THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Spring 2019

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6 Touchdown twins 8 Indomitable intern 16 Mom M.D. at Mayo Students celebrate the Indian Holi festival March 22, organized by Horizons International Club, welcoming the coming beauty of spring. (Photo by Kit Weber ’20) 8

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Features

8 Comfort Zones Anna L. Davies ’19 has made herself at home many places during her four years at OWU: in a Small Living Unit, as a Kappa Kappa Gamma, as a member of President’s Club, and as part of this magazine’s masthead. We crash her senior single in the Gillespie Honors House.

10 Bishops of Pakistan More than one-quarter of OWU’s current international student population comes from Pakistan, a tradition that goes back decades and has produced some truly remarkable alumni.

16 Solving maternal mortality at Mayo Katherine White Arendt ’98 has made it her life’s work to advocate for pregnant women through medicine, overseeing a team of more than 400 at the prestigious Mayo Clinic.

Departments

02 LEADER’S LETTER 07 OWU TIMESCAPES 25 CALENDAR 04 FROM THE JAYWALK 22 FACULTY NOTES 26 CLASS NOTES 06 BISHOP BATTLES 24 ALUMNI HAPPENINGS 48 THE FINAL WORD

ON THE COVER: Photo illustration by Jennifer Brinckerhoff Leader’s Letter

International students and cultural events enrich campus

s long ago as the 1890s, Ohio Wesleyan University attracted Astudents from South Asia. The flow of students from the subcontinent began as a result of OWU alumni who joined Methodists in establishing schools and other education centers all around the world. Students from South Asia established a Young India Club on the OWU campus in the 1890s. Well over a century later, Ohio Wesleyan attracts students from throughout the world, with the largest number of international students coming from South Asia. We celebrate the presence of an international student body with students from more than 35 countries. These students bring a magnificent array of diverse cultural President Rock Jones speaks at baccalaureate — the student-planned, student-led, interfaith heritages, religious traditions, and life celebration of the spiritual journeys of the senior class — in Gray Chapel last May. (Photo by experiences, enriching our campus and Paul Vernon) enhancing the education of students, it possible to Go Global right here on represented in the graduating class faculty, and staff. campus. recognized as a senior carries the nation’s We speak often of an education that A decade at OWU has given me an flag to the stage of Gray Chapel. prepares the next generation of moral appreciation for numerous traditions on We live in a time when some in this global campus. Among my favorite our society question the benefits of a events each year are Culture Fest and commitment to diversity. We live in a “I am grateful for days baccalaureate. time when nationalism is on the rise spent among students Culture Fest is sponsored each spring around the world, at the expense of who believe in the by Horizons International, a student the values of cross-cultural friendship organization that promotes cross- and understanding reflected in the importance of building cultural friendship and understanding. At longstanding mission of OWU’s Horizons bridges, opening doors, Culture Fest our students don the attire International. We live in a time when of their homelands and present various some want to make it more difficult, not crossing borders, and expressions of their native cultures, less difficult, to travel from one nation to seeking to listen and including music, dance, poetry, and other another. understand rather than readings, followed by a buffet dinner When given a choice of learning featuring the exquisite cuisine of four about and from those whose cultures and shout and condemn.” different global cultures. It is one of the traditions are different from one’s own, most well-attended events of the year. too many people today choose to isolate leaders for a global society. Through The Baccalaureate, planned and led by themselves in their own cultural cocoons OWU Connection, we challenge students graduating seniors and held on the eve and in their ignorance of the humanity to think big, go global, and get real. The of Commencement, is a celebration of individuals they view as different. The significant presence of international of the diversity of the OWU campus. results can be tragic, even deadly. students at OWU helps us establish a Each year baccalaureate begins with a I am grateful for the opportunity to laboratory for a global society, making parade of the nations, with every country spend my days in the midst of a student

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body composed of young adults eager generation of moral leaders for a global to learn from one another, and eager society. THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO to live and study in the midst of people In this issue of OWU Magazine you WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY from all around the world. I am grateful will learn more about what it means to Go for days spent among students who Global on the OWU campus as you read believe in the importance of building the stories of students from Pakistan, bridges, opening doors, crossing the nation that today sends the largest borders, and seeking to listen and number of international students to Ohio SPRING 2019 | Volume 96 Issue N0. 1 understand rather than shout and Wesleyan, continuing a regional legacy condemn. that dates back more than a century. They www.owu.edu/alumni I am grateful to witness an academic enrich our campus, and they help prepare Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Online Community community that places in leadership all of our students for lives that will enrich Vice President students from around the world. In my our global society. for University Advancement time at Ohio Wesleyan, our students Thank you for your support of this Natalie M. Doan, J.D. ’03 have elected student body presidents diverse, dynamic community and for your Chief Communications Officer from Pakistan and New Zealand. encouragement of all those who choose Will Kopp Students with family heritage in Laos to make OWU their home for four years – Editor and Slovenia have been elected senior and their alma mater for a lifetime. Molly Vogel class president. Seniors from Pakistan [email protected] and Afghanistan have been elected by Director of Alumni Relations their classmates to serve as graduating Katie Webster class trustees. It is precisely this kind Rock Jones Class Notes Editor of environment that forms the next President, Ohio Wesleyan University Amanda Zechiel-Keiber ’09 Twitter: @owu_rockjones [email protected]

Editorial Assistant Anna L. Davies ’19

Copy Editor Andrew Sterling

Designer Jennifer Brinckerhoff

Contributing Photographers James D. DeCamp, Mark Schmitter ’12, Paul Vernon

Contributing Writers Cole Hatcher, Molly Vogel

Editorial Board Dale Brugh, Stefanie Niles, Mike Plantholt, Eugene Rutigliano, Nancy Bihl Rutkowski, Doug Zipp

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Alumni Relations Office (740) 368-3325 [email protected] Students with the Rafiki club that celebrates African and Caribbean cultures perform at Culture Colleen Nissl ’72 (left), a member of the OWU Board of Trustees, was a moderator for the second Website: www.owu.edu Fest last March, including (from left, in front): Eva Churu ’19, (in back) Paris Norman ’19, biennial Women of Ohio Wesleyan forum on campus in October. (See story Page 4.) OWU Magazine: owu.edu/magazine Daniela Black ’19, and Iyana Buckmon ’20. (Photo by Reilly Wright ’20) The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine ISSN 0030-1221 Share Email us at OWU Magazine Letters may your [email protected], Office of Communications be edited for opinions tweet @OhioWesleyan 61 S. Sandusky St. length and or send us a letter: Delaware, OH 43015 clarity. Printed on recycled paper From the JAYwalk

Fody Frentsos receives staff STAR Award

A constant smile, a positive attitude, and a willingness to go above and beyond are just a few of the characteristics that nominators praised about Fotios “Fody” Frentsos ’84. Frentsos received the third annual Special Thanks and Recognition (STAR) Award from the University Staff Council at a Jan. 11 luncheon. The peer-nominated award honors non-faculty Just do it employees who go above and beyond their job description, offering encouragement, a positive The Ohio Wesleyan attitude, and an efficient work ethic to the campus community. University Athletics Frentsos is known as the “lifeline” of the Athletics Department, which includes being a trusted Department began a multi- and sought-out mentor to students, especially athletes, although his actual title is coordinator of year partnership with Nike athletic facilities and equipment and he’s also the hitting coach for the baseball team. Whether it be through BSN SPORTS on a student struggling with academics or life at home, Frentsos’ door is open. March 1. The agreement “He exemplifies what is great about Ohio Wesleyan,” said Mike DeWitt, head men’s includes numerous basketball coach. incentives in the form of President Rock Jones noted the lasting impact that Frentsos leaves on former students. discounts and rewards “Everywhere I traveled, I’d be asked, ‘How’s Fody?’ These questions came from former classmates, along with incentives for students, and alumni.” on-field achievements Frentsos was a standout athlete as a student, earning nine letters in three sports. He served as and additional marketing, an assistant football coach for 11 seasons, then transitioned to baseball full-time to be able to spend branding, and promotional more time with his family, including his wife Kelly Maxwell Frentsos ’86 and their six children. opportunities. It covers all Visit the alumni Facebook page to read more accolades for Fody or share your own. 25 varsity sports except Last year’s STAR winner was Cole Hatcher, director of media and community relations, who has men’s soccer, which has a been with the University for 12 years and was recognized for his quick, creative, and dedicated work. long-standing deal with Adidas.

-32 degrees A polar vortex roared into Delaware on Jan. 30, and the wind chill factor (frostbite conditions) led to the cancellation of classes due to weather for the first time since the spring of 2008. (Classes were also canceled in February 2011 following a power outage caused by an President Rock Jones (right) congratulates Fody Frentsos ’84 on receiving an award from his peers for his ice storm.) positive attitude and impact on students. (Photo by Reilly Wright ’19)

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Newly rebuilt Butler A. Jones House of Follow us Stay connected with OWU on social Black Culture welcomes students media and never miss a minute on The newly campus or among your fellow alumni. reconstructed Butler A. Jones House of Black Culture, in the same location at 65 Oak Hill, will be rededicated in a special ceremony during Reunion Weekend. All are invited to the house at 4 p.m. May 18.

Ellis named first director of new OWU Career Connection Center Megan R. Sanders Ellis ’05 was named executive director of the new OWU Career Connection Center in December, following a national search. She was previously administrative director of Ohio Wesleyan’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. In her new role, Ellis partners with University faculty and staff to create a comprehensive and contemporary career center rooted in OWU’s mission of practical idealism. The Career Connection program helps students identify and embrace all of the opportunities provided by their OWU education, understand their strengths, and explore how those strengths may relate to career options, and it provides a guided exit to ensure they are prepared for their first jobs as well as a lifetime of meaningful work. In her new role, Ellis reports to Natalie Milburn Doan ’03, vice president for University Advancement, and oversees four employees including those from the current Office of Career Services. “Megan is the perfect person to lead the new OWU Career Connection Center,” says Doan. “In her work with the Woltemade Center, Megan helped to create two new fellowship programs and spearhead the development and October opening of the Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at Ohio Wesleyan University. I am confident she will bring this same energy, vision, and success to her new role.” The OWU Career Connection Center is a component of Ohio Wesleyan’s signature student experience, The OWU Connection. The OWU Connection is designed to help students think big (understand issues from multiple academic STAY CONNECTED disciplines), go global (gain international perspective), and get real (translate OhioWesleyanUniversity | OhioWesleyanAlumni classroom knowledge into real-world experience). @OhioWesleyan | @OWUAlumni “Through The OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan has created a strong foundation to help students achieve their goals,” says Ellis, who graduated cum laude from the Ohio Wesleyan University Alumni & Friends University with an economics management major and psychology minor. “The OWU @OhioWesleyan | @OWUAlumni Career Connection Center will help to expand the impact of The OWU Connection with enhanced faculty-driven, career-focused mentorship as well as OWU OhioWesleyanU Connection internships, independent research projects, and other vehicles. [email protected] I am honored to be part of such a visionary project.” Update your preferred email address to stay connected to OWU and receive important news, invitations to events Alumni interested in volunteering with the office or offering an internship in your area, and the latest on class affinity reunions and are invited to contact [email protected] or call 740-368-3152. activities at owu.edu/emailupdate.

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TCHOLAKIAN TWIN WIDE RECEIVERS Going for two HAVE OPPONENTS SEEING DOUBLE

or twin Battling Bishop football around them better, and Fplayers Mher and Sasoun Tcholakian athletic talent. They have ’20, the best things come in pairs. both started for the team The brothers get plenty of time together for the past two years. on the field and in the classroom — “They truly change the they’re both wide receivers on the team culture of a team, in a and double (of course) majors in sports good way, just because management and business marketing. of their character,” “Having class with my brother is like says Watts. “They are having class with any other of my best extremely hardworking, friends,” Mher says. “You’re comfortable dedicated brothers who being with them and working with them we always know we will all the time. He’s always there when I get 100 percent from. need help.” “I personally have Sasoun hopes their work ethic inspires twin boys, and I hope underclassmen on the football team. one day they grow up to Because players must maintain a certain be like them.” grade requirement to be on the team, The twins hope to Mher (left) and Sasoun Tcholakian are starting receivers for coursework and fieldwork are closely translate their classroom the Bishops. connected. “Football teaches you hard and field experiences to this summer when an aunt of ours gave us work and dedication, and that is how I take sports broadcasting after graduating and the great idea to start a podcast.” my academics. The coaches are always on already have a podcast about college The brothers, from Farmington Hills, us about getting good grades, and I want football called “Double Time.” They also Michigan, have been playing competitive to show the young guys that it is important have a YouTube channel. sports together their entire lives. Mher to work hard on and off the field,” Sasoun “The main goal is to eventually have says he and Sasoun always planned to says. our own network and talk about college attend the same university. “We love Head Coach Tom Watts and the entire football, because that is what we have playing sports together because there’s football staff enjoy the twins’ contagious expertise in,” Mher says. “We didn’t know always a constant battle between us,” energy, dedication to make everyone what we wanted to do with our lives until Mher says. “We don’t have to be yelling at each other or motivating each other face-to-face; we’ll just look over and see what the other guy is doing and try to one- up him.” Says Sasoun: “We motivate each other more than anyone, without even trying.”

— Anna L. Davies ’19, with additional reporting by Caitlin Jefferson ’22

They score with your support Football and all 24 other varsity sports are supported by Team OWU, the fundraising arm of OWU Athletics. Gifts to Team OWU provide critical funding for travel to games and tournaments, equipment and uniforms, player development, and more. Learn the latest news about your favorite OWU sports The Tcholakians do everything together, even celebrate good plays. (Photo by Paul Vernon) and Team OWU at battlingbishops.com.

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(Photo by James DeCamp) Thought experiments A Psychology Department experiment 50 years ago who studied the effects of video game exposure on studied the role heredity plays in the IQ of a human cognitive control. Participants in the study played 20 being, concluding that environment also has important minutes of either a first-person shooter or strategy effects. In a Summer Science Research Program video game, and then completed tasks that assess experiment last summer, (from left) Assistant Professor cognitive control while temporary changes of their of Psychology Kira Bailey served as faculty mentor to brain’s electrical activity were recorded from the scalp, Mickey Rice ’19, Lexi Lease ’19, and MaLia Walker ’19, as shown here.

SPRING 2019 | 7 Comfort Zones

Anna Davies ’19 • Gillespie Honors House Room 212

After nearly four years, Anna Davies ’19 has written To thank Anna for her years of hard work in these herself into Ohio Wesleyan’s history and, in many pages, we decided to make her clean her room. recent cases, has also been the person writing it. In her single on the second floor of the Gillespie As the editorial assistant for OWU Magazine for Honors House, Anna, originally from St. Clairsville, three years, Davies — writing as A.L. Davies — has Ohio, has artifacts from her many travels through The tackled everything from compiling Faculty Notes OWU Connection, as well as a few aspirational pins (see Page 22) to profiles (see Bishop Battles, Page and posters. 6) to longer features (“A FIJI in Fiji,” Winter 2019).

1 No pumped up kicks here 6 Jot this down Anna digs her Converse. Like, really. “I basically Anna is a writer. This is where she writes, among have been wearing these since I was 9 years many, many other places. old, and I haven’t stopped,” she says. Plus: “Socks are an important form of expression.”

7 Furry stand-in Her mother got her this stuffed wiener dog for ▼ 2 ‘I am fueled by caffeine’ Valentine’s Day five years ago when she was Anna cops to drinking three or four cups of missing “Mickey,” her half-dachshund, half-beagle coffee a day in pursuit of her English major and pooch back home. history minor. She favors this mug with Jane Austen quotes on it. Austen could have been talking about the Honors House when she said: 8 Who tells your story “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for Anna has had three internships on campus, real comfort.” including one for the Office of Communications, where she is now a student worker and writes for the magazine, among other assignments. She also 3 Keeper of secret ritual and history interned with the English Department and launched Anna is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma its blog. Read her Final Word essay about the third, sorority, for which she has served as marshal with the Student Involvement Office, on Page 48 of and chapter registrar. “Joining was one of the this issue. best decisions I made as an undergrad; I’ve met some of my closest friends through Kappa.” 9 Praise. Laugh. Repeat. This devotional book by Ted Shuttlesworth Jr. is a favorite of Anna’s, who says her faith is very 4 Pin-teresting Anna’s backpack features “a bajillion, give or important to her. “The book really helped me get take” pins on it, mostly from her travels. She centered in my faith for the new year.” has gone on four trips through OWU and, after completing the “The History of European 10 ‘I love you La Croix, please send me a hat’ Rivers” class this spring with Ellen Arnold, Anna noticed an announcement for a contest for associate professor of history, she will embark her favorite beverage on Instagram and replied on a fifth after graduation. with this very simple plea. A few weeks later, her gambit paid off when this hat arrived in the mail.

5 Shipyard satchel Two of Anna’s trips were to Northern Ireland, 11 She is OWU where she visited Titanic Belfast, a visitor Anna was presented with this “You are OWU” attraction on the site of the shipyard where the award in September for her work as an orientation famed doomed passenger liner was built. coordinator last summer.

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Photo by Paul Vernon journeyThe 7,589 mile to become a Bishop More than one-quarter of OWU’s international student population comes from Pakistan, and thrives By Joe Meyer

n October, Shadman Zafar ’94 flew back to Delaware to

give the Robert L. Milligan Leaders in Business lecture. AsI Citibank’s global head of digital, based outside Dallas — leading engineers, designers, product managers, and industry analysts to create, develop, and deploy digital financial services

— he has plenty of business acumen to share. But over a lunch with students, Zafar’s conversation turned toward his roots. He started chatting with Sophia Ahmed ’20, an Entrepreneurial Scholar and Woltemade Center Economics Management Fellow. In talking, the two Bishops separated by 25 years learned that they had attended the same high school – in Pakistan. Such small-world connections are Zafar (right) greets students Payton Brummett ’22 (left) and Cooper Berry ’21 at his Robert L. common when tracing Ohio Wesleyan’s Milligan Leaders in Business lecture on campus in October. ties to the South Asia country more than

7,500 miles away. On a recent admission recruiting trip to and 18 percent, respectively, of the total Ahmed and Zafar both attended Pakistan sponsored by EducationUSA, 1.1 million international students for the the Karachi Grammar School, a private the U.S. Department of State network 2017-18 academic year. Pakistan’s 77,000 school that, like many top-tier schools in of international student advising students accounted for 0.7 percent, Pakistan, features instruction in English. centers, OWU Director of Admission Josh according to the 2018 Open Doors Report One of Ahmed’s instructors was her Stevens was struck by OWU’s local name from the Institute of International literature teacher, Siham Gheewala ’10, recognition. Education. who encouraged her to apply to OWU. The “We walked into these schools in draw of OWU’s management economics Karachi and Lahore and Islamabad, and major and a scholarship sealed the deal these college fairs and high school visits for Ahmed. would begin, and students and counselors both would come directly to my table that “Students and counselors is proudly waving the OWU banner and say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so glad you’re here. I both would come directly was hoping to meet someone from OWU. My cousin went there, my teacher went to my table that is proudly there….’ ” Usman Javaid ’10 came to Delaware waving the OWU banner from the prestigious Aitchison College Lahore, a boarding school known for and say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m producing prime ministers and other high-ranking governmental officers across so glad you’re here.’” Pakistan. Javaid recalls that when he came to OWU, two other Aitchison grads were Josh Stevens OWU seniors. “We have lots of alumni OWU Director of Admission from my high school that regularly go to Ohio Wesleyan,” he says. The admission data bears this out. For the 2018-19 school year, 95 traditional international students from 35 countries are enrolled at OWU, and 25 of them come from Pakistan. This makes OWU Darrell Albon, administrative director something of an anomaly in the United of the OWU Connection programs and States. Nationwide, Pakistan stands director of OWU’s international and

23rd among countries sending students off-campus programs, says Pakistan’s stateside to study. China and India take representation at OWU is a long-standing Sophia Ahmed ’20 the top spots, accounting for roughly 33 tradition. “Pakistan is always, always in

