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Just Add Water Wright State Makes a Splash Publisher and President of David R volume 3 issue 2 spring 2014 inside: shipwreck seeker 3 wetlands warrior 6 scuba school 9 leadership legions 12 empowered 15 engineers just add water wright state makes a splash Publisher and President of David R. Hopkins Wright State University Editor and Executive Director of Marketing Denise Robinow Graphic Design and Illustration Stephen Rumbaugh Contributing Writers Seth Bauguess, Andrew Call, Jim Hannah, Bob Mihalek, and Kim Patton Editorial Assistance Cory MacPherson, Ron Wukeson Photography Editor William Jones Photography Roberta Bowers, William Jones, and Chris Snyder Digital Imaging Manipulation Chris Snyder Submit information, comments, and letters to: Wright State University Magazine 4035 Colonel Glenn Highway Suite 300 Beavercreek, Ohio 45431 Email: [email protected] Wright State University is growing to better serve our students. Construction is under way on two new campus locations: the Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration (NEC) Building (pictured) and the Student Success Center and Classroom Building. Wright State University Magazine 2 From the President’s Desk www.wright.edu/magazine 3 Great Hunt spring 2014 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 2 Grad searches for famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes 6 Fen Yen Retired professor champions local wetlands Wright State University Magazine 9 SCUBA Program Known for its Depth is published twice a year by the Wright State has trained more than 10,000 divers Office of Marketing. Distribution is to Wright State alumni, faculty, 12 Leading the Pack staff, and friends of the university. Raiders lead state and national organizations 15 In Demand Employers eagerly await Lake Campus engineers 16 Wright Hydroplanes Archive photos show early Wright brothers’ watercraft 18 Building Bridges Tony Ortiz continues advocacy for Latino community 19 Rock Steady Geology student getting national attention 20 A Daughter’s Love Grad established scholarship for Hispanic nursing students 22 University News 24 Alumni News 28 AlumNotes 31 Athletics News FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK Welcome to this issue of Wright State University Magazine. After one of the worst winters in history, I am so looking forward to the arrival of spring. It’s one of my favorite seasons. I appreciate not only its beauty but what it represents— a new beginning. As we await the rebirth that comes with spring, it seems appropriate that we focus our spring issue on another element of nature that represents the continuous cycle of life: water. Leonardo da Vinci once said, “When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” In many ways, water reflects our own journeys through life. Just as one body of water flows into another, the currents and tides of time move us along the many streams of our lives. In this issue, we examine how water—one of our planet’s most precious resources—ebbs and flows through the Wright State community. Come with us as the tide recedes back in time to the beginning of Wright State’s scuba program. Dive into the depths of Lake Michigan, where one of our graduates searches for a long-lost ship. And sink into some local wetlands that have been preserved with the help of a retired biology professor. To quote renowned oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” I hope this issue reminds you how important water is to each of us— for our history, our recreation, and our survival. Until our next issue... Warmest regards from campus, David R. Hopkins President Wright State University 2 FEATURE great hunt wright state alumnus steve libert may be closing in on locating the long-lost ship the griffin By Bob Mihalek This page: A diver with Great Lakes Exploration Group surveys a beam at the bottom of Lake Michigan that Steve Libert believes is from the Griffin. Pages 4 and 5: Kathie (’78) and Steve Libert (’81), inset; the Great Lakes Exploration Group heading out on Lake Michigan during a diving expedition in June 2013. photos courtesy Great Lakes Exploration Group LLC. 3 FEATURE Steve Libert has spent Green Bay on western Lake Michigan. the last 30 years searching La Salle and most of the crew disembarked and continued for his Holy Grail: the south by canoe. He sent the Griffin, with a crew of six and a load Griffin, the flagship of of furs, back east for more supplies in September 1679. The French explorer La Salle ship was never seen again. that sank in the Great Lakes Searching for a passage to China and Japan, La Salle in the 17th century. eventually sailed the Mississippi, claiming for France much of After decades of the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River basin. A portion research, thousands of of these lands would