Ohio Wesleyan Magazine OWU VOLUME 87 ISSUE NO. 2 r SUMMER 2010 Lessons from the Children of Mexico 2010 Commencement Migrating to Mexico OWU Greatness Recognized 2010 Alumni Weekend VOLUME 87 ISSUE NO. 2 r SUMMER 2010 Find YOUR Passion OWU Ohio Wesleyan Magazine www.owualumni.com Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Online Community FEATURES // Editor Pamela Besel Assistant Editor 14 MIGRATING TO MEXICO Ericka Kurtz Eleven OWU students and their professor traveled to Mexico to Class Notes Editor learn more about the people and culture, and what happens when Andrea Misko Strle ’99 family members must migrate to the United States and other places [email protected] to provide for loved ones. Designer Sara Stuntz Contributing Photographers 19 OWU GREATNESS RECOGNIZED Phil Forsgren ’12 John Holliger Meet this year’s Distinguished Achievement Citation awardees. Doug Martin Sara Tincher Each person not only has attained admirable career success, but Shane Wepprich ’12 also has made the world a significantly better place. Marketing and Communication Office (740) 368-3335 21 CLOSING THE GAP Director of Alumni Relations Brenda DeWitt When Alison Drake ’03 began teaching at the KIPP Believe College Prep Alumni Relations Office school in New Orleans, her goal was to help her students catch up aca- Phone: (740) 368-3325 demically and set them on the path to college. Alison shares her pas- Fax: (740) 368-3328 Email: [email protected] sion for teaching and the importance of her OWU experiences. Web site: www.owu.edu OWU Magazine: http://magazine.owu.edu 24 A HEART FOR SERVICE The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine (ISSN 0030-1221) The players may have changed over the years, but the importance of is published in Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring community service learning at OWU is even stronger today. by Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Periodicals postage paid at Delaware, Ohio and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Magazine, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015. General ON THE COVER: How do Mexican children portray their country and the United University telephone number: (740) 368-2000. States? Through images and colors, their art work was enlightening to several OWU students who participated this spring in the Sagan Fellows course, “The Mexican Printed on recycled paper Migration Experience.” See our story on page 14. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS Pam Besel, Marketing and Communication Mark Cooper, Marketing and Communication Karen Crosman, University Relations Carol DelPropost, Admission & Financial Aid Brenda DeWitt, Alumni Relations Roger Ingles, Athletics Ericka Kurtz, Marketing and Communication Ed Lenane, Alumni Relations Ida Mostofi, Marketing and Communication Charlie Powell, University Relations William Preble, Enrollment and Strategic Communication Melinda Rhodes, Journalism Department David Robbins, Provost Hon. ’08 Sara Stuntz, Marketing and Communication DEPARTMENTS // 4 // FROM THE JAYWALK New Curricular Plan 2 0 1 0 An Added Branch of the Jane Decker Arboretum Commencement 2010 OWU Selected for International Academic Partners Program Bishop Celebration 2010 11 // IN WRITING Professor Randy Quaye’s New Book, Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems: The Sub-Saharan African Experience Professor Scott Calef’s New Book Led Zeppelin and Philosophy 28 // GIFTS AND GRATITUDE Record Level Giving by the Class of 2010 A Perfect Connection for Barbara Bruce ‘64 More than 800 Ohio President’s Circle Strengthens OWU’s Wesleyan alumni came Strategic Initiatives back to campus for Alumni Ohio Wesleyan Fund Weekend 2010. Check out 32 // BISHOP BATTLES additional photographs from this special weekend on pages A New Varsity Women’s Golf Team for OWU Golf Outing at North Star Golf Resort 34-36 of this Magazine! Alumni Football Captains to Rally in September 34 // ALUMNI HAPPENINGS On and Off Campus Events Bishop Pride Comes to the Big Cities Celebrating Alumni Weekend 2010 Stats and Facts: OWU’s Fraternities and Sororities Calendar of Events Class Notes r OWU SUMMER 2010 1 Leader’s Letter >> Preparing Leaders for a Global Society JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, THE OHIO their professors. This past academic year, WESLEYAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WITH travel-learning courses that were part A UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION of our Sagan Fellows course program, FROM THE OWU FACULTY, ADOPTED A included a trip to Japan for a physics and STRATEGIC PLAN DESIGNED TO LEAD astronomy course focused on competition THE UNIVERSITY THROUGH THE NEXT and cooperation in the exploration of DECADE AND INTO A POSITION OF space; a history course on America in the LEADERSHIP AMONG THE NATION’S 1960s, coupled with study about Vietnam FINEST LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTIONS. and travel to that country; and a Latin The Strategic Plan calls for Ohio Wesleyan American studies course on immigration, to develop a distinctive program including an eight-day trip to Mexico, connecting theory-to-practice in a among others. Next