12 | OWU Now working as a client partner at Oracle, a computer technology corporation in New York City, Shaikh encourages younger cousins back in Pakistan to consider OWU, as well as a high school student from the Bronx whom she now Karachi, a city of more than 16 million in mentors. “She’s actually originally from Pakistan. (Photo courtesy Josh Stevens) Ethiopia, and she was feeling a little nervous about going to college. I’m telling the top three, going back at least 20-25 her there is no better experience than years,” he says. to be able to have your international Many recognized the OWU name at college The University appreciates and pays community but also always to have the information fairs during an admission close attention to those historic ties, says opportunity to expand out of that. I think recruiting trip to Pakistan in February. (Photo Stefanie Niles, OWU vice president for Ohio Wesleyan is really unique in giving courtesy Josh Stevens) enrollment and communications. “It’s you that.” a high priority for us to continue those Ibrahim “Ibs” Saeed ’15, the product friends invited Saeed to spend holidays relationships, because they do go back manager of digital payments for JPMorgan in the States with their families. And beyond our time on campus,” Niles says. Chase in New York City, also came to when it came time for graduation, with On his recent tour, Stevens was joined OWU from Karachi. A cousin who went hotel rooms in the area scarce and a large by representatives from approximately to Northwestern University had friends family contingent traveling to OWU for 40 other schools, including Kansas State who raved about OWU. Once on campus, commencement, a professor offered University, DePauw University, and the Saeed says he never felt like an outsider, a room in his house to put up Saeed’s University of Buffalo. Getting to Pakistan especially after he joined Sigma Phi relatives. took some effort and visa help from Epsilon fraternity. “I was in a frat filled Javaid, too, recalls the personal EducationUSA. But in these challenging with all our baseball players. It doesn’t attention given by staff and faculty times for higher education, when get more American than that. They were when he came from Lahore. “It was an schools including Ohio Wesleyan are the most welcoming guys in the world,” exceptionally welcoming environment for facing shrinking enrollment, recruiting he says. an international student,” Javaid says. He “creatively” can pay off. remembers appreciating that the prayer “If you can find a recruitment niche in one of these countries that’s not a terribly room was designed to be welcoming to open country, there’s a competitive students of all faith backgrounds, which, advantage in that,” Stevens says. as a Muslim, he says was “very wonderful to see.” He remembered a time when he was Culture shock “going through this personal difficulty” and reached out to Chaplain Jon Powers And yet some culture shock is inevitable late one night. “I just told him I was going when transitioning from an Islamic through this tough time. And he showed republic and cities like Karachi, one of the up to my dorm very late at night, all world’s largest. “Karachi really is a very dressed up in his uniform, and just took all metropolitan city and it’s very fast paced, the time in the world to listen to me and so (arriving in Delaware) you suddenly comfort me, and gave me advice.” feel a little bit of a shock,” says Moomal Such personal interactions made a Shaikh ’13, who first heard about OWU mark on him. “It seemed that everybody from friends back home. was very sensitized to this influx of Slowing to the pace of a tightknit campus in a small Ohio city, though, came international students, where there was comfortably and quickly for her, aided this great allowance for different styles by thorough orientation activities for of thinking and different styles of being,” Ibrahim “Ibs” Saeed ’15 international students that included stops Javaid says. After OWU, Javaid earned a master’s like opening a checking account at a Saeed eventually earned the degree in public policy from Harvard’s local bank. endorsement of his entire class when he “You’re not consistently feeling like a was voted onto OWU’s Board of Trustees, a Kennedy School of Government and has stranger in a place that, automatically you post he held until last year. held a number of jobs focused on public do tend to feel like a stranger when you His fellow students not only made him policy and data analysis of international first show up there, after going across the feel at home on campus, but during breaks development, including posts with world and starting a whole new chapter of as well. With travel home to Karachi for UNICEF and US AID. He’s worked for the your life,” Shaikh says. school breaks out of the question, his World Bank Group since late 2012. He

SPRING 2019 | 13 started in the Washington, D.C., area, but in late 2017 he found his way back closer to home, as operations officer at the World had an externship in digital marketing in Bank offices in Islamabad. New York City her senior year through Bill Jennings ’84. Jennings hired her following and make a change any way that I can,” the externship to do research part-time she says. The alumni network while she was still a senior. “When I think about where I stand right “Every time I have a current now in terms of knowing what I‘m doing After discovering their Karachi connection student call me and ask for job advice this summer, knowing what I’m and her interest in business, Shadman or something, I tell them, ‘Don’t doing when I graduate, I don’t Zafar encouraged Sophia Ahmed to underestimate the alumni network.’ The think that I would be this clear apply for an internship with Citibank in alumni network has been absolutely vital if I was at another school. I will Dallas, for which she was later chosen. in my own growth,” Shaikh says. definitely recommend OWU This summer, she will work on financial For her part, junior Ahmed says that to people back home,” forecasting, financial analysis, and the after graduation, she hopes to remain in Ahmed says. budgeting side of a team’s tech project the States to pursue a master’s degree in — Joe Meyer is a proposals. finance or financial decision-making. freelancer writer Instances of OWU alumni helping OWU After maximizing her education in from Westerville. students and other alumni aren’t limited the United States, like Javaid, she plans to by country of origin, of course. While return to Pakistan to put it to work. “At the majoring in economic management end of my career path, I do want to go back with a focus in marketing, Moomal Shaikh to Pakistan and take what I’ve learned

Zafar: inventor and entrepreneur

first, executive second Much of the security operates without amount of money you’re asking for is the you noticing. Before your device asks for same amount of money this country spent your PIN or a two-step authorization code, on Project Manhattan?’ And I was like, the app/financial institution already Yeah. And Project Manhattan changed the knows your habits: how you hold your future of this country, just like this will phone, how fast you press the numbers, change the future of this company,” Zafar even how fast you walk are just some of says. “This was really a transformational the “bio-markers” now noted by phones program for a company like Verizon.” when people access their secure accounts. In 2011, he moved to London, and the It’s all about safety, and not being financial side, joining Barclays as chief obtrusive to the customer. digital officer, before returning to the U.S. “The people shouldn’t know the to join his extended family in Dallas in complexity of keeping them secure,” 2014, working at JPMorgan Chase as head Zafar says. of digital products and services, and then hadman Zafar has helped change Majoring in mathematics at OWU and Citibank as its global head of digital. the way we use our phones for completing most the requirements for a Despite his success as a corporate dual major in computer science, Zafar was banking. He led development executive, Zafar says he considers hired after graduation by GTE Laboratories of Citibank’s app and the Zelle himself first to be an inventor and in Boston to work in research and money transfer app and is responsible for entrepreneur. He holds about 100 patents development. Advancing through the on inventions in entertainment and ensuring both are safe from hackers. ranks, he moved to the business side and media, telecommunications, software The bad guys out to steal clients’ joined Verizon when that company was personal data today no longer are just formed out of GTE and Bell Atlantic. engineering, finance and, most recently, hackers in a garage somewhere. More Zafar’s not been afraid to go big with in healthcare. He’s also started a private likely they are part of organized crime, ideas in his corporate life. He recounts equity firm, a nonprofit foundation, and state-sponsored groups, or terrorist persuading the Verizon board to invest $24 has a book in the offing about the keys to organizations. Many work in office billion — with a ‘B’ — to build the FIOS fiber success in corporate America. buildings and put in regular work hours, optic network for residential customers. He is also on the ballot to join OWU’s in sophisticated coordinated attacks on “When I first presented it to the board, Board of Trustees. (See voting information financial security across the globe. somebody told me … ‘You know the on Page 25.)

14 | OWU Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli ’61 blazed an early trail to Delaware

Shirin Tahir-Kheli ’61, a national security day, I found my fellow students, teachers, advisor to three U.S. presidents, first made and the townspeople curious about me. the 7,062-mile journey from Peshawar to However, their curiosity contained no Delaware via train, plane, and Greyhound hostility; instead, it aimed at the novelty bus at the age of just 15. of a different religion or culture that I Born in the south-central Indian city of clearly represented.” Hyderabad before the partition of Pakistan After graduating from OWU in two from India in 1947, she was the daughter years, Tahir-Kheli earned a master’s and of prominent physicist and scholar Ph.D. in international relations from Dr. Raziuddin Siddiqui. Her father was the University of Pennsylvania before called upon by leaders of the newly embarking on a highly distinguished independent Pakistan to lead the career as a political scientist and development of its higher education diplomat. She served as a member of the system, and the family relocated to National Security Advisor staff and in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan in the the State Department, working in the shadow on the Khyber Pass. administrations of Presidents Ronald her through a splash crash course, and six At the University of Peshawar, her Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George father set up a U.S.-Pakistan university weeks later, she graduated on schedule. W. Bush. faculty exchange with Colorado State Now retired and living in the University. A visiting professor from CSU Philadelphia area, Tahir-Kheli says previously had taught at Ohio Wesleyan “I landed first in Ohio, so she continues to extol the virtues of and suggested OWU for the young Ohio Wesleyan and a great liberal arts Tahir-Kheli while the family also was I consider I’m from Ohio.” education at every chance. She has taken considering Columbia University in to citing Ohio when asked about her

New York. origin. “I landed first in Ohio, so I consider She was appointed as the first Tahir-Kheli devotes most of a chapter I’m from Ohio,” she says. ambassador for women’s empowerment in her 2018 book, Before the Age of Ohio Wesleyan, “gives you that sense of by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Prejudice: A Muslim Woman’s National belonging,” she says, “which is important Security Work With Three American making her the first American Muslim for nurturing and so on. And I think that’s Presidents, to her time at OWU. ambassador when she was sworn in under probably why a lot of South Asians from “My time in Delaware, Ohio, covered an President Bush in 1990. She then served as half a world away come. Because it’s a era where the only possible contact with senior advisor to the secretary of state on place where you get a serious education, my family back in Pakistan was through United Nations reform. She later served but it’s also a place where you just are the weekly letter. Yet surprisingly, I did for two years on White House National nurtured. It’s a special place.” not feel isolated in Middle America,” she Security Council under the second writes in the book. President Bush. “Friendship and understanding seemed Her graduation from OWU nearly was All multicultural and to soften any loneliness that might have derailed by the swimming pool. Just a international alumni and their been natural in a very young Muslim girl’s couple of months before her scheduled guests are invited to a special transplantation from the frontier town June 1961 graduation, she was called to reception at 5 p.m., Friday, May of Peshawar in Pakistan to the bucolic her counselor’s office to review a checklist 17, during Reunion Weekend. of graduation requirements. Passing meadows circled by the Olentangy and See owu.edu/2019rw Scioto Rivers in Delaware, Ohio. Obviously a swimming test was on the list, and for more information. one of the very few female ‘foreign’ she’d never learned to swim. Another students in the Delaware, Ohio, of the international student was enlisted to tutor

SPRING 2019 | 15 Mother doc+or Katie White Arendt ’98 has made it her

life’s work to advocate for pregnant

women through medicine, overseeing a

team of more than 400 at the prestigious

Mayo Clinic By Laura Arenschield

he bulletin board that Katherine “Katie” White Arendt ’98 keeps behind her desk at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is covered with reminders of things that matter to her: a card recognizing Mother Teresa’s canonization; notes from friends, colleagues, and family; a photo of the Mayo Clinic as a nod to its mission — putting patients’ needs first, always.

16 | OWU Katie White Arendt visits the Schmimel/Conrades Science Center during her visit to campus in October to participate in the Women of Ohio Wesleyan leadership forum. (Photo by Mark Schmitter ’12)

SPRING 2019 | 17 And one more slip of paper, printed than 400 anesthesiologists and nurses in as she tells stories about everything from with words physician-writer Howard W. one of the country’s best medical research her days on Sandusky Street to her three Haggard wrote in 1929: “The position of institutions. kids (two girls and a boy, ages 15, 12, and 8). woman in any civilization is an index of Dr. Carlos Mantilla, chair of the But when it comes to her research, the advancement of the civilization; the Department of Anesthesiology and she turns serious, because the problem position of woman is gauged by the care Perioperative Medicine at Mayo, says is serious. Arendt’s role is to help build given her at the birth of her child.” Arendt is at the forefront of providing the kind of medical care team that keeps It’s an adage that has defined Arendt’s new understanding and addressing the women alive during childbirth — a feat professional life. Her work focuses on how gaps in current knowledge about maternal that has become more difficult in the doctors around the world can take better mortality and morbidity, in particular United States over the last 25 years. From care of women with complicated medical with women with cardiac disease, not just 1990 to 2015, the rate of women in the diagnoses during their pregnancies. “It is at the Mayo Clinic but around the world. United States who died during childbirth extraordinarily satisfying to care for these “When someone has to look up ‘What increased by 16.7 percent, the exact women,” Arendt says, “because there is do we know; what is our understanding; opposite of what happened in the rest a baby at the end. That’s something I’ve what is new about this topic?’ hers are the of the world, according to a systematic learned in my career: Mothers matter, and articles they would go to,” Mantilla says. analysis by the United Nations Maternal pediatric care can begin in the womb.” Her success is no surprise. Arendt has Mortality Inter-Agency Estimation Group. In the 21 years since she left Ohio always been a high achiever. She won full An NPR and ProPublica investigation Wesleyan, Arendt has become an scholarships to both OWU and the Mayo in May 2017 found that: “Every year in international expert on ways to keep Clinic College of Medicine, completed her the U.S., 700 to 900 women die from pregnant women — and their babies medical residency and internship at the pregnancy or childbirth-related causes, — alive. She has gone from Mayo Clinic clinic, then earned a prestigious fellowship and some 65,000 nearly die — by medical student to the clinic’s medical in obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham many measures, the worst record in the director of obstetric anesthesiology and Women’s Hospital in Boston. A self- developed world.” to the associate practice chair for the described extrovert, she bubbles over with That is where Arendt comes in. Her department, overseeing a team of more energy, exuding happiness and laughing research and her work as an obstetric

Dr. Arendt at work in the operating room at the Mayo Clinic, where she oversees a team of 400. (Photo by Paul Flessland, Mayo Media Support Services)

18 | OWU anesthesiologist have focused on pregnant symposiums, collaborate on research, and managed the men’s basketball team that women with medical conditions like write guidelines for the care of patients won the 1948-49 Ohio Athletic Conference congenital heart disease — conditions with cardiac disease in pregnancy. championship. that put them at higher risk for dying or Dr. Timothy Curry, vice chair for Arendt had already been accepted getting very sick during childbirth. clinical practice for the Department through early admission to Princeton “Prenatal and perinatal care is not a of Anesthesiology and Perioperative University, which her sister attended. given in the United States,” Arendt says. Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, notes She was pretty sure she wanted to be a “The fact that we’re losing mothers during that Arendt is sought after in her field. doctor, and the chance for an Ivy League “She’s reaching an audience of not just education was enticing. “But then I visited a hundred in a room but thousands and Ohio Wesleyan, and it felt like I would be “Prenatal care is not a given in thousands of people around the world. But free to explore and grow — and I thought where she has her biggest impact is on if I went to Princeton, I would be more the United States. The fact that the day-to-day care of those patients. She’s focused on performance and perfection we’re losing mothers during literally saving lives, both with her direct than becoming the best form of me,” patient care and with the systems and she says. childbirth is the biggest failing processes that she is putting in place as a Ohio Wesleyan also allowed her to leader here at the Mayo Clinic.” keep playing soccer, a sport she loved. of our healthcare system.” Arendt believes our changing society A presidential scholarship allowed her is a big factor in declining maternal to attend tuition-free, and she never — Katie White Arendt health, including the increased likelihood looked back. on the issue that drives her of health conditions during pregnancy She made friends from around the work at the Mayo Clinic that come with women choosing to world, including her roommate, Farida have babies later in life. Her work also Khwaja ’98, who came to OWU from addresses our nation’s increasing obesity Pakistan (see story about other Pakistani childbirth is the biggest failing of our and the complicating factors of abuse, alumni, Page 10). During her junior year, healthcare system.” addiction, poverty, and huge disparities in Arendt traveled with a group of friends The most at-risk of at-risk women outcomes when comparing black women from a campus Christian group to come to her Mayo Clinic team during to the rest of the population. south Texas as part of the ARISE Border their pregnancies, and she works hand-in- “And then you put a pregnancy on Witness Program, which helps empower hand with obstetricians, perinatologists, top of it,” Arendt says. “I see my role as women along the Rio Grande River to neonatologists and other medical recognizing those challenges and facing improve their communities. And she specialists to find ways to get them the social systems to fix it.” learned about the ways in which women through delivery safely. She also leads When Arendt speaks around the world, often encountered roadblocks — both research into the causes of increased she tries to drive home the point that professionally and in how they received maternal mortality, and into new her work has shown over and over again: medical care. approaches to treatment that could help Doctors who focus on delivering a healthy She returned to her studies with an more women survive. baby often overlook additional health even more determined focus, tackling “We are the right hand of the issues that could harm a mother. Because philosophy texts and chemistry obstetrician for critically ill pregnant of that, mothers are dying. experiments with the memory of real patients,” she says of the work obstetric This passion for helping women, women she’d met who might benefit from anesthesiologists do. especially women who might be her advocacy and research. The reasons that women die during overlooked, began when Arendt was an At OWU, “I kind of became a feminist,” childbirth are as complex as their medical undergraduate student double-majoring she says now. She interned one summer conditions, but, as Arendt wrote in a 2014 in chemistry and philosophy. in Washington, D.C., with a public-affairs paper, nearly half of the deaths worldwide “Ohio Wesleyan was this place that consultant group named Bass and Howes, are caused by hemorrhaging after giving gave me this incredible, broad experience,” Inc., which provides grassroots organizing birth. About a fifth of the deaths are from she says. and network building around progressive complications related to hypertension and To an outsider, OWU might have issues, especially women’s health issues. another fifth from acute heart problems, seemed inevitable for Arendt. Her parents, She also had the chance to conduct including heart attack. Almost all of these Elizabeth Fraunfelder ’71 and Nicholas J. summer chemistry research. deaths are preventable. White ’70 met at OWU, as did her maternal Studying philosophy and taking The most recent data has shown grandparents, Marian Buchwalter ’36 English composition classes at OWU, she that more and more women in the and William A. Fraunfaulder ’36. Her believes, improved her ability to write. United States are dying as a result of grandfather, Nicholas L. White ’52 and The close-knit campus allowed her to have cardiac disease, which has inspired her great-grandmother, two uncles, and an personal relationships with her professors. to collaborate with other specialists aunt are also alumni. And she thinks both made her a better worldwide to develop best practices. In fact, when Arendt came to tour doctor. Arendt has worked with national and the campus, her grandfather’s photo “I don’t take those parts of my international organizations to hold was hanging up in the gym — White education for granted,” she says. “The

SPRING 2019 | 19 The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where Arendt is the associate practice chair for the anesthesiology department. (Photo courtesy Mayo Clinic)

ability to deal with ambiguity, to hold a lot At Mayo, she has championed new bifida or has hernias into the lungs, there of thoughts in suspension — to know that programs that improve women’s and are things we can do. We can fix this the world isn’t black and white or right babies’ chances of surviving childbirth, while the baby is still in the womb. As and wrong — you’re not going to learn specifically in the use of anesthesia during pediatric and obstetric anesthesiologists, that in medical school. fetal surgery — surgeries on a fetus in we work to keep these mothers and babies “To have had that base of development the womb. safe while the surgeons perform these early on has been critical to my “Mayo Clinic is one of few surgical complicated procedures.” development as a person.” centers in the world which performs The anesthesia in those cases is After graduation, Arendt went to complex, but complexity is where Arendt the Mayo Clinic’s College of Medicine, shines. then completed both a residency and “The ability to deal with ambiguity, She helped build a Mayo Clinic internship at the clinic. She was in to hold a lot of thoughts in perinatal program that unites Rochester when she met her husband, obstetricians, neonatal caregivers, nurses, Patrick Arendt, who played Division I suspension — to know that the midwives and other medical professionals hockey at the University of Notre Dame. to save high-risk pregnant women — He is now a self-employed criminal world isn’t black and white or right those with, for example, cancer, organ defense attorney, which gives him room to and wrong — you’re not going to failure or heart disease. get their children to school, extracurricular “At Mayo Clinic, we care for very, very activities, and friends’ houses to hang out. learn that in medical school.” sick pregnant women, but we don’t lose “People always ask me, ‘How do you do women,” she says. “We have seen changes it all?’ I think it’s important to tell them, — Katie White Arendt in morbidity scores, the prevention of ‘I don’t!’ ” she says, laughing. “I have this on the skills she honed at OWU post-operative wounds and infections, a incredibly supportive spouse who takes on reduction in the number of women sent to so much of the work of our household, and the intensive-care unit for unrecognized that lets me do the work I do. I think it’s these procedures. We have one of the escalation of illnesses. And the truly important for people to know that — you highest volume of fetal surgery centers fulfilling thing is that we are informing don’t have to do everything.” in the country,” she says. “When there is care 20 years down the road; we are But that doesn’t stop Arendt from something wrong with the baby in the making things better for women in trying. womb, when a baby has tumors or spina the future.”

