ’42. He lived in Y School in Columbus,I T A Disciples of Christ. He Greenwood, Ind. 1950sI Indiana. Survivors include served as senior minister Garold Muncie ’50 his wife, Joyce; children, N for four congregations in Annabelle Campbell S passed away on December Steven, Deborah, Jeffery, Indiana and completed Bowers ’42 passed away A 9, 2011. He is survived by Pamela, and Jennifer; an interim ministry at August 19. She was a real R his wife, Blanche Wertz brothers, Jerry and Larry; NorthP Christian Church estate agent in Sarasota,

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1970s Lyle Boughton ’72 died Margaret Laverne Haverstick Connelly David Boggs ’70 died 1 May 19. He was a U.S. 9 0 2 ’75 passed away July 15. August 9. He had served Navy veteran and retired She was a guidance with the 101st Airborne as a traffic manager at counselor at New Division, receiving two JoEllen Spencer Allison Transmission Palestine High School in Bronze Stars in Vietnam. Manship-Loo ’70 Division of General is a New Palestine, Ind. She He went on to own the Motors in international cancer survivor and has is survived by her sisters, Super Shuttle at Denver sales. He is survived by returned to teaching and Tanya and Jau Nae; International Airport. his wife, Donna; playing music. She and brother, Steve; two sons, Survivors include his daughter, Kathryn; her husband, Patt Loo, Bob and Paul; three mother, Florence; sisters, grandson, Thomas, played recently at the Arts grandsons; and seven Judith and Mary Lou; granddaughter, Christine; Garden in Indianapolis great-grandchildren. She brother, Jeffrey; and sister, Jane. He was and at the Indiana State was preceded in death by stepdaughters, Melissa preceded in death by his Fair. She lives in her husband, Gerald. She and Laurie; and two son, Matthew. He lived Indianapolis. lived in Beech Grove. nieces, two nephews, in Carmel, Ind. three grandnephews,

34 PORTICO winter 2013 Lewis Smith ’75 passed Mary Jane 1990s Kenneth Ollier ’93 away July 16. He is Moshenrose Mattingly passed away June 9. He John Duffy ’91 survived by his wife, ’84 passed away on July is senior was a retired physical Sandra; children, Lori, 12. She was a retired legal vice president of invest- therapist for Union Teri, Luann, and Tammy; secretary at Barnes & ments with Morgan Hospital in Clinton, Ind. 11 grandchildren; and Thornburg, LLP in Stanley Wealth Manage- He is survived by his wife, seven great-grandchildren. Indianapolis. She is ment in Indianapolis. Brenda; children, Valarie, He was preceded in death survived by her husband, He lives in Fishers. Brandyn, Nicholas, and by grandson Kyle. He Ralph; daughter, Jane; Kathleen Tabert Tessa; one granddaughter; lived in Indianapolis. sons, Bill, Tom, Casey, Hargest ’92 died and eight siblings. He was Patrick, and Andrew; six September 16. Survivors preceded in death by his Gloria Gradeless grandchildren; and three include her husband, brother, Robert. He lived Danielson ’76 ’96 is great-grandchildren. She Brian; children, Madison, in Kingman. a personal injury trial lived in Indianapolis. F IN attorney, focusing on O McKenzie, andD Aiden; Joseph Harbouk ’94 Jeanette medical malpractice, Anne SmithY Okey ’85 sisters, Pam and I is employed by the T Tabert Gillock ’93; A at her own law firm, diedI October 7. Survivors Department of State in Danielson Law Office include her daughters, brother, Brian; brother-in-N Foreign Service, in LLC in Greenwood, Ind. TheresaS and Maggie; law, Michael Gillock ’94; AWashington, D.C. He She lives in Greenwood. Reight grandchildren; seven parents, Harold and lives in Fairfax, Va. great-grandchildren; and Sandy Tabert; two nieces; P