spring, nine travel- global context, in order to prepare a new learning courses, all with international generation of global leaders who can solve travel components, will be added to the problems of international magnitude. curriculum. This global education will be anchored While the faculty as a whole has in the classical disciplines of the liberal worked to develop this new curricular arts and complemented by experiences initiative, individual students and President Rock Jones in the practice of these disciplines in professors have developed research international settings. projects, internships, volunteer Over the past year, our faculty made experiences, and travel-learning extraordinary progress in developing the opportunities that allow students structure of a new curricular initiative to connect theory and practice in known as The OWU Connection. In May, locations throughout the world. With the faculty voted to implement pilots support of the President’s Circle, we of The OWU Connection in the coming are fortunate to have OWU students year. These pilots include a quarter- learning and traveling in 30 countries unit seminar for first-year students, on five continents this summer! OWU introducing The OWU Connection, students are studying child welfare in a series of course connections that India, the impact of NATO policies in invites students to complete general Bosnia-Herzegovina, delivery of health distribution requirements in the liberal care in rural provinces in South Africa, arts by connecting courses that offer and sea turtles in Costa Rica. Groups of the opportunity to consider a problem of students are traveling this summer with pressing global importance, and travel- members of the faculty to study ecology learning courses that connect theory- in Bolivia, participate in volunteer work to-practice and provide time away from in Nicaragua, attend the Salzburg Opera campus for the enrolled students and Festival in Austria, and experience the r 2 OWU SUMMER 2010 >> Leader’s Letter Preparing Leaders for a Global Society Shakespeare Festival in Ottawa, ON, through service learning and in global appreciation for OWU and aspirations Canada. Each of these experiences is new, education. for its future.” Over the next three reflecting the impact of our commitment With the bulk of our attention focused on months, we will be inviting several to a bold curricular initiative that links the curricular and co-curricular experiences hundred alumni and friends to respond theory with practice in virtually every of our students, we also have made progress to a Call to Conversation about our country in the world. on renewal of the physical campus this year. strategic vision and the philanthropic As our students and faculty have In August, we will welcome 100 students to investment required to bring this vision worked hard to develop these initiatives three houses on Williams Drive that have to fulfillment. and take advantage of these remarkable been thoroughly renovated after being vacant I am deeply grateful to the faculty opportunities, the rest of the academic in recent years. We will open a senior Honors for its pioneering work over the past world has taken notice of Ohio Wesleyan. house on Oak Hill Avenue. We are developing year and to the Board of Trustees In December, OWU was named one of plans and seeking funds for a full renovation of Ohio Wesleyan for its visionary the 15 Hottest Colleges of the Decade of Stuyvesant Hall. The Meek Aquatics leadership. I invite every person whose by The Daily Beast, a blog hosted by Tina and Recreation Center will open this fall. life has been affected by OWU to Brown, former editor of The New Yorker Renovations to Selby Field will continue this join us in advancing this vision and and Vanity Fair, who described these 15 summer, including installation of lights, claiming this extraordinary moment colleges and universities as “a new class which will allow the facility to be used for of opportunity. With your thoughtful of first-choice schools.” In February, the night competition and intramural activities counsel, your engaged participation in Corporation for National and Community and prepare OWU to host the NCAA Division developing opportunities for students Service named OWU as one of only III National Track and Field Championships to connect theory-to-practice, your three colleges and universities in the in May 2011. The Luttinger Tennis Center, recommendation of students who will be country to receive the President’s Award a new outdoor tennis complex on the site well-served by this education, and your for Excellence in General Community of the former field hockey field, will be sacrificial philanthropic commitments, Service, recognizing our historic constructed this summer. The Class of 1961 this vision will be fulfilled, and our commitment to volunteer service and has adopted the first phase of renewal of students will be served in extraordinary the fact that last year, OWU students the JAYwalk as its 50-year reunion gift. We ways. Together, we will fulfill our documented more than 45,000 hours of must preserve and restore our historic and commitment to prepare moral leaders volunteer service.