20 | OWU Curry calls Arendt’s combination of the impact Ohio Wesleyan women have poor prenatal and newborn care,” she says. passion and expertise rare, even at Mayo. had on the world. “In contrast, I work for the best “Even in (this) kind of environment, at “There are graduates from OWU employer in the world, the Mayo Clinic, our institution, she stands out. And that’s teaching in low-income areas, working with a primary mission that is completely impressive,” he says. to provide healthcare to people in consistent with my values: ‘The needs of Last fall, Arendt returned to campus impoverished countries, and doing social the patient come first.’ Combine that with to speak at the Women of Ohio Wesleyan work, ministry, and nonprofit work my incredible family, I think I may be the biennial leadership forum, where she for which they are poorly paid while luckiest OWU graduate ever. I still have a connected with other alumnae who are providing invaluable services to others. lot I need to give back.” leaders in their fields. Her career has been They are working to fix the social issues, — Laura Arenschield is a freelancer writer gratifying, challenging, and rewarding, education lapses, racial disparities, and from Worthington, Ohio. but Arendt says she was humbled to see income disparities that are at the heart of

who have had summer internships at the them through experiments and building Ohio Wesleyan students a Mayo Clinic. “These are wonderful young their interest in science. natural fit at the Mayo Clinic people, and we’ve been very pleased with “I was very fortunate and very lucky how well they’ve done in the lab — we’ve to have great mentors every step of the had a very, very good relationship with the way — at the Mayo Clinic, and at Ohio Dr. E. Rolland Ohio Wesleyan students,” Dickson said. Wesleyan,” she says. “And my work there Dickson ’55, an “And I think they’ve come away with a gave me a broader understanding of internationally new understanding of some of the science the world and what might be available renowned we do at the Mayo Clinic.” to me — there aren’t just three paths of medical specialist Dickson said Ohio Wesleyan and the scientist, doctor, or teacher; you can do a in liver transplant Mayo Clinic are a natural fit. culmination of two or all three.” and liver disease, “Both Mayo and Wesleyan have the After leaving the Mayo Clinic, she and professor same doctrine,” he said. “What is really went on to earn a graduate degree in emeritus of going to serve our nation, our people, chemical engineering from Columbia medicine at at the best level — both in education University. This past winter, she accepted the Mayo Clinic and science? How can we stimulate a full-time position with Celgene, a College of our students to live up to their greatest biopharmaceutical company in Summit, Medicine, has spent more than 40 years potential? We are real believers in New Jersey. at the Mayo Clinic. Dickson’s lifelong bettering society here at Mayo, and Ohio commitment to medicine may have Wesleyan has the same focus. It is the started in medical school, but has carried goal to optimize these students’ skills and Eric Baughman ’17 forward in his work. He is responsible for talents to the best interests of our society.” pioneering new treatments for end-stage In the summer of 2016, Eric Baughman liver diseases and has conducted research was a rising senior at OWU and traveled to into relatively unknown liver diseases. Alexandra Cook ’16 Rochester, Minnesota, to conduct research That research was a foundation for the with Dr. Nelson. He spent eight weeks Mayo Clinic, which is now the largest liver Alexandra Cook was a biochemistry major helping Nelson and his research team transplant center in the world. minoring in physics at OWU when she try to understand the same disease Cook He was the Rev. Billy Graham’s doctor landed the internship at the Mayo Clinic researched. and has mentored young physicians and in the summer of 2015. For three months, “Before then, I knew that I wanted to researchers throughout his time at Mayo. she worked with Dr. Timothy Nelson and go into medicine,” Baughman says. “So In 2013, 10 years after his retirement, his team, creating stem cells from other this was a really good opportunity for me, he founded the Dr. E. Rolland Dickson cells, looking for a solution for a disease because it was research, and I got to do Endowed Scholarship at OWU to provide that causes children to be born with half- some shadowing in the clinic. I really got tuition support for pre-med and science developed hearts. The condition requires to see both sides of medicine.” students. many surgeries at a young age, and Now, Baughman is in his second year In 2015, he worked to facilitate an ultimately, a heart transplant. of medical school at the Ohio University internship opportunity for OWU students She returned to the Mayo Clinic in July Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Mayo. He connected Alexandra Cook 2016 for a post-bachelor’s degree graduate in Dublin, Ohio. ’16, a biochemistry major, with a former research program, where she managed her “The internship really affirmed protege of his, Dr. Timothy Nelson, a own projects and conducted experiments my commitment to medicine,” he says. cardiologist at Mayo. on genetic mutations. She also worked “And I think it helped me get into Cook is one of several OWU students with middle school students, guiding medical school.”

SPRING 2019 | 21 Faculty Notes Faculty Notes

Andrew Busch ’07, assistant confrontation with the past, Lee Fratantuono, professor artistic inspiration (or is it?), the professor of health and including working through of classics and William Francis significance of place in a global human kinetics, published painful memories. Whitlock Professor of Latin, artistic context, and how to “Relationship of Movement published a review of Maria grow the potentialities of Screens with Past Shoulder or Rich Edwards, associate Ypsilanti’s The Epigrams cultural exchanges with the Elbow Surgeries in Collegiate professor of music, will serve of Crinagoras of Mytilene: United States. Baseball Players” in the as camp director for the Music Introduction, Text, Commentary International Journal of Sports Department’s OWU 2019 (Oxford University Press, Juan Armando Rojas Joo, chief Physical Therapy. The study Summer Music Camp for middle 2018) in the Bryn Mawr diversity officer and professor assessed relationships between school students in band, choir, Classical Review. of Spanish, traveled to Egypt shoulder or elbow surgeries and orchestra. The camp will recently, where an Arabic and Functional Movement take place July 8-12. For more Frank Hobbs, associate printing of one of his poetry Screen™ shoulder mobility information, visit owu.edu/ professor of fine arts, presented books, Santuarios desierto mar scores or Selective Functional SummerMusicCamp. his work in a symposium on / Sanctuaries Desert Sea, sold Movement Assessment upper American painters in Umbria, out. One thousand copies of the extremity patterns in collegiate Michael Flamm, professor of Italy, in March. The symposium, book were printed and sold. baseball players. history, published “The View an annual international event, from the Classroom” in Alan was organized by the Luigi Sarah Kaka, assistant professor Amy Butcher, assistant Brinkley: A Life in History Bonazzi Cultural Association of education, along with professor of English, along with (Columbia University in Perugia, Italy. This year’s Christopher T. Dobeck ’18, Press, 2019). published “Using Music from Martha Park ’11, published A revision of Xylopiasymposium L. (Annonaceae): questioned the species why of Tropical Africa 145 “Consolation Puppies” in the central Italy is still a source of the Past Century as a Primary October 2018 issue of GRANTA. Butcher’s essay “Women These Days,” previously published in Brevity magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, inclusion in Best American Essays 2019, and inclusion in the forthcoming Best of Brevity anthology. Butcher’s essay “Flight Path” also won the grand prize in the 2018 Sonora Review Flash Prose Contest, and her essay “Bare Necessities,” previously published in Harper’s magazine, was named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2018. Butcher’s forthcoming book Mothertrucker will be published in 2020 by Little A Books/Amazon Publishing.

Andrea Colvin, associate professor of Spanish, published an article in a special edition of alter/nativas, the Latin American cultural studies journal published by Ohio State University. The special edition was titled “Memoria de la ficción, ficción de la memoria: entre el ritual y la crítica.” Colvin’s article offers a reading of the 2011 novel El Espíritu de Mis Padres Sigue Subiendo en la Lluvia by Argentine author Patricio Pron, a member of the post-dictatorship generation in Argentina. The piece focuses on the impact of the Figure 31. Xylopia wilwerthii A Habit with nearly mature flower budB Habit, with open flowerC Fruit, previous generation’s inability David Johnson, Allen Trimble Professor of Botany/Microbiology, and Nancy Murray, professor of botany- microbiology,side view published D Seed, view “A ofrevision micropylar of Xylopiaend E Seed, L. (Annonaceae):side view F Fertile the stamen, species abaxial of viewTropical G Staminode, Africa” in PhytoKeys. or reluctance to transmit their The articleabaxial features view H Flowera map with made petals by and Kathleen some stamens Vonderembse removed, side ’19 view and I Longitudinala pen-and-ink section illustration of flower, (above) memories of the dictatorship to by Catherine Beach ’16. Johnson and Murray also co-authoredJ an article titled “NewK Records and the second generation. Colvin’s with petals removed, showing ovaries surrounded by staminal cone Inner petal, adaxial view Outer petal, Rediscoveriesadaxial view. of Plants A, C from in Singapore” Carrington 7 (K)in Gardens’ B, F–K from Bulletin Donis 2041Singapore (BR) D, withE from 13 Trochainother authors. 9603 (P). Johnson and work shows that the only way to Murray co-authored an article titled “Plastid and Seed Morphology Data Support a Revised Infrageneric escape the inevitable repetition Classification and an African Origin of the Pantropical Genus Xylopia (Annonaceae)” inSystematic Botany of trauma is through a deliberate with Gregorydiameter, W. Stull0.6–0.9 mm ’10, Thomas high, L. partially P. Couvreur, to completely Jenna E. Reeger concealing ’14 and the Carolineovaries, rim M. Roylacini ’14- . ate. Carpels 6–13; ovaries 0.8–0.9 mm long, oblong, pubescent, stigmas connivent, 2.9-3.2 mm long, linear, with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Torus flat, 2.5–3.1 mm in 22 | OWU diameter. Fruit of up to 12 glabrate monocarps borne on a pedicel 7.5–23.5 mm long, 2–3 mm thick, glabrate; torus 4.5–7 mm in diameter, 3–5 mm high, irregularly depressed-globose. Monocarps with a green exterior and scarlet endocarp in vivo, Faculty Notes Faculty Notes

Justin Kronewetter, emeritus professor of fine art, has 33 photographs on display from his “Seen with one eye” body of work as part of the juried GLCA show at Allegheny College titled “Challenging Borders: A GLCA Art Exchange.” This image was made in Granby, Colorado, in 2018. Kristina Bogdanov, associate professor of fine arts, andJim Krehbiel, professor of fine arts, also have works included in the exhibition.

Source in the U.S. History Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, a site team visitor and annual language level across three Classroom ​” in the January 2018) and was a respondent to a report reviewer for the Council Ohio Five institutions. Paris- issue of History Matters. Kaka lecture on “Solon the Lawgiver, for the Accreditation of Educator Huesca also recently joined the also presented “Social Studies Myth and Reality” for the Preparation and trained for the Spanish online film magazine Preservice Teachers’ Abilities Washington Area Mediterranean position in Kansas City, Missouri, Macguffin007.com, where she to Create Student-Centered Society. Lateiner’s review of in July 2018. writes articles about Spanish Environments” in November Sean Sheehan’s A Guide to women’s cinema. She attended 2018 at the College and Reading Herodotus’ Histories Eva Paris-Huesca, assistant the Sundance International University Faculty Assembly of (Bloombury Academic, 2018) professor of Spanish, along Film Festival in January and the National Council for Social was published in the online with Dosinda Alvite (Denison wrote daily chronicles about Studies’ annual conference reviews section of the Ancient University) and Eugenia Romero the festival and film reviews in Chicago. History Bulletin. (Ohio State University), was of selected films. Along with awarded the Ohio Five Mellon Diane Marting (University of Donald Lateiner, emeritus Michele Nobel, director of the Language Grant to complete Mississippi) and Yamile Silva professor of humanities-classics, special education program and the project “Representations of (University of Scranton), Paris- published and presented assistant professor of education, Gender Issues in Contemporary Huesca coordinated and edited “Olfactoring Ancient Fictions: presented “‘How Do I Know Spain: A Collaborative the volume titled Agencia, Fair and Foul Fragrances in if My Students Are Getting Teaching Approach” during Historia y Empoderamiento Ancient Novels” in Re-Wiring It?’ Embedding Formative spring semester. The project Femenino (Agency, History and the Ancient Novel, Vol. 1: Greek Assessment Technology-Based supports a one-semester Feminine Empowerment), which Novels (Barkhuis, 2018). He Tools Into Your Teaching” at the team-teaching effort on includes 22 critical studies also published “Recognizing 2019 Council for Exceptional contemporary literature, film, about the works of women Miracles in Ancient Greek Children annual conference and and popular culture from Spain authors from the Spanish- Novels,” in Recognizing Miracles expo in Indianapolis in January. and promotes and enriches speaking world. in Antiquity and Beyond (de Nobel was also selected to be cultural literacy at the advanced

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Columbus (from left): Brian Mengerink, Sharpe ’09, Dan Sharpe ’06, Wes Goodman ’06 and

Alison Mengerink ’08, Samantha

Joe Rosato ’06. Members of the Class of 1977 gathered at the Philadelphia party, including, Alice , Meg Hagenbuch, Mary Ellen Trent (from left): Deborah McColloch . Ughetta Bussiere, and Ellen Simpson

San Francisco (from left): OWU President Rock Jones, Melissa Lollar Jones, Eric Eickhoff ’00, David Livingston Cheryl Wilson, Andrew Wilson ’13 Cleveland (from left): , and Anne McComas ’12. ’94, and Sara Schneider ’16.

Celebrating Annie Seiler’s 35 years at OWU!has had Boston (from left): Nancy Seiwert Williams ’72, Tom Williams ’72 Annie Seiler ’75 Sarah Bruno ’10, Hillary Panas Pember ’85, Rich Karban ’14, and six professional roles at Andy Morrison ’85. , Ohio Wesleyan, seven if you , Vinay Raj ‘16, and count her time as a student. New York City (from left): Oore Ladipo ’14 She just celebrated 35 years Jimmy Sanzone ’16. of service for OWU, now - working remotely from Bal timore as a senior executive gift officer. Congrats, Annie! 24 | OWU Alumni Happenings

of VOTE FOR CALENDAR EVENTS TRUSTEES! The following is a listing of OWU alumni events around the country. These events offer alumni, families, and friends opportunities to Official Alumni network with fellow Bishops and to reconnect with OWU close to home. Trustee Ballot 2019 To RSVP for an event, visit owu.edu/alumni or call (740) 368-3325.

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April 27 | Various locations July 13 | Northern Michigan TRUSTEE SLATE OWU vs. Denison lacrosse Red & Black Luncheon viewing parties New Alumni Trustees: Shadman Zafar ’94 April 27 I Scioto Country Club AUGUST (See cover story, Page 10) Monnett Club meeting Andrea Hedrick ’86 August 5 I Scioto Reserve Country Club Incumbent Trustees: MAY Team OWU Golf outing Rick Doody ’80

May 17-19 | On campus Reunion Weekend (celebrating SEPTEMBER To nominate an alumnus/a for classes ending in 4 and 9) future consideration, please email: September 12 | Various locations [email protected]. Welcome to the City Please include name, class year, and qualifications. OCTOBER Please vote online by October 18 -19 | On campus May 10, 2019 Homecoming & Family at owu.edu/alumni/ Join your friends! It’s not too late Weekend BOTslate to register: owu.edu/2019rw

Greek Alumni Award winners announced The David Hamilton Smith Greek Alumni Award celebrates our Greek alumni who contribute to the OWU fraternity/sorority community. The 2018-19 honorees are Richard Jackson ’53 (Alpha Sigma Phi) and Joni Manos Brown ’78 (Kappa Kappa Gamma). They will be honored during Homecoming & Family Weekend in October. Nominate a great Greek at owu.edu/greekawards. The deadline is June 1.

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SPRING 2019 | 25 CLASSnotes his twilight years and has says attending OWU was one of She taught second grade for 1940s no regrets. the best decisions of her life. three years and then was a stay- Ralph Draves ’49 attended at-home mom for three boys, OWU after World War II. He had Catherine Winkler Olds ’49 who went on to give her seven several different careers and made an acquaintance in Dr. 1950s grandchildren. Pat volunteered ended up teaching on Long Roy Bossert’s organic chemistry Pat James Simpson ’54 reports for many service organizations, Island, N.Y., for more than 25 lab that resulted in a marriage from Tuscon, Arizona that all is enjoyed trips to many countries, years. Upon retirement, he and of almost 68 years to Bob Olds well in the desert. She’s sure and is now focusing on visiting his wife moved to Asheville, N.C. ’50, who died in March 2018. She most of her classmates are our national parks. She spent He became active in the local continues to live in their home in probably confronting some 27 years living in an 1853 stone bicycle club and was renowned Brigham City, Utah, where they age-related issues but doing farmhouse on 100 acres — “a for his cue sheets. Bicycling took raised four successful citizens: the best they can. Her kids are dream come true.” Her husband him touring in Europe, particularly an attorney, a CPA, a computer doing well, and the grandkids are retired from his plastic surgery the Netherlands. In his early engineer, and a college doing amazing things in college practice in 2002, and they 90s, health problems forced him professor. They added eight and beyond, which is what really downsized to a townhouse in to give up strenuous activities, grandchildren and five great- counts. Cheers to those still here 2003. Their hometown has been and he has concentrated his grands. Olds worked in public and best wishes to all! York, Pa., for 46 years. attention on his daughter Kyra education for 36 years and has and grandchildren Alexandra and conducted handbell choirs for Patricia “Pat” Cochran Davis Marcia Van Scoy Davis ’59 is Camden. Overall, he has enjoyed adults and youth for 21 years. She ’59 married Bob Davis in 1960. retired from college counseling at

Since their 50th OWU reunion, Walt Dickes ’64 retired after 42 years of orthodontic practice in Ellsworth, Maine. Karen McDade Dickes ’64 remains active musically and serves on the board of several local nonprofit organizations. Though they’re still Maine residents, they now spend the winter months in Vero Beach, Fla.

White-Shelby wins lifetime achievement award Lynn Brown White-Shelby ’56, Delta Gamma, received the Business Life magazine “Lifetime Women’s Achievers” award, honoring her more than 50 years of business contribution and community involvement. The magazine covers businesses in Pasadena, Glendale, and Burbank, Calif.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Denise Sabo Brenner ’00 Elizabeth Long Downey ’06 Sarah Kieta Kirwen ’06 Lana Rucks ’95 Alumnae Panhellenic Vice President Council Representative Justin McCoy ’07 Andrew Sloan ’13 Betsy Drew Dunn ’78 Andrea Moore ’82 Samuel Smith ’96 Sarah Bruno ’10 Erin Flynn Kristen Cemate ’06 Faculty Representative Ann Muenster-Nuiry ’73 Mary Beth Sommer ’88 Peter Chase ’74 Bob Gordon ’88 Michael Pattison ’04 Sue Struna Subel ’69 Michelle Corbett Coutts ’09 Candace Griffith ’09 Anthony Peddle ’14 Gordon Witkin ’77 Vicki DiLillo Kevin Hinkle ’94 Sheila Fagan Plecha ’84 Faculty Representative Alumni “W” Association President Scott Donaldson ’02 Representative Carrie Lippert Reinhardt ’94 Alumni Interfraternity Council Katherine Jenks ’12 Keith Rozanski ’99 Representative Cuyahoga Community College. on Aging. Four years ago, he Davis and her husband Jim and Carol Kraus Kepner ’60 live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and moved into an active older-adult CLASSnotes would welcome the opportunity living community in Dallas and to share Cleveland’s cultural are loving it; it has everything richness with OWU visitors. they need including an on-site medical center. Forty years Jill Shanks Eliot ’59 of a Texan. Grandview Heights, Ohio, retired as director of the Imaginating Diane “Dutch” Mulvihill Millard Dramatics Company, a youth ’59 and her husband Bob Millard dramatics and musical theater ’60 are enjoying their retirement company she founded. She years in San Diego. Their three taught for 37 years and children and six grandchildren directed 400-plus productions, bring them much joy. Diane participating in many special volunteers in a first-grade events and performing for many reading program, and they enjoy government officials. Working serving their church. Diane is with her husband, Don Eliot currently the chaplain for her ’59, Alpha Sigma Phi, was her P.E.O (Philanthropic Education joy. Don, whom she married Organization) chapter, which in the OWU chapel in 1959, supports women’s opportunities passed away in 2014 and left to pursue their dreams for further a “hole” in her heart. Together education, and she has been they wrote five musicals. Their attending community Bible granddaughter, Amelia Naille studies for the past 15 years. ’21, is the 29th member of the Arai shares experience at World War II Playing in a bridge group and her family to attend OWU. Jill writes a internment camps love for reading as a member of a column for her church and serves book club help to keep her mind on its executive board. She hopes Last December, on the 77th anniversary of the Japanese attack on active. Bob and Diane are so all the “Tweedies” will be back Pearl Harbor in 1941, Harold Arai ’57, a Japanese-American who was grateful for meeting at OWU over in force at the reunion! “La Vie interned with his family by the U.S government during World War 60 years ago! Boheme - There’s no day II, gave a presentation about his experiences to an audience of 100 like today.” people at the historic Mercantile Library in downtown Cincinnati. Jan Root Peak ’59 taught Arai provided eye-opening detail about the context of the attack school for several years in Euclid Fred Fulmer ’59 and his wife on Pearl Harbor — political, military, and legal. He showed photos and Elyria, Ohio. In 1961, she Judy have enjoyed retirement for of internment camps, mess halls, latrines, living quarters in horse married Jim Peak ’59 (Sigma Tau the last 20 years on the 47th floor stalls, documents families had to complete, and — at the evacuation Epsilon). They had three sons of a highrise condo overlooking and a happy 51-year marriage. — old men playing poker who didn’t want to leave the camp. He Lake Michigan in downtown He died at 75 after a long illness. is pictured here with Jo Anne Chrisman Warren ’57, who invited Chicago. They enjoy cooking, Peak earned an accounting him to speak in Cincinnati after hearing him on campus during walking the lakefront, and degree and pursued various visiting Chicago’s restaurants OWU Reunion Weekend 2017. Arai is willing to travel and make this related jobs. She also became a and cultural attractions. Fred’s presentation to other groups. potter and did folk-art pieces in hobbies include photography, the north Georgia mountains. In reading, and fishing. The Fulmers 2013, she moved to Carlyle Place, travel extensively, having visited “Calligraphic Art.” In 1994, she from Waverly Garden in North a retirement center in Macon, Ga. all continents except Antarctica. and Jim retired to a house they Oaks, Minn. John passed away There, she met David Reed ’57, Fred has enjoyed trekking with had built overlooking Nauset in August 2107, of mouth cancer, which seemed the most unlikely a Denison buddy in England, Beach on Cape Cod, Mass. They although he never smoked. Four of possibilities, and they married Scotland, Switzerland, and New have traveled and enjoyed their months later, Gay received a in 2014. He died last May from a Zealand. He also participates six grandchildren. She taught call that an apartment would be fall due to Parkinson’s. She walks in a peer learning program at Sunday school for 15 years ready for her on Jan. 1, 2018. She daily and at 81 is just starting Northwestern University, belongs and has enjoyed three writers’ misses John dearly yet does love to take clogging lessons. She to a writing group, and has groups, a Pi Beta Phi group, two her life at Waverly, a Presbyterian cherishes the richness of her life had photographs and articles book clubs, her garden club, and Homes complex. experiences. published in Northwest Journal. keeping up with fellow alumni on Facebook. Harry Kepner ’59 enjoyed an Joanne Hlavin Ritter ’59, Pi Ann King Gunsalus ’59 married exciting 21-year career in the Air Beta Phi, B.F.A., recently read her high school sweetheart Gay Martin Hendricks ’59 and Force. He retired as a lieutenant that “if you have a garden and Jim after graduating from OWU her husband John moved back colonel and went directly to work books, you have everything.” As and lived in Larchmont, N.Y. to Minnesota to be closer to for EDS (Ross Perot’s company) a lifelong gardener and reader, They have three sons, including family in 2015. In 2016, they sold for 16 years. He dabbled in she knows that to be true. An Curtis Gunsalus ’89 and Eric their house in Bella Vista, Ariz., independent consulting work active community volunteer in Gunsalus ’87. She had two in 18 hours. They then moved for a few years, then became Bellefontaine, Ohio, she is a careers: teaching in public to Cumberland, Wis., (their a volunteer with Meals on member and past chair of the school and a home business, summer home) to await a call Wheels and the Area Agency City Tree Commission. Since