become part of the Louisiana Purchase. dives, and years of legal Noeleen McIlvenna, associate professor of history at Wright wrangling, the Wright State State University, said La Salle occupies an important part of University alumnus thinks he is close to finding the ship. the history of both the U.S. and Canada, playing a huge role in Last summer, Libert–who along with his wife, Kathie, creating the lucrative French-Algonquian fur trade from 1666 operates the Great Lakes Exploration Group–led an expedition to 1687. of divers and archeologists in northern Lake Michigan, where “His alliances with many groups of American Indians he believes the Griffin sank. were founded on treating them respectfully as equal business While evidence found during the expedition has so far been partners,” she said. “Because of his willingness to learn other inconclusive, Libert is convinced he’s found part of the Griffin. languages and cultures, Indians helped him map routes and Libert effuses passion when talking about La Salle, the establish trading posts throughout the Great Lakes, around the Griffin, and history. His search is driven by the ship’s place in Midwest, and down the Mississippi to Louisiana. He stands out history and the mystery surrounding its disappearance. It’s why from the English settlers as a reminder of the potential for a he calls the Griffin the “Holy Grail of the Great Lakes.” racially tolerant America.” “If you think of the importance of this ship and what it Libert fondly recalls the day he first learned of La Salle and would take to find it—it was the first deck vessel to sink in the the Griffin. Great Lakes,” he said. He was in eighth-grade history class in Huber Heights, Libert’s interest in underwater exploration and shipwrecks Ohio, near Wright State. His teacher, Mr. Kelly, was lecturing isn’t limited to the Griffin. He has consulted on the Titanic, the about early European explorations of the New World. Libert was search for General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s hidden treasure from smitten by the tale of the Griffin and La Salle’s adventures in the World War II, and the recovery of the Confederate submarine Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. CSS Hunley. As he walked around the classroom, Libert recalled, his teacher The Griffin, or Le Griffon as it is called in French, was put his right hand on Libert’s left shoulder and said, “Who knows? constructed by René-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle on the Maybe somebody in this class will find it someday.” Niagara River near Niagara Falls. La Salle and a crew of 32 This sparked something in the young Libert. Caught up in set out on the Griffin in 1679, sailing through Lakes Erie and the “thrill of adventure,” he grew enthralled with the Griffin. Huron, stopping at Washington Island near the entrance to “What kid doesn’t think about a ship and treasure?” he asked. 4 He initially went to Ohio State to play found it I knew it was a bowsprit,” he said. from 50 to 350 years old. A CT scan was football, and after injuries cut his playing “There’s no question about it.” conducted on the timber at a Michigan days short, he left Columbus and enrolled in Furthermore, Libert thought the beam hospital to try to determine its age by Wright State. He worked during the day and could be the Griffin’s bowsprit, a pole obtaining a tree ring image. Unfortunately, took classes at night. Libert never lost his extending from a vessel’s prow. the scan was inconclusive. adventurous spirit. He learned to fly and to Years of legal battle ensued between The French experts who participated in dive underwater. Libert and the state of Michigan about the expedition conducted an archaeological After graduating from Wright State in ownership of the find. Eventually, France analysis of the piece. While they could 1981 with a B.A. in political science, Libert intervened, claiming that the Griffin not determine if the beam was part of the worked for the Defense Mapping Agency, belongs to France because King Louis XIV Griffin, they said the timber was consistent which today is the National Geospatial financed La Salle’s explorations. with a bowsprit from the 17th century. Intelligence Agency. He remained at the The parties reached a breakthrough Their report also found that a portion of agency for 25 years as an intelligence analyst agreement several years ago. It the artifact had likely been buried “in the until he retired in 2013 so he could focus acknowledged France’s ownership of sediment of the lake a long time, for at on the Griffin project. He and Kathie, who the vessel and gave Libert’s Great Lakes least one hundred years and perhaps even graduated from Wright State in 1978 with Exploration Group permission to continue several hundred years.” a B.F.A.
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