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U U Education for Service and Mary Anne. He lived Schwitz ’85 is an made easy in Beech Grove, Ind. English teacher at St. Help UIndy scholars while taking advantage of Joseph’s High School. She tax benefits for 2012! If you’re considering a gift Ann Laramore Johns lives in South Bend, Ind. before the end of the year, here are a few quick ’83 died September 28. tips to remember: She was a social worker at Ronald V. Morris1 ’86 Gifts by check: Make your check payable to the Noble of Indiana in was honored for outstand-9 0 2University of Indianapolis, include any special Indianapolis. Survivors ing achievement in his- instructions for use of the gift in the memo line include her husband, toric preservation, receiv- or in a separate letter, and make sure your gift Randy. She lived in ing the annual Servaas is postmarked by December 31, 2012, and Indianapolis. Memorial Award. He lives mailed to the Office of Annual Giving. in Centerville, Ind. Give online at uindy.edu/giving and click “Give Now.” Make your gift by midnight on 1980s Ida Herrera Nieto ’88 December 31, 2012. Alan Grieger ’84 is a is a home health occupa- Giving stocks or securities: Step-by-step project controller for tional therapist at St. instructions are available at http://www.uindy. Exxon Mobil Joseph’s Hospital in edu/giving/ways-to-give. Transfers should be Corporation. He lives Mishawaka, Ind. She initiated by December 17. in Sugar Land, Texas. lives in Converse. Contact Andy Kocher at 1-800-232-8634, ext. 3493, or [email protected]. Our students thank you for your continued generosity!

alumni.uindy.edu 35 Survivors include her joins his brother, Cambel, Graham Michael for the state of Indiana. children, Melinda and and sister, Ada, at the Collins ’04 is a French She lives in Indianapolis. Curtis, and grand- family’s home in teacher at District 211 in children, Christine Anderson, Ind. Palatine, Ill. He lives in and Scott. She lived Mount Prospect. in Indianapolis. 2000s Quentin was born to William Jason was born Eric Scott Troglen ’02 Ashley ’04 and Justin to Jason ’97 ’99 and is a business development Miller ’09 on August 17. Suzannah Sorg on manager at PPG Indus- He joined siblings November 12, 2011. He tries in Carmel, Ind. He Melody, Lila, and Isaac joined his sisters, Jocelyn lives in Fishers. at the family’s home in Murphy Michael was Mickey ’05 and Madeleine, at home Indianapolis. born to and Tristan Jones McGill in Carmel, Ind. Ayako Minemura ’02 F IN married Kei Usai onO May Austin SchultzD ’04 ’07 ’09 on June 28. He Jennifer Cobb 12. The coupleY lives in married Julie NicoleI joined his older sister, Richards ’99 is an Itabashi-ku,T Tokya, Japan. Bach on August 11. TheA Quinn, at the family’s occupational therapist at I wedding party included Nhome in Indianapolis. Iowa Health. She lives in DeanneS Denise Dugan Jon Schultz ’08, Tony Emily Vaught Baker ’06 Waukee, Iowa. ’03 is a material super- Daniels ’05, Brett Hulse A Rvisor at Altec Industries, ’03, Kyle Crawford ’02, is a second grade teacher in Indianapolis. She lives at PPlainfield Community E Tony DeVinney ’02, in Indianapolis. Schools in Plainfield, Ind. Blair Shadday ’02, O

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Ronda Millender Ella was born to Brandon Emily Scott Hollingsworth ’05 is and Borkholder ’07 an admission advisor . The Jonah Scott was born to family lives in Sterling, Va. Adam ’03 and Sharon at the Art Institute of Indianapolis. She married Oliver Nukomuto was Kerkhoff Wright ’03 on James Landis ’07 is the Edward Hollingsworth II born June 30, 2011, July 9. He joined his head coach for the Sharks on September 2, and they and welcomed home by sisters, Micah and Swim Team in Stafford, live in Indianapolis. Kevin ’00 ’02 and Maria Hannah, at home in Virginia. He lives in Harriman Brown ’02 on West Lafayette, Ind. Nancy Manley ’05 is the Fredericksburg. January 23, 2012. Oliver director of budget, finance, and performance