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2002, she has led a group of 14 to learn that animates his life. Oh, Ky., and the rest of the time at spent a week at Beryl and Peter’s women, “elves,” in decorating the then there is hiking, jazz, and a their condo in Bradenton, Fla. beach house in Fenwick Island, downtown for the holidays. Using bit of golf thrown in. They still consider Louisville Del. Beryl has had a good year. her art degree, she designed the their home. Heart rehab, cataract surgery, arch commemorating the “First Judy Sanders Selby ’59 enjoys and removal of two melanomas Concrete Street in America,” life with her partner, Reid Beryl Mullen Whaley ’59 retired have helped Peter’s doctors Court Street. Most of all she is a Spencer (Amherst College ’55). from teaching from the Murray, keep their skills sharpened. wife, mother, and Nanna. She is retired as marketing Ky., school system in 2001, and The Whaleys have been very professor at the College of Peter Whaley ’59 retired from blessed. Don Saliers ’59, of Atlanta, Charleston and was principal Murray State University in 2003. has taught theology, liturgy, at Selby and Associates, a They relocated to Salisbury, Md., David Yoder ’59 and his wife and music at Yale and Emory marketing consulting firm. She in 2007. Daughters, sons-in- Elizabeth moved to Portland, universities — with many guest is now an active volunteer. She law, and nine grandkids keep Ore., in 2015 to be closer to their lectureships in between — for has two daughters, one in Los them busy. Daughter Sharon daughter’s and son’s families. more than 50 years. One of Angeles and one in New York, will become an empty-nester. While they lived in San Francisco the great joys of his life has and one granddaughter, age 15. Sandra teaches. Janet works for for 50 years, they also called been combining church music, A rescue dog named Bonnie Easter Seals. Two sons-in-law New York and Los Angeles scholarship, and engagement is now Judy and Reid’s faithful are enjoying new jobs, the third home. Yoder spent his career with social issues. Writing a book companion. She’s afraid of received a major promotion. Two in advertising, starting out with and giving concerts around the everyone but them. Reach Judy grandsons are employed. An Campbell Soup as a “normal” country with daughter Emily have at [email protected]. employed granddaughter was client and ending up sprinting been rare privileges. Fifteen married; another will graduate with Apple, Intel, Microsoft, books and hundreds of essays Carol Smith Simpson ’59 and with a job. Five other grandkids Dell, and other roller coaster later, it is still the act of working her husband spend half of the have had successful school technology firms. The goal was with students and anyone eager year at their condo in Louisville, years. Collectively, the families to stay one day ahead of them.

Peck discovers Priscilla Davis Moon ’69 has ’70s letter jacket always been proud to have a Steve Peck ’74 decided degree from OWU. God has to paint a moldy closet been extraordinarily good and found this letter to her and her husband Nick. jacket that he earned They were able to provide as a member of the their children a deliriously diving team from 1971 happy childhood growing to 1974. Although it was up on the Gold Coast of Long somewhat snug, he Island, N.Y. Nick (BS Cornell, reports that he could still JD Georgetown Law) was in snap it up! Steve and his private practice there until wife, Candice Lengacher they moved to Washington, Peck ’74, are now living D.C., in 2001. The energy of in Vermont. Go Bishops! city living propelled them into second careers. Priscilla is a flight attendant for American Airlines and Nick is an attorney for Mercedes Benz. They have four wonderful, well-educated children; four wonderful, well-educated in-law children; and 17 wonderful grandchildren, one of whom Priscilla is hoping will attend OWU!

Football alumni reunite Alumni of the OWU football team gathered on campus at Selby Stadium last fall. From left: Charlie Smith ’80, Carl Caldwell ’79, Monte Magill ’83, Chip Holcomb ’82, Bo Bollenbacher ’81, Tony Martinez ’80, Gary Lofgren ’79, Bob Walick ’81, and Tommy Snyder ’79.

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Yoder was a media specialist or moving to Portland. She loves Bill can’t wait for the next to enjoying family and all that a director for nine (often crazy) to travel and has been to five 50 years. Reach him at New York has to offer, they love advertising agencies. His wife continents. She also gardens, wbbarton2@gmail. to travel the world. was a medical social worker. cross-country skis, hikes, and volunteers. Sue Wilson Bynum ’64 lives in Tom Fenton ’64 and his wife 1960s New York City and is retired after Sharon still live in historic William “Bill” Barton ’64 50 years working in nonprofits, Marietta, Ohio, overlooking Sue Aikman Alperin ’64 worked is enjoying the benefits of government, and business, the confluence of the Ohio for the American Red Cross retirement: more time to enjoy as well as her own consulting and Muskingum rivers. So far, for five years, and she met her the journey and appreciate life, firm, dealing with public the rivers have been kind to husband, an Air Force dentist, family, get-togethers with friends, relations, marketing research, them, allowing them to view in the Philippines. They were travel, and those special times and planning. After getting an them from above and never married in 1970, moved to his with his granddaughter. Bill M.B.A. from Harvard Business from within or below. Recent hometown of Miami and one and his wife Carol (Duquesne School, Bynum has continued events: text grandkid, gym year later moved to Portland, Ore., where they still reside. ’66) recently celebrated their her commitment to nonprofits, workout, archaeological dig team They have two children, 50th wedding anniversary with tutors English, serves on several volunteer (Sharon), pickleball, Scott and Mandy, and two OWU friends in attendance, boards, and has been actively Transatlantic by Colum McCann, grandchildren. Sue worked followed by a trip to China and involved in the United Methodist volunteer (Tom) for student drug- mostly in the mental health Vietnam. They live in McLean, Church for the past 20 years. screening, hiking Colorado, field but pursued her interest Va., where they raised their She’s married to Bob Kimtis, and luck. in interculturalism through a family and enjoyed professional who is retired after a Wall Street master’s degree in intercultural careers; now it is a center for career, and she has two children Nancy Nail Molitor ’64 has lived relations. Her last job was at connection to old friends and and four wonderful teenage in Atlanta most of her married Destinations Services, helping family. Remembering the OWU grandchildren (visit owu.edu/ life (52 years), migrating after the corporate clients temporarily experience never gets old, and magazine for a photo). In addition Navy years to Delta Air Lines with

Annie Roetzel Hess ’79 and friends through the years

Seventeen years after graduation, on Oct.26, 1996, from left: Dorothy Geyer ’79, Annie Roetzel Hess ’79, and Leah Berg ’79 at Hess’ wedding.

Phi Psi alumni gather in New York City Phi Kappa Psi alumni got together (no reason, except they decided the time was right) on Dec. 7 at O’Lunney’s Times Square Pub in New York. Pictured from left: (front row) Matthew Schoengood ’78, Pete Kaestle ’77 (seated), John Green ’79 (seated), Jim Newman ’80, Les Kaciban ’80, Joe Angel ’79, Rob Shaw ’80, Mark Rodan ’80; (middle row) Tom Kane ’81, Clay Miles ’80, Jeff O’Sullivan ’81, John Whitaker ’81, Robert Fishman ’79, Sam Adams ’82; (back row) Steve Kjellman ’82 (standing on bench), Dave Griffin ’80, Tom Benton ’82, John Berger ’81, Scott Bedson ’81, and Doug Brown ’81. Not pictured: Tom Jolly ’77.

2012 mini OWU reunion at Beans In the Belfry, Brunswick, Md. From left: Berg, JaneEllen McLaughlin Saums ’80, Geyer and Hess.

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her pilot husband Art. Retiring running 7 miles, Mike is indoors God daily for His undeserved she shuddered, “I’ve caught a from the workforce early to be watching Fox News and old grace: for both present and case of the olds.” Thankfully that a stay-at-home mom, she has movies, sometimes with a eternal blessings through the thought prompted her to reflect made time to volunteer with no bloody mary. They have made faith He gave us to believe in on her life’s journey — definitely shortage of travel and recreation, great new friends. Despite the Christ, our Savior (Ephesians 2:8- a fun one. After graduation she with boating and outdoor distance separating them from 10), for giving them each other, headed to the East Coast with pursuits a common thread. old friends, they have kept in their family and friends, and for classmates. Fourteen years They try to keep up with their close contact by attending each energy to enjoy all! later and nine months pregnant, two delightfully different grown other’s celebrations and traveling she drove to the West Coast children and their families, a son together. They know how Janet Ahner Rubinoff ’64 with a master’s, a Siamese cat, in Savannah, Ga., and a daughter to retire! finally decided last fall at 76 and a husband. She started a in the Dominican Republic. to retire from teaching at York psychotherapy practice in Tustin, Ron Pierre ’64 and Barb Hites University in Toronto. She Calif., where she still resides, and Michael Murphy ’64, Sigma Chi, Pierre ’64 are “retired” in is enjoying her “freedom” had two children, both of whom married his wife Chris in 1970 LaGrange, Ohio, yet continuing and trying to get some long- followed their father’s career in and moved to Aurora, Ohio. Mike their usual activities: serving postponed writing done. Her medicine. At this stage of life, worked as a general dentist the Lord in their church and address is 92 Maplewood Ave., her favorite activities are coffee and Chris owned a physical ministries in Italy, Haiti, Africa, Toronto, ON, Canada M6C 1J5. with friends, duplicate bridge, therapy practice. Now they are and the U.S., plus business and entering the digital world. retired and living in Charleston, involvements in commercial real Maeve Murphy Shapiro ’64 She does not have a bucket list. S.C. Mike and Chris carry and estate, a biomedical company, recounts that recently, after However, she still has wanderlust walk 18 holes three times a and Sorrento Ristorante, while asking her husband for the and would go on an interesting week, go dancing weekly, and traveling and keeping up with umpteenth time, “Where is...?” he trip any time. And although she typically close down the bar. their family of six, their spouses, casually remarked, “You’ve got only has five good years left, she Mornings when Chris is outside and 24 grandchildren. They thank five good years left.” “Oh, no,” knows who she is!

Washington inaugurated as Kalamazoo Valley Community College president Dr. L. Marshall Washington ’91 was inaugurated as the third president of Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Oct. 19. A communitywide celebration was held to honor the occasion. Washington is pictured here with his wife, Tonja Embry Washington ’89, and three children, Lauren, Ethan, and Jordan. (Photo courtesy KVCC)

Melissa Cruz ’04 and Jeff Donaldson ’04 were married in the fall of 2004. They taught in New York City for five years, earning their masters’ degrees in teaching. In 2012, Jeff was accepted Claire Hogan Daubney ’99 lives in Powell, Ohio, with her to medical school, and they moved husband Rich and their two children, Benjamin (4) and Lily to Syracuse, N.Y. Their incredible (3). She is an elementary music teacher for Worthington City daughter Sofia (5) was born in 2013. Schools and is fortunate to have been working at Bluffsview When Jeff joined the Cleveland Clinic Elementary School for the past 12 years. Daubney also sings in 2016, they moved to the wonderful with Capriccio Columbus, a semi-professional community town of Hudson, Ohio. They were choir that maintains an active performance schedule blessed by their sons Eli (2) in 2016 and throughout central Ohio. Several times since graduation, Caleb (1) in 2018. While Jeff completes Capriccio Columbus has performed with the Central Ohio his radiology residency, Melissa stays Symphony Orchestra, and Daubney has enjoyed her chances home and takes care of their children. to visit OWU and sing in Gray Chapel again.

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Betty Bright Stallings ’64 about events, people, and In early 2019, he was in rehearsal vice president of information earned an M.S.W. at the circumstances that influenced with Seattle-based director Rosa technology. Sue spent 23 years University of Wisconsin in his life. He wrote and published Joshi for OSF’s production of As in financial services. They retired 1966. She founded a nonprofit a book, My Life’s Journey as a You Like It, but still finds plenty of in 2010 and live in Petaluma, organization and served as its Palestinian Christian, including time in retirement to enjoy hiking, Calif., and enjoy spending time executive director for 14 years. his years and experiences at kayaking, fly-fishing, and skiing with their two daughters and This led her to write six books OWU. His story also highlights — as well as four grandchildren four grandchildren, singing in a and travel the world speaking the tragic events of how he and nearby in Corvallis, Ore., and chorus, traveling, walking, bike- on issues related to nonprofit his family became refugees and Walla Walla, Wash. riding, and being outdoors. groups for 20-plus years. Retired unwelcome in their ancestral They belong to several wine at age 75, she is now active as homeland. In 1964, OWU Ben Barnes ’69 married Susan clubs, a gourmet group, and a volunteer with Asante Africa became his threshold to higher Carter Barnes ’69 three a book group, and attend Foundation after two amazing education and his gateway to days after OWU graduation. classes at nearby Sonoma State trips to South Africa. She’s been personal freedom and American He reported to Navy Officer University. married for more than 53 years citizenship. Candidate School a month later to Charles Stallings and has and spent three years as a supply Robert Beard ’69 jokes he has two grown daughters and four Alan Armstrong ’69 lives in officer on a nuclear submarine. reluctantly taken on a second grandchildren. She lives part- Ashland, Ore., with his wife, After the Navy, he earned his career as a farmer after retiring time in Pleasanton, Calif., and Victoria Sturtevant (Pitzer master’s in mathematics at the as a strategic planning analyst for Del Mar, Calif. College ’72), after retiring from University of California, Davis. He the Port Authority of New York/ his professorship at Southern worked in information technology New Jersey. He moved with his Nabil Ailabouni ’68, of Dublin, Oregon University. Since 2006, for 37 years, holding positions wife, Donna Pennington, to her Ohio, retired from a career of he has loved working as a of systems analyst, programmer, family’s farm near Plains, Ga. teaching and finally found the production dramaturg for the systems engineer, manager of After OWU he got a master’s time to relax and reminisce Oregon Shakespeare Festival. applications development, and in transportation from the

Alumni run Glacier Park half marathon Lauren Smith ’09 worked as a field Jenna Narwicz ’08, Ruthie Goodell ’09, and Chaz Narwicz ’10 biologist (mainly with birds) and completed the Glacier Park half marathon in Montana last June. environmental educator after leaving OWU. In 2016, after deciding to focus on writing and science communication, she earned a M.Sc. in environmental studies with a focus on environmental writing at the University of Montana. Her essays have appeared in Alpinist and Entropy, among others, and links can be found at TalesFromAWanderingAlbatross.com. Currently, she is a knowledge translation associate at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities. She lives in Missoula, Mont., where she spends as much time as possible outside, mainly climbing on rocks and sharing unsolicited bird information.

Emily Turner ’09 is living Hinkle and in Columbia, Pitts connect Tenn., with her at housing husband, Dennis conference O’Brien, and their Casey Dobbins Hinkle dog Marilyn. ’04 met fellow alumnus She works as an Byron Pitts ’82 in OBGyn at Maury November at the 2018 Regional Medical Housing Conference in Center and loves Columbus, where the every minute! ABC newsman was the She completed keynote speaker. Hinkle her residency says Pitts was an program in incredible speaker who Cincinnati (where she met Dennis) in June 2017 and took a three-week tour made her laugh, cry, of Europe to celebrate. Married in April 2018, the couple loves their new and leave inspired. small-town life in Tennessee.

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University of Alabama and spent Lary Bump ’69 has lived in Steve Clay ’69, of Easton, Mass., registered nursing. Her focus 40 years in freight transportation McKinney, Texas, for 13 years. retired from a 37-year career quickly became hospice care, management. Beard and his wife He’s a freelance sports writer as a teacher, coach, and YMCA and she retired in 2009. Her have been married 35 years. and an official scorer for the CEO in 2007, and now lives with time is now spent spoiling her They have two children, Penn Texas Rangers. He spent three his wife Mary Beth (Georgetown four grandchildren, traveling and Erica, and two grandchildren, eventful, rewarding years as ’73, M.A. Smith ’74) in Falmouth, to their family beach house in Josie and Charlie. In the summer an elementary school special- Mass., on Cape Cod. They have North Carolina, playing golf and they live in the mountains of education aide. His wife Margaret two grown children and five pickleball, and finally trying to North Carolina, two hours away remains the orchestra director grandchildren, all within driving learn bridge (she wishes she had from their daughter in Charlotte. at McKinney North High School. distance! Steve and Mary Beth, a learned at the DG house!). Their daughter Samantha, retired public school speech Julie Wiegel Brust ’69 and Bob a Hendrix College junior, is pathologist, now run a residential Nancy Githens Crocker ’69 Brust ’67 will celebrate their real estate business. moved to Spain three months 50th wedding anniversary this studying in London for a second after graduation, inspired June. They were married one semester. Their older daughters week after Julie’s graduation travel frequently — Diana in the Joanne Noble Crawford ’69 by a summer trip to Europe from OWU. They have three Midwest for Willis Towers Watson finds it hard to believe that while at OWU. She stayed for children and six grandchildren. and Erin in the U.S. and Europe 50 years have passed since seven years, living in Madrid Julie retired from teaching after for the Go Game, the real world her OWU graduation. Since and Paris, before returning to 36 years in Bellbrook, Ohio. gaming company. Son Philip, then, her life has been spent the U.S. to replenish her bank She is active in the Dayton national correspondent for in Chicago, where she worked account. The love of languages, Delta Gamma Alumnae Chapter, The Washington Post, and his for Marshall Field’s, met her different cultures, and travel, and she and Bob enjoy family wife China have a son, husband, Bill Crawford ’61, however, stayed with her. Denver vacations, Delt reunions, and 2-year-old Thomas. and raised three daughters. became her new home. She traveling (one son lives in Sicily!) After years of volunteering and met her husband, raised a son, in their retirement. PTA, she earned a degree in and worked for 40 years as a

Murphey and Lear weddings Four-year OWU roommates Sarah Murphey ’11 and Kristen Lear ’11 served as each other’s maid of honor in their recent weddings. Murphey married Andrew Ring on June 30 in Mentor, Ohio, where they met at Mentor United Methodist Church. Lear married Tom Prebyl on Sept. 30 near Athens, Ga, where they met in graduate school at the University of Georgia.

Pictured at Lear’s wedding are (from left): Meredith Palmer ’11, Gregory-Wasserman wedding Lauren Snyder, the bride, Sarah Murphey ’11, and Rosie Korman. Erin Gregory ’14 and Matthew Wasserman ’14 were married in the company of many cherished OWU alumni on Dec. 1 in Warwick, R.I. Cheers to their OWU memories, and here’s to their future! Pictured from left: (front row) Adam Dettra ’13, Brian Williams ’15, Abby Bennett ’15, Michaela Kim ’14, Ben Veaner ’14, Morgan Treni ’12, Emily Scott ’16, Sarah Groendyk ’15, Gnora Gumanow ’14; (middle row) Elizabeth Parker ’14, Myriem Ibourk ’14, Ryan Klein ’14, AJ Alonzo ’13, the groom, Gloria Clark Alonzo ’11, Lauren Foote ’14, Amy LeFebvre ’14, Madeline Miguel Dash ’14, Chris Williams ’12, Eric Charette ’12; (back) Yushan Hayman ’13, Dominic Strippoli ’12, Kelly Crunkilton ’12, Prabhjot Kaur Virk ’14, the bride, Oore Ladipo ’14, Jordan Grammer ’14, Derek Smith ’14, and Misa Farslow ’12. Pictured at Murphey’s wedding are (from left): Meredith Not pictured: Priyanka Venkataraman ’14, Hannah Appelbaum Palmer ’11, Emma Hilliard ’11, Kristen Lear ’11, the bride, Maryann ’14, Jon Rux ’12, Nicholas Oleski ’12, and T.J. Dasch ’14. Penzvalto ’10, and Beth Robb ’11.

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software developer and systems High School in Columbus. His her former high school program. Jen (and hubby Dan) live in analyst. As a retiree, she loves daughter Jenna (a registered As a cancer “thriver,” she’s Washington D.C.; Nick (and wife her new life volunteering as an dietitian) and son-in-law Nick live relishing more time for various Kara and 7-year-old son Owen) ESL teacher, taking classes at in Perrysburg, Ohio, with their pursuits, not the least being her live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, CU-Denver as a lifelong learner, daughter and son. Forty-three book bucket list! where they work for the U.S. and traveling with her husband… years of teaching math, coaching State Department. Dave loves everywhere. football (including two Ohio Tom Eshelman ’69 had a 40- fishing and Toni enjoys biking in state championship teams), and year career in IT in central Ohio, Sanibel, Fla., where they own a Dick Cromwell ’69 has returned serving as a dean of students, where he and his wife of 45 condo. They invite you to contact to full-time employment after two athletic director, and principal years still reside. They have been them if you’re ever in one of years in semi-retirement. He’s have been FUN (a bourbon blessed with three lively kids and their neighborhoods — they now athletic director of Cardinal manhattan or two helps). five grandkids. always love catching up with Stritch Catholic High School in OWU friends! Oregon, Ohio, near Toledo. He Cecily “Ceci” Campbell Dave Eyrich ’69 and Toni loves the challenges of working Eldridge ’69 and her husband Fingland Eyrich ’69 were Harry Flannery ’69, of New with youth (things are different John have called Merrimack, married shortly after their Castle, Pa., retired in January from 1969 and yet they aren’t). N.H., home for the last 40-plus graduation and moved to after more than 41 years as senior His wife Kathy is still delighting years. They raised two daughters Cincinnati, where they have lived corporate counsel at FirstEnergy people with her expertise and enjoy keeping up with four since. Toni retired 10 years ago in Akron, Ohio. Prior to that, he in hairstyling. His son Brian nearby lively grandkids. Eldridge from teaching at various grade was the trust legal officer for the Cromwell ’02 and daughter-in- is four years into retirement from levels. In April, Dave retired from Pittsburgh National Bank and law Talia Brader Cromwell ’02 a satisfying career as an English, his law practice but finds himself engaged in private practice. are busy raising three boys; Brian reading, and later ESOL teacher, doing work for charities and Flannery is currently counsel of coaches and teaches at DeSales and she’s still volunteering with friends. They have two children: the law office of Flannery, Seltzer,

Platt-Meisterman wedding Ellen Graham Platt ’12 and Samuel Isaac Meisterman ’12 were married in Columbus on Sept. 2.

Londot-Pappa wedding Tamra Londot ’14 married Cameron Pappa ’16 on Aug. 14 in Utica, Scinto-Madonich Ohio. OWU classmates, alumni, and coaches joined in the celebration. wedding Londot played volleyball, basketball, and softball at OWU. Pappa played Sara Scinto ’16 and football. Pictured from left: (front row) Kristen Henning ’15, Stacey Nathan Madonich ’16 Lobdell (current OWU women’s basketball coach), Nan Carney-Debord were married on Oct. 13 in (former women’s basketball coach), the bride and groom, Devon Fisher Kirtland, Ohio. Members ’16; (middle row) Boo Kuchers (Athletes in Action leader), Sarah McQuade of the wedding party ’15, Katie Fain ’14, Tyler Jenkins ’16, Amanda Barker Richards ’13, included Courtney Austin Danielle Haley ’14, Chelsea Denman ’15, Rachael Carter ’16, Brooke ’16, Kevin Ford ’15, and Warner ’15, Morgan Hall ’13, Brooke Nethers ’13, Allisha Ferguson ’16; Forest Dearing ’17. Also in (back row) Sean Miliner ’15, David Males ’17, Matt Kuchers (Athletes in attendance were Hannah Action leader), Ben Pelkey ’16, Bryan Ansel ’16, Ryan Ehrhardt ’19, Chase Sampson ’15, Emma Culbertson ’16, Erica Bryan ’14, Aaron Port ’16, Erika Reese ’13, Pat Huber Sampson ’18, and John ’62, Amanda Hatfield ’14, Jake Sanders ’17, Sarah Flint ’16, Roger Ingles Sotos ’17. (former OWU athletic director), and Jo Ingles (OWU newspaper advisor).

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Harper & Palmer (hflannery@ continues to teach Spanish, was delightful and never boring. beautiful Ann Arbor, Mich. flanneryseltzer.com) and owns direct the service-learning Academically, he’s served at They are minutes away from Castle Security, LLC. He will program, and coach the varsity Boston University, the University their family: Mike and Sara be married 50 years this June golf team at Laurel School, a girls of California Los Angeles, and Bachman and two beautiful to Maureen Flaherty and has college prep independent school the University of Auckland, New granddaughters, Abbi and Josie. two children, Preston (Jennifer in Shaker Heights. She says, Zealand, but mostly at Harvard, They love living in Ann Arbor and Jackson) and Courtney (Michael “Thanks, OWU, for the wonderful supervising resident physicians take advantage of everything Scalzo), and four grandchildren, preparation that has allowed me and tutoring new students. He that the city and University Connor, Payton, Miley, and to follow my passion for the past loves book-rich Boston but of Michigan have to offer: 50 years.” She loves spending doesn’t give a damn about the music, free concerts, summer Bentley. His most recent book time with their two sons, Brian Red Sox. He has two children, festivals, famous winter weather, is titled Rape: The Whole Truth Hardy ’98 and Kevin (Wesleyan Andrew (32) and Ruth (29), the wonderful neighbors, and great and Nothing but the Truth, So University, Conn., ’00), and their fruits of his 20-year marriage to friends at their local gym (they Help...! (2017 Edgewood Press). families in Boston, where she can another physician. The marriage are there four days a week!). Flannery holds law degrees from watch her four grandchildren play ended in 1999, but together Hepler treasures her OWU years Ohio Northern University College sports. She also loves visiting her they’ve seen the kids through and can’t wait to see everyone at of Law and Boston University OWU Kappa and Theta friends festive weddings and raucous the reunion! School of Law. (See an additional in Westhampton, N.Y., every graduations. Since retiring in OWU memory from Flannery on summer for the past 15 years. 2014, Heisel has renewed his Doug Hoover ’69 retired after page 36) OWU liberal education at the 40 years of dentistry and moved Steve Heisel ’69 attended Ohio Harvard Institute for Learning to Westerville, Ohio, to be near Marti Bond Hardy ’69 lives State University Medical School in Retirement. three of his grandchildren. He in Pepper Pike, Ohio, with her and moved to Boston for his volunteers at a food pantry, plays husband, Mike (University of psychiatric residency. He says Kathie Hepler ’69 and her in a couple of orchestras, and Michigan Law School ’72). She practicing general psychiatry husband Rich Field live in sings in several groups at church.

McClure makes magic for Delt brothers Rusty McClure ’72 treated 40 Delta Tau Delta brothers to a trip to Cleveland on Nov. 11 for the Cleveland Browns game against the Atlanta Falcons. For the excursion, which began at the Delt house at 10:30 a.m., McClure chartered a large luxury bus and bought a section of tickets at the game, which the Browns won, 28-16. It was the first NFL game for at least a dozen of the students, who were also accompanied by Delt chef Billy Thompson. Before the trip, McClure arranged with the team’s marketing department for a special welcome for the brothers to be displayed in FirstEnergy Stadium. “Our guys thought this NFL scoreboard recognition was very, very cool,” McClure reported. “On our return, we pulled off I-71 onto Rt. 36 to Delaware and stopped at the White Castle, picking up bags of sliders and fries — one bag for each guy, six cheese sliders and fries — I had pre-ordered on my phone as we left Cleveland,” McClure said. They were back on campus by 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, in time for a good night’s sleep before class the next day.

The scoreboard in FirstEnergy Stadium displayed a special greeting to the 40 Delta Tau Delta brothers who made the trip to Cleveland for the Browns-Falcons game Nov. 11. (Scoreboards must not have spell check.)

McClure (second from left with sunglasses on) with his Delt brothers.

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He and his wife Joani play golf, Pamela Turner Kane ’69 pickleball, and tennis in addition is happily retired in West to all the grandkids’ activities. He Bloomfield, Mich., where she has lunch with four Delt brothers and her husband Steve enjoy about every six weeks and gets lake living in their new home. back to OWU fairly often now After a long hiatus, she returned that he is close. to college to earn a graduate degree in accounting at Walsh Patricia “GG” Hawthorne College (Troy, Mich.), which she Howard ’69 was born and raised utilized in the healthcare industry in Elyria, Ohio, and has spent for 30+ years. Her blended family her life in education. Sharing includes her son, Charles Draper, the belief that travel is one of and daughter Dr. Emily Draper the best forms of education, ’01, stepdaughter Nancy Olsen, GG travels extensively with and beloved labrador retriever her husband and two children. Reilly. Leisure time involves a She also trains service dogs return to studying French, playing for Canine Companions for duplicate bridge, and travel. Four Engagement ‘show and tell’ Independence. She’s taught art grandchildren are the frosting on When the time came for Kieran Robertson to propose to his in Columbus, creative dramatics the cake of life! in Auckland, New Zealand, girlfriend Anna Massara ’18 in December, Robertson colluded with art history in Geneva, and art Ken Kinney ’69 worked as a Massara’s class of third-graders to ensure everyone got points for education at Ohio State and Kent newspaper editor after graduate participation. State. She founded the Arts & school and then as a strategic Robertson also enlisted Massara’s school principal and a College Prep. Academy in 2002, planner in both the private and fellow teacher at St. Peter Catholic School in Upper Sandusky, artcollegeprep.org. Connect with public sectors, living primarily Ohio, to surprise her on the last day of class before winter break. her at howard@artcollegeprep. in Milwaukee and Chicago. For Her students, who already knew the Navy man Robertson from org. Retirement is not on the last 25 years of his career he community events like Veterans Day presentations, were crucial her horizon. was a project manager for the co-conspirators. planning and design of public “Because this is my first class I’m teaching out of college and Dana Jackson ’69, a member transportation systems in major of Chi Phi fraternity, has lived in American cities. He retired in he’d already established a relationship with them, it was perfect Newton, Mass., since 1974. He 2018. He has lived in Strasbourg, for me,” Massara says. earned his M.Ed. from Boston France, since 2014. His older The principal distracted her by calling her to the school office, College in 1974. He taught history daughter lives in Minneapolis. claiming Massara needed to fill out an emergency medical form in Vermont and special education Her sister and her husband and before the end of the year. Upon returning, Massara found her in Boston public schools from three children live in Tubingen, 12 students and Robertson holding up signs spelling “Will you 1971 to 2004. From 2004 to Germany, about 80 miles marry me?” 2015, he was an administrative from Ken. “I had no idea. They tricked me!” she says. “It was only about assistant at the Dana-Farber 9:55 a.m., and the students were so excited and kept talking about Cancer Institute; from 2015 to Margi Geisler Leonard ’69 it the rest of the day. We are from a small town of Upper Sandusky, present, he has volunteered at moved from Madison, Wis., after the Kraft Family Blood Donor graduation to the Philadelphia and it was very special to us all.” Center in Boston. He has been area to teach. She married Both Massara and Robertson graduated from Upper Sandusky active in Freemasonry since John Leonard ’67 in 1970. John High School in 2014. They connected after Robertson was 1976. He has two children: practiced dentistry, and Margi honorably discharged from the Navy while Massara was a senior Greg Jackson ’06 and Arielle taught French and ESL and at OWU. “And of course when he proposed, I said yes,” she says. (University of Massachusetts ’08). went to grad school. They have

Thetas welcome Luckett as keynote speaker Alumnae and collegiate members of Kappa Alpha Theta welcomed author Lisa Lindeman Luckett P ’16/’20 to the Women of Wesleyan (WOW) Weekend in October as the keynote speaker. Lisa’s husband, Ted Luckett ’84, perished in the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11. Pictured from left: (back row) Ann Tarbutton Gerhart ’69, Haley Walls ’16, Elizabeth Long Downey ’06, Sam Wallace Sharpe ’09, Amy Eiken ’84, Lisa Lindeman Luckett, Gay Johnson Grossman ’88, Mary Beth Sommer ’88, Maribeth Amhrein Eiken Graham ’55, Lee LaBoeuf ’17, Kelsey Ullom ’14, Chelsea Leeds ’13, Skye Wanstrath ’16; (front row) Laurie McGregor Connor ’77, Rachel Vinciguerra ’14, Ally North ’13, Taylor Shinnaberry ’20, Courtney Dunne ’17, Rose Jonesco ’20, and Hannah Wargo ’19.

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two children, Karen and Jay, grandchild live in Houston. David Owens ’69 and Cathy married his college sweetheart, who now live in Connecticut They travel a lot, and William Czarniak Owens ’68 of Bonnie Greenwood ’71, then and Illinois with their families. A does locum tenens work for Westfield, N.J., served in the U.S. embarked on a financial career few years ago, Margi published Texas Children’s Hospital to keep Peace Corps in Jordan from 2012 in Washington, D.C., with Price Remembering the Akamatsus, busy. Life is good. to 2015. David is now a substitute Waterhouse. He transferred to a true story about family friends teacher with the Westfield School Seattle in 1975 and 30 years, who were interned during World Robert Nuner ’69 of Montpelier, District and volunteers as an and two children later he moved War II in a Japanese-American Vt., notes that performance has international student liaison with back to Ohio (Vermilion) in 2005 camp in Utah (Topaz). Margi and been a persistent — but not AFS, a prominent international to help care for Bonnie’s mother. John love to visit their kids, travel, controlling — theme in his life. student exchange organization. He stumbled into the nonprofit sail, sing, learn, and hang out in After three years in New York world and spent 20 years on the Avalon, N.J. Come and see them City, followed by two years Don Paterson ’69 earned board of ACT Theatre, then as in America’s Birthplace or “down as a laborer or on-staff with his M.B.A. from Washington CFO of ballets in Seattle and San the shore.” traveling circuses, he trained University in St. Louis and Francisco, and finally as chief and performed with a commedia Catherine “Cathy” Overhulse dell’arte/clown troupe, touring Lewis ’69 had a 43-year career throughout the Northeast. in finance at General Electric Decades later, following several And now for something completely different Co. Married to Bradley Lewis, an years of parental elder care, he economics professor at Union resumed performing, including College in Schenectady, N.Y., work in plays by Vermont poet Left Oh-Wooo with a bachelor’s degree, she is busy as a board member David Budbill. Among his side Settled down in Cincinnatee. of many area and community interests is growing wheat. Since Taught some English, wanted more, groups, including Habitat for the late ’90s, he’s searched for Found his niche as a guidance counsel-or. Humanity, the Girl Scouts, and customers in the energy sector Followed his dream to coach some ball, the YWCA of Northeastern for a power system integrator, a New York. She has been on the carbon accountancy, and a fuel Basket-base-football, did it all. Schenectady City Council and cell manufacturer. Married to Carol, knew what to do, is serving in her ninth year on Father to three, Pops to two. the local school board and her Ann Seiler O’Brien ’69 married Cancer survivor, it led him to Christ, second year as a director on the Daniel Patrick O’Brien ’69 one Taught him well the meaning of life. New York State School Boards year into his four and a half years Association. Brad and Cathy of Navy submarine service and Love your neighbor, love the Lord, enjoy traveling and visiting family, they moved to Pearl Harbor, Count your blessings, you’ll never be bored. and both look forward to moving Hawaii, and then to Virginia Now he’s a poet, Bob Marshall would be proud, back into their newly remodeled two years later. In 1973, Dan Sounds a little better if you read it aloud. home before their respective concluded his active service and —Fred Thomas ’69 (Hamilton, Ohio) 50th reunions this year. they moved to Philadelphia. He received his M.B.A. from Wharton Jeff MacDonald ’69 and Debbie in 1975 and began his civilian Guynn MacDonald ’70 live in career with FMC Corp. Dan, Editor’s Note: In the fall of 1965, an increase in enrollment lead to a Oxford, Ohio They have two Ann, and their two sons moved housing crunch with some unique solutions. children: Ryan, a nurse at UVA to Chicago in 1980. Over the Medical Center Hospital in ensuing 40 years, Dan worked , of New Castle, Pa., fondly recalls his first term Charlottesville, Va., and Erin, in Harry Flannery ’69 at five companies. He retired in QA and IT with Procter & Gamble at OWU in 1965, when he was among 34 freshman students housed 2012 after 37 years in corporate in Cincinnati. Jeff’s career since at the Delaware Inn (pictured below). Flannery recalls only eight finance. In retirement, he golfs, OWU has included: government “livable” rooms in the former hotel, built in 1845, with air conditioners, travels, studies Spanish, reads, and trade association work carpet, bunk beds, bathrooms, showers, and some furnishings and hangs out with friends. in Washington, D.C. (1969-81), supplied by the University. Flannery and his roommate After graduation, Ann worked in Phil Tulin ’69 association work in Oxford were among the 16 lucky students to be assigned to such a room. (1981-85), and owning the Ace Detroit as an interior designer for J.L. Hudson’s downtown The remaining rooms lacked basic amenities such as bathrooms Hardware store in Oxford (1985- or showers and had very poor lighting. On a hot night, it was not 2017). Now retired, they are studio. She got her master’s unusual to find as many figuring out the freedom ahead of degree in Chinese art history. In them. Travel, local organizations, Chicago, she was president and as eight mattresses and home improvements are art director of the advertising in some of the air- current activities. Reconnecting firm Rubin and O’Brien for 25 conditioned rooms. with old friends is a priority. years. After retiring, she became The advantages, president of a local co-op art however, included that gallery and then PR/advertising William Nix ’69 is retired after students were close to director for a women-owned a long career as a pediatrician the Hamburger Inn and gallery. She enjoys traveling, with Texas Children’s Pediatric entertainment. And Associates. He and his wife making art, visiting her sons’ of course, the walk to Peggy, a retired nurse, live in The families in Chicago and California Woodlands, north of Houston. and her four grandchildren, and class was closer. studying French. Their three children and Photo courtesy Delaware County Historical Society

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operating officer and president of economies. Currently, he and hiker, Scadron was struck not have time for before. They the Great Lakes Science Center is building an Academy for with a neurological condition that have moved to Westerville, in Cleveland. Bonnie died in Global Urban Leadership at the rendered him quadriplegic at age Ohio, to be near their sons and 2009, and he retired and moved University of Maryland 52. The story of his illness and grandchildren. back to the Northwest in 2013. and restoring a historic home struggle toward recovery is the He now lives in Bellingham, in Easton, Md., on the foundation of his recent memoir, Wash., near his son, daughter-in- Chesapeake Bay. Two Mountains: Kilimanjaro to 1970s law, and rambunctious 3-year-old Quadriplegic and Back. He lives Geoffrey Greif ’71, professor granddaughter, Iris Ann Paterson. Susan Phillips Read ’69 in Silver Spring, Md., with his at the University of Maryland graduated from the University wife, Terri. Baltimore School of Social Work, Tom Poole ’69 retired in 2016 of Chicago Law School in was named UMB Teacher of the and moved from California 1972, married Howard J. Read Rick Shale ’69 earned a master’s Year for 2018. He is the longest- to Tempe, Ariz. His wife is a (Johns Hopkins University ’66; and Ph.D. in American culture serving faculty member at the graduate and former faculty University of Chicago Law from the University of Michigan School of Social Work and thanks member of Arizona State School ’69), and followed him to and then spent 35 years in Tom Brittenham at OWU for University. The Southern upstate New York. After 20- the English Department of encouraging him to go into the California Association for Health plus years practicing law in the Youngstown State University profession. Care Development chose Poole private sector and three years teaching some composition for its Outstanding Leader of in the Governor’s Counsel’s but mostly film studies and Cheryl Smith Benefield ’74 the Year Award a month before Office, she joined the judiciary, screenwriting. He retired in May retired in 2006 after 30 years he retired from Long Beach where she served more than 2011. He has published three of service as an educator in Memorial. Poole and his wife 12 years as associate judge of books on the Academy Awards, the DeKalb County School enjoy a very active life in Arizona the New York Court of Appeals, one on the Disney Studio, and System in Georgia. She wrote with many activities and friends. the state’s highest court. She two on parks in Youngstown, her first book, Nathan’s Story, His wife’s grandchildren live has now returned to private Ohio, where he lives. In 2018, he in 2009, which chronicles the nearby. Poole appreciates the practice and serves on the received the Heritage Award, medical miracles, life transitions, foundation that Ohio Wesleyan boards of performing arts-related the highest honor YSU gives to and lessons learned from her gave him, without which he could organizations. Howard and retired faculty. His retirement beloved son Nathan, who not have had such a wonderful Susan live with their cat, Betty, hobbies are painting, genealogy, was born in 1994 with Down and fulfilling life. and have, through the years, and volunteerism. (He serves syndrome and was initially supported many other cats on four boards and too many diagnosed as profoundly deaf. R. Brooke Porch ’69 finally and thoroughbred racehorses committees.) She’s also the CEO of Miracle retired in 2017 after a rewarding (no children). Believers Inc., and believes her career of public service — Tim Smith ’69 and his wife mission is to encourage, equip, teacher, director of special Ann Russell ’69 earned her Jolee live in Houston. Smith and empower the brokenhearted education, and consultant. He master’s in physical therapy recently retired (for now, looking and disenfranchised. Currently and Linda Lane (Vassar ’69) from Case Western Reserve for contract work) from BHP, she serves as the minister have two daughters and a University in 1971 and her Ph.D. concluding a 41-year career as a of congregational care and 5-year-old granddaughter, all in exercise science from the geophysicist in the oil exploration women’s ministry coordinator at of whom live close to Brooke’s University of Iowa in 1989. She industry. He worked for Gulf, her church and resides in Atlanta. home in Swarthmore, Pa. also completed a two-year BP, Unocal, and BHP, and Brooke and Linda have traveled post-doctoral fellowship at the participated in discovery of the Lise Uptegrove Chase ’74 extensively (Japan, Peru, University of Washington in Atlantis, Mad Dog, Shenzi, and was married to Peter Chase Portugal, Patagonia) and will Seattle. She taught physical Stampede oil fields, along with ’74 for 25 years. During the continue doing so as long as therapy at several universities, input to Thunder Horse, St. Malo, next 19 years, Lise worked they both can walk. Reach him at: including Cleveland State and Shenzi North, all in the Gulf as an intercultural specialist, [email protected]. University, Cannon University, of Mexico. He’s now tutoring high coaching executives prior to and Walsh University. She has school chemistry and designing/ their international assignments. Bruce Purdy ’69 sends greetings practiced physical therapy in building hi-fi and guitar amplifiers For 10 years, she volunteered to all his OWU classmates from a variety of areas: acute care, and speakers. many hours in the community of sunny Palm Springs, Calif., where cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, Darien, Conn., while her world for the last 18 years he and his skilled rehabilitation, seating Jane Ayres Welsheimer ’69 and travels continued. In 2016 she husband, Barrett Shepard, have specialist, nursing homes, George Welsheimer ’66 moved remarried and was widowed spent the winter months. Now orthopedics, and neurology. to the Cincinnati area to teach in 2018. She currently lives in both semi-retired, they work She has traveled to a variety of after graduation. From there they Millbrook, N.Y., and her retired life on philanthropic endeavors as places, including Alaska, Egypt, moved back to Jane’s hometown revolves around family, friends, board members of several desert Europe, and South America, of Bellefontaine, Ohio. George travel, and hobbies. organizations, travel the world, including Machu Picchu in Peru. continued to teach while Jane and build their contemporary stayed home with their two boys, Peter Chase ’74 earned a art collection. Mentored by Dr. S. Michael Scadron ’69 is Brett and Ty. Eventually they master’s in international business Butler Jones at OWU, Purdy then a retired senior trial counsel bought her father’s insurance studies from the University of went to graduate school at the with the U.S. Department of agency, which they ran for six South Carolina. His 25-year University of Maryland and built Justice with a background in years. Then they went back marriage to Lise Uptegrove his career working internationally civil rights and tort law. Since to teaching, from which they Chase ’74 resulted in three on urban development and his retirement in 2006, he has retired. They are now enjoying sons: Matthew, Timothy, and planning initiatives in developing turned to writing. An avid runner many activities that they did Andrew Chase ’07, and five