36 PORTICO winter 2013 Kristen Rosenberger Abra Jo Adragna Anna Kimble-Roberson Saidat Bisi Sanuth ’10 ’08 is an accounts payable Nieten ’08 is a senior ’09 is a community is an occupational specialist at Reindeer editor at the College relations assistant for the therapist at Community Auto Relocation in Network in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Colts. She South Hospital in Zionsville, Ind. She She lives in Noblesville. lives in Indianapolis. Greenwood, Ind. She lives in Indianapolis. lives in Indianapolis. Priya Tandon Bakshi Martin Semrau Jr. ’09 Karen Sowders Ayers ’09 is an occupational is a principal trainer at the Chelsey Chang ’11 ’08 died July 31. She is therapist at Union Franciscan Alliance. He is the merchandise survived by her son, Hospital and lives in lives in Highland, Ind. coordinator and graphic Michael; companion, Terre Haute, Ind. designer at USA Track & Kevin; sisters, Darlene Alicia Tuszynski ’09 is a Bryan Brackemyre ’09 project manager at Vision Field in Indianapolis. She and Nancy; brothers, lives in Indianapolis. Mark and Chuck; and enrolled in the Kelley 3. SheI lives in Indianapolis. School of BusinessO F N two grandchildren. She D Leann Davan ’11 lived in Greenwood, Ind. master’s programY at 2010s I IndianaT University-Purdue A married Andrew Joseph Lindsey Fischer ’08 is University-Indianapolis.I Joanna Luisi ’10 and N Parrish on July 21. Leann lead chemist at Dow HeS lives in Zionsville, Ind. Philip Reinhardt ’10 is a kindergarten teacher AgroSciences Inc. She married on July 7. They Aat North Vernon Elemen- lives in Indianapolis. R live in Indianapolis. tary School in North Vernon,P Ind. The E

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For more information or to RSVP for events, contact (317) 788-3205, [email protected], or visit us at alumni.uindy.edu.

alumni.uindy.edu 37 Myla Edmond ‘11 Christopher Hartley is the Alumni association director for marketing ’12 is a graphic artist at and communication in Monarch Beverage, Inc. Nominations wanted the College of Arts and He lives in Roanoke, Ind. for Alumni Association Sciences at Western Michigan University in Brian Eric Libby ’12 is a recognition Kalamazoo, Mich. She teacher at Ben Davis High Do you know UIndy alumni who have impressive also lives in Kalamazoo. School in Indianapolis. careers or life stories? Tell us about them! He lives in Noblesville. The UIndy Alumni Association wants to highlight Kenneth Albee ’12 Anu Kalpathi and celebrate the achievements and contributions is a graduate teaching Parameswaran ’12 of our fellow Greyhounds. We need your help in assistant at the University is a physical therapist at identifying individuals for our recognition efforts. of Tennessee. He lives in Touchstone Neuro- Knoxville. F ToI nominateN someone, simply use the convenient recovery Center. SheO lives online formD at alumni.uindy.edu/awards or email in Woodlands,Y Tex. Brandi Beard Allen ’12 us at [email protected] An online nomination T form and informationA about the Alumni Board of is the service coordinator I N at Bridges of Indiana. She S Directors are available at http://alumni.uindy.edu. lives in Indianapolis. A R P

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Meet & greet & tweet—During the first week of classes at UIndy in September, new students gathered in Ransburg Auditorium for the traditional President’s Convocation to hear from Rob Manuel, who greeted them as budding scholars. Then they filed out (above) and delighted to a welcoming round of applause from a phalanx of faculty and staff. Students have also been busy on Twitter, tweeting about, and with, the new president. He has a lively following, and it’s a great way to quickly catch up on campus life. Join the flock—check out @UIndyPrez and sign up to follow him!

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Playoffs! When UIndy earned its first-ever NCAA Division II playoff appearance, the campus was in a mood to celebrate. Nov. 16, the day before the #18 Greyhounds’ Key Stadium playoff game against the #8 Midwestern State Mustangs of Texas, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard (left) joined in a UIndy pep rally. President Rob Manuel (top) took a turn at the sledgehammer to help smash the Ford version of a Mustang (he said he was aiming for the bumper). The mayor, local sports icon Tom Zupancic ’78, head coach Bob Bartolomeo, and the president then dyed the canal crimson. It all paid off: the Hounds won, 31-14. Plus, the #19 volleyball team earned the right to host the Midwest regional. See page 24. 40 PORTICO winter 2013