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grandchildren. Chase spent 32 lessons; his teacher is Peter manager. She enjoys traveling, regulatory issues. He serves years at the Colgate Palmolive Maravell (who was an original, power walking, yoga, dancing, as an independent director of Co. in international marketing, and the youngest, member of the volunteering, cat mothering, LF Capital Acquisition and still living with his family overseas for Robert Shaw Chorale). theater and sporting events, and plays in his high school band, 16 years. In 2009, he married Dan a rich network of friends. Reach F.O.G. Wilson has received three Robinson of Scotch Plains, N.J. Lorraine Farquhar ’74 reports her at [email protected]. awards from the Fairfax County They are enjoying retirement with that retirement came too soon, History Commission for his summers in East Hampton, N.Y., as a career in medical center and Christine Warburton Ramsay research and books on Civil War and winters in Fort Lauderdale, college fundraising hit a wall in ’74 is still a partner with the history; his most recent book Fla. They travel extensively and the 2009 recession. She enjoys recruiting firm Corporate is The Adventures of Jonathan enjoy their growing families. living in Ardmore, a suburb of Resources, where she Roberts: The Union’s Quaker Chase joined the Alumni Board Philadelphia, and doesn’t get specializes in automotive and Scout in Northern Virginia, 1861- in 2017 as director. In 2007, to Ohio much these days. She pharmaceutical placements 1865. He plans to pursue his he established a scholarship sends greetings and best wishes of mid- to upper-management passions for travel, corporate endowment in the name of his to her classmates. candidates. She is still an active governance, history, and politics. late father, Dr. John N. Chase volunteer within her immediate Originally from Ravenna, Ohio, ’49, who taught zoology at OWU Chris Knisely ’74 serves as community as well as at different Greg lives with his wife, Barbara from 1955 to 1974 and served president of the Athens City organizations throughout the Buchanan, in Great Falls, Va. as provost from 1975 until his Council in Athens, Ohio. She’s greater Cincinnati area, including untimely death in 1977. been a City Council member raising money for Children’s Mary Wood-Constable ’74 lives since 2010 and council president Hospital, the Gamma Phi Beta with husband Jim Constable Jim Diem ’74 has been a since 2014. She is also involved Alumnae group, Wyoming Public in Cincinnati, where she school bus driver for 28 years in several Ohio University Schools, and several charitable continues to see several OWU in Michigan, as well as a campus/community endeavors, organizations and events. Music Department friends! photographer, reporter, editor, including the Healthy Campus/ She received a master’s in and publisher of the weekly Community Coalition and the OU Barbara McEachern Smith ’74, a flute performance from the Newberry News since 1989. President’s Commission on the college professor emeritus, and University of Cincinnati College- He and his wife Nancy live in the Status of Women. her retired husband Morton Pete Conservatory of Music and great white north in Newberry, Smith ’71 have been blessed spent a decade as a teacher and Mich., where you have to travel Tremper Longman ’74 retired by God with two sons and two freelance flutist. After time at 70 miles to find the nearest in 2017 as the Robert H. Gundry beautiful grandchildren. Barbara home with son Will and daughter traffic light, next door to the Professor of Biblical Studies has spent the majority of her Julia, she transitioned to the field second largest waterfall east of at Westmont College in Santa retirement in service with Church of nonprofit fund development. the Mississippi River, the Upper Barbara, Calif., and is now in the Circle (formerly First United Wood-Constable has spent Tahquamenon Falls. They have distinguished scholar and Methodist Church of Cleveland). many hours on various volunteer three children. professor emeritus. He and his The Children’s Defense Fund committees and boards, wife, Alice Scheetz Longman Freedom Schools has been a especially Women Writing for (a) Marie Eslinger ’74 and Robert ’75, then moved to Alexandria, fantastic use of her energy as Change. She continues to work (“Red”) B.G. Horowitz ’74 have Va., to be closer to their three project director, consultant, and part-time, writes a little poetry, been married for 43 years and sons and six granddaughters. evaluator for a little more than 10 and enjoys reading, music, live in Manhasset, N.Y. They have Tremper continues to lecture years. She is on the boards gardening, and the outdoors. three sons. Marie received a and write; his most recent book of the Jordan Community master’s in psychology from the is Old Testament Controversies: Resource Center and Lakewood Richard Kelley ’75 retired in University of Miami in 1977. She Pressing Questions About College. Barbara lives in Shaker March as president and general is president of the education- Evolution, Sexuality, History Heights, Ohio. manager of KNSD-TV NBC 7 focused Smalley Foundation, and Violence (Baker: 2019). and KUAN Telemundo 20 in San founded in 1965. The foundation He has also written a series of Helen “Cookie” Baker Diego. Kelley’s career included was happy to establish two books with Dan Allender ’74, a Sunkle ’74 is in her 31st year 44 years in the broadcasting scholarships for OWU students. psychologist living in Seattle. with Denison University in industry. He plans to remain at Previously, she was president Granville, Ohio, where she is his Point Loma, Calif., home and of Eslinger Associates, a legal Jennifer Gross Peterson ’74 the assistant to the director of do consulting and volunteering in consulting company. Robert went has lived in Eugene, Ore., for the Lisska Center for Scholarly the local community. to law school at the University 43 years, where she moved Engagement, which oversees of Miami, graduating with a J.D. from Minnesota shortly after her the summer research program Michael Jordan ’76, of Jordan degree in 1977. He practices marriage to Kent D. Peterson and assists students applying Resolutions, LLC, was named intellectual property law in New in 1975. Kent was a commercial for prestigious national and “Mediator of the Year” by York City and has been a partner photographer who unfortunately international fellowships such “Best Lawyers in America” with BakerHostetler for 11 years. passed away in 2010 from as Fulbright and Truman, among for 2019. Only one attorney in Classmates may remember cancer. They were avid cyclists, other things. She plans to retire each specialty in each region that he was very active in the racing and touring on single in 2020 and spend time with her is selected for the list. He was OWU Music Department, and bikes and tandem. Jennifer new grandson, Milo, who lives in also designated as an “Ohio he continues his love of music received her master’s in library Chicago, and do some Super Lawyer.” His debut novel, as a classical tenor soloist in science in 1978 and spent other traveling. The Company of Demons, was his church choir and in a choir her career at the Springfield, released in January 2018 by the he started 30 years ago that Ore., Public Library, retiring Greg Wilson ’74 retired after Greenleaf Book Group. performs annual Christmas from full-time work in 2009 as 40-plus years consulting on concerts. He still takes voice adult services and reference financial services policy and

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Tracey Hooper Abby-White ’78 preparedness Innovation. She the medical director of the are delightful! Walking on the was elected chairperson of the travels a lot. Her husband is a Mercyhealth Lung and Sleep beach is great. The downside of Brookdale Community College retired European patent attorney, Centers in Janesville, Wis. Most island living is when hurricanes (Lincroft, N.J.) Board of Trustees. and they have three grown, importantly, he has a son, Cass, come calling. Hurricane Florence Her love for education and married children. Their son lives and a daughter, Cameron, who was nearly a direct hit. Her island service grew expediently while five minutes away with his wife make it all worthwhile. held up fairly well. She lost a attending OWU. and their first grandchild, Ana. huge pine tree that fell across They love the beach, traveling, Phyllis Hegeman ’79 had her yard instead of on her house. Kate Hahn Asbeck ’79 retired and seeing family and friends. an incredibly wonderful time She was so lucky and thankful! in 2016 from the Cleveland traveling across the country Foundation, where she served Joan Fuhrer Baxter ’79 lives in with OWU friends in the fall after Carolea Graf Radke ’79 is loving as CFO for six years. Previously, Galloway, N.J., but has moved graduation, down the West Coast life! She fills her time in Inverness, she was senior vice president of six times to six states since 1979. from Canada to Mexico and Fla., with golf and travels often finance at Corning Incorporated She met her husband Rick in Los over the Rockies, camping and on weekends to attend her and lived and worked in Corning, Angeles in 1980 and they were hiking in national parks. She felt daughter’s swim meets. Her N.Y., for 20 years. She is currently married in 1985. They have two most drawn to the ocean, so she twins, Karlea and Brett, are now on the boards of directors of children, Alison (Queens, N.Y.) went to live for 13 years in San 15. Brett is big-time into bowling. several nonprofit organizations, and Nick (Margate, N.J.). Joan Diego. During her last six years Radke is still self-employed as including Jumpstart and Planned spent more than 30 years in the there, she ran a public jazz radio a credit-card processor and Parenthood of Greater Ohio. retail industry, first as a buyer for station and performed on flute. loves it. She recently organized Kate and her husband Richard the Broadway Department Store, In the ’90s she spent quite a few a fundraiser for her kids’ high live in Brecksville, Ohio. She is then in managerial positions years traveling around the world school band to raise money for the “goody aunt” to 14 nieces for specialty and department exploring. She landed in Nevada new instruments. Friends and and nephews and enjoys travel, stores. She also spent 10 years City, Calif. classmates are welcome to email hiking, cooking, and reading. as a retail coordinator for Ralph her: [email protected] Lauren. She currently enjoys John Joseph ’79, a member Nadine Pastolove Baccellieri working in the records office of of the Class of ’79 reunion Linda Meredith Winters ’79 has ’79, of Roslyn, N.Y., got her her local police department. She committee, lives in Naperville, lived in central Ohio since 1990 master’s in judicial administration enjoys the Jersey shore, visiting Ill. After a career in marketing and recently downsized her living followed by her law degree. her daughter in New York City, and operations, Joseph space when her husband retired. She practiced law for 10 years and joining her husband on his taught for two years at North She continues working as a full- before becoming a stay-at-home travels as a college bookstore Central College in Naperville time nurse and plans to retire in mom. She is now a professional salesman. and helped the school launch 2022. She and her husband have volunteer. She has two an entrepreneurial center. four kids — the youngest two in daughters. Emma graduated from Jim Brown ’79 is living the good He is now semi-retired and Worthington and Bexley, Ohio. Duke and is a writer for Sports life in Dublin, Ohio. He has been provides consulting services The older two live in Seattle Illustrated. Olivia is a junior at married to the same wonderful to entrepreneurs and SMBs as and Jackson, Wyo. They have the University of Vermont and lady for 33 years this June. They well as career transformation two grandkids: Maggie, age 5 in is studying in Sydney, Australia. are blessed with three great coaching. Seattle, and Nora, born Dec. 23, Nadine’s husband Paul will retire kids, and their first grandchild in Worthington. in June, and they plan to move was born in February. After Candy Caldwell Kennedy ’79 back to North Carolina. This time OWU, he received his master’s in and her husband, Doug Kennedy Karen McCredie Zaretzky they’ll be in Holly Springs in statistics at Bowling Green State ’77, have lived in in Dublin, Ohio, ’79 and her husband Ron live 12 Oaks. University, where he met his wife. since 1986. Doug is a partner in Mendon, Vt., and commute Jobs and family required them in a law firm, and Candy keeps weekly into New York City for Allyson “Pookie” Sternad Hotz to move to and from Chicago. busy with three part-time jobs Ron’s job. Karen takes advantage ’79 lives in Devon, Pa., outside of He has had several careers in in insurance and finance. They of the arts in the city and attends Philadelphia. She is married with different industries, most recently became first-time grandparents weekly Broadway shows; after three girls and one son-in-law at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. to a little boy in March 2018, a waiting nine months, she got a who are living in Seattle, Boston, He still follows the Buckeyes milestone experience brought seat to the original Hamilton for and Philadelphia. She works with and Browns and enjoys golf. He to them by their daughter Kate $99! Karen runs a corporate gift the Main Line Health System enjoys learning and making a and son-in-law Ryan, who live in and award company, working as a community health and difference every day. Haymarket, Va. Their son Conor, with Fortune 500 companies. wellness educator. of Columbus, will wed his fiancee She travels annually overseas Robert Cook ’79 attended Hannah in September. to destinations such as South Julie Barnes-Weise ’79, of the Ohio State University Africa, Japan, Vietnam, and Durham, N.C., was a lawyer College of Medicine, followed Sandra Hickson Noll ’79, Europe. New Zealand and and a businessperson in the by postgraduate training at B.S.N., R.N., M.S.N., C.N.O.R., Thailand are on her agenda pharmaceutical industry for Barnes Hospital in St. Louis retired after 37 years as a nurse, for 2019. decades, but made a change and the University of Colorado educator, director, and computer and started teaching at Duke in Denver. After completing a nurse. She moved from Dublin, University. Her experience at research fellowship in pulmonary Ohio, to Oak Island, N.C. She 1980s Duke led her to found a health and critical care medicine, he loves the weather, water, and Paul Golitz ’84 headed back nonprofit company, Global Health served as an assistant professor being near her daughter, son- to Chicago after OWU. He lives Innovation Alliance Accelerator of medicine at the University in-law, and two grandcats. She with his wife and three daughters (www.ghiaa.org), and to consult of Colorado until 1996. For the volunteers in local schools to four blocks from historic Wrigley for the Coalition for Epidemic past 23 years he has been help with reading skills. The kids Field in a century-old greystone

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flat they converted into a single- her nearly 40 years ago. She is Mana Nabeshima Tokoi ’89 skills learned at OWU. She family home. It’s been fun raising grateful for the opportunity to went to Columbia University’s lives in Fairlawn, Ohio, with her three city girls; they’ve had a build relationships with students, School of International & Public husband of five years and their wonderful time taking advantage staff, and alumni. Affairs right after OWU, thanks dog, Chewie. of all that Chicago has to offer. to Hiroshi Matsui ’89. She got Working in the high-tech field Tammy Fergus Harvey ’89 her master’s and M.R.S. and Jennifer Erschen Chaggaris ’94 his entire career has been and her husband Scott recently is blessed with three children. lives in Washington, D.C., with her intellectually challenging with relocated to Bethel, Maine, where The last one just became a husband Steve and son Peter. every day being different. He has their youngest daughter, Sadie, is teenager, so Mana is still working Chaggaris earned an M.B.A. from been fortunate to work with great a sophomore at Gould Academy. in the banking industry. She has George Washington University people, travel the world, and Their oldest daughter, Mia, will worked for Citibank, Goldman and began a career consulting enjoy a high quality of life. graduate from Washington & Lee Sachs, and now at DBS. for the federal government. Since in May, the same weekend as October 2017, she has been Todd Griesman ’84 finds it hard the OWU reunion, so they won’t managing director for a woman- to believe, but his oldest child is be able to attend. Their son, Will, 1990s owned small business providing preparing to look at colleges, and attends Northeastern University. Doug Pierson ’92 was promoted management consulting services. the youngest isn’t that far behind. After graduation, Tammy had a to brigadier general in the Marine She regularly sees many OWU Both he and his wife Emily have fun career in book publishing but Corps in July 2018. friends and has an annual new jobs, at LDI Color Toolbox put that on hold to raise the kids. tradition of a summer weekend and Equinix, respectively. Todd’s More recently, she has worked Emily Barber Bowman ’94 and with Anne Snyder deLeeuw ’94, website, NYCcopierGUY.com, at a local farm and now at a craft her husband Edwin have lived Jennifer Birkmeyer Sittason ’94, was recently updated with a new beer store. Scott and Tammy in Suwanee, Ga. (just outside of Coleen Nicol Gatehouse ’94, look and tons of information. love to ski, hike, run, and Atlanta) for 17 years and don’t and Susan Hathaway ’94. The couple continues to live in mountain-bike. miss Ohio winters. They have New York City, but the next move three kids: Edwin IV (15), Justin Shandelle Wertz Girdley ’94 is beginning to creep into the Kimberly Crawford McConville (14), and Sydney (11). Emily left and her husband Michael have conversation. Life has thrown a ’89 still works in her major as a the corporate world in 2008 lived in San Antonio since 2003. few health scares into the mix, lobbyist and trade association and now stays at home full-time. They have two children, Seth (13) including cancer, gangrene, executive. She represents She keeps busy volunteering and Drew (10). Before moving sepsis, and heart issues, but all Ohio’s non-alcoholic beverage with the PTA and running their to Texas, Shandelle lived in San seem to be resolved and Todd industry. And she found time to kids to baseball, basketball, and Francisco and Columbus. The cannot complain. Suffering get married, have a wonderful cheerleading. While they love to OWU English and journalism is optional! son who is now old enough to travel, they cherish family time in departments launched her hear more of her college stories the summer on Lake Lanier. into several communications Carrie Harris ’84 is serving (“Mom, the ’80s sound off the positions with nonprofit organizations and dot-com on the committee for her 35th chain!”), and be single again. Jennifer Montgomery Burgess companies. After running her class reunion, which will be All while still listening to First ’94 says that despite menopause own e-commerce business for part of Reunion Weekend 2019 Amendment music, rocking shenanigans and a touch of a midlife crisis, life is good and 12 years and selling it in 2016, on campus May 17-19. She high heels, and making a life in encourages her classmates she can’t complain. Her husband Shandelle is now active with Westerville, Ohio. Now, if only La to register now for all the fun Bob retired from his active duty several nonprofit organizations, Za still delivered and accepted events and class dinner at owu. USMC career, and they are now family, and travel. She especially her old ValaDine card. edu/2019rw. She is a retired settled in Delaware (state, not looks forward to an annual girls schoolteacher and a competitive town), where they are raising weekend with eight other OWU ballroom dancer living in Barbara Bredefeld Meyer ’89, their 11-year-old son, Cooper. Delta Zeta sisters! Worthington, Ohio. Her father, Ed.D., lives in Normal, Ill., and Jennifer’s contribution to the Bill Harris ’45, is among many works at Illinois State University world at large is the occasional Molly Kuhlman Haberbusch ’94 of her family members who also as associate dean for research pretty photograph, sparkly has moved around a lot since attended OWU. in the College of Education piece of handmade jewelry, or graduation and made several and associate professor in the a watercolor painting. And she career and job changes. She is Sheila Fagan Plecha ’84 School of Teaching & Learning. survives it all thanks to her OWU now settled into life in Clinton, became a paralegal in 2013 after She teaches secondary- Girls (they know who they are!). N.Y. She works part-time at a traveling the country for 20 years teacher education issues and community college in the Center as a corporate wife in charge of methods. Her son, Andrew, will Marcia Campo ’94 has remained for Corporate and Community relocation. She has served on be a freshman at Illinois State in northeastern Ohio since Education and also teaches as an the Alumni Board at OWU since University in the fall, majoring graduation, working in sales adjunct. Working part-time keeps 2006 and as president of the in exercise science, and he has for several industries, including her busy and provides time to Alumni Association from 2016 signed to play hockey for the ISU advertising, lawn care, and cart her daughter around for to 2019. She’s been married to Redbirds. Barb serves on the tourism. Currently she is the after-school activities. The rest John Plecha ’86 for 31 years; executive board of Kappa Delta national sales executive with of the time she tries to figure out they’re the parents of two Pi International Honor Society a medical imaging company how much wine she can drink to daughters, and are planning one in Education and is co-chair focusing on MRI and CT survive the tween years and still wedding for November 2019. of its International Committee. modalities. She also spends her fit into her pants. They live in Oxford, Mich., but are Her current research interests time volunteering with her local considering moving to Chicago. include laboratory schools hospice, writing legacy stories Kimberly Boggs Hull ’94 has Sheila still appreciates the gift and scholarship of teaching for patients and their families, two daughters, ages 16 and 18. of OWU that her parents gave and learning. which helps her utilize writing If you don’t see her at Reunion

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Weekend, it’s because Ellie’s the pleasure of running Oregon’s master’s in government and J.D. Sarah Ressler Wright ’99, 20 graduation is on May 18. Bad largest winery, A to Z Wineworks. from Georgetown University. The years later, is still spending timing! She hopes to make it In her free time, she loves to primary election is in May. all her time in a library as the to campus from Dublin, Ohio, read and travel abroad, hitting Hayes High School librarian in for some of the late-night Singapore, Iceland, and Paris Rachelle Johnsson Chiang ’97 Delaware. As alter-ego “Vocab gatherings. Her family has a last year! was appointed assistant clinical Gal,” she shares strategies for great time traveling together. Yet, professor at the University of teaching vocabulary and other she always looks forward to her Carrie Lippert Reinhardt ’94 Texas at Austin, teaching in English-related skills, because yearly gathering with her sisters spent 2009-14 in St. Andrews, the public health program. She she doesn’t just want to edit her from OWU. She teaches hot yoga Scotland, while her husband, returned to school after years in roommates’ papers but help two to three times a week and Dave Reinhardt ’96, pursued the field to earn her doctorate of everyone learn how to write volunteers in the schools and at his Ph.D. While there, they public health in health policy and accurately with big words. With church. She’s finishing her duties welcomed two girls, Molly (9) management from the University husband Chad and their two kids, as junior warden at church. She and Abigail (6). Since returning of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in Huxley (11) and Rosalind (7), she is just about ready for that next to the States in 2014, they’ve 2017. In a recent article for the goes on many adventures when challenge, whatever it may be. made Davidson, N.C., their University of Texas at Austin not at home in Lewis Center, home, and Carrie has returned about first-generation students, Ohio, where she loves to listen Shannon Marsh McClure ’94 to working with InterVarsity she credits OWU for helping give to audiobooks and organize; yes, lives in Morro Bay, Calif., with Christian Fellowship as a regional her a new vision of the world, she’s still a proud, nerdy her 15-year-old daughter administrator in the Carolinas. mentioning sociology Professor Delta Zeta. Madelyn and many pets. She She has also enjoyed being back Akbar Mahdi as a particularly owns a sweet shop in nearby at OWU more often as part of the influential mentor and friend. Cambria. Stop in if you’re ever Alumni Board. 2000s traveling on Highway 1 along the Alvin Conley ’99, originally from Corey Fesenmyer ’03 published California coast. Alison “Ali” Martin Turner ’94 Cleveland, headed to Dallas after her new book, Blessed, Beautiful and her husband Mike live in graduation to start his teaching Now, a heartwarming collection Michael Palumbo ’94 continues Powell, Ohio, with their two teen career. He interviewed through a of essays compiled from a his practice in allergy and daughters. The past 25 years job fair and accepted a position series of posts on her blog, “The immunology in the South Hills of have included grad school, over the phone without even Nostalgia Diaries.” The book Pittsburgh, where he lives with working during her 20s, and visiting the school. His plan was follows her yearlong journey his wife and three children. He spending her 30s as a stay- to return home after a couple — with her daughter providing sees adult and pediatric patients at-home mom (her best days!). years; however, 20 years later he remarkable insight along the and oversees an active research As an economics/politics and is still in Texas and loving it. He way — as she navigates the department participating in government major, she joked that has since moved into education complexities of her unexpected ongoing nationwide trials. her dream job was “Julie McCoy administration and serves as a life after divorce. Fesenmyer’s He is currently president of the from The Love Boat.” That path school principal. This summer he website is coreywheeland.com. Pennsylvania Allergy and Asthma took a few turns, but she is now will finally marry his partner of 20 Association. very fulfilled as owner of Powell years with whom he shares three Jada Hamilton ’04, Ph.D., Travel and Tours. She helps beautiful daughters. M.P.H., originally from New Katy Herron Piazza ’94 lives in clients plan vacations and host Philadelphia, Ohio, lives in New Weston, Conn., with her husband, group trips, and she loves it. One Karla Chipelo McClain ’99 is York City with her husband, Dr. cat, dog, and two sons, ages 9 of the best perks: reconnecting teaching vocal music at Irving Victor Luna. She is an assistant and 11. After earning an M.P.A. with OWU friends. And the Robbins Middle School and East attending psychologist in the and working in Cleveland from family adventures: Europe, the Farms School in Farmington, Department of Psychiatry Conn. She is also the director 1994 through 2003, she attended Caribbean, Alaska, and Disney and Behavioral Sciences and of Canticum Choir, part of the seminary in New York City. From resorts. Mom/wife/travel Department of Medicine at Connecticut Children’s Chorus there she served as an Episcopal agent... funny where the path Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer at the University of Hartford priest in Larchmont, N.Y., until the of life leads! Center, where she leads a Community Division. She has her family’s move to Weston. For a program of behavioral research National Board Certification in couple of years she attempted Chris Tweddle ’94 is a member to translate advances in genetic early adolescent and young adult stay-at-home parenthood with of the mathematics faculty at and genomic medicine into music education. In addition, some stints doing interim and Governors State University in improved cancer care. Having she is the assistant director of supply work for the Diocese the Chicago area, where he was been a member of the Alpha Laurel Music Camp. She lives of New York. Since 2015, she’s recently appointed associate Rho chapter of Delta Zeta while in Cromwell, Conn., with her been the solo half-time priest director of general education. at OWU, Hamilton was recently husband Scott and children Lori for a small church around the He and his wife Sara (University recognized with the 35 Under 35 and Hunter. corner from the home they of Southern Indiana ’05) live in Alumnae Award from the national bought five years before she Oak Forest, Ill. Delta Zeta Sorority. Mary Rose Rice ’99 graduated even considered it as a place of from Ohio State College of Brenna Shull ’04 has lived in employment. Overall, life is good! Jacquie Jones ’96 announced Veterinary Medicine in 2017. She Annapolis, Md., since May 2014. her candidacy for judge of the is currently working in Indiana, She is head trainer and massage Amy Prosenjak ’94 has lived Common Court of Pleas of and she married Agnes Wong in therapist at Kicked UP Fitness. in Oregon for the past 12 years Delaware County, Pa. Jones is a 2017. They love to travel and hike She has been working in the with her husband Steve and their defense and family law attorney with their two dogs. million-dollar dog. They love life in the private practice of Jones health and wellness field full-time on the West Coast, and she has & Associates Law, PC. She has a since moving to Annapolis five

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years ago. She is a certified Cleveland and seeing their giving day campaign and led North New Portland, Maine. personal trainer, via the National old SLU housemates from a transition to a new database They are now Zac and Frida Academy of Sports Medicine, OWU frequently. management system. In January, Smith-Hess. licensed massage therapist, and he accepted the position certified fascial stretch therapist. Melissa Demarest Ruggiero ’09 of development database Births moved to Spain for two years coordinator at Playhouse Square, Amy Kreps Shreve ’04, from after graduation to teach English the country’s largest performing 2000s as a second language. She now arts center outside of New York. Cincinnati, has spent 13 years Sarah Lahmon Lynch ’07 and lives in Denver with her husband, He also serves on the board working for churches in Illinois Robert Lynch ’08 welcomed Mark Ruggiero. The two got of YNPN Cleveland, the city’s and Kentucky directing youth, their second daughter, Audrey married in their hometown chapter of the Young Nonprofit children, and family ministries. Judith Lynch, on Aug. 15. Audrey of Amherst, N.H., in October Professionals Network. Much of that time was near joins big sister Sydney Gloria. the University of Illinois while 2015 and are expecting their first child this May! Melissa has Alyssa Carothers ’14 spent her husband earned his Ph.D. Cody Hatfield ’08 and Julia in entomology. Currently, been working as an admissions about a year back home in Asheville, N.C., after graduation, Prince Hatfield ’06 welcomed she works for a United counselor at Regis University interning at the WNC Nature son Grady James Hatfield Methodist Conference in Illinois since moving to Denver, where Center while applying for on Oct. 29. He joins big coordinating college and young she earned her master of arts zookeeper jobs. She now lives brother Owen. adult ministry. She will complete degree in adult education and corporate training in May 2018. in Cary, N.C., and works as a her master’s in nonprofit laboratory animal technician at Amanda Zechiel Keiber ’09 and administration in August. She Jenna Sroka Smith ’09 earned the NCSU College of Veterinary her husband Jason welcomed lives in Belleville, Ill., with her Medicine, where she supports their second son, Elliot Allen spouse (a biology professor), a doctorate in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve scientific research by providing Keiber, on Dec. 27. Elliot joins big 7-year-old daughter, and 6-year- husbandry for animals used in brother Beckett. old son. In any free time, she’s a University in Cleveland in 2015. During that time, she studies and for training veterinary Girl Scout leader, explores local was also involved in STEM students. She can’t think of a attractions, and gets outdoors. education outreach, working and better job than working with a 2010s volunteering with students in wide variety of animals, especially Dre White ’14 and fianceeEmily Amanda Winter Covey ’09, grade school, high school, and when she gets to do it alongside Stewart ’14 welcomed son of Dublin, Ohio, worked as a college. She has since relocated goofy co-workers who love Landry Michael on July 27. keeper with the pachyderms to central Illinois to teach biology critters as much as she does. at the Columbus Zoo after to undergraduate students as graduation. Following an exciting an assistant professor at Millikin Olivia Gillison ’14 returned home In Memoriam trip to Sydney, Australia, she University. She and her husband, to Philadelphia after graduation met and married James Covey Trevor Smith, have been married and started working for the city’s 1930s in Columbus. They have three for almost eight years and have a Office of Special Events. Over children, ages 2, 4, and 6. She’s the past five years, she’s helped Mary “Peg” Pengande Haapa golden retriever named Rey. ’39, of Windsor, Calif., Nov. 8, at currently in her second term implement the Zero Waste the age of 101. She was as president of MOMS Club Events Initiative and has had the predeceased by her husband of Dublin, a support group for 2010s opportunity to work on numerous Arvo “Hop” Haapa, parents, stay-at-home moms. A few years large-scale events: the 2015 Sarah Bonnet ’10 is engaged to and sisters, including Bonnie ago she opened an Etsy shop Joel Palko. Bonnet is completing World Meeting of Families (the pope’s visit), the 2015 and 2018 Pergande Holby ’47. She met called Crafty Covey Designs a radiology residency at Ohio her husband while both were for her mixed-media art pieces, State University’s Wexner Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the 2016 DNC reporters for the Columbus and joined the Dublin Area Medical Center and will begin Citizen newspaper. During World Art League. Her photograph a women’s imaging fellowship Convention, the 2017 NFL Draft, and the 2018 Eagles Super Bowl War II, Peg ran American Red “Poulnabrone” won second place at the University of Pittsburgh Cross clubs in England, France, in the league’s juried Irish show Medical Center Magee-Women’s LII Parade, to name a few. She’s excited to see what lies ahead as and Germany. As a single young in 2018. Hospital. An August wedding woman, she crisscrossed war-torn is planned. she looks for new opportunities to develop and share her Europe and even hid out with the Louisa Hoffman ’09 graduated French Resistance to date Hop, Sarah Ingles ’11 is an attorney knowledge with others. from Indiana University with a a US Army Captain stationed master’s in library science in 2011 with Barkan, Meizlish, DeRose, Wentz, McInerny and Pfiefer Alex Lothstein ’15 and Jenny in Germany. After the war, they and has been employed in the started the Ensign newspaper Oberlin College Archives since in Columbus, where she has Ripper ’14 got engaged in May worked as a law clerk for the past 2018 in Estonia. Ripper is the in Orange County, Calif., “The then. She and Andrew Stewart couple of years. granddaughter of emeritus Official Newspaper of the City of ’09 were married in 2014 and Professor Dick Smith and Betty Newport Beach.” She is survived bought a house in the Cudell Jason Bogdany ’14, who Jackson Smith ’52. She is the by two daughters and multiple neighborhood of Cleveland lives in Cleveland, completed grandniece of David Smith ’53. grandchildren and was a member in 2015. Andrew has been the Cleveland Play House of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. employed at Oberlin College apprenticeship program in Marriages since 2018, working in printing 2015. He spent the next three services. They have a rescue years working in development 1940s dog and also enjoy the company there to support its fundraising 2010s Annabelle Wade Shepherd of their parrot, chinchilla, and efforts. He launched the Frida Hess ’14 and Zac Smith ’14 ’40, of Concord, Mass., Oct. 3, turtle. They enjoy living in theater’s first 24-hour online were married on Sept. 3, 2017, in at the age of 99. She is survived

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by four children and multiple Margaret “Peggy” Shaffer the age of 95. Stebbins was husband, three children, and grandchildren. Shepherd Schwoegler ’43, of Milwaukee, predeceased by her parents, her multiple grandchildren. was a member of the OWU Dec. 6, at the age of 97. She was husband, and a grandson. She Tower Society and Delta predeceased by her husband, is survived by five children and Jack Cox ’48, of Cridersville, Gamma sorority. parents, two brothers, and two multiple grandchildren. She was Ohio, Oct. 8, at the age of 93. half brothers. She was a member a member of Alpha Gamma He was predeceased by his of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Delta sorority. wife, Mary Jo “Jodie” Miller Cox ’49, and a sister. He is survived Marjorie Jewell Brentlinger Nancy Wright Wilson ’45, of by a brother, four children, and ’44, of Mansfield, Texas, Oct. Dallas, Dec. 30, at the age of multiple grandchildren and 2, at the age of 96. She was 95. She was predeceased by great-grandchildren. Cox was predeceased by her husband, her husband, Thomas Wilson a member of Phi Kappa Psi Robert Brentlinger ’44, mother, ’47, and a granddaughter. She is fraternity. father Arthur Jewell 1918, and survived by three children and a sister, H. Josephine Jewell multiple grandchildren. Wilson Edward Rosino Jr. ’48, of Gantt ’41. She is survived by was a member of Delta Delta Sandusky, Ohio, Jan. 2, at the a brother, five children and Delta sorority. age of 95. He was predeceased multiple grandchildren, and was by his parents, wife, sister, and a member of Delta Delta William Dykins ’46, of Sebring, two children. He is survived Delta sorority. Ohio, Oct. 27, at the age of 94. by two children, including He was predeceased by a son, John Rosino ’74, and multiple Janet Beam Detmer ’44, of his parents, and a sister. He is grandchildren, including Michael Mount Vernon, Ohio, Oct. 15, . He was a member of survived by his wife and a son. Rosino ’08 Emily Wendt Akerstrom ’41, at the age of 96. She was Delta Tau Delta fraternity. predeceased by her father and of Granville and Macedonia, Doris “Dee” Weber Stewart her mother, Vesta Stephan Patricia Snyder Held ’49, of Ohio, Jan. 20, at the age of ’46, of Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. Beam 1909. She is survived Largo, Fla., Jan. 4, at the age of 99. She was predeceased by 8, at the age of 93. Stewart is by two daughters and multiple 92. She was predeceased by her husband, John Akerstrom survived by a son, daughter, and grandchildren and was a member her husband and is survived ’41, and a son. She is survived of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. multiple grandchildren. She was by two daughters and three by four children and multiple a member of Delta Delta Delta grandchildren. grandchildren. Akerstrom was Janet Lynn McCoy ’44, of sorority. a member of Alpha Chi Omega Seminole, Fla., Nov. 11, at the age Helen Kepner Maurer ’49, of sorority. of 95. She was predeceased by John Estepp ’47, of Rosemount, Dublin, Ohio, Nov. 14, at the age her husband E. Jason McCoy, Ohio, Oct. 5, at the age of 94. of 91. She was predeceased Sara “Peggy” Boyd Beard ’41, of a V-12 student at OWU in 1943, Estepp was predeceased by by her father and her mother, Decatur, Ga., Sept. 20, at the age a brother, and parents. She his wife. He is survived by two Martha Nay Kepner 1923. She of 98. Boyd was predeceased is survived by three children, children and was a member of is survived by her husband, by her parents and husband. including Marjorie McCoy Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Richard Maurer ’50, a sister, She is survived by four children, Mapes ’70 and Rick McCoy Elizabeth Kepner Hardesty including Jeff Beard ’72, and ’72, and multiple grandchildren. Betty Lee Langhout ’47, of ’51, a brother, two children, and multiple grandchildren. She McCoy was a member of Chi Huntsville, Ala., Oct. 13, at the multiple grandchildren. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Omega sorority. age of 93. She was predeceased was a member of Kappa Kappa Theta sorority. by her husband and son. She is Gamma sorority. Mary Alice Wright Burwell ’45, survived by three children and Harriet Gerstner Leland ’41, of of Louisville, Ky., Oct. 21, at the multiple grandchildren. Donald Jack Watkins ’49, of Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 5, at the age age of 95. She was predeceased Langhout was a member of Upper Arlington, Ohio, Jan. of 99. She was predeceased by by her husband and her parents. Chi Omega sorority. 18, at the age of 94. He was two sisters, one of whom was She is survived by her sister, predeceased by his mother and Charlotte Gerstner Campbell Doris Wright Krigbaum ’41, Doris Hunter Mauck ’47, of father, Donald Watkins 1918, his ’35, her husband, and a son. She four children, and multiple Sebring, Ohio, Dec. 10, at the age wife, Dorothy Gerlach Watkins is survived by a daughter. Leland grandchildren. Burwell was a of 93. Mauck was predeceased ’49, and a brother, William was a member of Delta Gamma member of Alpha Gamma by her husband, Donald Mauck Watkins ’43. He is survived sorority. Delta sorority. ’49, and a brother, Harold by a daughter and multiple Hunter ’45. She is survived grandchildren. He was a member Alice Hendricks Rohrer ’43, of Barbara Hansen Cummings by a brother, Robert Hunter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. North Vernon, Ind., Jan. 23, at the ’45, of Woburn, Mass., Dec. 6, ’43, three daughters, including age of 95. She was predeceased at the age of 95. Cummings Marilyn Mauck West ’72 and by her father, mother Alice Truitt was predeceased by her Martha Mauck Hunter ’76, and 1950s multiple grandchildren. She was Hendricks 1921, husband, and husband and a daughter. She George Poh ’50, of Dallas, two brothers, including Louis is survived by two sons and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Nov. 11, at the age of 94. He Hendricks ’49. She is survived multiple grandchildren. She was predeceased by his wife, by four children and multiple was a member of Delta Gamma Virginia “Jinny” Mae Allen Margaret Luthy Poh ’49, and is grandchildren. Rohrer was a sorority. Warner ’47, of Venice, Fla., Jan. survived by three daughters and member of Kappa Kappa 15, at the age of 93. She was multiple grandchildren. He was Gamma sorority. Sally Coleman Stebbins ’45, predeceased by her parents and a member of Sigma Alpha of Creston, Ohio, Jan. 7, at a brother. She is survived by her Epsilon fraternity.

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Rachel Nincehelser Stockwell Theta fraternity and the OWU was a member of Delta Gamma Carol Sparks Arnold ’57, of ’51, of Sunbury, Ohio, Nov. Acapella Chorus. sorority. Dallas, Nov. 3, at the age of 83. 18, at the age of 90. She was Arnold was predeceased by predeceased by her father and Martin Sommer ’53, of Wesley Hostetler ’56, of her parents. She is survived mother, Helen McCormick Metuchen, N.J., Oct. 27, at Hertford, N.C., Oct. 7, at the age by her husband, David Arnold Nincehelser ’24, her husband, the age of 87. Sommer was of 84. He is survived by his wife, ’57, a sister, four children, and and a sister, Carol Nincehelser predeceased by his parents Carol Hostetler ’56; a sister; multiple grandchildren. She was Wirick ’52. She is survived and his first and second wives. four children, including Susan a member of Kappa Alpha by three children, including He is survived by a brother, Hostetler ’82; four stepchildren; Theta sorority. Amy Stockwell ’74, and a four children, and multiple and multiple grandchildren. He granddaughter. grandchildren. He was a member was a member of Delta Tau Delta David Crockett ’57, of Cedar of Beta Sigma Tau fraternity. fraternity. Rapids, Iowa, Dec. 14, at the age John Barclay ’52, of Westfield, of 83. He was predeceased by Mass., Dec. 23, at the age of John Stewart ’53, of Columbus, Dwight McBride ’56, of his wife, Patricia Nau Crockett 90. He was predeceased by Oct. 1, at the age of 87. He was Kannapolis, N.C., Jan. 19, at the ’57, a brother, and his parents. his parents and a brother. He predeceased by his parents, age of 85. He was predeceased He is survived by two sons. is survived by his wife, four and Eleanor Quass Stewart ’27 by his parents, brother, and Crockett was a member of the children, two brothers, and . He is W. Rolland Stewart ’26 sister. He is survived by his wife, OWU Tower Society and Beta multiple grandchildren. Barclay survived by his sister, Thomsa two daughters, and multiple Theta Pi fraternity. was a member of Delta Tau “Tommy” Stewart Haas ’56, and Delta fraternity. grandchildren. He was a member a son, Michael Stewart ’79. of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Janet Swearingen Dennis ’57, He was a member of Phi Delta of Silver Spring, Md., Jan. 20, Betty Chambers Cramer ’52, Theta fraternity. at the age of 84. Dennis was of Anderson, Ind., Dec. 10, at the William Miller ’56, of Ozark, predeceased by her parents age of 90. She was predeceased Richard Tice ’53, of Upper Mo., Dec. 9, at the age of 84. by her parents and is survived Miller was predeceased by his and husband. She is survived Arlington, Ohio, Oct. 7, at the by two children and multiple by her husband, three children, a age of 87. He was predeceased parents and is survived by his sister, three stepchildren, and a wife, three brothers, two children, grandchildren. She was a by his parents. He is survived member of Chi Omega sorority. granddaughter. by his wife and five children, three stepchildren, and multiple including Phyllis Tice Brown ’86 grandchildren. He was a member Carol Palmer Lambert ’57, of Phyllis King Fellabaum ’52, of and as well as of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Ralph Tice ’79 Ozark, Mo., Nov. 28, at the age of Findlay, Ohio, Oct. 6, at the age daughter-in-law Nancy Crump , Class of 83. She was predeceased by her of 88. She was predeceased Tice ’78, and grandchildren, Lanning Porterfield by her husband and two sons, 1956, of Huron, Ohio, Nov. 25, husband, Robert Lambert ’56, including Mason Tice ’12. Tice and her parents. She is survived and is survived by a son and served on the OWU Board of at the age of 85. Porterfield was by a brother, four children, and multiple grandchildren. She was Trustees, and was a member of predeceased by his parents and multiple grandchildren. Lambert a member of Alpha Xi Delta the OWU Tower Society and Phi a grandson. He is survived by his sorority. Gamma Delta fraternity. wife, Judith Speers Porterfield was a member of Kappa Alpha ’56, two children, and multiple Theta sorority. Jesse Upperco ’52, of Wilson, Arthur C. Mussman ’54, of grandchildren. He was a member N.C., Dec. 3, at the age of 88. Kirkland, Wash., Dec. 13, at the of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Richard O’Brien ’57, of He is survived by his wife, two age of 86. He was predeceased Streamwood, Ill., Jan. 8, at the children, a sister, and multiple by his parents and is survived by Craig Proctor ’56, of Flemington, age of 84. He was predeceased grandchildren. He was a member a daughter, a son, and two half N.J., Dec. 9, at the age of 84. by his mother and two siblings. of Beta Sigma Tau fraternity. sisters. He was a member of Phi He was predeceased by his He is survived by his wife, Delta Theta fraternity. parents and is survived by his five children, and multiple wife, Jo Lynn Watts Proctor grandchildren. O’Brien was a Celeste Youker Ferrell ’53, of , of Akron, ’57, four children, and multiple member of Chi Phi fraternity. Tucson, Ariz., in January at the Robert Hathaway ’55 Ohio, Dec. 17, at the age of 86. grandchildren. He was a member age of 86. She was predeceased Hathaway was predeceased by of Sigma Chi fraternity. Diana Cottle Gleasner ’58, of by her parents and husband, his wife, parents, and a grandson. Newton, N.C., Oct. 30, at the age Charles Ferrell ’52. She is He is survived by four sons Nancy Straub ’56, of Westlake, of 82. She was predeceased survived by three sons; three and multiple grandchildren. He Ohio, Nov. 4, at the age of 84. by her parents. She is survived sisters, Betsy Youker Taylor ’57, was a member of Kappa Sigma Straub was predeceased by by her husband, G. William Marjorie Youker Hall ’61, and fraternity. her parents and a brother. She Gleasner ’58, two children, Sarah Youker Seaman ’66; and is survived by her sister, Verna brother Ed Cottle ’68, a sister, a grandson. She was a member Sandra Rubino Paul ’55, of Ferrante (John), and several and multiple grandchildren. of Delta Gamma sorority. Columbus, Jan. 14, at the age of nieces and nephews, as well Gleasner was a member of the 95. She was predeceased by her as 11 great-nieces and great OWU Athletic Hall of Fame. James Roos ’53, of Wauseon, parents, husband, elder son, and nephews. She was a member of Ohio, Nov. 8, at the age of four siblings. She is survived by Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She spent Patricia Wright Blakely ’59, of 87. Roos was predeceased her younger son and a grandson. her entire career as a medical Pennsville, N.J., Dec. 27, at the by his parents, a son, two technologist in microbiology age of 81. She was predeceased granddaughters, and a brother, Carolyn Angilly Herr ’56, of at University Hospitals, most by her parents and is survived Thomas Roos ’55. He is survived Ridgefield, Conn., Oct. 23, of those years in a supervisory by two children, including by his wife, two children, and at the age of 84. She was position. Straub was an active Jonathan Blakely ’86, and three two siblings, Philip Roos ’60 and predeceased by her husband member of College Club granddaughters. Blakely was Kathryn Roos Meuth ’65. Roos and is survived by three sons West and Rockport United a member of Gamma Phi Beta was a member of Phi Delta and multiple grandchildren. She Methodist Church. sorority.

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Graham “Jerry” Craig ’59, of multiple grandchildren. She was Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. District. She is survived by two Rochester, Minn., Oct. 23, at the a member of Kappa Kappa Eric Johnson ’66, of Chapel Hill, brothers and their families, four age of 81. He was predeceased Gamma sorority. N.C., Nov. 7, at the age of 74. nieces and nephews and their by his parents and a brother, and Johnson was predeceased families. is survived by a brother and Mary “Kathy” Leshy Kelley ’64, by his parents and a sister. a sister. of Monrovia, Calif., Jan. 20, at the He is survived by his wife, 1970s age of 76. She was a member Margaret Moyer Johnson ’66, Cuthbert “Tubby” Thambimuttu Lois Bulkowski Harmon ’59, of of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa two children, two siblings, and West Hartford, Conn., Dec. 15, at ’70, of Columbus, Jan. 30. Kappa Gamma sorority and the multiple grandchildren. He was the age of 81. She is survived by four-student team that trounced a member of Alpha Tau Omega a brother. She was a member of Michael Adams ’72, of five colleges on the popular TV Alpha Xi Delta sorority. fraternity. Providence, R.I., June 26, at the quiz show College Bowl and age of 67. He was predeceased Russell G. Pipe ’59, of Bangkok, retired undefeated. She pursued Judith Schultz ’65, of Las by brother Jeffrey Adams ’74 Thailand, Dec. 11, at the age graduate study in medical Cruces, N.M., Oct. 3, at the age of and is survived by sister Cynthia of 81. He is survived by two science at Harvard Medical 75. She is survived by her partner Adams, mother Kathryn West siblings and his partner. He School, where she met her of 35 years and was a member of Heiskell ’47, stepfather Ted was a member of Beta Theta Pi husband of 44 years, Jonathan Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Schultz Heiskell, uncle William West fraternity. Kelley, M.D.; they divorced in was also a member of the OWU ’52, a son, a daughter, and 2011 and parted without rancor. Tower Society. grandchildren, along with other Kathy also studied law at friends and family. He was a 1960s member of Delta Tau Delta George Washington University, Marilyn Patrinka Federoff ’67, of , of fraternity. Incorrect information Anita Parrish Emery ’60 finishing at Stanford Law School Elyria, Ohio, Dec. 31, at the age Daytona Beach, Fla., on Dec. was included in the Winter issue; in Palo Alto, Calif. As she of 73. She was predeceased by 25, at the age of 80. She was we regret the errors. her husband and her parents. predeceased by her artist moved around, she remained husband. She is survived by active on the boards of local She is survived by two sons and Glenn “Chip” Dahlke ’73, of brother Donald R. Parrish ’57 nonprofits, including the YWCA multiple grandchildren. Lyme, Conn., Dec. 11, at the age and sister-in-law Molly Spring in San Jose and the Community of 67. Dahlke was predeceased Parrish ’58 and her beloved Foundation of Sierra Madre. Susan Stevenson MacNab ’68, by his father. He is survived by cats. She was a member of Alpha Kathy is survived by her sister of Payson, Ariz., Nov. 24, after a his mother, two siblings, five Xi Delta sorority. DeDe Leshy ’73 of Los Angeles, valiant battle with cancer. She children, and one grandchild. and her brother, Hastings Law was 72. MacNab was a Delta Anthony Kidd ’60, of Columbus, Professor John Leshy of San Delta Delta at OWU and went on Nancy Fong-Farmer ’78, of Nov. 26, at the age of 80. Kidd Francisco; her daughter Sarah; to receive a M.Ed. in counseling Lakewood, Ohio, Nov. 27, at the at the University of Arizona. She age of 62. She is survived by was predeceased by his parents and granddaughter Winifred, as was a behavior specialist at two children, seven siblings, and and a brother. He is survived well as numerous nieces and the Scottsdale Unified School multiple grandchildren. by two children and multiple nephews and extended family grandchildren. He was a member across the United States. The of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. family requests that memorial gifts be made to the John and William Gigax ’61, of Rockville, Charles Hartigan ’75, of Canton, Dolores King Leshy Family Adam Md., Jan. 2, at the age of 79. He Conn., Jan. 21, at the age of 65. was predeceased by his wife and Poe Endowment at OWU. He was predeceased by his is survived by his children and parents and is survived by his grandchildren. Gigax was Sharon Fairchild Soucy ’64, of wife, three sons, two brothers, a member of Tau Kappa Oberlin, Ohio, Oct. 7, at the age and multiple grandchildren. A Epsilon fraternity. of 76. She is survived by sister lacrosse player at OWU, Hartigan Nancy Fairchild Puleo ’63, her was instrumental in the formation Kyle Phillip Taylor ’61, of Winter husband, two children, and a of the OWU Legends, an alumni Park, Fla., Dec. 18, at the age grandson. She was a member of lacrosse program, in 2001. Playing of 79. He was a member of Phi Pi Beta Phi sorority. competitive lacrosse until his death, Delta Theta fraternity. He was Charlie led four teams to the World a professor of communication Thomas Fannin ’65, of East Games, and was recognized as for 35 years at the University of Liverpool, Ohio, Dec. 5, at the one of the outstanding players for years at national tournaments Central Florida in Orlando. He is age of 75. He was preceded in survived by his wife and children, in Lake Placid and Florida, where death by his parents and a sister- as well as his brother. he became deeply close to his in-law and is survived by his wife teammates and their families. He and a brother. He was a member Janet Allen Esch ’62, of will be greatly missed by his fellow Maumee, Ohio, Nov. 11, at the of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. lacrosse alumni and Legends team age of 78. She was predeceased members, for whom he was a by her husband, Raymond Esch James Goodrich ’65, of Westport, model of kindness and leadership. ’62, and sister Judith Allen Conn., Nov. 1, at the age of 75. He was a member of Beta Theta Foster ’59. She is survived by Goodrich is survived by his wife, Pi fraternity. Visit the Facebook site several siblings, including Jerry stepsons, daughter, sister, and “OWU Lacrosse Past and Present” Allen ’61, her three children, and grandson. He was a member of to read or leave a tribute to Charlie.

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Marjorie Brookens Humes, of is also survived by his wife, Michael Richards ’87 and 1980s Delaware, Ohio, Jan. 15, at the Melanie Graham, siblings Susan Barbara Richards, a member of A. Kevin Culp ’82, of Columbus, age of 88. Humes worked at and David, multiple nieces and the OWU staff, for the death of Nov. 7, at the age of 58. He is OWU from 1979 to 1985, most nephews, and a great-nephew. Michael’s father and Barbara’s survived by his wife, two sons, recently as the public services husband, Lew Richards, on Dec. parents, and four siblings, office manager. Roberta “Bobbie” Farnam Thrall 17, due to complications from including Scott Culp ’83. ’57 for the death of her daughter, Alzheimer’s disease. Judith Johns, of Delaware, Ohio, Melissa Thrall Bishop, on Dec. who worked as a secretary at 20, in Delaware, Ohio at the age Jonathan Whithaus ’91 for 2000s OWU for 20 years, Jan. 17, at the of 51. the death of his mother, Ann Joshua Fortkamp ’06, of age of 81. Whithaus, of Findlay, Ohio, Jan. Delaware, Ohio, Dec. 13, at the Anola Shrader Lauer ’68 for the 12, at the age of 83. age of 36. He is survived by James “Larry” Mench, of death of her mother on July 11, his parents. Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dec. 6, at 2012, at the age of 85, and Pooja Alag Bird ’98 and Richard the age of 78. He was a former her father on Nov. 29, 2018, Weeks Bird ’69 for the death of Faculty/Staff staff member of the OWU at the age of 95. Braden Bird, Pooja’s husband Admission office. and Richard’s son, on Oct. 31, Evelyn Baker, of Richwood, Ohio, Melinda Ruffing Schoenwald ’71 after he suffered complications Nov. 11, at the age of 89. Baker C. Clinton Rila, of Mount Pleasant, for the death of her mother, Ruth from leukemia. Braden is worked at OWU as a secretary Iowa, Oct. 2, at the age of 90. Ruffing, of Macedonia, Ohio, who survived by two sons, ages 10 to the vice president in business She taught chemistry at OWU. passed on her birthday, Oct. 26, and 7, who reside with their affairs. She is survived by three at the age of 92. mother in Twinsburg, Ohio. children, including Rosie Bell, Donald Smith, of Raleigh, N.C., who retired recently after more Nov. 19, at the age of 84. Smith Linda Mackey Stude ’71 for the Taylor Golden ’16 for the than 25 years of working at OWU, was a teacher and researcher at death of her mother, Donnah unexpected death of her sister, and multiple grandchildren. OWU before ultimately becoming Waechter, of Cortland, Ohio, on Haleigh Golden, at the age of 20 a tenured professor at North Aug. 4, at the age of 92. on Nov. 16. Joseph Burke, of Albany, N.Y., Carolina State University. Aug. 3, at the age of 86. He Linda Michener Parduhn ’76 for earned a Ph.D. in legal history Donna Walker, of Ashley, Ohio, the death of her husband, Brian and taught for two years at OWU. Jan. 21, at the age of 57. She was Parduhn of Glen Ellyn, Ill. on Nov. a former public safety officer at 23, at the age of 69. Dorothy Chuan-Wang, of OWU. Torrance, Calif., and Kobe, Japan, Marcia Rodenhaver Alvarez a former member of the OWU Ruth Edna Wheeland, of Ashley, ’77 for the death of her mother, library sciences staff, June 12, at Ohio, Jan. 15, at the age of 92. Marcia Rodenhaver, on Dec. 21, the age of 77. She worked at OWU for more at the age of 90. than three decades, until 1990, Robert Filler, of Arlington most recently as the secretary for Katherine Sherts Civitillo ’77 Heights, Ill., Jan. 8, at the age of the registrar’s office. for the death of her husband, 95. Filler taught chemistry William Joseph Civitillo Sr., of at OWU. Sympathy To West Hartford, Conn., Jan. 21, at the age of 63. Curtis Gast, of Columbus, Jean Stamberger Graham ’56 Oct. 25, at the age of 80. Gast and Edward Graham ’55 for Timothy D’Angelo ’79 for the received his doctorate degree the death of their son, Michael death of his father, Eugene from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Graham, of Muncie, Ind. on Aug. D’Angelo, of Columbus, on Nov. 1984 and taught at OWU. 4, at the age of 49. Michael 19, at the age of 90.

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Nancy Knop, an BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY integral member of the Health and Human Kinetics OFFICERS OF THE BOARD LIFE TRUSTEES faculty for 16 years, John Milligan ’83 | Chairperson William Blaine Jr. HON ’89 died of brain cancer Nick Calio ’75 | Vice Chairperson Jean Fitzwater Bussell ’69 in Minneapolis on George H. Conrades ’61 Patricia Belt Conrades ’63 Feb. 2. She was 63. TRUSTEES AT LARGE Evan Corns ’59 Ever the healthcare professional, Richard Alexander ’82 Doreen DeLaney Crawley ’91 Douglas H. Dittrick ’55 Knop participated in a clinical trial Andres Duarte ’65 through the University of Minnesota Daniel Glaser ’82 Aaron Granger ’93 William E. Farragher ’49 as part of her treatment. The trial Edward Haddock ’69 Lloyd Ferguson ’62 combined the injection of a virus Carol Hilkirk Latham ’61 Robert W. Gillespie ’66 genetically engineered to infect brain Jack Luikart ’71 Maribeth Amrhein Graham ’55 cancer cells and a drug designed Todd Luttinger P ’10 Michael Long ’66 to destroy virus-infected cells, in Kevin McGinty ’70 Jack McKinnie ’54 an effort to avoid many of the toxic Colleen Nissl ’72 Phillip J. Meek ’59 effects associated with traditional C. Paul Palmer IV ’96 Carleton P. Palmer III ’64 Kathleen Law Rhinesmith ’64 chemotherapies. Thomas Palmer ’69 Helen Crider Smith ’56 Knop was born Dec. 3, 1956 in Red Anand Philip ’00 Frank Quinn ’78 James D. Timmons Sr. ’61, P ’92 Bud, Ill. She attended the University Tom Tritton ’69 of Illinois, where she settled a lawsuit George Romine Jr. ’67 Tom Simons ’88 to give female athletes the same Katherine Boles Smith ’71 GRADUATING CLASS TRUSTEES opportunity and budgets as men. She Kara Trott ’83 Daud Baz ’17 earned a master’s degree in exercise Emma Drongowski ’16 physiology/biomechanics at the TRUSTEES FROM Guillermo Gutierrez ’18 University of California-Davis. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Knop taught at OWU from 1999 to Jan Baran ’70 EAST OHIO CONFERENCE 2016, when she received the Adam Poe Rick Doody ’80 OF THE UNITED METHODIST Medal presented by Dr. Christopher Jason Downey ’02 CHURCH TRUSTEE Fink, chairperson of the HHK Peter Eastwood ’91 Robert Hickson ’78 Department. In honoring her, he said: “It Martha Nunn Lewis ’83 is difficult to capture how instrumental Craig Luke ’85 OTHER CONFERENCES OF THE Vikram Malhotra ’87 Nancy has been in fostering the UNITED METHODIST CHUCH Michael McCluggage ’69 growth, rigor, and student success TRUSTEE Cynthia Carran O’Neill ’81 characteristic of the Department of Ellen Simpson ’77 Myron F. McCoy ’77 Health and Human Kinetics. She leaves Kenneth B. Sternad ’77 a legacy of high-quality teaching, Tracie Winbigler ’87 EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES advising, mentoring, scholarship, Rock Jones service, and collegiality.” Tracy Malone Knop also served for three seasons Gregory Vaughn Palmer as an assistant women’s track and field coach, during which time OWU won two North Coast Athletic Conference outdoor championships and had four All-Americans. She also created the FitOWU health and wellness program. Connect with A celebration of her life will be held in fellow Bishops Delaware in the early fall. in your city or She is survived by her parents, profession today, Edward and Barbara Knop, an aunt, her join OWU Alumni Network brothers and a sister, and their families, owu.edu/alumninetwork including her nieces and nephews. The Final Word

Student co-director How I learned to stop worrying OR and love the unknown Anna L. Davies ’19 is an English major with a history minor. For the past three years, she has worked as an editorial assistant for University Communications and OWU Magazine. What excites her most about postgrad life is going to bed at 10 every night. And also getting a dog.

“Student Co-Director of Summer Orientation” As part of her duties as an intern with the Student Involvement Office looks pretty good on a last summer, Anna Davies carried luggage, slept too little, and gained some insights about her future. résumé, but it doesn’t exactly capture how I was choosing job applications. Instead of fielding the question, “What I spent my summer. are you majoring in?” I was dodging, “And what are you going to do The friendships and with your life after you graduate?” professional connections Different routes for the same life experiences. Every time I reassured I made started with an an anxious student that he or she would find a niche here, I realized I email last spring with the was talking myself down from a crisis, too. It was cathartic — I had the subject line: “You’ve Been leadership position, so I led with empathy. We’re all just trying to play Recommended! Apply for like we have it together. What matters most is when we let the façade Orientation Internships.” drop and collectively admit we have no idea what we’re doing, but It was promoted as an we’re trying our hardest to get oriented in life. internship doing event So as I step out into the unknown, I’ll carry the life lessons new planning for summer students taught me: Show compassion. Be true to yourself. Believe and orientation. It turned out Freshman Anna on one of five travel trust that things can only get better. And when all else fails, dancing learning courses she took while at to also involve running on outside Beeghly Library with 488 of your closest new friends during a OWU, this one to Belfast. Naturally, the three(ish) hours of sleep new-student block party is a great option. English major found some books. during orientation sessions, dragging boxes of bedding up the Welch Hall stairs after the elevator broke on freshman move-in day, as well as the eventual realization that I hate event planning. But the dry run to help prepare me for the “real world” before my senior year also turned out to be the best summer of my life. In 2015, as a new student at OWU meeting my orientation group, I was freshly moved in and freaking out because my parents had just left. I was completely alone for the first time in my life. I told everyone in my group how happy I was to be here, but obviously I was terrified. I pride myself on being an independent person, but I couldn’t help wondering how I was going to navigate starting all over again: no friends, academics much more challenging than I was used to, a dorm room shared with three other people, the slog of young-adult insecurity. That’s where my mind went when I filled out the application to be a student co-director. I did it for students like freshman Anna, who just wanted to hear she wasn’t alone and that feeling stressed and lonely was normal. I wanted to be the person who told new students to make the most of their first year, and to let them know that it only gets better from there. Throughout the summer I realized I wasn’t so different from the first-years. You’d think that a polo shirt and a placard name tag with “Anna L. Davies, Student Director” on it would make me the picture President Rock Jones helped recognize Anna (right) and her friend of a confident young professional, but I quickly realized I was just as Penell Paglialunga ’19 for their work helping to plan orientation with uncertain about my future as they were. Instead of choosing classes, “You Are OWU” awards in September.

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